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It was good to see Keita smiling like that. Another girl approahced them, seemingly quite frightened at Iago's needle. He smiled as a new opportunity to tease someone arose. **"Books, huh? That's good and all, but how about I give you a shot first? You do seem awfully unwell. Don't worry, I know well how to handle this."** He played a bit with the syringe in his hand and then turned to face her and pointed at his eyepatch. **"An accident like this won't happen again, non non."** He said and then smiled at the witch. However, the newcomer seemed like someone shady to him, after all, he did try to shake off the chore good little Keita had asked them to do. He seemed like someone who was just hitting on women nonstop. Well, it was Iago's (self appointed) job to also help people like that correct their ways. **"Don't worry, Keita, I will help you with whatever you need. I have enough muscles to compensate for both of us."** He smiled kindly at Keita and did the same motion Keita did. **"Also, new girl! If you want some books, you can go ask the girl over there!"** Iago shouted a bit and pointed at the sleepy Estelle. **"She writes books! I'm sure she can point you to the library, or can lend you one of her books if you'd like. They are perfect for ladies your age, after all."** He said and smirked a bit. **"Well, time to work."** He put the syringe on its cover again and stuffed it into his pocket. He rolled up the sleeves of his lab coat and went to where the tables were, lifting one of them, though it wasn't what you'd call easy, but he'd manage. **"Where do you want them, dear?"** He asked Keita.

As he walked through town, he spotted the girl who sung at the bar from time to time. Well, at one of the bars anyway. She was waving at him and Iago returned the wave with a smile on his face. He decided to go to where she was and see if he could tease her for a bit, maybe also help her a bit. After all, it was the New Year festival that, of course, Iago hadn't forgotten... Or maybe he had, but seeing Keita working so earnestly reminded him of it. He started walking to where she was at his usual leisured pace and he saw another man approaching her. Travis was his name, if his memory served him right. He slicked his hair back when he started talking with Keita. He overheard a bit of Trevor's introduction to Keita, so he decided to follow up. **"Good afternoon to the two of you."** He said in a bit of a loud voice to announce his arrival. **"I hope I am not intruding upon your calm conversation in this fine day."** He was using a heavy accent and a really deep voice to emphazise the fact that he was making of fun of Trevor. **"Jokes aside, how are you two today? Is any of you feeling up for a shot?"** He said, in his normal voice tone and taking out the syringe inside his pocket.

Resting peacefully in his bed, Iago just wished he could sleep a bit more before having to actually wake up. It was kind of a bad habit of his to wake up some hours before everyone else in the town did and, since he couldn't go back to sleep after that, he just stayed in his bed until it was time for him to get up. He started moving around in his bed, changing positions in an attempt to find one comfortable enough for him to be able to go back to sleep again, without success. It was futile and stupid to try and fool himself anymore. He finally rose from his bed with a half dead look in his face. After a long yawn, he got out of bed and started on with his morning routine. Taking a shower, brushing his teeth and dressing up. It was lucky that there weren't any ladies around in his house, in which case he wouldn't be able to be as nonchalant with his daily routine as always, he did walk around his whole house in nothing but his underwear, after all. For his clothes, he chose a pair of black pants, a black sleeveless shirt and lastly, his white coat that stopped just a few centimeters before reaching the ground. **"Perfect! Now..."** He took the eyepatch he had near and put it on without major problems. He was already accustomed to it. All dressed up and ready to start the day, he decided to go out of his house for a bit to take in some nice, fresh air, maybe he could also go check on his fellow townspeople, there was bound to be something interesting along the way, after all and, just in case he encountered one of the town's scaredy cats, he put a single syringe still new. He set off to the center of the town with his hands in the coat's pockets and an impish smile on his face.

Le bump!

