Black War Syndicate(Started. Open. PM the GM)

[WhyBotherToTry]

"Your all bickering over leaving the fucking bus for them to find!"
"You wana live, follow me and haul ass"
"Or if you all just want to stay and get captured again?!"

"He's right", agreed Calvin. "The longer we stay here debating the minutiae the more likely it is we'll get recaptured. Screw leaving evidence in the bus for them, let's just torch the fucking thing and move. If the guy on the radio helped us out once, he clearly has some vested interest in all of us, so he may help us out again"

He addressed Robin "You said you were planning to incinerate the bus. So do it and let's get the fuck out of here".

 

[Ganath]

Stefan had been listening to the conversation. It wasn't his line of expertise to know how to make a bus go boom. It was a shame these people didn't really seem very time concerned. Before he could voice himself, Oliver had stepped up to him, having finished talking.

"Stefen, I'm sorry about earlier. Cops operate differently then us. The leader is the biggest toughest guy in the park, or the richest one. We don't have procedure, ranks, or rules. You need to learn that or you won't survive long"

Almberg took a moment to respond, glaring at the man. His facial expression was rather stern, but a slight smile crept across his face, easing some of the wrinkles that had creased his face in frustration before. He didn't necessarily agree with the man, but hell, he was trying. This wasn't the time to hold grudges. It was enough that he wanted to get to Sebastian Black. More than that just made him feel ill.

"That's true. We do operate differently. For all it means, sorry for offending your friend. But we'll have time for debates about the criminal mind and organizations later. Let's focus on keeping each other alive and make sure we get to thank our mysterious ally when we get to him.. or her."

He gave Oliver a slight nod. Though soon, another former prisoner stepped off the bus and he practically spoke what was on Stefan's mind, even if it was in a rather crude way. He noticed the man was still wearing cuffs. He made a note to help him as soon as he could. The sarcastic man seemed to agree as well, though he probably still had some hate for the girl with the artificial arm. Almberg nodded slightly, deciding to speak up.

"Yeah, as much as I wish we could slow them down permanently. We don't have the luxury of time. Please, just torch or make the bus explode and let's move on. Anything else would be counter productive. I'll go see if I can find some keys for the man with the cuffs meanwhile."

With that, Stefan boarded the bus again, looking through the rows of seats. It took him a while, but he eventually found a key, taking it with him as he stepped off the bus and went for the treeline. He could only hope the cops weren't already swarming towards the place. If they weren't, an explosion might certainly bring a lot of attention on these roads.

Stepping up to the man with the cuffs, he held up the key.

"I noticed you weren't uncuffed. Need a hand? If you need a weapon, you can take my baton as well. Keeping the gun though."

Smirking lightly at the man, Stefan tried to be as light hearted as he could. But it felt a little forced. He hated this situation.

 

[MortifiedPenguin]

It looked like Oliver was getting Stefen back on side, "Good," He said smiling brightly, "I'm sorry if I offended you as well, I guess its because we come from different worlds. We can't see eye to eye on everything."

He was annoyed that the albino woman had ignored his plan, but she had already started to put her plan into action.

"Miss Frost, the countryside of France is very large and very flat. Someone will be living within the radius of a few miles. A strange fire in the middle of agricultural France will bring questions, questions bring someone's attention and attention means the cops getting here sooner then we would like." He said sounding slightly alarmed hoping she would reconsider. "It's up to you, but I doubt our mysterious allies would be very happy if we brought the cops to them"

He saw he was too late, Robin had already cut the wires in the engine so it would blow. There was no going back now. He sullenly got to work on the hard drive, wiping any evidence they might have left behind.

"I've doctored the footage and the internal readings so it looks like we were all in it when the bus when it blows up" He glared at her, "Your not taking my eyes or my arm for you plan, would you ask a man to blind himself?"

 

[Hansinkdu]

"I'm not one for arson, so while you champs settle things here I'm going to take a gander at our destination."

