Generation WizBot -- Part Two -- circuit dreams

Post Part One: I've never been more FRUSTRATED or ANNOYED in my life!!

So I've been playing Dragon Quest IX (DQIX) a lot lately. Right now my MAIN objective is to get the last vocation (luminary). I have to defeat this monster etc etc, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is finding the stupid monster (a minstrel moai).
So I cheat on these things and I search youtube and google for where I can find them. I had already figured that you HAD to find them in grotto's (underground tunnel places, the flooded ones are my favorite). But I didn't realize the grotto level had to be so HIGH!!
Minstrel moai's are always around King Metal Slimes so if you find one you find the other. My highest level grotto right now is a level 53. A grotto I know has a KMS and is a level 68.
>.<
I searched google about it and some absolute genius came up with this scenario:

" So using Terence's topic and the strategy guide, if your Hero's Level plus the level of your best map is between 101 and 120 (ie Level 58 Hero+Level 53 Map as an example) you can find Metal King Slimes and Moai Minstrels BUT the grotto MUST be

-Water
-9+ floors
-have King Cureslimes, Dark Skeletons, Barbatos, etc on the first floor.

Also, the absolute minimum level of the map is 40 (which is pretty unlikely)

So you can check the maps easily by looking for Marsh, Lake, Moor, Crypt, Waterway, and World in the title.

It must also be Copper, Bronze, Steel, Silver, Gold or Platinum so you can further filter your list of candidate maps

Once you've idenitifed a candidate all you have to do is pop in and see if it has the right enemies. If it does, go down and hope you get to floor 9 without reaching the boss. If you do, you should have a Metal King (and Moai Minstral) map. "
(found here).
So I knew I had a map that fit that description. I'm a level 58 right now so it HAD to work.
Steel Lake of Fear, level 53.
I've already beaten this grotto. And it fit the description.
- water
- 9+ floors (it had 11)
- KCS and Dark Skeletons on first floor.
- 58(my level) + 53(grotto level) = 111
- has 'lake' in name.
- has 'steel' in name.
The problem? No barbatos on first floor.
* glares at DS *
I reach floor 10 of map. Nothing new. I reach floor 11. Nothing new. Then the boss at the end. But what I find even MORE annoying is that you can go into a level 40 something grotto and find some totally new and crazy monster (Darkonium Slime, Octagoon, Canibelle etc are ones I've found). When it SHOULD be the other way around. A level 50 map should have new monsters but NOOOOOO!
>:(
One of the comments on that post link, the very last one, that I found useful was this:

" I began yesterday with my level 54 characters delving into a level 53 grotto looking for what you specified and last night just before bed I aquired a Silver Crypt of Fear Lv. 50. Well, I delved into it today and it was a Water Grotto and everything was turning out perfect (right quality of monsters and all). So, once I hit the 9th floor, I ran into Moai Minstrels and Metal Kings. "
(found here).
Level 50. Really?
So now I have two maps that I KNOW have KMS and minstrel moai's:
- Silver Crypt of Fear, level 50
- Steel Moor of Evil, level 68
And now I have to find them.
Honestly, one's closer than the other.Level 50? I don't even HAVE a level 50. My grotto levels just go: 48, 49, 52, 53.


:P
So....... I'm gonna go search some level 40 grotto's and see if I can get any good maps (you get a new grotto map when you defeat the boss at the end). Bronze Lair of Doubt, level 47, here I come.

Post Part Two: now to the important stuff...

So here is part two of GWB. If you guess that it's unedited you'd be correct. I don't have my lap top so I'm stuck with the netbook but I had put GWB onto a google docs. But docs is super hard to handle on a netbook and my edited stuff is on another computer.
* sigh *
But besides that, let's get this show on the road shall we...?

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Part Two: circuit dreams

Fallon Willowstone

We decided on a quick story before we left. Since I was staying at Llewella’s she didn’t have enough food to last the time we had to stay in our homes. So we were gonna ask her mom, Lacy Jade, to give us some food. Llewella was then gonna pick up some clothes she left at home. While I was helping Mrs. Jade find food, Llewella would look for the Moon Diamond and Lethal Grass.

We made sure to leave time to do it before her dad got home, Lucas Nightgrave. If he got suspicious about anything in the Spiral, he was the one who planted Invisible Scouts. He sort of worked as the “police” of the Spiral. He might stay out late anyway having to deal with the weird monster going around and everything.

We teleported to the commons and dashed to the Shopping District. Once there we pounded on the Llewella’s former house door. As soon as we heard the locks unclick we burst in and slammed the door behind us.

