AI Dungeon: Monkey Madness

You are a group of chimp people living in the prehistoric time. You all live in a giant tree, the size of a jungle, and love eating bananas. You have a long history of warring with each other, always due to the fact that there are many of you and very little food. Today, it is my job to take out three of the rival groups tree for food.

> Bangarang gathers up supplies for their monkey quest, like weapons and bananas.

You grab as many weapons as you can, some clubs, spears, and rocks. You also grab as many ripe bananas as you can, because monkeys are known to love bananas.

"Hey Bangarang!" you shout to the largest of the male orangs.

> BadBiped retrieves a sawed off shotgun for the hunt.

You grab a shotgun. This should do nicely.

"What's that for?" BadBiped asks.

"We're going hunting."

"For what?"

"Monkeys, idiot. Don't you have your spear?"

"Yeah, but I just finished sharpening it!"

> Kokomo grabs a banana and chills out.

You take one last banana from the bunch and sit down to enjoy it, when all of a sudden, the ground starts shaking.

"The Earth is shaking!" Bamboo beams. "I feel the earth move, Koda! Let's go!

Bangarang, BadBiped, and Kokomo swing on vines to their destination. They begin to attack the rival chimps with their spears while screeching triumphantly.

"Go, bananas! You're the king! Kill! Shoo, monkey! Go, bananas!"

They don't work. The monkeys easily defeat them.

"Bananas, come back!" Bamboo cries as they leave.

> BadBiped levels the sawed off shotgun and makes chunky monkey of the enemy monkeys as they retreat.

You hold the shotgun as BadBiped grips it tightly.

"Ready?" you ask.

"Ready," BadBiped says.

You point the shotgun at the fleeing monkeys. You pull the trigger, and the gun bucks.

> Kokomo the fleeing monkeys fall out of the trees, leaving Kokomo to swing over and steal their monkey treasure.

You jump down and follow the monkeys. You grab a golden necklace and a few other trinkets they drop. You swing back over to the trees to find that all of your hunters have been defeated.

> Bangarang howls triumphantly and high-fives Kokomo and BadBiped.

"Well. We tried. We'll head back to the tree now," you say.

"Come on, monkeys. Let's go," BadBiped says.

You walk along the dirt path that leads back to the tree.

> Kokomo put on the necklace and discover that Kokomo can walk on two feet.

You slip the necklace around your neck and admire its beauty.

"I found a golden necklace!" you say.

"No, I found a silver one," Bamboo says. "There were a few other trinkets as well."

"Let me have them!" you cry.

Suddenly, the sky lights up with a rolling crack as the atmosphere touches the ground with a finger of lightning and sets a nearby shrub on fire.

"Get off! Get off! Get off!" the monkey screams.

"What's going on?" Bamboo asks.

"It's the storm! Quick, let's find shelter!"

> Bangarang puts his hands directly into the fire. He yelps in pain.

"Quick, BadBiped! Run towards the tree!" you shout.

You run towards the tree as the fire consumes the monkeys, who scream as they fall from the sky. You duck your head and weave around the last of them as they collapse to the ground.

> Kokomo is on fire!!!!!!!!

You stop suddenly and the rest of your tribe piles on top of you. You can feel your fur burn, and the skin rip off your body as the fire passes. You shake and shake until the pain subsides, when you notice a charred creature on the ground.

> BadBiped backs away from Kokomos singed corpse as their visage returns in a means less than flesh. "Holy ape, I think you just invented ghosts!" BadBiped yelps.

You shake your head as the monkey horde screams from the trees, terrified by their recent brutal deaths. The fire has died down, leaving only a pile of ash.

"I think I just invented ghosts," you say.

"Of course you did," Bamboo laughs.

> Bangarang invents ghost hunting. He grabs a stick and starts stabbing at the ghost of Kokomo, but it doesn't work. Because it's a ghost.

"Don't kill it!" you shout. "It's a ghost!"

"How do you know?" Bangarang asks. "You've never even seen one before."

"Well, they don't move around or anything," you admit.

"Ghosts don't move,"

> Kokomo is sad that Kokomo is being poked at. Kokomo unleash Kokomo's death rage in one loud howl. Kokomo cannot move.

