Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Feb 24, 2012 12:30:46 GMT -5
Full Name: Stuffwell the Suitcase
Nickname(s): Suitcase Boy, Mr. Inventory
Age: Created relatively recently
Height: A little over 2 feet, not counting his feet
Weight: Heavy, but still carryable
Gender: None; referred to with masculine pronouns
Race: Artificial intelligence; form of a suitcase
Alliance: Good
Home: Gadd Science, Inc.; Mushroom Kingdom
Franchise: Mario & Luigi (Partners in Time)
Physical Description
Stuffwell is a carry-on suitcase with an orangish-yellow outer appearance with yellow corner brackets. He has a brown handle coming from his top and two stubby brown legs with red shoes from his bottom. His front is a digital surface which displays a virtual face with two big, expressive black eyes and a mouth. His back is made of material soft enough to cushion a human toddler's fall from over a good couple yards. His main interior is a brown and green plaid, and the inside of individual compartments are navy blue. underneath the inside of his lid are his actual computer components.
Weapons
None that are specifically his own.
Abilities/Powers
Capable of storing far more than his appearance would suggest; Stuffwell is akin to a pocket dimension, hammerspace, or magic satchel; depending on your preferred terminology. On top of main storage for the typical items such as clothing, Stuffwell comes with a few extra compartments for organizing knickknacks and accessories, storing plenty of money, and keeping months worth of food fresh for eating. He can deny access to unauthorized users and be nigh impossible to open then, but he can be stolen from if he lets his guard down and then gets taken by surprise.
On top of granting his artificial intelligence, Stuffwell's robotic components can serve as communication, allowing him live contact with his creator and potentially allowing him and/or his users to contact anyone else as well. His systems can also monitor the basic health, stamina, and other vital statistics of his current users. Stuffwell can also hack into and access most any external system and can translate the most foreign of languages. He's also equipped with a device he calls a Warpulator, which allows him to reverse the flow of time to place himself and his users back in an earlier point in time in the same state.
Skills
Stuffwell's programmed to be skilled in organization, both in items as well as past and planned future events, so he can help his users be better prepared for any kind of trip from weekend beach vacations to quests to save the entire planet. He's also fluent in a wide variety of oral, written, and computer languages; and he can relatively easily pick up on unfamiliar ones. Stuffwell can research and understand a wide range of worldly cultures so his users can be prepared wherever they go.
Personality
Stuffwell is a plucky and zealous little guy and often quite enthusiastic about his duties. His artificial intelligence is advanced enough that he can experience any range of human-like emotion (except, say, romance), though he tends to have a habit of expressing his emotion in a stereotypical A.I. fashion. He often refers to particularly strong bouts of specific emotions as "cycles". Stuffwell's reasonably intelligent and also somewhat eccentric at times. He's been known to have a tendency to blend or outright makemafy words as he talks. Despite his energy and enthusiasm, he can be a bit socially awkward as well. This can make him seem somewhat stuffy and reserved if you don't know him well enough, and it makes him uncomfortable with simple small talk as well. Nonetheless, he's a loyal and considerate friend in addition to being a dependable travel instrument.
History
Stuffwell was designed and manufactured by Gadd Science, Incorporated and since used as Professor Elvin Gadd's personal travel suitcase. Not long afterwards, he accompanied the professor to Mushroom Castle for the unveiling of Gadd's new time machine project. Not long after Princess Peach took the maiden voyage with two assistants, the time machine returned to the present not with them but a dangerous alien creature inside. Soon afterward, an open time hole appeared in the front courtyard, and the Mario brothers fell through while investigating with Gadd. Quickly calling Stuffwell over, the professor hastily explained the situation to him before shoving him through the time hole after the brothers. He then became the duo's method of storage and main communications link back to Gadd in the present. Gadd remotely updated Stuffwell's programming with data on the time machine project, allowing him detect and locate other time holes. Rather fortunate, as the one the trio arrived in had soon after disappeared.
