The Church of Miho Bulletin, Part 2
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Phaedrus
Off in the distance, I could see a neon sign glowing.
<SEGA>
We seemed to be headed for it. Directly. Rent-a-zilla was ignoring everything in its path, making a bee-line for the Sega enclave, walking through power lines, smashing buildings.
I looked down, bringing my focus in closer...and recoiled in horror:
<Kikkoman Soy Sauce>
<Soy Bean Storage Silo #314>
It was between us and Sega.
Maybe the lizard wasn't hungry, but we couldn't take the risk. I had to get Garran to divert. I started scrambling up towards the head, using the rope and holding onto the back plates when I could.
My headache was coming back, and I was hearing voices. One twisted, evil croon cut through the static and I heard:
quote:
Originally evilly crooned by Vorpal Blade:
I wasn't to worried about the group that had taken control of rent-a-zilla. He was, after all just a distraction, and i could cancel him immediately with a call to Monsters.
Vorpal Blade! He's our nemesis? Silo forgotten, I frantically searched along 'zilla's spine, looking for what I knew had to be there...it was at the base of the skull, a battered grey box with a small metal flag. An LED read-out on the front was rapidly cycling upwards; 100,000,000 yen...100,001,000 yen...
Hmm. Now, what's an appropriate response here?
Only one way to
deal with this situation:
Poetic Justice!
I rooted around in my backpack and pulled out an oddly ornate croquet mallet; the head was carved in the likeness of a flamingo. I gripped the mallet awkwardly but firmly, yelled "FORE!", and sent the synaptic control box flying into space.
My triumphant grin was rudely interrupted when Rent-a-zilla pitched forward suddenly.
Ohmyghod! The lizard was feeding. I started scrambling towards Garran again, frantically trying to calculate in my head the critical flamability limit for methane...
Derian Hatcheter
quote:
...frantically trying to calculate in my head the critical flamability limit for methane... [/QB]
[OOC] LOL!! (laugh emoticon) (laugh emoticon) Methane?!?!? You're killing me.
BTW, everybody, check out the battle that finished out the last thread. I wanna know if any one else got involved.[OOC]
Quinn
[OOC: With the 'Zilla stopped and feeding just short of Sega HQ, this is practically begging for Latency to launch her assault. Unfortunately, I haven't finished rewriting my post yet! Since Echo & Ping are in a hotel, rather than the Sega building, she might be close enough to play the role I'd like her to... we'll see. :)]
-_Quinn
Wangus
OOC:
I'm there Darian, you better believe it!
Now back to the story
I launched my foot forward and threw the two half blades out. A figure slid down the whole tail underneath me. It only took a second to see the hockey stick to know Hatcheter was joining the battle. My body eased up a little, I knew my back was covered.
I started firing at the hoards in front of me even before I landed on the hard pavement. Even from the tail of the Rent-a-zilla, it was a long drop. I landed without sound (it's good to know I can still do that) and I began running toward Hatcheter's figure. I saw two lights flash in my eyes and I focused my attention towards it.
"Hey, pretty sw33t." I mumured as a caught both half scythes flying back to me. I saw a mob moving around Hatcheter. I rushed to him.
I cocked my arm back and threw the my whole weapon towards the two SGD troops that Hatcheter didn't see. It was a perfect aim, but I noticed one of them was going to get a shot off.... I flipped a switch underneath my P90s and squeezed the newly appeared triggers. Two lines of continuous bullets flew from the submachine guns. The first wall of bullets broks the flaks shot out of the gun and the second destroyed the gun.
"Thanks!" I heard.
"No problem!" I shouted back. "I knew this modifaction would be useful one day." I said, but he turned his attention back to the oncoming troops. And so did I.
I see two groups of four SGD troops coming from either side of me. With my blade stuck in the far wall near Hatcheter, I rush into a street alley. It's dead end.... perfect. ^_^
I swung my head back and see that six of the troops followed and two were waiting right at the entrace of the alley. I reached the wall, and I jumped towards it. I bounced off the wall at an angle and using a innate knowledge of spatial geometry and countless hours of training coming back to me, I jumped from side to side of the walls and buildings on each side of the alley. I kept firing under me, taking one out at a time.
I flipped out of the alley and shot one of the standing guards. I triped the other and shot him in the leg. Much to my anger, he keeps firing at me. I dove to the right and shot him once in the head. I reloaded both clips and ran to Hatcheter.
"Duck" I heard him yell. I did it without hesitation, I don't bother to wonder why anymore, it just seems to happen to me. I her a "uhgg" sound behind me and I turned around.
My blade was sticking through the chests of two SGD men. I rip my blade out and run over to Hatcheter.
"My turn for thanks." I spoke.
"Don't worry." He says nonchalantly. I nodded my head.
"Nice blade," he grins while saying it to me, "doesn't compare though..." he said looking at his own hockey stick.
"To each his own." I said back. We both blocked a volley of gunshots and returned fire with the minigun and P90s. The group didn't fire back. There was more fighting around us I think, but I'm not sure.
"Well folks, shall we catch up to the rest of them?" Hatcheter asked. I look over and see the Rent-a-zilla about a half a mile away. We should be able to catch up, and it'll be good to go underneath while they go from up top.
"Let's see what everyone else thinks." We turned our heads to see if any else really did come with us...
OOC:
Trying to improve my grammar (trying to keep most things in past tense. Or at least be consistant in tenses).
Please, like Darian said, if you want to join the fight, add yourself in and make sure it makes sense. I tried to leave my ending open for more people to join...
Phaedrus
When I got on top of the head, Garran was pulling back on the reins with all his might, to no effect. His exhortations weren't working either:
Insatiable beast!
Sega, root of all 3vil
awaits! Giddyup!
The lizard totally ignored him, and bent down to feed. In horror, I watched as Garran tumbled off into the churning mass of partially fermented soy beans.
Glump
My earlier impression that I had been 'controlling' Rent-a-Zilla had obviously been disgustingly naive. At the time, he had been fairly amenable to being led; with the soya in his sights, it felt rather more that it was his head pulling me around by the reins. And my grip on the reality of the situation was getting more and more tenuous as the l33t energy I'd achieved by my earlier osmosis degenerated into sheer terror.
I turned to shout that it was no good, and saw Phaedrus attack some mechanical contrivance with a plastic flamingo wielded like a croquet mallet. It was somehow reminiscent of Furikuri; it was also the final straw, as my suspension of disbelief snapped completely and fluttered away behind us. The reins fell, forgotten, as I laughed hysterically.
I realized, on some level, the danger I was in as the big lizard tore open the roof of the silo and, after a moment of regarding its innards triumphantly, shoved its head inside. But I couldn't get ahold of myself in time; Largo's reality had gone too far distant for there to be a rational thing to do in this situation. So, when he pitched forward, so did I, over his scaled forehead, past his hungry eyes, and into the sea of soy beans.
It's worth noting here that I don't even like soy sauce that much.
Coughing and sputtering, I desperately tried to flail my way toward the surface of the beans, but it was a losing battle; the soya was not sauce enough to be truly conducive to swimming, and my air was seeping out quickly through my frantic movements. Dots swam before my eyes... Or were those soya beans? Time seemed to be moving slowly. I pulled at the beans around me in one last attempt to surge upward...
...and nearly hit my head on Rent-a-Zilla's teeth as he neatly removed my obstacles. Gasping, I watched in awe as he reared up, roaring, soy dribbling from his mighty jaws - was that Phaedrus atop his head, fighting for control? - and turned his greedy eyes back down. His great teeth seperated again, and descended, in such a manner as to enclose my personal section of the bean quite nicely.
I stared up in horror as the Zilla-head approached, and was dimly aware of speaking. "Kimiko... I'm sorry..." I gasped. "I wanted to save you..."
The fearsome jaws paused, inches above my head, and a frown overtook them. Then they moved, differently than they had before, and a deep, resonant voice echoed forth:
"What are you saying? Has something happened to Kimiko-sama?"
"..." I declared with feeling, and fainted.
Eheh... Hi again, everyone. ^_^;; This is a little more clunkily executed than I would have liked, but I think I managed okay. I would have liked to have gone more in-depth into Rent-a-Zilla's ability to speak; my idea of it is that he's a quite adept english speaker, but tends not to let on that he does other than roar because his clients find that more impressive. He's also a rabid, and rather eloquent, Kimiko fanboy. Other things could potentially be done with him, though, if you wanted to take it in another direction.
Oh no! Direct contradiction! ;_; I'm not sure how to handle this... Although it's pretty handled now. Hooray.
mlamdin
[OOC - back now. I think this might be a good place for me to come back in... This starts a bit before the end of your fight, Wangus...]
A beam of green fire shot down from the sky, momentarily blinding the large group of SGD troops trying to join the fight with Derian and Wangus. When their vision cleared, I was standing there in front of them. I presented a strange picture. My outfit appeared to be made from some kind of Elven chain mail, but in such a style so that I would fit in rather well in a rave. A rocket launcher was held in my right arm, a glowing sword in the left. The most disturbing part was my eyes, which glowed an alien green.
My voice had taken on some dark undercurrents. "Minions of Dom. Run away now or join the MihoCult. This is your only warning." I narrowed my eyes and the ground under one of the frontline troops exploded, incinerating him in a burst of green fire. The other troops stepped back apprehensively. Some seemed to be wavering, and for a minute I thought we might have some new recruits. But then an officer with a shirt that read 'PH34R S394! Satan does!' stepped forward. "Fools! This minion of Miho can't hope to match our advanced firepower with an overhyped Quake weapon and an antique sword! Kick his ass!"
I sighed. "Very well. Face the Darkly Cute Power of Bhaal!"
Bullets flew at me from all directions and struck my armor with absolutely no effect. Once again the officer screamed at his troops. "He's got Protection from Normal Weapons on that stuff! I've played the BG series! We'll have to hit him either in the forehead or with some sort of magical bullets - I've read the UHS file! I have a strategy - "
I cut him off. "A smart one, are you? You know where much of my power comes from. Too bad." I grinned as a bullet smashes into my forehead, again with no effect. "I am the Master. I WROTE your puny file." I gestured with my arms and ghostly raver girls came out of the ground itself, latching on to the horrified SGD troops. They dropped weapons, ran, did anything they could to get out of the way. Most did not. A brief scream of agony came from them, and then nothing. Only a blank stare. I gestured at their remaining comrades. "Kill them." The blank eyed soldiers obeyed, ripping apart their comrades with the inhuman strength posessed by zombies. I grabbed the officer by the throat. "Now you understand." A ghastly recognition entered his eyes before I crushed his throat and threw him on the pile of corpses.
From behind me I heard a new voice. "Let's see what everyone else thinks..."
I turned to face the speaker. "Yes. Let us go destroy the stronghold of Dom." Seeing their glances at the SGD troops behind me, I gestured. The zombies began to walk forward stiffly, vacantly staring with glassy eyes at the distant figure of Rent-a-Zilla. The green glow in my eyes intensified as I began to walk to join the other fighters around me, my army of zombies following.
Elsewhere, a concerned looking Pirogoeth confronted Miho. "Are you sure you know what you're doing? Do you realize what this combination of Bhaal and your Necrowombicon could do?"
Miho shrugged. "We'll see, won't we?"
And somewhere, in the back of my head, the voice of Bhaal laughed insanely...
Phaedrus
[ooc]
Garran: I like it!
Don't change a thing, give me five minutes and I'll patch up my last post for consistency.
[/ooc]
Glump
quote:
Originally posted by Phaedrus:
[ooc]
Garran: I like it!
*salutes* Thank you. ^_^;;
(To clarify (because it seems unclear to me), salute to your editing, thank you to your liking. Although I suppose there could be some crossover between the two.)
[/ooc]
Derian Hatcheter
[OOC] Garan, leave tat up unti Phaedrus gets a chance to respond. Both are good, but I think your's is mre ammusing. ;)
Edit:
Oh, wow, you've alread straightened it out.
[OOC]
mlamdin
[OOC - yes, please do continue, both of you. Nice job, Garran - very funny. *sigh* We need a few more people to show up now so we can get the big show started...]
Final Furyk
[Wait a second, this isn't a church bulletin. My beautiful Miho church has been turned into some type of fanfic battle ground that I'll never be able to keep up with. Oh well]
G.Kaiser
*note iv havnt posted in a day and ahalf because i fell asleep last night(niquill), and i had detention today (stupid physics teacher) any way im back**note: editing after Garran's very good idea i would be passed out*
*seeing Garran drowning in a sea of soy beans.*
Im not going to let one of my leads die by like that!
*I grab the rope and tie it to the rains of the rent-a Zilla* Hold on!
* i yell as a slide down the rope on the side of the zilla's neck*
*I grab Garran's unconscious body and begin to pull him and myself up the rope*
*as i begin to climb up the rope with Garran. the big lizard starts to thrash his head swaying the ropes*
* i hear the sound of familer wurring sound of gun fire*
Damn it some on is firing at us!
*we finally made it to the top as i notice that he was breathing i sigh in relief .I relize Miho cultest have been firing at the the zilla!*
Quinn
I lowered the M4 from my shoulder, unfired. Hatcheter and Wangus hadn't needed my help to clean off our back-trail, and it felt like they wouldn't have a hard time catching up, either. I headed up-zilla to find out why we'd stopped.
"Phaedrus, why aren't we..." The poet muttered long numbers under his breath, about flammabality indices, wind speeds, and inverse hyperbolic tangents. I looked over the zilla's shoulder to find that it was feeding on a silo full of soybeans as if it were a can of mushy Pringles. The Czar draws and points his desert eagle over my shoulder, and I duck, and he fires ... and looks in astonishment at the lump of scrap metal in his hand.
We both ducked behind a spiny ridge-plate, and the Czar tossed his gun over the side, and drew another. "I know I hit her... how did she get a shot off?"
"Who?"
"Some babe with a metal plate in her jaw."
I grimaced, and pulled the Czar back behind cover. "Blue eyes and black hair, right?" He nods. I snarl: "Latency."
"Who?"
"An MDK-series emotional doll. Designed to replace _me_." I verified that my special equipment is where it needs to be, and took a deep breath. "I'll take care of her. You and Phaedrus just need to get the 'zilla to Dom's office building, and keep shaking until he comes out." I looked over the side for a good place to get off. "But be careful. Kimiko might be inside."
