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 Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:40 pm
This is for people who are new to the RP (or those that missed a few night's worth of craziness) to get a quicker idea of what happened when they weren't around. I know I write kind of verbosely sometimes, so if you want shorter recaps, let me know. Other people can write in if they want, just let me know before posting so I don't go and write it anyway.
Also, if I miss anything you feel is important or get something wrong, let me know through PM or the OOC thread and I'll fix it. 3nodding
Don't post here unless you're posting a summary of something. I want this to be as clean and organized as possible. Thanks!
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:41 pm
.The Bar.
The story kicks off with Ash taking the stage at the Blow Torch, the closest thing to a bar in OMNIDRINK's Aekea. The audience includes PQ (who appears to be searching for Hakobe) and Roki (joined by a few members of his orc fight ring). Black, in an attempt to evade capture after entering the city illegally (again), decides to cool off in the bar. Unfortunately, she is followed by five relatively high-ranking Regulators. Ash tries a crude distraction to pull their efforts away from the rest, and takes a bit of a beating outside, while one of the Regulators that remained inside becomes Roki's rather bloody chew toy. PQ tackles one of the Regulators beating Ash (which is actually Hayley/Kilo), injuring the guard's shoulder and breaking two of her ribs. One of the other Regulators is eaten by a giant plant summoned by black, and the group is finished off by PQ's coup-de-grace, a potent blast from their screwdriver that shocks them all unconscious and erases their short-term memory. The group disbands.
Black heads out of the city as a mighty Raptaur, butchering the men unfortunate enough to be at the gate that night. Ash heads home to the bunker he's secretly been inhabiting to check on Hakobe, who has been tearfully remembering those she lost in the takeover, the Faktori bots among them. PQ sends Retro out to find the weretiger, and succeeds. She follows Ash home, where she and Retro are welcomed in. PQ is relieved to know Hakobe is safe, though Hakobe only seems to talk about loss and revenge these days. She's been spending her time training and building herself a mecha hammer and a little robotic dragonfly sidekick. Both are still works in progress.
Ash in the meantime shows that he's been collared by OMNIDRINK, extremely limiting his power. He and PQ bond while trying to work out some plans to rally the troops. They interface, entering a virtual reality where PQ appears human again. After doing the work they'd intended, trying to contact Roki, Deceptus, Keel and King, they share a kiss. Flustered, though not exactly disappointed, PQ leaves the bunker in search of Roki in the orc caves.
Meanwhile, Keel sets up base at the radio station, playing the crap OMNIDRINK hands him down and Deceptus hacks into some of the new tech OMNIDRINK is working on. Hayley, now going by Kilo, gets her partner back in shape and makes small motions in favor of her old friends. Ash buries his regrets about the girl he once loved, and has a bit of a chat with Gerakuma, the sinful voice inside his head. Even she seems to have been tamed by the OMNIDRINK beast. King finally makes his way back into town, though things are a lot more hostile than when he left. He tries fruitlessly to find the ones he'd remembered. He runs into PQ at the orc caves, and after she gives him a bit of advice, she heads back home herself. He tends to her four year old daughter, Harlow. The girls is half orc, half human, and all adorable. In the morning PQ, fearing for her daughter's life, calls Ash, who invites the two to move in with him in the vault. PQ accepts, but continues to make her apartment look lived in to throw the Regulators off her trail.
Meanwhile, Charlie sits bored at his job working the gate. A member of the mildly impotent Aekean Guard, he doesn't do much "hero of the people" anymore. Keel, on the other hand, receives a shipment of "supplies," including his beloved scythes. He makes short, bloody work of a vampire Regulator in his shop. Deceptus has similar problems with a patrolling Regulator that he tears to shreds. PQ speaks with Keel in the bakery, talking about music and composing, and King walks down the bakery himself. He speaks with PQ briefly about how Aekea came to this and is introduced to Harlow. PQ and the girl head home to the bunker while King goes back to his bookstore.
PQ, Ash, Harlow and Hakobe have dinner together like a family, and Deceptus heads home, still unsure what to do with the program he's found. Krivvek sleeps a la hobo in the streets near the bookstore.
