You spin out and find yourself in another world, knowing that you've versed again.  It's night and you try to gain focus, and then someone grabs you.  A man has a needle in his hand and the injection's already inside of you.  You try to fight them off, but they hold you strong.  You can't tell how many there are, and then you're out cold.

You wake up again with a headache in combat boots, green pants, a black shirt, and a button-up green jacket.

The room is completely white and your headache gets worse.  There are two doors in the room, one large and steel and the other plain and slightly darker than the walls.

A voice comes and you can't identify its origin.  "Sir, if you could please, state your name."

"My name is Avahur, where am I, how did I get here, and where is my Armor?"

I look around for my stuff and see what I can find.

You look around and see nothing in the room other than the doors.

The voice doesn't respond do your questions and continues.  "Avahur, please state your full name and date of birth."

"My full name is Avahur, my date of birth...well I don't remember it... Is there anything else?"

The voice doesn't act as if you said anything important and says, "Thank you, Avahur.  Proceed through the plain door to commence the filtering process.  The exit is on your left.  Good luck."

You hear a click from the plain door a little darker than the walls and you naturally infer that it unlocked.

I prepare myself for whatever may happen through the door...

Hmm, as far as I know, my stuff comes with me...it can't be that far from here, and so long as I think ahead, and don't do anything stupid, I should be able to get my stuff back.  Just have to stay focused and follow my heart, my instict, and my training...

I head on through the door ready to move or dodge or anything, glancing everywhere as I walk through.

You walk through the door with your eyes scanning the room.  It's a small room.  Its walls are white like the last one, but there are 4 squares in sight.  One is in the center of the floor, one in the center of the ceiling, one on the wall to your left and one on the wall to your right.

The room is approximately 20ftx20ft with the ceiling 10ft high.  Something you can't help but notice is the temperature of the room.  Breathing the air is even dehydrating you and you can tell the temp is high, over 100 degrees.  There's a door identical to the one you just went through accross the room.

I concentrate for a moment and cup my hands, I try to create water in my hands to splash my face with to cool me down a bit, then I take a look at my current situation.

Lets see, theres something about those squares that aren't right...

I bring my hand forward and try to open the door with the spell I learned back at the accademy.

Should it work, I look to see what's beyond it.

Should it fail, I try to unlock the door, should that fail, I think of something else... should it succeed I try to think of the next course of action...

You splash water in your face in an attempt to cool yourself off and then try to open the door.  You can feel yourself losing some energy through magic, but not much.  Still, the door doesn't budge.

You look around the room and notice something.  There are tiny holes all in the floors and walls, except for in the doors and squares.

Well, it looks like the holes might be a trap...lets see what I can do about this.

I create some dirt and solidify it into a ball, then a take it and throw it into the room at the door. Waiting to see what happens to the dirt.

Once the dirt leaves your arm and goes a few feet, fire is unleashed seemingly at random in the room.  By the time the dirt reaches the other side, however, it is burnt to a crisp.

Every time fire is shot out, it seems to have a diameter of about 4 inches from its location.  It comes from the walls and also the floor and ceiling.

I figured as much, this won't be easy to pass...

I generate some water and shoot it across the room, not much but enough to cause watever senses there are to shoot fire at it..

I watch the results.

The results are the same as the dirt essentially.  The last drop of water is destroyed when the water is only at half way accross the room.  The flames continue to shoot now, and you see that you're currently standing on holes in the floor.  There is no part of the floor without holes.

I create some small amount of dirt, and throw it sloe to the ground...

after I see the result, I create a ball of dirt and roll it across the ground.

Each one of your attempts yields the same results.  Now, you're starting to feel tired from the effort in this heated room.  Sweat is beading down your face and you slouch some from slight exhaustion.

Hmm, interesting....

I walk out of the room back to where I started.

You feel a bit safer back in this room, but the fire is still raging on in the room ahead of you.

I rest for a bit and call out...

"Is anyone there?"

The room stays silent.

You can still hear the flames dancing in the other room.

I recover my energy and brainstorm a bit to see what I come up with using the information that I already know.

Through your short rest, you regain some of your strength and feel that you can't gain any more aside from eating a healthy meal.

As you ponder, you find that there is most likely an exit somewhere beyond that room, and that there's some way to unlock the door to the next room.  You infer that the squares in the room are probably linked in some way to unlocking the door.

I go back into the room and use the incendo spell on the flames to see how it affects the flames if any bit at all.

Your fire doesn't effect the flames at all.

I try to extinguish the flame with the wind.

Your wind is released in a giant burst of power and blows the flames towards the other side of the room.  When new flames burst out, they're blown in that direction soon.  You're not sure how long you can hold this force, but it is much stronger than your normal ability.

I run to the first square, and continue running to the door, if its locked I immeadiately try to get the the closest square to me ready to blow wind at any fire that comes up..
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You run up to the square in the middle of the floor and step on it.  Quickly, it turns a solid blue color and you hear a ding.  The other squares remain the same and you don't hear the door ahead of you unlock.

You add more magic into the gusts knocking the fire towards the exit to protect you.

I look around and immediately dash to another square using the wind to blow away any fire I see as I have been doing.  If I hear another ding, and the door doesn't unlock, I continue to go to the other squares. and after the last square if the door unlocks, I continue to use the wind to blow the fire away and get to the door.

You jump up to hit the square directly on the ceiling above you.  You hear another ding, but not click of the door.  At that, you hurry to the right side of the room to press the button.  When the wind stops blowing, you try to push more magic into it, but there are no effects.

The flames dance through the room once more, but being half way to the other side of the room, you gun for it and hit the square.  Finally, the door clicks unlocked and the flames in the room cease, the temperature going down to an average room temperature.

*panting*

Wow....that...was...intense....looks like I hit my limit, I'm going to need to recover a bit, might as well see what the next room is like first though.

I go over to the door, still alert and open the door to see what beyond it, still ready to move based on instinct.

You open the door towards you and find a room with a layer of ice as a floor.  You don't see anything underneathe the ice.  The room looks about 40 meters long and 20 meters wide.  The ceiling is the same height as the last room.  About 20 meters down, you see some slits in the wall on both sides, but you can't tell what's inside of them.

