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Posted by: Jack Darby - 04-12-2018, 01:40 PM - Forum: The Nexus
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"Faster," growled Unicron as he watched Rafael throw a punch at a dummy he had made the child create in the Nexus, near the Fountain. The child's power level was going to need to grow tremendously if the boy had any chance of surviving. The Omiverse was a warzone after all, and someone needed to make sure the boy could be ready. There were likely Primes who wouldn't hesitate to harm Rafael, and Unicron both. As a result of this he needed to make sure the boy could hold his own as best he could. Punches came at the dummy from Rafael, but none of them were fast enough - because they lacked the speed and agility that he would need. The boy had a grasp on how to throw a basic punch but was going to need something with a bit more oomph. Perhaps if Unicron were to find a way to convert one of the attacks or powers of a hero from a fiction that Rafael liked, it might give them the advantage they needed. "Your power must grow Rafael, before you can survive here. I cannot always hold your hand like I've been doing, every time you get into trouble. You've got a long way to go."
Watching Rafael perform the punches, Unicron shook his head. There was something the boy was missing. "Take Five, we'll figure out what you're missing. You've still got a lot of effort to put forth to ensure you're ready for the future. My energy cannot be easily tapped, but you must be able to use it properly. This is not going to be easy for you, I know, Rafael. Yet you need to learn how to use it."
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Posted by: Luci - 04-12-2018, 12:16 AM - Forum: Help Desk
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As I discussed with the moddos, I reposted my missing thread to the best of my abilities.
http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=9939
Also I discussed with the mods, I never lost OM when the thread went missing. I clocked the thread above at 2635 words, and I'd like someone to deduct the OM from me.
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| Dark Reign, Part One: All Hail Lord Doom Until The End (Repost) |
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Posted by: Luci - 04-12-2018, 12:12 AM - Forum: Coruscant
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Quote: Through an unfortunate error, this thread was deleted, so it is being reposted as completely as is currently possibly.
The original thread was started by a post from Dr Doom. This first post is currently unavailable. Rather than attempt to do it justice by rewriting it, I’m going to attempt to summarize the events.
Dr Doom created a Doombot and sent it into Coruscant. The Doombot wreaked havoc on Empire forces until it was eventually stopped by a strike team led by Commander Anton Veers.
The thread below happens on the following day, after the remains of the Doombot have been collected and sent to the Imperial Armory.
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Dr. Linda Himes walks briskly through the research department of the T1 Imperial Armory, her lab coat swishing angrily. The blonde bombshell has an adorable scowl on her otherwise bright features. A pair of Stormtroopers are blocking entry to her workshop.
"No, out of my way, no," she demands, a statement the Stormtroopers do not seem to acknowledge.
Linda hands them her access card, which they scan while she taps her foot impatiently.
"Linda Himes, Clearance: F-9," chirps a little robotic voice. The Stormtroopers let her pass to the retinal scan, and she opens a big blue eye wide for the camera. A moment later, the door opens.
"Welcome, Dr. Himes," says the voice pleasantly.
Linda ignores the voice as she storms into her workshop. A dwarf, a man, and a young woman are crowded around her workbench, upon which lay the remains of the robot from the attack on Tier-1 today. The woman is Linda's assistant, Chi'owo, who is blocking the men physically from getting closer to the bench.
"I can't let you touch anything until Dr. Himes signs a release," the tiny Twi'lek woman says firmly.
"I'm signing it, that's fine," replies one of the men curtly. Linda recognizes the smarmy anus crammed into the four thousand cred suit as Miles Heartwood, a inter-departmental bureaucrat and recreational puppy-kicker, and Linda's ex-boyfriend. The red-haired dwarf she does not recognize, but according to his badge he is Dugor Rahos, clearance level B-7.
"You can sign anything you want," Linda calls out. "But you're not walking out of here with that droid."
Heartwood freezes for a moment, then spins on the heel of his 200 cred boot and faces Linda with a smile.
"Finally," he says, apparently relieved. "Linda, you're here, good. Yeah, looks like the head honchos want this little guy over in Department B."
"Wookieshit," says Linda, her hands on her wide hips. "That bot runs on 14 DeckaOMs per MicroOM, and anything running on more than 12 requires a level nine clearance to receive. That plasma cannon discharges at six MiniOMS, that means it doesn't leave the armory. So even if I signed off on it, there's no one I can release it too. I can't release it to you. I can't release it to him," she says, gesturing to the dwarf who stood watching silently. "He's a B-7. What is that, space program?"
