Terraria: Cthulhu AU

The Memories of Brain of Cthulhu

Player's POV

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That Skeletron fight was hard, way harder than Eater of Worlds was. I decided to not tell Guide of what I've done, since he would probably go berserk, if that was even his thing. Anyways, my point is that he would probably be extremely angry with me.

I teleported to my room with a thud, and made my way downstairs to where Nurse was to see if she could heal me. I got a lot of coins from the fight, so I was assuming I could afford it. She healed me for cheaper prices everyday anyways.

I was wondering whether or not I should have told her about Skeletron, since she WAS technically the reason I even fought it in the first place, telling me about the whole 'curse him to free him' thing with the Old Man.
Speaking of which, what happened to him? He just disappeared and I have no idea where he went.

I made my way to the other house, and saw Dryad drinking again. I swear she's addicted... some environment protector she is. Anyways, I went up to Nurse.

"Will 50 Copper and 12 Silver do?" I asked her.
"Yes." She replied, before allowing me to sit down on the hospital bed. I still wonder where she got it from.

As she was placing some plasters on my cuts, and offering me lesser-healing potions, I decided it was time to tell her.
"Hey, I, uh.." I looked around, just in case Guide was nearby.
"What?" She asked.
"..I cursed the Old Man at the Dungeon and I think I freed him." I whispered to her. She slightly gasped.

"What happened? Is he on his way?" Nurse asked, standing up.
"No, he just.. disappeared. But you know what did happen?"
"What?"
I looked around once more, then stood up and walked towards Nurse.

"It summoned a massive skeleton creature that the voices in my head called Skeletron." I whispered to her again. "And it wasn't the Dungeon Guardian, I'm sure of it."
Nurse's eyes widened.
"You killed it, didn't you?" She whispered back. I sighed.
"What other choice did I have?"

Nurse sulked a bit, offering me my 3rd lesser-healing potion. I was surprised to see her sulk, since when I told her about Eye of Cthulhu and Eater of Worlds she was completely fine, if not joyful. I drunk the blackcurrent-flavoured potion, and finally felt fully recovered.

"What's up with it?" I asked her.
"Nothing... uh, you don't want Guide to know, do you? He always takes the boss deaths seriously." She added.
"No, no I don't. Please don't tell him."
Nurse sighed.
"I won't."

I made my way downstairs and to my house, deciding it was finally time to clear out that one hell of a chest that was full of junk. I went up to my room, but Guide was there.

"Guide?" I asked him "What are you doing here..?"
"Did you find the Dungeon?"
I gulped. No mention of Skeletron, please.
"..Yeah, but there was nothing interesting there. Just an Old Man who forced me to go back."
Technically I wasn't lying, since he did force me to go back, but I resisted.
"Hmm. Alright."

There was silence as Guide stared outside. I suddenly had an idea.

"Hey, you know how you said there's no bosses in the Crimson?" I asked him. He turned around, giving me his usual cautious look. "...Yes."
"Well, I want to head there for a change. Surely it should be similar to Corruption, just without the whole uh.. Eater of Worlds thing." I explained. Guide hummed.
"Fair enough. Head West then."
"That's what I was going to do, but thanks anyway."

And with that, I was on my way to the Crimson. No bosses, please, hiding Skeletron's death from Guide is already hard enough.

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Lunatic Cultist's POV

"I have my blueprint for mechanical Skeletron, if you want to take a look." Mechanic offered.
Just recently Skeletron had been killed, right in this very Dungeon, and I still wasn't over the fact that I could have easily stopped it, but didn't. It really, REALLY annoyed me.