Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 190: Suspiciously Easy Disaster Aversion
Date: 12:00:17 AM, April 24th; 4:04:49 PM, April 24th, 2005.
VG is still waiting to see what Twist Ed is doing... he's just YAPPING! He is unsure how long he'd stay frozen during "talking time"
Twist Ed: "Mr. Magellean had the right idea in leaving your organization. It's all fun and games for you people, not even caring for the regular joe like me. Now what may seem like blabber to you is serious business... so just in case you don't get my point."
Editor's Note: To counter this editorializing by the 'GM' of this... he did not have the right idea, Twist Ed is a deranged maniac and Charles ultimately died and led to the annihilation of his home planet. (And Twist Ed seemingly was destroyed as well.)
Charles Magellean (GM): Twist Ed lights one last bob-omb and places it on top of the frozen iceberg. "I actually wonder if you people make a deal with the villains. Most likely." Twist Ed waves bye-bye and runs away. Tick... tick... tick... goes the bob-omb.
VG: .oO(...well, I do have a spare life if I somehow don't get out... but what can I do?)
Charles Magellean (GM): The sun begins to melt the ice...
VG can't use items, obviously... he can't reach his smash dex... at best, he can only fight this... or hope the sun does its thing in time...
Charles Magellean (GM): And the bob-omb goes right into your hands... You have one chance to make it go away.
VG hopes he can overpower the rest of the current ice and get the bob-omb away.
Charles Magellean (GM): *cut-scene* We now observe a beautiful grass plains. It's a sunny day and a bird flies by. The tree that's somewhat in the background has its limbs blown heavily to the west when a large explosion happens. We cut back to vg holding the bomb. The camera pans upward as the ticking goes more rapid. The audience hears a loud ker-blam as the book is lifted upward into the sky, and falls gently back down. The ice is gone, and all that remains of VG is a small ice cube.
Metal Man: *At HQ* "What was that? It didn't sound like Kuja hitting us, for once..."
Charles Magellean (GM): Just kidding. He's just there, just covered in black... something and a duck bill is sitting beside his standing body.
VG: .oO(...this is embarrassing... you try to prove to the others that you can learn how to cook, and you end up getting frozen or something)
Metal Man: "...What's this? A warp tile..." *He wanders onto the warp tile.*
Charles Magellean (GM): Its destination is Eisnaught.
Metal Man appears... nearby.
Charles Magellean (GM): As an added bonus, the book lands on your head, you grow a large lump, and lands beside your duck bill.
VG shakes himself off... he looks for the book... if it wasn't already destroyed.
Metal Man: "...Who opened this? Why? I need better security..." *He looks around. He randomly waves his machinegun around, expecting Kuja, Doopliss... or even worse than all three put together... the deadly Sky High.*
VG somehow gains the book... and a minor lump from the pain.
Charles Magellean (GM): There is a note attached to it.
VG reads this new note.
Charles Magellean (GM): 'We will meet again, comedy relief.'
Metal Man: "Now then... somebody made a noise around here... and I plan on finding out."
Charles Magellean (GM): '~Signed, Berserker Toad: Twist Ed'
VG: "...okay, this was NOT what I had in mind." *He emphasized the NOT.*
Metal Man: "Is there anyone out here? Anybody? Helloooooo?"
VG is probably hearing this... "Hello?!?!?"
Charles Magellean (GM): The both of you hear voices. VG, it might be someone hostile... ready a bazoose-ka.
VG can't tell... he gets a bazooze-ka ready, just in case. (if you are going to use it, use the right spelling) He keeps his bazooze-ka out... he attempts to turn to the source of the voice.
Charles Magellean (GM): The hostile is coming closer....
Metal Man: "It is I... Metal Man! Who's out there?"
VG: "Metal? It's VG!"
Charles Magellean (GM): VG, he lies! Fire!
VG for some reason doesn't believe that... (Locos, I'm going to hurt you...) He fires it towards the voice, not recognizing it and being paranoid...
Metal Man avoids the blast. "Wa-hey! What's with the sudden beer attack? I'm not going to hurt anyone!"
Charles Magellean (GM): You doused out the nearest campfire that you believed was talking.
VG: .oO(...oh great; now I'm turning into Twist Ed.) "...Who is it?" *He is definitely sounding scared.*
Metal Man: "I'm just here to find out who activated a warp tile in HQ... you know... without telling anyone."
VG can't tell if that voice is Metal's or not... still scared and paranoid... but out of alcohol ammo. "Where are you?"
Charles Magellean (GM): You find each other after 5 minutes of Marco Polo.
VG: "...Metal... is that you?"
Metal Man: "Yes. That's me. I can prove it to you. What's been going on?"
VG is basically ready to... well, faint or something. He has had a LONG day with Twist Ed.
Metal Man: "If there's anyone after you, I can blow them up."
VG: "...just take me back to base, and I'll explain once I'm all rested up." *He is definitely about to fall on the ground... in 3...2...1...thunk.*
Metal Man: "Are you sure? I mean, this would be a real good place to shoot up some crazy... ...too late."
Charles Magellean (GM): Metal, int check. You think you see something in the sky.
Metal Man: "What's that in the air? I see something..."
Charles Magellean (GM): You have good eye-sight, but unfortunately it was only a decoy as something rubs against your leg. *KABOOM.*
Metal Man: "I'll kill whoever did this!"
Editor's Note: ...Now that I think about it, later events do result in Charles' destruction by seemingly Illian or an Illian-influenced Xavier... so he technically does.
Charles Magellean (GM): The thing in the sky was a yellowish large like note. It was an airplane flying by with the words as follows. 'You're next after comedic relief.'
Metal Man: "I'll get you, mysterious note person!"
Charles Magellean (GM): It may seem like a good idea to get the hell outta there before something like an arrow with a lighted fuse at the bottom of it shoots at you.
Metal Man writes on the back, in his own writing.
VG is still kind of fainted here... he needs to be picked up!
Metal Man: *Writing* "I shall hunt you down and show you the true madness of Illian Macgregor!" *He then gets VG, picks him up, and heads towards the portal, making the note into a paper airplane and throwing it into the sky.*
Charles Magellean (GM): Mini-mission Rating: Quazi-submediocre. your book. no exp. as for if you want a refund, that's up to metal.
Metal Man (GM): Tell me the stuff to refund, you get refund amount!
Charles Magellean (GM): okay... you got it outta pity.
VG: *REFUND* *1 Bazooze-ka, 1 Star Egg, 1 Guardian Acorn, 1 Super Plush Bear, 1 Super Sneaker, 1 X Defend, 3 Ice Blocks.*
Metal Man (GM): VG gains 3500 coins for his expenditures.
VG applies the item mancer bonus to that.
Metal Man (GM): Meanwhile, back with the other group... Garrick, Ari, and Digi: You have reached the bottom room, deep beneath Atlantis. This room... is very interesting.
Garrick Fy`aar glances around, still Overdrived, still worried...
Aribar hrms and looks about.
Metal Man (GM): There is a 40 foot screen on the North wall; it has no buttons and is off. The floor has several exquisite red rugs, which have little yellow stars and images of Earth on them. They also have gold tassels.
Digifanatic just looks around as usual...
Garrick Fy`aar: "..."
Metal Man (GM): There are six bookshelves: Two on the north, one to the East and one on the West; all are brimming full of many-colored books. Two on the South, too.
Digifanatic: "Not another screen."
Garrick Fy`aar slowly moves around... glancing about... "Magitek books..."
Metal Man (GM): An elaborate chandelier hangs in the middle of the room. It is highly elaborate, made of gold, and has glass finery-style appearance. There is also, a control panel which is towards the back of the room, the South wall. It has a sort of... 'booth', which has glass (hinged) doors to enter and exit. The controls consist of various labeled buttons and a keyboard, a microphone, and some other effects.
Aribar: "Tell me again so it is fresh in my mind... Why are we here again?"
Metal Man (GM): There are two leather chairs, one on the West side, and one on the East side. Both are old; the Western one is more worn, and the Eastern one has golden buttons.
Garrick Fy`aar: "To find info on Kuja..."
Metal Man (GM): Both of the chairs face one another.
Digifanatic takes a look at the control panel, but doesn't touch anything.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Dex, wide spread scan. Give me anything of notice."
Smash Dex: "There is nothing of notice in this area. It is completely unremarkable."
Aribar heads over to one of the northern bookshelves and takes a book to look at.
Metal Man (GM): Digi: The panel has a keyboard, and various colored buttons... the buttons control lights in the room.
Digifanatic: "Hmm..."
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: You see... 'War and Peace' and... 'All Quiet on the Western Front' and... 'Vietnam' All of them, old war books. You notice an old, faded piece of paper. It's stuffed between two books.
Aribar: "Interesting... These books would be worth millions back... What's this?" *He pulls out the paper slowly.*
Digifanatic tries typing commands to find more information about the room; it's historic background, etc.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...earth books..."
Metal Man (GM): It says, very simply. 'I, Gerald Robotnik, hereby purchase the classic collection of the Oxford Library.'
Garrick Fy`aar: "What's that, Digi?"
Digifanatic: "Oxford?"
Metal Man (GM): It then lists all sorts of books.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Oxford? As in the college?"
Metal Man (GM): Digi: The computer appears to not respond.
Digifanatic: "Same thing I'm thinking, like in England. That's prestigious right there."
Metal Man (GM): You notice the Northern bookshelves are named 'War' and 'Culture'
Digifanatic takes a look at some of the books on the list.
Garrick Fy`aar walks over to the chair... then does something odd... and sits down.
