Welcome to Gaia! ::

THIS IS HALLOWEEN: Crossroads

Back to Guilds

This is Halloween Crossroads 

Tags: This is Halloween 

Reply { ARCHIVED } ----------------- Legacy, August 2013
[ Bix's Tree ]

Quick Reply

Enter both words below, separated by a space:

Can't read the text? Click here

Submit

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:54 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.
Seed Size: 10mm
Status: Sapling - 5 AUs


----------------------------

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.


Bix felt a bit more right in this world of white. His own pale skin was only a shade or two off from the all encompassing glow and the only thing making him stand out in the surroundings were his clothes and the sharp red of his eyes. The mist that curled around his legs was so light and gentle, the air full of whispers and songs. It was nothing like the harsh fog.. no threat lurking in the corners of his vision.

He followed the hovering orbs until he came to the tree, the tree that was speaking to him. He wanted to sit and listen but he had a feeling it wouldn't be that easy. Fulfill it's last desire? He'd help if he could. And so he followed the orbs further until he came to the lake.
iloveyouDIE rolled 2 10-sided dice: 1, 9 Total: 10 (2-20)
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:54 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.


Bix found himself at a lake with a thousand glowing orbs dancing over the surface. He was unsure what to do at first and sat beside the water, scooping his hand through the water briefly. As the liquid stirred he heard a whisper. The albino leaned closer. "Hmm?"

Again he dragged his fingers through, another whisper. It was too soft to tell what was being said so he threw caution to the wind and dunked his head under.

"Heal my children. And when you do I will give you a gift of immeasurable value. That is my only wish and my only desire. Take these waters and carry them to my children."

He emerged with a gasp of air and shook his head which seemed to dry rather quickly considering. "Heal the children?"

Taking a scoop of water in double hands he followed the orbs which seemed eager to lead him. At the base of the sickly looking try they all stopped and he poured the water onto the roots.

After a moment of silence heard a rustle and suddenly an acorn formed before his eyes, swelled, twitched and fell to his feet. "A child.." He said as it dawned on him.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200
iloveyouDIE rolled 1 10-sided dice: 3 Total: 3 (1-10)

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:08 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Quote:
Rolling at 3: Your character exists in a world where Halloween does not exist. They are Human and they go to a Human high school. They are part of a swimming club, and they are currently about to face a great competition. They know their rival swim team is trying to race against them but they must win the gold medal, for their team! All else you can interpret as you please, including roles and canon. You are only writing your character's POV but you can borrow NPCs and any players characters you got permission from.


-BANG!-

Bix didn't flinch anymore when the guns went off. When he'd first joined the team he wasn't much of a swimmer at all. He was mostly looking to meet some girls and improve his scrawny physique but he'd grown to really like it and by senior year he was a varsity member of the team. He was pacing poolside while waiting for his event. The Deus Academy Predators were having a meet against some foreign school who was currently touring the US in some sort of exchange program.

The Amityville Levianthans.

"Check out those butts.." Ariane, their team manager, twirled a strand of hair. She'd dyed the tips blue the night before without explanation.

"Ya know.." Bix (it was a nickname, long story) rubbed his bare arms a moment and shook out his muscles. "It's pretty shady to support the other team's captain."

"BULL." Ariane burst out in his face. "I only support butts.." She smirked like a smarmy perv but Bix followed her eyes to the other team's captain. He was a lithe, pale guy with a perfect swimmers body and a mess of blue hair. In fact, most of the girls were oggling him. He'd heard them all call him Merope.

"Yeah.. blue haired dude butts." Bix muttered. "I don't see what the big deal is.. they are all weirdos. With their weird names."

"They are foreign.." Solia, wearing her warm up jacket, swooned slightly from the bench. "Isn't it romantic?"

Suddenly there was an explosion of screaming from the blocks.
"YA GREAT BLIND FUH-!!!" Jordan had leapt to clap a hand over Rep's mouth as the mountain of man exploded towards the referee. Rep was a mass of temper and muscle, and while Bix and he didn't always get along, the red head had a mean Butterfly. With shoulders like that and the times to match, no one could doubt it. He also challenged about every call that didn't result in his relay's winning. Jordan, Harrison and Al all ended up dragging him back to the benches to prevent yet another suspension. One more and he'd be out for the year.

"You ready?" Bix had moved to his two best buds while he stretched. Their relay would be next. Gale looked as grumpy as always and had his arms clamped tightly across his chest while Before bouncily stretched.

"Yeah bro!" Before gave Bix an arm punch. "Did you see their team? It's like.. a fat dude, a guy who looks half asleep.."

