6769/Good Guys, Bad Guys and Explosions

Good Guys, Bad Guys and Explosions
Date of Scene:	02 July 2021
Location:	Lego Stadium, Metropolis, Dreamlands
Synopsis:	The heroes (and Colette) heroically (and 'not' heroically) defeat the bad guy by...using their brains and describing what Tindr is. In looking up the details on his phone the wizard is attacked by his own creation only to go mad from Lego Ghost Rider's stare. The brazier is brought to the real world, the threat ended and most of them go to get drunk for saving thousands and thousands of Metropolis citizens.
Cast of Characters:	Cliff Steele, Ilmr Hukommelse, Michael Hannigan, Robbie Reyes, Kate Bishop, Colette O'Connail, Terry O'Neil
Tinyplot:	Sailing the Zeitgiest Sea

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Cliff Steele has posed:
Picking up immediately from the last scene, all amount of chaos and destruction as people immediately begin fighting each other once the heroes pick up the Brazier. It is more than a standard disagreement, since there is a decided tension in the air, the regular innocence of the dreamlands...thin...somehow. Those who are dreamers or those who are physically present (Ilmr) can see that the sky is more than a disembodied invisible hand at this point and the city lies in a basement with a lego model but also vast ritual magical paraphinealia around a binding circle set in the stone where once Dream had been held captive, making this place closely bound to the waking world. There is a doll, lying in repose on a white gurney with various dials and paraphinalia. The dreamers (but not the inhabitants) can hear the man mutter to himself, "Tonight, my lovely, at long last you shall be awoken. The deaths that this combat shall bring you to life." And there is of course panic among many of the waking dreamers that dont have powers that are appearing in greater numbers around the chaos as super heroes and super villains use powers on each other. Batman and Superman fight Lex Luthor and Grodd. Ninjas swarm in a massive amount and regular people are using legos to shield themselves.

Ilmr Hukommelse has posed:
Ilmr looks around at everything in wonder. She watches the man muttering and cocks her head curiously at him. I know this man, she thinks to herself. She looks around to see if there anyone else is approaching him then decides to see if she can speak to him. She kneels near him to eye level and speaks, "hello, are you alright?"

Michael Hannigan has posed:
To those who have been dealing with the LEGO world it seems like the Phantasm that had been herding dreamers onto a ship had abandoned them. This is NOT so!

Ok maybe a little bit. Mike was pulling Robotman out of the dream realm and once he was back at Amanda's place he had to take a breather before jumping back in.

So, imagine his surprise when he hops in and ends up in a pile of LEGO bricks. This was NOT here when he stepped out a minute ago. As he gets his bearings in. The evil monologue of the man above is heard. Well. That's not good. Still hidden away in the pile, he starts to shove at them. Outside the pile, there's only the slightest bit of movement to hint to what's going on

Robbie Reyes has posed:
    Somewhere a double bass begins to pound rapidly.

    Somewhere a rapid pace of chords drools from an amp.

    A singular demon in the lands between Limbo and Hell raises its head from its struggling meal, and raises a hand with two fingers curled, and the exterior digits extended and raised up to the sky as it screeches its cry.

    Tires rubber no longer visible as hellfire spins around the wheels and the same fire spits from the exhaust as the hellcharger literally tears a hole through dimensions and space to roar through the cosmos into the basement. The deathly driver's skinless smile shines as the rider himself burns unendingly through the battlefield, smashing through fellow mini-figs in the contest, scanning for allies against this Frankenstinian foe!

Cliff Steele has posed:
There is an explosion as one mad bomber manages to send a few dreamer's essence into the large glass bottle that is slowly piling up. The Actionist looks at Ilmr and blinks, surprised that she can see him much less talk to him, "I am well, very well. This is Eve. She is going to be my dream lover, and I am going to bring her to life. I have consulted with my brother, the Diviner, and I am quite certain that tonight is the optimal moment for my success. Stay away from the combat and you should be fine."

Cliff, from another part of the combat trying to get people to safety as soon as they appear and largely successful picks up on this converstation and says, "Hey, I recognize you! You're the creepy old fucker who told me about the brazier in the first place! You set this whole thing up!"

