What's up with all these hallucinations?
Hour’s Till Midnight (Open RP "Taking Applications")
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Story:
-A lone soldier walks into his commanders tent with a salute, his eyes cold and scared as he makes what is sure to be his final report. His knees shaking and his arms wobbling from the sleep he could not keep.
“Sir! We are low on rasions and are getting low on energy and ammunition for the weapons. Alpha squad has yet to be recovered, we have also lost forward recon just ten minutes ago.”
The Soldier stood on his broken soul as if showing it off to the world like a badge of honor he was too scared to take off. Meanwhile his commander just stood looking at the back of the tent. Not a word, no movement matched the soundless decorations of the tent. It was as if the cold world of the void was taking this one threw and threw. With one action, the lifting of his hand the Soldier was dismissed to his post.
Standing up the Commander walked outside and looked up at the fake night sky of the clockworks. His eye seemed lit up with warmth of its beauty, yet his empty eye socket looked right threw it as he spoke to himself.
“So, we failed.”
Looking forwards a war-torn level stood between him and the shadow layer that house the enemy which seemed to want nothing more than to remove the people who now called cradle it’s home.
Knights, as far as the eye could see stood around camps sleeping in shifts with there weapons at the ready scared and afraid of what was to come next. Each man and woman was with more than what they were payed to use. These poor souls….How can I do this, how can we fight an enemy that takes our own and changes them into undying monsters. Turning back to his tent the Commander wrote to his Order.
‘To the Spiral Order, or whomever this pertains to.
We are losing the battle against the creature we have dubbed, Swarm. This creature does not stop, it does not rest, it does not sleep. It seems to feed on us only to make us stand once more and act as to its will. To whoever is willing to let them come down this deep, we will be waiting. I, the Commander of the forward recon, will stay with my fallen troops. The Wardens will stand guard and make sure no one leaves. I am sorry Captain Ozlo. We failed.’
With the passing of that message the shadow-layer was closed down and the Threat locked away. Even to this day the Shadow-Layer remains closed, yet some say passage, small but well hidden, let in and out the old enemy.-
Alright. Well that was fun thinking of an RP idea and title. Note this story is based off the players and changes to the choices you make and or actions you do. It does not help if you run in gun-ho, you will die. No repone, one life to live and if you don’t use your mind before your muscles you will end up dead at the feet of your enemy.
Player vs. Player: is welcome but will be taken care of with respect to a moderator/’s selected. This means you’re posts will be watched and if any power-emoting or ‘god-moding’ is seen you will be warned and thus must fix it. Everyone has a chance to live and die fairly. Should you ignore a warning or keep doing it the battle will be decited off screen in the special post just for this RP.
OOC: Try and keep it slim as possible for we all hate OOC, but is you must keep it in OOC brackets. (( )) Those are OOC brackets.
Moderator/’s: You will be tasked with one side or the other, but I must ask that if you are the ‘enemy’ be fair. Be cunning and fair, I want to see an enemy with heart and soul. The Swarm is not the only force at work here. Also, I will be asking you below, if your name is listed, please say yes or no. I would really love to have you on board. Also, these selections are based off my experience with the people, a little Bias will be installed but not enough to ruin the over all feel I am trying to set.
Players: Your welcome to any class/Race/Class type/Faction that makes since in this RP. So no Undead Spiral Knights, just no.
Factions at work:
-Spiral Order
-Gremlins Order
-Undead Order
-Darkwatch Mercenaries.
-Royal Slimes
Note: I will be allowing other groups should I feel a reason for them to be. But members will need to be taken care of by the player. This does not mean we go off track, should we go off track of the RP, Mod’s will step in to correct this.
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Player Apps: Please note, I don’t need a character image unless you want to present one. If you do, most likely it will be looked at more heavily then what you wrote down, so be careful when doing it. Now, I would like Apps to look like this;
Name:
Rank:
Role:
Appearance
-Gender:
-Height:
-Weight:
-Age:
-Eye Color:
-Markings (Tattoo’s, scars, anything out of the normal)
Equipment
-Chest:
-Legs:
-Helm:
-Weapons:
Bio:
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Classes:
Guardian-
-Heavy Guardian: Is strong willed but his guard is stronger. Able to take allot of punishment but not very good at dealing it out.
-Bomber: Gets up close and tends to go boom allot. Thou it should be under Specialist set Bombers are more relable when blowing things up instead of building
-Elemental Defender: Tend to be called in when the normal Armor classes can't handle it. Acting like a wall they suffer from lack of damage out put because of slow nature. But make up for it will heavy defensive power.
-Shadow Defender: Tend to lurk in the shadows and pray on the ill prepared. Thou by nature they like the darkness this class is easily able to slip a knife into its enemy with out anyone being the wise. However they tend to suffer from light and are weaker outside of there beloved shadows.
-Piercing Defender: Being experts at finding a weakness in others armor this class will make quick and rapit attacks to find and expose weakness. Yet in the dark or fighting the Fiends of Cradle they come up short every time.
