<span style='color:red'>"What the hell is going on?" *Bends down to pick up the welder Bill dropped* "JD hold this, I'm going in." *Walks towards the portal. Then stops and turns back to the Boggle* "If I'm not back in five minutes..." *Checks my weapons are armed and ready* "Wait longer." *Then steps through into 'the other side'*</span>
<span style='color:gray'>*I shake my head, as if I was trying to clear it* "Lets find out just how deep this rabbit hole is..." *I run to catch up with a table with a person on it*</span>
<i>Bill manages to hear a conversation between two scientests pushing a table with a human on it.</i>
<span style='color:gray'><b>"Think it's going to work Harry ?" Asked the Doctor on the left side of the table. "I'm not sure Tom i mean all the others died or the bacterium was killed quickly if you ask me Kasdeff is crazy, i mean even we do create these things, what if the TSA finds out ?" Harry replied. "Well for one we would all be arrested, but they don't really know we are here so we can make whatever experiments we want!" Tom answered.</b></span>
<span style='color:pink'>"i'll take this end bill, u see where those tables are going. tell me if you find anything interesting" [moves through the door the tables are coming from, akimbos at ready]</span>
<i>Deaincaelo walks through the doors and ends up in a strange room, huge tankers holding water their tops seem to have been removed, one near you holds a Skulk floating in the water connected to a huge metal pipe leading out of tank and to a computer, there are several other containers aswell, the wall to your left shows a room blocked of by a window, inside is bacterium with what seems to be a Hive, above you there hangs a sign saying 'Test subject storing room'
Bill peers over at the table the two doctors are talking by and stares in horror, he sees himself on the table.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"..well hell..." *I click on my comm unit* "Dea... You know I was saying that we were Draug... well... uuumm... looks like I was right..."</span> Horror? Not really... I was expecting this for a long time.
<span style='color:pink'>{voicecomm}"yeah, theres khraa here. being experimented on. bacterium, even a hive. makes you wonder what the frell they did to us, cause we're still waayyyy too human-like to be even draug. no hivesight, we still register as hostiles to bactirium based lifeforms. well, we found out what we needed to know. unless you have any better ideas for trying to get back, i'm gunna try something stupid and dangerous that might just work. Stand back, and feel free to hit me if i get you killed." [shoots the glass, the hive, and anything else that looks like it might be good to break]</span>
<span style='color:gray'>"Stupid?.. Dangerous?.. That doesn't sound like the Dea I know..." *I run towards the sound of gunfire* "...Where's Daza when you need him..."</span>
<span style='color:red'>{voicecomm}"This is Epoch, radio check over?" *Waits for an answer* {voicecomm}"Dea? Bill? Your read me over?" {voicecomm}"CAN ANYONE HEAR ME!?!" *Heres the sound of gun fire through the doors where the portal was.* *Pulls out a pistol and readies it.* "I'm a coming!" *Runs in the direction of the gunfire.*</span>
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Edit - I can't **** my pistol so I readied it instead.</span>
<i>The bullets don't do anything, the scientests ignore the gun fire, as Epoch is sucked through the portal suddenly closes, there is silence except for a dripping noise, suddenly from a puddle of water in the canteen a figure looms out, it gives of a high pitch scream and swirls suddenly appearing infront of Boggle, it swipes but Boggle managed to avoid it by falling over by the sudden appearance of the Draug.</i>
<span style='color:pink'>"hey, your right. its not like me. but it proved that this isnt frelling coporial. its all a frelling shadow. and it proves that I dont have anything to breack the illusion. " *hears epoch* "hey, is that you epoch? i'm reading you. we need to fuigure out how to get out of here before whatever trap we're in springs shut." *tries the wall, to see if its solid. [looks to see whatever it was the bullets eventually hit]*</span>
<span style='color:gray'>*I hear Epoch* "Hey, Epoch! Welcome to Wonderland! Oh, and by the way, we're Draug... Just like I told you..." *I continue running, and find Dea* "Ok, Dea... What did you shoot?" *I look for the non-existant bulletholes*</span>
<span style='color:pink'>"hey, bill. looks like i'm not shooting at anything. nothings corpral." *looks over at epoch* "hey, epoch! try flaming this wall. its cold, and solid. unlike everything else here." [pulls out zippo, lights the torch, and puts the fire touching the wall]</span>
edit: my internet might go away in the next 2-3 days. if it does i probly wont be back till january 18th.
<i>The flames do nothing agasint the wall, they don't even leave a mark.</i>
<b>He runs through the so-called teleporter but ends up in the kitchen.</b>
<span style='color:green'>[He goes through the teleporter and looks around, he's in Hera ? Where is the lab the others are on about, in the distance he can hear marines.]</span>
<span style='color:blue'>[The Draug suddenly appears on the floor, avoiding the flame.]</span>
<i>The Draug raises up on it's legs, dwarfing Boggle, it's body seperated like that of an insect, it's long scaly arms armed with two long sycthes, almost aslong as it's body, it's head long and thin except for it's jaw that opens out revealing a row of long smooth ended teeth.</i>
<span style='color:gray'><b>[The Draug turns to face Twiggy, it suddenly appears right next to Twiggy and swipes at him, Twiggy is sent flying back agaisnt the wall, his armour cracks heavily as a blood slowly leaks out of his cracked armour.]</b></span>
18 January <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> We might almost be finished by then, well we'll keep you there as a sort of dummy of follows the group, miss you !
