War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout - Strike Team
The Top of the Tower

((OOC: Thank you, Lady C! If you'd really like one, just shoot me a PM - I don't mind. ))

Silver glared at the mutant mutt, feeling smug satisfaction that the abominable creature couldn't glare back at her. I don't have time for this.

She tapped her gryphon and whispered, "Couldst thou help me out by distracting this creature while I slip below? I will call if I need help."

From somewhere beneath her, a voice replied, "Certainly."

When Silver slipped from the gryphon's back, she felt a gust of wind as it darted away. A moment later the was a crunch, and a chunk of rock curiously dislodged itself from the Tower's parapet and went tumbling down. The mutt took off, howling and barking loud enough to wake the dead, but its jaws snapped at empty air. A whistle sounded from the opposite side of the tower. The mutt raced toward the noise.

Silver raced for the trapdoor, temporarily forgotten by the frenzied creature, and slipped below. She was standing at the top of a curved escalator. It spiraled downward into darkness, but here and there, a door branched off from it. Figuring examining the staircase probably wouldn't do her much good, Silver, entered through the first door she came across. It lead off into a hallway with more doors.

This Tower is bigger than it looks on the outside! Silver thought to herself. Searching this whole place is going to take forever! At the very end of the hallway, she came across a door. There were lots of doors in the hallway, but this particular door was plastered with pictures of fire, people's expressions of terror, and tacos. And to top it all off was a glowing neon sign that read: DO NOT ENTER.

Silver did the natural thing. She entered.

Inside was a desk, a lounge chair, and a panel behind it covered in flashing buttons - all bathed in orangey light filtering through the windows.

I do believe, thought Silver, I hath arrived in the Overlord's Office. Ooh! I wonder what those buttons are for.

((OOC: Booky, if my description of your Tower isn't what you were imagining, let me know and I can change it. ))

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout - Strike Team
The Middle of the Tower

After her run in with the Taco Master, Mountie took off running down the next hall, her cloak billowing behind her. She couldn't see her cloak of course, but she could hear the wind blowing through the fabric. It was a very satisfying sound.

She was running so fast, an unusual urgency propelling her forward, when she smacked against something human, followed by the sound of shattering dishes. It appeared as if she had run into the Tower's butler, and he was now kneeling on the ground, gathering the broken pieces of plates into his arms. "Oh bother," the butler said. "The Overlord will be very displeased. And what on earth is going on with me today? It isn't like me to run into air. What a klutz I am." He didn't even seem to pick up on Mountie's presence, invisible or not.

Mountie stepped away from the butler, careful to stay clear of broken plate and... taco shells? She was right - the minions had definitely acquired a taste for Mexican food since she had left. The butler had apparently been carrying several platefuls of tacos, which had now become a giant mess all over the floor.

Her stomach grumbled at the sight of all the perfectly good taco meat laying there, but she moved on. She couldn't dilly dally any longer than necessary. Besides, could one even eat food when one was invisible?

Her communicator buzzed with a message from Rose telling her that while Silver shut down the shield, Mountie was to join Rose in figuring out how to destroy the Terminators' food supply. What do Terminators eat, anyway? Rose had asked. Mountie quickly texted back. I seem to have noticed an abundance of tacos in the Tower. So I'd have to say tacos are our best bet. Any dastardly ideas for destroying the taco supply?

She put her communicator away and soon came to the end of the hall, which would have been a dead end if not for a giant door. She pushed it open cautiously, finding herself in a room full of wires and loud buzzing noises. Her hair stood up due to the sheer amount of electricity in the room.

Then it dawned on Mountie. She had stumbled across something very, very important - one of the Tower's electrical rooms. She gasped in delight and fumbled in the pocket of her cloak until she found a pair of scissors. Bringing them out and opening them and closing them a few times just for the fun of it, she then went wild snipping every wire in the room. The sound was full of popping noises as the electrical wires were unmistakably severed. The only visible result of her snipping was that the lights in the Tower went out.

"Well, this could make our daring escape a bit more daring," she muttered. "Then again, it's going to make things a lot harder for the minions of the Tower."

