Crimeworld Redux Episode 0: The Pig Iron Gem

Falconis: Two weeks ago a steel elementalist tried to typeshift his beloved spoink to steel so that they could be closer to each other. While not eactly a notable event in and of itself, this version differs due to the copious amounts of elemental suppression berries and steel boosting drugs he had pumped the pokemon with before attempting the ritual.

Falconis: While the exact quantity of the drugs cocktail he employed is now lost to time, the results became famous overnight. The poor pokemon was successfully transmuted to steel, but not a steel type.

Falconis: The statuesque remains of the pokemon is frozen in time, balancing pecariously on its tail while clutching the trademark gem for dear life...the gem that was ALSO transmuted to steel without losing its psychic properties.

Falconis: The Pokemons owner quietly passed away due to unknown causes and the gem was passed around the underworld by foolhardy gangsters and scum before ending up as the possession of a rare element collector by the name of Mcdawdy last night after an entierprising gangbanger held an auction, realizing he could never hold on to the oddity himself.

Falconis: The item is being transported by train to a location where Mcdawdy will recieve it, sadly it will never arrive as you are here to steal it

Falconis: ------------------------------------

Falconis: It is midnight. A full moon gleams brightly in a cloudless sky, flanked shining stars. A kriketune chirps off in the distance. Your target approaches.

Falconis: You are at an old, abandoned passenger platform with your squads. The freight train will not stop.

Falconis: What will you do?

Falconis: >_

Price: how fast is the train moving?

Yurei: takes a look at the train. She adjusts her sunglasses and then points. "I say I warp in, warp out."

Falconis: Its not an express, its just hauling cargo. Somewhere around 30mph

Yurei: How far is it away from us in m

Falconis: 30kmph*

Falconis: The train is 100 meters away and slowly approaching

Price: "Can you bring anyone else with you?

Yurei: "Yes."

JanusIIV: "Do you know where on the train it's likely to be? I doubt it's something they have on the manifest."

Yurei: "It is moving closer"

Falconis: At a glance you can see that the train is pulling 10 freight boxes along with it. The old engine chugs forward without a care in the world

Yurei: "Well, which fregither even HAS the orb?"

Yurei: expresses disdain

JanusIIV: "I am going to board the train, and persuade it to stop."

Yurei: "Find out which box has the orb, and we will go there."

JanusIIV: Koji waits for the train to come into range, skin turning pallid and slightly transparent in the light of the night. [Shadow Form, 2 AP Bound]

JanusIIV: "That," Koji responds. "Is not what I do."

Yurei: "...."

Price: "Theres most likely guards, be careful."

Yurei: looks at Koji, pretty upset. "Well then I guess I will have to find it myself and bring Sigurd in."

JanusIIV: "Yes. I'll stop the train and buy you time until it's absence is missed."

Yurei: "It won't be"

Yurei: scoffs

Falconis: The train has drawn alongside during your discussions, the engine finally making its way past the abandoned station you sulk in

Falconis: The train is very loud. (gain +3 environmental bonus to stealth checks)

Falconis: >_

Yurei: "Sigurd, get the grunts to start a commotion. They have disguises right?"

Falconis: The grunts in question bear your organizations colours as outlined in the employee charter. They stand proudly at attention.

Yurei: covers her face with a balaclava

JanusIIV: Koji steps forward, onto and into the train, Phasing into the segment behind the control room. "Try not to die. Please."

Falconis: Koji vanishes

Price: "Let's hope he's as good as he says."

Yurei: looks at Sigurd. "Do they know where to go?"

Falconis: Koji gimme stealth

JanusIIV: >stealth

JanusIIV: ...okay

Price: "To stop a train? the driver in the engine I assume."

Falconis: (or some equivalent)(edited)

JanusIIV: (I'm not really tryin' to hide, so <_<)

Falconis: The inside of the control room is quite cramped and is lit only by a single lightbulb and whatever moonlight can make its way in through the windows. The train operator stands by the controls, watching the way ahead idly....until he sees a head pass under his legs.