-Cobalt Knight: An All around good class, they are able to deal out normal damage but also are able to block just the same amount. Facing an enemy a Cobalt Knight tends to fight harder relying on there sword then some advantage in battle.
The Specialist-
-Gunslingers: Long ranged death bringers. Up close they are weaker because of there armor being light letting them move around more freely. But at a distance they can be just as deadly as A Striker up close.
-Striker: Like to be up in some ones face with fast movements and even faster hands. As if to counter there gun carrying opposits Strikers have on Light metal armor and shorter blades offering quicker attacks. But forced to fight ranged, a Striker is no match at all.
-Recon: Tend to sneak around and collect information for the main forces. Thou hard to catch a Recon unit could get into your lines and already told there squad where you are. Thou trained for battle they are more inclined to let the big boys fight while they go for the price kill. Yet in a group brawl Recon are out matched.
-Sniper: A super effective Gunslinger, Snipers are dead in close up battles but at long range they are death's right hand. Armor tends to be nothing because they are the Sharp-shooter who picks off targets according to the most importen kills list.
Non-Battle Classes:
-Bio-Tech: Are able to study Organic enemies and life forms to better enhance understandings as well as give Engineers better information for crafting armor and weapons. Because of there brillance they tend to lack a battle since and thus are no good for fighting. Rather letting the Soldiers take care of it while they study.
-Engineer: The worker of the Army this person is skilled with there hands instead of fighting. Being able to build anything based off designs made by Bio-Tech's plans. On the battle field they can repair weapons and armor as well as work equipment that is not a weapon. Not really able to deffend them selfs in battle they rely on Soldiers to protect them while they work.
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Accepted Apps:
Spirals-Ore: Ark goo (Pending further understanding, you Serve the Royal Jelly Family.)
Edolas: Alexander "One-Shot" Harriett.
Robo-Drilldigger: Robo-Drilldigger (Just do what I said and you can start.) DEAD
Sandwich-Potato: As Swarm and Gradus
Current Moderator's
1.) Edolas
2.) Sandwich-Potato
Remember I only need two, so pay attention here for the second one.
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Personality:
Out side of that, I want some good meaty information on your person. As for rank and Role, Your rank will be based off Spiral Order ranks. And your Role can be anything, this is your Character Class, Guardian, Shadow Guardian, Bio-Tech, Council member, ETC. Everything will be evened out, but for the most part the basic roles are defined.
Mods I want if they are interested:
1.) Thinslayer; Pending
2.) Sandwich-Potato; Taken
3.) Edolas; Taken
Those are just the first three I want. Note, I only need Two.
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Starting Area's for all Players and Races.
Spiral Knight/Merc's (AKA: HUMAN): Haven
Gremlin Colonist's: King Tinkinzar's Capital (Unknown Depth)
Slimes: Royal Slime Palace (Random Rotation please see Moderator)
Construct: Spiral order/Merc's: Have. Gremlin Colonist's: King Tinkinzar's Capital City. Gremlin Outcast's: Emberlight.
Gremlin Outcast's: Emberlight.
Swarm(Potato-Sandwich Only): The Shadow-Layer
Wolver's(NPC): See Moderator
Undead: The Graveyard, where the living fear to tread. See Moderator for new location.
Fiend Family: See Moderator for Starting location if Applicable.
Beast Family: See Moderator, MODERATOR ONLY.
Every Team going down has 1 of those rockets. Sadly inside The Shadow Layer they are weaker and offer less time of protection. This means you can make a 'safe' zone for no more then an hour Game time. After that your SoL and don't have any more. That being said there is only one safe zone in the Shadow-Layer, and that is where I wanted the Story to take place, the Sanctuary. From there and out I want it to work like a Zombie flick, where the interests is less about the Swarm and more about the characters.
See in the set up, we are still in the start. Meeting all the people and seeing what we have at our disposal and bla. Once you get to the Sanctuary you will find out, the swarm is not the only enemy here. Its also each other.
Also Potato: You all have yet to get to that level, so she has already escaped scot free. And no, you will not be seeing her on the next level.
Thin: You're a Day late and A Dollar short here. The Battle already happened, so unless you want to kill the Ranger and the Gremlin before there time I suggest going back and redoing that part. As for the Assassin, I really would like it if you kept the Swarm located to where they are found as we know it. Currently Swarm is only found in weak forms outside of the Shadow-Layer.
I want it to really be kept like this: Swarm can only manifest inside the Shadow-Layer, but your beating my dream hard here. We should talk in game about this one day. I know your good at doing the Swarm and all, but at least let me share some guide lines for now.
The same exact reason on my post before ;) . Oh and dark ( and all mods ) can ark have those hallucination as a sign of growing up... i am lazy to edit my post again.... XD
Unless it was approved before, which none of them have, please don't bring it up or into the RP. Thank you and sorry for sounding rude, I am trying not to be :L
And why did you use hallucinations on your prior post? I don't understand what purpose they serve. They feel like a cheap attempt at getting around in-game limitations on your character's senses.
