Ok this is my first RPG on Dakka so well see how it goes

Here’s a bit of fluff, in the year 2085 a lot has changed some years previous (about 30) a plague of unknown origins swept over the planet, but instead of killing its victims it simply puts them in to a state of catatonic almost "time frozen" sleep, these victims were placed underground in huge extended vaults, in the hope that one day they would wake up again, the survivors of the plague were few, over 3/4 of the world population was "stored" in the underground vaults.

So the survivors, about 1.5 billion people joined together in the middle of Europe in a gigantic city state, the republic of Victus, as it became was filled with people of all nationalities. Cultures and religions clashed until one day a senator was visited by the image of a huge locked concrete door, one of the doors of the underground vaults.

An exploration team was sent down to the near forgotten vaults to open it and see if people were finally waking up. The vault, situated over the remains of southern France, was supposed to hold just under a million people. It was completely empty. Immediately exploration and recovery teams were sent to othe vaults across the globe, only to find every single one empty, bar one man. This man had lost his memory completely but had startling precognitive abilities and was completely blind deaf and mute. He could only communicate through a neural interface device that allowed his brain to think thoughts to a computer screen.

This man came to be known as the oracle and was placed under intensive care in an old cathedral of the Christian faith, over time the people of Victus began to worship the man as a near god, and the Cult of the wandering eye was formed, slowly the religion spread across the city until all people were under the influence of this (apparently) god like figure.

All was well in the Republic of Victus for several years, and although the missing sleepers were looked for, they were never found, and gradually the senate lost intrest in them.


They were however not lost entirely.


This game places you in the shoes of one of the citizens of Victus.
Because the republic of Victus required no military only a police force has been maintained, however mercenaries still exist and unless you specifically request otherwise players will play as a mercenary for simplicity.
There are 6 main "classes: to choose from:

The grunt
Your stock standard fighter thrown into the front lines of combat

The leader,
Charismatic and intelligent, attempts to stay out of the line of fire until he (or she) is needed, but when they do get into combat they deal lots of damage on key targets

The Tank
A heavy weapons support unit excelling with heavy repeater weapons

The Sniper
Far away from everything the sniper calmly picks his (or her) targets off one by one.

The Engineer
Specializing in explosives and close combat, the engineer can take out most targets.

The Medic
Unused to fighting but can bring to bear some close combat weaponry if needed, the medic is there for y’all idiots that get y’selfs shot.

Once we have a few players ill start things off

Oh by the way: weapons

Rifle weapons:
ESB caster: ESB stands for electrostatic bolt, this is a hunk of metal that reforms in mid-air into a viable bullet, the electrostatic discharge at the impact of the weapon can shut down the nervous system in the immediate area of the hit. Because of the nature of the weapon any small piece of metal may be fired from the weapons chamber.

Clutch rifle: This weapon fires a small trio of darts which inject a cocktail of toxins into the target which once mixed in the bloodstream cause and explosive reaction

SSLU: SSLU stands for Sub Sonic Linear Unit, this weapon is a stripped down version of the larger VIPW or Velocity Inducing Projectile Weapon, the SSLU fires a 50cm rod of carbon that upon impact disintegrates into atomic size. The rifle is completely silent to fire and can launch the rod at great range, it also incorporates a range-lock scope that can pinpoint targets even in low visibility. The weapon is essentially a sniper rifle.

Assault rifles and smg’s

ESB Repeater: a slightly larger version of its original pattern the ESB repeater boasts a 20 round clip that can fire in under 4 seconds, a single fire mode is also available, the clip is reloaded by feeding small chunks of metal into its conversion port.

Plas Repeater: A pattern of the pistol that holds 30 rounds and will empty in 2 and a half seconds

Pistols

Clutch pistol: A smaller version of its rifle pattern the concoction of the clutch pistol tends to be slightly less potent than its cousin because of size, however it is far more compact.



Plas Pistol: This weapon heats a metallic substance to near plasma levels and ejects it at speed via electromagnetic force, due to its immense power requirements the weapon may take time to recharge. Its larger version incorporates a heater clip that allows for rapid firing, however the weapon then must have its own store of ammo whereas the pistol version constructs ammunition automatically via mineral traces in the air.

Shotguns:
MPP: The multiple Pellet Projector (or MPP) fires several razor sharp pellets of iron, using electromagnetic forces. These pellets are quite capable of wrecking the armour of most infantry enemies.

Clutch burster: this weapon fires small grenades which release miniature versions of the Clutch rifles ammunition. However rather than the usual cocktail the toxins are simply lethal and will cause paralysis of the heart and brain in 5 minutes.

Heavy Machineguns:
Heavy Plas repeater: The largest version of the “Plas” family this weapon is quite capable of shearing through a tank with its superheated rounds. It boasts a foldaway tripod and has a 300 round clip, which it will discharge in 5 seconds.

SSLU minigun: This weapon involves several rotating rails which create and intense electromagnetic charge that can propel several iron rods at terminal velocity. The chain fed tripod mounted weapon is usually quite rare and the ammo even more so.

Shoulder mounted missiles:
VIPW: As afore mentioned this is the big daddy of railclass weapons, the shoulder mounted weapon fires a single rail which splits inflight to reveal a miniature tactical warhead. The radiation is non-existent and its blast radius is contained and funnelled by the directional charge head. This is the ultimate anti-vehicle weapon and can be relied upon to disable or wreck most vehicles and walkers.
There are other weapons which I will introduce as time goes on.


The main objectives in game revolve around capturing renegade sleepers and dealing with “outlanders” people who have been banished from the republic

(char sheets will pop up soon)

*GASP*
I shall join!!
But what do char. sheets look like?

getting them up now

Exemplar
Name: Terence Blackwood
Age: 35
Sleeper status: No relatives
Appearance: Leather jacket and jeans, pale face and dark eyes, leather boots.
Class: Sniper
Weaopns: SSLU, Plas pistol
Ammo: (please keep track of this) 8 SSLU rails
History: Was trained as a police sniper but cut loose from the government after a questionable operation that went wrong. Now a freelance Merc specializing in Sleeper assasination

Name: SID Meyerman
Age: 37
Sleeper status: No relatives
Appearance: buff, skinhead, ripped jeans, white tank top
Class: Engineer
Weaopns: Clutch Burster, VIPW
Ammo: (please keep track of this) 15 cltch burster shells, (VIPW is one shot)
History: grew up in the streets, learnt to fight for himself using brute strength and close combat wepons.

all good man

Name: Jason 'Ice' Morgan
Age: 22
Sleeper status: He's an orphaned only child
Appearance: 7'3"
Class: Tank
Weaopns: VIPW, and Heavy Plas Reeater
Ammo: 3 VIPW missiles, 200 Plas shots.
History: He was into growth drugs when he was younger. He grew huge on a cocktail of testosterone, several types of steroids, and other growth hormones. He got into martial arts, and was good at them. He heard of the possibility of fighting in the Mercenary companies, so he joined one.

Oh the ol' Terrence char sheet again!

Sorry to discover this a bit late Tyranic m8 but better late than never I suppose!

Anyway time for me character.

Name: Falco Trax
Age: 19
Sleeper Status: (I'm guessing this is how many relatives are sleepers?) His parents and 2 sisters.
Appearance: Black hoody, jeans, two black thin gloves, a skull mask that he wears all the time.
Class: Oooh, hard one, I guess the closest to Falco is mostprobably the leader.
Weapons: MPP, ESP repeater, and a PLAS pistol. Has a sniper at thier base.
Ammo: Keeps many on him at all times, so mostprobably 10 clips for the ESP repeater, 50 MPP pellets, but he does always keep a large stash of ammo at his base.
History: Falco was a rich boy, with his 2 sisters, one brother called Jason, and his mum and dad. His parents and his sisters were infected by the sleeper virus, but luckily Falco and his brother were unaffected. He could'nt stand having his parents and sisters not around, and him and his brother despised the way the senate dealt with everything, and when the cult was formed they despised that as well. Therefore, they faked thier own deaths, and started an Assassin brotherhood called the dark flame, to try and take down members of the cult and the senate. They recieved around 20 members inculding themselves, and were never seen when taking down a target. One time, because of a clumsy member, the brotherhood was discovered, and all members were killed apart from Falco and Jason, who were presumed dead. Jason however lost an arm, and recieved a mechaincal one to replace it. Falco now wants revenge for the deaths of his Assassins, and will get it by near enough any means.

Name: Gaz
Age: 20
Sleeper status: No relatives
Appearance:Tshirt jeans, pale face and Blue eyes, high tops
Class: Engineer
Weaopns: Esb Repeater MPP
Ammo: 20 ESB clips 50 MPP shells (tell me if thats too much)
History: Survived what should have been a fatal gun shot to the head. Has recoverd from it with the loss of his memory.

all good all of you ill start the rpg in a sec, Nocturnal im gonna be kind and give you 2 full 300 shot clips rather than 1 half empty one. everyone else, please pay attention to how much ammo you use, it makes the game slightly harder and it adds anouther element, well roll with it for a while but if its getting to much of a bother to keep track of ill just drop the ammo count

Ok heres the deal, this rpg will be run slightly differently, ill need you to post an intro and then i will describe the area your in, you can make desisions based on that.

(when i say intro look at the survive rp for an idea if your stuck)

the terrain directly adjacent to the walled city state is a huge area of commercial farmland, however beyond that alot of the planet is simply ruins, in the year 2085 architecture has turned more futureistic with dome roofs etc, expect to see more metal in structures than wood.

anyhoo i await your posts

(and vulkan do i smell a wolverine (x-men) reference?

Nope not x men(cant even remember watching any of them)

vehicals broke down all the time and engineers had to repair them, thats just how things work.
But half a convoyof broken down truck 50 miles out from the city was strange especialy seeing as there were no crew.
Gaz's team was comprised of 5 of them
Gary the one who thinks hes a joker
Steve his brother who is the real joker
Dan the smart one
Jake the lazy one
and Gaz
they had been out repairing the vehicals for two days and were starting to get tired of it
when they were done they were supposed to call the pick up team and wait for them to take the convoy back

suddenly a loud cracking sound came from behind the truck Dan was working on.
the rest of the team ran towards the sound weapons raised.
But nothing was there Dan had completely dissapeared......

