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Holy crap this thing exploded. o.o

@Traitor I would find it hard to believe, as all that info is readily available, that one would find their guardian to be "haunting" them. Also if your character thought that their guardian was haunting them, wouldn't they be reluctant to enter a soul link? Without the soul link it'd basically render the character and guardian useless. Other than that, I'm not really sure how else to answer the question :/ I hope this made sense.


First of all, thank you for addressing my questions. Of course you have a point, but what if the character decides that the guadians explanations are not satisfactory, or that they don't want this kind of supernatural crap in their life? Would the guardian have the power to force them into the soul link? I'm not quite sure what exactly the guardians get out of "bonding" with a human yet, so this entire idea might be completely worthless. But the idea of an "unwilling" soul link partner appeals to me, which is why I'm asking.

...also, I feel like an ass for asking, but about that decay/healing magic thing. Yeah you're right, they're the most appealing options (to me at least). I would really like to sign up for one of those decay slots, if there's still one open. I saw that at least one is "taken", but only skimmed through the fourty billion messages...

If decay is not available anymore, the following question is relevant, otherwise feel free to ignore it:
Is it possible to "twist" restorative magic into something harmful? I'm thinking of forcefully causing tissue to grow that damages or disables the body of the afflicted in some way.
This may be an odd train of thought, but would it conflict with your idea of how everything is going to be played out if a character is not on good terms with their guardian? I'm thinking of a "this thing is haunting me" kind of relationship.

Also, based on this statement:
@BlackPanther Only people that have a guardian will be able to see other guardians. Otherwise, if they were flying around as a butterfly, a normal person wouldn't suspect anything more than a butterfly.

Would it be possible that other "guarded" humans could see a guardian in a non-butterfly form while it's true form is actually different? For example, have the guardian seem like a human being to the other special people while it's actually a yeti monster thing?

Also, are all guardians going to be "allied", or is it possible for conflicts of interest to arise between the different player-controled parties? Maybe even between a guardian and its associated human?
Interesting premise. Gonna keep an eye on this here thing.
Gorgon didn't notice being scrutinized and thoroughly judged by the man with the iron fists, nor did she care much. She had made her own fleeting assessment of the little group, but her unaugmented eyes could only pick up so much at first glance and she wasn't the type to overanalyze details. Besides - after their first crossfire, half of them were presumably goners anyway so she could already cross a couple of names of the "to-remember" list. And said crossfire would tell her all she needed to know about her company, much better than judging the way they waited around.

She just shrugged as an answer to Gaze's comment, chugging the rest of her beer. While she didn't exactly express a whole lot of empathy with her half-joking promise, she would actually catch a bullet for the blind girl - with her shield. All of them, if she was physically able to. But those lousy projectiles always ended up coming from multiple directions at once, somehow. Gorgon threw the empty can at a trashbin, where almost missed the opening, danced around on top of the thing briefly, and then just barely dropped into it.

As the group moved into the train car that was destined to be their hangout-spot for the coming hours, Gorgon followed. She took note of the black box in the next car, but was visibly relaxed in general. At first she sat down on one of the seats in the middle of the car, but soon after the train came into motion, the blue-haired woman would get up and pace up and down the train car a few times, occasionally checking the next civilian car or side windows for anything interesting. She was as obviously bored as possible, when she started slamming one tentacle after the other into the roof of the train car, letting them cling onto more robust parts of the MagLev train until she was literally hanging in mid-air. The very distinct 'CLANG' noises were probably audible throughout the whole train, and would send little tremors through the Diver's train car. She offered a sight that had something of a grotesque, four legged spider lifting its human prey off the ground. But despite all that, Gorgon seemed oddly comfortable, dangling just barely above the ground.

When Crash awoke to check on the black box, the spider-hybrid didn't pay him much heed, assuming he might be just as bored as she was. By sheer coincident, her eyes crossed the room and caught Gaze disengaging the safety of her rifle. Whatever troubled the blind girl would probably mean the end to the endless tedium of waiting, Gorgon hoped. She released the grasp of her artificial arms and landed with a soft noise that was completely drowned out by Crash...well...crashing through the door.


"We got company."

"Finally." Gorgon shouted, her excitement completely uncontained. She already had her SMG in hand, supporting it with two of the tentacle fibers while the other two just hovered on her left side, ready to fulfill the next command. The woman didn't need to check the mags, or disengage the safety - it was never 'on' to begin with.

"Gorgon, you and two others come with me."

The blue-haired woman nodded in agreement. She had no interest in saving - or even sparing - civilians, and the cargo car on the other front line of this fight was much better suited for her peculiar close quarter talents anyway. "Roger roger." she answered and followed closely behind blank, but didn't join his tactical position by the side of the cargo car door. She had a different plan.

