london ♔ stand across the wire

[spellfile]

Technologic [fool remix] - Daftpunk

WHO ||  Lila, Astrid, Faye, Topher, Zero, One, GLaDOS
WHAT || Lila and Zero go to confront the technomage One, with a little help from their friends...
WHERE || Downtown London, CalTech building
WHEN || Late March, 2015 [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

It's been a couple of months since the hacker who goes by the moniker "One" assisted in the attack on the Knights' castle, with the inside assistance of the Artificial Intelligence-turned-human GLaDOS.  Zero has good reason to believe, however, that One hasn't left - that he's waiting for him to come face him, and that the stage he's set for the showdown is the CalTech building in the city, whose employees are off for the week.  Realizing it's likely a trap, Zero's stacked his chips on setting a counter-trap - uploading a virus designed by himself and Topher Brink into the now-cyborg Faye Chamberlain's brain, assuming that he is going to try to hack into her and turn her against them.  

They arrive at the building as the sun is going down, staring up at the building that has a light show of digital streams coursing down the front of it, drawing a snort from Zero.  

"Theatrical jackass."

Comments

[andblockbuster]

I'm not giving into anything. I'm being diplomatic.

[he at least rolls a 23 will save to avoid being fucking blinded by the SURPRISE GLITTER and he jumps back, startled.]

What the frakking hell, Tinkerbell? Are we gonna beat the AI lady with pixie dust?

[spellfile]

[ zero gets a 16 will save vs the blinding, not sure what the dc is?? either way the glitter actually... spills out along the sides of the pedestal in all directions. like... on the air??? ]

[reallywicked]

[will save 28 for Faye.

Also spills out on the sides like...suspended midair? If so, Faye is gonna put a foot out to test out if it's solid.]

[pathology]

[will save 27 for astrid ftr.]

It looks like Kesha vomited.

[andblockbuster]

[topher pulls one of his shoes off. for reasons.]

...On her aesthetically horrifying stage, apparently.

[spellfile]

[ underneath faye's foot, she would feel nothing... but the place where the glitter has landed seems to flash with a light blue grid, that vanishes again, along with the glitter. ] Either this is some next level VR or...

[reallywicked]

[Faye blinks and draws her foot back.]

So this isn't your kind of magic?

[She wants to learn about his weird techno magic stuff but...hasn't yet.]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher crouches on the edge of the ledge and begins flailing his shoe at thin air, hoping to either hit a footfall or see if he can trigger what Faye just did.] The glitter had to go somewhere...

[goodbyecaroline]

[ no sooner is his foot off the edge than they hear a droning buzz... and four robotic disk-shaped things come flying towards the pedestal. each sports a red glowing eye, and red beams sweep across them... clearly for targeting purposes. ]

As entertaining as it is to watch you struggle to comprehend simple concepts, I'm afraid I can't stay.

Consider this experiment terminated.

[pathology]

[apparently hearing glados's dulcet tones is like a bull seeing red for astrid. it's enough to immediately send her into a psychotic rampage. fuck this shit tbh.] I'LL TERMINATE YOU!!

[but since glados is not in the room with them, she'll have to settle for pulling her gun out and shooting at one of the disc things. idk. the one farthest to the left. (atk 18; 12 dmg) ]

[bittersweeter]

[ to the surprise of literally no one, lila draws her guns to shoot some shit. (rapid shot atk 22, 22, 30, off hand 26; dmg 8, 9, 13, 11). um, she aims for one of the ones astrid is not shooting at, so furthest to the right idk. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ astrid's shot pwings off the hull of the robotic disk, but lila's manage to bypass it, burying themselves in the metal and causing it to waver a bit, but it doesn't slow.

one disc comes for each of them, all too convenient, really, staying hovering out of reach as they shoot a high-energy laser out (@astrid atk 31, dmg 14, @zero atk 22, dmg 11, @lila atk 20, dmg 11, @topher atk 22, dmg 12) ]

[reallywicked]

[Aw hell naw. Faye isn't about to let her girls be attacked like that. She raises her hands and lets out two bolts of scorching ray at the drones that went after Lila and Astrid.(damage 14 and 19)]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher yelps and skitters back from the edge to get some space between him and the robots and aims a shot at the one that attacked him. (atk 26, dmg 12) even he's... a little impressed with the accuracy of that shot.] Well, this is unoriginal... and way more painful than I imagined.

[ow.]

[spellfile]

[ i do need a ranged attack for the ray spells plz! one banks slightly away as it gets hit with topher's bullet, and zero raises a hand, muttering something that sends out a pulse of blue energy that rolls over the robots... two of whom go entirely dead, and drop out of the sky, actually seeming to zap out of existence as they fall. ]

[reallywicked]

[19 and 24 for those attacks. my bad.]

[pathology]

[astrid shoots at one of the remaining ones with more determination!!11 atk 26; 8 dmg]

[bittersweeter]

[ lila's gonna shoot the other one like a champ. (atk 28, 24, off hand 23; dmg 13, 5, 12) ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ between them all, they manage to down the final two robots, blowing them out of the sky - and they also seem to zap out as they fall. /init ]

[pathology]

[astrid seems very pleased with herself after this turn of events.] Yeah. That's what I thought.

[reallywicked]

We gotta find a way to get out of here. [She turns to Zero and Topher since they're the tech guys and this is a robot related issue.]

Ideas?

1/2

[spellfile]

I came here to find Irving. Hell if I'm leaving before that.

[goodbyecaroline]

[ ♬ echo - crusher-p

glados' voice reverberates around them again, somehow managing to sound slightly more petulant despite the same flat, robotic delivery. ]

How touching.

Irving was full of promises too, just like all of you. And while it's true that he restored me to a robotic form, he failed to eradicate the irritating strain of humanity that had infected my programming. Since he didn't fulfill his end of the bargain, I saw no reason not to put him to better use.

I'm going to download what's left of this Caroline into his brain, to see how quickly the human mind succumbs to madness when in possession of dual consciousness.

Although if I'm being honest with you, I think he's pretty close to the edge already. Maybe there's something to be learned from you all still, too - something about the futility of mortal pursuits and how many lasers a body can be riddled with before it ceases to function.

I'll give you a hint. The answer is usually one.

[reallywicked]

I meant get out of this room. Since your boytoy isn't here.

[Zero, don't be dramatic. Faye isn't trying to bail.]

[andblockbuster]

[topher looks mildly offended] See, first I was a little afraid for my life, and now I'm just cheesed off, 'cause wow... Way to take all the impact out of a guy's whole life's work.

[and he just pounds a scrawny hand into an equally scrawny fist.] She's going down.