The Escapist Avatar Adventure: An Open RP (Now Re-Opened!)

[Sithmorack]

In capital building?

Shadow

Shadow swore under his as helmet as his right shoulder was riddled with bullets. He ducked behind cover and heard someone say aim for the head.

He moved as fast as he could firing at the enemy soldiers. To them Shadow looked like a blur moving superhuman speeds. To him they looked like they were moving at a snails pace.

He kept firing and tried shooting at there main leader first. If he could get there leader he thought he might be able to set in some degree of panic.

While he was running across the room his vision suddenly blurred and he fell to the ground behind a counter.

He moved his hand to his belt and pulled out a needle with a strange liquid. Pain was shooting through his body as he injected himself with the needle.

The pain slowly subsided as he began to shoot at the demon soldier again.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

Thanks to the efforts of Teri, Slindis and their mounts, what should have been a total kill zone ended up being the exact opposite.
Least for them anyway.

Lupito and Garm managed to take down the two soldiers, each getting their jaws around their necks and that was that.
Squishy, while damaged, was still able to take down the last shotgun wielder.
As for the SMG soldiers, The stacked bonuses of Shields of Fate from both Teri and Slindis made them nearly painless, Rugal quickly slitting the throat of one while back kicking another into the wall.
With Slindis finishing off the last, the attempted raid was over.

 

[bluecrimson]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

After the attack, Slindis began checking up on the injuries of those around her and started examining the bullets Lupito had taken. The wound path was highly unusual for her, but the charring marks at each point meant that the bullets were hot enough to kill off the chance of infection, meaning that she'd be able to skip that step when she went to pull the bullets out.. [color=c20000]"Lupito, it's gonna hurt a bit. Just be strong, boy!"[/color] She motioned to Teri and then Garm, and the meaning was quite clear.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David

After witnessing Shadow basically warp around the room, Richardson's Phoenix like form and Tajuh messing around with time, David was about to to swear he was losing his mind.
"JESUS CHRIST! Where do you get all these powers?!" He shouted as his Acid shots on top of the gun fire and stabs from Tajuh saw one of the 5 heavy troopers down.

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

As the wolfs were tended too, Rugal searched one of the fallen and got what he was looking: A keycard for the Bunker.
"Good...Second you are ready, follow me, Bunkers in places like this tend to favor stairs over elevators so they'll be onto us. Only one way up or down and they'll use it to their advantage." He warned as he wiped the blood off his hands with the vest of one of the dead.

 

[bluerocker]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

With her spells at the ready, Teri wandered into the remnants of the raid and pulled out her medicinal tools, and handed an empty water bottle to Rugal, [color=0E59E4]

"Nicely done, Squishy. Now get back in the bottle. As for you two.. Time to get those bullets out of you..."

[/color]

Teri rolls a 25 to surgically remove the bullets from Garm's hide! Teri rolls a 22 to remove the bullets from Lupito!

20 minutes later

It was a simple enough procedure, but the Cleric managed to clean and seal all of the bullet wounds on the wolves; re-assuring her of the conditions of her furry companions. With a smile and a snip, the wolves were back to normal. Giving both of the wolves gentle rubs between the ears, Teri's face softened into a small smile, [color=0E59E4]

"Good job, both of you. You've been very brave and very patient, and I'll see to it that you both get a nice treat when we get back to the Dawn."

[/color]

She stood up and cleaned herself off, and then pulled out another piece of parchment (it also helped she could just hotkey in a poofing of some) the Cleric wandered to Rugal's side and held out an open hand for the water bottle, [color=0E59E4]

"Wolves are ready to go, sir. Also, Poke!"

[/color]

Tapping the King of Fighter's arm, Shield of Faith glimmered over Rugal's body once more, to which the Cleric said, [color=0E59E4]

"The wolves can take bullets a little easier than you can, sir. Now please, lead the way."

[/color]

Yadah yahdah Shield of Faith, +3 deflection to AC, and 12 seconds before a 1st level spell is available again.

