Veiled Malice

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Daisuke's eyes went as wide as they could go. "Mutated... poo?" he squeeked, now holding the arm he'd used to smite the other blob out straight away from his body. "What... how... ewwwwww!"

He really, really didn't need to hear that. "So... um, are you going to take care of that one? Or... leave it for the police?" His silvery eyes glistened as he gave the man the devestating Puppy Dog Eyes and said, "Please don't make me hit it," his voice shaking just right.

"Um... ew," Mashin-kun muttered as he tried to shake the rapidly congealing gunk off of his arm. It was like being covered in that nasty school nacho cheese that grew skin after a couple seconds of sitting still, only it smelled a little better. "This is just going to get into everything, I know it."

He looked over at the last blob, which appeared to be somehow stuck. Since he didn't know if it was still a threat, he jogged over to Knight. "Hey, what's going on over here? Is it already... dead?"

Daisuke caught up the blob... thing... in short order, just a quick hop, skip, and roll over a park bench, making him feel like a real action hero. In fact, he was practically grinning as he lept up and slammed his fist into the blob as he came down.

Hey, I'm still here!

...Kinda... <_< >_>

Daisuke picked himself up out of the crater he'd dug for himself in the pavement, shaking his head to clear it. His clothes were now mostly ruined, from both the bear and the sudden termination of his flight, showing off that he was not exactly human to any casual observer. He would need to work on those landings.

With a short look around, he was happy to see the situation had changed from before. Most of the blob things had blown up, and he took off after the one going for the Zebra.

Okay, so I missed my own deadline, but I at least posted.

Anyway, Mashin-kun now has Flight 5, using 10 of his 14 pp.

Daisuke was rapidly finding out that not all animals were friendly, and he had the bruises, scrapes and fecal stains to prove it. (He didn't even know the ape paddocks were near here) But he was still nowhere close to the place where his new friends were fighting the blobs. By the time he actually got there, the battle would be over, one way or another, and he would have missed the whole thing!

He couldn't have that, be he simply didn't see how he could get there any faster. His legs pumped as hard as they could, and his shoes made smacking sounds as they contacted the pavement... which provided him with something of a clue that something might be wrong when they stopped making a sound. Daisuke looked down, and saw that he was still "running", but his feet weren't touching the ground. In fact, it didn't even seem like his furious motions were making him move at all. Which meant...

"I can fly!" he shouted, elated that he had finally unlocked another one of his idol's powers. With a little push against... whatever, he started rocketing towards the blobs. Unfortunately, it appeared that although he had a fair amount of speed, he had very little in the way of control thus far, which meant that instead of a smooth landing, he was coming in way too quickly. "Look out! Coming through!" he yelled out to whomever might be listening.

Sorry I haven't posted yet. Be assured that it's not that I've forgotten, I just have had a ton of real life crap to deal with.

I'll get to it tomorrow, promise! *crosses fingers*

Soo... I guess Mashin-kun's out of the fight, then. Since it will be over, one way or another, long before he gets there. :(

VM, at his current speed, it'll take Mashin-Kun over five minutes to reach where Mongrel Angel & Wesley Knight are.

Wait a minute, I took that route because you said cutting through the animal paddocks would be faster than going around.

Furthermore, Mashin-Kun, Vigor, and Wesley Knight all soon come to an unpleasant conclusion. The quickest distance between two points is a straight line, but traveling in a straight line between the gate and the zebra area where the blobs are would take them into the black bear's area, the cheetah's area, the lion's area, the snow & spotted leopard's area, and the red panda's area. Crossing into those areas would be tricky in the best of cases, but with the animals becoming agitated due to the presence of blob-monsters, it would likely be very dangerous.

They could take the paths, but that would more than double the time it would take them to reach the area, and by then who knows what could have happened.

Yeah, like that.

Yes! Go Colbert! Take it to those godless bears! :)

He's just ignoring them and hoping for the best, really. But with these super-powered animals, that might not be such a good thing... :(

One-inch thick steel bars have a Toughness of 10 each, 15 for titanium bars, and somewhere in between for high-strength steels. If a bear attacked 'em, they wouldn't be knocking them over like kindling. (And if the bars are electrified, it likely won't keep attacking after the first or second painful jolt.)