<span style='color:gray'>*I check for my welder, and find it missing* "Umm, anyone seen my welder? I remeber having it when attempting to weld the Draug..." *I pause and think for a second* "This whole us-draug, them-draug is confusing me... We need to rename the them-draug to something else... How about we name the them-draug 'uglies'"</span>
Hope your internet doesn't fail Dea. Where would the rest of us be without you to save us? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:red'>"Dea where are you?" *Slows down to a walk and strolls into the room Bill and Dea are in* "What they hell you shooting at?" *Looks at the wall for 'non-existant bulletholes' and them-Draug* "You lot been on the nano-med packs and morphine again? I warned you not to mix 'em." *Runs my hand along the cold walls of the room and rasps my knuckels on the glass tank with the skulk floating in.* "Feels real enough." *Then [/trys to burn it with my flamer]* "I've still got ol' faithful," *Pats my rocket launcher* "or we could pinch ourselves." *Punches Bill on the arm, hard.* "Real enough for you?" /Mutters "Them-Draug? We-Draug?" *Rolls eyes*</span>
<span style='color:gray'>"I saw a trolley with what looked to be me on it. Scientist were nattering on about illegal experiments, and you can see a skulk there. It all adds up to the conclusion that we are the result of an experiment..." *I insert a dramatic pause* "...the same experiments that Dr Nirovikk was talking about. As to wether we are a successful experiment or not is another question... The scientists may well have been looking at attempting to create a superior soldier through Bacterium implantation. The creatures we were told about, the dangerous ones, could be the result of failures in the attempt to create us. The Bacterium took control, overwhelming the bodies defences and warping the test subjects into the things we know as the Draug. In this manner it can be thought that we too are Draug of a type. A type that has retained more of the human characteristics, intelligance, the ability to reason, emotional states not so far removed from the human norm as to not fit in, and all the strengths and weaknesses of the human body." *I pause and think a second* "If anything we may not have changed enough to be a true success by the scientists standards. We are still too human to be what the corp's would view as the ideal soldier, fearless, unemotional drones with little tactical skill. Mere puppets to be controlled by the command staff. A self-repairing, self-replicating army of super soldiers..."</span>
I think I read/watch too much sci-fi, and play too much Final Fantasy... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> I'm sorry if I've given too much of the hidden storyline away, spark <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:pink'>"well, its rather obvious we're in some sort of illusion. an echo of our past. and if we cant break it, then we have to go through it. the race is on, now. we have to work through this before the marines get overwhelmed. lets go!" *runs down the only direction left, deeper down the rabbit hole* "the race is on! and more lives then ours hang in the balance!"</span>
oh, you'll survive just fine if i'm gone. you'll just spend a lot of time in the infermory, when epoch blows us all up <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:gray'>"The truth is, this is all just a dream. See that tank? There is no tank..." *I run off after Dea*</span>
Epoch and his RoEPG? Nah, the one I'm more scared of is Daza and his RAPER...<!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <span style='font-size:5pt;line-height:100%'>RoEPG is the nickname given to the RPG in America's Army Operations, due to the amount of friendly fire incedents</span>
EDIT:nice Ace Ventura quote on the last page, Epoch
<span style='color:green'>"Why does my past haunt me" <i>It dosen't haunt you, it reminds you</i> "I try to forget about my past.." <i>Forgetting your past will make your life worth nothing.</i> "My life has always ment nothing. After my wife died i had nothing to live for" </span>
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*Bends down to pick up the welder Bill dropped*
"JD hold this, I'm going in."
*Walks towards the portal. Then stops and turns back to the Boggle*
"If I'm not back in five minutes..."
*Checks my weapons are armed and ready*
"Wait longer."
*Then steps through into 'the other side'*</span>
"Lets find out just how deep this rabbit hole is..."
*I run to catch up with a table with a person on it*</span>
Thanks spark
<span style='color:gray'><b>"Think it's going to work Harry ?" Asked the Doctor on the left side of the table.
"I'm not sure Tom i mean all the others died or the bacterium was killed quickly if you ask me Kasdeff is crazy, i mean even we do create these things, what if the TSA finds out ?" Harry replied.
"Well for one we would all be arrested, but they don't really know we are here so we can make whatever experiments we want!" Tom answered.</b></span>
[moves through the door the tables are coming from, akimbos at ready]</span>
[I attempt to see the person on the table]</span>
Bill peers over at the table the two doctors are talking by and stares in horror, he sees himself on the table.</i>
*I click on my comm unit*
"Dea... You know I was saying that we were Draug... well... uuumm... looks like I was right..."</span>
Horror? Not really... I was expecting this for a long time.
"most peculiar. Dea sticks her torch in and gets sucked through, I put my hand in and it comes out fine. Weird."
