NPF Avatars: A story of Seals, Tears, and Betrayal

[mauve]

"I thought it WAS night," Mauve said. "Wasn't it dark at the beginning of the game?" She shrugged. Time meant nothing on the NPF. The NPFers all ran on different time zones anyway. "Oh well."

Making sure nobody was looking, Mauve took Newb's watch out of her pocket and hid it in a cabinet drawer.

"Now. Back to the freeing of the Fenris."

[POS Industries]

As he and Phoenix discussed their latest zany scheme, Pedro decided that enough time had passed after his "accidental" groping by the not-so-mauve Mauve Thief and briefly interrupted Phoenix. "Oh Rei?"

The AI chimed in, "Yes, Pe-chan?"

"You know the Excessive Aphrodisiac Transference device that I keep in my fake wallet?"

"Oh yeah! That's the thing that looks like a PassKey card, right?"

"Indeed it is," POS grinned, "Activate it for me, would you?"

[Truce]

Ecurt (Or Esheth, the name he...err she had decided to go by in this form) had been strolling behind Wrath Manifest, watching her literally cut a path through the Gaian army. It was then that he realized that he hadn't found out what happened to the other team. He knew for a fact that most of "Team Kick Raiden's Ass" had been affected by the Chaos explosion, but the TV hadn't shown a single scene with Team...hey what was their team name anyway? Oh well, it probably didn't matter.

Anyway, Esheth decided to call them. It couldn't hurt to check on them, after all.

~~~

Mauve Thief-Shadow-Ninja-Whatever was quite surprised when her pockets started talking. Somehow, someway, she had managed to steal one of Ecurt's cat ears-which didn't make sense since Arhra still had hers and she hadn't even been near Ecurt in for the last few scenes. However, it wasn't those petty details that bothered her, but the fact that the voice coming from the ears, that sounded oddly like Asheth.

Except Asheth didn't have a Southern accent.

"Hello, shuug," Esheth said on the other end of the connection. "Ah wanted to check up on y'all. Did anything happen over there recently?"

[mauve]

"Aside from all the stuff that somehow ends up in my pockets and will most likely cause my downfall in a painful or humiliating matter? And all the randomly insane things? Oh, not much," Mauve said. She was observing the things she took off Pedro, barely suprised that she had somehow managed to steal one of Ahrha's ears despite the fact that the woman still had two attached to her head. The pass key started to buzz disconcertingly, so Mauve quickly dumped it into the drawer with Newb's watch. Hmm... Apparently she wasn't as sneaky as she thought. The Hazel-Eyes White Capitalist was on to her. Of course, in his profession, she supposed he had to be watching out for trouble. Damn.

She sighed, taping the drawer closed with the duct tape she had lifted off somebody. Things were less complicated back when she was a mage. She just burned everything that annoyed her without a care for profit or sneakyness.

"We've got the secret weapon started, I think," Mauve continued. "I don't know too many of the details. We're headed back towards your position." She paused, thinking. "We're all okay--"

Fenris gave her a dirty glare.

"--For the most part. I think Ahrha's lost some brain cells, but that's a normal side effect of overexposure to the NPF." She snickered, realizing the unintentional pun. Hehe. Overexposed. "Anyway, we should be there soon."

Mauve frowned, realizing that Asheth soudned slightly more... southern. And didn't Ecurt usually use the Kitty Communicator thingie?

"Who is this, by the way?" Mauve asked the severed kitty ear. The object was slightly disturbing. How the hell did she get this? "Asheth? Where's Ecurt? And what the heck just happened with the chaossy, character-altering blast that just ripped through here?"

[Truce]

"Ahh, so it happened to ya too, honey?" Esheth asked, avoiding the "What happened to Ecurt" question. "Well, ah'd explain, but ah don't know how to do it in a Southern accent. If yah git ovah here, ah'll be sure to explain it to ya, love."

Esheth paused again, thinking for a moment as he stepped to the side to avoid a flying flailing flamer. "Ya wouldn't happen to have the little duckie's portahl device, would you dear?

[mauve]

"Portal device?" Mauve echoed, keeping a wary eye on the desk drawer where the freaky pass key was being held. It was doing something, and Mauve was infinitely glad that she had gotten rid of it before it started whatever it was it was doing. Gyuh. Creepy. Hopefully whatever it was doing would stay over there. She edged closer to Fenris' table.

"What portal device?" she asked. "Dunno if I stole that..." She started working on freeing the forum hobo as she talked. "What's it look like, and who has it?"

[Arhra]

Arhra seemed to have all the responsiveness of a sponge. The now pretty much back to original sized girl was still just standing there, staring at nothing, her clothes a pathetic little pile at her feet. There was not even a reaction to POS handing over his overcoat, standing there with it draped over her shoulders. Even doing something like trying to push her over looked questionable whether it would get any reaction from her.

It seemed Arhra had gotten hit in a weak point this time. Strange indeed are the vulnerabilities of creatures of Chaos. She seemed unlikely to come out of it under her own power any time in the near future. And then there was the question of what she would do if she snapped out of it.

[PyrosNine]

(SomeWhatOOC: Watchu talkin bout, darlin? I vocated in mine native southern Carolinan in the last roleplay! I do declare, you're memory's failin' you, turkeyboy! Heavens, my lil ole self even made my dear cussin Cendy some of ma world famous dumplin's!)

The fools of Gaia had never expected a strike inside their walls. Almost all defences had been in place to keep the unwanteds out of the Forums, and keep them going towards NPF. These should have prevented the Pyros 3, but Pyros the warrior smashed through whatever mods and defense weaponry they had, Asheth seduced a security keycard from a Mod, and kitty Pyros was carried the rest of the way by a catgirl who found the bishounen cat in a dress adorable, and possibly pawnable on the Gaian Auction.

But once in the hometurf of the Enemy, Pyros let loose. Buildings were destroyed. Houses were demolished. Parks and Recreational facilities were burned to the ground. And a few orphanages saw better days.

Those in the ominous control room of secrecy(tm) weren't happy about this.

"Sir! We have a breach!"

"What? One of the banned got loose? Damn! I told the mods to not take any chances with them!"

"No sir, it's not one of the banned!"

"Then who is it then?"

"It's one of them sir. They've made it into Gaia! Hyperlink portal engines 1-13 are down, and the others are suffering damages as we speak! And that's not it! It seems that only one got in, but it's spread itself! I can't explain it! And all the reports are only unified in that they mention a red dress!"

"Blast! What the hell is Fidem doing?"

"Sir...Fidem's gone. He was pulled through a portal, and the main portal was shut down shortly afterwards. It's likely he's surrounded by the NP forumites, and is unable to return to our side by one of the other portals!"

"Looks like the craps really hit the fan now... have all repair crews on those Hyperlink portal engines immediately! And what's the damage report of the lone intruder?"

"Sir, the damage seems to be systemic, and intentional, but a pattern hasn't been figured out yet...(types into keyboard) here's the data so far."

The main monitor lit up, and an image of the livingquarter sector was shown.



"Damn! What does it mean!"

"I...I don't know sir. But I have the strangest feeling I should have paid more attention to the file on them."

[Truce]

"You know what, screw it. I'm not being paid enough to suck at faking an accent. I'M CALLING MY AGENT, ASHETH!!!"