The Czar nodded, and I made a diving roll onto the roof of a grocery store...
[OOC DWC: close enough to in character? /OOC]
-_Quinn
mlamdin
[OOC - Wangus, Derian - I think that we should get our group towards the rest of them soon; I don't think anyone else is going to write themselves into our battle against the SGD pursuers of Miho. Or wait a little longer. I don't really care either way - I haven't planned anything for my character until we start attacking Dom's office itself, so just write me in wherever if you guys have something planned.]
Glump
OOC - I'd be replying to 'Kaiser's post, but I think Garran should probably be unconscious for at least a little while - he's had quite the ordeal. ^_^;;
Derian Hatcheter
I drove the "borrowed" jeep through the rubble filled streets, bouncing around the foot marks left behind by rent-a-zilla. It was slow going, and was going to take linger than I had thought.
Wangus rode in the pasanger seat, and the green-eyed guy sat in back. Both had their weapons pointed outward.
The zombie hoard had been following us for a while, but now had disappeared.
"Where'd they go?" I asked.
"They will wait until I summon them," BGmaster replied.
"Sega's that way," Said Wangus, pointing a left turn, up ahead. Sure enough, the 'zilla prints went around that corner. And then through a building. And another.
Moving over to the next street, I went parallel to the line of destruction, until we reached a Kikoman plant. There, rent-a-zilla had his head buried into a silo, chewing happily.
We drove closer. "Is this a bad time?" I called to the rest of our party.
"We're not going any where for a while," said Phaedrus.
DietWaterCzar casually pointed his pistol at us. Specifically at BGmaster. "Who's he?"
"Another one of Miho's poeple," said Wangus. "He helped us fight the SGD troops."
"Where's Bill and Quinn?" I called.
"Hunting a sniper."
"Oh, wonderful." [sarcasm] "If you're gonna be busy, we may as well go scout ahead..."
I was unable to finish that, because Rent-a-zilla had raised his head out of the silo.
In a deap voice (reminiscient of James Earl Jones as Darth Vader), he spoke.
"What are you saying? Has something happened to Kimiko-sama?"
What the...
G.Kaiser
* i plant Garren's body on the neck of the Lizard*
Watch him Czar.
*noticing that there were only a few miho soldiers i grab my boot knife adn jump off the lizard's neck*
Shit this was a bad idea!
*I place my knife in position of the first soldier to the neck of the zilla*
Shrrrrrsh
*The soilder face and neck were slit i grab his backup (a colt.45)and fire a few rounds into the soldier to his right*
Damn it jammed.
* I drop the pistl and pick up the the M4 carbin the soldier i just shot dropped. and i grab his clips and his shell pack*
this will do. Czar and you guys get out of here and ill handle this!
*i run and hide behind a van parked on the curb, and reach down in the pack.*
Here we go
*i grab a 40mm shell and load it into the bottom launcher. Icreep my finger to the sencound trigger*
Come and get it you basterds!
*i yell as i stand up and fire the shell*
Boom!
*Crap i hit the the silo's* Damnit*isay as the silo falls on the silo*
That was cool
*i need to catch up to czar and them but i need to get to Mike's place and pick up some weapons*
*I quickly hot wire the van and i drive it down the street*
*I walk in to the bar full of dead body's a Women with a metal chin had just shot mike*
You bitch!
*yell as i shoot her in the back of the head and sparks fly i releize she was a doll*
*i would miss mike a good supplyer of info and weapons. I think as i oipen the door to the store room*
CynSwash
Ed and I rush down the hall, taking out guard dogs, zombie troopers, and vibrating sheep as we go. This is one of the few times I'm thankfull for cinematic reloads. Ed seems to know where he's going, so I follow him through the twisting corridors.
"So where are we, anyway?" I manage to ask while we take a pause to check our weapons.
"Dom's underground stronghold beneath the Sega compound. If he's anywhere, it'll be down here."
"Great. Any idea where he'd keep prisoners?"
Ed gave me a skeptical look. "Prisoners? What do we care about them for, anyway?"
"The reason is I'm looking for Kimiko. Apparently Dom's kidnapped her, though we're not sure why."
"Oh, ok. Well I only care about dealing with Dom, but if I know him, he'll keep Kimiko nearby just so he can gloat about his terribly evil plan."
Just then, a group of zombies burst around the corner. Ed lays into them with his shotgun while I roll under his line of fire, popping up in a zombies face to deal bladed destruction with my rapier. The zombies don't take very long.
Ed pops extra shells into his SPAS. "Come on, we've got a few floors to go up. We probably don't have much time."
"Really," I say as I wipe the gore off my sword, "Why didn't we just warp in there in the first place? I thought you were used to this?"
"Hey! Where's the fun in that?" He called back to me as he ran up the flight of stairs. With a shrug and a sigh, I took off after him.
Quinn
[ooc] ... continuing ... [/ooc]
I scurried behind an air vent, moderately amazed that Latency
hadn't gotten another shot off. Then the 'zilla spoke: "... saying? Has
something happened to Kimiko-sama?"
If /that/ didn't startle Latency, nothing would, and so I leaned around the vent to find that she's vanished. Rule number one: don't let an MDK get near you. I sprinted northward, leaping the narrow alley onto a fire escape. Rule number two: don't let an MDK get a clear shot at you. I clubbed glass out of the way with my rifle butt and ducked inside an apartment, empty save for photographs spread around a telephone sitting on the rug. Odd, but I shot out the door lock and ran down the hallway, past the elevator, skittering to a stop before looking out the window. Rule number three: an MDK knows where you're going. Turning back, I saw the stairwell, and rolled a grenade down... caught my breath... and ran down the first three steps as the explosion echoed, M4 sweeping. Nothing. Motion on the ground floor got a burst, and I'm knocked sideways, into the wall, by the fringe of shotgun blast. What game was she playing? An apartment building... no time to think, she's probably in the elevators already. I ran down a flight and fire a burst toward the elevator, just in case, but there's nothing there. Since I'd just broken the window, I skittered down the fire escape on the north side of the building and turned left, towards the hotel, mowing down an SGD squad before they even know I'm there, and into an alley, where I crouched behind a dumpster to reload. I checked the skyline, and decided I'm better off inside, so I kicked the delivery entrance to an arcade open. An apartment building, a shotgun, a quickly aborted sniper attempt -- what game was she playing?
My musings are interrupted by Latency emptying her shotgun's magazine into the front wall and windows of the arcade. "_Quinn!" Wow... a beautiful contralto who can pronounce my name right... I must be living right. "I know you're in there!"
By way of reply, I tossed out an EMP grenade, waited for the lights to flicker, and scooted back out the door I'd just kicked in, firing my deagle left handed and blind as I head north, further down the alley. She wouldn't have been hurt by the pulse -- far too much warning for that -- but she couldn't move and power her Faraday cage at the same time. I turn the corner, left again, and reload my deagle as I look for more favorable ground.
[ooc] ... still not ready to rejoin the group! More soon. :) [/ooc]
-_Quinn
G.Kaiser
* i grab some weapons and ammo,(note weaponlist to long to do gun, so heres the list)
weapon list
1 CR6724
2 Commando RO933
4 .50 Destert Eagle
4 Glock 19(the only gun that can fire in space :) )
2 Beretta 9mm 92FS
3 IMI Uzi 9mm
4 Carbine LE6920
6 M4 Carbine R0977
1 M4 Carbine R0977 with M203 grenade launcher
1 PKT 20mm Machine gun
*I grab a bottle of black label and light a smoke as i finish loading the stuff in the van*
What a day
*i get in the van pop the bottle open take a siip and drive towards sega*
I pass the zilla*
Hey meet me at sega weapons are in the back!
*i yell at the guys *
* get to sega headcourters and leave a not on the van. i hear fire! i grab my guns and run to the main lobby and start fireing at the gaurds*
shit i need to get to dom's office
* i manage to get to the 3rd level with bullets wizzing by my head. i fire back*
click click click
damn im empty
* quickly reload and kick open the door to dom's office i person was siiting in his chair. i walk over *
Its a manakin!
beeep beep beep
its a bomb
* yell as i run out the door*
Boom!
I lie there in the hall luckly not wounded i stand up and start firing as the gaurds running up the stairs*
Phaedrus
quote:
*I grab a bottle of black label and light a smoke as i finish loading the stuff in the van*
What a day
*i get in the van pop the bottle open take a siip and drive towards sega*
I pass the zilla*
Hey meet me at sega weapons are in the back!
Phaedrus yells down:
KAISER! FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SMOKING WHEN GOING BEHIND RENT-A-ZILLA! TRUST ME ON THIS!
G.Kaiser
*OOC i was in the van i dont think that would light his methan up*
Phaedrus
OK, BUT FOR GHOD'S SAKE, KEEP THE WINDOWS ROLLED UP!
G.Kaiser
*OOC no worrys im in sega headcouters now waiting for you guys weapons are in the back of the van oh when you get there bring me my bottle of whiskey i dont wanna die with out a last drink*
Derian Hatcheter
[OOC]I'm getting outta work earlier, won't contribute again until late tonight, if I'm lucky (home computer is out right now). Anyways, keep my character involved for me, please? Thanks.
I look forward to what will happen here [I]almost[I] as much as tonights comic.. [OOC]
DietWaterCzar
[Damn a lot has happened]
Before Tragic Bill [ooc] Bill's been rather absent huh? [/ooc] could answer my question the Rent-a-zilla lurched forward, tore into a silo and began feasting on soy. I see Garran fall into the silo and I start to run toward him when I see _Quinn run up. He began asking Phaedrus a question when I saw something and pointed my Desert Eagle at the snipe I saw in the distance. Suddenly my Gold plated Desert Eagle was gone. It wasn't some literary inspired reality shift; it was some sort of long-range energy weapon. _Quinn and I talked about who shot at us, and _Quinn said something about latency and dolls or something and went off to find the person who had shot at us. In the confusion Tragic Bill had disappeared. I looked at the molten hunk of metal that was one my gun and threw it off. Damn I liked that gun.
I make my way back toward the head of the rent-a-zilla to help Garran when I suddenly hear a deep guttural voice say, "What are you saying? Has something happened to Kimiko-sama?"
Someone other than ME calling Kimiko-sama, Kimiko-sama?
I notice that the voice is coming from the rent-a-zilla. A very strange development indeed. As I reach the opening of the silo Kaiser, apparently unfazed by the development of a talking dinosaur, suddenly runs up, jumps in, and pulls Garran out of the silo and rests him next to me.
"Watch him, Czar." Kaiser instructs, as he looks around frantically before dropping down, firing at some SGD soldiers and runs off to God-knows-where.
Did he just give me an order? I ponder the actions of our very hyper new companion when the Rent-a-zilla begins talking again.
"I'm terribly, terribly sorry for almost eating your friend. It's just that these soybeans are just exquisite! I really doubted I'd find such food over in this war torn little burg." states the well-spoken behemoth.
"Uh huh.... Why are you TALKING?!?!? And for that matter, what do you know of Kimiko-sama? But firstly, why are you TALKING?!?!?"
"That's an extremely rude and ignorant assumption! Just because I'm large monster does not mean I don't have a mind! I simply don't talk most of the time, because it's not what the customers want. Crush this, destroy that. It simply serves the job better for me not to talk. I only chose to talk this time because your friend mentioned Kimiko-sama before he fainted. I am simply an IMMENSE fan of hers!" explained the beast, making me wonder if the "IMMENSE" part was a pun or not.
"Really, now? I guess we can be on good terms then."
"Ahhhh.... I think not. I'd rather not further sully my monstrous reputation, by befriending YOU, Mister Apocalyptic-damn-near-destroyed-the-world-demon-mutating-psycho!"
"What? I'll kick your ass, you stupid talking barney thing!!!"
"Yes.... THAT was an intelligent response...."
"I'm inclined to agree." said Garran as he regained consciousness. "As strange as it is to be talking to a dinosaur, I'm honored to be with someone who has a level head, since I'm stuck with Czar again."
"BAH! Forget you two! All that I'm concerned with is saving Kimiko-sama!" I declare with much agitation.
"Kimiko-sama is in trouble? How horrendous!" mused the beast.
"Yeah, so far, we know that Dom is behind it. But right now I'm more concerned with the bastard that actually took my Kimiko-sama. I have to kill that guy myself."
"VorpalBlade? But, he is a Miho-cultist with access to many unearthly powers. You're skilled and extremely dangerous Czar, but how do you expect to deal with that?" Garran asked me.
I stood silent. There was only one thing I could think of.
"You can't possible be thinking of doing THAT?!? You prove even more that you are an ignorant, mentally unstable individual!" exclaimed the shocked beast.
"Czar...." Garran said as he sat up to get a better look at me "Firstly, you still don't even know HOW to trigger a transformation. Secondly, when we started this journey, you said you wanted to change. Now granted, we are in a dangerous situation, and violence may be required at times, but if you do what you are thinking you will be doing exactly what you wanted to avoid."
I stood silent again. I then closed my eyes and pictured my Kimiko-sama.
"Fear not the creature.
Kimiko is on my mind.
My idol, my rock."
I didn't look back at Garran, so I didn't see his expression. I didn't know if what I said made sense or was any good for a haiku, but I didn't care. Kimiko-sama was the only important thing.
"Hey did we ever figure out where I as getting those bouts of inspiration from?" I asked Garran
"No."
"Just checking."
I saw Wangus, Hatcheter, and some new guy pull up in a jeep. The new guy is an imposing looking figure. Large, armored, and with some strange thing on his forehead. I wondered what Pirogoeth would think of this guys get up. Phaedrus got back from where he was and told the others that we wouldn't be going anywhere for a while. They asked me about _Quinn and Bill, and they told me the new guy was a Miho-cultist.
Well, wasn't our party growing big and grand?
Suddenly, Kaiser drove past wildly in a van and started yelling about going in already. Hyper, AND reckless, I could grow to like the new guy.
Phaedrus then yelled something back to Kaiser about methane.
Methane?
"Uh, �Zilla? How much did you eat?"
G.Kaiser
*I contuined fireing at the guards*
Damn i cnat contnue like this i almost out of clips damn.
*i stand up and dive into Dom's charred office*
this otta by me some time
*i reach into my shell pack, i grab a smoke shell and a 40mm shell. i quickly load the shell in*
Shweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
*as the smoke filled the hall i run out and fire the secound shell*
Booooom!
