Living in Fear: Fallout (Superhuman RP) [Closed]

[Salem Wolf]

Two weeks ago Empire City suffered a devastating nuclear explosion caused by a superhuman named Elyse. The city suffered extensive and massive damage, out of over 8 million citizens, superhuman and not, only 2 million have survived, and more are dying everyday from a variety of causes, ironically none of them radiation poisoning. The explosion was not as large as it could have been due to the efforts of a group called HERO and the powers of Troy Winter, who concentrated the blast into one point, thereby minimizing the damage and what could have been a city-wide radiation infection. Prior to the explosion, the city was placed under complete lockdown, all communication in and out of the city was cut off. The bridges leading in and out of the city were raised and locked, the subways were destroyed, any travel was cut off as well, leaving Empire City to suffer with the consequences of a battle between two opposing forces: HERO and TNT.

The Tactical Neutralization Team (TNT) was created little over 10 years ago by the four most powerful superhumans to ever live, simply called: The Leaders. The Leaders "control" the entire world, the entire world is aware they control the populations, but hardly anyone has anything to fear from them...unless you're superhuman. The TNT was created to control the superhuman population, while humans have little to worry about and are rarely ever killed by TNT actions, superhumans are targeted and killed daily, in droves to ensure the Leaders are never challenged by superhumans. Public reaction to the TNT is widely positive, due to their media correspondences who inform the population a superhuman death is a necessary cause, and due to the fact humans outweigh superhumans by a large margin.

Elyse, as mentioned to be the cause of the blast, was Empire City's TNT commander, simply put, she oversaw all actions the city's TNT did, prior to her takeover, Troy Winter was acting Regional Commander as the position is known. When Elyse took over, Troy was fired from his position, but alas, under TNT orders he was not to be killed, and he soon released a few fellow TNT members, and they met with a group called HERO, which would oppose the TNT's genocidal methods of killing superhumans. HERO and TNT clashed for the first time two weeks ago, with Elyse's wounds she released a nuclear blast, which Troy managed to keep from completely decimating the city, unfortunately or fortunately, however you look at it, Elyse was killed.

It's been two weeks since the nuclear explosion, Empire City is alone, without incoming supplies, help, for all the city knows, no one realizes that the city had suffered a tremendous explosion rocking it to the very core with no way in or out of the city. The only media coverage comes from within the city itself, and seems to only be reachable by those within the city. Half the city is without power, water and food are slowly becoming scarce, and people are rioting. Superhumans have yet to have been found out as the cause of the explosion, and so far the other TNT bases seem to be ignoring Empire City's loss of the TNT, it seems truly that those within the city are on their own.

However, a little while after the explosion occurred, Troy Winter infiltrated what was left of the TNT base, now a barren empty place with hardly any soldiers left alive, and had come to find out that the Leaders had purposely let Elyse explode, that the entire battle between HERO and the TNT had been planned, but for what purpose? What would the TNT gain from losing an entire city of TNT members? The answers have yet to be known, even Troy has yet to figure it out, but one thing is certain, this is only a smaller piece of the puzzle...

This is where you enter, as a survivor of the nuclear blast, likely superhuman yourself, you have to figure out where to go, how to survive, perhaps join HERO on their quest to end the TNT once and for all and allow superhumans to survive...but a new group has arrived in the wake of the city's TNT loss...LEGION, a group which desires nothing more than total destruction. Perhaps you belong with them, or perhaps you work better alone.

Welcome to Living in Fear: Fallout.

Post I: Introduction
Post II: Rules
Post III: Cast of Characters
Post IV: Profile Thread Link / Profile Skeleton
Post V: Faction Explanation
Post VI: Story Summary Link
Post VII: Reserved
Post VIII: Reserved
Post IX: Reserved
Post X: Reserved

My chosen torture makes me stronger
In a life that craves the hunger
A Freedom and a quest for life
Until the end the judgment night

[Salem Wolf]

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This is a new world you're about to enter, filled with familiarity and yet, difference. There are rules to follow, please keep these in mind at all times and everything will run smoothly.

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I - No Godmodding.

II - Follow the Gaia Terms of Service.

III - Please respect each other, including myself and any moderators in the RP. Doing so earns you respect. Speaking of respect, if I decide at any time to add, change, or modify the rules to the RP, please respect my decision to do so.

