Sapphire

Before RvB there was project freelancer

The battle began to sputter to a stop around Ohio, that didn't stop her fellow agents from packing in as much uncoordinated and clumsy 'team work' as possible. Ohio's smile was hidden behind her opaque visor, she had missed working as part of a team. It had been quite some time since she had last worked with people she wasn't secretly ordered to kill or betray. It was likely she would betray them anyways as soon as she had an ulterior motive but for now they were all relatively on the same side. The simulation ended with a summons for Washington, from what she would gather he did not have an A.I. and it was likely he was getting one. She silently wished him luck as she watched him go.

"Hey Gamma," She said summoning the A.I. as she began to exit the field, "They said something about abilities, they're not talking about what you A.I.s do., are they?"

"No, they have activated the special abilities unique to each set of Freelancer armor. You were informed of this, you have active camouflage technology built into your suit. Furthermore, my abilities are active at all times, should you choose to use them." The small figure on her shoulder informed her.

"Well I won't be." She snapped, her tone defensive and tight. "It's nothing personal but for right now I think its better that I don't. Invisibility, right, I used something like this a few years ago on a mission, I hope they've improved the tech. It didn't work well back then, the mission came real close to going south. Command really thought I was a gonner."

"Obviously you survived and succeeded, your record indicates that you've never failed a mission. I have a feeling that even the extended record I was allowed to download, there is still much I am missing." Even through that robotic voice it was clear he was fishing for information.

Ohio sighed, "I've worked for a lot of different people Gamma, that's the thing about not settling in with a team or in a division, you get shifted and you get used a lot. Not only is compiling all that information from different sources a logistical nightmare, some of it can never go on any record. My assignments have also been a hodgepodge of all sorts of things, it wouldn't be much of a coherent record anyway." Ohio had wandered her way into some sort of observatory room that over looked the various training rooms, a control panel glowed softly on the other side of the room. It seemed as if the agents had some ability to control the simulations but as the director and the counselor were not here it was likely they had their own master control center. "My instincts are telling me to start looking into the other agents but this isn't one of my missions and we're using code names for a reason. I'd be willing to bet there's a lot more to most of these people than meets the eye. You don't end up in a program like this unless you really want to be or you really had no choice."

Gamma hesitated for a moment before resuming his robotic monotone, "Agent Ohio if you truly wish to find information I maybe of some assistance. I haven't been completely honest in my abilities, I have some ability to posses technology. I could find information in the computer systems on board if you upload my program. I trust you won't say anything to the director?"

"You don't trust me," She scoffed, "You just already know I'm not going to say anything." She paused for a moment, standing at a window over looking a shooting range where one of the other agents was already practicing. "So you could like posses a tank and use it by yourself?"

"Yes, that is one application."

"Or take over a computer system and pretend to not be an A.I."

"That would also be possible."

"Good to know, we'll keep that to ourselves. I don't think now is the time to start sniffing out the others skeletons, not till mine are well buried." She said quietly, her tone more cold and stiff, "We are a better match than I even anticipated, until we betray each other that is."

Gamma acted as taken aback as a glitchy hologram could, "Ohio believe me when I say-"

"Cut the crap, it's who we both are, we're on the same side now but as soon as we want different things we won't be. Neither of us are sacrificers, we just take things and take things until we get caught or get what we want."

"For a liar agent Ohio, you tell the truth more often than one would think." He waited a moment for a response but Ohio said nothing and after another moment of silence he asked, "If I may ask Agent Ohio, which group of freelancers are you in, those with no choice or those who made the choice?"

Agent Ohio sighed as if searching for an answer, "When someone in my line of work receives a message saying they don't have any missions for the foreseeable future along with a suggestion to join a program like this you do what they want. Its a question of loyalty. I don't suppose you have any knowledge of the book Catch 22, do you?" She didn't wait for a response, "Basically the out come I want is to live but the only way I can do that is by joining a program that will likely kill me, the point is I can't win." Gamma's processors seemed to be chewing on that so he didn't respond, Ohio continued watching Agent Maine, "Good shot that one, doubt he's got any people skills, he's actively not socializing."

