Copernicus purrs, "Ok folks, we take a couple minutes to prepare and plan, then we start. Remember no prisoners, and no taking this seriously. Well, you know what I mean. ;)"
Copernicus snugs Nalae, and heads over to "the good guys" side, "C'mon, lets get to work. ;)"
Nalae giggles at Coper, bounding after him.
Gambit comes running up to Melantha, pulling on her long dark trenchcoat and gangster hat . . .
Melantha laughs
Melantha whispers to Gambit.
Copernicus abuses his W privileges and suddenly the landscape is a series of sweeping hills covered in snow on a nice bright sunny day. Plenty of trees and outcroppings provide LOTS of ambush possibilities, along with a frozen stream nearby.
Copernicus and Nalae start whispering, and some odd clanking sounds can be heard.
Nalae giggles, bouncing.
Sounds of sawing and hammering also come from the "Good guys" side. ;)
Jarik abuses Zilvar's W privileges for him? ;)
Gambit and Melantha hide behind a bunch of trees and whisper to each other.
Copernicus purrs, "Oh, another rule. Angst and Melodrama are allowed, including overacting, so long as it's silly. ;)"
Melantha nods. "Can do!
Copernicus hmmms and tries to catch his William Shatner wig so he can look the part.
The wig scurries off and hides in the snow.
Gambit is a master at overacting . . .mastered from watching old re-runs of star trek
The sounds of drills and hammers comes from the 'Better' side!
Melantha notes the 'Better' side is our side!
Copernicus purrs, "Of course it's our side. Right Nalae? ;)"
Melantha laughs. "No mine and Gambit's side is the 'Better' side!
Melantha grabs Jenora. "you're on our side...right?
Copernicus purrs, "Oh, Jenora. Hmm, that'll make the sides uneven though."
Gambit notes that Jarik is still not playing
Melantha chirps, "I saw her first!!!"
Jenora acks as she's grabbed. "Umm... I guess."
Melantha giggles.
Copernicus hmmmfs and scrambles around for a NPC to even the sides.
Jenora won't be here _too_ long, though. She's trying to reset her sleep-wake cycle for starting work again on Monday.
Melantha nods.
Copernicus rummages around in his NPC bag, "Timothy the magic chipmunk...nah, too serious. Sirius...nope. Oh, I know who. ;)"
Copernicus purrs, "Ceres, of course, is also a winged felitaur. And one of my bosses...er, mates. ;)""
Ceres nodnods bouncily and starts helping the "Good guys".
Melantha hands out red bandannas to Gambit and Jenora and then ties one on her arm.
Gambit looks at the red . . ."I hate red"
Copernicus hands out yellow bananas to his group, "I know, bad spelling strikes again, but maybe the peels will be useful. ;)"
Melantha giggles at Coper's pun.
Melantha peeks out from behind a tree over at the 'enemy'
Copernicus calls over from behind the snow fortress walls, "Let the insanity commence. :)"
Copernicus notes that Melantha's "Zilvar" is in charge of "The Enemy" ;)
Gambit yells "CHARGE!!!!"
Copernicus darns and forgot his credit cards. He opens with a volley of snowballs.
Melantha rushes toward the 'enemy' walls with an armload of snowballs.
Copernicus purrs, "Oh, and you can counterattack by going after obvious puns. ;)"
Gambit hurls snowballs, as she leaps from tree limb to tree limb towards enemy camp . .
Jenora ducks off to the right behind a couple of trees, tearing off across the snow, somehow running across the surface without sinking in too deeply.
Melantha can't pun =(
Jarik hands Melantha a book of puns.
Jarik says, "That'll help you punish them. ;)"
Jenora says, "You can't? Too bad, after all, the pun is mightier than the sword."
Melantha giggles.
A barrage of snowballs flies out randomly from behind the enemy walls, while a snowbank watches carefully.
Melantha tosses a barrage of snowballs over the walls of the ice fortress.
Melantha chirps, "err...snow fortress??"
Copernicus purrs, "Yep, snow, not ice. ;)"
Gambit sneaks around till she finds a small crack in the fortress wall . .. just big enough for her to slip through
A welcome mat beckons Gambit. ;)
Melantha runs back to base and gets another armload.