After a disastrous run-in with the invading aliens, the Shroobs, and meeting their toddler selves, the group was able to locate another time hole in Prince Bowser's castle. On their way out, the babies happened upon an odd sparkling shard in a treasure chest, which Gadd upon their return identified as a piece of the Cobalt Star that powered the time machine. After witnessing an odd reaction from the alien that was in the time machine and the shard generates another time hole to an area where another was presumably located, the group of five began their hunt to locate the rest of the Cobalt Star's pieces and put it back together. Their search starts off in past Toadwood Forest, where the Shroobs have been draining the life force from captured Mushroom citizens to fuel their spaceships. After shutting down the Vim Factory, they were able to acquire another Cobalt shard. Unfortunately, Prince Bowser wasn't happy about his "treasure" being stolen and ambushed the group for not only his but the one they just got.
Embarrassed and ashamed, the group returned empty-handed to the present where Gadd was fortunately able to get a strong Cobalt shard reading from a time hole in the second-floor library. This time hole threw the five into an absurd misadventure which had them saving the population of Yoshi's Island from a giant mutant Shroob yoshi before they could recover the shards from Bowser. Along the way, they ran into Toadbert, one of the assistants that went back with Peach, who was currently amnesiac. The only thing he had to go by regarding what happened to Peach, was a hasty (and now dirty) sketch he had of Peach holding up the intact Cobalt Star against Princess Shroob.
Their next time hole took them to the Gritzy Desert, where supposedly an ancient civilization of rival koopas to the Dry Dry Kingdom nomadimice lived. After they managed to sneak inside the ancient arena called the Koopaseum, the group witnessed a celebration by the Shroobs in which the adult Peach was fed to the large, overweight piranha plant, Petey Piranha. After a large gladiator battle (fitting, considering what the ancient koopas used the arena for in the first place) and a dark trek through the caves below where the Shroobs trapped them, the group finally tracked down and fought Petey, both getting a Cobalt shard and rescuing Peach. Despite having a nasty Shroob fungus growing on her face, the princess was otherwise fine and the six of them returned to the present for her to rest. Sadly, just as the heroes were getting ready for their next move, Bowser--adult Bowser of present time)--showed up inexplicably and ran off with Peach, falling into another time hole in his escape.
The time hole led to Thwomp Volcano, the location where Stuffwell's creator coincidentally had a lab back then. After a faint long-term memory of the babies traveled with 3-decades-younger Gadd to his present day self, he came up with the design for an invention not unlike his previous F.L.U.D.D. creation to cool down the volcano. Once the Hydrogush worked its magic through the local time hole, the group descended the volcano until they located Princess Peach being guarded by the Bowsers of both eras. Though the Mario Bros times two emerged victorious, their celebration was cut short when the Shroob Mothership arrived to kidnap the princess back. The group stowed away on the ship to rescue her, but they soon discovered the woman they were protecting had actually been Princess Shroob in disguise. The group was only saved from imminent doom when an equally disguised reporter named Kylie Koopa ambushed the Shroobs with one of their own weapons.
Upon escape from the mothership, the five fell into a broken and gloomy Toad Town and moved onto Star Hill north of there as guided by an anxious incomplete Cobalt Star. Making it past a Shroob commander and his giant bomb, the group reached the Shooting Star Summit where the spirit of the Cobalt Star channeled the energy of the hill to relay a message to the boys of how it can break through the barrier around Shroob Castle with enough pieces put together. Baby Luigi, however, sensed something so disturbing it drove him to tears. And it wasn't until the heroes reached a shrine above to the Star Spirits that they ran into Kylie and a memory-restored Toadbert who advised strongly against putting the star back together. But they were attacked by an alien similar to the one trapped in the present and "shroobified" before they had the chance to explain why. In the fight with the alien, the gang acquired the another shard, giving them enough to break through the Shroob barrier.
The assault on Shroob Castle proved difficult, but the five managed to fight their way through and locate the real Peach. This was made partially easier when the group found the vacated mothership, and Stuffwell hacked the controls to allow the two pairs of brothers to shoot down the armada hovering around the castle. When Mario explained how they'd been putting the cobalt Star back together to get there, Peach panicked and and tried to explain, like Toadbert and Kylie before her, why this was a BAD IDEA. Her tower prison, however, fell under fire from the mothership before she could, and the gang used a similarly controlled ship above to strike the mothership down. When the mothership crashed into the prison, Princess Shroob emerged furiously and began to attack. The aliens' leader proved far tougher than many other foes they faced on their adventure, but she fell in the end.
