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Hey guys, the Blue Thunderbolt back here again. It's past midnight as I'm writing this, I'm cooped up in a motel, and GOD did I have perhaps the worst evening in my life since I started racing for SCRIM tonight. I'm talking new heights of emotional turmoil-- you can thank "Mr. Vannoorden" for that. But that's not the point, yeah? We'll get there when we get there.
Two very notable things happened between races. Firstly, now that those mystery drivers are in the mix, Major Wheeler is only sending in around 15 drivers per race in order to make sure we can't all get wiped out at once. Secondly, and more importantly, because of me and Shuvi's insistence, the drivers on site can now form official teams between each other now. It's neat, they have different rim colors and everything. So far, two teams have formed. My cousin Tetsuya formed one of the teams-- a professional squadron of racers by the name of Shogun.
I'm a really big fan of their style, honestly. Especially with Tetsuya as leader... I'm thinking that if I were to join either of the racing teams, it would be Shogun. The other squadron is led by this Brit named Henry Caine who I don't know much about, I think he had a history in Formula 2. His team has more punkish flair, and goes by the name of Spitfire. Like the WWII planes.
The team's a lot less up my alley, really. They're way too rough-and-tumble from what I've seen of them. I'm a lot more of a clean racer than anything unless something-- or someone, forces my hand. I'm pretty sure the Spitfire detest clean racing, but don't quote me on that. They'd do anything to win.
So, the next afternoon, another Realm opened. But, just my luck-- I wasn't called in. Without the conference room and its three-camera television, I probably would have ended up missing a whole lot of details. And man, am I glad I didn't miss any! The race was definitely the highlight of my day. A couple other people filtered in and out of the conference room as time goes on, but the main three was me, Emma, and Thomas. I've already described Thomas before, and we have opposing ideals still, but we get along well enough. We can tolerate each other. I'd say Emma and I are on pretty good terms, she's a nice girl and she's helped me out from time to time both in and out of the races. We get along well. It was honestly a blast hanging out in the conference room-- at the start of the race, Emma and I took a 15-dollar bet on who'd win. I said Brick, she put her money on Nathan. As for the race itself...
We began with the lovely start of being launched onto a dune of deep sand with two more mystery black-and-red cars up ahead, who vanished as quickly as we spotted them. Those new morphing treads we reverse-engineered turned out to be a lifesaver as the drivers were able to use spiked treads to get across the sand, going back onto normal track in hot pursuit of the cloaked duo of interlopers. We quickly reached a track split, the left fork going back offroad onto the sand, while the straight roadway looped upwards around a rock formation, requiring the drivers to use Nitrox to get up it-- and based on the mystery racers' cloaks fizzling out as they did use Nitrox, that indicated they both took the right path. Either way, we saw a very even off-road and on-road split as it seems not everyone wanted to chase ghosts that day.
The three monitors were on Ashton, Tetsuya, and Shuvi as the drivers on the offroad route sped onto a stone track, switching to offroad treads as they raced by ruined, millennia-old buildings before speeding through an oasis and going onto a muddy path, requiring a dual tread switch from hydrotreads and then to mud tires. Ashton's vehicle, Lolux, didn't have doors, so when that was all said and done, its interior was apparently coated in all kinds of grime, and his camera cut out-- so I switched the feed to Brick's, who was also on the offroad route.
The drivers on the main path would approach a series of five, stunning to look at pyramids, walled in with four normal-sized pyramids in each corner, and a supermassive one with a leveled-out top, and something gleaming silver at the peak. The track would split again, one spiraling up and around all the pyramids, while another dove into the closest one underground. Very few people actually took the above ground route; mainly just Mike, Shuvi, and Kyle. Since Tetsuya was going the underground route, that meant that we now had eyes on every path with our current camera setup.
