Andrew Schmidt

@kari-karast @nuetrobolt @e_elaine_soup5 @everyone-who-is-playing-this-game

Delton’s eyes flared. Aleck would abandon them? Was he trying to get the rubies to safety and then come back and help free the slaves, or was he being a complete coward?

“Aleck, stop!” he shouted, as dozens of soldiers surrounded him.

Lord Deathrock laughed. “You think it is this easy?”

But before Spadewick could even take flight, one of the…[Read more]

Thank you, Dakota, for this poem as well!

Are you planning on publishing a poem book sometime…? Because you write a lot of them.

As soon as Aleck grabbed the precious box, a voice echoed through the room, “Who dare steal the magic rubies!”

They all froze.

A figure appeared, drawing a sword. For a moment, Delton couldn’t make out his face. But as he came closer, he discovered the mystery already. Of course, he should have been prepared for this.

Lord Deathrock was no easy game.

The sight was glorious.

Treasure and gold filled the room. The walls were crimson and the floor silver. The rubies glimmered red in the fancy, black-stone box.

Delton was thrilled. There were a lot of rubies in that box, each one worth a fortune.

But he was not a greedy person. And they still had all the slaves to free and an evil lord to bring…[Read more]

Even Delton’s hallucinations, symptoms of his Alsunzer syndrome, wasn’t as bad as this evil hall. Finally, with a lot of creepy torment and voices, they made it to the door at the end of the hall.

Julius cleared his throat, grabbed the doorknob, black with an interesting design on it. He attempted to open it, but it was locked. Of course.

It…[Read more]

The hall was full of blackness, with that haunting ghost-like light that seemed to be grinning down on them from above. In the darkness, magic snapped and popped, sending horrible sounds into their heads. The sound of bloodthirsty cannibal Indians, the roar of mythical werewolves, the hissing of a hundred reticulated pythons, and more.

Images…[Read more]

“And being here for so long,” Julius added, “I know much of the locations in this castle.”

@kari-karast: Its just more the chilling presence the darkness brings forth; magic and stuff, and creepy voices that whisper in your ears. So, I guess if you wanted, there could be illusions. That all clear?

“I am in a high position,” Julius replied, “and I have been here many years. Waiting for the day that heroes would descend… well, out…[Read more]

The entire group, once thoroughly examining the room, moved on as they were told. A black door, the exit, led them to a dark hall, dark as night itself. Only a ghostly pale light flickered in the darkness.

Delton didn’t know what it was, but there was something about the darkness, and how it hissed in his ears like snakes, that sent chills down…[Read more]

Thanks for this poem, @Dakota, again!

You make a lot of poems. Xd

@bookcrazygirl @nuetrobolt @kari-karast @e_elaine_soup5 @shadowwriter161

@bookcrazygirl, I am doing Julius.

“Well,” Julius was replying to Aleck, “its just I usually know a lot and where things are in this place, but obviously not this one. You never know what Deathrock might come up with.”

“Like infrared snakes?” Delton said suddenly, after having Rei spread it all over his eyelids. “Interesting.”

“People, this…[Read more]

Delton, the two torn halves of the map once again in his hands, joined Aleck. He thought they would be rooms and rooms more but… to his startled surprise, he realized they were only a room away from the ruby room.

A room away…

But the room he was in now? He narrowed his eyes, making out a museum in a luxurious wooden room.

Julius joined…[Read more]

Julius glanced at Aleck. “Alright, get us out of here,” he said, trying his best not to come off as demanding or anything.

Delton had meant  the “What?” more as rhetorical question, but obviously that was not how Aleck perceived it. But it wasn’t that big of a deal, really.

Gotta go do wood now!

@nuetrobolt: I was planning on having Julius find a short cut just before the dragon, giant plant, and ice giant attacked… and a couple of other monsters right then after; a multi-headed beast and a color-changing monster… but oh well.

And yes, I will not let this thing die! Sorry. I’ve been busy.

Delton glanced at Aleck. “What?!”

Great peom, @dakota!