**Another normal day. You wake up and proceed with your morning routine, go take a shower, dress up, brush your teeth, maybe eat breakfast if you are not tardy for your morning class. You know, normal. Though, there's something different today. Maybe, you sneezed and froze the whole dining table, along with your parents, or you snapped your fingers and a flame came out, or before you knew it, you arm turned into something else, something that shouldn't be there. Regardless, it was obvious what had happened. You now have super powers.** **Still, as you try to figure out just what the hell is up with your body, don't you remember all those times where you were told something related to your personality? As in, you are as cold as ice or, you've got such a burning passion, or you eat like a beast, things that you somehow relate to this power you acquired now. Odd.** **And then, a magical text arrives to your phone.** _Yay! You've been chosen! Now, you are one of the Chosen Ones, or as I like to call them, Colors. Oh, but don't go feeling special, no, no, no! It'd be troublesome if you did! After all, there are about 300 other guys that can now do the same as you. Yep, they also have powers based of a major trait of their personality, and now, wow! You are gonna have to battle all of 'em! Exciting , huh? Real Exciting I bet. Anyhow, we wouldn't ask you to do this over nothing after all, all the others are aiming to kill you, and you should aim for the same, so, we offer you this! Win this whole mess , be the last one standing and then! I will grant you a wish! Anything you want! I'll also let you keep your power as an extra! Aren't I just the nicest thing ever? Yes I am! Now, get your ass unto work, or there's no wish for you!_ _XOXO Mirurun-chuan!_ **.....An app named Color Tracker arrives to your phone, along with a message saying _'If you wanna survive, install this!'_ and a cartoonish face of a girl on it. With little to no option, you decide to install it and get it over with. A map and a quick set of instructions reading "With these you can track other Colors, now good luck!".** **With that poor excuse of instructions now on you, you have been plunged into a war of which you have no knowledge whatsoever, but you have to fight or else face extermination. Now... What will you do?** --- All right, I hope more than one of you like this little idea my friend Harurun and I came up with. So, what we want for this RP is for it to be something simple, straightforward action with a bit (A lot!?) of mystery going on on the background. The objective is simple. Players have to fight their way through this war that will have lots of casualties to reach out for the prize, the opportunity to keep their newly acquired powers and to make a wish for whatever comes to their mind. Or is it really that easy? You will play a normal person that attends middle school, or maybe high school, maybe even college, but that's not what's important here, we are not gonna go through the tedious class part and everything. What's important here is that your character has obtained a super power given a major trait of their personality. Kinda like, if you like music a lot then you get acoustikinesis, if you are cold to other people, then ice powers, if you are often trying to pry into other people's secrets, then you get mind reading, and so on. The setting will be in Ikebukuro Japan, your character will also experience growth as none of our characters know how to actually control their powers. This RP will be character driven for the most part, while Jelly and I work around in the shadows, you can even have your own plots revolving around your characters if you want. Since we don't want this to get overpopulated we will only be accepting 4 people in total, so this will be a first come first serve thing, maybe if we see lots of interest, we might consider expanding it to 6 people, but that's not for sure, so don't get your hopes up. ;P We will work on this as we go on and if this gathers enough interest, then I'll put up a CS for you, and then an OOC. Hope to see this garner enough interest!