"Agent Ohio I can't help but see the hypocrisy in that assumption." Gamma commented plainly. Ohio rolled her eyes inside her helmet and remained silent because the stupid little robot thing was right.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

Wait so then Ohio and Utah have chameleon/active camoflauge armor? I mean it's fine with me but I thought you wanted everyone's to be different.@Nytefall Heck Id be even willing to switch.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

@GingerBoi123 I liked it, not that my opinion is super important but you have it any way :)

Before RvB there was project freelancer

@Nytefall I understand, it's one of those powers that's hard to integrate with other people and it's not a power I'd want used on my character with out being asked and a good about to foreplanning. That being said it does make me sad because those time loop episodes were fucking great. I'll defer to you but I'd like to try and come up with something else because I feel it kind of nerfs gamma, understandably so because Wyoming was like impossible for them to kill. If by heightened senses you mean like hearing through walls or being able to use a sniper rifle without the scope then I would argue that's just as problematic, relative omniscience is just as bad as being very hard/impossible to kill.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

@Superman Yeah when I read into it, the idea reminded me a bit of quantum mechanics, which is like when really small things don't follow the usual laws of physics. I may be thinking of something else and I may be wrong. It's still really cool. But I am impartial to the Hard Sound Rifle, its just so classy and elegant. In terms of destructive power the anti-material rifle has the HSR beat.

This is an argument I'm sure our characters will also have and I can't wait.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

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That's exactly how I planned this friendship to go down, and I wish every friendship started in this specific manner.

@LetMeDoStuff

The best of friend ships are, our characters will make juice together with the hard sound rifle, because I've decided that's what it does when you shoot fruit with it. (since there's no legit thing that happens)

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Also a bit of background for the Hard Sound Rifle, for any one who cares at all, is that it actually comes from a 2004 promo for Halo 2 called/referred to as "I love bees." Now yes I am a high school senior so that might make you say, "Hey, thats bullshit you couldn't know anything about 'I love bees' unless you read it on the Wiki!" Well that is a good point buuuuut my dad was really into it along with the rest of Halo (still is) so we've talked about it often, especially recently since these video games are one of the few ways a middle aged man and a teenage/young adult female can find something to talk about without it being a parental lecture or just boring.

ANYWAYS, back to the sound rifle, it was mentioned in the story line as a very useful assassination weapon because it leaves no residue or physical signs of injury, it causes a brain hemorrhage. It's fast, foolproof, and fun. Also very clean and basically untraceable. It was mentioned in reference to a political assassination where they wanted it too look like an accident.

Essentially the Hard Sound Rifle is All of the murder and none of the mess!

Also you could make a great infomercial with that tagline, just sayin.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

Ohio was sitting on a bench half-heartedly polishing her helmet, she didn't need to listen to the instructions, she'd seen something like this many many times over. Problem was, she sucked at these little exercises, something about killing people and even aliens was just so much easier. Not to mention her HSR was pretty much useless against non-organic matter, she could effectively destroy their comms and radio-wave broadcasting, which eliminated most machinery without on-board AI, but they had no brains to liquefy. Liquefy being the wrong word but it was pretty damn close and Ohio wasn't particularly interested in how it worked.

Ohio frowned slightly as her AI projected itself on her shoulder, Gamma, she didn't like him much and even though he was just a computer code she felt the feeling was mutual. That aside they were a good match, they were probably chosen because the director knew they wouldn't get along great. Gamma was a liar and a traitor with a lot of potential to harm, most people wouldn't be able to see that especially because Gamma was still so young and had exhibited so little of his 'personality.' It really took one to know one. Ohio also had the so called 'advantage' of having had her AI implanted a few days earlier than most, with some not even having any AI yet at all. She suspected that had to do with her AI's ability, a kind of time loop that let her try again and again until she got it right. Or in a recent case, until she survived. Since her AI would automatically start a loop if she was fatally injured. Ohio was pretty sure what she'd been through was the reason things are only supposed to die once. It was really the stuff of nightmares, as horrible as it had been at least she wasn't dealing with it for the first time now. Aside from that it really ruined the idea of organized religion for her because if she had been experiencing actual death, then they were all totally hilariously wrong.

"Agent Ohio, we are starting a training mission soon are you ready?" His voice was like those really old robotic ones, before they figured out how to make them work better. Choppy, stiff, emotionless.

"Do I look ready?" She chuckled, putting her helmet on and sealing it.

"I have complete confidence in you. The chances of fatality are designed to be very low, no death-loops."

"Gamma, don't lie to me, we just met. You trust me as far as you can throw me, and you're literally a hologram so that puts us at square 0. Or like negative one. It's totally fair, I was kind of a dick yesterday. Dying a bunch just puts me in a bad mood." She sighed and began to check over her hand guns. The others were beginning to move out.

