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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Mar 21, 2011 20:05:26 GMT -5
"It is being very much the stylish, Sentinel Prime, sir-ma'am!" Giving Sentinel his own thumbs-up, he rushes off after Override.
Things seem peaceful for awhile, but then suddenly a cold wind blows by and a shadow falls over the party. Screeching to a halt, Jetfire looks up at the monster looming over them: a giant, vampiric robot hawk! In a booming voice, it calls out, "It is time that someone took a stand against you worthless do-gooders! Surrender to me now and you may not die screaming. Defy me and you shall soon find yourselves well and truly in a world of pain, for I posses power beyond measure!"
Speech made, the massive mechanical hawk begins to flap its wings and a great tornado springs to life between them, headed straight for our intrepid heroes!
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Post by Override on Mar 21, 2011 21:26:25 GMT -5
Override takes the whole dramatic speech in stride - they're pretty popular where she comes from.
The tornado snags her and tosses her into the air. She transforms while being blown around, and is in robot mode once she's finally slammed into the ground. She groans and holds her head, and little orbiting stars appear above her head. Oh no, she's been stunned!
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Mar 22, 2011 10:37:44 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime pops one of the ocean topazes like candy when no one is looking, which is amusing considering he started all this on a candy hunt, and he makes a face of sheer and utter delight. Oh AllSpark-infused energony goodness, these are scrumptious. He pops a few more when he thinks no one is looking, blissing out in his own private AllSpark dimension.
This snack attack puts him in a bind, way behind, relative to the other questants, so he's just catching up when the vampire robot hawk goes into Dramatic Speech Mode. For some reason, he feels compelled to listen and not attack in any way. Sentinel Prime does, however, snap at Jetstorm when Jetstorm says 'the fallen', taking it out of context, "Watch your language! What did I slagging tell you about that?"
His Curse Meter increments.
Then he's off swirling through the air, like a cow in Twister.
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Post by Jetstorm (Ani) on Mar 27, 2011 16:23:38 GMT -5
This hawk sounds like he took speaking lessons from that crazy junk robot with the big sword! "Ha, it is taking more than winds to take me down!" At least, Jetstorm thinks so - he's used to using wind powers, but flying in them is another thing. Between that and Sentinel jumping him over 'the fallen', Jetstorm suddenly finds himself swirling through the air as well. He tries to compensate, to try and pull out of the twister. He succeeds, but smashes headlong into a nearby structure. His body turns to sparkles, and he disappears, dropping his previously acquired key. A message pops up on the other players' HUDs : Player 3 has been eliminated.----- OOC: Jetstorm is out of thread, as he had no extra lives.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Mar 28, 2011 11:40:44 GMT -5
Oh no! Their team isn't doing well, with Override stunned and Jetstorm out of the game - Jetfire is never going to let him live that one down once this simulation is over.
Jetfire is also tossed about by the whirlwind, but he strains against it and makes a grab for Sentinel Prime. Whether or not he succeeds, he soon spirals into the ground as the tornado tosses away, but he manages to maneuver himself to impact the ground in a way that should save himself and anyone with him from a stunning, though his hit points still take a beating.
This would be a perfectly good time for the vast predatory bird to attack and perhaps finish off its opponents, but instead it chooses to gloat. Letting out a deep laugh that shakes the surrounding buildings, it booms, "It seems I have brought you pathetic princesses down to Earth!"
Pushing up from the ground, Jetfire stares defiantly at the hawk and makes his own speech. "My name is being Princess Jetfire. You have killinged my brother. Prepare to die!"
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Post by Override on Mar 28, 2011 21:57:22 GMT -5
Override remains in place and groans, holding her head. Little birds start chasing the stars that are circling above it.
She's still stunned, and unable to act!
(But the stun timer should be up next round.)
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Mar 28, 2011 23:45:44 GMT -5
Jetfire manages to save Sentinel Prime, who does what he does and gets his shield out.
"Nooooo, not Jetstorm! I'll kill you!" Sentinel Prime shouts.
However, the video game logic here is now inevitable. There are two handsome young brothers, their older mentor, and a woman. One of the bothers has died, sending the other brother on a roaring spree of revenge. This means the game can only progress to the older mentor figure dying and Jetfire and Override in the Golden Saucer Date. This is doubtless because they are both kind of red.
Anyway, it's unavoidable. At some point, Darth Vader's going to strike Sentinel Prime down. The only question is WHEN.
Sentinel Prime doesn't know any of this.
Instead, he shouts, "Curse you!"
The game promptly empties his Hex Meter and directs the stored cussing energy at the Furman vampire hawk, which is, even now, doubtless rewriting Override's backstory to make her a psychotic ex-man Quintesson agent built to appease the feminists. Nefarious!
