[IC] - All the World's a Game

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Koishi

Koishi

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04/25/2013, 10:08 PM #21
Near Mima's Antique Store, Fighting the Mental Institution


Mima had enough of this, and wanted to finish it. Se charged her Master Spark, aiming right for the side of the pyramid, blowing a hole from it, and starting a smoke column that began to rise. She bolted in, taking a few hits and crashing to the ground inside the pyramid, but she recovered, and got up.

The pyramid was fascinating on the inside, as it seemed to be far larger on the inside than the outside, considering the large amount of planes, jets, missiles, and oversized insects they were throwing at her. The architecture inside was unique, a blend between far flung futuristic sci-fi stories, and oddly Egyptian flavoring. Columns lined the hallways, as glowing blue lines were on the floors, along with a dull gray filling everything else. The continued style of the reds also came in, with red, glowing writing lining the walls in what Mima assumed was Egyptian. She got up, dusting her clothes of dust and debris, her floating almost causing her to hit the ceiling, so she shrunk her tail a bit.

She floated thorugh the hallways, her staff at the ready in case she needed to quickly use it. The door opened automatically as she got near it, revealing a large, square room, a large weapon floating in the center of it, surrounded by large packs of ammunition. She went towards the weapons touching it, and it seemingly disappeared, reappearing in her hands. The weapon itself felt almost weightless, considering it's size, and it's many rotating steel barrels on the front of it. She then went to touch the ammo, and the same thing happened as the weapon, and it seemed to fill the weapon itself. She looked on the side of it, seeing the word "Minigun" in bold lettering near the front of the gun, before the barrel. on the top of it, a blue holographic sight was placed, flickering occasionally.

Suddenly, the doors the way she was slammed shut, leaving her stuck inside. Mima hefted the minigun as the sounds of footsteps grew louder and louder.
Last edited by Koishi; 04/25/2013, 10:25 PM.



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.
Kilelicus

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04/25/2013, 10:13 PM #22
Times Square Rooftops - Manhattan - United States

Three muffled shots rang out and echoed through the labyrinth that was the twisting and turning streets of New York City. Gunshots were not as uncommon in the city as they had been in recent years. With all the new criminal organizations sprouting up and trying to get their hands on these outrageously overpowered video game characters, firefights or shootings were increasingly common. Firefights more so, however, as there were many action-game characters that refused to join these organizations. This was less than appreciated...

A lone EXCALIBUR-clad Tenno (who had recently begun identifying himself as "Excalibur") stalked atop the towering structures that surrounded Time's Square, watching the commotion below. His visor told him the tale very clearly. The built-in zoom function showed a character that appeared to have at least minimal combat training attempting to evade one such criminal organization. The words of the Lotus from his first days of training echoed in his head.

You were bred for combat. You were created as a guardian. You were trained to protect those who cannot protect themselves. You are their sword. You are their shield. Seek out oppression. Liberate the oppressed. Balance above all.

These words reminded him of his duties. Like most Tenno, he was trained to adhere to a strict code of chivalry. He was not to discriminate between good and evil. He knew this from his encounters with the Infested. They were neither good nor evil. They merely sought survival, though they posed a great threat to the rest of the galaxy. At the moment, the only oppression Excalibur could see was the criminal organization chasing down another Character. They had him outnumbered and outgunned. How despicable... He continued to watch the chase though. He switched the visor to X-ray mode.

The three shots managed to take out a pair of pursuers, but the prey was still in danger. He escaped into a subway terminal, temporarily escaping his assailants, who were quick to disperse. Not long after, however, several unmarked vans sped down a street in the corner of Excalibur's eyes, haphazardly driving through the crowded New York Streets. They were too quick for him to get a good look at, but he deemed it urgent enough to investigate, considering their lack of sirens. He started toward in the direction the vans were headed, following the sounds of the traffic reacting to the reckless driving. Tires screeching and the angry cries of drivers run off the road acted as his compass, leading him closer to the vans as he leaped across the numerous rooftops throughout the city.

Eventually, Excalibur came to a street riddled with old brick-built apartment buildings, arriving shortly after the vans. Whoever inhabited them was loaded for bear. The four vans in total offloaded around two dozen... what looked like soldiers, but they didn't have any sort of patch identification. In addition to lacking patches, they were heavy body armor, almost like riot gear. It reminded Excalibur slightly of RHINO Warframes. Getting closer to the commotion, Excalibur could hear the men below.

"Come on, come on, come on, let's go! This Character is marked, pick up the pace!"

"Get those explosives around the base of the building immediately! I don't care if there are still people inside, go clear them out if you need to!"

The men complaining about the tenants of the building in question promptly rushed in, waving their guns and shouting. Several screams could be heard inside, no doubt the terrified occupants who were quickly rushed out of the building... Before long they decided to check the target's unit while they were inside, only to find it was empty. Strings of obscenities flooded the air as the breachers called out.

"HE'S NOT FUCKIN' HERE!"

"WHAT?!"

"THE TARGET'S UNIT IS EMPTY!"

