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  • AURELIA
    After performing for Anjushree and George, they both feel moved by the beauty of those songs. They are both able to work more effectively than previously!

    EUDIAL
    The Griffon rolls its eyes "How should I know? All I know is that rift energy signatures seem to match 9/10 of his fights in the last month"

    Fletcher just nods at this and takes to following Eudial at a discreet distance to watch for danger.

    VENGEANCE
    After inserting the Bunker force shield, it seems to have got a significant upgrade: in addition to making the Professor immune to any medium sized explosion, it seems to have integrated Holtzman technology, meaning that it will now stop any sufficiently fast physical attack be it from bullets, melee weapons etc. A sufficiently slow physical attack can still make it through, and it can be overloaded by a sufficiently massive weight of projectile, but that would have to be on something on the scale of a cruiseliner.

    PHANTASMIC SLAMMER
    Anjushree responds "It is very unlikely that the rift powers can be gained unintentionally, they are something sought out rather than stumbled upon. That being said, if you could find those books that the Donkey has reported missing to Aurelia, there could well be a way in there"

    TWITCH
    After pressing the S button, the magnet seems to have been converted into some sort of claw mounted device that fits Twitch perfectly. What it seems to use magnetic forces to bring small objects (such as weapons/small pieces of technology/personalised monogrammed stationary) flying across the room into the wielders hands/claws/wings in a very dramatic fashion that makes everyone think you are incredibly badass.

    LELAND GAUNT
    Vanishes out of the home of Mr Tench, and arrives in the castle.

    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.

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    • Originally posted by alex_holt View Post
      The Griffon rolls its eyes "How should I know? All I know is that rift energy signatures seem to match 9/10 of his fights in the last month"
      A muscle twitched in Eudial's jaw. Of course. For once, I try and be a little kinder, and immediately get backsass for it. "Hmph. Thanks for your help," grunted the Witch. She turned away. There is no way I'll be able to handle that overmuscled rube on my own... god damn it. I hate relying on people!

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      • Originally posted by Eudial
        "...is one of them," finished Eudial. "You see, I didn't run out to abandon anyone, I came back here to continue hunting these wicked things. Now if you've finished condescending me," she growled, "what do you say we take him out. Any ideas?"
        Just one - are we mad?

        I don't know this particular be-caped fellow, but one look at his dossier just screams his type - he's either a sickeningly saccharine Samaritan multiplied by Santa to the power of Jesus or he's a slick smug snake in the grass who acts the perfect angel to cover up all his own plots for conquest and chaos. How come muscleheads like him can get away with that but not me? Look at this face. Tell me this isn't the face of a naturally approachable and lovely person.

        On second thoughts, don't answer that.

        Either way, I hate going up against superfellows like him. There is such a thing as bad publicity in my circles and there's no worse PR for a supervillain than "Evil, hateful, naughty terrorist kills patron saint of orphans and puppies". We try and lay a finger on this Titanicman and we'll be up to our ears in lawsuits shortly before our trials for crimes against a national treasure.

        If we do have to interrogate this super-stereotype, I want in front and centre. I know his world and let's face it, I can at least be convincing if not downright charming.

        Stop sniggering.

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        • Marisa decides to teleport back to the castle, and stick her broom in that machine. Nothing could possibly go wrong maybe.
          (gonna boop that T button.)

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          • EUDIAL and VENGEANCE

            Sensing the Witches annoyance, Anjushree makes a half-hearted attempt to mollify her "I really do know barely more about this place than you - I'd been here before a few times on brief excursions, but that was hundreds of years ago local time, most of this trip I've been sat in a capsule in space concentrating on stopping the world ended. All this is as much news to me as it is to you... However, I have managed to gather a bit more information about Pentraxians, Titanicman and what he's been doing recently:

            Pentraxians:
            Pentraxians are generally the most powerful space Empire in any Universe in which they evolved - there are suggestions that genetic engineering was involved in their genesis at some point, because the world they evolved from was literally the bare minimum required to evolve sentient life. The result of which is that their bodies are so over evolved to extract every bit of minute energy from their surroundings, that when put onto basically any other planet they hypermetabolise everything and become incredibly powerful within a few days.

