The party rushed towards Octavia and the unconscious Arlo, climbing up a mountain of corpses to reach them. Alice saw Octavia giving Arlo her lap as a pillow and became provoked by the sight.
"Hey, get away from my brother!" Shouted Alice with a furious expression.
"Relax, I'm not going to do anything to him" said Octavia with a smug expression while scheming.
"Hey, you just rested your chesticles on his face on purpose right now!! Stop that, you're suffocating him!!" Shouted Alice with a jealous expression.
"He looks so cute when he's sleeping. He's like a baby, maybe I should feed him my mil"
*Octavia gets cut off by Henry*
"Stop joking around with Alice, there's a more important subject right now" said Henry with a mortified expression from hearing their conversation.
"Alice, you mentioned that there were much less mummies the last time you came here?"
Alice turned her attention to Henry's question and answered. "Yes, last time there no more than a few hundred. They kept rising everytime we took them down, but luckily we had a powerful holy magic user with us that took care of them"
"Though I remember the room also being much smaller" said Alice with a puzzled expression.
They all looked a bit confused, but realized what was happening after a short while. The layout of the dungeon rotates over time, that was everyone's theory (except Bjorn, his theory was… "THE BELLY OF THE DUNGEON KEEPS EXPANDING HAHAHAHA").
They decided to head back to the first room and rest while Arlo was unconscious. Henry was tending to Octavia's wounds while they were resting. She had wounds all over her body, her arms had the must cuts, while her back had the deepest. It was a gruelling task so it took Henry hours to fully heal her. Octavia took a long nap during the process. In Arlo's unconscious state, the abyss entered his mind and started tweaking his emotions a bit.
"I KNOW I TOLD YOU I'D LET YOU USE MY POWER FOR FREE, BUT I LIED. NOW LET ME PEER INTO YOUR MIND, ARLON WOLFGANG!!!"
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Emotions:
Anger: C-
- Rarly gets angry
- But gets extremely hostile when someone touches Krause
- Hasn't experienced much that would make someone angry
Contempt: D-
- Doesn't think that anybody's moral values are under him.
- Hard to make him despise anyone
- Fond of all his party members values
Disgust: E-
- Can't smell anything since he has no nose
- Hasn't seen disgusting action from humans yet
Enjoyment: A+
- Very happy most of the time
- Enjoys cutting down monsters with his sword
Fear: D+
- Doesn't fear many foes, but greatly fears demon king Goro
- Has fear that he wouldn't be able to revive Krause
- Has great fear of his friends dying
- Fears that he'll make wrong decisions
Guilt: C+
- Feels extremely guilty for Krause' death
- Feels guilty for taking half of Octavia's treasure
Interest: A-
- Currently strongly suppressing his strong interest for his past
- Interested in learning about the Orion continent
- Strongly interested in finding a way to revive Krause
- Has no sexual interest
Joy: S+
- Feels immense Joy in getting money for his goal
- Gets great joy while hanging out with his party
- Only had one sad experience
Sadness: A+
- Holds it back on the outside, but feels extremely sad from Krause death
- Will probably despair if a party member dies
Self-Hostility: SS+
- Unstable emotions constantly beat him up inside
Shame: F+
- Feels some shame for accidentally peaking at Octavia's half naked body
Shyness: F-
- Never feels shy
Surprise: D-
- Gets surprised by surprise attacks
- Often gets surprised by Bjorn's weird speech
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"THAT LOOKS TOO BORING, LET ME CHANGE THINGS UP A BIT"
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Anger: FFF-
- Doesn't need anger
- Only has rational thoughts
- Always keeps calm
Contemp: [removed]
- No time to question someone's moral standing
Disgust: [removed]
- No time to get disgusted by smell or actions
Enjoyment: SSS+
- Enjoys getting money for self satisfaction
Fear: [removed]
- Would rather die than flee
Guilt: [removed]
- Everything he does is right
Interest: $$$+
- Hi, I like money
Joy: SSSS+++
- Feels immense euphoria and extreme dopamine when getting money
Sadness: FFF-
- Sadness is extremely scarce to him and he seeks it like a drug addiction
Self-Hostility: FFF-
- His emotions are stable
Shame: [removed]
- Feels no shame
Shyness [removed]
- Needs to buy abyss premium to unlock
Surprise: B-
- will get surprised more often
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"MUCH BETTER. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW MUCH MORE INTERESTING THIS WOULD GET!!"
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Before:
Anger: C-
Contempt: D-
Disgust: E-
Enjoyment: A+
Fear: D+
Guilt: C+
Interest: A-
Joy: S+
Sadness: A+
Self-Hostility: SS+
Shame: F+
Shyness: F-
Surprise: D-
Race: skeleton
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After:
Anger: FFF-
Contempt: [removed]
Disgust: [removed]
Enjoyment: SSS+
Fear: [removed]
Guilt: [removed]
Interest: SSS+
Joy: SSSS++
Sadness: FFF-
Self-Hostility: FFF-
Shame: [removed]
Shyness: [removed]
Surprise: B-
Race: Demi Boneman
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"NOW IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO WAKE UP"
Arlo slowly opens his eyes, seeing the inside of his tent and stumbling to get up to take a look outside. He feels slightly different but can't put a finger on what exactly had changed, he could still hear the voices of souls in his head but that wasn't it. Could he just be imagining it? Well it wasn't time for him to break his head over it, so he exited his tent and was greeted with the sight of Henry and Alice cooking scorpion stew. They heard Arlo stumbling out of his tent so they looked over to his direction. Their faces were filled with sadness, but after seeing Arlo awake, their faces suddenly became filled with happiness and they ran to Arlo and gave him a big hug. Arlo felt very happy all of the sudden, It definitely wasn't the hug that had made him so happy (it's almost as if his Joy was SSSS++).
He began to uncontrollably grin, then that grin turned into a smile. He tried to stop it, but even with full force, he couldn't do anything. Octavia and Bjorn arrived to see Arlo trying to shut his mouth close, he even began using his hands for assistance. Suddenly he began bleeding from his face the more he ripped on it. He still couldn't feel pain, but the blood was surly real. What was even happening?
"Argh, help! Argh, HELP!!! IT JUST FEELS SOOOO GOOD, YES PLEASE KEEP ME HAPPY. DRAGON NIPPLES!! No, YES!, No STOP GET OUT OF ME!!!" Shouted Arlo while scratching the skin off his face, with tears of blood dripping off his chin.
The abyssal voice appeared in his head and said "CALM DOWN, LOOKS LIKE YOUR OLD EMOTIONS ARE FIGHTING WITH THE NEW ONES. ACCEPT THE HAPPINESS OR ELSE YOUR SOUL WILL EXPLODE"
Arlo fainted and entered the abyss again. There his soul would speak to the abyssal voice to hear an explain.
"What happened to me? Why am I a human and why do I feel uncontrollably happy? Just what have you done to me" Asked Arlo with a calm tone (because of anger FFF-)
"OH IF IT'S ABOUT THE EMOTIONS, THEY'LL STABILIZE AFTER A WHILE. THAT'S JUST THE CONSEQUENCE OF OVERUSING MY POWER" said the abyssal voice, blatantly lying.
"ALSO YOU AREN'T HUMAN, I EVOLVED YOU INTO A DEMI BONEMAN. A DEMI BONEMAN CAN TAKE THE APPEARANCE OF ANY HUMAN THEY WANT, AS LONG AS THEY RIP OUT THEIR SKELETON AND USE THE HOST BODY AS A FLESH SUIT MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"So you basically turned me into a parasite?"
....
The abyss returned Arlo back to his body without answering the last question...