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 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 10:15 pm
DEUS EX MACHINAYou wake to someone knocking on your door. You wake to someone shouting at you, to Hunters personally coming to retrieve you from whatever state you left yourself in the dead of night. The call is urgent. You cannot stay. You are pulled outside and given very little time to get ready. Everyone looks grim.
It is a starless night outside, which is odd given the clear skies. You feel a strange, clammy sort of warmth oddly atypical even to the tropical Bermuda triangle weather. If a Hunter had a sixth sense of dread perhaps that was that feeling, a stillness, a fear. There was always, the fear of death, and before that came the fear of the uncertain and the fear of loss.
At some point you make it to the lighthouse, and you recognize faces, but it is mostly dark. An alarm blares, a notice calls out, there are voices shouting and funneling you a certain direction and you are told to equip several accessories including a Fear scanner, headset piece, and whatever runic devices could be spared as well as a pair of heavy duty wind-resistant goggles. Were there always this many Hunters or was it just too dark to discern the shadows from actual figures? A moment later and it is your turn to step into the portal. You are not given the luxury of a second thought.
It is bright outside.
The sight that greets you is baffling to explain, almost surreal. The first thing you see is a giant crevice that dips deep into the ground, where sand has even tapered off into a glassy, black mass at the edges. Seven strange pillars stick out, more warped trees than pillars, each one a tower of their own. In the distance, buildings, monuments crumbling in the sand stick out sorely, giant fallen colossi of the past.
"Base thirty six guys, over here!" An unfamiliar Death Hunter runs over to fetch you and ushers you to a tent, thankfully away from the blazing sun. "I recommend you put on your glasses, it's going to get dirty, and short of making sure you aren't blinded for life, they also make great cataract prevention units." Like most Death Hunters, they really don't have a sense of humour at all. They give your group, Hunters you are somewhat familiar from all your time on Island a once-over. "Huh. Big group. You guys must be the disposabl-"
-"I will explain from here." It has been a while since the Death lead had confronted any trainee-Hunter groups, and there he was in all his majesty, not wearing goggles and looking exactly, perfectly, out of place. Perhaps he didn't suit the desert or perhaps the desert did not suit him, a strange almost impervious barrier around him that kept his guise meticulously managed. He looked annoyed, more so than usual, and for those more sensitive to the empathy of the psychopathic, very impatient. "This is a class S mission and you are under strict orders from all your leads to follow exact orders issued. Anyone caught disobeying orders will be permanently removed, there is no room for mistakes. You will join the scavenging, dispatch, or preparation teams behind me. Each team representative will explain the proper procedure. Do not ******** idle. Do not ask irrelevant questions. There is no time for consideration, you are to do as told and leave when told. Enemy encounters are to be minimized until further instructions." Another Hunter was jogging up to the tent waving something, a sharp jagged piece of burnished gold something in the air, and the Death lead's eye twitched, just so. "You are dismissed. Go do your ******** work as told."
OOC QUESTS ARE NOW OPEN You can now join one of three groups! This now opens up the QUESTS. Each group has a different set of quests. It is up to you which group you want to join and what quest you want to do. Pick and choose the rpers you want to go with. You can also solo mode it. You are free to ORP in this thread (which is at the main tent areas) until your character is ready to leave to PRPs and do a quest. - RP POINTS: It is worth your time to do these small quest rps! Each one you join is is +2 rp points (to a max of 10!) gaia_crown OOC: [ WHEN 5 QUEST THREADS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED (ie: you filled the objective) you will unlock the [ Deus Ex Backstory ] to gain more insight as to what is going on. This will not help your character icly but it will help you oocly be able to piece together a story! Who knows! Maybe it will be of use later on! When an objective is fulfilled change your quest PRP title to [COMPLETED]. Even if an objected is fulfilled you can still continue rping on! You can also make orps and invite as many users as you want to it, but each thread only counts as one "quest". Quests can be completed multiple times by different groups. You can do as many as you want on a character. gaia_crown Quests can be done for 48 hours. They are not long, just snippets of whatever you want to PRP. They have no minimum word count. You can continue RPing quests even after the 48 hours. 48 hours is when the FIRST of the big ORPs will happen.  [ Quest 1: Scavenging Team: ] You are given an Basic Fear detector and asked to search around the outskirts of the strange monumental ruins and pick up anything with Fear detected around it. This usually comes in the forms of strange rocks and burnt pieces of jewelry and shattered weapons. - When scavenging around the massive crater, make sure to not travel too far to the edge; if you fall, you fall forever- Create a PRP thread and title it [QUEST PRP ] Scavenging Team (PLAYER NAMES HERE). - Next, write your introduction posts to your team having gathered their wits and gotten ready to do the process. When you are ready, have your team start searching by rolling 1d6. There are lots of unusual shaped fossils to encounter, mostly blackened masses with mutated skulls, but none of them radiate Fear. If you roll a 5 you find something that is heavily invested with Fear, and you have to use the given bag to gather it up and bring it back. When a 5 has been rolled 3 times your lime limit is up and you can head back. The quest is considered COMPLETED. Mark the title of the thread as so. - Remember that the quests below are just MECHANICS. It is up to you to breathe life to them, to interact with other players and make things meaningful! [ Quest 2: Scavenging Team: ] You are asked to search the tower ruins for any weapons tablets. - The tower ruins is a large, clay tower that seems to span still to the sky, crumbled for the most park and caked in a strange burnished substance. The outskirts of the tower is infinitely long, the inside is barricaded and you cannot enter. Around the outskirts you can see the remnants of a battle, and bloodstains that still look somewhat fresh . Occasionally a weapons tablet is poking out. - Create a PRP thread and title it [QUEST PRP ] Scavenging Team (PLAYER NAMES HERE). - Next, write your introduction posts to your team having gathered their wits and gotten ready to do the process. When you are ready, have your team start searching by rolling 1d10. There are lots of unusual shaped fossils to encounter, mostly blackened masses with mutated skulls, but none of them radiate Fear. If you roll a 10, you encounter a weapons tablet to bring back. When a 10 has been rolled 2 times your lime limit is up and you can head back. The quest is considered COMPLETED. Mark the title of the thread as so. [ Quest 3: Preparation Team: ] You are asked to help plant specialized barrier daggers in various marked locations, and check on the progress of already placed ones. - Create a PRP thread and title it [QUEST PRP ] Preparation Team (PLAYER NAMES HERE). - Next, write your introduction posts to your team having gathered their wits and gotten ready to do the process. They are asked to travel to all the strange sites of ruins, from large pillars to towers, to strange columns and statues faded away and place barrier daggers at various locations as well as check the progress of them. Roll 1d6. If you roll a 1 you found a location to place a dagger if you roll a 6 you found a location to check in on. You will need to do 2 of each for your entire group and then the quest is COMPLETED. [ Quest 4: Dispatch Team: ] You are asked to neutralize any insanity creatures that pop out from the sand. - Create a PRP thread and title it [QUEST PRP ] Dispatch Team (PLAYER NAMES HERE). - Next, write your introduction posts to your team having gathered their wits and gotten ready to do the process. When you are ready, have your team start searching by rolling 2d6. If the first dice you roll is 1 or 6, you have encountered a MOB. It can take any shape or form (of insects), so the person who rolled it can describe the creature. It has 40 HP and does the second dice's worth of damage damage (ie roll 1,3 and you find a bug that does 3 auto damage). Use normal battle mechanics to take it out, you do not need to rp out the battle after your first initial battle post. Once you have, this quest is considered COMPLETED. - If you have started this quest prior to the update, just make a mob post to determine its auto damage. Use that for the duration of the quest. [ Quest 5: Unfriendlies ] - This is an ORP that is technically not a quest but open to ALL factions. In it you can PRP with characters from any other faction of your choice. If a Hunter encounters a Student OR Horsemen they are requested to neutralize them (dissipate) so that the student/horsemen do not intrude on the Hunter's marked territory. If you do this, it does not count as a quest completed, but it is fun RP fodder.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 10:54 pm
The thundering of steps in the basement was new to the mist trainee, Noemi was awake the instant there seemed to be more people in a panic outside her door then she would be compared to a regular alarm. Someone stuck his head in, calling for her to suit up and go to the lighthouse, and she did so.
She didn't ask questions even though she was afraid to go back to the portal. her breath caught, running through the training fields, and it felt so dark. She couldn't tell why. Her body felt heavy...even..sickly in a way. Clammy. Nervous. She was just nervous like usual. She rubbed her hands on her jacket to get rid of it.
She took the gear, fumbling with it for a moment before righting it in the places like the other hunters did around her. She hadn't been in such a huge group before, and she couldn't recognize faces at all. Too small, too tiny in this many people.
She gnawed at her lip, willing herself to keep calm as they were ushered through the portal. The sudden darkness was blinded by light, and instead of their island...she was staring at a hole in the earth...with tall pillars like towers. She would think of it as a fallen city in sand.
Her wonder didn't last long though as Caelius issued the commands, follow orders. Do the job. She shook a bit, hoping nobody noticed that she was frightened like she was.
