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OOC: East, Krazy? The Council base is in the west. 
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((*Blinks* ... *Rubs his eyes and blinks again* ... Could you reserve a spot in that third grade class, Chameleon? Apparently I need to retake basic mapping.))
Martin's eyes narrowed at Ghoul's phrase. His body wreathed in dark energies, he leaped into the distance, following after and eventually surpassing the Brute.
"I do know my way around," he shouted, "Follow me!"
He leaped for the farther west Council base. For some reason, he had a feeling the other one, the one under attack, could take care of itself.
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
The Watcher was pleased. Finally, things had started moving again. He supposed he should do the same. No point in sticking around here anymore when the orchestrator of all this tried so hard to stay hidden.
Wait, no - that wasn't entirely correct. There was still something to be done here before he moved on...
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"Hey, hold on a second." the Sorcerer shouted after Karl, waving his staff to call more attention while he hefted the once-more closed coffin up with his other hand, "Don't you want this?"
Meanwhile, the Colonel started up the truck again, then patiently coaxed the tracker into the vehicle. Though apparently not able to guide them to the true location of the city representative, one never knew when something like it could come in handy...
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"I want hold lines here, here, and here." Schwarzherz commanded as the troop proceeded into the building, temporarily sealing the hole behind them shut with a quick-crete charge, "Also, anyone who finds a sentry gun, report back to me. Under no circumstances are you to shoot at it. It will shoot back, and it will kill you. There is a reason nobody's been in here for a very long time..."
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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((Okay, I'm totally lost. Assume that E-X is currently on a high ledge, totally stealthed, overlooking the area above wherever it is that we're going. I'll join back in once something that makes sense starts happening -_-))
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
((There are two groups of Council soldiers. One is the bulk of the Council deployment in Boomtown, the other is a post that got cut off. Devious is currently controlling the group that got cut off, Diov's controlling the main group.
Martin's heading for the main group. That was what Karl told them to go to, and Martin's been here before (he once called this place home, after the War), so he knows his way to it.))
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Dusan let out a yelp as he just narrowly avoided a rather hazardous steel girder sticking up from the ground.
"Hey Dusan!" Dennis shouted from above, keeping up with Dusan's pace, "Keep your head out of the clouds!"
"Said the guy fifty yards up..." Dusan muttered, shaking his head to get his mind focused on the job at hand.
Suddenly Schwarez sensed dark energy. Lots of it.
It was all around him. It didn't seem to be centered in any one place. Maybe it was something to do with the base, but his instincts told him otherwise.
Suddenly a cloud of darkness appeared on his right, just inside his peripheral vision.
From out of the cloud emerged the dark visage of Darkvapor.
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Sadly, Schwarzherz had no peripheral vision anymore. Darkvapor might as well have walked right up to him, it really made no difference.
"I find myself strangely attracted to you." the dark General remarked, examining an area of the wall, "And no, not in that way. I simply find that you look very appetizing. Now then, is there something you want...?"
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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"I have others." Karl called back, right before vanishing into the rubble.
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The moment Scwarzherz and his men managed to seal the entrance, the Clockwork collapsed on the spot into trillions of tiny bits of scrap, which proceeded to roll/drift/bounce/whatever along the ground to settle into heaps and/or fall into cracks in the ground.
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The Council soldier, after making positvely sure there were no hostiles about, got his walkie talkie out again and began tp speak into it...
Darkvapor raised an eyebrow to Schwarez's comment.
"In case you haven't noticed, the Clockwork in this area have become rather...agressive as of late. I get the feeling you have something to do with it, or if not, know who is behind it."
Darkvapor noticed that the General had a large concentration of dark energy.
The dark lord also noticed the Schwarez had been wise enough not to order his men to kill Darkvapor, which could be taken many diffrent ways:
a) He had seen Darkvapor coming
b) He didn't see Darkvapor as a threat.
c) He was expecting something to come out of the shadows
d) He saw himself as being capable of dealing with Darkvapor should things come to a fight.
That said, Darkvapor decided to choose his next words carefully, in the event Schwarez was indeed prepared to deal with Darkvapor.
((Considering that I have the directional sense of a falling brick, I'm just going to go to the one in the west))
Dax stood atop a forgotten steel girder that was sticking straightt up out of the ground watching the clockwork attack the base. Well I don't see any of the other task force members. Time to go Bishop. Dax said as he reached toward his left breast. The crystals that made up his breast shifted in to a black Bishop symbol. As his hand slid over it the normal energy in the air around him intensified. His normally smooth green crystal body became ragged as as spikes erupted from his body giving him the look of a living weapon (and truly that is what he was).
