Not a lot of traffic yet, but I'm sure more people will join eventually!
[X]Plan: to hack the world!
-[X][Blair] Continue Training (Learn to code)
-[X][Blair+Dee+Andy] Playtime!.
-[X][Blair+Dee+Andy] Assist in packing.
-[X][Dee] Show Bonnie how to summon Collectables.
Not a lot of traffic yet, but I'm sure more people will join eventually!
[X]Plan: to hack the world!
-[X][Blair] Continue Training (Learn to code)
-[X][Blair+Dee+Andy] Playtime!.
-[X][Blair+Dee+Andy] Assist in packing.
-[X][Dee] Show Bonnie how to summon Collectables.
That's how it felt every single time it happened. That sense that your body is dissolving from the inside out, leaving you hollow as your spirit gives out.
The first time it happened, you were atop the Pleasure Palace, sparring against your master in your Berserker armor with swords in hand. Everything you simulated from the Black Swordsman's data you synchronized onto her. And when she finally took your helmet, you were so proud and yet... You couldn't help but feel this melancholy sensation as your code slowly dissolved from your form leaving nothing but the single black brick that made up your true form. She couldn't stop crying and yet, you still gathered the strength to dry her tears.
The second time it happened, we were watching a pair of brothers make their way through an animated municipality to pursue a robber in a cloak. Red eyes and made of gold. One brother would break his arm and the other, you copied onto a cel as your Scrape Method. It spared his life but it sure as hell took a lot outta ya. Your master had become as much of a toon as that canon could make her so you cared not as you retreated back to the black brick. Back to the emptiness...
The third time it happened, you had met a counterpart of yours, foot to foot, face to face.
You had rescued a little girl from a fate far worse than a piano being dropped on one's head. And now your mistress was going to Emulate the power that ended such suffering to end the suffering this demon had caused. From trapping a time traveler in the roaring 20s and sending his time machine to the 50s to keep it away from said time traveler's only hope, to putting his younger counterpart together with an aspiring activist to create a dystopian chokehold on the town by the 80s, to atomizing said younger counterpart by static magnetism to the time machine driven by said aspiring activist who is promptly sent to the old west where she completely erases the town by burning it to the ground in the past just as one of your companions fades from existence before your eyes.
"Honestly, do you truly believe you can stand a chance when your reality is too mundane to challenge you as often as it is able?" Sneered the man in his white bodysuit and slicked back hair. "Far more fantastically empowered Raelos surpass the lone pitiful quirk of the one you call home."
"What quirk?" She protested. "It's as normal as they come. We have no magic, we've been over this."
"Still unaware." The man turned his back and walked towards his plot hole, caring not for the ruined reality.
The last you knew, she took the last of your energy to acquire the instrument that ended the girl's suffering to end the suffering of her new companions. And when you woke up, you were projecting the form of a half-human, half-genie maiden and the last time traveler standing had made a contract to become a magical girl. Your companions trained like crazy for when your newfound enemy would strike next, and when the time came they were met with the CGI mecha clad in the pelt of the altered time traveler fetched from months after their arrival. The magical girl was hopeful that if he redeemed himself before he could do so once more only for a steamroller to prove her wrong.
"Oh my god," cried Loraine, letting the truth finally set in as to what their ultimate foe did to their once kind-hearted friend. "He got him… I don't know how but he got him."
The surviving brother was in shock of the scorched and flattened figure before him "Holy smokes, he's a toon!"
"Surprised?!"
"Not really…" sneered the rounder brother. "That lamebrain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon."
"Not just any toon!"
The fourth time it happened, the skin of its rubber mask popped open, revealing the computer graphics beneath the face of a man that, in another life, made time travel possible. "REMEMBER ME, EDDIE? WHEN I KILLED YOUR BROTHER, I TALK! JUST! LIKE! THIIIIIIIISSS!!!"
The killing machine fired its atomic breath at your mistress, but your flowing ponytail repelled it by spinning like a helicopter. The computer graphics' legs became one golden spring and his arm became golden tongs to grab the detective to reel it into a chain of blades and meat grinders hidden in its cloaks. To think this mesh of computer graphics used to be a hand-painted toon until he was robotized and re-rendered into the murderous mech you see before you. You smile at your mistress' panicked face, her worried eyes looking on as the hard-boiled sleuth was about to be mulched.
You knew what you had to do, your data reserves were at half their capacity but it was just enough for a race-lift. After all, if a half-genie was this mighty, imagine what a full Genie could do. "Thank you for being my mom."
With a single punch, you pump the emulation's energy right into her body, her hair already lengthened by a prior ability but now was changing into a rainbow of colors. A fitting final sight for this form to see.
When you came to, you were watching a little girl exit the portal screen into the real world.
Her real world.
'We did it.' You thought. 'We finally made it home.'
…
…Or at least you did.
You knew not where your old mistress went, but there was no sense to waste time worrying about it as you had a Scrape to make. 'So who's next to join the gumshoe and the girl?' you pondered, then you saw a spectre form a flowing blue mane.
The alarm clock beeped its monotone beat, awakening Diva to yet another day in this obsolete world of video cassettes and dial-up internet. She stretched out her slender arms, her fingers grazing the plush fabric of the bedspread, feeling the comforting warmth of the guest room.
She walked to the kitchen and found the children having breakfast. Blair and Andy were having omelets with another such plate laid out for you. "Good morning," she said with a smile, sliding into the chair opposite them. They both looked up from their plates, their expressions a mix of surprise and delight.
"You're up early," Jen commented,
"It's cause it's Friday." Added Blair, her mouth full of food. "No school tomorrow and she starts her job tonight."
"Ah, you got a job!" Jen perked up. "That's great, what's it at?"
"I'm a waitress..." Dee sighed back. "At Pizza Planet."
"Pizza Planet?!" Andy leaned in. "Does that mean we can get Pizza for free."
"Andy, that's not how it works." Jen scolded lightly, swiping a stray lock of hair from her face. She placed a steaming mug of coffee in front of Diva. "But we're happy for you, really."
"Thank you." Smiled Diva. "But I'm not hungry."
"Why not?" Blair asked. Diva looked to her and let out one last sigh before telling her hosts the truth.
-[X][Dee] Show Blair how to summon Collectables.
–[X][Dee] Tell your new family the truth, they're gonna find out you're an AI eventually, Dee.
Diva pulled the display cable from your neck and plugged it into the TV screen and saw a classroom materialize on the screen like what one would see in a Japanese high school, and in the room emerged an apparition of Diva clad in a uniform befitting of a student you could find in those schools. "This is the Archive, a network of information built for all AI constructs in the universe that can connect to it. Like me."
"Whoa…" The children were in awe of what they were seeing. "So you're saying you're a robot."
"More like a virtual life construct," Dee corrected. "I'm practically one of the earliest where I'm from, dating back to the year 2060."
"2060!?" Blair nearly jumped from her chair. "That'll make me fifty-five, that's so old."
"I beg your pardon?" Jen probed with a hint of ire.
"Calm yourself, madame." You explained "Blair's here in a year where she's yet to be born, so she's gonna be even older!" (1)
"Can we please try to keep our heads straight here." Dee asserted in annoyance. "Or perhaps Scruncy would like to explain the idea of summoning the two collectables in our pocket."
The children nodded vigorously, eager to focus on the task at hand. They sat in front of the screen on the recliner. "Now say a name, either name will do."
(Flip a coin, heads for Teddy, tails for Nina)
(Roll:Tail)
"Nina?"