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:42 pm
.The Bookstore.
King gets to the bookstore, and waiting for him are two Regulators, Kilo and her partner Victor. They are there on orders to show the MAGIC agent how little authority he holds and to get him to sign some documents. Kilo doesn't like that she has to beat her friend like this, but she also know s that if he goes on being as cocky as he always was, he was going to get killed or re-educated sooner than later. The Regs give him a moderate beating, get his thumbprint, and leave. King reports back to MAGIC and PQ with the events that unfolded.
Ash and PQ get the message and tell him to just go along with the grunts for now to keep his name out of trouble, and they head off to the shop themselves. Keel, walking nearby the store himself, runs into Krivvek, prodding him with his scythe. He also runs into Charlie, sho is suspicious of the heavily armed android, but not enough to pick a fight. He follows instead, and all three men find their way into the bookstore. PQ and Ash are spotted by Kilo's patrol, but Kilo chooses not to report it. She does, however, see them holding hands and being a little suggestive. She tries to clear her mind of it, but a bit of jealousy still seeps through. She heads home to HQ, and the happy couple make it to the bookstore along with the SWAT captain, Jethro.
Once they're all in once place, they start talking about meeting with the representatives and browsing the book selection. Ash gets a cookbook, and Jethro asks about a magic text that could reverse the damage done by re-education. King delivers on both fronts, but tells Jethro he'll need a powerful caster. They think of the witch, and King agrees to deliver the book to her tomorrow. Krivvek takes a look at Ash's collar and shorts it out, hopefully deactivating the power cell for the time being. Deceptus also makes it to the bookstore, marking the busiest the shop has ever been. This is not only notable to King, though, and some Regulators in the area report back that the MAGIC agent might be conspiring against them. An invisible squad is sent to collect data and list faces for a hit list to give to the lower grunts.
Kilo, having seen PQ and Ash head that direction earlier, wants to keep her friends off any kind of "lists" OMNIDRINK might make and triggers a virus she managed to covertly install in Ash's prosthetics before they were assigned to him. His arm and eye seize, and a display in his eye flashes a warning signal. PQ panics, yanking his collar off abruptly and sending a violent shock through Ash's body. He survives, which is more than the collar normally advertised when tampered with, but his prosthetics fall dead and he is blinded by the reaction. King also sees the warning beacon and kicks most of the crew out into the street. PQ and Ash rush upstairs with King and Krivvek, while Keel, Deceptus and Jethro take to the streets. Deceptus is itching for a fight while the other two high tail it. With no fight to be found, Deceptus is shocked but heads home. He is put on a re-ed list by the corporation, along with Jethro, the SWAT captain. Keel escapes identification.
PQ initiates an emergency interface with Ash to find out what's wrong. She finds an intruding program that looks like a one-eyed face with a large black X smeared over it that is frantically trying to give off a warning signal. It's crude, but she thinks she knows where it's from. She disengages rapidly, trying to wake Ash up so he can see it too. King and Krivvek stand on the sidelines and Ash awakens and interacts with the program. When the pair touch it, it evokes feelings of concern, warning, and indirectly urges them to get the hell out. PQ knows who must have done it, but Ash seems less likely to believe it. They kiss passionately, disengage, and PQ helps the blind Ash through a trapdoor and back home through the sewers with Krivvek in tow.
They greet the girls at home, Krivvek plagued by memories of his painful past. He bonds with Harlow, almost seeing her as the daughter he once knew. He gives her a silver locket to use when she feels threatened, and the girl takes the gift eagerly, hiding it beneath her shirt. PQ and Ash talk about the circumstances of Harlow's birth, and Ash realizes that PQ was given a forced pregnancy inside her mechanical womb. They embrace, and PQ heads out for the night to work the streets and make some cash to buy Ash a new arm. She's not proud of her work, but the revolution doesn't fund itself. Ash stays up all night burning through the new surge of energy he's acquired since the collar coming off. He can channel a few of his abilities, and strength grows exponentially. He tries to clear the blindness, but fails.
