the 'quite a lot of us' Troll march

In Kings row ((yes it's my favorite place in CoH)) there was an unsual sight, a large gathering of Trolls, namely the Uber-Trolls that had appeared a week or so earlier during the distribution of Chronodyne, several other Trolls had gathered around them.

Normally such a large gathering of Trolls meant just one thing, property destruction on a large scale and techno-pounding Rave music. However the female Uber-Troll was stood ontop of a flat-bed track, the suspension creaking under her muscular weight with a megaphone held in her hand to address the gathered crowd. The Truck also housed a several Troll drummers on the back, using drums of various sizes.

"There's lot of us, we want respect, people not give respect, people afraid of Trolls, that make me feel bad, there quite a lot of us, so we go get respect, we take protest for Troll rights to big police place and make us get respect!"

Now instead of the hurling of cars, smashing of buildings and the intentional intimidation of passersby (the unintentional intimidation was still there, large numbers of massive muscular horned green people gathered in one spot was enough to initmidate any civilian) there was now the hefting of protest signs as the truck begun it's slow movement towards PPD HQ.

The female Troll called out, "What do Troll want?"

"Respect and end of persecution," the crowd answered.

The female Troll smiled, Edward teaching them fancy words looked like it paid off, "When does Troll want it?"

The crowd answered with a bellow, "NOW!"

The pounding of the drums began, creating the atypical Troll rave music but this time the bellows for respect almost drowned it out.

Tyger watched the crowd of Uber-Trolls with curiosity. He'd heard about the damage they had caused but did feel for them. Early on in his career, he'd spent a lot of time in the Hollows and had earned the respect of several Troll leaders.

So here they were, organised, marching for their rights, a female Troll with dark pink hair leading the rest of the group. She was big, strong, determined...

... and kinda cute.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

The Chief glowered at the marching Trolls from the rooftop, optics zoomed in to scan the crowd.
"Y'know, these ones might be different, Chief," Wolf said quietly, watching through his visor.
The Chief merely grunted.
"I mean, they could just go on a rampage again..."
"Their Trolls. Nothing but drug addled inbreds, thugs and villains. What makes you think this lot are any different from Atta and his ilk?" the Chief snapped suddenly. "You were in Atlas when they hit the Hollows, werent you?"
Wolf winced. He remembered. Sixteen, at the time that Eastgate had been blown underground, in 'The Hollowing'...

He looked up, watching nervously as the Chiefs armour shifted colour, to the dark red and black of Omega, the Warshade.
"Villains and scum..." the kheldian growled quietly through the Chiefs vox grill, watching the marching mob with baleful eyes...

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

The group of Trolls protesting stopped at a T-Junction a few blocks away from the PPD HQ, many of them had heard stories of Blue Steel and knew attracting the attention of a top hero even if the protest was friendly was a bad idea. The protest being so close to the PPD HQ had it disadvantages for the Trolls, they were surrounded on two sides by armed police in moments.

The female Troll yelled into the megaphone, "Troll not here to fight, Troll here to make change, Troll here to extend friendly hand to Police, Troll are here offering to help clean up Kings Row!"

There was a brief discussion between some of the uber-Trolls and one of them made his way slowly towards the police line, slowly extending his hand...

However the Rookie cop must have lost his nerve, for a moment it seemed like all of Kings Row went silent as a shot ringed out in the air and the uber-Troll fell backwards with a grunt.

"Cops firin on us, everyone, scatter!"

One of the other Uber-Trolls quickly hurried to his fallen comrade dragging him away from the police line, the wound was healing bullets proved of little effect last time the new type of Troll and the police clashed...meanwhile the crowd panicked, the Female Troll flipped the Flatbed Truck on it's side, "behind here, now!"

The protest signs were dropped, several of the normal Trolls pulling automatic weapons from underneath their coats, peeking out from behind the flatbed.

"Nobody shoot, we not here for that, don't retaliate..."

A standoff had begun...

Wolf felt the Chiefs aura change even before he saw the colours shift, into the blue and white of Alpha.
"Where the hell did that come from?" the peacebringer muttured, looking left and right, then quickly taking Wolfs gun and lowering it.
"We do NOT want people to panic...or think it was us," he added. Then, with a 'thwump', the Chief took off, wings bringing him to rest next to the Police line, and began quickly scanning around for the commanding officer.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Jake Anderson had finally managed to find an oldies channel (those new digital radios were something else) and was settling down to enjoy a Glenn Miller medley when the awful racket started up outside. At first he was hugely annoyed, but as he began to make out what sounded like chanted slogans amidst the noise, he became intrigued. .

From his apartment window he could just make out the Troll parade as it moved past. Jake remembered the Million Man March, and the idea of huge green thugs most known for property damage being a repressed minority was kind of amusing. With nothing better to do, he decided to go see what was shaking. By the time he got to the street the parade was out of sight. But with the noise they were making, it wasn't hard to follow. Lighting up a cigarette, he strolled along in the direction they seemed to be going.

Most of the noise stopped before Jake had caught up, but he was close enough to hear the female Trolls little speech to the police. And the gunshot. And the thump as the truck was flipped over. As he finally reached a position to see what was going on he quickly took in the Trolls huddling behind their makeshift barrier, and the nervous looking cops facing them.

"I give it five minutes, tops" Jake muttered to himself, looking up to the rooftops and sky.

It wasn't even close to that before a winged form came flying down to the police lines. Jake's mouth formed a tight grin around his cigarette.

"Can always rely on the white capes to make things more interesting..."

The commanding officer, a pudgy middle aged man with a black mustache was yelling at the surrounding police, "I said hold fire damnit...whoever fired that shot you're in for a ball busting when I get hold of you!"

There was a whispering from the Trolls huddled behind the Truck but it slowly grew louder.

"Our Father, who in heaven, hallowed be name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will done, on earth as in heaven, Give us day, daily bread, forgive us trespasses, as we forgive who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. For you is kingdom, power and glory. for ever and ever. Amen..."

The Trolls stood up from a kneeling position and looked out to the Police, "you got chance to apologise, if no say sorry, Trolls not help..."

The Chief clanked over to the Police chief, leaning down until he was level.
"I would suggest following that up, Captain. And, now, I think its time for a little peace around here..."
So saying, he slowly stepped forward, making his way out into the nomansland of concrete between the two groups. At first he had both hands held with palms open, in a gesture of peace. Then, as he neared, he lowered one, offered out in half of a handshake...

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

The female Troll strolled out from behind the barrier, looking The Chief and shaking his hand. She smiled and gave the motion for everything to be wound up.

the Truck flipped back onto it's wheels, the Trolls holstering their weapons, the truck driving off back down the junction, seems like The Chief had managed to halt the situation before it got bad.

The Chief sighed slowly, then looked up at the Troll Chiefteness.
"Where did this all come from? If the trolls have wanted peace, they could have asked for it, right? I know that people hold prejudices, but still...the authorities have been known to negotiate, Miss...?"
The part that was Alpha was embarresed at not knowing a name. The part that was the Chief was impressed at the situation, the Trolls seemingly sueing for peace...Omega was naturally raging away, but he was slow to learn, after all.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

She smiled, "Jess, name Jess...sometime protest only choice..." she gently patted The Chief on the shoulder, "you, good person, like you..."

Jess smiled and turned away...walking off slowly in the same direction as the truck had gone.

((being the walking away music))
((and topic done))