Log:The Secret of Skull Island, Scene 1

The Secret of Skull Island 2007/12/01 	 Akeno Citadel Spirit|Dorian Dryad Ellbeth Regent Sword Dancer Skysabre 1

Regent flies down from on high, landing outside the convention center, he see's a number of people he knows and one he thinks he knows, but hasn't seen in a while. It is to this one he flies, and lands near, "Dr. Wyrd?..or perhaps you are Dr. Wyrd's attractive mother?" he says with a smile.

Ellbeth is running one of the invitation fantasy RPG games. Seated along with a half dozen other gamers, and surrounded by a good crowd of onlookers, she's using the electronic battle-map table and her own illusions to create a 3-D spectacular detailing the game activities of the player's characters and her GM'ed monsters. The game plot is set in the sands of Egypt with the action occurring around a partially excavated pyramid.

Akeno wanders around the convention center. It appears he's on duty. He's wearing a badge and even has a radio ear-piece on. It's one of the bigger conventions, after all, and who wouldn't want at least one cop to be on hand? Of course, the cop still finds time to play around some. After all... even cops get breaks. And those 360 degree senses means he's not really off duty if he's playing instead.

The magical glow that surrounds Ellbeth and her game is answer enough..he stands above most of the players that crowd the table, so he floats above them his glow golden, "You...have changed. perhaps we will be able to talk later?"

Sword Dancer moves through the crowds in her "armour", looking about at other people in costume with a somewhat bemused look on her face. She has a friend with her who is explaining things to her, when she's not getting her amusement from Kihzra's confusion.

Ellbeth glances over at the hero landing next to her. She takes in the impressive appearence and sighs quietly, alas lost youth. Still I can window shop even if I don't have the purchasing ability any more. There's something familair about him though. "I would like that. I'll be finished in in about twenty minutes."

Regent nods to Ellbeth. "That would be nice." and he floats off to look at other exhibits for the moment. To his left he looks at Akeno who is giving off such a mystical glow that he almost feels the need to sheild his senses from him.."Gods..that man is something else." he says softly to himself, He recognizes the man as being Det. Akeno Matsuya, "Makes sense though." he says again to himself. While looking at Akeno, he doesn't pay attention to what's in front of him as he bumps into Kihzra. "Oof..sorr..Kizhra?" he says to her.

Citadel walks into the convention center, holding a guide to today's events. He looks around the hall, checking out sights. He sighs a bit, o O (Public exposure my ass...) then shakes his head.

Ellbeth chuckles as an errant dice thrown by an over eager and excited younger player skittles across the game table and bounces into the midst of the watching crowd. "Wherever that went, can someone tell us what the roll was?" she says cheerfully.

One of the on lookers shouts, "3!"

Akeno incidently is wandering over towards Ellbeth's table by accident. Who knew the detective was into hero RPGs? "Greetings, doctor. I see you're having some fun." The detective gives a bit of a grin, "What system?"

Sword Dancer recovers balance instantly, but is annoyed that she was so distracted that someone *could* bump into her. "Qhah!"

Ellbeth smiles at the excited youngster. "That hits with your dexterity. Roll your damage on the sand spirit."

Regent lands and steps back hands up, "Sorry..my mistake.." his voice filled with a conceding tone.

Ellbeth looks around briefly to see who's speaking. "Hello Detective. Advanced Dugeons and Dragons version 12.5."

Akeno blinks, "Ahh... wow. I haven't played since 12.0."

Kihzra's friend, Tina, is a pretty, brown-haired college-aged girl. She wearing an outfit that would best be described a 'hot elf babe'. She explains aside quietly to Kihzra. "So the idea is to get people to visit the Spell Wars booth..."

Tina halts in her explanation as they run into Regent.

Sword Dancer asks Tina, "Sperr Wars? Why?"

Regent pauses, "Um..sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt..." he says to the two.

Regent looks at Tina and cocks his head to side..."If I may say so, that is a great..outfit."

Citadel heads over to the display about the new Starguard Alpha television show.

Ellbeth says, "I didn't know you played, Detective. I run a regular weekend game on my yacht when I'm in the city. Maybe you'd like to join the group sometimes?""

4 younger boys around the age of 12 runs over to Citadel, "Youre the new UE Marshall right right?? are they going to make an action robot out of you??"

Tina smiles, glancing to Regent to welcome him into the conversation. "Because we'll be there." She turns Regent and smiles. "Thank you... I like you're outfit too. Who are you supposed to be...?"

Sword Dancer looks at Tina's outfit and says to Regent, "Is not rearistic."

Akeno thinks for a moment, "Maybe. I'll see what I can do. Gods know how busy we are."

