The Last Oddetsey

[alex_holt]

PLAYZOOKI

(OOC: When were you unable to walk properly? You were unconscious between posts, and you've been in the Castle for half the game with the the brief interlude where the Shrew dropped you over the edge and then the you were teleported back inside before you hit the ground)

On closer inspection the portals are very tiny, at most you could stick a hand through them. However, he does out the corner of one eye spot the Shrew darting through the portal with a pile of miniature quiches and a scotch egg.

AURELIA

"Wot are you talkin' about? Sounds like some lame nerd stuff" the water-woman replies as she scans the room for options of how to escape the angel.

[majinb]

Aurelia quickly checks her lie-detecting dagger!

[alex_holt]

AURELIA

There is no sign of custard of pebbledash, and the blade's glow fades from illuminating at the "I don't know nothing" when she says the next bit. Clearly she truthfully has no idea what a double negative is and thinks Aurelia is a lame nerd.

[playzooki]

(this post is ooc)

PLAYZOOKI

(OOC: When were you unable to walk properly? You were unconscious between posts, and you've been in the Castle for half the game with the the brief interlude where the Shrew dropped you over the edge and then the you were teleported back inside before you hit the ground)

PLAYZOOKI
Using the disturbing power of nasal telekinesis, he flips the small figure over the edge. Several things happen at once. Firstly, apparently the creature had been holding the chain, so with a sudden unravelling of chains, Playzooki himself is suddenly plummeting at incredible speed down towards the city miles below them. It seems that the tiny figure is some kind of Shrew, wearing tiny clothing, but evidently Playzooki didn't account for the fact that small mammals are not large enough to be killed by falling at their terminal velocity, so she seems remarkably unphased by this.

In fact, a manic grin on her tiny features, she angles herself to accelerate, and as Zooki smashes through the glass roof of Fluffony Biggins Frantabulous Pillow Factory he is mere feet from the ground before George finally manages to get a teleporter lock, and instead of impacting into the contents of the pillow factory, instead impacts into the hard antique wooden floor of the teleporter room. A lot of pain follows. Katia appears above him, caught in the same teleporter net, still at maximum speed, and uses the Meteor-shrew technique, impacts him straight in the forehead, knocking him out cold.

When he awakens a good while later, he finds that all his stuff is gone except his clothes, and he needs serious medical attention to even walk at a normal pace.

[alex_holt]

(OOC: Oops, sorry forgot about that)

PLAYZOOKI

Suddenly realises that his injuries must have been more painful than actually damaging as he can now walk again with no trouble. Although he does now have a slight sea-weedy smell that suggests some regenerative poultices might have been applied to him while he was unconscious.

[alex_holt]

AURELIA and VENGEANCE

After talking down the Water-woman through use of the beautiful enhanced songs, Aurelia extracts from the woman that she did it because she needed the money. Whoever it was apparently was scary enough that she insists on protection for her and her Mum, which Aurelia grants by teleporting them both to the castle.

However....

As Aurelia materializes in the main hall, she finds the water-woman backed into a corner with her water-claws out looking terrified...

"Ye told me it'd be safe here, but he's already here!"

She points viciously at Professor Vengeance

"He took me up to his offices at PTT and got me to steal the books or he'd hurt me and my Mam!"

Vengeance has an expression which suggests this is very confusing to him.

[NFX]

Black energy? Whatever it was, it couldn't have been good. He decided to inquire about the black energy, what it looked like, and what they had managed to do with it. Glancing down at the watch on his ankle, he decided he'd best be going back to the castle, so he'd aim to wrap up his investigation swiftly.

[alex_holt]

TWITCH

Sally describes the rift as exactly what Twitch himself had seen - as if someone had rubbed out a bit of the universe and the thing beneath was purest black. Sally claims she doesn't really remember what happens next exactly and was rescued from the rubble later by some firemen.

After this Twitch beckons George and teleports back to the castle

[Badnik96]

After watching the film version of this event (thanks to George "uploading" it into Slammer's brain somehow) he concludes that there's nothing left to be learned here.

