Lv. 426

Sep 6, 2024 2:36 pm
[ +- ] 🎹 Neon Space Dojo
Pinky is directed to a private docking bay, shared only by four other ships that are strikingly similar in design to Pinky, but smaller—just enough room for a pilot and copilot—and each a different color. The vermilion red ship is Vera’s. The others are gold, green and violet blue.

To Cass’ relief, the Star Vixen squad does not greet our heroines personally as they disembark. There is only the repair crew letting you know Pinky is in good hands. If anyone has doubts, the Mini-K’s offer to guard the ship (though if Kurumi wants them to tag along, they will).

Once out of the docking bay, you notice a coffee house full of humanoids that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and numbers of limbs and eyes. The only human here is the baristi. Despite the apparently busy hour, the man is able to serve 20-or-so customers in under a minute.

https://i.imgur.com/nXpHNoX.jpeg

Whatever is in that iced coffee of his, it’s quite popular. Some of the customers tip the baristi with stacks of green dollars and gold coins, all of which have an "$" printed or embossed on them.

Most of you might not have any money on you because, well… you don’t need it. Star Vixen is paying all of your expenses, so as usual, all of you can get by financially without effort. Sure, half of you cheat death so often it’s a wonder you can even get the occasional bathroom break. But money? It’s the one thing none of you worry about.
OOC:
If you WANT to tip, you may roll ☢️Magic. On a HIT, you produce green bills OR gold coins. On a COMBO, you produce green bills AND gold coins. A SUPER means you leave a super amount. Princess Diamond gives more money on a hit than the rest of you combined because she’s a princess, therefore richer than God.

Princess Diamond: A MISS causes a moth to fly out of your purse because you are a cartoon, and cartoon things happen. But your purse won’t try to kill you (this time).

Non-princesses: a MISS is invisible to NPCs. You simply don’t have money.
In addition to iced coffee, hot coffee and shroom coffee, there are several vegan meals. There is a table in the middle of the room with exactly nine seats and a tiny "fairy bar" on the end. The rest of the room is extremely crowded, with every table occupied and many people standing, mingling, and seemingly uninterested in that one available table. (Perhaps you need a fairy in your party to sit there?)
OOC:
Other than "vegan only," you have creative control over meals and also juice drinks if you don’t like coffee.

The baristi just serves coffee, but you can narrate a flavor and do a latte with almond or coconut milk, or other nondairy.
Sep 9, 2024 10:25 am
"I will take this hot 'caw-fee!'" Thundra says, ordering the unfamiliar drink. She takes a sip, and her eyes bulge as caffeine floods her veins for the first time. "By CR0M-Bot! I am filled with GRATUITOUS amounts of energy!" She giggles and starts bouncing back and forth from foot to foot.

She reaches behind her into empty air, and somehow some gold coins appear! She offers them to the baristi. "Thank you, good sir! Truly you are a god amongst men!"
Last edited Sep 9, 2024 10:27 am

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (2d6)

(16) = 💥HIT

Sep 9, 2024 12:50 pm
Kurumi leaves the Mini-Ks to the ship, she is a bit worried. They are mini-her and is grown fond of them. She tags along and hopes to find somewhere with music or dance, she missed the dance floor. And is eager to see how people dance in this Alien(?) planet. She gets a double ice espresso coffee black. She always believed that coffee should be black, except cappuchino, or latte, or...anyway coffee is coffee! She also wants to order a big salad and a vegan burger with potatoes, or their equivalent in this planet.

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC! - (2d6)

(45) = 💥HIT

Sep 9, 2024 2:35 pm
Pira looks around with eager curiosity, more interested in the cafe's patrons than the food despite her earlier words. She watches the barista for a full minute, amazed by his ability to move with the speed of light, then strolls closer to the bar so she can peer at the menu and pick something to snack on before exploring this establishment further. Tomato crackers sounds deliciously weird, and she can't simply not order a tomato milkshake!

"So what's up with this Vera gal, Commander?" She glances mischievously at Casanova while the man brings her the order. "Sounds like there is a story there! Your sworn rivals?"

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (2d6)

(55) = 💥💥COMBO

Sep 9, 2024 7:14 pm
Luna checks her pockets but doesn't have any, so checks her mystical pockets for coins. She pulls a coin nearly as big as her torso out of nowhere and carries it fluttering with the heavy load over to the bartender. She's losing altitude and has to scramble to get the last little way, before rolling onto the counter. The coin rolls a few fairy feet before toppling over and rattling to rest.

https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-28-2018/3mCkFf.gif

"Dewdrop Icewine, please good sir." She huffs and puffs, leaning against a beer spigot for balance, and then smooths the lines of her skirts down. "Coins always pooch out my dress."
Last edited Sep 9, 2024 7:19 pm

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (2d6)

(62) = 💥HIT

Sep 9, 2024 10:44 pm
AT A TABLE TO OUR HEROINES’ LEFT, there’s a yellow squidling—a boy with a rotund head/body, complete with a propeller beanie the width of his waistline, rubbery arms, and overall-shorts with eight pant legs to accommodate each tentacle. He’s wearing four pairs of Chuck Taylor All-Stars. "Mom, pass the ketchup."

His mother is a pink squidling clad in a teal dress, teal heels, and a matching ribbon on her hairless head. She sits demurely cross-tentacled. "Please and thank you," she hints to her son as she hands him a red bottle. "You’re welcome," says the boy as he shakes the bottle at his fries and squirts out more ketchup than could possibly fit in that bottle.

Mother lightly shakes her head in time to some wah-wah-wah-wahhh trumpet notes, then bites into a tomato as one would bite an apple.
ON THE BAND-STAND, the six-legged Gigakitten playing the drums skips a beat to give the Saturnbeeked trumpeter a look.

Before they play again, a young woman with bunny ears and a cotton tail poking through the rear of her leotard whispers something to the players. They nod. Kurumi understands this to mean that the band takes requests.
THE BARISTI’S COUNTERTOP sparkles and shines from our heroines’ extreme generosity. To Luna, it probably looks like a dragon’s lair! No matter how far out of the way the baristi needs to zip, he fetches the non-coffees with enthusiasm.

He blushes at Thundra’s compliment. "Shucks, ma’am," he says as he adjusts his bow tie. He then blushes even more when Luna mentions how coins affect her dress. "I’ll be no less grateful should your tip pooch out my wallet, ma’am."

Kurumi and Pira get a whispered ‘thank you,’ despite Pira’s tip being especially generous. The baristi doesn’t want to interrupt her conversation with Cass.

Sep 10, 2024 7:49 pm
Kurumi would like the band to play a local song, to see what passes around here for music and possibly dance to.
Sep 10, 2024 10:41 pm
AT A TABLE TO OUR HEROINES’ RIGHT, a Middleaged Mutant Vampire Turtle sinks his fangs into a straw dipped in a glass of tomato juice. The Shewolfubus at his side sips from a smoothie glass. Her smoothie is red with green, yellow, purple and orange swirls. The vampire bonks himself of the head. "Blah. I could’ve had a V8."

None of our heroines know what a V8 is. Or why all of these corny lines seem to project toward them while every other conversation is a barely audible murmur. And it happens again:

AT AN ADJACENT TABLE, a rollerskating fembot delivers a pizza to a two headed zombie in a suit. "One extra large Red Herring Pizza for Frank’n’Ben Stein!" the waitress announces in a metallic voice.

She lowers a fish-shaped beet-and-tomato pizza onto the table.

The scarred, square-jawed head looks disappointed. The balding bespectacled head explains to the waitress, "My brother thought you served fish here."

"We do." The fembot gestures toward some customers who just walked in.

https://i.imgur.com/7MsxbVT.jpeg

The waitress then skates to another table, announcing her delivered dish: "One Line of Corn!"
ON THE BANDSTAND, the Gigakitten drums a tiddy-boom-tshhhh! and gets such a look from the Elephantine keytaurist.

Luckily the awkward silence is broken by Kurumi’s request for local club tunes.
[ +- ] BFD Rock Solid


The Shewolfubus is quick to get on the dance floor. The Middleaged Mutant Vampire Turtle is slow to join her, so she dances with the bunny girl.

"Blah! I could’ve had a hot date," laments the Vampire Turtle.
Sep 12, 2024 6:21 pm
Princess Diamond enters the place at her most regal. She walks with grace and effortlessly floats past. She pulls a true gold dubloon out to tip with before settling herself elegantly in a seat. Now she is ensured good service and has pre-paid the likely damages…
Last edited Sep 12, 2024 6:24 pm

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (3d6)

(265) = 💥💥COMBO

Sep 13, 2024 9:02 am
Casanova entered the venue with a wary eye. She might've been accused of checking her corners for targets, and technically she wouldn't disagree. If the others hadn't wanted to come here then she would've avoided it. There's nothing like a coffee place for running into old acquaintances that you'd rather not see.

She approaches the bar, and notices everyone tipping the man. Tipping is an odd concept to her, because it suggests the man isn't being paid enough for his services already. She doesn't want to tip, because if someone tipped her she'd have felt it offensive, but peer pressure started to tip her hand as she pointed at the tomato milkshake as well.

Then Pira's question stopped her short;
FlyingSucculent says:
"So what's up with this Vera gal, Commander?" She glances mischievously at Casanova while the man brings her the order. "Sounds like there is a story there! Your sworn rivals?"
She froze. This was a question she'd hoped wouldn't come up, a bit of colour appearing in her usually steely expression. She thinks of a hundred reasons not to answer, until eventually she realises none of them would work. With a sigh, she hangs her head and nods.

