8.22.2006
Otto's Explanation
Wow, you guys sure make friends easily. You ply the otyugh with alcohol and drugs, and Otto agrees to take both bottles of wine for the key.
"Well there you go. I guess it really doesn't matter anymore, this whole place has kind of gone to hell. Yeah, I'm Otto. Otto the Otyugh. OT-yug, the 'g' is hard, don't believe what they write about it. You can call me Otto. No, I've always been an otyugh... uh... I mean I think I have. Hard to know for sure, but I was definitely an otyugh since before all this crazy stuff started happening."
So now you know how it's pronounced, I guess.
"So I've lived here in the Castle for a while. Yeah, here in the Kitchens, you know, eating the garbage and extra food and rats and stuff. It was a pretty good life."
You take his word for it.
"Anyway, these priests and wizard guys decide that something pretty bad is going to happen unless they do something about it, so they started having meetings upstairs. I wasn't invited, so I don't know what they were talking about, but they used this dumbwaiter over here..." He points at it with a filthy tentacle. "Made it into a real nice elevator so they could get upstairs. I don't know why they didn't just take the normal stairs or whatever."
He's sure talky, for a monster who doesn't seem to know a whole lot and just sits around eating garbage and dung.
"Then bam, one day everything gets weird, and there's no one making any more food, just some slime monsters making and then re-eating gremlins. I've eaten a few myself, just to stay in shape. Hey, good luck with your quest or whatever. Be careful upstairs, there's something big up there that's been banging around at odd hours."
...
So much for the Kitchens, huh? You leave Otto to his devices and use the key to unlock the doors to the Workshop and the dumbwaiter. The dumbwaiter turns out to be rather spacious inside.. you can all fit, it even has a chrome railing. It's basically an elevator, with three stops: the Kitchens (where you are now), the Library, and the Solarium at the top.
So you've got three potential destinations. You rest and heal to full, feel free to return level 0 (mini-Greyhelm) if need be first.
One more level and it'll be serious training time for many of you.
"Well there you go. I guess it really doesn't matter anymore, this whole place has kind of gone to hell. Yeah, I'm Otto. Otto the Otyugh. OT-yug, the 'g' is hard, don't believe what they write about it. You can call me Otto. No, I've always been an otyugh... uh... I mean I think I have. Hard to know for sure, but I was definitely an otyugh since before all this crazy stuff started happening."
So now you know how it's pronounced, I guess.
"So I've lived here in the Castle for a while. Yeah, here in the Kitchens, you know, eating the garbage and extra food and rats and stuff. It was a pretty good life."
You take his word for it.
"Anyway, these priests and wizard guys decide that something pretty bad is going to happen unless they do something about it, so they started having meetings upstairs. I wasn't invited, so I don't know what they were talking about, but they used this dumbwaiter over here..." He points at it with a filthy tentacle. "Made it into a real nice elevator so they could get upstairs. I don't know why they didn't just take the normal stairs or whatever."
He's sure talky, for a monster who doesn't seem to know a whole lot and just sits around eating garbage and dung.
"Then bam, one day everything gets weird, and there's no one making any more food, just some slime monsters making and then re-eating gremlins. I've eaten a few myself, just to stay in shape. Hey, good luck with your quest or whatever. Be careful upstairs, there's something big up there that's been banging around at odd hours."
...
So much for the Kitchens, huh? You leave Otto to his devices and use the key to unlock the doors to the Workshop and the dumbwaiter. The dumbwaiter turns out to be rather spacious inside.. you can all fit, it even has a chrome railing. It's basically an elevator, with three stops: the Kitchens (where you are now), the Library, and the Solarium at the top.
So you've got three potential destinations. You rest and heal to full, feel free to return level 0 (mini-Greyhelm) if need be first.
One more level and it'll be serious training time for many of you.
