Visionary destroys the Adaptive Plating on her turn; Unity can polish off the field.
I'm sorry man, I didn't expect you to be around.
So you guys are finally done? Perhaps I can get in on round 5?
uhm... Turret Bot for the win?
Nevermind what I had here before. I was confused for a minute.
“All Prison-Thursday Visitation will~Alert! Alert!~Pancakes opening~Destruction Irrelevant.”
The Giant Robot Omnitron shuddered and collapsed.
“Tachyon, are you there, Omnitron is down, get us out of here.” Nightmist yelled into her mic as she started towards the exit.
“Take the Emergency stairwell D, should be right by you, take it to the top, I’ll seal the steps behind you.”
“What about the guards?” asked Unity, looking back at the crowd of prisoners, “and what about them?
“We cannot solve this mess, we can only contain it and hope they find balance.” Slim looked at her, but he didn’t look like the man she knew these past few years, there was more than just quiet strength in those eyes, there was power, and ambition.
. . .
Unity didn’t know what to think. Amanda was dead, and Slim was, well different. She had killed people, and had destroyed the Evil Robot that they had feared for so long. She thought about her bots, and about the Warden and guards at the prison. Those people were part robot, did they feel doubt and sorrow, or did they know what they needed to do, and do it without pain?
She wanted to cry, she wanted Slim to tell her it would be okay, like he did when she was little and Amanda was alive.
. . .
The bus was full of arguing. Legacy and Ra were in the back, she looked at Legacy, the one everyone was counting on, he couldn’t even sit up, he just grimaced in pain. Tachyon said Omnitron had experimented on him, and he might not recover. Ra was in some kind of restrictive cast, his back and legs were broken. Apparently her rescue was a distraction so they could get those two out. She was a decoy, expendable. That didn’t sit good either.
She was sick of Time Travel, like it was going to magically solve everything, go back, fix things and *poof* her world disappears, all these people gone, her life erased. They think we're all expendable, she thought to herself. Now they were arguing over whether or not they should help the people of the city, Voss was coming, and he was angry. He swore the city would suffer for aiding the heroes, and she had seen what he could do to cities that defied him.
Megalopolis was already locked down, they had gotten through though, the Psychic lady made sure of that. But the rest
“We can’t just leave them to die!” someone shouted
“But we can save them, stop all of this, stop Voss from ever taking the Earth, Stop Blade, Stop it all!”
“But what if it fails, then what have we done, look at what we are responsible for!”
“This world is dead, we can’t save it by dying here with it!”
Unity put her head down and listened to the fight, the voices blurring into just noise.
“You are troubled young one, perhaps we could talk?
Unity looked up, and her face fell.
“I left them there, I left her there. . . just like you left me.”
The choice for our players for this game:
1. Stand up to Voss, fight for the people of this world that are suffering for what you have done.
2. Abandon them, to focus on the big picture
Unity would want to go after Voss.
Voss!
Big picture–stop Blade, save the world.
Former players may chime in (like cmschex above) they won't count towards the current decision, but they will influence how the rest of the game goes down.
As much as I'd like to go after Voss, there are bigger things at stake here. Stop Blade.
How about this. Wait until Voss brought his fleet close to Earth, then let Blade use his maxhine to bring the moon closer and destroy the fleet from behind. Then kill Blade.
Was this game entered into the Around the World weekend event? Last I looked we were only two points away from unlocking the last reward.
Not sure, but phantaskippy already got the last 2 points anyways.
Voss is an ant. We need to focus on the big picture.
Even moving the moon a little would cause epic tides that would wash every coastal city into the sea. Sorry Batman, you don't get a Third Option.
I know. That was the basis for my campaign.
Big Picture!
I'm going to buck the trend and vote for Voss! Unity was pretty convincing.
Our best split yet.
We have three votes from current players for going to the portal, 1 current and two former for voss.
We move on to hunt the portal, but not without heavy hearts and some tough decisions.
Devra woke up, still on the bus.
“Where are we?” she asked groggily.
“Rook City.”
Devra’s head cleared. “What?”
“We have a plane stashed there, we can get to our destination that way.” The Scholar explained.
“What about Megalopolis, what about all those people?” she demanded.
Tachyon’s voice was quiet and serious, almost cold, “We can’t save them. We can’t fight Voss.”
Devra burned with anger. She looked at the television n the bus, it showed Megalopolis being destroyed, Voss’s ships bombarding the city, smashing buildings to the ground. The graphic read Insurrection put down, Enemies of the people punished.
“We have to go back, we have to help them!” she screamed, her voice cracking.
Slim grabbed her by the shoulders. “It’s too late for that Devra.”
“Let go of me, I don’t even know you anymore!” her anger overflowed, “Who are you people, you’re supposed to be heroes, we’ve waited for you, for so long.” She pointed at the TV, “They waited for you, and now they are dying and you are running away. You don’t care about us, you used us, you left Amanda to die, you left me to get captured, you did something to Harry and used us as decoy’s to get your precious Hero back,” she pointed at Legacy, unconscious in the back. “And now they are dying, for him! For a #(%&# Vegetable!”
The people around her looked defeated, Haka had tears running down his face.
The one they called the Wraith walked to her and put her hands on Devra’s shoulders.
She tried to shrug her hands off, tried to stay mad, but she couldn’t.
“I’m sorry Devra, we failed.” Maia said. “But there’s still hope.”
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