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<blockquote data-quote="Ladybird" data-source="post: 6350153" data-attributes="member: 10689"><p><strong>Episode 2, Chapter 13: Roaches Check In, But They Don't Check Out</strong></p><p></p><p>We start our preparation to capture Roach!Memmius. But Edward has a few words before we go: "Just to be clear, because our last target got spooked and tried to get away - our objective is to <em>capture</em> and <em>interrogate</em>.”</p><p></p><p>"So…no going in with blasters firing?" Henry asks, a little disappointed.</p><p></p><p>"No!" This is, in fact, exactly what Edward is trying to prevent. "No blasters!"</p><p></p><p>"PaciFists?" Henry is less interested in this than blasters.</p><p></p><p>"Yes! That!" says Edward.</p><p></p><p>"So what happens if he uses force or tries to run?" asks Henry.</p><p></p><p>Edward, being a Prepared kind of guy, goes back to set up some nets over the bed. That way, we can trap Roach!Memmius so he doesn't try to flee. </p><p></p><p>With all that in place, we jump back to 80 BCE, into Titus Memmius's bedroom. All of the jumping is starting to take a toll on Henry - he's feeling very wobbly and unstable. </p><p></p><p>The rest of us are feeling uncomfortable for other reasons. First, because Memmius's room is very small. It's only 10 X 6 feet, and full of furniture - in addition to Memmius's bed, there are several wooden cupboards. We're pretty crowded. And we're also slightly uncomfortable because on those cupboards and narrow walls are paintings of sex scenes. Lots of people having lots of sex. Sometimes, with goats.</p><p></p><p>"Goats?" Edward stares. "Are those actual goats? Ew."</p><p></p><p>Otherwise, the scene is what we saw in our video surveillance: Memmius himself is in bed, snoring in a kind of deep sleep that Michel and Yves recognize: he's clearly passed out drunk. And standing over him is a 7.5-foot tall cockroach, which has just spit some kind of mucus out of its mouth at Memmius.</p><p></p><p>The net is all ready, but we're so cramped that if Edward drops it now, he'll catch half the team. So everyone else takes this opportunity to do some smacking first.</p><p></p><p>Mace Hunter! leaps in first, of course. He lands a good solid hit with his PaciFist, but the roach just hisses at him, and doesn't show any signs of being harmed. Its carapace is so thick that it's very hard to damage. When they see how tough the roach is, Henry and Yves slam into it with even more force, Henry actually hitting twice in quick succession. Through their combined PaciFist smacks, the roach is actually injured - a few of its many claws start to drag and dangle.</p><p></p><p>Finally, everyone has managed to clear the area around the bed enough that Edward sees his chance. Down goes the net! Roach is trapped!</p><p></p><p>For a second, Roach just hisses and struggles in the net - but then the pitch of its hissing changes. Instead of just an incoherent angry noise, it turns to a high piercing shriek, so high that it's at the very edge of humans' ability to hear. So high that our ears burst with pain; so high that we're very lucky that we're not stunned or driven mad by it. </p><p></p><p>Then, while we're still staggering and shaken, Roach's claws - the still-working ones - poke out through the holes in the net. We'd thought we were standing back far enough to be safe, but the claws almost look like they're growing as Roach stretches them out. The claws clamp down on Edward's arm, hard. Blood gushes out alarmingly fast, and Edward yells.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, Michel is standing right next to Edward, and hastily patches up the worst of the damage. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Henry, Yves, and Mace all whale on Roach with their PaciFists, but its shell is so hard that their blows barely make any difference. </p><p></p><p>Once Edward and Michel are back in the fight, they have better luck. While Edward's first shot skitters right off the carapace just like everyone else's did, his second is a solid hit. Roach twitches violently, barely managing to stay on its feet. (or claws, or whatever)</p><p></p><p>Michel is much better-suited to close-range Scuffling than to Shooting, so he's equipped himself with a stun-wand PaciFist. He manages to dodge in between all of the shooters and tases Roach.