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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 6, 2006 4:28:45 GMT -5
The blood and dust of the Dark Tournament has fallen. Many horrors have been unveiled and demons, both literal and metaphorical, slain. It's time to get away from the rat race.
In Crashing Heavens Briefing Hall, Kumo strides in front of the team, chomping his cigar, his Mog fluffy ball shifting from side to side. However, unlike previous occasions, Kumo is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, sandals and Bermuda shorts. Before he can get to talking, Crash Fox comes up to him and strokes him under his chin. "Oh! He's so adorable!" For a second, Kumo purrs as only a Moogle can, then shakes his head and says, "Ma'am, please sit down before I cut your face off." He begins walking back and forth. "Y'know, I've been lookin' forward to something like this. I rarely say this, but I'm proud to have been assigned to work with you maggots."
Helvena comes out. Behind him, three people walk in, then the Paradigm fighters stride in. "I believe there are some introductions to be made before we head out. The Klingon is Kron, the Insectoid is #238-Omega, the Nebruyin is Daonem, and the Ork is Jane Mal." They nod and take seats. Already in a seat and smiling is the Thunder-and-Lightning Demon, half pale white and half vibrant yellow vertically down the center of his body. "This is Denios Arisada. You've seen some of his work." Denios is busily filing his nails. He smiles, demonic teeth glinting. "Sorry for the way I acted", he comments, "I tend to go a little overboard. Most of the time I'm pretty fun-loving."
A black-and-purple entity sitting in the corner reaches for some coffee, his arms suddenly growing precipitously but his mouth disappearing. As he retracts his arm, it becomes small and dainty, and his mouth a sucker to quickly absorb the coffee. "This is Pander, our newest Heaven/Hell creation."
The three new people introduce themselves. First is a Japanese girl in a schoolgirl outfit. She seems shy and uncommunicative. "“Code Name Noble Umber reporting for duty, sir! My civilian name is Sarashito.” When she introduces herself, she has a combination of spunk and seriousness.
Crashing Heavens recognizes one of the two remaining. It's Quion, the son of Sylphana and Fred. Quion rolls his eyes and chuckles a bit. “This is the Rangers, not the fuggin military.”
Helvena looks at Quion and says, “You know, you all could do with a little more decorum. Especially you, Quion. We get frequent accusations of nepotism.”
Quion smiles. "Any of those pricks who say that can go toe-to-toe with me. If they win, I'll swallow it and a humble sandwich too."
The last of them is not human or even close. Developed legs, thin arms, a great spear seemingly carved out of resin, an array of other weapons, long tusks, all contained by a insect body. She is Free Xiticix. "Krane." She speaks slowly and to the point.
Helvena then points to the new Protoss. "This is Ardunum. He is a maverick Agent of the Universe, luckily working with us. We welcome you, o Bodhisattva."
Kumo begins distributing envelopes. "These contains mandatory training addresses. Open these if you please, but do not head there until after our vacation."
Helvene puts his hands together and rubs them. "You all have an hour to pack. We meet at the Ranger's Wings at 1000."
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 16:00:37 GMT -5
As the group talks, a tall human figure walks towards them his height reaching 6'10".His body covered by huge chains some of which have curved spikes running along them,he wears a black trench coat over him that has a mask like thing coming from the back of it covering his face slightly from under his chin to under his eyes as well a black pants and steel toed combat boots.His skin tone is rather grayish white from what they can see,his hair is slightly gray.He looks to be the age around his early 20s,he looks at them with his dark eyes and smirks as he walks up to them taking off his mask and lights up a cigarette taking a long drag from it slowly breathing out the smoke.He then looks at them saying to all of them"How is everyone this fine day?."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 16:02:51 GMT -5
Kumo turns around and says, "Dammit, no, we don't want any sandwiches!" He then looks at the ID pinned to this newcomer's lapel. He and Helvena make a frenzied rush for papers. "Dammit, there's been a goddamn bureaucratic cockup. Soldier! Give your name and previous Ranger unit on the double!"
