The Fifteen Labors of Fandom, Session 6, Period 1

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Hercules had plans for today's class. Oh yes he did. The class was directed to meet in the Danger Shop, where again their teacher (resplendent in his 'battle toga') met them outside the door to the Shop itself.

"Greetings and salutations, fair heroes and heroines of Fandom!" he declared. "Beyond this door today is a test of mettle. A test of skill. A test of grit! That is all I will say now, for you must instead experience it yourself!"

And with that, he stepped out of the way. What possibly could lie beyond the door?

[ooc: Plz to wait for OCD! Class is up and ready!]

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And Then it All Goes Wrong!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

About halfway into the class, after everyone's had their chance to have some fun, an announcement comes over the PA system in the 'park'.

"Well kiddies, did you really think it'd all be fun and games? Welcome to Murderworld, and today's game is survive... if you can!"

And that was punctuated by a maniacal laugh.

Fight Things!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, the clowns and lovable mascots are all evil robots with deadly weapons for hands. That'd scar some children for life. Except these fellows... they're out to murder you. Murder you dead.

Re: Fight Things!

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

...why hadn't Percy trusted his fist instinct? When a clown nearby turned from annoying to flat out violent, Percy dropped his funnel cake and reached for Riptide.

He'd never gone one on one with a clown before so this...this was gonna be something. Percy slashed at him with his sword and decided to always trust his first instinct.

Get Trapped on Maniacal Rides!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

And now those same rides are out to get you! Runaway coasters, bumper cars at lethal speeds, merry go rounds of deeeeeath!

Re: Get Trapped on Maniacal Rides!

[lordofthecats.livejournal.com]

The roller coaster car took off at high speed with Lion-o trapped by the safety bar. Lion-o struggled against the restraints for a while before finally freeing himself. Getting off the runaway coaster was another challenge, but Lion-o managed to jump when the car slowed down at the base of a hill.

Carnival Games of Death!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

The dart ballons now explode with vicious force! Those clown mouths are shooting bullets! It's madness! Who would do such a thing?

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[longislandiceme]

...Yep, this was Bobby's shocked face.

It's possible he's done this before, yes.

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[glacial_queen]

Karla was NOT BEST PLEASED when her giant teddy bear came to animatronic life and began shooting at her. Her shields snapped up and a gout of fire left her teddy bear a smoldering ruin.

"Take that," she sniffed, more than a little put out.

Which quickly became acute discomfort when the melting creature stood back up and continued to come after her. One plastic eye oozed down its cheek, revealing a mechanical red one beneath it, and the fur on one side had burned away to the metallic skeleton beneath.

"You are so not child-safe!" she yelped.

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[longislandiceme]

"Evil robots are the worst," Bobby commented, hurling a candy apple at it.

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[glacial_queen]

The apple bonked as it struck the evil teddy-bot's head, sticking in its fur. It kept moving forward in an awkwardly menacing shamble.

"I earned that teddy bear fair and square!" Karla protested, ignoring the fact where she'd blatantly cheated to get it. "How dare it come to life and try to kill me!"

Yeah. She was still more pissy at the loss of her giant bear than anything else.

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[longislandiceme]

"Get Warren to buy you a new one," Bobby said. "Or- homecoming's in a couple weeks, isn't it?" He normally didn't pay attention to those things, but homecoming meant Sookie was probably visiting, so. Yeah. "There'll be a real not-secretly-Murderworld carnival there. You can win another one."

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[glacial_queen]

"It's not just me, right?" she groused, even as she slammed the teddy-bot's knee joints with a blast of the Sapphire. "Murderworld is a completely ridiculous name, right?"

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[longislandiceme]

Said the girl from a world with magical cock rings.

"It's less funny when it's not a simulation?" Bobby offered, continuing with the candy-apple assault.

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[glacial_queen]

Why did everyone say that like it was a bad thing?!

"Don't even tell me this male is real," Karla said. Teddy-bot's gunfire went haywire as the candy apple got lodged in its eye socket. "I thought this was some kind of twisted thing out of Hercules' imagination!"

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[longislandiceme]

"Yeah, not so much," Bobby shook his head, lowering his voice a little so as not to be overheard by their classmates. At least the sound of the gunfire was good cover in that respect. "This is Arcade's work. He's an assassin for hire who gets a kick out of messing with his victims first. So far, every one of his sims has either been based on myth- which is really just stuff he did like a zillion years ago, I guess- or based on stuff from our world."

[...apparently i'm channeling erin today.]

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[glacial_queen]

"Your world is insane," Karla said. Helpfully.

Yes, Bobby. This was from the girl with magical cockrings. What did that say?"

"Isn't this a lot of time and effort to put into killing people? He has to take all of the money he makes as an assassin and pour it into deadly bear-bots and exploding balloons."

Karla was unimpressed. There were plenty of more effective ways to murder someone.

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[longislandiceme]

Well... she wasn't wrong. Bobby was just kind of used to it by now. "Well, one man's near death experience at the hand of a stuffed animal is another man's entertainment, I guess. Of course, if you think this is bad, you should see some of the stuff from Mojoworld."

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[glacial_queen]

"Is that like Murderworld's slightly dimmer second cousin?" Karla asked, shooting Bobby a look that suggested she wasn't sure whether she was buying any of this or not.

Re: Carnival Games of Death!

[longislandiceme]

"No, that'd be a world full of stuff that tries to kill you... that's filmed and broadcast for their people's entertainment."

And then, there's the big bad guy

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

At the center of the park, on stage in an ampitheater, stands a man in a white suit and a ridiculous tie.

"Come one, come all, it's time for a game of You Bet Your Life! The only problem is... you can't win!"

Surely it could be easy to just walk up and punch him, right? I mean, it's not like he has dozens of traps in that theater...

[ooc: Come and try to take out Arcade!]

Re: And then, there's the big bad guy

[glacial_queen]

Karla looked at Arcade. Down at the stage. Back at Arcade.

"I'm not going to kick your ass because of the stupid name of your carnival," she announced. "Or because my bear came to life and tried to kill me. Not even because there was poison at the heart of my candy apple." Which Karla had been pissy about, but she was a Black Widow. She'd dealt.

"But for that blasphemy against ties? I am taking you down!" She sent a Sapphire blast of pure energy at the idiot and then began airwalking to him, easily a foot above the stage.

Re: And then, there's the big bad guy

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, like you can comment about fashion?" Arcade said, though he yelped as he barely dodged the blast of energy.

"You think I'm not prepared for floaters?"

He pulled out a remote control and pressed a button, sending large cargo nets firing from backstage towards Karla.

Re: And then, there's the big bad guy

[glacial_queen]

With a wave of her hand the nets were engulfed in flames and she continued her steady pace forward. "I promise you are in no way prepared for me."

Re: And then, there's the big bad guy

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

"Oh great, a great flaming floater," Arcade said, stumbling back and realizing he had no where to run. "Guess I'll have to flush you down!"

And that's when the water jets fired toward Karla with great liquidy force.

Re: And then, there's the big bad guy

[glacial_queen]

Even though she was shielded, the water pressure was enough to send Karla sprawling. She'd had the presence of mind to expand her air platform a bit, so rather than land on the booby-trapped stage, she fell to her knees still a foot in the air.

Fine, was that how he wanted to play? There were other things Karla could use as a shield. Like Arcade himself. Reaching out with Craft, she tried to haul him up to her.