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:42 pm
.The Picnic.
PQ returns in the morning, new arm in tow, and gets to work making breakfast. They have the picnic planned for that afternoon with some of the local representatives, and PQ gets to work making some desserts. King heads out of town to talk to Black, and Deceptus learns of his re-ed status by way of hacking the database. Black doesn't take any of King's words well, and when her temper flares she blows the bombs she had hidden magically within the wall near the city's gate the night before. Not knowing how to react, King just tells her to try and get into the city at some point to come to this picnic and fix whatever Jethro wants. With that, he leaves, only getting back in by means of the confusion with the explosions, and runs to buy some bread and meet up with the others in the park.
Black also sneaks back into the city and disguises herself for the picnic. The guest list includes PQ, Ash, King, Black, Emily (the human representative) and Araka (the orc rep). Roki and Deceptus speak on the picnic's fringe about their respective plans and positions in the city. Vivian, an OMNIDRINK spy, watches from a distance as the group meets. The group has a great time with delicious food, and Black hands a potion to Ash to heal his eyesight if he needed it. Ash prefers to save it until he really needs it, and pockets the potion for later. PQ spots Roki and the two talk about rebellion. PQ shushes the eager wolf and tells him they'll talk later about that more privately. He reveals that he's not a normal lycan, and the crew talks business for a little while. King, Black and Roki all leave together to work on magical solutions.
Krivvek, meanwhile, watches Harlow. He intends to teach her a few things, but despite the precaution of wearing a face mask, the girls passes out into a deep sleep. Makawee, the orc witch, appears before her, calling her Nashua. She sees great things for the "child born of metal and stone and flesh." Harlow is terrified by the vision, and wakes up shaking and crying in Krivvek's arms. In another part of the vault, Hakobe puts more finishing touches on her dragonfly robot. She names it Eguze as it comes to life.
When PQ makes it home, she is horrified that Makawee would go this far and makes her fury known to the orcs. Araka understands well enough and scolds the old witch herself. Makawee shrugs it off. Her prophecies would ring true whether the rest believed her or not. She calls out a list of players in her grand scheme: The child of flesh, stone and metal. The man of stripes and fire. The woman of many forms. The protector. The man of fang. The one with no face. The broken man. The hacker. The child of hatred and revenge. The turncoat lover.
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:43 pm
.The SWAT HQ.
King is joined by another MAGIC agent who was allowed into the city earlier. Her name is Kori, and she is younger, cuter, friendlier and lower in rank than her werecoon counterpart. The two were old friends, and she accompanies Black, Roki and King to the SWAT station to speak with Jethro. Jethro welcomes them, but is concerned that OMNIDRINK might be watching. His concerns are founded as Kilo and her team are roused to go deal with a solid lead on the witch.
Jethro shows Jabber to Black, and the witch is filled with rage that they'd do this to him. King isn't quite so worried about Jabber's current state, preferring it to his old one in any case, but still helps as best he can. They realize magic won't work since dragonkin are heavily resistant to magical alteration, and are in the middle of crafting another plan when the Regulators show up. Black goes berserk, jinxing everything left and right while the SWAT crew, King and Roki escape. Kori stays in the midst of things, but finds she doesn't need to do much as Black's power explodes through the building, ripping the Regulator team and the building itself apart. The Major is pinned in an explosion, and his field lieutenants (Kilo and Victor) fail to reach him before he falls beneath the collapsing floor. Victor makes the call to get as many men out alive as they can, and the Major, hurt badly in the blow is forced to take on both Roki and Black. He futilely tries to strangle the witch when Roki pounces him and Black casts a spell that causes his arm to explode. They are about to finish him off when Makawee decides that she sees a different ending.
The Major's body explodes into a swarm of three-headed snakes and reappears outside the burning HQ in front of Vic and Kilo. His shirt and mask are gone, and his arm regrows slowly, his chest emblazoned with a message only visible to Kilo - "To the Turncoat Lover, with love." Appalled by the shear body count Black amassed and the destruction to the building, Kilo heads home confused and distraught with her partner. Black opens a portal for her and Roki to meet up with the SWAT crew near the border, and then transports Jethro and his men to her home outside of Barton. She invites Roki to join them.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:59 am
.......IN PROGRESS NOW (up to pg. 81).......
