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explosivecombat) wrote2012-07-10 10:03 pm
explosivecombat) wrote2012-07-10 10:03 pm
Entry tags:
- !ic,
- **anonymous,
- *action,
- *text,
- *video,
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- @daimon masaru,
- @danny fenton,
- @dist the rose (take him seriously),
- @esteemed brigadier general roy mustang,
- @frank archer's utter lack of subtlety,
- @gorthan and his biology,
- @harry dresden,
- @karkat vantas' impressive profanity,
- @kayneth archibald e-rank luck,
- @korra,
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- @luke triton (clive dove),
- @miss altava,
- @rangiku,
- @shinn asuka,
- @vanitas,
- admittedly kind of flailing,
- also archer of the non-human variety,
- also aya,
- also hunter,
- also ramsay,
- because awesome that's why,
- being you guys is suffering,
- clearly i have become meguca,
- come at me bro,
- electrodes are decidedly less useless,
- engaging in heresy,
- everything's exploding and nothing hurts,
- god is dead and my tl;dr has killed him,
- good ideas are clearly relative concepts,
- he's come undone,
- i am superior,
- kimblee is overstimulated,
- 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]
[GOD, WHERE DID HE GO WRONG IN LIFE
OH RIGHT, SHOWING UP IN JOHTO WITHOUT ANY OF HIS FANCY ABILITIES]
[action]
Oh yeah? And what if we didn't because we had to wait for you to come up? [ Cheeky grin here, Kayneth. Have it! ]
[action]
[prayer circle for his dignity...]
[action]
[ She even kicks down the door open before placing Kayneth on his feet
like a true gentleman. She looks around, wondering if the source is still up on this roof. ][action]
Right, well. Technically speaking, the source of those blasts into the crowd is still up there and having at - that would be the rather large metalbug over near the edge of the rooftop. Kimblee hadn't questioned at the time why Hunter could learn Zap Cannon in the first place; he simply knows that he can do it, and he's immensely proud of himself for being able to do it, and Kimblee certainly isn't going to stop him despite his aim being notoriously shit.
There isn't any sort of trainer in the immediate vicinity; despite that, though, the blasts don't seem to be completely uncontrolled, nor does the Pokémon behave as a wild one would when new people wander into its vicinity - it's high-leveled and obviously owned, but...
Well. You should be getting an answer before too long, both of you; what you receive isn't a "voice", per se, as there's no difference in pitch to separate it from your own, but it's very definitely a line of thought that's telepathically-induced - words that are formed from seemingly nowhere, thoughts being "pushed", courtesy of Kimblee's Gardevoir.
It's how he's been giving directions to that Forretress; he knows from earlier that night that he can communicate with humans this way as well.]
I suppose I should congratulate you for getting this far.
[action]
or at least that's what Kayneth is going to tell Korra after this thing, anyway. Right now, there are more pressing matters to deal with. That's... definitely a Pokemon Kayneth hasn't seen yet, so he does the logical thing and gets out his Pokedex to check it. As much as he dislikes the device on general principle, he has to give it points for being useful in a situation like this...
...of course, any attempts at strategizing are interrupted by thoughts being shoved directly into his mind. Without saying anything, he glances briefly at Korra to see if she'd gotten it too-given that as far as he knew she didn't have experience with things resembling this, she would probably have more of a reaction to it.]
[action]
Did you hear that? There was this voice just now...!
[ Seriously creepy! She goes to stare at that Pokemon Kayneth just scanned, but she's pretty sure Pokemon don't talk. Gritting her teeth, she then screams out: ]
Hey! Whoever you are - whatever you are - why don't you "congratulate" us by showing yourself?
[action]
No, that's quite all right.
Did you think that I would be so easily destroyed? That you would get to leave this encounter in a blaze of glory? Real life doesn't work that way, I'm afraid.
[action]
[He pauses as Korra shouts at whoever in an attempt to figure this out. Well, he's not known as a genius for nothing, even if the stuff he's best at isn't... really... relevant here...
...
....ANYWAY, given his current knowledge of Pokemon... hmmm. There is a Psychic type, and the properties of that type are very much associated with the mind-
ANNND HIS TRAIN OF THOUGHT IS INTERRUPTED AGAIN, but he's figured out enough. It's a similar tactic to the one he himself used during the very first confrontation of the Holy Grail War, albeit slightly more complicated-though, it's possible that the mastermind of this isn't even in the general vicinity.
That would make victory difficult, certainly. But, with that earlier realization, it almost felt like familiar ground.
This was the sort of challenge Kayneth actually enjoyed.]
I have to admit, this is a fairly impressive setup you have planned out here. In retrospect, this was a fairly obvious outcome, but I wasn't expecting to have to deal with someone who had an ounce of intelligence.
[action]
Besides, it looks like the old man figured out something about this whole arrangement. ]