Once he left, she relaxed a bit more, turning around in her spot to find someone she knew to form a group. Briefly, she was sure she saw her basement neighbor Shu, but it was hard to tell in the large crowd....
"S...Shu?" Her voice was a mix of trying to yell and too meek to carry over, as she shuffled through hunters to see if she could find the small girl.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:31 pm
Chel was very much not in the mood to be woken up at some god awful hour for some god awful mission where she would have to do god awful things. She'd been having a terrible week thusfar, having only recently found out that her ex-girlfriend was dead and nobody had thought it important to tell her. On top of that, Jack was being his usual moody a*****e self, and Finn wasn't being much help either. Now Chel loved her boys very much (more than she should have, really), but she was beginning to wonder if she maybe didn't make friends with the best of people. But then, how did you make new friends in a place literally conditioning you not to have friends because they were all going to die off?
Nothing ever seemed to go her way though, as someone was now pounding on her door and demanding that she report for duty at the lighthouse. So something god awful was going to happen.
At least this time she wasn't in her pajamas. She had ample time to suit herself up in a hardy pair of jeans (which her butt looked great in, thank you very much), a casual long sleeve flannel (no ******** way she was getting caught out in the tundra in a tank top again), a ragged puffy vest to go over that flannel, and then her hunters coat to go over that. Her goggles were situated and she was ready to kick a**, whatever that meant.
"I recommend you put on your glasses, it's going to get dirty, and short of making sure you aren't blinded for life, they also make great cataract prevention units."
Chel nodded, slipping her goggles over her eyes. She could comply with that. If there was one thing Chel was good at, it was not getting her eyesight ******** up. She wanted that to last a while.
The desert wasn't exactly pretty, but it wasn't killing her yet. She worried about Evan- where was he exactly?
Unfortunately no time was given for thinking about Evan's handsome face as she was being hustled off to a group to perform a duty. Boooring.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:01 am
Lex was very much wide awake, long before the rumbling began and the Hunters barged into his home, their home to drag him out of the bed he'd been laying wide awake on, still dressed in the day's oxford and slacks, absently turning the ring on his finger. He shoved a few of them off, grumbling that he could get himself ready just fine, thank you very much. He wasn't in the mood to deal with a bunch of faces he didn't recognize pulling at him and barking orders.
Get dressed, grab gear, get to the portal. Easy s**t that the alarms could have told him without the needless harassing. Alexei pulled on a light poly-cotton coat and scarf, then threw his Hunter coat over the ensemble, taking the offered pair of gloves and snapping them over his eyes.
The trip to the portal and through it was quick and painless, but he cringed slightly at the sight of Caelius. He'd always been intimidated by the man, but not he really associated the Death lead with pain - being thrown out of a window could do that to a person. Before he could dwell much longer on idle thoughts, he'd been shoved into a group of familiar faces, for the most part.
"Hey."
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:08 am
Waking up at midnight wasn't an unusual thing for the petite Asian trainee, so she just sleepily rubbed her eyes with the tears away and jumped off her bed to answer the door. Shu was startled at the seem-to-be-impatient hunters gathered up at her door. "W-What's wrong?" Asked the girl sheepily. There was no explanation given but an order to get dress quickly for an formal mission call. She hurried to close the door after an "excuse me" and appeared again after some minutes. However, the hunter faces suggested that she spent too long and didn't wait for her before walking away. "Follow." Stumbling all her way in an unprepared panic after them, the trainee felt unwell and sick. It was so different from the usual night that she took a walk when she couldn't sleep, she enjoyed the warmth but it was clammy and odd in a way. Shu wanted to cover every single part of her skins just to hide from the sensation unwanted, her heart was throbbing fast like her first ever mission. The girl shook her head to get rid of the bad omen. They were in a hurry, they were in a chaos. Arriving at the lighthouse didn't make things better, the alarm was blaring and people were running back and forth. She felt like witnessing a movie scene where a giant meteor gonna smash the Earth. The hunters led her left her and disappeared quickly for their own work while a hunter noticed the lonely girl pushed her into somewhere that had supplies piled up, a tone of things were shoved to her like a hill and an instruction to equip them. After she told them she was done, a finger pointed to a portal where hunters were jumping in in a line. The girl squinted and baffled her eyes with her hand, it was so bright outside the portal when the last second she was at night. Sands. It was sands