Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 69: Humid Hallucinations
Date: July 24th, 2004.
Trivia: The 'Red Mountain' is Robotnik. I never bothered to mention that, and it never wound up being important, but, now you know.
Metal Man (GM): Everyone is in the R&R again. It's a hot and humid afternoon. Thankfully, the HQ has air conditioning.
Loco Docos has a fan set on him.
Aribar is sleeping on the couch.
Metal Man (GM): Suddenly... the Air Conditioning quits! It starts heating up.
Metal Man comes in. "...Who turned off the air conditioning?"
Deloth: "Not me."
Loco Docos sweats to no end on his back. This is the most annoying position there is to a Lunarian.
Metal Man: "Ohhh... right, I can't sense temperature! Silly me."
Aribar wakes up... "Uuuuuuuuuh... "
Metal Man still appears to be hot, despite being made of metal.
Loco Docos: "Even with this fan, I feel sweaty."
Metal Man (GM): .oO(This suit is so hot... but if I took off my gloves they'd see...)
Deloth wipes his forehead.
Metal Man: "...Mack's on vacation... maybe we should check the Air Conditioner?"
Deloth: "You think so?"
Metal Man (GM): Mewtwo pops in. *PFSH.*
Mewtwo: "...The Air Conditioner is full of... things... They appear to be clogging up the Air Conditioner with something."
Loco Docos sits up... a bit concerned about this.
Mewtwo: "It's strange..."
Deloth: "And sounds kinda disgusting."
Aribar: "Huh... What? Oh... Full of what kinda things?"
Loco Docos: "If thou be so concerned, then truly ye can do something of it!"
Deloth stands up.
Mewtwo: "...Dust bunny-looking things. They're surrounded by some sort of... Force Field!"
Aribar: "Goodie..."
Mewtwo: "...If you can fix it... then I'll pay all of you what I'd pay Mack."
Deloth: "I'm in. I need some dinero."
Mewtwo: "It's hard to meditate when it's this hot."
Aribar: "What would you pay Mack?"
Loco Docos: "...I hate this kind of humid and hotness so let's get this over with!"
Mewtwo: *Clears throat.* "So, there you go. If you don't, then Mack will fix it. Oh... well, you know, enough that it could be at least 3000-4000 for each of you."
Loco Docos leaves for the generator.
Mewtwo: "Now, I have to... find someplace cool."
Metal Man (GM): *PFSH* He warps out.
Deloth follows Locos.
Metal Man follows.
Aribar: "... Lets go!"
Deloth: "3000-4000..."
Aribar jumps up... Then realizes. "Where do we go?"
Metal Man: "This way."
Metal Man (GM): Locos walks to a large open cabinet.
Garrick walks up to the others, following them "Can you guys believe this heat? It's unbelie... wait, where are you going?"
Metal Man (GM): ...The Air Conditioner is open, revealing a large amount of dust bunny-things blocking the Air Conditioner vents. There's a weird field around them.
Deloth: "Get the vacuum, man..."
Garrick: "Screw the vacuum..."
Aribar: "... Should I zap them?"
Loco Docos: "Let's get this over with..."
Metal Man: "I dunno... Force Fields don't vacuum well."
Garrick reaches into his jacket and pulls out his buster, bringing it up to bear on the little dust bunny things.
Deloth throws a stone at the field to see what happens to it.
Metal Man (GM): The stone shrinks and disappears inside the field.
Deloth: "Okay, vaporization field."
Garrick hmpfs, then blasts the field with a regular shot.
Loco Docos gets his right hand onto the bottom of his left wrist and makes his left hand fully open.
Metal Man (GM): The shot hits the field, and shrinks, and disappears.
Deloth: "Brilliant."
Loco Docos: "What we need is a little power here! WHHIIITTEE AIIRRR!"
Metal Man (GM): ...Then, a HUGE trident flies out of the field at Garrick.
Garrick: "WHAT THE..."
Aribar: "..."
Loco Docos charges the energy then fires the breath and ice at the dust thingies.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick avoids the trident... it looks like a fork.
Deloth ducks.
Metal Man (GM): The energy disappears inside the field.
Garrick: "Okay... that does it..."
Loco Docos: "...Now that's what I call a problem."
Metal Man: "...Whoever invented this field knows how to be annoying."
Garrick looks around for something that might be powering the stupid field.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick notices a small miniature base inside the field. There's a large building that looks like it's powering the field.
Deloth: "Inside the field... figures."
Loco Docos: "What we need is a very very large reaction going into it!"
Garrick picks up the trident, aims at the building thingy, then tosses.
Metal Man (GM): ...It disappears into the field, and at the size it is in there, it merely bounces off the building.
Garrick: "...okay, I see what's going on... Time to get small."
Aribar blinks...
Garrick walks up to the field, then slowly reaches out and touches it.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick shrinks and disappears.
Loco Docos: "!"
Deloth: "Saw that one coming."
Aribar blinks... And follows Garrick.
Loco Docos let's down his arm.
Metal Man shrugs and follows Garrick.
Deloth follows.
Metal Man (GM): Everyone inside the field shrinks down to the scale of the things inside the field. If they looked outside, everything they'd see out there would look huge. This field is full of weird little robots.
Loco Docos: "I see... we have to battle them while they're huge." *walks into it as well.*
Metal Man (GM): And there's a huge tower, at the top of it being the field generator.
Garrick: "That generator thing needs to go."
Deloth: "So we can get our air back."
Metal Man (GM): ...A weird gray Kirby thing walks over.
???: "Hello. Welcome to Little Marshalvania. I am Gobbu. You are outworlders."
Garrick: "Little... what??"
Gobbu: "What can't I do for you? The mashaal base is off-limits to outworlders. The Khasrh Kanina makes sure."
Garrick: "And who is Khasrh Kanina?"
Deloth: "Your ruler?"
Gobbu: "The great mountain of Red, who put us here. We do as he says."
Garrick: "May we speak with him?"
Gobbu: "No. He is off-limits to outworlders."
Loco Docos: "May we ask why you have established this community in this rather large... machine?"
Gobbu: "So that we may use the strange gas and let it into the huge machine."
Aribar: "Great mountain of Red? Where is that?"
Gobbu: "So says the Mountain of Red. He is far, far away."
Loco Docos applauds sarcastically.
Garrick: "Point the way, then."
Aribar: "... So none of us can go to him... Piffle..."
Gobbu: "He is there."
Metal Man (GM): Gobbu points straight up.
Garrick looks straight... up?
Gobbu: "Several millions of centimeters away."
Deloth: "Oh flip."
Aribar looks up...
Loco Docos: "...We ask that you resettle elsewhere."
Gobbu: "In the area you call 'space' of outer. Only the Mountain can move us."
Garrick: "...red mountain..."
