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A sentient race of humanoid lizardmen...

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Originally written by Kelandon
Well, I'm at least pretty

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Bismo: a game for three and a half players

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You're almost there, but slightly off. The game is not a card game for three and a half players. It is single-player computer game (the original plans for a multi-player game on abacus had to be discarded, unfortunately). However, the game features a three and a half character adventuring party.

Furthermore, the game is not called Bismo. However, each of the characters are named Bismo. All the guards are named Bismo, and all of the merchants are named Bismo, and all the nobility, and all the other adventurers. In fact, everyone is named Bismo. Everyone except for the secretive, dark, brooding, evil overlord Omsib, that is. Omsib's evil scheme is to force everyone to change their names to Omsib by any means necessary. Your goal is to stop him and allow everyone to remain Bismo.

Now, on to the characters. The first one is a GITSLC, of course. He is sent out by his people to stop Omsib because Omsib is hoarding all the exta-extra-extra moisturizing lotion in the kingdom until the GITSLCs all change their names to Omsib.

The second one is a wingéd lava kitty. The floating city of the wingéd lava kitties has sadly been Omsibified, and only a few rebellious Bismos are left. This character is one of them, and she has been sent out by the other rebels to stop Omsib and de-Omsibify the city.

The third character is a human mage-priest. He has a wide, wide range of the most fun spells in existence. He is traveling with the party simply because casting random spells on random baddies is the easiest and most effective way to learn high-level spells like Bismo-ian Anvil, Divine Snipage, Obscene Damage, Call Cultists, and Thlis Avatar. However, the character only starts with simple spells like Summon Exta-extra-extra Moisturizing Lotion, Cosmetic Surgery, Turn Undead, and Profanity.

The half character is the top half of a reanimated skeleton: skull, ribcage, and arms, but no legs. As a result, it has to drag itself along everywhere it goes. It has a tendency to fall behind the rest of the party and always acts last in combat. However, it is a very fine rogue. Its skeleton keys can pick any lock and disarm any trap. It just takes a very long time, since it has no eyes and must do everything blindly. In combat, this is a disadvantage, since it just crawls towards the nearest character and attacks, regardless of who it is. This is where the spell Turn Undead becomes handy. The mage-priest can cast it on the half-skeleton to turn it towards a specific enemy. Of course, enemy mage-priests can cast Turn Undead to direct the skeleton at one of its own party members. No one knows why the half-skeleton is part of the party. It just is.

Now all Dikiyoba has to do is figure out how to program the game.

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