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OK,Shrout, once again Shade is here to save bargoers from boredom. Firstly, everyone who stayed on Earth is dead, because I exploded the Moon to kill off all the blockade drones. But hey, let's say I evacuated you all with a Spatial Nexus or something. Secondly, everyone is now enjoying themselves in a bar on Osiris. The change of scenery won't last long however. Here goes!
The bargoers are buisily enjoying themselves in a shiny, spotless bar on Osiris, having rounds of drinks and putting them on the tabs of long-dead UE officers the Osirans have never heard of, putting Fuzzes into the toilets, laughing drunkenly at each other, and generally having fun. Except for Shade, because he doesn't drink alcohol much at all, and in the party of life he's always in the kitchen, which is where he is now, mixing drinks for people. So Shade is the only one who notices when the air above the counter shimmers and a small, glossy black thing falls out of the air and goes plink as it hits the counter. The device is about the size of a clenched fist, and covered in little bumps and grooves. A small red light is glowing at one end. Before Shade can do anything about it, however, OV drunkenly picks it up and starts playing catch with Autonav. The device goes plink plink plink ploink and bursts in OV's hands. Sickly greenish gas floods out, filling the bar in horrible-smelling clouds. In a few seconds, everyone is out cold They wake in a series of dark metal cells, with the guts of life-support machinery writhing across the walls. Whoever captured them has confiscated all weaponry, but they didn't seem to notice Shade's kinetic powers, and he easily breaks open the hatch in the ceiling. As there's no gravity Shade manages to float up and out of the cell. Either they're on a very primitive space station, or someone has purposefully turned off the gravity in this area of the station. Inset in the wall is a flickering map terminal; it reveals a map of the station. Council Station
(Remember, the rules I set down last time we did something similar, in Bakoom Bar, still apply. That means no solving the situation in a single post, and no weapons of infinite destruction. Even my kinetic powers have been toned down by contact with the gas)
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Grundy is startled and looks around. "Kitty? Kcat?!?! No!"Grundy runs down a hall. He looks up to see a glass window. It is serparating space and the station. Grundy backs up and trips on something on the ground. It is small, black, glossy, and has a green light that has alien writing above them. He returns to the group. "Hey Shade, whats this say?"He points to the writing.
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OV floats out of his cell, "ugh my head.... I'm never drinking and playing catch again"
OV floats to Autonav and helps him out. "Anyone missing?"
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Jess groans and opens one eye. '****, I've woken up in a few cells before, but nothing like this....' She looks around, and seeing shade, tries to float in his general direction. Outside thir cell the corridor is long and featureless, grey metal stretching out on both sides as far as she can see. She looks over Shade's shoulder at the map of the station. The corridor spirals inwards towards the centre of the station, but it's a long way. And I don't see any air conditioning ducts.
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U.E. Admiral floats up and out and follows Shade slowly through the corridors while looking for things we can use as effective weapons. when a guard spots him. thinking quickly he rips out a pipe from the wall beside him and hammers the guard on the head.(the pipe snaps in two doing no aparent damage to the guard) "what the hell!!!!!!!" the guard then escorts him down the hall towards the cells. U.E. Admiral thinks real hard as if to yell help hopeing Shade can hear his thoughts.
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Payback sits in his cell, rocking and singing, waiting for someone in his party to free him.
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Crocix is slepping...
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OV pulls payback out and wakes crocix up. "Shall we get out of here?"
Crocix says:"All rigth, but don't wake me up again like that! Where we have to go now?"
