Madripoor (CVnU Location)

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#701  Edited By Feral Nova  Moderator

@Quintus_Knightfall: @Ziccarra_Liafador: (OMG CAN I BABYSIT!? xD I promise not to kill the little brats- I mean... precious little gift's from God :D)

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#702  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Feral Nova said:

@Quintus_Knightfall: @Ziccarra_Liafador: (OMG CAN I BABYSIT!? xD I promise not to kill the little brats- I mean... precious little gift's from God :D)

hahahah of course you can :D

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#703  Edited By Mercy_

Ellie's gonna be the best aunt :D

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#704  Edited By Fukuro_Zoku

I know one thing. The price on its head better be at least as much as the parents combined.

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#705  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@_Strigidae_: I'll destroy anyone who tries to collect it

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#706  Edited By Feral Nova  Moderator

@Quintus_Knightfall said:

@Feral Nova said:

@Quintus_Knightfall: @Ziccarra_Liafador: (OMG CAN I BABYSIT!? xD I promise not to kill the little brats- I mean... precious little gift's from God :D)

hahahah of course you can :D

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@Quintus_Knightfall said:

@_Strigidae_: I'll destroy anyone who tries to collect it

You already failed at that once ;)

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#708  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Kincaid_Knightfall: Impossible. I have no children :)

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@Quintus_Knightfall: Anymore >:D

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#710  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Kincaid_Knightfall: Never did lol had some siblings.....one I tossed out a window. Next time I'll pick a higher window :P

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#711  Edited By shanana

@Quintus_Knightfall: You know when I said, we'll pick this up when I wake up; that means you have to post hahaha

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#712  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Ziccarra_Liafador: LOL I like knowing you're around before I respond :P

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#713  Edited By shanana

@Quintus_Knightfall said:

@Ziccarra_Liafador: LOL I like knowing you're around before I respond :P

LIKE YOU don't know when I'm not around lol

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#714  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Ziccarra_Liafador said:

@Quintus_Knightfall said:

@Ziccarra_Liafador: LOL I like knowing you're around before I respond :P

LIKE YOU don't know when I'm not around lol

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#715  Edited By shanana

@Quintus_Knightfall:

Keeping my attention for this long is rare, you've always been a catch lol

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#716  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Ziccarra_Liafador:

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#717  Edited By Mercy_

The only thing that makes that show bearable.

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#718  Edited By shanana

@Mercy_: Scott really? lol

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Because people come to Malaga to see you right? lol

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#719  Edited By Mercy_

@Ziccarra_Liafador: Him and Khloe. He's fricking hilarious

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#720  Edited By shanana

@Mercy_: He is really putting on an act lol

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#721  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Ziccarra_Liafador said:

Because people come to Malaga to see you right? lol

Damn straight!'

:P

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#722  Edited By shanana

@Quintus_Knightfall: LOL

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#723  Edited By Urban_Ronin

@Ziccarra_Liafador: I'll get a response up shortly.

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I am gonna think of a way for ogar to get here probably.

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Hives of scum and villainy. Gothic and Madripoor. But aside from that simple fact they couldn't be more different. Gothic was a wasteland of slums and urban warfare. Madripoor was a shining beacon of glass and steel. Gothic was in the news every day. Madripoor was forgotten.

But when it came to scum and villainy they were just alike. Gothic was dominated by the Mafia, by gangs and by the supervillain of the month. Madripoor was dominated by the Yakuza, the local gangs they kept under their thumbs and whatever supervillain managed to pay their 'protection' fees.

One of those villains set across the table from Ivana now. Dr. Squid, they called him, on account of the four metal arms he wore strapped to his back. And the fact he was a doctor. A real doctor, one of the few in the super villain community.

Dr. Squid could patch you up after the police opened fire during your bank robbery, or help you install the latest stolen biotech. Or uninstall, if things went wrong. Needless to say, his services were in high demand; you couldn't just walk into the hospital when you were wanted by fifteen nations and the U.N..

"<So we have a deal then?>"He said in Mandarin.