"👧, 👈🦾👾, 🤝🙅... 👭😳😖😈"

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Sep 13, 2024 10:25 am
https://i.imgur.com/IUYZKJJ.jpegThe baristi pauses to look at the extremely generous tip from the princess. It is a single coin, but worth—

—the baristi zips away-and-back, whips out an abacus and moves its beads about.

Upon confirming (at a glance) that the princess and her friends have all been sufficiently served, the baristi puts up a sign that says
BACK IN 5 MONTHS.

He then zips away, and zips back with a suitcase in each hand, smiles at our heroines, and zips away again. A pair of swinging doors part, swing, and stop… and that is the last you see of the baristi (unless you come here again in five months or so).
OOC:
@FlyingSucculent,@Dmbrainiac,@Alepous,@Tickettbror,@Ysolde,@Qralloq
The roll-for-initiative post will drop on Monday. For today and the weekend, the cafe is peaceful, with not even a hint of what could go wrong.
Pira doesn’t even notice the baristi collecting his tips and leaving. She is so focused on Cass’ response that the fighter is able to understand the space commander’s every word!
Sep 13, 2024 8:07 pm
Pira's eyes widen and she leans further towards Casanova, voice lowered conspiratorially, way too excited about being a little nosy. "Ooh, this is a better story than a rival! Ending aside, you must've been great partners if you asked her out!" She taps her chin thoughtfully. "And Vera doesn't really sound like the vindictive type, I think. So if she's still holding it against you, then it must've meant something to her! Maybe you two should talk or something."

She crunches one of her crackers, then waves her hand vaguely in the air: "I mean, I ain't really an expert on healthy relationship, of course! But everyone always talks about communication and stuff, and you're smooth like butter, you can figure it out." Piranha's fangs destroy another bread-based tomato square. "So there is no lingering bitter feelings? Trust me, these suck, they make kangaroos hunt down your family members."

Piranha pauses, then grins. "Plus it'll be either a romantic reunion or a chaotic mess, and both are fun! Right, gals?"
Last edited Sep 13, 2024 8:08 pm
Sep 15, 2024 11:15 pm
Diamond watches the Baristi leave and sighs delicately, apparently the destruction of the Green Unicorn was well known to the man. It wasn’t her fault that a raging owl ear had destroyed the place and eaten the bar tender. She’d paid for damages and helped clean up even only stopping when she was carried off by that sentient cloud.

She hadn’t quite heard the details of the other conversation so she blushed and said, "Romance? It sounds nice in the books. I really wouldn’t know much about it beyond a kiss on the cheek to my ahh…rescuer"
Sep 16, 2024 4:59 am
Our heroines enjoy a moment’s peace, sipping coffee and talking about romance.


Meanwhile…
[ +- ] 🎹 BFD Rock Solid
ON THE DANCE FLOOR, the Shewolfubus and Bunny Girl are soon joined by the Middle-Aged Mutant Vampire Turtle and the Fembot Waitress. The turtle-man does his best to make robotic moves like the waitress.

"Blah!" He says in amazement, "I’m doing the robot."

"I have only agreed to a dance," the fembot asserts.
AT AN ADJACENT TABLE, a Hunchbackian in jeans and a leather jacket shambles his way toward the two-headed Frank’N’Ben Stein.

"Daah… it’s the Quaz," Frank says to his brother. Ben smiles politely. "Hi, Quazie."

"Aaaaaaay," Quazie replies, giving the brothers his trademark two thumbs up.

Starstruck, Frank says, "Two thumbs up! One for each of us."

Ben pretends not to know his other head. He asks the Quaz, "Would you like a slice of Red Herring Pizza?"

Frank counteroffers, "Or how about a Line of Corn?"

"Naw, that stuff gives me the line of shits." Quazie helps himself to a slice of pizza. "How’s things at the casino, gents?"

"Nobody won my money," Ben replies, "not without me winning more back. And your business?"

"Eh," Quazie shrugs. "I get a lotta time outdoors, but I think this planet’s got Stealth Wasps or something. I got stung. Didn’t see a nest… or… what bit …mmm." He takes a bite of pizza. His facial expression sours as he slowly chews.

"Daah, you okay?" Frank looks at Quazi, then looks to his brother.

The Quaz swallows and gives a thumb up. "Ayy," he says half-heartedly. "I slept on the train ride back. Feelin’… good as…"

Ben notices Quazie is starting to sweat a little.

"…as…"

The turtle-man—now dancing with the Shewolfubus—stops doing the robot (dance). "Blah!" he blurts, but is otherwise speechless. The wolf-woman also stops dancing. Her snout scrunches.

"…as… shit."

Frank’N’Ben rise as the Quaz slumps face-down in the pizza.

His head suddenly twists. Imploring eyes beg his muscular two-headed friend: "KO me," he whispers. Of course his friends don’t attack him. "KO me…!"

The hump in Quazie’s back starts to throb—!

https://i.imgur.com/Ryp02Ci.jpeg

-ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF OUR HEROINES’ TABLE, a mother collapses to the floor!

"Mom!" "What’s wrong?" her son and daughter cry out. Their mother warns them, "Stay back!"

On the dance floor, the Shewolfubus slowly backs away from her dance partner. "Blah! My back hur—BLAAAHHKH!!!"

Bits of shell burst from the turtle-man’s back! He staggers—and his eyes begin to glow a purplish hue.

The mother fish’s fin swells and puffs and blows up like a balloon!

—Quazie’s hunched back expands, stretching the rear of his black leather jacket until it bursts like a giant zit! …and out pops a wind-up key!

—and from the mother fish, another wind-up key!

—and another from the turtle-man’s shell!

"Blah! Round one… FIGHT!!"
OOC:
Roll ㊙️FIGHT to spring into a cool battle stance!
[ +- ] Players’ Guide
Sep 16, 2024 7:57 am
"I don't know what's happening but I don't like it!" Thundra shouts heroically as she leaps to her feet, drawing her weapon in an impressive motion--

--or not, as she winds up spilling her coffee on herself! She yelps in pain as the piping hot liquid scalds her. "ARRGH! They should put a warning label on the cup saying that the contents are hot! SOMEBODY'S GETTING SUED!!!"
Last edited Sep 16, 2024 7:58 am

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(421) = 💢MISS

Sep 16, 2024 11:11 am
Kurumi was happy with the tune and was getting a big bite from her vegan burger when everything went south. With a half eaten burger and her mouth full of food she springs into an action pose. She steps on Tundra's spilled coffee and slips to the floor. "My borgar...!" she cries with her mouth full.
Last edited Sep 16, 2024 11:35 am

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT. - (2d6)

(22) = 💢MISS

Sep 16, 2024 11:38 am
Pira leaps to her feet, more occupied by catching Kurumi and preventing her defeat via coffee than actually jumping into the fray. Although she still does it with style, striking a dramatic pose with the dancer, compete with obligatory background special effects in form of a guitar riff and flickering flames! (She almost misses the announcer. Almost.)

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(165) = 💥💥COMBO

Sep 16, 2024 2:48 pm
Luna clasps her hands to her tiny face after she withdraws her face from the huge drink. "By Jack's frosty sack of nuts!" she exclaims, then clasps her hands over her mouth for the un-fairy like exclamation.

She's not a fighter, or a lover, or a drinker, but she is a healer, so she'll try and save the key-coons from their explosive wounds.

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT. - (2d6)

(46) = 💥HIT

Sep 16, 2024 7:15 pm
Action, time to get into the real thick of things. Diamond drew an elegant rapier and proceeded to attack. Stab, thrust, parry. It was a good thing she had studied her Agrippa.
Last edited Sep 16, 2024 7:19 pm

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT. - (2d6)

(55) = 💥💥COMBO

Sep 18, 2024 9:22 am
Casanova is a bit distracted, and has been since she arrived on the planet, with a hint of a blush that threatens to spiral out of control. Despite that, she still has reactions honed from years of training and time in action. She dives off her stool into a roll, straight through the scalding coffee and past Pira and Kurumi, to come up in a crouched shooting position.

Her blaster is still set for stun, and she glances between the wind up keys looking for a viable target. And definitely not old... acquaintances that like to make entrances.
Last edited Sep 18, 2024 9:25 am

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT. - (2d6)

(46) = 💥HIT

Sep 18, 2024 3:46 pm
THE QUAZ:🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦
HEROINES: 🍧🍧🍧🍧🍧🍧

Despite the coffee spill and the yelling and the slipping and the pending lawsuit, our heroines outcool The Quaz!
OOC:
Nobody will need to defend, which means you can all try a Special Attack this round if you want to. Read the Players’ Guide to kinda know how!
[ +- ] Players’ Guide
[ +- ] 🎹 Marble Madness Int.
The Quaz, the Mother Fish, the Middle-Aged Mutant Vampire Turtle and five Three-Legged Space Cowboys all turn their glowing eyes on you. The wind-up keys on their backs klicketty-klack menacingly! The Mother Fish whips a mace out of her purse—that’s a spiked ball on a stick, not a spray bottle. "For the children!" she yells as she charges Thundra… but carefully so as to not slip on the coffee spill, giving the Warrior Princess time to act first!

The Quaz rolls up his leather sleeves. "Nobody, and I mean nobody, outcools the Qua—"

"BLABLAHHH!!"
the turtle-man interrupts and does a cool dual-nunchuck twirl. None of his twirling comes anywhere close to Pira, who has time to act first!