</p><p></p><p>As Roach staggers around with its last shreds of energy, it shimmers and starts to grow wings. But that effort is too much for it, and it collapses on the floor.</p><p></p><p>As the sounds of battle die away, we start to hear some mumbling from the direction of the bed: Titus Memmius is waking up. Only now, after there's been yelling and roach-shrieking and PaciFist combat? Yes. He was <em>very</em> drunk. Henry revs up his PaciFist, ready for more smacking! But Michel steps in to jab him with a sedative shot. There's no need to MemTag - we think there's a good chance that Memmius was asleep the whole time, and if Memmius actually woke up briefly, he'd assume that the brief glimpse of a giant cockroach was a really bad dream.</p><p></p><p>Some people in the house _are_ awake and able to hear the odd noises coming from the room. From the hallway, a servant's voice calls, "Er. Master? Are you all right?"</p><p></p><p>We all stare at each other. Uh. Uh. What do we say?</p><p></p><p>Finally, Edward - figuring that the staff in Memmius's house are used to hearing unfamiliar young men and women calling out from the bedroom - steps up to Reassure the servant. "Everything is fine!"</p><p></p><p>There's the expected pause, and the expected, "Ohhhhhh!" when the servant thinks he realizes what's going on. "Do you need anything? Food? Drink?"</p><p></p><p>"Er. No," Edward calls back. "Just…privacy?"</p><p></p><p>Thankfully, that gets the servant to go away, so we can examine Memmius and interrogate our giant roach in peace.</p><p></p><p>First, Michel checks out Memmius, who's been sprayed with some kind of roach slime. Michel thinks that the slime has some kind of effect that's both psychic and soporific: it keeps subject unconscious, and lets you borrow their thoughts. That's how Roach was impersonating Memmius to talk to Lucretius. It's pretty powerful stuff, though - over time, its effects could cause some pretty serious damage to a person.</p><p></p><p>"It makes you really sickly and have to retreat to the countryside?" Edward figures.</p><p></p><p>"Exactement," says Michel.</p><p></p><p>So now we know that Memmius isn't in any immediate danger. And we've got a roach.</p><p></p><p>Mace: Do we really want to bring a giant unconscious cockroach to TimeWatch HQ?</p><p>Yves: It is probably the most secure facility in the space-time continuum</p><p>Edward: The other alternative is to interrogate it here, I suppose. But if we're going anywhere else, TimeWatch is the safest.</p><p>Michel: We could take it into the backyard and smack it with a very large shoe. Except that Roman shoes aren't quite that good</p><p>Edward: Can you give it a sedative?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, Michel can do one better: with his knowledge of medicine and Science! he can come up with a cockroach-worthy truth serum.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Edward searches Roach - we don't want Roach timetraveling away, so we need to confiscate any timetravel mechanism that it's got. But Edward doesn't find anything to confiscate. "Do these things have an innate timetravel ability?" he wonders, and checks the tether to find out. Yes, says the tether; this kind of roach manipulates sound to travel through time.</p><p></p><p>But the answer comes back through the tether much more slowly than it should. There's some kind of delay, and that bothers Edward a lot.</p><p></p><p>"Does that mean that something in the system is down at TimeWatch HQ?" Mace asks.</p><p></p><p>Edward shakes his head. When there's lag on the tether like this, it's usually because the tether is no longer the precise model that HQ expects to be connecting to it. "More likely, it means that we're moving farther away from…" He trails off. He can't say 'our home timeline,' because that's not an option right now; at least, not for any of us except Henry. He finally settles on… "the timeline we left." </p><p></p><p>Even more unsettling is that the tether problems are new. Our tethers were working just fine in 113 CE and in 56 BCE; they're just not working now.</p><p></p><p>That plus Henry's chronal instability make us decide to interrogate Roach here rather than risking a jump back to HM TimeWatch HQ. </p><p></p><p>We divide up the Good Cop/Bad Cop duties again - this time, Edward is much more surprised to find himself in the position of Bad Cop, but he seems to be the most Intimidating person around, so he'll do it. Mace is equally surprised to be the Reassuring one.