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Post by Volodja Uljanov on Nov 21, 2018 8:23:33 GMT
Volodja Uljanov was busy finishing a tower roof by using the dripping sand technique when Aunt Agatha finally bothered to appear to the beach, equipped with quite an old fashioned bathing suit, her pink parasol and faithful Smedley who carried the elephant load of Aunt Agatha's remaining beach supplies. Without paying much attention to Volodja and his work, Agatha stomped straight through his construction site, causing the collapse of two towers of Familia Sagrada, making Volodja to sigh and remark:
"The usual story of a human kind - rebuilding everything after a major disaster. It never gets old."
Then he put his hands and mind to the work again. He delved into his work so deeply that he couldn't hear screams for help first but when he looked to the ocean, he noticed that Aunt Agatha was caught by the current which carried her further to the holographic ocean and struggled for her life, accompanying her heroic effort with a selection of well tempered British curses. He jumped up right away and run towards the water. Time slowed down, allowing others to join him on a rescue mission while the tune "I'am always here begun to play" when group of people run into the ocean and begun to swim to the drowner.
After a minor aquatic battle where Aunt Agatha's elbow landed straight into Volodja's solar plexus Aunt Agatha finally surrendered (which meant that she kept rescuers away from, her until she got tired and passed out). Volodja, Sarge, good old Smedley and few others drew unconscious Aunt Agatha to the shore and put her on the warm sand.
"Any volunteers for a mouth to mouth?" asked Volodja hopefully. Smedley coughed and apologised right away, explaining that after doing mouth to mouth to his mistress he has to resign dishonourably because he violated the contract. Sarge was suddenly busy with talking with Sophie. Others avoided Volodja's glances too, so he he made last hopeless attempt and asked: "Anyone?" although he was aware that Aunt Agatha was everything else than a Sleeping Beauty and finding volunteers for this mission would be impossible. Forcing anyone to it would have been unusually cruel and probably against every convention left in the world, so Volodja sighed again before lowering his head and beginning the inevitable...
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Post by Atika Constantine on Nov 21, 2018 13:18:13 GMT
After hearing the cries of help, Atika and Jalina looked towards where it was coming from, but by the time they spotted Aunt Agatha, several lifeguards; Volo and several others; were already rushing towards the water to go save her. So the teens felt it was best if they just stayed out of the way and let the platoon of rescuers do their thing. So instead Atika and Jalina walked over to Jalina's aunt, Belle, who was still in the water. Then Atika said politely, "Excuse me Ms. Belle, but Jalina and I were going to go play volleyball and I was wondering if you would like to join us? The only problem is that it looks like it is teams of at least six. SO that still makes us at least 3 short. Jalina do you think your mom would join us? That would leave only having to find 2 minimum, but who?" Just then a female voice said something in Mongolian from behind Atika. So Atika turned to the beautiful Mongol woman, wearing a Mongolian-print high waist bikini. in also in Mongolian. Seeing who it was, Atika smiled as she responded to the woman in Mongolian as well. Then Atika turned back to the others and said, "Sorry I don't think any of you have had the chance to meet Kellina yet." Kellina responded to them with, "Pleased to meet you all. I am as you Americans would say, Atika's Captain Planet....No? Wait no that isn't quite right is it? Hmmm give me a second to recheck my data. ----- Oh! Captain Planet was an old Earth cartoon character and Environmental guardian of the planet... so I guess I am not completely wrong then. I am Kellina, Atika's Environmental Guardian Online. So as I just told Atika, I would also like to play this Volleyball with you, if it is alright." Atika smiled and said, "Sound great but that still leaves us at least one short since Micfi isn't here to join us. OF course it seems like we are supposed to have a couple alternates in case somebody is injured or has to step out of the match. So Micfi can still join us, if she shows up after the match starts. Now as for our sixth player... ..Well since Sarge and Kellina are both here, that means Sophie may also show up to play soon as well. So Jalina, perhaps while you are asking your mother if she will join us, you can also ask your father if Sophie would also like to join our team.....And since we will have an all girls team perhaps the guys will get brave enough to form their own team and challenge us Girls to a Volleyball match of the Sexes! What do you girls think? So Jalina do you think your father would be to the challenge of forming a men's team to join in on the volleyball fun? If anybody could get a men's group together to get their butts whipped by us Girls, it would indeed be Mr. Volo!"
Meantime back in the War Room, Officer Gish said to Attila, "It seems that your sister and young Jalina Uljanov have a beach party going in holo-suite #3 and have said anybody is welcome to join them in the beach festivities. Why don't you go join them? Obviously you could use some down time since you have been here for hours; after hours of searching for the Prime Commander and that was after you were on VOlge-watch for so long." Attila responded with, "It does sound fun but...Atticus told me I was to fill in in the War Room." Darlene Gish responded with, "Yes, but only until a Command Officer relieves you. Chief Lebeau is around, and one of our relief Command Officers just walked in the door and can take over for you. SO Mr. Constantine I officially relieve you of your first War Room Command Shift. You did quite well for your first time in Command, and I will make sure that goes into the report. However now I think that you could use some down time. So go join your sister and friends in Holo-suit #3 and enjoy the rest of the day." Remy Lebeau, who had walked back in in time to hear Gish chimed in with, "Aye! I secon'dat! So go to holo-suite numba' tree an' Laissez les bons temps rouler! Let de good time's roll!" Attila thanked them for the compliments. Then he went to get a pair of swim-trunks and meet the others in the holo-suite. After he got there and changed into his trunks, he looked around the beach to see if he could spot the others jsut as his EGO,Ganbaatar, appeared right next to him saying in his own strong Mongol Accent, "It seems some of the other EGOs are here having fun." Attila replied with, "Yes Gan, that it does. So perhaps you should lose the warrior garb and put on something more fitting. So you can join us as well." 'Gan' simply said, "Aye." Then he stepped into the dressing room, and seconds later stepped back out in his own swim-trunks. Then said, "So is this good enough for us to go join the others?" Attila nodded and replied, "Yes let's go see if we can find everybody on this huge beach."
