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

[Kilelicus]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

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"What a boring job, huh? Guarding food..." said a voice from behind Pit after the others left the apartment. There, at the table in the dining room, sat Hazama. Comfortably seated in one of the chairs at the table, he leaned back and placed his feet upon the corner of the table. "Like anything is going to happen to the food, right?"

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

"Yeah I'll say. I mean it's just food... Only bad thing that would happen is that it would burn." Pit replied, at first obviously oblivious to the fact that he just replied to a complete stranger. It wasn't until a good minute passes that Pit quickly turned and faced Hazama. Upon seeing the green-haired man casually sitting in a chair in the dining room, and had just seemingly appeared out of nowhere startled Pit greatly. It began to look like he was going to start screaming at the top of his lungs at any moment.

[Kilelicus]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

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"Hi!" Hazama said, waving his hand in salutation to the young man before him. "I'm Hazama! Might I ask who you are?" A wide grin crept across Hazama's face as he introduced himself. He thought the young boys reaction to his sudden appearance was rather amusing.

[wonderweiss]

Henir's Time and Space

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Jack watched as the entrance shut down by the spontaneous gates. Immediately, he begins looking foranother way. He finds a corridor and signals Rena and Nera to follow.

"Come on, we're bound to find something if we keep moving!"

He made his way down the corridor.

"Damn it all," he said to himself. "This... We're stuck on this floor and we have no idea where to go... I knew I shouldn't have trusted that masked man."

[WriggleRid3r]

Hieda Manor | Human Village

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"I will do so, yes." Elder Hon nodded. "I will also prepare able Youkai hunters and have them assemble near the front gate by sunfall."

"Nay, elder. Human hunters won't do." Sazanami shook his head lightly. "The Youkai is too fast; and with what happened a few weeks ago, we cannot risk even more casualties."

"Then what do you propose we do?" Elder Hon questioned.

"Isn't our guest from Youkai Temple?" Sazanami asked, then turned to Bang. "Do you think they can lend additional aids in case of a direct confrontation?"

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Barcelona | Spain

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"Yay~ yay~ tea time~♡" Kongou happily awaited the treats as she once again seemingly conjured a tea set from nowhere and started sipping on her cup full of black tea. "Can't start the day without one! Don't you think?"

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Sana's Studio | Manhattan, New York

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"But that pervert took my panties!" I said out loud, quite uncouthly so. I try to keep myself sophisticated at all times, but the circumstances deny me the chance. Nevertheless, I stopped channeling the lightning bolt.

"Aye... my friend is bit... radge." Demoman sighed as the lightning died out. "... it means he's crazy, in case you dinna know."

"Does that explain how he's still standing from my Thunderbolt?" I questioned. Normal human shouldn't be standing after such a powerful move.

"...and he's bloody strong." Demoman added.

[Kristia]

Henir's Time and Space


Both furred creatures followed the time traveler as the Lucario kept memorizing the whole place "Everything has changed, the day and night versions of this place are completely different" she said and heard different sounds too "We need to focus on getting out, but also find shelter, whatever is out is even worse than the pyramid headed man of earlier" she warned.

Sana's Studio | Manhattan, New York


"And people say I have issues" Gaige sighed and ran towards the Soldier, snatching the underwear with her metallic arm, she felt the electricity coursing through her body and shivered for a while as her shield took most of the damage. "Now the problem is solved" she spoke putting the cloth in a shelf "So.. now we got a fried soldier, and angered anthropomorphic bluenette, whatīs next?"

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

As Pit stood there, the mysterious man who had just randomly appeared in the apartment, had simply responded with a rather casual hi. All the while a wide grin came over the green-haired man's face as he grinned. This caused Pit to flat out begin screaming and calling for Palutena as Pit jumped onto the table, having drawn out Palutena's Bow and aiming it right at Hazama.

"LADY PALUTENA WE HAVE AN INTRUDER! SOMEONE BROKE INTO THE APARTMENT! I NEED YOU IN HERE!?" Pit yelled as loud as he could, and at that instant Palutena dropped what she was doing in the other room and quickly ran out and into the Dining Room, only to be confronted by Hazama. Following a bit behind her was Julius who was looking rather confused and slightly worried about the situation, but was even more confused as to how casual and normal this 'intruder' looks... Either way something about the man really seemed to bug Goddess, and the Vampire Hunter.

"Pit... who is this man?" Palutena questioned as Pit did not take his aim off of Hazama, but rather turned to look at Palutena while still aiming at the green-haired stranger.

"He said his name was Haza... what was it again?" Pit replied as he turned to Hazama, asking for his name again after not fully remembering it. Pit's demeanor was a bit more calm, but he still kept his aim pointed at Hazama.