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

Took took her position with Lady A's group, her shimmery cloak covering her uniform. She wore her hair in braids - although she usually detested putting her hair up, she figured that a battle was a good reason to disrupt the natural state of her long brown locks. She fingered the carving around the center of her quarterstaff, attempting to restrain her fidgeting - a bad habit that could attract unwanted attention if there happened to be enemies about, which was quite likely near the Tower they were attacking.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout - Strike Team
Inside the Tower

After sneaking through the Tower's grounds, rolling behind hedges and sneaking from tree to tree despite the fact that she was invisible, Rose was able to enter by the side door without trouble. (Either owing to her invisibility, or a symbiotic lifeform's sugar rush. Perhaps both.)

The entrance hall was mysteriously dark. Taking out a tiny flashlight from her pocket, the dryad flicked it on. The dark room was flooded by the tiny light, but it was a light that only the holder of the flashlight could see; the electronic was enchanted. Not wasting a moment, she hurried down the staircase, not even stopping to change the Dark Overlord's theme song to the Llama Song, though for the rest of her life she always regretted it.

The basement was even darker than the entrance hall, because there were no windows, and tentatively, heart pounding, the dryad descended into the gloom. As she stepped off the bottom of the staircase she was nearly blindsided, though, as soldiers suddenly marched by.

Minions, preparing for war? She thought, trying not to make a sound. No. . . terminators! Excellent.

Trying not to cackle with glee, Rose gave the terminator leading the bunch a hearty shove, and caused them all to fall down a la domino. Surveying the chaos with satisfaction, she hurried off in the direction the terminators had been headed: towards a glowing neon sign piercing the gloom, illuminating the word "Taconator" for all to see.

A weary-looking minion was tending the taco station.

"Hello, I would like a taco with chicken, extra cheese, slaw and lots of peppers," the disembodied dryad said.

"Huh?" The minion said, and the dryad shot an arrow, which quickly became visible as it left her hand, at the massive menu on the wall, piercing the image of the taco she wanted. The minion ran away screaming.

This is so much fun! The dryad thought, grinning. She grabbed a taco, then lit a stick of dynamite and threw it into the taco shop. It was a wonderful explosion, all flamey and deafening, and taco shells and Cheez Wiz flew everywhere.

The Dark Overlord is not going to be happy about having to clean that up, the dryad thought happily as she munched on a taco and tacked a poster to the wall. It read "Mountie and Rose's Crazy Delicious Tacos for the Terminator On-The-Go! Coming soon to a Tower of Shadow and Flame near you!"

Skipping off towards the staircase, Rose contacted Mal with her communicator. My mission has been successful, if you didn't already know that from the BOOM. Everything set on your end?

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

"It's this way, Dot," Izzy replied. She led her down a wide hallway and down many passages of stairs. They finally reached a vaulted door locked with a numbered padlock. Izzy entered the correct numbers and turned the enormous wheel.

With a whoosh, the door opened, and Izzy beckoned Dot inside. The vault contained all manner of terrible and wretched weapons of doom the mind can imagine, and even some the mind cannot imagine.

"What is your preference?"

Before Dot could answer, the lights went out. Then suddenly the lights came back on as the generators kicked in.

Izzy looked around. "Odd. I wonder what caused that." She touched one of her glowsticks that was kept in her pocket, just to make sure it was still there, in case the lights went out again. It was different than an ordinary glowstick. It let off more light (purple light) and could reveal more than was visible to the naked eye...

~Riella

The War of the Overdoms: The Battle at Lover's Lookout

An angry howl rose into the skies.

AAAAHHHHHOOOOOORRRRROOOOOAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But it did not belong to the volf who fought vith the castle. In fact, it came from a he-volf not a she-volf. They called him, Flow, also known as “The Backwards Wolf,” his is a strange story…but it is also another story… Either vay he had left the land he came from, in disgrace, and vas now flapping vith the huge bat-like, black vings that had sprouted from his back before (again that is part of a different story.) His fur vas mostly a rich brown and he had come to help defend the tower from invasion… An albino bat flew alongside him. At last they landed, and they vent to seek the overlord.

Vhen he found the Overlord of the Tower he asked, “What is my mission?”

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A long time earlier…
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The Gremlin Hunters of NarniaWeb (GHNW)

At last Benciark landed on the table that had been placed inside the shed. He noticed immediately that there were a few new recruits. He was a little distressed though as to their small numbers, but he noticed that they had at least managed to complete the little extension on the back of the shed. It was here that he found Wolf.

