Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 347: Inconclusive Infighting
Date: 6:59:49 PM, November 6th to 10:38:01 PM, November 6th;
6:08:32 PM, November 7th to 8:34:41 PM, November 7th, 2006.
Metal Man (GM): e e e e e e Liii Three. E e e e e e e Li Three Threee Threee E E E EEEEEEEEEEE
The Questers head towards the Second Moon, with the Valhalla and a Kuja ship.
They have the bridge under control, at least, for now. Trevor swears revenge; and it appears so. The first of many issues begins here.
Alexia: "Anybody else get the feeling that we're sending lambs after lions?"
Metal Man (GM): For, upon looking AT Valhalla's systems... Trevor was a huge chunk of them.
Julian Sawyer: "No."
Metal Man (GM): You see a big hole where all sorts of options and settings were.
Furthermore, you notice it seems... jammed... to going forwards.
Scott Gibson: "I'm game."
Julian Sawyer: "...This is bad."
Gibby: "When is it ever good?"
Metal Man: (Comms) "You better get that ship ready for some actual evasive maneuvers. I'm detecting laser chargeup on the First Moon."
Alexia: "I think it's locked up, Metal."
Scott Gibson: "Uh-oh."
Aetos: "Can't go forward? Let's move toward the moon backward, then."
Julian Sawyer: "...It's a giant spaceship! How the hell we supposed to dodge stuff?" *Julian moves over to the console and tries to restore navigational control, hopefully getting Scott to help HINT HINT.*
Metal Man: (Comms) "I didn't say how... if you can do anything, that'd be nice. I think Charles would get upset if his ship was reclaimed, only to be destroyed."
Metal Man (GM): It is going towards the moon; that's the problem... it isn't going anywhere else.
Scott Gibson: "Let's get this bird straightened out." *Goes to help Julian.*
Julian Sawyer: *Dual Computer Use checks, then?*
Metal Man (GM): Yes.
Lessee what Scott gets.
You type... but... it just isn't implemented. There's no code for turning left. Or even adjusting the settings.
Julian Sawyer: *...Well then we'll just have to make code, won't we?*
Metal Man (GM): That could... take a while without a compiler.
Julian Sawyer: *Fuck. Is there an option for Manual Control?*
Metal Man: (Comms) "Uh, not to alarm you guys, or anything, but there's blue deathrays this way. Anyone who wants to be on a ship which can dodge and swerve should get aboard now."
Metal Man (GM): None on the control panel. You'd have to find some way to do it.
The Valhalla control panel flashes red. You see lasers incoming from all sides.
The shield is down, thanks to previous action, and most of the systems are unusable.
Julian Sawyer: "...I got nothin'."
Scott Gibson: "Abandon ship?"
Julian Sawyer: "Sounds like a plan. Everybody to the Kuja ship! We can't do anythin' else here!"
Digifanatic: "Guess so!"
*He starts following Julian's plan, going for the Kuja shp. *
He is motioning just about everyone else to start going.
Julian Sawyer heads for where Metal crashed into Valhalla again to escape lasery doom.
Scott Gibson: "Let's rock..." *Gets on Roxy and moves to abandon ship to the Kuja ship.*
Metal Man (GM): You run aboard. Conveniently, Charles is dragged along.
Alexia follows the others to the Kuja ship.
Metal Man (GM): The door closes behind you; and just in time.
A MASSIVE blue ray knocks the Valhalla off course, and sends it spiraling out of control. It is soon pushed far enough away you can't see it.
You're now at the bridge, with Metal.
Digifanatic: "Good choice, Jules."
Scott Gibson: "Another one bites the dust..." *Salutes the Valhalla with two fingers.*
Metal Man: "...We'll have to come back to that later. It's in one piece, but far away. Luckily, that blast disabled its engines."
"Now... we have a difficult task ahead."
Julian Sawyer: "An' it ain't gonna crash into the second moon anymore..."
Metal Man: "Trevor has control of this base up ahead... and there is no way to fool him this time, at least, unless y'all gain supercomputer brains."
Scott Gibson: "Our starship insurance premiums are going to skyrocket as it is."
Julian Sawyer: "We have insurance?"
Metal Man: "You're gonna have to beat him down and then let Ricky hijack the systems."
Julian Sawyer: "Done and DONE."
Metal Man: "No puzzles, no traps, no mind games. I will deal with the piloting."
Julian Sawyer: "Finally, we do somethin' MY style."
Metal Man (GM): The ship shakes and you feel it turning, slowing down, speeding up, and such... very quickly.
Digifanatic: "Oh, what is this..."
Metal Man: "...Hold on. Those lasers are hellbent on killing us all."
Metal Man (GM): You see the Second Moon up ahead, as a variety of blue lasers fly past the ship.
Julian Sawyer: "Couldn't we take 'em out? Or are they intergrained wit' the base?"
Metal Man: "They're on the First Moon."
Digifanatic: "Hold on... more like get outta Dodge, if you ask me."
Metal Man: "Approaching them would only increase their accuracy."
Julian Sawyer: "So how we supposed to get into the base?"
Alexia: "Don't our cannons have enough range to take them out safely?"
Metal Man: "...Not with those shields they have."
Dragoshi: "...Huh."
Scott Gibson: "So can we use a decoy of some kind?"
Metal Man: "As for this base, we just land on it. Simple."
Digifanatic looks to see what kind of linear distance it is between them and the base.
Julian Sawyer: "...Didn' you just say gettin' in closer would make them hit us more?"
Digifanatic: "And how do we do that without getting blown to pieces in space?"
Metal Man: *Facepalm* "That's the FIRST moon. I'm talkin' Second Moon here."
"There's no guns here. The First Moon's guns are losing accuracy as I get further away from them."
Editor's Note: I can only imagine how loud Metal Man facepalming his metal helmet with his metal hand must sound.
Julian Sawyer: "...Oh. Makes sense then..."
Metal Man: "They can only shoot at stationary targets in this range."
Digifanatic: "I can't believe I just screwed up again like that... figures it's me."
Metal Man: "As you may see." *Points to extreme amount of lasers flying by.*
Alexia: "Geez, this accuracy rate is just plain shameful."
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Metal Man: "Well, at this range, yes... we're thousands of miles away."
Julian Sawyer: *Smack.*
Metal Man pulls it in for landing.
Alexia ducks Julian's swing
"Ah-ah-ah. Save your frustrations for pounding on the nutcase computer."
Julian Sawyer: *And right into his other one.*
Digifanatic: .oO(Metal, I hope you're paying attention to this...)
Metal Man (GM): You see the ship landing. Another comms comes in.
Alexia: "Ow!"
Scott Gibson: "Hey! C'mon, bigger fish to fry here."
Trevor: "...This is your last chance to turn back and be left in one piece. Seriously."
Julian Sawyer: "You had that comin'."
Trevor: "I won't give you another chance." *Blip* *It ends.*
Metal Man: "Traditional empty threats. Kill 'im, Danno. I mean Julian."
Dragoshi: "..." *Facepalm.*
Scott Gibson: "Go suck a railroad spike, Trevor."
Metal Man opens the dock door after landing.
Scott Gibson heads out the dock door with Roxy behind him.
Julian Sawyer: "This is gonna be sweet... Let's bounce, fellas." *Julian heads out the door.*
Alexia heads out with her gun drawn.
Digifanatic gets out of the ship as well.
Aetos coughs.
Scott Gibson: "Time to Rock'n'roll!"
Dragoshi: *Follows.*
Digifanatic: "Business is open."
Metal Man (GM): You walk on down, and into the base... the main room, of course.
Trevor stands in front of the viewscreen, having finished typing something big.
Trevor: "I have to admit, you are persistent. You really want to die this time." *He turns to face you.* "Go ahead. Attempt to destroy me. I'll show you what an 'intelligent lightbulb' can do!"
Metal Man (GM): BATTLE
Questers vs. Trevor
Roll Inits.
Scott Gibson: "Rise'n'shine asshole. Hell's bells ring for you."
Dragoshi: "...Intelligent lightbulb?" *Snickers.*
Metal Man (GM): Order: Dragoshi, Julian, Aetos, Digi, Trevor, Scott, Alexia.
Dragoshi tries to think on how to outsmart Trevor this time...
Metal Man (GM): You think... of calling Captain Planet.
Hm. If only you knew who that was.
Dragoshi: *Just bides his time... EoT.*
Julian Sawyer cracks his knuckles... then shoots forward towards Trevor, going for a Focus Grab!
*Damn the luck!*
Metal Man (GM): He barely avoids!
Julian Sawyer: *Try again! Much Better!*
Metal Man (GM): You grab him.
