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Post by SceneMod on Sept 28, 2010 16:46:49 GMT -5
People continue to panic in a very disorderly fashion. Certainly, some people listen to Whirligig, some people don't listen to him because he seems to be crazy, and some are too busy panicking.
Luckily for Whirligig, he just blows the door open and doesn't blow up absolutely everything (which would conveniently solve also social problems, though). He will find a decent assortment of technology-appropriate mining explosives.
Fleeing has been encouraged! Remote as this area is, it'll be a while before proper law enforcement can show up, but there are are guards, and management is trying to have a squad of them sneak up on Hellbender, as direct assault seems to have gone poorly thus far.
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Post by Whirligig/Wednesday Gilgamesh on Oct 3, 2010 16:25:31 GMT -5
It's not just luck! When it comes to explosives, Whirligig knows what he's doing. It's enough to change 'insane idea' into 'calculated risk'. And oh, how his risk has paid off! Such a lovely collection of foreign explosive devices, not quite like anything he's seen. An explosive is an explosive, though, and he'll have them figured out soon enough. They may not be the glorious perfection of his Cybertronian explosives, but they will most certainly do! Whirligig loves all things that go 'boom'.
Hellbender will briefly find his radio assaulted by a high-pitched squeal. It's not feedback, it's joy. Getting ahold of himself, Whirligig replies, //That's what I'm trying to do, a-duh! It's hard. Just keep try and keep things open until I get 'em all!//
Whirligig does his best to load himself down with as many explosives as he can, even tucking some about various crannies and alt-mode kibble that doesn't shift around much when he does. Unlike the slave workers, the explosives are in good condition and should be safe to handle. He's pleased that they're more advanced than the other tools in the mine. It's such a fuss to wrestle around with fuses and blasting caps and whatnot.
Now, maybe he can herd people out by making them run from the crazy covered-in-explosives guy...
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Post by Hellbender on Oct 20, 2010 9:37:15 GMT -5
Right now, Hellbender is not pondering the implications of Crazy Demolitionist + Explosivies. Right now, he's listening to the soft echoes in the rock. He heard Whirligig's explosive charge just fine; unfortunately, it wasn't followed by the earth-shattering KABOOM of the explosives bunker going up in a secondary detonation. Slag. Somethings you just have to take care of yourself.
He can hear the distant, confused criss-crossing echoes of squishies running to and fro in the tunnels below, looking for escape or whatever. Much less confused are the sounds of a straggling squad of somebodies creeping up that arroyo over there. Whoever they are, they are moving slowly and carefully, and keeping their collective heads out of sight. Hellbender contemplates the local terrain; does that arroyo curve around behind the headquarters building? A moment with the seismic mapper gives him the answer: yes, it does. So, someone is sneaking a hit squad up to him from behind the mine HQ....
Hellbender glances around, checking lines of sight, and waits for a few moments until a transformer shack briefly hides him from view of the echoing squad in the arroyo. Now! He transforms into mining robot mode and drills into the ground, leaving a only big sandy pit and a spray of dust to be seen when the squad leader at last takes his bearings on their target.
A thrumming vibration in the sandstone underneath their feet may be the only warning of what's to come...
------ Again, my apologies for letting this go for so long, but I'm getting back into it now. I do think we should be heading toward some kind of climax/conclusion. Will Hellbender ever get that shot at Whirligig? Will Whirligig be sadly disillusioned about his newfound 'friend' or will he remain clueless? Tune in next week, same bat-time, same bat-channel!
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Post by SceneMod on Oct 20, 2010 18:28:03 GMT -5
OOC: If there are any particular points you'd like me to hit, please let me know, and if there's anything I can do to make things easier and/or more fun.
It probably says something about this mine that they're willing to spend more money on their explosives than their workers.
Whirligig's plan of herding people out through fear seems to be working! As Optimus Primal would say, sometimes crazy works.
Topside, "Flark," says the squad leader, no doubt some dire imprecation in his native language. Glyph could tell Hellbender just how insulted he should be feeling right now. "Scatter!"
His squad does scatter - the thing can only come up in in one place. It can't get them all if they're in different places. The squad leader's trying to play this smart.
...but in the obscuring dust, Hellbender might be able to play horror movie killer and pick them off one by one.
