Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 219: ELECTRIFIED SALTWATER

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Date: 4:39:42 PM, July 9th; 5:46:43 PM, July 10th, 2005.
Julian Sawyer: "Yeah..."
Digifanatic: "Like I said, innocent enough so far."
Charles Magellean: "But they belong to an unholy machine..."
Digifanatic: "Any ideas what it might be?"
Julian Sawyer: "Some kind of headquarters. Why else would it have a prison?"
Azure: "True...."
Digifanatic: "Yeah." *He tries a "HELP" command.*
Julian Sawyer: "Think it was some kind of ship, too. All this stuff's broken, so it must have crashed..."
Nick Caligo (GM): The crap behind the broken screen fizzles.
Charles Magellean: "Has to be a corrupt organization."
Digifanatic: "Ack... Yeah... this thing's broken. Wanna try something else?"
Aribar: "Why would a ship have crabs with armor and guns as well as zombies in it?"
Nick Caligo (GM): A small lizard crawls out and sticks its tongue out at Digi, then skitters across the floor... to a door on the opposite side of the one you came in through.
Julian Sawyer: "Think we should try and find the main room of this thing? Oh hey, door. Awesome."
Digifanatic: "Huh..."
Julian Sawyer: *Heads over to it.*
Digifanatic walks over to this next door.
Aribar sighs and goes back into the previous room.
Charles Magellean: "Come on, AWOL'er!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, the rotting corpse is still slumped in the corner, and the bats are still dead.
Julian Sawyer: "Hmm... Digi, you got a Shell Phone?"
Digifanatic: "I wish."
Nick Caligo (GM): Charles: The next room is very much like the previous room.
Charles Magellean follows el Sawyer and digi.
Julian Sawyer: "I could really use a Porthole Marker right about now..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Overturned concrete benches...
Digifanatic: "Any item free at will for the pay is really nice..."
Nick Caligo (GM): But now light shoes through the dirt on the wall and through the ceiling.
Julian Sawyer: "...Well, atleast this place looks a little bit better..." *Continues on*
Nick Caligo (GM): Even the doors give off some light from their control pads. There's four of them again. One on each side of the square that is this room. Thankfully, there aren't any puddles and are no signs of puddle-like organisms.
Julian Sawyer: *Checks them to see if any one of them is openable.*
Azure: *Checks as well saving Julian from having to take too much time.*
Digifanatic: "Boy... I hope these rooms just keep forming rings around that central place..."
Nick Caligo (GM): The ones to your right and in front of you are locked--as indicated by red lights on their panels. The one to the left, though, has a green light.
Digifanatic: "Well... only one door. Might as well, then..."
Julian Sawyer: "...Left it is." *Tries to open it*
Nick Caligo (GM): The door has a digital label. "PUMP ROOM 2."
Digifanatic starts walking, a bit cautiously, to the door and its room.
Nick Caligo (GM): The door opens to... Water.
Julian Sawyer: *CLOSE!*
Nick Caligo (GM): lol. A catwalk hanging OVER water, I should say.
Julian Sawyer: *Negate that*
Nick Caligo (GM): C'mon, I'm not THAT mean!
Charles Magellean sighs of relief, and looks backwards... wondering where the traitor elf is.
Nick Caligo (GM): They'd have locked it down irrevocably if it were dangerous.
Julian Sawyer: "...'Least there's a catwalk..." *Looks into the room*
Nick Caligo (GM): Actually, there is. A catwalk--a broad one--over the water. With a big hole right in the middle.
Aribar is just standing in the middle of this second room of four doors.
Charles Magellean nods to see that at least he followed. He looks back and begins to walk on the catwalk.
Nick Caligo (GM): Pipelines extend throughout the room's walls and underneath the water.
Julian Sawyer: *Tries to estimate the length of the hole*
Nick Caligo (GM): It's roughly 4 meters long.
Aribar: "I don't think we should go in there... We shouldn't mess with the pumps in this place... May flood it."
Julian Sawyer: *Ponders if he should use his Holographic Bridge...*
Digifanatic: .oO(At least we can double jump this thing...)
Julian Sawyer: "Where else are we gonna go, Ari?"
Aribar: "There's two more doors in this room... And one in the previous room. Do what you want though."
Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, and those doors are locked. No where else to go." *Likes the fact that in Overdrive, his special mode of transportation is flight, AKA Rocket Boots*
Aribar goes back into the previous room and tries to open the remaining door to see if it is actually locked or not.
Julian Sawyer: "...Okay, Ari can teleport, I can fly, Charles... can you double jump?"
Digifanatic decides that he just has to gut this one out, unless Ari finds something...
Charles Magellean: "What about Digi?"
Digifanatic: "I can double."
Charles Magellean: "And Azure?"
Julian Sawyer: "I'll get to him. Right now I'm asking you."
Digifanatic: "I've Driven, I'm good..."
Azure lifts up slowly off the ground floating "I'm fine don't worry about me."
Julian Sawyer: "Alright, everyone's accounted for except you, Charles. Can you double jump?"
Charles Magellean: "I can use a concentrated shot from both of my miniguns, turn around, aim below me, and fire off a big enough shot to recoil me the rest of the way."
Julian Sawyer: "Good enough... Where's Ari?"
Digifanatic: "He went back."
Julian Sawyer: "...Someone get him..."
Digifanatic: "Alright." *He starts walking back to Ari's locale.*
Charles Magellean: "The Whallerian seems to not like being here for some reason... either that, or his fear is getting in the way of his duty."
Julian Sawyer: "Jeez..."
Charles Magellean: "Regardless, I suppose we should start now."
Aribar tries to check to see if the unopened door in the previous room is locked or not...
Nick Caligo (GM): The unopened door leads to a control room very much like the one on the side opposite it. Triangular, two control panels, lots of buttons flashing... a little beeping...
Digifanatic approaches Ari, and politely asks, "What brings you over here?"
Aribar: "I was checking to see where else we could go..."
Nick Caligo (GM): A small statue of Kirby sitting on the floor in a puddle... Yeah, just... completely not like the other... Kirby statue??
Digifanatic: "Oh, alright..."
Julian Sawyer: "Nah, we need to wait for the others. Don't want to get separated."
Aribar blinks and looks at the statue..."
Nick Caligo (GM): ... It's a PERFECT likeness of Kirby.
Digifanatic: "Well, the others are kinda waiting for you to make your mind up, so..."
Aribar mumbles some arcane words and casts Energy Read on the statue...
Charles Magellean: "...Shouldn't take this long for Digi to get Ari. I'm going other there to help him."
Nick Caligo (GM): And it's CRAWLING with magical energy, too.
Digifanatic: "Okay, now this statue is just odd..."
Charles Magellean runs back across the catwalk past both Julian and Azure to the room of the four doors.
Nick Caligo (GM): Its aura...
Julian Sawyer: "...man..." *Follows Charles*
Digifanatic takes a look at the statue to see if Kirby has any specific pose, form, etc.
Nick Caligo (GM): The artifact REEKS of Kuja's power.
Charles Magellean looks around in this room to see if there were any other doors that were unlocked.
Digifanatic: "Find anything?"
Aribar: "Hrm... This is an odd thing... Yeah."
Nick Caligo (GM): Even if you've never truly gotten close to it, Ari, you can tell, this is the work of Kuja. It's almost imprinted in your senses.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...why is that here."
Digifanatic: "Oh, hey Garrick."
Aribar: "My detection spell informed me that this thing has a lot of magical energy in it... And there is no doubt about it that Kuja somehow had something to do with it... Possibly even created it."
Digifanatic: "Oh boy..."
Garrick Fy`aar grumbles lowly
Julian Sawyer: *Enters the room Ari and Digi are in* "Yo! What's the hold up?"
Digifanatic: "I think we should get a bit away from that... but why would he make a statue of Kirby, of all... things?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Gibby?"
Digifanatic: "Ai's found a statue... probably Kuja's work. No, just Kirby."
Aribar: "I wanted to check to see if this door was unlocked or not..."
Julian Sawyer: "...So? Pick it up and let's go!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Well, hold on..."
Charles Magellean followed Julian, stumbling upon this door.
Aribar hrms and inches towards the statue until he's about a foot away from it.
Digifanatic: "Julian, I did say it was probably Kuja's work..." *He follows Ari's lead... not wanting to touch that thing...*
Garrick Fy`aar: "I wouldn't be surprised if he petrified Kirby or Gibby and flung him in here..."
Charles Magellean: "Digi, what's keeping you up?"
Digifanatic: "Huh? What do you mean?"
