Welcome to Overlord's Orders round four!
This round takes place about 20 years after round three. I'll try and make it different from the previous rounds, but there's no guarantee. We'll just have to see how things go. If you have previously participated in this game, don't worry, you'll be playing as someone else, other than the character(s) you have previously used.
And as a quick refresher, I'll repost the rules:
Quote from: Overlord's Orders IThe Rules
We will have an overlord, who will be all powerful and control the game.
Everyone else will be a servant of theirs to do his or her bidding, which will be a new assignment at the beginning of each round.
The game begins by the Overlord summoning everyone before them and questioning them about whether they got the thing they wanted.
Let's say the Overlord might have wanted a jeep to use.
Example Round:
Stage 1: Who failed?
The Overlord would question one person of everyone in the game (this would be random selection) and ask them why they failed to bring them the thing they wanted (which will invariable happen, no one ever succeeds).
Stage 2: Defenses
That person can then blame their failure on some random thing (like maybe an elephant destroying the jeep) or someone else in the game; anything to shrug themselves off from the immediate blame placed on them.
Pretty much everything goes at this point, following a rough outline of what happened based on the First Accused, who as stated before will be decided by the Overlord at the beginning of the round.
Everyone can blame someone, themselves, keep silent, or introduce some sort of new feature that happened while acquiring the item (in this case, a jeep). Eventually, the Overlord will process the information and decide who failed, or might just get tired of the arguing and randomly select someone at random.
Stage 3: Fault is fixed
The person chosen to have failed by the Overlord is then thrown out, vaporized, or something creative, by the Overlord's orders. The idea is to not be this person, and to survive as long as possible.
Likely, the Overlord will be choosing the best defenses as survivors.
One last thing, whenever someone says something, it becomes fact. It is what happened. If someone says an elephant destroyed a jeep, then anyone calling that person a liar is for certain lying; the jeep was destroyed by an elephant. What's up for telling for someone else is, for example, who set the elephant on the jeep. Things are bound to work a lot better that way.
Godmoding is pretty much disallowed if not entirely, powerplaying is allowed, just use it sensibly and don't go having somone else getting their leg bit off or something, but it mostly goes.
Remember to keep things civil, stay inside the board rules, keep all hands and legs inside the game until it comes to a complete stop...
One final rule, keep spam, unless it's game spam, to an absolute minimum.
If this is your first time playing this game, it would be very helpful if you reread
at least one of the previous rounds, to get a better feel of how things work. Here are links to the first three rounds:
Round 1 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=722.0)
Round 2 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=888.0)
Round 3 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=948.0)
Also, do not hesitate to PM me any questions you might have about the game or any of my "rulings" at the end of each elimination round.
If you would like to join this round, copy/paste the list from the post above you and add your name to it. I'll try to update this main list daily. Registration will end on Monday, November 21st. There are only eight spots available, so sign up now!
And here's the list:
1. Trigoma
2. Redwall Musician
3. Plugg Firetail
4. Taggerung_of_Redwall
5. DanielofRedwall
6. Tiria Wildlough
7.
8.
Good luck to everyone! ^_^
ill sign up for it...though i have no clue wuts going on xD ima check out the previous game to get an idea of it. sign me up though :D
1. Trigoma
2. Redwall Musician
1.Trigoma
2.Redwallmusician
3.PluggFiretail
1. Trigoma
2. Redwallmusician
3. PluggFiretail
4. ToR
1. Trigoma
2. Redwall Musician
3. Plugg Firetail
4. Taggerung_of_Redwall
5. DanielofRedwall.
Of course I'm in!
3 more ppl! come on guys!
Still have three open spots here, and only around 24-hours left in which to sign up.
1. Trigoma
2. Redwall Musician
3. Plugg Firetail
4. Taggerung_of_Redwall
5. DanielofRedwall.
6. Tiria Wildlough.
Registration is now closed. Annnnnnd we're off!
Somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea, a large air ship flew silently at 100,000 feet above the water. The air ship, equipped with highly advanced cloaking technology, was invisible to all forms of detection, allowing its owner to travel freely across the globe. Inside, the ship was equipped with every luxury known to man. These luxuries, however, paled to the opulence of the room at the center of the great vehicle. This was the conference room of a great and powerful overlord. Rumor had it that the overlord suddenly appeared on day, out of thin air, with money, secret bases, and hoards of underlings. But of course, this was all just rumor. The conference room had a large table at the center, around which were seated six of the overlord's most competent servants. And of course, the overlord himself sat at the head of the table. He was dressed in a black tuxedo and wore a masquerade mask on his face, obscuring his identity. The overlord looked over his servants slowly, and then spoke.
"I have gathered you all here for an important mission. It is my desire to obtain a giant robot dog to serve as the centerpiece for my mansion's back lawn. You can find it on display at the World Fair. I don't care if you get the actual robot dog, or simply the plans to build one myself, but I want to have one for my own, on my back lawn, no later than nine days from now. Understood? Good. I look forward to your return."
NINE DAYS LATER - The overlord's mansion - Conference room 1C
The overlord gazed at the servants before him. "Let us do a quick review, shall we? I asked for a giant robot dog or the plans to build one, and to have it here by today. I look out the window here, and see that there is a very large hole in the ground, a construction crane, a stack of industrial-grade TNT, a pallet of iron ingots, and a bill for 550 pounds of chewing gum. That's not all, however. I picked up this morning's paper to see that the World Fair was, and I quote, 'called to an abrupt halt after six troublemakers in frog costumes flooded the Fair with 25 tons of goats milk.' Well here you are in front of me, wearing frog suits. Anyone care to explain how this fiasco occurred? You, Musician, tell me what happened."
Musician spoke "I was flying the hot air balloon. We had decided to land among the other hot air balloons in order to not attract attention. Daniel helped land it fine. Tiria and Plugg saw the cotton candy stand, and went off to get some before any of us could stop them. I teamed up with Daniel to go get a look at this dog, while Trigoma and ToR went to go distract the security.
