With the round man barely in front, and competition from behind getting fierce, it seems that Jack's good luck could be about to run out. The back pack would soon ram into the front one and likely overwhelm both icecream and beard.
For some reason, that's not what's on Jack's mind!
Do a jump and ram the cage out of the air!
Jack is off Track!Jack, feeling some combination of heroism, desperation, or merely whimsical desire to rebel decides to set his Kart on a collision course with the huge chomp cage! Even as Jack hits the dash panel and the thunder strikes down and shrinks them, he aims his kart to knock the 'load bearing' lakitu off balance!
Bolted! -3 momentum! (Now -2!)
Zapped! -2 to hazard, driving, and pass checks until the end of the next turn!
Shrunk! -1 to all ram checks!*POW!*Jack lands right on the cloud, sending a surprised Lakitu operator into a nose dive for the water! He loses hold of the wire he was holding and the entire cage contraption begins a slow spinning tumble into the river-after a few moments, the remaining Lakitu disengage their own wires and flee to the skies.
Jack Frost finds his now tiny, shrunken kart (and his tiny, shrunken self) now sharing a cloud with a panicking driver! He notices that while the cloud-vehicle isn't much bigger than his kart normally would be, there's some sort of ladder in the rear that leads down to another section, even if this shouldn't be possible. It actually seems larger on the inside than it could possibly be on the outside! Of course, Jack is used to weird geometry, so it's not really much for him to wrap his head around.
"I've lost power to cloud-engines! Mayday! Mayday! Requesting assistance!" The Lakitu yells-his cloud seems to be
very slowly drifting downwards into the river, which makes his panic seem a bit humorous. Unless there's something in the water Jack doesn't know about...
[2]Without much preamble, the track Lakitu abruptly abandons his vehicle (hopping out at about 12 feet) and jumps over the side-he activates a parachute (said parachute is three tiny smiling clouds), needlessly, and begins to float off course. Hopefully he won't (or will!) land in the drink! Jack has been a bit, well, stunned for all of this. But now he realizes he's got to do something!
If he can grab the strange unrecognizable controls, he might be able to steer this thing back on track, maybe even gain a slight advantage. While he's in this shrunken state, his karts weight isn't even an issue-thank Cranky!
Or he can 'abandon cloud' and try to get back on the track.He figures the former option will boost him into the purple segment and maybe let him pass that wily monkey, while the former choice will set him safely down in Red in a sort of racing condition, but behind everybody else. Of course if he falls into the water by crashing this stupid cloud, he'll be both in red AND behind everybody else...he's pretty sure the fishin' Lakitus won't be in a hurry to rescue him as well...he feels the shrinking spell won't last forever, anyway. Better choose fast!
((OOC: Non fluff mode description
Optional Hazard check, no mods! On success, pull ahead as normal to purple with 3 momentum!
On failure, fallback and redo red! Start at 1 momentum as well, having made an enemy of Lakitus.
If not taking the risk, pull up to purple and Delay-falling to the back of the pack in that segment. Gain 1 momentum on cleanup.))