TEAM YZMA LOG

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TEAM YZMA

READY: START Team Yzma roster: Carmen Sandiego, Dave Strider, Elizabeth, Emil Vasterstrom, Juzo Sakakura, Lucy/Kaede, Penelo, Seto Kaiba, Shouto Todoroki, Souji Seta, Yato. The city's been under siege for what feels like hours. It's only on August 3rd that you learn it's been a matter of days. Monsters begin pulling Retrospec users through portals left and right, large gaping holes in reality that spit you out in any given location around the city. However, just as you think you're finally getting away, a large blue portal opens and you're snatched up. No amount of fighting and struggling will free you and soon the pressure is too great to ignore. Darkness fills your vision and the last thing you may remember is the sound of thunder... This is the Team Yzma Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Yzma is as follows: 3RD: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 1 part two 10TH: Objective 1 closes (8PM EST), Objective 2 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 2 Part 2 17TH: Objective 2 closes (8PM EST), Objective 3 posted (9PM EST) | Objective 3 Part Two 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work.

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[long_live_the_queen]

[Lucy's still trying to find the on button. Juzo's lasers fired across the alien monster's nose.

It roars soundlessly in the airless space, turning ponderously to look at their mech with all those red eyes.]

What did you do?!

[She's mostly mad Juzo figured out to use the weapons first.]

[outpunch]

I can do it again.

[ TOTALLY NOT SORRY ]

[long_live_the_queen]

At least shoot at it instead of giving it a shave.

[She's never not voting for murder again. Fire away!

One of the buttons seems to finally make the blades flicker to glowing life, though their light is dim and they're far out of melee range anyway. The blade set highlights on the wireframe, with a low percentage next to it. Maybe the charge was controlled elsewhere?]

[parodeity]

You know, this isn't so bad. It's almost like drivin' a car, except it's not remotely like that.

[ nARROWLY AVOIDS SLAMMING THEM INTO THE OTHER SHIP ]

I think I'm getting better.

[long_live_the_queen]

[Lucy was so busy fiddling with the dials trying to boost the voltage on the blades that she didn't notice they were getting a bit too close until the mech turns sharply and knocks her off balance. Where were the seatbelts on this thing??

Lucy didn't know who did that, but she's an equal opportunity shouter.]

Warn me before you do that!

[SHE HATES SURPRISES]

[outpunch]

It wasn't my fault, I did nothing?!

[ He just assumes that she's yelling at him because well. It's just like their relationship is. ]

That was close. How about this one...

[ This lever on his left just wants to be pulled. And Juzo can't resist the urge.

His seat goes up shortly after. That's it, that's what the lever does, good job. ]

[glaciers]

[He feels vaguely sick. This isn't exactly the smoothest ride he's ever had, so he'll slam on one of the buttons.

He's pretty sure the panther's mouth bit down...?

He'd love to be on solid ground.]

[long_live_the_queen]

[Aggressive buttonmashing seems to doing the trick for now, at least?

Except for Juzo, but then again he didn't push a button.]

Did you break your neck, Juzo?

[Don't answer that, let her dream.]

[Also there was a lot of green alien all up in the rangefinder screen suddenly. UH. Lucy turned one dial that finally seemed to be the correct one, making the blades light up with hot plasma. The alien didn't seem to like that or the bite, from how it started violently shaking itself.]

[outpunch]

You wish.

[ She probably does. Not just probably. He's 100% sure she'd like him to meet that fate. But it's not going to happen today...maybe.

It's time to slam his hands on the panel again and hope for the best results. It's not as bad as it could be, given that it's Juzo. Lasers shoot from the mecha's eyes right into that enemy ship. ]

Laser eyes?! [ And, in a whisper: ] ...That's so cool.

I made an oops

[long_live_the_queen]

[Lucy would definitely not lose sleep over such a death, no. She's an Excellent Person.

The lasers leave ugly lines burnt into the side of Styerck's ship, and the vessel starts flying towards them like it was going to crash into the mech if they didn't move.

Kucy couldn't reach anything that controlled propulsion here, but that didn't mean she didn't try. She turned that dial up, hit some more buttons she couldn't read, and the blades flared brighter.

Someone else would have to move them. At least if Styerck crashed into them it'd have plasma can openers sticking into it's ship hull.]

