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Nedben's Roleplay/Writer's Cafe; A roleplay thread and writer's mall, except it used to have guests. And it's in the intro forum.
Topic Started: Mar 9 2012, 03:46 AM (14,199 Views)
DarkWingedDaemon
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"Mmm... Food!" *Looks at them like a starving wolf.* "Just kidding! What kind of parts do you want?" *Manufactures (Insert parts here) and, helps them equip the parts.*
 
nedben
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DWD equips new navy members HOPE and WILL.
 
DarkWingedDaemon
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Now look for the thing the voice was talking about.
 
nedben
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Secondary Story
 
Spirit and her immortal companions ascended the mountain, and came to the plaza of light, where Spirit summoned the Oracle. "Little one, you have far to go. The first step in your journey of a thousand miles and more is to go to the Tower Of Shellcores and defeat in combat the Infected Leader, Infect. Be warned, his stupidity is deadly!" And so, Spirit and her companions went towards the Tower Of Shellcores.


System is now better.

The newborns leave your drone bays and fly over to a big rock. The voice in your head whispers "Follow them.The newborns will handle the door."

The newborns are being scanned by a door at the edge of your vision, which opens. Inside is a large relical crystal fragment. A single ethernet cable projects from it. The newborns stare simultaneously at you, waiting for you to use it. The voice whispers "USE IT ALREADY!!!" in the loudest possible thing that could qualify as a whisper.
Edited by nedben, Mar 17 2012, 11:34 PM.
 
DarkWingedDaemon
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Use the relical fragment.
 
nedben
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DWD plugs the relical crystal into his core via ethernet cable. The only thing on it is a small data-file. The relical crystal is too weak to continue for long in its state, and since you gave it an escape, and in a desperate struggle for survival dissolves into your core. The relical crystal seems to have little mind of itself, like a drone. If you collect the various relical bits scattered around the universe, you'll probably get another whispering mind inside you. The data-file itself is a small video.
Code: DATA-FILE 001
 
"Help! The singularity is attacking! We've got to evacuate! Take all the crystals you can!" an Elder yells on camera. Apparently this was an announcement. It cuts to a bunch of Corelings fleeing what appears to be a giant black and white hole in reality being sucking into it by white tentacle thingies. The Core's energy extraction shell opens, and the Core fires a giant beam of pure blue fire and energy in a giant beam blast at the Singularity. The hole seems pushed back, but only momentarily. The Core fires again, becoming desperate. It launches its own streamers of plasma, and rends dead metal and ground into deadly slicing projectiles powered by energy, disintegrating them into bullet blasts which shove the Singularity back. The two celestial bodies battle, the Core fueled by the matter left behind, the Singularity taking the thousands of shellcores fleeing the ruins of Coreling Capitol Platforms. In desperation, the Elders commit blatant suicide, turning into pure energy, sacrificing their lives to save as many as their people as they can, becoming a giant wall of pure light, a halo surrounding the core, which fires as a giant beam as the Core, half the city, most of the crystal farms, and a lot of the detritus generated by the battle, into a gigantic beam which the force of which launches the Core like a giant bullet, smashing into the Singularity like a deadly bomb, shattering the Relical, spawners, structures, land, fleeing shellcores, all of it being absorbed as the Singularity is pushed back by a wall of light, holding back the darkness with blue light, and so. The entire battle is witnessed by the relical shard, being thrown into this ruin as the light fades, the Singularity shoved back so many megasectors you can't even see it anymore. The Corelings are in ruin. A few survivors can be seen fleeing into coming shellcore transports from the other nations, who weren't able to get there before, as the door closes.


The relical fragments inside your Coreite form a dish shape, and broadcast something you can't quite tell. A few other feelings like this come in several different directions. The dish uniforms. The whisper of the Singularity minion reappears as you surface from the memory. "Now do you know why those transports couldn't come earlier? They were afraid. I needed to feed, and were seen coming a long time ago. Stupid Corelings could have survived if only they'd abandoned their sacred Core. Bah! To us it was merely a food source. Why do what they did?".

The newborns are sitting on your core. How the hell did they get there?!
Edited by DarkWingedDaemon, Mar 18 2012, 12:21 AM.
 
DarkWingedDaemon
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Search around for more relical fragments and, other coreling artifacts before returning to the archives. When I get there upload the data-file and search for rumors of relical fragments.
 
nedben
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Most of my seeming grammar subject-verb-adjective-relation agreement errors above were intentional. Most of them. Although I think you should have used your colors, I'm not so sure I made that error with uniforms and I'd like assurance next time you edit.

The newborns flee into a docking bay as you begin to move.

You collect a few relical fragments, some little more than dust. The memories they contain are hard to read, but the dish of fragments that forms whenever you grab a new fragment is getting stronger, and when it projects it says "I'm still here. Is the rest of me?" more clearly. The response is collectively "Yes, I am. Help me!" now.
Most of the coreling artifacts were looted by your neighbor last time the city deployed near here, but whatever. You find a really cool looking book by... Your neighbor? His name is Elder Candrin. The book is a coreling multipurpose complete curriculum textbook for newborns. You return to the city. You upload the video file into the city archives, but you keep the relical bit itself as the city relical is a completely different relical. The city relical extends another ethernet cable with a special adaptor on the tip. The relical shards in your core unite and project an ethernet cable into the adaptor, and you feel a mysterious file labeled "Genesis Programs; Coreling Secrets" being downloaded, but it's inside an annoying section which because it's system files and you can't get in there without overloading your core to commit suicide while performing the non-Coreling version of the Coreling Final Strike (what the majority of the Elders were doing when those Elders, but not all of them, turned into a giant death ray), you can't read it. It's even heavily encrypted to top it all off.

Elder Candrin, who happens to be the Relical attendant and one of the Elders who was told not to perform the Final Strike and instead to guide the last of his people, comes over, and notices you have his book. "My history document! You found it!" he yells gleefully. He'll give you his relical shard he salvaged last scavenging trip if you give him the book.
Edited by nedben, Mar 18 2012, 01:52 AM.
 
DarkWingedDaemon
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"Hm... Deal!" *Pokemon style trade sequence.* "Now, would you mind giving these two some lessons while I search for information pertaining to the location of the missing fragments?" *Unloads the newborns.*
 
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Tablet's being aggravating again. :(

You do all that. The shard is about Relicals and minidrone grenades. You can now form the relical-searching dish at will. A small relical shard in a box is a few megasectors away. Scans reveal nothing dangerous.
 
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