Ok, ok, go for it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> You need to close your colour tags, too.</b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Interesting. Someone's on the pink team. I didn't know there was a pink team."</span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>*joins blue team, starts to practice martial arts while waiting for game to start* "Someone must've hacked in and added a pink team, don't see why anyone would want to join it though." *pulls off a running, jumping,spinning back kick (the same kick Jackie Chan used in Rush Hour 2 to knock Rickey Tan out a window)*</span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'>*sees lord darkness dancing about like a wierdo*
"Thats not going to hgelp you when I've got a gun aimed at your head."</span></span></span>
<b>Disclaimer: I am not against martial arts or the people who practice them. My character is</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'>1"i didnt join because i wanted to win. I would have gone on the other team for that. I just dont like you attitude towards me when i wipe the floor with you, so i went on your team to keep the peace."</span></span></span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*notices the game starts* "Cool, lets go" *takes out Vladstock and climbs up a tower near the base entrance* "Good view here.... You guys tell me when you want me to move" *hides on the darkest spot of the tower, and aims with Vladstock through the small opening, waiting for someone to pass*</u></span>
<b>If a color is taken, use bold. If all bolds are taken, use another font. And make your OOC text bold. Apart from that, read through the story and get a feel for what's going on. Of cause we're not in the mess hall when we're on shift.</b>
<i>The virtual hydraulics of the base doors hiss loudly. Between the two teams is a stairway leading down to the hall of pillars, a large room with broad cylindrical pillars everywhere, allowing people to move in virtually any direction, but still not allowing you to see more than 20 metres anywhere. It was designed to simulate the inability to foresee where the enemy would come from, to train frontiersmen in defending any angle, all the time. Between the pillars is a dim lightning and clean surfaces, simulating a spaceship module not yet heavily infected by aliens.
The walls are metallic, and the room is entirely silent but for the sound of your footsteps. The footsteps of the enemy marines in the simulation are changed to a near-silent clicking of bone against metal.</i>
<b><span style='color:white'>*Moves down stairway, waiting for the squad to keep up to have someone covering all angles</b></span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*moves down the tower* "**** it. I'm not gonna stay at the back" *holsters Vladstock and takes LMG, due to relative close combat situation* "What now xect? Wanna attack stealthly or kamikazee?" *kneels down next to a pliar, with body touching the pilar's wall. Takes aim and waits for what to do*</u></span>
<b>sorry. I thought it was right before shift still. and we're in the simulators during duty shift? i hope its ok if I say where my shift is. if not I apologize.</b>
<span style='color:yellow'> <b> * realizes she is late for duty* "****" *runs to her duty shift in navigation*</b> </span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Well here we go..." *Flips off the safety on his LMG and decends the steps into the 'pillar room' Scanning as many angles as humanly possible* "The rest of you guys comming? Darkness, Jaegar?"</span>
<span style='color:orange'>*follows Khaim down stairs, LMG at the ready, watching for any movement other than Khaim and Boggle* "Boggle, that was a kick I learn't a while ago. If someone is a fair distance away, I just run, jump, twist around 180 degrees and give 'em a back kick to the chest that'll send 'em flying. And if someone's got a gun to my head, I'd either kick it out of their hands, or grab it, rip it out of its owners grasp and point it right back at them. A trick I learnt from an old movie called 'Rush Hour'. I'm a big fan of martial arts movies, namely ones done by an old, chinese actor called Jackie Chan and some of the newer ones done by Johnny Tchang. Of course, I do enjoy the occasional Bruce Lee film."</span>
<b>I got the name Johnny Tchang from a Battletech book, 'Black Dragon'. It took me a while to realise that it was an altered form of Jackie Chan. It's a lot better than the one that Mortal Kombat:Deadly Alliance had; Channie Jack.</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'>"i got the left flank Xect. At least we dont have to worry about them dropping from the roof..."
"yeah, well if someone does point a gun at my head, i'll know who to call."</span></span></span>
<span style='color:green'>*gives a two finger wave sign to his team as he moves forward, crouched against the stairway wall* "Someone break to the left when we reach the bottom, I got right. Keep low and watch the noise. I dunno what the floor's like down there."</span>
<span style='color:purple'>*Reaches the bottom of the steps and covers the left flank, watching Jaegar take right* "Darkness, you guna stay up there practicing kung-fu stuff all day or ya guna shoot something? We could use the help."</span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*takes a quick peek a the corner, and hides again* "Let's get to the middle of the room" *moves while crouching to another wall, covering the left flank of the new corridor*</u></span>
<b>I already moved down after you Khaim, it was in my last post.</b>
<span style='color:orange'>*remains alert for any movement* "Boggle, I'd protect you from a gun, but there's a chance that I won't be nearby. You'd have to fend for yourself in that situation." *activates MP3 player in helmet, the music from the Lobby scene in The Matrix starts playing* "I thought we needed a little 'mood music'."</span>
[/B][B]Well, since im leaving the community, i better kill myselfm off then, shouldnt i?
