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Post by Swindle on May 1, 2011 14:20:39 GMT -5
The bats dissipate, having done only minor damage to Override. Well done, Override! All the winged vermin transform into keytars for a few moments before vanishing in a zillion little puffs of smoke.
Dragula gets a mouthful of shield instead of a mouthful of Jetfire neck, much to his chagrin. His Health Drain attack having been thwarted, he attempts a less damaging Vampiric Agility attack, which has a chance to avoid shields and such. It takes the form of him attempting to somersault over Jetfire's head, his cape billowing behind him all pretty-like and really doing a number on older graphics cards if you don't have the quality settings at the lowest level. If the acrobatic maneuver is successful, Jetfire may well find himself punched in the back.
"I never said you were a jerk, but I'm not going to argue. Bleh!," he quips, cutting his eyes at Sentinel Prime.
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Post by Override on May 2, 2011 18:44:52 GMT -5
Now that the bats are taken care of, Override goes roaring towards Dragula. She unknowingly triggers a special attack, and battle music (akin to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-i-LhRudP4 ) begins to play. She zooms right past Dragula, transforming as she goes, and lands on her feet, skidding to a stop as she turns and faces the vampire as part of the same motion. She snaps her hands up, shouting, " Speed Metal Shatter!" Small sonic booms erupt from her fingertips towards Dragula, and her optics flicker in surprise once she recovers from the dramatic pose. She looks at her hands. "Woah!" Of course, Jetfire is rather near Dragula... hopefully, he won't be hit as well.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on May 2, 2011 19:33:57 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime is the jerk that turned on friendly fire, too. He's just used to people calling him a jerk, so wait... Dragula didn't call him a jerk? What? Whatever.
So he has... thwacked Jetfire in the head, and Jetfire is probably going to be horribly eaten by a vampire. Good going. At least Override looks awesome.
What to do now... Sentinel Prime goes for the tried and true of 'stab the vampire with a lance'. However, given that Dragula is jumping and Override and snapping sonic booms around, he may well miss or walk into a sonic boom or something.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on May 7, 2011 19:48:51 GMT -5
Jetfire stares around dazedly in shield-to-the-head induced confusion. Then he stares at the shield that hit him in the head and becomes engrossed in trying to process a thought, completely missing the fact that Swindle is trying to vault over him. Thinking is hard. What is he trying to think? Shield... head... shield... head...
Jetfire attempts to equip the shield as a hat. He is largely unsuccessful. This is possibly because you cannot change armour during battle. More likely it is because shield are not hats.
He is saved further embarrassment by... er... a further embarrassment as Override's sonic attack bowls him over and sends him tumbling head over heels and short a chunk of HP.
This is not a good day for him.
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Post by Swindle on May 8, 2011 8:32:11 GMT -5
Dragula's night is just going from bad to worse! First he gets pummeled by sonic energy, which he actually has lower resistance to than all the other energy types. (No-one is ever resistant to sonic.) He hisses through his vampire teeth at Override and makes claw-swiping motions.
Plus his attempt to rabbit-punch Jetfire is foiled by Override beating him to the punch as fire princess Jetfire crashes to the ground. He just looks at Sentinel Prime oddly, raising one impeccably groomed eyebrow so it almost touches his obligatory widow's peak. "You know, generally you stab vampires with wooden stakes. Lances are more of a cavalry weapon. It just looks silly to be using one if you're not riding a horse." The robo-vampire pauses a moment, then looks shocked. "OH! I mean, no. I was mistaken. Wooden stakes are for werewolves. Vampires is . . . armoires. You have to lock them in an armoire. Yeah." This was a good save, he thinks.
He is too preoccupied mocking Sentinel Prime for his lance to dodge it. It hits, doing double damage!
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Post by Override on May 8, 2011 21:58:25 GMT -5
Override winces as Jetfire is knocked over by her attack. "Erm, uhm... sorry about that," she gets out. "I didn't know I could do that!"
Her optics widen at Dragula's taunts, and she looks towards the others. "Wait a minute... didn't we get some wooden stakes in one of those chests?"
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Post by Sentinel Prime on May 8, 2011 22:21:31 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime thinks he raised Jetfire better than that and is very disappointed! It couldn't be that his raising skills were at fault, so siree!
Then, when Dragula mocks his lack of horse, he has a quick mid-fight cut-scene to a flashback to his fake game history youth. There's Sparklelord, a wise and powerful motorcycle/unicorn Autobot. Young Princess Sentinel looks so hopeful that he'll get to ride that beast into battle!
Then Queen Serenity Ultra Magnus gives Sparklelord away to Princess Optimus.
The cut scene ends, and Sentinel Prime is angry. He shouts, "Dragula, you've made a mistake!" He then charges Dragula with one of those wooden stakes, intending to pun Dragula to death.
