The Oddestsey

note: Nimeria Valencia has a blood drain ability which heals him as much as he drains

The part head Westwards along the coast, within half an hour they have lost site of the Galleon, although the small steel boat appears to be powering on ahead of them, while its moving they realise it can only be big enough to house 2 people. But within ten or so minutes it disappears around the next headland, as they change angel from the column of smoke they realise that it was actually 2 columns, probably a fair distance apart and looking unrelated. The group follow the coast around for several miles and the red sandy beach gives way to tall black cliffs perhaps two hundred feet high and the land takes a strange transition from tropical beach to Scottish moor land, including the temperature. They move up and get the pinnacle of the headland which is much higher than the surroundings and the source of the far thinner column of smoke, they look cautiously but see no one around and so advance up upon it and discover it to be a pile of items not that different to the one they landed in.

Seeing no one around they examine the pile:
The smoke seems to be rising from a sooty jar which seems to contain a large red newt which is certainly alive but breathes forth small jets of fire.

The complete unbroken contents of the pile are:

A salamander in a blackened jam jar (weight 3)
A Tesco Trolley (weight 24)
A tiny keg of alcohol about 3 inches high appearing to contain a ludicrously strong whisky (weight 1)
A cyborg arm with a fully articulated hand and 4 weapon attachments: tethered harpoon, blue laser, freeze ray and an acid jet. It appears you would have to replace an existing arm with it and certainly somewhere more hygienic than this. (weight 15)
A copy of the Mail on Sunday (weight 1)
A teaspoon made from what appears to be uranium (weight 1)
A Spartan helmet in good condition (weight 4, defense 9)
A morning Star (weight 12, attack 15-90, requires STR 5, DEX 5)
Some sequins in a clear plastic packet (weight 1)
The skull of a griffon (weight 5)
A hanging basket filled with forget-me-nots (weight 5)

Before they can pick up anything two figures come marching up the hill, which when they get closer are revealed to be 5ft tall platypuses standing on their hind legs, dressed in a buccaneers output with a cutlass at each of their sides.

€˜We be Platipirates!, Who be you?€™ The first exclaims
€˜Aye, that we be€™ Exclaims the second

You notice that neither have a threatening stance and neither is holding any weapons.

You looks behind them and see that they have come from what appears to be a 14th Century Arab city set in the middle of the moor land on the coast, and the small steel vessel from earlier is docked there.

What do you wish to do?

Talk to the platipirates (if so what about and how do you wish to act)
Attack the platipirates
Ignore the platipirates
Grab some of the things and run down towards the town
Excuse yourselves and walk way

Something else? The choice is yours

If the rest of the group doesnt mind, I suggest we talk to them and get some information. It might be useless info, but it might not be either.

Prof. Veng, can you use the Foe Finder and see if they are going to attack us? They could just be sucking us into a trap.

TALK TO THEM! I HAVE FREAKING AUSSIE LINGUISTICS SKILL. I shall convince them to surrender, join us or just confused them, as the others wish.

If we end up grabbing stuff, dibs on the cyborg arm.

The morning star would be useful if i could use it as a second weapon, if not, i wonder if /Prof Vengeance could make something sharp and pointy from the trolley spokes. Anyone mind if i take the Salamander? Not for spell purposes but maybe the fire might be useful, sayiung that, it could be dangerous, what do you think?

Talk to the platypirates, we need info. Id be wary over parting with money or following them anywhere though.

Thats a majority to talk to them so Ill write it now.

The Professor scans the platipirates quickly, they seem to be very strong but have no intention of harming the group before knowing bout them.

