The Last Oddetsey

[playzooki]

[ooc: kody pestered me about this here is a post]

"guys where am i guys guys where am i wat happened why cant i move"

playzooki puts the jacket on.

[ooc: counts as clothes ololol]

[alex_holt]

OOC: Apologies, I've been away followed by my computer being broken when I got back. As a way to get things flowing again, a free item to anyone who updates in the next 24 hours.

[alex_holt]

As per request

PREVIOUSLY ON THE ODDESTSEY!

PROFESSOR VENGEANCE, MARISA, EUDIAL, EPSILON,PHANTASMIC SLAMMER and, not to be forgotten, TWITCH are on the trail of Titanicman, a beloved and incredibly powerful hero who is apparently the penultimate wielder of rift energy, to bring them one step closer to ending all the sources of rift in the world and end the threat.

LELAND GAUNT and presumably CLEO are set to go meet Ms. Triablos, owner of Triablos Industries. Her technology has been named as a price to get inside the mysterious upper echelons of PTT Corporation - a group so powerful their minds are shielded from the Psy-Corps.

AURELIA and her SPANISH INQUISITION TEAM have taken up the case of some stolen books of rift related knowledge from Melded Grand Library.

After trying to kill her by throwing her off Castle Doomforall, PLAYZOOKI is knocked unconscious by Katia, the Mistress of Kung Shrew.

KHLOE has studied the great mysteries of the Universe and now knows more about the Church of Vengeance that actually exists to the point of reading all the pamphlets that the actual priests never have.

SPOD still drifts eternally in the space between worlds in a mysterious moving shop, beyond all mortal knowing.

Meanwhile, the Tree that rapidly grew over the corpse of Doomforall is now flowering with white blossoms...

[steven_mcg]

[Good to see you back in action, Alex!]

Very well. There's five of us and five of them. I propose we each pick one associate of Titanicman, pay them a visit and attempt to wheedle some more information from them about our meat-headed Messiah. We have to find out if he's the real deal and, more importantly, how we can most effectively kick his bottom.

Ideally, I'd just do it all myself, but why waste extra manpower when you've got it, eh? Any preferences which ones you'd like to interrogate?

[Badnik96]

"I feel like we should do some investigation into when his battle against that 'otherworldly horror' Titanicman died fighting. I'm feeling like that might be a little suspicious.

I'd also like to interrogate Mecha-Titanicman, if that's okay. I feel like since we're both robots it'd be easier to communicate with him."

[steven_mcg]

A most sensible choice, my computerized compatriot.

I'm tempted to go after the Nutcracker myself on reflection. Magic moonbeams and I likely won't mix, I have enough restraining orders from plucky lady journalists as it is and while this Fairlynasty fellow does sounds more like my cup of tea, I'm concerned I'll end up spending more time swapping weapons contractor details and "almost got 'em" stories and talking team-up with the chap than anything to do with the mission. That is, if he's truly as sensible and sophisticated as his profile suggests.

Who might I have better luck cracking: the A-lister or the C-lister? I honestly wouldn't mind either way.

[alex_holt]

PHANTASMIC SLAMMER

Due to the recent involvement in stopping the Death of VHS, the team is granted permission to visit the Eggshell prison and is rapidly teleported to outside the prison which is revealed to be literally the upper half of a giant silver-speckled egg several miles in circumference half buried in the earth.

Upon going through various security measures, PS descends in a lift down to one of the lowest levels to the cell where Mecha-titanicanman is kept. The room resembles a concrete pit with a polycarbonate roof several meters thick above, while chained to the floor with mithril chains and a number of EMP beams directed into him. Despite this, his angry glowing green eyes stare up at Phantasmic Slammerr and his massive cybernetic musculature strains against the chains...

[majinb]

"Spanish Inquisition, donkey, to the crime scene! Lets look for clues! Anjushree, we stay in touch with you through the communicator, no one knows more about this stuff than you!"

