((OOC: I have no doubt that I will regret this, but every few months, I take leave of my senses, and decide to attempt to RP again. Fortunately, this thread seems rather low-pressure, since every time my character dies, I can put a new one in his/her place. This is great for me, because I have many, as my name implies. Wish me luck.))
Concerto
The door to the Skyway City Bank burst open in a hail of gunfire. Concerto, leader of the Music Men, had arrived. The police stood little chance against the members of his gang, or his brilliant inventions. Of course, the problem wasn't the police. Synapse was in the building only moments after Concerto had grabbed the cash.
"Hey, haven't seen you before. You guys Hellions or something?"
Concerto wasn't offended, of course, his gang frequented the Rogue Isles, and was pretty small, as well.
"No, we're the Music Men, and it's time for the show. Time to call the Orchestra!"
Concerto pulled out a tuning whistle, and blew out a note of A sharp. Almost immediately, ten thugs with blunt objects rushed into the vault to attack Synapse. This was on top of the pistol fire from Reggae and Funk, UZI sprays from Jazz and Country, molotov cocktails from Disco, and one heck of a beating from Heavy Metal. The Music Men may have only been gang members, but they were tenacious.
Of course, they were dealing with Synapse, who had mopped the floor with the Orchestra in seconds, and quickly moved on to the rest of the gang. Reggae and Funk fell almost immediately to the supersonic punches of the Freedom Phalanxer, and Disco's inferno was extinguished just as fast. Jazz and Country fought admirably, but they couldn't stand up to the speedster. Heavy Metal, as a Brute, managed to last a whole minute, but was also defeated.
It was down to Concerto and Synapse. Concerto was pretty weak, but Synapse had tired himself out fighting his henchmen. Concerto hoped to intimidate him.
"Well, I shall be leaving with my money. Nice try, but I've weakened you to the point where even I could beat you."
"Not so fast. You think you have me beaten, but you're wrong."
Synapse had called Concerto's bluff. It took less than a second, and Concerto was falling into blackness. He hit the mediport beacon, since it only meant having to break out of jail and crush the weakened Synapse.
He awoke in the den of a mansion, and there was a man in a suit sitting in a chair in front of him.
"And who, praytell, are you?"
Haywire
Haywire, the Clockwork cyborg, found himself in the alternate dimension. He remembered what he had to do, he had to defeat the counterpart of his arch-nemesis, the Clockwork King. Haywire had once been a Clockwork and an accountant, until one day, the Clockwork was destroyed, and landed on the accountant. The resultant Gears, instead of becoming tiny robots, transformed the mild-mannered accountant into a hero. He also gained a rather annoying roommate in his head. The mind of the Clockwork had attempted to merge with his own, and went insane in the attempt. Now they share a body, with Tim, the human, doing the talking, and Haywire, the machine, fighting the villains. Haywire would have just killed everyone, but Tim convinced him to only kill criminals, since there were plenty of them, and Haywire wouldn't get in trouble.
The Psychic Clockwork King and his version of Babbage were waiting for Haywire in the center of the city they were in.
"Hey, CK, we defeated you once, we can do it again!"
"Do I know you? I suppose it doesn't matter, you'll be dead momentarily. Babbage, attack!"
Haywire's claws practically launched from his hands, and he tore into Babbage, who didn't seem impressed. He thought he'd be alright, with his amazing regenerative powers, but he was wrong, the psychic barrage nearly floored the cyborg. Luckily, he activated his Dimensional Destabilizer, and went out of sync with reality. While waiting, he prepared another attack, and turned invisible as soon as he phased back in. He snuck up behind Babbage, and struck as fiercely as he could. Not having any skill at sneak attacks, though, he merely had the element of surprise, not any particular improvement to how much damage he did. He didn't last long enough to even defeat Babbage. As he passed out, he activated his Mediport beacon, and went to safety, or so he thought.
He found himself in the den of a mansion, and a well-dressed man sat in a chair in front of him.
"Who are you, where are we, and why shouldn't I let the psychotic robot in my head kill you?"
[B]The Once and Future Official Minister of Awesome[/B]
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The first two had arrived. Time was a fickle thing, The Benefactor had marked his targets already, but they wouldn't appear until they, well, "died".
He stood up and clapped his hands. Instantly a butler entered the room with a large platter and placed it on a table nearby.
"Help yourself, gentlemen, I don't feel like explaining myself several times so do be patient."
(OOC: The more characters ye got, the better 
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(OOC: Darkgun is a fire/fire blaster)
Darkgun was in way too deep. He had infiltrated deep into a Council base, and he was lost. He was losing hope as he went deeperr and deeper into the base, getting more lost the farther he went. when he thought that he was about to get out, he was swarmed by dozens of Council. He fired off inferno, and took out half ot his enemies. They kept swarming him and he was soon overridden. As he faded into darkness his final thoughts were that he had failed, and that the council would kill many more innocents because of that.
