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Post Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:39 am |
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It takes the Rangers a while to track down Su Lin's workshop. Eventually, though, they find their way there (after Avery finds a mouse in the kitchens and asks for directions). On the way, they passed through the Imperial Aquarium, the Imperial Audience Chamber (twice), the Throne Room, the Imperial Bathroom and, of course, the kitchens, where Avery finally found someone to ask for directions.
The workshop, it turns out, is a small annex off Su Lin's bedroom. There's any number of screwdrivers, screws, gears, bits of metal, half-built toys and assorted tools. There's also a large statue of a plump man seated prominently on a desk; a metal hand with a few wires protruding from the wrist; a small remote; a tourist brochure for Las Vegas; and, in the category of articles useful for gas masks, Buck finds several plastic bags, elastics, rubber tubes, and half a dozen tiny gas canisters, each just the right size for a rodent to carry on his back. A razor blade from the Imperial Bathroom will allow him to cut the rubber tubing to any length he wants.
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Warbeard
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Post Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:25 am |
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Hex wanders over to examine the gas canisters, are they empty or do they already contain some sort of gas, and if so what?
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Post Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:07 pm |
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The canisters are heavy enough that they must have something in them. However, they are unlabelled. Hex could try to release a small amount of the gas and identify it by smell, if he wants.
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Warbeard
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:56 am |
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CCC wrote: The canisters are heavy enough that they must have something in them. However, they are unlabelled. Hex could try to release a small amount of the gas and identify it by smell, if he wants. "Oh, what the hell," Hex says. "We need to know one way or another. Buck get your mask on, everyone else please move to near the doorway. If I start acting wierd we'll have solid proof the sister is the bad guy." Hex then moves to very briefly trigger the release on the gas canister and see if he can identify the gas inside.
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balthazar
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:30 pm |
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Buck once again dons his high altitude flight mask, and turns on the air.
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Ruan
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Post Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:36 pm |
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Ding moves well... WELL... away from Hex and his gassy surprise, over by the door.
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CCC
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Post Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:32 pm |
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Once everyone else (except Buck) is by the door, Hex opens up the gas canister for just a moment...
He smells nothing.
Gas: Potency: +4 Roll: +0 Total: +4 Hex: Resolve: +0 Roll: +1 Total: +1 Hex: Mental composure: OOXOO
No-one else can see what Hex is currently seeing, but from his reaction it's evidently something really creepy.
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Post Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:32 pm |
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Hex twitches uncomfortably for a moment. Then his head turns left and right looking for something he can’t quite find.
The hackles on his neck rise as he shivers as if caught in a winter wind. Hex raises his cane in a warding gesture and begins to circle the area, slowly, his tail swishing back and forth nervously.
“Yeah, this is the stuff,” he says to no one in particular. “I know it’s not real, but it certainly feels like it is.”
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Dom/SlimKop
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Post Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 10:30 am |
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"So she's trying to grab power for herself? Well, what a stinker. How're we going to fix this? Release the gas in the council chambers? Fool her into confessing?"
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Post Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 11:10 am |
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Hex spins about, abruptly confronting something behind him. "Ha," he exclaims. His face however quickly turns to sheer terror, and it seems as if even his light colored fur turns three shades whiter. With a yell, Hex turns and runs at full speed, away from whatever he saw and toward the door.
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Post Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:34 pm |
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"...I think we're going to have to design some gas masks or something for ourselves first." Ding watches as Hex scurries madly away.
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Post Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 3:18 pm |
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As Hex flees from the nothing, he runs over a small remote control, stepping on one of the buttons; the metal hand on the workbench suddenly closes into a metal fist. Since there are no wires joining the two, one surmises that there must be some form of remote control involved. Luckily, no-one was standing in the hand as it closed.
A few moments in the clearer air of Su Lin's (currently unoccupied) bedrooom and Hex's unnatural fears subside. Whatever this stuff is, the effects don't seem to last long in well-ventilated areas.
Or maybe it was just because Hex got a tiny dose.
Nonetheless, the workshop itself is very well ventilated (as one would expect of a place where someone is fiddling around with fear gas); within a few minutes, it's safe to enter again.
And at about this point, Su Lin herself strolls into her room, carrying the mechanical nightingale she made for her brother. "I've been looking at the plans," she says to a cellphone trapped between her shoulder and her ear, "and I'm sure we can squeeze in another dozen condominiums. Look, once I am Empress I can do anything I want! We'll make room by knocking down the palace. I won't need it! Once this deal is locked down, I'm Vegas bound!"
She snaps out an empty gas cylinder from the nightingale and heads for her workshop, no doubt planning to replace it. Fortunately, she's not paying attention to much else besides her telephone conversation.
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Post Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 6:46 pm |
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"Flatten the place for condos, huh? How Evil."
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Post Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 2:08 pm |
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Her phonecall over, Su Lin snaps out the used gas canister from the bottom of the mechanical nightingale and replaces it with a full one. Soon after she leaves the room with the mechanical bird under her arm, there's a knocking at the window; Chirp Sing, the genuine nightingale, would evidently like to come in (but the window only opens from the inside).
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Post Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 2:31 pm |
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Ding flies over and flips the latch, then tries to raise the window. However, odds are he's probably going to have a bit of trouble with it. For one, he's not the strongest fellow on the world, for two, have you ever tried to open a window with wings?
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