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Rown

Friendly Hunter

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:41 pm


Lowe didn't even hesitate to move the moment he heard Em's voice start to falter, and he soon had the woman's head against his chest with one of his arms about her shoulders. His face was passive and calm, though he had to turn away rather than look down at the top of her head. He would have to apologize for yanking her away from Marsh like that, but Lowe knew that sound - the sound of a heart about to break.

As a Sun hunter, he had heard it many times. He and his faction were sent out on the front lines to fight, to kill, and he enjoyed doing so with each passing mission. He had made no friends in keeping his promise, and when the time came to mourn he regarded each body as a hunter gone on. But why...why couldn't he stomach Em's voice? Had sleeping with her, and with Marsh, really changed him that much? Where was the Lowe from the day before?

"Em. I'm here. Em." He kept his voice as calm and steady as he could, his arm not even trembling as he kept things steady. He would not let her fall. They needed to be strong. "The dead will not help us if we stop to mourn them."


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Blade Kuroda
PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:47 pm


Oh! It was Dylan! Mercutio knew he had recognized him from somewhere. He threw the other man a grin and clapped him on the shoulder as well. "Well looks like we got a plan," he said, turning now to the sun hunter that had spoken up.

Oh right, introductions. "I'm Mercutio, like that one said," he said, gesturing to Dylan. He knew Dylan didn't need the name, but the rest of the group probably did.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:51 pm


Marsh didn't object, didn't take offense, at Lowe's quick action; he'd frozen, for a moment only, when he realized what the blank hiss of static over the headsets meant. He knew the ragged edge of despair in a voice, had heard it over and over in the field and in the labs, his hands covered in blood.

He only laid a hand on Em's back, not speaking, offering his silent presence.

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Rown

Blade Kuroda
PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:52 pm




Yeah, screaming like an idiot had done him good, apparently. Subconsciously, his hand reached into his pocket to touch the tamagachi. Why was Clint being so nice to him all of the sudden? It was... A little unsettling.

"M-my name is Ralph." He mumbled to the girl in an attempt to be rid of his terrible nickname. "And... I would like to pilot." He was good at it, he was a life hunter, and... He knew what might happen if things went sour. It seemed like a proper fate.

... What a grim thought.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:58 pm


For Miri there was Lab mode and Battle mode. Having come from a small outpost, anyone that could fight was usually called on and being a Fear Hunter meant that usually she was out there fighting with the rest of them. Though get her going about something in her lab, and Neil might have thought she was one of those crazies he'd heard stories about. Running tests, looking over results and working all night until the desired results were produced was what she used to live for between missions. Once you got her out of the lab though, she was usually pretty friendly and tried to keep a more positive attitude. Smiles were infectious after all, or so she liked to think.

Though the discussion about who was going to pilot was bringing her down some at the moment. With Alexi refusing to take the position it really only left Neil to do it... if he was willing. To have her take the helm seemed almost suicidal... no offense to the other Hunters, but having a Fear Hunter not on the attack didn't seem like a smart move. "Well Neil, if you would be willing to pilot us, I'll have your back. Usually I wouldn't mind taking the helm but... and please don't think I'm saying you all aren't good at your job, but it just doesn't seem like a smart move with the current situation if I'm not on the attack right now. If you can keep us patched up Alexi and help provide a bit of a buffer, I'll do what I can to take a bigger attacking roll... if that works for everyone of course."

-_Wish of the Goddess_-

Bloodlust Dante
PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:02 pm


Melly tilted her head a little bit then leaned down and over to sort of look up at Ralph. "Nice to meet you~" she chirped happily. Then she glanced back to Clint and straightened up. "Sooo, if he's Piglet, does that make you Pooh Bear?"

Suddenly, she bounced a little bit more, clapping her hands as pigtails bobbed up and down. "Oh, maybe we should all be characters from that show~ I used to love it when I was a kid! I'll be Owl. Who do you want, Aideeennn?" Yes, she was seriously suggesting this. And no, she didn't care that Owl was technically a boy.

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lizbot
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No Faun

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:08 pm


The scent of blood and ink precede his coming. His foot falls and the sound of prayers and crying women whisper in his step. The wind sweeps through his robes, releasing memories bearing ancient shouts of victory and the softly abrupt thump of bodies collapsing in defeat. The silent slide of tears echoes in his breath. With every step those below feel a momentary loss of hope, of freedom, of worth. For one brief moment, they are a conquered people.