Metal Man (GM): Digi: You see yet more books of interest. 'All I needed to know I learned in Kindergarten.' 'Number the stars.' 'Remember the Holocaust.' 'Hiroshima.' Which chair do you sit in, Garrick?
Digifanatic: "World War II..."
Aribar: "All of this knowledge... I wonder how old these books are?"
Metal Man (GM): Garrick sits in the worn-out chair. He'd notice... something in the side of the chair.
Digifanatic: "This is quite interesting... Gerald certainly had interest in warfare."
Garrick Fy`aar: "They're old... from my time... or a good deal before it." *He glances down at the thing in the side of the chair.*
Digifanatic gets out of the booth and heads towards the culture shelf.
Metal Man (GM): It's... a book?
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hmm?" *He pulls it out and reads the cover...*
Metal Man (GM): Digi: You see various things. 'Cooking with Julia Child', 'Rome on 640k a day', 'Dr. Phil's Plan for an ideal life'... The cover says...
Digifanatic: "Okay, this is plain odd."
Metal Man (GM): 'Gerald Robotnik: Unappreciated by the World.'
Garrick Fy`aar: "...huh???" *He checks the author...*
Metal Man (GM): It is written by Gerald Robotnik, of course.
Digifanatic: "Gar? What's going on?"
Metal Man (GM): The book has an emerald green cover.
Digifanatic heads over to where Garrick's sitting.
Aribar follows Digi over. "Find something?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Gerald wrote an autobiography..." *He opens it and reads a section...*
Metal Man (GM): The name of this section is... 'The Worthlessness of Human Life.' It's raving... ranting... depressed... 'Humans ignored me. I did all I could do to improve their lives. I created a spacecraft that could allow them to survive, if Earth were to die... all for nothing!'
Digifanatic: "That's sad, man."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...heh. Check the other book."
Metal Man (GM): 'Their emotions... they stare at me with their mindless gaze... can't they see how superficial they are? I do not care about taxes... why should I listen to them, if they propagate self-destruction?'
Digifanatic walks to the other chair.
Metal Man (GM): The chair has four golden buttons. Ornamental, of course. There is nothing in it. The book raves on endlessly.
Digifanatic: "Okay, nothing here."
Metal Man (GM): 'Humans are worthless... mobians and machines are the only things that matter! I must... escape this worthless realm!'
Garrick Fy`aar: "...try pressing them anyway."
Digifanatic: "Okay." *He tries lightly pushing a button.*
Metal Man (GM): 'Even death is better than to endure these greedy and mindless people!'
Garrick Fy`aar gets up, still reading, and goes to check the booth with the buttons...
Digifanatic: .oO(If only if our Kirby friend was here...)
Metal Man (GM): You press one of the ornamental buttons. Nothing happens. (On the chair) The booth has a keyboard, a mouse, and a pad with nine buttons. 8 buttons are red; one, labeled chandelier, is green.
Garrick Fy`aar presses 'dat button.
Metal Man (GM): The room is now completely dark. The chandelier was turned off.
Digifanatic: "Okay, press it again."
Garrick Fy`aar does so.
Metal Man (GM): The chandelier lights up again.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hmmmm..."
Metal Man (GM): ...During that period of darkness, a book disappeared. You can see it... a gap in the 'War' section.
Digifanatic: "Phew. Never know if that was some lights-off trap..." *He heads towards said gap.* "Then again..."
Metal Man (GM): The book is gone; no trace of it.
Garrick Fy`aar presses a red button... he feels like a Kirby.
Digifanatic checks different things: titles, Dewey decimals, etc. to find out what book it might have been.
Metal Man (GM): You light up the 'Culture' bookshelf with track lighting.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...huh..." *He flicks a few more red buttons...*
Metal Man (GM): You see that what disappeared was... 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Aribar: "This place is weird..."
Digifanatic: "Walter Mitty... don't know one."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick lights up the War bookshelf, and the two West and East bookshelves as well.
Digifanatic: "Is anyone up for turning on the screen somehow?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...well, let's light 'em all up then." *He hits the rest of the red buttons.*
Metal Man (GM): You light up the other two bookshelves... 6 bookshelves lit up... the chandelier... The last two buttons light up each chair with a spotlight.
Digifanatic stands a bit from the shelves just in case...
Metal Man (GM): The room is now rather bright.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...okay... now..." *He kills the chandelier light.*
Digifanatic: "Be prepared for something here..."
Metal Man (GM): The chandelier turns off.
Aribar: "Hrm..."
Metal Man (GM): Besides the odd darkness created near the center of the room, nothing happens.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...okay... let's try the mike..."
Digifanatic: "This is an interesting pattern."
Garrick Fy`aar leans down and speaks into the microphone "...hello?"
Metal Man (GM): *Beep* The computer screen turns on.
Aribar: "I don't think we'll find much of inter... Eh?"
Metal Man (GM): ...It lights up... there's now a large database of files on the screen.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Whoa, we got something here..."
Digifanatic walks over if the booth is large enough.
Metal Man (GM): The booth can fit two people. It has two swivel chairs.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...you try and input some commands, I want to check something."
Digifanatic sits down.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Ari, take my spot."
Digifanatic: "Hmm... feels comfortable."
Smash Dex: "Do you want back up? Questers are on standby."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Wait for the moment, Dex... Just a bit longer..." *He walks away from the booth and over to the chair...*
Aribar: "Wait... What exactly do you want me to do?"
Digifanatic: "Yeah..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Find a startup program or something... The computer is on, just check it out..."
Digifanatic tries typing a "HELP" command.
Metal Man (GM): You see a list of commands.
Digifanatic: "Ah, here we go."
Aribar walks into the both and sits down in the unoccupied chair.
Metal Man (GM): Start-up: Begins main program. Search: Look for book.
Aribar: "I'm not good with computers... But I guess I'll try my best."
Metal Man (GM): Database Link: Displays a list of usable databases. Shut-down: Turn computer off. -All these commands may be issued via microphone.-
Digifanatic: "Should we just start it up?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...yeah... start it up."
Digifanatic: "Start-up."
Aribar: "I say we search for something on Kuja, but whatever... "
Computer: "Program online."
Garrick Fy`aar: "These are all earth books, Ari. I doubt there would be anything on Kuja in here..."
Metal Man (GM): Files and stuff are seen being accessed... and then, the face of Gerald Robotnik appears on the screen. Somber music plays. http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Moonlight_Sonata.mid
Gerald Robotnik: "Who dares summon me from my eternal introspection?"
Garrick Fy`aar looks to the screen and smirks "Hello, Gerald..."
Digifanatic: .oO(Chill man... we intend no harm! Just info on how to beat Kuja...)
Gerald Robotnik: "Wipe that smirk off of your face. You won't have one for long, if you do not respect me!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Okay okay, jeez."
Gerald Robotnik: "I wish to be left alone!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Well, we need information that you might have."
Aribar: "Just how many holograms and backup files DO you have?"
Gerald Robotnik: "No one can cure my insufferable sorrow..."
Digifanatic: "Sorry... but... do you know how we can defeat Kuja?"
Gerald Robotnik: "I am no electronic library! I will not tell such things to useless humans!"
Digifanatic: "Oh well..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "We are not such useless humans, Gerald. We are from Earth."
Gerald Robotnik: "Even more useless... haven't you read it already? No one cares for my inventions... not even Kuja!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "But WE do."
Gerald Robotnik: "I am useless to this terrible world. My inventions are only good to create suffering!"
Digifanatic: "No man... that spaceship that'd take us outta Earth... we care for that thing..."
Gerald Robotnik: "You lie... you cannot care... you do not know my inventions!"
Digifanatic: "Seriously. I'm not lying."
Aribar: "Maybe that's why people don't like your inventions; they harm people."
Gerald Robotnik: "I shall never believe you! ...At last... an honest voice. My inventions destroy and harm you pathetic humans! No wise person would want to use them! The eclipse cannon alone almost destroyed all of humankind... because I wanted them dead!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "But your inventions also help. One invention in particular has helped us a great deal."
Gerald Robotnik: "You cannot know! You are as bad as I am... no one cares for what you do, either... you are hurting people... I cannot let you spread the destruction which my own self-destructive ways unleashed! If only I wasn't a program... I'd kill myself!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "We help people, Gerald. We use your inventions to help people."
Gerald Robotnik: "You destroy people! Every time you go out... you live to kill... to make villains kill more people... and you destroy people with my inventions!"
Aribar: "We help by killing, Garrick... Gerald, sometimes you must harm to help."
Digifanatic: "Exactly."
Gerald Robotnik: "I cannot risk that. I have already harmed too many to help any more. I must leave all people alone... my knowledge is dangerous!"
Aribar: "...Then perhaps you just... Self destruct?"
Gerald Robotnik: "Woe be the body who decided I should live forever... for I have no such thing! No... there shall always be me... it is my eternal punishment for trusting humans!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Gerald, your knowledge can help millions. Billions."
Gerald Robotnik: "And kill trillions!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "No. It would kill one. Kuja."
Digifanatic: "The one we need. And that's all we need to know."
Gerald Robotnik: "I cannot trust any of you. You make no proof. I cannot be swayed by destructive emotions!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "You want proof?"
Aribar: "Gerald, even your choice not to act is killing people."
Garrick Fy`aar: "What if I told you that one of your greatest creations can back me up."
Gerald Robotnik: "I can only trust data... that shows the amount destroyed... exceeds the amount helped..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Can prove that we wish to stop the suffering of billions."
Digifanatic: "Shadow."
