Fumo Apparatus

[Grimn]

Rowe Masterson sat in his captain’s chair, his head resting on his fist, a bored look on his face. He gazed ahead of him, the sailor at the wheel slowly making the necessary adjustments to the bank of instruments ahead of him. Beyond him was a large window that showed the immense expanse of the sky, clear and blue as always. “Enemy to the port side, 60 degrees north” boomed a voice from one of the many tubes that ran around the bridge of the ship. “Raise ship twenty degrees, bring us hard to port and tell all hands to get to battle stations” commanded Rowe. The massive air ship began its ascent as the enemy ship could be seen in the distance. Two small tufts of white smoke emerged from the from of the ship and the Silvana rocked slightly. “They were firing their first shots to gauge the distance” reflected Rowe. “Tell forward guns to fire at a 35 degree angle northwards and to load the armor piercing rounds” thought Rowe. Looking out of the window Rowe saw the massive forward guns rise up and fire their payload. As the two ships began to close Rowe could see that the initial shots had missed their mark. “Tell aft gunners to prepare to fire broadside when the enemy ship comes into view” ordered Rowe. The ships came side to side and Rowe examined his enemy. His bored expression changed to alertness as he noticed the smallest detail. “Dive down immediately” commanded Rowe. The Silvana made a sharp descent right as the enemy ship unleashed a long chain saw like weapon from the side of the ship. The chainsaw extended off of the side of the ship and whirred loudly as it passed over the top of the Silvana. “Sir what are your orders” asked the first mate, standing beside the captain’s chair. “Descend into the cloud cover and wait for them to pass over” ordered Rowe. The Silvana sat crouched in the clouds, running silently as the enemy ship passed overhead. “Ascend even with the ship, increase engine output to ninety percent, open mast ports and prepare to fire Shrapnel Cannon” boomed Rowe’s voice, the captain standing up. The Silvana ascended swiftly as the front of the ship opened up to reveal six large barrels, two side by side in a stack of three. “Fire Shrapnel cannon” screamed Rowe. The six barrels opened up and the ship rocked backwards as the large force exited the Silvana. The enemy ship was engulfed in smoke as the shells connected at almost point blank range. After a short while Rowe watched as the enemy ship began it slow cascade downwards, smoke pouring from it. It was a slightly majestic thing to watch, a ship going down, the massive beast falling from the graces of the sky towards the earth below. It was almost as if it had lost its favor in the sky and was now being reclaimed by the ground below. “Man was not meant to enjoy the beauty of the sky forever” thought Rowe, sitting back in his captain’s chair. “Sir we have been asked to return to the headquarters in order to be debriefed upon our mission” murmured his first mate into his ear. “Make course for EEA headquarters” said Rowe. The Silvana turned to the west and began to make its journey back to the headquarters of the EAA, the captain’s face returning to a look of boredom.

[Tusk]

Explosions? Things that go boom? Could it be? Could it be true? Could it be true he? Could it be true he could destroy a part of this place and be free again? Could he be free to invent the things that he wanted to? He wanted to get the cow launcher working so badly.
" Ha, I got it. There is an old generator near my cell and close to the Warden. He does not wish me to be too far off. I guess I am just too good looking for him to let me go too far off. If I accedently test out a new weapon I am working on the guards and cross wires on the generator, you will have about 5 minutes before the generator suddenly decides to burst with joy! "
He Let out a wild smile as he suddenly spun out of his chair and kept spinning until he was around the table. So what is your plan little miss muffit? Do you plan on sitting on your tuffet? What is your plan to getting out of this glorious bundle of Hell? Once I set off the Generator, it will take out not only power, but a good several chunks of this building. Not to mention we are sky high and with no ship. "
At this time, Ze Jester's head was in an almost 90 degree turn. He looked at her with a look of insane curiosity?

[Vale]

"A Special promotion? A Special Task? I'm running fucking errands!" Darc nearly punched one of the walls. The Vigilance was a fast ship. One of the fastest in the EA, so it wasn't a surprise when they needed him to rush deliver packages.

