D.I.C.E(Game Thread/PM to Join)

[Shadowstar38]

"Okay, so, this is a Lilith. How does it relate to the main project? Is it the main project? If not, what is actually the main project? You never got that far."

"Ah. Yes. The project" Zarrama pulled a metal box from his coat and showed it to Richard. "This is a small part of it. I've synthesize her pheromones into this device. Using it, I can take control of all the lesser demons in any area. However...that's not really enough"

Zorrama went over to another containment tank. This one held an enormous Oni demon.

"You see, her powers don't work on the big guys like this. I had to think bigger. So then, if I was going to control more and more powerful demons, I was going to have to make the powers of the Lilith stronger. The fastest way to do that is to combine large groups of demons into single bodies. The traits of each demon would compliment each other. And I'd be able to control nearly every demon I'd come across. No more demon attacks ever again. All thanks to this chemical"
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"I am not the one laying with the dirt. Now me, for what purpose did you do that?"

"You think yourself better than me" The scientist laughed at Eligor. "But that's okay. We will soon be equals. All of us. No one shall hold more power than the other"

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"Adriana, would you kindly lead us the way please to Isaac and the second team. But, whatever route we take, try to make it so we go through a less crowded area; don't want people getting the wrong idea now do we."

Adriana looked around for the best route to take.

"I think I can handle that"

She waved everyone over to her and the group were on their way to Isaac's location. They received only a few sideways glances whenever they had to pop out of the dark and unto roads to continue.

"So, kid. What was with all the hacking business? What do have against DICE?"

"Nothing really. It was just business. I got like, 1000 each time I did it"

"Seems pretty low. Given the risk"

"Not much of a risk at all. The guy said I would never ger arrested if his planned worked. Guess we'll see"

 

[Ruedyn]

"I care not about the details. Lead the way."
'Certainly still blunt, and looks like herself. Far more dangerous now, though.'
Kain shrugged, and walked to the man, William Blight, dropping to all fours again, staring at him in a 'get on' sort of way, whatever that looked like.
'Might as well play taxi for awhile more.' Kain sighed.

 

[DarkRawen]

"Ah. Yes. The project" Zarrama pulled a metal box from his coat and showed it to Richard. "This is a small part of it. I've synthesize her pheromones into this device. Using it, I can take control of all the lesser demons in any area. However...that's not really enough"

Zorrama went over to another containment tank. This one held an enormous Oni demon.

You see, her powers don't work on the big guys like this. I had to think bigger. So then, if I was going to control more and more powerful demons, I was going to have to make the powers of the Lilith stronger. The fastest way to do that is to combine large groups of demons into single bodies. The traits of each demon would compliment each other. And I'd be able to control nearly every demon I'd come across. No more demon attacks ever again. All thanks to this chemical"

No more demon attacks. As good as that sounded -even for someone who didn't care that much- such a chemical could be dangerous in any hands. Not just the wrong ones, everyone, doubtlessly, would take the chance to use it for their own good. He would like not to mind, but he did, somehow. However, all he could do was not to help out. Now that he knew, he doubted he could just walk out. "Really," Richard said. "I don't think there is much I can do about that, using what we found out for making it ourselves was never my strong side. So, I'll just start examining the other specimen, if you don't mind that."

 

[IFS]

"But that's okay. We will soon be equals. All of us. No one shall hold more power than the other"

"Right," Garath said, "So were you planning on giving your demon army to the people? Because as far as I can see you are the one harming innocents to amass power for yourself."

He turned towards Isaac, "Sorry for suspecting you earlier, given that chubs here didn't recognize you I think its safe to say you're on our side," he thought for a moment, trying to decide the best way to get the scientist to talk.What images should he show him, flaming clown-spiders worked on most people.

"What do you fear most?" he asked the scientist, "because unless you tell us what you were trying to accomplish here and where your master is I will pull your worst nightmares from your mind, give them flesh and leave you trapped in this room with them."