The dwarf smirks under his beard. "Yes," says Dugor in a very deep voice. "We need to study the alloy comprising-"
"I'll send you a sample," Linda replies coldly. "But unless you can find me someone who is authorized to receive this droid, I want you both out of my office, now."
"I will receive the droid," says a crisp, stern voice.
Everyone straightens up as Commander Aanton Veers walks in, his eyes falling on Linda.
"Sign the release, Dr. Himes," he says, not unkindly. Linda stares defiantly back for a moment, then signs the release.
"Take your droid and get out of here," she says. Chi'owo moves away from the workbench silently as Miles and the dwarf collects the pieces of the doombot.
"I want my jacket back, too," Miles adds from behind Veers' back as he and Dugor are walking out.
"Go fuck yourself, Miles," Linda calls as the doors close behind him. Linda rests her beautiful face in her hands for a moment.
"Um, Dr. Himes?" says Chi'owo timidly.
"Not now Chi, I'm just really-" Linda starts to say.
"Dr. Himes, I put a tracker in the droid."
***
Dr. Linda Himes considers herself a patriot. She considers individuals like Miles Heartwood traitors, and also fuckboys. Miles is one of many Imperial bureaucrats who make a killing in the black market selling Empire tech, and until recently, Linda has been able to keep him and his kind out of her department. Somewhere along the line this special brand of traitor found the political backing they needed in the form of Aanton Veers to start stealing weapons from right under Linda's nose, and she is fed up. She's fed up with the corruption, the lies, the treason, and she's determined to get proof of what they're up too.
It is to this end that Linda and her orange Twi'lek assistant Chi'owo are huddled together in a very expensive hovercraft in a very bad neighborhood in Tier-5, tracking a red dot on a phone that has been has been still for an hour. They pinpoint the location as a run down diner across the street. The tracker left the Imperial research facility a few hours ago, and the women have already tracked it through five tiers. They are so engrossed with their stakeout they do not notice a stranger in a three-piece-suit and fedora approaching until he taps on the driver side window with a gun.
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EARLIER THAT DAY
Bobby Stabs grins easily as he steers the battered Cadilliac Sixteen through the busy ground traffic of Teir-5, his handsome face lit by the artificial sunlight, dressed smartly in a three peice suit and fedora. His equally handsome and similarly dressed dark haired passenger, Jim the Gangster, has turned around to chat with their new pick ups.
"So," he asks. "You been in T5 long?"
The two curvy Twi'leks in the back seat roll their eyes in unison. The brightly colored prostitutes seemed to be bored with everything; bored with driving, bored with Bobby and Jim, even bored when they saw their pimp get beaten down earlier today. But, they had come along.
"Dogs," says one of the Twi'leks, the bright blue one, in a very strange accent
"Dogs?" repeats Jim worriedly. "Like, like dogs?"
"No," says the pink Twi'lek tersely. "Dogs. Smoke dogs."
"Oh, oh drugs," says Jim, visibly relieved. "Yeah we got drugs, we do drugs, you want drugs?"
The Twi'leks nod.
"Bobby, let's get home, let’s get these nice girl some drugs," says Jim, smiling easily.
Bobby shakes his head. "This shitbox aint gonna get us home, it's leaking all kinds of...I don't know, but it's leaking." The car is pretty beat up, the whole front end smashed like an accordion after they had rammed it into that pimps cadillac. "But," says the blonde man smoothly as the Twi'leks sigh. "I think I know a spot. Jim, call up Audrey, see if she still has Dungbomb's number."
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Bobby Stabs and Jim the Gangster recline on one of the filthy couches in the Hufflepunk Hideout. The condemned apartment complex serves as a base of operations and squat-house for the Westside Hufflepunks, a group of ex-hogwarts alumni turned to a life of crime to support their drug habits. The Twi'lek girls are busy sniffing different colored powders off each other, and Bobby and Jim are able to relax a little, at least, as much as a gangster could ever relax on another gangster's turf.
Bobby and Jim are Gentlemen Jacks, but they are firmly in Westside territory here. Since the confrontation at the club, the Westside and the Gentlemen Jacks have an uneasy peace, but certainly asking to hang out at the Westside Hufflepunk base and do drugs with hookers is unprecedented, even downright historic.
But the Westside Hufflepunks are enthusiastic hosts, and make Bobby and Jim feel very welcome. Danny and Dungbomb, a pair of blue-haired twin witches, are particularly friendly.