Nick Caligo (GM): A small statue of Kirby... blue stone. And to Ari, it smells like Kirby. It's about the size of a small trophy.
Julian Sawyer: "...So you just gonna stare at it or do somethin'?"
Charles Magellean: "Nice stat. Now are we gonna go back to the catwalk or not?"
Aribar: "... I'm going to poke it to see if anything happens... If not, we can take it and get out of here."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Charles, this might be important. Mainly because Ari says that it's got Kuja's magic on it..."
Digifanatic: "We're just a bit... mesmerized... so to say, about what exactly is going on with this thing."
Aribar sheaths Moonlight, dons his Magical Coat badge, and tries picking up the statue.
Charles Magellean: "Kuja? That's nice. Now are we gonna go back to the catwalk or not?"
Julian Sawyer: "It's Gibby carved out of stone!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Oh, right, I forgot. You don't give a fat crap about anything to do with Nintendus..."
Julian Sawyer: "What's there to find out?"
Digifanatic: "Doesn't have his gun, though... but you may be right... and you probably are."
Aribar hrms... Wondering if anything happened to him when he picked up, if he picked up, the statue.
Nick Caligo (GM): Aribar: You suddenly turn into a Kirby with only one arm. Kidding. So. Aribar collected "Kirby statue." Headin' back to the catwalk room?
Julian Sawyer: "...Alright, we done? Let's go." *Heads back to said room*
Digifanatic sees if there's a door on this side, first.
Aribar: "... Okay. We got an artifact... Can we leave now? Or are we going to get more artifacts?"
Charles Magellean: "I'm with Julian."
Julian Sawyer: "Only way to go is this way."
Charles Magellean goes back to the room of the catwalks.
Nick Caligo (GM): You can see a valve much like the one you opened earlier. It's shut tight. Digi: There's a door on the opposite side of this control room.
Aribar is encumbered by the statue now and heads back to the pump room, dragging his equipment along...
Digifanatic: "Wait, guys..."
Nick Caligo (GM): As you suspected, the place probably goes in a loop.
Digifanatic: "Guys!"
Julian Sawyer: *Pauses* "...What, Digi?"
Digifanatic: "There's another door here... should we see where it leads to, first?"
Charles Magellean begins to stop...
Julian Sawyer: "...There isn't a door. It's a valve."
Nick Caligo (GM): No, I mean back in the control room with the Kirby in it.
Charles Magellean massages his face... just wondering how long we'll be down here.
Digifanatic cautiously opens this door...
Nick Caligo (GM): Oh, wait. The door's on the OTHER side. No loop. Nevermind. The door opens to a very VERY mysteriously familiar set of caverns...
Aribar stops about halfway to the Pump room and heads back to Digi.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Digifanatic: "Well..."
Nick Caligo (GM): You PROBABLY walked through those before.
Julian Sawyer: "I ain't going down there."
Nick Caligo (GM): Just a gut feeling that that's the way you likely came from...
Digifanatic will be the sheep; going where the majority does.
Julian Sawyer: "You go ahead if you want. I'm heading back to the pump room." *Does so*
Nick Caligo (GM): From before you opened the first pump.
Digifanatic: "Eh... alright."
Charles Magellean: "I'm not wanting to be sidetracked either."
Digifanatic follows Julian back, shutting the door doing so.
Charles Magellean follows Julian.
Aribar sighs and follows the others.
Nick Caligo (GM): Alright, so not a loop. It seems to go in an S pattern. Now. Back at t3h c4tw4lk room. The gap seems bigger than it used to be...
Digifanatic: "I'll go first if ya want me to. Oh, hold on..."
Julian Sawyer: "...Y'know what, why don't I just do this?"
Digifanatic: "Alright, if you want to use that item, be my guest..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Yeah, that's over 4 meters...
Julian Sawyer: *Reaches into his pocket and pulls out... A HOLOGRAPHIC BRIDGE! Proceeds to set the bridge up so they can cross the gap*
Digifanatic: "Yup... never underestimate those items..."
Nick Caligo (GM): *BVOOM!* The bridge pops in out of nowhere across the bridge, slightly transparent.
Julian Sawyer: "Only cost 750 coins, you believe that?" *Heads across*
Digifanatic starts walking across Julian's bridge... "I do and I don't..."
Charles Magellean is waiting for Garrick to get off his damn high horse.
Nick Caligo (GM): Hm. Solid as a rock. Doesn't LOOK like it, but it is.
Charles Magellean walks across it.
Aribar waits for someone else to cross before the encumbered elf steps over the bridge.
Nick Caligo (GM): Clop, clop, clop, you can even hear your footsteps as you cross the bridge, clop, clop, ELECTRIC SHOCK, SIZZLE, BURN. The moment Julian sets foot on the catwalk across the bridge, he finds a disturbing electric current running through his body. For 25 damage, in fact. You can see bolts of lightning running up the supports underneath the grating and through the metal catwalk...
Julian Sawyer: "Gah!" *Jumps up and activates his Rocket Boots so he doesn't have to deal with that* "What the hell?!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Oh, that's fun. The water's electrified. As clearly exhibited by the bolts of lightning jumping all over its surface as Julian throws in another circuit for them to go through.
Aribar stops and heads back to the original side of the catwalk.
Nick Caligo (GM): They calm down as his feet leaves the catwalk.
Charles Magellean stops as well, and walks to Ari.
Azure: "Isn't that... nice... the theme of their defense... must have been reinforce... reinforce... reinforce."
Nick Caligo (GM): lol
Digifanatic stops and walks back as well, a bit confused and reeeeeeeeeealy dumb for overlooking that one...
Aribar: "At least they're consistent with the deathtraps and machines..."
Julian Sawyer: "...Hate this place... Hate it SO MUCH."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, obviously they didn't MEAN to build in electric water.
Azure: "Gotta love consistency... now if it would have all only rusted and killed over....."
Nick Caligo (GM): This place ain't flooded intentionally... or at least, you don't THINK it is.
Digifanatic: "I'll pay that back for ya, alright, Julian?"
Julian Sawyer: "Nah man, I'm fine. Only 750."
Digifanatic: "Alright then..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well. The valve is just one excruciatingly painful hop skip and a jump away.
Digifanatic: "I'll go for it."
Julian Sawyer: *Flies over to it instead*
Digifanatic: "Or not."
Aribar hrms... "Wouldn't the valve be electrified as well?"
Nick Caligo (GM): They have rubber handles.
Charles Magellean whispers to Ari, "Let's not tell Julian."
Julian Sawyer: "...'Parently not."
Nick Caligo (GM): As Julian's rocket boots take him to the air, he feels something that's PAINFULLY close to Pikachu's down+B thunder attack. 'cept it comes from below.
Digifanatic: "Oh, now what?!"
Nick Caligo (GM): There's a lot of moisture in the air... perfect conditions for static charge...
Digifanatic: "Oh great, they humidified the room..."
Nick Caligo (GM): 25 damage as lightning ZAPS its way up to the metal in your boots.
Julian Sawyer: *BGHPTSNAH! Points his boots to get himself out of the room and away from the shocks*
Nick Caligo (GM): Okay, at least you're satisfied that Metal would be perfectly screwed here.
Digifanatic tries to peer at any doors or such beyond that catwalk.
Aribar: "... Hrm..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Lightning jumps from the floor to the ceiling and back as he exits, calming itself almost like a barking dog. No doors, just a valve at the end, some pipes along the walls...
Aribar peers over the edge of the catwalk to see how far it is to the water, and possibly how deep the water is.
Nick Caligo (GM): The water's about six feet deep, you reckon. You can see the pipes running horizontally parallel with the walls.
Digifanatic: "No doors... just wanna backtrack, then? Or do you want a shot at that valve?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Pipes along the ceiling, of course, too.
Charles Magellean: "...Ari, you think you wanna take a crack at it?"
Aribar: "... Why do you want to mess with the valve anyways? How do you know it won't flood us?"
Digifanatic: "Ah riiiiiight..."
Julian Sawyer: "BECAUSE IT'S THERE FOR A REASON!" *Julian shouts from out of the room*
Charles Magellean: "How about instead of whining and groaning, you actually HELP?"
Aribar: "..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "So... not like you, Charles?"
Digifanatic: "Listen, there's nothing beyond this room, according to what I can see... hmm."
Garrick Fy`aar hmpfs and walks up to the value, looking it over...
Azure: "Well... there are up to three ways this can work out. Valve is shut not flooding us. Two valve opens something and has nothing to do with the water. Three valve opens we better hope we grow fins."
Charles Magellean: "You kiddin'? I can't use magic like Ari can."
