Prey: A Character Driven RP [FINISHED]

[JoJo]

Maya sighed in content as she hugged the soft quilt around herself, and then groggily opened her eyes. She was lying in a comfy bed which sheets and covers were coloured only in the most pure white. She was wearing some sort of nightgown, an adult sized garment though as the sleeves draped far past the end of her arms. Her hands looked different somehow; she realised with a start that for the first time in over a month they, along with the rest of her skin that she could see, were spotless.

Where am I? the little girl thought as she stared round at the neatly decorated room. For the first time she felt there was something around her right arm, she rolled back a pink sleeve to find a clean bandage tied neatly around her injured limb.

Oh... As recollection gradually dawned on her, she began to feel very alone in the almost stiflingly tranquil bedroom.

"Takeda?" she called out in a quiet voice that hinted of panic. "Are you there?"

 

[Sporky111]

Takeda's ear flicked back when Rin tapped it, and he put his hand over it. A little smile cracked his face as he looked up at her.

"Okay, I can do that." he said enthusiastically. The boy wasn't one to dwell too long on negative thoughts, and leaped off the couch and hurried back through the hallway he'd seen them go into.

The first door he chose was not the right one, it turned out to be a bathroom. But then he heard his voice spoken and whirled around to the door across the hall. He slowly pushed the door open and peeked in, grinning when he saw Maya.

"I'm here!" Takeda said as he entered the room. The kitsune crawled onto the bed and sat down beside his friend's feet. "Did they fix you up?"

 

[JoJo]

"Takeda, you're still here!" Maya tried to move towards the kitsune but found she was still feeling a little weak so instead made do with nudging him affectionately with one of her bare feet. She then looked at him quizzically for a couple of second before she realised the meaning of his question.

"Uh huh, I'm feeling much better again now." As if to prove her claim she pulled herself into a sitting position and then shuffled along to where the boy was sitting.

"Where's the lady gone?" she whispered in his ear while furtively glancing towards the room's opened door. "Who is she, is she nice?"

 

[Sporky111]

The boy smiled warmly as his friend crawled out from under the covers to sit beside him. He was glad she was feeling better, that bandage on her arm looked promising. And she definitely looked better now that she wasn't covered in dirt and grime.

"She said she had to go back to her car for something." he answered her. Takeda scratched his hair a bit and went on, "She seems nice. She let me have some food from her fridge, and she asked questions about me. Kitsunes have a lot of stories about them, she said."

A bit of pride entered his voice as he said that last part. "But she also said she keeps weapons around. I found a big throwing knife in one of her drawers. It's kinda suspicious, I think."

 

[JoJo]

"Maybe she's got them to fight off bad guys? My mummy had a big knife which she pretended wasn't there most of the time, except when we were in danger like the time she thought someone was following us home. I don't think the man was actually after us, but she made me hide under the bed for ages, and then ignored me when I asked her about it afterwards!"

Maya thought back to her recent car journey; by now there was little she recalled of what the lady had said.

Her name is Rin! she remembered But what else did she say about herself? She couldn't think of anything, but Takeda seemed happy and relaxed as he sat beside her, so Maya decided that the mysterious woman had to be friendly.

"I'm bored" the small girl said aloud "Can you play with me? It would have to quiet game though as I don't feel like moving now. Do you know how to play mummies and daddies; I used to do that home with dolls though it would be much more fun with a real friend! I don't think Rin has any toys though so we would need to find something to be the baby..."

Maya suddenly felt uncertain, she wasn't sure whether this was the sort of game that boys played, especially older ones like Takeda.

"If you want to..." she finished hesitantly.

 

[SamuelT]

With this I dismiss all character that haven't responded to repeated mails and messages. All but Sean, Jojo, Dragon and Sporky are still in by now. New players will emerge in the course of the next few weeks.

Rin closed the door to her building. The fox-child was exactly as she expected; careless and almost as childish as the form he took. It was hard to keep seeing him as something endangering her.

The lights for her car flashed twice as she opened it remotely. She quickly sought the front seats for her bag. It wasn't there. She cursed and opened the door to the back seats. A tattered bag was indeed there, but it wasn't hers.

With a mischievous smile she took it. It was remarkably heavy. She looked inside, and the smile widened even further. She had it.

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Gabriel placed the small pendant directly in the center of the incorporeal eye. The pupil widened and an unearthly scream shot through the empty hangar. The man dressed in only a loincloth twitched once and then collapsed, a puppet with his strings cut.