"Here," says Dungbomb as she places a bowl in front of Bobby. Inside it is a razorblade and a brightly glowing green worm struggling in vain to escape the bowl.
"What the fuck is that?" asks Bobby reasonably.
"No idea," says Danny as she sits down next to Jim with a bowl as well. "But it makes peaches grow really big and gets you high as fuck."
"They're better fresh," adds Dungbomb as she expertly chops the green thing into powder and hands Bobby a rolled up dollar bill. "Quickly."
Bobby snorts the glowing green powder. Jim watches him carefully. Slowly, Bobby's eyes glaze over. He lifts his hand and stares at it in amazement.
"Holy shit, everything's claymation!" he exclaims, marveling at his hand. Danny and Dungbomb giggle. Jim shrugs.
"Alright, my turn."
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After an hour Bobby and Jim, and their two new Twi'lek prostitute friends, and a few witch and wizard gangsters, all lay on the disgusting floor of the hufflepunk hideout staring at the ceiling.
"You look like an Amish tobacco lobbyist," says Dungbomb dreamily.
"You look like a line of Bratz doll made exclusively for Hot Topic," replies Bobby lazilly.
"I was thinking," says Danny in a weird voice as she sits up. Jim watches her big, claymation mouth open and close.
"Yeah," said Dungbomb, her bright blue playdough hair shifting weirdly. "We can get your, uhm, your car fixed up."
"Yeah?" says Jim slowly, his claymation tongue laboring. "That would be, uh, yeah, we should do that."
Bobby sits up, tries to say something, and instead simply nods his oversized head.
"Lets uh, let's go?" asks Danny, her clay pupils wide. "Can you drive?"
Jim nods like a liar. "Will they be ok?" he asks, gesturing to the passed out prostitutes.
Danny shrugs weirdly, her clay jacket rippling.
Jim nods like someone who doesn't care what happen to prostitutes.
"Then let's go."
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Bobby, Jim, Danny, and Dungbomb sit around the Westside Chopshop, giggling. Jim, for one, is impressed.
The Chopshop is run by Chirpa the Ewok, a legendary figure in the Coruscant underworld. Although his gang, the Westside Ewoks, now consist only of Chirpa and his two brothers, they are still a vital part of the Westside infrastructure. In the street wars of Coruscant, vehicles are of vital importance. Every day Westside gangsters take their cars here, battered or broken or freshly stolen, and they need new tires or door or license plates. Bullets holes are a dead giveaway, for cops and Orcs alike. Chirpa keeps the Westside Chopshop humming smoothly so he can get the cars back on the street.
Jim watches as Chirpa's brother Barro uses a kind of laser to open up the crumpled hood of his Cadillac Sixteen. Chirpa himself is modifying a sportsbike, welding a kind of armor around the front wheel. Chirpa's other brother, Arnold, is making a Heater.
Heaters are a kind of homemade gun made of stolen Imperial tech, haphazardly fused together into crude blasters. They are dangerous, unwieldy, and have a tendency to explode on whoever is using them. Jim the Gangster think's they're pretty cool though.
"Hello," says a polite voice. Jim's first impression of Chirpa is that of an adorable claymation bear, but then again, he was under the effect of a very strong hallucinogen.
"Hi," says Bobby, giggling.
Jim tries to sit up straight as Chirpa eyes the group silently. He sees his three companions try to do the same, and wonders if he looks like as much of a shit-show as they do. Probably, he decides.
"We need cars," says the Ewok finally. "You kids wanna make some money?"
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Jim the Gangster smiles pleasantly as he signals the terrified Dr. Linda Himes to roll down the window on her top-of-the-line hovercar. The Dr. presses a button, and the window zooms down.
"Hi, Jim the Gangster, Internal Revenue Service, Quaker Division," says the dark haired stranger, peering into the car. He reaches in and grabs Linda's access badge. "Ok, Ms...Himes"
"Doctor," corrects Linda instinctually.
Jim grins. "Well Doc, I'm hear to inform you that you are currently under an Intelligence Audit. Looks like you haven't paid your Dumbass Tax in quite some time, so we're gonna have to seize your...assets."
Linda crosses her arms over her ample chest uncomfortably.
"Out of the car," comes a bored voice from the passenger side window. Danny, the blue-haired teenage witch, is pointing a glowing wand at Chi'owo.