Nina could feel the screen window grow more fluid and gelatinous as she emerged from the TV screen. Her brown braids and green overall dress flowing in the wind as she entered the living room. She looked around the room with wide eyes, taking in the unfamiliar surroundings.
"Wow..." Nina looked to Blair and jumped in for a big hug. "THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANK YOU!"
The others laughed along with the cheery people with Teddy wistfully smiling to subtly congratulate his junior, but then another voice was heard laughing outside the actual window. "That's sounds like..."
"Sid!" Jen's eyes widened with shock. The group peeked out the window where an unknowing Sid was chucking rocks at a Combat Carl. "I knew he'd got kicked out of Camp at some point but it's the end of July!! Hold up, is that a firecracker!? Ugh, he gets rougher and rougher with his toys with each flunk. I hear he got held back a year, he is that despicable. He's a high-school dropout waiting to happen, a future trashman or gas station attendant."
"That's implying he looks like a guy who can clean up after himself." You snipe back before a muffled boom and clattering of plastic pieces made themselves heard. "We should probably get Andy on the school bus."
-[X][Blair+Dee+Andy] Assist in packing.
By the time Andy returned from school, a treasure trove of well over three-hundred VHS tapes were laid out ready to organize into cardboard boxes. "Now when organizing the Disney Classics, it's important to line them up in order of its release," Diva clarified "Snow White leads into Pinnochio, Cinderella into Lady and the Tramp, Basil to Oliver, you know how this goes."
Blair eyeballed a videotape of The Rugrats Movie "But Mrs Davis said kids movies are to be in alphabetical order."
"But these are Disney Movies, Disney Animated movies. Big diff!" Diva shot back, her hands gesturing animatedly. "They're the history of the medium brought to life, they are that important!"
Andy held up his favorite VHS of 'Hercules'. "But she said we should put them like the letters in the alphabet."
"Alright, fine." Diva shrugged and handed over Return of Jafar. "You can pack all the sequels with the rest of the kiddie flicks, but nothing from the main studios."
Andy accepted the peace offering and smiled. "Okay, but what about the live-action stuff?"
Reward: All the tapes have been bagged up with the laundry, putting the house as 60% packed.
-[X][Blair] Continue Training (Learn to code)
->[X][Blair+Dee+Andy] Playtime!
Diva held the camera in her hand as Andy zoomed about the room with Buzz Lightyear, the screen on the camera had a background of the cosmos. A bit of programming to rotoscope out the world around himself, giving the illusion of flying through space. It was a feature Blair had programmed into the camera with Diva using her new coding intellect gained from the Emulation process, even Diva noted how amusing this was for her. She was exceeding most green screen effects artists at the age of seven.
Reward: +2 to Learn to Code with +3 Omake Bonus (5 > 10/10 Learn to Count complete)
"So, Dee. It's getting a bit dark and I see you've suited up for the job." Jen peeked in, pointing at her khakis and green t-shirt. Dee glances at herself and realizes the eight to midnight shift looming ahead. "Ah, shiiiiiiieeesh, I'm gonna be late for work!"
"Can I come with you?" Asked Blair.
"Oh, all this packing makes me hungry," Jen gestured. "...so why not take the whole family?"
"Cool!" Andy was quick to make his way out of the room.
"Go wash your hands and I'll get Molly ready." Jen instructed.
"Can I bring some toys?"
Blair's eyes lit up. "And me, too!"
"You each can bring one toy."
"Just one?" Andy was disappointed by this restraint, but with Blair, he knew that Buzz wasn't gonna be alone when he fetched him from the desk.
After washing their hands, Diva would guide the kids to Andy's Room so they would pick up Andy's Buzz figure and Blair's camera. As she walked in, she swore she could have heard a voice yell 'Retreat!' before Andy and Blair looked for their chosen toys and while Blair picked up her camera immediately, Andy ultimately struggled to find Buzz. "Andy, you're making me late!"
"But I can't find my Buzz, Dee." complained Andy.
"Then go pick some other toy." Diva had no time for this, she needed to be on time or she'd lose her only source of income just as fast as she got it. "Come on, I need this job right now and I can't afford to be late!"
"Okay…"
In the end, Diva was in the front seat with Jen with Andy and Blair in the back with Molly. Blair had her camera and Andy brought in his cowboy doll Sheriff Woody.
You are clear to enter! Welcome to Pizza Planet! State your business for patronizing this designated spaceport.
[ ] Table - write in what kinda pizza you want, be sure it's enough for two kids and two adults. (Molly has her sippy cup)
[ ] Arcade - Write in what games you wanna play, just don't go to the crane, there's nothing but alien squeaker in that thing.
[X] Arcade: Centipede, The TMNT arcade game, Pac-Man, Fix It Felix Jr, Donkey Kong.
So how aware are the toys about the whole Projection thing? Have they seen Nina come out of the screen when they were packing or are they in the dark about the whole thing?
So how aware are the toys about the whole Projection thing? Have they seen Nina come out of the screen when they were packing or are they in the dark about the whole thing?
As soon as the car went into its parking space, Diva dashed out of the door and ran through the employee entrance whilst Jen and the kids calmly exited the car and stepped towards the main entrance.
"I'm here!" Diva smiled as she clocked in two minutes ahead of schedule.
"Perfect timing." Larry smiled. "And just in time for happy hour! Since you're new here, I brought a bucket for you."
"What's the bucket for?" Dee asked.
Larry glared back at the Songstress "The barflies."
Looking to actually keep her job, Diva decides to let it be and cross that bridge when she comes to it. She put on her roller skates and waited a few tables in search of her family. "So that's a Thanksgiving Lovers personal with Action Fries and a pair of drumsticks on your side?"
"Yes, ma'am." spoke the mustachioed fellow.
She winced at the term before looking towards the bearded fellow. "And you want three pepperoni slices with a turkey club."
"Pretty much." He nodded back.
"Coming right up, fellas." Diva winked to the two fellows and slid on over to the table sporting a few familiar faces. "Welcome aboard, how may we fuel your vessel?"
"We would like a large four cheese for the kids and a chicken sandwich for myself." Jen stated. "No drink, we picked something up from the soda machine." She pointed to the Mountain Dew Fountain labeled as Alien Slime before concluding. "And we have a five dollar bill we can break up into tokens."
Diva took the five and dispensed twenty tokens. "Price of $16.48, can be waived in event of 30 minute ETA elapsing without fulfillment, thank you for your patronage."
"At ease." Joked Jen, the kids saluted the supposed sentry.
Jen carted Molly in the stroller, while the kids named which games they wanted to play, Andy in particular wanted to try his hand at black hole whereas Blair intended to broaden her horizons.
(Centipede=91) go 4th
(TMNT=46) go 3rd
(Donkey Kong=27) go 5th
(Pac-Man=44) go 1st
(Fix-It Felix Jr.=87) go 2nd
Blair's first stop was Pac-Man and while she barely made it out of level 1 with a single life left, she was distracted by couple of youths: a bigger boy who was nearly as tall as Diva, like a head short of her adult height, and this sweet little girl in star sunglasses. You went to greet the little girl and asked to come play with them but the big boy said no, Blair insisted but the boy pulled the girl back at such a velocity that her sunglasses came off, revealing a bruise on her right eye. Blair was perplexed by this and so too, was an eavesdropping Diva.
