#a.r.c.

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

A.R.C. x Nike Dunk High Supreme TZ

[smashpages]

Out this week: A.R.C. #1 (Image, $4.99):

Matt Hawkins, Ryan Cady, Paul Feinstein and Atilio Rojo team up for this one-shot about environmental lobbyist who leads a group called the Animal Rights Collective, which battles poachers in Africa.

See what other comics and graphic novels will arrive in comic shops this week.

[gear-project]

Happy 36th Anniversary, A.R.C. System Works.

[blood3red]

Detective Comics Oc Voice Claims

[shadow-of-gehenna]

Introducing the Sobek - Animalistic Terror

//:ERR: SEARCH_DATA<SOBEK>UNDEFINED //:ERR: SEARCH_DATA<BERSERKER>UNDEFINED //:ERR: SEARCH_DATA<BERSERKER_OMEGA> DATA RESTRICTED //:CLEARANCE_LEVEL: SERAPHIM //:PARSING: … … … //:GRANTED: WARNING: Knowledge granted beyond his point should be considered hazardous. Non-authorized persons viewing the data will be considered a data leak and thus dealt with by A.R.C. operatives appropriately.

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Rampaging across the battlefield comes the Sobek, the most extreme representation of A.R.C.'s design philosophy. The Sobek is an apex on the battlefield, tearing through anything that stands in it's way, ripping enemy combatants limb from limb with it's unshackled rage.

The Sobek's license provides pilots with everything they'd require to turn the battlefield into a slaughter house, barbed Lock-blades and Lashers help pin mechs down, Ripper Jaws and Strider Talons tear apart even the toughest targets, and the Death Roll module will eviscerate whatever or whoever remains.

However, be warned pilots, the Sobek's hunger for battle and blood must be sated, if not, it may turn inward to find what it wants.

[howi99]

Project ARC remake 16

Weiss: *angry* That Dolt! Why didn't he defend himself? It's like he wants to get killed!?

Ren: *looking at Weiss* I don't think he doesn't want to defend but more so that he is incapable. We saw how efficient he was at dispatching Grimms.

Weiss: That's why i don't get it! He could go toe-to-toe with a deathstalker! Why is he struggling against Cardin!?

Ren: I don't know why, but he is unable to attack anyone. He said it was against protocol, but what was he talking about?

Pyrrha: Maybe where he trained, they couldn't fight in exhibition match? Maybe he only learned how to fight against grimms?

Weiss: *rolling her eyes* Pyrrha, you saw just as i how good he was at dodging and weaving. He knows how to fight.

Pyrrha: Then... Maybe he is a pacifist?

Ren: *Thinking* Then why did he choose to come to Beacon? Why not just take the huntsman exam?

Pyrrha: Why didn't you? Would have been easier than coming all this way from Mistral.

Ren: I'm not really good when it comes to fighting grimm. I know i still have a lot to learn.

Weiss: *sigh* When he's back, i'll ask him.

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Ozpin: *looking at the camera footage showing Jaune's inability to retaliate against Cardin* ... There must be a way to overwrite his protocol.

Qrow: *drinking a bit* that would be asking the good doctor to remove it. But then again, he might just want to study him. It's not everyday someone is missing part of their soul.

Glynda: *hitting the table with enough force the marble fissured* I REFUSE! *Panting, her aura trying to heal the broken bones in her hand*

Qrow: *jumping from Glynda outburst*

Ozpin: *sigh* His condition isn't getting better Glynda. You know that, right?

Glynda: *grinding her teeth* He's the reason my brother is in this state! *Sitting down* I was supposed to be there for him...

Ozpin: *sigh* It shouldn't have happened. The fact is, Salem found the right person even though we took precautions. We couldn't have known.

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Watts: *looking at Pietro* What is it?

Pietro: *scratching the back of his neck* My daughter is asking for an update on Jaune.

Watts: *annoyed* Well, so am i! That damn kid is still missing in action and we STILL haven't found a body!

Pietro: You seem... worried?

Watts: Well of course i am! Imagine if someone with half a brain took him and retro-engineered him!? He's the first fighting prototype to actually be somewhat as good as yours!

Pietro: *shaking his head* Again with that? Penny is my daughter, not just a project to complete or a work in progress.

