There was a brief darkness for a while… the lights were turned off on him as he hung there… How shitty could these “Human Resistance people” be anyways?”

It took some con work by none other than Blair Williams to convince Lieutenant Barnes to go to see John Connor, not only did it work, how could the man seemingly ignore orders?

He was hanging there as Blair busted open the doors and shot him for good measure to gain a good impression. Marcus found himself suddenly let go down the silo as Blair climbed down the latter with him and both of them found themselves running for their lives again.

Then… darkness

Marcus Wright woke up more a confused, angry mess. The first words he said when he woke up in a all white area that made his eyes hurt more than anything as he tried to shade his eyes.

“Blair!”

He vowed to get Blair out of this mess for what she had done to save his ass. But how was that supposed to happen now?

Not to mention Kyle Reese and Star…

There was now this white face staring up at him just smiling.. Which was kind of creepy.

He found himself unable to speak as Omni started his spiel about the Omniverse.

A ball of omnium was handed to Marcus from Omni and the weird figure described that it was used to make anything he wanted come to life.

But.. what?

Marcus had so many questions on his mind that weren't getting answered and that was frustrating him. He eyed his surroundings once again after listening to Omni even more.

He hardly got the chance to think of what time it was.

Once the speech was done, Marcus took the long walk toward what looked like a fountain of some sort.

But after the two hour walk, the half cyborg half man was frustrated and left with none of his questions answered. But granted he did find out about Omnium which he could summon anything he wanted for a while.

The man sat on the fountain and focused on a small weapon from his world, a screwdriver.

He held it in his hands as his mouth was agape. This was literally.. impossible right?

Wrong..

He eyed the strange white armored soldiers walking near the portal yapping about something.

"Have you seen the Primes lately? They just can't make our job easy, can they"

"Why you complaining?

"I had to go after one at one point."

"You lived to tell the tail?

"Yes, i did"

The men turned and blinked, one looking through a pair of binoculars.

"Wait, you notice that new prime over there?

"He never was here before, right?"

Right..

While the two men discussed trivial matters, Marcus kept walking for a short while longer.

I'm asking because we are already there otherwise...

I'm sort of interested in doing the faction quest Imperial Disarray in Coruscant but is it repeatable?

Name:  Marcus Wright
Spent OM:8000
Consumed OM: 0
Proficiencies: (2000) Physical Strength (1000), Ranged Proficiency (1000),
Powers (2400): Survival (2000), Hive Mind (400)
Moves (600): Killer Punch, Ithica 37 (300 OM) Electro-Mech-Phazer (300)
Super Moves (1400): Killing Blow (Tier 1 Super Attack) Lethal Injection (Tier 1 Super move) Air Support (Tier 2 Super Attack)

Transformations (1000): Tier 1 Power Up (1000)
Assists:
Items (400):  Dataverse Device (100 OM) Communicator (200 OM) Medigel x2 (100 OM)
Unlocks: (0)
Artifacts:
Bases:
Base stats: [Tier 1]
ATK: 3 [5]
DEF: 3  
SPD: 1 [3]  
TEC: 3 [4]

I'm a little nervous at how I've been depicting the NPCs and the established places of the world in my posts. If anyone has any feedback they'd like to give, I'd be grateful!

Step 1: Make a post. This post should be at least 600 words. You may also post multiple times adding up to 600 words or more.

Step 2: Click on your post number. This should be located at the top right of your post, denoted by a hashtag and a number. The URL should populate with a hashtag and post ID at the end (see the bolded part on the end here: http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=81&pid=357#pid357). Copy the entire URL from your address bar.

Step 3: Post it in the active fortnightly gains topic. The date of your post should be within the date range, GMT. If you are submitting multiple posts that add up to 600, post all of the links.

Step 4 (optional): If you have posted in the current book club, please include a link to that post along with the text 'book club'.

