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Quote:*beep!*Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
The tunnel carries onward for quite some distance, well over a mile, after some distance the floor is dry, but not dusty, obviously the tunnel has been used recently.
Eventually, the tunnel ended with an open door, beyond the door there is a decent sized room, the room is dotted with bunk beds, and each has two footlockers at the base of the beds. Another door is opposite the tunnel, it is currently closed.
After... goodness only knows how long... where's Florian, already? I've finally reached -something- at the end of this blasted tunnel. Looks like whatever it is, it's open.
Huh. Looks like army barracks in here. If barracks were normally built underground. Frankly, it's generally file-able under "How the hell did this even get here without noticing?", which I'm sure holds a snappy acronym in there. Somewhere. I'd best take a few snaps about the place to give a better idea of what I mean.
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There we go... now I'm going to take the liberty of peeking inside some of these footlockers. Hopefully, it should shed some light on what's going on here.
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It wasn't before the last table she had to hop to collapsed upon her landing and forced her to roll to ground level when she finally got close enough to the iphone Recluse to scan him.
"Alright, buddy." she announced to the apparently clueless fan ahead of her as she approached him, checking him out from a distance in the hopes of finding anything bomb-like on him. "Hold it right there while I make sure you aren't about to pop!"
However, after a few seconds of scanning, long enough to actually pick anything worth picking up... she overhead the spoiler's decision to level the place early.
"Uh-oh."
Erica! Molly called the robot butler she left back at her own table. How's your repairs going?
I think I sh... what are yo......lanning, Miss?
I think this dork's gonna try and drop the place early! Can you get on your feet and get to the stage quickly?
Yes, Miss. However, there is the risk that he may notice my approach and...
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Quote:*beep!*Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
The trick area of wall toppled over, the water now free to run its course, drained through the hole in the wall with a wet, gurgle-y rush, after maybe a minute, possibly two, the room had drained, the floor merely splashy and wet, rather than a literal pool of water.
Beyond the broken wall is a long downwards slopping tunnel, a light is spaced every few meters, it slowly curves to the left.
Just as I'd hoped. The bricks fell away and the little swimming pool's drained out. Now I can have a good look about here...
Oh my.
I've found what appears to be a tunnel here. An artificial one at a guess. I can't tell where it leads, though. I'll investigate further, though at this point I'm getting a real bad feeling about this and I'm honestly not looking forward to heading down there alone.
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Okay, I've given this all of one minute of second thoughts. Requesting some backup from Flo- I mean, Sky Stormer ASAP. I'll leave a beacon in the basement so he can find this tunnel quickly and keep another one active on me so he can catch up.
Right... let's hope my fears end up completely unfounded. Wish me luck.
And hurry up, Stormer.
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((Bah, figured that would have been kicked off in a separate thread. :\ ))
Quote:*beep!*Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
When zoomed in its clear to see that a section of the wall doesnt have any mortar between some of the bricks, it appears that a sector of the wall could be pushed away, its from these seems that the water is escaping from the basement.
There we go. Looks like a chunk of the wall's made up of loose bricks here. I'm going to try pushing them out. With any luck, the water'll drain out faster and I can set foot down there and take a closer look.
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((At this point, Masha used her augmented vocal chords to 'scream' the bricks out. >.>)) -
Quote:*beep!*Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
For most people it would take a few minutes or so, before a growing sense of hang on a minute somethings wrong would strike. Those with sharper senses would perhaps pick up on it quicker, but the water smells wrong, there is some sort of taint to it that can be picked up over the smell of sodden carpet and cloth.
Exploring up stairs would show much the same story as the first floor, however in one room, there is half a computer and desk, toppled against the floor it has a melted look about it, but no evidence of where the melted half has gone remains.
The basement is half flooded, three foot of water is pooled there, its slowly increasing as the rest of the building drains into it, but not at a dangerous rate, a slight current stirs the water, and from one of the basement walls a few bubbles rise. Shinning a light at the right angle will show a rainbow oil slick sheen on the water.
So far, so redundant. Further inspection of the building revealed little else. The upper floor's the same story as the ground floor - soggy carpet and ruined sneakers - with the exception of one thing. There's half a table and half a computer here, and it looks like it's been melted or something. I don't think that alone's the cause of all the water here, if it's even a part of it at all.
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Okay, one last place to look. The basement... HOLY!
