main plot Rivers of Blood

[Grey Knight]

Light flared around Silphio, and he disappeared.

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The teleportation circle next to Zakora and Lusk flashed white, and Silphio materialized from golden light.

“Follow me,” the Space Marine said, turning around and stomping towards the door.

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Despite the chaos caused by the explosion of psychic energy, the Invincible Reason was still in the hands of the Dark Angels.

Azrael looked over a holo-pict of the Alleycity with his council. PlasmaCore was marked red in the center, like a bleeding wound in the heart of the city. Black Crusade bases were strung around it in a loose circle of Imperial blue. The areas controlled by the DA were unreadable, static-filled holes, with the biggest one representing the Worldspike. The quality of the holo got worse every second, thanks to the daemonic mist shrouding the city.

The door to the bridge opened, a Deathwing marine walking in with the Ghostblood representatives and, blessedly, Silphio.

Azrael nodded to Lusk, then Silphio. “Assassins. Chapter Master.”

@Nohadon @Sorana @I think I am here.

Edited May 13, 2019 by Grey Knight

[+Sorana she/her]

28 minutes ago, Grey Knight said:

Azrael nodded to Lusk, then Silphio. “Assassins. Chapter Master.”

Zokora bowed slightly.

"Thank you for your hospitalitay and the welcome."

What was his title, it had been written down in her folder. Hopefully he wasn't offended, by her leaving it away. She didn't add anything more, left the rest to Lusk as he outranked her.

@I think I am here.

[Nohadon he/him]

2 hours ago, Grey Knight said:

Azrael nodded to Lusk, then Silphio. “Assassins. Chapter Master.”

Silphio glanced at Lusk and Zokora, he was on crusade business here, his canton robe coloured black with the symbol of his chapter on it. Silphio smiled at Azreal.

"Azreal, how is it? I noticed the fog. It's covering the entire city, Send for my chapter and tell me what you need me to do.

Find your allies fast. You never know who will be the enemy. Accept that you don't hold all the cards and then find out who does. The Canton's forces are smaller, but are some of the best trained troops in the alleycity. If needed, send strike teams to secure the enemy strongholds. Get in, let hell rain loose and get out. Hit and Run guerrilla tactics is what will give the canton victory in a crisis event. The next part of the black book echoed in his mind. Silph was glad he read it. The advice it imparted to him was great.

I need to compile a list of threats, see where I need to be and in which order of priority. He thought to himself as he sent out a message to Astiel, letting him know to get back to Alleycity for what could be another war.

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Astiel received the message on his wrist communicator. He smiled as he observed the fog. His canton robe cut into the signature tassled design of a mistcloak as he shot into the air, scouting the city for threats.

[Grey Knight]

18 minutes ago, Nohadon said:

Silphio glanced at Lusk and Zokora, he was on crusade business here, his canton robe coloured black with the symbol of his chapter on it. Silphio smiled at Azreal.

"Azreal, how is it? I noticed the fog. It's covering the entire city, Send for my chapter and tell me what you need me to do.

"The Knights of Blood are gathered at the Canton," Azrael said, leaning over the holo-map. "Arm yourself for rapid assault. Rally the bases we have in the city, establish communications and perimeters. Then go in and slaughter every living thing around that building." His gauntlets clenched imperceptibly.  "PlasmaCore seems to think they've claimed the city. Dissuade them of that notion."

@Nohadon

[+Ark1002]

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Heh. This'll be fun.

The woman shook her head. "This isn't a rifle. This is a magical weapon designed to slaughter."

She waved her hand, and the requested paint entered the room.

"The weapon literally fires death, fire, and explosions."

@Dr. Dapper

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

13 minutes ago, Ark1002 said:

"The weapon literally fires death, fire, and explosions."

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So, it’s a rocket launcher?

By the way Ark, what exactly is that armor. I would ask you at school, but I have a doctors appointment. I need to know so I can rp it.

 

[+Ark1002]

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It's got small power armor-ish functions, minorly strengthening and speeding you up, but more importantly it's made of heartstone, therefore invincible.

It's weakspots are in the joints, which are just steel. Allso, the face is open.

@Darth Woodrack

[Grey Knight]

12 minutes ago, Ark1002 said:

It's got small power armor-ish functions, minorly strengthening and speeding you up, but more importantly it's made of heartstone, therefore invincible.

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That... seems OP. Have you gotten that stuff checked with the mods?

 

Edited May 13, 2019 by Grey Knight

[+Ark1002]

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It's only for main plot, and in the main plot I'm allowed to create boss entities

Dapper please respond

@Dr. Dapper

Edited May 13, 2019 by Ark1002

[old man moomba he/him]

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I'm busy. 

