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explosivecombat) wrote2012-07-10 10:03 pm
explosivecombat) wrote2012-07-10 10:03 pm
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- admittedly kind of flailing,
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- because awesome that's why,
- being you guys is suffering,
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- everything's exploding and nothing hurts,
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- he's come undone,
- i am superior,
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- my spinal cord is totally dancing rn,
- no kill like overkill,
- no sense of self-preservation,
- one-man army,
- raid on the city knock out evil tusks,
- really damn awful noises,
- sanity is so passé,
- stupidly dangerous battling tactics,
- the greater internet fuckwad theory,
- the happiest day,
- this calls for a tag party,
- this is gonna suck,
- this skill is never going to be useful,
- tonight we're going hard,
- took a level in exploding things,
- why we can't have nice things,
- with apologies to carmen sandiego
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!]
[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!]
[action]
[ A wild Avatar has appeared! After spotting Kayneth through the chaos, she had followed him out of concern for a familiar face and to figure out just what the heck was going on here. Agni the Combusken and Taring the Gible are at her side. ]
Looks like you need some help!
[action]
Kimblee isn't exactly thrilled at the idea of there being two of them - of course, they're both going in the wrong direction, as planned, given that he's not on top of the Department Store there. However, there's no sense in spoiling the surprise just yet.
He glances at the Gardevoir next to him, relaying the information via Telepathy to the Pokémon that is on top of the Department Store; have another Zap Cannon aimed at you two, guys.]
[action]
okay alright]
I wouldn't say I need it, but it would most certainly be appreciated. Do you have a Ground ty-
[YEP THAT SURE IS A ZAP CANNON HEADED STRAIGHT TOWARDS THEM]
[action]
Look out!
[ Hope you like getting tackled in the middle, Kayneth. DIVING SAVE-- landing with an "oomph!" on top of Kayneth, Korra is quick to remove her weight and look around and up at the sky. ] Just where the heck is that coming from...?
[action]
Carry on, and he'll see what other bits of miserable he can throw at you.]
[action]
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.
[action]
[ 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?
[action]
[at least you are apologetic, uhhverage]
It's a reasonable assumption to make, so I'm headed there, at the very least.
[He unhooks another Pokeball from his belt, scrutinizing the Department Store's doors. Are they locked or barricaded from the inside? He really can't tell from here. He already has Ampharos out, but what he needs is sheer destructive force right now.]
[action]
[ And Korra will lead the charge! As for the entrance, she gives one, long look before signaling her Combusken to get into position. Once done, both Korra and Agni do an impressive display of literally kicking down the doors before motioning for Kayneth to follow. ]
[action]
oh well he'll go in after her anyway]
...Of course. Be sure to keep your guard up.
[action]
or send in a note saying "yeah there's gonna be some terrorism happening here tonight"
or anything else that would ensure that the place was not full of people once shit started happening
so we have a good amount of panic and general WHAT THE HELL happening in there
no one stationed to kill you guys, though! that's a plus, right?]
[action]
I can understand that things are a little hectic right now, but... None of them look harmed. Should we just continue up, old man?
[action]
really...]
There wasn't even an attempt to clear the place out? How incredibly unprofessional. Regardless, we should probably-
...
Old man?
[action]
[ Does not know that she might've offended... Hey, she's calling it like she sees it! ]
[action]
[AND SO HE HUFFS OFF TO THE STAIRS]
[action]
[action]
he's in less terrible physical shape than he was before showing up in Johto but "at least he won't be winded after one minute of this" really isn't saying much
but it would be too much for his pride to take if he told her to slow down...]
[action]
You need any help, Kayneth?
[ Yes, she is implying he is too old to properly get up these damn stairs, but she's really trying to help, dammit. ]
[action]
[...really it has more to do with being a skinny, entirely magic-reliant nerd than it does to do with being old... and hey, he isn't even out of breath yet! that's good right]
[action]
You sure? You're lagging a bit behind there, old man.
[action]
[action]
[ Grinning down at him. Heck, she's even taking a few steps down toward him. ]
[action]
[IF HE HAD MAGIC NONE OF THIS WOULD BE HAPPENING]
[action]
I could carry you up the rest of the way, you know. [ It'd make things go faster is left hanging in the air. ]
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[HIS DIGNITY]
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