~~~

Calming down, Esheth responded to Mauve. "Ahem.

"The portal device looks like a radio. Where the battery should go you'll find a red glowing gem called the Philosopher's Stone. Assuming that didn't get affected in the chaos blast, you should be able to use it to get over here.

"It's not made to create a portal as big as a ship though. I suggest attaching it to Arhra, then attaching Arhra to a computer. Then, well, press the start button.

"I suggest getting over here as soon as possible. I'm detecting a large disturbance in the area. I can't tell if it's spiritual, magical, physical, or if Pyros ate pickled burritos again, but it's definately something nasty.

[Incendius]

Fidem merely shrugged as the NPF forumites confronted him and said in a quiet voice "If you want to try, I can not blame you, but you won't suceed" delivering his final ultimatum, giving them one last try to go back to merely slaughtering undesirables. Of course, given the NPF forumites' notorious moods and reactions, this really did not work.

"Fine then" He said his eyes dull. Closing his eyes momentarily Fidem sighed, and in the middle of that sigh, he seemed almost to dissapear. It was not invisibility, to those who had senses capable enough to see through such a trick, only the few that could catch supersonic speed with their eyes would know enough that he had merely moved faster then a normal person, or even forumite's eyes could see.

To those who were able to follow Fidem's movement, they saw him off to the right of the battle, halfway up the mountain with his cannon pointed directly at the center of the battlefield. He mouthed a simple sentence for those who could see and winked. "Let's get this started".

Exploding from his cannon came a globlet of a sickly green substance, encased in an almost forcefield effect, the green substance seemed almost to strain aginst its casing more then normal, as if there was much more of it in there then the casing should be able to hold.

And that description was entirely accurate, for the second the globlet struck the ground in the middle of the battle, it exploded with such force that its contents were spread all over the field, and the contents were predictably acid, an extremely strong one that burned through flesh, clothes, bone and all in a matter of moments.

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Inside the city the other moderators in the control room had organized a strike back to the attacker with the mysterious pattern. Using their powers they were able to pinpoint the current location of the intruder, or at least his/her wearabouts, it was their forum after all, and they held the admin devices with full knowledge on how to use them.

A single mod was sent out to confront the burning Pyros, it was a small man, barely reaching 5' 4'' in height, he had black hair that hung down to his neck and black eyes, he was wearing a simple set of grey and brown slacks and shirt. In his hand he held an open book.

Upon seeing Pyros he said in an even and steady tone of voice "Your going to have to learn your place firey man, were not taking kindly to intruders at the moment, or ever in the way you have been doing it. You've destroyed more then undesirables and hyperlink portals in your attack, and for that you must answer to your crimes"

With a brief glance down to his book, the man raised his left free hand and snapped his fingers, instantly a ginat billowing sheet of black material was in his hand. "We shall show you no mercy in coming here from what we might have done if you stayed outside" With that said, the man flung the billowing sheet towards Pyros, the only indication of what it might do was the strange feeling around the sheet... it felt small, even though it was considerably large enough to envelop at least a couple people in its folds.