>Pester sS
You guess its about time to start building up.
>Construct a treehouse of grand magnitude.
Oh, you are. But you're going to take time and make this thing good. Since sS' house is already stuck in the tree, you can build up and around the tree and use the tree for stability rather than building straight up and having to crazy reinforce it. You can building platforms the lower branches.
>Check with aC about building
Eh, she must be away from the keyboard.
We really should alchemize something so we can stay connected better.
>Alchemize. The ogres the others keep mentioning scare you and you have some new toys to mess with anyway
You combine ELECTRIC GUITAR and THROWING KNIVES to get ELECTRIC STABITAR.
You combine WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL and FAN and KITCHEN LIGHTER to get EARTH WIND AND FIRE. This thing weighs a ton. You're probably not going to get much mileage out of this.
You combine PENULTIMATE HEADGEAR and FAN. And add a propeller beanie to your wonderful creation. You get PROPELLER BEANIE OF THE GODS. That's too silly even for you. You're going to stick with PENULTIMATE HEADGEAR honestly.
You combine FAN with THROWING KNIVES and get FAN BLADES. Okay, this would be cool if you had knife or fankind specibus. Maybe you'll suggest to tC that she combine it with her pizza cutter.
Combine PHONE and SISTER'S RIDING GOGGLES. The goggles do something. Which is let you use pesterchum on the move. You get PESTERGOGGLES. But its kind of annoying to look at the pesterchum screen overlaid with what you can see so you wear them on your head unless you're talking to someone.
Combine HOODY FROM CLOSET, PENULTIMATE HEADGEAR, and PESTERGOGGLES in a non-alchemical sense. God, you look silly. But I bet you don't think so, do you?
Combine PEANUT BUTTER and BREAD and get a SANDWICH. Okay, so, you didn't actually use alchemy for that one either.
That's enough messing around. Get back to building up sS' place and killing imps. Alternatively.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers> Wayne: Enter the Goddamn Medium
You've been delayed long enough by pointless fuckery. Let's just get this over with.
You go through all the stuff you gotta do at this point, with the totems and the card and such. It all goes very smoothly, and you still have like, ten minutes left! Very snazzy. The only problem is which creature from the Throne of Kings to use. They're all so useful, and you can only choose two!
Eventually, you on using K'thun the Ancient, Lord of Entropy, and the dragon Tiamat, five headed ruler of the Netherverse. This can in no way backfire!
Then you come to your senses and realize that you don't want a sprite that will devour you and everything you hold dear, so you refrain and only prototype once, with the noble knight Zedin of the Sarnghaver. Hopefully he'll be all valiant and shit and help you slay some imps.
Then you enter. Exciting!
Do or do not, there is no try.>Enlist help from aA
Help enlisted. aA keeps the giclops distraced while you chip away at it and Mr. Kittysprite keeps you nice and healed. Eventually, you manage to subdue it.
>Be proud
No. You refuse. That was only one of the things. You're not nearly ready to take on multiple ones at once. There's nothing to be proud of.
>Watch as aA builds your house up to the second portal
This is really cool to watch, actually. Kinda trippy. You're not ready to go through quite yet, but you want the option to be there.
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic>Have some more conversations with people.
Looks like he finally got back to you.
Guess that means it's time to kill.
>Equip BUSHYTAILS
It's going to be a while before the WINGED BOOTS recharge.
You should alchemize new laces when you have the grist so you don't have to keep switching them from one pair of shoes to the other.
> Examine Medium
You look out the hole in your wall. This certainly ain't the rainbow vomit prairie, that's for sure. It's actually pretty dark. Black everywhere, really. In the distance are stars. Red stars, blue stars, pretty much every color of star. In every direction too. Maybe even straight down, if you could look through your floor. You can't see any land anywhere though. Odd. Maybe there'll be something on the other side.
> Go to Study
You go to the study, and for once, the labyrinth doesn't trouble you. The medium is pretty cool, if it stops the stupid labyrinth from being a dick.
Once at the computer, you see that one of your chums was trying to reach you! It was sS
. You are so down for this, you don't even know. gC
also pesters you, you have a nice little chat. You also thank oW
.
Yeah, this is sweet. Just chillin' in the study, foldin' a parachute. Hopefully some imps show up soon, who knows. They might even be friendly in this world.
edited 17th Jul '10 5:23:23 PM by ChrisisCraziest
Do or do not, there is no try.>Bug your friend.
>Alchemize binoculars.
You go through the steps and come out with a pair of binoculars. They look pretty high tech. Hopefully they'll be strong enough to do what you want them to do, otherwise you'll have to figure out some way to improve them. But first things first...