Jenora goes for a flying leap, twists in mid-air, and lands on the backside of her jacket. The jacket slides nicely along the ice crust on top of the snow, and she starts firing off snowballs as she skids past the felitaur's flanks.
Gambit cautiously steps 'over' the welcome mat and proceeds to find theenemy
Ceres hmmms and scoops some snow with her wings and flings it at Jenora, while getting a snowball in the face, "I'm hit! I'm hit! Medic!"
Course, this is a banana peel where Gambit puts her foot down.
Jenora acks, ducking prone under the snowball, making her resemble an upside-down tortoise in the jacket as the movement makes her start spinning slowly. The snowballs start going a little more randomly around their targets.
Melantha sneaks around to the back of the snow fortress.
Copernicus pops out of the snowbank and tosses snowballs at Jenora from behind, "C'mon Ceres. It's only a snowball, even Kirk was never that much of a ham!"
Inside the snow fortress, is a modified tennis ball machine doing the random firing.
Gambit balancing with all her might . . .manages to guide the sliding banana peel till she comes up behind Coper, and snowballs him from behind . . . and then runs for dear life
Melantha looks for a break in the fortress wall.
Copernicus jumps about thirty feet in the air, as one of the snowballs chills a rather sensitive spot.
Ceres falls over giggling.
Jenora sticks her foot in the snow, which makes a nice brake.. her momentum is enough to carry her upright again. She scoops up some more snow and starts lobbing it at Coper as he jumps above the walls.
Gambit laughs from behind a small barricade and then turns to deactivate the tennis like snowball machine
Melantha climbs up the wall, slowly, holding the snowballs in one arm. She peeks over the wall and surveys the terrain.
The train is a Lionel scale train with a cute red caboose.
Toot! Toot!
Copernicus hahs, "I always get them with the misspellings. Now, to even the odds. :)"
Jenora says, "Even the odds? You're flipping parity?"
Melantha sees Ceres' head and lobs a snowball at her.
Copernicus leaps into the air and starts tossing snowballs from above as Ceres returns fire on the ground.
Gambit having deactivated the tennis snowball machine, turns to help take out the leader of the bad guys . . Coper
Jenora ducks and rolls under the snowball barrage, rolling towards the fort. She scoops up another snowball, and aims it close to directly upward from underneath Coper, getting a good shot at his underbelly...
Copernicus purrs, "Hey, I'm a GOOD guy."
Copernicus tosses a handful of snowballs down on Gambit
Jenora says, "Not from where we're standing. Or sitting, or whatever."
Ceres hmmms, "You pretty good, but I've had better. ;)"
Melantha sees Coper from her high perch and tosses several snowballs in his direction.
Copernicus ooohs, "Low blow, and you're on MY side!"
Ceres hmmms? "Oh, sorry. Not used to that Coper. ;)"
Gambit acks, and dodges for cover
Jenora leans up against the outside of the snow fortress, and starts to use parts of it as ammunition.
Ceres wings several more large snowballs at Jenora, then eeps as a buttress is heaved her way.
Melantha tosses all her snowballs at the enemy!
Melantha leaps from the top of the fortress and scrambles around making more snowballs.
Copernicus gets a snowball in the face, and does an impressive nose dive. spinning and twirling, leaving a trail of smoke as he plummets a full...30 feet to his doom.
Gambit walks out into the open field and from under her trenchcoat pulls a surface to air snowball gun
Jenora eeefs, ducking under one of the promotories of the snow fortress, trying to get out from Ceres' aim.
Ceres takes flight this time and goes to drop a snow steeple on Jenora in revenge.
Melantha climbs back up to the top of the fortress and throws a dozen snowballs at Coper.
Jenora judges Ceres' flight path... and dives out of the way at what she thinks is the last possible minute, hoping Ceres won't be able to turn that fast.
Gambit is happily blasting everyone and everything in sight
Copernicus climbs out of the wreckage of himself and flops on the ground his parachute now opening up.
Ceres tries to turn, and ends up flinging the steeple at Gambit.
Gambit ducks and runs out of the path of the flying steeple
Jenora hmms. Using her teammate as a distraction wasn't the original plan, but whatever works.
