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David thought about it for a second, but the silence was cut by his cell going off. "Ladies, I must take this call. If you would go ahead and get your bathing suits, I will be sure to join you as soon as I take care of business." David walked far out of earshot of the two women. "Yes go ahead." David said into the phone. "Talisman, it's Raiden. Is this a secure channel?" A mysterious voice said from the other line. "Yes, Raiden it is secure."
"Talisman, be advised we did some checking and the organization that owns this ship is a dummy company. We will be following the money trail and see what we can dig up. It might be nothing, but for now be on your toes for anything suspicious Talisman." David sat there for a second and didn't say a word. "Damn it Raiden, even on my vacation I still get sucked back into this [censored]. Anyway look I will stay on my toes, but I have to go, there are two women waiting for me and I swear I am not gonna pass up this chance." David said impatiently into the phone. "Okay Talisman. Stay safe, Raiden out." David closed his phone, and began to walk towards the elevator.
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Oh, ok then Odette and Gabriella make their way down a hall towards their luxury suits.
What the hell was that, the pill drop is like spy 101 isnt it? Gabriella looks at Odette with distain
Well, he moved his drink, I couldnt control that.
No, I mean why did you use that outdated and amateur trick when you could have jammed a throwing knife into this vertebra?
in the casino?! Too many people.
Oh dont give me that! Gabriella is now getting more and more frustrated, you are a damn illusionist no one would even know we did it until we left the room and dispelled any illusion covering our tracks! I am a sonic specialist and I even know that!
well
it didnt occur to me.
you are actually attracted to him arent you
aside to herself, thats what we get for trusting a girl who defected from longbow
Shut Up! I resent that! Those people were psychos and you know I am loyal to our queen
Good to hear it! Then you will be the one to kill him in the hot tub!
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Grey Masque slammed right into the webbing, which tugged at his suit and ripped small sections of it off as he moved to reveal the purple filmy stuff beneath. It didn't slow him down one bit, however, and before the fire could ignite Grey Masque or the webbing, he had already performed another super leap and was bounding off the ceiling once again to try and blow Silk's head off with one insanely powerful punch.
What was strange was that he could still jump at all. Usually, even if a person wasn't slowed down by webbing like the kind Silk used, they wouldn't be able to jump or fly or the like at all for a while. It was like the webbing hadn't affected Grey Masque at all in any way.
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The punch connects ((its super effective!)) and silk is sent flying towards the arena floor. Turning on her phase shift, she slips into the floor and disappears from sight. Then, a volley of arrows comes flying out of the floor at various points towards grey masque making it impossible to know exactly where she is. Two of the arrows hidden in the swarm headed towards Grey are an EMP arrow and a Psionic distortion arrow. She knows that they wont do much damage but she hopes that it will short circuit any kind of camouflage Grey has on for at least a few seconds. Her head pops out of the floor, I wanna see what Im really shooting at! She waits with an arrow ready at the first sign of his real form.
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"Waffa dwinthin?"
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"Huh?" Harry answered, not understanding her right away. He worked it out in a second, holding the glass up to look at the drink himself.
"Actually, I forget what it's called now," he said, frowning as the name refused to come to him. "Some kinda punch. Mixed with paint stripper by the feel of it."
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Shioh kicked a chair over near Harry and sat down, resting her hot dogs down on a serving tray she had somehow swiped from the bar. Anyone watching would be amazed since the only way she could have grabbed it would be with her feet.
"I hope you don't mind I sit here," she said after swallowing the hot dog, "This room reminds me a lot of home, and hot dogs taste better at home. Do you want one?"
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"This room reminds me a lot of home, and hot dogs taste better at home. Do you want one?"
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"No thanks," Harry said, wincing a little as he looked at the hot dogs. "I'm afraid if I eat anything too substantial while drinking this stuff, I'll be upchucking all over the nice people in the row below us."
Harry sucked in a breath through his teeth, hissing in sympathy when Silk was hit.
