"It's not a mess - it's revenge! Sweet revenge. Think of it..intelligent birds controlled by ME, Donald Dixon." he says. "I would do ANYTHING for Diane. Those fools at DARPA have no idea what they did, no idea what they had done when they fired her. Those bastards. When those bastards let her go, I followed. She came up with the plan, I have set it in motion. Now the whole WORLD will know about Donald Dixon and Diane Petersen."
He raises the metal pole, slowly, in a menacing manner, ready to bring it down upon your skulls.
Dealing with Donald: You can use CHARM to persuade him on the error of his ways, or FORCE to wrestle him to the ground. Dealing with the Bird Machine: You can use TINKER or PROGRAM to break the Bird Machine, the device Donald is using to control the birds. Dealing with the Goshawk: This bird is literally about to eat you alive. You can dodge it with MOVE, or attack it with FORCE.
Each Kid can perform two actions for this Showdown - doesn't matter if you do the same thing, you can all mix and match.To overcome this trouble, we will need a total of 6 successes combined. EACH problem needs to be dealt with. You can't, say, skip destroying the Bird Machine. For each action you perform, if you fail, you gain a condition. For each condition you have it's a cumulative -1 die to your pools on each subsequent roll. (Jo is already "scared" so that's a -1 die pool on rolls).
Based on how we all do I will describe the ending.
"So ees my feest!" Misha lunged towards Donald. Jason got the hint, followed her lead. Flanked him. He shot a quick jab and connected into Donald, catching him off guard - setting Misha up perfectly. She wound up fast and her fist smashed into Donald's jaw, sending him spinning into the metal bulkhead, hitting it with a loud CLANG. He crumpled to the ground and didn't move. She looked at him dead serious. "Now, geef me seek beet to keek thees bird's ass weeth."She turned towards the Goshawk.
Joan's scared when she goes over to the computer to try and turn it off. She fumbles around, flipping through her pages and finding nothing. I have to solve this, my friends need me! Joan remembers that she's the smartest kid in school, bucks up and turns the machine off.
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Jo, pushing past the fear momentarily, remembered how to turn off the computer. Of course! Just like the ones in the library! It powered down. With the exception of the Goshawk, all the other circuited birds became normal again and in a massive flutter of confusion, started fleeing out of windows and vents. The Goshawk attacked Misha, catching her off guard, and the russian tussled with the huge bird. Donald laid on the floor unconscious. It was up to Bell to turn the tide.
Jason, seeing Misha go down stops his song and hesitates for a moment before twisting his guitar in his palm, holding it like a bat. With a large swing, he shouts, "BUZZ OF BIRD BRAIN!" Smacking the bird off Misha, smack into the wall. He then helps Misha back to her feet.
Bell was silently panicking at the events unfolding before her; Misha and Jason having tag teamed Donald into unconsciousness, and Joan forcing the fear back and turning off the device. God, they all looked hot focusing on what they were focusing on... and now definitely wasn't the time for Bell to stand there like a useless bisexual... But speaking of hot. She throws her backpack over her shoulder momentarily and digs out a set of matches. Bell grabs some random sheets of paper and throws it on the machine and not a second later did she light up one of the matches and flick it on the pile.
She stands there to admire the flames and, with a smile, says, "We should probably get out of here now."
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Joan gets to running and as she sees Bell admiring her handiwork, a small part of her wonders if they just created a monster tonight. But still, they won! "Suck it, boomer! Diane's never gonna do ya now!"
Jason makes sure to grab and drag the good old Dr. Donald away from the fire. Pulling him furiously over his shoulder before running after Jo and Bell, "Misha! Can you give me a hand with this fat ass!?"
The birds, now finally free from the bird controlling computer, flew away in a dire panic, more so with the rapidly building fire. Misha, with a few scrapes and scratches, thanked Jason and ushered everyone out of the ship as quickly as possible. "Time to go! Time to go! Go! Go!" Misha helped Jason carry Donald off of the ship and to a distance of relative safety, but still on the island where the authorities would see him, but not as a charred corpse.
You ran to the raft, any wildlife still on the island fleeing away in instinctive flight. As you all get on to the raft and paddle as hard as you can, a massive explosion completely blows up the magnetrine ship, and for a moment you wonder if Donald was still on board. As you biked away from the island, emergency vehicles sped the opposite direction - none the wiser of what happened.
The next day you saw the news report on TV. You'd tell everyone you were on the news but then that would give away that you had anything to do with this incident, but you didn't, a secret that would remain with you and your friends for the rest of your life. One thing was different, there were no more killer birds in Boulder City, Nevada. To Jason's surprise, Stacey called him and began what one would call the beginning of a possible relationship.
The police report mentioned nothing of Donald Dixon.
Jason, after the events of that mystery, still kept up his hard work for getting his name out there. Though taking a break to hang out with his friends or talk to Stacey was a welcomed time for him.