Peach revealed she was holding a piece of the Cobalt star herself to prevent it being put back together when Baby Bowser showed up out of nowhere to claim it for himself. Peach tried to stop him from putting the star back together, explaining what turned out to be a very good reason why, but it was too late. Princess Shroob's older sister, whom Peach trapped in the Cobalt Star, was then released. Cruelly thanking the heroes for their foolish acts, after shroobifying Baby Bowser, the Elder Princess Shroob engaged them in battle. And against all odds...she lost, and she was reduced to a small, harmless mushroom. Nonetheless, the elder princess fell with the satisfaction that Shroob infestation remained all over the Mushroom World and there'd be no possible way for the Earthlings to clean it all up. That is, until the babies began playing on Baby Bowser's shroobified body to the point where little Weegee got hurt and cried all over it. Prince Bowser was miraculously restored to normal by his tears.
Immediately upon seeing this result, Stuffwell reported their finding back to Gadd in the present. The professor took this knowledge and altered the chemical compound of the water in the Hydrogush to match that of young Mario and Luigi's tears using the sample amount left over from when the alien he was studying spooked them earlier. Spraying synthesized baby tears across the past Mushroom World through all the time holes, the professor cleansed all of it of Shroob influence, curing all who'd been shroobified in the process. The heroes returned to the present and, after a strange battle between the four bros and Bowser possessed by the elder princess's spirit in the mushroom Baby Luigi brought with him, the past kingdom citizens took the repaired time machine back home with all that messy Shroob business behind everyone. Gadd continues to use Stuffwell as his own personal suitcase, lending him to Mario and/or Luigi from time to time.
Other
I'm going to be very stingy about Warpulator use, or else it may end up in Deus Ex Machina terretory. A possible excuse I'm considering is that the Warpulator is one nasty battery hog on Stuffwell and can only be used as a last resort.
Picture(s)
Nickname(s): Suitcase Boy, Mr. Inventory
Age: Created relatively recently
Height: A little over 2 feet, not counting his feet
Weight: Heavy, but still carryable
Gender: None; referred to with masculine pronouns
Race: Artificial intelligence; form of a suitcase
Alliance: Good
Home: Gadd Science, Inc.; Mushroom Kingdom
Franchise: Mario & Luigi (Partners in Time)
Physical Description
Stuffwell is a carry-on suitcase with an orangish-yellow outer appearance with yellow corner brackets. He has a brown handle coming from his top and two stubby brown legs with red shoes from his bottom. His front is a digital surface which displays a virtual face with two big, expressive black eyes and a mouth. His back is made of material soft enough to cushion a human toddler's fall from over a good couple yards. His main interior is a brown and green plaid, and the inside of individual compartments are navy blue. underneath the inside of his lid are his actual computer components.
Weapons
None that are specifically his own.
Abilities/Powers
Capable of storing far more than his appearance would suggest; Stuffwell is akin to a pocket dimension, hammerspace, or magic satchel; depending on your preferred terminology. On top of main storage for the typical items such as clothing, Stuffwell comes with a few extra compartments for organizing knickknacks and accessories, storing plenty of money, and keeping months worth of food fresh for eating. He can deny access to unauthorized users and be nigh impossible to open then, but he can be stolen from if he lets his guard down and then gets taken by surprise.
On top of granting his artificial intelligence, Stuffwell's robotic components can serve as communication, allowing him live contact with his creator and potentially allowing him and/or his users to contact anyone else as well. His systems can also monitor the basic health, stamina, and other vital statistics of his current users. Stuffwell can also hack into and access most any external system and can translate the most foreign of languages. He's also equipped with a device he calls a Warpulator, which allows him to reverse the flow of time to place himself and his users back in an earlier point in time in the same state.