>Climb to roof off top room.
Alright. Time to find some answers. You turn toward the blue glow, using the the binoculars, and see...
It's hard to say what exactly you see. The same old sea of lava, but then...a white island? But it seems too big to be an island. What's going on?
edited 17th Jul '10 7:36:40 PM by Katrika
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic>Slay some imps.
You head outside to try and see if any imps are about. None are in sight. Looks like you'll have to head away from the house a bit. You start jogging towards one of the nearby box-like crystal formations. Perhaps there will be some imps there. As you jog, Bassprite floats behind you. You wonder what else he can do besides float and shoot pizza cheese out of his eyes.
>Consult Bassprite.
That was annoying.
You see a small group of imps behind a low wall-thing. Perfect.
>Reveal your presence to the imps in a totally badass way.
You start running faster towards the imps. They don't see you. You vault the wall and swing one leg out, heel-first. The blade makes contact with the back of one imp's head, and as your momentum forces it to the ground, it bursts into delicious grist. But there will be time to admire the grist later. There are more imps to deal with. You swing your right arm around and rest your hand on an imp's forehead. You flex your pointer finger, triggering the Hidden Pizza Slicer. It springs forward into the imp's face, which promptly explodes. You feel the wonderful sensation of the grist just barely touching you before it vanishes. The remaining two imps now react. The first jumps and wraps itself around your left arm, the other rushes you head-on. Your arm begins to burn from the heat of the imp's flame. You swing your right leg up, catching a glancing blow on the charging imp, sending him stumbling backwards. You grab the imp holding onto your arm with your right hand and slam the Hidden Pizza Slicer into its body. Grist rains down around your feet. You look up at the last imp, to see it covered in sticky cheese. You grin and advance towards it, raising your pizza slicer with your left hand, Hidden Pizza Slicer extended from your right arm. You bring both weapons down, cutting through the imp and his cheesy prison.
>Collect spoils of war.
You calmly and collectedly gather the grist from this battle. You feel a desire to learn that one Brazilian martial art that looks like a combination of kickboxing and break dancing, in order to better make use of the Steppin' Razors.
"Teebs is a total grump, but he's usually right." - NLK>Get to slayin'!
Once again you step out of the house to deal with the problem. "The problem" being "too many ogres and not enough grist".
You're going to handle this one SENSIBLY, because that thing with three-on-one last time? Yeah, that's not happening again.
And, oh, look. There's a suitable bignasty right there at the base of the stairs.
>Roll d%
Roll what with the what now?
You're quite certain you didn't bring any dice to this confrontation or any other. Furthermore you can't think of any conceivable reason to roll anything. You don't even have a dicekind abstratus!
Instead you just jump onto the thing's shoulder and let loose on it.
>Thud.
A meaty ogrefist knocks you against the tree trunk.
Ow.
>Get even.
Oh, you'll do better than that. You'll get...
Mad.
[Roll d%: 91]
The ogre is blinded by an array of colored lights! While it's off-balance, you deliver a suitable beatdown.
Victory!
>See! There it was! You rolled d%!
What? If any dice have been rolled, they are most assuredly purely metaphorical, representing abstract phenomena such as the use of your LACES OF WONDER
.
Speaking of which you really need to stop relying on those.
>Boast to qO.
You hope he didn't jinx you or something. You don't want to fight enemies you're not ready for. His talk of cyclopes certainly put a damper on your bragging. Time to try someone else.
>Boast to oW
What is WRONG with him?!
edited 17th Jul '10 6:19:43 PM by Ezekiel
> Explore
You're to tired for that now. You just want to lay down and get some sleep...
> Get pestered by qO
Oh goddammit, and you were just getting comfy too.
> Dream
Once again, you are in the purple city. You can hear voices from what appears to be an allyway
> Eveasdrop
The plot thickens
Bah, that sounded a bit clunky. Sorry about that.
>GRIND
You start your grinding. The are two GICLOPS near the spot where you beat the last one. You immediately change your lens to PRECISION-LASER and test it out by BEAMING both of them at the center of their pupils. The results are a splended sizzling. You immediately go up to one and do an uppercut with your scalpels, knocking it down while it's cringing from the damage to it's eye. You pierce it once more in the eye, and it explodes into a flurry of GRIST.
>Collect GRIST.
As you pick up more and more, the other GICLOPS tries to make a slow punch at you. It seems you caused PERMANENT DAMAGE to it's EYE so now it cannot see you well enough. You dodge it.
>Be the GICLOPS
Why do you want to be the Giclops? You feel tremendous pain, having your eye burned through. You can barely see the blurry image of the human boy. As you try to punch, he jumps above you. He comes to the height of your eye once more. You see his eyes light up and then everything goes dark.
