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Janine Liberi     Funky Park.

    A marvel of engineering in harmony with nature. A massive chunk of loamy soil held aloft by the great structure beneath it, ringed by safety nets should there be any accidents. Trees of all natures dot the park, from palms by the artificial beach to great pines and stately oaks. Natural earthen paths wind between them all to create some 'back to nature' tracks for the New Donk urbanites, and many recreational structures such as open-air theatres, gazebos for live bands, and food carts cater to all needs.

    But all that has been changed.

    The park is now a mess of fog machines, lasers, disco balls, and thumping speakers. Disco music blares constantly, having driven away all the wildlife. However, visitors still remain. Constantly juking, jiving, and dancing to the music. Even those who look exhausted, dehydrated, and near collapse. But they dance on, watched by constant patrols of EnfarcerBots.

    DK has found himself a spot on a tree munching gravely on bananas as he waits for promised reinforcements. Up above, a helicoptor is orbiting the scene as a voice blares on all available frequencies. "Yo yo yo! This is your eye in the sky Funky Kong, coming at you LIVE from Funky Park! For the interests of ethical journalism, gotta tell y'all I made a substantial donation to the development of this place, 'swhy it's named after me! And I gotta say, while I dig the groovin' vibes coming off it right now, I don't like all them EnfarcerBots harshing the funk. Luckily, my main man DK is on the scene, and he's got some friends! They're all gonna sock it to that tyrannical tripper Jimmy T, so you folks down below just hang tight a little longer. This has been Funky Factoids, the only free press broadcaster still operating in New Donk City!"

    DK hops down from the tree and gives everyone arriving from the warpgate a grin and a double-thumbs-up. At that moment, several EnfarcerBots leap out of hiding, surrounding the team. They're in the deep forest part of the park, and Jimmy T is in the central Konga Theatre. They're gonna have to either fight every Enfarcer on the way there, or find a shortcut!
Gawain As Gawain exits the warpgate, dressed in his suit, he's called Paladins reinforcement, in order to have backup in case the Watch attempts to murder Senator Wario or his allies. Taking them in is the primary objective, or at minimum, retrieving their keys. It's a quest. He stubbornly refuses to let Wario die - because he said he wouldn't, because he said he'd bring justice the 'right' way.

Gawain's also brought a dirtbike! He's on it through the warpgate, so when the Enfarcers show up, he just summons his huge sword into one hand, revs the handle with the other, and pushes forward to carve into the closest Enfarcers with precise strikes and start luring the others away. He's likely going to lure /all/ the Enfarcers to him...

Which is why Gawain moves to take the first branching-away path from the others he can. He'll take the heat off them, as the sun helps protect him from the Enfarcers' attacks. "Go on without me! I'll catch up once the path's clear."

If this works to lure them away, he'll pick them off group-by-group, slicing through them and trying to keep the attacks off the more-fragile dirtbike.
Revali "He had it named after himself? That's a little presumptuous, isn't it?" comments Revali, wielder of Revali's Gale, patron of Revali's Flight Range, and commander of Revali's Irregulars.

That aside, he's here as backup - Gawain puts out the call, and Revali shows up, bow in hand. All of your problems are fixed now.

... Or not, since 'being ambushed by robot goons' is a new problem. The rito champion reaches for his bow - when Gawain takes off, trying to corral the enemy forces away from them.

"Hmmph, well, I won't say no to a distraction..." Instead of reaching for his bow, Revali ducks into whatever cover is provided by the nearest tree, and focuses his will...

... and a strong breeze rolls in, blowing the output from one of the fog machines into the area, to give the group some fog cover and hopefully make themselves a bit harder for the enforcers to track as they make their way.
Karlan Nobles Of all things in the park, it's the helicopter that gets Pramanix's attention as she makes her way through the park to the gathering area, hat tipped slightly downwards in a crappy attempt to mask her identity while listening to the blaring music, the voice of one Funky Kong, and enjoying the brief peace that's broken rather quickly when the EnfarcerBots make their presence known.

When Gawain offers to draw the robots away, she's more than willing to let him take the charge there. Instead of rushing into the melee herself, however, she takes a page from Revali's book as she takes the bell out of her bell-holding bag, ringing it steadily to call down a gentle, if rather sudden snowfall. It doesn't stop at simply making whatever it touches wet, however, as the snow floats along with Revali's breeze.