Regent shakes his head, "No one, just me. Hopefully that'll be enough." he winks at Tina and chuckles to Sword Dancer, "It may not be realistic, but its still..good." he says with a grin.

Sword Dancer crosses her arms. "My costume is not good?"

Ellbeth nods to Akeno and returns her attention to the game she's running. In the illusion she's creating the characters are battling to pass a line of sand spirits and skeleton guards. Their target is a priest of Set directing the undead from the entrance of the pyramid.

Citadel looks down and says, "Yes, I am, and most likely." then nods.

Regent chuckles again, "How can I put this..incredibly hot armored sword maiden. Yes yours is good too. I just didn't want to be thrown across the room for saying so." he grins more at Kihzra.

Citadel hands the two kids official photographs, "Would you like a United Earth Marshall souvenir photograph?" he says coldly.

Akeno whistles at the setup, peering a bit, and shakes his head, "Wow... that's going to be a tough one even with a fireball." He mentions to Ellbeth. "Oh, wait. Sand spirits. Immune to them or not?"

"Ah Cool!" says one of the kids, "yeah yeah! please? I've already got the Bluewave action robot! My mom got if for me as an early Christmas present!"

Sword Dancer grins. She was, of course, joking too. "Could frow you across room for some ovver reason."

Citadel nods and says, "Great, collect all eight." as he hands two out.

Citadel looks around,. o O (God this sucks...)

The kids grab the photographs and run off, "Sweet! I wonder how much I sell this on E-Bay?" he is heard saying as he runs off.

A squad of twelve Star Wars storm troopers marches towards the concessions area.

Citadel shrugs and walks around promoting.

Regent shakes his head, "I'm not groping you any more..no need to do so Kihzra." he says with a smile.

Sword Dancer shrugs. "Is good exercise. Don't get enough practice."

Tina quirks an eyebrow and smiles, "Kizh, you didn't tell me you had such a cute friend."

Regent has the good grace to blush. His aura going pinkish. "Uh..Matthew Regent.." he says extending a hand, "Nice to meet you."

Dorian enters from West Colonial Heights.

Sword Dancer says, "Is not exactry *friend*..."

Citadel walks close to Regent, handing out photographs, "Collect all eight." then nods, "Yes, a full line of action figures will be available next week in major stores."

Regent turns to the louder voice, and notices Citadel..remembers him from something that happened a long time ago..something about him being sick.

Ellbeth applauds a player as the girl casts a mirror spell that is nominally purely cosmetic, and uses it to reflect sunlight into the shaded entrance of the pyramid. Ellbeth checks a saving throw and when the priest fails the illusion shows him smoking and bursting into flames. The undead crumple and the players charge forward to their goal. "Wonderful. A hundred bonus experience for you, Shelly. And scene completion bonuses for all."

Tina smiles and squeezes Matt's hand. "Well Matthew, it's a pleasure. We need to go, but you can meet us later at the Spell Wars booth..."

Sword Dancer nods. "Can frow you ven."

Citadel turns and notices Regent, "Hello, care for a United Earth Marshall collector photograph?" then looks at the ladies.

Regent returns the handshake and nods.."Um..Ok," he says with a smile, and nods to Kihzra, "Be well warrior, and lets just hold off on the throwing ok?" he says to her with a smile and moves on.

Akeno blinks a bit, then quirks a brow at that one and looks at Ellbeth, "That was an interesting way to take it out. We'll need to remember it if we get in a similiar situation."

Regent looks at Citadel, "Um..no, why would I?" his question isn't a rude one, but it comes off a bit aloof, "I mean, you're standing right here, why would I need a photograph. I believe congratulations are in order?"

Sword Dancer says to Tina, "Now, why we go to Sperr Wars booff?"

Citadel nods and says, "Thanks, I'm not in the set. They didn't have time to photograph me." then nods, "Want the Bluewave one? Last one, very popular." then smiles.

Dorian and Zeal get their tickets to enter the convention, and walk in, dressed in street clothes. He blinks and looks around, having never attended the convention. Zeal smiles, and looks around herself, "Really? You've never been here?"

Regent shakes his head, "Im not much into idol worship.."

Tina asks Kihzra quietly. "Who was that? And what's the throwing about?" She shakes her head. "Not yet. We have to find more people to tell them about the booth." She watches Regent walk over to Citadel. "Ooh, like him." She says, taking a moment to check out the Marshall.

Dryad walks in seeing that his place is open tand that there people in side she was wondering around cheeking out the city.

Ellbeth shakes hands with all the players in her game and signs their character sheets. The crowd is splitting up now that game is over but quite a few hang around getting Ellbeth to sign copies of her books. She's working her way towards Regent at a rate of six autographs a step.