Gabriel sighed. He had stopped the invasion of several different dimensions and furfilled the will of more than one god. All at the price of his six companions. The hangar was littered with their remains; The Angle of Bones now in tatters, Alex the reporter with a hole in his forhead, Paul the giant who was once destined for royalty now broken underneath a pile of shrapnel that once was a car, Basaran the minor god, wrenched in two by the grim reaper itself, Marcus was nowhere to be seen, spread across reality iself because of the spells he conjured himself and Adam pierced to the ceiling with multiple stakes through his chest. The only one missing was Anomaly, who had sacrificed himself to create the small pendant he now held in his hands. It was slighty smoking, but what wouldn't after dismissing the summoned Underlord himself.

After a few moments of reflection, Gabriel noted that the smoke was taking form instead of just lazily drifting off. He started right into the face of Bona Dea, the godess of Roman legend, and his protector.

"Your job is done, conduit." She said with a barely audible voice. She extended a ghostly hand and touched his forhead. A universe worth of thoughts filled his mind. Then he drited in his oblivion.

A while later..

Gabriel wrenched his eyes open and stared right into the flashing headlights of a car across him. He lifted his head from the hard ground and found himself on the ground of what looked like a parking lot, lying against a building. He distinctly remembered something of binge drinking.

He shook his head and took a cigar out of his pocket. He snapped his fingers and a small flame lit on his finger..

 

[Sporky111]

Takeda wasn't sure what to say about Maya's story. Luckily she changed the subject fairly quickly. He'd never played anything like that before, but he was willing to try.

"I'll bet she keeps a toy in here somewhere." he said confidently. There was a small chest at the foot of the bed, which he opened up. Sitting right on top was a little cloth doll. "Here!" he said, holding it up. The boy crawled back onto the bed and handed the doll to Maya, smiling at her.

 

[JoJo]

"Wow, a baby girl! Thanks!" Maya clutched the tiny doll to her chest. "Your name can be Di-Di, little one" she said to the toy in a motherly tone. She then looked back up at the kitsune and spoke in a mock gruff voice.

"My name's Mrs. Takeda, your's is Mr. Takeda! This bed is the house and the rest of the flat is the city. Now go and get a drink and some food for me and the baby, and don't let the Rin catch you, or she'll eat you alive!" Maya tried hard to keep a straight face as she said this but she couldn't stop herself giggling a little as she finished delivering the instructions.

 

[SamuelT]

<spoiler=Sorry>About the small bits of character control. I've kept it to a minimum. And gasp! Plot development! Do note that these scenes happen at the same time.

(Shit's starting to go down.)

"...and don't let the Rin catch you, or she'll eat you alive!"

Rin smirked. The chatter of small children was always so innocent. It sounded so unreal in relation to what she was about to do. The door opened as Takeda opened the door to get his 'wife some food.' He was slightly startled to see her.

"Hiya, Takeda." Rin said. She held up her hand. "Recognise this?"

A shining ball rested in the cup of her hand.

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Meanwhile! in the toolshed!

The pair carefully approached the group of people. The man with the comically shaped goatee and moustache beckoned them closer.

"Come now! Quickly, quickly!" He said impatiently. The person in the middle shushed him.

"Don't mind Myrddin over here. He's just miffed because you damaged his golem."

The voice was clearly female. She waved carelessly to the shape of Ivan.

"But he can be a prissy girl sometimes. Now, onto introductions."

She removed the cowl that obscured her face.

"You can call me Rin."

 

[SeanTheSheep]

"Well then, Rin let's get this straight here and now so the two of us will cause you an awful lot less trouble in future" Lily said, her voice perfectly calm, and remaining professional in tone, planting her feet firmly on the ground, her feet in line with her shoulders, trying to turn the conversation her own way by using body language to give herself an imposing presence. "Who are you, and what does your cult, group, charitable organisation, corporation or conglomerate want with us?" She demanded to know, before adding quickly to the man named Myrddin "Also, what's with the moustache? Are you really trying to pull off the Dick Dastardly look? seriously not cool."

