[Power Sliders Session 16!] [Last time our heroes decided they needed a lunch break, and so rather than continuing their investigation of the various corridors on the second floor, or the basement they went to the cafeteria. After having a meal of whatever they could find that was fresh in the cafeteria they are now ready to head out on full bellies!] [And so our adventure continues!] [Begin!] * Kyler makes sure that whatever he picked up is still safe and stowed away in his backpack Check around the rest of this floor, then go down to the second? * Katsuo nods to Lex. All right. Micah? Yeah, that sounds best. I'm...fine. Have we seen the big bad? I have seen no big bad. No, just his handiwork. * Henry shakes his head. "He got the heroes..." * Kyler makes an expressive face. Micah, you taking point again? * Micah nods and takes point waiting for every one else and then slowly heading out to explore. Any new ideas on what we're tryin' to find? Other Stars members, maybe. Or just things to help us survive outside this building. Yeah, that'd help, I bet. Well, yeah, but that's just, you know, playing the game stuff. We've gotta find the important thing and get it to the right place, and I don't know what either of those are... or is that how it works here? * Henry pockets his DS again and falls in for the walking down corridors and only maybe getting eaten by brain-sucking zombies. [Your exploration of floor 3 is rather uneventful. Not many zombies seem to have made it up here and most of what is up here are deserted patients' rooms.] * Katsuo thinks. "Take everything not bolted down?" Might as well. Hopefully we'll find whatever it is we need here. Anything that might be useful. As for finding the object - we'll need the stuff here to get to it. We might have to take over being the heroes. * Henry nods solemnly. * Micah nods and slowly starts to go into the empty room exploring. If we're lucky, this game'll have a railroad plot and we'll at least have some direction when we get out of here. Let hope not tragic heroes. * Kyler winces. "Yeah." Well, no one here seems to have overweening pride, so I'd say we're fine. On that, anyway. Yeah I want to blow something up and run away laughing. Remember, always jump right before explosion. Then explosion hurt less. * Kyler pauses, blinks...shakes his head, and moves right along. "Good to know, I guess." If you make a one liner it hurts less too. * Kyler does chuckle a bit at that one, though. "Do witty comebacks count?" * Henry blinks. "I'm gonna suck as an action hero." * Lex looks at Katsuo and Micah dubiously, but continues around the room picking up bandages and anything else that looks useful. Of course it does. If witty, even better. You're not the only one, Henry. * Micah suddenly pauses and look at Katsuo. "I bet I could have the plot find us." You think of saying what never say? * Lex focuses on Micah as suddenly. "How?" That's usually a bad thing, right? * Micah nods at Katsuo. "But I always wanted to say what never to say." But never say, or bad things happen. It would help the plot find us. * Lex figures it out. "I don't think that works in the real world. But then, this isn't exactly the real world." Do they ever say in game? I don't fucking know. I just shot things till they stopped moving and kept the mute button close because the voices were bad. Um. Why don't we finish stockin' on supplies an' such first, before sayin' things which oughtn't never to be said? Yes. * Katsuo nods. I like that idea. * Lex is looking at a scalpel. "Kyler, do you have a place in your backpack you can stick this safely?" We might want one later. Oh, sure. * Kyler pulls out his little mini shaving kit bag thing and puts the scalpel inside. * Micah shrugs. "People seemed to want the plot and I could say it away from you all a bit... I mean that would make me the target. Right?" I'm guessing that it'll be AoE. Besides, Kyler's right. One thing at a time. * Lex looks around. "Are we done here?" * Micah shrugs. "Oh, we can go to the basement too, but I kind of wanted to see what would happen. Oh well. It's better this way. I don...oh no I'm not saying that OTHER thing you shouldn't ever say." Basement good. Some reason people always put important things in basement where you never find them. * Henry nods, starts to walk back to the elevator, and stops himself. So should we go through the second floor first, or go straight to the basement? We were already on the first, weren't we? Yeah. If we hit a door we can't open, we have to go back anyway, right? Yeah. But I think we should just try the basement. All right. Let's get going, then. Every one in before me. I want out front. SMG pointed outward, my last bomb ready to throw. Uhm, you don't have to say it yet. I'm not saying it. We are riding the elevator