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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:30 am
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Suddenly, a strange thing happened to Skopunarverk. It was a prolonged inhalation through the mouth, followed by a sharp exhalation through the nose.
"Wha... What just happened to me?!"
He thought, trying to assess this strange bodily phenomenon.
"I know it's happened before. It's something people do quite often. It does have a name..."
Then it came to him.
"It's a sneeze! Wait, I haven't sneezed in centuries. Sneezing means movement of foreign matter. Movement of foreign matter means..."
A look of hopeful excitement appeared on his face.
"A person! That means a new friend!!!"
Then, just as immediately as his happiness had manifested itself, it was replaced by a feeling of sadness and foreboding.
"Or a new enemy."
He then lapsed into his previous thought process.
"The movement of the foreign matter was, for the lack of a better word, violent. Violent movement means abrupt actions. Abrupt actions means..."
He unsheathed his katar and disabled the safety on his SMG.
"A new enemy..."
((Just a side note, the erratic text format that I've adopted here is - I hope - characteristic of the fragmented process through which Skopunarverk thinks and acts. The way that I'm looking at it, his thoughts are completely isolated from all other action, as he has no way to communicate outside of gestures. I hope that makes sense to someone aside from me...))
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:34 pm
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(( It's quite alright. It makes sense to me. It's not really illegible, just a lot of line breaks. :3 ))
For an unreleased area in Pluto's Kiss this place sure is weird... Hijack thought to himself as he continued to approach the Cat's Eye nebula in a leisurely, but hastened, speed, wondering what this new "game" world is like, oblivious to the fact that this is not the game world of Pluto's Kiss, but the real world in an alternate reality. He sighed and looked around as he moved, the earpiece, connected to his visor (for they were in space and the nanomachines transformed accordingly to cater Hijack's saftey), scanned the area for any abnormalities.
"Hmm... There seems to be something there... looks like a single PC or NPC, SOPHIA." He muttered into the microphone again. He was still a ways away from the actual nebula, but his equipment was sensitive enough to ascertain features of his environment.
"I can't detect a personal IP address, nor is the thing assigned an NPC ID from Pluto's Kiss Online, Mr. Yamato." The computer replied. "I suggest you approach with caution.
Hijack nodded and pressed another button on his watch, which caused it to unform into a mass of nanomachines, which quickly reformed into a beam saber. The earpiece unformed in suit, forming into two autonomous floating beamgun pods surrounding his body.
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:14 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:37 pm
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In a matter of moments Hijack finally saw the object his scanners warned him about. It definitely wasn't human, with the pointed ears, the horns, and the oddly-tinted skin features. It also surprised him that he looked relatively unprepared for a space mission, even if it was part of an online game. I know this area is an unreleased area... He thought to himself as he began to see more and more of the person's form, ...But they could've worked on the character design here.
He slowed down to an almost halt a few yards away from the person. Readying his beam sabre and the two beam pods surrounding him, he yelled out to the other person. "Hey there! Are you a player character or an NPC...?" He asked loudly, yet realizing that, because he's in space (or, he thought, some form of virtual-world space), and because of the relative realism of actually being immersed in the game world, his voice probably didn't travel. Still, he hoped that it was some form of character, rather than something he had to fight.
It doesn't look too friendly though... He thought to himself as he gazed at the person's stance.
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:49 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:09 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:13 am
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Skopunarverk was slightly confused at this stranger's statement.
"It doesn't want to hurt me? Then why isn't it in a defensive position. It must rely on its weapons too much. It's a shame that something with that kind of technology has no combat training whatsoever. Oh well, lets see how reluctant it is to attack."
He holstered his katar and SMG while simultaneously yawning, his fangs glistening in the light of the nebula.
"I will return in a moment, new friend. If this 'thing' gets violent, I suppose I can always just bite it."
He walked towards the interloper, maintaining a naturally calm, dominant confidence in his body language that told of the millenia of experience commanding others, even those more powerful than himself. It was a demeanor that almost demanded, and always received, admiration and respect from all that he encountered. He smiled a kind, yet knowing smile.
"Of course, the pheromones help, as well. They're always nice to have when overriding organic instincts."
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:18 am
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With each step the other took, the more he stood his ground, moving his sabre into a defensive position as he watched his target. SOPHIA... I don't like this. He thought, moving his eyes to communicate with his computer and nanomachines:
System > Readied Commands > Spore Defense > Start
The gunpods that floated around him immediately dissolved once more into a cloud of nanomachines, but this time they didn't form back. Instead they merely floated around Hijack and the stranger aimlessly, keeping a definite perimeter around both their controllers and this potential threat. Lights from the stars caused their microscopic, yet metallic, bodies to glimmer once in a while, like little stars of their own.
Despite his technology and his capacity for combat (proven during the conflicts of his own time), he was only human, and, though strong, he suffered from human banes. The other's body language didn't affect him much; he respected confident-looking individuals, but it took more than looks to gain anything from him. The pheromones, unknowingly released, did affect him.
"E... errr..." He stuttered slightly, cheeks flushed a slight pink, his body tingling, reacting to a strange, overwhelming stimulus. Slowly, he lowered the sabre to his side, though he continued to grip the handle firmly and confidently.
What's going on...? He thought to himself, issuing another command using the eyetracker to revert the sabre into a beam dagger, the excess nanomachines that made the sabre joining the cloud of nanomachines surrounding them.
(( I'll have to apologize; without a sense of what type of pheromone you released I had to assume what type you meant. ))
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:00 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:12 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:21 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:30 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:57 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:10 am
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