Jump 265: Highlander (Animated)

Jump #265: Highlander (Animated)
>The Sun, reversed: The warm passing glow of dusk.
Wait a god damn minute. MacLeod isn't even Scottish here! What a ripoff. At least it isn't post-apocalyptic...
>Location: Free Choice (11th Century Highlands)
>Identity: Jettator
Never mind that such a thing cannot exist here.
>Drawbacks: Sterility (0), The Last Jettator (+600)
Well, like I said, such a thing doesn't exist. Therefore, logically, I am the only one, or at least the first one. On what is surely an unrelated note, it looks like I'm going to be here a while. Like the next seventeen hundred years.
>Immortality (1400)
>The Quickening (1200)
Worth paying to keep both of these, even if I will supposedly keep these perks if I do two Highlander jumps as an immortal of some sort. Feels... cheap. Like getting extra points for jumping them back-to-back.
>Boomerang Skills (1100)
Oh boy boomerangs and swords, I'm ready for the Zelda jumps now.
>I'll Learn This Soon Enough (900)
Note to self, stack this with other learning perks.
>My Oath Is My Vow (Free, Jettator)
Aaand another win for charisma.
>Aspect: Nuclear Energy (700, Jettator)
Okay, I have to admit this is just cool. It's not about making nuclear reactors or whatnot, but every possible utility for every radiological material. (And x-ray vision, in theory? Okaaay. Damned weird French cartoons.)
>Quickening Ritual (400, Jettator)
I actually don't have any intention of ever using this one unless I get a perk that I absolutely need to get rid of due to it proving to be a detriment. But being able to actually get rid of a perk and not just turn it off? Best to be prepared.
>Clan MacLeod Ancestral Sword (200)
Everyone ELSE has one of these ... wait, why is it a katana, this is supposed to be Scottish, shouldn't it be a claymore?
>Companion Import (0)
I could certainly keep my companions and keep reverting their age to adulthood, but by making them immortal, I can skip that and let them basically do whatever they feel like doing.

You know what? Screw the Game. I'm going to put the sword in a case in the warehouse, and carry around my baseball bat from Winnie the Pooh instead. Because it's unbreakable, and therefore a match for any sword that gets swung at me. It'll definitely make for a distinctive fighting style, and it's not like I actually plan on taking heads, after all.

Though I'm pretty sure it's going to confuse the everloving hell out of other immortals when they come across me, I bash their heads in and leave them to regenerate, and they realize a couple hundred years later that I was using an artifact that shouldn't exist for a few hundred years.

It became known pretty quickly that I wasn't playing the Game, and would bash in the heads of people who tried to take mine.

Highlights of the jump include:

>beating in the Kurgan's face repeatedly because he never learns, to the point that brain damage caused him to start calling himself something like 'curtain'
>bashing in Curtain's face some more because it amuses me and I refuse to pronounce it properly
>fighting in the Revolutionary War (again)
>dying at the Alamo
>joining the Illuminati and finding three other immortals among their number
>beating Hitler's face in with a Louisville Slugger, at Elodie's insistence, and some goddamn Roman immortal taking over the Nazis afterward
>watching a meteorite smack into Siberia, setting off Dead Hand and causing a global nuclear apocalypse
>watching the aforementioned Roman immortal jackass set up shop as a warlord in Manhattan, and saving a certain woman's life so she didn't die when she killed an immortal with a grenade in their mouth
>bashing Connor MacLeod (just once, not even a broken nose) with a Louisville Slugger after hitting his boomerang out of the air because he was being an arrogant jackass, then upgrading his sword to be an HF blade and teaching him how to use it instead of giving him knowledge directly
>not bashing in Ramirez's face, because he was actually a pretty cool dude who doesn't afraid of anything, and understands the concept of not putting all your eggs in one basket
>watching Connor's sword slice through Curtain's blade like a hot knife through butter
>watching Connor's sword slice through Curtain's neck like a hot knife through butter
>the Highlander cartoon series ended WAY faster than anyone expected