Novice's Guide to Villains and Villainy - Week 5, Period 3 (Danger Shop)

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"Good morning. Dealing with villains takes more than a linguistic tangle, but being quick-witted does help from time to time. There are times when you need to be a good communicator, and there are times when you simply need to be sneaky, strategic and quick on your feet.

This is Rang the Ridiculous. Despite his unfortunate name, Rang is a tyrant. He rules his planet with an iron fist. He also has a death ray pointed at the Earth and isn't afraid to use it. Although he'll probably send a vast army of robots in rocket ships, today he's focused on the death ray. Your task is to infiltrate his fortress of doom, somehow avoid capture by his robot guards and foil his plot by destroying the death ray.

You're welcome to take on this task alone or with a partner or small group. The safeguards are on, so you won't be hurt, but don't let that alter your plan of attack."

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Get Past the Guards

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Robot guards! Old skool style. They have lasers that shoot out of their arm-cannons. If you get shot, you'll just go back to where you entered the fortress (ie: the level gets reset).

Re: Get Past the Guards

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke caught sight of the robots from around a corner and barely repressed a fit of the giggles.

And he had thought Stormtroopers looked ridiculous.

He poked his head out so they could see him and then ducked back as a blast of laser fire came at him--and hit the wall about a foot above his head.

Less accurate than Stormtroopers.

He sighed. Villains needed to think about reallocating their budgets towards protection if they were going to build world-destroying thingies.

Luke reached into the Force, knocked over the nearest group of robots, then ran like hell.

Hopefully in the correct direction...

Re: Get Past the Guards

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori spotted the guards, from the shadows where she was hiding and smiled to herself. They couldn't be much worse than the Kelzacks.

She wondered if she should just ninja streak past them or indulge them for a bit. There didn't look to be that many, she could handle them.

Popping out of the shadows and dodging laser fire, Tori hit the robots with a high concentrated stream of water, knocking them down and hopefully causing them to short-circuit.

Looking around and seeing that the robots were on the ground, Tori invoked her ninja speed and ran in what seemed to be the right way.

Re: Get Past the Guards

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Spider-Man - yes, when he was in the mask, he thought of himself as Spider-Man - climbed back into the castle and immediately saw the robots. Knowing that his spider-sense wouldn't help him if there was no actual danger, Spider-Man leaped forward and kicked one in the back of the head. "Knock knock!" he said, denting the head. He used that attack to springboard himself over the other robot and down the hall.

Re: Get Past the Guards

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Hamlet was deeply unimpressed with the odd looking robot guards until they started firing lasers at him. He barely missed their first barrage off death lasers, and ended up with some singed hair and holes in his jacket because of it. He took a detailed look around the hallway, and was surprised to see a circular metal candelabra hanging from the ceiling over top of the robots.

You'd think that an Evil Supreme Overlord would have noticed something like that.

Pulling out a pocket-knife, he cut at the rope holding up the candelabra until the cord snapped and knocked the robots to the ground. Checking once more to make sure they were really out, he carried on running past them.