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

[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.

[pathology]

[astrid snorts at topher's reaction, mostly, while remaining indignant to glados's big speech.]

That's so fucked up. She's such a crazy bitch.

[i mean. she's not wrong. but also she will start looking for a way out of the room??? spot 35 even tho i don't imagine she'll see anything she didn't see last time they all spot checked around but w/e]

[spellfile]

[ well she sees... SOMETHING.

because at that moment, the floor disappears. or rather, they each start to plummet and then hit a small curved ramp, one of many that crisscross and twist through the black nothingness around them still suspended between those bizarre code-lined walls. each of them has to make a reflex save (DC 15) to make a safe and sound landing... zero glances off the first one and only just manages to grip the edge of the next one down, left hanging there, eyes wide. ] Are you fucking kidding me?

[andblockbuster]

[Topher apparently behaves much like a cat and lands deftly (reflex 23), staggering back into a sitting position so he can cling to the edge of the ramp as if he's afraid of it tilting back.] I'm getting a very computer game vibe from this. [he tentatively peers down and forward.] D'you think we can jump between them to get down?

[pathology]

[astrid lands like a graceful swan ok. (ref save 23)]

You weren't even in Germany. It was like this but worse. [huff] I mean ... maybe. What other options do we have?

[reallywicked]

[Well, Faye rolled an 8 so...

byeeeeeee]

[bittersweeter]

[ cats always land on their feet and lila is no exception (reflex save 35), but she's also totally focused on her bestie so like fuck everything else. ]

Faye!

[spellfile]

[ they watch as faye plummets below and abruptly... vanishes herself in a haze of pixels. ] I'm a little damn old to be jumping anywhere. Go after her. I'll... try to tear this down. [ blue light pulses between his hands as he rips his gaze off the spot faye disappeared and looks up ]

[bittersweeter]

[ guess who doesn't need to be told twice? lila leaps after her like alice down the rabbit hole. ]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher glances Zero's way.] For the record, I think leaving the team leader is a bad idea...

[but he'll jump after them anyway, because... such is life.]

[pathology]

[astrid is clearly not wanting to do this, looking between her teammates jumping into the abyss and zero with an anguished expression.] Ugh!! [god damn it faye. she follows suit after topher.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ faye lands first, hard on a cold metal floor that is black, but vibrates with blue lines as her body smacks into it. moments later, a grid appears around in a spherical shape. the others fall the strangely short distance after, and can make tumble checks to land on their feet (DC 15). everything is black all around them, no walls or... anything, but faye and her grid enclosure in sight. ]