The group introduces themselves to the platypirates and explains what has happened to them so far and what€™s happened.
The first platypus starts talking: €˜Aye, ye be entries then, welcome to this world, I was a thinkin€™ ye be a piculia lot o€™wise, t€™ree mens, a man-leech and a pointy blood girl€™
It took a few moments for them to work out what the platipirate was on about, evidently a man-leech meant a vampire and a pointy blood meant a half elf.
€˜Where are we, and whats an entry?€™
€˜Aye, I be sorry, I shoulda thort ta tell ya, an entry be one who has entered this world from €˜nother, where ye be? This world be called Geschraubter Platz, tis a hub world, where all thee others join up ta, stuff from all of d€™em drops inta here and canna get out €˜gain. It happens in big bu€™sts making heap o€™ stuff like thisa one here. Ya welcome to take all ya need from if €˜fore us, ye need it more than we, €˜sides we can eesly use nae€™thin€™ you dunna want, you canna take it all.€™
The group continue to ask questions for quite a while, and while wading though the accents manage to discover the following pieces of information:

€ The town below is Called ciudad Arabe Extra±a en el Centro de un Amarrar, or Aeca for short.
€ There is no rulers anywhere in the world or any governments, but there are seven beings who are practically gods whose will goes. The platypirates don€™t know much more except €˜Aye, one dem be alike ta the white coaty man€™ and €˜Aye, he be a nasty one that Dmfrall€™ Any further interpretations proved futile. It would be prudent to not anger these beings
€ It would be best to gather some stuff and then sell it in the town below.
€ It€™s probably not best to go for the tiny keg of alcohol as it belongs to a €˜piskie€™ who is probably hiding somewhere in the junk.
€ Keep out of what the platypirates describe as €˜the cun€™funded brun abom€™naton€™ they refuse to explain what exactly it is.
€ They give you a small pearl with a band of steel around it, apparently if they show it to any other platypirates they will assist them however they can.

The platypirates head down the hill having said they€™ll come back for anything you leave later.

After looking round you see the second column of smoke was from the town, some building appears to have been on fire.

What do you want to do?

Head directly down to the town after you have your items.
Stay here overnight
Head off back East
Head off West past the town
Go inland

Something else

Additionally: if you arfe ever given an itme it will go to the person with the most free weight

I didnt speak to the Aussie creatures in my Aussie linguistics? *is disappointed*

someone nominated Steve as rep. so you didnt get a chance, besides, i cant write a conversation when both sides have incomprensible accents, they had pirate accents anyway

btw each of you recived 5xp for startign to find otu whats going on

Again, i have to ask if i could use the Morning Star as a weapon at the same time as my Scarring Knife, if not, Prof Vengeance could kindly make something sharp and pointy from the shopping trolley. Might well be dangeous to take the Salamander, so ill probably leave that to the Platypirates.

Any idea what the confounded brun abomination might be?

My vote, no point in staying here if the town is fairly safe, and we could do with a store anyway. So, town. If we decide to stay the night, i have eight for senses so ill do the bulk of the nightwatch.

First off, as regarding the items... I say someone pushes the trolley along, and we load that with items we find, and therefore increase our carrying capabilities... If thats allowed anyway.

Also, Id like to grab the sequins and sew them to the octopus tentacle, and dip them in that blinding poison Aaron got from the tentacle earlier, as whipping it straight at enemies will be a lot easier than getting in close range:)

Also, I vote in going down to the town.

By the way, assuming combat is turn based, do I need to waste a turn turning into my electric form?

Ill take:

- the Mail on Sunday (for terrifying anyone in our way and something to entertain us)
- the salamander (Firestorm a good name? :wink:)
- the tiny beer keg (If the piskie comes for it, we can crush im and get more Xp. Plus, we can give it to the lizard in a crisis and unleash a hyped-up super salamander on our foes :proud:)

If anyone has the weight, they could take the trolley and do what Franky said.

