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Hey all, the Blue Thunderbolt here. I'm not dead, I'm not in the back of some black van, I just spent the day back in my home town of Baltimore before coming back to the SCRIMplex (Is that its official name? I don't even think it has an official name.). It was honestly a really nice break from all the stress of the Racing Realms! Plus, I got to spend some loving time with my fiancée for the day, even if she was worried sick for me half the time (Love you, Sylvia!). And hey, I know there are a couple drivers in the midst of SCRIM who probably haven't ever felt the touch of a woman (You know who you are), so having a loving relationship is just one more point of superiority over them!
After Mike and I returned back, it came to light that a lot of people in the crew cared for us a lot more than I had ever really considered. It was really nice to just feel welcomed like that, y'know? I haven't seen anything of Willem ever since I came back, too. I dunno if he got fired, or if he just doesn't wanna show his face around us, or what, but I'm glad I haven't had to deal with him since we got back.
It turns out that our two team leaders got their liveries done, and honestly? They both look awesome. Check 'em out if you haven't seen!
Pretty sweet, huh? Tets really worked some magic on Road Rocket to give it that color palette, I'm proud of him. Monoposto looks cool too, just not as cool as my cousin's livery.
We hardly had a moment to think after our return before a Racing Realm tore open-- the Glacier Realm. We first found ourselves in a night-time environment on a long straightaway above a frigid river, snow gently falling around our cars. Emma and I were right beside each other on the starting grid, so we worked together to get up with Brick and Mike. Some people may call wearing sunglasses at night a bad decision, but when your headlights are illuminating Seared Tuner as its generates a whole radius of specular light, I'd rather wear them than not.
Sooner rather than later, we'd reach the titular glacier, driving on ice as Emma, Mike and I continued to work in tandem. She was the only member of Shogun in the race-- right now, the team consists of Tetsuya as leader, alongside Emma and Reuben. I don't really have an opinion on Reuben, but Emma's been really friendly throughout the race and Tets and I have known each other since we were toddlers, since we're cousins and all, so I might consider a strong alliance with Shogun in the future. Spitfire, on the other hand, consisting of Henry and Ashton... yeah, that's another story. We'd dip into a tunnel and onto a grey track with white arrows on the sides and orange barriers, having to weave in and out of jets of a freezing gas that would frost your whole car over if you got caught in it for too long. We sped around the glacier's edge for a bit before going inwards and approaching a split, one path staying topside and the other going into an icy cavern. Mike dove down into the cavern, leaving Emma and I to fend for ourselves on the surface.
Truthfully, I don't know what happened under the ice, but I do know what happened above it. Firstly, Henry taunted me for having this blog-- feel like I'm gonna be getting a lot of that now that it's public SCRIMplex knowledge --and Emma and I zipped past him to get barely ahead, before two CLYP agents uncloaked behind us. It was the same duo from the Pyramid Realm, with the Brit in his knockoff restomod Bugatti and the other one in their Euro-inspired sports car. Not a bad design, honestly... if only it weren't driven by a racer hellbent on killing us and stealing the Accelechargers for themselves.
The racers in the back of the running had some trouble, but up in front, we were mostly problem-free as Emma and I found ourselves in a showdown against Henry. At some points in time, slopes of ice would infringe on the track-- prompting Emma and I to shoot off one of them to land in front of Henry! She used her Nitrox, I just followed the slipstream and popped my Jump Jets to take the lead over the Spitfire leader. Plus, Thomas was able to pull off a cheeky maneuver of sawing through the rear of the Brit's car, keeping the pompous man inattentive enough to breach his transmission and drivetrain. Kenji and Ryan tried using another one of the ice slopes as a ramp, but they ended up crashing into both each other and a thick icicle. Yikes. Honestly though, Ryan never fails to impress me with his stupidity.
It was all smooth sailing until the Eurosport (what I'll be calling it now) fired a plasma ball at an icy arch above the track-- creating a makeshift roadblock, forcing us to stop! A couple people, including the Eurosport's driver, were able to get past the roadblock, and I was debating going after them with my Jump Jets since that's what the Eurosport used. However... Henry and Emma happened to spot a pathway onto the surface of the glacier, and soon we were on ice again, speeding through a maze with spiked treads deployed in order to find an alternate route around the roadblock. Ahead of us, my lead was stricken by the drivers who took the cavern route, emerging from an icy wall in a dual-drilled vehicular exosuit called a Hyperpod. The Accelerons have scattered Hyperpods all throughout the Racing Realms, with different types of vehicle transformers all throughout.
With Noah emerging ahead of me, it was my top priority to get by him, which I pulled off with a slick Jump Jets maneuver. Of course, not everything can go well, can it? A new CLYP vehicle that I didn't get a good look at uncloaked in the middle of the group before deploying multiple canisters of smoke, turning the icy maze into a replica of the interior of a volcano, only with WAY less traction! Having heard Emma slam into the wall, I found myself without any allies, just desperation to get a high finish in this race. Ever since the merge, the same three drivers had been in the lead--
Warren Kessler - A stuck up, rich punk who has his priorities straight when it comes to vehicular paint. Maybe a little too straight... Unfortunately, he doesn't bluff about his fame or money. Stinks up the place with a lit cigarette wherever he goes, drives a black-and-gold sports car called Stocker Smasher.
Blake Tyler - Kyle's older cousin who lives with him and Mike. Drives a 60s-inspired muscle car called Hammerhead.
Mike Jones - You know who he is.