The Cowboys all draw phasers set to Sonic Boom, except for Harry, who pulls a knife.

"Aw, shoot, Harry. I telled ya not to bring that durned thing to a spacebar fight."

"I brought it to spread my jam. I’m a line-dancer, not a gun-slinger, doggummit."


With the one knife-wielder, our heroines now face four fighters and four shooters… and they’re all poised to attack, but too slow on the draw!
OOC:
Ladies first! Take action!!
Sep 18, 2024 4:09 pm
Pira carefully and decisively places Kurumi upright, then turns on her heels towards the encroaching opponents. Her clawed gloves glint dramatically in in the flickers of flames as she enters her battle stance and grins widely at the group. "Wanna dance, you crooks? Let's dance, then!" She flicks her hair, blinks, then amends: "Not literally. At least not with me! Anyway, it's T-T-Time to battle!"

She yells in pure delight as she charges straight at the group, leaps over three tables at once - with some hot acrobatics in-between! - and slams into the closest opponent, her heel aimed perfectly at the wind-up key.
OOC:
Edit: haha, I love the last roll. Not functionally, but the results make a perfect order. :D
Last edited Sep 18, 2024 4:10 pm

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(623) = 💥HIT

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (2d6)

(44) = 💢MISS

㊙️☢️ SHREDDING FURY! - (5d6)

(45123) = ❄️COOL!

Sep 19, 2024 9:29 am
"RISING RAAAAGE!" Thundra shouts, channeling her anger into barbarian magic! Angry red energy begins to glow in an aura around her as she rushes to meet the charge of the fish-lady, bringing her blade around and up to slice at the key on her back!
Last edited Sep 19, 2024 9:41 am

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (2d6)

(52) = 💥HIT

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(416) = 💥HIT

Sep 20, 2024 10:50 am
Kurumi decides to sing and dance, so that she can help her friends.
[ +- ] YOASOBI - IDOL

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC! - (2d6)

(12) = 💢MISS

Sep 20, 2024 1:43 pm
Luna has had enough to drink and now came the part of the night that turned into a bar brawl. She ... was ready.

Wiping her tiny with the back of her hand, she flies up to the Mother Fish and summons a giant pack of cards. She slams the pack down in front of her and says, "I challenge you to a game of OLD MAID. No holds barred!" and deals, cards flying everywhere.
OOC:
Ie stunt to distract

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT! - (3d6)

(125) = 💥HIT

Sep 20, 2024 2:07 pm
Seeing the opponents arranged against them, and their being outnumbered, Casanova makes a snap decision. Reaching into her utility belt she takes out a stun grenade and throws it into the air. Looking into the camera that appeared from... somewhere, she pushes her sunglasses up as she shoots the grenade out of the air without looking.

Of course it would've been cool if it'd gone according to plan, with some Loggins in the background for good measure, but the grenade doesn't go off as planned. Instead it lights the room like a disco ball, complete with the stun powder falling is fairly harmless glitter. At least it's distracting though... right?
Last edited Sep 20, 2024 2:09 pm

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (3d6)

(261) = 💥HIT

ATTACK - ☢️ SHOOT! - (2d6)

(43) = 💢MISS

Sep 23, 2024 9:08 pm
[ +- ] 🎹 Marble Madness Int.
[ +- ] Status
Pira leaps onto a table, intent on volleying across, but the table is a flimsy thing—it breaks out from under the fighter! Harry tries to whack her with a jam-stained knife, put Pira unleashes her Shredding Fury! Both the space cowboy and The Quaz get clobbered!

Thundra dives blade-first at the fish-woman, arcing her blade upward at the last split-second so instead of impaling an innocent mother of two, her sword is thrust through the wind-up key! The warrior-princess leaps upward, yanking the key off the fish-woman’s back!

"Muh.." "Mom??" her children whimper.

On the mother-fish’s back, there’s a hole, gray with a tangle of broken wires. A few sparks pop from the hole, but the woman’s eyes stop glowing. "I’m… I’m…" Fine might be a lie, but what she can say to her son and daughter truthfully is, "..she saved me."

The boy-fish says "Thanks, muscle-lady!" to Thundra. But his sister clenches her fists, searching for an outlet for her triggered teen angst…
[ +- ] 🎹 "YOASOBI - IDOL
Karumi’s spell compels the band to change their tune! She starts dancing—alone at first!—but soon a squidling in a schoolgirl outfit dances with Kurumi—then a bunny girl in a leotard!—a biggun-grig clad in a tee shirt that says MUSIC⚡️BAND on it—and finally, after some hesitation, one more girl joins Kurumi: the fish-girl.

The Three-Legged Space Cowboys hold their fire. "Let’s not be too hasty, boys. We ain’t never shot a lady."

"Ain’t never been out-danced by one neither."

"Oh, bosh, Denny! What about the Sassy Sarsaparilla Sisters?"

"They done danced the pants offa me,"
Denny admits, "but ’tain’t happ’nin’ today. I wore mah belt." Denny holds onto his belt buckle, and line-dances, with two of the boys at his side.

The line-dancers then fan themselves with playing cards, all of which are aces drawn from their sleeves. Between dancing and cards, Kurumi and Luna have successfully distracted three of the four gunmen.

The fourth shouts at them, "What in the blue blazes o’ hell and tarnation y’all doin’?" The one non-dancing gunman shouts as he takes aim at Cass

—who’s too quick on the draw! She whips out a stun grenade! She shoots up in the air…

…and misses.

"LAWWWLL!" the gunman laughs. But his laugh is quickly silenced as the chandelier Cass (accidentally) shot crashes down on him, knocking him out cold and busting the key on his back!

—and his gun slides across the floor spinning until it slams into the table that Pira toppled, and goes off!
OOC:
Pira,
㊙️BLOCK your ears! That gun was set to Sonic Boom!
• On a MISS, lose ❤️!
• On a HIT, your ears are ringing! You next attack will be off-balance (less damaging).
• On a COMBO, you’re fine!
With two cowboys down and the fish-mom outta the fight, the Quaz and the Vamp-Turtle each pick a foe.

"Blah! I vant to swat the fairy."

"Not cool,"
says the Quaz. "Picking on someone smaller than you is not cool at all. Ayyyy…yyYA!!" Quazie snaps out of his lecture and does his super cool Ice Breaker Karate Chop! "Hey, tall, blonde and bodacious… what’s YOUR sign?"
OOC:
Thundra,
🕹️DODGE the question! He doesn’t care what your sign is!
• On a MISS, you dodge the question, but not the chop! Lose 🩵🩵!
• On a HIT, you dodge the chop, but not the coolness! Lose 🩵 from the chill, and be careful—the hilt of your sword is slippery. If you roll ㊙️FIGHT and MISS, there’s a consequence! (I’ll tell you what, if you miss.)
• On a COMBO, you’re fine!
The Middle-aged Mutant Vampire Turtle is inspired. He goes after someone taller: Casanova! "Spinning Shell Kick!"

The vamp-turtle ticks his limbs inside his shell and spins across the floor, straight at Cass!
OOC:
Cass,
🕹️DODGE or ㊙️BLOCK!
• If you MISS, lose 💙💙.
• A HIT or COMBO successfully protects you, but—

—if you successfully BLOCK, the vamp-turtle will be extra vulnerable to ㊙️FIGHT (from anyone’s attack).
Sep 24, 2024 5:44 pm
She'd been...waiting that's it! She was waiting for her moment and Thundra had been the one to show her what needed to be done. All she needed to do was use some magic, then get the soda machine to encase these baddies in ice. Okay, she twirls her rapier (it doubles as a wand) and used her magic.

Frozen soda streams all over the bad guys as the princess tries to encase them in ice so that the keys can be removed.
Last edited Sep 24, 2024 5:45 pm

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (3d6)

(526) = 💥💥COMBO

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT. - (2d6)

(26) = 💥HIT

Sep 24, 2024 6:29 pm
OOC:
@FlyingSucculent,@Dmbrainiac,@Alepous,@Tickettbror,@Qralloq
What Princess Diamond did worked on every enemy! There are five of them and also five of you who can still act this round.

To get the key out of a frozen person’s back, roll any of the following:
🕹️STUNT to skillfully pry or disarm the key
㊙️ FIGHT to brutally yank or smash the key
☢️ MAGIC to magically move or alter the key

(Basically, I mean you can use your best stat.)
Sep 25, 2024 6:38 am
Thundra gawks at the Quaz. "Sign? I don't underst--OW!" His karate chop smacks her in the face!

As she stumbles back, Princess Diamond uses her magic to encase him in ice. She growls as she reaches out to try to yank the key out of his back.
Last edited Sep 25, 2024 6:40 am

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (2d6)

(13) = 💔GET WHACKED!

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(522) = 💥HIT

Sep 25, 2024 7:54 am
Casanova is ready. Or at least, she thinks she is, and gets ready to dodge. Only when the vamp-turtle is encased in ice she realises the plan wouldn't work. He's become erratic, slippery, bigger and with a lot more weight. What now? Who knows? She glances around, and sees the exposed key. Another plan forms.

She lowers herself, prepares, and grabs the key at the last moment. The block slams into her. It catapults her off her feet, but she takes the key with her while the block of ice goes in the opposite direction. She's winded and feels a lot like a rag doll as she slides to a stop, but still triumphantly lifts the key and a thumbs up.
Last edited Sep 25, 2024 7:58 am

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (3d6)

(442) = 💔GET WHACKED!

