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The next SPAMOVERLORD update will be written entirely in couplets.

Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on December 17, 2018, 08:55:14 pm

Cuan Jucharadorismo de la Plata fires on the mutinous captain. All hail Lord Iridium!

I shoot Jucharadorismo as soon as I see him aim.

You're currently in the room, he respawned in the ship.

Parrot action now, ship action later:

Have the parrot glass Jacob and make off with the Key+glove! (2 Willpower)

"SQUAWWWWWWWK!!!! SQUAWWWWWWK!!!"

Roll: 1 6 6 → Gone horribly right

The parrot shrieks as it bursts up out of the container. It smashes the glass into Jacob’s face, and he howls and clutches his eyes. His grip on the Key loosens, and the parrot latches on. Miraculously, it manages to pull it off.

Now, at this point it deserves to be mentioned that the Key is a metal gauntlet, and thus rather heavy, while a parrot is a medium sized tropical bird, and thus not particularly apt at carrying heavy objects.

Weighed down by the glove, the parrot immediately pitches downwards and smashes into a piece of rubble on the floor, giving himself a 2nd concussion

KJP has used two willpower
Willpower count
KJP: 3
Glass: 3
Madman: 4

Someone entering now will enter with 14 willpower
KJP has lost the parrot
DM me if you want the parrot

Obtain a Republic warship and loyal crew.

"I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but this vessel has been requisitioned by Lord Iridium. You can pledge your undying loyalty to Him and continue to serve on this ship, or I shall give you a reassignment to the bottom of the Atlantic. Nothing personal, but this is rather important."

Roll: 1 → Epic failure

With Fansworth's permission, if it's given, Fallas and his scientists start the process to revive Anna.

Roll: Irrelevant

Get some troops together and go after Iridium.

Roll: 2 → Failure

---

“That’s it,” says Celling. ‘I’m going after this Iridium character.” Following a quick glance by Jacob, who nods, Celling takes around half the force with him and departs through the hole in the wall.

Iridium, meanwhile, faces little trouble getting to the bridge of the SFN Delos, one of the Republic’s cruisers. He puts a gun to the short, young-looking captain’s head.

“This vessel is being requisitioned by Lord Iridium!” he says over the ship’s intercom. “You can stay and serve me, or you go to the bottom of the Atlantic. Your choice!”

Captain Kenshin Ganara sighs deeply. In one fluid motion, he whirls around, kicks Iridium in the gut, and sends his gun spinning across the floor. Captain Ganara draws his own gun and holds it to Iridium’s head.

“Sorry about that, folks,” he says over the radio. “Shore control, patch me through to Captain Wenton Celling. I have a feeling he has something to do with this “Iridium” character.”

Meanwhile, Fallacy makes preparations for the resurrection. “I’d give her eighty five percent odds,” he notes, popping open a container. There are vials of DNA inside, labeled cat, dog, penguin… “She hasn’t been dead for fifteen minutes, has she? We’ll start in a minute.”

“No, you won’t,” says a voice from the doorway. A balding man dressed in a prison jumpsuit walks up with surprising vigor for his age, fists clenched. “Fallas d’ Florist, are you?”

Fallas turns, utterly unamused. “T. Levin. Aren’t you supposed to be exiled?”

“They let me take one last tour of this place. Maybe atone for my sins in some way.” T. Levin says. He steps up to Fallas’s cart and slams his hand down on the container. “You’re going to inject her with animal DNA.”

“It’s critical to the resurrection process,” says Fallas.

“It is not,” T. Levin states bluntly.

There is an awkward silence before Fallas d’ Florist laughs weakly. “I’m sorry if we don’t believe the very man convicted of creating the Cherub project…”

“And so I have seen the effects of perverting nature, and so I cannot allow it to happen again,” T. Levin states. He points a bony finger at Fallas. “You may not know it, but you’re working off data extrapolated from the Adelie Archive. A series of ancient symbols that we don’t understand at all, but that seem to be central to bodily manipulation in some degree. Symbols which I translated, by the way. I do not know what you are doing, or whether you are being deceptive or merely ignorant, but there is no requirement to use foreign DNA.”

