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"It's easy for you to say," Aqua responded to Aeschel. "You guys are all colossal. I don't have that height advantage." She slid deeper into her sleeping bag, making it look like she, the shark, was being eaten by a shark. Quite ironic, actually. She heard Aeschel wish the small group luck for their initiation. "Hopefully, I won't need it, but thanks. You too."

Upon hearing Kobalt's quick words of inspiration, the girl laughed and gently punched Kobalt in the leg, still wrapped up in her sleeping bag. "Yes, Professor Zaffre," she said with a teasing wink hidden behind her mess of hair, and she laid back.

Kobalt brought Aurelia to her attention. The girl was leaning against a wall, reading a book. "Yeah, we spoke. Aurelia...Pirouette? I forget her last name." Aqua would have called her over, but the girl seemed to be invested in her book. "Listen, guys, I'm gonna hit the sac. Long day tomorrow." Aqua gave one last stretch of her arms before curling up in her sleeping bag. It took a while, thanks in part to the rock-hard floor, but eventually she was lulled to sleep.

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Aqua awoke the next morning, slipping out of her sleeping bag and into the bathroom, where she changed into her standard combat clothes, a sleek black top that left her arms free (see appearance) and similarly black pants and boots. She quickly brushed her teeth before proceeding to the dining hall.

If dinner the previous night was a spectacle, breakfast was absolutely ridiculous. Pancakes, waffles, eggs, sausage, bacon...anything imaginable, it was there, on the table, all mouth-wateringly delicious. After consuming a copious amount of food, Aqua proceeded to the locker room, where she finally retrieved Deep Impact from her locker. She gave her weapon- currently in its compact mace form- a hug, before proceeding to head outdoors to the airship that was supposed to pick them up.

This airship was unlike the one that brought them to Beacon - it was small, compact, like a helicopter. It was lined with seats on the side. Sitting down, Aqua took several deep breaths. This was the moment she was waiting for.

For the first time, Aqua thought about her potential teaming situation. To be honest, she was really content with all the possible options the night before, but now with it being so imminent, she wondered who she'd be with.

"Kobalt and Cinna seem like really capable Huntsmen, and Daedalus from what I remember is a talented fighter. I haven't really gotten a read on Aurelia or Xinyue yet, and Aeschel...he's better than the rest of the guys in the Great Hall last night. If I get stuck with them, I might have to stab myself.

At that moment, Ozpin's voice blared through the midair P.A. system.

"Hello there, initiates. I hope you had a good night sleep. In a few minutes, we'll be starting the trial in the Emerald Forest, home to many dangers, but I'll reiterate that in a moment. Firstly, the rules. You will first be finding your partners. The rules for that are quite simple. Whoever you first make eye contact with will be your partner."

Talk about random.

"Your teams will consist of two partnerships joined together. Within the forest is a ruin. Find the ruin, and take a relic back with you. You and your team will be determined by which relic you take."

Again, Ozpin seemed to like random things.

"After finding your teams, you will go to the coordinates sent to your scrolls. This will be no easy task. The forest is full of Grimm, and they will not show mercy. Work together, fight with both your minds and bodies, and don't push yourselves. And most importantly, good luck."

Though this process was random, Aqua felt good. She was ready.

A short pause occurred after the announcement, and then the voice came back. "Oh, and when I said a few minutes, I meant ten seconds ago."

Then, three things happened in quick succession. First, the floor beneath them retreated, leaving the future Huntsmen's feet dangling in the open air. Secondly, the chairs that they were all sitting in retreated into the wall. And lastly, they dropped.

Aqua felt the open air rush through her hair as she soared towards the Earth. Deep Impact was off her waistband and was now fully extended. With a spin of her fingers, the Dust canisters cycled about until a blue crystal was primed. Aqua then planted the trident into a tree, its prongs planting into a thick branch. Beautiful crystals of ice spread from it, stopping Aqua from flying right into the hard earth. She removed her weapon and landed on the ground.

Step 1- find a partner. Step 2- get to those ruins.

