Earthbound: The Rainbow Omen (RPG thread)

[Soaring Pikachu]

Bowie
Nine nine town, (Eagleland)

As Bowie rolls out of bed, his clock radio switches on by itself. (Nobody can tell you..) He brushes his teeth and looks into a mirror as the song keeps going. (You've gotta, maaake your own kind of music. Siiing your own special sooong) Bowie picks out his clothes and starts thinking about breakfast. (Make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along!) A scream comes from outside and Bowie quickly turns the radio off. He grabs his clothing and backpack and rushes out of the door!

Bowie is relieved to find that no one is in immediate danger, it just appears that an army of fire ants is carrying a picnic basket. Unfortunately the hundreds of ants are marching straight toward him! Thinking fast, Bowie leaps into the nearby shallow pond to evade the bugs. They do not seem to notice him and pass by with the picnic basket in their posesssion. The local wildlife had recently become very aggresive and Bowie was not about to take any chances!

Soaking wet, Bowie stands up in the knee high water and notices a snow white kittey cat. The cat begins speaking, "Come on, we need to go!" The feline says urgently. Bowie is still drenched, so he truns the animal down, "Sorry, but, I am all wet!" The cat tries again. "Nevermind that! We have to hurry, the future of the planet could be in jeopordy! Just grab my tail!" Bowie was not entirely comfortable with the idea but the cat seemed to know what it was talking about. He grabs the tail but braces himself to get scratched.

"We're already late, now hang on tight!" The cat takes off running like a rocket and it is all that Bowie can do but to keep his grip! Bowies boots drag on the ground as if he were jet skiing, except they are zipping along a busy concrete street! The cat collides with a pizza delivery van but by some miracle they are unharmed! Bowie and the cat only stop in place for a few minutes looking silly and burnt. "Sorry, not enough room." The animal apologizes, before picking up speed and trying again. After 8 more crash and burns, the pair finally teleports successfully and arrive at Saturn valley.

"Whah, where are we?" Bowie asks disoriented. "No time, quick this way!" The cat leads the way past some Mr. Saturns to a lab where there are a bunch of other people and a closet full of items. "Hi everyone, I'm Bowie!" He greets the group before claiming one of the wolverine claws and taking a seat in the unusual flying object.

(OOC: Obviously I do not take credit for the song lyrics)


Inventory:
Band aids x 20
Large clump of spaghetti
Clawed knuckles x 1

[AWESOMEPUFFS]

Calvin Hollinberry
Saturn Valley

Oh great, Yako's over to raise up some hell. Cal looked up at the ceiling and rubbed his still stingy nose, as if preoccupied with something of incredible importance. Didnt change the good Yako's direction though. Calvin's stomach went all twisty turny in his belly as Yako opened his maw and... Said hello. O-Oh. Calvin turned to Yako slowly, peering at him out of the corner of his eyes at first before his body followed. He looked down at Yakos extended hand and slapped it. Just gone and slapped it, like a friendly side-high five. "Aye, my name's Calvin." He drawled. Short pause. "I have a turtle in my hat." He added, sliding his snowhat offa his head. And there Exposition sat, nestled into Cal's mess of hair all snug like, where he gave Yako a wave. Before he could ask how he'd wrassled a table and if Yako could teach him how to do the same, Dr. Andonuts started talking. Calvin listened to the good doctor quietly, giving his shoes a good, close examination during the whole time.

He didnt have much to say, so he just chilled out and paid attention. His thoughts wandered every now and then, usually followed by some absentminded thigh drumming, but that stopped soon after the Saturn house started to shake. After that, Calvin looked down to hide the exceptional red in his cheeks.

And oh, no way was Calvin ditching' this lil' guy, nope nope no way at all. Calvin had given his turtle friend a name, and once you name something, you best be taking damn good care of it. Even if it was an obtusely silly name like Exposition Dump. Now, 'good care' doesnt equal ditching your well named buddy, so Mr. Exposition was coming along with them! He seems to know a bit about the mess going down Of course, the turtle can fit under Calvin's hat, so it probably wasnt as much a big deal as Calvin's inner narration is making it out to be. Turns out, the turtle'd gone and left on his own without consulting Calvin and well yknow, I guess that's alright too. Calvin pulled his snow hat down all the way, now with enough space inside for his head.

Okay, time for presents. It wouldnt make up for losing his buddy Exposition Dump, but at least it'd be something nice? I'm going to the rainforest, soooo I should probably get something for the rainforest. Calvin thought with all the redundancy in the world. He picked up the frying pan and looked its dented surface all over. Huh. Maybe it could be a drying pan. He put it on his head and hummed. Keep dry real good. But that's why he has a hat. Soooo, back in the closet with ya. Next thing he picked up was an airhorn, which went off as someone bumped inna Calvin. He dropped it back into the pile and it took several minutes to find the thing again. Hmmm, Calvin wouldnt have much use for it. He's not one to call attention to himself, and that's what airhorns are all about. Maybe Yako could have a yelling contest with it. He showed it to the table rassler, attempting to get his attention with a "Yoh." It probably failed.

Next in the pile was the wooden baseball bat. The first thought Calvin got in his head was how useful it'd be incase his cricket bat snapped. The second thought involved duel wielding, and that was enough for him to make his decision. Now, it's probably a better idea to bring the metal bat, as metal has a harder time breaking on contact with hard, angry, possibly even berserking surfaces, but Cal's gotta keep with themes. He has a wood cricket bat in one hand, so he has to keep with the idea of wood and snag the wooden bat. That and it felt far more natural in his hand than the metal one. Maybe Calvin's just being silly, but taking the metal bat over the wood felt like he were shattering some previously set idea, or important thematic that ran through an entire story or something. He couldnt be sure, so he didnt take any chances in the matter. Wood bat it is.

And then Calvin sorta stood around all awkward like, waiting for more people to get aboard the Skyrunner before he did. Because. Actually, he'll wait up for Yako. Make sure he gets on first, so there were no surprise trees in the face.

INVENTORY
Beat up old cricket bat/walking stick/thing (1x) (Like a quiet old man)
Wooden baseball bat (1x) (SMAAAASH)
Yellow backpack (1x) (Bag of holding)
Hugely big headphones! (1x) (Did I mention how great these headphones are?)
Blue snow hat (1x) (It smells of turtles that you love.)
Cellphone (1x) (NO NEW TEXTS NO ONE LOVES YOU.)
Drum stick (2 1/2x) (Para-diddle para-diddle.)

[Zekshirom]

Tekina

Tekina smiled. "Thanks, Gon. Hope Ari is found as well." Though they were tecnicaly rivals, The girl found herself warming up to Gon. Tekina then looked over at the closet. When she walked over to get a better look, Tekina saw it.

The whip. "Whoa..." She said to herself. She could dish out some REAL dmage with this! Tekina picked it up, wrapped it around the handle, and put it in her satchel.

Then, Tekina remembered that she must leave the horse behind when she left. The girl walked outside to meet it. The horse stared and said "I promise that, if needed, I shall arrive to help you, Tekina. Until then, take this." The horse then gave Tekina a small charm. "For your necklace. If you ever need to talk to me, make a wish upon the charm and, wherever you may be, I can speak to you." Tekina smiled at the horse. "Thank you!" The horse nodded after the charm was on the necklace. "I wish you luck, and that your sister is found." The girl smiled, then hugged the horse. It's golden mane shone in the light, while the pur white coat sparkled.

[DVB]

Diego Vendrix
Saturn Valley

"Winters. Nieve to be exact. Quetzal word for 'snow', makes sense considering there's a shitload of Quetzals around there. I should know, my dad's half-Quetzal." Gale replied, stroking Diego's face with two of her fingers rather shamelessly. Diego knew of Nieve. He been there before as a teenager. However, when she began stroking his face, he became a very deep shade of red. She then used both her fingers to pinch his cheek lightly, before chuckling to herself. Diego began even redder with wide eyes.

Diego began to pay attention to good doctor's explanation. "I'm sure you have all heard the announcements regarding these," said the inventor, indicating his Starman drawing. "Believe it or not, I've seen these Starmen before, a long time ago. The Aurora Mysteria was a peculiar occurrence, but it didn't cause me much worry until the Starmen arrived. Because you see, a profound evil force overtook the world in the past, and these Starmen appeared to be its underlings. In fact, a couple of you have been wondering about this picture on my desk..." He indicated the picture of the three boys and the girl. "These four kids were the ones responsible for destroying this unspeakable evil force." He seemed to shudder at the mention of such an evil force, afraid to speak its name if it had one.

"In fact," Dr. Andonuts continued, "three of them were able to use PSI. The fourth... the fourth was my son Jeff, who, well..." He couldn't say any more about his missing son--a tear ran down his cheek at the mention of him, and a Mr. Saturn prompty handed him a tissue. "A-a-anyway, I find it curious that you all appeared here in the middle of this confounding conundrum. It almost makes me wonder if destiny had something in store for all of you in relation to the aurora's appearance. Of course, because I am a scientist, I am skeptical of destiny being the only factor at work here. In the past it seemed to be friendship that tied the four "chosen ones" together, but I doubt you know each other hardly at all, do you? However, the fact that you all arrived here with animals may have something to do with it... These animals are not your pets, I presume?"