Aribar leaves the room and heads to check on what the other two locked doors in the previous room say... If they're labeled.
Digifanatic INT checks any possible function for that valve.
Aribar: "I'm not touching the valve."
Nick Caligo (GM): You figure it's a valve.
Charles Magellean: "...I swear, something about him isn't right today."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I'm tempted to turn the thing."
Charles Magellean: "I can't put my finger on it, though."
Nick Caligo (GM): Garrick... walks across the bridge AND the catwalk safely. This'd be about the time when you realize his shoes are leather, not metal... >.> He ain't walkin' on them, is he?
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hm."
Nick Caligo (GM): Digi: The other rooms are labeled...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...question."
Nick Caligo (GM): One to the right of control room: PRISON AREA One across from control room: CONTROL ROOM 3
Garrick Fy`aar: "This walkway is electric, right?"
Azure: "That be correct... electrified at least."
Charles Magellean: "...I supposed it acted up only when metal was around?"
Digifanatic: "Another control room... huh. This place only gets crazier the farther we debate our case..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Why would you guard the value if it let out water if you turned it, killing you?"
Aribar: "So people don't turn it..."
Charles Magellean: "The problem was that Julian tried to walk across it like you, but got shocked."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hm." *He thinks... then looks down toward the water. Is there a bottom he can see?*
Nick Caligo (GM): Yes. 6 feet down, a buncha' pipes.
Charles Magellean: "Regardless, this place is really winding me up. Maybe we should follow the antagonizing elf instead and go to those caves."
Garrick Fy`aar looks for something that might be a doorway down there...
Nick Caligo (GM): No doorway. Just a lot of pipes. Some ruptured...
Aribar: "..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...ah ha..." *He turns the stupid thing.*
Nick Caligo (GM): *Swqueeek! Sound of water rushing*
Azure: "Great... tell me not option 2...."
Aribar heads back into the first four-door room, but stops as he hears the sound of water... "... Are we all going to die?"
Julian Sawyer: "..."
PA: "Water pressure at 50% regularity. Security level reduced to 2."
Aribar: "... What does all of that mean?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "It means that things won't be so hard."
Nick Caligo (GM): Some of the water actually seeps OUT of the room.
Garrick Fy`aar: "I was right. Look at those pipes."
Charles Magellean: "To the four door room again."
Garrick Fy`aar points to the broken ones
Charles Magellean walks back to the four doors.
Garrick Fy`aar: "My guess is that's how the water in this room got here in the first place. It'd be suicide to make it rise, it'd kill everyone in the room."
Julian Sawyer: "Did it work?"
Azure: "We can hope..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Back in the four door room, Control Room 3's lock is now green. It should be unlocked.
Garrick Fy`aar: "With the security level dropped, we should be able to get into new areas."
Charles Magellean: "...I'm kinda hearing Rune in your voice."
Julian Sawyer: "Alright, I knew that valve did something useful..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Shut your mouth, Charles, Don't assosiate me with that wimp."
Charles Magellean smiles.
Julian Sawyer: "Hey, door opened." *Heads for Control Room 3*
Garrick Fy`aar shoves his hands into his pockets and walks onward.
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, it's almost identical to all the other control rooms. 'cept... someone make an INT check...
Garrick Fy`aar: "I wouldn't care if the water rose or fallen. *I* can swim and my suit protects me from harsh elements."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, obviously there's a door on the other side.
Charles Magellean goes into this room.
Aribar just stands in the room connected to the Water Pump room...
Nick Caligo (GM): Julian: You notice right off the bat that there's a little pine needle on the control panel. Someone must be raising fur trees in here! Right, sorry.
Julian Sawyer: "...Pine needle? What the..." *Picks it up*
Nick Caligo (GM): ... Oh, wait, it's just a rotten tooth pick, nevermind... And there's bits of gunk on it! Eeeew.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hold it."
Julian Sawyer: "...My mistake." *Drops it*
Charles Magellean: "...Delicious."
Garrick Fy`aar goes over and picks that tooth pick up "...someone has been here before us."
Charles Magellean: "Rune again."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Does he chew toothpicks?"
Julian Sawyer: "Not that I know of..."
Charles Magellean: "I'm not sure if he has the strength for that."
Nick Caligo (GM): Actually... that toothpick is oddly solid for a rotten green one... probably not rotten.
Aribar walks into the room... "You find something? If it isn't nailed down, bring it with us."
Azure: "Then if he doesn't we help him."
Nick Caligo (GM): And it looks like... *sniff* SMELLS like roast beef...
Garrick Fy`aar bends it... testing to see if it's really wood
Nick Caligo (GM): *Snap* Yep, it's wood.
Azure: "I was joking... and that's just ..."
Nick Caligo (GM): And it's in two pieces now, you clod.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...someone was here recently. Not one of us."
Charles Magellean chuckles lightly.
Nick Caligo (GM): Someone else make an INT check.
Aribar smacks his forehead with his hand... "Did you find anything else besides that broken piece of wood?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Aribar: You see... a wrapper... with the words "Hoagie-riffic!" on it... and it's covering a HOLY CRAP THAT MONITOR ISN'T BUSTED AND IT'S WORKING!
Aribar walks over and takes the wrapper as well as looks at the monitor.
Nick Caligo (GM): The moniter displays "Security Level 2" at the bottom of... a map.
Julian Sawyer: "...Map, awesome." *Checks it out*
Garrick Fy`aar does as well
Nick Caligo (GM): The middle is a big tan square. On each of its corners is a green triangle. One of them is blinking.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...bet that's where we are, most likely..."
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Looks for a map key or something*
Nick Caligo (GM): Between the triangles are brown squares. And each square has doors on it leading to either areas outside the map, the center, or the green triangles. OR to these spokes that come out from the squares.
Charles Magellean looks away from the monitor.
Nick Caligo (GM): At the end of the lower and right spokes, you see the words, "VALVE OPEN."
Charles Magellean: "Shoo, do maps confuse me."
Nick Caligo (GM): Ironically, the Valve insignia from the makers of Half-Life 2 is on there...
Aribar doesn't understand the map so he trudges to the door and stands there... "Now what?"
Nick Caligo (GM): The center doors are all red, signaling that they're locked. The center is labeled "PRISON AREA."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...prison area?"
Nick Caligo (GM): "RESIDENTS: 3."
Charles Magellean: "Prison area."
Julian Sawyer: "Hmmm... Bet we'll find something neat if we go there."
Nick Caligo (GM): -Unknown -Captain Falcon -Princess Peach That's what it says.
Aribar: "... Those are Smashers!"
Charles Magellean: "Holy Crap! ...Who's the third one?"
Julian Sawyer: "...Or rescue a few captives, it's all good."
Nick Caligo (GM): Unknown, it says.
Azure: "Sure are. Looks... like we arent the only ones sent here."
Julian Sawyer: "I'm surprised some Smashers made it out of Kuja's wrath alive..."
Charles Magellean: "...When we find one piece, there's more questions."
Julian Sawyer: "So... let's go there. Help 'em out."
Azure: "That's the case with many things."
Julian Sawyer: "Make sure they aren't dead, whatever."
Nick Caligo (GM): There's a door on the opposite side of the one you came in, of course, leading to another square room as the map indicates. The map says "FLOODED." For that specific room.
Julian Sawyer: "...We should find a way to clear that out..."
Azure: "Yeah..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Garrick's here. Garrick, Julian, Azure, and Ari. Suddenly, there's a blip... RESIDENTS: 4 -Unknown -Captain Falcon
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Nick Caligo (GM): -Princess Peach -Abe
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Abe? ...Lincoln?"
Aribar: "... People from Nintendus are coming here."
Julian Sawyer: "...Abe? Who's Abe?"
Aribar: "No, Abe... Ohh... I forget his last name..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Probably that Mudokon guy from the history you read, Garrick... RESIDENTS: 5 -Unknown -Unknown
Julian Sawyer: "Another one!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...oh right. Abe... that one guy."
Nick Caligo (GM): -Captain Falcon -Princess Peach -Abe
Garrick Fy`aar: "He's all green and has big yellow eyes."
Julian Sawyer: "...We should probably get down there..."
Azure: "Yes. So we have the way there right?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "His mouth is shut with thread."
Nick Caligo (GM): After waiting a few minutes, the number doesn't increase.
Julian Sawyer: "Sounds icky."
Azure: "It stopped..."
Julian Sawyer: "Let's find a way to get into the prison section."
Nick Caligo (GM): If anyone likes, they can make an INT check at this computer to find a way.