The two women exit the car hastily, Linda holding her phone behind her back, which fools Jim exactly not at all.
"Give it here," he says. Linda hesitates, and Jim gets a very ugly look in his eyes, and Linda hands over the phone. Jim eyes the tracking app for a second.
"What are you tracking, all the way down here in T5? What could get you out of your little T1 lofts and into the hood this late at night, in a car as nice as this?" he asks.
Linda and Chi'Owo do not respond, but simply stand frozen in fear on the side of road.
The tracker starts to move, and Jim looks over at the diner to see a white van pulling up to a pair of orcs. Jim whips out his phone, presses '1' on speed dial, and a moment later Bobby Stabs picks up.
"Yeah?" says Bobby, his breathing suspiciously heavy. Jim glares at the black Honda parked down the street, where Bobby and Dungbong are waiting.
"You see those tuskfuckers at the diner?" Jim asks.
"Yeah," says Bobby, more focused this time. "Yeah, what's up? They owe us money?"
"Probably. Let's go collect,"
***
A firefight rages on the streets of Coruscant.
Danny and Dungbomb, the blue haired twin witches, cast shield charms around Bobby and Jim, who keep up a steady stream of machine-gun fire.
Across the street, four orcs hide behind a white van, shooting vicious orbs of blue flames.
The orc weapons are clearly superior, as one shot breaks the Shield Charms of the witches, forcing them to keep strafing. The machine guns, on the other hand, don't seem to be penetrating through the white van to the orcs behind it.
Linda screams as a blue ball of fire whizzes over her head, but Jim has tackled her to the floor while Danny shields them from the blast. The three are crouched behind Linda's expensive hovercraft.
"The trunk!" Linda yells to Jim wildly, who wastes no time popping the trunk, opening it just as another blue fireball hits the passenger-side door and rocks the car. Linda rummages desperately through her trunk for a few moment before tossing something to Jim; a clip for his machine gun. Jim, to his credit, does not ask questions, but simply reloads his machine gun with the new clip and starts to fire on the orcs.
A bright red stream of incendiary plasma bullets erupts from the gun, catching the gas tank of the van and sparking a massive explosion.
Bobby and Dungbomb rush forward, Bobby spraying the orcs with bullets while Dungbomb casts a series of red stunning spells. Three orcs lay on the ground unmoving. Bobby wanders up to one of them, who is holding a locked suitcase in his stiff hand, and pries it out. He barely has time to count before the fourth orc runs up behind Bobby Stabs and stabs him with a wickedly curved sword.
"Stupefy!" Dungbomb cries, blasting the orc off of Jim.
Jim and Dungbomb drag his bleeding body across the street and toss him in the back.
"Doc," says Jim the Gangster, waving his pistol menacingly. "Doc, you gotta fix him up."
Linda sputters as Bobby bleeds out in her backseat. "I'm, I'm not that kind of Doctor..."
Jim laughs tensely. "Well, you better fucking learn fast. Take her girlfriend, meet up at the garage when I call you," he says to the twins, who each grab one of Chi'owo's arms. The Twi'lek starts to whimper as the witches frogmarch her across the street and into the black Honda, then speed away.
"In the back," says Jim as he hops into the driver seat, gun still in his hands. Linda tries not to get any blood on her lab coat as she climbs in, and fails.
"You better start stitching or something," Jim calls as he revs the hovercraft;s engine. "Because if my friend dies, I don't really have much use for you, or your girlfriend."
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Quote:Also missing from this thread is a final post I wrote. In this final post, Audrey saves Bobby Stab’s life by giving him the gift of vampiric blood. Also in this final post, Chi’Owo experimented with crime, drugs, and interspecies twincestual lesbian orgies with the Westside Hufflepunks. Truly a loss.
When we next see Linda Himes, it is in this post
http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?...#pid101161
When we next see Chi’Owo, it is in this post
http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?...#pid100797
Where she is erroneously referred to as a ‘green’ Twi’Lek with asiatic features.
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| Direct Message to King Aragorn |
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Posted by: James Knight - 04-10-2018, 10:24 PM - Forum: Dataverse Messageboards
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From: IQOC@DefinitelygonnagetRevenge.Net
To: King Aragorn@ ??? ???
Subject: Familial Ties
Do you have a daughter, a niece, a nephew, or anyone else in your immediate bloodline? In addition to that, have they been kidnapped? If not please let me know post haste, because I have been receiving messages about it.