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (3d6)

(166) = 💥💥COMBO

Sep 25, 2024 9:58 am
OOC:
Only three Three-Legged Space Cowboys have keys in their backs! (In my head, Thundra is lifting both Quaz and his key, but he’s officially marked SAFE now.)
[ +- ] Status
Sep 25, 2024 6:19 pm
Kurumi does a skillfull jump next to one of the Space Cowboys and does a pirouette on ice. She will try to disarm the key.

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT! - (3d6)

(526) = 💥💥COMBO

Sep 26, 2024 1:50 pm
Luna tosses her giant playing cards up in the air, save one, and runs over to a space cowboy, sticking the card under the middle ones boot to trip him up on its slippery surface, hoping to distract him so the key can be removed easily.

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT! - (3d6)

(341) = 💢MISS

Sep 27, 2024 12:48 am
Pira perches on the remnants of the table and pokes the cowboy next to her with a heel. "You know, these props are really flimsy," she complains to the frozen man, gesturing at the furniture pieces around them. "Back at the tournament grounds, you could bash a kangaroo with a paper lantern and it'll be good to use the very next round! The lantern, not the kangaroo. Hmm, maybe I should tip this establishment about ordering stuff from my planet..."

She sighs and leans against the key in the man's back. "Wow, I'm almost feeling homesick! Never thought I'd be eager to see their mugs again, yet here I go. But at least we're getting a fantastic show, right?!" Pira grins as she sees her companions do quick work of the clockwork gang. "Wish they'd agree to come visit afterwards or something... Think Her Highness would be up for grabbing a drink together?" She elbows the key.
OOC:
Pira uses an unexpected heart-to-heart! It's... maybe effective?
(Use your best stat? Nah, inspiration says.)

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (2d6)

(61) = 💥HIT

Sep 27, 2024 2:13 pm
[ +- ] Status
Our heroines take full advantage of the frozen foes—who aren’t foes at all, of course—and get the keys off of their backs.

Once unfrozen, they come to their senses.

"Ayyyy, I gotta appreciate a lady who can best me by weaponizing my coolness." It’s not what Princess Diamond actually did, but the Quaz means well, in a egotistical way.

The middle-aged mutant vampire turtle doesn’t feel so well. "Blah, I vant to seek medical attention." The shewolfubus is suddenly clad in a nurse uniform. It’s not a uniform normally seen in actual hospitals, but the turtle man accepts her arm and the pair exits the cafe.

As for the three-legged space cowboys, two of them notice Luna’s attempt to distract the third.

https://i.imgur.com/dPzIh4I.jpeg"Calamity Steve?!" one cowboy blurts in disgust as he points down at the card that Luna slipped into Steve’s pant leg. "Ya got a deuce in yer pants!"

Another cowboy blushes in second-hand embarrassment. "That… that ain’t right."

They escort their friend away, accidentally snapping off the key in the process.

As for the key Thundra yanked out from Quazie’s back, the part that was embedded in the Quaz himself is now exposed—and still functional!!

It’s a robot that is bigger than a fairy, but smaller than a human brain. It has several spidery appendages, all of which are grasping at Thundra—but unable to reach her since she’s holding the key that’s still attached to the creature!!
OOC:
No roll is necessary. Just write your (re)action.
The other keys have similar robotic forms, but they are broken and emitting sparks.

The fembot waitress, fish-family and Frank’n’Ben Stein all gather around our heroines giving compliments like "Awesome!", "Brilliant!" and "Daah, can I have your autographs?" The fish-kids would rather a group selfie.
Sep 27, 2024 6:27 pm
"Die, robot!" Thundra cries, smashing it hard against the wall!
Sep 27, 2024 6:47 pm
Nuts and bolts and spidery limbs and sparks fly as the little robot is smashed against the wall!
Sep 27, 2024 8:25 pm
Giant Spider, she’s seen that before, "Go for the eyes, if they can’t see you they can’t bite you. Don’t be like that snalk folk who just got bit and his friend who thought being under it was the best plan. Eyes first then the other parts."

Rapier ready she advanced to start stabbing.
Sep 28, 2024 12:33 pm
As it happens, the spidery robot that was on the fish-mom’s key had detached from the key and snuck across the floor.

Princess Diamond, being from a cartoon world, could not help but notice the neatly carved mouse-hole in the wall. It even has a tiny mailbox!

Fortunately the Princess saw this when she did—for the spidery robot almost skittered inside!

It is now impaled on Princess Diamond’s rapier!

A few sparks pop out from the bot. Its purple lights fade to black, and one of its limbs twitches a few seconds before it hangs limp like the others.
OOC:
It’s probably obvious that only Luna can fit in the mouse hole.
Oct 2, 2024 10:12 am
"EEEK!!!" exclames Kurumi as she is afraid of bugs. "Are they dead?"
Oct 2, 2024 8:30 pm
As Kurumi asks this, two mice walk out of the Mouse Hole. The gray mouse in a bonnet and apron is visibly vexed. She’s carrying something. Luna can easily see that the mouse is carrying a rolling pin.

The other mouse is brown, and he’s wearing an undersized hat and an oversized bow tie. The expression on his face is like that of any husband whose wife is miffed.

"I told ya we needed to save up for a door, but no. You had to get the mailbox, the seven inch TV, and the subscription to Brie weekly."

"But honey! That subscription puts food on the table—specifically Sunday Brie!"

"Don’t but-honey me! I don’t need my but honeyed. I need my butt protected!"

"But huhhh…I mean WHO can protect us from Robotic Spiders?" The brown mouse suddenly notices out heroines, and the broken spider-bots.

A large❗️appears over his head!

"Oooooh, that’d betta be a QuestGiver Exclamation Point, and not one of your ideas!"

Before the brown mouse can respond, The Quaz gives the mouse a thumbs up. "Aaaaaay. I think the exclamation point is a mark of coolness."

Not one to be out-cooled (more than once), a large❗️appears over Quazie’s head as well. Whose QuestGiver Exclamation Point is cooler depends on the coolness of the quest.

Also… Cass has a sneaky suspicion that accepting a quest is a great way to delay the inevitable reunion with Vera.
OOC:
In OoC terms, the discovery of the mouse hole opens up an alternate route.
Oct 3, 2024 8:22 pm
Talking mice! She was so happy to see them, "Well hello there my fair mice. I am Princess Diamond of the Diamond Throne. You may or may not remember me from the party at Cinderella’s castle? I was the on who ended up in the moat fighting the undead pastry. Well, even if you weren’t there or didn’t remember that’s okay. It seems you have a problem with Robot Spiders and I have six talented ladies ready to help."
Last edited Oct 3, 2024 8:22 pm
Oct 3, 2024 11:07 pm
"Cinderelly?" The brown mouse looks confused.

"She said Cin-der-ell-AH. And more importantly, she said she can help!"

The two mice look at each other with such hope, they don’t even fanfare sounding off from the accepted quest.
[ +- ] 🎹 Fanfare
The brown mouse tips his hat to the princess. "Why thank you. I suppose you mean to send your fairy friend in?"

The mousewife gives him the side-eye. "Please. Everyone who reads The Paper knows fairies have Pixel Dust that can shrink their friends so the lot of ’em can enter mouse holes."
The Quaz slowly backs away from the conversation. His exclamation point deflates to a limp question mark. Having been out-cooled by talking mice, he thinks it best to ride his motorcycle to Outta Here.

https://i.imgur.com/STjtOUw.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/Hrw7Zic.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ojFZkz2.jpegAnyone who happens to be looking out the window sees Quazie’s bike blast off toward space.

And anyone who keeps watching notices that the Quaz lands on the road and looks back to see if anyone was impressed. Then he keeps riding, but on the road and at the posted speed limit.

’Cause reckless driving ain’t cool.
https://i.imgur.com/tV4Ui13.jpegBut getting back to the mice, they’re ecstatic!

"Do come in! It would be our great honor to invite a real live princess into our humble abode!"

"Just gimme a jiffy or two to shoo the spiders off our furniture."

"Isn’t that the whole point of inviting a shrunken princess and her entourage?"

"Right… we better wait for you to do the Pixel Dust thing before we put the kettle on then."
OOC:
Quest accepted! Of course Luna will need to sprinkle ✨Pixel Dust. One ✨ will be enough to keep everyone tiny for the entire Mouse House quest.
Oct 5, 2024 12:48 pm
OOC:
@Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac,@Ysolde,@Alepous
Oh, by the way, all of the spidery robots (that were attached to wind-up keys) are no longer functional. Of course, there are more mechanical pests inside the Mouse House.

Assuming Luna sprinkles ✨Pixel Dust on all of you (which, for some reason, only affects other players), you’ll all need to roll 🕹️STUNT when you enter the Mouse House.

Each 💥 gets the team past a strands of the robo-spiders’ laser-web without incident.

WEBOMETER:
🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️

Oct 5, 2024 2:01 pm
Luna doesn't ask her new friends, it doesn't occur to her, but simply and whimsically flies around them sprinkling pixie dust.

"A mouse hole is so much fun. Even more so when they're friendly mice!" She spins and flourishes as the girls shrink down, their bodies first then their clothes rapidly after them.

"A mouse is like pipe space! Did you know there are some mouse holes that lead to other planets? Or neighborhoods, one of those two. Very mysterious if you ask me. One time I got married to a picture of a rooster!"

