Round 67: The Town By the SeaLocation: A Coruña, SpainWeather Conditions: SunnyTime: Early Afternoon Wipeout looks at her surroundings to try and judge where she is. Well, she knows that's Beaver Island to her right, except it isn't Beaver Island upon closer inspection. Beaver Island was flat and moderately small, while this island is large and imposingly rocky. She can even spot some people walking on it, and Beaver didn't have a single soul when she last checked. She then glances to the right, expecting to see the Wisconsin shore-line, but instead she sees nothing but water and a few older ships in the distance, could she now be looking at the ocean? One of the ships she notices, a motorboat many times smaller than her own cargo ship, makes a turn and heads directly for her. As it pulls up to her port side, she notices that the men on board are all uniformed and wielding sub-machine guns, and there is a large machine gun in the center of the boat. One of these men yells in Spanish but with a heavy Italian accent, "This is a contested region and all commercial and personal ships are not allowed in these waters! What are you doing here and what is that strange flag?" He points to the Panamanian flag on the side of the
Alba.
Hawk locates the stairs in the basement of the church and runs out onto the main level. She finds herself in a small but high-roofed building of worship, light shimmering through stained glass on the walls and a few people kneeling at pews while the marble, forever-tortured Christ groans in agony on a crucifix above the altar at the head of the church. Hawk runs out the front doors, and while a few heads turn to watch her, no one makes an effort to intervene. Outside, she sees a few parked cars and some tied horses while a cobblestone road leads down to a port city nearby, no sight of any Wiki-Warriors however.
NAV looks for an opportunity in this new chaotic hospital setting and spots an unattended soldier lying on a gurney. The soldier is bloodied but still breathing and barely conscious, and when NAV gets closer he sees the symbol
of a bow and arrow atop a red and black flag embroinded on the soldier's shirt, a symbol shared by all of the other soldiers in the hospital. NAV takes control of the gurney and wheels it outside, trying to look as inconspicuous as possible. [Stealth: 9] NAV gets outside without anyone giving him a second glance. Looking for a body of water, he spots a nearby large beach, though it is somewhat densely populated by people. The soldier stirs a little, but appears unable to speak.
Hazard orders her loyal Caribbean soldier to stop the tank, and he gets the war machine grinding to a halt in the middle of the dirt road.
Greatness begins to have a breakdown as she attempts to take in what the sheepherder had told them, reverting to French to rant about the impossibility of the Soviet Union existing despite it having been dissolved over twenty years from the modern day. Sir Lorne, grips her shoulder, "M'lady, panic will resolve nothing! How about you listen to what this man has to say, shall we? Then you could translate his Spanish words for me." He motions for the herder to come forward, as he had stepped away when Greatness went into her French tirade.
The man hesistently moves up to them, "You must not be from here if you do not grasp the situation. Franco has declared the Republic to be an illegitimate government and has amassed an army to overthrow the government. The Communists and Fascists have been fighting for over a year, and now other countries are getting involved, sending soldiers and arms: Germany, Italy, Portugal, England, Ireland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Soviet Union. It is fortunate that you came across me and not a Fascist soldier on patrol, or he would have raised an alarm. I do find it curious that neither of you know about the war, but have somehow managed to acquire a Soviet tank..." He gives Greatness and her Knight a suspicious glancing over.
The sheep
baa~ continuously.
Meanwhile, in the Nuclear Silo World contained within the Spanish-American War World, Execute is having his own existential crisis. "Oh no, oh no, if it's gone, we're cut off, but that doesn't work, you can't just erase a portal so thoroughly with people from higher realities in there, and since we're still here..." Yuri attempts to comfort his master, who is encouraged to get back on track and he does so, by opening up the Devil Fruit World via portal and inviting Yuri and Shaman to enter in the Devil Fruit world if they are willing to risk the consequences, and includes Fallacy when she protests. The Shaman claims, "I would like to grow my powers and abilities naturally, and not consume some cursed fruit." Yuri, the least supernatural person in the group, agrees to go in, "If it allows me to serve and protect you better Execute, I shall do it." Fallacy accepts as well.
