DracoLunaris

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as an addendum: @LemonZest1337 let us know if you are going along for the ride

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I was planning to put an update out in the near future, but your characters are poised to engage in another gambit that required one if not both of you to go again before I do so. Would you want to put out another short post each, collaborate for one, or just have me assume that Bowser agreed to hurl Linkle and that she shot her Turtle Arrows at the Hammer Brothers?

@Lugubrious

I'm a wee bit behind on reading but @Gentlemanvaultboy I'll jimmy something together to pop at the start of your flight and PM it to you

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Level 1 EXP: ////////// Level up!
Location: 1-1, Central Road
wordcount: 1,026
Shouting at:
@Stern Algorithm Din

Bowser’s yelling did little to stir his allies into action, primarily because they were already way ahead of him on that front. Blazmate and Michael, who had thankfully managed to save himself from harm eventually, made quick work of the assault on his rear, bullets and mecha hair fists pounding the goomba assault squad to a pulp. Meanwhile others spread out into the field, the centurion and linkle proving very effective with their flaming sword strikes and massive aoe crossbow attacks respectively. Meanwhile Ratchet and Din seemed to be disappointing at first, mostly limited offensive to bopping goomba Goombas with their respective metal sticks. The yellow furred hero did at least seem a rather agile bugger, which could be useful. Meanwhile the red headed woman’s main skill seemed to be dancing, something that initially confused the king when she started doing it infront of him.

“OK THAT'S REAL NICE BUT THIS IS REALLY NOT THE TIME” he began before her magic began to surge through him, patching up minor injuries that he received in between Blazmates bursts of healing and, more uniquely, invigorating the king with renewed strength and vigor. “NO WAIT, THIS IS GOOD KEEP GOING” he corrected himself.

The king made mental notes of all he had seen of his allies do in the fight, forming rudimentary records of how they could be best applied to future encounters. The king was not exactly a master strategist or anything, but even he knew that a leader had to understand their soldiers skills to apply them effectively. While it was a little disquieting to gain this information by observing what where, or had been, his leaderless minions being torn to shreds by his new troops but it was also good to know that he seemingly have competent help for a change. The king congratulated himself on making the in no way chivalrous and entirely selfish decision to protect them from the brick rain before taking advantage of their work to get pick himself up and get stuck in with the cleanup. After rising himself back to his feet the king took a moment to ensure his cargo’s safety.

“YOU, HELPFUL DANCING LADY. WATCH KIRBY FOR ME.”

His burden thoroughly dumped on someone else the king turning round to face the beleaguered enemy forces and announcing “I HAVE TRAITORS TO PUNISH”

The King Enters The Fray

Now free of the task of providing cover the king charged forwards into the battle, driving his enemies before him as he stomped towards the biggest thing in the fight, namly the goomba stack, as hammers pinged off of his shell and koopa shells ricocheted off of his steel toe caps. Those that did not flee before his royal bulk where annihilated by the king, be they crushed under beneath his feet or roasted by quick bouts of flame that caused many a goomba to run around in a panic while on fire, careening into their allies, pipes or surrounding shrubbery while generally spreading chaos and more fire till they eventually poofed into the little sprites that now littered the area. Bowser wasn't entirely sure what was up with these little balls of light that showed images of uncorrupted minions. Perhaps they were like the trophies that people had to turned into when defeated during the last multiverse crossover thing? At any rate it probably meant that the army wasn't going to just inconveniently respawn the moment they left the area thanks to a liberal application of 1up his troops received before going into battle. After all, what better way to encourage suicidal loyalty from such squishy minions than actual immortality. The king had of course hoarded much of this power himself, as could be seen by the fact that he had been dumped into lava more times that he could count and yet here he was, alive, in the flesh and subconsciously ignoring that big stinking zero that Galeem had left him with.

Continuing to ignore his current mortality the King rampaged on till at last the two titans of the battlefield met to begin an epic clash: Bowser the Koopa King vs a large stack of goombas. The two towering terrible titans started squaring off and taunting another: bowser repeatedly punching a scaly fist into a clawed palm while giving menacingly, the tower swayed back and forth in a show of mastery of the stacking arts, the bottom gomba hopping from foot to foot just to add to the display of skill. Introductions having been made, the king was the first to strike, dramatically winding up an all mighty right hook before slamming his fist forwards, only for the stack to sway to one side and then launch itself forwards in a retaliatory strike, the goomba tower bapping bowser somewhat ineffective in the face. The king growled angrily in response before repeating the attack with a left hook instead, only for the tower to dodge to the right and strike him once more. The many members of the tower, seemingly very pleased with themselves, proceeded to laugh at the king, only for their extatic expressions to be wiped off of their faces a few moments later to be replaced with looks of fear as the king, already sick of this humiliation sucked in a vast amount of air into his chasamous lungs. The tower’s many goombas wished to flee turn and flee but were horrified to find that their lowest member was still chortaling to themselves, unaware of its impending doom til the final moment as flames washed over the stack, roasting them all like a shish kebab.