Julian Sawyer: *Brain power!*
Aribar heads back into the last four-room area and checks to see if the Prison Area door is unlocked or not.
Nick Caligo (GM): Julian: After doing a little bit of keyboard tappin'.... You find that the security locks are related to the entire area's water pressure.
Julian Sawyer: "...Right, so let's go find a way to lower the pressure some more. Then we can get those doors open."
Nick Caligo (GM): It's VERY complicated, and you're just BARELY able to get the jist of that.
Azure: "Easier said than done."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Let's get to it then." *He heads for the doorway onward, if there is one...*
Nick Caligo (GM): There is. And you open it to see.... Water.
Julian Sawyer: "...Okay, anyplace we haven't gone yet? ..."
Nick Caligo (GM): No, not a puddle like before, not a catwalk this time. Water. A three foot wall of it. And it GUSHES into the room.
Julian Sawyer: *Flee!*
Garrick Fy`aar tries to shut that door!
Nick Caligo (GM): All: Speed checks.
Aribar still wonders if the Prison Area door is unlocked or not... The elf would probably hear the water flow and turn around... "WHAT are you doing?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Ari: It's locked. Julian: You manage to jump the sudden flow of water. Right. Azure and Garrick: You fall flat on your butts as you get knocked over and overrun with electrically charged salt water. 25 damage to both of you.
Julian Sawyer: "... Check to see if that lowered the pressure."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...dahh... no, gotta do it with the values..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Okay Julian, what now since you're the only one who's not wet, and the only one STANDING on a control panel? Garrick and Azure: I'd highly recommend moving your asses.. .. Woops.
Garrick Fy`aar gets OUT of that water
Nick Caligo (GM): ... Well... ... uh... can we let that one go? Garrick: Crawling onto a control panel? Swear.
Garrick Fy`aar does so. He does so on a non working one...
Nick Caligo (GM): Ari: As you head back to that door, it opens up and a two foot wall of water gushes into the room you're in...
Julian Sawyer: "Check the monitor to see if that unlocked the prison..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Not any more. Same amount of water spread out over a wider space... and it's quickly becoming one foot deep. Julian: The prison's not unlocked yet Ari: Speed check. Failed. 25 electric damage as your ankles get all shocky.
Julian Sawyer: *Checks the monitor to see if he can figure out where that last water pressure valve is*
Aribar: "Gah!" *Is shocked... But is somewhat resistant to the shock due to having an affinity with electricity.*
Nick Caligo (GM): From what you can tell, there's two of them. One on the west side, one to the north. The north one's flooded like the one you were just in...
Aribar: "That does it! I'm not going to get shocked by water... We should just leave or we'll die!" *He tries to retreat to a corner of the room not yet covered with water.*
Nick Caligo (GM): You manage to find a bench to stand on.
Julian Sawyer: "We have to rescue the Smashers that somehow ended up here, and that Abe guy too!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Julian: INT check. Nope, nothin'.
Aribar: "... Anyone object to destroying the door and then not telling Kales about it?"
Azure: "No way...."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, the water didn't USED to be electric, did it? But now all the water in the area is electrified...
Julian Sawyer: *...Looks for a Power OFF button*
Nick Caligo (GM): Good man. There is, in fact, a power button. And it has a smear of sour cream on it...
Julian Sawyer: "...Whoever was in here last sure left a mess..." *Presses it, wipes the sour cream on the top of the console, not near anything that would be affected by it*
Nick Caligo (GM): It's right next to your thumb, in fact. The power turns off. The water shorts with electricity for a few seconds, then stops. The lights are out again, but at least the water's not electric.
Julian Sawyer: *Gets off the console* "Alright then..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Yep. Julian just proved it. Not electric.
Aribar: "... Hrm..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Ari: The lights go out in your room, and bolts of lightning jump across the surface before suddenly disappearing.
Aribar: "... Damn you, Julian! Warn us before doing stuff!"
Julian Sawyer: "Last time I checked the map, it said the the last water pressure valve was... this way." *Heads towards the room the map said the last valve was in*
Azure: "Hey, wait up." *Dashes behind him.*
Nick Caligo (GM): It's the door opposite the one you came through. West square.
Aribar then looks at the Prison Area door... How did all of the other doors open up?
Nick Caligo (GM): And how d'ya like that? There's doors on every side of this identical square room too. ¬¬ Such creative architecture. Oh well, nobody said a prison had to be good looking or interesting. The door to your left oughta' be the west spoke, where the valve is.
Aribar sighs and follows the others.
Julian Sawyer: *Heads thataway* "We better be gettin' paid good for this..."
Azure: "Do we have to be paid for everything. There are many great rewards besides money." *He says as they run.*
Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, but money's one of 'em."
Aribar: "Money's a great reward besides money?"
Julian Sawyer: "You know what I mean."
Aribar: "I just want out of here so I can start building a place to live in."
Azure: "Like these ruins for example. Who made them, how did they get it here, how does something so old have such technology that it lasts even today? The answers to those questions right now would be more than my fill of the reward."
Julian Sawyer: "Good, you can have that, I'll take your share of the payment."
Nick Caligo (GM): Back. This room's just normal. Concrete floor, a buncha' pumps, water worn through the floor making deep crevices...
Azure: "If I find all that I'll gladly give it to you."
Nick Caligo (GM): And the valve at the end.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...never that simple."
Julian Sawyer: "Maybe it is..."
Nick Caligo (GM): The water floods in here and flows into the crevaces, draining completely.
Aribar: "... I'll be right back..." *He heads back into the room with the door to the prison area and puts a single gold coin at the base of the door before joining back up with the others.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "...well, might as well try." *He begins the walk toward the value, ready to bolt backwards or to the side at a moment's notice*
Nick Caligo (GM): You walk up to the valve.
Julian Sawyer: *Crosses his fingers*
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, there it is. Certainly does look like a valve, doesn't it?
Garrick Fy`aar reaches out, takes the value, and turns it
Nick Caligo (GM): *Creeeek! Sounds of water rushing. Sounds of rock crumbling. Sounds of the ground suddenly giving way through the entire room!*
Garrick Fy`aar: "...move!"
Julian Sawyer: *Rocket Boot POWAH*
Nick Caligo (GM): And now, between Garrick and the other Questers is a very large, fairly deep pit.
Aribar: "... Nice job!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Nobody's in danger, but good luck getting back over there, Garrick.
Julian Sawyer: "...Well, at least we got the valve turned..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...oh perfect..."
Aribar: "... Kales'll kill us for this..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Kales can kiss my boots."
Julian Sawyer: "...dammit! Should have saved the bridge for this..."
Aribar looks into the pit to see how deep it is... If he can see the bottom.
PA: "Water pressure at 75% Normality. Security level reduced to 1."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, the bottom's like fifty feet down... but you can see it.
Aribar also tries to estimate how far across the hole is from Garrick to the Questers.
Nick Caligo (GM): And you can see the gushing rapids down there too.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...well, I can at least swim."
Aribar: "Garrick... I'm going to make an obvious suggestion; don't fall in."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Here goes nothing..."
Aribar: "Wait!"
Julian Sawyer: "I'll catch ya if you fall."
Nick Caligo (GM): About 50 meters...
Garrick Fy`aar makes to jump, then stops.
Aribar: "... Are you going to jump in or jump over to us?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "I'd rather NOT fall into the rushing underground river, Ari."
Aribar: "... I couldn't really tell with what you said... Oh."
Garrick Fy`aar: "But if I do, I'll survive."
Julian Sawyer: "I doubt it... But go ahead."
Garrick Fy`aar takes a breath, readies the M150 for a saving push if need be, then gets a good running start and leaps
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, make a STR roll... You're a third of the way...
Julian Sawyer: *Gets ready to catch Garrick should he fail.*
Garrick Fy`aar tries to shoot himself toward one of the walls on either side...
Nick Caligo (GM): Another STR roll... You make it to a wall and are now halfway there.
Garrick Fy`aar uses his walljumper ability to push off the wall and head toward the other edge...
Nick Caligo (GM): Another STR roll...
Azure: *Floats upward and onward takeing his time carefully behind garrick ready to go for him just incase he might fall.*
Nick Caligo (GM): You're 3/4 of the way there!! This is gonna be close...
Garrick Fy`aar tries to finish it off with a blast from his gun...
Nick Caligo (GM): ... Aaand falling... .. falling ... and you make it, skidding safely on your butt.
Julian Sawyer: "...Damn, nice one Garrick!" *High-five*
Garrick Fy`aar: "...whoo. That was fun."
Aribar: "... I'd raise a sign with a 7.5 if I had one... Nice style with the jumping, but you could work on the landing."