"Ouch. Kinda brutal," he observed, sipping at his glass. "I gotta ask though," he added, turning back to Shioh. "What home did you have if THIS place reminds you of it?"
John closed his eyes, almost bursting out laughing, but in a remarkable, unusual use of self-control, he held it in.
"Nemesis plot? Seriously? You believe that stuff? Pfft," he waved his hand, stepping on to one of the levels he 'felt' was the right one, "I have yet to see proof that Nemesis even lives any more except for his organization and a bunch of psychopathic followers. Personally, I think 'Nemesis' is just something used to explain away things people don't want to think about."
There was something about this floor- Oh. Of course. An elevator.
He pointed at it, not really even noticing the people by it just yet, to rant slightly. "Did you know that the ship had an elevator? I wouldn't be using the stairs if I knew there was- Wait... DID I know there was one?"
He stopped, sighing. "Oh lord. I think I KNEW there was an elevator, then I FORGOT. Great. I'm super-smarty genius of technology who can't remember not to walk up and down the Endless Staircase of Doo-- THERE!"
He pointed again, this time at the pair he had seen on the stairwell earlier. "THOSE guys! Remember, I was talking about a Tall Guy and a Short Guy? The cliche? It's them! And now they have Average Joe and Humanoid Lizard in their group! They're-- Humanoid lizard?"
Having yet to finish a thought, John scratched his head. "Wait... What? That's not a cliche... Is it? Is Humanoid Lizard a cliche? I don't THINK-- Wait, humanoid lizard? I know someone who's a humanoid lizard!"
He then spastically began waving at the group. "Hey! I know one of you! Hey!"
He turned to White, grinning. "I know a lizard-guy. That might be him. So I'm waving at them. Logical, right?"
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John closed his eyes, almost bursting out laughing, but in a remarkable, unusual use of self-control, he held it in.
"Nemesis plot? Seriously? You believe that stuff? Pfft," he waved his hand, stepping on to one of the levels he 'felt' was the right one, "I have yet to see proof that Nemesis even lives any more except for his organization and a bunch of psychopathic followers. Personally, I think 'Nemesis' is just something used to explain away things people don't want to think about."
There was something about this floor- Oh. Of course. An elevator.
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"Oh, he got to you too? Awesome, we have something in common! Did he bribe you or threaten you?" White Masque asked playfully.
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There was something about this floor- Oh. Of course. An elevator.
He pointed at it, not really even noticing the people by it just yet, to rant slightly. "Did you know that the ship had an elevator? I wouldn't be using the stairs if I knew there was- Wait... DID I know there was one?"
He stopped, sighing. "Oh lord. I think I KNEW there was an elevator, then I FORGOT. Great. I'm super-smarty genius of technology who can't remember not to walk up and down the Endless Staircase of Doo-- THERE!"
He pointed again, this time at the pair he had seen on the stairwell earlier. "THOSE guys! Remember, I was talking about a Tall Guy and a Short Guy? The cliche? It's them! And now they have Average Joe and Humanoid Lizard in their group! They're-- Humanoid lizard?"
Having yet to finish a thought, John scratched his head. "Wait... What? That's not a cliche... Is it? Is Humanoid Lizard a cliche? I don't THINK-- Wait, humanoid lizard? I know someone who's a humanoid lizard!"
He then spastically began waving at the group. "Hey! I know one of you! Hey!"
He turned to White, grinning. "I know a lizard-guy. That might be him. So I'm waving at them. Logical, right?"
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"I love making new friends. ^.^" White Masque said jubiantly. He charged down the hall and rammed his hand between the elevator door and the wall before it could fully close.
"Geapit...Rrrrrup.........GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR GH!" White Masque howled in pain. "Is weak limbs. In public. Losing self-esteem. Must...prove...manliness...John, get over here and help everybody re-assess the likely degrading and demeaning opinion they have most likely have of me now. Or I'll cry."