But now, judging by the radio chatter, the trio had to contend with another one of the mysterious assailants as we merged onto the main grey-and-orange road once again. Not long after, we caught sight of another Hyperpod in our rear views, this time being Kenji in what looked to be this huge dragster exoskeleton that had to be going at least 200MPH faster than our cars could. Next, we found ourselves in a thin, icy cave filled with chicanes and tons of nozzles shooting out frost jets, alternating on each side. In the cave, Nico was knocked into one of the frost nozzles by one of the mystery racers-- but he was able to grapple onto them and pull them in too, before taking advantage of Night Burner's turbine engine to narrowly escape! After that, we shot out of the cave into a jump over a river that cut through the glacier, chunks of ice floating down it, using up the last bit of my Nitrox.
By now, Ryan was gaining on me as I approached the final obstacle of the Racing Realm-- a long stretch of spiral around a BEHEMOTH of a drill boring into the glacier's ground, looping around before the portal. As we raced up the spiral, he tried to go for a pass, being met with a block from me, before jets of flame from Blvd. Bruiser's engine would scorch Impavido's spoiler, forcing me to move to the side. I wasn't about to go down without a fight as I stayed glued to his slipstream, pushing myself ahead of Noah. The minute he referred to me as the 'SpaceHey guy', I went right for his rear right wheel and almost nailed him-- until he backed off and slammed me from the side! Had I not been an expert in recovering control, I would've fallen right to my demise there! Nonetheless, I was now forced behind Noah by the dirty tactic-- and would have been behind Ryan, had Scraps not jumped in last-minute to hold him in place with the grappling line. So there I was, from a shot at the top 5 to a lock-in for 7th place.
I found out later that Warren won the Realm, judging by the glimpse of him manifesting the Accelecharger that I was able to catch. It's a real shame that it wasn't Mike or Blake, honestly, they deserve the win a lot more than he did. I hardly had time to process it, though-- because the next thing I knew, Carbonic would launch out of the portal followed by a smoking and flaming Power Pistons. It was like half the SCRIMplex jumped into action to help Emma, making sure she was alright after the disaster.
...Hey, on that note, I never saw where Kyle went after the split path. They didn't send any X-88s after him, and the Realm closed around 20 minutes after Emma exited, so I assume he's out, right...? If anyone here knows anything more, just shoot me a reply in this comment, alright?
The way Mike, Shuvi and I worked to escape the complex, along with how different my experience in the Glacier Realm was depending on whether I was alone or synced up with someone has had me thinking, a lot. Maybe I should get myself a team. I just... don't know if I'm ready yet. To not let anyone down. One thing I do know, though, is that I'm not just gonna let myself get wiped out like that and lose to Noah again. If I do go through with this concept...
I might just have the perfect idea.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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Connor64
Great post
Yup, that's to be expected when it comes to chronicling the Racing Realms.
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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Kiria
You did everything you could! Glad to see you trying your best. You'll win a realm one of these days BlueThunderbolt! Keep at it!
Thank you for the kind words of encouragement! I got real close in the next race, you'll see once that drops. I'll get there!
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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EmmaTheCat
Hey there. I guess you guys should probably know what had happened. After I slammed the wall in the Glacier Realm, my car wouldn't start for a solid 15-20 minutes, and when I got it started up, I thought I was all good. After hitting the Nitrox and heading towards the spiral, I saw that I was losing oil pressure. If it wasn't for the Shooting Star, I probably wouldn't have made it. Just before I hit the end of the realm, my engine exploded causing smoke to fill in the canopy, and the back of the car ignited. Thank you to the ones who helped me get out of that burning mess, I really appreciate it. I'm alright now, just need a breather from being literally on fire. Should be back to 100% very soon.
Ooh, yikes. That sounds really tense. Glad you made it out alive!
-The Blue Thunderbolt
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Ryan Tyrrell
If it wasn't for that goddamn girl in the Beetle I would've had you. Next time, I will deal with you both.
And that's why you're one of the drivers who I mentioned has probably never felt the touch of a woman earlier in the post. Scraps' car grappling yours at the end is probably the closest you've gotten!
-The Blue Thunderbolt
by BlueThunderbolt; ; Report
The only time I agree with Hardpoint here.
by 2012AcuraTSX; ; Report
Listen SpaceHey guy, I would recommend you shut the fuck up or else I'll wipe that smugness off your face.
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
Also for the record you lost to Noah, and I saw you guys arguing after the realm. Must've not felt that great, I bet.
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
Bold words coming from the guy who lost to me as well. How'd that feel?
-The Blue Thunderbolt
by BlueThunderbolt; ; Report
I might've lost to you, but it wasn't BECAUSE of you. Again, it's thee damn Beetle woman that ruined my race, not you. However after I was taken out you could've passed Noah if you were good enough, yet you didn't. Sucks to suck I guess.
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
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-The Blue Thunderbolt
by BlueThunderbolt; ; Report
Thanks for the correction dipshit. You still didn't deny what I said though, so I win. You lose.
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
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by 2012AcuraTSX; ; Report
The only thing I understood from that was Franz Ferdinand. They make some good music (the band not the archduke)
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
If you weren't such a jackass, maybe people would be around you more, and would stop targeting you. Ever think about that?
by EmmaTheCat; ; Report
Why the hell would I want you people around me?
by Ryan Tyrrell; ; Report
Cringe
by Kiria; ; Report
Sheesh, you sound like a grade-A asshole.
by Clancy “Nitro” Bryne; ; Report