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Tony’s Rise: Nose Plug

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  • Feb 24, 2018

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If these things can power up a machine, what could they do to you? You make sure no one’s looking before inserting a glowing shard into your nostril.

Solutions to equations that never made sense in math class appear in your mind, then burst into brilliant fireworks in colors you’ve never before seen. You understand, all at once, that everyone and everything is connected, and that love is the most important thing in the world. You wander off alone to contemplate existence.

THE END

 

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Tony’s Rise: Punch Out

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Nope, nope, nope. Crystal shards aren’t worth finding out what’s down there, especially since that scent is familiar. This pipe, you realize, is a siphon. That stink is Churn smog. And you’re sitting in an enclosed space with it.

A demolition dwarf is never in too tight a spot. You slam the side of one big metal power fist into the pipe. You can’t pull back to hit with any real power, but you’ve made a decent dent. You punch again and again until the pipe bursts outward. The Churn smog escapes with a little hiss.

The opening widens with every punch. You crawl out and punch through some rock. Little by little you tunnel out and then up, digging blind, choking on dirt and smog until you rise through into the rushing water running across the Rise.

You get right to work on Pippa’s assignment, ignoring the Churn energy that’s now leaking through the mountain and into the water supply of Mont Lille.

THE END

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Tony’s Rise: All The Way Down

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There’s nowhere to go but down. You slide slowly through the middle of the mountain into a cloud of glowing, noxious fog. Sniffing, you try to stop and climb upward – every demolition dwarf knows the smell of a dig gone too deep. But it’s too late: you’ve reached the pipe’s end and so you fall, landing hard on your bum.

A metal dome curves above with pipes protruding out of it. Below you is the lip of a well.

Trying not to breathe, you scoop up a bunch of the scattered, glowing crystal shards that you lost, race to the airlock, sneak outside, and duck into the first door you see…

…but it’s a supply closet. The shelves up to the ceiling are covered with cyborg parts. Dang! How’re you gonna get out of there without the engineers seeing you?
In a flash of genius, you grab stuff from the shelves and start duct taping it together. A motherboard here, some legs and arms there, a hard drive, maybe some extra RAM, and you have a slapdash distraction.

The makeshift cyborg crashes through the closet door, wielding your power punchers. It runs willy-nilly around the work space, punching anybody in its way. You duck under the DO NOT CROSS tape, all the currency you’ll ever need again in your pockets, the sounds of Pippa’s panicked yelling echoing through the mountain.

THE END

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Tony’s Rise: Into the Pipe

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It doesn’t smell great in there, and it’s dark, but the ticket to your retirement is at the bottom of that pipe.

You feel around inside the opening until you find the ladder rungs and ease yourself inside. Slow and steady, feeling your way, you descend into the blackness.

A face appears at the pipe’s opening, and then another face. Odd little furry, curious faces.

“Uh-oh,” says one face.

“Uh-oh,” agrees the other.

Going into the pipe was not the best idea, but it’s too late. Oofing with effort, the two furry guys lift up the ladder and drop it – with you attached. The last thing you see, before all goes black, is a new crystal being lowered onto the pipe.

You freefall, slamming into the sides of the pipe with large CLANGS, yelling for your mom. With your arms and legs spread out wide, you manage to slow your fall. Sparks fly as the metal punchers SCREEEEE against the metal pipe, and you stop, heaving for breath.

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Tony’s Rise: Tony Time!

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Your dreams of endless wealth have disappeared, but you stare at your punchers with newfound respect. All those years of being picked on. Being laughed at for not being as smart as the engineers. All that TOP SECRET tape. Now it’s Tony Time. You go marching down the lane, punching flowers and butterflies, even giving an ominous statue of a raven holding a sword a good whack. “Hey! Come at me!” you cry out…

…and something whaps you in the back of the head.

“Who wants some?” You swivel, but the only thing there is a gnarled old tree.

You bash your overpowered knuckles together. “Someone’s gonna get 1-V-1’ed,” you mutter, but then you get hit in the head again.

You spin with your arm out, dealing a sweet spinning backfist to the tree.

The tree yelps and smacks you back.

You have no time to register that the tree is hitting you on purpose, because another of its branches is whizzing toward you. You duck and uppercut the tree in its trunk, then again. Roots rise up from the ground and wrap around your legs but you punch and swing until the tree collapses into splinters and the roots fall away.

A red orb falls from the tree onto your head. You glow red. Your biceps swell inside the punchers. Filled with strength, you run off to punch every tree you can find.

THE END

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Tony’s Rise: Mmm, Beefy!

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You pop the heavy, clunky old battery out of your left puncher and plug in the little crystal shard. The puncher surges to life, almost shaking itself off your arm. With an evil laugh you give the crystal a gentle knuckle tap – and the crystal crumbles into a shiny pile of sharp, charged danger. The lady statue topples.

“Yes!” you yell. You’re rich! You’re wealthy! You’re independently secure! You have a whole pile of…

A pile of…

The crystal shards have disappeared down a wide-mouthed metal pipe in the ground.

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Tony’s Rise: Give it a Whack

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You could do a lot with three hundred gold, so you wind up and give the crystal a strong jab-cross with your power punchers. A long crack forms, webbing outward from the point of impact. Another right cross, and a few shards fall to the ground. You pick one up and whistle through your teeth. You’ll never have access to such a valuable thing again – may as well experiment, right?

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Check out the Rare ‘Heartless’ Alpha!