**Name:** Ione (Juliet) Barnett & Paige **Picture/Description:** This one is Ione!  This is Paige! (She's a ghost. :P)  **Age:** 17 **Gender:** Female **Personality:** One way (Maybe the only way) to describe Ione is as odd. She is aloof, absent and some times, she seems to be looking more through you than at you. All of this combined with the fact that she talks a bit too much about ghosts and spirits make her seem crazy more often than not. You see, Ione has two personas inside her, but of course, this isn't a Multiple Personality Disorder, it is just her playing around, and also, a way to hide her bashfulness when talking to others, after all, who would be able to talk about ghosts, spirits, demons and such without feeling if even a little bit embarrassed? Her first persona is Juliet, a cold, sharp tongued girl who tries to scare others with her stories about ghosts (Yep, she named it). The second one is her real self that often peeks out when she is acting as her Juliet persona and someone shows some kind of interest in what she is talking about, the real Ione that is more of a ditzy, naive and a bit playful girl. While it may seem that her ghost ramblings are nothing but nonsense, Ione does indeed have a talent for contacting the occult. Such talent allows her to speak with ghosts and even see them, and, given her lack of friends because of her odd personality, she spends a lot of time talking with her ghost friends. Given that she is one of the few people who can actually do that, she is often seen talking alone or with some imaginary friend, as they guess, though the reality is actually more spooky than that. Ione also has an unwavering love for Horror movies, though she often comments on the many discrepancies between the movies and actual ghosts. Regarding her constant companion, the ghost Paige, she is a bit of a pervert that is deeply attached to Ione, and would do whatever Ione wants as long as it is reasonable. Regardless of her appearance and due to the fact that she's been dead for a long time, Paige is more mature than she lets others know, and also someone with very strict morals. She likes playing pranks, but she would never abide to do something that would put others in danger and will also pressure Ione to do the right thing sometimes. The two of the get along really well and are almost like sisters, so Paige is very prone to feel jealous when someone else interacts with Ione. **Talent:** Mediumship, Ione is able to communicate with and see ghosts, to a really frightening extent, as she claims that, sometimes, she can even touch the ghosts without the use of her ability, though it is a limited and scarce number of ghosts she can actually touch. The reason as to why she can touch those ghosts is still unknown, but she thinks it is because of some kind of grudge they hold. **Ability:** Poltergeist, Ione has the ability to secrete ectoplasm from her body, a substance invisible to those without her talents of mediumship. Through the secretion of ectoplasm, she can give a ghost the ability to touch things in the mortal realm, from objects to humans, giving the illusion that she has telekinesis instead. With enough extoplasm, a ghost can become visible to the naked eye of any passerby. Though her ability is useful, it does not give her the ability to control ghosts, so there are few ghosts who actually listen to her, though, luckily, she has one she is very good friends with. A ghost covered in her ectoplasm can also posses someone, however, the subject must be unconscious for it to succeed. It seems she can also use the ectoplasm for battle, but given that she barely knows how to fight, she doesn't know how. **Bio:** Always the odd one out, Ione at first cursed her talent for seeing ghosts, since it caused nothing but troubles. In the past, she was always bullied, because of how she tried to include her invisible friends into conversations with others. Unable to see what Ione was talking about, the other kids merely tried to tell her that there was nothing there, and that she was crazy. At some point, and tired of being called crazy for believing in her ghostly friends, she distanced herself from them. She pretended as if they didn't exist, as if she couldn't hear them. She saw how they detached their own heads and things of the like in comic ways in an effort to make her laugh, but she choked down her laughs and put up a poker face. She lived a normal life for a while but, to be honest, she found it boring. After being able to talk with ghosts that had been decapitated or had died young, well, she just found everything else boring. She had seen gory scenes before, but she didn't seem to really mind, in fact, that helped her develop one of her greatest interests in life, her love for horror movies. After a while, she finally realized that her fun days were because of her ethereal friends and decided to go back to them, instead of trying to be someone she wasn't with the other kids. She apologized time and time again and the ghosts that were her friends eventually forgave her, with the sole condition that she wouldn't turn their back on them ever again. After agreeing to it, she was then introduced to the newest additions of the gang. Juliet and Paige, a pair of sisters that strayed all the way to where they were. Ione grew close to both sisters in a short time, but one day, Juliet, the bigger of the sisters, disappeared. Juliet always talked about how it would be great to finally pass on and let go of all her regrets and things left undone, though there was still something holding her down. Ione soon connected the dots and figured that she couldn't pass on because of her little sister Paige, but after Paige grew close to Ione, maybe Juliet knew that her little sister would be able to pass away eventually too, and left this world. Ione was now resolved, knowing that Juliet must now be able to be born again, and she decided to help all the other ghosts pass away and thus, her Juliet persona was born. She helped every and each one of her friends pass away, except for one. Paige was the only one that remained there and, though Ione didn't knew why, she decided she would think about it as it went, given that Paige never left her side. **Other:** She likes to wear gothic lolita fashion. She is quite good at sewing and handicraft of the like, though she is terrible at cooking.

