This is going to be a bi-weekly publication (hopefully) following a superhero/villain-type storyline. I will be updating twice a week, and readers are asked to post their ideas for what could/should happen next. I will be paying small amounts of CE to those who guess the next event correctly, or to those who give me good ideas. The prologue should be up within 10 minutes.
Enjoy, and as writers say "R&R (read and review) please!"
Argent = Some good guy. Maybe some guy who counters Sentenza's stuff.
Time to post half of Chapter 1, to counter the obvious -___-
The Knight in the Vog Coat and Deadshot Chapeau stepped inconspicuously through the streets of Haven. It had been ten years to the day since the murderer known as Sentenza had struck at her home, taking the lives of her parents and little Dogrock. She and Tarance, by some miracle, had been spared, and since that day Espira had been working her way up to carrying the weapon she believed could defeat her foe: the Argent Peacemaker. AP for short. Tarance joked that the 'AP' really meant 'Assassin Punisher'.
A shuffling of gravel caught Espira's attention; she spun to her left, aiming both her Argent and Polaris at what turned out to be a Snipe shuffling a little too close to the Auction House. She tucked both guns into her belt, though her gloved hands never strayed too far from their hilts.
Espira was after one of the more dangerous folk of the Haven "Underground" that night: a dangerous scammer named Kairatas. He was known to have a smooth tongue and an even smoother touch with his Barbarous Thorn Blade. Rumor in the "upperworld" said that Kairatas could smooth-talk anyone into a deal while getting his Blade between their collarblades.
Either way, Espira intended to deal with him quicky and somewhat quietly.
The female Knight pushed her way through a secret hatch below the Advanced Training hall and muttered the password: "Darkfire" to the bouncer at the door. She slid into the pub within and spotted her target sitting at a solitary table at the far back. She sauntered over to his table and leaned over it, breathing, "Calypso sent me. Business agreement."
Kairatas took a swig of his Wolver Juice and coughed into his Skolver cap. "What'sit ta ya?"
"You have something I want. And I'm more than willing to... pay handsomely for it." Espira slid a credit valued at 100 CE beneath the table. Kairatas grabbed it and slipped it into his coat in a single, well-practiced motion. "If ya'll fallow me, please."
The two Knights stepped out into the cool evening breeze; Kairatas led Espira down to the garden, where the Skolver-clad Knight then turned around and said, "So wha'ddya want?"
"Say goodbye to the world." Quick as lightning, Espira drew her Argent and fired once: a direct hit into the middle of the Skolver cap. The Knight collapsed with a thud and a groan; Espira turned him so he lay belly-up and rummaged through his pockets. "Aha," she whispered as she withdrew a small book from within the Knight's body. "A contact list." Espira turned and fired her Argent six more times: forming a crude 'A' in the wall of the Haven Garden- and withdrew.
"Tonight the world meets Argent."
"Tomorrow, Sentenza burns."
so I get ce! Yahz!
Can't wait for the rest of the story. SO far, pretty good! =D
I was gonna guess that Espira was the 'Argent' and had survived.
Sounds kinda batmanish tho. Nice work :D
[Guess Retracted]
EDIT: In the event that this guess is NOT correct, but you like the idea and need more development on it, I'd be happy to help, under the condition that it is NOT paid for.
Idea supplying, I'd rather you not :/
Correct guesses, meh, fair enough.
I feel honored. <3
P.S.
Vog? What is this? Snarby coat costume ftw!
Haha, jk, <3 Xairbear.
I'm going to guess that Godzilla appears and they all sit down and have tea before succumbing to an overdose of caffeine and biscuits
You can send me my CE after you tell me I'm right.
After reading through my previous post and the story again, I made a new guess.
Espira's gonna search through the contact list, asking people on it for clues that will lead her to Sentenza, occasionally killing a few who 1-get on her nerves, 2-deserve to die, 3-Had some key part to play in Sentenza's crime.
Projected storyline:
She will follow the clues until they lead her to some character, who she then kills. It is later found that this was not in fact her target, and laden with guilt at killing an innocent, and by extension, hurting her target's family like her own, she decides to discontinue her search for Sentenza. However, Sentenza strikes again, killing someone close to her (Perhaps Tarance) and taunts her (something like: I hear you're looking for me, but you won't fine me etcetc Catch me if you can little birdy) and with renewed rage, hunts for Sentenza again.
After some time of searching, she finds and fights Sentenza, but either 1-loses and is spared, or 2-finds out that he/she is someone close to her. (Personal friend or Tarance.) In the following shock, Sentenza escapes.
Following timeline 1, Espira will then continue her hunt for Sentenza, ending with her making an unexpected move, finding him/her and putting an end to him/her. Then, over an appropriate scenario, sunset on a high rooftop somewhere, debates with herself about what to do with her life, her job completed, before deciding that there are other dangers like Sentenza, and decides to continue her job' as Argent, the Peacemaker.
Following Timeline 2, she is torn between acting out her vengeance and giving up, because her target is someone she trusted from the beginning (cannot believe the betrayal, shocked because such close friend etcetc...). Eventually fight with him/her again, in which Sentenza is killed. (Either in her rage, or in an event where Espira is going to be killed, but in a last act of remorse, Sentenza takes the fall.) Espira then mourns the death of a close friend, even though it was the killer.
Alternate scenarios: Either timeline, Sentenza was actually a pawn in someone else's targeting of her family, revealed after she beats him/her and they team up to take the 'Big Boss' down. That done, they go their separate ways, Sentenza returning to his/her life of petty crime and thievery, while Espira decides to keep up her job, and keep the peace in Haven.
Specific in Timeline 2, if Sentenza takes the fall, an alternate ending could be he/she survives, leading into the ending of the first Alternate scenario.
Tarance is a suspect IMO because he's close family who survived. People like that are always suspect, IMO anyway. His death could have been staged, meaning that he was the killer, leading in to timeline 2, then possibly the Alt Scenario.
BTW, same conditions apply as in my last post. If they apply at all ><
(10 years ago)
Thunder rippled across the dark Haven sky as cold, torrential rain poured down on the small settlement below. The small droplets of water trickled across the tops of the Spiral Knights' stone dwellings; some of the more weathered buildings admitted the small wet invaders into their damp insides. It was inside one of these houses that the knight Espira slept soundly; across the hall her brother, Tarance, snored loudly despite his small composition. At the end of the hall slept their parents, and at the foot of the winding staircase that led to their small apartment sat their pet snipe, Dogrock.
It was the thunder that kept the sleeping Knights from hearing the footsteps of the invader, from hearing the click of a loaded weapon, from hearing the creak of rusted hinges. It was the steady pitter-patter of the rain that masked the horrid thumps of bullets into armor and flesh, and it wasn't until the silent dawn that the screams- oh, the awful screams- could be heard across Haven.
Clues were gathered. A crime scene was created. Evidence was collected, and murder became the word throughout the streets of Haven. The killer, never found, was titled only one thing: the name of the weapon that was used at the scene.
The bullets were too obvious. The residue was a dead giveaway. And still he walked the streets of Haven, carrying the odd yet deadly weapon in his- or could it be a her?- belt.
They called him a murderer. They called him "Sentenza".