For the group, it's just a pleasantly cool snow. For the EnfarcerBots, however, the magical nature of the snow builds up and almost seems to attract more of the snow on them, as though it's actively working to gunk up their joints and chill them to the core. Pramanix herself is quiet throughout the process as she tries to blend in during her ritual, joining the dancers while ringing that bell in a steady rhythm.
Janine Liberi     "ATTENTION CITIZEN. IT IS UNLOWFUL TO OPERATE A MOTORCYCLE WITHOUT ADEQUATE HEAD DEFECTION," the Enfarcers say as Gawain pops sick donuts in their midst to grab their attention. They immediately give chase, as Gawain is committing the more immediate crime compared to DK's wanton urban destruction. The stragglers about-face to deal with he and everyone else, but their optics are terrible. Immediately, Revali's fog renders them lost, and Pramanix's ice locks them up, slurry infecting their inner workings.

    While all this is going on, DK, is uprooting a tree.

    He's standing by a fast-flowing river and pulling a pine out of the ground with both hands. Holding it above his head, he tosses it upstream and claps his hands to get everyone's attention. The river flows towards the centre of the park, so this makes a perfect shortcut. And out in the water, the Enfarcers can't get them.

    The great ape leaps onto the tree as it flows past and begins surfing it downstream. It passes by Gawaiin's path as he lures the Enfarcer's away, the bots falling easily before his blade. But suddenly, something leaps from the water to stand on the boat. An amphibious Enfarcer?! It has floaties wrapped around its modular arms, which terminate in torpedo launchers, and its feet are frog shoes. Several more leap out to stand on the tree, making it spin rotate in the water and forcing DK to run just to stay atop it.
Revali "Troublesome, already," says Revali, as he lands daintily on the tree. "Is the rest of the city gripped this tightly? Armed guards in the park? Is-"

The rest of the rito's statement is lost as something unexpected leaps out of the water. He instinctively takes off, jumping up into the air and flapping his wing-arms, hovering along behind the boat and keeping pace with it, while still staying low enough to hopefully not attract attention.

"In the river in the park, too? Well! Luckily..."

He spins in the air, grabbing his bow and a trio of arrows all in one motion, drawing back and taking aim.

"You have the great Revali on your side! HYA!"

He releases his drawn arrows - pulling out another trio and nocking them before the first set hits. The arrows don't hit any of the foes, they impact into the water, but on impact they activate, sending out tendrils of lightning and electrocuting the river, making it a very bad day for anything still in there!
Karlan Nobles As DK takes his position on the river, Pramanix is forced to weigh her options. Jump on to join him? Too risky just from a balancing standpoint, especially with the Enfarcers making it even worse. Run alongside it? Too tiring, and it would probably end up going way too fast for her to even keep up.

She could just imitate his tree stunt. As she hurries for the river, she continues ringing the bell at a steady rhythm and calling down more snow, gathering it into a rapidly growing pile that forms into a makeshift ice-canoe that she can comfortably hop onto to follow the current.

"Watch your head, Sir Kong!" Pramanix shouts as her only warning as yet more ice starts to pile up in the river, forming dense head-height arches poised to knock the Enfarcers right back into the water or even stab into them with their jagged corners!
Janine Liberi     The river arcs with electricity, every single submerged Enfarcer becoming so much scrap that sinks to the bottom. They are quickly joined by DK slamming his mighty fist against those that have boarded his tree, sending them flying. The sap in DK's ride bursts through the bark at points, having been superheated, but the great ape sails on heedless of it.

    The two boats hit some rough points on their way, the water becoming white as it rushes through rocks. Great chunks of wood are slammed away, but that's the least of their worries.

    The river ends in a great waterfall overlooking the park.

    DK clenches his teeth as they go over, flying through the air before coming down in a great crash, sliding along the curated grassy grounds. Mercifully, none of the dancers were in the way. Eventually, they come to a stop, right there in Konga Theatre.

    The whole place has been converted into a disco stage. Tiles strobe with bright colored light as lasers strike the great disco ball hung overhead. Standing there upon it is a man with a great blue afro, sunglasses, a red double-breasted suit jacket, and white chinos. And boy, he is killing on stage.

    "Whoa there! You folks okay? Good of you to drop in! Get up here and dance those pains away, OH!" He spins and swivels on the spot, pointing his finger in the air. "You're in the care of Jimmy T, Parks and Recreation Director! YEOW!"

    DK leaps onto the stage, but not to dance. He pounds the tiles in defiance, nostrils flaring. "Whoa there! You must be that DK fella! Sorry about your gramps man, but don't take it out on me! Party crashers get shown the exit!" He begins a new dance, as great floating mechanical hands rise up around the stage, moving in sync with Jimmy T's own as he dances. "Thanks to Mona and Doctor Crygor, I got these BOUNCER-CLASS ENFARCERS to keep me safe!"

