77th Bounty [video]

[ruthless_hunter]

[Today Lockdown is outside his ship, slicing off all the plants and vines that have overtaken his ship. He also has a flamethrower nearby.]

I just torched these things and they grew back in no time. And looks like snippin' 'em ain't doing much good either.

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[mechanicalmouse]

Bugs for the botizen!

[That's short for "robot citizen".]

[ruthless_hunter]

[He'll just accept the label for now.]

Right, the bugs. How much?

[mechanicalmouse]

Free when the botizen makes the City ho~me.

[ruthless_hunter]

I've been livin' here for years. That's gotta count by now.

[mechanicalmouse]

Yes yes! Have buckets.

[Literally, buckets of the locust aphid things that are going to eat the plants away but maybe also get inside Lockdown too.]

[ruthless_hunter]

Send 'em over.

[He doesn't trust anything being given away by the deities, but these plants are making it impossible to get inside his ship.]

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[pratful]

[ Arthur is miserably holed up in the closet again. It's one of the few safe places in the house. ]

At least we can be fairly certain they'll just disappear in the morning. That's usually how these curses work.

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[ruthless_hunter]

Yeah, but some'a these things have tried to strangle me by now. Not fun.

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[pratful]

[ no... he can imagine that wasn't. ]

And they don't exactly take kindly to hacking, do they. [ he sighed ] Then I'm afraid I'm all out of ideas. These things are a little too green for a proper fire and I wouldn't advise it anyway. You'd send the whole City up in flames.

Maybe if you could lull them to sleep somehow... [ fake night? It's worth a shot. ]

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[ruthless_hunter]

I don't have anything vital in my neck, unlike you meatbags. Was still annoyin'.

And I tried torchin' em. Didn't do slag.

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[pratful]

[ Arthur blinked, stunned momentarily into silence ]

Well that does sound like you have a problem. Have you considered simply running and hoping for the best? If not even flame will cow these creatures into submission, I'm afraid there is little else that can be done.

[ he frowned and paused again ]

Unless of course magical means could be put to use to still them. But I'm afraid that's out of my area of expertise.

[ audio ]

[ruthless_hunter]

I ain't gonna let a few weeds get the best'a me.

[ audio ]

[pratful]

Just make sure you don't let it get the best of the rest of us either.

... and if you happen to find something that works, let me know. [ he's really love to get out of his closet before midnight if he could. There was hardly a comfortable place to sit. ]