Surveying her work, she adds a couple more grains of dust to make sure all their weapons are the proper new size.
[ +- ] SHRINK HAPPY THOUGHTS
Oct 7, 2024 10:19 pm
[ +- ] 🎹 Black Omen Organic Mix
[ +- ] Status
Our heroines feel an odd sensation of nakedness as their clothing billows from their bodies—but only for a fleeting moment! for Luna is simply following proper procedure. Were she to shrink the clothing first, it would tear like giftwrap.

In a matter of seconds, clothing is comfortably snug and the world is a forest of legs. Only Luna and the mice appear to be normal to our human heroines.

Purple lasers criss-cross along the entrance to the Mouse House. Can our tiny, gravity-defying heroines slip by without setting off the obvious trap?
OOC:
Roll 🕹️STUNT to slip inside the Mouse House. (Basically, roll for initiative.)
@Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac,@Ysolde,@Alepous
Oct 7, 2024 10:43 pm
With her friends now right-sized, she leads them into the mouse hole. Lasers are like cotton candy, right?

Bzzt!
Last edited Oct 7, 2024 10:43 pm

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT! - (3d6)

(342) = 💢MISS

Oct 8, 2024 1:23 pm
Why did mice need laser grids on their doors anyway? Well, who was she to criticize others when her wing of the castle was triple fortified with laser grids, owlbears, and a vast array of dangers just to try and cut down on the kidnappings. Somehow it never seemed to work though...

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (2d6)

(45) = 💥HIT

Oct 8, 2024 2:09 pm
"Ha ha! It tickles!" Thundra giggles as she shrinks down, her clothes soon following suit. "Follow my lead!"

She charges straight at the laser grid, diving through the center!

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (2d6)

(44) = 💢MISS

Oct 8, 2024 8:57 pm
Pira is simply delighted by the fact that this time Bitey shrinks as well, and she doesn't need to leave it outside the mouse hole and have her fish friend miss out on an adventure. Besides, with how it's been going so far? She's pretty sure they are not going out the same way they got in.

She's examining the laser grid when her ears finally process some of Luna's chatter. "Wait a moment. A picture of a rooster? Who would officiate that? Can you give me their number?" Piranha tilts her head. "Also, why are these friendly mice were concerned about a door if they have this whole setup? And why do we have to do it if we're guests?!" She huffs, then plasters herself against the wall and squeezes through the lasers. "This planet's weird..."

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (2d6)

(56) = 💥💥COMBO

Oct 10, 2024 5:53 am
Kurumi tries to pass through the laser webs. She fails to avoid them. "Is it the burger? Am I fat now?" she thinks. "This is definitely NOT like cotton candy." she says to Luna.
Last edited Oct 10, 2024 5:55 am

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT! - (3d6)

(124) = 💢MISS

Oct 10, 2024 9:48 pm
OOC:
Botting…!

Rolls

P5 - Space Commander Casanova: SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (3d6)

(532) = 💥HIT

Oct 11, 2024 1:30 pm
[ +- ] Status
Our Heroines enter the mouse house only to find lasers criss-crossing, zig-zagging, forming a web that never quite connects…

Our heroines manage to get through most of the way, until finally a toe or a wing or a strand of hair barely brushes a thin purple line—

—and the purple lights flicker off. The mouse house door slams shut! And all would be pitch black if not for Luna’s aura and the golden specks that keep our heroines temporarily tiny.

From the candle-flame-like glow, the humble abode appears to have human objects repurposed as mouse furniture. A bare spool for a table with thimble chairs. A matchbox stove. A raisin box to store food (probably raisins). A futon made of folded fabric.

It’s cute and all, but the mouse couple did say something about spiders. All those red eyes suddenly illuminating around you… that must be them!

—from the red eyes, glowing lines form in the air—red near the glowing eyes, golden as they draw closer! They move slow because the adrenaline (or the game’s Cut Scene) is giving you the ability to experience the current second-and-a-half in slow motion. So you have time to realize that these red-gold lines are not lasers. They’re webs!

You have time to 🕹️DODGE or ㊙️BLOCK!
OOC:
Your first action will need to be DEFEND since you just missed winning the ‘initiative’ roll. The two defense types are different:
• DODGE - on a HIT, you are completely unhindered.
• BLOCK - on a HIT, you take the hit for another player who rolled a MISS.
• DODGE or BLOCK - on a MISS, the spider damages you (-💜) before you can act, and your ATTACK is weaker because of the webbing all over you arms and torso.

You can take a second action no matter what. If you choose a SPECIAL instead of an ATTACK, just be creative.

Also, using an ITEM can be in addition to other actions. For some of you, the ITEM might override the consequence of a bad roll.
@Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac,@Legendary_Sidekick,@Ysolde,@Alepous
Oct 12, 2024 3:02 pm
Cass had never had an issue with spiders. If anything, she'd thought them kinda fun. The bigger kinds were a nuisance because they always sat in your eye line and made a constant reminder that your home wasn't as secure as you suggested, but the smaller ones were mini roommates as far as she cared. Now though, these spiders gave her a different kind of feeling.

Robots, to her mind, were square. They were the box equivalent of snowmen, with a larger box on the bottom and a smaller one on top. Gnar-Gnar always wanted to make these custom, multi-limbed bots and it'd probably coloured her opinion, if she was honest, but non box robots were simply the enemy. Not to mention laser beams defence grids didn't tend to suggest the good guys.

The thoughts occupied her mind as she ducked away from the webs flying in her direction, taking care to avoid knocking over a coffee table (which she called that because it was made out of a coffee box), before returning fire with some well placed emp blasts from her blaster.
Last edited Oct 12, 2024 3:04 pm

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (3d6)

(363) = 💥HIT

ATTACK - ☢️ SHOOT! - (2d6)

(53) = 💥HIT

Oct 13, 2024 3:39 pm
Luna attempts to dodge out of the way with a little squeak, afeared for her fragile wings. "I didn't expect robot spider clan!"

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE! - (3d6)

(666) = 🛡️SAFE!!

Oct 15, 2024 7:24 am
Thundra dodges deftly through the webbing. "BANGOOO!" she shouts as she charges the spider, swinging wildly -- perhaps, too wildly!
Last edited Oct 15, 2024 7:25 am

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (2d6)

(46) = 💥HIT

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(413) = 💢MISS

Oct 16, 2024 8:00 pm
She attempts to dodge the spider web and instead hits the very center. The princess is...trapped...this is a feeling she's very very used to though so, with one free hand she twirls a wand and creates some scissors. The large scissors easily cut through the web so that she can be free.
Last edited Oct 16, 2024 8:02 pm

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE! - (2d6)

(34) = 💔GET WHACKED!

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (3d6)

(416) = 💥HIT

Oct 17, 2024 7:52 pm
"Hold on, Your Higness, I'm coming!" Pira proclaims boldly and then dashes forward to block the way of the spider inching towards the princess. Unfortunately it's not very effective as she gets distracted by the lasers, but it doesn't stop her from still placing herself between them and boasting: "You won't win over the combined power of a heel and a wand, you arachnid fiend!" She flexes her claws and strikes a pose while Diamond cuts herself out of the web. "Besides, do you know how many kangaroo spiders I fought?"

Once she is completely sure that the princess is safe, Piranha then grins and glares at the spider cockily: "And now it's time for you to taste my claws!"
Last edited Oct 17, 2024 7:53 pm

Rolls

DEFEND - ㊙️ BLOCK! - (3d6)

(422) = 💔GET WHACKED!

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(112) = 💢MISS

Oct 19, 2024 7:27 pm
[ +- ] Status
As our heroines fumble through the laser-webs, a couple spiders get some lucky strikes in—their pointy ‘legs’ stabbing at Pira and the Princess! Kurumi is almost struck as well, but Luna’s quick flight distracts her assailant, allowing Thundra to smack it away!
OOC:
Bonus effect for Luna’s Super Dodge: Thundra lands the blow!
As Cass and Pira blast and smash, the Princess literally cuts off the spider-bots’ hindering attack. Those that remain attempt to reposition themselves! A few skitter toward the closet door, but our heroines can see that there’s a huge hole in the back of the closet that leads to Who-Knows-Where.

Another pair of bots run on the ceiling toward the bathroom while the rest head for a dark hallway..!
OOC:
TAKE ACTIONS:
• ㊙️BLOCK, 🕹️STUNT or ☢️MAGIC can cut off a spider group’s strategic retreat. (Since BLOCK is a DEFEND action, and STUNT/MAGIC is a SPECIAL, it’s possible for a heroine to use both actions to cut off the escape.

• It takes 2 hits💥💥 to prevent spiders from escaping through the bathroom.
• It takes 3 hits💥💥💥 to prevent spiders from escaping through the closet.
• It takes 4 hits💥💥💥💥 to prevent spiders from escaping through the hall.
㊙️FIGHT or ☢️SHOOT to destroy an individual spider or two.

• It takes 2 hits💥💥 to kill a spider while it’s running for its escape route.
• It takes 1 hit💥 to kill a spider if its group cannot escape.
(Some of you might have ITEMs that could help, if the die rolls suck.)
The spiders are bigger than you, to stop them, you’ll need to act as a team!
Oct 21, 2024 9:42 am
OOC:
So I had a thought; Teamwork makes the beam work can teleport up to 6 if at least one of us is small. Since the spiders are, well, small, could Cass ask Pinky to port all the spiders into the ship's brig? (or utility cupboard assuming it doesn't have a brig)
Oct 21, 2024 11:14 am
OOC:
Yes.

It’s intended to be players only, but I would allow it to teleport the whole group. (All of you plus the spiders combined take up about 7% the volume of normal-sized Cass.)

