Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 174: Wolfman Team Presents: Quester Driving Simulator
Date: 5:33:01 PM, March 26th, 2005.
Metal Man (GM): Okay then. It's a nice, beautiful day on Nintendus. The HQ is up and operating, and the bombs seem to have failed, in the long run. You guys are wherever you want to be in HQ. The sun is up in the sky, and Nintendus is at peace.
Digifanatic: *Digi is standing on a balcony overlooking the Hotel Wing of HQ, kinda as usual. * "Well, it's a good thing all this madness is over so far." *He feels around for his item inventory. * "Hmm... nine."
Gibby is enjoying this wonderful, glorious day by... sleeping on the couch in R&R. "Zzzzz."
Metal Man is currently in the lab with Oak, working on a mysterious machine.
Garrick Fy`aar is currently in the Oak's Lab as well, working on some blueprints for... something...
Digifanatic runs into his room and grabs his Fire Tunic, bringing the inventory back to ten.
Metal Man (GM): Suddenly... the phone rings in the lab.
Metal Man: "Garrick, you get that. I've got my hands full."
Digifanatic: "I have the open slot... might as well use it..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Sure, no problem."
Julian Sawyer: *Is busy making a sandwich in hte kitchen.*
Professor Oak: "Yeah... what he said. I need to set the discombobulator!"
Garrick Fy`aar walks over to the phone and picks it up.
???: "Hello... hello? Is this Quester Headquarters?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hello, Super Smash Stadium. You're evil, we kick your ass."
???: "...Ahhhhh!!! I didn't... mean... to hurt you... I mean... this is just a normal call. Who's on the line?"
Metal Man (GM): The voice is somewhat twangy. And male... but you don't know who.
???: "I have... an important message."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Your mom. No, sorry, I'm in a goofy mood today. Quester Garrick Fy`aar. Who's this?"
???: "Oh... this is good old... uhh... George. From Teleplumbing. Here's the message: 'The discombobulator is in backwards.' That's all, good sir." *Hangs up* *Dial Tone.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "...huh... Metal!"
Metal Man: "Yes?"
Garrick Fy`aar hangs it up "The Discombobulator is backwards."
Metal Man (GM): ...Garrick suddenly hears several popcorn pop noises in his pack...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...huh?"
Metal Man: "...No it isn't. And why do you sound like a popcorn machine?"
Garrick Fy`aar pulls off his 'pack' apparently, looking inside it.
Metal Man (GM): ...You see a variety of strange items... all of which are not yours.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...what in the world..."
Professor Oak: "There we go... a perfect fit."
Metal Man: "Good... the automatic lightbulb replacer is good to go!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Metal? Come take a look at this..."
Digifanatic starts walking down to R&R.
Metal Man: "Huh?" *He looks inside the pack.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "This isn't mine... who's are these?"
Metal Man (GM): Digi: You notice a tasty looking doughnut with a letter for you attached to it, right on a table.
Garrick Fy`aar pulls out a random item...
Metal Man: "What are you saying, Garrick? That's your M150, right there."
Julian Sawyer: *Finishes his sammich, and walks to R&R to eat it after cleaning up.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Yeah, but... what's this?"
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You pull out two yo-yos glued together and surrounded in saran wrap.
Metal Man: "That's the M150, Garrick. I don't see anything else."
Gibby: "Zzzzz."
Professor Oak: "...Did you inhale any gasses from the machine while it was being put together?"
Digifanatic looks at the doughnut.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...it's a pair of yo-yos glued together in saran wrap... at least that's what I see..."
Metal Man: "...No... I don't see any yo-yos."
Digifanatic: "Hmm..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Dex?"
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You hear a music-box play. The doughnut looks very tasty...
Julian Sawyer: "Do do do do, got me a sandwich... Toasted bread, fresh lettuce..."
Metal Man (GM): And the note is interesting.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...good lord. Metal, scan me and find out what the hell is wrong with me."
Metal Man scans Garrick.
Smash Dex: "100% fine. No status effects detected."
Metal Man: "...Maybe all these missions are getting to your head or something..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...then why is all this stuff happening to my equipment!"
Metal Man: "I don't see anything happening."
Garrick Fy`aar tries to pull out the Einhander-189...
Metal Man (GM): You pull out a box full of oranges. Mmmm... oranges...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...all my gear is gone!"
Metal Man: "...Don't point that at me! It isn't my fault! I see your gear right here."
Digifanatic takes a small nibble out of the donut.
Julian Sawyer: *Enters R&R, waves to Digi, and sits on the couch next to Gibby and turns on the TV.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Metal, damn it! It might look normal to you, but I don't see any of this the way it should be!"
Metal Man (GM): Digi: Suddenly... your feet turn to ice! You can move, but now you have bad traction.
Gibby awakens to the sound of the TV.
Digifanatic: "Hey, Juli--DAH!"
Gibby: "Huh? Wha? What's going on?" *He sits up.*
Metal Man (GM): -4 to all moves that don't involve jumping. Gibby: You see a big green button. It says 'Ultimate TV Guide of doom'
Julian Sawyer: "...Well, I got a sandwich."
Gibby: "BU-BU-BU-BU-BUTTON??!?!?!?!"
Metal Man: "I find this very odd... why do you think you have no items? I'm looking right at them."
Julian Sawyer: "...What button?"
Wolfman : Garden. VG: Lobby.
Gibby runs over to the button, and presses it.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Because this LOOKS like a box of oranges!"
Gibby: "PRESS PRESS PRESS!"
Garrick Fy`aar is MAD.
Metal Man (GM): Gibby: You're blind! Ahhhhh!!!!
Gibby: "GAH! CAN'T SEE!"
Metal Man (GM): You're stuck blind until you find some way to cure yourself.
Gibby walks into the television.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...wait... that call."
Digifanatic: "Hey, can someone please get me a 'controlled' fire going? Something just worthy enough to warm my feet?"
Gibby: "OW!"
Metal Man: "...This sounds like a practical joke..."
Julian Sawyer: "Sick bay is that way." *Points and bites into his sandwich.*
Metal Man: "...Digi, your feet look normal to me."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Oak, what's the opposite of a Discombobulator?"
Gibby: "Where did everyone go?"
Metal Man (GM): Julian: You find a bag of 1000 coins on the ground.
Gibby: "DIGI? YOU THERE?"
Professor Oak: "A... recombobulator!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...the recombobulator is in frontwards..."
Professor Oak: "But those are rarely used... if at all..."
Garrick Fy`aar looks at his guns again...