Loco Docos: "Will the Mountain move by request of their own kind?"
Gobbu: "He is our savior. Not until we have released the gas. We are almost finished."
Loco Docos: "How long would that take?"
Gobbu: "I forgot. Time is slowed here. 5 of your minutes. Or, 5 of our hours."
Garrick steps away from the others and pulls out his Dex "Dex, scan for this so called 'gas'..."
Dex: "...DING! Gobbu. Kirby-reject. Gibby-reject. Reject-Reject. Some weird... thing. It's living rubber, but... not a Kirby." -Description end-
Gobbu: "...The Red has told us of your machines. May we look at them?"
Loco Docos: "May we see this 'gas' first?"
Gobbu: "We will pay you massive amounts of your currency. Oh, yes! This way."
Metal Man (GM): He waddles towards the tower with the generator on it.
Aribar: "Will you JUST look at them and nothing else?"
Garrick follows, next to Metal "What do you think?"
Gobbu: "Yes."
Metal Man shrugs and follows.
Loco Docos: "...Personally this seems all too easy..."
Aribar follows. "Sounds good... "
Loco Docos walks as well.
Deloth follows.
Metal Man (GM): The Questers reach the building. Gobbu opens it, and on the inside is none other than many large containers of a pale yellowish gas.
Gobbu: "Now, let me see that machine."
Loco Docos: "Garrick... time for you to scan again..."
Deloth is a little suspicious.
Garrick pulls out his Dex again "You can see it while I use it. Dex, what kind of gas is this?"
Dex: "...Slytock Detected! Slytock Detected! DANGER! DANGER!"
Deloth: "SLYTOCK!"
Garrick: "Slytock?"
Metal Man is slightly aghast.
Deloth dashes away.
Loco Docos: "You don't even know what that is!"
Dex: "DANGER! DANGER!"
Loco Docos unsheathes it.
Garrick: "Dex, what is Slytock?"
Loco Docos: "But we three know!"
Aribar: "... ... This may be bad for Patrick..."
Deloth races for the door.
Dex: "It poisoned the original Questers, causing them to loose their melee moves permanently. It may yet work again."
Aribar looks at Metal. "Are we old Questers immune to it?"
Dex: "This appears to have been tampered."
Garrick: "...son of a biscuit eater..."
Metal Man: "...Yeah, thankfully."
Loco Docos: "...tampered!?"
Garrick: "Can you tell how?"
Loco Docos: "Who knows what it can do now,..."
Dex: "It's been made 10 times more powerful."
Deloth runs out the door.
Metal Man (GM): Deloth is outside now.
Garrick: "...jeez..."
Loco Docos: "...and with us at this size, no telling how much more powerful it is."
Gobbu: "Now, may we see the machine?"
Aribar: "Why do you just want to look at it?"
Garrick puts the Dex away, then raises his buster to train on Gobbu "You can see THIS machine."
Loco Docos: "Perhaps after we destroy this poisonous gas."
Gobbu: "Because it is a marvel of engineering."
Metal Man (GM): Gobbu stares at the buster.
Gobbu: "That gun cannot harm me."
Garrick: "Wanna bet?"
Aribar: "By Machine... Do you mean A/C unit?"
Gobbu: "I am made out of a special material that reflects energy and breaks all metals that are used to attack it. No. The beeping object. The one that described the Gas."
Garrick: "He means the Dex..."
Loco Docos: "We know you are marveled..."
Garrick: "Damn it, if they release that gas into the A/C unit, we're screwed royally."
Aribar: "..."
Gobbu: "Give. The. Dex."
Metal Man (GM): The doors lock.
Aribar walks over and hands his dex to Gobbu.
Deloth beats on the door.
Metal Man (GM): Gobbu takes it. He looks it over for a minute. Then gives it back.
Gobbu: "Thank you. Now the invention will be complete."
Garrick: "Invention?"
Deloth tries shooting the door with fire.
Metal Man (GM): No use. Deloth is locked outside.
Loco Docos: "... ...the slytock... the kindness... was this all..."
Aribar: "..."
Garrick: "Blast it..." *Tries to contact Mewtwo.*
Gobbu: "The Slytock is used to make Fallen Questers."
Aribar: "Exactly WHAT invention? ... What?!"
Loco Docos: "! IT WAS A TRAP!"
Gobbu: "I am sorry, this room is electronically insulated. No outside contact allowed."
Deloth: "I gotta get them outta there!" *looks around for something that might help.*
Gobbu: "You, no, you will be destroyed for knowing too much."
Garrick: "We've got to get outta here and drop that field. Now."
Gobbu: "The others shall become the army... to make the Red KING!"
Aribar: .oO(If only Gibby was here... We could throw him at Gobbu!)
Gobbu: "Any last requests?"
Loco Docos smiles.
Gobbu: "If you touch me, the gas will be released."
Deloth keeps looking for something.
Garrick glances at Locos.
Loco Docos: "Yes... how do you feel about coldness?"
Aribar: "... I have one..."
Gobbu: "Threats will NOT be tolerated."
Loco Docos: "Not a threat... merely... a question."
Garrick: "Locos..."
Aribar: "I request that you stop what you are doing."
Gobbu: "Coldness interferes with the gas."
Loco Docos: "...!"
Gobbu: "Hah! You are Aribar. You have wasted your request."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth finds nothing.
Aribar: "...I request you locate your he--Drat!"
Garrick: "I have a request..."
Loco Docos aims his left hand at Gobbu.
Gobbu: "Put that down, before I destroy you."
Deloth slams the door with his shoulder.
Garrick: "Locos, drop it, now."
Loco Docos charges up White air.
Metal Man (GM): Gobbu pulls out... a pesticide-like thing, a sprayer, full of Slytock.
Gobbu: "Halt!"
Loco Docos: "WWWHHHIIIIITTEEEE..."
Garrick: "LOCOS!"
Loco Docos aims at the canisters at the last second. "...AAIIIIIRRRR."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth breaks through the door---until a second one closes behind him.
Gobbu: "...You cannot destroy m----"
Deloth: "Aw, man..."
Metal Man (GM): *FREEEEEEEEEEEZZEEEEEE.*
Aribar: "... White me?"
Loco Docos puts down his arm.
Metal Man (GM): The Slytock cannisters on his back explode. Then turn into... water?
Deloth: "Water??"
Metal Man (GM): No... Quicksilver.
Loco Docos: "...?"
Gobbu: "No... no... the Slytock! AHHHHHH!!!!"
Loco Docos dexes the quicksilver to see what it is.
Metal Man (GM): Gobbu is melted by this Quicksilver.
Dex: "...DING."
Loco Docos: "I never seen this before."
Dex: "Quicksilver. Molten metal. Slytock appears to be made from it and something weak against ice..."
