Converting to first-person.

Wow, this telepathic connection actually works. Time to test it.

I sneezed and opened my eyes. Alice, Ethan, and another strange person (John, if my memory serves me) were standing around me, likely attending to my needs since I lost consciousness. This place was probably...John's home, since this is not Ethan's cave and Alice does not seem like the type who would have a home.

Wait, no, I recognize this place. This is the Valentines' home. Do I live here?

I sat up and rubbed my eyes. "How long was I out?"

(OOC: oh ho ho, you have no idea. You'll find out soon enough. :P Also, medical tests will show that she is perfectly healthy. Perfectly healthy.

Okay, here's a hint: she is a participant in a process that I have described in lore for other RPs. The titles of my posts nearly give it away.

BIC:
"You may certainly have a blood sample. Here." She extended her hand, and a single droplet of blood floated out of her palm.

"I can handle Vanaduke by myself." Alice pointed to her mask
"So long as nobody else comes along with me, nobody but the Zombies and Vanaduke will die.

((Xindao happens to be a good candidate for teleforce, although he has no recollection of his past...which we might get into later))

BIC: I tug her towards Beta Camp, pointing and making eating motions. I run in it's direction.
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I had registered the phone the unconcious man had in his pocket. I hacked into the number the first five seconds I started running. I text it: "If you want food, you'll have to go by my preference. Beta Camp." I texted for 3 seconds after I had hacked the number. I run.
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I get to Beta, and look around. Barely anyone walked around. I bring out my phone, and head towards the rations tent. I take my food, and sit down at a crate, used as a makeshift table. I activate a holographic map of Beta...

(OOC: I think Ethan just ignored Gwen. O.o)

Gwen gingerly took the mask and looked it over carefully. She closed her eyes and brushed her fingers over its surface, then handed it back to Alice. "It's the most remarkable piece of Morai engineering I've ever seen. The intricate psionic frame is without parallel, and the nanotube shell is very well constructed. Where did you get this?"

Found a better and more accurate pic of Xindao. This will be used for this RP alone. Here

OOC: Darn it, I forgot to reply to your story post! No need to quit...

Wait, if Gwen is at her own house, where have her parents been this whole time? Maybe they went out looking for Gwen. xD

@Archemiday: the edit looks weird. Gwen basically told him exactly how to disinfect a Swarm zombie, but nobody was listening. Not to mention that it's rather odd for a ditzy 16-year-old to be saying such exotic, intelligent things.

BIC:
Lance, Evera and Theo got back to the house, exhausted and worried sick over their failed search for Gwen. Imagine their surprise when they found her sitting up on her bed chatting with strangers! The parents ran over to Gwen and hugged her. She seemed a little shocked at first, but eventually hugged them back. "Where have you been?" asked Evera. "We were so worried about you!"

Gwen raised an eyebrow. "Uh...good question. I...uh...oh, here." She handed them her bag of materials, which was stuffed full of scrap metal. Lance gasped, looked at it, looked at Gwen, and grinned. "You did great, darlin'! I could almost make a whole shield outta these!" Gwen shrugged and smiled.

Evera didn't look nearly as happy. "What's going on, Gwen? You seem different." Gwen looked at her feet. "That's because I am different."

As she spoke, they heard the sounds of roaring, hungry Swarm zombies banging on their walls outside. "I must go. Remain here. Protect them while I'm away, Theo." Her parents paled and nearly screamed as she went out the door and into the waiting crowd of dark monstrosities.

By daybreak, the ground was covered in the scorched, broken bodies of disinfected and liberated zombies.

Gwen did not return.

I'll edit it....let's just assume I arrived after he opened the door

In response, I bring out the phone. I reprogram some things before I show him the screen. Energy readings showed mass radiation clung to the bodies, showing something of huge psychic ability was able to save these forsaken beings. I hit a button on the phone, showing a holographic piece of text. "Something or someone was able to weave their own energy around these beings and rid them of their ailment. A thing like this is too rare to not look for. Did you see ANYONE that was outside this home last night?" It holograms, not flickering.

"Only for the last few days. One day, she didn't come home, and we eventually found her wounded and in the care of this young man," Lance said, gesturing to Ethan. "She usually obeys curfew."

Evera donned her coat and grabbed her rifle. "Well, I'm not going to sit around and wait for her to come back. Coming, Lance dearest?" He nodded and got his coat and rifle as well. "Who else is coming?" he asked.

I register the man has had enough time to read my text, and put my phone back in my pocket. I stride behind him and head for the house.
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I don't knock as I walk in to see if anyone's aware of what happened last night, when I find (sorry if this is powerplaying Thin, but I think this is what they would do, and I'll edit it out if it's wrong) two people pointing rifles at me. I stiffen, my hands in my pockets, my right hand enclosing the phone.

