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The ghoul's response brought on a contorted frown. He relied heavily on everyone else to know what to do, and when that fell short, he was very lost.

As the sounds of the machine whirring back to life became impossible to ignore, he turned to face it, careful not to smack the ghoul and the smellydeer with his tail. That would have been counterproductive.

"We can fix after throwing stops," he decided. It seemed to be what the others were focusing on, anyway. With the two of them shielding the deer, it wasn't too difficult to deflect the toys and debris that were sent flying in their direction. Ichr deftly threw each of them back towards the tantrum-throwing machine, hoping that smacking it enough times might make it stop.

My HP: 30
Targetting: SANTA SCOUT
Damage Dealt: 5
Boss HP: 54
Anything attacked/attackers should note: Protecting the deer with Shehk

Goopy had been absent-mindedly watching the girl with the tail. Then, she watched the ... whatever it was that was dripping stuff. She quietly asked herself outloud, "sister? momma? they is look like Goopy a little..."

The sound of the monster coming back alive did scare her a little bit. Some people dookie their pants when they get scared like that, but Goopy just dropped half her ectoplasm to the floor. Her long squiggly arms flailed in the air. She made lots of panicking sounds. She sucked in a lot of air and started to hold her breath. Her cheeks puffed out, and her face was half scaled with fear pangs etching her. Her eyes swelled and bulged till they were almost about to leap and multiply in front of her face. She was only shook out of this by that boy getting up and ready.

Goopy was trying really hard to fight her feeling freaked out and try to be of more use to this pal she had been mimicking and following around, but she was puzzled by his ability to seem determined to wanna fight. She wasn't exactly a slime ghost who was predisposed to just wanting to fight all the time. She much preferred eating.. and looking for new hair to wear.

Then, to see that boy get flung cross the room like that. She squinted her eyes. Ohhh.. that had to hurt. She watched him slide down the wall. Ohnoes.. She wanted to go and see if he was ok, but she had to get there first. Well.. there was only one thing left to do.. she had to just try to glop the machine again. Maybe she could pull off some classy maneuver to make her way over to Ralph.

Now, Goopy had just thought since she splat the big machine before, and it stopped moving. She just assumed it'd happen that way again, but this time, the machine saw her coming. Instead of splatting the machine, it stomped on her. At first her arms stuck out with exclamatory type freezing in the air then flailed for a half second, then fell into dripping glops onto the floor. Now, she wasn't going to help Ralph. She probably wasn't going to help anyone until this thing took it's foot off of her, and she could recollect herself.

My HP:22/30
Damage Dealt:0
Target: Santa scout
Collective Damage to Boss: 54

Anything attacked/attackers should note: While Goopy can normally slip through stuff, since its foot is on top of her; she's immobile and cannot regroup till it moves it's foot. and... she's a big puddle of ectoplasm, watch your step. :3

THWOMP

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Its large mechanical hands fell into a steady rhythm as the machine continued its relentless attacks, the cogs and gears within the Insanity-driven machine hissing and whirling that a sound that was less heard and more felt within the root of one's teeth. The robot didn't stop when it was attacked and forced away from its then-current target, nor did it stop when anything and everything from rocks to toys were either thrown at it or used to bash it. It continued to methodically punch the floor, shelves, walls, and everything else around it as the room shook harder and harder. Cracks that began as tiny hair-lines splintered off and grew to form a tangled web of jagged fractures from floor to wall to ceiling, spreading out faster than a gossiped rumor when --



A large cloud of dust rose and obscured everyone and everything within what remained of the store. Everything seemed to pause for a moment before the loud "CA-CAW!" wailing of an alarm went off. The squawking alarm continued to shriek as the store's sprinkler system turned on, dampening everyone and everything upon contact.

The waters from the sprinkler system soothe all wounds! Everyone gains +10 HP.

