END GAME: THE COUNTDOWN STARTS

[sailmods]

[the prisoners wake up on cold, hard floors.

the lights are bright, glaring, a sterile cell with sterile bars facing a sterile hall. the prisoners with you, across from you, and no one else. no rocking of a ship in waves, nothing. just the prisoner and their prison.

time passes, one assumes. the rhythmic click of Friday’s heels down the hall. it’s almost like the ticking of a clock.]

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[teethoftherisk]

[Siffleur goes flying, hitting the wall with a hard THUMP and a bloodcurdling scream, before he also hits the ground with a somewhat softer thump. He lies there dazed, but not seriously hurt (yet).

RIP to some of the various Victors that were along for the ride.]

[saltwaterlungs]

[ Hands off the trident, holds Jenny's head out. ]

Lightning on Ody, now. Or whatever it is you do when you're not getting captured. Just kill it.

[stormpirate]

AM I A FUCKING TASER, YOU FUCKING WHORE???

[she says, as if she is not immediately following the command, sending a bolt of lightning into the dome

which. absorbs it. now the robot is glowy!]

[prince_of_beasts]

[ Oh, it feels good to have a polearm again. Dimitri darts forward in the space obscured by Siffleur's body. By the time the cougar goes flying, Dimitri's already lunged, slamming the trident towards the glass bubble ...

... just as the robot absorbs Jenny's lightning. ]

[sailmods]

[were he capable of higher thought, Ody would be heartened to know he was taking someone out with him.

luckily, plastic is entirely incapable of carrying a conductive charge! the trident does pierce the orb, and the crab, spearing him down the middle.

the melted plastic clasping the trident makes it impossible to pull it free, even with the force of the robot's arms swatting dimitri into the wall, like siffleur before him.]

[decohere]

Is it... dead? [the robot part, she means. obviously ody is toast.]

[sailmods]

[the robot is rising to its feet.]

[decohere]

[Ava quickly moves to stand in front of Fio protectively...

6 aims for the robot's center and fires. but it's a cursed gun so if anyone wants to roll whether it hits the target or somebody else go for it

eta dice have spoken: bullet hits target]

1/2

[sailmods]

[the bullet passes through the torso of the robot, though it only seems to give it a moment's pause as it continues to stand.]

[stormpirate]

[and, in that pause--]

FUCK!

[decohere]

... oh. Is that your body...? [awkward]

[stormpirate]

How could that be my body!

[decohere]

Did you not just yell out in pain when it was shot or are you that unnecessarily vulgar?!

[stormpirate]

... No.

[like she isn't visibly in pain right now]

[thismaskismybadge]

Soooo we can just keep shooting it and that'll be totally fine, then? Just really pump it full of bullets and you'll be completely a-okay.

[saltwaterlungs]

I call dibs on getting to do 'stop hitting yourself'.

[teethoftherisk]

PUT HER HEAD ON THE FUCKING ROBOT

[Everyone here is making him wish he had opposable thumbs and his 6'5" reach right now.]

[mistertwister]

[ Slapping his face so he either focuses or wakes up ]

I never thought I'd tackle two robots in one day but I can eat a second of its attention is someone else wants to go for the dunk.

[sabigoe]

[ ...Just quietly peeking out from behind the safety of Ava. Flinching a little. Wow, this is the most F-bombs she's heard at once today! Mostly from Jenny. And now Siffleur. ]

[thismaskismybadge]

[ Dramatic sigh, beckoning, ] Hand her to me, I think I can do it. I didn't go through all those gymnastics classes for the spider stuff to be all I have going for me.

[sabigoe]

Woooah, Gwen can play the drums... and do gymnastics! That's cool! [ Absolutely does not understand what Gwen means by "spider stuff," but oh well. Still amazing! ] Yeah, you can do it! [ SLAM DUNK THAT HEAD ONTO THE ROBOT because that's better than to just keep shooting at the body :( ]

[saltwaterlungs]

[ Hands off the head to Gwen. ]

[stormpirate]

[SCREAMING WHAT ARE PROBABLY HIDEOUS SLURS FOR FRENCH PEOPLE IN AN ENTIRELY UNFAMILIAR LANGUAGE]

[configuration_birdwatcher]

[ Error: Translation not found. There's one they haven't heard in a while. ]

[mistertwister]

Alright, make this count!

[ With all the strength in his body and none of the smarts in his head, Okie sprints toward the crab bot and launches himself into a dropkick. ]