💃🏼’s Stage - The Bombshell Run

THE B☢️MBSHELL RUN

Casey 🆚 Sharon 🆚 Sophia 🆚 Makoto

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QUEEN APRIL

"You’re gonna take on three Nuwoman Athletes. These girls are made for extreme sports. I mean, they were literally genetically engineered for that. We rescued dozens, but these three wanted to join, and even use extreme sports as a means of training.

"Anyway, I have an Unlimited Wardrobe in my chamber. If you want to change into something sporty, the Unlimited Wardrobe will grant you any outfit you can imagine.

"But whatever you wear, be sure to keep your whip and your shoe phone app—even if you don’t wear heels for the run. You’ll need every trick you know to stand a chance against Makoto. Honestly, if you can place third, it’ll be quite a feat.

"Just competing alone will be an honor, so have fun…"

"Don't count me out just because I haven't been to the gym in 15 years!" Casey says with a smile.

She spends a good while browsing through the Unlimited Wardrobe and trying a few things on and comes back out to rejoin the other competitors in a new outfit. She has swapped her fedora with a holographic sun visor and tied her hair into a ponytail that drapes over the back of the headband.

She is wearing a black body suit with dark pink stripes down the sides. Her trusty whip is coiled about her waist like a belt.

Her new footwear are Zombī brand running cybershoes (Zombī shoes - Just run!) with the latest in 12G cell capability for reliable shoe calls with 3D projection display.

"Ya know, this getup looks a bit funny, but everything fits great and I feel ready for anything!" she says as she begins stretching as a warm up. "So what kinda extreme event do you have for us today, Queen April?"

April walks with Casey, descending a spiral staircase toward the bottom floor of the floating castle.

"We’re going to drop several ‘bombs,’ and you and the Nuwomen are going to race toward the one in the front.

"The idea is to leap from one to the next… or possibly swing on them, using your whip."At the bottom of the stairwell, the Nuwomen eagerly greet you. "Love the outfit," Sophia exclaims! Sharon agrees. "J'adore ton style!"

Makoto asks you, "Are you ready, Sensei Mulbruk?"

Casey says, "Well, this sounds like it'll be a real blast!" She shakes hands with Makoto, Sharon, and Sophia.

"You can call me, Casey, hun. And I am ready and raring to go! Let's hop some bombs, ladies!" She runs a dark pink painted nail along the edge of her visor and follows the NuWomen to the starting area.

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You and the Nuwomen are brought to the fireworks storage room, where you’re invited to sit on the noses of some extremely large bombs. Each bomb has a face painted on it:
• aggressive eyes with shark teeth
• alluring eyes with puckered lips
• awkward grin with nerd glasses
• clown makeup with creepy smile

The Nuwomen let Casey sit on any bomb she wants—and when she does, DOWN IN GOES!

Casey walks over to the bomb with the shark toothed grin and hops astride it, wrapping her legs around it and doing her best to squeeze tight.

"May the best woman win! And may the rest have fun all the same!" Casey calls out as the machinery chunks and the bomb drops.

Her stomach drops when the bomb does, but she holds on as it plummets. After a moment, she lets out a grin and says "This is kinda fun!" Then she throws one arm up in the air and back, pretending that she's riding a mecha aurochs at the Neo Rodeo. She tilts her chin, trying to catch the light on her holovisor just right so that it reflects a rainbow into the lens flare of the camera. She hopes it will look like she is riding this bombshark into or out of a rainbow!

[ +- ] 🎸 SF2010 Stairway to Light

The shark-toothed bomb is not an easy ride, but you conquer it! There’s a camera flash—and as if in response, the bomb’s thruster ignites!

If you look back, you can see the floating castle behind you. It’s made of stones, mostly boulders at the base. Lush ivy clings to the outer walls. There is a moat at the base, and a ring of water encircling one of the towers. The water doesn’t appear to have any depth, and how the castle flies at all is a mystery perhaps best left unsolved.

As the castle shrinks away in the distance, dozens of rockets fly from it. Soon they are overhead. The first one is painted with black and white checkers. It’s way out of your reach!

"That’s our goal!" Makoto calls out. Her rocket is so far behind yours you barely hear her. But if you glance, you will see she’s poised to leap or run or whatever she’ll need to do in a moment…

Many rockets pass you. It’s not until you see the last of them that the rockets begin to chance altitude.

To your left, several rockets align. They are close together and have large wingspans. You can run across them!

To your right, there are fewer rockets and some are vertically aligned. You need to leap. There are rungs, like on a ladder, which you can latch onto from below.

As the rockets shoot across the sky, Casey stands on the shark and leaps to the right, trying to jump nand flip from rocket to rocket and using her whip to grab the rungs and swing upward.

[ +- ] 🎸 SF2010 Stairway to Light

You see Makoto running along the row of rockets below—but then you leave her in the dust as your whip latches onto a rung!

As you move up from rocket to rocket, the ones you and the Nuwomen started on explode!



You keep rising, but as you do, several small rockets start turn toward the one you’re on!

Casey sprints into a flying leap off the big rocket as the mini rockets slam into it in a giant ball of fire. But the explosion is so huge and she is too close and gets thrown forward, tumbling through the air.

She sees a rocket fin out of the corner of her eye as she tumbles and pulls a dagger out to try and gain purchase on it as she twirls past...

[ +- ] 🎸 SF2010 Stairway to Light

Though terribly singed, you recover from your only fumble! The rocket whose wing you’ve boarded is directly underneath the checkered rocket.

You can see several rockets forming a spiraling train, with Makoto and Sophia running insanely fast toward the goal!

But you have such a comfortable lead, even a slow climb up your own whip would get you to the goal first—

But as you position yourself atop the large rocket, putting you easily within whip’s length of the ladder to victory, you hear a groan on the left wing.

It’s Sharon—she’s as badly burned as you are, and barely conscious to boot. She’s sliding off of the wing, seemingly oblivious to her plight…