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###**Keith Knight, Eclipsed Tower** --- Keith found himself falling. He felt the wind as it brushed past his closed eyelids, he instinctively put tried to shield his face with his hands. The sensation was familiar to him, the events of the previous day where he had slain the dragon were still fresh in his mind. But as he opened his eyes, he saw that this was no memory. He was somehow back in Deep Ground, at the same spot he had died the previous day, 50 feet in the air. As he plummeted, several questions surfaced in his minds, quickly putting them aside, he took in his surroundings to get his bearings. Looking at his immediate surroundings, he realized that the building's he had passed while riding on the dragon were now almost rubble. He remembered the forum posts about the destruction of the green city, but he hadn't been alive to see it. Then he remembered what else the Green City had become. A massive dissolution nest. Looking down, he saw a relatively small group of gelatinous dissolutions had gathered below him. These dissolutions were mainly harmless, all they could normally do was chase after players and knock them over. _All right,_ He thought, _Meteor Slam._ The ability didn't activate. _What the-?_ Then he looked at himself and he realized, he didn't have any shield. And that wasn't all, he was only wearing his butler uniform which he wore for his job. _Damn, no time to think._ He watched as he hurtled towards the slimes below, and he braced himself for impact. He hit the slime feet first, but the slime's body made them immune to damage from a falling object. He quickly sank into the slime and he saw the asphyxiation symbol appear in front of him, indicating that he really was in Deep Ground. The slime's body suddenly convulsed and spit him out onto the dusty ground in front of it. He supposed he should count himself lucky. Dissolution slimes were extremely rare, mainly due to the fact that they posed almost no challenge at all. They never tried to use their bodies to asphyxiate you, as your presence in their body acts as a toxin for them. For the most part all they could do was try and use their mass to knock you into holes and over cliffs, but there were none nearby. Their health points were usually low as well, a person of any level could defeat them without even using weapons, but they gave no experience points because they were so easy to defeat. Getting up, Keith strafed around the gelatinous creature and landed a solid punch into its side. It did a decent amount of damage for an unarmed attack, but it did no where near as much as it should have considering he was supposed to be a scrapper. It was likely his stats had remained with his avatar, and the damage he had dealt was just his physical strength. Nevertheless, any kind of damage output was enough to kill a slime so he quickly finished it off with a few more punches. Looking around, he saw only piles of rubble and no more nearby threats, but just to be safe he found a place in the rubble to hide for a few minutes as he gathered his thoughts. When it was announced that school would end prematurely due to the storm, Keith had been in his dorm having almost finished enough work for the week after this week. He was trying on his new butler uniform he was to wear for his new job. There happened to be a Butler café which was hiring people to work for them on the island. Keith needed to work to secure his future in case Deep Ground wouldn't work out. His parent's inheritance money was saved solely for his tuition fees and future bills and they were barely enough as they were. He needed an income so he could live for long enough to get a job if academia didn't work out. He needed to start as early as possible, but Purple Crown was situated on an isolated island. And even though it had it's own restaurants and cafés, they rarely ever hired as their staff were never usually fired. However, this café in particular had openings and Keith had gladly taken the job. He was supposed to try his uniform to see whether or not it fit correctly, but for some reason he had fallen asleep and now he had woken up inside of Deep Ground, which should have been impossible considering he was on death cooldown. _I wonder if it's just me._ he thought grimly. Bringing up his interface, he suddenly noticed he had a message, from Silver Jester. After reading it, he felt more confused than anything. Who was the Silver Jester and how did he have the power to do this? Surely if something like this happened, the World Interface would be taken down by the government. _Then again, all of those kings died and the government didn't stop anything._ He thought grimly. After he was confident he couldn't glean anything else from the message or his surroundings, he stood up and dusted himself off. _I need to escape this city._ He thought. There were no dissolutions close by, but he knew they couldn't have been far away. From what he had learnt the previous day, the Green City had become the spawn point for a huge amount of dissolutions. Staying in the city was tantamount to suicide. Looking at his interface, he opened his map screen and he decided to plot a course that took him mostly through ruins of buildings so he could avoid detection as much as possible. The place he was closest to was the Badlands. Not the best choice he had here, but according to the updated map of the Green City, it was the only place he could go that wouldn't put him on open plains. The Badlands were a place where wild dissolutions ran amok, but the Green City was now quite possibly a worse place to be in. As he ran over the route in his mind, he suddenly noticed he still had an inventory screen. Quickly switching to it, he found that he had plenty of spare armour and weaponry. However, almost all of it had class and stat requirements and a quick look at his status screen showed him he had no class, and he was level 0. _Just my luck._ He thought. Quickly sorting through his inventory, he found a few pieces of equipment which had low stat requirements and no class requirements. He found some heavy duty boots which anyone could wear, some heavy armour gauntlets which would be good for climbing perhaps and a fairly decent level 0 claymore which did the most damage out of the weapons he could wield. **"That will have to do I suppose."** He said with a sigh. Closing his interface, he looked towards the next landmark along his route, a nearby office building and set off at a sprint.