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"It's not a mess - it's revenge! Sweet revenge. Think of it..intelligent birds controlled by ME, Donald Dixon." he says. "I would do ANYTHING for Diane. Those fools at DARPA have no idea what they did, no idea what they had done when they fired her. Those bastards. When those bastards let her go, I followed. She came up with the plan, I have set it in motion. Now the whole WORLD will know about Donald Dixon and Diane Petersen."
He raises the metal pole, slowly, in a menacing manner, ready to bring it down upon your skulls.
"Come. My birds are hungry."
Dealing with Donald: You can use CHARM to persuade him on the error of his ways, or FORCE to wrestle him to the ground.
Dealing with the Bird Machine: You can use TINKER or PROGRAM to break the Bird Machine, the device Donald is using to control the birds.
Dealing with the Goshawk: This bird is literally about to eat you alive. You can dodge it with MOVE, or attack it with FORCE.
Each Kid can perform two actions for this Showdown - doesn't matter if you do the same thing, you can all mix and match.To overcome this trouble, we will need a total of 6 successes combined. EACH problem needs to be dealt with. You can't, say, skip destroying the Bird Machine. For each action you perform, if you fail, you gain a condition. For each condition you have it's a cumulative -1 die to your pools on each subsequent roll. (Jo is already "scared" so that's a -1 die pool on rolls).
Based on how we all do I will describe the ending.
"So ees my feest!" Misha lunged towards Donald. Jason got the hint, followed her lead. Flanked him. He shot a quick jab and connected into Donald, catching him off guard - setting Misha up perfectly. She wound up fast and her fist smashed into Donald's jaw, sending him spinning into the metal bulkhead, hitting it with a loud CLANG. He crumpled to the ground and didn't move. She looked at him dead serious. "Now, geef me seek beet to keek thees bird's ass weeth." She turned towards the Goshawk.
2 / 6 SUCCESSES
Joan's scared when she goes over to the computer to try and turn it off. She fumbles around, flipping through her pages and finding nothing. I have to solve this, my friends need me! Joan remembers that she's the smartest kid in school, bucks up and turns the machine off.
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Jo, pushing past the fear momentarily, remembered how to turn off the computer. Of course! Just like the ones in the library! It powered down. With the exception of the Goshawk, all the other circuited birds became normal again and in a massive flutter of confusion, started fleeing out of windows and vents. The Goshawk attacked Misha, catching her off guard, and the russian tussled with the huge bird. Donald laid on the floor unconscious. It was up to Bell to turn the tide.
5 / 6 SUCCESSES
Jason, seeing Misha go down stops his song and hesitates for a moment before twisting his guitar in his palm, holding it like a bat. With a large swing, he shouts, "BUZZ OF BIRD BRAIN!" Smacking the bird off Misha, smack into the wall. He then helps Misha back to her feet.
Bell was silently panicking at the events unfolding before her; Misha and Jason having tag teamed Donald into unconsciousness, and Joan forcing the fear back and turning off the device. God, they all looked hot focusing on what they were focusing on... and now definitely wasn't the time for Bell to stand there like a useless bisexual... But speaking of hot. She throws her backpack over her shoulder momentarily and digs out a set of matches. Bell grabs some random sheets of paper and throws it on the machine and not a second later did she light up one of the matches and flick it on the pile.
She stands there to admire the flames and, with a smile, says, "We should probably get out of here now."
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Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
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Joan gets to running and as she sees Bell admiring her handiwork, a small part of her wonders if they just created a monster tonight. But still, they won! "Suck it, boomer! Diane's never gonna do ya now!"
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Jason makes sure to grab and drag the good old Dr. Donald away from the fire. Pulling him furiously over his shoulder before running after Jo and Bell, "Misha! Can you give me a hand with this fat ass!?"
The birds, now finally free from the bird controlling computer, flew away in a dire panic, more so with the rapidly building fire. Misha, with a few scrapes and scratches, thanked Jason and ushered everyone out of the ship as quickly as possible. "Time to go! Time to go! Go! Go!" Misha helped Jason carry Donald off of the ship and to a distance of relative safety, but still on the island where the authorities would see him, but not as a charred corpse.
You ran to the raft, any wildlife still on the island fleeing away in instinctive flight. As you all get on to the raft and paddle as hard as you can, a massive explosion completely blows up the magnetrine ship, and for a moment you wonder if Donald was still on board. As you biked away from the island, emergency vehicles sped the opposite direction - none the wiser of what happened.
The next day you saw the news report on TV. You'd tell everyone you were on the news but then that would give away that you had anything to do with this incident, but you didn't, a secret that would remain with you and your friends for the rest of your life. One thing was different, there were no more killer birds in Boulder City, Nevada. To Jason's surprise, Stacey called him and began what one would call the beginning of a possible relationship.
The police report mentioned nothing of Donald Dixon.
Jason, after the events of that mystery, still kept up his hard work for getting his name out there. Though taking a break to hang out with his friends or talk to Stacey was a welcomed time for him.