As he said this he slowly replaced the room around the scientist with his illusions, to the scientist the room would appear to melt away, replaced by an endless black void, lights like stars glittered in the distance, then crawled closer, if he tried to look more closely at them he would see twisted abominations of fire, half-formed monstrosities, the man would see himself running out of the dark, only to be grabbed by these monsters and pulled away screaming.

He let the illusion drop, "So are you going to tell us why you're torturing children, or do you want to spend an eternity there?"

Garath hated using his powers like this, but if anyone deserved it then it was this man. He ignored the memories of the first time he'd done something like this, tormenting a student who'd bullied him, he pushed it away, putting it in the part of his brain where he kept the memories of all the horrible things he'd done.

 

[Shadowstar38]

"So are you going to tell us why you're torturing children, or do you want to spend an eternity there?"

The scientist a shaking in utter horror at the display. Still, even with all the fear pulsing through him, he was able to put on a smile.

"I was not torturing her. I was preparing her to be part of the final Kouza's body. She was just going to mesh with the minds of all the other beings we bond her to. It's actually kind of...how do they put it? Zen"
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William hopped on Kain's back begrudgingly along with Azkar and pointed east.

"We need to stop at my place first. Just go in that direction and we'll be there in no time"

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"I don't think there is much I can do about that, using what we found out for making it ourselves was never my strong side. So, I'll just start examining the other specimen, if you don't mind that."

"Oh. That is fine Richard. Go right ahead. Will you be needing anything before I depart to another part of the building?"

 

[DarkRawen]

"Oh. That is fine Richard. Go right ahead. Will you be needing anything before I depart to another part of the building?"

"Well, I need access to a computer, if you don't mind," he said, as he found a pair of gloves to wear and went over to one of the countless specimen boxes. He took out one, and found some tools, which he placed at one of the tables. "So, do you have one?"

 

[Terratina.]

Eligor watched Garath at work. The projection walked over to the corner and attempted lean back on the wall, a mean feat given that the projection could not interact with the physical world. Eligor was quite content to stand back and let his team-mates, or lackeys. do the work for now. The scientist was content to go on about how 'better' this world would be after whatever they were planning happened. Eligor smirked at that, meshing demons together didn't do any good for anyone, especially the humans who had to deal with beings driven insane by the process. He knew the line of reasoning - no individually, no suffering - well, that was all fine and dandy as long as you were alright with the idea of losing your very consciousness. Eligor wondered if the scientist knew exactly what he was getting into here... Probably not.

 

[IFS]

"I was not tutoring her. I was preparing her to be part of the final Kouza's body. She was just going to mesh with the minds of all the other beings we bond her to. It's actually kind of...how do they put it? Zen"

"Have you touched the minds of demons before, I have and it is farther from zen than you could imagine," he began to pace back and forth, trying to give the impression that he was losing his patience, trying to think of what the man needed the girl for.

"So what, you needed her as a commander, a controller for your forces, or just a way for them to communicate?" he said, "You have not answered either of my questions to my satisfaction, so why do you need the girl specifically, what role does she play in all this, and what do you know about your master?"

He stepped back, and let his illusions creep over the edge of the man's vision, then made them receed, "Think quickly, and don't lie, there are worse things in the dark than what you saw."

He was glad that the first illusion had shaken the man so much, it meant that the threat of it was now more effective than the illusion itself, and that he didn't hve to create more illusions, using the same one repeatedly, no matter how horrifying it was, and the subject would adjust to it.

 

[Shadowstar38]

"Think quickly, and don't lie, there are worse things in the dark than what you saw."

"The-the demons arn't enough!" He said out of fear of being shown another vision. "He needs mages. Human ones. The same process he uses to get the demons to obey, he can do to humans with enough raw magic"

The scientist looks over at a clock on the wall, and smiles a little.

"The Master's name...is Zorrama. He's the Specter of Peace. He resides the wilderness of Northern France. The coordinates are in my lab notes over there"

The scientist nodded over at a table, then took another look at the clock.

"It seems I've missed my call..."
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"Well, I need access to a computer, if you don't mind,"

"Yes. It's right over there at the main table," Zorrama said pointing over to the left. At that moment, a buzzer went off somewhere in the lab. Zorrama looked down at his watch and frowned, then turned the alarm off.