"ToR and Trigoma got the guards away easily and Daniel and I got the dog easy enough. It was as we were on our way to the hot air balloon that Tiria and Plugg came running up with a group of people.
"'Of coarse we can give all of you good folks a ride,' Plugg said.
"Tiria ran up to us and said she was trying to stop Plugg from talking to those people and offering them a ride. By then ToR and Trigoma were there. That's when everything went down. There was a giant explosion in the hot air balloon next to ours, don't know what that was all about, something with the dude who was driving it. That's what left the giant hole. Sadly it damaged our balloon. We were stranded, and the people who Plugg had promised the ride to were getting suspicious and called security. ToR brought a bunch of gum to strap to some TNT we found at the bottom of our balloon. We threw the bombs at the guards and the bombs stuck to them. Trigoma found the iron ingots and was using them for something, don't know what.
"I decided I better try to find a way to escape. I ran off and was followed by everyone else. So we ran to the costume tent. When we came out, we were dressed up as frogs. Our cover was blown when Plugg tripped on a goat's milk hose, and a bunch of goats milk came out everywhere. We escaped by a different hot air balloon. "
"Overlord, [I ]bought the gum. Before we ran to disguise ourselves as frogs, I went back to the store and picked it up. I figured we might as well make use of [the gum]. And indeed we did. Before I tried my frog suit on, I went and purchased the plans for the robotic dog. However, Plugg and Musician had went and bought carelessly seven hundred goats. The largest with Tiria seated on top ate the plans I was holding. And of course the milk itself came from the hose, not the goats
"The goats were merely a problem that came later. We were just leaving the World Fair, aware that we had eight days left to get you your dog. However, as we exited and got several miles away in a pine forest, a gas knocked us all out. When we woke up, it was seven days later. We had only one left, and needed to act swiftly. I said to forget about the fair, and we'd go to Millesville and steal the dog there. I found the iron ingots that Trigoma still had, and the two of use whipped up a flawless plan and wrote it down. But a goat followed Musician and Tiria and ate them.
"But still I said we must keep on, with 20 hours left until we needed to return to your presence with the dog."
IS it to late to join?
And here's the list:
1. Trigoma
2. Redwall Musician
3. Plugg Firetail
4. Taggerung_of_Redwall
5. DanielofRedwall
6. Tiria Wildlough
7. Mad Maudie
8.
"So that is when i decided to redraw the plans for the hot air balloon with Plugg while the rest went to retrived the dog. they were discussing a plan as they left but i was busy redrawing the plans. a goat ate it, but i remember them quite well. we needed to use resourses of cheap so we could spare it. we decided to make the balloon out of gum, and we would need alot so we bought 550 pounds worth. then Plugg got the great idea of setting up a crane with iron ingots. so we continued our plan when Tiria came running out of nowere singing 'old mcdonald had a farm'. we got distracted."
(OOC: Sorry Mad Maudie, the game's begun. You can join next round.
"Trigoma and Plugg stayed behind as I led the rest of us to Millesville. Don't know what they were doing, or why Tiria ran off shortly after the five of us left. Our second attempt at buying the dog went well, until we reached Millesville. The town got blown up as we arrived, and the store that sold robotic dogs had only one specimen surviving. I was about to steal it when Daniel broke the head off. He was trying to shield it though, as death-defying beavers were attempting to blow it up with laser guns. I hate laser guns."
"Me and Tiria were buying Cotton candy for all of us to eat. The hot air balloon didn't exactly have the greatest food choices. While at the cotton candy stand, we met a small group of people. They were stuck at the fair and needed a ride out. We agreed to the plan instantly, with the idea that if anything goes wrong, we could use this as a cover story. Unfortunately, as we got closer to the air balloon, Tiria got cold feet. She ran to the others and tried to tell them it was all my idea. As I saw Tiria running up, the leader of the group of people, ran up to another balloon. It turned out that they had a balloon, but they had soup instead of anything good. The leader rigged the balloon with a bomb, but it blew up, causing our ship to get a hole.
While Musician and I did buy the goats, it was so we could have something to eat and drink. Goats milk is very nourishing.
Abou the gas in the forest, I think it was Daniel. Earlier he had bought Odorient, which makes the air around us smell. Well Daniel was spraying this stuff around, saying "It's good for the plants." Obviously I tried to stop him, but I was the first to get knocked out.
Trigoma and me were making a new balloon out of bubble gum. I got the idea of using the ingots to make a iron crane, since iron cranes are the best kind to make. Then Tiria came. She told us to get a real crane first, that way we have something to model ours off of. We protested, but she ran off to get it. That's why there is a construction crane here."
"The goat thing I was force into. I had asked the lady for a thousand disappearing coats, but she thought I said goats. When Plugg saw them he told me we needed goats because we could use them for food and drink. I tried to tell the lady about the mistake but she didn't hear me. So we decided we should just keep the goats for food and drink, since all our supplies got ruined.
"The reason I bought the gum was because as Daniel and I were walking to steal the dog, we came across a 'Buy In Stock" tent. He saw gum and tickled me and said he wouldn't stop tickling until I bought the gum. Because I couldn't think while he was tickling I bought the gum. He grabbed the first 10 pieces of gum and started eating them."
OOC: Wait a minute, didn't Trigoma say we bought the gum to fix the balloon, and we got it later?
"M'Lord, with the "Odorient" business, there was a good reason. There were beavers following us, and I didn't want to panic the others, especially Trigoma. He gets a bit wild when panicked. The "Odorient" stuff, well, I thought it was actually something else. You see, I needed somewhere to place my beaver repellent, a place I knew nowhere would look. I bought some "Odorient" at the World Fair, as that would be something no-one would look at. I didn't want people fiddling with the beaver repellent, or we might run out. So, just before going to look for the dog, I said I needed to go to the bathroom. I sneaked off and got rid of all the stuff inside the "Odorient" bottle. I then poured the beaver repellent I had brought along in to the bottle.