Citadel holds his hand with the last Bluewave, as some devotee runs by and grabs it. "Yes, got the last one" as the kid runs off. Citadel looks over, "Sorry, all out now." then shrugs.

Regent chuckles, "too bad for me...Congratulations on your appointment. I'm sure you'll do well."

Sword Dancer grins. "Is more mussrey, yes?" says Kikzra, following Tina's gaze.

Citadel nods and says, "Sure, thanks." then shrugs, "Are you feeling better now? Last time I saw you, you were sick."

Dryad smiles seeing everyone she makes her way deeper inside and looks around.

Tina says, "I'll say. What do you think? Yes, no?"

Regent nods, "I'm fine now. I never got a chance to thank you for your help that time, (its 80 years too late but he doesn't know that), so..Thanks."

Sword Dancer grins. "Fink yes. Men should be strong, and rook strong."

Citadel nods and says, "No problem, though now you can go see that new doctor."

Dorian makes his way through the crowd, following Zeal as she heads toward the autograph area. He stops upon seeing a few model diaramas, though...and looks at them in their display case with a smile on his face. Zeal stops and waits for him, looking amused.

Sword Dancer wrinkles her nose as some "orcs" walk by. "Somefing smerrs bad."

Akeno tilts his head as he looks around, then shrugs and makes his way around again. Not quite going to the group of heroes just yet, but idly checking other gaming tables and displays.

Sword Dancer half-follows the orcs. Not being too obvious, but making sure they don't get out of her sight.

Regent laughs at Sword Dancer's words and tells Citadel, "I'll leave you, looks like you have a couple of lady admirers.." he grins and moves off, not seeing Ellbeth trying to make her way towards him.

Dryad spots Akeno and smiles finaly someone she knows and she makes his way to him, "Hello Um Akeno right?"

Citadel looks over and says, "Huh?" looking for his so called admirers.

Sword Dancer, of course, has stopped admiring at this point.

Ellbeth spots someone she really wants to talk to. Giving Regent an apologetic, if probably unseen look, she turns to make her way over to the gaming company representative mentally rehearsing her case for selling the frictional world as a game worth theme.

Tina the elf babe smiles to Citadel, if he looks in her direction. Then a puzzled look crosses her face. "Doesn't anybody smell lilacs?"

Regent wends his way through the crowds stopping periodically to look at booths, he's stopped at the Hero Games Booth, looking through the rule book on display. "Damn..this is confusing."

Akeno turns to look at Dryad, "Hi again. Let me guess, saw the convention and decided to see what was going on?" He smiles at her kindly, although his eyes have a strange... vacant look to them. Most have come to associate that with his just being focused fortunately.

Citadel heads for Tina and says, "Hi, care for a United Earth Marshall souvenir photograph?" then looks throw them, "You want Menagerie? She can turn into different animals."

Dryad laughs softy, "I was wondering and saw people in here so I came in see what was going on and then I spoted you. I still don't know many people so I thought I came over and say hi"

Orc Warriors

This appears to be a group of convention goers, dressed up as fierce orc warriors. They are big and hairy, but thankfully not smelly. They wear leather and metal armor, with swords hanging at their sides. They seem to be in    remarkably good shape for a group of nerds; each orc stands a little over six feet tall, with an athletic build. There's not much originality to the costumes, really -- they all seem to be the same basic costume with a few little details mixed around, a tattoo here, a necklace of teeth there. All in    all, the outfits are convincing.

Sword Dancer doesn't hear Tina, having drifted away from her by this point.

Regent puts the book down, and looks at his watch, 5 more minutes before he should head back for Dr. Wyrd's booth. He looks over at the interactive AI that sits in the Hero Games booth, "So.." he looks at the name on the box, "Steve..I see the company has been around for a long time, but these rules are so..complicated, what kind of market penetration do you get with this game?"

Tina watches Kihzra and Regent wander off. "An autograph...? Are you one of the actors from that tv show?" Her eyes light up at the thought of meeting a tv star.

Akeno frowns a bit. Not at Dryad, though, that's obvious. "You said you had powers, right?" He looks at Dryad, eyes still unfocused as he watches something apparently. He lowers his voice, leaning down to talk to her, "Excuse me..." He turns to head towards the gaming table, idly reaching up to tap his head-set. He talks into it quietly just in case.

Citadel shakes his head and says, "You mean an actor on Starguard Alpha? No."

Dorian smiles, and walks over to Zeal, joining her again. They start moving in the general direction of the autograph area again, but looking at the various booths as they go by.

A group of orcs approach the gaming tables, seeming to have taken an interest in Ellbeth's game.