Pale and slender with the sharp, cold beauty of a blade, Conquest walked above the teeming celebrations below. From rooftop to rooftop, his pace was steady, unrelenting.

In the center of it all, Velda turned to look in its direction, face void of expression.

"They're having issues with the shields below, it's unlikely they'll all be placed in time. Liam's cautious nature once again biting us all in the a**. I've finished setting up the..." The assistant trailed off as he noticed where her attention was focused. "You want to tell them to run? That you'll handle it yourself?" Henry's voice was urbane as usual, but she could feel the tension in the man as he came up behind her to look out into the night.

"We've already done that once tonight, and now we have no Ferdinand. No John..."

"Just a Velda."

She looked up at her assistant with a small, sad frown, "She's not enough." She never had been.

"And a Henry."

The frown softened slightly, "And a Henry." Still not enough.

"Do you want to tell them to run?" He repeated, never one to be distracted long from the questions he felt mattered.

She looked off into the distance, nodding silently, and he reached down to gently cover her hand with his own. Turning her headset on, Velda's words sounded softly over the channel but without uncertainty or hesitation, "Stand ready, one of the four is approaching from on high. Watch for aerial attacks."




the ooc
The first team member to post needs to roll their fate for this round. You have until tomorrow evening to RP it out.
Pilots: with the exception of auto-death, pilots may fully subvert the attacks by using the Argus self destruct
- the feedback from doing so will deplete their HP by 50%
Guards: may fight off and protect from the attack

If you did not get a team, PM me.



Roll 1 d100

1-50
YOU DED: A little while after your team arrives, a terrible crushing force comes out of nowhere. Your body begins to break down, blood is coughed up, bones snap, your head feels an immense pressure. As a way to die, it is unimaginably slow and painful, but perhaps the worst part is that the force destroying your body is both ruthless and entirely impersonal. This isn't an attack. To the being that smoothly walks past your dying bodies you're beneath such considerations. (auto death)

51-75
It's not easy being green: The clouds overhead being to boil with FEAR. Within minutes strange, poisonous frogs begin to fall down on your team. Just touching one causes your skin to burn and blister painfully.
Mechanics:
- each team member receives -10HP.
- one guard can choose to protect the pilot and take additional damage (-10 for Life, -7 for Mist, -5 for Moon)
- no you don't get to use barrier but you can use your bandages

76-100
Angry Birds: The air fills with the sound of beating wings. Maddened by the terrible energies growing in Time Square, massive flocks of birds begin slamming themselves against your team's building...and your team. When it finally passes, you're left with a grisly scene of bloody carnage.
Mechanics:
- each team member receives -15HP.
- one guard can choose to protect the Pilot and take additional damage (-15 for Life, -12 for Mist, -10 for Moon)
- no you don't get to use barrier, but you can use your bandages
Nio Love rolled 1 100-sided dice: 8 Total: 8 (1-100)
PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:12 pm


"NO!" Em's tears finally fell if only because she pushed herself away from Lowe, and they shook from her eyes, falling across her cold-kissed cheeks. "You can't think like that. If you don't mourn the dead, you'll hole yourself up and miss out on the living. Besides, you don't know they're dead, we just know they've lost contact. We've got to keep hope! But if they are.."

Her heart pinched in agony. "Well, if they are, then you gotta cry. You cry every tear for every kiss, and you gotta feel every emotion you can, before it's too-"

An agonizing pain filled her body as Conquest passed over them, not even bothering to stop. Her eyes rolled up behind her head, and her helmet fell clattering to the ground. Something was crushing her from the inside out, and the feeling left her helpless and alone. She crumpled to the ground, and curled up in a fetal position by Lowe's feet, letting out a slow, mournful moan.

Em was dying - and it wasn't even New Years yet.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:15 pm


It was like the force that pressed him back into his seat in a rollercoaster, like the moment of pressure that pushed him back into the arc of a swing, the kind of breathless invisible tightening that took hold of Marsh's lungs if he ate mushrooms, but heavy and constant and everywhere, in every muscle and organ and bone. They'd barely had time to arrive. Marsh staggered, choking on nothing, the unexpected constriction folding his legs under him. He clutched Miyako's grip desperately; his other hand went out without thought to catch at Lowe's shoulder, keep him from dropping heavily to his knees. His head swam.

