Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 136: The Needlessly Complex Adventure
Date: 2:47:44 PM, February 8th, 2005.
Deloth: *Level 4, one action.*
Charles Magellean: "Shoot a power shot!"
Metal Man: "I'll take out that cannon!" *He runs up to the cannon... and starts smacking it repeatedly!*
Metal Man (GM): Woohoo! Double woohoo!
Metal Man SLAUGHTERS the cannon with deadly hand smacks.
Metal Man (GM): Total damage: 50
Gibby: "Uhhhh... is he doing... what I think he's doing?"
Metal Man (GM): The cracked cannon explodes.
Deloth: "Whoohoo!"
Metal Man (GM): Damage: $7000
Gibby blinks.
Metal Man then whips out a dictionary, and points it at a damaged Buster Beetle. He opens it up, and a weird ray of gray energy is shot out at it. "HYAH!!!!"
Metal Man (GM): 14% damage. The cannons fire three bullet bills.
Gibby jumps into the air, and fires two shots at the most damaged cannon.
Metal Man (GM): Hit and hit. Half damage.
Aribar doesn't want to waste any more magic... He's almost out. The elf dashes up to the cannon Gibby attacked and slashes it twice with Moonlight.
Metal Man (GM): Hit hit.
Charles Magellean disappears.
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Charles Magellean reappears to one of the busters to steal.
Metal Man (GM): Locos has stolen: Ice Block!
Charles Magellean attempts to rob and take it back.
Metal Man (GM): A 5 by 5 by 5 foot block. You avoid being counter-attacked. Can be used to cool things down, freeze stuff, or hurt people.
Aribar: "...WHAT are you doing, Locos!?"
Charles Magellean reappears in his spot with an Ice block. "Using one of my special abilities."
Deloth: "That could be helpful."
Charles Magellean spins it a couple times, then it shrinks until it's outta sight.
Aribar: "...Are you STEALING something?"
Metal Man (GM): It's stolen, all right.
Charles Magellean: "Yes."
Digifanatic: "Uh-oh... here we go..."
Metal Man: "Of course he did."
Aribar: "...I think I have lost all respect for you, you common thief."
Charles Magellean: "Oh please. I've done worse. If anything, I've helped us by not being attacked by one of them."
Metal Man: "Alright, they're almost done."
Charles Magellean: "Slash of the Night!"
Metal Man (GM): The target is hit.
Charles Magellean: *15 melee dark damage.*
Metal Man (GM): Also: due to the new settings, I am making it so that overdrivers keep the amount of hits they've gotten in for an entire mission. The remaining bullet bills attack. 3 of them fly at me. 1 hit. 1 hit.
Metal Man: "Ow!"
Metal Man (GM): The other two fly at Locos. 10% per hit... if they hit, they explode.
Charles Magellean: *anything above 20 is a general rule for hitting me.*
Digifanatic: "I'm not trying that Shroom thing again for now..." *He goes to the cracked cannon and uses Fire Punch *WONDER BADGE CRIT**
Metal Man (GM): You deal half damage.
Digifanatic continues with a Thunderstorme
Metal Man (GM): Hit. Damage: $7000
Deloth hits the cannon that Digi targeted with another blast of Flare Breath.
Metal Man (GM): Hit. Those cannons are tough. It's still going.
Digifanatic: "Alright, Metal! Take it down!"
Metal Man: "Alright! It's time for another smack-a-thon!" *He hits a damaged Buster Beetle for 10 damage.*
Metal Man (GM): It's dead. The remaining Cannons fire bullet bills.
Gibby shoots at one of them twice.
Metal Man (GM): Hit, hit. *EXPLODE* 1 beetle dead. Only 1 beetle left.
Gibby: "Go get it, Ari!"
Metal Man: "Yeah, then these defenses are doomed..."
Aribar does another double-slash on the beetle.
Metal Man (GM): The beetle is now looking rather badly damaged.
Metal Man: "They're almost finished!"
Charles Magellean picks up his guns, swirls them, and fires off a total of six shots at the least damaged beetle.
Metal Man (GM): The remaining beetle is killed. The defenses are now unmanned. Battle over! 800 EXP gained.
Gibby: "YAY!"
Metal Man (GM): 480 coins gained per person
Charles Magellean swirls them again, blows the smoke from it, and holsters them.
Metal Man (GM): The boxes of junk behind the defenses are destroyed.
Charles Magellean: "Time to salvage!"
Metal Man (GM): 8/100
Charles Magellean jumps to the top of a undented cannon. "Hey, you think I should leave the ice block here to preserve the memory of the beetles that fought us valiantly?"
Aribar: "Smash it. Destroy it."
Charles Magellean needs only one hundred more. "Should've thought."
Metal Man: "Your choice."
Aribar walks past Locos and starts down the path...
Charles Magellean searches for something of unusualness.
Deloth smashes the remaining cannons.
Metal Man (GM): Locos: BINGO!
Charles Magellean: "Oro!? I found something!"
Metal Man (GM): Locos: You discover a strange switch hidden deep inside a cannon.
Charles Magellean: "Alrighty..."
Metal Man (GM): The path ahead is blocked by blocks with ropes of fire around them.
Charles Magellean rubs his hands... and goes to inside the cannon, crawling this way and that way, to flick the switch.
Deloth: "Watcha found, Locos?"
Gibby: "Is it bigger than a bread box?"
Metal Man (GM): You get to the switch.
Charles Magellean flicks it.
Gibby prepares for the worst.
Metal Man (GM): *FLICK* The rope traps disappear.
Metal Man: "Excellente!"
Gibby: "Hooray!"
Charles Magellean climbs out of it. "Well... oh well."
Metal Man (GM): Even further ahead, there's two doors.
Deloth smashes the cannon when Locos gets off of it.
Metal Man (GM): One says 'The Obvious Way'
Charles Magellean gets off of it.
Metal Man (GM): Deloth: Your hand hurts from trying to smash the cannon.
Deloth: "Owie..."