That also meant we had eyes on one of the mystery drivers, already atop the tallest pyramid, as they snatched the artifact from right under our noses and tried to get away! Having to take time to strap the silver-and-blue disc (lovingly referred to as an alien frisbee by Tetsuya, Shuvi, and Mike) to his vehicle, the trio were almost even as Mike, Shuvi, and Kyle worked together to catch up to him. Mike tried to knock them off course with his Mega-Bass Box's thundering bass beats, but the vehicle they were driving came equipped with kinetic sonic weaponry of their own, and much more potent stuff at that! An acoustic blast would send Seared Tuner spinning-- but snap the rope as the alien frisbee would go rolling backwards down the track on its side, forcing the drivers to turn around... as two sonic cannons popped out of the black-and-red vehicle, forcing Shuvi and Kyle to swerve out of the way! Shuvi told Kyle to focus on the race, while she went after Mike.
On the topic of Mike, he and the mystery driver would both get out of their cars and engage in close-quarters combat, which I was hardly able to see from Shuvi's onboard as the drivers traded fist and knuckle. It was brutal, the frisbee was flying from hand to hand to through the air to onto the track, and I'm pretty sure Mike got smacked in side of the head with it before Shuvi pulled up and knocked the mystery racer hard onto the ground by opening Trak-Tune's door as she raced past, allowing Mike to catch it.
Turns out the guy was some redhead Britishman named Stanford, who according to Vert, was one of the 50 SCRIM drivers initially recruited for this mission-- but he declined the invite. Apparently he ran off to work with whoever these guys were. Of course, when Shuvi then pushed his fancy car off the track, he dived off the side to slide down the pyramid and go for it. With the artifact secured, Shuvi took the opportunity to take a photo of Mike with it in front of the huge pyramid. This picture... it looks great, but it got me into a lot more than I thought it would.
The drivers in the underground route would deal with the other red-and-black vehicle in the race, with Nathan nearly crashing twice in order to take it out. It somehow managed to possess all of our Class abilities at once, which local SCRIM mechanic "Shadow" explained to us was very possible, but also very dangerous as a result. After the insanity of Mike and Shuvi's artifact escapade, I wasn't nearly as invested in this path if I'm being honest. Still, it was notably tense as afterwards, after having escaped a minefield set by the second black-and-red vehicle and knocked it into a hard spin where the car would cloak and not reappear for the rest of the race, the drivers would find themselves above ground, in a section which made me absolutely detest this Racing Realm. Sand worms. So, have you ever seen gondal? Y'know, gondal.
The Pyramid Realm had gondal from Hell. This thing was a giant sand worm with a gaping maw filled with hundreds of teeth, burrowing through the sand and leaping out of it. By the time the racers had escaped, Brick had taken the lead, and it was looking like my bet was about to pay off. Then, the drivers reached perhaps the second craziest thing I've ever seen in the Racing Realms. They had to drive up and through a massive dinosaur statue, then land on a straight ahead path of alternating terrain before the portal. Brick manages to nail a victory over Veronica, I manage to get my 15 dollars from Emma, and... oh, right. She said she was gonna go out to Zeek's and get me a pepperoni pizza from there. I have a feeling either she never got it, or it's gonna be really cold by the time I get back.
Immediately after the Realm, I made sure to run right up to last-place finishers Mike and Shuvi to inspect the alien frisbee artifact that Mike had brought back, stashed away in his passenger seat. I never snapped a picture of it, so please bare with this vague approximation again.
Those light blue dots are meant to be all the little symbols on the Wheel of Power-- I can't exactly sketch them all out from memory. It was really neat before it got taken away, and warm to the touch. Apparently a button on the back unveiled five Accelecharger slots-- one in each quadrant, one in the center. Shuvi, Mike, and Willem kind of played keep away for a while before they dropped it and a couple X-88 diagnostic drones grabbed it and took it off to SCRIM.
After that, Shuvi showed off the picture that she took, and us three were having a blast until Shuvi suggested that I send the picture to Sylvia. Not because of any of us-- we were all on board with the idea! The problem is that Willem was listening in, and when he found out that I was about to show a picture of the artifact from inside the Racing Realms to my loving fiancée... he flipped out. Absolutely went off on me.