Looking around the room, you find that on the wall it says "Thin Ice."  There's a door at the far end of the room, straight ahead.

I stay where I am looking around the room carefull and I try to regain my energy.  I create some water to drink for myself.  I continue to rest till I regain all of the energy that I can.

You sit in the priorly heated room and regain your composure.  You feel your stomache growl, but that's all it's doing right now.  There are no hunger pains yet.  With water in your system, your stomache ceases growling and you feel like you've recovered a good amount of energy.

Thin ice, eh? lets see if fire can melt this ice, then perhaps swimming through this will be easier, and allow me to bypass  some of the traps that may hit me if I tried running through.

I create a small amount of fire at the wall closest to me, but still infront of me by about 3 feet, to see if it melts, or anything happens.

You use a small amount of fire to melt the ice.  You control the fire perfectly and the ice it lands on melts a hole slightly bigger than the fireball was.  You look down at the hole and find that there's only blackness down there, a pit of some sort.  You can't see the bottom.

A pit, eh? looks like I won't be melting this ice..

I create a small ball of dirt and throw it to the left side of the door on the opposite side of the room.

You form the ball of dirt with ease from your hand, but solidifying it takes some energy out of you.  Once it reaches where the slits are, you see large cleavers spring out of the wall.  They continue to go out of the wall and back in.  Their heights, you estimate, are about 3 ft and 6 inches.  There are four cleavers on each wall and the heights alternate.  The dirt is cut in half by one of the cleavers and doesn't hit the ice as a whole.

Ok, thats interesting...

I create some dirt, not solidifying it and throw it at the ground about 6 feet in front of me...more lobbing it then throwing it.

Should nothing happen, then I test the ground in front of me to see if its stable and could support my weight.

You lob the loose dirt over into the ice.  Even though the dirt is loose, the ice cracks madly.

The cracks extend about 1 foot from the dirt on all sides.  You have the feeling that given time or any more weight that there will be a hole in the ice right there.

I generate a little more dirt and throw it on the spot, intending to watch it crumble away.... then, while still in the doorway between the 2 rooms, I will take off my outer jacket, and dip it into the hole thats created to see if it is merely an illusion or if there is really a hole there. then I retrieve it.....unless something destroys it...and I put it on if it still remains... so long as nothing bad happens to it.

Your test results in the fact that there is in fact a hole there.  Making the dirt is dipping deeper into your energy now, and you feel that if you continue using magic at this frequency and difficulty that you'll need nutrients soon.

I try to levitate myself in the air just above the floor..

You manage to levitate yourself a foot from the floor with a steady release of small amounts of energy.  With a little more force, you raise yourself higher to about 3 feet.  It requires more energy, but you think that you can make it accross the field of ice to the other side of the room.

I release myself from the spell and rest to restore as much energy as possible, knowing that what I do next will use up just about all of my remaining energy.

You let yourself fall into a temporary daze, resting your mind and body for the upcoming struggle.  Suprisingly, when you're done resting, you feel almost as good as new and definately functional; however, your stomache growls and you can now feel the hunger.  Still, it doesn't hinder your focus yet.

I get up levitate myself into the air a little bit, about a foot, then I levitate myself over to the middle of the room.  When I get to where the spears are, I use a simple fire spell to melt the ice on the Floor in front of me, all the way to just before the door.  Then I levitate myself down into the hole, beneath where the traps are and up over to the door.

If this doesn't work one of two things will happen, either A I die, and verse out of here.  Or B this is a virtual reality room of some sort, pain, hunger and everything else is real, except you can't die and its used for training soldiers, so that if I fall I leave the room and they tell me stuff and give me a stupid shpiel... Well I hope this works.

You easily levitate yourself over to the middle of the room.  While keeping your focus on levitation, you unleash your flames and use your flames to melt the ice completely how you wished.  You can feel your powers dieing down and you're comforted by letting yourself drop below the cleavers.  You feel your levitation giving way when you move slowly over towards the door.

Just when you're about to lose focus, you release a mass of energy with ease into your levitation to raise you to the door.  You reach it, opening it easily, and collapse into the doorway.

You're breathing deeply as you look around the place.  It's a hallway with 5 full sized mirrors on the left and right of the room, as well as one at the end.  They each have doorknobs on them.

I pull myself into the room slightly and pass out due to energy loss.

You find the rest everything that you needed, aside from food.

After a nap that you can't calculate in length, you wake up with severe pain in your stomache.  You feel that you've gained about half of your energy back and your mouth is dry.

I create some small amoutn of water and drink it, then sit up and look around the room with more detail involved.

You drink the water and look around more closely.  The room is a narrow hallway with five full-sized mirrors on each side, as well as one mirror on the very end.  All of them have doorknobs.  Each of the ones on your sides are identical, but the one at the end has a black border instead of a brown one.

As usual, I creat a small amount of dirt, and throw it down the hall way, watching where the small bits land, and if anything happens to them, or to what they hit.

When you summon the dirt, the hunger pains intensify and you feel a little less energetic.

You manage to throw the dirt all the way down to the end of the hallway and it hits the upper half of the mirror.  Nothing seems to happen to the dirt.

I walk over between two mirrors, grab on to the doorknobs, and walk forward, pulling them both open behind me, then I turn around to see if anything happens, ignoring the pain in my stomach.

You grab the two first doorknobs to pick yourself up, but find that they're both locked.  But, there's something else that suprises you some.  The doorknobs have different feels to them.  The doorknob on your left feels somehow hollow while the one on your right feels like a normal doorknob.

I go and feel the other doorknobs.

The rest of the doorknobs all feel like normal doorknobs.  All of them are locked except for the one with a black border.

I go over to the hollow doorknob, and kick it. Then if Nothing happens, I kick the mirror to see whats behind it.

You kick the doorknob and find that it pops off with ease.  Then, you kick the mirror and it shatters, revealing a hallway painted green and brown.

At the end of the hallway, you see a room that's some sort of office.  There is a screen facing him, away from you, and he looks up towards you.  From this distance, you can still tell by his posture that he's suprised.

After a moment of regaining his composure, he signals for you to come to him and take a seat while his other hand gets out some papers.

I go over and take a seat as he pulls out the papers.