Aetos quickdraws One-Winged Angel in the meantime.
"Throw 'im here, Julian!"
Julian Sawyer grabs the crazed AI by the arms, lets the energy surge in, dealing 36 damage, whirls him around... and launches him at Aetos! "Heads up!" *EoT.*
Scott Gibson sees Aetos draw his weapon and decides it's best to unsling his guitar quickly.
Metal Man (GM): (((((( Aetos' turn (+5 accuracy to first attack 'cause Trevor's flying) ))))))
Aetos gets into position like a batter and SA-WINGS!
Metal Man (GM): He flies past you and into a wall.
Continue.
Trevor: "...You don't know how to play baseball either."
Aetos snarls and leaps at Trevor, smacking him while he's down.
Dragoshi: "...Apparently, you just lucked out."
Scott Gibson: "Shoot... to... thrill! Nice!"
Digifanatic: "Well, that works.:."
Dragoshi: "...But, that... Not so much."
Metal Man (GM): Crit!
Trevor: "Oh, goodie, you can hit an inhuman killing machine while he's down."
Digifanatic figures that he's best for healing and power right now, and will switch when necessary. First turn, though, is offense only. A Fire Punch followed by a Running Charge and an Aerial Strike (the second Elemental Will-ified with Ice!). This should prove to quite a show...
Dragoshi: "...Meh."
Metal Man (GM): He silently raises a hand.
Then the other.
He moves them slightly up into the air... and begins shaking them. The air above them soon forms a pure white spear.
Dragoshi: "..."
Metal Man (GM): The sphere glows... and glows... before cracking and releasing blinding white rays en masse at all the Questers.
Trevor: "Blanc Montage!"
Metal Man (GM): Threatens all; 50 damage if hit.
Digifanatic is MORE than stabbed...
Julian Sawyer: *EVERYONE DIES.*
Alexia gets slammed. BRB.
Dragoshi: *...No one could avoid that. Seriously. You'd need to have 48 freakin points in EVD to do so.*
Digifanatic: *Still somewhat alive.*
Dragoshi: *Still quite alive, though.*
Julian Sawyer: *46, but whatever.*
Dragoshi: *83. Does that mean I win?*
Julian Sawyer hangs on by the skin of his teeth!
Metal Man (GM): The attack, having also blasted apart the room behind you, is finished; but Trevor turns so his right side faces Julian, and raises his right hand all the way outwards. White electricity crackles for a moment before flying at Julian.
Scott Gibson: "I'll pay anyone back for a Phoenix Down right about now!"
Julian Sawyer: *Rather, it would... if a familiar orange shield didn't spring up in front of Julian and absorb the attack! Shield Badge!*
Metal Man (GM): The grappling attack grabs the shield part. He smirks.
Trevor: "Good show... but this just means I'll get to throw something else."
Metal Man (GM): The shield, and the badge with it, is retracted off of you and away by the attack, then thrown into the wall and disabled for the time being.
Julian Sawyer just need to live though that...
Scott Gibson decides to take his chances and burn it all up in a successive string of swings since it doesn't seem that any of his regular attacks are a match for Trevor.
(3 dmg per hit.) *EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): Miss miss hit hit hit miss miss crit hit hit miss miss
Scott Gibson: "Ha! How'd ya like that you digital disgrace!?"
Trevor: "I like it very much."
Scott Gibson grins and rejoins the others.
Metal Man (GM): Alexia'.
Dragoshi: "..." *Fires off six tidal blasts at Trevor via the Vendetta Machinegun? Any bonuses for doing so, Mets?*
Metal Man (GM): The machinegun alters the shots in a way you cannot understand. (Roll normally)
(((((( (New) Order: The Wraith, Dragoshi, Julian, Aetos, Digi, Trevor, Scott, Alexia. ))))))
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!" *A solid, heavy-looking green stone buzzes frantically around Trevor, coming out of seemingly nowhere, aiming to clock 'im good as many times as it can...*
Metal Man (GM): Miss miss hit miss miss miss
Digifanatic: "Oh boy..."
Trevor: "There's JOHNNY's attacks flying over my head!"
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *The stone then forms a dark 'aura' around it, flecked with a few spots of bright colors as... Yep, one drunken phantom goes to reach out and touch Trevor with a palm...*
Dragoshi: "...Was the movie reference really necessary?"
Julian Sawyer: "Pot callin' the kettle black, Drag."
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Whoops!" *He grabs at air, and spirals away evasively. EoT.*
Dragoshi: "...At least I'm trying to cut down on them." >_>
Julian Sawyer: "Whatever, Echo." *Julian reaches into his back pocket and pulls out not one, but TWO bottles of sweet, sweet Life Juice! He tosses one over to Scott* "Heads up!"
*He downs the other one, getting him back up to full health and lives!*
Dragoshi: "...Not my fault that my timing after whatever you say is bad and sounds similar." .oO(Fuckin' asshole.)
Metal Man (GM): Scott is hit in the head and falls over.
Trevor: "...Don't throw those at me. I still want to live."
Dragoshi: "...Not funny."
Julian Sawyer: "I'll jus' have to kill you the regular way, then!" *Julian Quickdraws out Vendetta 2, then goes to cut Trevor in two with a mighty upwards slash! Sunder! FUCKING HELL! EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): He leaps over it.
Aetos' turn
Aetos crosses his arms and passes his turn.
Digifanatic tries to pull something different this time... he starts off with one of those Celestial Furies, but when he segues into his next move, a Fire Punch, he somehow pulls out his Digivice at the same time, blinding Trevor a bit. It'll soften the punch, but it'll get i tin a bit faster...
Metal Man (GM): Miss hit hit
Digifanatic: "Well, that worked for the first try..." *Pockets Digivice as he prepares against Trevor--Quickdraw, yay.*
Trevor: "Sigh."
Metal Man (GM): He pulls out an ancient-looking grenade and hurls it in your midst.
It explodes, hurling bolts of lightning in all directions!
*BZAP* 50 damage to all.
Dragoshi: *...His luck is too good. Zapped.*
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Look ou-YOWZA!" *BZAP'D.*
Metal Man (GM): Then he begins charging up, after... recalling the apparently re-usable item.
Scott's two turns
Er. One turn. Right.
Dragoshi: *No, wait. It's just a really high to-hit.*
Digifanatic: *Zapped good.*
Metal Man (GM): Oops.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Let's try this again, shall we...?" *There's a bit of a rumbling sound accompanied by a growing hum as he charges up energy, which soon enough releases in a rather quick shot of that center stone TO THE FACE!*
"And now, for my next trick..." *He flicks his wrists as those magical stones of d00m spin round and round...*
*And that green cannonball attack is quickly followed up by a larger, red one!*
Metal Man (GM): Miss!
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *EoT.*
Dragoshi: *Let's see... Suddenly, a vortex opens up, and... A Molotov cocktail, two scythes, and 6 darts fly out.*
"..." *EoT.*
Julian Sawyer: *Alright, Julian starts off by going for another Focus Grab! DAMMIT TO HELL!*
*He cancels into another Sunder attempt! *
*...BAH! EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): Aetos' turn
Aetos grins, in his free hand sprouts a scimitar made of wind. He slashes at Trevor violently with both weapons.
Metal Man (GM): Miss hit hit miss crit miss
Digifanatic is a bit nerved for doing this kind of early, but he does give himself an Ultra Shroom. After that, it's a swing of the Golf Club, and a Fire Lunge to finish the turn, saving 1 TP for next.
Metal Man (GM): Hit miss
Trevor: "I have a little surprise for you..."
Metal Man (GM): He raises his right hand, which begins shaking violently.
He covers his eyes with his other hand.
Trevor: "Eeny... minie... moe..."
Aetos blinks, and covers his eyes too.
Julian Sawyer's got a feeling this is gonna hurt whoever it hits...
Alexia blinks, puzzled.
Metal Man (GM): His hand stops at Aetos, and suddenly reality stops... but does it move fast enough?
...Indeed.
Reality stops around Aetos, then explodes like a mirror, before turning back to normal. 150 damage.
Alexia: "Whoa!"
Dragoshi: "...Meh."
Julian Sawyer: .oO(Been there, done that.)
Metal Man (GM): Then he flips his hand around and makes a punching gesture towards the Questers; an entire row of machineguns go off, threatening everybody. EVD checks, everybody!
Digifanatic: "Oh man..."
Julian Sawyer: *BooYAH!*
John (GM): *And the team reacts at lightning speed!*
Dragoshi dances gracefully to avoid Technological Trevor's not-so-clever tricks.
Metal Man (GM): 50 damage to Digi, 15 to Alexia, and the rest dodge.