(( I will only be using one character, because I know more of his story than all my other chraracters. ))
Experiment 2.0 looked around the almost deserted warehouse. He had gathered, long ago, that the Devouring Earth were annoying, but they were villains, which meant he needed to get rid of them...
Of course, with their swarms, it did make it rather difficult.
As 2.0 stepped outside, he felt his Dark Shield cover him, as a spine ripped through the air. He had been ambushed.
The hero turned to see 3 devouring earth that looked suspiciously like moving trees. He unsheathed his spines, and launched into the air. He swiped off the head (Or what appeared to be the head of these things) of one of the minions, and turned again. He launched, slashing quickly to lop off the heads of the last two.
However, he felt the air around him compact right before a large stone foot sent him flying into the side of a building. He looked up in agony at people walking around the office building, minding their own business.
Experiment hit the teleporter, and felt an unfamiliar jolt. He felt a falling sensation, before landing on his feet, in some sort of odd room. In it, there appeared to be two people already, and someone sitting in a posh chair.
"Uh... Right, well... Would you mind explaining why I am here?"
(OOC: Actually there's 3 people other than you and The Benefactor. And just because it's taking a while to get up to 7 people, if we don't have six characters by tomorrow i'll throw in some "dummy" characters, most likely just random hellions or freakshow, and yes they'll be cannon fodder.)
The Benefactor sat silent, seeming to ignore the question but still give Experiment 2.0 attention.
(( If we do not have enough by tomorrow, I will add in Blind Messenger as well. I know him and his personality pretty well. Sorry for the number mess up, by the way. ))
(( Edit: Wow, is it tomorrow already? OK then... ))
As the zombies ran rampant in the bank, the leader came through the vault door with a bag of money.
He wore an ornamental skull on his chest, bones nearly everywhere on his costume. A hood almost entirely covered his face, except for the mouth mask and the chains over his eye sockets. His skull shining slightly through the hood.
A gun shot whistled past him, as the P.P.D. ran in. They shot at him over and over, and if the shots hit, nothing really happened.
"Wow, this is easier than expected." Blind Messenger taunts with a noticable English twinge. It sounds like he is from Britain, most people say, but hardly any ever find out WHY he has an accent as a pure-bred american.
Just then, a fire blast whistled past. Blind saw a hero, clad in red and orange, running at him. He ordered his minions to attack, and his knights pulled out their swords, running to close range, as his minions vomited at her.
The minions burned in one fireball, while she had a sword-to-firesword fight with the other two zombie knights. She cut off the head of one, and plunged her blade through the stomach of another. After the undead freaks had left, Blind simply cowered in the corner.
".... Are you going to hurt me?" he asked, terrified.
"Does this answer your question?" she inquired, blasting him in the face.
As Blind fell through the normal darkness to the Rogue Isles hospital system, he felt an odd jolt, and suddenly had to regain his balance as he felt the ground rush toward him. He missed.
He landed on his back in an odd room, looking at about 4 people... then noticing a man in a chair. After looking around a little more, he spots Experiment 2.0 in the room. He decides, however, that if he has been brought here, then something big must be going on.
(OOC: At 1 PM-ish PST, when i get back from church, i'll start, filling the spots as needed)
(OOC: And we begin...)
The last two to enter the room were different than the rest. The others could tell instantly that they were gang hooligans. Two bore the familiar dress of the hellions, and the third was covered head to toe in metal, a member of the Freakshow.
"Yes, this shall do nicely," The Benefactor said, finally standing up.
"Who're you?! Why're we here?! TALK!" one of the hellions demanded.
"I am...The Benefactor. You are at my mercy, it is by my will alone that you are alive right now. I offer you the chance to live."
"Mebbe we'll just KILL YOU!" the same hellion said, and charged directly at him.
The Benefactor was perfectly calm. He snapped his fingers, and the hellion exploded.
"I assure you, this is REAL. You are not the first, and you are not going to be the last. You will play this Game, or you will die," The Benefactor eyed each person in the room, "Simply complete the object, and you live another day. Now, your first task is to kill Froo-Froo Bunny. Quite annoying, I assure you. Any questions? I will allow two."
Experiment 2.0 raises his hand.
"Yes. One question from me," said Experiment in an obvious British accent. "How did you manage to bypass the medical teleporter? In the past, only the Council, Fifth Coloumn, Circle of Thorns, and the Paragon Police Department have been able to do so. Could you explain how your method works?"
Experiment 2.0 hated not knowing something. It irked him that he did not know something, so he always tried to figure out what was going on, or asked people how things worked.