Garrick Fy`aar: "At least I'm not dead."
Nick Caligo (GM): *Crack...*
Julian Sawyer: "Alright, we got the water pressure down, we should be able to get into the-...Crack?"
Nick Caligo (GM): My, that appears to be a new fissure right beside Garrick...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...you know... I knew that was going to happen."
Aribar blinks... "I suggest we move away..."
Nick Caligo (GM): *Crick! Crack!* It's getting bigger and stemming more cracks...
Julian Sawyer: *Grabs for Garrick's arm and yanks him over*
Aribar heads back into the last computer room they were in.
Nick Caligo (GM): The ground falls away from where Garrick just was and continues to crumble a bit, plopping into the river.
Aribar: "I just thought of something... We'll need the power on to open that Prison area door, huh?"
Julian Sawyer: *Flies towards the exit*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Yikes... close call."
Nick Caligo (GM): Ari: The computer's off. You don't understand, the ground's STILL CRUMBLING. Aaand Garrick, I notice, is still sitting...
Garrick Fy`aar gets OFF HIS BUTT AND MOVES
Julian Sawyer: *Has fled the crumbing room*
Aribar decides to rush into the next room and check to see if the Prison Area door will open or not...
Nick Caligo (GM): Moments after Garrick gets back in there, the whole floor caves out. The prison area's door locks are still red.
Julian Sawyer: "...WHAT?!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Like the PA said... 75% normality.
Garrick Fy`aar: "We've got one more to find."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, there's a door to another control room directly across from Control Room 3... Control Room 4 no doubt...
Garrick Fy`aar: "I'd personally like to bust the door down, but I'd suspect it's heavily fortified."
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Heads into Control Room 4*
Garrick Fy`aar heads for the final control room, then.
Aribar attempts to charge Terrorbolt up to level 8... That'd take a minute and 30 seconds to fully charge and fire at the door.
Nick Caligo (GM): *ZAP!!* *Zing-boom-ZOW!!* It deflects off some kind of shielding and bounces all over the room. Ari: Make an INT check.
Aribar: "Bad idea!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Congrats, you got a critical hit on yourself. 1234 damage. You may lucky, yes. Well, it's not a crit... Got any more luckies?
Aribar dies... He took 298% damage, plus the 33% he already had... That makes for a completely dead, lifeless Aribar. He falls into the salty water at his feet, face first...
Nick Caligo (GM): You all hear a sudden screech from Aribar as he takes a ridiculous amount of damage. Well, Ari's fried. Electricity burns, no doubt.
Julian Sawyer: "...Jebus -CENSORED- Louise..." *Smacks Aribar upside the head with 200 rings* "Wake up!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Nah, it does.
Aribar: "..." *Looks at Julian...*
Nick Caligo (GM): Your life, plus an extra, is restored.
Aribar: "AAAAAAAAAH! I'm in Hell!"
Julian Sawyer: "...WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!"
Aribar: "... I was thinking to explode the door open, Satan."
Julian Sawyer: "EVERYTHING here has shields! You'd think you'd have learned that by now..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Calm down, Julian."
Nick Caligo (GM): Aribar, I dub thee Captain Shocky.
Aribar blinks... "I get the odd feeling I may have made the final journey to the other side... Yet."
Nick Caligo (GM): You just took more electrical damage--dealt to yourself--than anyone else ever before you.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...let's get moving."
Julian Sawyer: "Shut up and follow me..." *Goes back to where Garrick is*
Aribar follows the others...
Nick Caligo (GM): You get 2500 Coins as a bonus for this award.
Garrick Fy`aar had followed Julian. He heads back to the final control room
Nick Caligo (GM): Nice work. *Gives Ari the Masochist Award* Well, this next control room is the same as the others, basically. Except it only has one small control panel in the center and doors on each side.
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Looks the panel over*
Azen: *stands there at the control room waiting. He had seen many but these contraptions still where new to him.*
Nick Caligo (GM): Are all of you stepping in there?
Garrick Fy`aar is in there with everyone else
Azure: *He stands there outside waiting.*
Nick Caligo (GM): Garrick and Julian are in there, then? Ari? You with 'em?
Aribar following them so yes.
Nick Caligo (GM): The door shuts and suddenly the lock goes red, separating Azure from the rest.
Julian Sawyer: "...That's not good..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Congrats, you three are now all trapped together in a room with locked doors on all side.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...time trap. Wouldn't be surprised if..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Nah, doesn't appear to be a timer.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...well, whatever." *He heads to the single control console and looks it over*
Aribar: "... This could be bad if we couldn't escape, which we can. ... Just one good magical spell and that door will be a thing of the past."
Nick Caligo (GM): There's a power button, an intact monitor, and a keyboard.
Garrick Fy`aar powers the thing up...
Nick Caligo (GM): The lights all come on and the console lights up like before. You've got the map again... it's displaying all the doors in your room as locked. Well, that's useful. *Bing!*
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Nick Caligo (GM): They're unlocked. All three of 'em.
Julian Sawyer: "Hooray. Which way, guys?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...waaaait a minute. That was extremely easy..."
Nick Caligo (GM): One way leads off the map, the other to the next square room.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...alright, whatever..."
Julian Sawyer: "Maybe who ever's watching over this part of the universe has taken pity on us."
Aribar: "I say we bring Azure here."
Garrick Fy`aar heads to the square room one...
Julian Sawyer: *Looks into the room that's off the map*
Aribar tries to cast Magic Teleport to put him back in the last room with Azure.
Julian Sawyer: "...Door's open, genius."
Nick Caligo (GM): Julian: It's a bunch of caves again. These ones you know you haven't traveled. The door to the next square room opens, a sheet of water gushes in, and all three of you suddenly have a bunch of electrified salt water to jump! Yeah, didn't check to see if it was flooded, did ya?
Garrick Fy`aar jumps!
Aribar: *NOW Aribar casts Magic Teleport to go into the room with Azure.*
Nick Caligo (GM): lol Az: Ari appears next to you.
Julian Sawyer: *Escapes into the caves!*
Nick Caligo (GM): Garrick, Julian: Speed checks. Julian: Success.
Aribar: "'allo, Azure... Just escaping deadly electrified water."
Nick Caligo (GM): Garrick: SUCKS-sess. And this one's five feet deep. The door shuts directly behind Julian... Garrick takes 25 electric damage. The console shorts out from all the electricity and all three doors shut and lock Garrick in. Ari would notice the door lock go red... Oh my, something's not good.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Damn!"
Julian Sawyer: *Looks down into the caves*
Nick Caligo (GM): So, Garrick. Round 1. What'cha gonna do? Julian: They stem off to the right and to the left.
Garrick Fy`aar makes sure the power on the console is off so he doesn't get shocked every two seconds
Aribar: "... Thaaat's not good."
Nick Caligo (GM): Hitting the power button?
Julian Sawyer: "...Always go right..."
Nick Caligo (GM): You get SEVERELY shocked for 50 damage before all the power goes out again.
Julian Sawyer: *Does this*
Garrick Fy`aar growls out in pain, shakes it off, then sighs.
Nick Caligo (GM): You don't have anything to escape.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Alright..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Okay, so the doors are all STILL locked. Julian: You find... a valve... Right in the middle of the cave. A digital label's on it. "EMERGENCY VALVE"
Garrick Fy`aar wades through the water and heads for the door out of here. Back to where Ari and Ocean are. He knocks on it "Ari! Can you hear me?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Your hand knocks on a force field, but strangely, Ari can hear you.
Julian Sawyer: "...This better be it..."
Nick Caligo (GM): You take 5 electric damage.
Aribar: "Ummm... Yeah... Kind of."
Julian Sawyer: "...Hmmm..." *Checks the left part of the cave before turning, making sure he didn't miss anything*
Nick Caligo (GM): It heads over to another door... INT check, Julie.
Azure: *Closes his eyes.*
Aribar: "... Do you need teleported to this side?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Oh, actually, it curves and goes down a bit into the caves. Your intuition tells you that the room that crumbled beneath Garrick's feet is through there.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Blasted... hold on..."
Julian Sawyer: "...Ain't going in there..." *Goes back to the valve and turns it*
Nick Caligo (GM): *Creek! Water flowing* "Water Pressure normality restored. Security reduced to level 0."
Julian Sawyer: "Bam!"
Azure: "I feel bad but for once... my lack of knowledge of those machines kept me out of that room..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...well, Julian must have got it."
