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Starfire

@Crazy Doctor John wouldn't be on the Alamo. The pirate ship was already disconnected so he could only be inside the Babylon. The Babylon doesn't have a hangar bay though so there's no way Alina could talk to him unless over the radio.

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I got bored and couldn't think of anything to post for Robert, so I made a new NPC. Do with what you will, @Lugubrious.

The News Reporter

Appearance:


Name: Donna Blackford

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Weapon: N/A

Specialty: News reporting

Semblance: Anyone she talks to will feel the sudden urge to answer any question she asks them truthfully. A set back for her semblance though is that if direct eye contact cannot be made, even if it's only a window or a pair of contacts, than it won't work on that person. She is the only person who knows of the existence of her semblance.

Personality: Her only real care is to get ratings for her show, and she doesn't care whose career she has to end or whose reputation she must destroy. She doesn't even care if what she's reporting is true, though because of her semblance it usually is. As long as Eagle News stays as one of the most watched news stations in Vale, she's perfectly content.

Color: Tyrian Purple

Emblem: A news camera and microphone lying next to each other with a pair of wings in the background.

Theme Song: Dirty Laundry by Don Henley

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I know I said I would stop but gif wars call me

@Nytem4re

Starfire

The few pirates that Jaydaar wasn't able to get, John was able to finish off with his two handguns. Or so he thought. Usually, a bullet between the eyes would kill its target, no matter its species. The captain though, being more machine than man, was able to duck behind cover with the only damage being a dent in his metal forehead.

A laser rifle in hand, the captain rose up from a chest high console and began taking pot shots at the two mercenaries. John turned to Jaydaar as they hid behind the wall and said, "Don't worry, I'll get him." Holstering both handguns, the helmeted mercenary ran through the door and threw his machete at the cyborg captain. The blade knocked the gun out of its target's hands and John immediately punched the man across the jaw, specifically in the part of him that was still fleshy and human.

The captain, now knocked to the ground, began to rise but was met by the barrel of one of John's guns. "Do you realize just how much my day has been ruined by you and your friends? I can handle all the new dents and scratches you put in my armor. I can handle having to buy who knows how much credits-worth of ammo. What I can't let you get away with, is how you made me lose track of my kill count. That's completely unforgivable. Say goodb-" The crackling of the radio interrupted him though as Johanna's voice came on. "Well, it seems today is your lucky day."

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As the pirates began to surround the mercenaries inside the Babylon, a familiar voice rang out from behind them. ”Nobody move or metalhead gets it.” John held the pirates’ captain in an armlock with a gun pointed at his head. ”I’m calling a trade. You give me my team back and I’ll give you your leader back. Seem fair?”

The pirates all began talking amongst themselves before finally agreeing to the deal, to the relief of the indisposed captain.

Turning his comms, John gave orders to everyone still outside in their fighters. ”Everyone outside, disengage and land your ships in the Alamo. A ceasefire’s been called so I want you to follow the Babylon so we can finally drop off all this ore.” The helmeted mercenary released the captain then and threw him back toward his ship.

"I better not see that helmet ever again, or else next time you won't be so lucky," the captain said with a scowl as he walked back inside his ship.

"Oh, don't worry. Something tells me that that'll never happen," John responded ominously.

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Eventually, the pirates disengaged their anchors and the three ships all flew off wherever their destination led them. The helmeted mercenary sat in the Babylon's mess hall watching a timer count down on his helmet. "Boom, he said as it finally reached zero. Why is it that pirates never seem to think to have guards posted in front of the engine's core? Ah well, my only regret is that I never got to see that hunk of junk turn into scrap myself. Guess I'll have to leave it all to my imagination. Rising from his seat, he made his way to the comms room of the Babylon to make a long-distance call to Starfire HQ. "We're a few minutes from landing. I thought I'd ask if we've got any assignments already lined up on Tharvis."

The silhouette-like hologram looked as if it was typing in something before finally responding, "Negative, Tharvis is a considered a neutral zone in the Xenovia Civil War. No contracts have been made with Starfire.

