Log Title: Circuit Breaker comes to Brasilia
Characters: Circuit Breaker, Luminous, Priests of Primus
Location: Brazil
Year: 2007
TP: Luminous TP
As logged by Luminous - Monday, January 30, 2007, 10:24 PM
Brazil - South America[]
The biggest country in South America, Brazil is best known for the Amazon Rainforest, but the country also contains tropical grasslands, fertile plateaus, and dry areas of scrub. The farmlands of Brazil produce most of the world's coffee and soybeans and the country is a major exporter of orange juice and sugar. Cities like Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo contain most of the country's population. The country's chief language is Portuguese and despite Brazil's rich resources most of the country's people live in abject poverty.
Priests of Primus move through the streets of Brasilia, bringing the Good Word of Primus.
- Priests of Primus
- In the Citadel of Primus, robotic minions dressed as monks and priests attend to
Luminous. Those familiar with Cobra technology would recognize them as gold-plated, and presumably upgraded, Battle Android Troopers.
Circuit Breaker flies downward from the skies, moving herself to the treetop levels.
She peers at Brasilia, considering it, and its design, before moving to scout out
the citadel.
Even though it is dark and late, the priests continue to knock on doors, offering
the good word of Primus.
Sometimes, there is resistance to the Word. That is usually followed by short bursts of gunfire.
Circuit Breaker flies down towards the gunfire bursts, frowning and moving to watch
the situation better.
Priests of Primus come out of a house, dragging a crying woman by the elbow.
Circuit Breaker frowns, hopping into the air, and landing in front of the ones
dragging the woman. "Release her. Immediately." Her suit starts crackling with power
immediately.
Priests of Primus look at each other, then at you. They stop, but still hold the
woman. "Have you accepted Lord Primus as your personal savior?"
Circuit Breaker powers up her suit. "I am my own personal savior, from all mechanical beings, and anything related to them. Now release her, or be neutralized."
Priests of Primus begin swapping hands for weapons. "Blasphemers will not be
tolerated."
Two priests arm themselves, while I third, in the middle, keeps its grip on the crying woman, who looks up at you in fear.
Circuit Breaker shakes her head a little, aiming for one of the priests. "You heard
me. Release her. Immediately." She powers herself up, and fires suddenly at one.
>> Circuit Breaker critically strikes Priests of Primus with Electricity-Surge <Medium>! <<
The priest is struck, and electicity blasts over its golden frame, arching from it
to the ground and to a nearby iron fence. It is a blast that would have downed some
smaller Transformers, and yet even as its priest vestiments are burned away, the
priest just looks at you, and prepares to return fire.
Priests of Primus open fire on Circuit Breaker, while the third priest retacts his
free hand, and flips out a saw blade.
>> Priests of Primus misses Circuit Breaker with Laser <Medium>. <<
Circuit Breaker hops right up from her standing position, into the air slightly. She
moves around promptly, evading the fire. "You will not hit me. And I will not be
denied." She shakes her head, powering her systems to full power now.
The two priests continue firing ineffectually, lighting up the night sky, while the
third fires up the saw blade and brings it close to the frightened woman's face.
Circuit Breaker swears very softly, peering to see what kind of grip he has on the
woman. She goes into a full bore nose-dive from mid-air, to try to make a grab for
her, and get her away from the saw blade,.
>> Circuit Breaker succeeds with her generic combat roll on Priests of Primus. <<
The woman is grabbed, and yanked back away from the saw blade. However, the Priest
keeps a hold of the elbow, and the woman cries out in pain as she is wrenched
between the two of you. Meanwhile, the other two priests fire at you from
near-pointblank-range.
>> Priests of Primus misses Circuit Breaker with Flamethrower <Medium>. <<
Circuit Breaker swears as the woman is held, shaking her head. "The last straw has
just been reached." She flies upward, letting go for now, pointing down at one of
the priests, and opening up. Full force.
>> Circuit Breaker critically strikes Priests of Primus with Electro-Scrambler <High>! <<
well, not quite full force.
