[ooc: kody pestered me about this here is a post]
"guys where am i guys guys where am i wat happened why cant i move"
playzooki puts the jacket on.
[ooc: counts as clothes ololol]
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[ooc: kody pestered me about this here is a post]
"guys where am i guys guys where am i wat happened why cant i move"
playzooki puts the jacket on.
[ooc: counts as clothes ololol]
OOC: Apologies, I've been away followed by my computer being broken when I got back. As a way to get things flowing again, a free item to anyone who updates in the next 24 hours.
As per request
PREVIOUSLY ON THE ODDESTSEY!
PROFESSOR VENGEANCE, MARISA, EUDIAL, EPSILON,PHANTASMIC SLAMMER and, not to be forgotten, TWITCH are on the trail of Titanicman, a beloved and incredibly powerful hero who is apparently the penultimate wielder of rift energy, to bring them one step closer to ending all the sources of rift in the world and end the threat.
LELAND GAUNT and presumably CLEO are set to go meet Ms. Triablos, owner of Triablos Industries. Her technology has been named as a price to get inside the mysterious upper echelons of PTT Corporation - a group so powerful their minds are shielded from the Psy-Corps.
AURELIA and her SPANISH INQUISITION TEAM have taken up the case of some stolen books of rift related knowledge from Melded Grand Library.
After trying to kill her by throwing her off Castle Doomforall, PLAYZOOKI is knocked unconscious by Katia, the Mistress of Kung Shrew.
KHLOE has studied the great mysteries of the Universe and now knows more about the Church of Vengeance that actually exists to the point of reading all the pamphlets that the actual priests never have.
SPOD still drifts eternally in the space between worlds in a mysterious moving shop, beyond all mortal knowing.
Meanwhile, the Tree that rapidly grew over the corpse of Doomforall is now flowering with white blossoms...
[Good to see you back in action, Alex!]
Very well. There's five of us and five of them. I propose we each pick one associate of Titanicman, pay them a visit and attempt to wheedle some more information from them about our meat-headed Messiah. We have to find out if he's the real deal and, more importantly, how we can most effectively kick his bottom.
Ideally, I'd just do it all myself, but why waste extra manpower when you've got it, eh? Any preferences which ones you'd like to interrogate?
"I feel like we should do some investigation into when his battle against that 'otherworldly horror' Titanicman died fighting. I'm feeling like that might be a little suspicious.
I'd also like to interrogate Mecha-Titanicman, if that's okay. I feel like since we're both robots it'd be easier to communicate with him."
A most sensible choice, my computerized compatriot.
I'm tempted to go after the Nutcracker myself on reflection. Magic moonbeams and I likely won't mix, I have enough restraining orders from plucky lady journalists as it is and while this Fairlynasty fellow does sounds more like my cup of tea, I'm concerned I'll end up spending more time swapping weapons contractor details and "almost got 'em" stories and talking team-up with the chap than anything to do with the mission. That is, if he's truly as sensible and sophisticated as his profile suggests.
Who might I have better luck cracking: the A-lister or the C-lister? I honestly wouldn't mind either way.
PHANTASMIC SLAMMER
Due to the recent involvement in stopping the Death of VHS, the team is granted permission to visit the Eggshell prison and is rapidly teleported to outside the prison which is revealed to be literally the upper half of a giant silver-speckled egg several miles in circumference half buried in the earth.
Upon going through various security measures, PS descends in a lift down to one of the lowest levels to the cell where Mecha-titanicanman is kept. The room resembles a concrete pit with a polycarbonate roof several meters thick above, while chained to the floor with mithril chains and a number of EMP beams directed into him. Despite this, his angry glowing green eyes stare up at Phantasmic Slammerr and his massive cybernetic musculature strains against the chains...
"Spanish Inquisition, donkey, to the crime scene! Lets look for clues! Anjushree, we stay in touch with you through the communicator, no one knows more about this stuff than you!"
AURELIA
The Spanish Inquisition descend on the library and Meander unlocks the various doors down to the inner vault - none of them are damaged or look like they have been forced at all, and use keys that Meander keeps around his neck.
Upon a thorough inspection of the room, the following things are noted:
1) Only the exact books taken were disturbed.
