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

[deathbydeath]

Thud. BANG!

Sophia's pistol spat supersonic lead into the floor as Aaron suddenly stepped into her path, exiting from a nearby door. The unexpected shattering of the silence alarmed them both, doubly so as Sophia's momentum rammed into Aaron's relaxed form. The pair slid several feet from the impact, both of them sprawled on the floor. Aaron was the first to rise to his feet, and he promptly helped Sophia back onto hers.

"Well, Ms. Marshall, I am enthused to meet you again. Care to join me in some demonic housekeeping?"

 

[Ultraman950]

"Well, Ms. Marshall, I am enthused to meet you again. Care to join me in some demonic housekeeping?"

"Yes. Let's," Sophie replied with a smirk. "Where shall we start? I can't find 'em. I just kinda woke up." She moved some of her loose hair out of her face. "Didn't even have time to tie back my hair."

 

[Shadowstar38]

"I'm going to give you a choice now, you can come with me, the scientists here might be able to help you, or I can kill you, just tell me which."

The kouza eyed the gun it had thrown down upon it's arrival. It reached over and grabbed it by the stock, then held it outwards.

None of us wish to continue this existence any further. But may I ask a small favor. The human within this body wishes you to tell a female named Sophia he is sorry he couldn't make it back.

With that, the demon bowed its head and waited for Garath to finish the job.

With those 2 still talking, Adriana and Isabelle walked outside towards the sound of voices drawing near. They spotted Isaac along with Aaron and Sophia.

"Are the rifts created by the teleporter malfunction sealed?"

"I sure it is. I felt a weird spacial shift a few minutes ago near your teloporter room. That may have done the job"

Isaac turned his head when he saw Adriana approach.

"Oh. Hey kid. How's the cleanup going?"

"No complaints here boss. Well, except DICE agents are fucking lunitics. Other than that, fine"

"Great. Now we just need to find the..." From the room across the hall, a kouza crept from around the corner slowly towards the group. "..last two"

The demon didn't try to look menacing at all. Rather, it just kind of stood there smiling just out of Eligor's blade length.

Hello huuumaaans. You have done well in killing the others.

"Oh great. They can talk now. That's just kind of dumb"

Make jokes while you can Master Isaac. Your time will soon be at an end.

"...Are you serious? It's like, 6 to one. And you arn't even one of the big ones. You're so not gonna live through this"

No one said I was.

The kouza dug it's claws into it's own stomach. He ripped it open slowly, reviling an esplosive with a smiley face crudely drawn on it.

"...Scheiße."

Isaac extended his left arm, forming a portal behind the beast, then used Eligor to hop off it's head. With a single kick, he knocked the body back into the portal and closed it with a wave of his hand.

"Well Detroit's going to be pissed when that goes off."
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I would ask the lovely lieutenant, but I was a little mean to Eliezer and I think they're an item."

The Lieutenant sighed at the quip Azkar made and leaned against a wall.

"I'm not letting you out because anyone willing to endanger other agents as you have doesn't deserve to roam free. If I were you Richard, I'd leave her to rot. That Division Head was onto something when he through her in there"

 

[IFS]

None of us wish to continue this existence any further. But may I ask a small favor. The human within this body wishes you to tell a female named Sophia he is sorry he couldn't make it back.

With that, the demon bowed its head and waited for Garath to finish the job.

"I'll do that," he said, he concentrated on his shotgun, which he had left in his storage locker, the mark on its barrel began to glow and he pulled it from the air. He checked to make sure it was loaded with slugs, then walked up to the demon, pointed the gun at its head and fired. Sighing he dismissed the gun, letting it return to its spot in his locker, and went to find the others.

He found them just after Isaac had finished punting the demo through a portal. Without saying anything he joined them, he saw Sophia, but decided he would tell her what the demon had said later, once they had finished cleaning up this mess. He glanced over his suit, checking to be sure he hadn't gotten blood on it, quietly covering up bloodstains with illusions, he would have to get the suit cleaned, or maybe even get a new one.