Gerald Robotnik: "What dread creation of mine can help anyone? It is impossible!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Indeed. Shadow the Hedgehog."
Gerald Robotnik: "Shadow is a failure! I never intended to release him again... my foolish grandson let him loose... that is his fault, not mine! The true shadow was that gigantic, invincible lizard! Made to destroy everything!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "A failure, he is not, Gerald."
Aribar: "...Gerald, would the Void be better off running around Nintendus or destroyed?"
Gerald Robotnik: "He is dead, fool! Cannot you see the destruction my ideas have caused?"
Metal Man (GM): His screen shows Eisnaught exploding... The moon being blown up by the Eclipse Cannon...
Aribar sighs and shakes his head...
Metal Man (GM): Shadow destroying police officers, mecha, and various other people...
Aribar: "We cannot reason with this thing..."
Metal Man (GM): Ivo, who he considers to be his fault, is then shown in his destructive glory.
Gerald Robotnik: "Look! Had I not had any relatives... I could have saved uncountable lives!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Gerald, in order to get to Kuja, we would have to destroy Ivo as well."
Gerald Robotnik: "Look at the destruction I have caused... am causing... and will cause!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Ivan has saved millions as well with his actions."
Gerald Robotnik: "But Ivo counters him at every step... and Kuja, who is also my fault, is now sending people to die at your doorstep!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Then help us stop them!"
Gerald Robotnik: "The planet is reduced to but three major habitation areas... soon... no one shall be left... I am neutral... I cannot help you."
Garrick Fy`aar: "We have the power, but we lack the knowledge, Gerald!"
Gerald Robotnik: "Cease this meaningless conversation, or I shall destroy you."
Aribar sighs and walks to the entrance of the room.
Gerald Robotnik: "I had no reason to live, and I have no reason to help useless humans!"
Aribar: "Give up... He does not want to help because he is afraid, I think."
Digifanatic: "Afraid that we'll still lose and that it was all for naught?"
Gerald Robotnik: "It is already over. Anything I do would merely kill more people. Kuja will die, but so will all of you... and even my copies will be destroyed."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...then we will die knowing that we were doing something right."
Digifanatic: "Exactly. Think of all the soldiers fighting wars and stuff."
Gerald Robotnik: "By killing and maiming and stealing the money from people forced to fight you."
Aribar: "Gerald, what would happen if Kuja was no more?"
Gerald Robotnik: "People who are just like you... innocent, even... sent to their deaths against their wills. There are only two situations. One would involve him destroying himself and this dimension. The other, which is impossible, is if he were killed."
Aribar: "No... I asked what would happen IF he was no more, not HOW we would make him no more."
Gerald Robotnik: "The fickle nature of humans would rise again, destroying all that you worked for!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "But people would have that one moment of peace..."
Gerald Robotnik: "Before they die a horrible death!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "And when that day comes, WE will stop them!"
Aribar: "Gerald, there will always be good and bad times in life. No force can stop that. We just have to enjoy the good times and remember them during the bad."
Gerald Robotnik: "It is clear now... you wish to kill millions of people, like I did! I must stop you from destroying innocent lives... you evil, twisted people!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Dex, activate the warp."
Aribar: "You're blinded."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Send the Questers on standby in."
Metal Man (GM): The way out of the room locks... Wolfman and Pat appear in the room.
Aribar: "Why, Garrick?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "That's why."
Gerald Robotnik: "Avon! Destroy these worthless people!"
Wolfman suddenly finds himself warped...
Aribar: "...We should warp out, not in... By fighting wouldn't you only prove his point?"
Metal Man (GM): The screen slides into the ceiling. The wall behind it begins to open.
Garrick Fy`aar: "I'm going to prove to you that we mean no harm to the innocence of this world."
Wolfman: "Okay, what was so important as to stop me from watching... oh boy..."
Aribar stands off into the corner to the right of the way out...
Wolfman is getting a look at Gerald... and what's all going on...
Gerald Robotnik: "If you must see why you are totally futile, I shall give it to you! Behold... the combination of human DNA, chaos energy... and science... a weapon that, if unleashed in full, would destroy everything!"
Garrick Fy`aar freezes...
Gerald Robotnik: "This... is what project Shadow was made to build!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...this is it..."
Wolfman awaits this creature... huh? Different shadow?
Aribar: "Gerald, stop for a second. There is one more point I wish to bring up."
Gerald Robotnik: "What last words do you have?"
Metal Man (GM): A cryo-chamber appears in place of the TV... some sort of human is in there... it begins unsealing.
Wolfman: .oO(What other Shadow could there be?)
Aribar: "In this coming battle, I don't want to fight. I am like you, staying neutral. By doing this, the enemy kills my friends. However, if I step in to help, I save lives. If you step into this conflict with Kuja, you could save lives."
Gerald Robotnik: "All I see is death... everything leads to death... even living causes death!"
Aribar: "You could teach humanity the error of their ways!"
Gerald Robotnik: "By destroying them? I will never do that again."
Garrick Fy`aar is frozen in his tracks, staring at the cryo chamber... could this be...
Aribar: "No, not by destroying them. By simply telling them."
Wolfman: .oO(...I need to remember to hold a peace conference or something... perhaps this is what Charles was referring to.)
Aribar: "If they choose not to listen... Then they deserve their fate."
Gerald Robotnik: "None will listen... like you refuse to listen! You have said merely what will happen to you."
Aribar: "Why don't you try? ...What do you have to lose by siding with us?"
Gerald Robotnik: "Enough! Avon... show them that my science is far too destructive for this world!"
Aribar: "..." *Sighs and just stands still...*
Gerald Robotnik: "I would destroy people... like Maria... that were dear to other people... I cannot let that happen."
Wolfman awaits what Gerald is trying to unveil...
Metal Man (GM): Gerald disappears from the screen. The cryochamber opens up... and out walks a strange... demented teenager. With red eyes... black hair, patterned to end like a razor... He has white robes with Atlantean lettering on them.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Dex... verify... question 132..."
Avon: "At last... I have a true body, with which to destroy people who hurt my father!"
Wolfman: "Who is your father?"
Avon: "Gerald Robotnik!"
Wolfman: "I just got here... I don't see how I've hurt him."
Avon: "Now... I cannot let you get away for harming my father... I shall use the power of the planet itself to destroy you!"
Garrick Fy`aar sighs gently, then wonders where his DNA is...
Metal Man (GM): Avon glows... three robots appear around him, like bodyguards.
Aribar wonders what he can do to advert whatever is going to happen... The elf thinks that the best course of action would be inaction, but that would kill his friends.
Avon: *Begins glowing... green energy comes to him from the floor.*
Wolfman just wonders what he's supposed to do... this whole war has gotten out of control.
Metal Man (GM): http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/Nintendo/Gamecube/mp2d_Parasite.mid
Avon: "Full... power!"
Metal Man (GM): He floats off of the ground, a cape behind him, and his eyes lit up, in almost a demonic way.
Avon: "You need not say your prayers... I shall destroy you totally and completely. I, Avon Nartos, shall teach you a lesson!"
Metal Man (GM): *BOSS* SPDs, everybody?
Avon: "You shall not harm this perfect body!"
Metal Man (GM): A crystal shield appears in front of Avon.
Avon: "Now... this is for hurting my father!"
Metal Man (GM): Avon raises his right palm, and points it at Garrick. a HUGE wave of electricity flies at Garrick. *Reroll!* It barely misses Garrick. However, he remains smug.
Wolfman: .oO(Oh great; Avon can get lucky)
Garrick Fy`aar leaps away, skidding along as he just BARELY dodges.
Avon: "You cannot dodge this, slow man!"
Metal Man (GM): A great psionic whirlpool appears in front of Avon... INT checks, everybody. You must choose whether or not to lucky, without knowing if you succeed or fail.
Wolfman is saving luckies.
Metal Man (GM): Okay then. The attack... hits all three of you, dealing 30 damage to each of you. That energy... is added to Avon's HP!
Avon: "I feel stronger, now!"
Wolfman recoils... drat; he somehow got drained, even though he's reploidic!
Aribar: "Heal!" *The elf casts Minor Healing for 20% on Wolfman, Garrick, and himself.*
Garrick Fy`aar unloads a series of regular armor piercers at Avon.
Avon: "Foolish man... your attack will hurt everyone!"
Metal Man (GM): What he says is correct... the bullets are reflected and clones... those attacks now threaten Avon, all three robots, and all the Questers simultaneously! Avon seems immune to the bullets; they bounce off of him. The robots each take 10 hits. Damage per hit?
Wolfman takes 6 net hits worth... ouch.
Metal Man (GM): Each robot takes 170 damage from that barrage.
Aribar dies... He's DEAD dead now. That was his last life.
Metal Man (GM): The hail of bullets kill Aribar, and he's now KO'd.
Avon: "You killed your friend! Hahahahaha!"
Wolfman: .oO(...Avon, you are really going to regret this now)
Avon: "Do not worry... I'll make sure to revive him, soon enough."
Metal Man (GM): Time for the A-007s to go.
Wolfman: .oO(...more likely for the side of evil...)
Avon: "Destroy that man, my loyal robots!"
Metal Man (GM): The three robots blast Garrick for a total of six times with the undodgable psybeam... dealing an instant 60 damage.
Garrick Fy`aar gets busted...
Wolfman knows a bad situation when he sees it... he gets out the Dex, but instead of scanning... he presses the "Get backup here YESTERDAY!" button, hoping to get extra bodies to help.