((This post will be continuously updated in list form to give an idea of where people are currently and will be rewritten once we reach a good finite stopping point, when I'll make a new one. Get it?))
-Roki went with Black for a quick rest at her house outside Barton
-Kilo and Victor got yelled at. A lot. They have more hours on the street now
-Deceptus made his way to the bunker, having followed Krivvek
-He knocked, drama ensued
-they let him in and Black magicked her way in at PQ's request
-Black said there's not too much she can do for Harlow save for maybe some dream manipulation
-PQ passed out and received a bit of prophecy from Makawee saying that someone is coming for them and she has to sleep with Ash
-Ash, meanwhile, contemplated suicide, but a little date in his head with the gods of Norse mythology gave him a much needed pep talk, an enhanced arm, and his eyesight
-Roki met up with a hot babe at the Blow Torch, teenage romance ensues (D'AWWW!)
-PQ encounters Ash, Ash sees her in her human babe form, they sleep together
-Roki and Venus have dinner at her place
-Krivvek takes his turn with Makawee, he finds her less of a threat than he'd thought
-Surts is a d**k
-Vivian gets abused
-MCRAID succeeds in fulfilling the order to bring King in for Re-education, all King's allies receive messages saying he's down, including Kilo through rather discrete channels
-Erik, King's puppy, dies ( gonk crying )
-Harlow and Krivvek bond more
-Harlow miraculously writes a letter to Makawee, she's no longer afraid of her
-Deceptus is plagued by memories of a boy's childhood with his father
-Drake arrives in town
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-Ash takes the news about King badly and runs off immediately for Re-ed
-PQ stays behind to tend to her whole "family"
-Hakobe is touched by Makawee's presence, she is told that she is the only one who can take down Eliza
-Hakobe is inspired to run to Ash's aid, out for blood and using Eguze as a cloaking device
-MCRAID is sent to the vault, huge fight
-Harlow uses the pendant krivvek gave her, sending out a brief wave of engulfing darkness
-Black shows up with SWAT in tow, MCRAID bails praising OMNIDRINK for what they've done for his mental health
-The crew has a few minor injuries and a major security breach, to the orc caves they go!
-Ash and Nash (his cerberus puppy) meet up with Eliza, but a cloaked Hakobe interrupts with the business end of her hammer, wailing on the b***h and yelling in her own tongue
-Ash tries to calm her as Aranna, a draconic warden, shows to take the two in
-Ash grabs Eliza's still living body and runs, guns ablaze, the warden fails to stop him
-Ash calls in a Valkyrie, who descends to pick up Eliza's body and vanishes as quickly as she came
-Drake and Deceptus meet and become quick friends
-Makawee shows PQ and Black her cast of characters in the little prophecy she has running
-Black asks Makawee to find Lu-Lu, she is told be words for Re-ed
-PQ and Black plot
-Hakobe dreams of MCRAID while Ash tries to get them to the parking lot
-Kilo and Vic are ready and waiting for him there
-Kilo plans to throw the fight, but Carlton watches from afar and has other plans, opening fire on the weretiger and injuring his knee
-MCRAID shows up and is told to stay out of the fight, but Hakobe sees him and runs off to hug him and MCRAID unsurprisingly doesn't care
-Kilo and Vic fight Ash briefly until Kilo discreetly signals Ash before unleashing a blinding light in the lot, a distraction so Ash and Hakobe can run
-Ash has different plans, grabs Hakobe and the Regulator he now thinks is Hayley, and high-tails it out
-He takes off her mask and doesn't recognize her with her scars all but gone, her eyes whole, her hair short and her nose crooked
-Kilo takes a chance anyway and tells Ash to take Hakobe run, hands him her gun, and tells him to wail on her
-He knocks her out with a single blow, and Victor smells somthing fishy on the scene
-he curses himself when he realizes he doesn't want to be the one to land his partner in Re-ed, and shoots her in the gut before reporting her location