**Name:** Ione (Juliet) Barnett & Paige **Picture/Description:** This one is Ione!  This is Paige! (She's a ghost. :P)  **Age:** 17 **Gender:** Female **Personality:** One way (Maybe the only way) to describe Ione is as odd. She is aloof, absent and some times, she seems to be looking more through you than at you. All of this combined with the fact that she talks a bit too much about ghosts and spirits make her seem crazy more often than not. You see, Ione has two personas inside her, but of course, this isn't a Multiple Personality Disorder, it is just her playing around, and also, a way to hide her bashfulness when talking to others, after all, who would be able to talk about ghosts, spirits, demons and such without feeling if even a little bit embarrassed? Her first persona is Juliet, a cold, sharp tongued girl who tries to scare others with her stories about ghosts (Yep, she named it). The second one is her real self that often peeks out when she is acting as her Juliet persona and someone shows some kind of interest in what she is talking about, the real Ione that is more of a ditzy, naive and a bit playful girl. While it may seem that her ghost ramblings are nothing but nonsense, Ione does indeed have a talent for contacting the occult. Such talent allows her to speak with ghosts and even see them, and, given her lack of friends because of her odd personality, she spends a lot of time talking with her ghost friends. Given that she is one of the few people who can actually do that, she is often seen talking alone or with some imaginary friend, as they guess, though the reality is actually more spooky than that. Ione also has an unwavering love for Horror movies, though she often comments on the many discrepancies between the movies and actual ghosts. Regarding her constant companion, the ghost Paige, she is a bit of a pervert that is deeply attached to Ione, and would do whatever Ione wants as long as it is reasonable. Regardless of her appearance and due to the fact that she's been dead for a long time, Paige is more mature than she lets others know, and also someone with very strict morals. She likes playing pranks, but she would never abide to do something that would put others in danger and will also pressure Ione to do the right thing sometimes. The two of the get along really well and are almost like sisters, so Paige is very prone to feel jealous when someone else interacts with Ione. **Talent:** Mediumship, Ione is able to communicate with and see ghosts, to a really frightening extent, as she claims that, sometimes, she can even touch the ghosts without the use of her ability, though it is a limited and scarce number of ghosts she can actually touch. The reason as to why she can touch those ghosts is still unknown, but she thinks it is because of some kind of grudge they hold. **Ability:** Poltergeist, Ione has the ability to secrete ectoplasm from her body, a substance invisible to those without her talents of mediumship. Through the secretion of ectoplasm, she can give a ghost the ability to touch things in the mortal realm, from objects to humans, giving the illusion that she has telekinesis instead. With enough extoplasm, a ghost can become visible to the naked eye of any passerby. Though her ability is useful, it does not give her the ability to control ghosts, so there are few ghosts who actually listen to her, though, luckily, she has one she is very good friends with. A ghost covered in her ectoplasm can also posses someone, however, the subject must be unconscious for it to succeed. It seems she can also use the ectoplasm for battle, but given that she barely knows how to fight, she doesn't know how. **Bio:** Always the odd one out, Ione at first cursed her talent for seeing ghosts, since it caused nothing but troubles. In the past, she was always bullied, because of how she tried to include her invisible friends into conversations with others. Unable to see what Ione was talking about, the other kids merely tried to tell her that there was nothing there, and that she was crazy. At some point, and tired of being called crazy for believing in her ghostly friends, she distanced herself from them. She pretended as if they didn't exist, as if she couldn't hear them. She saw how they detached their own heads and things of the like in comic ways in an effort to make her laugh, but she choked down her laughs and put up a poker face. She lived a normal life for a while but, to be honest, she found it boring. After being able to talk with ghosts that had been decapitated or had died young, well, she just found everything else boring. She had seen gory scenes before, but she didn't seem to really mind, in fact, that helped her develop one of her greatest interests in life, her love for horror movies. After a while, she finally realized that her fun days were