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| ...It's a Fire World |
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Posted by: Viola - 04-10-2018, 07:32 PM - Forum: The Ashen Steppes
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Quote:Trying out a few writing styles here. So my next post or so might be inconsistent until I settle down. That includes the general tone I'm using for Viola.
I cling loosely to Kumoko as we plunge through the gate, instantly greeted by a harsh heat battering down upon us. The ground is black, sodden with ash, and looking up doesn't yield any sight of the sun, giving the new world a subterranean feel. I cough. The acidic sulfur from the air ravaging my lungs mixes with the lingering speckles of blood at the back of my throat. My body lurches, and before I can brace against it, tremors run down my arms threatening to break my grip.
Clenching, I try my best to maintain my grasp. Muscles strain. Still weak.
I could learn every magical trick in the book, but nothing will ever fix my vitality - from what I remember. Much of my repertoire is missing, but some is slowly coming back. Stop time. Loop time. Warp time. All utility - nothing potent. At least I still have my swords. Steel is reliable, even when spawned by magic. I'm sure, once I've healed and recovered, I'll have progressed far enough towards my former strength to defeat the clown. It'll be dead soon enough, however, so I intend to leave It behind me.
A shiver runs down my spine as I recall those events. Its claws piercing me. Its teeth chomping down. The many times I died.
Shuddering involuntarily, I find myself falling for a split second.
Kumoko shifts beneath me, compensating for my weakness as her many legs scuttle over the hot rocky floor (she's pink, so my assumption of her gender is as good a guess as any - better than referring to her as an object, a thing, an It).
"Thanks." My voice is breathy but still as tranquil as always, not as raspy as one might expect. The tear stains on my cheeks have dried, leaving my skin unblemished, pale, yet not as ghostlike as when I was more deprived of blood.
The skin around my stump has closed under the makeshift bandage, but it's too sticky for me to take off. I can survive without a hand for a time, but it would make things difficult. Faint tingles run over my nerves, and I can almost see a silhouette in the corner of my eye. It extends from my loose blood-soaked sleeve. I wiggle those fingers, but feel nothing, and see nothing when I humour the delusions. Only an everpresent fuzz - like electrical static - as if an alien being is caressing my missing limb.
It is uncomfortable.
Kumoko spins around while my breathing adjusts to the climate, and regrettably caused by some of my thoughts. The particulates in the air irritate my eyes, but I manage to create a weak filtration spell to prevent any further discomfort. I blink. Smoke was bad, but this was much worse. The terrain only looked more treacherous deeper into the world.
Was anyone living her? There was a flat land near the fountain, would it not be more suitable to build a house there?
Perhaps, I consider, everyone is simply underground. A tropical paradise hidden by a smoldering ceiling. I have seen many climates, but nothing like this. Volcanos and mountain ranges? Yes. Anything as hellish as the place? No.
On a different day, I might have found myself taking samples, or protecting someone else as they did. That didn't matter now. So many years of research left behind. All on topic for the betterment of the realm, rather than my own interests.
Consciously, I force myself to shrug. I don't know if that's the correct reaction, or if I should act in any way at all, but I want to be expressive. Loss is a rather dull feeling to me. It is hard to become attached to something when you know one day it will fade away.
I look down at the spider, about to mention that it might be better to try our luck elsewhere. She is fast. The clown is occupied, or dead, we would be fine. I don't want to push my luck - but I am a slow walker. It is unlikely I could ever match Kumoko's pace on foot, so she may have to carry me everywhere. If she is unable to travel here, it would be best to retrace our steps and take another path.
Yet, before I do speak, she shakes her head, spins around, and merrily speeds off away from the archway. If she could talk, I imagine she would be humming. She strikes me as a happy individual, but that could just be my mind projecting what I want to see upon her. Regardless, Kumoko is trustworthy, and while my predicament is less limited, we both have our troubles expressing ourselves.
I take a shallow breath while my eyes strategically examine the surroundings, scrutinisingly noting every little detail. Many I forget within seconds. The dark sky shifts, revealing a sliver of orange over the far horizon. Any shadows it painted were invisible among the dark terrain, with lava pools and veins casting their own focused glow.
We travel for some time, but I make no noticeable progress healing my hand. A sliver of strength flows through my body, however. Enough to lift a small rock, and maybe even throw it. I wouldn't count on that. My warm magic fizzles down my spine, soothing and comforting, contrasting the unrelenting heat with a much more welcoming embrace. In comparison, it makes the burning air seem less intense. Tolerable, even. I don't want to get used to it.