Deloth flaps his wings to stay above the metal.
Metal Man (GM): The alarms go off.
Garrick begins to charge his buster...
Metal Man (GM): There are stairs to the upstairs.
Loco Docos: "...we need ice. That's why they blocked the AC."
Garrick: "Now I sorta wish I kept that ability stealer."
Metal Man: "What a strange situation."
Deloth: "I'll go up."
Metal Man: "But who would be able to use Slytock?"
Garrick: "Go up. We can shut off the field from up there. They wouldn't be a Quester..."
Deloth flies to the stairs and runs up them.
Metal Man (GM): Upstairs is a nearly empty room. ...Someone has their back to the stairs.
Garrick heads for the stairs as well.
Aribar follows the others.
Loco Docos goes up as well.
???: "Hahahahahaha... hello... Questers..."
Metal Man follows.
Loco Docos: "...They must somehow work for Smithy."
???: "Smithy? No."
Garrick keeps charging his buster..
Deloth takes out his katana.
???: "We work for ourselves."
Aribar just looks.
Loco Docos: "Allied with smithy?"
Garrick: "And you are..."
???: "Now then..."
Metal Man (GM): He turns around, revealing himself to be... Meta Knight.
Deloth: "Oh-kay, way weird."
Meta Knight: "Since you did not accept the late Gobbu's request, I will have to deal with you myself."
Metal Man (GM): Metal Knight draws his sword. It crackles with electricity.
Deloth: "Not if we can help it!"
Loco Docos: "This is not the true Meta-Knight..."
Meta Knight: "I do not need cheap tricks to destroy you."
Loco Docos dexes the fake.
Dex: "...DING! Meta Knight. HP: 300. STR: 20. DEX: 25. CON: 15. INT: 25. WIS: 30. CHA: 20. DR: 10. SR: 5."
Deloth: "I wouldn't recommend a disarm."
Loco Docos: "...This will not be easy."
Garrick: "I'm tired of all this crap. Let's just blow this guy up and shut down the field."
Dex: "Desc: Meta Knight, the Dark Matter's foremost ally, has come back, under the service of... himself?"
Aribar: "Why not?"
Meta Knight: "You have given us the statistics to your master machine."
Aribar: "You mean these smash dexes?"
Deloth: "I told you this was a trap."
Meta Knight: "They contain the precise information on how to destroy each and every one of you."
Garrick: "God, enough of this!"
Meta Knight: "It is only beginning!"
Garrick raises his buster and lets loose a massive charge at the small knight dude.
Aribar: "How do you destroy me then? Besides breathing on me, that is..."
Loco Docos: "This is ridiculous..."
Meta Knight: "With Ganondorf's mighty slash."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick hits him. The blast hits him. He laughs.
Aribar: "Pah! You are a puffball compared to Ganondorf!"
Meta Knight: "Very well. Let the battle begin!"
Garrick: "...tougher than I thought..."
Loco Docos raises his left arm, cups his wrist with his right hand... "It's a good thing we know of your weakness, gas puff."
Metal Man: "Well well... take this!" *He runs at Meta Knight, trying to stab him.*
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Garrick starts moving to the right, bringing his buster up and blasting him with a FLASHBOLT.
Metal Man (GM): MISS.
Loco Docos charges...
Garrick takes another shot at Meta Knight as he is dazed slightly from Metal's attack.
Loco Docos: "WWHHHIIIITTTEEE A AAIIIIRRR!"
Metal Man (GM): ...And Garrick misses again.
Loco Docos shoots the White air at Meta-Knight.
Metal Man (GM): Locos hits.
Meta Knight: "The coldness of your hatred cannot stop me!"
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight avoids being frozen.
Meta Knight: "Take this, Ice Mage!"
Metal Man (GM): He tries to stab Locos. Miss.
Loco Docos: "I'm not... hmm..."
Metal Man (GM): He cuts a wall.
Loco Docos evades to the left a bit. "...Hmm... Iiiiccee Mage, eh? ...I like that."
Deloth attempts a slash at MK.
Metal Man (GM): Miss.
Meta Knight: "You must move like the wind, not like the mud!"
Loco Docos: "He is truly wise."
Aribar: "..." *He dashes up to Meta Knight and attempts to disarm him.*
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight actually disarms Aribar.
Aribar: "... Dah!"
Meta Knight: "You are not one with your weapon!"
Metal Man (GM): Garrick is dazed by Meta Knight's wisdom for a while.
Deloth tries another strike.
Meta Knight: "My destruction will be but a paper cut in the large book of time."
Metal Man (GM): Miss.
Meta Knight: "You cannot hit he who is the wind!"
Aribar: "Wind this! Thordain!"
Loco Docos: "...What happened to helping with the stadium?"
Metal Man (GM): He fails.
Meta Knight: "They were for the wrong, one which cannot be saved."
Garrick: "Damn it, shut UP! ZAP!!"
Metal Man (GM): He takes half damage from Zap. And is silenced for a while.
Meta Knight: "..."
Garrick: "THANK you."
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight throws his sword at Garrick.
Garrick just BARELY is able to avoid it.
Metal Man (GM): It bounces off the wall and back to Meta Knight.
Garrick: "Yeow! That was close..."
Metal Man: "I unleash the power of Gerudo Knuckle on ye, unbeliever!"
Loco Docos attempts to search for some barrels of Slytock or another thing outta da ordinary.
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight takes half damage. Locos discovers a nice barrel to roll at Meta.
Loco Docos: "I think it's time discover what you really are!" *succeeds in kicking it.*
Meta Knight: "The Ice Mage strikes me! Gah!"
Metal Man (GM): It hits Meta Knight and explodes.
Loco Docos: "..."
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight is KO'd.
Loco Docos drops his jaw in awe.
Metal Man (GM): A dark cloud floats off of him.
Deloth: "Dark possession..."
Garrick: "...he wasn't a fake... but it looks like he was possessed."
Metal Man (GM): He wakes up.
Meta Knight: "...Where am I? Who hit me? Why is there a barrel on top of me? ...!!! The Questers!"
Garrick: "Damn right, The Questers."
Deloth: "You were hit by Dark Matter and attacked us."
Loco Docos: "...Sir Meta Knight, it is an honor to see thee again."
Aribar walks over to retrieve his sword...
Meta Knight: "...Well... thank you for rescuing me!"
Deloth: "Long story short."
Metal Man (GM): The sword is in Meta's right hand.
Loco Docos: "Do not thank us yet... we still need to stop the threat of Slytock."
Garrick: "And shut down that shield."
Aribar walks over to Meta Knight and rolls the barrel off of him. "May I have my sword back?"
Loco Docos: "You do what you can Meta-Knight; we'll continue to the top and stop Red Mountain."
Meta Knight: "...Oh! Here."
