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Pit and Shiya tried to reach the figure, while Pit failed to catch up to him and whined about It, not helping Rosalyn's mood, Shiya managed to pull the cloaked figure down and wanted to know where Pippi Is. "That's enough, thanks Shiya." Rosalyn said as she took out her peagun and pulled off the cloak figures face to reveal his true identity.



Which turned out to be a zombie. "Grrgh, le...M...GO!" The zombie said as he struggled to escape from Shiya's grip. "Your either going to tell us Pippi's whereabouts or your heads going to get blown off." Rosalyn said to the zombie as he spoke back teasing the group. "Nice try...I'm sure someone will come and stop you people In...These town!" He said as he looked at people staring at the group In buildings of movetown, soon a large bell sound was heard as a loud voice called out to everyone In town. "TIME TO MOVE!" The voice said as the buildings around the group...Lifted themselves up and moved further Into the village, along with the sign the group saw earlier.

"So I guess that's why It's called movetown." Penny said as Riley replied. "Mobians sure have advanced In technology, I guess It helps them avoid the starvia." Riley said to Penny as the zombie groaned. "Fine...Go...There!" The cloak figure said as he pointed forward, where goth manor Is supposedly Is. "Well then, I guess that's our next destination, let him go Shiya, and you...I want you to leave here and never come back to our life's ever again, you will be the first and only member of that zombie posse I'm going to spare, If you come back and betray us, your going to be deader then dead." Rosalyn said to the cloak figure, who gulped and ran north away from the group, screaming.

"It's only a threat, gosh." Rosalyn said as she looked back at everyone at the group. "Ok gang, let's get back on our horses and get to goth manor by nightfall, because It's already five." Rosalyn said to the group as they ran back to there horses, which were also left behind In the now abandoned desert area where movetown used to temporarily reside In, once the group got on there horses they moved forward to goth manor to find Pippi.


A desert travelling montage later.






The group had arrived to goth manor as the sun started to set. "There It Is, goth manor, It looks like the most gothic thing I ever seen." Rosalyn said as the group stood by a hill with the manor below them, just like movetown, Rosalyn turned towards everyone In the group.

"Remember, were travelling sales people, selling..." Rosalyn looked over at Riley drinking water. "Water!" Rosalyn said as the group began to move down towards Goth Manor.

"But water destroys me."




Rosalyn: 8%

Ninjabread Man: 8%

Riley: 18%

[TartoonHand94]

“Atta Boy Shiya!”
Pit cheered, staggering up off the ground.

“Ha! Now what have you say, You coward bully cad and thief?”

Pit barked at the zombie with a fluff of his feathers and a display of his dukes before losing balance and face vaulting a second time.

”Jinkies! Old Man Winkles?”
Pit gasped as the figure was disrobed.
”No wait, never mind. That’s not him.”


Like, is it just me or are those buildings moving”
Pit panicked as the cloaked figure pointed them at the surrounding neighborhood, not sure if it was a hallucination or the real thing.

After receiving valuable intel from the cloak figure, the gang set out for Goth Manor on their horses.
Happy to be riding a pretty pony again, Pit couldn’t help but pass the otherwise boringly peaceful time by singing.


♫ ”Oh give me a home where the Minotaurs roam, ♫
♫ Where the Miks and the Specnoses play, ♫
♫ Where seldom is heard any one of Links words, ♫
 ♫ And For Glory’s not Cloudy all day~” ♫

A decidedly lyrical desert montage scene later, the troupe finally arrived at their gothic destination.


”Looks like if Pittoo were an architect.”
Pit commented on the extreme gothic aesthetic of the mansion.



Pit
Damage: 0%
Status: Mind Melted (2 turns left)

[Blade Unlimited]

    Shiya reeled back at the unhooked face of the zombie he had in his hands. It took all of his willpower not to squeeze the thing's head into dust due to shock! After the disgusting thing ran off (along with strangely enough the whole town, not even gonna question the logic behind that), Shiya walked back to their horses to ride off. Stopping Pit before he got on, he instead went on in front before pulling him up.