As the last of the dust is washed away, several things can be made apparent through the fine mist: the former santa scout was no more. While there was a rather Goopy person stuck beneath one large metallic foot the machine was absolutely still, buried beneath both the fallen ceiling and part of the store that was located directly above. A metal beam appeared to have pierced the windshield of the robot; the rider was no where to be seen.

In addition to the rider, both reindeer were also gone. It was if they simply... vanished.

Nothing else remains here, though it looks as if the robot is filled with a bunch of small boxes...

(( If you have participated at all at ANY POINT during this boss, please post your minis SN to receive your prize!

I would like to apologize for how few boss rounds there were, my IRL was rather busy and I was unable to post. Thank you all for participating! ))

Zar could only stare at the unfolding drama. At least..until the sprinklers came on. When they did, even though they did help to mend his injuries, he began to run around in an utter panic, flapping his wings and flailing, at least until he realised it was just a mist and wouldn't leave him with mushy wings. Only then did he calm down out of his tizzy enough to take in the destruction, though he still kept flicking them obsessively to try and keep them mostly dry.

"I have..no idea" he replied to the pricolici, looking about as dumbfounded as everyone else.


(( S/N Baneful smile ))

As Ralph got up, he groaned, though what part of his body the sound came from not even he knew. Though the sprinklers surprisingly helped him feel a bit better, his chest and a couple places on his arms stayed dented.

"Jack, my dad's gonna kill me," He muttered to himself.

He looked around for his...well he didn't know if he could call her a friend, but he was concerned about her. His frown grew as his search proved futile, until he looked at where the bot used to be.

He hobbled over to the purple pool that he was certain was Goopy as fast as his stiff legs would take him. "Goopy, is that you? What the Jack happened?" He put his shoulder against the leg of the once robot and pushed as hard as he could.

((s/n Muffinsbaby))

Alas, Goopy could hear all the commotion of everything reaching its peak. then, when everything went quiet, and everything seemed over. Goopy was trying her darndest to recollect her slime together outside the foot. She was getting an ok pile of it, but some of her core and central slime was still trapped under the big foot. She wished she could push her lips out to call for help, or at least push her eyes out to look around and see what was happening. All she could do was wait. Hopefully, eventually, someone would come along and move this big bot, so she could get out.

Then, it was muffled, but it sounded like the boy she had been mimicking and following. Oh. Was he there to help her? Yay.. He had come for her. She wished she could answer. All she could do was try to pool her slime around to him on the outside... She wished she could answer. If she had been a more intelligent being, she might have thought to make her slime form words, but Goopy wasn't an especially intelligent being. She was learning as she existed from the world around her. Then, seeing the bot rock, little cracks of room started to open up and she tried to quickly push herself from under it. She had gotten quite a bit of it out, but enough of it was still stuck.

Luckily, her eyes and face were being pinched in a way by the big bot foot. It really looked quite odd. Her slime forming a big bubble as if her slime were a bubble gum bubble, and her face had been painted on it. "Goopy still stuck... "

((sn: graceangel))

Zar could only nod, agreeing with Shekh, it really wasn't safe here, it was bad enough the ceilings were getting unstable, but the sprinkler system for him was the final straw, he could only tolerate so much damp and this was too much. Nor did he want to be around if more of the chaotic festive monsters showed up on the scene, today had been quite wild enough. He tossed Al a subtle sidelong glance and stated "lets go".

Though he did take one of the boxes with him, couldn't hurt to do a little investigating of the nature of this madness.

And with that, he left, waiting up for Al as necissary.

((Exit! ))

Once Shehk was sure stuff was divvied out to people, she paused, looking at the box she still held before she.... just shoved it up into the pair of panties she was wearing on her head. She figured that would be a good place to hold that, even if it looked like she had some sort of misshapen crotch-tumor growing out of the top of her head.

Whatever. Either way, she could deal with it, finally leaving the remains of the Santa Scout with one last swift kick to it, "That's for Nuk and last year, you s**t." she paused, then kicked it two more times, "And that's for the Rescue Reindeer." she added, huffing and then heading out the door to see what was going on outside...

[[Exit to Parking Lot!]]