Em was collapsing too, folding into a fetal position on the ground, and Marsh tried to call out to her, but the crushing force bearing in on him was pitiless, and a bare breath of air ghosted out of his mouth. He struggled to keep from collapsing entirely. This wasn't like gravity, not pulling him down, but the crushing pressure made every join in his body want to fold and tuck and curl him into a tight ball.

No. He was a Hunter. He couldn't give in so easily. Miyako -

Miyako keened, a high, distressed sound. She had no charges. She couldn't heal him. Without his strength to wield her, she could do nothing. In his mind, she writhed and screamed in frustration and despair.

It was funny, a little. Here he'd been determined not to give in to despair, and yet the force slowly choking the air from his chest and the life from his body felt so much like the inevitable weight of sorrow.
PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:15 pm


Lowe had been ready to move, ready to tell Em that it was time to properly go, when a sudden wave hit him. It was like a pop went off inside his ears, like the drums just suddenly burst, and Lowe was aware that he could no longer hear anything. The sound of his own heartbeat seemed miles away, muffled even, and he stared blankly ahead as his vision slowly started to turn red.

"Eh...?" It wasn't so much that he was talking as it was air escaping his lungs, and Lowe turned him time to see Marsh slowly start to go down next to him. He wanted to reach out and catch him, but multitudes of little popping sounds, like Chinese firecrackers, echoed distantly in his fading ears. He was aware of the blood that ran from his nose and mouth, down his chin and onto the ground, and Afzal followed swiftly. His grip had failed him just as his knees gave out, and Lowe made a move as best he could for Marsh before he crumpled down onto his knees.

" . . . . . . " There was no air in his lungs for him to wheeze out. There was no thought in his brain for him to process. He was dying, and all he could hear -

was Afzal's cackle.


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Rown

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its me debz rolled 1 100-sided dice: 95 Total: 95 (1-100)

its me debz
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Wicked Shadow

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:16 pm


Velda's voice came in clear through the radio, her instructions impeccable. There was something unreadable in her soft voice, and it did nothing to soothe Selena's nerves-- but at least, now...she had orders.

"I'm going to pilot," she said to Mark and Stacie, her normally blank face absolutely stony...although, her eyes were bright. "I trust you two," she said, voice hitching, green eyes flicking between the two of them. "Don't let me die, if you would?"

Pulling the gloves and visor on, she swallowed at the visage before her, dark traces of FEAR everywhere. The Argus floated above her, and even though she could still FEEL Mark and C next to her...she felt surprisingly alone.

The helmet was isolating, and horrifying, and ...disorienting all in one. Selena didn't even have time to rip the helmet off before the flocks of birds started their riotous rebellion against the energies invading their city. <********!" One beak sliced up Selena's bare arms, and she felt a swarm of angry clawed feet and beating wings battering her body. It was pigeons and crows, seagulls and robins-- a mishmash of avians that were half mad on their own.

The force of the flock thrust Selena to the rooftop's cement, the pecking becoming more and more relentless--

by the time they moved on to a new target, Selena was well bruised and ******** New York City. Christ."

((HP: 40/40 - 15 = 25/40
nothing yet

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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 100-sided dice: 99 Total: 99 (1-100)
PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:18 pm


((DISREGARD THIS ROLL))

Hearing that initial crackle in his headset, Julio looked around, trying to see if there could be anything in the area that was interfering with the signal. He didn't look long, as he soon heard Em sounding rather distressed behind him.

"Ah.. Mariposita, it's.."

He didn't get to finish whatever he was going to say as a sudden crushing force suddenly pushed down onto him. Eyes widening, he was quickly forced down onto his knees. He might have fallen all the way down, if he weren't now heavily leaning against his staff. It was taking all of his strength to remain where he was right now. Aside from that, he felt like his body was giving in to some great pressure against him, making it rather hard to breathe right about now.

Looking over, he saw Em crumpled up on the ground. The other two men had fallen as well.

"No!" He called out before trying to lurch forth towards her. That didn't work too well. All it accomplished was that as he shifted forth, his sword staff slipped before slicing into his leg pretty deeply. Letting out a cry of pain, he just fell completely to the ground.

"H-hold on.." he winced out. Now his vision was beginning to blur. This did not look too good for any of them right about now.

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Syusaki

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:23 pm


Flair gestured for the rest of the group to head toward a tall building. As she walked through the streets she pointed to everyone and spoke their names so it was clear for everyone, she began with herself and went around. “Flair. Aki. Nico." She paused and offered her younger cousin a grin before continuing. "Dylan. Mercutio. Everyone knows everyone else’s names now?” she asked.

