Team Mravolinski-Chitco
Part 0.1: …that end as whole
Swedish lunch
-So, granpa, how are you doing nowadays?
-One day im fucking, another one im being fucked. Latter seems to be the case more and more frequently.
But i cant really complain, as im still very sharp shooter for my age.
-Ah yes, you never left your family business with guns.
-Indeed. This was what kept me afloat in hardest times of my life.
How are you doing? I heard business is going well.
-Indeed, but its tad bit quiet nowadays. Im thinking of getting on vacation for that reason.
I participated in last 24h Clunkers and…our car was first to retire.
-He…havent really took that well. So i had an idea, since we are in touch with rest of group that was there for the event.
There is certain event called Shitbox Rally and this will be second year its organised.
Some of his colleagues from 24h have info on that and it sounds fun.
-They said im more than welcome to join the team if i want to, which is the case.
Its kinda foreign land so to speak…it starts on Earth but other than that, its out of this world.
-Kinda like Letara?
-I guess so, yes.
Will be willing to drive if needed but i guess i would mostly enjoy the show.
-Is it dangerous?
-Uhm…not sure how to answer that.
You see, they had some issues previous year where they had encountered pack of Dyre so that was rather rough night.
Dyre were, as im informed, some kind of 3m tall werewolfs…needless to say they were rather tough opponents.
-They can be taken down with guns?
-Well, depends on what gun and who would use said gun.
I would imagine you would need relatively big pistol or rifle to take them down.
Also being able to face such beasts
-I was hunted by other humans bcos they wanted our weapon business to die.
Trust me, we humans are likely biggest and scariest beasts world has ever seen.
-You are badass for sure and im aware it wasnt by choice…
-Oh you bet! I needed 15 years to finally deal with them all
15. Fucking. Years.
-…but i lack the courage to handle such opponents.
Besides other few members are guaranteed to be able and willing to fight those off if needed.
-Your problem isnt courage, but the lack of gun.
With good gun, you too can go toe to toe with fair bit of opponents.
-Prob true, but shooting range and actual combat arent same thing. Also you really overestimate my gun mastery, having fair few decades of practice yourself.
-That being said son, it would be good idea to have options for yourself. True, you arent practiced shooter, but having gun avaiable in case of need beats no way of defending yourself.
Besides, your granpa might decide to give you…tad bit too much ammo and guns for one person.
-I know but teams were together in fighting Dyre.
Ones that were able to keep them away did so, keeping insufficient fighters away from battlefield and allowing them to escape.
In case im in charge of some weaponry, im more likely to give it to more experienced shooters than to use it myself.
-So be it. I will make sure you do have some weaponry and ammo anyway. Prob least i can do to protect my grandson.
-Thanks…i guess…although i have feeling you might overdo it.
-Lunch was very nice and we are prepared to go home and eventually prepare for journey.
Granpas phone announced itself
ASS
TITTIES
ASS AND TITTIES
ASS ASS TITTIES TITTIES
ASS AND TITTIES
(And yes before you ask that is legitimately start of song.
Artist is DJ Assault, song Ass N Titties
I do not reccomend it as ringtone for obvious reasons)
-Hello?
-Hello, granpa. Half an hour, shooting range.
You forgot?
-I havent but my grandson is here and i decided to have lunch and talk little bit with him and my son-in-law.
-Oh, ok then.
-But you can bet im going to haul myself there as soon as possible.
-Ok, say hi to your wife, she made wonderful cake the other day.
-Will do. Goodbye.
(Explaining to other ppl in room)
Some good friend of mine and his son made arrangement with me on shooting range.
This was son in particular, as father is likely driving.
Boy reminds me of good old days when i was young. He isnt having rougher part of deal i had, though.
Also he complimented your cake.
-Seems both of us have some important business at hand, then.
-I guess so
(Mat had confirmed his participation to others and had made preparation accordingly.)
Oldies and quay
-You found home…somehow.
-Shut up, this was long drive. And this isnt really our home anyway.
-It did provided some free parking spaces for parking the car or several of those, in our case at least.