Name: Log (what my friends call me, short for Lord of the Ghosts)
Age: somewhere around 16
Sleeper status: His mother, father and sister. (really his Grandfather, Grandmother, and Aunt)
Appearance: Victorian Trench coat with a Crimson-red I*F on the back, and a large hood.(Up most of the time) Odd haircut, if you could call it that. Black combat boots, followed by odd pants he made himself. On hard floors his boots make alot of noise. He is only 5'4". He is a Navajo Native American.
Class: Medic!
Weapons: Plasma pistol and a Clutch pistol. Reloads Clutch in three seconds. Wants a MPP, but Falco won't let him. He has two Razor-sharp 12-inch blades he can pull form his Trench coat and pierce one inch metal in a single second.
Ammo: 10 mags for Clutch pistol, but 400 rounds for Clutch hidden in his trench coat.
History: Born without his father, his mother raised him until he was ten. (his mother was 17 when he was born) He learned about his mother's father and mother and sister. They all fought in wars since forgotten by the plague. His mother was kidnapped by a group of thugs and to him, killed. He lived on the streets with the homeless until he trained himself to be faster than his Grandfather, aim better than his Grandmother, and heal others faster than his Aunt. The homeless praised and feared him. He was praised by some because he knew medical treatments better than a few Hospital workers, and feared him for his fighting prowess against thugs and crime. The police hunted him down for five hundred and twelve murders. They let him go because he killed serial killers and the like. They were going to train him, but he escaped. He entered the mercenary group by interest of Falco's Assassin group.

Name: Subject: Delta
Age: 37
Sleeper status: Unknown amount of family
Class: Sniper
Ammo: Locked in a Mental hospital no ammo
Apperance: Metel mask covers his face. Severel metel ribs
History: Thrown into a Mental hospital , Family has deemed him insane. Delta has seen many horrors through out his life.

(all goods log but remember the plas pistol reloads itself)
(and ok delta i guess your breaking out)
(vulkan)

Looking around you you scan the terrain. Around these parts there is a light cover of trees and the odd tubmle down house, plenty of hiding places, you have a look behind the truck and you notice evidence of a tussle, no blood but lots of disturbed dirt.

*tumble down house

Tyranic Marta wrote:(all goods log but remember the plas pistol reloads itself)
(and ok delta i guess your breaking out)
(vulkan)

Looking around you you scan the terrain. Around these parts there is a light cover of trees and the odd tumble down house, plenty of hiding places, you have a look behind the truck and you notice evidence of a tussle, no blood but lots of disturbed dirt.

[OOC: sorry, 10 mags for clutch, and 400 rounds for that.]
*Exams dirt*
"I'm guessing a brawl"

"Gary steve go check the house
Jake you sty here with me
stay in consant radion contact i want to know the moment you know anything"

(so your with em log?)

the two of you:

Gary and steve burst into the house and quickly clear it, they notice more scuffed dirt on the floor and a spent MMP cartridge.

(I are in house too)
Picks up MMP cartridge and says,
"still no blood. Complete miss. Fights, and no bodies..."

Steve looks at you
"sleepers, its got to be"

Vulkan: while outside you notice some tracks leading of away from the convoy, to the right of the house

looking into the trees you notice a slight glinting

epic double post fail

"you lot found anything yet?"

(im gonna assume you lot have radios)

Gaz's radio pipes up, "thrs somethin here, a spent MMP shell but no blood, more disturbed ground as well, it doesnt feel right"

"if theres any footprints or tracks you guys folow them me and jake will look for clues around here"

Turning around you se the glint again. suddenly a sense of foreboding comes upon you as you hear a crackling fizzing sound, unmistakably the loading of an old model Plas rifle

Gaz put his hands up
he knew if he span around weapon drawn he would get shot
He slowly span round to see his attacker...

The sleeper infront of his appeared young, about 20, he was obviously a sleeper because of the slightly higher brow ridge, even 50 years was enough for genetics to change the human race. The Plas rifle leveld at Gaz is a notoriously dodgy model, they were some of the first Plas weapons in existence and its massive reactor coil looping over the sleepers shoulder attests to its age.

Shakily the sleeper begins to speak

"ddrop your wweapon mmmercanary"

Gaz droped his weapons
and whispered into the radio
"I need some help guys"

Steve mutters back into your ear "do you want him dead?"

at the same time the sleeper motions for you to turn around

Two docters push Delta into a chair.
"Delta what did you see in the lab?"

Delta
around you you can see very little your head is clamped to the chair, your hands and legs are locked in place as well, your wearing a loose white linen tunic belted at the waist.

in front of you you can see a 30 something doctor with an orderly beside him, typing in midair

"no I want to question him."(whispered)

"What did you see Delta!"
"Xenoth XENOTH!"
Delta screems at the top of his lungs

A knife severs both hands of the sleeper. Log is over the sleeper with his other knife.

"phew that was close
Thanks for the save.

Jake Steve Tie him up in the back off one of the apc's well start questioning him."

"WHO ELSE IS HERE?!"
Log's voice sounded very deep and loud to the sleeper. (and everyone else for that matter)
"Gaz-everyone get to cover!"
Log takes his knives back and puts them in his Trench coat. He pulls both pistols from his coat, coking the clutch.

*ducking behind a tank*
"huh what just happened?!?!?!"

"THERE IS MORE HERE!"
Runs toward tank to Gaz.
"There can't be just one!"
Log hands the MMP cartridge...

The Docters throw Delta back into his cell not notacing the surgical scalple he borrowed...

Okey day, I'll hopefully have my intro up tomorrow, and also, it's looking forward to see this Rp develop Tyranic, I think it's gonna be real good.

Also thanks for the reference to my RP

Thnx man

(vulkan/log) out of the trees the dull thump of a VIPW rips out and the tank beside you bursts into flame, thrown forwards onto your chest you roll over and see a dozen sleepers coming out of the trees and the ugly shaped barrel of an old Plas heavy repeater.

(alpha) (thrs no xenos in this remember tht idk i9f ur mad just dont translate it into reality)

the cell your in is small, but it is effectivly a metal box with a door punched into it, nothing bar a small cot on the floor and a no-nonsense crapper bolted to the wall

"Checkmate"
Log holds his hands in the air.
During the blast, Log put both of his pistols in his coat.
His knives are still in his coat.
"Who else is here?"
"Where is your sniper?"

your radio pipes up again
"right here sir (steve speaking)"
Iron rods fly outta nowhere and maul the gunner crews on the Plas heavy repeater

from behind one of the trucks several plas repeaters fire of in short bursts, incinerating various body parts of the advancing sleepers,

the rest of your crew advance up blasting through the sleepers ranks with repeater fire.

"Quickly!"
"Grab their weapons!"
I grab an old repeater and search the others for ammo.
My character thinks there is a sniper, as there were only 13 sleepers.

(log)
the rest of your crew detain the living sleeprs and you begin to move forwards into the brush, you se the remains of a snipers den some way up and tracks heading to the west

"I think we should folow the track might show were these guys came from"

Using the scalpel stabs the guards and makes his way out of the Aylum.

(vulkan/log)

you quickly arrange groups into search and recovery teams, authorization of deeadly force on your call

(alpha)

making your way quietly through the asylum you quickly realize that you are several hundred metres underground., upon reaching the surface the light literally blinds you for a couple of seconds. For some reason there are no guards, you have been underground for so long that the architecture of the buildings is unfamiliar.

moving through the city streets you quickly find a safe point to hole up in, near the underground workings of the city state

hi guys mind if i join
Name: the death bringer
Age: unknown
Sleeper status: has no family left only his "cult"
Appearance: dark sinister and you dont want to have him at your enemies side XD (skull mask as face just for the creepy lvl going up)
Class: sniper
Weapons: 2 poisened blades (he is trained with them as he is an assasin) and of course his faithfull sniper gun (ESB type w scope) and his "reaper" pistol (clutch pistol)
Ammo: reaper: 50 already made (he can make his own clutch ammo from bones)
esb: 5 clips of 10 shots each
History: found by the cult as a child they raised him to be a stone cold killer. he trained for years with them and gained his death mask when he was an young adult. now he can be hired for some "dirty" jobs and he makes sure that the last thing his prey sees will be his death mask.

the bringer wakes up in the cult.
a servant is standing next to him.
"why did you wake me?"
"because the reaper wants to speak to you."
"ok then i will be going on a hunt again finally i thought i would never get a good hunt."

and with saying that he took his weapons and he went to the reaper

Falco stood inside a skyscraper on the top floor, staring out the window. His target would be here soon, and when he did Falco wanted to be ready.

His brother spoke to Falco through the comms,

"I see a car coming around your way, an expensive car. Could be him."

"Acknowledged," Falco replied.

Now he watched more intently, waiting for the car to appear, and his targets head to appear as well. The car arrived, and Falco took aim. He aimed at the door entrance, and saw a man come out. His mouth widened.

"It's not him! It's the targets car! It's at the right place, but it's not him!"

"What?!" Jason replied in anger. Listen, you have got to-"

"Hello Falco."

"What?! Who is this?!"

"Ohhh, I'm your target. Didn't you know?" the unknown voice asked. "Did you really think that I of all people would be killed that easily. Never mind, you mostprobably don't even nknow what I really do. Not that it matters. Goodbye. Forever."

Falco looked down and saw a red dot on his chest, moving towards his head.

"Oh gak!"

He sprinted away, just as the bullet cleared the space where his head was a moment ago.

Delta returns to his secret Storage Centre under a large building.

(Nucturne) (love the char) the reaper is a monastic figure, simple robes and bare sandals hide the fact thatthis man is the high supreme leader of the cult.

The bringer walks into the room, and kneels before the reaper,
"rise"
as the bringer rises he looks around the familiar room, all the whirring clocks are in place nothing has changed.
"you have become very efficient at your choson trade yes?"
the bringer answers clearly bu not loudly "yes"

"then i believe that i have a new task for you"

the reaper turns slowly and observes the bringer. "there are a pair of advocate sleepers, those who would infiltrate modern day society with their lies of the past, the cult of the wandering eye has requested of us that you kill these two."

"they will be in their usual building, the address is 146 Eyeless Front, do not allow them to go to their work again"

"the information we have on them is that they carry new model, but still civilian class, MPP's at all times and one of them may have a VIPW hidden somewhere, also expect Plas repeaters, they always travel the same route to the building they work at, a law firm named "Bridgesons" they will never get there"

"am i clear?"

