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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 4:37:46 GMT -5
Slowly, a group is forming to protect the world... from something. Catch is, they don't know what. And at the center is the engimatic scientist of Chicago, Dr. Cromwell.
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Post by GM on Mar 16, 2006 13:22:27 GMT -5
OOG: i have clothes in my human form right.
i walk out of the shrine and say to cromwell "there im human now can i leave". If i do not have clothing than i ask for some. I use aura sight to get a rough feel for this cromwell guy (i can see monsters mission in life so it should work pretty much the same with humans right?)
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 13:51:53 GMT -5
OOG: Not at the moment, you don't. And you're not aware you need any. And yes, Aura Sight will give you a general glimpse into their alignment.
Cromwell says, "God, man, cover your shame! Here, upstairs there's a room. It has a wooden tall boxy like structure with all sorts of things you can pull out called a 'dresser', that has some things in it. You need something like this, this and this", Cromwell says, pointing respectively to a shirt, pants and socks. "You need to put them on your body. Come back down here." He takes out a small boxy thing and puts it to his ear. "Jones." The phone rings.
Meanwhile: Jericho Jones is out doing whatever he does normally when he hears his cell phone's ringtone. It's Dr. Cromwell!
Cromwell seems to be a science-above-all type of guy. His service to Gaia seems genuine. In monster terms, he reads that he's Benevolent, but Ghidora has found that most humans do read Benevolent because most humans like to at least think they're good people.
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Post by GM on Mar 16, 2006 14:10:42 GMT -5
go up get clothed and come back down saying "like this right" pointing to myself to make sure i am dressed right.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 15:56:58 GMT -5
"The shirt's on backwards, you need to button the pants - you do this" (he makes the motion and points vaguely at the upper part of the pants while he continues to look through his microscope), "you put the wrong shoes on the wrong foot and I'm sure your feet are telling you it, and... Yes! Amazing!" He takes some notes.
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Post by josephkerr on Mar 16, 2006 19:54:35 GMT -5
*Flips out his cell* "Hey Dr. Crom, what's up?"
*Playing the latest version of Herioc Fighters X*
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 19:57:33 GMT -5
"I just got a marlin, here." That's code for "I succeeded at scale alteration and teleportation." "So I need you, if you wouldn't terribly mind, to... escort him around. Be a brotha, if you would."
OOG: Mario, if you wish to get immediately to some mass destruction, you may go to the Mayhem Mode section.
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Post by josephkerr on Mar 16, 2006 20:15:43 GMT -5
"Yeah, alright. I'll be there in a few, adios"
*Hangs up, finishes the current opponent, and then takes off to meet up with Dr. Crom*
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 20:22:34 GMT -5
Does Jones take the bus, a car, a bike, walk, subway, etc.?
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Post by josephkerr on Mar 16, 2006 20:59:27 GMT -5
*Jericho hooks up at the BART, taking it to Dr. Crom's area*
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Post by GM on Mar 16, 2006 21:09:31 GMT -5
ghidora fixes his clothing and says "whats amazing".
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 21:14:00 GMT -5
wikitravel.org/en/ChicagoJericho steps onto the El [sorry, the BART is another city], seeing the pretty standard group of bus or subway people (the cat lady, the homeless, the thugs). A few people recognize Jericho and wave at him: His Reputation insures that he's fairly popular. The ride goes without incident, except for a bumpy section which leads to someone saying, "The subways just never have been as good as they were in my days..." The typical diatribe of the old settles in. He now comes to the Evanston lab of Dr. Cromwell. Though Cromwell believes he should stay in "the 'hood" to keep money and people in it, he nonetheless has been forced to perform some of his more esoteric experiments near the Northwestern University. Most of the time, Jones just lets himself in. Meanwhile, Cromwell says, "Oh, you wouldn't understand. I just discovered that I can increase the size of certain bacteria... But the cellular membrane only has so much strength. You see, there are laws of proportions... Well, that's a long speech."