The man is older than you are, but you take it that he's in his 40's.  You easily recognize the man's voice as he pulls a pen out of his suit jacket and speaks, "Avahur, you've passed this test and are officially a citizen of the United States of America.  You seem to be older than 21, so I will set that as your legal age in the event that you don't remember your own.  Also, you are in need of a last name and may pick your first if you so choose."

He looks at you, waiting for a response.

"I'm 26, and my last name, you can put down Calafalas.

Could you tell me where my armor and weapons are?"

"For the time being, you may receive your blades back, but you need to get a permit as soon as possible for posessing exotic weaponry from the nearest gunstore after you settle down.  Your armor is also in the next room, with your swords, but I honestly don't suggest putting it on in public."

He smiles lightly, and then says, "I apologize, but your bag has currently been detained by the government.  This is a government funded operation here, and your bag is being investigated because of 'reasonable suspicion' at a nearby military base."  After he's done scribbling something on paper, he gets out some sort of palm pilot and inputs something.  Then, he hands you the papers that he was writing on and says, "If you can sign that this information is true, sir, then you will now have papers for citizenship."

"Sir, I've been in the military on multiple occasions, I'd like to visit this military base.  Surely if they are detaining my bag, then my visiting them wouldn't be that much of a surprise.  Now, despite what people may think, I enjoy having my armor on, I train in it, and out of it, and I prefer to have it on, atleast until I get settled.

Also, if I find out anything is missing, heads will roll as the saying goes."

I read through the papers breifly and sign where needed, after making sure the info is true, I ask about anything questionable, and once everything is said and done I hand them back to the guy.

After that is done, I head in to the next room, grab my 3 swords, and my armor, and come back to the guy.

"Now, where is this military base, I've got some business to take care of in the way of getting my bag back.  Surely you know, now where is it?"

The only qustionable part of the paperwork is that it says you will receive $500,000 into your newly established bank account.  When you ask, he states that it is courtesy of the show for you completing the maze.  He explains that the United States government and this gameshow work togeather to accomplish a goal dealing with immigration and drafts.

When you exit to the next room and return with your weapons and amor, the man says, "It's somewhere out of town, but I'm not even sure which base they'd send your things to.  This was a first on my part, them taking a candidate's things away for inspection."

"Eh, it's not really a surprise consider I've been in the military, and I've got so many weapons, clothing, and devices and such; unless that common around here... Do you have a vehicle I could comandeer?"

"In the next room, a man will give you a bus pass for free transportation in the city that will last a month."  He hurredly gives you some papers.  You see two white and one full page printed sheets that you've signed.  Also, there's a smaller pink one that is about the size of 1/4 of the page.  You haven't signed this one.  "Please, take that to the man in the next room for clearance and authorization to exit."

"Ok."

I head into the next room, and after signing anything that I need to sign,

i head into the next room and give the man my authorization papers.

In the next room, a large, stocky man is standing next to a crate with a suitcase next to it.  Behind him against the wall, you see a large machine that you don't understand its function from here.  It looks like some sort of ATM machine, though.  There's a spot to slide something like a card in and other paper-holes in it.  There's also a screen on it and at the top you see "Cefalas, Avahur."

The large man makes a motion for you to come forward and offers his hand towards you.  You can't tell if he wants the papers or to shake your hand.

Well, first off my last name is spelled wrong, its Calafalas C-a-l-a-f-a-l-a-s...also, need something? Papers, a handshake, some training...what? You could atleast say something and not be so quiet..

He nods towards the papers and, once he gets them, moves towards the machine.  He puts the smallest pink one in, after signing it in a blank spot, into the machine and types something else on it.

After a few moments, a light on the machine at the top turns yellow, then after a while green.

He pulls something from the machine, but it's too small for you to see from where you are right now.  His large frame also blocks your view.

Soo....? Am I good to go? or what?

He turns to you and presents you with two cards.  One seems like an ID of some sort and another has a place on it that seems like it would go into a credit card scanner.  "Mr. Celafalas, your money has been transfered into this card and it also has a month's supply of bus passes on it."

He then gestures over to the crate and suitcase.  You'd already gotten your things out of the crate, all but your healing device and laptop.  "The suitcase is filled with casual attire.  I doubt taht you want to look like that in public.  Also, you must have a permit to carry exotic weaponry like those swords.  Please get a permit as soon as possible.  The exit is through the door behind me at your first right."  Now, he offers you his hand to shake and says, "Have a nice life, Mr. Celafalas."

I shake his hand, and go and retrueve my laptop and my healing device, then I ask him where the military base is...for future reference.
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He explains that he just works here and doesn't know the exact address, but that it should probably be listed in the city-wide directory when you get into town.

"In the suitcase, there's also a calling card that has 3600 minutes on it to get you started."  He says to you as you fumble with all of your things.  You decide on gut to put them all in the crate, and they fit nicely now that the crate has room for the suitcase.

Soon, you open the door and walk out of the complex.  You're at the bottom of a large staircase.  When you go up, light makes your eyes take a moment to focus on and you find that you're outside.

After my eyes adjust to the light of going from indoors to outdoors quickly I head to the nearest bus stop to obvious go on a bus.  Once there, I take a bus and go find some place relatively cheap to stay as my home base of ops.

While you're going around on your bus, you find that your choices are as follows, from cheapest to most expensive:

1. A cruddy apartment in a dangerous neighborhood.
2. A decent apartment in an apartment complex near a highschool.
3. Renting a house in a quiet neighborhood.

The bus driver glances at you from time to time, wondering when you're going to get off with all of your things.

Hmm posibilities...well i suppose I should rent a house in a quiet neighborhood, make sure there is a decent security system, and stuff.  That way I can still train when I'm not out doing stuff.  A crap house in a dangerous place..well not wuite my style, the dangerous part, maybe, but not a crap place. and the decent stuff..well it is next to a highschool...hmm thats also a good choice....bah time to throw a mental coin, heads its the quiet place, tails its the highschool area.

<Time bubble...>

There, well thats decided, I'll go rent a house in a quiet neighborhood...apartments aren't wuite my thing anyway...And I'll probably need to make sure its got some type of security system, go out get enough food for several weeks, and get a bag large enough to hold all my stuff.