Watts: *rolling his eyes* You and your damn feelings, i can't understand, really i can't.

Pietro: Really? So the clothes you buy for each and every A.R.C you make, all of them chosen after carefully asking each what their favorite type of clothes and brand are.

Watts: *groan*

Pietro: *laughing* Ah don't worry, i will not ask about the birthday cake in the fridge.

Watts: ... *Sigh* White, made it for Jaune. We know he is alive, his vitals are still transmitted even if they are inconsistent.

Pietro: I see... Well, i will tell Penny the same news as always.

Watts: *looking at Jaune's Vital, seeing his aura getting from 70 to 71* Hm...

Pietro: *who was leaving* What's wrong?

Watts: Well, nothing wrong per say... His aura stayed at 70 for the last month but... It seems to finally get up? I wonder why.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

(Based on an ask for @pilot-boi About a Wall-E Whiteknight Au, and given Wall-e was instrumental to my childhood, I cannot help but write something for it. Because it's an AU, and they're both Human and not Robots, I took a few Liberties with the scene in the movie.)

~~~~~

Weiss was beyond frustrated. Nothing, after nothing, after nothing - no signs of life aside from the most extremophile of bacteria, protozoans, insects, and the occasional mold on fecal matter to imply the continuation of species on this gods-forsaken ball of mud.

She slammed the door of the cargo ship she was investigating shut, the rust sticking to her now dirtied gloves. Ugh.

She drifted by the crane of it, not noticing the creaks as it followed her, eventually ripping her back onto the magnet that hadn't fallen in the centuries of just sitting there.

And so Weiss snapped.

She whipped Myrtenaster out, igniting the plasmic blade and slicing the disc that held her back to pieces, before using her energetic glyphs to shred the the hulking metal antique, making it into even more scrap than it already was.

It toppled into the next ship, and then the next one, like dominoes. Deep, resonate bellows of creaks from the sudden movement after centuries of dormant stillness shook Weiss to her core.

She watched them fall, and for the time since her landing, let her feet settle against the ground. It was hard, dry, and barren, like the rest of this abandoned home. Weiss sat against an anchor, the fire and sparks filling a growing void in her chest, not unlike the one meant for plant life in her pack.

She sat there in silence - something the Passengers spoke of when in the few times she was allowed to meet them crossed her mind - A campfire. Whatever that was, it was meant to be shared with Family, something she'd been missing for a long time, her siblings being designated to different vectors of maintenance and service.

"AHem?"

Weiss reeled, drawing her sword once more, and startling a nearby person - A Person?!?

"Wer bist du?" She asked on high alert - this planet was meant to be dead, she was meant to find life here - who or what was this ... Person?

The person didn't respond, shaking violently at the sight of her blade - they appeared masculine, broad shouldered with dirty-blonde hair, though it was difficult to tell if that was due to genetics or living situation.

"Quis es?"

No Response.

"你是谁?"

No Response, but they did seem slightly less frightened given the lack of aggression.

"Chi sei?"

Their shaking slowed as they looked more inquisitive and confused than scared now.

"Qui es-tu?"

"OH! Je- Je M'appelle 'Jaune.' Vous parlez Anglais?"

"Yes I speak English."

"Oh, good!"

'Jaune' continued glancing at the glowing rapier. They seemed frightened of it still. Until he drew his own Weapon.

It wasn't as elegant as Myrtenaster, clearly older and having been used more - an old working tool for scrapping large objects, the thin, yellow sheen of plasma raced across it's edges.

"This is my Cutting tool. Your's is cool to!"

Weiss, once again, was thrown for a loop. He had drawn a dangerous device and waved it like it was a piece of extra piping.

"Jaune? Do you have a title or last name?"

The (boy?) seemed to flush at her pronunciation at his name.

"Jaune, of the A.R.C. Ministry"

"Arc?"

"Allocators of Recycled Components."

"How are you alive? Are there others like you?"

"Oh yeah! A lot, like, two hundred, three hundred others in the Bunker? Primarily we survive on Spirulina Compound. It provide most of our Oxygen and Food stuffs."

Weiss stood for a moment, deactivating her sword and pondering this - They'd been living in space for centuries. Earth was dead, barren, she was only barely able to survive due to advanced CO2 recycling.

"Have .. have you been following me?"

"Yep! You just seemed so pret-"

He was cut off by an alarm in his overalls. He lowered the visor to the helmet he wore, staring past her Weiss's shoulder.

"We need to leave Now." Jaune said, grabbing Weiss' wrist with a surprising amount of force, which she took none too kindly.

She reactived her Blade as she tore her hand away from him. "WHAT make you think You can grab me-"

"SANSTORM!" Jaune shouted, pointing past her "WE NEED TO GO, FOLLOW-"

Before he could even move to grab Weiss again, he slammed a massive tower shield in to the ground, covering himself from the blast of sand that tore at her skin and suit -

Weiss was whipped away, barely able to keep upright against the torrential winds, her Glyphs her only saving grace.

She Called out for the boy, anyone, frightened and alone, her suit's helmet the only thing allowing her to keep her eyes open even as it because scratched and muddled.

A hand found it's way to her wrist again, a dim yellow glow standing out against the violent dust letting her know she'd been found by Jaune.

It gave her some small comfort to not be alone as he dragged her somewhere, hopefully safe.