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: Your weapons look the same...
Garrick Fy`aar: "Damn it!"
Digifanatic: "Yes! I am Gibby."
Metal Man: "What's going on here... it's like I'm stuck inside a reality TV show..."
Julian Sawyer: .oO(All the things I could do with a 1,000 coins... after I finish eating) *continues eating.*
Garrick Fy`aar walks over to the phone and tries to call that guy who called back...
Metal Man: "Everyone claims they have all sorts of problems."
Gibby: "Good... then turn the lights back on."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: The telephone sticks to your hand.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hey... HEY!"
Digifanatic: "I think this is a joke..."
Metal Man (GM): And when you move, the cord between the receiver and phone breaks off.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Stupid! Get... off..."
Metal Man: "Hey Garrick... why are you gesturing at the phone like that?"
Digifanatic: "And I KNOW it's not April Fools Day according to my calendar..."
Metal Man: "I mean, you didn't even pick it up!"
Gibby: "All I know is that I can't see! All because of a stupid button..."
Metal Man (GM): Wolf: You'd see, out in the garden... what would look like Zero's saber... just laying on the ground.
Garrick Fy`aar: "I can't get this phone off my hand! And all my gear is junk!"
Julian Sawyer: "Again, the sick bay is that way." *Continues with the sandwich.*
Gibby: "WHERE? I CAN'T SEE!"
Metal Man (GM): VG: You'd be seeing Digi claiming his feet were ice, while Gibby ran around saying he was blind.
Wolfman goes towards this saber... what the heck?
VG is confused... what is going on with everyone?
Metal Man (GM): It looks like the real thing... so shiny... so rare... so needed to be returned to the correct owner...
Wolfman: "SIMBER, what is a saber doing here? It reminds me of Zero's."
SIMBER: "Someone dropped it."
Gibby holds his find out in front of him, and walks into Digi.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Metal!"
Wolfman: .oO(Hmm... perhaps a fan dropped it. Wait... who buys sabers and drops them anyway?)
Gibby: "OW!"
Wolfman: .oO(Hmm... G&W would probably want it) *GRAB.*
Metal Man: "What now? You people and your imaginary problems..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Get on the phone and call back the guy who called us!"
Metal Man (GM): Wolfman: Suddenly, you are confused. Always confused.
Metal Man: "Okay..."
Julian Sawyer: "Hey VG." *Food eating.*
Metal Man touches the telephone, and calls up.
Digifanatic: "Yes, Gibby?"
Metal Man: "...Yeah! George? Is that so?"
Gibby: "Digi, bring me to the sick bay!"
VG: "...what is going on?!?"
Metal Man: "Ah... so... the discombobulator is actually in correctly? Huh."
Digifanatic: "Alright..."
Metal Man: "Okay then... so you aren't to blame for all the weird things..."
Julian Sawyer: "That's a very good question, which I will figure out after this."
VG: "We got a blind person and a slippery person... next thing I know there will probably be a CONFUSED person."
Metal Man hangs up the phone.
Digifanatic picks up and starts walking Gibby to Sick Bay.
Gibby: "Thanks."
Wolfman starts stumbling his way to G&W... new saber in inventory.
Metal Man: "What is it, Garrick... he said he knew nothing about this... then he said some guy came in and asked for some parts in the back."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Metal, please tell me you... jeez... we need to solver this..."
Metal Man: "The weirdo disappeared when he came back. Besides that... nothing abnormal."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...did he tell you what the weirdo looked like?"
Julian Sawyer: "But if you see something, don't touch it. That's what happened to those guys."
Metal Man: "He looked a lot like Aribar. He said something about his bombs not working."
VG goes to G&W's store... he has too many coins on him right now.
Metal Man: "Like... they needed to be repaired."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...bombs... where is this George guy?"
Metal Man: "He gave me the address... if you're that messed up about it, we can go to the hardware store."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Then let's go. I think I'm starting to get this..."
Metal Man: "And stop pointing those guns at me and saying they're not there! You almost scared me to death... twice..."
Gibby: "Are we there yet? I need to have someone look at my eyes."
Garrick Fy`aar grumbles and shoves the junky things back into his NSS, then heads for the warp room "I can walk fine, let me just go..."
Metal Man (GM): The NSS is now a Nerdy Super Sponge. Which means all yer items are in your bag instead...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...oh geez..." *He just shoulders his bag then and walks.*
Metal Man: "Okay then... anyone else here want to go to the hardware store? Gibby... you look like you could use some motor oil for your scalp. And what's with running into walls now?"
Julian Sawyer: *Via Dex* "Where you guys going?"
Gibby: "What? What are you talking about?"
Metal Man: "...And Digi... didn't I tell you to stop pretending to ice skate on the carpet?"
Wolfman is still stumbling towards... well, something inside, having been confused for some strange reason.
Metal Man: "Hey Julian. We're going to the hardware shop... ...Wolfman could use a new intelligence chip... he's wobbling all over the place."
Julian Sawyer: *Via Dex* "Mind if I come?"
Metal Man: "Not at all... it's just a bit weird, I tell you."
Digifanatic: "What?!"
Julian Sawyer: "Everyone's acting all weirdly and stuff."
Wolfman: "Easy for you to say..."
Digifanatic: "I don't even skate!"
Wolfman trips and falls on his bum.
Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, I didn't take the bait."
Gibby: "I don't need motor oil... just eye drops or something."
Metal Man: "...Wax the floor some other time... and isn't Mack supposed to do that?"
Digifanatic: "What he said..."
Julian Sawyer: *Finishes his sandwich and heads for wherever Metal and the rest are.*
Metal Man: "...Bait? What bait?"
Digifanatic: "He needs it..."
Julian Sawyer: "There was a 1,000 coin sack on the floor. I don't know how it got there, so it must have been bad news."
Metal Man walks right past what all the status'd people save for Gibby would see; a Deathmachine +1337... but he doesn't even see it...
Gibby: "COINS? WHERE?"
Metal Man: "Exactly, Gibby. I don't see any either."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Gibby, just shut up and have someone lead you." *He walks into the warp room, inputs the data for this hardware store, and warps away.*
Gibby: "BAH!"
Julian Sawyer: "Gibby, do you want me to carry you?"
Metal Man: "Now then... anyone else here who wants to go to the store?"
Gibby: "That would be nice..."
Aribar would yawn, wake up from sleeping, and begin to walk out of his room to the R&R.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You touch the controls... ...they don't work for you. Instead, you hear telephone noises in your forehead.