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 16:08:32 GMT -5
Shade looks at them and nods "My name is Shade, I've been an Independant Ranger for about 4 years now.."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 16:13:21 GMT -5
Helvena raises his arm. "Welcome to Crashing Heavens, Shade. I apologize that the first action you will be getting is a vacation, but c'est la vie. Pack and get ready for hot springs... Oh, and everyone: Weapons, concealed or otherwise, armor, and any clothes aside from beach wear are strictly forbidden on Tenrei. Keep all such items in dimensional storage and only use them when absolutely necessary."
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 16:20:03 GMT -5
Shade smiles and nods going to get ready for the vacation.He forms his chains down into his skin making them look like tattoos of some kind making sure they are not noticable,running them in a pattern along his arms and back.He looks back and asks them a quick question,"Is it ok to wear black and white beach clothing?Like shorts or swimming gear?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 16:22:46 GMT -5
Helvena nods. "Any typically worn beach gear is acceptable."
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 16:28:36 GMT -5
Shade nods and goes back to his apartment coming back later after he moved his stuff into his new room.He carrys back with him a medium sized suit case carrying his clothing inside of it.He's now wearing a black beach shirt with black and white patterns on it, with the buttons undone not really liking to wear shirts at all.He also is wearing black shorts and sandles as well. He looks at them and smirks "So when are we leaving?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 16:32:22 GMT -5
"...In an hour?" Quion says, his eyebrows cocking. "Or did you miss that part?"
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 16:34:40 GMT -5
"Oh." says Shade and laughs slightly running his hand along the back of his head."Sorry I thought that we were all leaving now." He places his suit case down,lying it flat on the ground and sits on it as he waits.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 16:40:36 GMT -5
Krane heads outside and practices Tai Chi. Denios smiles and looks at Shade. "Hey, new guy! I think it's time for some kind of initiation ritual. Wanna go?" Quion suddenly has a water balloon, which he tosses at Shade. "Don't dodge, boy, or we'll be here all day!" Sarashito sits down in a corner, shy and quiet, chuckling a little at the antics. Kumo says, "Dammit, this is asinine." Helvena shrugs and heads outside to join Krane.
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 16:44:32 GMT -5
Shade blinks watching the water balloon as it comes towards him.He looks leans down slightly picking up his suit case and blocks the water balloon and laughs, wondering why Quion did that."Hey, what was that for?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 16:50:43 GMT -5
Inside the water balloon is not water, but a thick red paint like substance. Quion says, "It's initiation time!" Crash Fox, her Kitsune body barely concealed by her bikini (strange, it didn't exactly ever come on), says, "Wait a second, aren't you new too? And a lot of us are, right?" Coming from behind her is another water balloon. Coming out from under the desk behind Quion is a Sicilian man. He whispers, "When you throw these, make that sound from the cartoons, you know, the one that goes 'Woooooooo-bop!'" He has a bag filled with water balloons. Denios says, "Man, I meant an actual fight, but okay, whatever."Gluttony shrugs. "I prefer a food fight, so..." Kumo presses a button, and now suddenly everyone is outside. "AND DON'T COME BACK IN!", a gruff voice yells from the distance. Unfortunately, all the old members, courtesy of Duuz, are now behind automatic water balloon cannons. Raysh sets down a Law: The people in the center can't use the cannons and they can only throw balloons at each other. The balloons begin to fly...
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 16:57:14 GMT -5
Shade looks around, now being outside with the rest of them.He looks at the other members behind the water balloon cannons..Tossing a ballon at the person nearest to him, and smirks running around picking up any water balloons he see's that arent poped yet, tossing them at people in the center,looking for Quion.Says to himself "Where is he?.."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 17:05:20 GMT -5
Shade runs around, joining the rest of the team moving somewhere around several hundred miles per hour to a few times light speed, looking for the Trickster Magi. He realizes too late that there's something suspicious about the grass below him, when he falls into a pit filled with exploding water balloons. Quion laughs... then a homing balloon crashes on top of him. Bombardi smiles with an almost demonic glee as he makes each balloon explode, spraying the paint inside everywhere. Gluttony loads his gun up with watermelon chunks, bananas and banana peels, lettuce, and other soft mushy items. Amdalus sits down in the midst of everything and reads a laminated book, while Laura calls out, smiling, "You're not going to get initiated that way, Amdalus!" Amdalus shrugs and keeps flipping, spitting out some paint. Excellia's arms block the shots, particularly from Jin, while she waits for an opening to throw. Viktor says, "This is inane", and walks away.
