Luceti Land!!

[lucetimods]

Who: luceti
What: Amusement Parking!
When: Today til the end of the month
Where: A veritable pleasure island, east of the Beach Fort.
Summary: An amusement park has popped up in Luceti. It's all over here.
Rating: F is for friends who do stuff together!

Just some notes here not in the mod post -
1) The weather will be bright and partly cloudy for the rest of the month on the beach side of things. A nice cool sea breeze will keep people from melting out there.
2) All the old Luceti Land rides are still available. However, feel free to make up your own attractions and rides as well.
3) Since this is around for two weeks, we may put up another mass log if this one gets too full. So keep an eye on that!
4) Don't forget to tag your character's name on to the log! If you don't have one yet, just let us know and we'll get you hooked up.

As way of explanation for all this, Bil will have written a message on the first page of the journals. It cannot be replied to, it simply states:

"My condolences for all the trouble. You were due for an experiment today, but I thought you might enjoy an amusement park instead. It seemed like the sort of thing the Great One would do."

Comments

[consultmybooks]

Sounds as though they fit right in, here.

All right. Lead the way, Link.

[blessedbyfarore]

Right - this way! [They can hear the arcade music even before the bowling alley itself comes in to sight - flashing neon targets what is pseudo-medieval and a lone chicken wandering the field.]

[consultmybooks]

Right.

[Giles follows just a few steps behind Link, trying not to lose him in the crowds. There's plenty of arcade music to be heard around, however, and so he doesn't notice the attraction at first until Link comes to a stop.

Then, of course, there's a more pertinent question to be asked.]

Is the chicken supposed to be there?

[blessedbyfarore]

Uh huh! I don't think it's a real one... [He hopes it's not a real one!] See how it walks back and forth? You have to try and miss it when you hit the target. Want me to show you?

[consultmybooks]

Please do. I've never come across a game where the goal was to miss a target.

[blessedbyfarore]

You're not supposed to miss the target, just the things in the way! [He hands over a token, and gets a box full of ten small mouse-shaped bombs in return. Picking one up, he watches the chicken's movements closely - then quickly sets it on the ground.]

[The little mouse bomb zooms past it, races up the wall, and hits the neon target, and the wall crashes down with a theatrical crash.]

[Now, there's both the chicken and some sort of metal sliding thing blocking the next target.]

Want to try?


((OOC: Visual reference! ...And I totally forgot that the blade trap is before the first cucco...))

[consultmybooks]

...all right.

[Giles picks up a bomb, watching both chicken and metal sliding thing very carefully. When he sets the mouse down, it scurries forward, zooming past the chicken and almost making it past the slider. Unfortunately, the bomb clips itself on the very edge of the second obstacle, enough to send it bouncing slightly into the air and onto its back, where gears whirr and click helplessly for a few seconds before the bomb explodes.]

...damn it.

((ooc: ...I like this game.]

[blessedbyfarore]

Oh - almost! [Link watches as the blade trap rightens itself, then picks up another Bombchu.] My turn next!

[This time, it doesn't even get as far as the trap. The chicken reverses direction halfway through a wander and pauses, stunned, as the bombchu explodes harmlessly against it.] Aww...


((OOC: Fun with 'splosions! 8D))

[consultmybooks]

What? That wasn't fair! It shouldn't be able to turn around like that.

[...then Giles realizes how offended he's getting over a mechanical chicken and just...takes the next bomb.

Eventually, he sets it carefully on the ground. The bomb quickly goes speeding off down the course, past the chicken, missing the blade trap by a mile, to smash into the target right on, well, target. Lights flash.]

[blessedbyfarore]

Great! [And down comes the false wall! The target, this last time, is conveniently dead-centre - but now there's not only a regular-sized chicken, not only a blade trap - but an enormous chicken sitting in a depression directly in front of the target.]

This is the really hard one!

[consultmybooks]

[Giles' eyes go wide with shock at the sight of the oversized chicken.

Without looking away, he passes a bomb to Link.]

Why don't you go first?

[blessedbyfarore]

Okay. [Link stares down the man-sized cucco, taking the offered bombchu. He has to time this just right...]

[It skims past the smaller cucco, past the blade trap... then goes a little too close to the dip, gets deflected, and zooms off to the side, exploding against one of the side walls.]

Aw. Your turn! [Five bombchu down - five left to go.]

[consultmybooks]

[Giles takes up his bombchu and sights down the length of the course. He gives the traps a few seconds to go through their routine before he sets it down.

Zooms past the first cucco, just missing the blade trap, but just when it looks as though it might make it past the giant chicken, it curves the wrong way in the depression and runs into the tail feathers.]

...this is remarkably complicated, for a game involving chickens.

[blessedbyfarore]

[Four bombchu left! Link laughs a little - it is pretty tricky.] Uh huh. It took me a few tries to win in Hyrule.

[Hmm. He moves to the edge of the playing field, watching both cuccos and blade trap closely. Then he sets it down quickly, watching it zoom off... misses the cucco... misses the blade trap... misses the giant cucco... and hits the wall at the wrong angle and explodes harmlessly off to one side.]

Three left - your turn!

[consultmybooks]

We're getting closer, at least.

[Gulp.

Giles moves very slightly to the right of where Link was standing. Then, slowly, he sets the bomb down.

It misses the chicken, zips around the blade trap, skirts the edge of the depression without going in...and then strikes the target nearly dead center.]

Yes!

[blessedbyfarore]

You did it! [Yay! The droid attendant steps to one side, gesturing at a wall of plushies.] Go on, go pick a prize! [Link encourages, grinning.]

[Not bad for his first try at Bombchu Bowling!]

[consultmybooks]

M-Me? Oh. Um... [Giles surveys the wall critically before pointing at a purple cat in a top hat with boots. The droid obligingly passes it over.]

...well. [He smiles hesitantly.] That was fun.

[blessedbyfarore]

[Link stifles a chuckle - the top hat is kind of fun.] It is, isn't it? [he says cheerfully,] Are there any things here from your world? I want to win a prize too!

[consultmybooks]

Hm...

[Giles surveys the wall of plushies and...oh god, seriously?

...yes, that is a plushie of Sweet, the demon of music, sitting cheerfully on the wall in the upper corner. Giles points at it.

...and then at a far too adorable plushie of a vampire in full game face.

...and then to a stuffed Fyarl demon.]

Any of those should work.

LOOK WHAT I FOUND

[blessedbyfarore]

[Link gives them a dubious look. They... kind of look creepy.] What are they all?

[Scanning the line of plushies, he spots one in particular and does a fairly epic double-take.]

[...What.]