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Thus, Silk ran into a small problem-Her arrows were also intangible at the time of their firing. This had to be the overall conclusion since they would not be cabable of going through the notably SOLID GROUND if they weren't. Furthermore, if Silk had decided to try the trick while outside of phase, she would have been crushed and melded with whatever the ship happened to be made of. More interesting was the idea that there might be another layer of rooms below the current one.
So her intangible arrows flew right through Grey Masque to zero effect, and in the offchance they hadn't been fired while intangible, they bounced or got stuck harmlessly the moment they left Silk's bow.
However, putting her head above the floor-line was a viable option. Especially if there was another room below this one. Unfortunately for Silk, it also presented Grey Masque with a unique opprotunity.
"Whack a mole." He said, right before bringing down his fist in a hammering motion on Silk's head.
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"This room reminds me a lot of home, and hot dogs taste better at home. Do you want one?"
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"No thanks," Harry said, wincing a little as he looked at the hot dogs. "I'm afraid if I eat anything too substantial while drinking this stuff, I'll be upchucking all over the nice people in the row below us."
Harry sucked in a breath through his teeth, hissing in sympathy when Silk was hit.
"Ouch. Kinda brutal," he observed, sipping at his glass. "I gotta ask though," he added, turning back to Shioh. "What home did you have if THIS place reminds you of it?"
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"When I was little," Shioh said, her face showing the mixed emotions of remembering a troubled past, "some guys found out I could 'read' fights and casino games. I'd always know where the roulette ball would drop, which cards would pop up from the deck, which slot machine would payout next, and I could see the end of the first round of a fight like this."
She paused briefly to woof down another hot dog before continuing, "So these guys from 'The Family' 'adopted' me. They fed me everytime I guessed right. I got to eat three meals a day, until the casino bosses figured out the little girl walking around had unusually good luck and blacklisted me from the casinos. The guys who 'took care' of me decided to move to St. Martial after that, but when the casino bosses THERE found out, my caretakers were 'disposed of.'
"But, during that time I actually got to eat, and even though I ended up with the Carnival because of the attention my 'precognitions' gave me, it was the second best time of my life," Shioh looked wistful as she remember, "I still wish they hadn't executed Uncle Roberto so close to me though, the blood ruined the pretty dress he bought for me."
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"I still wish they hadn't executed Uncle Roberto so close to me though, the blood ruined the pretty dress he bought for me."
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"Hm, heavy," Harry said, nodding in a knowing way to indicate just how 'heavy' it was. "Those Carnival guys're pretty freaky too. But then, maybe that's just my instinctual fear of clowns coloring my judgement."
He shrugged.
"Still, seems things turned out pretty well for ya," he continued, smiling. "Nice vacation on a super cruise ship like this.... still can hardly believe I'm here. Y'know, I don't think I've ever been anywhere nearly half as fancy as this."
He sighed contentedly, taking another drink.
"Neither have I! I've never seen so many hot dogs in one place," she said, scarfing down another hot dog, "The carnival wasn't so bad, I still have my mask from when I was a member. Everyone's always trying to exploit me, except Shiomi-nee and Asuka. They keep telling me 'The future is YOURS! Grasp it by the cajones and make it your [censored]!'"
As she said this, she stood straight up and did her best impression of Shiomi.
Suddenly something occurred to her, and she turned to Harry and asked, "What are 'cajones'?"
W0-07's sensors weren't fooled, and, as a result, simply kept blasting large quantities of plasma at Odette, ominously stepping forward as it did.
Good luck getting through my personal army, 'witch'. Jake thought, smirking. As W0-07 stepped forward, L3-37 came into view through the door, as well, crowded from behind by U13-3R, 1-14X, and the rest of Jake's poorly named entourage, all waiting at the ready for a strategic time to unleash a maelstrom of plasma on the sorely outnumbered illusionist.
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"Part of a guy's groin," Harry informed her happily. "Although I think it may be some kind of finger food too. Or maybe it just SOUNDED like cajones. I really can't remember, but the first one's the more popular definition."