Digifanatic is glad he took that Ultra Shroom... still alive after that...
Julian Sawyer's used to getting shot at and dodges the hell out of the way!
Alexia gets clipped on the shoulder by one or two shots, but stands back up grinning
"That all you got?"
Trevor: "Yes. Of course. I'd use all of my energy in the near-beginning of a battle. That is the best strategy ever conceived."
Dragoshi: "...It's what most other villains do. ...Then again, I presume you are unlike most other villians."
Trevor: "I am not a villain. You are."
Digifanatic: "Let's just keep taking him down, folks..."
Dragoshi: "...Well the stupid ones anyway. ...Shutting up, now." :X
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Club 'em ta death before they can attack, o' course! Sounds like a solid strategy!"
Metal Man (GM): Uh, Scott, attacking?
Alexia gives the Wraith an odd look.
Scott Gibson decides to conserve his TP this round and bides his time.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *In a rare fit of defensiveness, ye olde drunken spirit decides to put up his wrappings o' protection... and bide the rest of his time, standing... well, floating at the ready. EoT.*
Alexia: "...You need to stay out of the alcohol before mission time, man."
Digifanatic: "I dare say!"
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "I drink to prepare for my battles! Tonight... I am very prepared!"
Digifanatic: "Ohhhhhhhhh kaaaaaaaaaaaaay..."
Alexia: "You're also drunk out of your incorporeal mind."
Dragoshi: "...Pfft. AS if. He's been pretty damn deadly when drunk." *Fires a slightly charged blast of fire out of his machinegun o' doom, hoping to set Trevor ablaze.*
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Lissen 'ere, misshy... I knows whats I'm a-doin', kaysies?"
Dragoshi: *But, the dice are evil. EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): Miss
Alexia: "Okay, but don't come crying to me after you find yourself in a alley somewhere with a badger, a wad of duct tape, a suitcase of counterfeit money and no good explanation."
Julian Sawyer attempts yet again to get things started with a Focus Grab!
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "...That soundsh kinda funzies!"
Julian Sawyer: *Screw it, Julian whallops the hell out of Trevor with a Haymaker combo instead.*
Dragoshi: "...How the hell did you even come up with that?" o_o;;
Digifanatic: "Nice."
Alexia: "Eh. Just said the first three things that came to mind."
Metal Man (GM): Miss miss hit hit
28 per or total?
Aetos' turn
Aetos revives! And passes his turn again.
Digifanatic figures it's going to be better if he saves his recovery items for his second and third chances... but he drinks a Metal Cola instead! Mmm... Red Bull without the "red" perhaps? Anyways, he uses the caffeine to launch an Icy Kick, a Fire Lunge, and then a Celestial Fury... more colors. .oO(Nobody's having any luck... except him...)
Metal Man (GM): Trevor summons his ol' ball of white rays and showers the room with them again.
50 damage, threatens all.
Digifanatic is killed this time...
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *Shield go boom!*
Dragoshi: *Dead. Due to Trevor's stupid luck.* @_@
Metal Man (GM): Then he decides to... try to target the Wraith with some magic.
Digifanatic: *Right before passing out* "Trevor, you're lucky I didn't do more..."
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *Eek!*
Metal Man (GM): If that hits... The Wraith glows red. No damage.
Alexia dies, seeing as she never got a turn to heal in the first place.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *He crosses his forearms as that hits, whatever it is... then blinks, noticing he hasn't been kerboomed.*
Dragoshi: *Also before he defeats*"...Talk about dumb luck."
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "...Huh. Dat'sh odd." *He just shrugs, and goes to fire up a Revenant's Roulette. Fwee! Two piddly little purple orbs fly forward!*
Metal Man (GM): They both fly forwards at him... then the red light causes them to fly back at John instead!
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "...Dat didn't work sho well... ACK!" *Hit by one.* @.@;
Metal Man (GM): For... same damage they'd do if John had control over them.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Owww... Le's try dish again!" *The green stone rockets forward, without a charge this time...*
Metal Man (GM): It flies back at John.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Oww! Stop dat!" *He backs off... But not before trying once more with that last one.*
Metal Man (GM): 10 damage to him.
John: *He bides the rest of his time; EoT.*
Dragoshi: *...Was KO'd. Does no one listen.*
Julian Sawyer: *Let's try this AGAIN. GODDAMMIT*
*Puncha PUNCH.*
Metal Man (GM): Hit, hit.
Aetos' turn
Aetos tries to scan Trevor now. Who knows. It might work...
He then Ends his turn.
Smash Dex: "Unable to scan."
Trevor: "I'm not an open book!"
Digifanatic: *Dead--has to skip this turn.*
Trevor: "Your little games cannot take me down. I am a true chess master."
Metal Man (GM): He strikes a pose, and a buncha pawns made of metal fly out of his hands onto the floor.
Aetos: "What happens in chess if your opponent suddenly brings in seven knights?"
Metal Man (GM): They then take out little swords and advance to stab everybody in the ankles.
EVD checks, everybody.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *The spirit floats up a few extra inches.*
Metal Man (GM): Okay... silly me. Both of you dodge.
Julian Sawyer punts the little pawn away from him. Ick.
Metal Man (GM): Next, he decides to charge up... a lot more, this time.
The red glow fades.
He's looking beat up, now.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Ooh... Dat'sh probably gonna be bad!" *Gratefully noticing the lack of red glow, he opens up by rushing forward as he launches that high-velocity Green Cannonball, charged...*
Metal Man (GM): It seems a bit more persistence may defeat him.
Hitz!
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *He continues barging forward, reaching out to palm his face and perform Projectile Power Propel! Plus!*
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *After that nice launch-off, the spirit backs away, covering himself in his nice little barrier again... EoT.*
Dragoshi gets back up, and cocks his head, then tries the whole random dealy thingie again...
*Whee, another Molotov!*
Metal Man (GM): *Whiff.*
Dragoshi: *Which misses and sits something else on fire. He tries the trick again... And, if Trev was expecting a mech to blast him into hell and back, a giant DEATHLAZOR fires out of the vendetta machinegun in order to put Trevor in his place. Or something like that*
*And, the deathblast blasts Trevor into possible oblivion for 50 damage. Sadly, this thing doesn't have improved crit range. EoT*
"..." *Let's out a smirk.*
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Woo! Nice shot, Dragshter!"
Julian Sawyer: *One... more... time.*
Scott Gibson: "WHOO! Nice one, man!"
Dragoshi: "A-thank you. Thank you."
Julian Sawyer: *#$^%!@&#)T&A)HE&G)HAS&#N)%&!&~@$&*
Metal Man (GM): *Zoom.*
Julian Sawyer: *TRY A-FUCKING-GAIN!*
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Julian Sawyer's FINALLY get a hold of Trevor! He then raises him into the air, whips out Vendetta 2, and tries to gut him like a fish with a Sunder!
Metal Man (GM): What's the damage from that hit with the 33?
Julian Sawyer then whams Trevor into to floor. 36 damage + Throw, EoT.
Metal Man (GM): Aetos' turn
Aetos waves his hands and glowing wind breezes into him, doubly, then thrusts his hand forward, spraying several needle-like objects made of wind at Trevor.
Metal Man (GM): Hit miss hit miss
Digifanatic revives and is a bit steamy in the brain, but sees that he and his fellow Questers are managing alright for now... he gives Julian one of those Holy Grapes and hopefully gives Trevor a little burn via Fire Punch, saving a TP.
Metal Man (GM): Miss
Digifanatic: "I'm not saying you need it, Julian, but please, have it anyway."
Trevor: "I must finish this before you can critically wound me... Magnablast!"
Metal Man (GM): He holds out his hands and causes reality around him to explode, then the shard-like pieces to fly at you energized by white light thrice before dissipating and becoming normal again.
50 damage each.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *Dodge SHATTER dodge!*
Julian Sawyer moves it like he means it, only getting hit once!
Dragoshi: *Dances out of the way of the first, gets hit by the second, and dances out of the way of the third* "Your tricks aren't so clever now, are they?"
Digifanatic is hit by all three of them... killed once more.
Julian Sawyer: "Do you EVER shut up?"
Metal Man (GM): Oops.
Take it before you ping! Quickly!
Dragoshi: "..." *Shrugs in response to Julian, not really giving half a rat's ass.*
Aetos: "DRAGOSHI. Stop mentioning Trevor's tricks not being CLEVER. That's the 4th time now!"
Dragoshi: "...Okay. I was getting bored of that anyway." >_>
Julian Sawyer: "You're the head of the fuckin' Department of Redundancy Department."
