Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
[Below Elephant Rock]
"I am guarding you, aren't I?" Lucas asks whilst doing a pretty great job of not guarding Isaac at all. Instead, he's striking poses atop the elephant statue. An intricate dance in tune with the song, pointing his Stick at a different elephant with each beat.
And each time he points he makes a rather loud "Pachu!" sound effect and mimes recoil.
Several of the elephants may find themselves getting blasted with imaginary energy projectiles!
That stick sure is dangerous.
Maybe's he IS guarding Isaac after all?
Just in his own silly, hedley sort of way.
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Below Elephant Rock
Lucas puts a hole in a trumpeter's chest, and blows a saxophonist into four tiny elephants. Isaac blows these small-fry into sparks with a series of magic missiles before being knocked flat on his face by a parading trombone.
Meanwhile, a cymbal goes flying at Lucas!
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
[Under Elephant Rock]
This is all rather silly!
And Lucas is dancing far too nimbly to be caught off guard by something as cumbersome as a flying cymbal. As it draws near, he leaps with deft grace, sailing over the brass projectile and aiming to land squarely atop trombone elephant. Still doing his best to keep in tune with the music, he begins trampling at the creature with his hooves whilst twacking it with his Stick!
The Stick is apparently functioning as some sort of blunt bludgeoning instrument at the moment.
Which...
Well.
Wouldn't that be what a stick is normally?
"Are you doing well, Isaac?" the hedleykow inquires. "You shouldn't be laying down during a marching number. It isn't very safe."
Thank you, Lucas, for that helpful observation.
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Below Elephant Rock
Isaac rolls and comes up onto his feet again, throwing a force-blast that sends the instrument-less percussionist into the wall, dazed. "Just fine." he grumbles.
The trombonist is smashed down into a pancake. But soon after, begins to rise back into form, with Lucas still on top of it! Don't get swallowed by a specter, Lucas!
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
[Below Elephant Rock]
Well there's an easy enough solution to this problem when 'effectively unlimited shape shifting' happens to be in one's bag of tricks. Lucas pronks up into the air far higher than he has any business doing, shoves a hoof in his mouth, and blows as hard as he can. With a comical FWUMPH! noise his wool grows to the point that he looks like a giant marshmallow. And then he's suddenly a box car. A box-car full of those awful screeching rubber chickens that will go gushing out everywhere as soon as box-car Lucas comes crashing down on top of the elephant.
Elephants treading on chickens will likely fowl their musical number.
Lucas isn't sure whether or not ruining the musical number will have any impact on the pink elephants' combat effectiveness, but it's certainly worth a try!
Also, Isaac will be able to acquire a rubber chicken if he wants to.
Not that he would want to.
These things are supremely obnoxious.
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Below Elephant Rock
The specter forming around Lucas is crushed, dissolving into pink ectoplasm. Another one trips on a rubber chicken, tumbles, and turns into a pink dune buggy, driving around and making donut-holes before trying to careen into Lucas.
Meanwhile, the last two elephants exchange a glance and jump into each other, forming one giant elephant conductor! Isaac's magic missle bounces harmlessly off of its belly.
The next few moments are spent frantically diving out of the way from stomps.
"Lucas! Help!"
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
[Below Elephant Rock]
The dune buggy manage to do a pretty nice job of driving through a big heap of rubber chickens, filling the cavern with a cacophonous racket.
Lucas, however, aims to use the vehicle as a spring-board to vault toward the towering elephant aiming to stomp all over Isaac! In suitably cool fashion, he takes aim with his Stick whilst falling sideways in slow motion (how he manages this with hooves for hands is anyone's guess), squeezing off three fairly decent shots in spite of how awkward it is.
"Pchu pchu pchu!"
Then he lands in another pile of rubber chickens.
Said chickens begin screeching just like the rest of the things.
It's pretty awful.
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Below Elephant Rock
The car runs over the chickens and skids out of control. It smashes into the wall and explodes into little pink sparks.
The giant has several holes blown into it, and it puts a giant hand to its forehead in horror, spinning about on its heel before falling over onto its back.
And then it-
whump.
Isaac flattens the specter as it starts to split back into two. They too are only sparks by the end.
With a chime, a black lacquered box appears on the floor. In it are three objects: a key (presumably to the iron door on the far side of the room), a little wood and bone hammer, and a leather chord with a yellow silk tassel on the end like a tufted tail. Isaac bends down and takes the mallet, slipping it into his belt with a smile.