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Post by Whirligig/Wednesday Gilgamesh on Oct 25, 2010 15:13:07 GMT -5
Gah! I totally missed this getting updated, sorry about that! And I figured it should be wrapping up soon.
At last, progress! Once Whirligig has a significant number of people on the move toward the exit, he starts heading down, taking time to herd out any more people he finds as he goes. Hopefully any guards that might still be down here will think twice before attacking a guy covered in explosives.
In the lowest tunnels of the mine, he begins his work. All his running about has given him a pretty good feel for the structure of the place and well... it's not going to take a lot to bring the whole thing down, as already seen with the collapse tunnel he and Hellbender came up through. These guys really suck at tunnel-building. Still, he sets up his explosives to try and get as neat and synchronized a collapse as possible. Blowing things up is an art form!
He'll sweep the tunnels as he makes his way back up, planting detonator relays and more explosives, and make sure that all the slaves are out. A good explosives technician does not blow up fellow mine workers! It looks bad on a resume.
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Post by Hellbender on Nov 3, 2010 18:00:45 GMT -5
Hellbender has no way to know about the obscuring dust from underground, but standard tactics say to take out the Tail-End Charlie in a convoy or patrol--the toughest guy is usually on point, not tail, and if it's not an alert squad, they might not notice at first. (Then there are dangerous units like the Wreckers, who would have one of their toughest guys covering the retreat... Low-rank Decepticon grunts hate being ordered to pursue units like that into the tunnels; they know they won't come back if they meet them, and if they return without meeting them, their superiors aren't too pleased, either.)
In this case, "Tail-End Charlie" has a few seconds to realize that their squad leader's tactics have a serious flaw for him, personally, as the ground suddenly yawns under his feet. Then he disappears into the grinders and there's nothing left but a subsiding sinkhole and the echoes of a scream.
The next guy in line doesn't get that much warning.
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Post by SceneMod on Nov 3, 2010 19:10:23 GMT -5
This is not a ship, where the captain stays for last. The guards all bailed out of here long ago. Whirligig won't find much of anyone left, and those he do with shoo up to the exists if he tries to shoo them. Success, at last! His resume will merit gold stars.
He should have no trouble rigging this shoddy installation to explode in a beautiful symphony of boom.
Charlie and, oh, let's call him Echo, go down, but Foxtrot was close to Echo, not close enough to Echo to do anything, of course, but he does pull out some explosives, lights them, tosses them down the tunnel, and runs.
OOC: I think it would be kind of cool if you guys timed it such that Whirligig is out of there and everything explodes just as Hellbender munches the last of that squad he's munching now, but that's just me. Up to you two.
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Post by Whirligig/Wednesday Gilgamesh on Nov 3, 2010 21:27:42 GMT -5
Success! Whirligig is positively giddy as he places his final explosives and as he makes for the entrance he begins to laugh. Yeah, he probably sounds pretty crazy, but it's not like there's anyone left in the tunnels to hear him anyway!
Tearing out of the main entrance, he's shouts out to anyone silly enough not to have fled as far as they could from the mine. "Everyone back, it's gonna blow!"
A child with a bouquet of kittens and puppies that sneeze butterflies and jellybeans couldn't sound happier.
Turning to watch the mine, even as he continues to run backwards, Whirligig activates the timer on his explosive masterpiece. "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six-!"
OOC: That would be awesome!
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Post by Hellbender on Nov 6, 2010 8:35:37 GMT -5
The sound of a small object bouncing down a sinkhole, coupled with a sputtering fuse, catches Hellbender's attention immediately. He still remembers what Fleetwind's missile did to his grinders during sim exercises--his intakes were his vulnerable point. The big Con might have trouble controlling his temper, but he wasn't stupid--he learned from his mistakes.
Boring heads retracted and covers clanged shut over Hellbender's intakes seconds before the explosives blew. Rock and sand came cascading down, burying his head under the rubble. "Ah, clinker-slag!"
Best not to give them the initiative by coming up where they expected him. The mining worm retreated, and circled underground...
The next thing the surviving squad members knew, a monstrous dark Thing lunged out of the side of the gully wall, grabbing the squad leader and dragging him back--
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Post by SceneMod on Nov 6, 2010 14:44:35 GMT -5
OOC: I'll let Whirligig pose his lovely explosion.
