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Tony’s Rise: Give it a Whack

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  • Feb 24, 2018

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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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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ALTERNATE FATE LORE


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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Tony’s Rise: Sovereign’s Spies

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You hide Cams in every bush and under every turret on the Rise. The ensuing footage is mostly boring – minions slaughtering one another, a river troll napping – but some of it is gold. You start the hit hidden camera show Sovereign’s Spies. On episode one, millions tune in to watch a snooty seraphim fall into the stream while admiring his reflection. Soon after comes the episode where a monkey fixes his wedgie, but the one where the undead viking guy argues with the old mage about whose back aches worse goes viral. Your ad revenue skyrockets and you become a worldwide star.

THE END

 

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Tony’s Rise: Buy Scout Cam Boost

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“Wait – how can you have state-of-the-art Buffed, Boosted and Multi Cams for sale already?”

“These are ScoutPaks, ScoutTuffs and the SuperScout 2000,” squeaks the bug. “Trademarked.”

“My cousin developed these. They’re definitely the Buffed, Boosted and Multi models,” you argue.

“Your cousin should bone up on his patent law,” said the bug. “Churnguard Industries got the tech, they did the paperwork and now they’re raking in the cash.”

“That shouldn’t be allowed to happen!”

“Absolutely not.”

“I won’t allow it to stand! Justice will have 20/20 vision!”

“So, one SuperScout 2000?”

“Yes, please,” you mumble, handing over the gold.

After making an elaborate unboxing video, you have a super cool idea.

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Tony’s Rise: The Truth

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You close your eyes and whisper, “I want to know what’s really going on inside this mountain.”

The Teleport Boots buzz, your stomach turns inside-out… and you’re in a narrow courtyard with tall walls and a zillion raven perches. “Wait. What?” you whisper. You meant to go inside the mountain. “Why…”

“Look who’s come to visit us, Vyn.”

You spin to face the voice, then fall to your knees before a woman dressed all in black, her face half-covered with a horned mask. Before you can respond, a raven swoops down onto your shoulder, its head turned, one eye staring into yours.

“Yuh… yuh… your highness,” you stutter. “Sorry. I didn’t mean to…”

“You have a question,” says the woman. On her cheeks, you can see the edges of brutal scars. “Ask it. If I don’t like it, I’ll give your eyes to Vyn for his dinner.”

The raven on your shoulder lets out a loud croak into your ear.

You squeeze your eyes shut and will yourself away somewhere… anywhere! …but the overheated Teleport Boots need to cool down. You screw up your courage and ask.

“What… what’s the secret the dwarves are keeping inside this mountain?”

The Storm Queen smiles. “The secret inside this mountain,” she says, “Is a Well of Power.”

“So that’s why we came,” you whisper. “And they won’t let me see it because they want to keep me safe. And -”

“You may go,” says the queen, and leaves you alone with the creepy bird.

The raven stares while you wave the smoke off of your boots. “I’m going, I’m going,” you grumble, then teleport back to the Rise.

THE END

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Tony’s Rise: The Happy Place

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ALTERNATE FATE LORE


Your eyes close. Your mind clears. The world around you falls away as you think of your happy place. After a long moment, you realize it’s quiet and warm.

You open one eye.

A hammock under you swings with the gentle breeze. You’re on a sunny, balmy island covered with fine sand and palm trees. In your hand is a fruity drink with a little umbrella poking out. A squawking gull sails overhead.

Sovereign’s Rise is gone. Mont Lille is gone. No evil queens. No dwarves to boss you around, ever again.

You take the teleport boots off and throw them away forever.

THE END

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Tony’s Rise: Buy Teleport Boots

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“Teleport Boots. Definitely.”

You waste no time: after pulling them on, you stare at a rock a short distance away and… you appear on the head of a minion who’s busy peeing over the edge of the Rise. Teetering, wheeling your arms, you manage to fall backward into a brush.

It worked! Your belly is gurgling and the boots are smoking, but it worked! You could go anywhere! Maybe somewhere warm. Or… you could find out what’s really going on at the center of the mountain.

 

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Tony’s Rise: Explore Alone

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“Look, Koshka.” You peel the girl from your back and she crouches, claws on the ground, just like a kitty. “Dragons went extinct a long time ago.”

“But…” she whines.

You sigh and pat her head. “Sorry. I have work to do.” You gather up your blueprints and point at them, making you look super professional, and walk off.

But the more you wander, the more you doubt yourself. There are some things up on this Rise that you’ve never heard of. Like trees with faces and glowing branches, and a giant toad who mumbles to himself while counting gold pieces.

“You want my gold, don’t you!” the toad cries, huffing his way over to you.

“Um.” You back up.

“You can’t have it! It’s mine!” The toad croaks and jumps, blocking your path. His long tongue whips out at you, leaving a smelly gross smear on your cheek. He’s coming at you, bobbing and weaving. You duck out of his way, shuffle to one side with your arms up, and let loose with a jab and right cross to his bulging neck. He coughs, wheezes, spins and falls in dramatic fashion, his gold stash clinking to the cobbles.

You look left. You look right. The toad gurgles.

“You’re gonna want that gold,” whispers a voice above you. “Grab it up and come see me.”

Startled, you look up and see a parachute floating through the air overhead, gripped by a tiny, almost invisible bug.

You scoop up as much gold as you can carry and chase after the parachute. By the time you catch up, the bug’s wares are floating close to the ground.

You don’t know what you expected from an insect’s trove, but it wasn’t this. Cool armor, weapons, a freaking Flare Loader, bits of charged crystal, and whoa… Teleport Boots. You’ve heard about this legendary footwear, developed by the kind of dwarves who refuse to sit with you at lunchtime, but you were never allowed to try them out.

Then again, you can also afford a sweet boost for your Scout Cam…

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