I'm going to change my character's last name to Lantze because I couldn't come up with it last night and you might not notice if I don't tell you

**Name:** Altzer Lantze **Appearance:** (I Don't have a picture.) Variable (explained in powers). Altzer has short black hair and blue eyes. He mainly goes around wearing a small white triangular poncho sort of thing. The poncho's sides only come up to his elbows, and the point only comes to his waist. The triangle is a bit smaller on the back. Under the poncho, he wears a black, long sleeve polyester shirt and some white cargo pants, that stop at the ankle, the same colour as his poncho. He also wears some thick white gloves which and some black boots which look something like [this](http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/9/90628/1824995-541px_mantreads.png). He also wears a white scarf that covers his neck. He is usually 5' 8" but on occasion he changes his height to suit his purposes. **Gender:** Male **Age:** 15 **Occupation:** Student **Personality:** Altzer is a bright sort of person and boundlessly optimistic no matter the situation. However, that's all that can really be said about his personality. At times, he will be silent for even hours on end; but in the very next minute, he could suddenly take every chance he could get to talk to someone. Some would say he was heavily inconsistent, using his studies as an example; sometime he would study furiously for a night or two and suddenly slow down or stop altogether. On some tests he would get the highest in the class, but on others he would seemingly purposely get every question wrong. The only thing that truly remains constant about his personality is his bright demeanour and optimism. **Power:** Altzer's power is the ability to fully change his body into particles that resemble photons. Altzer doesn't exactly have complete control over his body's photons, as when he changes into his photon form, a large amount scatter like normal photons do leaving a sizeable flash while the main mass will move according to his will. Altzer can reform his body at will and all of his photons will return to him to recreate a physical form. If he controls it well enough, he can change his appearance freely, restricted only by what he can imagine. **Strengths:** - Can change into any form he can imagine as long as it's mass is equal to or less than his original - Can move extremely rapidly and can go anywhere light can go - Excess photons float freely around him, making him glow **Weaknesses:** - If unchecked, his power could send him great distances without meaning to - If panicked, or stressed, or something similar, it becomes difficult to control the photon form - Controlled mostly by feeling, so it will take time to learn complex manoeuvres - In photon form, he can change the direction he travels but not very well - In photon form, he will bounce off of any solid object just as photons do **Color:** Dirty White **Bio:** He currently lives with adopted parents. It is unknown when exactly he was orphaned as he was moved from orphanage to orphanage for a while before being adopted. He changed his name as soon as he could, begging his parents to do so, as the name he used was not the one on his birth certificate. If asked why, he would simply say: "I already chose my name before I found out what my biological parents named me." He now lives happily with his adopted parents, as a regular student. **Other:** Altzer doesn't exactly have any goals or aspirations in particular. He isn't really in it for the wish, he only really wants to keep his power. If he thought about it, he'd probably just give the wish over to someone who knew what they wanted. Altzer also usually prefers to take the appearance of a child, because it frees up some mass he can add to his muscles for better climbing and running ability. It's also easier to escape in and running fast is all he can really do. His name is strange because he moved into Japan from overseas. He is fluent in Japanese because he moved while he was young, but his actual biological ethnicity is unknown. Oh, and contrary to what my signature says, I'm not the Juggernaut. **Relationships:** Nothing yet.

Is there still any room for extra people? Because I really like the idea of this and I want to join

Me neither

Light hearted for me would mean Keith being cute or weird I suppose. Can't wait for arc 3!

