Overlord's Orders: Holiday Special

[Leatho Shellhound]

OOC: I was like, what?! You whacked it out of Martins hands......from a tree? And than I remembered you hadn't posted yet and were writing back from the beginning. Lol

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

"If woe is going to beset me, it best be explained in a manner that can provide entertainment. Honestly there is little to entertain me aboard this vessel, besides you lot. I should write that down next chance I get-which will be awhile. Meanwhile, five of you can return to your quarters while I prepare a new debriefing for you lot and a new challenge. Quite terrifying prospect looking forward to that, but not to worry, you right there, you won't have to be worrying about that."
As the Overlord pointed at Tam and Martin, the doors burst open and a couple of enormous turkeys marched in, tied the servant up in ropes and were gone from the roof in a matter of four seconds. The servants were soon dismissed.


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Sometime later, in an unexpected incident, the servants had arrived in the throne room before the Overlord. They were already inside with the doors shut before they realized that the Overlord was not seated in his chair, but it was in fact a burnt letter on top of a large, old suitcase. Even though no gravity restricting was employed, they all stood stock-still, too scared to overcome their curiosity and investigate the room and letter. The Overlord soon arrived, and from the look on his face as he entered the single doors leading in, he had obviously lost track of time-unheard of for the Overlord. He quickly composed himself, marched through the servants, and took his seat on the throne, removing the suitcase, and putting the letter inside his heavy jacket. From the debris on his clothing, it was certain he had been working on maintainence or repair somewhere in the sphere. Severe turbulence at all hours were commonplace these days.
"More woes in the target of reaching Earth for the holidays, my friends! Christmas will await me there yet still, I hope. And if not, it'll be your fault, and not just because everything is always your fault, but more precisely because it'll be your job to stop threats preventing my arrival.
"I want you all to find Robert Manson. He's recently destroyed several neighboring galaxies. I want him found and told not to destroy this one, I do of course have business with it on the matter of reaching Earth for Christmas. Find him at his summer abode, I hear the Qaax are giving him everything he wants at this house, including turkeys and side dishes. Once you've found him, give him an apple from the mess hall. Old joke. There's two buttons outside, one blue and one green. Hit the correct one to get to his abode. Choose wisely- always choose blue, my servants! And once you've done that, you'll be at the abode. And be quick about it, I have no time to spare if I want to reach Earth on time."



"So, you found him, did you? More than I expected of you. However, my old home galaxy was destroyed. I'll miss it. But no matter, I'm sure Lear can arrange a better meeting place for the Convention. But you did not give him an apple! You grabbed a pear! Explain!"


Updated Player List:
Tiria Wildlough
DanielofRedwall
Leatho Shellhound
Skipper
Redwaller

[Tiria Wildlough]

'Everything was going to plan, sir. I got an apple and I was about to give it to him when Skipper grabbed it. I think Skipper is responsible for the switch, sir.'

[Skipper]

That sir is because there was a small deadly bug eating the apple from a small hole in the apple, I grabbed it and smashed it on the floor after I had crushed the apple wih my paws and therefore the bug as I did so.

[Redwaller]

The pear was given to Robert Manson by DanielofRedwall, I think he had done this to get rid of Mr. Manson, which was extremily allergic to pears.

[DanielofRedwall]

"No, my great Overlord, giving Robert Manson an allergic reaction was not my intention. After Skipper destroyed the apple we had no fruit left to give him. I shrugged and mentioned that I had a pear with me. Leatho said that that'd be a good idea to give him the pear, so I started to offer it. I wasn't aware that he was allergic, and no-one told me he was. Manson wasn't hesitant to take the pear for some reason, though... He didn't eat, though, if I recall correctly."

[Leatho Shellhound]

"I thought it was an apple, for I am fruit blind my lord."

OOC: like colour blind but with fruit.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

"I once found myself deserted on a sandy island after attempting to discover a new mineral by rafting down a river. I might write down and detail this incident sometime, but for now I will provide only one detail: It was becasue I was given the wrong type of bamboo. This incdient is very similar, and I will have to remove one of you to try and prevent it happening again. For instance, Leatho."
Leatho's head dropped as he said it, and it stayed in that position as a glass cylinder materialized around the servant, and eventually dematerialized without the servant.




It was just before Christmas now, and the decorations were back. The turbulence had ceased in the last couple days. The trees were greener than ever and taller than ever, and presents were under the tree. Even the hallways of the sphere were decorated with candles. The Overlord immediatly began debriefing the second the servants were through the doors, even not invoking gravity restrictions.
"I'm losing time! I have a strict schedule to pilot this thing to Earth, and I'm falling behind. I'll probably not make Christmas as it is, but I still want to replenish fuel. And since this craft runs on money, I have an appropriate task for you. Commit a bank robbery. A simple, common bank robbery, in a simple, modern bank. Nothing fancy, just stereotypical robbery. Same I don't have time travelling technology to give you more of a fun challenge. But then again, you lot couldn't pull off a walk in the park successfully."

"You robbed a bank, did you? Don't tell me that, because you didn't. You robbed a supermarket, a beach resort and an empty hill. I'm not even sure how someone can rob an empty hill, but the intergalactic police reported it anyway. So before I get arrested for your foolishness, who screwed this up so badly?"