The box named Steve says, "Hero Games appeals to a wide range of players, we're in Version 15, and we've refined our rules to clearly define them. For instance running on wanter is now considered a limited form of swimming, that can only be used while on the surface of water, and while moving, it's a -1/2 limita.." but is cut off by Regent who says, "Ok..whatever, they should have had a real human come out here, this is too confusing." and walks off.

Dryad blinks at that and follows wanting to see whats going on.

Regent floats to avoid most of the crowd, about 10ft off the ground, a bunch of people look up at him, looking for the wires. "Wow, this year is even better than last year!"

Sword Dancer keeps following the orces, using her nonexistent shadowing skills. THough she stands out less in this crowd than normally.

Regent floats over to Ellbeth's booth..that is now surrounded by Orcs..but not Ellbeths.."Wonder where she went?" he says looking around.

Ellbeth is busy trying to sell the idea of her fictional world being used as a genre for the gaming company's product.

Regent catches sight of Ellbeth, more because of her magic glow than anything else, but she seems busy so he just waits at her booth...lowering to the ground behind her table.

Dorian and Zeal happen by Ellbeth's booth, and he smiles, looking at the assembled crowd. "Huh. Looks interesting." Zeal nods, "Isn't that the woman who made that mental protection thing for you a few years back?" Dorian nods in response, "Yup.

Akeno frowns as he looks at the orcs, wandering over near it. He glances at Regent, then says to the orcs, "Excuse me, gentlemen. Can I help you? You seem a bit lost."

The orcs don't seem to notice Kihzra shadowing them. The spread out a little, looking in different directions, searching. Even as Akeno addresses them, they ignore him as they seem to have spotted what they're looking for. The band of orcs draw their swords as they focus in on Ellbeth. One of them shouts out, "Kill the Magic-User!"

Citadel turns his head and says, "Wow, they really take role-playing seriously here."

Akeno frowns, then moves and speed teleports into the orcs' path towards Ellbeth, settling into a relaxed combative stance. His eyes stay seemingly unfocused, "Hi there. Akeno Matsuya. Care to explain what you're doing?" The detective glares at the orcs, but hopefully the fact that he basically teleported will turn their attention to him instead of Ellbeth. Let alone, he's not too shy on the muscles either.

Sword Dancer says, "Kihzra, unusally for her, hesitates. "Is rearr? Or pretend?" she calls out."

Sword Dancer, unusally for her, hesitates. "Is rearr? Or pretend?" she calls out.

The orcs don't seem afraid of Akeno.

Regent's aura flares, "This seems..disturbingly real." he says and flies on over to Ellbeth. "Dr. Wyrd..trouble..maybe." he says as he lands.//half move hold.

Ellbeth nods to Regent.

Dorian quietly says to Zeal, "Be right back." He lets his shapeshifting drop, and changes into his normal form in a flash of light. He then flies over into the midst of the 'orcs'. "You'll stand down...now."

The look on Zeal's face is akin to 'Why does this always happen?'

The orcs show no signs to hesitation.

Sword Dancer charges in amongst the orcs, drawing her sword as she goes, then whips her sword out to disarm as many of the orcs as she can before they get a chance to react!

Sword Dancer makes a face as she misses one orc's sword and fails to knock the other ones free. "Ajah! Are more strong than humans!"

The orc gets pricked by Dryad's thorns. He looks over and glares at her. He seems more angry than hurt.

Citadel looks over and hands the rest of the photographs to Tina, "Uhmmm, here, enjoy." then leaps across the room to land in front of the orcs, and block their path to Ellbeth, realzing he'll smash that table down. He looks at them and says, "Cease and desist." suddenly becoming very heavy, crunching the things underneath his feet.

The orcs shout a battle cry and charge forward. All of them move forward except for two of them. Akeno soon finds himself surrounded by the others, on their way to Ellbeth. One attacks Dryad and the other attacks Kihzra.

One of the orcs swipes at Dryad.

The orc's attack falls short of Dryad, and the other orc is unable to touch Kihzra with a horizontal slash.

Akeno moves as an orc goes past him, and just... spins it seems. At least that is until the orc's sword is now in Akeno's hands as if by magic. The sword is spun to determine the weight of it briefly before Akeno holds it ready and glares at the other orcs. "Hey capes, try to disarm them first and round them up. It's too crowded for a full fight."

Regent hears Akeno's words and nods...

Ellbeth still isn't entirely sure that this isn't part of the BayCon activities but Kihzra's warning of more than human strength influences her actions. She casts a shielding spell, which will do no harm in either case, and lifting her staff over her head summons a host of spirits that swirl and swarm around her and out for many yards. "Be not so foolish as to threaten a mage of power! Lay down your weapons least the spirits of fury take you for themselves.

A pair of Vulcans look on at the fight. "Awesome!" on of them says. He receives a hard stare from his friend and clear his throat. "Ah... I mean... Fascinating."