What zoos are you going to where the bars are electrified? :shock: I've never even heard of that.

And that's the important thing to remember -- if the animal attacks the cage. Most cages/fences, especially at zoos, aren't there to keep the animals in (because most don't even try to break free), they're there to keep the people out.

Actually, no, it's not. A bear, no matter how large, simply does not have the mechanical strength to cut steel with it's claws. And there are no zoo bars made of titanium, sorry. That is way too expensive, and completely unnecessary to hold anything less than a bulldozer inside a paddock.

On an average toughness roll, which most materials make instead of rolling, the bars would still take a bruise. Three bruises, and those steel bars are disabled. Then the bear is loose. It makes no difference whether a bear would do it, only if it can. And in real life, it simply can't. That's the only thing that should matter.

An engine block made of wood, maybe. A steel engine block would have a Toughness of around 14.

Yeah, I guess you got me there.

And your analogy to a shotgun is a tad flawed, since shooting a cage with a shotgun won't do much to the cage, due to all the wide spaces between the bars Shooting the lock would have a better chance of doing something, but a bear can't/won't target a cage's lock (because it's an animal).

Right, but if you had, say, claws, that would be a lot easier to cut through. And since a bear in real life couldn't possibly do so, it's a little hard to understand.

Besides, I had to have something in this adventure that at least had a chance of hurting you.

And I understand that. But it's weird to think of a bear being able to slice through an engine block, don'tcha think? Anyway, I don't have any real problem with it, it's just odd.

Mashin-kun, falsely believing himself to be invulnerable to the huge bear charging towards him, was both surprised and pained to learn that he was in fact, not. The swat actually hurt him, albeit only a little. Still and all, the pain made him shrink back, hissing in pain and shock.

"" The metal boy blurted out. Unfortunately, his pain made him slip back into Japanese, so unless the bear was originally from Japan somehow, the unintelligible gibberish most people spoke would only be more unintelligible to it.

In the back of his mind, Daisuke knew that wasn't going to do it, so he made a break for the exit, trying to outdistance the bear. Not an especially good move, but he was a city kid. How was he supposed to know bears could run a lot faster than him?

Okay, I'll roll with it, but please realize this: there is no cage on Earth that could hold a bear that could do +8 damage. A shotgun does +5 or 6 at max! And in order for it to be 1200 lbs, it would have to be a Polar bear, or a rediculously huge Brown bear.

Anyway, you took it from the book, so I shall choose to be annoyed at them, not you.

And Maskin-kun is making a break for the exit. All-out movement.

So, just to be clear, the bear is doing as much damage as a Blaster Rifle?!

...Someone should inform PETA they can look after themselves. :shock:

Since the bear can't really hurt him, he'd probably just run past it.

Good thing. I was starting to think it was me! :(

I've done so little on this board lately... :cry:

It's actually pretty cool someone remembered, though. Thanks, Sandman. :)

And Mashin's is... 17. Not bad.

Mashin-kun, either through ignorance of the consequences, or delusions of invulnerablity, (a not entirely unreasonable feeling, given his durabilty) he blundered directly into the animal paddocks without slowing down, charging through them like a quarter-ton engine block on legs. His only thoughts were on reaching the blobs as quickly as possible, and besides, animals were friendly.

Right?

Yes, I'm still here, but I'm afraid I can't continue this game.

Due to unforseen real life problems and a general increase in activity of all kinds, I have to drop this thread. I'm truely sorry about this, and I hate to leave this hanging, but I have severely cut back on free time all over. I barely have the time to get to my long-standing games anymore.

Again, I'm sorry.

Daisuke followed closely after Wesley, trying to keep up even though his shorter legs made it harder. The blobs were up ahead, that much he could tell from the stampeding animals and general chaos, but where? Then he overheard the pretty angel lady call out "zebras" and he had a direction. A muffled thump told him someone was firing something up there, and he redoubled his efforts to get there quickly.