Since the ship is in the docking bay (under repair), you would not need to beam back, so this works out to be an insta-win.

Pinky can sort so all of you end up just outside the brig and spiders are inside. There can be a force field or other means to keep the spiders locked in.
@Tickettbror, Go ahead and narrate the beaming!

You’ll still be tiny upon arrival, but you are free to stay tiny or grow back at-will.
Oct 22, 2024 11:48 am
Casanova notices the change in the spiders apparent goal. She looks down at her blaster, and then at the other members of her group. She's aware that they... that most of them can handle themselves in a fight but combat from a distance is hard without ranged weapons. It seems kind of obvious, but then- No, now wasn't the time for getting distracted.

She thought about a solution, but every one had collateral damage which wasn't something any of them wanted. The mice seemed perfectly reasonable people, even if they were a little colourful in places, so she'd rather not trash their house. Their house... house... home! That's it!

Before the spiders could escape the room, she flicked the switch on Pinky's Emergency Teleport Recall. The screen showed the targets, and she poked at everyone (minus the mice) with their targets. When she hit send she heard Pinky's voice asking if she was sure, somewhat sardonically as a ships computer could be, but she nodded and the beam hit.

There was a pulling sensation, and for a moment she had the distinct feeling her head was longer than her body. Then she heard a buzz, and felt a whoosh (these are all technical terms), before a pop deposited her and the crew just outside the brig's forcefield.
Oct 22, 2024 6:50 pm
WELCOME BACK, CAPTAIN. YOU LOOK DIFFERENT. IT IS NOT A CRITICISM; IT IS A FACT.

THESE ROBOTIC SPIDERS ARE INTERESTING SPECIMENS. SHALL I STUDY THEM AND ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THEIR PURPOSE?


The mini-K’s flit excitedly about Kurumi. Morumi says to Pinky, "I’ll bet Kurumi here already solved that riddle."

Larumi adds, "Or someone from the crew."

"But not me," Kurlumi admits, "I’m still trying to figure out why the chicken crossed the road."

The spider-bots sit patiently in the cell as they eye the crew, which is still currently shrunken.

Then after a few seconds, they start to get restless as the clacking of heels draws closer… closer…

"Ain’t ye just a literal doll?" A foxy lady in a daring vermilion red dress peers down past her mop of fiery locks, emerald eyes locked onto the ankle-high aviatrix. The vixen’s candy apple lips form a saccharine smile that could win or break a heart. Her fluffy fox tail sways hypnotically.

Two spider-bots roast their circuits trying to breach the force field to get to Vera. The others stop in recognition of the futility.

Vera ignores them. Her eyes remain fixed on Casanova. "This ain’t how I imagined our reunion’d look like, Cass. It’s better."
OOC:
Everyone except Luna can grow back to normal at-will. If you remain shrunken, you can fly.
Oct 28, 2024 10:46 am
Thundra flexes her muscles and GROWS back to full size! "Ha! I don't know exactly what happened, but it was fun! Where are the next bad guys to punch?" she inquires eagerly.

She looks at the foxy lady. "This is your friend, Casanova? I like her!" she declares with a grin.
Oct 28, 2024 5:00 pm
Luna crosses her arms in mock disappointment as Thundra grows tall once more, but her whimsical nature leaves her forgetting her momentary petulance almost instantly. "Wasn't that fun? Those spiders were very naughty, though. I think they could be programmed for better uses, such as gardening."
Oct 31, 2024 1:44 pm
Figurative alarm bells ring in Cass' mind the moment she hears the heels, and it's just like Pinky to let someone aboard without express permission. Even still, her stomach is already going summersaults before Vera appears. She's just as alluring- er, well dressed? as she used to be and Cass has a hard time looking away.

She considers her options. At her current size there's probably a box or cupboard she'd be able to hide in without trouble, but that would be far too obvious. Heat rises to her cheeks as she realises the room has gone quiet as they wait for her to respond. To hide her embarrassment though, she lets herself grow to full size.

A text box, curtesy of Pinky, appears for her.

Hey Vera, time... it's been, uh, some. You're looking great- well, you're looking well.
Last edited Oct 31, 2024 3:33 pm
Oct 31, 2024 2:40 pm
Vera’s confidence melts a little when Cass returns to her full size. Her tail falters. Her eyes sparkle—is she holding back tears.

"I always did love that li’l blue screen o’ yours. You look.. well… as well, Cass."

She looks as if about to throw herself at Cass, but she doesn’t. She acknowledges Cass’ crew with a nod, for now.

—then the Star Vixen commander stiffens her posture and tries to suddenly be all business—

"You’re looking for that fairy, ain’t ye? But ye’ve no need to worry. She’s safely hidden in the home of a li’l mouse couple."
OOC:
You all teleported out of the mouse house, but to save you the trouble, you saw no sign of Missy Girl. If she were still there, Luna would have known of her presence.

@Qralloq Luna did get a sensation as if absinthe had been spilled in the Mouse House, though the floor was dry.
Oct 31, 2024 3:15 pm
"Are there more robots in there? Are they also so naughty? I think that living in a mousehole would be so much fun!" She does a spin, pixie dust sparkling around her. "Do you think we could have tea on saucers with the mouse couple? I didn't bring any cheese, like a proper guest."

After getting a feel for the place, she adds, "I do smell absinthe, Missy Girl was here, yay!" Small fireworks go off over her head. "But she's not here now, schmoo!"
Last edited Oct 31, 2024 3:34 pm
Nov 2, 2024 11:41 am
Vera’s eyes flicker to the spidery robots.

"Naughty’s one way to put it. The li’l bots mean to program us… well, not you and me exactly. But those innocents in the caf… the bots mean to overtake ’em.

"They mean to make enemies on a world that ain’t got ’em."


She smiles, at first, when Luna mentions the scent of absinthe.

"The mark o’ the green fairy. She’s a genius, the li’l one. Cracked the code for world peace—I wanted to tell ye, Cass. Everything. Especially that Vivian’s alive!"

Cass surely recalls… the overly eager frog princess, Vivian, who left her life of luxury to become an aviatrix… only for her ship to spiral to close to the suns on the Twin Star mission.
OOC:
Basically, Cass and Vera were in a two-player StarFox, and the other pilots were NPCs. Like Falco, Peppy and Slippy, they could die. You would never see their fun little dialogue boxes again until you played a new game.

But for Cass, she and Vera won the game with two surviving squad members. For some reason, the two had *a lot* of time together after the victory. No one played another game, which would have reset Vivian, the Slippy equivalent. Memories of her tragic demise would have been erased.

Cass has no memory of the many games in which she died, she won without Vera or with the whole team alive, or when she was the sole survivor, etc.

@Tickettbror what happened between the last game that was played up until Vera (and the other aviatrices) disappeared is entirely up to you.

One OoC fact I will tell you: if a new game had started on the Star Vixen arcade machine, Cass would have lost her memory of whatever feelings she and Vera had built up.
Vera stammers a moment. "Cass, I wanted to go back for you, but Missy Girl warned me…"

WARNING! HAXORZ DETECT1110

Pinky’s screen flickers green as her voice falters—
Nov 2, 2024 11:42 am
A voice (that some of you have heard before) is heard within the ship:
VERA, THEY FOUND ME. THEY’VE TAKEN ME TO THE GARDEN
@Qralloq,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac
OOC:
I’ll let you reply before any NPC pipes in.

Also, +1D to 🕹️, ㊙️ or ☢️ and +1💚! But don’t replenish your items or your health, aside from getting one more.
Nov 4, 2024 9:27 am
Cass frowns. Something doesn't add up, but not in a bad way. It's like she missed something. How could Vivian have survived? If she had then surely she would've arrived at mission control. Unless she had a reason not to attend the post mission party, where the dares might've gotten a bit out of hand. And she definitely wouldn't have missed the cleanup when the group stuck together.

Not that Cass had been part of that group. She was the lone wolf that helped out. She always had been, unless she'd forgotten that part of things too. She glanced at Vera and caught her eye, Vera who must've remembered the offer. The chance to be part of something rather than her own ship in the void. For a moment the world started to fade, until Pinky's warning sounded.

"No time to hesitate." Cass coughs, reality pouring back in around her. "We need to respond."
OOC:
Assuming I've read this right, I've taken +1 ☢️ and +1 💚
Last edited Nov 4, 2024 9:28 am
Nov 4, 2024 11:29 am
OOC:
Correct.

You dice total should be 8, and your HP/"MP" should be this:
[ +- ] Status
The Mini-K’s are still repairing Pinky. Cass has one use of her Teleport Beam, but it won’t take her team to an unfamiliar place.

On the other hand, Cass can teleport everyone back—she already found a way to move extra people with Luna’s help.
OOC:
Cass has 1 🚀, and Luna has 4 ✨. The cost of healing the party to full health is ✨✨✨, so basically… heal at some point before the boss fight.

We’ll have a couple minion skirmishes before I reveal the evil force behind it all.
Vera nods grimly. "Let’s board the bullet train—me girls…" She falters at the casual phrase, and rephrases. "…me squad’ll meet us at the depot."

She then kicks of her shoe. Yes, that’s right, Vera had a shoe phone back in Cass’ lonewolf days. She was that flirt behind the desk, often with a shoe in hand—even when making a video call. (Which is funny, come to think of it, because if Vera was seen holding the shoe, the camera was not part of her shoe phone.)

Vera says to her shoe, "Violet. Plan R."

A voice replies, "Plan R?"

