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<blockquote data-quote="Kwargrow" data-source="post: 7932829" data-attributes="member: 6855382"><p>Weekly post: +2 xp</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Mission: Mayhem</span></strong></p><p>[ooc] Every VR user has an avatar. In the VR, will shapes reality, and avatars can look like anything. An avatar can be up to 1.5 times larger than a user’s actual size, or up to 1.5 times smaller. Avatar’s are meant to be anonymous to the Hard Realm, and should not look like the VR user. [/ooc]</p><p></p><p><strong>The Virtual Reality Part:</strong></p><p>Hawkeye connects to the VR and the familiar vibrant colors fill his vision. Adjacent to you are Uncle Jimmy, in his standard avatar of a baby wearing a military helmet, smoking a cigar in a tank. The third figure is a humanoid outline filled with static, which must be Shatterframe. The three hackers are standing next to an old mailbox on an empty street with a blue sky and bright sun overhead. There is nothing but a single road running through a field of weeds in this part of the VR.</p><p></p><p>Knowing the address of the bank, the three travel to it instantly. This part of the VR has a Victorian motif, and the architecture copies that period. The bank is four stories tall, with a row of gargoyles sitting on the roof ledge. A large sign above the front entrance names it as Mars Bank of Trust. Avatars are all around the hackers, flying over and around the buildings, coming and going through the entrance of the bank and other businesses around. No one is paying you any attention.</p><p></p><p>Uncle Jimmy puffs on his cigar and says, <span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">“Polima was mid-level management, which means his account will be on the second floor with the lowest level of security. I’ll blast a hole right through the wall. Once we do, those gargoyles are going to attack us, so be ready. Don’t be fooled by their basic looks. Those things could have any number of abilities programmed by the hackers that run them. Before they’re activated, they’re as tough as stone is in the Hard Realm, but when they come after us, we can hurt them. Once we bust in, there will be rows of books, which are the accounts. We’ll have to find the one with Polima’s name on it and burn it. That will destroy all his credits. As soon as we do that, log out. We won’t gain anything by sticking around to fight security.”</span></p><p></p><p>Shatterframe says, <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">“Jimmy will blast open the wall, I’ll take the brunt of the security attack, and you get in to burn the account.”</span></p><p></p><p>The plan is implemented and Uncle Jimmy blasts with his tank, opening a hole in the side of the bank large enough for any avatar to move through.</p><p></p><p>At once five of the gargoyles lift their heads and screech, <span style="color: rgb(147, 101, 184)">“Lousy hackers! Come get some!”</span></p><p></p><p><strong>State intentions</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The Hard Realm Part:</strong></p><p>Back in the grimy, disgusting skyscraper, Trollick hears something moving in the dark. There is a shuffling of feet, and the clack of claws on the stone floor. With his enhanced vision, he can make out humanoid forms shuffling towards him, moving with purpose around the support columns. There are two of them, both with stretched, pale skin over bony bodies, sunken faces, and long, ragged hair. Their eyes are white and sightless, and they sniff the air continually. He has heard rumors of such creatures living in the catacombs beneath Helton. As the reappearance of waylines has changed people like him, making them giants, so did it twist those society had forgotten. Once human, now these creatures are called ghouls. Part of the rumors around these creatures state that they have a higher than normal resistance to magic, which is credited for how they have continued to survive attempts to exterminate them.</p><p></p><p>As soon as Trollick spots them, they let out a horrid cry and it echoes around the building, growing in intensity. A sudden terror attempts to take hold of his mind, but the hardened Runner resists the effects.</p><p>[SPOILER="Ghoul Screech"]Ghouls: 50+21+25(assist)=96, Trollick resist: 62+87=149[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>The ghouls keep coming.</p><p></p><p><strong>State intentions</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kwargrow, post: 7932829, member: 6855382"] Weekly post: +2 xp [B][SIZE=5]Mission: Mayhem[/SIZE][/B] [ooc] Every VR user has an avatar. In the VR, will shapes reality, and avatars can look like anything. An avatar can be up to 1.5 times larger than a user’s actual size, or up to 1.5 times smaller. Avatar’s are meant to be anonymous to the Hard Realm, and should not look like the VR user. [/ooc] [B]The Virtual Reality Part:[/B] Hawkeye connects to the VR and the familiar vibrant colors fill his vision. Adjacent to you are Uncle Jimmy, in his standard avatar of a baby wearing a military helmet, smoking a cigar in a tank. The third figure is a humanoid outline filled with static, which must be Shatterframe. The three hackers are standing next to an old mailbox on an empty street with a blue sky and bright sun overhead. There is nothing but a single road running through a field of weeds in this part of the VR. Knowing the address of the bank, the three travel to it instantly. This part of the VR has a Victorian motif, and the architecture copies that period. The bank is four stories tall, with a row of gargoyles sitting on the roof ledge. A large sign above the front entrance names it as Mars Bank of Trust. Avatars are all around the hackers, flying over and around the buildings, coming and going through the entrance of the bank and other businesses around. No one is paying you any attention. Uncle Jimmy puffs on his cigar and says, [COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]“Polima was mid-level management, which means his account will be on the second floor with the lowest level of security. I’ll blast a hole right through the wall. Once we do, those gargoyles are going to attack us, so be ready. Don’t be fooled by their basic looks. Those things could have any number of abilities programmed by the hackers that run them. Before they’re activated, they’re as tough as stone is in the Hard Realm, but when they come after us, we can hurt them. Once we bust in, there will be rows of books, which are the accounts. We’ll have to find the one with Polima’s name on it and burn it. That will destroy all his credits. As soon as we do that, log out. We won’t gain anything by sticking around to fight security.”[/COLOR] Shatterframe says, [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]“Jimmy will blast open the wall, I’ll take the brunt of the security attack, and you get in to burn the account.”[/COLOR] The plan is implemented and Uncle Jimmy blasts with his tank, opening a hole in the side of the bank large enough for any avatar to move through. At once five of the gargoyles lift their heads and screech, [COLOR=rgb(147, 101, 184)]“Lousy hackers! Come get some!”[/COLOR] [B]State intentions The Hard Realm Part:[/B] Back in the grimy, disgusting skyscraper, Trollick hears something moving in the dark. There is a shuffling of feet, and the clack of claws on the stone floor. With his enhanced vision, he can make out humanoid forms shuffling towards him, moving with purpose around the support columns. There are two of them, both with stretched, pale skin over bony bodies, sunken faces, and long, ragged hair. Their eyes are white and sightless, and they sniff the air continually. He has heard rumors of such creatures living in the catacombs beneath Helton. As the reappearance of waylines has changed people like him, making them giants, so did it twist those society had forgotten. Once human, now these creatures are called ghouls. Part of the rumors around these creatures state that they have a higher than normal resistance to magic, which is credited for how they have continued to survive attempts to exterminate them. As soon as Trollick spots them, they let out a horrid cry and it echoes around the building, growing in intensity. A sudden terror attempts to take hold of his mind, but the hardened Runner resists the effects. [SPOILER="Ghoul Screech"]Ghouls: 50+21+25(assist)=96, Trollick resist: 62+87=149[/SPOILER] The ghouls keep coming. [B]State intentions[/B] [/QUOTE]
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