The two of them enter the portal and find themselves in the field where the strange fruit crops up all over the place. Yuri kneels down and picks up a long, grey fruit, and begins chomping down on it, before falling to his knees, "God, that tastes awful!" As he wipes bits of fruit away from his mouth, a metallic blade extends out of his forearm. "That's new." (+Ability: Body-Metal Manipulation)
Fallacy snatches up a pear-like fruit and eats it, then has convulsions. When she recovers, she can see a new path that leads to Yuri, one that had always existed but has become de-invisible to her. Yuri looks at her, "What are you staring at?" (+Ability: Genetic Tracking)
Back in the Nuclear Silo world, Execute pokes his head out of the portal to check if the American Warship has passed, and sure enough it has gone past their previous rendezvous site without expecting anything. He heads back to the abandoned silo and takes some of Fallacy's leftover painting supplies to draw some new police pistols. [Drawing: 1] After making an adequate painting of two police pistols, Execute opens up a small portal and reaches inside. As he pulls one of them out, he is surprised as a gloved hand grabs his forearm and squeezes it tightly. "LET GO OF THE GUN CIVVIE', YOU'RE BREAKING THE LAW!" A loud, masculine voice barks at him from within the portal.
Dolosus enters into this new world with a complaint,
"Reality man, can't ever decide what it wants to be." Dolosus tries to figure out where he is located, but beyond 'some rural place', can't come up with an answer with this lack of information and context. He looks to one of the massive buildings in the nearby area and walks towards it, the dirt road turning paved once he passes a fence. In the field, he can see men and women alike hard at tilling and watering the Earth, as well as spreading seeds. As he approaches the grand manorial house, he is stopped by a massive wooden door. Additionally, he alerts three men who come out into the balcony overseeing the front of the grand home, dressed like farmers in work clothes and hats, and armed with rifles. One of them calls out to him in Spanish, "You don't look like a Fascist in those clothes! In fact, I've never seen a stranger looking fellow!" He and his friends chuckle. "Who are you, comrade?"
Twinwolf stays back with the Aztecs and lets the tribespeople make the first move. They approach slowly, low to the ground and holding their weapons. The Aztecs begin to raise their own arms, but Twin discourages them from taking hostilities. Once they are in speaking distance, one of the tribespeople calls to Twinwolf, "You seek to take our crops, do you not?" His accent is indeterminable in origin and sounds like nothing Twin had ever heard before. "So you may, as long one of your men can best one of our men in a contest, so goes tradition. If you lose, you must leave our lands at once."
Elephant Parade, in a haze of confusion, looks for Thousand Bones but sees no trace of the old man. He calls out and gets no response besides some curious stares from other people at the beach. Had Thousand Bones simply abandoned him here? Without Thousand Bones, he might as well try to get back to Denmark, except he doesn't see the portal, or any portal for that matter, nearby. As he looks around aimlessly, a beach-goer, specifically a well-built mustachioed man wearing a short, and I mean
short pair of swimming trunts approaches him. "Good sir! You seem lost, may I assist you? Call me Senor Bajista." He offers Elephant a large, hairy hand.
Cinder rubs her non-existent beard, "Hm, interesting. But presumably something that can't be explained more sufficiently than 'shenanigans'." When she becomes aware of the carriage driver, Cinder continues to crouch and stares straight into his eyes like some sort of squatting Slav that is trying to devour your soul with his mind. The driver loses this battle of 'wits' quickly and begins to drive away, leaving Cinder victoriously squatting on the edge of the sidewalk like some sort of deranged woman. Speaking of being a deranged woman, Cinder utilizes her newfound powers, causing an adult male lion to run out of the bushes nearby. He treads up to her and nuzzles her gently, while the citizens in the area either flee or watch dumbfoundly. Once she gives Mr. Lion a good petting, it's off to inventing the race car! Walking down the street with her pet, Cinder nearly snaps her neck as she spots something that might just ruin her plan. Parked in an alleyway, she sees a sleek car with the number '49' printed on its side. Approaching it further, it is in fact a race car! An older model, but a race car nonetheless. Damnit, someone had foiled her plans by inventing it before her schedule!
Person reacts to his new situation, "What is this now? After all that work mapping the area, now we're somewhere else? Well, given the state that town was in, perhaps our Intel was wrong. This seems a better target, as we have come too far to go back unsuccessful. Keep looking for warriors. We land the moment we find opposition." He flies the car around the countryside, looking for worthy foes while the peasants who spot him drop what they are doing to look up in awe, pointing at the car as if they had just found Atlantis. [Hunting: 10] The search leads to Person and his crew spotting Hawk exiting a church without the holy-woman being aware of their presence as the hide behind the church's bell tower. The plan for an ambush is set in motion as the Macedonian suggests, "You could pull up right next to her and I'll fire my pistol's entire clip at her. If that doesn't finish her off, we land and you attack her in tandem with the dog."
The
Goodnight Sweet Prince Quest has been cancelled.