She ascended the building’s stairs, one hand resting against the rail as her boots clacked against the steps. Occasionally she turned her head to stare out the large windows to observe the celebrating below. Flair felt a pang of envy, but quickly bottled it up and faced forward again. She had a job to do. However, her headset crackled to life as she recognized Velda’s voice. Jaw clenched, she slowly continued up to the rooftop as she took in the piece of information. “Looks like we’ll have to be carefu—“ Just as she reached the final level her ears filled with the sound of flipping wings. Gloved hands reached for her weapon, but the birds didn’t allow her much opportunity to pull the trigger. She stayed mute as she swatted at the creatures, perpetually tweeting and ferociously pecking at her. However, a figure stepped in and took the blows for her. Flair blinked a couple times before she realized it was Mercutio.

“Thank you,” she murmured quietly before, pushing past the birds and stormed her way toward the Argus.

They were going to get to the Argus and get into the air. She was going to make damn sure of it.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:24 pm


((ooc: SO SORRY GUYS |B ))

Feeling confident with his crowd of Moon Hunters, Cecil's courage had rekindled. He took his position with a grin and a thumbs-up to the others, and a good firm pat to Amy's rear just so she'd know she was in good company. And an extra pinch just in case. The contraption had just lifted when he felt it. Something that made the roof under them crack and creak. "Wait... wait-" Panic welled up in his throat, suddenly clawing at the helmet that seemed to squeeze onto his head.

He couldn't breath he couldn't breath he couldn't breath what was happening- his slender, anemic form was crushed downward into the roof, a wild yell suddenly erupting out of his helmet, his argus suddenly swerving out of control to crash into a nearby building, useless.

He didn't want to die, oh god, he didn't want to die, but he couldn't breath, he couldn't move.... shaking, he twisted to his closest teammate, grabbing Adam's coat sharply to try to pull himself up, or the other hunter down- but every direction felt like Down- "This... is... your... fault... supposed... to protect- hurrk..." Blood was streaming down his exposed chin, his free hand madly scrambling for his inhaler, but that, too, was caught up in whatever force had smashed down upon them, twisting the plastic and metal with a wild pop of condensed gas medicine suddenly released.

"Em..." He croaked, the weapon on his wrist's eyes flaring brightly before suddenly dimming. "Em just... one more go..." He couldn't think straight. He couldn't see.

He couldn't breath...

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:27 pm


Neil wanted to bristle at the suggestion. He was a moon hunter, trained and conditioned to be a protector and defend the other squads. It was his job dammit, his mission in life eerr- moon.

But she was a fear hunter, and Alexi was good at healing. that only left him to do what had to be done. The blonde let out a heavy sigh and plucked on the gloves and let the item go about on route. "Then I guess I'll pilot it." he said with a pout, like a child who had to eat his vegetables. All it took was a few flicks of his wrist to get the thing mobile, give a kid a toy and he'll be entertained for five minutes, at least until he broke it or hurt himself.

And the feeling of his body crashing down onto the rooftop definitely counted as hurting himself. There was supposed to be air, where did all the oxygen go? the boy with the blue eyes frantically clawed at the ground to try and turn over a breathe, but the lungs refused to take in a decent amount of air. The ribcage was too busy snapping like toothpicks and puncturing the lungs. femurs, and metacarpals snapping and he wasn't even sure if it was his own, alexi's or Miri's. But the distinct CRACK! sounds filled the air as the crowed roared from below in raucous glee.

Neil wanted to cry, to beg on his knees and bow for mercy. to plead for a yield, its impossible to do so when internal bleeding turned external as the red fluid frothed from his lips, speckling the floor with aerated, bloody bubbles of some raspy sound.

he was only 16, in the prime of his youth, practically grew up within the confines of deus ex, the closest thing he had to a family now. The faces and names of a former family was gone left in the memories that was steadily becoming far to painful to remember. But even as the pressure exerted on his head grew, Neil could only wonder if Jonathan was ok. The person he looked up to, respected begrudgingly and followed without regret.

He had to live on and teach the moon squad what it means to be a defender, a savior. A protector.

The once sky blue eyes of Neil Hartfield opened again, the blood vessels around his eyes constricted beyond normal levels, red bloodshot and weeping tears or red, before erupting in a shower of flesh and crimson.

And pluto, He was gone.

-_Wish of the Goddess_-

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