[IC Board] All the World's a Game - Season II

SereneGrace

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05/25/2015, 11:05 AM #4211
Hieda Manor - Human Village

Bang followed the Elder through the building until they stop at a small area set up for one of the victim's. Said victim looked to be a youthful, well built young man who had some apparently nasty injuries judging by the bandages over his stomach while his torso appeared to be ready for some treatment. Seeing the bandages though did make Bang grimace slightly as he examined the young man before sitting down beside the young lumberjack.

It was clear in the man's behavior and tone of voice that he was definitely not comfortable with recounting his story to Bang...

"I am all ears. I will listen to every detail about your experience with this vicious youkai, and be assured that I myself will not rest until said Youkai is defeated." Bang spoke in reply to the man, ready to listen to Sazanami's story.
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05/28/2015, 05:11 AM #4212
Hieda Manor | Human Village


"If so, then..." Sazanami breathed in, out, then began his story:


Week ago | Forest of Magic


"A'ight, that's about good enough lumber for today." Sazanami uttered to the workers that the day is over for them. The lumberjacks gradually lowered their axes and sighed in relief that they can finally go home. The day was indeed coming to an end, with the western skies dyed red and orange while the eastern skies were a gradient of purple and deep blue. Several tree stumps replaced what was once a patch of thick trees isolated from the Forest of Magic, with the felled trees stacked neatly on a pile. "Everyone reconvene tomorrow; we'll carry the lumber off and begin renovating the town hall."

With the word of Sazanami, the rest of the lumberjacks took off to the human village. They seemed to be in a hurry, even though they were exhausted from hours of hard labor, possibly because of the recently increasing threat of unnamed, newly born Youkais. Sazanami, however, didn't seem to be in too much of a hurry as he gathered smaller logs and began tossing them next to the larger logs.

"Sazanami, you not comin'?" One of the lumberjack asked Sazanami, who shook his head.

"I'll catch up to you later; just wanted to finish gathering the smaller ones." Sazanami answered to the lumberjack's question.

"A'ight, but be careful, dem Youkais lurk at nighttimes."


"That's that." Sazanami sighed to himself as he finished stacking the smaller logs adjacent to the larger logs. The sun has already set, and the darkness crept across the land. The moonlight was the only source of light at these times, and the wild animals' cries made the atmosphere eerie.

"Better be careful. They come out during these times..." Sazanami gulped as he began trekking back to the human village, his woodcutter's hatchet handy in case a wolf or even a wild Youkai jumps. He was proud of his own self, and has fended off several feral animals that jumped him or one of his crew member from time to time... but with the news of a new Youkai attacking several tourists near the trek, he can't let his guards down.

The half-hour journey was quite uneventful. No beasts jumped him, and no Youkai attacked him. The village gates were in sight, thanks to the torches lit by the watchguards. it would only take a few minutes to reach the gates.

But something compelled Sazanami to stop in his track and turn back.

Slumped next to the road, unseen by Sazanami the first time, was a young woman, her bare, pale body gleaming bright. She had her back turned against Sazanami, and her head was declined. She had quite a lengthy hair, black like the night itself, falling across her skinny back.

Sazanami couldn't help but approach the woman.

He took the short walk to the woman and bent over to check if anything was wrong-

The rest of the memory was faded to black.


"I can't remember anything after that." Sazanami finished his story. "I woke up here afterwards. I was told that Ryukaze, the lumberjack who warned me of Youkai attacks, came back up the trek to find me lying on the road, bleeding from a slash wound to my stomach and close to death. That was about... 3 days ago."


Lu and Ciel's Apartment | Barcelona, Spain


"YES!" Kongou cried a shout of happiness as she sat on the chair of a now-ruined balcony. The first-sight opinion of the two being meanie-buttheads have been dissolved to nothing; they are now a dear companion in this glorious tea time. "I'll have black tea and scone DESU!"


