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Re: Defend ULMF! (Sign-up and OOC)
Lets see, a recap of events…
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void…. God said, Let there be light!
*fastfowards*
And then Burrito made DULMF, and it was good. It began with a time of relative peace in the forum’s history, before an unknown and unexpectedly large group of addbots found their way to the third forum. These are the major plot points in the story so far:
The forum defends from and defeats a large group of attacking addbots.
The forum attacks a small addbot outpost and completely destroys it.
The forum finds a ‘hive’ from which addbots are coming. They infiltrate and destroy that as well, picking up some prisoners on the way (Pale, Shrike, Grave). Bartnum is lost somewhere along the way. It is revealed that the Wraith (Stargate Atlantis) are creating the addbots and want to take over the planet.
The forum picks up the presence of another hive, this one airborne.
They unfortunately attract its attention; it destroys a large amount of the forum. Siphon tries to convince Burrito to let him kamikaze it with the forum’s only nuke, but Burrito doesn’t let him. Instead, Siphon brings the Daedallus in to fight the hive. Combined firepower eventually brings it down.
People start to worry about ToonPimp’s forum, there was some stuff about them having possibly declared war, I can’t quite remember the specifics, but the players are sent to check on TP’s forum. Lurker is lost around this point.
The TP forum is demolished, every TP member seems to be dead, some seem to be fed on by Wraith. The party is ambushed, Siphon is captured by a Wraith Dart’s capture beam thingy (hopefully you’ve seen Atlantis so I won’t have to explain).
(For clarity, because I don’t believe I explain it anywhere else, a ‘Dart’ is a Wraith fighter-craft.)
The group is attacked by a Thembrihkal, a huge tentacle monster combined with Wraith DNA, addbot metal-skin, and probably some other tough stuff. They beat the monster, though their chopper is destroyed and the pilot is killed (but Copper turns him into a vampire, so that doesn’t really stop him). The pilot is called John Sheppard (another Stargate Atlantis reference), and becomes a moderately important character.
Shrike finds a plane/spaceship thing used by one of her (now dead) friends, Tsuki gets it working. The party sees a Hive crash into the mountains nearby, and goes to investigate.
They find a friendly Wraith who tells them that there’s a rebelling Wraith faction, and that they freed Siphon… but because they killed a Wraith that was feeding off of him at the time, he got pumped with some nasty chemicals that modified his body and he went berserk. The party enters the hive to extract him.
They find him, but he’s too unstable and Pale turns him to stone. Shrike and the wraith (who has been named Sparky) believe that they will be able to put his mind back together if they can get out.
Burrito splits off from the main group and goes looking for the core of the hive; he has a chemical that should destroy the ship if it’s administered properly.
The party encounters leech-men (a Resident Evil reference, I believe), one of whom rapes and impregnates Tsuki. To stop the spawn from eating her from the inside, the party get some cure from a storeroom.
My Lurkers are added. It’s advised that anyone from the forum reads the history given in my character’s backstory, but for a non-forum character that’s less important – I intend to explain a lot of it in game. (Yes, I give this importance. I never said I wasn’t biased…)
Burrito encounters one party of Lurkers as they battle the Wraith in the halls. He saves them without knowing who they are but quickly realises. They request his protection. For a long time they fail to realise a radio-blocking unit is active, so there’s no communication between Burrito and the main party.
A second group of Lurkers is killed by leech-men, and a third finds themselves fleeing from a large group of Thembrihkal. All groups of Lurkers seem to have TP form members with them. Each Lurker is in some kind of power-armour suit, designed to look like some kind of demonic reptile. (Pictures are included in the posts that first show the Lurkers, but can also be found from my ‘Random’ picture collection.)
The remaining enemy Wraith on board feel overwhelmed; they set the ship to self-destruct. Sparky, the friendly wraith, realises that the ship is on a large magma chamber, (or some such, can’t remember the specifics,) and destroying the hive here could very well destroy the world. He decides to try and fly the ship away, while the main party makes for a dart bay so they can escape in the darts. The Lurkers make for a different extraction point. Burrito and the Lurkers with him realise they’ve left the radio jammers on, Burrito gives a quick and rather unhelpful message to the main party before deciding to go with the Lurkers.