Reward: +5 Gaming Skills, +5 Empathy
Next was Fix-It Felix Jr. and she was really in the groove, clearing the full game and making the top five was no easy feat, but she had a secret weapon: her newfound code knowledge had blessed her with insight on how the RNG gods may tick and as such, she was racking up those extra lives like nobody's business. The sound of virtual nicelanders cheering filled the air as she watched Wreck It Ralph get tossed over, the game cleared and her score awaiting her name.
B.O.N.
Reward: Blair left a subtle reminder of her previous life, let's hope no one finds out.
+20 Gaming Skills, +10 Confidence.
Andy's just about done with Black Hole so it's off to Turtles in Time. They started inserting their tokens and got right to work figuring out which turtle to choose when Blair suddenly spotted the two children from before.
"Over here!" waved Blair, the little girl ran towards the duo eyes glimmering with excitement and the older boy reluctantly followed.
"Setsuko, what are you doing?" He barked "You know you're not supposed to wander off like that, especially when he gives us food and shelter."
"Who?" Andy asked.
"Oh, pardon my manners." The lad bowed respectfully. "My name is Seita and this is my sister..."
"Setsuko." The little girl, Setsuko, smiled to her hosts. "Can me and onee-chan play."
"Well, pull up a high-chair and let's play!" Blair beemed. "We clearly got the quarters!"
Andy was Leonardo, Blair was Donatello leaving Seita and Setsuko with Raphael and Michaelangelo. And though they did not make it all that far through the game, it was clear that Setsuko had a knack for it, her tiny fingers dancing across the buttons with surprising dexterity and strategy. Seita remained mostly silent, his eyes fixed on the screen, the tension in his jaw muscles speaking volumes.
Diva could recognize this as she looks over the two and the strange man that they followed.
Reward: +1 Affinity with Andy, Seita and Setsuko, +15 to Suspicion from the stranger that they apparently hang out with.
Blair was certainly excelling at Centipede, knowing the right pivot points for an ever-growing snake to gain the top spot of the leaderboard in seven minutes flat. No doubt thanks to her newfound Gaming skill, she felt like she was on top of the world.
Reward: Blair gains +10 to Confidence, +5 to Determination, Negative Trait: Inflated Ego (Can become Fear of Failure if burst too early)
Finally, Blair had saved the best for last! "Hope you're ready cause it's on like Donkey K-"
Her hair is yoinked by the stranger. "You really don't know why you shouldn't talk to strangers, huh?"
Diva did a double take and ran in towards the struggling Blair
Failure: The stranger caught you before you can get there.
How does Diva handle the sitch?
[ ]-Write In
Scheduled vote count started by TAMStudios on Sep 13, 2024 at 5:54 PM, finished with 4 posts and 1 votes.
[X] Plan: Not in my Pizza Planet!
-[X] Run towards them and scream kidnapper at the top of your lungs.
-[X] Go for a strike to the liver followed by a punch to the temple.
--[X] if none of that works, jump on top of them and continue screaming till Jen and Security comes.
--[X] grab onto their hair and bite into their ear, make untangling you from them a nightmare!
[X] Plan: Not in my Pizza Planet!
-[X] Run towards them and scream kidnapper at the top of your lungs.
-[X] Go for a strike to the liver followed by a punch to the temple.
--[X] if none of that works, jump on top of them and continue screaming till Jen and Security comes.
--[X] grab onto their hair and bite into their ear, make untangling you from them a nightmare!
'Two ordinary slices of pizza,' You telepathically quipped 'but when expertly tossed by an ai with the skill of a champ, you get:'
Dee tossed the greasy slices onto the floor before stepping on one of them: "A ONE WAY TICKET TO PAIN!"
With a knee to the liver and a punch to the temple, the crook stumbled and let go of Blair who proceeded to pull his hair and bite into his ear. As the man cried in pain, he quickly became the center of attention, very bad news if you were a kidnapper. Jen, Andy, and quite a few security guards aimed their gaze at the criminal in the room who promptly cut and run with a black brick in his hand. Diva pressed her head to Blair's and began channeling something into the little girl.
All at once, Blair knew as much about hand-to-hand combat as the hero of a kung-fu flick. She felt like she lived out a bunch of those films all at once. She watched as the crook ran off and looked to Andy. "Piggyback?"
Caught off guard by the turn of events, Andy looked on in confusion as Blair planted her feet. "Oh, uh… okay."
Andy climbed up the girl's back much to Jen's chagrin as she explained: "Look, he's gone, we can just go pick up our food, and look for Buzz when we get-"
FOOOM!
Blair's dash was spontaneous, like she was launched like a rocket to a moving target. Jen just stood there as she felt one of her hairs become the first on the scalp to turn gray.
The man ran as fast as he could with his phone in hand. "Damn it, why won't this damn thing load, it's been six hours."
"WUHEEEEUUUWW!! SALIEEEEEERRR!!!" The man looked behind him and met another knee, tossing him out the door and into the:
The man tumbled onto his back and felt his phone slip away from him on the pavement on the road. Blair leapt onto higher ground as she laid Andy closeby, shaken by the velocity of her sprint. "Just sit right here while I hogtie this outlaw."
The man could be heard chuckling to himself as he reached the phone. "Finally."
Blair tilted her head in confusion. "You're in for a world of hurt, little firebird."
Pressing on the screen of the phone, it triggers a shine that manifests itself as a boy, bigger than Andy, yet smaller than Seita, brown hair, white t-shirt with a black stripe in the middle and green cargo pants. But by far the most concerning thing about him was the clunky wristwatch on his arm. The face of which glowed an eerie green. "Emulation! Attack!"
He skimmed his surroundings and found that he was surrounded by people in the parking lot of a space-themed restaurant. You and Diva lept to the top of the neon facade and looked at the newly manifested Emulation checking himself out before slapping the crook silly. "You idiot! You're not giving me time to explain the caviat of our deal." The man was dumbfounded, how dare his servant strike him. "The Emulator and its active users are linked, dude. If I eat it and my phone form breaks, you'll croak, too!"
And thus, the other shoe drops. Blair was just as shocked as her attempted kidnapper but the elder of the two emulators snarled back, "You're bluffing, there's no way that can be plausible!"
The newly manifested Emulation took the wristband and poured all of his energy into it. "Don't believe me? Well, to paraphrase the most human of all the iconic alien races, Go long and suck it!"
He proceeded to tear the wrist worn device from his arm and chuck it towards Andy. Fearing it could go off, he raised his arms to block it only for one of them to be glomped by the watch as it transformed into a less conspicuous form. Andy looked at the emulated boy as his form fizzled and faded into ethereal code.
"It's just a gadget, be the hero!" The words echoed and distorted as the Emulator's consciousness slipped back into stasis and his form dissolved back into a slim, black brick. The man sprinted to this phone and looked at the screen.
Penalty! Emulation has sent a tool to a competitor! +6 hours downtime.
Penalty! Third straight Emulation where all energy is spent within 30 minutes. +1 hour downtime.
"Fuck!" He barked as Andy unwittingly fiddled with the watch. When the face popped outward with a hologram of this winged figure he did not know about, he then proceeded to slam down the face and the result was a green flash of energy shuffling the molecules and genetic structure of the boy, creating a black and blue moth-like humanoid that was half a head taller than he was prior. "Double Fuck!"
"How'd it get cold all of a sudden?" Andy asked, his voice altered by his transformation.
Blair merely glared in awe of this change she beheld. "You're so chilly…"
"Big... Chill..." Andy's mind summoned the two words together and to him, it sounded right.