Metal Man (GM): The other door says 'The Needlessly Complex Way'
Gibby: "Hmmm..."
Metal Man (GM): And is on the left of the other door.
Deloth melts it into slag with Flare Breath and runs up to the others.
Gibby: "Well, the obvious way sounds good."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth: No go.
Charles Magellean gets to the paths.
Gibby: "...and obvious."
Metal Man (GM): The fire doesn't melt it. Maybe you should hit it again.
Deloth drives a Friction Blade through the cannon.
Metal Man (GM): *BOOM* The cannon explodes... as does Deloth. Deloth takes 50% damage. Then the fire traps turn back on. Trapping Deloth behind the group.
Aribar goes up to the doors and wonders which to go through.
Deloth: "HEY!"
Metal Man (GM): The group is, luckily, ahead of the traps.
Gibby: "Oy... Del, what are you doing?"
Charles Magellean: "What we need to do is go on both paths---ignore him, gibby."
Deloth: "Feeling like a complete idiot, shut up Locos."
Gibby chuckles, and goes back to the doors.
Metal Man: "Okay... while Deloth attempts to cross the fire traps, we need to pick a door."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth: SPD check to pass the fire traps.
Gibby: "But... the obvious way! It's so... so... OBVIOUS!"
Charles Magellean: "You wanted to destroy it without reason, so you deserved it."
Metal Man: "I'm all for the needlessly complex way."
Gibby: "Why?"
Deloth eats a Mushroom, then tries to get through the traps.
Aribar: "I'm for whatever way Locos isn't going..."
Charles Magellean: "Both paths are more than likely containing the... grunty boxes."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth runs into the fire and is knocked back. He takes 15% damage. He must try again. Another Spd check. A pipe appears in the ceiling. Garrick drops down.
Charles Magellean: "We'll need to split up."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth runs past the fire traps.
Metal Man: "I'll go down the needlessly complex way!"
Gibby: "Obvious way for me!"
Deloth: "Nobody laughs, nobody gets hurt severely. I'm following Metal."
Charles Magellean: "Ari, accompany Metal. Where his brawn will fail, your intelligence will help."
Garrick Fy`aar thuds onto the ground, glancing around at the others as he draws his M150 out of instinct "It's a trap in itself."
Metal Man: "Hello Garrick. Welcome to the party! We're destroying this castle."
Aribar: "...Okay." *He opens and goes through the Needlessly Complex door.*
Metal Man follows Ari.
Deloth: "Anybody got a mushroom?"
Charles Magellean: "I'll be accompanying Gibby in case he wants to pull a repeat of the first Nova module scenario."
Deloth follows Metal.
Garrick Fy`aar follows Del.
Gibby goes the obvious way.
Metal Man (GM): Okay... everybody split up?
Gibby: "Who knows... maybe lightning DOES strike twice."
Charles Magellean: "...In your case, I do not want to know." *He heads the obvious way.*
Metal Man (GM): Okay, we start with the obvious way. The room is simple. There's a short pathway... with 5 Grunty boxes along the walls, in reach.
Gibby: "Well... looks like I did it again, Locos. Nice and easy..."
Metal Man (GM): Then on the other end is the exit out of the Obvious pathway.
Gibby starts shooting at the boxes.
Metal Man (GM): *BAM* *BAM* Two boxes explode. Both doors slam shut. The floor electrifies. Twice. Both of Locos's fail. He takes 50% damage. One of Gibby's fails. He takes 25% damage.
Gibby: "OW!"
Charles Magellean: "Ya-ya-ya-aya-ayya-*Sizzle*."
Metal Man (GM): 10/100 Damage: $10,000 The doors open again.
Gibby checks for any more boxes.
Metal Man (GM): NOTSSBM.mid <--The music again, FYI 3 boxes remain.
Charles Magellean: "..."
Gibby: "Hmm... if we hit the boxes, we'll get electrified again."
Charles Magellean: "Shoo... for a second I thought you wanted to destroy them without hesitation."
Gibby: "I'm not THAT stupid..."
Charles Magellean whistles.
Gibby: "...I think..."
Metal Man (GM): The boxes sit there.
Gibby: "What do you wanna do?"
Charles Magellean: "The boxes... how they taunt us. Perhaps one of us stand at one door, the other at the other door, and fire off our weapons at the remaining ones. ...Pending if they are within reach."
Gibby: "...sounds crazy enough to work!"
Metal Man (GM): They are within reach of ranged weapons.
Gibby: "You go to the other side."
Metal Man (GM): Or ranged attacks.
Charles Magellean runs sluggishly to the one at the end of the room.
Metal Man (GM): Damage: $11,500 (Adding in that cannon Deloth mindlessly destroyed)
Gibby: "Ready?"
Charles Magellean: "Reado."
Gibby: "On three..."
Charles Magellean unholsters the autos and swirls them... he readies them and aims...
Gibby: "1...2...5! I mean three!"
Charles Magellean fires them.
Gibby shoots at the boxes.
Metal Man (GM): ...Gibby's two shots destroy 1 box. Erm, 2 boxes. Locos's single shot destroys the other... the rest of Locos's shots are heading at Gibby!
Gibby: "EEP!"
Metal Man (GM): Locos: Roll the normal attack for your mechgun, minus 1 attack.
Charles Magellean: *so that'd be... three shots.*
Metal Man (GM): Yes.
Gibby gets hit once "Ow!"
Charles Magellean: "Sorry!"
Metal Man (GM): After that, both of you roll SPD check, as the doors slam three times, while you're standing in the doorway!
Gibby: "I'm ok... kinda."
Metal Man (GM): Locos takes 30% damage, Gibby takes 0%. The doors finally stop acting funny and open.
Gibby: "Woah... close indeed."
Metal Man (GM): The 'Obvious' way is now clear.
Gibby runs to where Locos is, and exits the room.
Charles Magellean: *Smb3 death midi.*
Gibby: "D'OH!"
Metal Man (GM): Locos floats into the air and flies through the ground upside-down. He then reappears, minus 1 life.
Charles Magellean readjusts his collar.