"Yes that was rather apparent after the string of expletives you directed at the administrators."

"If they try that again without telling me, and I won't do it in a time loop. It will be 100 percent organic, gluten-free murder." Ohio muttered as she carefully watched her new team mates getting to work.

"Agent Ohio, excuse my directness, but now you are the one lying. Also murder is not a food so it can't have or be free of gluten." His blue form flickering, just at choppy as his voice

Ohio rolled her eyes, "Ok, yes but its a revenge fantasy. Humans love them, have them all the time and if they tell you they don't they're a damn liar. Everyone has wanted to get back at someone at some point, the world isn't full of Gandhis and Martin Luther Kings, its a lot of normal people with a lot of normal flaws. Just ignore the gluten bit, I don't think you're going to get the joke." She was standing now, looking for her entrance into the fight.

"I'm sorry I don't know who either of those people are but am I correct to assume they are morally superior to the average human?"

"Really? You guys didn't get a basic history lesson from before the war? Yeah sure morally superior or whatever, Christ if you were human you would have thought that sounded cool but now its just weird." Her eyes were locking on to specific target zones, "You know what forget it, I don't have time to teach you 20th century history right now." Gamma nodded and flickered out of sight. With that she was darting on her way to help Washington who already had a robot half strangling him.

Ohio carefully made her way through the robot carnage. Carefully in the sense that she was booking it as fast as she could while avoiding getting hit by one of the robots. She charged at the robot from behind, wrapping her arm around its neck in a tight hold while keeping her other hand free for a knife.
@Nytefall
"Ok so Wash, can I call you wash? You know what I'm going to call you Wash and you'd better not have a problem with it because I'm trying to help your ass. Anyway, listen, big guy over there," She gestured with the knife at California, "has the right idea, you gotta go for the head but if you're like me, or you for that matter, and aren't a human bear you can't exactly crush their heads with your bare hands." She shouted over the explosions and thrashing of the robot, trying to get her to let go.

"See what people like us do Wash, is we improvise." She grinned as she plunged her knife between a small gap in the armor plates of the neck. "The interesting thing is that we humans tend to make things that are like humans, that's the self-obsessed way we are. So a lot of these vital wires are in the neck, like a human's spinal cord. Which means all you have to do is get the knife in here and shake it around a bit." She demonstrated by violently twisting and moving the knife in a kind of back and forth pattern. Some smoke and a few sparks came from the area her knife had sunk into but the robot was already letting Go of Washington as well as beginning to spasm uncontrollably. Ohio let go and gave the robot a hard shove to the ground.

"Sadly it's not totally dead cause its equivalent of a brain is still there but I've severed its ability to control it's limbs and most functions below the neck. Now it just sort of flops around like a fish. It's kind of sad actually." She said, cocking her head and watching the robot. This moment of lapse however almost cost her as she barely dodged a punch that cracked the wall she was standing in front of. "Well points for enthusiasm on that one." She said with a short laugh before trying to repeat the process she had used on the last one, with a bit more difficulty as this robot was not already attacking someone else and was able to try much harder to throw her off.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

Ohio

Full name: Elizabeth Fenster

Code name: Ohio

Gender: Female

Age: 28

Implanted A.I.: Gamma

Armour Ability: Chameleon Armour

Appearance:

Armor:


Without Armor:

Elizabeth stands at just over 5 feet 6 inches and for her size has considerable strength, her build reflects this. Her hair is tied up in a tight bun when training or in the field.

Personality: Like Elizabeth's armor, she is a social chameleon, changing to create her desired social dynamic. Despite her tendency to alter her behavior she is generally very confident and opinionated, she loves a good argument but tends to distort facts or change them completely. How far her lies go depends on how much she thinks she can get away with in a given situation. She indiscriminately uses people as tools, with no distinction or protection from this for familial or romantic relationships. However she is by no means ruthless about any of her maneuvers, she will use anyone but she also can enjoy their company for reasons other than their usefulness. In fact, Elizabeth is critical of that aspect of people like her, they tend to throw away or abuse anyone who isn't contributing to their ulterior motive. She sees this as narrow minded and needless limiting of her tool set, her preference to maintain a status of being well liked also turns her away from acting like others of a more manipulative personality. Like her IA Elizabeth is quite the liar and only tells the truth when it suits her, she's never failed a polygraph test (even though those are bogus) and its truly impossible to tell what she really believes and whether she is lying. She has this ability to sound completely convinced in what she is saying and is quite persuasive on top of that. Ironically, she likes to build a reputation of being honest, calling a bad situation like it is, not being afraid to stand up for whatever her current values are, giving her 'honest' opinion, this generally establishes her as a resource of honesty which she pairs with painting everyone and everything else as untrustworthy. In tandem these techniques usually give her a reasonable amount of manipulative control on others.

