FFVII: Tyranny of Shinra [RP]

Yet another of my attempts to make a clean and focused roleplay on this site. In any event, here we go.

Premise:

This takes place after the events of Advent Children. Shinra is rebuilding and expanding their control over both Midgar and the surrounding areas. Midgar has been more or less repaired to fully functional state, and it is still dominated by the slums, which is where the adventure begins.

You are all mercenaries and outcasts, drawn for whatever reason to the underground resistance group CRUSADER, said to be based on the earlier AVALANCHE group that came before it.

The head of CRUSADER, Talsh Veldeck, fights against Shinra in much the same way as AVALANCHE did, by launching strategic attacks against key Shinra installations by using small but resourceful bands of experienced fighters and specialists who can get in, plant a bomb, and get out, hopefully while avoiding major detection.

Unlike AVALANCHE, CRUSADER is not devoted to saving the planet. CRUSADER's mission is the utter destruction of Shinra and the bringing about of a new world order free from their tyrannical rule.

CRUSADER has many connections within the slums, but the organization has reached a point where it is so large that few operatives are aware of how many operatives there truly are. Most operatives know only their partners and their Templar, a title given to the person in charge of a specific (or perhaps several) teams, and the one who assigns them the missions from the higher-ups. While most people know OF Talsh Veldeck, few have ever met him, assuming he even does exist and is not a construct of others to serve as a rallying point for the organization. No Templar has ever actually met Talsh personally.

CRUSADER's actions have given rise to black market arms trading, and the black market dealers are the major suppliers of CRUSADER. Most black marketeers have learned to recognize CRUSADER members on sight, and can often offer wares. The black marketeers are in no way aligned to each other, and most fight viciously for the rights to sell their wares to CRUSADERs. Already many deaths amongst black marketeers have been reported. While many teams like to rely on several familiar and trustworthy black marketeers, there is no guarantee that that black marketeer will live to provide their exemplary service for long.

CRUSADER is currently confined only to the city of Midgar. However, as Shinra's dominion spreads, it can be assumed that CRUSADER will grow as well.

Making a character:

Characters are all members of one team within CRUSADER. If enough people join, I will start forming other teams that will act together. Generally most teams will be of 3 to 6 people. If the number of players continues to expand, I will begin transfering people to other teams to keep the teams smaller.

Also, it is very important for your character to try not to stand out. If a character is wielding a six-foot tall sword with a two-foot thick blade, you are going to stand out and be gunned down before you blink twice. Style of dress and armaments should be chosen to conceal weapons and appear nondescript. Many CRUSADERs favor large trenchcoats and jackets that permit them to conceal their weaponry.

Shinra operatives are now playable. Shinra characters will count as low-rank SOLDIER. They will start with the same basic armaments as CRUSADER, but will be able to openly carry and wield weapons, as well as have authority that CRUSADER does not. SOLDIER members will be able to obtain equipment from any Shinra installation, and will also be able to go many places that CRUSADER cannot due to their rank.

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Biography: (You cannot be a Cetra or a clone, you are a normal human.)
Appearance:
Faction: Either CRUSADER or Shinra (Shinra operatives are low-ranked SOLDIER)
Combat Training: You can be trained in no more than three combat styles. This includes specific melee or barehanded fighting styles, as well as firearm training (handguns, sniping, etc.)
Skills: You can be trained in no more than two skills, things such as explosives, hacking, and piloting. There are some things everybody can do, like toss a grenade or drive a car, but those without the skill can only do so at an average rate.
Equipment: Equipment is limited to how much you can conceivably carry. You may begin with as much equipment on your person as you can conceivably carry, but it is advisable to remember that you are considered a criminal, and if you walk around the city armed to the teeth you WILL be killed on spot. Also keep weight in mind when equipping a character. You could conceivably have five handguns and two machine guns under your trenchcoat, but that might limit your maneuverability. Also, a kevlar vest might offer good protection, but it is not without its own weight.
Shinra players have more freedom as to what they will carry, but overdoing equipment will still bring about the same results.
Materia: When you are starting out, you cannot have more than four slots total out of all of your equipment, although you may choose where to place them. Equipment with materia slots are more expensive, but they can be quite a bit more powerful in the long run. You also begin with four materia, but you may only choose Ice, Lightning, Restore, Fire, or Heal materia.
Where you place the materia also has an effect on how you use it. Materia in arm bracers can be used to cast spells manually. Materia in armor can provide resistance to certain spell types and amplify some spells that you cast. Materia in weapons can be used to increase the weapon's capacity and imbue it with special attacks. Do note: restore materia in a weapon will, at best, do absolutely nothing to someone. If you imbue a gun with healing magic, the bullet will go through someone and heal the wound as it passes through them, more or less doing no harm nor good. However, against undead, it can prove to be quite effective. Be smart with where you put your materia for the desired results.
Limit Breaks: When your character's body reaches a certain level of strain, their lifeforce reacts in a rather spectacular way, allowing them to unleash an incredibly powerful attack. There are two types of limit breaks, static and enhance. Static limit breaks are the same every time, but they are characterized by a release of huge amounts of energy that can devestate opponents. Enhance limit breaks do not release the energy, but instead dramatically improve a person's capabilities for a short period of time. The stronger the limit break, the longer the improvement. Everybody starts with a level 1 limit break and may choose between Static and Enhance. If Static is chosen, a limit break will be assigned to the character, but I am willing to work with you to get you a limit break that you want. You will be informed through in-game description when you have attained a limit break, and possibly through PM depending on the circumstances.
Equipment Placement: Where your equipment is placed and concealed upon your character.
Gil: You start with 300 gil.

Those wishing to join should post their characters here. We will begin when I have at least three characters.

This is a GMed roleplay. The story moves from a combination of character posts and my own posts as the Game Master. I control the events in the story. While you may act inside the bounda<i></i>ries of your character, assuming you hit your enemies, controlling characters other than your own character, using abilities you do not have, assuming you have a limit break when I have not given you any indication of attaining a limit break, and other such annoyances will result in a warning, after which it will result in the permanent death of your character. Be warned.

Here I go::D

Name: Christmas

Age: 21

Gender: F

Biography: EX-SOLDIER 2nd Class,In charge of the overall security of Junon especially the prized airship Highwind. Got fired after failure to capture Barret and his gang when they make their grand escape in Junon and allowed them to steal the Highwind a few years ago.
Moved to Midgar and lived in the slums for a year or so as a mercenary until she decided to join the CRUSADER.

Appearance: Blonde, green eyes, wore the same type of clothing as Cloud but hers was black in color and have a large trenchcoat over it.

Combat Training: Close Range Sword Fighting, Handguns & Bare Hand fighting.

Skills: Explosives and Piloting

Equipment: (used to have a custom made buster sword but the Shinra took it back after dimissing her from the force.) A double bladed sword which can be spilt apart into two swords, A handgun, a handphone, arm bracer and a smoke bomb.

Materia: Restore in arm bracer, Heal in arm bracer, Lightning in sword, Ice in gun

Limit Breaks: Static.

EDIT: Limit Break: Wind Slash. ----> Approved.

Gathering energy into the blade of your sword, you unleash a massive shockwave of wind that slices through the air and can cut through steel with very little difficulty

Character approved. I've also updated the sign-up sheet a bit to say where you keep all of your equipment, please add that when you have the time.

I might actually TRY to be active this time. xD

Name: Wu Junren
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Biography: A mute member of CRUSADER, very little of Junrens life has been revealed. He has been believed to live in the mountains in his earlier years.
Appearance: Long black hair, Investigative red eyes. Medium-toned figure. Commonly wears a large navy blue winter coat, a black scarf, and baggy black pants.
Combat Training: Double wield reverse sword style, Hand to hand, Sniping
Skills: Lockpicking, explosives
Equipment: Two Reverse swords, sniper rifle
Materia: Fire on each sword, Lightning on rifle
Equipment Placement: Sniper on back (behind coat), swords on the inside of the coat, near his torso.
Gil: 300?
Limit Break: Enhance (some explanation on what to do for enhance?)

My first RP here, fun.

Name: Sumir Kaisen
Age: 19
Gender: M
Biography: Has lived in the slums since birth and learned to fight with vicious, frequently underhand tactics. He was born in Kalm, but his family had grown too poor and he had been forced to move into one of the Midgar slums. Due to his somewhat impulsive nature he has been in hundreds of fights. Most of his skills come from fighting in the street so he knows how to conceal weapons but he was also trained for a few months by an Ex-Soldier in some combat but mostly materia use. He joined Crusader because of his hate for the life he had led, he wants to end the horrible division between the class stratification so inherent in every part of Midgar's culture.
Appearance: About 5'11" he's clearly been roughed up a lot of his life and is very muscular. He has weary, dark, angry eyes and short black hair. He usually wears dark, inconspicous colors that has enough space to conceal weapons.
Combat Training: He has special skills in using machine guns effectively. He was trained in using long knives which he dual wields and frequently throws, he always has at least 6 wth him. His last fighting skill is barehand fighting in which he has a very graceful style, always in a different placed than his opponents weapon.
Skills: He's skilled at piloting helicopters because of how much they're used in Midgar and his other skill is remaining inconspicous such as acting drunk or being difficult to see in the shadows.
Equipment: He wears a kevlar vest for protection and has a semi-automatic machine gun with him at all times. He also carries about 6 long knives at all times, one a little longer than the others. He generally tries to carry not much else as his barehand fighting style of always being in the right place (at least trying to) carries over to his other skills, and to do that he can't wear much weight.
Materia: He has these materias: fire, lightning, restore and heal materia I assume all at level 1. The fire is placed in his semi-automatic for it's explosive power. The lightning in his longest knife for speed. The restore and heal are both in his vest.
Limit Breaks: Static "Rain of Steel", he throws six daggers that are empowered with life energy and do heavy damage.
Equipment Placement: Semi automatic on his back. Knives around his waist line with one at all times up his right arm sleeve.
Gil: I don't have any choice so 300.

Both characters are approved. I'll PM you both with the limit break information.

You all sit in a dark and rather grungy room. There is water dripping from the leaky roof just to your right, and the blinds have been pulled, allowing little light into the room, not that Midgar has much light to begin with.

The table at which you are sitting is a relatively long, rectangular thing, with battered wooden legs and a scratched surface. There are six chairs, two on either long side and one on each end. The chairs are metal folding chairs, neither comfortable nor particularily well-made. Most of them groan and creak alarmingly beneath your collective weight.

Just above the table is a single light fixture, a wire from which hangs a lone lightbulb that sways precariously in the air. There is one door, rather solid and in much better repair than the rest of the room. Beside it, a decrepit hat rack stands, several of its legs missing and its base looking particularily worn.

As you wait, the door opens and a nondescript man in a tall, rimmed hat and brown trenchcoat steps into the room. He carries a cane, although it is obvious he does not need it to walk, and his hands are covered with black gloves. Although his sleeves are drawn almost over his hands, you catch a glimmer of varicolored light beneath them.

Placing his hat on the top peg of the hat rack, he takes a seat at the table, removing three files from his trenchcoat. He has short brown hair and haggard, wrinkled features. His mouth seems fixed in a perpetual scowl, and he looks at you with hard, unyielding eyes.

"So then, you are the new team I am to guide, are you not?" he asks in a quiet, raspy voice, bringing a cigarette to his mouth and flicking open a lighter with one hand. He takes a long pull of the cigarette and exhales, filling the room with the pungent odor of the smoke. "Well, I suppose you may as well all introduce yourselves."

Sumir Kaisen:
"Sumir Kaisen, a long time survivor in the slums."

Wu Junren
Junren pointed to himself, and made various gestures with his hands. He waited to see if anyone understood.

The man flips through the folders.

"All right, and that makes the girl there Christmas I s'pose."

He slides a piece of paper and a pen over to Wu Juren from one of his pockets.

"I can't understand yer hand wavin'. Write it down."

This is going to be long.