Scott Gibson (having saved up his TP the last time he took a turn.) Goes all out and jets at Trevor at full blast on foot. He makes 8 swings with full on intent to kill! "YEEEAHHH!!"
Metal Man (GM): Miss miss miss miss miss hit miss hit
Scott Gibson: "Slow down and take it like a crappy piece of Windows software!" *EoT.*
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Awright, let's get down ta biznazz!" *He does a funky jig-like thing to some unheard beat in his head as he vanishes into thin air... And reappears with a bang right behind Trevor, fire flarin' up his back. *(25 damage) *He reaches for Trevor's head, but misses, snapping his fingers, and backs off. EoT.*
Dragoshi: "..." *Again he shrugs* .oO(Then why don't you shut up about it so I don't continue it? Honestly...)
Metal Man (GM): Hit miss
Hm... You're 3 HP off from something...
That is, in damage to Trevor.
Dragoshi: "..." *Let's see what'll happen... ...If all three of these hit, then I am going to have Metal make an XD in BigText.*
*Nevermind that... Hey, let's try the Tidal Blast machinegun barrage trick again!*
Metal Man (GM): Lessee... Miss miss mis, hit hit miss hit miss miss
Oops, second is a crit.
Dragoshi: *Blam, BLAM, pyew, BLAM, pyew, pyew. 4 a hit. 8 on crit.*
Metal Man (GM): How much damage per hit?
Julian Sawyer: *Fuck interesting combos, Julian just legit beats the holy HELL out of Trevor with 4 rapid-fire Haymakers (Hey kids, it's an oxymoron!)*
Metal Man (GM): Miss hit miss hit
Aetos' turn
Aetos aims One-Winged Angel at Trevor with both hands. It beings charging as a faint blue light glows around it. Suddenly a blue beam bursts out at Trevor.
Metal Man (GM): Hit
Digifanatic: *Can't do anything, he's dead again.*
Trevor: "Even if you beat me here, I have the master plan."
Julian Sawyer: "The only place you got left to run to is the First Moon, Trevor."
Metal Man (GM): He summons a sort of walking stick and arches his back, holding it point-faced all at you; then he presses a button.
Scott Gibson: "And we'll stop that plan... EVERY STEP OF THE WAY!" *Laughs.*
Trevor: "Ten... MILLION... NEEDLES!!!!!!!"
Julian Sawyer: "...Needles?"
Metal Man (GM): This would echo to the point Charles himself would hear it.
Dragoshi: "...Huh?"
Metal Man (GM): Seconds after he says that, the weird cane would fire forth millions of needles, like cactus needles, all over the place.
Julian Sawyer: "What the hell kinda attack involves nee-" *OH SHIT.*
Charles Magellean: "...!!!"
Metal Man (GM): EVD check... high DC.
Dragoshi: "...I do not like the so-*LOLNEEDLES*."
Aetos: "Crap... Cactuar!"
Metal Man (GM): *PING BLONK SPIKE* 20 damage to Julian, 40 to Dragoshi, 110 to Aetos, 20 to John, and 190 to Scott.
Aetos: *Impaled.*
Dragoshi: *Pincushioned. Slightly* "Ow."
Metal Man (GM): Then the jerk follows up with one of those cheap-arse death orb white ray attacks.
Scott Gibson gets plastered by needles from head to toe.
Metal Man (GM): 50 damage, threatens all.
He then falls to one knee.
Julian Sawyer braced for some giant mega attack... And feels like he just touched a cactus and pulled back... Only to get taken out by that fucking Death Orb.
Dragoshi: *...Godmodder!*
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *Your ghost a splode.*
Metal Man (GM): Anyone not exploded by that?
Julian Sawyer: *EVERYONE DIES.*
Metal Man (GM): *A round passes* -Mass Revive- And yes, anyone completely out of lives?
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Ooh... I didn't like dat, no I didn't!" *He flies forward right fast-like, and goes to Uber-palm the joik's face...*
Metal Man (GM): Miss.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *He then vanishes... And reappears behind him, without the explosion, but with another palm to the head! This time angled downward, in hopes of sending him into a massive, explosive facefault.*
Metal Man (GM): Miss.
Dragoshi revives, downs a Phoenix down, fires off a blast of flame from his machinegun o dewm, and attempts to grab Trevor with his tail... After strangling him that is.
Metal Man (GM): Miss, miss
Somewhere, an evil dice monster is laughing.
Dragoshi: *EoT.*
Julian Sawyer: *Alright, let's try this combo setup again. AGAIN. Focus Grab...*
Metal Man (GM): Miss!
Julian Sawyer: *PUNCH YOU IN THE FUCKING FACE.*
Metal Man (GM): Hit, hit.
He is knocked over. He gets up, battered.
Trevor: "You may have won this round... but I won't lose the third time!"
Aetos: "What? Already?"
Metal Man (GM): He vanishes... and the systems in the base begin acting normal.
+7000 EXP to all for the longest boss battle yet, with the highest HP you've fought so far.
Digifanatic: *Revives.*
Dragoshi: *LEVEL UP!*
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Bye-bye!" *He waves accordingly as the mean Mr. Man vanishes.*
Digifanatic: "Oh man... I don't know if I should say good fight or not, but we still proved we can fight the guy."
*He levels to 64.*
Julian Sawyer: "...Yeah, you better run!"
Ricky Koopa: *Walks out* "Good work... he was seriously getting on my nerves."
Charles Magellean hears its call. Coming out of his comatose state, he reverts back to his conscious... abnormal state. Red, glowing, swirling eyes and silent, raspy breathing. His mouth open, showing the teeth at the top of his mouth which counts for the twisted smile that he makes that would send a chill down Aetos' spine.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *Level up! EVD increased by 1! AC increased by 1! HP increased by 2!*
Ricky Koopa: "But... uh..."
Julian Sawyer faceflops from wearing out his punch arm.
Ricky Koopa turns on the viewscreen.
Metal Man (GM): The Valhalla, which had just been blasted away... flies away, towards the First Moon base.
Dragoshi levels up. HP goes up by 2. STR goes up by 1. STR mod goes up by one. yay.
Aetos feels a chill.
Ricky Koopa: "...He used the time you took to fight him to recapture Valhalla... which can't be easily taken from him, as you could see."
Julian Sawyer: *Muffled by floor * "..."
Dragoshi: "..."
Julian Sawyer: *Stream of profanities muffled by floor.*
Ricky Koopa: "He's become far too much a part of it. I'm afraid we may have to destroy it. Even worse."
Metal Man (GM): The screen shows all those blue lasers again... heading for the Second Moon.
Digifanatic: "Oh geez..."
Ricky Koopa: "He's decided to take what Gerald once did and kick it up a notch; those will destroy the entire planet, or at least shove it far out of orbit and into something else, if they aren't stopped."
Dragoshi: "...Son of a..."
Ricky Koopa: "The only way to stop him for good is to annihilate that base on the First moon and possibly Valhalla. Before he can spread to anywhere else."
Digifanatic: "I'm willing to say Valhalla is almost a definite."
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "...So, time ta blow more stuffs up, eh?"
Dragoshi: "...That appears to be the case. Possibly IS the case." *Sighs* "And I was looking forward to keeping it."
Julian Sawyer: *Muffled by floor* "...That's fuckin' It." *Julian rolls over* "Let's to the ship. I'm tired of this muthafuckin' AI in these muthafuckin' bases."
Dragoshi: "...Actually, not keeping it, but still. ..." *Just shuts up and gives a nod of agreement.*
Charles Magellean: "...Cactuar warcry."
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "...'E's babblin' again!"
F.A.Y.T.H.: "...Hey! I baked you cookies. It's only Trevor... and Gerald... and evil SIMBER... and Metal Sonic... and Metroid Rathos..."
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *Never said that!*
Julian Sawyer: "...Someone help me up. Wore out my arms."
F.A.Y.T.H.: "...And possibly also E Li Three..."
Digifanatic: "Yeah, sure. Not a problem."
Dragoshi helps Julian up.
Digifanatic: "Oh, never mind."
Julian Sawyer: "Thanks. A'ight, let's roll! Fate of the world's in the balance again for the 3rd time today! No pressure!"
Digifanatic: "Yeah. We've done it before."
Dragoshi: *Just nods again, then waits for someone to take the lead.*
Aetos takes the E Li Three cookie.
Digifanatic smiles a bit... one of the rare times he cracks a smile on duty... and in such dire circumstances.
Aetos: "Thank you, FAYTH. I do like cookies."
Julian Sawyer's able to move under his own power on his feet, and heads back to the ship.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "Things are startin' ta crank up, I see... I'd better, too!" *He whips out a bottle, and turns it up... and shakes it. And waits. And doesn't drink anything.* "..."