Updated Player List:
Tiria Wildlough
DanielofRedwall
Redwaller
Skipper

[DanielofRedwall]

"Redwaller did," Daniel stated, simply. "We were on our way to the bank, when Redwaller insisted we stopped for ice cream. Of course, we ignored him at first, but he grew more and more restless and more and more insistent that we knew we had to get him the ice cream or the task would never be completed. So, I quickly ran in to a supermarket and grabbed the cheapest ice cream I could just to shut him up. But when I reached the counter Redwaller was starting a robbery there with balaclavas (I knew it was him by the other clothes he was wearing, don't know where the other two were though). I paid with whatever money I could find, told them to keep the change and tried stopping him from robbing the supermarket because we needed to get to the bank. I failed and they got the cash from the stall (including the money I paid).
"So, with the supermarket robbed we set out for the bank again, Redwaller happy enough with the ice cream. On the way to the bank we drove past a beach and Redwaller, in his insistent mood, started to make us have a swim. Don't know why, it wasn't even a very hot day. So, we went and had a 2 minute dip and what do you know! He started to rob the nearby beach resort. Again, I tried to stop him, and again I failed.
"So, we drove off again with more money and Redwaller in a strange mood. We drove past an empty hill, and Redwaller in his robbing mood pulled a gun on me and made me pull over. And he tried to rob the hill. I dragged him back in the car and drove off again.
"We arrived at the bank, but we were too late. Someone had already attempted a robbery and there were police everywhere. Not a chance of robbing that place, no sir! So, as you can see, Redwaller is to blame."

[Redwaller]

OOC: Well, I've got a lot to answer for! 

BIC: I wanted the ice cream because I knew that I could distract the banker with this so it would make the task easier for us. Then, when we were in the supermarket, I saw lots of money that would have pleased you plus the bank robbery. So I stole the money and we went away. When we came to the beach, I wanted to go for a dip so that we wouldn't be suspicious looking because I had saw even more money in the house next to the beach that would have pleased you even more! The reason for the empty hill is because I had saw someone bury a safe full of gold and precious metals. I forced Daniel to pull over because he wouldn't listen to me when I told him I had seen the person bury it. The reason why the police was at the bank was because of Tiria, who had called the cops.

[Leatho Shellhound]

OOC: I died, oh well it was a lot of fun. Good luck to all the rest!!! I am voting for........ Tiria
Because she is from the Awesome book High Rhulain.

[Tiria Wildlough]

'I'm sorry I called the cops, but I was going to send them to another bank so they would be busy when we robbed our bank. The reason they came to our bank instead was because Skipper shouted its name into the phone, and the police had ended the phone call before I could correct him. So, if you want to blame anyone, blame Skipper.'

[Skipper]

I could hear someone whispering on the other end of the phone, they were asking someone to track the phone so I shouted to distract the police who immediantly forgot what they were on about. But then as we passed a police station Tiria started singing 'O were going to rob a bank' in a loud voice doing total injustice to the clasic song, but the police followed us so we were lucky to escape as we were almost trapped between the two sides of police!

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

OOC: Probably be holding off another elimination until the 25th or so. So plenty of room for more playing if anyone's interested.


'One thing I forgot to question you about," said the Overlord slowly but menacingly. "Why is there beavur fur on your clothes?"

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

"I suppose," began the Overlord, "that whatever intentions any of you ever begin on will inevitably fail in the worst way possibe and likely at the worst time possible. I'm afraid that I cannot dismiss all of you-I still need some servants. And I want the most competent and successful I can get-I'll need it more than ever. And that is not Tiria Wildlough, and so you will not be serving me, or anyone, ever again."
No one knew what happened to the servant-she simply vanished in an instant as Redwaller, Skipper and DanielofRedwall were gazing at her.

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Christmas was missed. The sphere's resumed turbulence had resulted in a fire destroying all portraits of cows in the throne room, and the cafeteria was reduced to a single table not incinerated. Lighting failed everyday, but still the Overlord piloted on towards Earth at ever slowing speed over the weeks. He was set on arriving for New Years Eve. His three remaining servants spent most of their time playing cards in the dormitories, fortunately undamaged.
But their existence on the sphere had taken a strange turn. During a fire incident, they had rushed out of the dormitories into the main hall connecting all the various facilities of the sphere. The Overlord was frantically tossing papers into the hall from his throne room, while the servants stood by in fascination. One paper hit the far wall as it was thrown, rolled over to their feet, and fell open. A very clear message was written across the top:
WHEN ON EARTH, BUILD NEW FORTRESS. ACQUIRE SCORES OF SERVANT GROUPS AND SEND OUT MANY MISSIONS AT ONCE, WITH MORE CHANCES FOR JUDGMENT AND PUNISHMENT. GET ELECTE...
The rest was scribbled away. The fire seemingly abated, the Overlord grabbed up all the jostled papers, for some reason ignoring the servants standing like statues watching him, and walked back into the throne room. It was later that day the servants were called into the throne room to be debriefed on a latest assignment. The Overlord was briefer than ever and quite disgruntled. Not too mention dangerous.
"Anything- I don't care, just pull something off successfully. Actually, a better idea. You are all far too incompetent to think up a plot. Find me a limo. You'll need to grab a miniaturizing ray before you leave, because it'll be too big to fit through the teleporter. Do not grab the enlarging or decimating ray guns. I bought those from the beavers yesterday. Miniature rays- remember that. And you can have a week off on the task. No, not really, I made that up. You can't. You have 12 hours. That's all the time we'll have to meet the deadline for Times Square at 11:30 PM."

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"If that elephant on Redwalller's head is a limo, I would not recommend shopping at that store anymore, because I would be terrified at what else they sell. Also, a screwdriver and an elaboate chair are not limos either. Yet you bring me these, and no limo. Anyone, explain. I'm sure I'll be entertained. After that, I'll, well, I haven't entirely decided yet but something, one of you, then go to Times Square. I will make it! After missing holiday and holiday, I will meet a deadline!"