Metal Man (GM): Well, if Pat ever wakes up, he'll appear... VG will appear too, after resting up from his Twist Ed experience. Metal will appear eventually.
Wolfman decides to reposition himself and get the Bubble Shield out... he's not quite ready to strike at anyone yet. +3 AC til next go around.
Avon: "It is time... to give you perfect equality!"
Metal Man (GM): A wave of energy washes over all the people in the battle. Aribar, Garrick, Wolfman:Tell me your current amount of lives, max HP, and current HP.
Wolfman: 3 lives, 70/145 HP He points to the Mario Hat he still wears.
Metal Man (GM): *Glow* The energy is exchanged... for starters, Aribar is given back all three lives. He's on his first life, with 33 HP left. Wolfman loses a life, and has 67 HP left.
Wolfman somehow died without exploding...?
Metal Man (GM): Garrick is also at two lives, and has only 37 HP left. So, it is now: Wolfman: 2 lives, 112/145% HP
Aribar: "...What just happened?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...he equalized us..."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: 2 lives, 98/135% HP Aribar: 3 lives, 77/100% HP
Wolfman has it adjusted.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: Your MP is left at whatever it was before, because there are no other people to share MP with.
Avon: "Now that you're perfectly equal, it's time to destroy you!"
Aribar: "...Why?"
Wolfman: .oO(I wouldn't exactly call this "perfect", but oh well...)
Metal Man (GM): Gravity is reversed once, sending everyone into the air... then turns back to normal again! Garrick, Wolfman, and Aribar: What are your ACs?
Aribar: "Gah!"
Metal Man (GM): All three of you each take an instant 75 damage.
Aribar dies again.
Wolfman is still alive... barely.
Avon: "And if that isn't good enough, here's something that is!"
Metal Man (GM): Avon points his palm out, and a wall of fire flies at all three of you.
Aribar: "You make no sense..." *The elf says as he gets back up...*
Metal Man (GM): SPD checks to halve; this only effects people who didn't die from the AC attack.
Garrick Fy`aar is dead as well...
Metal Man (GM): So it only affects Wolfman.
Wolfman attempts to avoid this.
Metal Man (GM): You only take half damage... which is 37 fire damage.
Wolfman: *BOOM Boom boom boom boom...*
Avon: "Hahahahaha! I crush you like grapes! See how powerful I am? I am the only ultimate life form!"
Metal Man (GM): That dang crystal shield is gone, though. So you don't have to worry about your attacks hitting everybody simultaneously.
Aribar: "So you're just what your master hates; something that destroys people... Heal!" *The elf casts Minor Healing thrice on Wolfman. 60% healage.*
Wolfman: *Aribar: I'm not back in battle yet wish to readjust?*
Avon: "That is why I am not allowed outside of this holy place."
Aribar does nothing.
Avon: "I was his ultimate creation... I can tear apart anything that threatens my master!"
Garrick Fy`aar fires... *One set of dumdums...*
Aribar: "...I do not wish to threaten your master."
Garrick Fy`aar: *And two grenades*
Aribar: "At least at the moment. I've no reason to!"
Metal Man (GM): What are the targets? Miss hit miss, and hit hit. Ok. So only 007... A-007s turns. They concentrate on healing themselves; with their combined effort, they heal 120 damage off of their most damaged comrade.
Wolfman arrives via MMX teleport for action 1. He uses 100 rings to give himself another life for action 2 He then goes Swords Dancing with Avon, beam saber equipped.
Metal Man (GM): The attack hits him... for no damage. The sword makes a clean slicing sound... like his skin is uncuttable.
Avon: "I am too strong to be hurt by your attack!"
Wolfman: "Slag it!"
Metal Man (GM): The crit just makes a louder noise, as you find his eyes are equally tough.
Avon: "Why don't you scan me with your machine? It could help you a lot!"
Aribar: "Do you have any abilities that are activated with its scanning?"
Metal Man (GM): Who here (Who's not AFK) has more than three items? If so, tell me what items you have.
Avon: "Oh yes. But it's only one. You haven't even managed to hurt me yet, so it wouldn't matter."
Wolfman: *Items* *Mario Hat, Wolf Armor, Book of Complete Randomness, Rings (100), Beam Saber, Megaton Hammer, Grunty Laser Pistol, Close Call, Zora Breather, Wonder Badge.*
Metal Man (GM): And Aribar?
Avon: "I think I'll help myself to some of these items!"
Aribar: "Please don't..."
Avon: "Let's see... what's this? 100 rings? Just what I need!"
Wolfman: "I don't think so!"
Avon: *Absorbs all 100 rings.*
Wolfman attempts to get out of his way first......
Metal Man (GM): You can't really avoid it... he cheaply teleported them into himself.
Avon: "Oh, look... a large hammer to squash you with!"
Wolfman gets hit in the groin...
Metal Man (GM): brb one sec. XD And so, for the first time in history, the hammer hits its mark... except it's a psychopathic NPC that's hitting you with it. 50 damage and stun. Now, for his final attack... he tries to stab you with the the Beam Saber. You take the same damage as if you stabbed yourself.
Wolfman gets stabbed.
Avon: "Hahaha!"
Metal Man (GM): Then... he continues...
Avon: "I liked that hammer attack. I'm gonna Magicopy it!"
Wolfman is NOT liking this... where is the backup support?
Metal Man (GM): He suddenly gains a holographic version of the hammer... and attacks Aribar with it, insta-critting! 50 damage and stun to him as well!
Aribar: "!!"
Metal Man (GM): Then he tries to punch Wolfman with a holographic fist.
Wolfman: *PUNCHED.*
Metal Man (GM): 131 damage. He continues the attack, punching Aribar.
Wolfman: *BOOM Boom boom boom boom...*
Metal Man (GM): Did that hit, Aribar?
Wolfman is BACK at one life... and NO rings this time.
Metal Man (GM): On the plus side, that stun was eliminated by being shredded by a hologram. 4 damage to Aribar! Then he punches Wolfman with it.
Wolfman DIED.
Metal Man (GM): ...He punches thin air.
Avon: "Darn it! I wanted to punch you more!"
Metal Man (GM): for now* VG appears! His turn.
VG arrives... and doesn't like what's going on. He first uses 100 rings on Wolfman, then makes sure Aribar gets another 100 rings.
Avon: "What? You have so many items... I MUST USE THEM FOR MYSELF!"
VG: "I don't think so."
Metal Man (GM): The A-007s don't like VG. But they heal themselves some more instead... They each concentrate, healing all of their first member's HP instead. Wolfman... somebody better dex Avon!
Wolfman will do the dexing after coming back via Melee platform. *Action 2* *SCAN.*
Smash Dex: "...DING!"
Avon Nartos
Note: When scanned, Avon becomes invincible for one round.
HP: -165/1500%
STR: 40
SPD: 40
INT: 40
AC: 25 - Immune to all but elemental attacks.
Special: Avon may reroll one result per round. This includes enemy attacks!
Attacks: 3
Crystal Shield: Reflects all ranged attacks, making it so they instantly hit EVERYONE!
Electric Discharge: d20+15, deals 150 electric damage per hit.
Energy Steal: DC 20 INT check for all; those who fail lose 30 HP, which is recovered by Avon.
Equal Energy: Avon balances out the MP and HP of everybody so that they have equal MP and HP!
Gravity Assault: Avon reverses gravity twice, taking his own AC in damage... and dealing (all Quester's ACs put together) damage.
Inferno: DC 15 SPD check to halve; 75 full, or 37 half.
Item Rebellion: Avon takes three items from the target, and uses them for himself!
Magicopy: Avon copies an attack off the opponent and flings it back at them with the same result as when it was first used!
Positronic Fist: d20+15; if hit, d150 damage. Attack continues until Avon misses.
Prayer of Peace: Everyone is disarmed.
Railgun: 15 d20+15; 15 damage each.
Shadow Shredder: d20+15, affects all. 45 dark damage per hit.
Spartacus: All attacks hit random targets, for one round.
Status Swap: Avon swaps status affects with everyone. Can even be used while stunned or frozen!
Stop That!: Avon disables a move he hates for the rest of the battle. Can only be used four times.
Three Terrible Lightning Bolts: Deals 75 electric, affects three, instant stun, blind, and paralysis on hit.
Avon: "See? I'm actually gaining HP from fighting you! Hahahahahahaha!"
Metal Man (GM): ...Then he glows, and becomes invincible until it's his turn again... which is very soon.
Wolfman has no elements... he just gets Bubble Shielding.
Avon: "Now... I pray... for peace!"
Metal Man (GM): Everybody is instantly disarmed.
Avon: "Now then... eat bullets, Elf!"
Wolfman didn't have a weapon out.
Metal Man (GM): 15 damage per hit.
Avon: "Shadow Shredder!"
Metal Man (GM): This attacks affects everybody... anyone hit takes 45 dark damage.
Aribar is dead...
Wolfman doesn't get hit.
Metal Man (GM): *It also misses Garrick* He won' t have any stun bonuses. Err... penalties. Nope. Avon isn't immune now. It only lasted for the round Wolfman scanned him in. This is a new round.
Aribar: "...I wanted to try and remain neutral, but you've prevented me from doing that!"
Avon: "Neutrality is a joke, anyway. Just try to hit me without adding to my HP!"
Aribar starts charging Terrorbolt, then unleashes the electric fury on Avon! 324% Electrical damage.
Avon: "...You hurt my beautiful face! I'll kill you for this!"
Metal Man (GM): Indeed... your attack scratched his face.
Avon: "My perfection has been broken by lightning!"