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Post by Volodja Uljanov on Nov 28, 2018 9:39:16 GMT
"Mmmmmmmmmm," hummed sudden and quite irritated female voice and Volodja Uljanov felt tremble underneath. It was a good sign. OK, probably a good sign, because it told that Aunt Agatha is waking from her one hundred seconds lasting dream. Volodja lifted his head and asked:
"You were saying?"
First there was a traditional moment of cough and water spurting, followed by a public demand. A very loud public demand because Aunt Agatha screeched:
"Remove your dirty lips from mine, you dirty predator!"
"It's me, Volodja!" Volodja announced, involuntary paraphrasing couple of pre war Marios.
"I know who you are and what were you doing!" shouted Aunt Agatha accusingly. "You were trying to take advantage of poor helpless me! Just let me to get up and get my parasol so I could shove it up your arse and then open it! I was dreaming of...Not important but then I opened my eyes and so you, you you...!"
While she looked for a suitable epithet Volodja saw his chance to explain:
"I was doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. You were drowning so we rescued you and I volunteered for the resurrecting mission."
Aunt Agatha gave the thought and admitted very reluctantly:
"Sounds logical. That is why I forgive your inappropriate familiarity and allow you to help me up from the ground. At least you had enough decency to handle a family matter your own, without including extraneous persons."
Volodja sighed when he reached out his hand and pulled his aunt up. Seemed that some people will never change.
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Post by Kaj Oenfer on Dec 2, 2018 13:17:03 GMT
As Lady kept pulling Atticus Batman's arm to pull him towards the crashed ship, elsewhere in the Forbidden Zone, a small engineering crew had just finished getting the drive systems for the Chaos-Demon back online, when red lightning struck the ground between the Dauntless Adventure and the Chaos-Demon tank. On the Dauntless Adventure's Bridge the sensors went off and Kaj contacted the security team outside guarding the Engineers, and asked, "What the heck is going on out there? Our sensors just registered some sort of energy lightning strike, yet we are detecting no weather anomalies at the moment." The security officer responded with, "We aren't entirely sure Captain Oenfer, but it looks like a red lightning bolt just struck the ground between the Dauntless Adventure's ramp and the Chaos-Demon as we were about to try driving it onto the ship!" Just then the sensors detected another energy bolt hit the ground near the Chaos-Demon and the life sign of one of the outside crew members temporarily flickered as they heard an anguished scream over the open comms. As the Bridge crew waited with bated breath as Kaj had them bring up the external cameras near the open hangar bay on the vid-screen, the security officer said anxiously over comms, "Sir I don't rightly know what is causing this freak lightning but it is preventing us from moving the tank and the last strike severely injured Engineer Wolowitz!" So Kaj ordered over comms, "Officer Chehalis, get everybody back on board NOW and have some-body get Wolowitz to the medical room!" Then Kaj turned to his Bridge crew and said, "Engineering can you figure out what is causing the lightning strikes?" As Kaj asked that one apparently hit the Dauntless Adventure's shields and the Engineering specialist on the Bridge responded with, "No sir, but I can safely say from it's signatures that it is not part of any of the recorded weather anomalies reported here! The signature is all wrong for that!" Meanwhile right outside the Dauntless Adventure, some of the other engineers picked up the unconscious Wolowitz as Officer Chehalis ordered everybody back on board. As they were running back toward the Dauntless Adventure as fast as they could, Several more lightning bolts hit the ground. Then a glowing red lightning ball came flying through the air and hit one of the other engineers as he re-entered the ship. Turning towards the source of the energy ball, through the smoke it had caused, Officer Chehalis saw a huge and very ominous figure very purposefully stalking towards the ship. As it kept advancing it throw more energy balls to stop the security officers still on the ground from joining their colleagues back on the Dauntless Adventure. Then the figure growled extremely angrily and gruffly (making the hairs on the backs over everybody in earshot stand on end), "Give her back or the next one hit dies very painfully!" As Chehalis squinted to see through the sudden red haze of electrical energy, he said over comms, "Captain are you seeing and heraing this?! That can't be who I think it is, can it?! Why the hell would he attack his own men and where are the others?!" However on the Bridge Kaj had indeed seen the same things that Chehalis was trying to see and as Kaj suddenly jumped up and rushed toward the hangar, he ordered Poe Dameron and the Bridge Crew to prepare for emergency take-off and once he gives the signal to get as far above the Forbidden Zone as fast as they can, no matter what they see happening on the ground. Then as Kaj quickly stopped at the Armory and equipped his mini-gun, he said over comms, "I see him to Chehalis and I am on my way! You and your team do everything you can to draw his fire while the others finish boarding!" Then as soon as Kaj had his huge artillery he ran towards the Hangar securing his weaponry in place as he did. Entering the Hangar and rushing toward the open bay doors, Kaj could see Chehalis and a handful of other security specialists firing at