2) The security magic mirror shows the translucent shadow of a humanoid figure in the corner of one frame, but otherwise this figure was able to somehow dodge through the tightly packed shelves without crossing any of the mirrors.
3) The magic level in the room is higher than normal
4) The air moisture level is above normal.
Also as promised;
PHANTASMIC SLAMMER, PROFESSOR VENGEANCE and AURELIA
All acquire a one use playing card - apparently duplicated from a more powerful version owned by legendary historical frenchman Maurice Francois. Upon throwing this card on the ground and speaking any yes or no question, the card will answer that, before losing all magic and becoming useless for prophecy/knowledge divining.
Twitch simply watched as Eudial started her tirade towards him. Once she had finished, he looked over towards the rest of the group, then back towards Eudial. "...Titanicman" he said rather deliberately. "And I've only been in front of your face twice, and one of those times it wasn't even my fault."
He examined the list of those who had encountered the superhero recently once more, trying to figure out who might be the best bet for him to talk to. Slammer, the robot, had chosen Mecha-Titanicman, also a robot. It stood to reason he would want to talk to someone similar to him, but none of them seemed all that similar to a supersonic, part-metallic macaw. "So who are the rest of us going after?" Twitch asked. "I could go find the journalist woman. Like I said, she probably knows quite a lot." He also figured she was the least likely to attack him when he showed up.
He glanced back at Eudial. "You should probably calm down."
"Sure, whatever, bird-brain," huffed Eudial. She turned to the others. "I'd rather avoid the Fairly Nasty fellow... for the moment, and since some of you lot are so convinced I'm a hot-head..." She carefully avoided glancing at the dumb macaw, "...it'd be more trouble than we're worth if I got some crazy reporter writing up farfetched stories about us because of a word misfire. So... I think this... ergh, moonfox fellow would be my best bet."
TWITCH
Arriving at the Melded News-hawk, and asking to find Sally Streater, he is directed up to the top floor and has to wait outside the office while inside there is a conversation between a brusque and confidant young women and a shrieking hawk, who oddly give the impression of understanding each other perfectly. Sally appears to be discussing a new article about Titanicman. Eventually the meeting comes to and end and Sally leaves while Twitch catches a glimpse of a labrador sized bird of prey with a monacle and chewing a cigar before the door slams shut.
Sally walks over to Twitch with a slightly bored look on her face and in a slightly exasperated tone of voice "So you must be the visitor who wanted to ask some questions?"
Twitch also finds a 1 shot yes/no magic card.
EUDIAL
George makes old modem noises as he scans hard for Fleems, and for a while it seems like nothing is turning up, and then suddenly, as if from nowhere it picks up Fleems materialising from nowhere in a part of the docks district. Eudial teleports down immediatly and even as she is materialized is bowled over by something huge, white and possessing a lot of very sharp teeth.
"Who are you human? You interrupt my hunt and I don't like the smell of your magic, so talk quickly before I decide I am hungry"
This is followed by the face of a very large white wolf being very close to Eudials own and letting out a gutteral growl.
Eudial also finds a 1 shot yes/no magic card.
Staring at the building, Gaunt smiled. Renovations. Excellent. She might end up being more distracted by that and distracted people are always easier to manipulate. He straightened up his outfit as nicely as he could and walked to the entrance.
LELAND
The smell of demonflesh structure being taken out is a little offputting even to Leland, but he is able to walk in without being stopped by any of the workbeings and quickly picks out Ms Triablos going over some plans in the centre of the structure.
Slammer speaks up.
"Hello? Mecha-Titanicman? I'd like to ask you some things about your nemesis."
PHANTASMIC SLAMMER
There is the slight sound of lenses adjusting and the apertures on the robotic eyes close to focused burning pinpricks of light, focusing on PS. A sinister robotic grin crosses the face of the cyborg.
"What would you like to know then little robot?"
LELAND
Also gained a yes/no card.
"Most specifically, the newest powers he's attained and how he got them. Would you happen to know anything?"
PHANTASMIC SLAMMER
This question is evidently not one that Mecha-titanicman was expecting as his thick metal brow furrows.