"If you'll excuse me"

He departed from the lab, giving Richard a nod of farewell before leaving.

 

[Terratina.]

The scientist that given them the information they needed. He was only of use to this 'Spector of Peace' and was now going to go off somewhere. Well, Eligor couldn't have that. With a quick flick of the apparition's arm and enough willpower to break out of the wall, the blade flung itself at the scientist's neck, decapitating him instantly and landing straight in the floor, alongside the scientist's bloody head. The astral projection faded away as Eligor floated towards Isaac.

"There; a sword is only good for killing." Eligor said and went to say rather sheepishly, "Now that's finished. How about we put that little spat behind us and march on?" He bowed, offering the pommel to Isaac.

 

[DarkRawen]

When Zorrama had left, Richard started doing his usual routine by starting the computer and finding the software on it. The sequencing software was a bit alike the one he had been using on his own, but seemed to have a bigger variety of demons, although far from the amount the DICE network had. "I'll just..." he stopped and tried to find out what was off about this. Something just didn't feel right. Richard shrugged, and continued, making the computer ready for the first sample to analyze. It was a good computer from what he could tell, thought Richard only knew that much about computers. "I'll find a fitting part of the specimen and prepare the DNA for sequencing."

He went over to the table, and checked out the specimen, trying to find out what kind of demon it was. Some kind of greater demon it seemed, it had a humanoid look with horns and wings. Richard wondered what kind of genes made such wings and... he didn't feel excited. Somehow, he didn't feel like he was doing anything interesting. Sure, he still wanted to know, but not like this. His priorities seemed off.

"You only care about that stupid science stuff, Richard. Listen to me, please, I'm telling you that I'm getting married..." she said, sounding disappointed and angry. Richard looked slightly up from his tools, the small fish he was currently examining taken apart. "What is the matter?" he asked. Why was she angry? "You aren't listening at all, are you?" He was continued working, but shook his head. "I'm listening, you told me you are about to get married to that George, go on," the twenty year old said, sounding distant, as if he was just reciting facts. She went down on her knees so that she could look into his eyes. "Aren't you happy for me?"
"I am..."
"You don't sound like you care. Why do something like this come before me, your sister, getting married? Richard's eyes went to the fish again. "You have your life, I have mine. You're free to do whatever you like, it doesn't affect me anyway." He stopped, and thought it through. "Congratulations," he added, though it didn't sound like he meant it. She went quiet, and stood up, patting his head with an automatic motion. "Sometimes I wonder if you're even human, Richard. You're so selfish and cold, as if the only thing that matters in the world is you. I love you, but you need to open your eyes and think about how your choices affects others. Please, Richard, if not now, one day." She then left the room, Richard still examining the fish.

Richard stopped what he was doing, and looked at his hands, they were shaking. "I can't help this person out, I can't, I have to stop him, and I'm not sure why. I just feel sick, and wrong." He did put the sample back -destroying a good sample never was a good thing- and looked around the room for anything that could help him. Taking scalpels and knives of different sizes, as well as some kind of acid that was marked with danger, he went to his room. Perhaps there were something he could use among his clothes, he had noticed that he was carrying stuff in his pockets.

 

[Ruedyn]

Kain ran through the streets, turning when William prompted. For the most part, he was thinking though.
'There was an Archdemon in Azkar? Did he have any control? And if he was so powerful, how powerful is this new angelic form?' he shook these thoughts out of his head, opting to look at her new form. She was flying, with great white wings.
'A strange night for those looking out their windows.' he thought with a smile. Blight told him to stop, they must be where he was directing them. Or he had motion sickness, he was moving at a speed where a fly shaped hole in your teeth is common for most humans.

 

[Shadowstar38]

"There; a sword is only good for killing." Eligor said and went to say rather sheepishly, "Now that's finished. How about we put that little spat behind us and march on?" He bowed, offering the pommel to Isaac.

Isaac hesitated for a moment, but sighed and took the sword anyway.

