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Post by Dashe on Dec 24, 2010 3:41:23 GMT -5
While the members in the Legends 3 building were running around trying to find out what had made the sprinklers go off, their so-called Fearless Leader was nowhere in sight.
Now, on the far end of the city proper was a building that a vast majority of the population didn't even know existed. It was by far the largest and most lavish in the area, but it had been kept under a cloaking device for years and years. Along its perimeter were dozens of small, mechanical units emitting ultrasonic waves that would subconsciously keep normal members from walking into the area and accidentally smacking into the invisible building.
The only way anyone, MMLSer or otherwise, could see the building at all was if the administration implanted them with a Mod Chip. While it sounded sinister, all it really did was block the ultrasonic waves and render the building visible. The administration did its job to ensure that any potential moderators wouldn't require brainwashing to start with--after all, it would only cut into the city budget. They did have an empire to run, after all.
On the top floor of that invisible tower was the administrative office. And it was in that office that the head honcho of the operation, Dashely Troxon, was meticulously doing her hair as her newly-constructed Legends 3 building ran the risk of going up in smoke only months after its initial construction.
It had been three and a half years since the last major threat to her regime had disbanded, and everything was going as smooth as ever. The bad hair days were fewer and farther between, the members were getting more subservient and asking fewer questions, and even the male-to-female ratio was evening out a bit.
She might've heard the fire alarms if Poker Face weren't blasting quite so loudly in there, and she might've seen the smoke if she'd bothered to go out on the balcony and check things out for herself, but even then she probably would've sent some other mod out to take care of it. Nobody interrupted her hair care sessions and got away with it under her watch. There were flyaways to spray into submission and lots of frizz to conquer!
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Post by MegaTuga on Dec 24, 2010 7:09:05 GMT -5
"Jeez... who burnt the pizza this time?"
Asked Tuga, the man with the werid accent. At seeing such blank stares at him, he began to blush "Come on it was just a joke! A joke! But hey seriously what activated the fire system?"
Seeing no replies from anyone he just shrugged. Could be someone raising a Flame war although he never precensied any at least not on this city. Then again he is quite new. Not the newbie here, but quite new to the city's people.
He ran outside of the building and headed to the blocks where someone could go easily to the newly constructed areas. ((AKA "New Topics" button)) TO see if there was movement and if someone ran away after making the prank of the sprinklers.
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Post by Anima on Dec 24, 2010 15:13:55 GMT -5
"Sora!" Skye called out. From somewhere around a corner, little Sora came running up to her.
"Poco!"
"There you are. Where did you run off to?" She asked.
"Poco! Poco-poco, poco!" Sora said, pointing to the upstairs floor. Skye looked up.
"So you followed Mikey to see what was up there?" Sora nodded.
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Post by Loken on Dec 24, 2010 16:44:23 GMT -5
Loken woke up rubbing his head in pain. He realized he was in the same room as before. "No one helped me up? Well, at least I don't have to pay any doctor bills" he gets up and sits on a bench. "I better check my inbox to see if Miss Dashely has written me up yet." To his surprise he didn't have any new messages. He was relieved at first, but then he realized he hadn't seen Dashely, or any other mod since the fire. Something had to be up, he didn't know what it could be but he had to find out, after all he was the worlds greatest detective.
He came around the corner to see Skye and the little reverbot. "well hey little fella, did you like the cookie?" said Loken to the rever. He looked up to Skye and said "have you noticed anything strange about the mods lately? I'm conducterating an investigation about the fire."
((I thought about putting Phil and Roy in the story, but when I was thinking of what they would do I got some inspiration for a new story about them!))
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Post by MegaTuga on Dec 25, 2010 7:42:17 GMT -5
"Huh.... how odd.. no one's ben around lately... except from the area I came from it's flooded with people! "
Tuga thought he was at the wrong way, to better see the fugitive he thought it might run away, but mixing with the crowd seemed a better idea.
So he returned back to the newly-constructed area he left, thinking that the fire is none of his business.
