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DOA?:Ultimate Confusion; There will be utter annoyance...
Topic Started: Mar 13 2009, 05:24 AM (2,785 Views)
Attila
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They both went on the path, following in the steps of the first team.
"Keira Lee." he repeated along the way, as he hastened his steps, knowing her to be following. Placing both his hands on the straps of his pack to try lessening the weight, he tried to talk as less often as he could. A hard thing to do, since he was a quite talkative person.

"Don't worry.. 'bout pack.. I can.. I.." He said, panting along the way, but at least now the site could be seen. A large gate structure, recently uncovered by a strong gust. He wished he could have stayed to take a few shots of the entrance, but time was pressing, and he needed to meet up with the rest of them as soon as he could.
"God dammit.. always.. frickin'.. late.." He panted, as he passed the gates.
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(Okay, due to the fact that some people apparently found the twist in the storyline very annoying (hints at the subtitle of the RP), I will need to make some re-arrangements of where the souls of different people have been moved. Since Niko is gone, I have made an exception from the rule of no one else to join, allowing Andros and Seiss to fill in the empty spot. No more of such exceptions will be made.
Since Niko is no longer here, her character is also invalid... I am going to presume that Keira also has entered Valhalla along with Jacob, and make the rearrangements of who is who.
Teslyn, I'm sorry, but since Austin was in Amethyst, and Amethyst was Niko's char, I will have to move him. To make things fair to the poor gay guy, Austin will be moved to Keira's body. Keira will take over Jacob's body, and since Amethyst was supposed to be Severin, it is only fair that Severin is now occupied by Jacob. Amethyst's soul was lost in the transition, and she died.
Let the confusion continue...)
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Teslyn
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ooc| so austin still gets to be a girl? :D should i rewrite my post?

D: D: -isshootmedeadlazy-
can we just... pretend i made the appropriate edits? or i could wait until class is over to repost.|
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Seiss
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Tcaitacl and vlaliniy Pcrik.
One moment she was stunned by the beautiful interior of heaven's dining hall, the next a sudden spasm stole a brief moment of consciousness from her and she was left feeling extremely odd....

She could taste something sweet in her mouth and wondered what it was. The people around her- she didn't know any of them, but she'd hazard a guess that they were all part of the excavation team. Strange... why do I feel so sweaty? She frowned and ran her tongue over her teeth. So sweet... chocolate? Keira was sure she hadn't eaten anything for the past hour. Especially not anything sweet. And why was her back sore?

The girl that stood a distance before her threw her off the brink of confusion. She was sure that the girl was an exact replica of herself. I don't have a twin... and why are we wearing the exact- oh- wha- THE HELL. She stared hard at her clothes- definitely not hers. It rank of sweat- she wasn't sweating. Then she lifted up her hand, only to find that it wasn't hers. Wide eyed, dibelieving and very, very much disconcerted (an understatement), she looked over to the man she had been walking with- and it wasn't Jacob- some other Western-looking charmer she didn't recognize was in his place.

Not possible... this is not happening- can't!

Her heart felt oddly still in her- his chest and her thougths had been scattered all over. Too sudden... she wasn't expecting any of this, wasn't expecting anything near to- to this happening at all!

Swallowing, she looked over to the man whom she assumed to be Jacob and asked, "Jacob-" She was cut short by the strange tone of her voice. It didn't sound like her voice. Clearing her throat, she turned her head to stare wide-eyed at her body that no longer was hers.

What's happening?
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问世间情为何物,直教生死相许?
天南地北双飞客,老翅几回寒暑。
欢乐趣,别离苦,就中更有痴儿女。
君应有语,渺万里层云,
千山暮雪,只影向谁去?
横汾路,寂寞当年箫鼓,荒烟依旧平楚。
招魂楚些何嗟及,山鬼暗啼风雨。
天也妒,未信与,莺儿燕子俱黄土。
千秋万古,为留待骚人,
狂歌痛饮,来访雁邱处。
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Dark Jack
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(I think this is confusing enough as it is without everyone having to edit what they already wrote. We will just take it from here and pretend that everyone know where... or rather, who they are.)