The... the basement, I can safely say, is pretty much a write off. It's pretty much gone beyond paddling pool here and it's still rising. I'll try and gather what I can from here, but frankly, there's no way I'm wading in there. Wait a sec... found something... probably nothing, but I could have sworn I saw something bubbling at the back... where's the blasted zoom on these goggles?
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Quote:Masha Romaneko, aka the Agent of Stiletto Mashup, spent the first few minutes outside the Oceana Embassy taking in the decrepit sight before her while she fiddled with a small headset in her right ear.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
The Embassy of Oceana, Independence Port
Abandoned, that would be the word to describe the place. Abandoned, and sodden. The plush royal red carpets, squish beneath the feet of all but the lightest of investigators, without the lights on the place resembled a dank dark cave, with the lights on the water damage was more evident, the carpet sodden through and the lighting flickering on and off, evidence of the electrics being damaged.
The place has seemingly been stripped; every room empty of furniture, with nothing inside, the building is very echo-y, the constant drip drip of water from the upper floors as it leaks through the building is almost musical.
The basement is half flooded, three foot of water is pooled there, its slowly increasing as the rest of the building drains into it, but not at a dangerous rate, a slight current stirs the water, and from one of the basement walls a few bubbles rise.
Job Report ROMA18032010-01. For once I got that funky numbering system right. Anyway, I've reached the Embassy, and frankly... it looks a real dodo here. No signs of life on the outside, and from the looks of it? There's probably none on the inside either. The damned place is already giving me the creeps just looking at it. Regardless, I'm going in. Oh, would you... it could take a while to get in.
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Ugh, it's so dark in here I can't tell if the carpet here is soggy or I've just stood in... something. Hang on... there we go. Well, I can proudly confirm that it's just soggy carpet, though I'm owed a fresh pair of sneakers this week.
Woah, this is bad... the floor's a mess, the lights are busted... something seems to be leaking like hell upstairs, at a guess. I'll need to look around some more, will report anything further out of the ordinary when I find it.
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Quote:Agreed. On that note, do logos really count as fiction?Originally Posted by Ravenswing
...we're going to need some new categories for 'alignment.'
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Quote:Molly, doing her utmost best to maintain balance on the table she had been standing on, spotted the Recluse-a-like with the iPhone ahead. Unfortunately for her, she was too far to check him for anything more foreign than his outfit, and getting closer required at least one of two methods: vaulting over the panicked crowd below her, from table to table or using their heads as stepping stones.Originally Posted by Dante
Amongst the crowd, three figures could be spotted, all wearing various versions of Lord Recluse's signature spider legs, one made out of cardboard tubes that were hanging limply from being crushed, the other two more professional in design.
The first was trying to get out of the main exit but the wall of civillians attempting to flee prevented him. Another was dashing around the auditorium, trying to find someone to help him. The third was near the stage, taping The Spoiler's antics on his iPhone.
She started with former.
Alright, Molly announced over to the only two that seemed to have made contact, tearing one side of the lower part of her dress open as she did, I've found one not-so-itsy-bitsy spider, gonna go check him out!
After another momentary balancing act as the crowd knocked her table about a little more, the inventor then made her running jump across the crowd and almost tumbled upon landing. One down, an unknown number of tables to hop. -
Quote:Awesome, Molly chimed across the airwaves, her sight still set on The Spoiler as she established contact with -someone- at the very least, Getting through to someone at last!Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
There were two acknoledgement of Molly's signal, one from Wolf, up in the rafters, the other from Jen outside the doors.
The happy moment was short lived, however, when the villain ahead made his announcement and subsequent clue, causing the young inventor's face to sink within a split second.
Uh-oh. Did either of you two catch that clue? 'What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, three in the evening and eight when it's been imbibing old gods!?' That last part could mean Lord Recluse, so I'll keep an eye out for someone dressed like him, but I could use a few alternative answers.
In the meantime I seriously hope one of you has a better connection to the outside world than I do right now. I need to get word out to the Stiletto division about the situation, if they're not already aware, and to tell them to send Agent Ledford over here. With a few drones. She'll understand that alone!
It was then that Molly found herself knocked to the ground like a bowling pin by the panicked crowd. Fortunately, Erica broke her fall, but that wasn't enough to give the back of her head further throbbing pains when she picked herself back up, mildly irritated by the incident. The panic could easily have been brought to an end with a few warning shots into the sky, but she lost that option with both the threat of getting blown up at the slightest wrong move, not that she could have seen The Spoiler take himself with everyone else (but one can't take any chances in such situations), and the removal of her display rifle from her table.