Henir's Time and Space

As the trio began to run through the halls of the now rusted, and hellish hospital, the sound of metal screeching around metal became louder and louder as the at the point where the hall splits into two separate hallways, one continuing further and one path going left. In the hall straight ahead, the same figure with a metal pyramid over its face can be seen dragging a large metal knife. Thankfully its back was turned to the trio, and as such just stood there about 15 ft away. It seemed to be have only stopped when it heard the sound of the trio running through the halls. Also unfortunately for them, the hallway to the left of them had a very large hole in the floor, and despite them being on the 3rd floor of the building the hole seemed to go on far past the previous floors and into a dark abyss.

There was only two ways to get through. Get into a confrontation with the Pyrmaid-Headed man, or go left and through the only door on their side of the hallway.


Barcelona | Spain

As Lu sat there at the table with Kongou, she simply nodded to Kongou's question. "Hmm... yes. It's always pleasant to have a cup of tea at this time." Lu replied as Ciel came up to the table before placing two cups of the requested tea, and some surprisingly freshly made scones.

"Here you go ladies... Some Black Tea and scones." Ciel replied with a sigh.


Sana's Studio | Manhattan, New York

Once Sana stopped electrocuting the Soldier and Gaige snatched the panties, the soldier in red stood there looking dazed as all hell. Lifting one finger in the air the Soldier spoke one thing. "I-" The Soldier tried speaking before falling face first onto the ground in an almost comedic fashion.

[Kilelicus]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

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"Why, it's Hazama! I'm an intelligence officer of sorts, and I have a problem. Or rather, I may have a problem soon. A vampire problem, don't know if she's come to this world yet or not. I was in the area and heard there was a very powerful vampire hunter around here, so I had to come check it out! Quite a mess you lot made outside, if I do say so myself."

Hazama turned his head towards Julius. "....Julius... Belmont... correct?" Hazama said, standing up. He walked over to Julius, holding out his hand to shake the Vampire hunter's.

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

As Hazama introduced himself Palutena began to respond while gesturing Pit to lower his guard, of which the young angel did. "Yes it was a bit of chaos, but things will be repaired and fixed soon. Either way I think you should leave-" Palutena replied as she was then quickly interrupted by Julius who stepped forward.

"Don't worry Palutena. If he's here to speak with me then he will probably leave shortly after he tells me what he needs of me." Spoke Julius as he turned away from Palutena before turning his attention to Hazama.
"Very well Hazama... You have found Julius Belmont. Vampire Hunter Extroadinare, now mind if we step outside to speak?" Julius asked.

[Kilelicus]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

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Hazama's grin vanished from his face and was replaced with a more contemplative expression when Julius ignored his offer to shake his hand, not that it really mattered to him. Still, though, he wondered if the disregard was an indication of suspicion of Hazama's true nature. He ignored that small inkling, however, and decided to comply with Julius's request.

"I suppose that would be best. Very well, "Vampire Hunter Extraordinaire" Julius Belmont. Lead the way." Hazama said, bringing his hand up to his tie and adjusting it slightly.

[Kristia]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment


"When I said this day might get more interesting, I didnīt expect to be just after five minutes from saying it, way to jinx things" Midna commented as Julius and the new stranger talked with each other, she then looked at Palutena "While the boys talk about that vampire girl, what did you wanted to talk about?" she asked to the goddess

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C. | OutsidePalutena's Apartment

With Hazama agreeing to speak with Julius in private, the vampire-hunter then proceeded to step outisde of Palutena's apartment. Then once both men were outside Julius closed the door and turned towards Hazama.

"So what is it you need? You mentioned something about a Vampire problem?" Julius asked as he leaned up against the wall while crossing his arms.


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Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment

Palutena sighed as the two men left the apartment to go talk about business before turning to Midna. "Oh right... I apologize. It wasn't much... but I was willing to ask you something..." She replied as she turned to Pit, upon which she gave him a glare that signified that both her and Midna needed a moment alone. Without any words said Pit gave a salute and nod before running off to his room, slamming his bedroom door behind him.

With Pit now gone, she turned to Midna. "Okay... what I was going to say is that as the battle was going on, I had called in a few of my own guards to scout the city. Unfortunately they have reported a dark energy on the outer rim of the city. It feels awfully similar to a dark force that I have detected over the course of the past few days... What's worse is that it's slowly building up and becoming stronger. I was going to tell you and Julius since you both would probably have a bit more capable of handling this bit of info. While Pit would have probably made a rather huge commotion about it, and that could have ended in potential mass hysteria within the city. I'm sure that if you ask Julius he would tell you that he has been feeling tremors on occasion throughout the city. At first I thought it wasn't much... but now with the attack that happened today, I am now getting suspicious. I was beginning to think about well... sending you and Julius out to investigate. I mean this dark power seems different than the one I sensed during the attack. It feels straight up demonic rather than just 'evil'. I will inform Julius, but right now you and him both need some time to rest. After dinner though would you both mind going to the city limits to investigate? I promise that I will keep an eye on this demonic aura I've been sensing until then. It's faint... and still hard to sense... but it is there..."

