>>32793
Recruit Skull.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>32793
observe skull

>>32793
Give the skull your hat

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>32793
>>Proceed
The skull is a distraction.

>>32793
This is now my favorite quest, OP.

>>32811
This

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You bequeath your hat upon the skull. Fashion will do it no service in the Hereafter but you pray that the donation will at least keep the skull's owner warm during their eternal rest.

"A resident of these hallowed halls, or a casualty of the cruel lich's machinations? Who can say? What this humble servant of fate does know for sure is the imminent demise of the fiend that makes its nest amongst the deceased. Hark, O lich that disrupts the sleep of thine peers for ill purpose! If thou be listening, know that thine end swiftly approaches!"

When you finish your soliloquy, you kiss the skull and return it to its resting place besides the pillar. There is rattling from deeper within. The lich's woefully enslaved minions have surely heard you.

>Wait for them to come.
>Proceed deeper into the crypt.

>>33132
>>Wait for them to come.

>>33132
Go back up the stairs.

>>33132
>>Proceed deeper into the crypt.

>>33132
Proceed into the crypt

>>33132
If we're gonna be the classy adventurer we are. It would be polite to wait for them to come.

(Tiebreaker?)

>>33203
This

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You wait for them to come, but are horrified when you see that there are more skeletons than you are equipped to deal with. They have you cornered. You whisper an ancient sutra, pleading with the Lady of the Final Goodnight to cradle you gently as you return to her not as a servant seeking orders, but as a recently-deceased soul weary from the mortal coil.

But suddenly, you hear a strange rattle. A desperate rattle. It comes from behind a pillar. the same pillar that the skull is resting behind. The skeletons turn their attention from you to the skull. The skull and the skeletons exchange conversational rattles. Eventually, the skeletons shamble away. It appears that the lich's magic has trapped the skull's owner's soul inside of it.

The skull rattles gratefully at you. You stomp it, reducing the skull to ash and freeing the trapped soul so it can depart to the Great Beyond. Your hat remains where the skull once was, as a memento to the assistance the skull provided in your mission.

Proceeding deeper in the crypt, you hear sinister laughter no doubt being made by the lich as he awakens more deceased to swell his ranks. You are getting close. As you walk, you get the strange sensation that something or someone is watching you.

>Stop and check your surroundings.
>Ignore it and proceed to the lich.

>>33715
"Don't act dumb."
Proceed straight to the lich.

>>33715
We're not going to get lucky twice. Proceed!

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You decide to ignore the presence.

You do not get very far.

>Scramble to your feet and get your gun
>Try to negotiate with the demon
>Pray

>>34211


[X] Genuflect

>>34211
scramble to your feet and get that HAMMER

>>34211
Climb your demon assistant, and continue venturing forth on her back, piggyback style.

Rolled 1 (1d3)

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You get down on your hands and knees before the demon. She raises her hammer and prepares to bring it down on you.

"What are you doing? I won't accept surrender from someone who would give up so easily! Die like the dog you are!"

You seem to have angered her.

>Scramble to your feet and get your gun
>Try to take her hammer
>Try to negotiate with her
>Pray

>>35543
Get gun as the hammer is lodged in the ground

>>35543
confess your feelings for her.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>36302

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You quickly roll to your gun as she brings down the hammer. While the demon tries to dislodge the hammer from the ground, you take aim and fire. The bullet pierces through her chest and she falls to the floor.

She clutches her chest where the bullet struck, still alive but in extreme pain.

>Help her move on
>Leave her

>>36302
>>36330
(Sorry anons, I had already finished working on the image when I saw these votes.)

>>36420
Disarm her and help her back to her feet. Fireman carry her on our back and apologize because of the choices she gave us. while confessing our feelings for her.

>>36439
It's fine

>>36420
>Help her move, on our back
We're here to kill an evil Litch, not hurt cute girls.