IV - This is a Literate roleplay; at least 8 sentences per post (more is welcomed and encouraged). Keep OOC posts to a minimum, and please accompany an OOC post with a character post (that will not be enforced, however). Write in this RP as you would a book, this means do not use symbols for actions (such as: ** ( ) -- or anything else). Keep one-liners to an absolute rarity, writer's block is not unheard of, but still, keep one-liners out whenever possible.

V - All profiles must be approved by me (Salem Wolf) before you begin RPing; send them to me for approval. Speaking of sending me information, should you change your user name during the course of your time in the RP, please let me know so I can keep the appropriate information up-to-date.

VI - Romance and violence is accepted, sometimes even encouraged, but the moment you reach an unacceptable level you will be asked to stop. Take it to an outside instant messaging chat service if you must get your freak on. Speaking of Romance and Violence, feel free to curse, but keep it acceptable and use it sparingly. Your character cannot be dropping F-Bombs every post because you're a 'mad gangsta homie', that's not accepted.

VII - Once you join, please stick it out. Just because the RP is not moving fast enough for your liking is not an excuse to leave, it's not fair to us who worked hard on the RP just to have you quit; but if you must, you must, no stopping you. That said, if you leave the RP and your character is important, your quitting of the RP is implied consent that you give us the right to control your character. Don't worry, we'll probably just remove your character from the RP in an acceptable and dignified manner.

VIII - Feel free to utilize as many original characters as you'd like (and can handle), since that can help enhance the RP experience. However, after the third, I will be allowed to deny you additional characters if I see you are neglectful of using them, so don't go creating characters on a whim and ignoring them later. On the topic of characters, should you be in the middle of an important plot or fight, and if you have failed to post after 8 hours, we will move your character along. Don't mistake that for being in trouble, it just helps those who might be active to keep moving along.

Also, you are not allowed to kill another character without permission from both users, say I wanted to kill [insert user name]'s character, then he/she and I would need to agree on it for his/her character to die.

IX - Please stay active in the RP. Post at least once every other day. If you do not post within a week, I (Salem Wolf) will send a PM asking what has happened, if three days pass without a response, I will delete your profile from the thread and assume control of your character. But I'm not evil, should anything happen and you cannot perform your duties as the character, let me know before, during, or after the fact and I'll be happy to let you return to the RP.

X - In order to verify all rules have been read and followed, please send the words "Garden of Madness" in the subject of the PM with your profile. That is your written consent you read the rules and that shows you are willing to follow them. Remember, your profile will not be accepted without those words...so just read the rules, they're quick and easy.

If any of these rules are unclear, or they need to be further explained, contact me (Salem Wolf) for more information as it was I who wrote these rules.

Post I: Introduction
Post II: Rules
Post III: Cast of Characters
Post IV: Profile Thread Link / Profile Skeleton
Post V: Faction Explanation
Post VI: Story Summary Link
Post VII: Reserved
Post VIII: Reserved
Post IX: Reserved
Post X: Reserved

Bless me with your gift of light
Righteous cause on judgment night
Feel the sorrow the light has swallowed
Feel the freedom like no tomorrow

[Salem Wolf]

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Alongside HERO

Lilly Denell - Lillian Leigh
Leigh Denell - Lillian Leigh
Rion Galford - Rion Galford
Salem Wolf / Vector - Salem Anthony Wolf
Seth Lucas - Salem Anthony Wolf
Micheal Bassara (Foxman) - iNuclearBiohazard

HERO Children (NPCs)

Kara - Leigh & Salem
Rosetta - Lilly & Rion

Alongside LEGION

Alazne Dunstan II (Aballam) - Geshrael
Gabriel Adams - Salem Anthony Wolf
Victoria Taylor Logan - Nico Grimm

Alongside the TNT

Troy Winter - Salem Anthony Wolf
Alice Ernest - Nana - Chu
Tyrell (African-American) - TNT Soldier
White Warlock (British) - TNT Soldier
Jetstream (Canadian) - TNT Soldier
Master of Fear (English) - TNT Soldier
Novaman (Alien) - TNT Soldier
Kaito Kojima - Salem Anthony Wolf

None of the Above

Spes Duranti - Geshrael
Richard Matthew Conner - Count Belmont
Ryx Network - Salem Anthony Wolf
Faith Knight - Terminal Fatality
Eve Ernest - Nana - Chu
Alik Toddson - Adorkable Monster
Keeva Rowan - Adorkable Monster
Trae Jackson - kougaru_reanimated

If your name is not listed in the cast or has a strike through it, PM me when possible about your disappearance or future status from the RP.