I get off eventually and go find a place to live for a while in a quiet neighborhood.

You head for the house for rent and ring the doorbell.  There's a man at the door that's large and bulky.

After a short while, you've looked at the house and find that it doesn't have a security system in it.  It has two bedrooms, one bathroom and a kitchen connected to the living room.  It is one floor and you feel as if it's overpriced.  In this place, you'd be able to pay rent for a while though without running into any trouble with money.

The system for payment is a pad that you type in the amount to transfer to the other man and then you swipe your card through it.

I tell him that I'll keep it in mind and I leave, off to check out the apartment complex.

It's a bit much, lets see, if I go get a decent apartment, perhaps I can check out the highschool.... and if that doesn't work, there is always starting a revolution in the crap neighborhood.

You catch the bus and ride to check out the apartment complex near the highschool.  When you arrive, you get to see the apartment.  It is three major rooms with the living room connected to the kitchen.  The bathroom is next to the bedroom, and you suprisingly have a spare room.

It all seems pretty well kept and rent would be easy to handle with the money that you have.  It comes with a TV, but no cable.

Well, since I don't watch TV anyway...sounds good.

I rent the apartment and use the spare room for training. Once the place is mine, I go to it and into the spare room, keep the create in the corner and empty the room of everything.  Then, I start training for an hour or so, working on my shurikenjutsu.

You practice shurikenjutsu for about an hour and look to a clock that was already on the wall.  You notice that the hour hand isn't moving and currently it looks like 2:20.  Just then, you hear something outside.

When you look out the window, you find that a school bus stopped at the apartment and about ten kids, all looking like teens, get out and start walking towards the apartment.

Hmm, tomorrow this time, I think I'll head over to the school, and pay a visit to the administration office...see what they offer....and perhaps get myself an apprentice...

I look around the apartment and try to find either a safe, or a place where I could hide my stuff.  If I can't find one, I'll need to make one...

You look around the apartment with the future for this world in mind.  You find that the apartment is hardly furnished with one couch, two chairs with a table in the kitchen, and a queen-sized bed.

The only places that you can see to hide your things without destroying something to make room is in your bedroom closet or perhaps underneath your bed.

I go check the closet, and look for a place in the closet that can is hallow, with a board over it, so that I can make a hole in it, put my stuff in it to keep it hidden, then replace the cover.  If I can't find such a place, I go take another look to see if I missed anything or any place to hide things.

You look in the closet and can't find anything.

Throughout your search, you soon find that you're getting a headache from the searching and irate that you can't find somewhere better than a closet to hide your things.

You hear another bus out the window and as you look, you see other kids coming home, younger than the highschoolers.

This really sucks... bah... I'll just have to hid it here...

I put the crate on teh ground, and take whatever I can find to throw it in top of it to keep it covered..  In general I amke it look like I'm a messy person, even though I'm hiding stuff... So I also make the bedroom area look like crap anyway.  I leave one layer of covering to sleep with, on top of the bedsheets.  and after the room is a dissheveled mess.  I go over to the wall and meditate for an hour or so. Then after that I get up and train some more.

Well, when its really early about 1 in the morning or so, I'll head outside and try to find a store that is open to get some food.. This way, when most people are asleep, I won't be around to disturb my neighbors, and I can get a general sense of the neigborhood's nightlife.

You throw some of the things, mainly clothes, from your suitcase around the room before you begin meditating so that it looks messy (By the way, what are you wearing while you meditate?).

As you meditate, you feel your mind drift and you feel something else present, and then breathing on your face.  When you open your eyes, you see a woman.

She has gray skin with an evening dress, bloody on her right shoulder and the blood still trickling down.  When she opens her eyes, they are dazzling white with the pupils red.  Her brown hair is also bloody, but her head is the worst sight of all.  It is as if the right side of her head, above her shoulder, was crushed inward.

You feel a stillness come over you, and you're immobilized from fear when she shrieks not a foot from your face.

I look at the woman and although a little freaked as it surprised me, I quickly analyze the situation going through everything I know and have read and quickly run through a list of 10 possibilities.  Looking at everything that could cause this.

((Avy's note: The human mind is complex, and with training this can be done in under a second...))

Then I looked at the woman and in one of those lazy type of voices..

"Eh?  What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be dead?  Bah, if someone is going to kill you, they need to do it right..."

Now I am just annoyed, so regardless how how scary it be seem, I am going to make it like everything else that pisses me off...its dead.

I grab my sword, and mid sitting-kneeling transaction, I quickly draw my sword and slice through its stomach, then aim to slice off its head should that not be enough.

"See, when things piss me off, they die...seriously, in the afterlife, ask Achilles, hes the gy that attacked troy, way back in history..  He was annoying and pissed me off, so I killed him, and that's how I got this armor that I'm waering.  Now next time do me a favor and knock, you may be dead, but atleast show some mannerisms.."

You quickly get a grip of your fear and your mental process is running strong.  Though you feel like your insides are still twisting from her sight, you bring your sword out on her.

Your sword goes all the way through her body without resistance, as if her body were made of some sort of colored mist.  She then shrieks again, sending a burst of wind all around you.  Your hair flies back and your eyes narrow to hold back the pressure from drying your eyes out.

In an instant, she's back against the wall and vanishes into it.

That was.....interesting...

I look around and inspect the wall where it vanished, and then continue to inspect my rooms, making sure they are all fine.  After this I check the door and entry/exitways to make sure they were as they had been prior to this event.  Then I look outside to see if anything has changed, since that was obviously not there before.  After this, I meditate, with my eyes open, and do a wallsit as well..

You search the entirety of the apartment and confirm that it is all clear and there is no sign of the woman.

Through your searches, you find that everything is okay and you see two highschool boys walking down the hallway casually away from your location, not looking at you.

You hear a lot of thumping in the room above you, but it stops after a minute.  After that, you resume your meditations.

After only one minute, you feel a cold hand brush your right cheek.  You instantly draw you sword to face whatever it is, but you don't see anything.

I take a step back and swipe my sword through the air of where I was sitting, should something be invisible or silightly ethereal it'd be dead if it was still here.  Then after that I leave my apartment lock the doors and lock anything I can think of, and then I headoff to speak with the dude that owns the place that rented me the room to talk to him about hauntings and such, and see if there is any past history of such stuff in my room.

