#c. modius.

[alois-the-real-boy]

a. van asch ⇌ c. modius pdd 3

Alois: Hey. I saw the announcement this morning.

Alois: I've- heard some things. Are you okay?

[charlie-freakin-essex]

INTERNAL AFFAIRS || charlie & clove

@clove-modius​

[[ Imara had breezed in off the sea like a stiff, foreboding wind, waltzing through the gates looking every inch the textbook villain such that even Charlie's imperturbable blood chilled at the sight of her. It was with a heady mixture of dread and adrenaline that he answered the subsequent summons to the hall outside Quinn’s office, accepting his orders from the Chancellor without question -- the exact reason, perhaps, why they’d singled him out for the job.

The minutes felt like hours as he caught snippets of conversation, sometimes indistinguishable except in severity of tone, sometimes bitingly sharp and clear even through the thick, sturdy wood of Quinn’s office door. The other HQ representatives that lingered down the hall murmured softly amongst themselves, shooting the occasional glance in Charlie’s direction while he paced the hall and redirected the curious. Charlie either didn’t notice their looks or he didn’t care -- every ounce of his focus was on what he could catch of the conversation within.

That it’s about the parasite and the lab’s eventual discovery doesn’t surprise him. What does surprise him is the sheer acerbity of the visiting representative’s tone, taking the Chancellor to task in a way no one else would ever even dream of doing. The fact that there’s a leak within their ranks… that one of their own reported up the chain what they were intending to do? It’s all too real and too terrifying for Charlie to appreciate the fact this is a clear advancement of the plot and, indeed, one look at Quinn and Clove’s expressions when the meeting finally grinds to a close and they emerge is enough to replace any hint of excitement with a dark, uncomfortable apprehension.

None of the group looks at Charlie as they pass, even as he sidesteps to stand at diligent attention with his back pressed to the stone beside Quinn’s door. The Chancellor moves with Imara as she returns to her ominous flock, leaving Clove behind with an inscrutable expression. Charlie tries to get a word in before he receives what will presumably be a swift dismissal. ]]

Representative Modius, I-- [[ Charlie stammers out, purposefully formal, but the thought dies there. He doesn’t want to step out of line, but the sheer desperate need to know more about the situation -- or, more importantly, what they intend to do about the situation -- should come as no surprise. ]]

[mitch--douglas]

STEM THE TIDE || mitch & clove

@clove-modius

[[ It’s the first time Mitch has left Calyset since the storm set in and it is, of course, because he’s worrying. He’s worried about his classroom and he’s worried about his students’ projects, and while he recognizes these are just things, and things should be more replaceable than people and thus not worth putting himself in danger, he ventures out anyhow. Mitch’s classroom is a sanctuary not only to a number of his students but also to him, almost to the point of it feeling more like a home than his own Elite suite or Calyset itself. It’s a shred of comfort he can cling to, a nostalgic remnant of who he was before the sky came crashing down.

The building, like all the others, is old and showing a lot of its infirmity in the face of the extreme weather. Mitch had brought an armful of towels that he’s now using to sop up puddles on the floor or stuff onto window sills to stem the tide of encroaching rainwater. It’s not a disaster by any means, but he’s certainly relieved he checked on the room when he did.

The most difficult spot is proving to be a persistent leak from the ceiling, drip-dripping a widening puddle into the middle of the floor. Mitch has dumped the rest of the towels into a pile underneath it and subsequently clambers his way onto one of the desks, balancing carefully as he inspects the leak, nose wrinkling with the discomfort of the streams of water sneaking up his forearms to dampen his rolled-up sleeves.

Movement in the hallway catches his eye, and without looking, Mitch raises his voice. He doesn’t know who it might be or their reasons for wandering, but he’s still grateful someone else is about. ]] Hey! Sorry, excuse me-- could you do me an enormous favor and pass that bucket? [[ Mitch points blindly behind him and to the left, still trying to hold back the leak with an already-soaked rag. ]]

[modius-labs]

An abomination.

Stay tuned for new episodes of Dr. Modius this September!

www.youtube.com/c/drmodius

[colony22games]

NON-LIVEPLAY GAMES, MARCH 2163 - ‘Double Trouble’

OBJECTIVE: “DOUBLE TROUBLE” is a LAST TWO STANDING, ‘Hunger Games’ style game and will commence at sunrise. Survivors will begin the game as every individual for themselves, at the edge of the gaming grounds. When the starting horn sounds, survivors may choose to take a chance at The Hoard for weapons and resources, or head straight for the woods. Forming alliances is recommended, but remember, alliances are temporary and can change. 

