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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jan 9, 2011 8:21:09 GMT -5
As Oldschool, Vendetta, Shockwave, and Ferine are discussing with Vigil and trying to decide on a group leader / spokesperson and how to approach Hammerhead's Roaring Twenties club, there is a twinkle of glowing plasma light in the room, followed by a brilliant strobe flash.
And suddenly, Solo and Elixir appear, carrying briefcases, followed by a groggy Flashdance, who looks as if he just bolted awake and into action.
Flashdance is holding a sleeping kid, Rin from the homeless shelter, under his arm as he clenches his baseball bat. Flashdance holds a zombie-like creature by the throat in his other hand, and it fades transparently into nothingness like a ghost as Flashdance fully awakens, remembering fighting the zombies in a nightmare, seeing Spellbound's ghost there, and picking up and grabbing the sleeping Rin before the zombies ate him. It doesn't make much sense, but he brought Rin and the zombie out of his dream but only the sleeping Rin remained.
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ooc: All active characters present. Rin can be awoken, but I'll be running him as an NPC until his player's disobedient computer gets out of the repair shop.
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Post by Vendetta on Jan 9, 2011 9:03:00 GMT -5
Vendetta turns to face the others then in a calm voice he says "Ok ... I can take a hint. Its obvious to me that some of you don't like me, and thats fine with me. To be honest I don't give a damn if you like me. But except for Oldschool, not one of you know me, so don't even pretend that you can judge me. I dont have superpowers, or big organisations backing me up, or powerful combat armors protecting me. I have my skills and my weapons - thats it - thats all I have going for me. That and the fact that people fear me. If you are outnumbered like we often are, fear is a good thing to have working for you. One of my instructors told me this when I was in training with the Marines 'Make them fear your ferocity, cunning, and unpredictability. In battle, there is nothing as frightening as knowing you face an enemy that has no fear and nothing to lose. If your opponent fears you, he makes mistakes. Mistakes you can capitalize on.' I work by those rules because I don't have any other choice. If thats a problem tell me now, and I'll be gone. But before you deside you might want to remember that if it wasn't for Solo and myself, you" he nods to Shockwave "and probably most of this team would be six feet under right now."
All through this he doesn't raise his voice once. Instead he keeps it calm and collected just as if he was merely stating facts. With that he takes a few steps back and sits down on the corner of a table.
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Post by Flashdance on Jan 9, 2011 14:04:14 GMT -5
Dazed, confused, and clutching his bat, Flashdance slowly lowers his bat, and looks around.
"hi."
Feeling like he just woke up from a horrible nightmare, he slowly realizes it probably wasn't the entire pizza and 12 pack of PBR he had for supper that put him in that weird George Romero scene.
He slowly raises his hand, and pats the back of his head. To his horror his worst nightmare has come true.
A one foot tall case of bed-head, and not a single can of "white rain" to be seen.
"So, um, does anyone know what the @#$@ is going on?"
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jan 10, 2011 8:47:23 GMT -5
Vigil is surprised to see Flashdance awake, and equally surprised to see he had brought Rin's sleeping body with him. Vigil checks over Rin and seems satisfied that he's okay.
Vigil says to Flashdance, "You were knocked asleep by a massive, uncontrolled outburst of psionic force that causes minds to enter deep dream states. This blast of psionic force caused thousands of people to fall asleep in the middle of what they were doing. The sleeping boy there, Rin. That is his power. He was probably startled or frightened. It seems you were having a nightmare. We'll have to check the astral telemetry, but you may have entered the demon entity Nightmare's dimension itself. Congratulations on your first extradimensional excursion. How was it?"
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Post by shockwave on Jan 10, 2011 13:10:28 GMT -5
"My issue is that many of those we are facing are misguided kids. Not criminal masterminds and mass murderers. They are kids who fall in with the wrong groups and get used. I don't want to see them shot for that. So yeah, I have a problem with your methods."
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Post by Vendetta on Jan 10, 2011 16:01:05 GMT -5
Vendetta shakes his head slightly. "how long have you worked with me ... 2 days? in that time how many misguided kids have you seen me shoot at? True I did shoot that bonegrinder in the hand - not something he would die from. Ususally though I give people the option of surrendering, and even if they don't, I try to have a minimum of casualties. why do you think I carry the nightsticks. most of the time thats all it takes. But when people send assassins after me, then I take them down by any means nessessary. True I shot Deadpool, but then I have heard about him, and not much we could have done would have stopped him, short of cutting his damn head off. But I promise you I won't be shooting left at anything that moves. Like I said you dont know me - and you are jumping to conclusions about me, based on the obestervations you have seen in the last 24 hours, and whatever information you have been able to get on me from the news. Which is understandable I guess, what else can you do, but we all know the news are biased, and 48 hours ... sure it will give you an insight into how I react in certain situations, but its nowhere near enough time to say anything about what makes me tick... unless ofcourse you have a degree in psycology, in which case I guess you could have a general idea about that."
