Starsign

"I've heard Claremont is a school for people with paranormal or metahuman abilities." Ashley knew where this was going, and knew how this would end. "Ashley, did something happen when you we're younger that you haven't told me?" Danielle knew her cousin was hiding something, Ashley's now terrified face showed all signs of it. Slowly, Ashley raised her hand in the air, as white electricity enveloped her hand for a moment, then she shot it out at a window near her. Upon impact, the glass shattered, sounds of crackling thunder and shattering glass filled the quiet house. Ashley turned to Danielle, who now had a look of shock on her face, to be expected, considering what she just saw. Ashley started to break out in tears, she never wanted anyone to know about her powers, but now there was no hiding. "I'm sorry Danielle, I didn't want you to know, because of what happened..." Danielle came up and embraced her in her arms, her look of shock now turned to remorse.

"What did you want Sis?" Ashley asked as she sat on a chair and pulled up next to the table. She could see Danielle's face more tense than usual, and a little flustered. She still wore her police uniform, so perhaps she just got home. "I received a letter from the headmaster of Claremont Academy, Mr. Duncan Summers. Danielle passes Ashley the letter. It was red with a gold border of sorts, on the front showed the words "To Ashley Culdis, from Mr. Summers." As Ashley opened the letter, Danielle stated, He's offering you to go to the academy as a student in September, and to be a guest till the end of the school year." Ashley's faced turned red, both knew what Claremont is and what this letter meant...

"As I've already told you, Ashley isn't ready for school yet. She still hasn't gotten acquainted to the city yet." That would be Danielle. ...There was silence for a few moments. "Well, I can talk to Ashley about it, if she's okay with it, I'll allow her to go." *CLICK* Danielle must have been talking to someone on the phone. "Ashley! Could you come down for a few minutes?" She was screaming through the house, normally she would come up to Ashley's room and knock on the door. "It must be important," Ashley thought as she opens her door and walks down to the kitchen table.

I actually have AIM now, I just forgot to add it on my account here (I'm doing that now). EDIT: OK, it's added now, can you get access to it?

OK, thanks Geez and Durf. Rycon will take HiPS and Power Attack (she may need the extra DC for her attacks, her knives should be sufficient for hitting opponents).

OK, so sounds like HiPS is choice number one. Now can I take both Power Attack and Sneak Attack and use them both on the same round? Rather, is it a good idea to take both Power Attack and Sneak Attack for a character like Rycon?

Eisen = Iron in German. Abschied, tapferer Krieger = Farewell, Brave Warrior (supposedly...) And we are done once Lone Star get's his last IC post up!

Rycon never heard of it either, her father worked for a company called Eisen, but this was new. Could it be a codename for something? Perhaps for a company or armor line? "Nope, never heard of this," "Me neither" stated Linda. Rycon decided it was time for her to leave, Danielle could be home by now. "Alright, I think it's time we take our leave. Linda, KC, if you have a cellphone, call the authorities, if not, head to the nearest police station you know." She took out two slips of paper from her pocket and gave one to each. Linda, call me if anything happens to you. Kid Cthuhlu, call if me you wanna meet up again, I enjoy the company." She walks to the light switch at a corner of the warehouse. Without turning around, she waves goodbye and says, "Abschied, tapferer Krieger." She turns off the lights and disappears into nothingness.

Rycon and Linda let out another chuckle. "If it was one, I would think the developers are complete otaku's." Rycon thought for a moment, then said, "Perhaps to the police, but before that, I wanna try something." She slowly takes one of her knives out of her pocket and begins to raise above her head. I'd stand back if I were you." She brings it down. *KCHING* The knife simply richoces off the armor, not even a dent was made. Rycon looked in surprise.

"You mean this?" Linda pointed at the object that had the flashing green light, which she had just noticed. "Yeah, that's probably it." It was a piece of body armor, went from the next, to the hips, covering the shoulders. It looked like it was designed for a male, due to it's anatomy. Rycon couldn't recognize the metal type. It wasn't shiny, had a rather dark blue color to it, and seemed to come with an inner layer of a thinner type of metal. Rycon turns to KC and Linda, "Do either of you have an idea of what this is?"

I've noticed that Rycon's feat total adds up to 14 rather than 16, so I have an extra 2 pp to add. I was thinking of Hide in Plain Sight (goes well with her stealth rank) and either Power Attack, Sneak Attack or All-Out Attack. could I have some advice on this please? More questions will come as Rycon acquires more pp.

Rycon gave a small chuckle, she was never treated like this before, though it did feel comforting. "I'm a little numb, but I think I can stand." She stands up with some help from KC and Linda, she felt better after that. "Did either of you see that man?" Linda shook her head, "No, it was so bright, I couldn't see anything. All I heard after the shot was a door slamming,"

As Linda looks over Rycon, she turns to her right only to notice a thug, still, making no sound whatsoever. "Hey, look at this." she calls Kid Cthuhlu over, who just turns his head. She Linda moves closer, she notices the thug twitching, then a sound. "Ugh..." Linda, in shock runs over to a corner of the warehouse and grabs a folding chair. She runs back to the thug, now sitting up, not sure of what's happening right now. Suddenly Linda smashes the chair on the Thug's head, breaking it in half. The thug falls like a lamp, only being conscious for about ten seconds. As the smash of the chair was heard. All white started to disperse into colors, then a figure. Rycon noticed KC was holding her, but she seemed conferable as is at the moment. She was relieved there was someone else there, as she quietly spoke "I thought I told you to run away..."

