OOC: So...how do I start?

Send alex man a private message, or post it here I guess. (character sheet)

Already sent him the message and he approved of it. I mean, how do I start.

oh, your choice man. Just jump on in. Since he's accepted can yo post it here now so everyone else can see it and know who you are. Then I can help you with how to start.

William & Sonia

William stared down the huge factory like complex of scientists working diligently on their new energy weapon line. The sudden breakthrough for Plasma Weapons had been very good in keeping up with the payment for the mercenaries and scientists. Now they are trying to do the same for their main project, the Gauss Rifle and the eventual Gauss pistol.

As he got up to survey the area and get to work on his own work, Sonia tapped him lightly on his shoulder, "Hi William!"

The head scientist smiled. Most scientists who got away from their post were either beaten and used as test dummies or put on probation. But William always has had a soft spot for Sonia.

"Ah the lowest ranking scientist in our project. Aren't you supposed to be organizing those files?" He said jokingly.

"But that bores me..." Sonia said with an equally joking tone.

William nodded and looked up to the skylights, which simply showed a holographic projection of the current state of New Jersey, the place the Gauss Project base is based at.

He turned to Sonia and thought for a bit, "Sonia, how would you like to go up to the surface?"

She pouted a little but her bubbly spirit bounced back, "Sure!"

William tossed her a spare 9mm pistol, "Here, you'll need this."

Sonia fumbled with it awkwardly and holstered it, a little embarrassed to be working in a terrorist organization and not knowing how to use a gun.

William and Sonia marched up to the west entrance after getting properly dressed in body armor with two combat armored guards following. The mercenaries bowed to William and looked at Sonia, "Sir, what's that intern doing here?"

Sonia snuggled under William's arms and he gave a simple answer, "Because she walked here."

The mercenaries let the four through. A couple blast doors later, the gloomy and dark city of Jersey opened itself to the four coming out of the hidden underground hideout. From the looks of it, the place seemed like a pretty large town. He checked his PDA, which simply said Rabithead.

Sonia pointed at a huge group of people, "Look William!"

William casually looked towards where she was pointing and saw what looked like a very weird confrontation.

He turned to Sonia and the mercenaries, "How about giving them a little light show? Round up a couple for the new Gauss weapons."

The mercenaries nodded and Sonia pouted, "Come on William, work? I just wanted some quality time with you."

William smiled and kissed her gently on the cheek, "You'll get your quality time. Just not today alright?"

He saw the commotion with what looks like a tribal and a couple goons. William sighed and got closer to see the commotion.

OOC: Umm, ill put your char sheet on the first post, so edit your post and put your intro their instead.

To the rpers: I will re-post my last post here due to OOC discussion:

OOC: This is getting good! Ann is looking from the top window by the way. Maybe you should pop me in the stomach or something. Or, you could shoot at the window and hit Ann, either way, I do not mind.

BIC

Alex gritted his teeth. He's right, If I kill him, the mafia will kill me eventually," Alex however, was not about to relent. "I would rather die protecting Ann than to be a coward and run. If I kill you, i'll just run far far away." Then, Evander said something that roused the crowd.

The crowd started to get angry. "How dare you kill an innocent woman!" "Yeah!" The crowd was getting fired up. Alex turned to see Evander droped his gun. Wait, thats it!

Alex turned around "You see, they are the bad ones," Alex said proudly as he dropped his gun. The crowd was roused even more.

The mafia goon looked shocked at the turn of events. It was only a matter of time before the crowd attacked. Alex hoped it was sooner rather than later.

OOC: Could use a character like that in my RP

The Mafia! what the hell! things could get really bad for Rabithead

Dean looked around and noticed that a crowd had gathered and were getting worked up over the shooting of two of the mafia goons.

"Dean get rid of them!" and "Dean step aside we're going to deal some country justice" were being called to him.

He turned back towards the men, Evander and his companion, and saw they had dropped their weapons.

What the hell are they doing? The crowd doesn't care whose good and whose bad, they just care that people were being shot in their town and this really pissed them off

Dean had to try and defuse the situation otherwise none of these city folk were coming back alive. He thought quickly and appealed to the only thing that he knew had the slightest chance of Pacifying and dispersing the crowd.