Notably, the odd spread crushed rocks lay in wave besides our path, signifying that others may have ridden here before. Perhaps on horseback, or by carriage. Or, worryingly, maybe they were large enough to crush the stones themselves.
I have no wish to turn every meeting into a hostile encounter, but I must be wary. Kumoko could have eaten me. Power may be at my disposal, but that doesn't mean I can drop my guard around others. My foresight is unreliable and fails to give enough warning to prepare myself adequately against a skilled opponent. It is a tool. Not a crutch.
And Kumoko is a friend. Not a tool.
This is a new world, one I have no obligation to assist in its development, or sustainability. I want to be young, not to look down on others because of my years. We're all equals here, pulled in together.
Which leaves a dilemma.
What do I do?
Or, what do I want to do?
If there are many others, they have factions, allegiances, and probably enemies too.
I'm certain I can prove useful, should my looks not hold weight on their opinion. Escaping an orphanage is not something I wish to do any time soon. But, it does provide some safety. In my experience, many are reluctant to kill a young girl, even if they know her looks are deceiving. Nothing to rely on, but something that could prove useful.
A girl and her pink spider friend. An intelligent pink spider. Like a fantasy adventure novel.
Ruling. Leadership. It was a strain. Many monarchies have been my puppets. Dressed up faces dancing to my plans. A quiet life would be unsuitable, also. I want to do things. See things. Something new. Danger is inevitable.
But first.
"We can rest."
I try to balance, pointing a finger towards a dark cave. Enhancing my reactions, I shift in slow motion. Time crawls, and with perfect precision I lean, twitching my weak muscles to stay balanced with no hands. The focus I dedicate to my simple stunt is a testament to my limited physical capabilities. I have ridden ponies with saddles. Kumoko's body is not naturally suited for riding, it will take some getting used to. I can learn. I want to learn. I'm riding a pink intelligent spider. After eight hundred years, I don't get many 'firsts' anymore. Good firsts, anyway.
The future intrigues me. For a moment, I wish I could throw away my years. That I could have come here as a little girl. A real little girl. Youthful. Happy. Energetic. Wishful, with ideas and ideals for her fate. Like the little me back at the orphanage, before she learned how special she was. Or the more matured, but still playful, girl at the church. A magical novice, weak but unyielding. Longing to one day gain a taste of adventure.
They would have died to the clown.
Time resumes as normal. My magical crutch doesn't drain much energy, leaving me confident in my abilities.
Kumoko nods and scuttles forwards. Her movements are a little odd as if she's playing a game of 'don't step on the cracks'. I pay it no mind, assuming her legs are simply frail. I would hope we're not walking on a proverbial field of landmines.
My mana hisses, expelling out of my good hand and moulding into a fresh steel blade. Kumoko glances back up at me, hearing the noise. I try to smile back, to assure her I am merely using the swords blue glow as a torch, but it comes across as grim - like I'm expecting a fight.
Steadying herself, Kumoko renews her trot, fangs barred as she plunges us both into the near-darkness.
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| Direct Message to Warren Zimmer |
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Posted by: Ebonywood Hellscythe - 04-09-2018, 09:07 PM - Forum: Dataverse Messageboards
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To: FQOC@revenge.net
From: [Unidentified Sender]
Subject: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IT WAS ON THE NEWS
Warning! Your email account has been HACKED!
It is me! Your aunt Susan from Coruscant. The same happened to me, so I've come to warn you about how the robot overlords from the deeps are taking over the dataverse with mindcontrol chemicals. They hacked my email, and I was able to fix it by following the following 5 steps, and you can too! You better hurry. You've only got the next 20 minutes to complete them all or they'll escape your emails and infect your brain.
1) TAKE A PIECE OF METAL AND HOLD IT ONTO YOUR HEAD REALLY HARD FOR THE NEXT MINUTE.
2) METAL REPELLS THE EVIL MIND CONTROL HACKING. LOOK IN A MIRROR WHEN YOU TAKE THE METAL OFF. IF THERE IS A DENT, YOUR BRAIN HAS BEEN HACKED AS WELL AS YOUR EMAIL. ONLY HACKED SKIN WILL FORM AN INDENTATION. IF THERE IS NO INDENTATION THEN YOU ARE SAFE.
