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 Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:16 am
G.E.A.R.B.O.L.T may be big, but there is a place where everything eventually meets up. That place is the sewers. You'd be surprised see the sewers sees each coming day. Like any other underground area of the city, the deeper you go, the more ancient in technology it becomes. Many relics of the past are discovered and unraveled here as well as munch of G.E.A.R.B.O.L.T's history. Around midnight hours many faint sounds can be heard from underneath. Of course some claim that they are ghosts but jury's bets are on the Institute's cast outs. They are taken in by the Institute for experiments and then cast back down if the results are negative. Here these creatures roam aimlessly through the sewers, most of them failed experiments from previous projects. Researchers say these demons may have fallen with the rest of structure of G.E.A.R.B.O.L.T. It is their underworld. And they have lived here ever since the city existed. But for the Institute, it is moreover a prison to contain their from the public.
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:37 pm
IPC
Deep down below the creature would continue headbutting the wall. It's horns sending a force into the walls that would drown out the echoing of the pipes in the sewers. The beast's eyes held a feral yellow. It wasn't long until the mercenaries would arrive. Around the creature were skeletons of munch smaller creatures. Most of them who's bones seemed distorted and deformed. Soon a small sound clinking sound of bones being walked upon alerted the creatures ears. Once the shadow grew larger it was finally revealed that one lone mercenary decided to go ahead of the gang. Letting out a loud the creature sprang across the sewer floors, scraping against the metal underneath it's feet. It's claws etched out the closer came. "I found it, it's on..........!!" But it was too late, the mutant had already pounced on the man's chest, cracking four ribs and puncturing his right lung. As life began leaking away from the man's eyes the creature would let out another triumphant roar. With a slight dip of it's head, it began lapping up the freshly spilled blood from the wound, savoring the long waited taste of surface blood. Just before it could fully dine on it's newly captured prey, the sounds of more footsteps neared, causing the creature to let out a more territorial growl.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:29 pm
Kale hit the ground in the sewers and instantly rolled to his right. He placed his back against the wall and stood up. His left hand groped the wall searching for something while his eyes darted back and forth searching the dark halls for any signs of movement. Many would call Kale crazy for having his base in the sewers and he personally did not disagree with them.
His left hand touched a small box like shape and he pumped his seishou into it. The wall behind him indented and pulled itself away from the rest of the wall before sliding away revealing another dark hallway. He dated inside as the lack of seishou automatically shut the passageway behind him.
"God I hate this place. I really need a better base. Or a bigger bug zapper for the pests around this place," Kale said calmly as he walked down the corridor. He walked straight into a wall that was blocking his path." I really need lights in this damned hallway," Kale grumbled as he switched his crowbar to his left and and put his right hand out. He felt the right wall for a bit before he felt another small box-like shape and he proceeded to open the next door.
Once he was through the other door he let it close behind him and he sighed in relief. He was home. Kale turned around and felt around with his right hand again and found the next box. Once he was done activating it lights started to flicker on in certain areas of the, now revealed, cavernous area. The room looked no bigger than a normal home's living room but had a high ceiling and looked to be an abandoned storage area of some kind besides the items that Kale himself added. He smirked as he scanned the area and felt warm and fuzzy all over."I have got to be a total weirdo to think that this is inviting and homey but I have never been a normal person," Kale mused to himself. He had no friends so he really couldn't talk to many so he talked to himself along with the occasional argument.
He saw his work bench on his right along with his knife and sword rack next to it. He chuckled as he though about the sub-par bombs he could create out of normal, everyday things and how many time he had almost been on the receiving end of them. Then he spotted his armor. His pride and joy. The thing that nearly got him killed when he stole it." Good times. Good times," Kale smirked and started to walk up to the now illuminated armor.
The armor was a Navy blue with dark gray metallic buckles. The armor looked more like a spandex costume made of metal and styled to look like the ninja Kale had read about in a few stories his mom read him. "First daily training then to go play with the android again. That is if I can find him. God I hate my life sometimes," Kale sighed as he walked passed the armor towards another part of the sparsely lit room. He found his closet, which was more of a hole in the wall with a rod going from one end of the hole to the other.
He quickly switched out of the civilian clothes and put on a pair of black pants that allowed him movement but still conformed to most of his lower body. He then pulled over a black, long sleeved shirt that had a piece of cloth to go over the lower part of his jaw attached to it. He pulled the mask up over his nose and put on black socks to complete the look. He liked looking like the ninja from the stories so he made these clothes a must have on any mission where he couldn't have his armor.
