explosivecombat: (We'll make it beautiful!)
Solf J Kimblee ([personal profile] explosivecombat) wrote2012-07-10 10:03 pm

014. [Anonymous Text/Video/Action for Goldenrod City] - ROCKET PLOT

[ANONYMOUS TEXT]

[Unlike the other anonymous messages that this particular 'Gear tends to send out, there are no images attached to this one. Nor are there any particularly threatening messages - in fact, the message attached isn't threatening at all! Really, unless you're keeping very close track of who's sending what, you wouldn't think it was coming from the same source.]

i understand that there are a lot of you who were disappointed last week - something about how there were no fireworks on the fourth??? and there was something else called tanabata that not everyone may have heard of. i'm glad that people are spreading the word about things like that - celebrating culture is important!

and because it's important, a few of my friends and i have arranged a surprise for you! most people seem to be in goldenrod city, so we'll do it there - meet us in the square in front of the department store at sundown tonight. we want to make johto a special place for you, and to make you feel welcome here - i hope the later date isn't too disappointing!

if you can't be there, don't worry! i'll broadcast the fun for you over the network; it'll be great!


[Well. Uh. While it's completely anonymous and therefore less embarrassing than it could have been...Kimblee is typing like a hyperactive teenager. This can't possibly bode well. At all.]


[ACTION/VIDEO - GOLDENROD DEPT. STORE, SUNDOWN]

[And just as promised, after the sun goes down and there are a fair few people in the square - some NPCs, some not - there will be fireworks.

They aren't exactly high-grade, so the display isn't too impressive at first - a few pretty colors, maybe, but nothing terribly elaborate. Clearly whatever hyperactive teenager sent the message to the network will get a YOU TRIED........ Award, but it's nothing to write home about.

...and then other displays begin enhancing the explosions.

It's a bit difficult to pinpoint exactly where they're coming from, as there seems to be at least three Pokémon contributing to them - and the bolts of electricity must be coming from a Pokémon, they're unmistakably attacks like Spark - but the electricity seems timed to enhance the blasts put out by the fireworks, causing far larger explosions, shocks of electrical energy dancing between the trails of embers raining down from the sky.

Rather pretty, all things considered - it's gone from the work of an amateur into something far more advanced. Probably someone who knows what they're doing.

And while everyone's attention is trained skyward, that's when things start to go wrong.

It's a very planned-out sort of wrong; a calculated sort of wrong. A "something is firing Zap Cannon directly into the crowd" sort of wrong.

Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be aimed properly; Lock-On is clearly not being used. However, it's difficult to say what on earth is being aimed at in the first place; those who are quick enough to not get fried (easier than it sounds, given the lack of aim here) and analytical enough to notice patterns will realize shortly that there is none, though the attacks do seem to be coming from one particular direction - the assailant is situated on the rooftop of the Goldenrod Department Store. Certainly, making your way up there will ensure that you find one of your attackers.

However, there are secondary attacks that seem to be following the Zap Cannons - smaller attacks, Spark and occasionally Thunderbolt, though that latter one seems to be a bit more infrequent - and those seem far more directly-aimed, trying to take out individual targets rather than shooting into the crowd at random. These are coming from another rooftop a short distance away - one of the nondescript, privately-run shops that aren't directly affiliated with the Department Store itself. Entering that shop will find the shopkeepers knocked out, so it's clearly neither of them doing anything - so who else is up there?

Should you be in Goldenrod City and wanting to investigate the electrically-based mayhem, pick your path - either the Department Store, where you'll find the individual with the ridiculously powerful attacks and no sense of aim, or the nondescript shop, with the weaker attacks but some sort of strategy.

And for those not in Goldenrod City? The fireworks were definitely filmed for you. And after a sudden burst of jittercam veering off into the crowd? So was the attack on the civilians, until the feed suddenly snaps off mid-attack. Should you try to respond to this particular signal, responses will come a couple of hours later.

Enjoy.]



[OOC]

[HELLO, ROUTE. Kimblee is one of the Rockets that submitted himself as a human guinea pig for the sake of gaining stupid amounts of elemental powers! Of course, there's no way he's doing this entirely on his own - he has some...help, shall we say - but even so, he's having himself a pretty good time tonight.

Should you choose [action], regardless of which path is taken - the larger threat overall or the one that's actually strategizing - I'll be engaging you; feel free to mingle among yourselves as well, if you see fit to do so!]
enchantingly: (♒ You're going to love me~)

[personal profile] enchantingly 2012-07-11 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
Well I do only play with the best~

[Damn.]
determinator: (♕ The company lost the war today)

[personal profile] determinator 2012-07-11 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[.....................................]

[Kim...blee...]

[Kimblee what does he do with that.]

[Oh my god, what does he do with that.]

[................................throw a pillow at your head, obviously, because he is the most mature villain in this game.]


That is not--! Don't be ridiculous!
soggypastry: (-______-)

[Text]

[personal profile] soggypastry 2012-07-11 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
What I think the answer is doesn't matter. You're the one who's doing this, so you're the only one who can answer that question.
determinator: (♔ Taking their hate)

[personal profile] determinator 2012-07-11 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
[YES HE DID oh my god what are you and why do you do these things to him and why is he so tsun what the hell this is stupid and he hates you!!!]

Yes it does! You're the one who misinterpreted it horribly!
determinator: (♕ Hear the drum pounding out of time)

[personal profile] determinator 2012-07-11 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
[...they're magnificent...]

