Old Amsterdam

Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

@PlatinumSkink
Haven't heard back in the discord, so dropping this here:

Official call-out for the City Event. 5 says to update or contact me. I'd like to not hold everyone up for too much longer now that the holidays are over.

World of Light

Zer0

Level 2 - (3/20) EXP
Location: 1-1, Canyon Exit
Word Count: 215

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Zer0 was pleased to note that his shots hit where he wanted, but was mildly disappointed at the apparent lack of his skills beyond decepti0n. b0re should have made those shots more than enough to kill such meager Badasses.

He was coming closer to the ground now as the idiotic creatures decided to become Suicide Psychos before he could even process the change in behavior. His visor popped a '0w0' as he braced himself. The explosion went off as he was coming down, slowing his descent mildly as the shockwave nearly knocked him unconscious, and he landed on the backside the crater with a simple roll to his feet. Sword out he looked around before relaxing. They seemed to be in the clear, at least. He took a few moments to pull bits of shrapnel from his body, lazily tossing the pieces behind him.

;)

"Badasses go boom.
Their attempts at destruction
Were all for naught, ha!"

Carefully he walked back towards the mercenary as he made to crush the odd little ball thing in his hand. He seemed fairly unhurt, which was good for teamwork, and Zer0 decided that he'd work alongside this man for the immediate future.

"Vault Hunter, you
Have my loyalty. Badass
Verified teamwork."

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

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Torrent would've opened her eyes if she could have as she was pulled back from the brink. She was in agony with only her mouth left as a sense. She couldn't see, hear, or use her nose. Nostril? Whatever. All she had were her memories and the system messages.

She was still in trouble. She could feel movement around her as little jolts of pain rocked into her at every turn as her body moved from breathing or outside influence. This pain was maddening, but she fought against it. Carefully she swallowed as she considered what to do.

She'd finally gotten that response she had been searching for. Not weak. Strong. She'd remember that for the rest of her life. However short that was looking to be.

She couldn't speak, attempting such bought pain in her raw throat, which left her little in the way of options.

She was splitting apart, she could feel it. Which wasn't good because -

Wait. Splitting apart. Skin. Could she take this opportunity to use that Shed Skin ability? If she could do that then she could move easier, get her senses back too.

Hissing from the pain and effort Torrent focused on moving her body in a way to exaggerate the splitting. She'd force herself out of her own skin somehow, she couldn't just sit here and wait for some two-bit predator to show up and eat her. She wasn't prey! She was the predator here, damnit!

Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

Wards: Enemies Within

@yoshua171@Gardevoiran@BCTheEntity@Lugubrious

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As Elliot declared himself a failure Lillian shook her head against his chest. "You're not a failure," she said softly. "I couldn't even kill myself right. If either of us is a failure it'd be me."

He was struggling against her and she was both afraid to let go and afraid to maintain contact. They weren't so different, were they? They'd both had it hard and that wall that separated them from others had gotten in the way again.

How terrible.

"Please don't leave," she murmured as she released her grip and stepped away awkwardly. Alessa was talking but she hadn't really heard much of anything from her. And Kendall too. Her face flushed a little as she cleared her throat. Thankfully this was when Evelyn stepped in and directed everyone back to the task at hand, to which Lillian silently mouthed a 'thank you' at the older girl. Hurriedly wiping at her face she took a deep breath before letting it out slowly.

"Okay. Okay. Yeah. Let's do this," she said, seemingly to herself. In truth she was still feeling a little raw from Elliot's initial jabs and more than a little emotional from this little scene. She was just happy that they'd at least made a start and that no random bystanders had been around for all of this. Which was a little weird, actually, now that she actually noticed it. It was almost like that calm silence before a big rain... She really hoped that wasn't a metaphor for their mission. Because that would be horrible. With that parting thought she took the first step back towards the HQ.

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Entering the HQ building all together would be a terrible idea. While traffic might be light this morning it wouldn't do to risk giving away their identities somehow.

But that's why there was the back entrance. Slipping into the parking garage and heading down to the second floor there was a fairly boring looking door with a passcode and watchful camera. Quickly entering in their weekly authorization code let them open the door and slip inside into a small little hallway that was pretty scarce. Following that would get them to the internal checkpoint where they would then, again, provide authorization through retina scans before entering the building proper.

From there it was a simple matter of going to the Wards HQ where they could pull off their deceit. With Decoy informed and watching, it was up to them to be convincing.

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Zer0

Level 1 - (8/10) EXP
Location: 1-1, Canyon
Word Count: 234

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As soon as the little remote appeared, Zer0 knew what was coming. He immediately dived forward, scooting forward with the shockwave as it passed him, and looked up to see a rocket get fired his way.

Why did they always want to use rockets? As if the Hyperion Hawks weren't bad enough about using elemental rocket launchers. But these weren't Hyperion, they weren't even Torgue, let alone a Maliwan. Almost idly he decided to go for a proper challenge.

What better challenge than to return a projectile to sender? It'd be just like the Antagonist shield... But more badass! Only a Vault Hunter could be a real badass!

But this wasn't like a normal rocket. He couldn't just flip it back at them, he suspected, and he didn't feel like being blown up again.

Fucking Jack. Stupid bastards with stupid explosives.

Zer0 ran at the rocket, deftly jumping over it and using the ensuing blast to push him up into the air. He would've smiled of he could've as he pulled out his sniper and began to fire at the cart from above as the merc started firing below him.

He couldn't be certain but his forward momentum in the air might be able to close the distance enough for him if this damn cart didn't just explode like it was supposed to.

"Falling through the air
My bullet a meteor
To bring extinction."