Diego was digesting what the old man said. He was thinking of the 4 kids that were in the photo. They definitely seemed like good people. He would have loved to meet them. He then began showing them the locations of the gears as well as the hotspots of activity. From what Diego could gather, they would have to go and get these seven gears. Much like Ness and his friends, they were now chosen Diego nodded, but then the good doctor asked him and Gon to follow him.

They followed him down. They went past his inventions and such until they stopped. "I brought you two here first because I have something special to give to both of you." He took a quick glance over his shoulder. "First to Diego, since these computers are still booting up. So, Diego, I hear you are skilled with clockwork, eh? Ah, it brings back memories of when I watched young Jeff tinkering with gadgets in a similar fashion..." He sighed. "Well anyway, it is because of your expertise with simple mechanical gadgets, especially those involving gears, that I wanted to entrust you with this."

He handed Diego the empty music box he had shown to everyone before. Additionally, he handed him a couple of little gears that he had been keeping as spare parts for it. "It is my hope that if and when you all find the pieces of this music box, that you will be able to put it back together. When you do, I'd like to hear it play once more."

Diego nodded as he put the music box and the little extra gears. He wondered what was the song held. He swore he saw the grinning faces of the 4 children look at him for a brief moment. Oh well. "All right, sir. But... all this with PSI... it reminds be of an experiment. This professor adopted me years ago. One day, I decided to participate in an experiment. Due to... unforeseen factors and a course of action on my part, I seem to have... disqualified myself or rather forced prevented myself from developing PSI..." Diego said in nostalgia. He went back up and he sat next to Gale once more, growing red.



Inventory:
-1x Clockwork Shooter Gauntlet I
-1x Clockwork tool kit
-2x Assorted extra pieces of clockwork
-1x Comfy sweater
-5x pancakes in a container
-1x big backpack
-1x thermos of hot chocolate
-1x magical musicbox

[coolminun]

Kyornik Arrluk
Dr. Andonuts’ lab
After Dr. Andonut’s made his announcement, Kyornik got up from the table to have a look around at the closet’s contents. “Cool, a yoyo”. I haven’t played with one of those since I was 12. I wonder if I can still make it sleep and do the baby cradle trick.” he thought. In all honesty, the yoyo definitely would be of no use to him in a fight, so he quickly dismissed the thought. Next was the metal bat. As he picked it up and examined it, he thought of some of the dangerous animals that may be lurking around. The first to come to his mind was a jaguar, and he shuddered at the thought of it sneaking up on him. It was decided then. The metal bat would be his weapon of choice.
After choosing said weapon, he excused himself from the rest of the group to tell Atka what was happening.

“So yeah, we’re heading off to Quetzal to investigate the Mysteria and we’ll be getting there by one of Dr. Andonut’s inventions, the Sky Runner. This should be really cool. What are you going to do now?”
“I will return to my pod now. They have been beckoning me to come back. Apparently, they’ve stumbled onto a group of elephant seals and the young ones need schooling in the art of hunting with Psi.” “So yeah, about Psi, I can use it too. Thanks to my conversation with Gale and Tekina I now know exactly what this mysterious power I wield is. What kind of Psi can you use Atka? I figured you could use it since you can talk to me telepathically and you can teleport. My Psi is called Pk Aura”. “I am fully aware of your power, and I can use several forms of Psi. Because you must be leaving soon, I am unable to explain all forms of Psi to you, but I will educate you on one in particular. Stand back.”
Kyornik stood a couple of feet away from the hot spring housing the large cetacean, and watched in amazement as suddenly the air got cold. Atka’s white eye patch turned an azure hue and his eyes shined brightly in a similar fashion. The Saturns swimming around began to feel uncomfortable by the sudden chill and walked down the ladder from the springs in single file carrying inner tubes, beach balls and empty but oddly shaped drink glasses. Kyornik looked up, and could see his breath. The temperature dropped pretty rapidly, as frost was starting to form on the bathrobe. Kyornik could hear the bellowing thoughts of Atka yell Pk Freeze!! From Atka’s maw, came the shriek of a great orca on the hunt. (Imagine Kyogre’s cry) From this shriek, an azure flash of light radiated from Atka’s body and a gale of Polar air swept through the valley. Aaaagh!! , cried Kyornik, as he was swept off his feet and knocked to the bottom of the ladder.


The brumal gale crept through the valley. One house was unlucky enough to have a window on the upper floor open, and the snowy gust made its way through the house. ch-ch-ch-ch-ch chilly zoom. off ac unit boing, said one of the residents to the other. N-n-n-n-n-no have ac zoom, said the other resident. Frost coated the windows of every house and snow lined the trees. Kyornik got up wincing in pain from the fall, as he had landed on his side. “Ow! I think he overdid it a bit.” When he looked up the sky was grey and snowing. Kyornik looked down the valley, to see the swimming Saturns all huddled together shivering. “Hope they’re ok,” he thought to himself. Kyornik reached out to climb the ladder and saw that it was completely frozen. As he got up near the spring, there were 4 large ice pillars jutting from the spring around Atka. There was a very small ring of unfrozen water around Atka. “Wow!” The sight was breathtaking. The whole area looked like a winter wonderland. It was really cool, and it reminded him of his home in Winters. A sense of nostalgia came over him despite the biting cold.


This is the Psi of my pod, Pk freeze. I think the name speaks for itself. “Beautiful, simply beautiful”,said Kyornik “ As pulchritudinous as it looks, do not be fooled.It is very destructive. This Psi calls upon the gelid winds of the Poles themselves and unleashes it upon the enemy, eroding life and reducing them to flecks of frost to be scattered endlessly. This was what I used to save you from the lighthouse back in Summers. Do you think you can handle it? What do you mean? If you make this pact with me, you will be able contact me anytime as well as wield the Psi of my pod. I accept Atka, but why me? I saw the entire event in Summers unfold. From when you saved your classmates during the earthquake to you defending your friend from the lighthouse anchor. You know you possess the power to protect and you use it for that purpose. I deem you worthy. Now, you must know that once the process starts there is no turning back. It is a life threatening endeavor. Kyornik thought about it, and remembered the words Gon told him as well as his experience earlier that day. I’ll do it! Place your hand on my head and let the branding pact commence.

Kyornik placed his right hand on the orcas head, and felt a cold surge of energy run up his arm and burrow into his bicep. AAAGH!!! Kyornik’s arm felt cold and numb, but the area where the energy coalesced burned sharply. He tried to remove his hand, but the energy kept him attached. You must bare it Kyornik. Bare it lest it destroy you!! AAAGH!! The blue energy burned through his skin branding him with an orca tattoo on his right bicep. It is over! Kyornik raised his arm and stared in horror as his right arm was frozen solid and black from turning gangrene. Atka glanced at his arm and silver psi bolts pulsated along Kyornik’s arms healing him. The pain immediately subsided and he could once again move his arm. He tested this by opening and closing his hands into a fist.
That was intense! Now, the healing I have done is only temporary. Until you realize the Psi, your arm will begin to erode once more. Realize the psi? You mean I still can’t use it? The realization process is your body working its way to master and house the power. The realization process may be very painful in this case, but you must work through it in order to use it.” I don’t remember having to go through anything like that when I learned Pk au… Hmm, actually now that I think back, I did get a nasty fever before I was aware I could use it. Now, I must leave. And like that, Atka dove down into the springs and was gone.

All right, time to gear up and get going. All the snow and ice around the valley made Kyornik deeply miss his home in Winters. He looked up at the snowy sky with a big grin in his face, threw his head back, closed his eyes, took a deep breath through his nostrils and started to whistle the song Snowman, (a famous song from Winters) as he walked back toward Dr. Saturn’s house to change into his normal clothes. He entered the house, changed into his freshly dried clothes and said farewell to Dr. Saturn. After that he headed back to the lab.. By then, the valley warmed up again and everything started to revert back to its normal state. He entered the lab and took a seat in the Sky Runner ready to depart.

Inventory
Soggy class notes x1
Ruined cell phone x1
Wet kale and shrimp ramen x1
piece of shattered frozen rope x1
Metal baseball bat

[Soaring Pikachu]

Bowie
Saturn valley, inside of Skyrunner

Bowies cat had settled down in front of a saucer of milk that the owner of this lab had apparently set up. So this is the motly crew whose turn had arrived to save the planet huh? Bowie looks the group over from his window seat, as people pick up their items from the closet. Dr. Andonuts, Gon and Diego seemed to be scientifically orientated fellas, their computer smarts would be important since the aliens almost certainly would have the advantage when it comes to technology. Calvin and Yako look like they are full of spirit and that was never a bad thing. (Bowie secretly hopes that Calvin will eventually use that frying pan to whip up some pancakes)

The goth girl, Gale reminds Bowie of an exotic jungle flower that he had seen once. Sure the flower looks pretty but travelers can find themselves promptly devoured if they are not careful. He would have to make a mental note not to fall victim to her womanly charms, though it was also possible that she was friendly and not dangerous at all. Tekina had chosen the whip, which Bowie agreed was an excellent pick. Kyornik left the lab to go and get tatoos for some reason but soon returned and boarded the aircraft. If these slowpokes did not hurry and get a move on, than Bowie was ready to take down the bad aliens single handed! (that is, if he had any idea of where they were hiding..)

Inventory:
Band aids x 20
Large clump of spaghetti
Clawed knuckles x 1

[*Jean Grey*]

Gale Montoya
Dr. Andonuts' Lab

Gale listened intently as Dr. Andonuts explained everything. The Aurora Mysteria phenomenon, the Starmen, as well as something called PSI. PSI? Was it somehow related to the frequent breezes she felt around her, only days ago? Was it that, or just a coincidence?

After Dr. Andonuts finished, Gale headed for the closet, watching some of the others take their picks. Bowie, the latecomer, had chosen claw knuckles. Tekina, the seemingly sweet one, chose a whip, much to Gale's surprise.

Whip, huh? Who knew that she'd have fucking dominatrix fantasies...of all people... Perhaps she's better in bed than she looks.

Two more guys chose bats, though one of them selected a wooden one, and the other went for a metal one. Gale made a mental note not to cross paths with the metal bat. The last thing she wanted was a bashed head, whether it was accidental or intentional.

Gale stepped in front of the closet, looking carefully at the remaining things. There was a bug zapper, which she rather fancied. It would be fun to strike something, or someone for the heck of it, especially if he-she-it annoyed the hell her....or placed her in a small room. A frying pan also caught her eye. Nobody looked like they could cook, at least, cook better than she could, and they needed food. She picked it up and examined it, noticing the dents it had before putting it down. It was pretty risky to cook in a pan as dented as that was. There was still one claw remaining, which Gale dismissed immediately. She wasn't a cat person, nor did she want to be associated with pussies cats. Her eyes then fell on some knives. She picked one up and examined it. It was a good knife, and she pretty much needed it for a reason other than attacking. Campfires could be built instead of using pans, but she didn't know what she could do without a knife whenever she cooked and prepared food. It was sharp enough for attacking too. Undoubtedly, it was going to come in handy.

She just hoped that nobody was fussy about someone who used the same knife for attacking foes and preparing food. She was going to clean it all the time, after all. Who wanted to eat food tainted with foe's blood anyhoo?

After she made her choice, she went back out to meet the wolf who had brought her here. The animal's blue eyes lit up as Gale approached it.

"Though we must part, remember that I will always be with you, Gale...no, Siobhán. That is your true name, isn't it? The name your brother calls you." The wolf said, which made Gale's eyes widen with surprise. It knew? It was true however, so she nodded her head, secretly wishing nobody heard it.

"I won't forget, I swear." She assured, giving the wolf one last stroke on top of its head before heading back inside.

Inventory
1x Shrimp Pasta
1x Cigarette Pack
1x iPhone
1x Recipe Book
3x Pack of Gumdrops
1x Kitchen Knife

OOC: I think we might need a fussy one who must not eat the food Gale attempts to prepare with her knife. Would be fun. XD

[Sluggy]

YAKO!
NOT LISTENING VERY WELL AT ALL
SATURN VALLEY!

Yako looked at his hand, then looked at Calvin. He wasn’t sure why his hand was slapped, but he decided not to dwell on it, because the more he thought about it, the sillier he felt. The squat, old man was still talking the last time he looked over, and… Yep, still talking. He seemed like a nice old man, so Yako decided he didn’t want to interrupt him, but he’d have a hard time paying attention to him. In his mind, he tried to visualize buttons to mash, right up until there was something to rummage through. Oh what fun he shall have! Any attention he was giving poor Dr. Andonuts was absolutely gone at this point, as he walked over to the shed. Fortunately enough for Yako, it seemed like he was done.

First up on his mental checklist of things to check (it sounded a bit redundant to Yako too) were the baseball bats, but everyone took them already. Bummer. Next up, /frying pan/! This'll probably come in handy some time in the future, when he and the group are out in the wilderness and needed to cook something up to eat. Better stuff it in the inventory for now. Then there was a Whip. Now, Yako was a man who'd seen movies. Movies about daring adventurers who braved cups that could melt your face off, giant boulders, and with the help of a gun, a swordsman. Yako didn't have a gun, and that was probably a very good thing considering that he'd more just like the sound of it than anything and fire it off just to fire it off. The whip went in his inventory. Next order of business was... A bug zapper. He scratched his face and considered it for a moment, but elected that he'd probably just swat people with it. He knew he wasn't going to really go anywhere with that, so he let it sit where it was. Next up, clawed knu-Nope, Yako didn't have any interest in those. Not in the least, because he was too busy stuffing Spraypaint into his inventory to notice they were even there.

His attention turned to the Yo-yos now, and he snagged one for himself, because he used to like them as a kid. Used to do all sorts of tricks with 'em, and he felt, for purely nostalgic reasons, as though he was obligated to snag one. The air horns went completely ignored like the claws before them as he snagged a kitchen knife and put it away from the Mr. Saturn currently in his inventory. Didn't want to cut the little guy. He just got 'em. Then his eyes managed to catch onto the Mr. Saturn in the shed. He looked around and for a moment, strongly considered taking 'em along for the ride too, but decided to just pat it on the head instead and walk out. He gave a big, toothy smile to Dr. Andonuts and declared "Don't worry Mister, don't you know? I'm a professional!" He gave the good doctor a thumbs up, and before he himself knew it, or could account to the squat Dr. Andonuts just what he was a professional of, he was in the Sky Runner. Far away from any liquids. Huh, wonder why?

EQUIPPED!
Manly shirt(s?)! (Any jimmies carried inside have been sufficiently rustled) (E)
Manly jeans! (To be honest, they don't provide much in defense as they probably ought to.) (E)
Triangle Shades! (Currently up for debate if they can be used as a boomerang.) (E)
Red Shoooze! (They feel a little soggy, still.) (E)
INVENTORY!
Funky Sandwitch! (It's got a mold 'fro!) (1x)
Toothbrush! (The instructions on the side read: "Apply to retro new-age hippies for fast-acting relief") (1x)
Mr. Saturn! (He has Yako's smell. His mother will never take it back.) (1x)
Can Of Spraypaint (For painting the town red! And when he runs out of that, Green!) (5x)
Yo-yo (Yako doesn't have a dog, but he sure can walk one!) (1x)
Whip (For swinging off of things like an adventurer!) (1x)
Frying Pan (For the adventurer on the go! Too bad Yako can't cook anything that isn't meat very well.) (1x)
Kitchen Knife (It's good for preparing meat, right? That's a thing you do with it?) (1x)
OoC: (Feel free to talk to Yako if you want something he's packing. So long as it isn't the Mr. Saturn, he'd probably part with it.)

[Zekshirom]

OOC: Sluggy, Tekina already has the whip. And there is only one to begin with.

Tekina

Tekina smiled when she stopped hugging the horse. "I don't think you ever gave me your name." The horse seemingly smiled back and replied "My name is Uma." Tekina nodded. "Thanks Uma." Then, she went inside after attaching the charm to Densetsu's necklace. Once she was in, Tekina watched as others made their choices. When Gale picked the knife, she giggled a bit. Then, Tekina walked over and said "If you both slay enemies and cook with that, someone is going to be VERY picky, I know it."

Meanwhile, Uma watche what happend to Kyornik. She frowned, then trotted over after Kyornik went back inside. She then said "Hey Atka! That was NOT very nice!"

[Kiruria]

OOC: Time for liftoff!

@Sluggy: Zekshirom is right--the whip is taken. Also, you're only allowed to pick up ONE item from the list. So please clear out all that crap in your inventory.

@DVB: You may now choose an item for Diego.

@Zekshirom: Perhaps if you had posted your inventory, Sluggy would have known that the whip was taken!

IC:
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Dr. Andonuts' Lab, first floor

The Mr. Saturn standing near the closet door watched as everyone took something out of the closet. It didn't seem to care who took what... that is, until some exuberant Winters dude hogged most of the stuff in there. The Mr. Saturn followed Yako out into the lobby, watched him give a thumbs-up, and tackled him in the lower back. It didn't hurt or anything, but did get his attention.

"please to be not greedy," it told Yako. "us leave some stuff. save if people arrive late. greedy person enemy here for long time, zoom."

Just as the Mr. Saturn was saying this, Gon was walking down the steep stairs leading to the second floor. He had a smile on his face and descended the stairs in a merry fashion, clutching the strap of his messenger with one hand, and holding his smart phone in the other. Waving this phone in the air, he spoke to the group.

"Hey, so what kind of stuff is in there?" Gon asked them. "Anyway, Diego's right behind me--he has the music box Dr. Andonuts was telling us all about. But you gotta check out what's upstairs! It's like, the coolest flying machine ever! It looks like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie, but apparently it works! Oh yeah, and I also got a new app on my phone that lets us track the Aurora Mysteria activity whenever we want. But anyway, let's hurry into the Sky Runner!"