The main party escapes, the remaining Lurkers meet up at the extraction point and also escape, Sparky flies the hive away and them escapes as well. The hive explodes, Pale is effectively MIA. Burrito is MIA also, having been taken prisoner by the Lurkers (although no one from the forum knows that, they only know that he isn’t there and was supposed to be escaping with some unknown group). Sparky’s dart is shot down by an enemy dart while protecting the players, but Tsuki takes him out of the cockpit in a transport beam before the Dart crashes.
The main party makes it home, and awaits orders.
Note that some of the things that happened in a short space of time may be in the wrong order – for instance, Shrike finds her plane/spaceship before the first Thembrihkal attacks the party, and even before Siphon gets kidnapped – but in those cases the sequence should make no difference.
Also, the placeholder post from ages ago has been updated, it can be found on this page, (that might not work depending on your settings, for clarity it's just a link to page ten of the hive thread) but I need to know a few things. Firstly, it’s been edited and edited over a long period of time, and it’s been so long I’m not even sure it’s coherent anymore, so if someone could confirm their understanding or not-understanding, that would help.
Second, The Black Raven (or should I say, Le Corbeau Noir) speaks entirely in bold – I would have done
Third, there is a video I made of The Black Raven (all artistry and voice work and that is mine, completely mine, I swear… *has fingers crossed behind back*).
It can be downloaded here (36~mb):
Or watched on Youtube here (if I got this right…):
This way you should get a better impression of his unconventional weapon than still frames can show, and you also get to hear what the voice is supposed to be like (to early-ly cut off those of you who would read the description and imagine him with one of those cheap, ‘echo/reverberation/distortion’ type demonic voices).
Fourthly, I have The Black Raven saying his catchphrase in French, but the words I’ve got written down aren’t the words he’s actually saying – I don’t know the language, so I’ve had to use a English to French translation of the caption given in the video. If anybody here knows French and can thusly understand the actual words being used by The Black Raven, can you tell me, so I can edit it? (The line in question shouldn’t be too hard to find, since he uses it twice in the video. “Fear the fire of darkness. Fear your worst nightmare. Tremble before the might of The Black Raven!”)
Five, he should actually be The Black Crow, as the French word for Raven is also the word for Crow, and he’s based around a spell called “As the Crow Flies”. But the video had him as The Black Raven, and so The Black Raven he shall be.
Lets see, a recap of events…
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void…. God said, Let there be light!
*fastfowards*
And then Burrito made DULMF, and it was good. It began with a time of relative peace in the forum’s history, before an unknown and unexpectedly large group of addbots found their way to the third forum. These are the major plot points in the story so far:
The forum defends from and defeats a large group of attacking addbots.
The forum attacks a small addbot outpost and completely destroys it.
The forum finds a ‘hive’ from which addbots are coming. They infiltrate and destroy that as well, picking up some prisoners on the way (Pale, Shrike, Grave). Bartnum is lost somewhere along the way. It is revealed that the Wraith (Stargate Atlantis) are creating the addbots and want to take over the planet.
The forum picks up the presence of another hive, this one airborne.
They unfortunately attract its attention; it destroys a large amount of the forum. Siphon tries to convince Burrito to let him kamikaze it with the forum’s only nuke, but Burrito doesn’t let him. Instead, Siphon brings the Daedallus in to fight the hive. Combined firepower eventually brings it down.
People start to worry about ToonPimp’s forum, there was some stuff about them having possibly declared war, I can’t quite remember the specifics, but the players are sent to check on TP’s forum. Lurker is lost around this point.
The TP forum is demolished, every TP member seems to be dead, some seem to be fed on by Wraith. The party is ambushed, Siphon is captured by a Wraith Dart’s capture beam thingy (hopefully you’ve seen Atlantis so I won’t have to explain).
(For clarity, because I don’t believe I explain it anywhere else, a ‘Dart’ is a Wraith fighter-craft.)
The group is attacked by a Thembrihkal, a huge tentacle monster combined with Wraith DNA, addbot metal-skin, and probably some other tough stuff. They beat the monster, though their chopper is destroyed and the pilot is killed (but Copper turns him into a vampire, so that doesn’t really stop him). The pilot is called John Sheppard (another Stargate Atlantis reference), and becomes a moderately important character.
Shrike finds a plane/spaceship thing used by one of her (now dead) friends, Tsuki gets it working. The party sees a Hive crash into the mountains nearby, and goes to investigate.
They find a friendly Wraith who tells them that there’s a rebelling Wraith faction, and that they freed Siphon… but because they killed a Wraith that was feeding off of him at the time, he got pumped with some nasty chemicals that modified his body and he went berserk. The party enters the hive to extract him.
