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

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08/31/2016, 05:24 AM #4601
Firestorm Citadel

With a nod to the sprite, Takoizu followed The Higher Power and entered the elevator. As she did so, Takoizu readied herself for the manipulations she would have to perform soon.





Washington D.C | Skies of Washington

As the chaos reigned down below, hope flew in the sky as a rather large number of futuristic looking ships soared over the burning city. Spartans silently waited for drop as they reached their intended targets, neither anxious or scared as they readied themselves to drop straight into hell. Meanwhile, the COM system of the pilots were abuzz as they called one another for status reports and current count of the hostilities. It seemed that all was relatively calm in the sky, but down below was where the real danger was. That, and the tower before them.

Meanwhile, Daniel-636 patiently waited for confirmation for them to drop, staring at the holographic status screen, watching what the onboard cameras recorded down below. There was no telling how few people there were left down there, and unfortunately Daniel would not know until much later, for he was heading the assault on the tower itself. All they could do was wait.





Mess Hall - Prometheus Labs - London

Soon, the trio was at the mess hall, the place they had eaten breakfast earlier, only now it was closer towards lunch. As they entered the large room, Alice looked down to the little vampire girl behind her with a smile and began to speak.

"Okay Flandre, just go to one of those vending machines and select the desserts on the screen. From there it's easy, and you can even tell it what to add to your ice cream.", Alice said, slightly leaning down and putting her hands on her knees to be at a more appropriate level with the small girl.





Santa Cruz

Isaac lightly jumped as the zombified child exploded violently from the blast, painting a good portion of the room a crimson red. He turned around with his Plasma Cutter ready, but saw a very familiar face looking back at him.

"You will not believe how glad I am to see you.", Isaac said with relief before looking at the ground. The sight of blood promptly brought Isaac's gaze back up to Lujuria, as if he suddenly saw something he wanted to take his mind off of, clearly the red smear on the ground.





En route to Prometheus Labs - London

Needless to say, Mike was a little confused about what Vala had meant by "mother".

"Wait, mother? What do you mean mother?", Mike asked with suspicion.





Front Gate - Prometheus Labs

As Nicole began to walk up to the gate, the obsidian-black colored guard standing there looked up from the game he was playing in his visor as a small dot appeared on his radar. He did not know who exactly this woman was, but she seemed rather tall.

"Hello. What business do you have here?", the black armored Spartan asked.





Observation Deck - Armor Technologies Lab - Sector 4 - Prometheus Labs - London

It did not take very long before one of the scientist's wandering eyes caught sight of the wildly blushing Raven, eliciting a small chuckle before he lightly nudged Raven.

"Like what you see?", the scientist whispered.




(It's on!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5gIarNICgc)
Streets of London | Jack and Mag's current Location

In a span of half a second, Jack had already covered a distance of 50 feet before slicing after Mag's back with his katana. If she did not dodge, then it had a very good chance of shearing a chunk of power from her shields. Meanwhile, Jack's laser arm module was charging back up.

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Koishi

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08/31/2016, 06:02 AM #4602
Firestorm Citadel


The elevator jittered for a moment before it got going. The smoke ever rising, and another floor coming below. However, the Higher Power, seemingly opened the elevator's mechanism and began tinkering with things, and as the floor appeared, the elevator jittered once more and continued downwards.

"Little trick I learned from the Spiral Order. These elevators are surprisingly complicated, but you pull a few dormant maintenance routines, and you can skip floors. This should get us straight to Vanaduke. I sincerely hope it hasn't risen that far yet..." HP mumbled a little before standing up and closing the box.




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.
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08/31/2016, 03:32 PM #4603
En route to Prometheus Labs - London


The golden colored spartan laughed at the driver's question "And here I thought you were an adult Mikey, don't you know of the birds and the bees?" she asked in a teasing tone "Look, when a girl and a b-" her voice was distorted as the AI stopped her "Look who is talking, a 5 year old kid in the body of a woman." Melissa's voice then focused on the spartan driving the warthog "What she means is that your labs will need good fighters, a veteran II should be there by now, and she won't hesitate to enter." the AI actually warned Michael "She won't use lethal force, but can and will incapacitate anyone that tries to stone wall her path to Halsey."