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Post by Ferine on Jan 10, 2011 16:11:57 GMT -5
Ferine shakes her head and finds a chair to sit in while the others try and figure out who the leader should be of the group, as she walks of she mutter something about to much testosterone in the room.
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Post by Flashdance on Jan 10, 2011 22:44:33 GMT -5
Trying to regain his composure, Flashdance looks at the kid, then to Vigil. Soooo, the Captain of the Chess team here did that?
*Flashdance visibly shudders momentarily as he remembers the scene*
"Well, I suppose it could have been worse. They could have been clowns. Er, not that I'm scared of clowns. Or anything."
I suppose the trip was fine except for the zombies trying to kill us. Although I REALLY need a shirt that says "My parents went to the nightmare zone and all they bought me was this stupid kid"
Feeling a little woozy, Flashdance sets down the kid, and sits down next to the the Girl. He says in the hushed tone of voice you use a theater when the big scene is coming up:
"Hi, I'm Flashdance, and that's some kid I pulled out of another dimension. I know it sounds impressive, but not really for a big time superhero like me." (patting his oversized belt buckle that has his name spelled out in Rinestones)"
"So what's those two arguing about? Did the guy in the mask drink the other guy's last beer?"
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jan 11, 2011 2:14:02 GMT -5
Vigil sighs at Flashdance's joking around, supressing the urge to laugh and maintaining his serious tone. "That 'kid' is technically older than everyone is this room except me. His name is Rin, and his powers are related to dreamtravelling. The Nazis tried to use him to power a reality manipulation weapon in World War 2. A weapon that tears holes in the barriers between dimensions. A weapon similar to the Hypnoporter device HYDRA seems to be using to stir up this gang war. Rin has been under the care of the Paladin Institute for a long time. It's not often he manifests himself on the physical plane."
With that, Vigil pats down Rin's sleeping body and retrieves a pistol from his coat pocket, a blank access card and a USB keychain flash drive.
Vigil tosses the pistol on the table, seemingly disgusted by even touching it, but looks at the USB flash drive with curiousity.
Vigil shakes Rin gently. "Rin? Rin, are you awake?"
Rin bolts awake, seemingly shocked by his surroundings. He scampers over to a corner of the room, distancing himself from everyone.
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Post by Elixir on Jan 11, 2011 10:06:57 GMT -5
*sigh*
"Can you just start talking Vigil so that everyone can get caught up to speed? What's this about the Roaring 20's Club? Last I knew we were going after the Hypnoporter and that meant tracking the RFID signal from the stolen chemicals."
"Oh and glad to have you back awake FD."
Maybe I can get them to split up then I can go to the club separately...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2011 15:17:25 GMT -5
Solo addresses the issue of Vendetta,"I am on Vendetta's side, if it weren't to him and me there wouldn't be a team. I have already defended myself, and also have proven I will compromise If I see it is necessary. But we are right now in a war that is bigger than all of our ideals, morals, fears and pride. We have to work together to stop hydra using the hypnoporter and the other criminal organizations involved. Also we need to atleast to attempt to slow down the production and distribution of this "kick" drug."
, Solo looks at all with a stern look, "I believe Oldschool has the most experience of all of us in this Business, so my vote goes to him"
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Post by Elixir on Jan 11, 2011 16:51:53 GMT -5
"I second everything Solo just said."
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Post by Flashdance on Jan 11, 2011 18:14:35 GMT -5
Trying to take it all in and not look to lost, Flashdance says
"ah heck, I'm no leader, so I'll go with old school. That boy can give a butt whoop'n so that's good for me."
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jan 11, 2011 21:57:57 GMT -5
ooc: If y'all would like, we can try a poll post on who to vote in as team leader on.
In angry game content writer news, a very lengthy monologue post from the character Vigil I wrote this morning is digital dust... it failed to post. Grrr.
Oh well, I'll make a betta one. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by Flashdance on Jan 12, 2011 1:42:17 GMT -5
occ: if facebook has taught me anything, it's to write my longer posts in notepad or word, then paste them into the browser window ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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