Name: Matta Airington
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Biography: (A EXTREMLY FIT GUY, ALWAYS LEARNING. PASSIONATE OVER THINGS HE LOVES, ALWAYS HELPING THE UNFORTUNATE, DETERMINED, DISCIPLINED AND RESPECTFUL [only to people who respect him], DOWN TO EARTH)

Born in Gongaga, Grew up pretty much without a farther (Father was one of the first to join Soldier but quit to be with wife and newly born son. But was asked one last time to help out in the Wutai/Midgar War but was killed two years later and brought home to rest).Matta through the years listened how Zack wanted to be a 1st Class Soldier (just how Mattas’ farther was) and looked up to him Zack and Matta would practice fighting/weapon skills till the day come when Zack left for Midgar to join Soldier. During the time up till 2 years after the Nibelhiem incident, Matta furthered his fighting skills and learnt martial arts, which were taught by ZANGAN and also had a knack for Carpentry and craftsmanship, which came in handy when the mako reactor exploded and helped rebuild some of the homes. Year later after Matta felt Gongaga was safe, he left for Midgar hoping to follow in Zacks’ footsteps after hearing he was doing well, even though that news was about 3 years old. Lived in sector 7 slums and had made a few good friends on and below the sector 7 plate before finally signing up to enter Soldier. Almost completing his training in Soldier but had already guaranteed his place as a 1st Class Soldier (after performing so well so quick) had saw sector sevens destruction and couldn’t believe AVALANCHE could kill innocent people and was even more determined. The graduation day, Matta didn’t show up took his things and left before receiving his honours after finding out Shinra were responsible for sector sevens destructions and the death of his friends and left for sector 6 and someday he planned to take revenge for their deaths but not on his own as he thought that was committing suicide. Weeks later he contracted the Geostigma Virus which only showed down the side of his left leg but made sure it was never seen. Helped negotiate with the kids for parts from sector 7 in exchange for food and helped with the construction of Edge City. Buhamut had attack Midgar whilst Matta went back to Gongaga to look after his ill Mother and had reported to still have not seen Zack to his parents. Walking back to his Mothers’ house he loses his Geostigma. Month’s later; Mattas Mother dies and returns to Midgar a couple of days later. Upon returning to Midgar, Matta hears that Shinra are starrting to get back on top of things and also heard about a new underground resistance group called “CRUSADER” who are out to bring Shinra down for good and Matta instantly decides to try and join CRUSADER.

Appearance: 5ft11”, 168lbs, Black Hair (middle parted, medium length), Blue Eyes, Slim-toned figure, two sheath on back crossing over, Black Jeans, Black thin collar shirt, black leather jacket over that, white belt and gold belt buckle in remembrance of his farther.

Combat Training: Martial Arts (Jujitsu), Two-Sword Mastery

Skills: Undercover skills, Carpentry/Craftsman

Equipment: Two Katana Luxe Swords, Leather Gloves with Metallic Knuckles as apart of the glove (can switch between both fighting styles during battle)

Materia: Fire in Leather/Metallic Gloves, Lighting in Swords. Heal in Arm Bracer, Ice in Armour

Equipment Placemnt: Gloves are already being worn as you wouldnt really notice them. Swords under jacket and poke through hood and the handles are white so unnoticable under the amount of white feathers.

Limit Breaks: Static – Stab and Jab - Impales enemy with two swords, then using hand/feet combat to heavily damage the enemy.

Gil: 300 gil.

Good character Russielloyd, you're approved, as is your limit break. Please add where your weapons are kept.

You may begin your scenario by walking into the room that the others are being briefed in.

Gloves are already being worn as you wouldnt really notice them. Swords under jacket and poke through hood and the handles are white so unnoticable under the amount of white feathers, ill add it to character profile.

*KNOCKS DOOR* *WALKS IN*

Matta Airington
Hey, i was told this is the place for new recruits for CRUSADER. Am i in the right place? *looks a bit unsure*

The man flicks his now-expended cigarette butt at the newcomer.

"Yer late. Sit down," he says, taking out another cigarette and lighting it.

*Catches Cigarette, crushes it and flicks it in the bin*

Matta Airington

Ill stand if you dont mind.

I only heard about you this morning....how long has CRUSADER been around?

Christmas

I remain slient throughout the whole conversation maybe partially I was half asleep when it begins.

I glanced at those people around me....one of them is smoking cigarettes like that is no tommorrow.

The other one seems to be some natives of some remote mountain tribe. He seems to be scribbling something on a paper.

The last two seems like Gym instructors to me.

I reckon that I will keep quiet until the conversation get to the juicy part.

"We've been around fer years now, but it doesn't surprise me that ye've not heard of us," the man says.

"In any event, I should be handin' out yer mission, I s'pose. A low-ranking Shinra official is going to be leaving Midgar on a business trip. He'll be coming through the slums in about three hours in disguise. He does have some bodyguards with him, but I am expectin' you four should be able to take him down."

Finally the juicy part. I raised my hand and asked

"Do you have a photo of him or something?"

"We don't send our people out on missions uninformed," the man says disdainfully, pulling another file from his coat and throwing it into the table. He flicks his expended cigarette into the corner of the room and lights up another.

"That file has all the information ye'll need. Feel free to go over it."

I flicked through the file and the infomation is pretty precise. It even tell me how many kittens that chap had in his house.

I guess this one a pretty nice and caring guy just for his love for little animals...but when I read this sentence:

"Had the tendency to dismantle kitten's apart and dug out its internal organs then ripping it flesh out one by one before putting it into the deep fryer to fry."

I think he deserve to die just for being such a sadist...

I then passed the file to the guy who is still writing on that paper of his....

Matta Airington

What!?

*walks over grabs file and flicks through it*

Hey!, theres nothing about cats in here, stop messing man.

*turns to cigarette guy*

so why this guy? what's so important about him?

"In all of Shinra, he's a small fry, but he's been rather efficient at cracking down on some of our arms merchants. We need him eliminated, and he's a good target to test a new group on."

"So" Sumir spoke as he in turn grabbed the folder "when do we start?"

"As soon as yer ready. Ye've got about two and a half hours to get in position before he comes through, I suggest ya do it soon."

Matta Airington

What sector is he coming through?

"Sector seven," he says, flicking aside another cigarette and lighting up yet again. "I'd get movin'."

Quote:"Hendun Salv, is a relatively poor slum lord who extorts money out of many citizens. He is backed by the Shinra government, and given hirelings to break up the black market arms deals that threaten Shinra enterprises. He generally is cowardly and doesn't often show himself in public, but if he does it is under heavy disguise and with several hirelings. It also says that he has access to little materia, but most of his bodyguards carry guns at all times."

This the inro void sent me just for everyone to know what's in the folder.

Edit: "Alright let's go if we're gonna prepare places for us."

Matta has already left while Sumir Kaisen was talking and has already left the building walking to sector 7.

Seeing Matta gone Sumir leaves too leaving the folder for the others, making the assumption that they're all going seperately he doesn't follow but takes bacroads with a perfected casual walk that covers ground very quickly.

Im game fellas, gimme some time to draw up my character.

Wu Junren
Wu wrote down his name, and passed it back to the man.
He sped over the file when it was passed to him, seemed easy enough. After the explanation was done, Wu went to his room to meditate.

Upon reaching a cold dusty sector 7 half-hour before "Hendun Salv" arrives. "Matta" looks around and remembers the times he had with his friends here and see the his old place. Seeing the time, places one sword in the ground and hides up above ready.

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Name: Sarge ( Sgt. Oxford Kane)

Age: 47

Gender: M

Biography: A 1st Class Soilder during the Wutai battles, he wheatered many battles and moved up the ranks. He was pulled from the war line to train the new soilders. However, his postion as Drill Sargent would not last long.
Sarge became very close with his first troop. It was an abnormally small amount of soilders, Sarge assumed that it was becuase he was a new sargent. However, these soliders were actually the first test subjects for a new Mako exsposure process in which they would be frozen within mako. Neither Sarge or his student knew about what lied in store for them. Although it was against orders, Sarge followed his first platoon into Nibelheim, where they would be guarding a Mako Reactor. He arrived in Nibelheim's Mako reactor about an hour after his troops did. When he arrived none of his troops were in sight. Inside the reactor two MPs are hoisting one of Sarges cadets into the Mako Freezing Tank.
"Well this is the last of them, I wonder how long they will be in these things for"
"I can't beleive anyone would volunteer for this!"
"Well, Hojo said that it might vastly increase their powers."
"Still..."
Sarge is unable to comprehend the scene that is playing before him. Then is clicks whats going on. Outraged by this, Sarge screams at the guards putting the young soilder into the tank. He withdraws his buster sword and attacks. His scream alerts the real platoon of soilders designated to defend the Mako Reactor. He is clearly outnumbered and can not fight off all of the soilders. He realizes this and tried to make his way to his knocked out pupil, if he can just save one from this horrible fate, he will be able to die happy. As he fights his way through, a man in a long white jacket decends from a room at the top of a stairwell. It is Hojo. Hojo slowly walks over to the fallen student.
"Is this what you are fighting to save?"
Hojo shoots the student in the head.
"Oh my, how expenable you all are."
"No!" Sarge shouts as he becomes even more filled with rage. His sword clashes many more times until it finally shatters from the strain of battle. Seeing his inevitable defeat Sarge flees. He leaves his troop behind and runs to save his own skin. Now Sarge is tormented by his defeat and swore revenge, however, most days he spends drinking away his pain. His favorite bar is 7th Heaven

Appearance: He wears his soilder uniform still, unable to forget his past. The only difference in a Sargents and Soilders uniform is a navy Blue cape which attaches to the shoulder bracers. His Cape is now in taters. He hides the remninents of his Buster Sword behind his cape.

Combat Training: He has extensive battle training, 1st Class Solider, 3rd Rank Sargent.

Equipment: Broken Buster Sword (Busted Buster)
Shoulder Bracers
Shrina 12 Edge
Materia: His Shoulder bracers: Restore-Heal
His Sword: Fire-Lighting

Limit Breaks: Enhance: Rage: Sarge slips into a rage state and has devestatingly powerful attacks. However he is blinded with rage and looses control of him self. He cam easily loose sight of the target and attack on his own team.

Gil: 300 gil.

These people are just too serious to take joke, I thought as I slowly walked towards the once life-thriving Sector 7.

I glanced around the ruins and notice a bouquet of flower lying in one corner.

I walked towards it and took a look. There is a note saying: "To those that become part of the lifestream, to those that become part of our memories."

I dun really have any friends or loved one, I guess I will never understand. But most of my so called war buddies make it to 1st Class after I got dimissed.

But they joined the lifestream when AVALANCHE raided the Sister Ray years ago. They were never part of my memories for some reason.

I took the bouquet up and threw it high into the sky as the wind blew the petals flew all over the place far and wide.

These are for you guys and whoever that become part of other memories within the lifestream.

Just then, I heard footsteps.

Unknowns, please stop creating the story. I have the events planned out very well, and I am the one who is controlling the story. Please control only your character, and not your surroundings. This applies to the rest of you as well. I don't mind your characterization, that's grea and please continue it, but saying what you read on the dossier I had planned the information on and assuming you hear footsteps needs to be avoided.

Callahan, your character is approved, but you may want to rethink it a bit. A guy carrying around a broken buster sword is going to stand out, and that's a good way to get killed.

Also, I am not going to hold anybody's hand through this RP. If you don't stick around and pay attention to clues and the like, you're bound to miss something. That also goes for briefings.

The slums are crowded as ever, with many people going about their business. As evening approaches, it seems to grow even busier as the prositutes and beggars take to the streets in droves.

The darkened streets are illuminated by the flickering lamplights. There aren't a lot of vehicles around, mainly motorcycles for the richer of the slum-dwellers. Garish, multicolored lights illuminate most of the shops in the area.

As the hour draws nearer, you can see that there are still many people on the streets.

Leaning against a pole is man in a massive trenchcoat. He is wearing a wide-brimmed hat that is pulled over his eyes, concealing them from view. He is more than likely a black marketeer or a drug dealer, or possibly both, given the versatility of many of the slums "entrepreneurs."

Three prostitutes clad in skimpy red and black leather garments stand at the entrance of a darkened alleyway, flirting with a group of five men, all of whom are wearing bulky jackets. Two of them have stringy black hair, one of them is bald with dark skin, and the other two have plain brown hair.