Right now, what he wanted to know was how a single person managed something that strong villain groups could only slightly mess with.
"Damn it, you wasted one question. We needed 2: who is this bunny and how do we kill him?" said darkgun. "Well, I suppose ill ask the second one. How do we kill him?"
Experiment 2.0, in his normal correctness, decided to point out something.
"Well, to be fair, you asked two questions, and your first question was "Who is this bunny". Think about it. That is the first question you asked, then you asked the same question twice. You may not have meant to, but you did."
Yeah, he may be smart, but Experiment 2.0's intelligence has always been his downfall...
"the first 2 were not questions, merely statements of what would have been good to know. the third was the actual question directed at the Benifactor." said darkgun in an I told you so tone. Then he realised that he would have to work with experiment. "Sorry, that was a bit rude of me. I was just saying that we should focous on completing theese tasks, and worry about what happened to us after we get out." darkgun said, hoping that he hadn't gotten the other hero pissed off at him.
"Just to shut you up I'll answer all three. Froo-Froo Bunny is your target. It will try to kill you. I'll send you there momentarily," the Benefactor turned to 2.0, "as for how I bypassed the medical teleporters? That was simple enough, given my powers. Everytime someone uses a medical teleporter, it HAS to emit a signal and the signal HAS to be picked up by something. I merely intercepted the signal. Quite easy when you know what I do. Which is all I'm sharing."
The Benefactor pulled a small device, clearly of Rikti origin, and pressed a button.
"Goodbye, for now, maybe I'll see some of you again."
All seven remaining people were teleported away from the room with a flash.
When the light cleared, they were on a busy city street. All around them were people, and sitting next to a fire hydrant was a suspicious looking white rabbit...
However, none of the people seemed to notice them or the rabbit, despite the fact that all seven of the "players" were standing in the middle of the road.
"fried Rabbit anyone?" darkgun said as he opened up with a fireball directed at the rabbit.
The fireball impacted on the rabbit, burning the street around him and charring the bodies of several nearby pedestrians. They never saw the flames, nor what caused them, they just spontaneously charred to a crisp from their perspective.
The rabbit, however, was irritated. It opened its mouth and launched a green colored ball of energy at darkgun. He dodged, and the ball hit a car behind him and exploded
(OOC: You're "out of phase" with reality, if you open fire you need to remember that, atm, there are innocents nearby. They can't see, hear, smell, or taste you, but any kind of physical force from a tap on the shoulder to an explosion will be felt)
"Damn, it isnt hurt at all. Too bad about those people, but are they real? is this true reality or some virtual world? screw it, I'm gonna fry the bunny. try to hit him and him only, but killing him is the #1 priority." darkgun said grimly. "we have to focus our attacks on him. That means no AoE attacks."
we have to find a [censored] in his armor, or we won't survive, darkgun thought to himself
Experiment watched in horror as the pedestrians died.
"Who the hell cares if they are real or not? If they aren't, you are lucky. But just in case, we had better not hit any more. Let me try this."
Experiment, after making his spines extract from he arms, he leaped forward, landed in front of the bunny, and stabbed.
The rabbit squealed in pain and then fell limp.
No sooner did it flop on the ground than a blood curdling shriek permeate the city street.
Within moments, more little bunnies crawled out of alleyways, mailboxes, and telephone booths.
But, that wasn't the worst of it.
From the top of a building, a gigantic, seven foot tall bunny with posture like a dinosaur leapt down and landed on the street, cracking the pavement.
This effect was the final straw that cause any remaining pedestrians to scatter, leaving only a few panicked people huddled on the ground.
One of which was about to be squished by the newly arrived giant bunnny.
Tim simply watched as events developed, deciding to let Haywire fight only once he was sure it wasn't a trap, since it seemed too easy. The seven-foot rabbit, though, was a bit of encouragement. He launched his claws, a cut his way through the sea of bunnies, determined to save the endangered civilians.
Concerto pulled out his tuning whistle and blew out three notes. His whistle was connected to transceivers in the ears of his gang members, who came running to his aid through undisclosed means.
"I think you know what needs to be done. But first, take the high ground."
Concerto and his gang jumped on top of a nearby bus stop, and opened fire with their guns. Heavy Metal waded through the bunnies, smashing them with his giant fists and chunks of concrete. Disco was tossing his fiery tools all around, burning rabbits and property alike.
"Attack the big one, he's probably our target! Just don't get too close until we know what it can do!" Concerto shouted to his gang, readying a force field generator, acid mortar, two seeker drones, and a triage beacon.
[B]The Once and Future Official Minister of Awesome[/B]
[I]And don't you forget it.[/I]
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The constant attention infuriated the rabbit. His little brothers and sisters were being torn apart by the barrage. Worse yet, a bunch of little nothings began attacking him.