Julian Sawyer: "Ok then." *Picks Gibby up and puts him on his shoulder.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Metal! Do it, please..."
VG buys the following: 2 Red Essences, 5 Ice Blocks, 5 Debarrier Cubes, 2 Super Plush Bears, 2 X Accuracies, & 5 Super Sneakers: he gives G&W... (hang on; pausing that action)
Aribar: "'allo, all..."
Metal Man: "Hey Aribar. Everyone but you, me, Oak, and Julian have gone nuts! Oh, yeah, and VG. Supposedly, the Hardware store is at fault."
Aribar: "...You just now realized that?"
Gibby: "This just better not be permanent, or I can kiss my shooting career goodbye."
Aribar: "Or do you mean they're more insane now?"
Metal Man: "Yes... they're pretending that they're sick to avoid work."
Aribar: "Ah..."
Gibby: "I'M NOT PRETENDING! I'M REALLY BLIND!"
Metal Man: "Digi is ice skating across the carpet, Wolfman is knocking into things... and so is Gibby! Garrick pretends he has no guns while pointing them into my face."
VG gets a look at the Questers...
Garrick Fy`aar: "Metal, shut up and put the code in for the hardware store..."
Gibby: "How can you NOT believe me? Why would I lie?"
Aribar: "...Look! A button!" *The elf points to the floor in front of him.*
Gibby: "WHERE?"
Metal Man: "Okay..."
Gibby: "I wanna press it!"
Metal Man goes to the warp room.
VG: .oO(Must be a holiday or something... Stupid hardware store for declaring it)
Julian Sawyer: "Metal, I saw Digi bite into a donut and get his feet iced, then Gibby pressed a button, and now he's blind."
Metal Man: "Oh well."
Aribar: "...Maybe they're right? Who knows?"
Metal Man: "I didn't see any donuts or buttons."
Gibby: "I know I'm right!"
Julian Sawyer: "Well, I did."
Digifanatic: "Yup... me neither."
VG: "Yeah?"
Gibby: "Maybe YOU'RE going insane, Metal."
Julian Sawyer: "Something's going on, man..."
Metal Man: "Anyway... let's all go to the hardware store. That's where a mysterious call originated..."
Julian Sawyer: "Field trip time..."
Gibby mumbles.
Metal Man: "And made Garrick go nuts!"
Aribar: "Okay."
Metal Man starts inputting the stuff for the warp.
Aribar starts towards the warp room.
Julian Sawyer: *Is at the warp room with Gibby on his shoulder.*
SIMBER: "Warp opened."
Garrick Fy`aar walks int it.
Wolfman stumbles his way into it.
Julian Sawyer: *Enters.*
Metal Man (GM): *WARP* *WARP* *WARP.*
VG is still trying to purchase stuff... consider the purchases done retroactively.
Metal Man (GM): *WARP* Anyway... everyone is now in the hardware shop. Cursed people: You see a cardboard stand up. Uncursed people: You see a real person behind the counter. Gibby sees nothing.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...jeez..."
Wolfman sees some sort of cardboard guy...
Metal Man: "Ah... nothing like the good old hardware store."
VG: "Umm... hello?"
Aribar: "'allo."
Wolfman just stands still... which might be hard to do while confused.
George: (Only heard by uncursed people) "Hello, and welcome to my shop! What can I do for you?"
Gibby: "Are we there?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...is he talking?"
Digifanatic enters the warp (sorry).
Metal Man: "Well, George, you see, a call from your shop made everyone go nuts."
Aribar: "Did you recently call the Super Smash Stadium? And yes, Gibby."
VG: "I think some of our friends are acting a little crazy..."
Gibby: "Good."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...ask him what the guy looked like that came in here!"
Wolfman attempts to do the hokey pokey.
George: "Yes... I meant to say the recombobulator is missing..."
Digifanatic: "What is going on?"
Metal Man (GM): Wolf manages to leap around, destroying part of the shop.
VG: "...so PLEASE FIX THEM!"
George: "Stop that! I do want to sell those hammers..."
Wolfman attempts to stop...
George: "Fix them?They're all hallucinating, from what I see. You know..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Metal! Ask him!"
Wolfman slows down enough to stop... enough.
Gibby: "I'm not. I'm really blind!"
Metal Man (GM): Suddenly, 'George' falls over, as a cardboard stand out, for everyone ..*LOCK* *LOCK.*
Metal Man: "...What's going on here?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...crap."
Aribar puts his hand on the hilt of Moonlight. "Goody..."
Doopliss: *Drops from the ceiling* "Hahah! I've tricked you now, Questers!"
Digifanatic: "This is some serious tripping right... oh no..."
Julian Sawyer: "This ain't goo-...You Again?"
VG: "What do you want Doopliss?"
Aribar: "Again, Doopliss?"
Doopliss: "I knew after all that real fighting, you'd be open for a pranking you'd never forget!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...blasted..."
Aribar: .oO(Crap! I can't use It yet...)
Metal Man: "...So they weren't making it up?"
Garrick Fy`aar tries to draw the M150...but remembers it's a piece of junk now...
Gibby: "Doopliss? WHERE?"
Doopliss: "Of course not... and I can't see why you're immune to it! Everything I throw at you, Aribar, and that dude in the hat fails..."
VG: "Why would you want to prank everyone?"
Julian Sawyer: "There." *Throws Gibby at Doopliss.*
Doopliss: "I'm the king of... gah!"
Gibby: "What the? AHHH!"
Wolfman is confused by what... ghost guy is saying.
Metal Man (GM): He leaps outta the way as Gibby bounces into the counter.
Doopliss: "Stop that! I'm not through terrorizing you yet!"
Gibby: "Ouch!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Set my gear straight, Doopliss! NOW!"
Gibby: "What the heck did you do THAT for?"
VG: "Think you can just STOP terrorizing us then?"
Garrick Fy`aar is PISSED.
Aribar unsheaths Doopliss.
Doopliss: "Now then... I'm the King of Pranks! It's only been that stale Kuja who stopped me from playing tricks."
Julian Sawyer: "I felt like it." *Retrieves the Gibby.*
Gibby: "If I could see you, I'd hit you..."
Doopliss: "Now that he's excused me for my own duty, I thought I better mess you all up... but it gets better!"
Julian Sawyer: "And then I'd throw you again."
Aribar: "Oh, really?"
VG: "How so?"
Doopliss: "Using Gerald's state-of-the-art technology... you should be arriving back at base... now."
Gibby grumbles.
Wolfman: "Silly ghost; Trix are for kids!" (I told you he's confused)
Garrick Fy`aar lunches.
