Nicias Askani

Bleach: A New Dawn

take your pick. I only need one more post for Gio to be....operational. if not he gets to spend more time with Nurse Flawless....

sinai needs something to do though

Bleach: A New Dawn

Sure....if Cap. Mok springs Gio out the Hospital

Bleach: A New Dawn

Sinai wasnt sure what to do now. With the captain and the Lieutenant gone she couldnt ask for a mission. She didnt know any of the seated officers or who they even were for that matter. the only person she did know technically as Kiesa and she didnt want to bother her after what happened. The training hall was a common destination however she didnt want to spend her life there. She wanted to do something but pretty much couldnt so she found herself going bck to the training hall anyway. This time she did more stretching and moving instead of striking. simple things to stay agile without using shunpo.

Bleach: A New Dawn

When Gio woke up he was extremely confused. He wasn't at his desk. He wasn't even in his barrack. He was in the squad four barrack. He groaned as he tried to sit up but a firm hand pushed him back down. The pain it invoked was barely bearable.

"Dont move" a soft voice demanded. One he recognized and made him grin.

"Hello beaut..." His greeting was met with a slap on a bruise. "What was that for?" He finally turned and looked at nurse flawless.

Nurse Flawless

"For talking. Lay down. And shut up"

Gio started to say something about bedside manner but he found himself laying silently instead.

"One of your squad mates brought you here" she began to explain. " they said your spiritual pressure suddenly dropped while you were at your desk. When they check on you you were unresponsive. Alive but unresponsive. Oh and injured. "

Gio started to say something but she raised her hand to hit him again so he stayed quiet.

"Your energy has been slowly coming back up, which is why you are awake now. But you shouldn't move or try to talk for a while. Then you can tell me what you remember"

Remember? What did he remember? He remembered getting blasted, he remembered the whole fight. He made it back to the captain… then…then…

The nurse touched his hand, which caused him to look at her “over working your head isn’t advised either. Just try to relax” that might have been the first bedside manner-ish thing she ever said to him. “you should be able for me to look at your wounds now.” She held her hands lightly on his chest and they began to glow green in a healing kaido. The pain in his body began easing away slowly.
“your beautiful” he said
“yeah you keep telling me that” she blew off his compliment and put a hand hard on his stomach. “do you feel that?”
“you pressing? Yeah” he groaned
“no, the knot in your spirit energy.”

Bleach: A New Dawn

If I make an NPC do they have to be approved?

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Nicias before recruitment

With Three of his friends in Jail Nicias and his crew were getting a bit desperate. All of their robberies had required group effort, and now that group was dwindling. As a precaution they had already moved the money they had already stolen, in case someone tried to make a deal with the police force. But right now they were clearly understaffed. Nicias was the only earthbender left, and with only two other people left in their little ring it wasn’t looking to good. In a Nicias made tunnel, they made their way underneath the Su Long house, where they believed the vault to be. It was, according to their source, to heavily guarded to sneak in from the outside, so they took an underground approach. It would be too risky to try to open the vault there so they had to take it with them. In hindsight it was a very ridiculous plan but they had no choice but to make it work somehow.

As Nicias dug through the earth as Quietly as possible, a friend lit the tunnel with a flame. When they had reached their destination, underneath the house, supposedly underneath the vault room, they had to be very very careful. Nicias made a hole in the ceiling/floor so the waterbender of the group could flow some water into the room and freeze it o act like a spy mirror. Their intel was correct, the room was empty, but the vault was quite large. With guards on the outside of the door they had to be extremely quiet. Have you ever heard of a quiet earthbender?

Nicias rubbed his hands together in preparation and set into a rooted stance. Slowly he raised his arms, which inturn raised the earth infront of him, until the pillar was directly under the vault. His stance changed to a more fluid one, reminiscent of his sandbening roots as the floor beneath the vault slowly turned to sand. She transitioned back to a solid stance and slowly lowered the vault down as quietly as possible. The silent question now was how the hell to get it open, it was made of metal. There wasn’t enough time to crack it open, and Nicias didn’t have enough skill to move it silently. The original plan was for Nicias to ‘sand’ the tunnel so the other earthbender could move the vault more easily. But the other earthbender was in jail. Nicias closed to the hole he made in the Ceiling/floor and looked at his companions. No one spoke but the water bender stepped up with a less then hopeful stride. With the water from his pouches, he soaked door frame, letting the water seep in. Then he froze it, knowing that Ice expands when frozen. While it slightly unhinged the door it didn’t completely open it. It took three more attempts to pry the door open.