TEAMS: None. 1 vs. All, Personal Alliances only.

WEAPONS: This game will include ALL COLONY-APPROVED TRAINING WEAPONRY. Players begin the game without arms, but may obtain them at The Hoard or at hidden caches around the gaming grounds.

*HIT LIMIT: 1   *KILL LIMIT: 1

KILL PROTOCOL: SURRENDER; Participants who reach Kill Limit are immediately eliminated and must report back to the games staging area.

ADDITIONAL RULES AND INFO:

⚒The game will commence in a clearing at the edge of the gaming grounds, with the treeline ahead (NE). In the clearing, to the SE, will be The Hoard, a large resource and weapon supply. At the start of play, participants may choose to run for it first, or bypass it and head to safety. 

⚒Personal alliances may consist of 2 to 5 participants from any house. They must never exceed 5 players. Alliances are based on an honour system; there are no official rules against targeting an ally. 

⚒’Sponsor Kits’ can be found hidden throughout the grounds. If an individual receives a hit but has a Sponsor Kit, they may use it to remain in the game. Sponsor Kits are metal cylinders about ten inches long and 3 inches in diameter, and contain a cloth bandage which can be tied at or around the point of the recent hit. Sponsor Kits are one time use only; when the seal is broken, a vial of dye will shatter and soak into the white bandage to indicate its use.

⚒The winning pair may be from the same house, or different houses. Throughout the game, an individual’s achieved kills earn points towards their respective houses, and the winners will get to keep these for their house, plus an extra 250 points.  In the case of winners from two different houses, both houses will receive their respective earned house points, plus 250 for the win. 

⚒All PDD messaging capabilities have been disabled for the Games. They function only to receive notifications.

CHECK BELOW THE CUT FOR GAME RESULTS AND HIGHLIGHT SUMMARY!

                                “Bloodbath” - the First Hour

When the horn blares, about half the games participants head straight for the cover of the trees, while the others book it to The Hoard: the huge weapons stash in the clearing. Charlie Essex and JR are among this group. JR gets there first, quickly holstering two handguns, and is about to go for some grenades, when Charlie waves at him with a supply backpack in hand and they both run off. It’s not until they get deeper into the gaming grounds that they realize Charlie’s ‘bag of supplies’ is woefully empty. 

Back at the weapon stash, it’s still pandemonium. Draco Pavlović gives Mei Zhu Fitrei a bloody nose in a scuffle over a sniper gun. Alexander Donovan finds Annie Perrault hyperventilating behind a weapons rack, white knuckling a bow. He shoves a quiver into her hands and tells her to run, watching her back as she nervously complies. Meanwhile, Felix Turner and Rosalind Stein nearly collide going for the same bag of supplies. Rose is confident she can easily overpower Felix, until he starts literally shrieking like a maniacal banshee. His wordless wail makes for such an alarming scene, that she opts just to retreat. 

Underdogs, Constantin Lupei and Adrien Bennett decide they’ll start off the hour strong, and team up to ambush the next pair of people they see… which turn out to be Mei Zhu and Alex. This backfires dramatically, and Costin and Ajay are among the first half dozen players eliminated. Angel Thorne follows suit when he decides to simply walk off the gaming grounds. He is immediately disqualified. 

                                      “All for One…” - Hour 2

Hour two is the time to start forming alliances. Lake Valentine is travelling with Lissy McCall and Annie Perrault, but he dooms them all when he accidentally sets off an InertiaShell. They are all caught in the red vapour and slowed to a crawl. Annie passes out from the effects of the grenade and her usual exhaustion and while trying to wake her, Lissy and Lake become very easy targets when they get attacked by Caelan Whitmer and Arvo Covey. Annie, Lissy and Lake are all eliminated. 

Roy Walters hasn’t come across anyone he trusts to team up with, so resolves to lay low. He manages to steal a Sponsor Kit from Mitch Douglas when the elite isn’t looking, and then camouflages himself into some bushes. Meanwhile, Petra Starr convinces a handgun wielding Teilo Aisling not to shoot her, only to shoot him with his own weapon as soon as he agrees to the alliance. Orson Hurst, Maisie Pace, Mason Quinley and Mira Sigar come together to form an only slightly more promising lineup. 