I happen to care whether you live or die, so can you at least try not to fling yourself into situations like this where there's nothing to gain?

[THERE IS THAT BETTER]
determinator: (♛ It's about who you know)

[personal profile] determinator 2012-07-11 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Archer is silent for a moment. Is that true? Is the risk never going to be worth the gain?]

[...He really doesn't like that he can't answer that question.]


I... don't know, Kimblee.
soggypastry: (look away)

[Text]

[personal profile] soggypastry 2012-07-11 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Fine. I think you're doing this because you want people to come after you. Whether or not they'll actually find you or get anywhere with trying that, you know it's going to happen. You're stirring up the crowd.

I just can't think of why.
conduit: (10. She can't take one; what else she go)

action; the larger threat of whatever

[personal profile] conduit 2012-07-11 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rangiku evades the first shot masterfully. A hundred and fifty plus years of being a soldier does that you. Immediately, she pushes herself into a decision - to save the day, or, at least, put a fight against the assailant. She tosses up two pokeballs as she grabs her Vulpix into her hand. A Yanmega and a Tauros appear and Rangiku wraps her pink sash around the back of her neck. She means business.

ooc: Please hit me up on aim if/when you get this Dal! Or, send me a private plurk if I'm away (although, strikingthorn is always connected to my phone if you choose to contact me through there). I do have plans for Rangiku to fall (unless you wish for him to lose and have no plans for that to happen, but, even then, I'd prefer the first since it'd allow everyone else to get (nearly?) electrocuted), but, I'd much rather plot this out on a more detailed scale so she her losing move isn't anything but her Togekiss being paralyzed mid-flight!! |D ]
king_of_flames: (What do you want?)

[Text]

[personal profile] king_of_flames 2012-07-11 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Underestimating? No. Erring on the side of caution would be more accurate.
enjoymyatelier: :stonk: :stonk: :stonk: :stonk: (WHAT THE CHRIST)

[action]

[personal profile] enjoymyatelier 2012-07-11 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[OH GOD THAT WAS LIKE GETTING HIT BY A TRUCK KORRA WHAT ARE YOU

give him a minute to make sure his lungs are still functioning]


...next time, could you kindly refrain from... whatever that was...

[hack cough hack okay]

...in any case, from what I've noticed... I'd say the top of the Goldenrod Department Store.
impulsives: (Shinn | Cocky confidence)

[action]

[personal profile] impulsives 2012-07-11 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Distractions, a powerful attack that goes towards random directions interspersed with second blasts of Spark and/or Thunderbolts, as well as coordinated attacks from somewhere within ground area. Well, this is certainly an annoying thing to sum up. Gesturing at his Pikachu to immediately move, Shinn immediately starts running in the direction of the Zap Cannons, knowing that this side of the battlefield is more dangerous than in ground love.

He can't help but smirk, for after all, it had been a while since something caused him to get serious within his stay here.]
howamanlives: (loud noises!)

this amuses me because he's bitching at Kimblee in two different games atm

[personal profile] howamanlives 2012-07-11 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well, I'm Japan's number one banchou! I'll definitely put a stop to you, you monster!
Edited 2012-07-11 18:10 (UTC)
nasa_dreams: (Ow//Abuse//Injury)

Re: [Anonymous Text]

[personal profile] nasa_dreams 2012-07-11 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
You attacked a huge crowd of people! I know someone had to have seen you!
used_fireblast: (kidding (bleeding_muse))

[video]

[personal profile] used_fireblast 2012-07-11 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
HELL'S BELLS-

[That has to be some kind of accident, right? Some over-enthusiastic Pokemon getting out of control.]

[Right, and Harry's got a lovely bridge to sell you, barely used. Comes with complimentary toll-troll.]

...What the actual hell?!

[Being stuck all the way back at Union Cave is not conducive to being useful here.]
shakespearealien: (Not expecting something overwhelming.)

[Action.]

[personal profile] shakespearealien 2012-07-11 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[The message drew Gorthan out. To the square.

Gorthan was drawn to the square and he keeps wondering how he could be so naive and careless when he knew that this sort of thing was going to happen systematically. Hell, he was ordered to test his powers, too. Though he's... definitely going to be less destructive about it than this person is being.

As for who this person is, he has his suspicions, of course, but he also doesn't really care to find out. For a moment, he decides to investigate, and he enters the smaller shop. But finding the unconscious shopkeepers, he stops there, kneeling over them and wondering if his new Psychic-type powers can do anything for them. Probably not. The closest thing he's managed is a Light Screen, and the deed's already done.

Even if he turns the light on - ever since the mutation, he's been unable to sleep in the dark -, he already knows that his conscience won't let him sleep tonight.]
Edited 2012-07-11 19:59 (UTC)
allbend: (but here's my number)

[action]

[personal profile] allbend 2012-07-12 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? Oh, right! Sorry about that... but better me than that beam, right?

[ Here, she'll even help Kayneth up easily and give him a few pats on the back to make him get his breathing back together. ]

You think that's our next stop?
determinator: (♕ The dawning of the rest of our lives)

[personal profile] determinator 2012-07-12 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
I know you don't. That doesn't change things any. What you were doing out there was completely reckless, Kimblee.
determinator: (♛ You've got money you get in for free)

[personal profile] determinator 2012-07-12 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
You weren't thinking straight, Kimblee. We can't afford to fail now. You know that.

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