"So are Asuka and... Shee-o-whatsit... who yer livin' with now? They on the cruise too?"
"They're the ones training me and helping me be...uh...normal or something. Shiomi-nee teaches me to use my powers more and Asuka teaches me how to fight with my hands and feet. Actually Shiomi-nee does that too...she does a lot. They're not here, I think they're back home or maybe on some super secret mission for the Lady," Shioh said, shrugging.
OOC:
Gah, how could you, Spade? You're brrrreaking my heart. 
Anyway, this cake is great. 
So don't worry about it - you've inadvertently given me a catalyst to take things where I haven't been able to before. Turns out in the world of CoX, an alien is usually accepted very easily (especially now with Kheldians), whereas in the real world, Acid would probably have his personal pursuing religious zealots decrying him an abomination. Or something to the like. Doesn't need to necessarily involve religion, but usually does. 
Hmmm...actually, that gives me some ideas. I'm going to have to get some pieces of me onto this and see what develops.
Oh, and before I forget: go post in Whitmoore already, Valor and I are waiting for you. 
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BIC:
Hotaka reeled back from the elevator's selector panel as White Masque jammed his hand into the doors, the sudden shock of his appearance confusing him greatly. Acid seemed to take his appearance a little better, not having moved from leaning against the cabin's back wall. Still, his eyes grew quite wide for a moment as well.
"You know, you could've just waited for the next one." the reptilian remarked, quite taken aback as the elevator doors now rolled open again, "You gonna be okay...?"
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Henteko of course couldn't help but overhear Shioh's question, snickering at this table as he watched the fight with one measure of his attention, and listened to this most interesting conversation with another...
"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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"They're not here, I think they're back home or maybe on some super secret mission for the Lady," Shioh said, shrugging.
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"Ah, so yer a meta, eh?" Harry replied, dropping his feet back on the floor and picking lazily at the bowl of pretzels on the table. "Seems to be a lotta them on this cruise."
He looked over toward the arena; a living, breathing example of his last statement.
"But training and fighting," Harry continued, turning back to Shioh. "Secret missions and a mysterious Lady? Yer makin' me feel mundane over here. Can ya tell me who 'the Lady' is, or would ya have to kill me afterward? Cause I don't think I want to know THAT badly."
((Bleah... could someone at least make a token gesture of recognition towards Danny? I know he's trying to remain unobtrusive, but you'd think someone would notice the kid in the tee and jeans floating in one upper corner of the arena >.<
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"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"
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Thus, Silk ran into a small problem-Her arrows were also intangible at the time of their firing. This had to be the overall conclusion since they would not be cabable of going through the notably SOLID GROUND if they weren't. Furthermore, if Silk had decided to try the trick while outside of phase, she would have been crushed and melded with whatever the ship happened to be made of. More interesting was the idea that there might be another layer of rooms below the current one.
So her intangible arrows flew right through Grey Masque to zero effect, and in the offchance they hadn't been fired while intangible, they bounced or got stuck harmlessly the moment they left Silk's bow.
However, putting her head above the floor-line was a viable option. Especially if there was another room below this one. Unfortunately for Silk, it also presented Grey Masque with a unique opprotunity.
"Whack a mole." He said, right before bringing down his fist in a hammering motion on Silk's head.
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CRAP! Silk slips her head under the floor just as Grey smashes making a nice sized crater. Silk exits the floor and runs to the opposite side of the arena. She looks up at Danny, Hey kid, you got any EMP or Psy disruption arrows? I was a retard and wasted mine Silk Fires five arrows with threads attached to them in a Z-like ladder in the corner where Danny is floating hoping that he had some arrows for her.
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"If I offended someone without my knowledge like I said, I am sorry." David said with honesty in his voice. "And I promise we will speak about it later, but right now I need to be somewhere." David turned on his super speed and jetted off to his room and changed into his swim suit, and was soon at the jacuzzis, waiting for the other two ladies to show up.
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Walking to the Jacuzzi Gabriella turns to Odette and says in low tones, do this right or so help me I am going to make your ears bleed.