The loot, however, was underwhelming. More gold went into buying the vault that went in the vault. While there was still technically a lot Nicias honestly expected more to be in the vault. When they checked the actual contents, it was a mass of copper pieces and not gold. Thankfully Money was Money. They loaded it all up into a few burlap sacks and made their getaway. The fireball that came barreling down the tunnel towards them caught them off guard. The firebender was able to stop it but they knew they had been sold out. There wasn’t even an announcement of presence, just a shot fired into a dark tunnel. There were bound to be more, and in a tunnel like this it was likely to get them killed. Chances were the only reason they didn’t just cave the tunnel is because the money would be lost. Nicias Put on his mask, a fox mask and got ready for a confrontation.
There weren’t any more fireballs, or attacks as they moved quickly though the tunnel. The anticipation had put them on edge. Clearly it was a tactic to psyche out the group, make them expect more, have them jumping at shadows. And the worst part about it was, it worked. So well that both the fire and water bender had decided to give themselves up once they got out. Nicias was to Launch them out of the tunnel in a rock sphere. They would come out of it fighting, and try to give Nicias time enough to escape. Of course it didn’t go so well.

The rock sphere exit worked fine but it was immediately assaulted by flames. Nicias had to shoot the sphere in the air by earthbending a pillar underneath it quickly, like a pinball. Once airborn the sphere broke apart with everyone standing on a lump of stone in the air. The firebender blasted Nicias’s platform with enough force to propel him away from the center of the ambush. With a 2 out of the three burlap sacks on his shoulder Nicias started sandsliding as soon as he hit the ground. The other two wouldn’t let them follow him. He got away clean and hid the money with the rest of the loot. However the next day he found out that the waterbender had been executed, and the firebender was beaten beyond recognition. He probably wouldn’t survive long.
Nicias was the last one, again everything was taken from him. Sure he had all the money, but he didn’t care about that? He wanted revenge, he wanted real justice. The family of thieves he found in Omashu were all gone. One dead, one about to die, one ratted them out the rest were imprisoned. He had to lay low, he contemplated going back into the dessert but he was tired of running. The Robin hood mesae got everyone locked up or killed so now was the time to fight back for eal. But again he was alone, with a shit tone of money. If he could met with the rising he could joing them and use the money towards funding that initiative.

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Nicias knew from the beginning that he would have to be careful of who and how he asked for information. Its not like you can just go door to door asking about secret rebellions. On top of that he was supposed to be laying low, keeping his bending to an all time low, which wasn’t that hard. When he finally made contact with the Rising he was met with notable suspicion. He met with a beautiful redhead named Shila, and made a point not to ask her name. That way if anything went south, he would have no information to give. When they first met, he offered her a coin sack full of Silver pieces. He explained to her in detail, his reasons for wishing to join. He included that as well as his physical service he was willing to ‘donate’ the money he had stolen to the Rising. It only required that She accompany him to retrieve the rest of it as it was a sizable about.
Once they arrived at the stash site they were surprised to find the Fire nation Police hauling it all into a carriage. Even though Nicias was now being looked at with reasonable suspicion he was more pissed at the Police since there presence meant he was betrayed yet again. Somehow they had gotten the secondary location out of his companion and were here to collect the payload.

Nicias initiated the strike with several large flying boulders, crushing people beneath them. With the element of surprise still in their favor Nicias plowed through them with a rolling bolder. Before they had a chance to react to him, Shila attack and killed several from behind. With everyone dead or incapacitated Nicias made sure the money was still there. When he accounted for everything he started loading them on to one of the carriages that remained. When he got outside he found everyone dead, even those who he had wounded and or incapacitated. Shila didn’t like loose ends, and given the nature of the Rising, he didn’t blame them. Nor did he honestly care. Once they loaded up the carriage they rode off. When they split up, she assured him that he would make a valuable asset to the Rising and to consider himself a new recruit. There was one condition, no stealing. He could oblige them that, after all he wasn’t a compulsive thief.