Skills
Stuffwell's programmed to be skilled in organization, both in items as well as past and planned future events, so he can help his users be better prepared for any kind of trip from weekend beach vacations to quests to save the entire planet. He's also fluent in a wide variety of oral, written, and computer languages; and he can relatively easily pick up on unfamiliar ones. Stuffwell can research and understand a wide range of worldly cultures so his users can be prepared wherever they go.
Personality
Stuffwell is a plucky and zealous little guy and often quite enthusiastic about his duties. His artificial intelligence is advanced enough that he can experience any range of human-like emotion (except, say, romance), though he tends to have a habit of expressing his emotion in a stereotypical A.I. fashion. He often refers to particularly strong bouts of specific emotions as "cycles". Stuffwell's reasonably intelligent and also somewhat eccentric at times. He's been known to have a tendency to blend or outright makemafy words as he talks. Despite his energy and enthusiasm, he can be a bit socially awkward as well. This can make him seem somewhat stuffy and reserved if you don't know him well enough, and it makes him uncomfortable with simple small talk as well. Nonetheless, he's a loyal and considerate friend in addition to being a dependable travel instrument.
History
Stuffwell was designed and manufactured by Gadd Science, Incorporated and since used as Professor Elvin Gadd's personal travel suitcase. Not long afterwards, he accompanied the professor to Mushroom Castle for the unveiling of Gadd's new time machine project. Not long after Princess Peach took the maiden voyage with two assistants, the time machine returned to the present not with them but a dangerous alien creature inside. Soon afterward, an open time hole appeared in the front courtyard, and the Mario brothers fell through while investigating with Gadd. Quickly calling Stuffwell over, the professor hastily explained the situation to him before shoving him through the time hole after the brothers. He then became the duo's method of storage and main communications link back to Gadd in the present. Gadd remotely updated Stuffwell's programming with data on the time machine project, allowing him detect and locate other time holes. Rather fortunate, as the one the trio arrived in had soon after disappeared.
After a disastrous run-in with the invading aliens, the Shroobs, and meeting their toddler selves, the group was able to locate another time hole in Prince Bowser's castle. On their way out, the babies happened upon an odd sparkling shard in a treasure chest, which Gadd upon their return identified as a piece of the Cobalt Star that powered the time machine. After witnessing an odd reaction from the alien that was in the time machine and the shard generates another time hole to an area where another was presumably located, the group of five began their hunt to locate the rest of the Cobalt Star's pieces and put it back together. Their search starts off in past Toadwood Forest, where the Shroobs have been draining the life force from captured Mushroom citizens to fuel their spaceships. After shutting down the Vim Factory, they were able to acquire another Cobalt shard. Unfortunately, Prince Bowser wasn't happy about his "treasure" being stolen and ambushed the group for not only his but the one they just got.
Embarrassed and ashamed, the group returned empty-handed to the present where Gadd was fortunately able to get a strong Cobalt shard reading from a time hole in the second-floor library. This time hole threw the five into an absurd misadventure which had them saving the population of Yoshi's Island from a giant mutant Shroob yoshi before they could recover the shards from Bowser. Along the way, they ran into Toadbert, one of the assistants that went back with Peach, who was currently amnesiac. The only thing he had to go by regarding what happened to Peach, was a hasty (and now dirty) sketch he had of Peach holding up the intact Cobalt Star against Princess Shroob.
Their next time hole took them to the Gritzy Desert, where supposedly an ancient civilization of rival koopas to the Dry Dry Kingdom nomadimice lived. After they managed to sneak inside the ancient arena called the Koopaseum, the group witnessed a celebration by the Shroobs in which the adult Peach was fed to the large, overweight piranha plant, Petey Piranha. After a large gladiator battle (fitting, considering what the ancient koopas used the arena for in the first place) and a dark trek through the caves below where the Shroobs trapped them, the group finally tracked down and fought Petey, both getting a Cobalt shard and rescuing Peach. Despite having a nasty Shroob fungus growing on her face, the princess was otherwise fine and the six of them returned to the present for her to rest. Sadly, just as the heroes were getting ready for their next move, Bowser--adult Bowser of present time)--showed up inexplicably and ran off with Peach, falling into another time hole in his escape.