Sana's Studio | Manhattan, NY


"UGGGGGH!"

I... have never been so angry...

EXCEPT NOW!

"RUN, LADS!" Demoman shouted as bolts of lightning shot up from Sana's hands and began crackling down towards Soldier, her eyes burning with rage. "We're not going ta be safe!"

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S121

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06/01/2015, 02:54 PM #4213
Roxas' House - Tokyo, Japan

John was relieved to hear that Renamon and Nera were handling their own and safe for the moment, but he was wary of the time traveler, Jack. John was not afraid of the man, but he knew that it would be unwise for him to assume Jack was any less dangerous than Takoizu and Otori made him out to be. When John would meet him, he would have to approach with caution. For now, what they really needed to do was get home. It took a brief moment to figure out where he wanted to go first, especially since he remembered that he had to return Utsuho and Reimu to their homes, but after checking the digital clock in his HUD and seeing that it was eleven, John decided that their next course of action would be to meet up with Renamon and Nera. After all, he still had an hour before Utsuho was supposed to return home.

"We'll meet up with them soon enough. The sooner we can meet up, the sooner we can initiate the plan.", John said to Mara before turning his attention to the others.

"Let's go.", John said to Utsuho, Reimu, and Jason.




Firestorm Citadel

"Fine, I'll play by the rules.", Takoizu playfully remarked as she continued to sprint.

As the next wheel came spinning towards her, Takoizu suddenly lunged to the right and began to fly before raising her hand at the side of the wheel. Once her hand was fully extended, a large turquoise laser erupted from her palm, slamming into the side of the wheel.




Crater - Santa Cruz

Isaac quickly remembered about the black soulstone's fate, but he was a little hesitant to speak about it, seeing how Malthael did not seem to be in a friendly mood at the moment, but there was no escaping the truth.

"Wasn't that destroyed?", Isaac asked Malthael.




Bench - Streets of London (Vala's Location)

To be honest, the red SPARTAN was surprised by what Vala was implying. If he was right, then Vala was saying that the SPARTAN-II from Dead or Alive, Nicole 458, had augmented a little girl. Even more surprising was that the Nassau Station had the equipment to augment someone. He did little to question it, especially since the girl was now sitting in front of him, proving all of his preconceptions wrong.

"You're telling me that Nicole-458 augmented you?", the SPARTAN asked, "Did she follow you to this world?"

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Koishi

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06/02/2015, 03:17 AM #4214
Firestorm Citadel


The wheel shattered, blowing apart in rain of wooden and metal shrapnel.HP's form changed to avoid the shrapnel as he tore apart more of the engines.

"Not what I meant, but it works. Didn't your mother teach you how to graze?" HP questioned a little as sword clashed and tore through wood. "I mean, that's pretty important in Gensokyo, isn't it?"


Santa Cruz


"Shattered.." Malthael started. "Shattered and destroyed are two different things. Pieces of it are still in existence. They MUST be found." Malthael's voice echoed around the crater. Another step. "Continue to hinder me, and your soul is forfeit."




Sometimes when you're driving down a road, a bug hits your windshield. It's ugly and unpleasant, but you just activate the wipers / cleaning fluid and it's gone in a few seconds. It's just part of driving down the road. You don't dwell on it, because that'd be silly. Bugs aren't worth the time.

You just discard their guts and keep on driving.
Kristia

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06/02/2015, 04:03 AM #4215
Bench - Streets of London (Vala's Location)


The two females were still seeing the veteran spartan´s images of the game when they heard the male ask about Nicole, this question made the brawler frown for a moment "Well, since most, if not all the videogame characters were sent here, then it would be pretty obvious" she answered honestly. She knew that this was important information, but her mentor was a veteran who still kicked ass, heck even she had a rough time to beat Nicole in sparring sessions and still needed to balance the win/lose ratio of them.

