D.I.C.E(Game Thread/PM to Join)

[Evrant-Knight]

"That sounds like it would work out perfectly. Isabelle, I know you'll do a good job."

"This is totally lame." Isaac voiced in protest to the idea, he obviously wanted to be in charge and no one else for this case.

"Your objections are noted Isaac" Christina said in a curt manner.

"Sweet!" Adriana exclaimed with delight, happy to have the opportunity to work with Isabelle again. "Looks like we'll be rolling together for a little longer buddy."

"Sure. Whatever" Isaac remarked still in protest over the decision as he closed his eyes and slung Eligor across his back.

"Thank you Miss Christina, Miss Adriana, glad that somebody appreciates my suggestion." Isabelle remarked as she threw a fierce looking glare towards Isaac, obviously annoyed at his attitude.

"Isaac, Adriana, the two of you best heed well to my instruction throughout the course of this mission. Insolence like what Isaac is currently displaying will for the most part not be tolerated. You may be part of an independent group, but that does not excuse you from acting like professionals. Do I make myself clear?" Isabelle asked with a clear authoritative tone.

 

[Ruedyn]

"D.I.C.E is having another pick on the non-Humans day, if you want to go the day without someone leaking your blood because they're bored, you should come with us."
Kain considered this, faint smile on his face.
"I like my blood. I'm with you."
"My name is Richard Johnson, I'm currently D6, and we're headed to France. Who are you, and why did you ask?"
"My name is Kain, I'm a member of Division 4. Nice to meet you. If you wish, I'll carry Azkar. I'm stronger than you are."

 

[DarkRawen]

"My name is Kain, I'm a member of Division 4. Nice to meet you. If you wish, I'll carry Azkar. I'm stronger than you are."

Richard shrugged. "If you want to. I think she's going to take the wheelchair, but you can push it. Are you ready to leave? If so, we are leaving after Azkar's done doing whatever. What did Azkar mean about--- you know, the blood draining?" Richard asked. It sounded like something he would have an issue with. "If you don't mind me asking." Had he seen this guy before? No, he couldn't remember anyone like it, but again, he rarely remembered a person if they didn't make an impression on him.

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

"My name is Kain, I'm a member of Division 4. Nice to meet you. If you wish, I'll carry Azkar. I'm stronger than you are." Azkar laughed "I have a wheelchair now, fear my technological advances and such. Anyway, Richard's cool, you'll get along." Azkar pushed off Richard and landed on her bed, then propped herself up and sat "I'm sure I can get dressed by myself. You two go get ready, meet up back here if you want, I'll probably take the longest." Azkar reached out for the wheelchair folded near the door and started setting it up. "You two can get to know each other!"

 

[Ultraman950]

"It was ... a precaution."

Her face could best be described as expressing a combination of "what are you saying" and "tell me what you're saying or I'll beat it out of you".

"... What? A precaution for what? To make sure we'd get discharged? Maybe you should reevaluate your priorities, in that case, because getting me discharged isn't a great way to get me on your side!"

 

[IFS]

"Isaac, Adriana, the two of you best heed well to my instruction throughout the course of this mission. Insolence like what Isaac is currently displaying will for the most part not be tolerated. You may be part of an independent group, but that does not excuse you from acting like professionals. Do I make myself clear?" Isabelle asked with a clear authoritative tone.

Garath smiled a little, Isabelle would make a good leader for this, far better than Isaac, and he hadn't seen enough of Adrianna to know anything about her abilities, but he doubted leadership was one of her strengths.

"Where do we start?" he asked, his smile vanishing as he remembered the task at hand, he turned to Isaac, expecting him to say something about Zorama, his whereabouts perhaps.

 

[Shadowstar38]

"Isaac, Adriana, the two of you best heed well to my instruction throughout the course of this mission. Insolence like what Isaac is currently displaying will for the most part not be tolerated. You may be part of an independent group, but that does not excuse you from acting like professionals. Do I make myself clear?"

"Absolutely Miss Hearte" Adriana chirped enthusiastically. Isaac shot her a mean look, annoyed that she was enjoying this so much.

