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ReBoot!
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" 'Cheat codes' eh?
Well maybe we can use them too."
"We can't just pull them out of
mid-air." Lynk reasoned. "And I don't think we'll find one in here."
"I
know, but thanks to Shift here, we're not stuck in the game." Click pointed to
his gauntlet.
"Are you serious?" Ping looked surprised, "You can get out
of games with that? Then why don't we just leave now? This sector was evacuated,
all there is is virii."
"Well, when I go through the game wall it kinda
screws up my navigation so it's pretty risky, especially with passengers, and
Lynk here has no choice but to stay, it's gaurdian protocal." Click
explained.
"I can't let the user win." Lynk emphisized his point by
impaling the blue bomber again.
"Wait.... Maybe it's not a cheat! Maybe
there's an extra live and he keeps getting it!" Ping snapped his
fingers.
"We can't risk it. But I tell you what we can do." The gaurdian
raised his keytool. "Hindsight, pause!"
A wave of reality rippled through
the air, freezing everything in place except for our heroes and the
Virii.
"Should we get the others before we go?" Click asked, readying
Shift.
Kilobyte removed
himself from the wall he had slammed into and glared at Mac
furiously.
"Normally I would repay such an act with a volley of painful
blows but I have bigger fish to fry." Kilobyte said. "I shall deal with you lot
later."
Kilobyte quickly skated off to a different area of the
game.
Mac walked
over,still hunched from the pain in his back and picked up his
claymore,sheathing it on his back which only caused more pain.
"well
don`t jus stand dere,after im!"
"Sheesh. I'm glad he's gone." Rox sighed with releif. Loudly. "Now to... oops. Forgot. Can't move. Heh heh..." Then he thought a momment, "Hey Mac, since WHEN do I owe you a fortune?"
Mac narrowed his
eyes,"well whos money was it exactly dat ya bet to does guys eh...I didnae see
you flush with cash..I`ll give ya a and so we cin git after im"
He walked
over and wondered just how anything could move like that.
"why dun ya try
jumping...cud work"
((hm, can I join? And if so, would I be allowed to have a second character? If you're wondering why I never asked until now, it's because I only just finished watching all of reboot... I missed seasons 3 & 4))
"Now there's a
sight you don't see every day." Ping lightly tapped a met that was floating in
midair. "Bloody shame I can't take the hat with me out of the game."
"Hey
wait up!" He realized he was falling behind and ran to catch up with the
guardian and admin.
((Welcome aboard
AX. I'll just get us out of the game first. And to answer your question :
"Starting limit is 2 characters, PM me if you want more."))
Click and
Lynk came upon the two others by portal, shortly followed by Ping. Click filled
Rox and Mac in on their plan.
"I'm not sure where we'll end up, games
tend to have networking tendancies, so we could find ourselves anywhere from
some unknown system to the super computer," Click made hand gestures to
emphasize his point, "Go through at your own risk." He finished. A white circle
of static opened up in the middle of a wall, illuminating the moderator's
face.
Everyone who went through went through, each in their own fashion.
Before Click took his turn he noticed that his othetr portal he made in the
game, while it was paused, hadn't disappeard. Hmm, he thought, I
wonder... But there was no time left to contemplate that possibility, he was
already on the other side.
ooc: Dis ride's gonna hurt boss
((No, no! My first
char was going to start in the game! Eh, well, I can still work with
this...))
Name: Kenneth Craft
Format: User/Hacker
Protocal: To
figure out what the fuggin'ell is going on
Appearance: Human skin tone, brown
hair, one of those "C:\DOS, C:\DOS\RUN, RUN\DOS\RUN" shirts, jeans, a stud
earing in his left ear, and what looks like a silver gauntlet (Macro). Looks
like a teen with a light build. His icon is on the gauntlet.
Personality:
Nearly everything he does is just for the halibut, he doesn't really care about
consequences, and he's pretty eager to try new stuff if he has no idea what'll
happen. He tries to be friendly, but in the regular world he's just a complete
geek.
Origin: 'Twas once before a monitor dreary, a hacker had an interesting
theory, a self-insert of the truest kind, and devised a way to copy his mind,
then into a game it would go, with a little tweaks he would bestow, a custom
sprite unto "himself", like a cyborg, hero, or woodland elf, but then remembered
his friend's game pak, and patched in an elaborate hack, so that with this odd
new component, he'd now have a real opponent.
Er... which is to saw (spur
of the moment inspirations aside)... he created an AI game sprite and downloaded
his own memories and such into it, then made ROM of a friend's MM3 pak and
hacked it in, so that he could have a real challenging (without being cheap)
opponent. However, he didn't have any idea of the computer world inside the
public computer he tested it on (would you risk your PC with this kind of
program?), and didn't really expect it work anyway.