The targetted priest is electro-scrambled, even if that's not what CB intended. It
staggers back, wounded, as the other two priest look at it, then at you.
Circuit Breaker smiles very sweetly at the two others. "Starting to get the
picture?"
The middle priest lets go of the woman, who runs screaming back into the house. That
priest retracts the sawblade, and replaces his hand with a machine gun barrel. The
other (standing) priest does the same, and they both open fire on CB again. The
don't respond to your smile and taunt except with a hail of gunfire.
>> Priests of Primus misses Circuit Breaker with Machine-Gun <Medium>. <<
Circuit Breaker flits up and around promptly, jumping backwards towards a power
pole. She laughs very softly, and lands up on the wires, ignoring the sparks. In
fact, she draws more, as she starts tapping all of Brasilia's power grid. "Very
good. Much better than before. Assaulting people is going to end tonight." She
smirks, glancing abou, making sure no one is in threat range. After all... if not,
all hell can break loose. And she levels her hands towards the one who had the saw
on the woman, intending just that.
Priests of Primus look up at Circuit Breaker, still firing ineffectually. The
wounded one snaps off his laser barrel, and fits the end of a rocket into the
nubbin.
Circuit Breaker shakes her head, evading, and powering up more. She nods finally
then, peering down at them. "And now... the end."
>> Circuit Breaker strikes Priests of Primus with System-OVerload <High>. <<
Priests of Primus are overcome by injuries, losing consciousness.
Power crackles over and between all three of the priests, and as their systems are
overloaded, they fall, one by one.
Circuit Breaker draws from the power system more, getting herself recharged, before
floating down and knocking on the door the woman went in, if she can guess it.
From inside the house, the woman calls out in Portuguese, sounding frightened.
Sirens are heard in the distance.
Circuit Breaker frowns a little at the call in Portugese, not understanding, and
frowning, shaking her head. She looks for the sirens, considering that, and looking
for them.
Luminous emerges from her Citadel, flying up to investigate the destruction of three
of her priests.
<OOC> Luminous says, "Mind of Jess joins us OOCly to watch?"
<OOC> Circuit Breaker says, "sure :)"
<OOC> Guest1 has arrived.
Luminous hovers out of the Citadel of Primus. Three of her priests just went
off-line, and she's heading to the area to find out why. Her flying form us a
glowing streak in the dark Brasilia sky.
Three of Luminous's "Priests of Primus" lie outside a house on the outskirts of the city, their bodies burnt and smouldering. Other priests throughout the city have stopped what they are doing, and slowly start to converge on the location of their fallen comrades.
Circuit Breaker keeps floating near the dead priests, frowning and looking up for
the police approaching.
Police sirens approach the scene, but Priests step out and block the road. Spotting
them, the Brazilian police turn off their sirens and return to their precincts.
They've already learned that Luminous controls this part of the city and
interference won't be pretty.
Luminous spots the weird human floating near her mangled priests. She hovers down
towards the smaller yet similar figure.
Circuit Breaker peers as the other priests start blocking the roadway, starting to
fly towards them, drawing poer up to her from the power grid, as she flies low over
power lines. She mutters very softly.
Luminous flies up behind Circuit Breaker.
Below, the Priests turn around, and look up as the two glowing figures approach.
Circuit Breaker keeps drawing from the whole power grid, her suit charging up and
up, as she peers down at the priests, glowing to the point that static crackles off
it, even if it's causing power outages in a lot of the city.
The two priests Circuit Breaker has focused on look up at her emotionlessly.
Circuit Breaker pulls around at the sense of someone behind her, though, floating
there, on the lines. "And what are /you/?" She sneers a little at the robot. "You
wouldn't be controlling the ones assaulting civilians, would you?"
Luminous is easy to sense, since she's glowing more than Circuit Breaker... tho
since CB glows herself, it prolly wouldn't be as noticable to her.
Luminous smiles. "Are you referring to my priests, which *you* have assaulted?"
