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 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:22 am
Off the beaten path, amiss from the calming parks and looming cloudscrapers, lies Club Cyberia. A small building who's plainness would make it all but disappear if it was anywhere else. The flickering neon over the double doors spells out C-Y-B-E-R-I-A, the only descript part of the building.
At one time in the not-to-distant past, Cyberia was a very popular club and some very amazing things came to be. Ranewater Calder closed Cyberia almost a year ago, but it is being re-opened for some reason. The dust is off the dance floor and the hum of the neon brings those few and proud Cyberians back to their resting place.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:59 am
"The VIP card still works!? I'm surprised, figured someone would have ******** it up trying to break in . . . " Leocadia mumbles to herself as she takes her first step in the club in almost a year. The dust tells her that nothing but a small wheeled robot had trekked the floors in the elapsed months, further inspection finds a small protocol bot spinning it's wheels uselessly in the air.
"How did it manage to knock itself over on the dance floor?" She wonders out loud as she sets the poor bot upright and commands it to activate a SWEEPERBOT to get rid of the dust on the floor. She connects to the Ashe Daughter Servers and flags down Ronze, who is hopeless lost in a cloud of digital emotions.
"RONZE! I need your help! Connect when you wake up!" She sends and waits for the MS's to give his brain a chance to respond.
"Yeah? Whatcha need Cade?" Ronze responds in his usual slurred vagueness.
"I need you to get together PettiCoat, Shine, Mira, Cloe girl, Digger, CareTaker, and Ghast and bring em all to the old Club, we're opening Cyberia back up and I need LEVIATHAN running by tonight!"
"Your kidding right? LEVIATHAN hasn't run in a year! We have no idea if the thing will even turn on, not to mention the outdatedness of the whole structure. Your asking for a miracle that few besides me, Shine and Cloe Girl can hope to do in such a short time frame!" He argues, as if he was bartering the worth of a trade.
"Why do you think I asked for you all by name?" She smirked. "I need you all here though, the others have their tasks. Also, grab a couple groupies that might be hanging around for cleaning. You can tell em if you want, but I'm pretty sure they'll do most anything when they hear they're gonna be able to get in to the club."
Snickers, "Yeah, that'll raise their blood pressure. Ok, ok, I got ahold of everyone but Digger and Ghast. Apparently their both on Black Ops s**t and can't take messages at all, all I got was routing Skags. We'll be there within the hour, what about the upgrades?
Don't worry about it, I got Belle en route and she has most everything we need in her trunk. Just warn the guys about her temper, don't need any problems, were short on time . . . Oh! and Mira! Warn her too, she likes those kinda girls if you know what I mean." She says and she closes the connection.
Cade calmly goes to work idly wiping off tables and chairs as her cyber brain helps her call liquor companies and other supply syndicates that she needs to get ahold of. It's only a matter of time now.
The silence of the empty building gives way to the sound of the back door opening . . .
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:20 am
... eek "WHOA!!!"......."Sorry, I wasn't expecting anyone so early." sweatdrop "I recieved an error message a little while ago from one of the proto's I loaned Calder when this place closed....... Oh...There it is. I see you righted it for me.... Well, um, thanks. smile "
"Well, I guess thats that then. Since you don't seem to need me anymore, I'l be going." Cobald looks around the place nervously and starts edging back for the door.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:11 pm
Belle hops out of the way as a weird old man shuffles backwards twards her and the door.
"Watch out mister!" She exclaims to him and adverts her attention to Cade. "Whats the weirdo doing here Cade? Thought we weren't open yet."
She pauses and looks around at the empty mostly dark room just now beginning to fill up with a handful of auto maids and various proto-bots. "Seems like we've lowered our standards of our clientel." And with a glance at the strange man that was too close for comfort. "And our dress code."
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:08 am
scream Cobald was outraged. "OLD?!?! I'm not old! I think you might need some new optical implants if you think I'm old!"
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:38 pm
Muffling a laugh. "Come on Micheal, do you really want to get into an argument about age with a teenager? Better to try to race her on foot, I think."
Working to keep a strait face, she continues. "A bunch of us are getting together to help clean up the old club Cobald, you should stay and help out, never hurts to get out of your stuffy laboratory every once and a while." She pauses long enough to give him a knowing grin. "The booze should be here soon too, can't expect you guys to work for free."