3) THIS STEP IS REALLY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE IT CAN BOTH CURE YOUR INFECTION AND MAKE YOU IMMUNE. IF YOU MAIL EXACTLY 512.18 OM TO hfhajd190481@pgha.com THEN YOU CAN BE CURED.
4) IT IS NOT SAFE YET! YOU NEED TO THEN SEND THIS EXACT EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW - THIS HAS TO BE AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE. REMEMBER, YOU DON'T HAVE LONG LEFT TO DO THIS SO YOU BETTER HURRY. MAKE SURE TO COPY IT EXACTLY AND NOT CHANGE IT. DON'T WORRY, THE EMAIL WILL FAIL TO SEND TO ANYONE WHO IS NOT INFECTED, AND WILL CHANGE ITSELF ON THE WAY TO MEETING THE PEOPLE YOU SEND IT TO! YOU DON'T NEED TO CHANGE A THING.
5) CHECK TO SEE IF THERE IS STILL A DENT ON YOUR HEAD. IT THERE IS ONE, YOU'LL NEED TO GET A MAGNET INSTEAD. HOLD THAT TO YOUR HEAD FOR THE NEXT 5 HOURS AND THAT WILL SUCK AWAY THE REST OF YOUR HACKING. MAKE SURE TO GET ANOTHER STRONG MAGNET AND USE IT ON YOUR PHONE AND COMPUTER AND EVERYTHING WITH YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT ON AS WELL. ESPECIALLY THE HARDDRIVES. THIS PURIFIES THE HACKING AND SAVES YOUR DEVICES.
Thank you for your cooperation, The_Real_Warren_Zimmer. I hope to see you on your next birthday!
- Your aunt from Coruscant, Susan.
Quote:OOC Note: Don't actually do that, lol. Xx_Yandere_Lo♥er_xX signed up with Warren's email to lots of dodgy websites.
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| A Reignited Fuse |
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Posted by: Cupa - 04-09-2018, 08:30 PM - Forum: The Tangled Green
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I awoke to the sound of a chirping alarm clock, the same high pitched chirping that had woke me for the last few months. I wandered downstairs in my nightgown into the living room that I had spent hours decorating with the colors of my people. Most things were green with only a few exceptions, which were the same orange as my hair and eyes. After taking a second to stretch out my back, I stepped into the kitchen and poured myself a cup of gunpowder. I chugged it a little too quickly and ended up burping out a small mushroom cloud that i found quite humorous.
The laughter faded quickly however, as the dead silence of the house around me once again reminded me how incredibly, horrifyingly… alone I was. I flipped through the contacts on my phone, looking at the unanswered text messages I had sent them all as everyone had dropped off of the grid, something that was sadly common to life in the Omniverse, I had discovered. I placed the phone down on the counter and headed back upstairs to change. After coming back down in my usual creeper hoodie and mini skirt, I grabbed the phone and a banana, and headed out into the city.
I walked out, and the smell of the city entered my nostrils. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t rancid or anything, but you could tell that it was a city of mostly animals. As I walked through the streets searching for something to do, occasionally saying hello or waving to acquaintances of mine, I occasionally looked towards the center of the city, the location that every occupant knew, the huge pink palace that was the first building ever created in the city. Some days I wondered if I would ever meet the princess who had created it. Most days I thought about trying to see if she was there, as being a princess myself, she might be interested in meeting me. Other days I shrugged it off as madness, as I wasn’t exactly the most productive member of her city. Never did I actually approach the palace.
Eventually I found myself in a banana orchard. I laid down in the shade of a tree and reminisced on my past failed attempts to migrate into society. The time that I accidentally poisoned a customer while working as a waitress in a bar by dropping gunpowder in their white russian stands out at the top of my colossal failures. As the weight of my mistakes weighed on my, I thought about Andr, and how she would deal with this situation. First of all, she wouldn’t be in this situation. She would have found the nearest opportunity for danger and gone chasing it, confident in herself and her abilities. I pulled myself into a sitting position with my back on the trunk of the tree.
Well I’m not Andr. My name is Cupa, princess of creepers, a creature that destroys everything around it as well as itself, and I, was gonna find somewhere to cause some fucking chaos.
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| Back in black |
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Posted by: Shantotto - 04-09-2018, 04:42 PM - Forum: The Nexus
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Shantotto stepped through the gate into the pale white of the Nexus, the fountain and all the denizens of the omniverse just walking around moving from one area to another, in the distance close to where she had seen the small girl and clown fight was now another fight this time several people all ganging up on the clown, Shantotto could see despite the distance that the little girl was wounded, quite badly at that, her arm had been removed in some form or another, how it had happened Shantotto could only surmise.
