On Your Mark! - SJO Dominion of the Cyrillia Hex

[nightimer]

Location: Cyrillia
Objective: Win the Grand Prix!
Opponents: [member="Allyson Locke"] | [member="Dunames Lopez"] | [member="Ivory Stroud"] | [member="Rick Kaloo"] | [member="Kaili Brand"] | [member="Aubrey King"]

Spoiler: Airspeeder

Racer: Cai Kal Rus
Sponsor: Independent
Airspeeder Name: "Atom"

Power: 7
Speed: 3
Maneuverability: 3
Shields: 7
Hazard: 6 - 3 = 3 = Lose Control – 1 Maneuverability

"Don't you geek on me!" Kal shouts under his mask, quickly putting a vice grip of both the right and left control sticks. He puts the speeder into a spin, turning into loss of control rather than fighting against it while drastically reducing speed for a moment. He waits and holds on for dear life as Atom barrels along the track, desperately hoping for his timing is perfect. As he sees an opportunity, he slams the throttle forward and pulls against the spin to attempt to correct his chaotic trajectory.

 

[Dunames Lopez]

Location: Cyrillia
Objective: Macross Grand Prix

Action: Uses the Tibanna Banana Split

Poodoo: I am not making any progress. On the bright side, I'm getting something called a Tibanna Banana Split, Dunames thought, while still mired in a stalemate against [member="Kaili Brand"] and [member="Ivory Stroud"]. Not knowing what it does, she decides that it would be best to use it now - and she would be led to think that the window of opportunity to use it is going to be much shorter than weapons on a podracer. And, coming into the second lap in the third group, she knows that it's not going to be easy to catch up to anyone, especially not [member="Aubrey King"] or [member="Rick Kaloo"], or even the Boss. But she'd rather not risk attacking anybody because she knows her craft is still rather fragile after everything is said and done, so she tries to apply a boost in an attempt to detach from the "third pack" oblivious to anyone else having the same idea. Then again, unless somebody incurs a total loss, there is still a chance for somebody to win, so she simply tries to turn hard from the inside when the occasion came to do so. Maybe it will work, maybe it will not, but everything depended on her opponent now.

Spoiler: Airspeeder

Racer: Dunames Lopez
Sponsor: Star Tours
Airspeeder name: Damotite Comet
Power: 3
Speed: 6
Maneuverability: 8
Shields: 2

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

To be honest Sukai was surprised their was not a huge line of guys wanting to join the Silver Jedi, being surrounded by sexy female Jedi from all parts of the galaxy, it would be quite the treat. Well either that of the order became a lesbian paradise, that though would be really awkward and something she'd rather not get involved in something like that. "I have to take lesson with cooking then if I want to bribe my students, though what is the thing with the marshmallows". "Ahhh lets not talk about those marshmallow, how about jelly beans? you like those"? "But you can't roast jelly beans". "Well you are right" at least she had not be traumatized with toasted marshmallows.

[member="Wu Yeoh-Mei"]

 

[Wu Yeoh-Mei]

[member="Sky'ito Yumi"]

"Well you could bake them into a poopy ball of mushy jelly... it might taste strange but never know." She said it with a look at the pair of them and teaching her padawan or former padawan how to cook wouldn't be to hard if it came down to it. She taught her other things so that would be something easy and she lilely woujldn't emotionally scar Sukai.. again... for the first time. She was uncertain about it but willing to try and it would serve to give her the skill she needed to make sure Akari was properly trained..... Sukai was like a testing ground for training sessions and lessons... she was strong and able to handle what might prove to be dangerous to teach to a padawan like Akari.

 

[Kaili Brand]

Objective: Survive WIN the MPG.

Competition: [member='Rick Kaloo'],[member='Ivory Stroud'],[member='Dunames Lopez'], [member='Cai Kal Rus']​

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Spoiler: Kaili's Speeder

Racer: Kaili Brand​

Sponsor: POWER RAGE, Embrace the Darkside of the THIRST, A subsidiary of Prime-U Foods.​

Name: The BFC​

Power: 5(6-1)​

Speed: 6​

Maneuverability: 5​

Shields: 3​

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"I'm ok..I'm ok..." Kaili mantra'd at himself as he pulled away from the bulbous racer, the BFC holding a surprisingly steady position all things considered. "I'm sure the explosion from earlier was just a track mishap. yeah. Who'd be stupid enough to put actual life threatening hazards in a race?" He reasoned, a small calm washing over him before his console suddenly flashing brightly as a small gem like button came to life. A subsystem of the speeder babbled at him in the same hyperdrive quick Rodese the Rodian had used, the only words Kaili being able to catch being 'armed' and something else he was absolutely sure he misheard as 'banana'.