Metal Man (GM): You head aboard. Metal is already programming it to launch.
Aetos: "Can I take one for Metal, too?"
*He points to the Metal Sonic cookie.*
Digifanatic decides to take a couple of cookies just for interest.
F.A.Y.T.H.: "Sure."
Charles Magellean unsheathes Schnelltott, his head slowly moving from left to right for the noise that made him snap out of his subconscious state.
Aetos grabs the Metal Sonic cookie and goes to the ship.
Dragoshi does the same, then gives his thanks and heads back to the ship.
Julian Sawyer: "No Oatmeal raisin!" *He calls back as he trudges onto the ship... and sees Charles unsheathe the mighty sword of death.*
Aetos examines the cookies as he walks to Metal, not examining the room.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "...I wanna cry now!" *It shows in his voice too, as he tosses the empty bottle aside and goes with the group, pouting.*
Julian Sawyer: "Hey! Someone restrain Charles. He's actin' crazy again."
Charles Magellean: "Where is it..."
Digifanatic: "And that's what I'm looking forward to do with you guys later."
Aetos quickly hands Metal the Metal Sonic cookie and looks up. "Again?... Ugh..."
He raises his hand. "Charles, remove those swirls from your eyes!"
Metal Man takes it and eats it. "Thanks." He then looks to the bridge. "This will definitely be our last fight with Trevor."
Editor's Note: It is definitely not their last fight with Trevor.
Dragoshi: *Then sees Charles unsheathing el hell sword* "..."
Digifanatic: "Put 'em all in the trash and never deal with these creeps again!"
Dragoshi: "I damn well hope so." @_!
Metal Man: "...It looks like he's powering up some prototype weapon. Here's why."
Digifanatic: *Boards.*
Metal Man shows on his viewscreen, the entire First Moon's reality warping out of shape.
"It's able to do THAT, and it appears aimed at Nintendus."
Scott Gibson: "..." .oO(Even I'm not that psycho.)
Metal Man: "It's no X-zone gun. This looks like it can just blow up existence piecemeal."
Aetos ponders. .oO(Could his senses REALLY detect cactuars through space?) *Points to Dragoshi* "Cactaur!"
Digifanatic: "Aetos! Stop it..."
Dragoshi: *Eats the cookies he took, and has prolly' already boarded the ship*"...Uhh..."*Sidesteps out of Charles way and drops a potted cactus.*
Julian Sawyer: "...Like I said, no pressure."
Charles Magellean: "The Cactuar will ---" *He looks around, hearing the word Cactuar.*
Metal Man: "I think he stole it from Gerald, or something. I dunno, he'll probably reveal all to us after we break into his little bunker in the middle of those blue lasers about to hit the mo--" *BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM*
"...Oon."
Dragoshi: *Oh, and some of the needles from that nasty ten million needles attack.*
Julian Sawyer: "...GO!"
Digifanatic: "BOARD SHIP AND GET OUTTA HERE!"
Charles Magellean: "WHERE?! I WILL SLAUGHTER It!"
Aetos blinks. "Cactuar on First Moon!"
Digifanatic: .oO(Aetos what are you--)
Dragoshi: "...Eugh. Just start the ship already." @_!
Digifanatic: "Okay, looks like everyone's here... just get out and let's take Trevor down!"
Metal Man: *Sees Charles is on the ship.* "Oh. There you are."
Charles Magellean looks out the window... he stares at the First Moon.
Metal Man: "Launching!" *The ship flies off.*
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *The spirit is just hovering all dejected-like in a corner of the ship.* "...I'm outta vodka... All dat shoppin', an' I forgot to get da vodka..."
Scott Gibson boards the ship with Roxy. "Guess it's not over until the fat AI sings, eh?"
Charles Magellean: "The traitor...will die this day."
Digifanatic: "That's probably the best way of putting it, Scott. Everyone, good luck!"
Metal Man: "Babologom Zaba dabba doo death and destruction! Uh. I mean, here we go."
Metal Man (GM): *Pause on GMing, downtiming can be done.*
*Another big session complete... one more to go.*
Charles Magellean: "There will be much pleasure in taking apart it piece... by piece."
Metal Man: "Yeah... we all wish there could be peace."
Digifanatic: "Knowing us, there should, and better, will."
Dragoshi: "...Bleh."
Charles Magellean sheathes the tyrant's sword.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) *The spirit's just pouting in his corner for now... Silently plotting that punk's demise. He'll find some way of pinning the blame for the lack of booze on Trevor.*
Aetos lowers his hand. .oO(I don't think I can trust him with that sword when he's like this.)
Charles Magellean: "Can only bide time...bide time until Trevor's throat is slit by this sword."
Digifanatic: .oO(Now that's the spirit...)
Aetos: "Trevor's throat... slit? Hrm."
Scott Gibson: *Mutters to self* "Least he has his priorities straight."
Charles Magellean creeks his neck to look at the Questers. With his demented smile, he slowly licks the top of his lips from right to left.
Aetos mutters.
The Wraith: (Spirited Spirit) "...*Mumble mumble* vodka, *Mumble grumble*..."
Dragoshi: *Gets up for a sec and looks at Charles.* "...Right."
Charles Magellean: "A bloodbath that even Julian would be proud of."
Scott Gibson sighs and twangs on his guitar a bit.
Digifanatic: .oO(Julian? Proud? From Charles? Okay...)
Dragoshi: .oO(...Hmmm... I think that'd... Oy. Another headache.) @_@
Scott Gibson: .oO(Noooow it's gettin' weird.)
*He blows off the psycho Charles, no offense man, and thinks of a song to play to clear his head before the big battle.*
Charles Magellean: "View their database of currently active evil beings. Partake in the Great Purge of Evil! It will be a glorious plan so I may be alone."
*He turns his head to face the window. The madness still happening within him, he coldly stares out to the Moon of Nintendus.*
Scott Gibson: "Ah, perfect!" *Scott starts playing Rush "2112 Overture" seeing as it fits the occasion. It's a loooooong song (20 min) so that'll keep him busy for a bit. He plays lyrics and all.* (Feel free to look up the lyrics yourself. A song that long is a pain to type. Y'all have the name of it.)
Aetos mutters at Scott.
Dragoshi: .oO(Purge of evil? Of currently? ...Huh.) *Tries to figure out what Charles means from those two little hints...*
Scott Gibson finishes the song 20 minutes later and remembers he needs to buy some more items.
He picks up his cell phone and dials out to get some.
"...Hm..." *Second guesses it and hangs up after telling the shop keeper he was trying it out.*
"I think I can deal with what I've got."
Metal Man (GM): 3 2 1 Go
Before the action starts, the camera pans to Trevor, who overlooks Nintendus and the incoming Questers from the top of the base; he prepares a final volley of lasers.
Trevor: "I cannot understand... why the Questers are so persistent... in fighting the hand of right. They do not know what slaves they are to fate... What am I doing wrong to deserve so much hatred? It is they who have betrayed the light."
"Hm. Lasers calibrated... Valhalla set to full power... the weapon is fully charged."
Metal Man (GM): He looks at Nintendus.
Trevor: "Curse you, orb of flying demons!"
Metal Man (GM): MEANWHILE...
The Questers are on the bridge of the Kuja ship, nearing Trevor's base.
Alexia: "Looks like this is the final fight. Good luck, everyone."
Scott Gibson: "So this is it, eh?"
Dragoshi: "Pretty much..."
Scott Gibson grins and looks out toward the growing moon, having already gotten up and finished playing his songs.
Julian Sawyer just stands on the bridge, back up after resting his arms which are now crossed. He just stares straight forward, oddly silent, just trying to focus...
Metal Man: "We will soon enter the conflict zone."
Scott Gibson: *Looks out the window and says aloud to himself, but equally audible* "The man who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man."
Metal Man (GM): The ship soon sees the base, whose five ion cannons rotate to fire.
Metal Man: "This is going to be a bumpy ride..."
Julian Sawyer: "Can't we take those out?"
Scott Gibson: "Cool the engines... We dunno how far we might go until we make it all the way."
Metal Man: "No... they're too tough. Their adaptive shielding would intercept it."
Julian Sawyer: "Scott, the way I got in here the first time was crashin' into a tower. Conservin' the engines ain't exactly a concern right now."
Scott Gibson: "A mantra from Boston, man."
Julian Sawyer: "Who?"
Metal Man (GM): The ship flies forward; lasers pelt it.
Metal Man: "We're taking heavy damage, but we don't have room to complain here."
Scott Gibson: "Boston, a classic band in the 70's and 80's on Earth."
