Oddestsey V: The Seven Lords

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Post by Alexjh » Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:12 am

TELLU AND SCARLETT
Tellu and Scarlett wade into battle, with the Baboon Turret swirling its blades. Scarlett raises her shields, and along with Tellu and her new shield wade into combat. Fortunately it seems that the shrimp are not particularly smart opponents, but their claws pack a considerable punch - while the parties protection is able to absorb the blunt of the blows, it knocks the pair back a little with each spring powered punch. They don't appear to be particularly sophisticated strategically, but their thick armour makes landing blows difficult, they strike and then retreat.

The miniature airforce is launched, and they manage to set up a defensive around the two and keep the shrimp from staying in range for too long, while the Baboon turret protects their flank, but the sheer number of the shrimp makes them difficult to defend against, even less attack.

Scarlett on the other hand is using a mixture of her powers (still inexplicably more powerful than normal) and the frogurtsword - and managing to drive them back a bit. But despite all this, the circle of the shrimp is closing. They get too close at one point, and the pair manage to attack simultaneously to bring the shrimp down, but the action of trying to pull their blades back out of it's corpse nearly costs them everything - Scarlett only just manages to block a sneak attack charge at the last moment with her shields.

They are backed up for a while, and then the ground drops away behind them. Given the strange gravity of this place, this isn't technically so much of an issue as it might be otherwise, but they realise remaining here would be bad - it gives the shrimps a way to attack them at an awkward angle. However, as they glance over the newly revealed landscape, something appears before them... a huge armoured spaceship, crashed into the strange caverns as if from nowhere. Whatever it might be, it looks far more defensible than anywhere else they have seen so far, and probably only about 2 miles away...

VENGEANCE
Jackdaw immediately leaps into the fray and dismembers the attacking robots, but there are more coming, and he is forced to hold the door to get any more through. Kireepins goes to Pintail and whips the foppish felon in the crotch with the butt of his hunting rifle, causing the sable clad swordsman to leap into an unright position clutching his vulnerables.

As Vengeance spins to cover George he scans his system - it seems Sikander is trying to access some protocols from him, it appears to be some of the most encrypted ones, and while George is able to resist it is only a short matter of time before he breaks though.

Vengeance, Kireepins and Pintail turn to Sikander and attack with the full force of their powers - blasting away at the jar, but the "glass" casing appears to be far tougher than expected, and much as they begin to bring their weapons to bear it only takes gradual damage. Vengeance busts out the fullest extent of his canes power and blasts into it, and spidery cracks begin to weave across the surface... But strangely Sikander isn't responding..... and then a ding from George and a rush of air as the scene changes entirely.

It comes to Vengeance in a moment... Sikander has control of the castle teleporters... and Vengeance finds himself and George four miles up, plummeting through the sky towards Melded....

BEAR IN MIND
The Bees are not really sold on this plan, but realising that it will hopefully lead to them getting what they want they make a counter offer:

"We want to make a counter offer to that. We will allow it if it isn't damaged in any way in the process AND if we have several of our most reputable bees accompanying it at all times to ensure that it is treated with proper respect!"

Meanwhile, on consulting both Paddington III and some various Mad Science Town people, they suggest a full spectrum of magical, cosmic, molecular, chemical and biological tests. The mad scientists have a machine that could detect any anomalies in any of these regards and then work out what they are.

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Post by That Kode Guy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:44 am

Tellu is almost crying now... after everything that has happened, how easy it would be to just give in... stop attacking, and let them put her out of this Hell.

I take back everything I said... I wish I was back home... !

DON'T YOU FUCKING GIVE UP ON ME.


And then...

Spuh... sp-spaceship... ?!

It takes Tellu only a moment, but she immediately grabs Scarlett by the scruff of the neck and starts dashing towards the new object. "No time for talk, we're going!!" Tellu yells at her.
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Post by Alexjh » Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:55 am

TELLU AND SCARLETT

Grabbing Scarlett, who manages to snatch up the samurai baboon the two leap in the direction of the ship and hit the ground at a run. The ground ahead opens up into a great plain, and with the ground much smoother than usual it is easy to cover a great distance fairly quickly. However, while most of the pack is left far enough behind that you will make it to the ship without them being able to catch you, one of the larger ones has managed to tail you and will certainly catch up with you before you reach the ship, and if you stop to engage the others will be able to catch up too.

