[O - G10] Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of fermented mushroom juice!/Smoot

pombe · September 20, 2015

Location: G10 - Onix

Tags: Exploration, Water Vehicle, Spaceship

Dramatis Personae (because maybe not everyone has read Pombe's previous adventures):

Octan

Pombe

Courageous, wise, and a gentleman extraordinaire, Pombe leads his intrepid team of explorers on adventurous adventures, in the name of profit for the Octan corporation and its shareholders. His list of achievements is long, from mentoring the now super undercover Octan explorer, Isabel Novak, to destroying all the cacti on New California, to rescuing Octan employees captured by aliens in Sinden's Run and recovering their pants from the dastardly "jeans stealers". He credits his success to his following in the footsteps of his explorer idols, Lu Caslaug-Hing and Wick Nole, even though Wick Nole is really an engineer. Despite Pombe's accomplishments, he still somehow gets reported to HR consistently by Dr. Danielle Long, whose ship, the O.C.S. Axle, Pombe and his team have taken residence aboard. His sister, Pombie, is a special forces agent for the rival M.A.N.T.I.S. corporation.

Eshey Reeshia Kolai

Pragmatic and logical, Eshey is Pombe's second apprentice, after Isabel Novak. Prior to joining Octan, she was a popular deejay and an absolute beast on the turntables. She applied to Octan, because she wanted a more stable income. She was taken on by Pombe as a temporary hire, despite not having any previous corporate industry experience, because she showed up at the job interview in Octan regulation approved attire. She initially showed promise as an explorer, but has since been disappointing to Pombe, having demonstrated paranoid and hostile behavior to all alien lifeforms, being labeled as "hard" during collaborative exploration missions with Ava Gato, a Kawashita inter-corporate relations officer, which Pombe interpreted as "being difficult", and just not understanding the situations as well as Eshey's new colleague, Normal Guy, who gives her the heebie jeebies. She has since become a permanent hire, as part of Octan's response to the alien fleet threat from Andromeda's core. Despite these failings, Eshey has proven to be a remarkable sharpshooter. She also has a huge crush on Octan engineer, Big Z.

Ethel Alkylhal

Originally from Mitgard, where she grew up on a farm and developed animal husbandry skills, she failed to find employment as an adventurer there and ended up wandering the spaceways looking for a job. She initially was turned down for the temporary hire position as Pombe's apprentice, which was given to Eshey, because Ethel showed up to the interview in her traditional Mitgardian attire and not something Octan regulation approved. Due to the alien fleet crisis, Pombe reached back out to her and offered her a permanent position on his exploration team. Her preferred armaments are her trusty battle axe and shield. Ethel tends to distrust technology and is extremely vulgar. She also loves to eat sausages.

Hombre

Sue Damoness

Sue was an ace pilot with Galaxy Squad's red team, having tallied numerous combat kills against the invading buggoid aliens. She was discharged honorably after deciding to leave Galaxy Squad after a certain incident. Immediately, she was courted by potential employers who wanted her skills as a pilot, but she decided to take up Pombe's offer, due to her intuition regarding Pombe's personal agenda: she didn't think he had one. Astute, but laid back, she often just goes with the flow in daily situations, but her habits learned from the military crop up from time to time with regards to adherence to protocols. She does take piloting seriously and enjoys the freedom that Pombe gives her regarding piloting decisions for the team.

Normal Guy

The newest member of the Pombe's exploration team, Normal Guy just sort of showed up one day and started following the crew around the Axle. Pombe, with his keen sense of observation, noticed this, and realized that he needed to help find Normal Guy a girlfriend, so Pombe brought him onto the team. Since then, Normal Guy has been an indispensible member of the team, completely understanding the nature of the exploration situations and assisting Pombe better than anyone else. While the other team members seem unnerved by Normal Guy's presence, Pombe's high praise of Normal Guy have led them to keep their thoughts to themselves.

Kawashita

Ava Gato

A Kawashita inter-corporate relations officer who shared Kawashita technology with Octan alongside Kawashita engineer Alexander Vandangant. Ava also stayed aboard the Axle and worked with Eshey on exploration assignments for a while when Pombe was busy debriefing a Kawashita marketing and sales team on Jurin II. Competent and honorable, Ava assisted and followed Eshey's instructions, highly praising Eshey to Pombe upon his return. She has since returned to Kawashita to continue her other assignments.