"You there, Evander was it? I know you're in the big bad Brotherhood which didn't really help your case, but you're going to have to listen to me if you want to survive along with your companion whose name I didn't catch. Now pick up that gun and make sure that Mafia son of a [censored] doesn't try and shoot me in the back." Dean Shouted.

Dean didn't take note of wether he did pcik it up or not. He turned around and looked the crowd over, took a deep breath and began. "People, I know you are chomping at the bit to do away with these city folk but the two down here y'all see them." Dean pointed at Evander and his companion. "They are just trying to defend, believe it or not, Ann. I'm sure y'all know her, some of y'all might be close friends with her and this is why they resorted to violence." He looked at over their faces and could see them starting to change from complete anger to understanding.

"As for the Mafia guy" Dean said this with resentment "He was just trying to pull down a living and there was no way in hell he could refuse a Don, hell a few of you have probably tried. So it was either his life or the girl's and I know which option y'all would have picked. so why don't y'all mosey on home, crack open some whiskey and square dance to the sun comes up? In all honesty we don't need the trouble that killing six city folk would bring to Rabithead." The tension had eased and people were actually starting to leave.

"Fine Dean." one of the crowd members called back "but if they so much as make a peep while they are leaving they're dead ok, in fact." The man pondered for awhile "they can give us their weapons so they don't make a peep and you, seeing as you have so much faith in them can escort them to the boat, those are the terms no negotiation."

Dean rolled his eyes, he had better things to do than escort three city folk. He looked at the three of them "what do y'all say? it's that or you can be torn to bits"

OOC: Erm, I did not expect that, good work bilybob Its your choice now Holy Assasin, shoot me, Ann, or walk away. I am fine with any of those options.

BIC:

Alex's face turned to complete anger at the tribals speech. What in the [censored] is he thinking? Alex turned. "You idiot!!! Do you know what you have done?!?!?! That mafia guy is already going to stab us in the back, but now the crowd can't help us!!!!!!!!!!"

Alex put his hand in his suit pocket and pulled out a 10MM pistol. "You, mafia goon, it ends HERE." Alex looked up and saw Ann looking through the window. I won't let you down.

Alex pointed the gun at the mafia man, who looked at him with a grin.


OOC: Its your choice now.

Dean took note of the anger on The man's face and in his voice.

"I'm the idiot am I? You're the one who has just killed all six of you if either of you shoot. The crowd couldn't give a [censored] but any one of you, you were all going to die. You might not have noticed stranger but we don't take kindly to your kind around here, particularlry those that are brandishing weapons. The way they saw it was, you came into THEIR town and started causing trouble for THEM. Yeah we might seem as stupid hicks to you, but we sure as hell wouldn't help any of you. We've never helped you before and weren't going to start now. Jeez i've seen Molerat [censored] with more brains than you, I hope that Mafia guy has more than you at least. To see i had given you a chance to make it out of here and settle the dispute elsewhere." Dean was starting to get really fired up. "Plus do you really think that because you killed one guy they picked to take out that lass they won't send another and another? Even if you both run they will hunt you down no one escapes the Mafia as my sweet jennif..." Dean cut himself off. "Just no one escapes them." He ended with a hushed voice.

Dean watched the last standing Mafia goon hoping he wasn't as stupid as this guy and would put his weapon down.

William & Sonia

The four wandered in close to see the commotion and it appeared to be a standoff between what looked like a tribal, some common criminals, a couple civilians, and a couple dead bodies. William sighed as Sonia gripped her 9mm pistol, shedding a couple tears for the dead bodies. She shook her head, knowing that the Gauss project would be looking down at those with sympathy for human life.

William walked in the standoff and looked up, noticing a woman on the top floor of a small house. The two mercenary bodyguards surveyed the scene as it looked like they were outnumbered but not at all outmatched.

Although the small speech the tribal was spouting was coming to an end, William caught the end of it, "Even if you both run they will hunt you down no one escapes the Mafia as my sweet jennif...""Just no one escapes them."

The Gauss Project scientist grimaced and interrupted the conversation, "That's not necessarily true..." He then focused on the reason coming here, "In any case, our little band of merry fellows will be...interrupting this little conversation."

He pulled out his Gauss Rifle while the rest of the mercenaries got their energy weapons also. Sonia fumbled awkwardly with the 9mm and pointed it at the man who was pointing a gun at the goon, her hands shaking violently.