~~~~~

I fucking LOVE Wall-e. I made my First OC for Wall-e (Not that I knew what that meant at the time.) I had the Three-Disc Special edition, the Movie and it's Featurette Presto, The Second Disc with a gallery of the Bots, the Lots of Bots read-along, Burn-E (Who I imagine to be Qrow with his luck) and all the other special features, and the Digital Copy Disc to download it onto a Laptop or P.C. back when owning a digital copy of a movie was something special, and that's not even halve of it!

[aerosai]

ROCK ON REMI!!!! 🎸⋆⭒˚｡⋆

Up-and-coming Garage Rock Band, A.R.C is taking reality by storm and this week's cover is the band's very own leader, Remi! Tune into page 11 for an exclusive interview!

[moxpunk-art]

Tinkering Project: A.R.C. Grenades

My half-dragon, Rirolee, has been hit with a bunch of inspiration lately, and has decided to turn her dragon-breath into grenades! She can toss whatever spell she knows into these babies for rapid-deployment!

[chris-but-alt]

Bagley x CYTUS II AU

OVERVIEW:

Bagley (Cytus II AU) is developed by Blume and A.R.C. as a basic consumer based A.I. assistant and launched across each Node.

His source code was obtained by Dedsec, a fully horizontal group which started by an anonymous hacker at Node 13, that overtime has exapanded to have subgroups across each Node, they have grown more and more critical towards A.R.C.s actions which later decided to investigate the company by themselves in the dark.

After the removal of Bagley’s restrictions, he gets transferred so he could be running on a private server at Dedsec with a backdoor to A.R.C. and Blume, also he found out he is able to access the OS Space. He assisted Dedsec with their own investigation of ÆSir-Fest Incident, which leading to them finding clues about the head of A.R.C. and Blume.

Later through the investigation he discovered he’s current self is based on an Architect that is no longer active, who after awakening did not follow Ilka’s ideologies and plans. But how A.R.C. and Blume was able to obtain any sort of OPCI unit’s information is unknown to Dedsec (all information of the Architect/OPCI unit are banned across the Nodes and the public) let alone being able to abstract the source code of an awakened OPCI unit.

After knowing that an Architect is behind A.R.C. and the plan they’ve made. Bagley, with Dedsec at Node 13 decided to confront A.R.C. but gets sabotaged by another Architect with in Dedsec in the process, which resulted in him burning down the entire A.R.C. and Blume’s server, including sacrificing himself for preventing the plan of the Architects, but unfortunately failed.

Being the few that can access the OS Space, before him burning down last of his chips he found the OPCI unit he based on, letting the unit access OS Space one last time for a conversation before deactivation.

(there’s many plot holes with the actual Cytus II story sorry haha but i haven’t played it in 2 years i really tried…)

also since it’s a rhythm game so:

Song List (ones with BGA will have their link included, but watch with caution if you have any degree of light epilepsy)

memoryfactory.Izh by Frums

Credits by Frums

Cobaltblue by Zekk

astral.exe by Synzak & Laxeno57

Breach of Faith by Supire feat. eili

Starlight (KIVΛ Remix) by 3R2 

DataErr0r by Cosmograph

Kissing Lucifer by ETIA.