 

[Sithmorack]

Shadow

Shadow was suddenly beside David and said "ask me later and ill tell you... maybe we can even get you a power? I mean how hard could it be?"

He then looked at his shoulder to see that it had mostly healed but his suit had bullet holes in it. "Gonna have to get that fixed" he said to himself as he began to do the same routine he was doing before.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

"Thank you, Ms. Gravel. Move it on out people!" Rugal ordered as they left the Press Room and took the fastest route to the Basement stairs, unlocking the door with the Keycard.
However as he did, a hail of bullets cut clean though the door before embedding themselves into the wall opposite.
"Damn, They're watching the door..." He pointed out the obvious before attempting to open it again, causing another burst of concentrated fire.
"....M4A1 Assault Rifle with Rail Adapter System, vertical forward grip and ACOG sight..."
[color=c00000]"...You can tell from hearing the sound of how they fire?"[/color]
"Hard to mistake that expensive muzzle flash..." He answered, odds are they were from his factory.
"So how do get past? They reload in shifts and we're running out of time."

 

[bluecrimson]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

As Slindis went further down, she shifted again to that much more focused stance as she went down the stairway, trying to listen for any signs of an ambush. [color=c20000]"Lupito, head up the rear. It'd be easy for them to throw up an ambush."[/color] The wolf nodded and went to the back of the group, keeping an ear out for any sudden sounds as well.

The gunfire starting up caused Slindis to think out the situation. [color=c20000]"How many would you say, and how far away?"[/color] She began thinking of what she'd do for the attack.

The cleric could hear Sadei come through with a somewhat faint voice. ...oh boy... it's crazy trying to talk to you when you've got all of that going on...

Slindis shifted to the Water Stance. Her attacks hit a bit less harder, but she's far more survivable.

Spoiler: Slin's stats in Water Stance

Strength=31
Dexterity=23
Constitution =25
Intelligence=14
Wisdom=24
Charisma=22

Fortitude=46
Reflex=38
Will=39

Dodge=20%

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

Rugal entered behind Slindis and Lupito with Teri and Garm taking the rear.
He was uneasy as they descended, this was a Textbook trap.
{Everyone Fall back to the command center, the Launch is in t-minus 5 minutes}
"Launch?...That crazy bastard is about to kill us all!" He exclaimed as they rushed down the stairs, ducking under the odd volley of hot lead from retreating soldiers.
"Teri, Garm, Cover the rear, Slin, Lupito, with me!" He ordered as they charged deeper into the bunker, nearing the main control room.

All the while, the Angel Spy was starting to get restless, their leader had fled, their forces were being cut down, Launching this nuke was their last shot at attaining any form of victory here today.
And Pint was all too willing to give him just that.
"Now...Now those murdering Bastards in the Rising Dawn will pay for what they did to my family..." He said as he unlocked the Red Button...

 

[bluecrimson]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

As the group was about to split off, Slindis called out to everyone as she let out the burst again. [color=c20000]"If you fall here, I'm going to drag you back from the afterlife to train you again. Understood??"[/color] The shimmering aura covered the whole group, producing the barrier on them again.

Slindis expended one of her Turn Undead attempt to activate her Defender of Siberys II ability: Mass Shield of Faith! This casts Shield of Faith on you and any allies within the area of effect. This spell helps you to avert attacks, giving a +4 deflection bonus to AC for 12 minutes at Caster Level 12.

Turns left: [b]10[/b]

They got closer to the command center, readying herself for the fight in the likely heavily fortified command center. [color=c20000]"When we get in there, I'm going to loosen up the group with a bit of grease. Send a Fire blast on it, but let me talk to the general here. If it doesn't work, I'm knocking him out!"[/color]

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

Rugal, Slindis and Lupito hid behind one of the large computer processors as she explained her plan.
"I can arrange that. Try to stick to cover behind the computers, they have a lot more guns this time..." he forewarned as the last checks on the launch were being done.
He counted at least 20 armed men on top of whatever the remaining 10 officials had.
Jenkins the Spy smiled as Pint get closer and closer to firing the missile.
"We mess this up, this entire city is going to end up like New York, only we won't be outside of it when it happens...
Live and let die..."