* when the smoke cleared i saw him, the poor son of a bitch was burned and his torso was blown of*
hehehe i almost fill sorry for you kid
*i place my barrel on he head*
it will be over soon kid
brzzzzzz brzzzzzzzzz
All soldiers report to the loading area dom wants us to move out, brzzzzzzz Kimiko has been safely exstacted.
well looks like you became usefull kid
tss tss tss
* i blew the kids head off it was for the better*
well time for me to get going
mlamdin
[OOC - come on, guys, let's keep this thing going!]
I looked over my new comrades. It seemed that all of them were Kimiko fans - powerful ones. No matter. I was here to clear up the whole kidnapping situation and remove all blame from Miho, and we were allied with the Kimiko fans to do it. From what I'd seen, they were all good fighters. DietWaterCzar intrigued me the most. He had also had some sort of uncontrolled transformation... perhaps Kimiko could help him control it, though I doubted it. Miho's dark arts gave her the power to give me control of my new abilities.
That voice again... "Ahahaha! But do you have control? Do you? HAHAHA!" I did my best to shut it out, and it faded to a whisper in the back of my mind.
Then I sensed something. Another sniper was preparing a shot from a nearby apartment building. I could have dodged, but didn't consider it necessary. A bullet slammed into my head as I pinpointed his exact location, failing to have any effect on me at all. The others had various reactions, mostly along the lines of 'Damn, another sniper!' I had to give them credit - they found the guy about as quickly as I had. They began to raise guns, but I waved them down.
"I've got him." And then I concentrated. A bright green flare shot from my eyes, then was gone as quickly as it had come. The sniper, preparing for another shot, noticed too late the blade that had come into existence behind him. A brief curtailed scream was all that was heard as it cut him in half, then vanished.
I recieved some strange stares from the others. "What the hell was that?"
"A useful power. I have a number of them. Summoning disembodied blades is only one." My eyes seemed to glow even brighter.
Derian voiced what I'm sure all of the others were thinking. "Shrugging off sniper rounds to the head? Summoning and controlling disembodied blades? What ARE you?"
I looked around. "I don't really know - but I'm on your side. Miho-sama needs to be cleared in this mess. I think you'll find me useful in destroying Dom. You have nothing to fear from me."
The others returned to their previous tasks, but cast surreptitious glances at me from time to time.
And that voice in my head again. "Nothing to fear? Really? They have much to fear... and fear is power!" I muted it again, but it was beginning to get on my nerves... why was it still there?
Quinn
[OOC: did I misremember something? Wasn't Tragic the one using a deagle to pick off snipers on the way here? /OOC]
Echo stops firing his railgun as the last of the SGD forces disperse -- driven off by his defenses, called back to defend the Sega building, attack the stalled RaZ, or just out of ammunition, he neither knew nor cared. "Ping?" No response.
Turning, he found her looking out the east side of the hotel; and looking for what so fascinated her, saw the Man From Sony trading shots with Latency. He watched the beauty of _Quinn's tracers and the elegance of Latency's motion until his combat systems interrupted with an analysis: the Man From Sony had just found Latency's mode.
"Ping, we're in trouble." _Quinn paused, turned and fired a long burst from his oddly-large carbine blind around a corner, catching Latency twice, chewing away at her spectra shield vest. Latency, enraged, chased him around it, and ran smack into an EMP grenade. "Ping, we need to leave." Echo looked away from the fight... Ping was already gone.
... smack into my EMP grenade. Her emotion engine would be shielded, and her nerves were fiber-optic, but it would take time to reset her actuators, reinitialize the swapfiles... time she didn't have. I hold her head close with my left hand, and dropping my M4, pull off my shades with the right. "Mode 7. Verify and execute."
Hardwired DSPs open relays in her enourmous brown eyes, and I hold mine open against the itching of the infared lasers on my retinas... and the access port along her jaw pops open. The diagnostic mode would force her interlocks closed, and back to merely human, but she was recovering quickly from the EMP... so quickly that I had to drop my shades and back away to empty my desert eagle into her right leg, dropping her in her tracks... and she twists, reaching for my M4, and I kick her in the small of the back, which does little except hurt my foot and make what may be the last action of my life totally futile.
Flat on her back, but pointing my rifle at me, Latency smiles, and strokes the trigger... click. My turn to smile, as I snake my right hand forward, holding an iLink plug... click. Diagnostic routines flood her systems with non-maskable interrupts, reducing her struggles to jerky parodies of animatronics, which I easily fend off while entering the code-sequence for backup and purge... and hit enter. Latency twitches as her memories drain into the memory sticks woven into my armor... which is growing warm. Far warmer than it should be, and growing painful. I crouch down, lay my armor on the ground, and notice, as I reclaim my other equipment, that Latency's dynamic mode selector jumps out of mode seven for an instant. And a second later, as I more hurriedly reload, again -- for a little bit longer.
I realize the problem: "She's overclocked!" She starts to make brief snippets of noise, like a 64 kbps mp3 played at 320... high-speed sound of anger and desperation and fear and love and ambition, trying to burn out the emotion engine powering the backup and purge. I continue to back away, aiming at her left eye, torn: what if the memory sticks don't know where Kimiko is yet? And then I realize: I can't trust anything on those sticks, since I can't tell who wrote to it last.
I fire twice, and Latency dies a second and true death, and far louder than anything merely mortal, HIDOI! echoes from behind me, and I turn, knowing that it's far too late to stop Ping as she screams HIDOI DESU! and raises a hand that I've seen bend sheet metal into cranes to slap me upside the head, and so as it whistles towards me, I whisper: Kimi-chan...
[ooc: I do have one last post in this series, but this is a good point for a dramatic pause, and to cut-away to progress being made toward the Boss Fight with Dom. /ooc]
-_Quinn
DietWaterCzar
quote:
Originally posted by Quinn:
[OOC: did I misremember something? Wasn't Tragic the one using a deagle to pick off snipers on the way here? /OOC]
OOC:
That was me my friend.
G.Kaiser
Bravo Bravo your a true soldier
*i say as i smile reaching for a smoke*
You want one?
Ypi know something i wouldnt have guessed you had the guts even tho she was a doll she had senteint she could feel pain.
ah what am i saying its was buetiful.
*i take a puff from my smoke*
Dom is at the loading platform you sould get down there he'll be leaving any minute Kimiko
has been exstracted to god knows where it wasnt miho after all.
come on we need to hurry dont worry i wont hurt you.
* i take one last puff and put out the butt as i begin to walk to the loading dock*
Wangus
In the vehicle with Hatcheter and our new Mihoist "friend", I listened in on the conversation between Hatcheter and those still on the zilla.
Then I saw something completely unbelievable. I could hear a so called "silenced" bullet shot from above and before I knew it, the bullet had hit its target. I turn to see our Mihoist and see the bullet lodged in his forehead. While the others had their weapons pointed at the direction of the sniper, I watched him.
"I've got him," He said. That was followed by a glass shattering scream. After the exclamations from our group died down, the Miho-cultist spoke.
"A useful power. I have a number of them. Summoning disembodied blades is only one." After a couple of gawking stares, Hatcheter asks,
"Shrugging off sniper rounds to the head? Summoning and controlling disembodied blades? What ARE you?" I thought to myself, really, what are you?
"I don't really know - but I'm on your side. Miho-sama needs to be cleared in this mess. I think you'll find me useful in destroying Dom. You have nothing to fear from me." He spoke with authority. Yet something in my mind yelled at me. Something that powerful should never be trusted, Wangus. Just remember your brother... Yes, that was true. My brother followed some mystic lost art, it's in our heritage blood, but I always thought the talent would be better used to following today's technology.
I decide to finally speak. "We really do need that zilla, try to see what it'll do. We'll try to see what's up ahead. Conversation.....er.." I look at the miho-cultist and those on the rent-a-zilla, "well, shouldn't be a big problem."
I talk quieter to Hatcheter, "We better get going, let's see if we can save that fool Kaiser. He's got guns true, but powers like these can't even be compared too. Besides, I like to keep things as bloodless as possible."
"You?" Hatcheter looks at me and almost laughs. "After our last little battle?"
I sighed, "I meant bloodless for our side." I grinned. Hatcheter hit's the gas and we start rolling towards the towering building.
"Where do you think she is?" Hatcheter asked.
"I really don't know." But my mind really wasn't on that. The little speaker in my head began again. It cleared its throat (so I thought) and said one word, ERIKA
G.Kaiser
Hey i guys i managed not to get shot umm i dont know who the guy in there is but he disposed a doll farly well.
Dom had Kimiko exstacted i dont know where hes at the loading platform with his private gaurde lets grab the guns in the van.
Oh and i wouldnt go in there alot of dismebered bodys and not quit sturdy i used to many Shells in ther hehehe.
come on you guys
*i walk towards the van waiting for the guys on the zilla*
JRandomLurker
-- With our two Himitsu Desu suits --
[setting] We're going back a couple of minutes to catch up with what the agents have been doing all this time. Rent-A-Zilla is just now approaching the soybean silos [/setting]
Takahashi and Ishikari hung onto the armor plates near the base of Rent-A-Zilla's tail, firing at anyone threatening who dared approach too close. The rest of the agents had spread out into surrounding streets on word from surveillence that attackers were coming in from all sides, leaving them to ensure the safety of the party of heros closer to the reptile's head. They were the agency's best hope of recovering Kimiko and restoring peace. Those on top of the reptile had left them pretty well alone, which they didn't mind. They worked alone most of the time anyway. And the best way for them to ensure the success of the mission was to stay back here and help hold off the attackers that were approaching.
Takahashi looked over at Ishikara, somewhat amused. A radio call had just come in. The agents had encountered a wave of the reported attackers, discovering they were SGD troops in the process. The agents had managed to hold off about half their numbers, but many broke through. Soon, they were appearing from side streets, taking shots at the 'Zilla. The two agents did the best they could from atop a giant, swaying reptile. And they did quite well, really. They had trained to compensate their shots for all sorts of interference, including firing from atop a monster attacking Japan. This sort of thing was common, so the government demanded they be prepared.
The others on the top of the 'Zilla noticed the SGD, and two of them came sliding down the tail of the monster, passed the two agents without even seeing them, and onto the ground in their midst. Despite the number of SGDs who attacked, the two, and a third who appeared in a column of green light, held their own. The two agents glanced at each other, impressed. But they also decided to stay with the great beast and provide tail cover (so to speak). The beast lumbered on for half a mile before stopping suddenly. Ishikari looked over at Takahashi quizzically. Takahashi pulled out a small pair of binoculars and peered at what lie ahead. Fear siezed him.
"Up the back, NOW!" screamed Takahashi in a panic, dragging his partner along with him. The tail of a dinosaur had suddenly become a *very* unfavorable place to be.
Unfortunately, in their hurry, they failed to notice several SGD troops, apparently cosplaying as Mihoists [!OOC:--these are the guys Kaiser was fighting when he jumped off 'Zilla--]. A sniper blew a hole right through Ishikari as they ran up the scaly backbone, sending him falling to the ground. Takahashi secured a climbing wire from his watch [!--OOC: gotta love the spy-tech--] and followed. He whipped out his weapons and fired enough shots into the midst of the SGDs to distract them, before dragging his wounded partner behind a building.
Ishikari stared up at his friend. What the hell was Takahashi doing? He should be fighting the SGDs!
<I'll get you to a med station first.> Takahashi said aloud.
<Dammit, would you look where I'm shot?> Ishikari fired back. Takahashi looked. The left side of the chest, clear through. Ishikari lifted his shoulder up to show the exit wound, which was also quite visible. Takahashi was terribly confused.
<You... should be dead...> he stammered. But no answer came. Ishikari had passed out, but he was still breathing. Takahashi shook his head, dragged Ishikari to a parked car, broke in, and left his partner in the passanger seat. Why, he wondered, was his friend's heart still beating? He hotwired it with practiced ease and took off for the nearest med-station. An SGD trooper was foolish enough to get in the way of the car, but not foolish enough to get up afterwards.
-- Back to Echo we go, for one more round of random shooting and internal monologue! --
[setting] We're caught back up with the rest of the story now... Continuing directly from _Quinn's post. [/setting]
Echo looked around, searching for Ping. Oh God. Where had she gone? His sister was back in control of her own mind! Where the hell had she gone? He searched around frantically, whipped open the door to the room, and screamed her name out into the hall.
<Piiiiiiiiiing!>. Other parts of his Shounen programming had kicked in... The desperate, protect-those-you-love parts. Logic wasn't highly emphasized in this mode.
Then he paused, struggled to get ahold of himself... and checked his email. She *always* wrote him when she went somewhere. ^_^ He smiled at the thought, and since he was connected to the 'net, the keyboard took notice.
Sure enough, there was a note there. It read:
quote:
<Onii-sama, I've gone to help Latency, but I'll be back soon.
Don't worry.
-- Ping>
Echo tensed. She had gone to fight The Man From Sony?
That was when an IM summons ding sounded in his head. He impatiently clicked on his 'net connection again and read what had been sent to him. It was from one of the guards in the bunker under the Anna Millers adjacent to the hotel. D*mnit! Dom had somehow stolen his *last* playing card, too! Kimiko was gone! Dom had beaten him at every game he had tried to play! Why was he still attacking? Perhaps he just planned to destroy them for interfering. Then it hit him. Dom didn't care that they *technically* had Kimiko. He took her right when he needed her. But renegade or not, Echo and his sister were still Sony. Dom would destroy them if he could. And right now, with Echo's dwindling forces holed up in an increasingly rickety building, it certainly looked like he could.
He paused, mildly frightened. Who to deal with first, Dom or _Quinn? Fear twittered in his circuits. Then he rushed blindly ahead, unthinking. Shounen EDS did not have time for fear.
[!--OOC:
_Quinn: I was gonna get Ping out of the hotel for you, but it seems you already did. Nice work. I'm not sure where Echo is headed now... do you think you could take care of him, too? Or perhaps trigger a mode-select, a la anime-esque villian redemption? <shrug> I'll leave it to your muse.
VorpalBlade: I had established earlier that Echo was *technically* the one who had kidnapped Kimiko first. But Dom had been playing him for a fool the whole time, probably even commanding the real loyalty of Echo's troops... So you just walked in and took Kimiko, like you knew you could... But if you have any objections to such a plot development, I'm perfectly willing to edit my posts.