Everyone looked at Ivana. From the Yakuza boss to both of Dr. Squid's henchmen to her own Orochi escort (who had arraigned the meeting in the first place through their contacts in the Yakuza).

She smiled. "<Yes. Yes we do.>" And she slid a small canister of vibranium, about the size of her fist, across the tempered glass surface of the Beijing-style conference room.

He smiled like a shark and the Shogun's enhanced hearing could hear tiny servos whir as one of his metal arms plucked the case from the table with machine precision.

"<Excellent.>"

Ivana didn't wait for his reply or demand a guarantee he would keep his end of the bargain. If he reneged she would behead him. She rose and swept from the room, red cape trailing behind her.

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:-O

I was just thinking about this place last week!

Ivana didn't wait for his reply or demand a guarantee he would keep his end of the bargain. If he reneged she would behead him. She rose and swept from the room, red cape trailing behind her.

That was really cool.

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@arquitenens: Its funny how things like that work hehe.

And thank you :-)

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@the_shogun: The best threats are implied. The imagination can do wonderful things.

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Tyrus chose to arrive before Ivana. Since Ivana had chosen to bring no one so too did Tyrus. She wore all her usual equipment as she walked down the ramp of her Ravjet and entered the building they were to meet in. Her eyes flicked around the building, taking in all the possible entrances and exists and the different ways the building might be brought down ontop of itself. A thousand scenarios had played out in her head before she walked from the landing pad to the meeting room. She had the room cleared of all furniture, she didn't expect a fight but she wanted Ivana to know that she was prepared for one if it were to happen.

Tyrus did allow one piece of furniture, a small table that two of her Agents brought in and setup in the center of the room. The table was an elaborate ancient Japanese GO table carved by hand from the finest woods. It had belonged to one of the Japanese Shoguns until it was eventually taken home by an American soldier in World War Two. From there the table traveled around to various private collections until Tyrus purchased it herself. GO was something of a hobby of hers and she collected tables and exotic GO stones. This one she intended as a gift. The two Agents set the table down and then handed her the bowls for the stones. She carefully set up each bowl, one a few inches closer to the direction Ivana would approach from. She smiled a little at her work and observed the table for a few moments in silence while she waited.

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(It's hard to find GO table images, lol. Ignore the bowls on the table, the bowls Ivana is receiving are the two above this image.)

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Wind and rain swept the Madripoor glass skyscraper. The scent of eastern sea-wind blew away the dingy smog. Lightning cracked. Ivana appeared. Kneeling on one knee, with one fist pressed to the ground as was her custom when teleporting long distances. The 'bamf' of displaced air was drowned by the rumble of thunder. A sheet of rain bounced from her armor like machinegun fire and her red cape cracked in the wind.

A couple of minutes later Ivana tossed open the door to the meeting room and entered. Water dripped from her cape and left bootprints of her specially designed treads. She removed her helm. Grinned. "Tyrus. I smell other human. Hiding, or leave already?"

The flick of a wrist sent the chair on her side of the GO table tumbling away and she grabbed a couch and yanked it into place instead. Then plopped down, armor dripping water onto the black leather.

"Ah. Go. Some Orochi play."

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"They left, they carried this table in here." Tyrus said with a nod. "Go is a hobby of mine, I actually collect stones and tables like this one. Given the difficulty between us I thought it wise to offer you a gift, this table and its stones are yours now. Do you ever play? You mention some of your Orochi do." Tyrus took a seat on her side of the table, she had no intention of playing it unless Ivana wanted to but it offered a place to sit. "This table once belonged to one of ancient Japan's Shoguns. It's traveled from one private collection to another since World War Two."

Tyrus leaned back in her seat a little. "it's interesting that you consider me human...most people who know anything about me don't on account of my DNA. I can't honestly say I remember anything about my life before the genetic alteration." She shrugged a little and removed a white rook chess piece from a pocket, turning it over in her fingers and studying it quietly. "The Time Siphon threat is real, it may be the greatest threat this planet has faced since the Cataclysm. I want to form a coalition of powers...and of people. STRIKE can't be closed off and isolated like it was in the past, people question it when they don't know what it's doing and I don't think STRIKE alone can win this thing."