Metal Man (GM): He turns on a TV, where robotic versions of everybody here appear in the warp room. They're rather poorly done... but they fool people anyway!
Digifanatic: "Oh boy..."
Gibby: "What? WHAT?"
Aribar blinks and looks at that TV.
Julian Sawyer: "...Robots?"
Doopliss: "Now then... while they plant traps and stuff all over your headquarters... you get to watch!"
VG can't believe that he's seeing... robotic clones.
Aribar: "...Always relying on fakes, just like yourself, eh, Doopliss?"
Doopliss: "And then they'll go out on an EVIL mission... and TRASH those ugly Hylians!"
VG: "Then what? We go back to HQ and try to disarm them?"
Doopliss: "I just like having fun, slick."
Gibby: "Robots! I'll get them!"
Julian Sawyer: "You realize that if we watch them set them, we know where they are, right?"
Doopliss: "Disarm them? Oh no... you can't go back there. No way."
Gibby takes out his gun, and shoots wildly into the air.
Garrick Fy`aar leaps forward and LUNGES at Doopliss.
Doopliss: "There's no escape from the... stop that!"
Gibby: "Did I hit one?"
Aribar: "...If we can't get back, we might as well beat up the only punchbag here!"
Julian Sawyer: *Grabs Gibby by the foot and hauls him back onto his shoulder.*
Metal Man (GM): He leaps out of the way as Gibby shoots at Garrick.
Aribar dashes at Doopliss and thrusts Moonlight at him.
Julian Sawyer: "Wait until you can see."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Dah! GIBBY!"
Gibby: "What?"
Doopliss: *Gets sliced... and backs off... then runs off, with Moonlight stuck in him!*
Gibby: "I don't need eyes to see!"
Digifanatic: "Holy cheese..."
Doopliss: "No escape! Especially for you!"
Gibby thinks about what he said.
Metal Man (GM): He presses a button.
Gibby: "...yeah that works."
Aribar: "Hey! Give me that back!"
Metal Man (GM): The way Doopliss used to escape is blocked by a large steel wall ..In fact... all ways out are blocked by steel barriers...
Aribar: "...Easy enough... I think."
Julian Sawyer: "...Does anyone have any explosives?"
Gibby: "Nope."
Metal Man (GM): Meanwhile, the fakes are planting bombs and stuff all over HQ.
Garrick Fy`aar: "I can blow my way out... maybe..."
Aribar tries using Magic Teleport to get through that wall.
Metal Man (GM): Even on the back of Mario's head!
Garrick Fy`aar pulls out that box of oranges...
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: You warp face-first into the wall. *THUNK* 5 damage.
VG retroactively bought 2 Essences (10k), 5 Ice Blocks (1k), 5 Debarrier Cubes (1.5k), 2 Super Plush Bears (6k), 2 X Accuracies (6k), and 5 Super Sneakers (6k) for 30,500 coins.
Aribar: "...Ow."
Metal Man: "Aribar! Stop leaping into the wall!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Metal, I want you to be my eyes here... tell me where I'm pointing this thing... and where's the trigger..."
Metal Man: "You're pointing at the back of Aribar's head. And stop nearly-firing it! It's scaring me!"
Aribar: "...I thought I could teleport--... Don't shoot me!"
Julian Sawyer: "...Right then." *Gets behind the counter and ducks.*
Garrick Fy`aar determines that and points it toward a metal wall.
VG tries to avoid everyone now.
Wolfman tries to just walk straight.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...now?"
Metal Man: "Okay... uhh... you got your finger on the trigger... just pull it, I guess."
Digifanatic: "Those stupid robots!"
Garrick Fy`aar pulls it...
Aribar hrms and looks about the store... There must be something here to help them!
VG: "Aribar, Metal, what do you suggest we do here?"
Digifanatic: "Dex, know of any odd recombobulators?"
Julian Sawyer: "Hide behind the counter!"
Aribar: "I suggest we find flame throwers and burninate these doors down."
Metal Man: "I'm not sure... those robots are attacking HQ..."
Digifanatic ducks in a corner.
Smash Dex: "There are none in this shop."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: The shot bounces off the wall. *PLINK.*
Aribar: "Piffle..."
Metal Man (GM): Then it flies back at you... automatically hitting.
Garrick Fy`aar growls at the 20 fire damage...
Aribar blinks... And gets out his dex. "Uhh... Mewtwo? Can yah hear me?"
Smash Dex: "Out of range."
VG gets set up in the Reflector position... he doesn't like this.
Smash Dex: "Unknown signal detected."
Aribar: "...Is there anyone in positi--Huh?"
Julian Sawyer: *Looks to see if there's any control panels or something behind the counter.*
Digifanatic: "Dang..."
Metal Man (GM): The dexes glow... that is, to those who are not Garrick or Gibby. They then show a message.
Garrick Fy`aar growls, wondering what's going on...
Julian Sawyer: *Reads it.*
Digifanatic reads what's going on...
Giovanni: "This is the official Team Rocket frequency. All who hear this have official Team Rocket equipment."
Wolfman somehow gets a hold of the dex...
Giovanni: "If you need anything, just respond now."
Julian Sawyer: "...'Kay..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "What, what's it saying?"
Metal Man: "...Why is Team Rocket anywhere?"
VG looks at this... huh?
Gibby: "What happened?"
Aribar: "...Something to bust out of a steel-armored hardware shop... Or a warping device to warp to the Super Smash Stadium."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Team Rocket? Team Rocket what? What the hell is a Team Rocket?"
Metal Man: "...Team Rocket, Aribar."
Aribar: .oO(And something to destroy you evil thieves of death!) "Hey, no lose trying."
Giovanni: "...Err... what? How did you get this frequency?"
Julian Sawyer: "That's a good question."
Giovanni: "...We won't help you unless you help us."
Digifanatic: "Uh huh..."
VG: "Trust me; we don't know."
Julian Sawyer: "Howso?"
Giovanni: "Kuja is after us, and we need a place to hide."
Julian Sawyer: "Who is we?"
Aribar: "...I refuse to help thieves!" *The elf closes his dex.*
Giovanni: "So let us go hide in your big, heavily armored building, or we won't even bury you if we find your corpses!"
VG: "There is a problem with that right now sir."
Gibby: "I'm so confused..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "So am I, Gibby..."
Wolfman: "Someone set up us the bomb!"
Metal Man: "...Are you sure? This box is a bit stuck... if we don't get out, that nut will do horrible things to our HQ."