Metal Man (GM): Meta hands Aribar his sword.
Meta Knight: "...You do that."
Aribar takes it and sheaths the sword.
Meta Knight: "I'll go and guard the door into this building."
Metal Man (GM): He goes downstairs, and Meta can be heard slicing a lot of people into tiny pieces.
Loco Docos: "We will meet again."
Garrick: "Let's get moving."
Garrick searches for some stairs up.
Metal Man (GM): The stairs lead to yet another room.
Deloth walks up the stairs.
Aribar follows.
Metal Man (GM): The next room... well, isn't that great. There's ANOTHER Gobbu. He's at a computer.
Gibby feels like Rodney Dangerfield right now... no respect at all...
Garrick: "Well, what do you know..."
Gobbu: "Hello, slayers of Gobbu, ones who freed Meta Knight!"
Loco Docos: "..." @_@
Metal Man (GM): Gibby is warped in this scene, in the middle of eating a cherry pie.
Deloth: "Genocide him."
Aribar: "... Hello..."
Loco Docos cups his right hand again and begins charging White Air.
Gobbu: "Now, you have one last chance to live."
Aribar: .oO(How did he knew I had one life left?!)
Gobbu: "I will press the button, if you do not surrender."
Garrick: "And the button does..."
Loco Docos: "Right... all we need is more Slytock so we can get rid of you as well, ya silver foo."
Gobbu: "Too bad you destroyed the last bits of it downstairs."
Loco Docos: "..." *puts his arm down.*
Gobbu: "Though it was a wise choice, to free Meta Knight."
Loco Docos: "As Garrick asked, what does it do?"
Gobbu: "You know too much. We must abort this project."
Metal Man (GM): He presses the button, and vanishes in a flash. ...The floor starts rumbling.
Deloth: "Bad feelin'..."
Aribar blinks...
Deloth flies up.
Metal Man (GM): The room re-arranges, and a large door is in the Questers' path. It says, 'Make one word out of New Doors.'
Deloth lands.
Metal Man (GM): The letters are on the ground.
Deloth: "I know this one! Let me do it!"
Garrick: "Go ahead..."
Aribar walks over and things...
Deloth arranges the letters to form 'One word.'
Metal Man (GM): The door opens, revealing the next challenge.
Garrick: "..." *sweatdrop.* "..."
Deloth heads through the door.
Garrick shakes his head, then heads onward.
Metal Man (GM): There are a bunch of blocks on the floor, and a scale.
Aribar: "I hate smart people." *Follows.*
Loco Docos follows as well.
Metal Man (GM): There's one Triangle block and two square blocks on the scale. They are welded into that part of the scale. The Questers have have round and square blocks. But no triangles.
Metal Man: "...I wonder why these people are so tricky..."
Loco Docos: "To solve puzzles you need to think like it."
Metal Man (GM): One must balance the scale to open the door.
Aribar hrms... "I hate math..."
Deloth picks up a round block.
Loco Docos: "It's all a matter of having to see how much of one equals another."
Metal Man (GM): Deloth has the round block.
Deloth puts the block on the scale.
Metal Man (GM): The scale is barely changed. O < /\
Deloth takes the round block off and puts it with the other blocks.
Aribar: "Hrm... The triangle probably weighs half that of the blocks."
Metal Man (GM): The scale is empty.
Deloth puts 2 square and 2 circle on the scale.
Metal Man (GM): OO < /\. The door opens a little bit. In sync with the scale.
Deloth: "Now we're getting somewhere."
Metal Man (GM): Almost open.
Aribar: "Maybe another circle?" *tries that.*
Metal Man (GM): Almost there... just a tiny bit more to go. OOO < /\
Loco Docos: "...another circle."
Deloth puts one more circle on the scale.
Metal Man (GM): *DING.* It opens, revealing the last tricky thing to go through.
Aribar runs to the next challenge.
Deloth walks through the door.
Metal Man (GM): It's got a numeric keypad and a riddle.
Loco Docos follows.
Aribar reads said riddle.
Deloth reads the riddle also.
Riddle: 'The first comes after the last, nothing goes before everything, second is after third, seventh is behind eighth, Fifth is more than Fourth.'
Deloth: "032785491?"
Metal Man: "Let's see."
Deloth punches that in on the pad.
Metal Man (GM): *DING DING DING.* The door opens, revealing another staircase.
Deloth: "Wow."
Loco Docos: "That wasn't right!"
Aribar: "My smart thingy hurts after these..." *Runs up the stairs.*
Deloth runs through the door and up the stairs.
Loco Docos waddles up.
Metal Man (GM): The Questers reach another room. This room has walls of glass.
Deloth: "Ooh, shiny."
Metal Man (GM): ...It's empty.
Aribar: "..."
Metal Man (GM): ...The Questers can't even find the staircase up.
Deloth kicks the left wall.
Loco Docos: "Ahh... this is an illusion."
Metal Man (GM): The ceiling is also glass. The field projector is there.
Aribar tries to step onto the glass hoping it holds his weight.
Metal Man (GM): It holds.
Deloth flies up and blows fire at the ceiling.
Metal Man (GM): The ceiling is not effected.
Loco Docos: "Each a wall for its own compass direction..."
Deloth: "I hope this isn't Plexiglas."
Deloth tries to smash a wall.
Metal Man (GM): *FLASH* *FLASHFLASH.*
Loco Docos: "Perhaps if we all stand at each center and tap... ?!"
Metal Man (GM): Locos' reflection suddenly walks out of the glass.
Loco Docos: "?! ..!"
Socol: "Hello, Locos. You cannot pass."
Loco Docos coughs. "...Kairenotai kai-tahl?"
Aribar walks over to Locos...
Socol: "Iatoneriak!"
Metal Man (GM): Aribar sees Locos' reflection.
Loco Docos: "!!"
Deloth: "Certainly a reflection would be more friendly than that."
Metal Man (GM): ...Everyone sees it.
Loco Docos: "That's my mother thank you!!"
Aribar: "..." *Pokes Socol.* "Is it real?"
Metal Man (GM): Socol pokes Aribar, and makes a mocking tone.
Socol: "Is it real?"
Aribar: "... Gravy?"
Deloth: "Evom esaelp."
Loco Docos: "...I can't really be sure. It's kinda subjective. I once tried to poke him with a needle while he was sleeping; all he did was just... anyway..."
Socol: "...This costume chafes me." The reverse-Locos explodes, then reforms... into some dark figure with a shotgun.
Deloth: "Eep."
???: "Now then, Questers. It is time to answer all of your questions."
Aribar: "... Shotgun man?"
Garrick: "...wait... what?"
???: "The Red Mountain is made up. The true controller of this place must never be known. Many of the things in here are hallucinations, as well."
Deloth: "So the dustbunnies lied?"