Rosalind is fashioning an illegal slingshot up in a tree when she spots wifey Josephine Parker and quickly pairs up with her. As for Charlie and JR, despite their slightly disappointing start, they’ve stuck together and take out Emmanuel Trent as their first victim. 

                                          “Acclimating” - Hour 3

Bode Lindqvist has kept to himself but has proven resourceful. He is well armed and has already found a couple of Sponsor Kits. When Koda Payne and Clayton Boyd attack him with ranged weapons, he manages to evade them and escape unscathed. Orson is much less lucky, when he is briefly separated from his group and finds a stash of grenades that apparently Dylan Meir had also had her eye on. Orson grabs a couple tilt grenades, but his nerve-damaged hands spasm, and he drops one, setting it off. With Orson briefly incapacitated by the blue vapour, Dylan has plenty of time to shoot him with an arrow, grab the rest of the grenades, and take off. Nearby, another woman is kicking some nerd-boy ass; Charlotte Williams effortlessly picks off Kip, acquiring his Sponsor Kits. 

Koda and Clay try again to make an impact: they sneak up on JR and Charlie in the woods, only this time, they’ve thought it through and have set up traps in the area. They even manage to take out JR with a well-aimed arrow. Charlie then chases both Koda and Clay, firing his handgun as he goes. He eliminates Koda with a stim in the back, then lets off a wayward shot just as he bulldozes into one of the traps and falls to the ground. The weapon skids across the forest floor, but the last shot has caught Clay in the shoulder. Fortunately, the Delma has a Sponsor kit, which he uses to survive. He doesn’t have to go it on his own too long, however, as he runs into Corbin Ealy, who’s trying to evade a prowling Kaiser Bahr. They hide together (because fuck that noise), then decide to team up. 

Left alone after Kip’s elimination, Arvo stumbles across Enoch Lynch, while he is caught in hand to hand combat with Paxton Semenyuk, and steps in to help. She and Enoch form a new alliance (which we’d like to coin ‘NET’: Newbie Elite Transfers). Alois Van Asch, on the other hand, is a bit slow on the uptake, and has been wandering the grounds somewhat aimlessly, enjoying the (mostly) quiet of the woods. At one point he is spotted just gazing at the sky. 

                             “Imprudent Behaviour” - Hour 4

Fate, never a kind mistress, soon interferes with Bode’s chances. While he is distracted by an unfortunate issue with his hearing aids, Jo and Rosalind steal the weapons he’d set down and make a break for it. As they run, however, they encounter Dante Carrington; true to form, the Good Doctor puts rules first and disqualifies Rosalind for the illegal slingshot in her grasp. This is witnessed by Corbin and Clay, who were drawn in by the kerfuffle. Corbin reckons it would be hilarious to orchestrate an ambush against Colony 22’s biggest Tight Ass, and with Bode still nearby, it’d be like ‘taking biscuits from a baby’. Fortunately, it doesn’t take much convincing, and the three of them take Dante out without any issue. 

Meanwhile, Draco climbs high up into the branches of a tree, seeking a moment to formulate a plan. Aurelia Ferris chooses this particularly inopportune time to walk by, and she doesn’t even see who shot her. Diederick D’Mornay,  the perpetual gentleman, spots Anaya Dolman with a Sponsor Kit and doesn’t have any trouble liberating it from her. Emboldened by his success, he gives chase to a couple of other totally threatening Calysets: Mira and Maisie. In his hasty pursuit, he loses his footing and face-plants on the forest floor. 

Unlike Ricky, Petra Starr has a little moral fortitude. Alois has grown excruciatingly bored of the Games and asks Petra, (who has now paired up with housemate, Dylan) to just shoot him so he can go the fuck back inside and sleep; obviously this wouldn’t be the same as earning an elimination and would basically be cheating, so Petra declines.

After his temporary alliance with Clay and Corbin, Bode decides to roam alone again, which backfires when Madison Vega eliminates him quickly with a sniper. Persephone Evans and her bleeding heart take a moment to tend to a small injury Cambie Andrews has sustained, but they have to run when they spot Clove Modius and Benji Imes approaching.

                                        “Homestretch” - Hour 5

It’s the final countdown and about halfway through the fifth hour, we’re left with eight tiring finalists. Of these eight, seven of them are in two different alliances. The first such alliance is made up of Torren ladies, Ada Woollacott, Petra Starr, Dylan Meir and Charlotte Williams. The second is a group of egomaniac loudmouths: Corbin Ealy, Draco Pavlović and Diederick D’Mornay. Madison Vega is the eighth finalist, currently remaining a one-woman operation. 

