Samus helps us round the final corner towards the big, exciting mission finale.. and this piece's got some action! Whoo!

Lil spoiler here: He ends up back in Hey Daze!

It's a great showing for only Shamus's second roleplay- Inu's personality shines more here than the first time around, too. It's kinda odd how the demons seem so much less horrifically powerful than the one in Catrina's roleplays- but I encourage you not to think about that. Shamus must just - er- be in a low level part of the zone!

Yea- that makes sense... heh

“Well,” Shamus said; staring at the rock in his hand. “now what are we going to do?” He turned to his pet comma chameleon Inuyaustin. “We didn’t get the orb, that blahking sent us to get. Fenni, TheChad, and that freak, might already be dead for all we know. And all my equipment’s gone. I’ll never be able to work for KOKOL again!”

“Well, you could buy a box with the money you have left. Then buy a couple of crackers, go to the ally and you can live the rest of your life as a hobo! Also, look in dumpsters; I heard they sometimes have old spinach.”

“I hate you.”

Smiling Inuy replied “I know.”

Shamus sighed, rummaging through the bag that Satan gave him as a tip. Trying to find something useful. “Rock, Another rock, tutu, rock, rock, knife, my helmet with a note attached to it, rock-” Shamus picked up the note, and read it aloud.
“Dear Satan; Remember to take care of those lousy adventurers who tired to steal the orb. This is the incompetent bounty hunter’s helmet; go through its files, might have something useful. I already found a WONDERFUL jam recipe! Why do I always have to remind you of things? Love Satan.”

“Incompetent am I?” Shamus yelled. “I’ll show him! Inuy get your bag; we’re going back to hey deze!”

“You’re kidding?”

“Nope.”

“As fun as that sounds; I don’t think I’ll-” Inuy’s sentence was cut short by Shamus picking her up in his arms, rushing back to Hagnk’s. “This is insane! Let me down!” Shamus ignored her pleas as he opened the door to Hagnk’s.

“Ahh! Back so soon, Tall One!” Hagnk said joyfully. “Did you decide you require my serv-” Shamus shoved him aside as he headed down to his basement. “You won’t find anything down there, Tall One, just boxes.” Shamus headed down the ladder, closing Hagnk’s basement door as he did so. ”Hmmm…Odd. Oh, well.”

After he got down the ladder, he went to where the door was earlier- Only to find that it had completely vanished.

“Where’s the door?” Shamus exclaimed.

“Oooohhhh, spooky.” Inuya said.

Shamus slammed his fist against the wall in frustration. “Great, now I’m not going to get paid again.”
Shamus started searching through the boxes, and all over for a door, a portal, anything that could take him to hey deze.

“You could always kill yourself, that’ll take you to hey deze.” Inuy said smiling again.

“Why yo- Wait, that’s a great idea!”

“What? I think being in hey deze so long has made you insane…Well, more insane.”

“No, don’t you get it; I kill myself, end up in hey deze, get the orb, escape, and I’m home free!”

“Except the being dead part.”

“Lets seeee,” Shamus picked up some rope from one of the boxes. “how do you tie a noose again?”

“I really wouldn’t try that if I were you.” Shamus ignored her as he tried fruitlessly to tie a noose.

Inuya scurried over a brick lying on the ground near the wall. She picked it up and came back behind Shamus. “Let’s see, the rabbit goes through the hole,” He said, trying to tie the noose. She looked at the brick she had in her hand.

“Sorry to do this to you, bud.” She said as she lifted the brick above her head.

“What are you tal-” Shamus suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head. His vision started to go, everything was going black. He barely saw Inuya staring at him, with a brick in her hand. “You stupid liza…” He began, before he collapsed unconscious on the ground.

 
Shamus slowly opened his eyes; everything was blurry in front of him. “Graaooohh….That lizard better not have given me brain damage.” He struggled to say. After a little straining, Shamus stood up. His vision was still blurred, and now he felt hot.

“It wouldn’t make much of a difference if I did” A familiar voice replied. Shamus squinted, and he could barely make out the shape of Inuy. “Though, I should probably use a different method to knock you out next time. Maybe I could strike a nerve…”

“I can’t see a thing, this blurred vision better not be permanent.” He said as he stumbled slightly.

“Oh, don’t worry; that’s probably because of the heat. We ARE in hey deze.”

“We are? Am I dead? Where’s my dog?”

“Oh, no, you’re not dead.”

“Then how did we get here?”

“Oh, I used a plot hole.” Inuy replied. Shamus couldn’t see her perfectly, but he knew she was smiling again.

“Oh…That’s anti-climactic. Did you happen to bring my helmet?”

“Yeah, here you go.” Inuy said as she handed Shamus his helmet.