Also, if possible, Ill try and combine the cyborg arm with my Cane to allow its trademark interchangeable novelty. A laser guns cool, but it can get dull after a while. :)

As for tactics, lets go to town. I feel sociable! :proud:

Forget about the Morning Star, too slow methinks. Hey,prof, can you do me something along the lines of sharp and pointy with a spoke from the trolley?

a) You are allowed to use the shopping trolley, think of it as a very big bag of holding if anyone knows what that is (i know aaron does)

b) Combat is not turn based but real time fully written battle, itd be boring to read a written turn based fight. Magic will take a little time to cast, the mroe you advanced the less time it will take, but the more pwoerful a spell the longer it will take. Presently your spells Frank take only a second cos there quite simple, healing is next quickest, then illusion, then summoning

c) All updates will be done by tomorrow so you have til then to finish your descisions

d) Tom had already bagsyed the arm Steve

e) If you fail to combine objects you risk loosing one or all of them, tho you may not

f) You cant use trolley spokes for a weapon and use it for carrying

g) you can modify weapons

h) its whisky not beer

i) you can modify weapons by themselves, ie cut biots off them if you wish and explain what you want done

j) no one wants the most powerful piece of armour ive given you the oppertunity for so far?

k) dont forget the other stuff ive listed

l) the shopping trolley has a cpacity of 120

that is all

If you want the trolley, use it, we should come towards a store at some point, ill find me something there, just dont expect the half elf to push the trolley just cos shes strongest, not gonna happen.

I think itd be cool to regularly have something like this. Maybe some of us could take it in turns to do one?

Anyway, back to the story...

*Crash tackles Professor Vengeance before he can take the whiskie, and advises him to go read Carpe Jugulum or Wee Free Men*

*picks self up grumbling*

...damned Discworld gits... :lame:

Anyways, I could really do with some beefing up, so Ill take the Spartan helmet (reshaped into a top hat with aid from the Laser Cane, of course :wink:) instead of the arm and anything else we dont use, just bung in the trolley and cart it to the towns nearest car boot sale :proud:

BTW, this has really inspired me to finally get a new Mentorn Conspiracy going. Might try something after my prelims - it should make up for the SHW tourny thing. :)

Wait until weve taken the stuff to the town to fashion the weapon from the spoke.

*hits bionic arm on* Perfect fit. Not surprising, as I had to lop my arm off at the shoulder to put it on. Crikey, cobber, shell be right though mate.

Ill take:

A teaspoon made from what appears to be uranium (weight 1)


If Tom would be so nice to make some pellets with his pellet tool from my uranium spoon for me.Id also like to steal half a jar of wisky from Frank as a trade off for the octopuss poison. I have an idea for these later on if we are in trouble.

Id also like to separate from to group for a little while and meet up with them in town. I feel Ill be better to the group once Ive fed.

You guys are going to be really annoyed with a certain Mr Roper who in one action has become the most powerful member of the party by a fair bit and now has seven ways of attacking with what he has equipped, although he did quite badly risk infection but he pulled it off because he€™s the only person who realised that you weren€™t limited to 10 stat points per characteristic and had very high knowledge and intelligence scores so he could do it.

Prof. Vengeance

Gains salamander-in-a-jar (weight 3)
Named salamander firestorm
Gained mail on Sunday (weight 1)
Gained Spartan helmet (weight 4, defence 9)
Equipped Spartan helmet

Frank

Frank looses sequins, octopus tentacle and 1 / 5 portions of deadly octopus venom.
Frank gains Poisoned Disco Whip-Tentacle (weight 3, damage 30-45, hit fast, poisoning; strong)
Gains 3 XP for successfully crafting an item


Sarah Elliot

Gain morning Star (weight 12, attack 15-90, requires STR 5, DEX 5, speed normal)
Equipped morning star in off hand

Tom Roper

Status effect: lost one arm
Gained item: severed arm of Tom Roper (weight 4)
Shape mod: cyborg arm attached
Ability gained: blue laser
Ability gained: tethered harpoon
Ability gained: freeze ray
Ability Gained: acid jet
Experience Gained 10 XP for successful form mod
Roll Against infection: successful
Shape Mod Bonus: +3 to strength
Defense +7
Carry Weight increased by 30
Rank Up
Ability Gained: Summon Eagle
HP Up: +2