Gibby: "You ok?"
Metal Man (GM): Damage: $14,500 13/100 We pause on the 'Obvious route' Meanwhile, in the room of Needlessly Complex way...
Deloth brushes the soot off his body.
Metal Man (GM): Metal, Aribar, Deloth, and Garrick are there. Oh, and Digi.
Deloth: "Achtung..."
Metal Man (GM): Inside the needlessly complex place is a door. A door which is shut.
Garrick Fy`aar glances around, wipping a odd looking smuge of oil off his right cheek.
Metal Man (GM): The door has no doorknob... And there's four doorknobs on a table.
Garrick Fy`aar: "A riddle..."
Deloth walks over and examines the door.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Or puzzle, depending how you look at it."
Metal Man (GM): A banana doorknob, a round doorknob, a spiked cube doorknob, or a slightly angular triangular prism one.
Metal Man: "Well, which one do you think is right? I'm thinking the banana..."
Deloth: "I bet I know."
Metal Man (GM): 13/100 Damage: $14,500
Garrick Fy`aar looks around for a clue of some style... the door... the walls... a silp of paper...
Metal Man (GM): No clues.
Deloth: "Look, this is the Needlessly Complex room, right?"
Metal Man (GM): Bare room.
Metal Man: "Yes."
Deloth: "So get the complex doorknob. The triangular prism one."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Actually, I don't think it matters."
Metal Man: "Okay dokey." *He takes the triangular prism one and goes to stick it in.* "Anyone want to stop me before we possibly explode, get turned into mushrooms, or some other worse fate?"
Digifanatic tries suggesting a knob by INT check.
Metal Man (GM): It's the round one! At least, that's what Digi thinks.
Metal Man: "Anyone? Last chance to stop me."
Deloth yawns.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Wait..." *He walks up to the door onward... then shrugs.*
Metal Man (GM): The door is a door.
Garrick Fy`aar: "I can't see any clues... it's that or nothing. Go ahead, Metal."
Metal Man (GM): Without a doorknob.
Metal Man: "Okay, then."
Digifanatic: "...Yeah, I'd say what you have is good enough."
Metal Man jams the doorknob in. Then he starts yelling and making all sorts of movements. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Deloth: "Yay, klezmer dance!"
Metal Man: "...Psyche! Psyche! SuperPsyche!"
Deloth: *Jumps around.*
Digifanatic: "I knew that was coming..."
Metal Man opens the door, revealing another section.
Digifanatic follows.
Deloth heads into the door.
Metal Man (GM): There's a Grunty crate, an ? block that can be moved, and an untriggered Bob-omb. The door is locked.
Deloth: "I love it when things just click together."
Metal Man (GM): There's three slots next to the door.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Nobody do anything just yet..."
Metal Man: "Alright. Somebody else's turn to be the trap dummy."
Digifanatic: "Oh boy... at least we know the crate'll go boom upon opening the door."
Deloth: "Have HIM do it!" *Points to Digi.*
Garrick Fy`aar looks at the setup... then at the three slots. He goes over and examines them.
Aribar blinks, having caught up with the group... He was tying his shoes... Yeah.
Metal Man (GM): The slots can fit any of the three items.
Metal Man: "Hey Aribar. You missed out on the world's easiest puzzle."
Deloth: "I figured out the answer!"
Aribar: "...Goodie, but we're about to face a tough battle I bet."
Metal Man: "What is it?"
Deloth: "No, I mean... never mind."
Aribar: "Is that one of those enemy creators that combine three items?"
Metal Man: "I don't know."
Garrick Fy`aar: "..." *He thinks for a moment...*
Deloth: "Looks like it's..."
Aribar: "Well, it looks like it at least."
Deloth: "TRIAL AND ERROR TIME!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "No... alright, somebody break open the question mark box."
Metal Man: "Okay... somebody, step forward. ...SOMEBODY HAS ABANDONED US! AHHHHHH!!!" *He runs around in circles.*
Deloth: *Groan.*
Garrick Fy`aar shakes his head, then kicks the ? box open.
Metal Man (GM): ...Out comes a poison mushroom. Spd check.
Metal Man: "Ahhhhh!!! Poison mushroom!"
Metal Man (GM): The mushroom is now heading at Deloth. SPD check, Deloth.
Metal Man: "Ahhhhhhh!!!"
Metal Man (GM): Deloth his hit by it and turned small.
Deloth: "YOU IDIOT!" *Squeaky voice.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "...well, so much for that.
Metal Man (GM): The ? block refills.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Alright, let's try this..." *He picks up the unactivated Bob-omb tentively...*
Metal Man (GM): This mushroom has gone bad... 10% damage to an enemy and a 25% chance of Poison. Deloth takes that stuff. Garrick: The bob-omb turns on in your hands.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Crap..."
Metal Man (GM): It's starting to burn a fuse.
Garrick Fy`aar chucks it at one of the slots.
Metal Man (GM): It hits the slots and explodes. It is not refilled. Deloth is not poisoned.
Metal Man: "Well, that took care of that enemy."
Digifanatic: "Hmm... place the mushroom in the slot."
Metal Man: "The mushroom disappeared when it hit Deloth. Unless... you want ANOTHER one..." *Shudders.*
Metal Man (GM): Deloth unshrinks.
Deloth: "Phew..."
Garrick Fy`aar angles around so that whatever comes out of the ? box heads towards the slots, then stands back away from it and blasts it with his M150. "Stand clear."
Deloth: "Don't touch that block." *He stands waaay back.*
Metal Man (GM): The block reveals... TWO poison mushrooms. They start moving towards Garrick, after climbing outta the slot. Two SPD checks, Garrick.
Metal Man: "Ahhhhhhh!!!!"
Metal Man (GM): They both go towards Aribar, now. The ? block gets stuck in the slot.
Deloth climbs up a wall.
Digifanatic: "I'll try the Grunty crate..."
Metal Man: "You do that."
Aribar attempts to jump up and cling to a slot...
Metal Man (GM): The mushrooms are now heading towards Deloth again!