???: "The Gobbu are all projections."
Loco Docos: "Everything's made of projections!"
???: "The Slytock, and Meta-Knight, are real."
Deloth: "And so was the gas... Oh."
Loco Docos: "You, Ari..."
???: "Or... well, the Slytock is gone."
Garrick: "The question is, who IS projecting them."
Loco Docos: "The wall to the side of you!..."
Aribar: "... Me?" *looks to that side...*
???: "I am Lumis Dongthar. And it is about time I destroyed Locos."
Loco Docos: "?..."
Deloth: "Wait a minute..."
Lumis Dongthar: "I have no minute to wait."
Deloth: "How do we know he's not just a projection either?"
Loco Docos: "That's right! I remember this guy!"
Garrick: "How do we know he's telling the truth?"
Lumis Dongthar: "Because... Locos remembers me. None of you remember a Gobbu."
Deloth: "Your first name, backwards, is Simul. Simul-ation?"
Loco Docos: "He was my allegedly twin brother from another dimension!"
Lumis Dongthar: "You over-analyze me."
Loco Docos unsheathes his hammer.
Lumis Dongthar: "Now, turn back, or face destruction."
Deloth takes out his katana.
Lumis Dongthar: "This world may be full of mental confusion, but I am real."
Deloth: "We want our AC unit back!"
Lumis Dongthar: "It is already back."
Garrick: "Like I believe you..." *charges his buster, bringing it up to aim at Lumis.*
Lumis Dongthar: "Meta Knight destroyed the Gobbu and everything else but us and the generator."
Deloth: "And we want to severely zap you."
Loco Docos: "Actually... I can already feel the coldness coming back..."
Garrick: "You've peaked my curiosity, and I wanna keep going forward."
Lumis Dongthar: "I extend the line of peace to you... if we agree on the destruction of the generator."
Deloth: "We need to bust the generator."
Garrick: "If your in the way, so be it."
Aribar just stays silent, not understanding this...
Lumis Donthar: "All I need... is Locos."
Deloth: "Why?"
Lumis Dongthar: "Give me Locos, and the generator shall be no more."
Deloth spreads his wings.
Loco Docos: "He just wants his pretty pony back."
Aribar: "... Sure!"
Loco Docos walks up to it. "Look I told you; you lost the bet, so it's mine."
Deloth: "Ah, yes. Sibling rivalry."
Lumis Dongthar: "...But I can use it more than you can!"
Garrick: "...THAT's what this is all about? A HORSE???"
Loco Docos: "Whatever, now one side ya dimensional doofus." *moves him to the side.*
Lumis Dongthar: "You can't reach the generator from here."
Loco Docos: "That's it! I've had enough of your fat mouth."
Deloth: "ALL THAT FOR NOTHING?"
Lumis Dongthar: "You wish to fight me?"
Loco Docos cups his left arm again and charges it... aims it aanndd...
Garrick: "Why not?"
Loco Docos: "WHHIIIITTTEE AAAIIIRRR!"
Metal Man (GM): He imitates Meta Knight, but is still hit.
Aribar just backs away from the others... "I think maybe this should be between Locos and Lumis?"
Garrick glances at Ari, then nods and steps back as well..
Lumis Dongthar: "Take this, brother!" He fires the shotgun at Locos.
Loco Docos: "Look we can do this all day, but we'll settle the horse another time, all right!?"
Metal Man (GM): He misses.
Deloth backs away but is still ready to fight.
Lumis Dongthar: "No dice."
Loco Docos: "Bad aim as well as a sore loser!?"
Lumis Dongthar: "Why not?"
Loco Docos rushes and smashes a Warlock Punch at him.
Metal Man (GM): Well, Locos hits. Some sort of advantage he gets... that Lumis doesn't have? It's weird.
Garrick: "...what gets me is... why don't they just stick one of those doodads they have at the stadium shop on the horse and make two of them? So they can both have one?"
Lumis Dongthar: "Take this!"
Metal Man (GM): He attempts to stab Locos with darkness. Locos completely avoids it.
Lumis Dongthar: "...I give up!"
Loco Docos faces Garrick.
Lumis Dongthar: "You win! Just get it over with!"
Loco Docos: "Yes yes. Now leave me alone and we'll do this another day."
Metal Man (GM): He pulls open a part of the ceiling, revealing a staircase.
Loco Docos: "It's been fun, ya pest." *goes upstairs.*
Deloth heads upstairs.
Metal Man (GM): There's a convenient 'Auto-Destruct' button on the generator.
Garrick keeps moving upward then, shrugging.
Deloth: "Locos, you should have the honor."
Metal Man: "Yeah... you press it."
Garrick: "Press the shiny, candy like button."
Loco Docos: "Actually, since that twin brother of mine from another dimension spoiled my mood."
Deloth: "Shall I do it?"
Garrick: "Just PUSH the damned thing."
Metal Man: "Go ahead."
Loco Docos: "One of you do the honors of being a moron and pressing the shiny thing."
Deloth whacks the button with a fist.
Metal Man (GM): *FLASH.* Everyone wakes up on the floor, near the Air Conditioner. Which is now working. There is no mini-city there anymore.
Deloth: "Ooh, pretty lights..."
Garrick: "...well, that was a bit redundant."
Loco Docos: "Garrick..."
Garrick: "Hmm?"
Loco Docos: "It isn't about the horse..."
Metal Man: "...Whoever made that thing forgot to put SANITY into it."
Loco Docos smiles.
Deloth stands up.
Garrick: "...Locos?"
Loco Docos: "...It's the principle behind the situation that counts."
Deloth enjoys the AC a bit.
Garrick: "Locos... do me a favor... and never smile at me like that again."
Deloth: "Ah, fresh breeze."
Loco Docos does his usual straight lips.
Garrick stands up and heads for the R&R room again.
Metal Man (GM): Mewtwo is there.
Deloth follows Garrick.
Garrick: "Well, your A/C is working again, chief."
Deloth salutes.
Mewtwo: "Well... you fixed up that machine despite all of those weird things in it... here you go."
Metal Man (GM): Everyone gets 4000 coins. $$$
Deloth: Yay, cube time!
Metal Man (GM): Bonus Mission Completed: "Humid Hallucinations."
Loco Docos: "!?"
Mewtwo: "This is what I'd pay Mack if he fixed it."
Loco Docos: "Whoa... that was... sweet. You overpay him for that??"
Mewtwo: "No... he has to eat, you know."
Garrick: "Well, anything else going on that we can blow up or shut up, captain psychic kitty?"
Loco Docos: "Gee, I wonder what you pay him for an actual problem."
Mewtwo: "Well... no. No other problems."
Loco Docos: "That's good." *He leaves for the... "Bank."*
Aribar heads to G&W.
