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Author Topic: [ISG] Adventure Guy! - Epilogue  (Read 490058 times)

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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.10
« Reply #1530 on: November 18, 2010, 05:54:59 pm »

Carefully walk into the orb, look out for ambushes.

Ehhh screw that. CHARGE BLINDLY INTO THE ORB.

I whole-heartedly support this. It's never failed us before!

except, you know, when we lost our ARM!!!! it turns out we're a robot but still.

Anyway, go back to sewage room and check to see if water drained... but if the medalion isn't there, wehere would the water draing to... any ideas?
Before doing that: There is a tiny hole in place of one of the posts. Check it out.
I bet that's the hole that was in the dark room.
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.10
« Reply #1531 on: November 18, 2010, 08:16:01 pm »

Carefully walk into the orb, look out for ambushes.

Ehhh screw that. CHARGE BLINDLY INTO THE ORB.

I whole-heartedly support this. It's never failed us before!

except, you know, when we lost our ARM!!!! it turns out we're a robot but still.

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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.10
« Reply #1532 on: November 19, 2010, 01:28:34 am »

Once we do find the water medallion, we must get ahold of fresh water to activate it. This however may or may not be the last thing we want to do, considering we have to prepare for the Monopoly mans return. Which we have not yet.
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I was thinking more along the lines of this legendary champion, all clad in dented and dinged up steel plate, his blood-drenched axe slung over his back, a notch in the handle for every enemy that saw the swing of that blade as the last sight they ever saw, a battered shield strapped over his arm... and a fluffy, pink stuffed hippo hidden discretely in his breastplate.

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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.10
« Reply #1533 on: November 19, 2010, 06:30:34 am »

There's a toggleable pond/moat atop the chimney in the forge, so getting water won't be a problem.
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.11
« Reply #1534 on: November 20, 2010, 01:52:33 pm »

hold/pick up Skree to see if he is familiar with the giant Orb.



Nothing from Skree. He is thoroughly uninterested.

There is a tiny hole in place of one of the posts. Check it out.



One of the posts is missing from its… pedestal, or hole, or whatever. Next to it is a small, somewhat familiar-looking hole in the wall. Hm.

CHARGE BLINDLY INTO THE ORB.



You charge up the ramp and into the large, white, glowing sphere of light.



On the inside it is… very dark. There are some flickers of light showing a mechanical interior, but that’s about all you can make out. You ascend.



You appear to be in some kind of… well, you can’t really say one way or the other, but there appears to be some machinery and contraptions and what not. It's pretty damn dark, though.

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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.11
« Reply #1535 on: November 20, 2010, 01:59:12 pm »

Wait... If we are a robot then we should have more than one access port, check around the arms and legs, not the stomach, that would be silly :L
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.11
« Reply #1536 on: November 20, 2010, 02:12:19 pm »

Walk over to the right and examine the machinery/computer.
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.11
« Reply #1537 on: November 20, 2010, 05:03:23 pm »

Put the rectangular peg into the rectangular hole.

Put the head-shaped peg into the sparkly zapper-thingy in the middle of the room.

Press the triangular button.
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.11
« Reply #1538 on: November 20, 2010, 06:42:07 pm »

Put your VHS tape in the VCR-looking thing below the screen.
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.11
« Reply #1539 on: November 21, 2010, 11:08:28 am »

Put your VHS tape in the VCR-looking thing below the screen.

This
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.12 / Round-End
« Reply #1540 on: November 21, 2010, 09:17:00 pm »

Walk over to the right and examine the machinery/computer.



You head over to examine the console. Skree doesn’t like the feel of the grate flooring and screeches at you from the ramp.

The monitor is just flickering static. There is another small screen that’s been smashed and isn’t readable – something appears to have been thrown right through the screen. Working stuff appears to include a clutch lever pulled to its downwards position, a turn coordinator that’s level with the horizon, an airspeed indicator at 0, some kind of power-monitoring grid, and a keyboard wired in to the working monitor.

Put your VHS tape in the VCR-looking thing below the screen.



You pop the cassette in. There are a few little playback buttons, so you rewind it all the way and then press play.



After a moment, the static begins to clear.



A robot like you is digging in the background. Another walks past the camera, closer. Sound eminates from all around you as a voice begins to fade in.

“All right, this is, uh… wait hold on, let’s try that again”



The camera cuts ahead suddenly.

“Ahem. This is Doctor—Rusty! Get outta here, slobberhead! I’m making a—”



The camera jumps ahead a second time.

“Uh… ahem… this is Doctor Preston Alexander Les, on, uh… Oh hell, I’m going to have to start over again—”

“Would you relax? It’s fine, it’s just a video log, we’re not submitting this to a scientific review panel or anything.”



