Robot Rapture (sign up) - A Halcyon Power Game

[/)eathKiller]

"See the ammunition clips work in a self contained system, only a person witht he approved Gene Code can hold them, They stick them in the gun and it then slides through completley feeding the bullets in at a hypervelocity rate through an interdimensional wormhole which only spans a few inches but still makes it impossible to extract the bullets within the clip otherwise, then it nukes itself so no one can touch them" the man spoke with a gentle voice... He seemed to be ignoring the question as to who or even what he was, rather changing the subject to talk about his weaponry... His eyes were closed, it was pretty obviouse he was focused on something... The wind blew his silvery grey hair about. He looked up at Robert with a smile on his face, his eyes a little teary... "I haven't been home in so long..." He took a deep breath, then seemed to shake a little, touching his hand to the ground... He felt about the gravel with his fingers... then in a fit of rage lifted up his weapon and fired bursts of bullets into the closest lifeless husk by him "DAMN YOU!!!" he shouted making his voice echo off into the distance... Robert knew this was probably going to alert more robots...

[SomeGuy]

Robert was silent. He had no idea what to say or even do. The man's weapon system was so different then those he had ever seen. He was fascinated. "WHere is your home...?" asked Robert suddenly, sympathy in his tone. "And also... do you know anything about these robots..?"

[/)eathKiller]

"everywhere is my home... but this is where I was born..." He said cringing, then he turned and gave a violent stare at Robert "Where did everyone go?! and how are you still alive?!" He looked at the Robert's outfit... "Does your place have security cameras?"

[SomeGuy]

Robert gave him a blank stare. "Does Best Buy have security cameras!? What kinda stupid question is that! Of course we do! Dude you can BUY security cameras there too." he said walking towards the abandoned building. "As for.. where the people went... I.. don't know.. I don't even know why I live now."

[/)eathKiller]

The man grabbed Robert's arm and dragged him into the building, he tore the door the the security room off its hinges, fired an odd weapon in a few times which made electric sparks bounce around, an odd whirring sound mmited and smoke burst from the opening. He walked in and sat down, odd tentacles lifted up from the Grey-haired man's kneck and plugged themselves itnot he console while Rober sat and watched, awestruck as the small screens started to rewind without any controlls being hit, They continued to rewind father and farther back... They went back hours, days! Finally stopping 5 days ago. The numbers faded away and brough up the image of happy shoppers, walking around the isles, everything was plentiful, The man pressed his hand to the screen and as if by magic the image exploded in a holographic display around him. "Zoom" he commanded, and the hologram showed the news scroller from the bigscreen TV of 5 days ago. He stopped it "Solar Flares may cause machines to break down" He paused and stared at his for a while, then fast forwareded 2 days ahead. Stopping again on the words "Solar Flares"... This time it read "Solar flares are causing cellular break down in communication, it is as if Japan has gone off the map. He fast forwarded again, to yesterday "Odd signals detected comming from Asia, not normal communication, scientists predict it is distorted cellular signals as Hong Kong and Tokyo attempt to use their Cellular software but it fails...." Again he fastforwarded "These signals have been slowly spreading, like a virus, across the mainland, passing over water, and even effecting Hawaii which has now blacked out. Scientists are baffled as to why contact with Hawaii has been lost, due tot he fact that the Solar Flares have long since ended..." And once again... To just a few hours before today began... "It is belived that these blackouts are not of cellular technology, but of Human lives, We cannot tell but it is as if something has replaced every man, woman, and child, int he San Fernando area, they are not acting like humans but rather respond like machines. Authorities have ordered a complete evacuation of the West Coast, and a Quaranteen of all states west of Las Vegas, which too has experienced a complete cellular shortage." He then fastforwaded to this morning "All of the people in Europe has Dissapeared, we still do not know what happened to the human-like machines... Dissapearances have not stopped and are continuing to spread..." And then to just a few hours ago, he zoomed out the camera, and what he saw was a slaughterhouse... All of the people in the Best Buy were being carved up by large metalic arms and robotic equipment, and then suddenly the store appeared cleaned up... And then the tape went dead...

The man leaned back and the tentacle retracted, he turned and looked at Robert. "The solar flares caused man's creations to stop serving man, and to start serving themselvs, just like how life on Earth was brought by the Sun, it seems life was brough to these machines from the same source... I can't explain it... but it seems that our creations are about to take us over, and they cleaned up the planet too...They're aware that they didn't kill everyone, and I think they know about the interdimensional society, They know we'll send more... All they'd have to do is kill one of us, and examine our technology... and then the hundred earths, like this world, AND ALL worlds, would be doomed...

The man stood up and walked out of the door, then he continued into the parking lot... "I have to alert the others! Take this!" With that he dissapeared and threw a gun at Rober's feet who had been following him closley, it was the odd rappid-fire weapon he'd used earlier in the same parking lot... Suddenly robert noticed something was wrong... The Metal husks that had once taken up the entire parking lot were gone... Did the man not notice that?! The bullet-riddled metal bodies had been taken away!? But by what force??... Suddenly Robert heard the Familiar sound again, comming from the trees behind the forested area behind the Best Buy...

[SomeGuy]

Robert quickly picked up the gun with his free hand. He still had the guitar and placed it down, decided he'd use it if he had too. He looked towards the area where the sound seamed to be comming from and readied the gun.