Mrs. Jade started at us stunned. “What are you doing here? You’re supposed to stay inside! You better hope the Headmaster doesn’t find out about this!” I have to say I love Mrs. Jade. She doesn’t really act her age per say. She’s really easy going and when she does punish Llewella, or me, it’s minor.

“I know mom. But here’s the deal. The monster was in Fallon here’s house. So the Headmaster told her to stay with me and I don’t have enough food to last the month and stuff for both of us. So we were hoping you could lend us some. And I have to pick up those cloths you washed for me the other day,” Llewella said. I just nodded.

Mrs. Jade looked from her daughter to me and back to her daughter and back to me. Finally she nodded. “Alright. Llewella, go get your clothes. Fallon dear come give me hand in the kitchen. I have no idea what you like.”

“Great!” Llewella said cheerfully. She dashed up stairs and I follow Mrs. Jade to the kitchen. We rummaged around in the pantry. The place was choke full of food and we could barely find anything. We eventually pulled out two jars of jam, butter, peanut butter, and jelly.

By then Llewella came back down carrying a huge bag stuffed full of clothes. Mrs. Jade looked up from the counter where she was molding meat into a preservative bag. “Do you really need all that? I didn’t think I washed that much.”

“You didn’t. But I thought that Fallon left all her extra clothes at her house, which she can’t go back too. So I got some of my extra clothing,” answered Llewella.

Or you needed more padding for the Moon Diamond and Lethal Grass, I thought to myself.

She then helped me and Mrs. Jade back some bread and cookies then she sent us on our way. Thankfully before Mr. Nightgrave got home.

Llewella teleported home and I teleported to her. “Did you get it?” I asked as soon as we were inside.

“Yeah. Mom and dad have like, ten Moon Diamonds. And I found like, sixteen bundles of twelve Lethal Grasses. I didn’t know they had so many! Surely Ambrose knows about that!”

I gaped at her. “Seriously? Why did he say there was none of it or it was inaccessible?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. But now we need to get the eye of newt and tongue of the sphinx. To Arthur Weathers field!” She headed for the door.

“Wait. Stop!” I grabbed her sleeve. “I don’t think we should go to him. If Ambrose knows I still have the page, which I think he does, he may know we will try to make the protection spell.”

“Well, then, where can we go? Everyone else in the Spiral is blocked off. I tried going to Dragonspyer and the door didn’t open.”

“I know a way to get to Krokotopia. I think Alhazred, the Balance teacher, would have some right?”

“True but how to get there.”

“Well, I have a left over temp key.”

“A temp key? Why would you need that? And why do you have one?”

“You remember the time I dated that kid Marcus Fireflame?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, he was a higher level than me. He wanted to take me to Mooshu but I wasn’t there yet. So he gave me a temp key.”

“Alright. But the keys don’t work. Ambrose put up a restriction spell on all of them.”

“Nope. Temp keys are spell immune. Ambrose was worried wizards would find a way to make the temp keys rework so they aren’t just used once. They’re spell repellant so no one can do anything to them. This means they can open the door.”

“Genius Fallon!”

We raced to the Spiral Door. I inserted the key and said, “Krokotopia.” I pulled the door open and the hot dry air of the desert met us. I held the door open and Llewella slipped through before it banged shut.

We walked out into the Oasis to find it empty. Not a Mander, nor Marlybonian to be found.

“Perhaps they’re all hiding,” suggested Llewella.

“Maybe. Let’s check the Krokosphinx.” We headed to the boat. No Mander. “Guess we have to drive it ourselves.”

Llewella just looked scared. We climbed aboard and I let the rope go. We started to drift. I heaved at the winged sails and we picked up speed heading to Krokotopia’s second island.

“Slow down, slow down!” screamed Llewella. I yanked on the brake but it was too late. The boat rammed into the side of the island and sand poured down into the boat and down into nothingness.

“Jump!” I yelled. We jumped just as the boat reached the point of no return. We would’ve been suspended in air for a whole moth!

We get up from our face plants and walk over to the ladder going down into the Balance School.

“Let’s hope they’re down there,” mutter Llewella.

“Yeah,” I respond.

We climb down the ladder. I keep forgetting how considerably cooler it is down here than up in the sun. We all come face to face with about 50 Manders.

“Whoa,” I mutter. Llewella nods.

“Who are you to come here? You have made a daring decision,” says the child like voice of an orange Mander.

“We are here for an eye of newt and tongue of the sphinx. We wish to protect the Spiral from the monster that is rampaging it.”

The Mander nods. “I believe Alhazred has some.” The Manders part and we walk up to the old Krok.

“You need eye of newt and tongue of the sphinx?” he says in a raspy voice.

I nod. “Yes. We wish to protect the Spiral from the monster.”

