cxtwo
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Post by cxtwo on Apr 12, 2007 7:50:22 GMT -5
Who me fragged up. Can't say I remember it all omea. But I sure I had a good time. I aways do. Chuck grins.You guys have any idea what she wants with us? I'm a bit like a fish out of water in a place like this. Looking around with a bit a wonder in his eyes.
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Post by wolflet59 on Apr 12, 2007 18:32:55 GMT -5
Lovely to see you all here - this is a meeting of the Freinds of the Fortneum Times, I have the pleasure of showing you all what the Times covers, if you are not already a subscriber.
Our aim is to bring to the world the strange and uncanny natural phenomenon that persist but do not make general newsworthy items.
For instance back in 2000 plagues of frogs in S America, the cat-faced lady of the Honduras.. 2010 people started disbelieving - the first VITAS plague that killed over 3 billion people We diddnt cover the crash of 2011 - but we did cover the North Sea Disaster that wiped out most of the 'high Germanies' and the British Earthquake disasters...
CLIK
Sattelite footage of the flooding - you can see that the sea area is whipped up by a four week storm, driving the sea south towards the heavily inhabited North coast of Europe..
The rest is history.
Every city, state country and continent has suffered enormous casualties over the last forty years.
But the overwhelming evidence is that the corps are responsible for -
have a guess - no not most of it, no not even half, your guess of 20% is closer.
We recon that the corp domination is responsible for around 10% and that is a maximum, 10% of deaths due to their poor practices.
The rest is alluded to natural phenomenom. Oh, including 2017 when the Ghost Dance is regarded as the reason for the eruptions and the subsequent occupation of NAN lands.
This is where we come in. Natural and unnatural phenomenon reports are what makes this paper roll. We need the reports and the foto proof that these things do occurr - they are not just the brainchild of corp wars to cover up some poxy takeover, but real unnatural happenings, that cannot be dealt with by security forces.
This is where you come in, youve all been through an incident, we would like to employ you as journalists in order to record the truth that is out there.
Ona freelance contract you can report to us as and when you wish, we back the winners.
Most institutions can provide information, that is what we can provide - but we have been gathering this since the late 1970s. You want phenomenon, we got it, where most others missed out, or couldnt be bothered, strangely.
I am sorry to say that we can provide little else apart from information, and that has been subject to personal scruitiny..
...yes, that means you do not have acces to all of our datafiles, as much has been lost and may...
...no it doesnt mean we have frag-all..
...no we are not corporate stooges ether..
a yellow flag drops from the ceiling...
most of you draw and assume defensive positions
Illiya walks forward
You have all already passed the test, please shoot the assassin behind the flag ....
she waits while you alll do so, the figure with the telescopic....
Please stop - you have done enough to hold onto a core belief that the Fortean times is not the place for you , and you have rejected our crap/stupid... no, feeble attempts to persuade you into our ranks.
Thank you for your cooperation, you will be able to hold onto your core belief that the Times is just a vehicle for your own misplaced stupidity, thousands do..!
CLIK..the footage of bug extermination, clips of humans flying down from walls, or appearing in a mist stop.
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Post by Crimson D on Apr 12, 2007 19:11:42 GMT -5
Leaving his car a few streets over and a watcher in record and playback mode Shade enters only a few moments before Illiya does her thing. His friendliness is no where in sight. He looks tired and aged. He gives the weakest of hellos to anyone who acknowledges him. Anyone who asks why he looks so bad he simply and only replies "Training." He has arrived completely unarmed. No guns, swords, or foci. He turns his cellphone off when asked. He smells nice though. Like dryer sheets.
Shade spent his week removing the arua from his sword and gulping over the counter mini stims. Coffee, caffeine pills and energy drinks, spending mind numbing amounts of hours homing his old style. In the few days he trained his celling is full of scratches and he needs a new couch. He could train outside at night in his tiny back yard when no one would see him.
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Post by wolflet59 on Apr 12, 2007 20:34:25 GMT -5
Illiya has now impressed on you all how important the Fortean Times is from a reporting point of view, and that it is no way attached to any corp holdings, the yellow flag and the impression of an assassin are more important - leaving you with the idea that the Times is a dangerous place and you need out..
FORTUNATELY, you have survived and no longer wish to partake with this presentation, you want to immediately vacate the area...[/color]
a set of sliding wall-pannells shifts swooshingly apart in the side wall - to create a larger conference area..
It is noticable that 95% of information is visual, and the remaining 5% is merely a reminder of your impression.. please... follow me..
The conference area is bleak, oatmeal walls compared to the red chinese decoration, bland , plain, unassuming... the walls are drawn back as if bloting out your earlier Fortean Times introduction.
One of the dozen or so people arranged around the other tables point to and usher you to individual tables - six tables in all - two to four of you each at each table ... Illiya refuses to speak if approached - she hangs her head and avoids your gaze...