Once he left his closet he went left and passed a dirty old vanity with a cracked mirror that had only a few wigs with different styles of hair. He also made a mental note to find a better supplier for his gear should he be able to since he only had two different colors of contacts. Kale knew he would need every color if he really wished to take his career to a new high.
He found a box against a wall near another door and pushed his seishou into it opening it revealing another room.On the other side of the door he activated the lights and started his mental routine for his daily exercises. As the lights illuminated this room it revealed the room to be just a few square feet bigger than the other room. The left side of the room was his sparing area, if he had a sparring partner. The right side however had two strange wooden logs with oddly places wooden poles sticking out of them. Each wooden log had four sections to it and the only section without the poles jutting out of them was the bottom one.
He quickly went into his routine of exercises. Push-ups,sit-ups, vertical push-ups, and a variety to others before he moved over to the logs that were so close to each other as to only allow a few centimeters between them. He hit one of the poles on the top section of the log on his left and the section spun sending another pole at him. He blocked then pushed the offending pole away from himself before another came at him. He started this process with the right one and started pushing and blocking the revolving poles in a practiced manner befitting of a fighter of his skill.
After several moments of blocking,dodging and pushing the wooden poles he backed up and let the poles stop their revolutions. "Well its time for me to put on my armor and once again hunt my prey. I am really looking forward to this," Kale chuckled to himself as he left his training area to put his armor on.
He put on his armor and walked over to his weapon rack. He pulled off a harness meant to hold two swords two daggers and had various pouches for throwing knives, bombs, and the rest of his gear. He latched the harness to his body and filled it with two katanas with no hand guards and put two standard knives into the slots they belonged. He took ten throwing knives, two flash bombs, one regular bomb, and a vial of neuro-toxin and put them into the pouches that sat at his right and left hips for easy access. He left his hide-out ready to take on whatever he needed to to get to the android he had been hunting.
[Exit to Slums]
(sorry for the huge post but couldn't find a good pic for Kale's base so I had to describe it)
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:20 pm
 Hone;;
Hone took a few steps away from the ladders he had came down. He investigated the sewers around him. They were as dead looking as always; empty halls, rats, dirt and all of that. In position like this he could thank that he didn't have a sense of smell, he did know what kind of smell it was, but he didn't.. well, smell it.
Hone kept walking nonstop 'cause he knew where he had to go and how to get there, another good side in his robotic body. Lately he's gotten more and more used to his body, even thought he had owned this body three years already. After about ten minutes of walking, he heard low growl and noticed that the pipes on the wall shaked slightly. Hone knew that he should just run away, but his curiosity got ahead of him. He followed the pipes, with them it was pretty easy to navigate. Soon he saw a lots blood stains on the ground and little on the walls. This made Hone take few back steps, but before he could even run he noticed huge shadow on the wall.. And it obviously wasn't human's.
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:58 pm
Kαɢє ____ Kєєρєя σғ Sнα∂σωs Somewhere in the winding sewers, deep underground and long disregarded and forgotten by the city, a hatch opened. The hatch blended in with the floor, as a measure of defense. There was no latch, switch or handle to open the hatch from the top, and the hatch sealed itself securely if it was closed. Obviously, someone didn't want anyone to ever find their way into this hatch, but a person could leave if they so wished. No one knew why this hatch was there or where it led, but when the city was built this tunnel existed, and as it grew the tunnel stayed where it lay, never bothered by the outside world.
Centuries of dust, dirt and grime peeled and fell off the top of the hatch as it opened with a violent woosh of air escaping. The softest sounds of footsteps fell upon the dark tunnel, but no prints appeared in the dust. If one could see in the dark, they might see only the hatch opening, then shutting itself again, with nothing entering or exiting. The truth lie in the shadows, where one of the few legendary Night Walkers dwelled, fresh out of the tribal cavern.
Is this what the Upper World looks like? He thought, Well maybe it isn't so bad. I could get used to this. The person, or creature, or whatever it was, took his first step into the darkness of the tunnel. Down the hole a stretch was a single light, somehow lit without fire. Looking at it hurt his eyes (well, eye), but he ventured towards it, making no footprints where he trod, and barely any noise as well. It was a natural ability, from years of honing his skills at moving quietly it came naturally to him. Combined with his ability to blend with shadows he was undetectable, except to another Night Walker. He entered the light, and felt himself reshape instantly, feeling complete again, like a part of him had been missing. It took him a moment to realize that this light caused him to exit the shadow form, and decided thusly that this light should be avoided whenever possible.