You should probably get updated on some current events before joining up. Currently we have just about three factions. 2 of them are allied against the third. The first two are StuCorp and the FBI, both having allied together after a broadcast turned the public population of LA against meta-humans, and the third faction is Aperture which has been revealed to be where the broadcast originated from and are the antagonists for the current arc. The Broadcast led to metas becoming hated among the civilian population of LA, and the situation worsened after a meta killed a whole lot of protesters this one time and then disappeared. Currently, almost all metas are in hiding including all of our PCs technically. On Aperture's side, we have about 5 PCs, in StuCorp we have maybe 5 active PCs, and in the FBI we have approximately 4 PCs except the FBI isn't currently doing very much. There are two separate teams in the Aperture metas and one mad scientist lady with her army of super mutants. One of the teams is a bodyguard-special asset team, and the other is a sort of a stealth team, with one illusionist and one dream person. All 5 active StuCorp PCs are currently in a conference to decide how to raid Aperture's super-prison but a few characters have to be killed off so the meeting is getting raided instead. That's just about all that's really happening, if that helps a bit.

### Chapter 1 - Part 3: Tidings Edit: Added stuff for Eden, read next post first. As Alto walked, he heard some heated discussion. Mostly from Nuul, mainly from Nuul. He wasn't entirely sure what Nuul was saying though, because he was muttering all dark-like to himself. The other heated discussion he was hearing came from a small group just around the corner which Alto was peeking at. Two of them looked to be extremely hot-headed, and if Alto didn't know any better he would've assumed they were siblings perhaps. The third guy however... As Alto looked at the third guy more, he couldn't shake the feeling. The third guy didn't really look like it, and he didn't seem to act like it either. But to Alto at least, that third guy seemes to have an aura of 'pretentious'. He didn't look pretentious or sound pretentious at all, but Alto couldn't feel anything else from the guy. There was also another girl there, who seemed to be _majorly_ hot-headed. She seemed to speak very quickly, and he wasn't entirely sure what she was doing there. Then again, he wasn't sure what any of them were doing there, or why he was there either. Suddenly, he caught movement at the edge of his vision. Turning quickly, he saw... No one. But then he looked back and suddenly there was some random kid approaching the group? The kid was very young, and well dressed as far as he could tell. She looked to be wearing the school uniform of a private school. It was fairly expensive looking, and it looked to be immaculate. Both of her socks were at a perfectly equal height, her shoelaces were perfectly proportioned and tied, and the back of her blazer looked to be completely smooth and devoid of all wrinkles. As he watched, the girl walked into the middle of the four and turned to address the non-pretentious guy. **"I have a warning for you, child of light."** She said. It sounded like she was in some sort of trance, as if she wasn't really there. As she spoke, he felt her words were already in his mind somehow and he'd only now remembered them, as if someone was shining a torch into his head. _**"Keep your angels near, and enemies far, unless you can outshine them all by far. For the Darkness creeps, while your angel sleeps, and the ether will come billowing after."**_ Then, the girl turned to address the first female member of the four. **"Another for you, child of fire:"** She started, Her voice had changed suddenly, and somehow grew intense as if someone had lit a raging fire and npw he couldn't ignore it. _**"You have less enemies than you may know, but all will one day, colours show. Take comfort in this at least, you are not the one who knows the least."**_ After she finished her second cryptic statement, she turned to the third of the four. **"A warning for you, child of water."** She said, her words flowed like water in his mind. _**"If you have patience, then you need not seek, the secrets none were meant to keep. Above all, remember this: your destiny, you cannot miss."**_ Finally, she turned to the last of the four. **"The last for you, child of earth."** She said finally. _**"Legend or not, it matters little, continue as you are and you will be the most brittle. Victory comes at a price most steep, but would you prefer the inevitable sleep?"**_ Her warnings stuck in his mind now, refusing to move. Solid like the earth. With that, the girl turned on her heels and walked away from the four as she disappeared into the surrounding crowds. As Alto turned away from the four, he suddenly heard the girl's voice, barely a whisper in his ear. **"There is no warning for you, child of dark.**" She said, **"Take also the other warnings to heart."** He whipped around, trying to catch a glimpse of her again, but there was no one there.

Alright, updates on the character situation: I want wind dragon to be antagonistic so I'm not going to be posting the character sheet. Mainly it's because I've been playing too much fallout 3 recently but that's not the entire reason for it. To compensate I'm going to throw a few curveballs sooner or later.

Considering some mafia dudes are going to raid something we're doing, you could in fact take the role of one of those mafia dudes who happens to awaken a meta power of some description. The only thing about that is all the mafia dudes attacking us have chest busters that burst when they die so there's that I suppose.