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Creative Arts and Media => Roleplay => Serious RP => Topic started by: Arke on June 21, 2008, 05:52:58 PM
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Wading through a small sea of bodies you enter your local game store, curious as to what the commotion is. Immediately, your eyes are seized by a wall of boxes slightly bigger than the average game case. Printed in large letters across the top is 'Black Dawn', the picture behind it of a destroyed city. Flipping over the case, you read the back cover. "Black Dawn puts players in a massive 3D world ravaged by war, and leaves it up to them. With the exclusive Mindgames 'Head-case' controller, players can literally do anything!" Set above this is a picture of a headband of some sort, placed at a dramatic angle. Below is a picture of a small group of people fighting some sort of lizard monster, the caption reading "Be anything! Use the 'Head-case' controller to sculpt your character, and guarentee a unique identity!" Turning to the checkout, you notice a small box of cards on the table. Grabbing one, you find spaces marked Name, Age, and Alias. Turning it over, you see that this is an advertisement for some kind of promotional stunt. "Sign up at select venues when you purchase your copy of 'Black Dawn' and you are automatically guaranteed a slot in Mindgames 'Black Dawn, blue seas' event, an all expenses paid two week vacation to the brand new cyber-resort 'The Kingdom of the Night', owned by Mindgames studios! Hurry, only 2000 slots available!" There are only a few cards left, so you decide to fill this one out. Outside, a bus waits to take you to the airport.
Dave walks down the tree shaded path toward The Kingdom of the Night, an imposing black structure that looked as if it had been pulled straight from the game, which it had. A pair of 'Guards' stood at the doors, dressed in a suit of blood red armor he had seen while glancing through the manual on the plane and holding what looked like assault rifles. The building itself, on the inside, seemed like a combination of a medieval fortress and a high-tech lab. It almost gave him DOOM flashbacks. Eventually the group he found himself in was ushered in to what was either a dining hall or a conference room, with another worker in an outrageous costume standing at the head of the long table. "Greetings, honored guests of the Crimson King. You are here because you have chosen to join us here at our fortress, to aid us in our fight to bring order to the world than has so long missed it. You will each be supplied with weapons and armor of your choice from the Kings personal armories, a private room within the fortress, and all the sustenance you could possibly desire. The Crimson King also grants you free reign of the grounds, and access to any one of our countless amenities. Once more I welcome you to the Kingdom, and I bid you good luck in your travels." The meeting over, Dave heads to his room. It was really more like a small apartment, complete with a kitchen and dining area, all set in the games style.
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she looked at the game, certainly intrigued. she checked her purse and decided that she could buy it. after buying it she ran to her friends house and tried it out.
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V one of the higher ranked people in the gamin community of course was quite excited with the official release of Black Dawn, he had done some of the Beta testing and could not think of anything else since then, especially given the fact for being part of the Beta test he was chosen to be able to start off with a higher ranked class then most players would, the advanced knight class Paladin. V who had preordered the game went over to the clerk who checked to make sure his name was on the list, while doing so V filled out one of the slips to be part of the special event. After V was doing that the clerk handed V the game and he left the store, this was of course something that happened a few days ago. V was now at the Kingdom of the Night, and had to admit it was a gamer's paradise! everything was detailed perfectly to match the game world, which gave V a chill down his spine seeing how reality and the virtual world blend so well together. After the meeting and such was over V went to his room to login to the game. V turned on the consule, and loaded the game, and a screen came up requesting his voice recognition, something V him self programmed in to prevent other hacking into his account. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall stand strong and fear no evil, amen." The screen then shown the login process underway, then the words on the screen came saying welcome Paladin Ace, you are being logged into the Paladin's hall, please report to the head Paladin for your mission overview. V then saw his character Ace on the screen, and soon the game world appeared around him. V spun his character around to see the belt of daggers, that were designed to look like small crosses, the long sword sheathed on the character's back making it seem that Ace was in fact carrying a cross on his back, and finally the gray fully automatic handgun, with blessed, mercury tipped bullets. Ace then walked to where the head Paladin was to receive his first quest.