"Thanks for your information, sir. I'll leave you be now."

[alex_holt]

PHANTASMIC SLAMMER

A summary of the file uploaded to Phantasmic Slammers Memory of the one documented rift incident believed to belong to this person:

- Felix Fairlynasty gives a speech
- Mecha-Titanicman attacks and the building begins to crumble
- The camera falls over and you see debris falling, Sally Streater shout that they are trapped, Felix Fairlynasty appears unconcious
- Black shards fill the screen and Mecha-titanicman falls over.

EUDIAL

A summary of the conversation with Fleems:

- Eudial persuades Fleems not to eat her, although doesn't much like her.
- Fleems has detected rift i nthe vicinity of Titanicman, but not from him directly, and he would have been able to tell. Someone or something else that is often around Titanicman is the source.
- The rift power dropped off substantially at the time of Doomforall becoming a rift nexus in space.
- However, after he finally died a few days ago, the rift level has expanded and begun to grow again to far greater levels that before.
- Fleems has never witnessed this power being used, or seen any evidence that it has been.

[NFX]

Oh god, not again! Twitch was really starting to get frustrated with the teleporting all over the shop, he just couldn't seem to stop his head from swimming. Once he'd gotten his bearings back, though, he noticed he was back in the main hall, alongside Aurelia, Vengy, and a woman who looked as though she was made out of liquid. While this was strange, he decided to go to a quieter spot, and flew off into a nondescript hallway. Coming to rest on a suspiciously empty pedestal, Twitch began looking through his bag of holding, grabbed his communicator, and immediately got in contact with the witch in red.

"Eudial!" he called, "Eudial, it was the Felix guy that the rift was coming from! It wasn't Ti-..." The macaw paused momentarily. "...Titanicman." he spoke, carefully and deliberately sardonic. "Felix...Funnyface or something, I dunno. But we should go after him instead!"

[alex_holt]

SUMMARY OF INFORMATION SENT FROM TITANICMAN INVESTIGATION by GEORGE

A summary of the file uploaded to Phantasmic Slammers Memory of the one documented rift incident believed to belong to this person:

General Schedule of Titanicman and the Rift:
12 hours ago: Defeated a gang of Balrogs who were selling the infamous drug "Pipeweed" to children.
2 Days ago: Stopped the infamous Ballet themed bankrobber "The Nutcracker"
2 Days ago: Fought some dinosaurs. No clear reason.
5 Days ago: Teamed up with Fleems the Moonfox to defeat Mecha-Titanicman
6 Days ago: Fought Mecha-Titanicman, but retreated to keep civilians safe
12 Days ago: Rescued Sally Streater from Felix Fairlynasty, renowned Evil Industrialist
14 Days ago: Punched some ghosts on the moon. This was the occassion where no Rift energy was detected.
15 Days ago: Fought a Fairlynasty Industries Flying Robot hit squad with Pentraxianite gun.
15-18 Days ago: Teamed up with numerous heroes to push back an invasion of the Antelope-men of Dimension-Antelope.
21 Days ago: Had a misunderstanding-then-teamup battle with Fleems the Moonfox.

MECHA-TITANICMAN
- Claims he has never seen Titanicman use the rift
- The only time he has seen the rift was when someone took him out with it when he was attacking a bank vault. Titanicman was dead at the time.
- Felix Fairlynasty was there with the press and some others.

SALLY STREATER
- She has never seen Titanicman use powers like the rift.
- She covers almost every single Titanicman adventure so should have seen it if ti was there.
- Sally saw the rift at the Mecha-titanicman vault incident
- She claims Felix Fairlynasty used it.

FLEEMS
- Eudial persuades Fleems not to eat her, although doesn't much like her.
- Fleems has detected rift i nthe vicinity of Titanicman, but not from him directly, and he would have been able to tell. Someone or something else that is often around Titanicman is the source.
- The rift power dropped off substantially at the time of Doomforall becoming a rift nexus in space.
- However, after he finally died a few days ago, the rift level has expanded and begun to grow again to far greater levels that before.
- Fleems has never witnessed this power being used, or seen any evidence that it has been.

