Staging Area
If I'm not already at briefing, go there. If I am there...
"What will we be fighting?"
"You'll learn when you get there~ Don't wanna to spoil the fun now.""Speaking of which, I think we've had enough chit-chat. Time to start the fun!"He snaps his fingers. And with that, everything goes dark.
Final Round
Walk out of the building. Look for places where the building looks weak. Blast them repeatedly. I'll bring this damn building down.
Heh, good idea. Didn't see that coming.
You start heading out. The shaking stops after a while and the building still stands, although there are cracks on it. You're not really sure if it's simply cracked paint or something worse. From the pieces of rubble that have fallen in certain places, you'd guess it's the second one.
You manage to make your way outside (the people trying to get out are smart enough to keep their distance and not get in your way). It looks like a bomb went off close to the centre of the island, where those tall buildings used to be. A large cloud of dust has risen in the air, both from what you assume was an explosion and from the buildings that have recently crumbled and collapsed close to it. There's also smoke rising, as if something is burning.
You don't spend much time looking at whatever that was, instead looking for places you could damage to easily knock down the building. You find a lightly cracked support column and try to blast it down, but your blasts are weak and you don't manage to do much to it other than chip a small piece off of it.
Become a bat and quickly fly back out of the building via the broken windows or, if none are available, the front door. Don't stop flying, and land atop the roof of a neighboring building. Do my best to stay concealed from my foe so that he thinks I am still inside.
You manage to get out from under the stalls before they fall on you and transform into a bat. Unfortunately, you have to use biomass from your acid spit gland to do so.
You at least manage to fly outside without further incident and onto the roof of the opposing building. Your opponent is down there, on the outside of the building. You think he hasn't seen you, but you aren't sure.
Get level and get UP. Seriously, Icarus this shit. Like, a 75 degree angle up and away from the epicenter. I don't know what he just pulled out of his pocket, but I need to get away from it. But mostly, regain control, then GTFO.
You cut your engine and focus on your wings, first focusing on stopping your horizontal spin and then your vertical. The moment you get level enough to be able to make out what the hell is going on around you, you notice a building pop up through the dust. And that you are heading straight for it. You can't turn fast enough to not crash with it. Your helmet points you to a broken window. In a split second decision, you turn and manage to smash through it, surf on some desks and cubicles and tumble to a stop.
Miraculously, you appear to have
not broken anything, although the covering on your wings has been slightly damaged and your engine has been clogged by a troll doll and some paper. Should still be able to fly though, once you clear it. Other than that, they look fine, fuel full, electronics undamaged. Good thing you shut your engine, otherwise the fans would had probably broken and shot high speed shrapnel right through you.
You get up and try to get your bearings. You are on a tall building. Office building, by the looks of it. And slightly leaning, you realise, after the world stops spinning. There's only dust outside, much of it covering the floor near the broken windows (and the few windows that have miraculously remain intact). And your helmet, you realise. You try to wipe the dust off its sensors with your shirt.
Walking closer to the broken window you flew through, you take a closer look outside. Your helmet must be using some sort of IR sensor to see through the dust and smoke, but it's still not enough. From what you can make out, there's a big crater next to a mountain of debris where the building you started this little adventure in used to be. Other buildings close to it have shared the same fate, while others have merely been severely damaged. There's a dancing orange glow down there, probably from broken gas lines or maybe electrical fires.
If unconscious, wake up. If in the sewers or subways, climb up or find a way out
You wake up. You appear to be buried somewhere, but are miraculously unharmed. Well, beyond the fact that you're missing half your face and are terribly bruised. Still, you feel like you just got really lucky there. Should probably not try that again in the future.
You try your best to dig yourself out of wherever you are burried. It's kinda like trying to move after your entire body has been buried in the sand, but with a lot of wiggling, you eventually manage to create enough room for you to use your full strength and start digging out.
When you finally create a hole and pop your head through it, what you see looks like a scene from hell. There is dust and smoke everywhere. You can barely see anything and breathing is hard. The smoke is making your eyes sting. You can see dancing orange lights inside the dust, somewhere higher above you. Fires, probably. You can hear screams in the distance, accompanied by the sound of settling rubble.
Only scraps remain of your clothes. Not that it matters that much.
Campaign
I then move towards the opening, not actually going into it but instead leaning against the wall near the doorway out of the line of sight of anyone entering the chamber.
You go join Ike and Nikolai and Alan, standing beside and slightly behind them, because the tunnel is not that large.
Alan, Campaign
Continue charging my balls.
Goodness gracious great balls of basket!
You think that if you charge your balls anymore you might hurt yourself. You're already feeling like they're about to burst. And that probably wouldn't be good, especially in an enclosed space.
"Hm... that's two people, probably armored, plus maybe a third humanoid abomination coming our way. Magical bullshit at work, no doubt. Be ready for extra murder."
Find an inconspicuous location to hide in, and maybe observe who's coming.
You're fairly inconspicuous inside a collapsed tunnel inside a crack in the earth. You can always search for another hiding spot if you want though.
You don't see anyone coming (they're higher up and you're hiding) but you do hear them. They're walking this way. Silently for the most part. It takes them about a minute for them to say something, confirming their identity as humans, or probably humanoids. They're speaking quietly though, so you can't make out exactly what they're saying. You think one of them said something like "Who. Check things."
The pattern of their footsteps becomes irregular for a few seconds, then stops, then you hear a stone falling to the ground, then something like a grunt, then their footsteps continue moving towards you. Looks like they're going to pass somewhere on your right. Same side the slope that leads outside of this crack in the earth is.
You could just wait and hope they pass you by without them hurting or otherwise interacting with you. You could go ahead and kill them. Maybe go to a hiding spot closer to them to try and eavesdrop on what they're saying. Or maybe even get close enough to get a good look at them. Or something else.
The smell of the third human disappears for half a minute but then you catch it and the scent of another human as well. Maybe it's just something in the wind?
<I don't think they're here to sell cookies. Let's kill them and take their stuff. Shoot first ask questions later.>
Find a place to hide and keep watch. Get ready for extra murder.
I'm gonna tell you what I told Harry. You're pretty well hidden here, but you can go search for another hiding place if you want, maybe one that has an escape route. Because if someone comes for you here, you're completely cornered.
OOC(Hmm, so what now? Am I unconscious, or did I just fall through the road again? Last, when will I get to where jumping out of high places won't hurt me, or since I get bigger the stronger I get, will it be a good idea to never jump, since it'll always hurt me?)
Well, I'm not going to say too much, but I'm going to say "Look at your stats and think about how stats work and what they mean in this game". Depending on the positives or negatives an action gets you, you can potentially succeed, always succeed, always overshoot, etc. I can elaborate in PM if you want, unless you want to tell your capabilities to everyone.
Oh, and I should also say that there was a reason I laughed when you selected your upgrades.
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