Melantha blinks. "Steeple?
Copernicus purrs, "A snow steeple. I think we over did it on the snow fortress. ;)"
Jarik says, "It's going to chase you, Melantha. ;)"
Melantha acks and dives for cover!...behind Jarik!
The steeple fwumphs Gambit and covers her. Here's the Chirr'T'Thar, there goes the steeple, look inside and you find the people (Gambit ;)
Jarik says, "Werp?"
Jenora groans at Jarik's 'Steeple chase' pun.
Jarik wonders if the flying steeple comes with a nun?
Copernicus gets out his tennis racket and prepares for another snowball volley. Ceres is still going after Jenora. Nalae has decided to hide with the William Shatner wig and his family.
Jenora acks, and starts dodging Ceres' blasts, running back towards the slightly wooded area, hoping to lead the felitaur away.
Jarik awws, Jenora's pining for felitaurs.
Copernicus tosses a snowball at Jarik for that pun, "You want to pun, you have to pay too. ;)"
Jarik ackpths!
You can pun, but you can't hide. ;)
Gambit woozily steps out from the frozen snow that hit her, . .. her scales are frosting over!!
Jarik says, "Tipping the scales now are we?"
Ceres dives gleefully after Jenora, having a whole armload of snowballs.
Melantha acks and runs to her teammates side. "Are you ok?
Copernicus hmmms and gets a hot dog roaster, "Frozen Gecko on a stick anyone? ;)"
Gambit clicks, "is this a question to answer on a scale of one to ten?"
Jenora skates along the ice-encrusted surface of the snow, zipping in through the light tree line.
Jarik says, "Look! Jenora's leaving! ;)"
Melantha pounces Jarik.
Ceres fails to see the tree line, and gets tangled in it, "Oh monogamy!"
Copernicus eeps, "Watch your language Ceres! ;)"
Jenora disappears from sight behind a cluster of trees.
Jarik werps innocently? O=)
Melantha pats a nice big snowball in Jarik's head fur.
Jarik oofs.
Jarik says, "I've been snowed over :P"
Copernicus decides to make a dramatic charge, and leaps towards the dynamic duodenums, Melantha and Gambit, snowballs loaded and ready. ;)
Melantha hehehs.
Melantha acks and runs!
Melantha runs circles around Coper. =)
Jarik says, "Circular logic, I see."
Ceres grumbles about being left dangling on a pun line and lobs a heat tracking snowball after Jenora.
Melantha smirks and stuffs a snowball in Jarik's mouth!
Copernicus snags at Melantha with his tail while trying to fire snowballs at the lounge lizard. ;)
Suddenly, a snowball almost as big as Ceres is comes lobbing over the trees from where Jenora disappeared... dropping straight towards the felitaur.
Melantha leaps onto Coper's back and smooshes a big snowball on his head, then leaps off and runs.
Ceres whimpers, "Mommies!" as she gets whomped with a snow ball from Price Club. :P
Chastity blinks, and wonders what she just hobbled into.
Copernicus turns and pounce-tackles into Melantha.
Jenora says, "A snowball fight!"
Melantha yells, "Snowball fight!!!
Melantha acks!
Melantha plummets into the snow.
Gambit rushes to her friends side and throws water on her . . laughs hysterically and runs off again
Jenora grins from just past the tree line, and starts packing together another giant-sized snowball.
Melantha issa drenched?
Chastity looks around, and 'Eeeks!' as she ducks behind a brush.
Copernicus purrs, "Uh oh. Looks like a cheetah-sicle. ;)"
Melantha shivers, "Thanks Gambit!
Ceres hmmmms and disappears for a moment.
Jarik says, "Oooh, Chastity had a brush with fate!"
Jenora lobs another huge snowball over towards the snow-fortress, aiming to the unoccupied side...
Melantha tickles Coper!
Chastity hrms! and scoops together some snow, lobbing it at Jarik. =)
Jarik yikes?
Copernicus grrs as Jenora destroys his deus ex machina and giggles at Melantha.
Melantha tickles some more! "Let me up!!!
Jarik at least knows Coper will win, since cheetah's never prosper. ;)
Ceres comes back with a house sized snowball and lobs it towards Jenora, "I have an account with the home shopping network."