 

[DarkRawen]

"Richard, while you're busy making doe eyes maybe you might use them and see that she's clearly not human, that makes it alright for her to be experimented on, right?"
Eliezer commented, and Richard didn't know whetether to nod or not. He knew she was no longer human, but it was never okay to experiment on anyone, the only difference was that personal difference it made to him. If humans could be experimented on... Elizer then said he wouldn't take Azkar as two were a crowd or whatever, and left. Richard turned his attention towards Azkar, who was still talking.

"Whatever floats your boat Richard. Just store it away if you ever want me to visit your room."

"Huh?" What was Azkar talking about? Had Richard missed the main point or something? Well, at least she didn't realize what he was carrying. Richard put the tooth back into his pocket, confused of why he had brought it out, but fairly sure it was because he had panicked. Azkar then did the same thing his sister had done when she wanted something, which was to make herself seem as cute as possible "Get me out, please..."

The lieutenant, who had been following their conversation, said this:

"I'm not letting you out because anyone willing to endanger other agents as you have doesn't deserve to roam free. If I were you Richard, I'd leave her to rot. That Division Head was onto something when he through her in there"

"Division head?" As Richard knew less about how the chain of command was in DICE than he knew about geography, that was as puzzling as ever. "Which division?" Something interested him about a mummy being a division head, but he snapped out of it. "Oh wait, more important things right now. So, about Azkar, I'd get that you would lock her up, it sounds like it was pretty crazy," he looked shortly at to Azkar and added, "No offense, Azkar." Richard continued.

"But why here? This isn't being locked up, this is being next in line for the big "legal" torture party, which is not a good thing, and that should not be used as a punishment." Richard thought about it. His "punishment" for getting too close to DICE all those years had been what could be akin to a "free" imprisonment, where he could do what he wanted to, but not really, and where he was forced to work together with people he, when it came to it, really despised because of their eager use of live specimen. Even so, it was still hundred times better than what could have happened.

"What would it take to get her out of there?" he said, trying to bargain.

 

[Ruedyn]

Kain began to laugh. It started off as a light chuckle, but now those around him were starting to pay attention. A pro-demon rally? Too silly for him to handle. The security was a joke as well, a few lucky guesses and some lies to the zealot guarding the rally was all it took to get in. Some minor demon was speaking to the crowd, but he stopped to tell the security to take me out of the place.
One approached him slowly, human except for his eyes. The red was intimidating to some, maybe, but it didn't work on him. He reached out an arm slowly, not expecting it to be grabbed so quickly. He made sure to laugh through all this as well, it was needed for the act. Kain placed one hand on his forearm, and the other on his shoulder, and brought his head down on his straightened elbow. His arm snapped, and Kain threw him aside, using the surprise to kick the next in the ear. The rest of the security began to rush towards him, but he had begun his transformation.
The black creature moved quickly and quietly, bringing his claw down on the kicked guard, who had begun to transform as well. The wings and horns surprised some of the crowd, the rest began to cheer him on. Kain was sure he enjoyed the cheering, before his head was cut neatly into three pieces. The rest of the security hesitated, but rushed him as well. A flurry of claws and they fell one by one, most of the crowd began to run out, and Kain saw the speaker was running as well. He went to all fours and sprinted after him, as quickly as possible. It turned out to be pretty quick as well, as he caught up to him in seconds, tackling him and sinking his teeth into his neck. He made sure not to swallow any of it, his mouth could regenerate from the burning black blood, but his inside couldn't.
He got up and began hunting around the town, Providence Rhode Island was big, but he managed to track them whilst staying in the shadows. He doubted it mattered, though. Most people woulc chalk it up to trick of the light or something, and those who believed wouldn't be believed anyways. He rounded them all up, and killed them. By the time that was done, so was the transformation.
Kain sat atop a building, naked with his hands and chin covered in blood. He found a walky-talky on one of the guys who fled, and tuned it to the right frequency.
"Kain, DICE Division 4, mission complete. Will return to base soon."

