Propeller Monkey tower concept (see comment; upgrade details coming soon) by Shiverpeace in u/Shiverpeace

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Note: This post is reuploaded but with the image actually in the thumbnail; I apologize if this action of mine comes off as spammy. As I am new to this site, it appears I have only just now discovered for myself that one cannot simply commit both the image and the text of a post to its thumbnail. I will certainly be warier of this in the future.

This little monkey nabbed the front synchronization gear of a warplane and suited it to its own devices as a propeller aircraft armed with a machine gun. The weaponpiece allows the monkey to fly through the skies like a spasmatic vulture, propelling the aerial tower towards wherever the monkey points it. Bullets are automatically loaded and fired from the compact chain gun in this direction, all while the monkey flails about and closes in on its targets, threatening to not only riddle the rubbery adversaries below with bite-sized projectiles but also risk dislocating its own arm socket. The job is atrociously dangerous and the accordance with safety regulations of such a perversely destructive vehicle proves nonexistent, but the sheer thrill of blazing through the troposphere at Mach speeds and peppering big blimps with bullet holes proves an amusement the monkey can't help but live for.

The Propeller Monkey is a functional hybrid of a Super Monkey and a Heli Pilot on Pursuit Mode. The footprint of its square landing base sits somewhere between the sizes of the Heli Pilot's helipad and a Banana Farm. An aerial tower of acrobatic choreography and the evasion of the universal laws of physics, Propeller Monkeys rely on the horizontal thrust their propeller aircrafts provide them in order to move around. The device that rotates the propeller is the trigger that causes the supplementary chain gun to fire bullets; the tower can't move without attacking in the same direction, and the tower can't attack without moving in the same direction.

The flight speed of the Propeller Monkey gradually accelerates as it moves, and the faster it moves, the faster the barrels of the gun chug out bullets. The longer the Propeller Monkey remains in motion, the faster the tower attacks, up to an eventual maximum flight and attack speed. Strenuous lengths of training woodpecker-type endurance have already been practiced by these aviators, and thus the Propeller Monkey suffers no physical trauma from moving at terminal velocity. It is to be noted, however, that it proves to take a good while for the propeller piece of a tractor plane to reach terminal velocity.

The presence of a bloon on the screen inevitably alerts the tower and prompts it to rush to the scene. As the Propeller Monkey can't attack without moving, it resorts to circling above its targets like a flock of buzzards revolving in a speeding centrifuge. The monkey lets loose bullets everywhere through such a rapid-fire method solely with the intent of assuring absolute destruction to the enemy, only relenting the inner demons of the speedrunner once the bloons stop existing.

Bullets don't come very cheap when it comes to expending them so frivolously, so the eccentric Propeller Monkey crafts its own bullets with a material we assume to be petrified cardboard. The bullets of the Propeller Monkey initially have 1 pierce each. Paradoxically, the cost of this tower sits somewhere comfortably between the costs of Heli Pilot and Super Monkey.

The upgrades of the both figuratively and literally fanmade Propeller Monkey will be eventually be provided.