-Where tf are we anyway?
-This town is called Novi Sad and that building is Faculty of Technical Sciences
(If its refered in rest of text it will be refered as FTN).
(In case you want to follow route as is noted in rest of text, you will be glad to hear that there is going to be car parking on only one side of building
Same character continues talking)
This is can be seen as relevant building for us since Mrdja is student of that faculty.
I will repark your car as im not happy on how you parked it.
You have the goal to go around building i named earlier and some other members of group would be there.
I hope you wouldnt mind for going on bit of a walk alongside Danube, as we as group are going to do that.
-Ok?
Siviko, lets go and meet others, let Chicota handle the parking.
-Ok.
(They are going to other side of building that is opposite to parking.
Rest of group had awaited them there, between FTN and Faculty of Law.)
-Oh hello you two. How did you enjoy the journey?
-Not very pleased with traffic. This seems rather nice i guess.
-It will get better, as we plan on embarking on tad bit of a walk.
First we will provide some snacks and drinks to use during that.
We received very interesting email and thought you may be interested in its contents and that will be main theme of what we will be talking about while walking alongside Danube.
-Im here as well.
-How about first getting some drinks etc. ?
We could go to nearby “Mikromarket”; there is one in Stražilovska street.
Its a small shop tho as its name would indicate so maybe few normal looking of us can go and fetch the stuff.
You rest wait here.
(After shop in question got lighter by fair few bottles of water, cola and beer and chosen members of group lighter in wallets as return, they had returned to rest with goods.
Their next destination is Danube quay. Getting to said quay is straight-forward and means walking further away from FTN in same direction in which some got from parking to group’s current position.
This means passing building of University of Novi Sad - faculties are part of university and all of plot so far in post has happened on university campus.
After some time, they do reach quay.
Quay is 5km or around 3.2 miles from end to end.
If im not mistaken, they will enter the quay at 2.3 km mark from (to them) closer end of it.
This is almost 1.5 mile of distance, short of that particular mark by about 100 yards.)
-We got here.
-Do we want to go left or right now?
-We will go to right first, as thats direction of nearer end of quay.
-Ok.
(Some walking in silence had followed)
-So, whats reasoning for our meeting here?
-We received email from Shift Happens. They are organising another Shitbox Rally.
-Hmm…where we start and when we need to be there?
-Our start is in Nevada, US and event is supposed to start on 30th March.
Ok, they did said 1st April, but 30th is supposed to allow some early fellas to just chill out.
-If they intend to pull some joke on us i will prob be angry.
(Ofc everyone was aware they would not pull joke in this manner, but choice of date is indeed interesting one)
-I guess we would have some company there.
-You would…i already registered 7 of us and both of cars we will be using during the event.
Seeing that i contacted Mrdja and he confirmed that previous year had 17 teams, we will be getting some solid amount of new friends this time as well.
-Who will be members of team and what cars will we use? -Well...
(Considering Mrdja aka me would like this in same fashion as for previous run…explanations here will be done from my point of view)
Characters, all 7 of them
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Pi Chitco
She is designated leader of group this time around.
Reasoning behind it is fact she is only member of previous team to appear this year.
Aside from that and obvious fact she is now physically 24 (and technically much older than that), i feel there isnt much to add compared to her original appearance, which was detailed here:
2022 Shitbox Rally - Out of This World! (Results Out!) - #30 by MrdjaNikolen
Her height, length and mass are same as previous year
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Loodjoe Mravolinski
One of characters that was supposed to go in original run, but had gotten ill and so was unable to participate.
He was also briefly described in same post that is linked above, as both he and Siviko had appeared in prologue.
Unlike in case of previous year, he now knows how to drive.
He has certain wish related to Siviko.
Speaking of whom… -
Siviko Mravolinski
Everything mentioned about his adoptive father Loodjoe applies here as well: isnt confident driver but knows how to drive and was described in post of previous year.
He is here to see new sights and meet new faces.
Loodjoe would like if Siviko will make him granpa of some kittens…for which he would need to find some kitty with whom he can found a family.