*turns to JDW and Twiggy and sees their expressions*
"What do you mean, you can't see anything. Try sticking your hand through the doorway"</span>
[shoots the glass, the hive, and anything else that looks like it might be good to break]</span>
*I run towards the sound of gunfire*
"...Where's Daza when you need him..."</span>
*Waits for an answer*
{voicecomm}"Dea? Bill? Your read me over?"
{voicecomm}"CAN ANYONE HEAR ME!?!"
*Heres the sound of gun fire through the doors where the portal was.*
*Pulls out a pistol and readies it.*
"I'm a coming!"
*Runs in the direction of the gunfire.*</span>
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Edit - I can't **** my pistol so I readied it instead.</span>
"WTH are you all doing?"</span></span></b>
*hears epoch*
"hey, is that you epoch? i'm reading you. we need to fuigure out how to get out of here before whatever trap we're in springs shut."
*tries the wall, to see if its solid. [looks to see whatever it was the bullets eventually hit]*</span>
*I run through the doorway*
[Yes or No, does it still work.]</b>
"Hey, Epoch! Welcome to Wonderland! Oh, and by the way, we're Draug... Just like I told you..."
*I continue running, and find Dea*
"Ok, Dea... What did you shoot?"
*I look for the non-existant bulletholes*</span>
*looks over at epoch*
"hey, epoch! try flaming this wall. its cold, and solid. unlike everything else here."
[pulls out zippo, lights the torch, and puts the fire touching the wall]</span>
edit: my internet might go away in the next 2-3 days. if it does i probly wont be back till january 18th.
<b>He runs through the so-called teleporter but ends up in the kitchen.</b>
<span style='color:green'>[He goes through the teleporter and looks around, he's in Hera ? Where is the lab the others are on about, in the distance he can hear marines.]</span>
<span style='color:blue'>[The Draug suddenly appears on the floor, avoiding the flame.]</span>
<i>The Draug raises up on it's legs, dwarfing Boggle, it's body seperated like that of an insect, it's long scaly arms armed with two long sycthes, almost aslong as it's body, it's head long and thin except for it's jaw that opens out revealing a row of long smooth ended teeth.</i>
<span style='color:gray'><b>[The Draug turns to face Twiggy, it suddenly appears right next to Twiggy and swipes at him, Twiggy is sent flying back agaisnt the wall, his armour cracks heavily as a blood slowly leaks out of his cracked armour.]</b></span>
18 January <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> We might almost be finished by then, well we'll keep you there as a sort of dummy of follows the group, miss you !
"Umm, anyone seen my welder? I remeber having it when attempting to weld the Draug..."
*I pause and think for a second*
"This whole us-draug, them-draug is confusing me... We need to rename the them-draug to something else...
How about we name the them-draug 'uglies'"</span>
Hope your internet doesn't fail Dea. Where would the rest of us be without you to save us? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
*Slows down to a walk and strolls into the room Bill and Dea are in*
"What they hell you shooting at?"
*Looks at the wall for 'non-existant bulletholes' and them-Draug*
"You lot been on the nano-med packs and morphine again? I warned you not to mix 'em."
*Runs my hand along the cold walls of the room and rasps my knuckels on the glass tank with the skulk floating in.*
"Feels real enough."
*Then [/trys to burn it with my flamer]*
"I've still got ol' faithful,"
*Pats my rocket launcher*
"or we could pinch ourselves."
*Punches Bill on the arm, hard.*
"Real enough for you?"
/Mutters "Them-Draug? We-Draug?"
*Rolls eyes*</span>
*I insert a dramatic pause*
"...the same experiments that Dr Nirovikk was talking about. As to wether we are a successful experiment or not is another question... The scientists may well have been looking at attempting to create a superior soldier through Bacterium implantation. The creatures we were told about, the dangerous ones, could be the result of failures in the attempt to create us. The Bacterium took control, overwhelming the bodies defences and warping the test subjects into the things we know as the Draug. In this manner it can be thought that we too are Draug of a type. A type that has retained more of the human characteristics, intelligance, the ability to reason, emotional states not so far removed from the human norm as to not fit in, and all the strengths and weaknesses of the human body."
*I pause and think a second*
"If anything we may not have changed enough to be a true success by the scientists standards. We are still too human to be what the corp's would view as the ideal soldier, fearless, unemotional drones with little tactical skill. Mere puppets to be controlled by the command staff. A self-repairing, self-replicating army of super soldiers..."</span>
I think I read/watch too much sci-fi, and play too much Final Fantasy... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm sorry if I've given too much of the hidden storyline away, spark <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
*runs down the only direction left, deeper down the rabbit hole*
"the race is on! and more lives then ours hang in the balance!"</span>
oh, you'll survive just fine if i'm gone. you'll just spend a lot of time in the infermory, when epoch blows us all up <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
*I run off after Dea*</span>
Epoch and his RoEPG? Nah, the one I'm more scared of is Daza and his RAPER...<!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
<span style='font-size:5pt;line-height:100%'>RoEPG is the nickname given to the RPG in America's Army Operations, due to the amount of friendly fire incedents</span>
EDIT:nice Ace Ventura quote on the last page, Epoch