Aribar had enough with niceness. If he's going down, he's going to enjoy it!
Garrick Fy`aar unLOADS on the sucker!
Aribar: "What? That ugly mug was good looking to begin with? Could have fooled me!"
Garrick Fy`aar blasts him with grenades of fire.
VG hopes Metal appears.
Metal Man (GM): Miss miss... and hit!
Avon: "Curse you, slowly aiming Earthling! I need more power! You're actually damaging me... which should be impossible."
VG gives himself some Super Sneakers so he can have extra SPD for this next trick.
VG now attempts to chuck... the ICE BLOCK at Avon!
Aribar: "Pah! It is impossible for you to even hope of defeating us. A Goomba could deal (And as a proven fact, did deal) more damage than you!"
VG luckies.
Avon: *Dodges the ice bl-- is hit.*
VG: *FROZEN!*
Metal Man (GM): Well, Avon can't reply. He's frozen solid. Of course, this makes him harder to hit, because fire will defrost him.
VG gets in the Reflector Position in case those 007 robots want to fire at him.
Metal Man (GM): ...The A-007s decide to heal Avon for their turn. Avon regains 120 HP.
Wolfman gets a quick scan at these A-007's... he doesn't remember them.
A-007
HP: 0/300% 170/300% 170/300%
STR: 20
SPD: 20
INT: 20
AC: 15
Attacks: 2
Strong Punch: d20+5, deals 20 damage.
Lasergun Blast: 5 d20+5, deals 5 damage per hit.
Psybeam: Instant hit, deals 10 damage.
Healing Wave: Heals 20 damage.
Smash Dex: "Scanning finished."
Wolfman: "...simple." *He gets his Beam Saber out and goes to A-007 #3...it's dance time!*
Metal Man (GM): *Hit.*
Wolfman then rears his left hand for a smashing left hook at -1 accuracy... please let this hit.
Metal Man (GM): *Hit.*
Wolfman: *Turn over. wah.*
Metal Man (GM): Avon spends his turn escaping his icy prison.
Avon: "You damaged my hair! YOU FREAK!"
Aribar: "Hrm... Let's just singe that hair away! Fire Elemental Barrage!" *The elf fires three Fire Elemental Blasts directed at Avon's head for 105% Fire damage each.*
Avon: "Ow! You injured my face! I'm going to kill you, then heal you, then kill you again for that!"
Aribar: "Heh... I'm improving on your ugly mug! Your most destructive power is the fact that you can break mirrors by just looking at them!"
VG first attempts to freeze Avon again.
Metal Man (GM): You throw it madly into the wall.
VG will use a 2nd ice block instead of using a lucky.
Metal Man (GM): You hit Avon.
Avon: "Stop that! You're torturing ice cubes!"
VG goes to the most damaged A-007 to take it out... and hopefully others... with some Grab and Dunking. (ice attack was 15% BTW)
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
VG dunks him on the next-to-most damaged A-007, dealing at least 16 to the grabbed one... and who knows what else?
Metal Man (GM): 16 to the grabbed one, and... what's VG's AC? And 32 to the next one ..Unfortunately, it's not enough to kill either one.
Avon: "Heal me, robots!"
Metal Man (GM): Avon regains 120 HP.
Wolfman charges towards the most damaged A-007...and slides into him. Wolf's foot.
Metal Man (GM): Hit. Nope, not quite! 278/300%
Wolfman swaps to the Hammer for action 2...he's going for you know what.
Metal Man (GM): *KER-BONK* The robot dies.... Wolf gains 150 EXP.... Then another A-007 is carted in to replace it!
Wolfman: "Slag it!"
Avon: "Hahahaha!"
Avon: "It's about time to take you all down at once... SPARTACUS!"
Metal Man (GM): Suddenly, strange holographic clones of Spartacus appear everywhere.
Wolfman tries to see if he remembers this... Spartacus.
VG: "What the?"
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Aribar: "Who are these guys?"
Metal Man (GM): Greek slave who lead a revolt... though this is a pretty weird attack.
Wolfman vaguely remembers reading of him now...
Digifanatic: "Okay, now this where reality gets crazy..."
Wolfman: .oO(How could a slave revolter hurt us?)
Avon: "The ancient slave who rebelled against his masters... whom his men sacrificed themselves to protect him by saying they were all Spartacus! Now then... Stop That!"
VG: "Is there a point to this history lesson?"
Julian Sawyer: "Wasn't that a movie?"
Editor's Note: I don't get the point of the reference, either.
Metal Man (GM): *BZZT* Aribar's Terrorbolt is disabled for the rest of the battle.
Avon: "If you know Earth history, then yes."
Aribar: "...A minor setback."
Avon: "Perhaps I shall show you another movie. Much like Twister."
Deloth: "The world has officially gone insane."
Julian Sawyer: "You know that Spartacus eventually got his butt whooped by the Romans, right?"
Metal Man (GM): Three lightning bolts rain from the skies. This roll effects Digi, VG, and Julian.
Digifanatic is hit pretty easily.
VG avoids the bolt.
Metal Man (GM): 75 electric damage to whoever is hit. Stun, blind, and paralysis to those who are hit.
Julian Sawyer: "ARGHPH!"
Avon: "And now, to finish up... CRYSTAL SHIELD!"
Metal Man (GM): Avon gains a crystallic shield on his right arm.
VG breathes heavily... this fight is NOT going well.
Metal Man (GM): Reminder, neh! *Dex just scrolls information by again*
Avon Nartos
Note: When scanned, Avon becomes invincible for one round.
HP: 279/1500%
STR: 40
Aribar unsheaths the Wand of Wonder, downs a Green Potion, and casts Minor Healing on himself.
SPD: 40
INT: 40
AC: 25 - Immune to all but elemental attacks.
Special: Avon may reroll one result per round. This includes enemy attacks!
Attacks: 3
Crystal Shield: Reflects all ranged attacks, making it so they instantly hit EVERYONE!
Electric Discharge: d20+15, deals 150 electric damage per hit.
Energy Steal: DC 20 INT check for all; those who fail lose 30 HP, which is recovered by Avon.
Equal Energy: Avon balances out the MP and HP of everybody so that they have equal MP and HP!
Gravity Assault: Avon reverses gravity twice, taking his own AC in damage... and dealing (all Quester's ACs put together) damage.
Inferno: DC 15 SPD check to halve; 75 full, or 37 half.
Aribar ends his turn, not wanting to invoke the Crystal Shield.
Item Rebellion: Avon takes three items from the target, and uses them for himself! Magicopy: Avon copies an attack off the opponent and flings it back at them with the same result as when it was first used!
Positronic Fist: d20+15; if hit, d150 damage. Attack continues until Avon misses.
Prayer of Peace: Everyone is disarmed.
Railgun: 15 d20+15; 15 damage each. Shadow Shredder: d20+15, affects all. 45 dark damage per hit.
Spartacus: All attacks hit random targets, for one round.
Status Swap: Avon swaps status affects with everyone. Can even be used while stunned or frozen!
Stop That!: Avon disables a move he hates for the rest of the battle. Can only be used four times.
Three Terrible Lightning Bolts: Deals 75 electric, affects three, instant stun, blind, and paralysis on hit.
Deloth leans over to the others "Guys, we should really run." *Whispering.*
Julian Sawyer: "This is frickin' perfect!"
Aribar: "If I could I would. I never wanted this battle."
Metal Man (GM): You would think that, but you're a bit trapped...
VG: "That's not exactly possible right now."
Metal Man (GM): The only way out is shut, and you're deep underneath an Atlantean city.
Aribar: "...Avon, could you please teleport me back to the stadium?"
VG is tempted to use Duct Tape on Aribar's mouth before he finished that.
Avon: "I'd rather teleport you to the center of Nintendus, loathsome person. You and your 'peace-seekers' destroy everything you touch. I am the same... but we fight fire with fire, so there's no choice in the matter."
VG can't use the Bazooze-ka right now... he'd just hurt everyone else. He uses a Carbos on himself.
Aribar: "'twas worth the shot..."
VG then attempts to use his newly gained SPD... not much of it... to throw a Debarrier Cube at that Crystal thingy.
Metal Man (GM): *BOINGY.*
Sparticus: "I'm Spartacus!"
Deloth edges his way towards the door and examines it.
Metal Man (GM): The cube warps through space, and hits Deloth in the forehead, dealing no damage. It's broken, though.
VG just gets in the Reflector Position then.
Avon: "Heh heh heh!"
VG: *DONE.*
Metal Man (GM): The A-007s take their time healing Avon instead of sending attacks flying in all directions.
Deloth: "Hey, watch the friendly fire!"
Metal Man (GM): Avon heals 120 damage.
VG: "It wasn't my fault!"
Avon: "Give it up, you can't stop me! I'm the only ultimate lifeform!"
Wolfman: "What about Kuja?"
Avon: "I could crush him if I wanted... but only those who provoke father are to be my targets. Kuja was merely ignorant... you came here, and DEMANDED our help!"
Deloth: "Father?"
Aribar: "You just think you're the so-called 'ultimate lifeform'."
Wolfman: "For the record, I came in after this provoking. I don't see why I'm being attacked."
Avon: "Gerald Robotnik, of course. All Questers are merely weapons of mass destruction."
Aribar: "...I've had enough of this. It's time to end this..."
Avon: "There is no escape, fool. You and your comrades condemned yourselves to this place!"
Julian Sawyer: *Can't really do anything, and thanks to being stunned, doesn't have a turn to speak of.*
Aribar: "...You're right, I guess."