There are many strangers, all wearing trenchcoats or bulky jackets walking the streets. They seem to be six major groupings at the moment, two women walking in the direction you are all standing, five men walking in the direction you are facing, two men and one woman standing outside of a store, three women and three men standing in a group just outside of a decrepit, abandoned building talking in hushed voices, a man and a woman walking side-by-side in the direction you are standing, and six men walking in the direction you are facing.

(Ok, ill starts off from just entering sector 7)

Matta walking into Sector 7, realises there more than a few people in groups scattered around the area.

A few minutes pass where matta has been on the phone to the cigerette guy.

*comes off the fone to cigarette guy*

While looking at the groups of people in sector 7, matta with detimination in his voice says..."look like we have to sort this one out ourself.

Matta gets a idea on some sorta way to figure this out and walks up to the woman with the two guys next to the shop. Thinking it could be the man in disguise, matta starts talking to her to see he can find any faults to see if shes a imposter.
Matta Airington

Excuse me, you seem to be a georgous gir(making sure he keeps the woman attention) and being so georgous, you be good as to know all the good make up and stuff wouldnt you? (smiling at her if to signify he was interested in her and notto not draw any suspicion)

Matta standing there waiting for a reply..

Sorry...BTW, does that mean I have been warned and my char will die if I make a mistake the next time?

(I'll starts off from just entering sector 7)

I walked into Sector 7 and glanced at the surrounding.

I notice the three men standing in a group just outside of a decrepit, abandoned building talking in hushed voices, they seems suspicious enough to me. I walked towards them.

"Hello. I'm new here. Any happenings around here?" I asked them.

Eh, thats ok. If you want to kill him at any point in the story for that reason. Im ok. However, He is a bit of a bulking fellow and the sword doesnt really show much when it is put away. Also, the guy doesnt really care so much if trouble comes his way. He's been shot many times before and is host to a nasty colecton of scars. His build is a bit like Marv from sin city.

As Sumir enters Sector 7 he sees the groups described above. Seeing other people in the mission he decides it would be conspicous to wait here so he moves past the area walking as if he was drunk which he has experience with due to faking it and actually being drunk many times in the past. (I just changed my skills to include something that makes more sense for my character, as this is still just a first mission. If you don't want me to cause it would mess with something or it's cheap that's OK, but as it's the first mission I thought it would be OK. The skill changed from explosives to going unnoticed (fitting in or not being seen), concealing yourself in shadows or acting drunk, ways to keep unnoticed). He didn't act seriously drunk just enough to get past looking normal, while hopefully staying unmolested.

Wu Junren
Junren rested against a lightpost, eyes closed. This guy had to show up sometime soon. He opened his eyes to survey the area. He saw a few of the people that were in the conference room with him a couple hours ago.
Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary.

I'm not going to kill your characters off needlessly, but if you do something stupid you're probably going to die. By stupid I mean run into the middle of a gunfight. Just remember, that unlike FFVII, you don't have hit points and bullets are generally fatal :)

And you can go ahead and start posting Callahan, or you can wait until after this mission.

The three men in the area all look at Christmas suspiciously. One of them has a jagged scar running along his face, and the other has a slight, almost furtive look about him. The third man has black glasses that obscure his eyes, and his hand is in his jacket.

The scarred man cocks his head, and the three begin walking away.

The woman glares at Matta as he approaches her. The two men look at her uneasily as she walks forward and slaps him in the face.

"Leave me alone you bastard," she hisses.

The dealer watches Sumir for a moment, before approaching him.

"You're with CRUSADER aren't you?" he asks in a hushed tone.

Christmas

Playing hard to get huh? The more they try to run, the more I wanna chase. I will squeeze some infomation from them. I walked towards them again and smiled " Hey, can you tell me more about his place and some juicy news? I really need some help. I recently came here from Rocket town"

Matta turns back to her and says to him self "ill take that as a no then" and turns around and says "theres no need for that, i was just asking a question"

Upon finishing his sentence noitices some people in the dark alley. Matta pokes his head around the corner and sees what looks like two revealed woman and abut 5 men looking very calm. Matta being concerned at the knowledge of 5 men in a dark alley acting relaxed and calm make him to think suspiciously and he turns back and listens in on the conversation.

Sumir
"Wha do ya want" with the drawl of someone who's had a little too much to drink. He brought his gaze to the ground, or more importantly to his watch to check how much time was left.

I will wait untill you have finsihed your mission.

Wu Junren
Junren sighed. Apparently someone had already been spotted. It would only attract attention if he went to help, so he stayed well back. He'd only assist them when it would be completely necessary.

I'll join after the mission
Name: Aldracan Zagroth
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Biography: A man who spent most of his life in the mountains near the Chocobo Sage's house and is very resourceful and tough because of this. He is very withdrawn and rarely shows his face from under his hood. He joined when he returned to Midgar because the city had changed so much since he left and he couldn't take it.
Appearance: Relatively tall and muscular. Always wears a black cloak over ninjutsu gear.
Training: Martial Arts (A variation to Jujitsu combined with Karate and Judo), Kendo, Ninjutsu
Skills: Good Aim (throwing), Reading (as in knowing what someone will do by body movement and expressions before they do it and being able to react)
Equipment: Bokuto, 100 Shuriken, Ninjutsu Suit
Materia: Bokuto- Fire-Ice, Ninjutsu Suit-Restore-Cure
Limit: Static: Death Portal- Taunts foe into rushing, throws him into the air, unleashes a volley of shuriken, and jumps up and Slashes foe with bokuto into the ground.
Equip. Placement: Bokuto In sheath on inside of cloak, shuriken in pockets along the inside of cloak near the opening in middle
Gil: 300

CloudLeonhart's character is approved.

Christmas hears two clicks that sound suspiciously like the safeties being removed from guns.

"Leave us, girl," one of the men growls.

Matta sees nothing suspicious aside from the five men flirting with the three women. They are not acting at all out of the ordinary, given the circumstances.

"You're looking for the Hendun Salv aren't you?" he says in a hushed voice before taking out a bottle in a brown paper bag and taking a long pull.

CHRISTMAS:

I realize then things will get out of hand if I take a direct approach.
"Alright, Alright. I just want to share something about Hendun Salv with you guys. But since you all are so unfriendly...." I begin to walk away and slowly turn my head around to observe their reaction.

PS: Since I have some time in hand, I guess I will upload an image of my character done by paint since my description on my character isn't really clear compare to others.... Paint isn't that bad.....

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Unknowns2/XXChristmasXX.jpg

Matta walks away from the wall and sees the man and the woman side-by-side and thinks to him self that they look like a couple and leaves them be.

Matta decides to take a birds-eye view of sector 7 and is about to go into an another alley to jump/climb onto a building (thats about 15 metres tall) when he sees in the corner of his eye Wu Junren (but still not knowing his name yet) just standing there at the entrance to sector 7 and says to himself "is he gonna actually help or what, looks like hes dosing off".

Matta picks up a tiny rounded stone and throws it at Wu Junren and hits him square in the forehead to make sure he stays alert and actually helps.

Matta jogs off into the alley before Wu Junren actually notices who threw the stone.

Now on top of the building stands back about 5 yards from the edge (so he cant be seen) and observes the goings on around sector 7.

The men Christmas is speaking to look at each other grimly for a moment, before drawing out dual uzis from their overcoat and spraying the area with bullets.

"CRUSADER assassin!" they yell.

Although the gun recoil has prevented them from hitting Christmas as of yet, they seem to be correcting their aim and she isn't too far away.

CHRISTMAS

I quickly ducked for cover in a nearby building. I drew my gun and started firing back.

Hearing the bullets, Matta instantly turns his head right to see it coming from the decrepit, abandoned building.

Matta jumps from building to bulding and through a glass window on the second floor of the abondoned bulding.

OOC: Is my limit break approved?

OOC: How much time is left cause last time I posted Sumir checked his watch. And one more thing, any description of hiding places for when Hendun Salv comes through. thanks.

Sumir Kaisen
As he hears shots his gaze comes up to see Christmas duck into a building as shots fire after her, seeing no way to help he doesn't involve himself but dies bring his left arm slightly behind him to make his semiautomatic more accessable. In response to the dealer's question he looks at his face hoping to read some expression there, before slowly bringing a knife into his left hand, but still in the coat. "what of it, and how do u know?"

Wu Junren
Wu rubbed his forehead, and looked crossly at Matta. About 30 seconds later, gunshots went off. He sighed contemptably, and headed for the source.

Apparently, one of the CRUSADERs that had been in the conference room with Wu had already been spotted. He drew his twin reverse swords, and looked for an ideal chance to strike.

Yes it is.

And a note on the battles. Generally in battle you can do one major action (such as shooting) and make one movement, not to exceed a basic sprint. Basically, each post round of combat is around 10 seconds, so don't do things that couldn't be accomplished within 10 seconds.

The scene quickly errupts into chaos as the gunfire begins and people begin fleeing everywhere.

"Get out of here sir!" one of the three women who were originally with the group says as they all move around him and draw uzis, firing out at the crowd.

The man in the middle stops firing and begins to run from the cover of their fire.

Christmas's return fire fails to hit any of the targets, as the uzi fire makes it difficult to aim without presenting oneself as a target.

As Matta climbs into the building, one of the men yells "there!".

One of the women turns her gun towards Matta and begins shooting at him, the bullets coming very close to hitting him. Fortunately, they do not, but unfortunately, jumping through the glass window severely wounds Matta in several places, cutting up his face and limbs as he jumps through.

"Damn that fool of a girl!" the arms merchant says.

"Well, the one trying to run is your man, if you can take him down you might actually manage to do something right this mission.

As the five bodyguards fire, there is a clicking sound as one of the man's guns runs out of bullets. Quickly, he drops the old clips out of the guns and prepares to reload the guns.

Sumir's gun comes out and he begin's to fire at the running man "while muttering "thanks", he also moves quickly while crouching towards the nearest cover while being ready to run into a near alley, he's also ready with a knife if close combat occurs. He has a semi, so the shots are quick and reasonably aimed.

Edit: Do we need proof of the kill? thanks.

Being in a dark room already Matta gets into one of the corners where it is pitch black in darknes and he looks practically invisible (wearing all black), pulls out a sword and spears it attempting to hit the woman in the chest.

I apoligize for the earlier... er... Mistake.

Wu Junren
Bullets sprayed everywhere as the CRUSADERs and bodygaurds exchanged fire. Wu dashed over to the others in his group, and supported with his rifle.

I may not be able to post tommorow or events may happen before I can, so if that occurs then I will follow this set of actions (I may not have to but if I don't post for a bit assume I'll go by this). If I do post I may still follow this, I'll post if I can.

1. Go for the target with the semi-automatic while looking for cover and hiding behind it. (already doing this)

2a. If target gets away follow along alleys, while remaining careful, if he gets to an open space (unlikely as it's hard to not be killed by this point) surreptitiously thrown throwing knives will be the next attempt, followed by giving up if he gets away and going along the main streets back to the slum he lives in with his skill at remaining unnoticable.

2b. If he does kill the man with the shots in step 1 he will look for a way to help his allies, for example a couple helping shots, also if he can he'll search the dead body but only if it seems very safe to do so. He will however head back if he can't search the body or is in a bad and/or unsafe position to help the fighting.

Sorry if this is vague but I tried to give a sense of what he'd do if I can't post... if a totally strange situation/uncovered situation comes up please wait for me to get back to making a post, and this may have all been unnecasary. thanks. hope this is OK.

CHRISTMAS

Noticing the man reloading his gun, I took aim at the man with my gun and fix it onto him before throwing my only smoke bomb with my other hand as a cover and distraction.

My gun remain fix on the original position as I focus and fire a shot at the man.

OOC: BTW, if I have ice materia on my gun, that's mean I can fire a magically ice enchanced bullet at a person and perform a lightning enchanced slash with my sword which have lightning materia in it?

And when are we allow to use these special skill?
Or do we have some kind of "MP gauge" to determine the amount of times we can use it?

Magic power and limit breaks are very much a product of in-story. You can activate your materia at any time, and I will simply describe the toll it takes on your body. The more you use it, the more energy you use up.