>Be the kid again
You are now the kid. After collecting the grist from several encounters from your enemies, you check up on aC.
>Pester AC.
Man..she's such a narcoleptic. You decide that you have more than enough to ALCHEMIZE the FIBER OPTIC LENS OF DOOM. but first, you want to inspect the DOC'S STUDY. You haven't seen the old man, or
>DESCEND
You go down your stairs for what you hope is the last time. You are attacked by IMPS on the way down, but they are easily disinigrated with the helpful function of GAZER-BEAM. You collect the GRIST while going down. As you get into the main hallway, a chum starts pestering you.
OH CRUD! There's 5 GICLOPS HERE! One's holding the DOC'S TELESCOPE as a weapon! This is gonna be a bigger, badder battle than before.
>STRIFE
I'm a ghost, you didn't see me.>Ascend to the next branch.
You do so with all haste.
>Be jinxed.
Wait, what? What kind of-
...great. THANKS A LOT, BILL.
So you've got a battalion of imps standing in front of you. And a platoon of ogres behind them. And, just to top it all off, one, giant, cyclops... thing. A giantcyclops. A giclops.
What's really remarkable is that all these enemies fit on one branch.
>Commence to kickin'
This could take a while. Maybe now would be a good time for any theoretical audiences to go get some popcorn.
edited 17th Jul '10 6:28:35 PM by Ezekiel
>Continue imp-slaying spree.
You didn't need to be told this. This is fun. You don't wanna stop.
Addiction is a powerful thing.
You mow your way through more imps. Bassprite occasionally heals you up before you go back into action. Huh, who would've guessed he could do that. Would've been nice to know earlier. After a while, you think you should have enough grist to alchemize some more stuff.
>Go home, alchemize.
You turn around to go home...
..and promptly freak out. Blocking your way is a massive monstrosity. To call it the ugly testosterone-fueled older brother of the imps wouldn't quite do it justice.
>STRIFE!
You break into a sprint towards the lumbering monstrosity. Its eyes track you. As you draw near its foot, you raise your pizza slicer and bring it down. The weapon drives in far. You tug. The slicer isn't budging. Then the ogre swings its foot forward, sending you flying. You land in a heap in front of Bassprite. He hasn't budged an inch. The bastard. Not that you need his help or anything. You scan the surrounding area quickly as the ogre starts moving towards you. You see a nearby tower of crystal.
.+ 1 CRAZY IDEA!
You take off running towards the base of the tower. Like most of the other towers in this area have been so far, its built of several block-like structures, building up in a vaguely pyramidal shape. You start running up the boxes, vaulting over some spikes that stand in the way. The ogre makes its way towards you as fast as it can. You keep running until you reach a section of the tower that is simply too high for you to climb. You turn around. The ogre's almost in position. You wait for it...then jump! You land on its right shoulder, the blades on the Steppin' Razors digging into his flesh. You slam your Hidden Pizza Slicer into the base of his neck. That should sever some nerves, maybe hit an artery...
The ogre reaches up and swats at you. You're barely able to hold onto its ear to avoid being sent to the ground. So apparently these things defy some basic laws of biology. Well. Time to see if they violate some others. Holding onto the ear with your left hand, you swing your body around towards its face. You swing your right arm towards its eye and send your blade into the soft, gelatinous organ. The ogre screams in pain and raises its arm towards its face. You quickly withdraw your slicer, then send it into the ogre's other eye. The ogre screams again and swats at you. Before its hand can make contact with you, you drop. As you fall, you stick your Hidden Pizza Slicer into its front, pushing inwards as you slide down to slow your fall. You keep going until you reach its knee, where its simply too bony for the slicer to stay in. You fall heavily onto its already-wounded foot, and the blades on your shoes cut into its flesh. You quickly scramble off as the ogre flies into a screaming rage, stomping back and forth. But your plan worked. It can't see. Now you can whittle it down at your leisure.
And, after a while, and with some occasional healing from Bassprite, the ogre eventually bursts into the biggest pile of grist you've seen. Some other items form from the ogre too, and you reason that they serve a similar function to build grist.
>Do a victory dance.
Oh hell yes. You just showed that mofo what was what. You start dancing like crazy.
>Return home and see what kind of totally awesome stuff you can alchemize.