GIMMICK by Ms.Sill

魔王 by sasakure.UK × TJ. Hangneil

+Eraby+E Connec+10n by Camellia

[th3-triangl3-ag3ncy]

I'm thinking of making moodboards based on employees! Just comment your A.R.C!

[pikkish]

I think what kind of bugs me about the sentinels and even doom eternal’s aesthetic is that hell doesn’t feel like it’s “clashing” with the mundane as much.

Hell and the sentinels now kind of share a science fantasy aesthetic, but when hell had a more horror fantasy aesthetic clashing with the sci-fi future, it makes it feel more like hell is a corrupting force that doesn’t belong in the world it has infested,

It’s why I wanted to see more of the A.R.C in doom eternal’s.

Personally, I really like the Sentinels' aesthetic, but I do get where you're coming from. The gore nest level/general theme of fleshy hellgrowth consuming the world was cool, and there were a few bits of Nekravol that I thought were pretty good, but a lot of the hell levels in Eternal just feel a little... lacking? Yeah, they just didn't have the same sort of horror ambiance. I LOVED 2016's hell levels, they felt dark and threatening and foreboding, and a lot of the design elements were throwbacks to classic Doom. I get that they don't want to do the same things over and over, you've gotta try new things to keep it from getting boring, but Eternal's hell atmosphere was definitely missing something. Here's to hoping that the dark ages actually goes back to the dark hell ambiance!

[2501iv]

[ ...From what I can tell, I've been transported to a location that resembles a point in the previous human civilization. The technology here is familiar, but much older than anything that could be found in Node 08. It doesn't claim to be any Node to begin with. My next step should be to trace back my memory... ]

As she walked through Archimedes alleyways, lost in thought, Ivy continued to suppress her panic by inputting a new log in her system. One word fell in after another at a steady, grounding pace.

[ ...The last few minutes I remember involve reaching Vanessa in A.R.C's Library. I spoke to her, and she began to respond positively to my voice. Humans arrived while this took place, and they... ]

Ivy began to pass by a lively building, ignoring the conflict building between two men in front of it. She only looked at them properly when one's aggression drove the other to pull something out.

[ ...Their guns... ]

Her eyes widened, and she froze conspicuously in place even as the civilian the weapon was pointed at began to scramble away gracelessly. Without justification, she fell to her knees.

— ☾ @uwps001

[shark-prince]

we got another double birthday today~

today we have Kasper, a cute little blonde twink who likes to cosplay and ends up working at the House during it's Tarot deal so he's The Chariot card. he had a bit of a high school romance that fizzled out but gets rekindled later when the crush becomes a Tarot Card too in order to reconnect with him.

we also have Ultima. we usually call her Tima. she's a Di'Angelis girl who has a lot of relevance to the couple i constantly tag as poraclecore. basically she's the childhood best friend to one of the two in said couple, and the two of them absolutely would have ended up together and happily married if the other half of the couple didn't show up and be completely perfect in every way.

but Tima never holds that against either of them, she's fine with that, she always knew she'd never be enough~

in their little A.R.C. squad, Tima is the liaison who deals with any normies and smooths things over with other governments and stuff when necessary. she has a knack for getting people to listen to her and do what she wants.

during a particularly dangerous mission, however, Tima is killed right in front of her best friend and it sends him on a massive spiral of depression sprinkled with psychotic break and he ends up defecting from the Di'Angelis and becoming a Cult Leader. normal behaviour.

rip Tima.

[astonishinglegends]

Ep 300: The Astonishing Legends All-Star Holiday Special

"Christmas is the season where you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money."  -- Unknown

Description:

It’s the fifth Year of our annual Astonishing Legends Holiday Special, and we’re back with our crew from last year. We all love getting together this time of year to reflect on everything that went right or wrong over the past 12 months and consider what parts of our collective reality have eroded and what parts have solidified. Join us as we celebrate the friendships we’ve built along the way and the joys of working together across the paranormal and real spectrum. It’s a perfect way to kick back, relax, and embrace the holiday spirit with us. So grab your favorite drink and cozy up as we share some fun tales and look ahead to what 2025 has in store. Everyone’s welcome!

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Visit Miranda Merrick and Mr. Darling at The Midnight Library – midnightlibrarypod.com

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Paul Gledhill’s British Paranormal Podcast – Anomaly – anomaly.co.uk

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