-both Lieutenants get yelled at a lot, again
-Ash and Hakobe meet the rest of the crew at the caves, Ash says nothing about Kilo and Eguze shows PQ a video of Hakobe's actions
-PQ and Black form a plan to mute the casters, raid the OMNIDRINK building on a rescue/sabotage mission, and blow the whole thing to hell
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-Surts activates a virus, freezing up all advanced mechanical intelligence in the area as a warning
-PQ and Eguze are affected strongly, Hakobe worries about MCRAID
-When they come to, PQ and crew talk logistics
-Drake and Nadleeh take to the streets to find a Dr. Tanis, taking down any OMNIgoons that stand in their way
-PQ puts the mute buttons into the water supply, and then goes on an obvious bombing run in which she intends to get taken in
-Kilo and Vic work the clean up at one of the sites, where a curious Deceptus stops in to watch
-Kilo spots him, calls in reinforcements, fight ensues
-Deceptus is wounded and runs, the Invisibles are all killed or horribly mutilated in the fight
-Drake meets up with Cassanrda, an old enemy, and she tries to lead him to OMNIDRINK's turf
-Surts is a d**k again, this time to PQ
-Black uses PQ's eyes to portal her way inside, giving PQ the bombs and going on a killing spree
-Hakobe tries totake out soem wrath on Surts, but PQ stops her, scolding her harshly as she disables her captor and plants a bomb within his throat
-Hakobe takes her aunt's words harshly and runs off, cloaked
-Kilo and Victor are sent to Surts' aid, only to find a damaged PQ trying to flee
-Vic takes to the bombs PQ drops, Kilo follows and communicates with her old friend, now mute
-PQ gets the message, has a sappy moment, and then runs like Kilo warned her to
-Victor is on to Kilo but lets it go, Kilo tries to unmute the casters
-The Major shows up in an enhanced suit to take town the Witch at all costs
-They fight, the witch suicide bombs, The Major absorbs most of the blast into his armor but not before causing a ton of destruction of his own
-The Major bleeds out, nearly dead, while Black ghosts out, totally dead
-PQ finds Ash's prostetics and King, dragging them out to the sewer with the last of her strength
-Victor takes the bombs as ar down in the building as they can go
-Kilo disables the mute buttons, the casters try to sap the magic from the explosives, diminishing the blasts' potency
-Kilo gets out quickly, PQ triggers the bombs
-Victor and others trapped in basement levels, but the building still stands
-Black heads back to Barton, a ghost
-Ash breaks into the Re-ed facility during the commotion, gets taken by a new race of beta soldiers, gets re-collared and sent out to the Blow Torch
-PQ wakes up in the sewers, human and with a heavy dose of amnesia
-Kilo roughly but safely gets her off the premesis and tells her to head for the caves
-PQ is taken in by Makawee, she is sent to the Blow Torch to await Ash with a letter in hand
-Vic and Kilo resolve the secrecy between them favorably, deciding their motives are different but not contrary, Vic does not report her
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CURRENT LOCATIONS: (pg. 81)
The Blow Torch
-Ash: recently collared by OMNIDRINK, seems to have someone else pulling his strings again
-PQ: recently human and experiencing strange amnesia
The Orc Caves
-Harlow/Krivvek: being adorable again
-Orcs
The Re-Ed Facility
-King: unconscious in the sewers under the building, has a tracking device planted on him for the rebels to follow
-MCRAID: never left the area, I don't think
-Major Dorian: in charge of the clean up efforts for now
-Surts: DEAD!
-Lucian
Regulator HQ/Barracks
-Victor/Kilo: resting in their quarters off duty for the time being
-The Major: in the medical bay, unconscious and near death
Barton
-Black: ghosting around, plotting
-SWAT (I think?)
Venus' Apartment
-Venus/Roki
Somewhere
-Deceptus: last seen in the sewers near the Regulator bar
-Hakobe: last seen in the Re-Ed facility, running away
-Drake: on the way to OMNIDRINK HQ
-Pieta
-Keel
-Kori
-All the other NPCs
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