</p><p></p><p>Yves, surprising no one, is disappointed that this is a situation that he can't solve by Flirting, but is just fine to not have to try to flirt with Roach.</p><p></p><p>And, most usefully of all, Michel administers his truth serum just before we wake Roach up.</p><p></p><p>Edward summons every bit of his royal authority as he stands before the roach. "You see what has come of your plans? You are no match for us. We will never let you destroy the timeline. You are trapped and powerless, and if you tell us everything, we <em>might</em> show you a little bit of mercy."</p><p></p><p>[sblock]There was a lot more to this speech, but I didn't actually get to write it down because I was saying it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> [/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Roach hisses back. "You are foolish! Did you think that you petty humans would rule the earth? It is we, the Ezeru, who shall rule."</p><p></p><p>"How were you planning to do that?" Edward presses. "You know, before we petty humans beat you up and captured you? We'll do the same to the rest of your accomplices, too."</p><p></p><p>"You cannot!" Roach retorts. "We are legion! Too many for you."</p><p></p><p>"Where are the others?" Edward asks. "And when?"</p><p></p><p>"Doing what is necessary for survival of the fittest," hisses Roach. "We are increasing the rate of mutation of our ancestors so that we may achieve our greatness before you humans destroy too much of the food."</p><p></p><p>"Oh, but this is very clever!" Michel good-cops. "How is it that you are assured of introducing the mutations that you need?"</p><p></p><p>"The weak will die and the strong will survive!" says Roach. "We are legion! We established centers of columns of radiation in the cities where our ancestors dwelt, to feed on your waste. More pillars spreading throughout! Sooner or later the Ezeru will come. The Ezeru will grow strong."</p><p></p><p>"…I'm actually kind of impressed by this plan," says Michel. We all are. It's a pretty good plan: introducing radiation to induce mutations in cockroaches so that they grow stronger while causing humans to grow weaker from radiation sickness, and accelerating the onset of nuclear wars. "This is all very elegant! But what do you do? Destroy crops to change migration? Frighten young politicians? This seems like cheap tricks and chicanery."</p><p></p><p>"You humans are easily fooled by cheap tricks," Roach scoffs. "We foretold your future, what you thought would be your future. We promised healing, too."</p><p></p><p>"You foretold the future?" Edward repeats.</p><p></p><p>"My colleague," explains Roach. "To whoever asked him. He was very convincing."</p><p></p><p>Just then, Edward Notices that there are some bugs coming in through the window.</p><p>Tiny roaches, beetles, caterpillars - all kinds of bugs. Lots of bugs. Roach must be summoning them by making some noise that they can hear but we can't. We don't have much time….</p><p></p><p>"Is your colleague the one who was talking to Apollonius?" Edward guesses.</p><p></p><p>"Talked to!" Roach repeats smugly. "I like that."</p><p></p><p>Michel edits, "Who took the place of Apollonius?"</p><p></p><p>"There is still an Apollonius…" Roach taunts.</p><p></p><p>So either Apollonius is begin manipulated by Roach!Damis, as we'd suspected before, or he's being roach-goo-ed and impersonated like Memmius. Or something else. Either way, we know that we need to deal with him - and either way, we're running out of time here.</p><p></p><p>"I think that's all we can get," Edward says, eyeing the growing swarms of bugs coming in through the window.</p><p></p><p>Henry instantly perks up. "Can we kill it? Can we kill it a lot?"</p><p></p><p>Yes, we can. So we do. A lot. Our blasters smash Roach into little bitty pieces. Henry does not jump up and down on the bitty pieces, but he's very tempted.</p><p></p><p>As soon as Roach is dead, the swarms of other bugs immediately disperse - or, rather, just go back to wandering aimlessly, the way bugs normally do. Mace Hunter, thinks this is absolutely awesome. "Check out this grasshopper, guys!" he calls, eagerly catching bugs.