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 Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:15 pm
RAPTURE "We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us." ~Andrew Ryan Rapture! The premier city for the idealist. Where a scientist can go beyond his limits and rise above their peers without restriction, where an artist can freely express their opinions with any crowd they choose, on any subject they choose, where a child doesn't have to run to war, where people can have powers and ideas beyond your dreams...
Dreams. The ability of free choice... It is suddenly taken away when the fall of Rapture comes to those who have made their choices, will they be the right ones? Will the people survive? New terms have been coined for those in Rapture. Now you must choose what your choices were...
Were you expiremented on?
A little sister?
A big daddy?
A big sister?
Did you express yourself in the arts?
A splicer?
A rogue scientist?
Did you have some roll in the government with Ryan?
Did you fall?
What is your connection? How do you play in the fall of Rome?
Make your choices...
Welcome to Rapture.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:30 pm
Subject Domino, Subject Domino, Subject Domino The words thumped and prodded his brain, burned into his mind. The sweet voice that carved them into his flesh was wicked, vile, it was a cruel joke. It was the salt in the wound. It kept into his thoughts constantly. Any morals the people of Rapture had were gone. Lost in the soup of turmoil and disease. Survival is all the people could think about.
Only those with programmed minds or strong thoughts could hold some sort of ground in this land. Those willing to put their foot down and fight had some sort of tenacity to grab onto life for that one last high of adam. The damn disease held fast. It was amazing that the system itself had not collapsed, eve vials and health packs still made themselves just as before.
The metal boots of an ironclad knight stamped against the floor, echoing in the halls. For once the giant had his helmet off, staring at the hidey hole. Subject Domino stared at the hole. It's sun flower shape. He knew his job, he knew his choice when he went after that little sister so many years ago. So long... He had even forgot how old he was.He brushed his blonde hair out of his eyes when a hand reached out of the hole and offered itself to him.
He placed the old leather helmet on, crossed the floor, and took it allowing the little sister to climb out into his arms. The little brown haired girl smiled to him. "Daddy... I missed you. Look, I made this." She held up her other hand revealling a little doll looking like another bouncer. It was made of rough materials, but it lit up in its eyes. Underneath his helmet, Domino smirked. He was given a clever girl to look after for the time being.
He led her down the hall, following her lead with his rivet gun in hand. Ready for whatever came.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:45 pm
 ☣ E l i a d e__M e i u r e Drip drip drip; drips echoed through the almost empty room in a constant manner. There was only a moment's pause before each drip until the next one came crashing down to splash into the meager puddle it had created. A dim light shone in the room which came from a small lantern; the lantern belonging to a woman. Her skin was terribly pale and her expression looked as if she had not slept in a long time. Her eyes glowed slightly which originated from her task she has done for many years now; and that is collect Adam. She sat in a dark room reading a worn book by the light of the lantern. It was silent save for the constant dripping from the leaky pipe in the room.
The dripping would have been annoying if it had not been the only soothing, constant sound. The city had grown silent after it fell apart; machines no longer ran with production nor did the low hum of traffic and people. It had long ago been replaced by an eerie silence that was occasionally broken by screams and clashing metal. The silence had grown unsettling so the dripping was a noise that Eliade welcomed. Without it, she may go mad, even more so...
An indeterminable amount of time passed when Eliade finally finished her book. She shut the small book and stared at its brown, worn cover. The title had faded away long ago along with the name of the title. All that remained was the faded picture of a hand reaching towards a shining light bulb. The woman stared at it for a while longer before slipping it back into her brown bag that she slipped onto her shoulder. Once that was done, she picked up a large empty syringe and headed out of the room in search of Adam.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:18 pm
 Thump, Thump, Thump, is the sound he heard as he opened up his eyes slowly. He felt rejuvinated, powerful, and hungry as he slowly got up out of the bed he was in. As he gathered his items, he saw a man laying on the ground, his face beaten, bloodied, still. He loaded a full magazine into his machine gun and thought to himself, "Huh, so this is the little punk who tried to take this bed from me?" As he left the safety of the room he looted the man's body and found a vial of eve and a few bullets, "Jackpot." he said as he left the room with a wicked smile on his face.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:23 pm
Subject Domino kept at a slow, steady pace for the little girl. Keeping the same pace he did for all his little sisters. In a simple phrase, 'If you could please one, you can please all.' This little sister was no exception. her name was Fernanda, and like the others, she loved to travel around the many places of Rapture.
"This way daddy! An Angel is waiting for us! The Angels is just around the corner." Little Fernanda pointed and tugged him along, her needle dripped with the red goo the city ran on. Her hair looked just like the others, brown, and tied up into a pony tail. For some reason they all started out the day with that hair, as they grew older though, it either got short or it grew out even longer. As Fernanda rounded a corner she was pointing at a body on the floor. It smelled of rotting death, but what didn't down here?