As for Ishikara, he's out of commision, and I'll take care of him at some later point (I'm setting up for a *reeeealy* dumb gag ^_^ ). Takahashi, on the other hand, will get his partner to a med station and then rush back to the battle. He'll be acting slightly more off-the-handle now that his balancing yin is gone, but use him as you wish. My time for posting tonight is already past ^_^;;;
--]
Quinn
OOC:
OK, I've edited for consistency, so that DWC saves my ass from Latency.
Derian, you need to alter one of your posts a bit, when you ask where _Quinn and Bill are: I went off alone, so either ask about me alone or fiddle with the answer. DWC, I think you can basically replace the whole first paragraph of one of yours with a line like: "Damn. I hate it when I have to replace a deagle."
JR: nicely done. I liked it.
quote:
Originally posted by JR Lurker:
Or perhaps trigger a mode-select, a la anime-esque villian redemption?
I do have plans for Echo, but not way you might think. Read below.
/OOC
-_Quinn
vorpal
<ooc> BGmaster:we're too powerful! not fair to the others. we power down a bit 'kay?
I knelt before my Lord.
VB:What is thy bidding, Master?
D:What kept you? There is a great disturbance.
VB:I have felt it.
D:We have new enemies.
VB:Yes, my master.
D:They could destroy us.
VB:They are just children.
D:Your brother must not be allowed to become a dark knight.
VB:If they could be turned, they would be powerful allies.
D:Yes, YES. They would be a great asset. Can it be done?
VB:They will join us, or die.
<ooc>everybody knows what i'm setting this up for, rite?^_^
btw, if anyone wants to blow up zilla, should be soon cos his rental's expiring.
also, i billed all charges to the church of miho <wink>
G.Kaiser
Ill meet you at the van, oh here this might help you out
*he tosses a leather back book that seems older then dirt*
I found it in dom's office before it blew.
Ill meet you at the van.
wizardofkitty
I was unsure of what to do but I decided to follow Phaedrus and his zilla from a distance. I heard something about methane and the ability to create an explosion with lighting up something. I pondered for a moment and figured that it's probably a strange l33t largo person or someone close to largo-kun.
"let's see...dom, miho, ed, ping, and piro. hmm...I'm going to assume that this is not a zilla of the piroists and just send a fireball at it." I thought.
Standing and waiting for a while so that I was at a pretty far distance, I threw a fireball at the back of the zilla and ducked for cover.
[ooc] I dont really care if there's an explosion, for all I would care, I could of missed by a mile. ^^;; so you guys choose while I chill to do my hw again. [/ooc]
mlamdin
[OOC - VorpalBlade: True, we are getting too powerful. I think as long as we don't really use it against the other characters or do anything too ridiculous with it it should be ok for now. But yeah, bringing it down a bit might be a good idea. On the other hand, you do realise that I'm not entirely stable right now, correct? Heh. Should be interesting later... oh, and we should meet sometime soon, y'know? Argh, my next post needs to be a reactionary one but there's nothing to react to right now...]
G.Kaiser
Look out!
*kaiser Quickly fires a shell still in the chamber at the fireball, causing it to detenate oveer the guys on the zilla's back*
Are you ok any one hurt?
*who did that he looks over to the fireing direction*
DietWaterCzar
OOC:
Kaiser, you're making posts too short again.
Quinn, I've been on the zilla the whole time, relativly close to the head.
Vorpal and BGM, the power thing have some negating factor, you still remember that my character is THE most Kimiko obsessed character here, what I did last time, and that I'm the most crazy about killing Vorpal.
Also I'm assuming that you are refering to BGM when you say convert a dark knight? So that unstable thing works into that right?
G.Kaiser
* OOC battery on my laptop died and sent it automaticlly*
Quinn
[OOC: OK, DWC, thanks, I'll edit for that soon.]
No, Shounen EDS did not have time to fear for themselves, but as Latency died, Echo found time to fear for Ping...
Echo announced his entry with a resounding palm-on-palm block of his little sister's slap. He shook his head: "You would've killed him."
Ping made fists down at her sides and stared back defiantly. "He killed Latency! For good!"
"And if you'd killed him, would Sony give you a second chance? And how many men would they send? Latency was built to fight, and look what just one did to her."
I sat down quickly -- a SSSS man never collapses -- and let the adrenaline drain away. Echo would take me apart before I finished exhaling, if I so much as breathed in the wrong direction. "I'm sorry, Ping." She ignored me. "That was her second chance." I gestured at what remains of her curves. "Just look at her -- why would we build an MDK model that would attract so much attention?"
Echo looks her over, shakes his head. "I don't get it."
I (slowly) pulled the memory cards out of my armor, and tossed them toward Ping, who, somewhat unwillingly, caught them. "She was a factory reject."
Fascinated, perhaps morbidly, perhaps in spite of herself, Ping looked at Latency more closely. "She was... an H model?"
I smiled. "She was supposed to be a j-pop idol."
Echo breathed the name: "Kimiko..."
Ping blinked her big, pretty eyes: "Kimiko?"
I look up at Echo. "Do you know where she is?"
He looks at Ping, and they visibly come to a decision. "No. We haven't seen her."
Ping looks puzzled: "But why did Kimiko vanish for so long?"
Echo and I exchange glances, and speak simultaneously: "Can you sing?"
-_Quinn
Wangus
OOC:
Um... I don't know for a fact... but I would expect blowing up the zilla while people are on top would be the best of ways to go. Just IMHO.
A couple of things...
BGMaster & VorpalBlade: I really think you should do as you like. The only reason I never write characters with such immense powers is because I can't write consitantly with the others, but you both have been doing pretty well so far. <bows>. Besides, we can we what's wrong with BGMaster (though I must admit, the word Bhaal makes me reflect on Diablo II, not Baulder's Gate).
Lastly, my creative juices are kinda dead while I study notes about a Spanish novel writer, I KNOW that I'll make at least one post tonight. Oh, and when should we do the showdown? we could always postpone it to the weekend ( I have a feeling I'm going to be shot for saying that) or just do it now if we have the people....
Wangus
G.Kaiser
* OOC do it on th weekend because i cant post alte at night i have to sleep physics test saterday i have too study all night*
wizardofkitty
[ooc] *quickly glances at a gun* nah. I'm not that cruel...but on the weekend ok, but PLEASE! not saturday! ^^;; I have colorguard to do all afternoon and night on saturday, sunday, ok, friday, I can handle it. ^^;; so you guys just choose because I'm undecisive. [/ooc]
mlamdin
[OOC - Weekend = Good. I can generally only post at night, but I could spare a few hours on the weekend to do the big showdown. This is fun! Wangus - glad you think I'm doing a good job with the superpowered char. I ran a D+D campaign of supercharacters for about a year so I have experience *groans*. I'll try to keep it up.
Someone do something interesting around Rent-a-Zilla!]
Phaedrus
quote:
Originally posted by WizardOfKitty:
"let's see...dom, miho, ed, ping, and piro. hmm...I'm going to assume that this is not a zilla of the piroists and just send a fireball at it." I thought.
Standing and waiting for a while so that I was at a pretty far distance, I threw a fireball at the back of the zilla and ducked for cover.
The fireball moved deceptively slowly, but the Nekowizard's aim was true. We had plenty of time to cringe and imagine what was about to happen...
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...but Kaiser's shell deflected it at the last minute. We all breathed a sigh of relief.
Kaiser, obviously proud of the fine marksmanship, pulled out a large cigar, snipped off the end, and "flicked his bic".
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Spewing flames like an F-16 on full afterburners, lizard and crew flew towards the Sega building at about mach 0.8
G.Kaiser
sunday shall be the showdown shunday after noone or evening is the bets for me
Wangus
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Spewing flames like an F-16 on full afterburners, lizard and crew flew towards the Sega building at about mach 0.8
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TOO GOOD! ROFLMAO! Just the "crew" can land safely (or not if they want). MAJOR props to you, Phaedrus!!
<goes back to study with a tear in his eye>
Quinn
[OOC:
Indeed, mad props to Phaedrus. :)
Weekend works for me. I can work on backstory -- my character is basically done. I think it would be better to leave Dom to the super-powered characters, rather than try to come up with something for me to do.
As for loose ends: I think Echo, in the classic villian way, is going to want to make himself scarce. (So he can start the third fanwar, if necessary. :)) Ping's taken a lot of shocks recently; I think she might stay in little-sister mode, and let Echo take care of things. But JR should be able to wrap things up there.
If keeping Latency around for later is useful, someone other than _Quinn can notice a suspicous-looking stack of iPods stashed away somewhere. (After the final battle, I would think.)
/ooc]
-_Quinn
G.Kaiser
*i was waiting for them to land near the van aperring going very fast but i managed to get there just before them*
hello weapons are in the back
*looks over at the back of the van open with guns and exsplosives hanging out*
*i take a puff of my cigar and i take a swig of whiskey*
*Garran looks at me*
What im not dieing sober.
grab what you can the platform isnt too far dom's chopper already left but we need to grab one to and follow him and try to destroy his weapon stuck pile and rumage thru his computer file before they torch the place.
*i take another swig and puts out the but*
Come on lets get moving
Wangus
OOC: (yes, I know, I'm not studying. Miguel de Unamuno can wait.)
Weekend is good. Since, it'll take a while, we'll probably need a good chunk of the weekend. Once we have everyone in place (or lack thereof), then I'm with _Quinn. I'm going to try to clear up my character, and hopefully (it'll be hard though) to try to get Erika in somehow, as she was the reason I came. But if I don't, no biggie (did I just use the word 'biggie'?).
Tragic Bill
+ VOICEOVER +
Sorry, I've either been busy, or haven't know what to say.
- Tragic Bill has somehow gotten seperated from the rest of his group.In the midst of battle with the forces of the villanous ShirtGuyDom, he let his disguise of unnoticing drop. Seven jumpsuited SGD Merceneries surround Tragic Bill, and having no firearm himself, he "simply" swings his sythe aroung. Bullets richochetting from the blade strike the soldiers in turn, toppling them -
Whew......
- Turning to find the others, Bill comes face to face with one remaining soldier -
I must have miscounted....
"By order of Shirt Guy Dom, I demand you give me the Necrowombicon."
- The soldier promptly shoots the Mihoist President, pulling the black book from his dead hands as a pool of black, vaguely toxic looking blood spreads out around the fallen raver -
"Dom will be pleased. I may even get a promotion!"
- Taking a moment to study the book, the soldier notes a black silk bookmark inserted somewhere near the book's center -
"I wonder what sort of powerful spell we've got here.."
- Upon opening the book, the soldier screams and is engulfed in a darm miasma. He is drawn into the page, the book slams shut in mid air and falls to the ground with a heavy THUMP. Tragic Bill sits up in his own pool of blood, grinning evilly. He stands up and bends to pick up the Necrowombicon, shaking his head sadly -
Will they never learn?
+ VOICEOVER +
I need some direction to travel in here!
mlamdin
[OOC - Finally! Something interesting! Nice job, Phaedrus! ROTFL - I was hoping the methane would go off...]
As the fireball had approached, I hadn't really been worried. It couldn't touch me. But the others... I prepared to stop it, but Kaiser's shot deflected it. Good aim. And then... Amazing. They managed to stop with about 6 feet to spare. I guess Rent-a-Zilla comes with pretty good brakes. I figured they were probably shaken but OK.
Looking past them, I caught a glimpse of what looked like VorpalBlade and Dom boarding some sort of vehicle. I thought about teleporting to them, but decided it wouldn't work in that kind of debris zone.
Instead I attempted to reach out with my mind, hoping that being in sight of each other would be enough.
'VorpalBlade. Traitor and fellow reciever of favor from a Main Character, though Miho is more powerful than Dom. You are indeed a fool. Why did you betray us? And where is Kimiko? Miho-sama is not pleased.'
I didn't expect direct answers, especially not to the last one, but I hoped that contact would be made. My work for Miho would benefit greatly if I could contact the only man who was a significant threat besides Dom.
[OOC - I'm going to bed now, so... VorpalBlade, feel free to respond (or not). Anyone else, if you think you need to use my character, go ahead. I'll probably be back tomorrow night.]
DietWaterCzar
OOC:
everyone keeps saying weekend yet we get more posts....
Also It's not exactly applicable that everyone else is a Kimiko-fanboy. That term applies to Hatcheter and I. Garran and Phaedrus have a soft spot for Kimiko, but are more or less neutural. Cyn is under direction of Erika. Himitsu Desu guys are.... Himitsu Desu. Wangus is unaffiliated, but summoned by Erika.
Quinn: I just checked the post you edited, you didn't have to change that. Bill's got necrowombicon powers again, he could have made the deagle appear. I liked that gun :(.
wizardofkitty
sorry. didnt fit in with everything else and was a little close to the 9/11 thing. -.-;;;
Phaedrus
"Zilla DO SOMETHING!"
"I'm trying!"
[slow motion]
[voice over]
For the next scene, imagine a 1500 ton house cat, chasing an imaginary mouse at mach 0.8 over high traction carpet. The carpet suddenly ends, depositing said 1500 ton house cat on highly polished linoleum floor.
[/voice over]
[/slow motion]
Rent-a-zilla scrambled desperately with all four gigantic claw-encrusted paws as we careened towards the Sega enclosure.
We came to a screetching halt about 6 feet from the building.
Tragic Bill
It's fine DietWaterCzar, I prefer bladed weapons to guns anyway. I'll just stick to my sythe and the 'wombicon.
G.Kaiser
*as i walk to the platform about half there i stopped to wait for them behind the corner of the building*
Halt!*someone yell*
*Suddenly 6 armored gaurd surrond me*
I surrender
*2gaurds come to disarm me bad mistake*
hehehe
*i jump up. i smash both there plexie glass shield over there helmets with my elbow shattering glass in the eye*
surrender *one gaurd yells*
*i grab the two bleeding gaurds throats i lift them off the ground and crush the throats and throw them towards the other four gaurds*
* i grab my boot knife and side step behind the lead gaurd and stabs him at the base of the neck*
the other gaurds firing throw him porr basterd
*i toss him their way and i stab the on to my right in the stomach and procede to gut him splattering blood on my face*
*i pull out my python and shoot threw th last two's plexi glass shields blowing their off face's*
Hurry up!