"Yeah, no offense Pit, but your in no condition to drive right now... Take five buddy." He cautioned before stirring up the horse to follow the other's horses.

   
    Finally arriving at the Gothic-styled manor, Shiya was semi-justifiably cautious of Rosalyn's plan. Selling water? Really? They would have to be complete brainless idiots to think that wasn't a ploy.... Though it is zombies that their dealing with, so maybe it was a perfectly reasonable plan.

"Okay then. If you say so." He said before concentrating for a moment. Seconds later, a metal cooling-container appeared in his hand. "I should at least try to make it look authentic."

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Riley and Penny cringed at Pit's singing, anyway back to what's happening right now.


The group trotted towards the front of goth manor and jumped off there horses as Rosalyn walked towards the front door, just as she was about to knock on It, she turned towards everyone. "Ok everyone, I encountered these zombies before and let me tell you, there dumb as phone cells, so It will take awhile for them to get suspicious of us, just act natural and don't set them off until they do It themselves." Rosalyn said as Ninjabread Man replied. "You have my word Rosalyn-san." He said as Rosalyn looked at him smiling while Riley and Penny also agreed.

"You can count on us, we'll be the best water salesman and woman we can be." He said as Rosalyn turned and knocked on the door, It opened and a zombie soon stood at the doorway.



"Hoomans...Rabb...Wha do?" The zombie said In his broken launage as Rosalyn looked at him happily. "Were travelling water salesmans and we would like to interest you In an offer and you cant refuse...Water!" Rosalyn said to the zombie, who replied back. "Off...Din!" He said pointing inside, he moved aside as Rosalyn and co moved Into the manor and towards the dinner room, where the rest of the zombie posse were, however Gregory and Pippi are nowhere to be seen only Gregory's assistant Zomb Eye and five other zombies, who all looked towards the group, the robed zombie soon appeared.

"Friends...Water." He said as the zombies soon convinced, Zomb Eye soon spoke. "Well fine, they can stay and offer us some water, but you six better not be acting odd...Sit there." He said pointing to six empty chairs as the robed zombie sat on another empty chair. The group quickly sat on the empty chairs and looked down at the food offered to them, rotten meat, very rotten meat which all the zombie posse seemed to enjoy.

(Ask Zomb Eye questions related to Pippi, but don't sound too odd, If the meter goes up by 100 then he'll discover that your looking for Pippi.)

Rosalyn asked first.

"So this kind of water Is called Pippi water, know any place you can store It If you do buy It?"


4fyJoDwNp_1d20+1(How suspicious Zomb Eye was.)


Zomb Eye raised his eyebrow, which was no longer there...But shrugged, one zombie spoke.

"Tower..."

Suspicions: 6/100

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[TartoonHand94]

"Don’t worry guys, I got this. I’m a natural born salesman.
Pit assured his posse as their water salesmen disguises were set.
Once the door was open, Pit stepped up to the front of the group, two jugs in hand and cleared his throat.

"Ehem."

“Hi Good morning! glad I caught ya!
Wanna buy a lotta water?
I betcha wanna buy a lotta, ‘cause you see…
You’re not gonna find another other better lotta water,
If you aint bought a lotta water from me.
For your otter and your daughter,
You oughta bought a lotta water,
Cause they sought a lotta water from the sea.
They’ve been taught a lotta water cools you when the sun got hotter.
And the sun has gotten hotter, asking me.
So I’ve brought a lotta water
Cause I thought you oughta bought ‘er
For the softer price you’d ever ought to see
Wanna buy it, cause you gotta
Gotta buy a lotta water
Won’t you buy a lotta water from me?”
Pit ended his pitch posing innocently with his jugs.


Pit
Damage: 0%
Status: Mind Melted (1 turns left. This can’t end soon enough.)

[Blade Unlimited]

    Projecting an putting on a utility hat after entering the building, Shiya decided he would take a more direct approach. Winking at the others, he began to put his plan in motion. Putting on his best monotone voice, while also releasing some of the projection EnerGy surrounding his eye, Shiya was ready to play the part.