</p><p></p><p>The rest of us are not quite as thrilled to be in a room full of bugs. "Is there a dustpan?" Michel asks, looking around the room in disgust.</p><p></p><p>Edward looks around too."There's, er, that urn?" he suggests. Like most of the furniture and knick-knacks in the room, the urn is decorated with all kinds of interesting sexual art. Edward might find it educational, if he weren't so busy trying to get rid of bugs.</p><p></p><p>Michel looks at the urn skeptically, but hey, it's the best we can get. He starts scooping bugs into it and dumps them out the window.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybird, post: 6350153, member: 10689"] [b]Episode 2, Chapter 13: Roaches Check In, But They Don't Check Out[/b] We start our preparation to capture Roach!Memmius. But Edward has a few words before we go: "Just to be clear, because our last target got spooked and tried to get away - our objective is to [i]capture[/i] and [i]interrogate[/i].” "So…no going in with blasters firing?" Henry asks, a little disappointed. "No!" This is, in fact, exactly what Edward is trying to prevent. "No blasters!" "PaciFists?" Henry is less interested in this than blasters. "Yes! That!" says Edward. "So what happens if he uses force or tries to run?" asks Henry. Edward, being a Prepared kind of guy, goes back to set up some nets over the bed. That way, we can trap Roach!Memmius so he doesn't try to flee. With all that in place, we jump back to 80 BCE, into Titus Memmius's bedroom. All of the jumping is starting to take a toll on Henry - he's feeling very wobbly and unstable. The rest of us are feeling uncomfortable for other reasons. First, because Memmius's room is very small. It's only 10 X 6 feet, and full of furniture - in addition to Memmius's bed, there are several wooden cupboards. We're pretty crowded. And we're also slightly uncomfortable because on those cupboards and narrow walls are paintings of sex scenes. Lots of people having lots of sex. Sometimes, with goats. "Goats?" Edward stares. "Are those actual goats? Ew." Otherwise, the scene is what we saw in our video surveillance: Memmius himself is in bed, snoring in a kind of deep sleep that Michel and Yves recognize: he's clearly passed out drunk. And standing over him is a 7.5-foot tall cockroach, which has just spit some kind of mucus out of its mouth at Memmius. The net is all ready, but we're so cramped that if Edward drops it now, he'll catch half the team. So everyone else takes this opportunity to do some smacking first. Mace Hunter! leaps in first, of course. He lands a good solid hit with his PaciFist, but the roach just hisses at him, and doesn't show any signs of being harmed. Its carapace is so thick that it's very hard to damage. When they see how tough the roach is, Henry and Yves slam into it with even more force, Henry actually hitting twice in quick succession. Through their combined PaciFist smacks, the roach is actually injured - a few of its many claws start to drag and dangle. Finally, everyone has managed to clear the area around the bed enough that Edward sees his chance. Down goes the net! Roach is trapped! For a second, Roach just hisses and struggles in the net - but then the pitch of its hissing changes. Instead of just an incoherent angry noise, it turns to a high piercing shriek, so high that it's at the very edge of humans' ability to hear. So high that our ears burst with pain; so high that we're very lucky that we're not stunned or driven mad by it. Then, while we're still staggering and shaken, Roach's claws - the still-working ones - poke out through the holes in the net. We'd thought we were standing back far enough to be safe, but the claws almost look like they're growing as Roach stretches them out. The claws clamp down on Edward's arm, hard. Blood gushes out alarmingly fast, and Edward yells. Fortunately, Michel is standing right next to Edward, and hastily patches up the worst of the damage. Meanwhile, Henry, Yves, and Mace all whale on Roach with their PaciFists, but its shell is so hard that their blows barely make any difference. Once Edward and Michel are back in the fight, they have better luck. While Edward's first shot skitters right off the carapace just like everyone else's did, his second is a solid hit. Roach twitches violently, barely managing to stay on its feet. (or claws, or