Julian Sawyer: *Heads back up to the door he went through to escape the water*
Aribar: "Huzzah! Azure, it is probably for the better you stayed out..." *He hrms and looks to see if that door's unlocked now.*
Nick Caligo (GM): "Emergency Power must be restored before security level changes are made."
Julian Sawyer: *Tries to open said door*
Garrick Fy`aar tries to get himself out of the water by standing on the console... "...everyone get away from the doors!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, the console is all the way under the water...
Garrick Fy`aar: "...or not, wait a second!"
Nick Caligo (GM): As you stand on it, your ankles are soaked... Five foot deep water, three foot tall console. Do the math...
Garrick Fy`aar thinks... then looks toward the walls. What are they made out of? Steel? Rock?
Nick Caligo (GM): It's a dull, rusty metal.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...that won't work... the metal with conduct the electrcity..."
Julian Sawyer: *Door still locked?*
Nick Caligo (GM): Yes, Julian.
Julian Sawyer: *Knocks on it* "HEY! YO!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "I'm STUCK in here, Julian!"
Nick Caligo (GM): Julian: 5 damage as your hand hits a force field covering le door.
Julian Sawyer: *Recoils his hand* "Ow!"
Garrick Fy`aar fires a single shot into the wall...
Nick Caligo (GM): *Ping* It makes a loud noise and a dent.
Aribar: "... Do you two want me to teleport you over here?"
Julian Sawyer: "'Sere water on your side of the door?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "You heard the thing, we need to get over into the other square room. There's still emergency power to deal with. And yes, Julian, lots of it."
Julian Sawyer: "Right... Do we even know what's in that square room?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Somewhere we haven't been."
Nick Caligo (GM): Garrick: INT check.
Julian Sawyer: "So teleport Garrick in there."
Aribar: "... There's an emergency power switch near the first room. Should I go back and turn it on?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Ari: Well done. You suddenly remember that you've GOT an emergency power switch RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.
Julian Sawyer: "Get me where you are, first."
Nick Caligo (GM): It's blazing electric DEATH if you touch it, but all control rooms have one.
Aribar decides to just turn the power switch on.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Ari, warp Julian and myself to you."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, blazing electric death for GARRICK if the power's restored...
Julian Sawyer: "What he said!"
Aribar attempts to do so... Julian is trapped in a room past Garrick's, right?
Nick Caligo (GM): Aye. Though you don't know, nor can you hear Julian.
Aribar first teleports into Garrick's room.
Nick Caligo (GM): Garrick warps to your side .. Or... that...
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Nick Caligo (GM): So wait, you do both or...? Oh. Alright.
Azure: "I'm also wishing... If I could overdrive ...I could teleport in there and get you guys." *He sighs.* "Sorry."
Aribar: "Okay... Where is Julian at, Garrick?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Alright, alright. You teleport into a room filled with 5 feet of water.
Julian Sawyer: "HEY!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Over there."
Nick Caligo (GM): NOW you hear Julian.
Garrick Fy`aar points
Julian Sawyer: "Over here, yo!"
Aribar: "Gah... My clothes are getting soaked..." *The elf stands on his tip toes, just nine inches taller than the water level... He heads over to Julian's door and Teleports to Julian.*
Julian Sawyer: "...Hi Ari."
Aribar then teleports Julian to Garrick's room and then himself.
Nick Caligo (GM): Can I presume you teleport everyone back to the square room?
Julian Sawyer: "...This water's still here?"
Aribar downs two Green Potion and teleports all three of them into the square room with Azure.
Nick Caligo (GM): Yeah, there's still water in the control room. Probably because it has no drain. Alright! Together again after a near fatal trap. o/` And it's so easy when you're eeevil! This is the life, you see! The Devil tips his hat to me! o/` *cough* Anyhow.
Julian Sawyer: "...And we're here. Awesome. Now hit the switch and we can go save the Smashers."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Want to do the honors, Ari?"
Aribar: "Yes..." *Heads to the room with the emergency power, casts Shield just incase something happens, and presses the on button.*
Nick Caligo (GM): *BweeeeeEEEM!* "Thank you for activating emergency power! All security locks are now open. Prison level access granted!"
Julian Sawyer: "Hooray."
Garrick Fy`aar draws the M150 and readies his armor...
Azure: "Everyone. Keep your guard up." *Azure still looks around for a takeable artifact.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Let me go in first... just to make sure..."
Julian Sawyer: *Heads to the Prison Doors*
Azure: .oO(That guys gonna ...do something awful we don't get one.)
Garrick Fy`aar walks up to the prison doors as well. He takes a deep breath... then kicks them open and quickly assesses what the hell is in there besides the Smashers...
Aribar downs another Green Potion and heads inside after the others... It is assumed that Aribar's shield is effecting all party members now.
Julian Sawyer: "HEY! Anyone home?"
Nick Caligo (GM): There's a pit of sand in the center of the room... and cells lining the walls, except those occupied by doors. Old fashioned, barred cells.
Julian Sawyer: "...Sand?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Falcon? Peach?"
Nick Caligo (GM): There's a few decorative seashells here and there.
Julian Sawyer: "Abe guy?"
Nick Caligo (GM): And up above you... Many, many more cells. This room's a giant cylender, with rows and rows of cells layered on top of one another, walkways around the circumferance of the room at every row of cells.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...good lord."
Julian Sawyer: "...Jebus..."
Nick Caligo (GM): And at the very top, ten levels up, is a glass dome showing the water outside.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...let's get the people and get out."
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Aribar: "... I wonder how many times we'll have to come back here to get people out of these cells..."
Julian Sawyer: "Good plan..."
Nick Caligo (GM): It's close enough to the surface that you can see the sun's light shining through and the gentle lighting effect that light going through water has. "Heheheheheheheh... Looking for someone?"
Azure: "Let's move. I don't like the looks of this place. And somebody find an artifact to take back!" *He looks toward the evil laughter.*
Nick Caligo (GM): That voice is WAY too familiar.
Julian Sawyer: *Scans the room with Sharp Eyes to see if he can find the Smashers... or the source of theat laugh*
Garrick Fy`aar immediately turns toward the voice, his gun raised...
Aribar looks around to see who is talking... The elf has no weapon out at this time. "Eh?"
Nick Caligo (GM): Who is that!? Is that... Zio!? No, it's not. Too high pitched, too... too... gregarious...
Julian Sawyer: "...dammit, why can't people just leave us alone..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Nah, sounds like that villain from the Incredibles.
Azure: *Looks the body of this voice over clearly its posser was very old or blind.*
Nick Caligo (GM): *Thud!* ... Uh, let's see...
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Red Mandalorian armor gauntlets, boots, and helmet, check... Red Karate gi, check.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...you've got to be kidding me."
Nick Caligo (GM): Two bright, FURIOUS red lightsabers, check.
Azure that last one caught his attention "Those... all sound like artifacts..."
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, that's SkyHigh.
Azure that last one caught his attention "Or is that just wishful thinking..."
SkyHigh: "Heheheheheheheh! You idiots! YOU FRIGGIN' MORONS!"
Julian Sawyer: "...The hell are you supposed to be?"
Aribar: "... Skyhigh? What are you doing here?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "He's a Fallen Quester."
Julian Sawyer: "...Go on."
SkyHigh: "Oh, not much..." *He flips a saber behind his back and pulls out a small, pyramidal artifact.* "I was just ordered by Master Kuja to get this stupid trinket."
Garrick Fy`aar: "He apparently was a Quester awhile back, but he went bad. Disappeared. I thought he died in that battle on that satellite..."
Azure: "A fallen..." *The words of the book he read in the HQ library so long ago rang in his head.*
SkyHigh: "You know, I'm AMAZED that I stuck around with you guys when evil... just has so much more to offer!!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "You're being used, you know. Kuja uses EVERYONE he sets his paws into."
SkyHigh: "Oh, we'll see about that... With Kuja... I'm more powerful than I EVER WAS! Strong enough to beat Klumsy, that miserable little shrimp..."
Julian Sawyer: "...I just can't get over the fact how incredibly lame you look wearing a gi with armor."
Aribar takes out the Wand of Wonder. "..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Klumsy? Klumsy is still alive?"
Julian Sawyer: "I'll make this quick."
Azure: "Hey..." *He looks at his own gi.*
Julian Sawyer: "No offense to party members."
Aribar: "Don't underestimate him... He's a bit stronger than your standard no-brains all-brain brawler."
Azure sighs then looks at Aribar "Who isn't these days."
SkyHigh: "Strong enough to take down his entire tomb!! So that's what I'm gonna do... I'll beat the Platinum Challenge, and then I'll be powerful enough to stop Kuja! Then, ALL NINTENDUS WILL BOW TO ME!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--cough--oh, my, evil is so sweet..."