Unfortunately for U.E. Admiral, Shade is not telepathic, so he is dragged back to the cells. Hey, you brought it on yourself. Shade looks at the thing Grundulater's picked up. "I dunno, that's a very old version of Crescent Standard." he says, peering at it. "Something egg?"-I'm not quite sure here- "Do not something or expose to something, looks like "Payback". Weird. Well, crack it open and take a look inside, but keep it away from Payback, we don't know what could happen." On the wall, breaking the monotony of the grey corridor, is a carved mural etched onto the wall. Jess is looking at it, puzzled. "Hey Shade, what's this mean?" she asks. Shade floats over to it and examines the mural. It shows three figures looking similar to the Strands, under which is several lines of text in the same alien alphabet. "Hummmm well, that's pretty definitely "Oiseau", he was one of the co-founders of the Council. So that must be Isouae, the second co-founder, and that's Uisaeo, the third co-founder. Underneath it the text reads "In the somethingth orbit of the planet Gadzair around it's sun, the three somethings united to something and have something against the something Gadzair." Odd. Hummm, Oiseau's eyes are set with amethysts, Isouae's are emeralds, and Uisaeo's eyes are some kind of orangey agate. I wonder what that means?" The group sets off down the corridor, and soon comes to an area which is gold- plated. It's also got gravity, so everyone falls to the floor with a bump. In the resulting pile of bodies, Shade notices a small hatch set into the floor, engraved with the words "Something emergency storage something." Cracking it open, Shade finds a small container 1 foot square. Carefully secured to a packet on the bottom is a row of several dozen large pills, ranging in colour from lime-green or deep violet to orange-red or yellow. Shade opens the packet, selects a shiny light blue one, and swallows it. "Ak, yukky taste." he says. Then his eyes begin to glow a radiant blue colour
Grundy tries to break the thing, but it won't crack. After getting mad and slamming it against a wall, he gives up and walks over to Shade. "You don't look so good. And by the way, are there any instructions on how to open the thing on here?"Grundy holds up the thing and Shade's eyes stop glowing. "Ermmm... nope, sorry." Grundy sighs and throws the thing behind him. He hears someone yell. "Owwww, my head!" "Sorry OV."
Payback follows the group around, stomach grumbling the entire way. When the pills are found, he cries out, "Awesome! I'm starving!" and pops a maroon pill before anyone mentions Shade's glowing eyes. His eyes begin glowing a deep red, sort of like Shade's. Then he sees Shade, mutters something about it being cool, and loses consciouness....sort of.
He falls to the floor, but catches himself before landing with a very uncharacteristic grace. He begins to babbles in a very weird language, something that may possibly be a Crescent derivative. He abruptly stops and screams, red light spewing out of his mouth and nose as well, now. He collapses to the floor, rises back to his knees, and shakes his head.
"Whoa, that was cool. I feel better now." But when he looks up, his irises are still deep red......
Shade's eyes resume their glowing, and he speaks. His voice is now strangely echoey and dark. "Bring that back here." he commands, and Grundulater runs off to pull it out of the dent it's made in OV's skull. Taking it from Grundulater, Shade examines the writing, and translates; "Anti-Retroviral Stasis Capsule (Type 42: Designed by the Raiog indigenous species to fight Us). Do not activate or allow the "Payback" incarnation of the Raiog Messiah to activate." Shade's eyes temporarily cease glowing, and he speaks in a normal voice. "Ever visited the Raigar system, north of Podzag?" he asks. "It's got one horrible little moon, named Raiog, which was once home to an indigenous race. Obviously they developed this thing"- he points to the pod in Grundulater's hands- "To fight off the Council ground troops. Did I mention how much that hurt when you flashed it in my eyes?" Shade then stalks off down the corridor, black cloak swirling around him. Everyone else follows, and soon they come to a guard, leaning against the golden wall. He is holding something like a sleek, black-and-gold rifle. Seeing them approach, the guard raises his weapon. His eyes glow a faint green-brown in the bright lights. "Nobody is to exit the prison area." he says in a voice which is less echoey than Shade's. "By edict of the Council." Shade angrily points to him, palm outwards. A beam of glowing blue light shoots from Shade's open palm, hitting the guard in the chest. Blue sparks crawl over his body. "I am Shade." Shade growls. "I am the Shadow on the Sun! Who are you to question me?" The guard anxiously gets back to his feet. "I am sorry, my lord." he stutters. "I did not realise-" Shade his him again with the blue light, and they carry on. As soon as the bargoers are past the guard, the blue glow fades from Shade's eyes. "Well, that was easy enough." he says in a normal voice. "Anyone else want some of this stuff? I've got a whole pocket full of those pills."