Fearing the indecisiveness of the "group" would lead him to his undoing, Edmond took his first step off the bus since embarking on his one way trip to imprisonment. The cold rain gripped his hair like a lost child who wouldn't let go, the endless taps of leaking clouds echoed relentlessly within his ears as they met their end upon resistance, the hint of blood and munitions infected the purity of the cool night air he drew breath from, the darkened sky encircled the land suffocating light from all but the lone source, a bus stranded in a sea of trees on an outstretched road leading to black infinity. His first taste of freedom is bittersweet, but that suited Edmond just fine.

"Merveilleux!"

Returning his focus to the direction the voice heeded, he activated his thermal imaging imbedded in his eyes to scout ahead. Ensuring there was no immediate threat to the doctor he would begin his walk forwards, a lone figure in the dark woods humming a soft tune.

Spoiler: OOC

Nothing was happening so seeing if I cant get the old ball rolling

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

"You seem unusually cheery given the circumstances" he addressed her. "I'm Calvin by the way. What's your story?" Came a voice over her shoulder.

"Well so...Oh..." Her sentence trailing off as he turned back on too the bus. She carried on moving towards the treeline, the voice of the only other female on the bus drifted out. The words evidence and blowing something up were all Grace could make out but she got an idea of what may of been said.

"Waste of time...If the other buses have had similar fate it's not going to take an augmented genius too figure out somethings a miss." Shaking her head to accompany that thought...She trudged on wards and took cover under a tree. Wrapping her arms around herself, Abigail found herself wishing she had a jacket on when they initially picked her up.

She noticed the Doctor heading off the bus and heading towards her and let out a sharp whistle to get his attention "Hey Doc," she yelled over the rain and distance "I think they're gonna blow that thing - They've got a preeeeety good blast if it's done right, come watch the fireworks with me!"

Spoiler: OoC

Not the best I could of done but the last couple of days has drained me xD

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

Following Edmond out of the bus, Calvin headed back to the redhead, who was at this point standing under a tree with her arms wrapped around her torso. He headed over to her.

"Sorry about that. It was rude of me to just walk off like that but there was an unlawful amount of bickering on the bus that had to be dispelled. They've reached a conclusion at this point so all that's left to do is wait for them to enact it. So, wanna tell me who you are?" He smiled. "I promise I won't run off this time."

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Caspian had been standing with his back to the bus, listening to the plan that was coming together. Robin had appeared to of rigged the bus with some kind of remote detonator, which would effectively incinerate anything within a roughly ten meter distance, hopefully tricking the police into thinking that everyone on board had died.

To aid in this, the man with a fully cybernetic arm, Oliver if Caspian remembered correctly, had doctored the footage to show them on board at the time of the detonation. For a bunch of people that had only just met, it appeared as though they were working as some kind of team. Whilst Caspian had considered getting some cybernetic enhancements, it felt slightly unnatural to him. A few of the other passengers had taken shelter underneath a large tree, and from the looks of it, Abigail was feeling the worst. Caspian decided to walk over and see if he could help the woman.

"Well, it looks like things are slowly coming together; hopefully we don't dawdle here to long, part of me wants to find out who this mysterious person is who decided to come to our aid. No doubt he'll want something from us in return." Caspian remarked as he entered the leafy canopy of a large Oak tree. He then noticed that Abigail had her arms wrapped around herself. Without hesitation, Caspian removed his coat, and held it out to her.

"Here Miss Abigail, take my coat; looks like you need it more than me." He said with a smile.

 

[Yokillernick]

"So what sort of experience do you people have?"

"Well I have 8 years of Assassin experience. That means I am an expert in infiltration, sniper support and hand to hand combat. I am also pretty good with explosives. I killed over 100 people. Some for money, some for fun and some just because I felt like it. I also had a self made sniper rifle which has a 60 bullet magazine with bullets that once they enter your body they blow up. Oh and and these shades I'm wearing, they are specially modified to enhance my aim. What about you I can see that you know how to turn buses into atom bombs but other than that what else can you do ?"

Spoiler: OOC

Seems the Turkish Resort actually has internet so I'll post when I can mainly in the evenings.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

"Sorry about that. It was rude of me to just walk off like that but there was an unlawful amount of bickering on the bus that had to be dispelled. They've reached a conclusion at this point so all that's left to do is wait for them to enact it. So, wanna tell me who you are?" He smiled. "I promise I won't run off this time."