I saw many beavers at the fair, one was at a petting zoo. I decided we needed to avoid that petting zoo at all costs, but Musician saw a llama there while we were searching for the dog. She insisted her and I go to that zoo to pat the llama. Before I could explain why we shouldn't, she had rushed off. While she was patting the llama at that zoo, the beaver placed some sort of tracking device on her, and followed us all to the pine forest. I decided to use the repellent on our camp, but needed an excuse so Trigoma wouldn't panic, so I said the "Odorient" was good for the plants.
The beaver that I was protecting the robotic dog from was the same beaver that placed the tracking device on Musician, I was sure of it. I discovered the beaver repellent wasn't very effective at all, unfortunately. He caused me to accidentally take the dog's head off after firing a tennis ball at my hand. The blow made my hand swing back and knock the dog's head off. Tiria insisted she would be able to fix it and made us hang about, but she ended up failing, so we came back empty handed, unfortunately. However, there is some gum left over if you want, oh lord."
OOC: You guys are doing well so far. I love what you've written! XD Keep going, and I will make a decision tomorrow.
ooc: yeah i got a little confuzzeld too. but nonethless here i go o.o
"oyes milord. the dog was from macdonalds farm. that may be why tiria decided to rampage that song the way she did. well i finished the plans but confused it with the goat feed, and gave it to a death defying goat! must have got the idea from the beavers. but eather way the plans were gone. so we just rigged the crane and set it a little loose to give it fireing power. we all climbed into the balloon, when we suddenly relized. we forgot souviners! well i admit i started to panick and have weezing attacks. i have to stand on my head and count the alphabet backwards on my fingers. its a bit hard to do. well plugg and ToR planned to buy the souviners as tiria and musican constructed the dog back together. wut they didnt know wus they accedently added some of the TNT power to the head. not to mention they put the head on backwards -_-. well i started to calm down and we waited for the others to get back with the souviners.
The overlord looked from one servant to another, considering each what they said, in turn. Finally, after thinking a long time, he spoke. "Despite the great trust I have placed in you six, you have failed in your objective. As it has been said, 'A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.' So to remedy this situation, I shall remove the weakest link from the chain. Tiria, you have made several mistakes, and you have not defended yourself. Have you no answer? Regardless, I have ascertained that you are the main reason I do not have a robot dog as the centerpiece for my back lawn. You are the Weakest Link. Good-bye." As the overlord spoke, a pair of men in lab coats entered the conference room, grabbed Tiria, and dragged her from the room.
The overlord turned back to face his underlings. "She will be taken to a facility where her personality will be erased, and she will be reprogrammed into a TV gameshow host. Expect to see on her TV in eight or nine months, hosting 'Who Wants To Be A Survivor Millionaire'. Now for your next mission. You are to go to the Swiss Alps and fetch me a pair of skis. There's nothing special about them; all I want are a pair of genuine pair of Swiss skis. To aid you in your quest, I am authorizing you five to enjoy as much swiss chocolates, swiss cheese, and anything else swiis that you want. All I care about are the skis. Bring them to me in one weeks time, and you will all be rewarded."
One Week Later -
"You have failed me again. I cannot explain how livid I am right now. Before I lose my temper, please explain to me how you five managed to blow up a hotel, cause an avalanche, and destroy the top of a mountain. That's not even mentioning the $1.26 million bill I received for a custom hotel room made entirely out of swiss chocolate, with not and cold running chocolate sinks. I know I gave you carte blanche in what you could buy, but why a hotel room made out of chocolate? Daniel, tell me what happened, before I lose my temper. Quickly now, speak up."
OOC: Sorry about that Tiria. :( Feel free to stick around. You never know what might happen. :)
OOC: I can't stop laughing at Tiria's punishment! Great work! XD
Daniel spoke without hesitation. "Well, sir, it is quite simple. Our flight when by uneventful, and we checked in to our hotel. This hotel was on top of a mountain. The night also went by uneventfully. The next morning, ToR, Plugg and Musician went to find your skis. We left Trigoma behind to do the cooking for when we got back, at his insistence. Well, we found a shop and purchased the best skis possible. They were beauties, let me tell you! Anyway, on our way back, Plugg boasted he could do the loudest yodel of us all. We were at the very top of another mountain, and the echo was amazing. So, of course, a yodeling contest started. I told the others they shouldn't as it could do damage, but ToR turned to me and said, "What harm could a yodeling contest do?"
So, off they went, Musician, ToR and Plugg, each one trying to outdo the other. Soon, Musician did one so loud it caused one of my ears to go temporarily deaf. It was also so loud it caused an avalanche. That explains that part.
We got back to discover Trigoma was driving a truck, at the back the hotel room made of chocolate. We looked at him, shocked, but he just smiled and waved at us. He placed the chocolate room in place and came over to us. As you can imagine, we gave him a stern lecture. That explains the chocolate room.
And finally, as it was getting later, Plugg started cooking dinner. Trigoma rushed off to his chocolate room, telling us he was going to have a bath with chocolate instead of water. What got in to him, I have no idea.
Well, Plugg came over and we ate his, surprisingly delicious, dinner. Afterwards, ToR placed a birthday cake on the table and started singing "Happy Birthday" to Musician. She was confused, as it wasn't her birthday, but he didn't listen, or at least didn't hear. Then the worst happened. He lit a candle, and the whole hotel exploded in a ball of flames. Plugg had left the gas on! The skis were inside, but I rushed to grab them. But, before I could get my hand on them, they too caught fire and burned.
So, we escaped the hotel just in time. The whole hotel burned to the ground and took down the top of the mountain with it."