Mewtwo: "...Oh yeah, Meta Knight appeared outta nowhere."
Garrick: "He did, did he? Where's he at?"
Mewtwo: "He said that he'd be in the stadium practicing, if you want to fight with him."
Garrick: "I'd like to give it a shot..." *smirks, then heads for the stadium.*
Loco Docos: "GGGG... hhaauuuhh... HHHHUUUUHHHHHHHUUGGGHHH!!"
Aribar: "Mr. Game and Watch? You here?"
G&W: "Yes?"
Loco Docos pants real hard.
Deloth decides to go on a shoppin' spree.
Aribar: "I need..."
Garrick walkwalks on up the stairs and onto the stadium floor, looking around..
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight is practicing against some wireframe people. Chopping them into tiny pieces.
Garrick: "...yo! Meta Knight!"
Metal Man (GM): He turns to face Garrick, meanwhile chopping wireframes up with his other arm.
Meta Knight: "Do you seek to challenge me?"
Garrick: "I'm not here for the buffet."
Loco Docos lifts the mass amount of 6,400 coins to the counter where Wario 'lives' all day.
Aribar: "A Wood Cube... Shell, HP Absorb, Crosscut, and a Cure?"
Wario: "...Heyhey! It's you again!"
G&W: "Okay... that's expensive..."
Loco Docos: "Here ya go... guard this 6400 with thy life and soul and put into meh bank account with the other 80, k?"
Aribar: "I just got paid..." *Hands all 4000 coins to G&W.* "Easy come, easy go."
G&W: "Here."
Wario: "Yes... the other 80... hehehehehe."
Loco Docos: "It's about a whole lot more than last time..."
Metal Man (GM): G&W hands Ari all those cubes.
Garrick: "So, what'cha say, Meta? One on one? You and me?"
Aribar: "Thanks... Hrrm..."
Loco Docos leaves and rests in R&R back in front of his fan.
Aribar walks to the R&R then.
Meta Knight: "It sounds plausible. There are three difficulties. Goomba, Kirby, and Gibby."
Garrick: "Three difficulties?"
Meta Knight: "Which one do you choose?"
Garrick: "...uhhhhhhhhh... which one's which?"
Meta Knight: "I am approximately as difficult to defeat as the person that the difficulty is named after."
Garrick: "Alright then... Kirby then."
Deloth walks into G&W's shop. "Ooh, Smashdex Advanced... I'll have one of those."
Meta Knight: "You go first."
G&W: "Okay."
Deloth hands G&W 3000 coins and takes the 'Dex. "Thanks."
Garrick: "Okay..." He stands there... then suddenly jerks his buster covered arm forward and blasts at Meta Knight with a FIRESHOT.
Metal Man (GM): Hit. CRIT. Hit.
Meta Knight: "Hyah!" He throws his sword at Garrick. Also, Garrick gets an attack of opportunity.
Garrick quickly moves to the side, bringing up his buster and firing a Flashbolt at 'em.
Metal Man (GM): Miss.
Garrick tries again with the Flashbolt, hoping to hit and confuse him...
Metal Man (GM): Hit. He attacks himself.
Garrick capitalizes on the confusion and takes a turn to charge his buster.
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight attacks himself.
Garrick turns his charged blast into a charged FIRESHOT attack.
Metal Man (GM): Mis. He attacks Garrick, breaking out of Confusion. With... Soul Eater. Full damage.
Garrick goes flying backward, taking the full brunt of He's down to near death, health-wise. He struggles to his feet, then launches another Flashbolt attack at him.
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Garrick: *MASTERED FLASHBOLT!!*
Metal Man (GM): He attacks himself.
Garrick takes his turn to down a mushroom..
Metal Man (GM): He points his sword into the air, and flies at Garrick, like a Hurricane. Miss.
Garrick: *Evasion.* *throws his hand forward and blasts Meta Knight with a ZAP.*
Metal Man (GM): Hit. He throws his sword at Garrick. Another attack of opportunity is opened up by this.
Garrick blasts him with another Fireshot.
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Garrick takes the turn to charge his buster again...
Metal Man (GM): He tries to hit Garrick with that sword again. Miss.
Garrick takes the next turn to charge his buster to full power...
Metal Man (GM): He misses again.
Garrick lets out the full power shot, blasting him with a huge wave of energy.
Metal Man (GM): Miss. He throws his sword at Garrick again.
Garrick: "Blast it..." *He gets yet ANOTHER attack of opportunity, blasting him with another Flashbolt.*
Metal Man (GM): Hit. He stabs himself with dark energy.
Garrick blasts him with another Fireshot.
Metal Man (GM): Miss. He tries to hit Garrick with the Hurricane. He succeeds.
Garrick gets ripped into, but he's hanging on there "...you're pretty good... heh..." Throws out another Flashbolt at 'em.
Metal Man (GM): Hit. Meta Knight throws his sword at Garrick again. Miss.
Garrick dodges easily, charging his buster...
Metal Man (GM): He barely misses.
Garrick fires a half charges Fireshot at him this time.
Metal Man (GM): He leaps at Garrick (due to the opening Garrick left with his attack) and tries to stab Garrick with dark energy. Miss. He then tries to hit Garrick with his sword again. Miss.
Garrick leaps away just in the nick of time. He blasts 'em with a Zap attack.
Metal Man (GM): Full damage. *DING*
Computer: "You have beaten down half of Meta Knight's HP. You may accept the prize for Goomba difficulty, or continue."
Garrick: "Half?? HALF??? Jeez, won't this guy ever die??? Can I at least know the prize first?"
Computer: "Meta Knight's weakest spell."
Garrick: "...ehhhh... I'll keep going."
Metal Man (GM): *DING* Meta Knight throws his sword again.
Garrick: "You hear that, Knight boy! I'm still fighting! How 'bout you!"
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight points to the fact that he's silenced.
Garrick dodges to the side, charging his buster with his turn. "...oh... right..."
Metal Man (GM): *HIT.*
Garrick gets ker-slashed and dropped down to no health.
Metal Man (GM): The words YOU LOSE scroll by, and the battle ends. Garrick and Meta are healed.
Garrick: "..." *pant.* "...well... I gave it my best..."
Meta Knight: "A brave attempt, however had you taken the prize, you could have gotten away without being beaten."
Garrick: "Well, I'm as stubborn as a mule."
Meta Knight: "Good luck next time."
Garrick: "Yeah, thanks..."
Garrick picks himself off the ground and heads for the doorway out. "Damn... well, let's go check out the shops then..." He walks into G&W's shop, glancing around at the cubes.. "Game and Watch? Can I get... an energy beam... a HP absorb... and a Water cube?"
G&W: "Yes."
Garrick lays 1800 coins on the counter.
Metal Man (GM): He takes the coins and hands Garrick the cubez.
