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Enzo Fenton-Matrix ([personal profile] a1enzo) wrote in [community profile] ways_back_room2008-09-06 03:11 pm

Jetball!

As of this thread, Milliways now has a jetball court, upstairs on the way to the guest facilities (unless upstairs rearranges itself again and it's now down the hall, around three corners, and past a poison-dart trap).

The door is round and convex; when you enter, be prepared to either fly, take a tumble, or slide down the wall, because the room is an enormous sphere (seriously, it's at least the width of a tennis court; we've had to invoke Milliways' TARDIS-like properties). One end zone is decorated with red (okay, washed-out pink) arrows, the other with blue swords.

Here is a video of a partial game, but to clarify:

  • It's usually a two-player game, but you can have as many people on a team as you feel comfortable with, bearing in mind the possibility of midair collisions.
  • The ball-launcher is activated at the start of each round when all players are in their respective end zones and holding reasonably still for four seconds. It will emit a warning tone, swivel to randomize starting trajectory, and then fire the energy-ball, which ricochets around the room and heeds neither gravity nor loss of momentum.
  • The players fly around on jetpacks. They're not the flaming kind; think of it as antigravity with movement controlled by air-jets.
  • The ball is caught in a scoop on (usually) the left hand and fired back out of a shooter on the right; the two are connected by a tube running back over the jetpack.
  • The winner is the first to score ten goals, unless otherwise specified.
  • Note that there is a small, fence-like net a quarter of the way down the rim of each goal, which the ball must be gotten past or it will rebound.
  • Equipment can be rented from Bar: jetpack, scoop and shooter array, and protective glasses. Special outfits are strictly optional but make you look cool.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggested additions, and I'll edit them in as appropriate.
innerbrat: (milliways)

[personal profile] innerbrat 2008-09-06 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I'm weird in sorting my head out like that -I thought the infirmary was a seperate room off the bar, like the office, while the gym is Raph's old room in the staff corridor?

[identity profile] alorn-bear.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I had assumed everything was off the same corridor, myself.

Ah, well. Maybe it only rearranges itself like that for my characters?
raptorcanaria: ([young] grin)

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2008-09-06 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it suffers the same space-time distortion that plays havoc with the room arrangements upstairs?

[identity profile] alorn-bear.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Works for me.