OOC: I'm glad you liked it. I thought it was a highly-humorous as well. :D
"Overlord, Daniel told me it was Musician's birthday and gave me the cake to surprise her. I never left it out of my sight, so the bomb must have been planted prior to it coming to my hands that night. I'm not sure what Daniel was up to this entire trip, as it seems he had other agendas going most of the time. The rest of us tried to acquire a second pair of skis even, but he ran off and we had to go find him. I do not understand his actions, or why death-defying beavers eventually turned him over to us near your deadline. Trigoma led us to the pickup point as if he knew where Daniel was going to be, so I think he might have something up with the beavers."
"Oh, I won the yodel contest? Well, it wasn't really a yodel, per-say. I was screaming because Daniel stepped on my foot. My boots already hurt, but stepping on them caused extreme pain.
"And perhaps the reason they thought it was my birthday was because they were reading my journal, again. What did I tell you guys about doing that? Anyways, I was writing about my worst birthday, so they must have thought it was my birthday."
well they left me behind to cook, cause i have always had the dream of rich chocolaty goodness. and i knew this "Swiss" place to be of the best. well i was cooking a chocolate turkey when there was a knock at the door. it was some random guy that asked if i would like to be part of a chocolate competition. i took it up and started. strange guy though...when he turned around he looked like he had a beaver tail...well anyways i quickly jumped in a truck that was parked in the parking lot and drove to the store, bought all the chocolate there and made it back. i quickly constructed the chocolate place and was driving the truck to put it in its original spot when here comes the rest of the group. they looked a little disturbed.
and then i led them to the pick up point of daniel. what they didnt know wus they were about to be rich with my chocolate hotel! i led them onto a stage the random guy/beaver tail guy told me so i could win my money. well we stood on the stage for quite sometime. everyone was growing restless. just then i saw it. it was there! it was real! it isnt a story like people make it up to be...the leaning tower of chocolate! we were standing on top of it!
M'lord, I left the gas on because Tor was trying to get me to celebrate Musician's birthday. I resisted, but he dragged me over to her.
Ooc:For clarification, what thing did I leave the gas on?
(OOC: You left the gas on in the room, which caused the explosion. That and a bomb, which is just extra.
"It's true I gave ToR the cake, but I did not plant a bomb in it. That must have been the bakery, which did seem very dodgy. Also, I did read Musician's diary, but that was a mistake. It was disguised as another book, "Twilight". She obviously thought nobody would want to touch that, but Trigoma had been annoying me the whole trip begging me to read that novel, he told me it was his favourite book, so I thought I'd read it so he wouldn't annoy me. When I saw it was in fact Musician's diary, I quickly shut it, but I caught a bit saying "my birthday is coming up" or something like that, so I wanted to surprise her.
The beavers, well, I tried to warn them about that. I was distracted throughout the trip by the beavers. I kept seeing them, and I tried to warn the others that they were following us. I ran off when they were buying the new pair of skis because I saw the shop owner was in fact a beaver. I had learnt my lesson to never buy something off beavers, so I tried telling them not to buy the skis, but they didn't listen. So, I ran off to find another shop. I purchased two beautiful skis, but then the beavers captured me.
They kept me in a prison type thing in the woods, and the others came to save me. The beavers handed me over to them without a fight, but ToR had to give them some chewing gum left over from the last mission to get me back. I actually have no idea how Trigoma knew where I was, you'll have to ask him. Anyway, we escaped, I managed to steal the skis, but Musician snatched them off me and snapped them in half for some reason."
"I snatched them because they were time bombs! The beaver were making explosive skis to sell at their store. I quickly saw this and broke them in half. I was going to go buy another pair from a near by hillbilly, but ToR said he couldn't be trusted. I tried to tell him the hillbilly was my next-door neighbor, but they didn't listen to me. So as I insisted on buying the skis, they had to carry me off."
OOC: great, now twilight is my fav book x_x xD
i hate twilight
"That's enough! I have heard all I need to hear. I have decided who's fault is to blame. Trigoma, you cost me $1.26 million on that chocolate room. You didn't hold up your weight during the mission, so you must be eliminated."
As the overlord spoke, a strange device lowered from the ceiling. Mechanical arms popped out from the walls and grabbed Trigoma. The device on the ceiling hummed and whirred, and red lasers scanned back and forth over Trigoma. A beam shot out striking his shoulder, and he quickly faded from view.
"Do not worry about Trigoma. I have had him digitized. He will serve some time as my screensaver, and then he will be released with all memories of me and my empire wiped."
The overlord looked over his servants, one by one. "Two down, four left. Return to me in 24 hours and I shall give you your next assignment."
- THE NEXT DAY - Same time, same place:
"I have thought it over, and I have decided that you will go to Ireland and fetch me the secret to growing four-leaf clovers. Once I have it, I will convert my eastern lawn into a sea of four-leaf clovers, and it will bring a smile to my face each time I see it. Take your time on this one. By rushing through the mission, you'll only get yourselves into trouble. Now go."
- 15 DAYS LATER - 3:00 PM, at a castle somewhere in the Scottish Highlands:
"Do you know why I like the bagpipes? No? Well I'll tell you. The bagpipes are so loud, they drown out all thoughts of you four and your miserable failure! I send you one a ridiculously easy mission and you come back with what? A clover cookie cutter, 2,500 pounds of grass seed, 64 55-gallon barrels, a solid gold shovel, a platter of spoiled Chinese takeout, a tuba, and a green sports car? How is that even possible? *sigh* That car is already mine, you know. I just...I...how? ... Taggerung...tell me what happened before I lose my mind."
OOC: I know this one is hard, but this story line came to mind, and I couldn't pass it up. >:D
OOC: dangit! xD ah well thts how it goes. keep it up peeps. this is getting good o.o
(OOC; Going with a different approach here.)
"Overlord, the failure experienced here today came as a result of the failures of one individual- DanielofRedwall. As we first set out, he delayed us for three days due to leaving behind what he called "essential equipment". Fact: The essential equipment consisted of one item per day: soap, a pack of TNT, and a magazine discussing Roblox and the first ever-published issue concerning Minecraft (http://i.imgur.com/8vzRe.jpg). While of course any personal business he may delight himself with is his concern and all-well, bringing it in and causing such trouble to you is unacceptable of a servant of yours. You make all decisions and decide as you wish, but he so took upon himself to defy your orders.