Re: I made an oops

[frisyr]

[ Oh god okay mayday mayday Styreck is coming right towards them and Emil can't even figure out what each paw does and he found a joystick that's apparently configured so up is down and down is up (SERIOUSLY??) and-- oh wait, propulsion?

He hits that.

There is flame coming right out of the paw, which makes the ship swerve narrowly to avoid a crash ]

Who's driving!!

[mincingminuet]

[So much is happening. SO MUCH IS HAPPENING HOLY CRAP WHY IS SO MUCH HAPPENING.

Penelope has spent most of the last few minutes gripping her seat and trying not to giggle and get all giddy over how awesome this is. It's incredible. She's in a mech. And... oh shit that's an incoming]

Hey! I think this is one of the thrusters...

[Pushing it...and everything seems to speed up.]

Woo!

[frisyr]

[ EMIL IS THROWN BODILY FROM HIS SEAT AND CRASHES INTO SOMEONE, SOMEONE MAY OR MAY NOT BE THE FLOOR IF NO ONE VOLUNTEERS. ]

--Sorry! Really didn't mean to, where's my radio, is this thing on, guys what's happening up there!

[goen]

[ god how has styerck not killed them all by now ]

Okay, everyone shut up! Let's focus and wreck this guy so we can go home.

[ Styerck's ship loops back around for another sweep at them... ]

He's coming back. Emil, do that thing you just did with the fire again and dodge when he's close. Then the rest of you use your weapons and stuff as hard as you can while he's passing. Got it??

[parodeity]

Hey, I'm doin' ok driving!

[ kind of. he IS getting better?? ]

Gettin' us closer now.

[goen]

Alright! Put the fear in him, Dave!

[ FULL SPEED AHEAD and hopefully they will not fuck this up and die extremely spectacularly. ]

[mincingminuet]

[Okay taking the time to figure out some things, look over labels.]

Guys, this thing has heat rays in it's eyes...

[long_live_the_queen]

[EVERYTHING HAPPENS SO MUCH Lucy was bowled off her feet when the propulsion kicked in, and managed to crawl back to her station in time for them to complete one pass and charge ahead at the alien ship again like a game of chicken. In space. With giant robots.

Lucy keeps the blades out and fully charged, though there's a timer counting down next to the status image. She should...probably turn them off soon. But not before they got to be useful.

They crashed into the hull of Styerck's ship, the shearing of metal and polymers vibrating through the blades and into the mech. They were close enough to hear the whistling of the atmosphere inside it escaping. But the alien...thing wasn't done. There were some ominous glows starting up on one of the wings closest to them.]

[frisyr]

[ Emil hits a bunch of buttons ]

Okay, where's eject? We should probably get away from that??

[ He gestures wildly towards the wing ]

What if that has heat rays??

[parodeity]

What the utter fuck??? Do we have any more laser beams? Someone shoot the laser beams!

[ dave is still driving

like

getting out of the way of that glowing shit ]

[goen]

[ Laser beams are the one thing Yato knows, so!! He mashes that right away, sending a blinding hot beam searing into the alien ship. It does not stop the ship's ominous glowing, but as Dave maneuvers away, the beam carves an erratic line across the ship's surface. ]

If you keep going around, maybe we can slice the whole ship open.

[ They have plasma blades and stuff too. Everything seems geared toward cutting and ripping, so why not embrace it? ]

[parodeity]

One circle-the-monster, comin' up!

[ why is team yzma this way. ]

[frisyr]

Sounds good to me.

Let's do it! [ He pulls down more monitors ]

Hey, I've got our power levels up, we've got a lot of juice!

[long_live_the_queen]

[It's a totally valid video game move shhh]

[Like magic, the slowly dwindling charge number began shooting back up. All Lucy had to do now was...whatever she did to keep the blades straight. So she did, keeping the handle pressed halfway.

The charged sword made contact with the ship hull again, this time gouging a much more substantial line into it. There was some resistance, and one of the blade pylons began throwing out warning alarms signalling a stressed part. But they were three-quarters of the way to shearing across the ship's side entirely, just a bit more...]

[frisyr]

[ Emil gives her a bit more juice, hitting a button to gather some of the energy and-- Styreck doesn't stand a chance ]

Woo!

--Wait.

So now what?