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Augmented World (Ambiguity & Valchyrie)

@Ambiguity Just read the post, and already have ideas of how to continue it, so maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, depends on the movie with my dad and when I come home, but I definitely enjoyed your respons ;)

Augmented World (Ambiguity & Valchyrie)

I'm glad you enjoyed the opening post hehe :) Hopefully she'll keep being awesome :P

Orcs and War[rivaan&Valcyrie]

Awesome! Great post! I will not post tonight, but I will see if I have time tomorrow, having to work again -sighs-

Augmented World (Ambiguity & Valchyrie)

Here you go! I hope you like the opening post! :D Came rather easily once I started xD haha. @Ambiguity

Augmented World (Ambiguity & Valchyrie)

Just had to add this or I'll forget what I've used as her age at some point xD

Name: Gravity Zero.
Age: Unknown.

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Augmented World (Ambiguity & Valchyrie)

Such an advanced world. It was amazing how much humanity had evolved over the last few years. Nobody would have thought this was possible, but the world had made technology and human fusion possible. Some had chosen to go full out with the evolution, and more or less changed into robots, while others decided to only have small bits of augmentations in their bodies. However, everyone were now part of the technological advanced world, in one way or the other. This also meant that it had become more dangerous when people was exposed to hacking attempts. The Cyber Killers, or Cyber Assassins, as some would prefer to call them, were the new kind of terrorists, at least if you had to believe what the news told you every day on the television. These people were masters in hacking and killing from a distance, simply by getting entrance to the augmentations, wires, and everything else, that humans now had in their bodies. There were countless of ways that these Cyber Assassins could kill a person, and most of them was not a pleasant way to go. It was usually painful and lasted long enough for the victim to want to commit suicide, though the victim was usually unable to do so, as they would be completely controlled or destroyed by the hacker, and would have lost control over their own body.

Gravity Zero, as she called herself, was one of those Cyber Assassins. She didn’t belong to any of the factions that existed in the world yet, she went her own ways, but that didn’t make her less dangerous. She was a professional and she had never once been caught. She had many augmentations, some that hadn’t even been possible to do for the common people and scientists. She had invented some technology herself, and had placed it in her own body. It had saved her life when she had done so, as her life hadn’t been one of flowers and pink beautiful clouds. She had her reasons for doing what she did, and she wouldn’t stop, no matter what. She liked to kill, when people deserved to die, and she liked to torture, when people deserved to be tortured. She didn’t go after innocent people, however, the police obviously didn’t always agree on when a person was innocent, and when they weren’t. For Gravity Zero, a person who was good at cheating the system was just as bad as a serial killer, which meant she would kill, or torture, or possibly both, that person. The police didn’t think that person was guilty of a hard crime, if even a crime at all. Many politicians and big companies cheated with the tax and all other things in the world, as they always had, and everyone knew it. It seemed that just because people knew about it, it made it okay and it made it apparently impossible to give them some kind of punishment for doing so, which was one reason why Gravity Zero took down those people as well.

Today was just another day in paradise for her. She had her target, and she was already in the system. It was a male 40 years of age, who had not only been cheating on his husband, but had lied about his sexuality to gain entrance to his husband’s high-value company. Gravity Zero had found out that he wasn’t even a homosexual person, he had just pretended to be that, to gain access to the company. At the same time, he had been seeing a woman, which seemed to be in on it as well. Gravity Zero would have her turn with the woman later on, as she wasn’t that innocent either, but for now, she had to take care of the man, and she would do it while he was in a crowded area, so everyone could feel the fear of the unseen. Gravity Zero was sitting in the top floor of a very high apartment building, one of the most expensive apartments you could find in the whole city. It had glass walls all around, though you couldn’t see inside the apartment, from the outside, but she could see outside the windows just fine. The windows were very thick and bullet proof, which meant they wouldn’t break easily. She had very expensive furniture in the living room and the bedroom, and she had a very expensive bathroom as well. All in all, she lived like a millionaire, without ever having worked for it. In the living room, she had the technology that she needed to hack into people’s bodies. All it took really, was a plug-in system that she attached to her back, which went into the machine, not bigger than a computer, and from there, she would be able to follow the technological code that she was hunting for.

