The Last Oddetsey

[alex_holt]

TEAM HOSTAGE SITUATION

The team enters the building and follows the corridors through - it looks it was a fairly busy building until this situation went down, and would be well maintained if it wasn't for all the items people dropped during the shock of this assault. The lights are still on at this point, but appear to be on emergency power, while all the other technological gizmos this city is filled with are turned off. It is suspiciously quiet.

Eventually they find themselves heading on into the canteen - a room in the centre of the building with very minimal natural light, and as they enter the door is closed behind them. Several dozen hostages of various species are tied up to tables around an area of floor at the rear of the room, including some children. As they look around the room you can see the minions here:

A dark green human-sized rooster samurai
An Ogre with electrified knuckle dusters
A Wigglytuff necromancer
A tedious looking man with a sleazy little moustache holding loads of postcards

However, the leader is clearly the huge bulky figure in dark armour who stands in the centre of the room. On closer inspection it appears to be made of some sort of textured black plastic, and be secured with white joints.

"Not who I was trying to lure out, but you needed to die at some point anyway" the strange figure declares. "I can't have some people resistant to the rift running around, it would be bad form"

There is something about his voice - the quality of his voice doesn't sound quite normal, there is something a bit weird about it - though their questions are answered almost immediatly

"I am the Death of VHS, bearer of the Rift - any last words before you die?"

THE SPANISH INQUISITION

With the combined might of the team, the Demon stands little chance - suddenly finding himself attacked by daggers, the Demon lashes out a few times - but the skills and speed of Aurelia's squad means that the worst that happens if a few scratches on Goldrod's armour and a blast of acid breath dripping off Wentworth's shields for a few minutes. The Demon realises this is a losing battle and attempts to runs off, however Wentworth blasts him in the back with a spectrum beam as he escapes sending the Demon's unconscious face sliding into the mud.

Meanwhile Conesnatcher manages to finish the accounts, it turns out she had just incorrectly worked off new gross income rather than her net income, and had not been accounting for several deductables.

"Thank you great hero, you are truly my saviour! How will I ever thank you?" she says to the Squirrel. "Here, have this Hazelnut cake I was baking earlier!"

Meanwhile, she seems to entirely ignore the rest of the party - and also the large unconscious Demon furhter down the street, which might decide to seek revenge if it wakes up free. There appears to be a police station further down the road which might have some cells if needed.

[kodster]

The leader is clearly the huge bulky figure in dark armour who stands in the centre of the room. On closer inspection it appears to be made of some sort of textured black plastic, and be secured with white joints.

"Not who I was trying to lure out, but you needed to die at some point anyway" the strange figure declares. "I can't have some people resistant to the rift running around, it would be bad form"

Eudial grinned; battle-lust was upon her. "Oh I can assure you, you'll be worse than just 'in bad form'," she hissed, fingering the hilt of the holy sword.

"I am the Death of VHS, bearer of the Rift - any last words before you die?"

"It won't be my last, but here's one - catch." With that, Eudial's eyes glowed like fire as, with her free hand, she flung a ball of hellfire at the being with great speed.

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(OOC: battle strategy. I want the main guy's head, so please leave him to me. :P My suggestions to my comrades is that Steve and either Badnik or GF93 take out the postman and the samurai, as they seem pretty quick and can distract me, and one of GF93 and Badnik (whoever didn't help Steve) go after the ogre. NFX I think would have an easier time with the Wigglytuff and Tracy can likely distract the leader and minions using her long-range spells; hell, looking up Marisa's powers, that magic would huuuurt. o.o

What I want to do against the Leader guy is conceal my Lance until he gets dangerously overconfident. He seems like the cocky type so I want to lure him into a false sense of security, thus I'll just pepper him with fire attacks (preferably hellfire) and use my blade for close-range combat. If the need calls for it, I've still been charging the loci so I can probably deck him with a powerful blast. Hell, I could try a combination of using the fire extinguisher and my newfound Sand-Attack to blind him. I'll do this when I have the Lance so he can't expect an attack. When I draw out my Lance I do wish to get close enough to him so I can attack him without fear of missing.

If the minions get too much, I'll use my Explosion Inducement power, either placing a palm on the ground and transferring detonation energy into them, or clapping my hands together and blowing them away that way. :P

I realize I probably didn't need all this but I want to be prepared and we don't have any real info on these thugs so yeah. :P)