"hello sir. i am water repair bot. here to demonstrate the beneficial power behind harnessing pippi water." He said in disjointed monotone voices while mimicking the movements of a mechanical person.

    Stepping inside, but not sitting down, Shiya decided to enact the rest of his plan. "WARNING! WARNING! ERROR! LARGE UNHARNESSED PIPPI WATER BUILD UP LOCATED IN THIS BUILDING!" He beeped and booped to add to the ergency before flashing his EnerGy eye brighter for good measure. "IF REPAIRS DO NOT OCCUR SOON, THERE IS A 99.9999999999999999999% CHANCE OF ERUPTION AND DEATH. NORMAL PRICE IS $7000 COINS, HOWEVER URGENCY WILL ALLOW US TO OPERATE FREE OF CHARGE. PLEASE DIRECT ME TOWARDS YOUR PIPPI WATER STORAGE FOR IMMEDIATE REPAIRS, FREE OF CHARGE!" Heh, there was the clincher. No matter how dumb these guys are, there was no way they'd turn down something free.

    To add to the authenticity, Shiya projected a random car license plate in his hand reading the letters "1 AM ERR0R" (Don't ask where or how he came across this) before handing it to the Zombie and flashing his eye black and lighted over and over.

[Deleted]

Before Zomb Eye could have time to ask anymore questions, Pit and Shiya ruined the mood and made the posse quickly suspicious of the group due to there singing and shouting. "Your singing Is annoying, I don't think your really water salespeople!" Zomb Eye said as he flipped the table, upon doing that, Rosalyn, Riley, Penny and Ninjabread Man got up and aimed there weapons at the zombie posse...Who aimed there guns back at them.

"Why the hell are you all here, wrecking our beautiful dinner!" Zomb Eye said as Penny spoke back. "That dinner didn't look at all beautiful, It looks...Dead, how ironic." Penny said as Rosalyn quickly spoke. "Were here for Pippi, where the hell Is my best friend you kidnapping undead trash!" Rosalyn said to the posse as Zomb Eye smirk. "Like we'll tell you, kill them!" Zomb Eye said to the posse as they opened fire, Rosalyn quickly took out her cherry bomb and threw It at them.

"Run to to the stairs!" Rosalyn said as the cherry's laugh about there impending doom. "YEY, WERE GOING TO EMBRACE THE SWEET DARKNESS OF DEATH!" They said as they exploded on the posse, bullets were flying across the room and towards the group.


3ZRhheKUp_1d20+3(Posse Bullets: If hit, you'll get 10% damage, If you roll lower then a five, then the bullet will be stuck and you must roll higher then a 9 to remove It, If not, then you'll keep getting 10% damage until It's removed.)

p_1d20+4(Rosalyn dodged the bullets.)

p_1d20+3(But Riley suffered the worst of It.)

p_1d20+4(But not Penny.)

p_1d20+4(Or Ninjabread Man.)


The group narrowly dodged the bullets...Except for Riley, who got shot on the arm, worse, the bullet was stuck In his arm and because of the impact, he slipped and fell when he got to the stairs. "Crap, there's a bullet In my arm." Riley said as Penny inspected It. "Hang on, I might be able to get It out, put your sweater In your month because this will be painful." Penny said as Riley nodded as be bit Into his sweater before Penny grabbed the bullet In his arm and tried to pull It out.

p_1d20+4(Penny the successful doctor.)

Riley screamed In pain, but Penny quickly took out the bullet out of his arm and threw It on the floor by the entryway of the goth lounge, Penny soon removed a bit of her sweater and wrapped It around Riley's bleeding arm as Rosalyn looked around for Pit, Shiya...And the posse.

"I don't like how suddenly the manor's quiet, where did everyone go?" Rosalyn said by the stairs.




Rosalyn: 8%
Ninjabread Man: 8%
Riley: 28%
Turns until Cherry Bomb Regrows: Three Turns

Suspicions: 100/100

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[TartoonHand94]

Pit tapped out as Shiya tagged in for his shot at playing water salesman.