"This is totally NOT my year!" she quietly snarled, before hopping onto the safest table near her to get a better view of the hall, aided by her nanomachine augmentations to seek out her probable target. "Right, goon dressed like Recluse, goooooon dressed like Recluse. Here's hoping he's actually here." -
Molly had continued to observe The Spoiler's stage antics, arms crossed as she waited for her augmentations to correct themselves. Only once her optical augmentations were working 100% with the bare minimum of fritzing out on her did she attempt anything further out of the ordinary and even then, it was a simple attempt to figure out who out of the real heroes here she could establish communications with without the dork on stage noticing.
"Come on, come on..." Molly muttered quietly, so as not to alert any of the cosplaying goons around her table. -
Richie slowly heaved himself back to his feet as Rushmore rambled on, his head positively throbbing after being knocked down by the pulse before he had chance to raise his own defenses.
"First chance I get, yeah?" the redhead muttered near-silently as he glared at The Spoiler from behind the table. "I'm shovin' that staff up your backside sideways."
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Unlike Richie, Molly had managed to stay on her feet, in spite of the fact that the pulse was still wreaking temporary havoc on her augmentations and repeatedly jabbing her with sharp, almost unbearable pains in the back of her neck where her nanomachine controller resided.
When the pains finally subsided, the first thing she checked was the welfare of her butler, Erica, who laid face-down and motionless on the floor beside the young genius.
Erica, Molly silently contacted Erica in an attempt to ensure she was okay. Erica, wake up.
The sudden burst of static noise in Molly's head signalled at least some form of activity on the butler's head, which was for the most part, reassuring.
...am fine, mi... ...ill play dea... ...dergo mome... ...epairs...
Take all the time you need. Molly answered as she observed The Spoiler with mild disgust, taking a few clear photos of the 'villain' as soon as her optical augmentations decided to run properly again. We could be stuck here for a while. -
Hrm.
Can't get into Union Handbook. Firefox says Problem loading page.
Checked Virtueverse, same thing.
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Quote:"This city's gonna be the flamin' death of me..." Richie muttered as he took one last look at the figures on the table. You couldn't really blame him for being irritated by the Travolta pose, since that wasn't the image he was going for.Originally Posted by Zortel
Plus, you have to admit Richie, that the Travolta dance move look -does- suit you.
Nevertheless, Richie shrugged and turned to the crowd ahead with his usual moronic grin.
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((LAAAAAAATE! D: ))
Richie Stacker, the Crazy Dragon, looked like he had seen better days as he shuffled through the crowd to the Unity Vigil table in his now-standard white trouser suit, doing his utmost best to avoid spilling the contents of the small can in his hands and bearing once again yet another black eye, only weeks after copping a golf club in the other eye.
"'scuse me! Comin' through! 'scuse me! Sorry! Aye, I know I'm an idiot, but shift please! Let the idiot past!" he repeated in no particular order before finally squeezing through the final row at screaming girls and oversized fanboys to reach the table.
"Soz I'm late, like." Richie apologised as his free hand slammed onto the table to prevent him from tumbling into the few figures that were supposed to represent himself. "Something came up on the way."
The Durham lad then took a moment to take a quick swig from his can, before noticing something a little bothersome - to himself at least - about his figures. Needless to say he didn't look the least bit chuffed.
"Uh... alright, who's smart idea was it to pose me in the Night Fever stance?"
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Just a short distance from Sean O'brain's table was that of Molly Longstaff, who sat cheerfully in a formal pink dress that to some clashed with the silvery greys of the small pylons around her. She had already signed enough of the publicity photos she ordered to kill any other normal person's arm, but had the benefit of the nanomachines in her body giving her own writing arm a microscopic massage whenever they passed through that part of herself.
With each photo she signed, she also included a DVD in a professionally-designed gatefold sleeve that read "Longsword OS: Public Edition".
"Erica," Molly uttered to the towering robot butler behind her with a smile. "We might wanna order some more photos in right about now. I totally underestimated this crowd, didn't I?"
"One step ahead of you, Miss Molly." Erica responded, only barely giving a light nod to go with it.