Regent draws a circle around the nearest threatening Orc with his finger, then closes his fist, the air gets cold around the orc..as ice begins to form.

The orcs seem ready to press on, despite the impressive display of power.

The ice coalesces around the orc, creeping up his body until it is frozen in ice. Its arm upraised but frozen, to its neck in ice.

Spirit shrugs, as the orcs move past him. "Fine...be that way." He lets loose with a burst of light from his hand at one of them.

The orc raises his arms to try and shield his eyes, but he's too late.

Regent says without withdrawing his gaze from the Orcs. "Your magic is impressive Dr. Wyrd, truly you are a witch of amazing power."

Spirit takes Zeal.

Akeno disappears again in another teleport, taking the sword with him as he reaches the next orc on the path to Ellbeth, he reaches to pull that sword away as well.

Sword Dancer doubts that *disarming* the orcs is safer for bystanders than simply taking them out, but such is the way things are done in this world. At the very least, she tries to do it in style.

The orc's sword gets lodged into the ceiling with a 'Thwanng!'

Sword Dancer says, "Why you attack sorceress?!"

Sword Dancer can't believe she's asking that question.

Regent tosses a prison at another one, he inhales deeply and blows out at one of the orcs, it begins to whip around the orc an if one looks carefully the face of a playful wind spirit is seen in the winds that seek to stop the Orc from moving.

Dryad steps back from the orc's attack and hold her hand out, "Plants of the earth come and sudue this fiend" The ground around the orc spits and vine grow out of the broaken ground trying to grab at the orc.

The air spirit, playful and unruly whips around the orc, tickling its nose then flies across the room whipping up papers of gaming geeks, AI Steve even says, "Be careful with the property of Hero Games!" as the book is nearly torn from its teather.

Dryad the vines come and grab the orc holding him tight.

Citadel reaches out to grab one of the orcs.

Citadel shakes his head and says, "Don't fight, drop the sword!" (PRE Attack if I can)

Akeno manages to take another sword with equal grace as he tilts his head, "Hmm... definitely stronger than a human. Ellbeth, any ideas why they're after you?"

Under Citadel's grasp the orc starts to... buckle? Citadel's grip starts to dent and crumple the orc's limbs as if it were made from metal.

Citadel looks at it and says, "What the hell is this... some form of robot!"

Sword Dancer grins. "Can kill vem, ven?"

Ellbeth shrugs to Akeno, "Orcs, mages. It's traditional. The questions I not have answers to are is this for real and why are they here?"

Regent watches as the one the Citadel holds crumples, "Not..real, it seems, but real enough if their intent is to kill you Dr. Wyrd."

The orc struggles ineffectively in Citadel's grasp.

"But can kill vem?" Kihzra wants to establish her tactical options. :)

There are two orcs still free and with swords, they rush forward and try to attack her.

Ellbeth nods to Regent. "Robotic Orcs. It seems... just wrong in a really fundamental way."

Regent chuckles, "Perha...Watch out Doctor!"

Ellbeth takes the sword blows on the shield spell, flares and streamers of brilliant light blazing at the points on contact.

Regent says, "Doctor! Are you alright?!" he shouts unable to get between the swords and Ellbeth in time."

Ellbeth says, "Those attacks are made with lethal intent. I fear the last possibility that this is an entertainment for the BayCon have to be abandoned."

Ellbeth steps a pace back and creates a force bubble trying to englobe the two robots who attacked her.

Ellbeth brings her staff down and ripples of muti-hued light run up and down it's length as she casts a Barrier spell to create a globe of magical force surrounding the robotic Orcs.

Akeno nods as he frowns, "Capes, deactivate them but watch your fire."

One of the disarmed orcs reached for a table. He pries off a metal table leg to use as an impromptu club. The other two unarmed orcs find improvised weapons in a similiar fashion.

Skysabre enters from West Colonial Heights.

Akeno moves forward towards one of the formerly unarmed orcs and takes a swing with the liberated swords.

Sword Dancer says, "Qhah! Fought disarms was stupid idea." And she tries to run the one she disarmed through with her sword. Even the people of this world, she knows, have nothing against killing evil robots.

Regent notices the robotic nature and takes the gloves off, lights flicker above as he draws lightning into his fist, he aims it at the one that is left with an improvised club in hand, "Lets see how you fare against a little bit of lightning..Raiden Strike!" he shouts as lightning explodes from his hand.

The lightning strike fries the exterior of the orc, searing away it's exterior orc disguise to reveal most of its robotic structure. It smokes and spasms, but seems like it's still functional, if badly damaged.

Ellbeth winces at the thunderclap sound of the lightning strike, "Let's remember there are lots of people in the wings. Be very careful where your powers are going to fly off to should you miss." she says to the group as a whole.

