Farewell to Krokotopia

Happy Earth Day, everyone! I hope you are protecting your worlds! I am sorry I haven't written my recent entry, but things have been crazy lately! We finally defeated the Tuts! But I'm getting ahead of myself! Me and Grace were entering the Karanahan Palace to recover the four pieces of the key to the Temple of Storms, where the leader of the Tuts, Krokopatra, was hiding...

The four princes were not going to make it easy for us. We avoided the patrols but the princes were very powerful. Luckily, my pigs and Grace's Sirens were enough to take them out.

We told the specter of Krokotep of our success and he congratulated us and begged us to "do what he could not." We were ready to go but a Krok laughed from the Temple. "You cannot beat the Son of Storms, you foolish girls! Go back to your bathing ponds!"

"Well, that was a sexist comment if I ever heard one," I said in a huff.

"What a fool, ha!" said Penny, Grace's mermaid pet. "We will have to turn him into a pair of shoes. Then he won't talk so much."

(Just a little reference to my favorite book series - Grace Makutsi always looks at her shoes and she pretend they are talking to her. ^_^)

 

But first we found the remaining scarabs in the Tomb of Storms and reported our findings to Zeke, who gave us a book to read which increasing our training power. We visited Moolinda Wu and learned the Sprite spell. At least I could be a bit helpful to my allies with healing, even if it wasn't that great of a healing spell.

(Finally got the last of the beetles - Grace and Sierra used their two training points to get Legend Shield and Sprite. I plan on having them learn Life spells up to Satyr, which will take a while, then start working on something else.)

Into the temple we went! Some guy was there but he didn't enter with us.

We dodged patrols and reached an aged ghost who stated we had to pass two sets of tests to be allowed access to the inner sanctum.

The first was a test of battle, and we found the mocking Krok and beat him senseless with our power but not before taking out a ghost and a mummy.

Then we had to solve puzzles - Grace did the heavy work here as she was very smart and observant.

The gatekeeper opened the teleporter to the inner sanctum. This was it. Inside was Krokopatra. We dodged more patrols and opened the doors to the innermost chamber...

"Yes, we are new members of the Order," I said proudly and defiantly.

"Give us the Krokonomicon, Mma," stated Grace coldly. "We will show no mercy to you, but your death will be quick and painless if you hand over the book. We know that Rra Malistaire awoke you."

She laughed a hoarse rasping laugh. "Fools! You will never get the Krokonomicon!"

"Then you just dug your own grave!" I said.

And we buried her in it with our ninja pigs and sirens. Despite not being very effective, Penny's song called the Sirens and they still did enough to fatally wound Krokopatra. She was done and dusted.

(Not too tough of a battle with some awesome spells.)

"Okay," I said. "I know we're in an Egyptian world, but there is no Denial here."

"We'll tear up the tomb to get that book!" shouted Penny.

"You foolish girls," choked the evil queen. "Even with my death, you will never get the book. I will be honest as lies means nothing to me now - when I entered the Great Sleep, I sealed the tome in a sacred sarcophagus. But when I was awakened, the casket was gone! Malistaire was dismayed when I told him this, the same look of dismay I see on your faces! Ha ha ha!"

 There was a long pause.

"Well," said Penny. "This is not good."

"There is nothing more here in this dead place," sighed Grace. "Let us go."

I was all for that. We reported to Krokotep's shade and he granted us new spells - for me, I could remove any negative ward like a trap on me or my allies and for Grace, she could destroy an enemy's blade, taking away their advantage. (Sierra got Cleanse Ward and Grace got Cleanse Charm.)

"And I mean both of you," he added. "I am pleased to see strong women like yourself."

"Thank you," I said, blushing. "We'll let you rest in peace. So long."

As we left the tomb, I spoke up. "I wonder who took the sarcophagus? Shalek?"

"No, it seems unlikely," said Grace. "They probably couldn't penetrate the tomb... but..." She turned to me. "I have a hunch. We know there are archeologists here..."

"You don't mean... !" I gasped. "Let's find Major Talbot!"

It was as we had feared - the Marleybonian expedition had somehow excavated the tomb and found the sarcophagus and it was halfway to Marleybone by now. "Well, that's that," I said. "We'll never get to it by now."

"Hold on," said Talbot. "You two girls have dealt a blow against the Tuts, and Zan'ne told us about how you rescued the Manders! I normally wouldn't give this to anyone, but you are an exception."

Woof!

He handed the two of us Spiral Keys to Marleybone!

"Go speak to Private Kinchley when you get there," said Talbot. "I'll send him word you are coming."

"We should go immediately!" I said. "Perhaps we can intercept the casket and claim the book before Malistaire..."

"He will be one step ahead of us, Mma," said Grace somberly. "He probably already knows where it is by now."

"Still, it wouldn't hurt," I begged. Grace shrugged and nodded and agreed that we should go there.

As we entered Marleybone, Grace looked at me. "Mma, where is your broom?"

"Tossed it," I said with a smile. "Amber gave me these black wings... they're not fairy wings but they'll do until I save enough crowns to buy some. She said she didn't need them anymore... Guess she found a cooler mount, but what is cooler than black feathered wings... ?"

"WOOOO HOO! HERE COMES PETER COTTONTAIL, HOPPING DOWN THE BUNNY TRAIL! HIPPITY HOPPITY, EASTER'S COME AND GONE, OH YEAAAAAH!!!"

(Yep, I rushed to get the Crowns for a Prismatic Hare mount - I tried to get the Storm Rider Hare but the drops were not kind to me and I wasn't able to get it before Eggbert left the Spiral and reclaimed the bunny mounts. *cries* But I had to get Amber this rainbow bunny as her last name IS Rainbow. She handed-me-down her permanent Swiftshadow Wings to Sierra - I want Sierra to have her final mount be some fairy wings as her last name is Fairyfriend.)

[To be continued...]