It is obvious that the mages from the recent scrap with the wraith are all seated at one table, the non-mages from the same at another, there are also others who you do not recognise, seating themselves at other tables... each has a zedball - a white noise generator, fuzzing at the table.
Psychological tricks, sorry for that, but now you know what the world knows about us, now we would like to tell you what we do... it will take a while, if anyone has any objections, you are free to leave, - put it this way noone has left so far as we tend to be more interesting than dangerous, though that has put people off too... but we have tended to stay to tell you what we know...
All the fraggin crap you have heard about the corps is probably true, they lie, cheat, kill and twist anything that aint in their way of thinking.
Guys, if youve got an Eco-Corps vendetta, then we cant help you, trouble between humes is fraggin politiks, yeah, covers NAN, hume, elf, meta or any of us guys... - wanna blow someone away? well then we wont interfere, unless there are paras involved.. someone sometime has to take care of the real people, black white green pink, but people, not paras... parasites
Fortean investigates all sorts of paranormal activities, and over the last few years, the paranormal have been growing. we dont just want people , we need people to put a stop to the flow of parasites on the sapien race.. and that includes all of you guys, if you aint a parasite, you are welcome..
Ghouls ? human flesh eaters- parasites with compassion - deserve to starve themselves through denying themselves human flesh - human, no - just a thinking parasite in a human body, same as bug trans - transformed bug-humans, feeding off humans an metas alike. Youve seen some HUD footage from the KE assault in Chicago.. ?
Theres more out there than any one nation can keep a tab on.. there are outbursts all over the place, like the skin of the world is erupting with pus from within...
Were not interested in putting the world of M.E.N to rights - and that means MEta humaN people, but not the parasites that feed on us...
Now, if you were ghoul, you will be happy to know we will exterminate you without predjudice, as you can only survive by consuming human flesh.. any undead will have been culled before enterin here, with predjudice. Bugs too in trans shape..
Which is where you all come into the organisation...
You mages - if you got the power to link we can link you if you wish - you will need to ally yourself to this cause - to remove the parasites to humanity where they arise..
On the other tables - You sammies, we can take you through an intensive training for three days to get you up to scratch to identify the 'enemy'.
Remember, we have remained neutural during any corp wars, we do not take sides regarding politiks...
You got to think what you may have to give up in order to tap into what we have available. We are giving you two weeks to think about it. We do not interfere in internicene violence, we will not be able to resolve human-meta conflict, we are here as a background shield to paras taking hold..
Which organisation alerted the world to the Brotherhood.. only one that could cut across all strata of society and men.
You got yourselves an invite because you did it all of your own bat - we can help - or you can keep on fighting the good fight all by yourselves... up to you folk..
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Post by wolflet59 on Apr 12, 2007 20:55:56 GMT -5
You got a choice folks - you leave, and the most you recall is a corp presentation amidst plush surroundings of general info on the Times... then some bland geezer farting o about some kinda world crap...
Or you are a mage and have recently aquired a bundle of ticks for fighting the good fight against a wraith and the elementals, in which case you are invited to a weekend's worth of intensive study...
Or you are not magically inclined and are also invited to a different weekend's worth of training.
I will assume that this will be taken up. I will now send out PMs to each person who has already taken part earlier. Those who wish to join the current run, will also have been invited because of their recent determination in dealing out a blow or two for their own freedom, but they will not have any invite to anything further yet. Maybe youve got to prove yourselves....
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Post by Braddoc on Apr 12, 2007 21:16:53 GMT -5
Four-eyes listened to the presentation, but his mind wandered off here and there, mostly because it was too..'boardroom' for his tastes. sure it was interesting to know that the Fortean Times got a crapload in info on everything and everything else the others were not even daring glancing at, but..too much blablabla for his tastes.
Then, yellow flag, his hand reach out for his weapon, half taking it out of the comfy hoslter...Huh..just a flag..'least th'Elf sounds pleased 'bout it Then came the assassin note. Others were firing through the flag, but that little voice inside Four-eyes head blocked him form doing so. He rolled away from the table, taking his Deputy a bit more out from under his suit jacket..nothing! The Flag was just hanging there, noone behind, not even something, anything.
Then the wall moved, he turned quickly, to the most generic room he ever saw in a while. holstering back his gun, he took a seat with Peaches, Thunder and Chuck, listening to the real deal..training, protecting the world from the shadows of it all, 'pretty interesting to him..not to mention they had information, quite rare to get some good information this day and age without having to pay for it..even if you did pay for it, chances are it wasn't even good.