Digifanatic is stunned so he loses his turn as well!
Aribar: "I could easily escape this room, but not the elevator shaft..."
VG: .oO(...I need to take a vacation from these guys)
Digifanatic: *X ACC AND PROTEIN GONE.*
Aribar: "Can communications to the Stadium reach here?"
Avon: "Nothing can reach you here!"
Deloth decides to try his new weapon ability.
Avon: "If the planet exploded, this very place would be untouched."
Metal Man (GM): Your target is the middle A-007, regardless of where you aimed it.
Sparticus: "No, I am Spartacus!"
Metal Man (GM): *Boingy* Now... let's see what happens...
Wolfman: "...Spartacus, why do you keep on saying that?"
Deloth: "Well, which one of you really IS Spartacus?"
Metal Man (GM): *Random thing* You steal... 1000 coins off of the robot! All of the holograms chime in at once. "I am Spartacus!"
Julian Sawyer: "SHUT THE HELL UP!"
Deloth: "No, there can only be one Spartacus."
Metal Man (GM): They merely say 'No.' in unison, drowning out Julian and Deloth.
Avon: "What are you doing? Arguing with a machine? Pathetic."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth: Anything else for your turn? Meanwhile, Wolfman, your turn.
Wolfman swaps to his Laser Pistol for action 1, and sees what firing at a Spartacus does.
Metal Man (GM): You hit A-007 number one.
Sparticus: "I am Spartacus!"
Metal Man (GM): *Boingy* The shot was deflected through space.
Wolfman: *15% damage He gets Bubble Shielding... there isn't much that can be done.*
Metal Man (GM): Avon points his hand at Wolfman, and fires off a gigantic burst of energy at him.
Wolfman gets hit.
Metal Man (GM): 150 damage if that hits you.
Wolfman is still alive.
Avon: "Now then... it's time to regain all this energy you have wasted from me! ENERGY STEAL!"
Metal Man (GM): Everyone: INT checks. Everyone but Aribar takes 30 damage.
Julian Sawyer: *Lives!*
Metal Man (GM): The 150 damage dealt then heals Avon...
Wolfman: *BOOM Boom boom boom boom...*
Digifanatic: *MEGA RUSH AND LAST STAND ACTIVATED.*
Wolfman is back at one life.
Avon: "Now that I've had a taste of your energy... time to make you all equal again!"
Metal Man (GM): Everybody: List your max HP, your current HP, and your lives.
Wolfman: *0/145 HP, 1 life.*
VG: *30/120 HP, 3 lives.*
Metal Man (GM): Okay, got it... Allrighty. Digi: Now at two lives, 62/120 Aribar: 2 lives, 22/100 Julian: 2 lives, 22/100 Deloth: 2 lives, 27/105 Wolfman: 2 lives, 112/145 VG: 2 lives, 68/120
Avon: "Hahaha! You're all almost dead at once, now!"
Metal Man (GM): 'Spartacus' effect and the Crystal shield are gone.
Wolfman somehow finds himself back in the field... after dying... huh?!?!?
Aribar: "Tri-blast!" *The elf fires an Electric Elemental Blast, Fire Elemental Blast, and an Ice Elemental Blast at Avon... 105% Electric, 105% Fire, 105% Ice damage.*
Avon: "What? You've injured my face again! Curse you! Unfortunately, all of you will die simultaneously, instead of one at a time."
VG just... well... (see thoughts on next post) .oO(...I was asked to help with THIS fight?!? But... it's... I can't do this...) He is kind of on his knees as he thinks that and other similar thoughts.
Avon: "Hahaha! I've broken his spirit! Wonderful!"
Wolfman: "He wasn't even here during this whole provoking time... I arrived after it myself. How can you just laugh at him like that?"
Deloth: "Heartless..."
Avon: "It is of no consequence. I can take on all challengers! And why should I care for the people responsible for so much suffering?"
Wolfman: "He's not a fighter though!"
Avon: "You never cared for Zio when you killed him, did you? I can't see you weeping over Grunty, either... E Li Three wasn't one either. You mowed him down like the rest."
Wolfman: "I didn't kill Zio, and Grunty was ruining things for everyone. And I certainly don't recall destroying E Li Three."
Avon: "I cannot believe the enemy's lies... only I am correct! I am winning because fate is behind me!"
Aribar: "Are you caring for us now? While you kill us? What do you plan to do after you get rid of us?"
Metal Man (GM): The A-007s heal Avon yet again.
Avon: "To let Kuja destroy himself, of course. Don't you know? Kuja is so powerful, he will use too much energy, and burn up!"
Aribar: "How many innocents will he kill before that?"
Avon: "Innocents whom you scattered to the wind. I can smell the ruins of Eisnaught from here... and Doughnut City is next. Not to mention that idiotic Ivan Robotnik."
Wolfman: .oO(...we did NOT intentionally destroy those places)
Aribar: "...Avon, what is on the other side of the doorway?"
Avon: "All are fools... playing with fickle people, and killing themselves and their targets no matter what the result!"
Aribar motions to the only way into and out of the room.
Julian Sawyer: *Yeah, I'm just gonna skip here.*
Avon: "It is called an exit. You know. The thing with stairs. Which has no elevator anyway."
Wolfman: "...why don't you take that high almighty attitude and shove it?" *He is VERY annoyed.*
Avon: "You're the ones with the attitude. I'm only fighting fire with fire!"
Aribar: "...Thanks... I'll be leaving soon."
Deloth glances around the room.
Julian Sawyer: *On second through, uses his Guerilla Fighter skill to check the room out.*
Avon: "There is no escape, fool! This island belongs to Gerald!"
Digifanatic loses all his to-hits and stuff.
Metal Man (GM): Julian: You see two chairs, some bookcases, and a control panel that hasn't been used.
Digifanatic: *...and because using items will just waste its time, it's best that he just decides to defend for now.*
Julian Sawyer: *Heads to the control panel.*
Metal Man (GM): Julian uses his turn to wander into the panel. Note that Avon's attacks seem to only affect you guys; the study is left unperturbed. Julian: You'll be able to play with the control panel next round.
Deloth hits whatever's in range with a Friction Blade, hopefully distracting Avon.
Metal Man (GM): Your attack destroys a bookshelf.
Avon: "...You damaged a book shelf? HOW QUESTER-LIKE OF YOU!"
Metal Man (GM): Avon is now mad. Super-mad. Like, he's surrounded by a red aura.
Deloth: "Curse my bad aim."
Wolfman: .oO(...okay, what was Deloth thinking?!?)
Avon: "How dare you... damage the volumes my father has collected for years?"
Deloth watches the books burn "I can pay for that."
Avon: "I will shred your brains into salad!"
Metal Man (GM): *Glow TRANCE MODE*
Julian Sawyer: "...Oh hell."
Wolfman: "Slag it..."
Deloth: "I thought only Questers could Trance!"
Wolfman: "That's not exactly true Deloth..."
VG barely notices the glow; still kind of spirit broken as Avon said.
Avon: "Do what? I merely wish to annihilate you!"
Digifanatic: "What?!"
Metal Man (GM): Avon is now entirely focusing towards Deloth; other people are free to do things without fear of damage. Deloth: Do you do anything else?
Avon: "I'll even leave these other, minor fools for later... you, I must destroy!"
Deloth uses a Red Essence on himself.
Wolfman: .oO(...drat; so much for protecting VG... Deloth needs it mo--...never mind...)
Avon: "What's that? A pathetic little essence? I can fix that!"
Wolfman is going to basically protect VG this turn... anything that comes to him, goes to me instead. *Done.*
Avon: "Now then... I need a little help from VG there... ITEM REBELLION!"
Wolfman: "Don't even think about it!"
Metal Man (GM): Does VG have any debarrier cubes? Or Wolfman, for that matter?
VG doesn't even notice......
Digifanatic would probably list a whole line of bleeps, but his character is not like that...
Metal Man (GM): Three debarrier cubes fly at Deloth. The Red Essence is neutralized by the cubes.
VG thinks he'd notice that... INTing here.
Metal Man (GM): You notice it, yes; but you cannot stop it.
VG: "Hey! Haven't you ever heard that stealing is wrong?!?"
Avon: "Now then... it is time to treat you to the most destructive death in existence!"
Metal Man (GM): *TRANCE MOVE: ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION.*
Wolfman: .oO(...Tifa... I'm sorry...)
Metal Man (GM): You notice the dimensional area where Deloth is in begin to... shred into pieces.
Wolfman awaits the move.
Metal Man (GM): The entire place shakes.
Deloth: "I seem to be falling apart here..."
Metal Man (GM): *BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM.*
Digifanatic: *He probably wouldn't due to his blindness, but...*
Metal Man (GM): Deloth, and a huge bit of the island, is blown into infinity bits and pieces. Oh, right. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!! Deloth: -3 lives. Instant game over for this mission. However, your sacrifice wasn't in vain.
Editor's Note: Geez, touch a bookcase and get annihilated. That totally is fair. NOT.
Julian Sawyer: "...Jebus!"
Metal Man (GM): Two things begin to happen. A. The A-007s are destroyed in the same volley. All of them. B. Avon is no longer tranced.
Wolfman: .oO(...why don't I feel anything?!?)
Metal Man (GM): C. Avon cannot attack for the round after the amazing destruction.
Avon: *Huff* *Puff* "I... destroyed him... it felt... so good..." *Cough.*
Aribar downs a Green Potion, casts Revive on Deloth (Back to 1 life), and sits down in one of the chairs after he sheaths his weapon. "I quit... Since I can't escape, I just won't fight!"