Digifanatic picks up the Grunty crate and chucks it at the slot after Ari gets off.
Metal Man (GM): SPD check for Deloth. The box hits the slot and explodes.
Digifanatic: "Well, that's one more crate down..."
Metal Man (GM): 14/100
Deloth: "Not again..."
Metal Man (GM): Damage: $15,500 Deloth is hit TWICE. This mushroom has gone bad... 10% damage to an enemy and a 25% chance of Poison. Eh. Either way, Deloth is poisoned. The door out opens... one more room!
Garrick Fy`aar: "Good, let's get outta this place..."
Deloth falls to the ground with a splat and limps through the door.
Garrick Fy`aar heads onward.
Digifanatic runs to the next room.
Deloth: "I need healing..."
Metal Man (GM): The final room is... a door... and a huge puzzle.
Digifanatic: "Hang on! It's my last one..." *He tosses Deloth his last healing Mushroom.*
Metal Man (GM): Literally. A Puzzle. Complete with pieces. There's also a keypad.. ..A model train... A morse code machine...
Aribar: "Umm... Okay..."
Digifanatic: "Let."
Deloth: "Thanks. I'll get you another one when we get back to the Stadium."
Digifanatic: "Let."
Metal Man (GM): And 10 slots on the walls, as well as 10 cubes of doom.
Digifanatic: "Let's see here..."
Metal Man (GM): That's everything in the room.
Metal Man: "...This room hurts my brain..."
Aribar: "Should we put the cubes in the wall?"
Metal Man: "I don't know."
Deloth: "No no no no! Not cubes of Doom!"
Garrick Fy`aar walks over to the puzzle and examines it.
Metal Man (GM): It's a buncha puzzles, of an unknown image. It looks easy. Do you try to put it together?
Garrick Fy`aar shrugs and does try.
Metal Man (GM): You put it together... it's empty.... *WHOOSH* ...Garrick is trapped inside the puzzle!
Garrick Fy`aar: "...whoa."
Metal Man: "Ahhhhh! Garrick got stuck inside a puzzle!"
Deloth: "Bet that's not going to be popular in the toy stores."
Garrick Fy`aar looks around in his new puzzle location.
Metal Man (GM): It's a 2D world. You can't move outside of the puzzle. One eye always sees white. the other sees the outside world facing the puzzle. And you hear everything--but in mono.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...try the keypad."
Metal Man: "...How are we going to free Garrick? ...Okay. Deloth, test the keypad."
Deloth: "No. Not again."
Metal Man: "...I'm not touching it. Aribar. You touch it!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "SOMEBODY JUST TOUCH IT!"
Digifanatic: "Eh, I'll go for it."
Deloth: "Oh, FINE."
Digifanatic goes over to the comp and tries a couple commands: "FREE GARRICK FROM PUZZLE" "UNLOCK DOOR."
Metal Man (GM): Digi: You enter those.....
Deloth walks over and flies up to the keypad.
Aribar hrms...
Metal Man (GM): *BZZT BZZT BZZT BZZT BZZT BZZT BZZT* Digi is zapped for...
Aribar walks over to the puzzle and tries taking it apart...
Metal Man (GM): 60% damage.
Deloth: "Er, which code should I type in?"
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You're being taken apart!
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hey hey, whoa whoa!"
Aribar stops...
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: Your nose and right arm have been torn off.
Garrick Fy`aar: "PUT IT BACK TOGETHER, YOU PRAT!"
Deloth: "Dude, put those back on!"
Metal Man (GM): ...Or disappeared from reality, you can't tell.
Metal Man: "Hey. He looks kinda cool without a nose..."
Aribar does so...
Garrick Fy`aar: "Can it, tin can!"
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You're whole again.
Deloth: "Anyway..."
Metal Man: "Now then... that leaves the cubes, the slots, and the train."
Aribar then looks at the keypad to see if it has Morse's code on it.
Deloth examines the keypad "Don't forget this!"
Metal Man: "And the morse code transmitter."
Metal Man (GM): No morse code on it. There is morse code transmitter next to it, though.
Aribar: "...I still say we put the cubes in the wall."
Metal Man: "You're the boss..."
Digifanatic: "That's probably the best idea..."
Aribar begins to put the cubes in the wall.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: The first one you touch explodes on you. You gain all bad status effects besides Doom.
Metal Man: "But I'm not doing that, I'll be... playing with this morse code thing." *He plays with it. Garrick suddenly bursts outta the puzzle.*
Aribar: *GAH!*"
Digifanatic: "Hmm..."
Aribar quickly uses an Able Juice.
Metal Man: "Okay... that leaves the Model Train..."
Garrick Fy`aar leaps, out, landing.
Deloth: "Hey, you're not cardboard anymore!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Don't touch it."
Metal Man: "How do we get out of here?"
Digifanatic: "Hmm... what do we do with the train?"
Deloth: "Now, which code to put in..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "How did we get out before?"
Metal Man: "Try 1227, Deloth."
Deloth: "Why?"
Metal Man: "Uhhhh... we opened the door. I don't know."
Garrick Fy`aar: "No, Del blew up the boxes, THEN we got out of the door." *He slides in a new clip to his M150 and cocks it.*
Metal Man: "Okay..."
Deloth: "AAAH!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "So, I'd say you should clear away from those boxes..."
Digifanatic: "Right..."
Metal Man clears from the boxes.
Digifanatic backs off towards the opposite end of the room from the cubes.
Deloth: "Metal, try the Morse code thingie again."
Garrick Fy`aar backs up a little as well before unloading of four of the nine remaining boxes.
Metal Man: "You try it."
Metal Man (GM): The boxes explode. The door does nothing.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Alright..."
Metal Man (GM): The door. Just sits there.
Garrick Fy`aar blasts the other five.
Deloth flutters over to the Morse code thingy.
Digifanatic: "Well, we still have five left..."
Metal Man (GM): All the evil boxes are dead. The door sits there.
Deloth scans the Morse Code thing with his dex.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hmmm... the model train is all that's left."