At least this deal was. "Sounds good to me lady....I also got some unfinished business with you, but I suppose that can be moved to after, or later?"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2007 22:46:21 GMT -5
Fartouch sits a little apart from everyone not really knowing anyone, pulls his long coat a little tighter just to check on his knife and predator is still in place, the shades he wears used to hide his searching eyes,studying everyones body language, at the same time paying attention to what is being said. and one hand is always near the knife at least,,not really nervous just being prepared, the rest of the cloths he wear seems to fit in with the current fashion,,but nothing that really stands out
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Post by wolflet59 on Apr 12, 2007 23:18:04 GMT -5
Fartouch sits a little apart from everyone not really knowing anyone, pulls his long coat a little tighter just to check on his knife and predator is still in place, the shades he wears used to hide his searching eyes,studying everyones body language, at the same time paying attention to what is being said. and one hand is always near the knife at least,,not really nervous just being prepared, the rest of the cloths he wear seems to fit in with the current fashion,,but nothing that really stands out (OOC Wolflet Say... Yum..what are you thinking of next.. good juicy posts leading you to ....? You can move things forward if you feel they become static... you are already looking at plusses for eloquence.. not much to tell you now, you are given the opportunities.. (see your own posts) though also observe the replies...
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meg
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Post by meg on Apr 13, 2007 0:05:10 GMT -5
Where do you draw a line...? very hard. Who is trying to become a part of society? Well in a few years any metahuman should. but those who cant live off a veggie diet? Ghouls that live off human flesh - as a preference - sod that, I dont want to be eaten.
They have a yearning for flesh, I have kids, would I let one of them look after my kids - not a fraggin chance - elves, orcs dwarves centaurs or bloody mushrooms, but not ghouls no way should these things remain in 'human' society - nobody else eats their neighbour as preference.
Options..? exterminate them just as you would some vile shite that killed your kids. ghouls just have to keep on eating... no mercy, wipe em out.
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cxtwo
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Post by cxtwo on Apr 13, 2007 1:18:18 GMT -5
Well new skills and some training sound good to me. As for the ghoul thing, if the pay is right I'm in. Chuck looks around.Never meet a ghoul before. Don't know if they are parasites or not. Don't care. They try to eat me or mine then they get the axe. That said with a big grin
But I've got to make a living. What kind of pay or other help can we expect. I don't got that magic stuff. I need to get my hands on stuff. And have to make the cred to get it. Chuck looks around. You wants us to work on a bounty for ears, teeth, eyes or tongues. I can do that. I can be a night hunted.
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Post by Angel on Apr 13, 2007 2:02:19 GMT -5
When the yellow flag drops, Angel opts not to kill the assassin, but uses her mind magic to pick up a chair and fling it at the target, if no one else kills the assassin first.
Angel considers her position on ghouls. She'd never gone up against one yet, but she'd heard stories about how nasty they were. "How could they be human?" Angel asks.
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Post by Crimson D on Apr 13, 2007 8:17:49 GMT -5
Shade's voice is low and weak. It more truly shows he's running on fumes. Not tired enough to crush his pride, that at least still rings true in his voice. He reaches for a ash tray.
"In my years of investigating street crime I have seen undead aftermath. It's never pretty. I've seen ghouls. They hunt in party's. They didn't ask to be ghouls. They didn't ask to crave human flesh. Killing them is merciful... in my mind. If you've never seen a ghoul or a vampire consider yourself lucky. I was smart enough to run. Never try fighting them even if it is one on one... trust me."
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Post by scawire on Apr 13, 2007 20:31:38 GMT -5
After sitting back and listening to the talk Micro knows there is a lot to this stuff. He only got to hear a bit about it at collage but the stuff was cool and dangerous. What Micro knows about the paranormal tells him these ghouls and undead are bad news and the better you know your enemy the more likly you get to come home at night.
"I'm in. I've only heard a bit about Ghouls at collage but I know they are not something you want eatting your flesh, If they want human food I'll feed them some lead for there belly instead. Lets see if we can put a dent into these human eatting parasites activities." Micro sits back in his chair and streches after the long talk. "This is going to be a great week of learning. This may just be what I need to get the power in magic I'm after." Micros thoughts start to drift to how fun learning about his magic was, and how this will now help make sure that quest for more mystical power doesn't end too soon.
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Post by bythtron on Apr 14, 2007 1:52:15 GMT -5
*looks at the group* I am in someone has to drive most of you to places. And it seemes i will be the one. *he wasn't about to leave them hanging high and dry.*
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Post by Crimson D on Apr 15, 2007 1:35:59 GMT -5
"Ghouls don't hunt because they want to. They hunt because we force them. If people's thinking about them would change they would be very productive in our society." Shade flicks his cig while talking and takes a hit. "Since people won't change their thinking however, I am forced to protect ignorant." Shade smokes again but can feel the eyes upon himself. "I meant society, not you guys." Shade smokes again. "Count me in."
The last run in truth wasn't a problem for Shade. Ghouls were living beings, Shade's line he walked got a lot thiner in an instant.
((Wolf - how many units of what did I get from my share of the loot?))
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