Citizen_Stu

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"Ah... More figures to add to this grand game." The figure chuckled and raised his mug in a mockery of a toast.

"I bid you welcome, and am glad to see I am not alone. You may call me Andre Dumas, but you may know me as the Horned King."

Andre pulled the mug beneath the shrouds of his cloak and drank deeply.

"The coffee is quite good..."

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Mr. Book hardly battered an eye lid at the clocked figure.

"I'm sure it is." He said, waiting for the lady in their group to be seated before he himself sat down. "and may I ask Mr. Dumas just what game it is we have all been brought her to play?"

When he had seen their host was a woman Mr. Book was slightly suppressed but took it in his stride. A slightly raised eye brow being the only outward sign of his reaction. Still standing with his hands behind his back like a gentleman he gave a small bow to their hostess. Always important to show a sign of respect he thought to himself, even if it was just to be polite. If their hostess was worth of respect remained to be seen.

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"Yeah, it's real pretty. But what exactly are we doing here?"

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"I would like to know the same. The invitation was very cryptic." Mr. Book added.

((OOC: I was making Mr. Book up as I went a long a bit but I'll come up with something more set tonight at PM it to you ))

Mr. Book stood with his hands behind his back in a very gentlemanly fashion and raised an eyebrow as the clocked figure opened the door with a robotic arm.

"Jack in Diamonds I presume." He said producing the playing card from his pocket and showing it. After Jack in Diamonds entered the door Mr. Book bowed slightly to Nomegeh and indicated to the open door with his arm. "Ladies first."

"My I enquire as to the purpose of tonight's little gathering." He asked Jack in Diamonds as they followed. His voice showed no sign of annoyance and remained very polite and proper.

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Many As One : A nanotech community that was given sentience by a dose of Ritki chemicals. The machinery was never supposed to react to such a thing, but in doing so it became "aware." It now has taken over the body of the man who invented the nanites, and has begun... improving it.

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Straight-Jacket (Jack Stryker) has met Mean as One in the RP forum and knew the host before he was taken over. It would be fun when COV comes out if they came face to face in game. Maybe with Crystal as well

I have a ruff idea for a villain called Mr. Book but he is not fully worked out yet.

I've got two character that I would be more than happy to for you to use. They are both English (given that I am) but are complete different from each other. I have lot more info on both of them that I have not put here. If you want anymore let me know and I can PM it to you.

Straight-Jacket (aka: Jack Stryker)
Mutant Controller

Jack was born in London, England. As a child he suffered from powerful headaches and blackouts. Medical records show that this started around age six. Doctors were unable to find a cure for the condition or why it was happening. However, several drugs were tried. Most had minimal effect.

Additional information obtained from school reports suggests that Jack's mutant abilities started to manifest themselves at age nine. He discovered he could project his pain onto others, thus relieving himself in the process. However, the ability was at first uncontrollable. The discovery of his mutant abilities (and the possible danger they posed to the other students) led to parents protesting to have him removed from the school. They were unsuccessful and Jack remained at the school where he was then bullied by the other children.

Over the course of the following year he secretly taught himself to control and focus his abilities. The relief he felt from using them still only had a short effect but he used them to get revenge on the children who had bullied him. He put one into a coma when things got out of hand. No one ever found out he was to blame for the event.

As he got older it would appear he decided the safest way to stay out of trouble (and possibly jail) was to use his powers to fight crime. However the years of headaches and anti-mutant bullying seem to have had a negative affect on him. Jack's actions as a hero are questionable. He is often rude and mocking to those he meets. He find it hard to let others close or express his true feelings. This does not necessarily mean he is really a bad person but if he is truly trust worthy is always questionable.

Recent surveillance shows that he is now attending Paragon University as a student in Dr Sanstads class. Having just moved to America four years ago he still has a very strong common English accent. He keeps his hero identity a secret but most people know about his mutant abilities. He currently lives in The Whitemoore building.

The med building at the university has been broken into and drugs stolen three times in the last year. The drugs that have been stolen turn out to be part of some of the more successful drugs that were used on Jack as a child. It is the belief of some that Jack is responsible for the break ins, however there is currently no proof to support this.

He also has some healing powers. However, in a reverse of his main power his healing powers course him pain and he is often very reluctant to use them. Questions have also recently been raised about Jack's metal state and a possible side effect of his mutant abilities which have allowed him to manifest hallucinations in physical form.

Powers:
Illusion Control: Spectral Wounds, Blind, Flash, Group Invisibility, Phantom Army
Empathy: Healing Aura, Heal Other, Resurrect
Teleportation: Recall Friend, Teleport
Fitness: Swift, Health

Jacks first appearance in The TV interview RP
Jacks first appearance in The Whitemoore RP

Shadow Marshal (aka: Alex James West)
Magic Scrapper

For almost a year Paragon city was terrorized by a serial kill known simply as The Paragon Stalker. Victims were found in their homes murdered with no signs of a break in or any clues. However it appeared that the killer had taken souvenirs from each of the crime scenes. Other details of the Stalkers MO were never realized to the press. The police had no leads and were no where near finding the identity of the killer. Then suddenly after the 15th murder all activity by The Paragon Stalker stopped. Some believe he has moved on. Others believe he is dormant. Detective David Breaker is the man who has been charged to find out.