DietWaterCzar
I still liked that gun....
What to do with that now....
We need to tell actually tell each other if we edit past posts now.
Quinn
[OOC:
DWC: if you're talking about your Deagle, I assumed you always carried a number of spares in hammerspace and/or operating under the 'dramatic ammunition' rules. If you'd prefer losing the skin off the back of your hand -- or some such similar -- let me know. :)
Phaedrus: I'll be delighted to learn how I escaped from Echo & Ping and beat you all to the Sega building. :)
Wangus: May I offer a suggestion?
Watching Kimiko get hauled around like a particularly kaiwaii sack of grain, Erika thought: Sometimes I wonder why I bother. With a dramatic and eye-catching sigh, Erika speed-dials her cellphone: 1-800-ASK-FRED. "Yeah. I'll need a well-timed power outage about fifteen minutes from now and a set of lockpicks. No, I can get myself there. Thanks."
/OOC]
-_Quinn
wizardofkitty
[ooc] arg! now I'm confused! ^^;; okie, someone please explain now because I think I have to change my last post...-.-;; being lost no phun...[/ooc]
vorpal
<ooc>it was pretty wierd. i started off as a nice and normal anime character^_^
it got scary when people started saying i was dom powered and invincible :P
No showdown yet, but pretty soon, i guess. We need to finish this</ooc>
I step forward slightly, but Lord Dom shakes his head. Reluctantly, I hold back.
"We shall meet again soon.
By the way, please inform the treasurer that he owes 3,000,000 yen + damages to the city + damages to zilla to monsters inc."
I grinned happilly. Lord Dom had planned everything perfectly. I wasn't worried too much about the loss of a quarter of the SGD corps. I'd fully insured them, and the Sega building against monster damage. Also, i'd bought a whole bunch of shares for Tokyo Reconstruction Inc, oil and precious metals. We expected to get a profit of 20 million yen, enough to finance the operation for some time, so this day's events had been off little consequence to our organisation."
"We've got to go before HE arrives, so if you don't mind, goodbye."
<ooc>HE refers to Ed. Lord Dom does not allow the mention of his name anywhere near him."
DietWaterCzar
[ooc]OK! Pause for a second! No new developments!
In your next reply, tell everything that you character is doing right now! After things get fixed then we continue.[/ooc]
G.Kaiser
**Dom heres the coversation as he walk in the cell block* not knowing i had a informent place a bug on him i listen in*
Dom:Now now that cant happen first off we run on genertors here and uor lock picks wont work on a key card and keypad doors.
Dom: Those little lacky's off fred wont save you. This is my sweet reveange on fred for not devolping my character more i will take megatokyo over and you little folloers can do nothing to stop me.
bring bring bring
Dom:Hello
Kaiser: long time no see dom
Dom: hehehe speaking of the devil himself so kaiser you betrey sega joing Piro's gaurd what do you want now.
Kaiser: Just to let you know we will take kimiko back
Dom:well see will see ................
Damnit he hung up
Kaiser's pda:trace could not be complete
G.Kaiser
oops sorry i was wrighting when you posted ok Kaiser just killed some gaurds is waiting for you guys bugging dom called dom tried to trace dom dom hung up to soon trace copuld not be completed
Quinn
[OOC:
Echo and I are waiting for Ping to answer the question, "Can you sing?" in a fairly wide alley one block north and two or so blocks west of where the 'Zilla was eating the soybeans.
Or -- through means currently unknown -- I'm waiting on the steps of the Sega for Phaedrus to tell me why it took so long for them to get there.
Hopefully, my last post for the night. :)
/ooc]
-_Quinn
Phaedrus
quote:
Phaedrus: I'll be delighted to learn how I escaped from Echo & Ping and beat you all to the Sega building.
Oops. I thought your whole battle was taking place in the Sega building. Me bad.
But the line is so good! Who's at the Sega building now? Someone has to be there!
Tragic Bill
I'm in some alley and am trying to find everyone.
Wangus
OOC: Sorry, wanted to add my own version of what happened to me on the explosion. Thanks for adding me though, BGMaster.
Fanfic time
The noise was deafining. Something bad was coming especially when the Miho-cultist looked a little worried. The truck lifted and all three of us flew out.
Instincts kicked in, I flipped out my blade and both scythes came out. I looked over to the Miho-cultist, he already landed, but he looked fine. I glanced to my other side and I noticed Hatcheter had his hockey stick out as well.
Oddly enough, we both slammed our weapons down against the ground and used the slightly extra stability to flip and orient ourselves while we headed toward the wall. We hit the wall at the same time, a little harder than I was hoping for, but you can't be picky. I threw my scythe in the air right before full impact and I tucked and rolled right. I didn't have time to see Hatcheter.
I landed from the roll on my feet. I looked over and saw Hatcheter right next to me grinning. Apparently, anyone watching would have found that extremely well performed, almost like a double gymnastics routine.
I nonchalantly stuck my hand out in front of me as Hatcheter did the same. Both weapons fell at the same time.... but to the wrong owners. A little embarassed, we switched weapons and proceeded to the Miho-cultist who seemed concentrated on something far far away.
OOC: again
Hatcheter, I hope you don't mind me using your Character so much in that last post. I just thought it was a little interesting and you don't have to worry about writing what happened to you. If it's not IC, just ask me to change it.
vorpal
<ooc>
anybody got a suggestion for a fitting place to stage the Final Showdown TM?
</ooc>
DietWaterCzar
What I am doing:
oops should have mentioned motivation too.
I may or may not have lost my deagle.
I am extrenely pissed at VorpalBlade for kidnapping Kimiko. At this point I don't care if the Miho-ists would want to do it themselves. In my Character's mind : NO ONE TOUCHES MY KIMIKO-SAMA!
Whether or not Vorpal actually did is not relevant, I think he has. And from an earlier post you have said that Vorpal does have Kimiko right now.
I don't know how powerful Vorpal is. I'm assuming he is so powerful, that I will have to find a way to trigger my demon form that almost destroyed the world in the last war to fight him.
I as talking to Garran about how the source of my haiku inspiration that led us north had not been revealed.
We also talk about how my character is still looking for redemption in the eyes of Kimiko, and how I think that thought may keep me in control of my demon for if I do trigger it.
I was on the TALKING rent-a-zilla when it did it's rocket powered gas emmision.
Wangus
OOC:
Sorry Czar. Though my last post was just to stretch my creative mind, not really any new developments.
I took the liberty to put Hatcheter and I next to the Miho-cultist (BGMaster). He just talked telepathically to Vorpal. Remember, I really have little clue about the fanboy wars, but I do my jobs right.
_Quinn: I see where you're going. Thanks. We'll try to work this in if we can.
Phaedrus
[ooc]
_Quinn, you're back in the alley. Sorry, bud.
I'm on top of 'zilla with DWC, and I think Garran is still with us.
I'm pretty sure the Desu heat, or at least the ambulatory one is about half way up zilla's back.
And like everyone else, RL Phaedrus is now going to bed. See you guys anon.
[/ooc]
vorpal
(Deleted post)
G.Kaiser
*OOC well i have to sleep i have class early tommrow my Dude is a NPC now take good care of him ;) *
vorpal
I turned my head before entering the Orca
"Don't even think about it DWCzar."
I patted the extremely booooring and useless Kimiko on her head, just because it annoyed DWCzar no end.
I could see something rippling under his skin.
"Do it and You'll fry Kimiko. Would you be able to live with yourself after that? So starnge, that someone so powerful could worship someone so useless. "
It had been wise to bring her along as a hostage. She was their weak point.
<ooc>don't be mad^_^ it's just my character who doesn't like Kimiko</ooc>
Wangus
OOC:
Hmm.. I thought we had a pause?
Anyway, with the rest of the gang in the US, this'll be my last post. After I get ready for bed, I'll check again to see if anything really important needs to be addressed. If not, then see you tomorrow.
Wangus
"jubliation...she loves me again!"
wizardofkitty
[ooc] okie, ignore my last rpg mode post. ^^;; actually, I'll make it easier, bai bai to that post. nothing really interacted with it anyway...[/ooc]
I watched a bunch of crazy things happened to where I chucked the fireball. Later than what I expected but at least I survived. "Yay! Now to find the others who are against Piro-sama!" I ran over to a very small dot that apparently is a building. ^^;;
[ooc] that should be it for now. be back tomorrow. ~.' [/ooc]
DietWaterCzar
Ok I'm with Wangus right now. I have a test that I really need to study for right now.
Can we please all agree to pause for tonight?
The fanboy universe isn't going anywhere it'll be here tommorrow.
As for you Vorpal
Character: >:(
Ok that it's for now. :P
CynSwash
[OOC]
Ok guys, I'll get back to my little side piece later, but I hope it jives with the rest of you. I am enjoying this....
VorpalB, your posts give me some ideas. No final battle stuff, but definitely some coolness....})
[/OOC]
Derian Hatcheter
[OOC] I'm back now. Hmm...looks like some interesting stuff has happened. I'll go with it. BTW, about trying to finish this out, I could easily do it saturday, since I will be at my computer at work all day. I have Friday and Sunday off though, so you guys will have to take care of my character if it happens then.
Just let me get in one good hip check. ;) [OOC]
[Going back a bit]:
I has just started to drive forward, when a fireball appeared in my rear view mirror. Objects in mirror most certainly are closer than they appear. I had enough nod my head forward, making sure my helmet's visor was low enough to protect my eyes.
The blast lifted the jeep, tossing us out of it. Wangus and I flew parallel, both doing the same thing. We drew our weapons, his a scythe, mine a hockey stick. Slamming them on the ground, we put ourselevs into a controlled roll. We both hit, rolled out, and came to our feet.
In perfect syncronization we reach forward for the falling weapons. I put my hand out and grasped...
...a scythe? D'OH!
Trading weapons, we turned to BGmaster. His eyes were distant, unfocused. His lips moved, but no words came out.
The adrenaline rush from the acrobatics had kicked my L33+ up another notch. I could sense the darkly-cute, and the 3v1l, both in BGmaster. And they weren't getting along very well.
Looking in the same dirrection as him, I saw the Sega building, about three blocks away. In front of it was rent-a-zilla, his passengers still atop, his back toward us.
There was a deep rumble, and a blast of hot, yellow air washed over us.
"OH, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD...' I screamed, grabing my nose and squeezing as hard as I could. Wangus smiled slightly, and put on a gas mask.
A moment later, a deep, echoing "Sorry" floated down the block.
[OOC]Okay, thats enogh for me, for now. 'Night folks. Oh, BTW, you do have a gas mask, right Wangus?[/OOC]
Wangus
OOC:
<yawn, early morning>
yep, always a necesity.
CynSwash
Dom turned to VorpalBlade. "He is coming. Deal with it while I prepare for the others."
"Yes, my master." VorpalBlade rose from his place beside Dom, and strode out of the room.
*ba-doom*
Ed fired another shotgun blast, wiping out a second horde of zombies. My P220's cleared out the few sheep that had moved up behind us.
"We must be getting close," Ed said, loading in more shells, "The high amount of zombies along with that save point we passed kind of indicated a boss was coming up."
"Yeah, you're probably right. Lets keep going." We turned to continue our march up the stairs when a low, evil chuckle echoed out from the shadows ahead of us. Stepping out of the gloom was a man in a black cloak and armed with a wicked looking bastard sword that had one edge sharpened to a fine edge whilst the other was serrated.
"Halt fiends," he called, "Master Dom has instructed me to deal with you. Prepare to taste the power of VorpalBlade."
Ed threw him a derisive look. "Whatever," he growled as he opened up with a slug. In a blinding flash of speed, VorpalBlade's sword intercepted the bullet, causing it to bounce off with a resounding clang.
Ed and I exchanged glances. "Right. Power. Ed, I'll deal with him. Just keep going." With that, I holstered my Sigs and drew my rapier. It seemed a little inadequate to the task ahead, but I had to buy Ed some time.
"Fools!" cried VorpalBlade as he launched himself at Ed, swinging his sword in a viscious arc. I tumbled under his sword and hooked my foot around his ankle. The ensuing trip disrupted his swing, forcing him to roll past Ed. VorpalBlade came out of his roll standing, his sword at the ready and his eyes glaring at me.
Ed took off running towards the next room. VorpalBlade made a move to pursue him, but I leaped in front of him, my rapier held out in standard fencing posture and my trench coat fluttering out behind me.
"Come on pal. Lets go"
[OOC]
Hate to leave it here, but I do have work to do. VB, if you want to run with it, go ahead, just don't kill either of us off before the final battle. })
[/OOC]
Quinn
[OOC:
I've got it! A solution Phaedrus' and Wangus' problem! Suggested edit follows:
Erika looked up. "Took you guys long enough."
Possible variant:
Erika looked up. "Fanboys. Are you always late?"
/OOC]
-_Quinn
Phaedrus
quote:
Originally posted by Quinn:
I've got it! A solution Phaedrus' and Wangus' problem! Suggested edit follows:
Erika looked up. "Took you guys long enough."
]
Works for me and lets me use that line I liked, but I defer to Wangus. He needs Erika for his plotline, but I'm not sure WHERE he needs her. The disdainful tone is perfect from Erika's lips.
Am I the only one having (embarassing)trouble keeping track of all the subplots?
I see at least two other inconsistencies I allowed to creep into the plot. Respective authors are welcome to seek redress; I'm happy to edit:
1. I had Derian readjust my mallet grip, then shook his hand, when on re-reading I see he was off in battle elsewhere. Gomenasai! I chose you at the time because of your expertise with the hockey stick. Fixed: removed that exchange. (I originally put it in just because neither I nor my avatar have any skills in sports...)
2. When Kaiser deflected the fireball, I subsequently gave him action (and consequences) that implicitly implies he's quite close to 'Zilla. However, other posts explicitly put him at the Sega building.
In my mind, 'Zilla (was) still at quite a distance from Sega; a shot fired from that distance would be unlikely to connect, and I think I mentally translated him much closer.
My picture of the ballistics here have WizardOfKitty behind 'zilla but at relatively close range, and standing on the ground (is that right?). The fireball gets tossed, then Kaiser intercepts. For a clear shot, I'm picturing Kaiser needing to be off to the side, and fairly close by.