And proof the kill is generally a good idea but not necessarily requisite.

Sumir's shots hit one of the bodyguards in the chest, knocking her back. However, her kevlar vest protects her from the worst of the impact, and she turns and starts firing on Sumir, as does another of her companions.

Wu Junren fairs a bit better, the shot from his rifle taking one of the male bodyguards in the head. The man drops to the ground, and the other bodyguards tighten ranks to accomodate for his loss and allow their boss a chance to escape.

As Matta thrusts his blade at the woman, it is deflected by her kevlar vest. However, the force of the thrust throws her to the ground, her gun firing wildly to the side and hitting the fleeing man in the shoulder. He cries out in pain and staggers for a moment, before continuing his flight.

Just then Christmas's smoke bomb goes off, obscuring everything from view. Just as the man finishes reloading his gun, a single shot rings out and takes through the eye, dropping him.

Sumir was aiming for the target so he takes cover while still sending his shots at the moving back activating his fire materia for extra damage.

Seeing the girl a bit stunned on the floor, Matta takes the time to heal, then readies up his fire materia and punches the floor in a rage leaving a trail of fire heading towards the womans way.


OOC: If both them actions arent allowed, just use the trail of fire action and let me know.

I took my sword out and imbue lightning power into it with my materia.

I triggered the mechanism inside my sword and spilt it into two and with full force, I tossed one of lightning enchanced blade towards the remaining enemies.

My blade spin like a fiery lightning bolt towards them....

OOC: In case you don't understand...

Hey I kinda saw that this is quickly turning into a fire fight, so I thought that I would take an opourtunity to give myself a gun before I was introduced in the story.

So say hello to the Shrina 12 Edge.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/MikeCallahan/12edge.jpg
Prior to and during the war in Wutai, Shinra was a heavy arms manufactuer. The Shinra 12 Edge was a weapon designed to aid Soilders in Wutai with distance combat. The gun implimented a new idea of having a 6 chamber barrel based shotgun, with a secondary magnum handgun as a support. The gun was designed to attach to the buster sword at the handle and through two holes in the base of the blade. This weapon had a short lived production life however. It's design being the forerunner to the later more widely implimented GunBlade, which handled the issues of extreme weight and sword mobility that became such a problem with the 12 Edge.One must use both hand to weild the 12 Edge. Another problem with the 12 Edge was the inability to hold its own Materia, the gun draws its materia use from the blade attached in the bayonet position. Dispite what some deemed as unfit qualities for further production, the 12 Edge had tremendous fire power and was built like a tank. It's ability to hold 12 bullets also was seen as a perk becuase it outlasted most other guns in a standoff. The Buster Bayonet also acted as a terriffic sheild in combat situations.

In reguards to my character, He will not be able to use the Busted Buster as a bayonet, but it can still sheild some bullets with the remaining shards and can still draw his Materia from it. In reguards to that seeming unfair for placement of materia, I remind you that it is impossible to use the sword and the gun seprately due to both being dual handed weapons. So, where other character could chage up their sword with ice and their gun with fire, he can not. Also if the sword is not attached he has no materia power whatsoever. His blade will not exceede the end of the gun barrel. It, much like the sniper rifle will go down the back of the charater underneath the long cape the character wears. The diagram shows where it will be so that it is not visable.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/MikeCallahan/12edgeinuse.jpg

How far will my character be able to throw his shuriken accurately?

All right. Just remember Callahan, your armaments can't be fully concealed, they're just too big.

And the range of shurikens varies depending on the person, I'd say about 30 feet maximum, but accurately closer to 10.

Sumir feels a slight drain on his energy levels as flaming bullets explode from his gun and punch through two of the female bodyguard's chests, killing them instantly.

Matta's burst of flame errupts from the ground, incinerating the final bodyguard. Just as the fires extinguish, Christmas's lighting-charged blade hurls past. Even though a thrown sword is highly innaccurate, the lightning enchantment aids it, causing it to embed itself into the running target's back. He cries in pain as the blade electrocutes him, before falling to the ground, his body smoking.

Steallar, I was so sure I was gonna get shot down with the 12 edge.

I'll have to do alot of lurking in shadows and such I suppose, and then jump out with the fire power of a small army.

Matta picks up his sword and goes over by the window to recover from his fire attack.

Matta jumps back out the window he once came through and down into the alley and walks out of the alley and stands and waits about 15 yards from the building for the others to come out and meet up with him.

CHRISTMAS

I picked up my blade from the body and attached it back to the other blade. I walked around searching if I can find some clues or items from those bodies lying around the place.

Sumir
Checks the bodies for weaponry, seeing what could easily fit within his coat. Then heads towards Christmas, and says "you got the kill you should probably check the body for proof of your kill and any info you can find before we head back."

OOC: What weapons are there to salvage?

Wu Junren
Wu returned his rifle to the inside of his coat, and began walking away from the group. "Safety in Numbers" was never really his ideal thought.
It was only a matter of time before the Shinra task force swept the area.

As you begin searching, you see the uzis that were dropped and some gil and credit cards. However, within moments the sound of helicopters bearing down on you can be heard.

Sumir grabs one uzi and the gil stuffing it away, before heading towards (onto if it's close to where he is) a major road where he uses his skill at being unnotices as he walks along just like anyone else.

Matta walks away to up by the store where the two men and woman was and sits on the door step and looks up to see where the helicopter is from.

CHRISTMAS.

I picked up one of the credit cards and went to where Matta is.

SARGE
Elsewhere....

Stale air and fresh vomit waft in the air of a dimly lit bar. At this bar, no one knows your name. One of the stools is host to a large blue bulking shape with tuffs of silver hair poking over the top. Small bits of weaponry stick out from the edges of the tattered Shrina Cape. Once a symbol of pride, now, only a means to conceal oversized instruments of death. At one time he was one of the best soilders in the company, at one time he had a mind as sharp as a razors edge, at one time he had enough moxie to inspire entire platoons. That was a long time ago though. Now, this giant of a man's head rest in a shallow pool of drool on the bartop. Muddering under his breath the horrors of war and his hatred for the company. Not an uncommon fate among the elite memember of now defunct Soilder. You see that kind of thing alot now, soilders still in uniform, desolate street corners, empty tin cups, begging for spare gil. Trained for every combat situation in the world, but never trained in the essentials of working in a world outside of war. When the wars ended, so did their need, so did their lives. This barfly however still has a war and he will live to end it.

Gil: 250

Name: Glenn "Spyke" Reven
Age: 23
Gender:M
Biography: Formerly an average soldier in ShinRa who was often placed in situations that involved Avalache, starting from the explosion of the reactor to their final attack on ShinRa after Diamond Weapon. Though he never defeated them, he had great skill and promise, and was placed into the Turks when ShinRa was rebuilt. After betraying the company and killing several of its high rank soldiers/employees, he fled to the slums and joined CRUSADER.
Appearance: Tall and slim with hair black hair and sunglasses. Wears a black trench coat, a pair of black steel-toed boots, black turtle neck and jeans, and armgaurd on his shoulder, a wristband on his left arm, and fingerless gloves.
Combat Training: Trained well in the use of swordsmanship both from being taught and watching the styles of others, such as Cloud. Learned the use handguns through military training and his experience in the Turks. Learned the ninja style of throwing weapons while stationed in Wutai.
Skills: undercover work and assasination
Equipment: Two small gunblades (think of Yazoo's weapon), throwing knives, and a black katana.
Materia: Heal materia in his wristband, Lightning in one of the miniture gunblades, Fire in the sword.
Limit Breaks: Static
Equipment Placement: Gunblades holstered in his belt, katana sheathed, also at his belt, and throwing stars in a container (once again, on the belt.)
Gil:300

Turkslayer your character is approved.

You manage to make it back to the rendevous point in one piece, only to have a large hat rack thrown out at you when you open the door.

Matta manages to dodge the hat rack coming at his direction.

Matta

"Woaaahhh, what the F@UK is your problem!!"

Matta gives a deep gaze back, thinking at the same tiime that this guy lost his mind.

"You lost your mind!!" Matta says as he walks over.

OOC: Was your last message to all of us? I'll assume it was.

Sumir Comes into the room catching the hat rack and put it down as Matta spoke. He then headed toward a chair and sat down to hear what this was about.

CHRISTMAS

Seeing the "hat rack" action over, I proceed inside the room where everyone is.

Spyke strolled silently into the room and sat down at the left corner of the table.

"Spyke. Just assigned here."

The man sits motionless at the table, inhaling deeply from his cigarette as you all walk in. Once you have all seated yourselves, he explodes into rage.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?"

Matta stand up from his chair and angry and confused; replys... "We did the job you set us, thats what the "HELL" we were doing, talk about being grafefull on doing the mission"

'Matta sits back down to hear what the cigarette guy is going on about'

SARGE

Elsewhere....


The Sarge is immune to the peircing stare and crass voice of the barkeep.

"You either drink here or get the hell out! This aint no god damn Inn! Now whats it gonna be bud, you got the cash for more brew?"

The Sarge doesn't stir.

"Hey! I'm talking at you bub! I said buy something or get the hell out!"

Nothing. The barkeep gives up. The Sarge is a big man, and the barkeep is no match.
Slowly, he erects his massive frame back into an upright position. One side of his face has silver hair matted to it. His eyes play host to a distant look, as if he is focusing on some object thousands of yards away.

Sumir
He waits for the man to reveal what he's talking about. He also brings a knife to the edge of his sleeve, not scared but always careful. He attempts to read the man's expression, to see if it's just rage at them or if there's anything behind it.

CHRISTMAS

I remain slient as usual and observe the situation and prepare to react accordingly to whatever that might happen.

Spyke placed his hand close to his gun, though he remained silent, assuming that this didn't have anything to do with him.

OOC: For my Reading ability, will you PM me the info or post it?

Aldracan walks in slowly and cautiously as the roars of rage explode from the man with the cigarette. He silently takes his seat, and surveys the people in the room for clues as to what they are about to do.

PM me Cloudleonhart and we'll talk it over.

"AN ASSASSINATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE QUIET! YOU SHOT UP THE ENTIRE DAMNED STREET!"

CHRISTMAS

I raised my hand and said "Correction, they shot the entire street FIRST while we just play along."

"YOU TRIED TO GET CLOSE TO A BUNCH OF MEN WITH UZIS! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?"

CHRISTMAS

"I dun see anything wrong with that. It will only be wrong if " I TRIED TO GET CLOSE TO A BUNCH OF MEN WITH UZIS AND GOT KILLED." I replied.

Sumir
Sumir spoke loudly over the people, and as a large person I'll assume he's heard."I have a question, how do u know what happened before we got back? secondly stuff we need to know such as pay, what else we screwed up with and when you want us for the next job if you do want any of us back?"

Edit: He says this after BTV's next post as I don't want to interrupt something already posted.

The man covers his face and tries to get a hold of himself, but the effort proves too much for him.

"DO YOU KNOW NOTHING! YOU DO NOT APPROACH WHAT YOU THINK THE MARK IS! YOU MAKE CERTAIN AND THEN YOU TAKE HIM OUT! WE'RE TRYING TO GARNER THE RESPECT OF THE PEOPLE, NOT GET THEM CAUGHT AND KILLED IN THE CROSSFIRE!"

Spyke let his hand drop to his side, now knowing for sure that this had nothing to do with him. He put it in his pocket and watched silently as the group argued.

CHRISTMAS

"How are we going to make certain if we didn't approach them and check it out? Do you expect us to be able to spot the targets with just one glance from our eyes? Besides, if you want respect, you should consider stop using the violent way and go "talk" to the Shinra President hoping to be able to "melt" his heart and make him stop his madness. Then announce to the whole world about your great deeds, then you can certainly get a lot of respect. BUT YOU CAN REALLY DREAM ABOUT IT."

Spyke tried to contain it, but he simply couldn't help laughing. "Talk to President Shinra about our demands? I know the man, believe me, he won't listen. Sure, he'll pretend to listen, even say things about agreeing with you, and then, when you think you've done it, theres a bullet hole in the back of your head and a Turk over your corpse. No, there is no talking it out."