Catching a glimpse of Charlotte through the trees, Draco splits off from his group to chase after her, ignoring the protests from his allies. He proves himself rather too big for his boots when he catches up with Charlotte to find her not alone at all, and the team of girls take him out, Charlotte’s Angels style. Nearby and hearing the shouts, Maddie is so caught up watching her back that she steps right into a snare set hours before by Roy. With no one to come to her rescue, it’s endgame for her, too. 

But time is running out, so the Charlie’s Angels gang decide to pair off to cover more ground. Petra finds Ricky vulnerable while he does a damage check from his earlier painful fall, and gets him in the back with a stim, while Charlotte manages to catch Corbin similarly unaware. Just like that, the prideful Delmas are out of the running.  But while Charlotte and Petra were away steamrolling the Delma boys, Ada had immediately turned traitor, submitting Dylan with a pair of chameleons around her neck. 

So naturally, when what’s left of Ada’s allies return, Ada is on the offensive. There can only be two winners, and Ada wants to make sure she’s one of them. Unfortunately for her, feral strength won’t be enough this time; she launches herself at Petra and Charlotte but is overpowered by their exceptional teamwork and clear heads. Moments later, the victory horn sounds: Charlotte and Petra have officially become an unlikely pair of winners. Between Charlotte’s congenital heart defect and Petra’s only recently recovered ankle injury, it is a victory hard-earned and well-deserved. 

WINNERS CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS & PETRA STARR

FINAL STANDINGS Torren: 525 pts | Brink: 275 pts | Delma: 250 pts | Calyset:250 pts

POINTS AWARDED 725 pts to TORREN HOUSE

ELIMINATION TALLY*

*Please note that though we included a small handful of NPCs in the games generator, we did not include them all, so there would obviously be plenty of other participants whose eliminations are not established in this list. It can be assumed that many of these would have fallen in the first hour or two, though of course not all. If you need any NPCs for any further plotting or head canons for the games, you may reference any listed open characters/NPCs from the dorms list who fit your idea, or you may use a nameless NPC. If you are unsure, do not be afraid to reach out!

In no particular order: 

Hour 1: Constantin Lupei, Adrien Bennett, Siddhartha Jha, Angel Thorne

Hour 2: Annie Perrault, Lissy McCall, Lake Valentine, Teilo Aisling, Emmanuel Trent

Hour 3: Mitch Douglas, Orson Hurst, Caelan Whitmer, Roy Walters, JR, Koda Payne, Felix Turner, Paxton Semenyuk, Andreya Roche, Xavier Crane

Hour 4: Kaiser Bahr, Rosalind Stein, Dante Carrington, Enoch Lynch, Aurelia Ferris, Mason Quinley, Anaya Dolmen, Maisie Pace, Charlie Essex, Bode Lindqvist, Arvo Covery, Alois Van Asch, Mira Sigar, Alexander Donovan, Mei Zhu Fitrei

Hour 5: Josephine Parker, Cambie Andrews, Clayton Boyd, Benji Imes, Clove Modius, Persephone Evans, Draco Pavlović, Madison Vega, Diederick D’Mornay, Corbin Ealy, Dylan Meir, Ada Woollacott 

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR MEMBERS AND TO THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COL22GAMES, MARCH, 2163!

The timeline has now moved forward to the 4th week of March. If you need more information on the these non-liveplay games and how to move forward with plotting, check out this post. 

[dante-carrington]

as the columns fell || clove & dante

@clove-modius​

[D. Carrington 🡪 C. Modius: We need to talk.

D. Carrington 🡪 C. Modius: Clove, don’t ignore me.

D. Carrington 🡪 C. Modius:  This is important.

At that point, Dante gives up on the PDD messages. He hates being made to look a fool, and being left on read by Clove Modius certainly makes him look that. It does little to reassure him of Clove’s professionalism, too. It’s not as though Dante is overcome with joy at the prospect of a conversation with Clove, but they have to. It’s important that they inform the population about HQ’s actions as soon as possible, and Dante isn’t going to go rogue and do that without working closely with his colleagues. They already think he’s got one foot off the cliff’s edge.

Dante would like to keep things respectful - he’s aware he responded poorly when Quinn first broke the news - but Clove is making it difficult. Ideally they’d meet on Clove’s terms, but if he won’t share what those terms are, then Dante will choose where and when this conversation is going to happen. 

