The Armourzilla's Pinball round!
OOC - Here's my stab at the Pinball round, please excuse any
inaccuracies, because I'm flying blind on this one!
RPG -
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When: Just before the Armourzilla's pinball challenge.
Penny had to trade jobs with Donover, Since he didn't want to deal
with a crime case that acting 'Security Chief' Jackson had assigned
him. And to make matter worse, her calls to Commmander White Wolf's
office wasn't getting answered, and her call over the ships PA got no
response, so she assumed White Wolf was busy with something really
important. (He never heard the PA over his jackhammering.) So Penny
then instructed Donover to take Tom, Dick and Harry along with him to
handle the job of bringing the Armourzilla to the Robot Wars. She
hoped, that with them along, Donover wouldn't cause any trouble with
Armourzilla. She'd already had enough difficulty explaining about
the twenty missing scutters, which the 'zilla seemed to enjoy
swapping like flies.
Donover was so relieved that he didn't have to explain about the
destroyed scutters, he'd forgotten to tell Penny where Commander
White Wolf had gone. When he remembered, he was down in the Robot
Wars arena. He debated about going back and telling her, but
eventually, he shrugged and thought "No biggie, I can tell her
afterwards."
As Tom, Dick and Harry lugged the Armourzilla into the arena's
staging area, Craig Charles approached Donover while holding a
microphone and asking, "So this is the security departments Entry.
Hmm, it doesn't look like much more than a patched up troop killer.
Do you think it has what it takes to win the Pinball match and the
eliminator competition?"
Donover glanced at the arena, and then replied "All I know is, White
Wolf helped us with it's AI unit. He said it's adaptive, so I figure
that's enough for it learn what it needs to do in the pinball match.
And so far, It's been mighty good at destroying robots."
"You sound pretty confident, so we'll see how well it does as we
start it's pinball round next."
As Tom, Dick and Harry placed the Armourzilla in the waiting area for
the Pinball round, near the other bots, while Donover used the remote
to turn on the Armourzilla.
The Armourzilla stood up, and turned its sensors on the robots as
they entered the pinball match. It noted it couldn't get at them just
yet, so it ran various scenarios of how to best deal with each bot in
turn as they went through the pinball match. And then, the house
bots caught it's interest.
Tom, Dick and Harry walked up to Donover, and Harry asked "Do you
really think it learn how to do this pinball thing, Donover?"
Donover replied, "Sure, It's adaptive. All I have to do is tell it to
watch the others, and do what they do."
Donover walked over towards the Armourzilla, and leaned over towards
it, and told it, "You watch the other bots, and do what they do."
Armourzilla turned it's red eyes from watching Deadmetal patroling
the outter limits, and scanned Donover for a moment. It ran what he
said through it's translators, it didn't fully grasp what Donover was
trying to tell it. And then it turned and watched as the Kamikazi
entered the arena. When Kamikazi blitzkrieged through the pinball
match, the Armourzilla turned and studied the crowd and Donover as
they cheered. Then, Donover continued speaking to the
Armourzilla, "that's what your supposed to do!"
Armourzilla's AI puzzled momentarily over Donovers words, then it
came to the conclusion that were irrelevant, and went back to
considering how to best deal with the Kamikazi. It wasn't sure it's
new host body was up to such a task. It continued watching the other
bots enter the arena and go through the pinaball match, it eventually
concluded that this behavior was some warm up.
It's turn was next, and it immediately moved into the out of bounds
portion of the arena, and simply sat there.
Craig charles intoned, "It looks like the security team's Armourzilla
is having difficulties. But as everyone can see, here comes one of
the house bots to teach it a lesson in the school of hard knocks."
Bash moved over, ready to do his namesake on the Armourzilla, when
suddenly the Armourzilla stood up and quickly swung it's tail and
sent Bash sailing into the pinball area, smashing dozens of the
targets. Bash finally came to a stop, partially buried by the pile of
barrels.
The Armourzilla surged forward, and pile drived itself into Bash,
further smashing various targets. Bash, heavily dented on one side,
tried to evade the Armourzilla as it reached out to grapple it. But
Bash wasn't quick enough, the Armourzilla picked it up and hurled it
the rest of the way through the Pinball area, and out of bounds on
the opposite side.
The Armourzilla followed with a terrific leap, it landed just in
front of the audience on the opposite side of another house bot,
Matilda. It quickly reached out, grabbed Matilda, and looked like it
was ready to heft Matilda into the bleachers just as the klaxon
signalled.
"Oh Smegg, that was close!" Swore Tom breathlessy, as Donover hit the
off button on the remote so quickly he bruised his finger. Matilda
fell from the Armourzilla's grasp with a metallic crunch.
Craig Charles shouts over the crowds cheering. "What a show, Folks!
It looks like the Armourzilla does score pretty well after all. I
think we can really look forward to a pretty good rumble from the
Armourzilla during the Eliminator match."
Dick turned to Donover, "Will that thing attack the audience?"
"I certainly hope not, we'll have a hard time dealing with that Troop
killer armour it has! I'll just have to be more quick on the remote,
next time. At least we don't have to do any repairs..." Replies
Donover nervously.