Now Gon's task was to dodge a bunch of people heading in the opposite direction that he was. Accompanied by many an "excuse me", Gon made his way over to the closet, inspecting what was left. It all appeared to be ordinary stuff--some yo-yo's, a frying pan, some cans of spray paint, a couple of knives, a weird glove thing with spikes, and some air horns. Hmm, come to think of it, if he was going to go into an area with lots of aurora activity, he would need a weapon. Without the ability to use PSI, he was powerless. However, after looking over some of the stuff, he eventually picked up one of the spray paint cans--one that sprayed red paint. Why red? Because it was Gon's favourite colour, and also because now he could literally paint the town red. And some white roses if he found some in the gardens of Quetzal. And why paint? Because he could spray it in someone's eyes and blind or irritate them. Spray paints usually contained some nasty chemicals that made it hard to breathe as well, so Gon figured this would be a unique and interesting weapon.

In fact, to test the paint out, he found a plain wooden yo-yo and sprayed the paint at it. When he held the yo-yo up, the winding in the string caused the yo-yo to spin around. All Gon had to do was hold the can in place while spraying, and the yo-yo was red in no time. Some of the string had turned red as well, but no matter. After winding the string back around the yo-yo, he put the yo-yo back amongst the others.

--Items Left in the Closet-- (Anyone who has not yet taken something from it may take one, and only one, item from it.)
- Frying pan (x1)
- Can of spray paint (x4) --Available in every colour except blue.
- Yo-yo (x3)
- Air horn (x3)
- Kitchen knife (x2)
- Clawed knuckles (x1)
*There used to be a Mr. Saturn in this list, but it has given itself up to being taken at this point.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Andonuts' Lab - Skyrunner Mark II Launch Pad

Once everyone gathered before the oblong flying saucer-like thing, Dr. Andonuts faced the group one last time, his back to the aircraft.

"Perfect, perfect, I see you are all well-equipped. Well then, I just spoke with Pilot Saturn, and the Skyrunner Mark II is ready to depart. I know it may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but believe me, I only built it that way to make it look all futuristic. Hehheh, you know... Anyway, before you all leave, I want to make sure you are able to contact me if you have any questions about stuff--about the Aurora, about enemies, about the Starmen, about the Skyrunner Mark II, anything like that. So I am giving you all a phone number by which you can reach me, on one condition."

He hesitated.

"That you do not give this number to anyone else, especially not any Starmen or telemarketers! Or anyone from Reynard University, for they've been pestering me to come back and teach there so often that I've had to change my number. Or anyone from any universities, for that matter."

((OOC: So now everyone has Dr. Andonuts' number in some form or another--written on a piece of paper, in their cell phone if they brought one, etc. You don't need to include this in your inventory, as everyone will be assumed to have it.))

At this point, the Skyrunner Mark II was being filled with people. Much to Gon's surprise, it was actually quite roomy on the inside. All the seats were in a circle around the rear portion of the interior, all equipped with seat belts. Behind the seats, a circle of little round windows lined the airship, offering a view of the outside. Gon sat in the very back, looking out the window at the adjacent control room. Dr. Andonuts was presently setting things up on the computers there. Looking back towards the front of the aircraft, he saw the cockpit, which was not separated at all from where the passengers were. It was just the front portion of the oval-shaped ship. The whole interior structure reminded Gon of an egg, with the circle of seats being the yolk. Pilot Saturn sat on the tiny chair (built specifically to fit a tiny Mr. Saturn) in the cockpi, inspecting the controls to see that everything was good to go. For a Mr. Saturn, he sure seemed adept with this type of technology.

While people were entering the Skyrunner Mark II, a loud clunk sounded from above. Much to many people's surprise, the domed ceiling split apart, opening up to reveal the sky above. A few snowflakes floated their way onto the launch pad, but the wind had died down and the temperature outside was a little warmer than it was before.

"All systems clear?" Dr. Andonuts announced, after everyone was inside. Having done what he needed to do in the control room, he now stood in the doorway, though he now had headphones around his nexk and some sort of transceiver in his hand.

"kay-o," Pilot Saturn confirmed. Using one of his surprisingly dexterous feet, he pressed a button on the dashboard, and the ramp leading into the aircraft began to rise and close up. Dr. Andonuts waved goodbye as the entrance closed up, now leaving a sort of table-like raised area in the centre of the circle of seats. A few more maneuvers on the dashboard, and the whole skyrunner vibrated a little, its quietly whirring engines activating.

"we liftoff, boing."

Emphasis on the "boing". The Skyrunner hopped into the air with surprising grace and smoothness, and although nobody could see it from the inside, its six legs retracted into its body. After rising up out of the lab (everyone got a nice aerial view of Saturn Valley), the Skyrunner moved forward, off in the direction of Quetzal. As it did so, it ascended higher and higher, until it was flying just above the clouds.

Gon kept his eyes glued to the window during takeoff. He had flown in an airplane a few times before while traveling between Sunrise and Eagleland, but this felt quite a bit different than an airplane, especially given the mechanism of take-off. When the Skyrunner did its initial jump into the air, Gon laughed, liking the experience to being in a roller coaster. Except this was way cooler than a roller coaster. He was flying in a UFO, was what it probably looked like from the outside. A real UFO. He could hardly believe it. All throughout the Skyrunner's ascent into the clouds, the smile on Gon's face grew ever broader. When it breached the clouds and sunlight filled the sky, he gaped in awe.

Yup, this was definitely no airplane. First of all, the seats were in a circle rather than in rows as in an airplane. Second, the engine made hardly any noise on all, running on some sort of electrical or magnetic fuel source rather than petroleum. Leave it to Dr. Andonuts to design something environmentally friendly. He has yet to tell everyone that he once worked in a bustling, highly polluted place called New Pork City. Third, while airplanes were full of ordinary people crammed together in a narrow space, this neat aircraft felt more open and comfortable--not to mention the table-like projection in the middle served as a good foot-rest. And everyone in here was not only far from ordinary, but someone he could trust, someone he could feel comfortable getting to know better.

Once the Skyrunner was airborne, it was filled with conversation. Not too loud a conversation, for whenever someone spoke too loud, Pilot Saturn asked everyone to "please to keep down". Here was where everyone introduced themselves, explained where they were from, explained what they can do, their impressions of the impact of the Aurora Mysteria and the Starmen... anything.

"So yeah, I had a robot dog and everything," Gon was explaining after he introduced himself. "Robot City is a pretty cool place--a part of me keeps wishing I could just move back there. I often have dreams about that place, wandering around with Ari in the city, trying to sneak into clubs but failing, meeting monsters on Mt. Itoi... I've heard some stuff about Quetzal though, and apparently there are these beautiful gardens south of the rainforest there. I certainly hope we're headed into those gardens rather than the rainforest itself..."

"land near rio theater," Pilot Saturn clarified. "is abandoned parking lot near, zoom."

Near the Rio Theater, huh? That seemed like a good place to land. There were lots of shops in that area, so maybe the group could pick up more useful stuff there. Immediately Gon knew that this quest would certainly involve adventure.

Several peaceful minutes passed while the Skyrunner Mark II cruised along the tops of the clouds. The sky was clear and a deep shade of blue up here, and the sun was still high in the sky. Nothing but cloud could be seen for miles. Many had to wonder how Pilot Saturn knew which way Quetzal was, but there seemed to be some sort of radar device and a map on the dashboard, and Pilot Saturn seemed to know what he was doing. The windows in the cockpit had turned several shades darker by now--it was as if the Skyrunner had sunglasses. Sunglasses on a lone aircraft flying through the sky...

After a while, something other than clouds could be spotted outside. At first glance, there looked to be a fleet of five UFO's similar in appearance to the Skyrunner. Except these were round like the typical UFO, and were a boring silver in colour compared to the white and blue Skyrunner Mark II. Those other UFO's probably didn't have a cool name like this one either.

In fact, they were flying right at the Skyrunner in a V, having spotted it on their radar apparently.

"unidentified fleet four o-clock, boing," Pilot Saturn announded. "do not know is friend or foe."

That question was answered soon enough. One of the UFO's shot a laser beam right at the sky runner, knocking it sideways a bit. Gon held onto his seat as the panicked Pilot Saturn steered the Skyrunner around to regain balance.

"picking up speed," he said.

No matter how fast the Skyrunner tried to go, the nimble little UFO's were able to catch up just fine. One of them fired missiles which were approaching fast. But before they could hit, Pilot Saturn piloted the Skyrunner around the missiles, avoiding them completely. The missiles flew several feet past the Skyrunner and exploded.

"activate defense mechanism," Pilot Saturn said, in a semi-robotic voice reminiscent of a Starman. "four weapon stations there are. i no operate. focus on piloting kay-o. two front fire energy beam. two back fire bottle rocket."

All of a sudden, four miniature doors opened on the inside walls of the Skyrunner. From each door, a device with handlebars and a large button emerged. At that point, a UFO hit the Skyrunner with another laser beam, pushing it forward. Gon, who had just unbuckled his seat belt, flew forward thanks to this push, landing near one of the energy beam launchers. Grasping the handlebars, he inspected this device, noting the eyepiece protruding from the top. Looking through it, he saw a view of the outside, accompanied by crosshairs that probably indicated where the fired energy beams would land. Browsing around, he came across a UFO and pressed the button. A beam fired, but the UFO was flying too fast for the beam to land. All Gon saw of the beam was a bluish glowing circle projecting outwards like an electricity-imbued smoke ring.

Gon tried a few more times to hit the UFO with a beam. On one try he harely grazed the rim of it, but that didn't appear to do any damage. Frustrated, Gon moved the device around some more... it didn't help that it was a little hard to move due to its weight.

"Come on, I should be good at this, since I'm the gamer here..." he grumbled as yet another beam barely missed. Either his aim really was bad, or those UFO's were too darn fast.

"Okay, bingo." Finally, he spotted a UFO that was just sitting still, and had just fired some missiles. He focused the beam gun so that the crosshairs intersected right in the middle of the UFO, put on a smirk, and fired... But just then, Pilot Saturn steered the ship around to avoid the incoming missiles, throwing the beam off-mark.

"Dammit, this is harder than it looks!" Gon complained as he let go of the handlebars, grabbing instead onto one of the safety rails inserted into the ceiling. These were inserted into a row, so that it looked like someone had made a ladder along the ceiling out of giant staples.

Meanwhile, static sounded from the cockpit. A transmission came in, sounding like... nails on a chalkboard! Gon immediately covered his ears upon hearing that horrible noise, but it didn't last long. It was replaced by a creepy-sounding voice, like a ghost calling to someone from the grave.

"Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night..." it began to speak. "WOOOO! The moon was full, and a shadow crept across the graveyard..." Whatever the transmission was, it was beginning to sound like a crappy scary story. Gon found it rather lame, in fact--what, were the UFO's trying to spook everyone so that they would stop fighting back? If so, they were failing miserably...

BOOM. A missile crashed right into the Skyrunner; Pilot Saturn had failed to steer the Skyrunner around that one. In fact, Pilot Saturn... wasn't doing anything at all. He trembled in his seat, clearly frightened by the scary story transmission.

"HEY!" Gon shouted at him. "You're supposed to be steering the ship! Snap out of it!" He tried shaking Pilot Saturn, but that only seemed to make him more scared.

"monster, zoom!" Pilot Saturn panicked, still refusing to touch the controls. Meanwhile, the Skyrunner was losing altitude, and threatening to spiral out of control at any minute. Not to mention the fact that it was getting blasted by UFO laser beams and missiles. Immediately Gon looked over the controls, but besides a weird sort of steering wheel, all it had were a few unlabeled buttons, a world map, a radar screen (showing the five UFO's nearby), and a few labeled but ambiguous buttons. There was one button that was yellow with an exclamation point on it. Curious, Gon's hand hovered over it...

"button do not press!" Pilot Saturn warned. "oooohhhh, cannot move, i no good..."

Well this was a predicament.

--Gon's Inventory--
- Smart phone (apps: Enemy Index, Aurora Tracker)
- Notebook with a bunch of math notes
- Mechanical pencil
- DCMC Sweater
- Packed lunch (Curry, his favourite), with fork inside
- Can of strawberry nectar
- Bug net
- Can of red spray paint

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OOC: Anyone who hasn't posted yet may have their character just enter the Skyrunner with everyone else--we'll assume you're on board. Raiden193, I'm looking at you. Don't try to pull what Lucas and friends did in Mother 3 by grabbing onto the Skyrunner from outside. It won't work, especially given what happened at the end of this post.

[Sluggy]

YAKO!
CLASS A HOARDER
SATURN VALLEY!

Yako stopped the fun bus right there from rollin' on over and looked down at the little talking Mr. Saturn, who was currently discouraging him from taking all that stuff. After much delegation in his mind, he'd go back to the shed and drop everything not equipped to him (putting them back properly to not leave a mess. He's not inconsiderate. Mostly.), sans the Shaded "Mr. (Will) Shatnurn", the toothbrush, and of course, the Funky Sandwitch. It was now time to decide what he was going to take with him, and after looking around for bricks to just carry around in his inventory, he decided to spring for the frying pan. Not for use as a weapon, no, but to cook things. He could probably pick up stuff like a knife later, he figured/kind of hoped. Also, it was the heaviest thing there. That alone just seemed to click in his head as the thing to carry. After all, the heavier it is, the more useful it is, right?

Yako already knew the pain train was in his fists. Chugga chugga, motherfugga. He wanted to make mention of this, and when it was cool to talk, he would do so. His voice had definite presence, that's for sure. He tried keeping down out of respect for the Mr. Saturn, but he just couldn't seem to swing it. His voice didn't go down that low. "M'name's Yako. I wrestle trees f'a livin'. Some'v'ya' may know me as "That kid that would chase ya' down if ya' ran too far in the Forrest with a tree"." He stopped himself there and put his hand around his chin, some sort of cog turning in his head. Not the one that said that he probably shouldn't say that, no. The one that said "That was fun. We should do it again sometime. When, y'know. The world's not in danger."

And then suddenly, everyone was in danger! He didn't even get to finish what he was saying! Oh well, he can probably tell them all later, because right now, there were lasers! Every time one was fired, Yako bellowed forth a "Pew" noise, and every time they were hit, he would also make a noise. Something like "ASFGHAFSAFSFA", because he wasn't strapped in properly and bounced around a bit. He loooked around for something to grab onto, and he happened to see that, after a bit of bad storytelling, there was nobody at the wheel! Well, okay. That wasn't true. Gon was there, but he wasn't doing anything with it. Poor guy looked outright baffled, but Yako wasn't paying attention, because you see, now was a time for action, to stand about and wonder why nothing was going on, or look incredulously to the quivering mass of Saturn would be blasphemy to a man like Yako. With the gusto of a man who has no idea what he's doing, Yako took the helm of that right-quick, grasping onto the wheel-like device and trying to steer to get them not to crash. "HOLD ONTO YOUR PANTS!" He'd yell, pressing buttons at random with all the ferocity of someone who didn't read the labels at all. Maybe Gon could help him out? Yako isn't particularly tech-savvy. He's just running off of his balls of steel at this point. Well, that and sheer manliness.

Oh hey, that was the windshield wipers.

That's good to know.

It reminded him that he really ought to hold the steering wheel thing with both of his hands.

EQUIPPED!
Manly shirt(s?)! (Especially right now, Yako is reminded of how soft and pleasant they are.) (E)
Manly jeans! (Mentally, he's holding onto these.) (E)
Triangle Shades! (Could probably be used as a one-way boomerang?) (E)
Red Shoooze! (So red, yellow you need to get some! (I'm so sorry.)) (E)
INVENTORY!
Funky Sandwitch! (The only sandwitch known to have rythm.) (1x)
Toothbrush! (The instructions on the side read: "Apply to retro new-age hippies for fast-acting relief") (1x)
Mr. Saturn! (The artist currently known as "Will Shatnurn".) (1x)
Frying Pan! (Reminding him of this right now is only gonna make things worse.)
Balls of steel! (He's gotta have these for what he's doing. Where'd they come from? How did they get there? Where is he holding these? These are all questions not to ask, because that isn't really important at the moment.) (2x)

[DVB]

Diego Vendrix
Saturn Valley


Diego had returned with Gon announcing his acquisition of the music box. Diego worked on some music boxes but this was definitely different. Diego then noticed the box of stuff. He realized someone had left some clawed knuckles there. He smiled and you could swear you could hear the gears in his whirring with excitement. He grabbed it and began thinking how to use it to power his gauntlet.

"Perfect, perfect, I see you are all well-equipped. Well then, I just spoke with Pilot Saturn, and the Skyrunner Mark II is ready to depart. I know it may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but believe me, I only built it that way to make it look all futuristic. Hehheh, you know... Anyway, before you all leave, I want to make sure you are able to contact me if you have any questions about stuff--about the Aurora, about enemies, about the Starmen, about the Skyrunner Mark II, anything like that. So I am giving you all a phone number by which you can reach me, on one condition."

He hesitated.

"That you do not give this number to anyone else, especially not any Starmen or telemarketers! Or anyone from Reynard University, for they've been pestering me to come back and teach there so often that I've had to change my number. Or anyone from any universities, for that matter." Diego just nodded. He did almost snicker about the telemarketers. They then went into the Skyrunner and Diego fell asleep, feeling strangely tired for some reason.

He was violently woken up by the firing. He had nothing he could do.

"WHAT DO WE DO NOW?" Diego asked.

Inventory:
-1x Clockwork Shooter Gauntlet I
-1x Clockwork tool kit
-2x Assorted extra pieces of clockwork
-1x Comfy sweater
-5x pancakes in a container
-1x big backpack
-1x thermos of hot chocolate
-1x magical musicbox
-1x clawed knuckles

[Soaring Pikachu]

Bowie
Inside Skyrunner II

Hooray, they are airborne at last! The group enjoys some pleasant conversation for a time until aliens decide to crash the party! Maybe 5 UFO’s fire beams and projectiles at the Skyrunner, in an effort to blow the heroes out of the air! Battle stations appear around the craft but Bowie has a more personal solution to their dilemma.

Bowie kicks the door/ ramp open, which forces a strong breeze to blow inside! While shouting a war cry, he leaps at the nearest UFO and latches on with his clawed knuckles! Engaging the enemy at close range, Bowie then slashes at the UFO with all of his might as it tries to shake him off! The alien then attempts to blast Bowie with its lasers but cannot get a clear shot because the earthling is too close! After doing as much damage as possible, Bowie midair jumps back inside of the Skyrunner.

He has no idea of how to re-close the door but instead stumbles over to a corner and curls into a ball. Bowie had not noticed a few minutes ago in the heat of the moment but now the realization of just how dangerous and risky his maneuver actually was, hits him! As Gon and Yako try to figure out the controls, Bowie temporarily becomes too shocked and terrified to help fight off the aliens anymore. Back outside in the sky, the damaged UFO shudders and explodes! One down, four more to go…


Inventory:
Band aids x 20
Large clump of spaghetti
Clawed knuckles x 1

[coolminun]

Kyornik Arrluk
Inside Sky Runner

Kyornik was rocked back and forth in the seat as the the Sky runner was shot by the laser and nosedived past the cloud bank towards the ground.

Gon and Yako were up in the cockpit trying to regain control, and the girls were screaming in fright. Kyornik ran towards the cockpit, but then he felt a wind at his back as the ramp door opened. "What the hell?!" he thought. He turned around to see Bowie jumping from the Sky Runner and clawing at the renegade UFO. "This guy is crazy" he thought, but was still impressed by the leap from the Sky Runner. After Bowie damaged the ufo, he jumped back inside and the ufo exploded. Kyornik patted Bowie on the back for a job well done, closed the ramp door, and ran over to the Laser gun. He'd played super smash bros melee, and was confident he could shoot the aliens down as he shot Makiko Ohmoto and Shigesato Itoi's names down during the shootout in the credits, but it was proving to be very difficult. The UFO's were nimble and very agile, dodging the laser blast while repeatedly nailing the Sky Runner with their own shots.

"They're too fast!!" he complained, but he knew that if he gave up they were all as good as dead and the adventure had only just begun. I mean how anticlimactic is that? Really?? So he ran over to the bottle rocket gun on the right side of the Sky Runner. As he sat in the seat, he was suddenly slammed into the wall and yelled in a painful yowl. Yako and Gon's fiddling, flicked a switch of some sort and the Sky Runner stabilized itself from the downward spiral, and shot into a 90 degree ascent. "WOAAH!!" yelled Yako and Gon as they were hurled from the cockpit and smacked right into the recently closed ramp doors. Everyone could feel the force as they were mushed into either their seats or the walls as the craft transcended the cloud bank once more, with the alien ships in deadly pursuit.

The situation was looking more and more dire. The pilot was scared out of his wits, and presently no one could really move to try to calm him down. "Think, what can I do? There has got to be something we can use to calm him down, but what?" Kyornik's mind drifted to his home in Winters, and an image of his mother came to him. "That's it!" "What's up?", asked Diego. "I've got an idea that just might work." Kyornik removed his Skullcandy headphones and ipod touch from his pocket. Miraculously they were still working. Must've been the work of Atka somehow, but yet the whale neglected to save his cell phone. Oh well, priorities I guess and Kyornik does prioritize his beloved headphones and music any day over a cell phone, no matter how expensive or useful.

Kyornik selected a song on his iPod and paused it. Pk aura!!" The psi bolts flashed around Kyornik's head and his eyes glowed. He swung his arm in a wide arc, and headphones were flung towards the cockpit. He telekinetically slipped the headphones onto the assumed area where he thought the saturn's ears might be and activated the play function.

The melody that erupted from the headphones drowned out the Horribly bad spooky story from the Saturn and replaced it with Serenity. It was the song that Kyornik was fond of since his childhood when his mother used to hum it around the house. It was the theme of Winters. The Wintery melody that soothed his soul and many Winters Citizens whenever things got just a bit too hectic and would make him feel as light as a snowflake descending from the clouds. The song rang out into the core of the frightened Saturn and immediately started to calm him down. His fidgeting came to a standstill and his heart rate returned to a normal relaxed zen like state.

Piolt Saturn then flicked a switch with his feet, and the Sky Runner resumed a normal flight path. The Pilot Saturn then turned to look at Gon, Yako and Kyornik and yelled "kay-o" There were sighs of relief from everyone, but everything wasn't Kay-o just yet.

Kyornik felt a little weak from using Pk aura and was starting to feel the effects of using his Psi too much. He felt mentally drained, but he knew he had one more Pk aura attack in him. He regained his posture in the chair, and looked through the cross hairs at a UFO. He fired a bottle rocket at the UFO. The UFO easily avoided it and proceeded to retaliate with a laser blast that just missed thanks to Pilot Saturn's maneuvering.

"Pk aura!!" yelled Kyornik and the Psi bolts flashed along his hands. The bottle rocket that missed, swerved upward in a great arc and and crashed into the UFO from above decimating it and sending debris flying in several directions. With the remaining trickle of power he had left, he pulsed a psi bolt while concentrating on a medium sized piece of the destroyed craft and sent it hurling into the side of another UFO. The chunk embedded itself into the UFO from the force of the Psi attack and caused it to spark and led to a trail of smoke seeping from within it.

"Yes!" he said with an exhausted smile, before he collapsed out of the chair and yowled in pain. His arm was getting cold, his eyes turned a bloodshot red, he started to sweat profusely, while shivering. His faced looked drained, reminiscent like that of a senior citizen and his nose ran like a faucet. Yako backed up from scary sight.

The dreaded Realization process that Atka had warned about had taken effect at one of the worst times it could. Kyornik now had to battle the Psi induced sickness in order to use his new Psi.

Inventory
Soggy class notes x1
Ruined cell phone x1
Wet kale and shrimp ramen x1
piece of shattered frozen rope x1
Metal baseball bat

[*Jean Grey*]

OOC: Might edit this still, trying to understand what coolminun wrote. >.<

Gale Montoya
Inside the Sky Runner

The Sky Runner was spacious, which gave some relief to Gale. She hated small spaces, not only that, she feared them. For her, nothing was worse than being in a tiny room with the walls about to close in. She hated to show it, but getting trapped in a teeny space would drive her to tears. It was her secret however, as it sounded very strange for a twenty-one-year-old woman to be afraid of something that trivial, especially with her image. She had nothing to worry about, however, the aircraft was big enough for everyone with a lot of extra space.

Gale sat on her seat and began to relax. They were currently headed for Quetzal, the country where her father's father came from, which was why her family name was unmistakeably Quetzal, but her appearance, was not so much apart from her dark hair. She didn't know whether to feel excited or nervous about it. On one hand, it was a long time since she visited the jungle country, yet she did see that the strangeness seemed to be happening there. Her emotions mixed up, she drifted off into her nap.

"WHAT DO WE DO NOW?" Diego's voice woke Gale up. She looked towards him, then looked around.

"What the hell is happening?" She exclaimed. She craned her neck forward and saw that there was a commotion going on in front. It appeared that something was chasing the Sky Runner. As she listened, she found out that there were five UFOs chasing the craft. She started to get up, stopping as she heard a sound. Four small doors had opened, revealing control devices. Gale dashed to the front-left one, positioning herself there.

"Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night...WOOOO! The moon was full, and a shadow crept across the graveyard..." A creepy voice started to narrate after a transmission was picked up. Gale shook her head in disgust.

"What kind of crap are they reading anyway?" She shouted above the noise.The story however, had the unfortunate side effect of spooking the pilot Mr. Saturn. Gale shook her head. How could a crappy story scare anybody?

While Yako took the wheel, Gale stepped forward and grabbed the Mr. Saturn.

"Oi, snap outta it! Don't tell me you're falling for that crap, not when we're going to fucking die!" She snapped, shaking the creature. She was desperate, and she did not want to die, not when her brother was possibly off somewhere, probably about to be killed.

[Soaring Pikachu]

(OOC: Made some edits)


Bowie
Inside Skyrunner

Slowly but surely Bowie is regaining his nerves. A reassuring pat on the back from Kyornik helps as well. “Oi, snap outta it! Don't tell me you're falling for that crap, not when we're going to ****ing die!" Gale was busy throttling the pilot Saturn trying to get him to regain control of the ship but Bowie heard something coming closer from the outside. (Boom!) An alien rocket scores a direct hit and punctures a gaping hole into the hull! Still in a ball, Bowie stretches his arm out as he says, “Avenge meeeee!!” before being knocked through the hole and out of the aircraft! At least the ship did not blow up but Bowie knew that he was still in major trouble. If the fall did not kill him then those aliens sure would once they finished off the Skyrunner. Bowie closes his eyes not sure of what will happen.

He falls into some colorful lights of the Aurora Mysteria! For a short time, Bowie is blinded by colors and then suddenly he feels different somehow. As he continues falling, Bowie manages to open his eyes just as he collides with a person on the ground! Somehow Bowie lands on his feet, all four of them! “Noooo, what was going on here?!” Much to his disbelief, Bowie has been transformed into a white cat! The exact same color as the one he had met before! As Bowie looks around frantically he spots a town billboard that reads “Twoson” but that was impossible, he had never ever heard of such a town! The biggest shock of all though was who Bowie had crash landed on. Lying unconscious a few feet away is a Mach pizza delivery guy and next to him sits a box labeled “Zombie paper” This was bad, somebody out there needed this package. But it all seemed a bit too surreal, This could not be happening, it had to be a dream or some kind of alien mind control!