First of all...we got the job done didnt we!?, plus none of the innocent people got hurt and none of us died so i think you should show some DAMN appreciation and get off our backs.

Secondly...who are the two new guys!?

Assuming the question was directed at him, Aldracan replied, "I'm Aldracan."

To Everyone:
I think at this point a man who's screaming would have spoken again so let's wait for BTV's next post (not saying we weren't going to I just think it doesn't make sense for conversations to go on).

"I COULDN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF SHINRA! I'M TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF MIDGAR YOU MORONS! LOOK!"

He flips on a television that was placed in the room but missed notice due to his rather explosive temper.

The television turned on to show a man in a nice business suit sitting at a desk and looking at the paper. There was a Midgar skyline in the background, as would be seen from the upper plate.

"This is channel 6 news with a special report. Just recently, some armed members of CRUSADER assassinated Hendun Salv, a Shinra officials in the Sector 7 slums. During the attempt, they all began firing wildly in the area, killing ten innocent bystanders in the process."

The report goes on to talk about how the terrorist group is becoming increasingly ruthless in their dealings and that people need to be aware. It talks about how they are willing to kill anybody they need to in order to get their way and about how they will stop at nothing but the government's destruction. It also assures the people that they are well defended and that Shinra is going to take care of the problem.

CHRISTMAS

"Shinra said the same thing when AVALANCHE bombed their reactor. But in the end they are the one that is doing all the damage while talking crap at the same time. There isn't any point bothering about such minor issue."

Matta turns his head back after watching the report and says "Well i know for a fact i didnt kill any innocent people, You shout at the others for that but NOT me OK!"

Sumir
Watches cautiously, how he had screwed up had been shown so he knew what to do next time, if there was a next time. He was more interested in how the others responded. He had probably killed some of the innocent people but he didn't think many as his shots had been reasonably on-target, but the important part was not being stupid again. Innocent's lives were important however for there own value and for how Crusader would be portrayed. Killing innocent's would cause far more hatred and fear of them, he watched Christmas closely trying to see if she actually thought it was minor. And then Matta grew defensive yelling back. This was not the kind of group he wanted to work in. He didn't speak waiting for info such as:
How much money would be recieved?
Would they be fired, or would some be fired?
Would another mission be given now or could he go to a bar to see more news?

OOC: In this post I'm showing what my character is thinking, do you want us to do this a lot, a little or never? I think it's good cause you get a better sense of characters, but also seeing other's thoughts is less realistic, or do you want us to choose how much thought we put in. Question 2: This RP is realistic, so if we get fired would the RP go on for our characters? I'm assuming that we won't get fired yet but it seems like something that could happen.

Edit: And Russielloyd I just clicked on your sig by mistake, I love the link! I was listening to a Beatles song at the time and it totally cracked me up as I had no idea what was happening at first.

"You don't seem to get it do you," the man said, the veins on his neck bulging. "You do NOT start a firefight in the middle of a street to accomplish a mission. NEVER. You do not approach a potential mark, you do not act so inconceivably STUPID as to endanger both yourself and others. It isn't enough to complete a mission, you have to do it WELL."

Sumir
"So what are the consequences going to be?"

"Pay cut and I'm sending you all to basic training after your next mission, which really can't wait but doesn't offer any opportunity for you guys to do something monumentally stupid. The newcomers are exempt from basic training, of course."

Sumir
"So how much are we getting, and what's the mission?"

After sumir speaks, Matta follows up...

"Also...Why have i got to be punished for other member inaccuracies in using their guns? Ive been trained by the best, i dont need basic training, train the others instead, there the ones that are trigger happy.

Spyke snorted and shook his head. The two who had argued, Matta and Christmas, obviously didn't understand what they had done. One continued to argue that his shots had all been accurate, and the other thought it was no big deal. These were obviously not people who understood wht they were doing. The Sumir guy had said nothing, though Spyke had a feeling that he understood and had learned his lesson. Spyke lit a cigerette and took a quick drag.

"Enough arguing. The job?"

Sumir
He looked at Spyke, someone else interested in the job. But the important question had been asked so he sat back waiting for a response.

"Don't pull that 'not my fault' sh<i></i>it with me, rookie. You need training too. Your mission right now is go make contact with a former SOLDIER member and convince him to join us. Sarge his his name, he's well known in several Midgar bars. I have a picture, which, by the way, would have been helpful had you guys stayed long enough for me to give it to you last time. After that, report back for basic training. As far as money, you'll all get 100 gil, plus salvage rights."

CHRISTMAS

I kept quiet and listened.

Matta says under his breath sarcasticly "great", Then speak out...

This sarge guy, a bit big isnt he!? How old is he?

"Don't pull that 'not my fault' sh<i></i>it with me, rookie. You need training too. Your mission right now is go make contact with a former SOLDIER member and convince him to join us. Sarge his his name, he's well known in several Midgar bars. I have a picture, which, by the way, would have been helpful had you guys stayed long enough for me to give it to you last time. After that, report back for basic training. As far as money, you'll all get 100 gil, plus salvage rights."

Sumir
-Now has 400 gil.
-Gained an uzi however much cash he picked up (please tell me)
-Hides the uzi on his back under his coat.
OOC: Can you describe what he looks like.
"Which bars is he known in? and will we all check different bars or go in a group? we probably should go in small groups."

Sorry about the uninformed absence, things have been a little crazy on my end. :eep:

Wu Junren
Wu shook his head. This was an embarrassment. He glared at Christmas, knowing it was her who sparked suspicion in the bodygaurds. Nonetheless, it was in orders that he take some training, so he would do so whether he liked it or not.

I'm just reposting this because it's a darn good drawing and because I'm lazy. Assume the picture is of him sitting at a bar like that.

Everyone picked up 150 gil out of salvage and an uzi. The uzis all are pretty much out of amunition.

"Here's the picture."

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/MikeCallahan/srage.gif

"He's usually in the Sector 6 bars, but we can't say which one. There are three in that sector, The Pub, Kale's Place, and the Mead Hall."

550 Gil and one unloaded uzi, my semi should be refilled too.
Sumir
"So should we split into groups or go alone, I'll check the Mead Hall,if anyone wants to come with me. I don't think a group will be too conspicuous over there, and possibly will be less so as talking groups are more the norm as a single person's a target. Anyone?"

I'll go with Sumir.

Wu Junren
Wu nods to Sumir unenthusiastically. He hopes that he doesn't expect him to talk.
(;))

Sumir
"That looks like a decent size group, OK if we leave?" he says to the leader.

"I'll take the pub. Anyone comin' with me?"

"By the way, on the subject of money do you all know how to contact the arms merchants?"

CHRISTMAS

I answered no and glanced at the people around me, each with eyes of discontent shooting towards me.

Those eyes were completely different but yet eyes that is full of life unlike those I last seen when I went to the Sister Ray years ago after the WEAPON incident.

That was the time when the once mighty SOLDIERS once stood at the last and ultimate mission. To protect the Sister Ray.

When I arrived there, Buster swords are lying all over the place and bodies of the elite members stayed montionless on the cold metallic floor.

I found one of my war buddies lying there. His eyes were full of sorrow and his last words were full of despair before returning to the planet. He is not the only one I found among the corpses.

Even since, I forsaken love cause the more you love, the more you grieve for the loss of love. I became cold and anti social to everyone and everything ever since. In short, a jerk/loner.

Ignoring those eyes, I volunteered to go to Kale's Place and try my luck.

Sumir
"No" he said openly for he didn't know "and also could you tell us any specific reasons Sarge mighty or might not join, and this guy Sarge's history>"

How old is he aswell?

Also ill go to Kale's Place.

"I wouldn't mind being able to contact an arms merchant. I can't use the old ones any more. So, how do I contact him?"

"I don't know how to contact them."

"Sarge is an ex-SOLDIER that seems to have felt Shinra's bad side, he might be receptive to joining us. And as far as the Black Market is concerned, there are many merchants that are within our contact web. If you have a cell phone, we can give you some numbers to make arrangements. The merchant's wares and identity are kept secret for their own protection, you will know only what they deem worth telling you."

OOC: I don't think any of us said we had cell phones should we assume we have them or do we have to buy them?

OOC: My char do have one cell phone....

OCC: I already have one, as ive used already in the story.

This Sarge guy, he could of possibly been in SOLDIER the same time as my farther, if so, i could work on that angle to get him into CRUSADER.

Junren has no use for a cellphone. I'll let you figure that out. ;p

"I don't care how you get him, so long as you get him. And who NEEDS a cell phone, it's probably best that you all have one, well, except for the mute over there, so that we can contact you as well."

Sumir
"I'll pick one up after this mission if I have time. Shall we head out?" he says directing it toward Wu and Aldracan.

Aldracan nods and begins to walk out.

Wu Junren
Wu stood up and walked out, following the other two.

Matta

"That just leaves Spyke, Christmas and me to the pub" Matta thinks to himself.

Matta starts to walk out and says "Come on guys you coming?"

Spyke put out his cigerette before standing and nodding toward Matta. "Yeah, I'm comin'. He's on ShinRa's bad side, eh? Maybe I should talk to him, if we find him. Might be easier he talked to someone who was in the same boat."

Sumir
He waits at the door in case there is any info more, if there isn't he walks out with the other two.

The street is dark and people seem even warier since the confrontation and slaying a few hours prior. There are few people on the street, and only two of the three bars are open, The Pub and Kale's Place. The Mead Hall appears to have closed, possibly because of the earlier confrontation.

The street is dark and people seem even warier since the confrontation and slaying a few hours prior. There are few people on the street, and only two of the three bars are open, The Pub and Kale's Place. The Mead Hall appears to have closed, possibly because of the earlier confrontation.

Ah... so mean...

Sumir
"Well if the Mead Hall is closed there's probably nothing we can do without butting on the others. You guys have any ideas on this, or how to spend the evening?"

CHRISTMAS

I stood up and headed to the Kale's place after everyone had left.....

EDIT: Sorry, mistake.....

Wu Junren
Wu shrugged, being the only gesture he thought they would understand.

Aldracan

"Make sure not to start any fights, and maybe we can moniter the pubs in case one of the other groups does."

Matta looks around at the people in Kales' Place and walk over to the bar.

Matta
We might aswell have a drink while we're here, YO bar tender!...

SARGE

The Sarge snaps out of his stare. He turns his head and looks at the barkeep. His eyes, seem so deep. It looks as if he is about to say something. Perhaps he will impart some wisdom on the lonely owner of the Pub.
"Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp!"
And back down his mighty head goes into the pool of spit.

Spyke strolled into the Pub, trying not to make it obvious that he was looking for someone. He didn't have to look long, the large man sleeping in his own saliva wasn't hard to miss. Spyke sat down beside Sarge and signalled to the bartender. "Hey bartender, I'll have what this guys been drinkin'. You okay, big guy?"

The Sarge


The large bubble of snot increased in its size as his lungs released a large breath. His sleep is deep. He mutters a few incoherient noises. The wood of the stool begins to groan. Seconds later the floor is host to a collection of splinters and a large drunk man.

The Sarge leans up holding a peice of his previous seat. The bartender does not look pleased.
" Ooooh heh heh heh....Looks like its my que to bow out for the evening!"

The Sarge lights up a cigerette and stumbles towards the door.

Spyke took a swige of his drink as he watched Sarge stumble out of the bar. "Slobbering drunk... That may make this easier." He waited a few minutes before leaving his 5 gil on the table and following him.

The Sarge

The city night called for a sudden sense of sobreity. The Sarge knew this. He made his way over to a Chocobo trowl and dunked his head beneath the cold water.

"Ohhhh heh heh...that's brisk!"

His breath remained in the chilled air for a for seconds afterwords. Mouthing the soggy remains of his previous cigerette, the Sarge lit up a new one and began walking aimlessly towards the sound of a woman being mugged in an alley.

"Leave her alone you bastard."

He said this only in passing, and continued on.

Group Outside

It's quite cold and deserted, but there is sure to be something to do. This IS Midgar, after all. People don't exactly sleep here.

Kale's Place

"Whaddaya want?" the barkeep asks, his voice cheerful.

I'll let the rest of you carry on.