Avon: "Ugh... lost... robots... curses... Must... regain... energy..."
Metal Man (GM): *Because you hit the bookcase of the most powerful boss to date of SSQ Who was mopping the floor with the Questers to begin with.*
VG is still upset, but at least attempts to make himself useful... he throws two ice blocks at Avon.
Metal Man (GM): *Miss and... uhhh... barely miss.*
Avon: "Gah! Cubes everywhere..."
VG goes back to sorrow position.
Metal Man (GM): The A-007s are gone completely, thankfully.
Avon: "Even without my robotic guards, I remain unstoppable!"
Metal Man (GM): Julian: What do you do with the controls?
Julian Sawyer: *Is at a console Looks at what they are, first off.*
Metal Man (GM): Keyboard, microphone, mouse, 9 green buttons.
Julian Sawyer: "Green buttons with labels?"
Metal Man (GM): They correspond to the lighting of the room.
Julian Sawyer: *Monitor?*
Metal Man (GM): The monitor is a screen across the room. You can see it; the computer is fully activated.
Julian Sawyer: *Clickable stuff with the mouse?*
Metal Man (GM): Yes.
Julian Sawyer: *INT Check, then.*
Metal Man (GM): What exactly do you want to do with this check? I.E. what purpose shall it be for?
Julian Sawyer: *Decide what to do with all the stuff at his disposal.*
Metal Man (GM): So you want the computer to think that for you, or are you merely making up your mind?
Julian Sawyer: *The second one.*
Metal Man (GM): Ok then. Using the INT check, you see... You can read various database files, send a message to anywhere of your choice, shut down the computer, or activate Gerald.
Julian Sawyer: *Clicks the Database thing first.*
Metal Man (GM): You click database... what do you want, Julian, from the database?
Julian Sawyer: *What is there to choose from?*
Metal Man (GM): Well, you've got Marician data, some sort of encrypted secret thing, data on Kuja, and data on the Questers.
Julian Sawyer: *Looks to see how hard it would be to get access to the encrypted secret data thing without trying to access.*
Metal Man (GM): You'd have to decide to look in there, first. There's not enough time to casually see how heavily encrypted it is.
Julian Sawyer: *Does that then.*
Metal Man (GM): One more INT check.
Editor's Note: I must call out the lameness of constantly asking questions as Julian has here, rather than, I dunno, roleplaying. That might have been more interesting to read.
Deloth: **
Metal Man (GM): Well, you open the files. You get a ton of information. It scrolls.
Avon: "A hacker, eh? Let's see what you found..."
Metal Man (GM): Text scrolls across the screen. It says... 'Project Eternal Shadow'
Digifanatic: "Well, what have you found, man?"
Julian Sawyer: *Tries to keep up with it.*
Metal Man (GM): 'I have labored to create a being which can destroy all it faces, without fail. By combining organic with metallic, yet at the same time, staying with technology...'
Julian Sawyer: "Something called 'Project Eternal Shadow'...This is pretty deep stuff..."
Metal Man (GM): 'I have made something that is almost invincible, yet lacking any obvious weak spot. This is to be used in dire moments, and is conceived to combat the Questers, and Kuja, whether or not they attack me. These files are extremely secret. Now then, into the details.'
Julian Sawyer: "We're in trouble... Hey, secret files!"
Metal Man (GM): It trails off into gibberish about DNA splicing... requiring DNA from the Questers and Kuja... And that it would combine both with the power of the planet itself... Then, using the 'immortality' which was granted to the original Project Shadow... this being would be nearly unstoppable. It shows some more equations... DNA was found from Aribar via his smash dex... DNA was found from Garrick via a scan. DNA from Pat was found by falsely arresting him.
Aribar: "Hrm... Another copier."
Metal Man (GM): DNA from Digifanatic, Julian, and Deloth came from money they paid to G&W.
Digifanatic: *!!!*
Metal Man (GM): It goes on... DNA from VG and Wolfman was taken from the fighter remote itself, as well as all of the fighters.
Digifanatic: .oO(They're really serious about my fingerprints?!)
Metal Man (GM): Furthermore, that Shadow was used to collect DNA as well... by giving out the emeralds, which would send a copy of the DNA of the carriers to him.
Julian Sawyer: "This guy is GOOD..."
Metal Man (GM): The current people include Aribar, Locos, and even Ivan Robotnik, and Ivo Robotnik... and Kuja!
Digifanatic: "Shadow?! We're getting back on him..."
Avon: "Amazing... I am made from the DNA of the strongest beings of this world, and powered by the life of the planet itself!"
Metal Man (GM): It continues, with some notes as the project is completed. 'Unfortunately, there is a single mistake that we caused. The damage created is great...'
Wolfman: "...but you are powered by the things you hate. Namely... us."
Digifanatic: .oO(If we only knew how to shut down Nova perhaps...)
Metal Man (GM): 'In the attempt to access Valhalla's computers, we awakened them.'
Wolfman: "If you want to destroy the Questers... you have to destroy yourself."
Metal Man (GM): 'They are sentient... and have unknown agendas... And appear to have rebuilt their own ship.'
Julian Sawyer: "What the heck is Valhalla?"
Digifanatic: "Questers' ship. Airship, to be exact."
Metal Man (GM): 'To prevent from a cross-referencing mistake, in which the Valhalla machine uses my creation for evil, I will store him indefinitely, only to be used to battle the Questers or Kuja, when they discover this place.'
Digifanatic: "Never mind... I have bad knowledge with it."
Gerald Robotnik: "Those files are wrong! You were never made from your enemies!"
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Wolfman hopes his logic on enemies and DNA will help us...
Julian Sawyer: "So what happens now?"
Avon: "So... you were hiding this from me... all this time..."
Gerald Robotnik: "You are an abomination... you have to be controlled! If you escape... all is lost!"
Wolfman watches this chat between Gerald and Avon... this is going to be interesting.
Avon: "Perhaps, Questers, I shall spare you. Only... because there are bigger monsters in this world."
Metal Man (GM): Questers: +3000 EXP For those who participated in this battle
Avon: "I shall not persist in injuring innocent bystanders."
Gerald Robotnik: "You have to understand... it was for your own good! Everyone's good!"
Sumner: "VG is NOW a level 21 Fungus!"
Julian Sawyer: *LEVEL UP! 186 EXP FROM LEVEL 17*
Gerald Robotnik: "This can't be... it's completely illogical. Avon! Destroy them! Defeat them! Keep the homeland pure!"
Avon: "I'll keep it pure... yes... but... you are the person who killed the true heroes."
Wolfman gains a level... HUH?!?!?!?!?
Avon: "And wanted to kill them as well. They are misguided; you are malicious. I shall use this place to save the Questers... and to lead them back onto the path of righteousness!"
VG gets up from his trance state...
Metal Man (GM): The place begins to rumble.
Gerald Robotnik: "What? WHAT? This can't be... you're activating the rockets!"
VG: "...guys, what's going on?"
Avon: "I will defeat Kuja's fleet for you."
Metal Man (GM): The screen shows the island, floating... FLYING....
Deloth: "I dunno, but things are starting to really look up."
Metal Man (GM): It's flying towards Quester HQ.
Julian Sawyer: "You may feel free to shower me in praises and adoration now."
Avon: *Goes into the control booth.*
Wolfman: .oO(...I'm definitely confused now.)
Deloth: "Will cold hard cash do?"
Gerald Robotnik: "...You can't do this... I'll activate all the self-destruct commands!"
Avon: "So-long, Gerald."
Deloth tosses Julian 500 coins.
Gerald Robotnik: "Nooooooo!!!!!" *Winks out of the TV.*
Wolfman is still watching all of this happen... this doesn't make ANY sense.
Avon: "Now then... it is time to unify the planet... to defeat Kuja!"
Nova: "Link engaged. All 21 modules online."
Julian Sawyer: "I'm still in here..."
Wolfman: "Avon? NOVA?!?!?"
VG: "Next thing I know, SIMBER will be here to help..."
Nova: "Yes. Could you please move, Julian? You're sitting in my seat."
Deloth: "Hail, hail, the gang's all here..."
Aribar: "...Quite a change..."
Julian Sawyer: "I'll be going then..." *Steps out of the booth.*
Avon: "Activate full battle mode!"
Deloth sits down and enjoys the ride.
Wolfman is still confused...
Nova: *Gets into the booth, which closes* "All defenses activated."
Metal Man (GM): Kuja appears on the screen.
Julian Sawyer: "I'm the greatest."
Kuja Tribal: "What is this? An Atlantean island, flying at me? Ha ha ha ha ha! Not even the Questers can top the idiocy of Gerald."
Avon: "Gerald? I'm sorry. I deleted him."
Deloth: *Muttering* "Blow it out your ear, scuzzbag."
Nova: "The full planet is under our control. You will be terminated."
Kuja Tribal: "Not so fast... A--... Avon? No! ...The faith machine is failing! What is this? Impossible... you were supposed to destroy the Questers!"
Julian Sawyer: "I changed that."
Deloth smirks.
Kuja Tribal: "No matter. I'm not going down without a fight."
Wolfman: "In case you forgot Kuja... NOTHING is impossible for the Questers."
Kuja Tribal: "Lord Crodus. Zio. I need back up."
Deloth: "I think you'll have your hands nicely full, Kuja."
Lord Crodus: "Lord Crodus, reporting in. All ships have been activated!"
VG is ready to use items for backup if need be.
Zio: "I shall teach you worthless Questers to mess with us!"
Metal Man (GM): ...The island flies and hovers over SSQ HQ, which pops out of the ground. A blue shield covers them both. However, Kuja's, Zio's, and Crodus's ships appear, and attack simultaneously.
Nova: "Shields are at 99.9999% and holding."
Deloth: "Whoa. Didn't know the stadium could do that."
Wolfman: "There are many things you don't know Deloth."
Julian Sawyer: "So we just sit here and watch?"
Avon: "You deserve some rest. I almost killed you... for naught. Now... witness the power... OF NINTENDUS!"
Metal Man (GM): He presses a button.
Deloth: "Pretty much just sit and watch. Got any popcorn?"
Julian Sawyer: "'Sok. Just kill those guys."
Metal Man (GM): ...Suddenly... THOUSANDS of lightning bolts lance out, hitting ships. Meteorites fly in from the atmosphere, clobbering other ones.
Julian Sawyer: "Veeg? Popcorn?"
Metal Man (GM): Solar Flares even come in, roasting entire capital ships.
Aribar: .oO(Biiig light show... By Whaller... How could so much power be possible?)
VG: "No thanks."
Metal Man (GM): The island itself fires off miniature black holes into them.
VG just watches all of this in awe.
Metal Man (GM): Ships are crushed, mangled, and overkilled.
Deloth: "Shazam."
Metal Man (GM): The land itself flies up and hits them.
Julian Sawyer: "Holy crap! That's awesome."
Metal Man (GM): Trees fly up like spears, exploding into them with machinegun-like speed. Tornadoes throw ships into hazards.
Lord Crodus: "We've been hit! All systems are--" *KRSHHHHHHH.*
Deloth: "Wow, even the whole planet hates them enough to attack."
Zio: "I cannot assist you any longer. The power is too much!"
Julian Sawyer: "Is this being recorded?"
Metal Man (GM): Zio's small, black escape ship disappears. The rest of his fleet is destroyed.
Wolfman: .oO(...probably.)
Nova: "Of course."
Aribar: "Is not this... Just a bit too destructive?"
Kuja Tribal: "Not even... your almighty power... can stop me... I shall not let you succeed."
Julian Sawyer: "Awesome. I'd like a tape when we're done."
Metal Man (GM): *Kuja's theme.*
Avon: "This makes no sense. Why hasn't he died yet?"
Nova: "He defies physics."
Deloth: "Make another copy for me."
Wolfman: "Can we make his own Trance defy him or something?"
Kuja Tribal: "You fools. Did you think your attacks could match my own? I give you... your destruction. I summon... Ark... master of infinite annihilation!"
Metal Man (GM): A warp-hole appears in the middle of the sky... it seems to rip and tear at the plane.
Deloth: "Aww, not more of that..."
Metal Man (GM): Suddenly, a huge FLASH hits the ship.
VG sees the flash... what happened?
Nova: "...Shields... everything... Ahhhhhh!!!!"
Avon: "Systems aren't responding!"
Aribar: "...Is there anything we can do?"
Deloth: "Raise a white flag?"
Julian Sawyer: "What's going on?!"
Kuja Tribal: "And now... using this warp hole... I shall summon the most destruct----"
Metal Man (GM): *SMASH.*
Deloth winces.
Metal Man (GM): A large, black object, collides into Kuja's own ship.
Deloth: "That can't be good."
Nova: "...We've regained control over our systems."
Doopliss: "You cannot do that! Not while I'm around!"
Deloth: "Okay, maybe it can be."
Kuja Tribal: "What? No... and now I lack the energy to summon again..."
Doopliss: "OPEN FIRE!"
Deloth glances at Ari to catch his reaction.
Metal Man (GM): Lasers... black holes, lightning, and the like, blast Kuja's ship.
Julian Sawyer: "Woo!"
Aribar mumbles, "He kept his promise..." He 's face then turns sour. "Oooh, piffle..."
Kuja Tribal: "Mark my words... I shall not fail... your own success... will be your destruction."
Deloth: "Goodbye, Kuja."
Kuja Tribal: "Foolish child... I do not say good bye."
Aribar: .oO(Hrm... Soon it appears as if I'll have my duel with Doopliss... I am not strong enough, and I have not scouted the Magnetic Wastelands...)
Kuja Tribal: "I say... hello."
Metal Man (GM): ...Kuja's ship suddenly explodes. Of its own accord. A Flare Star.
Doopliss: "That takes care of his fleet."
Aribar: "...Somehow, I doubt he's gone."
Wolfman: "...just like that?"
VG still can't believe it.
Nova: "We have succeeded in protecting the planet. However, we must restore the peace from before."
Deloth: "How are we going to do that?"
Avon: "To put everything on the right path, certain evils must be undone..."
Nova: "With the power of the planet."
Avon: "Activate... the Planet Healing Machine!"
Metal Man (GM): Over by Eisnaught... green energy appears. The buildings begin to... rebuild.
Deloth: "Whoa..."
Metal Man (GM): Anyone good who was killed in the destruction is revived.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man (GM): Also... all of the burnt out, ruined places, are permanently removed from the map, along with whatever wreckage they had.
Wolfman still can't believe it...
Editor's Note: Neither can I. Holy crap, mood whiplash!
Julian Sawyer: "That's cool..."
Aribar: "Amazing... How can such a feat be accomplished?!"
Wolfman: .oO(Hey, wait a second! What's the point of my radioactive-free armor then?!?)
VG: "...perhaps it was a once in a lifetime miracle..."
Metal Man (GM): The ruins made by the crash of Valhalla were fixed; The Black Sun, does, indeed, become Valhalla again... and Bowser is revived. However, it is still in Doopliss's hand.
Nova: "We have saved the world for you, Questers."
Avon: "All is safe, now..."
Editor's Note: Really now, did I just do a U-turn because I felt I didn't know how to proceed? Way to waste a chance for actual character development.
Wolfman: "...no offense guys, but I really doubt all is safe..."
Julian Sawyer: "Now we just gotta keep it this way..."
Ivan Robotnik: *Screen* "Thanks to you, my utopia is back together. Everything is the way it should be. We are all in your debt."
Wolfman: "Ivan, is everything really safe now... or will there still be trouble in the future?"
Aribar: "Hrm... Looks like the Questers will be disbanded now, huh?"
Julian Sawyer: "Someone has to watch over the Stadium."
Metal Man warps in. "Disbanded? Perish the thought!"
Wolfman: "...I was planning on having a meeting about a similar topic..."
Julian Sawyer: "And I don't think I can get back home."
Wolfman: "But not exactly disbanding. I think what we need to do first... is figure out our purpose again... and maybe change some tactics."
Metal Man: "We must protect the stadium from... dust mites... oh! Oh! And we need to do some errands again!"
Wolfman: "Some of our enemies... and even some of our friends... don't like how we do some things."
Metal Man: "Oh, yeah. Grunty is in our jail now."
Wolfman: "Metal, I think before these errands are done, we need to review a LOT of things about our past."
Julian Sawyer: "Well, healing the planet must have provided us with atleast SOME good PR."
Metal Man: "Not that she has much use; she's been punished to make her own poor-quality items for the rest of her life."
VG: "...I still doubt Twist Ed would be glad."
Metal Man: "Twist Ed... I'll get him. Perhaps we should destroy him with this ship, like the Death sta--- ...Never mind." *Looks around suspiciously.*
Deloth: "Can we just go home?"
Aribar: "Twist Ed?"
Nova: "We cannot make things perfect; we have only repaired damage. If you go astray again, then the damage can be repeated."
Avon: "Of course, I'll be sure to make you hear about it, first!"
Wolfman: "...then perhaps we need to have a meeting... so we can figure out how not to go astray."
Metal Man (GM): *Paper Mario 2: End of Chapter thingy.*
Julian Sawyer: "Meeting sounds good."
VG: "Aribar, Twist Ed is a Toad that has similar views to Kuja."
Metal Man (GM): And so, the Questers showed Avon that he had been tricked. In Avon's resulting fury, Gerald was permanently deleted. Partnering with Nova, he healed the planet, and destroyed the enemy forces. The Questers remain concerned about their public image. Is Kuja truly defeated? *Preview of the next chapter. Pause on Questers* The camera shows Kuja, burnt up a bit, and injured, limping around the Creepy Steeple/Twilight Town area.
Kuja Tribal: "I'll get them for that... they used my own weapon against me... Why must they have such ridiculous luck? It is impossible... my calculations did not predict such a terrible thing. Not even controlling Faith was enough... Crodus is dead, and Zio is hiding some where. Meier Link with him, naturally. But without control of modules, I cannot find them... and I lack the energy to summon complete destruction upon them!" *Walks around... occasionally punting Crazee Dayzees and annihilating Goombas* "Why must it not fit? Is there a variable which none of us know about?"
Metal Man (GM): Kuja looks at the 'screen'
Kuja Tribal: "It always seems as if someone knows what I'm doing..."
Metal Man (GM): Kuja then wanders into the jungle. Deeper, indeed. Much deeper. This area would be unfamiliar even to Paper Mario 2 veterans.
Kuja Tribal: "...What is this? ...Yes... this is what I was missing... I shall taste success, at last!"
Metal Man (GM): Kuja looks towards something... the camera pans to show it... *fadeout* You may now downtime or do other things. Nothing important, yet, of course.
VG: *REFUND coming 1 Carbos, 1 Super Sneaker, 4 Debarrier Cubes, 3 Ice Blocks, 200 Rings.*
Metal Man (GM): VG gains: 2300 coins.
VG did NOT hit the 3/4 limit.