"As for the first question.. yeah she augmented me with the help of Melissa, and man.. it was something that even the Devil would wet his pants to feel or see" Vala spoke shivering while feeling faint parts of her body which were the ones that were pierced by the machine "In all honesty, it was luck that saved me from dying" she smiled again.

Melissa then sighed and spoke through the speakers "All right little one, I know you would like to make this guy your friend, but we have a schedule. Now, how about you let us meet the Doctor so we can also ask our questions?" the AI asked the red spartan.

(I know the next part is too small, but seriously, there isn´t much I can do here)

Roxas' House - Tokyo, Japan


Mara just nodded and followed the spartan "What I know though is that time where the three are is relative, an hour there can be a second here or something similar" she said.

Have you ever crossed the line between sanity and madness? You would be amazed by what lies beyond the fog..

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06/02/2015, 06:50 AM #4216
Roxas' House - Tokyo, Japan


"Uwaaaah- everything's so confusing I have no idea what's going on-" Utsuho was at the verge of bawling as she literally had no idea what was going on, flapping her wings. If you could visualize how one was thinking, Utsuho's brain would be spinning at high-speed right now.

"Stop flapping your wings!" Reimu growled at Utsuho's demeanor as she stuck close to the rest of the party to make sure she didn't get isolated.

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SUSTIC

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06/04/2015, 02:17 AM #4217
Washington D.C - City Streets

As the trio made their way back up to the apartment Julius just sighed upon hearing what Midna had said, he was also positive that they were going to see more of those creatures soon enough. It's not that it is worrying him, just more or less just seems to irritate him slightly.

"Yeah... you may be right. I'm positive that we won't see the last of those demons for I had recognized that scythe. It belongs to Death. The Death that I know and have faced. His presence was quite strong over the area while the demons were attacking. The only thing that really bothers me is that it was too coincidental for Death and his army of demonic beasts to attack this town on this very day. Either way I think we should still rest but keep our guards up in case another attack happens." Julius replied as he stopped at the last flight of stairs to catch his breath, but he did take a step back for Pit and Midna to continue up the rest of the stairs. "Curse this old body of mine... one small fight and a bit of stairs and I get tired out... Guess all the Vampire Hunting has left me drained over the years." Julius commented with a rather dry and somewhat depressing sounding chuckle.



Sana's Studio | Manhattan, NY

As the Mechromancer began giving some 'advice' to the cross-dressing Soldier, the Soldier was about to lash out at Gaige but stopped as he noticed Sana's anger and before he knew it he found himself getting struck by a serious bolt of electricity. Oddly enough the Soldier was letting out a mixture of screams of pain, and insane laughter as he was being shocked... but mostly pain.



Lu and Ciel's Apartment | Barcelona, Spain


Ciel just groaned as he nodded, and at that moment went to the kitchen to begin preparing the requested tea and snack for Kongou and his Mistress. "God I why did I have to make a deal with a freaking demon?" Ciel complained as he began making the tea.



Mess Hall - Prometheus Labs - London

The moment Neuman asked Chung if he had gotten a Christmas gift for anyone, Chung paused as he very clearly had not. The closest thing that he could think of that could be considered a "gift" for someone was that Disfrozen Battery that he had privately made and given to Jack to test out... unfortunately that little test run earlier didn't turn out so well. "I... uh... no not really... except one thing, but it nearly blew up Jack..." Chung replied trying to keep a straight face, kinda embarrassed and trying not to laugh at what happened earlier.
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06/04/2015, 02:54 AM #4218
Washington D.C Apartment building


"Then we will have to invetigate about it, sure there can be random encounters with small pawns, but having a horse or an tower already on the chessboard shows that there will be a big move from the other side" commented the twili as they headed upstairs in the building.

Midna was getting better on her energy with each step she made, but she noticed that the vampire hunter getting worse until he had to actually stop and take some breaths. Not caring for "lady like" manners, the former princess picked Julius bridal style "Come on veteran hunter, I have some ideas on how to help you with age limiters" she said still moving towards Palutena´s home.