You slash your sword at nothing and then head out of your room, locking the doors and windows.

You approach the information desk at the front of the building.  Two nice college girls are currently on the job and as you approach them, they giggle at your clothing.

When you ask them about events in the room, they wisper to eachother for a second, and then the blonde speaks up.  "People have had weird occurances in that room, but I personally don't believe it.  It's mostly just people's electricity messing up and they claim to lose things more often than normal in that room.  Still, I wouldn't call it a haunting.  It just sounds like forgetfulness to me."

Then, her friend, a brunette, speaks up while rolling her eyes.  In a calm voice, she says, "It's probably a more troublesome spirit if there is one.  I heard a rumor that a woman died in there a while back."

Her friend looks back at her for an instant and retorts, "If there were a violent ghost in there like that, they'd have quarantined us by now!  Think before you talk about stuff like that!"  They look like they're apt to continue bickering if you don't intervene.

I can believe a woman died in there, since I saw her...here I'll explain it to you.

She has gray skin with an evening dress, bloody on her right shoulder and the blood still trickling down.  When she opened her eyes, they are dazzling white with the pupils red.  Her brown hair is also bloody, but her head is the worst sight of all.  It is as if the right side of her head, above her shoulder, was crushed inward.

Enough of an explanation? I can go on if you'd like.  She scared me at first, cus when you meditate and see something like that when you open your eyes, yeah it freaks you out...then feeling something cold on you shortly after that yeah its understandable that there is hauntings...all I know that the woman definitely was dead, cus I sliced through her with this sword here...


I pulled out and showed the sword, then put it away..

it sliced right through her as if nothing was there... almost as if it was an ethereal being that was partially on this  matterial plane where we live and partially on the ethereal plane. So yeah next time you feel you'd like to know either some insaenley true stories, or would like training in weapons, or would simply like to check the room out, feel free to stop by.  Now I'm off to make sure my stuff isn't removed...if it is..well more heads will roll than there was blood on that woman...

I then headed back to my room and made sure nothing was disturbed and it was still unmolested like it was when I left it.  Then I go over to make sure all my stuff is where it was.  I take note of the time roughly when the haunting of sorts occured and keep it in mind, should something similar happen tomorrow at the same time.
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Before you leave, the blonde says, "Sir, do you want us to call the authorities for you about the incident?  Nothing as powerful as this has happened here recently, and we've had people living in that room.  If you'd rather just buy protection from the spirit, I know a decent place down the street from here."

The redhead seems to already be writing down something on a memo pad while the blonde is talking to you.

Perhaps, but not now, maybe tomorrow, I wish to test out the theory whether or not is shows up at the same time as it did today.  And if it does, I will be ready for it.

The last thing that the blonde says to you is, "And sir, please if you could not bring your weapons into the open in the complex, it would be much appreciated.  It isn't anything personal, but we don't want to scare any potential guests."

You look at the time on the wall (3:17) as you head back up stairs into the hallway on the second floor, where your apartment is located.  When you enter, you find the same, average apartment as always.

You feel a slight breeze when you come in, but nothing more.  You sit there with your sword at the ready for about fifteen minutes with no incidents.

I go and find the casue of the breeze... not caring at what the girl said earlier, as I don't care about potential customers...because I know if I saw someone looking similar to myself, it would give me a reason to stay and find more out about it.

Once I find and take care of the breeze, while always being on my guard as this all occured, I call out to anyone that may be in the apartment..

Is anyone here? if so please show yourself... if we can have peaceful talk, everything will be fine.  I do not wish harm upon anything or anyone, and if anyone here would be so kind as to reveal yourself, perhaps we could work out any problems that you would have.

You don't find any windows opened or any potential for a breeze.  Then, you go out into your main room and call out for whatever it is to come out.

At first, you're met by silence, but when you look around more, you find the same dead woman in front of you.

She stands in your face for a moment, and you feel the same gripping fear on you.  You find that you're rigid in your place, locked with fear in one spot.  Then, she vanishes towards you and you're knocked onto your back.  The armor seems to have protected you from a hit, but you could feel the thud on the armor as something hit you in the chest.

You're looking up and see the woman above you on the ceiling, as if she were laying down on the ceiling like you.

You begin to feel like you can move again, but only barely.

Lady, lemme explain to you what I know... You are dead.  If you don't believe me, go look in a mirror.  You just attacked me for whatever reason.  You seem to be an ethereal creature since you can attack me but not be hit when you don't want to be.  You are laying on a freaken ceiling and you look and appear to be deader that Alexander the Great....and a hell of a lot uglier.  So do me a favor and tell me why the (insert explicitive word for the time period) you are attacking me, and freaking me out.  If me being here offends you, go haunt the manager or the girls down stairs.  Kuso, don't get mad at me for anything I just bought this room to stay in.  Now if you or any friend of yours need to say something to me, why don't you all appear right now, and freak me out all at once? cmon I'm expecting and waiting for it now. Surely there are more spirits in here.  So might as well make it a party and explain why the (insert explicitive word for the time period) you are here and freaking me out...seriously.

Even though its hard to move and breather I say it all anyway, and gain some confidence as I do, expecting more people...spirits to come out and scare me.

The woman's pupils grow and her entire eyes are red now.  She lets out a horrid shriek and comes down to the ground.  You can spot her coming to reach for your throat.

You move your hand to stop hers, but it travels through her arm and shoots fear up your arm and down your spine, immobilizing you fully again.  She lifts you by the neck and raises her hand for a hard smack.  After three slaps to your face, she hits once more and you are thrown against the wall with a loud crash when you break a table on your course to the wall.

You begin to feel dizzy, but still afraid.  You've lost focus of where she is now.

I put my hands forward and yell at the top of my lungs a water type attack that can shoot water forward, nothing hard just something that I know I can do to wet whatever is in front of me, so that it hits the other side of the wall...

In your state, you still manage to release a flow of water accross the room.  It's small, but it still reaches the other wall.

You see the woman dashing accross the room towards and away from you, not hindered by the water at all.  Finally, she raises her hand as she comes at you again.

