Isabella Swan is a high school student who gets struck by a motor vehicle
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"Okay." She starts walking right.

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You enter a cavern lit by glowing moss.  As you enter, a pineapple shrieks in surprise and flings itself away, scurrying down a tunnel to your left.

There is a tunnel behind you.
There is a tunnel in front of you.
There is a tunnel on your left.
There is a Haroun here.

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"Are the - the pineapples - supposed to flee?"

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"At least until they get over their surprise, if they aren't defending their nest."  (Pineapple Surprise in Lictic is ambiguous between 'pineapples that surprise you' and 'pineapples that you surprise'.)

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"I see." She doesn't chase the pineapple and continues following the wall, sword ready.

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You enter a cavern lit by glowing moss.  As you enter, two upright sticks with pointed branches turn to wave their branches menacingly at you, then begin hopping forwards.

There is a tunnel behind you.
There is a wooden door to your left.
There is a Haroun here.

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Okay, time to chop off the menacing branches with her sword. Left one right one. If that doesn't make them... disintegrate into a pile of coins or whatever... then she will bisect their main sticks.

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Bella's sword flashes through the air much, much faster than the menacing sticks move.  It cuts off all the pointed branches without Bella feeling much in the way of tangible resistance.

No doubt if these sticks could scream, they would be shrieking in agony right now.  But it's okay, they don't have vocal cords to scream with and they definitely don't have 『Qualia』.

The sticks slowly hop around in a tiny circle and make as though to flee.

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"How dead do they have to get, do you know?"

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Haroun is honestly a bit unnerved by this.  Just because something doesn't set off 『fëa 』-detection may not prove it doesn't have feelings.  "I don't know but apparently deader than that.  Is it - important that you know this exactly, for some reason?"

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"No, I guess overkill is fine -" Slash slash.

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You attack the Walking Sticks with your sword!
d100 = 77, d100 = 81
You kill the sticks for massive damage!
d100 = 28, d100 = 65
Unfortunately, neither monster drops any sweet loot as they evaporate into faint smoke that dissipates in turn.  Such is often the sad, unremunerated fate of an adventurer.

To your left, there is the audible sound of a lock clicking open.

There is a tunnel behind you.
There is a wooden door to your left.
There is a Haroun here.

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"Did the door just - okay, no, yeah, that fits I guess." Right hand rule sends her through the door.

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The Haroun follows you obediently.

This small, rocky chamber contains a single wooden treasure chest set with metal bands.  The rather dull appearance of the metal bands seems reminiscent of tin, if even that.

As you walk through the door, a Strangling Vine drops down towards your neck and is instantly dispatched by a reflexive swing of your sword.  It dissipates into smoke, treasureless, a moment later.

There is a door behind you.
There is a tin treasure chest here.
There is a Haroun here.

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"Jesus okay gonna be more circumspect about going into new rooms I guess!" She looks around the room in case another one is lurking and then sees if the chest is easily opened.

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The chest opens readily and proves to contain -
d100 = 55
- a Copper Ring (5cp) and a Rusty Tin Dagger (10cp, -2 to hit, -5 to damage, destroyed on a successful strike).

There is a door behind you.
There is an empty tin treasure chest here.
There is a Haroun here.

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"Is the dagger worth anything? Looks a bit crap but perhaps you have merchants who will accept up to ninety nine of them in a batch and pay out in... weirdly large pearls or something." She picks up the ring. "This is at least not obviously disintegrating."

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"Uh, they're probably both worth something?  Dungeons almost never give out loot that's literally valueless in the local area."  Haroun thinks for a second about why this might be, trying to anticipate Bella's next question.  "Uh, they'd notice if Adventurers just left stuff where it dropped, maybe?  I don't know, that seems like it ought to be exploitable for shaping dungeon behavior, and dungeons tend to be pretty exploit-resistant.  Anyways, my guess is we can take that back up and trade it for somewhere between 10 and 20 copper before taxes."

Haroun swings off the pack he was wearing, which Haroun has no doubt been wearing this entire time, because the guards would surely have noticed and said something earlier if neither Haroun nor Bella had a visible pack.

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Bella has her backpack too! But if Haroun wants to carry stuff that's fine, she's already got a bunch of things she doesn't want to leave somewhere in this bag.

She keeps going through the dungeon, aiming to instakill plants, checking rooms before walking into them, collecting loot.

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Isabella Swan stalks through her new world mercilessly killing everything she comes across, casually looting the corpses and ransacking their homes.  By the way, does she show any mercy to the nest of tiny, cowering baby pineapples she finds a few rooms later after she's sliced up their parents?  (Haroun is looking a bit nauseated; he mutters something about lesser plant monsters definitely not having 『Qualia』 and then turns to stare in a different direction.)

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Bella spares scared baby pineapples. Might have skipped the parents too if she'd seen the nest in time. How much cash has she got.

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Rusty tin daggers, tin rings, copper rings, 28 copper coins, five cloth shoes for left feet, 4 Pineapple Cubes lightly coated in wax, Flammable Tinder, a Scroll of Sneezing (causes whoever reads it to sneeze one time; also, it's confirmed that Bella can understand the Language runes on scrolls), and a pair of solid tin glasses that would block out all non-peripheral vision of anybody wearing them.  Haroun's guess is that the whole haul is worth somewhere between 2 and 4 silver before taxes.  Bella is not feeling at all hungry, so they haven't been at this too long as yet.

Bella has gotten better at holding a sword in completely the wrong way and swinging it through monsters with no hope of resistance.  Also better at spotting vines that try to strangle her.  Has she been doing any other experiments?

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Yeah, apart from being vaguely anxiety-inducing and providing a visual on what a "scared baby pineapple" looks like this isn't actually that interesting so she's trying various sword grips and stances insofar as these don't compromise her desire not to be splintered or strangled or whatever it is the pineapples do, but mostly she's trying to collect loot efficiently. Ideally she'd be out of here before lunch.

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At some point Haroun tentatively suggests that Bella try Flashing monsters before killing them, if they move slow enough that Bella is sure she'll recover in time, in order to practice her Light Magic and mana capacity.

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"Oh, yeah, good idea. Are there any other cheap spells I could throw in the rotation?"

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