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Post by josephkerr on Mar 16, 2006 21:20:37 GMT -5
*Promptly lets himself in, heading up to the good Doctors labratory* "Hey, Dr. Crom? What's all this about getting a 'marlin'?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 21:31:06 GMT -5
"Hey, Jonesy. In the fridge there's some fried rice and General's chicken - finish that chink shit off." He reaches into the fridge and drinks a beer, the camoflaged door in the narrow hallway leading to his lab wide open, something he rarely does. "Lord Ghidora, please, come up here!"
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Post by josephkerr on Mar 16, 2006 21:38:27 GMT -5
"Don't mind if i do!" *Quickly snaring the food, munches happily.*
*Attempting to speak with a mouth full of generals chicken* "Larhd..-ghiwhorda?"
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Post by GM on Mar 16, 2006 22:40:51 GMT -5
i walk up into the room where the cromwell and his guest are and say "ghidora and you would be".
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 17, 2006 0:10:59 GMT -5
Suddenly, a sound like a toilet being flushed combined with a vacuum being turned on comes below. A deep and loud voice reverberates throughout the house. "Wheeeeeerrrrrreeeee ammmmmm IIIIII?"
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Post by josephkerr on Mar 17, 2006 1:11:35 GMT -5
*Continues munching on the food while raising an eyebrow at Ghidora, then almost chokes as the noises start up and the voice rings out*
"-Gack!..uh..who the hell is that?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 17, 2006 2:59:57 GMT -5
Cromwell says, "Huh. I didn't do anything there..."
The voice says the same thing again. Cromwell begins to head down.
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Post by GM on Mar 17, 2006 12:57:56 GMT -5
ghidora heads down enough to see whats going in if it looks dangerous (such as another monster or someone meaning harm, ill use aura sight if i have to) i will go to gaia and ill say "mother i need my powers give me my strength but keep me this size so to not kill these people but so i can protect them, me, and you mother gaia". (i mean turn me back to how i was when i first got here).
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 17, 2006 15:14:47 GMT -5
The transformation to the miniature Ghidora may not be necessary. The thing inside of the cage that once held Ghidora is certainly bizarre. At first glance, it looks like a humanoid whale, particularly a blue whale (one of the few creatures that Ghidora actually fears, as a hundred meters of fat travelling at fifty miles per hour in pairs or small herds is nothing to wink at): thick, blubbery body; colossal almost club-like hands and arms; legs that appear short and stubby yet are deceptively long and powerful; a simply massive fin-tail. Yet the distinctions are obvious: There are shelves of coral and strands of plants and bizarre life all over its body, almost a living ecosystem, which appears to have dual functions as the poisons and sharp edges are rampant, and its dorsal fin while currently retracted seems to be able to form into a colossal bladed edge. In addition, there are pores that at this size seem small yet must be colossal once fully sized that seem to be like the air propulsion of a squid. One wonders how this thing could survive exclusively on krill as a baleen feeder, yet its teeth are not those of a carnivore's but rather herbivorous. (Well, Ghidora doesn't wonder that, but Cromwell sure mentions it when he comes down after Ghidora and thinks aloud in the classic mad scientist vein).
Aura Sight turns up that the creature is Benevolent, has 0 Notoriety, and the following attribute spread:
Strength - 9 Firepower - 10 Speed - 9 Agility - 2 Intelligence - 6 Willpower - 3 Reputation - 5 Endurance - 10
It has a 4 point disadvantage: Despite its human speech, it talks very, very slowly, like a whale's song.
The creature now says, "Whooooooo areeee yooooouuu? Whyyyy ammmm IIIII nootttt innn the.... blueeeee? Myyyyyy....." (it seems to struggle to find a word) "...chiiilllddreeen aaaaaaree thiiiirssstyyy...."
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Post by GM on Mar 17, 2006 18:40:01 GMT -5
Ghidora thinks to himself "it isnt evil but still just to be on the safe side perhaps i should go to gaia anyway and let this cromwell person deal with him till I get back". Go to gaia and do the original plan, come back to where this whale thing is and say to cromwell "did you summon this one too how many of them are you going to try to shove in here before we bring this place down around our ears".
