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"...I will endeavor to refrain. That is the best I can offer..."
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Post by The Omen on Dec 12, 2011 11:47:19 GMT -5
ce que l'enfer?!?
Save for a twitch of the hand as it begins to intinctively draw the Dagger of Souls, I maintain my composure and content myself with pinning him to his seat with the daggers of my eyes.
You are full of…surprises. Bartholomew Jacobs ? The…"Grandson of Satan", you say? Yes…very full of surprises. I’m afraid you will not be making the funeral, elder…
I lean in close and whisper.
…you will help me bring your niece from the brink of death. But it must be soon…I’ve underestimated the players in this game and the window of opportunity will close soon. And make no mistake, Kàko…this is not a matter of choice !
OOC- Despite appearances to the contrary, he's not going to use mind control...
Popularity FEAT for intimidation (plus however much karma it will take)
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 13, 2011 0:17:36 GMT -5
OOC- ...+15 karma to Dead Sidekick for stumping the player lol ooc: you didn't think I'd let a time-travelling alternate dimensional refugee and mutant spawn of Satan have an easy life, did you? ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Don't worry. You haven't done the things coming to haunt you yet ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 13, 2011 0:30:45 GMT -5
The Romani is startled and jumps back as much as he can in the seat next to Markus.
"My niece... is dead. Though her spirit lingers and sometimes whispers to me, when her funeral pyre is lit and her possessions burned, she will be gone forever. Her warnings of the Great Darkness coming are all that remain."
His demeanor and voice changes as his eyes roll back in his head. He speaks with a female's voice, though hollow and distant.
"Mephisto has betrayed you, Marduk..." The woman's voice trails off.
The Romani crumples in his seat, then straightens up, as if he were bolting awake from a bad dream.
"Oh my. I hope I didn't disturb you. I really hate to fall asleep in a chair."
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 13, 2011 0:39:09 GMT -5
ooc: Solo's intuition FEAT...
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Solo patrols through the accessible floors of the Angel Towers building, and hears a voice coming from a ventilation duct leading down to a lower sub-basement.
"Hey! Hey! Let me out of here you @#$@ing robots!"
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Post by shockwave on Dec 13, 2011 2:09:10 GMT -5
Intuition:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2011 8:35:53 GMT -5
Solo pulls out hi taurus, pointing at the source of the voice and says,"Okay Who the hell are you? What robots are you talking about?"
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The Omen
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Post by The Omen on Dec 13, 2011 13:58:42 GMT -5
ooc: you didn't think I'd let a time-travelling alternate dimensional refugee and mutant spawn of Satan have an easy life, did you? ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Don't worry. You haven't done the things coming to haunt you yet ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) OOC- lol I get the feeling that by the end of this campaign I'll be qualified to teach a masters course in theology, original sin, and predestination...
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 14, 2011 0:47:53 GMT -5
Solo pulls out hi taurus, pointing at the source of the voice and says,"Okay Who the hell are you? What robots are you talking about?" The voice echoes back through the ventilation duct, "You know damned well what robots, you frigging toasters! Take these power nullifiers off of me and I'll turn you into a freakin' remote control punching bag. Bring me some food you lightbulb! Three meals a day, not three meals a week!" It is the voice of Symkarian intelligence agent "Glitch." And he's not happy.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 14, 2011 1:28:29 GMT -5
ooc: Shockwave intuition FEAT result...
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As Shockwave watches Vendetta play back the security videos of Windchill "shattering" Paladin Institute personnel, his forensic sound analysis software kicks in and reports:
[Soundsource: damaged Life Model Decoy, series II]
Shockwave recalls that that particular series of LMDs are "obsolete" by current S.H.I.E.L.D. specifications, but still relatively undetectable by standard scans until they take massive internal damage. They just don't near-foolproof replicate internal organs and tissue like the newer Deltite series does.
Still, it's apparent that either S.H.I.E.L.D. is posing as the Paladin Institute via LMDs, or the Paladin Institute is employing older-model LMD tech as proxies for their own agents. Or something more sinister... the LMDs may be infiltrators programmed by the smarter, more adaptable rogue Deltite series LMDs that were hijacked by the Kobra faction of HYDRA's subversion efforts that led to the "Janus Directive" restructuring of national security and intelligence agencies.
Shockwave can scan a series II LMD and be reasonably sure to detect what it is. The Deltites, not so much. No one knows how many Deltites are unaccounted for. Considering the "Secret Empire" subterfuge that went on back in 2006, the implications are bone-chilling.
Unfortunately, this series of LMD is built with preventative measures and safeguards to destroy itself into dust if capture or death is imminent.
But their particular crumpling into dust is nothing like that experienced with the teleportational / holographic disappearances of the creatures in the monster attacks deployed by the Hypnoporter.
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Post by The Omen on Dec 14, 2011 3:28:37 GMT -5
...
...Not at all. Please…rest. You must be exhausted…and -- if I recognize the significance of your attire correctly -- allow me to offer my condolences for your loss.
There is an unseen power working against me here. Not Mephisto…his “betrayal†is far from unexpected. Honestly, I would have been somewhat offended if he hadn’t tried to get the better of me in our current…â€arrangementâ€. No…Mephisto only seeks to exploit this hand pretending to be Fate’s scheme for his own purposes.
A plan begins to form…something I haven’t seen before. A new window of opportunity. A dawning awareness of how the guise of “Sam Evans†could benefit me…
Yes.
I shall play the pawn for a while longer, I think. The tighter “Fate’s†trap closes around me...the closer it comes to revealing itself...the better the opportunity to carve it's heart from it's chest...
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Post by shockwave on Dec 14, 2011 11:08:56 GMT -5
"Oh no", Shockwave says while watching the video. "This just gets worse and worse. We need to look into this paladin institue more than we have. I don't think they are who we thought they were. We are in way over our heads in this."
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 19, 2011 10:18:42 GMT -5
ooc: on the plane... is Renegade still around?
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The Romani man says "I talk in my sleep. I apologize. It's a bad time of year to be dreaming. My niece had special gifts, spellbinding powers. She looked at the world in ways I could not fathom, blending our traditions with science and physics. It is a shame she was cut down so young, so full of life and vision."
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Post by The Omen on Dec 20, 2011 0:33:47 GMT -5
Ah...playing with science and sorcery. No wonder she's dead.
She sounds like a fascinating woman. Perhaps she has something as of yet undone in this world to complete before she can move on to the next?
For a moment, I consider lying...but no. That is beneath me, and bound to be more trouble than its worth.
My family is well-versed in the spiritual arts...some say we are almost...possessed of a direct pathway to the after realms. I may be able to assist you in discovering what it is your niece wants outside of your dreams...as it so happens, I've been inquiring into the study of dreams and their effects on the waking mind myself recently. In fact, she may be linked to a recent message I received while exploring those realms. If I may be so bold, is...pardon me...was your niece un aventurier costumé?
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Post by shockwave on Dec 21, 2011 16:06:08 GMT -5
"Not that we should be talking about it here, but we likely need to start looking into a new headquarters. This place is likely being monitored, and the ones monitoring it have more technology than we do, so we likely aren't going to find anything they don't want us to. Start coming up with ideas, but don't talk about them within this building. The only reason this place likely hasn't been stormed by cops coming after us after that club collapse is that someone bigger than the police told them not to. The paladin institute was small time compared to this. Heck, it's likely just a shell organization."
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