The Vault Dweller
always looking for water.
Ive discovered something wonderful. You see I was browsing a list of links one day and found a free online RPG called "Kingdom of Loathing". Now I know what your thinking. Its free therefore it must suck and/or have some sort of gimmick like making you pay eventually or forcing spyware onto your PC. Neither is true. In fact this is one of the best games I've ever played especially considered its all independently made! There's no sound and the graphics suck, but the artist knew this and made them look funny on purpose. In fact the game is itself a parody with many adventures/items/enemies being references to real life things all written with a savants sarcasm. Not that its not a balanced game though. You have character classes, item creation, combat, puzzle solving, and more all still with the same "Loathing" flavor.
Here's an example of some of the whitty authorship:
-An enemy encounter:
You're fighting a Gnollish Crossdresser
This is a Gnollish Crossdresser, not to be confused with a Gnollish Dresscrosser. The Dresscrossers make the dresses by combining other dresses together, and the Crossdressers wear them while picking fights with Adventurers such as yourself.
He gets the jump on you.
He waxes first poetic, then your chest. Yeowch! Eek! Ugh!
You lose 2 hit points.
-Another enemy encounter:
You're fighting a Weretaco
This is a weretaco -- an ordinary man, who, when the moon is full, turns into a half-man, half-taco monstrosity.
Incidentally, for you detail-oriented people out there -- the weretaco's lycanthropic cycle is not tied to Ronald or Grimace, but to some completely unrelated moon in some completely unrelated alternate dimension. That's why you never see him turn into a human. Seriously.
He gets the jump on you.
He crunches you between his shells. Your face is bathed in smoking-hot salsa. Ooh! Ow! Ouch
-An item description:
boxed wine
This is a plastic bladder full of wine in a cube-shaped cardboard box. You are already too educated stupid to understand the truth of nature's harmonic simultaneous 4-liter wine cube.
(Cocktailcrafting ingredient)
Type: booze
Selling Price: 35 Meat.
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So sign up today and may an adventurer be you!
http://www3.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
Here's an example of some of the whitty authorship:
-An enemy encounter:
You're fighting a Gnollish Crossdresser
This is a Gnollish Crossdresser, not to be confused with a Gnollish Dresscrosser. The Dresscrossers make the dresses by combining other dresses together, and the Crossdressers wear them while picking fights with Adventurers such as yourself.
He gets the jump on you.
He waxes first poetic, then your chest. Yeowch! Eek! Ugh!
You lose 2 hit points.
-Another enemy encounter:
You're fighting a Weretaco
This is a weretaco -- an ordinary man, who, when the moon is full, turns into a half-man, half-taco monstrosity.
Incidentally, for you detail-oriented people out there -- the weretaco's lycanthropic cycle is not tied to Ronald or Grimace, but to some completely unrelated moon in some completely unrelated alternate dimension. That's why you never see him turn into a human. Seriously.
He gets the jump on you.
He crunches you between his shells. Your face is bathed in smoking-hot salsa. Ooh! Ow! Ouch
-An item description:
boxed wine
This is a plastic bladder full of wine in a cube-shaped cardboard box. You are already too educated stupid to understand the truth of nature's harmonic simultaneous 4-liter wine cube.
(Cocktailcrafting ingredient)
Type: booze
Selling Price: 35 Meat.
-
So sign up today and may an adventurer be you!
http://www3.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
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