[Nexus] Random Places and Plots 8: Adventures! Thrills! Groceries!

[Recaiden]

[House of Why I Oughta...]

Riki runs in at the ten or so minions, swinging the blade to knock aside spears rather than hit her opponents, and with the other hand to grab at one. You have to fight spears with spears, of course. The sword was just because those two had the rudeness to take more than one hit.

Honestly the horsehair sofa is getting what it deserves. Making a cushion and chair leg into a really silly torch, one makes their way around the house, searching for an other entrance into the main hall and more flammable interiors.

[Beans]

[House of Curly]
She grabs one, but while her sword is occupied and so is her hand, one tries to get in and stab at her. These guys are making the most of their numbers!

Meanwhile, they will find no other entrance to the main hall. However, there are lots of things to burn elsewhere!

[Recaiden]

[House of Larry]

Terribly unsporting of them. He finds nothing left to stab as Riki is replaced by a snake coiled about the grabbed spear, which then strikes towards that spear's wielder. Silly girl; turning into a snake never helps.

Meanwhile, wondering who builds a hallway with only one entrance, and why, Ione makes their way about the House of Petals, setting fire to everything in reach.

[Beans]

[House of Moe]
Snake!
But now Snaki is being stabbed at by others, even as their companion is attacked!

Meanwhile, BURNING! YAY!

[Recaiden]

[House of Stabbing]

Whether the snake succeeds at a poisonous bite of the ant-gire, it gets stabbed. The main reason is that it's stopped being a snake, and is now much larger, more of an elephant.

[Beans]

[House of Petals]
That one is poisonously bited! And suddenly, elephant! They all try to stab at her now that she's so much bigger!

[Recaiden]

[House of Petals]

Stab stab stab stab. That was really kind of unavoidable. The much larger animal though, pushes past the stabbing injuries to try to trample the minions, grabbing one in its trunk if it can.

Meanwhile, much burning continues. But with all those flames set, the thing to do now is return to the throne room.

[Gullara]

Movie Madness

"Mrs. Frescot," Magtok repeats, as if he needed to be sure he could pronounce that correctly, or as if saying the name aloud would help him acclimate to the individual in question. Maybe one, maybe both, maybe neither's the case. It figures that they would find a dryad for this role, assuming that's not an illusion or some really creative makeup job, though. Dryads aren't really known for acting however, are they? A little limited in scope, being tied down to a tree more often than not and such.

"Hi, Mrs. Frescot. Magtok, but you already knew that. Frescot, I swear I've heard that name before. Have you gone to any of the stuffy Nexus organization parties before?"

No no, not there. She was a PC buying baby stuff or something at MagMart, that's what it was. You only took note when glancing through the security feeds a week later because tree women are usually chained to their trees, or else look a hell of a lot more like Ents, and only attract equally ugly Ent-Men (or Ent-Lesbians) to be their spouses.

[Movie Madness]

Sakura turns toward Magtok when he approaches. Her conversation partner takes the opportunity to dismiss herself. "Hello. Um, I've been to a few parties, but I don't think that's where you would've heard my name before. My first name is Sakura, though. But maybe it's my husband Adir you know?" The dryad suggests. She doesn't seem all that phased about meeting a celebrity such as Magtok, or even by the fact that Magtok's relationship with Watch is, to put it lightly, strained.

[Beans]

[house of Petals]
Two are stomped into shards; one is trunk-grabbed!
The throne room is able to be returned to, of course.

All the while, Queen is still sitting on the throne's arm with Seiner. Now and then a bit debris comes her way, but it gets about two yards from her and seems to strike something, presumably some sort of shield.

[Recaiden]

[House of Petals]

Rikiphant decides to test the shield by throwing an entire ant-gire at it, before returning to human shape and doing a totally unnecesary twist-flip to face the valets again.

Meanwhile, a torch held by the invisible hand of capitalism a pyromaniac vampire floats back into the hall and charges up to help Circe and Bishop.

[Beans]

[House of I still haven't finished that book yet oh gods]
The shield holds quite well, powered presumably by Kusu's indifference.

The ant valets observe this totally unnecessary flippitything and respond with sensible stabby actions!

Circe meeps when she sees the torch and its cuddly invisible bearer.

[Hattish Thing]

A lot. It should be noted, however, that there are no really high-power weapons here. Just more conventional stuff, if very well-made. The armour is likewise forged of standard materials.