"Okay daddy. I'm going to help this angel get to heaven. You're going to still be here right?" the subject did not say anything, simply nodding to her with the shake of his body. He kneeled on the ground and took a look out position to make sure the area was clear, occassionaly there was a rustling of paper, or metal dripping on the ground. Nothing usually bothered them. Splicers with brains could know that living hell was better than having your skull bashed in with an oil drill.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:38 pm
☣ E l i a d e__M e i u r e Eliade's footsteps were soft as she headed down the dark hallway, with the lamp held out in front of her. The dim light created a small space of light around herself and it was serving its purpose fairly well. Before she had found the lantern, her days had been shrouded in eternal darkness with the exception of a few flickering lights from the time before the fall. Now that she had the lantern, Eliade was able to travel around longer but it also put her at danger. The light would attract some dangerous individuals that she would rather much avoid but there were times it was inevitable for a confrontation.
Eventually, Eliade reached the end of the hallway and just had to head down a few flights of stairs. After that, she would be outside of the building. As she headed down the stairs, Eliade suddenly felt the presence of Adam nearby. Her pace quickened when she suddenly stopped. A feet in front of her laid the body of a young woman. The woman must've have fallen down the stairs since her neck was twisted at an odd angle and a leg and arm were broken. The body had begun the decomposing process long ago so the smell was horrid, but it did not bother Eliade. She had grown used to it to the point where she no longer smelled it anymore. Eliade crouched down next to the body, then took the syringe and jabbed it in the temporal lobe of the corpse before pulling out the prized Adam. Once the syringe was filled, Eliade removed the full syringe from the corpse then stood up. She stared at the red liquid for a moment, deciding whether she should drink it or dispose of it. Eliade decided to do neither so she placed the syringe in her bag and continued down the stairs.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:09 pm
 As he emerged from the room he saw a few of his friends around, so he headed in their direction. While he was walking he heard the sounds of a little girl saying "This way Daddy!" He turned in that general direction and took a few steps forward and stopped, "No way, today is not the day to get adam, I want some but not today," he said. He turned to go meet with his friends, and he met a barrel pointing right at his face. "Where is she James," one of them said. "I have no idea what your talking about, your delusional the adam has gotten to you," said James. "Heh you're the crazy one here, now you take us to her or you're gonna be spread all over this wall," another one said. James turned around and started to go in the direction of the little girls voice. As James continued down the hall the little girls voice got closer, closer, and closer. James knew he couldnt try to fight his way out of this one he was out numbered, and out gunned, he didn't want the adam he just wanted to try and scavenge some supplies from the area and maybe fight a few thugs that were searching for adam. As they turned the corner, there she was, a little girl with bright yellow eyes, brown hair up in a ponytail , draining adam from a rotting corpse. The thugs that forced James to find the little girl pushed him aside and ran straight for the girl, in search of the adam.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:27 pm
 Louise ✿ Crossroad
Nothingness.
Louise felt nothing towards anyone or anything, but herself and the flowers in front of her. It was just her and them. A blank expression covered her face, as she tended to them, every now and then fixing the flower in her hair and pushing her bangs back. It was the only thing she actually enjoyed doing these days. It was the only thing should even do these days. Other than fighting to survive and tending to the flowers, she had nothing. Her parents were gone, so it was only Louise she had to worry about.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:49 pm
Subject Domino kneeled on the ground for a long time, waiting for the sister to be done. It seemed all was quiet, that was until the Splicers showed up. He dove for his little sister flinging her on his back and putting he in the little protection mount. He roared visciously. The entire screen on his helmet went red, the blood curdling roar echoed through the halls. A whir of gears and pistons shot from Domino as he charged forward firing several pistons into an approaching splicer. He turned around several times as they encircled them, shouting and trying to damage the behemoth.
Stephen slammed one with an electric shock, then swung around to another and fired a rivet into his head. The blood spurted onto the ground and splashed against the other's feet. They paid no attention as they attempted to grab little Fernanda. He smashed the stomach and swung around drill at full power. Threshing into anothe splicer. He focused his energy into a his hand and fire three of them across the room into several broken jagged objects which strung them against the spikes.
This convinced the others to pull out their guns and begin firing. Aiming for his helmet. Eh rolled putting Fernanda down and shocking the last three with his powers. He shot them down once again just to be sure before turning to one final one. This one was scared, he raised no weap, he had no defense. Domino walked to him and pushed him to the ground with his telekinesis.
He roared in anger once again before going to pull his drill to the splicer's neck. James was now dead, if it weren't for a small tugging on his glove by Fernanda who shook her head. "No daddy, he didn't hurt you daddy... Leave him be, let's go daddy, I'm sleepy." Domino nodded before walking away, but before he walked away, he turned around pulled out his hand and fired ice into his body. Freezing his skin to a cold touch.