Post I: Introduction
Post II: Rules
Post III: Cast of Characters
Post IV: Profile Thread Link / Profile Skeleton
Post V: Faction Explanation
Post VI: Story Summary Link
Post VII: Reserved
Post VIII: Reserved
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Stepping forth a cure for soul's demise
Reap the tears of the victim’s cries
Yearning more to hear the suffer (of a)
Of a demon as I put it under

[Salem Wolf]

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Click to Reach the "Living in Fear: Fallout [Profile Thread]".

If your profile is not accepted with 24 hours of being sent, please PM me. Also, if your profile is not up within 24 hours of being accepted, PM me and remind me to post it. Below this is the profile skeleton, you will use this for your character, no matter what kind of character you make. Everything between "( )" should be deleted and replaced with the appropriate information.

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[align=center][color=yourchoice][size=18][b]The Controller:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=16](Insert your Username)[/size][/align]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Mirror Image:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Link your image here, IMG/IMGLEFT/IMGRIGHT only if your picture does not stretch the page or doesn't squish the words onto one small side of the profile)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]The Name of My Character Is:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Character's Name; you can also include their nickname here)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Currently Aged:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Character's current age)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]The Gender Is:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Male or Female)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Made Of Different Things:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](This is your character's race, as simple as: White, Asian, Black, German, etc.)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Fighting For The Side Of:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](This is your alliance, good, evil or neutral.)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Working For the Weekend:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](After the explosion, your character is not likely to have a job anymore, therefore, this space is reserved for factions. TNT will be a rarely seen faction in the beginning, though you could be a rogue TNT member who survived the blast. HERO is the current leading faction, but to join them in the beginning, your character will have to find a certain leader of the ground. LEGION is simple to get into, but you may lose their mind to join it when you find the leader. If you're not in a faction, put "N/A". Keep Alliances aligned with factions: TNT - evil, HERO - good, LEGION - evil)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Fighting With A:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Character's often use weapons, if your character uses weapons, put ALL weapons they will be using, you can also request to add or remove a weapon at anytime, so don't believe your weapons are set in stone)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Look Ma! No Hands:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Many characters will utilize a vehicle to move around Empire City, though those vehicles can't leave the city, you can travel around it faster. List your vehicle here, and if they don't use a vehicle, put "N/A" here)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Just A Bit Different:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Personality, simple. How your character acts in the world. Minimum of 8 sentences needed)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]More Than Human:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](Underneath the profile skeleton is a set of rules on what can't be used as powers, and it's very important to read regardless. There is a limit of up to 4 different powers to wield during the course of this RP, another slot or two MAY be added during the course of the RP.)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]Writing an Autobiography:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](This is your character's life history, their background. Try to fit your background into the RP's storyline as BEST AS POSSIBLE, if I see anything out of place, I'll always help you along. I desire a minimum of 12 sentences, and PLEASE include the details of your character's life during the past two weeks, which by this point has been established as a nuclear explosion two weeks ago.)[/size]
[color=yourchoice][size=11][b]In Closing:[/b][/color][/size]
[size=10](This is the part where you can put basically whatever you find necessary, something not mentioned, maybe a quirk that you want people to know about, something special not put in their bio or personality; maybe a crush, sexual orientation, an item they cherish, theme song or just a favorite thing you want to mention. This is completely optional. If you have nothing to add, put "N/A")[/size]

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I will not go into detail on what powers cannot be used, therefore, if I find something I don't agree with in a profile, that is where I will mention it. But, I will not accept, under any circumstances, Immortality / Invincibility, they can be difficult to fight against and generally would make an unfair balance.