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The introduction in the game world, once Dave had created Arke, his scout alias, was a mirror image of the one given in the conference chamber. He was currently outfitted in the armor the guards had been wearing, a cross between light plate mail and olive drab tank plating. Of course the armor had been stripped of its pauldrons, upper leg protection, and the gloves were fingerless. His helmet was reduced to little more than an eyepiece, and the armor repainted black. As if that weren't enough to set him apart, the character that had been generated for him by the headband controller was a coyote hybrid, much unlike the dozen or so humans. Leaving the second introduction he turned to the main gate, the guards waiting to meet him and assign him his first quest. "Ah, a scout, perfect! Come here, we've got a task for you. A group of knights are making a salvage run to the airship Amistad, one of the Sects frigates. We shot it down a few days ago, and it crashed out in the wastes. Scavengers have probably gotten everything they can carry off, but we're after one of their cannons. The Amistad was outfitted with a new type of cannon, and we want a look at it. And more importantly, we want you to give the knights all the cover they need with that sniper you've got. We hear they've got a Paladin with 'em, so you'd better get his plan on the assault. He'll probably be in the hangar." The entire order was given entirely in voice, not text, and in real time, and every word was mouthed by the guard with entirely flawless lip synching. And what Dave would have been amazed to know is that the Paladins presence was not a normal part of the quest, but part of the AI systems hive-mind awareness.
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Ace's first order given to him by the head Paladin was to escort a group of knights that are being sent to an airship known as the Amistad, that had been shot down only a few days ago. Befor ethe knights can salvage what they need Ace is required to vanquish a group of monsters that had home among the wreckage. Once that objective is clear Ace then is to remain and keep guard until the knights achieved their task. The group of knights are in the hangar and await Ace's arrival before taking off. So with acting in haste Ace heads to the hangar where sees the group of knights waiting for him, but also it seems they are waiting for one or more other people as well, most likely other players.
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she waited for the game to load, the stuck in her name, she choose to call herself X-ray...for a bit anyway then clicked ok and went to experience the fun. she looked around, she was in some sort of town, running into a office she awaited instructions for her next move
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The scout finds the hangar on his third attempt, his first two putting him in a laboratory of some sort, and somewhere outside. The knights had gathered along with a handful of medic class players, a dozen or so heavily armed 'tank' classes, and a group of engineers to fly the drop ships. One of the knights stood out so he assumed this was the Paladin, since he was not in the standard equipment. Arke salutes, his sniper rifle in hand. "Is this the Amistad salvage team?" Behind him a higher ranking engineer, his class title identifying him as a Manipulator, was lecturing the new players on the monsters they would be fighting. Wasteland raiders were likely to be present as well as giant insects of all varieties, a nasty type of lizard mutant called a 'reaver', and possibly surviving Sect infantry. He continues to explain the Sect to the new players, identifying them as the long-time enemies of the Crimson King.
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Ace stood there as the other players began to gather around the group of knights the last of which was a scout carrying a sniper rifle. The lead engineer also known as the Manipulator then began to lecture all the players on the kinds of foes they would be facing, Ace found it interesting when coming to the Sect how vague the information was given compared to what Ace was told by the head Paladin, apparently each different player or class rank was given information the others were not, a very realistic feature Ace was not use to and to say the least found to be a bit on the creepy side, none the less it was a feature that would make the game more of a challenge something Ace found to be a bit amusing, but being a Paladin it was not his position to question such an action, thus for the time being he would keep such thoughts to himself. After the lecture came to its end the other players began to board the drop ships.