He was about to slow his pace to let the pack through, the BFC's engines giving a soft lulling hum as his foot came off the accelerator for an upcoming turn, when he noticed a familiar grey-blue speeder in the corner of his eye. The former calm now ebbing away into a soft panic as he remembered the battering he gave its driver a few minutes back and his foot slamming back onto the accelerator. "Ok. ok. I'm not ok." He thinks as his eyes flit across his controls, looking for a way to escape the assumed revenge of the dark haired driver. "Ok...Booster in Rodese is Ban-hana right?" He thinks, his thumb flicking across the button quickly.

"Selecting target." An automated voice dinned in the cabin in the first bout of clear Rodese he'd heard in a while, Kaili watching in horror as a panel slide away from his hood, revealing a cylindrical missile with a strange viscous blue liquid sloshing in a clear warhead. "Nononono." He sputtered, quickly trying to locate the weapons controls as he pleaded with the BFC.

"Target selected."
"STOP SELECTING."
"Locking target."
"UNLOCK TARGET."
"Applying crude insult to side of projectile."
"WHY?!?"
"Firing now. Have a nice day!"

Kaili's eyes flinched closed as the recoil of the missile bursting from his hood shook the speeder a bit, his ears waiting to hear the missile connect with the driver closest to him ([member='Dunames Lopez']) and unleash force knows what. But as the offending weapon closed in on Duname, the dread of being sandwiched between TWO drivers he had now angered roiling in Kaili's mind, it doubled its speed. Bee-lining straight for the boss and bursting, an azure sticky mist enveloping the more experienced driver.

(OOC: Kaili freaks out. Freaks out more. Screams at his car. Accidentally shoots a Tibanana Banana Split at the boss. Expect further freaking out.)

 

[Rick Kaloo]

OBJECTIVE: Win the race, test new legs ​

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Competition: [member="Aubrey King"], [member="Cai Kal Rus"], [member="Dunames Lopez"], [member="Ivory Stroud"], [member="Dunames Lopez"]​

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Yet another swarm of drones arrived, carrying something resembling a large bullet and putting it in Rick's bomb bay. ​

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But even with the new addition and Rick's uninterrupted acceleration, the silver speeder remained perfectly parallel with him. At the same time, the driver of the massive, bulky pink speeder that Rick thought he had eliminated just minutes ago was closing in, and would likely seek revenge.

He had a decision to make. Using the bullet on the silver speeder could guarantee his spot as #1, but then he'd be defenseless against the pink speeder should its driver show Rick the same respect he had given her. Or he could use the bullet on the pink speeder to save himself from a counterattack, but the driver of the silver speeder could use the opportunity to soar ahead, and the pink speeder's driver would likely become hellbent on killing Rick.

In the end, he settled with eliminating the silver speeder.

Rick pulled back his speeder very slightly and then turned to the right, so he was right behind the silver speeder. Hopefully its driver would be too distracted by her newfound lead to realize what Rick had planned. Only about ten meters behind the other speeder, Rick didn't even need to aim, simply opening fire on an extremely exposed target. Then, he turned his speeder sharply to the left before any collision could happen.

 

[Crocell]

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Objective: Win the race!​

[member="Rick Kaloo"] [member="Kaili Brand"] [member="Dunames Lopez"] [member="Aubrey King"] [member="Cai Kal Rus"] [member="Allyson Locke"]​

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Now tied for 3'rd place, Ivory jockied for position. Anger filled her, cursing the newcomer to the race, this "Boss" - who had stolen 2'nd place and raced ahead, leaving her and her two fellow racers behind. She pressed onward, looking through her viewports at the speeders operated by Dunames and Kiali... then ahead, toward the big pink speeder operated by the crowd favorite.​

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Ivory's gloved finger stabbed down at a button on her console, launching the Tibanna Banana Split toward The Boss' speeder. Then, she jerked her stick to the side in an attempt to cut Dunames Lopez off and push ahead. She was either going to win... or fail miserably.​

 

[Aubrey King]

As the race was coming to a close, all the racers were beginning to grow more desperate and frustrated. That included Kaloo, who had been neck and neck with Aubrey the whole time. Initially, the Kiribian thought she had started to pull away from Kaloo, but the Force Sensitive suddenly got a bad ping at the back of her head.

Danger!

She hadn't been pulling away, but rather it was simply the Mon Cala priming for an attack. The maneuver had been so quick and subtle that even with her precognitive abilities, she barely had time to make a move to dodge his attack. At the same time, she finally decided it was time to use the shell on Kaloo since he wanted to get dirty.

With a single flick of the thumb, her Cocophanizer Shell released from the Razorback in explosive explosive fashion, homing in right on Kaloo.

This time she was sure she would come out on top.

(Actions: Tried to dodge Rick's attack, and then used my Cocophanizer Shell on him.)