Kaiser - do you want me strike the spark some other way, or did you like the moment? I thought it worked out well with your character, since the smokes seem to be a signature characteristic of your avatar. Maybe you drove back to see what was keeping us so long? Your call.
Left standing. I think I understood Kaiser saying he buys the "drove back" scenerio, and WizardOfKitty buying the location I'd pictured. Correct me if I'm wrong, either of you.
I guess the high level message here is that the administrative posts folks are doing to resynchronize everyone's picture of location / current goals are valuble before we start up the final confrontation.
DietWaterCzar
Hey guys, be back in a couple of hours.
Phaedrus you seem to have a good grasp of what I was thinking when I asked for the pause. Maybe you can try and do a general summary of everyones positions and actions which we will use as a main template to wokr with so as to fix up a good re-start position?
Where is VorpalBlade now? I was under the impression that he was with Dom getting on an escape vehical of sorts when BGMaster did his telepathy thingy.
Of course that entire part can be rendered moot if we really do pick a point before when I asked for the first pause.
squee
If you're wondering about the flames aimed at me below, just picture a peaceful ending to this conflict, then picture what that means to people who don't want the war to end cos they're enjoying themselves... :)
squee
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I'll eat some worms.
Derian Hatcheter
It's not a war, it's a rescue operation! ;)
I don't want to flame you here, squee, but I do have to point out that a lot of people probably won't be real happy with that.
Tragic Bill
- Still armed with the sythe and Necrowombicon and covered in his black blood. Nods in agreement -
Wangus
OOC:
I generaly DON'T flame, so I'm not going to be mean. However, is just a story, war or not. We've got a last battle coming up, and I bet that most of us are trying to think of a nice way to end it as it's been going so well so far.
Also in general, being that we're near the end of our story, I don't think new characters should be entered unless someone takes the role of a main MT character (though I don't know everyone's opinion on that, personally, I'm kinda against it).
Since we're on standstill, I'll be thinking about my little meeting with Erika.
Wangus
Aeonus
I agree. That kind of Deus Ex Machina is not the way this should end. Besides, Miho didn't start it. Reports vary, but Echo, VorpalBlade, or Dom did.
(My character's gonna be pissed he missed this. He left to adventure off in parts unknown after the 1st Fanboy war and isn't back yet. Just in case anybody wanted to know why I haven't been participating)
Phaedrus
Just to chip in one more opinion:
For whatever it's worth, I kind of share squee's (apparent) discomfort with some of the violent sub-plots...
BUT
As long as the mods don't have a problem, I think there's room enough for a range of tastes.
Hey, it's a big universe. I'm having a grand old time in a relatively peaceful slapstick subplot. The one time I asked for rewrite was when BGMaster moved my subplot a little too violent for my personal taste. (It was a perfectly natural extension of where I left off, just not the direction I wanted to go.)
I think the one thing we all need to keep sacrosanct is to not mess with the canonical MT characters. Piro has asked we don't do that, and I feel we absolutely have to respect his wishes. If we invoke one of the MT regulars as a NPC, it's critical that we keep them in character as defined by Piro, et al.
Tragic Bill
I think we should finish this one up, then give it a rest for a while. The Mihoists are going to have to hold an Evil Bake Sale or something to raise the money to fix up the place!
G.Kaiser
*OOC ok i think i was the last new character to enter and i think no more should enter not because im being a selfish person but because its almost come to an end. And i think you should delate that post before you piss alot of ppl off you didnt even post anything before or made a character up.
Yes i do smoke in real life and i took the van.
I have a question i posted dom and kimiko being in a in different building and dom in a helicopter why are they still in sega?*
*oh one of my friends a frequent MT reader had been following this fanfic thread and said is aid do something mean to sqee*
*i walk slowly behing sqee and place my barrel to the base of his skull*
B4K4
*the next thing you know hes dead*
DietWaterCzar
Guess I have to uninstall CS and my RTS's.
Yes I do know that it's very different, calm down.
This was already coming to an end, one more page is most likely. I respect you opinion and understand where your coming from. I personally don't want to watch the news anymore. This was escapism for me. True the subject is kinda similiar to life but it isn't life.
For the most part I've been trying to walk a thin line between funny and violent. Though I'll admit that I fail a LOT of the time, especially when I go into melodrama mode. But my intention has always been to end this on a happy note (not like last time).
Anyway, whatever is decided, we continue, we stop, mods intervene. Whatever, it's fine.
As for if we start again, I've been intrigued with doing a prequel of sorts. I've really grown to like my character and the Rent-a-zilla. It'd be kinda cool to see their origins.
quote:
*oh one of my friends a frequent MT reader had been following this fanfic thread and said is aid do something mean to sqee*
*i walk slowly behing sqee and place my barrel to the base of his skull*
B4K4
*the next thing you know hes dead*
:( + <IMG SRC="images/icons/crazy.gif" border="0">
G.Kaiser
*OOC Im mad at squee so is my friend Klexxer
so he asked me to kill him in a post being a good friend i did.
I know my character is voilent 99.9% of the time but it reflects my personalty. Now i dont go shooting ppl in real life im in a band finishing school.*
wizardofkitty
[ooc] hmm...phaedrus view on the whole fireball event is pretty logical. ^^;; I just got confused after that so whatever it is, I probably have to go say 'hi' to the rescue crew or whatever you guys like to call yourselves (personally, I have no hatred to Mihocultists, SGS, or the Yukists.) and I'll probably do something in that last battle.
Maybe we should just start again from the explosion. ~.' [/ooc]
DietWaterCzar
quote:
Originally posted by G.Kaiser:
*OOC Im mad at squee so is my friend Klexxer
I know my character is voilent 99.9% of the time but it reflects my personalty. Now i dont go shooting ppl in real life im in a band finishing school.*
so he asked me to kill him in a post being a good friend i did.
I'm not so disappointed in the fact that you shot him. It's the fact that it seemed like, "I don't agree with this guys opinion, do something mean to him!"
G.Kaiser
*OOC thats klexxer for you plus he sent me 3 mp3s for it so i Had to*
mlamdin
Gomen, gomen about my last post. Just fixed it - sorry, Phaedrus. I got a bit carried away in the whole 'Zilla thing, and figured it would be appropriate for a Zilla to destroy the building. I feel a bit like an insensative jerk right now.
Maybe we should start over from the whole explosion - it would clear some stuff up and I think the story worked a bit more continuously beforehand. I personally don't have a heck of a lot I want to do, but there are a few loose ends I need to tie up before we start the final showdown (there must be a showdown - I have something really cool planned!) (whenever it is).
Anyone else agree? Disagree?
JRandomLurker
Wow. It's been an interesting time while I was off in sheet-metal land. ^_^;;;
As for my characters, Ishikari *was* shot off the 'Zilla, and Takahashi drove him to a med station (that's the obvious part). I was assuming, however, that Takahashi was still gone when the 'Zilla took off... No-one had mentioned him since my last post, at least. But I suppose he could have been back by the time of launch, though he's going to want to connect with everyone else, now that his partner isn't with him. And even if he isn't with the other group, he knows MegaTokyo very well, and he was driving to the med facility in a fairly sporty sedan... ^_^
As for Echo, he's right where _Quinn said he is. Though, _Quinn, I'm afraid you're gonna have to hit me over the head with a baka mallet and give me a few hints as to your plans. If you could private-UBB-message and/or email ( <A HREF="mailto:meta4mix@crosswinds.net">meta4mix@crosswinds.net</A> ) me, please? I came up with some good stuff at work today to put our little sub-group through, and it would would provide a good way to get us from the alley we're in to the Sega building and caught up with the rest of the characters. But I want to make sure we can get all your stuff w/ Ping and such out first.
As for violence, I've been kinda (unconsiously) keeping my stuff about on par with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... being one of my favorite books (not to mention a favorite writing style). I wonder why war, fighting, or searching/questing is always the most popular RPG subject, tho? Maybe because it's the easiest to write?
Regarding a showdown, Sunday afternoon/night is great for me. Takahashi will be along for backup, I assume. Echo may or may not be helping or hindering, also, depending on how things work out between him and _Quinn.
Finally, about resetting to the time of the explosion, I have no problems with it. All my ideas work in either situation.
And now it's time for me to dash hurriedly off to class. Be back in a few hours!
Just so you know, I'm probably gonna be absent if there is an rpgIII (regardless of weather it's violent, tame, or somewhere in between)... My family is starting to wonder about me & how much time I'm spending online ^_^;;;; And it's killing my schoolwork, too.
Wangus
OOC:
As most of you can tell, I really enjoy comical undertones with my character, sometimes so much that I leave out action. As DWCzar, I've really grown to like my character. ^_^.
I'm kinda neutral about returning to the explosion, it's up to the rest of you. I'd just like to keep the little scene where Hatcheter and I "traded" weapons.
Oh, and to J Random Lurker. I don't know about the rest of the people here. But I haven't used your characters because there really isn't much to write on and I don't want to completely do something off his objectives.
Lastly, I think people write joint (and that's the all important word here) fanfic RPG threads as war/fighting/search/etc because it's the best way for many people to join in one plot. With suspense stories and whatnot, most people will be writing with some finalized surprise ending or matchup that makes it impossible for the other writes to use that character. Just IMHO again.
I'm glad for the pause to see what everyone is thinking. Considering how large this topic has become, I think the final showdown will have its own personal topic. Kinda sweet and appropriate when you think about it.
Oh, sorry again, but to those of you who are reading, these things aren't meant to be offensive! I, and I believe the majority of us here, just enjoy writing together with other people. We can take from each other's ideas and present new ones. If the topic starts out as war, we prefer to stay on topic.
Hm... kinda like a rant... <shudders>
Wangus
G.Kaiser
OOC: ok im on my laptop and its on the cord so i can stay on now. I vote yesto start from where i shot the fireball*
vorpal
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just for the record, dom and i are running off now, not cos we,re scared of u, but cos dom doesn't want to fight u, and Ed at the same time^_^
</ooc>
G.Kaiser
OOC: Ok dom is not in the airship(giant helicopter) like i posted grr i hate when ppl change other ppls post after the fact its been there for almost a day arggggg*
mlamdin
[OOC - Ok, ok, let's see if I have this somewhat straight.
G. Kaiser, Ed, Cynical Swashbuckler - in Sony Building.
Dom and VorpalBlade - escaped in some sort of vehicle (argument as to what).
Kimiko - kidnapped, at undisclosed location known only by above pair of villians.
Phaedrus, Garran, DWC, other various Rent-a-Zilla crew members - on top of Zilla about 6 feet from Sony building.
Myself, Wangus, Derian - down the street from them standing near our wrecked vehicle while I attempt to unsuccessfully contact VorpalBlade telepathically (maybe his vehicle blocks it or something).
_Quinn, Lurker, Tragic Bill, various others - out somewhere in the streets; will join up with the guys at Sony soon.
This is mostly from memory, so please, correct me if necessary. I think we should use this (plus corrections) as a starting point for everyone when we have our next round of story posts.]
Edit: Well, I'm an idiot. Typed Sega instead of Sony. Oops.
Wangus
OOC:
I think I ought to mention something right now. I really really appreciate all the help with trying to help me tie in Erika into the story for me. In truth, I thought I'd have a few more posts in the beginning to meet up with Erika, but I felt that I had to join the group at the time I did to actually get in the story (thank god I did). So as of now, Erika is really a secondary objective to me.
My plans? Well, if someone does decide to include Erika, and I'm thinking the most likely possiblities would be Phaedrus or Cyn, then I'd probably do a quick meeting between us. I'm really leaning towards making a nice, well-written topic which has the conversation between Erika and my character. This would be done after our story was finished, and I would just elude back to it. Erika was a way for my character to have reason to stay in the MT world instead of flying back (and than back to MT to do the next story). I suppose I'd be wasting a lot of money on plane tickets...
Anyway, just my idea, still kinda lost on it.
Wangus
DietWaterCzar
Ok most of that sounds right....
Kaiser can we asume that you had somehow made it back a considerable distance to get back to the rent-a-zilla (I'm naming that guy soon) to shoot the fireball away?
So Vorpal and Dom are escaping in something? We're disregarding Cyn's little fight? If we do, Cyn, you can find a way to move it later, rather intact.
Himitsu Desu guys are dealing with injury and trying to make it back?
Echo and _Quinn fighting? Tragic Bill is somewhere trying to find everybody?
I've lost my deagle I guess.... Gonna go edit for that now. _Quinn could you also get rid of the thing about me pulling a gun out of nowhere? If I had a supply, I wouldn't have had to steal from corpses earlier. Derian, you know I'll be asking for that Enforcer.
Also re-enlighten me on how Echo and company fit into this again?
assume that devolopments after this:
quote:
[ooc]OK! Pause for a second! No new developments!
In your next reply, tell everything that you character is doing right now! After things get fixed then we continue.[/ooc]
have not happened? Those who did stuff after that that you want to use don't worry. You can reuse them, when it fits back into what we set back up.
Anything else?
Glump
OOC: Eep! A whole bunch of stuff!
I've been prohibited, both in convenience and mental state, from spending too much time on the forums for the past day or so via various RL stuff; my apologies. Luckily, it seems my absense at no point became an insurmountable obstacle. ^_^;;
On deus ex machina, I agree that I'd prefer to avoid it as much as possible this time. The end of the first war was basically everyone's deus crashing their respective machina, and while it was kind of goofily fun, and did manage to stay dramatically consistant, I think it kind of cut off the story quicker and less interestingly than I might have liked. Given how altogether more coherent and involved this one has been, I'd like to have the PCs work through their problems themselves, if possible.
So, my vote on squee's post is 'no'.
Now, on the violence issue in general, I think we've done pretty well in keeping it from becoming a mindless bloodbath, though there's a lot of various weaponry flying around. It might be worth thinking about as we approach the final showdown to introduce challenges and situations that don't need to be and/or cannot be solved with guns... Although to tell the truth, as I think about this point, I don't think it's lost on you guys as it is anyway. I have a fair amount of faith in the authors in this group, from what's happened so far.
I'm a little tired. ^_^;; I'll leave it to you to decipher whether this is coherent, and await the return to storyspace.
Glump
Oh, and Garran is upon Rent-a-Zilla, covered in soy; I think he was revived to provide exposition for DietWaterCzar, so he's conscious. He's mostly trying to stay alive and try and help as many other people as possible stay alive with the ultimate goal of keeping Kimiko alive, and comfortable.