I'll spare you the scarring details, but the next thing I knew I was in an interrogation room being told every which way the government could wipe me, my friends, and my family off the face of this very planet. One thing led to another, and I pieced together that Willem had been keeping tabs on everything. He knew about this blog-- he knows about it! And the worst part of all? The guy was all just BLUFFING to try and set me straight! BLUFFING about making me and my loved ones disappear! THAT is not gonna fly when you're dealing with the Blue Thunderbolt! Not in the slightest! You mess with the cloud, the whole storm will come at you! The next thing I knew, the lights were off, and Mike had kicked in the door-- apparently he'd seen this... very telling status of mine, and he and Shuvi got an impromptu escape settled as Mike and I got our cars and shot out of there.
At this point, I find myself inside a motel, about to leave because Mike and I have places to be tonight. I'm real nervous about the future right now, and at this point the blog is probably public SCRIM knowledge, so... if you guys want to show some support in the comments below, please do so, y'know? I'll keep you updated in a couple days when this whole mess blows over.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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UniHacker615
adam why do you think that the solution to getting arrested for leaking classified secrets is leaking more classified secrets
No comment.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
by BlueThunderbolt; ; Report
2012AcuraTSX
Hello, Mr. 28th.
xx_Scrapster420:)_xx
HOW DO I SET A PROFILE PICTURE, HEEEELP!!!!!
ITS UNDER THE DAMMED SETTINGS
by Clancy “Nitro” Bryne; ; Report
Clancy “Nitro” Bryne
That Willem guy sounds like a damm prick! Do we a favor, next time you go into one of those “realms” wreck him and leave him for dead!
Also the rest of this was meh at best.
So, about that-- now that I've got back, I haven't seen the guy since. No idea where he went.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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Kiria
Hope everything works out for you! Seriously, I don't want you dead or dying. Please be safe!
I know, I know. I'll stay as safe as I can, okay? I love that you care so much, but you just dropped me off at the airport a couple minutes ago. I'll keep you updated as often as I can for the next few hours! Thank you for looking out for me!
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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❀synkroKJ❀
YOU HAVE A SPACEHEY??????
YOU have a SpaceHey???? Did the Major tell the whole complex about this blog?
-The Blue Thunderbolt
by BlueThunderbolt; ; Report
I've HAD one for a long while
also uhhhh, yeah they kinda showed it off to everyone in a meeting...
by ❀synkroKJ❀; ; Report
Oh uh, oh geez. Mike and I aren't banned or anything, are we? That would be REALLY bad.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
by BlueThunderbolt; ; Report
no! but um... I'll just say that you two should get back ASAP
SERIOUSLY
by ❀synkroKJ❀; ; Report
Chill, I'm on my way to the airport to catch my flight back as we speak. I'm sure nothing bad will happen there.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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Ryan Tyrrell
Imagine running away from the place after they found out you have a bloody SpaceHey, couldn't be me. Couldn't you have "vented" to Willem or something? Honestly you people never fail to impress me with your stupidity. Don't come back while you're at it, yeah?
Hey buddy, watch your tone. I'll have you know I'll actually be back within the next 24 hours.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
by BlueThunderbolt; ; Report
Look at this Ryan prick, acting like a wannabe tough guy. Screw off!
by Clancy “Nitro” Bryne; ; Report
Who the fuck are you? Last time I checked you aren't involved with any of our shit, buzz off.
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
Im Nitro Byrne motherfucker, and you will respect the name!
by Clancy “Nitro” Bryne; ; Report
You think you're tough? I'm the biggest street racer in England! Listen, prick, none of us know you, so I'd recommend you take my advice and leave.
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
Oh no, not the tea country!/s Bitch, I don’t need to know any of you to say that I could beat most of you in a race!
by Clancy “Nitro” Bryne; ; Report