 

[DktrAgonizer]

Rezetta folded her arms tightly over her chest, nibbling the inside of her lip as she stepped forward with Lily. Golem? she thought to herself as the woman named Rin spoke. She let her eyes stray to their cab driver, standing still beside Myrddin. What does she mean by golem? Is that some new euphemism for worker I haven't heard yet? She shook her head, frowning as Lily began to speak.
"I don't think aggravating these guys is a great idea, Lil," she murmured to the other woman as Myrddin scowled and Lily and, possibly subconsciously, smoothed his fingers over his mustache. She cleared her throat and looked over to Rin, who had not yet answered Lily's questions. "If part of your plan is to interrogate us, I don't suppose you'd give us food first? I feel like I haven't eaten in ages." The last bit she said under her breath, rubbing gently at her tummy. This taxing day was taking its toll not only on her head, but on her stomach now as well.

 

[Sporky111]

Takeda giggled as Maya started to narrate their game. He nodded as she spoke, then rushed off to get the food and drink. In his mind he fancied himself going out for groceries.

When he saw Rin he jumped a bit in surprise; first because Maya said she would eat him, and then second because of what she was holding. The white ball that held a part of a kitsune's power, that was the item they treasured most.

The fox-boy immediately reached over his shoulder to check his backpack. He gasped a bit when it wasn't on his back anymore, then looked up at Rin.

"Y-you found my ball." he said nervously, "Thank you . . . can I have it back please?"

 

[JoJo]

Seeing Takeda's surprise, Maya slid off the bed and approached the doorway cautiously. Her eyes widened at the sight of the glowing white ball in Rin's hands; she had never seen anything like it before.

"What is it?" she asked curiously "can I touch it?"

 

[Sporky111]

"No, no." Takeda said quickly, turning toward Maya and holding out his hand palm-first at her. "Please, don't touch it."

Real fear was in the young boy's eyes as he looked back and forth between the two. He felt cornered and just wanted this situation to be over. He wanted Rin to give him the ball back and let him tuck it away again where it would be safe.

"It's just my ball . . . it's very special to me."

 

[JoJo]

"Sorry, I didn't know, I just thought it looked pretty."

Maya stepped back uncertainly; she had never seen Takeda be like this before. It reminded her of when her mother got really worked up about something outside; a look of helplessness and stress mixed in a massive dose of fear. She wanted to give the boy a reassuring hug but wasn't sure if he'd appreciate that right now, so instead she simply nervously fiddled with the ends of her hair.

"I'm sure Rin will give it back right now, won't you?" she quietly asked the woman standing in the doorway.

 

[JoJo]

Spoiler: OOC

Time to get this back on the road! I've decided that in addition to writing these posts I'll be writing seperate posts for Maya, so her character doesn't get buried under mountains of plot and NPCs, although I may control her for short phrases or actions in these posts if it's convenient.

Somewhere in Jinan

Rin laughed and gave Maya a somewhat sinister smile. Her large brown eyes seemed to glint with malicious glee.

"Not so fast, little one. I know there are rules about these, that I can get a favour in exchange for returning the ball. One that young Takeda won't be able to break once he's made it, am I correct?"

She held the glowing ball tauntingly close to the kitsune, her fingers tightly gripping it's white exterior like the talons of a predatory bird.

Meanwhile in Paris

Myrddin looked aghast at what Lily had said to him.

"Dastardly Dick? How... how dare you speak to me like that! You don't know what I'm..."

"Quiet Myrddin! You've already said quite enough for now." Rin fixed the moustached man with an icy glare "We might as well treat our guests with the respect they should be showing us. Go and get them those sandwiches we had saved out the back, and drinks too if you can find them."

"But... but..." Myrddin stammered "That was my lunch! You can't..." his eyes twitched as he gave Rezetta and Lily a murderous look "You'll pay for this, I swear!" and with that he stormed out of the room.

"I do apologise for his behaviour..." Rin said smoothly "but he's simply the best Golem creator you can find. Any questions while we wait?"

 

[SeanTheSheep]

"Well the questions I asked before Dick Dastardly blew his lid would be nice if they weren't left hanging." Lily said calmly "To clarify what they are: Who are you and what do you want with us? I'll also throw in a bonus question of why do you even need a golem? You've got enough people to do the grunt work, and if the maker's magic is the slightest bit off, and even the best make mistakes, they can go dangerously AWOL, and bring a group of Predators right on top of you. Do you even know what happened in Prague?" Lily was actually fine with the golem, because they were practically harmless ninety-nine times out of a hundred, and could be stopped easily enough with a sledgehammer, but she felt that asserting some of her knowledge would make Rin less prone to patronising her.

 

[DktrAgonizer]

Rezetta couldn't help but give a slight smile as Myrddin stormed off. If he had been a little nicer and the group in general wasn't so cryptic, with the air of a potentially dangerous enemy, she might have felt a little sorry that she and Lily would be given his lunch. As it was, she couldn't really care less.

She let her mind wander a bit again as Rin and Lily spoke about the so-called "golem". At first the term hadn't made any sense to her, but a couple of years' worth of knowledge from reading various fiction books started to come back to her. She recalled golems of some sort being in a couple of the stories she had read. Her eyes drifted back to Ivan as she thought on this. Some sort of construct, crafted out of... Well, it certainly can't be clay in his case, right? I guess there are different ways. She shook her head, marveling at the sudden realization that, for a half-demon with magical powers, she didn't know as much about the magical world as she aught to. Instead, she trained her focus back on Rin, who appeared about to finally answer Lily's questions.

 

[i don't know]

Somewhere in Jinan

It was a rainy and foggy day, as a tired archeologist lifted his face from his work table, half asleep. Hunger began begging the man to get rid of it. As Alec was eating breakfast, he turned on the TV.

"Yesterday, a huge event has occurred! In Jinan Television Station, a girl and boy have been seen "disappearing". The security footage of the camera that recorded this is now being examined for tampering, however a few guards also explained that they saw this happen. Here at The Major Mark news corporation, we believe that this was a set-up by the TV station to boost ratings and popularity, however we can never be sure. Now onto today's new..."

Alec turned off the TV as soon as he became angry. "Stupid TV station! I'm not going to watch anymore of your shows because of a few kids, and special effects! This sort of thing is why we cant have good TV!"

With that Alec lost his appetite. He began getting ready for work, and then left the two-floor, grayish, rectangle of a house. On his way to work, he saw a few news paper vendors and bought one of their weekly stories'. He folded it, and stuck it into his back-pack. When he reached his office, his boss was showing an unfamiliar man around his office.

"Hey Mr.Jones, what's going on?!"

"I'm afraid you've been replaced, its not that you aren't skilled with your work, in-fact you're one of our best, but we just found someone better..."

"I figured that out already, but why didn't you just tell me what I was doing wrong!?"

"First of all, where were you when the company went public, and displayed the actual body of King Tut? Where were you when you promised to do a presentation on the extinct dart-fly? Do you think I need to remind you of your "other" unattended meetings?"

"No thanks."

"Now you have three days to clear out your office, you can do it now, or later, but if not, you have to leave. This is a strictly staff only area."

Alec left the sky-scraper shocked. He began worrying about what to do next. After almost ten minutes, a short and chubby man ran up to Alec.

"Hello sir, I hear that you have just been laid-off, is that right?",

"Number 1 How'd you know, and number 2 Why?",

"That isn't important, but we were think if you can do a small task for Tao Zheng Bio Research company.",

"What does your group need me to do?",

"Our new HQ might have a few visitors that can never leave, they have been hidden on our property a few weeks ago to frame us for murder, we really need someone to get rid of them.",

"Are you kidding me!? I'm a traveling scientist, not a grave robber!",

"Well we could have paid you a fair sum, but if you insist, we will have to use other measures of convincing you. I believe you have heard about the ongoing hunt, yes? Well we know a few members there, and your talent, best for you if you come with us..."

 

[TheDoctor455]

Spoiler: OOC

I too also got accepted. And the current GM asked me to join up with IDK in China.

Somewhere else in Jinan
As Dr. Strauss got off the subway and climbed the stairs back to street level, he rolled the collars of his shirt and coat to prevent, and dodged out of peoples' way to avoid any accidental contamination. He knew it was probably a sign of insanity, but Dr. Strauss swore he could feel the Disease flowing through his system. Given how adaptive it was... it almost qualified as sentient.

Dr. Strauss walked across the street to the newstand and bought a copy of every tabloid or obscure medical journal to get information on others in the area who might have inexplicable or fantastic abilities. After flipping through a few, he found something intriguing in the rumor section of one tabloid about a man who seemed to have the ability to talk to the dead.

Believing that such an ability would prove invaluable in tracking the history of these abilities, Dr. Strauss straight for the nearest graveyard in the hopes of tracking this person down. Mr. Kimura's invitation to the Tao Zheng research center could wait. Dr. Strauss was intrigued.