As far as Enhance Attributes go, I will be willing to group the following attributes together, which means you can use one, all, or a combination of the below attributes and you will only be taking up one power slot for them.The following attributes can, if you choose, be grouped together:

● Strength
● Speed
● Stamina
● Agility
● Intelligence
● Hearing
● Sight
● Smell
● Touch
● Taste

Please, don't go overboard on Enhanced Attributes, I will inform you if you are overboard. Generally, a person can go double, PERHAPS triple the normal limit of Strength, Speed, Agility and Stamina of a normal person, though I won't specify the exact limit for enhancing those attributes, and instead will be determined per entry. Same for: Intelligence, Hearing, Sight, Smell, Touch, and Taste, they will be determined per entry. Now, if you'd like to go above the "Enhanced" limit for your attributes, those will have to be made into a separate slot. YOU CANNOT lift like "The Hulk" with Enhanced Attributes, instead you'll need a slot for "Super Strength".

Regardless, you must specify which attributes your character is enhanced with, even if they can be grouped together, you must specify the level of the strength, amount of speed, quickness of agility, how great the hearing it, how much better the sight is, etc. All attributes must be spoken of in the profile, and I must know by how much each attribute is increased by.

When submitting a profile, please detail your powers; even if the power is completely obvious such as "flight", please specify in detail on how they work, affect stamina, max speed, how they achieve it (pushing off an object, etc), for more detail on how to detail your powers when submitted, please refer to the Profile Thread link above. Thank you.

Post I: Introduction
Post II: Rules
Post III: Cast of Characters
Post IV: Profile Thread Link / Profile Skeleton
Post V: Faction Explanation
Post VI: Story Summary Link
Post VII: Reserved
Post VIII: Reserved
Post IX: Reserved
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Killed before, a time to kill them all
Passed down the righteous law
Serve a justice that dwells in me
Lifeless corpse as far as the eye can see

[Salem Wolf]

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Reading these are entirely optional, for the most part the TNT has been destroyed in the city (though they still exist worldwide), meaning anyone looking to join the TNT after the explosion (timeline wise) would be out of luck, and finding someone in HERO to join up with would be difficult now that they're such a small group within the city and without their own base. However, if you want to know what both factions were like BEFORE the explosion two weeks ago and are bored, read on.

However, there is something I want the clear up, ONLY the TNT within the city is gone, there are still thousands of branches throughout the world that still operates normally, however due to the lockdown on the city and total block on communication outside, that there will be NO TNT members from the outside. If your character is from the TNT they will have to have been TNT before the explosion, and they will not have a base anymore.

There is a third faction, called LEGION, however that faction isn't widespread yet, it's very small and hardly anyone knows of it. Until that changes, there is going to be no explanation for the faction itself, if you wish to learn more on it, PM "Geshrael", the creator of the faction or find her character in the RP to join.

__________The Two (Fully Established) Factions__________

To make things cleaner and more compact, the information on the two established factions will be in a separate thread.

Link to Living in Fear: Fallout's Established Factions Post

Post I: Introduction
Post II: Rules
Post III: Cast of Characters
Post IV: Profile Thread Link / Profile Skeleton
Post V: Faction Explanation
Post VI: Story Summary Link
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Life of vengeance, a passive test
Until the grave I will rest
Engage the pressure until it crumbles
The existence of the lifeless black souls

[Salem Wolf]

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The story continues from another RP, however knowing the story of the previous RP isn't necessary, only what was in the first post is absolutely necessary, but if you'd like to know what happened behind the scenes, there is a link to another thread in which the entire story is explained.

Coincidentally, I will be using that SAME thread to continue the story summary in LiF: Fallout. Thankfully, I'll make it easy to provide links to the exact posts which describe the Living in Fear 1 story summary, and a link to LiF: Fallout's story summary.

Living in Fear 1's Story Summary Post

Living in Fear: Fallout's Story Summary Post

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Post III: Cast of Characters
Post IV: Profile Thread Link / Profile Skeleton
Post V: Faction Explanation
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Onward to the sacred battlefield
Where justification and limits are revealed
Tools of steel in rage they conquer
Weed out the killing of victim’s stalker

[Salem Wolf]

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The powers proven to end the madness
Upon I take it to end the savage
The rays of light a truth of meaning
To my father the blood is pleading

[Salem Wolf]

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A justice rage for all to feel
With innocent cries and hatred squeals
The gore of evil seems to satisfy
When slain an maimed and pacified

[Salem Wolf]

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My chosen torture makes me stronger
In a life that craves the hunger
A Freedom and a quest for life
Until the end the judgment night

