Infinitron_EU

Momentarily halted, the ship continued its inevitable descent. The now respectable number of heroes could do nothing to stop it, and had no time to escape. Some grabbed civilians and sheltered them under their own bodies; some thought of escape, but knew the blast would claim them, and so bunkered down.

This was it, thought Tracy, if i survive this, i'm going to make the big time.

Infinitron, unable to move his legs from the impact, could merely watch. He had no idea whether the suit would hold up to this.

Time seemed to slow as the ship got within 50 feet of the ground, people could feel the heat of the burning ship as it drew closer.

But then, a bright point of light formed 20 feet infront of the ship. With a loud sucking noise, it formed into a portal, not 3 feet across.
Puzzled expressions formed onthe faces if the onlooking crowd, even the retreating Rikti looked.

There was nothing for a second or so, which seemed like 5 minutes, and then an almighty sonic boom. A blue and white blur shot out of the portal, straight into the path of the ship; and it didn't stop. The figure slammed into the front of the ship with the force of a freight train. The shockwave shattered windows all around and knocked people off their feet.

The ship came to an abrupt halt, and then, unbelievably, began to travel in the reverse direction. Accelerating upwards, the figure could be seen straining with the force of it.

As the ship was raised into the air, it cleared the roofs of the tallest skyscrapers; and then like the fourth of July, exploded spectactularly, as its entire payload went off.

The majority of the ship was vapourised, but shrapnel still began falling on the city; but it was better than the alternative.

Then the gold caped figure was seen, falling swiftly from the wreckage; plummetiing towards the ground.

Tracy tracked the body from the explosion, down to the earth shattering impact with the ground; harder than the bomb that had knocked her off her feet.

Heroes, whilst deflecting the falling shrapnel rushed to the body.

Stood shocked but still filming, Tracy broke a smile;
"I'm going to get a Pulitzer". She ran towards the body, all thoughts of the raining shrapnel out of her head - she had to get a shot of the hero who had saved them all.

As she drew near she was held back by one of the heroes.

"Who is he? Is it states?"

"We don't know ma'am, we don't know. One of the guys says he recognises him, but can't place the name. Please find cover - you can't report the story if you're dead" forcefully said the Purple Clad hero.

((someone needs to think they recognise him (even better if multiple people do) and get him to a hospital, STAT))

The rikti chief approached the red and black attired wizard, distracted by his concentration; the Chief drew out his war sword and thrust at the back of this magic user.

All he heard was a loud crack, then a large thud.
The rikti pilot looked down to see the lamp post impaled through his midriff. As he slumped forward the ship nosedived at the ground, picking up speed, now coming way below the rooftops of the vast city district.

The pilot launched a volley of plasma blasts at the lampost wielding woman.

The pilot had stopped the release of the bombs he had lined up, the impact explosion would be bigger this way.

He was looking for the most densely populated area he could for his 'touch down'.

The rikti ship rocked back and forth, the pilot trying to hold it steady; but it was no use, the back end collided with a building - decimating the structure and also the engines of the ship. There was nothing the pilot could do, the ship was going down - but he was going to take as many with him as he could. Be a martyr to their cause.
He began letting rip with what he had left, as the ship careered towards the ground, and thus the groups of heroes and civilians below.

As tracy filmed the flailing ship, the falling body of Lady Stormcrow and the unconcious figure of Infinitron. The world seemed to slow as the realisation that the ship was going to crash, and that she couldn't escape hit in; heroes turned to see the ship, some taking flight to try and stop the ship, others rounding up civilians in what little time they had. But she kept filming.

((The ship WILL crash, but please try and stop it. You can't get all the civilians out in time, and the rikti hordes are still opressive. Don't save Tracy, she needs to film this. New heroes feel free to appear to stop the ship at this point.))

Infinitron turned to look behind him, across to the next street, and saw another crowd of heroes and rikti slugging it out. He turned his attention to this incoming ship, but it turned out that as he took flight, that the ship had similarly noted his trajectory and a cannon blast knocked the caped hero out of the air, and into the side of a building.
This first shot was the first of many as it began ripping up the street with shots.

The heavy assault suit rocked at the impact to its side, and the rikti inside called for backup. With this in came 2 more heavy assualt suits to aid in the destruction.

Tracy looked to the hero offering her escape;
"No, just take him, i'm fine here, thankyou" as the hero turned and carried steve to safety. Tracy scooped up the camera steve had been carrying and raised it to her shoulder. As she did so, she saw almost a blur as someone ran up to the shop and deposited an unconcious cape with a bow. Tracy put the camera back down and ran to the girls side; gettting no reaction, she dragged her inside the shop out of harms way - for the time being.

Meanwhile, Infinitron had discarded his Assault Rifle and was dispatching Rikti with his energy charged fists.
On seeing the extra H.A.S.'s appearing, he took off. Totally focusing all his energy into his fist, he rocketed into the side of one of the suits, smashing it so hard it collapsed in on itself as it also collided viciously with the skyscraper next to it. Landing and taking a breath over the effort, he looked up the 2 remaining imposing shapes. But as he did, his suit sensors identified a large flying object in the vicinity. He turned to his left to see a large rikti bomber approaching.

"Get the civilians out of here now!" Tracy heard the booming metallic voice of Infinitron cry. She grabbed the camera once more and stepped out into the doorway to capture the fight with the HAS's and the incoming ship. She knew she should run, but the instinct was to keep filming.

Tracy watched as the hero charged once more at the Rikti soldier, and the shock started to wear off and she was able to move. She looked to her left for Steve, and was dismayed to find him unconcious with a large head wound. She grabbed him and pulled his body over to the doorway of a shopfront and cowered there. This one hero could not take on all these rikti single handed.

Meanwhile, the rikti were pouring in still, and the bomb was still beeping its countdown.
Distracted by the appearance of this hero from the rooftop, some of the rikti broke away towards him; but another 2 had noticed tracy moving and proceeded towards her.
As they neared, they both raised their plasma rifles to execute.
Tracy pushed herself as far into the corner as she could, hugging steve to her; as if it would make any difference to her fate. She closed her eyes.
The rikti steadied and then fired.

Tracy opened her eyes and watched the smoking headless corpses of the two rikti slump to the ground. A gold and silver figure landed infront of her; Infinitron said nothing, but merely forced the door open behind her, and motioned her in. Turning immediately and entering back into the fray.

He watched the other hero deftly dodging swings from the now irritated rikti chief soldier. He could handle himself, thought Infinitron, and turned in the opposite direction to move citizens out of harms way.

The numbers of rikti were immense, much more than any previous raid. Infinitron raised his arm piece and pressed in a button;
"We need more metahumans to Steel Canyon immediately. Calling all metahumans in the vicinity, Steel Canyon - STAT!" he shouted.
Upon looking up he saw merely a wall of Rikti walking towards him. He raised his rifle and began firing at the crowd of them.

((Ok, this is my first go at this, an Open RP plot. A rikti invasion on Steel Canyon. I have a plotline for it, and will come in at points to give direction to whats happening. Please get involved, as the more who do, the better. This will also be the beginning for one of my new characters. Enjoy, and kick some [censored]))


"... this is Tracy Glenn, reporting for channel 9; back to you in the studio" concluded the caucasian 28 year old. "Thats a wrap, lets go home Steve" she said to the cameraman infront of her. As she did though, the skies began to dim and then... silence.
"The walls are down! Get inside" commanded a keen eyed youth; acting much older than his age.
"Get rolling steve"
"Already am Trace" replied Steve, camera back on shoulder.

For a minute, there was no sound, people had retreated to building entrances and were waiting. Was it a false attack? Designed just to cause panic, or as a decoy; they didn't know. But their doubt was dutifuly answered.
As in the distance an explosion was heard and the ground shook. It had begun.

The first rikti ship flew overhead, and the people below now panicked, fleeing inside the buildings. Some stood in shock, frozen with the terror of it.

Then, within the blink of an eye, there was a fizz and pop of Rikti invasion forces teleporting to the ground all along the street.

"I think we should leave now Trace" Steve called.
"I concur" shouted Tracy as she turned and began to ran. But as they did they were thrown from their feet by the ground erupting infront of them. The were thrown back and sat up to see a rikti bomb beeping at them, nuzzled comfortably within the concrete, timer ticking down.
"Oh" was all Tracy could manage, her eyes franticly searching for a cape, they must have got the call by now. They better hurry, she thought, as the Rikti began opening fire at shop fronts and the retreating civilians.


((Rikti ships in the air, Rikti forces on the ground, helpless civilians being shot at. Let the fight commence))

((most enjoyable to observe, was almost willing to bring Infi out of semi-retirement, and it looks like i will now, gonna have to write some stories damn you, lol))

Happy to be a keeper of an artifact. Infinitron (Joseph Infinus) being the hero and accomplished businessman he is has access to, and a collection of items that he has acquired through his travels and deeds.
He'd be happy to help out. He particularly likes ancient technology - being a technopath.