Smash Dex: "A tool used to transmit morse code."
Deloth: "I say we scan this stuff."
Garrick Fy`aar goes over and examines it.
Digifanatic: "And the Morse machine... practically." *He scans the Model Train.*
Smash Dex: "A model train."
Metal Man (GM): The model train is running. It is perfectly fine. It is an electric train,.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Ari, you touch it. You're resistant to electricity."
Metal Man leans on the door. It opens.
Aribar: "..."
Deloth: "..."
Metal Man: "...Did anyone check that the door was locked first?"
Deloth: "AAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Digifanatic: "D'OOOOOOOH!!!"
Aribar sighs and heads to go through the door.
Garrick Fy`aar sighs as well and heads onward.
Deloth jumps off and walks through the door.
Digifanatic realizes the mistakes and heads through "How could we miss THAT?!"
Deloth: "I hope this poison mushroom shinkage wears off soon."
Metal Man: "...What you see is what you get."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth: It only shrunk you for a few minutes. The group meets up in a new room.
Deloth: "Hello gang, glad to meet you."
Metal Man (GM): There's a door, and it's locked. With another keypad. It says 'Box Storage Room'
Digifanatic: "Hmm... wonder what sort of boxes..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Time for some big fireworks..."
Metal Man: "Hi."
Garrick Fy`aar glances about this room..."
Metal Man (GM): Locos, Gibby: You're with the main group again.
Digifanatic: "Hey guys."
Deloth wonders if the Dex has a decoding function.
Gibby: "Hello... how was the needlessly complex room?"
Charles Magellean: "It be good to see you again."
Digifanatic: "..."
Deloth kicks Gibby.
Gibby: "OW! What was that for?"
Charles Magellean: "More important is how many of grunty's boxes did you destroy?"
Deloth: "Never speak those words again."
Garrick Fy`aar walks up to the keypad. "Dex, scan."
Digifanatic: "Eh... we got 14 so far."
Gibby: "Oh..."
Metal Man (GM): This room is plain... the end where the storage area is looks more like a warehouse. Wolfman pops in via Warp Pipe.
Gibby: "Hey Wolf!"
Wolfman somehow gets warped in here...
Digifanatic: "Ah... hello Wolf."
Metal Man: "Hello Wolfman."
Wolfman: "Alright, what was so important as to interupt me from the latest episode of The Werewolf Game?" *He gets a look at his surroundings.*
Deloth: "Destruction derby!"
Metal Man (GM): The keypad does nothing, yet.
Aribar just stays silent...
Charles Magellean: "Let's move on."
Deloth: "We can't, ding dong."
Metal Man (GM): It's a stone castle, with a metal wall where the keypad and door are.
Gibby: "Hmm..."
Deloth: "We gotta open this door first so we can keep going."
Metal Man (GM): Locked door.
Wolfman: *Sigh* "Alright, can someone tell me what we're doing in short?"
Metal Man: "Destroying Grunty's stuff."
Charles Magellean: "Then bust it open."
Gibby: "And beating up bad guys while we do it!"
Digifanatic: "And doing puzzles as well..."
Wolfman: "Okay, that's enough."
Garrick Fy`aar glances about... then has an idea. "Dex, what special fuctions do you have?"
Smash Dex: "Too many to just recite."
Wolfman tries to get a good look at the current room... anything important?
Garrick Fy`aar: "Anything along the lines of a fingerprint scanner?"
Smash Dex: "Yes."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Good. Use it on the keypad."
Smash Dex: "Scanning..."
Digifanatic: "Nice idea Garrick..."
Garrick Fy`aar holds Dex up to the keypad, looking. "Did this on a mission in the Orient. Large base, that was. Quite a few guards..."
Smash Dex: "...DING! Fingerprints found: Grunty, Bowser, variety of Bowser Underlings, Doopliss."
Digifanatic: "1...2...3..."
Deloth: "Which keys are they on?"
Wolfman nods as well... kind of a little disoriented with this place, considering he just got warped in without preparation.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Display the markings."
Metal Man (GM): It highlights them...
Digifanatic: "Hmm... thought I'd see Ari upset by this point about you-know-who..."
Deloth: "Hold it, hold it, hold it..."
Metal Man (GM): 3,4,7,9,0.
Gibby: "What?"
Charles Magellean: "...Voldemort is here!?"
Metal Man (GM): They all have fingerprints.
Digifanatic: "No... Doopliss..."
Deloth: "So we know which keys have been pressed."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Dex, how many digits is the code?"
Charles Magellean: "Oh... right."
Smash Dex: "6."
Wolfman: "So one of them was pressed twice."
Deloth: "How do we know which order we should press them in?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Right, one of them is touched twice..."
Wolfman: "...THAT, I think, is the puzzle Deloth."
Gibby: "Uhhh... we could try...0,3,3,4,7,9."
Charles Magellean: "...0, 3, 7, 9, 4, 0."
Wolfman: "Wouldn't it be a number of a special significance? Why are you guys just guessing?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Nova, come in."
Gibby: "OH! I just got a GREAT idea!"
Smash Dex: "Out-of-range."
Deloth: "Let's hear it and then chastise you."
Gibby: "Ok... there are 6 digits right?"
Wolfman: "Correct."
Gibby: "And this is Bowser's castle, right?"
Charles Magellean: "I am using numbers from least to greatest starting with odd numbers than even numbers."
Aribar hrms and tries Gibby's combo... If no one stops him.
Garrick Fy`aar stops Ari.
Wolfman: "...looks like it to me for some reason."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Wait a second, Ari..."
Metal Man (GM): *Beep beep BUZZ UZZ BUZZ BUZZ.*
Gibby: "Bowser has 6 letters... the code is 5 digits..."
Garrick Fy`aar suddenly starts and looks at the keypad.
Wolfman: "What are you suggesting; we give him a call?"
Deloth: "Heeeeeey..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...wait guys."
Digifanatic: "Okay, what do you say from there Gibby?"
Deloth: "We have 0, 3, right so far."