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

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For one glorious moment Torrent was enjoying the fight. A new for had appeared and was legitimately giving them a quick little issue and in just a minute it was going to be -

Pain. Pain. PaIn. Agony. She screamed but she's couldn't.

WARNING: YOUR HP IS LOW!
YOU ARE BURNING SEVERELY!
YOU HAVE ONE HEALTH POINT REMAINING!
YOU ARE DYING--

Obtained Item: Baked Topapo x2

System:Torrent

Nononononononsgkklp9gswy9jvsy

Fire burning melting loss can't thought it's wrong all busy terror

Scared

Dying

Can't
Need more stop no plea

Broke missing lost mommy where kill you not fair not wright mesh fear

WARNING: YOUR HP IS LOW!
YOU ARE BURNING SEVERELY!
YOU HAVE ONE HEALTH POINT REMAINING!
YOU ARE DYING--

System:Torrent

YOU ARE DYING--

System:Torrent

DYING--

System:Torrent

D
E
A
T
H

Suffering no not don't stop please

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Darkness. Blissful darkness as her mind fled the horrors of her body. She was going to die. She couldn't believe it. Even as she had thrashed in torment, her mind fleetingly grasping at understanding, it had seemed almost unreal. But she knew this darkness and what it brought far too well.

She was going to die. A final end, perhaps. The bastard Demon King hadn't even felt fit to answer her demands... She didn't expect him - it - to save her.

She didn't want to be saved. She wanted to survive through her own means. All that anger had to be worth something! DAMNIT WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE?

Her body fell still.

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Zer0

Level 1 - (7/10) EXP
Location: 1-1, Lower Canyon
Word Count: 269

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Zer0 looked around as a question mark popped from his visor as the mad laughing returned. Almost comically his head followed the mine as it was thrown before it suddenly disappeared and the one question mark became three. He almost missed all the enemy running away and Death sprinting on after them as the mines started falling. Who the hell did these people think they were? BewmBoom? Fucking explosive obsessed little psychos.

He took off after the merc, visible, since he seemed to have some way of detecting the hidden explosives. No point in risking his own skin, as they say, if he didn't have to!

But then the merc, for some fucking reason, decided to blow their surprise advantage when they finally caught up to the remnants of the horde. Might be as dumb as Brick was big if this was the norm for this guy.

The situation wasn't ideal by any means, especially thanks to the lost advantage, and that meant one thing for Zer0: stealth. Disappearing from view he tried to help the foolish merc by killing the enemies he stunned, breaking his stealth in the process and taking his own share of impacts, but it was quickly apparent that this was the wrong focus. Why focus on the grunts when you could take down a Badass? He'd gotten caught up in the blood when the challenge was right there.

He disengaged quickly, moving forward with his superior agility, slicing through the crowd on the way. He kept half his attention out for whatever was throwing those mines, whatever Badass that he needed to take down.

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

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Torrent was idly shocked at the reply and the forcefulness of the warning. So others had been trying to contact this being as well? That way oddly disturbing. She definitely hadn't been praying. Who the hell was the weirdo praying?

Her thoughts were interrupted by the appearance of the large beetle as she uncovered the... Things. TOPAPOS? Whatever. Enemy.

Torrent hissed at Mourningstar tacked the thing and Oberon fired something at it. They were too close, but....

Moving quickly, hoping that the beetle would be sufficiently distracted by the others, she moved to the other side so that her attack wouldn't harm them. Hopefully. Concentrating she tried to channel a Fireball from her mouth instead of above her as it had done before, wanting to hit the side of the insect with the fire.

With that cast she went for the only thing she knew: bloody, angry combat. Darting in towards its legs she planned to severe them with her teeth and claws and venom.

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@Delta44
I've been suicidal for almost 15 years, but...

If you can portray the suicide aspect accurately and with taste....I won't have an issue with it.

If you don't, however, I will be dropping a message here.

Either way, thank you for the notice.

Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

Wards: How Do You Like Your Coffee?

@yoshua171@Gardevoiran@BCTheEntity@Lugubrious

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Lillian froze as Elliot replied, tensing as his words struck at tender parts of her past. Tears dropped into her hot chocolate, slowly but consistently, as he left. She didn't register Kendall's question, her mind replaying his words in a circle in her head.

It was hard, didn't he get it? Didn't he get that reaching out across a gap that he had made was impossible? She wasn't strong enough for that! Her fists clenched under the table, shaking, as the tears fell faster.

Didn't he get she didn't want to be alone? She didn't want to - she wasn't....

She took a shuddering breath as Alessa spoke up and Evelyn left, failing to center herself or calm the guilt. She had Alessa, but for how long? She didn't have anyone else. She didn't know how to prove she didn't hate him when he wouldn't even let anyone try.

He was right, wasn't he? She was weak. She'd always been weak. She stood up suddenly, wiping at her wet face, as she came to a decision she didn't even know she was making until it hit her.

She just wouldn't be weak anymore. Problems solved.

It really was... That easy.

The tears still falling she motioned for the other two to follow. She caught Evelyn saying something about a gap before she planted herself right in front of Elliot. Stepping closer, looking up at him, she let out a shuddering breath.

"You're right. You're an asshole, and you're just as bad as I am, but we're going to go back to HQ, convince this backstabbing jerk that he can be important for once, and we're going to leave a mark against the Community. Today," she said with a surprisingly steady voice. "You don't know anything about me either, Elliot, and you've never tried. From the day I joined until now you've always purposely avoided me. Well no more. Cause damnit I'm tired of crying and being the weak link. I don't know how to bridge gaps or make friends or be a hero but..." She moved, wrapping her arms around his midsection in an awkward hug. "I'm sorry for my part in making you feel like I did for all those years. I understand if I can't fix it, but I want to."