He calmly picked up Fernanda and walked away. Ignoring the pain coursing through his body.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:36 pm
☣ E l i a d e__M e i u r e Suddenly, a blood curdling roar pierced the air and sent shivers down Eliade's spine. She glanced up towards the "sky" as the roar faded back to nothing. She recognized that sound because it was something she was once close to; it was a Big Daddy. It seemed some fools tried to get a hold of a Little Sister and had angered its protector. They should know to stay away, but then again, nobody was in their right mind anymore. Even for Eliade, there were some days where she felt lost and confused. IT was those times that she actually felt frightened to be Rapture; she felt so vulnerable.
Eliade brushed the thought aside and headed outside, turning off the lamp since there she was by some electrical lights. The woman glanced down both directions of the street before turning to her right. Her feet stepped into murky puddles which stained her already ragged stockings and shoes with oil. She continued on, unconsciously heading towards the place the Big Daddy's roar had originated from.
After navigating through the winding streets, Eliade discovered a brutal scene. Mangled bodies of Splicers laid about and already, the plasmids were transforming into Adam. Eliade took out a two more syringes and proceeded to extract it, drinking some as she went. There wasn't too much Adam from the bodies, since they were too fresh. Eliade finished with her work then stopped when cold air nipped at her legs. There was a man who had been frozen so he was probably dead now. Eliade stared at the man for a moment, remaining completely silent. She moved towards him and placed her head near his chest. Faintly, she could hear a slow heartbeat. Amazingly, the man was alive. Why didn't the Big Daddy kill him? Eliade took out the syringe of Adam she had taken earlier then jabbed it into the man's neck to revive him from his cold slumber. Why was she doing this? Who knows; Eliade was helping on a mere whim.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:02 pm
As James trys to open his eyes he felt a blood curdling pain go through his face like a hundred knives stabbing and ripping at his skin. James starts to thaw out and get up slowly, looking around dazed and shocked. He turns to see Eliade looking at him, examining all the possibilities of how he could have survived. James extends his hand to thank her,"I really appreciate what you did for me," he says. He looks at her examining the needles full of adam,looking at how many she can carry. He hands her a few med kits, "Here take em I don't need them," he says. As he hands them to her he starts to walk away, but stops and turns around quickly to see what she is doing.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:24 pm
☣ E l i a d e__M e i u r e A few minutes passed after the initial injection when the Adam finally began to take effect. The frozen body of the man began to thaw his bodily functions starting back up again. Eliade sat back and watched until he had come back to life and this was when she began to become a little more cautious around him. He takes notice of the amount of Adam she has but he surprisingly does nothing. Instead he offers her medical kits which she simply stares at. She glances back at him before getting up and stepping away from him.
"I don't need them," she stated.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:20 pm
 Stephen stumbled onward following little Fernanda to her hidey hole. Carrying her small body in his thick suited arms. The blood flowed through his body and out of his wounds. "Daddy? Are you okay." Subject Domino grunted, his steps progressively became slower as he walked. Every strenuous step exhuasted him. Soon he would faint and Fernanda would be alone. He tore off his helmet and tossed it towards the ground before kneeling. His lips quivered and his teeth grinded as he braced the pain. "I don't know little one..." His voice was softer than one might think. It wasn't corrupted by the back water or the smoke of rapture. Domino groaned, gripping his stomach and set the little sister down. She hugged him and ran off to the hidey hole. "Daddy... I hope you are okay." She turned back and walked to him. Holding her hand to his cheek. He gripped her small hand. "Fernanda... It's okay little one. Get back to the core. I'll be fine." She nodded. A tear streaking from her eye as she climed into her hole and vanished. He grunted standing to his feet. A trickle of blood came from his mouth. Stephen grunted and lifted himself against the wall. Placing his back up the metal siding. With a weak hand he wiped away the blood and spat. "Damn... I'm getting too emotional for this."
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:29 pm
James looked at her confused and asked why she didnt need it. As he made sure the big daddy was gone, he looked at her very thoroughly, she looked like a 20 year old nurse who had just finished medical school. He had his doubts about her,but trusted her for the moment. "Where are you heading?," he asks. He wanted to get on her good side as best as he could.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:53 pm
☣ E l i a d e__M e i u r e The man began to stare at her, or rather examine her with the way he was looking at her. Eliade blankly returned the stare, examining him too. He looked to be in his mid twenties, about six feet and his mental status seemed stable for the moment. However, she couldn't be too sure since everyone is messed up these days, especially when they saw Adam. He could be a Splicer, but he seemed harmless at the moment.
The silence was broken when the man offered his gratitude to her. She stares at him then at his hand but makes no move to take it. Instead, she steps back to depart until he asks her why she refused his offer. Eliade needed to be careful about her answer; she shouldn't reveal too much about herself since she would be a target for many Splicers.
"I have enough," Eliade lied.
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