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<blockquote data-quote="Mucknuggle" data-source="post: 742886" data-attributes="member: 3708"><p><strong>PC #1 Rick Steel</strong></p><p></p><p>Here's the first PC, no pic or stats yet.</p><p></p><p>I was born at the beginning of this madness. My parents, living under the shadow of the government, were mutants in a long line of mutants. They knew the horrors that ignorance brought upon our kind. My sister, having recently discovered her powers, was unaware of the terrors that mankind could do to one another. My life until the beginning of this chaos was relatively good, I had friends who never knew who or what I was and family that understood what I was changing into, life was good. My closest friend was Rafiki, we had been friends since our youth, he was also a mutant like me. He hated us, he hated what he became, he hated being treated differently, but more importantly; he hated himself. He hated himself for living when his parents died, they died in an accident that he survived due to the fact that he could never die, that’s how he found out he was a mutant, at the bottom of a gorge next to the crushed bodies of his parents. He lived with us for a time, up until my great life ended on my seventeenth birthday.</p><p></p><p> They came to get us, we tried to fight back in together but to no avail, they had such great technologies. My parents continued to fight and ordered us to leave, I tried to say that I wanted to stay but they told my sister and me to leave. What a fool I was, if only I had stayed, we might have won. Rafiki was captured! I tried to save him but they carried him away before I could stop them. And so my sister and I ran, for hours on end we ran, trying to evade them in the streets, but every time we made distance, they closed in. They cornered us! They drove us into an alley. I killed one of them; they’re looking at me like everyone looks at me. Like I’m a freak. STOP IT! I killed them all. Their blood splashing on my face was warm and soothing, my sister is crying, she doesn’t understand why I did that, shh, we have to leave. I took her into a run down building where we would be safe from them, from everyone. Then something grabbed me from behind! It was choking me, these gargantuan arms! I managed to struggle free. It was Rafiki! But why was he attacking me? </p><p></p><p>I called out to him, he answered, “All those years I lived with you, when I could have been living with my parents! I hate us! That’s why I want all the people like us to be changed back. So I can die again.”</p><p>“You can’t be serious?” I stated, “We can leave and avenge those that are persecuting us now! In our time of peril, we must stay together.”</p><p>“That’s where you’re wrong.” And with that, hundreds of troops came out of nowhere and rounded us up. </p><p></p><p>They captured my sister and I and put us into separate vehicles to be taken away.</p><p></p><p>“The doctors, with them, promised they could find a cure for me and make all of us normal again! All I have to do is help him get people that can be helped” he cried.</p><p>“The’re using you…” was all I could say before I was being led away.</p><p></p><p>I fought back; I threw them around and killed more of them, why does killing fix the pain inside? But just then, I was struck from behind, and I fell into a barrel of acid. The pain I endured was too much for words to describe. My sister is crying. There, there, I want to tell her, it will be all right.</p><p></p><p>During the transport, all was quiet, I hated Rafiki so much, he gave them my parents, he gave them our lives. I was taken to a giant building, that building will never be forgotten. The endless “experiments” were more like torture, they picked and probed at me with every tool that they had. It was so painful. It hurt so much; I just want to go home. </p><p></p><p>I don’t remember how long I was kept in there. The daily probing and prodding was a mere annoyance now, the shackles they kept me in didn’t cut anymore, you can’t cut through scar. But one day as I was eating out of my tray in my cell, I felt a slight vibration in the floor. I put my ear to it. At that moment, all hell broke loose! The walls came apart, the building was under siege! I saw through my cell slot people running everywhere. I fought the door, pounding, smashing it until it flew apart. The shackles weren’t as strong any more so I tore them apart and ran through the halls. I killed every scientist and doctor that I came across. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? I was red, dripping the blood of my captors as I ran through an opening in the wall. As I ran outside, I was met by someone; I attacked and was countered by a fierce blow to the head. Darkness consumed me.