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  • Trbo323
    MCB Member
    • Jul 2020
    • 6358
    • Vancouver WA

    #1

    Walzatron day 8, final

    Corporal Capeman

    Corporal Capeman has spent the better part of 2 months avoiding his boss. While to many people that is a normal everyday occurrence, in this case it's actually saving his life since his boss is Inspector gadget and has been hunting him. Capeman has waiting for the right moment, he can hear inspector gadgets booming ariacron overlord, but it is far off, as far as he has heard it. Capeman turns to the computer he has found, he knows he must be fast. He logs into the computer and starts counting at the same time. The computer feels like it's taking ten times longer than normal. Navigating the menus he finds what he is looking for and starts typing as fast as he can.

    Elsewhere in the yard, anyone close to a digital billboard or screen can see words being typed in real time.

    Attention! To anyone left, Walzatron is trapped in the shipyard, it is powered by the reactor at the center of the yard. The reactor is analog, simple, to turn it off all you have to do isssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

    The Ss fill the entire screen. Whoever wrote this got cut off mid typing but did manage to give the few survivors a valuable clue.


    7) Cdn_Cuda (CC) etha
    Vs
    8) XEMON (XM) ma-duece-a

    CC writes “sorry again" on a post it note and leaves it on the reception desk. After not finding anything open at the central yard power plant he did a very un-Canadian thing and broke a window. He did however choose one that he thought would be easy and cheap to replace. This place is really getting on his nerves however. He pulls out and kisses his photo of Mortimer the moose whispering " I'm coming home” one more time.

    XM picks the lock on a side door to the power plant and steps into a utility run. The first thing he notices is the work bench someone set up to do some work that will likely never be completed. What's more is there are 2 fresh pods of paint sitting on the table! He snaps them up and dumps one into his empty hopper. Stress levels coming down a bit he comes into the front entrance area and freezes.

    CC stops for a moment staring at XM. At once both of them have their markers up and are firing at each other and moving for cover. CC ducks behind the reception desk while XM turns over a bench. Down the hall behind the reception desk are the elevators. Both assume the controls for the power plant are shown underground a bit. CC reloads and hears a *ding*. Oh no! XM is going straight for the elevators! CC breaks cover and starts throwing paint at the open elevator intending to bunker XM. As he approaches the elevator he clears the door only to find…nothing.

    CC feels the impact of multiple rounds on his back. He realizes too late that XM had shot the elevator call button but stayed in his spot across from the elevators behind the overturned bench. CC falls halfway into the elevator, doors methodically opening and closing on him and his last thought is that he thinks the weird paintballs smell like Mortimer after a swim in scum pond back home.

    XM opens another elevator and selects down, way down. Sub basement 68, power generation.




    Semi finals


    7) Cdn_Cuda (CC) etha
    Roll 4
    User logged out


    8) XEMON (XM) ma-duece-a search roll 2 +200
    Roll 7
    Continue


    ###################

    11) GattoDiavolo (GD)
    20) martix_agent (MA)

    *Pak pak pak*

    GD and MA are trading paint but instead of left and right they are having to dodge up and down. This is because they are slinging paint at each other in the utility stairwell. GD is 2 levels down and MA is chasing him and slinging paint to slow his progress. GD has to stop and sling paint back just to make sure MA doesn't close the distance too quickly. The levels fly by and the clanging of their feet on the metal decking echos up and down the stairwell. The center of the stairwell is open space about 10 feet across so 10 feet across and 2 levels up and down is pretty close quarters. Both are dumping pods in and running, GD pauses to throw a large string towards MA, MA ducks just in time to avoid it. GD sprints off grabbing another pod on his way he hears his feet clanging on the decking but…. He doesn't hear MA’s. He turns just in time to see MA falling past his level and firing a perfectly timed shot to land on GDs chest. MA, looking down had noticed a safety net had been strung up in the center of the stairwell for some work on one of the supports. He waited until GD was just above it and then flung himself over the side. It was a high risk move that paid off well. With a few new bruises MA realizes he has reached his destination. Sub basement 68, the arc reactor.