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The drop ships were all Vertical Take-Off and Landing designs, or VTOLs, meaning they could take off like a helicopter and fly like a plane. Two were basic transports, one marked with a red cross identifying it as a medical ship, and the other two were troop carrying gunships. One, with the Manipulator at the helm, carried the Paladin and scout across the wasteland. There were windows, allowing the players and the NPC's used to fill the few empty slots a birds eye view of a massive scale battle going on beneath them. Door gunners fired, mainly machine guns although one of the transports had some sort of grenade launcher, at the unidentifiable troops below. This was because the only soldiers down there were wasteland raiders and Sect infantry. They passed the battle zone with negligible damage and sped onward, the wreckage of the Amistad coming into view. As one of the transports erupted into flame and shrapnel, luckily not the medical ship, it became obvious one of the airships cannons was still functional.
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((sorry for the delay been busy lately))
Ace watched from one of the windows as ship, undoubtedly an npc one created for cinematic purposes was destroyed by one of the functional cannons of the ruined airship. As the ship carrying Ace, and some of the other players including the scout that he saw earlier was beginning to land Ace walked up to the scout, and sent him the following private message. "What we are going to encounter are creatures far more frightful then one of your ranking could imagine. To be honest I am surprised for a beginning quest they would put us up to such a high challenge, for this going far beyond any beginners quest I have ever seen. That is why I am contacting you like this, because I am going to need you to cover my back, find a good place where you can be in range with your rifle where you will be out of harms way,leave the rest to me."
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((msy i ask but am i still in this))
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((I would assume so, yes, but Arke is the one you need to ask))
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she stood up and looked across the sea, she leaning on the railings from the ship, letting the wind play with her hair. she lifted the gun higher up her back then sighed, waiting for the ship to get to their destination
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((Max, be sure to put your character details in the companion thread, k?))
The scout nods, an action carried out by Dave making a similar gesture, running to a nearby hill the instant the dropship lands. The other players begin their short but treacherous journey through the ditch and debris left by the Amistad as it went down, while sets up his rifle. Set up on its bipod the rifle was far more accurate, allowing Arke to provide much more effective coverfire. His first priority was to sight in on the Paladin, and then he set his sights on any nearby enemies. There were plenty of those; giant mutated creatures of all shapes, sizes, and realms of terror fought with wasteland raiders and the surviving Sect crew, dressed in white armor that was outwardly much more streamlined than whatever armor the new players wore.
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Ace stood at the pathway of the remains of the airship, much of the main haul remained and almost looked like a pitch black hallway. Ace simply starred into the emptiness, or what seemed to be emptiness anyways, but Ace knew all too well of what horrible creatures lurked within the remains of the once mighty Amistad, a slight since of pity came over Ace knowing how ignorant the other players were to the danger they were about to walk straight into, but with any luck Ace might be able to slay all of them before most them wound up dead. "All ye heathen creatures, head well my warning I am the paladin Ace sent by his majesty the Crimson King, and here to claim what rightfully to his majesty. Leave willingly, and I shall cleanse ye of your sins, remain and I shall send thee back the bottomless pit in which thee came from!" Then an eerie silence filled the haul, a low clicking sound could be heard coming towards Ace, and the others, and Ace grabbed to daggers preparing himself for the battle that was about to begin. "Thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall stand strong and fear no evil. Amen!" Ace then held up his two daggers identical to the way V's favorite anime character Alexander Anderson does. not too much longer after doing so one of the giant mutated monsters charged at Ace, and he sliced of the creature's head, then the haul became visible as the entire place was shown to be completely covered with similar monsters. Ace saw one of the other players begin to hesitate as one of the monsters came towards him, and the player opened fire, but all too late he was already dead, or would have been if not for the blessed dagger Ace threw into its body. The other players then released a storm of gunfire at the creatures, some might live others would die, but Acedid not care any more. He was given a job, and was not going to stop for anything till it was complete.
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sh crawled through the dirt and grime and looked over the hill at the oppsoing team. she took out a gun she had found and aimed for the three men who had terrosied her village. she closed her eyes anf fired not wanting to listen to their screms
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The scout covers as many players as he can, his shots easily causing severe damage to anything unfortunate enough to be in his crosshairs. His rifle was designed to be reloaded with each shot so the going was slow at first, but he got into a rhythm with the rifle as he tore humans and mutants alike to pieces. The carnage seemed so distant to Arke, peering through his scope, but below other players characters were far less comfortable. The wind whipped the desert sand toward the downed airship, the single working cannon firing once more toward a second wave of dropships.