Dryad smile and makes a fist once more making thorns grow of her fist. She then swings trying to hit him with the phytotoxic thorns, "Take this you tin can!" she knows her attack will not do much and robots are not her thing to fight put at this point this dosen't have a choose.

Dryad some how she misses the robo orc. Her fist sail pass with out touching it

By now, some of the bystanders have started to clue in that this something more than a part of the convention. Most people begin to back away, though a few stick around to see the battle.

Akeno spins the swords again, then just stabs them into the floor for later. "Screw swords... no offense, Dancer." He then speed-ports behind the orc he slashed at and twists to send a leg hard into the thing's head.

Regent says to Ellbeth, "The key then is to get you out of here and somewhere more conducive to battle?"

Skysabre steps into the convention center and slowly makes its way among the first booths. It doesn't take more than a few seconds for the Air Commander to realize that something is amiss, and it only takes another second for its optics to focus in on the orcs and the few humans it recognizes. It takes to the air, flying over to the orcs.

Akeno's kick literally beheads the orc enough that it's head is hanging by wires before it falls over. The detective blinks as he lands from the apparent leap in a crouch, one hand touching the floor as he looks towards the nearest one still active.

Sword Dancer curses under her breath. She's right off a game. Too much just sitting around in this world.... She tries again, giving it all she's got.

Citadel looks at one of the armed robots and hurls the held robot at the other one.

Skysabre notes the presence of the robots and individuals that it has fought with before. The Air Commander takes a high angle on the orcs so that any errant shots will go to the floor and not into the crowd. It holds out its arms and the smooth black plating on its wrists opens up to reveal an extensive internal plasma system. Two launchers emerge from the open area and channel plasma into them. It takes aim at one unengaged orc with impromptu weapons then gives it all that it can, the recoil going into its shoulders as it fires off three quick shots at full power.

The bright bolts of plasma tear through the orc robot and do some damage to the floor. It falls, bits of fake flesh smoldering while its internals spark futiley.

Some kids that hang back towards the front of the show shout, "Check it out another robot is attacking the orcs! This is what Sci-fi is all about!"

Citadel throws a robotic orc into the one that Regent was electrified. Together, they crumpe to the ground in a smoking, twitching heap of junk.

The orc trapped in ice seems frozen fast inside. The orc that's tangled in roots is also stuck.

Inside the bubble, the orcs turn their swords against the Barrier.

The kids continue on, "Whats better than Robots against Orcs?"

"Robot Orcs! of course!" and the both continue laughing.

The newly freed orc steps towards Ellbeth. "Kill the Magic-User!" it shouts.

Ellbeth is knocked off her feet and sent tumbling back by the impact but fortunately the sword doesn't penetrate her shield spell.

Ellbeth gets back onto her feet and looks at the robotic orc behind and in line with the one that attacked her, the orc that broke down the Barrier spell. Opening her laptop she types in a couple of lines of viral code and sends it to that robotic orc.

The orc that smashed the barrier turns towards its comrade.

The kids hear the orc yelling, 'kill the magic user!' and says to his pal, "She's probably not even a magic user, she's probably just an illusionist!"

Akeno sighs as he turns to look for another target orc and speed-'ports to it. Ellbeth seems to have things handled as he tries to take care of another one.

Akeno's blow sends the orc sliding back across the convention hall floor. It seems mostly unhurt, however.

Sword Dancer curses under her breath. She's right off a game. Too much just sitting around in this world.... She tries again, giving it all she's got.

Regent's attack may have been too much and dangerous, instead he reverts back to his other tactic. He whispers, "Gaia's Hand, take this foe." and the earth softens...in an effort to draw in the Orc and harden around it.

The earth softens and the Orc is drawn to its neck in the earth before it hardens once more into the floor.

Dryad looks mad her attack missed before and then swings again with the thron cover fist.

The orc seems to be unaffected by the attack.

"Kill the Magic-User," the orc says. Except it's target is it's fallen partner. It lands a glancing blow that takes a chunk out of the shoulder of the other robot.

The attack frees the captured orc from it's entanglement.

The freed orc stands and rushes over to Ellbeth. It doesn't have a chance to attack yet, but its intentions are clear.

Akeno teleports again to the freed orc and tries to take it down quickly with a hard punch.

The kids say, "Man these heroes suck, its just a bunch of orcs, they're not even hobgoblins, or anything.."

Akeno just flat out knocks the orc down as he sighs. "Whoever made these orcs made them hard to beat." He shakes his fist from the blow, frowning.

The other kid says, "Yeah, what would happen if it was a dragon or something sorta tough!"

