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 Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:58 pm
A meaty hand clapped itself on Sammy's shoulder, squeezing tight for a moment as though to confirm to himself that the woman was, indeed, real. Words still wouldn't come out quite yet, and he didn't trust himself to try and speak.
And then, there was Taima. He simply looked at her for a long moment, reaching out to accept the hat. He turned it over in his hands for a time, carefully setting it on the bar before he downed some of the bottle's contents that Sammy had so generously offered him.
Getting to his feet, he wrapped his arms around the girl, practically crushing her in a hug. Sorry, Taima. Sammy was going to get dragged in after a moment, and then, Jing. None of you got any say in this.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:10 pm
[[ Entering! ]]
Perhaps she could make something have meaning.
It was with that thought she reappeared at the entrance of the Blue Kingdom, no longer truly of a Blue alignment. Her clothes were much more plain than she had been before, nothing that the Senator would have ever considered wearing before, but did any of that matter? They weren't really ... real. All of them were fake. Their entire lives had been some kind of joke, pawns on a playing field they weren't aware had existed.
And yet, she found herself wanting to do something.
Maybe she had stared into that Black Pillar too long, bargaining with the idea of just ending it right then. She meant nothing. No one meant anything. What was the point of even walking back in here, no matter what the circumstance?
But she wanted something to have meaning, and perhaps ... the others who were like her, who also were fragments of memory, perhaps they could make their own meaning. She was some shadow of some other woman from some other world, a woman who didn't look nearly as formal as her and worked to hide her mutilation as much as possible, but she was still something. If she had never truly existed, it was fine, but for the moment, she felt like there was something of existence.
And at the bar, there were others who had something of an existence.
Perhaps, together, they could enjoy their last moments, and make some meaning out of what was left.
Serafina sat at the bar, staying silent for the moment.
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Codebreaking Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:10 pm
Sammy relaxed into the hug, the emotions from that? Those weren't hollow, that was the feeling of someone who generally felt something, something real and serious.
"Don't start crying on me now Big Guy, we got work to do."
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Eight rolled 2 10-sided dice:
7, 8
Total: 15 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:11 pm
"But he needs to show us where the gate is!" Candace tried to get at Jerry as he attacked one of the pair, only to be pushed back by Atropos.
"Jerry's right. Besides, it's not like Harrison is just going to go down with one smack." And as if to prove a point she jumped, making a move very much like Candace usually would and spinning on her heel while raising a leg to kick the other weapon. Nothing personal, B0nez. She likes you just fine just..
This was for Candace.
Character: Atropos
HP: 50/50
Damage done: 9
Target: B0nez
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Toshihiko Two rolled 2 12-sided dice:
9, 12
Total: 21 (2-24)
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:16 pm
He'd told him. He had. And it was still his voice, just-
"Op-option B," Harrison gritted out, leaning against the copy of Rep, and more weakly, "He knew where it was..."
For B0nez, the graze was all it took. He clasped his nose, and lanced a kick at Jerry, "Ow! H-hey! Back off! I know karate I took...courses-" he crawled backwards on the bed as Atropos jumped him.
"H...help!" B0nez yelped, holding a pillow in front of him.
There was a sharp crack from the wiring, and every electronic in the room flickered, before jolts of electricity shot out of the wall sockets and right through Atropos and Jerry, lighting them up with pain.
He peeked over the pillow.
HP: 133
Damage: 17
Targets: Candace/Jerry
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:17 pm
Taima squeaked as she was suddenly smothered in a hug. Hours ago--was it only hours ago? It seemed more like lifetimes--she would have pulled herself away, but there didn't seem any point to that now. Instead, she indulged G, patting him on the back and chuckling breathlessly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:25 pm
he hug was sudden, but not unwelcomed. G's hugs were special and even if they were false, the emotion behind it was real. he didn't care how homo it looked when he pat the guy on the back. "You're still as goose-like as ever, bud." he smirked, feeling euphoric from the combination of hugs and imitation booze. "So, the world's ending." he mentioned at last, looking down into the empty glass and pushing it toward the frightened bartender to fill up.
"I wonder where the others are. don't you all?" He opened up the table for conversation, looking at the others expectantly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:26 pm
Rep gave Harrison a slow baffled look as he sought for what he meant, looking for the answers not in his own memories but that other self. It hurt to think about it, to dwell on the moments he'd that other guy had spent up here, contentment and debauchery mingled in together. It took him a minute to realise what he meant.
He remembered the not-him asking B0nez once about the door in his computer room and where the hell it went. And in that moment he knew. "He did." Rep said anxiously.
And then Jerry attacked B0nez, Atropos leaping into the fray to join them.
"Trace!" he barked, as the angel seemed to consider joining them. "Wait or so ******** help me." He fell back immediately, looking puzzled.
Making sure Harrison was steady without him helping him, he bolted towards the computer room.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:31 pm
[entering]
Andrew was alive! It felt good. His body was back to normal, to being adaptable. Many other silvers were there… no, they were the blues, and they had returned. He smiled and walked over. They had until the throne crumbled.