There is still money available. You can make a HUGE profit from that sort of thing, especially in such incredible condition. INTO THE SACK. Armor piece after weapon after shield is eagerly and greedily jammed into the sack. The sack is about 1/4th full including everything so far.

After he takes everything he can, Marcybot will take out the paintball gun again and 'decorate' the room. Next he moves out of the room. He'll look about for anything that even remotely looks like it could store treasure or weapons or computers. He uses his x-ray vision to detect secret doors.

[Lord Magtok]

Movie Madness

Magtok taps at his wrist, and runs a brief search. Nope, nothing on Adir. Nothing on either of them, unless you count this tabloid article about Cessie having a lesbian affair with the dryad in front of him, but he's going to pretend he didn't see that one. His files mostly seem concerned with only the biggest Watchtower members, the ones that pose the most deadly threats, hold the highest ranks, or have some past history with our cyborg. Insofar as he can tell, that's just the leadership quartet, Harnel, Ilpholin, and Darcy.

"...No. Huh. That's strange, I'm not used to not knowing everything about everybody ever."

He's joking, of course. Joking is one of those things he does, when he's not busy dressing up as women or dating catgirls. Speaking of dating, incidentally, he files that whole husband thing in the new Sakura Frescot file, alongside a reminder to stop being so weirded out by her cherry blossom hair.

[GrandDM]

There is still money available. You can make a HUGE profit from that sort of thing, especially in such incredible condition. INTO THE SACK. Armor piece after weapon after shield is eagerly and greedily jammed into the sack. The sack is about 1/4th full including everything so far.

After he takes everything he can, Marcybot will take out the paintball gun again and 'decorate' the room. Next he moves out of the room. He'll look about for anything that even remotely looks like it could store treasure or weapons or computers. He uses his x-ray vision to detect secret doors.

His x-ray vision doesn't work.

The next door along is labelled "biolab" and has an extremely large biohazard warning plastered on it.

[Recaiden]

[House of I still haven't finished that book yet oh gods]
The shield holds quite well, powered presumably by Kusu's indifference.

The ant valets observe this totally unnecessary flippitything and respond with sensible stabby actions!

Circe meeps when she sees the torch and its cuddly invisible bearer.

[House of soon the ringing will start]

Silly valets. They should know that as faceless interchangeable minions they will never succeed with the same move twice.
Riki meets the spears by turning into a familiar giant ice monster, highly stabproof. It twist its mouth in a giant grin, breathing out a cloud of snowflakes, and advances on the ants.

"Don't worry Circe. We've got them, see?" The torch is run up and bopped towards a guard-valet.

[Beans]

[House of Riki the Snowpire]
The ant-valets don't seem very affected by the cold, turning their spears around to try to strike with the butts, since that seems slightly better than trying to stab ice.

One is bopped with the torch; the flame doesn't bother it much, but it turns to take a swipe at whatever just hit it with part of a chair.

[Recaiden]

[House of Nouns]

That's a bit more effective, cracking the ice slightly to moderately in more places than the few that were already broken when the shape was assumed.
The snowpire strikes back with its frozen claws, attempting to slice up some ants and send them crashing away.

[Beans]

[House of Petals]
Some of them are indeed sliced up; there are now about six of these guys left standing, still trying to attack from the sides if they can get around her.

[Hattish Thing]

His x-ray vision doesn't work.

The next door along is labelled "biolab" and has an extremely large biohazard warning plastered on it.

No X-Ray vision? Oh so uncool. Well, it seems Marciano is going to have to do this manually. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Look. Biolab. He moves over to the place and will attempt to open it and immediately begin to fire the HeavyArms on anything that looks possibly threatening.

Marciano is at his computers licking his lips eagerly, as if this was all a video game for him. He loved it. If there is no enemy in the room, he'll move in to look about eagerly.

[Recaiden]

[House of Petals]

The ice monster rushes through the one it sliced up, taking some cracked ice-planes on its shoulders, but remaining unsurrounded. It tries to throw the remains of the sliced valet at his comrades.

Oh, and one of them was dealing with a chair leg. A chair leg that is swiftly brought up and turned to block the sweeping spear. A moment after the valet might feel a kick of moderate painfulness against his knee.

[Beans]

[House of Petals]

The ice monster rushes through the one it sliced up, taking some cracked ice-planes on its shoulders, but remaining unsurrounded. It tries to throw the remains of the sliced valet at his comrades.