Sword Dancer forgets about the edge. Maybe these things are enchanted against edged weapons, or something. She hits the orc with the flat of the sword as hard as she can. The kid's comments just add to her annoyance.

Regent shakes his head, and leans over the downed Orc, "No more for you, lights out buddy." he says darkness envelopes his hands and he attempts to blow a hole in its chest.

The kids say, "Whoa! She's hot, did you see that? I swear her bikini top almost came off that time!"

Sword Dancer's blow makes a hole in the orc and sends it flying across the room into a wall. SUrely it's just coincidence it didn't clear the kids' head by much.

The bolts of darkness punch holes in the outer casing of the blinded orc, it seeds him to the ground falling a few feet back..

Skysabre hovers over the battle, watching the heroes deal with the orcs.

Ellbeth says, "Leave one of the entangled robots intact. I'll want to interface with its memory storage system."

Dryad seeing her attack are not working on the robot orc and curse under her breath and turns to one that under mental ollusioned and holds out a hand, "Plants of the earth come and show your might to these beast of steel and wiring" Once more the ground under the orc breaks and vines come up and try to grab the orc. She looks at the kids and frowns and gives them a dirty look before whispers to her self, "damn humans".

Citadel looks at the twon entangled ones and shrugs. He decides to head for the one that doesn't seem to aware of him, and attempts to grab it and squeeze some parts out of it.

The kids see the vines go wild and say "Who is that girl? Wild Orchid?" he starts rifling through his collector cards, "Nope..nope..nope..nope..Here she is, Poison Ivy, DC character from like a billion years ago."

Citadel misses the orc. He grumbles a bit.

"Naw, that poison Ivy chick was drawn way hotter than her."

The second kid says with a sagely tone, "come on man, don't you know, they always look less hot in real life than the comics. Well except for Lorelei..she's uberhot."

"What does Uber mean?"

"Come on man! UBER..is you know, like, Superduper."

Sword Dancer is encouraged by her success but getting too tired to try that again. She runs over to the blinded orc and tries the blade again.

Sword Dancer strikes the orc and sends it sliding along the floor, but she's tiring, and didn't do much to hurt it.

Skysabre shifts in the air to take aim at the mentally illusioned orc, holding out its wrists and firing off a quick burst of plasma towards it, trying to repeat its earlier success.

The plasma volley tears the mentally ill orc machine apart, scattering a few heating parts around the area while sending the main, smoldering mass to the ground.

Regent flies up and forward, heading for the one that Kihzra took down, His fist crackle with the electrical energy again Hitting a target on its back should be no problem...

The lightning strikes again, the smell of ozone fills the air and the small thunderclap echos in the exhibition hall, and in its wake leaves a smouldering blackened humanoid figurine. Smoking from inside and out. "Dr. Wyrd..you have 2 specimens to examine!" he says as he looks around the hall for other problems. He remembers a like number of starwars storm troopers from earlier..

The kids look at Regent, "Who's that? Dr. Who??"

The other kid says, "Don't make me slap you, that's Matthew Regent, he's dating my older sister. That's what she said at least."

The convention goers who stuck around during the fight begin to clap their hands in appreciation.

Ellbeth nods to Regent. "Thank you all. I know that traditionally mages and orcs don't get on but the orcs aren't usually made of metal and wiring. If you'll give me a few moments I'd like to see what I can discover about their reason to be here. Apart from being here to kill me that is."

Sword Dancer mutters, "Were hard to kill, but slow."

The kids clap too, "Best BayCon since 2 years ago when they did that Naruto skit!"

Skysabre conceals its weaponry back into its wrists before descending to the convention floor. "I hope that I was not disturbing anything."

The more knowledgeable kid says, "I wonder if that chick in the bikini has an action figure?.."

Akeno sighs and looks at Skysabre, "You did fine, but please find some other way to handle opposition rather than firing into a place with crowds, please."

Regent turns to Skysabre, his eyes still holding the look of one in combat..he shakes his head, "No..thank you, you were a bit help."

Sword Dancer says to the kid, "Is type of dorr, yes? Have no action figure."

"I am an Air Commander." Skysabre replies to Akeno. "The angle was high enough that no humans were imperiled by my actions."

The kid looks wide eyed at Kihzra "Dude...she talked to me.." he then turns and laughs, "Dude! she talked to me!! Man when I grow up, I'm gonna marry her!"

Sword Dancer laughs. Unaccustomed as she is to annoying fans, she finds the kid quite amusing, now.

The other boy shaken by his friend's reaction, says, "uh..yeah, whatever, when I grow up I'm gonna marry Lorelei!"

Dryad looks over at the kids and frowns, "hey you two like the talk sack about us don't you? I think you should say your sorry to us"

The boys look a bit confused, "She's not very cute is she?" says one.