Equipment: Since he had
no idea of exactly how the 'mini-me' would interface with the game, he gave it a
macro to input controls. Naturally, this manifests itself as a silver gauntlet,
'Macro', which he can use to create commands. Only he can activate Macro, but
anyone can execute the commands once created.
Abilities: None, really,
besides creating commands with whatever parameters he knows of, and some pretty
good (better than most, but not quite as good as, for instance, Mouse)
hacking.
Other: Has NO idea how stuff works, or the terms sprites
use
A red-and-grey clad sprite with his face completely covered ran
through the frozen tunnels. "What the hell... did I lock it up before I even got
to a protoman fight...?" He turned a corner and noticed the portal. "That's...
more than a little odd..." He touched it tentatively, then stepped
through.
OCC: Right, what I was tring to imply that the portals are staying open because the game is paused. Thus leaving Kilobyte a way out. It works perfectly for Kenneth to use this same exit.
Kilobyte left his hiding place and followed behind the unknown figure. He didn't know what would happen when he stepped through the portal but he reasoned it to be better than being nullified. So he went through.
Name: Cache, alias
Pixel
Format: Benign Virus
Protocal: To try and live his adopted life,
without being caught and deleted by the guardians.
Appearance: When he's
Pixel, he's a green-skinned sprite with a slightly lop-sided berret and a
goatee. Also, blue pants and a jacket. When he's Cache, he looks like this but a smooth head instead of that dome-thing, all blue
colour scheme, and not so many of those spike things.
Personality: A nice,
outgoing guy. He likes to do all sorts of artwork, and tries not to get too
hoity-toity. He's paranoid about guardians and keytools in particular, but never
says why. Also avoids games whenever possible.
Origin: He doesn't remember
the beginning, only that he landed in a system through a web portal. He didn't
have any desire to destroy, but knew noone would believe him because he was a
virus. He managed to escape the guardian cadet that was sent after him, and used
his powers to hide for a while, until he found a discarded paint program and
took up BMPs, which led him to create the wandering artist, Pixel. Now he
wanders the net, selling his BMPs and WAVs and pretending to be a starving
artist, while avoiding guardians.
Equipment: Brush, his paint program. It's
like a less powerful version of the one Hex used in Painted
Windows.
Abilities: Many of the ones MB had in My Two Bobs. For one, he's a
Trojan Horse Virus. Unfortunately, he can't always hold up his disguises,
especially if he's damage or shocked, and for some reason he can never hold it
in a game. His disguise protects him from most scans, but a keytool will know
there's a virus in the vicinity, and if he's personally scanned by one it will
tell he's a virus. Also, he can drain energy from nearly anything. In fact, he
has too. The only way he can restore his energy is by absorbing something else
as a virus, so he has to drop his disguise and replenish his energy every now
and then. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be a sprite or binome, it can even be
a lamp-post or a mailbox. He can also do things like make an alias, or, if
neccissary, infect something.
Other: If only this guy and Bob could have met
eachother, ne? 
Cache looked around the corner at the game cube. Lucky break.
The moderator had almost caught him and apparently took him for some other virus
that had been causing trouble. He sighed and changed back into Pixel's shape,
and looked around to see if anyone saw him.
The group arrived
at the gates of a large medieval castle. A huge golden insignia was above the
doors; it was three triangles placed together, forming one big triangle with an
upside-down triangle shaped hole. Inside the palace a stone held an intricate
sword with that same insignia on it's purple-blue hilt. Click looked down and
saw that his rebooted attire had changed. He was now some kind of zombie with a
wooden face. When he tried to talk all that came out
was-
"Uuuuugghghghhh.."
They were in another game, what were the
chances of that?
Ping looked down at
himself to discover that he looked something like a cross between a bipedal pig
and a bulldog. He hefted the large club in his left hand.
OOC: is it
possible to DE boot?
Mac was going to
kick the ground before he realised he had no feet,his hand was also carrying a
lantern with a purple flame.
"....aw bollucks!..not this one
again.."
He looked around and sighed though it sounded more like cackling
laughter.
Kenneth stumbled
through the portal a few moments after everyone else, off-balance as the weight
of his armour dissapeared. As well as the weight of his clothing. And his skin.
And organs. Though he did have a sword and sheild. He looked down.
"I'm a
Stalfos...? What happened to Protoman?"
((Oh, and no, I don't believe you
can deboot. Think about it, if you install something on your computer, you
sometimes have to reboot to update windows. Then, you can't un-update it, can
you?))
Ping only grunted
in displeasure and pounded his club against the ground in agreement.
-I
detest being a moblin....-
((If we wanna
"de-boot" so to speak, we'll have to win the game.))