"Yes I did and you completely blew it Cliff. You and your dream hopping friend, which is why I've recreated the barrier used to hold the Endless for his captivity. Tonight, you won't be going anywhere my stupid metal friend. Dont worry, once Eve is alive, I shall lover it. Try not to get killed."

The combat heats up as the lego villains and heroes seem to get more into it. Those familiar with the song of the same name would see Indian Jones, Batman, Superman, The Lone Ranger, Power Rangers, Gandalf the Grey, Gandalf the Whie and several others.

Robbie's motorcycle smashes through several ninjas and those who would do harm.

Ilmr Hukommelse has posed:
Ilmr lets the others what the conversation was as she can see there is some confusion there. She then stands up immediately to help get other people to safety but knows she can really help by fighting as well. She throws a few well placed roundhouse kicks at the bad guys.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Honestly. None of this gets any more normal.

Kate really needs to hit up Raven for some sort of mystic dream catcher or something to Stop The Madness of all of this. It doesn't matter how much Terry is liking it. Kate is an Archer. A Good Strategy sort and Leader of course but still, she has arrow based powers.

Not Mystic Bullshit.

"Oh great..." she sighs and twists to the side, pivoting and batting one of the mad bombers bombs away back and behind her. So it blows up dramatically but doesn't harm her.

She is at least getting used to the cinematic nature of this place. "Colette!?" things actually seem to be getting pretty lethal around here, so well no Terry in sight, maybe Colette can get them out of this mess.

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Lego Mr. Rogers gets smacked down with several bricks as LEGOs fling off the pile Mike was buried under. As with those who ended up competing in the building competion, the form of this dreamer has changed to theme of the world. But instead of a LEGO mini-figure it appears that someone was EXTREMELY ambitious and went crazy with the hinge pieces. A mass of black LEGOs flies up, shaped into a rather detailed, and extremely mobile looking Raven. As the wings flap, the head tilts up to look to the muttering man.

"Like there's a damn manual that goes with this." The raven mutters, flying up towards the identified bad guy of the story. As it looks like he's about to reach the man there's a bit of a THUNK! as he hits an unseen nothing. The bird gives a croak of surprise before falling back. Form flipping in air as he rights himself. "ASSHOLE."

Like the guy didn't already explain that whole captivity thing.

Shut. It.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
    NINJAS SUCK ASS KID. THEY'RE ALL MURDERERS AND KILLERS. END THEM Says the voice in the Ghost Rider's head as he presses the pedal further down into the floor as the plastic and fire spewing car rises up in the front from the torque slamming into the ground below and a glowing streak of orange plastic fire grows behind the car.

    The Lego Ghost Rider then puts his feet down through the car, phasing through the floor board and slamming his plastic heels into the ground as he phases through the car itself, the thing rocketting off forward leaving the skull faced man standing below the now flying raven. "Ain't seen a demon like that before..." ME NEITHER KID.

    A chain starts spinning in the black gloved plastic hand and he starts to approach, expecting the bird to be something he needs to put down. All he knows in this moment is fight and kill.

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    They won the building contest, they got the brazier. It should all be over, right? Apparently not. There's a surge of lego villains charging. This isn't mystic bullshit Kate, it's dream bullshit. It's not /meant/ to make sense.

    "What?" Colette responds to Kate, starting to look slightly annoyed. "Look. There are a bunch of lego supervillains attacking. You're a lego superhero. You should fight them. I'm not the superhero here, I'm just a regular civilian, don't look at me!"

    With a fishy roar, lego King Shark eyes the brazier and those surrounding the brazier, and charges. Colette raises a hand and projects a wall of black lego bricks that lego King Shark collides with at speed, producing a sizable thump, and dumping the bricky carcharodonoid on his ass.

    "Shoot 'em with lego arrows," Colette suggests to Kate. "Or you know, since we're in the brick builder's arena or whatever this place is called, and we can basically just create anything we want with legos, maybe instead of following the script and doing what the rest of these idiots are doing we could just put them all in lego cages or something. Your call, you're the hero here."