Spyke followed silently behind Sarge, not putting much effort into hiding from him. Sarge would notice him eventually he was sure, and would be able to test his reflexes if he began attacking.

He watched as Sarge walked past the mugging and drew his sword. He crept silently into the alley where the mugger was trying to steal the womans purse and quickly stabbed the man in the back and all the way to the chest. The woman watched in shock as the lifeless body slipped to the ground and reveiled Spyke, who had already sheathed his sword and was now lighting a cigerette. "...Go." He said, and the woman quickly grabbed her purse and ran. Spyke strolled back out of the alley and continued following Sarge.

The Sarge

"How cute, your playing hero. That's an awful nice thing to do in a town like this. Most people don't give a damn and I'm beging to agree with'em."

He directed his voice to the man following him, but made no attempt to slow and continue a conversation.

"I'm so used to killing innocent people, killing a criminal is a nice change." Spyke took out his cigerette and threw it to the side. He didn't stop walking. "Besides, whatevers left of that hero-wannabe I was years ago still wants to 'do the right thing'. What about you, Sarge? I guess you don't wanna 'do the right thing'?"

Meaning while back in Kales' Place, Matta answers back to the bartender...

Matta

Yeah, ill have a Orange juice as im not staying long...Say you havent seen a well built guy, wearing a cloak and looking like hes down on his luck by any chance have you? I hear he comes around here alot.

The Sarge

The Sarge snorts hot air out of his nose. He turns to look at what he assumes is a young punk with something to prove. Bingo.

"Oooh heh heh... There is no right and wrong left in this world. It's all just gray now.
All I know is, whats right for me, is whats worth doing. I played hero for a long time kid, prolly longer than you've been alive. It only last so long. Glory fades. One day you can't be the hero, one day you fail. I have nothing now, even my vengence was stolen from me. Im nothing but a broken sword now."

"Heh heh... You've judged too quickly, Sarge. I know its useless to play hero. You can save as many people as you like, hell, you can save the damn world and it won't change a thing. AVALANCHE thought they were doing something, thought they were saving the world, but they were wasting there time. One evil goes away, another comes to screw it over again. No, I'm no hero. I've killed too many innocent people for Rufus to be a hero anyway. I only do what I do so I can take down ShinRa. And what do you do now, Sarge?"

The Sarge

"None of your buisness kid. Go home to your mother."

The Sarge continues on.

Wu Junren
As the other two people in his group talked, Wu stood back, taking in the scenery. After nearly dozing off a couple times, he couldn't help but notice the other voices coming from not too far off. Wu snuck off, figuring they'd never notice he was gone.
After a bit of lurking through the shadows, he came through to one of the other CRUSADERs following a large man. They were talking. Wu followed discretely.

Sumir
Seeing Wu leave at the edge of his vision he spoke to Aldracan "looks like they have him spotted, he looks drunk so more people probably won't help, you want to head to a bar?"

Aldracan

Sure, where are we headed?

Spyke shook his head and put his hands in his pockets. I could go to my mother if a Turk hadn't shot her in the head... He realized he didn't have time to thing about things like that and began following Sarge again.

"What if I told you you had another chance at vengance? That you could help bring down ShinRa? And this time, you wouldn't do it alone. You'd have a small army behind ya. What would you say?"

The Sarge

"Let's get things straight kid. I don't give a <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> about your little hippy club. Eco-terrorist! Bah! Bunch of lilly tree huggers if you ask me. Oooh heh heh. If you want some hired muscle come out and say it. Lord knows Im broke as hell."

Kale's Place

The man sets the drink down.

"You mean Sarge? Yeah, he's around a lot. He was in here a bit earlier, I think he went to another bar after he drank some here. He likes to hit the bars hard. I imagine he's at another bar right now."

The rest of you

Carry on.

Matta drinks a bit of his orange and says as he puts his drink back down on its coaster...

Matta
"So is he well known around here? I never seen him during my spell living here in Sector 6."

Matta drinks some more of his orange juices and again whilst putting his drink back down on its coaster he says...

"I saw that "The Pub" is the only other drinking place open when i was coming in...do you know if he's possibly a regular there aswell? Also, you know why he's in the pubs drowning his sorrows?"

Matta picks up his drink again and listened to what the bartander had to say.

"Fair enough. I'll say it. We want to hire you. Your tough, and thats what we need."

The Sarge

He stops walking forward, but does not turn around. A gray cloud issues from his head, a combination of warm breath and cigerette smoke.

" Oooh heh heh...Well let's get a few things straight from the get go. I don't kill women or children. I want half my pay before the job. Yea that and I don't want to be responsible for anyone but myself. I don't fair well as a leader anymore."

Sarge turns his head to the side, nearly looking over his shoulder.

"Oooh heh heh...one more thing you should know. I have a bit of a rage issue. So don't piss me off hippie."

The Sarge quickly spins around and withdraws his massive gun. The red of his cigerette gives definition to his grim expression.

"Now...Why don't you let me hold on to those there weapons for a while hippie. I've had a few too many run ins with double agents. If you good you'll get them back at the end of class. Try anything funny and you'll find a new hole in ya. Understand?"

The wind rushes on Sarge's back pushing the remneints of his cape forward.

"Now who's this "We"?!"

Name: Rain
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Biography: The masked mercenary is a deftly trained ninja. Though rarely seen, those who know of him also know to fear him. If he is ever seen, he would be instantly targeted as an enemy. Thus his years of training in stealth, speed, and agility are no mere attributes but a necessity to his profession as well as his life. He no doubt is a citizen of Wutai but recently has no memory of it.
Appearance: Those who know of him imagine him to be a jet-black demon or walking shadow. Those who are fortunate enough to make his acquaintance see the traditional dark skinwear of ninja heritage. When not on the job, Rain blends into any background as an athletic man of average height with short blue hair and sunglasses. During missions, he commonly wears a shinobi full-face mask or in darker areas, just a headband which he commonly uses to cover the scar on his left eye.
Combat Training: Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Taijutsu
Skills: High Chakra, Meticulous Investigation
Equipment: backpack, shinobi mask, black stealthwear and shinobi armor (chest, arms, legs), two Kunai belts (six blades each), one lightweight katana, one large folding shuriken.
Materia: Rain wears Lightning materia in the gauntlet on his left hand, his left eye has been replaced by Restore materia. Fire materia resides most commonly in his katana and Ice in the shuriken.
Limit Breaks: [static] Meteorush: a high-speed taijutsu maneuver that hits the enemy with 27 hits from a combo of kicks and punches.
Equipment Placement: In daylight, the blue-haired warrior wears a backpack in which he keeps all of his clothing and shinobi weapons. Underneath the backpack is a single lightweight katana and a folding shuriken each with its own slot for a single materia orb. Amidst the veil of shadow, he wears a kunai belt across his chest and at his waist. On his left hand, he wears a gauntlet with a single space for a small orb of materia.
Gil: 300.

"All right, I'm fine with all your conditions... Except, don't call me hippie. I'm not like the rest of these lame asses. I'm here for revenge, not to fight the government. As for my weapons... That could be a problem. I understand that you can't trust me, but I don't really have a reason to trust you either.... My sword. And my throwing knifes. Thats it. I need some protection."

"Now, 'We' are the CRUSADERS. Basically we fight against ShinRa. Sadly, its only small jobs so far. Assassinations of minor political figures."

The Sarge

"Your people came looking for me, that means they've had an eye on me for sometime. That's plenty more reason then I have to trust you. If you want me your in club gonna have to trust me Hippie, and it's a one way street. You lead the way, no ones gonna throw fire with me around. I regulate round these parts. I'll let you keep one of those peashooter bufferknifes you got but I want your bullets."

Sarge inhales heavy on his cigerette pulling the hot cherry closer to his lips. He lets the smoke spill out of his noise; a bull ready to charge. The expired cigerette is spit out and spakles the ground with a shower of amber.

"So do we have an accord, CRUSADER?"

Wu Junren
He's just a drunk. A reckless homicidal drunk.

Wu shook his head, this thought going through his mind. CRUSADER couldn't seriously want to hire this fool. There must have been something more to it.

Spyke was already tired of this guy, but it would have been foolish to say something. He drew his weapons and handed then over to Sarge, with the exception of one of his gunblades. "All right, we're good now. Follow me. I'll take you to.... Hell, I don't even know his name. Come on."

He turned back the way he came and began leading Sarge to the hideout.

The Sarge

"Ooooh heh heh...You're a brave little hippie. I give you points for that, hell I'd never trust a busted up guy like me. We used to call guys like you loco weeds."

In his mind his words are comforting to the young lad. Alrought the reality of the situation did not lend itself much to comfort. Weapons now slung onto his massive back, he fishes for a new cigerette.

"Hey kid. Here."

The Sarge hands him a cigerette and lits one up for himself. The wind now blowing against them; smoke and cape danced in his wake.

"So what's you sad tale of revenge kid?"

Sumir
"Well it seems like Spyke, and Wu have the mission in hand, so let's wait here for a few minutes to see if Wu comes back, or we'll head over to the pub as that should be empty.

Mercen, your character is approved. You can meet up with the party when they return to base.

Matta

"Sarge? He hits all the bars in the area. We all know him well.[/b]

Rest of you

Keep going.

can i join?:D

Name:Kusanagi
Age:26
Gender:Male
Biography:a known mass murderer who has recently escaped from prison and is looking for a job where he can use his...talents, not many friends or connections and if he did have any then there most likely dead
Appearence:has a white shag hair style and jet black eyes, medium build, white skin, average height, black leather trench coat
combat training: scythe proficiency training, small weapons training, dual-wield proficiency training
skills: can accuratly throw weapons eg. knives, extremley good reactions
equipment:scythe that can be broken apart into 4 pieces to be concealed, 2x desert eagle, kunai
materia: one desert eagle cartridge infused with fire materia automatically infusing any bullet that comes into the cartridge
limit break: enhance
placement: scythe=broken apart and mounted on back
DEagles=mounted on waist, inside of coat
Kunai=hidden in sleeves
gil:300

Your character is approved, you can jump in with the others when they return to base.

Spyke looked at the cigar and smiled. He was liking this guy a little more now. He put it to his mouth and took a drag.

"Sure, I'll tell you. Nothin' I tell you can hurt me anyway. I used to be a Turk, ya see. A damn good one, too. Sent me out on a lot of assassinations. But... Well, I began thinking about quiting. I had killed a lot of innocent people, and I was tired of it. I couldn't take the depression. So, I asked to be dismissed. Rufus didn't like the idea. He said I knew too much to be able to leave the company, and said I was only born to kill. So I tried to leave by force. The other Turks beat me down and carried me back. Then Rufus ordered the assassination of my brother. They told me if I tried to get away again, they'd kill the rest of my family.... I did it anyway. A week later, I pulled out my gunblade, shot a Turk in the head, and ran. I killed some SOLDIERS and a couple of political figures on my way out, too. I got my parents and sent them someplace safe, but... But they found them..."

Spyke shook his head and took another drag, then slowly let the smoke escape his lips.

"... I hide for a little while after that. Changed my name,started wearing sunglasses more often. But... I couldn't let them get away with what they did to my parents, and my brother. Ultimately its my fault, but thats not going to stop me from kicking the asses of those bastards who took 'em..."

Matta finishes the last of his Orange Juice and puts the class back on the counter and lays down 5Gil for the drink and says whilst getting up of his chair to leave...

Matta
"OK, i better be off now, thanks for that and the bit of info."

Matta pushes the entrance door open,walks out and walks about 20 yards and noitices two human figures in the corner of his eye and knowing one of them to be from CRUSADER and walks over and say...

"I take it you found sarge then"

not to be rude or anything but when exactly do the others return to base?

The Sarge

"Yea, thats a pretty twisted life you got kid. I had the luxary of my parents dying of old age. No other family to speak of really. So you killed some of my kind huh? You gotta do what you gotta do I guess. I hope they at least put up a decent fight. The image of the kinda of man a soilder is is pretty tarnished already."

The Sarge is silent for a moment.

"It used to mean something. There was discipline, and honor, valor. We were fearless warriors. Now were a pack of homeless drunks. Bit of advice kid, don't dedicate your life to a war unless your sure it will last longer than you will. I should have died in battle long ago...A soilder with no war is like..."