M.A.N.T.I.S.

Isabel Novak/Sammy Nelly Typhi

Deceased. Sammy Nelly Typhi was a M.A.N.T.I.S. special operations agent who infiltrated Octan as apprentice explorer, Isabel Novak, to get close to the famous explorer Wick Nole, even though he's an engineer, to learn Octan corporate secrets. Instead, she was assigned to Pombe, where she languished for two years under his mentorship. Finally having had enough, she used a special Octan exploration assignment to fake the death of her alter ego and to head back to M.A.N.T.I.S. space to report of her failure. Unfortunately for her, her spaceship had a malfunction due to the engines being only attached by a single stud, and she was forced to crash land on the planet of Xerillian. Pombe found the remains of her wrecked spaceship and sent a report back regarding Isabel's status. Octan special forces agent, Jebediah O'Reilly, and his team were dispatched to take care of Sammy once and for all, ensuring Octan secrets would not make it back to M.A.N.T.I.S.. Pombe has been kept in the dark regarding her fate, for security reasons.

Pombie

A natural leader with an eye for talent, Commander Pombie is the head of an elite crack special operations team for the M.A.N.T.I.S. corporation. She has gained a reputation for taking employees that would otherwise be considered misfits and outcasts, identifying their talents, and molding them into terrifyingly efficient operatives. Her leadership style is brutal and cold, but nevertheless, her team are completely loyal to her because she took the time to identify and acknowledge each of their individual aptitudes after they were dismissed by others. Her brother, Pombe, is an explorer for the rival Octan corporation.

Cassandra

A powerful psychic with the ability to take over and control the bodily actions of multiple minifigures at once. She acquired this ability as a test subject during one of Big Sal's "employee weaponization" projects for M.A.N.T.I.S., but was rejected and discarded because she did not develop the ability to shoot lasers out of her eyes, or mouth, or hands...or from anywhere really. Unwanted and suffering from depression, she dwelled in the basements of M.A.N.T.I.S. corporate buildings, subsisting on vending machine food, sleeping in conference rooms, and showering in gym locker rooms, until Pombie discovered her by chance and recognized her talent and brought Cassandra onto her team. Since then, Cassandra has been utterly and completely loyal to Pombie, referring to Pombie as "mistress" and obeying her commands without question.

Neko-chan

A girl who is half minifigure and half cat alien. She grew up with her mother, and never knew who her father was. Because of her beauty and lithe gracefulness, she was hired by Kawashita to be a spokesmodel for their products. She proved to be hugely popular with Kawashita's customer demographic, driving up Kawashita profits astronomically through her marketing efforts. Despite the success and fortune she earned as a spokesmodel, deep down, Neko-chan felt exploited by the Kawashita corporation, who she felt only wanted to use her for her looks. Really, all she wanted to do was to hit others with her huge and impossibly heavy hammer, which is she able to produce out of seemingly nowhere. One day, she ran away from home, and fled to the Andromeda Galaxy, where she felt no one could find her and she could hit anyone she wanted with her hammer. Unfortunately, she quickly used up her fortune dining on fish expensively exported to Andromeda and became destitute. Neko-chan was discovered in the slums of Torresta by Pombie, who recognized her talents, and offered her employment where she could hit people with her hammer. Neko-chan happily accepted and has been loyal to Pombie ever since.

Simon...I mean, Mephistopheles, lord of the 1337 H4XX0Rs

A geeky and awkward teenager who was recognized as a prodigy in computer programming early on. Unfortunately, his abrasive personality, combined with his social awkwardness, led him to being kicked out of one team to the next. Pombie took him onto her team realizing that she needed his talent, but was initially unsure of how her team would handle him. Being a hormone driven teenage boy, he, of course, was caught trying to peep on the attractive girls of the team, Cassandra and Neko-chan. However, instead of having to issue some sort of disciplinary action, Pombie realized that the ladies could handle themselves. Cassandra simply made him punch himself in the genitals repeatedly until he passed out and Neko-chan destroyed the harddrives with his porn collection with her hammer. Since then, he's behaved himself and so long as he's referred to by his proper name, he'll follow Pombie's commands. Oddly enough, he has shown no interest in either Commander Pombie nor the other woman on the team, Scooter.