the individual and trying to keep him from attacking the few Engineers that still hadn't made it back on board. As Kaj exited the Hangar, a red lightning ball struck the Vigilant just near his head slightly searing his cheek. Then the ominous figure snapped, "You have been warned! Now giver HER back for I will NOT miss again!" Kaj immediately started firing on the figure as he moved away from the Dauntless Adventure, stopping only for a second as he registered that it appeared that he really was facing who he fear, and once again donned in 'his' Harbinger of Death-heavy armor. the odd thing was that not only was his energy dark red but so was his current armor. However Kaj didn't have time to question what that meant so he ramped-up his mini-gun to a faster speed to put out a huge torrent of bullets and try to keep the being's attention. Seeing the opening, Chehalis had his men get the other engineers back on board. Then another lighting strike indeed made contact with a Security Officer, painfully electrocuting Security Specialist Jorge W. H. Busch and rendering him unconscious or possibly worse. So Kaj snapped, "Chehalis get him on board now!" As Chehalis pulled his electrocuted teammate on board, Kaj gave the order over comms, "Dauntless Adventure! Close hangar doors and depart NOW! THAT'S AN ORDER MR. DAMERON!" With that, the Bridge crew immediately closed hangar bays and the Dauntless Adventure took flight as an energy ball struck their huge Bio-man Captain, Kaj Oenfer, in the chest. Kaj winced in pain and flinched slightly but stood his ground as he snapped at the figure, "All eyes over here Commander!" Hearing that, the ominous voice laughed sinisterly and stepping forward, out of the smoke he had been creating, snapped, "I am NOT your Commander Batman any longer! I have taken my rightful place as dominant of this body! So you have but one chance to save yourself! Contact your vessel and have them bring her back!" As Kaj coughed up some blood, he replied with, "Bring who back?" The being (presumably Atticus Batman based on appearance) snapped, "The sole occupant of that dilapidated tank beside you of course! MY LADY! GIVE BACK MY LADY NOW AND I WILL LET YOU LIVE THIS ONE TIME!" Kaj replied with, "I can not for she is not on the Dauntless Adventure! She was already gone when we arrived and you...or that is, Prime Commander Batman, went after her! Her foot prints led him further toward the north." Hearing the Bio-man's answer, the being finally looked at the footprints in question. Then turning back towards the big purple Bio-man, the Ominous red-armored being sneered, "Obviously I know that already Peasant! Those wretched voices I hear, must have her in their siren's call! However it matters not, for My Lady will soon be back by my side where she belongs! Then we will show this horrid world just what true fear is! SOON ALL WILL BOW BEFORE THE MIGHT OF THE BAT MESSIAH AND HIS LADY! STARTING WITH YOU!" When Kaj fought the pain he was feeling, and lowered the barrel of his huge gun to the ground to use as a crutch, so he could remain standing, the Bat Messiah growled, "Have it your way! However you will not get off easy by dying a Martyr today Bio-man!" With that the Bat Messiah drew a glowing red charge blade as he suddenly lunged towards the Bio-man. However he pulled his strike back and instead of dealing a death blow, he left a gouge in the Bio-man's side. Then as Kaj wavered like a wekening tree in a storm, the Bat Messiah sheathed his blade. Then he quickly disarmed Kaj and hefting the weakened and surprised Bio-man like a bag of garbage. Then adding emphasis to that metaphor, the Bat Messiah easily Tossed Kaj into the open top of the Chaos-Demon jsut as one would indeed toss a bag of yesterday's garbage into the trash bin. Once done, and without looking back at the discarded Bio-man, the Bat Messiah started moving quickly in the direction the footprints were heading, and he could hear the distressed voices in his head coming from. Meanwhile as Kaj laid in the Chaos-Demon, fighting unconsciousness as he coughed up a little more blood, he fought with the tank's comm systems and managed to get them back online sometime after the Bat Messiah left him. So Kaj started broadcasting a warning call on the Garilu's frequencies. "P.P.S. Garilu come in! This is Kaj Oenfer! I repeat Garilu come in! The Dauntless Adventure was attacked and forced to make an emergency launch! I am severely injured and aboard the Chaos-Demon where you last saw it! Our attacker appeared to be Prime Commander Batman!...How-ever his 'Harbinger of Death' garb was dark red, and he is going by the Bat Messiah! How-ever I am certain it is NOT the Commander! He was looking for Lady in the Chaos-Demon, where as the Commander was last with you following her foot prints to find her. So even if the Bat Messiah is now firmly in control, I do not see how he would have missed that detail, and on otp of that he did not even seem to know the names of the Chaos-Demon or the Dauntless Adventure. Also more importantly, while he is wielding energy powers, they are different. My implants did not register the Commander's Grid-Bio-Electricities when they were used! Their signatures seemed closer to the Omec singularity energies the Dauntless Adventure uses, than it does Grid energy!He also seems to use them differently than I have ever seen the Commander do! Not to mention that, not even the Commander has ever been able to so easily lift me one-handed and fling me around like THIS Bat Messiah just did! So be warned! He is extremely angry, extremely, dangerous, a lot stronger than before, and in search of Lady, and will not stop until he retrieves her!"