Circuit Breaker glowers at that. "I didn't touch them until they phyiscally DRAGGED
a local out, and threatened them with a saw. Threats to locals are taken quite
seriously."
Luminous hovers up, and looks down on Circuit Breaker.
She says brightly, "'Taken quite seriously,' oh? By whom? You, little one?"
<OOC> Guest1 pages: huh. you're using the threaten the locals idea? spiffy
<OOC> Bzero: 'Yep! And sure enough, it's brought in RP.'
Luminous looks more amused than fearful or threatened. She must not have heard of Circuit Breaker.
Circuit Breaker smiles very sweetly. "Keep your thugs out of here. You do not
impress me, in the least, even if the locals are afraid." She snerks at the
expression. "And obviously are clueless of what you deal with."
<OOC> Guest1 pages: heh? i came up with it! <OOC> BZero paged Guest1 with 'Yep. And it's working well. Thanks.'
Luminous's smile spreads across her bright silver face. "And you are as well, obviously, little one. I am the Light of Primus. I take orders from no mortal, organic or metallic. Least of all a blasphemous interloper such as yourself."
Circuit Breaker peers at that and shrugs. "I don't give a rat's ass who you are.
I've roasted plenty of alien robots before, and will roast plenty in the future.
Until they all REMOVE themselves from a world that isn't theirs, and leave this one
ALONE." She shrugs. "And I don't give a shit who you take orders from, either."
Luminous smirks. "Soon this world will be given over to us Cybertronians, and become
a new home worthy of our Lord Primus."
Circuit Breaker shakes her head a little bit at that. "Not in the least. You may
think that all you like, however..." She stands on her wires, drawing more of the
power grid to her. "Right up until I take more offense at it." She smiles and
shrugs. "Not that it hasn't happened already."
Luminous looks around. "This world? Worthy? Not yet." She smiles. "But it has
potential."
Circuit Breaker snerks. "Remove yourself. Immediately." She shrugs. "I will warn....
once." She lifts her arm up then, letting an idle blast off. Not an overly powerful
one, but...
>> Circuit Breaker strikes Luminous with Electrostatic <Medium>. <<
Luminous is struck by the electrostatic arch, and looks amused. "Well, well. You
aren't quite as weak as your human breathren."
Circuit Breaker snerks at that and shrugs. "That is simply the warning. Not the full
scale attack. That will be far worse."
Luminous says, "You've aroused my curiosity, but alas, I don't have time to deal
with you now."
She opens her palm, and focuses light around it into a beam, which she fires at the
flying human.
>> Luminous strikes Circuit Breaker with Beam <Medium>. <<
Circuit Breaker gets... well, more than a tiny bit fried from that. But for all the
char marks and such, well, she isn't down. She lets out a loud snarl, landing
herself on top of a power transformer, pulling power through it and to her till it
outright explodes with the intensity of it, then floating up. "You really REALLY
don't know what you face...." Her eyes have that fanatical, maniacial gleam to them
now. "Perhaps you should be educated!" With that, she shoves the entire power grid's
draining towards Luminous, in high anger.
>> Circuit Breaker strikes Luminous with System-OVerload <High>. <<
Luminous is taken aback, as the power from this entire section of the city blinks
and goes out, leaving just the glowing forms of Circuit Breaker and Luminous
lighting the night.
Luminous is staggered by the attack, obviously wounded, and she drops several
meters, almost collapsing to the ground.
She alights roughly on a building, and takes a moment to get her footing. Her
signature aura flickers and dims, as do her optics.
Circuit Breaker floats right back up and smirks fanatically. "You think you're
really something. Just had no idea who Circuit Breaker was, or what she was capable
of. Too bad your lack of knowledge isn't an excuse."
Luminous takes a moment to recover, then looks up at Circuit Breaker. Her optics
begin to recharge, as does the aura around her.