    11) GattoDiavolo (GD) ion
    Roll 2
    User logged out

    20) martix_agent (MA) etha
    Roll 3
    Continue

    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

    Finals

    8) XEMON (XM)
    20) martix_agent (MA)


    MA opens the stairwell door and views the large, lightning filled doughnut at the center of the room. *Ding* MA has to move a little bit he sees an elevator door opening and XM steps out. MA has his etha up and firing but it was a rushed shot and goes wide. XM reacts and dives behind a nearby terminal. Back and forth they trade paint, both moving to new positions, trying to get an angle on the other. MA is about to move to a bank of cabinets but right before he does paint smashes into the floor right where he would have put his foot a half second later. Instead he comes up over the desk and throws paint. XM moves behind the reactor doughnut, MA sees where he goes and moves to another position where he has a line on either side of the reactor. MA sees a paintball impact the desk he is behind, one paintball. The other paintball from the double barrels of the ma-duece-a landed on his shoulder. MA falls to the ground, etha clattering away. XM knew that MA would be watching the other side of the reactor so instead, he climbed up on top of it and shot down from an elevated position. It was dangerous, there's open panels up here straight into the running reactor core. If he is not careful he could….

    XM slips, falls and disappears through one of the open access panels into the reactor core. His ma-duece-a falls spins and teeters for one full second before it too falls into the reactor. Alarms blast, warning lights rotate and a message appears on many of the control computers nearby, “reactor contamination, danger to manifold" automatic systems kick in “reactor shutdown and restart initiated"

    Power drops across the shipyard, everyone infected with the walzarton/velcor virus stops. 2 minutes later, power begins to come back online but this time, only the dopy angel of valcor briefly appears on screens before it disappears and all systems return to normal. As the velcor antivirus program was designed to repair broken systems it was programmed with a power loss in mind so it has a very fast boot time to allow it to work before Walzatron could come back online. In the milliseconds before systems began operating velcore wiped Walzatron off of every system including the humans in the yard.

    Inspector gadget:

    “Corporal Capeman, I'm not sure where to start with this, first, the people, tell me you have good news”

    " Mostly sir, all but one person is accounted for in the yard”

    " One missing?”

    " Well, it's possible sir but the power generation guys are telling me that they found some odd readings in the reactor core so when they switched the yard to backup power and looked in the reactor core they found a carbon stain the size and shape of a person”

    " We may have to do some testing on that then, in the meantime it's late, let's get these people home, I am sure they could use something going right for a change”

    " Yes sir, I booked them all tickets to world cup as an apology"



    XEMON, shoot me a message after you read this


    8) XEMON (XM) ma-duece-a
    Roll 6


    20) martix_agent (MA) etha
    Roll 3

    XEMON wins!


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  • Cdn_Cuda
    You can finish projects?!
    • Jul 2020
    • 4526
    • Vancouver, BC

    #2
    Another epic battle and congrats to the winner! Thank Trbo323 for another awesome showdown.
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    • Trbo323
      MCB Member
      • Jul 2020
      • 6358
      • Vancouver WA

      #3
      Originally posted by Cdn_Cuda
      Another epic battle and congrats to the winner! Thank Trbo323 for another awesome showdown.
      Pet Mortimer for me when you get home

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      • Glovebox Operator
        MCB Member
        • Sep 2025
        • 410
        • New Mexico

        #4
        That was a wild and fun ride. Thanks everyone! Even Jeffery, you clumsy idiot.

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        • martix_agent
          MCB Member
          • Jul 2020
          • 534
          • Indiana

          #5
          runner up x2. Wish i could roll this well in my D&D games.

          If I'm reading this right , the "winner" was engulfed by the reactor and reduced to carbon?

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          • Trbo323
            MCB Member
            • Jul 2020
            • 6358
            • Vancouver WA

            #6
            Originally posted by martix_agent
            runner up x2. Wish i could roll this well in my D&D games.

            If I'm reading this right , the "winner" was engulfed by the reactor and reduced to carbon?
            You are correct. It's a lonely place on top of the mountain, it has its rewards and sacrifices.

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            • GattoDiavolo
              Old Skool
              • May 2022
              • 87
              • Northern New Jersey

              #7
              That was a great read, and a lot of fun! Thank you, Trbo323, and well played martix_agent!

              And congrats to you, XEMON for the win!
              Slinging paint since 1992

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              • XEMON
                Frenchy is here!
                • Jul 2020
                • 3029
                • Nor Cal

                #8

                Stressful but amazing ride 🥳

                Trbo323 thank you for the amazing read, i look forward to it every year.


                Love my brass ... Love my SSR ... Hard choices ...

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                • Trbo323
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                  • Jul 2020
                  • 6358
                  • Vancouver WA

                  #9
                  Our winner XEMON has opted instead of me sending him something to instead have me give away a marker (and as much of a setup as I have) to a new player when I go to the field next

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                  • Glovebox Operator
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                    • Sep 2025
                    • 410
                    • New Mexico

                    #10
                    The true spirit of Walzmas.

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