down. Oh, we gonna skip the second floor then? Oh. Right. * Micah motions the others ahead of him. We should look at the second floor in case there's more herbs or something. If the basement is going to be as exciting as last time, we might need them. Get second floor first. Reduce backtrack, yes? * Micah finally shrugs. "Sure." Okay. * Lex gets in the elevator now that that's decided. * Henry gets in and draws and gets ready to debuff the second big ugly thing to try and get through the door since the first one's probably going to get shotgunned. * Kyler does, too. * Kyler gets his shotgun ready, too, he guesses. * Lex makes similar preparations, being careful to stay out of other people's lines of fire. <@Dreol> [The elevator moves down one floor and then stops. A loud creaking can be heard as the inner doors struggle open and stop about half-open. Through the opening of the doors you can see that the outer doors on the second floor have a large dent in them that is keeping them shut, like somebody tossed a very very heavy object into them. They refuse to open.] * Henry eyes the dent. "I'm for skipping this one again." Yeah. The basement then. * Henry presses the button to go farther down. <@Dreol> [The elevator moves down two more floors and opens onto a dimly lit small corridor with a heavy metal door at the end that has a giant umbrella logo on it and a keycard slot.] * Lex hunts in her pockets for a keycard before realizing she gave it to Micah when he took point. Well. It's for the basement then. * Katsuo nods. * Henry draws his sword. Do we have a keycard? Uh, I think you've got it. I gave it to you when you first took point. <@Dreol> [Micah will find he has a keycard. Mostly to keep things rolling.] * Micah inserts it to the door, waiting. * Katsuo keeps his two pistols ready. Zombie-shootin'-action at its finest! <@Dreol> [The door slides up and reveals an elaborate-looking round lab room. There are several computer terminals throughout the room that seem to be monitoring some biological data. In the center of the room is a circular glass wall that separates the outer room from an inner room, in which is a large glass holding tank with a giant creature inside.] * Kyler starts back a bit at the sight of the creature. "Mary, Mother of Jesus!" Three guesses on what happens next, the first two don't count. I think if I say it happens. <@Dreol> [The creature is human shaped and flesh colored and probably ten feet tall. It has two huge pulsing red claws for hands and no lips to cover its mouth full of giant razor sharp teeth.] Preemptive strike? * Lex points her crossbow at the thing warily. * Kyler does too, after getting over the shock. <@Dreol> [The creature appears to be dormant and just floating in the tank.] * Micah heads over to a computer station and starts poking at it. "Doesn't work that way." * Henry edges into the room. I no like looks of that. Look like something out of horror film. Katsuo, what game are we in? Point. * Lex, seeing that at least one other large projectile is pointed at the tanks, takes a look at one of the closer screens. The crossbow is still pointed at the tank, though. * Kyler keeps the shotgun pointed at the tank, and sidles around to grab a sideways glance from the screens. * Micah sighs. "Okay, where's the cut scene button. I want to blow this boss up and fucking tea bag it because I'm sick of fucking worrying about becoming a zombie and eating my frie...er team mates." * Kyler half-smiles a bit. * Lex starts taking quick glances around the room trying to see if there's something that might make something happen. Since she's obviously not going to be understanding anything on the screens without a bio doctorate. * Henry looks around for the next door, or a big blinking "do not push ever, monster release" button. <@Dreol> [From the inner room below you see a hooded figure that you all recognize as Xelion walk up to the tank, pull out a magnum and fire at it. The glass shatters and whatever fluid was holding the creature up pours out onto the ground. The creature drops down to the base of the holding cell and lashes out for Xelion, who jumps back and moves around to the back of the cell, where you all now see a rocket launcher hanging on the wall. He reaches out and grabs it and then turns around just in time for the creature to lift him up and toss him into the air. Xelion crashes through the glass wall and lands on his feet next to Lex.] <@Dreol> [The rocket launcher is sent into the air up the central column of the room, which goes up several floors of the hospital. As it is passing you all you notice your bracelets flash for a second, and then it passes and lands about where you assume the third floor of the central column is, on a catwalk.] <@Dreol> [The creature lunges up after