After Recruitment

The underground City of Omashu was pretty amazing to Nicias. As an earthbender he admired the intricacy and clear amount of work that had to have gone into it. As a Thief he admired the secrecy even more. It was sturdy, secret and somehow soothing. Nothing like the Shifting sands he once called home. The Rising on the other hand was a bit too familiar. They reminded him of his days as a Dessert Raider, but at least this was for a better cause..for now. After his grand tour Nicias Set up his sleeping quarters. Unlike most Earthbenders he hated sleeping on stone so he slowly ground the slab of rock into fine sand and tied it in a bag. Voila a sand bed for the Sandbender, that was made to his liking. So he laid in it and stared at the ceiling wondering what would happen next.

Would he get to leave the earth kingdom? Would he stay here? Either way he would be content especially since he was already in. He rolled out of his bed and roamed the halls. There were more people than expected but their ranks were by no means numerous. a seemingly ragtag group of pissed off teenagers could be dangerous if used and trained right. From what he was hearing there would be plenty of uses for them, but he wasnt actually sure what that would ultimately. He probably should ask Shila these questions. He turned a corner in search of his recruiter as she would have most if not all the answers.

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I have finished my Intro post...technically i finished it yesterday but was too busy. Rtron looked it over. should i put it up?

Bleach: A New Dawn

Sinai glanced back at the Gate and noticed they were gone. she should get up, she should go back to the barracks but instead she sat there for a few moments longer and just took in er surroundings forming a poem in her head. It was a meditative trick that sometimes helped her relax and put her mind at ease. when she finally stood up and entered the seireitei she felt a bit better than before. She didnt head straight to the squad two barracks. Instead she decided to take a look around the seireitei. she didnt really know anything bout it she knew nobody. one of those two issues she would be able to remedy on her own, the other...would take time. She wondered rather aimlessly never admitting she was lost. lost implied there was a route in mind that she came off of, but she had no route and no real destination. it was amazing how tat very thought seemed to hold true for her life. but somewhere along the way she would find something, a place, a purpose perhaps even a person. At the end of her grand tour of the seireitei she found her way back to the squad two barracks. It seemed amazing the first time she saw it, the second time it seemed different. she wasnt sure how, but it seemed different.

Bleach: A New Dawn

Sinai caught up with Kiesa in time to see her getting up and talking to someone. at least she was ok, who ever she was with must have helped her. Sinai didnt approach, she was far enough away to see without being seen. she could be sensed but there was no reason to think anyone was looking for her. She sat beside a tree, and looked up to the sky. 'why am i here?' she asked herself. Sure she got in, but other than that everything has been a shit storm. a fruitless shit storm at that. She thought it would be different. different from where she grew up to be a mercenary. But there really wasn't a difference, job description was basically the same too, except now she had to fight Hollows too. which was bullshit. Her clan only 'let' her leave because her spiritual pressure was drawing hollows to them. Just as easily as she was bought she as discarded, didnt that make a girl feel special. She glanced back and saw Kiesa and the man still there. she would have to wait for them to go before she moved. it would just be awkward otherwise. This clearly wasnt the place for 'friendship.' and even though that wasnt what she joined looking for she knew it was something missing from her life. she would just have to keep looking.

Bleach: A New Dawn

"what the actual fuck?" was all Sinai could manage to say as the strange scene unfolded in front of her. Kiesa was training, then she was talking to herself. roleplaying perhaps?
and then suddenly getting cut up by ... something. IT became quite evident that there was someone, or something else in the room with the three of them. there was no doubting it after Kiesa ran out of the room, slamming the door behind her only for it to open on its own. Sinai wasnt sure if she should follow, or go tell someone. What the hell would she say? a ghost attacked her? "shit" she had no idea where the captain or Lieutenant was, or who any seated members were. What ever was going on was serious, but Sinai had already been snapped on for butting in before. "Please find the Lieutenant" She asked the the guy who was in the room with them as she rushed out the door. hopefully the man would be able to but Sinai knew that she couldnt do it. she wasnt really sure she could do anything, but her feet were moving anyway.

Fine time to remember she wasnt all that good at tracking spiritual pressure, but there was a trail of blood worth following. That she could follow however it was much slower than tracking her spiritual pressure. especially once she got out of the seireitei. Even with her past training she felt like she was taking to long. the process slowed down even more when she got into the forest. she had to stop and look even harder. there was a moment, where she could sense a spiritual pressure raising but it went back down so quickly that she was only able to get the general direction. she wasnt completely sure if it was Kiesa's but she was so far behind her that it really could have been anybody's. but Sinai took the gambit anway, jumping into a tree and heading in the direction. Hopefully Someone found the lieutenant because Sinai had no idea what she was bout to do.