"yes"

"then go"

(delta) (sorry idk why i kept callin ur dude alpha) in your storage locker you find your old clothes, also it seems that one of your contacts has come ahead of you and left (your choice of three weapons: scoped ESB, SSLU, ESB repeater)

you also find several Plas,shrap grenades (thrown by hand or launched from a Clutch burster grenade launcher, they eexplode sending near plasmic shards in a wave of shrapnel. this grenade is now open to find to all players)

You quickly kit up and head out

(Falco) as you run through the building you hear a sustained whine and recognizing the sound, throw yourself to the floor and pray to whatever god you follow, seconds later the repeated thunk thunk thunk of a SSLU heavy repeater meets your ears, the iron rods smash through the sides of the building and begin to pummel the superstructure, a VIPW rocket hammers home and the entire building shakes, you can hear the whine of sirens in the distance but you realize that your main problem is of the building collapsing with you still on the 85th floor.

"let's begin the hunt" bringer said when he was running towards the point of location where he was going to observe them from a nearby building.
he tries to find a weak spot in their routine and maybe even a chance for the killing blow.

(NOOOOOOOO SOMEBODYIES STOLEN MY SIGANTURE MASK!!!!!! I AM NOTHING NOW!!! Just kidding dude, I like you char also )


Falco stood up, and started to sprint to the stairs, while trying to dodge the bullets that were repeatedly firing right behind him. He got trhough the door to the stairways, and jumped over the banister to the other side of the staircase lower down. Repeatedly doing this.

Then he stopped, and realised what would happen if he left the building. They would undoibtedy be there, and he would have a slim chance of surviving against that number of soldiers. He would have to think of something else. Fast, the building would soon collapse. Then he thought of it. It was crazy but it was his only option. The soldiers had a heavy repeater, which therefore means that it must be on one of thier hight-tech helicopters. It was man operated, which meant that it wasn't completely sealed.

Then Falco stopped thinking it through and started to cimb back up the stairs, until he was on the top floor, overseeing all the other buildings around him. It was crazy, but he had to do it. He walked over to the edge, and saw the helicopter, the man who was operating the repeater saw him, and then the helicopter began to rise. He quickly took quite a few steps back, and waited.

Suddenly, the building let out a loud wail, and Falco knew it was collapsing. He had to do it know. He began to run, increasing his pace until he was at a sprinting pace, and took out his plas pistol. He saw the helicopter just before he reached the edge, and he leaped, using all the agility, and skills he had obtained in his life, and the ones he was born with. He fired his plas pistol at the man operating the repeater, and took him out, as the man fell back, his skin charred. The easy bit was over, now he prayed quickly, and prepared himself...

Falco jumps into space, the helicopter pilot sees the manouvre3 and tries to swerve, however falco grabs the landing rail and pumps a shot from his pistol into the bracket, swinging on the other bracket he flys forwards and up into the rear compartment.

Behind him the building collapses, thousands of tons of rubble thunder down and obliterate the police on the ground, you wince inwardly.

you fire a quick shot through the cockpit but only succeed in smashing the window. then you get an idea.

Swiveling the SSLU heavy repeater around you blast the operator from point blank range, the rods disintegrateing as they hit him killing him but leaving the mechanisms of the craft unharmed.

Even so the man flys through the windscreen taking the last of the glass with him, his limp body falls down to earth and is consumed by the falling rubble

you swing th pilots chair around and sit into it, blankly staring at the controls for a sec you remember the advice of a collegue, ignore evrything but the pedals and the steering column

you dont see any pedals but a set of important looking levers get your attention, you soon work out what makes the hovering vehicle move and you guide it to your destination which is.....

(Nocturne) As the highest ranking sniper in your cell of the cult, there are only three other men in the world who are better at setting up observation on a target, two of them are sleepers, the other was the man who you generally learnt your trade of.

Anyhoo you spend the day posing as a mechanic, gaining entry to the main building to set up "extended warranty electrical devices" (cameras and mics) after a time you thank them and give them your bill, you leave their building and take your equipment to the position you intend to use as your observation post.

Your reasoning for not killing them is simple, you dont have an exit, you dont have a plan, never break the 11th commandment, "thou shalt not get caught"

Reaching your OP you set up a complicated series of moniter banks and begin to watch the movements and outines of your prey.

On screen a 404 error comes up: cannot find hardware due to electrical fault.

you run a quick diagnostic and realize that the only error is that the cameras are doing exactly as they should, draining the power leaching of the fibre optic cables in the house

You grin to yourself as you reboot the camera and see it flicker into life "Theyre even paying the bill"

i see a point in their routine at night because they are both sleeping for only five minites in that time the bringer will start the hunt.

"finally a weak spot in the strong beast"

and with that he started to prepare for the next night it will be close combat his favourite kills

my plan is to open a window and go through it silently waking the first and slit his throat while he sees my mask. this guy was the 1 who needed to be the the gaurd then take the dude who is sleeping by waking him and killing him with my knifes 1 in the heart 1 in the neck i dont want them to scream. then i leave by that same window or by the door or by the ventilation circuit. i have noticed that thanks to the cameras.

there is no alarm due to the drainage of power

Beta choses the most acurate rifle and then desides to do the most sencible thing. KILL!

Falco let out a loud sigh of relief. It had worked, he was safe for now. Time to return to base.

He talked through the comms, hoping that his brother was okay and that he had connection.

"Jason, brother. I'm okay, it was a trap all allong. I don't know how, but they knew we were coming. I'm heading back to base now."

"Okay I read. I'll make my way back then, see ya there."

(noturne) You wait till dark when every thing is quiet.
Moving out onto the streets you see a heavy police prescence, but you are still wearing the mechanics uniform so you are completely innocuous. When you reach the building you swiftly move around the side of the house, camly opening a window with a multitool you slip inside.

The room you enter has a couple of computer banks but you have already determined that all of their files are "hardware incripted" completely unhackable. Moving your way to the bedroom you are on the lookout for the one who is awake.

You hear a pair of footfalls on the carpet outside the room your in, there appears to be a music player set into the wall, its a corner room so to full walls of windows but all are "blacked" for the night. There is little furniture but it is quite large and the door where the sound is coming from is in the middle of a wall.

(your gig from here)

(reaper)(are you changing your name?) You quickly kit up from the stores there, taking ammo and clothing and an old military bergan (big backpack) stuffing ammo for your rifle you look around, for anything else you may want...

(kais) You have a longish drive in the heli ahead of you, you turn it to silent mode and set up the auto pilot, above you the rotors flick to a different angle nd become completely silent, unfortunately this means the cabin lights all dim as well for stealth. Not to worry yoou were thinking about sleeping anyway, activating the heli's onboard active camo and sealing the doors you take a kip in the pilots seat as the heli sends you whirring to your base.

(next post from you is whn you land)

Vulkan_He'stan wrote:"I think we should folow the track might show were these guys came from"

If there are tracks... And why were there fights? We have one side, but where is the other? I think we should follow the tracks, but be on guard.

as your men fan out you slowly begin to lose the tracks, as if the weight of the maker is slowly lessening over time, to confirm this you can see several spent casings of an old grade of sniper rifle, the weapon was made before the plague.

'Sleepers- but who are they fighting?'
'I will go look for more clues in the sniper bunker!'

Heading back to the snipers den you look carefully through everything, in one of the bags left behind you find a small tape recorder, listening to it you hear reports of a OP that has been in place for a long time, the convoy has been set up as a target.

The OP has been in position for a long time and lots of valuable data is recorded, also you find that the sleepers arnt as unified as everyone has thought, this sniper was not part of the group that attacked the convoy in fact....
*into your radio you frantically yell, "its a trap theres more of them!!!"

Name: Cruor Defaeco
Age: 30
Sleeper status: no realitive apparently dead
Appearance: surfers hair gone white, tank top and cargo pants, tain skin with an array of tatoos and milky eyes, slightly deaf doesnt talk much, leather boots with knife holster.
Class: heavey
Weaopns: plas Repeater, clutch pistol holstered in boot, and plas pistol holstered at lower back, VIPW and machete Ammo: 5 plas Repeater clips same for clutch, VIPW 3 rounds.
History: freelancer, because of his tendancies towards explosive weapons he genrerally stays away from law enforcement agencies but occasionally demos a vechile for them, (from nowhere of course ). Prefers to stay on his own but doesnt mind working with others. Has a little black book of rules....

All good mate, give us an intro and you good to go, make sure you read all the plot because ill get mighty grumpy if you screw up

"let the harvest begin"

and with that he went into the room where they were asleep he saw the 1 lying on his back facing the window

"perfect"

the bringer sneaked behind him and grabbed his knife.
he silently reached for the neck and grabbed it. the sleeper woke up. he wanted to yell but it was too late his throut was cut off. he looked for any clues of explosive devices in the body but couldnt find anything.

then he went for the next one.

he was sleeping vastly.
the bringer knew there was somthing with the ticking in the wall thats why before he slit the throat of the sleeper he searched him. and there it was. a remote linked at the wireless bomb it was inmplanted in the heart that when it stopt pumping blood he would set the bomb of.

"damnit i know this stuff and i know how to defuse it. but its gonna be though."

with that the bringer planted his knife in the heart removing the remote and destroyed it before it could sent the signal.

"this is one of the hunts i like an challenging one"

he went to the first victim and planted his knife in the chin.

"i need to bring some trophies"

he tore the face clean of he did the same with the second.

lets see if i can find some spoils.

and with that he searched the appartement.

K I will hopefully do it later today

"Its a trap!" came through the radio and the whole squad dived for cover behind trees and walls

"I've arrived, landing now."

On the ground is a deserted space, until I press a button on my headset and the ground parts, leaving a huge area exposed. A landing pad.

I try to land nice and easy on the pad. Once I have touched the ground.

"Landed."

I exit the helicopter and head through a door on the right of the landing pad, before pressing the button on my headset again, which makes the ground close up again, leaving no trace of the base.

(nocturne) With the two sleepers dead you move confidently through the house, you know where every inch of security is from your surveilence, you erase all evidence of your entry and leave the bodies where they are, you search the house and find: 2* Civilian MPP (just looks different), 2* Plas Repeater, and a VIPW

(Vulkan) As the squad hit the ground, a series of sharp cracks hit the air, and chuncks of the trees around you are torn out. Unsure of what weapons the new comers are using you try to mentally search your head of all weaponry knowlege, then it comes to you, they are using a weapon so old that bullets for it are antique pieces, an AK47. You realize that the sleepers have made one fatal mistake, they left you alive. Crouching slightly and looking through some cover you see two walking slowly forwards on your left, and two on your right, between them and furthur back you see two standing with old, old, old, RPG weapons.