"Ooh get you." Molly said with a giggle before returning to the photos. "Okay guys, once this stack's gone, I can get to showing you all my toys, because you all wanted to check those out, didn't you all? But don't worry, I'm getting some more in as I speak, so stop panicking, okay? That means you as well. Yes, you in the Statesman T-Shirt." -
Quote:That'll be fine. I couldn't do ingame. Nothing jars more than seeing a character asked something ingame that I can't bang out a decent answer to in less than a minute.Originally Posted by Bunny
...or send out sample questions for the sort of things that would be asked for the player to answer/fiddle with/add to/take away from.
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Deffo some good work.
If I can contribute anything for future issues, I will, but in the meantime, Molly's always open to interviews. Within reason. :P -
The frowning killer honors the unseen.
The prototype dishes a painful debugger with a freak.
The amusing questionnaire fishes.
Can an abysmal verse shine?
A music succeeds beside this space!
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Quote:Now you're just excessively exaggerating beyond exaggeration.Originally Posted by Mornediel
Maybe one day they'll just make every person a lv 50 after creation, and then everyone can sit around the forums and talk about how much easier that is. Hope you all enjoy that.
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Quote:^This, if only because the weapon and the anims look okay when the Carnies use it (At least I think the Carnies use BS anims... I forget. :\ ).Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Pipe dream: Rapier animations and models in Broadsword set.
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Quote:Tracker modules?Originally Posted by Tonality
Given that the current MA file size-cap is 100k, I hope you enjoy MIDI, because even with MP3 or OGG formatting, you're still looking at a decent size, unless you drop the bit-rate, which has a very noticeable effect on sound quality.
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I kid, I kid.
The idea of selecting from a list of dev-made music sounds good, mind, but I can't see that happening anytime soon. Not until the extremely unlikely event of any major changes to map-specific ambient music. -
Quote:If they won't, then there's a first time for everything, isn't there?Originally Posted by Rent_
Only problem is, i'm guessing you don't know how to self build and i don't know if system builders will use S775 stuff any more. I'll have a look.
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Quote:Not at all.Originally Posted by Wolfram
Sorry if I've contributed to the confusion here. I was trying to work with what I thought my character was supposed to know IC, which didn't seem to be a lot. Hence my character asking a lot of questions about exactly what happened. My character has heard Pious accused of two things: beating up a surrendering (or possibly not) soldier of Arachnos and interrupting Lord Defender's duel with Headbreaker.
Am I way off topic?
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((OOC thread posted. If I'd known this was going to happen, I'd have posted it sooner. >.>))
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I'm starting this thread as a result of the increasing OOC discussion in the OpenRP thread. Honestly, if I'd known that what has happened so far was going to happen, I'd have started it sooner.
The purpose of Public Opinion was to generally provide a possible branch of plottage in the form of general public opinion of Paragon's heroes after the antics of The Priest in Siren's call, his duel against Khan and his (frankly baffling - both IC and OOC - from my PoV) death.
So, just to clear up a prime point, though other may have more to add:
Quote:This is true. However, Molly did act against Pious when he lashed out at the rest of the crowd in Warburg by opening fire on him herself. This is where the allegations on the part of Cactus_Brawler and Psianide's characters are stemming from. Personally, I did expect some minor finger-pointing at Molly that would be shot down fairly quickly, but I hadn't counted on the level seen in the OpenRP thread.Originally Posted by Warscythe
The duel in warburg was an IC reaction to the beating of HB in sirens and was pre set up between myself and Pious. He asked me personally if it was ok if Kahn was to kill off the priest as well as the other longbow agent to drag him out - I am struggling to see how the blame is now this Molly person seeing as the actual players involved had set this up in advance and it has been recorded in another thread with newspaper articles stating this.
The memo is 'real'. Molly's actions were made public via the news video, and she issued a statement condemning Pious' antics on the matter shortly after, which has probably served to pour more petrol into their characters' fires.
In addition there's this:
Quote:Originally Posted by Omega_Chief
The issue is that directly after the fight with Kahn, Pious was perfectly healthy, healthy enough to start another fight, with people in the crowd who had just said somthing he didn't agree with, causing Molly among others to shoot him, his apparent fine state of health after teh Kahn fight, yet dying after the big brawl which indluded Molly makes it seem in universe that teh fatal damag was done by someone other then khan! -
What browser are you using? I'm using Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu and I'm not running into that problem. However, I ask FF to save all my open tabs so that they all reload when I fire up the browser again, so that might be of help. Can't guarantee owt though.