In contrast to Pit’s peppy lyrical sales pitch, Shiya instigated a need for his services by exploding with an error warning message.

 

“I think someone’s stealing someone’s car!” 

Pit tried to warn, trying to block his ears with his fingers. 

The loud noise really rang in Pit’s head. He could swear he could feel his brain jiggling around in his skull.

He’d open his eyes again to find a gun drawn standoff between Rosalyn, Riley, Penny and Ninjabread Man and the zombies.

”Hey if you didn’t want the water you could just say ‘No thank you, have a nice day!’ ”
Pit complained, searching his person for his bow.

”And where’s my quiver for that matter?”
Instead of his bow, Pit pulled out his Guardian Orbitars.
(Nm4Q0uP6p_1d20+1 Pit’s Guardian Orbitars . Absorb up to 25% damageIf rolled successfully, they reflect projectiles.)

”Thank you Orbitars. You’re always looking out for me and guarding me.”
Pit sighed in appreciation of his orbitars.
”You’re the tastiest spam I ever had!’ ”
Pit’s brief euphoria was severed by the sight of a bullet in Riley’s shoulder.

“Woah No! Oh No Oh No!”
Pit began to panic.
”Is there a doctor in the hou-Ow.”

”What the? Ow my head. I think whatever was in that drink’s starting to wear off…ow…”
Pit groaned with his forehead in his hand.



Pit
Damage: 0%
Status: Mind Melted (0 turns left. Thank Dyntos.)
Guardian Orbitars 15%

1d20+1

[Blade Unlimited]

    ...Well that plan could have gone better. Apparently these zombies weren't as dumb as they looked since they didn't fall for Shiya's foolproof plan!

"And I thought I made a pretty convincing robot too." He sighed before taking off his helmet and returning his eye to its resting state. "I thought your plan was pretty good too, Pit." He added as a side note before keeping his eyes peeled on the standoff between the 3 in front of him.

    "Hey now, let's just settle down." He put his hands up. "I'm sure if we just calmly talk this out we can come to some kind of-" not bothering to finish his sentence. Chucking his hard hat at one of the zombies to incapacitate them, he stomped his foot on his chair to raise it into the air before kicking it at another of the ones brandishing a gun in his direction.

76D2KXZrp_1d20+2 (Posse Bullets Evasion - Safe) Following behind the rest of his allies, Shiya was able to escape the bullet-hell until they made it into cover and safety. Riley seemed to be shot, but thanks to Penny's quick thinking, he had the bullet removed quite cleanly.

"Its too quiet... we better head up while their still regrouping and we have a chance." He said before urging the group to move further upwards and too the aforementioned tower.

    "This doesn't look good. I'm not okay with being out and the open like this; i need a better defense against long distance weapons..." He quietly mumbled to himself before scanning over the ones his allies currently had out with them. "Ah, I should really thank Pit for bringing such a diverse amount of gear with him later. Just as long as it isn't with another drink!" Shiya gratefully thought before beginning to analyze the Angel boy's defensive armaments. "Trace on. Analyze..." He quietly spoke while the structure of the Orbitars.

Damage: 0%
Shield Durability: 65%
Status: Sword Birth (Guardian Orbitars)(1)

1d20+2

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Rosalyn ignored Shiya's plan as she...Went up the stairs anyway, upon walking up she walked to the nearest window and looked outside, and that was when she saw It, a large tall dark tower that was near the manor, Pippi was most likely being kept prisoner there, with Gregory. "The tower...Pippi must be being kept Inside there." Rosalyn said as she tried to open the window so she can climb out and head towards the tower, fortunately for her, It was unlockable.

"Yes, It's open, I can climb down there and head to the tower." Rosalyn said as Ninjabread Man looked at her...Confused. "You, what about us?" Rosalyn said as she heard talking from the floor below her. "Found any of them yet?" Zomb Eye's voice was heard as one of the zombies said. "Nope, not even the angel." The Zombie said as Zomb Eye yelled. "FIND THEM THEN, THEY COULDN'T OF LEFT!" He said as the voices stopped, Rosalyn looked at the five.