Fallas laughs again and turns to the rest of the group. “Be that as it may, he can’t bring Anna back. I can. And who wouldn’t like the extra senses and faster reflexes conferred by a partial hybridization with-”

“Turn over all your procedures and equipment right now, and I may be able to work another way out,” T. Levin says forcefully. “But continue on your current path, and I will not stand idly by while you twist this girl’s body against her will.”

Post what you do

Have the parrot reappear inside some important box/container carried in by Fallas' throng, possibly displacing the contents into hammerspace if necessary. (1 Willpower)

Roll: 5 1 → Critical success

In the meantime, one of the other scientists opens another container. In it are needles and syringes - and a crumpled up green and blue parrot, clutching a champagne glass.

“Squack?” it calls weakly.

KJP has used one willpower
Everyone gets one willpower from the turn change
Willpower count
KJP: 5
Glass: 3
Madman: 4

Someone entering now will enter with 14 willpower
KJP retains control of the parrot
What would KJP like the parrot to do?

Have the parrot pick up some glass object from hammerspace. (1 Willpower)

Rolls: 4 5 → Critical success!

Opening its claws in the white void, it concentrates and attempts to form a solid object. A moment later, a champagne glass shimmers into existence in his grasp.

KJP has used one willpower
Everyone gains one willpower from the turn change
Willpower count
KJP: 5
Glass: 2
Madman: 3

Someone entering now will enter with 13 willpower
KJP retains control of the parrot. What would KJP like the parrot to do?

-_-

Try to get Jacob to calm the fuck down.

Rolls: 4 5 → Success

Order the men back from the raging lunatic, move in and attempt to calm him down with kind words. I dunno, I'm travelling right now, OK?

Rolls: 6 2 → Failure

Nothing too specific to do, then.
Help Fallas team to move equipment

Roll: 2 → Failure

"Balls. Well, men, you know what to do if things go south."

If Jacob is not calmed down... he gets bullets. If the fighting finally stops, Fallas looks to Fansworth for instructions on who to revive.

Roll: 6 → Gone Horribly Right

Jacob: 3 → Partial success

---

“Get out of here,” Fansworth whispers to his men, before stepping forward to confront Jacob. “Jacob, lower that Key. We don’t mean to hurt you-”

Jacob stumbles backwards, clutching the Key in one hand and raising the other, shaking. “Just as you didn’t mean to hurt Anna?” he asks furiously.

“We didn’t do that,” notes Celling. “That was a rogue associate of mine that we’re going to track down, right now, if you’d help us!”

Jacob seems somewhat convinced of this. The Key’s glow becomes slightly less malevolent as he lowers his hand.

BANG!

A shot sails over his head, cracking into the wall next to him. Fallas, apparently being careless with the trigger, fired the gun that he’d been training on Jacob.

The Key’s red eye flashes brilliantly as Jacob sweeps his hand in a chopping motion, slicing into the brains of everyone inside the room. Red light thunders out of his fingertips and pours into the minds of Celling, Fansworth, and Fallas.

He doesn’t tell them to drop their weapons. He simply removes the idea of holding their guns and the guns clatter to the ground, forgotten. He turns on Fallas, stepping forwards vengefully, then stopping in shock as he reads Fallas’s surface thoughts.

“You… you can save her?” he asks, incredulously.

Post what you do.

Have the parrot enter hammerspace behind the side of the boat (Spend 1 willpower if the action isn't in writing as of the edit timestamp)

Not possible. Are boats thin objects these days?

Parrot should get back to realspace.

6 → Gone Horribly Right

And it sure does!

The parrot rockets out of Hammerspace from an upturned crate of lemons on a ship crossing the Drake Passage. It slams into the guardrail, giving itself a concussion, before flopping off the ship and towards the stormy sea.

Glass has lost control of the parrot
Control of the parrot is up for grabs
Willpower count
KJP: 12
Glass: 1
Madman: 2

Someone entering now will enter with 12 willpower
PM me if you want the parrot