The only reason he took this task, was because it was bringing him to an old friend of his Father's. Darc had heard the stories of Dr. Heart, based out of St. Bailey's, she was a bit eccentric. Probably should be locked up in the place rather than being a Director of it. But alas, that's how things go, the EA just turned a blind eye to the acts that went on in Bailey's, left it for the rest of the world to deal with.

"Captain Darc..." A large burley man came up to him, a large bandana covering his dreadlocks and the top portion of his head. "We've reached St. Bailey's."

"Very good." Darc spoke as he nodded in approval. Jak was a decent first hand, able bodied, a decent fighter, and a better co-pilot. These things just happen to make him a shitty person however. But it didn't matter, he still couldn't beat Darc in a fight. "Dock in it's skybay, so we can bring whatever the hell these people want, whatever the fuck it is." Darc spoke, grabbing a Photon Shortsword, all the while keeping his dual pistols holstered. He never went anywhere without Noir & Lumiere. Lucky guns given to him by his parents. One frome each of them.


"Fucking St Bailey's"

[GnomesAteMyCake]

"Did Valerie hear correctly? Are Miss. Kitty and Mr. Ze Jester going to escape?" A small voice said from behind Kitty. Valerie had been walking past when she heard Ze Jester say about exploding the Generator. She didn't sit, only hovered at Kitty's elbow, since she feared Kitty slightly.
"Would...would Kitty like some extra help?" Valerie said, her head bent down so her hair was covering her eyes. "Because...Valerie would happily help, Valerie would do anything. Valerie wants to escape, she can't take it anymore." Her voice shook slightly on the last syllable, and she raised her head.

Her eyes, which usually glowed neon blue from the injections were now completely black, as they did for a few hours after "experimentation". Small rivets of blood were dripping from her eyes like tears, and her left eye kept twitching uncontrollably.
"Valerie hates the doctors. Valerie hates the experiment. Valerie doesn't think she can do this anymore, so please, will Kitty let Valerie help? She doesn't know what she can do to help, but she will do anything!" Valerie sat at the table, and linked her fingers together and resting her chin on her fingers. She giggled slightly, laughter bubbling up her throat as she tried to hold the laughter in. She didn't know what there was to laugh about. But still, laughter echoed from her mouth, as she made a motion for Kitty to continue.

[Tusk]

Ze Jester smiled widely as Valerie overheard.
" So our merry little band of misphits is growing but the second. Up to four now. We have Little Miss Muffet, a man with a Spider fettish, Miss Laughs a lot, and me, the most looney in the bin. I am so exited I could just wet myself! "
He began spinning around in more of a dancing fashion.
" MIDGETS!!!! I NEED MIDGETS!!! ONLY THEN WILL MY ULTIMATE WEAPON BE COMPLETE!!! "
He shouted randomly as he looked around for a midget.
" Yo spider boy, can you help me find a midget so I can short out- oh wait a midget will smell bad deep fried. I will need water! Then I can soak the midget therefor he won't stink.....No that is too messy and won't give it the boom needed to have Ze Jester's Seal of Explosive Approval. Just water will do the trick....and maybe a wrench....or a duck. A duck might work. "
He stopped dancing around and looked at Kitty.
" Please oh madame of the rhyme scheme, tell me this. The gaurds are nothing to worry about, Oh speaking of which here they come. At four it is, the east wing we meet. hmmm wing meet....Wing Meat!!! "
He suddenly launched himself Airborne and began barking madly as he pounced a gaurd. He began licking the gaurd only stopping to bark. He then began rolling over for one of them to scratch his belly. When the one he pounced on did not, he began to bite on his pant leg. The gaurd went to swing at him, but Ze jester dodged and stuck out his tounge as he stood up and bolted to the unlocked door. He kicked it open and ran free laughing loudly.
" Look at me, I am free....er.... "
The gaurds all began cursing and chased after the mad man.
" Don't kill him! The warden needs him alive! "
One shouted as soon all the gaurds ran after the released Jester. Insanity was fun! "

[Bryden]

Kitty grinned, watching Ze Jester like a bouncing ball or a tennis match. Up and down and back and forth and left and right and north and south and east and west and back and front and- OH! That guard got him in the head. That looked painful. They dragged the still cackling man out of the mess hall, muttering something about making a "note on effects of rat poison"

A few of the less-mad overheard the rat-poison comment. Some pushed the food away. Others redoubled their efforts, offering to eat other people's portions as well. Suicide was a difficult thing to commit under constant supervision and 20-hour -a-day lock-down. Any opportunity had to be taken.