You calmly check your weapons and prepare to massacre them.

(kais) After the landing you head through your base to the briefing room and you debrief your brother on what happened, the both of you realize that the contract has just become alot more serious and your going to need help.

take it and leave the place.
and with that i left and rushed back to the base

upon arriving at the base an acolyte meets you

"the reaper is waiting"

"how did he..?"

"the reaper always knows"

as you enter the reapers inner sanctum he turns to you and gestures to a corner, from there a cloaked man walks forward, the reaper adresses you

"please hand over any weaponry or items you took from the house, you may keep your trophies"

*this is one of the few times i will give you a straight up choice, at times like this there is always consequences and benifits of both paths*

A: give the cloacked man the weapons

B: refuse

Uhh is it ok If I could get some options?

A.(because that was why i took it anyway)

"my great lord i have those weapons so you can use or sell them i want to see the dark rose become even more "beautiful"."

right sorry reaper, now that you have your weapons you listen to some radio for a while and you here of a hit on a Merc convoy just out of the city, pulling up a commscreen from the wall beside you you tap in the coordinates of the hit and you get a topogaphical map, after a quick study you realize that youve been there before.

(remember this is more about you deciding what you want to do rather than me leading you along by your nose)

(nucturne) the man comes forwards, bows to you and takes the weapons,

the reaper nods briefly and gestures to the man, who takes from his robes an ornate Plas pistol, "this new model is completely silent and recharges almost instantly, it is also completely stealth ready with no lights or other indicators, i would like you to have it in recognition of the services you providee to the cult."

"it would be a great honor almighty one"

"what can i do now in the service of the great reaper?"

The Insane Delta picks up his rifle and heads to the location.

"ok guys on the count of three
one
two
three!!"

"What? You suggest that we need help, when there is nobody that could help us. Remember, all our brothers are dead. Nobody now gives a f**k about us!"

(nocturne) The reaper looks you over slowly and then begins to speak. "There are a group of Mercaneries outside this city who are being incredibly helpful to our cause, even if they do not know it, i need you to go to these mercaneries and aid them for a time, but do not tell them who you work for, because at some point i will recall you and i will expect a full report on their strength and whereabouts, alos i will need dossiers on each member of the group." He gives you the coordinates to get to (Vulkan etc) and dismisses you from the room.

(Delta) Once outside of the city you move through the countryside at quite a pace, as you scan the terrain and crest a small hill you notice Plasma flashes and explosions from clutch rifles, bringing your scope to bear on the area you see the Mercaneries embattled with a group of sleepers.

I'm not requesting to play but merely saying how good that bit of fluff was, really nice and sutiably spooky. Nice work

(vulkan) You pop up from behind the scrub and so do your friends. The two on the left are the first to go, you empty your ESB's clip into them, as the nervous system around the hits shuts down they let out odd gurgling yells as their vocal chords cease to work. Dropping the ESB you draw your MPP and blast a shell between the two on the right, they flod upon themselfs screaming with gut wounds from the weapon, anouther shell puts them at peace. Finally the two in the middle have swung thier weapons to you and an RPG ripps past the place where you were. Rolling forwards you dodge the missle and you can hear it exploding in the tress behindyou, the shockwave catches up a second later and you are nearly pitched to the ground. Planting your leading foot firmly on the ground you bring up your MPP once more and fire a couple of quick rounds. The second rpg never fires.

thanks "eldar own"

(kais) Your brother grabs your shoulders and looks right at you. "Brother!!!! Calm down, yes our brothers are dead, but, there are those who could aid us, there are cults all over this city, other mercaneries, and more like them. We simply have to find someone who can help. Now that we have the Helicopter we can hit them anywhere, well done for bringing it back by the way. But listen to me, for the right cut of the profits im sure anyone would help."

"ok men lets more up further!"

"thank you master i will depart immediatly"

"i think the disguise as hunter in the area will be just fine"
"in his bionic eye he installed a camera"
"lets go"

(vulkan) log catches up to you and the group moves forward following the tracks, eventually the line of 7.62 sniper shells runs out ond you lose the trail.

(nocturne) You stealth your way through the forests of the outskirts of the city, you see the same plasma fire as (reaper) although from a different angle

"lets see i have the mercenaries there they need to live. and the sleepers there ok lets have some fun"

and with that aiming his rifle searching for the leader of the sleepers

"gotcha found ya cowering away. hiding is pointless the reaper will find ya always"

and with that he pulled the trigger aimed for a clean shot right between the eyes

(nocturne, Vulkan, Log) Through some twist of fate the ESB round flys through the air and imbedds itself just beneath the mans nose, as a result the top of the mans head flys off leaving the bottom bhind, yells of shock come up from the forest floor, you see the Mercaneries (who were stopped) Look up and bring weaopns to bear

Log and Vulkan quickly eliminate the sleepers and relieve them of weapons, the sniper is found sprinting up a hill, he doesnt get far as a clutch round hits him in the neck making his head explode.

"damn maties that was close, how are you doing?"
already making as much foto's as possible
"i thought i could help by saving ur ass"
"where are you going to and what are you doing here?"
"who are you anyways"

"i'm gaz and thats Log
were engineers, we were fixing a convoy up but we got ambushed by sleepers
we were following tracks but it seems to have stoped here so I'm not sure where we are going now."

"mates i think it will be more safe if i travel with ya cauze i know this place as well as my own thumb"

tchick tchick engineer 1 gaz engineer 2 Log

"and who are those people?"

"ahh the remaining few of our engineers"

"ok but why are you heavily armed and do you have military insignia's?"

"and what are you searching for as i said before i know this place as my thumb so i probably know where it is"

"where these sleepers came from.
and were engineers from the capital and get attack often but no usualy this badly"

(nocturne) as you talk with the engineer leader you take pictures of the groups weapons and their faces, distinguishing marks etc, as yout alk you also nitice that most of the surrounding engineers are quite battered and are supporting wounds, they are also quite weary of you

(vulkan) your instincts tell you that there is something about this guy that isnt wuite what it seems but he doesnt seem to want to cause you harm

"Log can i talk to you in private for a sec?"
*whispering"I don't trust him to much I don't know why"

Falco smile as suddenly he feel that there is hope.

"You are right, and we have enough money to buy anybody around. I'm sorry for bringing back the memories. At least now we have a chance. We must leave soon, and find somebody who will help. We have been decieved, and it will not happen again."

(vulkan) well wait for log on this one

(kais) Your brother smiles and claps you on the shoulder, "good man, now lets find out who else has a grudge against this guy"

"well i see you guys have some transport problems"
pointing at an destroyed transport
"if you want i can bring you to my camp where we can rest for some time and have a good meal"
pointing at an killed animal

(thinks: lucky me, i knew it was a good idea to have some preparations)

"when you are ready we can go if you guys want i will go and prepare the meals anyway cauze i am insisting that you eat with me thats a tradition of the hunters always let ur companions eat from the first caught animal of the hunt"
he left clapping on the shoulder of gaz( with that he installed an litlle microphone that is undetectable as it is now in the jacket inplanted yes inside the jacket)
and with that he went to the animal and began skinning it singing an old hunters song.

after the skinning was done he stood up

"i see many of ur men are wounded. do you have a medic because i have some skills. you learn some stuff in these wildlands."
he smiled at the man with an warm expression

(were gonna have to wait for log cause most of the stuff here is requireing his input)

(yes sir but btw i want an oppinion do you guys think my char is op cause i think it may be a little op in another ones oppinion)

wee bit op, but not really

Is it to late for me to join?

not at all

oh and for all you who are intrested ive got one more rp going now, its quite important to me and i hope youll join, dw ill pay the same amount of attention to this thread as well

Name: Felis Drydas
Age: 35
Sleeper status: Wife
Appearance: Scarred, 5'7, serious, grave voice, khakis and a military jacket
Class: Sniper
Weaopns: ESB caster, longsword
Ammo: Pah! He uses a 300 nail box as his ammo!
History: As an ex army and professional fencer, he worked with some mercs looking for lost vaults to plunder for treasures. Now he's out to find his wife, and kill whoever did this to his family.

verry nice char, alright chuck an intro post up and let rip

"We've got another group, boss." The radio hissed as Felis spoke. "6, maybe 7, all female, mostly kids. Unarmed." "Bring them in. They look like they could use some help." "Got it, boss." Felis stood up. "Ladies! Over here! I'm here to-"

The sharp crack of the gunfire was earsplitting, especially on the eastern plains. The slug hit his calf, nearly cutting it in half.
"F**k, ugh, gotta make it to cover..." Felis was crawling, trying to apply the medi-kit as best he could. Raising the rifle, he could see there was a 8th person in the group. A male, with a small bore pistol. The women were laughing, watching the carnage, thinking he was a scavenger. Sick animals.

"I need a fire mission at 2-3-6-9, ASAP!" He raised his rifle and fired a nail, splitting the man's head in half, and blowing it up like a juicy watermelon. "Fire mission? Drydas, we don't fire on civs." "My god damned leg is F**king missing! I'm sure that THESE AREN'T CIVS."

"... Fine. But if those kids die, it's on your head." Another shot rang out. The children, or midgets, as he now noticed, has pulled out more weapons. The pseudo nail rifle split another skull. The group was advancing to fast.

"Where's that fire mission?!?!" "Hold on, Drydas, the mortar's loading..."

The midgets and women now had metal bats drawn, ready to pummel Felis into the ground. He pulled out his longsword, and swung it around desperately.

"You want some? Come get it! GRAH!" He lunged at the only woman left, slicing her arm off in a fine stroke of the massive blade. She fell to her knees, and Felis cleaved off her head.

"Felis, we're going to fire, but you are danger close! I repeat, you are danger close!"

"FIRE THE GODDAMNED MORTAR!" Screamed Felis, as more scavengers appeared, trying to kill him and loot his corpse.

After killing about 10 of the hundreds of men, gathered for miles, the ominous hiss of the mortar sounded. Felis hit the deck. It saved his life.

The next thing he remembered was him waking up in the infirmary, his Boss looking grim, and the intense pain in his arm. He blacked out, once again.

nicely done

(chowder) When you finally come round you are lying on a classic infirmary bed, the green gel mattress is supporting you nicely and the exosheets are healing your calf and other wounds. As you get your bearings a blurry face swims into veiw, you try to croak out a greeting and an explanation but he cuts you off

"They wernt civilians were they? What weapons were they using? did you see?"