[Salem Wolf]

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Watch the footsteps but never follow
If you want to live tomorrow
Steel a soul for a second chance
But you will never become a man

[Salem Wolf]

Troy Winter
-Ex-Regional Commander of the TNT-

Two weeks ago the city suffered a massive nuclear explosion which killed nearly 6 million people, leaving a little over 2 million people left within the city. Troy Winter was one of those survivors, but he was unique, like the rest of his team, he was a superhuman and he was in the center of the explosion at the time. Despite being so close to the explosion, they had all come out better for the wear, except for Lilly Denell, who Troy thought of like a sister to him, she had been unconscious for two weeks. Troy sighed softly, checking her still unconscious body,
"I hope you wake up soon, Lilly..." He said softly, grabbing her hand,
"I don't want your death to be my fault...you shouldn't have taken that attack for me you...foolish girl." Troy sighed softly, squeezing her hand gently. Lilly was laying in a bed made up for her, some fluids were being fed through IVs to keep her alive, but after a two week coma, she might not even wake up the same...she could be completely different, and that worried Troy. Just after the explosion Troy had retrieved his laptop from his old TNT office, used it to gain some files they could use on the TNT later, unfortunately a virus was planted from the files, nearly destroying the laptop entirely, and Troy had been actively trying to repair the computer using stills he siphoned from a dead soldier's memories, someone who had been relatively good at computers.

Leaving Lilly alone, having already visited her 10 times in the past hour, Troy return to the desk and began to work on the laptop a little more. He typed furiously into the laptop, trying to erase the fast moving virus and then restore the OS, after a few minutes, he clapped his hands together,
"Success. Virus removed." Turning the laptop on, he found it running smoothly now, and breathed a sigh of relief,
"Now to see if I can access the internet." Unfortunately, the wireless card had burned up, preventing internet access.

With a sigh, he looked to Salem, lounging in the chair,
"Got a job for you. Fly over to the nearest Best Buy and see if you can scrounge up a wireless internet card. There's an active router nearby but I don't have the ability to access it right now." When Troy told Salem to fly, he meant literally,
"Sure. I'll stop by the hospital for more medical supplies for Lilly, see if I can get some water too." Salem stood up from his seat, looking to Seth,
"Wanna come?" He asked curiously. Seth shook his head,
"And see more people rioting to death? No thanks. Oh, but if you wanted to pick me up a gameboy..."
"Not unless people are leaving them in the store. But I'll see what I can do." Salem replied, heading for the exit.

"Once we get the wireless internet on that we can start searching for the Leaders?" Seth asked, lounging in the chair Salem had not a moment ago.
"Not even close. Remember, the TNT had blocked all ability to get word out of the city that we're in trouble, no doubt that'll hinder our search for them as well. I don't know how we'll search for them, but we will, trust me, alright? We need to worry about Lilly and Rion first...then we worry about the TNT. As it stands right now, they have no interest in finding us, so this city is left to rot, we've got plenty of time."

Troy wasn't so sure they had so much time, because Troy had seen a video two weeks ago stating the Leaders wanted him back in the TNT, in two weeks he'd be contacted by someone from the TNT regarding his choice to rejoin the TNT, and Troy thought on the decision heavily. Troy waited for Salem to return with the supplies he needed, in the meantime, he would work on restoring what he could on the laptop.

[Salem Wolf]

Salem Wolf
-Leader of the Local H.E.R.O.-

Salem left the apartment, the entire building was so rundown everyone truly thought it would collapse by shutting the damn door, but despite most of the buildings in the city being rather ugly and broken now, most of them held up quite nicely, and it was assumed that by this point, if anymore buildings were going to fall, they'd have done so already. Empire City wasn't what it used to be, sure the skyscrapers still towered over everyone, but most of the glass windows were broken, some were leaning to the point you'd think a small wind would bring them down, the streets were covered with soil, dust, debris, dead bodies, you name it. The city was in a bleak period after the explosion, it was quite the scene, and it churned stomachs if your stomach happened to be weak, but most of HERO was quite used to this sort of scene. Police officers, firefighters, they were few but still around, the city was divided, people were rioting, thieving, the place was lawless, but people tried...yes they did, and they tried to clean up the bodies, a good majority of said bodies were already cleaned. The city resorted to burning the bodies in morgues or wherever they wouldn't be visible to the public, the poor children of the city were suffering and scared, those who lost their parents wandered the streets, it was a terrible sight, but thankfully not everyone was rioting and trying to get free stuff, some people were helping, finding places to live for the children, adoptive families...it was almost refreshing to see it, but then you saw someone die from a riot, and it all came crashing down again.

