face_in_the_moon | Oogie Boogie bossfight thread

When they all come through the door, it's dark, at first; but there are some colourful lights in the middle distance, and a deep voice humming a jazzy tune. There is rumbling, and creaking, and a deep chuckle in the distance. Right ahead of them, there is something like a narrow metal tunnel leading very gently downwards. At the end of it, Enzo is waiting for Dani to bring the others.

Beyond him, there is the sound of jazz music and clanking; something groans in the echoing, cavernous space, but you can't tell if it's a person, or some long-suffering, rickety machinery. The darkened space beyond Enzo seems to be -- a casino?

There's a roulette wheel in the middle of the room, there are blackjack cards as decoration, and there are -- chains? A casino dungeon, then, inhabited by a living potato sack which is walking around the roulette wheel, humming with dark, sadistic cheer. And the chains contain a certain jolly old man with a white beard, in his underwear, on a sloping poker table, head down.

He probably needs rescuing soon.

[[OOC: This works like an EP -- please tag in separately/in the teams you came with, and kick potato sack ass, so everybody gets to defeat Oogie Boogie in Millitime. Remember, the key to defeating him lies in pulling out his thread!]]

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"But I have him now," the prancing potato sack declares.

"And how..." Jack asks, walking slowly up to him. "Do you intend to proceed?"
"Because you'll find it hard indeed,
To survive these people here,
Who hold this gentleman quite dear."

"But he's so much fun!" Oogie Boogie says, yanking on a chain.

"No, not this one." Jack says, grabbing the chain.

"No more. 'Lay on, McDuff,
And damned be he who first cries 'Hold, Enough!'"

He strides forward, putting himself between Oogie and Chris.

Edited 2014-12-21 01:22 (UTC)

"Oh no you don't, Mr. Xylophone," Oogie Boogie says, reaching out to push Jack aside, patting his ribs.

"I said to leave the man alone!"

Jack grabs the sack arm, and aims a bony kick at Oogie's belly.

"You dare defy the Pumpkin king?
By carrying out this sort of thing?
You may have once had a holiday
But long ago has passed that day
And now this kingdom belongs to me
And you will acquiesce, you see?"

"I dare!" Oogie declares, and pushes Jack's face away with a rather shapeless hand.

"Then I declare,
The people here will finish you,
And I will help them to." Jack says.

He jabs out his bony fingers, trying to get a tear in Oogie's sack.

"Oh no you don't, Mr. Xylophone," Oogie Boogie says again, clanging an end of chain cheerfully, almost musically, over Jack's fingers.

Jack spins, and pushes Oogie back, before throwing a high kick.

Oogie says 'Oof', then takes a wide swipe at Jack.

Jack falls backwards into some slot machine robots, one of which tries to steal his foot.

"Oh yes, let's take you apart," Oogie says, advancing with a chuckle.

He gives the slot machines a spin.

Oh dear, this isn't part of the plan at all.

It's not so much that it's fatal to lose pieces, albeit painful depending on which bits and how, as inconvenient. It's not like he can just nip out and get a spare rib in the middle of a battle.

So when the machine dislocates his foot, Jack scrabbles to try and get it back.

With a deep, rumbling laugh, Oogie Boogie gives the slot machine another spin, then gets the roulette wheel moving.

Jack retrieves his foot, and cartwheels across the wheel, trying to keep up.

Oogie stops the wheel, abruptly.

Jack bounces lightly off the wall, and comes back towards Oogie, kick first.

"Ooof!"

Oogie-Boogie falls backwards.

"Give it up! The others are coming."

Instead, Oogie Boogie bumbles back to his feet and then yanks a chain, which tilts Santa even more.

"Give it up, or the old man gets it!"

"Not on Christmas Eve."

Chris grins weakly. With the door open to Milliways, and Christmas Eve in full swing back there, he can feel his powers starting to charge up. Not quite enough yet to teleport, alas, but he does manage to generate a flurry of hail at the monster.

"That's cold!" Oogie protests, and yanks the chain again.

"ENOUGH!" Jack grabs at Oogie's arm, appendage, whatever it is.

"Ow!"

A few stitches burst, and bugs fall out.

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