again. Shu couldn't help but shivered, her last mission related to sand turned into a nightmare. Was it the same desert they were? It looked so different from her memory, the pillars presented and the buildings and ruins from far. "Hey you, here!" A hunter beckoned the lost girl to a tent. Shu took the advice from the nice hunter and smiled. This was the second time that she saw the Death lead, and he's still so perfect in all the way. Shu had her eyes sparkling as she listened and nodded to the speech delivered. Yes. She will follow his orders undoubtedly. It was a good time to prove her ability as a hunter, more importantly, trying to impress the Death lead. When they were dismissed, she was a bit unhappy. "Ok~ Z, time to hunt some teammates!" The girl cheered and looked around the tent, some familiar faces but not close enough to her, she maybe see them on twitter but not talking to them face-to-face once. She pouted and frowned, watching the hunters passed by until someone called. The trainee turned around and saw another girl squishing through the crowd, that earned the taller girl a beam up smile and a glomp. "MIMi! YOU ARE HERE! YES! THAT"S GREATTTTTT!" She might also snug like an affectional kitty. "How are you? I miss you! Wanna pair up with me?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:16 am
Marcus was ready as he normally was, the motions of another mission prep routine. Goggles weren't needed, his own pair brought with him now on every mission. What did piss him off though was the sudden harsh sunlight, earning a loud hissing curse as immedietly, his hands reached into his gear pack, sunscreen pulled out and liberally begun to be applied and rubbed into his exposed ******** sun-" Shuffled over, he was throwards a group of trainees- and Lex. "......I take it you're my party then?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:21 am
Solia had crept her way through it all, following one particular character around with the intent to suprise. "WAIFU!" She jumped behind Shu, goggles and phone out, ready to snap a picture. "Isn't this exciting? S class- This could be our big break- Megane material all around, the goggles and glasses everywhere, Oh Shu isn't it perfect we might find you a boy yet!" Solia grinned at Noemi. "Or maybe for others...."
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:26 am
Chel sized up the two very attractive men she'd been partnered with.
"Yes. Yes I am. I am okay with this." Okay with their sweet asses was more like it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:29 am
She had finally managed to fall asleep, and was promptly awakened half an hour later from someone barging into her room and telling her that this was an urgent mission.
Kylee Chang hurriedly dressed and was ushered towards the lighthouse to equip several other items, including goggles, and was told to step into the portal.
"Oh god." She whispered. Sand. Heat. Her very first mission flashed in her mind, but this was no time to back away or to freeze up in fear. All she could do was to force her feet forward, unable to tear her eyes away from the pillars that stuck out of the hole in the ground. Class S mission?
...That sounded dangerous. And yet they were told to minimize enemy encounters. That was a relief, of sorts. She was ushered into a group, and gray eyes brightened slightly behind her goggles as she noticed a familiar face. She had no clue who the others were, however, and thus decided to introduce herself. "My name's Kylee. Any idea what exactly is going on?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:30 am
It was much earlier than he usually woke up and for a moment he wondered if he had an actual amount of sleep when his eyes rolled over to tap his phone to check the time. Blurry vision made it difficult and that alone made it tempting to roll over and go back to sleep. But the minute that something sounded important - probably the yelling - Milo's brain seemed to click on.
Because mission. Missions were important! And he wasted no time in getting ready; pulling on simple pair of black pants and comfortable shoes. His shirt was a simple black button down, long sleeved just in case. He opted to wear his Gaim hoodie again (having gotten it back from Chel, thanks) and his Hunter coat - with new trim! - over it with his scarf. He grabbed a small bag filled with a few things and headed out where he needed to go and suited up with the rest of what they provided.
And... found the desert on the other side. Always.. the desert. And Milo actually allowed himself to groan despite his disposition being replaced with smile; a defeated smile really of 'oh well.'
At least there were familiar faces! "Zyupiiiiink!" He called out. And, "Noemi-chaaaan!" Even as small as she was, he could find her. Oh yes!
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:37 am
Noemi's goggles fumbled a bit as she looked over to Shu joining her. Thank goodness!
"S..Shu. You are here, this is very good." She smiled, reaching to pat the girl. "If...if you want? I am okay with that! It's better to work with-" Just as she was finishing the comment, Solia joined them and Noemi waved meekly to the girl as well. "Me..ga..ne?" She repeated the word.
She was completely clueless as to whatever else Solia was plotting. The girl seemed shady...sweet and nice and stuff but crafty as well.