Walking past the strange light he phased out of existence into the shadows again, following the winding route of the tunnel wherever it lead him, idly touching the edge of his bow that stretched around his side, the string pressed against his chest in the front.
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:40 pm
Kale dropped down into the sewers with a slight thump. He then covered himself in shadows but knew it would do little to hide him from the things down here. He then looked right and left before he decided to play a game of einy-meiny-miney-moe to choose his way. He ended on left so he went left.
His trip was not very eventful so far but he hoped that would not change as he continued down passageway after passageway."God I hate this place," Kale grumbled with the metallic tinge in his voice still."But it does feel nice and homey due to the constant dark....Do I need to get out more? Nah, I'm fine the way I am," Kale finished his rambling as he continued down the passageway he just got into.
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:16 pm
Hone;;
The thing behind the corner obviously didn't notice him, which was weird for Hone and his metallic body, which wasn't really the most quiet body. But grapping the chance he turned around and quietly walked away from the bloodstained hall. "Perhaps this place isn't really safer than the upper world.." Hone said when he got good distance from the monsters shadow.
After walking for a while, he felt a slight breeze, which was weird 'cause he was in sewer. "Somebody else has came in here too.." Hone thought outloud. Hone kept looking at the walls, searching for something. "Well, that wont really be much of a help, but I dont really have a choice either.." Hone thought and went next to the wall. He touched a pipe to see if there was anything, but like most of these pipes, it was empty. These pipes rarely hold anything, water mostly, electronic seems to replace anything. Hone grapped the pipe, breaking it out of the wall, but it let more noise than he had thought. "Atleast this helps at distance.." Hone said, looking at the pipe with skeptical face. Hone shrugged his shoulders and kept walking forward. "Maybe I dont even have to use this.." Hone wished.
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:10 am
IPC
Just when the creature would have his meal, he would become distracted by a scent foreign to the sewers. Jerking it's head towards the direction of the footsteps, the creature feet pounded against the metal floors as it sprinted off in the direction where Hone was. The closer he approached, the more quieter the creature would become as it crept along the tunnels. It's yellow stained eyes peered out into the darkness, eventually spotting Hone who looked as if he were lost. Without a second's hesitation the creature rushed towards the android. The curving spiked blades from it's elbows began carving deep into the metal before rising up into a vertical slash for the Android's chest, aiming to cut the mechanical being asunder from shoulder on down. It's tail went slamming into the ground before coiling back from behind Hone for a clean decapitation. The creature was large, however it's movements were very swift and quite aggressive. There was no telling what this creature was after. With it's size, the only thing that could be inferred was that it must have come from the deeper levels of the sewers. The Institute was very cautious on what they threw down into the sewers.
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:41 am
Hone;;
Hone hummed as he walked down the long halls of the sewers. "I wonder where that weird guy went.." He thought, moving his glare to the "roof" as he walked. Soon Hone heard steps, no more like stomps. Hone stopped to hear the noice better and it sounded like it was getting quieter, but still it sounded like it was coming closer and closer?
Before Hone could think any further he heard high metal sound which made Hone turn around immediately. Automatically, after seeing the attack, Hone pulled the metal pipe infront of him as he tried to dodge the fast attack by jumping aside. The pipe snapped in two and Hone's left hand got pretty bad slit in it. Hone didn't really have any time to shout help, he had to think a way to run away, he couldn't possibly beat this monster, could he?
Hone threw the pipes pieces at the moster, not really knowing what to do. Hone then quickly backed in front of wall, breaking a steam pipe. Using the steam as a cover, he attacked; not knowing why, he could run away instead of attacking, maybe it was just how he was programmed. Hone charged electricity in his hand as he pulled his fist in front of him, then aiming to strike it at the monster, but not stopping it there. Quickly recovering from the attack Hone puts his hand to ground, spinning his leg at the monster, hoping to get atleast some kind of ground what he could use to jump away from the monsters attack area.
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:08 pm
Kale had no idea what was going on further away from him all he knew is that it was not friendly and it was hungry by the sounds of battle already commencing. He slowed down his breathing and finally switched to his "professional mode". He was going down the tunnel straight towards the fight but he never slowed as he walked towards the brawl.