>> Luminous takes a step back and starts to put her pieces back together. She quickly patches herself back up. <<
Cracked armor starts to mend itself, and damaged circuit pathways reroute, supplying power once more to Luminous's systems.
Luminous stands straighter, and starts laughing. "Well, well. My knowledge is certainly increasing apace."
Circuit Breaker floats back up from the ground, moving to the closest power source
she can find. She smirks as she does, shaking her head. "You really think it that
funny, dearie? Then you haven'd had enough of it yet." She sends an idle swat of her
remaining power at Luminous, to further the education.
>> Circuit Breaker strikes Luminous with Electro-Disruptor <Medium>. <<
Luminous stands on the roof, watching CB.
Luminous is hit with the Electro-Disruptor, and with her damaged systems, has to
pause to once again adjust to the damage.
"I'm... impressed with your power, little one. Primus smiles on you, indeed."
Her systems start to adapt once again, and she begins to recover.
Circuit Breaker snickers a bit at that, floating over to a working transformer.
"Good to know that you're impressed. And Primus can take all his little minions and
go home. This power didn't come from him. I built the suit myself." She snerks and
shrugs, powering herself back up and grinning. "But... the world and I don't smile
upon the attackers of it. And that is what you've become, after all. Which means
dealing directly with the problem. Nothing personal, realize..." She lifts her hand
back up.
>> Circuit Breaker strikes Luminous with Electrostatic <High>. <<
Luminous is hit by another attack, but her systems are reacting ever faster, and
although she appears hurt, her reaction time is once again improving.
"If you have this power, it is because Primus wills it so. For what reason did you
create that suit? In reaction to our presence, perhaps?"
She raises her hand, and fires a blinding flash of light at Circuit Breaker.
>> Luminous strikes Circuit Breaker with Light Flash. <<
>> Circuit Breaker temporarily loses motor functions from the attack! <<
Luminous steps to the edge of the roof, and leaps back nimbly into the air. She flicks her wrist, and the barrel of a cannon folds out from her arm.
Circuit Breaker covers her eyes at the dazzling of light, floating backwards at it,
in an easily tracable course. She shakes her head slightly, saying vile things under
her breath.
Luminous smiles, and opens up with her autocannon. She traces cannon light rounds
through the night, tracking in on the blinded Circuit Breaker...
>> Luminous strikes Circuit Breaker with Autocannon. <<
Circuit Breaker gets cannoned. And well... with her suit not totally powered up, she
indeed does bleed like a human being, some. She floats back down, mind and body in
slight shock from the attack.
Luminous floats after her. "What's the matter?
You can dish it out, but not take it?"
Circuit Breaker growls very softly. Her suit isn't charged up enough do do much of
anything anymore, not even fly off anywhere far by this point. She squirms a little,
/trying/ to move off, even if her suit doesn't quite want to keep her airborne,
trying to get to an active power source. If she can recharge... she figures she can
make a retreat quickly.
Luminous trains her cannon on the weakened figure. "Do you accept the superior power
of Primus? Do you admit you are nothing before Him?"
Circuit Breaker glowers a little at that. "I neither admit nor accept anything about
a Cybertronian being better than me. This is not over..." She snarls, letting out
the last burst of her suit, before trying to drop herself on the power lines.
>> Circuit Breaker strikes Luminous with Taser. <<
>> Luminous temporarily loses motor functions from the attack! <<
Luminous is driven back by the surprise attack, giving Circuit Breaker a chance to
escape. Her priests try to move in, but are too late and too slow...
Circuit Breaker drops onto a power transformer meanwhile, using it to recharge her
suit even as she bleeds. She sighs, holding one hand over her wound. Once she's
charged up enough, she flies off.
Luminous staggers backward, and her priests move in. With their assistance, she
limps back to the temple.
<OOC> Luminous quotes, "We'll call it a draw."
OOC[]
Readings for Luminous:
Status: Wounded
Endurance: 570[1060] [ 53%] *****
Readings for Circuit Breaker:
Status: Serious
Endurance: [ 28%] ***