Salem reached the rooftop of the apartment complex that the remaining group of HERO had found...poor HERO, the explosion rocked the subway that HERO used to use, it completely caved in, except for a few, HERO was mostly gone as far as headquarters and members, it was somewhat depressing. After Xain had died, Salem took control of HERO, and he buried his friend and mentor with a proper burial that gave the respect a man who led HERO against the TNT deserved. After HERO HQ was gone, Salem tried to scrounge up whatever he could, but it was all pretty much gone except a single sword, Salem didn't know who it had belonged to, but he decided to take it, figuring out that a sword could come in handy, but for now, he'd leave it with Troy and the others.

Salem adjusted his backpack he had grabbed before he left the apartment, then slowly lifted into the sky, floating a few feet above the rooftop, having been in the middle of floating, he could immediately take flight towards Best Buy...and that was exactly as he did. He took off in immediate flight towards Best Buy, staying above the rooftops as he flew. The freedom, the wind, it all felt so amazing, before the explosion Salem couldn't fly, but now that he could...he absolutely loved it, it was an amazing feeling to be high above the air, flying freely where no one could touch you. Seth had asked Troy and Salem why Salem didn't just fly to a new city, get help...the answer was simple: had the TNT known that HERO asked for rescue, they'd send in troops to annihilate what was left of the city and population before help ever arrived, thus Salem was not allowed to fly outside of the city zone for that reason.

Flying at a steady 60 MPH, he reached Best Buy in record time, but people were still looking the store wildly, leaving little hope that the wireless card he was going to grab would be there, but he didn't have much choice but to look anyway, couldn't hurt. Salem landed on the rooftop rather cleanly, kneeling slightly when he landed to take the pressure off his landing, then he dashed towards the edge of the roof and leaped off, landing on the ground, turning to face the entrance. Dashing inside, he made his way to the electronics and was in luck to find a wireless card Troy could use to repair the wireless laptop card that had fried earlier. He quickly put it in his backpack. Now Salem was indeed stealing the card, but with a lack of so much as a single cashier in the store, it didn't really matter anyway, thanks to the fact most of the police force were too busy controlling the riots anyway.

Now Salem decided to try and see if he could find Seth a damn gameboy, and he was in luck to find one in the back of the store, a Nintendo DS he could play. Putting that in his backpack and a variety of what games were left, Salem now needed to hightail it to the hospital for supplies, but first he stopped off at the coolers, grabbing some sodas, water, and some fruit punch for the backpack, with the supplies they had, they had a few days left before they needed to worry about heavy duty shopping. With Salem's backpack nearly full of items for Troy, Seth, and the team itself, he needed to head to the hospital, which wouldn't look any better than the local Best Buy. Outside, Salem leaped into the air, soaring into the sky and heading towards the hospital.

Seeing the hospital leaning on one side, nearly ready to tip over made the journey always rather treacherous, but Salem was always quick on his feet so whatever was going to crush him usually missed. Landing on the ground near the hospital, it seemed pretty quiet,
"I guess no one has any need for what's inside. Works for me." Salem said quietly as he entered the building. Salem navigated the corridors to find the supply room, there he found some IV needles, IV bags and some random supplies which would be useful: medical tape, bandages, rubbing alcohol, burn gel, random supplies like that, and he stuffed them all into his backpack. Noting it was a fairly standard supply run, Salem decided to head back towards HERO to drop them off. Leaving the hospital, he took to the skies and hurried to the apartment to drop off the supplies.

