RoccanIronclad

The Void Lurkers

I would like to ask where is this world technologically?

The Void Lurkers

I would like to be included in this, I have a couple thoughts.

Sol City [Modern Slice of Life] . (CHAPTER ONE COMPLETED!) . ARCHIVED

Milo Ventri

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Milo smiled a bit at Paiges eventual forfeit on the whole aversion to carrying a knife, "At least for now."

He chuckled a bit as he set the sheathe down while she looked at the blade. Milo knew that time was starting to run a bit thin, so he looked at his clock, four forty, twenty minutes til Jackie said he would arrive, and twenty minutes til showtime. Milo wasn't sure how well he was gonna do at keeping cool, he knew he had to get Jackie to do something that would incriminate himself, talk about something that he shouldn't. Milo looked back to Paige.

"Alright, I think it's showtime, I need to get out to the shop, you just wait here and try not to drink all my sports drinks." as he grabbed his own bottle and started to walk out to the shop floor. The shop was still warm and smelled of fire and steel, Milo sat at his table and pulled out his longsword, he set himself to engraving the blade with intricate design, the light ping of this hammer and chisel the next twenty minutes pass by without a sound other than his own and soon the trance like state is broken by the sound of the door.

"Milo! Hey buddy, man I am so glad you decided to keep going man, my employers really want to keep you around, I mean come on, they gave you the deal of a lifetime." Jackie said as he entered the room, he turned the open sign to closed and moved toward Milo, "Buddy, I have this girl back at HQ she makes up some coke that gets shit done, I mean, come on, we are going to be like co workers now for real." Jackie always had this super jovial attitude and as he sat on the stool opposite the table, "Ah but anyway, I need to get a new handgun from you."

Milo set his hammer and chisel down and looked up at the greasy mobster, Milo was already feeling his skin burn with anticipation, this was not going to be easy, but he felt that he had to do this, there was no other way to move past it if he didn't. "Jackie, I'm not sure what I'm being offered is a job, I think it is more like slavery."

Jackie put his hand to his chest and feigned insult, "Milo, come on, look, I know you have been pretty staunch on this but I told you before, you get a lot out of this, more than just a little protection, you come back with me and we get you set up with the best tools, none of this junkyard scrap you have been working with" he made wide gestures to all of Milos tools as he spoke. "I mean you could put out really good stuff, no need for licensing, nothing, I know guys like you, you want to get further, prove how good you are, you could be the next Samuel Colt, design something really effective, change the whole game."

Milo tried to hide that he really did want all of that, his tools weren't the best, he could buy new stuff but he always worried about using the money Jackie gave him, but it was the challenge at the end, you could be, Milo was sure that was true, but what he could also become was a criminal, a murderer, a monster, what good would come from making his name like that. "I can do all that myself, I don't need a criminal organization squeezing me for all I have, so I am not making this gun, or anymore for them."

Jackie closed his eyes for a second, "Come on Milo, you know that isn't gonna fly, we need the guns, you make the guns, and really I have been your biggest advocate here, as much as the big wigs like your products, they really hate this attitude, they just wanted to beat you into this but I kept saying you would come around, don't make me a liar." Jackie looked at Milo with a sarcastically concerned look.

Milo knew something like that would come up, of course they would threaten to rough him up until he caved, but he wasn't going to let it happen that way, that is why Paige was here, to end this, to show them he wasn't running. "listen to me Jackie, I am not going to do it, you and your bosses, can shove it."

Jackie just shook his head, "Man Milo, I really liked you man, and you go and treat me this way. I am pretty disappointed, cause now I gotta make you pay for the protection you had so far."

"You wouldn't dare." Milo said as he took the hilt of his sword in hand and looked him over.

Jackie set his hand on the table and revealed a small handgun "Don't make this hard Milo, just take it all back, we can forget this ever happened, and you get to live the easy life, come on man."

Milo felt his heart sink, he knew it was coming but you never handle it well, he looked down the barrel of this gun, he dug his own proverbial grave and potentially his real one, but he had to keep going, Paige didn't have anything yet to come in on yet. "What? you think that shooting me is gonna make me help, it will make me dead."

"Well Milo, I don't want to kill you, but I sure as hell will if you don't work with me here, I really would rather just put a couple holes in you spots that you can fix, that won't hinder you from working too long, but if you decide to make this hard, well, I am not going to try and have a real fight."

Milo kept his hand on the sword, but soon the crack of the gun and the burning pain in his right arm nearly made him drop it, Jackie had took a shot and grazed his arm, "I'm fucking serious Milo, you hard headed bastard, you just needed to play ball, now put the fucking sword down, didn't anyone ever tell you not to bring a sword to a gun fight." Jackie snapped as Milo looked past Jackie to where the door that Paige was behind was, but he reached under his table for the hand cannon just in case.