"They're gonna expect our ambush, and that's the most reasonable and safe option for us. Let's take the momentum in our hands instead and surprise the shit out of them instead!" She only used a com receiver, and a slightly outdated one at that, so her voice had to reach the ears of Blank and whoever might have followed them to this side of the engagement the old fashioned way. She barely finished her sentence when the door was violently ripped aside and a cybered up thug made his suicidal dash into their car - with the woman standing in his way. Gorgon didn't hesitate even for a split second, in fact she had planned - or rather hoped - for this scenario. One of her tentacles grabbed the right wrist of the guy, crushing it to make him drop his unimpressive last-gen shotgun. Another darted for his throat, assuming it was at least armored lightly, while a third one grabbed his knee and dug into the kneecap, probably removing his ability to walk normally for the next couple of weeks. The fourth tentacle dug into the ground at her feet to stabilize Gorgon while she lifted the still surprised fodder off the ground and hurled him behind her, into the box-car.

"Uh...shock him, I guess?" She stepped out of the doorframe, kicking the dropped shotgun away and took a moment to look back at her victim. He was still alive, but the gargling sounds and waterfalls of blood from his throat told her, that he actually wasn't armored enough. She emitted a fairly genuine, but quite careless "Oops...ah, we'll get you another".

She then gave Blank her signature shit-eating-grin and told him to "Wait here." before her left arm formed into a half-rounded riot-shield esque form and she stormed through the door into the cargo car. Flinging something chinese - probably insults of some kind - at the remaining hostiles, she capitalized on their confusion why anyone would be suicidal enough to storm this car alone. It gave her a solid two seconds before the bullet hails started, and by then she had already shield-bashed the next guy out of the way and backed into a corner, back-to-the wall. Here she could cower behind her shield and hold out for a bit.
My post is like 80% done. I'll finish and post it up later tonight.
The fodder in the cargo car behind the box has entered the train already, right? From the GM post it looks to me like they're using mostly standard "goon level" weaponry, or are they carrying penetrative, explosive or otherwise special ammo?

Edit: I had to rush this a bit. Apologies, I'll do some formatting and slight editing if I get the time today, but more probably tomorrow.

Second edit: Ugh. Got knocked out, health-wise over the last two days. Sorry for that, but my formatting is done now!
BUT WILL IT BLEND?!

Well I think it would be the smartest option for Gorgon to move away from the civilians. We wouldn't want to find out of they blend, right? I'm kind of curious though =3
Can I get fries with that?
"Remember, Gaze, when I promised you wouldn't die first?"

"That's right, Gorgon! You did!"

"I lied."


<3

Gorgon


"Like aug knuckles said, ten minutes." Gorgon jumped up from the ground where she had spent the last couple of minutes removing and re-inserting bullets from one of her oldschool-looking magazines. She was perpetually bored from waiting, and one of the few advantages of her old tech was that it served as a fine way to keep her five human fingers busy. Her unsettling left-arm gadget had formed into the general outline of a human arm, holding the mag she had used to kill some time. Her SMG was hanging losely down at hip-level, somehow attached to her coat. Unlike many more subtle-minded Divers, the woman made no effort to hide her weaponry, though that was pointless anyway with a body-aug as obvious as hers. Or in a group as menacing as this one.

During the few steps it took her to close the distance to Blank and Gaze, she rammed the mag back into the free slot of her weapon before snatching one of the beer cans out from the former. "Thanks bud!" She declared, instantly deciding that he liked the guy. Everyone who opened up a mission with beer was automatically her kind of buddy, and usually the type to continue the drinking afterwards with stuff from the higher octane-reaches.

The blue-haired woman didn't really contemplate the mission at hand with the same gravity as the others did. At all in fact. On the contrary, she was eager to get into a firefight, even hoped they'd get attacked, ambushed and raided. Which was quite likely considering the size of the group, and the fact that she was hired in the first place. What her brain would naturally consider a "sinking feeling" was mechanically intercepted by her emotional suppressant chip and reforged into thrilled anticipation. With every one of the heavy thunder strikes, she was getting more hyped for some good old fashioned murder.

It wasn't always this way, but Gorgon barely remembered what was before, and didn't want to. She had taken the job because the pay was right, that's all it was to her. The contractors never gave her many details, and she never asked. It was part of her reputation to accept jobs with minimal description or briefing, and contractors appreciated her eagerness to march straight into the fire and carry out the job, even if the rest of the team got scorched. By all means, she would have been the perfect merc if it wasn't for the massive collateral damage that always occured around her.

She actually took a brief moment to wonder how many of the others would make it out alive, and whether it was worth betting money on the outcome. The moment passed and she opened her can, taking several long gulps. Without much empathy, she dropped her artificial hand-shaped bundle of technology on Gaze's shoulder.
"Don't worry cutie, I'll make sure you won't die first." While that wasn't much of a promise, Gorgon meant it. She did try her darnest to draw attention away from her teammates most of the time. They just always happened to die anyway.

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