Big Chill has the power of cryokinesis, meaning that he can influence the direction and form of the ice that grows from his breath and palms with extreme precision. This allows him to create simultaneous ice constructs that bend and weave through the air before solidifying. At his peak capacity, Big Chill was able to completely freeze D'Void's power generator and cause it to crumble apart.
Big Chill is capable of breathing a wind or beam that can reduce the temperature surrounding it to just this side of absolute zero, turn to ice constructs either mid-air or upon touching a target, or encase a target completely in ice. His breath can also be used as a strong gust of wind without freezing anything, capable of pushing the Rustbucket 2 off a cliff. Big Chill can freeze strong adhesives using his ice breath and make them brittle.
Big Chill is capable of firing freeze rays from his hands. He can also freeze objects and surfaces just by touching them.
Big Chill can become intangible and pass through solid matter. He can even cause opponents and objects to freeze by phasing through them if he chooses to. He can also turn himself partially invisible by becoming intangible.
Big Chill can fly at high speeds with his wings, being able to even outspeed Rex Salazar using his Boogie Pack. Big Chill is also able to levitate. Big Chill can also fold up his wings into a hooded robe.
Big Chill possesses sharp claws, which were able to tear through Inspector 13's suit to remove one of his devices.
Big Chill has enhanced strength, as seen when he was on a metal-eating spree, where he effortlessly ripped apart a large metal statue and snapped iron girders in half. He can also carry a Revonnahgander and a Prypiatosian-B Containment Suit while keeping steady flight.
Big Chill's strength extends to his feet, which are prehensile, as Freeze-Ghost could carry an Opticoid while flying.
Big Chill is rather durable, as he was able to take a laser blast to the back from Kraab and only be slightly fazed.
Big Chill is quite agile, as he is capable of dodging attacks while flying, as well avoiding laser attacks from afar, as demonstrated by Freeze-Ghost.
Big Chill can survive underwater, as well as in the vacuum of space.
Big Chill can withstand radiation, such as that generated by a Prypiatosian-B.
Big Chill is resistant to extreme temperatures, both hot and cold. As such, he can drink molten steel and keep it hot without suffering severe internal damage.
Big Chill has a powerful jaw capable of chewing up and devouring metal statues, poles, buildings, signs, iron girders, and serving trays.
Big Chill can generate snow. Big Chill can also spit out ice shards, as demonstrated by the Necrofriggians on Mikd'lty.
With those powers in mind, what's the plan, fam?
[ ] Write In
[X] Plan: It's Hero Time!
-[X] fly around the Stranger and create ice walls around him to cut off any escape attempt.
-[X] Diva gets close and attacks, trying to get him to let go of his Brick.
-[X] Blair stands at the edges of the fight so that she can render backup as needed.
--[X] if Diva is in trouble, Blair will attack from behind aiming at his knees to unbalance him.
Andy proceeded to flank the Stranger as he pulled out his knife and swung as precisely as he could, only for his blade to phase right through the Necrofriggian as he breathed a blizzard-like wind that coalesced into a thickening ice wall. Diva somersaulted in front of the crook as Andy breathed out another ice wall behind her. "What's the matter, the summer sky gets far colder at night."
The man looked at them in awe and confusion, his knife dropping from his trembling hand. The crowd in the parking lot gawked at the sudden transformation, murmurs of disbelief and fear echoing through the night. Blair's eyes darted back and forth, taking in the scene as she clutched her camera tightly. The wind picked up, turning into a swirl of frost around her as she readied herself to jump in if needed.
Diva saw her opportunity and leaped from the shadows, her movements as swift as a striking snake. She darted towards the man, aiming to snatch the phone from his grasp before he could react. Her fingers grazed the device, but he was quicker, pulling it away with surprising agility. He stumbled back, his heart racing. The cold was intense, and the ice walls grew thicker, trapping him.
"Let go!" she yelled, her teeth chattering from the sudden drop in temperature. The man's eyes narrowed, and he smirked. "You think you can just take what's mine?" He taunted, his grip on the phone tightening.
With a swift motion, Diva brought her elbow down, aiming for the man's wrist. The impact sent a jolt of pain through his arm, and the phone slipped a little. Sensing his weakening grip, she swiped at it again, her fingertips grazing the cold metal. He cursed under his breath and swung his free hand at her, but she was too fast. She danced away, her skates leaving frosty prints on the ground.
The man's eyes grew wild with desperation. He knew he couldn't hold onto the phone forever, not with these two relentless adversaries. He glanced around, searching for an escape route, but the crowd had grown larger, and the ice walls had all but encased him.
-[X] Blair stands at the edges of the fight so that she can render backup as needed.
--[X] if Diva is in trouble, Blair will attack from behind aiming at his knees to unbalance him.
Seeing an opportunity, Blair launched herself from the sidelines with a fierce yell, her legs pumping like pistons as she sprinted towards the man. Her eyes locked onto his knees, her target to bring him down. The crook sensed the change in the air pressure, the thunder of her approach, and he swiveled his head to see her coming. His smirk faded into a grimace as he realized the gravity of his situation.
Blair's body was a blur of motion, a flash of silver and blue as she dove at the man. Her legs swung up in a high arc, her heels aimed at the vulnerable joints of his knees. The crowd held their breath, anticipating the impact. The man tried to dodge, but the ice beneath his feet was too slick, too treacherous. He stumbled, his legs buckling under the force of her blow. The phone flew from his grasp, spiraling through the air like a starship thrown off course as Andy swooped in to grab it only to phase right through it, causing the phone to freeze solid and smash onto the icy pavement. "Huh, didn't see that coming"
The crook stumbled and scrambled to piece the phone back together only for an ethereal clock to manifest on his chest, minute and hour hands spinning clockwise and counter-clockwise respectively before landing on dead midnight with the loud gongs triggering a cracking from the face of the clock which began to spread through his torso. His eyes darted to his arm as it twisted into a rolled up newspaper with trading cards poking out as the former aged rapidly before his eyes. The man writhed in pain as his body spiraled into a vortex of utter nothingness that erased the man's physical form before their eyes until all that was left was a playing card: The eight of clubs. If one were to see it fall upon its back, one would see three lights on the unique design on it fading into black.
"That's it?" Diva deadpanned. "With all that fanfare, you'd think there'd be a little bit of blood."
Blair ignored Diva's snarky remark and focused on the card lying on the ground. The cold wind had ceased, and the ice walls were already beginning to melt, revealing the stunned onlookers. She stepped closer to the card, her booted foot gently nudging it with a cautious toe. It remained lifeless, a stark contrast to the chaos of moments before.
Scheduled vote count started by TAMStudios on Sep 14, 2024 at 7:05 PM, finished with 1 posts and 1 votes.
[X] Plan: It's Hero Time!
-[X] fly around the Stranger and create ice walls around him to cut off any escape attempt.
-[X] Diva gets close and attacks, trying to get him to let go of his Brick.
-[X] Blair stands at the edges of the fight so that she can render backup as needed.
--[X] if Diva is in trouble, Blair will attack from behind aiming at his knees to unbalance him.
Jen had decided to grab the food and drive home with Dee explaining the situation to her employers with as little of the details as she could to ensure they could keep their mouths shut. The staff obliged and let them have their food free of charge since this explanation and the incident put them over the thirty minute time limit. In the meantime, Scrunchables was being grilled on the ride home "I demand to know what's going on."
"Well, I'm the four of spades, of course there's gonna be more of me." complained Scrunchables to the maiden of the house.
Jen rolled her eyes. "Well, yes. But did you mean to tell me that they were going to be crooks?"