The 12th victim of the Paragon stalker was an student of Paragon University who had moved over from England a few months before, Alex J West. Unknown to anyone it was in fact Alex who stopped The Stalker and now goes by the name Shadow Marshal. After his murder Alex found himself some how linked to The Paragon Stalker as a ghost. He could not be seen, heard or effect the world around him in anyway. All he could was helplessly bare witness to the next two murders. No matter what he tried he could not stop them. Witnessing those horrible events affected him more then his own death ever could. He could also feel he was starting to fade away into nothing.

However Alex started to discover he was not as powerless as he thought. As a ghost he was starting to develop certain powers. Weak at first but slowly growing stronger until on the night The Paragon Stalker was to take his 16th victim Alex was able to posses his body and stop the murder. Alex discovered he was able to remain in control. The stalkers soul became repressed and trapped. With a new body Alex was anchored and stopped fading away. At first he thought about walking into a police station and playing the part, giving the confession they need to put The Stalker away. He also though about taking The Stalkers body and jumping in front of a train so he could never hurt anyone again. But Alex could not bring him self to do either and instead became the hero; Shadow Marshal.

He never told anyone about his real identity or the truth about The Stalker. He changed his name to Alex Webber and never told his family that he was still alive again (in away). However he has drawn interest from Detective Breaker who has started to suspect him (as Alex Webber not Shadow Marshal) for the murders.

Alex does not want to admit it to himself but he can feel The Paragon Stalkers sole fighting back for control and getting stronger. Alex also uncontrollable slips between the world of the living and world of the dead from time to time.

Alex never asked to become a super hero. It was something that was forced upon him but now he has these powers he wants to use them to do as much as he can so no one every has to go through or witness what happened to him. He is a kind and friendly person. When he is in a fight he is total focused and always puts the safty of others first but he is still socially awkward in some situations.

Alexs first appearance in The Whitemoore RP

On second Harris had been on the back of one of the bear like creatures then the next thing he new he was in on the ground. In it's excitement the bear had ran to Erik.

Now it was trying to help him up again by nudging at him with its nose.

"Har..s. .........there? A..wer.........jac..ss. ...can't tr....mit for......." The bear suddenly stopped and started to sniff at Harris armor in surprise because of the voice that now seemed to be coming from it. It sounded like the angry boy it did not smell like him.

The voice of Jack stared came in more clearly over the coms unit in Harris armor. "Harris. You better bloody answer. We can't transmit for long."

Harris searched for a reply button on the suit. Finding one that looked like it he pressed it and started to speak. "Jack?"

"No, its Statesman Who do you bloody think it is of course it is me." Jack fired back. "Now just shut up and listen. We've boosted the signal and its not going to last long.
We got the others out Crystal, Pink Boy, Ali Mc Beal and Highlander are all here."

"Who?" Harris asked not recognizing most of the Mickey take nick names he had given the group.

"Just trust me everyone one is here at McBeath's place. Get back up here." There was another reason why Jack did not use most of the groups real names, he did not wont to explain about Paul yet.

It took Harris and the others two hours to find their way back to the surface and McBeath's building. Jack spent that whole time sitting at Crystals bed side waiting and preying for her to weak up.

I think the real question is why did we click on a topic with a title like this?

/em slowly edges away

Not here I don't think. Depends how much detail you go into. All posts have to be PG or PG-13. I can't remember which.

He took a low bow and politely corrected her. "I am Mr. Book, yes. It is a pleaser to meet a lady as beautiful as yourself." He took her hand a gently kissed the back of it.

He spoke with a posh English accent. His manner showed confidence and politeness. He stood up and smiled at her.

"I can not say I approve of our hosts meeting location as well. Some people do not know the proper way to entertain guests."

The creator has spoken to us. All hail the creator.

I've seen the screen shot of it. Every time I pass by it in game now I think, "it’s the Whitmoore." It would be funny if the devs gave the building a Whitmoore sign in the next update. Maybe even a contact called Mr. Green out side.

Dark Harrier, Ishtara and myself meet up on Virtue for a bit. It was nice to finally 'meet' each other.

We also had a mystery hero called Light Harrier show up who played tricks on me and Dark Harrier by first telling us he was really Ishtara, then Tick-Toc. Took us a while to work out from his clues that he was really Unknown_Hero. Evil person playing with our heads.

I got a screen image of the event but I have no idea how to post it up here.

I've made a version of Shadow Marshal on the victory server. Now I just have to figure out the time difference and see if it is at a time I am awake

I'm going to go on now and have a bit of a look around.

((OOC: No worries. I have been away from it for a long time too ))

Jack stood still holding the naked form of Crystal in his arms. For a while he was unable to say or do anything. His mind was still trying to catch up with everything that had happened in the last few seconds. Suddenly he seemed to remember where he was and the fact that Crystal was naked. Quickly he covered her with his long jacket and continued to carry her out of the sewer and back to Macbeth’s private hospital.