 

[Shadowstar38]

"But why here? This isn't being locked up, this is being next in line for the big "legal" torture party, which is not a good thing, and that should not be used as a punishment."

The Lieutenant cocked his head, looking a bit confused at Richard.

"Not really sure I understand. You've worked in here for months while these experiments went on. I would have thought you were alright with it given you havn't made a peep before. What's different now? Why her?"

 

[DarkRawen]

"Not really sure I understand. You've worked in here for months while these experiments went on. I would have thought you were alright with it given you havn't made a peep before. What's different now? Why her?"

Richard didn't really mind that he seemed like a hypocrite right now, but what lieutenant had said was off. "I have, several times. I just stopped caring, it's not my business, and to be frank, I don't think I'd make a difference. Only thing I can do is to keep away from using the live specimens, and I have never participated in an experiment." He spoke calmly, and everything he said was true. However, the lieutenant had a point, why did he speak out now? It had to be because seeing Azkar there, like that, somehow made him think of the other options he had been given, one of them worse than death. "Because there is no reason to experiment on her. There isn't a scientific justification behind this, only means of punishment." It was partly the reason.

"Also, why did you let Eliezer out? He's been here for a long while, and he has a whole lot of grudges. Who's to say he's not killing scientists now?" The last part of the question, was part of that answer, but yet again, not. "As for why Azkar... well, we had some plans for later," he said, not realizing this could be taken any way else than what the words said. "But really, it's the situation that is bothering me."

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Both Isabelle and Adriana left Garath behind to talk to the Kouza, and headed towards the sounds of destruction going on ahead. They soon caught up with people that Isabelle recognised from the earlier mission, Aaron and Sophia. An unknown gentleman was also there, and he appeared to be carrying Eligor with him, and noticed the blood splatters across the blade's surface, obviously the pair had seen some action earlier. She didn't respond vocally to the not so kind remark about being called a 'fucking lunatic' by Adriana, but was certainly annoyed by it.

It was then that another Kouza appeared from around the corner; though this one didn't even try to intimidate the group, instead it had a rather large and wicked grin on its face. Isabelle had her sword at the ready, as it became charged with fire magic, the flames wrapping itself around the blade like vines. Both the man called Isaac and the Kouza seemed to know each other, throwing a few choices words at one another. The demon soon dug at its own stomach, revealing an explosive with a large smiley face on it.

'Really? How childish?' Isabelle said to herself. But before the demon could act, Isaac created a portal, and booted the demon through it, explosive in tow.

"Well Detroit's going to be pissed when that goes off." Isabelle held her sword by the grip with one hand, its blade pointing downwards to the floor, the flames still encompassing it.

"Indeed, I don't think they are equipped for demons composed of various bodies simply coming in out of nowhere, then suddenly exploding." She remarked in a sarcastic tone. Her anger grew slightly inside, but she managed to remain calm.

"Now that business has been dealt with, would the two of you mind explaining to us who exactly the hell you are; since no one has ever seen you around her before. Also, explain yourselves for what just happened, since the way I see it, you two were the cause of all this." Isabelle said in a serious and focused tone, but kept her cool throughout, as she spoke to Isaac and Adriana.

 

[Ruedyn]

Kain sat on a wicker chair in the DICE safe house, legs crossed and staring out the window. He was glad that the business was done, but he didn't want to go back for more Test from Division 6. Psyche, physical, blood, etc. He got up to use the bathroom, and when he was done he looked at himself in the mirror.
He had done a good job at washing the blood off him, and his minor healing protected him from most of the burns caused by demon blood, but he was still healing. Kain figured another hour and he'd be good as new. The clothes he took from the safe house were a good fit, navy blue shirt and plumbers jeans, black. He took off his glasses to rub his eyes. It had been too long a day. He took another moment to slick back his hair, and cast a dismayed glance towards his stubble, almost a beard now.
'That's what you gets for not shaving since last night.' he sighed, and pulled out his teleporter, bringing him back to base.
The alarm was going off for a few seconds, then stopped. He walked through floor 4, cautiously.

