We Are Our Avatars VIII: Interdimensional Jaunt. (Closed up, thanks for playing.)

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Hey there everyone, and welcome to another WAOA! For a lot of people, this will be the old hash, but for those that aren't new to the series, welcome to WAOA! heres our rules.

The premise of the thread is simple. Your character is your avatar. They have the same powers, personality, and the like. This doesn't mean OCs aren't allowed, (They very much are!) but you must do your absolute best to find an image to represent them in some way.
Do your best to actually follow the rules, or face punishment by the DMs.
Who are the GMs you ask?
Well, there's myself, and Outisakanobody. We'll be, for lack of a better description, the law of the land around these here parts.
So, standard rules that the last 7 threads have run.
Act in character! Pretty simple, your character should not be doing things he wouldn't do normally. the goal here is to act like your character, after all.
Actually contribute to the plot with your posts.
Try not to lay down soliloquy after soliloquy for your character. they should contribute by either, say, talking with another person, fighting, screwing, getting past obstacles, or erecting their own obstacles to challenge the group.
You control your character ONLY
You can't randomly take over someone else's character. This can only be broken if-
1. the character is necessary to a plot, but the player is unable to post. Keep the posts simple as you act as their character, keep the character in character
2. another player says its fine to use your character. Loaning is fine, just please, try not to get that character killed while using him!
No overpowered characters-
pretty simple. if your character is immortal, they should not be participating in combat. The combat of this thread is meant to be enjoyable. Its not fun when you pull out the equivalent of Goku or Superman just to beat people endlessly.
How would you make sure your character isn't over powered?
Characters can't instant kill, without the other players consent.
Characters should weaken if they attack constantly.
characters shouldn't have 500 different moves they can pull in combat.
Try to explain these moves and powers simply. You may be well versed in all the mythos and stories of the universe your characters are from, but some won't be. Hell, some might not have even HEARD of your character before.
Your character should respond to attacks in some way. if he gets hit, even if the hit wouldn't wound, don't ignore it. Post a reaction of some sort, even if the reaction is simply you stating that the attack did no damage.
No excessive posts- try not to flood the board with huge essays for everything. you opening a door? say you're opening a door. No need to slam out a 2 page essay about everything in the room, the characters thoughts, and what his flashlight's battery level is currently at.
That being said, do freshen it up a bit. ted stabbed john is a boring statement, and so if you could please spice it up a bit, with a little bit of extra detailing, that would be ideal. If you feel you should cover the characters feelings, do so.
Th DM's word is law
If I or Outis make a statement about how you're acting, you need to correct yourself. there will be problems if you ignore the GMs.
Oh, and one thing to consider:
Expect some spoilers.
There will be characters used from established properties. They might very well reveal parts of these properties, story wise. If you have a problem with that, you'll do best to avoid those characters.
Also, if you could use spoiler tags whenever something is just ginormous, that would be just brilliant. We want to avoid cluttering the thread. This huge rulebook is a good example!
Things you could probably use (This is shamelessly ripped from the last thread, thanks go out to Dirty Cop James Fun)
-OOC means Out Of Character. Use this if you want to ask a question or make a suggestion.
-Use @[player name]: to address a player specifically in OoC comments.
-OP means over-powered.
-Use italics for thoughts. [*i]text[*/i] without the *
-To use coloured text: [*color=Any colour you want]text[*/color] without the *
-To use named spoiler tags: [*spoiler=Something you want to name it]text[*/spoiler] without the *
-To use images: [*img]Image url[*/img] without the *
-To use YouTube videos: [*youtube=Insert video code] without the *
-If a player missed a few pages, please give them a summary (a few lines explaining what you did since their last post).
-If you have to leave, either kill your character or put them On A Bus (give a valid reason for them to leave, ie they fell into a temporary wormhole).
-From time to time, we get in major and large group battles. At those times, the person controlling the battle will ask for who is getting involved. Once everyone confirms, they will assign those people into two or more groups, and begin the battle calling for that Group's reactions. Once those players have replied, the person controlling the battle will react to all of their posts and move on the the next group. This continues until the conflict is resolved.
Participants are not to post a reaction until it is the turn of the group they are in.
Your posts MUST make sense.
We're short on sense to begin with, so assaulting what little sense and understanding we have left is a dangerous thing.
If it isn't from your character's universe, you don't know about it, unless you actually interact with it. No jelly monsters in your universe? You better damn well have a reaction to finding one in this then. (Of course, weary acceptance that you don't know whats coming around the corner and living with it is a really good reaction, so go ahead and use it.