He knocks on the door to Clove’s office, entering without waiting for an answer.] This isn’t going to blow over, you know. We need to discuss how to proceed. 

[kob131]

Hey remember when Soku said he was gonna stop talking about RWBY?

Guess who got caught lying?

https://sokumotanaka.tumblr.com/post/184748210112/phazonfire-the-rwde-tag-is-so-fucking

I don’t know what tag you’re looking through about the homophobia thing considering the majority of the people seem to be gay and would probably call you out if they saw this.

I don’t remember you guys ever calling anyone out for calling Illa a ‘psycho lesbian’ because villain + gay = psycho lesbian apparently.

Oh wait, which tag is it that says that? hm...

Look people doing rewrites on the series is a non problem, and the dumbest gripe.

so is 99% of what you fuckers pull. Like bitching that a catgirl was put into a catsuit.

But rwby isn’t well written some is allowed to watch it to fix it to reconstruct or deconstruct it there is no harm to this and the series could benefit from a rewrite.

Too bad you assholes break the show EVEN FURTHER when you do rewrite shit *cough* RE:RWBY *cough*.

If you don’t like it don’t go through the constructive criticism tag just to cry cause someone doesn’t wanna kiss rwby’s butt like you do.

Last time constructive criticism existed in the RWDE tag: 900 BC.

Yeah sure.

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https://sokumotanaka.tumblr.com/post/612590859661295616/your-idea-of-nit-picking-is-not-the-correct-use-of

I don't know how to tell some of ya'll that just because you constantly argue against criticism and the other person gets tried to talking to a brick wall doesn't mean you win.

This ain't your preschool, this requires critical thinking skills which some of ya'll clearly lack.

And just because you reject facts and demand that your delusions are true doesn’t make the other person a brick wall. You just don’t understand how to debate.

Your idea of nit picking is not the correct use of the term. Nor do whoever you are know what is and isn’t criticism on a subject. 

Nit picking. Noun. “looking for small or unimportant errors or faults, especially in order to criticize unnecessarily.“

Literally all you do.

Also I’m only an asshole to people who are assholes back. So don’t pretend like you know me and mind your own? Deal? Deal.

Sorry Soku, that makes you a sexist, racist, transphobic Nazi. You know, since that’s MY Modius Operandi.

Also your blog is FILLED with bad political takes so you’re  the LAST person I wanna hear tall about “not picking”

“Can white people approiate basic human decency?”

Remember that take on your old blog?

Now what were you saying about politics...

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https://sokumotanaka.tumblr.com/post/611875463897497600/i-didnt-watch-vol-7-thank-god-but-a-friend-of

I didn’t watch vol 7 thank god,-

So you have no idea what you’re about to say? Got it.

but a friend of mine on my discord mentioned flynt and neon returning (with Ik finally) and boy they really gave the catgirl a hoodie with cat ears on it? And Blake has a catsuit? Miles, Kerry, Shane and Monty always talked about how “subtle” they are with things like scenes and designs and they put both the catgirls in outfits that are so on the nose it might as well be a part of your skin.

Where was that said again?

Also that;s not were the term catsuits come from.  It comes from cat burglars using them.

Isn’t that like going “Hey black guy put these big lips on over your other lips? Or the black guy having a fucking basketball printed on their jacket?” Good lord, in a world where people can be born with cat ears, and tails don’t you think it’s kinda freaking disgusting that these exist where humans can wear them? 

And before you say that’s the point, in a world where none of the faunus get to say how they feel about these things and don’t have real life minority reactions to things like white dudes walking around with grills and fros and crap it kinda isn’t when the faunus girl wears a hoodie depicting one of the features of her own race that they were hunted down and slaughtered for.

Considering that it’d be no different than a white person getting cornrows-

Also it kind of is since black people walk around emphasizing their DARK SKIN, which is the basis of their discrimination.

You’re just race obsessed.

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https://sokumotanaka.tumblr.com/post/611637391064694784/hmm-funny-that-the-rich-white-girl-who-was-racist

Hmm funny that the rich white girl who was racist gets an overpowered semblance that shares alot of feats like her team like being able to make runes that increase speed, Platforms, Remove gravity, shoot projectiles, Make people stick to them etc etc. Oh and she has the ability to summon monsters that show feats of strength that rivals one of her partners.

