Woo!
Thanks for the game Shifty. Loved the story for this one.
How hard is that final encounter if you go straight to it and ignore the terminals? Is it just hp reduction of the BBEG? Or do his attacks get reduced too?
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Given his lack of luck with shooting the Harlequin, Gliko heads into the room to have a go at playing via the console.
The badly wounded Gliko emerges from behind a rack of servers... slipping like a shadow through the vast data centre, he lines up a stealty attack on the horrid harlequin.
Gliko downs a healing serum
Then with a resigned sigh, and hoping the harlequin has decided he has bled out, wonders about how best to help. Without getting killed.
"AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH" squeaks Gliko.. Who rapidly withdraws from the immediate vicinity of the harlequin.
Gliko slinks around the racks of computers and takes a sneaky shot at the harlquin.
"I'll keep him busy while you deal with the jack-in-the-box" shrills Gliko. He follows the black and white cable, getting out of sight of the harlequin!
"Eeek!" squeeks Gliko who takes a careful step back before firing at the horrid harlequin again.
Gliko, not being able to see the nasty jack-in-the-box just yet, lets off a quick shot at the Harlequin.
"Why did you do it?" he asks. "Your games were already the bet."
And then with a swipe... the Starfinder four are in!
Gliko overs a cheeky wave to the camera. Then, with a resigned sigh, reaches out with a long vine ready to slide the keycard through the swipe. "Ready everyone?" Once everyone has checked in and has weapons ready, he gives it a swipe.
Gliko checks the swipe for possible traps, eyeing up the area suspiciously. "There has to be a camera here for him to watch us..."
And once again the dynamic duo spring into action. Once RollerBall(tm) distracts the lasers, ComputerKid(tm) slips in to try the keyboard...
"Hopefully that should make the boss fight easier..."
"How you feeling Chox? Up for that last terminal?" asks Glixo, looking slightly envious at his companions defensive abilties.
After Chox has taken the heat... Gliko slips in to try and disable the computer security.
"I guess we continue to follow the cables... lets see if we can reduce the simulation further..." he starts. Then stops. "Or, if we follow in the other direction, we may find another terminal that could also reduce the effectiveness of the simulation. You can be sure he has a boss monster guarding the main terminal..."
"Let's see what else we can discover in here.." grins Gliko. "Maybe even source code to a new game..."
Gliko dashes up to the scren. "This is just like in 'Operation: Livewire!'" they squeak excitedly. "I loved that game, but it was too short."
Gliko, after securing some memorabilia, skulks along behind Chox. "While this is exciting, other people are starting to approach some of my high scores... We need to get this resolved quickly."
With a shake of its vines Gliko fills in the team. "Nope. That robot was straight out of Humans Hunted. A bit obscure I agree. I only played it once, survival games don't really appeal.."
As Ritta takes a seat, Gliko approaches the fallen robot, trying to see if he can salvage a souvenir.
Gliko, still smarting from the earlier battles, continues to flit around the edges of the battle, trying for a clean shot...
Gliko continues to flit from shadow to shadow. Only the glow of their wrist-com gives away their position as it readies another shot...
But a really, really interesting game flashes up, with a beep indicating Gliko's new high score on Jinsul Clicker. The distraction not only gives away their position but causes their shot to go far away from the robot.
Glixo slips from shadow to shadow, trying to find just the right one. Eventually it settles into a spot that has a nice angle on the robot..
"It's from Humans Hunted, which centered around a deadly robot uprising... I didn't really like that game before... I like it even less now!"
I'm heading off for a few days. Should be back Monday. I might get another post in before I leave, but not sure.
"I wonder if it is magical?" muses Gliko. "I mean... so many stories about magical rings.."
Gliko peers out, suspiciously, from t behind Err@r. "Don't see any more of those bats do you?" he asks. "I'm not sure I really like that franchise so much any more..."
"And we have already rescued those in the toilets. Aeru sent a message that we picked up." adds in Gliko.
"We., ahh... already found Mairso's card..." grins Gliko holding up the handy artefact. "But directions to the server room... that would be handy. I don't suppose you can tell us anything handy about Jaype, or a weakness of this harlequin?"
"We got all kinds of things. Looks like Trouble hit you with a capital T." says Gliko. "Which transmission in particular are you talking about?" After filling his bag with merch, he also quickly chowed down on a Mk1 healing serum.
"Oh boy.." sighs Glixo. "Time Out!" he cries a moment later as sap leaks from him. "I think they broke my nose!"
"Bahh, we really need to have this is learner mode for the first combat..." says Gilxo. "You all sure you are not recording?"
"Oppse.. maybe that was the hard-mode setting. gulps Glixo. "But better loot, I hope..."
"You know.. while we are here.." says Gliko... vines sneaking toward the booth of their own accord. "We could just get in a quick try of the new game.."
"Oh, that can't be good... can any of you see more hiding attendees in there?" asks Gliko. "I mean... true death... the game itself is great."
"Okay, follow us... and maybe, hand over that flame Dosko... we wouldn't want you setting anything on fire accidently..." nods Glixo. That that he is offering to carry the huge weapon. "And the toilets too you say? Right, we'll go check there next."
"Sure!" calls out Gliko, from behind its allies. "What are you hiding from.. to be precise?"
Gilko nods "How many are we missing?" it asks, tentacles waving anxiously as it does so. "Because the longer we take to get to the data centre, the longer this will go on, I'm thinking. But we can't leave people in harms way either. It's a Moral Dilemma(tm) - never really did enjoy that title."
"Well... there is the actual Hacktech booth to the south. Maybe they have a way out from there?" suggest Gliko. "I mean... That would be the obvious place for them to put their stall, right?"
"Well.. we have a keycard. I guess next step is the data centre!" grins Gliko. "Ahhhh... anyone know where that is?"
From its slightly safer vantage point, the bruised Gliko ducks into shadow, before firing off another shot.
"These guys are scary!" he wimpers.
"Oww, oww, owwww!" cries out Gliko. He tries to hide behind some of the nifty banners as he flees back to the support of the group. Slipping through the shadows, Gliko tries to return some of the pain.
"Eeek" squeaks Gliko. The raxilite retreats quickly to hide behind a banner, before slipping off a cheeky shot at the white harlequin.
"Oh... I know this one..." Gliko slips toward the computer to see if there is a version of Champion Squad loaded and ready to play... But first... he checks it for anti-tamper or other software that might cause the machine to not run as expected.
Gliko slinks under a nearby table, hiding from potential trouble as it makes ready to follow the rest of the Starfinder-4 into the Champion Squad corner. "Wow, that was almost better than a video game."
"Wow.. totally epic. You should have seen yourself leaping onto that table!" squeaks Gliko. "If only I had my camera on."
Gliko ducks behind a banner advertising "Nimbus - PVP action that feels like you are really there" as he lines up another bat.
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