Gibby: "...uhh... uhh..."
Charles Magellean: "Garrick, what were you saying."
Garrick Fy`aar: "What Del said..."
Gibby: *-_-;* "I... don't know..."
Digifanatic: "Hmm... what sort of correspondence goes with the last four digits?"
Charles Magellean: "Listen to Wolf's idea then chatize it?"
Garrick Fy`aar tries 0, 3, 4, 7, 9, 0
Digifanatic: "We have a 4, a 7, a 9, and any one of the digits repeated..."
Wolfman: "I never said I had an idea."
Metal Man (GM): *Beep* *Beep* *Buzz* *Buzz* *Buzz* *Buzz.*
Charles Magellean: "No, but I was following what Garrick said that Deloth suggested."
Deloth: "Let me try."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Back off, Del..."
Charles Magellean: "Yeah, try mine idea."
Digifanatic: "So we've tried a 033 and 034 and those don't work."
Garrick Fy`aar tries 0, 3, 9, 4, 7, 3
Wolfman gets the idea of this puzzle.
Metal Man (GM): *Beep* *Beep* *Buzz* *Buzz* *Buzz* *Buzz.*
Wolfman goes to give it a shot.
Deloth: "Let me try."
Wolfman pushes in...
Digifanatic: "I wonder if you have to get the third number before knowing what the others are..."
Garrick Fy`aar backs off. "...excuse you, Wolf."
Charles Magellean: "You'd think alarms would go off after so many attempts."
Gibby: "Maybe it's a math thing... though I don't know math too well."
Deloth: "Try 037940."
Wolfman: *0 3 7 9 9 4*
Metal Man (GM): *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Buzz* *Buzz* *Buzz.*
Charles Magellean: "Yeah, my idea would work."
Digifanatic: "Alright! Does anyone understand what I was thinking?"
Gibby: "Halfway there."
Metal Man: "Yeah... bad security, don't you think?"
Aribar sighs and goes to stand off in a corner... He couldn't solve a single puzzle for the life of him.
Wolfman: "The 9 has to be in the last spot."
Gibby: "0, 3, 7...9,4,9?"
Digifanatic: "Why?"
Wolfman: "Gibby, that won't work"
Digifanatic: "No...0379 doesn't work."
Deloth: "Ummm...037094?"
Digifanatic: "7499?"
Wolfman: "Okay, 5th or 6th spot. Probably 5th."
Digifanatic tries 037499
Charles Magellean: "."
Wolfman: "Digi, that won't work."
Metal Man (GM): *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Buzz* *Buzz* *Buzz.*
Digifanatic: "Alright... Hmm..."
Charles Magellean heads where the elf is and sits nearby.
Metal Man looks at his wrist watch and waits.
Wolfman: "Guys... something isn't right."
Gibby: "Uhhh...0,3,7...9,9,4?"
Wolfman: "Are you sure that 9 was scanned? Because so far, NONE of these spots worked on any 9."
Gibby: "Gah... my brain hurts."
Charles Magellean: "Arc, are you feeling hurt about something?"
Garrick Fy`aar tries Del's, 037094
Digifanatic: "Hmm... you suggesting it's actually a 6?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "It's progressive."
Metal Man (GM): *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Buzz* *Buzz* *Buzz.*
Wolfman: "...maybe... I'm unsure."
Metal Man (GM): ...You hear an explosion.
Garrick Fy`aar: "You've got to get the next one right to continue on."
Metal Man (GM): The door falls down, smoking.
Digifanatic: "That's what I was thinking?"
Wolfman hears something... "Umm... what was that?"
Gibby: "How about 0,3,7,4,4,9?"
Deloth: "Shoddy workmanship."
Charles Magellean: "Aribar, what's wrong?"
Garrick Fy`aar draws his gun and looks...
Deloth heads through the door.
Charles Magellean heard the explosion and draws his sword out.
Metal Man (GM): It's... emtpy. Except for a pot in the middle of the floor.
Deloth: "EVIL LIVING POT!"
Metal Man (GM): ...*Pop* A Bob-omb pops out.
Deloth unsheathes his katana.
Metal Man (GM): It walks towards Garrick.
Charles Magellean: "Oh lord no. Not another one of those things."
Garrick Fy`aar blasts it before it gets close to him.
Metal Man (GM): It explodes. Another one appears.
Garrick Fy`aar blasts the pot too.
Digifanatic: "Horde!"
Charles Magellean gets to the group.
Wolfman enters the new spot... or had entered already.
Charles Magellean: "Guys, I've dealt with this thing before... it's an Overkill 3000!"
Gibby: "That doesn't sound good."
Deloth hits the new Bob-Omb.
Metal Man (GM): The pop starts smoking.
Charles Magellean: "...Oi... you people don't think outside of Pandora's box, don't you?"
Metal Man (GM): The bob-omb explodes on Deloth's foot.
Charles Magellean approaches the vase.
Metal Man (GM): 15% damage to Deloth.
Garrick Fy`aar blasts the pot a few more times.
Metal Man (GM): The ground is ripped...
Garrick Fy`aar: "Locos, get back!"
Metal Man (GM): As a HUGE mecha leaps outta the ground.
Charles Magellean: "...Oh brother." *He steps back.*
Metal Man (GM): It's a Hammer Brother, at the controls of a huge, orb-shaped machine with four legs.
Aribar readies himself and quickly downs a Maple Syrup. "Yay... Fighting..."
Deloth: "Oh, *Bleep*."
Gibby: "...meep."
Deloth unsheathes his katana.
Wolfman: "...I wish I was back in R&R now."
Metal Man (GM): It has two cannons, the spout, and other assorted goodies.
Charles Magellean: "So, you're back for another whooping, aren't you?" *He cracks his wrists.*
Metal Man (GM): The Hammer Brother is now behind a protective metal cockpit.
Hammer Brother: "Not you again! Eh. And some other dead people."
Gibby pulls out the gun again.