"And then two guys that look pretty capable." Gale's eyes darted over to the other side.

They weren't wrong. There was a tanned, muscular guy with feather tattoos and purple dreadlocks and another brown skinned guy who was currently smoothing a spiked mohawk underneath of his swim cap. A pale asian girl was helping him and her exact double was chatting with the fat fellow that was mentioned. He was grinning... alot.. and it was weird.

"Well they win the tattoo contest." Bix snorted. "But lookit us perfect specimens of manhood. Where's Jude?"

"I'm here- ACK!" Ariane had given their relay partner a hearty a** slap as he walked by. Bix gave him a bro-fist and then suddenly they were being called.

"400 free relay!" Coach Allan waved them down to the blocks. "Remember.. feel your power. Deep in your kokoro." He closed his eyes and bowed his head while pulling them all into a huddle. It then turned into a group hug. Gale groaned. "NAKAMA!!" Coach yelled as he released them. "And be polite!" He whispered after the young men as they walked to their place. "They're foooreign." He further reinforced.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Jude puzzled.
"We should introduce ourselves!!" Before half-ran along the wet cement and was forced into a brisk walk by a sharp look from the referee.
"What? No.. what?" It was too late. Before was already there greeting the other team.
"Jude."
"Gale."
"I'm Bix."
"I'm Before!! And this is.. Petro, Moooka?"
"Muka.." The fat guy giggled.
"Muka. And Kettil. And ummm Barth." He pointed to thin sleepy looking guy who lazily waggled his fingers. There was a moment where they all very masculinely greeted one another. It was like a 'who's handshake was firmer' competition. Except for Before, Muka and Barth who didn't seem to be bothered by any of it.

"Good luck." Bix said as the lead swimmers were called up onto the blocks. He meant it, really.

But let's be honest, they had sharks on the asses of their suits.

They were gonna win.
iloveyouDIE rolled 1 10-sided dice: 4 Total: 4 (1-10)
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:10 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Quote:
Rolling a 4: Your character exists in a part of the wild west, where law is no longer on their side. They must obey the Sheriff, and that is their only singular rule in these parts of town. Their town is often attacked by the unrulies, neighbouring crude towns that reside to no laws. It is up to you to keep your own town afloat, and remember what it means to be a cowboy. If you are a horsemen, hunter, or student, it doesn't matter, you are a cowboy, or something that exists in the wild west setting. You are only writing your character's POV but you can borrow NPCs and any players characters you got permission from.


"Gale got married too." Molly sniffled a bit, but smiled. "She's nice.. and I think shes a bit uhh.." she whispered, "ethnic."
The tall native next to her gave her a small glance.
"And Dakota is helping me with the farm. We're closer. I think you'd like it. We had an albino baby cow the other day!! Its so cute! I named it after you.. umm.. A new brothel opened up in town run by some Henry fella.. and the whole church is in an uproar."
Dakota looked down, unsure what to say. Dakota wasn't even his name but Molly seemed to enjoy her nicknames.
"They haven't cured dysentery yet.. sooo... you didn't miss out or anything.." The red head sniffled again, clung to the native's arm, and took a moment. "Ok well. We'll be back next week. Okay?"
She placed the flowers on the grave.

Ferdinand Wilkins Jr.
died of dysentery
1872-1895
God Bless His Soul

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200
iloveyouDIE rolled 1 10-sided dice: 8 Total: 8 (1-10)

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:33 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Quote:
Rolling a 8: Your character plays This is Halloween, the greatest online MMO ever created. While in reality they may exist as their somewhat boring, ordinary selves (with jobs, or school, or whatnot), online they can be whatever they want. Part of the noble (but human) faction of Deus Ex as a Hunter, or the more neutral faction of Halloween, or even the feared Horsemen faction. PVPs, raids, and even some roleplayed events occur for your character to get loot. Basically, they are humans ICly playing their actual TiH incarnations, feel free to interpret as you please. You are only writing your character's POV but you can borrow NPCs and any players characters you got permission from.