"Wha-" before Mikhael could even recover from the shock of suddenly being someone else, some Asian girl he did not recall to have seen before suddenly rushed over to him and hugged him, or perhaps she meant to hug the person who used to be in this body? Mikhael felt his head spinning - was it even his head anymore? What the heck was going on? - but when he realized what the Chinese girl said, it occured to Mikhael that he was not the only one in this situation. It seemed that while Mikhael was the gay kid, the gay kid was this girl, so that meant... wait... if the gay kid was a girl, was he then still gay?
"Get off me!" Mikhael tried to grunt and push the - gay kid? Chinese girl? - away, but his voice sounded much more high pitched and not as gruff as his beloved Russian throat could make it sound, as well as this boy's body was far weaker than Mikhael's own body... it was only then Mikhael realized that if he was here, and the gay kid was in the Chinese girl... then who was Mikhael?
"Hey, get off me!" Mikhael told the gay kid again, and it was only then that he realized that the strange hysterical laugher he had heard when the flash appeared... and when Mikhael suddenly found himself in this feeble, pathetic American body, had silenced. It was not before Winona - with a German accent? - asked how to "get out of this" that the voice resounded again.

"Oooh, I know, I know!" the high-pitched male voice announced cheerfully from within the black orb with the yellow glow that the American tourist had grabbed and thus caused all of this chaos, "But then again, of course I know. I did it, after all. Isn't it just SO much fun? I haven't enjoyed myself like this for AGES ! But there haven't really been anyone to have fun with here for a very long time... I think I will have a WHOLE LOT of fun with you guys!" The voice burst out laughing just as insanely as before. "But I guess I forgot my manners over the centuries I've spent all alone. As most of you already guessed, I'm Loki - and you are going to be my new playmates for a while. Until you help free me so I can have lots of fun." The last sentence was spoken in a different, dire tone that suggested something ominous. And in his mind, Mikhael cursed in Russian... he figured he owed Winona an apology... there was not much doubt that this was really Valhalla.
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Teslyn
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"Hey, is that possible?" Austin-in-Keira asked, impressed and intrigued at the same time as he finally stepped away from himself (Ha, he was actually stronger than he'd though. Who would've known. The Russian, of course.) "Curse in Russian even though I don't speak Russian? Ooohhh. That's so awesome!"

That's so awesome is what he said, but inwardly he had a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. They were trapped by Loki, the shape-shifting god, and if he was going to be honest-- playing with Loki and then setting him free was not on his list of things to-do. Especially when the god said it with such a malicious undertone in his voice -- "Holy shit. This actually is Valhalla..."

He didn't want to be the first to say it - or the only to agree - but if they were going to think of the greater good - if they were going to think of every poor unsuspecting soul in the world -- then they would probably want to sacrifice themselves to keep Loki sealed... Oh, screw it. Austin just wanted out now, in his own body preferably (though he wasn't as upset about being in some Asian girl as others were upset with their new bodies), and if the world got screwed over by Loki- well, he just hoped he wasn't there.
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Oracle
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Winona, listened attentively to Loki. While the others were concerned over their bodies, her thoughts dismissed such trivialities in the light of what was happening. She, in her rather strong body, shuffled the now rather weak Mikhael to the side, away from the others. "Mikhael," she spoke, still trying to get used to the deep rumble of her tenor pitch, in a hushed tone to avoid sparking everyone off. "I am not going to gloat, it would be petty, but if this is Loki..." she chuckled, again the annoying deep rumble that replaced her usual light ringing laughter, "...actually there is no doubt that this is Loki. According to legend if we release him it will trigger Ragnarok. My question is, we already know it has been prophesied. It will come to pass whether we are here or not. It may be that Loki can torture us here indefinitely until we relent. Perhaps the earth is full of enough evil, and this is merely the proper time and place for all things?"

She paused for a brief period a look of intense thought on her face. " This may not even be Loki's doing, but may be in the hands of the three Fates, Urd and her sisters. They may have set these actions and the discovery of Valhalla into motion years ago. We might be here as their puppets. I have to act on my beliefs, and they tell me I am here for a purpose, that being to help Loki. Perhaps my animal spirit is no coincident either, Loki's son Fenrir is the wolf from whose mouth flowed the River of Hope. You can try to stop me" she looked down at her formidable body, "but it is my intention to help Loki unless we find things passing that are not according to prophecy."