He spoke in a voice that sounded like sandpaper.

"I don't know who they were, but they were well armed, well trained, and well funded."

"Good, good. Hit him with the sedatives."

No, no, no... He thought as his mind raced. His leg was healing, he was good, but his wife. Julia. He would remember the day she went to the vaults.

He passed out. The man nodded, and said, "Doctor, preform the operation."

Time passes slowly for Felis, he drifts in and out of conciousness for a week or two, he vaguely sees and feels something strange about himself, but in his sedated state he cant pin it down, finally he wakes up on his bed and realizes that for the first time in a long time, his mind is perfectly clear.

He looks down and gasps, the skin on his injured calf is green, he shudders and then follows his way up his body, his entire body is green, and small dots are flowing through it. He shudders again and sees something strange, the pattern ripples on his body, he raises his hand up to look at and sees not gree, but the bed next to him, in a warped pattern over his hand.

(you know have active camoflague, it is effective while you are rested and well fed)

(you cant however turn it off and on at will, its their all the time, also you will need to eat more often because of the drain on your system)

Vulkan_He'stan wrote:"Log can i talk to you in private for a sec?"
*whispering"I don't trust him to much I don't know why"

nocturne's wrath wrote:"well i see you guys have some transport problems"
pointing at an destroyed transport
"if you want i can bring you to my camp where we can rest for some time and have a good meal"
pointing at an killed animal

(thinks: lucky me, i knew it was a good idea to have some preparations)

"when you are ready we can go if you guys want i will go and prepare the meals anyway cauze i am insisting that you eat with me thats a tradition of the hunters always let ur companions eat from the first caught animal of the hunt"
he left clapping on the shoulder of gaz( with that he installed an litlle microphone that is undetectable as it is now in the jacket inplanted yes inside the jacket)
and with that he went to the animal and began skinning it singing an old hunters song.

after the skinning was done he stood up

"i see many of ur men are wounded. do you have a medic because i have some skills. you learn some stuff in these wildlands."
he smiled at the man with an warm expression

Tyranic Marta wrote:(were gonna have to wait for log cause most of the stuff here is requireing his input)

(OOC: sorry I took so long...)

[whispering]"Gaz, I think he'll be fine. After all, he can provide some help somehow"

Log stands up, as we were all sitting down to talk.

"I may need an assistant with medical stuff."

Log gathers the engineers and exams their wounds.

A few of the engineers are sporting plasma wounds, but the majority are hits from ak's, its going to take quite some effort to get everyone patched up

(ok cause i thought you could learn many things in a assasins training. what about i let you choose were it hits and i just say he fires then the op lowers a bit right?)

"damn this looks kinda hard to patch up" he said when examining the wounds. "i cant help ya sorry"

"i can help the most of you with basic equipement as i am not a proffecional medic just a hunter."

as all the men were patched up he went to logg

"are you guys coming with me to my camp or will you stay here i think its safer if you come with me cause there may be sleepers searchiong for their "friends". "

(i almost gathered all of the info needed from small talk when patching someone up)

Im sorry but im going to quit. Just not my Cup of Tea.

no probs reaper

(nucturne) (absolutely if you do that itll work) (were gonna have to wait for others)

(chowder) after you get used to your "adaptation" and you recover from the operation, you quickly learn how disconcerting it is for others to talk to an invisible man

(i already did that)

"yhea sure we'll come to your base"

(ok nocturne/vulkan/log) As you head towards the bringers camp you notice that he is taking routes through trees and scrub that by rights shouldnt exist, you realize that you are walking through holograms, as the rest of the group finnally gets to the place you see a large clearing, at one end is a small hut made from rough hewn timber. A small fire is crackling and several glow cubes are set up around the place. At the back of the hut there is a large bolted and locked door set into the ground.

Name: Nicholas Richter
Age: 28
Sleeper status: 2 brothers and his father
Appearance: Black trenchcoat, and a top-hat. 6' 2", and built tough... like a ford.
Class: Leader
Weapons: Plas-Pistol, MPP, and a knife.
Ammo: 50 MPP Shells
History: He lost his only siblings to the plague. His mother was killed in the panic after it broke out. From then on he acted as a vigilante. When the "oracle" showed up, he thought it was a load of crap, and started trying to dig up what he could about the disappearance of the sleepers and finding out who the oracle really was.

good man, need an intro post then your crackin

"well here we are if you guys want you can set up your tents here and we are going to eat when ur done"

"oh i saw you looking at these holograms. they are from a trader i helped about a week ago i use them to keep the camp hidden because nobody would expect an hologram in the woods so sorry if it scared the crap out of u"

"and welcome to my home btw"

"i would like only one thing from you guys and that is to stay out of my little house please as it is the only thing that is left of my family and it is the only thing i dont want te be entered by other people. thats my only request."

when everybody was setting up there camps the bringer sent an message to the cult
(11100010101. from:the bringer to: the cult 10001010101)
brothers here in these documents are all the info requested about the group pics included i am waiting for next request of the reaper.

@nocturne... your characters name is so confusing, everytime I hear it I do a double take...


A scream pierced the night air, bringing Nicholas up with a start. He jumped out of his bed and grabbed his shotgun, and headed outside into the dark.

The lack of lamps in his side of town added to already disturbing circumstances. Another scream flew through the air, and Nick headed towards it… hoping that he wasn’t too late.

He raced through the alleyways, his heart thumping.

He saw 2 figures in front of them. A man over the dead body of a woman. The man looked down as Nick approached him, his face concealed by shadows.

“Haha, you are too late, Nicholas…”

Falco prepped the Helicopter for launch as his brother finished loading the equipment. As soon as he was ready he looked at his brother and asked him if he was ready. Jason replied with a thumbs up, and then hopped in.

"Okay were ready to go. We'll check the dark part of the city, nobody will care about the helicopter there, and we will almost definately find somebody to help us. We'll just have to look out for vigilantes, the place has a few there, and we'll arouse suspicion if we see one."

"Good idea, lets go."

(ok the bringer is me sounds less awsome than the reaper thats why i am lower than the reaper and i am a substitude)

(sos bout the delay)
(nocturne) everyone begins to set up small huts etc and get all ammo/weapons sorted, a small tent is set up for the severly wounded.

(Bringer) (nice) the town around you is built in an old style, with architecture from before the fall (lets call it the fall from now on (its the plague)) the man infront of you is wearing robes of pitch black bioform, (this new material is somewhat like lycra in chemical makeup but looks like wool) he grins and steps back into the shadows, dissapearing from sight

(shas) As the chopper flys up into the night sky you and your brother begin to use some scanning equipment to monitor newband radio waves for signs of black market comms.

Base of charater more info will be added later
Name: Cruor Defaeco
Sex: Male
Age:30
Statuse: was sleeper in unknown station. no family accounted for all presumed dead. time of sleep not recorded.
Base features: White grey hair in surfers style. tank top with cargo pants and leather boots. skin tan wtih network of a tatoo running from lower back along sholders, arms and ending at hands. Has white fighters bands staring at second nuckles going to elbow. has knife holsters in boots.

Will add more detail later on along with history and what he is armd with at later date.
Class: Heavy

(oh wait i get it ur name is bringer 2 srry but i cant change it)

(message to the reaper from: bringer)
lord i have sent you all the data waiting for further orders.

Nicholas run after the man into the shadows...

While doing this, he takes out his cellphone..

"Mike, you there."

"Ughhh, it 3, what's the problem."

"There is this dead women down a couple blocks south of my place. I need you to take care of it."

"Ok.. what are you doing."

"Chasing the killer."

Nick takes out his shotgun, as he approaches a T in the road. He looks around, and hears the thud of boots off to his left. Nick quickly glances of to the right out of paranoia, and then runs to the left. He approached an intersection. The man was gone by now. He looked around, nothing. He heard nothing. All was dark, and silent.

The freak had gotten away, for now.

(nocturne) (you could change your name if you wanted, i dont mind it sits like this) The reply comes quickly "Dont let the engineers die, they have become important."

"Log we have to sneek into that place
if hes hiding something then it will probably be there."

(bringer) Mike appears around a corner, hes pulling a small hover streacher, the two of you lift the poor woman onto the streacher and begin to take her back to...?

"Thanks Mike... the killer got away."

"... yeah. Here's her wallet."

Nick looked through it, the woman's name was Katherine Stewart...

"I'll take her to the hospital, they can find her family and deal with everything," said Nicholas. "Did you see anything on the body that would give us any leads on who the killer is?"

(bringer) lots of blunt forced tramua to the head and back, as if she fell from high up onto the back of her torso, serveral sharp cuts to the chest with a bladed object about 45 cm long, goes right through the chest, front on, that sais alot about the killer, he was looking at her face when he killed her, that shows either a lack of morals or insanity, also she looks incredibly calm, no shock, which suggests that she had been captured before hand and had made her peace.... you say he was next to the body? after a fall he goes down to look at his handywok... sick.. that is so sick."

"yes sir "
and he logged out and hide everything in secret places only he could find using holographics and passwords.

the bringer walked outside looking for the engineers

"Activate the scanner. Tell me if theres anything down there."

(falco) the scanner throws up a thermal resolution on the screen, whith a chem-scan overlay, it is designed to pick up a certain trace signature that black market mercanaries pant in transparant liquids over some part of thier weapons, once it dries it forms a ultra thin coating that allows scanners such as yours to find them.

After about ten minutes you hit gold, a large band of Mercaneries inside a 13 story building, all up you can count about 30

(nocturne) it doesnt take you long, the engineers have turned the clearing into a rather comprehensive camp in a short time, of to one side you see (vulkan) and log talking together

i walk to them.
"hi mates an impressive thing you did in such a short time. the dinner is almost done i think we can eat in about an hour."

(all charcters)

**game event**

(this is on portaholo screens which everyone has)

As The bringer and his friends begin to settle down to dinner, (the bringer sos cant remember your char name) heads to the hospital with mike, and falco and his brother prepare to meet the mercanaries their portaholoscreens pop into life with a news reel,
The view cuts in of an arieal shot of a torn up ruin of a town, esb shots crackle through the air and VIPW missles wreck more houses "The sleepers of eastern europe are getting bolder, apparently they stole some weapons from a locked down mercanery armoury and are sweeping through the village of Londville, 200 deaths are suspected already and many more could follow"

the veiw switches to the side of a house where several bodies are lying charred and smoking against the walls. and then to the streets of the village where many bodies are lying on the hovermac. "this bold and unprovoked attack seems to be the first in what appears to be a series of major strikes, word is coming in of attacks all over the country side."