[Guild] [Bix]: [Runic Bow of the NorthStar]
[Guild][ButterflyMage]: SWEET! Nice loot Bix.
[Guild][BoomerangedUrmom]: LAME. If ur speccing for DPS you want [Sun Killer].
[Guild][FancyFeet]: But Bix’s is prettier ;D And you would be the d**k to link a legendary.
[Guild][BoomerangedUrmom]: Not my fault ur drops always suck.
[Guild][Wheelman]: DDDD: HELP LVL 90 GANKING IN FORBIDDEN WOODS HAAAAPLLL
[Guild][ButterflyMage]: OMW, wheels. Jc, all the time. Fancy, come help?
[Guild][FancyFeet]: WTF WHEELS. How many times a day does this happen to you?
[Guild][Wheelman]: I’mcuuuuursed. PLz gaiz. Camping my body. SO MEAN. D<
[Guild][Bix]: Sorry bro. Helped you ystrday. Farming ores now.
[Guild][Bix]: *whores. Damn u autocorrect
[Guild][Bix]: lolol jk
[Guild][BoomerangedUrMom]: dood ur so lame.

His eyes were pulled away when a shadow fell over his table. The young man’s eyes darted up guiltily. He felt like he needed to cover the screen. What if someone saw him in all his nerditude?

“Hey.” Ceres was the girl he'd been crushing on and had only begun to talk to a few times a week. She was a barista in the cafe he liked to sit in, besides several of her other jobs. “I just got a break and..” she paused. “Sorry am I interrupting your work or something?” Sometimes he got to looking really uptight about his computer.

"Oh uh.. no no just playing a game." Bix got that familiar unsure flutter in his stomach that made him question if MMOs were cool to girls or not.

"Oh cool what's it about?" She dragged her chair so she could see his screen. He was some sort of archer with a glowy bow and he was riding a robot animal with glowing runes on it. "Oh it looks really cool!"

Bix turned a bit pink but straightened up. She was... interested?

“It’s an MMO called This Is Halloween. The new expansion just came out, Ride of the Horseman.. so my guild and I are trying out all the new features.” With only a heartbeat's moment of motherly possessiveness, Bix actually turned the computer so she could see it better. In the middle of a quest. This was serious. “Basically you are a human who’s bonded to a powerful spirit that gives you super powers and you go around and kill demons and creatures of the night.. but the monsters and stuff are other people." He glanced at her and then felt the need to elaborate. "Like real people, playing the game. You fight their characters. They pick the other faction, the monster and demons."

"Oh Really? Like World of Warcraft?" Ceres nodded.

"Yeah exactly." She knew what WoW was. BONUS. "In the beginning of the game you pretty much pick your spirit.. and then it’s channeled through whatever weapon you happen to use at the time.” He shrugged a bit. “It’s kinda cool. It’s basically like everyone has magic but they all use it differently. The demons and monster have different options.”

For a moment she looked like she thought being a monster was cool, but [i[he played as the humans so he slid the laptop around, steered his character into a lair of demons, "They're pretty gross."

"So do you get to do the whole thing?" She wagged her finger at the toon. "Hair, eyes, uhh clothes and weapon?"

"Yep."

"Sooooo.." She settled more firmly into her chair and scooted closer. "Lemme make a guy! Or girl. Yeah. Sword girl... with healing powers."

"Ummm" Bix grinned a bit but gave her a look. "No sword class in this has healing."

"WHAT?! THIS GAME SUCKS."
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:32 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Quote:
Rolling a 1: Your character exists in a timeline where the horsemen Apocalypse actually occurred. Basically the Horsemen (four clans) have taken over the Human World. If you are a horsemen you dominate this world, if you are a Hunter you exist as food, if you are part of Halloween you exist as the Resistance fighting against the horsemen. All else you can interpret as you please, including roles and canon. You are only writing your character's POV but you can borrow NPCs and any players characters you got permission from.


He lived in a cage. He could barely remember when he was what they called a Hunter. Now he was just waiting. Waiting as one by one they were taken. One by one they disappeared. They were beyond torture, there was no information any of them could offer.

Some of the newer hunters had been taken first but it seemed like the frequency of their disappearances had slowed down and he could only take that as a bad sign. If they weren't needed for food or entertainment, that meant they found it elsewhere. He didn't know that they'd taken over everything but he had a gut instinct that they world he knew was gone.

Five of them per cage but only 5 cages of hunters left.

How long had it been exactly?

He huddled close to his group, all people he'd barely known before everything went to s**t. A girl named Alaska, Jason (who he sort of knew), Feng, and Saya who he also barely knew. They were all broken. Saya cried alot and had bonded Jason and Feng to herself like guardians. There could be no possessiveness. They only had each other. Bix and Alaska had bonded, as much as broken empty people could. They just spoke sometimes, sitting back to back, talked as much as they could about anything at all. For whatever bits of sanity they could save.

They had holes in their hearts where friends... weapons.. used to occupy. He didn't remember when he'd seen Ceres last. Or Gale. Or Before. The list went on.