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Post by Lady Christianna on Dec 3, 2018 8:21:26 GMT
What had been a seamless surface in the side of the crashed Synth airship suddenly pulled back to form a perfectly round hole just big enough to allow Lady Christianna and Atticus Batman egress inside. They entered a huge cavernous chamber that appeared to be larger inside than outside, all white, smooth, and rounded without corners. However, all over the floor were littered the inert bodies of Synth crewmen. If scanned, they would indicate a glimmer of life but that would be all.
In the center of the room was a series of rounded platforms one on top of the others so it appeared as a series of steps. At the top stood a purple skinned synth woman in long white flowing robes next to a round pedestal with a synth head with long blonde hair sitting upon it who stopped singing, "I ain't got no body" once Atticus and Lady entered the chamber.
"Hey Bat-people! Pardon me for not getting up and shaking your hand, but I seem to have misplaced my body," The Synth Sister Yvette, her head on the pedestal, said drunkenly and then giggled.
"Greetings and salutations Protectors," Said the other Synth Sister on the platform, Whitney, who on closer examination one could see that the purple hue of her skin was caused by a purple energy that glowed from within her whole body.
*****
Meanwhile in a hologram room in Fortress K'shaa, Sandy Bell Uljanov on her surfboard caught a perfect wave riding the curl for some time as her daughter Jalina sat on her own surfboard watching in awe. Belle Star had found a beach ball and was having fun running in the surf tossing and catching it as she went.
*****
Young Micfi Newlo sighed as she sat across from Dr. Wolfram Von Eschen in his office and asked in a bored voice, "Can I go now if we are not going to play out the Lolita scene? You're not any fun."
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Post by Atticus Batman on Dec 4, 2018 12:16:08 GMT
"Hey Bat-people! Pardon me for not getting up and shaking your hand, but I seem to have misplaced my body," The Synth Sister Yvette, her head on the pedestal, said drunkenly and then giggled.
"Greetings and salutations Protectors," Said the other Synth Sister on the platform, Whitney, who on closer examination one could see that the purple hue of her skin was caused by a purple energy that glowed from within her whole body.
I replied with, "Yes Yvette it does appear that you certainly got aHEAD of your body at some point. However I am sure the Constantines will be glad to hear that you are at least alive and in relatively good spirits given the situation."
Then as I slowly climbed the steps towards WHitney as Lady continued to absent-mindedly hold my hand, I replied to Whitney with, "Thank you Whitney. Greetings to the two of you Synth-Sisters as well. Lady was quite insistant that you need our help. So would you mind telling us what took your ship down, why you are glowing with some sort of Omec energy, and why Lady isn't quite herself? Of course I already have my suspicions on the latter. However as you and your sisters have already proven on several occasions that you are indeed loyal and trustworthy friends and allies, I would rather have you help us figure that out while we help with your issues here, instead of following my usual routine at dealing with matters that trigger my paranoia."
Meanwhile in a hologram room in Fortress K'shaa, after Sandy had suggested the Volleyball game could wait until later since Volodja was busy, Sandy instead suggested giving Atika those surf lessons she had requested when Jalina had first come up with this holo-visit. So Atika eagerly agreed. However being the teenagers they wore Atika and Jalina took a while picking out just the 'right' surfboard. So Sandy had of course taken that time to grab her own board and get into the water while Belle looked for a volleyball for later.
Sandy Bell Uljanov on her surfboard caught a perfect wave riding the curl for some time as her daughter Jalina sat on her own surfboard watching in awe. Belle Star had found a beach ball and was having fun running in the surf tossing and catching it as she went. After Atika picked out her board, she placed it near the water, so that when Sandy returned to land to give her some quick lessons, it was ready for her to just grab it and go. Then after watching Sandy surfing for a few minutes, Atika rushed over to Belle and joined her in tossing the volleyball back and forth in the surf with her EGO-friend, Kelina, grabbing her own board and going out to try surfing for herself.
Elsewhere in the holo-suite Attila and Ganbaatar (Gan for short) were walking down the beach enjoying the odd sights as they looked for their friends. Eventually the came across Volodja Uljanov and his aunt, Lady Agatha Tupper-ware. So Attila said, "Hello VOlo and Lady Agatha is it? I see Gan and I are late to the beach party. So can either of you tell me where we can find my sister or at least give us an idea of something fun to do. We don't exactly have much in the way of beaches back in the 'Wilds' of Mongolia...and even if we did, I doubt we would play at them considering even our own forests literally tried to eat us on a very regular basis."
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Post by Wolfram von Eschen on Dec 4, 2018 18:51:30 GMT
Wolfram von Eschen stretched himself. It brought along some serious clicking cracking and tacking sounds from his joints but he wasn't mind because he felt relieved. Micfi Newlo turned out to be less persistent on her seduction attempts than Dolores Haze was with Humbert Humbert so Wolfram begun to feel less tense.
