Chapter 12: A Piece of His Mind
Simon sat up as he always did after another defeat by the pit and reached for the wine bottle. He was beginning to think that the bottle was the most important mechanic in the whole damn game. He raised the bottle to his lips to nurse the sting of the realization that there would be no way out besides going all the way to the bottom of this damn place before he stopped himself.
“Mirror - how many floors are there in the pit?” he asked, setting the bottle down. The contract had said less than a hundred hadn’t it? Did that mean fifty or ninety nine though?
‘There are 99 levels in the pit,’ the mirror wrote out in its glowing script.
“And I’ve gotten to the fourth floor, right?” He did the math quickly. “Rats, bats, goblins, and skeletons. That’s four. Can you bring up my character sheet?” The mirror did as it was bidden and brought the sheet up immediately.
Name: Simon Jackoby
Level: 4
Deaths: 10
Experience Points: -7260
Skills: Archery [Very Poor], Armor (light) [Poor], Athletics [Very Poor], Cook [Very Poor], Craft [Very Poor], Deception [Very Poor], Escape [Very Poor], Investigate [Very Poor], Maces [Very Poor], Ride [Very Poor], Search [Very Poor], Sneak [Poor], Spears [Very Poor], Spell Casting [None], Survival [Very Poor], Steal [Very Poor], Swimming [Very Poor], and Swords [Below Average].