Charles Magellean: "Careful guys... this thing can shoot hammers, bullet bills, and bob-ombs. So then hammer dork, is this the new and improved Overkill 3000? Doesn't seem like much has been improved."
Wolfman smirks... at least he can help with crowd clearing He gave his speed before it was asked.
Hammer Brother: "Yes! Now it has a ... plus sign!"
Charles Magellean: "Everyone... attack the metal cockpit."
Metal Man (GM): Digi finds some Moldy Mush on the floor!
Charles Magellean readies his Onyx sword again.
Wolfman gets his Beam Saber out.
Gibby decides to scan this thing...
Smash Dex: "...DING!"
Charles Magellean: "Gibby... there's no point in dexing this behemoth."
Digifanatic looks at the Moldy Mush before trying to pick it up...
Gibby: "I'm interested!"
Overkill 3000+
HP: 0/850%
STR: 20
SPD: 20
INT: 12
AC: 16
Moves: 3
Attacks:
Dual Bullet Bill: 2 d20+10. 10% fire damage per hit.
Bob-omb: d20+5. Deals 30% damage if it hits.
Hammer Throw: 2 d20+8. Causes confusion if hits, 5% damage per hit.
Battering Ram: d20. Deals 80% damage if it hits.
Special: Can hide in the ground and mimic a regular vase trap, distributing Bob-ombs every 2 rounds, until a bob-omb is thrown at it and hits.
Special 2: Oooh... Metal cockpit protecting its cockpit and vase...
Charles Magellean: "Target the cockpit." *He smiles.*
Metal Man (GM): Digi: It's normal Moldy Mush. Picking it up will use 1 of your actions.
Gibby fires a single shot at the overkill's cockpit.
Hammer Brother: "You... DARE challenge me, with your pathetic guns? DIEEEEE!!!!"
Metal Man (GM): The Hammer Brother fires two bullet bills at Gibby.
Gibby: "...well now hold on a second there... that's not very ni--YIKES!"
Metal Man (GM): 10% fire damage per hit. Both miss.
Gibby BARELY gets by them.
Hammer Brother: "Whaaaat? ...That was a fluke. Fire two!"
Charles Magellean: "I meant this yahoo near Zio's Castle. Even without weapons, I was able to defeat him and his machine."
Metal Man (GM): ...They miss again.
Gibby: "...are you even trying?"
Hammer Brother: "ARRRGGGHHHH!!!"
Metal Man (GM): It fires... AGAIN.
Gibby dodges both... AGAIN.
Charles Magellean: "...Yeah... it's more buff this time though..."
Metal Man (GM): ...The ground has 6 nice craters into it.
Gibby: "Seriously... I thought the idea was to HIT me."
Wolfman is getting a chuckle out of this.
Aribar points his sword at the machine and fires a Jolt at it. The lightning strikes the mecha for 15% Electrical damage and possibly stuns. The elf then fires an Ice Elemental Blast for 60% ice damage.
Charles Magellean: "Destroy the cockpit... the finishing blow is mine."
Hammer Brother: "Don't make me press the red button that Grunty installed on this!"
Metal Man (GM): Both hit, no stun, the metal parts double the electric damage.
Hammer Brother: "WHAAAAT? Critical System Damage? That thing is lying."
Charles Magellean: "...Lemme guess... you want revenge?"
Digifanatic: "Nice weakness exploit, Aribar."
Charles Magellean makes a triangle with his hands and has swirls in his eyes @_@...
Aribar: "Thanks... I guess..."
Charles Magellean: "Cooomme to meeee..."
Metal Man (GM): Fail. The mecha comes to you... trying to kill you!
Wolfman doesn't know what Locos is trying... probably won't work.
Charles Magellean jumps back.
Metal Man (GM): ...It hits the wall behind you, knocking it down ..The smoke goes out. It looks dead.
Charles Magellean: "Okay... so trying to control it wasn't the best idea."
Wolfman looks at the mecha.
Hammer Brother: "*Gasp* The... death blow... ugh..." *Falls over inside cockpit.*
Wolfman: "...maybe it was."
Gibby: "Heh... that works."
Charles Magellean: "!?"
Digifanatic: "What?!?"
Metal Man: "Huh?"
Charles Magellean uses his other action to climb up.
Metal Man (GM): You climb aboard... it seems dead.
Digifanatic: "I don't think he's bluffing... That's odd..."
Wolfman still keeps a little distance... just in case this is another sarcastic thing.
Aribar: "...What just happened?"
Metal Man (GM): the door ahead opens.
Gibby: "I think we won."
Charles Magellean: "...It isn't over yet."
Metal Man: "I don't know. It looks dead."
Gibby goes to the door ahead.
Deloth looks through the door.
Charles Magellean: "We need to destroy this metal contraption."
Digifanatic: "I'd rather trust a worst-case scenario..."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth leaves the scene. Anyone else? Gibby goes through the door.
Wolfman: "You sure we can't just hijack it?"
Metal Man follows Gibby.
Charles Magellean: "I rather not face this thing in the near future, people!"
Aribar trudges and follows Deloth.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar disappears, too.
Charles Magellean: "We at least need to open this dang metal thing."
Digifanatic: "I agree with Locos... as long as someone else is willing... Wolf?"
Metal Man (GM): ...The door slams shut behind the people who left.
Wolfman attempts to use his strength to bust open the cockpit or something.
Charles Magellean: "Here... give me a hand."
Metal Man (GM): The mecha suddenly starts up, flinging Locos and Wolfman off for 0 damage!
Aribar: "I really hate slamming doors..."
Hammer Brother: "Ha-ha! You fools!"
Wolfman got distracted by the shutted door... and then gets flung off!
Metal Man (GM): sf64b2.mid
Charles Magellean: "...I thought so."
Hammer Brother: "Now, I shall KILL YOU!"
Digifanatic: "I thought he was bluffing..."
Deloth: "I hear rattling..."
Charles Magellean: "He was ..."
Metal Man (GM): Everyone trapped on other side: You get 100 EXP.
Wolfman: "Locos, do you need a weapon?"