Falconis: [The operator is stunned]

Falconis: >_

JanusIIV: Koji vaults up to floor-level, making eye contact with the operator. "Stop the train. Then you might live."

Falconis: The operator gives you a long look... then his eyes roll back in his head and he collapses

Falconis: [the operator has fainted +2xp](edited)

Falconis: The cramped control room is your domain now

Falconis: the train moves >_

Price: "...the train doesnt appear to be stopping"(edited)

JanusIIV: Koji sighs, rejoining the mortal world with an frustrated pinch of the nose. "This is why I wanted to retire."

Yurei: grabs Sigurd. "Fuck" She warps to the top of the train

Falconis: bwoop

Falconis: Sigurd and
Yurei vanish

Falconis: the Squad salutes you as you go

JanusIIV: Koji glances at the controls, attempting to find a big button that says 'STOP' or something marked 'SPEED'.

Price: "If the train doesn't stop soon return to base" Sigurd calls to the grunts(edited)

Falconis: Koji: The controls remain a mystery to you. Perhaps the geat big lever on the side that says Chute

Yurei: "So I have no idea which houses the orb"

JanusIIV: Koji grabs the operator, and slaps him to rouse him.

Falconis: slap Kojislapped 1 time!

Falconis: The operator awakes screaming

Price: "Well lets get inside this one first" Sigurd makes his way down between the carriages

Falconis: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"(edited)

JanusIIV: Koji slaps him again, shushing him. "You need to stop this train. Now."

Falconis: The shushing works spectacularly, the operator immidiately fainting as soon as you finish speaking. But not before his hand shoots out and grabs what you assume to be the brakes, as the train immidiately begins slowing down with the screech of metal on metal

Yurei: nods. "There we go"

Price: mumbles uner his breath "Finally."

Falconis: The train has stopped. Your squad dutifully runs after you and will catch up in one turn.

Falconis: >_

JanusIIV: Koji frowns at the once again unconscious operator, debating the merits of leaving him alive.

Price: "I assume we'll find our item in which ever carriage is guarded"

Falconis: Sigurd,now that the train has stopped you can fit between the boxcars without issue. A [rickety door] bars your path into either carriage

Price: Sigurd enters the first carriage

JanusIIV: Koji leaves the control room to travel back through the train, in search of his two fellow jobrunners.

Falconis: The door shatters under your great weight.

Falconis: Its not difficult to find them. The woman that so reminds you of someone is perched on the car just behind the engine. The squad catches up with you just as you make it around. (squad buffs avaliable)

Falconis: The first car is stacked wall to wall with boxes and satchels of all kinds. Burlap bags, wooden crates, steel containers and plastic drums are all represented here

Falconis: And surprisingly, a Sableye.

Falconis: The pokemon perches upon a crate, it startles as you enter and sinks into shadow

Falconis: >_

Price: "Shit, some kind of sentry? doesn't matter lets move forward" Sigurd moves forward quickly scanning the various containters

Falconis: Forgot to say. [Train stopped. Stealth bonus dissipates]

Falconis: (roll perception)

Price: "See if theres anything interesting" Sigurd orders the grunts(edited)

JanusIIV: (am i in this cart too or still walkig)

Falconis: (yes)

Falconis: (you are at least, present, if not in the car itself)

Falconis: The grunts dutifully file in and begin searching through the goods in this car. They find many useless things like clothing, foodstuffs and crates upon crates of some kind of moonshine made from oran berries

Falconis: Nothing of major value.

Price: Continues onto the second carriage.

Falconis: The rickety door is no match for your bulk

JanusIIV: Koji enters the cart, toying with Riza's tassle as he looks around.

Falconis: Your entrance spooks another three Sableye!

Falconis: They slink off in an instant

Price: "...what."