            As given a choice between being indestructible, flying, energy blasting gods or miserable peasants on an even more miserable rock of a planet, they invariable choose the former. They tend to roll out across the Galaxy at terrifying speed, although they don't usually have the ambition to actually care about managing the people they conquer but have no concern for collateral. However, when in Universes where other Class-1000 species have evolved, such as Kryptonians, Asgardians, Time Lords, Daleks, Green Martians etc or where there are already powerful space empires in play, the resulting conflict often rends the Galaxy apart as soon as Pentraxians begin to attack.

            As such, 200 years ago, the Pentraxian Purge began, where an alliance of hundreds of Space Empires and High-power species hunted down and killed almost every single Pentraxian in the multiverse. A few dozen children were thrown into an unstable wormhole in an attempt to protect the species, and Titanicman is believed to be one of these survivors, raised on Earth X by someone a lot nicer than his biological parents.

            Titanicman:
            According to reports made by famed journalist Sally Streater, the 10 most recent Titanicman conflicts were as follows:

            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.

            MARISA:

            Arriving back at the Castle, Marisa upgrades her broom. After retrieving it and testing it out, it would seem that it has gained some kind of strange ability related to a strange shaped piece of metal at the front - when flying the metal somehow channels the air around the brooms and its riders into a bullet shaped cone which deflects any physical attacks. This only works while going at speed, not hovering, but it would seem that attacks like bullets, fire, explosives, projectiles etc would be deflected around the broom.

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            • Twitch examined the object that was returned to him for a moment, wondering how it could have been turned from a simple magnet on a string into...whatever this was. It seemed like it might fit one of his claws, so - with one or two attempts, his lack of hands was really starting to irritate him - he strapped the magnet thing onto his leg. There would be time for him to break it in later on, but for now, he decided to return to the rest of the group.

              After a little more meandering through some suspiciously well-maintained corridors, Twitch arrived at the room which held Eudial, Anjy and the Professor. "When did Vengy get back?" he asked as he appeared in the doorway, looking increasingly like a cyborg each time the rest of the group saw him with a new item.

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              • Now back at the castle Gaunt was surprised to see any of the others around, but headed back to the item room nonetheless. He considered some of the other items he had and after some thought, pulled out the brimstone aftershave and placed it in the machine and pressed the P button.

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                • The Aftershave looks exactly the same as before, but appears to have had some exotic pheromones added - to the point where any half plausible disguise worn will seem exponentially more real to those addressing you. Generally speaking, you at least need to be approximately the right shape for it to work. So Leland with a bit of preparation could pass for any human shaped humanoid.

                  It doesn't work to disguise yourself as a specific individual that the person you are trying to fool knows, but can easily work to appear as different species, ethnicity, age, gender etc

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                  • An entire race of all-conquering authoritarian Boy Scouts? Good lord, it's the late 80s all over again.

                    Titanicman:
                    According to reports made by famed journalist Sally Streater, the 10 most recent Titanicman conflicts were as follows:

                    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.
                    Well, he's been a busy boy, our Titanicman, no question there.

                    Anjushree (and you too, George, I know you can hear me), give me anything you can on Sally Streater, Felix Fairlynasty, Fleems the Moonfox, Mecha-Titanicman and the Nutcracker. The more we can gleam from his friends and foes, the more I'll be able to sense whether or not his heroics are truly sincere.

                    Plus, the more dirty tricks we can learn to use against him in a punch-up. "Know thy enemy" and all that.

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                    • Sally Streater
                      Species: Halfling
                      The most successful investigative reporter in New Melded, she made her career through hard hitting journalism combined with articles about Titanicman which were a bit less hard hitting. Gets rescued by Titanicman on average once every 8 or so days.
                      Contact Details at the Melded News-Hawk provided.

                      Felix Fairlynasty
                      Species: Half-Kryptonian
                      Successful businessman and owner of Fairlynasty Industries. He has made a reputation as one of the top Evil Businessmen in the cities, despite his heritage which has given him only half the strength of powers of a normal Kryptonian. He has attempted to kill the Titanicman on a number of occassions, citing that Pentraxians are by Pan-universal law a Kill-on-sight species. However, since the great war, no one has done this.
                      Contact details for Fairlynasty Industries are provided.