[Kristia]

Washington D.C. | Palutena's Apartment


Midna heard what the green haired woman said and simply sighed while massaging the bridge of her nose "Itīs the whole adventure again" she said to herself and released some air to cool down "At least now Iīm at full power again, so we got strange energy that is surely of the negative type, monsters appearing with high ranked members around and all in the recent days" she spoke rubbing her chin while thinking "We can already say something bad will rise without guessing, the best strategy is to map the area and know where the highest amount of negative energy is, that is where either the source or the node of it rests, if we can terminate the threat, then we can get an advantage, if not, then we will have to do it on the old style of dungeon adventuring"

[S121]

SDM

John listened to what Mara had suggested and suddenly found himself questioning what she meant by "ripping the problem from the root." He was actually fine with either option because if they detained the time traveler, they could peacefully resolve the problem and hand him off to Takoizu. As for elimination, "ripping the problem from the root" brought elimination to mind. After all, if they killed the time traveler, they would not have to worry about him trying to push the timeline towards a world in ruin.

"What do you have in mind? Detain, or eliminate?", John questioned as they quickly walked up to the gate of the SDM.





Firestorm Citadel

Takoizu thought about what the Higher Power had said about teaching her and simply nodded. To be honest, all she really wanted was just to forget her past for now. She never really liked to think about what could have been her life when she got one of the worst timeline outcomes. She would have rather thought about what her life would be like if she succeeded. Just then, the Higher Power stole the focus of her attention as he directed it to the next gauntlet that awaited them.

"Right. Let's hurry up so we can go home.", Takoizu said as she mentally prepared herself for a second round.





Crater - Santa Cruz

"Shit...", Isaac uttered under his breath in annoyance as he saw Malthael soar ever higher out of the now collapsing crater.

As a large chunk of debris fell towards Isaac, he rolled out of the way and activated his thrusters, taking to the sky immediately after.

"Koishi, we need some way to contain him. Got any ideas?", Isaac asked over his communicator as he raised his Plasma Cutter and blasted an oncoming rock to pebbles.





Mess Hall - Prometheus Labs - London

As Dr. Neuman listened, his face turned from one of curiosity to interest. From what Chung was telling him, he was actually trying to boost the MJOLNIR armor's power output by using an external power supply. Of course, although the armor's circuitry was "overload" capable, they weren't designed to have two different energy types compete through itself.

"So, did you connect the disfrozen battery to an external port on the armor?", Dr. Neuman asked Chung.





Bench - Streets of London (Vala's Location)

The SPARTAN lightly tilted his head at Vala's response and remained silent for a span of two seconds, though for a SPARTAN of his kind, it would have felt like thirty. After the brief pause, the SPARTAN finally straightened his neck and spoke, showing that he carefully thought about his answer.

"Hm... I guess you could say that I'm on the side of a woman that wanted to start over.", the red SPARTAN finally said, "It's not a big secret that she did some questionable things in her game. Many people question her motives, and some are even nervous about how she essentially resurrected the SPARTAN Program in the real world, but I believe there's a reason for it. I have my own opinions on the matter after reading her profile and applying my knowledge of that to the current circumstances, but I feel that we should each come to our own conclusions. You may dislike Halsey because of what she was responsible for, but it is in my personal experience that there are always two sides to every story."

[Koishi]

Firestorm Citadel

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"Of course." HP mved forward, as a new challenge arose amongst the magical fire and wheels. Seemingly bursting from the foundations of the bridge were undead, eyes aglow with fire, skin and muscle burned away, leaving blackened bone, magma bubbling in their cracks. A hiss announced their arrival, brick and mortar being torn away under their own four feet. HP ran one through with his blade, it's holy light piercing into it's skull, extinguishing the unholy flames within.

"He knows." HP grunted, turning to Takoizu. "Keep moving, don't stop for anything!"

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Santa Cruz

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"Well, how would you contain a literal embodiment of Death AND Wisdom? He knows our every move." Koishi replied, ruhing down and picking up the cannon. "We don't have the power to try and stop him. We have other problems on our hand too."

Koishi flew up, moving out of the crater, a now growing sinkhole. "I think we stopped the flow though, that's the important thing. The energy in the air is weaker, more normal. It's a matter of cleaning up the rest of the bunch. Maybe I could invite Rin, give the Blazing Hells some more fuel..."