Kitty turned around to study the girl who'd come up behind her. She was a tiny little thing, quivering in her place like a small, nervous dog.

Her face spilt widely into a grin that would have looked far more sane without her shut-in pale skin and her disheveled, tangled hair.

"... Valerie, is it?" she asked calmly.

"Oh, who does she thinks she be,
this little miss Valerie?
Says she wants to help me,
want to help miss Kitty...
OH, Valerie,
say can you see?
Help me, darling, lets be free!"

She clapped for herself a few times when she'd finished. Her eyes never stopped looking at the trembling girl's bizarre optic organs. It was eerie, but Kitty was capable of having such a mothering, caring air about her that it might even have been calming.

She reached out, grasping the girl's hands in her own as the bell began to rig to take them out from the mess hall.

"We will meet where the Jester says, dear!
Have no fear!"

And with that, the guards came up and brought her away.

[Vale]

Darc was standing there with his first mate for the Vigilance, as immediately a flock of guards came to their attention, shielding tthem away from the mess halls, and the wards of the "Research Facility".

"What can we help you two with?" 3 Different guard kept saying, each cutting the other one off.
"We have a Package to Deliver, and a few messages from the European Alliance?" Darc spoke, as immediately one of the guards fell down.
"We;re looking for the Warden and for Dr. Heart, her shipment from us has arrived. Apparently new stock of 'Materials' has just come in." Darc spoke, irritated that a Sky Captain was reduced to an errand boy of the EA. But alas, his Vigilance was the fastest Ship in the fleet, and he could be able to make such calls for people.

"Well, where are they?!"

[Tusk]

So there Ze Jester was, being dragged like a dead carcus through out the halls, the gaurds muttering about him never seeing the light of Day ever again. Ze Jester only smiled. His plan was working to the fullest. Soon they reached his cell. The other gaurds had left thinking the mad man was so loopy from the hit that he was easily taken care of. Just as the lone gaurd dragged him in, Ze Jester suddenly kicked the gaurd hard with his free leg and sent him into the padded wall. The man bounced off and went face first into the now standing jester. The gaurd let out a shout of pain, but Ze Jester was quick to send another headbutt knocking the man out completely. Ze jester took the gaurd's handcuffs and handcuffed him to the toliet then tearing off some of of the gaurd's shirt and gagging him. Ze Jester then took the gaurd's key and baton and ran out of the room....well pranced out the room happily locking the gaurd inside. He then....pranced....toward the generator but he then noticed the warden's office. The man could never leave Ze Jester too far out of his sight and the clown figured the warden liked his body.
Ze Jester noticed the door was locked and knew what that meant. The warden was not there. He unlocked it with the keys he had and then tiptoed with a slight hop to the warden's desk. There he found what he was looking for. It was the panic alarm. There had only been one time this button had ever been pressed. When it did, It caused a mass panic and the gaurds were nearly over run. Some hated the sound, others began freaking out especally when someone hits the button and then shouts through the speaker system.
" FIRE!!!! "
Ze Jester slammed the panic button and the building erupted in a blasting siren that filled the building. It would be Chaos in the nut house. Gaurds would have to run into barracks to get their riot gear and Ze Jester would already be ready to cause the Generator to blow up. He threw his hands up in the air and fluttered out of the warden's office after leaving his last blueprint. It was a rough kindergarden like picture of Ze Jester giving the middle finger to the warden.
Ze Jester had caused Complete anarchy by now. The Middegin would get scared and panic except for those who at least had some wits about them and Just as the gaurds would get their riot gear ready, KABLOOWY.

[Vale]

Darc smiled.
"Alright!" He shouted, knocking some of the panicking guards off of him.
"Some excitement!" He spoke to his First mate who was standing dispassionately. "Get down!" He shouted as a Maddigan jumped into the air towards him--and even before Darc could draw a gun his first mate had already caught the flying patient and slammed his face into the wall, crushing it on impact and causing him to fall lifeless to the floor.