Metal Man (GM): Three Kuja ships appear, and in desperation, try to fly into the way.
Metal Man: "...Hold on... I'm gonna have to get through before they can close a gap."
Scott Gibson: "I'll give you access to my music library later."
Julian Sawyer: "...I'll take yo' word for it."
Metal Man pulls a lever; the ship Rockets forward, throwing everyone onto the floor who wasn't holding onto something. It then shakes violently as sparks fly from some of the panels.
Metal Man (GM): A horrible grinding and crashing sound is heard as several alarms go off.
Julian Sawyer: *WHOOSH Thud.*
Alexia gets flung backwards onto the floor.
Metal Man: "...Not good. That just took out our brakes."
Aetos struggles to keep stable.
Metal Man: "We'll have to do this to slow down."
*He pulls a lever.*
Julian Sawyer: "Ramming speed?"
Alexia: "Geez, Metal, warn us before going into ludicrous speed!"
Metal Man: "I did, already."
Alexia stands back up.
Julian Sawyer gets back to his feet.
Dragoshi falls ass over teakettle, but gets up.
Metal Man (GM): You hear a huge amount of lasers going off, and a bunch of explosions.
Metal Man: "Hm... not quite as tough as I thought... there goes a big building of some kind. Prepare for impact!"
Julian Sawyer latches onto something this time!
Dragoshi does the same.
Aetos just lies down.
Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* The ship collides into a nearby building; the door manages to dock with it and blast the door on the other side open. You're free to enter... the final tower.
Alexia takes out her gun
"Everybody ready?"
Julian Sawyer: "A'ight, let's put this bastard on ice! Move out!" *Julian heads in.*
Dragoshi: "...Right." *Takes out machinegun AND scythe.* "Ready as I'll ever be."
*He follows behind Julian.*
Alexia follows the others.
Aetos slides up and out.
Metal Man (GM): The building is relatively empty. You may walk up it. Systems appear to be powering up for something massive.
Alexia: "EMP it?"
Julian Sawyer: "Why both?"
Alexia: "Hey, it never hurts."
Dragoshi: "...Yea. Why? It'd prolly' be a waste of an EMP anyway."
*He doesn't even bother, and moves on up to the building. Or somethin'.*
Aetos: "Well that's the spirit..."
Julian Sawyer naturally takes point and keeps a move on.
Metal Man (GM): Walking up, you begin to see MASSIVE power conduits going upwards... ones too large to cut easily.
More to the point, extremely dangerous to even touch.
Alexia walks up with the others.
Metal Man (GM): They're red hot and throwing sparks.
Julian Sawyer picks up the pace. This is something big.
Alexia follows Captain Obvious through the building.
Dragoshi decides to do the same, getting a slight chill down his spine.
Metal Man (GM): You eventually reach the top floor, which has been extensively remodeled in a short time.
Dragoshi: "..."
Metal Man (GM): A massive and strange ancient artifact stands there, charging up a sphere of astral energy.
Dragoshi: "...What IS that?"
Alexia: "NOW we EMP?"
Metal Man (GM): A large variety of runic things on the walls and ceiling appear to be what it uses to aim.
Dragoshi: "...Again. Why bother?"
Julian Sawyer: "This ain't electric."
Trevor: *Walks in from the shadows* "The Ancients made their technology EMP-proof. I wouldn't be surprised if it was pure magic."
Julian Sawyer: "An' frankly, I don't wanna get near it."
Alexia: "...You sure are hard to kill."
Julian Sawyer: "So THERE you are, ya bastard. Ready to go 0-for-3?"
Trevor: "No... you've taught me fighting you, and Nintendus, is pointless."
Dragoshi: *The chill worsens when Trevor mentions the Ancients* "...He's a damn hologram. Of course he'd be difficult to kill."
Trevor: "I decided I'd cut to the chase and attack the one thing which no one would expect."
Metal Man (GM): He holds his hand over a rune, and a portal appears above the Moon.
Julian Sawyer: "...Yoself? If you're gonna kill yoself, go ahead. I ain't gonna stop ya."
Alexia: "...oh HELL no."
Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...Expected/10'd)
Metal Man (GM): The weapon discharges its extremely powerful orb of destruction into the hole, and then three Kuja ships, a huge amount of robotic COBRA soldiers, and the skirmish ships already here, fly into it.
The portal closes. Nothing seems to have changed.
Dragoshi: "...Wait for it..."
Alexia: "Okay, I'll bite. Where'd they go?"
Trevor: "I'm not going to tell you. You should be grateful I didn't foolishly attempt to destroy Nintendus. There. I have done all I wish to do. You're free to leave."
"I have nothing left. It will all be used on the other target."
Alexia: "Not until you're reduced to slag."
Trevor: "You really want to attack a cornered opponent?"
Julian Sawyer: "You got a problem wit' that?"
Dragoshi: "...Sadly... I really don't believe you."
Trevor: "...No... I just don't think it'd fare too well for you."
Scott Gibson: "Cornered mouse attacks the cat, even though it knows the cat has the upper hand."
Alexia: "I say a fist-on-face demonstration is in order."
Trevor: "Your words shall be labeled on the same level as Napoleon's, as he went to Waterloo."
Scott Gibson: "Don't expect us to just let you go after all the shit you caused."
Julian Sawyer: "...Who's Napoleon?"
Metal Man (GM): He presses a button on his wrist. The massive ancient weapon opens up, revealing a white sphere... like the opposite of the X-zone sphere.
Dragoshi: "...Some French guy who died in a war. I think he was an emperor or something" *Ker-shrug.*
Editor's Note: I guess Dragoshi came from an alternate universe of Earth, as of course, Napoleon of our world died after living on the island of Elba after the war... but that is neither here nor there.
Metal Man (GM): It rolls down and inside of Trevor.
Two panels open up in the floor, and an ancient beam weapon flies out of the floor and onto his left wrist. On the right, a strange visor flies out and lands on his head. It has a targeting reticule and some kind of tinted glass.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Dragoshi: "..."
Julian Sawyer: "GodDAMMIT."
Metal Man (GM): Finally, out of thin air, the armor of a former Thirteen Gentleman android appears and covers his chest and arms, making him MUCH tougher.
He flicks down the visor and points the gun at you all.
Dragoshi: "...Okay. That, I didn't expect."
Trevor: "Ever wondered what it's like to die from one attack?"
Julian Sawyer: "Been there, done that."
Dragoshi: "...Nah. It's happened once before."
Trevor: "Try losing three lives all at once."
Aetos: "Plenty of times."
Metal Man (GM): Techno Trevor vs. The Questers
Charles; you can join in if you want.
Roll inits.
d20+15
Trevor, Charles, Aetos, Julian, Alexia, Dragoshi
He shakes his fist... then runs at Julian and tries to grab him, moving even faster this time.
He grabs him and viciously bashes his head into the heavy gun.
Trevor: "I'm not going to have the mercy to kill you instantly today."
Metal Man (GM): 60 damage
Julian Sawyer's got a concussion! Wonderful.
Metal Man (GM): He then shakes a pointer finger at Scott and grabs thin air, ripping it open.
A procession of screaming, flaming demons fly out, trying to fly THROUGH Scott.
15 fire damage per hit.
Dragoshi: "..."
Trevor: "Burn, false traitor!"
Metal Man (GM): 15 fire damage per hit.
Charles' turn
Dragoshi: "...Was it just me or did the gates of hell just open up RIGHT THERE?"
Charles Magellean slowly walks into the room, slightly slouched forward. Same red, glowing, swirling eyes, but a frown on his face.
Alexia: "...Charles, what the hell happened to you?"
Trevor: *Points the gun at Charles* "I have the X-zone blaster here. IF you attempt to use that sword on me... you will die. IF you give it to the Questers... you will die."
Dragoshi: "...Oh, god. I think he wants a piece of Trevor. A BIG piece."
Scott Gibson gets slammed by the shots and hangs by a thread.
Trevor: "IF you move towards me... you will die."
Julian Sawyer: "...Haven't you noticed he's been batshit crazy since we GOT him?"
Charles Magellean: "...Youuu...shut up."
Scott Gibson: "Let em' have Trevor! For chrissakes we might as well. He's gonna tear him limb from limb as it is."
Charles Magellean: "You will die not by hands...but by theirs."
Trevor: "Against... the X-zone blaster, fully perfected? He will never get close to me. That... is why I have it."
Charles Magellean he stands there, silently breathing raspily. EoT.
Metal Man (GM): Aetos' turn
Scott Gibson: "In other words you're a cheap-ass when it comes to fighting..."
Dragoshi: "..."