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Post by Dashe on Dec 31, 2010 15:03:40 GMT -5
(( Loken-- You can just call me Dashe. Nobody really calls me Dashely except my fictional mom when she's mad at me. Actually, I think Pitch or Raijin made it up once in iScribble and I thought it sounded like a weapon brand or something. Maybe it's in the official administration records. I'm sure there's administration records stored somewhere.)) Dashe finished doing her hair and turned around, only to find a CokeBot* staring at her. "What, can't some other mod get it?" She snapped. "I'm busy!" An overhead view of the Legends Station's complex flickered on, and Dashe could see very plainly that the mods were all running around elsewhere. "Why does it feel like I'm the only one who ever does any work around here?" She sighed. "Is it more double-posting? You know I specifically told you all to snipe those ingrates on sight, right?" The CokeBot's display flickered to an ancient piece of two-tone clipart of a flame in reply. "Flame wars?" The bot shook its monitor-head. "No? It's not a real fire, is it?" A giant check mark popped up on the display and a binging sound played to designate a correct answer. Dashe glanced out the window and finally noticed the smoke--which had died down considerably--coming from the Legends 3 building. "Don't they know I just had that thing built two months ago? What are they trying to do, roast marshmallows in the middle of the archives? I thought we had automated sprinklers for this!" Dashe groaned. "You're coming with me to the scene of the crime. I'm not doing any of these write-ups manually anymore." The robot bleeped and followed Dashe to the elevator. By the time they reached the Legends 3 building, she'd picked up an additional CokeBot. There wasn't really much of a crowd once she'd entered. It looked like the automated sprinkler system HAD done its job. At least someone was doing their job around here. She pulled out a pocket communicator and switched the settings to 'Live Announcement.' If the perpetrator were in this building, they'd certainly hear that the administration was onto them. "Alright ladies," Dashe's voice echoed over the Intercom. "It has come to my attention that someone here decided it would be fun to test the sprinkler system in the Legends 3 building. Well, guess what? They work. If the party or parties responsible were to report to the Legends 3 Building's lobby immediately to turn themselves in, I might go easy on you...but if I find you later, suffice it safe to say you will be in a world of trouble! Get it? Got it? Good. I'll be waiting." She flipped off the communicator and wondered if it wasn't too late to start doing her nails. ((*In the MMLS militia thread, CokeBots were the main grunts for Dashe's Cherry Coke Empire. They don't really have much personality, are about as tall as three servbots, and are made of 80's and 90's PC parts and cherry coke cans, with an ancient CRT monitor with green and black graphics for a face. They don't speak often, but when they do they talk in the Stephen Hawking voice, one word at a time, and run on really lousy 1990s AI. They now serve Dashe as administrative write-up grunts.))
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Post by Trege on Dec 31, 2010 17:09:30 GMT -5
((I might as well give this a try I'll use my fan character Ragun.))
A person named Ragun was sitting on the roof of the Legends 3 building leaning his back against a wall underneath some metal stairs leading to some antenna on the roof, sleeping with a reverse blade he bought on ebay, or some other shopping site leaning against his shoulder.
Ragun starts talking in his sleep "Iris! No this isn't happening! What am I fighting for!!!!" Shortly after he smells something slightly smoky which in turn wakes him up.
"Ugh.. I need to stop playing X4 right before I sleep, and what smells like smoke?" He begins looking around, and after peeking over the side of the building he sees a small amount of smoke coming out of the windows.
"A fire!? Maybe it's best to not stay on the roof if theres a fire." Ragun says as he rushes to the stairs and runs down them. But soon after he begins slipping on the stairs which are now wet from the sprinklers and then begins rolling down them, as he is rolling he attempts to stop himself using the reverse blade katana, but soon realizes that a normal katana would of been able to save him, but a reverse blade can't cut into the wall.
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Post by Anima on Dec 31, 2010 18:56:40 GMT -5
Skye heard the announcement over the intercom. She sighed and shook her head.
"Dashe, some idiot had accidentally fell down the stairs and wrecked the terminal. That's what set off the fire alarm system. Sora told me." She said, Sora nodded in agreement.
"Not only that, the accident ruined my new reaverbot design!" Anima angrily said, holding up a soggy piece of paper with ink marks running down from it. The design looked like it was a shark/fishurudot hybrid, but the paper was so wet, you really couldn't tell anymore.
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Post by Dashe on Jan 1, 2011 0:41:59 GMT -5
Dashe raised an eyebrow. "Slippery stairs? Whose bright idea was it to put a terminal at the bottom of a..." she trailed off as she realized she was the one who commissioned the building to start with. Better just cut straight to the chase. "Never mind. I need to know who it was who wrecked the terminal."
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Post by Loken on Jan 1, 2011 1:19:04 GMT -5
After hearing Dashe's anouncement Loken knew he was on to something. "Hmm, sorry Miss Dashe but I know you just want me to turn myself in so you can stop my investigation. Not happening!" Loken ran into the side streets, not only to hide from the cokebots, but to search for clues. Loken had no idea where the mods could be, "Perhaps there had been an uprising, and Dashe had them killed off" thought Loken. "I must get to the bottom of this before blood flows through the streets!". He feared for his life if he was caught, but Loken saw a cokebot exit a hatch on the side of a building and when the coast was clear he ran into it.