Suddenly things were shaking. "Explosions?" Bix whispered to Alaska and the tattooed girl nodded, eyes lighting with a rekindled fire. Was this a rescue?

Another explosion. Saya yelped a little and Feng put his arm around her. Jason scooted closer to him. "What should we do?"

"Nothing we can do." Bix just kept his eyes on the door. "But wait and see." it would be foolish to try and escape. There had been traps and tricks before. There was no doubt in that they all had been broken.

He saw the other hunters in the other cages scurrying to try and get a look. There was yelling now, far off, getting closer. Suddenly the door exploded inwards and they all ducked and covered. A group of figures burst in, smoke and dust obscuring his view of them.

"Who is it?" Alaska whispered, gripping Bix's forearm in silent desperation.

"Don't know.." He squinted just as the cages seemed to be ripped apart. Someone big had torn it right from the hinges.

A voice, a shrill girl's voice, "We're saved!" It was from one of the other cages, more of a desperate howl than a true cry of relief. Someone else yelled, "No it's a trick. Another trick.. we'll die here. It's all you can hope for.."

But amidst the chaos, the bars being torn down, Bix slowly came to realize who their rescuers were. He gasped as a clawed arm grabbed him by the hair. He was pulled and Alaska, despite her strong silent personality, tried to keep her grip on him until it was impossible.

"We're the resistance." A voice snarled and Bix's face was pulled painfully close until he was staring into the eyes of a dragon man with sparkling skin like the night sky. He knew this dragon. "But no one said you were safe."

"Sh..sheridan."

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:34 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Quote:
Rolling a 2: Your character exists in a timeline where everyone eventually became consumed by Insanity. Everything is grey now, chaotic and bleak. All you can hear are the voices, and the voices of the Queens that reside over you, lording over everything you do. You exist just a little better than a worker bee. Regardless of if you are Human, Halloween, or Horsemen, you are simply broken remains of yourself, mutated beyond recognition. A claw, hand, arms, limbs, everything has merged together in a distorted shattered world. All else you can interpret as you please, including roles and canon. You are only writing your character's POV but you can borrow NPCs and any players characters you got permission from.


We were special. One of the first.
Home
Merged with our weapons we rampaged on Deus island. They never killed us. Never stopped us. We escaped until our queens could rise up.
Home
Some of the first.
Home
As the populous was consumed, mutated and broken, we fought for our queens. We were generals among the swirling masses. Weapon and hunter combined into a superior form.
Home.
And the world fell. The population were peons. Workers. We were some of the first. Special.
Home.
But what good are generals when the war is won?
Home.
I used to be a hunter and weapon. Now we are one being. Conflicting souls shattered and folded back into one another.
Home.
At least.. I havent lost her. She's with me, Ceres. Dead together. Mutated together. Unable to truly speak to one another but... some part of me knows. She's there.
Come Home.

User Image
PostPosted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:54 am


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.


Bix was left boggled by all the alternate stories. They couldn't be real could they? But so many had made his sapling strong and he felt a blessing flood his body.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200
PostPosted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:05 pm


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.


Bix turned back to the lake only to find it changed. The voice spoke to him of one last step. He was entranced by the far off castle and the many tiered pools and falls of the lake.

Which pool would he approach? He was immediately drawn to the pool with a soft warm glow to it. He could feel the gentle heat as he held his hands above the water. "Mm.." He liked the warmth.

Bix dipped his hands in.

Waking up was better with someone else. Bix squeezed his arms tighter around his girlfriend's waist and pressed his nose into the back of her hair to press a kiss to the back of her neck.
"Mmm.." She shifted, squirmed till he loosened his arm, and turned around to face him with still closed eyes. "Sleepin.." Was all Ceres said.
"Sorry.." He couldn't help grinning. He always woke up before her. The young man nuzzled her face, still shockingly warm from her pillow, and just absorbed her body heat for a while. She was soft, comfortable, and pretty adorable when she was sleepy.
Ceres' legs searched for his, tangling up and not letting him go.
"I have to wake up.." Bix coaxed her but squeezed her waist with a grin.
"Fi'mominnits." He wasn't sure if the muffled request was english but he understood.
"Alright. Five more."


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.
Reply
{ ARCHIVED } ----------------- Legacy, August 2013

 
Manage Your Items
Other Stuff
Get GCash
Offers
Get Items
More Items
Where Everyone Hangs Out
Other Community Areas
Virtual Spaces
Fun Stuff
Gaia's Games
Mini-Games
Play with GCash
Play with Platinum