                      Fleems the Moonfox
                      Species: Moonfox
                      Moonfoxes resemble huge pure white foxes that vary in size with the phase of the moon, starting at a normal fox at a new moon to the size of a horse at a full moon. They are a spiritual creature which wander down off remote mountaintops one day with no sign previously. They are highly intelligent, can talk, heal wounds quickly and can fire a devastating "moon-beam" from their mouth. Fleems personally is particularly powerful as a Moonfox and has been hunting some unknown supernatural threat since his arrival in Melded.
                      No contact details provided, but the Castle can probably locate him.

                      Mecha-Titanicman
                      Species: Cyborg Pentraxian Clone
                      An elaborate experiment in several meta-heroic laws of nature - there is a demonstrable rule of the universe whereby a hero will be reborn after dying at a rate dependent on the stature of the hero. Therefore, when Titanicman died standing against an otherwordly horror, Felix Fairlynasty quickly cloned him in an attempt to "block" his ressurection by filling the universal role with this clone. This is actually entirely scientifically sound, and it worked for a while. However, it didn't account for the fact that identical clones ALWAYS (as another fundemental rule of the universe) end up the opposite alignment as the original. After this happened, the role was no longer filled and the original Titanicman returned in an incredibly contrived set of circumstances. After he got beaten up, he got some cybernetic enhancements and went rogue and became a reccuring foe of Titanicman.
                      Currently in "The Eggshell" Prison

                      The Nutcracker
                      Species: Human possessed by the Spirit of Ballet
                      No one knows how this came about, but the Nutcracker uses the incredibly physical prowess learnt through Ballet to rob banks in an aim to be able to fund increasingly extravagant ballets. Is often stopped by Titanicman.
                      Currently in "The Eggshell" Prison
                      Last edited by alex_holt; 23 May 2014, 07:40.

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                      • "It says the Sally woman gets tangled up with Tighty every eight days," Twitch postulated, reading through the list of those mentioned in Titanicman's recent escapades. "And it's been twelve days since it last happened...she's bound to run into him soon!" the parrot told the others. "Hey, if she's a journalist," he added, "maybe she knows how Tighty ended up with the rift stuff!" It was quite the mouthful, 'Titanicman'. Plus Twitch doubted how titanic Titanicman really was. Tighty would do for now.

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                        • Originally posted by NFX View Post
                          "It says the Sally woman gets tangled up with Tighty every eight days," Twitch postulated, reading through the list of those mentioned in Titanicman's recent escapades. "And it's been twelve days since it last happened...she's bound to run into him soon!" the parrot told the others. "Hey, if she's a journalist," he added, "maybe she knows how Tighty ended up with the rift stuff!" It was quite the mouthful, 'Titanicman'. Plus Twitch doubted how titanic Titanicman really was. Tighty would do for now.
                          ..."Tighty"? Okay this is too much. Eudial glared at the macaw. "Are you that mentally challenged that you can't properly say a person's name correctly more than once or twice?" she snarled. "Or do you find it amusing to annoy people (or whatever species)? Because, between this and appearing in front of my face almost every 15 minutes, you're really beginning to piss me off."

                          Her eyes blazed, almost literally.

                          (OOC: There you go, Nick. Gave you what you want and addressed your own annoyingness. :P)

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                          • AURELIA

                            Meader takes a phone call from the police, and his already droopy face drops.

                            "The police have done their work, but they say there is nothing to do there... as I said there is no sign of forced entry, but they believe the thief exited through some air-vents that can only be opened from the inside... all they have to go on were some wet humanoid footprints with a trace of magic that appeared near my desk and went straight to the required shelves.

                            Perhaps your Griffon friend or the big computer here might be able to help me, they are certainly a lot more well equipped than Melded's infamously underfunded police"

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                            • Gaunt grabbed the newly enhanced aftershave and got ready to leave. As he exited the room he could faintly hear someone from another room some ways off. He contemplated heading in that direction to see what was going on, but quickly decided he didn't really care. There were more important things to do, like finally getting down to business with Ms. Triblos.

                              "Off to her company headquarters S’il vous plaît," ​Gaunt said.

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                              • GAUNT

                                George teleports Leland to the headquarters of Triablos industries. The building looks to be undergoing extensive reconstruction - old architecture constructed from demonic flesh is being replaced with modern steel and glass open plan office space.
                                Last edited by alex_holt; 26 May 2014, 15:22.

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