Yurie: "...an interesting fight you had with Garrick, Meta Knight..."
Meta Knight: "Yes, well, I did somewhat owe everyone a battle, from earlier..."
Yurie is leaning against the entrance to one of the holorooms, her hair hiding her eye slightly.
Meta Knight: "Someone possessed me and placed me inside a strange mini-world."
Yurie: "...ah-hah..."
Meta Knight: "They freed me by destroying the last of Slytock onto me."
Yurie stands up fully, her hand resting on her rapier.
Meta Knight: "That mini-world... it wasn't meant to be."
Yurie: "There's no real need to tell me about the past, Meta Knight. I have no interest in it."
Meta Knight: "Then what is it you wish to know?"
Yurie: "You said you owed everyone a fight, correct?"
Meta Knight: "Yes."
Yurie: "Since Garrick isn't much of a challenge to you..."
Garrick: "What was that?"
Meta Knight: "He is the same challenge as a Goomba, correct..."
Garrick walks up to the pair of them, pushing the three new cubes into his buster. He was coming back to re-challenge him, but apparently isn't going to...
Yurie: "I thought I would try a little game with you... however, a duel to the death is so... passe..."
Meta Knight: "Indeed."
Yurie: "So, I have a simple game for you... a duel between swordsmasters... the Danse de soie, or Dance of Silk."
Meta Knight: "What are the rules, then?"
Garrick glances between the two of them for a bit, then to Yurie..
Yurie: "It's a nonlethal duel, for one." *reaches up to her chest and carefully plucks two of the seemingly ever-present scarves from her blouse, carefully fastening one to her arm and tossing the other to Meta.*
Meta Knight: "Hmmmm..." *he attaches it to his arm in similar fashion.*
Yurie: "The objective is to 'kill' the opponent by removing the bit of silk from the arm opposite that o their sword arm..."
Meta Knight: "No spells, or anything else like that, right?"
Yurie: "Come now. What point would there be if you could just blast your opponents arm off?"
Garrick sniggers under his breath.
Yurie turns, her sword drawing with a soft rasp as she assumes her stance, the arm with her scarf facing away from Meta.
Meta Knight: "Of course. I just wanted to make sure, seeing as Garrick there was launching many spells at me."
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight draws his short sword, and it makes a high-pitched noise.
Garrick: "I'm not a part of this. I'm a gunner, not a swordsman. Alright you two, play nice..."
Yurie: "Might I remind you that this is a nonlethal duel."
Meta Knight: "Yes. The only thing that shall be 'hurt' will be one of these scarves. Who shall go first?"
Garrick takes a coin out of his pocket, flips it.
Yurie: "I believe the proper question is 'Which of us is the fastest'?"
Meta Knight: "Here I come."
Metal Man (GM): He runs towards Yurie, sword aimed at the scarf.
Yurie parries the blade gracefully, stepping aside and whipping her blade towards Meta's arm.
Metal Man (GM): Yurie slices it. He stands back, somewhat shocked.
Garrick: "...jeeeeeeeezz..."
Yurie steps past by Meta, her rapier sliding back into her sheath as the red scarf flutters to the ground.
Meta Knight: "...Despite having less experience, you have defeated me. What do you wish for a reward? My master technique?"
Garrick: "...oh, COME ON! You have GOT to be kidding me!"
Metal Man (GM): Meta Knight points at Garrick.
Meta Knight: "You are not a sword wielder. And... the way you fought me was less than graceful. Yurie has proven herself to be a far more experienced fighter."
Garrick: "Pfft."
Yurie: "A proper duelist doesn't fight for a reward. She fights because it's the only way she can express herself." *smirks at Garrick.*
Garrick: "Wanna put your money where you mouth is, honey?"
Meta Knight: "Right... I have become hazy from old age."
Yurie: "I'm a professional fencer, after all. If you want to dance with me, do so at your own peril, because I will more than likely dance the Fandango with the grim reaper on your graveside."
Garrick: "Whoa ho ho, big words... Alright then, let's see if you can back up your claim..."
Metal Man walks in. "Bravo, bravo. good fighting. Strangely enough, I have a sword too."
Yurie gives a faint shrug, then bows to Meta Knight, her jacket fluttering.
Garrick: "Uh huh, no way, Metal. I challenged her first. You three are NOT doing a the sharp edge dance game and leaving me out of it."
Yurie: "By your pardon, Meta Knight... I believe I have a gentleman here whose mouth needs to be sewn shut with steel."
Garrick smirks to Yurie, then moves out onto the fighting arena and gives his buster a twitch, powering it up again.
Meta Knight: "It would be an honor to show that experience beats technology."
Garrick: "Hey now, don't count me out on experience, Meta. I've been gun fighting for a good long time before I came here."
Meta Knight: "I was fighting long before there was Kirby or Questers."
Yurie draws her rapier and takes up her own stance, hand slightly raised to chest level.
Meta Knight: "And only Kirby has completely defeated me."
Garrick shrugs to Meta, then turns to Yurie. He bows slightly "...alright then... shall we begin?"
Yurie: "What're the rules?"
Garrick: "I dunno... Metal, how should we fight?"
Metal Man: "Who is fighting what, exactly?"
Garrick: "Me on Yurie. ...urp... sorry... that came out a bit wrong..."
Yurie: "Basic rules. One life, Specials allowed."
Metal Man: "For some reason, I have the feeling everyone, including me, wants to fight Garrick."
Garrick: "Jeez, aren't I loved... Alright then, sounds good. Let's go..."
Yurie: "God loves you Garrick, but I, unfortunately, do not. En Guarde!"
Metal Man: "Uhhh... so Garrick and me vs. Yurie and Meta Knight? Or a Free for All?"
Garrick stretches out his buster arm, making circles with it. "Hey, we're supposed to be partners... alright, if that's the way you want it... bring it on!"
Metal Man shrugs, and both he and Meta Knight move out of the way.
Yurie dashes towards Garrick, her blade whistling through the air... and striking his buster. *Disarm.*
Metal Man: "...This is quite a battle."
Yurie's blade clacks Garrick's buster, knocking his arm upwards... but not removing the weapon.
Meta Knight: "They appear to be equally matched."
Garrick is able to flip backwards, using the momentum. He brings his buster back and braces it with his left hand, firing off a bright blue beam at her. *HYDRO DRAIN.*
Yurie SIDESTEPS the beam. "The only problem Garrick, is that your attacks are easy to read." She whips towards Garrick, keeping up the momentum as she tries for another Disarm.
Garrick is able to completely get away from her this time. He jukes backwards, then moves in forward and fires a up close and personal Fireshot to her gut.
Yurie dances out of the way, then launches a Power Stroke at Garrick.
