The Last Oddetsey

[playzooki]

playzooki breathed

then he wondered where the other people had gone

then he ate more dinner.

then he wandered around vengeances castle, looking for something to do.

[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)

[majinb]

Aurelia holds her communicator. Forget about the police station down the road, she had a better idea.

"George? Yeah, lovely to hear your voice, hey, listen, I have rounded up a sleazy looking demon here, all unconscious and everything, and I was wondering if you could teleport him back to the castle and put him in whatever holding facilities the castle has. You could? Great. No, The Spanish Inquisition don't wanna teleport back just yet, we are celebrating our victory here together with a poor old lady and hazelnut cake. Yeah, long story."

...

After finishing the final slice of hazelnut cake, and a final goodbye to the poor old lady, The Spanish Inquisition gets their collective behinds back on Maurice Francois's tandem bike, to continue their path through this strange world. Their next destination, New Melded's most read newspaper!

[steven_mcg]

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?"

You mean, other than "is that it"? If you seriously think a Dark Age monstrosity is going to depose the world's greatest criminal mind with something as banal as a hostage job, you've got another thing coming.

Specifically, this sword in this cane. Woopah!

Come on, you ruffians! Have at thee!

(Finally, a piece of the action!

(First things first, secure the hostages. I can use the Thoughtsteel to create shielding for the poor sods till the fight's over, but it may not be enough for everyone. One of the bigger lads can play defence in that case.

(Me, I'll leave the armoured tape recorder to the hothead and avoid the necromancer where I can. Ruddy magic. I doubt I can match the rooster in fisticuffs - never thought I'd have to say that again - so I'll stick with the other two.

(I can use try short-circuiting the ogre's dusters with either the mecro-morph, cane lasers or my own manual tools. He's stronger, but I doubt he can catch someone as light-footed as me so easily if I have to disable them up close. Once his weapons are gone, cool his brain with an ice beam and give him a concussive blast for the KO. That or feed him infinite Malteasers till he throws up. Wouldn't mind a distraction from one of you lot.

(As for the old git with the postcards, God knows what he's here for. Given the rest of this place, though, he must have some strange, horrifying gimmick about him. Blast the bugger with concussive sonic waves before he can put his tricks into motion and find out what's so fascinating about those cards after the fight. If he tries anything funny beforehand, tank with my bunker forcefield and bullet shield until either I think of something dashed clever or someone else does.

For great victory!

(D20 Roll: 3)

[NB: Alex, I'm away tomorrow until Tuesday, so no updates from me till then. Soz. ]

[NFX]

Glancing from one minion to the next, the parrot was more than a little nervous about what was actually going to happen. The main guy might have said they were going to die, but that didn't mean they were going to die. Did it? Suddenly, the blue and yellow robot shot off towards the ogre, Eudial threw a fireball into the face of the leader, and Twitch realised that the intrepid, mismatched group were actually in a proper, full-fledged fight now.

Instinctively, he gave a squawk and flew up into the air, before realising that he had actual wings of steel now. Sort of. The leading edges of his wings. The funny pink ball-looking creature didn't seem especially tough, so Twitch figured that would be a good test of what his new weaponry could actually do. From his high vantage point, the macaw shot down towards the floor, before levelling himself out and swooping along the ground, making a beeline for the small round pink thing...

(D20 Roll: 17)

[kodster]

(D20 roll: 16

people not in the fight don't have to do this)

[shadowflare]

Marisa drew out her hakkero, threw some mushroom powder in it, and locked and loaded on the postcard master.

"Eat lazer!"
(Rolled an 11.)

[alex_holt]

Professor Vengeance, Epsilon, Twitch, Eudial, Marisa, Phantasmic Slammer

Vs.

Samurai Chicken, Ogre, Wigglituff Necromancer, Tedious postcard man and the Death of VHS

Eudial has little time for works, and immediately prepares a fiery blast to incinerate the armoured Death of VHS, but even as the bolt appears to be about to connect, a whirring sound emanates from the Black and White armour and the fire bolt reverses down its trajectory and hits back into Eudial sending her spinning backwards although unharmed. It apparently has a rewind function…

Vengeance however has a little better luck, spinning his thoughtsteel blade towards the hostages it morphs into a protective bubble to keep them safe from the fight. Even as he spins to the Ogre he notices that creature isn’t entirely what it initially appeared, a complex suit of power armour is unfolding outwards from those giant knuckle dusters. It’s managed to cover his, arms, shoulders and neck before Vengeance manages to cut some of the actuators with a slice from his cane-laser – still, he only narrowly manages to avoid the massive armoured right hook that demolishes the pillar he had been standing by.