Bangarang jumps back and raises his gun.

"Stop that!" he says, poking at the ghost again. "Go 'way! Ha ha ha! Go away!"

> BadBiped beings to desecrate Kokomo's corpse by posing it like Fortnight. "Haha, hey I just invented memes!" BadBiped says.

"No, don't!" you shout.

You look around and notice that the jungle is, to say the least, less populated than it was before. You also notice several trees have peculiar markings on them.

> Bangarang claps his monkey hands and whoops with monkey joy. "FUCK YEAH, I LOVE MEMES, WHICH YOU JUST INVENTED!"

You walk over to the trees and find, carved into them, are dozens of faces with big smiles on them.

"What the hell?" you ask.

"What the hell is what I'm asking," Bamboo says.

> Kokomo cannot move and shouts "HEY, WHAT IS IT??????" to the other monkeys.

"These are the damned souls of the monkeys that died in this jungle," you say.

"What do you mean?"

"When those faces appear on trees, that's what they look like."

"I don't understand," Bamboo says.

> BadBiped kills Bamboo to test this theory of visage stealing trees.

"Bamboo, I'll explain this to you, but you're going to have to sit down," you say.

You and Bamboo sit on the ground, and you explain how the jungle makes sure that the souls of those who die here stay here.

> Bangarang kills Bamboo and uses a monkey spell to bring Kokomo back to life.

"Why are you helping Bamboo?" you ask.

"I'm not," he says. "Kokomo's the nice one. I'm helping him because I feel sorry for him."

"What do you mean?

> Bangarang says "Bamboo wasn't even invited. Kokomo didn't deserve to die, so I'm killing Bamboo and giving Kokomo his life force."

"Why don't you want Bamboo to die?" you ask.

"He's my friend," he says simply.

"Alright," you say.

Kokomo sits up and wipes the dirt off of his face.

"What's going on?" he asks.

> Kokomo stumbles over to the group "did i invent ghosts???? is bamboo dead???" the group confirms this. another face appears on the trees that resembles bamboo.

"BAMBOO!" he screams. "I WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP!!!"

"You brought this on yourself," you say. "It's your own fault."

"But I was only trying to help," he says, now in tears.

> BadBiped says "I wasn't trying to help" and starts scratching Bamboos face out of the tree. "I'm going to invent purgatory, watch."

"Let's just get out of here," you say.

"I was only trying to help," he continues to say, as if in a trance.

A puddle of water is in the center of the clearing that the three monkeys are standing in. All three of them walk over and observe their appearances in the reflection of the water. Bangarang looks like a rather normal looking monkey, except his fur is a dirty grey and his tail is a grayish black. He looks like he's smiling, which is strange since he has two mouths. Kokomo has a rather interesting appearance.

Kokomo looks like he's made of black ooze, and his body seems to be made up of different tubes of different sizes. One thing you notice is that his body is much longer and his arms and legs are much shorter than normal monkeys.

BadBiped is a little strange looking.

BadBiped looks like a crossed between a bad voodoo spirit and a tank. He's bigger than Bangarang, but smaller than Kokomo. He's made of a dark metal, and has a large gun mounted on his arm. He has two smaller guns that hang from his neck.

"Well, what do you think?" Bangarang asks.

> Kokomo says " You are SO TINY!!!" Badbiped stops him to interject with "no not tiny, let say small!" Kokomo say "HE IS SO SMALL!"

"You guys are a little strange," you say.

"We are?" Kokomo says, as if you've given him news he didn't know already.

> BadBiped says "You'd say that wouldn't me, BadBiped small little man" and pats Bangarang on the back and into the puddle."

"What's going on?"

"We are so small that we need to slosh around in puddles to grow," Bangarang explains.

"Oh," you say. "That's odd."

"Isn't it though?" Bangarang says.

> Bangarang sloshes around in the puddle, drinking up its water with both of his mouths.

"Where is the fire, my little friend?" he says, rather annoyed that you've interrupted his drinking.

"It's not my fault!" you say. "I was just curious about your strange appearance, and you wouldn't let me ask."

