Yuletide 2 - Battle 1

[cascadingfailure]

[ Once you enter the Escape Room, a series of messages pops up on your phones: ]

TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wellll it looks like Naffy's out of commission? It'll take her awhile to reboot with how hard she just got hit by the autocensor!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Whatever you did, it really made her mad! Haha!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway since I know what's going on now, I'm happy to help! It looks like the nature of the threat is a gang war between an evil thought sealed and another that you all and your fans helped to return to the world of the not-so-living? Wild!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: In case you didn't get the memo, this means you're going to explore the combination WcDonald's and Damned Queen's Cookies!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There you'll find something you're looking for, probably…? But mostly you're looking for a way to contain the outbreaks!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: And fortunately, we've received a message from a friendly entity known only as "The Borger King", who apparently has a stake in the downfall of Lonard's lost empire…
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: It says:
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There is a war going on for your mind. Steal their secrets. Create the Ultimate Prankburger. The king awaits. Salvation will come.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wow! It looks like it's time for corporate espionage, or something?
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway, you get to keep everything you find, unless it's a dolphin! That's mine.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Better get going! Charge!!!!!

[ And then everything goes white... ]

Comments

Re: PLAYER ACTION

[unbr8kable]

[The wreaths and string lights wrap painfully tight, and Nemesis coughs up a distressing amount of blood-soaked petals at the abrupt squeeze.

That doesn't stop her from gate-of-heaven-ing plenty of blades--smaller knives targeted to cut through her bindings, and larger, buster sword-sized heavy weapons stabbed straight into the ground to serve as cover as necessary.

Nemesis positions herself outside of melee range to cover Hurricane's back; her feint attempts to circle behind the Damned Queen, or at least get a better look at the Belief-o-matic, to try and suss out what it is doing]

BOSS REACTION

[idolpro]

The Belief-o-Matic is doing nothing, because it has been broken due to overload.

The rain of blades (bird talons are just very small swords) staggers her. The Damned Queen Screams.

BOSS ACTION

[idolpro]

The Damned Queen stands, uttering a curse of KOMPRESSION. You can feel your body being rapidly reduced in quality, as you begin to explode into a mess of low-resolution pixels!

64 bits...32 bits...16 bits...8 bits...4 bits...

As she sings, ice shoots from her hands, giant snowglobes hurtling toward all of you at jolly speed.

Those hit with the snowglobes will experience one of the following status effects:

- Frozen in the frozen time (cannot move for 1 turn w/o other character help)
- Turning into a snowman (arms turn to sticks, body starts turning into snow)
- Wind-up key in their back (cannot move without being wound up first)
- Forced to dance when music plays (cannot attack while Damned Queen sings)

PLAYER ACTION

[idolpro]

Re: PLAYER ACTION

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He has nothing to help protect against being depixelized, but if old video games have proved nothing, they've proved that enemies can be damn fast, no matter what the resolution might be]

[Which is to say, with a 7 he manages to dodge all of that ice, darting in closer to aim for something vital - preferably her throat, to stop the singing - with his now-decidedly-chunkier blades]

Rav - hit her again!

[And here come those tiny bird swords, too, Rav flying handily above the snowglobes with a 9]

Re: PLAYER ACTION

[unbr8kable]

[With a 3 and a 2, both Nemesis and her feint are caught flatfooted, Nem doing an anachronistically good Cupid Shuffle while the feint is Frostified.

So as Nemesis goes down down does her dance does her dance does her dance, the snowfeint rolls closer to attack the DC as well, skewering one of her blades with some Christmas nuggies and sending it towards the queen's mouth]

BOSS RE/ACTION(1)

[idolpro]

The Damned Queen sings and screams and chokes on the Christmas nuggies being skewered down her throat. Her song has ceased as she recoils, trying to get her bearings—but Hurricane and Ravioli's efforts have her beginning to crumble. . .

BOSS RE/ACTION(2)

[idolpro]

The Damned Queen screams through nuggers:

"🎄HI🎅 I🎅 N❄🎄 🎄HE LA🎅🎄 YOU'VE 🎅EEN OF ME! I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE!"

With her final shriek, she explodes into icicle shards, hurling them all directions toward you.

All idols are affected by six of the following:

- Impalement (icicle)
- Can't stay warm without other people's body heat
- Eternal thirst (metaphorical)
- Eternal thirst (physical, does not have to be water)
- Hanahaki
- Tuberculosis
- Frozen emotions (cannot feel/recognize feelings, alexithymia)
- Frozen face (cannot express emotions)
- Frozen body (cannot use 1-3 bodyparts)
- Hypothermia
- Hyperthermia
- Death
- Turn into a snowman (sticks for arms, no legs, carrot for nose, etc)
- Turn into a shitty fairy in service to Her Majesty The Damned Queen of Yuletide Whose Name Has Not Been Uttered In These Halls For Aeons (christmas fairy)
- Explode into cookies (partial or fatal)

VICTORY?

[idolpro]

Proceed... if you can.