OOC: I hope you guys like this one, it's a bit of a twist..

BIC:

Frank Vercelotti

Frank furrowed his brow in utter confusion as he turned his aim from one man to another in an intense argument. What the [censored] is going on here? he pondered. It's okay, this is good, this is good he thought. This'll get the crowd off my back

That's when one of the Franks men on the ground groaned, pulling his pistol up and discharging twice into the window of the house before curling up, dead. Frank expression turned from that of confusion into that of shock. He just did it Frank thought, hearing a shrill cry from inside the house, he just killed the target for me... At this sound, the enraged husband flared up further, readying to unload on him!

Frank immediately rolled forward shooting the man on the shoulder, making him drop the gun. Seeing the shop-keeper flare up made him shoot him as-well, but in the hand, crippling him from using his weapon. That's when Frank recovered from his roll, and dashed into the dense forest that lined Rabithead, sprinting at top speed for the last ship out of Jersey. As he entered the forest he heard a thunderous roar of gunfire, atleast twenty guns, shooting in his direction, most shots whizzing by him, but one hit, right in the elbow. Frank grabbed his wound, dripping with blood, but held his pace. Firing a single round back at them from his pistol to keep them off his back, the round apparently hit a gas tank, because it caused an explosion, which set the house ablaze, none of the people outside were injured though, but whoever was in the house, was no more, that much was certain.

Must be the crowd shooting at me now, they musta lost it. Frank realized, slowing down slightly before stopping to catch his breath. The sound of the shooting had faded away now, either because they stopped shooting, or because he ran so far they were out of earshot, Frank didn't know which. I didn't want to kill her. I didn't kill her. The other guy did it. Im innocent. he thought, standing there, feeling his arm pulsating. It hurt him, but not nearly as much as it would afterwards when the adrenaline rush passed, Frank took the only stimpack he kept in his pocket and injected himself with it, making him feel slightly better, but still in a dull sort of discomfort around the wound. He tore off his tie, and wrapped it around his wound haphazardly, hoping it would hold till he got back to New Manhattan. I'll get the bullet taken out at a docs place. he thought, scrunching his face in pain, and he began jogging in the direction of the boat, once more.

Dean looked on dumbstruck at the scene unfolding before him, the Mafia goon had just shot the two men in front of him and ran off into the night. While behind him three men armed with some mean looking weapons trained them on him and the freshly injured men. His first instinct was to help them. He sprinted over to them and examined their wounds. He ripped up strips of cloth and bandaged their wounds to the best of his abilty as he did so he turned to the one who had drawn the 10mm pistol "looks like i'm making a lie out of us simple folk not helping you city slickers" he said with a sneer, as he finished tying off the makeshift bandages he turned round and confronted the new threat.

"Who the hell are you people?" Dean yelled, he noticed that everyone had either fled in terror or took off after the mafia goon not paying attention to the injured. "and what the hell do you want with Rabithead we have nothing of value here" He looked over to the woman who held a pistol awkwardly and knew she wasn't much of a threat but the other three would kill him if he drew a weapon. Dean started to sweat as he realised any move he made could be his last, instinctively his hand fell to his combat knife, but he didn't draw it.

gotta keep em' talkin' until these two feel up to the fight to sorta even out the odds, the other hunters sure ain't gonna help, their gone

Dean looked up and saw a glare reflecting off what looked like a scope coming from Kenny's house.

well looks like the old bastards covering me he thought with relief.

"So come on, tell me!" he yelled at the three men.

OOC: To Holy, that was simply amazing. You did all three in one! Now, I will do the events that just happened in my chars perspective:

BIC:

Alex looked the tribal who seemed to be speeking giberish. The man was obvoiusly angry at Alex's last comment. The man even went as far to say that he had seen molerats smarter. Molerats? Really?

Alex turned to the house. "It ends right here..RIGHT NOW!" Alex wiped the sweat from his brow as he aimed his pistol right at the target. Just then, he heard a gun shot.

As he turned around, his face turned from anger to desperation. "AHH!," Ann yelled as the bullets from the still live 3rd goon shot through the window. "ANN!!!!!!!!!!!"