Oh, and one of them was dealing with a chair leg. A chair leg that is swiftly brought up and turned to block the sweeping spear. A moment after the valet might feel a kick of moderate painfulness against his knee.

The others scatter, trying to regroup behind her. This is looking bad for them.

The guy dealing with the invisiwoozle tries kicking at what seems to be holding the chair leg, not quite sure what's going on.

[Recaiden]

[House of Petals]

You have to admire their persistence, though. The ice monster shatters, leaving a bruised human Riki in them middle of the shards and snowflakes. She twirls about to face the remaining guard, smiles, and beckons them come closer and attack.

Meanwhile, what's going on is kickboxing! A kick lands on something, and the torch falls to the ground. The valet might hear something stepping lightly to get behind him.

[Beans]

[House of Petals]
The remaining guards start moving in, pretty wary of the lady who keeps doing things that involve them dying.

The guard with the invisiwoozle turns, but first hesitates to look at the torch.
That is probably a bad idea.

[Recaiden]

As they move in, Riki reclaims the sword from the magic-turn-into-a-snake-space where it had been kept, and dives past the valet furthest to her left, slashing at him as she attempts to get past.

Meanwhile, a guard is likely being kicked in the head by an invisiwoozle, quite hard.

[Beans]

[House of Petals]
Bam, another one down! That means there's... five, including the guy with the invisiwoozle.

Until Bishop and Circe take down the guy on the right. Four now.

Being kicked in the head is no fun, and that unlucky guard staggers backwards.

[GrandDM]

No X-Ray vision? Oh so uncool. Well, it seems Marciano is going to have to do this manually. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Look. Biolab. He moves over to the place and will attempt to open it and immediately begin to fire the HeavyArms on anything that looks possibly threatening.

Marciano is at his computers licking his lips eagerly, as if this was all a video game for him. He loved it. If there is no enemy in the room, he'll move in to look about eagerly.

He enters another impossibly large room. There are lots of enemies, but they're all in cages. Big cages. Inside these cages are massive, bio-engineered monstrosities. Claws, teeth, armour plating and spines abound, along with more esoteric things. There's a thick wall separating the far hundred meters of the room from the creature-storage area. Behind it are two sections. On the left is a massive bench with various nasty-looking tools and gadgets, very probably for making the things Marcy will have walked past. On the right is tank after tank full of various swirling or sloshing things in all sorts of virulent colours. Each and every one has a small holopanel beside it. One tank is extended forward on an arm and its holopanel is expanded to be about a meter on a side. If he goes to look, it reads:

Agent 34401 [Omega Agent]
Trials of this agent were successful beyond expectations. Effects on all classes of biological subjects with a dose of as little as a single inhalation include blindness, lung degeneration, nerve destruction, loss of mucus linings, massive internal haemhorraging and death. My automated filter systems are incapable of dealing with this agent. I have begun work on an upgrade.

-Test log <date>

The date was only a couple of days ago. There's also a detailed description of the procedure to make the bio-agent and notes on safety protocols. These include a dire warning that if it gets out of its container, you're as good as dead if you take so much as a breath.

[Hattish Thing]

He enters another impossibly large room. There are lots of enemies, but they're all in cages. Big cages. Inside these cages are massive, bio-engineered monstrosities. Claws, teeth, armour plating and spines abound, along with more esoteric things. There's a thick wall separating the far hundred meters of the room from the creature-storage area. Behind it are two sections. On the left is a massive bench with various nasty-looking tools and gadgets, very probably for making the things Marcy will have walked past. On the right is tank after tank full of various swirling or sloshing things in all sorts of virulent colours. Each and every one has a small holopanel beside it. One tank is extended forward on an arm and its holopanel is expanded to be about a meter on a side. If he goes to look, it reads:

Agent 34401 [Omega Agent]
Trials of this agent were successful beyond expectations. Effects on all classes of biological subjects with a dose of as little as a single inhalation include blindness, lung degeneration, nerve destruction, loss of mucus linings, massive internal haemhorraging and death. My automated filter systems are incapable of dealing with this agent. I have begun work on an upgrade.

-Test log <date>

The date was only a couple of days ago. There's also a detailed description of the procedure to make the bio-agent and notes on safety protocols. These include a dire warning that if it gets out of its container, you're as good as dead if you take so much as a breath.

Wow. Marciano walks in and begins to walk with much more caution in his step. As for the monsters... There's enough nasty baddies in here to give NO a huuuuge headache. That idea was tempting. But he can't stick live dangerous animals in his sack. Hm.