"FUCK IT, LEVEL THE WHOLE PLACE! HE MUST HAVE SEEN US COMING AND HID! HE CAN'T BE FAR!"

The... troops, if you could call them that, excitedly began offloading tons of high explosives and lining every nearby building, no longer clearing them out. They couldn't be bothered anymore. This Character was a high priority and deemed a threat to humanity... at least in their minds. With explosives strung and planted in abundance, the men cleared the blast radius and Excalibur retreated slightly himself. He was certain his shields would hold against an explosion. They had survived the vacuum of space many times when a stray Grineer or Corpus round punctured an explosive barrel and breached a section of the hull of one of the many space-faring he had been deployed to. But it was better to conserve them just in case.

"FIRE IN THE HOLE! FIRE IN THE--"

"Oh for CHRISSAKES, GIMME THAT!"

One of the men yanked the detonator from his colleague's hands and squeezed the trigger on the side. The street was filled with a brilliant fireball as the buildings that lined it were flattened and replaced with smoldering piles of rubble. The explosion ripped through two parallel streets, and the block was soon little more than disintegrated masonry and craters.

The troops re-encroached upon the flattened area and began to search the rubble for any sign of their target. Excalibur took this opportunity to descend upon them from what was left of one of the larger buildings. The thud of his landing alerted the bombers, who turned their guns on him.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" one cried as another spoke into his radio, requesting backup.

Excalibur stood slowly, pulling his Heat Swords from their magnetic homes on his back, the Orokin suit reacting to his movements and releasing the weapons with little resistance.

"Seek out Oppression. Liberate the oppressed. Balance above all. I am Tenno."

Sometimes I feel like the only normal person here
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MyHatismyFriend

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04/25/2013, 10:33 PM #23
Above Downtown Tokyo
The mild scuffle in the streets served as a sufficient distraction to the events unfolding in the sky as the flaming wreckage of the fighter broke through the cloud cover and hurtled towards the ground. The aircraft only drew screams of terror when it passed through a thousand feet. Thankfully, the crowd had scattered as soon as gunfire had been exchanged, and there was nobody around but the thugs and some other game characters when the wreck hit the ground nose-first, cartwheeled across the road, and slammed into a flower store, before exploding violently. Dad was hurled from the flaming store and landed on his face, on the other side of the road.

Remilia Scarlet

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04/25/2013, 10:42 PM #24
Near Times Square - Manhattan - New York



Snake was now in full view of the smoke rising from the middle of Manhattan. He could hear sirens as he saw a police car driving towards the source of the smoke. With the smoke intensifying, Snake knew that whatever the cause, it wasn't small. Snake broke out into a sprint as he rushed towards the scene. As he neared the scene, the smoke became mixed with a cloud of dust that seemed to carpet the ground area. Snake knew he was close. Turning a corner and coming onto 44th Street, he stared at a line of buildings that he was pretty was there not two hours ago. The entire side of a street seemed to have been flattened out. Fire and debris carpeted the entire street and only the foundations of buildings could be seen on the street.

Rushing forward behind the cover of cars that had been blasted towards the side of the street. As he went down the street, he was able to see through the smoke and setting dust cloud what appeared to be a man, or at least a humanoid, wearing some form of a cybernetic exo-skeleton not dissimilar to those that Raiden had worn while he and Snake had taken down the Sons of Liberty. In front of the figure stood a large number of men in full military gear reminiscent of riot gear with heavy small arms. Snake couldn't make out much through the smoke, but he couldn't seem to find any particular insignias or logos indicating what organization the men belonged to to.



*** "...Balance above all. I am Tenno" Snake could hear the figure say as he approached closer, now kneeling behind the last car in the vicinity.

*** "What the fuck is going on here?" Snake thought to himself as he peered over the dented hood of a Honda Civic.


After what seemed like a moment of confusion, the men in front of who Snake assumed to be Tenno brought up their rifles and took aim.


*** "You're going to want to get the hell out of there!!" Snake shouted at the figure before pulling out his M1911 and firing five precisely aimed shots of .45 ACP FMJ rounds. The bullets spoke true and went through the men's heads and helmets like a hot knife through butter. The remaining men seemed to stand dumbfounded for a moment before all hell broke loose.
S121

S121

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04/25/2013, 10:46 PM #25
(This is John's thoughts.)
"This is John's dialogue."

(This is the last time I'll mention it.)

Downtown - Tokyo - Japan

As John walked toward the yellow humanoid and the woman in plaid, he was jarred by a large explosion.

BOOOOM

The blast knocked him off his feet as the flower shop exploded. (What the hell!?) He looked at his shield gauge (70%, not too serious.)
He then remembered the others in the alleyway and shot up.
He ran toward the last place he saw them, unsure if they survived.
Last edited by S121; 04/25/2013, 10:49 PM.
Originally posted by S121
Every time I see a new post on the Forum, I feel like a little kid during Christmas, all giddy.


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WriggleRid3r

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04/25/2013, 10:50 PM #26
(Still a side story. I'll get into the main story when I get home from work.)

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.