"New powers? What? I don't know about any new powers. Just the same ones as always - flies around, punches hard and takes as good as he gets. Plus those pesky colourful laser blasts Pentraxians have."
"Hmm. Did these powers seem any different the last time you fought him? Dark energy or anything?"
PHANTASMIC SLAMMER
The furrowed brow remains - "I ain't seen nothing like that, aint 'is style"
He gestures towards his armoured chest with a nod and upon looking closer you see that the thick titanium plates are heavily pocked with fist marks.
"The loser doesn't even like to use his beams against of us guys - I've had em hit me a few times, but they'd blow most normal beings apart no trouble."
He pauses
"But.... I think I did see some kind of that Dark Energy stuff once.... but thing is.... it was when he was dead one time. Was doing a standard smash and grab on the gold reserve during some big announcement there, and some sort of black tendrils took me out before I could see who did it. Went straight through my armour as if it wasn't there and I woke up in the morgue a few days later after my systems repaired themselves"
Aurelia turns on her communicator, so that George and Anjushree can hear her sum up the situation, and then she asks them, as well as the rest of the Spanish Inquisition...Quote:
Originally Posted by ALEX
"What do you make of this folks?"
AURELIA
Most of the team look like it doesn't mean much to them, but Goldrod Goldmark Goldenloins the Dwarf looks a bit awkward...
"Errr.... this does look a bit familiar... back in my youth, I did a bit of work for the YAKuza... purely legal stuff for Gold you understand"
He shifts uncomfortably
"Several of those Yaks got assassinated and it was quite like this... turns out it was a Water Nymph assassin. Hid in puddles and raindrops and stuff, got onto the target who then look her home, before she emerged from the water and killed them, then escaped down the sink or something. Nasty business... (and meant I didn't get much gold for a while) but yeah.... unsavoury water types tend to hang out in a bar under the river called the Pickled Pike, might be worth shaking them down there about it"
"Who else can you think of that was there at the time? Anybody you remember?"
"Errrr it was a big event... that Felix Fairlynasty guy was there... he was opening some new facilities.... all the press were there and some security types I think, though I soon got rid of them heh." He grins evilly.
"By the time I got hit out, I think just Felix, one of his guards and a couple of people trapped inside by the rubble"
Twitch, hoping that Sally wasn't in too much of a rush, briefly explained their situation: The rift sources, the countdown, and the group of adventurers tasked with saving all of existence. Fanciful as the story might have been, the parrot continued unabated, explaining that they had picked up a rift signature on Titanicman and asking the journalist if there was anything she knew about Titanicman that might be related to the rift sources, if he had come into contact with one in the past few weeks, or if there was anything else she might be able to do to help the group.
He also placed the yes/no card into his magic bag of holding during his explanation.
TWITCH
Sally gives Twitch an appraising look for a few moments and then says "I strongly doubt Titanicman would have anything to do with such a thing, and I've certainly never seen him with any powers that match that description, and I make sure to cover practically every thing he does in this city! But... now I remember that when I was trapped in a vault with Felix Fairlynasty a while back after Mecha-titanicman attacked! He used some kind of black energy to take down that cyborg!"
AURELIA
Aurelia and the Spanish Inquisition head down to the docks above the Pickled Pike and manage to persuade a local after being given underwater breathing apparatus. Upon entering the bar (which turns out to be a Dive in more than one way) the Trout who is the bar-tender gestured in the direction of a slender translucent blue woman eyes them cautiously in the corner suddenly forms some claws out of water and looks defensive.
"I don't know nothing about no books!"
EUDIAL
After managing to talk down the Moonfox, Eudial makes various discoveries - most notably that Titanicman is most definitely NOT the source of the rift is something often near to him. The power levels of this source dropped significantly when the rift crisis started, but after Doomforall finally died a few days ago the levels rocketed. However, Fleems has never seen any sign of the power actually being used at all.
VENGEANCE, EPSILON, MARISSA, PLAYZOOKI and Anjushree
Still aboard the Castle, there is a strange sensation - hundreds of miniature pulses of energy wash over the giant floating rock, emanating from the top. Then there is a subtle echo of bees and insects and trickling water. Upon investigating the source of this noise, they find it to have emanated from the Tree over Doomforall's corpse. The trunk is now swolen and thick like a baobab tree, and strange knots forming looks have formed in the branches, through which various bees, butterflies and other pollinating animals have flown to harvest nectar of the flowers. A few seem to connect to underwater somewhere, and trickling streams drip from them.