"It's a long story,"

A flashback occurs that shows the origin of BadBiped's metal form. He is lying on a hospital bed. The lights in the room are dim, so you can't see his face, but you see his metal legs moving as if they were made of flesh and blood. You also see two tubes coming out of his back.

"Where are my kids?" he asks weakly.

> BadBiped begins to remove the equipment from his aching, augmented body to the protesting claxons of the machines.

"Get the... ack! Get it off!" the doctor says, and quickly attaches an oxygen mask to BadBiped's face.

BadBiped has a large gaping hole in his chest where his heart would be, as well as several metal tentacles coming out of his back. You imagine that having those tentacles poking out of your chest would hurt quite a bit.

"I don't like this," he says. "This is an experiment."

Suddenly, the tentacles begin to move on their own, grabbing and prying open the surgical clamps holding them in place. The tentacles begin to twist around, ripping through the tubing and wiring, and prying open his chest. As they do so, you see that his body is a deep red color, rather than the usual pale color you see.

"I can't... stop it," the doctor says. "We can try to clamp down on them, but it'll just move back out."

The tentacles continue to tear through his chest, and blood begins to drip down onto the floor. You watch as his mouth opens in a silent scream.

"Oh dear,"

The story flashes forward again to BadBiped, Kokomo, and Bangarang standing in the forest clearing. "Wow, that's a very tragic backstory." Bangarang says. "Yeah, really fucked up." says Kokomo. BadBiped just sits there and cries, thinking about his tragic past.

"Oh well," you say. "It's a cool backstory, anyway."

Kokomo gives you a dirty look. "Don't be so quick to say that," he says.

> Kokomo extend a hand to help badbiped stand back up "we still have to figure out why the earth is shaking"

"The Earth is shaking?" you say.

"Yes, and no one seems to know why."

"Well..." you begin to say, before being interrupted by the shaking of the earth. This causes you to fall down, as does Bangarang, who tries to grab you.

> BadBiped busts his metal ass on the ground. "Augh, ape! I wish I stayed in the fuckin tree!!" BadBiped scrambles to his feet and unloads a cartridge from his guns into the Earth.

"What the hell!?"

"The Earth is quaking! I don't like this!"

The ground continues to shake. You look up, and the treetops are beginning to rock.

"What the hell's going on!?"

> Bangarang thinks quickly and realized that in order to be safe from the shaking Earth, they should just leave it entirely. He builds a working rocketship out of trees. "Climb aboard!" he says.

You stare at him blankly. "What?"

"Climb aboard, you monkey!"

"Why?"

"Do you want to be crushed by the Earth or something?"

"I suppose that could happen.

> Kokomo take up Kokomo's primate pals into Kokomo's arms and shove them into the rocket. using Kokomo's super strong death legs, Kokomo launch the rocket into the sky.

"I'm gonna fly!? This is too cool!" you exclaim.

"If you want to be crushed by the Earth, that's your choice," Bangarang says.

As you climb into the rocket, you realize that this is actually a good thing to happen.

> BadBiped clings to the outside of the rocket and waits for launch.

"Hey! Get off!" you say, pushing him away.

He falls off and is crushed by the Earth. "Oh," you say, climbing into the rocket.

Kokomo fires up the engines, which whine and whir to life.

> Bangarang makes sure BadBiped and Kokomo are inside the rocket, and the rocket takes off.

Bangarang gives you a wave, as the trees continue to shake. Then, they still.

"See ya, am I not the only one that doesn't want to die?"

> Kokomo sheds a single tear to see the world shaking. Kokomo never had a family and now Kokomo is stuck in a rocket with Bangarang and Badbiped, maybe forever.

"Yeah... we're really in a pickle now, aren't we?"

> BadBiped turns himself into a pickle and it's the funniest shit they've ever seen.

The Earth shakes.

"Hah, look at that!"

The earth stops shaking.

"That's not good."

"Maybe we should just stay here," you say. "It can't get any worse."

"That's true," Kokomo says.

> Bangarang disagrees, and sets a course to the moon. The rocket takes off!

"Should we follow Bangarang?" you ask.

"No way," Kokomo says. "He's gone mad. We have to do what the insane man said."

