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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:22 pm
Setting: The ruins of a 21st century city. Skyscrapers and random buildings, trash, rubble, with a small constant breeze scattering the remnants of the destroyed city about.
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:53 am
A shattered TV sparks to life, the lack of power source meaning little as the grey face flits across the screen. Images flit back and forth between a beautiful park that had once stood at the center of the city and the nearly featureless grey face, obviously computerized. The face begins a maniacal laugh as the images flit back and forth with greater speed, and explosion tearing through children and their parents in play, flesh being burned from their bones as those too are incinerated. The two images flash back and forth with such speed the human eye sees only one image, a growing mushroom cloud composing the head of a laughing man.
Labored breathing.
Scuffle of limping footsteps.
Mechanical laughter.
-=FWOOM!=-
The TV is nearly obliterated with a single blast from the glowing pistol.
The Wizard had come. All you base are belong to us.
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:47 pm
Fiona had no clue in hell where her enemy was, as she stood atop a 15 floor building, looking down on the ground. However, that was going to be remedied- she pulled out a small HUD that fit over one eye and clipped it to her left ear, the screen over her left eye. This HUD detected was a motion detector, thermal scanner, and self-monitoring device, convenientally all in one. It wouldn't be hard to find someone else here.
So she started to look around, pulling out her sniper rifle from her back and placing her spinfusor on the ground next to her- for easy access.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:31 pm
If Fiona had a means of detecting radio frequencies she would become quitte aware of the massive amount of broadcasting pumping from the single man. The Tongue of Helios allowing him to caress the very electronic circuits he sought to bring under his control. Any receiver about her body would immediately react to him, his voice filtering through without encoding in a haunting speech on the terrors of mankind.
He thought humans to be little more than filth, but as his body passed through a main square near the building Fiona was perched upon it was clear he was at least humanoid. Tall and gangly this man appears to have greyed skin that almost touches on white, a surgeon's mask covering his mouth, though his mouth never seems to move. His eyes are nearly white through and through, the pupils just a shade towards gunmetal grey. A bald head covered by a black beret seems oddly misshapen, a similar statement remaining true for the rest of his form, almost as if something is beneath his skin that does not belong. Under a trenchcoat and name brand T-Shirt he wears a skintight body suit that clings to every portion of his body save fpr the hands and head. If not due to a receiver about her form then the simple presense of active electronic devices would draw the gaze of the mishapen man. A computerized voice would flood the air as his mask pulsed but his lips did not move, "I SEE YOU."
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:50 am
Fiona did not have that specific means of detecting this man, but she did have others.
Mainly, visual.
As the receiver on her HUD began to go crazy in her left ear, she shifted her sniper rifle solely into her right hand while she grabbed the ear-piece and pulled it away from her ear until the sound died away- if it continued to persist or got worse, she would probably just tear the piece off, leaving the rest of the HUD working efficiently as if the ear-piece was still there.
If she tore it off or not, about three seconds after he made his curt statement she would let go of the HUD and shift her sniper rifle into proper aiming, firing, and killing position. Only taking about two seconds before she would pull the trigger and a bullet would pretty much enter the man's head instantly. She had natural good aim and a steady hand, only enhanced by her suit.
Once the shot had been taken, she would secure the rifle to her back, grab the spinfusor at her feet, and hold it in both hands in a ready position, waiting for her opponent.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:58 pm
And thus with the presense of a receiver all systems thus connected to it or to extensions thereof would shut down. The Infolink ingrained in Jason's skull made the connection and the Tongue of Helios shattered the technological systems, bringing any and all programming to its knees. All she would be left with would be useless scrap, nothing better than trash. Mechanical laughter filtered up from below, resonating off the buildings ev-
BOOM! HEADHSOT!
Well damn. Jason goes spinning as the bullet collides with his misshapen skull, tearing through the skin as if it only barely exists. The man is left face down on the ground with blood slowly pooling around his skull. The mechnical laughter continues, but repeats in the middle of the A sound, much like a broken record. Even as his body lays still the broken city around him seems to respond to his bioelectric field, a single street light overhead flickering and sending off sparks.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:25 pm
An irritated Fiona made a pissy sound just a moment before viciously grabbing the HUD from her head and viciously throwing it to the ground with enough force to break the rest of it.
She, still irate, pulled the spinfusor up into a proper firing position and aimed it accordingly, firing the relatively slow-moving projectile at his spine. She halfway assumed he was dead, and just wanted to ravage the body to be sure of it, but just in case he wasn't quite dead, his whole body would be destroyed by the splash-damage producing blue disc.
After taking the shot, she would ignite her anti-grav jetpack for a few moments, granting her enough air and velocity to get to another roof-top nearby-one building from her previous spot to be exact.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:13 pm
As the weapon was fired a wrenching pull tugged at Jason's core, the preliminary 'gravity line' produced by the weapon alerting him to the fact something was up. His entire body seemed to convulse as he kicked off the ground into a low spin to one side. The explosion would throw him to the side but the thermal component would wash over him to little effect.
He was indeed not dead, a line carved into his skull and exiting his beret, which oddly had stayed in place. A gleam of metal was seen as the skin closed up, nanomachines working to rejoin what had been damaged as the blood on the floor began to crawl back to him. His body was so rich in nanomachines that it seemed his blood was capable of moving on its own.