"Hey, I'm just one of many cards dealt across the seven suits." Scrunchables dismissed "If you wanna speak to my manager, he's more than eager to meet you and your kids for the win you just scored."
And just like that, the car had manifested on a giant card, Four of Spades, much like the Emulator you were berating, beyond the horizon, there were other suits, Club, Hearts and Diamonds, and also shields, swords, and roses. On each of the cards were silhouettes of one or two figures. Some of the second figures were the same form as Scrunchables whereas others varied wildly from muscular men to small children to inhumanoid creatures.
"Well, well. Congratulations, Brother." Spoke one figure.
"Yeah, nice work dude!" spoke a short humanoid monkey in a cap.
"Gotta admit, it was ballsy for an Emulation to dump all his energy into an Omnitrix and just yeet it to the other team." complained another, a similar clunky wristwatch glowing blue on his arm. "I don't know what made him do that, the Ben inside or the card himself. And I know my Ben Tennysons."
"Still, gotta commend those little pop tarts for smoking a practiced manhunter." smiled a man with glasses and a cap clad in a suit and necktie.
"So, I'd like to have my pizza be piping hot." exclaimed Andy, still in his alien form. "Is anyone gonna do something about this?"
As if on cue, the timer elapsed and changed him back as a bizarre golden being towered over the nearly one-hundred cards laid out before them with a white rabbit-like being nesting inside of its crown. "Now that you all have congregated before me, allow me to extrapolate on the rules of my survival game. Each of you have these special Multiversal Emulators from which any active players contracted gain access to the powers of any given reality that the system can draw from. One installs a new application that reads up to ninety days into the future, another allows the user to make anyone short of their fellow players die however they see fit."
Jen gulped harshly, fearing for herself and her son. The rabbit-thing lept from the crown and onto the cards, "And there are countless worlds where the powers manifest inside of you, evolve into races far stronger than the average human, you can even make contracts to create a player for each world you emulate!"
"Pardon me if I may," spoke another fellow, one with tidy hair and a weathered stare. "My first emulation was one of the Twelve Diary Users and cashed in what was left of his energy for his Indiscriminate Diary and I saw it rewrite itself multiple times."
"The future is subject to change in response to a user's actions." spoke the golden being. "Consider, for example, glaring foreknowledge of an imminent personal catastrophe that is to befall you down the road. When the appointed hour of the catastrophe arrives, foreknowledge allows you to take steps to avoid it. Thus defusing one future and manifesting another."
"Just like the Singularity Program!" Dee added.
"Exactly, when catastrophe is averted, a new future begins, any and all existing diaries in your Emulators promptly alter to reflect the change." The golden one concluded. "However, no one is the lone determinant of their own future which makes the stakes of this challenge a test of survival. But knowing the barriers between your individual realities, the blockades will take time for the dimensions to bleed into one another creating ideal worlds for this crossroads of human evolution."
"Indeed." The rabbit-thing nodded "And as such, should those targeted for death bare one of the thirteen permutations of Future Diaries, a Dead End message will be sent to your Emulator's phone form complete with an added timer."
"I take it that the lack of knowledge as to who these players are is part of the challenge." A messy-haired individual glared to the golden one. "And identifying who's who is the first step in terminating them."
"Precisely." confirmed the golden one. "Unveiling your opponents will severely compromise their position. Whoever receives the resulting dead end warning must martial all their resources to undo it."
"However, there are some realities that have multiple Emulators and corresponding Players and several more others that seamlessly bled together due to incidents in the past that occurred before many of the chosen players had even been born." Scrunchables glared at one of the figures, a string of hair in front of his face as the rabbit-thing pulled him out of Jen's purse. "Four of Spades, your termination was inevitable with the incapacitation of the first of your players."
"But by means of your scrapes finding a worthy successor," continued the golden one. "Miracle of Miracles, your champions have reduced the verdict to mere scribbles in the sand. Should we owe this more to cunning than luck, you may yet be the heir to my throne."
"Heir to your…" Jen was in utter awe. "What are you."
A figure laughed maniacally, his voice breaking from the strain of his adam's apple. "Don't you get it. This 'Quest Master' is the god of our world, and he's looking for a successor to create a new reality! A perfect world!"
Jen stood in utter silence as the Quest Master confirmed this. "Aye, ye who weathers the vicious onslaught shall indeed rule over all creation as the god of this reborn world. Look around you, my Emulators, your ninety-six brothers and sisters remain with the Jokers of your bunch with the exact same hostess across different iterations of the canon. Isolated from the strife for control of eternity until the time is right."
"Fourth time's the charm, you might say." Sneered the fading silhouette of a stubby little elf.
"Well put." added the hair streak as he absconded in the same fashion.
"A pleasant day to you, o favorite one." greeted the gentleman with the peculiar hairdo.
"Doris…" a man with a single curl of hair on his bald head slumped onto his knees "I thought she was my friend…"
"If this is how I restore my son, so be it." a woman in a flowing dress sighed.
"Better stay alive long enough for me to kill you."
Jen winced in shock, one of them had a son? What was wrong with this game?!
"Guess somebody's a bit stressed."
"Like, sounds like this game should be hoot, Scoob!" smiled a bowl-headed man in an oversized shirt to his giggling great dane. "Reah! Rad skills!"
Andy hid himself in the car in fear as a pair of observers looked on "So it's it. We have to look after these children with no powers native to our world."
"Yes." sighed the messy haired fellow. "It would appear so."
"That won't do." lamented the worn-eyed man as his mechanical angel sneered with her narrowed purple eyes. "You poor little meatbags."
"Don't even bother to fight." huffed the one on the King of Hearts. A young man in what Dee believed to be a middle school uniform, "It useless to resist the god of this new world when he already knows how it's going to end, I AM JUSTICE!"
With the contenders in the single digits and continuing to drop, the Quest Master started to fade away from the plane of existence. "I declare this meeting adjourned."
And with that, the car mysteriously appeared at their soon-to-be-former house. No doubt the Quest Master's doing, at least we can look for Buzz and bring Woody back into the bedroom.
Welp, I just made Woody and Buzz' Sid predicament more preferable! We're gonna need to unwind a bit Tomorrow. So what's our course, fellas?
Emulation Points: 10
Andy: 3 Activities
Dee: 2 Activities
Blair: 3 Activities
[ ] Start Training (Bonnie Exclusive, select a power/skill. Available now: Songstress)
[ ] Training is for Squares, like Pants! (Bonnie Exclusive, select a power/skill, instantly learn the power) Costs 10 Emulation Points, free activity slot
[ ] Studying (Can be done with Andy and/or Bonnie, can add an additional point when training in a mental power from Emulation)
[ ] Playtime! (Can be done with Bonnie and/or Andy)
[ ] Assist in packing (Can be done with any combination of all three)
[ ] Babysit Molly (Can be done with any combination of all three)
[ ] Write in
"I am the Eight of Clubs." Spoke a red-haired man in a trenchcoat that appeared to some thirty some-year-old stoner. "A Multiversal Emulator sent from on high by the Quest Master."
"Huhuh… you said high."
"Quiet you!" He pointed with his knife. "My skills can be yours such as my knife mastery and my Murder Diary which tells me how to corner and vanquish my pray."
"Murder Diary?" The stoner promptly filtered the flip phone from the man. "You mean this'll tell me how to murder all the trannies I want!?"
"Don't spend my energy in one gulp, you dousche!" The Emulator's irate rant was cut short by his energy proceeding to be spent in one gulp, causing him to stop existing for six hours.