Meanwhile the minority character is shown to fuck up alot, gets treated like shit and never gets an apology from said racist, get nerfed constantly, have her weapon poorly sautared back together while the rest of her team gets upgrades and has the weakest semblance of the three.

Seems alittle off white writers.

And who has the better fight record than the other?

... The minority?

Hm, seems off black complainer.

Oh did that sound racist? Hm, dunno why it sound considering you said the SAME THING

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https://sokumotanaka.tumblr.com/post/611636922643857408/so-let-me-get-this-straight-vol-7-has-ended-and

So Let me get this straight, vol 7 has ended and apparently they lost the one relic they had, still haven’t found the newer one or did but still have to deal with Ironwood and several others. Cinder is still alive, Neo is siding with her out of fear? When she wanted vengeance and could team up with rwby.

this is volume 7 of supposedly 10 so three more seasons and they still haven’t sat down and talked about what they’re supposed to to against the immortal grimm lady, they don’t know where the relic at beacon is and ozpin’s still ghosting them, and they’re foolishly gathering them all in one spot instead of taking the maiden and the relic and putting both of them on the farest corners of the planet? I thought they were going to atlas to meet with someone Weiss knew as the Anton Sokolov Play dishonored! of their world to build a rocket and send at least one rocket into a black hole and never have an issue with Salem again.

three more seasons and a plan hasn’t even been formed to deal with her or the relics, Emerald and Mercury are doing nothing, Cinder has no goal except to be the new adam and chase the heros and get her ass kicked, Hazel’s doing nothing, The comms are down and we haven’t heard a peep from whoever runs Vacuo, Blake and Ruby have still had barely any interaction, Weiss hasn’t apologized for her racism, We never addressed how and why did Raven appear in Yang’s dreams, Why did ren from shields over his hands and show off feats of strength that rival yangs or his weird ability to sense tyrian? Neo’s eyes changed color when she saw Raven and her teleport ability. Lore Like how semblance, Lien (the money that looks like credit cards but has zero numbers on it work) The examples of agriculture, Flora and Fauna, dust and so on.

A. Haven’t they said it’s more like twelve?

B. Nope, Ozpin’s back. But hey, who needs to actually KNOW what you’re talking about?

C. Can’t do that, don’t know where the Spring Maiden is. Would have known this if you watched Volume 6.

D. They never said that and expressly said they were meeting with Ironwood to get the relic somewhere secure. Gee, that’s the THIRD thing you’ve gotten wrong. Hm...

E.So Soku, how does Quirks affect agiculture? What were the original Quirks like? Who had the first Quirk? What was life like for people when Quirks were uncommon? Hm? Nothing is said?

MHA is shit, SOku said so.

But sure, three more seasons to cram that all in AND a plan and character interaction/Growth and so on, this is a lovely mess of a show.

And as you have shown, you paid attention to 0% of it so how would you know?

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So how’s that tar and feather treatment treating you Soku? Because I have so many more ways of humiliating you, happy showcase them as long as you open that bitchy little mouth of yours.

So go ahead and keep posting. It just lets me indulge my sadism without remorse.

[colony22graphics]

C. MODIUS » AU/RA - ASSASSIN 

It’s your back that you been stabbin’ When you gonna understand? You know you’re your own assassin.

[thesammchshop]

Cassian Mercer - Master File

B A S I C S

Name: Cassian Antonius Mercer

Nicknames: Cassian Anthony Mercer, Cas, Cass, Tony, Ian, “Cash Money”

Age: 28

Birthday: 24th Sun of the Fifth Umbral Moon

Species: Midlander Hyur

Gender: Male

Profession:

Actual: Architectus Ordinum (Rank lux) within the XIIth Legion of the Garlean Empire.

Cover: Professor of Allag Studies from the Asabra University in Thavnair.

P H Y S I C A L   A S P E C T S

Hair: Dark Brown

Eyes: Sky Blue

Skin: Tanned

Tattoos/Scars: Scar on cheek, burn scars on right arm, shrapnel scars on right side of torso, used to have a tattoo on his right arm but the burn removed it.

F A M I L Y

Siblings: Older sister, Antonia pyr Caesunus.

Parents: Antonius quo Mercer (Deceased?) and Tiberia nan Mercer (Caesunus)

Grandparents: Tiberius wir Caesunus

Misc Relatives: (Blank for the moment)

Pets:

Jack T. Dog - “JD” or just Jack, a Shibainu breed dog.

Bitto - His magitek bit often disguised in a hawk glamour.