But wait, did Jordan and the king know? They had been left behind. He was torn between joining them, drinking until the last or going and informing the king. Did it matter? Maybe it did to them they had all been acting odd. Jordan seemed to have ideas about the riddle from before. He had to go find him. But maybe not until he had a drink or two. He joined the other silvers at the bar and asked the bartender for whisky strait.
“Hey, seems you are all back too. Dying sucks.” He commented casually. “does anyone know where Jordan is?” or was this really just heaven, G, and the other sacrifice was there already, along with a few other blues who he was sure were on the battle field.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:39 pm
What. Were. They. Doing?!
"Atropos!" Candace clenched her fists, but Atropos didn't care. She narrowed her eyes at Candace, at Rep, at Harrison. "Did you not hear him?! Stop it."
Atropos snorted. "I'm not afraid of this guy. Even in reality Harrison never uses him to fi--" The electricity cut her off with a shout of pain. She stumbled back, a hand against her heart and her breath leaving her in short pants. Holy s**t.
Rep ran off and Candace quickly caught Harrison should he fall again, staring after the man with a look of confusion. He? Oh...Rep knew? Oh, Rep. Hurry.
HP: 33/50
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Bilious rolled 2 10-sided dice:
4, 3
Total: 7 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:46 pm
The electricity took both Jerry and Roar off guard, and despite mental chants of it's not real it's an illusion there was no imagining the burn and sensation of his muscles seizing up.
"Roar... g-grab him!" Jerry managed to choke.
The weapon made a seizing sort of attempt but had about as much luck as his partner.
HP: 33/50
Damage: 1
Target: b0nez
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Toshihiko Two rolled 2 12-sided dice:
12, 2
Total: 14 (2-24)
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:05 pm
In the computer room, all the monitors were flipping through programs and pages at a mile a minute- security feeds, coding, error screens. Several cables had ripped free of their circuits, and were slithering past Rep's feet and into the main bedroom.
The door was where the Other Rep remembered.
Inconspicuous and dull, it looked like a closet, or one of the other thousand doors in the Casino. But on either side of the door, dual card key swipers waited, twin lights a definite, non-entry red.
While the door itself didn't look different, there was definitely some sort of power lurking behind it.
B0nez watched them both constrict in pain, started at first, but the help turned into a "Heh-" and then another "heheh-" until it trickled together into a long, loud, cackling laugh.
HEHEHEHEEHEHEHEHEEHEHEH.
Another jolt of retaliation pierced Roar.
The walls cracked and peeled, like there had been an earthquake, and the lights went completely out, the moon outside the only way to see what was happening through the short-circuiting electricity, and sparks that raced over the floor and out of the heads of vicious-looking cables. Harrison stumbled out of the elevator.
The wires bundled up, and over each other, lifting the madly-laughing B0nez up into a quickly-coiling fortress, until he had disappeared almost completely, hung like- well. Like something out of a Boss fight. Phones went off. Screens flashed.
Harrison had a moment to look up, before the wires grabbed his ankle too, and dragged him backwards into the snakey mess.
"N-no! Hey! s**t!" He protested, clawing at the carpet, before howling, "I hate this Technoshit!"
The wires swallowed him up too.
In the computer room, the card key lights stayed red.
HP: 132
Damage: 10
Target: Jerry
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Eight rolled 2 10-sided dice:
5, 1
Total: 6 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:11 pm
"Look! See?! See what happened?!" Atropos snarled, looking as feral and ferocious as a regular-looking human could appear. Candace stared, clinging to Harrison and not giving one damn that he was fake right now. It was close enough to the real thing--
"s**t! No!" She tried to grab his hand, missing him by a just a few inches before wires swallowed up the man who looked and acted just like her best friend. No...no! Nononono! No! She couldn't lose him! Atropos saw it, that look of frantic desperation in Candace's eyes that she got when she was losing control of a situation and didn't know how to save it..or when she did know and didn't want to go through with.
Atropos stomped on a wriggling wire hovering near Candace, offering a hand down to the woman. "Get up. Rep will take care of the gate, we'll distract B0nez." For Candace. Just for Candace.
Candace gave a hesitant nod and accepted Atropos' help up, looking up at the video game looking 'boss' laughing above them.
Characters: Atropos and Candace
HP: 33/50
Damage done: NONE HOW THE HELL DID YOU MISS
Target: B0nez
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Bilious rolled 2 10-sided dice:
7, 6
Total: 13 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:16 pm
Roar howled as the electricity shot through him, but both managed to gather their gumption. Jerry was wobbling on his feet, dragging his crowbar up to grab the hooked end and concentrate. Roar spotted it, and was quick to roll out of the way as the bar was swung, the end smashing down just next to b0nez and into the thick of electronics. The metal had been charged, unstable, just waiting for something to trigger the blast to send iron shards spraying outward in a burst of light and sound.
HP: 23/50
Damage: 7
Target: B0nez
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:19 pm
"dying does indeed suck." Jing mentioned, enforcing the idea with the other visitor, Andrew. "Come join the existential party at the bar." he offered in a grand gesture.
not noticing that the lad did. he clearly needed more booze in him. The smile never moved from his face, as he sloshed the bottle over his own shot glass. "haven't seen the lot of them since I arrived here after kicking the bucket." the dealer barked out. "They're here, somewhere probably."mentioning dryly before,bringing the glass up to his lips for a sip.
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