"Who is Humbert Humbert?" asked Sigmund's voice inside his head. "And who is Lolita?"
"Oh. I forgot that Vladimir Nabokov wrote this book, called "Lolita" after your time," said Wolfram to his EGO psyche and chuckled before adding: "For your information - Nabokov was an Anti Freudian as an intelligent human being can be and the only positive thing he said about you was his remark: "I admire Freud greatly as a comic writer." I suggest you find a copy of his collected works and read the criticism."
Sigmund muttered something unintelligible (probably some personal remarks about Wolfram von Eschen and that Nabokov) and went to study Wolfram's memories about Nabokov, giving him a chance to talk with Micfi.
"I believe that you are free to go whenever you want to," said Wolfram to little Castithan girl. Quite softly compared his usual rasp manner, because he actually cared about Micfi.
"Before you do that allow me to bore you with some talk, because I do feel that I owe you an explanation about my behaviour. I'd like to believe that your intentions were good and my hesitation wasn't caused by your unattractiveness or lack of charm or something similar. You do are a quite charming girl, Micfi. But just like you, I bear my inheritance of experience and you can believe me when I say that my cultural burden is a bit heavier and comes from the different age where relations between people were more common than now when everything seems to be permitted. That inheritance influences me even after the shit hit the fan with the Pale Wars and everything else that followed. And that is the reason why my reaction was rigid. I guess that I am not an Inquisitor material after all because I just can't seize an opportunity if it might mean taking advantage of someone. Now you may go if you want to."
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Post by Lena Marr on Dec 5, 2018 7:17:52 GMT
Micfi Newlo smiled at the old psychiatrist with sparkling golden eyes as the young Castithan girl answered, "Not being Inquisitor material is not a bad thing Wolfram! And Castithan women are easily the most sensual on the planet, even at my age! My intentions were anything but good by the way and my offer still goes if you change you mind. Still... I admire that you stick to your guns," Micfi giggled suddenly adding, "Although I guess I'll never see your gun! Ah well, my loss! Your's too!"
The laughing young girl jumped out of her chair running around the desk and seizing his large wizened pink hand with her small smooth chalk white one and pulling him up from his seat exclaiming excitedly, "Off to the beach! You're coming too! I want to see what they wore to swim in in the olden days!"
*****
In the Forbidden Zone, another older Castithan woman crawled on top of her vehicle and yelled to the pseudo-Batman, "Hey, Lena Marr here! Remember me? Whatchadoing over there!"
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Post by Atticus Batman on Dec 5, 2018 13:02:12 GMT
In the Forbidden Zone, another older Castithan woman crawled on top of her vehicle and yelled to the pseudo-Batman, "Hey, Lena Marr here! Remember me? Whatchadoing over there!" As The Bat Messiah stalked past the Garilu he growled condescendingly, "Why would a GOD, THE MOST POWERFUL GOD, bother remembering a mere mortal peasant-girl?....Wait I think I do remember you. The memory is cloudy, must be from suddenly waking in this odd place but...didn't I almost kill you recently, back in some wretched Sensoth fishing village before I gutted that insolent human BITCH that tried to stop me from claiming MY Lady back then?! Yes I do remember now! The attractive Castithan wench that wouldn't be the second in my harem, behind MY Lady and first-chosen-mate! You would rather pine over some half-dead human while trying to stop me from my destiny to rule all as I crush the weak and inferior beneath my bloody boots! I do NOT have time for this! So wench, your current choices are either to stay over there out of my way, join the harem of The ONLY GOD of importance in this age, or be crushed under the heel of The ONLY GOD of importance!___ ___And you better decide in the next few seconds, BEFORE I grow tired of this attempted distraction and just kill you and your friends, then continue on my path anyway, for I NEED to go find MY Lady and it sounds like some clone-or-doppelganger-or-some-such-thing is impersonating me to try to beat me to her in hopes that tricking The Lady of THE Bat Messiah into believing they are truly me will further help their ill-advised scheme to replace me, while some stupid-assed sirens call in the frequency-of-the-Gods to try to further corrupt MY Lady against me! The sirens are of no consequence for it is ALWAYS their destiny to bow to the will of the Gods even if they must be VERY-PAINFULLY reminded of that on occasion! However THAT idiot doppelganger must either be extremely brave or extremely foolish or both to try such things because.... (now snapping in a very loud, vehemently venomous and self-important tone of godly arrogance) THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE TRUE GOD AND LORD OF DEATH! AND THAT IS ME, AND MY LADY IS MY GODDESS AND MINE ALONE, AND NONE WILL EVER TAKE MY PLACE, OR TAKE HER FROM ME!! NO MATTER WHAT THEY MAY THINK!!! SO THIS IMPOSTOR WILL BE DEALT WITH FORTHWITH!!!! THEN I WILL SHOW THIS WORLD THAT THIS IS THE ERA OF THE BAT MESSIAH, AND ALL WHO STAND IN MY WAY WILL COWER BEFORE MY HEEL OR BE CRUSHED UNDER IT; FOR I AM DARKNESS, DEATH AND FEAR INCARNATE AND ALL WILL BOW BEFORE ME OR DIE!!!!!!!"