Central America/Age of Exploration - Aztecs.
Philippines/Spanish-American War - The Spanish and Americans are battling it out in a major colonial war taking place in the Philippine Islands.
Painting Supply Box World - World where boxes of painting supplies grow like plants, inhabited by tribal people. Being explored by Twinwolf, Jaguar Soldiers and Aztec Civilian.
Nuclear Silo World - World where all that has been found so far has been a forest and a large, abandoned nuclear silo. Being explored by Execute, 12 Jaguar Soldiers, 1 Aztec Civilian, Fallacy and a Shaman.
Devil Fruit World - World filled with the mystical Devil Fruit.
Police Gun World - A world filled with police and police guns, unintentionally created by Execute.
Name: Execute/Dumbo.exe "Amihiyotzinuatmotlapal"
Gender: Male
Nationality: Iranian/Russian
Karaindash: +2 Administration, +2 Diplomacy
Rufa Mae Quinto: +2 Acting, +2 Singing
The Other Face of Janus: +Ability: Trans-dimensional Painting Transportation
Arman Sedghi: +2 Engineering
Sviatopolk I of Kiev: +2 Military Strategy, +2 Assassination, +Loyal Boyar Subject
Jacques Bernard Hombron: +2 Medical, +2 Botany, +1 Sailing
Status: Right Shoulder Bludgeoned [Bruised], Chest Seared [Burning Pain: 50% Chance of -2 on Any Action],
Points: 1
Assets: Police Pistol [7/9], Trench Knife, Type 69 RPG [0/1] [Long Reload], Paintbrushes, Futuristic Megaphone, Futuristic Binoculars, Shaman Nature Charm [Pacifies Wild Animals, +2 Animal Befriending, Can be broken to unleash an emergency magical spell of nature]
Abilities:
Trans-dimensional Painting Transportation - Can open up portals in paintings to travel in and out of them. A strange and enigmatic power, use it carefully.
Wings of Quetzalcoatl - Can fly.
Vassals: The Aztec Empire, The Texcocan Empire
Army:
Yuri - Aztec High Priest (Dagger, High Priest Robes, AR15 Assault Rifle [18/30] [Moderate Reload]), Ability: Body-Metal Manipulation - From eating a Devil Fruit, can turn parts of his body into a natural metal substance. Can no longer swim.
87 Generals
308,884 Aztec Soldiers
Standard War Party Equipment - Bows, Obsidian Spears, Cloth Armor, Hardwood Helmets
Looted European Equipment: Muskets, Crossbows, Rapiers, Steel Armor, Steel Helmets
Name: Twinwolf
Gender: Male
Nationality: English/Yugoslavian
Johnny Strange: +2 Juggling, +2 Marksmanship, +Abilities: Black Hole Swallow Technique + Fire-breath Manipulator
Sluggish schizophrenia: +2 Psychological Torture
Dimitrije Ljotić: +2 Nationalistic Leadership, +2 Law, +Judge's Suit
Black Thunder: +Black Thunder Chocolate Bar (When a bite of the bar is taken, lightning will randomly strike in the nearby area)
Kartouwe: +Kartouwe Cannon
Abraham Louis Breguet: +3 Clock Making, +3 Clock Repair, +Small Antique Clock
Status: Normal
Points: 1
Assets: Judge's Suit, Kartouwe Cannon, Lighter, Pistol [8/8], Small Antique Clock
Abilities:
Black Hole Swallow Technique - Swallows any dangerous weapon or object that can fit inside his stomach with no negative effects.
Fire-breath Manipulator - Inhales a nearby source of fire and then can breathe it out of his mouth.