[Salem Wolf]

Seth Lucas
-The Sarcastic Gamer-

Seth sighed softly, waiting for Salem to arrive,
"Troy, Salem and I both gained new powers, but what about you?" He asked curiously. Troy shrugged,
"I've grown stronger, I can feel it, but to what extent I don't know. My powers so far seem the same as before, a little growth perhaps...but the only power I hadn't been able to try is Essence Thievery, though that was the last power I used before the explosion occurred, so if any power has become stronger, it'd have been that one." Troy replied, working on the laptop,
"I'd have to test it out. Want to be my test subject?" Troy asked, slyly looking to Seth.
"Aaah-haha no thanks." Seth replied nervously, whistling and looking out of the window, waiting for Salem. Once Salem entered the apartment, Seth jumped up,
"Santa!" Salem immediately gave Seth the games and Nintendo DS he was seeking,
"Booya. You rock Salem."

Troy took the medical supplies and the drinks and put them in the fridge, thankfully the apartment had power, not that the same could be said for a lot of other places in the city, then he went to work on repairing the wireless card. Seth on the other hand went to set up the DS and the games, placing them on a coffee table in the relatively clean apartment they shared.

[Geshrael]

All alone, flesh and bone, evil carved in stone...
Smell the fear?
Somewhere up in these hills awaits the darkest chills!
Can you hear?
Where are you gonna go?
There's nowhere to go now!
Trapped in this world, you're lost forever.

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Two weeks had passed since the destruction of Empire City and the downfall of the region’s TNT division. Things changed for a lot of people in the area and this included LEGION. For the cannibals who enjoyed eating their own kind it was a smorgasbord, for those who enjoyed blowing things up, no one could stop them or hinder them from doing as they pleased. The thieves could rob, the pillagers could pillage, and rapists could rape. The city was in ruins and anarchy reigned—at the blame and fault of HERO and other superhumans. The glorious golden age was slowly coming up them and soon, they knew, the moment to rise up and obliterate TNT, HERO, and humanity as a whole was coming.

Aballam wasted no time in shedding her virginity by violating the one who robbed her of her former existence (and in the meanwhile robbing him of his virginity in his unconscious state). When awakened, she couldn’t help but boast about it—only to later grow bored and tell him he could do what he wanted now, and was free to come and go as he pleased.

And so he did, for a week, until he came back after realizing that despite being amongst crazies who didn’t seem to currently amount to anything more than… well… a group of crazies, they served a rather good purpose: release. “Well of course that is what LEGION is all about” Aballam had said, “LEGION is all about the freedom to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It’s anarchy and chaos you see, and you are free to do as you like.”

Needless to say when it sunk in the two leaders of LEGION didn’t leave the “grand padded room” for a while. Eventually, when Aballam came close to biting off a certain something the poor man needed desperately, she left to basement to consume large quantities of stored human-flesh. Of course, Gabriel never did follow after her; he was slightly crazy at the moment, but that didn’t meant he’d get off on watching her devour a man’s freshly torn guts.

After becoming satisfied she returned to her chamber to take care of a few things, recruit, and laze about the asylum, playing with instruments of torture that were collected and constructed on the second level of the building, to break a few new “toys”.

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“If you don’t scream a little louder precious, I don’t think you’re going to survive this one.”

On a metal bed, strapped down with thick leather at her ankles and her wrists, was a young woman with short, half-singled hair. She had been badly burned on the front, her eyes blinded, and her fingernails worn to a nub. This woman was one of the casualties of the explosion, taking in nuclear energy from the front and suffering burns that normally would have killed her. Now, she was only being kept alive for the sake of entertainment as she was slowly expanded down below by the nefarious “poire d'angoiss”.

“Come on sweety, scream for me… just a little bit louder, just a little bit sweeter. If you can’t do it for me I’ve got a lovely little bit of chicken-wire we car dress around your blind eyes. Oh, but you won’t see them, precious… you may not be able to see, you know, but that doesn’t mean embedding barbs into your cute little eyeballs won’t hurt like hell.”

Another twist of the knob; the girl screamed loudly—but apparently not loud enough. Pouting, Aballam looked over at the girl and sighed. “That wasn’t very loud at all… I am so disappointed.”

“No---no no no no please! Please! Don’t!” she woman bellowed, “I can scream louder! I can scream louder!”

Aballam quietly slipped over to a table stacked with instruments. Amongst them, a coil of chicken-wire, neatly placed above couple scalpels, syringes, and a brank. Unfurling the coil, she carefully placed it over the girls opened eyes, who screamed as the barbs both embedded into her flesh and tore into her eyes.