Julian Sawyer: "We really don't have a choice, guys."
Garrick Fy`aar: "If we can get back to the stadium, then do it!"
Metal Man: "Hmmmm..."
Giovanni: "Uhhh... we'll throw in confidential information! Anything! We just need to get away from Kuja..."
Aribar just walks to the nearest corner and stands there.
Giovanni: "Please... do it to save yourselves, not us!"
Julian Sawyer: "He has a point..."
VG: "The only thing stopping me from saying yes... I'm unsure if by the time we end up out of our current predicament, whether our HQ will actually... well, not be safe."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Damn it, the stadium will go up in smoke if you don't say yes!"
Aribar: "...Do what you want, unless you knock me out or mind control me I will have no part in this!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "What would you prefer? A crater for the stadium or some idiots that we can definitely deal with if we can deal with Kuja!"
Editor's Note: Notice here that Garrick has a sense of cooperating with potentially evil people to accomplish a 'good' goal, whereas later on, he lost this ability. Makes you think, really...
VG: "If you can handle it, though, then get us out and come on in!"
Digifanatic: "Yeah!"
Julian Sawyer: "Okay, sure, fine, whatever, Now help us!"
Digifanatic: "Please!"
Wolfman: "We get signal!" *He is still moving erratically.*
Metal Man: "Hmmm... well then. Bust us out, and destroy our duplicates in our own HQ, and you'll have a safe haven." *Whispers something else inaudible into the dex.*
Giovanni: "...Sure! Anything to help us---I mean you. Yes. You."
VG goes to Aribar to console him.
Giovanni: "Units will be there momentarily."
Aribar taps his foot impatiently... He should have slept in today.
Metal Man (GM): ...Within a few minutes, a Jeep crashes into the room... busting a huge hole.
VG: "Well, that's a way to make an entrance."
Digifanatic: "Sure thing."
RocketGrunt: "...Well, you're free now. You can keep the Jeep, too... just as long as I ride in the back."
Julian Sawyer: "...We're saved!"
VG hopes in shotgun. "Aribar, think you can drive?"
Metal Man: "Hmmm... we need a way to cure all these cursed people..."
Aribar puts his hand on the Wand of Wonder, ready to blast the Jeep and Grunt, but restrains himself.
Digifanatic: "Better not be Metal."
Aribar: "I've only one arm... I don't think I can."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Please tell me you've got something..."
Metal Man: "I can drive!"
Julian Sawyer: "Does anyone have a Freshen Up?"
Digifanatic: "NO!"
Aribar: "...Ummm... I'll drive..." *He gets into the driver's seat.*
Wolfman somehow ends up on the jeep himself... maybe.
Metal Man: "...Well, it's either me... or VG... or the grunt... or VG... or... Gibby... ...Gibby should drive!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Just GET US there!"
Aribar: "Umm... Metal, which pedal is the go one? ... And the stop one?"
Julian Sawyer: *Gets into the Jeep, Gibby in tow.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Metal, Gibby is BLIND!"
Gibby: "Yeah... I am..."
Metal Man: "...Gibby drives faster."
Cornelius: "I can drive..."
VG: "Aribar, right pedal is go, left one is stop."
Garrick Fy`aar gets into the jeep.
Julian Sawyer: "Which is why I have him."
Metal Man gets into the Jeep and stands atop the back of the front row seats, hanging onto the roll bar.
VG: "Now GO already!"
Metal Man: "Backwards ahoy!"
Aribar hrms... The elf decides to floor the right pedal then while holding onto the steering wheel.
VG gets strapped in.
Aribar: "Backwards!"
Wolfman doesn't.
RocketGrunty: "...I should have stayed at the hideout..."
Metal Man: "Ahhhh!!!!"
VG: *To Rocket Grunt* "I don't blame you."
Metal Man (GM): The Jeep drives forward... through the next wall of the building...
Digifanatic is in the Jeep...
Aribar: "Wait... Wrong way! Bad thing!"
Metal Man (GM): And is now heading straight into oncoming traffic!
Digifanatic: "DAH!"
Aribar slams down on the brakes.
Julian Sawyer: "AHHHH!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...left! LEFT!"
Metal Man has a piece of the building stuck on his head.
Metal Man (GM): The car stops... two busses are about to hit it!
Metal Man: "Ahhhhh!!!"
Wolfman is barely hanging on... or something.
Julian Sawyer: "...Y'know, why don't I drive?"
Aribar: "Ummm... Left---Gah!"
VG: "Aribar, the idea is NOT to let go of going!"
Aribar floors it and turns left. He tries to avoid the busses.
Metal Man (GM): SPD check. Good idea, VG! You turn left... now you're cruising down the sidewalk.
Metal Man: "...Where are we going to go?"
Aribar: "...Am I suppose to know?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Get onto the road! Get us to the stadium!"
Julian Sawyer: "Stop hitting the pedestrians!"
Metal Man: "Doopliss disappeared..."
Digifanatic: "Yeah, that's all we need is a lawsuit..."
Metal Man: "...And the Grunts will surely save HQ... ...And stop flattening those Goombas! Gah!" *Gets hit by a sign.*
VG: "Aribar, get back on the road or we risk having Metal drive."
Garrick Fy`aar: "GET ON THE ROAD!!!"
Metal Man: "Ow... my head..."
Julian Sawyer: "Cover your eyes Gibby... It's just too horrible..."
Aribar: "Okay... Which way is the stadium?" *He heads onto the road... European style driving.*
Metal Man: "Not again!"
Gibby: "...was that supposed to be funny? CAUSE IT WASN'T!!!!"
Metal Man (GM): Cars are heading straight at you.
Wolfman has no clue how he's staying on the road. *Car.*
VG: "Aribar, OTHER side!"
Metal Man: "Ahhhhh! Again!"
Julian Sawyer: *Leans forward and turns the wheel to the RIGHT.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "THIS IS NOT FRANCE! OTHER SIDE!"
Aribar: "Gah!" *Tries to quickly go back to the American style.*
Gibby: "GAH!"
Metal Man: "We'll be lucky if we survive..."
Aribar: "...I'm not as bad as Metal, am I?"
VG: "Don't ask."
Garrick Fy`aar: "You can't even drive! You barely know HOW! Someone take his place!"
Julian Sawyer: "Why are you driving in the first place?"
Digifanatic: "This is not right!"
RocketGrunt: "...Someone tell me this is a horrible nightmare..."
Aribar: "Veegee suggested it!"
Metal Man (GM): SPD check, Aribar.
Gibby: "I hope so."