Falconis: This cart seems much like the first, bearing more moonshine and clothing with the only new item being an absolutely massive quilt made of boufullant hair, something you only know because of the tag clearly stating it and the logo of a smilling bouf pasted unto it

Falconis: You're certain this quilt could cover an entire boxcar. It seems to be heading to the port.

Falconis: Otherwise, the car is the same as before

Falconis: >_

Price: "Looks like we're not the only ones here for the gem." Sigurd says picking up speed

Falconis: Heading down the line?

Price: [yes]

JanusIIV: Koji frowns.

JanusIIV: "Sableye? As...lookouts?"

JanusIIV: "Or are they attracted to something in here?"

Price: "I thought so at first but it just looks like they're here to eat the gem."(edited)

Price: "Probably"

Falconis: The third [Rickety Door] proves itself no more resilient than the first to your massive strength and you shatter it to find a boxcar filled with hay and pans of water. A dead(?) boufullant bleeds out on the boxcar floor.

JanusIIV: "Best to move quickly either way."

Falconis: As before, you find Sableye, six this time

Price: "Well, thats not a good sign."

Falconis: However, they do not immidiately slink aaway, instead leering at you with unknowable intentions

Falconis: >_

Price: stares the sableyes down

Price: "Get."

Falconis: (rollu)

Falconis: The Pokemon hesistate

Falconis: ...and begin growling at you ineffectually.

Falconis: It seems like they won't 'get' so easily

Price: sighs

JanusIIV: Koji steps forward calmly, pulling Riza loose.

JanusIIV: "I suppose we do this the violent way, then."

Price: "Indeed" Sigurd draws his own, far less impressive, blade

Falconis: As the honedge appears, the pokemon squeak in fear and begin slinking away, melting through cracks in the floor or simply becoming invisible until only one remains, defiantly leering at your party

Falconis: >_

JanusIIV: Koji calmly throws a pokeball at the Sableye.

Falconis: The pokemon screeches and bats it away with a cricket bat pulled from who knows where, before turning around and beating a hasty retreat

Price: shrugs and puts his blade away

Price: "Well then, lets continue."

Price: checks over the dead(?) pokemon in their path

Falconis: roll pokemon or medicine edu

JanusIIV: "Hn." Koji agrees, moving forward with blade drawn.

Falconis: Sigurd peers at the pokemon and the Squad rockets into action, stacking around the beast and checking its vitals with hastily procured medical equipment

Falconis: [Squad leader 1]"I can hear a heartbeat, but its faint. Its not breathing boss"

Falconis: You gathered as much through your own examination

Falconis: (koji roll perception)

Price: "This is too far beyond my medicine skills and I doubt it would make it to center in time."(edited)

JanusIIV: "Pokeball. It won't bleed out inside of one."

Yurei: is suddnely here

Yurei: can do that cuz she can warp

Falconis: Koji, as you move ahead you notice something unexpected. The door to the other cart is already destroyed... a wave of purple blurs flash past your face, the Sableye that doubled back just barely missing with their ambush

Falconis: The pokemon seep out of the floors and walls once more, revealing that they had never gone very far after all

Falconis: your party is surrounded

Falconis: >_

Price: looks around a small smile growing on his face

Price: "Clever." draws his sword again(edited)

JanusIIV: (how many? 6?)

Falconis: 6

JanusIIV: Koji clicks his teeth in annoyance, releasing Mesodd fro her ball.

Yurei: "How did you idiots....."

Falconis: Engage?