    DK leaps forward, cocking a fist back and hurls a punch, only for Jimmy T to throw his hand out, and all the Bouncer-Classes ruching forward to intercept the punch with their own. This might pose a problem.
Gawain Gawain can't help at the river. He's on a bike, and they seem to have it handled...so he pushes any pursuing Enfarcers into the electrified river with the blunt of his sword and moves to travel down the path.

After a bumpy ride, he eventually makes it to the Konga Theatre after the others do. He watches DK's punch and the Bouncers who rush forward to intercept it. He frowns, at first, but two things encourage him: an apology from Jimmy T, showing that it wasn't his decision...

And a plan formulating.

The hands move in sync with Jimmy. Jimmy can only do so much. Gawain grabs his radio, as he leaps off the dirtbike and begins pushing up onto the stage.

"Show me your moves!" Gawain says to Jimmy, sheathing his sword, as he dances along the stage towards him. "And give us the key to Cranky Kong's cage! If you're really apologetic, you'd be willing to hand it over!"

Gawain hopes that, if all four of them are attacking separately, the Bouncers (and Jimmy) will be overwhelmed. Gawain's moving in for a shoulder-tackle!
Revali The boat goes over the side! Oh no, how will Revali survive this?!

Oh, wait, he's already flying. He just skips over the rest of the terrain, since they've already been spotted, and lands on the stage. "Well!"

"You call us party crashers - I call us the life of your insignificant soiree!" he calls. "And if you're throwing hands already..."

He runs across the dance floor, ducking and weaving and dashing as he moves to line up his shot.

"... Then I think you need to CHILL OUT!"

Trios of ice arrows fire out at the floating hands!
Karlan Nobles While DK lands in relative safety, Pramanix and her ice-canoe are not so lucky.  She abandons ship with a terrified yelp as it goes off the waterfall, having only enough time to cushion her fall with a brief burst of wind before rolling a few times onto the gross, ending in a painful-looking faceplant.

She's still able to get up afterwards, at least, so she's probably fine, if a little shaken and bruised. Holding a block of ice against her head, she peers upwards at the strobe lights at an angle, apparently marveling at the light show and all the colors going around. Her gaze goes from the disco ball to Jimmy T, and the Saint's cheeks puff up as she holds her laughter in at his outlandish (to her) appearance.

He actually asks if they're okay. That's somewhat reassuring, but She's not quite sure how to approach the matter of getting the key form him just yet. With Gawain's plan, however, she gets right into it by... Dancing? Yes, she dances along with Jimmy T, having some trouble imitating those moves, but matching the beat with her bell-ringing even if her feet aren't cooperating yet. "So if you know why we're here, could we convince you to relinquish the key somehow?"

As Pramanix approaches Jimmy T from a different direction from the others, she makes no outward motions of actually attacking. She just keeps dancing and shaking that bell, although the increased snowfall and erratic gusts centered on Jimmy T might be a dead giveaway that she's trying to trip him up and get him off his feet!
Janine Liberi     "Oh! I like your spirit kid!" Jimmy says to the ancient sun knight. "But you gotta learn to walk before you run! You're ten years too early to get into a dance-off with me!" One of the Bouncers slips in-between he and Gawain as he attempts the shoulder check, and then shoves him to the edge of the stage as Jimmy throws his hand out.

    Just before it can knock Gawain away, Revali's ice arrow freezes it to the ground! The others go adrift among Pramanix's ice storm, the stage starting to frost up under the dancer's feet. But credit to his moves, the man does not trip once. In fact, he uses the lessened friction to pull off come incredible slides!

    "Listen. About the senior Kong. Ya know he's done some bad stuff right? Back in the day, kidnappin' folk. Took one mean carpenter to deal with him! And I don't think he's sorry about it at all. He's one unfunky monkey. Ya think it's right he got away clean with just a couple lumps?"

    DK has no answer for the Director. Instead he starts slamming the stage in a rhythm. Pounding it like a drum, much to Jimmy's delight. "Ayy, getting some percussion in the mix. I dig it man!" The drumming gets faster and faster, shaking the stage. Cracking the tiles. Making the whole theatre quake. The whole park. "Whoa! Hey man, you're shaking this joint up too much!"

    Between the ice and the shaking, now Jimmy T is looking unsteady, the Bouncers swirling through the air erratically as he throws his arms out to maintain balance. Now's the time!
Gawain As Gawain is pushed back, he sees his plan working, sort of. With an 'a-ha', he listens to Jimmy's accusations - and points his finger out like he's objecting.

