Five hours for ANOTHER CLAW?? What is it with you and animal claws? Just make me a blasted donut for once or something food. It's not like I'm asking for an M-Tank.

Nevertheless, Ring Man accepts the claw pastry and leaves the Chef's room.

That Chef taking 5 hours did a number on my patience. I'll just quickly check the trapdoor on Floor 2 and head back. Hope the kid has my object...for his sake.

Ring Man ascends the stairs to the 2nd floor, uncovers the trapdoor, and goes down into it.

Ring Man heads down to the Chef's room and waves a singular Green Ticket in his face.

Hey, big guy. You got anything worth eating for this?

So much for nice ice...

Ring Man thought for a second, then smiled (if Ring Man can smile...?). Fine, let's just say he got a very smug look on his face......I still can't picture that.....FINE WHATEVR, WE'RE MOVIN ON.

Awwww, come on, now. I can be reasonable. Tell ya what; you want one of these so bad? I'll give you one if you can find me, and follow me on this one, a RED object. I'm headed down to cash in one of these tickets, then explore a little for myself. After....iunno, however long passes before I get impatient, I'll return to the Entrance outside the Chef's room, and if you're not there with my object....well, I gave you a reasonable chance. Sound good? Sweeeeet.

With that, Ring Man ruffles NiceIce's head and casually descends the staircase.

Taking wha-WHOA!

Ring Man sidesteps out of the way of Nice Ice's Ice Slasher, the chilling bullet whizzing past his head and giving him a "cold shoulder" hahaha (or not, it's Musical's call, but assuming this does happen...). Ring Man slowly, angrily, turns around to face his attacker.

I don't care why you would have, but...did you just ATTACK me, kid?

@Nice Ice : OOC: Did you try to snatch it out of his hands? Because Ring Man's holding onto both of them, and pretty tightly...

If I gave him aBloody Nose , would that be red enough for-oh...

Ring Man notices two Very Green Tickets float gracefully into his apparently open and outstretched hands.

(You dropped these, hehehehe) Well....I guess we take those. I wonder if the Chef has anyRed Things in exchange for one of these?

Ring Man tosses his tickets up and grabs them with one hand, heading back down the stairs to the Chef, but not fast enough for NiceIce to be unable to stop him......TO BE CONTINUED

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Ring Man was slowly getting accustomed to the....unique nature of basically everything inside of what had to be a dream at this point, so a self-aware computer with borderline personality disorder wasn't as big a shock to him as it probably should've been to any sane being. Then again, Ring Man wasn't exactly the most "sane being" here; he was talking to himself via third-person inner monologue, after all.

Ring Man shut off the computer and unplugged.

Actually wondering how safe Adrian really is; I wouldn't put it past this computer to forget that humans can't breathe underwater. Still, things have worked out up to this point. Now time to make/find some cold, dead corpses and hope for the best.

Ring Man looks around the lab for any signs of a lake key (or a Green Object. That would be appreciated.)

@Nice Ice : Tell ya what; if I hear screaming and I'm headed that way, I'll end you quickly.

Ring Man turned his focus back to the file, intrigued with what he found. These dangerous experiments made this mansion trip a whole new ball game. This was probably also what happened to Dr. Marceau in the first place. Perhaps he could get more info from the last file...

Ring Man opens ******

The Marceau file didn't reveal anything of use to Ring Man, except that he didn't study robotics. Well, excellent. Why was he here again? Still, there was undoubtedly some interesting things in this mansion, some that were making him stronger, and there's no guarantee that Marceau would be useless to him simply because of this information. In fact, that GardeningExperiment was suddenly more interesting...
This is entirely unsafe, will probably harm me in some fashion, and is an overall horrible idea.

Ring Man navigates over to the GardeningExperiment file and opens it without hesitation.

Okay, let's see here.....The asterisk file, sure.......Gardening what?.........FINALLY, file on Marceau gimme gimme.

Ring Man impatiently opens File:AdrianMarceau

What the heck was Marceau getting into here? Is this corrupted data or some sort of unfinished program? Or this mansion is just a weird dream altogether and I'm overthinking this.

>Fight: Ring Man effortlessly throws a ring at the Strawberry.

Ring Man used his coin-flip program and got heads. He decided to select "Strawberry 1" and see what happened. Better to start safe before moving onto the asterisks on the second row.

Oh, excellent; another guardian pest. This floor seems to have a lot to offer, though, so hopefully I don't have to have anything to do with him who am I kidding, of course I will...

Ring Man looked around the laboratory. He was used to being in the lab of a computer scientist, not a chemist or whatever. Still, being the virtuoso he is, Marceau could easily have dabbled in numerous fields of science. He just had to find the one relevant to him....

His eyes fell on a dilapidated, yet functional computer, and he made his way towards it. Connecting his own CPU to the computer's motherboard, he decided to try hacking into it and seeing what he could find.

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>GoUpstairs

Ring Man looks down at the badge in his hand.

This kinda looks like something Kalinka made when she was younger. She was awful at arts and crafts, even by toddler standards. But if you say so...

Ring Man carried the badge out of the room and to the Fox, bumping Nice Ice along the way and giving him a warning glare before turning to the Fox and flashing the badge.

I'm as glad to see you as you are me, so let's get this over with. NOW can I go up?

Ring Man dodges to the side to avoid the oncoming mass of fat and quickly moves to pick up the inhaler

Sweeeeet. Hopefully this gets me (finally) to the 3rd floor. I bet everyone else is already on the 4th.

>Item: Ring Man exits the dungeon and finally treats himself to the Lion Claw. It actually tasted a lot better than he initially thought. Then again, his expectations weren't exactly high...Exasperated at the hoops he had to jump through, Ring Man impatiently entered Door 5 and strutted up to Mr. Baudelaire.

Thank you for telling me he'd lost his inhaler! He'd be miserable without it. If you'd allow me, I'd like to get it to him post-haste! Also, do you happen to have any food around here? I've been very hungry recently, and I'd very much appreciate a bite to eat!

Wow. That thing is FAAAAAAAAAAT. Let's attempt a different approach.
Mr. Happy Dragon, sir, despite what you just saw, I'm actually not here to fight. I have entered this dungeon in order to procure a treatment device out of necessity for my dear old friend. That-that device. Right over there.

Ring Man points to the inhaler. He tenses as the Fat Dragon turns to look, crossing his fingers and hoping the dragon doesn't accidentally crush it in doing so.

In the spirit of establishing a non-violence truce between us, I offer this sushi roll, as well as the fish mush you see in front of you, as a peace offering to mark the start of our new, *ahem*, friendship (Eugh, that word leaves a bad taste in my mouth). What say you?

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>Fight: Slice this fish into sushi