She shifted her gaze to meet Ivana's. "If we fail, everyone on this planet, human and mutant alike, will be reduced to cattle. Unique personalities like yours will be extinguished and the people you rule over will see their lives shattered and their families torn apart. Everything you stand for, mutant independence, survival of the fittest, all will be subverted by a race of parasites."

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"No. My father, he play chess. Go not common in Russia. Chess popular with revolutionary. We play chess. Read Plato. Aristotle." Ivana grinned. "No one believe this now, but.. it good education. Good foundation as child, give-" A finger tapped against the side of her tattooed skull. "-foundation for adult. Give perspective. Way to.. frame things in life."

"Go, Art of War, these things.. eastern. Father, he come from western tradition. Marx and Clausewitz. German rationalism. Enlightenment. Greek philosophy. Roman law. These his foundation. He pass on to me."

"I thank you for gift. But Time Siphon threat, I not believe it as big as you say. We hear this often. Big space army. Destroy everything. Time Siphon not first, nor last. But.. it never happen. It take much to convince super heroes of world that threat real this time."

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Tyrus nodded. "Marx never much interested me but I have several copies of Clauswitz in my personal library. I play Chess as well though not as often, there's something about the long game of Go that interests me more." Interesting. That explains much of her way of thinking. These conversations can be very useful...for both of us.

"I knew you'd say that." She said of the last. "I agree with you, it will take much to convince everyone and I don't expect you to take me at my word." Tyrus paused for a moment, considering her approach carefully. "You see the fleet, you wonder if I made it up, you hear the threat, you wonder if it's exaggerated, all of this makes perfect sense. So the question is, how do I convince you? I think I have that answer but it will take me some time to get it together. I don't want a one hundred percent commitment from you, I want something else instead."

Tyrus removed a flash drive from her pocket and set it on the table. "This contains a series of communication channels that we have setup specifically for the moment of the invasion, I am giving it to the people I want to help us when the time comes because I'm convinced the normal lines of communications will be shut down. What I would like from you is your willingness to keep an open mind that this is real, to keep what I have said in mind and to be prepared when it happens. When it does begin, I will want to contact you...we will need your skill. Without the Time Siphons leading them their armies will be a greatly reduced threat and I think you're capable of killing them."

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"Marx. Clauswitz. Both from same school. Both, reductionist. Both take complex thing, identify important element, reduce all to function of most important element. They cut signal out of noise. Making thinking.. more simple."

"I like chess. But I not play much go. If I do, maybe I like it more. Who know. But chess, it asymmetrical. That is how you say, yes? Pieces have different value. Some strong. Some weak. Some have special thing that only happen in first move. One piece center of everything; if king lost, battle lost. It much like this in world. If I lost, Shogunate fall. If you lost, STRIKE fall. I keep this in mind always. Many foe, much army, it no matter; beat right one at right time, win everything."

"I take your communication channel. When time come, we talk again. But, I think problem.. avoidable. Fleet want Time Siphon. Fleet stronger than Siphon, or it not come. Then, Time Siphon easier to beat. So. Beat Siphon, give to fleet, problem solve."

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Tyrus listened quietly and nodded. "You're right of course, many times you can win by, as they say, cutting the head off the snake. That's part of my plan approaching the Time Siphon army, their armies are largely slaves and mercenaries and would scatter like leaves before the wind without their big bosses around." She considered the other part of The Shogun's words and smirked a little.

"I've considered handing them Raeyn as well, though it would be something I can't do personally seeing as how she is technically a member of STRIKE. Unfortunately no one knows where she is...and I'm not so sure the fleet is coming for her because they are stronger, I think they're coming for her because they're afraid." She considered the best way to phrase it and paused a moment. "Sort of like...if I were afraid of you, I would bring an army as backup. I think the Time Siphons are bringing a fleet as backup. I think they want us to view it as you have just said, hand her over to them...do their job for them essentially."

