Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 235: Comedic Evil
Date: 6:39:40 PM, September 3rd; 7:32:57 PM, September 4th; 12:17:57 PM, September 5th, 2005.
Metal Man (GM): The Computer beeps again.
Computer: "Invalid password."
Julian Sawyer: "That work?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...nope."
Julian Sawyer: "Damn."
Computer: "Please try again."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Try the Dex, maybe it has the password in it. Let's see, think like Phantom, think like Phantom..."
Julian Sawyer: "You said not to touch anything."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Well... yeah, that's true. ...did Phantom have a bad memory."
Julian Sawyer: "And I'm gonna break that decree." *Picks up the Dex.*
Aribar: "Hrm..."
Metal Man (GM): You go to pick it up... and hit an invisible barrier.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man (GM): You also hear a laugh from somewhere.
Julian Sawyer: "Hate barriers..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Phantom?"
Aetos quickly pulls out a debarrier cube and tosses it at the invisible barrier around the Dex.
Metal Man (GM): No response. Except for Skyhigh's painting. What's it doing on the other wall, opposite of Phantom's?
Aetos: "Go now! grab it!"
Metal Man (GM): You throw the cube at the invisible wall.
Julian Sawyer: *Pulls out his Debarrier Cube PEZ dispenser, and takes a DC PEZ tablet out... Nevermind, Aetos took care of it.*
Metal Man (GM): *PLONK* It bounces off.
Aetos: "Blast."
Metal Man (GM): It's not used, though.
Julian Sawyer: "...Thanks for testing that theory..."
Aetos slowly walks over and picks it up again.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: Your... dex... beeps oddly.
Aribar narrows his eyes and opens his dex. "Eh?"
Dex: "... ... ... Beep. Beep. Klumsy. Beep. Beep. Com... puter."
Metal Man (GM): Aetos: You pick up the cube.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...ah ha."
Julian Sawyer: "...That supposed to be a password?"
Metal Man (GM): Another click can be heard....
Julian Sawyer: "Try it."
Aribar: "... Uhhh... That was odd... Garrick, try Klumsy as a password."
Garrick Fy`aar looks at Ari, smiles a bit, then goes to the computer an types in "Klumsy."
Metal Man (GM): A picture of Panzer appears on another wall.
Julian Sawyer: "...Whozat?"
Computer: "Klumsy sucks. Try again."
Julian Sawyer: *Points at Panzer's painting.*
Garrick Fy`aar stares at the computer...
Aetos: "Kitty!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Phantom?"
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: It's... some connection between the paintings.
Aetos: "Ghost?"
Julian Sawyer: "Yo! Ari! Who's that on the painting that just showed up?"
Aribar looks around at the paintings before back at the others...
Garrick Fy`aar looks around.
Metal Man (GM): ...The computer begins playing the Diet Pepsi song.
Aetos sings along to it.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Phantom... Skyhigh... Panzer..."
Aribar: "Uhh... I think her name was Panzer... She attempted to rip out everyone's spines."
Julian Sawyer: "...Aetos, shut it."
Garrick Fy`aar types in Questers...
Julian Sawyer: "...Huh."
Computer: "Beep. Useless Questers. Tools of Klumsy."
Aribar: "... Try, 'Phantom Rules' or something."
Garrick Fy`aar: "I already tried Phantom..."
Aribar: "Hence the 'Rules' at the end."
Metal Man (GM): Another odd thing. Metal's painting appears and begins flying about, occasionally smashing into the pictures on the wall.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Aetos: "Try ... whatever is happening now..."
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man (GM): In fact, it cracks the picture of Linkbot which just appeared on the South wall. The picture of Linkbot falls to the ground and crumples into bits.
Julian Sawyer: "...And who's that that Metal's painting just crushed?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...no idea."
Aribar: "These are all pictures of old Questers... But I don't know what that has to do with anything."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Old Questers... that Metal hates?"
Metal Man (GM): Metal's painting then takes the place of the Linkbot one on the wall.
Garrick Fy`aar types in Dead Questers...
Julian Sawyer: *Heads over to the Bookcase to see if he can find a clue or something.*
Computer: "Beep. Incorrect password, infidel."
Metal Man (GM): You look at the bookcase.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Oy. Shut your speakers."
Metal Man (GM): You'd see a book labeled 'Phantom's diary'
Aetos: "Domination?"
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Takes it out.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Nah, I don't really think Metal to be a dominator."
Metal Man (GM): It's in another bookmark. Erm, it has a bookmark.
Julian Sawyer: *Looks at said bookmark.*
Metal Man (GM): You open it up... 'Day X, Year 2003.' "Klumsy SUCKS! I and several of the others have banded together to remove him from power. No one as of yet has recorded this... but I thought it'd be a good idea to write in here."
Aetos doesn't even know Klumsy or Phantom... none of them.
Julian Sawyer: "Huh... Garrick, try Anti-Klumsy."
Garrick Fy`aar shrugs and types that in.
Computer: "Password correct. Finally!"
Metal Man (GM): The computer returns to the transmission program. It has a new event, scheduled to happen when the computer is logged on...
Julian Sawyer: "It worked? Coo'."
Metal Man (GM): All of your dexes suddenly beep at once.
Aetos looks at the others and frowns.
Metal Man (GM): To the tune of the Diet Pepsi song.
Aetos sings to himself along with the song.
Metal Man (GM): Metal's picture disappears off of the wall, as does all the others besides Phantom's.
Julian Sawyer: "...Aetos! Shut up!" *Opens his dex.*
Metal Man (GM): Phantom's picture moves over the fireplace. The dex... shows another transmission.
Aribar looks at his dex...
Garrick Fy`aar walks over to the main room, his transmission appearing in a screen on his eye... since the contacts of his Dex were sorta fused to his eyes.
???: "At laaaaaast! You have been trapped in my lair. Ayeeeeeee! You tried to seal me, kill me, make me gone... but at last, I can haunt you again..."
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hey, I thought you wouldn't haunt us as long as I had this."
???: "Kuja... he disturbed me from my sleep and sent me here... you must allll pay for it!!!"
Julian Sawyer: "Who the hell is this?"
Aribar: "... Phantom? ..."
???: "AHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!"
Julian Sawyer: "Phantom? I never met you, but I'm sure I can kick your -CENSORED-."
Garrick Fy`aar jabs his thumb to the gun on his back again...
Metal Man (GM): The dex message ends. Because suddenly, the painting is alive.
Julian Sawyer: "I told you to shoot it, Garrick!"
Phantom: "It is a shame, that I must live up to my name so much..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Shut your chili hole, Julian."
Phantom: "But I have returned from the grave! Again!"
Julian Sawyer: "Told-you-to-shoot-it!"
Phantom: "With Kuja out of arm's reach, I shall have to suffice for your souls!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "And I said shut your chili hole. We can repeat what we just said so well, can't we?"
Phantom: "Face the power of the Diet Pepsi Song! I mean Phantom!"
Garrick Fy`aar draws the M150 in one hand, the Last Request in the other, smirking.
Metal Man (GM): Questers vs. Phantom's Painting
Julian Sawyer: *Cracks his neck.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "It'll be fun to whoop your behind with your own gun."
Phantom: "I have no behind, dumkopf! I'm a painting!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "And you have no nationality, so why are you speaking in German?"
Phantom: "My association with the lost souls of Anti Klumsy have tainted me thus."
Julian Sawyer: "Less talking more smashing!"
Phantom: "Ahahahaha! Uhhh... take this!"
