Burger: The Boy Who Hated Burgers (bxb)

Stupid, Pervy Dwarf

Cyniczz: who says that?

Chupacabra56: What?

Cyniczz: who says "are you ready to have some fun?" i mean, it's so corny.

Chupacabra56: Seriously? Wow, you're nice.

Cyniczz : so why are you playing snake trail again? you're lvl 60! you must have finished this.

Chupacabra56: Well, I'm having a hard time finishing this super hard level 60 quest. So, I decided to do one of my favourite lower-level quests, Snake Trail, to earn some extra drachma.

Cyniczz: okay. well, congrats on being one of the top twenty players ever.

Chupacabra56: Thank you. I'm actually in the fifteenth place now. :)

Cyniczz: wow! okay, well, "are you ready to have some fun"?

Chupacabra56: -_-

After closing the chatbox, I entered the quest. The map sprawled across my laptop screen, and I whistled in appreciation. Green mountains sloped toward the horizon. Tall, spiky rocks reached into the sky. The sunlight filtered through the clouds and painted the grass gold. The place would have been the perfect spot for a picnic if it weren't for the long, ominous tunnel that stretched through the mountains. The entrance had a cobra hood fashioned around it.

The Snake Trail.

Cyniczz: this looks like the death of me.

Chupacabra56: Oh, it's pretty easy. Just follow my lead.

I made my avatar walk toward the tunnel. An old, shrivelled dwarf stood in front of the wooden entrance. It tapped the padlock and said, "Welcome, heroes. Right now, this tunnel is infested with dangerous forces of evil. They are all looking for a prize. Since they have arrived first, they have placed an enchanted lock on these doors. Find a way to break open the lock and begin the quest. And remember, don't let those monsters take away the treasure!"

Cyniczz: so... how do we do this?

Chupacabra56: I've done this before, so it's easy. Do you see that purple rock there?

I searched the screen carefully, making my avatar walk around the entrance of the tunnel. Sure enough, there was a glittering purple stone buried beneath the undergrowth. I clicked on it and the rock opened up like a trapdoor, revealing a hidden wand.

Chupacabra56: Now, take the wand and hit the lock once with what you think is the right spell.

I had the option to cast four spells with the wand: Gargoyle's Genesis, Backfire, Metalbreaker and Euphoria.

Cyniczz: uh, which one of these is the right one?

Chupacabra56: I don't know. They change up the names of the spells each time.

Cyniczz: and what if i use the wrong one?

Chupacabra56: You'll lose health. That will be a disadvantage when we face the monsters inside the tunnel.

I released my mouse and sat back on my bed, thinking. Gargoyle's Genesis and Euphoria didn't exactly sound like spells you would open a lock with. Metalbreaker seemed like the apparent choice-- deceptively apparent. That couldn't be right.

Backfire. Ah, the irony. My gut feeling told me that this was the correct one.

My lips twisted into a smile. "You think you had me beat, you wrinkled midget," I whispered to the animated dwarf. "But you're wrong."