"After these delays, his behavior became worse. Fact: Day four involved him tying Musician to a tree and departing camp. Fact: The Daniel sphere is troublesome and seems absolutely senseless. Fact: The sphere of Musician involves arboreal verdage and victimizing.
"After we reached Ireland and got to the factory that contained the secret you so desired, Daniel insisted he use TNT to blast in. We told him of the dangers it would entail in damaging the secret, but he told us to leave him alone. I decided to strip him of his TNT, but he ran off and blew up half the factory. Later, we found the paper containing the secret to be half-burnt.
"Fact: The Daniel sphere has failed you in one way or another, and most likely numerous. Fact: The Daniel aura has generated distrust and sundered your force of servantry to failure once again. Fact: The ToR sphere did much to prevent disaster, but could not attempt to stop Daniel in much of his damage, as it might for one hurt him, but he could too easily fall into enemy hands and cause your lording issues in the future."
"I see. But this does not explain why I was brought useless items. Would any of you care to explain why these things are here?"
"Overlord, the clove cookie cutter is a gift from a bagpiper we met, the 2500 pounds of grass seed is something he bought and gifted to a giraffe, who thre it at us, and the 64 55-gallon barrels Daniel bought with water to put out his fire. The other four items you mentioned are products generated outside of my knowledge."
"While we were stopping at a restaurant to eat, Daniel went off to something. ToR and Plugg ran after him. I was a little angry at Daniel. Then on the airplane he read my journal, again. ToR did too. And they kept teasing me for all the silly, poetical things I said. After that I was tied to a tree, I was really angry at Daniel. I had been stuck there and I was untied by a magical unicorn. Anyways, I stayed behind after ToR and Daniel had ran off. We were planing on going to the factory the next day. I decided while they were off doing who-knows-what, I would take the liberty to check and make sure everything was packed at camp, since we were going to be staying a hotel the next day. As I walked the streets I saw your green sports car in a guarded parking lot. I stood and looked at it for a second. A very pretty shade of green. Anyways, ToR and Daniel came out of nowhere and went through the gate. Daniel jumped into the driver's seat and took of. When he returned, I found out he had stored the car on our private boat to take home. It was late, and we had to get some sleep in order to do our mission the next day. So the car stayed on the boat."
"Daniel is easily affected by the color green. In fact for a time, we were all rather daunted by it. During the first day, green orbs, and a great general leading them of their kind, passed us in the woods. With them was a beaver with poker chips and cards, and a man rather like yourself. It was very strange and eerie. We never saw them again though."
OOC: Wow, you certainly gave me a hard position to get out of! Well, I guess I'll try, then.
By the way, Tagg, was that a referance to the ending of the first Overlord game?Daniel watched on in astonishment, and then muttered darkly under his breath "I knew they would blame it all on me".
He then spoke up.
"M'lord, the accusations made against me are completely unfair. To start with, it was not my fault I delayed them. I started packing at the same time as everyone else, but ToR finished way ahead of everyone else. His eagerness to get going meant we all had to go under packed. I tried stopping him and telling him none of us were ready, but he made us leave. After we managed to convince him to turn back, I got this 'essential equipment'. So, it wasn't just me who left things behind, and that was all ToR's fault. I'll now explain why they are essential:
- Soap: for obvious reasons, hygiene. You can attract unwanted visitors (insects) if you smell, so this makes sure you don't smell too bad. Insects can get distracting sometimes.
- TNT: You wouldn't believe how many sticky situations you can get out of with TNT. I had no intention at the time to use them to blow up the building. Also, it was Musician's idea to bring the TNT.
The magazines were packed at the insistence of Plugg Firetail. Well, actually, at the stealth of Plugg. He snuck them in without my knowing. I only saw them after checking the bag when we left, and he immediately snatched them from me and started to read.
"I tied Musician to the tree because she asked me too. She said she sleeps better tied to a tree, so, at night, she got me to tie her up. ToR got us to leave at the crack of dawn. I went to untie Musician, but he made us leave straight away and wouldn't let me explain. Musician, that is why I left you there, so please don't be angry at me, be angry at ToR instead.
"So, we reached Ireland, and yet again Plugg made me do something. He held me at gun point, would you believe, and forced me to use the TNT to break in. I tried to resist, but it was useless, as I knew he would blast my head off. They must have mistaken me, I didn't say "leave me alone", I said "the leaves have been mown". This I said to Musician, we sometimes speak in code to each other, you see. I said to her "Plugg is making me do this". I bought the barrels to put out the fire, as ToR said. Plugg gave me a slap for this.
"About the journal, this was ToR's fault. He told me he had sneaked out Musician's journal from her bag. I said to give it back, but he hit me, and made me read it with him. He isn't a great reader, you see, so he needed someone to read the tricky words for him. I fake laughed, I didn't find any of it funny, but he laughed out loud.
"As Musican said, we stopped at a restaurant. It was a Chinese restaurant. Musician took some of it with her, so that is why there is the Chinese food. The tuba and the shovel was Plugg's idea of a souvenir. I told him not to buy them as they would slow us down, but he bought them anyway.
"The car, well, that can easily be explained. I saw the green orbs floating around the car. I rushed in and drove off to save it from the orbs. Along the trip, however, the bagpiper who gave us the gifts hijacked the car. I knew he was evil all along! He pushed me out of the car and drove it in to the boat. Again, when I came back, they confused what I said. I didn't say "I drove the car to the boat", I said "The swan does not know how to float". Again, this was in Musician and I's secret code. I said "The bagpiper hijacked the car and drove it to the boat".
"As for my problems with the colour green, well, I had an experience as a child I'd rather forget. It made me paranoid of the colour for a while, but now it just makes me feel strange."