She could see out of the eyes of the man she was inside as well, which meant she knew everything that he was doing, at all times, for as long as she was attached to the system. She smiled to herself, the time had come to finish him off, after she was done, she would have to go play a little online game to keep her skills as sharp as ever, but first, she would have fun. Outside in the sunshine, the man was walking through the crowded plaza now, when he suddenly stopped. His briefcase that he had in his hand, dropped to the ground and his arms started to stretch themselves out to the sides. “Wha-what’s going on!?” he shouted out, which made people turn around to look at him. Gravity Zero grinned to herself “This is for lying and cheating you fucking piece of shit.” Even though she spoke, the man wouldn’t be able to hear her. She started up her own personal virus, which was a self-destructive one that couldn’t be traced or found after the host died. The man started to scream in pain, his body started to electrocute him from the inside, his own two hands went up to his eyes and started pressing into them. She then started to decompose his metallic bones in his legs, which the man would feel like acid melting away the rather tough metal that the bones were made of. People started to scream just as loud as the man did. Gravity Zero smiled “Here comes the finishing blow.” She traced his wires to his heart and made the flow of his energy go in the opposite direction, so instead of going out from his heart, they went straight into his heart instead. His eyes had been destroyed and blood was coming out from them, he was lying on the ground as well, as his metallic bones had completely melted away. His heart now beat so fast because of the electricity that was flowing into it, that it was growing in size, and a few seconds later, it exploded with enough force to create a hole in his chest and destroying the front of his tuxedo and shirt. People fainted and those that didn’t, ran away screaming. Someone had called the police, but before the whole game was over, she tuned into one of the commercial billboards above the plaza. She didn’t show a picture of herself obviously, and she didn’t talk, what happened was instead something else. She made her name appear on the billboard “Gravity Zero.” in bright neon blue color. Though people wouldn’t know whether that was a name, or something else, as it wasn’t explained. The police might have seen the name before, if they had been searching through other cases prior to this one, but the public wouldn’t know of it.

She then detached herself from the body she was in and the technological tube that went into her back and pulled up her shirt. “A job well done.” She smiled. She turned around and turned on the TV, which was built into the glass wall that faced the whole city. If the news would show the incident, she wanted to see what they said about it, though she was sure that they were already there. As she turned to the news channel, she was right, the reporters were there. “We are standing here at the plaza where a most horrifying scene has just taken place. A man killed himself it seems, though it is unsure whether it was a malfunction in his augmentations, or whether it had something to do with the ‘Gravity Zero’ sign that appeared shortly after his death. No factions of the Cyber Terrorists have taken responsibility for the attack, which leads to the question of what it was that caused the death of Traloy McCallan, and what ‘Gravity Zero’ truly is.” Gravity Zero smiled to herself, the fools had no idea who they were talking about, and that was just what she wanted. The clock was 12 Midday, and her job was done.

When the time hit eleven PM, she had logged into the online game ‘Augmented War’, which was an online game that allowed you to play in virtual reality. Virtual reality wasn’t something new anymore, it was a system well known, and was used for all gaming consoles now. But this game had been the latest installment in online gaming, and it had taken it to a new level with feeling and precise control of the avatar you played as. She logged in with her username ‘Sierra’ and pressed ‘Search for lobby’. It didn’t take long, as the game was very famous. She didn’t really care that much about the team she was on, as she could usually keep her team winning by her own score itself. She was good at the game, one of the best, but she had never wanted to go to the press or anything like that, or make money on it, even though she often got messages in the game from people saying that she was good and that she should really make money by joining tournaments and so on. But if she did that, her identity would come out, and she had done so much to make sure that her identity would stay hidden. Besides, this game was a way for her to relax without having to make any serious kills; it would be a shame if she had to destroy the game and the players that had met in her in the game, just because someone wanted her to become famous.

Orcs and War[rivaan&Valcyrie]

@rivaan Up and running post! :D Hope you enjoy it! :D

Orcs and War[rivaan&Valcyrie]

Adalia supposed that a death with honor was an individual assessment. How could a whole group agree on what was an honorable way to die? She understood the tradition and the thought behind it when Chalsea explained it, but to die with honor, you would have to have some kind of measuring system for what is honorable and what isn’t. At least that’s how Adalia thought about it, but she supposed it was just their tradition, and traditions, like the White Stone city’s own, usually had no logic behind them as such. Traditions and religion, or beliefs, as some would call it, was impossible to prove. You could guess and you could tell other people about your own beliefs, but you would never have a way of proving what was right and what was wrong. Even magic couldn’t tell you what came after life, but many people did believe that there was something after life ended, and that gave comfort to a lot of people on their death beds, or when they had to go into battle. “I suppose that it’s a good way for them to die, even though it is very different from our beliefs.” Adalia said softly.

“You say that it teaches you a lot of things living there, but your way of evolving, is just one way of many.” Adalia explained. “You may think it was a way that led you to become a hardened survivor, but a person who has read books about the wild, studied the wild life and the nature and have lived in it, on their own free will, have evolved to be a survivor just as you. However, that person might still be as peaceful as the birds you see in the sky, whereas you have become a survivor in the sense of kill or be killed.” She was still standing with her towels around her body “You are mercenaries yes, but one that has studied the nature and the wild life might be equally dangerous as you and your men. The difference is that they might be able to poison you easier, instead of defeating you head on in battle. Don’t misunderstand me, I don’t try to offend you, I’m merely trying to explain that there is always more ways to achieve the same skills, even though the personalities might be different.” She smiled. “But I’m glad to hear that you’ve never taken a job that was about payback, in that sense anyway, it tells a lot about a person that they decide what they want to do, despite that they are mercenaries and so on.” She nodded. “Glad you got paid from that king though, whoever he was, he probably didn’t deserve his throne by the sound of it.” She giggled.