"more information will be broadcast as we get it"

"damn maties thats some serieus bisnis."
"what are we going to do?"

"I'm gonna take us down quietly on the top of the building, then we can make our way down to them."

We land, and then we quietly begin to make our way down the building, ready to meet the mercenaries, our guns ready to use if necessary.

(Falco) You and your brother walk cautiously to the door ontop of the roof, once you have landed. Before you get there it swings open and a short fat man wearing a deep purple waistcoat and some kind of arabic pants with calf length military boots walks up to you, completely alone but with a nasty looking tri barreled plas repeater slung across his back. "Hello my friends what brings you here, Falco your looking grand, not a touch of dust on you from that faling building hmm? and your brother oh fantastic, come inside weve been waiting for you." you are slightly taken aback at the short fat man and are mildly peturbed that he knows your name.

(Nocturne) The engineers look at you in shock, "what did they do to deserve this?"

Seeing the images across the holo-screen, Nicholas sighed deeply and put his face in his hand.

"Mike, I'm off to see what more I can find about the killer... I want to get this over as soon as possible, because it looks like I could be needed elsewhere."

"Okay man. C'ya later."

Nick headed off to the area where he found the woman, maybe he'd find something else that would lead him to the killer. He looked on the ground and only saw a few splatters of blood. Looking around, he saw an emergency fire escape. He ran up it, and then climbed onto the rooftop.

The rooftop gives a spectacular view, its one of the higher in the village and you can see right across to the farmplains outside the city. From where you are standing you can see some of the blood splatters but its very high up and the light isnt good, you look around for a bit and find some rope, frayed as if it had been cut through with a dull knife, there is blood on it.

Thinking to himself "He must have used this to tie her up. He let cut her bonds here, and then pushed her off, or she jumped, however unlikely."


Nicholas put down a video-camera on the roof pointing at the rope. Criminals rarely return to the scene of crime, but with a psycho like this, who knows? He took out an ancient lcd pad, and saw the image of the roof.

Nicholas then headed back home for breakfast, and to see what more he could find about this Katherine Stewart.

(the bringer)halfway there you remember that she would have been dead before he threw her off

"maybe we can help them?"

"i am going inside for some rest see you guys tommorrow."

with that the bringer walked inside the building.
he searched for his equipement and started it.

"lord am i allowed to go with the group to the warzone or do i need to stay. do i need to come back or what are my orders?"

I walk into the room slowly, looking out for any danger. I signal from my brother to stay on guard.

(nocturne) The reply comes as before swiftly, "I have indeed seen the crisis in the warzone, and it would not concern you if you were not with the engineers, remember you still serve me, however situations change, you are with the engineers and they are... dogooders of a sort, they will eventually try to help the people in those villages, and they must not die. copy they must not die. Those are your orders, protectet them or at least help them to stay alive, the rest is up to you. ***end transmission***

(shas) Your brother does indeed stay on guard, the two of you move in what would usually be a potential way to take the fat man as a shield while the other ducks for cover, and prepare for a fire fight. But it seems there is no need, the man leads you down several flights of stairs to the 8th floor, when there he leads you through a couple of rooms and into a larger room with a large steel table dominationg the center of it, chairs aree placed around the table and 13 men ar sitting in them, richly dressed and with highly servicable and leathal weaponary lying on the table or sitting in holsters, one man is disasembling a Plas Repeater and modifying the power conduits.

The man at the head of the table motions you to sit in the two empty chairs.

Log ate the food he got from the base cook.
Eggs, something that tastes like eggs, and a cup of egg yoke.
Log might never forget that meal, as long as no one tops it with an omelet.
After the meal, he cleaned his plaspistol for better mineral charge, and his knifes because they had blood on them.
387 clutch shots left.

After that, he made a map, crudely labeling specific buildings.
Log walked up to Gaz,
"The best survival tatics would be to either; Scatter all of the population and deal with the heavest Sleepers, Or gather everyone to a single point and defend it until we have destroyed all sleepers in a siege-like combat, Or to get everyone out of the town and run until we have support of a larger police force."

(log)the engineers around you make comments about the layout of the town and how the gas mains are usually quite close to the surface.

"yes my lord i will always serve you and i hope you know that i am one of your loyal servants and i would die for the black rose and the reaper"

he walked outside.

"maties i guess were going to the city then?"

"i will prepare myself because im going with you."

he grabbed his gun and his clutch pistol made some darts out of the bones of the animal and walked inside grabbing some poison to poison his weapons and clutch darts. his silenced gun always in his boots.he grabbed his ammo seeing that there was only fired a single bullet he smiled.149 shots left. he walked outside towards log and gaz.
"maties im ready when you are."
"i will say one thing. i am only coming with you because i am your guide through the wastelands. that means i come with you to protect ur asses i will not take commands ok. i apoligize but those are the rules for guides and hunters"

Nicholas sat down at his desk and turned on his computer.

He started a search for Katherine Stewart. He found one that lived in Hilrich (Now the name of the place I'm living.)

Nicholas got himself dressed, and grabbed his shotgun and plasma-pistol. He headed off to the east part of town where apparently this woman *lived*. He arrived at the edge of the town, and walked up to a house next to a barn, and knocked on the door.

(the bringer) the knocks sound out dull and hollow, a few seconds pass then there is the sound of a heavy bar being drawn back. It sounds like steel, the door opens smoothly on its hinges and behind it there is a 20 something citizen holding a civilan MPP, fully loaded and pointed right at your chest. "What do you want? My wife runs the business youve got to wait till she gets back"

(nocturne) The engineers, get up in a flurry of activity and seem to be packing weapons and ammunition, supplies etc, but they are also leaving behind significant amounts of gear, also the shelters are staying up.

Once the party is ready to go, you lead them through the holograms and into the bush.

"That's too bad sir, because I can't talk with your wife. She's dead. This morning I woke to her screaming, and I found a man over her dead body in the South side of town. Now, I suggest you put away that gun, Mr. Stewart, because I'm here to catch the killer."

"the man stumbles backwards and drops the shotgun, it clatters to the ground but he doesnt seem to notice, his eyes wide with disbelief, "n.n.n no. NO" he collapses against the door frame and begins to sob.

"I'm, I'm sorry about your loss.

The man that killed her stood at about 7 foot, and I never saw his face. From the scene of the crime, it looks like he had her captive, and then murdered her."

The man continued to cry for sometime, and then he managed to pull himself together for a few moments, "I don't know who he is at all. As I said my (here he paused a little) my wife runs the business."

"So, you don't get out of the house at all?"

"That isn't relevant..."

"I know this is hard on you, but I need to know a little more. I don't think this guy was a customer per-se.
When was the last time you saw your wife, and where was she headed?"

"She was headed to the city, she wanted to claim some more stock from the share market, she sells..... materials, that are sensitive to say the least, I doubt he was a customer. She might have had opposition but I dont think any of them would have done this."

"wel maties were going to war."

he guided them through the bush to a road

Cautiously, I move to the chair, and sit, down, observing the room, and the weapons.

(nocturne) As the days drift by you and your friends begin toweary of travel, however on the third day you all end up close to the village in question, looking through the tree line you can see smoke rising from the village, the milita is stil fighting with the sleepers as new model weapons of the milita are firing as well as the older models of the sleepers.

(shas) The mercaneries put their weapons by their sides and pull themselfs closer to the table, the leader speaks "we were scanning and happened to pick up your helicopter flying over head, we wouldnt have noticed otherwise, its very quite, i dot believe even the police have those yet. That however is not why you are here is it?"

"maties were here what are ur plans? cause i cant save ur asses when i dont know what ur going to do."
he took his sniper and looked for the sleeper weps and militia weps

"No it is not. We are here, because we are being tricked. We had gone to assassinate the leader of a weapons trade going on in the city. They knew we were coming, and we never leave traces. We have come for help."

(kinda dead huh XD)

"The guy who killed your wife was a complete psycho by my reckoning. Do you have absolutely any idea who would have ever wanted her dead? Was your wife acting strangely previously? Anything at all, because as is, I don't have much to go off of."

(sos bout the wait guys)
(nocturne) Through your scpoe you can see pockets of sustained fire rippling out from buildings, whatevers happening it seems that there is still enough scrap metal to make the ESB repeaters hum, the buildings are faling apart at the seems and as you scan through one actually collapses to the ground. From what your limited vision can see the attcking sleepers are using Civilian and mercanary grade ESB repeaters and you saw VIPW's on the news cast, also you can hear the sustained deep hum of a Plas heavy repeater somewhere, you arnt sure who owns it though. The Defending militia appear to be using police issue ESB rifles and Plas repeaters

(shas) The mercanary leader leans back in his seat, absent mindedly one-hand-cutting a deck of playing cards while his other hand rests on the table. "You have come for help. Yes i think we can help, but only when you tell us exactly who you were targeting and some more detailed information, also there is the matter of our fee. I have 32 men in this building and all of them would be willing to help for some.... compensation."

(the bringer) Looking at the man you realize that he has lost it completely, he is no longer speaking coherently, you move past him into the house and see racks of Plas repeaters on the walls, and more in boxes on the ground, on the table is a new model, 3 rotating barrels with a plas chamber directly above them feeding a leathal plasmic iron ore into the discharge chamber, the rate of fire is several times greater than that of an ordainary model, other than the weaponry the room is sparsly furnished, a couple of comfortable chairs and a low coffee table the only other things in the room, 3 doors lead of into other rooms.

Hmm...

Nicholas puts his hand on his shotgun, and looks back at the guy.

Does this guy happen to have the same height/build/voice of the killer?

"well maties, log, gaz what are we going to do?"

(bringer) no, hes about 6' 3" quite slim but looks like an athlete, the killer was about 7' and was powerfully built

(ic) (in the room with Shas) one of the many mercanaries around the table gats up and draws a knife from inside his boot raises it up and slams it into the metal table, embedding the weapon deep into the steel. "Well lets do it then, where the hell is he?"