"Apology excepted." She laughed and introduced herself, and voiced her earlier thoughts about destroying the evidence being a waste of time, all the while taking in the fact more people were getting off the bus the one heading towards them being Geist.

"Here Miss Abigail, take my coat; looks like you need it more than me." He smiled.

"Geez, less formality please," She laughed again, unfolding her arms and waving off the offer of Caspians coat.

"No need too call me Miss, anything else is ok." Finishing of the sentence with her grin. "Thanks for the offer, but it's only a little rain," Her tone full of sarcasm as Grace glared up at the the sky "Nothing I can't handle..." She let out another smile which collapsed into a seriousness "...But we really oughta get going now."

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"No need too call me Miss, anything else is ok." Abigail said finishing the sentence with her grin.

"Thanks for the offer, but it's only a little rain." Her tone full of sarcasm as she glared up at the the sky "Nothing I can't handle..." She let out another smile which collapsed into a seriousness "...But we really oughta get going now."

"Fair enough, the offer is still there in case you need it later. And my apologies for being so formal with you earlier Abi, call it a force of habit; my father taught me that you should be respectful and kind to a lady. I was simply trying to help." Caspian replied with, his words sounding sincere. He then put his coat back on.

"So what sort of experience do you people have?" Robin asked as she made her way towards the group after setting up the bus for remote detonation.

"Well Robin, I had spent most of my life in a carnival come circus; in fact I was born there. I had learnt how to move quickly and quitely, to climb heights and move over obstacles with grace; even learnt the art of parkour as a child. My father taught me how to handle a gun, whilst my mother; she told me how to weild a sword, regardless of how archaic the method of combat maybe in today's modern age of fire arms. In other words, I can move fast and strike quickly, but also quietly. Then again, there is another weapon I can weild... but it can wait."

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

"So what sort of experience do you people have?"

"I've been a hit man for the last 4 years. I have, well at least I had, a sniper rifle I'd had built to my exact specifications and a revolver that I'd rigged up to fire incendiary rounds. I'm good with throwing knives and I'm good with locks aswell. My eyes are cybernetic so I can see just about anything in any conditions and I'm a decent enough forger, if that's relevant."

He addressed Robin. "Well, like Byron said, you're clearly good with explosives but I don't know anything else about you other than the fact that you don't like being stared at. What experience have you got?"

 

[Floris2123]

Jacob had been neutral during the discussion. While driving into the water had advantages it took more time something that they had very little off. But if they used the explosion they had to hurry both would cost them time. Now only to hope that the diversion would buy them time.

"So what sort of experience do you people have?" "Well I have had quite some jobs. ranging from police, to inmate to, right hand of the boss of the Revears. I am very skilled in most ways of combat from hand to hand to guns. And I am good at tracking people down. And I am also very skilled in making people give up information. Even if they don't want to." Jacob cracks his knuckles grinning. "And I have killed quite allot of people, I stopped counting after I got to 100 that was quite a few years back though."

 

[Ganath]

Almberg still had the key on offer to the man in cuffs, taking in his surroundings, he realized that almost all of them had gathered at the treeline. That was good. They were about ready to move out it seemed. He heard the albino woman ask a question. He figured he might as well contribute. There wasn't any point in lying, as half of them already knew who he was by various methods.

"I've been a cop for 7 years. I guess I ended up here because I started arresting the wrong criminals. Seems you mess with someone powerful enough, and they'll bite your arse off. I guess it's not quite what you meant by experience, but I've learned plenty in my time. Unlike most people here though, I've only ever killed in self defence. I'm not a murderer or a criminal, for that matter."

Stefan took a slight breath. He felt somewhat ill again. If he could expose Sebastian Black, if the man really was behind all his misfortunes. Then he could become a police officer again. Still, thinking about it also only brought about bad memories as of late. Two months earlier, and he wouldn't even had considered trying to befriend the filth of the world. But times seemed to have the habit to change very quickly as of late. He'd need someone to watch his back.

"Times change pretty damn quickly, huh.."

Without really realizing it, he mumbled the last bit, looking at Calcifer again.