“If there were shamans on the battlefield, then it’s just proof that they have been forced into action. Whether or not that they agree to take action, they have still chosen to do so, and they didn’t seem to be that annoyed about it. But still, the shamans are probably not too satisfied if they were forced by another race or dangerous force, to start expanding the orc territory.” She said with a small nod. She would hate to see a stronger and more intelligent race than the orcs appear. Even if the orcs weren’t that intelligent, they were still strong and one orc could easily be equal to two-three human soldiers, depending on it’s age and experience. If someone could force a brute like that, to do it’s bidding, then there was something dangerous lurking around in the dark corners of the world. “Well, we do have a few siege weapons, but the orcs were too close to us before we could put them to use. I realize we should always have them ready, but I feel like that would just be to put fear into peoples’ hearts. Out of sight out of mind you know? So by not having them standing in the city all the time, the people are more at ease. But I appreciate your thoughts about it, and I will see if there is a possible way to make it faster to deploy them, if we actually see the enemy coming the next time.” She shrugged.

“Well if you hadn’t been alive, we probably wouldn’t have been alive today either. Or we might have been, but we would have been on the run and the civilians would probably have been killed by the orcs, or possible turned into more orcs if they are still using that method.” She shrugged. “Even though I know you said most of them are born orcs now, they still have methods of turning other races into their kind, and it is probably a fast way to expand their army as well, if they are on the move. So I’d rather not see my civilians fall to their destructive nature.” She said, shrugging slightly at the thought of her civilians being tortured and turned into those, monsters.

“I think my men has seen a living nightmare before, rather literally.” She said with a shrug. “While this is a peaceful city, we do have our way of training as well, even though it’s not exactly the same kind of training as you’re talking about.” She smiled gently. “But most of them will not back down from the training, even though they at times fear death, they do not run away from danger, and they want to protect the White Stone City as much as I do, which means they will all go through it, just wait and see.” She said with a lot of confidence. She clearly had high thoughts of her soldiers, then again, they had managed to keep the orcs away from the walls of the city until reinforcement had arrived, which was rather impressive. “But I am still grateful that you are taking your time to train them and make them sharper in the battle.” She smiled.

“Well, tonight is a special occasion, funeral and a tour in the city. I’ll make sure to have a bottle for when we take a tour around the city. It’s even more beautiful to walk around when you have a bottle of wine with you. It just gives you such a nice emotional feeling.” She smiled, already feeling the emotions she always felt when she walked through the city in the moon- and starlight. “And it’s good that it won’t be raining tonight then, it will make it a more pleasuring walk and a more pleasuring funeral then. It seems you have quite some skills after all.” She said, giggling a little. “We have many cloudless nights here; almost every night is like that, despite when it rains of course. But the steppes are really home to cloudless nights, it’s rather amazing.”
It sounded like a tournament was indeed a great idea. “I’m sure we can have your second in command fight my vice-captain.” She smiled. “We can always say that if he wins over my vice-captain, he can get to fight me as his prize for winning. That should make things more interesting.” She smiled. “Though of course he won’t win, but the intrigue of it might be enough to make your second in command agree to join the tournament, and he might be getting a tougher fight than what he thinks.” She smiled. “My vice-captain is not someone who is easily beaten in combat. Obviously, or he wouldn’t be a vice-captain.” She laughed softly.

Adalia watched as Chalsea got out of the bathtub and wrapped herself in a towel as well. She then nodded to her request “Of course, I will have them clean your clothing and dry them for you. Don’t you think about any duties for the next few days, just think about relaxing and enjoy your stay here.” She smiled. She then walked over in front of her. She placed her arms around Chalsea slowly and softly, almost like a lover’s embrace, with her forehead against Chalsea’s and her eyes closed. The least she could do to Chalsea from having saved them was to give her a little gift. As she held her forehead against Chalsea’s forehead, a warm energy would move from Adalia’s body and into Chalsea’s body, which should make Chalsea feel happy and warm, like this day was just one of the best days. Adalia wasn’t human, that was for sure, but what she was, was a mystery. The feeling she was moving over into Chalsea, was almost like a soft, long, gentle and passionate kiss, though their lips never touched. She then slowly let go of Chalsea and moved her head back from her, smiling gentle as she did, and took a few steps back. “I hope you like my gift, please enjoy your day.” She said softly, smiling at her. After Chalsea had responded to her actions, if she did, Adalia would leave the bathroom and prepare for the evening.

Orcs and War[rivaan&Valcyrie]

Just read it, great post ^^ I will reply later today, now I'm busy haha xD

Orcs and War[rivaan&Valcyrie]

@rivaan Finally done! It took a while! xD