And then there were three little squad members left without a leader, as Whirligig counts down. Two of them bump into each other in the dust, terrified. One's making a break, running for it...
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Post by Whirligig/Wednesday Gilgamesh on Nov 6, 2010 19:18:34 GMT -5
"-Four, three, two, one!"
The first explosions are subtle, a barely noticeable rumble from deep within the mine, muffled by many layers of rock. But the rumbling quickly grows as explosives detonate in quick succession from the base of the mine towards the top. The ground quakes at at the mine begins to collapse, the noise building to a deafening roar. Fire and dust blasts out of the cave entrance as Whirligig turns, the Autobot just close enough for the force to pick him up off his feet and send him flying dramatically - with a little assistance from his thrusters.
As he drops back to the ground in a perfectly executed roll, the roof of the mine drops into the lower levels, releasing a massive cloud of dust.
Whirligig is laughing as loud as he can through all of this, even if he can't hear it through the ringing in his audio receptors.
OOC: Eh, 'Gig is from Bayverse. Mine collapses orchestrated by him can work in a Hollywood-tastic fashion. <_<;
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Post by Hellbender on Nov 6, 2010 20:01:22 GMT -5
The ground shakes, and even more dust sprays high into the air around the mine site.Two terrified little squad members look up in time to see the mecha-Shai-Hulud open its quadruple maw wide to devour them...
And there was one terrified man running away as fast as he can. (Spoiler: He gets away. The metal deathworm just realized there may be an Autobot in range for him to kill).
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Post by Whirligig/Wednesday Gilgamesh on Nov 9, 2010 10:15:31 GMT -5
OOC: Skipping the Scene-Mod because its not really necessary anymore. Let's all give the SceneMod a big round of applause for a fine performance!
There's not a whole lot for Whirligig to see as the cloud of mine dust descends back to the ground, but he knows that where once was a mine is now a rather spectacular pit. Good job, sir, your mining company commends you for wiping that abomination off the face of the planet! Let it sully our good profession no more.
"Thank you, thank you, I gotta say, it was a lot of fun! Let's do it again some time." No, he's not hearing voices or anything, he's just used to responding to his own thoughts out loud.
Looking around as best he can with so much dust in the air, he realizes that the area has been evacuated by pretty much everyone. Good on those slaves, hopefully they'll go on to better things, but where did his large, wormy companion get to? Wasn't he supposed to be watching the weakened mine entrance or something? Huh.
//Hey! HB-whatever-your-number-was! Where you at?//
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Post by Hellbender on Nov 9, 2010 11:34:22 GMT -5
Now where did the Autobot go in all this dust? The automatic cut-outs had damped his sensors during the explosion, and it was taking some time to establish a new baseline and sort out the lesser things like footsteps from all the aftershock noises and collapsings.
Wasn't like he could nail the guy in worm-mode anyway--he'd already tried. The little slagger was uncommonly agile. Hellbender transformed and stalked toward the mine entrance, 2 red eyes and the third "eye" of his shoulder gun's rangefinder glowing as he loomed out of the swirling dust, a vast, dark-winged figure.
"Right here, Autobot," Hellbender said in his deep basso voice--the rangefinder glinted off something shiny--mica? an abandoned vehicle? Whirligig? He fired his shoulder-mounted heavy laser.
---- OOC: Ditto, and thanks for all the fish!
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Post by Whirligig/Wednesday Gilgamesh on Nov 9, 2010 21:08:13 GMT -5
"Whoa-hey!" Whirligig flails and dances to one side as a rather unpleasant-looking laser burns past him, incinerating a narrow path through the dust. His optics are wide as he spins to stare at the towering figure of his attacker. He blurts out the first thing that comes to mind: "Hey, so you are a Transformer!"
He sounds oddly jubilant about having his suspicions concerned, given the fact that he's being shot at.
Oh right, he should do something about the whole being shot at business. His first solution to problems tends to be explosives, but he's down to only a few of his little charges and he's never used them in combat anyway. Ooh, his first real combat situation! Against a great big 'Con drill-monster guy! He feels positively tingly.
What was he thinking about again? Oh yes! When explosives don't apply, go for the next best thing: lying!
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Who ever said I was an Autobot?"
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