"Yeah. I guess it's best that we work together. Besides, if what that guy said is true, I'm gonna need you to take this Specter's head off before he screws us all over"

Isaac went over to the research notes and flipped over to the section that contained the location of the main lab.

"Garath. Other one. If the two of you are both done here, then we need to get going"

Without waiting for either of them, Isaac spoke to the girl in Russian and ushered her out the front door. Isabelle and her group were but two blocks away with their prisoner.

"Hey! Girls! Good job on your catch. We've got a lot to tell you, but first things first. Adriana. You mind taking this little girl and our prisoner back to the base and telling them to send us a couple of extra soldiers?"

"What? Me? Well, where are you guys going?"

"To find the guy behind this all. And possibly kill him if we resists"

"Well, just wait for me to do this and I can..."

Isaac held his hand up, looking quite a bit off from his usual self.

"I just really don't need you around for this one if that's okay with you"

"Right. Okay"

Isaac waved his hand and opened a portal into Division 1's hallway and let her step through it with the two children. After it had closed, he turned to Isabelle.

"Well, good news. We found were the guy behind all our troubles is. Bad news, he has a massive human and demon mass mind control thing rigged up in his place. So...I suggest we waste no Time and go bust that thing up now"

Danny, meanwhile, recoginized some of his teammates from the Russia mission and approached them, though most didn't notice him coming.

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William quickly rolled off Kain's back and climbed a ladder up the side of his building. With Kain climbing up next to him, he reached the top, where a small plane stood dormant.

"We have a lot of ground to over. I think this will be far better than how we were moving about before"

William opened the door and waited for both Kain and Azkar to get in before doing so himself and losing the door behind him. He took the pilot's seat and brought the vechical to life.

"Um. Don't bother trying to put seat belts on. They're aren't any"

William then pushed the plan forward. The building they were on was only big enough for the plane to get a decent start before it plummited downwards. Pulling back on the control's hard, William leveled them off and had the team flighing to the north east.

 

[Ruedyn]

"We have a lot of ground to over. I think this will be far better than how we were moving about before"
'Good.' Kain thought, as he began to turn back into a human. He climbed in behind him, not quite naked as he had his torn toga on.
"Do you have any clothes in this place we're going?" he asked in a hoarse whisper.
"Um. Don't bother trying to put seat belts on. They're aren't any"
"... What?" the plane began to plummet, before correcting itself. His hearing was back to it's normal above average, but even then it was deafening to him.

 

[DarkRawen]

Richard went into his room, hoping Zorrama didn't have a tedency to watch his visitors on camera. He went up to own clothes -he hadn't noticed that the shirt was covered in blood, but it was of a dark red color after all- and started searching through the pockets of his pants. When he pulled up the ticket and the tooth, he realized what the rest of the items were. Checking through it, he couldn't find two items, and he realized where they were. "I really did that?" he thought, not able to remember what had happened that day. From his previous experience, he might not at all. He didn't know whether or not to shake his head, or laugh, but he knew he had a loaded gun. That would come in handy.

"This is not interesting at all, but it wouldn't be interesting if Zorrama actually managed to go through with his plan. At least, that's what it feels like. I bet I would hear it later, if I let this go and did what Zorrama wants me to." Why did he think that? Was there some other reason, apart from it being what could be seen as morally wrong? A person who would scold him, not his sister, but someone else? What was it that he couldn't remember? He needed some time to think, and to prepare for what he would have to do with one of the knives, so he lay down at bed and closed his eyes.

"Why are you by yourself and lying down on the job! We have things to kill!

"Huh?" He sat up. When had he heard that? It had to be part of his memories, but right now it was nothing but a voice with no owner. Still, he took another look at the knives. "This is going to hurt." Richard then went through the painful retrieval of the gun.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"Hey! Girls! Good job on your catch. We've got a lot to tell you, but first things first. Adriana. You mind taking this little girl and our prisoner back to the base and telling them to send us a couple of extra soldiers?" Isaac called out to Isabelle's team as the two came together once more. After a brief arguement, Adirana took both the girl and boy back with her through the portal to the base. The state of the girl made Isabelle take pity on her. Such a dainty thing used as part of some strange experiment.