"Yeah. I get it. Don't break orders and what not"

"Where do we start?"

"My best guess is we go to London first. It's the most likely place they're being made. We can check out France later if nothing turns up after that"

 

[Ruedyn]

"You two can get to know each other!"
Kain rubbed the back of his head outside the room, tapping his foot impatiently.
"What did Azkar mean about--- you know, the blood draining? If you don't mind me asking."
"Non-humans tend to get the short end of the stick around here is all. Besides, a vacation might be nice." his voice came out strangely with longer sentences, his mouth was starting to scab over though. A few more hours and he'd be 100%
"So, who are you? I know most of the people around Division 6, never met you though."

 

[DarkRawen]

"Non-humans tend to get the short end of the stick around here is all. Besides, a vacation might be nice."

Non-humans? Was this guy a demon? No, then he would have said demon. Something else then... D6 was deeper than Richard had expected, he really felt like leaving now, for his own safety.

"So, who are you? I know most of the people around Division 6, never met you though."

"Me? Well, I already told you my name... I'm a fairly new biology-oriented scientist, I work on DNA, mostly Genome Sequencing and such. If you're in D 4, you might have heard of me before, since I heard there was a rumor for a while. Did you ever hear about a guy in a light-colored coat that collected samples from DICE operations and then disappeared, seemingly unharmed for about five years or so? That was me." Richard didn't know why he said this, but anything else seemed... well, weird for him to say to this man. He wasn't sure of the reason.

 

[Ruedyn]

"Me? Well, I already told you my name... I'm a fairly new biology-oriented scientist, I work on DNA, mostly Genome Sequencing and such. If you're in D 4, you might have heard of me before, since I heard there was a rumor for a while. Did you ever hear about a guy in a light-colored coat that collected samples from DICE operations and then disappeared, seemingly unharmed for about five years or so? That was me."
"No, I hadn't heard. I was incapacitated until recently. In fact, I just got back from my third mission in D4. Biology, eh? Surprised you haven't heard of me." Kain hid his smile. He saw the slight confusion at the non-humans part. Kain figured he'd play with him until Azkar gets done.

 

[deathbydeath]

"Maybe you should reevaluate your priorities, in that case, because getting me discharged isn't a great way to get me on your side!"

This particular comment made Aaron chuckle. "Wait a minute, just hear me out. For obvious reasons, the things I told you in that hallway could very easily come back to bite me, especially if you did the rational thing and informed on me. Now, I promised you that you could walk away, and even report me, and I would take no hostile action against you. This is true, and I will hold myself to every word of it. While I trust you completely, I wouldn't get anywhere in this job if I wasn't paranoid. As I said, the punch and the words were a precaution against me being bit in the ass, but allow me to state several obvious facts first. Besides, nobody here gets kicked out for minor brawls such as that."

"First obvious fact: You have anger issues, especially regarding your heritage. Not only is this in your file, I know this from personal experience. The second, less obvious fact is that the Second Coming has become the equivalent of the boogyman among the DICE overlords, as the organization was killed off ten years ago, and there has been no evidence of it since. Third, you're fairly new here, and you also have quite the history of pissing off your superiors, while I (semi-literally) got in bed with most of them during my tenure here. When we add all of this together, assuming you informed the higher-ups about my statements about the Second Coming, the story from their side looks like you got angry at me for some choice comments on my part and attacked me, no surprises there. However, when you run to them about how I'm involved with an anti-DICE organization that was crushed before I even joined? Now it's just starting to sound like you want some petty vengeance. Add to that our individual standings with the bosses and our respective tenures here, and they'll never believe you." At this point, Aaron removed his grey bowler hat and spun it in his hand, revealing his faded black hair underneath. "Do you think that it's a coincidence that the hallway we were talking had its camera destroyed during the battle, and also that the cleanup crew walked in just in time to see you wreck my shit?"

"In short, I goaded you into attacking me to keep the senior men in power from believing you. That way I wouldn't need to keep you quiet with any threats or actions, as that would be missing the point. I do truly apologize for my actions, and I hope that you will not hold them against me. I sincerely hold no negative feelings against you or your heritage, and I honestly desire your forgiveness for my actions." Aaron adopted a bow at this point, hat over his heart, and hoped that Sophia would absolve the grievances in order that he may convince her over to his side.