</p><p></p><p>I woke up in a metal room. There were people tending to me. I was clean. I asked them where I was and what was going on? They recapped the previous week’s events. Just then, someone entered, I was told that I had been in captivity for over a year, he asked me if I wanted to join them to fight against the human overlords, he had a strange accent, almost French, but not French. I told him that I’d do anything as long as they helped me get my sister ba</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mucknuggle, post: 742886, member: 3708"] [b]PC #1 Rick Steel[/b] Here's the first PC, no pic or stats yet. I was born at the beginning of this madness. My parents, living under the shadow of the government, were mutants in a long line of mutants. They knew the horrors that ignorance brought upon our kind. My sister, having recently discovered her powers, was unaware of the terrors that mankind could do to one another. My life until the beginning of this chaos was relatively good, I had friends who never knew who or what I was and family that understood what I was changing into, life was good. My closest friend was Rafiki, we had been friends since our youth, he was also a mutant like me. He hated us, he hated what he became, he hated being treated differently, but more importantly; he hated himself. He hated himself for living when his parents died, they died in an accident that he survived due to the fact that he could never die, that’s how he found out he was a mutant, at the bottom of a gorge next to the crushed bodies of his parents. He lived with us for a time, up until my great life ended on my seventeenth birthday. They came to get us, we tried to fight back in together but to no avail, they had such great technologies. My parents continued to fight and ordered us to leave, I tried to say that I wanted to stay but they told my sister and me to leave. What a fool I was, if only I had stayed, we might have won. Rafiki was captured! I tried to save him but they carried him away before I could stop them. And so my sister and I ran, for hours on end we ran, trying to evade them in the streets, but every time we made distance, they closed in. They cornered us! They drove us into an alley. I killed one of them; they’re looking at me like everyone looks at me. Like I’m a freak. STOP IT! I killed them all. Their blood splashing on my face was warm and soothing, my sister is crying, she doesn’t understand why I did that, shh, we have to leave. I took her into a run down building where we would be safe from them, from everyone. Then something grabbed me from behind! It was choking me, these gargantuan arms! I managed to struggle free. It was Rafiki! But why was he attacking me? I called out to him, he answered, “All those years I lived with you, when I could have been living with my parents! I hate us! That’s why I want all the people like us to be changed back. So I can die again.” “You can’t be serious?” I stated, “We can leave and avenge those that are persecuting us now! In our time of peril, we must stay together.” “That’s where you’re wrong.” And with that, hundreds of troops came out of nowhere and rounded us up. They captured my sister and I and put us into separate vehicles to be taken away. “The doctors, with them, promised they could find a cure for me and make all of us normal again! All I have to do is help him get people that can be helped” he cried. “The’re using you…” was all I could say before I was being led away. I fought back; I threw them around and killed more of them, why does killing fix the pain inside? But just then, I was struck from behind, and I fell into a barrel of acid. The pain I endured was too much for words to describe. My sister is crying. There, there, I want to tell her, it will be all right. During the transport, all was quiet, I hated Rafiki so much, he gave them my parents, he gave them our lives. I was taken to a giant building, that building will never be forgotten. The endless “experiments” were more like torture, they picked and probed at me with every tool that they had. It was so painful. It hurt so much; I just want to go home. I don’t remember how long I was kept in there. The daily probing and prodding was a mere annoyance now, the shackles they kept me in didn’t cut anymore, you can’t cut through scar. But one day as I was eating out of my tray in my cell, I felt a slight vibration in the floor. I put my ear to it. At that moment, all hell broke loose! The walls came apart, the building was under siege! I saw through my cell slot people running everywhere. I fought the door, pounding, smashing it until it flew apart. The shackles weren’t as strong any more so I tore them apart and ran through the halls. I killed every scientist and doctor that I came across. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? I was red, dripping the blood of my captors as I ran through an opening in the wall. As I ran outside, I was met by someone; I attacked and was countered by a fierce blow to the head. Darkness consumed me. I woke up in a metal room. There were people tending to me. I was clean. I asked them where I was and what was going on? They recapped the previous week’s events. Just then, someone entered, I was told that I had been in captivity for over a year, he asked me if I wanted to join them to fight against the human overlords, he had a strange accent, almost French, but not French. I told him that I’d do anything as long as they helped me get my sister ba [/QUOTE]
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