Overlord's Orders: Holiday Special

[Tam and Martin]

what time does it begin?

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

Right now.

Player list:
1. Tiria Wildlough
2. DanielofRedwall
3. Leatho Shellhound
4. Skipper
5. Tam and Martin
6. HeadInAnotherGalaxy
7. Lord Gorath
8. Redwaller

ALL SIGN-UPS CLOSED. Expect Matthias' round to begin in January.
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Matthias had bought this orb he stood in. He was quite proud of it, and liked it a lot. After teleporting from a distant galaxy in, he knew he'd have to pilot it to ever leave. It was impossible to get out of it through conventional means, only from the internal teleportation installed. Fortunately, he had unlimited food supply from a replicator. In fact, over the two weeks since his arrival, he had been using it. He had mysteriously since arriving acquired a bizarre knack for engineering and construction that he could not explain. He was more talented and efficeint than he could ever remember. As he stood in the control room (which was at the very center of the orb), where he had finished installing gravity panels on the floor, he heard a strange sound behind him. He turned and saw a man heading towards him. He was aging, short, and dressed in black. He had a quirky glint in his eyes and a menacing look on his face. He thought he had seen this man before.
   Matthias's feet become stuck to the floor. The man had already accessed the control panel Matthias had just installed next to his chair and the button controlling the gravity plates was pushed, Without ever speaking, the stranger pushed a few buttons and Matthias disappeared, teleported who knows where. The Overlord held up a small device to his mouth.
   "All here, my green general friend, good beaver- my old control panel designs, the gravity panels I invented. I believe one of you owes me some money. The brain link worked-we placed all my inventive knowledge into Matthias's mind. He can just find another base to settle in as Overlord. And now I am here again, as Overlord. Just a shame he didn't pick a nicer lair. Like one with a limo factory."

Fifteen years later- give or take a few days

In the vast recesses of empty space, the dark orb of the Overlord drifted. It was dark, and since practically no one had ever observed it from the outside, of an unknown size. The single permanent resident was the Overlord, with various servants at any time to fulfill his wishes and desires. These persons had been teleported from far away and had not seen the outside of the orb, and in fact the Overlord had never seen it either, though he alone knew its exact size.
In the center of the dark orb was a dimly-lit room, a perfect square shape with walls covered with various wires, panels, contraptions, controls, molecular stabilized accelerators, levers, cow portraits, switches and all manner of equipment. In the center of the large room was a large chair with leading steps, where sat the Overlord, with a control panel beside him. In front of him stood his present servants, secured in their positions by the heavy gravity employed a few inches from the floor upwards.
His face was emotionless and his frown snarling. "With the recent failure of your last attempt at acquiring my supplies, I have decided a punishment is due. Corporal Squash, you clearly defied my orders and attempted desertion, I have no use for such tragedies." A clank resounded, and an immense force of suction pulled Corporal Squash to the ceiling, and out a small hole that had opened up. A monitor to one side of the room showed a small escape pod moving up a shaft to the top of the sphere, via a camera affixed to the bottom and top of the small cylinder compartment. The feed quit, and the Overlord spoke.
"The cylinder will exit the sphere soon, moving at such speeds. The cameras have stopped working already. Obviously, no one has ever seen this orb from the outside, except the builders who lived millennia ago. Corporal Squash will not be breaking that rule on his craft's exit. Figure that, eh."
The Overlord appeared passive, then turned his attention to his servants.
"As you know, you lot of eight's first mission was an absoltute failure, mostly because of Corporal Squash. You did not acquire a pumpkin like I wanted.  The second mission I sent you on has been a failure too, though not surpirsingly so. Both of these missions failed I can see, but I have not heard a report on the more recent mission. So, please fill me in on the details of your attempt at acquiring my specially ordered turkey and side dishes from the planet Earth, the planet where I hired you all from at that wonderful convention last week. I really wanted that food- that replicator was never installed correctly. I should really have made note to hire that brain-linker worker guy and make him a servant for a month and teach him how to do things right."

[Redwaller]

"Well, we came down to Earth like you asked us to. But then the trouble began to happen:

We were going to a butcher store to get the turkey, when suddenly Leatho Shellhound took a stick and broke the windows of the store. So the owner called the police and we were brought to the police station to answer for Leatho shellhound's craziness."


(Am I doing it right?)

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

OOC: Yup, that's good.


The Overlord focused on Leatho. "Any explanation? And the rest of you, surely you all were doing something while this trouble went on?"

[Lord Gorath]

"Well, at the time, me and Leatho Shellhound were looking at a picture of a deadly blue wax shark inside, and Leatho thought it was real, so he went in and broke the windows, (for he had read that fresh air killed them) while me and Redwaller were trying to get him and then the police walked in. I was shot by HeadInAnotherGalaxy with a laser gun and fell unconscious.  When I woke up I was in the police office."

OOC: Is that right?

[Redwaller]

OOC: How many posts are we allowed(I mean do we have to wait for others?)

Tam and Martin was also stealing meat from the shelf when the butcher wasn't looking.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

OOC: As long as you don't double post, you're fine.

[Tam and Martin]

Mighty Overlord I wasn't trying to steal the turkey I was trying to save it. Headinanothergalaxy was using a laser gun to turn the turkey to dust so I tried to save as many turkeys as I could. The buthcher heard the noise and turned around and looked at me that's when Redwaller made a getaway with a turkey.

[Skipper]

I was about to enter the shop and get the turkey but two big men stopped me and said no otters allowed. Even ask Tiria, she witnessed it, but then the police shot me with a dart gun and i fell unconscious.

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Ah waznae goin' after the turkey, ah waz tryin' tae drive back the theztralz tha' were clozin' in tae eat it. If ah hadnae done tha', they wid 'ave eaten it. Then ah' zuddenly got clobbered over the head by Lord Gorath and ah waz aboot tae get up when the Death Defyin' Beaverz attacked uz, and ah fell unconziouz.

[Lord Gorath]

I fell on the ground while fighting armed death-defying beavers with a stick when Skipper flopped me into the air and I fell onto HeadInAnotherGalaxy.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

OOC: Tiria, Leatho and Daniel: Awaiting your responses. I want to try and get everyone a post every round.

"Gah, dreaded death-defying beavers!" exclaimed the Overlord. "I'll have to try and work a deal to avoid further trouble with them. I'll never reach Earth with them weighing down your missions. I'll need a plan, and a very old one at that."

[Lord Gorath]

     
Give them $1,000,000.

[Tiria Wildlough]

'I was going to get the turkey with Skipper, then the men who said no otters allowed hit me over the head with their dart guns, and knocked me out. I had nothing to do with the other things that were happening because I was unconscious.'

[Redwaller]

I stole the turkey because the Death-Defying Beavers were ruining all the meat. So I was getting away with it when DanielofRedwall tripped me and stamped on the turkey!