At that moment, you hear your door open and the blonde is inside of the room.  She drops a radio on the floor as some soft rock music comes out of it.  She also has what seems to be an expensive flashlight and is shining it all around the dimly lit room.  "Sir, if you could please vacate the room with me, that would be nice."

You just notice that you hear an alarm going off.  It's a very soft tone and perhaps soothing in other situations, but repeting.  You hear movement outside of your room, hurrying footsteps.

"Yeah sure, lemme re-orient myself with my surrounding as I'm a bit dizzy from being slammed into a freaken wall through a table.  So don't yell, its irritating, save it for after I've left..."

I go over and grab my stuff from its hiding place and walk out of the room ready to kill anyone in my way...

This is really annyoing...

It seems that the ghost has subsided for now.  You can't see her anymore and the soft rock is barely quieter than a thudding on the wall next to your bathroom.

You quickly get the crate from your closet and leave the room.  The blonde speaks as you're going out.  "Please, sir, get outside as quickly as possible.  They generally don't mess with your things.  Still, this one is a little more potent than the norm."

You get out the door and she closes it, leaving the radio inside the room playing some soft rock.  "We'll be outside until the nearest SIR unit has time to react and examine the situation."  The people from the hallway are cleared and she's looking at you, waiting for you to start heading outside.

Don't mind the armor or the weapons, I'm a teacher, I sometimes train people in their use, so I always have them, these 3 are very personal to me, each with their own story, same with this armor...and the clothes beneatht them...All special when many stories behind them.  Perhaps if your interested I could tell you one time...or train you if you'd like.  I'm also capable of teaching unarmed combat.  But I'll save that for later, lets leave...shall we?

I put my arm around her back and my other hand forward, sort of leading her in front.

Ladies first, it would be rude for myself to go first, and I can't have that happening regardless of how many times I die.  So please, lead the way, and I'll be right behind you.

She shrugs your hand off of her after rolling her eyes slightly.  "Sir, please come this way outside.  Usually Cursed cannot be stopped by music, but only annoyed for a short period of time.  If you would, hurry."  She walks briskly outside ahead of you.

While you're by the door, you can hear hollaring now of the ethereal woman.

Well it could be worse...

I followed close behind the girl as she left.

The two of you make it outside with no incident, but then you hear a louder noise, like the soft alarm that you heard inside.

You see what looks like an ambulence without the insignias pull up, driven by a man that looks like he's a SWAT officer.  The vehicle's siren stops and it begins to play soft rock loud, like the blonde's radio but nicer.

People around you are looking and standing to the side, talking to one another.  The blonde and redhead are near you also wispering lively with eachother, and you're standing there with a crate in your hand.

I walk over to the blonde and the redhead..

Mind telling me what's going on?"

If they refuse to talk to me then I go and ask the swat looking guy the same stuff.

I look around and see what the general staus of the surrounding area is.  If nothing really peculiar besides the whole apartment thing is going on, I find a place to sit down, place the crate between me legs, and meditate....

I've been meditating a lot more since the Academy... hmm I must've gotten it from Rachel... bah, oh well, it helps.

The redhead looks at you for a moment and cocks her head to the side.  "You must not be from around here or something.  In the United States, we have an organization called SIRU-the Spirit Instant Response Unit.  Right now, they're sending men in to go and investigate your room.  I guess if they find something, you'll have to find another room."

Just then, some men in SWAT outfits come out of the car and run into the building.  There are five men and they are carrying heavy-duty flashlights, what looks like spray on paint, and other objects that you don't recognize from this distance at the moment.

"We only call for these guys in an emergency.  Normally, we hire private exorcists to get spirits out, but this one seems mean.  When we were coming to check up on you and heard that racket, we called them."

"Well I would consider being thrown into a wall through a table would be considered a racket... Do you know of any place that sells rather large bags, that I would be able to carry my stuff in?"

I look around and observe my srroundings a bit...

OoC: I don't use colors when I am posting in the middle of class ^_-

The blonde just looks at you for a moment, in thought.  "I think that there's an army surplus store around here, or you could just go buy a dufflebag from some place."

You continue to watch the scene unfold.  You don't hear any shouts from inside of the building, and the people around you are watching the apartment complex intently.

Well, I probably should wait to find out whats going on before wandering off..

I wait around for the scene to fully unfold, and I get a status report from somebody about whats going on, after the dust has settled.

Soon, you find the team walking out of the building.  None of them seem to have a scratch on them.

One of them has sergeant stripes on and walks over to the blonde.  "Who's the one that you said was in the apartment when things started to go haywire?"

She nods towards you and then he approaches you.  The other men are taking tasks such as watching the apartment and guarding the front entrance to it, making sure no one goes inside.

"Hello, sir, I'm Sergeant Mason.  What's your name?"  After offering his hand to shake, he continues to speak.  "We have a high danger level spirit in there, but she seems to be confined to the apartment.  Considering that there haven't been any previous reports recently about that room, can you please tell me what exactly you were doing in there to wake her up?"

Well here I'll tell you everything that happened up until I left.

First I rented the apratment out, checked it out, it seemed alright so I got the apartment.  Now I didn't know anything such as this was going on, as I...recently came here.  From my armor and weapons you could prbably figure that out as well...

Now, I went over to the closet area in the bedroom to keep my gear in a somewhat safe place... and so I sat down and started to meditate.  For multiple reasons..to keep my skills at the best of their ability, to go over all that I know and such, fighting, speaking, weaponry of different kinds, from pistols and smg's to sniper rifles, to swords and such.  And so I  sat there and when I opened my eyes, I was rather freaked out considering I saw here standing there staring at me.

Now sarge, please understand, I'm always armed, and my weapons got me through many wars and battles alike.  So if I get freaked out about something this is what I did to it...and what I do to my enemies... Here, I'll demonstrate.

I walk over and place my crate next to me and sit as I do when meditating.

So, this is how I was.  Then I opened my eyes and saw the woman, and replied with my standard action in this situation.

From how I was sitting, I quickly went to one knee and quickly drew my sword faster than the eye can follow through the air right through the side and stomach of an imaginery person..just as I did with the woman.  After I put my sword back into its sheathe I got back up and faced the Sarge.