The time hole led to Thwomp Volcano, the location where Stuffwell's creator coincidentally had a lab back then. After a faint long-term memory of the babies traveled with 3-decades-younger Gadd to his present day self, he came up with the design for an invention not unlike his previous F.L.U.D.D. creation to cool down the volcano. Once the Hydrogush worked its magic through the local time hole, the group descended the volcano until they located Princess Peach being guarded by the Bowsers of both eras. Though the Mario Bros times two emerged victorious, their celebration was cut short when the Shroob Mothership arrived to kidnap the princess back. The group stowed away on the ship to rescue her, but they soon discovered the woman they were protecting had actually been Princess Shroob in disguise. The group was only saved from imminent doom when an equally disguised reporter named Kylie Koopa ambushed the Shroobs with one of their own weapons.
Upon escape from the mothership, the five fell into a broken and gloomy Toad Town and moved onto Star Hill north of there as guided by an anxious incomplete Cobalt Star. Making it past a Shroob commander and his giant bomb, the group reached the Shooting Star Summit where the spirit of the Cobalt Star channeled the energy of the hill to relay a message to the boys of how it can break through the barrier around Shroob Castle with enough pieces put together. Baby Luigi, however, sensed something so disturbing it drove him to tears. And it wasn't until the heroes reached a shrine above to the Star Spirits that they ran into Kylie and a memory-restored Toadbert who advised strongly against putting the star back together. But they were attacked by an alien similar to the one trapped in the present and "shroobified" before they had the chance to explain why. In the fight with the alien, the gang acquired the another shard, giving them enough to break through the Shroob barrier.
The assault on Shroob Castle proved difficult, but the five managed to fight their way through and locate the real Peach. This was made partially easier when the group found the vacated mothership, and Stuffwell hacked the controls to allow the two pairs of brothers to shoot down the armada hovering around the castle. When Mario explained how they'd been putting the cobalt Star back together to get there, Peach panicked and and tried to explain, like Toadbert and Kylie before her, why this was a BAD IDEA. Her tower prison, however, fell under fire from the mothership before she could, and the gang used a similarly controlled ship above to strike the mothership down. When the mothership crashed into the prison, Princess Shroob emerged furiously and began to attack. The aliens' leader proved far tougher than many other foes they faced on their adventure, but she fell in the end.
Peach revealed she was holding a piece of the Cobalt star herself to prevent it being put back together when Baby Bowser showed up out of nowhere to claim it for himself. Peach tried to stop him from putting the star back together, explaining what turned out to be a very good reason why, but it was too late. Princess Shroob's older sister, whom Peach trapped in the Cobalt Star, was then released. Cruelly thanking the heroes for their foolish acts, after shroobifying Baby Bowser, the Elder Princess Shroob engaged them in battle. And against all odds...she lost, and she was reduced to a small, harmless mushroom. Nonetheless, the elder princess fell with the satisfaction that Shroob infestation remained all over the Mushroom World and there'd be no possible way for the Earthlings to clean it all up. That is, until the babies began playing on Baby Bowser's shroobified body to the point where little Weegee got hurt and cried all over it. Prince Bowser was miraculously restored to normal by his tears.
Immediately upon seeing this result, Stuffwell reported their finding back to Gadd in the present. The professor took this knowledge and altered the chemical compound of the water in the Hydrogush to match that of young Mario and Luigi's tears using the sample amount left over from when the alien he was studying spooked them earlier. Spraying synthesized baby tears across the past Mushroom World through all the time holes, the professor cleansed all of it of Shroob influence, curing all who'd been shroobified in the process. The heroes returned to the present and, after a strange battle between the four bros and Bowser possessed by the elder princess's spirit in the mushroom Baby Luigi brought with him, the past kingdom citizens took the repaired time machine back home with all that messy Shroob business behind everyone. Gadd continues to use Stuffwell as his own personal suitcase, lending him to Mario and/or Luigi from time to time.
Other
I'm going to be very stingy about Warpulator use, or else it may end up in Deus Ex Machina terretory. A possible excuse I'm considering is that the Warpulator is one nasty battery hog on Stuffwell and can only be used as a last resort.
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