whatever) Michel is much better-suited to close-range Scuffling than to Shooting, so he's equipped himself with a stun-wand PaciFist. He manages to dodge in between all of the shooters and tases Roach. As Roach staggers around with its last shreds of energy, it shimmers and starts to grow wings. But that effort is too much for it, and it collapses on the floor. As the sounds of battle die away, we start to hear some mumbling from the direction of the bed: Titus Memmius is waking up. Only now, after there's been yelling and roach-shrieking and PaciFist combat? Yes. He was [i]very[/i] drunk. Henry revs up his PaciFist, ready for more smacking! But Michel steps in to jab him with a sedative shot. There's no need to MemTag - we think there's a good chance that Memmius was asleep the whole time, and if Memmius actually woke up briefly, he'd assume that the brief glimpse of a giant cockroach was a really bad dream. Some people in the house _are_ awake and able to hear the odd noises coming from the room. From the hallway, a servant's voice calls, "Er. Master? Are you all right?" We all stare at each other. Uh. Uh. What do we say? Finally, Edward - figuring that the staff in Memmius's house are used to hearing unfamiliar young men and women calling out from the bedroom - steps up to Reassure the servant. "Everything is fine!" There's the expected pause, and the expected, "Ohhhhhh!" when the servant thinks he realizes what's going on. "Do you need anything? Food? Drink?" "Er. No," Edward calls back. "Just…privacy?" Thankfully, that gets the servant to go away, so we can examine Memmius and interrogate our giant roach in peace. First, Michel checks out Memmius, who's been sprayed with some kind of roach slime. Michel thinks that the slime has some kind of effect that's both psychic and soporific: it keeps subject unconscious, and lets you borrow their thoughts. That's how Roach was impersonating Memmius to talk to Lucretius. It's pretty powerful stuff, though - over time, its effects could cause some pretty serious damage to a person. "It makes you really sickly and have to retreat to the countryside?" Edward figures. "Exactement," says Michel. So now we know that Memmius isn't in any immediate danger. And we've got a roach. Mace: Do we really want to bring a giant unconscious cockroach to TimeWatch HQ? Yves: It is probably the most secure facility in the space-time continuum Edward: The other alternative is to interrogate it here, I suppose. But if we're going anywhere else, TimeWatch is the safest. Michel: We could take it into the backyard and smack it with a very large shoe. Except that Roman shoes aren't quite that good Edward: Can you give it a sedative? Actually, Michel can do one better: with his knowledge of medicine and Science! he can come up with a cockroach-worthy truth serum. Meanwhile, Edward searches Roach - we don't want Roach timetraveling away, so we need to confiscate any timetravel mechanism that it's got. But Edward doesn't find anything to confiscate. "Do these things have an innate timetravel ability?" he wonders, and checks the tether to find out. Yes, says the tether; this kind of roach manipulates sound to travel through time. But the answer comes back through the tether much more slowly than it should. There's some kind of delay, and that bothers Edward a lot. "Does that mean that something in the system is down at TimeWatch HQ?" Mace asks. Edward shakes his head. When there's lag on the tether like this, it's usually because the tether is no longer the precise model that HQ expects to be connecting to it. "More likely, it means that we're moving farther away from…" He trails off. He can't say 'our home timeline,' because that's not an option right now; at least, not for any of us except Henry. He finally settles on… "the timeline we left." Even more unsettling is that the tether problems are new. Our tethers were working just fine in 113 CE and in 56 BCE; they're just not working now. That plus Henry's chronal instability make us decide to interrogate Roach here rather than risking a jump back to HM TimeWatch HQ. We divide up the Good Cop/Bad Cop duties again - this time, Edward is much more surprised to find himself in the position of Bad Cop, but he seems to be the most Intimidating person around, so he'll do it. Mace is equally surprised to be the Reassuring one. Yves, surprising