@Pilatus

The Ordinary Mythical Academy

I just want one game where this power gets used, I am constantly making characters like him and the games always die off.

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Phew... It's up now, I am also having a time keeping up with this pace, gonna have to re read the posts I missed, possibly edit if I missed something.

as I thought I did have to edit something in I missed the salt bit.

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Ash Ventri

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A woman approached Ash, she had essentially just slid into the clearing out of nowhere, and then began a b-line right to him, he could tell just as she had, they were the same, both wolves, she approached in a nonthreatening manner, but they always did, never wanting you to get scared and run right off the bat. Ash felt his skin tighten further, the armor beginning to form out of sheer instinct, he wanted to just run, to just get out of dodge and not confront the other wolf at all, however just as she approached and began to speak something happened, it was like something had taken hold of her and replace the person he was looking at.

A small girl approached him as well, the one that had been riding a snake earlier, she came and introduced herself as Red and ask who was possessing the wolf. A possession, his mother had told him something about that before but not enough to claim to understand what he was looking at. His confusion was actually lowering his anxiety, and the armor that had been creeping up his hands and feet was retracting and he had to almost snap himself back to reality to reply to Red.

"Ashley, Ashley Ventri, I'm... very confused."

Ash wasn't used to people let alone so many different kinds of beings all of whom are massive or terrifying or just odd, and as much as he was scared and confused, he was feeling like he was still hidden, a footnote in this book of madness, and for now, that is exactly what he wanted, all that he had to worry about was this wolf, when this spirit releases her, what will she do, and will he have to fight already? Another of the congregation seemed to have a plan to see that scenario unfurl as what appeared to be salt was being dumped on the wolf, salt was a spiritual deterrent, or at least that is what his mother always said.

@The One @PharaohAtem

Sol City [Modern Slice of Life] . (CHAPTER ONE COMPLETED!) . ARCHIVED

Milo Ventri

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Milo laughed a bit at the comment about him and girl scout cookies, to be fair, there was a box of samoas in the cupboard, but he wasn't gonna say it now. She patted his stomach, he had actually gained back a significant amount of mass since the accident, his upper body mostly, he probably had gained ten pounds or so from when he was last in competition, however it was muscle from his labor intensive job as well as his still ever present training, of all the things his physique was the last thing he was worried about yet still the blow landed all the same, "Ow, my pride." He groaned sarcastically, as he pulled a drink out of the case as well before shutting the fridge.

Milo took a decent drink before setting down the bottle and taking out the knife, still placed within a leather sheathe, "Yeah, I figured you would likely come with out one of these, so I figured this one would be a good one to have just in case."

Milo had been an apprentice smith for much of his childhood, originally from Texas his family had a horse ranch and smithing was just a trait that was needed on it, when they moved to Delta, they may not have needed to forge shoes and nails but the trade had stuck for him and he had been making blades for years. He and Ana had always had a love for the artistry of bladesmithing, and had tried to get Paige to take a knife as well, though it never took, but he never stopped trying. He held out the knife by the blade so she could take the handle if she wanted.

@Pilatus

The Ordinary Mythical Academy

Well, silent and scared for his life, Ash has arrived with all but a whisper.

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Ash Ventri

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Ash Waited patiently, he watched as the numerous other students had arrived and began to chit chat, going on like the world around them was putty they could shape as they wished, he had no such delusions, this was a cold and dangerous place to him and every being that stood there represented to him a threat that could, without a doubt, lead to pain for him. Ash could already feel the skin beneath his fur tightening and the plates instinctively beginning to form however he tried to focus on the words his mother gave him before leaving, "It will be okay, darkness always gives way." He tried to breath as his form reverted to his human shape. Good always comes through, we just have to wait it out. he repeated it in his mind like a mantra as he stepped forward into the clearing, he was wearing his favorite coat, a heavy carhart that his father had gave him when they found him, dark brown from time.

The others were still speaking and introducing each other, a child riding a large snake, a horse, many other human shaped entities, the fear began to set again however the moment he began wonder take in the scent of the area, there were no wolves here, not yet, what would they do? How would they react to him? The idea of a roommate now weighed on him more than it had ever before, if he were roomed with a wolf from his old pack they would surely recognize him wouldn't they? He had to stay calm, there wasn't any here yet so for now he would just have to stay quiet.

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@EchoicChamber

She would be in for some trouble if she was paired with Ash.