Tyrus considered her for a moment. "I have people looking for Raeyn but I don't want that to be our only option."

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Ivana lifted a shoulder. "If this is so then captains of Siphon fleet are most vulnerable point and should become target. But. Make contact with Bold. Form strategy council. Get all opinion, weigh all option. Better decision, and less risk big power will sit out conflict because they feel plan is bad."

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Yeah...Bold. Oh boy. He's such a bundle of trust I don't know if I can handle it all at once. "As much as I'd rather not speak to Bold, you're not wrong." Tyrus admitted. "A war council it is. I prefer keeping strategic decision making to a limited number of minds, the council should remain small lest it become as effective as Congress." Tyrus mused. "Are there any people you don't want on the council?" She asked. Might as well start asking that question now or we'll wind up with fights in the room. "I want to avoid any unnecessary conflicts, we should limit the council to people who generally get along or can at least be in the same room."

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"No name in particular. But no one without both significant resource and strategic good-thinking." Ivana drummed her fingertips on her helm, lost in thought for a moment. "Is good question. Propose question again to Bold. See what he think."

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Madripoor.

What a cesspit.

Kaede Onaga permitted herself this one brief moment of contemplation as she regarded the view the balcony of the mid-range luxury hotel provided. Behind her, the body of her latest target cooled, his body left in a grotesque pose by the toxin that had swiftly but painfully ended his life. His death would open up a minor power vacuum in the international crime syndicate to which he belonged, a situation that would be exploited by another of the Demon of Silence's many servants, but Kaede neither knew this nor cared to speculate. Her master had given a command, and she had obeyed, unquestioningly and with lethal effectiveness.

She listened a moment, until she was assured that the bodyguards stationed outside the room's door had heard nothing, a pillow having stifled the final, tormented gasps of her mark. Removing her stiletto heels and securing them to the belt that encircled her waist, she leapt upwards and grasped the floor of the balcony immediately above the one on which she stood, and with a pantherish twist, pulled herself upwards and over the railing, a feat made all the more impressive by the impracticality of the revealing dress she wore. The room the balcony connected to was dark; it had been reserved for later this evening under a false name, ensuring its vacancy.

She pulled an object from a hidden pouch on her belt as she silently padded up to the window, an object that appeared to be nothing more than an ornate finger claw, such as might be sold in any jewelry store catering to the goth crowd. Unlike those tacky pieces, however, this claw was sharp and strong enough to quickly and quietly cut a circular opening in the glass, enough for Kaede to insert one strong but slender wrist and unclasp the latch. Slipping into the darkened interior of the room, she took just enough time to return her uncomfortable shoes to her feet and adjust her hair before stepping out into the hallway.

The elevator took her to the first floor, and she strode through the lobby, appearing not at all out of place among the establishment's clientele and employees. She made a point of being observed by several bystanders as she climbed into a waiting cab, which drove her around the corner before dropping her off in a dim alley behind the hotel. Retrieving a small satchel from beneath a rank dumpster, she quickly changed into the jeans, tee shirt, and sneakers within, and tossed her more ostentatious clothing into the refuse receptacle's waiting maw.

Emerging from the alley's opposite end, she blended into the crowd and vanished into the night.

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I see someone has mentioned me :P

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#742  Edited By Tyrus_

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"No name in particular. But no one without both significant resource and strategic good-thinking." Ivana drummed her fingertips on her helm, lost in thought for a moment. "Is good question. Propose question again to Bold. See what he think."

Tyrus nodded. "Then I think our business is concluded here, at least for the time being." She put the chess piece down that she'd been fiddling with and rolled it across the table. "Shame we never got to see how our game would have played out. Perhaps another time." She smiled a little.

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#744  Edited By Musa_Bashir

A tutored deacon of observable cultural diversity, the self-anointed Royal Jaguar, accompanied by the teenage techno titan; Sequiter Crix, had adorned himself in a ceremonial kimono while in attendance of a tradition seat-down in Madripoor's Hightown district. Privileged, arrogant in their aristocracy and unyielding ways centered around the purification of pure-blooded affluence, the 1% of the 1% of Madripoor were the overlords of the island's 'Black-Gate.' Any and everything could and had, been smuggled through the island.