Ethan decided to join the expedition, but before they had even opened the door, someone else did. Lance and Evera instinctively brought their rifles to bear on the young man who had just entered. Without lowering his rifle, Lance asked tersely, "Who are you?"

NO CLUE WHAT TO POOOOOST

Xindao's Truth

*edited link*

More hints later....

The Core

I bang against the walls uselessly. Tears well in my eyes. People are dying! I...need to help...I hit the Core again, and it resonates with each hit. She's out there, walking about like she hasn't done a thing, while I remain here....

Oh! OH! I smack my head. I should've done this a long time ago. She's forgotten me, but I'll remind her. Oh yes, and maybe she'll come back for me...I turn and stare into the light of the Core. This is her brain, in a way. I hold up my hand, and summon a Swarm Raven. I send it flying into the Core.

I hold the stone in my hands, and close my eyes. Something about this seems so familiar...but, I'm not sure why. I know what this is, but where the information came from, I may never know...

I hold up my phone, and it holograms according to a small reprogrammed tracking device I turned into a pill and swallowed. It allows me to communicate my words into the phone by a simple mental translation, boosted towards the phone by my own mental capacity. It holograms, "This is an Echo Stone, used by sentient beings as a recorder and message for those they think are able for their quests. These Stones can only be created if one can reach far back enough in their mind and take one from a land full of life, which all of us remember in the outer recesses of our minds. I have my own theories, while others may call it 'Heaven' or 'Eden'. And there are some who call it..." The phone flickers, and my heart skips a beat. It never flickers.....but then it continues. "'The Core'"
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OOC: You'll see soon enough Thin. I've had a mental breakthrough, and I'm starting to remember who this character is.

((Waiting for thy others' reply.))

The phone holograms, "I wouldn't imply anything of the sort. However, something strong must have came into her mind for her to be able to purge a legion of zombies and send, not to mention harvest, this Echo Stone. If I can tap into it via my phone, I could activate it." I register they've read the message before two prongs extend out of the top of my phone. Red energy transfers between them, and I put the Echo Stone between the transfer of energy. Speak. I think, strongly enough for the word to drift into everyone's (wothin the room) mind.

TRUE XINDAO

The Core

Waves of power emanate from the Core, pushing me slightly. I shake the stray energy from my silver hair. I wonder...where could Mother be-NO! I will not slip into the past! I comb the Insanity away. I walk towards the Core's light, and materialize near the Edge of the world it holds within. The beach, where thousands and thousands of clean Echo Stones wash ashore. The water, a glowing turquoise Energy before falling off the Edge about half a mile away from shore. I climb up the stones and sit down at the edge where the green grass begins. I pick up an Echo Stone, and whisper to it. I saw you today. I wouldn't call it seeing as much as sensing, but there you were, just a blinding white figure standing amongst gray figures. You appeared to me in a clean Echo Stone, but then you were gone. Please, please, just help me. Here's an image of what's happening to your head, to you! I raise the Echo Stone to a Castle of pure white rock, a grand Castle, the the most beautiful rainbow glass for the windows, and a Tower resting in the sky.

But on the far side of the Castle, a pitch black thing was there, absorbing it, becoming stronger. It's made up of thousands of arms, dragging themselves across the surface as to absorb the whole thing. And there are many magenta eyes adorning the whole thing, staring, never blinking. I send a psychic picture of the thing into the stone, and it comes out looking like a darkness adorned with one large eye is spreading it's veing across a pure white sphere. I teleport the Echo Stone, and fall onto the grass to rest, feeling well that she might get it.

((To help Kaijuhunter's character get up to speed, she is now on the house floor after Xindao carried her.))

Also Kaijuhunter, Current Xindao now looks like this due to accuracy.
Here

And True/Real Xindao looks like this.
Here

And this is True/Real Xindao's Truth.
Xindao's Truth

Thanks for posting! Was wondering when...x]

IC

Sayaka slowly awakened and groggily rubbed the crust and dust out of her eyes. Standing above her was the boy who saved her earlier and another man, this one holding a rifle. Sayaka gulped. Suddenly, a small stone materialized next to her, and she sat up. Ignoring her, the woman picked up the strange item and examined it. She concluded, "It's making sounds like echoes, and there are runes engraved in it. What do you think it is?"