"Prometheus Labs

By the first impression Nicole had of the guard, she could guess he wasn't that good, to the point of being stationed as a guard ("This might be more interesting though.") the veteran looked at the attire of the guard ("It is so similar to ONI.. don't overreact, it might be just a normal protocol"). Nicole then looked at the guard "Good day sir, I came here to see Doctor Catherine Halsey, it is of utmost importance that I need to talk with her regarding the Spartan II program" she greeted him by showing her Identification, it showed she was a citizen of London on the first Identification, but the second one were her dog tags and Spartan tag.

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

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08/31/2016, 03:34 PM #4604
Firestorm Citadel

"I won't complain. A shortcut is a shortcut.", Takoizu said to the Higher Power with a small smile.


EDITING...

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08/31/2016, 07:06 PM #4605
Firestorm Citadel


Eventually, the elevator came to a halt. A single path lied ahead, along with another large button. Beyond was a quite massive form, facing off into the distance away from them. A low rumbling shook the floor. It seemed the Citadel was becoming unstable.

"This is it. Vanaduke." HP said in a solemn manner. In the air, some kind of blips of darkness appeared and vanished moments later. "And it has gotten here. That'll make things harder."

HP stepped down the path and onto the button. "You ready?"




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.
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09/01/2016, 07:02 AM #4606
Streets of London | Jack and Mag's current Location

Despite Mag's agility and speed, Jack was just so much faster. In fact there wasn't much time before he got close enough to strike Mag with his blades. As Jack's sword was swung at the Mag's back, the blade managed to connect with her shielding systems and with one mere swipe she found most if not all of her energy shields depleted within just one swing of the blade. This shows the power and speed of a Spartan compared to a Warframe.

After being struck and having her shields depleted, Mag performed a quick dodge-roll to the left suddenly get some sort of distance from Jack. With a little bit of distance Mag stood up and stumbled a bit. There was actually quite a bit of damage to her shields, but also her health. There was a rather decent gash in her suit, and from it some kind of... strange flesh looking material could be seen inside it. The Mag was in trouble. Her weapons were no match for this super-soldier, and her abilities won't phase him that much.

Little did Jack know Mag had one more trick up her sleeve. As such the Mag turned to face Jack and got into a defensive position.





Observation Deck - Armor Technologies Lab - Sector 4 - Prometheus Labs - London

Raven who was watching the fight intently only could hear the man's question, but as Raven was not willing to turn away from the battle he simply replied.

"Watching her fight makes my blood boil. Makes me want to start fighting myself." He replied as he continued watching Lily.



Prometheus Labs - Out Behind the Labs

Ever since Chris had heard the news about Claire's pregnancy, and the fact that Six is going to be the father, the old veteran at surviving zombie apocalypse's over and over again was clearly agitated by the news. After all his sister was pregnant, with what could best be described as his newest and closest friend. So of course Chris would be a little upset.

"Sigh. What a day..." Chris spoke to himself as he paced back and forth, trying to relax. As Chris was relaxing he took out a old photo of him when he was a part of S.T.A.R.S from his wallet. The Special Tactics and Rescue Service of Raccoon City before it went up in smoke.

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Looking at the image he remembered some rather fond memories. Mainly of his comrades Jill Valentine who was the woman to the right of Chris who was who was dead center in the front row. Then there was Barry Burton and Brad Vickers. Barry being the rather well built, and burly looking man in the red vest. While Brad was the one right next to him wearing the yellow vest. The two could be seen on the far right of the photo in the back row.

There was also Wesker, but one probably couldn't tell as his face in the photograph seemed to be burnt out with some precision. There was also another photo of another member that was seemingly taped to the left of the photograph. The photograph was of Rebecca Chambers, a member who had joined S.T.A.R.S after the main photograph of the whole team was taken.

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Despite the fact that she seems to be dressed for basketball rather than an actual team, it was the only photo of her that had been saved by Claire and Leon from Raccoon City's Police Station. It was taken during the Police Force's basketball games they'd hold every month against other law enforcement offices... before Raccoon City was destroyed.