She began walking closer and closer to the fight, a crowd gathered around the fight. Part of Shantotto wanted to partake in the fight, not because of a desire to fight but rather seeing the clown outnumbered made her feel even just a small amount of sympathy towards the demented creature.
Still even if she could turn the tide of the battle, a feat which Shantotto undoubtedly knew she could, it would have little benefit to her, in fact her charity in teaching the boy how to fight and be rid of his pest problem had already cost her valuable time and effort, not to mention she had already used a great deal of magic, and shown off several of her spells/ if they boy ever intended to cross paths with her and draw his blade in anger, she knew he would know a great deal of her spells..... not that it mattered much, at the end of the day she was the great Shantotto, the woman who nearly single handedly ended the crystal war.
As she got closer and closer her curiosity peaked, grabbing her notebook and allowing it to reach full size she watched each crossing of blades figuratively. She documented everything, from how the combatants placed themselves to how the blows of each fighter rained down upon the other. It was just simple notes, but it was a way to keep track. She would eventually get names to go with each face.
Closing the book she shrunk it down once more and put it inside her pocket, before continuing on her merry way. She needed to find the gateway to the sands....
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| Chaos in Coruscant |
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Posted by: Jack Darby - 04-09-2018, 01:47 PM - Forum: Coruscant
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Unsure of himself, as he made the trek through the gate, Unicron mentally thanked Rafael for leaving him in charge for the duration of this. Since Rafael was worried about how he would have been treated by the white armor clad guards, Unicron had decided to humor him, and maintain control for this situation. Admittedly the place he had came out of the gate was impressive to say the least. The bustling skyscrapers, the fast moving scars, this almost reminded him of the creations of his brother, Primus. Of course, none of these cars could shift from vehicle mode into robot mode, or have any special powers, or weapons at their disposal. At least, Unicron didn’t believe they could at present. Short jolts of what he could only assume was an unwelcome human sensation shot up and down the depleted, and drained muscles of his legs. Oh yes, after this he was definitely enrolling Rafael in some sort of physical conditioning class to make him more useful when push came to shove. This was not the only thing he was going to do in order to make sure that his current host could hold it’s own. In addition to making sure Rafael had the conditioning he needed, he was also going to make sure he had the equipment. It was time he looked around, and approached one of the locals.
Really it was times like these, that Unicron wished he had the Dark Star Saber. The weapon would be a formidable part of his arsenal, and was made of his former essence. Here in the Omniverse, it would be a very useful acquisition, were he able to acquire it. Yet his attempts to recreate the blade for himself had simply not been successful up until this point. Of course it was a weapon that had been made by a spawn of his brother, Primus. Specifically the weapon had been created with the Forge of Solus Prime by his brother, out of his essence. In short, Unicron lacked one of the tools he needed in order to recreate that blade. Ultimately, though it did not matter, because he planned on gaining back some of his abilities. Sure, Rafael had a long way to go before he would be considered ready by Unicron, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t make the steps needed to accomplish his goals easier for the child.
The child was just that, a child. Admittedly, the child was gifted when it came to the machinery comprising the spawn of his brother, and a skilled negotiator. The child had convinced him to work for the betterment of Humanity, after all, and that had not been easy. Of course, the benefits provided by having the child as a meat shield at the time were astronomical. Unicron made up his mind, now. The child deserved his help, and so was going to receive it. Of course, not in the way that he had expected to receive it.
Having approached one of the Storm Troopers that was patrolling the area, on Tier 1, Unicron asked in a gentle, and hopefully - or at least what he would consider hopefully respectful tone of voice. “By any chance, do you know where one might acquire supplies to build mechanical devices for themselves, so they do not have to use Omnilium to do so?” asked the former Chaos Bringer. Right now, he didn’t dare use up his supply of Omnilium, as he needed it. Husbanding his resources would benefit him in the long run. The Chaos Bringer knew he was going to need every last drop of Omnilium if he were to ever recover his true potential from that pale faced freak who had stolen it. The freak had also robbed Rafael of his knowledge of how to operate computers, or really any mechanical device. Such crimes were unforgivable, in the eyes of the Chaos Bringer. As a result of this, Rafael was going to have to relearn how to program things, and Unicron was going to have to relearn how to fight.
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