[ 10-29-2003, 06:16 PM: Message edited by: SomeGuy ]

[/)eathKiller]

The sound was interupted by the screams of a man! Robert quickly rushed acrosst he parking lot toward the trees, suddenly, a man wearing a bright orange cloake and garbed in armor very similar to the last man Robert had seen, only brown, flew out from between two trees backward and landed on his odly shaped hemlpet, he then flipped upside down... His weapon which was at his side burst into flames, meanwhile the rest of his body continued to lay there unharmed... an electronic voice began to speak up... "Life Signs Unstable, Calculating best course of action... action selected... Full Dimensional Incursion... 40 parsects... Burst in 10 seconds..." The mechanical voice then began to count down, meanwhile the machines from the forest showed themselves, this time they were armed wtih very menacing looking tentacles, they seemed to completley ignore robert's presence, and were rather centered on the odd man who was lying face-down less than 35 yards in front of him... One of the machines, which stood up on long stalky legs with tiny poitns for feet, swooped over robert, suprisingly him, and it lowered one of its tentacles into the backpack of the man who was lying on the ground, it twisted around a few things and the count down which had just gotten to "three" halted... Then the voice came in "Please Input New Instructions..." It looked like the machine was about to do that as it lowered even more tentacles...

[Bozos of Bones]

OFF STORY:
Hi, Deathkiller. It's me, again. I know our last encounter didn't end well, and I am asking you to forgive me if I interupted or devastated your plans for the plot in any way. If you wil have me, I'd like to be reinstated as a character.

If your answers are "yes", then this would be my character:
Name: Alex Daruch(pronounced Darouk)
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
Facial Features: a blond beard and mustache
Skin: Plain
Race: Human, nano-augmented
Class: Investigator

Body Armor: light armor, can activate invisibility for 25 seconds, has a set of five scramble charges which will deactivate unprotected electronics and scramble lockable rockets away, can generate a mid-voltage shock at nearby targets, controlled by cranial implants
Equipment: Phase Pack- integrated into the left thy of the armor, this small compartment can hold a weight of 20 kilos, and has a space of 35 units(a pistol is 2 units)
Magnetic Acceleration Rifle- a sniper rifle which can penetrate light armor, weighs 11 kilos and takes 20 space units, holds 10 rounds in clip, fires 1/second
Assasin Assault Arms- a 7mm caliber rifle, bullets leave no casings and are encoated with combustive material which prevents the bullet from being matched to any rifle, silencer and laser sights, weighs 7 kilos and takes 15 space units, this is the weapon of choice and is not carried in the phase-pack, holds 25 rounds in clip, fires 6/second
Magnetic Rounds- ammo for the MAR, 70 rounds, takes one space unit, weighs 1 kilo
Assasin Clips- ammo for the AAA, two clips are on the chest plate of the armor, five clips are inside the phase-pack, takes one space unit and weighs 1 kilo
Plasma Energy Gun- an advanced energy weapon, this pistol-size gun will do explosive damage most usefull against armored targets, holds 9 rounds in clip, fires 1.2/second
Plasma clip- ammo for the PEG, 3 clips, one space unit, one kilo
Intrusive Scanner- A small hand-held computer capable of scaning various materials and objects, able to connect to a computer port to exchange data
Communication Array- may be used to communicate with a sattelite or ship and send/recieve transmissions through sub-space, must be deployed before use, takes 4 space units and weighs 5 kilos
Stand-Alone Hacker Server- computer used to hack into computers and higher-level security systems, connects through any mode of link, weighs 3 kilos, takes 3 space units

Implants: the implants are nano-augmentation based, subdermal and unobvious unless searched for
Left hand: an array of electrical communication equipment, Alex may place his left hand on any low-level security access port of any kind to interact with it, it even contains minor phase-shifters which work as lockpicks in the same fashion
Eyes: behind his eyes Alex has installed low-energy infra-red visors and vision enhancers for myst, night and the like, his eyes glow violet when one of these is used
Head: cranial implants allow communication with the suit and any other thought-controlled object
Body mass: BioChemTech upgrades enhance Alex' speed, jump height, carry capacity and reflexes, healer nano-probes may completely heal minor wounds and cuts and isolate damaged organs and upgrades , they provide a good imunity to poison and acid, but not radiation

History: Alex used to be an assasin, and was one of the best on the market, his customers valuing his ability to complete a task unnoticed. On one data theft mission he was captured by the Militia forces and forced to work for them. He has no tracking equipment on him, preventing both friendlys and unfriendlys from knowing where he is. Because of this reason, he may not communicate with, or summon equipment from Militia ships before deploying the Comm Array. He is an expert hacker, adept at sneaking around heavily-guarded bases undetected and very good with weapons of all kinds. Trained in piloting fighters and mechs, but not shuttles or war-walkers. Doesn't hesitate from using lethal force, but will not kill civilians that do not pose a threat.

[SomeGuy]

Robert stood there, he was too scared to move, but finally he gained enough courage to get the gun and aim. He pulled the trigger... but nothing happened. He kept squeezing the trigger and still nothing happened and he did the first thing that came to mind. He quickly chunked the malfunctioning blaster at the robot.

[/)eathKiller]

Without hands making contact with it, the blasters auto-destruct timed on... Unfortunetly this was no pea shooter... Suddenly a bright light exploded before roberts eyes, he felt something prickly on his back and suddenly reaslied he was at the other end of the parking lot, a gigantic buble of light was blossoming and shot in the sky like lightening from the ground, The large machine was tossed into the air by this and a large chunk of its Chassis wasn't even present any longer... Robert stood up again, the other robots seemed to react in fear of this and retreated into the woods. Suddenly Robert heard a very faint sound across the wind.. it was a choke... Rushing over to the man still laying on the ground, Robert turned him over; He was still breathing!

"I'm Alex Daruch..." he choked... "are you with the mercenaries? You didn't handel that rifle properly... you need a gun that someone of your level is suited for..."