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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 1, 2009 11:18:28 GMT -8
The Trio of Roulette, Jack, and Shark huddled around each other in the alley, cursing and laughing as they threw dice onto the concrete. Roulette pulled her designer coat closer to herself as jack checked her out, his own leather jacket opened onto his bare chest. Shark wore a simple cotton tee as they shared stories.
"Yeah, So Roulette, have you heard?" Jack smirked as he whispered the question like it was some secret. "Uhm, no... What's up?" She looked between Jack and Shark looking for answers. Shark smiled, "I heard... Some kid is going around town calling herself Lady Luck itself..." They all burst into laughter, "You can't be serious" Roulette said rolling her eyes. Jack stroked Roulette's shoulder as he replied, "Actually, I heard the same thing... Apparently, she has the power of luck..." Roulette pulled away quickly. "Yeah but that doesn't mean she's the real thing. Listen, I don't want any bullshit. We either get her on our side or... well what do we do if she doesn't??" Roulette wondered aloud. Shark cracked his knuckles, shaking his head, "Listen, she's only what- our age? I mean, she can't be that tough anyway... she's probably no threat whatsoever." The rest of them were silent. "As long as she doesn't mess with our business..." Roulette mumbled. Jack was calculating in his head, his chin in his palm.
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 1, 2009 11:53:57 GMT -8
Bane's boots moved motionlessly over the alleys of the city. What was it about this place that he remembered? As of yet, wandering the city, the cyborg had seen nothing that jogged even the slightest memory or even matched the pictures that had been found in his room after he had 'died'. What had killed him? He just couldn't remember any more.
He stopped, hearing a repetitive clattering sound from one end of the alley. Curious, he ran in the direction of the noise. turning a corner, he almost tripped over a group of people. Leaping just in the nick of time, he jumped over them instead. Stopping, he scratched his head, smiled sheepishly and looked down at the three, "Sorry about that!"
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 1, 2009 12:44:22 GMT -8
Jack laughed at him idly, keeping his balance. Roulette squealed and covered her face, hoping he wouldn't look at her since she had forgotten her goggles. Shark laughed as well. "You're forgiven," he said, putting his hands up. "Just stop tripping on us, alright?"
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 1, 2009 13:07:29 GMT -8
"Alright," Bane chuckled in response to Shark. These were very forgiving people, not the types to be in a place with such a negative connotation. He noted the girl with the hands over her face: had he really scared her that much? If so, he owed it to make it up to them.
"Are you alright?" he asked, slightly alarmed that he had caused that much of a shock.
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 1, 2009 13:26:18 GMT -8
Roulette edged back a little, mumbling something that was made unintelligible by her hands. Jack smiled, showing white teeth but didn't offer any explanation, preferring to sit back and watch. Shark laughed himself but said, "She's just... Shy around new people."
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 1, 2009 13:42:22 GMT -8
((sorry it takes me so long to respond, I keep getting interupted to do chores )) Bane looked at the girl a little longer to make sure he hadn't accidently harmed her, then looked over at the one who had been sitting back and inspecting the situation, assuming him to be the leading personality in the group. "It seems I've dissrupted your game. Is there anything I can do to make it up?"
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 1, 2009 14:06:21 GMT -8
Jack smirked (because he's a smirky fucker) and leaned forward. "Well, you could always join in. We always welcome new game, if you can afford it." he said silkily, placing emphasis on the latter part from the sentence. Roulette moved away from Bane gingerly until she was hiding behind Shark, shielded by his large frame. She didn't want him to see her bare face. Shark moved slightly so she'd be covered even more.
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 4, 2009 15:05:14 GMT -8
"Why not?" Bane said, noting the tone and smirk of the presumed leader. This one gave him a bad feeling: like there was a snake trying to slither up his back. He felt that the other two were trustworthy though.
Holding out a hand, the exorcist smiled warmly at the smirking guy (aka: smirky fucker), "Name's Bane." He spoke with the confidence of Hercules, but at the same time friendly as a morning blue-jay, "What's your's?"
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 6, 2009 11:22:52 GMT -8
All three of them smiled simultaneously, even Roulette who was still hiding her own face behind Shark's build. Jack calmed his smirk down a bit, "Jack..." He held out his hand for Bane to shake. His hands were Air hands, long rectangular palms and spider-fingers, all of which were evenly pressed together with his thumb jutting out. ((Whoot useless description!)) Shark ruffled his own hand through his hair and the white mess became tangled and more puppy-like before he threw the dice. Glancing up, he introduced himself as well, "I'm Shark... And-" "I'm Roulette" Roulette said. She wasn't shy, she just knew she wasn't in a presentable state. Damn, she thought, this is so annoying, if only I had some form of a mask...
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 6, 2009 15:09:47 GMT -8
BANE rased his eyebrow dubiously at Shark, "You're sure that she's alright?"
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 9, 2009 13:46:33 GMT -8
Roulette grumbled, "Yeaah, i'm fine..." She said in a grumpy tone, like a spoiled princess who had slept on a pea. Shark laughed at her attitude, and passed the dice to Jack, who shook his wrist before rolling them in a lazy gesture onto the ground.
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 17, 2009 21:43:32 GMT -8
Bane watched the role that Jack now make with an intent gaze, "Well, that's good. Wouldn't want you to sit out of a perfectly good game of dice."
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 18, 2009 7:33:48 GMT -8
Jack's roll landed on one 6 and a 4. A fairly good score in the game they were playing. A few stray dollars lay on the concrete between them all, waiting to be claimed by the highest score. The Fortuna Flush were fairly lucky in their own right, and rarely if ever got beaten in a game of chance. Numbers were on their side, as if one of the three of them won, they all won.
