Timothius looks like he's genuinely TRYING not to crash into the snowman, but he fails and slams into it, falling to the ground in a pile of snowman parts. "....oh dear..."

What is the reaction of the Battle Drones to this obliteration of snowperson?

10, 10, 8 (Killbot Zap removed points for trying to avoid it).

Butler arrives at the bottom of the hill, and offers a hand up if Tim is still laying in a pile, as well as a brushing off.  "Is that a new record for your decent Tim?  I'm afraid I may have missed the time."

Timothius is helped up. "I..." Ski Instructor Emlyn walks over to the two and offers Timothius a gold medal. "Wow! What speed! That was amazing! Congratulations, Timothius, you earned the Speed Demon medal!"

Timothius takes the medal and cracks a smile. "I guess it IS a new record... thanks, Ma'am."

  "Well done sir, it appears blind panic can increase your speed even when it is entirely at the mercy of gravity."  This could explain why Wile E Coyote makes such big craters.

  Off in the distance, the Assault Bot attempts to make snow angels.  Shooting snow and then throwing candy purchased halo's on the puddle isn't quite how that works.

Timothius smiles. "Thanks, BB... say. Wanna join me in rescuing Baby New Year?" by now, Timothius thinks the whole BNY mission is just a game the baby likes to play. Hence comments like "It's about time. And no, that wasn't supposed to be a pun." but mostly hence the CONSTANTLY being kidnapped.

  Refer to BB's previous thoughts on Candy Care acquisition plot theories.  Still, an excuse to stab things without anyone complaining (that people care about the complaints of).  "Of course, that muscular baby will not save itself.  He is probably afraid of getting redcap blood all over his tiny toga."

Timothius says, "I'd rather not deal with blood stains in my toga either. You can only get it three weeks out of the year..."

He heads for Father Time, picks up the mission, and goes to the mission entrance. Which teleports whoever enters to an outdoors winter wonderland. In a circle of mushrooms.

  "Which has always been rather perplexing, considering travel To Cimerora is well within the capabilities of many.  Though perhaps people prefer the fabric of more recently sewn ones."

  The Butler follows along through the doorway to frozen fairy faraway land.  "Would you like to do this the easy way, or the profitable way, sir?"

Timothius considers. "Isn't the fast way also the profitable way?"

  "I suppose if you do not want the pocket change and snack goods of those standing between us and whichever cave Snaptooth is up to his old tricks in."  So far as snowmen, deer chewbaccas, and redcaps even have pockets, but loot is loot.

  "Otherwise, you may wait here until I can retrieve you to a more convenient location."

Timothius smiles. "Thanks, BB. Though... I guess I am feeling kind of casual, so... I guess let's mow our way through the monsters this time."

Casual means fighting through hordes of enemies. Probably because "grind" means tearing through them at incredible speeds and doing the mission over and over.

  It is a strange world where fighting a bunch of enemies isn't the grindy method.  But there it is.

  Because Butler can be a jerk some days, he starts off by tapping the shoulder of a Tutha champion (hey, leaping skill), then stabbing them from the other side.

  "You stabbed me!"  Butler waves his hand, "I did not just stab you."  "You did not just... where did he go BLARGH! You stabbed me!"

  Every stalker knows the Jedi mind trick.

Timothius hovers just out of reach so that all the guy can do is throw rocks at him. Then blasts the beast with black magic. Should the beast ever actually notice and hit BB, of course, Timothius does what he does best and heals the heck out of the butler.

  The obvious downside of being a 'tough' Stalker, is that that pretty much everything hits you.   The bright side is that you can survive long enough for you or allies to deal with that instead of needing to call the hospital a soon as you realize you have been injured.

  "I suppose if we had something in common aside from being polite, it's that we are somewhat more brutal than outward appearances suggest."  D'aaaw, look at the kitty OH GOD TENTACLES GETEMOFF.

 Still, that's one batch of fuzzy beasts out of the way.  "I am very thankful that candy canes are individually wrapped."  So are the Tutha probably, or they'd have so many stuck to their fur.