She turned back to the stone she had replaced on the alter. "Nodding Logan's head she approached the throne where Loki sat entrapped, but stayed slightly below the stone out of respect. "I am certain you already know who we are, but I will address you anyway out of courtesy. I am Winona of the Lakota, in ancient times, before you were trapped, you visited my people far on the other side of the earth. We honored you as Loki the Coyote Trickster. It has been long since any of the gods have shown themselves to the people. Many have forgotten the old ways, but I have not. I will not turn my back on you, who brought wisdom to us. To laugh at one's self, is the greatest of knowledge - bringing inner peace and accepting Fate. Your son Fenrir's spirit has watched over me, guided me in the wilderness. Nor will I forsake him who through pain has brought us hope. How may I help you Loki? Your prison and torture must have be unbearable. The others here may squabble and rampage at your trickery. Me? I am honored to play a part in the prophecy of the world." She smiled a toothy grin at him, "By the way thank you for the strong body I might better protect you with." Her hand touched her chest a she inclined Logan's head.

I Role Play because the people in my head tell me to.


TUESDAY AFTERNOON

It is God who can transform the lowest into the highest, who humbles the proud,
and causes that which is in darkness to become light.~Horace

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Spluttering with anger and regret at the tourist American's - or rather, Winona, as he guessed was the one speaking through that body, since no one else would even have thought of mentioning something as incredible as wolf spirits and such nonsense. Mikhael felt opposed to the very thought of helping someone who had seperated him from his mighty fine body, and the fact that freeing Loki would mean the end of the world only made things worse. Had Mikhael been in his own body, he would not have hesitated to throw himself at - Winona? - to wrestle with her in a battle to stop her from betraying mankind. Mikhael did not really give a shit about mankind, though, but if mankind came to an end, he would as well! And Mother Russia! If he tried to fight Winona's new, powerful body with this little, frail gay kid's body, however, Mikhael feared that Winona would just outright kill him.

"Well, claiming that I am showing myself to you is saying a bit much, wouldn't you agree?" Loki's voice giggled from within the orb, "And if you think it is that easy, you're sadly mistaken. Fenrir? Yes, my son is chained, and has been for even longer than I am. And my dear Jörmungandr remains trapped in the ocean... he must be so long by now, he must reach around this pitiful world several times. And Hel, my dear daughter... They will all be free. But first I need to be free. And I regret to inform you that, while it would have been much more handy, I am in fact not inside this orb. This is merely a device through which I can communicate with the outside world. No, I am tied up in a cave, in a country to the south, bound with the entrails of my own son... but that's okay. I've been here for ages, and now you will free me."
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After trying to tell herself in her mind repeatedly that such things were simply psychically impossible and therefore could by no means happen- of course, that changed nothing at all which rendered the full action rather pointless. Former Helin was not even sure why she was trying to persuade herself in something which was quite obviously no longer true. She was still trapped in a body that was not hers, or even even similar to the one she had been used to... All she now could do was to hope that this really was only something temporal, as living the rest of her life like that was something that was still beyond her imagination.

She only partially noticed that the others were all either as confused and/or annoyed or already trying to think of a way which would return things to what they had been before. Speaking of who the others had became... There was one who she had no doubt in who was, and that was the one whose body she had involuntarily occupied, as he had been the first one to announce that he was no longer what he had been before. Well, as 'someone'- it was/had been Winona in case she got it right- pointed out that one should rather be concerned about who was in their body than who they are, then she could have easily assured the one who now was Mikhael that she was indeed not the 'gay kid'. Well, she was (or at least had been) simply a woman. In a man's body... A man's she didn't exactly like, also.
Trying hard not to wonder what it made her (him?), she shook 'her' head slightly trying to think clearly. That Mikhael might think alcohol helps him to concentrate but it certainly didn't work that way on her mind. Some part of her mind seemed to be confident that she will get a massive headache aferwards.

Damn him... Damn Russians... They never have any order anywhere, everyone might do what they want and nobody is held responsible if something goes wrong. When he had had some actual control over what the others were doing none of this would have happened. (One can always find a way to blame those one wants, after all.) The thought that even when it had not happened now, it would have happened later didn't simply occur to her at the spot.