Xelion and swings at him, but Xelion ducks the attack and jumps onto the catwalk to start running up after the rocket launcher. The punch, instead, hits Cass who goes flying into the wall and hits it so hard that a dent is left in the metal. She's unconscious.] Cass! Aaahck! Katsuo, get the launcher! * Katsuo sets to leap, a burst of wind surrounding him as he crouches to jump. <@Dreol> [The Tyrant spins around and swings his massive claw at the nearest person, who happens to be Henry this time. The claw cuts into his chest and knocks the boy back about 10 feet into a wall.] * Kyler starts to run over to Cass, and changes direction mid-run to leap in front of Henry and Laser Sword the Tyrant. <@Dreol> [The laser just misses the tyrant's head as it moves out of the way of the beam. Meanwhile, Xelion rushes up the catwalk towards the rocket launcher, gets opposite it and starts to fly across the column. He gets about half way over to it.] * Henry clutches at his side and points his finger at the big thing. "You don't getta do that again, kay?" And it's enveloped in a big black cloud for a moment. * Katsuo leaps up after Xelion in a huge leap, bouncing off the wall in a flip then executing a short jump forward. He draws his two pistols in mid-air and unloads a couple shots at Xelion, drawing him into the center of his sights for a third attack as he fires a charged shot straight into Xelion's face with his energy pistol, stunning Xelion in mid-air. <@Dreol> [Xelion freezes for the moment but stays floating there. He looks like a floating statue.] * Lex can't spare the attention to properly admire Katsuo's incredible action- movie feats, sadly, but she does shoot the Tyrant in the chest with a nasty- looking black-tipped crossbow bolt that seems to shatter into splinters on impact. * Micah punches the ground and sends a fissure off at the T3... only to have the crack go the very wrong way. "FUCKING FUCK FUCK. DAMN FUCKING MAGIC. WHY THE FUCKING FLYING FUCK DO I TRY?" <@Dreol> [The Tyrant sidesteps the fissure and then turns to Kyler who tried to hit him before. He brings both claws down at him.] * Kyler dives down out of the way, rolls, and goes for another Laser Sword. <@Dreol> [The laser sword just misses the tyrant as it gets back to its feet.] <@Dreol> [Xelion stays still.] * Katsuo leaps up extraordinarily fast, bouncing upwards and quickly grabbing the rocket launcher and hastily readying it at the creature below. "CORNER BOSS!" * Lex slaps in another bolt as fast as she can and fires. A faint ripple in the air follows the bolt until it impacts the Tyrant's chest beside the first one. <@Dreol> [The Tyrant stumbles back some towards the central area.] * Micah stomps up to the T3 and glares at it. "Fuck. Magic." And then he punches the thing. <@Dreol> [The Tyrant turns towards Micah just in time to be punched. It doesn't look all that concerned by the damage but it does take another step back.] * Katsuo angles the rocket launcher down at the T3 and fires the rocket straight down at the Tyrant's stumbling, but rather uninjured, form. <@Dreol> [The rocket hits the Tyrant right in the arm, which explodes into a shower of green slime. Fortunately none of you are hit by it because the whole of the room seems to freeze just as the tyrant is exploding into pieces. The scene melts away and you are once again pulled around in a storm of reality changing.] * Henry looks around for Xel's frozen body. <@Dreol> [When it calms down you are all, including Cass, deposited in the middle of the forest. Suddenly a loud thunk! is heard as an axe hits the tree in front of you and then the cracking of wood and the entire tree crashes to the ground revealing behind it a muscular green creature with two long pointy bottom teeth and an axe in his hand.] * Kyler preemptively leaps in front of the unconscious Cass, as he was going to do so anyway before the reality change. <@Dreol> [Behind him are several small wooden huts where more of these creatures are walking around. The lumberjack points at them and yells "INTRUDERS!"] Uh-oh. * Katsuo lands after he makes a short hop near the bottom of the landing, to keep himself from breaking his legs. He holsters his pistol, and possibly the other one if it's still there, and looks at the large green creature. "Uh... This no good." * Kyler raises his hands and says the first thing that comes to mind when you're talking about sudden appearances and green men. "We come in peace!" We need to find alliance fast! Who? ... Human. Not orc. * Micah mutters under his breath. "Alliance? What the fuck? Let's just damn well burn it to the ground. I need to take out some aggression" The side those guys think we're on, that they're probably going to kill us for. * Katsuo nods to Lex. Welcome to Warcraft. <@Dreol> [Session End.]