"Thanks." he says, moving to ruffle Lucas' fluffy head.
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Below Elephant Rock
The car runs over the chickens and skids out of control. It smashes into the wall and explodes into little pink sparks.
The giant has several holes blown into it, and it puts a giant hand to its forehead in horror, spinning about on its heel before falling over onto its back.
And then it-
whump.
Isaac flattens the specter as it starts to split back into two. They too are only sparks by the end.
With a chime, a black lacquered box appears on the floor. In it are three objects: a key (presumably to the iron door on the far side of the room), a little wood and bone hammer, and a leather chord with a yellow silk tassel on the end like a tufted tail. Isaac bends down and takes the mallet, slipping it into his belt with a smile.
"Thanks." he says, moving to ruffle Lucas' fluffy head.
Who said anything about being fluffy?
Lucas is a completely normal human teen (you suspect nothing). Why would someone like him be fluffy?
Wooly maybe.
But never fluffy.
What do you take him for, a rabbit?
Lucas peers at the box and cautiously picks up the cord and the key. The use of the first is clear enough. But the second? He tries swishing it around a few times, because obviously the best way to determine the function of a magical object is to swing it around wildly until it does something interesting. That's clearly the ideal way to identify objects-
-or get blown up by them.
"I really hope the rest of this quest isn't related to clowns or circuses," Lucas mutters. "Clowns are creepy..."
Apparently he's unaware of Isaac's past in that regard.
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Below Elephant Rock
"Yeah..." says Isaac simply, and without further comment.
The lanyard doesn't really do much on its own. It seems more like...a part of something. Maybe an accessory? After all, what is a long thing? A rope or a flail or a charm or a lasso? It is really up to Lucas to decide what it is. Though that doesn't mean it might have an intended place...
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
[Below Elephant Rock]
Those creepy clowns...
Ah well.
Looks like the tassel isn't doing anything interesting. Maybe someone at school will be able to identify it? That's certainly worth trying. Lucas stows the trinket away in his pack for later use. He eyes the key for a few moments before heading over to the door and testing the thing out.
Hopefully this doesn't spring a trap on him.
Lucas isn't a huge fan of getting trapped.
Especially when clown things have been about.
Those set traps that are dangerous AND humiliating.
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Below Elephant Rock
With a clank, the the tumblers turn and unlock the door. Isaac helps Lucas push the heavy thing open, revealing a staggeringly large room. A ceiling as high as a grand cathedral looms overhead, walls covered in ivy and delicate geometric carvings. An enormous status of a four-armed goddess carrying an urn stands in the center, in front of an empty Olympic-sized pool. Beyond the pool is another iron door. There appears to be some sort of contraption before the statue.
The statue gazes out to the left, which has no wall, and instead gazes out into a lovely view of green hills and growth, and other things should anyone take some time to look.
There's a small sign asking participants to please not cheat and just fly out the window into the other room.
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[Below Elephant Rock]
Upon noticing the sign requesting that he not cheat, Lucas suddenly finds himself with a nearly unquenchable desire to do exactly that simply because the sign has told him not to. It's a fae thing, honestly. Unless you get The Oath out of them, they need to break their word and violate the rules of games almost on principle alone.
Thankfully, Lucas has been living in the Waking World long enough that he's gotten pretty good at checking his more mischievous impulses.
"Isn't it... umm... kind of strange that this stuff would be under ground?" he inquires aloud as he moves closer to the massive contrivance for a better look. Gotta figure out the point of the room after all.
Help him out here, Isaac.
He's trying to strike up a conversation to get his mind off cheating.
Because there's nothing stopping him from just turning into a crow and flapping his way out the window.
Not a thing!
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Below Elephant Rock
Well of course there is, Lucas. If you flew into the next room you'd leave Isaac behind, and nobody cares if the bodyguard gets to the end of the maze and the Chosen doesn't.
The contraption is an iron ring, large enough to fit two people inside with some room. It sits about two feet off the ground and has four handles, shaped kind of like those exercise tools to build grip strength. The metal seems old, but has been kept from rusting with meticulous maintenance.
As before, there's a plaque:
A Trial of endurance after a trial of strength,
Keep a firm grip as water travels the length.
Hold fast to your breath because air will come late,
And fail your partner and he'll shoulder your weight.
"Yeah, probably. I kind of figured that after the last room this place had some sort of mystic mumbo-jumbo to keep it from hitting the ground. Or maybe the stairs were a portal or something. It's really not a big deal."
he says with a shrug, heading over to the ring to look over Lucas' shoulder. "What's the plaque say?"