Picture below presents mass and height (if they stand on rear legs) for both 2) and 3)
Characters described below this would be either present from some other challenge (namely one was presented in TMCC21 and fully featured during 24h Clunker run of 2022) or would be somewhat related to members of previous year
(Said members of previous year would be Chicota and VerBanka)
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Mat Hammeltau
Roles: Driver, man with a gun
Little kid that had too much fun with crayons in TMCC21 had grown up to 27 or 28y old guy, working in Kolondra Selling and Service Center Stockholm
He was our source of 24h Clunkers 2022 happening in first place and one of members of team featured in that event.
His maternal granpa Yovan had took over Letara operations and restarted family business of weapon production: as result expect Mat will bring some firepower into event, as per insistence of granpa. -
Amanda Mravolinski
Age: physically 24, made 7-8y ago
Roles: Yes (i dont think there will be something she cant do)
Some more about character
Amanda is creation and duplicate of VerBanka from previous event…with a twist.
VerBanka used to be quite popular target of bad guys and had idea of making duplicate of hers that would serve as bait so they will try to kidnap her instead of VerBanka.
As this would likely be considered exclusively cruel for i guess clear reasons, she also wanted to make sure this new creation can deal with whatever baddies can throw at her and fight back if needed.
Amanda was created by mixing some small sample of VerBanka’s blood and nanomachines from Chicota Junior with assumption that nanomachines will make her as desired, having physical looks of VerBanka and physical capabilities of that Chicota.
This had proven to be kinda success as she exhibits both traits, but decided that she would prefer fighting off bad guys instead of running away
Weak and incapable fighters shall be ignored, strong and capable fighters respected and ones that doubt her fighting prowess or strength better be ready to fight, as she will find herself insulted at such claims.
- Andrea VerBanka
Also duplicate of VerBanka and as such of same physical age as Amanda: technically can be considered much older
We will note that this girl exists, but will not delve deeper into how she came to be as that is complicated story
She had started as being very optimistic individual with lot of untapped potential
May lack Amanda’s nanomachines, but would be much stronger and tougher than regular girls of her size (like VerBanka) and can easily overpower bigger individuals (like myself).
Has potential of being most powerful female member of group, courtesy of being put in same position as player in game “Idling to rule the gods”. Its yet to be decided if she would exhibit some capability derived from that at all, but its fair to say that she isnt aware that it might work here
Her clothing is white and thankfully she isnt as pale as she used to be
Best friend is definitely Pi and they are bound to mostly spend time together: Pi may be aware and willing to protect Andrea from harm’s way but she isnt fully aware this dance works other way around too.
Physical descriptions that applied to VerBanka in SR22 apply in both cases stated above as well
- Chicota Junior Mravolinski
Role: Yes
Robot that exists for atleast 8-9y that has went through equivalent phases of child to reach current young-adult-like physique.
He is son and younger namesake of Chicota from previous runand is also much stronger, tougher and with more knowledge and skills.
Just like his father, he is technically fighting robot and he enjoys fighting but also drinking alcoholic beverages.
Nanomachines that had role in creating Amanda are outsourced from this guy
Cars, as there are two of them
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1995 Kontir Cunningham 1.9
This technically 28y old car is physically much older than that
It was featured in previous SR and for purposes of this explanation will be assumed to be same-ish enough.
2022 Shitbox Rally - Out of This World! (Results Out!) - #30 by MrdjaNikolen -
1977 Saguaro T-REE 2000 Wagon
This is also car team already had and it was featured as such in 24h Clunkers 2022.
It was at some point retired from race and turned back into road-legal car.
It was also featured in TMCC21
Bcos its so awesome, we will post two links from same thread
If you arent fine with this, i suggest you buy and consume some copium
There is reason for this
TMCC 21 - The average family (RESULTS!) - #31 by MrdjaNikolen
TMCC 21 - The average family (RESULTS!) - #52 by Knugcab
Oh another thing i may want to note in this space:
Im in same boat as Madrias was during one of VicVictory’s challenges: going into it armed only with smartphone as my PC is fucked atm
That being said…
Thanks for @Madrias and @Knugcab for changing bare essentials on Kontir and Saguaro respectively so these cars would be legal for event in terms of naming scheme and making sure engines arent fucked to extent they cant reach 55mph or 90 kmph necessary for entry.
