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Post by The J Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:52 am

J' shook his head. 'Typical Cassius mentality. There's something in your way so now you're gonna break it. Although I'm quite impressed with your behavior Andres. You haven't gone mad from losing connection to your psychic abilities. But.. I guess I don't really have the option of going all out like the rest of you since I'm decidedly unarmed. I'm on this mission as a strategist and a diplomat, not some toy soldier.' Ironic that the tone of his voice belied his own inner doubt. In the end, all he was, was a toy soldier to his eternal masters, sitting pretty high up in the orbital cities. He swallowed it and focused on the task at hand. 'Zhenyi, if Drako's misguided attempt to batter his way out of here fails, do you think you could figure out a more subtle way of getting us out. I'm not really looking forward to having to ask Alice to discharge a Harbinger energy rifle in a place surrounded by water on all sides....'


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Post by D.N.A. Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:21 am

The door shatters into splinters under the blade of Drako's scythe. Through the doorway, there sat a large rectangular table and two plain looking chairs; and other than that, a barren room. It was obviously the interrogation room. As they observed the room's contents, the group shockingly watched as the desecrated door slowly restored in its original position. Once more, drako checked the knob, finding it locked once again.

Intrigued, Drako turns to the glass table. With a heavy thrust of his boot, he easily comes crashing through the piece of furniture and smashes the shards to dust on the ground. Within minutes, the table had been refurbished. It was then that footsteps were heard coming down the steps to the basement. Two guards, cooperatively carrying a smorgasbord buffet platter of a medley of freshwater fish. Salmon fillets dotted several areas of the large platter. Catfish pieces prepared in several different ways were also scattered around elegant garnishes. And among others, what seemed to give off the most pleasing aroma was the grilled eel. The guards placed the platter on the glass table, the group's gazes still fixated on the piece of furniture. One guard caught Drako's eye. "You look like you've just seen a ghost, mate," he spoke with an accent, his tone unchanged throughout his entire statement. "Relax. Everything that's part of the city regenerates, mate. 'Cause that's how Malthus wants it: perfect." With that, the two departed.
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Post by joseph Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:39 am

Since his head was resting on the glass table, Andres falls down, rudely awakened with tiny cuts from shards of broken glass. "Is it my turn now?" he says, only to see the platter of fish before him on the newly regenerated table. All fatigue seemed to have disappeared on sight, and he asked the group, "Anyone have the guts to start eating first?" Right after he made the comment, his carefree and tired tone quickly changed to a more serious one, saying "I'm not sure about you guys, but the fact that the table regenerated was kinda weird." Just to test the regeneration properties, Andres pulls his blade out and cuts off one of the table's legs and watches what happens.
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Post by D.N.A. Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:14 pm

The table leg cuts clean off, leaving the table on three glass nubs for a moment. Expectedly, after a few seconds, the leg reattaches itself.
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Post by joseph Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:01 pm

"That's kinda creepy," Andres groans. "Malthus is able to regenerate these minor things? It's a waste of energy to make things perfect so long as the people are perfect. After all, if people are perfect, then they wouldn't be getting into messes where doors and tables would need to be regenerated." Andres sits up like a third grader scolded by his teacher with a bored look on his face. "Nonetheless, nothing is perfect. But I don't want to start a philosophy club." Andres takes his blade and makes a shallow but long scratch right through the table, visible only in some lights, waiting to see if even the slightest scratch would buff itself. After doing so, he takes his real hand and places a fingerprint on the surface, seeing if it would rub off. Highly intrigued, Andres almost cracks his signature smile as he experiments. "If Malthus uses up energy to keep things perfect, then what'd happen if we just kept breaking it? Wouldn't he lose energy?"
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Post by The J Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:23 pm

'so does anyone else want to find out what's in this food? I for one am hungry... Clearly if they wanted us dead we already would be.' His voice and body language suddenly perked up as he mentioned the next item: 'I'm thinking mind control or torture poison. You know what?' he said as he held up a piece of halibut with cream sauce dripping off it, 'I for one would like to get this over sooner rather than later and I sure as hell am not doing it on empty.' He had barely finished the sentence and he completely devoured the piece; and was soon engulfing many others 'g_ff sh__m or there w__rr be n___n l__ft fr yu...'
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Post by pandaWaffle Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:21 pm

Campaign: Maniacal Mistrial - Page 6 Alice_sticker»Seating herself in a chair facing the aquarium, Alice picked up a piece of salmon, poking it.
"How safe is it to eat this? Like, did it come from the same river were that poor raccoon sort of... rotted in moments?" She threw a quick glare at Andres's direction at the mention of the murdered animal.
"And please don't talk with your mouth full, JJ" Alice flashed a smile in J''s direction, "It's a little rude."
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Post by Reaper Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:29 pm

Drako finally takes a seat hunger seeming the least of his worries. He allows the jackle to eat. He puts away his weapon and says ?what would happen if we broke the glass to the outside." Then pondering more on what their are going to do with them.
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Post by D.N.A. Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:33 pm

The escorts had brought i to a white court house. The radar dot pointed dead ahead inside it. Breaking free from the giant's grasp, i guided his path towards the red flashing dot on the screen, which led him passed some guards and down a flight of steps into the basement of the court house. His gaze was so fixated on the screen that he failed to realize that a man in the judge's chair waved the guards off of attacking the MacGyver, and the fact that the entire city pulsated an electric blue. Upon descending the stairs, he sees his old team. Andres and Drako were observing the seemingly normal pieces of furniture. Alice and J' were picking off pieces of fish from a buffet platter that filled the room with a hypnotizing aroma of a good homemade meal. And then he saw another girl, wearing a red coat.
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Post by joseph Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:43 pm