"Then why was his victim, Pauline, deposed as mayor? Why did she not prosecute him before? Did the statute of limitations not run out? Is this about justice..."

Gawain suddenly slides forward on the ice, pushing his finger in Jimmy's face. "Or about your Senator seeking fame and glory, or perhaps even vengeance?! There's no justice to be had in locking away an old man without trial! He should have served his time - but this isn't the way to go about it! This is just as much of a crime!"

And then, Gawain, using his speed, strength, and agility, moves to try and restrain Jimmy T, hopefully with aid from Pramanix and Revali!
Revali "Yeah - how long ago was that, then? The statute of limitations has to have run out, right?"

Gawain puts it better than Revali can, but he still gets his opinion in.

The rito champion ducks and weaves and twists about the dance floor, avoiding the enfarcers with nimble dance moves while continuing to do damge. "Sounds like he *took* his lumps, anyway - if this was about justice, don't you think there'd be ways to handle it that didn't look so... inauspicious?" says Revali, misusing the word. "Instead he's locked up without hope of recovery - just like your dance routine!"

As Gawain rushes in, the rito rolls, twists into a handspring, and jumps - doing an impressive upside-down leap directly over Jimmy T!

"Whereas with my moves - I'm about to drop it like it's hot!"

He spins, upside down, firing arrows rapidly - fire arrows, at points along a fixed radius from Jimmy T. and Gawain, impacting and igniting the frozen dance floor, throwing up a wall of steam to block off anyone from getting in!
Karlan Nobles "Ten years? He barely looks forty!" Pramanix shouts in response to Jimmy's jab at Gawain, still dancing along with the beat with more confidence than before. She might not be mimicking the moves any longer, but the rhythm is maintained as the snow continues to billow around the stage.

"His crimes must have surely been paid for by now if his past victim... If the mayor has already made peace with him. If she hasn't, then..." Pramanix does't quite answer that possibility, leaving that up in the air as Gawain and Revali speaks further. "Well put... And if he hasn't atoned for his crimes already, he'll surely pay for them in his next life, anyway. Locking him up like this will only breed more resentment!"

Pramanix's next burst of wind is not accompanied by ice for once. Rather, it's focused entirely on churning the wind around from below and above Jimmy erratically, aimed entirely at throwing him off balance after seeing that he had already adjusted to the icy floor.
Janine Liberi     "Hey man I ain't no mind-reader! Maybe she let it go cuz it'd look bad if the victim were in charge of the prosecutin'!" Jimmy shouts as he struggles to stay upright. Gawain grabs him, holding him steady. "Whew! Thanks man." And then realises he can't move. "Uh-oh! Bouncers, gimmie a hand!"

    The hands come flying in, but the burst of steam created by Revali and his fire arrows clogs their system, adding moisture to their circuits and causing them to short out! They land on the stage as scrap, leaving Jimmy defenceless. He struggles to dance free, gyrating his body in ways only those deep in the disco know can, but the additional frost is finally starting to make him slip.

    And DK is rushing he and Gawain with a gleam in his eyes.

    As he approaches, he crouches low, using the ice to carry him the rest of the way, winding his arm in anticipation of what is to follow. Stopping just short of the two, he brings his fist up in a beautiful uppercut, catching Jimmy T under the chin.

    The force of the impact disperses the steam, shatters the ice, and resounds across the park. For a single, perfect moment, it disperses the nonstop disco blaring, the disco man trapped in a long hitstun.

    And then it passes, and Jimmy T is literally knocked out of his socks, shoes, and the rest of his clothing as he gets launched skyward. His scream of surprise is quickly muffled by distance, his fine suit crumpling to the floor before DK. Immediately, he goes looking through it, and comes out with an ornate gold key.

    "YEAH!" he says, raising his clasped fists in triumph with the key held between them. One down, six to go!
Karlan Nobles     Pramanix's gaze pans upwards rigidly as Jimmy gets launched into the sky sans clothing against all logic, a completely blank stare plastered on her face while she slowly looks back down at DK rummaging through his pants.

    It's that last "YEAH" from the tie-wearing ape that finally breaks her silence, drawing a sudden outburst of laughter from the Saint as she nearly doubles over. "The peopel of this world are... So colorful, aren't they? But..."

    She looks right back down at the pile of clothes. "... Do we just leave this here? Someone could probably make use of it." Perhaps tellingly, Pramanix looks right at Gawain and Revali.