M I L I T A R Y   R E C O R D

Current Rank: Lux

Legion: XIIth Legion, VIIth Cohort, IV Century

Commanding Officer: Bruno sas Sertorius

Station: Castrum Ortum, located to the north of Hingashi on the Asahi island chain. D.E.W. Research Base.

Unit Members:

Johannes quo Virotus - DEW Facility Centurion (Deceased)

Iouan pyr Blackclaw - DEW Facility Optio (Deceased)

Boun dus Takashita - “Bones”, Personal Assistant and Bodyguard of Cassian.

Amariko eir Yoshimura - Imperial Shadow, protector of Cassian.

Cato kir Modius - Second in command of the DEW Team, Defensive Specialist (Deceased)

Silver jen Eagle - DEW Team Blacksmith/Armorsmith (Deceased)

Flynn jen Megantus - DEW Team Mechanic (Deceased)

Aeva jen Maronus - DEW Team Artillery Specialist (Deceased)

Lenora jen Carver - DEW Team Aetheric Specialist

Aolani oen Keahi - Known Traitor, Wanted Dead or Alive, Whereabouts Unknown.

S K I L L S

Abilities: Offensive Weapons designer and specialist, Plasma and Direct Energy specialist, and Allagan tech aficionado. Basic combat training with a preference towards swords and firearms.

Hobbies: Cooking, botany, and reading.

T R A I T S

Most Positive Trait: Optimism.

Worst Negative Trait: Overconfidence.

L I K E S

Colors: Black, Reds, Dark Blues, Gold

Smells: Gunpowder, Oil, Metal

Textures: Leather, Steel, Cloth

Drinks: Bourbon, Tea, Coffee, Juice

O T H E R  D E T A I L S

Smokes: When designing anything, pipe.

Drinks: Socially

Drugs: Occasionally

Mount Issuance: Mechasus (Magitek Horse), Centurion Phoenix (Personal Airship), Magitek Predator.

Been Arrested?: Once, was framed by Aolani oen Keahi but later proved his innocence. 

HomeTown: Born and raised in Radz-at-Han before being sent to the Academy in Ilsabard.

[animus-inviolabilis]

On the left, Isis holds a sistrum, Serapis is wearing the modius, and their son Harpocrates-Horus holds a cornucopia. Dionysus is recognizable by his thyrsus. The right part of the relief is not preserved, it is not known to what event the four divinities were attending. The plaque was reused in the 4th-5th century AD as a Christian funeral slab: its back is carved with a monogrammatic cross and an epitaph.

c. 2nd century B.C. Found at Henchir el-Attermine, Tunisia

[Collection of The Louvre Museum]

[andreya-roche]

Incident Report: A. Roche ⟺ C. Modius

A. Roche: Incident reported in the Dining Hall on November 27 at 1320. Participants include Kaiser Bahr (Torren, SC3) and Unknown Party (Male presenting, Torren). As observed by Roche, Unknown Party struck Bahr in the Dining Hall, causing him to fall. Roche instructed onlooker L. Mersokov (Brink, SC1) to escort Unknown Party to the Infirmary to determine injuries. Roche currently with Bahr in Dining Hall to deescalate situation as needed.

[alois-the-real-boy]

BETWEEN THE WARS || alois & clove

@clove-modius​​

[[ Maybe in a few hours, Alois will have the capacity to wonder where the fuck some shit kid got bang snaps to begin with. He might even complain about the waste of resources, as if it was remotely worth extracting the modicum of silver fulminate for literally any other purpose. Or cigarette paper, like some tiny square of it would be good for something.

For now, though, thoroughly startled and in excruciating pain, all he really has the wherewithal to do is panic.

The sharp, percussive snaps! still rattle through Alois’ skull as he escapes around the nearest corner with a grimace, hands clapped uselessly over his ringing ears. He can hear the muffled yell of an adult, presumably someone who noticed his overexaggerated reaction. He can’t tell if they’re yelling at the kid or at him, so he keeps moving in the only logical direction he can think of: the nearby wing of Elite offices.

Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, Angel’s door is locked shut and Alois’ weak knock goes unanswered. He must be down at the docks. Alois’ throat tightens at the realization that he doesn’t know what to do next; Angel really has become a crutch he can’t function without, even -- maybe especially -- in terms of extremes. A quick, darted glance settles on Clove’s door across the hall instead. After only the briefest moment of hesitation, Alois crosses to try the door without knocking. Thankfully, it opens, and even more thankfully, only Clove is inside. Alois pushes the door shut again with the weight of his back, leaning heavily into it and trying to catch his breath.