His statement trails off like the smoke rising from the last puff of his cigerette. There is a flash of orage red. Another cigerette is brought to his lips.

"Oooh heh heh...So tell me hippie, how long a walk we got a head of us?"

"Yeah, they put up a good fight. Hell, they were unbelievable. But I've been in a lot of tough fights followin' Avalanche and I'm survived in a lot of places I shouldn't have. I can get through a few tough guys."

He let out more smoke as he dropped the cigar at his side and kept walking.

"Our place isn't too far from the Pub. I doubt it's even a mile from there. We'll be there soon."

Matta lets out a shout at "The Sarge and "Spyke"

Matta
OI! Dont walk away and ignore me, we gotta get the others, plus i know a short cut, so if you wanna get back to base easily and quickly with no trouble then i sugest you follow.

Matta looks at Sarge, as to if he had seen him in the past before.

I'll give this a go, and join the/a group after they return to the meeting place with Sarge.

Name: Garrett Kiane
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Biography:
Born and raised in the slums of Midgar, Garrett has known little in terms of a family. His father killed his mother in a drunken rage when he was seven years old, before being gunned down shortly after in a bar fight that went ugly. Alone, he tried to go it on his own, but soon found it to be to hard. He joined forces with one of the many gangs that fought for control of the different Sectors. He grew in rank there, becoming a minor leader, than the group's number one espionage and theiving expert, until he eventually became his boss’s personal assassin. Showing great aptitude in both the marksmanship and the arts of stealth and speed, he performed hits on many opponents of his master, in turn helping to make him of the greatest crime lord in all of the Sectors. Garret had high hopes that his boss would remember who helped him. Unfortunately, an attempted coup from within caused the once powerful crime empire to topple, and Garrett to be out of a job, and in a bad predicament. Though he managed to escape unscathed and relatively free of any suspicion, he has since avoided returning to Midgar unless necessary. However, the need for money eventually drove him back to the city, where a few questions in the right places and at the right times (such as when holding a knife to someone's throat) lead him to the CRUSADER, where he hopes his dream of making it big in both money and power can finally unfold.

Despite his background, Garret can be quite charismatic, in the need arises. Though not known to be a womanizer, he has grown to enjoy good company, at the right time, as it helps keep him relaxed. He is also blessed with great patience, unlike his late father, and it has only been strengthend by his sniper and stealth training. Also, he is ambidextrous in most aspects, but cannot dual-wield weapons. However, it does allow him to have a weapon at either side and draw either fluidly.

Appearance:
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 152 lbs
Eye Color: Sky Blue
Hair Color: Light Brown
Hair: Short
Skin Color: Peach/White

Given his height and weight, Garrett cuts a somewhat lanky figure, with long arms and legs. He is wiry, but also very strong, and can move fairly quickly due to his long stride. His eyes can sometimes appear to be bottomless, and also slightly mournful at times. He keeps his hair trimmed to about 1-2 inches, so it won't drew attention or impede him in some way. Despite urgings from his former boss, he never got any distiguishing marks or tatoos, prefering to stay as "ordinary" looking as possible.

Clothes:
Black jacket (extends to knees)
Black pants
Dark Blue T-shirt
Black soft leather boots
Black gloves
Brown Belt


Combat Training:
Sniping
Close Quarters Combat (Knife)
Marksmanship (General)

Skills:
Lock picking
Stealth

Equipment:
D-16 "Scorpion" Sniper Rifle: A sniper rifle that is ideal for eliminating target from a moderate distance away. Effective range: 0-800 meters. Holds 8 rounds of ammunition per clip. Has a 5X scope that can be attached. Can be broken into several different components for easy concealment and transport, but must be reassembled before being used (Time to reassemble: 20-60 seconds, depending on conditions [calm and quiet as opposed to hectic and loud]). It's light weight and fairly thin to aid in concealing it, but this detracts from it's effective range. Useful mainly in urban environments, were the relatively close quarters and numerous hiding places are a snipers dreamland.

Standard Knife: Basic knife. Approximately 16 inches in length. Colored black to prevent the tell-tale gleam of a blade.

M-39 Handgun: Relatively small handgun that is useful at eliminating targets that are within 0-20 meters. Holds 13 rounds of ammunition per clip, which some consider to be unlucky.

Silencer: Attached to firearms to help muffle the sound of them firing a round. Can be attached to either the M-39 or the Scorpion. Useful for silent kills in which the killer wishes to keep the death a secret, at least for the moment.

Lock picking set: Set of twenty lock pick that, in the hands of an expert, can open most, but not all, locks within 60 seconds.

Materia:
Heal: Placed on right glove
Restore: Placed on left glove
Ice: Placed on belt
Lightning: Placed on knife

Limit Break: Enhance - Greatest Virtue: A wave of peace flows over Garrett, causing him to relax. Aids him with his aim, and with lockpicking doors or assembling/disassembling his rifle in hectic areas.

Equipment Placement:
D-16 "Scorpion" Sniper Rifle: All three sections are placed vertically on his back, and are flat enough to avoid suspicion unless closely examined without his jacket on.

Standard Knife: Left thigh, hidden by jacket.

M-39 Handgun: Right hip, holster, hidden by jacket.

Silencer: Right hip, pouch in holster, hidden by jacket.

Lock picking set: Evenly distributed, 10 picks in the inner lining of each boot.

Gil: 300 Gil.

Hope everything is in order. :)

The Sarge

"Oooh heh heh...A buddy of yours Hippie? I wonder if he brought his bongos or at least a hacky sack. Oooh heh heh. I kill me sometimes."

The silence between them weighs heavy. The Sarge make a grumbling in the back of his throat. It's back to buisness.

"Now I told your friend here, and I'll keep this little pea shooter here on him, you two walk in front. If you try to pull a "sneaky" I'll put a hole in him where he'd rather not have one. Catch my drift? Now hopefully, we'll all be gentlemen and no one will have to be dead."

CHRISTMAS

Seeing nothing going on at Kale's Place. I headed back to the base.

Matta

Matta looks at Sarge confused wondering what the hell he was doing.

"What!?....O yeah i forgot, your drunk!...Come on old man we gotta get back now we have no time for this, there plenty of alchohol and cigars at the base but i think your batter off having a bath first..." *Matta smirks* "...My farther would be disapointed in you."

Sumir
After drinking a little with Aldracan heads back to the base, making sure to allow the group with Sarge to arive first.

The Sarge

The gun remains poised on the Sypke's back.

" I'm not drunk anymore you bleeding @$$hole! Why don't you get it through that thick @%*&ing empty chocobo fodder head of yours that I have no reason to trust your lot! This my protection from getting shot by a bunch of snot nosed punks."

Directing himself towards Sypke.

"You know kid, things were going fine untill bongo here showed up. Oooh heh heh...And this ones even younger and dumber than you are. An army of toddlers, brilliant. "

Sarge looks over at the disrespectful teenager.

" Now how about you show me a little F'ing respect and then you can stick your father's opinions of me directly up your lilly little %&^hole."

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here's a little character design of Spyke
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Spyke chuckled and shook his head. He was beginning to wonder if his job would be easier without the backup of an army.

"I think your wasting your time, Sarge. I don't think this guy even cares if I live or die."

He smiled as he stared silently at the pavement beneathe them. He never expected to be at the mercy of a homicidal old man with a pistol.

You guys can keep going, basically until you all get back to base for debriefing.

The Sarge

"Some team you've got cooked up here hippie. Well, I suppose your harmless anyway now that I've de-clawed ya."

The gun moves to the back of the Matta. He is careful to keep the gun concealed with bit of his cape as to not alert any passerbyers.

"I suppose Bongo here is the bigger threat at the moment, eh Little Loco Weed?"
He doesn't wait for a response from Spyke, he plows right on with his words.
"Now then, shall we all go back to this place like one big happy family or what?"

Matta

Considering Matta needs all the help he can get to bring down Shinra, Matta brings his temprament down to a normal level and begins to try a level headed convosation.

" ............i can tell your age doesnt do you any justice to the abilities you still have, we wouldnt be down here trying to recruit you other wise..................but theres one thing, why do you carry a broken buster sword for?"

"You insist on calling me names that don't fit." He shook his head and smirked. "Pop quiz. Do you remember when I unloaded my bullets? Didn't thinks so." He drew his gunblade and pointed it toward Sarge's head. "Now take your gun off 'Bongo' over there and lets do this like the civilized people we obviously aren't."

Aldracan

Aldraccan walks back to base slowly and alert.

Matta

Matta inturupts quickly

"Woah, come on, fighting will just attract attention, we dont need that now do we ehy!? Spyke...put the gunblade away and Sarge just put the pistol in your belt or something for now or where not gonna make it out alive from Sector 6. Now Sarge....if we get back to base now, you can talk with the 'Cigerete Guy', he will proberly have alot to say on the matter. On my parents graves you can trust me and the rest that have already been recruited to CRUSADER...what do you say then?....."

The Sarge

He shoots a glare at the Spyke.

"Let's do this then."

Matta

Matta turns to spyke...


"Aright Spyke, you cool too?"

Spyke put away his his gunblade and shrugged. "Sorry about that Sarge. But I certainly can't allow myself to be caught off guard. Here." He handed the Sarge his gunblade. "You can take on the way. I don't have anything left on me, I swear." He cocked his head to the left. "Cigerette Man is this way."

Matta

Matta follows on from what Spkyes says....

"Plus, i think the rest have already left...man, they sure did help didnt they!? Come on lets hurry"

The Sarge

He allows the two to walk a little further in front of him and follows them down the twisting alley ways leading to "Cigerette Man".

Matta

Five minutes later, Matta stops and looks up...

"We're almost there now, just gotta walk up this hill...you ever been to Edge City before Sarge?"

The Sarge

"Yea, been through there once or twice."

Matta

"Yeah well, its still in a right state after the whole Bahmaut episode a while back, there still busy re-building parts of the city...anyways, here we are."

Wu Junren
Wu followed silently behind Sarge and the other two.

Name: Reven Shyrian
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Biography:
His Father was soldier who lived through the last war. But he came back from service haunted by memories of death. His sanity was questionable during the first few years off service in which time he taught Reven combat and other usefull skills. But toward the later years he became bed ridden and Often woke at night screaming.

Slowly this got to Reven, at night he could never sleep and would rest for only a few hours during the day. He bacame nocturnal of sorts and can now he could not sleep at night if he tried.

When Reven turned 16 he packed his gear and left home. At first he was lost in the new world but slowly he made friends in backwater bars and became a local. It was when he was 18 that Reven got his first gun. He had purchased it after witnessing a bar fight one night and felt protection would be necessary if he was to continue living this way. It was not til a year later that he first used it.

One night walking home from a pub he was the victim of an attempted robbery. The robber smacked Reven over the head from behind and ran off with his wallet. Reven scrambled up and pulled out his hand-gun. Taking aim he fired and was successfull. The bullet hit the robber, who had been a good 30 metres away, in the back. Reven caught up and retrieved his wallet.

From that point on he trained his marksmenship and bought his first sniper rifle. After a few more years he heard about the CRUSUADERS and sought out to join them.

Appearance:
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 186 lbs
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: black
Hair: shoulder length strait
Skin Color: olive tan

The Bags under his eyes are a trademark so he tends to wear sunglasses. He wears a black t-shirt and black jeans with a black trenchcoat that falls to his ankles. He has a black belt with a bullet shaped buckle and black, steel capped boots. He also wears one black glove while sniping and carries an over the shoulder hip bag.

Combat Training:
Sniping
Hand to Hand combat (Steel Pole)
Marksmanship

Skills:
Good Sight
Steady Breath (Calm under pressure)

Equipment:

MSG 90 Sniper Rifle
Caliber: 7.62x51 mm NATO
Velocity: 803 m/s
Weight, loaded: 6.4 kg
Mag-size: 20 bullets/mag
DMAX: 4500 m

Steel Pole
Length:about 70cm
Reven has got very attatched to his steel pole and painted it black in recognition of its 10th KO

Glock 17 handgun:
Caliber: 9x19 mm Parabellum
Velocity: 360 m/s
Weight, loaded: 874 g
Mag-size: 17 bullets/mag
DMAX: 200 m

Silencer: Can attatch to either of Reven's weapons

Materia:
Fire:Placed of steel pole
Heal:Placed on t-shirt

Limit Break: (i'll work it out with you then post it)

Equipment Placement:
Rifle: pulled apart and placed in his bag.