"Nope..not at all, and her suit is so...2 years ago."

Sword Dancer laughs again to the second kid. "Don't fink so. She is Khjohzvih, I fink.

Akeno nods, "Thanks, Skysabre..." He looks at the others, then at the kids, "You do realise her powers are real, right?"

Skysabre walks towards the boys. At its size the Air Commander isn't very imposing, nor does it appear that it is trying to be. "You humans seem knowledgeable about metahumans. How would you rate this encounter in terms of others that you are familiar with?"

The boys look at Sword Dancer first, "Yeah, she must be kojozvi.." speaking like they know what it means, then they as one turn to Akeno, "What?..what are you talking about?"

The boys, now being assaulted by questions by adults start to get skittish.."What? What? huh?" they look between all the adults and skysabre.

Skysabre keeps an impassive gaze on the youngsters, as if expecting a response.

Regent looks over at the Boys, "And boys, I'm not dating your sister.." he says with a droll tone.

Akeno shrugs, grinning, "Keep talking like that, you'll find out." He turns to look at the robots, then at Ellbeth, "Any luck?" He calls the security on his headset to keep the crime scene clear hopefully and not let any of the robot parts get jacked.

Dryad smiles at the boys some more not liking humans to much likes being called cute, "So you think I am cute?"

The kids look at the only one they know..Regent, "You're not?..I knew it! she just wants your body.." and they both laugh loudly, "That's what she said." they laugh loudly again, and suddenly said sister appears, "Brian! Alejandro! Get your butts over here!" she is blushing hard, red up to her cheeks, she's not a bad looking girl, but nothing special. "You were supposed to be at the car 20 minutes ago!"

The Kids are grabbed by the ears, and dragged off, but not before yelling to Dryad, "No we dont! we don't think you're cute at all!..OWCH..leggo! come on leggo!"

Skysabre turns back towards the others. "It seems that I was mistaken. They were just children. This whole setting confuses me."

Sword Dancer says, "Cha, tjasivju, you are robot too?"

The kids are finally taken away..

Regent shrugs and returns to Ellbeth's side.."Are you alright Dr. Wyrd?"

Citadel looks around, pondering who he handed all his photographs to. He shrugs and heads over to a robot, to get a better look at it.

Dryad laughs and that and looks back to the orc, "What was that about?"

Skysabre turns to Sword Dancer. "I am a cybernetic organism. My resemblance to these crude 'robots' is only superficial. The relationship is analogous to how you would perceive a dog. You are both organics, but the human is far more sophisticated."

Ellbeth is seated on a chair next to one of the entangled orc robots with her laptop open on her lap. The screen is flickering with lines of code scrolling up too fast to read without exceptional senses. She is fully engrossed in what she's doing and fails to notice Regent or his question.

Dryad walks over to the bots and kneels down and checks the body looking at the workmanship being a tech nut.

Sword Dancer shrugs. "Some humans, anyway."

Regent isn't sure what she's doing, so he leaves her be. He stands and floats above it all again..everything seems to be getting back to normal, if nothing else, people are talking again.."I must go..I was looking for a video game here. It doesn't seem to be here." he says.

Skysabre nods. "I only wish to distinguish myself from these crude, soulless constructs."

Ellbeth sighs. "I thought I saw... Ah, Detective Akeno. I assume you'll want to have these examined by your people? There seems little of interest. They were switched on just an hour ago and had simple instructions. To kill me and fight through whatever was needed for that aim. There's an interesting visual record. You may find it helpful although it means nothing to me at first glance."

Sword Dancer excuses herself and goes off to find her froend. The robots have little interest for her anyway.

Ellbeth looks around.

Dryad stands, "i bet there program to come after metas. It like my world humans make robot to distroy metas"

Ellbeth says, "I suspect this was rather more personal."

Citadel heads back and says, "You must have a very wealthy enemy."

Akeno nods, "Let's see what happens, then... it's definitely meta related. Puts it in my department unless whoever it is stays outside the city."

Ellbeth smiles, "So am I, in ways far more important than mere money. But you are correct. It was an expensive undertaking for an effort with such little chance of success."

Dryad nods and folds her arms, "see I told you dirty humans want us dead." old habbits die hard that includes hating humans

Citadel nods and says, "Expensive, and requires technical skill. Unless the person hired somone else."

Citadel looks to Dryad, "Someone is trying to kill you to?" then shrugs, "Very troubling."

Akeno shrugs and turns to go. He disappears out the door not long after the police arrive to clean up the remains and anything else on it.

Ellbeth says, "If you'll excuse me I have a book signing scheduled."

Apparently satisfied Skysabre takes to the air and goes to explore the rest of the convention.