She gnawed on her lip..."Can...Can you guys give me one more second? I think...I think we should have one more person?" She pulled out her phone, bringing it as close as she could to her face to start texting, so much so that the phone screen was touching her googles as she squinted to text. It was kind of hard to do.Chirigami Text to Milo: Do you want a team...to be with? I can use it as a good time to-
"Hi Milo." she gestured to herself and the two other girls. "Do you want to come with us? This...This time I can do better job of being hunter. I can show you." She was attempting to be brave~ Plus Shu and Solia were here too and she would need to be brave for them as well.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:04 am
"Green bean!" Chel cooed from across the sand. Even in the middle of a hectic mission in a sandstorm, Chel found the time to blow a kiss at her beloved sentai. "Text me if things get rough!"
She then turned back to her group of hot people and thanked whatever deity was up there that the group sorter had blessed her with fortune. "Kylee you are a solid 10 as well. This group ********' rocks. I'm Chelsea Craft, but my friends call me Chel and you can call me anything you'd like." She booped Kylee on the nose just for effect.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:19 am
Yes, totally mind reading. Or something. Or he had some sort of internal radar now for the short red head. Regardless, Milo positively beamed at the offer, finding that silver lining in this new trip to the desert (if one could call it that? At least it didn't totally seem like the Sahara). "Of course!" In fact, he grabbed Noemi in a soft hug, emphasizing his agreement. And was just so proud of her words! She was going to be so brave, yes she was!
Milo's gaze shifted across the way again when Chel replied. The brunet grinned, "Likewise!" Though, he could imagine it wouldn't happen, Chel was a tough cookie and figured she got herself in company of equally awesome people. Like he had.
"Sup, Solia?" Finally regarding the other two, letting go of Noemi just a little bit to give a saluting wave. "And, Shu, yes?" He had only met her in person when Konstatin had made pie after all.
"We ready for adventure?" He might have squeezed Noemi a little, in excitement.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 2:52 am
Being ripped from his nice warm bed in the middle of the night was one of the last things Zascha would have liked. It was so warm and cozy. And his dreams had at least been somewhat pleasant this time around. It was through blood shot eyes that he watched everyone around him scurry about. A loud yawn creeping from his mouth as he cupped a hand in front of his face. It was impolite to yawn without covering your mouth. At least that is what his little sister would always tell him. There was little time to really stop and think, or even wake up, before he was being rushed to the light house with the rest of the group. I don't like this. I have a bad feeling, Zascha. Gothsmog hissed in his mind. "You worry too much." He stifled another yawn. Don't be a dumb a**, you want to be swallowed up again by that sand moutht thing? That was quite horrible remember. You spent a week in the infirmary.He sighed, she was right he supposed. He'd have to be alert this time around, but it was so hard when he was so tired. As he loaded up on equipment and was rushed around again he soon realized where he was now. And it felt almost as if someone had punched him in the stomach. A sinking feeling in his stomach, he almost wanted to puke remembering the stench of that beast's stomach. Thankfully it didn't seem to be here anymore. Or they were at a different location, who the ******** knew. The desert looked all the same to him. Once again he was rushed. So much rushing. Rush rush rush. Inside the tent, he vaugly listened. Rubbing at his eyes for a moment before he pulled the goggles on. And then it was time. The Death Lead shooed them out the door with harsh words. Zascha could take the hint. As he stood outside the tent for a moment, he looked about his desert surroundings. Pondering just where to go, which team to go with. "Ahhh s**t." He kicked a small pile of sand.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 4:22 am
Being woken up way too early in the morning for this 'events' was starting to wear on him. He knew signing up this wouldn't be easy but he'd already lost most of his tether to mental stability and week after week of bullshit without rest in between was too much. He hadn't been given a choice though and so up he was dragged, shuffled with everyone else to the godforsaken lighthouse, handed some goggles and shoved. With the bright light and gold hue everywhere he was, for a moment, certain they'd been shoved right back into the desert that had almost killed them last time. It wasn't though. This was different. No less creepy and it probably only looked less deadly. Setting his goggles on his face to keep some of the dust out of his eyes he followed the group being shoved into a tent. And there it was again. Hunters were disposable no matter how important they said what they were doing was. Meat to be flung at whatever happened to come by rather than valuable assets to use. He bit back a snarl, nails digging groves into his palm with how hard his fists were clenched, as the Death lead spoke. The leaders of the factions really didn't care about them. That was becoming more and more obvious every time he got shoved into another one of these things. < "What an a*****e. Is that what happened when you've been here too long?" > He smirked slightly at the voice in his head, doubting she was wrong. "Probably" He didn't get time to find out though as they were shoved back out of the tent away from the obviously grumpy Death lead and given the option to join any of the groups going out and exploring. Well, not really option but told to pick one. Pushing some hair out of his face he looked around the group for any familiar faces. "Where's 'Land or Ceres when you need them"
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