Cakuin rolled her eyes, “I just told you. I can’t aim with big guns. Just because it’s a magic gun isn’t gonna change that. That’s not how aiming works.” she grabbed the paint and began painting the armor, “Now, if you have a smaller gun that does the same thing, sure, I’ll use that.”

Edited May 13, 2019 by Dr. Dapper

[Vargo Seldon he/him]

Stormbreaker and his men stormed up an avenue towards the source of the fog.  He looked around himself.  I he had to choose a team, this would be it.  Edalb and Hasharan were incredibly skilled, with a dozen of Hasharan's personally trained elites at their backs.  They would need some silent gatherers to infiltrate.  

He keyed a number on his diagram-phone (unhackable.  He's got some really twisted dreams to think up those things) and called a Silent Watcher team in.  He relayed orders while running, using the secret diagram-script of hand motions in front of the phone.  This would give the Watcher team his orders.  Each Silent Gatherer was highly trained by their Lurker masters in all forms of combat.  He'd send one of the best Watcher teams, commanded by Silent Gatherer Forel.  

He and his men stormed around a corner, shoving civilians out of the way in order to get to the crisis.  As they passed, Hasharan yelled at them to get inside and take cover.

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Forel leaned back against the wall, enjoying his off time in Fortress Eternal.  Then his diagram-phone buzzed.  "Aww storms, I've always wanted one of those," Terald, one of his men, said.  Forel gave him a dark look and said,

"You'll have to wait a little while longer.  We've got a mission.  In the Alleycity itself."  

"Really?  This may be it, maybe I'll finally rank up to Silent Watcher."

"Don't hold your breath," Forel muttered, "There's no opening yet.  There can only be 1,000 of us."

The piled into the Diagram-Viper, and hurtled toward's Alleycity at breakneck speed.  In the cabin of the ship, Forel briefed his men on the mission.

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It was a dark night, and the slowly spreading black fog obscured everything.  The Viper's computer, (Extremely advanced, per the diagram's instructions) was easily able to locate the epicenter.  Forel and his men readied for the jump, Aon's prepared.  

The filed out of the drop-ship one by one, Forel activating Aon Nae as they dropped.  With it, he was able to locate the exact spot.  Then each activated a modified Aon Edo that shielded them from sight as well as from harm.  They landed on the roof unharmed and undetected...

@Ark1002

Edited May 13, 2019 by Vargo Seldon

[+Ark1002]

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Many problems with that

1. It wouldn't be clear where the mist had come from
2. Tia cards were banned
3. The PlasmaCore roof is heavily protected, but I won't explain further until you fix the other problems

@Vargo Seldon

[Grey Knight]

12 minutes ago, Ark1002 said:

1. It wouldn't be clear where the mist had come from
2. Tia cards were banned

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1. It's pretty easy to find that out by talking to an NPC or taking a wild guess
2. I don't remember that ever happening. But I could have missed something way back, so maybe I'm wrong.

 

Edited May 13, 2019 by Grey Knight

[kenod]

4 minutes ago, Grey Knight said:

I don't remember that ever happening. But I could have missed something way back, so maybe I'm wrong.

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They got banned during the transition to era 3 (or at least their usage is discouraged/disapproved off by the mods). The main reasons are that they made plot hopping too easy, which created confusing messes, while also serving as a general get out of jail free card. There were also people who used them to insert themselves into random, plot relevant locations.

There's also the fact that the way Tia cards got used weren't possible, since Aon Tia is supposed to be relative to your current location, making it kind of hard to link them to a specific place instead. There's also the fact that people seemed to have Tia Cards for every conceivable location, no mater how plausible.

 

[Grey Knight]

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Ah, okay. Thanks for explaining.

 

[kenod]

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No problem.

Also, Ark, when is stuff going to get dangerous for the random people still on the street?

 

[Vargo Seldon he/him]

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Ok, it's fine.  I can use something other than a tia card.  I didn't know they were banned, I will change it.  

As for the other problems, The computer system for the Diagramists is extremely complex, created by direction from the Diagram.  It would be able to locate the epicenter, and even if it didn't they'd know that it originated from Plasmacore because of the orders from Stormbreaker.

Can't change things now but I will.

Edit:  Edited

@Ark1002

Edited May 13, 2019 by Vargo Seldon

[+Ark1002]

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49 minutes ago, kenod said:

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No problem.

Also, Ark, when is stuff going to get dangerous for the random people still on the street?

 

It'll be... interesting this part

But not super high casualty rates.