Rycon saw white. Then, she saw an image, the ceiling of a building. She found herself strapped to a bed of some sort. Voices coming from the room next door. "Rycnov, you are not given a choice here, your daughter would be in much safer hands if you paticipated." "Have you gone mad sir? You know what this will do for the company!" "You need to understand that there's more at stake here than a simple operation, this is-" "A simple stepping stone for some government takeover?!" "You caught on fast, like always. Don't you realize that this can throw away our fallen apart government and restore it?" "To begin another World War? I refuse!" "...Rycnov, even the best planned idea won't work, that's why we try. You want to save your daughter, you know it can be done." "...Fine, let's begin the operation." Everything goes white again...

Rycon was nearing the green light that was at the back of the warehouse, nearing the last corner before a straight path... *CLICK* Everything became bright. The lights in the warehouse turned on. KC and Linda peeked into the place to see what happened. Rycon found herself face-to-face with a scientist, tall, confident smile, didn't look like he came from America. He was an immegrent, Russian? No, German. Rycon knew this man. "You're...!" before the scientist concealed himself and left, Rycon noticed a gun was staring at her head. *BANG*

"This," Linda just smiled and then snapped a picture of KC with her camera. "I like to take pictures of everything that I find unique, I just forgot about it recently with what's been going on." Meanwhile, Rycon moved in, staying against the walls so that she might avoid setting off a trap, her breathing was slow and in control. No sweat poured out, she was a calm as a feather without wind.

Rycon gave a small chuckle when KC said "dissociative personality disorder," "I know what you mean." She took a deep breath... "There's the warehouse!" ...Then released in relief as Linda interrupted the conversation. Rycon was glad she didn't have to say anything more about herself, though she liked the company. The three had their backs against the warehouse walls, just next to the open door, it seemed like no one was home, all the lights were out, only a small blinking light could be seen. "Okay, you two stay here, if something happens, run away and call authorities. KC, guard Linda well." and before the other two could say anything, Rycon had infiltrated the area.

No, it's fine, I'm sturdier than I look." "I wish," Rycon thought. Rycon cursed quietly under her breath, "I never should've said that... It's not something I like to talk about, how about later?" That operation brought back painful memories for her, the fact that she can remember it nearly perfectly didn't make it easier to forget.

"That's about as believable as his origin will get," Rycon concluded in her head. "I was born with a brain error in Germany. My body couldn't react with my brain fast enough and as a result, I struggled with communication. At six, me and my father were forced into an operation thatnot only cured my brain issues, but actually upgraded it. I can now create and throw lightning using my mind, I can also teleport around and remember almost any event that happened in the past. For an example, when I was fourteen, my fa- OOF! Rycon started to forget that she wasn't paying attention and walked into brick wall. Both Linda and KC probably didn't want to hear about Rycon's life story anyway.

While she was a little icky about shaking hands with a squid, she decided to accept and firmly shook KC's hand, having a small smile on her face in acceptance. She was surprised that his hand wasn't covered in slime. Rycon's smile immediately broke and she started squeezing KC's hand tighter than normal. You better not be making this up. Who is this squid anyway, and how would your mother fall in love with him? Rycon sprouted those words more slowly than usual, trying to convoy the message that She. Was. Not. Amused.

Rycon was breathing heavily during the transformation, hearing the shriek and flutes and watching the boy transform into the squid that she first saw. Rycon closed her eyes as they walked and relaxed a bit so she was sure she didn't go insane or senile. She looked back at Linda, who had a look of fascination oh her face. "Rycon," she didn't like to be called anything other than Ashley, Rycon or Sis (if it's by Danielle). "I took that name afte-" "That was SO COOL! How did you do that? How did you obtain such powers? are you even human?!" she found herself cut off by Linda who was speaking so fast she wasn't even breathing mid-sentence. Rycon was rather disturbed by Linda's sudden outburst.

Rycon looked in shock, not only at how younger she thought KC is, but at what he just did. "Showing off his identity, when we've only known each other for 10 minutes?! Rycon couldn't figure if this guy was carefree, careless, fearless, foolish, or a combination of all four. "...No, I'd prefer you being your alter ego if we're going to be superheroes here." Rycon halfheartedly stated. "You can call me a jerk, I call myself serious.

Rycon turned away from Linda to KC "You're quite the confident... uh... hero," Rycon scratched her head, trying to find a good term for him. "But what about Linda? There could be more thugs after her and I don't think there's a police building anywhere near here." Danielle said she works at a police station in South Freedom, but never mentioned anything about one in West End. Linda spoke up, "I can show you the way there you can find it south of here, but I'd like you two to stay near me, just in case more do come." Her offer seemed like the best thing that has happened today for Rycon. "Sounds like the best course of action, let's not waste any time." Rycon waves to the two as she starts walking off south, with the two coming close behind.

"If they would send guards all across this area to catch one female, it's probably more than an 'import' Rycon now had a really bad feeling about getting involved. Still, if what that thug said earlier is true, then any evidence of an 'import' would disappear. "Yes, I overheard at least 3 voices, they were talking about a sort of prototype that they stole from their 'former acquaintances'." Linda hesitated before she opened her mouth to speak again, only for Rycon to lightly put a finger on her mouth. "They illegally smuggled it from a foreign country." Rycon showed worry and a bit of weakness on her face, "I think just by your description, they're a group of terrorists, hiding somewhere in West End."

"Kid Cthulhu... An interesting name." Rycon felt that KC acted human enough, even if he may be lying about him having a human form. "Yes, to the point. What happened her miss? The woman seemed a bit anxious, which was unsettling to Rycon. "My name is Linda Questa, I'm was on a stroll throughout this area looking for a man, when I came upon an abandoned warehouse." Rycon had a feeling where this was going, and cuts Linda off. "Let me guess, those thugs we beat were guards that came after you just because they saw you." "Something like that, they were no guards, I was passing by as I overheard some people, mobsters perhaps, talking about something they 'imported' from Europe." Linda emphasized the word 'Imported.'