 

[deathbydeath]

"Didn't even have time to tie back my hair."

Aaron waved for Sophia to follow him and said: "Come with me, I believe that there are a few demons lurking around L2." She did, and the two walked up a stairwell to the semi-ruined Division 2 level. One thing that was sure about magic-users, they were fond of collateral damage. Aaron walked to a particularly destroyed section of hallway where nothing was left except for the floor and a wall and stopped. He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a cigarette box and a lighter. He opened the box, revealing several neat rows of hand-rolled tobacco, put one in his mouth, and offered the box to Sophia. As he did so, he asked Sophie a question:

"Sophia, may I ask you about how you feel about DICE as an organization?"

 

[Ultraman950]

"Sophia, may I ask you about how you feel about DICE as an organization?"

Well that came outta nowhere, she thought, scratching her head. "Uh... Well, they pay me, and give me weapons, and they let me protect people... There's not much more I can ask for, so I like it okay. Why? What do you think?"

Despite honestly thinking about the question, she kept her head on a swivel. She wasn't gonna relax until someone gave the all-clear. And maybe the constant movement would help her hair dry faster.

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

Azkar laughed in her cell. "Adriana isn't in here and neither is her sugar daddy. They let Demons in using devices with safeguards, safeguards which require a lot of damage or tampering to fail. It wasn't damaged before hand and I doubt the other man's device was either." Azkar stood up and leaned against the cell door. "I knew the Demons would keep chasing me, Adriana was refusing to give up a device which was being used by her and her cohort to leak Demons into the base, intentionally or not. I dealt with one of the portal devices and acquired..." Azkar smirked "'resources' that can be used to great effect. Gift horse and such."

Azkar looked up at the roof towards a series of cameras. "In conclusion, all of my anti D.I.C.E activities were performed on an agent who inexplicably managed to let Demons inside the base and refused to report it. Also the damage from her portals has caused quite severe damage and potential lose of life, whereas my damage was just a device used against D.I.C.E and some aesthetic concrete, I also didn't interrupt portal operations, apparently." she pointed at Richard as she said this. Azkar stared at the cameras for about a minute. Then her cage door beeped and slid open.

Azkar stepped out with an air of authority "Next time tell your bandaged friend to go through official channels when imprisoning an agent taking initiative to deal with a security problem posed by unreliable agents." Azkar's face was blank and annoyed, as if she was telling off children. Her expression then changed, followed by giggles "I didn't really think to mention that, but yeah." She then poked her tongue out at the lieutenant "I wouldn't be expecting a raise."
Azkar wasn't sure where that train of thought had come from, but it worked. With a shrug she grabbed Richard by the sleeve and started tugging him towards the door "Come on then."

 

[Shadowstar38]

Next time tell your bandaged friend to go through official channels when imprisoning an agent taking initiative to deal with a security problem posed by unreliable agents." ed by unreliable agents."

With that, Azkar grabbed Richard's arm and started pulling him towards the door. The Lieutenant calmed walked behind then and formed some magic aura around his hand into a blade. With a quick motion, he sliced off both of Azkar's legs and sent her falling to the floor.

"Hang on for just a sec"

The Lieutenant walked over to a table with an iron box on it and removed a metal collar from it, along with a remote.

"You know, you really have to stop that petty arrogance you have. It gets grating"

The man popped the collar around Azkar's neck and reattached her legs enough for her to hell them herself. He then pushed a button on the controller and sent 10,000 watts of electricity through the girl's body.

"Now you may leave. And please don't mess around with that thing"

The Lieutenant then quitely walked out the room, leaving the two alone.