Cliff Steele has posed:
"Fuck this. Why do we need to play his stupid game?" He cranks up his voice to SUPER LOUD and shouts, "HEY EVERYONE!" The entire fight, remarkably, stops. Cliff is a bit non plussed by this, but instead says, "OK look we're actually dreamers from the waking world and the invisible hand in the sky is casting a dark ritual to get you to kill a lot of civilian dreamers in the cross fire to power his doll in the fight so let's NOT fight and show him we can't be used, ok?" They look at Cliff, justifiably, like he is insane and proceed to start to fight again even more intensely.

More essence is added to the doll whose eyelids flutter. He laughs maniacally, "She's alive! She's ALIVE!"

Ilmr Hukommelse has posed:
Ilmr stops fighting for a moment after Cliff's announcement and doesn't feel too surprised by that. She tries to wake some of the others up as the doll comes to life. Her first impulse was to yell as well but then summons a guitar and starts playing, hoping it wakes the others up.

Kate Bishop has posed:
"You know. This would all be easier if you didn't fight with every fiber of your being against being heroic now and then Col..." she says saltily.

Still she fires off three little lego arrows pegging lego scarecrow right in the face and knocking his head off, along with his pumpkin miniosn.

Let's see. Build. Build.

She glances around and waves her free lego hand and starts assembling little automated Singijeon class siege weapons. Yes it is still arrows but the things start to position and fire one hundred arrows at once.

Cliff Steele has posed:
The Actionist looks at Mike and says, "I'm not an asshole! You're an asshole....asshole." A master of witty dialog is the actionist.

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Unable to attack the one causing the problem in the first place, the bird's flight path adjusts, moving down towards the conflict. Colette's observation does get overheard. "Do that!" He agrees, swooping down to split up a rather one sided fight. The bird looks towards the allies, unaware of the flamey one sizing him up for possible attack. "Did you guys track down that thing we're supposed to get out of here?"

Hearing the Actionist's response the bird looks up. "Really now? Last time I checked between the two of us, I'M NOT THE ONE TRYING TO MURDER PEOPLE TO MAKE A DATE INSTEAD OF JUST USING TINDER OR MATCH!"

Is Match still a thing?

Dunno.

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    "You wouldn't want me to try, Kate. Believe me on this." Colette can be heroic sometimes. Just a couple of weeks ago she joined an effort to defeat an evil cult in Malta and free some captive kids from them, though admittedly she hasn't mentioned this.

    Also to be more accurate she watched cynically as a bunch of heroes did it, without actually letting them know she was joining in. And she had to fight the temptation to turn into a Golem of Shadow and murder all the cultists after the heroes left with the kids.

    This is probably why she hadn't mentioned it.

    Colette watches Kate's construction work without comment, but after a while she sighs slightly. As Kate's siege weapon nears completion, she gestures in the direction of the huge heap of bricks left from various exploding lego buildings. Bricks swirl through the air and start building themselves into something next to Kate's weapon, and before long Kate's fire arrow launcher is joined by an huge twelve-barrel gatling cannon on a rotating gun-mount. "Or you could use that," she suggests. "It doesn't always have to be arrows."

    Colette peers up at the bird, then points back down at the brazier that they'd received as the prize for winning the building contest. "I still think we should just smash it!" she calls up.

    As she speaks, bricks keep swirling. Building gatling cannons is kind of fun, but there are a lot of spare bricks and honestly a gatling cannon isn't the best way to break up a fight.

    In a garish display of zero concern for color sense, bricks hurl down out of the sky apparently at random to form patchwork multi-colored walls all around the arena, walls growing rapidly higher as Colette uses BUILDER POWER to start trying to separate dreamers, heroes and villains into nice secure separate lego cells.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
    The bird adjusts it's flight and it's going lower. If there were lips on the plastic skull head of the Ghost Rider, they'd be smirking viley.

    GET HIM! Eli demands!

    The chain begins to spin, looking more like a propeller than a chain and the tip then starts to ignite, the atmosphere burning from the speed of the blade cutting the air but it's the hellfire manifesting as he then whips the chair towards the bird.

    But then the Ghost Rider stops and looks around and the chain falls through the air to land on the ground harmlessly and it looks around towards the voice that told them all to stop fighting.