-?-
At the drive through of the Poultry Palace, the reborn Emulator and his master drove a couple of newly Scraped individuals and an additional guest over at 2:33pm
The two siblings ate their meal alongside a third child with tanned skin and white hair adoring a cherubic face that was planted onto the lid of this jar of curious candies.
"You can also Scrape for doomed souls you can rescue from any moment in time that can lead to their undoing." Exclaimed the Eight of Club, now a giant sapient phone with wings. "Though Superpowers are sadly not gauranteed-Hey!"
Too late, the Scrape energy has been spent on gardening and fighter pilot skill. "Did you even hear a word of what I'm saying!?"
—
Six hours after that, at the liquor bar of Pizza Planet. A woman with flowing hair that felt like a blanket of snow downed her fifteenth shot of light beer as she watched the fight that was breaking out at the parking lot of a Pizza Planet. The blush on her exotic skinned face making her drunken stupor all the more obvious. "And the moral of the story, kids, is that jumping the gun on frivolous spending of Emulation energy will lead you down a hole of terminal debt." She slammed down her glass and slurred "Bartender! Another round for me and my future ex-husband here!"
Larry rolled his eyes. "I'm not your future ex-husband, lady. That's just a regular phone. And you're cut off. You've had enough for one night."
The woman glared at him, her hazel eyes narrowing. "Don't tell me what to do, Larry. I've seen this survival game before and lemme tell ya, getting locked up by the me from a doomed timeline ain't pretty." Two employees wrapped an arm around hers to restrain her. She continued to struggle and shout, "Hey, put me down! I've got like ninety more of these omakes left to star in here!"
Hmmm, interesting, so there's another Omnitrix involved, good thing we got a good spread of aliens, should cover for most eventualities...
He has Alien X doesn't he?
[X] Plan: Packing and Training!
-[X][Blair] Start Training (Songstress)
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Assist in Packing
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Babysit Molly
-[X][Andy] Practice using the Omnitrix
With a long winding yawn, Blair awoke to the empty void that acted as her home, she hopped out of her bed and checked her hair to find that it has cascaded down to her butt and had become more blue than brown.
Reward: Blair is now able to whip her short range hair as more of a get-off-me tool.
"Ah, ah." Blair could hear a voice from outside her cartridge. "Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah."
The voice sounded fresher, like a beautiful princess. So that ruled out Jen right there, and this meant it was the cool grownup! "Diva!"
This got the Blunette's attention as did the girl popping out from the screen. "Hey, Blair!"
So she nodded in confirmation. "You've got a wonderful voice."
"Really, you know, It's not all that fancy. When I first started out, I was tracing my voice to the notes, not really having enough heart to put into my performance," Dee sighed before puffing up her chest with pride. "...but as time went on and I picked up a few tips from others, I became the singing sensation you see before you."
"Can you tell me one of them?" Blair asked.
Dee gave a little smirk. "I could, but I gotta get packing."
"Eighteen, nineteen, twenty." Jen glanced in search of the children. They were playing hide and seek. "Ready or not, here I come."
She first checked the living room, flipped over a sofa cushion to reveal a giggling Nina. "Nice try."
Jen ran up the stairs and found what appeared to be a red plush toy clad in a helmet and mechanic's jumpsuit. She then proceeded to Chuck it into Andy's room. The 'plush' proceeded to stretch its legs and let out a sigh. "Worked like a charm."
"B3."
"Miss, G6"
"Agh! You sunk it!" A pair of voices were coming from the windowsill discussing payment, Andy crawled up and found his piggy bank and his Potato Head playing… Strip Battleship? "How about three outta five?"
"Oh, hey." Greeted the piggy bank. "Didn't know Andy brought home a prize."
"Yeah, uh… a prize." Andy said, like a liar. "So, toys playing the inanimate object around the biggies, that's the gimmick?"
Potato Head winced with awe. "Dang, that's a good one!"
"Hey, over here!" A third voice from out the window, causing others to congregate onto the desk.
"Son of a building block!" Exclaimed Potato Head. "It's Woody!"
"He's in the psychos bedroom!" Sid's Bedroom. How'd he end up there, he was in the car! Wasn't he?
'We're gonna get outta here, Buzz!" you could hear Woody's voice loud and clear from yards apart as did a muffled voice of a man making airplane and explosion noises. "Oho, boy! Am I glad to see you guys!"
"I knew you'd come back, Woody!" Added his Slinky Dog.
"What are you doing over there?" Probed the porcelain damsel Bo Peep.
"It's a long story, Bo, I'll explain later!" Woody reassured as he pulled out some Christmas lights out. "Here! Catch this!"
Andy caught it in his hands. "Got it!"
"Good going, Partner!" Woody congratulated before asking. "Who are ya?"
"It's a long story, Sheriff, I'll explain later!" Andy bluffed. "Let me go tie it."
"Ah, quick suggestion." Potato Head then yoinked the lights from Andy's hands. "How about NO!"
"Potato Head!" Bo sounded nettled.
"I know you're new around here, kid." glared Potato Head "But I wouldn't be that quick to let him over here what he did to Buzz."
"It was an accident, you guys!" reassured Woody "Besides, he's just fine! He's with me!"
"You are a liar!"
"NO, I'M NOT!" Woody looked behind him to call Buzz over as Andy heard the sound of a sticker being peeled off. "Buzz, tell all the nice people that you're not dead."
Andy heard crinkling paper, no doubt this Alien had enhanced hearing on top of this insistent desire to tinker. Why else could you hear Woody trying to talk to Buzz?
"Would you get up here and give me a hand?" Kadunk-bunk! "Hahaha… That's very funny. Buzz, this is serious?"
"Is Buzz okay?" Andy asked.
"He's just fine! Hi Buzz, why dont you say hello to the fellas over there!" claimed Woody as he proceeded to do a bit of ventriloquism. "Hiya fellas, to infinity and beyond!"
Whilst A few of the dimmer bulbs were excited, others like Hamm and especially Potato Head weren't phased, especially with only the arm visible. The backscratch got especially obvious. "What're you tryin' to pull?"
"Nothin'"
Then you saw the detached arm and the reactions were obvious. Andy in particular found himself walking backwards as a beeping sound started humming.
"Murderer!" yelled Potato Head.
"No!" Woody was panicking "Nononononono! It's not what you think I swear."
"Save it for the jury!" yelled Potato Head as Andy fell onto his back. "I hope Sid pulls out your voice box you murdering-"
Bamph! As Woody was begging and pleading with his fellow toys. Rex turned to see the sudden light and his eyes widened at what he saw, he tapped Potato Head and one look behind him and the two froze up (Potato Head letting go of the lights) as did Slinky, Hamm, and Bo which concerned Woody. "Guys? What's with the-."
On the other side, emerged Andy, a glowing red dial all the more apparent on the strange device on his arm. Woody dashed out of sight and when next he checked, the blinds were closed. Heartbroken, Woody realized that Buzz was all he had left.
Reward: Juryrigg used one time! +1 to odds of gadgeteer aliens being added. +1 to odds of smol aliens being added. +1 to odds of red aliens being added.
Andy is aware that the Toys are alive and the Toys are aware of Andy's fancy new Omnitrix. …Celebration?
"Mol-ly," Diva cooed, her heart swelling with affection as the baby giggled at her goofy expressions. She stuck out her tongue, puffed her cheeks, and bulged her eyes until she looked like a cross between a fish and a clown. It was a pouring outside, you barely got any packing done. "Look what Auntie can do!"
