http://thesystemshock.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] thesystemshock.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-12-29 08:52 pm

System Shock - Fight the Power!

Gods could be too arrogant. Such was the case of SHODAN, who had turned the Pods into a nightmarish zone where she could freely amuse herself and torture those that had come here.

But arrogance breeds pride which breeds mistakes. Instead of killing everyone off, she had decided to do this more slowly – watch them suffer in a slow agony, and, therefore had not expected them to fight back.

It had been a lucky shot, really, one in a million, But one of the people present that day had accidentally shot a tiny, insignificant object. A tiny little drone, that, once it had been the source of the power damper, had fallen. The tables were turned, and the goddess had been forced to retreat from the pods.

Now she was on a panicked mode, not only because some of the other people on the ship had managed to work their way into her system files, using another AI to send pointless images and sounds to her, distracting her from her task, but they knew how they could defeat her and gain their powers back.

It didn't take long for the message to be sent out, as the word quickly spread. Find the tiny little creatures, and shoot them down. SHODAN couldn't work their shields properly and once they were found, it was only a short matter of time before the powers returned to an area.

It would take time, but, finally, the tide of the battle was turning on the side of the crewmen and women. In vain, she was throwing her all; even more strange robot creatures, attacking in packs, but with hope on their side, they could win this...

[OOC - OKay go for it! NPC players, feel free to NPC as many robots as you like. Players, once your powers return, feel free to make as much scrap metal as you like, no need to have people NPC for you if you just want to write tags of them kicking ass.]

[identity profile] hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"What are you talking about? I was already trying to get her the fuck off the ship: she's an arrogant bitch with an attitude problem. Now she just made it personal, that's all. It doesn't change anything, it just makes me want to kill her fucking more."

Which she was more than obliged to do.
badassfreakingoverlord: (disgruntled)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2012-01-04 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, and you're not enjoying it," the book pointed out. "That's the real tragedy here. If you start forgetting how much damn FUN it is to be an Overlord, or an Overlord-in-training, you've forgotten the point!"

[identity profile] hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"You can't enjoy every kill you make, can you?" Hit Girl said, reloading her gun. "But if you can't have fun, you can at least gets some good goddamn satisfaction out of killing some more of her minions. Trust me, this feeling's not gonna last. It's not like this is the first time I had to deal with someone dying."
badassfreakingoverlord: (determined)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2012-01-04 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"The only victories I don't get a kick out of are the ones against foes so weak it was a waste of my time to fight them," Zetta said, and he meant that sincerely. He'd never truly had motivation to pure hate and anger, a burning desire to inflict suffering over all things. Not yet, anyway. Not as deep and dark as he could go.

[identity profile] hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, I'll work through that sadness. Any battle you're in, you give it your all. Luckily for me, I always give a hundred and ten for mine. But I'd agree with you on that. I'll tell you what though: I will do my best to enjoy shooting and maiming the shit out of those robots, ok?

As much as she could, anyway.
badassfreakingoverlord: (looking at you)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2012-01-05 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's probably the best I can hope for." Zetta might have relaxed to the point where he could accept this sort of emotional display (as completely inhuman as it was from the perspective of a normal, functional human being) from his disciple, but he didn't know how to be gracious about doing so.

[identity profile] hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com 2012-01-05 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Hit Girl did not need him to be gracious about it. In fact, the last thing she wanted was a lecture. There was no way, she knew, that she would have been laughing it up as she killed enemies, not after seeing Shodan take out her dad. What was needed now was cold fury, killing fast and deliberately so that Shodan slowly lost speed.

"Should we make a move to command deck then?" Get rid of more of these guys?"
badassfreakingoverlord: (crap I'm a book)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2012-01-06 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm following you," the book said, nearly falling off the robot in his efforts to shrug. He couldn't give any real emotional support or any of that crap to her, so letting her take charge was his way of contributing to her well-being.

[identity profile] hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
(OOC, we can stop here, but I also threw HG here: http://trans-9.livejournal.com/871427.html?thread=72200707#t72200707) if you want to continue.