Chapter 2: Big Momma

You fell into a hole, but this wasn’t just a hole. This was a tunnel! Thieves shoot a volley of arrows into the tunnel, hoping to hit you.

You wrap your body around the squishy eggs and you do your best to protect them, many of the arrows hit your armor, but many also hit you.

When you land, you expect to hit hard ground and suffer broken bones. However, you don’t. You fall down on something very soft and squishy. Tired and weary, you faint.

With your vision getting clearer, as you start walking, you start losing your balance.

Could this be because of your injuries? You look down and notice the ground moving as if you were walking on a bed of water. What is this strangeness!? Suddenly, you hear a loud thundering voice ,”Who are you and what are you doing here?!”

All classes roll a D4. Adventurers test awareness and try to get up. Each adventurer rolls awareness and gets healed the amount that they rolled. On critical success, the adventurer is fully healed.

• 1 is rolled: Epic Failure: You manage to bring yourself to get up, however, the arrow wounds are deep. You stumble around as you try to walk. Perhaps it would be better to rest a bit more before adventuring further.

• 2 or 3 is rolled: Success: You manage to bring yourself to wake up. Still tired and hurt from the arrows, you think you are fine to continue adventuring.

• 4 is rolled: Critical Success: You bound up, ready for more action. The arrows that hit you only skimmed your skin. While wounded, it’s nothing that a simple bandage cannot cover up

(In the voice of Big Momma) : Years and years ago, I forgot how many years. We lived on the surface, to which, I think you all came from, we felt a large wind twirling around. We looked all around, but couldn't see any wind, but the wind was sucking us into the ground! I tried my best to plug the hole with my large size, but unfortunately, myself and some squish got sucked down and we cannot seem to find a way to return to the surface. I hope you can find what you are looking for, and also hope that we you help at least a few of these squishes find their way back to their friends on the surface.

(In the narrator voice): As you enter Squish City, you see stuffed animals that are alive and well. They are walking and talking like they were humans! Stuffed animals like creatures walking and talking like humans?!?!?! Mind blown! You would have expected a stuffed animal city to be happy and bright, but this city seems sad and dark. Perhaps you can help these little critters out.

Suddenly a huge, forceful wind grabs you towards it!

In this cut scene, make a large wind blows sound.

Have the adventurers get sucked the by wind and move a few spaces to the right and one of the squishies in Squish City get sucked to the next screen by the wind. As the wind gets louder, have the adventurer Nuz jump in and save them from getting sucked away.

The adventurers could go around and talk to the stuffed creatures and try to find out if they know how to hatch the eggs, they need any help, or just get to know them.

At this point, the young adventurers are probably interested in finding out more about Squish City, its inhabitants, and hatching the Squishy Eggs.

Do you best to answer the questions the adventurers ask. They may ask questions such as:

• "What is that wind?" The squishies do not know. They only know that the wind started recently. They don't like the wind and they never saw the squishies that was taken by the wind ever again.

• "Why are you living here?" The squishies used to live above ground, but somehow, a large gust of wind sucked them into the ground. Perhaps this is the same source of wind.

• "Who is Big Momma?" The squishies see her as their matriarch.

When they enter Nuz's house, continue below.

An old warrior stands in the corner. He glances at your party as you step into his house.

By his appearance, he’s an experienced warrior, mage, and ranger who’s been through many battles and fought many enemies. You see him put a hand on his weapon and prompts you:

"I see that you have come into my house uninvited, what purpose do you have here?”

Nuz wants to ensure that the adventurers have good intentions. He might ask some questions such as ,”If you had a choice between saving a city of stuffed creatures and your eggs, what would you do Sam I Am?” What the adventurers pick may not be that important, what’s important is how they explain their choice.

Nuz knows that they are young adventurers and want to get stronger. He might ask them how they think they will achieve that and if they need help.

The adventurers should ask about his adventures and why they should trust him, etc… Otherwise, he can test them by telling them to do something silly or gross like clean his toilet, saying that it makes them stronger.

The adventurers can test to challenge Nuz to a duel (to which they cannot win), since Nuz is a ranger, mage, and warrior, all roll a D4. Adventurers test skill:

• 1 is rolled: Epic Failure: Before you can raise weapon, Nuz sneaks behind you and hits you on the head. Nuz says ,"Better try harder if you want to help the squishy eggs!"

• 2 or 3 is rolled: Failure: You raise your weapon to aim, suddenly, you lose sight of Nuz ... he's behind you! You manage to nearly avoid his hit, but his head grazes your face! Nuz says ,"Not bad at all Sam I Am! Hopefully you can help me out!"

• 4 is rolled: Success: You raise your weapon to aim, suddenly, you lose sight of Nuz ... he's behind you! You manage to duck his hit! Nuz says ,"Great skill Sam I Am! Hopefully you can help me out! Here are some healing potions to aid you"

The Underground Mountain Pass! Full of large boulders, rocks, and wait... robots! Arggghh!

You hear a scratching on the big rock in front of you. (In a monster voice) “Food… food please...help me! I smell… eggs… squishy eggs. I want… all …. TO EAT!”

You hear the voice commanding something else something and all of a sudden, "BOOOOM!" The giant rock smashes into many bits and pieces. The pieces fly everywhere, and many are headed your way!

The adventurers test to avoid flying shrapnel from the rocks. The Ranger tests with a D6, all others test with a D4. Have the Rangers perform the test first.

• 1 is rolled: Epic Failure: You jump into the flying rocks thinking that your hard head is hard enough to smash those rocks into tiny bits and pieces -- you thought wrong. Your health drops to 1 health.

• 2 or 3 is rolled: Failure: Confused like a deer in the headlights, you aren't sure what to do. You manage to raise your arm to block the rocks from hitting your face, but the rocks hit everywhere else on your body. Lose 2 health.

• 4 is rolled: Success: With quick instincts, you lay down flat like a piece of paper and avoid all the rocks. Good job! Let's hope that no one wrote their homework on you.

• 5 or 6 is rolled: Epic Success: With lightning-fast instincts, you quickly grab all your fellow adventurers and you to safety.

When the dust settles, you see a monster that looks sort of like Nuz and sort of not like Nuz -- this is Nuz's Humonculus! It looks bigger than Nuz, stronger than Nuz, and uglier than Nuz as well! Alongside it, there is a robot which glows and gives off heat as if it's like a heater. No doubt this robot was the one that blasted that rock into pieces.

Back at camp, you see Nuz as well as an Egg Incubator, "Thank you, thank you Sam I am! I am unsure what I would have done without your help!" says Nuz.

Unfortunately, the Egg Incubator is useless without electricity to power it up and therefore it, by itself cannot keep the eggs warm.

Nuz recommends that the warriors continue exploring the caves to see if there is something that can use or do to power the egg incubator. He hands you each a jar of stardust -- now you do not need to use illumination potions to see in the dark. He also tells you that if you give him an empty jar and some pink shards, he can make you a bomb called a "Kookilloy" this bomb causes a large explosion.

In the meantime, Nuz will keep all the eggs warm by sitting on them like a good daddy chicken. Bwak bwak bwaaaaakk!