Metal Man (GM): The fireplace shoots three fireballs, all at Julian. 50 fire damage per hit.
Phantom: "Erk... and... this!"
Metal Man (GM): He fires more fireballs at Aribar. 50 damage per hit.
Aribar: "Gah!" *Burnination.*
Aetos blinks.
Phantom: "...Limitations of this painting are so hard to cope with... and this!"
Metal Man (GM): He shoots more fireballs, this time at Garrick. 50 fire damage per hit.
Aribar is dead...
Garrick Fy`aar is alive, actually.
Julian Sawyer: *Lives like a living person.*
Phantom: "Har har haaarrr! Aribar is the first to die, as always! So predictable, you conformist Klumsy slaves are!"
Aetos: "I take it, you have no grudge on me?"
Julian Sawyer: "Take this!" *Julian flings Phantom's diary at Phantom's Painting, just to see what it does* "I never met the guy!"
Phantom: "All who serve Klumsy defy me!"
Aetos: "Same here... I don't even know who Klumsy is."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Klmusy is dead, Phantom. He's been dead for years."
Metal Man (GM): The diary flies into the painting. And... no effect happens.
Garrick Fy`aar: "WE killed him!"
Phantom: "Thanks, I needed my diary. To write your deaths in."
Julian Sawyer: "Damn."
Phantom: "I do not believe that. He could not have died. Liars, scum, Klumsy-slaves!"
Julian Sawyer: "Then you'll just have to die the old-fashioned way!" *Julian opens fire on the painting with the two AK-47s he picked up.*
Metal Man (GM): All hit. You hear the sound of bullets hitting bullet-proof glass... damage per hit? The bullets are strong, but reduced in effect. 320 total damage.
Aetos: "Weren't those... HIS guns?"
Phantom: "How dare you mock me?"
Julian Sawyer: "That's the one Garrick has. ...No, wait, yeah. I found these in one of those weapon stashes..."
Phantom: "Those were never used by me... sadly, they are more yours than mine now. I shall get my vengeance! This time or the next!"
Aetos: "Meh... cool, Ok."
Garrick Fy`aar unloads on the sucker, M150 in one hand, Last Request in the other. Garrick is literally raining lead on this fellow.
Julian Sawyer: "But they don't seem to be working that well." *Julian replaces the AK-47s at his side and gets into a fighting stance to punch Phantom in the head... on his next turn.*
Metal Man (GM): Separate the damage for each gun, please.
Aetos: "Violent..."
Metal Man (GM): All hit, even crit misses ..Phantom is... HEALED... for 63 HP?
Phantom: "The power of my own gun, however, is beneficial to me."
Garrick Fy`aar finishes off by Eye Spying him.
Aribar groans, getting back up from the floor... He's not dead yet. The elf cries out an arcane word and a bolt of lightning lances from his fingers to Phantom before a rippling beam of energy is fired at Phantom... A Sonic Boom.
Metal Man (GM): The Sonic boom, of course, always does the same damage.
Phantom: "Accursed Jentainian Clone!"
Aribar: "... Clone?!"
Julian Sawyer: "Clone?"
Phantom: "The real Aribar had two arms. His one-armed form disappeared long ago."
Aetos sighs, unsure if this Enemy is worth the fight... he Summons a wind barrier, and defends twice.
Phantom: "Only his slytock clone, possessing superior powers such as your own, existed past then with two arms! Errr... one arm."
Julian Sawyer: "...Whatever."
Phantom: "Regardless. Clone! CLONE! Why aren't you helping me?"
Aribar: "... You can't even keep things straight... And if you remember YOU attacked me FIRST!"
Julian Sawyer: "Maybe because you attacked him with FIREBALLS?"
Phantom: "Quiet you. SHADOW BALL!"
Metal Man (GM): Three immensely gigantic Shadow Balls fly into Julian for 455 dark damage each.
Aetos blinks.
Julian Sawyer: *WARHPSGNPBYPSNTYS!*
Metal Man (GM): The catastrophic Omega level attacks make the sound of a battleship's main guns firing when they annihilate the place where Julian was standing.
Aetos: "This guy is no joke it seems."
Phantom: "Unlike you inferior beings, we Anti-Klumsy members kept our melee moves! And yet... it cursed us to never die... ...Which just adds to the evil schemes I've been able to make up!"
Aetos looks at the four of us and realizes that none of us have any Smasher moves... except the level bonus ones.
Metal Man (GM): The painting looks strangely winded after that triple overkill attack.
Julian Sawyer: *A generic blue warp portal opens up where Julian was standing, and quickly turns red and Julian rises out of it, Vengeful as all hell* "Big mistake!" *Julian then rushes towards Phantom's painting and gives him a VENGEFUL Haymake to da face!*
Metal Man (GM): *SMASH* No way a painting can dodge that. You punch a nice gigantic crack into the glass.
Julian Sawyer jumps back to the group, then jumps up again as he...
Phantom: "Ow... ...even with the powers of mega punch, you cannot defeat the great Phantom!"
Julian Sawyer: *O-O-O-OVERDRIVES! He 's now floating in midair with Rocket Boot action!*
Metal Man (GM): Anything else? Go Garrickmon!
Garrick Fy`aar growls, his own body shinning and shimmering as he goes into Overdrive. With all those shots, there's no reason he CAN'T do it. "Now... Questers! DOUBLETIME!"
Aetos: "...huh?"
Garrick Fy`aar swallows an Energizer his first action, holsters the Last Request his second action, and fires the M150 his third action.
Metal Man (GM): Ok; the painting now has a few bullet holes.
Aribar fires off an Aeroblast (177% Wind) and Thundaga (177% Thunder) before firing off a Thunder (30% Thunder.)
Metal Man (GM): *Nuke.*
Phantom: "Arrrrgh! This is the third worst defeat by the Questers I've ever had!"
Metal Man (GM): The painting cracks and then falls onto the ground... and is burnt up by the fire. +1500 EXP
Julian Sawyer: "Bam!"
Aetos: "Well then..." *POOF Lvl 31*
Metal Man (GM): *click* *click* *click* *Click clickclick snap.*
Julian Sawyer: "...Snap?"
Aetos: "Uh..."
Aribar: "These various sounds are becoming annoying."
Metal Man (GM): You see... the computer. It's pulled a transformer, and is now Phantom. A wispy spirit thingy flies out of the flaming painting and into the robot.
Aetos checks the pedestal for the barrier.
Phantom: "Think you could kill me? Hah!"
Julian Sawyer: "... dammit!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom holds out his hand; the dex is sucked out of the barrier and into his.
Phantom: "Now then, let me get a good look at you!"
Julian Sawyer: "Hey!"
Aetos: "Bah."
Metal Man (GM): He holds the dex out at all of you... and... presses the button...
Dex: "DING!"
Aribar: "... It's sometimes worked before... Control, Alt, Delete!"
Aetos: "What..."
Julian Sawyer: "...Haven't heard THAT in a long time..."
Metal Man (GM): All o' you: Post your HP, SPD, STR, INT, AC, Actions, and moves to me in PM. Phantom sticks his tongue out at you.
Phantom: "Now I can know all of your weak points!"
Metal Man (GM): Oh, yeah. And your element, too, if that applies.
Phantom: "...What's this? They come in elemental flavors now? And the HP... so low... and pathetic."
Aetos: "Who what? Are you talking about me? Punk!"
Phantom: "You should respect your elders, kid!"
Aetos: "You're DEAD."
