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Tesladyne: Every Day's an Adventure!
The door that opens is a free standing frame on a small plywood dais at the focus of a tremendous amount of cabling and particle emitters. The whole area smells of ozone.
Tesladyne's high energy physics department (Advanced Topology Division) is marked by a school of design that thinks things should be able to be cleaned with a pressure washer - painted cinder block, tiles floors, scorch resistant counters, wire reinforced glass and plenty of drains. Decorations lean towards lolcats, and mock safety signs saying 'Do not look at laser with remaining eye'.
There's a calendar open to December 2010 and a clock that says it's about 10.
"Right it's still morning," says Robo, "Watch your step, it was easier to raise the door three inches than to cut down all the equipment by that much."
Tesladyne's high energy physics department (Advanced Topology Division) is marked by a school of design that thinks things should be able to be cleaned with a pressure washer - painted cinder block, tiles floors, scorch resistant counters, wire reinforced glass and plenty of drains. Decorations lean towards lolcats, and mock safety signs saying 'Do not look at laser with remaining eye'.
There's a calendar open to December 2010 and a clock that says it's about 10.
"Right it's still morning," says Robo, "Watch your step, it was easier to raise the door three inches than to cut down all the equipment by that much."
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The group of four...maybe if they would have had some strategy, they wouldn't have become shoggoth kibble. One's nabbed by the single-victim shoggoth near the top.
"AAAAIIIGH!"
Another is caught and tied to Fetishman's shoggoth through the chain link fence. Sheeeee doesn't look to happy about this.
And the last two? Well. There's two volkswagen bugs of monstrous appetite and formless eyes waiting at the bottom of the fence for them.
"...I'm so hiding behind you when she gets loose." Tyler informs Phil.
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What? Whoever can take gunfire gets to be the one who takes the hits.
Robo's slipped in the back in time to hear Phil's comment.
"And I'm hiding behind Jenkins. Are we about ready to start unwrapping them?"
"As soon as the last two that are trapped make up their minds."
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"GROWMPF!"
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Robo takes a moment to rub his hands together with a touch of glee.
"What do you have planned for the finale boss?"
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At Phil's question there is a very puppy-eyed look towards Robo, with a grin that really should belong on Jenkin's face.
Can he play boss, can he play?
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"Let me get them lined up first," is what he says, "There's no point if they can't see."
That said, Robo heads back out to get everyone cleaned up, or at least wiped off, and in a position watch a proper demo.
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No point in beating their time if he's not facing the same obstacles.
And once that's taken care of, Tyler climbs out of the blind in the tire-pile and trots his way out in front of the group, grinning.
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"Everyone, this is Tyler. He's possibly Jenkin's illegitimate child from a different timeline and he is going to show you how it's possible to run the course. You three," here Robo gestures to the stepping stone trio, "The reward for a job well done being another job: You're all zombies after Tyler."
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Tyler is just vibrating and waiting to get going before tugging on Robo's pantleg to whisper to him. "Have the ones not playing turn their boots in. Don't want them to catch onto how the shoggoths followed them too easily."
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There's some grumbling while the bin the boots came from is refilled and hauled off.
"You ready Phil? On three."
Hope Tyler's on the starting line.
"Three!"
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Tyler is staying calm and rationing out his energy. Good thing too, cause the climbing wall is a little unfamiliar for him, but he does make it to the top.
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"Go get 'em tentacle!"
"That's Phil, Clarkson you nimrod."
The peanut gallery is in fine shape and Phil is certainly doing his best to appease them with swipes from the first tentacle.
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He watches the tentacle, sees where it draws back to, and when it lashes out, THAT is the direction he lunges towards, leaving the attack to overshoot him by a foot or so. Using this technique, he makes it to the swinging-tire bridge, just in time for Phil to unleash the screaming mimis.
Take notes class, this kid isn't trying to actively BATTLE anything.
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Pipe maze next.
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Now comes the part where Tyler keeps thinking on his feet, as he's not going through the pipe maze. Playground gymnastics come mightily into play as Tyler makes use of small size and the many pipes, the tentacle tries to strike at him more than once, but clever use of the pipes as a quick get away and defense prove most useful. He's not making that good of a time though, the screaming mimis often throw him off balance, leaving him to swing holding onto the pipe to make another pass.
"...I woulda thought of that." Hammond mutters for a moment.
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The zombies, being proper slow stumbling examples of the type, aren't an issue on the pipe maze. They are, however, in the pipe maze. Which makes this the highest concentration of tracers for the shoggoths to home in on.
"He's outsi-" Ah. The one with the baseball cap has had it stuffed in his mouth.
"Shut it Jake. Nobody needs you or your internet habits out here."
Well that's some aggression that won't make it to Tyler.
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"BLRRGLLLRRRAAAUR!!"
"FUCK! SHOGGOTHS!" One of the zombies promptly declares as one of the shoggoths takes a lunge and misses. They forgot about the shoggoths didn't they?
Tyler's almost out of the pipe maze now folks.
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"GROWMPF!"
"Faster Jimmy!"
Or not. The question now: Did Tyler out think three panicked men in face paint and a quartet of pseudo-abominations out of Lovecraft, or did they get lucky and end up at the right exit to the pipe maze?
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However as soon as he realizes he's out of the maze and where he wants to be...he's also noticing the zombies and their shoggoth entourage.
NOW is the time to sprint for the ball pit and dodge every zombie on his tail.
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Also a tentacle from above. Phil isn't even trying to be subtle, that sucker is out and swinging back and forth. If Tyler can time it right it's literally just a hop, skip and a jump and he's out.
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Zombie number one, Zombie number two?
-ponk!- -ponk!-
Headshots for both of you!
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"GROOOWMFP!"
Right that's the zombies delayed, consumed, whichever, but there's still the advancing blobs. How that timing looking now Tyler?
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See, there's a reason he didn't put the last double shoggoth egg in the ball pit.
Physics time: What happens when something of a denser mass enters a body of something lighter?
It sinks.
So the three shoggoths who have fed sink down into the depths of the ball pit, leaving Tyler with just two foes to face.
Shoggoth #4 is creeping it's way across the ball pit slowly now... And he hasn't forgotten about his friend the tentacle.
Jump, dive, flatten! Jump, flatten, two stones left... Phil is really getting his game on now.
Hokay...and..Jump, dive and roll...
"Made it!" One ten-year-old bouncing around at making it to the finish zone.
Uh, Tyler don't celebrate too soon cause Phil-
"WAUGH!"
...hasn't shut down the tentacle yet.
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"You can let him go now Phil."
"Aaaww. Nuts."
"You good Tyler?"
"That is why you need to go back to training," says Robo, "And why you don't stop trying."
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...Guard you shins after this Phil. The tentacle drops Tyler down into a nice landing in the ballpit after a second and goes slack.
He's also a.. ahem. A little pinker all over for having come out of this tentacle.
"I'm good, nothin' broken, but I'd like a shower and a big old snack."
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"Oh and did anyone wet their pants the first run? I have a bet with Phil to settle."
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