He would have to carry on looking for the other later. Right now he had to get Crystal help and at some point he would have to try and track down Many as One. Jack was not willing to accept that Paul was dead again. Mostly because he did not want to have to be the one to tell Crystal.

Mr Book waited at the meeting point indicated on the map. Although he was a hansom looking man (who looked to be in his late 20's) his skin was oddly pale and cold. The area under his eyes was darker.

He was dressed in what seemed to be a cross between modern and renaissance clothes in dark colors. The shirt and trousers were modern but the waist coat and jacket (and some of the rest) were clearly from the renaissance. Some how he had made the strange miss match of styles work.

Although he seemed to be off guard as he leaned on a near by wall with an amused smile on his face he was aware of everything going on around him as he waited.

After discussing what to do next Jack was storming off down the tunnels with the other two following behind. He showed no indication of waiting for them as they searched for the others.

"Why do I have to group up with the psycho soul sucker and the toaster with delusions of being a hero." He mumbled angrily to himself with his hands in his jacket pockets.

As he turned a corner what he saw shocked him beyond belief. There standing over Crystal (who seemed to be out cold) was Paul. Jack had still believed Paul was dead, killed by Jack himself when he lost control. Although he had hated Paul he found himself suddenly happy at seeing him.

"HOLY [censored]. PAUL YOU'RE ALIVE. THANK GOD. I THOught I.....had....killed......" Although he was yelling with relief his speech slowed and stopped as he register something else.

They were both naked. A look of confusion crossed his face and annoyance at Paul. Jacks feeling for Crystal had not changed and he total misunderstood what he was seeing.

"What the bloody hell are you doing. This is hardly the bloody time and place for you two to be getting jiggy with it."

We should see how many people are on what servers too. I'm guessing a few of us might be on different time zones too.

I play on Virtue and I am on European time (Holland, GMT+1) by the way. I have no problem with making an alt on another server if we are going to meet up.

It’s been really good role-playing with you. It’s going to be a shame to see you go. You should have The Harrier go out in a blaze of glory....but of course in a way that could suggest he might come back

((OOC: I was not to sure how we get our villain characters involved. I hope this is ok. If not let me know and I will edit it))

Among the files in the envelope is one detailing an individual simply known as 'Mr Book.' Information on him is thin at best but it lists him as a paranormal and a mind manipulator. It also details the location with in Steel Canyon that he can be found.

A small blue skin, demon looking child with pointy hair and a tail walked into the new bar. He looked like he had just been to hell and back. His amour was covered in burn marks and soot but he seemed unharmed and unbothered buy it.

He did how ever seem a little nervous when people started to look at him. He started to fidget with his tail in the way he always did when he got nervous.

Making his way over to the counter Eike climbed up onto a bar stool and looked around the room. As he waited for a waiter to come and see him he started to spin his bar stool around and around.

When the barman came over Eike suddenly grabbed the bar to stop himself and felt very dizzy. When he was asked what he wanted he stopped to think for a moment.

"Um.........do you have Orange Juice?" He asked.

As Jacked helped Emily and Martin lift Master wonderful he asked, "More to it like what?"

Then as an after thought he added, ".....and what are we going to do about finding the others?"

Jack heard the familiar sound of a teleport and the sound of a body hitting the floor. With out saying a word he snatched the glow stick out of Em's hand and ran back to where the fight had been. He found Master Wonderful face down in a puddle of water and out cold. He ran over and rolled him over onto his back so he could breath.

There was a strange conflict in his mind between wanting to help him and wanting to attack him as the imprint of Syn's will faded from his mind. Jack shock his head and tried to focus.

Taking one of the healing patches from his pocket he slapped it on to Master Wonderful's neck.

"Hay.......Ali McBeal......get down here." He shouted back down the tunnel to Em.

Jack shock his head again and pinched the bridge of his nose as he tried to clear his mind of the thoughts put there by Syn. He was starting to feel dizzy and a little ill.

((OOC: If you are talking about Erik being the glowing form he is in a completely different place at the moment to where Jack is. Just as Paul is in a different place from both Erik and Jack.))

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((OOC: I just realized you might be talking about Em's glow stick. Sorry if I miss understood.))

"I think so. I mean.......still confused...thoughts conflicting in my head but its all settling down." He replied.

Then suddenly he remembered something. "You bloody slapped me." He said, rubbing his cheek.

"Anyway, what happened to the others?" He asked.

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Modi suddenly growled and turned - he had caught wind of Daddy's scent. Magni turned also, and Enid, understanding what this must mean, didn't waste time arguing. "Go!" She told the bears. "Go!"

Suddenly they were streaking down the tunnel at full speed, bouncing not only at the motion of the animals, but also at the occasional aftershock...

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Amy was sitting in front of Steven Harris on the large bear so he could help hold her up. When the bear stared to run at fall speed he had grab hold tighter to make shore Amy and himself did not fall off (which he almost did).

"We are we going." He shouted, trying to keep the sound of panic out of his voice.

((OOC: I just re-read my post and I guess I was a little harsh. Sorry.))