Garrick is able to get out of the way, leaping over the attack and cartwheeling backwards. He sends another Fireshot her way.
Yurie rolls out of the way JUST in time, then leaps as well, engaging him with another Power Stroke as he lands from his Cartwheel.
Garrick pushes himself away from the attack with his hands. He lands on his feet and blasts her with another bright blue Hydro Drain.
Yurie crouchs under the blast, then continues, trying to disarm him once more.
Garrick is able to move away. He wheels his buster around and jams it right into her face, letting loose a regular shot at her.
Yurie bends her head out of the way just in time, then going to Power Stroke him.
Garrick is just *BARELY* able to move away, feeling a bit of his hair part from his head from that one.
Metal Man (GM): *POWER STROKE*
Garrick lands backwards on his feet, panting slightly. "Yeow! That one was close!" He flips a button on his buster and charges...
Yurie: "Please notice, Garrick, I'm not even trying any of my spells on you. All I'm using is my natural abilities and a single, weapons based skill on you."
Garrick: "Why are you being so nice?"
Yurie rushes, then goes to Disarm him of his buster while he charges.
Garrick spins out of the way and continues to charge that shot...
Yurie: "I'm not being nice. If I threw everything at you, it wouldn't be so interesting." *spins as well, slamming her sword's flat side against the buster as she tries to disarm again.* *DISARM!*
Metal Man (GM): *EXPLODEEEEEE.* The shot being charged explodes. Garrick takes half his own shot in damage. Yurie also takes some damage from it. *BAMMO.*
Garrick goes flying, hitting the ground at a roll. He groans, then gets to his feet.
Metal Man (GM): Both sides take The blaster is sent flying off of Garrick, though.
Yurie goes flying, then flips in mid air, landing on her feet, her clothing singed, one of her scarves burning, her sword still in hand.
Garrick gets to his feet, without buster. He growls at his weaponless hand, then turns to Yurie.
Yurie: "Whereas you... rely on simple power, without any finesse."
Garrick: "I make do with what I have..."
Metal Man: "If only either of them knew the weirding way..."
Yurie smirks, then rushes towards Garrick, then rolls gracefully, going to knock his feet out from underneath him. *aaaaaaaaaand misses.*
Garrick leaps over the leg sweep, making a mad dash for his buster.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick uses his turn getting the blastah.
Garrick grabs it in mid run, slipping it back onto his hand and turning to face her.
Yurie charges after him, using this opportunity to let him have it with a Power Strike.
Garrick turns a little too late, getting slashed hard... He skids along the ground, out for the count.
Yurie: "And making do with what one has sometimes doesn't quite count."
Metal Man: "That was good."
Yurie whips her sword about her, salutes him, then sheathes the blade.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick and Yur are healed after the match.
Garrick gets to his feet.
Metal Man: "Reminds me of the old days. I was able to beat Gibby even though he was far stronger."
Yurie: "You were saying, Garrick?"
Garrick lets out a small laugh. "Alright, alright, I see your point. I lost, fair and square."
Metal Man: "Anything can be a good weapon... thus, rather than learn one weapon, you must learn them all."
Yurie: "And rightly so."
Metal Man: "Axes... swords...guns... bazookas... little tiny wands filled with slots..."
Garrick: "Just don't rub it in, right?"
Yurie bows slightly to him, then walks off, her skirt fluttering. She nods to Meta and Metal, then continues walking.
Garrick: "...one day, though, Yurie! I'll take you on again! And I'll win!"
Metal Man holds his mouth at hearing this, trying not to chuckle.
Garrick: "Oh, shut up, Metal."
Yurie: "Learn how to fight, and I'll take you on."
Metal Man: "Unless... you are of the dark ones, anger is not a weapon. It is a tool for self destruction."
Garrick: "I thought I said for you not to rub it in!"
Yurie: "Who said I was rubbing anything in?"
Metal Man: "What are you going to do? Fight me?"
Garrick: "Nah, I've had my fill for today, Metal. Getting my ass handed to me by short stuff Knight there and sailor Yurie is enough for me..."
Metal Man: "That is your first step towards being wise."
Garrick: "...and why do you have to go all Tibetan Monk on me here?"
Metal Man: "Because... my philosophy is to be weird. Unpredictable. Strange. Nonsensical."
Garrick: "...right."
Yurie sticks her tongue out at Garrick, then pads off.
Metal Man: "If I ran at you with the butt of this sword, yelling "ICE CREAM!!!" and skipping while smiling at you, that would confuse you and give me time to strike."
Garrick: "...what a woman... what. A. Woman... huh? No, I'd just blast you for being weird. Your lucky I'm holding back right now."
Metal Man: "Poor Garrick... blasting all of his troubles away..."
Garrick: "You're damn skippy. I just wish I had my old .45s. I'd really go to town with those."
Metal Man pulls a hot pizza out of nowhere and starts eating it.
Garrick: "...hey, can I get a slice of that?"
Metal Man: "Sure." *gives Garrick a slice.*
Garrick takes it... then glances at Metal. "...what's on it?"
Metal Man: "Cheese."
Garrick: "...just cheese?"
Metal Man: "Yes."
Garrick: "No motor oil... or grasshoppers... or the souls of little children?"
Metal Man: "No. In fact, it is more surprising that it has nothing weird on it."
Garrick nods, looking slightly more at ease, then chows down.
Yurie is in the Holoroom, fencing against a phantom opponent, the holographic sword clinking sharply against her blade.
Garrick whistles as he walks into one of the holorooms, but stops at the door as he sees Yurie fighting. He just makes to back out and find an empty room of his own.
Metal Man (GM): Garrick walks into what appears to be a holo room, though it looks... weird. A large machine, labeled 'Qube' with three slots sits inside. There are no holocontrols either. Garrick notices a sign that says 'Out of order'.
Garrick: "...huh... that's odd..."
Metal Man (GM): Not on the machine, but on the door.
Garrick: "...whoops." *makes to leave.*
Metal Man (GM): Garrick leaves.
Garrick tries to find a holoroom that works and is empty..
Metal Man (GM): Garrick finds one... and it's empty.
Garrick: "...uh... let's see... computer?"
Computer: "Input command."
Garrick: "I could use something to get my strength up... what would you suggest for that?"
Computer: "Invalid Command."
Garrick: "Alright... ummm... a solo mission."
Computer: "...File directory confirmed, SOLO_MISSION."
Yurie: *clink clink clink! DISARM!* "..." *She frowns, then looks about and reaches into her jacket and pulls out... a fan a simple wooden fan. She unfolds it in one swift motion, then resumes fencing, the blade in one hand, the fan in the other.*
Metal Man goes to the library, looks both ways. When nobody is looking, he pulls a set of books out,and the large cabinet becomes a door. He walks in, shuts the cabinet, then disappears into somewhere between the walls...