(TFT) Bat and Stupid 3

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

Bad and Stupid 3

Gentleman's Hat

    Mako the wizard desperately wants to make a rod of lightning.  He has 
just invested a ton of gold into his first lab, and he has acquired the tome 
detailing the construction of such a device.  Unfortunately he is having no 
luck procuring the key ingredient.  One live silver slime for each charge 
the rod will hold.
    Mako knows where plenty of slimes can be found.  There is a small 
island on the coast shaped like a hat.  It's flat and round with a big bulge 
in the middle.  The profile looks like a gentleman's top hat.  And it is 
infested with silver slimes.
    The slimes themselves mostly live off fish.  They ooze into the water, 
find a school of fish and discharge a little electricity to stun their prey. 
 Easy pickings after that, even for a slime.
    The trouble has come with the naturalists Mako used to hire back when 
he was just making potions.  Everyone he has sent has never returned.  They 
must be dead, because they have always come back in the past.  Even if it 
was just to admit defeat.
    So Mako has had to find new volunteers.  Two dozen villagers and 
townspeople have failed to come back.  So he starts paying in advance.  
Still no one survives.  He tried finding some naturalists in the nearby 
city, but none of them will touch the job.  It has gotten to the point where 
he will pay $1500 in advance for just one Live silver slime.  This too has 
failed him twice.
    He seems oblivious to the effect this has had on the local pool of man 
power.  All he knows is that he is desperate and willing to cut almost any 
kind of deal.  Too bad he doesn't realize that a ring of control slime would 
have been a much better choice for the first item  to be made in his lab.

Mako          (human/male/wizard)
St:  8(    )   hands: 1+3
Dx: 11(    )   armor: 0
Iq: 20(    )   job: town wizard $0, risk 4/16
Ma: 10(    )   cash: $6,239

    lock/knock, reverse missiles, reveal/conceal, blast, mage sight, drain 
strength, summon gargoyle, lightning, explosive gem, hammer touch, 7-hex 
illusion, write scroll, staff of power, spellsniffer, long-distance 
teleport, greater magic item creation, literacy, alchemy(3)

    Studied: zombie, create gate, w.o.c. Flee

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