Advanced Character Training, A neat, little try-out thread.

[Shonkey]

If you have a new character, or just want some practice with your character, just throw him/her/it in here. I'll progress the plot, using my own characters. If anyone wants to join, feel free to just jump right in. This is a paradox thread, meaning you can use characters here, even if they are being used somewhere else. ^^

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As you push the brush out of your way, you see a clearing. You quickly make your way through the forest, and enter the clearing. You stop to catch your breath, and you look up. You notice a cozy, little cottage in the middle of the clearing. You take a quick look behind you. The creature that was chasing you seems to have stopped. You look back at the cottage. There is smoke coming from the chimney, and there is a faint light coming from a window.

[Avigor]

John arrives in the clearing.

"Where . . . the . . . hell . . . am . . . I?" He says between panting.

John sees the cottage, and the light within. "Okay, maybe they'll at least know where I am . . ." John walks up to the door, and knocks.

[Shonkey]

The faint sound of footsteps could be heard from within. After a moment, the footsteps stop and the door opens. An average-looking, young man stands there with a slightly confused look on his face. He is wearing a plain white tee-shirt and white, denim jeans. He sticks his head out of the door, and slowly looks around. As he searches the outside, he speaks. "May I...help you?" He turns his attention to John, the same slightly confused look on his face. The door is slightly opened, only enough for the man to peer out. All you see inside is what appears to be a large bookshelf, filled with various literature. There is a slight shifting noise, elsewhere, in the house.

[Avigor]

John's eyes move to find the source of the shifting noise, while he asks the man, "Where am I, exactly? I have no clue, myself." His eyes return to the man after he finishes speaking.

[IceDestroyer]

OOC: I assume there's not a limit on how many characters can be in this?

IC: Ralen stopped at the edge of a small clearing and looked behind him. Good, it looks like I outran it, he thought, for the moment, at least. His biggest worry taken care of for now, he took a look into the clearing. A small home sat in the apparent center of the area, and a man who Ralen assumed was the resident was talking to someone standing outside the cottage.

Ralen thought for a moment, and determined that instead of approaching the individual standing outside, he should simply observe for now. So he stood in the shadow of the closest tree to the clearing, and watched.

[Scout]

Dan, in wolf form, stops a little ways behind Ralen.
'I guess he thinks he outran me.' A [wolfish] grin crosses his expression in the dark. While going through the forest, he'd transformed to make the place easier to traverse, and to also make a quick getaway from other actual monsters. The strange, cloaked guy must've mistaken him for one of them though, and consequently made a break for it. Dan, being the jerk that he is, kept up the chase. He snickers, but then spots the other [assumed] humans in the clearing.
'Heh...amazing, the adventurers you find in the forest.' The lycanthrope hides himself just far enough so he can see and hear what's going on, but so he can remain undetected in his current state.

This post has been edited by Scout on Jun 28 2007, 10:58 PM

[Shonkey]

OoC: Sorry guys! ^^; I'm like a million years late. :P

BiC: The man at the door looked far away, as if in deep thought. After a few seconds of this, he turned his attention back to the man, just outside of the door. "That's just it... I'm not too sure what to call this place..." After he thought about what he just said, he chuckled a little, rubbing the back of his neck. That probably didn't make too much sense. "Umm... I'm Shonkey, by the way. I don't recognize you... Which doesn't make sense. You're, uh... In my dream. I'm asleep, right now..." He opened the door, and gestured for the stranger to come in. As the door opened, an ice chest full of drinks came sliding towards the entrance, making the familiar shifting noise.

[Avigor]

John's eyebrows shift, his left one up, the other down.

"How could I be in your dream? Well, I guess it isn't too weird, considering all the hell that's broken loose recently. I'm John. Last I knew, a shitload of demons or something was attacking the NYC, and then I found myself in some medieval village or something. The guards really didn't like my sword; still don't know why. I found it on some dead body before I . . . warped, I guess."

John blinked. "Huh. I don't normally talk this much in a marathon session like that." John shrugs.

[Scout]

'Oh snap...dreams? Warping? If I'm the enemy in this I'm gonna be sent to some alternate dimension or something...no way in hell is that happening.' He transformed back in the dark and began to walk towards the clearing, pretending he'd heard nothing and was just stumbling in.

[Shonkey]

"Hmm..." Shonkey nodded, as he took this all in. "Well. I'm not sure what's going on, or how you got in my dream." He opened the door the rest of the way, the cooler scooting back a little to make room. "Please come in. I'm not sure if the fire will feel warm to you, but you're welcome to it." He gestured for the fireplace, in the back. There were two comfy-looking chairs nestled in front of it. It was an all-around cozy, little cottage. The cooler popped open, and Shonkey looked at it. He looked back up at John. "Drink?" There was one of any kind of beverage you could think of, in there. How they all fit in there is peculiar.

This post has been edited by Shonkey on Jul 3 2007, 01:20 PM

[Avigor]

"Sure," John said, grabbing a banana colada fusion.

John walked over to a chair and sat down.

"So, any idea what that village I was in before coming to here was?"

John describes it. If Shonkey's familiar with Diem, he'll recognize the description of the town square.

After describing the village, John opens the drink and starts drinking.

[Shonkey]

Shonkey started to close the door, as he listened to John. He stopped when he noticed a man in a black hoodie step out of the forest. He glanced back at John, then to the new-comer. "That sounds like Diem." He looked at John again, and pointed at a PC that was in one of the corners. "All of my memories can be accessed through that terminal. Just look up Diem. It'll pull up everything I know about Diem." He looked back at the stranger in black, and squinted to see him. He tried to remember if he had seen him before.

[IceDestroyer]

Ralen watched as someone in a hoodie began to walk towards the cottage. After a moment of consideration, he determined that there was little more to be gained by observing from afar, and followed.

[Avigor]

John started to smile, then thought for a moment.

A computer? He couldn't know that I'm a computer junkie, could he?

John walked over and looked over the stuff about Diem, then found himself getting confused by references to the Lord and the rest of the world.

"Would it be OK if I checked out some other geography & politics stuff? I have no idea what this 'Lord' guy it's referencing is."

[paladin]

A teenage boy begins to materialize, he pulls a knife, "Nex? Hey, where am I?" He said to the man who had just said 'everything I know about Diem'. He knew he wasn't on the roofs of Discord, or next to the ship. "Tell me I'm not in a hillside in Noctum." He knew the man knew about Diem. Meaning he was a local.

"By the way, I'm Trey."