"I told Daniel to bring the TNT, kinda. I was in Plugg's room trying to find my slippers which had gotten somehow into Plugg's messy room. I sat down a chair and sent Daniel a text, telling him to bring the earphones. You see, we both pitched in to buy a set, so Daniel was keeping them. Anyways, Plugg's annoying dog jumped on my lap before I could finish typing. He made the message read: Bring the tNT. And sent it.
"As for being tied to a tree, well, I didn't think Daniel meant I was serious. Since I was already tied to the tree, I figured I should at least give it a shot. It wasn't comfortable, so I yelled to tell Daniel to untie me. He was snoring though.
"And now I remember Daniel saying 'Plugg is making me do this'. It was hard to hear over all the explosions."
OOC: @Daniel: Yes, it was.
"Overlord, my haste was due. As previous missions have shown, time is of the essence. The delay generated by those who desire to bring much ways heavily down upon all. As you said, a chain is only as great as its weakest link. I decided to pack little, and thus finished what my colleague so labelled as "early". When in fact, packing had been going on hours and hours on everyone else's part. And of course we had to return.
"In regards to Musician's journal- I thought it was a joke book. She is a very good writer, though my colleague as so labelled me as "reading challenged". His lack of seeing genuine humor, even if in fact it is serious and ill-hearted to laugh at, given its true nature, is absurd. Plugg suggested the read to me. He always suggests reading. Especially magazines."
The overlord stood over his servants, glaring at each one in turn. After a very long period of silence, he spoke. "You have each failed me. Your mistakes are terrible and disgraceful. However, I will not dispose of all of you, only one shall be removed. Thank your lucky stars that Plugg passed me this small note before we started, willingly taking the blame for this fiasco. He has guts. Unfortunately for him, I hate people with guts. So you three are safe...for now." As he spoke, a pair of aliens suddenly appeared in the room, captured Plugg in a force-field, and disappeared, all in the space of five seconds. "Plugg will be taken to another planet in our solar system for experimentation. I can't tell you which one it is, for security reasons, but I will tell you this. If this experiment works, the 2020 Winter Olympics will be quite a spectacle."
"Now, on to your next mission. Because you failed so spectacularly the last time, I'm going to give you an easy one. This one cannot be botched, except by the most incompetent lackey. I want you three to paint the interior of my book storage vault. I have had the contents moved into my money vault, which has a lot more room in it, after the results of your last few missions. You will be sealed in the vault for the next four hours, while you work. The vault is bomb-proof, teleportation-proof, and even beaver-proof. There is no way anything can interrupt your work. I am also giving you each a specially-made paint sprayer that will speed your paint job along. The paint you are using has no fumes, and dries instantly. I can't see you failing in any way. Now go.
- FOUR HOURS THIRTY MINUTES LATER -
"I am calm right now. I have to be. If I wasn't, they're wouldn't be you three anymore. I gave you a fool-proof mission, and you didn't complete it. I looked in my vault, and I see a half-painted mess that will take a week to fix. Also, how in the world did a 'My Little Pony' mural end up on the south wall, and an aquatic still-life appear on the east wall? How did this happen? Daniel, speak!"
"Sir, how all this happened is quite simple. We got our paint and started our work as we were told. We both took a wall each for the first little while, and then we were all to work on the last one at the end. That is how we arranged it. Everything was going well for about and hour, before ToR said that our work was boring and decided to start a contest. He said that we were all to paint a pretty picture and the best one would win. I said we shouldn't, but before I could say you would be angry, ToR and Musician had started. Of course, I tried to stop them, but they just got angry with me and pushed me off. I have a rather large bruise on my stomach from where Musician karate kicked me if you need evidence, oh master. Anyway, I didn't take part and carefully painted my wall. By the time I had done half (I was particularly careful with my wall), the other two announced they had both finished.
I looked over to ToR's wall, which was the My Little Pony mural. I never knew he was such a fan. Musician's was the aquatic still-life painting. Both were pretty terrible, after all, they did them in a rush. Then Musician told me to judge the winner. I refused, which seemed to make her pretty angry. She kicked my paint bucket really hard, and the paint went all over my wall! That explains why my wall was a half-done mess. Of course, I tried to fix it, but forsome reason ToR kept getting in my way and stopping me."
"Overlord, my actions were simple. Time management is crucial, as has been unfortunately neglected so much in the past by your other servants. In regards to the contest Daniel mentioned, it was indeed my idea. Musician refused to paint anymore on grounds of it being boring. Ia greed it was boring, but said we must continue to complete your task. I decided to do a quick contest to get her back to work. My heart was far from it, so naturally my work was not good. I desired greatly to return to the task.
"As my fellow servant has told you, Musician was quite angry in regards to being stopped and not judged. She was very forward in declaring she must be declared the winner by Daniel. I just shook my head and went to go back to painting. Musician would not tolerate that. She kicked me as well, even harder than she earlier did to Daniel. I have lasting proof as well.
"Musician began fighting me around the room, which casued me to get in Daniel's way and not let him fix painting the wall, as Musician had kicked the bucket over."
"I never said I was tired of painting! I had gotten paint on my hand, so as I was cleaning it off I looked at my nails. I said, 'I'm tired of painting my nails ' not 'I'm tired of painting'. ToR came over and clumsily splattered paint all over my clothes. I said I was going to go change into some better painting clothes, but ToR missed that fact and claimed I was being lazy. Daniel had rushed us into the painting, so I didn't even get a chance to change. So he challenged me to a painting contest. I knew Daniel was trying to stop us, and I didn't kick him for that. He had said, 'ToR and little-miss-lazy Musician better stop this nonsense.' I kicked him because he said that about me. I decided to go ahead and do the contest because ToR kept begging me to and he even dipped my hair in paint for no good reason. It was on! That is why I wanted to win so bad. And I started to fight ToR because he was being a dork and kept teasing and doing stupid stuff for no good reason."