    That voice is obviously the greater foe, as there's no 'invisible hand in the sky' plus how could they see it if it was invisible in the first place. KILL THE IDIOTS! Demands Eli again and the Ghost Rider turns towards Cliff's direction though not sure of the target just yet.

Cliff Steele has posed:
And its all....chaos.

Like seriously, chaos.

So where to start. Ilmr's musical ability is working but the dreamers find as they sing along that they are magically bound here. Perhaps she should sing something else besides trying to get people to wake up?

Cliff's jaw drops to the ground as he points at Cliff and several other heroes and villains seem to share this idea. A large mob has joined up and is ready to proceed for the lynching. Cliff, realizing the things that the others are doing to manipulate dream summons and tries to build a tank. He gets a nice ham sandwich. Maybe is a creativity thing? "What the fuck!?"

The Asshole...er..Actionist chuckles, "You fool. That is a greater artifact! A veritable relic of power! If you destroy it you will bind everyone here FOREVER!" He cackles.

Cliff blinks, "Could one of you build a Volcano?"

The arrors from Kate's succesful seige weapon save a dozen dreamers who manage to escape the battle field though more are appearing.

Collete's attempt to build massive walls to disrupt the battle by building a wall is having an effect. IT isnt stopping the transfer of essence to the doll whose eyes are now open and is ...upset...

The Actionist does not notice this and yells at Mike, "I have dated many women. None of them are worthy of me! Also...what is a Tinder?"

Ilmr Hukommelse has posed:
Ilmr sees that people aren't stopping the fight so she sings a song to influence them to stop fighting. Her voice takes on soothing, relaxing tones that start calming the others. She makes eye contact with Cliff and smiles reassuringly.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Well that is effective. Though Gattling guns maybe more so. "Sigh." yeah she said it instead of just sighing.

"Look. I like arrows. They are my thing. I mean yes I have a bow.. and mockingbird batons.. but arrows. They are more personal than a bullet."

She waves her hand up and down and the bow turns into a gun. She squints a moment at the battle field and then rapid fires off like five shots. All of them dead to right bullseyes on Villain Legos. "Not like I don't know how guns work Col."

Another squint. "Good job on the cages though... smart."

Robbie Reyes has posed:
    The fire spouting from the small hole in the top of the skull flairs in intensity for a moment as the spirit spies Cliff and knows in its souls that is the source of the outside power and must take the thing down. Now.

    The chain falls out of it's plastic grip and a dozen more seem to sprout from the very ground in a multifingered hand reaching out to stab at Cliff with all it's fingers and claws.

    From behind deeper in the battle field the roar of the miniture plastic V8 screams and roars at the same time as the car pilots itself behind the Ghost Rider and is perfectly timed where all three threats, the blades on the ends of the chains, the Rider himself, and the car are going to smash into Cliff at once.

    The rider falls clattering against the ground in front of cliff, the chains disappear in a puff of smoke and the car comes to a halt, turning sideways to avoid the rider and Cliff. Seems Ilmr's song worked in time as the flames all vanish from the minifigure.

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Brazier pointed out the bird swoops down towards it, a talons wrapping around it rather easily. The flight adjusts to fly over to grab Cliff with the other one to fly him over to where Collete is. Good Lord. HOW many LEGOS went in to make this raven?

As the question gets asked after the brazen defense, the bird's head tilts. He hands the Brazier over to the now set down Cliff before flying up to get closer to the Actionist. "Wait. You don't know what Tinder is? Oh man. It's SO much easier to use to get... companionship than doing all this. There's this guy at the studio who uses that app. Swears by it. Do you have a smart phone?"

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    Bricks continue to swirl at Colette's command, dividing the arena into ever smaller cells and making it increasingly hard for the combatants to keep fighting. Whenever she's satisfied that she's got a relatively secure batch of innocent dreamers secured in one of the cells, the cell starts moving away from the army of villains, shepherding the potential victims away from danger.

    "I mean... the bird has a point!" Colette yells up. "There are easier ways to get a date than this. We could set you up with Tinder and you'd be sorted. This whole ritual nonsense is so last century. You'll love it! You'd have so many options to chose from. Different hook-up every night if you want it, and none of the hassle. It'll take like ten minutes to get your profile set up and then you're good to go. You can't really prefer all this nonsense over that simplicity. Listen to the bird, he's wise."