“You bring news, brother?” ze she-wolf asked.

“Aye, and it’s not good.” The raven then promptly repeated the events that he witnessed, being careful not to miss any detail about the map. “What are we to do my friend?”

“We have no choice but to try and stop them, a hay wired lab is one of ze most dangerous things there is…”

“But we will be completely outnumbered…” Benciark started.

“But we’ll still have ze element of surprise. You weren’t seen were you?”

“I don’t think so…”

“Good.”
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The guard entered into the planning room and immediately whispered something in Zigbot’s ear. “Ah so we have a little spy now, do we?” he seemed more amused than displeased. “Well then I guess we can expect company in the laboratory.” And with that he smirked with a little evil smile… He had one other trick up his sleeve that the Gremlin Hunters could never expect…

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

After hearing the hurried reply from Lady G, Lia ran towards the battle with everyone else. She was unsure what to do in battle, exactly, but knew that she needed to help her team to victory. So she climbed a tree and strung her bow, waiting for the enemy to come within range.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
Above the tower

A B2 Bomber flew high over the battle, in the bomb bay sat a figure, his face was covered by a bandana "Bomb bay doors opening" a voice in the person's head set said. The figure replied "This is where the fun begins" the voice responded "Good luck sir"

"Luck has nothing to do with it, Cheddar" Joe said, jumping out of the doors. He fell over four miles before he finally deployed his parachute just above the tower, which slowed him down greatly.

He tossed a grappling hook onto the roof, caught it and then proceeded to take off his parachute, with out it, he began falling faster again. But thanks to the rope he was shot strait into the the windows, luckly. These wern't shatter proof and he smashed through them and into a unsuspecting Agent Thorn.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

(OOC: Terminators don't eat, but everything else looks fine to me.)

"Sir, there are people in the Tower or something, I don't know," Pilot's voice came out of the Overlord's comlink and then dissolved into hysterical giggles.

"Ugh, that's it. No more chocolate in the Tower ever," the Overlord growled and turned to stomp into the Tower. He certainly wasn't going to let the demented sugar addict teleport him anywhere anytime soon. But then a new minion ran up.

"Your mission is to enter the Tower and seek out intruders. They'll be the ones the Terminators are swarming to attack since any visible intruder is instantly targeted by the Terminator guards for ... well termination."

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

"Check." And vith that Flow flew into the tower...and sought out...vell swarms of terminators... Vhile patroling he entered the foodcourt and found it in a state of messy tacos. Vat vere they gonna do to us by destroying ze Tacos he vondered... and he rolled his eyes. This probably vas a better job for the she-wolf, but she was a bit busy at the moment... At last he flew over the staircase, but he felt a cramp in his ving, so he landed in the middle and stretched them.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout - Strike Team
Inside Booky's Office

Silver approached the panel of flashing buttons, feeling mighty pleased with herself. One of these is sure to turn off the shield! she thought. But as she drew closer, she realized there was just one problem. None of the buttons were labeled. She'd have to try pushing them at random until she found the right one.

Extending an invisible finger towards the panel, she pushed one. It stopped pulsing and stayed red to indicate that it was on.

"Activating ego boost," said an automated voice from some hidden speaker. This was followed by a chorus of voices saying various renditions of "Booky is the most amazing Evil Overlord Ever!" "Booky is waaay cooler than Lady A!" "Booky is awesome!" "We love Booky!"

Grimacing, Silver deactivated the button. Not that one.

She tried another. This time, the automated voice announced that the cooks in the kitchen would be told to hurry up. Another button caused a random rumble of thunder to echo through the loudspeaker of the entire Tower.

Silver proceeded to locate the dinner bell button, the evil theme song button, the incinerate button (which she turned off in a hurry, having no idea what she just incinerated), and the turn-the-escalator-into-a-giant-slide button. To her frustration, she was no closer to turning off that shield than she was before.

It was only then that she noticed a tiny button high above her head in the very right hand corner of the panel, a button so small that it had escaped her initial view. Just above it, scrawled on a sticky note, was a handwritten memo that read, "Emergency Shield Turn-Off Button".

