Event Mission 1-I, Everybody laugh at Leela! Haw haw!

[Iyestorm]

All participants find themselves alone in a medium-sized square room with metal walls and only one door. Opposite the door is a large screen which only displays static for a while before finally projecting an image of a strange man with strange hair and a strange eyepatch and a strange orange top hat.

"Greetings to the lot of you! My name is Eoc Symmet Symmel, but you may address me as simply 'Eoc'. You are all taking place in an observation test. I have theories and hypothesii about each of you, but I need to be sure. You probably don't want to hear the details, so I'll get to the part that concerns you now. Please notice the only door in the room if you haven't done so already.

This door will be your way into the gauntlet. You'll be attacked by enemies of increasing difficulty, but we'll start easy. You need not worry about actually harming any of these, I assure you they're not real in the moral sense. After all, mass murder would upset the balance between the four axis, and I don't want that. Think of it like a... computer simulation or illusions or some such. But please play to win.

I have requests for you as you fight these various baddies, however. First of all, I ask that you amuse me. I'll be giving you a score as you fight, although I suppose you people could completely ignore me. Perhaps I'll turn it into a contest. Yes, that will do. Whoever deals with their enemies in the most efficient and/or stylish methods will win, and I'll give him her or it a prize of some sort. So switch off between stylish and effective, or try both at the same time I don't mind, just make it entertaining for me. This isn't fun and games for either of us, I hope you realize. Unless you happen to enjoy this sort of thing.

My only other request is that some rooms are... well... let's say they're weak. So there are some rooms where I'll want you to avoid collateral damage. In other rooms, have fun and go nuts.

Now then, let's see if you can get to the end!"

And with that, the screen went blank and the door to the next room opened.

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The next room was roughly the same size, but contained within it five thugs each. None of them have firearms. In all rooms, Thugs 1&2 have switchblades, 3 has a baseball bat, 4 has brass knuckles, and 5 has a long chain with keys on it. Being the first, these guys are obviously weak compared to a superpowered human. They notice the door open, and stand at the opposite end of the hall with the next door, waiting for the challengers to come through, readying their weapons and themselves for battle.

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((So basically, run the gauntlet, look good while doing it, and watch for when Eoc informs you to not damage the environment. Enjoy.))

[invinible]

OOC: Just 1 question before starting this. Is the next room design to have all the participants fighting in the same room or does the next room just happen to be idential for all participants?

[Newb]

Ilgivan shrugged and placed his stethoscope against the ground, then the ground began trembling. Cracks opened up in the ground and walls of pine needles burst forth.

This done, Ilgivan strolled casually towards the next door.

This post has been edited by Newb on Aug 25 2007, 12:41 AM

[invinible]

IC: Fiction User looked through the door. He smiled apond seeing the thugs figuring since they had such physical strength their mental ability was most likely want they were lacking to make them the weakest of lot and if he was right his plan would be the best to beat these guys.

Instead of entering the next room, he hides behind the doorframe on the right side to wait for the thugs to come to him to take them out by surprise rather than go to them figuring that they may be too weak to get sytle points on if he should use his powers. Remembering this is a competition and not wanting to learn his competiters did anything that would defeat them too early especially before he meets them, decides to share his plan to the others hoping they are facing the same challenge.

The problem was to tell the others since he didn't know where they were at. He first considers bringing in some type of recording device than sending it to the others but that requires knowing where they are at so he turned down that idea. Next he considered sending everybody a means to communate between them but once again that requires knowing where they are at so once again he turned the idea down.

Than he remembered Eoc Symmet Symmel contacted all the participants at once through the monitor and something about the message made him think maybe the monitors could also be used to send messages. Not being a hacker himself, he tries to move Stephen William Hawking from 1 reality to where he is currently at in hopes that is powers aren't blocked, deminished, or revented here and that this is some fanasty.

[ryu planeswalker]

Ryu shrugged and made his way to the door bowing to the thugs

"Good Evening Gentile sirs , May I pass if it is not to much of an inconvenience."

[Algasir]

"'Sup doods!" Algasir waved to the thugs. "If you keep up your lives like this you're bound to end up like me, dood." He nodded.

"...Wait. You guys aren't real. OH YOU GUYS SUCK, DOOD!"

Algasir threw a bomb at the mob in anger.