Step 5 (optional): If you have a Recognition bonus, please include in your post 'Recognition bonus: +50'. If you have an Ascendancy bonus, please post with 'Ascendancy bonus: +100'.

That's all you need to do! When the topic is updated, you will be given 300 OM. Obviously if you have a recognition or ascendancy bonus, this will be increased by 50 or 100. A book club bonus will increase this by a further 100. If no mod has posted at the end of the topic, then it hasn't been updated yet. You do not need to ask "has the thread been updated? I didn't get my OM" every week.

New fortnightly gains topics go up every second Sunday at midnight (at the end of Saturday and the dawn of Sunday) GMT+1/BST. The valid time begins on Sunday at 0000 hours BST and ends on Saturday at 2359 BST.

For those of you joining the event, I'd appreciate you stating your intention here and who/what you intend to join with.  This isn't an official sign-up, but I'd like to have an idea how many people i can expect, so I can adjust my timetable for the event (things like how long the rounds will be, for instance) ahead of time.

Beforehand, please look through the event rules - http://omniverse-rpg.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=68.  It's not too much to read, but there are a few things that make the DV unique.  If you cannot view that forum, please let me know.

If so, you can expect to have received - http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=5746 - in either digital or physical form.

Dates are listed here - http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=5667.  The actual Dante Verse will remain closed to the public until later in May, so you can state your intent, get the letter, and then just roleplay as normal for at least the next three weeks.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free.

To [Your Name Here]
 
Good morning, Sunshine!
 
My name is Karl Jak, and I’m here to cordially invite you to my home, the Danteverse.  You’ve received this letter, because I’m in need of some help.  The Danteverse is a large place, but it seems that some things have happened out there in the Dante Ocean that I don’t recollect.  Strange islands and bizarre weather patterns…
 
I found an island I don’t recall designing.  Even worse, all this weather crap makes it impossible to survey the place from the air or through other means (don’t even get me started on the scrying crystal nonsense).  I even sent some of my favorite cabana boys out to investigate, and their ‘whirlybird’ stopped responding.
 
So I’m inviting you to join me, Mr. Karl Jak, on an expedition into the unknown.  Help save my poor lost boys and solve this mystery of the Danteverse.
 
We’ll be opening our doors in about ten days.  We’ll have gates open in the Endless Dunes and the Pale Moors.  Doors will also be open to vendors, diplomats, and anyone else who would like to use the Danteverse as a secure space for a few days. 
 
I hope to see you there.
 
Smooches,
 
Karl Jak

The boardroom of Syntech’s elaborate headquarters was a buzz.  All around the table, men and women in suits were scrambling with papers or exchanging frantic fragments of coherent sentences.  They’d all received the reports of the recent ‘incident’, and the fact that the largest chair at the head of the room was yet to be occupied told them that the situation wasn’t farce.  Of the eleven board members, nine of them had thought the idea to send a recon team to investigate the strange anomaly had been a wonderful plan.  The two that had attempted to veto the concept were even more white-faced as they stared at each other from across the heavy wooden table.
 
Every single one of them knew what had happened to the previous board members when they had made a poor decision and attempted to overrule the chief executive officer.  While Karl Jak had always denied any role in the massacre, the crime scene photos had nevertheless managed to leak to nearly every single employee at Syntech.  With Chairman/CEO Jak’s energies recently placed into trying to plan for a ‘new event.’  The board members all knew that their leader was being ambiguous in his efforts to create a new and exciting version of his beloved Dante’s Abyss.
 
What would happen if this incident derailed his time table?  After all, they couldn’t just ignore the fact that a helicopter with some of their best and ablest employees had vanished somewhere in their home verse.  If the story leaked to the rest of the company, there could be mass panic.  The last transmissions had been far from pleasant.  The pilot’s screams were still engrained in the heads of the eleven board members.
 