Now, that probably got her mad... but it happens.  Now, my sword went right through her as if nothing was there. and then she disappeared into a wall or something of the sort.  I checked out the apartment, making sure everything was ok and sat back down with my eyes open this time.  However, now I had felt something cold  like a breeze or someone blowing.  So I got up and looked for any windows...of which there were not any open.

So I went over and there she was, staring at me again...then she sort of layed on the cieling similar to how a vampire would lay.  And so, figuring there was probably more dead spirits around, and I was feeling pretty sure of myself in my armor and such I challenged them...this probably wasn't the smartest thing to do.

So I told them to drag any of their friends out so I can see them all at once, and possibly settle any issues that they may have with me.. Well this upset her, and she slammed into my chest.  I felt the blow, and my armor protected me from a possibly lethal blow.  That's not including how after Iw as hit, I was sent through a table and slammed into a wall.  This is when this lady here had opened the door, and I grabbed my stuff and left.

I came out here, waited around for a bit, you showed up and we started this conversation.

He takes a pad of paper out as you talk and jots some things down.  One time is at the point that you mention putting the crate into the closet, one when you talk about meditating the first time, and another when you called for the spirits.

"Well, it looks like we've got a Cursed in there.  We saw her.  She clearly died a horrific death, probably in the closet where you 'disturbed' her by mistake.  Also, your meditation could have for some reason or another assisted.  Sir, you'll need to move out of that room, but this place won't have to close down.  She seems to be confined to that one, room 226."  He glances over at the blonde.  "I assume that it will be handled internally, but I will check back here later to make sure that you've closed off that room from the rest of the residents."

The man then hands you a card.  "This is my card.  Call us if anything else happens, for example seeing her anywhere outside of the room.  There's a slight possibility that she'll leave the room and try to hurt you.  Do you have any questions?"

Yeah, need any help at the Base? I've been looking for a place to train and to keep my skills at their best.  I've heard theres a military base around.  Since I have been in some versions of the military from different...to put it simply I've been to many places and have quite a history behind me and my equipment, and if you have need of anyone, or would be willing to gove me a place to train myself with my weapons, such as my sniper, smg, pistol, swords, shurikens, and tactics then please inform me.  Because from what I can tell... this apartment won't do much for me, and I wouldn't want to distrub anyone with my late night training and such.

He puts his hand to his chin for a moment, and looks you up and down.  "What's your name?  Maybe you could stop by the HQ and apply, but I won't make any promises.  We deal with some slippery stuff.  If you can get into the SIRU, then there will be an open area for weapons training, as long as you train off the clock."

Then, he begins walking away and says, "The address of the HQ is on the card.  And when you come to apply for the job, don't wear that please.  You can bring your weapons, but the armor is kind of tacky and we have better stuff."

Sir, before you leave. My anem is Avahur, and this armor, while I'm sure you may have better, I got this for killing Achilles in the war way back in another time and place.  Hell, freaken saved troy from being taken cus I killed their leader.  My friend..well I hope he's ok..but anyway I'll have it with me, since I haven't got a solid place to stay.  If you'll let me stay at the base when I apply, sure I'll take it off if I'm given a safe and solid place to stay.. but until then it stays on.

Actually, are you heading back there now? Since I don't quite know my way around, and all my stuff is in this crate here; if your going back, I might as well come with you.

He turns to his team, which can only offer him blank expressions.  Then, he looks at you and jerks his head towards the van.  "Yeah, come on.  There's no point in waiting I guess."

They head towards the van, the rest of his time talking feverishly as they jump into the back.

When you approach the van from the back, you see that they have tons of equipement.  As first glance, you see that they have heavy duty flashlights, some things that look like roman candles of some sort, cameras, and radios.

The Sgt. gestures for you to go ahead and put your crate down in the middle and come sit over near him.  "Avahur, I want you to be completley aware that it isn't easy getting into the SIRU.  You have to be strong, yes, but you also have to be smart and quick-minded.  Are you up for it?  The door's still open for you to live a normal life."

Sir, I've died 12 times or so, been to about 12 different worlds, have killed over 500 people in wars and in self defence protecting my home and protecting cities under the direction of greek gods, such as Ares for example.. he was a jerk, but hell its expected for them to be a bit arrogant...some of them atleast.  The only reason I'm able to survive is because I'm quick minded...I already said I needed a place to practice my tactics, because if that didn't flat out tell you I am a tactiion, then this clearly does.  I need to be qucik minded, its also how I'm able to be so skilled with my weapons, you can't be slow of mind and wield of sword. It'll get you killed instantly.

I haven't lived a normal life since my homeworld, I think I'm ready for whatever you guys have here.

I could've gone on and explained a long in depth story but thats the quick and easy version of my life... I die and go to another world, thats how I arrived here.

The whole van bursts out in laughter and Sgt. Mason slaps you on the back friendily.  "You're alright, Avahur.  Raising morale is an important thing when you're on assignment against these things.  You might just get in."

The others are still smiling and the Sgt. begins introducing them.

There are three men that look in their late twenties/early thirties, and there is one guy that looks younger, maybe early twenties.

The young guy has a rookie feel about him and doesn't have any injuries it seems.  The other three are discernable.  One is asian and the other two look pretty much average and the same age, but one has brown hair and the other has blonde.  The blonde one has a few scratches on his neck.

The Sgt. names them off as he introduces you to them.

"Craig Newman"-the young guy.
"Roger Harris"-the blonde guy.
"Tom Miller"-the asian guy.
"Nick Sessums"-the brown-haired guy.

So any of you understand greek?

Anyone? eh oh well...so if able, I wouldn't mind sparring vs a couple of you in some unarmed combat... besides worse comes to worse I could show ya a couple of things I've learned over the years...like this..

I concentrate some energy into my hand and snap my fingers causing a flame to appear in my hand as I had done many a time in my previous world.

None of them acknowledge your Greek and Roger cracks his knuckles when you mention sparring.

Then, all of their eyes go wide when they see that you've summoned fire in your hands.  Instantly, all of them take action.  Roger pulls his flashlight, shining it at your face.  You can hear the others move, but then you can hear music come on and smell a scented candle almost immediately.  Also, you can see a brighter, white hand flare being lit in the sergeant's hand.

After a moment, the blonde says, "Sir, what's going on?  Nothing's happening to him."