Click moaned and
faced north. A boy wearing a green tunic and hat, with pointy ears running
towardsthem, a small daggar-looking sword in his hand.
Click just stood
there, his wooden face betraying nothing.
Ping growled
iritably as he hefted the massive wooden club in his hands.
-I just pray
this guy is new....-
He saw Link run right for him, then between his
legs. Ping turned to avoid getting shot in the back and swung backwards with the
butt end of his club.
Link recovered all
too quickly from the Moblin's strike and parried the next. Before he could
riposte a blood curdling scream cut through the air, freezing the boy in place.
Click moved to attack but he moved soooo
sloooowwwlllyyyy...
"Moooooaaannnn.." Click actually said what he
wanted to, for once.
Mac flew over to
the frozen boy and started to spin his lantern...spinning and
spinning.
"grah where are da damn fl-OW!...jeez dat smarts.."
He
threw the lantern down and held his head in pain.
Kenneth smirked and watched what he assumed to be regular game sprites, attacking Link but failing. Just as the player broke free, he ran forward and attacked. Slice, stab, parry, block... then the player rolled around slashed up through his back and he... went to peices. "Okay, maybe it's harder than it seems."
Ping grunted at Click and smiled, or at least as much as his mouth would let him smile, before lumbering over to where Link ran off to.
After waiting for a
reasonable amount of time for whatever caused his emulator to unstick the user
sighed and tried to close it. Realizing that his whole system was frozen he did
what any respectable computer user would do. He hit the power
button.
one...two...three...four...five...
After a slow five count
he hit the button back again and waited for it to get through with its variouse
system checkers.
Warning: 30 virus's found
Warning: 30 virus's
foun
*groan*
OOC: what the hell am I supposed to do? the thread
died on us.
(Um, the game froze
because it was paused, remember? And also, I think we're in a different system
now, since the portal took us from MM to Zelda)
Kenneth grabbed his
pieces and stuck himself together again (a thoroughly unsettling experience),
and went after Link also. He caught up almost immediately, but tried a different
strategy this time. Duck, block, dodge, counter... and then, while Link was
rebounding from his shield, he lunged forward and grabbed into the boy's pocket.
He did the same thing a couple more times and had three fairies and a jar of
milk before Link shattered him again.
He saw a largish moblin leaning on its club clapping. It grunted and nodded to him in an approving manner as if to say 'nicely done.'
Click finally made his way over to the user and pounced on him. The boy struggled, but click kept a death grip on him and stated slowly sucking the hearts right out of him.
The next time the User popped up Ping was ready and waiting, well him and about a good half dozen game sprites. As the User flailed away at the game sprites Ping had circled behind and pounded the point home, which happened to be on link's head, that this game wasn't going to be easy.
((What? You're telling me Link has multiple lives? Arg.. I hate to be a jerk, but I think you need to edit that post a wee bit, or I am grossly misinterpreting it, Will. We gotta stop messing around in games.))
((Well... since when have you been killed by a single redead attack? I'm pretty sure he meant when Link threw you off))
OOC: sigh...ever heard of continuing?
((Well, yeah, I
didn't mean for him to die, it just seemed like it was... a ripple in time, you
know?))
EDIT:
((No way man, continues? Remember, Reboot didn't use
continues, I don't think we should either, bad idea. Once the user dies, he
dies. Multiple lives are as deep as we go, and I think we should avoid those
when we can.))
ooc: ....sorry...was just going by how I play through with Zelda. i continue the game till i find a place _I_ want to stop at, not after getting killed.
((Yes, but if Users could continue, the Sprites'd NEVER win!))
ooc: ..............................
((Well, how about this... in Majora's Mask, you get six bottles, right? Minus the four Kenneth stole, that leaves two bottles for fairies, or, if it's a strategic player, one more fairy and a green/blue potion))
ooc: Do whatever
you wish. the past few weeks have been....off...for me. I offer that only as an
explination for my actions, I'll get back into things soon enough.
Ping
blinked in supprize as he saw the farie revive link.
Oh
shit!
He started retrieting as the User advanced on him
Kenneth, who had
only just reassembled himself, started to get annoyed. He hurled his sheild at
the User, which dinged him on the head, and ran over. And that made the last
bottle... He started kicking Link before he could get up, and several more
game sprites joined in.
Finally, a disembodied voice announced "Game Over"
And the floor turned a bizzare, static purple and rose up around his
feet.
"What the netu?"
Ping saw the
perplexed Kennith and sighed. Poor guy, first time through a game cube.
While he thought the sprite's appearance was odd he'd been around enough to know
beter than to stare. Slowly he looked around and streached.
"Everyone
alright?"
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