History: Elizabeth was actually born in an affluent family, the kind that sends their kids to college to be doctors or lawyers and live long, safe, boringly wealthy lives. War be damned, this family was going to look out for itself. Elizabeth was to be no exception, attending a prestigious school with plans to enter politics. She even had internships lined up where she would be working rather high up in the Unified Earth Government, the people there saw a bright future for her. A vision she once shared but in her junior year of college, this changed. Suddenly, and to many she knew, without reason she needed to leave it all behind. Only an idiot would assume there was really no reason but whatever happened or whatever she had seen wasn't leaving her lips without a fight. Her parents were rather distraught but she did not notice this as she did not ever ask or listen to their opinion, this was the theme with most people who approached her about her choice. Something had changed and those people could feel it but they couldn't place it, she acted the same, she wasn't angry or upset but she was still different.

These connections she had made though did not go completely to waste, she managed to get herself into special ops training right off the bat. As a young girl with no formal military training, those she had persuaded to get her placed did not expect things to go well, they expected her to either give up and come back or settle for something easier. Elizabeth did neither, and though the combat did come slower to her, she was much better than many had even thought she would be at theory and stealth. Over time it became clear her combat skills were decent but her prowess was in her espionage skills. Many of her special ops deployments were to investigate corruption or other allegations in a clandestine manner. A job many would abhor, the idea of ratting out fellow service members, did not bother Elizabeth at all. Her role expanded to be that of an assassin, specifically one who could infiltrate a following, eliminate the target, and supplant leadership, in order to hand over control of the situation to the UNSC. Elizabeth has seen little conflict in the actual war and her battles have been waged against other humans, a fact she is aware of and as such keeps her past role under wraps. She also keeps these secrets because many of these operations never existed and if they were to exist it would be due to her acting as free agent and not in any relation to or under orders by the UNSC. It was recently suggested to her that her talents would be useful in the Freelancer Project, she agreed and was swiftly placed into the program. To her colleges she's created the image of a gifted recon agent and guerilla fighter but there are cracks and she figures its only a matter of time that someone figures out what she really does, if they haven't already. After all she's not the smartest person there but she's the best liar.

Weapon Loadout:
- (x2) M6C Handgun with 2 extra clips
- (x2) Standard Combat Knife
- 2 smoke grenades
- Hard Sound Rifle (because she loves bees)

Fighting Style: Elizabeth openly lets others fight her battles, she not the strongest and she's not the biggest but she does what she can. She tends to go for guerilla tactics. Her marksmanship is good but shes no prodigy, and she often has to make her hand to hand opponents tire themselves out because she can not physically overpower them. She is extremely patient and will wait as long as she has to for her perfect shot, even if that shot is actually a stab.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

@Nytefall Ok I'm sure I'm going to sound like total nerd if not a straight up bitch but Gamma actually has a sort of 'check-point' ability, allowing the user to go back to a certain moment in the very recent past to try and get it right. Much like a check point in a video game which is why I call it that. Wyoming used this quite a bit to create time loops and it was a big part of much of his strategy. I completely understand if you want to stay away from that for it could jeopardize RP rules or be generally annoying.
(I did cross reference this with the wiki and relevant episodes because I wasn't sure off the top of my head)

But I thought you should know :)

Also let me know if I should shut my mouth.

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Someone else who likes Guerrilla Warfare? Her and Iowa are going to get along just fine.

@LetMeDoStuff

Quite possibly yes. I think they'd have a good time discussing the Hard Sound Rifle. In a "Omg thats so cool!" "Omg I knowwww, its so cool, watch this" sort of way.

Before RvB there was project freelancer

@Nytefall Sorry for not responding initially to your welcome, I sort of just launched into working on this in most of my free moments. While it did take much longer than expected, my CS is about finished. Do let me know if there's any issues, I tried to work out all the kinks already though.