All in all, the mechanic served about ten clients before lunch.
"Well, that's that." The mechanic sighed and slid down to the nearby chair. On the desk next to her stood a photo of the mechanic and her friend. The friend had a giant ribbon on her head and a scrunchy on her wrist; the mechanic was holding a golden trophy. The mechanic remembered that moment. They won a comedy competition and won almost 5,000 dollars for their community. As of now, the mechanic does not know where the friend is, all she knows is that she's probably still waiting for the mechanic to come back to the hometown.

"Well, let's eat lunch." The mechanic resolved and opened her lunchbox.
BLT and cucumber salad. Perfect.


remi edit:
Location in bold pl0x. OOC comments in parenthesis. And [ hr ][/ hr ] after location.

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Kristia

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04/25/2013, 10:54 PM #27
Flower shop, Tokyo downtown, Tokyo
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Renamon and the human characters were somewhat calm as none of them moved, then she opted for making the first move by asking their names atleast, but just before she could opend her mouth, a voice buzzed on her mind ("How do you know they aren´t hostile?, they may look like people of your kind, but they also can be people of this world") the voice said warning her.

The vixen thought for it for a second, the florist did have powers since the rose bush was still overgrown, but the man in green armor just showed physical action, making him a possible suspect. Renamon examined both of them. The woman had a pink blouse with a red vest and skirt, nothing out of the normal, but her aura of madness was something still visible to the fox´s perception, also the flower looking parasol that stopped a bullet from the man in suit´s gun, aslo the fact that she had control over the flora around her.

In the other hand was the man in green armor, his face was hidden because of a helmet that had a golden glass where his eyes would be, the srength of the police/soldier was proof of being way aboce average by seeing how he stopped a speeding car, also the armor looked of a different time, having all those metal scars and marks showed the many battles it had to endure, the man in armor was also really fast despicte of the heaviness he had.

("They could have attacked me already if they were with those thugs, yet there is no escape if a situation occurs") Renamon thought and again the voice talked to her ("Make be ready for anything, they are armed and you don´t"). The fox prepared an escape route just in case of anything, but then an explosion appeared close to them sending the vixen to the wall at her back.

Some pain was felt on both her back and on the back of her head, but nothing serious, the vixen got up fast trying to assimilate the situation, there was an explosion on the close area and many people ran away, the man in armor also was getting up as he checked something on himself. By instinct Renamon ran towards him veryfing he wasn´t a hostile atleast. Reaching the amored guy the fox saw he was ok. "This place is dangerous, we got to get somewehre safety" she told him while looking for the florist hoping she was ok
Last edited by Kristia; 04/25/2013, 10:57 PM.
Have you ever crossed the line between sanity and madness? You would be amazed by what lies beyond the fog..

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Katrix

Katrix

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04/25/2013, 11:00 PM #28
Flower shop, Downtown Tokyo

As Aqua heard the noise coming from the above the flower shop she quickly summoned her Keyblade an ran toward it.
("What now, Why can't i just find a lead and leave this place. I wonder what it is this time tough").
As she continued to run she thought of who she could meet. ("Most likely not unversed at least. Now there is a bit more exiting to see who it is that needs help")

When she arrived she saw a big aircraft in the middle of the street. "Hello, is anyone hurt? I can help". As she looked around she saw what she thought was people from other worlds. ("Maybe they can tell me anything of Ven or Terra?")

Born in the light. Molded in the dark.
Never Forget, Keep Fighting.
–Don't Forget. Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. –As long as you remember her, you are not alone.
Major Mario

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04/25/2013, 11:02 PM #29
Mima's Antiques - Tokyo City - Japan (( @Mima ))


Leon coughed into his hand and wiped his nose on the back of it. In such crowded places like these, he wondered how people protected themselves from infection and bombs. Working with SCAE offered him some insight into the day-to-day activity of Japan, and he knew of a few ways that the government protected itself from disasters. For one, the police force was very effective, if not dangerously so. Some kind of super soldier was in their ranks, and he was one who knew what justice was. Bad news for anyone who wanted to stir up trouble.

The agent noticed the antique shop coming up and stopped to address it. It didn't look to be all that special, given that it was shoved in between a bunch of other buildings. The green awning spoke of some foreign touches while the large glass windows offered a view of what was within. At night, chains would drop down to protect the shop. The place probably didn't have any security measures, which was a shame because Leon enjoyed places that looked pristine and not overrun by zombies.

Shrugging, he opened the door to the shop and saw himself in. He looked around at the displays, examining plates and other antiques before picking up a small wooden clock. If it was golden, he'd have a bit of a flashback to a time where he picked up a golden lynx from a chest surrounded by spikes. Shrugging, he placed it back before looking for the counter.

"Hello? Anyone here?" he asked.

S121

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04/25/2013, 11:03 PM #30
Downtown - Tokyo - Japan

As John ran towards the smoke, the vixen emerged from the smoke. Despite her injuries, she was ok.

"This place is dangerous, we got to get somewehre safety", the vixen said.

"Where's the florist?"

Originally posted by S121
Every time I see a new post on the Forum, I feel like a little kid during Christmas, all giddy.


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