Timothius has been adored a few times, but it isn't as common an occurrence as it would be if he was a normal cat*. Happened about as often as people going "d'aaaw... a little boy" at Eli.

Timothius chuckles from the comment. "Still... maybe we should find someone who is willing to take hits for you? I can heal you, but it would be nice if you didn't get hurt in the first place."

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OOC: Also reminded of something that happened recently in the pathfinder game I run for Byron. Same time as Chris was recalling with dwarf being stubborn. When Byron's character Quinn convinced Mittens to go with the dwarf and Bethany to go with Quinn, he said, "Heh.. I get the cute one." to which Beth said, "Mittens is cute too." and Quinn replied, "Fur isn't my thing."

I remained quiet on that topic, but I couldn't help think it ironic since Quinn worships Raichel.

  Butler is somewhat surprised that out of all the various things run into, there has not been much in the way of Egyptian themed situations.  Otherwise Tim might be even more popular.

  "I am less certain about them taking hits for me, but I suppose a mutual acquaintance might be willing to help."

  Through the wonders of Cell Phones, Resolute Metal arrives escorting his shadowy obscured horde of enthusiastic robots.  "Actually shooting everything in sight, wonderful!  The drones do so loathe the usual rescue procedures."

Timothius chuckles nervously. But hey... he can't complain. OVERWHELMING DAMAGE can be just as effective protection as an actual tank. Sometimes better. "I guess we'll really be mowing now..."

  Additional heals certainly don't hurt as well, even if they are one's that only kick in near the robot with the cape, or whoever the shadowy blob of spare nanomachines feels like aiming at any given moment.

  "SPACEBALLS THE FLAMETHROWER! ORDER NOW!" The Assault bot melts snowmen with the fiery doom of copyright infringement.  We don't ask how candycanes survive that.

Operation MOW DOWN is in effect. Timothius follows the group. However, no amount of fire ever seems to melt the ice of the ice pond just outside the cave. The key is soon found, but before Timothius goes to the door, he makes sure to beat up the door camping mobs with his team. THEN he goes through and starts sliding his way down the cave entrance!

  Leaving the caves to get punched in the face by a giant snow fist is always troublesome, yes.  So that's one batch of snowmen gladly dealt with.

  Now that they are actually INSIDE the cave though,  the Butler starts sneaking around to discover what cave Snaptooth is in because really, while fighting things on the way is good, that cave aggro can just get ridiculous.

Timothius patiently waits with Resolute. "Sorry about the snowman wreck... but I'm guessing from the score cards, you guys didn't mind."

 "I've long since stopped trying to keep score in that regard.  Combat log data is hard enough for most people, imagine tracking it for a dozen laser blasts per second from several sources on your end alone.  Win or lose, LASERS EVERYWHERE (and missiles and plasma, we still love you assault bot).

  Meanwhile, the Butler locates the correct cave and begins the process of whisking his allies away to next to him, while Resolute simply re-summons his violent case of split personalities.

Timothius guesses it's obvious... BB waits next to Snaptooth. Then, when Resolute barges in, guns blazing, BB will strike. And Timothius will just slow down the others before shooting at Snaptooth and healing whoever needs it.

Sometimes, Snaptooth can be a total pushover. Other times, he makes the heroes look like a joke. It's really hard to tell if this is a team build that will be made a laughing stock or not.

  It can be a close thing, but considering all the main aggro is A: spread across a bunch of robots around the room, or B: Aimed at a butler who can just jedi mind trick if it looks like he's about to go down,  today Snaptooth is... Average.

  In the end, the multitude of VIOLENCE and healing means the redcaps go down and our rescuers remain standing.

  It also means Timothius gets to lead out the baby man by default because oh hey both Butler and Bot have personal stealth of some kind.

OOC: Almost as bad as Snap during the bad fights, were the Murphy guarantee one of the normal enemies would turn into a boss enemy if things were already going wrong.

Timothius has a clear path due to "fight our way there" plan. So he simply leads the way for WWF baby. Once there, the mission is complete and the baby hands out candy to everyone. Or costume bit rewards. Or badges.

The mission done, Timothius exits with the others and thanks them again.