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 17:17:13 GMT -5
Looks down as he falls down into the pit filled to the top with water balloons,watching the paint spray across his clothing and face as all the ballons pop.He looks up at the opening from where he fell down through.He looks at himself staring at the ground for a few seconds and smirks laughing hard at himself "Man I'm a mess." he looks at Quion and smiles walking up to him shaking his hand and pats him on the back slightly smacking a water balloon onto his back.Laughing abit after he does that.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 17:21:18 GMT -5
Quion anticipates this move. When they shake a powerful explosive dye spray knocks Shade back. Kell-Jylar and Chael Kahal look at each other meaningfully and smile as they riddle Quion and Shade with balloons. Handyman has had his fun and walks off with Viktor. Frank Brown and Rayzen focus on the Epitaph people.
Bombardi smiles. "We have to come up with better initiation rituals! Embarassment makes my eye smile!"
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 17:25:31 GMT -5
Shade blinks after getting knocked back from the explosion,getting hit with the water balloons thrown from Kell-Jylar and Chael Kahal.Wondering what Bombardi meant by embarassment...
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 17:27:22 GMT -5
Bombardi knows that look. "Oh, you know, carrot up your ass stuff."
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 17:31:13 GMT -5
Shade laughs slightly,wondering what time it is and if they were leaving yet.He looks around for his suit case and cleans the paint off of it.Asking "When does our trip start?" to one of the older members.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 17:39:33 GMT -5
Considering the speed at which everyone has been moving, it might be about two minutes. Sarashito is sitting down, laughing too hard to move. Quion takes out a sprinkler, with a chemical solvent that only takes off the paint. He then sits down next to Sarashito. "Where did you get your code name?", he asks.
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 18:22:56 GMT -5
Shade wonders when the Ranger's Wings will arrive and smiles, having never been on a airship before. "This vacations going to be fun." he says to himself as he sits back down on his suit case.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 18:25:45 GMT -5
Raysh comes up to Shade, her massive Bangaa body taking some of the sun. "Tell me about yourself, child."
Meanwhile, Sarashito shyly looks down and says, "It was given to me... by the United Nations Alter User Rehabilitation Program." Quion nods. "Let me guess: The only thing honest about that title was 'Alter User Program'." Sarashito nods. "My parents were doctors in the program, and they... let me be..." Quion puts his arm around her. "You don't need to talk about it. What kind of music do you like?"
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 18:30:43 GMT -5
Looks at Raysh and smiles "What would you like to know?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 18:32:44 GMT -5
"Whatever you think is important. People as young as you... you're scarcely older than my babies at home." She looks at her watch.
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 18:39:38 GMT -5
Shade nods "Well I've been a Orphan since My parents were killed."Sighs looking at the ground wishing he knew who killed them."I can also manipulate metal into different forms from what they were before, like my chains."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 18:41:58 GMT -5
"An orphan? I imagine given your abilities you took care of yourself. How did you become a Ranger?"
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 18:53:16 GMT -5
Shade nods, "I was a helper for a underground syndicate awhile ago,fighting in the ring for money and for their territory disputs for awhile.."sighs remembering the fights he had in there."I killed the syndicate leaders with a person called Shae..She helped me get here."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 8, 2006 18:57:07 GMT -5
"Shae has a very good heart. All of these children raised by the Old Guard... I'm amazed, I thought it'd go to their head, but they're very unpresumptous, very kind. You know she is here?"
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Post by reaperofshades on Jan 8, 2006 19:00:06 GMT -5
Shade blinks, having not known that Shae was here "She is?" he looks around, trying to spot her
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