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Post by Mikéy on Jan 1, 2011 10:46:10 GMT -5
(( ba-da buh buh buuh! I'm lovin it. )) Mikey, having dozed off ((kinda literally too)) ran back down the stairs (in the usual rail-style) where Sora had gone, and noticed Skye, Sora, and Anima talking to Dashe over by the main exit of the MML3 building. Rather shyly (passing by but not noticing Ragun), he approached the small group, unknowing of the short conversation between Skye and Dashe. “Hey Skye, how's the situation going down here?” asked Mikey. asked Mikey. “Well, you've certainly been gone a while. Sora seems to know who may have started the fire, and you were with her when it happened, right?” asked Skye. “I’m not sure, but there was some guy upstairs who was even more soaked than the rest of the people in the building. Looked like he burnt off part of his mustache too.” replied Mikey. “So you’re saying our perp is someone with an uneven mustache?” chuckled Anima, starting to cheer up a little. “His coat looked pretty badly burnt as well, as if he threw it on the terminal in a vain attempt to extinguish the fire.” added Mikey. Out of the corner of his eye, Mikey saw that the snow had died down quite a bit, but still covered the streets. ((edit cuz I forgot to mention somebody. ))
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Post by Dashe on Jan 1, 2011 13:14:12 GMT -5
Upon colliding with Loken, the CokeBot flashed an angry face onto its monitor. "Suspicious activity alert!" It said monotonously. "State your business."
Back in the lobby of the Legends 3 building, Dashe cringed at the words 'uneven mustache.' "Walking around with a poorly-groomed mustache ought to be an infraction in itself. fAB still won't let me ban people for bad hair..." She frowned and muttered something unpleasant under her breath.
"Anyway, lousy mustaches aside, you say that thing with you saw who did it?" Dashe asked, pointing at Sora. "Apparently Mikey did, too, I guess...all these blasted new people coming in because of Legends 3...I can barely keep track of everyone anymore...I don't suppose any of you can give a username or anything?" She frowned. If this investigation cut into Glee later that night, there would be hell to pay.
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Post by Loken on Jan 2, 2011 0:24:52 GMT -5
"I'm investigating who started the fire" Loken said slyly. "Please state your username" sad the Cokebot. "Uhh, uhh." and remembering a name Loken heard earlier "My name is.. Mikey, my name is mikey!" "Leave immediately or I will report you Mikey" warned the Cokebot. "Yes sir!" said Loken with a sparkle in his eye. As he turned around he spotted a computer monitor on a desk. Swiftly he grabbed the monitor and smacked the robot in the back of what he presumed to be the head. the Cokebot fell to the ground and Loken continued down the long hall running as fast he could. He saw red lights go off and what looked like an army of Cokebots coming his way. He ducked in the corner as the robots passed him by. "That was easy, now to look for clues!, they're probably all out looking for Mikey, sorry chum." He looked around the room noticing the desks with knick-knacks and papers all over them. "These must be the mod's desks, were could they be?" He began picking through them like a fine tooth comb. "EHH! Nothing but multicolored paperwork and distrubing images!" He about gave up when he happened upon a letter on the floor, it said: "Meet me in the alley beside the general discussion, we'll get Dashe good this time, she'll never recover from it!" "Ahh there was a plot against Dashe!" Loken exclaimed. He ran back outside and headed to the general discussion to look for more clues. "I hope Mikey didn't catch much heat! I'll venerate him in the end, but there's work to be done!"
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Post by Anima on Jan 2, 2011 3:16:16 GMT -5
"Poco.....?" Sora scratched her head in confusion. She didn't catch the person's username.
"What's going on here?" A familiar voice suddenly chimed from behind Skye and co. It was Ally, with Charm following behind.
"Look who finally decided to show up." Mikey said. "Things just started getting interesting."
"Really now?" Ally just scratched the back of her head. "Looks like stuff is happening above ground too?"
"What do you mean 'above ground too'?" Anima raised an eyebrow.
"Whatever happened up here at 8:40 in the evening also affected the reaverbot population in the mines and ruins as well." Charm began to explain. "They all suddenly went active."
"Like a trigger and effect?" REI asked.
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Post by MegaTuga on Jan 3, 2011 10:14:53 GMT -5
"IT WASNT ME!"
Was Tuga's first statement as he entered the Legends 3 building again and spotted Miss Dashe. Probably not the smartest thing to do but alas, it was done alredy.
Trying to hide his face, he picked up the first journal he found, lying on a table, wet and picked it up upside-down, hiding his face with it. Later he regretted everything.
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