Before Andres could respond to either Alice or Drako, cut a leg off the table and stick a piece of fish between the leg and the stump protruding off the table where the cut leg once was to see what would happen if something got in the way of the regeneration properties, he sees i. "Hey, box boy, long time no see." And he proceeds with his plan.
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Post by D.N.A. Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:47 pm

The, now, wasted fish piece slides out slightly unnaturally from between the table pieces. Immediately, the table was one again.
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Post by anonymous potato Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:49 pm

"Nice to see you too, ice man. What are you-" He cuts himself off mid-sentence. He notices a new woman wearing a trademark MacGyver trench coat (which, ironically, he lacked). Gesturing towards this mysterious new woman, i politely says, "Hello. I am i. Pleased to make your acquaintance." With some doubt in his voice, he continues, "I'm guessing that you are a MacGyver like myself?"
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Post by AFM1 Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:07 am

"Stop doing that," Joy said reprimandingly to Andres,"We know what it's going to do already.... and you just wasted some food." As fascinating as it was, Joy was starting to get annoyed. She then plopped herself down next to Hei and nudged him with her elbow to remind him of his manners. Unsuccessful, she shrugged and grabbed some of the grilled eel before Hei could finish it off. A few minutes later, she looked up to find a new arrival.

Joy stood as i greeted her and took a step towards him. "Your postulation is correct." She smiled and offered a handshake, "My name is Joy Zhenyi. I'm a friend of Hei's."
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Post by The J Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:12 am

J' having satiated his appetite for food, decided to search the room for anything useful [?] something everyone else seemed too preoccupied to do. Looking for open conduits; vents; panels; loose articles; or possibly something to give the Mac Guivers to build a giant robot.
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Post by D.N.A. Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:22 am

On the floor, J' spots markings of a once-standing wall. It appears that Malthus had redesigned the room's layout completely, perhaps upon the group's arrival.
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Post by Reaper Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:58 am

Drako seeing i walks over and asks "what were you up to?" as he lifts himself out is the chair.
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Post by anonymous potato Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:44 pm

i smiles and accepts Joy's handshake. Then, he turns to Drako. "What do you mean, what was I up to? When was I up to something?" He paused for a moment. "Oh, were you referring to what I was doing in my absence? Well, I've been going through a lot. It's quite a long story. I'll tell you another day." His eyes divert towards Andres' experiments. "So, what are you doing? Trying to vandalize the furniture?"
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Post by joseph Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:29 am

Without looking up at i, he says, "...Kind of. i, any chance you can suck this table into your box? I want to see what happens."
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Post by anonymous potato Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:40 am

"Alright...." i takes the box out of his pocket and fumbles with it. He flips the switch to the containment chamber for items and presses the button labeled "In". The blue circle opens up and attempts to suck the table in.
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Post by D.N.A. Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:47 am

The table is sucked into i's box as one would expect any old table to. From the floor, almost like a Transformer robot taking form, an identical table took its place.
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Post by joseph Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:09 am

"Interesting..." Andres sits back on one of the chairs. "Thanks i, you can put that back if you want. Hell, use it as a projectile in battle." And he addresses Joy. "New girl, where were you and exactly when did you get caught up in all this, anyway? Because you just popped out of nowhere for me just recently."
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Post by The J Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:14 am

<sigh> 'this is GETTING STUPID!!!!' realizing nothing was going to change from trying to alter the landscape, J' again set his sights on finding an escape. 'Zhenyi, stop playing with the Cassii and help me find a way out of here.'
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Post by AFM1 Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:47 am

Joy looked longingly at i's box. "I was still eating thaaaat," she mumbled. Her head snapped up at the sound of Hei's voice. "Well ,what do you propose?" she said as she sauntered over to Hei's position, "Modifying any of the physical properties of this room have been unfruitful as proven by their gratuitous attempts. The idea of wearing out Malthus sounds somewhat plausible, but time consuming and his willpower is seemingly too strong to submit to a trick like that...." She gave her crowbar a quick twirl. She still felt a bit confused and and needed some time to think. She walked around the room, loosely using the crowbar like a cane, searching for clues.
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Post by joseph Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:53 am

"Jeez, J'." Andres kicks his feet onto the table and makes eye contact. "Someone's irked more than usual. Anyway, we just saw that the the door regenerates slowly. So if we jump through the door the guards walked into quick enough, we may be able to get out of here. From there, it's a matter of survival." Andres yawns and directs his view away from J'. "And you know, depending on how we organize ourselves during an escape, our chances of survival can go higher." Andres takes his time to look at the group as a whole, making eye contact with each one individually. "And I'm not doing this alone. Right now, losing someone is not an option, since we'll all be beneficial to each other until the MM's gone. So if we're gonna take action, might as well do it together." Crossing his arms and putting his head down, Andres says as a final statement, "Jeez, that sounded corny. Whatever. Plan something out, I'll roll with it unless you want me to take action.
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Campaign: Maniacal Mistrial - Page 6 Alice_sticker»After staring at the replacement table for a moment, Alice, disappointed at the lack of food, ignored Andres and turned to i,
"Can you please return the food? I wasn't done eating."
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"You can have some too, I suppose."
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