<span style='color:white'> *As Night watchesx the screen with the boradcast of the simulation on it, Ed enters the live fire course. drawing his pistol, he froes off a few shots at the target. One of the sahells jams, Ed clears the jam and anims downrange, Firing off, what he thinks is the last shot, he spins the gun on his finger and blows into the barrel, his hand slips and nearly drops the gun. In a frantic attempt to catch the gun, he accidentally pulls the trigger...
The gun falls to the floor, followed by what was left of Edward Crab.*</span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> *Hears the shouts down the hall, curious, he leaves his room and follows the screams and shouts. He paces down and enters the room. Spots Eds body on the floor, starts jogging up to it but slows down when he notices the red puddle, gulps and slowly approaches it.* " Ed you okay ?" He calls. *Jogs up to him and kneels down behind him, feels Eds pulse notices the bullet hole, puts pressure on it, quickly pulls out a vial he had made in his room and pours it onto the hole.* " Wake up Ed." *Panick filling his breath, he quickly pulls out a silver rod and rests it on Eds arm, he squeezes it, it sends of a discharge noise shaking Eds body, but had no effect.* " Please Ed, don't give up." *Rests Eds head on his lap, wipe tear out of his eye and squeezes the silver rod again sending another discharge into him, still with no effect.* " Goddamit !" *He crys out throwing the rod away unable to stop the stream of tears.* </b></span>
<b> probably not, i've been working on my HL related skills for the last 4 years (i even leared how to code). but NOBODY seemed to appreciate it. Hell, on IRC, i've had people say good riddance. I dont want to go, just once i'd like it for someone to say "good job!"...</b>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*notcies something strange is happening* "I have a bad feeling...." *quits simulator and heads down a corridor, entering a room where I hear a cry* "What the f...." *sees Ed's body, and sparks crying* "Oh God...... No......" *slowly walks toward Ed. Kneels down and closes his wide opened eyes. Makes the cross sign on Ed's head and turns to spark* "Man.... don't cry....." *takes out Vodka bottle. Pours in a metal cup which was carrying and gives it to sparks* "For Ed, and all the great things he did" *takes a drink, closes eyes and closes fists very tightly. turns to spark, with eyes full of tears.* "What happened anyways?"</u></span>
<b>I'm suprised no one said good job for you Ed. I mean, you learned how to code!! Only a true HL fan would learn that. Great job, and I'm sorry you leaving the community <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> </b>
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<span style='color:yellow'>*wakes up and begins her morning meditation.* </span>
Ok, ok, go for it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> You need to close your colour tags, too.</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Interesting. Someone's on the pink team. I didn't know there was a pink team."</span></span>
"Someone must've hacked in and added a pink team, don't see why anyone would want to join it though."
*pulls off a running, jumping,spinning back kick (the same kick Jackie Chan used in Rush Hour 2 to knock Rickey Tan out a window)*</span>
"Thats not going to hgelp you when I've got a gun aimed at your head."</span></span></span>
<b>Disclaimer: I am not against martial arts or the people who practice them. My character is</b>
"F***ing teamstackers..."</span>
*laughs*</b></span>
<i>The simulator starts humming, and the game begins, everyone is phased to their team's initial bases</i>
<span style='color:yellow'> *finishes meditation and heads to mess*
"where is everyone?"
*eats*</span>
*Starts reading his book on Kharaa, ignores the shouting of uneven teams nearby somewhere.*</b></span>
"Cool, lets go"
*takes out Vladstock and climbs up a tower near the base entrance*
"Good view here.... You guys tell me when you want me to move"
*hides on the darkest spot of the tower, and aims with Vladstock through the small opening, waiting for someone to pass*</u></span>
<i>The virtual hydraulics of the base doors hiss loudly. Between the two teams is a stairway leading down to the hall of pillars, a large room with broad cylindrical pillars everywhere, allowing people to move in virtually any direction, but still not allowing you to see more than 20 metres anywhere. It was designed to simulate the inability to foresee where the enemy would come from, to train frontiersmen in defending any angle, all the time. Between the pillars is a dim lightning and clean surfaces, simulating a spaceship module not yet heavily infected by aliens.