Bowser laughed as the tower began to run amuck in its now pyre like state before loping after it and then leaping lightly into the air too bring bringing a claw crashing down on top of the now thoroughly to dodge stack’s top goomba. The scaly hand ripped down through the stack, squishing each goomba in turn till it swiped through the last and smacked the ground, leaving bowser’s foe thurley dunked on. The king finished by pushed himself back upright before giving a, perhaps premature, skywards victory roar/maniacal laugh.

“RAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

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I hope you guys are still accepting because Fawful incoming.

@StarInaBox

I HAVE THE BIGGEST SET OF CHORTLES RIGHT NOW.

_{Also Bowser’s gonna be pissed as hell lol}

@Lmpkio

Oh wow, now I am really am going to have to getting round to replaying/finishing Bowser's inside story huh. Not that that is a bad thing obviously.

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@Lmpkio
I have to say, I'm enjoying the additions of musical accompaniment to your posts

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I think Linkle is with the Bowser group too.

@Stern Algorithm

I didn't want to assume that she stayed with it after the crossroads

Stop making the rest of us look bad with your nifty cool custom sprites! You're making me question my masculinity. :(

@ProPro

don't worry, your giving me to much credit. I'm more or less just stapling things together from google images. An advantage of using a char with a bazillion pieces of fan art of them that I am enjoying after mainly playing chars form tiny indie games in the other thing like this I am in.

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guess I was complacently wrong about our hooded friend. Also from here on out the king's words will be appropriately sized.

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&

Speaking with:
@thedmanMichael
@LemonZest1337 Rachet
@Stern Algorithm Din
@Archmage MC Blazermate

Location: 1-1, Central Road

"Pretty sure mind control means mind control~." Blazermate predicted, and sure enough she turned out to be right as the various minions turned to look at him with malice.

“WORTH A SHOT” the king replied before taking a moment to check over his current forces.

Cowboy had seemingly taken his payment and run off with Zer0 and Death down a different road which made the king suspicious that he had been bamboozled out of a button.

Din and Rachet where the only ones that had managed/wanted to keep up with his stomping down the road, though he had no real idea of how the two where useful. Their armaments consisted of a wrench and the other with some kind of decorated wand which did not fill the King with confidence. Then again sometimes all Mario seemed to need to beat him and his many armies was a pair of good boots so perhaps they would surprise him.

There were of course his two hitchhikers, the invited Blazermate and her plus one Michel, as well as his sleeping cargo Kirby. All of them presented an unfortunate problem that became evident when the first brick left the ground, namely that he could not cover both sides of himself to adequately protect the passengers found there from the incoming projectiles. Not really wanting to risk lose anyone to this first taste of combat the king reacted as quickly as he was able to to protect his assets. “RIDES OVER” he announced while grabbing Blazermate with his free hand as he spun round to present his shell to the attacking mob, depositing both her and the hat held Kirby in front of him so that he could act as a shelter from the initial shelling. Michael was sadly on his own when it came to taking cover, while the two that had been flowing behind could, if they wanted, also take shelter behind the king. Bowser raised his hands above his head as masonry rained down, preventing any of it from doing any significant harm other than a few bruised knuckles and shoulders, though the king let out a few “OW“s and “OOF”s at the blows regardless. Unfortunately all this tanking left him exposed to the vanguard of the Goomba charge, who promptly rammed into his legs, un-steadying the king while also sealing their doom as the titanic turtle, sensing his impending topple and unwilling to squish his new minions after taking a beating to protect them, promptly fell back on his ass, squishing the poor Goombas in the process.

This left bowser as a much more stable barricade but also left his butt exposed to further waves of enemies. This but was not entirely defenseless however and the King’s spiked tail flailed around like that of an excited puppy in a valiant defense of his royal posterior, batting attackers aside and taking the brunt of the koopa shell barrage. Even when the avalanche of blocks subsided, the king was unable to raise himself back up to fight due to the angry mob now dogging at his heels and literal kicking his literal butt. This left the king staring down at the cause of his predicament, namely his squishy passengers.

“DON’T JUST STAND THERE GAWKING! DO SOMETHING!”

The king shouted at the them in hopes that he would clear some space for him to rise up and get stuck in, either by going round him or using a pre-offered hand to get back on his back to regain a height advantage.

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Also Bowser is turning into a mobile weapon's platform at this point. Hes got a sniper on one shoulder, a medic on another, and himself.

@Archmage MC

yup. Operation living siege tower is going excellently so far. Now we shall see how it does in the trails to come
first test: anti mook combat.
second test: platforming

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we should make it easier to keep track of which character is going where.

@Stekkmen

we could start adding locations too the tops of our posts? or put it with the word-count at the bottom might be better to avoid spoilers