Inventory:
Band aids x 20
Large clump of spaghetti
Clawed knuckles x 1

[Kiruria]

OOC: @Soaring Pikachu: If you read Eagleland's description in both the Signup Thread and Discussion Thread, you'd know that Twoson no longer exists, so we're gonna have to disregard that last part of your post. However, I have another idea regarding Bowie's fall... And on the timetravel, yes, it would be impossible if you don't change bodies and if your name isn't Porky Minch. There's no timetravel at all in Mother 3, at least not in-game anyway. And finally, the Aurora Mysteria only appears at night, so he wouldn't have encountered it during the daytime.

@Jean Grey: Inventory, please.

Well, guess how I got distracted from posting in this RPG. By playing Mother 3 and Earthbound. Appropriate, eh?

IC:
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At one point during all these shenanigans, a classy, middle-aged man in a top hat made a twirling descent onto one of the UFO's. He took out his camera and snapped a picture of Bowie jumping back into the Skyrunner Mark II. Whoops, forget you ever saw that.

Gon
Skyrunner Mark II

Gon watched as Yako tried to pilot the Skyrunner Mark II in the scared Pilot Saturn's place. If he had any free hands, he would have facepalmed when Yako activated the windshield wipers instead, especially since they were too high in the sky to be rained on. Fortunately though, Yako in all his bravery took the controls, piloting it like a pro. Well not really. The steering controls were counterintuitive, leading him to accidentally steer the Skyrunner Mark II downward. And then sideward. And the other sideward. Yako apparently didn't know what he was doing, though he did magically manage to dodge a round of missiles in the process.

Meanwhile, Bowie, in a brave yet reckless move, jumped out of the Skyrunner to attack one of the UFO's with his new clawed knuckles. Well, what do you know. That actually succeeded. Reckless nice guys have their way sometimes.

Yet another person, Gale this time, was attending to the frightened Pilot Saturn, trying to snap him out of it.

"y-yes yes, i no good dakotaaaaa," Pilot Saturn stammered in Gale's arms, looking at the floor. Now he was feeling shaken and scared. And probably a bit ashamed of himself, if Mr. Saturns had humility as part of their culture.

Plan B of Project Saturn Calmdown involved Kyornik placing headphones on the pilot. With the headphones on, Pilot Saturn could not hear the scary story as well, instead hearing a sweet tune complete with clarinet music and sleigh bells, reminiscent of taking a walk in a winter wonderland.

"feel like walk in snow," Pilot Saturn remarked as he rocked back and forth to the music, humming along with the melody. "heard once doctor humming, diiiing ding ding diiiing ding ding diiiiiiiing... say remind him of old home."
He hummed along for a few more seconds, completely oblivious to the shaking going on inside the Skyrunner.
"long time ago, doctor lived in winters, boing. had son, but not could support. busy busy making machines zoom, no time for family. had cave boy as pet, live near stonehenge."

Meanwhile, Yako was fiddling with the controls more, Gon occasionally giving him suggestions on buttons to press. Kyornik was making use of his PSI to combat the UFO's, taking another one down, but tired himself out, so it seemed.

"Corny!" Gon shouted. He didn't bother pronouncing Kyornik's name, but rushed to his assistance anyway. "What happened? Are you okay? I saw you using your PSI back there... what was it called, PK Aura? That's wicked--it's like you could use telekinesis or something! Looks like you wore yourself out, perhaps..."
Suddenly he turned his head towards Self Proclaimed Co-Pilot Yako.
"Try pressing, um, the green button!"

"green button no good boing," Pilot Saturn remarked, having noticed Yako hovering his finger above said button. "better button press are..."

At that point one of the UFO's missiles flew right through the bottom of the Skyrunner, shattering a nearby window and hurling wind at anyone nearby. Pilot Saturn reacted quickly, holding onto the pilot's seat, but the headphones blew right off of his domed head. Fortunately though, he couldn't hear the scary story over the transmission thanks to the loudly whistling wind.

"WHOOOOOAH!" Gon cried, shutting his eyes tight and grabbing hold of whatever his hand found first.

He had grabbed a jammed lever on the dashboard. Not that that did anything, since it was jammed. However, unbeknownst to him, his elbow landed right on a large yellow button with an exclamation point on it.

* * *

Meanwhile, Bowie had fallen out of the aircraft completely. He might have thought that his life was over at that point, or perhaps he was too focused on the sheer terror of free-falling that he failed to even think about that. At any rate, he plummeted toward unknown lands, falling right through the clouds and narrowly escaping a fallen UFO part that fell along with him and disintegrated. Magically, Bowie didn't disintegrate, but he kept on falling for who knew how long...

And then he stopped. Air no longer rushed past him, and his stomach no longer felt like it was in his throat. Instead he felt like he was resting in someone's arms. Some lady's arms, for he could feel her breasts against his side. If he dared to open his eyes at that point, all he could see was a flash of scarlet, perhaps the outline of a face...

"I got you, chosen one. Do not fear. I, who have failed to avoid my own death, can still assure that you avoid yours."

Finally, the woman lay Bowie down in a bed of flowers, letting him rest in a blanket of warm sunshine. And then she disappeared.

* * *

But there was still trouble in the sky. As soon as Gon's elbow bumped the yellow button, red lights flashed around the interior of the Skyrunner Mark II, and alarms sounded. The transmission screen on the dashboard now showed a large exclamation point and WARNING in big bold flashing letters. Moments later, a message appeared below this: "Failed to secure cabin pressure".

At that point, the Skyrunner had stopped flying forward, now hovering in place in the sky. But not for long. Without warning, it, just like Bowie had done moments before, fell straight down towards the ground. It didn't tumble or anything like that, but it remained in free fall for quite a while.

"AAAAAHHHH!" Gon cried. He could just barely handle free-fall rides in amusement parks, but this was entirely different. Having not been in his seat with his seat belt fastened all this time, he hit the ceiling and was glued to it all throughout.

But after a while, the Skyrunner's anti-gravity engine re-activated, slowing its descent. After it slowed down by a critical amount, a parachute erupted from the roof, and the engine simultaneously shut off. All at once, the screens on the dashboard went blank, and the controls became unusable.

Gon fell to the floor, sitting up and rubbing his head as he always did after a panicky situation like that. Whew, that was over. But the question was, what was happening to the Skyrunner Mark II? Where was it going to land?

Scooting over to the broken cockpit window (he gingerly avoided stepping on any glass shards along the way), he looked down and saw a large yellow area on the ground. Huh, somehow the Skyrunner hit land. Yellow land. Not desert, for the stuff was too yellow to be sand. In fact, the surrounding areas looked very green by comparison. Near the horizon, Gon could catch a glimpse of a patch of very tall trees... but that was not where they were landing, apparently. More likely, they were headed for that yellow patch, whatever it was.

Several minutes later, the Skyrunner Mark II touched down gently in a seemingly endless field of sunflowers. Some flowers were short, others were taller than people's heads, but whatever ones happened to be under the Skyrunner at the time were squished.

In the cockpit, Pilot Saturn had just finished dislodging a glass shard from his skin.
"owww ding ding," he said. "big yellow button activated emergency landing procedure. got lucky landing on safe ground. could be much much worse. you all saviors. you thank! now trying to fix sky runner. please to not help me boing. take look around and smell flowers. i no go, pollen is sensitive zoom."

Gon laughed--right, a Mr. Saturn would be ultra-sensitive to pollen, given their big noses and all. However, when he stepped outside the Skyrunner, he wasn't bothered by any pollen at all, despite all the sunflowers. In fact, the first thing he did was reach into one of the large disc-shaped flowers, pull out a few seeds, and pop them into his mouth.

"There's just no end to them..." Gon muttered, gazing around and seeing nothing but sunflowers (and the broken Skyrunner and the rest of the group) in all directions. He reckoned there were other things beyond the low-lying mist, but he couldn't really tell. Heck, he didn't even know where the heck he was.

Suddenly he had an idea. Pulling out his smart phone, he opened up the Aurora Tracker app... but though it showed the world map, it didn't show where on the map he was. That was a bummer.

Gon shrugged, turning back to the others and spitting out the shells of the sunflower seeds he just ate. "Well, I have no idea where we are, but the good thing is we won't starve to death here."

Not really knowing what else to do, Gon decided to take a look around, walking out into the sunflowers to see if there was anything else among them. After a while, he did find something, something football-shaped and orange...

...Something football-shaped and orange that tackled right into him, knocking him backward onto some nearby sunflowers. Why did he find himself landing on his butt so often nowadays? At any rate, here he was sitting on the ground, face-to-face with an orange football-shaped blob with beady eyes and a pair of feet. Simple, but threatening.

A beep issued from his smart phone. "Foppy," it said.

"Foppy?" Gon repeated, looking at the orange walking blob with a confused look on his face. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see more of them around, apparently forming a ring around the Skyrunner.

And then the Foppy spoke in a squeaky voice. "PK Fire!" it chirped.

Gon panicked, bracing himself for the burning impact of flames... but there was none. Opening one eye, he saw that the Foppy wasn't doing anything.

"Haha, you fail," Gon sheepishly remarked. "Hey, you know, I'm not diggin' orange much, ever tried on some red?"

On the word "red", Gon took out his can of spray paint, spraying it right into the Foppy's eyes and around its "face", leaving a red circle on its otherwise still-orange body.