[Iyestorm]

The thugs went over to the wall of pine needles and started to inspect it. Ilgivan remained hidden from view behind the wall, however.

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Fiction User didn't feel his power being suppressed, but he did feel it fail. Apparently, this place they were in was not a fantasy realm, even if the enemies weren't real.

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The thugs looked at Ryu and brandished their weapons. "This is our territory, punk! You gotta pay if you wanna pass freely."

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The thugs looked at the prinny in disbelief like they'd never seen one before. Then they started to attack, but saw the bomb, and...

Well, five less imaginary thugs. The next door opened. On the other side of this one stood a small platoon of goombas and koopas, five and three, respectively.

[Newb]

Ilgivan strolled along, trying to stay out of sight, and attempted to open the door.

If this did not work, he would place his stethescope against the ground again and, after rearranging the walls of needles to be mazes leading to several dead ends with no passages at all leading to himself, summon up a few large carnivorous plants, one at each dead end, then start shouting obscenities involving hippos, the mothers of the thugs, and strawberry pudding.

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[invinible]

Fiction User realises, "So this is a reality. Which means Eoc Symmet Symmel is at least 1,000 times as smart and at least 1,000 times as powerful as he is letting on to be able to get us here. In fact, I think he is at least 100 times as powerful as I could ever hope to be which would mean that cunning is both needed around here, not power."

He thinks that maybe The Digimon Kiaser might be the best bet now since he should be in some sort of fanasty and is good with technology. Fiction User than attempts to move The Digimon Kiaser to the reality the former is currently in hoping the latter is in a place that is considered fanasty rather than reality and is as good at hacking as he is at creating.

All the while Fiction User didn't turn away from looking at the doorway.

[ryu planeswalker]

Ryu raised an eyebrow and shook his head

"I have serious doubts that you own this Hallway, and I am quite sure that the owner would in the very least desire a part of your toll earnings if they would find out about your little business venture, I suggest you allow me to pass and I may forget about this incident."

[Iyestorm]

Ilgivan failed to open the door, but his next tactic worked alright. Using cover and insults, he lured the five thugs into the lines of fire of the carnivorous plants.


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Fiction User summoned the Digimon Kaiser.

The Digimon Kaiser is confused and pissed, but has none of his digimon to back him up.

"Where am I? Explain yourself!"

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"Hallway? What?"

The thugs turn and realize that they are, indeed, in a hallway.

"This is messed up... How'd you do that?"
"Maybe he didn't. Maybe we're all crazy or something."
"Maybe somebody spiked something."
"If that was it, we'd be seeing flying heads or dancing umbrellas or something!"
"You gotta help us, man!"

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Eoc lit up the screens for communication again, but this time he was only talking to Fiction User.

"Oh, stop it! You're embarrasssing me! Don't do that in front of the other contestants, you little brown-noser! You're being far too kind. Of course, as a frame of reference, I know not where you stand, which is much the point of this excersise. Please continue the excersise."

With that, Eoc shut off the screens.

"Hmm... So he's able to summon the Digimon Kaiser... Obviously not the full extent of his powers. If that were the case, that'd be weird. The power to summon one person in particular. Well, I'll watch them all... that was the idea, after all. Hmm? What's this?" Eoc looked at Ryu's screen.

"Well, that's not supposed to happen... They're not real. Just illusions that can hurt people. But still, it *is* rather interesting. I *could* fix it, but *should* I? Maybe someone else is having fun with me... I'll have to look into the matter."

Eoc manually opened the door for Ryu and spoke through the intercom. "I told you they weren't supposed to be real, and yet you insist on talking things through with them. That has its charm, but it's only going to please me once. Please continue, and don't mind me, I believe someone else may be tampering with this..."

[Newb]

As soon as the plants felt that they were "under attack" they began to viciously maul the thugs in self-defense.

[Algasir]

Algasir whistled a familiar tune and attempted to jump on the closest Goomba. If possible, he would bounce from Goomba to Goomba, and then from Goomba to Koopa.

[ryu planeswalker]

Ryu nods "Yea Yea I will help, just stay here don't panic and let me through, I will get to the door and come back for you lot okay?"

[Iyestorm]

Ilgivan's door opened, revealing the five goombas and three koopa on the other side.

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Algasir flattens three goombas and knocks a koopa out of its shell.