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:28 pm
"Pfft . . . argue with me . . ." Belle remarks under her breath. "Well come on Pops, I need some help getting the equipment out of my trunk that Leocadia needs. A big strong man like you would have no problems with it." She tells Cobald sarcastically as she pushes him out the door twards her car.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:17 pm
scream "Hey, no pushing! No pushing!" stressed "Ah, sure. I'll help out, nothing better to do at the moment. What do you need?"
~I always get bullied around by these girls.~
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:34 pm
Spider had to resist the urge to whistle as she sat on the sidewalk across from Club Cyberia. Really, she knew next to nothing about the place. She'd gone on dates there once or twice, must have been when she was 16 or 17, and at the time it hadn't seemed particularly important. Before she moved out of her mother's place a year or so ago and left Koto Kurokomo, she'd tried to visit Cyberia, just for old time's sake. It had been closed, and for some reason, ever since she'd felt like the place owed her another visit. So when she heard that it was being reopened, she set out to try and get in. So today she'd made one of her rare trips to KK, bought herself a bento box, and sat herself here, waiting for a chance to get in.
At last, an opportunity! She'd perked up when her parabolic hearing caught a female voice mentioning "... grab a few groupies that might be hanging around for cleaning... be able to get into the club..." It had sounded like work, sure, but it also sounded like opportunity knocking. But you don't want to look like you have any idea what's going on-- people might not trust you. So she'd stayed put for a while to finish her lunch, until she saw a couple of people leave the building, talking about unloading a car. She stood up, brushing dust off her black knee-length kimono and white obi, and strolled across the street. She'd dressed up a bit, just in case there was any fun to be had-- her black boots were real leather.
"What's up? You two need any help?" she asked. She would have been more subtle, but she'd heard mention of commandeering any random nerdling to help out. "I haven't seen anyone in that old place all year."
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:28 pm
Belle gave the newcomer a look over, she was overdresses, but she looked good; like someone who'd appreciate the club if she hadn't already.
"Sure, come and grab a couple bags and come on in. When you get inside, just to whatever Leocadia asks you to do, and you'll be set." She says to the girl and pops the trunk of her car and opens the back door, the seats also being filled with bags and boxes of Microsofts, disks, and various upgrades the group will be needing as soon as Ronze and the rest show up, which should be any minute now.
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:56 pm
"Rakusho-dayo," Spider said, with a nod, and carefully stacked a couple of boxes and hoisted them up in her arms. "So what's all this stuff? I had no idea a club needed this many little thingies."
She tilted her head bemusedly at Belle. She wasn't usually this... polite or... sweet, but if you seemed to know stuff, no one ever told you anything.
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:00 am
"Upgrades for the computer systems mostly I'm told. Leaving the whole thing to rot for a year without keeping up to date or any maintenance I guess. Like I said, you'd have to ask Leocadia, I'm just the driver."
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:56 pm
"Ahh. Yeah, everything is going to be totally out of date, won't it?" She laughs as she heads into the club, her vision slightly obstructed by the boxes.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:39 pm
"Ah! Help has arrived." Leocadia exclaimed as the crew she ordered files through the front door while Belle and some others carry the equipment she asked Belle to bring. 
RONZE: "Hey Cade, I brought them all that I could get ahold of. Cloe is MIA, can't even get a message out to her."
DIGGER: "Yeah, I'm getting kinda worried, its not like her to disappear like that." Digger says as he works his way to the front with a worried look on his face. Cloe and Digger are rather close."That is disturbing . . . you guys keep on trying to contact her while you work. Belle, Micheal and the other girl [lullabee] have everything you guys need in their arms. Ronze, you lead them down to the LEVIATHAN ROOM." She pauses and looks over the group. "Except you two." She says and points to Mira and CareTaker. "You guys get to help me clean. And you Ghast, you watch the front door, I don't want anyone coming in without me knowing ahead of time."
MIRA: "s**t, I hate cleaning."
CareTaker: "Come on Mira, its not so bad, could be worse. You want to go in that nasty LEVIATHAN ROOM? with all those fans and liquid coolants and s**t like that." CareTaker says to her as he rummages through the bar for some towels and cleaners.[Sorry, got bored on tektek the other day and tried making some NPC avatars]
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:23 pm
"Leviathan Room?" Spider shifted the boxes into a more convenient position. The sleeves of her kimono draped so as to almost entirely cover the large boxes. Something about her posture suggested that she was a bit uncomfortable. She asked, smiling wryly, "What, there's a Leviathan in there?"
She followed Ronze down the stairs, listening to CareTaker's comments. She shuddered. "Ah. It's just the freon room, is it?"
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