Scooter

Scooter is the team's pilot, though she wasn't originally trained as a pilot. She started out as a low level M.A.N.T.I.S. administrator, dealing with employee training documents. Quiet and awkward, she mostly just kept to herself and did her job. An avid videogamer, anime and manga junkie, and dedicated cosplayer, she was just working to support her hobbies. She was reassigned to Andromeda and during her trip out, she was placed incidentally on the same shuttle as Pombie when the pilot of the shuttle had a sudden heart attack and died. Because of her experience playing space simulators, Scooter recognized the controls of the shuttle and took over and safely navigated the shuttle through a freak asteroid storm. Pombie, amazed at what she saw, commented that Scooter piloted the shuttle "like a leaf on the wind" and promptly offered her a position on her team as a pilot. She has served proudly as the pilot of the team ever since.

In the last episode:

http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=114541

In this episode, our heroes are still on Onix....

I be disappointed in ye, Eshey. Ye truly believed we be eatin' those cute and cuddly animals? Ye be a sick and disgustin' lass!

AYe kliK, eSHey, It'S LiKe KliK i DoN'T evEN klIk knoW whO Ye bE kLIK anYmORe!

How was I supposed to know that we were only going to be chopping down the animal tree for wood to make a ship?

Arr...that's because ye be lackin' vision, Eshey, unlike me hearty matey, Normal Guy!

Why is Ethel the figurehead!

She be wardin' off evil spirits, lass. Don't ye know anythin'?

What? And why are we even wearing these pirate hats? Where did we even find them anyway? We didn't even pay for the personal equipment so we don't get the benefits!

They be found on the ship. That's why we be wearin' 'em.

We built this ship! There should be nothing to find! Speaking of which...why did we even build this ship?

We be searchin' for the island of mushrooms! They be perfect for our sausages!

I don't even....

And not just any mushrooms! These be special types that be growin' bottles of fermented mushroom juice!

KliK aYE, siR!

Mushrooms that grow bottled fermented mushroom juice...what in the actual....

Where did ye think we learned how to make bottled ale and grog, lass? Nature, of course!

LAnD kLik HO!!!

There are so many things wrong with this picture.

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Meanwhile, on the conflict planet of Guinevere, M.A.N.T.I.S. agents are preparing to leave the planet.

Alright team, the Astroglide is here. Let's board and move onto our next assignment.

Mosquito ate a box and died, hee hee hee hee heeee heeeeeee!~

That wasn't funny the first time, and the thousand times since!

Mephistobutt wants a hammer to the crotch! Hee hee hee!

That's Mephistopheles!

Stop hurting yourself.

Ow!

Stop hurting yourself.

Ow!

Holy mother of avocados...children, get on board now!

Sir, I'm closing the rear ramp door. We'll be lifting off in ten seconds. I'm punching in the current coordinates of the Axle, based on our intelligence.

Good, let's get out of here.

Mistress, how are we supposed to infiltrate Octan space and board the Axle to find your brother?

First off, Cassandra, the Astroglide is black like a ninja, so no one should be able to see it. Second, it is designed to slide easily through any holes in the enemy fleet's formation.

Thank you for the explanation, mistress.

Approaching the Octan fleet, sir. An Octan transport is approaching.

Now for the real test. We'll see how easily she glides through.

They don't seem to have noticed us, sir.

Excellent. Now locate the Axle and prepare to insert ourselves.

Yes, sir.

Based on the photos my brother uploaded, I've prepared clothes that will disguise us as Octan employees, so we shouldn't draw attention to ourselves.

Oh, we are dressing up, sir?

Yes, Scooter.

Scooter, what happened to the clothes I gave you?

I thought you said we were getting dressed up? You mean this isn't an anime convention, sir?

Next:

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Edited March 23, 2017 by pombe

Tomsche · September 20, 2015

LOL "You mean this isn't an anime convention, sir?"

Hilarious story once again, and great builds

Vedauwoo · September 20, 2015

Awesome Mushrooms..."The Astroglide" almost made me pee myself...roflmao

Blackhawk STX · September 21, 2015

Too damn funny! And great builds to boot!

mediumsnowman · September 21, 2015

Great job! The sails are much improved from the WIP. The character bios are really cool, and informative for those poor fellows who haven't been following your adventures every week! :wink: