Chertak set down his drink and gave the TacOps Commander and his soldiers a long look over. Next to him, the Mentalist from the last battle gave the humans a dirty look, as did the pair of Conscripts sitting across from their leader.
"I know of: The Malta Group," Chertak said. "Please: Sit."
Chertak barked something at the Conscripts in his native language and the lower ranking Rikti cringed and then got up. Muttering to themselves, the pair exited the bar. As Reikoff sat, Chertak nodded toward him.
"The Rikti: Know well of: Your kind: We do not: Approve of your: Ways but they are: Undeniably effective: What deal: Might you propose?"
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Ryan stepped up to Regerstering desks. His face was cover, as usal, by his scarf. Looking down at the lady behind the desk. "Name please" she said. "Ryan the Shadow" The lady looked up. "Your real last name" Ryan looked her in the eye and waved his hand. "Shadow will do" "Shadow will do." "Do you want to fight in the last fight. Mr. Shadow" She said filling out the last of his papers. "Yes" with that she handed him the papers, and he headed over to he bar.
(Meet my main man Ryan the Shadow)
"Hmh." Grunted the TacCom in approval.
"We came to speak to you of the others in the next fight. Now, if you know of us, you know of our goal, and I believe you can see where I am going already. I know your species is an honorable one, but come; These supers are the main reason so many of your people have died, whilst my organization can account for deaths only caused in self-defense. All I ask is that you assist us in picking the same targets if we are on a team, and holding off of my men if we are not. You may also like to know that supers defeated by my men will be subdued in one of our installations, leaving you with less to fight as your people continue to live here."
"Are you interested?"
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BIC: "Hello there Agent Immolate," said a man over the intercom. "I see this is your first time in the Coliseum. Just have a seat at the table in front of you and answer some of the questions you see on the monitor. Also, if you could include an explanation for your unusual entrance, I'm sure Security would be very happy to have that."
The questions were standard fare, just like the ones from the earlier examinations.
"And if you have any trouble understanding our language, just let me know and I am avaliable to help."
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AI politely answers the questions and complies to the tests with courtesy mixed with curiosity.
In the end she takes the ID card and without looking at it places it inside her robes.
She walks into the bar lounge area to survey who is there.
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
OOC: I don't feel like making another reg post, so Ryan, you can write yours yourself. It can be as simple as walking in, doing it, and getting your card. If your powers are the same as they are in SV 101, you get an A-3.
As Ryan started walking off, the registrar waved at Ryan to get his attention.
"Excuse me, Mr. Shadow?" he said. "You want to complete your registration first. Just go down that door and you will given instructions inside.
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"You are: Incorrect on one: Account Mr...: What is: Your name?" Chertak began.
"You may call me Reikoff," answered Reikoff.
"Very well: My species is not: As a: Whole: Honorable: Which is why: I am here: With only a: Small detatchment of: Soldiers: But regardless: I am tempted to: Take your: Offer," Chertak paused for a moment to sip from his drink. "When the battle: Is announced: I shall inform: You of my desision: Agreed?"
OOC: Halo, you got an A-2. I'm going to give your mage protaganist an A-2 as well if you don't mind. Also, now is a good time to think of some way to make him get in the next fight.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Reikoff looked to the ceiling again, a tic he had that always made him stand out in the emotionless Malta.
"It is so. But I leave you by saying, an agreement with my organization would be most profitable to you and your men." He said, standing up.
"Let us return to the main lobby and conduct final preparations."
"You may take your seats again. Excuse us." He nodded to the Conscripts.
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Staff lightly tapping the floor, Archmage Andraxus of the Circle of Thorns strode over to where the newest magical gladiator of the Coliseum was sulking. Free hand absently smoothing his long white beard, Andraxus tapped the other man's foot with his staff.
"Raxiurgiux is it?" Andraxus asked. "I have been told that you fled to the Coliseum in order to gain its protection...and that you are a member of my organization from another dimension. Tell me, rogue mage, how is it that you arrived here and what you will plan to do should whoever is hunting you down finds you?"
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Ah brother Andraxus. Aid me! I am hunted by a terrible creature! It has destroyed my coven and continues to pursue me! [His voice is deep and proud, yet he is visbily shaken]
I know not where it came from, I know not what wrong I have done! but... it... seeks the death of us all.
He reaches for his double shot of whisky with his burnt hand and downs it with a painful gulp.
Our brother Theirmizz said I should seek you that you may have means to aid me.
OOC: Exactly what do them ratings mean A-x
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
Podo, whose drink was nearly gone and whose remaining eyelid was drooping, looked a bit dumbstruck. Many apologies, friend human. He slurred. I shall not be entering the next fight, I wouldnt think of intoxicating myself if I were. I wish I could help thee, but thou may need to find a different ally.
Glancing down at his burnt foot, Podo nearly laughed. Oh, yes, I could not feel that anymore. I do not think I need your painkillers, though I offer thee many thanks. If thou has anything to heal it, I would be in your debt, but the alcohol has dulled my senses and made me immune to the pain.
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Caper scowled as he looked down at the rikti from his perch on the dimly lit ceiling. This section of the bar was quite dark, and he had found cover easily enough near the curtains. He heard the whole conversation and hated the Maltans even more, he hadnt expected even them to betray their race.
He fell in on his memories of the Rikti War. He had stayed in his home town the first three months, afraid that the aliens may attack, but it soon became evident that Paragon City was seen as more important. When a scientist named Midas Phillis created a giant mech called the Harvester, which sucked in plasma energy and shot it back through two frontal cannons, Caper offered his friend a bodyguard for the trip to Paragon, where they would both aid the war effort. They had nearly made it when Midas had received a distress call from back home, where an dark overlord had began laying waste to their now unprotected city. The scientist had turned the mech around, but Caper had continued on to Paragon City.
The secret agent would never forget the death and destruction that met his eyes in that battleground. Bodies had been piled on the streets, victims of the vicious alien attack. Caper had once used nonlethal ammunition supplied by Midas Phillis, but in Paragon he had not bothered to show mercy. He had used his explosive, electric, and combustion rounds, and a number of gadgets that had been made for him. Many rikti warriors had died at his hand. He still remembered the satisfying crunch that had resounded when he had kicked a rikti gunman in the head, twisting its helmet all the way around.
Hed joined Omega Team and entered the portal along with them. The rikti home planet had been
terrible. There was constant fighting, Hero One barely managed to keep them alive, and Caper considered himself very lucky to have seen the dimensional tear when he did. Hed teleported through as the rikti on earth had tried to use Portal Corp tech to reach their home planet once again, the only of Omega Team to come back.
Yes, the man had quite a personal agenda against those foul creatures, but he wasnt about to do anything rash. These were gladiators, not soldiers. Plus, he would more than likely be kicked out, and he still needed to finish off the Maltans.
The agents walked back through the curtain and Caper leapt from his perch, disappearing as he landed behind the last man and reappearing, seeming to be an entirely different person sitting at a booth, a man with red hair and casually ripped clothes, compliments of one of his many spy devices.
Reikoff's scanner whirred and clicked, and he looked up to the redhead sitting nearby. An obvious mutant, a highly powerful one, at that. He considered trying to take the man down, but decided he'd get backup for that later.
He performed the same hand signal that Caper had seen the Gunslinger do, and his men formed up and moved out.
((By the way, Chertak is just, a really cool character to me, even though he whipped my [censored]. I hope you keep him up.))
With a smirk, Caper watched the men walk out of the bar and with a flash was himself again. He couldnt wait for the fight to begin, then he could get out of this cesspool of scum. He glanced at the bar just once and saw Podo, thought him vaguely familiar, and disappeared again. He reappeared back at the arena doors before the Maltans arrived again, seeming as though he had never moved at all.
Ryan steppeup to the door that had Reg. on a sighn above it. "Hello Ryan" A metallic voice said through the intercom. "Welcome to the Coliseum, Here you can test to mights and your wits against the best through out not only this world or this universe but, through varius demensions, too...." The voice continued on with its rant untill it came to the actuall testing.".... In this room behind this door, you will be tested to grade at what level you shall be fighting. Good luck." Finally the door opened and showed a long blank hall way. Ryan stepped through and began to walk through it. Then Arrows came out of the walls in rapid volumes at Ryan. In less than a second Ryan wipped out his Blade and cut down each arrow mid-air. Without breaking his pace Ryan continues through the hall. Two dummies popped out of the sides of the wall. Their heads didn't stay attacted to their bodies to long. On the last third of the hall flames engulfed the whole room, with no way to dodge or get away no one could survive. Unless they could Phase shift. Standing at the exit door. the voice came back as he steped through. "Welcome Ryan, may your battles be great, and long. Now pick up your ID and get ready for the next fight.
(This Ryan is almost exactly the same excepts he has full control of the demon inside Akujiki. Which makes him fast and strong, and smarter. You can tell when its activated by where his arura is. And when its afull body arura the demon has taken over. You see this in SV only he can't control it)
((A quick update please!!!))
AI glides over to where Podo is drinking, yet keeps a respecful distance away. As he catches her with his eye she bows deeply.
May I be of assistance warrior? I possess some minor healing magics.
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
"Ehh, you had a good run. Enjoy the relaxation. And the drink."
Shaking hands again, the three left and headed to the door for the next match.
((k im back))
Rai grabbed his card, walked out and sat back down next to Goro, "Hey, A-3...Is that a good threat level or what?"
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((A quick update please!!!))
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((Please?))
((Fight over, Johnny lost, Malta are here. Podo's out, Caper's in, Chertak's back, yaddayaddayadda. That's all I remember without looking back.))
((*cough*lookingback*cough*))
(Cold-fire I would but I really don't read posts that don't concern me)
Goro Turned back around. He was talkng to another fighter who seemed to be prety banged up. "Sane as I and many others"
"Fine then, ignore me, see if I care..." Rai said to Goro since he was pretty much ignoring him talking to the banged up fighter.
[I havent found a description of Goro yet can you thow up one]
[Other picking up on the fact he has a huge hammer]
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
(Check out his Bio, it has two pics. It's the link in my sig. And Ry, it's noyhing personal but Goro aint that deep. He's made for fighting. and fighting conversation
"But,.. anyways class A-3 has got to be good if I'm in it" Goro said in a joking manner. "Besides Your going to have to prove your selfin a few minutes anyways."
((Hey all, I'm gonna be gone for the weekend, so you can have my malta do whatever if the fight starts.
See ya!))
Coldfire walked in and immediately saw Becky lying hammered on the the floor. "Your a lightwieght..." Cold said with a grin. "WHEEEE!" She said as she rolled around on the ground. Coldfire sighed and began laughing, "Becky, you need to go home and get some rest." "Your just saying that, I know what you really want-" She responded in a slurred stumble as she was cut off by Cold's hand. "SHHUSH!" He said looking around to make sure no one heard that. "You are a terrible person." Cold said. "And you love that about me!" She yelled as she fell over and knocked herself out on the floor. "Jesus, what am I gonna do with you?" Cold asked himself as he picked her up. "Hey Podo, thanks for helping her, your a good guy." Cold said as he walked out.
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Drone was suprised by the sight of Diomedes best men. They walked in and gave him a letter. The letter said, 'I know you need them. Coldfire's friend Carlos is going to be in there. He knows your weakness, these guys will cover it.'
Drone smiled, a rare sight, "Thank you."
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Carlos took a final moment before he and his men geared up and turned off the safety, "Let us pray, guys." Carlos was a devote Catholic, and always prayed before a fight. He knew in his heart that God would protect him, as long as he remained faithful.
((I know, I know! Religion. But it ties in with the character. Look, I have no religion so don't be angry.))
"Oh ok cool...ha ha ha" Little do they know is that I purposely didnt use my full power to make it seem like that was all I could do, ha ha haaaaa. Ry thought to himself.
The bartender nodded at Goro.
"I'd say that impressed me, but it doesn't. You rank up there with the guy that said he owned a country. I still haven't checked up on that though."
Shrugging, the bartender returned to cleaning glasses.
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"Very good, Rai," the man over the intercom said. "The next fight will begin in about nine or so minutes so be ready soon. Pick up your ID card at the door and have a nice day."
The card was sitting in a little slot next to the door and had his picture, name, and several other identifying characteristics on it, including a bar code to scan in case his body was unrecognizable. There was also a Threat Classification: A-3.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.