because of her ethereal friends and decided to go back to them, instead of trying to be someone she wasn't with the other kids. She apologized time and time again and the ghosts that were her friends eventually forgave her, with the sole condition that she wouldn't turn their back on them ever again. After agreeing to it, she was then introduced to the newest additions of the gang. Juliet and Paige, a pair of sisters that strayed all the way to where they were. Ione grew close to both sisters in a short time, but one day, Juliet, the bigger of the sisters, disappeared. Juliet always talked about how it would be great to finally pass on and let go of all her regrets and things left undone, though there was still something holding her down. Ione soon connected the dots and figured that she couldn't pass on because of her little sister Paige, but after Paige grew close to Ione, maybe Juliet knew that her little sister would be able to pass away eventually too, and left this world. Ione was now resolved, knowing that Juliet must now be able to be born again, and she decided to help all the other ghosts pass away and thus, her Juliet persona was born. She helped every and each one of her friends pass away, except for one. Paige was the only one that remained there and, though Ione didn't knew why, she decided she would think about it as it went, given that Paige never left her side. **Other:** She likes to wear gothic lolita fashion. She is quite good at sewing and handicraft of the like, though she is terrible at cooking. --- All right, here's my character or well, characters. :P Just say the word if there's something wrong with them.

Hazard watched everything unfold with a shocked look in his face. _'This can't be real'_, he thought, _'This is only a trick! Yeah, they are tricking us! A joke! It has to be!'_. As soon as he started seeing the news of people who had died, Hazard left the safety of his mind and started saying what came to it. **"C-C'mon! It's impossible! Plain impossible! How... How can you program something like that! Dammit, Kayaba! I trusted you! I thought that a fellow programmer would understand me! Why would you do this!?"** He was reminded of the fact that Kayaba wasn't a simple programmer like him. Of course, if you are a genius with everything at reach, why wouldn't you do something like this? It's a way to throw away boredome. Designing the game and then putting in a few pawns to entertain you. Not hard, right? Right!? He was the god of the game, why wouldn't he do as he pleased? But what was the cherry on top was when he said that this pirated game was fairly more difficult than the original one. Hazard effective immediately regretted having purchased it. It was foolish to think that everything would be all right if he purchased a pirated copy of the most famous game ever, though he was grateful of the fact that he told his mother about it, and that his dad read everything about the Nervegear, so his chances of being disconnected and killed by his own family were low. Hazard barely managed to open his inventory and fetch the mirror inside of it. He looked into it. His avatar had green hair, yellow eyes and a though face, unlike his own. Then, when he was engulfed by the blue light, his despair reached its peak. He was about to shout out and drop to his knees, but he waited for the blue light to disappear, for one reason or the other. Afterwards, he looked again at the mirror and he saw his real self, just with green hair and yellow eyes. To call it a shock wouldn't be enough. The mirror fell from his hand and he dropped to his knees. **"NOOOOO!! GODDAMMIT! LET ME OUT! I WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS! I DON'T WANT THIS!! LET ME THE HELL OUT DAMMIT!!"** He started shouting. It was too illogical, Hazard couldn't understand it, maybe, he didn't want to. He was so deep in his despair that he didn't know what to do. He continued shouting unintelligibly until he felt his lungs giving out on him. He dropped to the floor and stood like that for a bit. He searched through his brain, what would a hero do in this kind of situation? A hero from those games he loved so much... He would probably fight back, but Hazard couldn't do that, he was too much of a coward. Wait, coward? What kind of character is a coward and yet manages to make his way through things? **"A villain."** He whispered under his breath. He stood up again, his body swinging around as if he had no life. A smirk came across his face. He knew what he had to do, he had his objective. He would put it on his mental notebook for quests. Clear Floor 99 and get the hell out. That was what he was going to do, and there was no way anyone would stop him. His legs were still shaking, and, to be honest, Hazard himself didn't knew how far he could get on his own, but it was better than sitting there and waiting for his death to come. A lot better, actually. He started laughing like a crazy man and brought his hand to his face. **"Kyahahaha! Yeah... That's what I'm going to do.. Yes... Just you wait, Kayaba Akihiko."