Name: Elephant Parade
Gender: Male
Nationality: Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani Art: +2 Art
Sean Buckley: +2 Entrepreneurship, +Thoroughbred Racehorse, +Business Suit
Thomas Wentworth: +2 Muskets, +1 Swords, +Musket, +British Empire Officer's Saber
LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course: +2 Agility & Speed in Natural Environments
Jake Deitchler: +2 Wrestling
Dmitri Tymoczko: +2 Music Composition, +2 Music Theory
Status: Fine
Assets: Musket [1/1] [Moderate Reload], British Empire Officer's Saber, Untitled Song with Musket Fire, Thoroughbred Racehorse, Untitled Song Inspired by Animal Noises, Song Inspired by Horse: "Horse, Of Course"
Allies: Thousand Bones [Legendary Cleric] - Iron Golem [Breath Attack: 4-Turn CD (Cooling: 4 Turns)] [Immune to Magic] [Large & Powerful]
Name: NAV
Gender: Male
Nationality: British/Polish
The Last Seven: +2 Scavenging, +2 Demon Hunting, +Bullpup Assault Rifle, +Post-Apocalyptic Rags
Bill Spence: +2 Driving, +Sports Car
Jaws Unleashed: +Ability: We Need A Bigger Boat
Ludomir Benedyktowicz: +2 Landscape Painting, +1 Guerrilla Warfare, +1 War Poetry, +1 Chess
Cardenas Medal: Cardenas Medal
Soucouyant: +Ability: The Bloodsucking Fireball
Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez: +2 Dancing, +1 Agility, +Bellhop's Uniform, +Blue-footed Chicken
Status: Soucouyant Form, Chest Shot [Light Bleeding], Left Hand Crisped [Burning Pain: 75% Chance -2 to Any Action, -2 Two-Handed]
Points: 2
Assets: $761.90, Old Poncho [Dirty], Boxers [Dirty], Katana, 2 Javelins, Bellhop's Uniform, Blue-footed Chicken
Abilities:
We Need A Bigger Boat! - While in water, NAV can turn into a Giant Great White Shark. While in this form, he gains +4 Swimming, +3 Biting, and eating large living organisms, such as dolphins or humans, will cure wounds.
The Bloodsucking Fireball - While in human form, NAV can shed all of his skin into a pile and turn into a sentient Fireball that can fly and fit through holes as small as a keyhole. The Fireball can not ignite people with fire, but it can attach to them and drain them of their blood like a vampire. If a person is killed in this way, they will become an NPC Soucouyant. If the Soucouyant encounters any rice, it is forced to gather the rice one grain at a time unless it is caught by a person in this act, in which case it must return back to where its skin lies before it can set out again. The Soucoyant can be hurt in its fireball form, but not killed, by water. If someone destroys the Soucoyant's human skin, it will die.
Name: FallacyofUrist
Gender: Female
Nationality: Danish/Singaporean
Tilly van der Zwaard: +2 Running, +2 Stamina
Mountain Gun: +Mountain Gun
Wee Chong Jin: +2 Law, +Judge's Robes
2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: +Stock Racing Car, +2 Driving
George Henry Burgess: +2 Landscape Painting, +1 Mechanical Repair
Status: Normal
Assets: Judge's Robes, Stock Racing Car, M1903 Springfield Rifle [5/5] [Moderate Reload], Shaman Companion
Abilities:
Genetic Tracking: From eating a Devil Fruit, can now track anyone once she knows of a single piece of their DNA. Can no longer swim.
Name: DolosusDoleus
Gender: Male
Nationality: Japanese
Okita Rintarō: +2 Swords, +Katana, +Yari, +Samurai Armor, +Samurai Helmet
Bill Nichols: +2 Documentary Filming, +Filming Camera
2003 Cheltenham Gold Cup: +2 Horseback Riding, +Racehorse
John F. Bickford: +2 Sailing, +2 Naval Combat, +Civil War Revolver, +Naval Captain's Uniform
Borovo Treasure: +Pouch containing the Borovo Treasure
RV Belgica (1884): +RV Belgica Steamship
O.J. Mayo: +2 Basketball, +1 Athleticism, +Basketball Shoes, +Basketball, +Large Ziploc Bag containing 1 Kilo of Cocaine, +Lifetime Ban from the NBA
Status: Normal
Points: 2
Assets: $11,556, Katana, Yari, Samurai Armor, Samurai Helmet, Filming Camera, Potato Vehicle Keys, RV Belgica Steamship, Basketball Shoes, Basketball, Large Ziploc Bag [0.8 Kilograms of High-Quality Cocaine], Lifetime Ban from the NBA
Pouch [The Borovo Treasure]
Name: wipeout1024
Gender: Female
Nationality: American/Swedish
Bonnie Blair: +3 Speedskating, +Ice Skates
Krister Stendhal: +2 Christian Theology (+3 New Testament Theology), +2 Christian Education
SS Alba: +SS Alba Cargo Ship
Space Jam: +2 Basketball (+4 vs. Aliens), +1 Reflexes, +Basketball, +Basketball Uniform, +Ability: Come on and Slam!