Julian Sawyer: "I'll do it! I actually had a car where I lived."
Metal Man (GM): You cut off a car, and are now on the right side of the road.
Digifanatic: "Better..."
VG unstraps himself, grab and dunks Aribar into the shot gun, and takes over.
Aribar: "Gaah!"
Metal Man: "Whew... now what? The hardware store is definitely not it..."
Metal Man (GM): VG: You quickly find a problem...
Aribar: "...For the record that was all Veeg's spot."
Metal Man (GM): The car is designed for people 4-feet and taller.
Julian Sawyer: "...You can't reach them, can you? PULL OVER!"
Metal Man (GM): Now you're either all pedals without seeing, or all seeing without pedals.
VG: "...nope. Julian, take the wheel!" *He ducks to the pedals. He presses the go pedal.*
Metal Man: "Why can't I drive?"
Julian Sawyer: *Gets to the seet and takes the wheel.*
Metal Man (GM): The car speeds up and rams a cart off of the road.
Julian Sawyer: "Because you're you!"
Aribar: "Because... Umm... Why can't Metal driv---Aaah!"
Julian Sawyer: "AUGH!"
VG presses the brake pedal now.
Metal Man: "Ahhhh!"
Julian Sawyer: *Tries pulling to the side of the road.*
Metal Man (GM): The car stops and gets hit from behind by a huge truck.
VG presses go again... "Someone tell me how hard to hold the pedals!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "DAH!"
Metal Man (GM): You pull onto the side of the road... destroying light poles and mailboxes.
Julian Sawyer: "Just get out from there!"
Metal Man: "Ahhhhhh!!!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "LET METAL DRIVE ALREADY!!"
Julian Sawyer: "PRESS THE STOP PEDAL!"
VG: "Are you insane?!?"
Metal Man (GM): The police are now chasing you.
VG presses the stop pedal.
Garrick Fy`aar: "DAMN IT, LET HIM DRIVE!!"
Metal Man (GM): ...Police cars smash into you from behind.
Digifanatic: "Guys... it's the fuzz..."
VG hears police; he presses go again.
Julian Sawyer: "ACK! NEVERMIND! GO MAN GO!"
Metal Man: "...Go pedal! Go Pedal!"
VG IS.
Julian Sawyer: *Tries his best not to run into stuff.*
Metal Man ducks as several lasers move around him.
Metal Man (GM): Then you speed up...
Wolfman: *Has no clue how he's staying on.*
Digifanatic hides for cover...
Metal Man (GM): You're smashing into other cars and people as you go. You're now heading towards a trainyard.
VG: "Please say we aren't hurting anyone..." *He is still on go.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "WHY DID YOU LET VG DRIVE! Metal, get in the driver's seat! NOW!"
Julian Sawyer: *Tries swerving around the various obstacles.*
Metal Man (GM): Julian: Do you drive back onto the road?
Aribar: "Aaaaaaah! We're all gonna die!"
Metal Man: "...Doopliss is over there! Getting on that train!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Where?!"
Digifanatic: "Oh boy..."
Aribar: "To the train!"
Julian Sawyer: "KAMAKAZI!"
VG: "Julian, say when you are facing the train so I can floor it."
Aribar: "He has my sword!"
VG: "...good enough."
Julian Sawyer: *Steers towards it.*
VG FLOORS it.
Metal Man points at Doopliss, who is now on a train out of the city.
Metal Man (GM): *SMASH* You destroy a guard station... the police continue shooting at you as you drive through the parking lot, smashing cars everywhere.
Garrick Fy`aar tries to leap on the train if he can... that Doopliss is getting on...
Metal Man (GM): Doopliss sees you... he's now frightened.
Julian Sawyer: *Tries driving along side the train.*
Metal Man (GM): the train is getting away, though... you're right behind it, now. The police continue shooting at you.
Julian Sawyer: *Looks for a Nitro Boost or something.*
Aribar: "...Magic Missile!" *He fires a burst of arcane energy that unerringly aims at Doopliss... 24% damage if that hits, which it should.*
Metal Man (GM): Julian: You see a button... a red button. *BAM* A big hole is blasted in the train.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Jump in!"
VG: "I can't get much more power out of this car you know!"
Metal Man (GM): ...The rear train car has disconnected!
VG is practically sitting on the gas pedal.
Julian Sawyer: "...Might as well." *Hits the button.*
Metal Man (GM): It's heading straight towards everyone... as the button is hit.
Digifanatic: "OH GOD!!!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "TURN!!!"
Metal Man (GM): The car suddenly speeds up... and crashes into the train car... with a rocket booster behind it...
Julian Sawyer: *Turns!*
Aribar: "...PLEASE let me wake up now!!"
Metal Man (GM): You drive through the train car... and turn before hitting the next train car. You now have several extra seats and passengers.
Julian Sawyer: *NOW tries pulling up along side the train.*
Aribar: .oO(This is all a dream... This is all a... PLEASE let this be a dream!)
Metal Man: "...This is the last time I don't drive."
VG: "SHUT UP METAL!"
Metal Man (GM): You're closing in on it...
Garrick Fy`aar: "IT'S YOUR FAULT, VG!!"
Metal Man (GM): ...The police drive up alongside.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Ari, blow a hole in the side of the train!"
Julian Sawyer: "EVERYONE SHUT UP AND GET READY TO JUMP!"
Aribar: "Metal, can you honestly say that you would have destroyed less stuff? ... And should I shoot the police?"
Policeman: "Pull over! You're under arrest for destroying half of Eisnaught!"
Aribar fires a Jolt at the train... 15% Electric...
Wolfman sees the sirens... ooh, pretty sirens...
Policeman: "Err... three streets and a train car... ahhhh!!!"
Julian Sawyer: "Blame him!" *Points at Arivar.*
Metal Man (GM): The train car derails and is now coming at everybody sideways!
Aribar: "Veege told me to dri---AAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Julian Sawyer: *Tries avoiding!*
Digifanatic ducks even further. "Oh no..."
Metal Man (GM): ...You're boxed in... the only way is to drive under it! SPD check for all! Gibby is too short to be hit, though.
VG should be safe considering he's ducked under the pedals.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar, Garrick, and Digi avoid doom.
Julian Sawyer: *Luckies again.*
Wolfman needs to get hit to get out of this confusion.
Gibby: "It pays to be small..."
Digifanatic: "What on File Island must be going on now?"
Metal Man wastes three luckies and is knocked out anyway.