Seeing as it is a biolab and Marcybot has been around quite a few, he'll hunt for DNA samples of the creatures. He will collect the samples if he finds them, and also will grab the procedure on making the incredibly nasty bio-agent. That sounds.... tempting. And useful.

Tldr; Gadgets, Tools, Monster DNA Samples, and the Bio-Agent Procedure will be collected and placed away.

He had to destroy this area though. These monsters? This bio-stuff? Gods, if the people below found out about it, they'd hunt Marcy down again. Marcy liked having a secret weapon to get himself out of tight spots. Cover all bases this time. He'll move by the door and quickly fire a laser mounted from the tiny blaster at his arm. The laser outght to blow a huge hole straight through the Bio-Lab. Obviously space will suck out everything in the room and kill the stuff inside. Marciano will quickly manually yank the door to the biolab closed, before using the laser to melt the door into the surrounding area, closing it off.

Hopefully this all succeeds, in which case, he advances. ..This is all very impressive.

[GrandDM]

Wow. Marciano walks in and begins to walk with much more caution in his step. As for the monsters... There's enough nasty baddies in here to give NO a huuuuge headache. That idea was tempting. But he can't stick live dangerous animals in his sack. Hm.

Seeing as it is a biolab and Marcybot has been around quite a few, he'll hunt for DNA samples of the creatures. He will collect the samples if he finds them, and also will grab the procedure on making the incredibly nasty bio-agent. That sounds.... tempting. And useful.

Tldr; Gadgets, Tools, Monster DNA Samples, and the Bio-Agent Procedure will be collected and placed away.

He had to destroy this area though. These monsters? This bio-stuff? Gods, if the people below found out about it, they'd hunt Marcy down again. Marcy liked having a secret weapon to get himself out of tight spots. Cover all bases this time. He'll move by the door and quickly fire a laser mounted from the tiny blaster at his arm. The laser outght to blow a huge hole straight through the Bio-Lab. Obviously space will suck out everything in the room and kill the stuff inside. Marciano will quickly manually yank the door to the biolab closed, before using the laser to melt the door into the surrounding area, closing it off.

Hopefully this all succeeds, in which case, he advances. ..This is all very impressive.

The laser disperses against the white alloy of the wall, just like the electric bolt from earlier. What it does manage to do is fracture several of the bio-agent tanks, releasing a myriad of deadly gases into the air. Fortunately the Omega Agent remains intact.

All the DNA sequences and modifications made to the bio-creatures are documented on the holopanels by their cages and easily accessible.

He can't melt the door shut, but a forcefield springs up across the doorframe automatically.

[Hattish Thing]

The laser disperses against the white alloy of the wall, just like the electric bolt from earlier. What it does manage to do is fracture several of the bio-agent tanks, releasing a myriad of deadly gases into the air. Fortunately the Omega Agent remains intact.

All the DNA sequences and modifications made to the bio-creatures are documented on the holopanels by their cages and easily accessible.

He can't melt the door shut, but a forcefield springs up across the doorframe automatically.

Well, that's close enough. He wanted the Omega Agent to be freed into the air or destroyed. No one ought to know about it. And if the agent does get free, Marcybot will be perfectly fine seeing as Marcybot is, after all, a drone controlled by the real Marciano Louv're. (Who is ironically, also completely synthetic.) If the agent is not freed or destroyed, Marciano will blow the crap out of the room with the Heavyarms until it is. He'll release the Agent all over the base to kill any organic monsters as well.

Marciano hums lightly as he plays with deadly toxins. Fun stuff. All the while, that song is continuously playing.

[GrandDM]

Well, that's close enough. He wanted the Omega Agent to be freed into the air or destroyed. No one ought to know about it. And if the agent does get free, Marcybot will be perfectly fine seeing as Marcybot is, after all, a drone controlled by the real Marciano Louv're. (Who is ironically, also completely synthetic.) If the agent is not freed or destroyed, Marciano will blow the crap out of the room with the Heavyarms until it is. He'll release the Agent all over the base to kill any organic monsters as well.

Marciano hums lightly as he plays with deadly toxins. Fun stuff. All the while, that song is continuously playing.

The Omega Agent, completely invisible, spreads out. The bio-creatures scream, roar, convulse and die within seconds of being exposed to it. However, it gets no further than the door due to the automated forcefield cutting it off.