Morumi is overheard through the damaged hull: "You’re not gonna start that again, are ya?"

Violet repeats in an affirmative tone, "Plan R. We’ll take the Double-Dashers."
You run to the bullet train. The crowd does what any crowd would do if Thundra is seen running: they clear a path.

A train has just arrived and as it happens, the rear car is empty. The door is about to close, but the AI does exactly as the crowd did—it has the doors part ways for Thundra, and you’re all aboard.

You could just sit and enjoy the ride, but after a minute, the door to the next car suddenly has a concave dent. THUMP! THUMP…! More dents appear—
OOC:
Roll ㊙️BLOCK to stop the danger from getting inside ~OR~ roll 🕹️DODGE to let the danger in, but without getting smacked by the door!

After you make the Defensive roll(s) of choice, we’ll begin Stage 4-3! (Boss after 4-4.)
Nov 4, 2024 3:27 pm
Luna flies along, then just grabs Thundra's shoulder strap and flaps along behind her, glaring at the people so they get out of her friends way. Her tiny 'I mean business face' is entirely successful, although she does feel momentarily bad about being mean.

She Dodges the denty danger and flies inside to just above the door, ready to drop snowflakes on whomever the train trasher turns out to be.

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE! - (3d6)

(521) = 💥HIT

Nov 4, 2024 6:43 pm
[ +- ] Status
OOC:
@Qralloq , I keep forgetting to mention: you had one heart too many. You should have 4 now.

@Dmbrainiac , don’t forget to level up before rolling. (Especially if you end up being able to ㊙️BLOCK the door with a 4d6 roll.)
Nov 4, 2024 7:39 pm
OOC:
I added one heart from your post above (Nov. 2). I'll remove it.
Nov 5, 2024 8:52 am
OOC:
Added 1 to 🕹️
"Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold door! HODOR! HODOR!" Thundra yells, then shakes her head to clear it. "Don't let them in!" Her muscles bulge as she tries to keep the door from opening.

Rolls

DEFEND - ㊙️ BLOCK. - (3d6)

(536) = 🛡️SAFE!!

Nov 5, 2024 11:00 am
[ +- ] Status
OOC:
These "team initiative" type rolls always end up close. @Tickettbror once you roll choice of 🕹️DODGE or ㊙️BLOCK, I’ll start the battle!
Nov 6, 2024 9:38 am
Cass reacts quickly to the sound of the door impacts. In her world, lots of enemies enter by breaking through doors. It's a kind of ettiquette, like giving a salute before a duel. The ones that don't aren't that tough most of the time. Well, musing on enemies aside, she backs up to give Thundra some space and prepares herself for any incoming enemies.

Her blaster is already in hand, and she's ready to roll.
Last edited Nov 6, 2024 9:41 am

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (3d6)

(355) = 🛡️SAFE!!

Nov 6, 2024 6:52 pm
[ +- ] Status
[ +- ] 🎹 Subway Smash
The door is smashed to pieces—all of which deflect harmlessly off of Thundra’s muscular body. And the fool who kicked it open finds his ankle awkwardly wedged under the barbarian woman’s armpit.
OOC:
Bonus effect: Thundra can get a free hit with FIGHT. Narrate what you do to him as you see fit!
https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/spencer.jpghttps://www.blockfort.com/wp-content/uploads/3414/4074/9082/Jax.jpg
Several of the men in the next train car have an arm or two covered in cybertech which reminds Thundra of the machines plaguing her own land. Did she always fight machines? One of the men was just sitting on a bench, smoking a cigarette. But now he stands, sizing up a woman who’s as big as he is!

Another is so gung-ho, he smacks two gunmen out of his way with his heavy-metal left arm!

Cass can safely fire her stun gun past Thundra. In the chaos and confusion, Luna can easily slip into the next car unnoticed!

Vera moves to Cass’ side. "Shoot ’em. AC already assimilated them. If you drop anyone, no matter how hard, the cyber’ll keep ’im alive."
OOC:
Round one! You may ATTACK, use a SPECIAL move or do both!
Nov 7, 2024 9:17 am
Maybe Cass isn't as ready as she thought she was. Maybe Vera's voice caused her nerves to slip more than she cared to admit. There could've been any number of reasons why her aim was off and she jumped when the door exploded. The shot went wide, pinging off the wall to fly out an open window to... who knows where?
OOC:
Eep. XD
Last edited Nov 7, 2024 9:19 am

Rolls

ATTACK - ☢️ SHOOT! - (3d6)

(422) = 💢MISS

Nov 7, 2024 9:39 am
Thundra drives her elbow into the knee of the man whose leg she has grabbed, attempting to break the joint. "Get off my train!" she growls, attempting to hurl the man into his cronies!

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(253) = 💥HIT

Nov 7, 2024 4:31 pm
Luna isn't much of an attacker, but she is tricksy. She flies into the next car and then tries to freeze the two side-goon gunmens' feet to the ground, maybe tripping them up or getting them off balance.

Rolls

SPECIAL - ☢️ MAGIC. - (3d6)

(356) = 💥💥COMBO

Nov 7, 2024 7:20 pm
[ +- ] 🎹 Subway Smash
[ +- ] Status
A gunman slips on the ice! A laser ricochets off the frozen metal bench, which shines like a mirror! —the gunman who had remained standing stiffens and quivers as blue arcs of lightning snake about his chest and arms! He falls unconscious, while the other gunman fumbles for his weapon—

—only to be shot in the head by a vermilion stun-blast!

"Ye got this Cass, just aim psst your big friend’s hip—"

—but before Cass can line up her shot, the man with the beefy left arm shouts "GET OVER HERE!"

His left hand is like a claw-game claw! The metal arm fires a claw-and-cable—it shoots past Thundra and grasps at Cass!
OOC:
@Tickettbror / Cass,
🕹️DODGE the cable!
• MISS = the claw misses you but gets Vera!
• HIT = the claw gets you, but not your gun—meaning FIGHT is your only attack until this car is clear.
Thundra hurls the grabbed foe! He flies into the smoker’s muscular chest. Upon impact, his flailing hand smacks the smoker in the face, extinguishing the cigarette.

"Two can play at that game."

The (now-non-) smoker grabs the thrown man in his mighty metal arms—"heynowaitIdidn’tmean"—and throws him back at Thundra!
OOC:
@Dmbrainiac / Thundra,
🕹️DODGE or ㊙️BLOCK the thrown man.
• MISS = lose a 🩵
• HIT = he flops over you, weakening your next ATTACK (roll normally, I’ll adjust damage if you hit)


Everyone,
ATTACK or use a SPECIAL MOVE!
@Qralloq / Luna may do both.
Nov 8, 2024 1:22 am
She flies over and pulls on claw hand's ear. "Time for whoop bum!"
Last edited Nov 8, 2024 1:22 am

Rolls

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT. - (2d6)

(52) = 💥HIT

Nov 8, 2024 12:08 pm
"Oof!" Thundra grunts as the man crashes back into her. She growls angrily, grabs him by the ankle, spins around several times and then hurls him right back at the smoker again!
Last edited Nov 8, 2024 12:11 pm

Rolls

DEFEND - ㊙️ BLOCK. - (3d6)

(443) = 💔GET WHACKED!

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(155) = 💥💥COMBO

Nov 12, 2024 8:18 am
Cass attempts to avoid the incoming claw, until she sees it's potential other target. That causes alarm bells she hadn't expected, and before she knew it she'd thrown herself in the way. Luckily the claw didn't get her blaster or anything else important, but it did grab her wrist around her communicator with impressive strength.

With no other option she looked for a tool to get it off her, but the best she could find would be battering at it with the butt of her gun.
Last edited Nov 12, 2024 8:22 am

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (3d6)

(522) = 💥HIT

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT. - (2d6)

(54) = 💥HIT

Nov 12, 2024 6:32 pm
[ +- ] Status
Vera is impressed by Cass’ sacrificial gesture—but what really does the trick is the way Cass adapts as she’s reeled in, clobbering her assailant with the butt of her gun before the clawed man can pummel her with his fist (as was his plan for Vera).

Luna surprises a foe with an ear-pull. "Eeyowch!" The claw-hand guy swats wildly. "Is she in my hair? Get’eroffgetteroffgettrroff!"
OOC:
Luna, 🕹️DODGE panicky swatting!
• MISS = Lose 💛
• HIT = No damage, but the slap give you an adrenaline rush; ㊙️FIGHT damage is increased!
• COMBO = Safe, and no adrenaline rush.
Thundra hurls the unfortunate peon who finally falls unconscious after clobbering the smoker so hard, the metal plate falls off his right arm!

"Hey—what am I—?" The man’s own metal-plated left hand forms a beak-shape. Fingers flap from the thumb to yell "SHUT UP!" The left hand punches the smoker out—

—and as his body falls limp, the left hand grabs one of the ‘subway poles’ and the entire body twirls on the pole to spin-kick wildly!
OOC:
Cass and Thundra, 🕹️DODGE or ㊙️BLOCK!
• MISS = Lose 💙 or 🩵
• HIT = Take a hit for your teammate only if she MISSes!
• COMBO or both of you roll HIT = Safe!
Needless to say, after you DEFEND, you get to hit back. (Cass can ☢️SHOOT this round, if she wants.)
Nov 12, 2024 7:20 pm
Luna squeaks. Does she accidentally sound like a bat trapped in his hair? She vows never to try this again. (Unfortunately, she has the memory of a squirrel for such oaths.)