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Mar 29, 2011 15:04:29 GMT -5
The giant vampire hawk squawks as Sentinel's hex hits it. Target has been Blinded! Displeased with this turn of events, the blind monster flaps its wings and sends a multitude of small tornadoes spinning off willy-nilly in all directions. "What are you playing at? I cannot... will not be defeated!"
Dodging around the aimless whirlwinds, Jetfire begins to pelt the monster with fireballs. None of them do much damage, but they still leave smoldering patches on the hawk's metal feathers.
"Ha! It can being hurt!" Jetfire says. Furmanisms. They're catching.
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Post by Override on Mar 30, 2011 14:41:50 GMT -5
Override finally pulls herself to her feet. She is not now a psychotic ex-man, but for some reason her homeworld was unaccountably sexist, forcing her to masquerade as a male.1 But that was always that way (or at least when her extended tech spec was written).
She wobbles once, then straightens and shakes his head. "If even Jetfire can find the courage to face that thing, can I do less?" she asks no one in particular. Then she narrows her optics with determination and takes up running for the vast, predatory bird, newly acquired hammer in hand. She brings it over hear head, and with a nimble leap, attempts to slam it into the monster.
(Hopefully it really is a weapon and not, say, something needed to break rocks get through a mine segment or something like that.)
1 Presumably by marking 'Male' in the 'Male/Female' check box on the racing application form.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Mar 31, 2011 12:59:22 GMT -5
"I'm going to teach you a short, sharp lesson in failure!" Sentinel Prime calls. He runs up a nearby ramp, an artifact from a Tony Hawk game that he entered into the simulation room (Tony Hawk, hmmm....), to get some air and tries to do a flying lunge with his lance into the torso of the beast.
Sentinel Prime starts collecting Radical Air points.
Will he connect or will he just splat out into the ground?
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Mar 31, 2011 20:47:41 GMT -5
Blinded as it is, the hawk can't dodge Override's attack, and the hammer comes slamming down on its head. The hammer is, indeed, a weapon, and it's Super Effective! With Earth beating Wind in this elemental game of rock-paper-scissors, Override drives the giant metal vampire bird to the ground, dealing massive damage!
The broken titan twitches on the ground and croaks, "Never did... want to live... forever..."
Then Sentinal Prime's lance stakes it through the chest and the monster screeches horribly as it dissolves into ash that blows away dramatically on the wind, leaving only a big, shiny treasure chest.
"Hah!" Jetfire says, grinning. "Is being over! Finished!" Then he frowns. "And is too bad Jetstorm isn't being here to see it."
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Post by Override on Apr 1, 2011 15:45:51 GMT -5
Override looks around for their 'loot' and shrugs at Jetfire. "I'm sure you can show him the tapes later," she suggests. "He's just training-room dead, after all!"
A chest appears and opens. Inside is a map to Draco-Swindle's lair (very near, as it turns out), a box of wooden stakes, and three wild eon roses. When worn on the helmet, these roses grant a +5 to CHA and a +5 to Vampire Resistance. Override picks up one of the roses and eyes it dubiously.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Apr 2, 2011 12:36:10 GMT -5
The thing Sentinel Prime was trying to lance turns into ash, which doesn't have a lot of stopping power, so he kind of flings through the other side, ends up with his lance point in the ground, flips over the lance (more Radical Air points), and lands hard on his back.
Ow.
At least everything but that landing was awesome, right? He grabs his lance back and lopes over to gather around the treasure. He comments, "Well and truly, we brought that vampire down to earth - literally!"
Oooh, stakes. Sentinel Prime likes! "Jetfire, get over here and read the map." They teach junior officers to read maps, right? Jazz must have done it?
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Apr 3, 2011 15:55:15 GMT -5
Jetfire pops Sentinel a salute, but before he heads over he makes use of his healing phoenix down. That feels much better! Also warm and tingly.
Taking a jet-powered leap, he stops next to Sentinel and takes both the map and his rose. The rose gets pinned next to his top knot. The map he turns this way and that, frowning at it slightly. Hmm, maps are bird's eye views, sooo... Hopping into the air, Jetfire gains some decent height and now the area looks much more like what's on the map!
"Aha!" he calls down, pointing off in one direction. "I am believing entrance to crypt is that way!"
Where better to find the Big Bad Boss Vampire than in a crypt?
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Post by Swindle on Apr 4, 2011 21:52:04 GMT -5
The Big Bad Boss Vampire is always in a crypt. It's a rule. When the intrepid battle princess heroes arrive, they will find the Boss lounging on his throne, sipping the oil of innocents and counting his loot, one gold coin at a time.
"One thousand three hundred twenty-one. One thousand three hundred twenty-one gold coins. One thousand three hundred twenty-two. One thousand three hundred twenty-two gold coins. One thousand three hundred twenty-three. One thousand three hundred and twenty-three gold coins! Ah ha ha ha ha!" the vampire laughs. There is a crash of thunder.
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