Julian Sawyer: *Ducks.*
Metal Man (GM): Wolfman is hit, ending his confusion... he and Metal are nowhere to be seen.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man (GM): Julian also avoids doom.
VG also avoids doom since the pedals are underneath everyone else.
Metal Man (GM): The top of the car has been sheered off.
Wolfman: *KNOCKED OFF.*
Metal Man (GM): ...Congratulations. It's now short enough to be driven by VG. The next car is up ahead... while the rest of the stuff explodes behind you.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Get on the train! NOW!"
Aribar: "...Are we in trouble?"
Julian Sawyer: *Looks to see if Train-hopping is possible.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "No, the police are just chasing us for the exercise. YES, WE'RE IN TROUBLE!!"
Aribar: "Leap from a car to a train?! Who do you think we are? Mario? We'll be killed!"
VG keeps on flooring it... if he lets go, the speed is lost.
Metal Man (GM): Train hopping is very possible. You're now right next to it...
Garrick Fy`aar: "You got a better idea, slick?!"
Metal Man (GM): STR checks to leap aboard the train.
Garrick Fy`aar makes to train hop...
VG: "You guys get on first; I'll follow after!"
Aribar leaps to the train.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar leaps aboard the train.
Digifanatic: "Oh boy..." *He tries to leap...*
Julian Sawyer: *Train-hopamania! Last lucky! Success!*
Aribar tries to use Magic Teleport on Digi to save him. He cancels that last action...
Metal Man (GM): All rolls above 15 get you aboard the train.
Julian Sawyer: "VG! JUMP!"
VG lets go of the pedal, and attempts to jump up. He doesn't need a midair jump.
Metal Man (GM): The car trails behind... the Grunt leaps aboard with you guys... The car explodes seconds after everybody is out of it.
Garrick Fy`aar: "We need to find Doopliss... and quickly..."
RocketGrunt: "...Yes! We're far away from that terrible car..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "It's just starting, slick. You ride with the Questers, you get used to craziness... most of the time..."
VG: "...maybe we should let Metal drive next time."
Aribar hrms and walks towards the front of the train... Or the direction he thinks is the front.
Metal Man (GM): You can walk up across the train, now... it's peaceful.
Julian Sawyer: "Maybe we should just WALK next time."
Garrick Fy`aar smacks VG in the back of the head.
VG: "OW!"
Digifanatic: "Phew... time to relax... for a fraction of a second..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Idiot..."
Julian Sawyer: *Moves on.*
Metal Man (GM): Gibby disappeared somewhere back there.
Garrick Fy`aar starts train walking, trying to find a way inside...
Digifanatic sits down on a seat...
VG continues with the others.
Metal Man (GM): You're inside...
Garrick Fy`aar starts along the train, wishing he could use it guns right...
RocketGrunt: "That guy is at the head of the train! I'm sure of it!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hey, you. Rocket guy."
VG: "Lead on then."
Julian Sawyer: "And that's where we're heading."
RocketGrunt: "Yeah?"
Garrick Fy`aar pulls out the M150, hoping he's holding it right "Am I holding this right?"
RocketGrunt: "Stop pointing it at me!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Thanks, all I needed to know."
RocketGrunt: "Wait... maybe you always point it at the last person you've talked to... Remember that."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hey, that makes sense. Thanks guy." *He holsters it.*
VG: .oO(I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots... even though most of these guys aren't)
Garrick Fy`aar starts off walking toward the head of the train.
Aribar is already heading to the front.
VG follows Garrick.
Metal Man (GM): You all reach the front.
Garrick Fy`aar glances around...
Metal Man (GM): Doopliss is there... by the controls.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Knock knock, clone man."
Doopliss: "Hah! You followed me... nice job, Slick."
Garrick Fy`aar: "That's my line."
Doopliss: "But there's a problem with your good ole' scheme!"
Aribar wonders if his sword is still in Doopy.
VG: "And what would that be?"
Metal Man (GM): The sword is, indeed, stuck in between his eyes.
Aribar: "...Doopliss, doesn't that hurt?"
Doopliss: *Gestures widely, as the sword flies out* "No. Guess why? I'll give you three guesses."
Aribar: "Because you're immortal?"
Doopliss: "Nope!"
Aribar: "Because if you don't tell me I'll teleport you outside this fast-moving train?"
Digifanatic: .oO(He's a ghost... nah, that never works...)
VG doesn't bother to guess.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...because you've been strengthened by Kuja."
Doopliss: "Nada! And no. Now... for the answer!"
Julian Sawyer: "Because you're not you?"
Doopliss: "...Seriously, Mr. Hat. You make my brain hurt. Stop that. Now then... My power is simple. The CRYSTAL STARS!"
VG didn't do a thing, though...
Aribar: "...Uuuuuhuh."
Doopliss: *Is surrounded by the Crystal Stars... all seven of them.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "...jeez, another set of mysterious legendary items."
Doopliss: "With these... I can rule the world... just like the Shadow Queen! ...And destroy you all without even a battle!"
Julian Sawyer: *Tries taking one.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "I'd like to see you try, Doopliss..."
Aribar: "Hrm... Magic Teleport!" *He tries teleporting one to outside the train.*
Garrick Fy`aar draws the M150
Digifanatic: "I wouldn't try that, Jules..."
Metal Man (GM): Julian: You're hit by lightning. 100% electric damage.
Digifanatic: "I hope you don't mind me saying that..."
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: You are suddenly stunned.
Aribar: "!!"
Doopliss: (EvilVoice) "Do not dare touch these... they are mine!"
VG doesn't do a thing... this isn't good.
Digifanatic puts on the Fire Tunic... just in case; he doubts it'll work in combat (regardless of when it'd be)...
Doopliss: (EvilVoice) "Your charades have gone on too far! Kill yourselves now, or I'll kill you for yourselves!"
Garrick Fy`aar is sure his gun is pointed at Doopliss, since he talked to him last. So... he unloads a series of shotsat him.
Metal Man (GM): The shots hit a shield... a rainbow shield.
Doopliss: (EvilVoice) "You dare attack me now? Perish!"
Metal Man (GM): A rainbow beam is shot at Garrick ..The curse is gone! ...But he's also lost a life, instantly dead.
VG decides to try something... unconventional. He kneels down, and attempts to pray for help.
Garrick Fy`aar comes back when he can...
Metal Man (GM): ...you hear a *CLICK* From behind. Wolfman and Metal... both very dented up and stuff... and Cornelius, for no reason... reappear.
Julian Sawyer: "You're back!"
Metal Man: "...Gah! No time! Flee!"