Two goombas, a koopa, and a koopa in skivvies remain.

The "nude" koopa attempts to hide, and keeps checking for opportunities to get back in its shell. Meanwhile, the two goombas charge while the koopa gets ready by hiding inside its shell.

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"Thanks, man! We'll just... stay here. In this room."

The next room had the same five goombas and 2 koopa on the other side.

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"I wonder, should I delete those first level thugs? He's technically cleared them, and they could become a nuisance. Still, it adds an interesting morality test here, and I can more accurately gague where on the four scales they fall... Just be patient, just keep watching, like usual." Eoc thought to himself.

"...I think I need a milkshake. Yeah..."

[Algasir]

Algasir bared teeth, then pulled out his two trusty daggers and attempted to stab the two charging Goombas.

[Newb]

Ilgivan began rummaging through his pockets. "Let's see... I know that the wall moving spell is in here somewhere... not that I want to do this the same way again, but I simply don't want to leave it around all sloppy-like. Aha!"

Ilgivan placed his stethoscope on the ground and his walls shrank down into cards, then skittered across the floor, where he picked them up. "Now..."

Ilgivan looked over his opponents and decided that a simple solution would be the best.

It was for this reason that he placed the stethoscope against his own heart, and summoned forth a pair of treetop bracers onto his arms. While he was at it, he called out an armor of thorns.

This done, he hid behind the doorway and waited for his mana to come back, at which point he summoned a pair of vine trellises.

A bit more waiting, and he summoned an infested roothold and a wall of wood stretching from where he was to the far door, bending slightly to separate the two koopas.

Using his bracers, Ilgivan swung up out of reach, headed over towards a koopa, and dropped down on its shell, then flung the shell against a wall and swung back up and over the wall, repeating the process with the shell on the other side.

From atop his platform, Ilgivan watched the bouncing shell mayhem.

"That'll hurt in the morning. Trust me, I'm a DOCTOR!"

[ryu planeswalker]

"Yea no problem, I will come back if I need help getting out." Ryu says moving onto the next room, watching the Goombas and Koopas to see if there is a patteren to their movement.

[invinible]

Fiction User tells The Digimon Kaiser, "Appearantly this is some sort of observation test or gauntlet. I brought you here so you can hack into the system of the guy that just called through the monitor so that I can communiate with the other participants. Don't worry about the thugs, I already have that covered." while wondering what is taking the thugs so long to enter the room.

Fiction User adds, "Something about the guy that just called seems to subjest he thinks somebody that isn't involved directly with any of the participants is changing the set-up of the gauntlet without his knowledge. Could you look into that as well even if it is to just to confirm that I'm misreading the guy."

[Iyestorm]

The two goombas go down easy from Algasir's stabbity death. They are weaklings, after all. However, the naked koopa makes a beeline for its shell. The active koopa, which had withdrawn itself into its shell, starts spinning rapidly, and charges at Algasir at a rather high speed.

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It would hurt in the morning if the shells didn't totally kill them. The door opens, revealing seven guys with samurai armor and katanas. Samurai. Upon seeing the door open, they got into positions, but they waited...

...until they saw the shells, at which point they started dodging the pinball shells. Their movements indicated no special movement powers.

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The goombas and koopa wander mostly in a straight line until they run into a wall or each other. Occasionally, they converse about Lord Bowser, and maybe getting a raise.

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"And if I do this, you'll send me back to the world I was in previously? How do I know your real intentions? And what compensation are you offering me in return?"

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Eoc turned on the screens and first addressed everyone as a whole.

"Greetings again. Here's a handy bit of information you should all know. The room after the next for *most* of you will be different than the previous ones. The enemies in there may not wait for you to enter the room. But then, they may. After said rooms, you'll never know. Alternatively, I won't open the door automatically, but simply unlock it for you, leaving it up to you to enter and have whatever's in there be a surprise. Now then, our second order of business..."

Eoc took a sip of his newly acquired milkshake before continuing.

"Now then, whoever just summoned Ken Ichijouji..." Eoc was visibly checking through a computer before he spoke again. "Fiction User, was it? You have cheek, I'll give you that, trying to devise a way to escape this little game so early, but you needn't be so... what's the word? Nosy. Please send him back, having him here complicates things somewhat... Much much moreso if he's going to remember this event after you send him back."