He is also, at some level, terribly excited, likening this to an epic poem or something, though he likely feels somewhat sheepish about that, given all the suffering that's been involved; but he is part of a party on a quest to save an idol-goddess from a villainous overlord, what could be cooler than that? ^_^ As such, he may be inclined to take certain risks if it seems dramatically appropriate - but this would have to be done somewhat subtly.
vorpal
we're running off in an orca. Kimiko's slung over my shoulder, so don't shoot or she buys it!
Glump
quote:
Originally posted by VorpalBlade:
we're running off in an orca
A killer whale? o.o How does that work?
vorpal
erm orca as in orca bomber ^_^
so watch out cos we'll be passing by on a run
CynSwash
[admin]
quote:
Originally posted by DietWaterCzar:
So Vorpal and Dom are escaping in something? We're disregarding Cyn's little fight? If we do, Cyn, you can find a way to move it later, rather intact.
My assumption is that once VBlade and Dom escape, Dom sends him to intercept me with Ed. The fight in my post ensues. I hope that all works out, 'cause I think it can provide super coolness for the two of us.
DietWaterCzar
Vorpal: Ok, where are you at? Taking off from the Sega building? Also where is Wang, BGM, and Derian? Are you begining to take off when the gas explosion blows the rent-a-zilla and the jeep toward the sega building. DOES the explosion bring the jeep there? Bringing the jeep there, so BGM does his telepathy thing as you are about to take off from the building is what's going on in my mind.
Cyn: Well if they are escaping in a plane, that provides a few problems for consistency in that post. From my understanding, you and Ed were fighting to Dom's office from inside the Sega building. Don't worry though, you can still keep that fight intact we just have to move it a bit.
Wangus
OOC:
Hatcheter, the miho-cultist (BGMaster), and I are right next the to building. At least, that's what I thought. Now, we're kinda lost on what to do (also considering the fact that we're on a pause, I'm probably asking Hatcheter to give me some hockey tips). ^_^
Anything else? If not, time for me to sleep again.
Wangus
Derian Hatcheter
[OOC] The way I wrote my last "story" entry, we landed just a few blocks away from the Sega building. Far enough so that were not "there", but close enough for rent-a-zilla to gas us. (laugh emoticon)
Currently, my character is trying not to breath.
Wangus: It turns out that I was thinking of Quinn when I gave you a gas mask. It was he who entered the story wearing one. Glad one of us still has sinuses, though.
And yeah, I could show you all kinds of neat things to do with you're stick. ;)
See tripping, hooking, slashing, high sticking, spearing, and crosschecking.
DietWaterCzar: You can have an Enforcer when we meet up, next.
VorpalBlade: You gonna do anything with the Star Wars stuff you threw in?
It actually gave me an idea for a crazy sort of hostage negotiation situation, spoofing another movie. It may not be that funny, or may not work out, we'll see.
Otherwise, I do want this to complete. It's been a lot of fun for me, reading you guys' posts, and trying to make my own contibutions as well. [/OOC]
squee
Since it seems the war will not end quietly, perhaps it is time for my character to enter. (After all, if I can't end the war with Miho, you guys have to allow me to try with someone else - Queslin :) )
A hand under a piece of building twitches. There is so much rubble above, it looks impossible for whoever it belongs to to get free. There is a whimper of pain as a stray cat bites down on the little finger.
Queslin feels like she has been trapped here for days, ever since trying to fire an RPG round from her bedroom window on the second floor (damn windowsills). She can see from the light coming through the crack her wrist is holding open that her legs are broken, and she can taste cerebro-spinal fluid coming from somewhere. Her head can't move, it must be trapped under something heavy.
"I seem to no longer have a part in this war", she says to herself, "I don't care who wins right now, but I hope they win soon, I can't survive like this much longer". She starts mumbling to herself, hoping one of the kind, gentle followers of Largo will find her before the pain drives her insane.
As she looks at her free hand, Queslin smiles . The knowledge that if it becomes too much she can end her life reassures her, as the knife gleams sullenly in the gloom. The smile fades as she examines her arm more closely - that sharp bend she notices isn't her elbow, and the white patch on the other side of her arm isn't part of her torn blouse. Queslin SCREAMS in pain as the realisation of her helplessness sets in, alongside the realisation that her arm is broken, that she has less freedom than she thought possible.
The world drops away in her pain, and Queslin loses conciousness. She dreams she is a beautiful, dark girl, with the power to end the war, streaming towards the battlefield in a blaze of light, stopping the battle in heartbeats. The delusion fades away - "what a lame way for a war to end" mumbles Queslin. Queslin is falling again, falling through a blackness deeper than death, wishing to die.
"Such is the plight of the innocents" she hears herself say in a waking nightmare, before she realises with irony that she isn't innocent any more, she tried to fire an RPG out her window!. She imagines she can see the future, a child missing an arm finds her limp hand, gets his friends to help him lift the rubble from her lifeless body, and has seen too much death to be childlike enough to try and wake her. She looks up at him through her dead, closed eyes, and begs him to try, but he can't hear... Won't hear...
Back to the crush of reality, her wrist is hurting again, and her useless, deceitful arm is beginning to feel hot around the nauseatingly unnatural bend. She wishes for a saviour.
[OOC Rant:To those who read and disliked my last story post, those who "hate" me for it, those who would cave in to pressure to "hurt" me for it, and those who just didn't think it was appropriate... Insert the post into the dream sequence in this post... If you couldn't appreciate the last post because of plot constraints, then reconsider it outside of the plot. :) ]
[edit: made sure the rant is titled as such]
DietWaterCzar
Ahhh trying for the dramatic guilt trip thing? It'd make more sense if the actual war being fought with Miho wasn't being fought in quakeworld, and if were fighting somewhere populated.
squee
Dude, if this is strict quakeworld, what the heck is 'Zilla doing here, travelling at mach 0.8?? Geez - it's not like I'm going for dramatic guilt trip, I just like to introduce characters into wars as innocent casualties - it's a great motivator to become a hero... :)
Oh - about those two posts I made involving Miho ending the war...
Given the detail of work going into this forum, I probably deserve a "No, that post didn't happen, cos it ruins the story, sorry dude", but a couple of the flames were a bit over the top and hateful...
This post is just to let the people who were restrained enough to have seen my side of things, and disagreed strongly but peacefully with me, saying "I vote 'no' to squee's post", or "let's just agree it didn't happen", know that I appreciate your restraint and in some cases, support...
I hope one of Largo's followers will rescue Queslin, she is in quite a great deal of pain... :)
DietWaterCzar
Ok before I actually go to sleep now....
The area around Evil Sega's fortess always cames accross to me as a barren jungle of concrete and steel, sorry if someone didn't make that apparent.
I'm also pretty sure you realize that in one way or another SOMEONE's gonna see that as a attempt at a dramatic guilt trip more than me and start spouting reality and fantasy gibberish leading to a big meaningless arguement that doesn't go anywhere and will make this be closed down. Don't tell me that didn't cross your mind.
That's all I'm saying on the matter for now, as I don't want to perpetuate that very situation.
If we get this all organized, Queslin will be incorperated somehow. She ties into Kimiko's beliefs rather well actually. But Meagan may have to become active on this topic to introduce ULF intervention. At least in an "offical" non-character infringing manner.
squee
Right... I re-read the post and I suppose it could be read as a guilt-trip - sorry :)
quote:
I'm also pretty sure you realize that in one way or another SOMEONE's gonna see that as a attempt at a dramatic guilt trip more than me and start spouting reality and fantasy gibberish leading to a big meaningless arguement that doesn't go anywhere and will make this be closed down. Don't tell me that didn't cross your mind.
Quite honestly, it really didn't cross my mind... I was just writing fiction the way I always do - perhaps my muse was being angsty, wanting to write some food for thought, but I certainly didn't want anyone to get all offended... I was upset enough from the last lot of flames I got - I certainly didn't want another batch.
I've edited the story enough that it shouldn't spark any flames, and I've nuked the original two posts...
Phaedrus
squee, I salute your second entrance into the thread, which must have taken some guts after some of the responses to the first one...
We've had more than one awkward entrance to the thread and I'm consistantly impressed by this group's ability to roll with the changes, and show respect for each author's writing and character(s). We may be lobbing around tactical nuclear weapons, but doing so in a friendly way.
I think we all sense the grand finale coming up, and I'm hoping we can go out with a great exit. I'd gently suggest that all PC's make only relatively minor advances to the plot while we together come to a rough consensus/outline as to how we want to bring the ending about. Any ideas?
My contribution: Kimiko walks away unscathed. Or ph34r my p037ry. (laugh emoticon)
Wangus
quote:
My contribution: Kimiko walks away unscathed. (laugh emoticon)
OOC:
........ You know, if she doesn't, I think we're going to have some complaints. I have a strange inner gut feeling that my character is gonna die, or at least be perceived as dead. (Yeah, I know, I have control over it as the writer, but in some ways, I really don't, you know?)
I think some important things need to be addressed: Who's gonna save Kimiko, beat Dom, beat this, beat that... Get all that prepared to a degree so that we don't have five posts saying that each character courageously saved Kimiko or vanquished the evil villian.
<yawn...> too early.
Wangus
Phaedrus
Vorpal Blade, and collected villains:
This might be a good time to express preferences - do you want the ignominious death your heinous crimes so richly deserve, or would you prefer to cravenly crawl away to lick your wounds in secret, and plan further atrocities? B)
Virtuous rescuers: It ain't much of a party without an opponent. Respect the villains' plot needs. I suggest that since they do have possession, they get to pick the location of their ultimate crushing defeat.
Anyone with a plot idea they want in the final scenes, lay out any context you need for your chunk so everyone can make sure and allow for it. Don't necessarily reveal your idea (surprizes are fun!), just the explain the conditions you need to make it happen.
squee
I need someone to rescue Queslin, an ambulance (plus ambulance crew), a medkit, and a pistol. :)
Other than that, I'm ready to go :)
lord_cobrafire
Oy, go away for a while, and everything goes to heck.
All I have is a spare shotgun, but I can get the other stuff for you.
DietWaterCzar
Heh, "virtuous rescuer". That certainly doesn't apply to my character. That's pretty much the point though, as this ordeal is supposed to be a growing point for him, although I think I've strayed from that point at times. He's dealing with his inner demons, which incidentally is manifested in his outer demon, at least that's what I want anyway.
Kimiko is his life, so he NEEDS a major part in rescuing her. He also needs to face VorpalBlade, where I want the conflict of his demons to culminate.
Also, I'd like that source of my inspiration thing plot element tied up. I'd like to see something Garran can come up with as I can only think of Pirogoeth and she's way to overused with my character.
That's pretty much the things I want for my character I guess.
JRandomLurker
Finale plot needs and character roles:
My only idea is for _Quinn, Echo, and Ping, starting from where we are now in the alley, and ending with us at the Sega building, in time for the showdown or any beforehand plot needs.
The only thing I ask for Takahashi is that he survives the battle at least partly in one piece. Other than that, I hereby release him for *any* use. He can run backup and/or assist anyone who may need it, a la the last few episodes of the Tenchi TV series (where all the secondary characters assist in gettting Tenchi to the final battle). I have plans for an epilogue with the agents, but that's it.
Echo, if he ends up in the finale and not running away beforehand, will fulfil the same role as Takahashi: Backing up the main characters. He doesn't have a reason or the power to be able to take out any of the big villians or do anything terribly heroic like saving Kimiko, unless it fits in with plans or ideas one of you has.
Squee's character:
Can't MedAyanamis be used to find her? They're NPCs as far as I can tell... (at least I *hope* they are, as I have plans for one of them in the epilogue). And they're probably scowering the safer parts of the city, looking for survivors. Otherwise, how will one of the heros find *one* particular girl in a huge city so recently destroyed in the First Fanboy War?
Characters:
I probably *didn't* give the rest of you guys much to write with, did I?
With the agents, at least, there never *was* any great depth, I'm afraid... I just continued with the characters I created for my one-shot gag post in the first story (I wonder how many people even noticed that? ^^; ). They are simply two agents working for the MegaTokyo (and the MegaJapan?) government, out to try and restore peace and preserve lives. Their only real trick is talking to each other using glances, or via the narrator. And now that Takahashi is coming back alone, even that trick doesn't apply.
Besides his guns, he's probably got other spy-tech gear that I haven't thought to write in... And I quite honestly don't mind other people picking him up and doing something with him. One of my best gags in another joint-RPG came about because someone established my character as being able to do magic, even though I had specifically planned for him to *never* have magical ability.
Echo I initially created only because VorpalBlade had sent Ping, hardware-modified, to find and kill Kimiko, and none of the characters seemed to be in a very good position to stop her. We didn't even know where Kimiko *was* at that point...
Certain things remained unanswered, though... Especially how either Ping or Echo knew where Kimiko was. Then I started thinking about the backstory, wondering if it really had been Dom who had actually *started* everything, or if he was manipulating others (namely, Echo) to do part of the work. So I envisioned Echo, a naieve young shounen EDS who's programming still had a couple bugs of it's own. Namely, during a cross-compatablility test one day, he played Diablo II as Diablo and absorbed the "evil villian" persona into his own (EDS robots are supposed to do that, right?). Since causing armageddon was a bit out of his league, he naturally wanted to conquor something. Along comes Ping in rejection mode (after the unknown "spaghetti senario" _Quinn had mentioned), and she helps him plan. So Echo raises a small army, of which Ping is the mascott. Like a good villian, Echo stayed hidden to the world for the most part (he even fooled the news media in Karl's original post... ^_^ Though _Quinn knew about him because he was from Sony, too). They kidnap Kimiko and enlist the 1337 to attack the Church of Miho, hoping to destabilize the powers-that-be in MT enough that they can take over. But it turns out that Dom has known about their plans all along (I dunno how). He takes over control of the 1337 (hence, they start attacking us more ferociously), takes Kimiko, and poor Echo's scheme rapidly goes south from there.
Like I said at the end of my last story post, though, this sets a *lot* of the backstory in stone, and I'm willing to change anything if someone else has plans they'd like to do.
As to where Echo is going now, he's been a rather miserable failure as a villian... And Dom is closing in for the kill on him and his sister... Maybe he figures it's time for a change of modes?