@Hero @Rex @AdmrlStalfos19 @Shadow Daedalus @Ithradine @DrTwit @AGenericUser

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I've realised my landing strategy might need clearing with @Agent 47 First. Is it ok if I alter my CS a bit to include a dust system in his legs? I was thinking of a gravity-dust powered iron-man style landing

@Shadow Daedalus

sure

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i'm gonna skip right to the action because let's face it this is the moment we've been waiting for.

REMEMBER guys you must bump into your designated partners in some way shape or form. work it out, idrc.

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does anybody want to keep this whole night thing going or should i timeskip after my post

i know everybody's waiting to start killin' shit after all and i have some ideas for the initiation i think so yah

⍝ I C O N ⍝ Human By Day, God By Night

⍝ PRESS A TO BEGIN ⍝

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⍝ The Origin ⍝

The story begins in the United States of America, in a small, sleepy suburban community in Delaware called Green Oak. Population no more than 5,000 for sure, most of the people in the town are pretty well-off. Sure, there are some homeless and some super-rich, but for the most part the town is pretty balanced. Crime is incredibly low, the landscape covered with both flora and fauna, and the people get along pretty well.

It’s here in Green Oak that Trapdoor Games was founded. Trapdoor Games was a small, indie game company that made it big off their last project. They announced their first major game 3 months before this tale begins, and to thank the people of Green Oak for supporting them, they announced they would give 6 Green Oak teens access to the demo version of their new game, Icon. Trapdoor was highly secretive about this project, and nobody knew a thing about the plot of the game, or anything about it, really.

And so, 6 randomly selected teens that attended GOHS (Green Oak High School) received a copy of the game. When they plugged the game into their Z-Box (I’m sorry), however, nothing happened. Just a blank screen. The 6 of them assumed that they had just been screwed out of the demo, but nobody bothered to report it. It was, after all, a free demo. It had cost them nothing but a minute of their lives.

Or so they thought.

When the 6 went to sleep later that night, they would enter a dream. At least, what they thought was a dream. But dreams generally aren’t so vivid. And dreams generally don’t have 5 of your other classmates also saying that this peculiar world, which looked like some sort of ancient Greek city like Athens, was also a dream. And the same dream, with the same people, certainly didn’t happen every. Single. Night.

The 6 soon found that every time they slept, they were transported to this fantasy world. They also soon found that this was likely the doing of the demo game that all received, in some way or another. And lastly, they also found that each of them, while in this world, had the power of a god.

That is the power of Icon, a game where you are the god, but this special version given to the 6 teens was certainly more than a game. It was another universe, hidden away from

What will they do with this newfound power? Conquer, or aid? And how will the 6 of them, all having great power at once, cope with each other interfering with their own image of the fantasy realm, both in real life, and at night?

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⍝ Summary / tl,dr ⍝

Basically, 6 guys from a suburban community get teleported to a magic world at night where they have great magical abilities. Not that hard.

This RP will center on both their life at day (you know, in school and etc.) and at night ('cuz magic). Each of them will get incredible abilities centered on an element (probably gonna go Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Light, and Darkness), but it’s not just like magic- they have total control of the element and are essentially gods, with very little to challenge them besides each other (and maybe some giants and shit here and there).

The RP'll start the day before the night where they go to Fantasy Land for the first time.

I’ll get more stuff about both Green Oak and Fantasy Land if this actually gets off the ground.

Feel free to claim an element right here and now, and ask questions. I’ll be around.

-a47

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yo kids are y'all still in

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So far, Beacon was going pretty smoothly. New people, and a whole ton of new experiences. She gave a curt nod to both Cinna and Aeschel, introducing herself to them. "Aquarius Haifisch, or Aqua.Pleasure's all mine." She smiled at all of them, and followed their gaze towards Daedalus. "Yeah, he's a cyborg. Something about an accident? We both went to Signal together, but we weren't exactly best buddies."

A new individual arrived to introduce herself. Aqua immediately felt chills down her arms. This girl was huge, maybe half a foot taller than Aqua herself. She blinked once, noticing the tiger ears. ”I’m Aqua. Would you mind if I asked you a question? As in, how the hell did you get so tall?”

@AGenericUser @Ithradine @DrTwit@AdmrlStalfos19

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Be up by end of tmrw

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@AGenericUser waitin' for you to post before I go

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Go post I'm impatient