Then,noticing that Payback has also taken one of the pills, Shade's eyes resume their glowing, and he hits Payback in the face with a blue beam. The sparks crackle over Payback's face, and when they fade, his irises are not maroon but white. "Sorry about that, Payback." Shade says in a normal voice, "But I'm pretty sure you don't want to die just yet." "But how would eating one of those pills kill him?" Grundulater asks. "He is the Raiok Messiah." Shade's voice resume's it's echoey quality. "Created by the Raiog to bring ultimate destruction upon the Gadzair race. Since his first incarnation, the Council has sought to destroy him."
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Autonav rushes to catch up with the group. "Hey, Shade, could ya' toss me wonna those pills?" Shade removes one of the capsules from his pocket and throws it to Autonav. "Gee, thanks, I..." Autonav's speech is interrupted by the pill's effects. He begins to shake violently and a navy blue light erupts from his eyes. "Ehh...Ack!" he exclaims, and returns to normal. "Well that was...uh, shall we call it: fun?" And his feet cease to touch the floor as he walks...
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What the hell Jess thinks as she selects an orange-yellow pill. A funny tingling sensation comes over her, and her eyes start to glow like everyone else's, but apart from that she feels no different.
"No way am I taking one of those things. Not with the pain i'm in. Painkiller would be nice though."
Suddenly Jess screams and falls to the ground. Everyone runs torwards her to see that the glow is brighter than any of the others. They wait to see if she gets up like the rest, but she just lies there........
Payback shakes his head. He barely even remembers getting out of his cell. He enjoyed sitting, rocking, and singing more than this. His vision is a bit blurry, and he remembers something blue hitting him in the head, but doesn't recall why it did or what happened to him because of it. Oh well. He supposed that since he's a long way from any bar, he'll just around with the group until he gets a chance to drink away his troubles.
Shrout1 suddenly blinks in out of nothingness - returning from a failed, weekend long attempt to download the StarCraft demo. Well, too bad. Anyway, He notices that his really cool rifle is gone - "Shucks!" he says. He also notices people popping pills left and right and glowing. "Well, thanks but no thanks, drugs weren't ever my thing." Anyway, Shrout1 would still seem to have in his possesion his Magnetically contained black hole. It's not a weapon, right? He hands it to OV and tells him to hold on for a second. He hands OV an earpiece then he opens the black hole container and hops in. Inside is a luxurious mansion with a viewscreen that shows all that is occuring in the outside world. There are nice fluffy recliners, surround sound, and maybe even some popcorn. Shrout1 settles in to watch the rest of the adventure. If he needs to communicate with anyone, he'll talk to OV. He can also get in and out at any time with his encrypted transponder, sending the order to open the black hole.
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Shade slaps Payback around the head. "Get up, you fool! You are the Raiog Messiah! You cannot just sit there!" He then walks over to look down at Jess' crumpled form. "Did anyone catch what colour pill she took?" he asks in a normal voice. "Ummm, yellowish, I think." OV answers. "Drat and blast!" Shade curses. His eyes resume their glowing. "She took an Igadzra pill." He says. "As the core Igadzra retrovirus is controlled by Uisaeo, a co-founder of the Council and the Council member generally accepted to have founded the Igadzra, we have a problem. At worst, she is now controlled directly by Uisaeo. At best, she's now as suspicious and paranoid as any Igadzra." "But she's just lying there doing nothing." Grundulater says. "We shall have to wait until she wakes up, I suppose. OV, thankyou for volunteering to carry her." "What?" OV is obviously still somewhat dazed from being hit in the head by the Anti-Retroviral Stasis Capsule (Type 42: Designed by the Raiog indigenous species to fight Us). "I said, you have been volunteered, man!" Shade snaps. "Now stop doing nothing and start carrying, OK?"
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