Phantom: "Funny, Aribar doesn't appear to have any stats. I should be able to kill him by poking him with my finger. ...Oh... so he does have stats... stupid technology. Very, very interesting. I'll make sure to hold onto this information. Remember this as the day you almost defeated Phantom!"
Julian Sawyer: "What weak point? ...That is so lame."
Metal Man (GM): *Kick* He kicks open a secret panel and pulls a pole down from the ceiling. Then he slides down the fireman pole into the floor below.
Phantom: "Wheee! I'm the gingerbread man!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...should we go after him?"
Julian Sawyer: "Hey! Get back here! I ain't done with you yet!"
Aetos: "...I like his style!"
Julian Sawyer: *Flies after him.*
Metal Man (GM): You can go right down the pole after him.
Garrick Fy`aar shrugs and makes to chase after him.
Aetos still wonders about the rocking chair...
Metal Man (GM): The chair, it is... now no longer rocking.
Aetos: "Hm. Odd..."
Metal Man (GM): Regardless, most of you chase after Phantom. Down below is the secret floor -1.
Aetos jumps down the hole, after Ghost pickle man.
Metal Man (GM): It's all sorts of gears and electrical wires, and, another hallway down.
Aribar sighs, shakes his head, and checks the room for other exits besides the hole.
Metal Man (GM): Phantom is currently running down it, slightly ahead of you guys who are chasing him. Aribar: the door back out.
Aribar just follows the others then.
Julian Sawyer: *Flies after him.*
Phantom: "Face it. You can't catch me! I know this place like the back of my thumb!"
Metal Man (GM): Julian: SPD check. You duck under a cabinet door he swings open behind him.
Aetos takes a POW block out from under his cape and punches it! Hoping to put a stop to Phantoms movement for a bit.
Julian Sawyer: "Get back here!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom evades the POW block.
Aetos snaps...
Phantom: "Oh! Right! You reminded me... WoOoOoOoOoO!!!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom attempts to mess with Julian's mind. Opposed INT checks.
Aetos catches up to them.
Garrick Fy`aar tries to take advantage of the situation and fires off a few shots at him.
Julian Sawyer: *SCRAMBLED!*
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: Roll for three shots. Julian, meanwhile, is all scrambled. He flies into a wall and gets stuck for a few moments. Garrick: You peg him twice in the shoulder.
Phantom: "Gah! Curse you, gunman!"
Aetos: "Times like this I wish I practiced aim throwing my spear."
Julian Sawyer: "GAH! MY EYES!"
Phantom: "This should do the trick..."
Metal Man (GM): Phantom turns around.
Julian Sawyer: *Gets himself unstuck from the wall and continues the chase.*
Metal Man (GM): He tries to push Aribar over.
Aetos: "Hm?..."
Metal Man (GM): Opposed STR checks, Aribar.
Garrick Fy`aar immediately races at him, trying to leap over him and cut off his route of escape.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar evades the push through absurd luck. But Phantom has a backup plan!
Julian Sawyer draws the two AKs he picked up and opens fire on Phantom, trying to clip his knees.
Metal Man (GM): He moves out of the way... Garrick: INT check. He sees the AKs and moves again... Julian: INT check. Garrick et Julian: He moves Aribar into the way both times, outsmarting you.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Son of a..."
Julian Sawyer: "WHAT?!"
Metal Man (GM): Smart, eh? Well, unfortunately Aribar is stomped on by Garrick (Garrick's AC in damage to him) and then the back of Aribar's knees are shot at by Julian.
Phantom: "Bahahahahah. You're idiots, according to the smash dex."
Aetos: "Aw..."
Phantom: "Aribar's smart... but technically I should have been able to push him over. Oh. Right. You!"
Aetos: "No! Not me!"
Aribar: *Insert standard, "Ow! My teammate hurt me!" phrase here.*
Metal Man (GM): He tries to trip up Aetos. Aetos, SPD check. Aetos is tripped up and lands on top of Aribar.
Aetos: "Oof..."
Metal Man (GM): No damage, however Garrick's on top of Aribar... almost blocking off the way. Meanwhile, Phantom begins running away again.
Julian Sawyer continues his flight towards Phantom, trying to avoid the bodies.
Garrick Fy`aar tries to push up and keeps chasing after him.
Metal Man (GM): Julian: Gonna take an INT check to get through the traffic jam.
Aetos tries to get up.
Metal Man (GM): Aetos: You get up. Julian manages to continue on. Julian's in front again, then Garrick, then Aetos, and if Aribar isn't dead already, he's last.
Julian Sawyer: "Stop running!"
Aetos continues running after Phantom.
Phantom: "Ah! This should deal with... some of you."
Metal Man (GM): Phantom pulls out an RCP-90 and opens fire on the wiring over head all four of you. SPD checks, everybody. Julian evades the wires. As does Aribar.
Julian Sawyer: "Can't stop me that easily!"
Metal Man (GM): Garrick gets ker-zapped for 35 electric damage, and is slowed down to third position.
Julian Sawyer: *Continues flight.*
Metal Man (GM): Aetos takes a whopping 70 damage and is knocked back to last.
Phantom: "I didn't need to hit you... the Wind elemental was my target, and I succeeded!"
Aetos buzzes.
Metal Man (GM): You all run out into a larger cave area.
Phantom: "Rats! I swore I'd have killed you by now! Well... death before dishonor!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom leaps off of the cliff.
Aetos blinks.
Julian Sawyer: *Flies after him.*
Metal Man (GM): You fly after him.
Garrick Fy`aar slides to the edge of the cliff "...nothing I can do now..."
Aetos does as well...
Phantom: "...I didn't expect you to be onto my trick. Eat bullets, fiend!"
Metal Man (GM): He desperately turns around mid-air and opens fire with the RCP-90 at Julian.
Aribar just shakes his head, sighs, and casts 5 Cures on himself.
Aetos uses sharp eyes to watch them... just in case.
Julian Sawyer gets hit with 4 of those... but 2 happen to be crits. -CENSORED-
Metal Man (GM): Aetos: You see Phantom shooting at Julian mid-air.
Aetos: "That looks epic..."
Julian Sawyer returns fire with his AKs.
Aetos aligns a gravity cube above Phantom and lets it drop...
Metal Man (GM): 85 damage from the RCP-90 pot-shots. Aetos: He's outta range. Waaaay outta range.
Julian Sawyer: *Survives it easily.*
Metal Man (GM): Julian hits the falling maniac all six times.
Aetos sits.
Metal Man (GM): He takes heavy damage... but then leaps up and tries to ride on your back!
Aetos blinks "This phantom guy is some character, eh?"
Phantom: "Ha ha! Thanks for saving me!"
Julian Sawyer: "What the... Hey!"
Metal Man (GM): He sticks the RCP to the back of your head.
Phantom: "Fly me back up there to the Questers or you will die in an irreversible way!"
Julian Sawyer tries snatching the RCPs with quick Thiefing action!
Metal Man (GM): And it's only one... you hope, at least. Ok.
Julian Sawyer: "... I hate you."
Phantom: "Now... I shall imitate Megaman!"
Julian Sawyer: *Flies back up.*
Aetos still holds the cube of Gravityness.
Metal Man (GM): The other three of you watch at Phantom flies back up, using Julian as a platform.
Aetos: "Uh..."
Julian Sawyer: "I'm just as surprised as you are."
Phantom: "It's about time I finished you off!"
Aetos: "Julian catch!" *He throws the cube at julian.*
Phantom: "Catch that and you die."
Julian Sawyer: *Ain't touchin' it.*
Metal Man (GM): The cube goes yonder into Phantom's hands.