Cliff Steele has posed:
The actionist summons an iphone and looks at it and starts to look up the app and then looks at the lego city, "why does not one TELL me these things" He starts messing with the phone and trying out the app looking extremely intruiged, but the thing about getting distracted during a highly complex magical ritual bringing a being to life is, boys and girls, dont! Especially a thing you are bringing to life that can get JEALOUS. A hand reaches up from the table unseen by the actionist and reaches for his throat.

Meanwhile, the walls and cages and music are collectively starting to work well. Cliff is remarkably not mauled by the hoard of angry legos who are then obliterated by Kate's incredible accuracy. Things seem to be settling as then out of nowhere, Grodd grabs the brazier again.

Because of course he does.

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Mike blinks as the man starts fiddling with the phone. "Hey man, could you... uh drop that barrier thing before you do that?" The raven suggests, " It might get weird for you having an audience while you set that up."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate shakes the gun back into a bow and backs up to the Brazier now and looks at it then the others. "I mean we won it.. do we have a plan yet on how to get this stupid thing out of the dreaming....?"

IF they had a plan she may have missed that memo.

Sigh.

"Also.. wow that guy is not bright... I Feel bad being trapped by an idiot..."

Robbie Reyes has posed:
    Lego Robbie rolls/flips onto his back and looks to the sky above, blinking softly as he rises to sit on the floor in a way that only lego can. Shaking his head he ends up looking at the black car and the walls surrounding him in and knowing what he has to do.

    The door slams with a CLICK, and the rider roars back to life, fire spewing from the back and beneath the tires as they spin and the rider slams the car into the side of the cage and keeps going around, paint scratching and pistons popping.

    The car then 'hops the curb' and is driving on the top of the wall when a hole of fire opens up before it and the car simply drives into it, disappearing from the wall and the arena entirely.

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    "I mean... Kate... look around you. Anyone who comes up with a scheme as elaborate as this for anything less than taking over the world is a fucking idiot, what do you expect?" Colette asks. "But yeah, let's get the hell out of here. Bird Man, you wanna do your..." She gestures towards the brazier, just as Grodd appears from nowhere to abscond with it. AGAIN.

    "FUCKING MONKEY!" Colette yells. She was kind of hoping this was all coming to a conclusion. It has been a blast, but it's getting a bit extra right now. She's a bit pissed.

    Bricks by the thousands come hurtling through the air, forming more rapidly-built walls of garish patchwork colors to try to cut off the lego ape's path to freedom and pen him in, and then Colette starts hurling bolts of darkness in the shape of bricks from her hands, which explode either side of Grodd, the shockwaves from the blast tearing small bricky craters in the ground around him. "Get the FUCK back here with that brazier right NOW you idiot apeapepepe!"

    Her voice sounded a little... strange... just there.

     "What do you think you're even doing? You /want/ to get permanently stuck in this insane dream world? 'Cos doing what you're doing is going to do that. Hand the brazier over NOW." She doesn't know that's true - Colette hasn't really been paying much attention to what has been happening, but it seems like the kind of thing that people have been saying to her, so it probably makes sense. To add some encouragement she summons more bolts of brick darkness in her hands but does not unleash them at Grodd - yet.

Cliff Steele has posed:
The ape in question is insantly shunted to another section of dream entirely, as Lego Grodd finds himself in the village of Wall, confused as all out get but we were going to fucking use it at some point for this plot wouldnt we? The brazier drops to the ground and then Cliff grabs and catches it. "There we go!"

Everyone who isnt Grodd is totally joining in the music with Ilmr at this point and singing about sunshine and rainbows and lollipops and the dreamers are joining in. Its working as the stream of life force floating to Eve falters and stops.

Speaking of Eve, she rises, looking heart broken and jealous. She was brought into this world for ONE purpose to make ONE man happy..and literally his first act is to betray her.