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 17, 2006 18:58:56 GMT -5
"Hey, man, I don't know why the hell this thing turned on! Remember when I said it was a fluke you came through? God, cut a brother a break!"
The whale says, "Whoooooseeeee broooothhheeer arrreeee youuuu? Annnnddddd whyyyy ddddiiiiidddd thaaaaattt maaaaan beeeecooome aaaaaa.... coooloosssus? Diiiidddd Gaaaiiiiaaa speaaaak to yooou?"
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Post by GM on Mar 17, 2006 19:10:59 GMT -5
"I believe it has something to do with what gaia said to me thats why your thing has been turning on without your consent".
turn to this creature "yes i have spoken to mother gaia are you one of the ones she talked to also do you have a name".
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 17, 2006 20:08:55 GMT -5
"Yeah, that makes sense though it is a bit blatant, but then it wouldn't be my fault, would it?"
"I waaaaasssss caaaaallllleeedd... Byyyyyy theeeeeee suuuuuurrrrrfaaacceeee doooolllpphiiiinnnnsss... Roookoootssu."
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Post by josephkerr on Mar 18, 2006 1:51:07 GMT -5
*After following Crom down, and seeing the whale creature* "Woah..you were able to do it..."
*After Ghidora comes back in monster form* "Holy crap?! Him too!?"
"Crom, you have got to tell me what the hell is going on, Gaia, Rokotsu...wtf?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 18, 2006 6:48:25 GMT -5
"Hey, Jonesy, I'm as confused as you, pretty much." Jones knows that Cromwell, while being pretty areligious and scientific, has a sort of vague worshipping of nature and the Earth as a deity, viewing himself pretty much as a Gaian. He also knows Cromwell has been working on, among other things, scale alteration, particularly of biological creatures. (You see, there are a host of things that happen with proportionality. Like the whole "Proportional strength of a spider" thing. Its stupid, because the way force and muscles work a small creature like that can lift disproportionately more weight: it's nothing special about the spider, it's precisely about the size of the spider. Or why elephants have thick legs and insects thin ones: because, supposedly, volume increases as the cube but bone density increases only by the square since the relevant number is the bone's cross section, so a smaller creature will have disproportionately smaller legs. Heck, that's why insects drown: water has a finite surface tension, so insects either float on top of it or, when submerged, can't get out.)
Rokotsu says, "Caaaaannnnn IIIIIIII beeeeeee leeeeetttt ooooooooouuttt?" Cromwell says, "Ah, shit, yeah, okay." He again opens the side of the cage. Rokotsu wanders outwards. Closer up its colossal eyes have a strange sadness to them, the same deep ocean of serenity and melancholy of any whale. It then sees something in the corner, a white light, and goes over to it. A portal appears for a moment, and the creature comes back out as a very, very big man of an ethnicity difficult to identify. "He...llo.", it says, still speaking slowly, as if great import were placed on every one of its words.
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Post by GM on Mar 22, 2006 14:40:28 GMT -5
"you know i think i will stay like this for a bit just in case any more of us show up unless you have a problem with that cromwell". Looks at the food in jones hands and says "you know actually you disrupted my meal i think i will have to turn back if anything so i can eat your human food" (ghidora exisists entierly on fish but can eat other raw things).
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 22, 2006 14:52:05 GMT -5
"Myy friends are huungry.", Rokotsu says.
Cromwell shrugs. "I want you guys to start walking around. You'll need to be accustomized to this city and to humanity, not to mention that providence may place you where you need to be. And I can make some food: Black eyed peas, rice and country-fried steak sound good to y'all?"
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Post by GM on Mar 23, 2006 13:14:56 GMT -5
"i suppose so" ghidora turns to rokotsu "what do you mean your friends are hungry and what did you mean by your children are thirsty" goes back to shrine and says "i wish to assume my human form mother gaia".
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