Aetos sighs.
Phantom: "Look what I have here... it's some pretty piece of technology!"
Julian Sawyer: "What?"
Phantom: "Oh, nothing. Just a gravity cube."
Aetos: "Apply pressure to it! It's pretty!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom sticks it in his gun.
Aetos: "Bah. Uh..."
Phantom: "Gravity Wave ability... well, this will be useful."
Julian Sawyer: *Wonders if he could pull off a Super Move before Phantom could catch it or not...* "Nice job, Aetos..."
Metal Man (GM): Julian: Depends... well, you move the wrong way and you might even crash. Your boots can barely support that heavy reploid.
Aetos: "Hey, you know... your flying above ground which seems pretty dang far down... If it hit he would have fallen down... along with you..."
Phantom: "Enough talk! It is time we finished this!"
Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, but as you can see, I can't move my arms right now."
Metal Man (GM): *Phantom w/Julian vs. Questers.*
Phantom: "Gravity wave!"
Aetos frowns.
Metal Man (GM): Aetos, Aribar, and Garrick instantly lose 10% of their current HP.
Aetos hears a ding sound go off in his ear "Gravity hurts my hearing..." *He rubs his ears.*
Phantom: "Now then. I have some unsettled business... Never mess with a Maverick Reploid!!!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom aims his RPC-90 at Aribar and opens fire.
Aribar is barely even effected by the gravity wave as he readies for combat... He dies.
Phantom: "Defend for your life, or we're both dying!"
Aetos asks Aribar if Phantom is a quester...
Aribar responds by falling to the floor.
Metal Man (GM): Aetos: You'd notice Aribar was killed by all those... bullets...
Aetos: "Erm..."
Julian Sawyer: *Quietly replaces his AK-47's back, and defends... but uses his last action to calculate all the stuff he'd need to do in order to catch Phantom flat-footed with a Super Move...*
Metal Man (GM): Yes. Julian: You'd have to wait for him to make a critical blooper while using the machinegun. And I mean critical as in critical misses, and two of them. At which point he'd be unable to keep his guard of what you're doing.
Julian Sawyer: *Censored thought.*
Metal Man (GM): He'd be too busy accidentally blasting holes in the rock. Garrick: Show him what type of gunman you are! This low-down scoundrel flunked outta villain college, and there's no point in letting him use Julian like a horse.
Garrick Fy`aar feels confident enough in his own firing ability to NOT hit Julian. What he needs is to bust him up enough so he'll go flying off. He raises the M150 and fires, putting some armor piercing shots behind it.
Julian Sawyer: "AHHHH!"
Metal Man (GM): Julian's AC is used in this case. Then, to add to that, Phantom does minimal ducking and weaving. 3 hits. It's like hitting a guy who's on a fast-moving platform. Oh! Correction. Only two hits. It's like a guy who's dodging bullets on a fast-moving platform which prepared to be attacked.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Blast it, Julian! Shake him off!"
Julian Sawyer: "I got a gun put to my head!"
Phantom: "One wrong move and we're both going down, sheriff. I used to envy Metal and Star Steel, with their Star Boards... but look at me! They don't have a Julian Sanchez board!"
Aetos: "Sanchez? That is your last name? How I long for a Dex... I could learn all sorts of interesting facts."
Aribar: *Prismatic Ray, Barrier.*
Julian Sawyer: "That's Sawyer!"
Aetos: "Oh... yeah I forgot." *He whistles.*
Julian Sawyer: "Jeez..."
Phantom: "...right. Ow! The fire! It tingles!"
Aetos channels his thoughts to try and mimic a Phantom Move!
Metal Man (GM): You mimic... Well, this is an interesting ability. You now have the power to use people named Julian to fly mid-air. Unfortunately the only Julian is currenltly in use. So it means... nothing, for now.
Aetos defends twice.
Metal Man (GM): He decides to strafe everyone with his RPC. Less shots, more targets!
Julian Sawyer: .oO(C'mon... screw up... dammit!)
Metal Man (GM): Wow. No screwups. How many hits to each of you three? 70 damage to Aribar and Aetos. Garrick, how many hit you?
Aetos falls to the ground with bullet wounds *and dies...*
Metal Man (GM): 50 damage to Garrick.
Julian Sawyer: *Defends some more, not wants to get shot at some more.*
Phantom: "Hmmm... I appear to be winning! Yes!"
Aetos thinks a bit and only comes up with the idea to Brush Phantoms teeth with his Magic Toothbrush.
Garrick Fy`aar growls out, Overdriving. His armor shifts and glows as his muscles buldge. He teleports up to Shadow and tries to kick the gun out of his hand for his first action.
Aetos thinks Push might work to make them fumble around in the air... but the air would probably form under Julian instead of Phantom...
Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You surprise him with the teleport. However, his reaction is entirely devious. He drops the gun, and you kick it. It actually lands on the ground.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man (GM): He leaps onto the ground, and now you are riding Julian.
Phantom: "Hah!"
Julian Sawyer: "...This is -CENSORED- ridiculous."
Garrick Fy`aar teleports to Phantom for his second action, grabbing him hopefully.
Metal Man (GM): You teleport to Phantom. Julian is free.
Julian Sawyer: *Shakes, glad to have that weight off him* "Now you're gonna get it!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom sees you trying to grab him. Aetos: SPD check. Oh, right. In that case, Garrick, SPD check. You grab Aetos's corpse. However, on the plus side, Phantom is up a creek. He's got nowhere to run and the only thing behind him is a cliff. Third action?
Garrick Fy`aar still has one more action. He sighs, makes sure to tell Julian to get OUT OF THE WAY, the draws a pair of shimmering energy guns.
Julian Sawyer: "You try that damn jumping thing again, I toss you into the Sun." *Kinda isn't in the way anymore.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Goodbye, Phantom. Nice to have seen you again. TWENTY-ONE GUN SALUTE!"
Metal Man (GM): 14 hits. He dodges well, but he can't dodge it all. Phantom is hit repeatedly. Several sparks fly from him. He's not quite dead, though.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...you're made of tougher stuff than I thought."
Phantom: "...No... this can't be... the suffering... I will live again... die again... infinitely! Gaaaahhhhhhhhh! This is worse than Kuja..."
Metal Man (GM): He sorta freaks out, realizing his immortality results more in torture than power.
Julian Sawyer: "Let me finish him."
Aribar: "... He can't be finished off."
Phantom: "You... cannot finish me. I should have been dead long ago."
Aribar: "Is there anything we can do to put your spirit to rest?"
Phantom: "The... fighter remote... cursed me, and the other evil Questers... we shall never truly depart this world."
Julian Sawyer: "...Okay then, let me kill him THIS time."
Aetos waits...
Phantom: "...I just said. You can destroy my body, but my spirit... ...it cannot be eliminated. It is worse than Luigi's problem with the mansion."
Aetos had a good idea but... it might not be needed now.
Phantom: "Perhaps there is... a solution which you can agree with."
Metal Man (GM): *SPARK* He reaches into his back... and pulls out two statues. Marth and Roy. He drops them to the ground.
Aetos: "Um..."
Julian Sawyer: "...dammit."
Phantom: "I found these... in the abandoned library which I made my home. I have no use for them."
Garrick Fy`aar growls... "Do you know how to free them?"
Phantom: "No... Kuja himself would have done the same to me, but as you may recall, the fighter remote spared me similarly to you."
Julian Sawyer: "So you want an exchange deal?"
Phantom: "Although he defeated the fighter remote protection on you... whatever saved you must have been abnormal... It really depends on your choices."
Metal Man (GM): He gives you a crazy grin.
Phantom: "What do you wish more... Power, or freedom?"
Metal Man (GM): Truly this guy is demented. Any ordinary evil guy would have fled or something.
Aribar narrows his eyes, confused... "I thought you were going to give us those statues for... Something from us."
Phantom: "The stautes are worthless to me. What could I possibly want from you?"
Aetos sneaks over toward his gun and tries to pick it up.
Metal Man (GM): Aetos: He steps on his RPC-90 to keep you from grabbing it.
Aetos sighs.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Aetos... back off."
Phantom: "The sneaky type... just exactly the kind I like."
Aetos: "Eh...?"
Garrick Fy`aar gently moves his way over to the statues... taking them and pocketing them.
Julian Sawyer: "Give us that Smash Dex, too."
Metal Man (GM): He lets you take them.
Phantom: "Maybe you aren't good after all... maybe the whole Evil Quester thing was a joke."
Garrick Fy`aar: "We're not evil. We just want to defeat Kuja."
Phantom: "...What if... you are the villains, and Kuja... the good guy? I hate him too, but remember, I'm an evil Quester."
Julian Sawyer: "Hello? Smash Dex?"
Phantom: "I will let you touch my smash dex only after I have some confirmation first."
Garrick Fy`aar snarls and steps closer to Phantom, his gun hovering directly in front of his face.
Aetos: "...Have any of you SEEN what happened to Nintendus after Kuja reigned... he may have... made it better... do you know, Phantom?"
Aribar: "Good... Evil... Aren't they just concepts?"
Phantom: "I'm not sure, this gun appears to be jamming my mind. Perhaps if it was not in my face I could remember... Kuja didn't exactly know I existed. His spell merely hit me by accident."
Garrick Fy`aar gives a small grunt and lowers the weapon...
Phantom: "I do not know much, but I do know he has complete control."
Garrick Fy`aar: "What about this world? Do you know anything about this world?"
Phantom: "He's got some big plan up his sleeve... This world is in another dimension."
Julian Sawyer: "...Huh."
Phantom: "The only way back is through a warp. I do know one thing... it is NOT Nintendus."
Julian Sawyer: "...Well duh."
Phantom: "Otherwise I would be able to point to my true grave, wherever it lies. The world appears to be related to it, but that is all I can tell."
Aribar: "... Do you know where this warp is? ... If we can find it we may prevent Kuja's lackies from coming through..."
Phantom: "Aribar has a good point... evil and good are technicalities... No, there is no one warp point from which they originate. It's just another run-of-the-mill spell..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...spell? The warp is a spell?"
Phantom: "He used the same on you. After all, he wasn't using a machine, was he? I don't think he did..."
Aribar: "Hrm..."
Phantom: "So then... the Questers, the force of evil, shall rise to destroy all the good of Kuja!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Phantom, we'll need your Dex. If there's anyway I can get the Dexes working at full fuctionality, it's a working Dex to look off of."
Aetos: "Do you know the name of this spell?"
Metal Man (GM): He raises his fist into the air.
Phantom: "I don't know. Do spells really have names, or do we give them ones? This dex? Oh. Well, I'm sure you need working dexes... but... I know why yours are broken."
Julian Sawyer: "That's the same kind of question you ask people who name rivers and stuff... Who does that, anyway? Huh?"
Phantom: "EMP pulse, sorry. That's why I had to build myself a new body. It spared precious little from total scrambling."
Garrick Fy`aar: "An EMP pulse... THAT'S what fried the Dexes?"
Phantom: "Yes. And the materials to build them just aren't here."
Julian Sawyer: "...Well -CENSORED-."
Phantom: "Oh, yes. If you don't already know, this is just the top area of a very, very deep pit."
Julian Sawyer: "Now what?"
Phantom: "Filled with even more exciting ruins..."
Aetos: "Have you gone down there?"
Aribar: "... I don't suppose you have saved us days and weeks of effort... Yeah... What Aetos said."
Phantom: "Well, that's a ticklish question. I spent my time making that transmitter, a replacement body, and that complex painting hint system. Took days to get that painting of Metal to fly correctly..."
Garrick Fy`aar does the basic -_-; face.
Julian Sawyer: "Which was stupid, you could have just given us the password..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Alright... I'm going to ask you kindly to hand over your Dex."
Phantom: "Well, I wanted to taunt you. Oh yes. About that..."
Metal Man (GM): He holds up the dex. It has a nice bullet where Julian shot it.
Aetos twitches.
Phantom: "I didn't exactly have time to save it while leaping to my death."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...can I still have it?"
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Facepalm.*
Phantom: "...I will only let you look at it. Even broken, it is sentimental to me..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "That's good enough, I suppse..."
Phantom: "Of course, if you repair it, I'll let you make more of them."
Julian Sawyer: *Multiple facepalms.*
Aribar: "If you want to look at an old dex you can use mine..."
Julian Sawyer: "...You can make more?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...*I* could make more."
Aribar: "'course, Shadow the Hedgehog messed with it a bit..."
Phantom: "Only if you know how to find materials not native to Turion."
Garrick Fy`aar: "I made the Mark Five, so yeah."
Aetos: "YOU know this planet's name? How did you get such information?"
Garrick Fy`aar reaches out for the Dex...
Phantom: "This dex."
Metal Man (GM): Phantom moves it out of Garrick's way, and waves a finger.
Julian Sawyer: "The wonders of stuff we don't have..."
Phantom: "Please ask politely, Mr. Phantom no like thieves."
Garrick Fy`aar: "I'm not going to steal it."
Aetos: "I thought the Dexes ... get information from one databank... how would the databank get the information... this confuses me."
Phantom: "Even though we are the United Evil Questers and all."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...fine. May I PLEASE look at the Dex?"
Phantom: "Sure." *Gives the dex to Garrick* "Oh, really? I didn't know..."
Garrick Fy`aar takes it, walks over to a rock, takes out his multi-tool, and sets to work to try and repair it.
Phantom: "I only know how to press buttons."
Julian Sawyer: "...Huh."
Aetos holds his head "I don't even know... just ignore me... SIMBER TRIED to explain it to me..."
Metal Man (GM): You take the dex and begin working on it. There's a big hole in a circuit board... However.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...hm."
Metal Man (GM): With a few days of work you could reroute several traces around it.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I can fix it."
Julian Sawyer: "Coo'."
Phantom: "That's dandy. Although I still demand to be the carrier of it."
Garrick Fy`aar: "It'll take me a few days, but I can fix it."
Phantom: "And you'll have to pay me."
Julian Sawyer: "So Phantom's going back to the village with us?"
Phantom: "And the batteries aren't too good..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Pay YOU? I'M the one fixing it, you should pay ME."
Aetos: "Well... Phantom... if your going to be the carrier, are you coming with us?"
Julian Sawyer: "...How much, Phantom?"
Phantom: "Of course I'm coming. You guys have a whole evil Quester place. I demand 10,000 coins for every scan... and sadly, I can only use it three times every... oh, five missions you go on."
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Phantom: "And you must protect me from the enemies!"
Julian Sawyer: "-CENSORED- that."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Fine."
Julian Sawyer: "You're asking way too much for something we can't use too often... What?"
Phantom: "Well, we should be going. I happened to have found a warp spot."
Aetos points to Phantom and speak to Ari... "He's good..."
Metal Man (GM): Phantom punches a rock, and another trap-door opens up. There's a nice warp spot right in there.