"Why thank you Isaac. Your lot didn't do too bad as well. Good job rescuing that girl." It was then that she turned her head, and noticied a man moving towards them. The gentleman's clothes look scruffy and torn up, and the man himself look exhausted, as if he had been travelling for a while. There was also an odd smell about him, but she couldn't quite tell what it was. Despite all this, the man looked familiar, but it took her a while to realise who it was.

"Well hello Danny. Glad to see you finally made it back. A part of me was even worried about you, seeing as though you were new to all this demon hunting business. How come your here in London, thought you would of been back at the base." Isabelle said with a smile as she welcomed the new agent back. Vayle simply stood by Isabelle's side, unsure of what to say. But she looked happy to see Danny.

 

[Nouw]

"Y-you're, Isabelle. From...D.I.C.E! Uuuh, nice to meet you. Well aah, that's a long story,"
"Don't tell her about me."
Why not?
"Because they'll test you! They'll drain your blood and capture me and then do tests on me!"
I don't think I'd terribly miss you.
"You don't know much about D.I.C.E. do you?"
I'll take my chances.
"Look how that turned out. Look, you're not going to tell them either way so just drop it!"

"Let's just say I took the wrong transport out of the facility and I crash landed in the River Thames. You don't want to know what I smell like, really, you don't." Danny said.

Why the fuck did you just do that? You've been nothing but trouble ever since I picked you up!
"Have you forgotten that I'm the reason you're still alive? I could do the same thing I did to the pilot, errr I mean."
What? That was you!? Why did you do that!?
"Well I was bored Danny! I just wanted some safe chaos that's all."

Danny took a deep breath. The blood was right, he had no choice. All he could do was blindly follow it into whatever it made him do. It couldn't be that bad, could it? At this point it was better to befriend it since it was going to go anywhere any time soon.

"So can I go back now?" Danny asked with a weak smile.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"Y-you're, Isabelle. From...D.I.C.E! Uuuh, nice to meet you. Well aah, that's a long story." Danny responded with, looking as though he had been through a rather rough ride. Isabelle gave him another smile as he told his little tale.

"Let's just say I took the wrong transport out of the facility and I crash landed in the River Thames. You don't want to know what I smell like, really, you don't." This caused Isabelle to look back at him confused, seemingly disbelieving what she had just heard.

"Crash land? How the hell did that happen? Sorry, we've just been having a little bit of a hectic day dealing with a few problems, most of which were connected to that incident at the Russia facility. When I get back, I'll be sure to try and fill you in on what has been happening."

"So can I go back now?" Danny asked with a weak smile.

"Yeah, of course. Although if I were you Danny, I'd have a shower and get yourself a fresh change of clothes whilst you're at it. Probably someone will want a debriefing report from you as well, but it can wait until you're more presentable and able to do so; boring paperwork I know, but it has to be done, and it is important. But try and get some rest as well." Isabelle then turned to Isaac.

"If its not too much trouble, Danny here will be needing to get back to Division Five."

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

Azkar sat in the plane, unmoving.

She pondered over what her life as a human might have been like. She chastised herself however. It was irrelevant and her life as a Human was probably degenerate due to the nature of its origin. Azkar didn't want to sit around and think.

"William. This is taking too long. You wouldn't want to give me the impression that you were wasting my time. Time I could be spending doing something important." Azkar looked over at Kain and looked him up and down.

"What's your story then?" the 15 year old had a look that someone like that simply shouldn't have. It was cruel and world weary. "Should I be paying you more attention?"

 

[Ruedyn]

"What's your story then? Should I be paying you more attention?"
Kain barely heard her, he just sat staring forwards blankly. He leaned in to talk to Blight,
"ARE WE ALMOST THERE?! I REALLY DISLIKE PLANES!" he could barely hear himself anymore, so he put some of the ripped curtain-toga into his ears in a barely effective ear muff. Kain tried to sit back and relax, however difficult that may be.