A phantasy script.

A Phantasy Script Part 48: Rico's Workshop.

Fylec: Oh boy, this place is a Wizard's dream! Shame I'm not one any more.

Rico chuckles as books fly from shelves and reorganize themselves upon different bookcases.

Rico: Welcome to my workshop, mind the potions. They're healing ones, though some ingredients are missing from each.General: So, why does the town have all of their loot on the first floor?Rico: Oh, it can only be seen by those that have aided Raguul. Completely empty to those that just wander in searching for loot.Jokesum: You came up with a hiding spell for that, right?Rico: No, not as such. More like a veil of magical energy that hides them at the main doorway, if you have bad intentions.Berd: Do you have anything that me and Mood could use, you know to aid us in times when we don't feel like fighting with our weapons?Rico: Like...

Rico momentarily thinks, his chin gets rubbed by a glistening yet slightly invisible hand. A chest, from within the back right corner, bursts to life as a large moist tongue protrudes its now sharp teeth opening and an eye forms upon its lid as it then rushes to Rico.

Rico: Ah, mimic Jane! What if I gave you a chest companion?General: Like Jane?Rico: Uhm, no. She's used for capturing those that try to steal from this floor. A fake chest mimic, thank you Jane.

The mimic licks its sturdy wooden opening and gets patted on its lid by Rico then scuttles back to the corner.

Fylec: So, like Jane but not. What do you mean?

Chuckling to himself, Rico then clicks his thumb and finger together as *thoof* a magical eruption of power appears before himself as a twelve legged chest appears and lands on the floor.

Rico: This is Tony.Jokesum: And Tony can...?Rico: Right, sorry you don't know this yet. Let me inform you of the magics that have been used here; a bag of holding, multi-leg attack, grease and mind over matter.

The group think as Rico smiles to himself.

Berd: So, it has a bag of holding within itself?Rico: Yes, very good!Fylec: And the multi-leg attack...well that is the legs that it has right?Rico: Close, but no. Though it has twelve legs, the multi-leg attack is actually on the inside.General: Then the mind over matter is the spell used to...class Tony as alive?Rico: Oh, very good! Yes, exactly!Jokesum: So, what is the grease used for?Rico: Okay, as you haven't completely figured this out let me explain. Tony will attack anyone that you cannot attack from far away. His ability, bag of holding, acts like a black hole and sucks them towards himself while the grease ability activates at the same time causing them to not have grip upon anything. Once inside his mouth, the enemy is then attacked by the multi-leg attack.

The group look at each other and then back at Rico in amazement.

Berd: Wow, that could prove to be useful!Rico: Oh yeah, this guy has helped me against multiple enemies in the past.Fylec: You've fought with him?Rico: I wasn't always this towns Sorcerer, I came here kind of in the same vein as you guys did. Though, I had arrived closer to Cavenoor than you had to here.General: So, you must have aided this town REALLY well to achieve the town's Sorcerer!Nodding towards the muscular Bard, Rico agrees.Rico: Well, I had already taken a quest aboard Pioneer Two before you guys had. Turns out, thie world's time runs slower than our own though as it has been years for me here before you guys turned up.

Jokesum looks at Tony and smiles.

Jokesum: So, is this guy an amalgamation of your years of training?

Laughing suddenly out loud, Rico nods towards him before covering his mouth and stifling his laugh.

Rico: Holy smokes, yes! You see, though the years here seems to have been kind to me I have had my fair share of losses. Aside from my gender change, I've lost people that I've known here.Berd: Hold on, how have you been here years?Rico: I just said, the time here moves slower than ours.Fylec: No, I think Berd means how have you been here longer than us when we thought you were aboard the ship when it was taken into a portal.Berd: Oh, yeah. Sorry, that is what I meant.Rico: Oh, I see the confusion. No, like I've said, I was off the ship before you guys. The teleporter, that transported me here, must have misread my DNA when I was transported.General: Well, that is that cleared up. Sorry for your losses, Rico.Rico: Thanks General, you guys really are nice to know.

Jokesum looks into Tony's open lid, nothing but darkness lies within.

Jokesum: So, it can also be used as a bag of holding with legs?

Rico looks at Jokesum as he remains looking within Tony.

Rico: Well, yeah. It's chest size means that it can hold that sphere upon your back if needs be.

Jokesum taps the chest upon its lid as it closes.

Berd: Oh, that is very handy! Alright, so Jokesum will need the portal training.Rico: Of course, we can start tomorrow though as it is now late in the day. Why don't you guys set yourselves up in the nearby...Fylec: The remaining tavern won't have us after our "thievery" of the armour.Rico: I was going to say the nearby Inn, actually.

Fylec looks to the floor and hangs his head.

Fylec: My bad, sorry to interrupt.Rico: Just go to the Sleepy Mouse Inn, get a good nights rest and come back to me in the morning. Sound good?

The group nod at him as Fylec lifts his head back up and they all make their way back to the ground floor and out of the tower.