Nimeria Valencia

Gains Tesco Trolley (cos no one else would)
Successfully creates uranium pellets
Gains Uranium pellets (x40)
Gains 1XP for successful use of pellet maker
Gains tiny whisky keg (bad bad move there Aaron)
Tesco Trolley contains:

A morning Star (weight 12, attack 15-90, requires STR 5, DEX 5)
The skull of a griffon (weight 5)
A hanging basket filled with forget-me-nots (weight 5)

Trolley capacity: 15 / 120

That covers everything I think, I need to insert the info from this into all your stats Ill wirte what happens next in my free lesson at lunch time.

oops mistake there, there only 1 morning star, which sarah has

If the wisky is strong like you say, I can be used as an anticeptic and for my idea, being very strong in alcohol content, it will be very Flammible :)

Actually, i guessed that stats could go above ten also,i just wanted a fairly rounded character.

Ah, so Tom can carry more, he can do the donkey work from now on :p

Standard eagle? Nah, not Aussie enough. Change it to Bald Eagle, which are far more commonly found. XD

/nit-picking

Check out all my fancy new things! *is proud*

Now, down to business:

As my character is (very loosely) based upon myself, and since I have increased carrying now, I shall take the Tesco trolley off Nimeria Valencia. I can spare it with the increased carrying, and seeing as I clear trolleybays at the end of the day of my shifts at Woolworths and push them around a lot, I should be rather skilled in this area. :rofl:

*flexes bionic arm*

*removed Katana from belt*

Would someone be interested in trading some bloody for some wisky? Either that or Im going to find something to feed from.

*Discreetly backs away from Aaron* Ive heard about Discworld pixies...none of the stories were nice.

You can have my severed arm in return for something useful down the line.

Get that ruddy Katana away from me, no one cuts me but me, Aaron, *slices arm and wipes some of the blood from blade onto the Katana, then discreetly backs away again*

I preferr to feed from something living. Thank you for the gesture of kindness Roper. Sarah, stories are just stories. But do be afraid. *insert evil face here*

I was backing away for pixie purposes,not cos im scared of you :p

*Walks off to sit in the edge of the shadows*

After the painful but worth while self preformed operation by Tom Roper to install the cyborg arm onto himself the party pick up all the stuff they€™ve set out except one thing. They avoid it for a bit, Tom harpoons a bird out the sky and gives it to the vampire to feed upon to supplement Sarah€™s blood, not only giving the vampire the needed blood but also giving Tom and opportunity to test out his new abilities. An old car door was on the wreckage and he drags it out with his new found massive strength to test out his abilities on it. When he asks Sarah to pull it over to a good place she can€™t move it realising it€™s the door of an armoured car.
Tom smiles realisign this is even better test if abilities.
The harpoon sinks through it with ease, it seems it has retractable barbs at his control and he pulls the harpoon free. The blue laser is even more impressive, it also cuts straight through, but the beam is only 1/2mm thick and very accurate licign a minute cut and the door falls in half, the freeze ray is a slight let down, it€™s not cold enough to make the armour brittle but from the looks of it could probably freeze something or someone solid. Lastly upon testing the acid jet the thick hazy green cloud corrodes the outside of the door and the think falls apart in a few minutes. A well worth while upgrade.
However these projectiles must be used very carefully in combat to avoid hitting the rest of the party, the acid jet especially splashes to an extent.

But now what they have all been nervously trying to avoid. Nimeria slowly walks towards the keg and snatches it up. What happens next is nothing€¦ they sit around for an instant, sweat dripping off them as they nervously wait to see what appears. Suddenly they here scuttling across metal, like the noise of a mouse would make and they back away. Suddenly a small but powerful voice shouts from behind them.

€˜Oi, yah big jess€™s€™ €˜ands off mi dram!€™

The party spin round to see a tiny figure on a rock. He has bright red hair, a big red beard that is plated but is thin and sinewy. His skin is lightest blue and covered in woad tattoos in Celtic style designs. He is wearing some very small, but sturdy looking boots and a tiny dirty kilt and a thin mouse skin strap across his shoulder, as well as what for his size must be called a long sword.

