cascadingfailure | Yuletide 2

[ 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... ]

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[Don't like this,]

[Automatically just throwing an axe at the statue, gotta take advantage of that surprise round,]

You have displeased Lonard.

Your weapon bounces off of him. Weakened though he is by the Damned Queen's invasion, he is still not to be trifled with. Your very soul is twisted painfully.

You suffer four of the following status effects:

- Minor burns
- Bone hurting (your bones hurt)
- Mild hypothermia
- Tinnitus
- Broken arm
- Broken leg
- Eyes bleeding
- Severed limb

[Well]

[Dropping to one knee]

[Also her arm falls off, i guess,]

Xia?!

Jesus - !

[Running over to fall to his knees next to her]

...

[Well]

--Stay back, I-I got this.

[Does she though]

[She does attempt to move between him and the statue at least, with dubious success since hmm maybe a broken leg was one of the reasons for falling to a knee, oops]

Your arm, though. Your leg.

[Helping her to stand, even as he reaches with his other hand to draw one of his heart blades]

'S fine--

[She winces harder than expected but gets up with his help, quickly stabbing herself in the thigh before she can talk herself out of it]

[Which. Kinda sick but hey, leg not broken?]

[In all this, doesn't(?) seem like the statue has moved any, so there is also that]

Did he attack you? I didn't even see him move or nothing.

[He hates the stabbing but hey, at least she is in one piece]

[Also, keeping his weapon between the both of them and the statue,]

[Well. Her arm is still on the floor but she is working on it, slooowly crouching down while not breaking eye contact with the statue, just in case]

--Didn't wanna give it a chance. Just--didn't turn out like I thought.

...maybe we oughtta go around or something.

It ain't doing nothing now, right?

[Stepping out in front to cover her so she can get that,]

...Don't seem like it.

[Wipes the blood from her eyes before swiping the arm quick and holding it in front of her like a bludgeon. Then she nudges him back towards an exit (kitchen??) without turning her back on Lonard]

I'll cover you.

Edited 2022-01-31 00:53 (UTC)

Nuh uh, you first. I still got both arms.

Kinda wanna keep it that way.

S'posed to be the Protector, right? Scout the door and I'll be right behind you.

[He hates everything about this, but he also knows the fastest way to get her to move is to move himself]

[So, edging toward the door, keeping an eye on both Nem and the clown and ready to charge back in at any second]

[He peeks into the door to the kitchen]

Proceed.

[Calling back:]

Looks clear.

[She nods, then backs up to meet him safely(?) elsewhere]

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