Sounds like a good idea. You start back towards your house.
edited 17th Jul '10 6:52:57 PM by Teebert
"Teebs is a total grump, but he's usually right." - NLK>Bill: STRIFE
Time to get this show on the road! You switch to FUNCTION:DEATH RAY and start this hoe-down. The GICLOPS this time are agile, and speed at you like a bullet. They punch at you, but you immediately jump up to avoid the first one's fist, which you then burn off with the DEATH-RAY, causing it to shreik in pain and back away. Another one punches into the ground, causing a shockwave that tears a whole line through the lab, underneath is nothing but grey water.
>ASCEND
You jump away and on to it's fist. You don't even remember being this fast! The GICLOPS puts you up to his eye-level, which you then vaporize. Causing it to make one last gasp of pain before he explodes. You jump away and on to another GICLOPS doing the same. You suddenly feel something push you away. A GICLOPS has punched you towards the one weilding the TELESCOPE.
>Flinch
You FLINCH as you are hit like a baseball back to the one who punched you. You feel everything slow down as it gets ready to punch you again.
>????
The GICLOPS suddenly explodes into GRIST. You crash into a wall, though you are still alive and conscious enough to see your savior.
>Be the GENTLEMONKEYSPRITE.
You crush another GICLOPS under your feet. The only one left is the one weilding a TELESCOPE. As it charges forward the boy, you blast it with bones and keep it from causing further damage.
>Be BILL again
>Bill: You finally get up groggily to see the GICLOPS stunned. You charge forward
>ASCEND
You jump up on it's arm and run up to it's head. You jump above the the GICLOPS and look down.
>END
I'm a ghost, you didn't see me.======>
Okay, the imps? They are not a problem. In fact if it were just the imps you would call this encounter quite fortuitous.
Your aglet-chains flail about, striking down several imps with one blow, and you go with the momentum from this motion to proceed with several eldritch-empowered kicks.
The overall effect is that the enemies are being swiftly cut down.
By the time you're about halfway through the army, the remaining imps have started to flee. And now come the forty or so ogres.
Great. You got thumped pretty hard by just ONE of these things. How are you going to take down forty?
You use your SUPERIOR AGILITY to perch atop each ogre momentarily, before summarily injuring it and moving on to the next. Before long, you are fighting forty half-dead ogres. Soon after you finish the other half.
Okay. Wait, wasn't there a-
>Thud.
Ow. Owowow. How did you forget about that thing?
You can't take any more hits or you're going to die. You think. What actually happens when you run out of health in this game, anyway?
...no, let's not think about that. Focus on the enemy.
It tries to smash you a few times but you dodge like nobody's business.
gC is pestering you now. You would REALLY like to inform him that you're in dire need of assistance at the moment. Unfortunately you don't have the time to send any sort of message, so you're on your own here.
You charge straight up the enemy's leg, and about the time you reach the midsection, you let loose with a full combo.
Not enough. Going to have to use it again and hope for the best!
>Use LACES OF WONDER
...a mouse appears. Great.
The enemy seems momentarily distracted, at least. This is your best opportunity to call for help.
A collection of wood, metal and cloth begins to pummel the thing. It reels back in distress, and you add your two cents with the AGLINKS.
>Soon.
A giant falls. An army, routed.
>Level up!
You'll do it when you're less tired.
edited 17th Jul '10 7:33:04 PM by Ezekiel
>Finish trek, start alchemizing.
You reach home without incident, and start alchemizing away.
>Combine laptop, hoodie, gloves, and copy of Neuromancer.
You get the HU Die! Pulling up the hood activates a holographic display of your computer screen, which you can interact with by activating the handcoverings. Pretty sweet. Now you can do sburb stuff and chat with your chums on the run. And it also looks pretty cool too.
>Combine fan blades from gC with pizza slicer.
You get the WINDCUTTER! While its blade looks like a single solid disk, close inspection reveals that its actually made of several blades, which start spinning with the push of a button on the handle. It is also considerably larger than your original pizza slicer.
>Retrieve worm to reward Bassprite with.
You decide to reward your Bassprite for his good work. Also, establishing a good rapport with him could be quite beneficial in the long run. As you dig through your Granddad's fishing supplies, you see a few extra reels of fishing line.
>Be INSPIRED
You are inspired by these, and come up with an interesting idea.
>Alchemize reel fishing line and pizza slicer together.
You get the...the...you're not sure what to call it. It's a pizza slicer on retractable wire that you can whip around like crazy. Awesome.
>Make a second one.
Easy enough. >Combine the Steppin' Razors and fishing line.
You get the Steppin' Razors with obnoxiously long shoelaces. What a waste.
"Teebs is a total grump, but he's usually right." - NLK> They see you. Run!
You get the hell out of here, and fly into the sky, looking down at the planet below. It's so beautiful. You wonder if your friends are here...
> Look for friend
You can sense that one of your allies is here. You fly into the bedroom of qO's dream self.