You are attacked by: A Piskie

The piskie jumps from the rock in a leap many times his own body length and lands running towards the party, brandish his sword. It heads for Frank who whips his disco octopus tentacle in an effort to hit the tiny man. Steve runs the foe-checker.

Piskie
Ferocious tribal fighters, 3 inches high. Approach with caution if your stupid. If your not stupid you won€™t approach at all unless they approach you first. They believe that this is the afterlife anyway so are not afraid of death at all.
HP: 230/230

The piskie dodges the tentacle with ease, he€™s too small to hit. Tom waves his arms towards the sky muttering strange syllables and summons a lizard, a 6 foot long perante monitor which runs towards the tiny man. Frank discharges an electrical spark towards the piskie which hits it in the foot and makes it leap into the air, and the monitor swallows the little piskie whole in a signel large gulp. All is silent for a mnute but then the monitor keels over and the tiny piskie bursts out of its rib cage in a shower of gore. Waving his little sword he kicks the dead monitor hard with his boots and the monitor remains as dead as ever. When he is sure its dead he spins round to get Tom€™s blue laser shot as hit head. But his polished sword swings up and catches the tiny beam reflecting it off into the undergrowth. Tom stops the laser and jumps to the side firing two shots of the flintlock at the tiny man who has jumped towards his previous position. The shots miss and the little man runs towards Tom and jumps onto his leg and headbutts him really hard knocking Tom to the ground and giving him a very nasty bruise. Nimeria and Sarah spin towards the tiny man and Sarah manages to catch the little man full across the chest with the morning star sending him flying backwards. The man seems relatively unhurt, having been caught between the spines of the mace although for an instant he is slightly dazefd. The professors green laser shoots towards the man but he rolls to the side avoiding it entirely. He charges and leaps upon the professor slashing at his chest causing several deep cuts in the flesh. The professor leaps back and hits the man on the head with the cane knocking him unconscious. He€™s clearly still alive but seems out cold. With his cyborg arm Tom picks up the tiny man, takes away his sword and hurls him over the cliff out to sea. It probably won€™t kill him but it probably will stop him for long enough for you to get away.

You defeated Piskie!

+6 XP Each

Professeur Vengeance Levels Up
HP: 73/ 82
Weight: 24 / 50
+2 HP
Learns Alchemy

Frank Levels Up
HP: 142 / 142
Weight: 47 / 60
+2 HP
Learns Stun Shock

Tom Roper Levels Up
HP: 76 / 84
Weight: 52 / 90
+2 HP
Learns Summon Kangaroo
Items Gained: Tiny long sword

Nimeria Valencia Levels Up
HP: 102 / 102
Weight: 49 / 60
+2 HP
Learns Phantasmal self

Sarah Elliot
HP: 120 / 120
Weight: 51 / 80

W00t. Gotta love my cyborg arm. The swordll be useful too, but if anyone else wants it they can have it. At this stage I dont need it.

Gah, i still need two points more tpo level up lol.

Anyways, lucky for Tom and the prof, i can heal them easily enough.

*Draws the scarring knife an inch up my left arm, muttering a few words as i go* Should be all better

I dont need the sword, the morning star worked quite well :p

im realyl going to have to think of a way to stop you doing that, its beginning to disturb me

Well dont visulise it, just see the stars, read the words before it and up the hp :p

Ive learnt the art of Alchemy? Woot! Our financial problems are over, boys - Im a walking goldmine! :proud:

Awesome stuff, Alex, and glad to see that Firestorm made it out OK :)

RECENT UPDATE:
While on MSN, Lord Roper has decided to let me have the little long sword (ta muchly :)). With my scientific nature, I shall fix the sword near the end of the Cane (not right on the end, though, so that the laser ability still works) meaning I can now fry, bash AND slice. Life is good when youre clever. :proud:

*summons Kangaroo at random, scaring the bejeezus out of Steve while hes fixing the blade onto the Cane*