Aribar sighs and shakes his head. "I won't be paying anything for a scan..."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...fine. Let's get going." *He steps into the warp.*
Phantom: "To... the surface!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom walks into the warp.
Aetos: "I've gone my whole life without one... I think I can deal without... Julian is rich nonetheless."
Aribar heads into the warp of doom +1.
Julian Sawyer: *Heads in.*
Aetos walks into the portal.
Metal Man (GM): *WARP.*
Garrick Fy`aar immediately goes to the HQ when he gets back to the village.
Aetos badly wanted to ride Julian... but perhaps another time. He walks into the HQ and chats with SIMBER some.
Julian Sawyer: "Phantom, hold up."
Metal Man (GM): And so, you gain 1000 more EXP to boot.
Phantom: "...???"
Metal Man (GM): He turns to face you.
Julian Sawyer: *Walks over to Phantom, and punches him in the head.*
Metal Man (GM): Opposed SPD checks.
Garrick Fy`aar starts working on the Dex, working on using whatever parts he's found during their adventures, whatever else he can find, and using SIMBER's help to repair Phantom's Dex and their Dexes as well.
Julian Sawyer: *There we go.*
Metal Man (GM): You punch Phantom, defying all odds... because he moved his hand in the way rather expertly. However it still hurts... you have his face imprinted on your knuckles.
Julian Sawyer: "That's for the jetboard thing." *Walks off, rubbing his knuckles.*
Phantom: "I forgot that humans had such primitive ways of expressing hatred. Oh! Thanks for reminding me! You can pay me in jetboard rides!"
Julian Sawyer: "-CENSORED- you."
Phantom: "Just like Skyhigh..."
Metal Man (GM): Phantom laughs and enters the portal. Erm, right. He walks into the village.
Aetos: "SIMBER... do you think it's possible this Kuja guy might have tried to kill the past Questers... to do good to Nintendus?"
Metal Man (GM): To which various expressions are obtained.
S.I.M.B.E.R.: "Evil Quester detected. Danger. Danger."
Julian Sawyer: *Heads to HQ to get his hand bandaged.*
Metal Man: "Oh no! He's coming to kill all of the lizard people! And me! And John! And Star St... ...neither of them are around. Phew."
Julian Sawyer: "...Metal, glad to see you. We found something that I think you'll like."
Aetos sighs.
Phantom: "What? Kill EVIL Questers? Never!"
Julian Sawyer: *Motions for Aetos to give Metal the AK-47*
Aetos: "Oh yeah..."
Kales Brando: "...More people made out of metal. Psha--"
Phantom: *Smacks Kales.*
Kales Brando: "...What did you do, bring back one missing common sense?"
Aetos pulls the AK-47 out from under his cape (it's like a swirling vortex of endless possibilities in there o.O) and hands it to Metal.
Garrick Fy`aar: "SIMBER, power down defense system. Classify Phantom as a null threat."
Kales Brando: "I oughta smash his head in..."
Phantom: "I'd return the favor, but it appears you are an ally to the evil Questers."
Kales Brando: "...??? I'll ask later." *Leaves.*
S.I.M.B.E.R.: "Affirmative."
Metal Man: "EVIL Questers? What's that... oooh! My favorite weapon!" *He takes the AK-47.*
Garrick Fy`aar: "Now, start helping me get these Dexes back in order."
Julian Sawyer: "We would have gotten you another one, but Ari wouldn't carry one."
Aetos nods and repeats the question to SIMBER.
Metal Man: "Have you come from my dreams and into reality?"
Julian Sawyer: "Now then, do we have bandages?"
Metal Man: "Yes, we do. Kales! Kales..."
Aribar: "... My pack is loaded with armor and potions and everything else, Julian."
Kales Brando: "Bandages are in the community hut. Just keep you and your metal friends away."
Aribar: "Besides... We can go back any time to get the others."
Julian Sawyer: "Great." *Heads out towards it.*
Phantom: "I could sell you the hundreds of others I have. You know, I gathered every illegally smuggled in gun made..."
Aetos: "SIMBER... do you think it's possible this Kuja guy might have tried to kill the past Questers... to do good to Nintendus?"
Phantom: "But they don't come cheap! And it sometimes takes a while to find them..."
S.I.M.B.E.R.: "Unknown. The aesthetics of good and evil cannot be computed exactly."
Aetos: "Fine." *He manifests his level up point into something he can use to gain a weapon upgrade...*
Julian Sawyer: *While walking to the community hut, Julian trips over something in the street...* "Waugh!" *Fall.*
Metal Man (GM): Item Encyclopedia!
Julian Sawyer: "...Hey, a badge! Awesome." *Takes it DO DEE DO!*
Moody Mandy: "Dash it all. Another relic I missed! Oh well... no monsters to sell things to."
Phantom: "This place is strange... I must look over everything."
Julian Sawyer: "I got one to sell you!"
Metal Man (GM): Phantom takes out a disposable camera and starts taking pictures. Don't ask me where he got a disposable camera.
Julian Sawyer: "Don't need it any more." *Fishes out a Defense Plus badge from his back pocket and heads after Mandy.*
Metal Man (GM): You get there.
Aetos walks back to Phantom... "Hey... where did that RCP-90 with the loadable cube slot go?"
Julian Sawyer: *Places it on the counter.*
Moody Mandy: "Another badge? Certainly!"
Phantom: "It happens to belong to me. It is a class X illegal weapon."
Julian Sawyer: "How much can I get for it?" *Waits for Moody Mandy's price decision.*
Garrick Fy`aar: *Well, I'm going to go to bed now.*
Aetos: *A slot machine randomly appears before Aetos... he tugs the lever.*
Moody Mandy: "Uhhh... 2500 coins."
Aetos: *7700 coins.*
Phantom: "It's really strange... why are the Questers evil, yet living peacefully amongst sava... oh. Right. They're evil too!"
Aribar blinks... And goes to find Kales.
Phantom: "I can't wait to shoot some more innocent people."
Julian Sawyer: "...How about if I throw in these..." *Puts down an Extendo-Glove, and a Peach Hover to accompany the Defense Plus.*
Moody Mandy: "6130 coins."
Julian Sawyer: "Deal."
Moody Mandy: *takes badges, pays out money* "Thanks for the business!"
Aetos 'hmms' "What the heck happened to Tridus?"
Julian Sawyer: "No problem." *Takes his Coins... but pauses.*
Tridus: "I don't know, I haven't seen him anywhere."
Moody Mandy *Only took the badges which were being sold* Tridus suddenly shows up next to Aetos outta nowhere.
Julian Sawyer: "I'll take one of those Porthole markers."
Aetos: "Oh, Hi... Your missing for one mission and I start thinking you left to corrupt the world."
Phantom: "...Aha! Yes! It is true! The Questers are evil!"
Tridus: "Of course! Destroy! Crush! Kill! It's all in the Quester mantra."
Metal Man (GM): Meanwhile, Metal is staring at the gun.
Metal Man: "Wow... a gun smuggled in during the gun-ban days."
Aetos eyes the RCP-90 on occasion.
Aribar: "Kales? Where are you?" *Continues wandering around the city.*
Julian Sawyer: "Mandy? You there?"
Metal Man (GM): You finally meet Kales, who's looking angry.
Moody Mandy: "Oh... oh... right. I was absorbed in that stunningly educational play that was going on behind you. 1200 coins."
Julian Sawyer: "..." *Looks behind him.*
Metal Man (GM): Julian: You see... well, a hut.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man (GM): A hut that has no activity going on.