"Foppeeeee!" the Foppy muttered in a muffled voice, squeezing its eyes shut. It tried tackling Gon again, but bumped into a sunflower stalk instead.

To finish off the Foppy, Gon kicked it, just like an ordinary football, sending it flying several feet in the air. Wow, these enemies were easy, though there were quite a few of them.

Gon's Inventory
- Smart phone (apps: Enemy Index, Aurora Tracker)
- Notebook with a bunch of math notes
- Mechanical pencil
- DCMC Sweater
- Packed lunch (Curry, his favourite), with fork inside
- Can of strawberry nectar
- Bug net
- Can of red spray paint

Enemies found here:
Foppy - They looking like walking orange footballs, sort of. Though pretty weak, they love to attack in large numbers. They attack mainly by tackling people. But they may also call other Foppies to the battle, or try using various PSI. The latter will always fail.

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OOC: Okay, here's the agenda for everyone except Soaring Pikachu:
1. React to what happened with the Skyrunner.
2. Optional: Fight off any remaining UFO's if you like.
3. Exit the Skyrunner and wander around the sunflower field.
4. Fight some Foppies!

Important Notes:
- From now on, do not introduce any enemies that I have not mentioned or listed for the area we're in, unless I say otherwise.
- You will not learn any new PSI just yet. The time is coming real soon, I promise!
- @Soaring Pikachu: If you want you can have Bowie find the rest of the group in your next post. He landed in the same sunflower field as everyone else.
- Kudos to anyone who can guess who the woman Bowie encountered is. Don't go telling everyone though.

[Zekshirom]

Tekina

Tekina, inside the Sky Runner thingy, held her ground when the machine was hit. She looked over and almost chocked when she saw Kyornik. "N-no." she whispered softly. Once the machine landed in the fields, Tekina grabbed Kyornik and brought him outside quickly. She let him lie down in the softest patch of flowers she was able to find. "Listen, you HAVE to be alright!" Tekina then looked over at the others. They were all nearby. "Guess I better let him heal...." She looked back at poor Kyornik. "Please be alright...." She whispered before going off to see what was around. Tekina passed by Gon and watched him battle the Foppy. She did a small smile at him and waved, but then kept wandering.

Where WERE they, anyway? Tekina looked at the charm. She needed someone to talk to. So, Tekina whispered a small chant the horse had taught her.

Charm of the horse
Grant my wish.
Let me hear my friend
so my troubles can easily end.

The charm glowed, and-back at Saturn Valley, Uma's mane glowed. She knew what was going on, so now Tekina heard a voice in the girls head. "Is there something wrong, Tekina?" A holographic version of Uma appeared in front of the girl. Uma could see where Tekina was, but did not ask where. Tekina pointed over to Kyornik, and the horse understood. "He will be fine, trust me." The girl smiled softly. "Th-thank you, Uma." The charm deactivated, and Tekina walked back over to Kyornik, still waiting for him to fully recover.

[coolminun]

Kyornik Arrluk
Sunflower Patch

Kyornik was sweating profusely. He clenched his teeth as he was overwhelmed by agonizing pain. The tat on his arm burned harshly and he could feel the bitter cold as the the frostbite was slowly working its way down his arm toward his fingers. He opened up his blood shot eyes slightly to see Tekina leaning over him with a look of desperation in her eyes. He tried to crack a smile to reassure her, but it was no use. He closed his eyes once more and fell unconscious. Within his consciousness, it was frigid. He was on an ice flow in the middle of a Polar storm feeling tired. "maybe I should just rest. so... sleepy." And with that, he fell deeper into unconsciousness. (Similar to the levels of dreams within inception) As he slipped further and further, a voice started to sound further and further away.

"You have to be okay. You just have to". The voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't place the owner and at that point the voice disappeared altogether. He awoke now, to find himself on the beach in Summers (Cue this music, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhKyPKcm8Po). The Sky was black and instead of it being warm it was also gelid. Hail rained from the sky and he saw what appeared to be Atka washed up on the beach with horrendous burn marks dying in the sand as the surf rolled and splashed his body. Kyornik rushed the whale's side yelling.

"Atka!! Atkaaa!! Are you all right?" "Kyornik, I'm not gonna make it." "No!! Stop saying that. You'll be fine. I'll push you back into the water!!" He knew it was impossible to push 6 tons of orca into the sea, but he was desperate. " Kyornik ran to the side of the great orca and heaved with all his might, but to no avail. "Come on Atka. Don't give up!! Pk aura!!" No psi bolts flashed and nothing happened. "Pk aura!" he yelled desperately. "Kyornik, I was a fool". What are you talking about?" "I granted you the power, but you were unable to realize it". "What are you talking about?", asked Kyornik. "I am dying because you are failing to house the power. I represent the pact you made with me and through my death, it can only mean that our pact is faltering. In other words Kyornik, you are dying."

"What?", he said with widened eyes. Atka uttered a final sigh, and was no more. The hail storm started to intensify, pelting Kyornik with large chunks over his body. I'm just a big dissapointment huh?, he said to himself as tears rolled down his cheek. I couldn't save Atka, protect Blake, save the world, or even myself. Not even my family." He had a quick flashback of his mother on the living room sofa with her hair in disarray and her face buried in her arms weeping while wearing a white nightgown with little red flowers. Kyornik himself was 7 years old, standing at 3ft 7, wearing a blue t-shirt and some black knicker shorts and watched as his father open the door with a duffle bag in hand. The last thing he saw from his father, was a disappointed look and the door slammed shut.

The tears really started to flow now. "I swore I'd never be a disappointment again! I'm not gonna let this happen!", he yelled with a clenched fist. The hail storm turned into an outright blizzard that swirled around his body and caused him to fall to his knees in pain. Gangrene infected his extremities and he was slowly fading. He heard the voice once more. "Kyornik, please be okay? "Its Tekina. The voice is Tekina's. I won't disappoint her either!" AAAAGHHH! Kyornik yelled out in defiance of his fate. Psi bolts started to flash around his body and dissipate the Blizzard. Kyornik slowly rose to feet and crossed his fisted arms over his head.

The psychic power that had once abandoned him now returned but this time it was under his completely control. The power welled up within and he bellowed "PK Freeze!!" to the heavens. two medium sized psi bolts flashed by his sides followed by a large glowing cerulean snowflake bound within a cerulean hexagon rose into the air. From the snowflake, a blinding azure light pierced the darkened sky of his unconsciousness and his reality shattered like glass. A fragment containing a smiling Atka.

Kyornik now awoke to find himself back on the ice flow in the Polar sea, but now, a horse with a glowing mane stood next to him. "I know you. You're Tekina's guardian animal." "That I am Kyornik. I am Uma. Tekina is very worried about you, and called me to help heal you of your realization afflictions." "Thank you so much", he said. "You are very welcome, but who you really should thank is Tekina" na na na na na (Uma's voice echoing)

Kyornik awoke to find Tekina still by side looking very worried. Now that the realization process was over, his features returned and he no longer looked as if he was one of the un-dead. "You're okay," she said with much relief and joy followed by a big sigh. A golden light enveloped Kyornik's body and healed him of the frostbite traversing over his body. He managed to look up and met her gaze with a smile. Her dark blue eyes met his brown eyes and that midnight hair suddenly became very distinct. he'd never noticed how pretty and attractive she was until now. He managed to sit up and embraced her in a hug then whispered in her ear "Thank you" before falling asleep peacefully on her left shoulder.

Inventory
Soggy class notes x1
Ruined cell phone x1
Wet kale and shrimp ramen x1
piece of shattered frozen rope x1
Metal baseball bat

[DVB]

Diego Vendrix
Saturn Valley

Diego didn't do much while they flying though he managed to use his clockwork gauntlet to seriously punch a UFO. He then wound it back to him as he tried to help stabilize the ship anyway he could. Unfortunately, he got hit on the head by the UFO and got knocked out.

He snapped out of it with a sneeze. There were sunflowers everywhere. He didn't mind flowers, but he wished he brought allergy medicine. Nutso. He got off and landed.It was a really nice field. He took a nice deep breath. Despite the possible pollen, the fresh air invigorated him. He saw one of his new allies take some Sunflower seeds and he did the same. He thought they were all right. As he finished his snack, he saw something approach them.

It was a football-shaped and orange blob with beady eyes. He saw it tackle Gon before he saw one himself in front of him. Diego's instincts told him enemy. He then overheard Gon's phone.

It was a Foppy apparently.

He saw lots of them surround them. He saw one fail at PK Fire before Gon made quick work of one. Diego got on his gauntlet again as he faced one. They looked easy enough, but there were a good deal. The one in front launched at him with a headbutt. Diego shook it off before he punched his clockwork gauntlet. It springed off and hit one, sending it to another one. Bonus points!

"These guys don't seem to be much of a threat," Diego said as he punched the other one at him. The clockwork gauntlet was doing perfectly. Awesome!
"Gale, you all right?" Diego called to his new crush, hoping she was all right.


Inventory:
-1x Clockwork Shooter Gauntlet I
-1x Clockwork tool kit
-2x Assorted extra pieces of clockwork
-1x Comfy sweater
-5x pancakes in a container
-1x big backpack
-1x thermos of hot chocolate
-1x magical musicbox
-1x clawed knuckles