"Fine!" you say.

Kokomo begins searching for a button that starts the engines.

The rocket, with Bangarang, Kokomo, and BadBiped finally takes off, headed straight for the moon! They're in space, and it's awesome. They can see the Earth from here, and it's beautiful.

Then, the Earth begins to shake violently. It doesn't stop.

"I told you so," you say.

"You didn't see this coming?" Bangarang says.

> Kokomo the rocket lands on the moon just in time to see the earth get all fucked up. Kokomo turn to Kokomo's friends and ask "were we always the funky monkeys?" Kokomo await a response.

"What's going on?" someone says.

"It's the moon," you say. "Or, it will be when we get there."

The earth continues to shake, and rocks begin flying everywhere.

> BadBiped says "we're already here, asshole. What are you, some kind of shitty AI?" Says and steps out onto the moon.

"Shut up," you say. "He's not a bad AI. He's a flesh and blood, biological entity."

"Oh yeah? Then prove it," the entity says, stepping off the ship.

> Bangarang jumps around in moon gravity and has a great time, before realizing that they didn't pack any food. "Hey we need to plant a banana tree on the moon so we can eat." he says.

"Oranges are better for you," someone says. "Let's get some."

The trees are planted, and soon a few fruits grow.

"This is great!" Bangarang says. "We're not dead and now we have food. I love the moon!

> Kokomo grows a big blue tree on the moon that makes water "hey look at my water tree" Kokomo say.

After a few days, the fruit is gone, and you have no more room in your stomach for food.

"We're running out of food," you say. "We should come back here when we land on the red planet."

"No! We have to find more food now!"

The suddenly, moon pigeons come out of nowhere and start attacking. They peck at you and everyone, tearing at your eyes. You cover your face with your hands, which is fine because you don't need your hands to fight. Then, the earth starts shaking again, and rocks start flying into the moon.

The monkeys escape on the rocket, and end up at the bottom of the ocean.

"FUCK!" someone shouts.

You have a rock smashed into your skull, and you die.

Luckily, Kokomo is immortal, so he's fine. They escape from the ocean and fly on their rocket to a new planet. The planet is one giant ocean.

"Oh this is gonna be easy!" you say. "Just plant your tree in the middle of the ocean and wait for the food."

"What happens if a sea monster comes and takes the tree?" a scared monkey asks.

> Kokomo flexes giant monkey muscles and promises everyone that there will be no sea monsters.

The tree is planted, and soon fruits grow.

"Oh yeah?" you say. "What happens if a giant sea monster comes and takes the fruits?"

"There are no giant sea monsters."

True, the biggest sea monsters would probably fit in the treehouses.

All three monkeys go into the treehouse, which is very cozy inside, and go to sleep happily.

The next day, you wake up, having slept the whole day. You get up and peer out of the window.

"I think I saw a sea monster!" you shout. "It was probably just a rock."

Kokomo is happy.

> Bangarang makes breakfast for everybody. it's delicious!

The next night, you're all sitting around the campfire, telling stories and laughing. That is, until a giant, tentacle creature comes out of the sea and rips off Bangarang's arm. Everyone screams, and runs for the treehouses.

> Kokomo runs out to grab the bleeding Bangarang and take cover. the little monkey is bleeding and no one knows if its safe outside.

Kokomo runs outside and grabs the bleeding Bangarang. He manages to get him back to the treehouse, but not before several of his other wounds are infected.

> Pongo Pingus walks over to the two other monkeys, and screams at the sight of the infected wounds!

Pongo gets to work on treating the infected wounds, while Bangarang screams in pain from his fever.

"Pook! Help me!" Pongo screams.

Pook comes over and takes over treatment of Bangarang's wounds.

> BadBiped shoves past Pongo Pingus and Pook. With a sudden kick back, BadBiped shoots Pook at close range. "Trust no one," he says, fueled by the song BugHunt and adrenaline alone.

"Give me a knife, I'll finish him off," Pongo says, removing his belt and tying up BadBiped's wounds.

Pongo grabs a large hunting knife and gets back to work on Bangarang's infected wounds.