Jenora groans, and lobs the next big snowball at Jarik.
Jarik gets pummeled again, oh the injustice!
Jenora is currently a lot larger than when Ceres saw her before... probably how she threw a snowball that big that easily.
Chastity aaaghs!She throws a slightly bigger snowball at Jarik.
Jarik yikes!
Melantha shoves some snow between Coper's toes!
Copernicus picks Melantha up and tosses her in a snowbank. He hmms, "Ceres, call a CPA!"
Copernicus whoops and bounces around, trying to get the snow out of his toes.
Melantha lands in the snowbank head first. =/
The CPA comes in and depreciates Jenora, bringing her down to size. ;)
Jarik says, "Wow, I wonder what interest rate Melantha got with that bank."
Chastity blinks? "Look out! it's the Infernal Revenue Service!
Jenora hmmmphs. "Nobody appreciates me."
Melantha pulls herself out and shakes the snow outta her ears.
Ceres comes back with another BIG snowball at Jenora, "Oh, I appreciate it when you stand still Jenora. ;)"
Copernicus hmmms, "Not much overacting or fake angst so far. ;)"
Chastity says, "Why? You think we should, Coper?"
A small chipmunk like rodent scurries around, looking for food.
Melantha puts her paw to her heart. "I'm dying!" She faints, melodramatically!
Jarik thinks of more puns. ;)
Copernicus nods, "Time for the big guns. Call out the penguins!"
Jenora acks, diving _way_ out of the way... "Oooh..."
Jarik awws, and buries Melantha in the snowbank. ;)
A troop of penguins, chanting 'Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup!' come wobbling over the nearest hill.
Melantha pokes her head out of the snow. "Hey! That's not part of the script!
The snow fortress walls shudder, then fall as the black and white army waddles through, tossing snowballs with military precision. These nuns are tough cookies. ;)
Jenora waits for Ceres, looking around for where the felitaur has gone...
Jarik pushes Melantha back into the bank, "Hey, you're not fooling anyone you know. You'll be stone dead in a moment."
Ceres mmmfs and pushes the mother and daddy of all snow boulders up to the ledge above Jenora and grins, "Incoming. ;)"
Melantha grabs Jarik's paw and pulls him into the snow and covers him up!
Jarik oofs!'
Melantha lays a lily over Jarik's grave and says a prayer!
Ceres lets Jenora realize the gravity of the situation and pushes the huge snowball off the ledge.
Jenora waits for it... then suddenly flies upward as the snowball starts tipping down. She flies up over the ledge, grabs for Ceres, then zips back down faster than gravity is dropping the ball, dropping her 'cargo' of the felitaur into the bank right under where the ball is dropping.
Jarik grabs Melantha and pulls her face first into the snow! Yeah! You better pray!. ;)
Melantha laughs!
Chastity blinks, watching with amazement.
Melantha pushes Jarik's head back down in the snow.
Jarik ackpthths!
Jenora continues flying out of the way of the ball, of course...
Melantha hold Jarik down. "You're suppose to be dead...now stay that way!
Jarik grins! "Wrong! I'm only mostly dead!" *tickle*
Ceres mutters something about there being no justice.
Melantha acks!
Melantha bats some snow at Jarik!
***FWUMPHS*** and Ceres disappears from sight. The scene grows horribly silent.
Jenora says, "Of course there's justice. Poetic justice, at that, to be hit by your own snowball..."
Jarik sings while tickling Melantha, "There's no business like snow business..." ;)
Ceres moves in to pelt Jenora with another large snowball from behind while she gloats.
Melantha batbats Jarik and then gets her feet under him and FLIPS him over her head!
Jarik aies!
Jarik is a flying fox? Since when was he a bat? ;)
Chastity tosses a snowball form one hand to the other, picking out a good target. =)
Jenora leaps, landing on to pof the old pile of snow. "How'd you get out from under there?"
Ceres smirks, "I'm very hip. I dig. ;)"
Ceres does a dive-bombing run, wanting to make sure of her target, even if it means mutually assured destruction. ;)
Chastity nods to Ceres, and *SPLUT*s him with the snowball for the pun. =)
Chastity well, -tries- to splut him, at least. =)
Jenora hehs. "Yeah? And I'm one hot little cat." The snow hill she's standing on turns to steam underneath her, as she drops straight down into the pile of snow she was on, out from under the bombing run.