“Oh, isn’t that lovely!” Aballam exclaimed as she lifted the girls head and wrapped the coil around her head, then let the rest settle beside what was left of her hair. “Look at that, look at that! A little bit of aqueous humor is leaking out. Oh, you don’t know what that means? It means eye fluid, my previous, and I hate to see it go to waste.”

Bending down, the fair-skinned demon lifted the wire slightly and caught a few of the barbs on her eyelids and pulled them back. Sticking out her tongue, she licked the around the woman’s eyes before sinking her teeth and forcing her tongue into the socket, sucking out the eye.

The woman screamed louder as both her eye and optic nerve were ripped from her head, only to be swallowed in one gulp.

“That was very sweet my dear, let’s try the other one.”

Bending down, Aballam repeated the same gesture of removing the barbs from the eye and forcing the lid to remain open, then sucked up the eyeball and yanked it from her head. Just as she was about to swallow it, the skeletal demon, set infinitely aflame, approached his mistress with his long, triangular tail winding behind him. With a surprised look Aballam removed the eye from her mouth and smiled at him, with a cant toward to side, as innocently as though she were a child.

“Flureus, my dear, hello to you! Would you like this eye I retrieved from this human here? It’s quite juicy.”

“No thank you my mistress, I am simply here to inquire upon the whereabouts of your deliverer.”

“Ah” Aballam blinked and set her free hand upon her canted cheek. “He comes and goes; he roams where he wants to roam. I needn’t keep track of him. He will come back if he wants to sleep or have sex or freeze someone for the fun of it. Why are you looking for him?”

Flureus, although nothing more than skeleton, seemed to narrow its eyes.

“He tried to put me out.”

“He tried but failed?” Aballam replied, sounding almost disappointed. “Well then, he isn’t getting better now is he?”

“Mistress…”

“What? Would you deny him the chance to put out the eternal flame if he is able to grow stronger from it? Flureus, I would rather him freeze you than not freeze you if it meant he could become powerful enough to, let’s say, kill me again!”

“MISTRESS!”

“What?” she again replied, popping the eye back into her mouth. “It’s true!”



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In this place, in this time and space--
Fear, hate, and evil awaits you!
Soon the siren will reign, better run from the pain--
Before the darkness will eat you!
There's nobody here to save you!
There's nobody near to hear you!

[Salem Wolf]

Gabriel Adams
-Savior to LEGION-

Two long weeks have passed since he fell unconscious, not long after he woke up to be told he had lost his virginity! Figures, a pervert like him was unconscious his first time...but that didn't stop him from getting his way the rest of the time. Gabriel had settled in as a savior to LEGION, anyone who hinted as disliking him was frozen into a little statue for a pond then broken into pieces and used for soccer practice, needless to say...Gabriel couldn't pass up the amount of freedom and power he'd NEVER had before...not at McDonalds, not at TNT, not even when he was a kid...it was nice and refreshing and people respected him. He did whatever he wanted, got away with whatever he wanted...he LOVED it. Gabe had been fairly quiet on the powers front in public, only because he knew that not doing so would cause him to be targeted by people who disliked superhumans, despite widespread knowledge that superhumans were behind the explosion was limited, at best. Gabriel roamed the halls of LEGION, a mental institution, ironically enough, running his hand along a dirty wall, freezing a trail of ice where his hand went, perfect control of his powers...even the newest power he acquired.

The screams from Aballam's "fun session" echoed near the halls, and it made him a little ill...he wasn't that crazy that hearing those torturous screams didn't invoke some sort of emotion from him. Sighing softly, even the thought of losing his virginity for the 60th time...well not lose said virginity but the point was made...didn't even phase him. He wandered the building, utterly bored with his position, nothing to really do but sleep, have sex, play with his powers, sleep and sex more...repetition breeds boredom. He found a seat and took it, leaning back, playing with a piece of misshapen ice chunk he formed, softly singing, more like mumbling, a popular Sweden song made popular on the internet, Caramell Dansen as it was called. Poor guy seemed to have it stuck in his head, laughing lightly between verses. He chucked the ice chunk at a wall to watch it shatter, then looked at a lesser demon staring at him,
"Whadda looking at? Punch! Now! Fruit kind...with a...little...bendy straw and umbrella! Now!" He demanded, if for no other reason than he didn't want that little demon watching him.