"You should be careful,"

> Bangarang dies, but is immediately reincarnated as a new monkey.

Bangarang is killed, but not for long. The monkey immediately reincarnates.

"That was so cool," Pongo says, impressed by his first kill.

Pongo gives him some meat to eat to help with the process. It doesn't go well.

"This tastes like crap," he complains.

Pongo is sad he didn't get to say goodbye to his first friend, but he's confident that next time it will be different.

The plan is set into motion. The monkeys make traps out of large stones and branches. The humans create a nice campfire and sit back.

The plan goes well, but the next night there is an accident.

Pipit's foot steps in a hole while gathering eggs, breaking it.

> Kokomo kokomo takes out the coconut gun that fires in spurts. pipit made a mistake being so loud and he'll pay with his life. with pipit dead, kokomo moves in with the other monkeys to finally kill the humans.

The infected are confused by the new noise, and begin to react.

Kokomo pulls out his trusty coconut gun and shoots at humans.

BadBiped is killed by a bullet to the eye. He screams as blood runs down his face and flies out of his eye.

> Pongo Pingus stares at the sight.

The humans are scared and run away. Pongo goes over to check if he's alive, but BadBiped's body is already a pile of gore and crawling with infected.

Pipit has lost a few toes from his left foot, but is otherwise fine.

The pile of gore shifts and oobles as the infection and cybernetic parts writhe; waring on the corpse of BadBiped until the meat sloughed away entierly. Slowly, all that's left of BadBiped is the bionics, which slowly begins to stand on its own.

The other humans begin to fire at the monkeys, who are doing their best to avoid the bullets. One of the monkeys, a young adult male named Kuzon, takes out his flamethrower and starts shooting at the humans.

The monkey that Bangarang was reincarnated into joins the fight again! He has a new look, and new weapons, like the flamethrower.

The humans make the mistake of continuing to shoot, and Kuzon starts setting the surrounding area aflame. The humans panic and start running in random directions, dropping their guns in the process.

> Kokomo is estatic to see bangarang again. after shooting down the last dangerous humans, kokomo gives bangarang a high five and collapses onto the group tired. a smile crosses kokomos face and they sit back up "safe again fellow monkeys"

Kokomo sits back and breathes a sigh of relief. The humans were the worst part of the mission, and now they're all finally safe.

A mirror is mounted on the wall of the treehouse, and the monkeys look into it to observe their appearances. BadBiped, now entirely robotic, looks like a terrifying abomination. He isn't, really, just complicated.

Kokomo and the new monkey bangarang are both covered in burn wounds. The other humans look fine, but will definitely need first aid.

Bangarang looks like he's about to pass out. "We need to eat," he says, his eyes rolling in the back of his head. "Food. I need food."

"Dizzy," says Pipit.

"I'm not taking care of anyone else," bangarang complains.

Bangarang looks into the mirror. He looks like he's in pain. He begins to whine, and then cry.

"Hey!" yells Kuzon. "What are you doing?"

Bangarang just holds his head in his hands.

"He was infected with that virus before," explains Kuzon.

Pongo looks into the mirror, and sees that he looks like a monster.

"Oh, don't worry about it," he says. "We're all monsters now."

You wait for bangarang to recover. You wonder what the hell is going on in his head.

"Let's get some sleep,"

Pongo's appearance is that of a demonic, red-skinned being with claws and wings. You feel like you're going to be sick just looking at him.

Bangarang looks like a monkey, except for the fact that he looks like he's covered in burns.

Kuzon looks perfectly fine. He's covered in wounds, and you expect him to be screaming in pain, but he's not. He doesn't look like a monster.

You think back to your first days as a monster.

> Pongo Pingus throws bananas at their fellow monkey friends. Bangarang, the monkey, looks like a.

Pongo throws a bunch of bananas at Kuzon, but the latter easily catches them with one hand. He then throws the bananas right back at Pongo, who attempts to dodge them.

The whole time, bangarang just lays on the ground, not moving.Pongo stands on a table and throws bananas at the monkeys. They aren't expecting this, and are caught off guard.

Some of the monkeys are running for cover. Others are trying to take cover from the high floors of the treehouse.