Damn, thats hurt. For a moment to have everything back but then at the last moment...It gets ripped away. Its almost like a smack to the face twice over man. I feel bad for the Gremlin now.
I have edited my pervious post about the hallucination.. Oh and can you guys tell me what is your time zone ? seems like you post almost at once...
EST (-5 GMT)
Wow that was quite a few posts. I guess no one here cared about the Super Bowl? Anyway, now I have to catch up, but there's school and I can't actually post untill that's done. Just a heads up.
Psst Thin. You now have two ticked off Gremlins. One is part Construct and in control of a half dozen super-charged angry Gun Puppies. The other one has an artifact that has touched the Sanctuary and the Swarm, the two mixing into it. I'd say you're in a pretty bad situation.
The Sanctuary drives out the Swarm and makes it powerless (Best I can guess) to fight back making it nutural. In that respect the artifact would be driven by just the Sanctuary-isk energy.
Also, I like the Gremlins, cute and furry little ankle biters.
The Sanctuary is controlled by the Core itself, which is powerful enough to drive away the Swarm on its own, at least from such a fortified position.
There seems to be an awful lot of swarm outside the Shadow Lairs around our group.
And I never knew that you could control my Ranger...who is currently unconscious, and has been since the Marks-Woman encounter.
I thought Gradus was the ranger. O.O
No No, Alexander is the Ranger. (My OC).
Gradus is the Gremlin Mender (Sandwich's OC)
Besides, where'd your Swarm Legion suddenly appear from?
A legion of knights died in the level where the secret elevator goes to. More on them later. Gwen allowed some of the Swarm Seed in her to enter one of the bodies, and the Swarm was able to quickly reproduce and infect the other bodies.
This is why you need to completely and utterly wipe out the Swarm if you wish to defeat it.
I'm not sure that the Swarm should be escaping the Shadow Lairs so quickly, even with a Seed out. There's what, a few dozen elite soldiers of the Swarm? After a few minutes of Seed growth? It's like the confrontation is too quick, no buildup, not much time for anyone to develop their character, especially the two who completely abhor the Swarm and everything of it.
Hmm. Character buildup is certainly a relevant concern. I'll see what I can do.
Bear in mind, though, that "buildup" is an entirely alien concept to the Swarm, since it can readily acquire elite forces in no time flat just by infecting things. It already has decades worth of training in the collective mind (and thus need not train new units); the only problem it ever faces is finding bodies and biomass to use.
Note this, I don't think that was the kind of build up he was talking about. I believe he was talking about character build up as well as lead in's. Its hard to understand the Swarm for it does not understand us, in theory, but for right now the build up we need would require the Swarm to take a moment and do what I am doing, stepping back and looking at the situation.
As for a future thing, lets say it like this. In order to build 'Elite' creatures it needs time, energy and a large enough Swarm Seed. Which I don't want coming from thin air(Joke there if you saw it) and just bamb. This was the same problem I was having in other Forum RPs with unnamed people. They where getting these resources from then air (hue) and taking it in a step too far.
Even in lore the Swarm was locked down int he Shadow-Layer and does not leave it. Its as if that is the planets dark side, its grave yard, where the Swarm is all powerful and can do so much with little at all. Outside of that it would be weak and has to strain/take energy from others to survive. (Again in Theory)
07:17 PM EST (-5 GMT) I will be on Spiral Knights. (Tonight!)
Guild Hall: The Darkwatch
Status: Open to the Public. Come on in.
Currently here: Darkwatck, Thinslayer, Dmatter, Bluearceus
Where did everyone disappear to?
I don't know, I would've posted if I hadn't posted last. Also, snow day for me.
Dealing with the Flu on my end.
I tried a RP which... didn't even get a single post... As for Robo N8, can't go into the fight and Count Bleck is still stuck. "Hallucination's in Cradle" never worked, I must be doing something wrong :(
Deadly, read my old post again. N8 CAN fight, but his power is reduced. Picture a Blazebrand in FSC opposed to a Combuster.
Deadly, I did say that there was an aura coming from the floor, bearing the crest of the crimson order. Why not Use this as a means to an end? Say it repaired you, or something
I would not say repaired, but it could boost his stranght. So in a shellnut he could have some fight back in him.
Alex status: Still out for the count.
That's my reason.
Carry on.
Waiting on Thin's response from the Swarm. Though maybe I should step in? Not sure.
I think we're asuming that he vanished in fire
Thin is resourceful here. But, at this point even that small of a Swarm infection would have been burned out or he would have escape back to Gwens' body for safety. Now, outside of this we are left to assume so because of how long he has been not answering. Sorry to do it buddy but I am over-riding his post and saying that currently the Swarm that was blocking the way is now gone and thus you are currently left with thats going on now.
The fighting just seemed kinda pointless, so no obvious plotline revealed itself to me. That, and I had no idea what that Swarm-wand business was about.
Ya, I have to admit, as far as last minute plot devices go, that is by far one of the strange ones.
True, but considering how outmatched everyone was, I was pretty sure a near TPK was rather probable until some help came, one way or another.