Julian Sawyer: "Right..." *Hands over the coins, takes the Marker, and exits.*
Moody Mandy: "Don't forget to watch the sun! It tells me the names of people who wear hats!"
Aribar: "Uhh... This is probably a bad time to ask, but..."
Moody Mandy: "Evil backstabbing sun..."
Kales Brando: "Yes?"
Aribar: "... Can we have our paychecks?"
Aetos waves to NPC-group and the RCP-90, and heads out to look for Garricks Apprentices.
Julian Sawyer: *Heads back to HQ.*
Kales Brando: "Hmmmm... Funny thing, Metal is handing them out now. After all. I pay the Quester organization, and he then pays your salaries."
Aribar: "Oh, piffle!" *Rushes off to find Metal.*
Aetos coincidentally takes his paycheck, THEN waves to the three NPC's and the gun... and heads out on his search...
Phantom: "If anyone wishes to purchase insanely high quality guns, just ask me."
Metal Man (GM): Paycheck = 20,000 coins
Metal Man: "Oh. Hi Aribar. You want your paycheck, right?"
Aribar: "'allo, just here for my shiny paycheck which I have no idea what I'll do with..."
Metal Man: "Okay then."
Metal Man (GM): He gives you a big bag of 20,000 coins.
Julian Sawyer: *Enters HQ* "Yo!"
S.I.M.B.E.R.: "Sentence fragment."
Aribar attempts to hold the bag in one hand while stumbling to his hut.
Metal Sonic: "You humans speak so strangely... not at all like how you program machines."
Julian Sawyer: "We gettin' a paycheck?"
S.I.M.B.E.R.: "I do not give out paychecks. However, you may adventure 103923023023 microinches outside to the southwest to get one from Metal Man."
Metal Sonic: "I have no money; I need it not."
Julian Sawyer: "Thought he was in here..." *EXIT Finds Metal Man.*
Metal Man (GM): You see Metal nearby, watching Aribar stumble over to his hut.
Julian Sawyer: "You're handing out paychecks?"
Metal Man: "He really needs a cybernetic arm... Oh! Right. Here." *He gives Julian a bag full of moths.* "That should be worth quite a bit."
Julian Sawyer: "...Where'd you get this?"
Metal Man: "Well, Kales paid me with it."
Julian Sawyer: "Doesn't seem like much of a paycheck."
Metal Man: "It should be full of coins, I think."
Julian Sawyer: "I don't think Mandy takes Moths..."
Metal Man: "Huh?" *He opens the bag and watches moths fly out.*
Julian Sawyer: "I looked in the bag. Nothin' but-...well, there you go"
Metal Man: "...Oops." *He gets out a similar, but real bag full of coins.*
Aribar once inside his hut, sets the huge bag next to an even bigger bag of coins... "Why couldn't Nintendus run on nice, light-weight paper money?"
Metal Man: "This should do. I don't know where I found all of those moths."
Julian Sawyer: "I'll just take that, then." *Deposits that into his back pocket, where all his stuff is. It's a wonder all it fits in, not making a bulge.*
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: You look at the money. The money which has images of... Princess Peach
Julian Sawyer: "...I never got those bandages." *Heads for the community hut and bandages the hand he punched Phantom with.*
Metal Man (GM): Ivan Robotnik Wolfman Metal Man Mario Luigi And some other random people. A different image for each year of coinage.. ..That's funny. One of them has Kuja's face on it ..And it's from this year, too...
Aribar shakes his head and just heads to his bed to get some sleep... He's hallucinating.
Julian Sawyer: *Heads back to HQ again* "Any of you see where Phantom went?" *Delete statement if Phantom is present.*
S.I.M.B.E.R.: "He is a similar distance Southeast from here."
Metal Sonic: "I thought he was a bad guy... strange that he'd tolerate saviors of good."
Julian Sawyer: "Thanks Simba." *Heads towards Phantom.*
Metal Man (GM): You leave them both with quizzical expressions. You reach Phantom.
Phantom: "Hello. Interested in ultra high quality weaponry?"
Julian Sawyer: "Phantom! I heard you're selling guns... yeah."
Phantom: "100% illegal."
Aetos could imagine some crazy fellow upgrading his weapon to 50 without spending the points, to get Omega Chaos Spear or something.
Phantom: "Of course, that was the old days. I'd be hard pressed to find anyone thinking them illegal here... I can get almost any gun you need, though it'll cost you a lot."
Julian Sawyer: *The glove on Julian's right hand is off and bandaged, some blood showing up on the bandage* "...Whatever. Do you have any Magnums?"
Phantom: "Cougar Magnums... Mmmmm... they're a bit dated, and a bit rare, but I've got five or so of them. Let's see..."
Metal Man (GM): He gets out a calculator.
Julian Sawyer: "Handcannons. .50 Caliber."
Phantom: "Handcannons? Hmmm... pricey things you're asking for. Of course, you seem rich. They're a bit tough to wield... you'd probably need both hands to use one for a while... that fine with you?"
Julian Sawyer: "Wouldn't bother me. Also, are you buying guns? Because I got one of your AK-47s I'm wanting to sell. I'll give the other one to Metal."
Aetos thinks about if 5 upgrade points is worth a 'Master Spin Attack'...
Phantom: "I buy guns, but I don't have any reason to buy ones I already own in great quantities. However, I would pay almost anything for that M-150 Garrick has. Now then... let me look up some stuff... handcannons, high caliber."
Julian Sawyer: "If you're asking me to steal Garrick's gun for you, forget it. That part of my life's over, and I don't to be ripped apart limb from limb when Garrick finds out his favorite gun has been sold to a crazy robot."
Phantom: "Bah." *He continues calculating.*
Aetos appears in front of Phantom, his spear having a small speaker in it now somehow...
Julian Sawyer: "...Hi Aetos."
Aetos: "Hi."
Phantom: "I see there is... more demand. One moment."
Aetos stares at Julian... He jumps on Julian and demands a ride! "I wasted that mimic for this! I better make use of it! Fly me around!"
Julian Sawyer: *Grabs Aetos by the throat and holds him in the air as he jumps.*
Aetos sighs.
Metal Man (GM): Phantom hands off a piece of paper to Julian.
Aetos figured the attempt was futile.
Julian Sawyer: "Don't try that again." *Puts Aetos down as he takes the piece of paper.*
Aetos: "Anyways... Phantom... Two things..."
Phantom: "Now then... let me work up a cost for you, Julian."
Aetos waits then.
Julian Sawyer: "...This is great."
Phantom: "Hmmm... 200,000 coins for one. Well, each."
Aetos blinks... He looks to Julian.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Phantom: "How much money do you have?"
Julian Sawyer: "About half of that..."
Phantom: "Oh, so sorry. You see, I wouldn't make a profit at all if I sold it for the bare-bottom price of 100,000."
Julian Sawyer: "It was more of a wishful thinking thing, anyway."
Phantom: "I'll keep the statistics of it with me, though."
Julian Sawyer: *Heads back to his shack to ponder his money situation... Hah, that's funny.*
Phantom: "Anyone with 200,000 may have one of six limited-edition .50 magnums!"
Aetos: "Now... I have something I want to ask you... You see, I just got an item locator isntalled in my spear... and... I want you... too..."
Phantom: "...?"
Aetos: "Make it play pepsi cola music when it normally would beep."
Phantom: "Well, that doesn't take too much money, really. If you've got a spare thousand coins I'll make it play whatever you want."