 

[Nouw]

Wait what? Exploring my psyche? As in, 'looking-through-my-history-and-personality' psyche?
"Yes, do humans have another level of psyche I don't know about!? You don't seem like the mage type, then again looks can be-"
What the FUCK?

Danny banged his head against the top of the vent.

"Is there a problem?"
Wuh-uh...

Danny was at a loss for words. Being physically violated he could somewhat handle, but having his mind probed and examined was crossing the line. He had never felt so vulnerable before and just wanted to black out and forget who he was when he woke up, if he ever did. At least that way he wouldn't have to deal with the humiliation of being mentally harassed. After his vision began to blur, the blood forced him to stop. He would have continued into unconsciousness if it wasn't for its intervention. In fact, it was possible that it was too late.

"It appears that I was wrong, you are not as strong as I thought. Bu-"
Go fuck yourself.
"-t, I have decided to lose my findings. I only wanted to get to know you better and it appears that I went about it the wrong way. Sorry my dear chap."

As the blood said that, blood began to trickle down his nose. He wiped it off with his hand and saw in the reflection his dad. He immediately slammed it against the vent and wiped it all off. The information stored in there was highly sensitive and Danny didn't feel much better with it out in the open. He was still relieved, however, that the blood had some understanding.

Is your other blood going to pick it up?
"Of course."
That won't do.

Danny pulled out his handgun and prepared to fire. He wasn't going to shoot the blood, only mark the vent he was in so he could come back later and ask an agent to collect it and freeze it somewhere.

"Err I still wouldn't do that."
Watch me.

He turned away from the gun and fired, only for the vent to collapse down. He was stuck at the bottom and the blood was creeping down like a torrent of angry jam. In desperation he shot the blood only for the vent to stoop even lower and for the blood to fall on him. It was disgusting, having a sticky liquid move about in your body. It really was as if a thousand worms had just landed on him.

"Told you so."
Don't remind me. What next?
"Wait for the blood silly!

Danny didn't need to be told what that meant. The blood began to slither up his body and forced itself in through a small cut it made. He couldn't help but scream in agony; the sensation of something moving seeping into your body was overwhelming. It didn't even hurt, it just felt very wrong. After the blood was finished, Danny shot upon the vent and fell into a janitorial room. The blood with the sensitive content in it was still slowly dripping down and Danny didn't wait for it to finish. He looked for some kind of container to keep it in and found an empty bottle. After it was all in, Danny closed it and walked outside.

"Hello, uh agent? Could you send this back to D.I.C.E. and tell them to keep it safe? Freeze it, and lock it up somewhere," Danny told the first agent he saw and passed the bottle to their safe hands. He had faith in this organization to not exploit it and keep it safe. It was in the very nature of the organization, after all, to contain.

Now, how about you get to know me better? Better than dwelling on what I just went through haha.

Danny didn't know whether he was joking or being serious, and so neither did the blood. The least it could do was oblige him, and so it did.

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

The lieutenant turned around, failed to notice the remote gently leave his hand and quietly made his way out of the room. He was gone. Azkar rolled her eyes, the sadist was too busy trying to escape and hide his boner over torturing people to notice her pilfer the remote right out of his hand, which was quite a feat considering she had to lean up off the floor quickly without legs and quivering with rage and pain.
Azkar flicked the master release button on the remote and took the collar off. Then let herself fall back on the floor. She didn't think the lieutenant was very intelligent. He witnessed the tremendous amount of difficulty it took her body to passively heal a wound before she had to bind herself to contain the energies inside her. Now because of that inbred sadist she didn't have any f*cking legs.

Azkar cringed and groaned as her bleeding slowed to a stop. She took off her shirt and ripped it in half. Using it to bandage her new stumps which were barely a few centimeters long. It seems her healing abilities weren't very amazing. But it beat dying. Azkar looked back at Richard, over the short amount of time that had passed her eyes had become lighter and she had become much paler. "I hope the portal room has wheelchair access." She gave a dry laugh and slumped back onto her back. She was so getting that twat fired.

 

[DarkRawen]

"Come on then."

Azkar said, and grabbed his sleeve to pull him away. It was a good thing that DICE realized the fail that had happened then, for more than one reason. However, suddenly Azkar fell to the ground, both of her legs gone. The lieutenant said something, but Richard was too surprised to catch the words. It took him a few breaths to realize what had really happened. The other man then put a collar around her neck. He pushed a button, which electrocuted Azkar, before saying;

"Now you may leave. And please don't mess around with that thing"

And leaving the room.

"Azkar?" Richard asked, looking at her as she opened the collar and removed it. It seemed that the electric shock had caused her to become worse again, but she'd survive. Her legs, however, wasn't attached to her body, and while the wound was healing a bit, her legs didn't reattach.

"I hope the portal room has wheelchair access."

Azkar joked, wearily.

Okay, so Richard may or may not have flipped through the contract without caring too much about most details, but that collar and... putting someone in the cells and physically harming them before having proved that what they did was wrong, and then attempting to use them for experiments as punishment... cutting their legs off... Richard stopped breathing. The camera was up there, right? DICE had watched the whole thing, yet they had let this happen, as well as let the lieutenant do as he pleased.

Was this how a military organization took care of stuff? "I'm presuming," he said loudly, looking into the same camera. "That you people are sending a healer or mage or whatever!" Silence. No sign of that they had even heard him. "Seriously..." How could they--- no, of course they could. This was why he didn't trust them, they just cared about using people. He had to get out of there, somehow. Richard went over to Azkar. "You want me to carry you? I'd still like to go to France." Of course that wasn't it, however, he was still wary of the cameras. He leaned over her, trying to help her sit up, and whispered; "Azkar, I don't want to be a part of DICE anymore, would you consider leaving with me?"

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

Azkar gave a weak smile as Richard helped her sit up, whispering back "Considering the state of their health plan, I may just be partial to the idea." she then continued "Look on the bright side, at least I've lost weight."

Azkar tentatively touched her bandaged legs. The pain was pretty much gone now. "But seriously, I think I'm going to need leave now anyway. We might as well go to France now. Just don't ask me to go bike riding. I never learnt how to." Azkar smirked at her bad joke. She also contemplated removing some of her wards, but without much time to dwell on it or create balance, she'd probably just end up killing herself for good. With a sigh, Azkar reached her arms out towards Richard. "I won't be able to hold on to your back without legs, mind carrying me?"

 

[DarkRawen]

"I won't be able to hold on to your back without legs, mind carrying me?"

"Mind carrying you? I-- Of course," he lifted her up instantly. Although he wasn't that strong, Azkar without her legs was extremely light. "I'll.. Ehm... bring your legs, just in case... if you want to, there are are people able to reattach them... but I don't think DICE wants you to walk anymore..." Looking at what had happened, they didn't want that. Still, he waited for her to chose, no way Richard could decide whether or not to leave her legs, or trust DICE. He wasn't sure he was speaking carefully because she was hurt, or because he was still in shock from what had happened. Not much made an impression on him, this had.

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

Azkar reached down and grabbed her legs, one after the other. She then lifted the cut off pants legs on both of them and covered the gore, before holding them against her chest. "Well, we might as well be on our way then. Considering how retarded D.I.C.E leadership is, I doubt we could find someone capable of fixing me without interference here." Azkar shrugged, then shuddered at her legs "This is ridiculous. Just dump me in my room and find a wheelchair, also you might as well incinerate the legs in a furnace or something, better then D.I.C.E doing weird shit to them. Plus traveling around with Human legs in France would be a little sussed."
Azkar figured after she got a better grip on her new completeness she'd be able to heal herself. Either way, her legs were starting to creep her out.