Price: lets Brick out of his ball

Yurei: /Me frowns

Yurei: frowns

Yurei: "Fine, I will engage." She throws out GINTAMA

Price: [yes engage]

Falconis: ENGAGE

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Yurei: Speed is 20, Speed 3 GIN

JanusIIV: Koji 15, Riza 3, Mesodd 13

Price: sigurd 0 and Brick 3

Yurei: parepares a few... ninja tricks as she prepares to battle

Falconis:
Yurei, Spook, Spook, Koji, Messodd, Spook, Spook, Gin, Brick, Spook, Spook, Sigurd

Falconis: GO YUREI

Falconis:
Yurei, Spook1, Spook2, Koji, Messodd, Spook3, Spook4, Gin, Brick, Spook5, Spook6, Sigurd

Falconis:
Yurei does ninja things

Falconis: Two Sableye suddenly jump out, clambering all voer Koji and Sigurd, probing and prodding wheever they can reach before returning to their prior positions, eyes flashing

Yurei: oh

Falconis: [FRISK X2] [The enemy knows your abilities now...]

Falconis: KOJI, MESSOD

Falconis:
Yurei, if you exist

Yurei: creates a double of herself (DOUBLE TEAM)

Yurei: "Which of us is the real one?" they both say in tandem!"

Falconis: The sableye grin

JanusIIV: "Mess, keep these two alive," Koji says, running fill tilt towards the broken door ahead.

Falconis: !!

JanusIIV: Mesodd does a strange ghost-plant motion, and unleashes a sparkling ball of light at Spooky 3.

Falconis: The sableye watches it approach curiously, and then squeals in fear when it makes contact!

Yurei: "You got this Sigurd?"

Falconis: Koji successfully makes it past the sableye in front of the door

Price: "Very likely"

Yurei: nods and TELEPORTS with her clone out, leaving gintama to help

Falconis: Two Sableye watch him as he passes, but instead decide to focus on Sigurd. They tilt their heads backwards and vomit out a stream of midnight at the armoured enemy.

Yurei: follows Koji

Falconis: The darkness flows through the armrour like it doesn't exist....

Falconis:
Yurei Vanishes

Price: the crystal viens in Sigurds armor change, going form a pearlcent glint to a purple hazy(edited)

Falconis: (move to boxcar 4 you too)

Price: grutns in pain he feels the ghostly energies seep into his body

Falconis: (you two*)

Falconis: GIN, BRICK,

Falconis: (and sigurd you cna go too)

Yurei: Gin stares down a sableye, before releasing a DAMNED SHADE

Yurei: night shade on a sableye

Price: Brick angry charge one of the offending sableyes(edited)

Falconis: The sableye screams in pain as the night shade washes over it and makes to retreat

Falconis: BANG

Falconis: Before it can move away, brick runs it over

Falconis: [fainted]

Falconis: Spook1, Spook2, Messodd Spook4, Gin, Brick, Spook5, Spook6, Sigurd

Falconis: Sigurd go

Price: feels his power building from his injuries and challens it through his blade

Falconis: You swing, massive muscles powering a blow so devastating that an opponent would be sure to perish ...

Falconis: and the pokemon glance at each other before calmly stepping aside from the wildly telegraphed blow

Falconis: "SIR, LET US HELP"

Falconis: The squad of grunts launches into action at the last second, working together to hold down one of the pokemon as it tried to escape

Falconis: WHAM

Falconis: The pokemon is reduced to a gibbering mess...as in the squad

Falconis: [Fainted][Squad Dismissed]

Yurei: Gin suddenly night shades anothe rmon

Yurei: wait no it's eot it SNEKS

Yurei: he quickly hits a spook

Falconis: PAFF

Falconis: A confused spook is knocked off the train

Falconis: Two more sableye run around with wild abandon, striking everything they can with claws and nail

Price: grunts as he feels their claws find small gaps in his armor

Price: [6 damage taken]

Falconis: TOP OF THE ORDER

Falconis: The Sableye runs away, terrified

Falconis: Messon is frozen without orders

Falconis: GIN, BRICK

Falconis: Messodd , Gin, Brick, Spook5, Spook6, Sigurd

Price: Brick pounces on Spook5 with his sharpened spikes

JanusIIV: Mesodd faces Spook 5, bouncing airily and pulling green plant energy from its for.