VIDEO OF THE SINGLE RIFT INCIDENT
- Felix Fairlynasty gives a speech
- Mecha-Titanicman attacks and the building begins to crumble
- The camera falls over and you see debris falling, Sally Streater shout that they are trapped, Felix Fairlynasty appears unconcious
- Black shards fill the screen and Mecha-titanicman falls over.

[alex_holt]

(OOC: Apologies steve, just making you wandering around the Castle for the sake of plot)

AURELIA AND VENGEANCE

Upon Aurelia asking, Vengeance leaves the room (it looks like he was only passing through anyway, but the Waerwoman doesn't notice this)

After Vengeance leaves the room, the water woman gives the information:
- Apparently Vengeance (or someone who looked just like him) was the one who gave her the orders to steal the books, and is apparently in control of PTT Industries, but he was wearing different clothes. He was also wielding some kind of black energy, possibly the rift.

[NFX]

With Eudial informed of his plan, Twitch flew back to the main room, after his usual one or two wrong turns. This time he had come across a room made entirely of mirrors. When he reached the main room, though, he spotted something on a display to one side. Vengeance was still oddly quiet, and Aurelia was sill preoccupied with the water woman, so he decided to take a look.

The display showed a handy collation of information about Titanicman, indeed all of the information the group had acquired. Twitch glanced at Sally's information, which he had been given first hand...or first wing, or something...and began to examine the rest of the information. The more he read, however, the more bemused he began to look, glancing from the newer information, to Sally's information, to the schedule, and back to the new information...

Everyone seemed to agree on one thing: the rift was definitely not coming from Titanicman. That meant - as Fleems said - the source had to be around or near Titanicman on a regular basis.

The schedule only showed a single recent instance when rift activity near Titanicman was not detected: the incident a fortnight ago when he was on the moon punching ghosts.

As you do.

But then if the only incident with no rift energy was on the moon, then the source had to be something that didn't go to the moon...or maybe couldn't go to the moon.

And then there was the incident at the vault. That seemed to be the one place where their suspects had eyewitness accounts rather than hearsay. "George, can you play the video of the vault attack..." Twitch half-asked. If one were to watch the macaw at this point, they may have been able to watch his little avian brain piecing this one together.

The video opened up, and there was Felix Fairlynasty, up at some kind of podium and speaking in a more grandiose manner than might have been appropriate. Sally had told Twitch that the rift was Felix's doing, so he kept a particularly close eye on him. The scene kept rolling, a mechanical Titanicman arrived (presumably Mecha-Titanicman) and started smashing the building apart, the camera dropped to the ground, and it all looked suitably ruinous. Civilians running around, Sally shouting about being trapped, dust and debris filling the shot, but in the midst of all this, something had caught the parrot's eye...

...Felix wasn't moving.

And then the rift came, shards of darkness shooting across the screen, tearing through Mecha-Titanicman and sending the cyborg crashing to the ground...and static. The parrot stared at the faintly hissing screen for a moment, knowing he had all the clues in front of him, a slow look of realisation crossing his face.

The rift source was almost always around Titanicman, couldn't follow him to the moon, was there at the vault during the attack, it wasn't Mecha-Titanicman, and it DEFINITELY wasn't Felix.

"Oh, crap..." Twitch suddenly plunged a claw into his bag of holding, frantically rummaging around until he found the communicator. The water-woman could be put on hold for a little bit, and he would deal with Eudial's inevitable wrath later. She would hate him even more having been sent in completely the wrong direction. Flicking the communicator to all channels, he called out to anyone who was willing to listen.

"Everybody, we need to go back to the News-Hawk! Aurie, bring your truth dagger!"

[shadowflare]

Marisa decides to go check out the tree before trying to deal with the whatever else is going on.

'Geez, ze, I really need to keep up.' she mumbled to herself as she wandered off.