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Post by Lena Marr on Dec 6, 2018 8:01:59 GMT
Inside the crashed Synth aircraft, the purple energized Synth Whitney said with a slight smile to Atticus Batman, "Greetings and salutations Protectors." Whitney's Synth-Sister Yvette, or at least her head, exclaimed, "Yeah Whitney doesn't have a huge vocabulary since the Olmec machine absorbed her. I think she put herself into a feedback loop to try and protect her positronic brain. probably should either ask her simple specific questions or just ask me, although I'm not directly linked to anything going on here - except this life-support contraption I'm sitting on." ***** Outside the crashed Synth aircraft, Lena Marr winked at her lover Marcel Lestrange in the tank before hopped off it to follow the Bat-Messiah quipping with a wicked grin, "Sure, I'll join your harem. I always like to be on the winning team. Besides, Lady is my BFF so I don't mind being second to her - and you know what they say about being second, we try harder! Speaking of hard, is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me! Seriously though, what's the specific plan here when we catch up to Lady and that Bat-imposter?"
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Post by Marcel Lestrange on Dec 6, 2018 9:31:36 GMT
Marcel Lestrange gritted his teeth. He did not wanted to let his beloved Lena go there alone. Actually he preferred a way which exclusively excluded Lena going with the crazed Bat but at moment there was not any on the horizon. Count Casannuendo listened those noises for awhile but when he noticed that after an inner battle Marcel is getting up to follow his lover, he put his hand on Marcel's shoulder and told him:
"One aspect about the harem culture is the fact that most of males who are allowed to enter seraglio have to pass a certain simple removal surgery. After that they aren't exactly males any more. I believe that you know whom I refer to. But if Mosieur is willing, then I can offer my help with the operation."
"And what joy can I offer to Lena after that? The idea is as useless as a Liberata basketball player. Except if you are willing to volunteer, Count. You already have prerequisites met."
"What kind of prerequisites?" asked Casannuendo threateningly.
"First of all you have an Italian name like all great castrates have. Farinelli. Moreschi. Casannuendo. I do not see much difference here."
"Generalisations! Especially when I don't sing!" snapped Casannuendo angrily. "But I understand your present feelings and that is why I suggest to search for alternative methods which aren't as elegant. Like using our little tank to ram that elephant. That should hold him down until things calm down. Should we give it a try?"
"Sounds tempting," Marcel agreed. "Really tempting. Turn the engine on!"
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Post by Volodja Uljanov on Dec 6, 2018 11:39:40 GMT
"We have sand. Then we have more sand. And then we have even more sand," said Aunt Agatha to the young Irathient. "And then we have a grown up man who spends his time building sand castles which is more suitable activity for infants (long look towards Volodja who sustained Agatha's glance like a decently built wave breaker) instead of providing his poor aunt with something to eat and drink despite of knowing that bathing makes me hungry. At least the weather is better than in Brighton during the last season." "Madame," said the deep voice of Smedley. "I took the liberty to leave while you were having a conversation with young Master Volodja and raided the kitchen. Here are the results." And Smedley showed the picnic basket. "We have a bottle of Bollinger, some gorgonzola and ham sandwiches. If you give me a minute, then I will set the table." "At least someone seems to know how to spend the time correctly and does something useful," said Aunt Agatha. "Although I would avoid using words "we have", when bystanders are included, because the correct form happens to be "I have" which also means that others have their share if I decide so. Volodja, for example, can bake some sand cake, since he likes to play with sand so much." "In that case," said Volodja seriously. "You don't leave me no other choice than organize an alternative event - a beach barbecue for those who aren't allowed to your table."
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Post by Atticus Batman on Dec 6, 2018 13:30:06 GMT
Inside the crashed Synth aircraft, the purple energized Synth Whitney said with a slight smile to Atticus Batman, "Greetings and salutations Protectors." Whitney's Synth-Sister Yvette, or at least her head, exclaimed, "Yeah Whitney doesn't have a huge vocabulary since the Olmec machine absorbed her. I think she put herself into a feedback loop to try and protect her positronic brain. probably should either ask her simple specific questions or just ask me, although I'm not directly linked to anything going on here - except this life-support contraption I'm sitting on." I sighed and said to the talking head, "Very well then Yvette! As you were the last one I saw with Lady, and your sister is obviously quite out of it due to her...what I would call drunken reaction to more energy than she can handle, perhaps I should be talking to you anyway. Let's see...Let's start with the obvious questions though they aren't at the top of the list of my concerns just yet. How did you and Lady end up on this ship? Why was she and the Chaos-Demon dropped into the Forbidden ZOne? WHat caused your ship to crash and disabled the whole crew? Why is your All-Father not able to just assume controle of them and start repairs, when he has proven plenty of times that he has such capabilities? Obviously the more important questions are; Are you and the crew alright? Will your sister be alright? What caused the activation of the Omec Machines that obviously took possession of Whitney? Why did they take possession of her, and what do we and the other Paradise Protectors outside do to stop it...without killing your sister if possible? Now to what personally concerns me. Lady is a lot stronger than I remember and is obviously in a trance-like state. She heard the cries of help from all you Synth in here, and as far as I know only other Synth created by your All-Father have that capability. Her power signature is much closer to the Omec energies running through your sister than they are the singularity bomb that granted her said powers. So obviously this isn't the real Lady. So the question is, just what the hell have you and your sister done with her? And just how the hell did she and WHitney both get subjected to so much of that Omec energy, when you and your deactivated crewmen don't seem to be affected by it?! Perhaps you can also tell me why I sense a highly concentrated form of it coming towards your wrecked ship from the direction 'Lady' and I came from?!"