His hands dug into the pouches at his hips before he tore five throwing stars and two throwing knives out of his left and right pouches respectively. Each bladed weapon flew through the air with practiced ease as they zoomed down the hall into the darkness. He heard a hissing sound of some sort hoping that it was a busted pipe but he had a feeling that it was a snake like creature.
He then drew his katanas from his back and continued to stalk closer to the sounds. He stayed in a crouched postition hoping to be able to act to the creature or creatures learking in front of himself.
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:41 am
IPC
Though the android probably hadn't anticipated for this to happen, the creature was actually dazed by the punch. The electricity sent to it's cerebellum had succeeded in confusing it for a second, causing it's brain to blank out for the moment. Not to mention the concussive force exerted onto it's skull from constantly banging it against the wall earlier hadn't helped either. With loud thud, the creature's body would slam into the ground. It's left arm would wobble side ways causing the blade like appendage to come falling down by coincidence for the androids head. Of course the initial force from the fall would shake the floors where they were, so the smart thing to do if the android had some neural functions was to do what it actually came here to do before the creature woke up. For now it was knocked unconsciously, and who knows when it would wake up.
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:03 pm
Hone;;
The monster dazed from this punch and Hone hadn't thought this to happen so he just fell on the ground. For Hone's luck this monster had paralyzed from his attack, if this would've not happened, Hone would've been in bad trouble. Hone though was distracted by this and didn't notice the oncoming blade until the last second and even then he barely survived from this "attack" by blocking it with his left hand, which obviously damaged badly by this. For a while he was confused what had happened, but then quickly stood up. "Should I kill this thing..?" He thought for a second, but turned around. Who knows when this thing would woke up and so Hone started running as fast as he could. It didn't matter where but he had to get out of the sewers. And in the end he just ran the same way where had came.
His arm was badly damaged, well actually it was barely attached from down to elbow. He did know how to repair himself, but the problem was where he could get material. Well, firstly he would need to get out of here. Even if it was dangerous walk on the surface, it was much more dangerous to walk in here.
Soon he felt a breeze and it didn't take long when he saw plughole where he could get out.
[ Hone returns to surface, back to Low-Gear ~ ]
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:13 am
As he approached the area with that had once been numerous with sounds of the fight now was silent except for the breathing of the large armored creature in front of him. He put his katanas back into their sheaths and quickly left the area in hopes of not waking the potentially dangerous being. He continued down the way for a few minutes before he heard a loud clang. He rushed towards the sound knowing that whatever was combating the creature from before was more than likely from the surface as none of the creatures he had encountered were anywhere near as intimidating as the creature back in the tunnel.
He sprinted down the halls as quietly as he could towards the sound. He found a lighter area of the sewers indicating that a hatch was opened or he was near a run-off hole for the sewers. So he continued towards it and out into the light once more.
[Exit to Low-Gear]
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:22 am
Kale brought both mechanical people into his humble abode, if he could call it that. He turned on the few lights that were strewn across the room. He walked over to his weapon rack and took off his harness for his weapons. He slowly put all of his weapons where they belonged while not paying any attention to what the two mechanical people were doing. He then turned to face the mechanical people with a smile hidden under his helmet.
"Alright now how about we play a game," Kale asked while putting his hands together."It's a very simple game and the rules are just as easy. You ask a question and I have to answer it truthfully then I ask then question and you answer. If either of us don't answer the question the game ends and we both can be suspicious of each other till the day we part ways," Kale finished as he stayed right next to his weapon rack.
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:23 am
Hone;;
Hone examined the place with his eyes, it was pretty dirty and old looking place. "Haa~ So this is your "office"?" Hone said with mocking smile. "Rather modest", he continued as he went to investigate it closer. Hone however stopped and turned around when this guy announced that he wants to play a game.
"Hmm, it really is simple game, as you said", Hone said with little disappointed look in his face. "I guess I can go first then.." Hone pondered. "What are you hoping to gain from helping me?" He said after awhile. "Do you really help me from pure kindness? 'Cause you do seem that you could need some money atleast and that's something that I don't have", Hone said as he glanced the room.
"Oh and, if it's okay, I would like to ask our miss escort a guestion too", Hone turned to the girls side. "Are you really a robot? I mean, I have almost the samekind of body as you, but still I'm in this shape so.. yeah", Hone said with bothered tone.
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