“Right, right, uh… okay, so what you’re seeing right now is our ‘bots – Claire, you’re in the shot!”

“Oh, sorry, Preston, am I ruining your award-winning documentary?”

“Ha ha ha. Listen, when we make the discovery of the century and they want to know how we did it and I say 'Sorry, my colleague got in the way of every video I took—'”

‘My colleague?’ You tease.”

“Oh, don’t be like that, you know what—”





“—have a clue. I haven’t seen anything like it.”

“Well can we get a sample?”

“I’ve tried chipping at the damn things, I can’t even leave a mark!”

“Aw, Mister Big Strong Scientist can’t even dent a little-bitty rock?”



“…You’re filming this?! Give me my camera!”

“I’d hardly call it a ‘camera,’ this thing’s gotta be at least a hundred years old—”

“It’s an antique, and you’re getting your hands all over it!”

“Take your silly toy then, you big baby—”



“Hey, did you hear that?”

“What?”

“Sounded like thunder.”

“Thunder? Here?”

“Maybe we should get insi—”





“—you up to?”

“Just another journal entry. Not much else to do, unless we make some progress soon.”

“Yeah. Slow going lately.”

“‘Slow going’ is an incorrect term. That would imply we were making any progress at all.”

There is some silence.

“I’m, uh... going to head up to see how the ‘bots are doing on the cabin.”

“Have fun with that.”

The camera lingers before turning and leaving the living room.



“Geez… Somebody hasn’t been getting enough sleep lately...”



“Hm… coming along pretty nicely—”





“—old it still, okay? Steady! Just… okay, just focus it on me, all right?”



“Bloody ‘bot… Right, okay, so this is a little critter… I think Feringus wants to call ‘em oculoids? So this is an oculoid. They just sorta showed up the other day and they’ve finally stopped jumping around long enough for us to get 'em to cooperate. It’s a weird-looking bugger, that’s for sure. So I’m going to see here what it’s visual reaction time is, get a better idea of how that big ol’ eye works. ”



“All right, now hold still, little buddy… I’m just gonna shine this light around your—”

Skreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

“Hold your horses little bud—”





“—issy little rock, isn’t it.”

“Yeah. Funny, that.”

“Hardly.”

“Well, I mean… how familiar the whole weather system is, you know?”

“I wouldn’t say ‘funny.’”

“All right, it’s not funny, all right? It’s ‘interesting.’ Okay? Interesting.”

“I would accept ‘interesting.’”

There are sounds of rain for a few moments.

“What do you think we should call it?”

“Hardly seems our place to do so.”

“Well, you know, just between us then. What would you call it, I’ll say.”

“I haven’t given much thought to the matter. Something pretentious, I imagine. Possibly in Latin. This awful place deserves no less.”

“Maybe ‘Uter Aquae?’”

“Too comical. ‘Procella,’ perhaps.”

More silence; rain.

“Got a sort of a ring to it, doesn’t—”





SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

“Augh!”

“Les!”



“Grab it, grab it!”

“Got it! It’s out. Are you okay?”



“What the hell just happened?! I didn’t do anything and it just jumped at me—”

“Not just you; it went for me, too. A whole species can’t be classified as bi-polar, can it? And come give me a hand with this thing, you can play with your stupid camera later.”



“It’s not— Regardless, I think that’s the last straw for the ‘intelligent species’ theory.”

“Good. I’ve just about had it with baby-talking these things to calm them d—”





“—did it, Feringus. We did it.”

“We’re not done yet by any stretch, Les. It’s progress, yes, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”



“But we’ve found it, Feringus. This compound matches all the required parameters! This is our Chemical X! Fourteen months and we’ve finally found it!”

“That may be so, but until we’ve found a way to get substantial quantities of it we’re not done here. There’s still much more work to do.”

“Fine by me. And at least we’ll actually be making progress now. I’m just glad those damn creatures actually ended up being useful for someth—”









The audio fades out permanently as the tape stops playing.

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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.12 / Round-End
« Reply #1541 on: November 21, 2010, 10:35:46 pm »

...

I wonder what she was writing down in her journal. We should pause the tape and try and read it. With a screen that big, it has to work.
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.12 / Round-End
« Reply #1542 on: November 21, 2010, 11:17:32 pm »

Retro, I am completely sucked in by this story and can't wait to participate in future updates. also, I'm glad to see another Nova Scotian here!
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.12 / Round-End
« Reply #1543 on: November 22, 2010, 03:25:38 am »

>Examine the broken smaller monitor, see if you can find whatever was thrown through it.
>Examine the swirly thing in the middle of the sphere
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Re: Adventure Guy! - Update 13.12 / Round-End
« Reply #1544 on: November 22, 2010, 12:01:04 pm »

I really hope you'll package the whole thing up somewhere when you're done, this is great.
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