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE! - (3d6)

(115) = 💥HIT

Nov 12, 2024 7:32 pm
Thundra dodges the spinning man. She tries to hit him, but he us spinning too quickly!
Last edited Nov 12, 2024 7:33 pm

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (3d6)

(511) = 💥HIT

ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)

(144) = 💢MISS

Nov 13, 2024 9:46 am
Cass ducks back, her reactions finally kicking in now that she's got a handle on the situation. She levels her blaster efficiently, honing in on a target. It's not the most stylish shot in the world, but as she pulls the trigger she feels like it's the type that's going to hit the target!
Last edited Nov 13, 2024 9:48 am

Rolls

DEFEND - 🕹️DODGE. - (3d6)

(251) = 💥HIT

ATTACK - ☢️ SHOOT! - (3d6)

(453) = 💥HIT

Nov 13, 2024 11:24 am
Luna is pushed aside by Claw-Man’s non-claw hand. It doesn’t harm her, but from her adrenaline surge, the window behind her is covered in frost!
@Qralloq,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac
Like a good little fairy, she chooses to do no harm.

Thundra and Cass time their dodges just right! Thundra’s counterstrike whiffs, but Cass manages to shoot the one thing that basically stays in place: the hand gripping the pole—

The metal arm lets go! The unconscious smoker flies into Claw-Man—and both men fly through the frosted window!

Somehow, through the shower of icy shards, you notice the men’s falls are broken by vines hanging seemingly from the sky!

"The Hangin’ Gardens. We’re nearing the depot!"

https://i.imgur.com/a703bSN.jpegThere are melons half the size of a person, a variety of other crops in the rows beyond, and beyond that, Neo Eden.

There’s something strangely familiar about the place… a legendary city on an uncharted planet? Where the Warp Pipe leads if you follow just the green ones in a specific order. And Thundra… where has she heard it?
[ +- ] 🎹 Road Warriors
The door to the next car bursts open! There are dozens of robots! And these Thundra knows quite well—they are exactly the machines from her land!

—and come to think of it, they weren’t always! The enemy used to be demons. They would die in a shower of blood! But then it was all machines who, rather than try and murder her people, made machines of them: a fate worse than death!

Thundra is certain she and her friends can’t take on this many machines at once. And there’s only so much room to fight… no place to run…

As the machines bottleneck themselves in the door, making it very easy for Cass to shoot, Thundra to stab, Luna to ice-wall—delaying their inevitable assimilation—

—outside the train, there is a roar of engines!

Three women—a winged valkyrie (Valerie), a floppy-eared bunny-girl (Violet), a frog princess (Vivian) waving her webbed hand—all drive up in vehicles that look just like the ones in Super Fairy Go-Kart Double-Crash, but built for humans!

"We best hop in the Double-Dashers!" Vera says, offering Luna her hand…
OOC:
Roll 🕹️STUNT to hop into the Double-Dashers! Each of you will end up in a different vehicle. Luna doesn’t take up much space, so she and Vera can share the passenger seat.

First to Roll:
• COMBO: Vivian’s vehicle
• HIT: Violet’s vehicle
• MISS: Valerie’s vehicle

Second to Roll:
• SAME RESULT AS FIRST: choose the vehicle
• DIFFERENT RESULT: see above

Third to Roll:
• NO MATTER WHAT: take the only vehicle left

…but roll anyway! You will all somehow make it into the vehicles, but what happens next depends on how graceful or clumsy you are (total hits).
Nov 13, 2024 11:27 am
"Bangoo!" Thundra declares excitedly as she leaps into Vivian's vehicle, sitting behind the valkyrie. "Come, warrior maiden! Let us away from these vile metal monstrosities!"
Last edited Nov 13, 2024 11:28 am

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (3d6)

(243) = 💢MISS

Nov 13, 2024 11:33 am
[ +- ] 🎹 Road Warriors
Valerie slams on the brake and steers into Thundra’s leap!

"A shield maiden!" She gives Thundra an appraising glance. "This is the day you earn your wings!"
OOC:
Next to Roll:
• COMBO: Vivian’s vehicle
• HIT: Violet’s vehicle
• MISS: choose Vivian’s or Violet’s

Last to Roll:
• NO MATTER WHAT: take the only vehicle left …but roll anyway!
Nov 13, 2024 3:04 pm
Luna takes Vera's hand and flaps out of the train car. "Angry robots!" she exclaims, as if baffled by the turn of events but then immediately adjusting to 'this is just the way things are.'

They leap/glide into Vivian's car.
Last edited Nov 13, 2024 3:05 pm

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT! - (3d6)

(526) = 💥💥COMBO

Nov 13, 2024 3:35 pm
[ +- ] 🎹 Road Warriors
Vera is ready to guide the little fairy, but Luna has no problem getting into Vivian’s kart.

The frog princess giggles giddily. "A fairy-princess team! Nothing can stop us!"

Vera has a grim expression. After all, this sweet princess was the one to die on her second mission, was she not?

Vera’s lips curl to a smile. "Loop around, Viv. Violet, get Cass aboard first."

She gets into a stance—Cass vaguely remembers how flawless the kitsune captain was in terms of speed and agility.

"I ain’t gonna lose ye twice, and I am the ranking officer on this planet. So, after you."

"Aw, man! An official order, Ver—I mean—Admiral? I was hoping you’d get all lovey-dovey about it!" Violet winces as the robots trying to squeeze through the door are actually making the doorway bend and widen as they struggle! "Okay, yeah, seriously Cass—hop in!"
OOC:
@Tickettbror roll one action: 🕹️STUNT or ☢️SHOOT or ☢️MAGIC.

SUPER COMBO: narrate what you want to happen.
ANYTHING LESS: narrate Cass somehow ending up in Violet’s kart ahead of Vera (as ordered).
Nov 15, 2024 10:52 am
Robots. Why did it always have to be robots? It was almost as though some culture had gone through a futurism phase while deciding what enemies they'd be given. Well, from Cass' perspective at least robots were familiar. Even if these weren't. Not that she had time to think too hard on the matter as she followed the others toward the vehicles.

She'd been the last one, stunning the robots at the door to make sure the others would have a chance to escape. After all she was faster than Thundra but tougher than Luna. Ready to jump she spies Violet approaching, she nods and preps to jump... but a robot catches her ankle. It's not enough to hold her but it does cause her to do an impressive flip.

She lands headfirst into the free seat, legs in the air by the end of the flip. Blushing furiously, she adjusts herself to sitting normally and makes sure her sunglasses are still in place.
Last edited Nov 15, 2024 10:56 am

Rolls

SPECIAL - 🕹️STUNT. - (3d6)

(344) = 💢MISS

Nov 15, 2024 11:29 am
[ +- ] 🎹 Banished
Vera’s emerald eyes are locked on Cass until the Space Commander is safely (and upright!) in Violet’s passenger seat.

Vivian edges her kart closer to the train as ordered, but it’s gradually becoming obvious that Vera isn’t getting off.

"I ain’t gonna lose ye twice." Her eyes seem to sparkle in the momentary linger. Her lips part.


There’s a vermilion glow about her heels—followed by a rapid klacking as the vixen charges straight into the crowd!

Sparks fly! Shards of glass, dozens of robots and billowing flames burst from the next car—the next—and the next!!

https://i.imgur.com/L1ONuXz.jpeg

The Double-Dashers steer a safe distance from the trainwreck-in-progress! All any of you can do is watch as Vera, like a juggernaut speedster, detroys the entire bullet train from within until the engine car—

https://i.imgur.com/x3I1vGe.jpeg

The Double-Dashers screech to a halt.

For a moment, you’re sure that you saw her standing silhouetted before the flames. But that consoling apparition fades in the tumbling smoke…
Nov 15, 2024 3:37 pm
Luna claps her hands to her cheeks. "Oh no! What just happened? Is she, is she, oh no!"
Nov 18, 2024 9:47 am
Cass watches, stony faced. When Vera's silhouette fades she nods once, runs a hand through her hair and nods again.
Nov 18, 2024 10:49 am
Like Cass, none of the Star Vixen crew speak, though expressions vary. Who knows what the aviatrices might be thinking and feeling right now?

Maybe the return of Vivian proved death isn’t permanent on Lv.426. Is Vera alive? Did she go out in a blaze of glory? Or did she simply accept that there are moments in life that force you to choose, and once you make the choice, there’s no turning back.


Speaking of which—

—half a dozen machines emerge from the greenery!
https://i.imgur.com/y1FHrge.jpeg
Five of them are only three or four feet tall and made of rusty junk.

The sixth is a winged machine who towers over all of you as it crouches.
https://i.imgur.com/nnM9FBF.jpeg
ERRORS IDENTIFIED. PREPARE TO BE CORRECTED
[ +- ] 🎸 Fight!
OOC:
@Next Player to Post,

Choose:
• Hop out of the Double Dashers and fight!
• Tell the Star Vixens to drive!
Nov 19, 2024 8:33 am
Cass doesn't register the big winged robot at first, just stares at it dumbfounded, until it speaks. Then she realises something. They won't be able to deal with something that big, not without some kind of plan first. Their usual improvisation wouldn't cut it this time.

She slams a hand down on the dashboard to get the drivers' attention, then points toward the roadway with a stern look. The meaning is clear; drive!
OOC:
I may or may not have been hoping for a "kart" mission. :p
Last edited Nov 19, 2024 8:33 am
Nov 19, 2024 11:25 am
"GIANT ROBOTS! LET'S GOOO!!!" Thundra shouts, ready to race!

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