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

Azkar begun the difficult process of getting dressed. She stripped all her bloody clothes off. But on a new set of underwear, slid on a navy skirt that would have gone to her mid thighs but instead covered what remained of her lower body. She looked through the rest of the civilian clothes she'd been given and shook her head at most of it. Someone must have thought they were real funny. Azkar continued for a few more minutes.

When she was done, Azkar wheeled out. Wearing the navy skirt, a loose yellow t-shirt with a picture of a cat on it and a few various bracelets, she'd fixed her hair up into a ponytail with parted bangs and was wearing some dark sunglasses with pink rims. She had a purple handbag covered in cats on her lap which seemed to have some stuff in it and a small black travel case strapped to the back of her wheelchair. Azkar took her hands off her wheels and folded her arms "One word. One word and you die." She then put her hands back on the wheels "Well? Where to now?"

 

[DarkRawen]

"No, I hadn't heard. I was incapacitated until recently. In fact, I just got back from my third mission in D4. Biology, eh? Surprised you haven't heard of me."

"I tend not to associate with the other scientists, they steal the samples I go to the field to get, and test---" He stopped as realization hit him. "You... what did they do to you?" He had noticed the healing, but with Eliezer and Azkar around as well as his own abilities, he had gotten more used to it than he had realized. "What kinds of tests did they use you for? Considering you are out now, you're okay with that, aren't you?" Richard shook his head. "What do people do these days in order get more powerful? Or was it for the sake of money?" Richard had never tried to apply what he had learned over the years. His quest for information was simply that. He was curious, so he wanted to see how demons were built. People had different reasons for doing things, he had to remember that.

"Interesting, yet not. You're okay, I guess," he muttered, waiting for Azkar to be ready.

"Well? Where to now?"

"Unless someone needs to pick something else up, to the portal room. My clothes are still there as well."

 

[Ruedyn]

Kain finally let loose his wolfish grin, his eyes had a certain intimidating gleam to them. He was about to tell him, but Azkar walked out.
"One word. One word and you die. Well? Where to now?"
"Snnrk, wow. Never saw this side of you." he shook his head, dropping his grin,
"It's your show. Just tell me when something needs to be dead."

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"My best guess is we go to London first. It's the most likely place they're being made. We can check out France later if nothing turns up after that." Isaac said, still sounding as though he was in a bad mood after being replaced as team leader.

"Right then, guess that is settled. Unless anyone has any other business they need to attend to or gather any equipment they might need from here, I suggest we make post haste for the portal room then. Isaac, Adriana, did the information you gather have any ideas as to a more exact location in London regarding the whereabouts of the Kouza origin point?"

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

"Snnrk, wow. Never saw this side of you."
Azkar sighed "I didn't get to choose my clothes. If you think this is bad my underwear has fairies on it." Azkar shrugged "At least people won't hit on me now that I look like an underage cripple." She then started wheeling towards the portal room, in front of the others so she didn't run into one of them. "I assume you already have a bone or two Kain? So you should be set. Richard's already all packed. So let's go then."

 

[Ultraman950]

"In short, I goaded you into attacking me to keep the senior men in power from believing you. That way I wouldn't need to keep you quiet with any threats or actions, as that would be missing the point. I do truly apologize for my actions, and I hope that you will not hold them against me. I sincerely hold no negative feelings against you or your heritage, and I honestly desire your forgiveness for my actions."

Sophia all but had to physically restrain herself from upper-cutting the guy while he was bowing.

"Look," she said with quiet menace, unwittingly flexing her hands, "I don't think you want to continue with this particular train of thought. DICE is pretty much the only thing keeping those evil things from wiping out humanity. Despite my attitude, I happen to kind of like humanity. It's half the reason I joined the Marines. DICE protects humanity, I protect humanity; you oppose DICE, which means you oppose the protection of humanity, and therefore you oppose me. This is... unhealthy." Her tone lay somewhere between "rational" and "I'm two seconds from beating you to death with your own spine".