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  • Jan 18, 2018

The Tin Queen’s friends have come to save her from a misguided uprising. Discover the finale to this three-part story with ‘Heartless’ Alpha! 

 


 

MODEL CHANGES

  • New tin body with bronze filigree detailing
  • Funnel hat
  • Beautiful face, red hair & red bow paint job
  • Axe with red blade & missing heart


ALTERNATE FATE LORE

Read Part One: The Theft of the Wizard’s Brew
Read Part Two: The True Conspiracy

Part Three: Melting Day

The lion and the scarecrow followed a line of marching minions, each carrying a bowl of ice cream, to the tin castle’s tin courtyard. Tin flowers bloomed all around a tin fountain from which steaming coffee bubbled. At the top of the fountain stood the Tin Queen of the West.

“Look! It is our old friend, and the fountain of wizard’s brew, just like you promised,” said the lion, feeling relieved for the first time in days.

Oui,” said the scarecrow. “It is Melting Day, when everyone in the West celebrates the melting of the Wicked Witch by eating ice cream melted with coff… wizard’s brew. But what is this?”

The crowd stopped abruptly, minions knocking into one another, as three powerful magicians blocked the fountain.

“When the witch ruled the West, minions had a purpose!” cried one magician.
The startled minions clutched their little bowls with both hands, looking to their queen whose painted tin face showed, as always, no expression. Her voice rang out: “My darling minions-uns-uns, the Wicked Witch created you to fight. Now you are free to serve your own purpose.”

Another magician sneered. “Without the witch, you have no enemies. Without enemies, you fight one another!”

The minions squabbled over whether to believe the magicians or the queen. Handfuls of ice cream flew as the argument intensified.

“Naughty minions. How quickly you forget your bondage under the rule of the Wicked Witch!” called the queen, but the magicians countered.

“Minions deserve a great leader!” yelled the malicious magician. “You must embrace the principles that made the West great.”

“Build a fire!” cried another magician. “Melt the Tin Queen!”

The minions cheered and built a roaring fire in the tin courtyard. “Melt! Melt! Melt!” cried the minions as one. The queen gripped her axe atop the fountain, tears flooding down her tin face.

“Why does she do nothing?” cried the lion.

“Now that she has a heart, the tin queen has too much compassion to fight the magicians,” sighed the scarecrow.“

“If only I could reach the fountain, I could drink up some courage,” whined the lion, “but the magicians have it surrounded.”

“Oh well,” shrugged the scarecrow. “I suppose the tin queen must be melted.”
The queen flicked away her tears: clink clink clink, then opened a compartment in her chest. From inside of herself she removed the sawdust-stuffed silk heart that she had received from the wizard. In horror, her friends watched as she dropped her heart into the fire and took up her axe.

“Target: magician one-un-un,” said the queen, and leaped down upon the closest of the magicians.

“Let us help her,” said the scarecrow, taking up his scythe.

Bolts of magic light flew, zapping the queen as she cried out in electric pain.

“I can’t do it,” whimpered the lion. “My heart is beating too fast.”

“Do it for our friend, who has no heart,” said the scarecrow in a gentle way.

The lion’s lip curled up, his teeth bared, and he leaped into the crowd. With a wry smile, the scarecrow followed, careful to avoid sparks. The lion’s commanding roar terrified the minions away and his axe split one surprised magician in two. The scarecrow’s vials exploded, turning a second magician into a poof of black ash. Glinting in the morning sun, the tin queen’s axe whooshed through the third magician. All watched in horror as his head landed in a bed of tin roses.

There was a short silence, then the minions leaped in the air. “Hooray!” they cried, triumphant, for they were a simpleminded lot. They went about extinguishing the fire and collecting up their discarded ice cream bowls while the three monarchs reunited.

“Thank you-oo-oo,” said the tin queen, “but as long as the minions are not given a purpose, they will be swayed by anyone.”

“Then a purpose you shall give them,” said the scarecrow, who had always been the cleverest of them.

Now, people come from the North and South and East to watch the Annual Minion Water Balloon Tournament. The Tin Queen rules with compassion, the Forest King with courage, and the Scarecrow King with intelligence, all of their lands at peace.


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Tony’s Rise: Daredevil Dwarf

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  • Feb 24, 2018

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A little duct tape and you manage to strap your SuperScout 2000 to your forehead. You airship up to an unexplored peak of Mont Lille and do some snowboarding. Unlucky for you, you end up buried in an avalanche – but you tunnel your way out and the video of your encounter with death gets 100,000 views. After that, you have the daredevil bug. Obstacle courses, spelunking, tightrope walking, hang gliding – nothing is too dangerous! The first-person video of your first ropeless ice-wall climb gets over a million views. You become the famous, ultra-rich content creator known as the Daredevil Dwarf.

THE END

 

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Tony’s Rise: Go Right

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You step off to the right into ominous fog, between two tall statues of ravens holding books, and come upon a golden turret. “What a beauty,” you murmur. Dwarf weaponry, this is, with no expense spared – but when the barrel clanks and swings to stare you in the eye, you escape into the brush.

Creeping through the tall grass, dizzy with the smell of flowers, you come upon a statue built atop a glowing golden crystal. Checking first to make sure no one is watching, you bend in close and touch the tip of your tongue to the crystal. It gives you a light zap.

Yup, that crystal is charged up, and that means there’s well power here somewhere. No wonder the engineers were so keen to work for the Storm Queen.

In the Underground Market, charged-up crystal shards go for for three hundred gold each. No one’s going to notice if you take just a splinter. Then again, charged crystal is nothing to mess with…

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