Lise used to get panic attacks, he remembers, and has to wonder if this is what they felt like. ]]

I’m sorry, I-- I’m-- [[ Alois stammers between breaths. He shouldn’t be in here, not like this. There’s no good explanation for him being in here. ]] I was-- looking for Angel, but he’s not… [[ Alois trails off, not sure if he’s even making any sense. He squeezes his eyes shut and presses his lips together, and finally just shakes his head. ]]

[charlie-freakin-essex]

A UNIFIED FRONT || charlie & clove

@clove-modius​

[[ Charlie thought he’d had it bad trying to figure out Cambie’s schedule; trying to track Clove down over the past twenty-four hours has proven way more challenging.

It’s not that he doesn’t see him at all, more like every time he tries to approach his fellow Reformist it’s always ‘a bad time,’ and requests for a word are put off or brushed off. Charlie takes it in stride for a while, but the tension in him is building. They need to have a plan for when they’re ultimately in charge of breaking the news to a cluster of volatile Torrens, and Charlie wants them to be on a comfortably unified front.

Enough time passes that Charlie resigns himself to a more… direct, invasive route. Their suites are cater-cornered, so one evening after dinner, Charlie simply bypasses his own door to pause in front of Clove’s.

He doubts he’s going to be endearing himself overly much to his superior by going this route, but desperate times; for all he can tell, this is how the game’s been telling him to encounter Clove, so he’ll have to take the risk. Maybe it won’t be as unwelcome as Charlie is afraid of, and maybe the more personal setting will spur something of a more personal conversation. It’s all he can really hope for as he raps on the door to Clove’s suite with conviction. ]] Clove? It’s Charlie.

[mitch--douglas]

TIP YOUR BARTENDER || closed -- [awards event]

[[ No one was entirely sure how Mitch ended up on the wrong side of the bar at Catch 22 for the post-ceremony festivities, but considering the animated smile on the man's face as he bantered with one of the regular (actual) bartenders, it was easy to assume he'd somewhat inadvertently charmed his way into the position like he did so much else. It was partially strategic; considering that the Catch was bursting at the seams with people, it allowed Mitch an iota of separation from the crowd he probably couldn't eke out otherwise, helping him straddle that fine line between interacting with as many as he could and not getting overwhelmed. He might not have been as much the man of the hour as he was this time last year, but the weathered gold of the medallion affixed neatly to his lapel was proof that Mitch still couldn't fade into the background, despite all of his best attempts.

Taking that into account, he didn't know how long he had until he’d be found out and his temporary, self-appointed position overturned -- even if part of his argument had been that the alcohol was likely in its safest hands of the night, for how little he himself drank -- so Mitch was trying to make the most of it. What remained to be seen was whether he'd be relieved by an NWRF who was less susceptible to his unintentional charisma or a well-meaning friend who'd insist Mitch ought to be relaxing and mingling instead of attempting to serve, as was his eternal inclination. ]]

Now, I'll have you know that I've never bartended before in my life, so I have absolutely zero idea what I'm doing. But if it's any reassurance, I'm sure that any amount of knowing what I'm doing probably couldn't make a lot of this taste better, [[ he confided in his next unwitting client in a meandering way and with a disarmingly lopsided grin, fingertips drumming a quick pattern against the top of the bar. ]] With that ringing endorsement in mind: what'll it be?

[modius-labs]

Professional attire is very important.

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[colony22games]

TACTICAL SCENARIO - CYCLE 4, ROUND 4

MEI ZHU FITREI and DANTE CARRINGTON have carefully moved into Calyset territory. Neither are keyholders at this time. Trying to find a lantern, Mei Zhu climbs a tree to get a good vantage point, but they think they hear something nearby, and Dante tells her to wait there while he checks it out. Just as he disappears into the trees, CLOVE MODIUS approaches from the other direction. Not from CALYSET, he’s slightly less of a threat but he also appears be a keyholder, and has not yet seen either Mei Zhu or Dante.

CHOOSE ACTION: A) ATTACK B) WARN TEAMMATES C) HIDE until he passes

To choose ATTACK, please submit “Attack” to the GAMES BLOG ASK and the mods will execute a roll for you to determine the results.

To choose Options B or C, submit your play choice to the GAMES BLOG ASK and your results will be posted.