Sana's Studio | Manhattan, NY


Even though that the bluenette was electrifying the drag queen soldier, the latter was both screaming and laughing at being electrocuted. "So a crazy masochistic drag queen soldier, everyday there is something new to see".

Then the mechromancer focused on the angered woman "Now now, as you see, he is both suffering and.. enjoying this" she said getting closer to the anthropomorphic character "So how about we relax and try to find a way to actually deal with the situation" she offered.

Have you ever crossed the line between sanity and madness? You would be amazed by what lies beyond the fog..

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SereneGrace

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06/10/2015, 10:27 PM #4219
Hieda Manor | Human Village

Bang listened intently to the man's story... and it intrigued him. Such a quiet yet uneventful night that was brought to an end by some mysterious woman with long black hair. With the only defining characteristics being the fact that she sounds to appear without clothes, have incredibly pale skin, and long pitch black hair. That... both makes things easier, yet at the same time might make things a bit more difficult. But it does sound like a youkai or restless spirit of some sort.

After the story ended Bang stood up as he sighed. "Thank you for your story... it may not have given me much, but I can at least devise a plan that may put me in direct contact with your attacker. In fact I have already developed one right now! It will take preparation and a outfit that would make me appear as any ordinary member of this village! I will also consult with my men to help with this plan." Bang spoke up as he turned to the Elder.

"Elder if it is possible do you suppose you can try to warn the people of the village to remain indoors tonight? If things go the way I expect, it might become too dangerous for people of the village to venture outside once the sun sets."
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06/13/2015, 01:56 AM #4220
Roxas' House - Tokyo, Japan

After everyone had gathered together and headed through the Corridor of Darkness, the portal in Roxas' house closed.



Outside SDM - Gensokyo

After a couple of seconds, another Corridor of Darkness opened up just outside the gate to the SDM, and out came the group.

"Is this the place?", John asked Mara as they exited, wondering if Renamon and Nera were nearby.





Firestorm Citadel

Takoizu lightly frowned in her helmet as she thought about the Higher Power's question. In truth, Takoizu knew how to fire danmalu and dodge, but she didn't know the more advanced aspects of danmaku fighting, due to never being taught. After a brief silence, Takoizu finally spoke.

"I never learned any more than the basics. They died before they could teach me.", Takoizu said, albeit in a a slightly less enthused and slightly more serious tone as another wheel came. Just as before, Takoizu raised her hand at the wheel and it was blasted to shrapnel and splinters as an intense beam of turquoise energy slammed into it.





Crater - Santa Cruz

"You're the one that was trying to release a bunch of evil demons from the stone and destroy humanity, remember? What do you plan on doing now?", Isaac asked Malthael.





Mess Hall - Prometheus Labs - London

"Oh, right.", Dr. Neuman said with a small chuckle. Even though he had gotten after Jack and Chung about the unauthorized modification earlier, he couldn't help but think of Jack blowing up in a comical fashion.

After a brief moment, Dr. Neuman had another question, as evidenced by his smile slightly diminishing.

"So can you tell me what exactly you were trying to do with Jack's armor?", Dr. Neuman asked.





Bench - Streets of London (Vala's Location) Tameka

The red SPARTAN couldn't help but feel puzzled about the current situation. There was much that he still did not fully understand about this girl-turned-SPARTAN-II, but he also had his orders from Prometheus Labs to apprehend the "threat" and escort them to the Labs for further questioning. Seeing that Vala wanted to go to the Labs, there was no need to fight... not that he would even want to fight a SPARTAN-II with what appeared to be shotgun gloves. After a moment, the SPARTAN spoke up.

"Very well. I was told to take you in, so you're coming to The Labs, but I don't think Halsey would see you in person. She might use holograms to speak with you, considering the danger you potentially have.", the SPARTAN said to Vala.

Originally posted by S121
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