She then turned her attention to the boy and said, "You look like you would know." Sayaka watched as the boy took the stone and shut his eyes. He finally nodded to himself, and his phone glowed; "This is an Echo Stone, used by sentient beings as a recorder and message for those they think are able for their quests. These Stones can only be created if one can reach far back enough in their mind and take one from a land full of life, which all of us remember in the outer recesses of our minds. I have my own theories, while others may call it 'Heaven' or 'Eden'. And there are some who call it... The Core."

Sayaka blinked. She wasn't one to accept that THE heaven, home of her God, was in the Core. It disagreed with everything the Bible said. And Sayaka was a strict follower of her religion.

Her thoughts were interrupted as the man inquired, "Okay, first off, what does this Echo Stone have to do with Gwen? How does it help us find her? If you're implying that she went to the Core, that's just scrap; she has no business down there."

Hmm... Interesting. Other than her superhuman healing abilities, Sayaka had a hobby of playing detective. Second only to the Bible, her favorite books were the Sherlock Impostoholmes series. She had learned to deduce many things simply by observing a person, and from the way this man spoke of "Gwen", she must be a younger female person of great importance to him; perhaps a sister or daughter. Interesting.

Sayaka looked back at the boy's phone as it read, "I wouldn't imply anything of the sort. However, something strong must have came into her mind for her to be able to purge a legion of zombies and send, not to mention harvest, this Echo Stone. If I can tap into it via my phone, I could activate it." Suddenly, two prongs of red energy extended throughout everyone.

Sayaka held her hand up, and everyone turned to her. Nobody had noticed her awakening until just then. Fiddling with her thumbs, Sayaka said, "Wait, this is all very sudden for me. I don't know you people, and for all I know, you could be murderers and criminals." The man said, "Trust me, we're not."

Sayaka shook her head. "I don't think i can trust any of you so quickly. As i said, you could all be soulless monsters. However, I believe I can decide otherwise. "

Pointing to the man, she said, "From what I can tell, this 'Gwen' of yours is very important to you. From the way you speak of her, she must be a young girl, ranging from her late teens to early adulthood. I believe she is your sister, or perhaps your daughter." The man's eyes widened, and he whispered, "She's my daughter."

Nodding, Sayaka continued, "From the way you and that lady stand near each other and give such looks of affection, I presume she is your spouse?" His eyes wide with disbelief, the man nodded. Satisfied with herself, Sayaka continued, "And from the muscles, the numerous fire brands on your skin, and the soot on your clothes, you were probably a blacksmith. And you, madam, I see the tip of a seeing needle in your left pocket. May heaps you are a seamstress or something along those lines?" Equally dumbfounded as her husband, the woman nodded. Furrowing her brows, she replied, "How does this have to do with anything, though?"

Smirking, Sayaka responded, "I know now I can trust you. Many blacksmiths and seamstresses I have met are trustworthy people; they've had to earn their money the honest way. Besides, I know of no way for a blacksmith to fake a good blafe, nor a seamstress to fake a beautiful cloth. So I am slightly more inclined to trust you two."

"As for the others, I am uncertain. For example, that boy," she said, pointing to Ethan, "Has the characteristic smirk of the average thief. I spot a pocketknife in his back pocket, and that Arch Drive on his left hand was an experimental device issued only to the year of 3071 recon knights, a group of people I know from experience to be most untrustworthy."

Glancing uncertainly at Xindao, Sayaka concluded, "As for the other boy, I can not deduce much from his appearance nor voice, as he apparently cannot speak. For the time being, I can't trust him either. But you two, I can be almost entirely sure of. I may be if assistance in finding your daughter." Sayaka thought she saw Evera smile.

Blinking, Sayaka stared at herself. She usually did have a split personality, a side of her that was scientific and for the most part, uncaring, but she never lapsed into said state for so long. Slipping back into her normally shy self, she said meekly, "I'm sorry if my analysis was intrusive. I'm a woman of God, and I follow His word. And God always says to help out your neighbor and to love them as you would love yourself. That's why I'd like to help you find your daughter."

Fidgeting, she continued, "As for my... Other self, even it might be useful, as I am not very perceptive or... intelligent, when I am myself. So... Shall I be of assistance?" Evera and Lance smiled as Xindao and Ethan looked on. Evera grinned and gently said, "Sure you can. Besides... I didn't catch your name."

Sayaka grinned from ear to ear. Curtsying, she announced, "Kirigaya Sayaka at your service."
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OOC: I forgot to mention Sayaka's split personality and extreme mental capacity for detective work. Also, in Japan, the last name is said before the given name, so that is why Sayaka introduced herself as "Kirigaya Sayaka". For example, Lelouch Lamperouge would be said as "Lamperouge Lelouch" in Japan.