I would like to jump in here and get involved.
I have a character who has a plan for world domination; a simple case of that he believes himself superior to these lesser mortals and that they should bow down and give him the respect he deserves.
His name - Infinitraitor; the plot is merely a ruse to draw out what he believes to be a cheap imitation clone of his - Infinitron, who has gone into seclusion.
Infinitraitor story - bit of backstory of how he came about.
Reason Infinitron is in seclusion and rarely seen at the moment, this storyline could be his comeback. Clicky

Aww shame they have to stop for a bit; but i can't complain - I'm already done. Makes me smile everytime i look at it. Thankyou again. Keep up the work.

Well i like it. The shot of him flying down from the clouds was awesome, even if really simple.

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.... and some behind the scenes stuffery;
Kittenz original drawings
Constructing Infinitron (Vector Artwork stage)

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Been away from the forums for a while, and just came back to see these.
Wow, thanks for these bits Mother. And all the recent ones still astound me.

Wont be able to make it, out Tuesday night Airsofting.

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Thanks for the welcome, I will check out GG and see whats happening, hard to find a MMORPG with roleplayers, usually get treated like the plague elsewhere!

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Welcome to the RP community.
I beg to differ slightly on your last point, several of the newer games specifically cater for RP'ers, releasing RP specific servers no less - LOTRO has em, and so does AoC.
But RP'ing here is much better, 'cause we can do this:

*Flies off into the sky with rocket boots*

Yeah, Loup got it pretty much right, but i'll clarify how i do it:

I write down each player in order that they are sat around the table.
I deal out as if the people were there, but face up to me, to each person.
I then send a tell to each person in order informing them of their hand. Short hand i use is [Number][Suit], i.e. King of Clubs = Kc, 9 of hearts = 9h, etc.
We then play the first round of betting; this is where the fun maths starts for me. I note down the magnitude of the bet, so $5 to start, but then someone raises to $10, so i change to $10. At the end of the round i times this by the players who have called to give the pot at that point. Anyone who has folded, but betted, i will note a -$5 or whatever under their name.
Then the flop is done, out of principal i burn one (even though not necessary), and turn 3. New round of betting, same idea as before. If someone folds here, i note the cumulative bet from this round and the first and put it as - under their name. Bets are added for this round, and total added to the pot.
Same as above for the turn and the river.
Ok, so now the showdown. By this point i have already worked out (as i have the cards infront of me) who has won the hand and can get on with working out the math whilst people RP the showdown with little prompts from me.

The loser(s) obviously get -$their_total_bet below their name.
The winner gets the total pot minus their total bet ($500 pot, player bet $150, so they get +$350) - noted below their name.

Rinse and repeat for as many hands as you care to do.

At the end, add up all the +$ and all the -$ and see who is the most up, or most down (most likely Dave or Ed for this one lol)

Enjoy. IF you ain't got a head for maths, i will pray for thee, or suggest you don't deal :P

Meeting was late to start, and then went on til 10:30, sorry. Hope you coped without me

I have an SG meeting at 8 to discuss some bits and bobs, will probably then take a quick break, so planning to be there for just before 9.

Inf.

Nom nom nom nom.

Very good piece.

I will try to be there tonight, but cant make any promises.

The room had slowed for Cypher, the sprout of liquid rock from the monsters neck merely crept towards him. Side stepping to avoid it, Cypher came up behind another rock-made fiend. Focusing himself, he sank back on his rear leg.
The world sped up as he unleashed a massive roundhouse kick, seemingly from nowhere as he came out of stealth, which disintegrated the monsters head; the body slumping forwards onto its knees and then its front.
Landing gracefully, the Colonel looked up to see several magma monsters had taken notice and were stomping towards him. He allowed the to get close, for the first one to take a swing; he dodged it, rolling between two of the beasts. They both looked down at him, their rock minds trying to think quick enough. They both swung at empty air, colliding their first with each others chests - disintegrating each other; as Cypher looked down from a perch up high, and watched the progress of the rest of the team, as he went back into stealth.

absolutely brilliant.

I'm available friday, lvl'd Colonel upto 15/16. Might be interested in a red-side team; my character would work fine as a stalker; whole Cov-ops idea.