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The Legend of turbobear

A quiet day like any other, nobody suspecting any adventures or twists and turns out of the ordinary. Life goes on peacefully around the village: farmers tilling, lords and ladies socializing, merchants haggling, life is bustling uneventfully. All it took was a cloaked stranger and the promise of riches to change that. Called by many names—Teacher, Master, Sorcerer, Witch, Sage—this figure ventures town to town recruiting local adventurers on a quest for epic loot and legendary renown. This time was no different from any other: the one called the Guide Healer made his post in the Square, recruited a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed following, and marched them into the Dungeon.

Slots in the party were filling fast! Magic-wielders, sneak thieves, mighty warriors, and more joined the forming Charred Toad Party, but they had yet to recruit someone with a knack for invention… Up rolled turbobear then, with mind sharp and tools ready to make whatever the Charred Toad Party might need on the spot! Be it weapon, tool, or zany contraption, turbobear assured the party of their ability to make anything and everything perfect for the job!

Entering the Dungeon was a little different from turbobear’s everyday life in the inventor’s workshop. The dark, musty atmosphere was familiar, but the horrid goopy monster blocking the door certainly wasn’t a welcome change! Thankfully, the Charred Toad Party possesses good combat prowess and could easily handle the threat despite turbobear’s expressed worries. In the meantime as well, they were able to gather up some extra food for the journey. Not all elements of an adventure involve swords and spells after all!

Difficulty and temperature both turned up simultaneously as the Charred Toad Party descended into the realm of the demon fiends! Pyre and flame cloaked the landscape and definitely took a tool on the party’s survival and combat prowess… Rations started looking thinner and thinner faster and faster here. In efforts to handle the extreme, heat, turbobear helped the party with their adjustment to the fierce temperatures through magic, but only for a short period. Friends falling, foes flying, and fire flushing the party hither and yon made it difficult to keep focus on the attunement process… Switching tactics, turbobear chose to mend the wounded until the rest of the party had slain the monster.

Splashing down in the water floor, turbobear quickly caught sight of something shiny in a pool: a polished metal hammer that looked much stronger than their currently equipped flail. Definitely keeping that for later, and if it doesn’t work out, turbobear can always use it for scrap metal. Empowered by the promise of new equipment, turbobear found a good high vantage point above the draconic foe, took a second to gather up some provisions from that point, and then brought on the hurt with a crushing blow to weaken the monster! That blow plus the remaining efforts of the Charred Toad Party put the liquidy foe to a swift demise, but having a knack for machines, turbobear took one final survey around the exit to the room with the suspicion of traps present. Thankfully, none were in sight!

Unfortunately, turbobear’s legend is not the most glorious in the earthy portion of this Dungeon… Unable to find strong opportunities to attack, turbobear tried to focus more on supporting the Charred Toad Party through gathering up rations for later in the Dungeon. The craggy titan monster had other plans: it beat and battered the party, often catching turbobear in the mix, knocking them around, dazing them, destructively inhibiting their general abilities to act… Thankfully, the rest of the Charred Toad Party was very protective of turbobear and took care of their fellow adventurer throughout the entirety of the floor! Now that is good teamwork!

Returning to the aquatic floor, turbobear could now put their mechanical inclination to best use! Hammering, twisting, and gluing into place, turbobear worked on a contraption to support the Charred Toad Party’s combat prowess. Their work was not without interruption, however. Protecting fellow allies, staying alive and awake in the meantime, and struggling to equip the device properly, turbobear worked tirelessly until they finally had their ideal invention. It only lacked power… Focusing and tapping into the magic of the floor, droplets of water began levitating around turbobear’s ears, waterfalls seemed to fall upward, and before long, they attuned to the water element! Using steam generated by this element, turbobear sent their hammer mech into battle, punishing the monster and even delivering a few nasty strikes to the knees!

Sadly, all heroes must meet their end… It’s only a shame turbobear’s came when it did… The frosty lupine monster on the following ice floor wasted no time, crunching the hammer mech and pouncing on turbobear, knocking them out cold… turbobear tried and tried so hard to come back to the realm of the awake, but nothing seemed to break them from their unconscious state. The monster took advantage of that, charged up an ice beam strike, and froze turbobear into an unlucky popsicle… Although turbobear could not venture onward with the Charred Toad Party, they were there in spirit and upon revival from the Guide Healer too!