Almost The End
Blarg. There's more I wanted to say on various off-topic things, but it can wait. If I've left out any information that others need for planning the end of the story, just ask.
DietWaterCzar
Ahh Echo makes more sense now.
Although, I think that even if my character finds out it was Echo that kidnapped her, it won't matter. My character isn't that sharp and will just see him as a tool used toward and end. VorpalBlade's been the one so far to show insult and mistreatment of Kimiko, so things still go along with my earlier post.
Also I stand by my claim that this conflict is not like the last one so I dunno where Queslin would've gotten hurt if it's recent. You could make her a l337 soldier, or or still unfound victim of the fanboy war. The latter can work well since, it's apparently only been a few days since the fanboy war, and our fights have all been happening in the course of a day.
JRandomLurker
Czar, that's exactly what he was to Dom, a tool.
And it's good to know Echo has at least *some* chance for redemption. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with him just yet, but I'm glad the option exists.
vorpal
hmm... we could run with the old VB throws Dom into the reactor of the Death Star scenario^_^
i guess from now onwards u guys can use my character any way you want cos it would be hard to coordinate amongst so many people who want me dead^_^
just don't do wierd things to my corpse Mihoists...
squee
Queslin remembers back to the day of her 'accident'... All day strange things had been going on, lag, packloss, and weaponspawn delays... She had been crouching in her favourite camping spot, 2nd floor window, she liked to think of it as her 'bedroom' - anyone coming in without her permission had better be able to pray quickly, else they would meet their maker unabsolved... As her friend and teammate Kirikun Riruko crossed the street to fetch more ammo to wait out the lag-induced hostilities, a HUGE monster walked over her, and she lay behind it, unmoving...
Upset beyond words, Queslin didn't even bother to watch her friend long enough to see if she was fragged - she switched to the weapon she facied as the most destructive. She aimed it out her window at the monster, depressed the firing stud, watched in horror as the round hit the sill and woke up as she is now.
Queslin checks out the gap in the rubble by her wrist, and can't see the body of Riruko, so perhaps she still lives... She lets forth a frustrated scream, which oddly seems to be followed by an echo... Finding this grimly amusing, she yells out again, and the echo seems to come sooner - odd! There must be patchy cloud in the sky too, her hand outside the rubble feels warm, then cold, then warm again...
"Hello!" ... "Hello?" - That's funny, a backwards echo, the echo came first... "Are you OK?" ... *grunt* Hmm... Curiouser and curiouser. "Kiru, Satsuke, come help me lift!"... A grin crosses Queslin's face - I'm dreaming again...
Queslin wakes up, notes her legs are splinted and her broken arm is still there, bound to her dirty-looking chest... She sits up, swings her legs off the ambulance cot, offering thanks to the people around her, obviously her saviours... They don't seem to understand... She tries again "7h4/|/|< j00 /=0/2 j00/2 h3|/^", and again they shrug and wave at their ears dumbly. Hmm...
Queslin swears loudly... "I'm offline!!!!"... The medics look on in horror as she stands up on her splinted legs "Hmm, not broken then" and picks up her weapon, smiling... She jumps out the back of the ambulance, performs a flawless roll with the fall, and looks for the cause of the battle.
A strained tune spills forth from her mouth... "There's a bullet in the gun.. There's a fire in your heart.. You will move all mountains that stand in your path"..
Queslin is wearing:
A bloodied black ankle-length dress
A black blouse, with a dark blue skarf
The remains of a pair of headphones around her neck
an over-shoulder sling
a large rocket launcher/rocket propelled grenade (rpg) launcher...
mlamdin
Okay, end plot ideas...
I actually wanted my character to face Dom. I figured that due to his virulent hatred I'd leave VorpalBlade to DWC, but I was thinking something along the lines of 'I manage to banish Dom back to Strange Candy, but in doing so lose control of my Bhaal essence and must be destroyed by someone, either Miho or Pirogoeth.'
My character is very powerful, but he's either going to die or go into stasis of some kind.
If anyone has a problem with any of this, let me know.
wangus
OOC:
Vorpal - you shouldn't leave. I'm know sure if you are or not, but you shouldn't. I don't think we're gonna have five guys trying to kill you. The bad guys are always the hardest to do.....
Wangus
CynSwash
quote:
Originally posted by VorpalBlade:
hmm... we could run with the old VB throws Dom into the reactor of the Death Star scenario^_^
i guess from now onwards u guys can use my character any way you want cos it would be hard to coordinate amongst so many people who want me dead^_^
just don't do wierd things to my corpse Mihoists...
More OOC stuff...
Hey man, I don't want to kill ya', just tryin to up your Bad Ass level. })
It just seems we could have a cool fight scene whilst Ed runs off to face Dom. We could do the old Darth & Emporer thig eventually, but not for a bit. Plus, NO actual MT characters should die (least of all Dom).
Let me know when I can get back to my side story.
G.Kaiser
ok im back from school and glad the new dude got his act together.
Ok awnser my qeustions is kimiko away from dom?
Is dom and vorplablad in sega or did they exscape?
Pleas AIM me for plot ideas about the ending we got till the weekend till the end comes.
oh i want to fight vorpalblade i dreamed up some schemes whill watching and reading spawn last night.
wizardofkitty
[ooc] ok, since I'm not really in the plot. I'm gonna be kind to Squee and just say hi. ^^;; [ooc]
I walked for a while and saw some injured girl walking. "eep, that doesnt look good, I think by the way that person dresses, it's one of those largo followers. Largo is bad to Piro-sama's dictatorship over MT Strips! But then again, largo-kun is Piro-sama's friend, so might as well figure if they're against Piro-sama..."
I came up to Queslin tapping her lightly in the shoulder. "Greetings, are you a follower of Largo-kun?"
[ooc] should stop with strange kid like thinking to some strange formal person and back. '.';;;[/ooc]
DietWaterCzar
Guys, guys! We're on a pause! Pause!
And Squee, that's one hell of a 180.... Was she in quakeworld or in MT? I'm confused. I'm assuming that that was during the fanboy war so the monster had to have been my demon form.
We'll still incorperate.
quote:
Originally posted by BGMaster:
but in doing so lose control...
...must be destroyed by someone, either Miho or Pirogoeth.
Again? I'm sorry I set the precedent for that....
Besides I'd really like this one to have a happy ending.
Still waiting for Quinn's and Tragic Bill's ideas and positions.
If they get back to us tonight give me till tommorrow and I'll try to give us a starting point. Due to all the chaos I'll have to do multiple viewpoints to give us a good idea of what's going on. I'll post it in this thread as a link to a .txt file. Reply if you have a problem with a characterization or plot point. When it's approved we'll start a new topic for the conclusion. Then weekend, late saturday - sunday.
Quinn
[OOC -- of course :)
Sounds like a good plan, DWC. (Just be sure to repost the link, or the file, if it's small enough, in the new thread, as well.) _I_ don't have any plans for my character past the point where he's collapsed after fighting Latency and being saved from Ping by Echo. JR has plans to get the three of them to the Sega building 'on time'; after that, feel free to use _Quinn as necessary, as long as he doesn't get killed. I would suggest sniper work; he's really dragging his ass 'now' (after the "Can YOU sing?" line), and is apparently about to be attacked again.
JR & I are still discussing final dispositions of Echo (and Ping, to a lesser extent), so don't use either of them until JR does his thing, and avoid anything permanent after that; he should post back later tonight with his/our longer-ranger plans/requirements thereof.
/ooc]
-_Quinn
Phaedrus
Character Sheet
Phaedrus
Chaotic-Neutral Poet
Weapons:
* Basically pacifist, uses his rapier wit on most targets.
* Has used a flamingo shaped croquet mallet to attack inanimate objects.
* Is wearing a pack which is larger on the inside than the outside. May extract unlikely objects from the pack for generally incomprehensible aesthetic reasons. It's probably safest not to ask; you know how he gets when given the opportunity to lecture.
Current Status:
Phaedrus is 6 feet from the main Sega tower, on top of 'Zilla. He is somewhat dizzy and out of breath from a recent fuel/air explosion event.
Current Plans:
Phaedrus has in mind a brief opening ceremony he'd like to perform sometime just before the epic final battle begins. It may not make much sense, but it's strangely important to him. (It's one of those incomprehensible aesthetic things, and won't last too long. Trust him).
Phaedrus has knowledge of certain locations within the Sega compound which he and others may be visiting. Poets may find verse and/or parody fodder in some of these locations; other characters may choose to treat these locations as interesting backgrounds or ignore them altogether.
Once the pattern of these locations becomes obvious, inspired authors are welcome (and encouraged!) to visit related sites even if Phaedrus hasn't mentioned them yet.
There may be NPCs in some of these locations. Playing characters are free to interact, converse or combat with these NPCs, or again, to ignore them altogether. Authors are welcome to animate these characters, but are requested to keep them reasonably in character.
vorpal
seems like a good idea.
so its VB vs DWC
and Dom vs BG
i guess i'll have to supply lots of Sega troops for the rest of you to kill ^_^
btw, what 'powers' do you have DWC? i'm not really familiar 'cos i didn't join the last one.
I think i'll post for my fight with DWC that ends in a cliffhanger, then DWC takes over and finishes me off. After that BG can write the final showdown, after everyone has had fun developing their characters while killing Sega troops.
Any ideas for a place and time?
mlamdin
quote:
Originally posted by DietWaterCzar:
Again? I'm sorry I set the precedent for that....
Besides I'd really like this one to have a happy ending.
Sorry, but I actually do want bad things to happen to my character. Everyone ELSE can have a happy ending - but I have a dangerous combination of Darkly Cute and Bhaalspawn power, and I don't think they get along so well. I have the potential to be truly evil, and I want to roleplay it out that way. Basically, my rationale is that right now I have a VERY large amount of power - more than anyone except maybe VorpalBlade or DWC's transformed character. While this is fun to write, somewhat vindicating (I tried to contain disgustingly powerful characters as a DM for about a year, so it's nice to BE one for once), and I think I do a fairly good job with it, it's not a great character to continue over if we do another one of these stories. I'd love to do that - this is extraordinarily fun - but it would be kind of hard to put up a good challenge for a guy who has seamlessly knitted the powers of Miho and Bhaal and is mentally stable.
So basically, there's 2 ways I see to do this. I could have my character crushed utterly after losing control so I can 'resurrect' him or something when we do another one (my original plan, and if anyone has an idea varying from what happened to DWC, I'd like to see it, as I'd prefer to do as little copying as possible).
My other idea is that I could be destabilized by sending Dom back to Ubertokyo in the Strange Candy universe or some such event, but not lose control. I then gradually degenerate, and I'm willing to play the villian next time - I can come up with some diabolically evil plot, and everyone can team up again to kill me.
Let me know which kind of thing you think I should do - basically, do you want me to play the villian next time? I'm assuming (and hoping) that people want there to be a next time. It'd be fun.
G.Kaiser
*sniff8 i wanted to fight VP damnit!
Ok with that out of my system i would like this to end in a quazi happy ending with a twist to you know leave a sequeal hole open if we get bored.
Can i still fight VP?
oh yea forgot
G.Kaiser; current planes kill vorpal blade(seemed fun at the time) and re afferm my status as an elite in the kimiko guard
weapons:read the list a page back ill copy paste it later oh yah grenades and explosives oh yah my L33T f!ght!ing ski11Z
Wangus
OOC:
Sorry for copying Phaedrus, but it's really nice.
Character Sheet
Wangus
Chaotic-Good Confused Agent
Weapons:
*Main weapon is a retractable opposite ended double bladed scythe with an unknown name.
*Has a P90 strapped to each arm. Both have unique modifications including types of fire and different ammo.
*Carries an unseen short blade made of mystical powers and a hilt of pure jade. Keeps it in case the ritual of seppuku is necessary.
Current Location:
About one half block off of the Sega tower and running towards it. Wangus is accompanied by Derian Hatcheter and (the still unnamed) BGMaster.
Current Plans:
Wangus understands that he cannot possibly face any of the master villians in charge. He anxiously awaits the chance to help his collegues in anyway possible.
Wangus is still utterly confused on why he is in Megatokyo. He follows the others less in the hope of understanding, more in the need for action and the necessity to do right. He is continually amazed at the senarios that are presented and is equally interested in his companions for their abilities and thoughts.
wizardofkitty
same as wagnus, I like the charie sheet so sorry for using it Phaedrus. ^^;;
Wizard Of Kitty (will settle for Neko Wizard or WoK)
insane piroist
Weapons:
*Rainbow like magic because of all the skittles WoK eats.
*A metal pole, because they hurt.
Current Location:
Somewhere! I dunno where but hopefully in the end, somewhere near the battle field. :)
Current Plans:
To stop all groups/cults against piro-sama or trying to take over Megatokyo strips. Other than that, worship Piro-sama :)
I think that's ok for now...hmm...WoK is gonna go around here and there attempting to stay in the storyline. ^^;;
mlamdin
OK, my turn with a character sheet:
Name: BGMaster
Status: Devoted MihoCultist (XO of Convertees) and MT Universe chosen Avatar of Bhaal.
Weapons: Glowing sword with unidentified powers, rocket launcher strapped to back.
Current Location: Down street from Sony building and Rent-a-Zilla with Wangus and Derian.
Objectives: Rescue Kimiko to clear Miho-sama's name of wrongdoing and get rid of that irritating Voice of Bhaal in the back of his head.
Powers/Miscellaneous: BGMaster recently began to acquire control of his powers as an Avatar of Bhaal. In the beginning, he almost lost control, but assistence from Miho herself has allowed him to harness them. He has a huge range of powers, most unused/undiscovered so far. Two that have manifested are the ability to summon ghostly raver girls to turn opponents to zombies and the ability to create and control blades anywhere within sight. He also has immunity to normal weapons and some telepathic abilities. With his growing power, he hopes to be able to better serve his Goddess, but even Miho's interference has not completely muted the influence of Bhaal, and he remains at least somewhat mentally unstable...
G.Kaiser
umm this is on its forth page and faster then the original thread time to make another thread
Wangus
that was really really fast...
Again, I think I'll leave the new thread making to a more long-time follower of MT and one of the original writers of this story...
G.Kaiser
hey will somebody awnser me can i fight vorpalblade?
Wangus
DWCzar has him I'm pretty sure.
DietWaterCzar
Go to BGMaster's thread people.