"Sorry guys, but I need you all to stay here and fight the zombie posse to stop them from going after me, I have to do this confrontation with the leader alone." Rosalyn said as she got her pea gun ready and opened the window again, she looked back at the group.

"Does anyone have problems with this plan?" Rosalyn said to the group as Riley, Penny and Ninjabread Man shook there heads, well Riley did have an opinion.

"It's going to be hard to stab them with my arm In a cast."


Rosalyn: 8%
Ninjabread Man: 8%
Riley: 28%
Turns until Cherry Bomb Regrows: Two Turns

[TartoonHand94]

“Ow… Aw man… she was right…that stuff was bad for me…Owhow…”
Pit groaned under his breath. He had finally come back to his full senses.
He looked around and got a better sense of his environment than in his previous stupor state.
Pit looked around and noticed that the zombies that were shooting at his friends earlier were gone.

“For what it’s worth Shiya, “
Pit shrugged in consolation, patting Shiya on the back
“You had me fooled the whole time. I kinda Wanna buy a lotta water from ya-ow”
Pit chuckled before quickly dabbing his aching temples again.

“Oh by the way guys, does anybody mind Not mentioning to Lady Palutena?”
Pit begged his comrades sheepishly.

“Yeah maybe going after them and taking them down while their still limping’s the way to go.”
Pit agreed with Skiya. Pit couldn’t help but notice Rosalyn climbing out of the window.

“You’re going out there without back up?”
he asked her.
Before Pit could protest further, he heard footsteps coming up to the nearest entrance.
He was forced by circumstance to agree to the plan.

“Okay, we’ll stay. May the gods watch over you and your mission.”
He wished Rosalyn luck.
Pit whipped out his bow and aimed ready to snipe the entrance.
Pit couldn’t help but notice something new written on his bow.

“…Who’s number is this?”


Pit
Damage: 0%
Status: Hung Over

[Blade Unlimited]

GUARDIAN ORBITARS ANALYSIS COMPLETE!

    For once, Shiya listened to Rosalyn's plan, nodding as she explained how she felt it necessary for everyone to stay behind and 'hold down the fort' per-say while she went on ahead to rescue Pippi. After she finished, he put on a frown before his next words clearly represented how he felt about the plan.

"That's a really bad plan. Your literally going on ahead to fight against possibly even more zombies alone while also purposefully entering a hostage situation! And you say you need to do this alone? No offense but that is just plain irrational, and this is coming from the guy that just pretended to be a robot." He voiced his opinion before being visibly irked as Rosalyn seemingly didn't hear him and was already going out the window.

   
    "Damn it. I'm going with her to make sure she doesn't get killed." He said before turning to Pit and placing a hand on his guardian orbitars. "Just a sec, Let me give you a little help before I go." Running his EnerGy through the circuits and structure of the orbitars, Shiya manipulated its structure to be more durable and tougher in strength. "There, done." He said before taking his hands off of the weaponry, now enhanced and pushed towards its maximum structural potential.

(Analysis Reinforcement @guardian Orbitars: +5% Damage Absorbed, Duration: 3 Posts, Cooldown: 2 Posts) 

    Two-Finger Saluting to the group before Jumping cleanly through the window after the AWOL Rosalyn, Shiya left the main group to help. Jeez, since when did he become the voice of reason? It's common sense that striking it alone right in the Final Boss's lair is the worst possible strategy ever when you came with a team!

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The group watched as Rosalyn quickly climbed out of the window, while Shiya followed her soon after. "Shiya wait, damn It." Penny said In frustration as Riley patted her back. "Dont worry Penny, I'm sure they'll work things out." Riley said to Penny as she spoke back. "They better because the four of us have to face six members of that posse." Penny said, speaking of which two of the members of the posse suddenly ran up the stairs and turned towards the four. "There they are, now we don't have to use the grenade." The first zombie said as he looked at the second zombie.

Who was holding a pulled grenade.