Eyeing the one who she had been she wondered who she now was- possibly the British- Jason?. Not the very worst possible. HER body could have been Austin's or... The 'gay kid' was quite obviously the one who tried to hug himself, or rather Mikhael. She didn't recognize whose body he now had though, as she hadn't noticed the woman who he now was before... Now, where did SHE come from? Or the 'man' standing over there? This was all too confusing and unnatural to make any sense. She was not which name to call everyone, her gender did no longer fit together with what her body was, and several other things were not right at all...

"See ei ole võimalik..." She echoed her previous thoughts before she relatively clumsily tried to walk closer to where the others were, somehow managing to knock over a chair on her way. After all she was far more used to being light, slender and quick (but not weak), rather than heavy, large and muscled. In general she didn't have many ideas what to do in this body... Many actions which would have seemed completely natural in her old one were now not that.

It was then when the odd voice she first thought as a hallucination of sorts spoke again, announcing that it did knew how to reverse the thing which has happened having first caused it. Helin could say she didn't find it so funny at all. Maybe she would if it had been in a book or so, but in real life... No. Just no.
In case her rather shattered mind got it right then it would maybe set things back as they were before... She at least hoped it had been what it had said, but she still was far from being sure what she should do... Or what was going on. An ability to think straight again would do some good in a situation like that.
"Could you... Just... Please... Tell us what we are supposed to do to get our own bodies back?" She asked the orb, as there were no other visible things which could have been related to the trick-playing old god... She was at least quite sure this god could at least understand English, that being the language it first spoke in. At least they could use the language they actually could speak, not some kind of ancient long-forgotten dialect.

Even before she could ask her question out loud the one who now was Winona had spoken to the orb- who said he was actually not the orb but instead he was somewhere else. Do they have to go there, to free him? Or will they free him? There were many other familiar names mentioned, all of which she had thought as myths... And Winona's spirit animal was really a wolf.
Either way she had a bad feeling that she will have to stay in this body for much longer time than she would like to. She had never asked to be someone else... And now she was. Now, did Loki really think that messing them up would make them more prone to help him? Maybe, given that most of them wanted to again be what they were, but... She doubted many of them will very happy while doing so. IF they do anything at all. The end of the world- though it might be the beginning of a new- didn't sound too appealing.
"So we could actually decide whether it is worth the consequences or not." She added to her previous question.
Edited by Shienvien, Apr 2 2009, 03:08 PM.
A thought can create a world, but only a word written down can ensure its existence.

-When I am physically capable of doing something it doesn't mean I can do it. When I can, it doesn't mean that I should. When I should, it doesn't mean that I must. When I must, it doesn't mean that I will.
-I might not always know where I currently am, but I am never lost. I know in which direction my destination lies.
-There is no faith in knowing. I prefer to know, as only in this way can I be certain in my decisions.
-The more people you ask a question the higher the chance that at least one of them is right.
-Make me walk on walls, don't force me to dance according to others' will.
-I agree that life can be depressing at times. I just choose to ignore it.
-I don't figure over possibilities. I want, I can, I do.


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As the stupid bitch in his body went up and started to bargain with the trickster who had put her there in the first place Logan actually considered shooting himself. He had the gun, and putting his own body out of commission could very well kill that stupid Indian for good. Yet when he took aim and tried to do something he found that he was unable to pull the trigger, it would have been the same if he'd been pressing it to his own head he was sure. He just simply couldn't take his own life, or the life of his body it wasn't in him. With disgusted he lowered the weapon and simply held it tightly in his fist. He had really fucked up this time, whatever the hell had happened was probably his fault. It was only a minor comfort that someone else had been about to pick up the damn stone moments before and he'd just simply been closer and a bit quicker.

Watching the processions he realized that somehow they were going to be forced to bring Ragnarok down upon the world, and that the crazy Indian was going to be Loki's enforcer, using his body to enforce things. His only question than was who the hell's body was he in, and who's body was that person in. Despite the fact that he'd learned some trick shooting for no apparent reason back in high school, it was probably better for the actual owner of the gun to have it. Yet Logan wasn't just going to hand it to the first person that asked for it.
"I mourn that which may have been but will never be."

"Stupidity is a wound that bleeds forever; Intelligence is a blade that stays forever sharp"

"An armed man will kill and unarmed man with monotonous regularity"

"Nothing adds a little class to a sniper course like a babe in a Ghillie suit."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, 'cause it's going to be empty."
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