Next phase, there will be verrrrry high death rates

Thousands of bullets shot from the sides. The machine guns pulsed with aonic light, and blasts of fire and plasma joined them.

A ground to air missile flew towards the drop ship, aons pulsing on the sides to stop it from being hit.

Five dark spren, the variety dubbed "vulturespren", emerged. They were humanoid, with vulture wings and head, but made of dark energy. Whoever they touched fell to pieces, their skin and muscle melting off their body. It quickly became a violent slaughter.

@Vargo Seldon

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

19 hours ago, Emperor Stick said:

RaiSeel rang the doorbell at Tena's house. She was pretty sure she was at the right house, after all, sixth time's the charm.

@Sherlock Holmes

Tena opened the door and let the new person in. She knew this one to be RaiSeel. Rial kept trying to call Deteca.

@Emperor Stick @AonEne

[overlord stick]

“What in the rusting damnations is going on in the sky? I-“ RaiSeel noticed Tena’s daughter “Rusts, I didn’t mean to curse in front of- agh! Sorry, what’s going on?!”

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[xinoehp512 he/him]

20 minutes ago, Ark1002 said:

Thousands of bullets shot from the sides. The machine guns pulsed with aonic light, and blasts of fire and plasma joined them.

A ground to air missile flew towards the drop ship, aons pulsing on the sides to stop it from being hit.

Five dark spren, the variety dubbed "vulturespren", emerged. They were humanoid, with vulture wings and head, but made of dark energy. Whoever they touched fell to pieces, their skin and muscle melting off their body. It quickly became a violent slaughter.

@Vargo Seldon

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Instant death? Do they have some sort of weakness? And what is this dark energy that they are made out of?  Is it the Void? How does it work? How was it made? What variety of spren is spying on people?

 

[+Ark1002]

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23 minutes ago, Emperor Stick said:

“What in the rusting damnations is going on in the sky? I-“ RaiSeel noticed Tena’s son “Rusts, I didn’t mean to curse in front of- agh! Sorry, what’s going on?!”

daughter.

14 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said:

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Instant death? Do they have some sort of weakness? And what is this dark energy that they are made out of?  Is it the Void? How does it work? How was it made? What variety of spren is spying on people?

 

Instant-ish. Yes, they have weaknesses to silver, aluminum, and water. They're spren. It's investiture. It's just colored that way. I can't tell you that. The spying spren is Shadowspren.

 

[xinoehp512 he/him]

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Why can't you tell me?

Also, are you sure about instant death? That is very powerful, and I would rather not have to come up with weak explanations for why you aren't killing our characters.

 

[+Ark1002]

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Plot purposes

There is seven, and they stay there

 

[Vargo Seldon he/him]

 

50 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said:

 

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These aren't characters, they're NPC's, so yeah it would probably be instant death.  

 

54 minutes ago, Ark1002 said:

 

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But still, these are ten highly-trained secret agents who have years of experience on missions.  Even with the amount of defense, it is still very unlikely that you would get all of them.  I'll move them though since it's for plot purposes, and have some of them die.  

Terald, Forel's second, cried out in alarm as the roof lit up with defenses.  He was the first to fall.  Hails of bullets raked down him and two Silent Shadows just before Forel got the Aonic shield up.  He pulled out the diagram-phone and quickly signaled Stormbreaker (he'd had his personal number for this mission) that the operation was going sideways.  

And indeed it was.  The Aonic shield was already starting to crack, and the Viper drop-ship was taking too much fire to pull them out.  Storms, Forel thought, I've led my team into a death-trap.  The roof was quite flat, with no cover whatsoever.  The only thing they could do was make cover.

Forel motioned for a surviving member, Hiyon, to take Aon Daa.  Hiyon used the Aon to throw a streamlined blast of investiture at a turret, providing an opening for the team.  They ran for it, dashing past the melted turret and over the side of the roof.  One of the Silent Lurkers was taken down by an errant ball of plasma as he jumped, his melted carcass falling many stories down.  The rest of them were rescued by the badly damaged viper, which limped about 20 blocks to the north, then crashed in fiery wreckage.  

@Ark1002

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Stormbreaker listened to the transmission in disbelief.  One of his best Watcher teams had failed.  Not only failed, but half of their members were killed.  They were stranded in the streets, their Viper drop-ship shot down.  

The Diagram had anticipated this, but had failed to warn them of the power that Plasmacore had.  He'd need the rest of his guild, plus government backing if he would do this.  The most important thing was to contact Great Guilds that had resources and money to help them.  The Ghostbloods were allied with him, and most certainly out here somewhere.  He needed a much more solid plan.