From the far side of the room, the heavy oak doors of the boardroom opened.  All of the hushed conversations stopped immediately as Karl Jak casually strode into the room.  For someone who certainly had to have a lot on his mind, the man in the purple suit seemed utterly nonchalant as he made his way around to the end of the table and dropped into his large seat.
 
“Good morning, Everyone,” he replied with a warm smile.  After receiving a ‘good morning, Karl’ that would make any elementary school teacher blush, the man adjusted his tie and leaned forward.  With his elbows on the table and his chin in his palms, he smiled brightly at his ‘associates’ on Syntech’s board of directors.  “How long will it take to get the gate functional at Facility C?”
 
The question was literally the last thing that anyone expected to hear, and when all the people offered were confused expressions, Karl glanced to the man at his right.
 
“Simmons?”
 
The middle-aged man stuttered a little bit as he adjusted his glass, grabbed up the papers spread out in front of him, and looked over at Karl.  “Facility C?”  He asked rhetorically, eliciting a polite nod from the chairman.  “A few days?  That’s the one that spits out in the… the…”
 
“Tangled Green,” someone whispered a few chairs down the line.
 
“Thank you, Ms. Callahan.”  Karl Jak replied with a smile as he turned to look at the other individuals in the boardroom.  “Someone get in touch with the social media people.  I want a rundown of every interesting individual that this multiverse has to offer.”
 
A brave soul offered the obvious question.  “What for?”
 
Karl Jak grinned and glanced at the woman seated near the far corner of the table.  “We need to get a team together to go find our crew, don’t we?  What better way than to invite some more capable individuals to go investigate for us.  Certainly we don’t want to risk an entire Syntech crew for a second time, and we most definitely can’t leave an unknown out there.”
 
“What about the event?”
 
“We’ll figure something out,” Karl smiled.  “Now someone get me those lists.  And I need legal to draft up some waivers or something… I don’t need any more armor-plated sociopaths trying to cut my throat.”

I figured I might as well start a thread over this as I occasionally have those games where something happens that I just want to share - and I'm sure you all got those stories too! Be it an intense situation where you make an epic comeback, a wombo combo that you pulled off with your teammates or anything else that other people should hear about!


Make sure that you:
-Name the game you were playing
-If it's an obscure game do consider providing a little context
-Name your story for extra awesomes

Dota 2 - Duel of the nooblords
[spoiler]For those who don't know Dota 2, it's a MOBA like Smite or League of Legends - you have minions going to the enemy base, which you must destroy using your unique hero and their abilities before the enemy team does just that to you. The most played gamemode is 5v5.

I was playing Legion Commander, a melee fighter which gets stronger the longer the game goes on. Legion Commander, or LC as we'll call her, has a unique ultimate ability which allows her to engage an enemy in a duel - they are forced to attack you and vice versa. Whoever wins the duel by killing the other is awarded a permanent attack damage buff. In other words, a good LC can grow out of control enormously fast by winning duel after duel with no upper limit (as opposed to normal heroes being limited by the six items they can carry at a time) - or she can screw herself and her team over by buffing her enemies.

I was accompaigned by Zeus, Razor, Chaos Knight and Skywrath Mage, against a Pudge, Techies, Io, Lina and Dragon Knight. Note that this game took place at rock bottom of the Dota 2 player community, as I'm just getting started (level 2 as I'm writing this).

Zeus disconnects before the minions even spawn, with Chaos Knight making it halfway to the lane before he too disappears. The remaining three of us split the lanes up among ourselves, with me taking mid against Pudge. We're angry, but we believe we have a chance. Why? Because at our level, it's more than likely that the enemy will get leavers or feeders too. The question isn't "will there be leavers?" but "how many will there be?" Our patience is rewarded as soon, Io disappears as well, putting the game at a 3v4.

Things start going south when Pudge and I hit our level 6. He lands a hook or two, following up with his ult which gets me killed. I end up 1-3 or some such when our Skywrath Mage decides that fighting Techies is annoying and comes to help me. There's a lot of back and forth, I die a few more times but also land a few good duels, putting me at 5-8. Pudge and Lina wind up being the strongest, with Pudge roaming and hooking my teammates. Suddenly, Razor ragequits.