Ohio

Full name: Elizabeth Fenster

Code name: Ohio

Gender: Female

Age: 28

Implanted A.I.: Gamma

Armour Ability: Chameleon Armour

Appearance:

Armor:


Without Armor:

Elizabeth stands at just over 5 feet 6 inches and for her size has considerable strength, her build reflects this. Her hair is tied up in a tight bun when training or in the field.

Personality: Like Elizabeth's armor, she is a social chameleon, changing to create her desired social dynamic. Despite her tendency to alter her behavior she is generally very confident and opinionated, she loves a good argument but tends to distort facts or change them completely. How far her lies go depends on how much she thinks she can get away with in a given situation. She indiscriminately uses people as tools, with no distinction or protection from this for familial or romantic relationships. However she is by no means ruthless about any of her maneuvers, she will use anyone but she also can enjoy their company for reasons other than their usefulness. In fact, Elizabeth is critical of that aspect of people like her, they tend to throw away or abuse anyone who isn't contributing to their ulterior motive. She sees this as narrow minded and needless limiting of her tool set, her preference to maintain a status of being well liked also turns her away from acting like others of a more manipulative personality. Like her IA Elizabeth is quite the liar and only tells the truth when it suits her, she's never failed a polygraph test (even though those are bogus) and its truly impossible to tell what she really believes and whether she is lying. She has this ability to sound completely convinced in what she is saying and is quite persuasive on top of that. Ironically, she likes to build a reputation of being honest, calling a bad situation like it is, not being afraid to stand up for whatever her current values are, giving her 'honest' opinion, this generally establishes her as a resource of honesty which she pairs with painting everyone and everything else as untrustworthy. In tandem these techniques usually give her a reasonable amount of manipulative control on others.

History: Elizabeth was actually born in an affluent family, the kind that sends their kids to college to be doctors or lawyers and live long, safe, boringly wealthy lives. War be damned, this family was going to look out for itself. Elizabeth was to be no exception, attending a prestigious school with plans to enter politics. She even had internships lined up where she would be working rather high up in the Unified Earth Government, the people there saw a bright future for her. A vision she once shared but in her junior year of college, this changed. Suddenly, and to many she knew, without reason she needed to leave it all behind. Only an idiot would assume there was really no reason but whatever happened or whatever she had seen wasn't leaving her lips without a fight. Her parents were rather distraught but she did not notice this as she did not ever ask or listen to their opinion, this was the theme with most people who approached her about her choice. Something had changed and those people could feel it but they couldn't place it, she acted the same, she wasn't angry or upset but she was still different.

These connections she had made though did not go completely to waste, she managed to get herself into special ops training right off the bat. As a young girl with no formal military training, those she had persuaded to get her placed did not expect things to go well, they expected her to either give up and come back or settle for something easier. Elizabeth did neither, and though the combat did come slower to her, she was much better than many had even thought she would be at theory and stealth. Over time it became clear her combat skills were decent but her prowess was in her espionage skills. Many of her special ops deployments were to investigate corruption or other allegations in a clandestine manner. A job many would abhor, the idea of ratting out fellow service members, did not bother Elizabeth at all. Her role expanded to be that of an assassin, specifically one who could infiltrate a following, eliminate the target, and supplant leadership, in order to hand over control of the situation to the UNSC. Elizabeth has seen little conflict in the actual war and her battles have been waged against other humans, a fact she is aware of and as such keeps her past role under wraps. She also keeps these secrets because many of these operations never existed and if they were to exist it would be due to her acting as free agent and not in any relation to or under orders by the UNSC. It was recently suggested to her that her talents would be useful in the Freelancer Project, she agreed and was swiftly placed into the program. To her colleges she's created the image of a gifted recon agent and guerilla fighter but there are cracks and she figures its only a matter of time that someone figures out what she really does, if they haven't already. After all she's not the smartest person there but she's the best liar.

Weapon Loadout:
- (x2) M6C Handgun with 2 extra clips
- (x2) Standard Combat Knife
- 2 smoke grenades
- Hard Sound Rifle (because she loves bees)

Fighting Style: Elizabeth openly lets others fight her battles, she not the strongest and she's not the biggest but she does what she can. She tends to go for guerilla tactics. Her marksmanship is good but shes no prodigy, and she often has to make her hand to hand opponents tire themselves out because she can not physically overpower them. She is extremely patient and will wait as long as she has to for her perfect shot, even if that shot is actually a stab.