Even his demeanor had changed, his normal joking, womanizing, and casual bitchyness had changed. All of that was gone, and in it's place was a casual cool. As if he didn't even find destruction fun. He fell head first off the girder toward the nearest group of clockwork exploding into hundreds of crystal spikes. The spikes impaled dozens of the clockwork minions, and quickly reassembled into Dax's humanoid form as he started to move through and around the automaton's raining blows that peirced, broke, and cracked their frail bodies.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
Of course, there were no longer any active Clockwork anywhere. The ones chasing Schwarzherz had all fallen apart after he had sealed the building's entrance, and there were no Clockwork anywhere in sight in the Grenadier Village or the Cannonade. So naturally, Dax hit nothing except the hallucinations of Clockwork brought up from being drunk with so much power.
((NOOOOO! Me wantsa fight!))
Dax looked around as the clockwork seemed to flow away in smoke. Battle no more. Residual impressions of the automaton's power is interfering with the harmonic resonance of my being. Must be careful unless injury will befall my comrades. He looked around for atleast one of the other metas.
?? No allies? Releasing power restrictions. There was a crackle in the air around him as the energy he always kept stored was released in a glowing sheild of multi-colored brilliance.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
It was then that the spiritual duo known as Dusan and Dennis arrived at the scene, Dusan rubbing his poor muscles which had been only temporarily gifted. "I always hate running long distances..." He muttered, groaning and having an overall unpleasant appearance on his face.
"Well, you could always die and become a spirit. I'm fairly relaxed right now." Dennis remarked, smiling to show he was simply jesting.
"Yeah, well..." Dusan said, rising up from his crouched posture. "If you find another demi-god with the ability to summon souls back from the dead, I'll consider it."
"Touche." Dennis replied, chuckling. "Anyway, it appears that we've gotten here a bit late." He pointed to the remains of thousands of Clockwork, all scattered around a sealed off Council base.
"... Oh..." Dusan mustered, clearly at a loss for words.
"... Snap..."
Dax turned to Dusan and Dennis as they both appeared, "Allies?" was the only word he said as the crystals spikes that had grown out of his arms lengthened and became lethal on their own.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
"Um..." Dusan replied. "Yes?"
"We've kind of been with the taskforce since the start..." Dennis remarked, being careful not to sound snide.
The spikes from his arm lengthened more, a rip appeared across his face exposing a multitude of jagged spikes in the place of teeth. "Allies?" Was all he said as he took a step toward them.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
Dennis's brow furrowed as he stepped forward as well, not backing away from this challenge. "I said we've been here since the start. Whether we're allies or not will be determined by your next move..."
Dusan sighed and moved off to the side. Dennis didn't take kindly to being under suspiscion.
His teeth seemed to lengthen as his smile broadened more "Battle?" The energy surrounding Dax seemed to hum into life.
((ooc: Dax went bishop, he isn't exactly picking a fight. More along the lines of varifying comrades. Consider him a blank slate, or a two year old with lotsa knives and weapons.))
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
"If you're not going to back down." Dennis replied, gritting his teeth.
((Dennis just doesn't take lip from someone. Granted that this really wasn't that bad, but being called back from the dead just to take part in a stress inducing task force isn't going to make you cheery. >.>
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"Retreat?" Dax laughed (which sounded like thousands of peices of glass breaking) at Dennis. Dax took another step forward.
((gonna finish here for tonight, give the others time to catch up and place bets.))
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
"Banzai!" came a shout from above seconds before Ghoul landed with a heavy thump right inbetween Dax and Dennis.
Getting up from the crouch that he had landed in, Ghoul rolled his head to the accompanyment of several loud cracks and looked back and forth at the hero and villain.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say there was a fight about ta happen," Ghoul said after analyzing the situation for a second.
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.
A hand gripped one of the spikes on Dax's back. It seemed to have come out of a shadow that was floating there. When the dark cloud dissipated, Martin was standing there, his hand grasped firmly to the spike.
"And just what the Hell do you think you're doing?" he growled, "In case you haven't noticed, Chippy, we're kind of in the middle of something. We don't have time for this Mickey Mouse horse[dung]!"
He tugged a little on the spike.
"You're outnumbered here, Glassjaw. I strongly suggest you stand down."
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Dennis untensed and returned from his fighting stance to his appropriate posture. Brushing some imaginary dirt off of his trenchcoat, he turned his gaze to Dax and gave a satisfied smirk, feeling confident that he'd won.
Dusan sighed and walked over to Dennis with the intent of telling him to be a bit less aggressive.
Klaus started to speak.
And then stopped.
The heroes had already run off.
"Lousy cape wearing morons. Oh well, I better keep going if I plan on making it to the Concil base before those annoying little robots do."
With that he bent down, grabbed his bag, and then set off at a race pace for the Concil base to the West.
He stopped at a sewer grate a few blocks away and after a few moments of struggle he was able to open the grating and enter the sewers.
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Darkvapor's eyes widened.
This new guy was good.
After listening on the team channel for several moments he finally replied, "Go on without me. Something tells me these newcomers are somehow related to today's events. I will stay on the comm channel if you need me."
He also sent a very difrent message on his own comm channel. "Set up to cover both sides of the street, I'm going in."
"As you command my lord."