The Mad Rat’s Lab

“Have you seen the latest video from the ‘Mad Rat’s Eccentricities’ series?”

“A new video from that crazy player? No, I didn’t see it. Do you have it right now? You have it, right!? Show me!”

“Ok, ok…”

He plays the video and shows it to his friend. On the screen, bright letters appear. It’s the title of the video: A slimy chase. Then it fades to black, and the video starts.

A deformed humanoid with a rat head is walking through a messy and chaotic laboratory. He tries to open a door, but it’s closed. He then tries to force it open, to no avail. Then, he ‘notices’, in a clearly exaggerated way, there are four bulbs of different colors on the door: red, green, blue, and yellow; but they all are off.

He ‘remembers’ something.

The video goes back in time. The deformed humanoid is coming inside the laboratory, and four slime humanoids, with the same colors as the bulbs, run away as soon as they see him. The flashback ends as he screams ‘Eureka!’.

He follows the slime trails left by the four slime creatures. But every time he gets close enough, they spit slime at him and he’s forced to slow down, allowing the slime humanoid to run away.

The chase continues. He runs through traps and poison clouds, is ambushed by monsters, and suffers from other nasty stuff. But he perseveres and manages to corner one slime monster, another one dies to the poison clouds, he blasts the third one with an electric spell, and the last one ends so exhausted that it can’t run anymore and surrenders.

Finally having defeated the four slime humanoids, the video returns to the door and the four bulbs. The fourth one turns on and the door opens. The rat-humanoid then laughs maniacally, jumping in happiness, and rushes to the laboratory again.

But in the rush, he steps on the slime trails left by the slime humanoids and slips, sliding over the ground until he enters a random tunnel. In fact, it’s a gigantic worm with its mouth wide open.

The last thing the video shows is the rat monstrosity shouting ‘Noooo! I was so close this time!’ as the giant worm’s mouth closes. Followed by chewing and gulping sounds. And a burp.

“Hahaha! It’s so funny to see the despair of the invaders! If only we could see the real replays from the original players…”

“Yeah, it would be amazing…. But who wants to share a video of themselves dying?”

Sometimes, Andreu himself recorded videos of him ‘diving’ into his own dungeon and ‘dying’ a horrifying death; most of them inspired by the actual deaths of other players who invaded his dungeon. He tended to exaggerate everything or make it more ‘realistic’ by doing things that were not possible in the game, like sliding over slime that’s supposed to only be a visual effect.