"Oh, were not doing It now?" He said as Riley turned towards Penny, Ninjabread Man and Pit.

"RUN INTO THAT ROOM BEHIND US!"

And soon the grenade exploded.

(Roll a 15 In DEX to avoid the grenade explosion, If failed, the person that gets hit will get 15% damage.)


eQ3jsz4|p_1d20+4(Ninjabread Man avoided It In style.)

p_1d20+3(But not Riley.)

p_1d20+4(Or Penny.)

"Ow...I have burns."

---

Meanwhile Rosalyn started to walk towards the castle, only for Shiya to climb out the window and head towards her, causing Rosalyn to turn. "What, what the hell are you doing!" Rosalyn said to Shiya as he called her out on her wreckless plan, causing Rosalyn to reach her breaking point. She speed walked towards Shiya and grabbed him by the collar before pushing him to a nearby wall, which was beside a door back Into Goth Manor.

"You listen here Shiya Kirigaya, you are here to rescue my close friend, In which case you have to do, EXACTLY what I say, If you don't then my friend will probably die because of you and Pit's wreckless stupidity. You already screwed up once at that dinner with the posse, and I don't want you to screw up again, especially at the point where I might be able to get Pippi out from whatever torture Gregory had put him In.

So your going to do as I say and.

GO

BACK

IN

THE

MANOR!"

As soon as Rosalyn finished she pushed Shiya Into the door and closed It, after the speech she started to continue walking towards the dark castle, unfortunately, she turned and saw It...A sand storm was heading towards her causing her to quickly run towards the tower, unfortunately the sand storm quickly covered the area, making It unknown If Rosalyn reached the tower or not.

As for Shiya the door suddenly flew open due to the wind, catching the attention of a nearby zombie with a blade, he saw Shiya and ran towards him, planning to stab him.

"COME HERE YOU STUPID KID!"

(Roll a Dex 12 to avoid the stab.)

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Ninjabread Man: 8%

Riley Dmitri: 43%
Penny Benson: 15%
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[TartoonHand94]

“Did you just…Buff my Orbitars?”
Pit asked in offended sounding confusion.

“That is Awesome!”
Pit hi fived.

“We got this under control, you get Rosalyn under control.”
Pit nodded as he turned his focus back to the oncoming horde of zombies.

“Don’t worry guys, we can take them!”
Pit encouraged Riley, Penny and Ninjabread Man.
“They may have us outnumbered but we have them out…man.”
Pit cut himself off with a sigh upon seeing the pulled grenade.

“RUN!”
Pit yelled as he joined his comrades in bolting for the door.

(oJ|Q83Yop_1d20+3 Pit's dodge of the grenade.)

Ever as skillful at fleeing as a pigeon in the park, Pit made it through the door before the grenade exploded.

“Phew. That was dicey. Everybody okay?”
Pit panted before looking at Riley and Penny and realizing...

“Why didn’t I just use my Orbitars?”
Pit face palmed.

 
Pit
Damage: 0%
Status: Guardian Orbitars 20%

1d20+3

[Blade Unlimited]

   5P6JZUwGp_1d20+2 (Evasion Roll - Safe)

"No." Shiya bluntly said in a monotone voice as the Zombie attempted to attack him when he had been pushed through the door.

p_1d20+4 (Projection Assault: 12%)

p_1d20+4 (Projection Assault: 12% CRITICAL HIT) (All of the brutal not caring)

    Not paying much attention to the zombie "threat" in front of him, Shiya casually projected a sword directly into the chest of the Zombie who still had his sword raised over his head while thinking over what Rosalyn just said. He sure as hell wasn't going to go back into the manor. Something Rosalyn apparently did not get was that raising your voice higher and yelling louder did not make a point any more valid. Carelessly kicking the zombie off of his blade and onto the floor, he turned around as he felt some sort of rumbling noise beyond the door. Turning around to completely disregarding the would-be foe, he opened the door once more to try and get a peek at whether something happened to Rosalyn... "I'm not crazy right? Because I am sure all this sand was definitely not here a few seconds ago..."

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