"The 'stupid stuff' that Musician finished with being trying to convince Musician to stop being angry and return to work for you, Overlord. She is not a good listener. We painted, but Daniel had unduly rushed into things. Musician was concerned about her clothes, and fought a lot, regardless of her reasons, speckled so much with misunderstandings. I tried, after all the incidents relayed to you now, to finish the fourth untouched wall. I painted a lot, trying to finish it to satisfaction. And I did fairly, it is almost finished and well-done. Unfortunately, incidents mentioned prevented me from ever finishing."
"And some other 'stupid stuff' you did was push Daniel's face into the paint can and kick a hole in the wall to better create your My Little Pony thing. I was only angry for a second. But when I ignored ToR's silly jokes, he thought I was mad.
Daniel nodded in agreement. "Yes, ToR did dunk my head in paint. It wasn't pleasant. Also, it was true that I said 'ToR and little-miss-lazy Musician better stop this nonsense.' However, I said that for a good reason, not to insult the two, but to get them working. Sometimes, if you insult someone, they get really angry and go 'I'll show him whose a little-miss-lazy!' or whatever. That was the reaction I hoped I'd get from them, but it had thr opposite effect, as already said, unfortunately. I also did rush a bit in too painting, but that was because the other two kept complaining about the work you had given us before we started, so I wanted to show them how easy or 'fool proof' the job was. Also, even though I was working slowly ad carefully for most of the time, the other two were working incredibly slow before the contest. I think that is why they thought I was rushing in to things."
"I was not trying to duck Daniel's head in paint. Musician was brawling both of us around the room for over an hour, and in that time my hand was out of my control after being cracked into the wall. It hit Daniel's head and pushed it into the paint. I soon dried it off and apologized. As for the My Little Pony mural, Musician had said it looked pathetic and to kick a hole in the wall, on the grounds that it would fit her 'masterpiece' on the eastern wall. You see, she had kicked three large holes there earlier. So I was forced to inflict a centimeter-wide hole in the wall, which I soon painted over to amend."
"Actually Daniel pushed me into the wall for no good reason causing the holes. I wasn't even talking and he pushed me.
"As for 'brawling for an hour' you mean I got in between Daniel and ToR when they started to argue over which My Little Pony was the best. They kept pushing and punching me, so I fought back. The only hard blow I got was smashing ToR's hand against the wall."
"No good reason?! I think not! First: I tripped on a paint bucket and fell on you. Second: I was walking over to calm you down, as you were going out of control at ToR."
"I wasn't going out on ToR. He grabbed my scarf and claimed he needed it for a rag. I pushed him aways, and you Daniel freaked out because he left a hand print on your wall. Then you and he started fighting, and I continued painting. It wasn't until you bumped me did I realize that you had been going at it and I broke you two up."
"The scarf Musician referred too was a rag, and a scarf. It was a rag modified to be a scarf. As such, I picked it up from the floor and gave it to Daniel to use, after Musician, indirectly, became responsible for ducking his head in paint."
"That is enough of that! Your mudslinging is terrible, and I am having difficulty not getting rid of all of you. One of you, however, appears to have been a particular instigator in this problem. Daniel, you were clumsy, uncoordinated, and not at fault. I commend your efforts to quell the argument between your fellow servants. Now as for you two, I must to decide which one of you will have to go, and I have just the way to do it." The overlord reached into his pocket and pulled out a coin. "Call it in the air." And with that he deftly flicked the coin into the air.
OOC: ToR and Musician, first one to post chooses their side of the coin.
OOC: What's your method? Are you going to be flipping a real coin?
"Heads."
OOC: Yeah, that's pretty much it.
"ToR has called heads, and the result is......tails! ToR, you have one minute to pack your bags, and then you must leave the fortress, forever. Of course I have to wipe your memory first, but you won't remember it. Anyway, have a decent existence, I guess. You just made one too many mistakes."
After ToR had departed, the overlord turned to his underlings. "You know, I'm not just wiping his memory and letting him go. No, instead I'm wiping his memory, and making him working full-time as a pawn for life-size chess tournaments. Somehow the punishment seems fitting."
"Now I bet you two are wondering what your next task will be. Truth be told, I don't know what I want you to do. So, uh, your challenge will be....hmmmm....coming back tomorrow. Yeah, that's it. Your challenge will be to get here in the morning, promptly at 10 AM, sharp. I won't make it easy for you though. Hehehe."
- The Next Day - 5:37 PM -
"Now I expected you two to be late, very late, but I didn't expect this late. I know that you were surprised this morning, when you found that the entire fortress had been completely changed, with new hallways, doors to nowhere, and rooms within rooms, but I was sure one of you would figure out my puzzles and get here by 10 AM. The challenges weren't THAT hard. But at least I'm not mad with either of you. On the contrary, I haven't had this much fun in ages. I've monitored you progress on the closed-circuit monitors, and I have to say, it was greatly amusing to watch the two of you compete to get here before the other. I left the sound off while I was watching you, because I wanted to hear what you two had to say about it first. Well then, tell your overlord what happened as you maneuvered through the Wonderland-esque world I designed. What happened to you? Don't be shy; speak up."
"Well, when we first started off, we just randomly picked which passage to go down," here Musician pointed her finger waving it back in forth, "One potato, two potato, three potato four and which ever passage we landed on, we went down. Then Daniel said we should try to judge which way to go by noting the position of the sun and then going north, blah, blah, blah. And I said we should just ask some of the guards where the room was. So we used both techniques, sometimes they led us a little further before we got to a dead end, and other times they led us to another fork in the hall. There was that time we found a bag of spilled pretzels (not from us) and I picked one off the floor and ate it. Daniel was grossed out, so, I didn't offer one to him. And whenever we got annoyed by each other, Daniel stole one of my hair clips, and then I licked my hand and touched his arm. He always let go of the clip in order to clean his hands with a baby wipe."