Alex turned to the goon. Alex was now so angry, nothing would stop him. "YOU [censored]!!!!!!" Alex aimed his pistol at the goon, who looked rather shocked at what had just unfolded. Just then, Alex felt something enter his body. Blood dripped from his shoulder, causing him to drop his gun. [censored], I'm shot"

The mafia goon ran into the forest.

Alex began to crawl, and eventually limp, into Ann's parent's home. As Alex walked upstairs, he saw Ann's nearly lifeless body.

Alex crawled over. "Ann.."
Ann looked over weakly, "Oh, hey Alex"
"I will get you out of this, I promise"
Ann pointed to her gun-shot wound "I dont think so" She beagn to sob quietly.
"Dont think like that, I WILL get you out."
"Alex, I love you, and I will forever love you."
"Ann, I love you to."

They both embraced and kissed, for what was probably their last time. Just then, Alex saw a gun shot hit the oil tank in the home. The entire tank burst into flames. Alex picked up Ann and rushed out of the house, just in time.

The entire crowd was in dissary. Many had went into the forest to chase after the goon. Many were just to terrifed to speak. "Somebody help Ann!" Alex felt himself grow to the weakest he had ever felt. Blood was coming out of that wound at a huge pace.

"Ann is still alive! Somebody help!" A doctor rushed over. "Wow, she got shot bad." "DUH!!"

Alex then fell over from the lack of blood. The last thing he saw was the doctor operating on Ann, and villigers using buckets of water to put out the fire.

OOC: This is pretty epic? A little rundown...two of my mercenaries, Sonia, and me attacked the confrontation head on in hopes of finding some "willing" participants to the Gauss Project.
William & Sonia

William raised his Gauss Rifle to get somebody in the leg but then the gas tanks were hit by some unknown man. A flurry of shards impacted the surrounding area, "Sonia, get behind me now! That's an order!"

The girl nodded and cuddled behind him. Then, when the shards stopped dropping, William saw the villagers try putting out the fires. Sonia nudged William, "You're a doctor...I know you are! Why not go help that guy? After all, you keep complaining during our dates about not knowing the anatomy of a surface dweller." She asked, pointing towards the man who was losing quite a lot of blood.

William sighed and got down on his knees, "You're a damn lucky man...damn lucky." He started to operate on the man. A couple minutes later, he was stabilized, surprisingly the shard went straight through. William stood back up and nodded, "He'll come to in a couple minutes. But in any case...I would want to speed up the process..." In his mind he was worried a little that they might notice a small open wound before the time came.

The second doctor was helping the girl next to him. William chuckled a bit and shot one of the villagers in the leg with the Gauss Rifle. The blue particle hit him but fortunately, didn't rip his leg off. He did the same to two other random villagers. He called to the mercenaries, "We got what we wanted here, pull out."

William turned to the tribal, "You see...you may not have nothing of value in your eyes...but everything is of value. One last thing...give it to him."

Sonia threw a small piece of metal and William nodded in thanks, "Well what my sweetie here threw at you is a stabilizer. Just jam it in the open wound and wrap it up when you're done. Might want to use some morphine when you're doing it."

He grabbed the three incapacitated bodies of the citizens and started to leave.

Alex awoke to complete and utter hell. The fire was spreading rapidly, as the villigers couldn't douse the flames. Several villigers were shot by some unknown men and hauled off, and Alex had no idea where Ann was.

Why do I feel so good, wait, how is my wound all patched up?

The doctor approached him. "We stabalized Ann, but for her to fully recover, ya' gotta take her to New Manhattan. Alex shook his head. "The mafia wants her dead, if they find out that she is in fact alive, they will kill her and I.

The doctor looked at him with a glare, "But thats the only place ya' can take her, our facilities here in Head' are much to primitive for a gun wound like what Ann recieved."

"Where is she?" Alex asked. "Oh, shes sleeping, unconcious she is, I am telling ya mon, take her to New Manhattan!"

Alex nodded, but he was in doubt. What about the Pitt? "Is there anywhere else?"

"Naw, the closest place in NM, anywhere else and she'll die."

Alex shrugged and went over to Ann. He picked her up and began to leave the town, Evander following close by. Alex turned back and saw that the entire town was evacuated. It appeared that Rabithead was no more.