"Add to this my short temper--which you mentioned, yourself, by the way--being triggered by mentioning my unfortunate ancestry, as well as being struck in the face, and you have a recipe for industrial amounts of military-grade pain with a heaping helping of broken bones and a big glass of 'oh God is that my liver' to wash it all down. I killed three big demons with a knife on the last mission, so one puny man with an out-of-date hat doesn't scare me. And if nothing else, remember this: I don't often miss. And if I do, I have plenty..." She conjured up two large clips that look like they fit into a sniper rifle, "... of opportunities to correct my aim. So maybe you want to rethink this plan of yours to try and bring down humanity's protector."

Sophia dropped both clips on the ground and crushed them with her foot as she stepped closer to Aaron, speaking through her teeth as her red eyes bore holes into his. "Have I made myself clear, Mr. Aaron Bowler Hat?"

 

[deathbydeath]

Aaron rose up from his bow and put his hat back on, looking Sophia squarely in her gorgeous red eyes. "Very well, Sophie. You have made your point. However, I would like to add that I reciprocate this feeling of protection towards this Earth we inhabit, and it is that feeling that drove me to this position in the first place. You think that DICE is the best way to protect humans, and while your thoughts are not unfounded, know this: DICE will eventually fall of its own accord, and the shockwaves it makes will leave humanity in a worse position than before. Know also that my colleagues and I do not wish to destroy DICE, we merely wish to reform it." At this point Aaron stopped leaning on his car and took a step forward, standing shoulder-to-shoulder to Sophia. "Farewell, Sophia Marshall, until we meet again." Aaron walked away in the direction of the Division 2 hallway, leaving Sophia alone with her thoughts.

Halfway to the hall, Aaron stopped. He turned his head around so that he could see Sophia, and so she could look into his crimson eyes, filled with somber remorse and foreboding. "I will leave you with this thought: Who watches the watchmen?" Aaron vanished into the brightly lit hallway; a grey silhouette sinking into an ocean of white.

Spoiler: Response to: So one puny man with an out-of-date hat doesn't scare me

 

[Shadowstar38]

"Right then, guess that is settled. Unless anyone has any other business they need to attend to or gather any equipment they might need from here, I suggest we make post haste for the portal room then. Isaac, Adriana, did the information you gather have any ideas as to a more exact location in London regarding the whereabouts of the Kouza origin point?"

"Yeah. I got the spacial positioning memorized"

Isaac raised his hand and opened up a portal with his own power. He spotted Aaron and Sophia coming down the stairs and called them over.

"Hey you two. We're headed to London. Come on"

Isaac waited for everyone to go through the portal before following in himself; giving Christina a wave as he went.

When all of them stepped out of the portal on the other side, they came out in a sandlot behind an apartment complex. Isaac drew out his locating device and typed some code into it while Adriana held Eligor.

"It's said the most frequent sightings are in Westminster. Between Hyde Park and the river" He swiped his hand on the screen and placed the device in his jacket. "It should be too hard to stumble across one and see were it lives"
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Elizer, after dealing with the security checks of the portal room, found himself in an alleyway leading to Euston Road. Just outside the alley was bar called the Magic Circle, and a row of small homes could be stopped further down the road.

Kain, Azkar, and Richard arrived not long after. Once their security checks were done, they headed through a portal to Paris. They ended up near the National Museum of Art for some reason. Luckily enough, there wasn't much foot traffic through the street they were standing in, and their entry went unnoticed.

 

[Ultraman950]

"I will leave you with this thought: Who watches the watchmen?"

"I do," Sophia muttered to nobody in particular, fuming. "And you're wrong. I'll snap your neck before you do."

With that, she turned back around and stomped back toward her bunk, shoving aside anyone in her path, until she was stopped by Isaac.

"Hey you two. We're headed to London. Come on"

"Let me get my rifle. I need something to shoot." She kept stomping, but toward the armory.

I'll have you know I respect a nice hat, and bowler hats are nice hats. Sophie's views are not my views. And even then, she likes a good hat, too, but she's just really mad right now.