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I've Had Worse Plans [LoL/Eclipse Phase/Genius: the Trangression]

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[X] "Sounds good to me."
[X] Then shoot it in the face (?) with Pow-Pow at point-blank range.
 
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Fresh Kills: Scythe
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    • [X] "Sounds good to me."

    ...You guys do realize this is a trap, right? "Come down with me to the station and let's talk about it?" Puh-lease.

    So are you going to spend an interrupt?

    Two votes in a row? Nah. Besides, the most dangerous thing in the world is a trap your enemy knowingly walks into.

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    You smile for the camera. "Sure! Lead the way, officer!"

    "I'm a security guard, not the police. We don't have police here. But sure, I'll lead on." The disc packs away its gun turrets and starts to lope down the hall at a sedate pace.

    You keep up easily. "Yeah, sure, but you have an office, and you use it. So that makes you an office-r. Right?"

    The robot hums, a low pure synthetic tone. "I guess it does. What that make you, an officiate? An official? Since you're someone an office happens to, not someone who uses it."

    "Just don't call me offal and we won't have any issues, uh... Dave? I never actually got your name." You brush back an errant bit of hair as you glance around at the bare grey walls passing by.

    "It's Scythe. They call me that 'cause I'm the Reaper jockey. By the way, do you just have no sense of self-preservation, or are you confident you could take this shell of mine in a straight fight?"

    You shrug. "I have no fucking clue what this thing is: I've never seen one before."

    "Oh, so you're just dumb and reckless. Gotcha."

    "And carrying a rocket launcher I built myself from bits of scrap."

    The robot stops dead. "No shit?"

    You grin. "Yeah, no shit. Fishbones and Pow-Pow here are my babies." You stroke Pow-Pow's bunny ears for emphasis.

    The robot goes back to walking. "What kind of shrouding did you put on their guts? It must be crazy advanced to make my sensors fuck up so much."

    "That's for me to know and you to find out."

    Scythe chuckles. "Don't tempt me to confiscate 'em."

    You press a hand to your mouth. "You lech! How could you possibly lay a hand on my beautiful girls unchaperoned? I expected more proper behaviour from an officer of the law!"

    "Security guard."

    "Enh, potato potahto. You've got a responsibility."

    "And since when do you care about responsibility?"

    You turn a corner. "When it's convenient for me, obviously."

    "Don't we all. Anyway, let's have a face-to-face, shall we? Third door on the right." The disc clanks over and takes up a guard position to the left of the steel door.

    [ ] Head on in.
    [ ] Shoot up the discbot.
    [ ] Duck in through one of the other doors.
    [ ] Rocket launcher time! Blow up the discbot and the wall behind it.
    [ ] Run back the way you came from.
    [ ] "I'm having second thoughts about this whole office thing. Why don't you come out instead of me coming in?"
    [ ] Something else.
     
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    • Hm, I always assumed FishBones was male. I blame Freud.

    Not sure what to vote for yet...screw it.

    [X] Open the door and we'll talk through it.
    -[jk] Life is an open door!
     
    [X] Head on in.

    This is such a bad idea... but if we were going along before, I don't see why we would change our mind now.

    (That said, if he tries to lay a hand tentacle? claw? on our guns, he dies.)
     
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    [X] Open the door and we'll talk through it.
    -[X] Life is an open door!

    :V

    well, I imagine Jinx is perfectly capable of laying low and being normal (given the quest opener was her actually in hiding).

    I'llllll still probably vote to shoot something in an update or two.
     
    Ugggggh. Ties.

    I'm going to flip a coin in a hour if there's no tiebreaker before then.
     
    [X] Head on in.
    There's no reason to halfheartedly walk into a trap! If we've decided to walk into it then we should do that, unless something else actually looks more fun!
    Adhoc vote count started by Kelardry on Dec 10, 2017 at 10:04 AM, finished with 7 posts and 6 votes.
    • [X] Head on in.
      [X] "Sounds good to me."
      [X] Open the door and we'll talk through it.
      [X] Open the door and we'll talk through it.
      -[X] Life is an open door!
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    [X] Head on in.

    Yeah, alright.

    What, no color commentary?

    Just get on with it.

    ----

    You push the door open, and come face-to-bulbous-head with a six-foot octopus in an office chair.

    "Hi," crackles a speaker implanted between its eyes. "Not what you were expecting?"

    [ ] Uhhhhhh.
    [ ] Act natural.
    [ ] Why are you an octopus?

    (Thread was languishing. Best thing to do is to post anything to start getting some momentum back.)
     
    [X] Uhhhhhh.

    I feel that this is the most natural reaction when confronted by an 6 foot tall, talking octopus.
     
    Fresh Kills: The Octo-Office
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    • [X] "I was expecting someone taller."

    Thanks for the cue!

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    "I was expecting someone taller."

    The octopus stares at you for a moment, then synthesized laughter spills from its speaker. "Oh, nice. Nice recovery! Your face gave it away, but that's gotta be in my top ten. Let me guess, you're from a biocon hab?"

    You shrug. "Never heard of a biocon or a hab."

    "So much for my plot to shred your amnesiac excuse. Ruin my fun, won't you." The octupus that is apparently Scythe wiggles, in a way that sort of approximates a shrug.

    You spread your hands. "How's that my fault? Blame whoever gave me amnesia."

    Scythe chuckles. "Yeah, I've got some pointed questions to ask them." He - well, the voice is male, you don't know how to gender octopi - flicks a dagger up from under the desk, and catches it in another tentacle.

    You don't quite manage to suppress a flinch.

    He eyeballs you with all three inches of one octo-eyeball. "So you still know sharp things hurt, huh?"

    You nod sheepishly. "Okay, yeah, the amnesia isn't total, but I'm definitely missing a lot of stuff."

    The octopus' brow draws in closer. "What's the last thing you recall?"

    "Uhhhh let me think..."

    [ ] "... I was in a magic shop..." (OH COME ON. +10 Boredom.)
    [ ] "... I walked in the door of your office..."
    [ ] "... I was on some kind of spaceship..."
    [ ] "... There was a flash of brilliant cyan light..."
    [ ] "... There was a giant enemy crab..."
    [ ] "... There was a man in a really big hat..."
    [ ] "... There was a - nope, don't remember."
    [ ] "... There was a tragic backstory. It was traumatizing."
    [ ] "... There was a place without a sun..." (NOPE NOPE NOPE. NOT GONNA, YOU WONT MAKE ME.)
     
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    • [X] "... I walked in the door of your office..."
    He probably meant the first thing we remember, but whatever. Gotta play the hand you're dealt, right?
     
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