System Shock - Fight the Power!

[thesystemshock.livejournal.com]

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.]

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[badassfreakingoverlord]

"No, I wasn't going to say anything," the book snapped. "The LAST thing I want is you guys having some sort of weird moment on me because I pointed it out. You've been dancing around it for weeks now without saying anything one way or the other, after all!"

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"When has that ever stopped you before?" Hit Girl said, chasing the robots down and eliminating them one by one. "Besides, we figured with all of our hanging out and small cues, you'd know. I'm giving you the benefit that you already knew, are you really gonna get on my case for it?"

Apparently Hit Girl was a poor judge of who WOULD know already. She'd already made the mistake of figuring Ruffnut woudl ave known to tell Hana. THAT had ended up really annoying.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You two are my disciples," Zetta said simply enough. He turned slightly to unleash his wrath on... on...

"Uh, hey, I think we cleared out that group of robots pretty well."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

And despite there being no more robots around, it is actually this reason that stops Hit Girl dead in her tracks. No matter how much she argued and joked and needled him, she respected the Overlord for reasons she would never voice, and he told exactly why, of all people, he should have been the first to know.

"Oh. Well...yeah. Sorry about that. So me and Ruffnut are a couple. We'll still be awesome fighters, so don't expect anything super mushy, or that either of us will neglect anything! She and I will just be together."

And saying that, strangely enough, DID ease something in her, even with her dad's death (again).

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Yeah, well, I'm not happy about this whole 'Overlord team-up' thing you've got going on. It's not how things get done." The book exhaled. "But it works for you, so... whatever. It's not worth complaining about, to me, so long as that keeps happening."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"It works for now," Hit Girl said. "But that doesn't mean we won't be competing later. Hell, we compete NOW, even when we train. We just...happen to be living together and all."

Yeah, that didn't help.