Jenora notes that Ceres is female, last she checked.
Melantha notes ws says Ceres is male
Chastity Erfs, sorry....
Ceres nodnods and dives head-first at the hole where Jenora disappeared.
Copernicus purrs, "Sorry, I really have to get a morph set on the zombies I use. ;)"
Jenora doesn't seem to be in the hole anymore.
Ceres, however, is. The dive in has gotten her stuck, with only her best "side" showing.
Melantha lobs a snowball at Gambit. "hey wake up!!!
Jenora walks out of the side of the snow hill, melting her way through. She then climbs up the hillside to the top. She grabs Ceres' tail, and runs a couple of really cold icicles down along it...
Ceres's tail coils around Jenora and stuffs her head into the bank.
Jenora mrphles.
Copernicus lands behind Jenora and Ceres and takes a photo. ;)
Melantha sneaks behind Jarik and pounces him....stuffing his head back into the bank!
Jarik ackpthts!
The troop of penguins turn as one, and see a nice tableau of Jenora, Ceres, and Coper... they decide it'll have great value added with some snowballs. *vweeeeeee!* Incoming!
Copernicus ruhrohs as he sees his own troops turn on him, "I think this is what they call collateral damage." and runs off, leaving Jenora and Ceres to get pelted in the rump with snowballs. ;)
Jenora acks, and is soon buried completely.
Melantha patpats the snow down on Jarik. "Now stay there!
Jenora's head pops up. "Unfortunately, I do have to get going..."
Copernicus purrs, "S'ok. It's been a gas. ;)"
Melantha awwws!
The penguins wobble up to the hill, chittering 'Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup!'
Ceres hmms, "Actually, this isn't water vapor. It's been more like a crystalline solid. ;)"
Chastity snug Jenora. "It's been very fun. =)
Melantha hugs Jenora. "See ya later!:
Jarik digs into the snowbank.
Jenora purrrrs. "See you later!"
Melantha sits down on top of Jarik...making sure he says put!
The snowbank gives way, dropping Melantha down. Then the bank collapses around her.... ;)
Melantha ack......
Melantha issa buried??
Yup, buried. ;)
Chastity chuckles softly.
Melantha digs herself out of the hole and peeks her head out.
Jarik waps Melantha with a snowball and cackles maniacally!
Melantha sputters snow!
Copernicus goes to make a dramatic victorious pose on a ridge, "I claim victory this day as...MPPHH!" Ceres, mad from being abandoned, pounces up and down on Coper, driving him into the snow.
Melantha giggles. "I WON!!!!!"
Melantha jumps up and down!
Melantha chirps, "I Won! I Won! I Won! I Won! I Won!"
Chastity laughs, almost falling into a snow back.
At the top of the other ridge, the line of penguins stares down upon the survivors silently. Then, all of them as one, put a red rubber glove on their heads and start marching down, snowball bazookas on their shoulders.
Jarik chuckles.
Melantha laughs.
Chastity blinks at the penguins. "Uh oh..."
Ceres is too busy having fun trouncing her mate into the snowbank to notice the incoming penguins.
The snowball bazookas fire, pelting everyone exposed mercilessly, even getting Ceres in her profile again.
Copernicus hmmms . o O (I think I'll stay under here, where it's safe. ;)
Chastity blinks? *SPLUT!*
Melantha hides back in her hole.
Jarik hides behind Melantha. ;)
Chastity falls backward and tumbles a bit. When she sits back up, a pair of blue eyes set into a small pile of snow blink at the penguins.
It looks bad for both sides. Will this be the end of our intrepid heros? Probably not, but the suspense is fun. ;)
Another wave of black and white appears over the rise. Taller, and much bigger. Carrying hockey sticks. And rosaries?
Melantha grabs Jarik and uses him as a shield!
The head mother growls, "I'm tired of the penguin jokes. C'mon girls, GET EM!" and the nuns charge in and start playing hockey, using the penguins as hockey pucks, before finally disappearing off into the sunset on their skates.
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