Yes, Override, they have stakes! There's Sentinel Prime going in with a foolish charge with one of them.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on May 9, 2011 14:03:57 GMT -5
Jetfire stares blankly up at the ceiling of the crypt for a moment, trying to understand what exactly just happened to get him from a position of standing up to lying down so fast. Then he shakes his head and stands, still clutching Sentinel's shield.
What was that Override said about chests? Jetfire stares back down at the shield then quickly shakes his head again, wondering why exactly he was just thinking about trying to equip a shield as a breastplate. Shields do not work that way!
Finally, the status effect is wearing off! Taking a moment to figure out what's going down, Jetfire takes out his own stake and follows Sentinel Prime's lead, complete with pun: "Yes! It is time we are getting to the point, badness-bot!"
Making a rocket-powered lunge at Dragula from a different angle than Sentinel, Jetfire also attempts to shishkabob himself some energy vampire. His aim might still be a little wobbly.
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Post by Swindle on May 9, 2011 21:03:25 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime is the wrong class to ride Sparklelord anyway. Only Prowl or Jazz could ride him properly, and even they get a huge debuff for doing it. It's totally not worth it.
"Oh no!" Dragula shouts as both Sentinel Prime and Jetfire charge at him. "Horrible puns! My only weakness!" he laughs as he sidesteps, allowing physics and the game engine to do his work for him and hopefully slam the two Autobots headfirst into each other.
Does his evasive maneuver put him within striking distance of Override? Possibly!
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Post by Override on May 10, 2011 16:04:06 GMT -5
When Sentinel confirms that yes, they have stakes, Override accesses her inventory and equips hers. Thus, it's already in hand when Dragula moves in her direction. The racing champion, never one to let an opportunity pass her by, attempts to impale the energy vampire when the chance presents itself.
"I hope the puns aren't required to activate these things!" she observes/
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Post by Sentinel Prime on May 10, 2011 17:02:07 GMT -5
The kicker is that there's an optional cutscene wherein Queen Serenity Ultra Magnus gives Prince Elita-1 Maplehoof.
Sentinel Prime definitely clongs into something and loses some HP. It might be Jetfire. It might just be one of Dragula's vampire brides. He has vampire brides, right? Littered all over the place, doing nothing useful?
Or maybe it was an armoire.
Anyway, Sentinel Prime ran into something, lost some HP, and is now staring vacantly up at the ceiling. Supine on the floor, he weakly tries to kick Dragula in the shin, because that's how bullies roll: kicking folks in the shin, and he grumbles, "I hope you get shin splints."
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on May 13, 2011 11:21:04 GMT -5
That something is most decidedly Jetfire, and he rebounds off Sentinel Prime to find himself on the ground. Again. His HP is really taking a beating this battle, and not one point of it was actually lost to the enemy! Perhaps it is a good thing that Jetstorm wasn't here for this. He'd probably never live it down.
Of course, there's nothing stopping Jetstorm from watching the whole thing from the control room, but Jetfire isn't thinking about that.
Swinging his legs into the air, Jetfire does a backwards roll to his feet, still brandishing his stake. He's not going to attack, however, until after Override takes her chance. No point making a repeat performance of the last time!
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Post by Swindle on May 13, 2011 16:00:41 GMT -5
Dragula laughs as his foes collide with each other, because he is evil like that! His numerous vampire brides do not laugh along with him, due to the fact that like his armoires, they are just sprites in the background and cannot be interacted with.
Suddenly, Override lunges at the vampire lord with a wooden stake! He shouts "Noooooooo!" at great length as the world slows down and becomes filled with motion lines. The wooden stake, goes '"tink!" as it impacts his chest plate. He looks down and blinks. "Oh yeah. I'm made of metal," he says. The princesses probably have to hammer the stakes in, or peel back his armor, or use cheat codes or something.
Dragula winces and clutches his shin when Sentinel Prime kicks him, "Ow! Seriously, what is with you?"
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Post by Override on May 13, 2011 20:18:27 GMT -5
Override steps back, narrows one optic and widens the other, and looks at the wooden stake in her hand.
"Just what the heck are the point of these things, then?" She throws hers aside and draws her double-cannon, calling out, "Cyber! Key! Power!" Her key shoots in from no-where, arming her weapon.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on May 14, 2011 8:29:50 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime glares back up at Dragula and snaps, "Justice! Order! And the Autobot way!"
Scrap, how are they supposed to get these stakes in?
Sentinel Prime does the dumbest thing that he can think of, because his IQ score has been knocked down so far by that run-in with Jetfire that the higher-IQ options are shaded grey, and he can't select them on the menu. He tears a strip of cloth off his skirt - so risque! - and tries to tie the stake to his lance, just behind the lance tip, so that, in crazy-land, the lance should work like a two-stage warhead that breaks armour and then internally delivers the payload of... wood.
Sentinel Prime gets to his feet and tries to stab Dragula with this ridiculous Contraption. If only there was a Steamflogger Boss here, Sentinel Prime could assemble two Contraptions instead.
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