"Fine, I guess we'll just wait for further orders then," he responded. As soon as the hologram disappeared though, he added, "Not." John looked through a list of all the people he knew that would possibly hire a rag tag group of mercenaries like themselves. After a few calls, he chose the two highest paying jobs and sent it to all of his companions:

Corporate Sabotage

Pakhan Xena Nova may be the leader of a very dangerous group of criminals, but that doesn't mean that everything she does is illegal. Case in point, she's a major shareholder in a major banking and financial services holding company. Many times the Mota Clan has tried to find some kind of dirt to bring the company down, but to no avail. So we've been hired to bring it down a different way. Stealing everything of value in their vault. The Mota Clan hopes that no one will trust the bank with their money anymore and the company will end up going under. So, you want to pull off a bank heist?

Assassination

This job sounds pretty simple. The Mota Clan has sent one of their higher ups to make a deal with some politician and we're supposed to kill that guy before he makes whatever the deal is. The problem is that that politician is the lord of Tharvis so he's going to be very well protected and, needless to say, so will our target. Sitting at a window across the street until we get the perfect shot isn't going to be possible, so we're going to have to break in and get our hands dirty.

Starfire

I think it might be time to move things along to the end of the mission.

If I'm being honest my interest in this is kind of wavering a bit. I really love my character the dynamic I have going with Johanna is pretty cool as well as most of everyone else's characters too but I feel like we don't have enough structure. It's like a bunch of people in fighters, they'll blow this up, then that, do well for awhile then crash into and board the main ship. Then just hack and slash they're way to the captain.

They're not a whole lot of challenge in that, this feels like a video game that doesn't have great gameplay but you keep playing it for the story, except our story isn't looking all that interesting either. This isn't anyone's fault in particular, I think you're all great RPers and really good writers but I think we need a change of pace.

Can the next job we do be like a search and destroy or some sort of contract that requires us to keep a low profile and not draw attention like maybe appropriating something valuable off a planet or infiltrating a government organization to retrieve some information. Something where simply shooting everyone isn't an option?

@Prince of Seraphs

I was actually thinking the same. Something to make our characters interact more. I'll take everything you said into consideration.

Starfire

Just so everyone knows, I'm currently making a post to wrap up this mission. The reason it's taking so long is because of college stuff. It should be up some time tonight though.

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The plan basically was to have everyone make a set of trading cards for their characters. I was thinking like 5 or so for your character and I would judge based on how well you represented the character and their moves and what not.

Example For Napoli

I had this site ready to share and was going to walk you through the basics in the first post. That said if people had other games they would rather do it in(Magic, Pokemon, etc) I was also open to broadening the contest up for those. Yugioh is just the one I know best. Obviously things like having a picture wouldn't be required for the character one since I know quite a few of you lack one.

@Onarax

I don't have any experience with trading cards. At least with the last contest I've played one fighting game (Injustice: Gods Among Us), but I have absolutely no experience with cards. I probably wouldn't participate.

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@Guess Who
This is what I say to your signature.

@Prince of Seraphs

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Well my original contest idea wasn't a writing prompt.

But if most people are more interested in doing a writing prompt right now I suppose I could postpone it.

I'll let you guys decide.

@Onarax

I agree with Pyro, if we know what your original idea was it'd be easier to decide.

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-Reads contest results-



;_; Damn my busy life! Preventing me from placing full time and effort into the things I love and enjoy!



IF ONLY I COULD'VE MADE THAT DEADLINE I WOULD'VE FELT BETTER ABOUT MYSELF!!

I don't think I'm going to be participating in contests for a while. I really wanted to have fun with Kaithas' contest but my life sucked everything from me and missing the deadline severely depressed me for some time.

Oh well. BLOODBORNE: THE OLD HUNTERS DLC COMES OUT NOV. 24TH! WHOO HOO!

@harinezumikouken

Why can't I have a PS4 to play Bloodborne?