Falconis: The pokemon make an impressive showing, dodging past both attacks as they continue running around the room

Falconis: They continue scratching whatever they can reach (SCRACTHCSCRACTHSCRACTH)

Falconis: SIGURD

Price: hisses in pain as he feels the claws digging into his flesh and bring his blade around on one of the rampaging Sableye(edited)

Yurei: Gintama sneaks again at another mon!!!

Falconis: The Sableye are too quick for the juggernaut of steel!

Falconis: But not too quick for the dusclops that supports him

Falconis: Its down!

Falconis: Only one remains...

Yurei: Gintama intimidates the last one with his MIGHTY HEFT (intimidate(

Falconis: GIN and BRICK can also do things

Yurei: Gin went tho

Falconis: BRICK can also do things

Price: Brick grolws angry as the Sableye scratchs his steely hide and charges(edited)

Falconis: BRICK LANDS THE CHARGE

Falconis: BABOOM

Falconis: MA GAWD IT PROBABLY HAD A FAMILY

Falconis: you may have just killed its family

Falconis: The last Sableye faints and fades away

Falconis: [COMBAT COMPLETE]

Price: huffs angrly

Price: "Good job Brick, Gintama" Sigurd says returning Brick to his ball and moves into the next carriage(edited)

Yurei: Gintama smiles? It has a mouth i guess so

Yurei: Gintama follows Sigurd

Falconis: Its simple for you to meet up now with the offending Sableye gone. The Pig Iron Gem is in your hands

Falconis: at least, the hands of the statue

Falconis: which is in your hands

Yurei: blinks. "Let's go."

Price: "...what happened in here?"(edited)

Yurei: holds the statue"

Price: Sigurd looks around

Falconis: The fourth boxcar is a mess of debris and scrap, made no nicer by the short chase that just occured

JanusIIV: "If you still intend to see to that bouffalant, this is your last window to act," Koji says neutrally.

Yurei: "Bouffalant?"

Price: "Yes the dying, probably dead by now, one back in the thrid carriage" sigurd says gesturing behind him(edited)

Price: "Well we got what we come for so lets gather the grunts, and anything else valuable we can find, and get out of here"

Yurei: "Go get them. I am ready to go." SHe scoffs

Price: tries to rouse the grunts

Falconis: After much effort on your part, you finally get the grunts standing and somewhat mobile, though you can't depend on them for anything

Price: "good job men" "if a little overzelous" Sigurd thinks to himself

Falconis: The leading grunt blushes at the praise "T-Thank you sir"

JanusIIV: Koji tags Mesodd with her ball, returning her.

JanusIIV: "Well, might be best if we begin to make ourselves scarce."

Yurei: yawns

Yurei: "Hurrrrryyy up"

Falconis: You pour over the trains contents, finding little more than ever more moonshine, it seems to be getting more pervalent as you open cars

Falconis: The last car is entirely moonshine

Falconis: Someone got a bit overzealous

Yurei: drinks moonshine

Price: shrugs

Falconis: It tastes like varnish

Price: Sigurd coughs, then takes another swig(edited)

Falconis: Sigurd DOES happen to make a good discovery however, it seems that the Owner, one T.Urnip, has sent a sample box of his berries along with the moonshine, wherever it is going to end up

Falconis: Some of them are weirdly shaped, but it is a good haul

Falconis: [+10 Oran Berries]

Falconis: [+Berry Resource](edited)

Price: "Jackpot." Sigurd says with a smille "Grab as many bottles as you want men"

Falconis: The grunts salute and proceed to grab one bottle each, though it mostly seems out of a desire to please you than any desire for the goods.

Price: Sigurd grabs half a dozen and makes his way out "Well this was fun, time to retire at base."(edited)

Yurei: heads back already, holding statue, not trusting her team with it cuz they are loud

Price: follows his comrades and occationally taking a swig

Falconis: [Scene]