>>36420
>>Help her move on

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You hoist her onto your back and continue. A trail of blood is left as you walk and her futile struggling only worsens her bleeding. She will probably not make it in time for you to find help.

At the end of the hall, you arrive at a large door. You know without a doubt that behind it is the lich.

>Pray to the Lady of the Final Goodnight
>Leave the wounded demon at the door
>Prepare a scathing reproach for the lich
>Enter

(I'm going to stop here for tonight. I'll continue tomorrow if the thread is still up.)

>>36907
Pray. We know netter than to venture without praying to every passing altar of our good lady.

>>36907
Talk to Demon Lady.

>>36907
>>Pray to the Lady of the Final Goodnight

>>36907
Before she dies, make sure demon is saved by our lord and savior Jesu- lady of final goodnight.

Maybe she'll give us litch info.

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Before the confrontation, you pray to the Lady of the Final Goodnight.

"Lady of The Final Goodnight, most merciful of the Mistresses of Fate, please guide this humble servant in destroying the lich that lurks behind these doors. In addition, I beseech thee, O Lady of the Final Goodnight, to provide the poor demon teetering on the edge of life and death with a restful slumber as she passes on to the other side."

"I'm not dying!"

You press a finger against her lips.

"Hush, sweet child of the Infernal Realms. Your time shall soon come. Do not fight it."

She suddenly bursts into tears. Her loud sobbing echoes deafeningly throughout the halls.

"But I don't wanna die!"

You hush her.

"Fear and regrets will only endanger your passing. Calm thyself, lest you suffer the Endless Nightmares."

She does not calm down. You do not have time for this. Through the demon's wails, you can faintly hear the lich's cackling. If you waste but a moment longer with the demon, the lich may amass even more minions to overwhelm you.

>Confront the lich
>Console the demon

>>44318
>Console the demon

>>44318
Give her soft paps and smoochies until she submits herself unto our will.

>>44318
>>Confront the lich

>>44318
>Console the demon

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Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>44472
>>44513
>>45796
let's roll

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You cradle the demon in your arms and kiss her forehead. After stroking her hair and rocking gently for a few minutes, she finally falls asleep. You rest her against the wall.

"Goodnight, dear child of the Infernal Realms."

By now the lich's cackling has ceased. Only the demon's soft snoring can be heard in the otherwise silent halls. You enter the door and see the lich floating above dozens of armed skeletons.

"Lich, begone from this place posthaste, else this humble servant shall unleash the wrath of the Lady of the Final Goodnight upon thee!"

The lich gives you a smug grin before directing his skeleton minions to attack.

Strangely, the skeletons do not attack. The lich points at you and hisses. The skeletons do not respond. You point your gun at the lich.

"Thy fell magic no longer rules over the dead of this crypt, lich! Those whose souls you attempted to bend to your will shall not heed thy commands!"

The skeletons begin to rattle. They're cheering for you. It would appear that because of whatever the skull you encountered earlier said to them, they have gained the will to resist the lich's orders.

The lich raises his hands, pleading for you to spare him.

"Thine end has come, lich."

>Shoot

>>45900
DO IT

Shoot him

>>45900
Its a Trick! Look around for his phylactery.

>>45900
It's a trap, check one of the skeletons.

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You spin your gun's cylinder to the final bullet, reserved specifically for the lich and blessed by the Lady of the Final Goodnight herself, and fire. It sings as it flies through the air, and space seems to ripple when it collides with the lich's ethereal form. With an ear-piercing screech, the lich burns to ashes. The lich's magic fades from the crypt and the skeletons crumble, freeing their captive souls so that they can once again enjoy their eternal slumber.

You leave the room and see the demon is still asleep. You take her hand and chant a short prayer to return to the domain of the Lady of the Final Goodnight so you can report your success and, hopefully, get help for the demon.

-THE END-

>>47136
So whens the next part?

>>47136
But wait there's more?

>>47136
Well, that was fast.

That was a fun quest OP, thanks ^ _ ^