"What Musician said was completely true. At the start, we both asked each other what annoyed each other the most. Musician said people stealing her hair clips, I said people licking their hands and then touching me. So, whenever we got annoyed at each other, we did those. This promoted 'team spirit', as instead of yelling at each other, we did that. It worked, we worked quite well together for most of the time. It took quite a while to get closer, but eventually we found it. But then, when we were near the end, I saw the room. I pointed to it and said 'there it is!', but she didn't believe me. She looked, but she said she couldn't see it. I told her to get her sight checked, but she didn't seem to like that. She started yelling at me, so I stole a hair clip. This made her even more mad, and she pushed me to the ground. I fell, but then she tripped over my feet and she got knocked out. I had to drag her to the room, further delaying our progress. She came around at the door of the room."
"I don't need my sight checked. It's you Daniel, who needs your whole face checked. I noticed that a trap was set next to the door, and said, 'Don't you see-' but Daniel cut me short and said 'Oh, go get you sight checked'. He then started to go towards the door, so I yelled, telling him to stop. When he stole my hair clips and continued walking, I pushed him and he just barely missed the knife which came down (for it was the trap). Unfortunately, as I was going to help Daniel up, I tripped, and as he said, he had to drag me to this room."
"Actually, I did see that trap. I tried telling Musician to not go until I stopped the trap. I knew how to disarm the trap from previous training, so I tried to stop Musician from getting in my way. But every time I tried to tell her, she interrupted me. So I stole her hairclip and walked towards the trap to disarm it. She then pushed me, making me lose my balance and set off the trap. So, not only did she interrupt me, but she made me set off the trap and nearly kill myself. Although, she did try to help me up. But, she was so clumsy she tripped over and, as mentioned, I had to drag her the rest of the way."
"Well, I kept interrupting Daniel because I knew he wanted to disable the trap. But such traps take hours to disable, and I noticed a small door which had no traps or tricks at all. It was meant for an emergency escape door. I was trying to tell Daniel that we should use that door and save a lot of time."
"Take hours to disable? Perhaps for some, but I can disable those traps in less than a minute, I've timed myself. 33.56 seconds, to be exact. And that emergency door, I saw that. But it lead right back to the start. I tried telling Musician that as well."
"Not that fake emergency door that was visible, the one standing behind the china cabinet. And as for the lock, you never mentioned you could even do it."
"Alright, I think there's been enough arguing. I am ready to hand down a decision. First though, I must pass on a tradition handed down to me by my predecessor. That's right, there was an overlord before me. In fact, there have been many such overlords in the past. Always there; always running things behind the scenes. And now my time as overlord draws to a close. I am stepping down after several decades, and it is time to install a new overlord to run this empire while I spend the rest of my days playing life-sized board games at the home for retired overlords in...oh, wait, you aren't ready to know about that yet."
"So here's how this will work, I want you each to tell me in 100 words or less, why you think you'd make a good overlord. It doesn't matter to me what argument you make, just as long as you do your best to convince me that you have what it takes. I will give you some time to think it over, but I expect an answer soon. Any questions?"
"I believe a good Overlord must be fair when dealing out punishments and when giving missions. They shouldn't abuse their power, as sometimes power is the root of the problem. However, the must also have a bit of a strict side or no-one would take them seriously. You are a good model for an Overlord, my Lord."
"An overlord should be able to fight. You, my lord, have taught me that. If I, the humble servant, were ever blessed enough to become an overlord, I would surely use justice and honor to rule my servants. I would be the one at the head of the battle, leading them.
"As Shakespeare said in his play, Henry the V, 'But if it is a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive'"
"You both make strong cases. I have considered what you each have said, and I am ready to make a decision."
"Daniel, you have made the argument that an overlord must be just, but swift to action. This is a good trait to have."
"Musician, your argument is that an overlord must be a fighter. This is a strong stance to hold, and a good one."
"However, there can be only one overlord. I say all that to say this; I have made up my mind. My successor will be...
(The suspense is terrible...)
(I'm stringing you along...)
Musician!"
"Yes, Musician is to be the new overlord. Bear the title well. As for you Daniel, while I appreciate your viewpoint, it is not as important as being a fighter. For this reason, I have chosen Musician to be my successor. Do not fret though, for I shall see to it that you are installed as a member of the overlords' trustees board, if you so choose. If not, we will wipe your memory, and give you a job running an Italian restaurant. It's your choice. As for you, Musician, I will be stepping down soon. Fill my shoes well, and make me proud. That is all. Thank you, and good-bye."
As he spoke, a secret door opened in the side of the wall, the overlord passed through it, turned to face his former servants, bowed once, and walked away. His servants watched the door close behind him. They turned to face the door to leave the office, but stopped short as a control panel rose from the floor. A note was attached to side which read:
'To my two favorite servants. I hope you will do well in your new roles, whatever they may be. To my successor: place your hand upon the biometric scanner to be installed as the new overlord. To the runner-up: push the blue button if you wish to be a member of the trustees board, or push the green button to become a restaurant owner; it's up to you. Good luck!'
What wilst thou do?
OOC: If you would each post once more telling what you did, we can then wrap the story up. I congratulate Musician for her victory, and Daniel for making it to the final round. How does everyone feel this round went?
OOC: This was a triumph,
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
Daniel considered his words. Would he risk being destroyed in such a horrific way just to feel power? His hand hovered over the blue button, but then he hesitated. Being a restauruant owner was a dream of his as a child, and there was no risk in it. He hated risking his life so many times. He took a photo of the place he spent much of his life in (and one of Musician giving him a thumb's up) so he would never really forget, took a deep breath, and pressed the green button.
OOC: I will be back for another round, I just wanted to have a happy ending for my character.
yay! that was totally epic!
Musician didn't hesitate a bit. She followed the instructions, and little did she know, all in the blink of an eye, her life would be changed.
OCC: I feel so honored. I plan to start the next round after Christmas. Overlord's Orders V! This was a great round Matthias!
I'm glad everyone enjoyed it. :) I hope everyone had as much fun playing, as I did writing out each scenario.