[alex_holt]

AURELIA

The Spanish Inquisition descend on the library and Meander unlocks the various doors down to the inner vault - none of them are damaged or look like they have been forced at all, and use keys that Meander keeps around his neck.

Upon a thorough inspection of the room, the following things are noted:

1) Only the exact books taken were disturbed.
2) The security magic mirror shows the translucent shadow of a humanoid figure in the corner of one frame, but otherwise this figure was able to somehow dodge through the tightly packed shelves without crossing any of the mirrors.
3) The magic level in the room is higher than normal
4) The air moisture level is above normal.

[alex_holt]

Also as promised;

PHANTASMIC SLAMMER, PROFESSOR VENGEANCE and AURELIA

All acquire a one use playing card - apparently duplicated from a more powerful version owned by legendary historical frenchman Maurice Francois. Upon throwing this card on the ground and speaking any yes or no question, the card will answer that, before losing all magic and becoming useless for prophecy/knowledge divining.

[NFX]

Twitch simply watched as Eudial started her tirade towards him. Once she had finished, he looked over towards the rest of the group, then back towards Eudial. "...Titanicman" he said rather deliberately. "And I've only been in front of your face twice, and one of those times it wasn't even my fault."

He examined the list of those who had encountered the superhero recently once more, trying to figure out who might be the best bet for him to talk to. Slammer, the robot, had chosen Mecha-Titanicman, also a robot. It stood to reason he would want to talk to someone similar to him, but none of them seemed all that similar to a supersonic, part-metallic macaw. "So who are the rest of us going after?" Twitch asked. "I could go find the journalist woman. Like I said, she probably knows quite a lot." He also figured she was the least likely to attack him when he showed up.

He glanced back at Eudial. "You should probably calm down."

[kodster]

"Sure, whatever, bird-brain," huffed Eudial. She turned to the others. "I'd rather avoid the Fairly Nasty fellow... for the moment, and since some of you lot are so convinced I'm a hot-head..." She carefully avoided glancing at the dumb macaw, "...it'd be more trouble than we're worth if I got some crazy reporter writing up farfetched stories about us because of a word misfire. So... I think this... ergh, moonfox fellow would be my best bet."

[alex_holt]

TWITCH

Arriving at the Melded News-hawk, and asking to find Sally Streater, he is directed up to the top floor and has to wait outside the office while inside there is a conversation between a brusque and confidant young women and a shrieking hawk, who oddly give the impression of understanding each other perfectly. Sally appears to be discussing a new article about Titanicman. Eventually the meeting comes to and end and Sally leaves while Twitch catches a glimpse of a labrador sized bird of prey with a monacle and chewing a cigar before the door slams shut.

Sally walks over to Twitch with a slightly bored look on her face and in a slightly exasperated tone of voice "So you must be the visitor who wanted to ask some questions?"

Twitch also finds a 1 shot yes/no magic card.

EUDIAL

George makes old modem noises as he scans hard for Fleems, and for a while it seems like nothing is turning up, and then suddenly, as if from nowhere it picks up Fleems materialising from nowhere in a part of the docks district. Eudial teleports down immediatly and even as she is materialized is bowled over by something huge, white and possessing a lot of very sharp teeth.

"Who are you human? You interrupt my hunt and I don't like the smell of your magic, so talk quickly before I decide I am hungry"

This is followed by the face of a very large white wolf being very close to Eudials own and letting out a gutteral growl.

Eudial also finds a 1 shot yes/no magic card.

[NWOWWE]

Staring at the building, Gaunt smiled. Renovations. Excellent. She might end up being more distracted by that and distracted people are always easier to manipulate. He straightened up his outfit as nicely as he could and walked to the entrance.

[alex_holt]

LELAND

The smell of demonflesh structure being taken out is a little offputting even to Leland, but he is able to walk in without being stopped by any of the workbeings and quickly picks out Ms Triablos going over some plans in the centre of the structure.