Twitch makes a beeline for the Wigglytuff – even as several assorted creatures begin to rise from the ground around it – but Twitches new blades shatter a spectral Flowerpot man, decapitate a vampire-gerbil and disembowel a zombie Kligon. However even as his blades are inches from his target, he feels an impact from the side. A postcard. Even as he is impacted he feels teleportation sickness as he finds himself suddenly in a paddy field farming mandrakes. Another impact a moment later and he finds himself on a snowy mountaintop, observing Yetis playing backgammon. A third card hits and falls to the ground, next to him, and he realizes that it shows the exact place he now finds himself – a rundown seaside town with low employment rates and miserable weather.

He contacts the castle on his communicator, but apparently there will be a bit of recalibrating before he can teleport back to the fight. However, as he is waiting, he notices something nearby – a small but perfectly formed conch shell. Something about it radiates magic, and he picks it up and stuffs it in his satchel and waits for the teleporter…

Back in the fight, mere moments after he had vanished Twitch off to God knows where, the man with the tedious little moustache is slammed backwards through a window even as he turns to defend himself: a flurry of postcards displaying the beaches of Gallifrey, the Historical Sites of Lemuria and Milton Keynes are incinerated as the man is blasted backwards through the window behind him and down to the pavement below with a thud by the impact of Marisa's laser…

TO BE CONTINUED IN PART II

[alex_holt]

PART II

Epsilon engages the rooster – the sword hums softly as it swipes in devastating arcs, almost as if the atoms of the air itself are being sliced with every stroke. It takes everything the robot has to keep out of the way of that blade, and one slight hesitation and hydraulic fluid begins to leak out of pipes in his left arm as the blade cuts through his chassis and doesn’t even slow down… Epsilon however manages to bull-rush the rooster and once in close range lets off the miniaturized party bomb directly in the fowl’s face…

Vengeance is struggling to avoid the massive electrified punches of the Ogre, and his recently pristine outfit is caked in the dust of demolition. A quick trip as he tries to sidestep the next blow leaves him seeing the titanic fist accelerating towards his face, but then….

SMASH

Phantasmic Slammer, coated in the yellow paint granting electricity immunity has taken the blow for Vengeance – Electricity lights up the room for a moment, crackling around the hand as it leaves a massive fist shape dent in the top of the combat robot. And then…. FLIP.

A combination of the flipper and telekinesis blasts the Ogre directly upwards through the roof, and he sails out over the city in a huge arc, the end of which can be heard here from several miles away.

The Wigglituff is summoning yet more creatures into the fray – most the horrible remains of creatures from that time Clthulhu was subsidizing Jim Henson’s creature shop from behind the scences and succeed in pushing the team back a bit through sheer numbers. However, seeing an opportunity, the fire laser of Vengeance catches a gap in the horde and one shot of the cane laser hits directly to the pokemons rubbery body, puncturing the thing and sending it bouncing round the room while its minions crumble.

In the duel between Eudial and the Death of VHS, long strands of VGS tape have extended forth from the wrists of the black armoured figure like horrific tentacles from the 80s, and suspend the witch seemingly helplessly in the air… The creature begins to monologue…

“Now you see that I…….ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk”

A grin crosses Eudials face. Trying to restrain a pyromancer using highly flammable VHS film is apparently a really stupid idea as fire shoots along the strands back inside the wrists on the Death of VHS, which shrieks with pain. Several more fire blasts and it staggers backwards and then…. Suddenly some crude digital beeping…

“Ahhh it is finally ready, my destruction of you will have to wait a moment.”

Suddenly the whirring starts within the black armour again, though this time it sounds like it is going the opposite way… With the speed of Fast Forward the Death of VHS accelerates out the room at incredible speed to some unknown destination… even as Twitch manages to rematerialize in the room.

However, their feeling of Victory is short lived… a monumental shriek of metal draws them all to the window… one of the nearby figures that had been maintaining the shield – a huge huge retro looking robot has stopped its silent vigil and turned its decidedly creepy gaze towards the party…

[Badnik96]

Phantasmic Slammer grunts in pain (I think?) due to the dent in his flipper plate. He tries using his telekinesis to pop it back out with no avail. Welp.

"Dafuq is that robot thing? Whatever, let's go for it!" He charges at full speed toward the retrobot.