Shamus took the helmet from Inuy’s hand and put it on, and immediately felt the cooling system kick in. The vision enchantments kicked in a second afterward. “That’s better. Now, would you happen to know which way the orb is?”

Inuya shook her head. “I didn’t really take a walk in the bowels of hey deze while you were asleep.”

Shamus looked around to see he was near the kitchen again, evidenced my 5 stretchers being brought from a door around the corner. Imps in plastic gloves were picking up evidence. A demon detective was just shaking his head in disgust.

“We don’t want to go that way.” Shamus whispered to Inuy.

“No duh.”

Shamus started walking briskly north, tip-toeing past Satan’s room. Eventually he ended up at a fork in the path; each way leading into a lit cave. He turned to Inuya and asked “Well, which way should we go?”

“Hmmm, one appears to lead to a path near a fiery chasm of death, and one leads to a large pit- Presumably of death.”

“I like the one that isn’t death for sure.”

Shamus started heading down the eastern path with Inuy, looking back every now and then to make sure they weren’t being followed. He stopped a second to adjust his helmet. “You stop rite der ” A voice from behind him said slowly. “You come wit me” He turned around to see a very stupid looking demon, hold a spear to his face.

“You come wit Ug. Ug capture you. Ug hero!” The demon said proudly.

“No thanks. I would prefer not to go with Ug.” Shamus replied.

“Dat okay Ug understa- Hay wait, no you come wit Ug.” Ug moved his spear closer to Shamus’s throat; he really had to get a gorget after this.

“Okay, Shamus will come with Ug. Shamus thinks Ug is smart. Ug real hero.”

“You mean it?”

“Yes, I do. But Shamus heard the other demons speak badly of Ug."

Ug let out a gasp. “They wouldn’t!”

“Yes, they would. They said Ug is dumb. And that they are much smarter than Ug.”

“Why dose! Me get dem! make dem pay!” Ug exclaimed, as he ran back down the path. Shamus started running down the path as soon as he was sure Ug wouldn’t come back. He heard what sounded like a fist-fight in the direction that the demon ran to.

 
“You know for hey deze, this place isn’t very protected.” Shamus said to Inuy, still walking down the path, they where very close to the large pit area now.

Inuya shrugged. “Maybe they’re busy with something else.”

Shamus wondered what the Imps could possibly be doing, but shook it off; he had more important things to worry about right now. They finally arrived at the large pit area. Shamus noted that it looked a lot like a stadium, even down to the flights of stairs that looked like seats.

“Hmm…That’s odd.” He said as he walked down the flights of stairs. He could see a glowing coming from the top of a large pillar in the center of the arena. “Could that be the orb?”

“With our luck? Probably not.” Inuya replied as they got to the center of the arena.

“Well, only one way to find out.” Shamus said as he un-sheathed his knife and stuck it into the pillar, using it to boost him self upward; se he could use his spiked boots to start climbing. After what seemed forever he got to the top of pillar. He saw that the glowing came from a large glowing orb-shaped object. “Well, it appears our luck has finally turned around.” Shamus exclaimed as he put both hands on the object – Right before he fell, screaming. He heard a loud snap, presumably his leg, as he hit the ground. The object came falling soon after, smashing into hundreds of little pieces.

“Great job, genius.” Inuya said as she scurried over to him.

“Nghhh…Do I have any he-healing items?”

“Nope, and I have no familiar’s equipment that heals.”

Shamus heard people coming towards the arena. Grabbing Inuy he tried to crawl under behind the pillar, but to no avail. Two large demons with pikes entered the arena, immediately spotting Shamus, and the broken object.

“Great, that was Satan’s favorite lamp!” One of the demons yelled.

“Let’s get him!” The other exclaimed!

“Good job, you broke your leg, for a lamp.” Inuy said chuckling.

Shamus reached for his knife – only to remember it was still stuck to the pillar. The demons started approaching towards them. “Inuy;” He said “Now would be a good time to help.”

Inuy pulled out a pair of chocolate spurs from her bag, and put them on. She then started morphing into a Cocoabo; skin turning brown, and her pupils growing larger. “Ohhhhh, stylish.” She said examining her new spurs.

“Wait – Can’t a cocoabo heal?” Shamus groaned.

“Hmmm, that it can. Oh well, too late now.” Inuy said, before she sprinted towards the two demons. Shamus hoped she could beat them; or he would be staying in hey deze permanently.

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(That just leaves us with a couple more parts to go before the mighty Mission Finale! It can be tricky coming up with a story that brings everyone together sometimes.. it certainly was tough this time, but once we figured out where we wanted to take it, and where everyone was, the pieces slowly fell into place... onwards! Check out Vixen's first mostly solo piece.. then Dash can conclude active roleplaying in his.... )