Roulette sighed, "Well... hmph..." She thought for a minute. "Shark? Give me a piece of cloth if you would." She asked shortly. Shark sighed, "Alright, here" he said, reaching into his pocket to pull out what was kinda like a long paper towel. Roulette took a hair clip out from her curles and cliped the paper around her face.
The strange thing about her power was that when she looked rediculous or repulsive, she actually seemed normal to other people. There had been times when she had worn an ugly smelly jumpsuit and disco-green goggles, and people walked straight past her on the street without taking a second glance. She much preferred it to being stalked and gawked at.
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 18, 2009 8:25:19 GMT -8
Bane looked ath the role and then up to Jack, ignoring the girl's rather odd request to Shark. The problem here was that he didn't know which game they had been playing.
"So, is this just a high-roller, or are there other rules to it?"
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 24, 2009 4:48:20 GMT -8
Jack glanced at him and gave a slow nod, "Yes... It's truly only for fun you know... Rules only hold people back anyway..." His grin creeped up out of the corner of his mouth as he handed the dice to Bane.
Roulette successfully tied the napkin that Shark had given her around her eyes, so she looked as if she had been seriously injured. It was thin enough so she could see through it, but she probably looked fairly rediculous to herself. "That's much better..." She said with a sigh, emerging from behind Shark.
Shark shook his head, "Anyways, Do you play often- Bane was it?" He smiled in a friendly, conversationalist way.
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 25, 2009 16:07:52 GMT -8
Bane took the dice in one hand and lazilly shook it. The hyper-sensitive nano-bots that now suplemented his nervous system counted where on his hands the dots of the dice were. He Frowned, rolling the dice against the wall accross from him,
"Honestly,"
they were a five and a six,
"I don't remember."
((ok, for this thread I, nerd that I am, will actually roll for my character ^^. Be forewarned, I'm actually good at it.))
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 27, 2009 15:03:11 GMT -8
((Lol that's so cool!! XD I bet i'm a bigger nerd-- I actually Tabletop RP!!! (only recently though) XD))
Roulette replied to this by tilting her head to the side, "huh? How could you forget something like this?" She said in a somewhat airy voice. She had loved games like this ever since she discovered them. It was her life now.
Jack shook his head, "Well then..." He thought for a moment, recording the throw in his head before continuing, "What powers do you have might I ask?" He asked openly. His voice as he spoke here had the same feeling as cashmere being rubbed against your eyelids- seemingly smooth yet somehow uncomfortable.
Shark looked at bane with honest curiosity, before catching himself and silently motioning for him to pass the dice to Roulette now.
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 29, 2009 12:48:24 GMT -8
"My powers?" Bane asked looking down at his hand in a curious way before his frown deepened, "Power."
((super-duper-limited-godmode, activate!)) Time seemed to stop as he let it rush out of him: Reality strained, clocks stopped moving, and it seemed as though the people were being crushed, like god had dropped a weight on the table that was the universe right where BANE was sitting.
Then it lifted, and all was normal. In truth, it had only lasted for about half a second. "I can emit sheer power."
He grinned up at shark as his hand lowered, "of course, that's an over-simplification, and it hurts me too."
His grin slowly slid off his face as he answered the voice of the suddenly-unshy Roulette, "And as for your question, let's just say that it's complicated."
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 29, 2009 13:16:58 GMT -8
As the Power descended, the three of them were awe-struck by the force of it around them. It didn't hurt them, it just made them feel very imposed upon and empowered within themselves. It was an amazing feeling and had them all sitting straighter and with more anticipation. "wow." was all Shark could say. Roulette folded her arms, and Jack leaned forward with a strangely intoxicated look on his face... None of them spoke for a few minutes after that, hoping that he didn't take their silence personally.
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Post by Div/ Bane on Mar 29, 2009 17:46:27 GMT -8
Bane sat silent with them, understanding how they were feeling. When he had first woken up on the operating table, unable to turn off his aura, he had been awe-struck. But he had also had a feeling that these people didn't. Teror. He had been terrified that he would hurt others, or himself for that matter, after all; his own aura could kill him. But there was something else he had been terrified of. What had he done to gain all that power? What had he done with it? What kind of monster was he?
He had been told that he, over ninety years ago, had been an exorcist... but something didn't feel quite right about that answer. If he had been an exorcist for the vatacan in his past life, then why did they not know how he had been killed? How did they not know what his mission had been? Nothing added up.
But now, the teen Bane didn't think about that... he devoted his entire being to the act of not doing so. He laughed, breaking the odd tension that the quietude of the trio envoked, "How 'bout you three? Any little quirks?"
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Post by The Fortuna Flush on Mar 30, 2009 13:19:40 GMT -8
They all sort of shuffled in a weirdly synchronized way, Jack was the first to speak. "Stereotypical trio, you might suppose." His index finger moved from one side of his chin to the other as if checking for unshaven stubble. "I have Super-intellegence, a great aim, and am a healer, Roulette has an enchanted face, and Shark has super strength." Shark snorted, "Well La-di-dah, you get all the special powers jack- Don't have to brag" Roulette laughed heartily for a moment at Shark's obvious jelousy.
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Post by Div/ Bane on May 17, 2009 19:20:20 GMT -8
Bane laughed at Shark as well, "Hey, don't knock super strength, I'd much rather fight a dead-eye shot than somone who can shatter steel with his fist." He was glad that the mood of the little alley had brightened and the conversation had shifted away from himself, after all, he wasn't sure what there was to say yet.
"So, I'll take it that your face was the reason you were hiding?" He asked rhetorically, "It must suck to not be able to have people look at you without them going nuts." The tone of his voice shifted to sympathetic.
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