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Post by That Kode Guy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:57 am

Tellu casts the shadow shield she conjured at the thing to distract it, but doesn't stop running.
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Post by Alexjh » Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:15 am

TELLU AND SCARLETT

Tellu flings the shield at the Shrimp and it manages to clip it, leaving it lagging slightly, but not enough to slow it enough. Tellu and Scarlett are now half way to the ship - one mile to go...

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Post by That Kode Guy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:20 am

With no other ideas, Tellu just decides to just drain energy from the thing the nearer it gets, hoping this will speed herself up as well as slow her predator down.
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Post by Alexjh » Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:48 am

TELLU AND SCARLETT

Tellu reaches out with her draining powers and hits far more potently than she expected - the shrimp writhes in pain and drops to the floor in what you think is the shrimp equivalent of lying on the floor panting. Not stopping to look twice, the pair accelerate towards the ship and dive through an open hanger door. Seeing the other shrimps still accelerating behind them, Scarlett throws up some barriers and blocks them through while Tellu finds the button to close the door. The crustaceans punch away the shields as the door slowly closes, and even for a few minutes after you can hear them move off.

You catch your breath but soon find a different sort of problem on your hands - a small mob of people have assembled behind them pointing weapons at them: a deep gnome, a werekoala, an android shaped like a bipedal horse, a classical chimera wearing spectacles, a strange insectile creature with a shell made of paper, a succubus wearing a baggy wooly jumper, a lavender coloured rhinocerous and a christmas tree with mechanical legs.

"Who the hell are you two, and what are you doing on our ship?!"

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Post by That Kode Guy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:40 am

Tellu just stares at the hostility.

Out of the frying pan...

But she just can't muster the will to get angry now.

"Can you point those somewhere else please?!?" Tellu cries out in exasperation. "Look, m-my name is Tellu, and this is Scarlett, and we've just been struggling for our lives for hours straight, whether it be against megalomaniacs with god complexes or herds of hungry crustaceans in weird dimensions, and it needs to stop!!!"

Panting slightly, she adds, "I'm sorry... I mean no harm... neither of us do... and we didn't know this was occupied... I'm just... stressed out..."

With that, she transforms back to normal... wincing from the resulting exhaustion... and then adds another, "Sorry..."
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Post by Alexjh » Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:13 pm

TELLU AND SCARLETT

The weapons lower a bit, they don't seem to consider you so big a threat now, but you suddenly notice that a number of them are wearing clothes identifying them as crew of "The Void Ship Gawain".

The Chimera comes forward and asks sheepishly through the goat head
"Err, I don't suppose you ran into someone called Thandana out there?"

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Post by That Kode Guy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:58 pm

Grateful that the newcomers look a bit less wary, Tellu pants and attaches the hand that she received earlier, and inspects it to make sure it works. Then she notices the uniforms...

"Um... I did read that name..." Tellu says, pulling out the journal. "We were looking for a way out of here... and we came across this inside of a creature we ran into."
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Post by Alexjh » Fri Jun 29, 2018 1:08 pm

TELLU AND SCARLETT

There is chattering amongst themselves for a moment and the succubus bursts into tears and then storms out of the room. The Deep Gnome who appears to be the closest thing to a leader this little group has steps forward and addresses you directly.

"We thank you for your honesty, and at least now we know what happened to Thandana. We have plentiful supplies here and while for now you will be housed separatly from the rest of us for security reasons, you are welcome to stay and rebuild your strength. But now I suggest you need to talk to the Captain so we can discuss what happens next?"

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Post by That Kode Guy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 1:29 pm

"The... th-the Captain?" Tellu is getting more and more uncertain by the second, but ultimately just goes with it. "Um... sure."
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Post by Alexjh » Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:43 pm

TELLU AND SCARLETT

Tellu and Scarlett are lead through the bowls of the ship until they reach a lift, which raises them up for what seems like an eternity before stopping with an uncomfortable jolt. You see before you a gently rotating sphere of metal floating in the control room, about 2m across yet somehow able to speak to you in a woman's voice.

"So you must be our new arrivals - I don't suppose by any chance you have a way out of this place?"

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Post by Cha0sFerret » Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:12 am

"Kinda. It hinges on a few... uncomfortable things, though. How many people you got here, and how many of them are human?"
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Post by Alexjh » Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:13 am

TELLU AND SCARLETT

"Errr... we have 9 people here, but no humans?"

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