 

[MortifiedPenguin]

Oliver mad his way to the tree line with the rest of the group,he knew that you didn't want to be near by when a miniature thermonuclear went off. Heard Robin ask what kind of experience the group had.

"Among other things I'm a genius and a hacker, but it's best to keep your cards close to your chest, even if you are cheating" He said smirking, "That's all you'll be getting out of me, for now."

"...Unlike most people here though, I've only ever killed in self defence. I'm not a murderer or a criminal, for that matter." He heard Stefen say

That up-jumped prick thinks he's better then us no doubt. "No matter how you dress it up, killing is still killing, whether it be in self defence, a mistake made in passion, or cold hard murder. The only difference is your badge makes it legal"

 

[Ganath]

Stefan nodded lightly at Oliver. Greeting him as he joined the others at the treeline. He kept a neutral face though, merely speaking in response to his statement. He didn't really feel like offending the poor guy. He had a feeling he'd take it pretty hard.

"I don't claim an impressive kill count, that's for sure. But I'd never consider the world black and white either. Sometimes, you've got to kill someone to save others. It's just the way it goes. The only difference isn't that my badge made it legal. It was that whenever I killed someone, I almost always did it to save someone. I suppose I should've mentioned that too though. Serve and protect, as they say. It's rather troubling to think about it right now."

He frowned lightly for a change. He had lost his family and his badge. For all it mattered, he was a criminal now too. Unless he could set everything right again.

"I'm not a cop anymore. It doesn't matter in the end."

Stefan's stare turned from Oliver and at the woods. They seemed to stretch on quite endlessly.

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

"Among other things I'm a genius and a hacker," And modest to a fault, Calvin muttered to himself. "but it's best to keep your cards close to your chest, even if you are cheating. That's all you'll be getting out of me, for now."

He's got a point there, perhaps I shouldn't have been so liberal with giving out my details. But there'll be time for worrying later. Right now we need to get moving.

He looked around. There was a decent-sized crowd gathered before the treeline of that deep, dark forest. He turned to Robin. "Is there anyone else still to come, or can we blow the bus and be on our way, because frankly, I'm getting a bit anxious at this point."

 

[Hansinkdu]

Figuring there would be no point to watch the vehicles inevitable incineration, Edmond pursued onward into the forest. What was dark for others was not so for him. Keeping a close watch on his surroundings with his exceptional vision implants, he moved forward. Trees were becoming a less common sight over the years, to be completely enclosed by them without any civilization for miles was an unusual predicament to be in, to say the least. The mates waiting by the road continued their conversations as if there was no danger to be had upon delaying their escape. Edmond wished to converse as well, but there was a time and place for that and their current situation provided neither.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Calcifer stood off from the group farther back in the woods. These people had zero common sense. But he couldn't just run off when he could enjoy the show at a safe distance. "Blow it up already"!!! 'And get fried doing it'.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Caspian was starting to get bored of waiting, wanting to see the fireworks that Robin had prepared; and so he started to walk further into the woods, a safe distance from what was going to happen, and passing by a man who appeared to be equally as impatient as Caspian himself was. He soon turned around to face the group, and crossed his arms in a slightly disapproving manner, loosely holding the gun in one hand.

"Blow it up already!!!" The man shouted.

" *sigh* The man has a point, I like no doubt the rest of you probably want to see the explosions, but unless you have a desire to be immolated by what amounts to a bomb; I would advise we all move back a distance. No doubt our mysterious saviour from earlier wants to see us all intact for this meet-up in the woods." Caspian remarked, trying to remain calm and diligent, but also possibly being slightly sarcastic in his words.

 

[Ganath]

Stefan shielded his eyes partially from the explosion, the heat washing over him. He couldn't complain though. He had felt chilled to the bone. Not that the heat lasted very long. The cold feeling he had grown used to soon returned.

"We're done here then. Now we run."

With that, Stefan took a deep breath and began to move through the forest, moving forward relentlessly. He couldn't run very fast, not with his soaked clothing. But he could pull off what amounted to jogging. While it did bother him to move quickly under these circumstances, he bit down and pressed on. They had indeed wasted enough time.