(me)

(bout time Cruor we was wondering if you would ever show up)

(Cruor, Shas) All around you the room rises in uproar, everyone yelling to be heard then a Plas shot scorches the roof and the man at the head of the table yells for quite, "Cruor is right, lets do this, where is he?"

(oc ehm marta i think log and gaz are dead now i cant go further with my part how are we going to do this?)

"His name is Peter Molar. His guards are very dangerous. His house is in the Omega district, a mansion. We have as much money as you need."

"Adios Mr. Stewart. If you need me or have anything else to give me, here's my number," said Nicholas dropping a card at his feet.

"Your wife is at the hospital on Cross St."

With that, Nicholas left to go back to the scene of crime, while drumming his mind for answers.

(nocturne) (i can rp for them till they get back, if they come back)

(ic) Log and gaz look over the terrain and ask you what you saw, after telling them they begin to sketch a map in the ground, then Gaz wipes it out and pulls a topographical map from his bag, the two mutter for a minute or two, and then look at you, "we have a plan, but its gonna need your help"

(Shas) "Thats what we needed." standing he looks around "All right, i need all of you to get your respective teams and meet me outside in two hours, be fully kitted up, Falco, I would appreciate it if you and your brother could meet us about 10 miles down the road from this guys house in about 2 and a half hours, we will coordinate our strike from there, Lets do this"

(bringer) You think about what you know, the killer first killed the woman in town or someplace else, then threw her of the building, she diddnt have anyweapons on her which means the trip probably wasnt for business. Her business was high level arms dealing, and as a rule the only enemies were the competion in these times, so the killer was either related to the competition or completely separate, her husband most likely has nothing to do with it because of the shock when you told him, you still need more information.

"well what is the plan and i will look what i am going to do but don't do anything stupid"

(nocturne) the two guys look at each other and grimace, "Stupid? nothing we do is stupid, see that over hang over there, the one with the builing nestled into it, we need you to head over there and onto the building (it has a flat roof) and give us some over, Gaz is going to move with these two (he points at two of the engineers) and begin to set charges on the rads, stop them getting out, while that happens me and the rest of the boys are going to begin to extract militia out of the town, once everyone is out, we will need to regroup behind your overhang, if at anytime one of us fires our weapons, go loud,(military term for open fire). Once everyone is out well regroup and sort out phase two. Lets roll, we will wait for you to get into place before moving.

Nicholas goes home for some more research.

It was about 3:00 when he reached home. He opened his door and went into his dark house.

[development]
After his mother's death, he couldn't live in his old home. He didn't want to live in the past, and he never wanted to remember it. He had wandered for some time until he found this place. A house probably from a family of sleepers, who cares really? Nice abandoned houses were everywhere these days.
[/end development]



Nicholas logged onto his computer and started searching for companies that deal high level arms, and keeping his eye out for Katherine's name.

"ok but i don't want ur blood on my hands so pls be carefull or else the hunterlord will punish me and all who is punished aren't there to say how awfull it was. and i like you guys so i will do it but i will open fire as soon as anyone of these bastards comes in my sight."

(bringer) As you trawl through the cybernet you begin to find references to Katherine in many of the arms dealer websites, it seems she was a major supplier to the dealers themselfs, bringing in weapons and then selling them on to retailers. You quickly find that even though she is a part of many of the companies, she isnt very inlolved in the companies themselfs, and she seems to be one of the only suppliers in the region

"Pleasure to go into business with you."

Me and ,y brother then leave, and slip into the shadows, waiting for when we will meet them again.

(shas) the two of you start talking and your brother brings up a good point, "Were going to need more equipment than we have here"

(oc: whats happening 4 me?)

(your supposed to be rping you way up to the ridge....)

ill do it for you if you want

(oh ok didn't notice that srry)

all good, its on the last page i think

as the bringer heard what their plan was he knew it was going to be dangerous. but he was a skilled soldier of the reaper and he knew he would get these boys out of this hellpit alive.

"sure maties i will let you know when i am ready then the mission can start."

the bringer walked carefully to the ridge like a real hunter would follow his prey. he installed his sniper and prepared his clips for a fast reload if needed. he searched for possible dangerous locations and searched for the point where the engeneers were going to.

"ok got it i know what to do and i am almost for everything prepared. the only thing that could surprise me is an meteor falling from the sky."
the bringer smiled as he said quitly

"boys operation get ur asses out of this hellpit is a go."

(nocturne) the groups of engineers head to their objectives, carefully creeping through the rubble the first group reach the road, and in short order rig several layers of charges down into the surface of the hovermac, meanwhile the other group gets to the militia and begins to extractt hem after a short conversation.

Thats when things go wrong, several expolsives detonate through the center of the town and from behinf them comes the repeated blasts of a heavy pals repeater, chunks are torn out of the buildings and smoke grenades obscure the Sleepers fire points,

Several of the engineers get gunned down and most of the militia fold as the guns whirr through them, Gaz and Log both dive for cover and one of the engineers fires a VIPW into the rubble, the missle hits a stockpile of motar rounds and the resulting explosion knocks most of the cobatants to the ground.

Apparently out of ammo for the heavy weapons Sleepers begin to move through the town firing short bursts on ESB repeaters.

Gaz and Log begin to fire back claiming several kills.

"crap crap crap this couldn't go wrong."

he looked through his scope looking for some kills and to pin down enemies hoping for the engineers to escape.

"come on guys get moving i cant pin them down this long"

he saw the engineers trying to escape. meanwhile the bringer fired at the sleepers killing and holding them back as much as possible while he was counting his bullets fired in his mind.

If she is one of the only suppliers in the region, then it is very likely that one of her few competitors would have eliminated her, and then they would have a significant increase in business for themselves.

Nicholas changed his search, and now tried to find out who else supplied the dealers.

(Hay just what have i missed? Im with the bringer right)

(Hay just what have i missed? Im with the bringer right)

(Sorry double tape)

nope ur with the mercs sorting your gear out for the assault on the villa with falco and his brother

(sorry about the wait guys, its been along day)

(Nocturne) you manage to keep the sleepers back long enough for the engineers to extract all of their fallen and the militia and their fallen, however once the sleepers realize their prey is escaping they forsake cover and sprint towards the engineers, all are cut down by defensive fre, however one cunning sleeper you spot is aiming a VIPW in your direction, you calmly line up the shot and pull the trigger, dead mans click, your weapon has jammed

(the bringer) your new search quickly gets results, soon you have a set of names (3) with which to start the next phase of your investigation, (ill leave it up to you to invent names)

(K so nothing for me to do at the moment till the others start up?) Cruor double checks his gear and suits up his transport. After that comes back takes a look around at the other crew to see how there going.

(cruor) (you can rp your way to the rendevous) All around you the mercaneries are suiting up, blackout gear going over their normal clothing and then lines of grenades attatched to bandoliers, heavily modified plas repeaters slung on shoulders and Plas pistols in shoulder holsters, several of the mercaneries jump into vehicles around you and as you get into the driver seat of your truck a guy gets in beside you wielding a clutch burster, you hear several people getting into the back of your truck, then a bang on the cabback behind you "Lets get moving Cruor, you dont wanna be late do ya??"

Raming the clutch into gear and moving to catch up. Nearly lossing a man in the prosses

Cruor drives quickly along with the rest of the fleet, keeping happily in place,

(last gm from me tonight im heading off)

i quickely grap all my stuff and take it for a cover sprint. jumping for cover.

the missle fires and hammers home into where you were just lying, the explosion ripples through the hill, boreing a mssive trench through the rise, the concussive shock hits you and throws you to the ground.

i stumble back up and i do a quick fix up on my gun so it wont jam anymore. i aim at the VIPW as he is one of the bigger alarms. so i aim and prepare to kick some ass.
i also watch how the engineers are.

Your bullet smashes through the mans skull as he is reloading the weapon, the missle falls to the ground and detonates creating a massive crater around where the mans body is, turning to the engineers you se them sitting in cover, a couple are looking at you with questioning expressions

After several hours driving Cruor arives at the meeting gounds, setting up camp and getting the men with him to set up watches and clear the area of any surprises.

(cruor) as you and your men begin to fan out and set up a perimeter Falco and his brother arrive in their chopper, touching down the pair jump out and advance towards you.

"what is it? are we ready to leave this gak?

The first name that Nicholas was Steve Hicks, some hillbilly that decided to stock arms-dealers with weapons. According to what Nick could find, he never stayed in one place for long. He seemed to travel in and out of city a good deal.

The second person was named Leroy Perkins. He was a short fat guy, and he seemed to stay at his house while he had his few underlings do all the work for him.

The last man was some Spanish hobo named Rodrigo Ramirez. Extremely impoverished guy who gets by collecting what guns he can and selling them to dealers.

Nicholas decided looked where Steve was located at the time, and he was out of town, so Nicholas decided to head off for Ramirez.

"Agreed, we have one sniper between us, and our personal blades. We should get some more from the helicopter."

(shas grab what you want from your chopper, i assmue you have more in there so "grab" what you want.)

(nocturne) "Hell yes, lets get out of here, weve got the militia lets sram, can you lead us back to your camp? these people need medical attention and some of our engineers do as well."

(Bringer) It doesnt take long, you find Ramirez in a pocket of the city where the frequently jobless seem to reside, his filthy house (from the outside) is unmistakable as his, bearing the spanish lettering for "Ramirez" on the door.

Nicholas knocked on the door lightly...

(Btw Marta, do you have plans for the characters to join up eventually, or are you going to leave that to us?)

"sure maties but is there something you looked kinda confused or something. if there is something i want to know it now."

the engineers and the bringer prepared for an take of the bringer leading with the militia and engineers following.

"you militia boys. i want to make something clear ok. we saved ur ass. and i give you temporarely some shelter but you will not come into my cabin without my permission ok or else this will happen."

he grabbed his clutch gun and shot it in a surviving sleeper. letting his head explode.

"so be warned boys"

(was hoping you guys would give me some hint as to when you wanted it to happen, the event was supposed to draw more of you in... must think of a new plan...)

(Bringer) The door opens slowly, but only a crack or too, the force of your knocking openend the door, looking in you see the lock shattered on the floor, a trail of blood leading up the stairs.

(Nocturne) The militia nod and the engineers begin to move of, you in the lead.

"well boys whe're here. look for a nice spot and make their ur camp. and remember what i said about my cabin. i will also get some food."

he walked to the cabin and went inside.

he installed his receiver and send a message to the reaper.