Oh no, it's a 2v4. And Pudge appears to have figured how to use a second hero, so Io comes around occasionally. They collectively push mid and gank our lanes, pushing us back to our third tower. Believing that we have a chance if we force some of their barracks down I tell Skywrath to hang in there. He does not respond. Then he suddenly gets hooked, combo'd down and seconds after his death, ragequits too. Oh no, I am alone against four of them! What now? Should I just leave the game and let them have the win? Then I remind myself what I once promised to do in League of Legends, before I quit: "If you surrender you cannot win. If you fight until the end you can win, as slim as the chance may be. Never surrender." With new determination, my hand grasps my mouse faster and I move in.

Outside of Techies none of my opponents seem to grasp the idea that they are four versus one - splitpushing all three lanes would defeat me. No, they must get that midlane barracks! Techies is idly farming and pushing top, Lina roams between mid and bot, Pudge is shoving mid, and Dragon Knight... I don't even know. With nobody to contest my farm I go about farming creeps like crazy, and the good old Courier aids me in getting items. I get Moon Shard and Silver Edge... and suddenly the game's course changes as Dragon Knight decides he's bored and leaves as well. Lina, Techies and Pudge are left.

Li Shang's voice resonates in my head, yelling at me to be swift like a coursing river and forceful like a typhoon as I begin turning the game around. Aghanim's Scepter in hand, I duel Lina and Techies when they dare come onto the Radiant side, with Pudge forced to watch the duel, unable to interfere. My attack damage rises out of control. Fighting among creeps I make sure that my passive gets proc'd so often that their abilities damage me no more - I lifesteal it all back. My armor keeps them from doing much, anyway, and if Pudge does get me low with a well-placed ult I can stealth away from him thanks to the trusty Silver Edge in my backpack.

Suddenly, the announcer tells me that Roshan was slain! Oh no, what shall I do? No enemies to be seen on the map, were they all fighting the dragon? No matter, I push forward through the bottom lane. Wave after wave of creeps falls to my spear which by now is but a flurry in the air and I approach the third tower, when Pudge shows his face near my middle tower. How could I forget?! It lies there, within reach of his gory meathook! I rush forward as fast as my Power Treads will carry me, and moments before the tower falls I appear behind him and challenge him to a duel. And as he falls before me, I whisper to myself: "You shall not pass."

Time to move in. Techies is at top, Lina is coming towards me on the middle lane. The flames of her magic engulf me but I run right through them and slice her to pieces with a few slashes. Then I keep pushing. This is it. Pudge has recently bought back before dying and cannot challenge me, I am topped off thanks to my W, there are no items I could want - I have been sitting on over 10.000 gold for a while, in fact. I could upgrade my Silver Edge, but that would require me to visit the Secret Shop, and I am not versed enough with the Courier to entrust it with such a task. No, let us do it now.

As the Barracks crumble to dust before me, I hear that Techies is attacking my top tower. So he has been pushing! I have no teleport scroll at hand and moving in would take too long. A race begins, but one that I am confident I will win. Techies' damage is dwarfed by mine, his farm lackluster, his creep wave accompaigning him too small. The last towers fall before me, the Ancient comes in sight... when Lina respawns. But where's Pudge? I peek at the top bar and involuntarily laugh as I see his portrait blacked out. The coward has rage quitted. Lina desperately tries to buy some time for Techies but she cannot damage me enough. The Dire's Ancient falls, and my minions scream in victory as the pieces crumble into a lava pit. Sighing with relief, I open the chat. I could type gg, but... no, that would not do this justice. "That was the craziest game I ever played. GG you guys!"

As my cursor wanders towards the button to take me away, a single message pops up in response. It's in russian.

Oh well.[/spoiler]