They find him, but he’s too unstable and Pale turns him to stone. Shrike and the wraith (who has been named Sparky) believe that they will be able to put his mind back together if they can get out.
Burrito splits off from the main group and goes looking for the core of the hive; he has a chemical that should destroy the ship if it’s administered properly.
The party encounters leech-men (a Resident Evil reference, I believe), one of whom rapes and impregnates Tsuki. To stop the spawn from eating her from the inside, the party get some cure from a storeroom.
My Lurkers are added. It’s advised that anyone from the forum reads the history given in my character’s backstory, but for a non-forum character that’s less important – I intend to explain a lot of it in game. (Yes, I give this importance. I never said I wasn’t biased…)
Burrito encounters one party of Lurkers as they battle the Wraith in the halls. He saves them without knowing who they are but quickly realises. They request his protection. For a long time they fail to realise a radio-blocking unit is active, so there’s no communication between Burrito and the main party.
A second group of Lurkers is killed by leech-men, and a third finds themselves fleeing from a large group of Thembrihkal. All groups of Lurkers seem to have TP form members with them. Each Lurker is in some kind of power-armour suit, designed to look like some kind of demonic reptile. (Pictures are included in the posts that first show the Lurkers, but can also be found from my ‘Random’ picture collection.)
The remaining enemy Wraith on board feel overwhelmed; they set the ship to self-destruct. Sparky, the friendly wraith, realises that the ship is on a large magma chamber, (or some such, can’t remember the specifics,) and destroying the hive here could very well destroy the world. He decides to try and fly the ship away, while the main party makes for a dart bay so they can escape in the darts. The Lurkers make for a different extraction point. Burrito and the Lurkers with him realise they’ve left the radio jammers on, Burrito gives a quick and rather unhelpful message to the main party before deciding to go with the Lurkers.
The main party escapes, the remaining Lurkers meet up at the extraction point and also escape, Sparky flies the hive away and them escapes as well. The hive explodes, Pale is effectively MIA. Burrito is MIA also, having been taken prisoner by the Lurkers (although no one from the forum knows that, they only know that he isn’t there and was supposed to be escaping with some unknown group). Sparky’s dart is shot down by an enemy dart while protecting the players, but Tsuki takes him out of the cockpit in a transport beam before the Dart crashes.
The main party makes it home, and awaits orders.
Note that some of the things that happened in a short space of time may be in the wrong order – for instance, Shrike finds her plane/spaceship before the first Thembrihkal attacks the party, and even before Siphon gets kidnapped – but in those cases the sequence should make no difference.
Also, the placeholder post from ages ago has been updated, it can be found on this page, (that might not work depending on your settings, for clarity it's just a link to page ten of the hive thread) but I need to know a few things. Firstly, it’s been edited and edited over a long period of time, and it’s been so long I’m not even sure it’s coherent anymore, so if someone could confirm their understanding or not-understanding, that would help.
Second, The Black Raven (or should I say, Le Corbeau Noir) speaks entirely in bold – I would have done
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, but the forum doesn’t seem to have them (at least not in my weak attempt at finding it anyway). Besides, I think bold fits his voice better than small-caps would. Third, there is a video I made of The Black Raven (all artistry and voice work and that is mine, completely mine, I swear… *has fingers crossed behind back*).
It can be downloaded here (36~mb):
You must be registered to see the links
Or watched on Youtube here (if I got this right…):
You must be registered to see the links
This way you should get a better impression of his unconventional weapon than still frames can show, and you also get to hear what the voice is supposed to be like (to early-ly cut off those of you who would read the description and imagine him with one of those cheap, ‘echo/reverberation/distortion’ type demonic voices).
Fourthly, I have The Black Raven saying his catchphrase in French, but the words I’ve got written down aren’t the words he’s actually saying – I don’t know the language, so I’ve had to use a English to French translation of the caption given in the video. If anybody here knows French and can thusly understand the actual words being used by The Black Raven, can you tell me, so I can edit it? (The line in question shouldn’t be too hard to find, since he uses it twice in the video. “Fear the fire of darkness. Fear your worst nightmare. Tremble before the might of The Black Raven!”)
Five, he should actually be The Black Crow, as the French word for Raven is also the word for Crow, and he’s based around a spell called “As the Crow Flies”. But the video had him as The Black Raven, and so The Black Raven he shall be.