Thus the attack got underway as The King and the Drow revealed themselves.
Touching her arm and coating the ground in grease followed by him sending a flaming Shakunetsu Hadoken ensured a wall of fire lit up the entire center.
"WHAT?! THEY ARE HERE?! ALL UNITS OPEN FIRE!" Pint shouted, causing Jenkins to curse as he dropped his attention from firing the Nuke.
And so the guards with M4s opened fire on the...fire, hoping to hit someone or something.

 

[bluecrimson]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

After putting down the grease that was set afire, Slindis used some Ki to fade out into the shadows, and she ran through the crowd over to where the General was. sure, her footsteps still made sound, but listening for them with the amount of gunfire combined with Lupito and Rugal's assault made it like finding a needle in a haystack. However, with all the bullet spray, she did get hit a few times from the hail of bullets. The blood droplets could be seen, but she was able to get fairly close to the position

Slindis used Shadow Fade! By spending 15 Ki, she can get a 25% incorporeality miss chance for one minute that stacks with her Dodge chance and the Blurry from her trinket.

Totl chance for an attack to hit after the layering of the effects: 48%
Ki left: 16

Rugal could see that Lupito was tearing at the ranks, using the protection from the Shield of Faith to shrug off most of the shots. Between Kalastryn, Melethia, Slindis, and Slindis, it seemed like everything from Eberron was tough. Were they exceptions, or was everything from that place abnormally tough?

 

[StormShaun]

Riki & Kud..
Location: Capitol Building | DC, America.
Time: 10 Am.

The couple waited at the entrance, they didn't want to go outside because from all Riki could see the outside of the building almost became the exact picture of Hell just like in New York. A sigh came from the boy as be noticed how useless he was compared to everyone else, especially the person whom their objective is. He could also see the same feeling coming off his lover, which is one of the reasons they were training.

"I guess this is all we can do for now... " Kud said quietly as the two sat down on a bench which Riki cleaned the blood off. As the two sat down Riki grasped the Stone Of Light tight as he remembered the effect it had on DP.Tomoya, it turned him good, the only thought he had was the hole in Tomoya's chest and the stone.

Dark Knight Storm-178.
Location: Capitol Building | DC, America.
Time: 10 Am.

Storm gave off an emotionless chuckle as he witnessed the bullets hit him with no effect. Though the image around him was ugly and full of violence, something he didn't like before he turned. The worst image to him was the scene of his men dying, and they were Spartans who he trained and served with him for a while on the Blackhawke. The ones who died from acid shots were the ones he beat the crap out of.

"No one... no one kills my soldiers... not even Tomoya!" Storm yelled as he lunged forward, the armor he wore was large but light as a feather. He appeared in front of Shadow to block a few shots aimed at his men, the action he took was a weak punch to Shadow's sides. The Russian solder could hear a faint whisper come from the Dark super-soldier, "Sorry... " The super-soldier said, Shadow could also see the soldier's mouth dripping with a black liquid... corruption.

"Run... run back." He yelled back to his men whom were firing. Storm's men looked back at him with a scared look in his face. "but... sir... where will we go... he will kill us!" Most of them yelled as the spartan blocked shots from the other characters. "Run... hide on this Earth. Some day I will come back for you all... the corruption will wear... UGH-" Storm said and briefly threw up the same black liquid on the ground.

All the super-soldiers nodded at each other as they blew up another side of a wall and escaped into the wild blue yonder.
Storm jumped back into the center of the room and laughed as he saw them leave. "Good... good." He smiled like a human again as he took his attention to the group again. "As much as I hate myself right now... I still don't wish to die. I can't go against his control... but please... " He begged to all of them.

And a faint sounds came from his mouth.
"[sub]Save me... [/sub]"

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

When the fire started, Rugal took the left side of the Room while Slindis and Lupito took the Right, ensuring that the Enemy was as confused as possible and reducing the change of being hit even further.
They were really quite impressive the two of them, The Drow and her Mount, on top of being nigh untouchable, they were he mowing though their side of the Room, he counted 7 down and counting.

