>>5458080You telepathically contact Pantea and the Para Para bros. They ARE more of the security here, and you have more than enough strong fighters to keep an eye on things, yourself in cluded. Let the contestants have fun. Just keep an eye out if they become targets or if something shows up.
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That said… ‘Pantea, can you demonstrate the weapons for us? Just to test ‘em and make sure no one messed with them? I’ll let Minotia know too.’
‘Sure thing Peppa.’ She dashes over to the group, heading inside with Minotia. The interior is like one giant moon base, with both a surface section and several retro-sci-fi kinda’ base sections, a starry sky overhead. “So! Because there’s a variety of weapons to choose from, that also means they have different kinds of damage output! The armor you’ll wear can take a maximum of five hits. Close range guns will do three damage but be limited by that range. Mid range will do two, but you can dual wield them. And finally, long range does two. The swords have a total of four damage with each successful hit.” Pantea then dons some armor and grabs one of each ranged weapon, winking at Minotia. “Let’s give them a quick demonstration, shall we?”
He takes one of the laser swords, dons some armor too, and nods. “Let’s see if you folks can match my style in this.”
The two begin a round, with Pantea demonstrating each of the weapons to keep Minotia at a distance. The lasers are actually visible, and you see the spread of beams that shoot out from the shotgun fizzle out after a few meters, Minotia managing to get out of range as she fires. Next is the rifle, which she uses to move from bit of cover to bit of cover, then taking up a sniper position that lets her get over Minotia’s cover and score a hit on the shoulder of his armor, which gives an indicator flash of such a thing.
Minotia springs forward though, and after leaping up in the air manages to get Pantea with his laser sword, doing significant damage. And… you notice Pantea actually flinch slightly. But she quickly rolls back out of the way of the follow-up and fires at the boy with her pistols, striking an odd pose while doing so. Minotia is out!
(cont.)