Molly's laughter was pure and infectious, a sweet sound that had the power to make anyone's day brighter. Blair was quick to notice as he helped to carry the last of the small boxes with Jen. "Looks like you've got yourself an audience," said Blair, raising an eyebrow playfully at Diva.
"Well, I gotta keep my vocal chords humming." Dee remarked back. "Hard to make everybody happy with my singing on a dry voice box."
Jen couldn't help but chuckle at the exchange, "Hard to doubt that. Say, why dont we sing her a lullaby together."
"You're right!" Dee smiled and came up with "Row, Row, Row your boat. Gently down the stream."
"Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily life is but a dream." soon the kids voices join in the fun of lulling Molly to sleep.
Reward: Songstress +1
Songstress: 0 > 3/36
And when Molly was asleep, Andy tucked in Molly in her crib before heading back to bed himself, his mind desperate to find Woody and Buzz as they're the only anchors to the normal life he once enjoyed. But all mom could find was his hat. "What if we leave them behind?"
"Ohhh... don't worry, honey" his mother cooed back "I'm sure we'll find both Woody and Buzz before we leave tomorrow."
With a kiss goodnight, Andy nustled himself to sleep, his mind trying to focus on anything that wasn't about that trip to Pizza Planet. Muffled voices could be heard about moving buddies as his mind conjured up an image of Sid swapping around Woody and Buzz' heads and laughing maniacally.
BAMPH!
Andy jolts awake and grazes the ceiling. His form currently in shape of a giant orange lizard that snapped his bed in two. "Moo-ooom! Can I sleep with you tonight?!"
Reward: Humongousaur used one time! +1 to odds of huge aliens, +1 to odds of powerhouse aliens, +1 to odds of orange aliens
When Andy awakened the next day, there was one thing on his mind as the moving trucks were on the move, get his toys back from Sid so they can make it to their new house. With a flick of his wrist he dialed his next Alien and got to work
-Sid's Yard-
"Houston, we have permission to launch. Roger, Permission Granted." Sid spoke into the matchbox as if it were a walkie talkie whilst all the mutant toys got in position. "You have confirm in T-10 seconds and counting."
As his nasty neighbor counted down, Andy readied his Omnitrix and selected The imp and hid in the bushes and crawled up the shed as Woody cycled through phrases in his voice box.
"It's busted." sneered Sid.
"Who're you calling busted, buster!?" Sid stopped in his tracks and checked the pull string, unpulled and untouched. "That's right, I'm talking to you, Sid Phillips!"
"Gepetto, look!" Sid looked behind him and saw an imp in an engineer's getup chuckling "I'm a real boy!"
Sid yelped in fear and fell on his rump as the imp continued. "Someone tells me you're pretty rough on toys. And since I'm going away now, I thought i'd do something really special for a certain set of critters."
Sid stuttered back. "W-whut kinda-"
"Who do ya think, Sid?" Woody answered. "Your toys."
One after another, the mutilated menagerie of toys Sid left in his wake emerge, looking to enact sweet revenge as the imp smiled from above his target. "I know what you're thinking 'but toys cant move.' and you're usually right. But this is a rule that needs to be broken just this once, cause these fellas don't like it when ya smash em, maim em, gut em like sheep, burn em, break em, or blow them to bits on a..." He went to read the name on the rocket with his goggles. "Eagle Fireworks Big One, aren't those guys banned in Emeryville?"
"That's why we're doing this for you, Sid." Woody continued through his voice box "Cause you're that special kind of-"
"Vicious." Buzz let in a quip from his voice box.
"Psychotic." added the imp.
"Stupid." added Woody
"Selfish." added Buzz
"Nasty." added the imp.
"Repulsive." added Buzz.
"and outright arrogant." Woody finished.
"Now ya gotta promise to take really good care of your toys." sneered the red imp with a confident smirk. "Being there for ya's their job, and darn it, that can mean a lot to ya but we'll find out if you betray that, Sid."
"Darn tootin' partner." Woody quipped back. "We toys can see everything."
A full 360 rotating plastic head kept Sid's fearful eyes away from the Imp adjusting the dial on his person and slamming it down creating a flash of green energy behind Sid which broke his attention and guided his stare towards a towering crystal golem in a sleeveless bodysuit. "So play nice."
One slam of the ground and a screaming Sid is incased in crystal on the spot.
"HA! HA!" Woody cheered with all the mutant toys. "We did it! We did it!"
The crystalline being lifted Buzz and handed him to the Sheriff. "Thanks."
"We're not done yet, Buzz." reminded Woody as the two shook hands. "There's still the moving van."
"Are you sure about this guy?" whispered Buzz to the sheriff. "Something tells me we aren't supposed to do that."
"We're not." joked the crystal giant. "Besides, he'll be fine once he breaks free of those crystal walls, his lungs have oxygen to process this little adventure that'll... more than likely screw him up for the rest of his life. A sacrifice I am honored to make."
With a quick salute, the crystal giant generated a crystal footstool to go over the fence on. "Buzz, lets agree to never do that again."
"Please, that guy's for space rangers like the real Buzz Lightyear." Buzz retorted. "Doesn't concern us toys."
With a honk-honk. "Everybody say bye house!"
"Bye, House!" Cheered Blair and Nina as the Omnitrix timed out and changed Andy back on the other side of the fence as he ran to the car and got in as it started to roll onto the road. His sunroof open just in case, and as Diva and Blair sung along to an assortment of Disney songs, Andy could hear a quick plop.
And there they were.
Reward: Juryrigg used one time! +1 to odds of gadgeteer aliens being added. +1 to odds of smol aliens being added. +1 to odds of red aliens being added.
Diamondhead used one time! +1 to odds of crystalline aliens being added. +1 to odds of bullet hell aliens being added. +1 to odds of clear aliens being added.
You now live at 234 Elm Street
+1 to Songstress (3 > 4/10)
Woody and Buzz are here in the car after a brush with an explosive end.
Alright, New Home, New Adventures, What's our first order of business
Emulation Energy: 10
-[ ] Continue Training Songstress
-[ ] Finish Songstress - Cost 6 Points
-[ ] Babysit Molly
-[ ] Start Unpacking
-[ ] Summon Teddy Valliant +2 Activity Points
-[ ] Investigate the chosen Players of the other Emulators
-[ ] Write in
Scheduled vote count started by TAMStudios on Sep 14, 2024 at 11:01 PM, finished with 2 posts and 1 votes.
[X] Plan: Packing and Training!
-[X][Blair] Start Training (Songstress)
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Assist in Packing
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Babysit Molly
-[X][Andy] Practice using the Omnitrix
Heh, nice! You know I wonder if Boo lives anywhere nearby, since those universes are connected, what with Sid actually appearing in the Monsters Inc comics.
I also finally have an idea for an Omake, night take a few days for it to be ready, depends on whether my muse cooperates.
[X] Plan: like the beginning, but reversed.
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Start Unpacking
-[X][Blair] Continue Training Songstress
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Babysit Molly
-[X][Andy] Playtime
Elm Street was a cozy little neighborhood complete with a tightly knit neighborhood watch. A nice place for a family with four children to live on.
"Okay, Kids. First order of business is getting all the furniture up." Jen reported to her brood. "Andy, got any aliens who can help Diva out here?"
The green on the dial glowed bright as a response. "I do now, going __________!"