no one, is disappointed that this is a situation that he can't solve by Flirting, but is just fine to not have to try to flirt with Roach. And, most usefully of all, Michel administers his truth serum just before we wake Roach up. Edward summons every bit of his royal authority as he stands before the roach. "You see what has come of your plans? You are no match for us. We will never let you destroy the timeline. You are trapped and powerless, and if you tell us everything, we [i]might[/i] show you a little bit of mercy." [sblock]There was a lot more to this speech, but I didn't actually get to write it down because I was saying it :) [/sblock] Roach hisses back. "You are foolish! Did you think that you petty humans would rule the earth? It is we, the Ezeru, who shall rule." "How were you planning to do that?" Edward presses. "You know, before we petty humans beat you up and captured you? We'll do the same to the rest of your accomplices, too." "You cannot!" Roach retorts. "We are legion! Too many for you." "Where are the others?" Edward asks. "And when?" "Doing what is necessary for survival of the fittest," hisses Roach. "We are increasing the rate of mutation of our ancestors so that we may achieve our greatness before you humans destroy too much of the food." "Oh, but this is very clever!" Michel good-cops. "How is it that you are assured of introducing the mutations that you need?" "The weak will die and the strong will survive!" says Roach. "We are legion! We established centers of columns of radiation in the cities where our ancestors dwelt, to feed on your waste. More pillars spreading throughout! Sooner or later the Ezeru will come. The Ezeru will grow strong." "…I'm actually kind of impressed by this plan," says Michel. We all are. It's a pretty good plan: introducing radiation to induce mutations in cockroaches so that they grow stronger while causing humans to grow weaker from radiation sickness, and accelerating the onset of nuclear wars. "This is all very elegant! But what do you do? Destroy crops to change migration? Frighten young politicians? This seems like cheap tricks and chicanery." "You humans are easily fooled by cheap tricks," Roach scoffs. "We foretold your future, what you thought would be your future. We promised healing, too." "You foretold the future?" Edward repeats. "My colleague," explains Roach. "To whoever asked him. He was very convincing." Just then, Edward Notices that there are some bugs coming in through the window. Tiny roaches, beetles, caterpillars - all kinds of bugs. Lots of bugs. Roach must be summoning them by making some noise that they can hear but we can't. We don't have much time…. "Is your colleague the one who was talking to Apollonius?" Edward guesses. "Talked to!" Roach repeats smugly. "I like that." Michel edits, "Who took the place of Apollonius?" "There is still an Apollonius…" Roach taunts. So either Apollonius is begin manipulated by Roach!Damis, as we'd suspected before, or he's being roach-goo-ed and impersonated like Memmius. Or something else. Either way, we know that we need to deal with him - and either way, we're running out of time here. "I think that's all we can get," Edward says, eyeing the growing swarms of bugs coming in through the window. Henry instantly perks up. "Can we kill it? Can we kill it a lot?" Yes, we can. So we do. A lot. Our blasters smash Roach into little bitty pieces. Henry does not jump up and down on the bitty pieces, but he's very tempted. As soon as Roach is dead, the swarms of other bugs immediately disperse - or, rather, just go back to wandering aimlessly, the way bugs normally do. Mace Hunter, thinks this is absolutely awesome. "Check out this grasshopper, guys!" he calls, eagerly catching bugs. The rest of us are not quite as thrilled to be in a room full of bugs. "Is there a dustpan?" Michel asks, looking around the room in disgust. Edward looks around too."There's, er, that urn?" he suggests. Like most of the furniture and knick-knacks in the room, the urn is decorated with all kinds of interesting sexual art. Edward might find it educational, if he weren't so busy trying to get rid of bugs. Michel looks at the urn skeptically, but hey, it's the best we can get. He starts scooping bugs into it and dumps them out the window. [/QUOTE]
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