You could have always, you know, messaged them... Surely you had some way of contacting someone. I still see kbaily poking about reviews yelling at fanboys sometimes.
Looks like not really. sonictrainer may still be lurking, phc likely has no idea it's up, and I only got here because the RPG document said it it was up (pretty sure that was you based on font color). S0, kj, Cloud, kbaily, not seeing any of them either.
OOC: Note that we cannot post new content after 5 PM PDT, AKA two minutes from now. These forums, well... We'll see. Chan looked up at the dragons as he replied to Danial. "Well, I suggest we attack the dragon first, then worry about the rest, since the dragon's kind of an immediate everything-murderer. Your super-tactician powers available quite yet? I'm afraid I'm not programmed for advanced strategy; just puzzle-solving, and I'm kind of an impatient puzzle-solver." He activated the magnet as he said this and pulled over an odd-looking spheroid object on the ground that reacted to the manipulation of a magnet. Enough weight for damaging something, he hoped... OOC: Make of that what you will, I'm not implying that it has to be a magical toy from Renovir's toy zombies. "Well... Don't mind if I do, anyway. Just not cut out for the warfare and domination business, unfortunately, and I kind of promised a lot of people I'd learn all I can..." Lenny reached for a book on a shelf that looked like it might mean, well, something. "Unless you have a better idea to read, anyway."
Chan walked up to the SWATbots first, and checked to be sure that they were fine. For a team of robots with sentient intelligence, they seemed okay, and exuberant. "Well, that fight's over, maybe. Just the dragon left..." He turned to the other five or so people recovering. "Renovir is getting ever-closer, as you can see, and I'm starting to think that we were never designed to do much besides play fetch quest and cause a distraction. I say we loosely; my brother was the one called in, but for a while I shared his mind so we worked together on everything." He extended his hand to Danial purposely. "Chan Cloud; android brother of Lenny and fairly battle-upgraded at the moment, though I'm probably running low on power. This army back here's mine (he pointed to the SWATbots as he said that) as much as I brought them, though they kind of seem pretty good at doing their own thing, and Renovir's put a price on my head for giving her a knock in the head. Something about destroying my soul via undead ninja tiger. Anyway; if we want to take out Renovir, we distract her with something threatening, then kill her with something powerful but more secret. Just have to remember that there are still at least three others downstairs that all want in on the immortality business, and who probably would jump in on it more or less... Five minutes ago. And frankly, I don't want any of them winning any more than I want Renovir in charge. So, who's on whose side, and what are our options?" OOC: tl;dr Chan claims the army for what it's worth, says he can fight, admits he's a robot working with Lenny (kind of), exposes Renovir's weakness, and asks who wants to do what. Oh yeah, the library... Sure, there was no way that those of the castle had never spotted anything commonly of value here before, but maybe he could see something as a cipher. Besides, there was a stairway upstairs on the other side too, he thought. Lenny headed in.
..."So, what are you up to now?" "Escaping a Renovir-possessed tigress that felt the need to steal my soul. I damaged Renovir; I distracted her, and smacked her from behind. She's not all-knowing, she can be hurt. But now I'm apparently too dangerous to keep alive, and if her minions see me I need to die. Might apply to you too, if they can't tell us apart." "While if they can, Renovir apparently wants me alive next cycle as her 'prophet'. Not sure if willingly or not." "Well, I guess we know who the real enemy is." "Sentient life?" "...You're still not buying it, are you?" Lenny shrugged. "Renovir's overly extremist, so's Imbrium, so's Aduro. Peter and Garritos are mentally unstable. Paulo was an unknown, and is now dead anyway. So's Kyson, who was also unstable. None of them are any good for ruling all of existence. The best option is no one, but no one means anyone can step up, so we need someone. Renovir was good about that, except for the fact that she does it by killing everyone, and almost certainly will never perfect her methodology. Letting Aduro or Imbrium take over pretty much will end up in the same situation eventually, except they'll need another seven cycles to figure it out. None of them really get it, not really." "And you do?" "Technically speaking, yes. I just totally lack the power to do it." "Do what? I can't read your mind any more, you know..." "Well... ...It doesn't matter. I can't do it, and there's no way I'd get the chance to. And there's no way Renovir would ever buy into it; she already tried and failed, because she can't think that fast. The first immortals became such because there was no one to stop them, anyone after that requires extreme power, skill, and intelligence to overthrow the ones already in control. I have, well... Arguably intelligence, and that's about it." "You're such a pessimist, you know that? And a really bad liar. You wouldn't be here if you didn't think you could do something. You have an idea..." Lenny smiled. "Okay, yes, I do. But I can't share it with you, not any more. You've made yourself a target, I haven't. I need to keep it that way. Telling you, well... Just keep distracting her, okay?" Chan laughed. "About time you let me do that. I'll kill her for you, okay?" He ran off before Lenny could reply, heading again towards the front of the building and leaving Lenny standing for a second. "You know, I'd actually prefer not to kill her..." Lenny headed towards the entrance Chan had come out of. He'd been in the castle a couple of times before for school projects, he knew how to get to the top. He'd never been allowed on the roof, true, but now was hardly normal circumstances...
Lenny kept going, looking for a way into the castle and whatever was worth doing in there. Chan did the same, trying to head out front so as to allow him to run into people that were allied with his cause.
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