OOC: Im waiting for Ant1iv3 to reply now, so I won't go further. Although main outline goes like this; I go back and tell the Don the job is done (from Franks perspective, he thinks she's dead) when he discovers she isn't, he gives Frank 24 hours to get the job done, killing her and her saviors (Evander and Alex) before the Don puts a bounty on Franks head. How do you like that? Btw, Alex, the saving bit was pretty epic, I was reading the post while listening to "Angels Cry - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus" and it really set the mood right, fitting in.

OOC: That sounds good. It will let us explore other parts of the rps world. I thought of that rescue thing on the fly. I wanted a little bit of romance included B)

OOC: After Holy posts, mine is going to go like this. William experiments on the captured citizens to find out that for the new Gauss gun to work, William needs to get a Ionized Plasma Lamp which can only be found in New Manhattan...then he goes to New Manhattan and runs into Alex and Frank.

Dean looked around dumbstruck Rabithead was in chaos and there wasn't a thing he could do except try to help with pressing matters. He joined in with other residents in trying to douse the flames so as to not cause further destruction to the town although for all their efforts they still lost another three buildings. He looked round at what was remaining of his home town people were running every which way not knowing what to do and Dean just sighed.

"[censored] city folk, this was exactly why we didn't trust their kind and when the real trouble starts, the trouble they caused, they just up and leave. Well next time I see em', they just better watch themselves" he huffed.

He made his way out of town after doing all he could to get the situation undercontrol. He trudged along the road looking at grim faces and scared people. He just let out another long sigh

One day those city folk will get theirs, right now I gotta go see what ma boy wants.

He boarded the ferry for New Manhattan just as the sun was rising.

William & Sonia

The four arrived back at the Gauss Project base with the three unwilling participants on their backs. The facility welcomed the four back and then the testing started. William shoved the three in and three mercenaries with Gauss Rifles aimed. Sonia looked back and started organizing the papers. It was just like every day.

"Uh fire chamber three...can you hold your fire for a little bit?" William asked while he jotted down some notes on papers. They nodded and after the computer rigs were complete, William nodded, "Alright, open fire in three...two...one..." The three fired at the exact same time and the terminals started to print out a bunch of bars. All three of the subjects died and William looked at the bars. He sighed, "Damn it! We're not getting the output we need. It drained about 50% of the Energy Pack's power! And our Pulse weapons only drain 5%."

One of the scientists nodded at the terminal and approached William, "Sir...I think I know what to do!"

William gestured for him to continue, "Sir...I think we need an Ionized Plasma Lamp."

"I thought those things were long gone!"

"Not really sir...apparently our scouts say that New Manhattan has one of those. Your encounter with that one fellow you saved seems to know a bit. I recommend finding him."

Sonia perked up and interrupted, "William dear!"

The head scientist looked back, "Yes?"

She smiled, "You know that tracker we made together? Well it really tracks him on our PDAs!"

William gave her a thumbs up and nodded, "Let's go."

He called to the mercenaries for another job and packed up. He grabbed the MP5 SMG, his pistol, and the only Gauss Rifle that works at full capacity. Sonia simply clumsily grabbed her 9mm from before and left with the two mercenaries, all wearing the Gauss Project issued anti-energy suits with body armor lazily put on.

When they came out of the main wing, William stared at the PDA. "Looks like there are two heat signatures and one faint one. The first one is obviously the guy we're looking for...the second one is non-moving...probably a wounded companion and the third one seems to be trailing by. Of course this is assuming the tracker is still working."

The two mercenaries nodded and they opened the door to the main entrance, and popped out on the main road to New Manhattan and Rabithead. William checked his PDA again, "Alright...seems like they're coming this way. All three heat signatures are still present. Now we play the waiting game. Block this road and shoot anybody that doesn't have a party of three."

OOC: My char is smart, but not that smart.. your best best would be the abondoned vault; look at the locations page. And also, the plot that we are doing is running completely opposite to your intentions. Let us complete this before changing the plot too drasticly If other people agree to your plan then fine, go right ahead, but dont do any major plot changes without some sort of planning and agreeing.

OOC:The point isn't finding the thing together. It's more of a way to get all the characters introduced. But in any case, it's just one of those plot holes that makes everybody meet each other. The thing they're looking for is just going to be a side plot while traversing the area with the character.

OOC: Alright, go ahead.

OOC: Your move...