Pole: Strapped to bag, doesn't arouse too much suspicion.

M-39 Handgun: In a holster on his right hip.

Silencer: Trenchcoats inside pocket.

Gil: 300 Gil.

OOC: Has everyone forgot about this RP?

I'm approving Eternal Essence's character, and basically just waiting until you guys get around to returning to base so I can debrief and start handing out missions. So yeah. Just enter the building and we can get going with that.

Sumir uses a chort cut and gets to the base a few minutes before the group with Sarge.

OOC: i was gonna wait for TurkSlayer or Callahan to post to enter the building but its been 2 days so i will i guess.

Matta

Matta enters the building and leads Sarge up to the room where he met the others and the cigerette guy for the first time, opens the door for Sarge and says...

"Watch out for the Cigarette"

"You guys back? Get your asses in here!"

The man yells.

The Sarge

" So I guess you're head honcho round here? Oooh heh heh. So let's get down to brass tacks. Whats the job and whats the pay?"

Easily hidden in the shadow of the Cigarette Guy (which would be hard to do for a normal person in this lighting), the masked ninja, Rain, waits patiently as the debriefing begins.

"Quite a few, although the one I wanted you for is rather specialized. You still carry that big gun of yours, do you not?"

Kusanagi

waiting outside the door of "the mans" office as he debriefs the agents that just returned, he leans up against the wall eagerly awaiting the man to call the new agents inside.

"Quite a few, although the one I wanted you for is rather specialized."

Matta
If he gets a special task, what are the other and me going to be doing?

The Sarge

"I take it you mean Claire, my 12 Edge. Oooh heh heh. Yea, I keep her slung on my back right here."

The Sarge reaches over his shoulder and pulls out the rather large 12 edge.

"She's been feeling a little neglected, I'm happy to hear we got work for her."

"All right, good. You," he says, turning to Matta. "Get the others in here as well. Might as well hand out missions all at once, it saves time."

Matta

"How many new recruits are there? I know theres Sumir, Wu Junren, Aldracan and christmas to get, Spykes on his way...who else?"

"Just grab anyone who's waiting by the door and drag them in here."

Matta

Opens the door and looks out into the corridor and sees some guy with his head up against the wall, Matta shout back into the room...

"Well theres only one guy out who seems to be hugging the wall, ill tell him to come in...Hey you! you can come in the room now!"

The Sarge

"So the boys here are calling you the cigerette man, you got a real name? While we are in the buisness of introductions, Im Oxford Kane.
Though alot of people have taken to calling me Sarge. "

Sarge flicks his expired cigerette butt to the ground. He lights up another.

Sumir
A question has been asked which he has been wondering about as he stays silent. It sounds like they'll be given missions but probably there still going to get the training he had told them he'd get them before this mission. The man was large and seemed drunk, but there was no way to tell much about who this person was only given this act. Hearing Matta yell at the new recruits he shook his head- there's no point to yelling at people like that. None of the new men had spoken up yet. He didn't think they were spies or anything like that but he had no reason to trust them so he held his blade within his sleeve just in case.

"Nice to meetcha, Oxford," the man says, offering his hand to Sarge.

"They call me Ridin. James Ridin."

The Sarge

The Sarge gives Ridin a hearty handshake. He releases his grip and scans the room. The rest of the recruits have seem to found there way into the room.
"Well the pleasures all mine James. Now what do you say you give us an earful about this mission?"

Formalities now aside, the Sarge grabs a chair and plops himself down. He scans the room once more. Eyeing some of the people in the ranks.

"Ooooh heh heh...quite a motely crew to say the least."

"Some of these guys are getting sent back to basics. Apparently they don't quite grasp the meaning of subtlety. However, this mission will end in a big way, one that is anything but subtle."

"Because some innocents got shot with guns" (making it clear Matta doesnt use guns) "Anyways, what missions you got planned?"

Garrett had already been in the room when the others arrived. While Sarge and Ridin greeted one another, he decided it would be prudent to meet the other members of the group, in case he needed to be saved by one. He approached Sumir, extending his hand, and saying,

"Hello, my name is Garrett. You are?"

"The mission is pretty simple. There's a large parade taking place tomorrow on the upper plate. We simply need to get some guys in with enough firepower to do some damage and enough sense to leave when it is time."

The Sarge

"Parade? Now isn't that the kind thing womenfolk and kids are liable to show up at? This could be tricky. Innocent folks strun all about, I'd say you wanna bring that sniper along."

The Sarge looks toward James for some sort of conformation and perhaps more details on specific targets, or the area of attack.

"It can be a bit tricky, yes, but the targets are the military tanks. There will be several tanks showing up as part of the parade, all of which are utilizing the best technology. It's a sort of demonstration of might. They are our main targets."

Matta

"Shinra are most likely going to expecting something from CRUSADER to happen, that parade is going to be heavily watched"

The Sarge

The takes a long drag on his cigerette.

"Hmmmm...Do we have any sturctural drawings of these tanks? It always easier to exploit a weakspot than to have to pummel it to peices."

He takes another long drag.

" We'd also want to minimize how far the explosion would reach."

Another drag on the cigerette.

"We could always "Mole Blast" them."

He puases and realizes that not everyone here knows what a "mole Blast" is.
"The parade will most likely run down one of the main streets. All of streets large enough to handle tank traffic have large sewer systems underneath. Now what we do is we line an area of underbelly of the street with some explosives. The best way is to drill up into the street itself, but that can be a bit noisy. When the tanks get to the area we've planted in, we collaspe the street itself, dropping the tanks into the sewers. The street collasping would scare off any bystanders, and from there on in we can blast the bastards to kingdom come."

A beat.

"Best thing about this is we can be a good ways off when we light the candle."

"I'll leave the specifics up to you, but I trust in your judgement," James says.

"Here."

He pulls a laptop computer out and hands it to Sarge.

"The parade is in five days. This has files on all of the schematics of the area, the parade route, and the targets. Take all of the new members who aren't going to basic training with you. The others who are going to basic training will remain with me, and I may send them to assist you or I may break them off and have them carry out another mission, depending on how things go."

Hi, can I still join? I can join whenever by my bio.

Name: known only as X, real name unknown

age:19

Gender: male

Bio: A young anti-social male. he knows little of his past beyond age 10 when his memories of being in a sub-division of a shinra expiremetal training facility was in the works for counteracting works of rebellion began. He has been trained since a young age and is highly unemotional. He broke out and left the facility at the age of 14 during a standard training procedure. Unconcerned with there captives shinra allowed for him to leave certain of his inability to adapt to the real, harsh reality of Midgar. He stayed alive as a keepsake, an article of interest to those around him, and the do-gooders all intent on “fixing” him kept him alive, all of theme failed. He seems unconcerned with the events unfolding around him, and seems unattached with the group known as CRUSADER. A merc, a bounty hunter, whatever works is what he dose. Calm and cold, he is still human. Though he seems highly detached and hold little regard for friendship he still holds some degree of emotion and knows what a team means. Sometimes unsure of where his loyalty truly lies others treat him as he treats them, as a suspect capable of betrayal. His motives are often hard to read and he can become unpredictable in his cool stability. He is dedicated and determined, he has a strange view of morals and seems to have a strong problem with religion.

Appearance: 5’ 9”, he has nearly black hair that falls raggedly around his shoulders face with a single silver streak across his bangs. He has very dark green eyes, deep, but not the kind you want to dive into. His nose is slightly to large for his face, but he still manage to keep an attractive appeal. He has a thin, lightweight semi-muscular build, even though he is often regarded as scrawny by those around him. He wears a gray shirt covered by a worn black thin jacket. His pants are made out of a thick dark-colorless canvass material resembling heavy weight jeans that almost obscure his heavy worn brown boots. He rarely smiles and keeps a look of bitter neutrality across his face (for the most part)

Combat Training: Hand to Hand (mixed martial arts style rooted in Maui-tai), close encounter blade defense (knives), and sword mastery training (katana like blades)

Skills: awareness (heightened senses), Emotion control (can remain completely calm and focused)

Equipment. Bulletproof vest under his shirt, katana worn at waist and tied shut, two butterfly knives on the inside of his jacket, hunting knife strapped to his chest, throwing knives in holster around his belt.

Materia: barrier materia in bullet proof vest, broken cover materia in an earring on his left ear, speed + on his right boot.

Limit: Enhance (Bloodlust) His states are greatly improved but he totally losses control and all sense of morality, he is overcome by the desire to hurt and will turn on anyone around him.

I can approve that character but not a lot of people carry katana out in the open like that. Not a lot of living people, anyways.

The Sarge

"Right...."

His voice is serious. Any signs of the drunkeness that glazed his eyes is gone. When he took this job he said he didn't want to be a leader. He wanted to act solo. He never wanted to be in command again, or so he thought. He couldn't cage it though, deep inside of him the monster of rage and revenge was laughing at his self-made shackles. He would lead again. He would exact his hatred for Shin-Ra, and these were to be his new recruits.

"Listen up new recruits. If any of you are curious. I am Oxford Kane. I am a previous Sargent in the Shrin-Ra SOILDER Corp. In the next 5 days you will all be working for me. I am old fashioned. You will address me as SIR. We will work together as a group. However we may have seperate missions."

He takes a drag of his cigerette, it is his last. He throws it to the ground. He scans the new recruits who have stepped forward to listen to him.

"2 snipers, a ninja, and if my memory serves me, a heartless murderer."
He puases.
"Reguardless of your pasts, you are here now in the present, making the future. Tonight we will be making explosives. Stealing explosives would be much to obvious. I'm giving each of you ladies shopping lists. In two days we will have enough juice to take out an army. Wear street clothes when you pick up these items. A ninja buying Potassium Tablets or Petroleum Jelly and may raise a few eyebrows. One of you will be buying large quantites of the Jelly. The easiest way of avoiding detection, is to purchase a pornographic magazine with it. The jelly is used as the thickening agent which is crucial to making the plastic explosives. We will also need de-icing salt. Small cystal if you can find it. Large will work as well. Third we will need Potassium Tablets. Look for it in the medicine section, it should come in a large brown tub. 2 of these should suffice. Lastly, we will need gasoline. We will need twice as much Jelly as Gas. Im thinking 30 gallons of gas. I will be staying back an will examine the structure of the sewers finding the best location for our strike."

"Do we have any volunteers?"

Sumir
On response to Garrett he speaks quietly "My name's Sumir" he says reaching out his hand to shake. Before looking back expecting that next they would be told about the basic training.

James purses his lips.

"Actually, I think I'll turn them all over to you, Sarge. You can probably give them a good run through in basic training. So all of you, do as the man tells you."

Matta

Looks at Sarge and says...

"I know a guy who i helped construct Edge will have some crystals, i can pay him a visit"

(thanks just tell me when you want me to join)

OCC: I'll bring you into the story.

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Matta

With his head leant back touching the wall hears foot steps coming towards the door and opens it.

"New recruit coming through"

Aldracan

"Sir, will we need top cover to keep people from getting too curious?"

Rain ignores the ongoing conversation and walks out the door. "I'm no grocery boy."
However, I might find another use for those Potassium Tablets. He thinks to himself and disappears.

X

He walked up to the door, he could hear voices on the other side, reaching forward he opend the door, it emitid a soft squeek as the door entered, steping trough we walked lightly. several eyes looked over at him as he walked through, mostly eyeing the blade at his waist. takeing notice of this, he removed the blade and tossed it into the courner. This was the place most certainly, his eyes took in the soroundings, scaning his potenchal allies. the faint sent of gunpowder and blood filled his nostrals. 'ya' he thought, 'this was the place'.

steping forward he glanced around and spoke to no one in particular, "whos in charge here?"

"I am," James says in response to the newcomers query. "But right now you're answering to that guy," he says, pointing to Sarge.