[ ] Diamondhead - Original Series
[ ] Cannonbolt - Original Series
[ ] Big Chill - Alien Force
[ ] Humongousaur - Alien Force
[ ] Amphibian - Ultimate Alien
[ ] Juryrigg - Ultimate Alien
[ ] Bloxx - Omniverse
[ ] Feedback - Omniverse
[ ] Bloodbat - MikasaLovesYou
[ ] Smoketorch - Tim-Solomon
Diva was scrolling through the Archive's song collection in search of something to play on the Game Genie's karaoke mode. "Come on, give me something old, we're talking Austin Powers old!"
Blair sat comfortably on the sofa as Dee skimmed the playlist, shaking her head to and fro as her flowing hair swung to the rhythm when Dee turned around and said: "How about this?"
The chorus roared with guitars and catchy lyrics and Blair banged her head, whipping her hair about wildly to the music. "Okay! Let's kick up the jams, little lady!"
Dee selected the track and within seconds, Bonnie picked up the mic and sang the lyrics on the screen. "Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me. I ain't the sharpest tool in the she-ee-ed."
"Good, move to the rhythm." Dee encouraged, her body warming up to a dance.
"She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead." Bonnie smiled and began sidestepping and swinging her armms about in a little dance. "Well, the years stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming…"
Listening to Blair repeat the same words over and over was beginning to get real annoying to Diva real fast. "We've got to work on your pop song memorization."
Reward: You may need to listen to lyric videos for a while. (+2 Songstress)
"Holy smokes." spoke Andy as Woody "I say this haunted bakery sure is creepy."
"Be quiet!" Bonnie hushed, Bo Peep in hand. "You're gonna wake up all the Ghosts."
"Look out! The ghosts are throwing pies!" Andy yelped before sounding out the splats for a giggling baby Molly.
"I think I prefer the Cafe in Paris!" Bonnie quipped. "Or was it a coffee shop in New Jersey. Come on, we gotta greet the doctor after dishing out some life-changing news!"
"Creators tend to do a lot of improv here." Diva glared to the baby she is cradling. "Imagination is a magical feeling where the rules are made up and the points don't matter!"
Reward: +1 to Affinity
Andy's gonna be back in Summer School today, (Mondays, am I right?) So he's only gonna have 2 activities for the next five days. What do you do?
Emulation Energy: 10
-[ ] Continue Training Songstress
-[ ] Finish Songstress - Cost 4 Points
-[ ] Babysit Molly
-[ ] Start Unpacking
-[ ] Summon Teddy Valliant +2 Activity Points
-[ ] Investigate the chosen Players of the other Emulators
-[ ] figure out where to put the alien TV
-[ ] Write in
[X] Plan: summoning the Investigator.
-[X][Blair] Summon Teddy Valliant +2 Activity Points.
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Investigate the chosen Players of the other Emulators.
--[X] Search the news and the internet for unusual sightings and strange occurrences.
-[X][Andy] Try and use Juryrig to create defenses for the house.
-[X][Dee] Babysit Molly.
(Roll=55)
When the light subsided, a towering creature made from Lego Bricks and K'Nex sticks loomed over from where Andy stood the second prior. "And what's he do?"
The toyman stretched his arms to grab his mattress, ship it straight upstairs and have it pop up with a new bedframe to replace his own. "It can do that, apparently."
"Well, on that case," Jen stood up with pride in her eyes. "Let's get to work!"
Reward: Unpacking at 35%
You have replaced your bedframe with strong alien Legos
You became Bloxx one time: +1 to odds of size shifting alien, +1 to odds of big alien
-Meanwhile across the street from the old house-
You prayed to your true and honest god that this will be a venture as bountiful as any other if not more than the one before. Your pyronite partner descended from the sky and manifested her human disguise, nodding to him as if to say, 'The coast is clear' With the Eight of Clubs gone, this Four of Spades your client has tagged was prime killing material because this was what you do for a living. Children, Animals, Old People, whoever you targeted, wherever you'd travel, it mattered not.
You are Krombopulus Michael, and you just loved killing. "Oh, boy! Here I go killing again!"
Leaping from rooftop to rooftop in heated pursuit, you wondered out loud how the Four of Spades drew an Omnitrix and got away with it. You paid it no heed and looked for evidence in your digital disguise. "Aha!"
Petrosapian residue. and there was a young man, still breathing, yet terminally traumatized by the whole ordeal that landed him there in the first place, before you whipped your umbrella against his prison, shattered it open and released the boy in his black shirt. You wanted to ask who did this to him, only for the boy to be hung up about his toys coming to life to the point where the boy's seven-year-old sister proceeded to tease him with her doll.
You paid both no heed and analyzed the residue, you felt the tracks went over that fence so you searched the house next door... only to find it utterly empty. You wanted to scream with anger, letting out a growling snarl before erupting with a spiteful. "Dagnabbit! Run dry again!"
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[X] Plan: summoning the Investigator.
-[X][Blair] Summon Teddy Valliant +2 Activity Points.
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Investigate the chosen Players of the other Emulators.
--[X] Search the news and the internet for unusual sightings and strange occurrences.
-[X][Andy] Try and use Juryrig to create defenses for the house.
-[X][Dee] Babysit Molly.
You felt Blair reach in and Teddy step out, the super sluth greeted the family and bowed before them. "Okay, great to be back in an actual world again, and not… whatever the blazes that was."
The group had a laugh as Teddy probed back, "So what's the plan?"
-[X][Blair+Andy+Dee] Investigate the chosen Players of the other Emulators.
--[X] Search the news and the internet for unusual sightings and strange occurrences.
Using the Archive's blistering speeds to access the internet, Teddy began looking for potential subjects in the Tri-County Area's criminal record. The room grew quiet as they all leaned in, the only sounds being the occasional beep of the computer and the rustle of the moving papers.
"Bingo!" exclaimed Diva, her eyes lighting up with excitement. She had found an attempted Burglary at their old house. "Someone questioned Sid and pointed him to our house... which we moved out of so now he up and walked into an empty house and is on the run for breaking and entering."
The group exchanged bewildered glances. "So, someone's trying to frame Sid?" questioned Teddy, still trying to piece the puzzle together.
"No way, he's chillin'." Andy said, his voice clearly hiding something.
Diva's gaze narrowed. "What do you mean by that?"
Andy's smile dropped and his face turned red. "Eheheh... let's just figure out how to safegaurd the new place."
(D100=34, GM's Choice)
Andy readied the dial, aimed it at Juryrigg, and with a press of the dial.
Bamph! You ended up as a gray cross between a wildebeest and a bat with no verbal articulation whatsoever. Clearly wasn't evolved enough to get any of the work done.
Reward: Despite your failure, you have earned added odds from Bloodbat, +1 to Grayscale Aliens, +1 quadrapeds, +1 flyers. See, it's not a total L.
Diva, in the midst of unpacking up the kitchenware, paused to make a goofy face at Molly, who responded with a delightful giggle. Her laughter filled the kitchen with warmth, briefly easing the tension of the past that had settled like a thick fog. She was an unexpected source of joy amidst the chaos of their lives.
"Time for beddy-bye." Diva smiled to the infant and began to sing.
Nighty-Night, Molly. Tomorrow comes a new day.
Emulation Energy: 10
-[ ] Continue Training Songstress
-[ ] Finish Songstress - Cost 4 Points
-[ ] Babysit Molly
-[ ] Continue Unpacking
-[ ] Try to create defenses for the house.
-[ ] Investigate the chosen Players of the other Emulators
-[ ] figure out where to put the alien TV
-[ ] Write in
