pombe Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 (edited) Location: H07 - Quantus III Tags: Exploration, Land Vehicle, Spaceship Dramatis Personae (because people may need a refresher): 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. Despite these failings, Eshey has proven to be a remarkable sharpshooter. She has since become a permanent hire, as part of Octan's response to the alien fleet threat from Andromeda's core. 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.. 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 incidentally placed on the same shuttle as Pombie. During the journey, 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=114862 In this episode, our heroes are still on Onix.... And here they are, sausages with my secret sauce! YouR sAUsagE kliK iS ABsoLUtElY KlIk delICIouS, sIr! Bqllr! I admire your enthusiasm, Ethel. Your hands are full eating two sausages at once. Bqllr! I can't disagree. Your sausage is delicious, sir. But why is the alien who tried to eat me here, too?!?! HWARRRR! HWWWWWWWARRRRRRRRRR! HHHHWRRWRAAAAAAAAARRRRR! HWARARRAAHWHARHARHAHARARRARRRRRRR!!! HWAR! He says his name is Spencer and that he's a hedgefund manager. He wasn't trying to eat you, Eshey. He just wanted to look at your investment portfolio and see if you could use his services. He was trying to eat me! Now, now, Eshey. First he's trying to eat you, and now he's eating my sausage. Which is it? Why can't he do both?!?! You've got a point there, Eshey. What point?!?! EEEEEEEEE! EEE! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! EEEEEE! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Your name is Shelley and you want to grow up to be a taxidermist? You don't say? You came from an animal tree, isn't that creepy?!?! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Meanwhile, aboard the Axle.... According to the scans, my brother's quarters should be this way. Here we are. No life signs present inside, so we are clear. Mephistopheles, open the door. Yes, sir. Mistress, look out! There's someone on the bed! Hmm...it appears to be just a life sized doll of President Business. No need for alarm. Hee hee hee, your brother is a freeeeeeeeeeak, hee hee hee.... When you are born as impossibly beautiful like my brother and I have been, you attract a lot of attention and are drawn to a certain lifestyle. I don't find this surprising in the least. In fact, I may just borrow this doll from my brother. Be prepared, Cassandra. I look forward to it, mistress. Your brother has the most "interesting" magazine and book collection...I would...um...like to take the time to go through them...for research purposes, of course. After we are done, Scooter. Now team, let's do what we came to do. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Back to our heroes.... We are on approach to the Axle, prepare for landing procedures. Home sweet home. Alright team, great job on the last assignment. Now go get some rest. I'll be in my quarters if you need me. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Moments later.... What's going on here?!?! Brother! Sis? What are you doing here? I was given an assignment to clean up your mess and take good care of you. Oh, how nice! Well, I've missed you, sis. I really admire the way your team dresses, by the way. I've missed you, too! Anyway, team, report! I'm just about done vacuuming the carpet, hee hee hee~. All of the stains have been removed, mistress. I've cleared his computer of an excessive amount of malware, spyware, viruses, worms, and trojans, sir. I've also cleared his browsing history and I've tunneled his connection through 50 different locations to help hide his online identity. I've just finished folding his laundry and putting away his clothes, sir. There you go, brother. Excellent, thank you very much, sis! Actually...now that you're here, I'd like to ask you a favor. I have one problem employee.... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Later, in a conference room aboard the Axle.... So you're saying that she suffers from extreme paranoia and situational unawareness? Indeed. I think I have just the solution. I'll have her meet with Scooter. Scooter knows how to deal with this. I really appreciate this, sis. Oh, here she is now. WHY ARE THERE TWO OF YOU?!?!?!?!?! Eshey, I'd like you meet.... Perhaps there was too much beautiful in this room for her to handle? It's possible. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Later, in an engineering bay aboard the Axle.... So you're Eshey. I'm Scooter, I'll be taking you on assignment today. You're wearing a panda suit. You know you're wearing a panda suit, right? Why are you wearing a panda suit? Of course I know I'm wearing a panda suit. Didn't you know that pandas are the current hot theme in Andromeda? (http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=115042, http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=115058) And besides, my other outfits wouldn't fit in the cockpit of the Double D (not to be confused with M.A.N.T.I.S. agent Dave Daring). Double D? It's short for Double Dragon. It looks well armed. Yes, it is. Not that you will get to see that firepower in action. What? Sorry, I didn't catch that last part. Oh, it was nothing important. How did you even get this aboard the Axle? Don't ask silly questions. Now, let's get going. My anime is about to start live streaming. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Back in the conference room aboard the Axle.... I hope this works, sis. It will work. That, or it will irrepairably damage her further. Oh, there they go. It's a good thing the ship is black, so no one can see it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Later, on Quantus III... There's one. It's an alien! KILL KILL KILL!!! Wait...why aren't the weapons responding to my controls? That's because I've locked you out of all the controls in your cockpit. Now be quiet, my anime is starting. What?! Why would you do that?!?! The alien is right there, we have to kill it!!! Don't be silly. It's harmless. It has horns and giant teeth!!! You are sitting inside an armored vehicle. SHHHH!!! O-M-G!!! Naoki and Ryo both just confessed to Haruka at the same time! THERE'S A DANGEROUS ALIEN OUTSIDE AND YOU ARE WATCHING CARTOONS?!?!?! Personally, if I were Haruka, I'd choose both.... <drool> Next: More pics under the spoiler tag. Edited March 23, 2017 by pombe Quote
Vedauwoo Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 Sweet builds! love those aliens and the Double D! Quote
Kodan Black Posted September 28, 2015 Posted September 28, 2015 I love the story as always, but the grill and heart shaped beds are the true highlight for me. Quote
Jody Meyer Posted September 28, 2015 Posted September 28, 2015 I don't even know where to begin...maybe a name of a good Dr?!?! HA great builds love the "twins" great story Quote
SpacerSteve Posted September 28, 2015 Posted September 28, 2015 Just when you thought the builds couldn't get weirder they do. The president business doll was hilarious! Quote
MKJoshA Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 I feel like I'm addicted to your stories. Is that normal? And thanks for the Panda reference! It's crazy that at least 4 builds had pandas in them (4th). Quote
Andromedas Gates Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 The judges awarded you 5 points. Quote
EpsilonEta Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 Oh wow, your stories just get more insane. “Clean up his mess and take care of him” MANTIS following orders to the letter I realy like the way your people (and monsters) talk. And you also manage to make several cool builds too. I read the character profiles. Humbre's was the best, totally made me laugh. And it was nice to read the background to Pombie's MANTIS team. Quote
LittleJohn Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 Excellent builds and hilarious story I love the grill design and the Double D is great too Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 This BBQ looks really awesome! Great scenes! Quote
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