Julian Sawyer: "Whatever. We took down Gerald, I can take this guy down too. I think I'll take one of those sabers while I'm at it too..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "What happened to Nintendus! What did Kuja do?! Where did he send us?! ANSWER ME!"
SkyHigh: "But of course I gotta keep up appearances, and what better way than toying with you wimps! Oh, by the way, I'm sure you're looking for your friends."
Julian Sawyer: "What'd you do, kill 'em?"
SkyHigh: "Well, let's just say that I proved to Captain Falcon once and for all that I'M the master..." *He gestures to a cell... and there's a little statuette, just like the one of Kirby...*
Aribar: "... Don't give him suggestions... ... What did you do to him?!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I knew it."
Julian Sawyer: "...Aw hell..."
SkyHigh: "Him and that prissy, pitiful princess peach..." *He SPITS with alliteration...*
Azure: .oO(This is all very climactic and all but where the heck is an artifact. Our entire venture here will be for nothing if we only get hurt in the process coming back with nothing. I guess we will just have to take that item Kuja sent him for away.)
SkyHigh: "Anyway, I've monologued long enough..." *There's a bright flash... suddenly he's got the full suit of armor. *(He's got a pyramidal artifact in his hand)
Nick Caligo (GM): This includes a jetpack... which works... >.>
Julian Sawyer: "Indeed you have... Hey, what happened to the other 3?"
Nick Caligo (GM): As clearly evidenced by his sudden floatation.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Alright then... we'll beat the answers out of you."
Nick Caligo (GM): He stuffs his artifact back behind his back and draws his second saber. "Oh, that Abe guy, too..."
Azure: "Well we have to beat him now."
Nick Caligo (GM): "But wait... one... two, that's me... three... three? There oughta' be... ... WHATEVER! I'll kill whoever that is too!"
Julian Sawyer: "...Falcon+Peach+Abe+You=4...Where's the 5th guy?"
Nick Caligo (GM): "You're gonna DIIIE now!"
Azure: "To lose here is to lose and to leave empty handed is probably to lose too."
Aribar: "I don't suppose you'll fall for the coin trick I did to you before, huh?"
Metal Man (GM): A man in a mysterious black cloak leaps in from the shadows.
Julian Sawyer: *Smirks* "Bring it." *Jumps into the air and activates ROCKET BOOTS*
Nick Caligo (GM): "Oh, right, the coin, already picked that up. Thanks for the tip, Ari!"
Garrick Fy`aar scowls darkly at Sky. He's had it with all this stuff... he's going to bloody him to the point where he won't come back.
???: "..."
Julian Sawyer: "...New guy..."
Nick Caligo (GM): He looks down at the new guy.
Metal Man (GM): The mysterious person draws his sword. He looks incredibly scarred and beaten up.
Nick Caligo (GM): "Oh... ohohohoho! It's YOU! I remember smackin' YOU around! Yeah, this'll be easy..."
Julian Sawyer: "The hell is up with new people? Coming in unannounced..."
Tridus: "I will get my revenge on you once and for all. You cannot kill Tridus!"
Aribar: "Tridus! You're still alive!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...just don't get in my way, Tridus."
Julian Sawyer: "Anyway, Sky Guy, you're goin' down and I'm taking one of your sabers. Just a heads up."
Nick Caligo (GM): o/` Kingdom Hearts - Final Mix: Disappeared o/`
Julian Sawyer: "...Tridus?"
Tridus: "Kuja very well tried to kill me, and this idiot did too. I was still limping in bandages... I shouldn't be alive. But I just refuse to DIE!"
Julian Sawyer: "Just like us. Perfect..."
Tridus: "I must redeem myself at last. Sulking has only given me more scars!"
Julian Sawyer: "Whatever."
Nick Caligo (GM): Sky whips his sabers at his sides and rushes at Aribar, knowing exactly how dangerous a Jentanian Wizard can be... He takes three swipes at him with each saber in chaotic, almost haphazard patterns. You can barely see him move. CRITICAL HIT!
Aribar: *The elf is sliced and diced by each attack...*
Nick Caligo (GM): You're hit for a grand total of 532% damage...
Aribar falls down to the ground, seemingly dead.
Nick Caligo (GM): He floats away, letting you fall apart after he deals that RIDICULOUS amount of damage, twirling his sabers victoriously. "Impressed?"
Julian Sawyer: "...Daaaaymn..."
Nick Caligo (GM): "The Great Jentanian Wizard, NOTHING! C'mon, bring it on!! I dare each and every one of you!"
Julian Sawyer: "Think it'd be best if I took those off your hands quick as possible." *Julian sneaks around Sky, and strikes when he least expects it, using his thief Skill to try and remove one of those sabers from Sky's grasp. He took one from Gerald, why can't he do the same to some weirdo in armor?*
Nick Caligo (GM): Your hand jams itself right into... A force field... A bright red force field... You don't take damage from it, thankfully.
Julian Sawyer: "...I -CENSORED- HATE SHIELDS!" *Julian then launches into a flurry of punches and kicks(Double Speedbag), trying to take down that damn shield!*
Nick Caligo (GM): But there's no way you're getting to those sabers if that crazy thing's up. He cackles, though every last attack you throw hits that field.
Julian Sawyer: "I've broken every shield in this damned place, and I'm going to break yours, mark my words!"
Nick Caligo (GM): "Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha! You caaan't hit me!" 528 damage to that shield... and it's STILL THERE.
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Flies back, ending his turn*
Aribar glows and floats back up into a standing position, fully healed and ready to go... The elf's life force has suffered a major blow, though. "... Guys... I know of a spell that will make this battle much easier... But it'll kill me... Should I try the spell?"
Julian Sawyer: "USE IT! I've got 100 rings for ya."
Aribar: "... I may not come back to life after using it!" *He quickly glances to Garrick and Azure for their opinions.*
Julian Sawyer: "...Second thought, use it on your last life. You still got two."
Azure: "I agree."
Aribar: "... I've reached the limits of my endurance..."
Garrick Fy`aar is too overcome with some sort of dark sorta look in his eyes to answer anything...
Azure: "If that's the case then use it!"
Aribar decides to try it... Possibly.
Tridus: "I wish I could be more helpful. Two years as an invalid hasn't helped much."
Aribar: "... Protect me then!" *The elf begins chanting arcane words, summoning up a shield.*
Tridus: "I shall make it impossible to hit you."
Nick Caligo (GM): "Hahahahaha, ALWAYS the wuss, weren't you, Ari?"
Tridus: "You're hiding behind that force field, coward."
Nick Caligo (GM): "Alright, what's next since the all-powerful Jentanian Wizard's chickening out?"
Garrick Fy`aar narrows his eyes as he starts his movement, using Eye Spy to get a look at his health...
Nick Caligo (GM): "Hey, it's called a strategy: PROTECT YOURSELF ADEQUATELY."
Garrick Fy`aar bolts for the direction opposite of Tridus and the dead Ari. Whatever this dark feeling has done to him, it's done something seriously messed up. Garrick runs at a diagonal direction and straight up the wall, leaping off of it to get a good solid shot in a more point blank range on Sky. Quickdrawing the M150 in one hand and taking an action to draw the Last Request (he's never used that before...) in the other, he unholthers the M150, unleashing a hail of shots from the M150 and another action's worth of shots from the Last Request.*
Tridus: "You will regret me. I made a far stronger villain than you, before I was... torn apart by the Questers." *Cough* "And Kuja..." *Hack* "...Then you."
Metal Man (GM): Aha! The Last Request. Skyhigh would probably notice the image of Phantom appearing above Garrick's head. Of course, it flickers out when he's done firing.
Garrick Fy`aar: .oO(If you want to instill me with some power here, Phantom, now's the time...)
Nick Caligo (GM): Sky zips around the shots with his jetpack, taking a grand total of two hits from the M150.
Garrick Fy`aar lands, skidding along the ground. He spins around and raises his guns to point at SkyHigh again "Stop flying like a damned COWARD and fight like a man!"
Nick Caligo (GM): "Hahahaha! I'm more a man than YOU'LL ever be!!"
Tridus: "He is nothing but a coward. I saw him briefly myself, before both of us became evil."
Julian Sawyer: .oO(That's some nice flying...)
Azure: *Rushes at sky with a high speed bozen smash*
Garrick Fy`aar: *Alright then!*"
Nick Caligo (GM): FUCK yes! *cough* Anyway... *SMACK!* You hit the field! He can't dodge it.
Azure's bursts into sudden aura of power it glows with prismatic light overdrive *His teleports and splits into 3 images that all appear around the aura. They all shout at once * "KOHO X!" *and attack fiercely*
Nick Caligo (GM): "... What the..." *WHAPWHA-WHAP-WHAP-WHAP-WHAP!!* Everything hits.
Azure: *42% each 252 total*
Nick Caligo (GM): "My, aren't WE just having some slap-happy fun!"
Azure: *The images teleport Azure stands in front of Sky back as one being. He is engulfed in lighting. And begins teleporting around bashing at sky * "RAGEKI X!"
Nick Caligo (GM): *WHAP-WHAP-WHAP!!!* All three hit. "Hyper little pest, aren't you?" How much damage was that first attack, anyhow?
Azure: *198% total instant paralysis if I broke through if not fight on.*
Nick Caligo (GM): You didn't break through. I meant Speed Bozen Smash. You got a 33 and barely hit him. You didn't give any damage. Alright then.
Azure's prismatic aura fades it seems he put all his power into that.
Tridus: "Behold... the dark powers which have slumbered for an eternity!"
Nick Caligo (GM): "So, the Questers have resorted to tacky little super modes now!"
Julian Sawyer: "You ain't even seen the last of it. ... Dark powers that have slumbered for an eternity my ass."
Nick Caligo (GM): "... Hahahahaha! Oh, is this a JOKE?" He smacks it back at Tridus.
Garrick Fy`aar just stares at SkyHigh, his suit slowly beginning to absorb in power for his own overdrive...
Nick Caligo (GM): Tridus, roll a melee attack. You can't beat 42 since it's, like, the answer to life the universe and everything... but you might get a cri--guess not. An INCREDIBLE fumble and YOU take all the damage from it.
Metal Man (GM): *Takes 20 electrical damage*
SkyHigh: "That's beautiful! Beaten by his own attack!"
Metal Man (GM): *Turn over. Tridus is busy blocking the way to Aribar with his body.*
Nick Caligo (GM): Sky's shield pulses briefly, regenerating 100 HP.
Tridus: "I shall learn from failure... unlike you."
Nick Caligo (GM): He lets it pulse again. Its color changes to white. He floats himself down to the ground, shutting off his jetpack, and pulls back his fist. "Falcon... ...PUNCH!!!" *WHOOM!!* That's MUCH more than a Falcon Punch. He actually MOVES, blasting forward through Tridus with that attack...
Tridus: *He gets in the way of the punch. All of the wounds he's had before have made him slow. Determined or not, the attack more than likely will blast him.*
Nick Caligo (GM): And then, a moment later... "PUUUNCH!! PUUUNCH!!" He repeats it TWO MORE TIMES, blasting through Julian and Azure simultaneously, then at Garrick, wrapped in flames like a phoenix. Everybody but Ari make a SPD check. Julian manages to evade it, but both Garrick AND Metal take it.
Julian Sawyer: *Twists out of the way of that one*
Nick Caligo (GM): Well, rather, Julian evades -part- of it. 53 damage to Julian.
Julian Sawyer: "You're too slow!"
Nick Caligo (GM): 107 damage to Tridus and Garrick. 107 damage to Azure, too. Burninated is more the word.
Tridus: "..." *He survives... he should be dead.* "Your attack does... *Cough* not impress me!"
SkyHigh: "Hahahahahahaha!!! See? I can kick all your asses at ONCE! Oh, you're all gonna pay DEARLY for all the times you picked on me and all the times you belittled me! I am clearly... NOT your personal punching bag any more!"
Julian Sawyer , near death, bursts towards Sky in a burst of power from his boots, and goes all-out, DBZ style, on Sky's shield, laying into it with a Triple Speedbag
Nick Caligo (GM): *Shitload of hits*
Tridus: "..." *He continues gripping onto his sword, blood dripping down his face.*
Nick Caligo (GM): A WHOPPING 792 damage.
Julian Sawyer then bursts back to his spot, breathing heavily
Aribar begins to glow red with the power of his ancestors... The elf's eyes glow white as he prepared to be channel massive amounts of arcane energy... The elf drops the Wand of Wonder to the floor and holds an extended palm towards Skyhigh as small orbs of red energy with dissipating tails begin to surround his hand, focusing on a white orb of energy in the center of the elf's palm. Aribar channels his very life's essence and--
Tridus: "...Destroy him." *The maleovence in that voice is extreme... if he wasn't so weak now, you'd swear it was the original Void speaking.*
Aribar: *and all of his arcane energy into this point of energy so that he may channel an awe-inspiring magical force into Skyhigh. The elf finally gathers enough life energy and a red beam that is the pure essence of destruction is fired from the ball of energy in his hand at Skyhigh. The beam meets the shield surrounding Sky with terrifying force, driving their foe back several feet. For several seconds this goes on before Aribar suddenly stops channeling the energy... He falls to his knees, entirely spent after the reckless casting of the spell is complete. The young elf falls down to the ground, his life force yet again leaving his body like so many other times... The elf just hopes his sacrifice by casting the second Ray of Destruction spell was worth it... 1625% damage... Probably rounded down to 1000%... My over-dramatic posting is over.
Nick Caligo (GM): *SHINK!!* That familiar polygon...
Tridus: "...I must learn that some day. It is magic I thought was... dead."
Nick Caligo (GM): A bright blue flash of light... one last representation of Sky's treachery. Falco's Reflector. The OLD one. The one that reflects for 4X damage...
Julian Sawyer: "...Aw hell... ARI!"
Nick Caligo (GM): You can tell, because the energy AMPLIFIES as it connects. Aribar: INT check.
Tridus: *He dives in front of Aribar if he can, to take the attack himself.*
Nick Caligo (GM): Sky directs it straight back to Aribar... but Tridus takes it, and gets vaporized by 6500 damage.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Nick Caligo (GM): Sky laughs so hard and so fast that he's practically giggling with delight. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Oho, man, the LOOKS on all your faces when I did that!" The reflector blinks on and off again... and then seems to short out. "... Aww damn it."
Julian Sawyer: "...That's it, you're fucking going down, you bastard. That was just plain CHEAP!"
Nick Caligo (GM): "Stupid thing isn't supposed to take that much of a load... oh well, I can do without it! I'm just... that... good..." Julian: How's your OP lookin'? It increases by 2 all of a sudden. You're lookin' at, for the one time in SSQ history, 9/8
Julian Sawyer: "That's even cheaper than those fucking crabs we fought! And they had shields too! AND I FUCKING HATE SHIELDS!"
Garrick Fy`aar growls as the punch sends him skidding a good few feet. He growls, in extreme pain, but not letting it show. His face and hands are burned heavily from the massive amount of flames from the Falcon Punch clone, his skin red and inflamed from heat. He quickly holsters the M150 and thrusts his hand into his jacket, yanking out a Max Mushroom and gulping it down. The healing fungus immediately does it's work, healing him *His eyes seem to glow with extreme hatred and determination at the death of his friend. He quick redraws the M150 his body almost shaking from the rage, but his hand remaining rock steady. * "...you are DEAD!!" *He unloads six shots from his M150, hoping to get at least something so he too can overdrive and start laying some serious asskicking on this fellow.*
Nick Caligo (GM): Three hits, Garrick. He doesn't even fly this time, but he still avoids half your shots by ducking, backflipping, and generally doing some snappy footwork. That it for your turn or d'ya got something up your sleeve?
Julian Sawyer: "And I'll be damned if that isn't excellent flying, but you're STILL PISSING ME OFF!"
Azure knew he need to collect more power and fast. He rushed toward the barrier as his weapons lock on setting of a rageki fist combo.
Nick Caligo (GM): You score a single hit on him. A single CRITICAL hit. >.>
Julian Sawyer: *Rests a little, trying to catch his breath from yelling at Sky*
Tridus: *First action. He rises from a dark portal in the ground... loooks like the depths of hell. No time to go in depth on that, I'm afraid. Next, he decides to fire another ball lightning attack... is he insane or stupid?*
Nick Caligo (GM): Sky once again deflects the attack with a stroke of his lightsaber... and once again, Tridus critically fails. *ZAP!* Damageded.
Tridus: "...I think I could hit it better if I didn't hold the sword backwards."
Nick Caligo (GM): XD The camera slowly zooms out, with Sky standing at the edge of the circle of sand, facing all the Questers.
Julian Sawyer: *Catches his breath, and looks up*
Nick Caligo (GM): More powerful than several Questers combined... will they be able to beat him? Find out next time on SSQ: Regretful Paths...

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