Trevor: "You are the lowest forms of life I have ever seen. The only response is extermination."
Julian Sawyer: "Lowest forms of life that kicked yo' ass TWICE."
Aetos passes his turn!
Dragoshi: "...Right" .oO(...Then you obviously haven't looked into a mirror.)
Scott Gibson flips Trevor the bird. "Y'know you're not half the badass you say you are."
Trevor: "I shall savor chopping that finger off."
Scott Gibson: "Sit'n'spin, fucker!" *Laughs* "I'll be using it for a looong time."
Trevor: "In terms of a fly's life, yes."
Julian Sawyer downs an Ultra Shroom, then... passes the rest of his turn. Fear me!
Scott Gibson chuckles then grins that sadistic smile he so often uses.
Dragoshi does NOTHING. EoT. >_>
Metal Man (GM): Wow... Dragoshi's name has changed to Alexia.
Alexia begins by putting a hand up in the air and Overloading
She shudders for a moment, then recovers and flings a Mindblast at Trevor.
Metal Man (GM): He evades it.
Trevor: "Not as tough as you said you were..."
Alexia snarls defiantly. EoT.
Metal Man (GM): Roll dem bones, Scotty.
Okay...
Trevor, Charles, Scott, Aetos, Julian, Alexia, Dragoshi
Charles Magellean: "Why? Why does it have to be this way?"
Metal Man (GM): Charles: Do you have Schnelltott?
Trevor: "Let's see how well you can hold onto the sword."
Metal Man (GM): Trevor attempts to wrench it away from Charles. STR checks.
He snatches the sword.
And sheath.
Charles Magellean does not attempt to move.
Trevor: "Leave me be, or face the consequences." *He draws the sword.*
Aetos face-palms.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Alexia: *Slightly weakly* "Dammit..."
Metal Man (GM): Then he decides to walk up to Alexia and draws it in her general direction. Which, with that sword, can be lethal.
Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...Yeesh)
Metal Man (GM): Hit, or miss?
Scott Gibson: "Oh shit..."
Aetos raises his hand.
Metal Man (GM): 100 damage. That thing's LETHAL.
Charles' turn
Alexia slightly weakened by Overloading so much energy, takes the hit...
Trevor: "Hm. Kales was a lot smarter than I thought."
Alexia: *...But then, still bleeding profusely, stands up again!*
"You... you'll never defeat us, Trevor..."
Trevor: "All I did was unsheathe the sword. Perhaps I'll stab you with it."
Alexia clutches a hand to the slice, desperately trying to stop the flow of blood.
Charles Magellean: "I will interfere only as a last resort."
Scott Gibson watches his friends get pelted by Trevor but can only grit his teeth a moment before popping a couple of ultra shrooms and biding his time. EoT.
Metal Man (GM): Aetos' turn
Alexia: "Somebody had better reclaim the sword..."
Aetos calls out. "Schnelltott, do not resist your new, true, owner. Come to the one who gave body, mind, and soul in order to call your name!"
Metal Man (GM): The sword appears to glow and... stays further in Trevor's hands.
Trevor: "I had to sacrifice all my dreams for it to even be in the same room with me. You're a lightweight."
Scott Gibson tries to think up a plan and can only come up with one, though extremely unlikely, idea.
Dragoshi: "...Pffft. Right. You prolly' did that ten seconds ago for that to work." >_>
Metal Man (GM): He sidesteps it.
Charles Magellean quickly looks to Aetos. "Betrayal? Do not be treacherous like him."
Trevor: "He wants you to be treacherous, Aetos. Help me and become immortal!"
Julian Sawyer squints his eyes, walks over to the DeathTrevor, and simply tries to take the sword away from Trevor! "Gimme that."
Trevor: "...I'll give you the sword, too."
Aetos: "K. Just give me the sword and I'll do it."
Trevor: "Gah! Get your filthy hands away!"
Julian Sawyer: *YOINK.*
Metal Man (GM): He trips on a rock and Julian gets it.
Dragoshi: "...Oh, NICE ONE, Julian!"
Scott Gibson: "Ye-ah!"
Metal Man (GM): Rocks. The natural enemy of homicidal holograms.
Charles Magellean: "Betrayal will not be tolerated."
Alexia: "Nice going, Jules."
Charles Magellean slowly creeks his neck to look in the direction of Trevor again.
Trevor: "Ah, but the curse of the sword will be your death. Besides, didn't you only use Vendetta?"
Dragoshi: "...If that's the case, then, ah nevermind. You're prolly' gonna answer no, seeing as you took it."
Julian Sawyer: "I use what I got." *Julian feels it over in his hands* "I beat this sword once before. Think it's proper I get to use it too."
Aetos: "Then hurry up and use it."
Julian Sawyer: "Let's go to work." *Julian readies the mighty sword, then attacks! He targets Trevor's armor with a mighty Sunder!*
Metal Man (GM): You hit the armor. Shockingly, it repels your entire attack.
Trevor: "Nothing can destroy this armor. That's why I'm wearing it."
Metal Man (GM): This armor has been, throughout history, shown to be invincible.
Scott Gibson curses Trevor like a trucker in his head.
Metal Man (GM): Aiming at his arms or elsewhere would damage him.
Most attacks which miss bounce off the armor.
Alexia blinks as the sword bounces off of the armor.
*Weakly* "Chose your armor well, I see..."
Julian Sawyer goes for the one BEHIND the armor, then! He goes for the arm that the gun's attached to, aiming for a part that ISN'T covered by armor.
Trevor: "It was a pity the arms had already been stolen."
Scott Gibson: "Dammit... Ukelele no good."
Metal Man (GM): Miss.
Julian Sawyer: *LUCK-Damn Try again!*
*Much Better!*
Metal Man (GM): You hit the gun. It is sliced in two. Reality begins to fall apart where it was.
Julian Sawyer: "..."
Trevor: "...I admire your aim, however that gun wasn't exactly the safest thing to destroy."
Metal Man (GM): It begins slowly expanding, revealing a bunch of static.
Aetos: "...X-zone energy?..."
Julian Sawyer: "This is new."
Trevor: "This thing created the X-zone."
Aetos: "Ex... cellent."
Alexia: "Hit the deck!"
Scott Gibson: "We're boned!" *Ducks down.*
Dragoshi: "...Uh-oh."
*DUCKS DOWN. TO THE EXTREEEEEEEME!*
Metal Man (GM): He backs away as it begins to reveal the X-zone itself.
Julian Sawyer backs the fuck up.
Aetos gazes at the marvels of the chaos dimension.
Alexia collapses to her knees, then covers her head with her arms to avoid the blast.
Aetos steps forward. "It's baaaack..."
Metal Man (GM): The rift soon fills the entire room.
Charles Magellean: "This matters not. I am still focused."
Alexia: "Man, this day SUCKS."
Metal Man (GM): He stands in it, and then continues his battle position.
Scott Gibson: "Houston we have a problem!"
Trevor: "I cannot still escape, but the conditions seem favorable for success."
Metal Man (GM): Anything else, X-zone unleasher?
Aetos grins, accepting the X-zone as he did long ago.
Alexia gets back up shakily.
Dragoshi gets back up. He seems a lot more calm, remembering that insane crap happens a lot.
Scott Gibson stands slowly using his guitar as a brace. He's relatively unhurt but he's being careful.
Charles Magellean: "Dimension of chaos. Thought to be sealed by Sardis Mongul."
Trevor: "Well, unsealed by Julian Sawyer."
Julian Sawyer: "Blah blah blah." *Julian goes to stab Trevor in his FACE!*
Charles Magellean smiles maliciously, breathing in and out rapidly to imitate laughing.
Julian Sawyer: *CRIIIIIIIIITICAL!*
Aetos: "Chaos is what sealed Sardis?..."
Scott Gibson: "BAM!"
Metal Man (GM): He takes 100 damage and falls backwards.
Dragoshi: "...Nice one."
Julian Sawyer: "...I like this." *Julian backs up. EoT.*
Alexia: "Alright, good hit..."
Charles Magellean: "Sealed BY Sardis, Wind one!"
Aetos: "By... right... I hope you know you're speaking half-Lunarian."
*He examines the X-zone for a moment.*
Scott Gibson: .oO(Someone shut him up or make him speak WHOLE English!)
Alexia uses an Ultra Mushroom on herself. Not enough TP to do anything else, so EoT.
Metal Man (GM): It seems normal, but is stuck within the boundaries of the room.
X-zone normal. Weird sky and stuff, but confined to this room.
Dragoshi: "...Hmmm..." *Fires off a Tidal blast from the machinegun, one of the blasts going at Trevor's armor, the rest at the parts of Trevor that would normally take damage.*
Metal Man (GM): One hit.