Gotcha, Silver thought, reaching for it.

But one of the hazards of being invisible is that one cannot tell exactly where one's hand is. Silver reached for the small button - but fell short, pushing instead the flashing red one just below it.

"DNA Intruderscan activated," said the automated voice. Laser beams shot out of the walls, circling the room. When the beam fell on her invisible body, an alarm blared.

Silver stiffened. Repeatedly, she jammed the button with her finger, trying to turn it off. But, unlike the others, this button stayed lit and wouldn't deactivate, no matter how many times she pushed it.

"Unauthorized DNA detected," said the automated voice. "You will now be eliminated. Thank you."

Desperately, Silver reached for the Emergency Shield Turn-Off Button.

But just before she could push it, the ground gave way beneath her - a trapdoor. With a terrified shriek, Silver plummeted down into darkness.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

Dot hardly had time to even begin to take in the vast array of weapons when the lights went out. After barely stifling a scream, she breathed a sigh of relief when the lights came back on. She grabbed the first thing that presented itself: what looked like some kind of lightsword. She turned it on and moved it around with a few experimental moves before turning back to Izzy and noticing the glowstick for the first time. "What's that?" she asked.

GHNW

Dotty plopped down into a chair, glad that the extension was finally finished. She looked up when Benciark flew in and over to Wolf. I wonder what's going to happen, she thought.

Vertex entered the shed slowly for the first time. There weren't a whole lot of people there (not that everyone was exactly what could be called people), but there were still enough to make him feel uncomfortable. He tried to walk through to the back without anyone noticing him.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lovers Lookout

As Lady G stood semi-alone (others from the group were around), hidden behind a tree, arrow on the string, she could not help but wonder. Merely moments before, the lights had flickered out in the Tower, and the structure had looked simply dark. But then, moments later, the lights had reappeared. Lady G was beginning to wonder if perhaps somehow the strike team had been compromised.

She was debating suggesting the fact to someone when she sighed and chided herself. “You have way too overly active of an imagination. It couldn’t be any more than just a random power outage. With all of those lights and fireballs, I would be surprised if they didn’t blow a fuse or two.”

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout—Strike Team

(OOC: Sorry Booky, thanks for the head's up. )

Invisible Rose jumped as Turncoat Joe suddenly smashed through one of the skylights, and crashed into a cardboard cutout of the popular character Agent Thorn, advertising the new A.N.T.I.: The Rebellion movie that was coming to theaters everywhere "soon."

She wondered why such a cardboard cutout was stuck down in the basement, then scowled when she saw the mustache and other unflattering markings scrawled across the secret agent's face. Of course it would be a character she particularly identified with and admired.

Making a mental note to file a complaint about this, the dryad backed away from Joe. He could be trusted by no one, and she was not about to let him jeopardize the mission.

She turned to flee before he might detect her, and ran up the stairs. But as she reached the top, she slipped on something furry—a wolf's tail, it seemed—and careened into a lever beside the staircase marked ANTI AIRCRAFT MISSILES.

Before she could say "Bob's your uncle," about twenty small explosions shook the tower as the missiles rocketed from the battlements. The dryad watched in horror as they all soared directly for the skies over Lover's Lookout.

And they were all on a collision course with Frazzle the Baristo's Sugar-Powered-Spaceship-Thing.

"Oops."

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

Lady G was continuing to wonder, but her mind had wandered a bit off-topic (a dangerous thing to do when waiting for enemies to appear in a battle). At this moment, she was wondering, just what was the Dark Overlord's electric bill anyway?

Once again she chided herself. The Overlord probably manufactured his own electricity or something...or maybe it wasn't even electricity, but something more technological that Lady G had no idea existed. Who knew? Nobody probably, except the Dark Overlord and his minions.

What is WITH you? she had to restrain herself from slapping herself. How does this relate to anything anyway?

But just as she was wondering that, she heard the muffled sound of several small explosions. Now what's malfunctioned? she wondered as she turned and peered at the Tower.

Several small objects took off from the battlement, making a sound like something whistling through the air. Lady G gasped in fright as she recognized them to be at least fifteen missiles, sailing straight toward Lover's...

"LOOK OUT!" she shouted, losing all sense of silence and skulking.