Finally, we come to a few rules and guidelines in this thread that should be noted.
The Multiverse:
Yep, for this thread, we'll doing a lot more exploring of universes, with a focus on the idea of universal interaction.
This means that we'll be visiting a lot of strange places.
You can use this feature, once we reach a certain point, to set up plots of your own.
We want to encourage everyone creating their own plots, and to improve the fun for everyone. No way I could manage everything myself, and hand produce all the fun.
That being said, contact either Dot or I and let us know what your plot was about, and be willing to make edits to the idea of the plot based on what Dot or I suggest.

Something important to note-
This universe, unlike any previously visited, is well familiar with the idea of universal travel. that includes the police force and military. If you commit illegal acts or try to go against the big government, there will be consequences. They will be much more careful, much more aware, and much more willing to hunt down and lock up people who pose a serious risk to the order of things. Of course, that might be just what you want to do, so go nuts. Just be aware of the consequences of going nuts.

with that, everything's that needs to be stated has been. I sincerely hope you enjoy the thread.
Alright, rules are down. Next up, locations! which are in the next post.
 

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Locations:
here, I'll be updating all the new locations. this could be neighborhoods, burroughs, cities, towers, rooms, or houses. If you feel a location is going to be important to the story, let me know!

The immmigration office, where our story started. Kind of a hectic place, if its not the wyverns its the near immortal god being tired of having to renew his visa every 5 years despite his impressive age.
 

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your character, whoever they be, has found themselves in a strange white room, that seems to extend in all directions. chairs are arranged around desks, and at the front sits a man at a desk. he's in casual wear, and is working on his computer. The room extends for several hundred meters in all directions, with a ceiling height of roughly 40 meters. curiously, there's a single loading dock, quite large and able to fit a load of people in it. it leads farther into this strange facility. This loading dock is behind the man working at his desk. Around him, extending to the loading dock, is a strange opaque shield that shimmers and hums menacingly.
Your character has a paper in there hands, claws, or any other gripping appendage, which has a single number written on it. 8001. There are three people seated already, a man in a bird mask made of paper mache and a ten gallon hat, along with a tweed vest and some slacks, a teenager in a hoodie, and a boy in a jesters uniform, his face painted white.

The room itself is mildly chilly, and smells of the kind of mildew that develops in set buildings.


For those just joining us, this is no longer the only way to introduce your character. If you wish to, you can have them appear anywhere in the strange city of London, as long as they have the paper with the number 8001 on their person.
 

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A young woman and a man both appear in the room. They are apparently sleeping in two separate chairs on two sides of the room.
 

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Amidst a cluttered ring of damaged and displaced chairs and desks, an immense creature slumbered. Vaguely serpentine with a long head and neck coiled around to form a circle, it's torso heaved with each gusting breath. It's rear legs ended in grasping, birdlike claws tipped with large black talons that looked sharp enough to cut steel. Two great wings folded on either side of its body, but their length alone indicated how expansive they would be if they were spread wide. The creature's tail ended in a splayed fan lined with thick bony spikes, and it's head bore a grand crown of heavy armour plates, covered in deep, rust red scales that terminated in black spines at the plate edges. This tough looking carapace extended along the length of its sturdy neck, down its back and all the way to its tail. Its snout was a heavy black beak, hooked and sharpened for tearing flesh, and jagged teeth lined its jaws from the beak back to the hinge. Though its eyes were closed, they were oriented forwards, just one more clue that this huge beast was a predator, and a good one. It stirred in its sleep, reptilian lips peeling back as it growled lightly.
 

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A loud drone issued from hidden speakers. "Number 2773, number 2773. Number 2773?"
A person looking might spot the man at the desk had leaned forward to speak
The man in the hoodie stood, and glancing backat the dragon, walked to the desk. The shield dropped as the hooded man approached it, and it reactivated after passing theshield.
 

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Both the man and the women woke up when they heard the loud noise. They both looked around curiously, as they had no idea where they were or how they had gotten there.
 