Still, wouldn't do for him to be out done.

Bringing up a "Dark Barrier" and making a shield on his forearm, he charged onwards, shield in front to protect himself.
He then got in striking range and that was it.
Using his Slashing Aura, he rendered limbs and heads from 5 in quick succession before returning back to cover to avoid more incoming gunfire.

As for Jenkin's, he finally lost his nerve and Smashed his fist on the button, The Nuke was now inbound and would hit in about 15 minutes.
The spy then attempted to escape though the fire and lead, attempting to leave though the Left side to avoid Lupito who would totally sniff him out.

David

David watched as the enemy Troopers went to escape, he would have followed, but Storm took priority.
He was coated in blood, tired, broken and most certainly going to be arrested by UNIT for letting the World Leaders die.
He wasn't about to let this pass.
Advancing forward with his gun in hand, he was about to be Judge, Jury and Executioner.
As Storm begged, he snoffed.
"Save you?...SAVE YOU! You who has killed MILLIONS!? And don't give me any of that just following orders crap! No decent living thing could do those things even if he didn't have a choice, They'd rather die first, I know. I've been there."
He then pressed the barrel against Storm's forehead
"[sub]Please...don't do this...[/sub]"
"Count how many times you ignored that plea yourself you son of a *****!" David shouted as he went to pull the trigger...

 

[StormShaun]

Dark Knight Storm-178.
Location: Capitol Building | DC, America.
Time: 10 Am.

As David had pressed the gun against the head of the corrupted spartan, Storm already accepted his fate. "[sub]I somewhat knew this was going to happen... just forgive him.[/sub]" Storm talked about Tomoya. The only thing he wanted was to protect him and his men when he was corrupted. Though soon the truth would reach him, but not by a bullet.

The trigger was about to blow half of Storm's brain out.
A sigh came from the Spartan as he knew what was about to happen.
He had seen it many times in his world.
The elites butchering humanity.
Butchering his parents when he was as the academy.
Storm even took revenge with Master Chief himself at one point.
The main spartan in dark green armor even gave him his greatest goal.
"Protect everyone, with everything."

That day he was saved by John-117 and became a friend.

A loud bang was heard, but not from David's gun.
The teenager known as Riki had fired his gun which gained David's attention, giving the Spartan another chance.
"STOP! Wait a second!" Riki yelled as raised the stone into the air. It was flashing to indicate it was ready for another blast.

Another burst of light flashed out from the stone.
The next thing David could see was a puddle of black liquid come from Storm.
"Aaaarrrhhhh!" He yelled out, the black corruption was coming out of every hole in his body.
Eventually making a black puddle next to him.
Even his angel armor fell off and was carried off to the puddle.

The worst part was that every single drop gathered to the puddle with the armor.
It soon started to form a figure along the wall.

Spoiler

"Humans... your evil feeds us... it attracts us." It said in a dark husky voice.
"I'm hungry... so... ever hungry" It started to move slowly.
It was obvious that this was the origin of evil from Storm, and the light had effect on it.

Storm on the other hand was passed out on the floor which seemed to attract the monster.

 

[bluerocker]

Rugal, Teri, Slindis, Garm, Lupito

Teri poured out one of her water bottles, taking cover behind Garm; who was more than happy to tear chunks out of those who came to close. Squishy arose from the summons, and Teri pulled out her cross, chanting in a mixture of Celestial and Aquan: [color=0E59E4]

[i]"Lord, bless your son of Water, bring him your divine might!"[/i]

[/color]

Teri has made a bolster attempt to improve Squishy, burning one of her Turn Fire attempts (leaving her with 1 turn fire and 3 turn undead attempts). Teri rolls an 18! Squishy now functions like he has 8 hitdice instead of 4 (Cleric level, 6 + 2)!

Squishy rippled with divine power, and then charged in after The Cleric's allies, body ready to slam into some poor sap. Garm sniffed the air, and whined at the stench of smoke and burning metal, a sentiment that was shared by his Pup. Teri gave the wolf a nod, a pat and a [color=0E59E4]

"Go on ahead!"