I got it, Ill go for the old Bait, Blind and Behead.
Now thats more like it. Gabriella smiles widely as they walk out onto the deck.
Gabriella is wearing a white bikini with gold braided trim and Odette is wearing a lovely deep purple one and a floral print sarong.
I hope you werent waiting long! Odette runs ahead shedding her sarong as she goes. Gabriella and I have a bit of a surprise for you for being such a gentleman all night Odette whistles and a butler-like fellow walks out the door with a fantastic spread of food and a bottle of chilled champagne and sets them beside the Jacuzzi.
Those silly cruise directors dont want us eating by the pools but
slipping into the waters slowly Gabriella grabs a glass of champagne, we can make some exceptions I think.
Odette is soon to follow, and soon both of them are waiting in to pool for him to join them.
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Walking to the Jacuzzi Gabriella turns to Odette and says in low tones, do this right or so help me I am going to make your ears bleed.
I got it, Ill go for the old Bait, Blind and Behead.
Now thats more like it. Gabriella smiles widely as they walk out onto the deck.
Gabriella is wearing a white bikini with gold braided trim and Odette is wearing a lovely deep purple one and a floral print sarong.
I hope you werent waiting long! Odette runs ahead shedding her sarong as she goes. Gabriella and I have a bit of a surprise for you for being such a gentleman all night Odette whistles and a butler-like fellow walks out the door with a fantastic spread of food and a bottle of chilled champagne and sets them beside the Jacuzzi.
Those silly cruise directors dont want us eating by the pools but
slipping into the waters slowly Gabriella grabs a glass of champagne, we can make some exceptions I think.
Odette is soon to follow, and soon both of them are waiting in to pool for him to join them.
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David finished up his smoke and walked over to the ladies. "Why thank you." David grabs a glass and sits down at the water's edge. For some reason he suddenly felt very uneasy. Raiden's words kept replaying in his head. It's a false company, but why? What is there to hide? Things are not as they seem. I wish Raiden was here he would be able to make sense of this. Stop it David! There are two hot women waiting for you in the pool with drinks and food. Just enjoy yourself! David looked at the women. "So are you usually this nice to strangers or am I just lucky?" He asked with a smile on his face.
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Meanwhile watching from afar.
He sat watching Talisman from afar. "I am glad Shamrock decided to send me out at the last second. Something is not right here." The mysterious man said. He was a tall guy about 6'4 or so, he had about shoulder length blond hair, a serious looking face, though he was dressed in a tropical shirt and a bathing suit. The shirt was slightly open revealing a scar that goes across his chest. "Talisman, be careful. Anyone could be something else on this ship it seems." His phone suddenly went off. "Go ahead Shamrock?" A deep voice said, "Jack? Did the infiltration go as planned?" Jack seemed annoyed with the man on the phone, "I told you Shamrock, while I am on this mission you are to call me Raiden."
((OCC: DUN DUN DUAA!!! Yup time for a plot twist.))
"AHAHAHAHAHA-Pain." White Masque groaned loudly as he rubbed his hand. "Sorry for the huge dash, but my friend John Ballard says he knows you. And he's my friend, so I helps him and stuff."
He suddenly pulled a cheap paper poster out of hammerspace with a picture of a tan teddy bear on it.
"Have you seen this snuggly wonder? If he is found, everyone will have a hell of a time! ^.^" The white suited man chuckled. "Oh and hay, I'm loving the exotic look there Mr. John's friend sir. You'd be a hit at the Masquerade Ball tomorrow night. ^.^ ^.^ ^.^"
He talked incredibly fast in a very high pitched tone that could only be summed up in one word: Ditz.
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The imposter Odette just snarled at Jake's army, lashing her hands out yet again to create another energy torrent that spread in a cone that targetting all the drones, who had been nice enough to clump up in one big space.