At a glance, it seems like these tiny portals are connecting to other worlds, and at least one figure is visible through all of them, though without looking closer at them, it's impossible to tell anything more.
(OOC:so first im unable to walk properly, then im unconcious, now im im the castle? :P)
"uggggghh do i haveto go go through a portal? im nearly dead as it is. i just wanna kill that goddamn rat."
"AHA! A double negative! Can you explain that?!"
PLAYZOOKI
(OOC: When were you unable to walk properly? You were unconscious between posts, and you've been in the Castle for half the game with the the brief interlude where the Shrew dropped you over the edge and then the you were teleported back inside before you hit the ground)
On closer inspection the portals are very tiny, at most you could stick a hand through them. However, he does out the corner of one eye spot the Shrew darting through the portal with a pile of miniature quiches and a scotch egg.
AURELIA
"Wot are you talkin' about? Sounds like some lame nerd stuff" the water-woman replies as she scans the room for options of how to escape the angel.
Aurelia quickly checks her lie-detecting dagger!
AURELIA
There is no sign of custard of pebbledash, and the blade's glow fades from illuminating at the "I don't know nothing" when she says the next bit. Clearly she truthfully has no idea what a double negative is and thinks Aurelia is a lame nerd.
(this post is ooc)
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(OOC: Oops, sorry forgot about that)
PLAYZOOKI
Suddenly realises that his injuries must have been more painful than actually damaging as he can now walk again with no trouble. Although he does now have a slight sea-weedy smell that suggests some regenerative poultices might have been applied to him while he was unconscious.
AURELIA and VENGEANCE
After talking down the Water-woman through use of the beautiful enhanced songs, Aurelia extracts from the woman that she did it because she needed the money. Whoever it was apparently was scary enough that she insists on protection for her and her Mum, which Aurelia grants by teleporting them both to the castle.
However....
As Aurelia materializes in the main hall, she finds the water-woman backed into a corner with her water-claws out looking terrified...
"Ye told me it'd be safe here, but he's already here!"
She points viciously at Professor Vengeance
"He took me up to his offices at PTT and got me to steal the books or he'd hurt me and my Mam!"
Vengeance has an expression which suggests this is very confusing to him.
Black energy? Whatever it was, it couldn't have been good. He decided to inquire about the black energy, what it looked like, and what they had managed to do with it. Glancing down at the watch on his ankle, he decided he'd best be going back to the castle, so he'd aim to wrap up his investigation swiftly.
TWITCH
Sally describes the rift as exactly what Twitch himself had seen - as if someone had rubbed out a bit of the universe and the thing beneath was purest black. Sally claims she doesn't really remember what happens next exactly and was rescued from the rubble later by some firemen.
After this Twitch beckons George and teleports back to the castle
After watching the film version of this event (thanks to George "uploading" it into Slammer's brain somehow) he concludes that there's nothing left to be learned here.
"Thanks for your information, sir. I'll leave you be now."
PHANTASMIC SLAMMER
A summary of the file uploaded to Phantasmic Slammers Memory of the one documented rift incident believed to belong to this person:
- Felix Fairlynasty gives a speech
- Mecha-Titanicman attacks and the building begins to crumble
- The camera falls over and you see debris falling, Sally Streater shout that they are trapped, Felix Fairlynasty appears unconcious
- Black shards fill the screen and Mecha-titanicman falls over.
EUDIAL
A summary of the conversation with Fleems:
- Eudial persuades Fleems not to eat her, although doesn't much like her.
- Fleems has detected rift i nthe vicinity of Titanicman, but not from him directly, and he would have been able to tell. Someone or something else that is often around Titanicman is the source.
- The rift power dropped off substantially at the time of Doomforall becoming a rift nexus in space.
- However, after he finally died a few days ago, the rift level has expanded and begun to grow again to far greater levels that before.
- Fleems has never witnessed this power being used, or seen any evidence that it has been.