He nods. “I will give you the regents you need.” He goes to his desk and pulls out two jars. One has marble size green things in it. I’m guessing newt eyes. The other holds hand long slimy looking things. Probably the sphinx tongues.

I grimace. “Uh, thanks.” Alhazred puts each hand into the jars and pulls out one of each, eye and tongue. He holds out his hands and I grudgingly take each. I try not to pay attention to the clammy, cold, slimy texture of each.

I could hear Llewella snickering behind me. “Thanks,” I say again and turn around. “Let’s get outta here,” I mutter. She nods and teleports away. I follow. “Yuck, ew, yuck, ew yuck, ew, yuck, ew!” I dropped the eye and tongue on the table with the diamond and grass. “That was nasty!”

Llewella just can’t stop laughing. I glare at her. She finally catches her breath and says, “Ok. All we have left is the shield. But what about the Balance shield?”

“Already thought of that. We can use a Tower Shield. It activates for all spells. Which means it is a Balance shield of sorts.”

“Alright. But how do we get them in solid form?”

“You remember that day last year that you missed?”

“Yeah.”

“On that day we learned a spell that can make any spell a solid form but it kept its magical properties. It’s just a storm spell, called Ahlife, but it works on all spells.”

“Oh cool! Show me show me!”

“First we need the cards.” I got out a Tower Shield, death, myth, and storm shield. Llewella got out a life, ice, and fire shield. I taught her the spell and soon seven solid, magical shields were on the table.

“Well, let’s mix ‘em!” declared Llewella. She grabs a large pot and we threw all the regents in. We needn’t have worried about mixing. The ingredients glowed a soft gold then morphed into a silver liquid.

“Sweet,” I mutter.

We find paintbrushes then do a rough line around Llewella’s home. By the time that is done, it is twilight and we are both very tired.

“How do we get to the other worlds to do this?” says Llewella through a yawn.

I yawn too before answering. “I have more temp keys. It’ll take a while though.”

“Alright. Let’s get to bed.”

“Agreed.”

We fall asleep surprisingly fast. And thankfully I don’t get an uneasy feeling. But I still sleep restlessly.

***

I’m walking in a giant room. It is all dark except for criss crossing neon blue lines that pulse with light evenly.

The ground seems to be made of glass. I can only see the lines all around me and above me the ceiling is black. I have no idea, which way I am heading.

I suddenly notice that in the corners of each criss cross, that form boxes, there are little neon yellow numbers. The ones I notice first are +42, +43, +44, and +45. I look to the box to the right of that to see +46, +47, +48, and +49 in the corners. I go up a box to see the numbers, +567, +568, +569, and +570. Which must mean that right here it is the 570th box. That’s a lot of boxes. And the +’s must mean they’re… positive?

I keep walking.

Past the 600’s. Past the 700’s. Past the 1,000’s. Past the 10,000,00’s. Finally I come to a box that has no numbers. In fact there is no box. The sides are all blank. The boxes on either side of it have only  three sides not four. A red dot flickers in the center.

The space here seems very empty.

However there are still little numbers but they have little minus signs next to them.   –759,847,837,748,057, –759,847,837,748,058, –759,847,837,748,059,                            –759,847,837,748,060. Long numbers but they’re negative according to the –‘s.

Is this box defective or something?

Suddenly the red dot begins to flicker. Slow at first, then faster. I step back. The red dot vanishes and so do the blue lines and yellow numbers. I’m plunged into total darkness.

Then a blinking white bar appears. It blinks a few times then a tapping noise. Letters appear one by one to make the following words:

Hello Fallon Willowstone

I gasp and step back. The words vanish. Darkness again besides the blinking white bar. Then more tapping and more letters appear.

Welcome to the Circuit Board

I’m thrust out of the dream, my breath gone. I feel a cold sweat on my brow and back. Way too hot, I kick back a few blankets.

What was that? That place? It was like nothing I had ever seen before. The blue lines and numbers and the red dot and then the words! It was unnatural and out worldly.

I thought of what my mom used to say to me whenever I had a bad dream. Her voice echoed in my mind now. “Remember my Claredelscia. Dreams are just your mind wandering into other worlds. Don’t be scared. It’s just a picture. But the picture is worth a thousand words. Dreams are messages. Even the scariest ones. Listen to them.”

Alright mom, I thought. What can this mean?

But all I could really focus on was what the last white words had said. Welcome to the Circuit Board. What was a circuit board? Sounded like a technical term for something. A place perhaps?

I had no idea.

 
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:)
So.
How was it??

Now, I have to go and finish my homework if I'm to find that grotto!!

Laterz!
~Emma