> Attempt to wake up qO's dream self.
He refuses to wake up.
edited 17th Jul '10 7:39:33 PM by rumetzen
>Return to house.
You will feel much better within the relative safety of your house.
Well, better about the situation. The only thing that's going to make you feel better -physically- is sleep.
That sounds...
======>
...you lapse into unconsciousness.
edited 17th Jul '10 7:48:40 PM by Ezekiel
>Relax and talk to your friend tC
You accidently belittle his recent accomplishments. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!.
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic>Brag about accomplishments to best friend.
Oh look, another friend wants to talk to you. She'll probably be impressed with how awesome you and your ogre-fighting skills are.
GOD DAMMIT.
>Find more ogres to slay. And some giclopses. LOTS of giclopses.
You can't just sit and be so badly one-upped. You wonder how many other friends have taken down a bunch of ogres and giclopses. Probably all of them. They're probably all laughing at you now. tC, who's so far behind the rest of them.
This is simply intolerable.
"Teebs is a total grump, but he's usually right." - NLK>Beat your head against the wall
That didn't help at all. And now you feel a little woozy.
>Try to contact tC
No can do. You're pretty much beating yourself up for being the worst friend ever.
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic>Jane: Worry.
>Get that computer stuff set up.
You should, in theory, be able to set up a connection to the island's wireless network using the parts you took. Now you just need to remember how. Mom drilled you on this so many times, you know you can do it...
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - NarbonicYou fall to the ground. Your body aching all over. The battle was won, and you finally found your SPRITE.
>Bill: Get Up
You barely stand up, feeling like you went down a never-ending chasm of stairs.
>Collect one METRIC FUCKTON of GRIST.
Why only that much? There's much more than that here. You collect all of the GRIST. All of it.
>Captchologue TELESCOPE
Don't you first want to pick up the Captchologue card the creature had dropped? You do that instead, pushing your SYLLADEX to 8 CARDS. Then captchologue the TELESCOPE.
>Examine DOC'S STUDY.
Now that you have time to take a closer look, you notice a CLOSET near the left side of the room.
>OPEN CLOSET
Inside is a BLACK EYED T'S SHIRT. You never knew the DOC was such a fan. Next to that is an ADULT'S GREY LAB-COAT. It's too big for you to wear normally.
>Captchologue BLACK EYED T'S SHIRT and ADULT'S GREY LAB-COAT
>EXAMINE RIGHT-SIDE OF ROOM.
You inspect a desk on the right of the room, which all had several theories on them. Most of them were things of NO IMPORTANCE, but Two caught your eye. The THEORIES OF PERCEPTION and THE THEORIES OF PREPULSION. You Captchologue them as well.
Time to ALCHEMIZE!
>GO UPSTAIRS.
You do, and go to your ALCHEMITER once more.
edited 17th Jul '10 8:13:09 PM by lightdarkhero250
I'm a ghost, you didn't see me.>Check in on sS
You really should be paying closer attention to your client player rather than gallivanting off exploring the apartment building. It seems she's managed to get herself into some trouble.
>Pester chum while she's in the middle of death-defying escapades.
You idiot. But we've already seen this conversation.
>Pester AC about the gate
You need to work on your timing. Like, a lot.
>Start building up towards sS' gate
She doesn't plan on going through for a while but you might as well get it done while you have all this lovely grist. And you should probably fix that hole you made pulling that furniture up to the roof.
>Get pestered by chum
Oh, its your good friend Jane. You wonder what she's up to.
Oh.
>Pester sS
You decide to ask sS to try to keep an eye on tC through the Sburb window.
But, um, you don't get an answer. That's probably a good sign, right?
>Everyone has fought an ogre. Get your butt in gear.
What? That would be highly irresponsible. I mean, you saw an ogre while you were walking around but since it didn't see you, you didn't think you had to disturb it. I mean, its not going anywhere. You'll just have to get back to the ogre after you've build up sS' treehouse of destiny up some more.
>What about the giclops?
You don't want to discuss the giclops. You are done discussing.
PLAYER JAMES IS CURRENTLY NOT TAKING COMMANDS.
edited 17th Jul '10 8:20:48 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

>Jane: Be proud.
You are feeling incredably smug right now. You are feeling really quite badass. You are incredably awesome, and you know it. You suddenly notice that you're standing in a shadow. You turn around. You...oh god, you need a new pair of pants. Figuratively.
>Hide from Giclops, buy some time.
Alright. You need a plan. A plan, a plan, a plan...maybe aA can help.
edited 17th Jul '10 4:36:08 PM by Katrika
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic