Alice follows along as I begin exploring the park quickly finding out all those figures that I saw in the distance are still present hanging on invisible strings or posing stock still everywhere with glassy skin Alice nudges me before she points between me and the figures before sitting down with a strange smile... Is she telling me she'll let me play? Weird... With a shrug I use my double stealth and sneak up on one of the figures before slashing at it. Surprisingly it doesn't go down in one blow but two. Looking back at Alice whose smiling and clapping I continue playing as I kill the figures one by one looting all the blood and hearts of the figures. At some point I turned around and Alice was just there staring at me with some glowing whiteless eyes after the initial jump scare I just smiled and pat her head before continuing on. Guess she won't just sit on the ground and let me leave...
After clearing away all the figures in sight we arrive before a marry go round guarded by a 8 foot tall glass elephant... Is this her dollie? Looking back at Allice she's just sat down and waves me on... Guess I need to fight it... Wonder how strong it'll be... With my stealth I sneak up behind it and cleave into it's big butt with my sword before swiftly dogging a kick and turning with it as I tries to turn continuously hitting it... It's got a fairly high health bar at around two million and me only being only able to do my base damage of fifty thousand despite all my skills makes this a straining fight as I slowly bite away at the elephants health.
A short while after the fights began I heard a cracking sound before the giant butt in front of me shatters to pieces... Reaching forward I loot the elephant and get all the glass shards and a small plush doll. Nodding I see little Alice has joined me so we head into the marry go round and Alice points the way towards the next ride as I look about for any treasures or at least light switches... Eventually I find a button and the whole ride lights up as Alice smiles happily and dances about seeing all the pretty lights and she immediately runs over and hops on the back of an elephant... Yep... Found a very precious treasure... Smiling I silently join Alice and we play on the marry go round till she gets bored so I turn it off and we go into the next area. I notice the figures despite being the same seem different so I pull up my quest.
*Quest: Never to be Free
Difficulty*2
Acquire Alice's Dollies
-Alice's Tiger
-Alice's Bunny
-Alice's Birdie
-Alice's Penguin
-Alice's Teddie
Acquire Glass Shards 300/1000
Acquire Mannequin Blood 48/100
Mold Glass into a Tea Set
Reward: Tea Party, a gift and Unknown*
Hmm... So playing with Alice on the rides will make the enemies stronger but I will get a better reward? Thinking about it for awhile I nod my head and decide that I'll help Alice to play as much as she can. Looking at the happy little girl I nod to myself and don't really care about the unknown reward at all...
Moving on I begin fighting the figures who take four hits to kill now. They don't have a lot of health just two-hundred thousand but all these glass or clay figures in this park seems to have a strange skill damage nullification my sword doesn't even do any damage it's all strength damage... The magic muscles seems to be at play though... Otherwise I'd only do half my current damage and it would take eight slashes to take down these trash mobs... As the time it took to kill all the figures doubled so did the exp as my equipment slowly levels up and my skills make progress towards level ten... I will likely finish level ten in this place and have to go upgrade all my basic skills in the town I am traveling towards... So will finally break my level 10 bottleneck then. After about 12 hours of killing and one quick break for a phone call from Affie and Crys that lasted an hour on its own that was mostly Anna talking she blabbered on about literally everything that's changed while smiling before asking me when I'm coming back with a frown which I answered by making a joke that if her expression does a 180° that quickly too frequently she may end up disfigured. Anna just pouted falling into Affie's big chest who just pat her head. Eventually we hung up before Alice and I finally entered the next ride... the dreaded the evil... the horrible!!! Teacup ride... Alice sat down behind me as I approached the huge glass tiger and entered stealth the tiger unlike the elephant was on the ride itself lounging about drinking from the ride... yep... it's drinking from the tea cups... Sneaking up on it I immediately start targeting entirely on its hind legs. Unlike the elephant which was slow and massive the tiger is much faster but has no real kick back attack only the ever annoying tail swipe which does a fixed amount of damage to me and is undodgable but I negate it with a regeneration spell as I slowly chip away at the tigers health whilst struggling to remain behind it and slow it by destroying it's legs. Eventually I managed to shave down it's legs then I pummel it into glass shards over the course of a long battle as this boss had twice as much health as the previous one. Looting the corpse I turn to Alice and pat her head before quickly looking for the on switch to the ride. Eventually I find it as the teacups begin to swirl as we turn about slowly. I lead Alice over to one of the teacups and pull her to the side with a flourish as I opened up the flood gates of the teacup we approached as steaming tea... Yep... It was filled with tea... Drains out in a big wave and I bow to little Alice.
"Your chariot awaits Madame" Smiling Alice happily hops into the teacup and I join her before we sit down together and find actual tea cups on the little table in the ride. Alice happily drinks hers so I shrug and drink the one before me as well as Alice looks out towards the spinning world with beautiful wide eyes. Eventually Alice tumbles over and falls asleep on my lap I gently pet her hair whilst glance at my quest.
*Quest: Never to be Free
Difficulty*4
Debuff Stats/ 2
Acquire Alice's Dollies
-Alice's Bunny
-Alice's Birdie
-Alice's Penguin
-Alice's Teddie
Acquire Glass Shards 500/1000
Acquire Mannequin Blood 93/100
Mold Glass into a Tea Set
Reward: Tea Party, a gift and Unknown*
That's what I thought... The tea lowered my stats... Hmm well no use crying about it now it's probably a part of the difficulty rise. It is only gonna get harder and harder from here on... I got four more bosses to go before I gotta make the tea set and Alice gets to have her tea party.
It takes a few hours but eventually Alice wakes up and wants to get down so I open the door for her and she leads me by hand still a little groggy from her just waking up to the next area where I spend a whole day killing before we finally reach the oh so nostalgic hurlawhirl a big round upside down dome with a glass bunny sitting in the middle of it. Shrugging I walk over and begin the fight ignoring stealth and tactics... It's a small and agile bunny so no use trying to flank it like the others. Luckily the little guy does almost the same amount of damage as the lions tail but is harder to hit so the fight takes hours with it's four million health and my halfed damage it takes awhile for it to eventually shatter to pieces. I pick up the loot and then hit the button as I pick up the adorable Alice and tumble to the wall as the dome picks up speed. Alice happily fumbles about in my arms as before we get pulled tight against the wall or well I got pulled tight against the wall Alice got me as a soft cushion as we spun around faster and faster. Unlike the other rides this one didn't stay on forever and Alice struggled to lead me towards the door we entered through as I checked my quest details again.
*Quest: Never to be Free
Difficulty*8
Debuff Stats/2
Accuracy/2
Movement speed/2
Acquire Alice's Dollies
-Alice's Birdie
-Alice's Penguin
-Alice's Teddie
Acquire Glass Shards 600/1000
Mold Glass into a Tea Set
Reward: Tea Party, a gift and Unknown*
Hmm got twice as difficult but with the other bits the time I'ma take to finish this is gonna rise insanely and the next two animals appear to be like the bunny no way to cheese it as it's direct combat. Hmm well I'm looking forward to seeing how my crippled future self will handle the Teddie... Shrugging I move along behind the stumbling Alice.