Aetos: "Really? I rather enjoy Pepsi Cola Commercials back on Earth." *He hands Phantom 1500 coins... 500 as a tip.*
Phantom: "Well then. One moment."
Metal Man (GM): Phantom takes the spear, gets out a screwdriver, a weird circuitboard, and a soldering iron. A few moments later, your spear looks the same as before... but it will now play the Diet Pepsi song whenever it locates an item!
Aetos: "Thanks a bunch Ghost man. See you around."
Metal Man (GM): This ability is a custom ability. It takes up three upgrades (Which you paid for) and grants a +1 morale bonus whenever certain items are nearby in battle.
Phantom: "You're welcome..."
Metal Man (GM): If that makes the level of the spear above you level, don't fret. It won't count as being above your level. Although you won't be able to add anything more to it until you're at the respective level above your spear.
Phantom: "I feel I'll be having a good business here... specialty products for the rich and/or those with unusual tastes. I think I'll be building my own house."
Aetos smiles. "Good luck."
Phantom: "Until we meet again." *He salutes and walks off into HQ for the night.*
Aetos goes back to this hut and rests.
Metal Man (GM): Phantom would, by now, have his own shop. Next to Moody Mandy's.
Garrick Fy`aar is currently outside of Phantom's makeshift shop, staring at it.
Aetos awakens from his Hut house room thing... spear in hand... "Time to test it out! Hopefully Phantom didn't ruse me..."
Metal Man (GM): It's odd... it's made out of materials from that abandoned library.
Garrick Fy`aar: "...he's here... what... a DAY... and already he's made a shop."
Metal Man (GM): It's a house made out of marble.
Garrick Fy`aar shrugs and walks inside.
Metal Man (GM): And it's got a neato looking multicolored sign. You walk inside, and are greeted by the sight of guns. guns. More Guns. All over the walls. In cases. On display.
Phantom: "Hello there. I stayed up all night making this place..."
Garrick Fy`aar just stands there, staring... and staring... and then he shivers.
Metal Man (GM): Phantom's painting, now mysteriously repaired, hangs on the back wall, with the store policy under it.
Aetos places a Debarrier cube on the ground and buries it under dirt...
Store Policy: "No returns!"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I think I've died and gone to heaven..."
Aetos then activates the item locator on his Spear.
Phantom: "I happened to have hoarded hundreds of guns. Those were sent here with me."
Metal Man (GM): Aetos: It'd start playing the Diet Pepsi song.
Aetos starts dancing.
Phantom: "Now then. Is there anything you want?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "...Phantom... while I hate to maybe part with them... I would like to sell you some of my own pieces. Or exchange them for others."
Phantom: "Show me them and I'll see what they're worth."
Garrick Fy`aar draws the STAT 43 from his belt holster and places it on the table.
Phantom: "Just remember, only rare guns of a different sort impress me... I own most of the types from Earth in the 1980s era. Hmmm... a rather interesting weapon..."
Aetos uncovers the cube and retruns it into his abyssal cape.
Phantom: "I'd surely buy that... if nothing else to have an unusual collectible."
Garrick Fy`aar: "A tranq gun. It has a special chemical agent that causes several status effects on the enemy."
Metal Man (GM): He gets out a huge magnifying glass and begins typing in a calculator.
Phantom: "I will pay you... 18,750 coins for that."
Garrick Fy`aar: "That's an awful exact outcome."
Aribar would probably be sitting on his bed in his hut, an opened spell book that he is reading from on his lap.
Phantom: "Unlike people, I generate my prices on a direct profit ratio, as well as the construction of the weapon. It comes to help a lot. My current profit is 100%."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...I suppose that's good enough. I never use it much anyway. It was more helpful in old Nintendus."
Aetos starts walking around the village searching for buried treasure like a little kid.
Phantom: "Do you accept my price?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "Like I could get more for it from you."
Phantom: "Very well then. Just let me write this down on my receipts and I'll pay you."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hold on a second. There's something more."
Phantom: "Yes? I know, you probably have more guns you wish to buy or sell."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Well, yeah."
Phantom: "One moment."
Metal Man (GM): He's almost done writing down stuff about the STAT 43.
Aetos walks along the wall.
Garrick Fy`aar calmly waits, glancing about for guns that stand out to him...
Phantom: "Hmmm... there we go."
Metal Man (GM): He takes the gun and sticks it up on the wall for sale with the others. Garrick: Machineguns, RCP-90s, pistols, and... grenades? Canes?
Garrick Fy`aar: "...heh..."
Metal Man (GM): Not to mention that weird hat. It looks like a fez... but it also looks terribly out of place here. There's also some suitcases.
Garrick Fy`aar: "Well, the M150 is my pride and joy, not going to part with it. The first gun I ever made and probably the strongest and most well made. The Einhammer... I don't want to loose my boomstick. That only leaves one gun."
Metal Man (GM): Oh, right. There's also shotguns in here.
Garrick Fy`aar flicks on his armor, the weapons and shinning armor shimmering into place. He reaches to his back holster... and produces the Last Request.
Phantom: "Now then, since this was originally mine, I'm not going to be paying any more than it's worth."
Garrick Fy`aar: "I have made enhancements to it... ...and this gun has served me well when I get paticularly... angry."
Phantom: "Very useful... 32,500 coins for that."
Garrick Fy`aar: "...done." *He hands the gun over, taking the coins.*
Phantom: "Ironically, it isn't exactly my last request anymore... oh well."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Now... I'll need replacement weapons. Preferably a pistol I can dual wield with the M150 and a backup double handed weapon. Like a shotgun or rifle."
Phantom: "Hmmm..."
Metal Man (GM): Phantom sticks the Last Request up on the wall. No glass case, though--it's another gun to him.
Phantom: "Let me see... the M150... to determine what sort of pistol you could wield with it. Hrmmm... I would suggest you come back a bit later. While I could sell you a pistol inferior to the M150, it might not be worth it when you see what you can dual-wield with it when you get experienced enough."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hm. Fine. What about a rifle or shotgun, then? Or do you think I should bother?"
Phantom: "Of course you should bother. I'd suggest a shotgun."
Metal Man (GM): He pulls off a shotgun from the wall. Blows some dust off of it.
Garrick Fy`aar: "That looks a bit old..."
Phantom: "I had to engineer this out of parts laying around, so it's actually a custom model. It's old but deadly. One moment..."
Metal Man (GM): He begins writing on a piece of paper.
Phantom: "Hmmm... one thing. How much money do you have? This really determines what I should go through the trouble of writing up."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Over 70,000 coins, with all the selling I've just done."
Phantom: "Only 70,000?"
Garrick Fy`aar: "74000, actually."
Phantom: "I mean, I could assume more but it'd be a waste of time to try to sell you a gun you couldn't afford... okay... one moment."
Metal Man (GM): He begins calculating.
Phantom: "Hmmm... this one would be a bit too expensive for you. However, you can just barely afford one of these."
Metal Man (GM): He takes that shotgun, puts it away, and gets another one which is a bit shorter and less covered in gadgets.
Phantom: "The model 1, instead of the model 3."
Metal Man (GM): He begins writing again.
Phantom: "Here."
Metal Man (GM): He hands you a piece of paper.
Phantom: "It's not much, but the model 2 is way out of your price range."
Garrick Fy`aar: "Hm. ...could I get back to you on that? I'm wanting to think about just what I want to do."
Phantom: "Sure." *Waits for Garrick to leave, then speaks to himself* "He really should have brought more money... his tastes are at least in the 100,000 range."/