Dorothy Blum: +2 Computer Science, +2 Cryptanalysis
Status: Normal
Assets: Ice Skates, SS Alba Cargo Ship, Basketball, Basketball Uniform
Abilities:
Come on and Slam! - Wipeout can Dunk any held object on targets for increased accuracy and damage output. Must be within melee-range of target to use. 1-Turn Cooldown. [Ready]
Name: Cinder
Gender: Female
Nationality: German/Irish
Moscow Children's Ecological & Biology Center: +2 Ecology & Biology Knowledge
Moe Drabowsky: +2 Throwing, +Baseball Glove, +Baseball
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: +2 Architecture, +2 Painting, +German Aristocratic Garbs, +Ability: New Age of Industrialization
Ryan Hemphil: +2 Driving, +Racecar
Josie Dwyer: +2
Camogie, +2 Stick-Whacking, +Camogie Stick, +Camogie Helmet
Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake: +2 Relationships with Animals, +Loyal Zoo Animal Companion of Choice
Status: Normal
Assets: Baseball Glove, Baseball, German Aristocratic Garbs, Racecar, Camogie Stick, Camogie Helmet
Allies: Loyal Lion Companion
Abilities:
New Age of Industrialization - This ability can target a city/town/village/community/etc. that is either unindustrialized or was industrialized but has fallen into despair since. When used, the target city will rapidly industrialize and thrive with a whole new architecture and revitalized economy. 15 Turn CD. (Note: For some reason, this industrialization takes the form of an androgynous naked blonde person flying a Pegasus and blowing bubbles.
See here for details.)
Name: Hawk132
Gender: Female
Nationality: Irish
Susan B. Anthony: +3 Leading Suffragist, Feminist and Anti-Slavery Movements, +2 Persuasion, +2 Writing,
Yamaha C40: +Yamaha C40 Classical Guitar
MS European Mariner: +MS European Mariner Freight Ferry
Wilson Whitley: +2 Tackling, +Football Shoulderpads, +Football Helmet
Saint Patrick: +3 Catholic Divinity, +Saint Patrick's Holy Staff, +Saint's Robes, +Ability: Snake Banishment
Status: Normal
Assets: Saint's Robes [Divine], Saint Patrick's Holy Staff [Divine], Divine Scepter of Smiting [Divine]
Abilities:
Snake Banishment - Forces all of the snakes in the country where Hawk stands to flee immediately.
Name: Greatness942
Gender: Female
Nationality: American/French/Moroccan
Vernon Harrell: +2 R&B Singing and Songwriting, +Business Suit
Fitna of al-Andalus: +2 Leading Coup-de-etats, +2 Assassination, +Crossbow, +Ally: Mercenary Knight
Bouchra Ghezielle: +1 Athleticism, +Plastic Bag of Steroid Pills
Umanosuke Ueda: +2 Wrestling
John Locke (Lost): +2 Wilderness Survival, +2 Tracking, +Survival Knife
Status: Normal
Assets: Business Suit, Crossbow [1/1] [Moderate Reload], Plastic Bag [Steroid Pills], Survival Knife
Allies: Mercenary Knight [Plate Armor, Horse, Lance, Shortsword, Round Shield]
Name: H4zardZ1
Gender: Female
Nationality: Irish
Jan Ullrich: +2 Cycling, +Bicycle, +Bicycle Helmet
Wolfe Tone: +2 Irish Nationalism, +Musket
Susan Penelope Rosse: +2 Portrait Miniature Painting
BT Tank: +BT Light Tank
Hugh Lyle Carmichael: +2 Administration, +2 Troop Morale, +British Officer's Uniform, +Ally: Loyal Caribbean Soldier
Status: Normal
Assets: Bicycle, Bicycle Helmet, Musket, BT Light Tank [2/3 Crew], British Officer's Uniform
Ally: Loyal Caribbean Soldier [Footsoldier Uniform, Saber]
Name: Person
Gender:
Nationality:
José de Almada Negreiros: +2 Futurist Paintings, +Flying Car
Gyorche Petrov: +WWI Rifle, +Macedonian Nationalist Soldier
Carl Davis Drumond: +2 Punching
Huỳnh Phú Sổ: +2 Prostelyzation of
Hoa Hoa Religio, +Holy Hoa Hoa Robes
Call of the Wildman: +4 Nuisance Animal Catching, +Loyal Hunting Dog
Status: Normal
Assets: WWI Rifle [Moderate Reload] [5/5], Holy Hoa Hoa Robes
Allies: Macedonian Nationalist Soldier [WWI Pistol [7/7], Trench Knife, Macedonian Soldier's Uniform], Loyal Hunting Dog
I retroactively decided to cancel the Quest and move Wipeout closer to where everyone else is. It came as the result of figuring that giving one player such a large advantage to a Quest as a result of something outside of any player's control was unfair. There will be a new Quest shortly.
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