"Too Slow, Captain."
"Too Brutal, Mate." Darc spoke, as he drew out a small side armed Photon Sword. Easily setting it from Stun to Kill and smiled. "Since you got one in, I'm getting three."
"Aren't we on mission?"
"St. Bailey's Might be Compromised if we cannot quell this rebellion." The excited Darc spoke. "If you can render them unconscious without killing them, that would be best. If not well..." Darc paused. "Doc it up to the EA. Collateral Damage Clause."

Smiling, he and his first mate caught two more and exercised their "Just Cause."

"Hey, Head to the Warden's Office, get this shit under control. I'm going to the Mess Hall, see if we can rally the onstaff guards, or for that matter quell the rioters there." Darc spoke.

"That's an Order!"

[Tusk]

Ze Jester breathed in the pure awesomeness that was a full scale riot. He never could of imagined it would of gone this well. Now it was time to put the fireworks display on show for the whole floating Island to see. He waltzed....that is right waltzed.....to the generator humming a merry singing tune. As soon as he got there, he noticed he was no longer alone. Someone had turned off the alarm. Ze Jester was slightly disheartened, but he let out a shout.
" How Dare you turn off that alarm! It made such a wonderful noise! "
Ze Jester took the opertunity to hide at the corner of the door and he soon heard foot prints. Soon a man entered slowly looking around before entering. Ze jester closed the door to the generator Room with a slam and started to giggle.
" Well you are a quick little bug ain't ya? Allow me to introduce myself. Zey call me Ze Jester and I like to Party! Do you know how I like to party? I like to party with explosions and do you know what is a very fun way to cause explosions? MIDGETS WITH BOMBS!!! However I am all out of Bombs. The midgets are also in short supply so I will have to do with Cake! "
The man had enough of the baffoonery that was Ze Jester and went in for a punch, However Ze Jester was Quick and smacked the man's hand with a Riot stick he took from the gaurd. The man let out a shout of pain, but Ze Jester swung again. This time it hit the man in the head. The Man fell with a thud as Ze jester pounced on the man.
" However there is one thing that can cause a good explosion. You seem to have a good head about ya....well mostly except for that lovely little dent I put in it. Man plus Unstable old Generator equils what? The answer is KABLOOWY!!! "
Ze Jester began laughing as he drug the semi concious man to the generator. He muttered something about Darc and how Ze jester would pay for this and Ze Jester only laughed wildly as he took off the cover protecting the wires to the generator. Ze Jester smacked the man again, for no reason really since the man could not put up a fight anymore due to that hit to the head.
" I have not done this in so long I could just twitch with excitement!!! "
Ze jester said twitching a little just for laughs as he tried to pick up the man but failed.
" What have you been eating you fatty! I can barely pick you up. Your like a whale, but lets see if you blow up like one. "
He drug the man to the generator wires and then grabbed the giant can of gasoline that was near to keep the generator running.
" You know I could cause the generator to blow up without your carcass erupting into fire, but where would be the fun in that? Goodbye stranger and I will be sure to blow a belch to this Darc for you. Ze Jester opened up the gasoline and threw it on the man and the machine. He then Skipped out as the machine caught fire and made his way back to the warden's office when There was a loud explosion that rocked St. Baileys. The building exploded in several areas due to the wiring and St. Bailey's now had several holes in it from the fire and explosions. Ze Jester then went to the Intercom that the warden had.
" This is your warden speaking. "
He said in a rather unmanly voice,
" I would just like to inform you that St. Bailey has lived up to her reputation as a Holy individual by now having her building with new decoritive holes in it. I would like to take the man who helped with this remodling and he will forever be remembered by his ash stain that he left behind. "
Ze Jester turned on the Alarm again before slipping out to meet the others at the spot. He had not had this much fun since the Time he caused the old folks home to explode and it rained old people!!!

[Vale]

OOC: Well done Dav! Now it's time for Darc to be sad...in a violent way

IC:
Darc heard the voice over the intercom and knew that someone had dispatched the Warden, no one else would have been able to access the internal communications from a remote location. And...the Ash Stain of an Accomplice? Surely he couldn't....surely Jak couldn't have been killed by one of these...cretins!