"Damn... Jill... Barry... Rebecca. I wish you could see me now." Chris spoke as he then sat against the wall of the labs.
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09/01/2016, 01:31 PM #4607
Washington D.C | Temen-ni-gru

Julius had grown curious of the properties of the mysterious red energy surrounding the only other reachable door they have a chance of going through. The energy swirled with what looked like to be faces of the damned, and as such was preventing passage. Even if they could get past the red hand that had emerged to attack Frisk. They would probably be unable to open the door as the energy might be keeping the door sealed tight. What Frisk said though gave him an idea... He approached the door as he reached into the inside of his brown trench coat.

"This energy seems to most likely contain spirits of the damned. People who had either died in this tower, or souls taken straight from the underworld are being used to keep this door sealed and prevent passage. If I can perhaps perform something similar to a exorcism, then maybe the energy will fade." He spoke as he then took out a small glass jar of holy water before tossing it to Papyrus. "If things go bad I entrust you to throw that holy water at the door. It's purified and blessed properties will repel it in worst case scenario." Julius said as he then took out a cross. A rather large one at that, in fact it looks like a throwing weapon but in the shape of a holy cross. It was carved out of wood and seemed to have blessed carvings all over it.

Julius then held it forward, facing the red energy. As the cross got close to the red swirling energy, the energy began to swirl faster. Much faster than normal and what could be described as the sounds of several people screaming in torment could be heard.

That's when Julius began speaking in some kind of language. Latin maybe? Either way it seemed to be some kind of prayer of some sort. As his 'prayer' went on the souls of the red energy began to scream and moan much louder than before. As if they are growing quite restless. That's when the energy began to appear to fade. He was doing it!

Suddenly however at the last second just as Julius had gotten done all the remaining energy had formed the giant red hand from before, and this time it managed to form a fist and punch Julius dead center in the chest before the energy dissipated. Unfortunately some damage was already done as the force of the punch had caused Julius to be pushed and stumbled back... a little too close to the ledge. In fact as Julius stumbled towards the ledge he tried to catch his balance and threw a hand out for someone to try and catch him, however he was already beginning to fall into the dark pit. Normally Julius wouldn't be worried about falling from high heights, but with how dark the pit appeared he didn't know what was down below, if there was even a bottom.



Washington D.C | City Streets

Meanwhile on the streets below, things were not going well. What appeared to be skeletal figures of average height in tattered clothing can be seen wielding scythes chasing humans. Flying bat-like creatures consisting of what looked to be red... blood flew through the sky. In the distance the pilots and even some of the soldiers aboard the ships could see it in the distance. Some sort of strange, large whale-like creature flying around the skies around the large ancient looking tower that had risen up from the ground in the distance. The beast had what looked to be wings and just seemed to defensively fly around the tower. The beast itself was large. Much larger than a blue whale. Probably twice, if not 3-4 times larger than one. It looked like it could almost swallow a UNSC ship whole. Thankfully it was flying rather high up, almost near the clouds and seemed to be focused on flying around the tower.


Now what was also odd was what looked to be an army of angelic knights fighting against the vast majority of demons in the skies, and on the grounds. Wielding weapons like holy bows, spears, swords and shields. There was a large amount of these angelic soldiers. In fact if any of the Spartan's or anyone aboard the ships flying above D.C were game savvy, they would recognize these soldiers as members of the Heavenly Royal Guards of Palutena, the Goddess of Light from the Kid Icarus series.

Now despite the large amount of these angelic guard's fighting back and trying to protect buildings and people alike against these demons, the demons seemed to both outnumber, and in some cases overpower the angels... If the Spartan's didn't drop in soon... then Palutena's army might fail in their mission to protect and save the city.


((Here's the post for D.C for Tewi and S1. Kristia it's your turn to post for Paris though. I been waiting ;A; ))
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09/01/2016, 01:55 PM #4608
Washington D.C | Temen-ni-gru

When handed the holy water, the kind skeleton took a stance where he would be able to throw the flask quickly and easily the moment it was needed. However things seemed to be under control. Julius was doing it! The spirits although screaming loudly seemed to be fading from this world to the next. The screaming and loud moaning had Papyrus on high alert, but even now Frisk seemed as calm as ever. For a child she didn't scare easily. ("Well this is still only the second most terrifying thing I've ever seen, I can deal with this.") she thought to herself.