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
[Below Elephant Rock]
Not a thing!
"Umm... well..." Lucas replies as he scratches at the back of his neck nervously. "It says we have to... hold on. Probably to that thing. And hold our breath. The room is probably going to fill with water?"
Probably.
And turning into an octopus would probably count as cheating, too. So Lucas decides that he isn't going to do that, either. He does, however, quickly hop into the ring and grab a hold of it. His Stick is safely tucked into a loop in his pack to prevent it from getting swept away should the coming torrent be as violent as he's expecting it to be.
"You should probably grab on, too," Lucas points out to his friend.
Because, y'know, the chosen one getting drown would probably be bad.
That's typically how it goes.
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Below Elephant Rock
Isaac nods and steps into the ring, taking hold of the two iron handles on his side.
Once all four handles are being gripped, the platform rattles as bricks shift and move, the platform raising slightly as channels slide into place around it, leading to the pool. Meanwhile, the statue slides forward towards them, the enormous urn slowly tipping towards them....
As it does, they'll have a moment to see the churning water inside of it. Isaac takes a deep breath before it comes crashing down on their heads.
How long can Isaac and Lucas stand gripping their spots under the force of a waterfall?
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
[Below Elephant Rock]
The sign never said anything about using magic to endure the task of endurance, now did it?
If there's anything a hedleykow is good at, it's being other things. Most anything, as a matter of fact! As crazy as it might sound, they're even able to be iron objects if the stories are to be believed. And that's pretty darn unusual for fae. Typically iron and fair folk don't mix very well. Not that Lucas has any intention of being an iron thing, no sir. Iron and water don't get along very well.
Now brass on the other hand?
The ring, with its handles still gripped, suddenly finds itself suspended inside a brass diving bell. Complete with a comfy padded interior, thick plate glass windows, and a television screen playing a Jacque Cousteau documentary.
What?
Did you think a faerie was going to play *fair* when he can cheat?
Of course not.
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Below Elephant Rock
As the handles are squeezed, the statue slowly slides forward and dumps the contents of the urn upon them, cascading neatly over the diving bell, and flowing into the channels, leading the water into the pool. In under two minutes, the entire pool is filled and continues on to the door. The moment the water touches the door, it rings faintly and opens just a bit.
A small black box slides out of a hidden compartment. The two earn the contents: a pair of gold bracelets, labeled "Chosen's Fortitude" in the liner of the box, and a long tooth about a foot in length labelled "Baby Tusk of St. Bhana."
They also earn a soaking for clever cheating, as a big blast of water will spout from the urn the moment Lucas reverts to normal, after which it falls silent immediately.
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Silverwing Hotel
The door for 265 looks like all the other doors, except that about a foot off the ground is another, tiny door that most people wouldn't even notice. If Yisui enters that door, she'll find herself in an appropriately-sized stark white foyer with a receptionist pixie. This pixie is what would normally be described as a huge green orc, muscles barely held in his suit, except that like Yisui he's only a few inches tall and winged.
"New blood, right?" he asks from her look.
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Silverwing Hotel
"It's fine. I live fine. Better than I would have at a place like this normal-sized. Your office is down that way, on the left." he says, pointing down one section of the office.
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Silverwing Hotel
The offices Yisui walk through are simple and organized, and everyone seems to have enough room. It should be obvious that they use the whole space of the hotel room it once was. Cubicles go up and down as well as left and right, like a little miniature city of office squeezed into a 12 by 14 foot space. The other pixies are like the receptionist, all proportionally accurate to people being shrunk down at the same rate. A halfling assistant pixie is even tinier than her, a troll pixie about an inch taller, and an elf pixie about the same size. They seem energetic, if not necessarily happy. Not everyone can be cheery at work.
Yisui's office is spatious and even has a tiny window to the outside. It's stark now but has plenty of room for improvement.
Notes for her should explain her role as taking in a number of cases and incidents each week along with deciding on the autonomy of the team of reporters now under her command.
Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo
Clara's House
Clara jumps up from her couch, surprised. A big...ball? It might be like those little angel-ball creatures that float around Cloud's town.
Unsure, she slowly walks up and pokes the thing.
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Clara's Flat
Clara was being pretty gentle, so she only loses the end of her nail and a tiny bit of flesh. With a yelp she jumps back, landing on her rear end. She scuttles into her bathroom to bandage her finger and then stares out the door at the thing.
"What is this?" she whispers aloud.