Outside the crashed Synth aircraft, Lena Marr winked at her lover Marcel Lestrange in the tank before hopped off it to follow the Bat-Messiah quipping with a wicked grin, "Sure, I'll join your harem. I always like to be on the winning team. Besides, Lady is my BFF so I don't mind being second to her - and you know what they say about being second, we try harder! Speaking of hard, is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me! Seriously though, what's the specific plan here when we catch up to Lady and that Bat-imposter?" Turning both of his palms up with his arms still by his sides, summoning angrily-glowing-dark-red energy balls in both his hands, The Bat-Messiah replied with, "Wench I have no need for guns as it appears that while I was unconscious I gained some delightfully destructive new abilities. However do not flatter yourself for I am NEVER happy about anything except mass death and destruction!" Then he continued with, "As for my plan concerning the bat-impostor, it is not a matter that someone of your lowly stature should be concerned with. However I will answer anyway since you can do nothing about it. I pull MY Lady away from that fake bastard and pulverize him into bat-dust! Then those sirens will be put in their places. If they can't learn their place, then they will be put down permanently. If they learn and take their place at my heel where they belong, then they live. Of course after gaining such wonderful powers which will show my superiority when I crush my doppelganger, I am an a decent enough mood that if the sirens prove deserving, I may even offer them lower positions in my harem. What God would want Sirens that can manipulate the Lady of a God working beneath him and responding to his EVERY whim?! Now woman! You are neither my equal nor my first-mate so get behind your Lord where you belong! And know this if your scheming interferes with me in any way you WILL die as will that human you once pined over! The same goes for whoever is in your vehicle if they interfere!!!" As if right on cue, the Garilu being piloted by Marcel and Count Cassanuendo accelerated forward. Spinning around to see the vehicle barreling at him, The Bat-Messiah very roughly hip-bumped Lena knocking her away from him. Then he hurled the two energy balls, in his hands, at the Garilu. They both struck the rover, but after it's shields temporarily fluctuated the came back on and held. Then in a split-second more the rover was slamming int the Bat-Messiah. Using his new-found strength he leaned into it to try to stop it. However as Bat-fought-machine, the Bat-Messiah's armor (including his helmet that slammed into the accelerating vehicle)started cracking under the pressure. After seconds of fighting to push it back or stop it, while Marcel kept increasing the Garilu's acceleration, the Bat-Messiah finally side-stepped out of it's path. Then as it went past him, he angrily hurled lighting-bolts-like-javelins at it. After several struck it, they acted like an EMP and temporarily shut down all of the Garilu's electronic systems. As the Bat-Messiah angrily advanced towards the rover, he pealed the completely shattered helmet off his face. Then glancing over at Lena as she got up and dusted herself of, the Bat-Messiah noticed her look of shock. So he glanced at the helmet remains in his hands and realized that when his helmet had been crushed by the force of the oppressive rover, parts of it obviously got embedded in his skin. So when he peeled it off, parts of his face came with it, though he hadn't felt any pain from it. Then turning back towards the Garilu and moving with angry purpose toward it's now-immobile form, he caught his reflection in the shiny exterior of the Garilu's hull. The face staring back at him was half-man-and-half-machine. After seconds of staring at his reflection in first shock-then-awe, The Lord Death laughed maniacally before saying, "Ahh! I get it now! No wonder the Assassin's (Kabule's) and the Harbinger of Fool's voices have been silent since I awoke, and here I thought those annoying sirens were merely so loud they drowned those two infidels out! Don't you see?! The impostor is one of the sneaky bastards that have been fighting for years to keep me from rising from their ashes...and in my own flesh-and-blood body-at-that, while they somehow transferred my consciousness into this mechanized one! The joke's on them! While they still possess that inferior mortal body, I have now completely transcended mortality! Now that they gave me a stronger and more powerful and immortal body just so they could continue to share those mortal confines, I WILL show them my undeniable dominance as I crush them into the ground while MY Lady watches on and comes to the realization, on her own, that she should indeed be by the side of an all-powerful god and NOT that mortal Assicus-fool that has thwarted my attempts at control only with the help of....our brother, the Kafool! How could he think Kafool could ever truly protect him?! I will show them both that the wrong one was given the position of protector when I crush them both!!!" Then glancing back at Lena, the Bat-Messiah continued with, "Obviously whoever is in that vessel does NOT want you in my harem! I do not know if it is that pathetic human you wanted last we met, or some other friend of yours and I do not care! Obviously I SHOULD crush them for interfering with their God but...obviously they did me a favor by further revealing the truth of my brothers' deceptions to me! So your friends may live awhile longer! I have 'family matters' that must be dealt with before anything else after all!" With that the Bat-Messiah walked past the temporarily-disabled Garilu, and as he continued towards the wrecked ship, he lifted a fist and conjuring energy through it, he flipped the Garilu off with an angry-red-electrical-finger.