He glanced to the point where the blast had shaken the surrounding area and then up towards Fiona, his vision zooming in upon her location as his built in IFF system began tracking her, the system mixing with a targeting computer built into his skull to lock onto her location. The same pistol from before spun up to take aim and fire, a pulse of energy launching towards her location with the capability to fry systems as per an electromagnetic effect but to also sear the flesh as if of extreme voltage. Once the shot was made, however, he would fade from sight with that same mechanical laugh filling the air. Rest assured he is not stupid enough to stay in one place when becoming invisible, masking vision and thermal scans.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:36 pm
A quick duck and burst of the jets when the pistol came up would bring Fiona off the building she was on, away from the shot as it was fired and into mid-air, where one would expect her to fall to her death and die.
'Cept, she jetted for a longer amount of time, creating a short time of actual flight so she could place herself back on the building she had started on.
Though, the author should mention that just in case this Wizard was that stupid, Fiona fired another spinfusor disc at the spot he was at when he turned invisible- and if he didn't move quick enough, the splash damage would catch him and hurt him pretty badly. This shot would occur when she initiated her jets the second time.
She landed back on the building, sliding as if on socks in a smooth tile hallway or something for a bit, and deactivating her boots and whirling around and ducking- something of a reflex she developed. From there she would wait and listen for anything. Silently, she was very pissed at the lack of her HUD, though, one word escaped her lips.
"F***"
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:10 pm
As noted, Jason wasn't stupid. Demented, maybe, stupid, no. The disk exploded where he had been and made a nice concussive thermal blast of fun, but nope, he wasn't there to ********. Streetlights continued to flicker and throw off sparks as he moved towards the building upon which Fiona had fired on him from. Should there be any opening he'd slide inside to deactivate the cloak and conserve his bioelectricity. Regardless, the beret would slide to one side and a small drone would exit Jason's skull, floating out into the open to survey the area. w00t for tactical drones!
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:18 pm
Fiona, still crouched, decided this was getting her nowhere, and quite literally, since she wasn't moving. She stood up a little bit higher and semi-crouched, semi-standingly hurried over to the edge of the building and crouched down again, looking just barely over the edge, searching and listening for anything. She still didn't know whether her opponent was still visible or invisible and without her HUD she was pretty much relying on her core sense, so once again, one thought came to mind.
F***
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:24 pm
Hiding himself under the eaves or within the building, but either way completely out of sight, Jason was a busy bee. Of the objects about his form he had several cannisters, five in all. Four were bioelectric cells, much like recharging packs, while the fifth was a nanosword, a creation akin to a lightsaber. He took this reprieve to recharge the energy he had displaced into the drone. Speaking of the drone, it continued to rise into the air, looking about and spinning slowly as it did so. It was on high alert, its miniscule size both a curse and a boon, the rise slow due to size butthe chances of it being spotted low due to just how ******** small it was.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:37 pm
Fiona's head just peaked over the edge of the building so that only from her eyes up were visible. Fiona's author is thinking that angles would only allow the drone to see Fiona's head when it is damn close to level with her, but he could be wrong.
Picking something moving out in a dead city would not be that hard, however, the size that Fiona was looking at was a whole other problem. Spinfusor? Probably too big. Sniper Rifle? Too hard to aim. Shotgun? ROFL. Hmmm....what was she going to do about this. She had to think quick too.
Something came to her, but it might not work. She grabbed a timed grenade off her belt and set it to...say, 4 seconds. She got into a better lobbing position, thus revealing more of her, and activated the timer. She "cooked" the grenade for two seconds before lobbing it at such a velocity and angle that it would be at least near to the drone when it exploded, and from there, the blast radius would take care of the rest.
The author thinks the drone wold explode about....20-15 feet from the top of the roof.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:01 pm
The drone is indeed shaken around a bit by the blast, but when it continues to rise in spite of the chaos it is clear that the shell is damned impressive. Some of the scanning devices are damaged and the main weapon is currently inoperative, but this state would definately not be permanent. Even as it floated higher it was clear that the burn marks were fading and the bent portions were hammering themselves out. Down below Jason had replenished himself and was pondering just how to get Mrs. Trigger Happy's attention. Re-engaging his cloak he stepped out away from the building and glanced up towards the point he had last seen her, routing his targeting system thorugh the link to the tactical drone as an illumination filled the image fed to his mind....
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:08 pm
Fiona retreated back to where she was out of sight and range, and grabbed the buckler from her back. Holding it in her right hand, she looked up again to see if her attack worked- which it didn't. Upon noting the little bugger still moving, that very same thought crossed Fiona's mind again.
F*ck
She quickly retreated for a second, then popped up again, though this time flinging the buckler in her right hand at an angle that would catch the drone as it ascended with the ridiculously sharp side of the buckler and most likely cleave the sucker in two- a feat which was pretty much impossible for a normal human to pull off with such accuracy. However, what was more interesting was the fact that after the buckler either hit or missed its target, it would curve back and come straight back onto Fiona's right arm clamping upon it like a buckler should be wielded. Well ain't that damn nifty?
She still didn't know where this man was, but rest assured, she would only surface to visible proportions from the building to throw and retrieve her buckler, and thas it.
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