Spoiler

Racer: Aubrey King
Sponsor: Kiribian Systems Armory, Luna Corporation
Airspeeder name: Razorback
Power: 1
Speed: 10 (8 + 2)
Maneuverability: 7
Shields: 4

[member="Kaili Brand"] [member="Rick Kaloo"] [member="Ivory Stroud"] [member="Dunames Lopez"] [member="Wu Yeoh"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Allyson Locke"]

 

[Allyson Locke]

Final Moments of the Race​

Three splits were shot at the Boss, she couldn’t avoid it, her mind was so focused on catching both Rick and Aubrey. The Boss needed to win this race, she needed to break the record of most wins! As each of the splits launched at her, they attached to the pink mech like speeder and caused it to quickly spiral out of control She was quickly dinged with -1 to all her stats three times. Because of this, she continued to spiral till she slammed into the wall and her speeder became immobile. Jumping out of the cockpit she frowned and cursed several words in her Seoulian tongue.

With the boss out of the way, the race was coming into its final leg.

[member="Cai Kal Rus"]
Movement: 6 – 3 = 3 = 1
Hazard Roll: Over heating! -1 to speed

Cai had caught his speeder into control, but pushing it only caused the engine to over heat. His unique speeder started to smoke! So close to the finish line!

[member="Dunames Lopez"]
Movement: 3 – 6 = 3 = 1 movement
Hazard: 1 = Tired -1 to power

Dunames pushed forward slightly gaining a lead on the other two who was in her pack, joining her was Cai Kal Rus! Despite her attack, it seemed her speeder wasn’t the biggest fan of it! She suddenly felt tired – good thing the race is basically over!

[member="Kaili Brand"]
Movement: 5-6 =1 = 1movement
Hazard: Tired! – 1 Power

It seemed Kaili’s speeder has a mind of its own and after attacking the boss, he lucked out and she was taken out of commission. A small little achievement marker showed up on his speeder’s holo feed.

“KILLING BLOW”​

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Seemed Kaili was the banana that finished off our Boss, good job kid!

[member="Rick Kaloo"]
Combat: Rick power 1 – Aubrey defense 4 = Aubrey Defends!
Combat: Rick Defense 1 – Aubrey Power 1 = Tie – Rick Defends!
Despite Rick’s attack, it seemed the Kiribian was able to figure him out. She was able to gracefully dodge the attack, but Rick was prepared as well. Both shields activated and were able to fend off the shells. Rick continued to push forward! Could he pass the Razorback or can no one catch the Razorback!?

Movement: 5 – 10 = 5 = 2 movement
Item: Phobis Bomb

Rick pulled ahead, but would Aubrey have an answer as they drew so close to the finish line

[member="Ivory Stroud"]

Movement: 3- 6 = 3 = 1 movement
Hazard: Shielding error?! – 1 shields

Good thing that the boss was taken out, Ivory would find that her shields would start to flicker showing an error. She moved ahead and was now right behind both Rick and Aubrey with Dunames and Kaili right on her tail. They inched forward keeping her pace despite her trying to cut in front of the First Order’s pilot.

[member="Aubrey King"]
Movement: 1 – 10 = 9 = 3 movement
Item: Sabacc Star + 1 to all stats

With grace she dodged and countered the slippery Mon Cal. The Razorback soon inched forward crossing the finish line just before Rick Kaloo could regain his lead. Did his desire to take her out cost him the race? Who knows, all that was known was the crowd was screaming for the Razorback and Aubrey King. At the finish line champagne and flowers were all waiting. The rest of the speeders passed through and were also awarded with a champagne shower.

A woman ran up to Aubrey and handed the woman a glass of blue milk. “Its tradition that the winner takes a nice big gulp and takes a holo pic for with the mustache – you know gotta get the kids to keep drinking their milk!” The woman laughed nervously as she shook the camera. “They’re a corporate sponsor and will add to the credit purse.”

Final Standings:​

1st Aubrey King​

2nd Rick Kaloo​

3rd Ivory Stroud, Dunames Lopez, Kaili Brand, Cai Kal Rus​

Thank you for participating! Till next time Race fans!​

 

[Dunames Lopez]

"Sure I've lost, but at least it was well-deserved to whoever won this day"

In other races where she lost in the past, such as on Luminoss, Mindabaal, Tatooine and Commenor (in the Commenor case, she - and everyone else - lasted much longer until some disaster struck in the final lap that caused the race to be called off) Dunames simply didn't finish; today, only the Boss couldn't finish. And, of course, [member="Aubrey King"] did win, and even [member="Rick Kaloo"] was in front of her, but the rest of the pack, made up of three other races, namely, @Cai Kal Rus, [member="Kaili Brand"] and [member="Ivory Stroud"], were reminders of the gladiatorial nature of such races - and a rather painful one at that. Just that she would not need to take revenge on any of them; the Polydroxol would then try to eat somewhere and, from there, go to sleep afterwards. This race made me hungry, I ought to eat something other than pho if I could help it, Dunames thought, while her speeder was brought to the pit stop for inspection and repairs. It felt similar - and yet different - from podracing, but now was not the time to reflect on this race and the experience it provided her; each new track, each new race even, was an occasion to learn something new.