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Post by Attila Constantine on Dec 6, 2018 13:51:13 GMT
"We have sand. Then we have more sand. And then we have even more sand," said Aunt Agatha to the young Irathient. "And then we have a grown up man who spends his time building sand castles which is more suitable activity for infants (long look towards Volodja who sustained Agatha's glance like a decently built wave breaker) instead of providing his poor aunt with something to eat and drink despite of knowing that bathing makes me hungry. At least the weather is better than in Brighton during the last season." Attila replied with, "Well if he is building sand-castles, then at least we know where he is. Afterall I may like our Commander Volo, but in the few months that my sister and I have been here I have noticed he seems to have been born under a wandering star and normally can never stay still for more than a few minutes." "Madame," said the deep voice of Smedley. "I took the liberty to leave while you were having a conversation with young Master Volodja and raided the kitchen. Here are the results." And Smedley showed the picnic basket. "We have a bottle of Bollinger, some gorgonzola and ham sandwiches. If you give me a minute, then I will set the table." "At least someone seems to know how to spend the time correctly and does something useful," said Aunt Agatha. "Although I would avoid using words "we have", when bystanders are included, because the correct form happens to be "I have" which also means that others have their share if I decide so. Volodja, for example, can bake some sand cake, since he likes to play with sand so much." "In that case," said Volodja seriously. "You don't leave me no other choice than organize an alternative event - a beach barbecue for those who aren't allowed to your table." Attila said to Volodja, "Well since it looks like my sister is busy over there surfing and playing catch with Belle and the others, I think Gan and I will help you. Although if you do accept our help, I can not guarantee that we will not add Irathient or Mongolian fares to your barbecue menu as they are both so much better than most of this American food that we have tried in the Mess."
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Post by Lena Marr on Dec 8, 2018 5:25:44 GMT
Outside the crashed Synth airship in the Forbidden Zone, Lena Marr thought to herself, "Why do big bads always talk so much? It's soooo easy to buy time!"
Then Lena said to the bat-Messiah, "Yeah, those guys in the tank are beneath your notice, total losers, most ex-s are,! So, your whole plan is to challenge the original Batman, grab his wife - okay your wife, it gets a bit confusing without a flow chart - and then... do what? And what if HE wins? He's a pretty tricky opponent, believe me! Aren't you curious What all that energy in the crater and infusing the Synth ship is all about? What if you could harness that energy? Old Bat-Boogie wouldn't have a chance! Of course, you probably couldn't absorb all that energy noway nohow!"
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Inside the crashed Synth airship in the Forbidden Zone, the Synth-Sister Yvette's blonde head began to spin on it's pedestal as she laughed and her amber eyes grew wide when they stopped as she exclaimed, "So many questions Atticus, you make my head spin!"
The purple energized Synth-Sister Whitney said with a slight smile to Atticus Batman, "Greetings and salutations Protectors."
Yvette fluttered her long eyelashes and grinned before retorting, "Yeah, yeah Whitney, put a cork in it! Okay Atticus, as to your questions: How did you and Lady end up on this ship? We were rescued outside The Crater when we thought it might actually become a very, very large crater. Why was she and the Chaos-Demon dropped into the Forbidden Zone? Tank was too big to bring aboard our airship, so it was being carried in a tractor beam, although Lady and me were teleported aboard. What caused your ship to crash and disabled the whole crew? Not sure, but I'd bet it had something to do with all this Olmec energy here. Forbidden Zone wasn't on our navigation map and to cross it was the fastest way to our colony near here. Why is our All-Father not able to just assume control of them and start repairs, when he has proven plenty of times that he has such capabilities? The All-Father was possessing the Synth pilot of this crate when the shit hit the fan. My best guess is he met a power greater than his, although that kind of frightens me. Are you and the crew alright? Alright is a relative term. Inert is a better term. We're as alive as Synths ever are, but operating at a very low level of energy. I'm able to function in a more coherent way because all I have to keep going is my pretty blonde head. None of us can keep this going forever so, yeah, if you are asking will we 'die' if something isn't done soon, the the answer is yes. Will your sister be alright? Don't know. What caused the activation of the Omec Machines that obviously took possession of Whitney? Don't know but maybe... naw, never mind, that idea is just... silly! Why did they take possession of her, and what do we and the other Paradise Protectors outside do to stop it...without killing your sister if possible? Shit if I know."
Looking sad, Yvette took a breath even though she didn't have any lungs before continuing to answer Atticus' questions, "What the hell have you and your sister done with her? You guessed right, this Lady is a Synth - new kind, really sophisticated, Whitney could explain the science but that's not my thing. The real Lady is with Ruby in our colony in Sacramento. How the hell did she and Whitney both get subjected to so much of that Omec energy, when you and your deactivated crewmen don't seem to be affected by it? Again, don't know - but I suspect it has something to do with the Olmec machinery down in that crater. Why do you sense a highly concentrated form of it coming towards our wrecked ship from the direction 'Lady' and I came from? I'm betting it has to do with that selfsame Olmec machinery."
Yvette grinned mischievously but stating frankly, "You go any booze? All this talking is making me mighty thirsty. Or am I getting ahead of myself - get it, ahead of myself!"
Yvette's head began to laugh echoing throughout the ship for what seemed to be a very long time.
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