The walls are metallic, and the room is entirely silent but for the sound of your footsteps. The footsteps of the enemy marines in the simulation are changed to a near-silent clicking of bone against metal.</i>
<b><span style='color:white'>*Moves down stairway, waiting for the squad to keep up to have someone covering all angles</b></span>
"**** it. I'm not gonna stay at the back"
*holsters Vladstock and takes LMG, due to relative close combat situation*
"What now xect? Wanna attack stealthly or kamikazee?"
*kneels down next to a pliar, with body touching the pilar's wall. Takes aim and waits for what to do*</u></span>
<span style='color:yellow'> <b> * realizes she is late for duty*
"****"
*runs to her duty shift in navigation*</b> </span>
<b>Gotta love TFC <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
*Flips off the safety on his LMG and decends the steps into the 'pillar room' Scanning as many angles as humanly possible*
"The rest of you guys comming? Darkness, Jaegar?"</span>
"Boggle, that was a kick I learn't a while ago. If someone is a fair distance away, I just run, jump, twist around 180 degrees and give 'em a back kick to the chest that'll send 'em flying. And if someone's got a gun to my head, I'd either kick it out of their hands, or grab it, rip it out of its owners grasp and point it right back at them. A trick I learnt from an old movie called 'Rush Hour'. I'm a big fan of martial arts movies, namely ones done by an old, chinese actor called Jackie Chan and some of the newer ones done by Johnny Tchang. Of course, I do enjoy the occasional Bruce Lee film."</span>
<b>I got the name Johnny Tchang from a Battletech book, 'Black Dragon'. It took me a while to realise that it was an altered form of Jackie Chan. It's a lot better than the one that Mortal Kombat:Deadly Alliance had; Channie Jack.</b>
"yeah, well if someone does point a gun at my head, i'll know who to call."</span></span></span>
"Someone break to the left when we reach the bottom, I got right. Keep low and watch the noise. I dunno what the floor's like down there."</span>
"Darkness, you guna stay up there practicing kung-fu stuff all day or ya guna shoot something? We could use the help."</span>
"Let's get to the middle of the room"
*moves while crouching to another wall, covering the left flank of the new corridor*</u></span>
<span style='color:orange'>*remains alert for any movement*
"Boggle, I'd protect you from a gun, but there's a chance that I won't be nearby. You'd have to fend for yourself in that situation."
*activates MP3 player in helmet, the music from the Lobby scene in The Matrix starts playing*
"I thought we needed a little 'mood music'."</span>
<span style='color:white'> *As Night watchesx the screen with the boradcast of the simulation on it, Ed enters the live fire course. drawing his pistol, he froes off a few shots at the target. One of the sahells jams, Ed clears the jam and anims downrange, Firing off, what he thinks is the last shot, he spins the gun on his finger and blows into the barrel, his hand slips and nearly drops the gun. In a frantic attempt to catch the gun, he accidentally pulls the trigger...
The gun falls to the floor, followed by what was left of Edward Crab.*</span>
*Hears the shouts down the hall, curious, he leaves his room and follows the screams and shouts. He paces down and enters the room. Spots Eds body on the floor, starts jogging up to it but slows down when he notices the red puddle, gulps and slowly approaches it.*
" Ed you okay ?" He calls.
*Jogs up to him and kneels down behind him, feels Eds pulse notices the bullet hole, puts pressure on it, quickly pulls out a vial he had made in his room and pours it onto the hole.*
" Wake up Ed."
*Panick filling his breath, he quickly pulls out a silver rod and rests it on Eds arm, he squeezes it, it sends of a discharge noise shaking Eds body, but had no effect.*
" Please Ed, don't give up."
*Rests Eds head on his lap, wipe tear out of his eye and squeezes the silver rod again sending another discharge into him, still with no effect.*
" Goddamit !"
*He crys out throwing the rod away unable to stop the stream of tears.*
</b></span>
<b>Why you leaving us Ed ?</b>
"I have a bad feeling...."
*quits simulator and heads down a corridor, entering a room where I hear a cry*
"What the f...."
*sees Ed's body, and sparks crying*
"Oh God...... No......"
*slowly walks toward Ed. Kneels down and closes his wide opened eyes. Makes the cross sign on Ed's head and turns to spark*
"Man.... don't cry....."
*takes out Vodka bottle. Pours in a metal cup which was carrying and gives it to sparks*
"For Ed, and all the great things he did"
*takes a drink, closes eyes and closes fists very tightly. turns to spark, with eyes full of tears.*
"What happened anyways?"</u></span>
<b>I'm suprised no one said good job for you Ed. I mean, you learned how to code!! Only a true HL fan would learn that. Great job, and I'm sorry you leaving the community <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> </b>