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A young Pokemon trainer was sleeping on the desk. He appeared to be about twelve or so, he carried a rather large pack on his back. He also had six pokeballs attached to his belt. When the loud drone came out of the speakers he sprung awake and shouted "Fighting moves do half damage to flying types! He looked around and just realized where he was "... How did I get here?... Am in school again?"
 

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The man in the bird mask glanced over and wandered to Ethan. "Well, thats a fair question. I was wondering the same thing, what with all this paperwork. What number are you?" he asked.
 

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As the announcement suddenly rang out over the loudspeakers, the wyvern suddenly lifted its head, long neck arching gracefully as it looked around for the source of the noise. Immediately it was alarmed, each of its senses assailed by strange stimuli. This giant cave that it found itself in was wrong. Whatever that sound had been was not a call from any beast of its vast territory. And of all the foreign scents that it detected in this place, only one was familiar to it.

Humans.

With a lurch, the wyvern scrambled to its powerful hind legs and stood. Benches and chairs were sent clattering across the room as it opened and flexed its gargantuan pinions, their span almost 150 feet across. The monster was 35 feet in length and almost 16 feet tall at the hip, a behemoth, long, squat and visibly strong. It pivoted around, long stiff tail sweeping dangerously through the air, and faced the front of the room where the humans were seated. Its eyes, blue as sapphires, blazed. Rearing back, it opened its toothy jaws wide and uttered an explosive, deafening roar.

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Code:
LIMITING INFO, 
REALIZATION, AND INPUT
Wryn bolts awake, her eyes flashing, as her head begins to flick around. She looked at the odd outfit she was wearing, jeans and sneakers.
"I don't remember buying this..."
Her eyes drifted around, quickly taking stake on her surroundings.
"Either a party, or I've been kidnapped and put into a school..."
She slowly rose, as it dawned on her that she was not alone. Her eyes slowly floated to the large scaly beast, as she reached to her side for a weapon...
To find she didn't have one.
"Well fuck."
She looked at the figure moving towards it, as to the man in the bird mask...
She felt an voice in her ear ring...
Code:
[i]Knowledge located: Looks familiar to Plague Doctor, or item 049. Recommend caution.[/i]
...
Her mind wavered, as she stared.
She watched as the beast rose, and roared.
"HOLY SHIT!"
She quickly grabbed a chair and and readied to throw it at the thingymawhatsit
Code:
[i]Locating: Dragon-esque creature[/i]
 

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The man and woman look at the papers in their hands. Bother were confused at first as they started looking around the room and those in it again.
 

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Ethan looked at his paper "Eight thousand and-AERODACTYL! He said at the sudden roar from the dinosaur like creature. He his hand went to his belt and he throw a pokeball containing a Metagross out. The sudden release of a giant half ton metal behemoth would ruin quite a bit of the room next to Ethan
 

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Of course the giant monster's roar quickly drove the two into hiding under the nearest desk. Both went for their weapons as well.
 

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The wyvern stepped back and hunkered low to the ground as the Metagross suddenly appeared, screeching threateningly at the new, unfamiliar beast. From its crouched position it suddenly sprang forward, flapping its wings and lashing out with the murderous talons on its feet to try and frighten its rival into backing down.
 

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The man speaking to Ethan sighed. "Never a dull moment here..." he spoke again, this time in gibberish. To Ethan, it would sound like a foreign language of clicks and slobbers. The dragon, however would perfectly understand him as he said *Calm please, noble beast! You must calm, before the people here become angered. They do not take kindly to lords such as yourself destroying things they will need.*
 

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Wryn looked at the beast, and the pokemon, her mind flailing to pick which of the two what-the-fuck's to throw the chair at, before throwing it at the Pokemon, and running... Twords the wyvrn. It's important to point out that at this point, her mind is kicking into overdrive, and without the feeling of something familiar in her hands her mind freaks out.
She quickly ended up running into the wyvrn.
 

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Metagross's arm glows white with immense power before he draws his arm back and hits him with a metallic punch to the wyvern's gut holding the force of a heavy blow. Metagross used Hammer arm. The behemoth of metal simply shrugged off the chair that was thrown at it due to the fact that it was made of metal and had quite a large amount of defensive power