And then Odette got shot through the middle with a plasma stream. She emitted a short gasp before her entire form shattered to reveal a humanoid figure made of rainbow and sunshine. A Phantasm of colors and light. Such creatures were often very resistant to energy attacks, but this one apparently didn't know that. It slowly faded away, its copy following suit. The wall that had mysteriously appeared flickered and vanished.
'I'll be back, shortly.' The voice of Odette cackled from nowhere. The summoner was still around here somewhere. If Jake didn't deal with it now, he would probably be fighting phantasms and walking through illusionary mazes of corridors for ages before getting to a safe zone where his attacker wouldn't try to kill him without attracting attention. So where could said summoner be hiding in the immediate vicinity?
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"But training and fighting," Harry continued, turning back to Shioh. "Secret missions and a mysterious Lady? Yer makin' me feel mundane over here. Can ya tell me who 'the Lady' is, or would ya have to kill me afterward? Cause I don't think I want to know THAT badly."
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Shioh giggled, "I don't want to kill you, you're funny. The Lady is Belladonna Vetrano, you probably know her by her codename though: Ghost Widow. And yeah...I guess you could say I'm a metahuman, but I won't be throwing tables and chairs around or creating distortions in reality in order to suck people towards me so I can stab them with shards of ice. Fighting is kind of boring for me unless whoever I'm fighting is really, really good. When I play chess I can see exactly what the opponent will do for the next two turns, but Chess masters think ahead three or more turns. Unfortunately there aren't many chess masters out there. At least, that's what Shiomi-nee always says."
Danny looked at Silk oddly as she scaled the improvised 'ladder' towards him. "Now why w'd ye be assumin' that I'd ha' any arrows at all, miss?" he asked politely. "But neh, I dinna have any o' th'fancier types; just th'ones tha' go 'boom' or make holes in things."
He paused a moment, then fished around for a minute in the invisible pocket-dimensional quiver that held his apparently bottomless supply of arrows. "Actually, this might do th'trick." he commented, holding out a couple of heavy neural scrambler stun arrows, designed for targets that mere physical impact couldn't disorient.
"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"
Jake frowned. So he hadn't been fighting the real opponent after all. Glancing around and assuming that the summoner had to be extremely close to have said something after the phantasm was downed, he switched his goggles to thermal vision, as well as the light sensors of his bots, and began to immediately glance around the room, and, when that failed, outside in the hall.
Just to be sure, though, the young mastermind pulled a standard issue Arachnos Web Grenade from his coat pocket, throwing it carelessly back into the room prior. Keeping his minions at the ready, he prepared for the worst should the enemy find it it's been discovered.
Better safe than sorry, I guess. Never can tell if these guys have a duel mutation.
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David finished up his smoke and walked over to the ladies. "Why thank you." David grabs a glass and sits down at the water's edge. For some reason he suddenly felt very uneasy. Raiden's words kept replaying in his head. It's a false company, but why? What is there to hide? Things are not as they seem. I wish Raiden was here he would be able to make sense of this. Stop it David! There are two hot women waiting for you in the pool with drinks and food. Just enjoy yourself! David looked at the women. "So are you usually this nice to strangers or am I just lucky?" He asked with a smile on his face.
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Like we said, Gabriella slides closer to him, we dont get out much
Also, when you showed up to my room in such a wonderfully heroic way, I knew I had to at least get to know the brave soul coming to the rescue Odette reaches out of the hot tub near David to grab a glass of champagne.
BANG! A small device deigned to sound like a sniper shot goes off and Odette casts an exact replica of herself falling to the ground and bleeding from the head half-hanging out of the pool. She slips out of the pool being sure to stay close to the illusion fully invisible, waiting for David to move closer with her hand extended ready for a flash technique.
ODETTE!! MY GOD! Gabriella pushes herself out of the Jacuzzi in the opposite direction of the body,David! Whats going on?! Is she dead?! Please David help her! Gabriella Does her best to look faint, hoping David falls for their plot.