The Actionist nods to the raven, "Very well, I shall lift it" and then scowls at Kate, "Hey, when YOU can track down and bind a portion of the realm of dream to a portal use by the eNdless you can talk...I will have you know..." gurk! And a pale white hand grabs around his throat, followed by another as Eve slowly begins getting her life force....from something else.

Michael Hannigan has posed:
With the promise of the spell being lifted. The bird flies around, looking over towards Cliff who is supposed to be guarding the br-

Oh dangnabbit. However Colette's shouts are sufficient enough to tell the bird who to look for. The large erection of LEGOS is another tip off. And then Cliff has it once again.

Ok Cliff had one job and he pulled it out. Great!

"Alright then." Wings flapping the bird swoops down, Form shifting to his more human form when he lands. A LEGO DRAGO smiles to Cliff. "I'll take that. And hopefully we can end this."

Hopefully.

Robbie Reyes has posed:
    Barrier's are hard to cross, especially when face to face with them, but when you're given a way to bore beneath them, or around them, someone will. Someone will find a way out that wasn't expected.

    The door into the room that the Actionist has made his center for mocking his play-things and reviving his dead love is breached from the outside. Someone opens the door with a foot. A large... square... plastic... foot?

    ((SCREW THIS GUY!)) yells Eli in the Rider's head as the formerly 'mini'-fig walks into the room, and the Ghost Rider's plastic face suddenly has eyes glowing with fires and souls of countless hells and horrors as he looks to Eve and the Actionist at the same time, drawing, bidding them both to stare into their own awful memories and misdeeds.

Kate Bishop has posed:
"I stand by my statement.. fucking idiot." when the guy starts to get ..well metaphysically devoured by his own creation.

She looks a little concerned at Colette and actually steps a bit closer there and notes to her friend. "Cliff got it... no worry... all good with the Brazier now..."

Cliff Steele has posed:
The actionist drops his phone in shock and starts to say the command word that he put in Eve as a failsafe but JUST as he is about to croak it, the horrific skull eyed plastic cylinder head moves up from dream which would normally be impossible but with the barrier lowered, of course Dream can flow from this area and every horrific thing the Actionist has done comes back to haunt him. He is the least evil of his six brothers...but he is still pretty damn evil and he shrieks in horror!

Cliff smiles, "Fuck yeah! We won! Fuck that guy! Fuck this place lets get the fuck out of...wait. The stupid old guy just said that someone physically here has to take it to the real world. I'm not physically here anymore. FUCK!"

Ilmr raises her hand.

"You're physically here?"

She nods, "Fuck yeah! Ilmr, everyone. Everyone Ilmr." He hands the brazier to her as Terry as Vorpal cartoons the few remaining bad guys not singing or caged or staring with everyone else up into the sky watching the human get strangled and brain melted.

Michael Hannigan has posed:
Mike looks between Robotman and the newly introduced, previously mistaken for a background character, Ilmr. "...Well, alright, you carry that, and I'll pull you over." He holds his hand out. "Basic rules, take the hand, close your eyes and we'll step forward together. Don't open those eyes til we're on the other side. I'll tell you when that is."

Colette O'Connail has posed:
    There is one final thing Colette feels the need to do. One more great act of brick construction. Waving her hands like a conductor she summons up her imagination and her dream building-power, and starts to manipulate the transparent lego bricks of the great shattered hand the villains had constructed in the last round of the contest.

    Legos fly through the air like a vast flock of rectilinier transparent birds and come together in a storm of motion, the hand reconstructing itself, though with a significant change. This time the giant hand is angled towards the Actionist where he screams in the agony of self-realisation inspired by the Ghost Rider's lego penance stare, three fingers folded down and one rising proudly to the sky. A vast, glassy, lego bird being flipped at the perpetrator of all this nonsense.

    "Yeah. Fuck it," Colette says. "Let's get the hell out of here and go get drunk somewhere."

Cliff Steele has posed:
The young woman being born from the essence of the actionist sees into Robbie's eyes and screams....

The Actionist touches a ring on his right hand and vanishes....

The spell binding the two worlds starts to fade as does Robbie...

By use of his power, the door between worlds opens and Ilmr and the Brazier are brought into the real world....Cliff sits up waking up and fist pumps, "FUCK YEAH!" He blinks, "Fuck....which bar?