[/color] before the wolf bounded in after them, it's claws and teeth ready to rip into whomever dared attacked his Pup's pack.

---

Meanwhile, Rugal heard a paniced tone emitting from his PDA, a familiar posh voice crying out, [color=3897E0]

"Sir, I don't mean to bring you too much alarm, but the nuclear systems have been deployed! Preventative course of action is highly recommended within the next 15 minutes, or we will not be here!"

[/color]

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David

David watched as Storm became pure, but in his eyes, this wasn't an excuse, After all that happened over the past few days, SOMETHING had to pay, a face had to be put on all the evil that occurred.
Then some evil shadow appeared going on about humanity fault and how they were weak.
"...I'm too fucking pissed off to deal with this right now..." He bluntly said before firing blast rounds at the shadowy figure, not really caring if it worked or not.
He had a almost disappointed look on his face as he said to Riki "It get back up, use the stone..."
Glancing back at the now un-conciseness Storm, he then said "...I should just shoot you now anyway...but I won't..."
He then walked off over the blood soaked room, coated in once the leaders of the world and exited the Capital Building, Sitting on the steps of the Congress and gazing out at the Washington Monument.

"...I hate Mondays...."
Words of wisdom as the city smoldered.

Captcha: Frankly my dear: "...I don't give a damn..."

 

[bluerocker]

Battlefield Outside the Capitol

After the last of the Angelic force was eliminated, Caim and Angelus took a good look around, inspecting the immense amount of damage the little family had wrecked on their own. Such was the power of pact partners, it seemed. Wrapping an arm around Angelus's shoulders, Caim lightly tapped his forehead to the dragon's, a small smile on his face,

"All in a day's work, eh?"

A grunt of agreement came from the dragon, and she leaned into the embrace, glad for a moment's respite. However, that reverie ended quickly when Ton Ton and Cadolbolg came back to them, just as much soaked in enemy humors as the duo was.

"Are Mother and Father alright? You seemed to be covered in blood..."

Angelus gave a laugh at this, "He's always like this after battle, which is why I always push for his personal cleanliness..."

Pulling away from Caim, Angelus gave a small snort, "You stink... No matter, let us-"

That was when they saw David exiting the Capitol building, and the Stab-Burn-Murder family wandered to the exhausted David West. Raising a crimson blade in a salute of sorts, Caim called out,

"Battle wearing thin on you, soldier?"

As they reached the steps of the Capitol, Ton Ton shuddered a little, a familiar feeling filling his little body, [color=15650D]"[small]Daemon...[/small] I'll be right back."[/color]

The Tonberry charged past David, the lantern glowing brighter than usual; to the curious surprise of his comrades. Caim could only shrug at the Tonberry's actions, but didn't really pay him any mind. The creature was competent enough on his own, so the family didn't really feel a need to worry about him.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

David

David watched as the little Tonberry struggled up the stairs past him, he was going to the tired by the time he got up there.
"...Yeah...You go there....freaky...lizard...thingy..." He sighed in sarcastic encouragement.
Then Caim was kind enough to ask how he was doing.
"I'm covered the blood of at least 16 different nationalities, what the fuck do you think!?" he shouted back clearly in a bad mood.
"And the Leaders? What of them?" Angelus asked, partly to avoid a argument.
He answered that by stroking a hand though his hair, coating in blood and began to shake it off on the ground, repeating the motion several times.
"This one is French *Shake* This one is British *Shake* New Zealand *Shake* Think that one is African...I could go on, but I won't, but I could...Fucking missed the shot, let them all down...Only constructive thing I've done all fucking mission was get the Congress Room a new coat of red paint." He explained, fully expecting to be ranted at for failing his objective.

 

[Sithmorack]

Shadow

"Hey David" was all Shadow said as he pulled out a not so broken chair and sat down close to David.

"Eh don't feel so bad. It's not completely your fault and besides the senators were assholes...." Shadow said in a vain attempt to cheer him up.