Cornelius: "You guys should watch it next time."
Wolfman has no clue how he got unconfused... but no matter.
Garrick Fy`aar hops down from the revival pad.
Cornelius directed that towards Metal and Wolfman.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Out! NOW!"
Metal Man: "This is no time to talk. We must run from him!"
Aribar guesses he's out of the stun... The elf quickly goes to grab Moonlight and runs away.
Doopliss: "How ironic. The first to come towards me flee."
Metal Man (GM): You do so successfully.
VG goes towards Metal.
Cornelius follows behind Metal Man.
Wolfman was already with Metal.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Mewtwo, come in!"
Mewtwo: "...?!? Some freaks are attacking... they turned you into a... whaaaa?"
Metal Man (GM): Mewtwo looks back and forth... to a robotic Garrick off the camera... and then at you...
Mewtwo: "...Gah!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Mewtwo, that Garrick is a fake! Blast him! NOW!"
Metal Man (GM): Doopliss has taken a rather hasty escape while you were running/looking, etc.
Cornelius: "Crud, he's gone!"
Metal Man (GM): Mewtwo turns to face him as he is hit by a thunderbolt from a Team Rocket Member's Pikachu.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...DAMN it! Nova, come in!" *He turns his gun on the Team Rocket grunt...*
Wolfman attempts to contact SIMBER.
Julian Sawyer: "...Wuss."
Nova: "Yes?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "We need a immediate warp to the stadium. Everyone on my position except the Team Rocket member. NOW!"
RocketGrunt: "...Sir... it was requested that we destroy your clones. It is being done... did you not hear?"
Cornelius turns to the rocket grunt.
Wolfman: "Mewtwo was not a clone."
Metal Man: "Yeah. I told them to."
Cornelius: "So you attack our home!" *He draw his umbrella and points it to the Rocket Grunt.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Nova, make that all of us."
Cornelius: "What?"
Nova: "Okay, then."
Cornelius puts it up.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Warp all of us to the stadium, ASAP."
Metal Man (GM): *Big warp* Everyone is back at the stadium. The curses are gone off of everybody... And the stadium is now safe, thanks to Team Rocket Members.
Garrick Fy`aar walks out of the warp room...
Cornelius: "I don't believe it, Team Rocket is the good guys?"
Metal Man (GM): Giovanni is there...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I take it everything is safe?"
Cornelius: "I hope."
Giovanni: "Hello. We have done our part, and everything is safe."
Julian Sawyer: "Great."
Giovanni: "They tried to steal several things from here."
Wolfman: "Like what?"
Giovanni: "We also disabled their traps."
Julian Sawyer: "Such as?"
VG stays quiet right now.
Aribar: "..."
Giovanni: "...What is it with people and details?"
Julian Sawyer: "Good. I thought we'd have to do that ourselves..."
Cornelius is with VG, keeps his mouth shut.
Julian Sawyer: "I'm curious."
Giovanni: "Electronic books, SIMBER, the Warp Room... Everything not glued down."
Julian Sawyer: "...The warp ROOM?"
Wolfman: "How can SIMBER be stolen?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Mewtwo, we've got new info... bad... bad info."
Aribar: "..."
Julian Sawyer: "As in the entire room? Right out of the stadium?"
Aribar: "I hate thieves..."
Giovanni: "I don't know... they tried to steal everything. They may have taken the entire building next."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Doopliss has got his hands on the Crystal Stars, whatever those are."
Wolfman gulps.
Cornelius: "Well, how do we take those *stars*away from him?"
Julian Sawyer: "Steal 'em or beat him."
Giovanni: "Don't ask me. I'm only here because we're not safe anywhere else."
Garrick Fy`aar: "I don't think we can."
Cornelius: "Garrick, who do you think can help?"
Wolfman: "There are guest rooms available in the B Wing if you need them."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...no one. The only thing we can do is stop Kuja and his cronies and collect as many magical items we can. Nova, come in."
Cornelius: "So we are pretty much screwed to the wall on this one..."
Aribar: "I'll be back..." *The elf starts towards his room to make sure nothing was touched.*
Metal Man (GM): Nothing was touched...
Nova: "Yes?"
Aribar: "..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "I need an entire list of every magical and special item on the planet that hasn't been collected by us or Kuja. ALL of them."
Aribar: "Dirty little thieves..." *The elf mumbles some obscurities after he leaves, closes, and locks his room.*
Cornelius runs to his room really quick to make sure no thieves stole his Gravy Bowl.
Nova: "Affirmative!"
Metal Man (GM): The gravy bowl is right where you left it.
Cornelius: "WHEW:."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Get it to me as soon as you get it finished."
Cornelius runs back to the room.
Garrick Fy`aar: "And make sure you put every hacking blocker you can around it."
Nova: "...Yes sir."
Cornelius: "So Garrick, we just collect these artifacts and badabingbadaboom, we got the upper hand?"
Garrick Fy`aar closes the connection "...Nova will be pissed at me now, but now's not the time to be polite. I've had it with this. I still doubt it, but it will stop Kuja in a few places."
Julian Sawyer: "Which is good. So now what?"
Metal Man: "We rest before we go out and find out more about... the crystal stars."
Cornelius: "No use sitting here, can't we go out and kick the bullstuffing out of this *Kuja* fella?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "We'd get killed. Several times over."
Wolfman: "If you would rather become the bullstuffing, sure."
VG goes to the Arena right now... just in case he needs to help with a match.
Cornelius: "Then we are fighting a war we can't win?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "No, we just have to be careful. Make strategic moves, stop Kuja in places. The more we fight, the stronger we get. One day soon, we'll stop Kuja."
Wolfman: "Depends on how you define 'soon'"
Garrick Fy`aar: "We just have to keep working for it."
Cornelius: "Well, being a militia man myself, I can probably help with a strategy."
Garrick Fy`aar: "This is not a war yet... but it will be."
Cornelius: "It will be a bigger war if Kuja learns about my mortal enemy, the Spalding... we'd all be torn up by now he he knew... luckily he doesn't."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Doesn't matter. Kuja is probably ten times as powerful as this Spalding."
Metal Man: "Heck, he's the reason bad guys help us."
Cornelius: "You'd be surprised... Hmm, got a point."
Julian Sawyer: "So... anyone up for Air Hockey?"
Wolfman still has the other beam saber, right?
Garrick Fy`aar: "I'm going to go see where we can learn about the Crystal Stars."
Cornelius: "I'll probably go up for it, Julian"
Garrick Fy`aar walks up to the Big Room computer and starts a search...