Dragoshi: *The first two miss, while the other hits for 8 damage.*
Charles Magellean: .oO(??? ??? ????????, ? ???? ???? ??? ????????? ????.)
Dragoshi: *He then proceeds to fire a charged blast of fire from said machinegun at a vulnerable spot of Trev.*
Metal Man (GM): Miss
Dragoshi: *Last night ended 20 or so hours ago, you friggin' dice.*
Trevor: "You destroyed my items; let me destroy yours."
Metal Man (GM): He tries to snatch Schnelltott from Julian.
He attempts again.
He snatches it, and then slashes at Julian with it.
Julian Sawyer quickdraws Vendetta out and BLOCKS!
Metal Man (GM): He slashes instead a hole in the air. Weird.
Scott Gibson decides to take his chances and try to steal the sword from Trevor by smacking his hand...
Metal Man (GM): He knocks you 2 units away with sheer force.
Scott Gibson: "Oof!"
*He lands on his back and skids a bit. He gets up and decides it's not that easy so he decides to opt for another attack.*
Aetos takes out the Magical Toothbrush.
Scott Gibson brings his guitar into a playing position and kicks into an all too familiar solo streaking lightning up and down the fretboard and channeling it into four balls of energy..."You've been... THUNDERSTRUCK!!" Then launches them at Trevor like a shotgun blast.
(10 damage.) *EoT.*
Dragoshi: "...Zuh?"
Metal Man (GM): Miss miss miss miss
Scott Gibson: "...Dammit all!"
Metal Man (GM): Aetos' turn
Aetos swings the Magical Toothbrush. "X-zone, let chaos destroy Trevor!"
Metal Man (GM): Nothing happens.
Julian Sawyer tries taking the sword away again! If he keeps doing this, Trevor won't have a chance to attack!
*Nope. EoT.*
Alexia first drinks a Healing Vial, then flings a Psy Needle at an unprotected area of Trevor.
Metal Man (GM): Hit
Anything else?
Alexia then swings her gun around and blasts at Trevor again with an Aiming Shot.
Metal Man (GM): Miss. brb one sec
Dragoshi: *Right. Anyway. Dragoshi, OF ALL PEOPLE tries to gank the sword from Trev. But not with STR checks, but with a Five-Clawed Discount. Hopefully. Or at least to do some damage. @_@ Let's try that AGAIN.*
Metal Man (GM): You steal the busted gun from him.
Hm. Busted much.
Dragoshi: *Was trying to go for the SWORD.*
Metal Man (GM): Didn't say beforehand.
Dragoshi: *Said so on the FIRST attempt. Thought it would've been obvious on the second. Ah, sod it. Either way, EoT. Not even gonna try and argue.*
Editor's Note: Wait, Dragoshi totally said "gank the sword"... you messed it up, past me! ...Well, Dragoshi ultimately did get Vendetta, so I guess the mistake was corrected. Eventually.
Trevor: "Both of you shall take damage from the stolen sword." *He flicks his wrist and slashes at Julian, then Dragoshi, respectively.*
Metal Man (GM): 100 damage if hit.
Dragoshi dances out of the way.
Julian Sawyer blocks with Vendetta again!
Scott Gibson closes the 2 unit distance he flew and bides his time this turn looking for an opening.
*EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): Aetos' turn
Aetos does a bird call noise. Twiddle twiddle!
Julian Sawyer: *Thievery!*
Metal Man (GM): You grab it. He becomes annoyed.
Julian Sawyer: *YOINK!*
Dragoshi: "...And, there we go again."
Julian Sawyer then goes for the visor! Might as well finish what he started with a Sunder!
*Nope! EoT.*
Alexia first slips her finger over the trigger of her gun rapidly, firing a Gatling shot at Trevor.
Metal Man (GM): Miss miss miss
Alexia then attempts to rip the visor off of Trevor's head with TK.
Metal Man (GM): Hit
You open a hole into the Y-zone. People's brains explode and everybody DIEZ OMG j/k
You knock the visor off his head. Nothing happens.
He takes some damage.
He -already- looks near death... apparently most of the damage earlier wore him out.
Dragoshi: *Okay. He's just gonna charge up his LAZOR... Errr... FLAME... And fire it out of the machinegun at Trevor. Oh well, uhh... Errr... Tidal blast!*
*EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): All miss.
Trevor: "I must undo this damage."
Metal Man (GM): He holds out his hands; the room glows white, and the X-zone is compressed back into a sphere, and then that closes... and moves inside the gun.
He then falls over, worn out.
Dragoshi: *...Which Dragoshi stole.*
Metal Man (GM): It's still inside da gun.
Dragoshi: *...Ah hell.*
Aetos: "Arg..."
Scott Gibson sees this and takes his chance. He bolts out to burn all 8 TP he's got and strikes with a series of homerun swings!
Aetos: "I hate Lawful Evil people."
Metal Man (GM): Hit hit hit hit miss hit. He rolls out of the way, when he can.
Scott Gibson leaps back do the others after delivering that strike.
*EoT*
"Not so tough, eh?"
Trevor: "I saved you from the X-zone... that took most of my power. Just kill me already."
Aetos: "Ok."
Scott Gibson: "I'd be happy to oblige."
Dragoshi: "...I'd kill you with irony, but I don't think this might work." *Points to the slightly damaged X-Zone Blaster or whatever he's holding* "I also think I might've misused the word irony. Again. Dammit"
Alexia: "Dragoshi, just shoot him."
Julian Sawyer: "Don't use that..."
Aetos: "Hmm."
Scott Gibson: "Hold up there, Drag! Don't shoot!"
Julian Sawyer: "We don't know what the hell it does."
Scott Gibson nods to what Julian said.
Aetos: "I'm sure it's fine. Just finish him."
Alexia: "...No, Julian's right."
Scott Gibson: "I'd rather not take a chance on screwing with that. Just kill him already, with something other than that gun!"
Dragoshi: "...I don't think it might even work, since, yanno, Julian damaged it. ...So, yea. I'm just gonna stick to the machinegun"
Scott Gibson: .oO(*mortal kombat voice* FINISH HIM!)
Julian Sawyer: "Good."
Trevor: "It was safe enough for me to use it... feel free to fire it."
Aetos: "Yeah, use it."
Julian Sawyer: "Don't listen to his lyin' ass. Already tricked you once."
Dragoshi: "...Great. Now I'm getting advice from the enemy. This day can NO-...Yea. No fucking way in HELL I am finishing that thought"
Scott Gibson: "As if we'd listen to you, incapacitated or not."
Trevor: "Hm. Perhaps you will allow me to live via bickering."
Dragoshi: "...You love pushing your luck, huh?"
Scott Gibson: "C'mon!"
Alexia: "Dragoshi, SHOOT HIM."
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi: Your verdict
Dragoshi: "...Specify, please. With the flesh-weakening machinegun or the ungodly deathgun?"
Scott Gibson: "MACHINE GUN, DAMMIT!"
Trevor: "The machinegun is unlikely to work on me."
Dragoshi: "...I didn't ask you, Scott"
Trevor: "The deathgun would ensure my death."
Alexia: "Machine gun first. If that doesn't work..."
Trevor: "It's your choice."
Alexia hands her gun to Dragoshi if possible.
Scott Gibson: "I'm tellin' you anyway! Don't trust him!"
Alexia: "Use mine. THEN we use the deathgun."
Scott Gibson: "He's trying to make you do what he wants. We use that 'deathgun' then use it far away from me."
Alexia: "... Shoot him already."
"NOW, DAMMIT."
Dragoshi: "...Oh FUCK IT. Yanno what? ...I'm not gonna take any risks." *Wields Alexia's with his tail, and... VAVAFOOM! In order of Alexia's gun, then the Vendetta machinegun. And, if he's still breathing... Yea.*
Scott Gibson: "..." .oO(Haven't I been saying it.)
Metal Man (GM): They hit him a lot, but they don't kill him.
Dragoshi: "...Okay. Screw this." *NOW he fires the X-Zone Blaster.*
Scott Gibson: "I was gonna say keep shooting..." *Shrugs.*
Alexia takes her gun back.
Scott Gibson ducks.
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi fires the gun, and explodes instead.
Alexia then crouches.
Metal Man (GM): Trevor stands up, laughing.
Julian Sawyer: "...I try tellin' 'em, but they don't LISTEN."
Scott Gibson: "...I frickn' knew it."
Trevor: "That gun killed the man who used it. A Quester could survive it, but he won't be back for a little while."
Aetos snickers.
Scott Gibson: "Remind me to smack him the next time I see him."