Echo
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Characters: Lexi Elendil, Sergeant Valerie Reyes, Katara Shadowdancer, Emilie Golding, Meghan Squire, Dayana "DG" Grace Williams, Jessica Rose, Chiyo, Aniani and Mirati, Xani, Robyn Luxli
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Post by Echo on Jul 8, 2013 13:09:59 GMT
"I know who you are" Chiyo said as she bowed her head to him. She offered an explanation without being asked. "I make a point of knowing about the immortals HQ employs."
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Post by Sierra on Jul 8, 2013 17:29:44 GMT
((OOC: any objections to me jumping in with Rayne? The demon would probably love this. however I don't know the Disgaea series, would that be a problem? Also vaguely considering throwing an insane Nickel - could be interesting.))
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Post by wulfie13 on Jul 8, 2013 17:34:50 GMT
(OOC: It shouldn't be - I've only seen half an LP of the first one so far, but I'm liking them so far, and I'm trying to find some good quality videos of the others. Plot points and characters from the games may feature when we get further along, but they shouldn't be big enough portions to keep you out of the quest.)
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Echo
Administrator
Keeper of the Multiversal Peace
PM me if you've got any questions!
Posts: 8,659
Characters: Lexi Elendil, Sergeant Valerie Reyes, Katara Shadowdancer, Emilie Golding, Meghan Squire, Dayana "DG" Grace Williams, Jessica Rose, Chiyo, Aniani and Mirati, Xani, Robyn Luxli
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Post by Echo on Jul 8, 2013 23:52:01 GMT
((ooc: bear in mind for this quest that they'd have to break down the gateways that separate each level of the Underworld in order to take over. QA members and those in the know can get through without doing that. - See "Killimg Vincent" for examples.))
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Post by Sierra on Jul 9, 2013 1:44:58 GMT
"But why me?" Cynthia whined as she was escorted to the portal room. "Not you, Rayne," replied the official who had recently become the one to send her on quests. He hadn't told her his name, so in her mind, he was Fred. "But you still haven't told me why." Cynthia stopped in her tracks refusing to move any further until Fred had told her what was going on. Fred sighed and knelt down to look her in the eye. "There are some bad men trying to take over the Underworld. Rayne is a demon, and as far as we can tell, probably came from the Underworld. We need the demon to protect it and stop these bad men."
Cynthia pouted and huffed as Fred stood back up and carried on walking with her to the portal room. As they entered, Cynthia looked around and saw several people, including Jacob. "Jacob!" Cynthia yelled as she ran over to the werewolf, hugging him hard round the middle, ignoring the looks from the other questers. Fred looked to Jacob with an almost sigh of relief. "She's your responsibility now," he said before walking away.
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Meanwhile, in the lower part of HQ, Grady was arguing with the officials yet again. "You can't send her down there, she's human! She'll never make it back!" Grady yelled. "You don't know that, the others will look after her." "The others aren't human, they can't be asked to look after her as well, it's not fair." Grady argued, but the officials were having none of it. "We know how you feel about her-" "How I feel has nothing to do with this," Grady cut in, "You want to send a human into the Underworld. Insane no less. You're all mad!"
Inside the lab Nickel was talking to Chimp, "He thinks I can't look after myself Chimp," she whispered, "But we both know better than that don't we." Nickel gave the stuffed monkey a sly wink as she listened to Grady yelling outside.
"She's going Grady, and that's final. Now you'll let us take her or lose your job and never see her again," the officials threatened. "At least let her go in lucid. Her insanity is so debilitating. She'll be a burden to everyone else." Grady pleaded. The officials shook their heads. "What she could see down there would send her into a shock she would never recover from. At least if she's insane then she'll think she's hallucinating or something. We still need her for her scientific talents." Grady frowned at them. "So why are you sending her in at all?" "Curiousity," was his reply, and no more was to be said about it.
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Post by wulfie13 on Jul 9, 2013 10:40:23 GMT
Jacob tusseled Cynthia's hair. "Hi Cynthia." Jacob then thought about why they were all here, and why they'd be sending her in. He sighed, before asking her "I'm going to assume your here because they want to send Rayne in, right?"
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Post by Sierra on Jul 9, 2013 11:02:15 GMT
Cynthia nodded, "They think that's where the demon came from." She shrugged, "But I don't know. Rayne doesn't tell me anything."
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"Nickel?" Grady said cautiously, he could never be careful enough when she wasn't lucid. There was that one time she launched a bubbling conical flask of something at his head, missed, and hit the wall behind which promptly started to dissolve.
Nickel spun her head round to look at Grady. "Look Chimp, Grady's here." she said to the monkey. To Grady she replied, "I'm ready to go. Fully stocked." She grabbed the hand of the monkey and held it close as Grady walked her, albeit reluctantly, out of the lab and through the corridors of the QA.
Once outside the portal room, Nickel put the monkey in her rucksack, with his head poking out of the top over her shoulder, muttering whispered reassurances to it. She smiled at Grady as she walked into the room full of people. Her eyes were slightly glazed over as she looked at everyone, feeling a little out of her depths with the number of people around her.
"Look Chimp," she muttered back to the monkey, "Look at all these people. I do hope we're going somewhere fun."
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Post by wulfie13 on Jul 9, 2013 13:38:40 GMT
Bao spoke up after a few seconds "Look, with what we're here to do, and the size of the group, maybe introductions can wait. Sitting around here any longer isn't going to help. Just let anyone else who isn't here catch up, and we can do a meet and greet when we've got some spare time, alright?"
She turned to the attendant "Is the portal ready?"
"It's been ready since before any of you got here..." he said, pointing to the back of the room.
Bao turned and headed for the portal.
Jacob turned to Chiyo, since she had been the only other person there when he arrived. "What's wrong with her?"
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Post by Sierra on Jul 9, 2013 16:13:25 GMT
Cynthia shot a sideways glance at the new green-haired woman and tugged on Jacob's sleeve. "Why is she talking to a toy?" Cynthia asked in a loud whisper.
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Nickel moved further into the room and waved goodbye to Grady. Everyone around was in the middle of conversations, so she sat down amongst them and pulled out her notebook and promptly started to scribble down chemical equations.
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Post by wulfie13 on Jul 9, 2013 16:21:58 GMT
"Just smile and don't mention it." Jacob said almost under his breath. "Sanity and normality are all relative."
"Besides, I've dealt with crazier things than this. Hell, compared to most malkavians, talking to a doll is quaint..." He thought to himself straight after.
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