Knug also needed to switch fuel to Low Quality on Saguaro since that car was originally tuned for higher octane as per previous challenges in which it was featured.
There are obligatory side markers applied by Madrias on both cars for legality reasons. Other than that, their appearance is same as it was in previous challenges
Final union
-This is a long drive.
-Agreed, but getting from Sweden to Serbia was much, much longer.
-I hope your boss was fine with you taking a leave from work.
-Surprizingly, he was in somewhat normal state of mind when i asked him about it.
When i explained the reasoning, well…there was possibility of having three people in here
He was interested in going.
-Oh my, that would be…interesting.
-Prepare for bumpiness now, as we are leaving main road.
(Bumpiness was of short duration tho.)
-This is a house. Its whole. Not in ruins.
We are going to prepare here?
-Yes.
(Certain other member of group heard discussion and approached)
-That is correct, i see you remembered email well.
-Thanks Chicota i tried as best as i can.
Before i get back to Sweden, can i spend the night here too?
-Has enough beds for 11 regular people.
Not all of us belong in that group, being robot and cyborg, so yes.
-Ok.
-Hostess, we can help in preparing some food and few members of group arent picky in that regard to begin with.
-That would be nice of you. There is lot of you in here tho. Can you explain to me your plans again?
-No problem. We plan on going to America for some time and will likely do so on a boat. There is some race starting there and its fun, so we want to participate.
-Going to be any prizes?
-Nah, but that isnt really point of this event.
New places, people and experiences are.
That being said, we have couple of people from Sweden in team, so i guess it would be only appropriate to show them some local cuisine.
-While you are at it, they may as well try playing bocce
We have legitimate court in village: exit on street, go left, then again left on intersection and soon it shall be on your right.
Its made on concrete walls and has sand inside.
Some other locals could show you around rules of game.
-Could be fun experience, so will keep it in mind.
Is there some shop nearby?
I guess it is, but would prefer asking.
We really need to stock up on stuff.
-Yes, there are few supermarkets in local town
That being said, i would like to stock up on supplies myself.
(They are in Dalmatian part of Croatia: house belongs to one of Serbian families that needed to leave the area due to already known events of 90s.
Village is now mostly filled with younger ppl only during summer season and inhabited by few returning older people on permanent basis.)
-Ok. We will inform you when we go.
Considering we will likely go to both available supermarkets divided in two groups, you should say with which group you would prefer to travel.
Alternatively, you can write down a list of what needs to be bought and be avaiable in case further clarification is needed.
-Will do. Anything else?
-I guess we might be chaotic bunch so we will ask for tolerance there.
Will try to not leave absolute mess behind us.
-We are on transatlantic boat…somehow.
-How tf we obtained so much duct tape? And how is it all Swedish?
-One of other teams is from Sweden. They were very generous in that regard.
Might see them this time around…and eventually discover what kinda mess are they bringing this time.
-They won, but pink was hideous choice for that van.
-Ye, certainly mess in that regard.
-Do any of you guys know how to use guns?
-Why asking?
-My maternal granpa decided to contribute to cause in best way he can…so thats story of six identical guns and lot of ammo for them.
And thats having one confirmed user of it all, guy who knows how to shoot but will rather not rely on that skill.
-In case stuff goes to that extent, someone else from other teams can borrow weapons and contribute to the cause.
-I could try to shoot.
-Ofc Pi, ofc you could…we arent exactly eager to rely on your shooting skills despite bravery
-Or lack of common sense
-Amanda, why you need to be so harsh?
-Someone has to be. Im best choice in that matter.
-What are we going to do when we get on land of freedom and bald eagles?
-We shall see when we get to it.
Also may need to consider getting CB radios for both cars so we can communicate with each other and other teams.
-We need lot more stuff to do before heading to other side of continent.
-True…