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she stumbled, tripping ono the floor,she reached for her gun and shot twice at the men who wee jumping over to her, she piked herself up and ran up the hil while kicking out at any enemies.
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Just as the commotion began so did it end, as the large cannon had now seized firing, proving that all the enemies had been defeated. Ace walked over to the cannon and signified to the salvaging team that it was all clear to begin the process of removing the cannon.
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And just as the fighting ended, so did it begin again. A group of wasteland raiders emerged, jumping from their crude vehicles and opening fire on the players as the final wave of dropships touched down to drop the last of the players off. The scout begins firing, but their armor means it takes two or even three shots to kill one of the advancing enemies.
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she sighed happily as she saw the battle close, then groaned inwardly as she saw the ships unload. will this never end" she thought tirelessly as she swung her weapon into one mans head, then took aim at one of the ships engines...
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after buying the game, she when home and started to play, She created a female hunter by the name of Saber. when everything was loaded she found herself in a town, She wondered around and soon came across a sort of office which she entered to see if she could get some information about anything that need to be done or any hunting type things she could do as a type of quest or mission
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Ace let out a sigh as he saw the wave of raiders coming towards the salvage team. "Keep working boys, I'll deal with these heathens." Not wanting any of the raiders to get close to the salvage team, Ace pulled out his handgun, which was a custom made made fully automatic, with the bullets having mercury tips and the shells themselves out of blessed steel. Ace then began to open fire, hitting each of his targets right in the forehead.
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The raiders on the front lines, those still alive at least, parted to reveal a pair of heavily armored and just as heavily armed soldiers, their suits obviously salvaged. They began mowing down the more exposed players with walls of bullets as their underlings kept them covered. An adventurous player may have wondered if one of the Amistads smaller deck guns would work, as such firepower would likely prove useful against such adversaries.
In the town, which was really more of a small city in the shadow of the Castle of the Crimson King, the hunter was met by an office clerk who it seemed had never heard of job satisfaction. "What? What do you want?" The human shrugged, tapping a rather bulky computer console on his desk. "Why can't people get themselves killed by themselves instead of bugging me? Sheesh..." He turns the monitor of the console, showing a small page of text. "There's a couple of jeeps leaving the castle, something about an escort. If ya hurry, you can die quicker." Saber had her first quest, and her first taste of Black Dawn's dynamic, unscripted AI's.
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Ace's eyes widen as he saw the rows of the heavily armed and armored soldiers coming into range. "Aw come on!" he yelled in a rather annoyed manner as he gave one last shot at an undeling. "I guess it is time to turn things up a bit then" Grabbing a dagger in both his hands he charged the soldiers, cutting at each of the joint parts of the armor like arms, legs, and heads which could protect against from bullets, but the blade of a weapon could easily slice through the slightly exposed parts of armor. The idea of using one of the small deck guns, saying of course they worked came to Ace's mind, however he also thoughts such loathsome heretics did not deserve such a quick death. Besides it had been a while since Ace had the luxury of enjoying a good slaughter of his foes, as his blessed steel blades met with flesh, bone, and blood.
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A few of the more adventurous players had begun entering the ship by now, mostly for cover from the attacking enemies. Bullets rained and blades clashed below as the raiders power suited juggernauts cut through the less experienced players even as their patchwork armor began to fall to pieces. The raiders also began to retreat, escaping in aged and dusty vehicles that looked to be made with parts of dozens of similar vehicles.
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Jeanne-Laure got off the bus quickly and walked towards 'The Kingdom of the Night', blown away at its dark beauty. She stopped a little from the property edge, awed. The dark stone of the building stood out against the light blue background of the sky behind it. She walked inside and had to look at everything, there were so many things from the game here! After the ridiculously dressed annoucer left, she walked down one of the stone halls to her apartment, marveling at the intricate design of the entire suite.
"Awesome." She whispered.