** Not only his legs were shaking, but all of him actually. He was scared shitless all right, but that was the only way he would survive, or so he thought. Many looked at him like if he was crazy, either those on their way out or those who lingered in the town square. He felt himself blushing a bit, but that's why he had his hand over his face. **"Now then... Where to start?"** He turned around, his hand still over his face and his eyes barely peeking through in-between his fingers. He was now facing the exit of the town square, but he was still unsure of whether or not should he proceed on to the hunting grounds. Zero HP here means death in both worlds. Risking it like that and only with a pitiful dagger like his... --- Rather than enjoying the game as she should, Ann was merely searching for her friend. When she tried to contact her through the menu, she would get a message saying that such a player did not exist. It was worrying, since she knew just how excited she was about the game. Still, Hikaru did buy a pirated copy instead of the original one with her friend, she wondered if that had anything to do with it. Ann wondered is she should just, grab some sword and go to the fields and see what she could do. Until she was forcibly transported to the town square, that is. Dumbfounded and scared, Ann was looking around and saw how more people were transported there, and then there was the blood falling from the ceiling, and the faceless monster now in the sky. She squated down and covered her head. _'I thought this was a sword game, not a horror game!'_ She thought as she tried to ignore the big monster that was now in the sky. It started saying things, things that seemed to be nonsense and yet, somewhere in her heart, Hikaru was afraid of them. There was no way to prove that dying in the game would also result in dead in real life, or that taking the Nervegear off would fry your brain. There were too many unknowns, and Ann didn't want to unravel them. She was fine just like that and, if worst came to worst, she could just hide in the safety of the town. Still squating down, she opened her inventory out of sheer curiosity, and hope. Maybe it was some kind of thing that would return the log out button. Maybe that guy was giving them a way out. **"A... mirror? What..?"** She gazed at herself. She made a character with long hair in the game with black hair, but she dropped the mirror as soon as the blue light surrounded her. She felt like screaming, but she didn't. Too many people were already doing that, and it was annoying to just hear them, but tears still rolled down her cheeks. When the blue light left her, she picked up the mirror and looked at herself. Yep, that was her all right. She touched her face, still unable to believe it. This time, she really was about to scream and leave the place running, but when she looked at her side, she saw a kid. A kid that was crying for her mom and shouting between sobs. 'I don't want to die!' He shouted. Ann suddenly couldn't believe herself. She was the adult and yet she was as unreliable as a kid. She quickly wiped away her tears and stood up. **"Hey, kid, you alone?"** She said after walking to where he was. The kid stopped crying for a while and nodded a bit. Ann smiled kindly at him. **"Then, why are you crying? Aren't you a man? Men are supposed to protect women in these kind of situations, aren't they? Take up their swords and be like 'You won't get away with it, evil man!'"** She posed exaggeratedly to go in accord with what she was saying. The kid was confused, regardless, but Ann held up her smile. **"If you don't do it, who will?"** The kid wiped away his tears quickly and then nodded at Ann. **"That's a good boy. Now, why don't we go search for anyone in need of a hero? I'm sure someone could use your help right now. Who knows, we might find your mom in the way."** She said and took the boy's hand. Now, just how the hell would she manage to keep this boy from doing anything stupid, now that she encouraged him?

> > > And this sounds to me like Iago can troll around for a bit. The perks of owning a clinic! >:D > > > > Aaaaand Juliet is not that good with boys :3 > > Juliet X Iago = OTP > Just saying. Oh, this will be fun. Iago would try his best to scare Juliet with his spooky knife stories. xD

> > Dislikes: Trash, bugs, stay at home and do nothing, sharp and pointy things, meanies. > > Oh dear. Her and Lucy are going to have to have a collective freak out over knives/syringes and the like some time xD And this sounds to me like Iago can troll around for a bit. The perks of owning a clinic! >:D