Cordially seated around an elongated table of elegant refinement, the interested parties sat across from one another, each with an acting intermediary. But as the proceedings began, Musa visibly struggled for a moment to hold back a cough, but failed. Quickly reaching into his garb for a pure silken handkerchief and pressing it to his mouth. Pulling it back to reveal a spot of blood before slipping it back beneath his cloths. Sequiter, without notification, immediately handed Musa a red-inhaler. One puff and his passed it back.

Of course the sudden outburst would be looked upon with dishonor. As if they needed the excuse to look down on their guests. "80 mcg's of Budesonide. Keeps dee passages from closing." Patting his palm against his chest with light rhythmic pulsation. "Dee lungs have been...chemically scarred. Damaged, beyond repair...dee aerosol inhalator keeps dee air flowing."He spoke with unapologetic reverence while silently recalling the confrontation which had left him forever changed.

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Bringing a briefcase up from underneath the table, Musa antagonistically slid it across towards the head chair. "Now, if you dont mind?" His teeth baring smile grew as an object was slid back in return. He glanced anxiously at his companion who had already retrieved the item. Loading it into her portable docking bay situated in front of her, before they both stood up with muted yet energetic displays of approval. "We are gettin closah Lost One. Much closah....."

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Aww, what poor timing.

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A wretched hive of scum and villainy.
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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#747  Edited By Hawkshade
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Madripoor was not a city for vigilantes; there was no point in arresting a criminal who would be released after he identified himself as a member of the Yakuza, who controlled the police not to mention every political party and most of the businesses.

It wasn't Gothic. Hawkshade wasn't welcome here.

But Richard Dmitriev, controversial Gothic city billionaire was another story. The Yakuza did their due diligence of course but it was hard to verify a Gothic city identity because so many records had been destroyed.

Another rich kid looking for entertainment he couldn't get in the States. Well the Yakuza would be happy to indulge his every whim.. for a price.

He played the dumb american with money burning a hole in his pocket. It's what they wanted to see, so it's what they saw.

And remembered everything he saw; filing it all away and then returning to his hotel at night to lay in bed and pretend to sleep, mentally sorting the face of Yakuza bosses he glimpsed through limo windows and fragments of conversations he overheard.

It was another piece in the puzzle of crime. In the heart of a criminal empire the Yakuza felt safe and Richard learned everything he could about their operation.

He knew he would need to understand the criminal world if he were to stop Musa Bashir, whose advanced technology and criminal activities implied deep connections in the underworld. Hawkshade would need to sever those roots in order to stop the homicidal Prince of Orphans.

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Ahh, Madripoor...was thinkin' o' takin' a vacation here. Get a little change o' blood-soaked scenery...

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#750  Edited By Grimmwald
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He didn't like suits. They were uncomfortable. Stiff. Clothes that weren't good for movement, even less so for fighting. But he wore one anyway. Just as he wore the copied face of mafioso he'd terrorized in New York. Eyes and hair brown, face chiseled, and shades round and red, Grimmwald straightened his tie and walked into the Emperor's Palace Casino. Chandeliers glimmered like stars, the scent of cigar smoke hung in the air, and the jazzy piano of Iwamizu's 俗世/Zokuse floated to every ear. It was here that the mafioso'd told him he'd learn more about Amin Karrit, the man rumored to have been involved in the attack on Grimm City.

The Yakuza know him well, the mafioso had sworn to him that they did. So here Grimmwald was, in a place where a Yakuza's word was law. Joining a poker game, the Horned Saint sank into his chair as his glasses caught the glow of the casino's bright lights. While men and women tried their luck with the slot machines, Grimmwald'd play the gangsters and goons at his table like fools. He'd win. Again and again till he'd amassed a reputation and attracted attention. Then he would learn more about Madripoor's shady underbelly, and more about Amin Karrit.

It's only a matter of time.