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Nobody ever told you that squishy babies only grow if they eat cloud fruit... that is, until today.
Good thing they also told you were to get cloud fruit. Bad thing is that you'll need to travel across a river.
What lies beyond the river? Well, I just told you, cloud fruit.
Rumors tell of fruit being grown high up in the forest of clouds by an uncanny gardener name Boonsweet. Will you be able to find it her and the cloud fruit? That's not all the mysteries. Somehow, after you made it to the surface, the key that you used to turn on the hand-rocket started shaking and turning in various directions.
It's almost like someone or something is calling out to it.
The robot fist breaks the surface! This place seems so familiar! The critters around the camp rush towards you and ask you where you all have been. They see that you went down a small hole and came out of a larger one!
The adventurers can arrive in camp again and can speak to the different critters around the camp. They can shop at the general store and pick nom nom berries.
Once the adventurers are in town for long enough to prepare, continue below.
All of a sudden, you hear a loud scream! It sounds like Nuz!
(In the voice of Nuz) "Run up! Save the critters!"
The critters at camp start running away. Ensure one of two slow critters to which the adventurers will need to test strength to toss them further.
During the part of the story, after the adventurers take their action, have Nuz take his action in attacking the Giant Metal Spider. Then the spider will take it's turn and attack Nuz and move a few spaces up (towards the top of the map). To ensure the adventurers are involved, have Nuz shout out for help depending on what items the adventurers have such as:
"Pass me a healing potion!"
"Web the spider's legs so that it cannot move!"
"Throw a kookilloy at the spider's face!"
"Light some pink shards and cause some explosions to distract the spider!"
In all these, have adventurers perform tests. Success scenarios are met with thanks from Nuz and failure scenarios are met with encouragement from Nuz.
In this map, the spider cannot be defeated, the goal is simply to have the spider move up to the next map with Nuz on its back. When the spider is near the top, have Nuz tell the adventurers to move up more into the next area.
(In the voice of Nuz) "The spider is trapped between the trees! Help me defeat it!"
In this area, the spider will not move, and Nuz will ask for help in defeating the spider.
The battle will not be a real battle, just have the adventurers attack with whatever they wish (and the spider hitting back hard) and after the battle has progressed, have the spider defeated, once defeated, read below.
The metal spider winds down and explodes! However, this explosion doesn't sound like an explosion, it seems more like a cry for help.
(In the voice of Nuz) "Thanks for your help, sounds like backup forces are coming, I'm going back to help the critters. Here are some MAX Healing Potions." (Nuz disappears after giving the adventurers one each.)
Backup forces has arrived. Defeat them!
There is not much dialog here, just for the adventurers to defeat the robots that show up.
In this area, the adventurers meet a cloud fruit gardener named "Boonsweet". She tells them that spikes have appeared all over her cloud fruit tree and cannot gain access to it. She has hidden expandable rafts in the previous forest that she cannot remember where they are. She asks the adventurers for help retrieving them.
These inflatable capsules are tiny and can be found littered throughout the previous map. Once the adventurers have found all 3 and give them to Boonsweet, she'll place them in the water, and they will expand!
There sits on the edge of the water a squish. She is crying and tells you that spikes have grown and covered her cloud fruit plant and without access, she cannot pick the fruit.
(In the voice of Boonsweet) "Please! Help me! In the forest to which you came, please find me my hidden goods!"
(In the voice of Boonsweet) "Thanks for getting my hidden goods! Now, sit back and watch."
Boonsweet liberally throws the capsules into the water, after waiting some time, the capsules expand to giant proportions!
(In the voice of Boonsweet) "Please, feel free to cross the river and cut down the spikes. I see you have baby squish with you. Have them eat as much cloud fruit as they can fill their stomachs with!"
The adventures should attack the spikes until they are all clear. Once they have a clear path to the left of the map, have the baby squishies eat a lot of cloud fruit and have them grow a little bigger.
As you travel to your left, you see a giant robot with a missing fist. Could this robot who's fist you rode to the surface? Suddenly, from the sky drops two gold robots! The robots say "This is our defeated prize! Keep away!"
Once the adventurers defeat the golden robots, have the giant robot say thanks and also thanks for returning her fist to her. When this happens, have a number of robots start dropping from the sky.
(In the voice of the giant robot) "I have seen you from afar, you are the protector of the squishies! This used to be me in the past! Quick! We have no time! We must go into the clouds and defeat the source of this robot invasion!"
Using any sort of modeling clay, young players can model the cloud fruit tree.