Charlie Strange
After parting from his new big sis and having fun watching the ‘littler sis’ play her game Charlie spread his arms wide and had let himself fall, managing to promptly fall asleep mid-fall. It wasn’t a true sleep, not really. It was closer to a peaceful daze, or a laptop going into it’s screen saver mode, he was vaguely aware of his surroundings, but managed to recharge his battery, to continue the metaphor.
~2:00 am~Upon waking Charlie stumbled to his feet and stretched, bones audibly creaking. Rubbing his eyes Charlie followed the guards instructions for the night trip to an abandoned city. It wasn’t a particularly strenuous walk, sure he hated walking in general, but what can you do? His last attempt at a vehicle nearly ate him, so it was currently beyond Charlie’s inclination to try and make something.
Arriving at the ruins, he couldn't help but blurt out
“This place looks absolutely fucked”. The landscape before him was simply broken and desolate. As he stared, the crowed naturally gathered itself in front of a littler girl... who had the creepy sword guy by her side. Since he wasn’t an idiot he figured out almost instantly that the sword guy was some sort of faculty. As Aria explained the rules, Charlie looked around at the crowd and saw a green haired girl trip over nothing before scrambling for a pair of glasses.
Tilting his head slightly, Charlie was slightly confused at her actions but snapped back to the speech in time to hear that there was some kind of scavenger hunt for cards or something. Since the Minor Arcana seemed to dictate teams, Charlie had to wonder
If I manage to get a bunch of different Arcana cards, couldn't I theoretically pick who I team up with?... Plus there was the Fool and Charlie wasn’t made of stone, those baked goods looked delicious and sure, if he happened to come across it he’d pick it up.
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Entering the ruins, Charlie struck out in a direction of a building that didn’t look totally ruined. Keeping an eye out Charlie noticed about four flying sphere’s that shot something at one unfortunate participant, knocking him out. Sneezing absentmindedly, Charlie pulled out his ray gun and took a few pot shots at the sphere’s, hitting one, the ray punching through it’s light armour and knocking it to the ground.
As soon as one went down the other three started firing darts at him. Ducking behind a corner Charlie really wanted to take them out and tear them apart. What method did they have for flight? There was no obvious means of flight so it must be completely internalised somehow which facinated Charlie. Another thing was those darts, if he could crack them open and take some he’d have a good paralytic agent. Taking a tennis ball sized metal sphere out of one of his lab coat pockets, Charlie lightly tossed it out and waited for the ‘splat’ noise.
“SPLAT”Cautiously looking around the corner, two of the sphere’s were caught in the orange gooey mess and trying to fly around, making them look like drunken bola’s before crashing into a wall and getting stuck. For the last drone’s part it was charging at Charlie as if to slam into him. Disappearing from sight as the drone was about to slam into him, their was a light popping sound at the displacement of air as he teleported before blasting the drone point blank from behind. Gathering all of the drones Charlie stabbed the gooey drones on a piece of rebar while using it to cracked them like eggs and started rummaging around inside of them, putting any interesting components in his pockets, especially anything that looked like an engine for FLUX powered.