"Who's voice was that?" Darc roared, drawing one of his pistols and firing it right into the skull of one of the quivering Guards. "Who's." bang, another. "Voice." Bang, Bang "Was that?" He fired three more bullets into Guards, Inmates, it didn't matter. The EA had no ties with these people--guards and inmates. These people didn't exist.

Catching the gaze of one of the Inmates he stepped off the table he was standing on, placing his foot on the quaking face of one of his writhing victims, crushing it underfoot.

"You....You Know Who's Voice that was." He spoke, grabbing her by her throat and lifting her up, getting up underneath her and staring into her...glowing eyes. "You're going to answer me, or I'll put you through far worse things than these doctors have ever done to you. I won't experiment with you---oh no. There's nothing to be gained from what I'll do." Darc spoke, neigh raved.

"Who's Voice Was That?"

[Eva]

A shot rang out, and the students behind Doctor Heart cowered. The Maddigan that had charged at them fell to the ground, dead. Doctor Heart blew the smoke from the barrel of her gun and smiled. "Stay close, darlings. I'd hate for one of you to get taken." she said soothingly. Doctor Heart stepped forward, shedding her coat, letting it drop to the ground.

Doctor Heart advanced through the halls, calmly gunning down whoever stepped into her path. The students behind her dispersed quietly, some simply fleeing in terror of a riot, others too frightened to actually defend themselves when Maddigans attacked them. Before long, Doctor Heart was by herself- not that she minded. She heard shots coming from the mess hall, so she decided to investigate that.

An amused Heart smirked at the scene. Some deranged man was terrorizing the guards and the patients, screaming his poor little head off. She shook her hair out of its bun, took her glasses off, and adjusted her corset before placing a single dart into her gun. "What ARE you whining about, boy?" she cooed, her dark blue eyes glimmering as she strutted into the mess hall. She carefully sidestepped the various bodies on the ground, not wanting to messy up her clothes. "That man was one of the many patients of this madhouse. He calls himself 'Ze Jester'. I've worked on him before." Doctor Heart said. When she had reached Darc, Doctor Heart folded her arms and smirked again. She made sure to position herself behind a table. The man was obviously out of his mind; it'd be best to keep a distance. "Now that you have your answer, unhand my patient."

[Vale]

Dropping the girl to the ground, Darc showed the woman something surprising....documentation and respect.

"Sky Captain Darc Valentine. If you are the Warden, or Dr. Heart. I have a package for you from my superior officers at the EA Military R&D Offices." He spoke, quickly drawing his gun and firing right over the shoulder of the Blue Eyed Woman, nailing an Inmate in the shoulder and sending him to the ground writing in pain.
"Forgive me for the outburst of temper, however..." Darc paused. "This 'Jester', That Kur, he murdered my First Mate in whatever explosion that was. No doubt that it will draw deep suspicion and interest as to why an uninhabitated location had a drastic explosions, resulting in the death of an EA Soldier." Darc spoke, crossing his arms. "Whoever you are, if you're the Dr. Or the Warden, I'll be on my ship outside, making sure that not a single one of these....creatures have escaped onto it. You're welcome to come, or to stay and maintain order here." Darc spoke, crossing his arms and sighing a bit. "Hopefully other EA ships are closer." He finished walking past the woman, then began to break out into a run in order to make sure that no one was on his ship.

He lost his first mate, he would never, give up his ship.

[Gafe]

It was like a song! At four we meet, in the East Wing! It was catchy, and it had rhythm and rhyme. Very nice, it made a fine tune to sing. A fine tune to whistle. A fine tune to hum. It was an all-around fine tune! He giggled, funny.
"At four, at four, at four, at four. It is at four we meet, under the East Wing, at four, at four, four and oh at fououour." He sang, pretty loud too. Good thing Teryun was a Maddigin, or esle the guards would've taken his song seriously. Teehee, the doofuses.
Doofuses.
The doofuses. Tashtosh, so very tashtosh. The green-haired lad bounced away jumping from here to there; he was one of the patients classified as harmless, so Teryun got to spend more time in the meal room than most others. It was fun when the guards were picking on others. He grabbed a bowl and a plastic spoon, he always got plastic spoons in meals due to his inability to return them. Teryun rather liked having spoons in his mouth. This time around though, he didn't use these tools to eat.

