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Author Topic: The Art Of Fugue - Turn 3 - Waitlist open  (Read 2215 times)

Eschar

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The Art Of Fugue - Turn 3 - Waitlist open
« on: July 08, 2017, 06:22:45 pm »

Prelude
"Wake up."
An alarm blares, jolting you up.
You are standing on the edge of what looks like a deserted city. No, it's not that large - looking into the distance, you see it is only as wide as the 13 large buildings in your line of sight. The entire area is enclosed by a wire fence, nearly half as tall as the apartment-building sized structures just mentioned. Certainly not a city. You are wearing sand-colored pants and a sand-colored jacket, for camouflage, you suppose. Also, you notice, a headset with a microphone.
The alarm cuts off, and you hear 13 notes ring quietly. They repeat, growing louder until they are the volume of a human voice.
The buildings are silent and empty.
Why are you here?

I need four players for now. The char sheets must reflect this being set in a normal world.
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« Last Edit: July 27, 2017, 02:09:14 pm by Eschar »
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Coolrune206

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Re: The Art Of Fugue - joining open
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2017, 06:24:46 pm »

Name: Felicia Vanguard
Gender: Female
An ability: I dunno, knife throwing?
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"You are a shameful gaggle of cowards who has made a mockery of the challenge, but you have avoided death. Sit and eat."

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Re: The Art Of Fugue - joining open
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2017, 06:27:19 pm »

Name: Erin Quill
Gender: male
Ability: tinkering
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Glass is, as usual, correct.
Yep, as ever, I bestow upon Glass the expected +1
I'm gonna say we go with whatever Glass's idea is.

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Re: The Art Of Fugue - joining open
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2017, 06:28:56 pm »

Yo.

Name: Santiago Nix
Gender: Male
Ability: Home run swing - the ability to swing a bat, club, any arm length object really hard, borne from Nix's past baseball career.
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - joining open
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2017, 06:44:34 pm »

Name: Alejandro Acuņa.
Gender: Male
Ability: Medical Knowledge.
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - joining open
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2017, 07:10:50 pm »

That was fast.
The four of you also each have a backpack - predictably, sand-colored - containing three bottles of water, four granola bars, and of all things, a pocket dictionary.
The repeating notes stop, and after a few seconds of silence, static begins, fading to become a terse message:
"...contacted. Hello. The four of you are arranged with one person on each side of the group of buildings.
Felicia is on north, Erin on east, Santiago on south, Alejandro on west.
In a few minutes, you will receive instructions. Until then, stay where you are. You can also communicate with us through your headset."
The message cuts out. The sun is low in the sky. Using your position, you each deduce that the time is around 7 a.m.

The notes do not return.
The air is silent. Whoever that voice belonged to is on the other side of your headset.
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - started! Waitlist open
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2017, 07:29:08 pm »

Santiago Nix:

Wait for further instructions. Try and see if I can find a sturdy stick, or a 2x4, or something. Something strong enough for me to swing.
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - started! Waitlist open
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2017, 07:36:42 pm »

Look around for... stuff, I guess, in the building that I'm in.
I'd rather not end up with this being a death-match kind of thing.
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Glass is, as usual, correct.
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I'm gonna say we go with whatever Glass's idea is.

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Re: The Art Of Fugue - started! Waitlist open
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2017, 07:36:58 pm »

It's not.
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - started! Waitlist open
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2017, 07:39:02 pm »

Check the pocket dictionary. While waiting for instructions
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - started! Waitlist open
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2017, 08:07:34 pm »

Read that book. It's out of place.
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - started! Waitlist open
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2017, 08:11:27 pm »

Turn coming soon.
« Last Edit: July 08, 2017, 08:27:31 pm by Eschar »
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« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2017, 05:08:12 pm »

Santiago Nix:

Wait for further instructions. Try and see if I can find a sturdy stick, or a 2x4, or something. Something strong enough for me to swing.
[1] No sticks appear to be forthcoming from the sand.
Look around for... stuff, I guess, in the building that I'm in.
I'd rather not end up with this being a death-match kind of thing.
[1] Like Santiago, Erin finds nothing. Oh, and you are not in a building yet.
Check the pocket dictionary. While waiting for instructions
[3] Alejandro riffles through the pages, stopping, coincidentally, at the word "fugue". He suddenly hears the notes again, though they're not coming from anything he can see...
Read that book. It's out of place.
[3] Felicia only gets down the first page - this is an entire dictionary, after all - before giving up. While reading, she experiences a number of indefinable mental experiences. They immediately fade from memory. Or should I say "flee", it being the translation of Latin "fuge"?

A voice comes clearly through your headset: "We're sending a flare-" before turning to ominous silence.
In a few moments, a bright orange light flares up above the center of the "city" you are in. It burns for half a minute before dying.
The four of you notice several drones surreptitiously flying a few miles up, outside the fence.
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Re: The Art Of Fugue - Turn 2 - Waitlist open
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2017, 05:13:53 pm »

...read the dictionary, though make sure to keep an eye on the drones.
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Glass is, as usual, correct.
Yep, as ever, I bestow upon Glass the expected +1
I'm gonna say we go with whatever Glass's idea is.

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Re: The Art Of Fugue - Turn 2 - Waitlist open
« Reply #14 on: July 24, 2017, 05:37:43 pm »

"So we advance towards the city or what?"

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