However when they saw the man suddenly get punched off the platform by the demonic hand, both of their hearts sank. Papyrs tried to grab hold of the man's hand, but was a bit too late. However before he was too far gone, Papyrus summoned forth a rather long bone which he held in his hands, putting it easily within reach of the vampire hunter. It wouldn't be easy but with Toriel's help, the skeleton knew they could pull the man back up

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09/01/2016, 01:59 PM #4609
Washington D.C | Temen-ni-gru


Midna had may ideas on what they could face, but she wished she had a sort of bible or nechronomicon to get some lore about the area and its inhabitants "So far, we have met things from the bible mythology, same with the satanic world, or at least they are the.. artistic source for what we are facing." she commented, her bare feet feeling the floor ("Too detailed to be crafted in a summoning.") she thought "There is also the fact that this place wasn't created in the summoning, but it looks more to have been transported from whatever place it was made years, or even decades ago."

On the other side, Toriel was in deep thought, the almost ethereal hand looked like a sentinel, making an easy attack, but the demonic hand appeared again and managed to make a solid hit the vampire hunter. Ignoring rational thoughts, the goat monster charged a fireball and launched it to the floor behind her, making Toriel propel herself in the blast, the armor she had only had some burn marks, but no damage that could be seen as the monster's arc went over Papyrus and went below the human. Taking Julius' hand with her paw, the Queen used the other to launch another fireball into the abyss, only to explode close to them, sending the duo to the ledge, Papyrus's staff looking bone helped them to go on an arc and land, the queen landing on her back and the vampire hunter on top of her.

"It seems I still got the speed and reflexes." Toriel commented with a gentle smile despite what just occurred.

Paris, France.

("There are too many plot holes in this case, of course the Captain would give me something like this before making it official.") Carmelita grumbled to herself and spoke to the Doctor, "Ok, for now I will try to get to Toad Man's location, if anything happens, please call me Doctor, even the smallest hint of something odd might be crucial to this case. As for you Proto, I suggest you to look for the other Robot Masters, whoever is behind this will try to get more allies, or is already doing it. Have a good day." she ended the call and looked at her daughter.

"Looks like we will go to a nasty place Efi, there will probably be bad guys there, so be alert when we get there." the Inspector looked at the dragon with a serious tone, but her eyes showed concern and she hoped that Efina was prepared.
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SUSTIC

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09/01/2016, 02:29 PM #4610
Washington D.C | Temen-ni-gru

Just before Julius could fall too deep, Toriel had done some rather impressive explosive jumps to get her into the abyss with Julius before he fell past the 'point of no return', and then back up. Toriel had also used Papyrus's bone staff which he had missed to help ensure that they get back to the ledge. Once on the ledge Julius who was slightly dazed and out of breath still from the whole ordeal, especially after getting punched in the chest HARD. Was now laying on top of Toriel, almost face-to-face. Normally if there was anyone in the fandom of Undertale or Castlevania, some serious shipping would probably happen at the sight of this. Thankfully that wasn't the case as Julius had come to his senses and quickly hopped off Toriel.

"Ugh... Damn. Sorry about that Toriel. Wasn't expecting such a violent or sudden retaliation. Guess I'm just really rusty when it comes to doing exorcisms like that." He spoke as he stood up, looking at the door which was now no longer blocked by spiritual energy.

Meanwhile...

Sans was standing there with Midna and listened to her observations of the tower, and how it was seemingly transported from a world and has things taken from biblical lore and whatnot. Sans only had one remark...

"well i guess the spell used to bring this place to this world was one of BIBLICAL proportions." Sans joked a bit as he smiled at Midna, following her as they followed up the stairs after Palutena and Pit.





Paris, France.

"Very well, and if you come across any of the missing Robot Masters, be SURE to inform me. I may be able to provide some assistance." Wily spoke as Proto Man then took his helmet and put it back on. He didn't need to be told to look for the other Robot Masters, but a order from Carmelita was almost always an absolute one... even though Proto Man usually ignores her orders. This time though Proto Man and Carmelita will need to actually work together actively to get to the bottom of whatever is going on in this city.

"Don't worry Inspector. You can count on me. I'm used to hunting down other Robot Masters. Be warned if they attack me first I might not have a choice to hold back." He says as he gives a quick salute to Wily before hanging up on the Inspector. It didn't even take a minute for him to begin leaving.

Wily simply looked on at Proto Man and sighed "Why is he so darn impatient...?" Wily spoke as he began to go to work on trying to help track down some Robot Masters