"The doofuses of tashtosh in the East Wing at four they met, when the sudden gong of tishtashtosh in the middle of bingbangbong was hurled at the East Wing doofuses at four. When the clock hits four, tremmalia will meet under the Eastern Wing." He hit his spoon on the upturned bowl to resemble a drum. The consistency of the spoon though, wasn't good for making noise. The up side? He didn't care. Teryun was happy swinging his head from side to side while hitting eating utensils together. Doing so with a catchy fine tune made it all even better.


But his melodious peace was not to last, for the alarm buzzed out and havoc ensued. Well. . . his melodious peace did last, whereas everyone else's peace did not. While green hairs continued to rock his head to and fro, inmates, doctors and patients were running about, some screaming lungs out (some literally), and others flailing their own arms around like humanoid octopi.

The clock over the serving lady rang with a delightful cacophony of bzzzts and wreaoOoOs. How interesting! It was four! Teryun's grin was replaced by a face of determination, the bowl became his helmet and the spoon his left ear. "It is four when the ringagoes meet under the Wast Eing of seven at four." He sang. His pace quickened.

He stopped before three people, a doctor, a man with funny hair, and one of the tashtoshes he was meeting. Yet he wasn't at the East Wing. "Silly blue-eyes," he grinned as he helped her up. "No time for taking unconcsious episodes, we have to meet becasue it's four!" Completely ignoring the other two people, Teryun carried Valerie to the East Wing.

"Harlequin man, we're hEeEeEere."

[GnomesAteMyCake]

"Oh, who does she thinks she be,
this little miss Valerie?
Says she wants to help me,
want to help miss Kitty...
OH, Valerie,
say can you see?
Help me, darling, lets be free!"

"We will meet where the Jester says, dear!
Have no fear!"

Bang bang, Boom Boom. Bang Bang...
Boom boom.

bangbangboomboombangbangboomboom....

BOOM.

"You....You Know Who's Voice that was."

"You're going to answer me, or I'll put you through far worse things than these doctors have ever done to you.....
I won't experiment with you---oh no. There's nothing to be gained from what I'll do."

"WHO'S VOICE WAS THAT??"

It was Ze Jester.....Valerie knows, don't hurt her.....

"Now that you have your answer, unhand my patient."

Falling....Valerie is free! Thank you for not hurting Valerie! Valerie will be good, Valerie will stop her escape, just don't do things to Valerie, Valerie will be scared...

"Silly blue-eyes! No time for taking unconcsious episodes, we have to meet because it's four!"

Blue-eyes.....that's Valerie..... Where is Valerie going now? It's four? This is when Miss Kitty said to turn up....Man, you must take Valerie to Miss Kitty....

Valerie slowly opened her eyes to see that she was being carried by someone. Her eyes widened, and she was about to scream and fight her way out of the strangers arms, when she saw Ze Jester out of the corner of her eye. She didn't trust him, but if he was there, then Kitty must be too! Sighing, Valerie settled into the person's arms, her eyes closing as her head throbbed from where she hit the floor.
"Where are we going, Man?" she said softly, opening her eyes, which about this time were slowly turning back to their usual glowing blue. "Is Man taking Valerie to Miss Kitty? Man, your hair is green! You are a rainbow person, like Valerie! Valerie will now call you rainbow man!" she said happily, and laughed, a high, painful sound that she usually couldn't stop. Luckily, for once, she laughed for a few seconds, and stopped when she didn't find anything humourous anymore.
"Rainbow Man, are we going to get out of here?" she whispered into his ear, as if it was some giant secret. "It's just....Doctor Hart has seen Valerie outside of the lab. She will know that one of Valerie's guards did the experiment for Valerie, and that Valerie hit the man over the head with a silver tray! The man didn't get up, because Valerie hit him twenty times!" Valerie exclaimed, shuddering slightly. "So, you see, Rainbow Man, Valerie cannot stay. If she stays, then Doctor Hart will surely kill her!"