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He paused a moment, then fished around for a minute in the invisible pocket-dimensional quiver that held his apparently bottomless supply of arrows. "Actually, this might do th'trick." he commented, holding out a couple of heavy neural scrambler stun arrows, designed for targets that mere physical impact couldn't disorient.
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Thanks kid Silk uses the last rung of her ladder to launch herself towards grey firing Danny's arrow towards his head. She counts on her flawless accuracy and hopes that this one makes it, NOW SHOW ME YOUR TRUE FORM YOU [censored]! Silk Readies herself with a piercing arrow drawn and ready as she nears his position.
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Like we said, Gabriella slides closer to him, we dont get out much
Also, when you showed up to my room in such a wonderfully heroic way, I knew I had to at least get to know the brave soul coming to the rescue Odette reaches out of the hot tub near David to grab a glass of champagne.
BANG! A small device deigned to sound like a sniper shot goes off and Odette casts an exact replica of herself falling to the ground and bleeding from the head half-hanging out of the pool. She slips out of the pool being sure to stay close to the illusion fully invisible, waiting for David to move closer with her hand extended ready for a flash technique.
ODETTE!! MY GOD! Gabriella pushes herself out of the Jacuzzi in the opposite direction of the body,David! Whats going on?! Is she dead?! Please David help her! Gabriella Does her best to look faint, hoping David falls for their plot.
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David went into full blown hero mode. "Damn it! Sniper! Get down!" He yelled to Gabriella as he spotted a man watching them from afar, little did he know that was actually Raiden. "Get her out of here!" David yelled as sped towards his target making a leap and grabbing the man by the throat, about to choke slam him when he recognized the face. "Raiden!?" David said with a confused tone.
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Raiden watched the events unfold and realized it was a trap, and that it was a good thing that David saw him when he did. First off there was no muzzle flash or anything of the short to make the noise or indicate a gunshot. Secondly Gabriella had positioned herself perfectly for an assassin's strike if David went over to help the other woman. Raiden reacted quickly to David's attack. "Talisman! Stop it's me Raiden!" David was very confused, "Raiden? What the hell are you doing here?" Raiden pulled David down quickly, "Listen to me Talisman, because we don't have much time. I believe those two women are trying to ambush you or something, nothing about what just happened makes any sense. You have to continue like you know nothing. If we are to figure out what is going on, you need to spring the trap. I need you to pretend to kill me or let me escape, I will be watching from the shadows for support. It's risky, but we can do this."
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"I don't want to kill you, you're funny. The Lady is Belladonna Vetrano, you probably know her by her codename though: Ghost Widow."
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"Ghost Widow," Harry said, giving a quick full-body shudder. "Yeah, I know of HER." He took a slightly larger swig of his drink, mumbling something about "cold hands" as he did.
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"And yeah...I guess you could say I'm a metahuman, but I won't be throwing tables and chairs around or creating distortions in reality in order to suck people towards me so I can stab them with shards of ice."
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"Well, I guess not all superpowers can be flashy." Harry studied the pandomonium inside the cage for a few seconds. "Long as it's useful I s'pose. I mean, what if you had super-powers, but it was somethin' like the ability to change the color of someone's clothes just by lookin' at 'em."
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"Well, I guess not all superpowers can be flashy." Harry studied the pandomonium inside the cage for a few seconds. "Long as it's useful I s'pose. I mean, what if you had super-powers, but it was somethin' like the ability to change the color of someone's clothes just by lookin' at 'em."
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"I wish I could do that...it'd be neat to turn guys' shirts pink. But before I left, Shiomi-nee was teaching me about this one mental technique that lets you perceive colors differently, kind of like a 'mental greenscreen' she said," Shioh said, giggling at the possibilities of color changing.
((OCC: I must have missed a post where your character was talking to mine.))
"If I offended someone without my knowledge like I said, I am sorry." David said with honesty in his voice. "And I promise we will speak about it later, but right now I need to be somewhere." David turned on his super speed and jetted off to his room and changed into his swim suit, and was soon at the jacuzzis, waiting for the other two ladies to show up.