Charles Magellean shows him the onyx sword and his holsters.
Wolfman: "Good; I won't feel guilty about dancing now." *Wink. He goes to the Mecha to start his dance of death with the beam saber against the robot.*
Metal Man (GM): 2 hits.
Wolfman follows that up with a smashing left hook at -2 accuracy.
Deloth looks around the room he's in.
Hammer Brother: "Ah! Curse you!"
Wolfman misses wide... left.
Metal Man (GM): People in the other room are paused.
Charles Magellean: "Still... aim for that cockpit."
Digifanatic: "That's a good plan..." *He launches towards the cockpit with Fire Punch.*
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Hammer Brother: "Ow!"
Digifanatic tosses a Microwave at the cockpit.
Metal Man (GM): ...It counters by running at you, full speed ..It rams the blocking wall, destroying it. Everyone behind it may rejoin the battle.
Hammer Brother: "Dah---DAH!!!"
Gibby joins in! "I Shall help!"
Hammer Brother: "I'll keeeel you, for tricking me, you little tricky person!"
Digifanatic: "Alright guys, you lucked out on my bad aim."
Metal Man (GM): The Overdrive turns to Digi, and fires off hammers.
Deloth: "So will I." *He runs through and rejoins the battle.*
Metal Man (GM): 10% damage total. Digi is confused. The machine then fires off a Bob-omb at Digi. 30% damage if that hit... which means death.
Digifanatic loses his first life.
Metal Man (GM): Digi: 2/3 lives. Then, it launches a Bob-omb at Gibby.
Charles Magellean: "Metal, we need your help!"
Gibby dodges it.
Metal Man: "Yeah, I'm coming, I'm coming." *He walks right past an exploding Bob-omb.*
Gibby fires two shots at the cockpit of overkill.
Metal Man (GM): Hit, and hit.
Hammer Brother: "Gah! Gah! GAH!"
Charles Magellean: "Slash of the Night!" *He slams his sword into the ground, a wave of darkness coming for the mech.*
Metal Man (GM): The mecha walks outta the way.
Charles Magellean then quickly sheathes his sword. "Curses... you're better this time around."
Hammer Brother: "Or you're worse! Hyuk hyuk hyuk!"
Wolfman: "You sound worse than Curly you know."
Gibby: "...stupid little...*Mumble mumble*..."
Hammer Brother: "I'm the ultimate master of everything! Especially cheese doodles!"
Gibby: "Mmmmmm... cheese doodles..."
Wolfman: "I'd like to see you try this trick then." *Crouches down He curls in, jumps up, spreads out, and howls the Wolf Crush in.*
Hammer Brother: "What? You've got cheese doodles? AHHHH!!! SAVE ME CH... ... EESE DOODLES!"
Metal Man (GM): He counter-attacks with a Bob-omb ..Which blows a hole in the ground. Oh, that hit somehow? Oh, wait. Whoops. My brain broke. He was hit.
Hammer Brother: "Gaaaaaah! Ow... my shiny metal protective superness... I'll need to eat some cheese doodles to fix this!"
Digifanatic comes back on the revival platform He uses his second action with Fire Punch.
Charles Magellean: "Destroy that blasted metalness!"
Metal Man (GM): It dodges.
Metal Man: "You're the boss, captain crazy! EYAAAAAH!!!!" *He runs up and hurls jacks at the mecha.*
Digifanatic gawks at the comment. "Oh kaaaaaaaaaaay..."
Metal Man (GM): Miss CRIT! 20 damage.
Metal Man: "And now... HAND SMACKATHON!"
Metal Man (GM): ...That mecha is smacked three times for 60% damage total.
Hammer Brother: "Owwww! You hurt me!"
Wolfman gets ready for this guy.
Charles Magellean: "Heeeere we go again. Whoo-who!"
Wolfman: "How did you like my trick?"
Overkill: "It's no trick compared to this!"
Digifanatic: "Uh oh..."
Hammer Brother: "Super... Duper..."
Charles Magellean: "...Sausage!"
Hammer Brother: "ULTIMATE... Cheese Doodle Eating Attack!"
Wolfman: *Facefaults.*
Metal Man (GM): He pulls out Cheese Doodles and eats some.
Charles Magellean fails anime style.
Metal Man (GM): He regains 25% HP.
Deloth: *Anime falls.*
Gibby: "CAN I HAVE SOME?"
Charles Magellean: "I swore he was gonna ram us."
Wolfman: "...you can do a LOT better."
Hammer Brother: "Eat this, impoverished proletarian!"
Digifanatic: "Hey, don't motivate him!"
Gibby: "Wait... impo-what?"
Metal Man (GM): ...the hammers miss Gibby.
Gibby dodges them both.
Hammer Brother: "NOT AGAIN! ...DIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"
Gibby: "Those words are too big!"
Metal Man (GM): The mecha charges at everyone.
Charles Magellean: "...Here it comes."
Gibby moves out of the way.
Metal Man (GM): Anyone with AC below that takes 80% damage.
Charles Magellean is flattened.
Metal Man runs away screaming.
Deloth: "AUGH!" *Death 1*
Wolfman tries to avoid... but fails to.
Gibby leaps into the air firing two jump shots at the cockpit.
Metal Man (GM): Hit miss.
Hammer Brother: "I'll... smush you eventually!"
Gibby: "Probably..."
Charles Magellean unholsters his automatics, then unloads six shots unto the metal cockpit.
Metal Man (GM): Damage: $17,500 Miss hit miss miss miss miss
Hammer Brother: "...That tickled."
Wolfman gets his Howl Buster out... and uses an action to charge it up one level. He uses his second action to actually fire it at the cockpit. He makes a mental note: get target practice.
Metal Man (GM): Erm... that took 2 quirks But! You avoided a counter-attack.
Wolfman: *Wolf's HP: 80/130*
Digifanatic is a bit peeved but fine. He launches a SMB Punch.
Metal Man (GM): CRIT! You knock that metal shield off of the cockpit.
Hammer Brother: "Nooooooo!"