"lord i....... i have failed. not all the engineers have made it some are dead. it wasn't my fault but if you want to punish me i will accept it."

he hid his receiver and grabbed some food. then he went outside.

"Well, this makes things simpler," thought Nick as he pulled out his shotgun and ran into the house. He looked around and listened.

(nocturne) When you come back from your food the reply is waiting. "There is never a punishment for something you cannot control, these engineers would have gone to the militia regardless of whether you were there or not, you saved their lives, all of them would have died. This i know for certain, you have not failed, you have fufilled your orders, however you are not yet done, one of our agents has renenged upon us, and is beggining to kill the people who supply our dealers with weapons, I need you and whoever you need to kill him."

(Bringer) As you get to the top of the stairs you retch, infront of you is Ramirez. At least his head is, nailed to the door, the front of his skull caved in. the torso is beneath it slumped against the door, to your left an arm and a leg have been nailed to the wall, to the right, the other arm and leg.

Nicholas gasped at the horror of the scene. This wasn't just murder, this was purely sick and demented.

Nicholas walked up to Ramirez's body and felt him to see how long he'd been dead.

(Bringer) As you move coler you notice the pool of blood on the floor, still dripping from the head, hes been dead less than two minutes

"Why am I always too late!" thought Nicholas... he looked around and listened, hoping that the killer was still close by, or still in the house even.

(bringer) You look on the flor and see several bloody footfrints leading through a door

I cautiously follow the tracks, with my shotgun ready.

(bringer) The door is closed infront of you, you can see a bloody handprint on the handle.

I listen to hear if there is anything on the other side.

(by the way, were there other houses touching this one, on the side or back?)

(Bringer) (two, one on each side, behind the house is a small garden, then more houses, classic suburbia)
You cant hear anything on the other side of the door

I open the door and look around.

(bringer) You see nothing of interest apart from the footsteps going up to a stove, the room appears to be a kitchen, upon closer inspection all of the gas galves are turned on, on the stov, the stove isnt lit.

Are there any bloody footprints exiting the room?

Yes the killer has jumped through the window.

he replied: "milord i am coming back as soon as possible."
and with that he turned and walked to the militia and engineers.
"maties i got message from the great lord of the hunt. i am ordered that i come to him leaving no traces so i am going to pack my stuff and burn the shed i will leave some holograms for you but i need something back for it as it is the rule of the wild. when you give you will also take."
he took his stuff and burned the shed.

(Sorry havent been on latly we still go for the hit?) Cruor says its time to move out all is ready and nothing is out of order. And if anything does go wrong we have a defended and setup camp to return to.

Nicholas hastily jumps out the window after the killer...

Whatever he hope to accomplish with the gas can't be good...

I take a few pistols, submachine guns, more ammo for my sniper, and explosives.

"All done, have you got everything?"

(bringer) You land in some shrubbery the next story dow, it breaks your fall nicely and you sprint back our onto the street, behind you in the house a handgrenade on a timer goes of, igniting the gas, the house explodes i massive churning fireball, and to all nearby you look like the arsonist.

You think 'Hes trying to break me off his trail by getting me thrown in prison..... gak"

(Cruor shas) The various teams spread out, several groups of mercs securing the road setting up heavy emplacements and the such, others circle around the back of the house. (because of the way this is gonna go down both of you have the chance to commune with each other and set up your plan for the two of you)

(nocturne) The engineers look around wearily.. none of them want to ive anything up, then two step forward, its gaz and log, they tell you that they intend to help you with whatever is happening with "The master of the hunt"

Nicholas swore under his breath as he turned away from the onlookers.

It probably wasn't worth it chasing the killer, he'd just have to get to the last target before the killer did... the question was who the target was?

Nicholas drummed his mind for the details he read on Hicks and Perkins... Hicks had a small family, a wife and two boys, who lived on a small farm outside the west side of the city. Which was part of the reason he traveled a great deal, going back and forth from family to dealing weapons. That was about all that Nicholas remembered.

There wasn't much on Perkins he could remember, apart from the fact that he was wealthy enough to afford hiring others to do all the work for him.

Considering these facts, Nicholas considered it extremely likely that Hicks was the next target... now he just had to get there before the killer did, and the killer had a head start, not to mention he didn't have the cops on his back.

Nicholas walked behind the burning house and ran for a while through the alleyways, giving him some time away from civilians. He took out his cell-phone and called Mike,

"Hey mike, I'm in some trouble."

"What do you need me to do?"

"I need you to give me the number of a guy called Steve Hicks, a weapons dealer."

"Um.... okay, anything else?"

"Yeah, I need you to see if you can find exactly where he is right now."

(bringer) Mike comes back to you quickly, "I triangulated his phones, hes driving west on the hovermac outside of the city centre, route 1334 at about 40 klicks an hour.. good luck," he also tells you the mans phone number before hanging up.

Behind you in the streets you can hear the multiple wail of sirens

"well if you guys wanna then its fine with me but i'm not gonna save ur asses over and over again. and o you guys have some clips for my sniper that will be fine so...."

"Listen, me and my brother will be on sniping duty, up on the buildings," Falco speaks into the radio. "Tell us if you need us... up close and personal..."

(nocturne) Gaz nods, "were not the ones who need protection mate, weve been through alot, and here", he flicks you a couple of clips, "the rounds in those have been modified, Once fired the outer shell of the bullet will be stripped away to reveal an explosive charge, explodes the instant after impact." Shall we go?

(Shas) (we need to wait on Cruors reply here)

"sure mates and thanks for following the rules of the wild"

(Nocturne) Gaz nods, "lets go"

we walk towards the main hive where we will meet the lord of the hunt. (he has aranged with his cult that some members will be actors so it will be kinda official)

Several members of the hunt move into the open light, their skin is bleached to a pasty white, they motion you inside, their lips have been sewn shut.

"come boys lets go inside"

(Nocturne) the three ofyou walk in, as your eyes adjust to the dim lit you can see the outline of a stone floor sweeping downwards in broard spiral stairs.

The two acolytes lead you down the stairs slowly, one of them asks a question of you which startles you as it reverberates through your mind, "We know you are here to see him, what is your ultimate purpose here?"

Nicholas taps out the number to Hicks as quickly as he can. Hearing the sirens, he runs through the alleyways...

*Ring*

Seeing a house that looks abandoned, Nick breaks through the door, and looks for a bathroom while waiting for Hicks to pick up.

*Ring*

Cruor desides that its time to put one of his major skills into play, he sets up himself and the crew who have joned him in key choke points so that when people break form the house they can sheeperd them into the traps set up later down the road. while also picking any straglers not fast enough.

(bringer) You lock your self into the bathroom and put your shotgun against the door cocked and ready to fire.

Ring

Ring

"Hurry up"

Ring

The phone finally gets through, "The man you are looking for is not here, he has.... other commitments, im sorry." the phone abruptly hangs up.

Once his crew is set up Cruor breacks from the group and heads to the house scoping out an entrance for himself to use to get in the house and take out the target.

"Looks like I'm going to have to do it the hard way..."

Nicholas flushes his phone down the toilet... and waits.

Just then the door to the house bursts open in a spray of splinters, and a hulking figure looms through, several long mechanical arms pulling the police spider droid through the wrecked door frame, a mechanical tinny voice that somehow reminds you of what a mother in law should sound like booms out. "The droid will shoot to kill, you have no chance, give yourself up"

Nicholas looks for a way to escape... It's an old house, perhaps the roof is weak enough for escape...

(By the way, what is the rough size of the spider droids... and are they well enough armored that I couldn't touch them? Also, what is the common method of transportation in this world?)

(think of a circle the diameter of the lentgh of a large car, that sthe legspan, its body is about 1 metre diameter shere and it has a heavy plas repeater and 2 esb repeaters mounted on it, the legs are nasty cc weapons also, its not very well armoured however and your character would know that they are only ever alone, usually a preemptive measure before reinforcements get there, you might be able to kill it, but you definitly cant out run it.)

Seeing as the police will only slow things down... which would guarantee the death of Hicks (if he indeed is innocent...), Nicholas sees fighting it off as the only option for now... or deceiving it.

(Before I do something stupid, how smart are robots?)

its a droid not a robot, droids are directly controlled by a person. Usually from very far away.

"i am here because i am ordered to ."

(Our one pls?)

(sos shas) Cruor makes a dash for the house, sliding up to the wall he looks carefully in through each window as he passes them on his way6 to a back door he spotted, some times he ducks back and waves a hand and a bullet from Falco or his brother blitz's the person or people (multiple bullets) in the room, only a slight tinkle of glass accompanies the shots.

Getting to the back door Crour realizes that the rest of the battle has begun in earnest and firefights are springing up, not bothering to take his time he boots open the door, and sees a cloack room, with an ajar door, three men are rushing to wards him.

(nocturne) "That is as it should always be" He stops next to a dorr but his companion continues through beckoning you, you walk through and see the lord of the hunt.

Well, here goes nothing.

Nicholas punched the mirror next to him, and grabbed one of the shards, which he used to cut up his arms mildly, and he put minor scratches on his face. He didn't hold in the pain, he screamed, and yelled for help.

Acting quickly, he concealed his shotgun in his coat, and kicked down the door of the bathroom, yelling help again. He then ran to the door while exclaiming (weakly, with a touch of sadness), "Thank the Oracle, the police!" as well as muttering incoherent statements.

Now let's see if they fall for it....

"gaz, log if you want to continue its your own choice as you see he has some weird appetites and i cant give you the security of an safe exit if something goes wrong between you and the lord"

(Bringer) The Droid moves backwards its legs getting out of your way, the mechanical voice booms out, "Who did this to you?"

(nocturne) gaz and log look pale but shake their heads, "were with you mate."

Seeing the first person he fills him with a round of reapeter sending the man flying and colapsing againsts the opersit wall. With his plasma pistol cruor wounds the next man in the sholder and while droping his repeater pulining his knife out he then close with the wonded and puts a slash in the guys thigh and and with a upwards strike severs his good arms tendons. The final man in close crour kicking a table into the man making him crumple onto it he then nails his arm to the table with his knife. finding his plasma pistol recharged he finishes him

Nicholas sobs, "I don't know! Some guy just game to my house, he cornered me in my bathroom, and then he started attacking me! When he heard the loud-speaker, he tried to grab me and put a knife to my throat, but I managed to kick him away and I ran towards you."

While doing this, Nicholas sees if there are any police-men in sight.