Honestly, I feel bad for all the injured grey titers. I know they’re not real, and only of my creation from my own mind, but if any of you are curious, in my mind they are very sturdy and are just unconscious and will be fine. 🙂
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Thoos, Picknar, Knox, and Rodrigo flew their hoverbikes around, joining Spizz in Spizz’s battle against the attacking grey titers. Val went to Spizz’s abandoned hoevrbike, hit the “homing auto-pilot” button, and said, “Stop moving! Hold still! They follow motion!” As they all went still, the grey-titers flew after the departing hoverbike. With a furious battle-cry, Rodrigo said, “Thoos, do you have another bottle?!” Thoos said, “But all the grey titers just flew off.” Rodrigo calmly replied, “Which is why we deserve a drink.”
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As a DM with a 9 year old D&D player, I also fully understand and approve of “nope, that lil bad guy is actually fine, they’re just sleeping” after a number of sword attacks took them down.
Let that be your last bottlefield.
Shouldn’t that button read Hovering rather than Homing? I would think that Homing would send the units back to whence they came. Hovering would have the computer balance things to stay put.
Also, on the guys on the ground, I can hear them say ‘I’m not dead’ when the guy with the cart comes by.
One of my favorite quotes is from the Great Book of Amber series by Roger Zelazny wherein two of the half-brother Princes of Amber discuss whether the armies of minions whom they have recruited from shadow versions of Earth elsewhen in the megaverse should be considered truly as real persons. To their credit they decided in the affirmative.
Homing is correct. Everybody stays motionless while the hoverbike goes home and draws off the grey-titers.
If it was a “Hovering Auto Pilot” then she could not have sent the empty jet bike “back to whence they came” in order to draw the grey titers off.
Val/Picknar pressed the Homing button on Spizz’s hoverbike, sending it off with the grey titers in hot pursuit.
Ah. So much going on, I misread it as they just stopped moving and the bad guys got bored and wandered off. I now see where the one bike has taken off alone and they are following it. Yes. I like that better. Because now, when we get going again, the bad guys won’t notice and resume their attack.
Oh, I like this resolution! Spizz is spared, but still faces a long walk back to any other transportation. Even if it’s just to the hoverbike rental shop.
On the other hand… Well. No. I’ve gotten in enough trouble predicting outcomes. I’ll just get another Dr. Pepper and lean back for the next episode. Bottle battles and their aftermath and all.
Odds he’s forced to hitch a ride with Thoos.