The Hellion, Mr. Burndaddy, and the Freak, Chops McGee, both opened fire on the big bad bunny.
The big thing seemed to absorb the bullets, each successive round would make the bunny more and more angry.
The big bunny picked out his target closest to him: a big, burly human that was pounding away at his family, and two guys with guns that seemed to have a deathwish.
With a loud, un-bunnylike roar, he reached for the big burly fellow and grabbed his arms.
The bunny easily snapped the brute's arms off (OOC: Oh, before I forget, don't worry if you get INJURED, be worried if you DIE) and swatted him aside. He then turned to the hellion and spat a bunch of green goo onto him.
The hellion felt himself singe, burn, and finally melt, leaving just more green goo and a pile of bones.
Chops, terrified, ceased firing and ran towards the bus stop where Concerto and his remaining gang were hiding.
The bunny followed, easily ignoring the fire and bullets (OOC: BTW, the little bunnies ARE immune to fire, as posted above) and leapt up on top of the already crowded bus stop, turning to Concerto himself and roaring in his face.
The stench smelled of burning rubber and lettuce.
"OK, we have learned 2 things. Dont piss off the big bunny, and i cant do crap against those little bunnies. What now?" said darkgun, "I can piss him off so the meele people can attack him and come out with all their limbs intact." darkgun shot a few flares at the large rabbit, making it charge at him. "Here is your chance, hit him while he is charging me." He yelled quickly "Im going to phase shift when he gets too close"
The ordnance hit the rabbit, expectedly pissing him off. But his reaction wasn't anticipated.
Rather than jump down from his perch and swat the fly, he let out a loud howl, and a horde of small bunnies charged, each expanding with the green energy they had fire earlier.
The little suckers were about to kamikaze Darkgun!
(OOC: just out of curiousity, do ANY of you other than Experiment 2.0 use something other than guns?)
((Darkgun is a fire/fire blaster. he used to be AR/dev, as the name implies, but i rerolled him as fire/fire))
"Damn. Bad idea." darkgun muttered as he phase shifted, and jumped away from the kamakazi bunnies. "we need a new plan, the boss bunny seems to be smarter that I expected."
Haywire's claws seemed to have no effect.
"Dammit, Tim, we need another plan!" came Haywire's voice in Tim's head.
"I'm working on it, but the small bunnies seem vulnerable to sharp things, start with them," Tim thought back.
Meanwhile, Concerto saw what the giant rabbit did to Heavy Metal, which constituted the biggest mistake of the rabbit's increasingly-finite life.
"That's it! Time for A sharp!"
He blew into his tuning whistle, and just like in the bank, ten members of his gang jumped the bunny with various blunt and sharp objects. Concerto then threw one of his trip mines onto the overgrown rodent's head. He was confident in his own safety, as the rabbit had much more to worry about and had to attack while inside a force field. Just to be safe, he activated his stolen jetpack and flew far out of reach of giant death bunnies. He just hoped he could dodge those projectiles.
[B]The Once and Future Official Minister of Awesome[/B]
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OK here's how this works: A mysterious figure known only as "The Benefactor" is, for reasons to be revealed, holding a game, of the deadly kind.
I'm not gonna beat around the bush here: If you participate in this RP, be prepared for your character to die. There are no hospitals, there's no magic resurrection spells or abilities. Of course for the sake of continuity, the "you" that is fighting is an exact copy of yourself, so the real you won't be dying.
"The Game" is broken down into rounds, each with a specific objective ranging from outright destroying something, to delivering something, to merely surviving for a set amount of time.
Since you ARE clones, each person has a mark upon them, this cannot be removed, and if you try to leave the area, you die. Period.
Each round has a max of 10 people, if your character dies you can feel free to rejoin as another character but the previous character can't be brought back. And just to reiterate: they're still alive in the real world, but they can only participate once.
Also: no all powerful demons, and no one is invincible. The Benefactor is setting up this game, and chooses the participants, naturally something that would be a threat to him would be either discluded all together, or severely depowered.
Fighting each other is not recomended. You'll have plenty to worry about.
More rules: When you survive a match, you're awarded points. Five points for surviving the round and 10 points for each completed objective. When you reach 100 points, you win, and get to leave. At least, that's your incentive. None of the characters are supposed to know that they've been copied.
(And before you ask, yes this is inspired by GANTZ)
Begin character introductions, for the first round just to get the ball rolling, everyone is permitted two characters. So that's five people for round one.
Oh yes, and i will NOT be having any characters in the game of my own other than The Benefactor and the NPCs.
The game begins when I see 10 introductions: The idea is you have a near death experience, and rather than a hospital, you end up here, in the den of a large mansion in front of a well-dressed man in a chair.