"Impossible."  The Sgt. says and pokes you.  "He's not one of them.  He's alive."

Hahaha, so thats your response... well I'm sure the sarge here noticed the floor was wet in the apartment... I summoned water also.  Yes I am alive, about as alive as I can be at the moment.  If you'd like...here...

I utter the word flabra and blow some wind at all of them..

See their is some stuff I can do...hell  we can discuss it later...

"Heh," Sgt. Mason says when the wind blows at his face, "It looks like you don't have a choice whether to come with us to the base or not.  We'll have to detain you for observation to prove that you're living and not just a ghost inside of a freshly dead corpse."

The others seem slightly frightened, but Roger takes out handcuffs and hands them to the Sgt.  Then, Mason again speaks to you calmly.  "If you would please, put these on.  They're only a precaution."

Well, if you really want me to put these on after just that...you wouldn't want to see me levitate... >_> simple spells really, magic is a wonderful thing.  I learned them at an academy.

However, before I put them on, I have a feeling I'm going to be bored when I get to the base, so mind if we stop and spar wherever we are now? That way well we can have a little fun before we have to get down to business.

The youngest of them, Craig, speaks up.  "I'll fight you.  Let's pull over."

After a moment of consideration, Sgt. Mason says, "There's no harm in a simple bout.  Besides, we'll be there just in case.  Pull over the van at the nearest open ground!"

In five minutes, you find that the van's stopped.  The six of you get out of the van and Craig takes his gear off.  He now has on a black T-shirt, black cargo pants with a belt, and black combat boots on.  When he takes off his helmet, you find that he has military short black hair.  His muscles are larger than leen, impressive, but not too impressive.

I take off my armor and put it aside revealing my ninja suit that I had been wearing beneath it.

You say my story was fake eh? When I first died and went to a world, I got this in a ninja village.. still don't believe me?

I take my offensive stance and get ready.

Are you ready for this?

When we get the ok to begin, I charge at him, even if he charges at me, then I meet his charge with my own to attack.

The man enters a brawling stance with a high guard using his fists.  His left side is facing you, so his left arm is extended a little more than his right.

He seems focused.

You charge up and raise your left hand quickly from the bottom to strike him.  You feel sluggish in your attack, and he punches your wrist, leaving it in severe pain.  Then, he goes in for a jab at your face.

You raise your right arm and push it aside, going in for an attack with that arm now.  It hits him square in the chest and he isn't stunned by it, continuing to approach you.

Your left hand still hurts, but you figure that you can use it if you will yourself enough to.

I back off and switch to my freeform stance and do a mesh of all that I've learned from all the stances and get ready to defend and attack in the opening and move different than how I was before.

You see his attack coming perfectly, a left jab.  With your left hand, you pull him past you while bringing your right knee up, to hit him in his back hard.

In that instant when you hit, you feel a pop in your knee as it collides with his back.  He grunts, catching himself and staying up after stumbling.

When you try to move your leg, you can tell-it's dislocated.

Not Bad, I think my leg's been dislocated...eh, not gonna stop me now...atleast not while the adrenaline rush is active. but when it ends, I'm sure I'll be in a decent amount of pain...perhaps.

I stand my ground and go purely defensive.
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You push yourself to stand straight, and your knee pops back into place perfectly.  You feel like your knee is basically as good as new.

Then, you take your defensive stance, prepared to use jujitsu.

He comes up to you slowly, with his guard on all the way as he takes a shot at jabbing you.  You quickly react and raise your arm, blocking the blow and moving him so that his back flank is facing you again.

Still, you can't seize the opportunity as he follows through too much and elbows you in the face with his other arm.

Quickly, you recover with your defensive stance.

You're able to move his body as he attacks for the next three assaults, but he manages to not be that hindered by it and neither of you get hit.

Finally, you get an opportunity as he tries to hit you with a one-two.  You take his foreward left arm, twisting it behind him and kneeing him in the stomache.

He's on the ground now, gasping for air as he says softly.  "Alright, you win.  I can't beat you."  Still, he gets up rather quickly on his own and offers to shake your hand.

Sgt. Mason looks at the two of you and says, "Is that knee alright, Avahur?  And are you guys ready to go?"

Yeah don't worry, I'm fine..

I head over to my crate, pick up the triangular healing device and activate it.  Once healed I put it back and ask them.

Do I really need to put these handcuffs on? perhaps I can show you...maybe teach you how I did the fire thing.

Or maybe some water would be more to your liking?
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Sgt. Mason looks at you for a moment, questioningly, but seems like he holds his tongue about something.

"For now, we'd like you to put these on yourself, for our safety.  We need to scan you for some things before we can be sure that you're not possessed or something worse."  He attempts to hand you the handcuffs after you've healed yourself with the triangular device.

I'll put them on, so long as my hands can stay in front of me...I'm a bit parched after that match and was going to grab some water.  Now, despite what you think I am not possessed...here watch this, its a little trick I've learned that is really helpful in long battles and you haven't got any water left and you get pretty thirsty.

Cup your hands inf ront of you, put a little of your body's energy in them say the word Aqua, its greek for water.  Then watch the results. Here, like this.

I cup my hands together put just enough energy in to fill my hands with water, and say,

Water

Then, when my hands are filled with water, I show him as they fill up and then I drink the water.

After that I put the Handcuffs on my hands, but keep them in front of me.
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They look interested as you fill your hands with water and then drink it.  Sgt. Mason takes out a pad of paper and scribbles something down, but then looks back at you as you put the handcuffs on.

None of them attempt to do the spell after you, but soon you find that the van's stopped.

When you all get out, you can see that the sun's barely starting to descend into night.  The building is very large, about the size of a large highschool.  There are domed tops on two opposite sides, but the front is an edge.  On your way to the door, Mason says, "Avahur, tonight we won't run any tests or anything, but we'll have to keep you in a cell overnight, okay?  Your things will be right outside of the cell, in sight."

Ok, but I would like to keep my weapons, I'll be in the cell so I can't do much, but I don't want this to hamper my training.

...

Unless of course you'd prefer training my magical abilities like fire water and other elements.... or my conventional type of stuff like changing things colors and such?

He doesn't answer you right away, but he takes your crate from the blonde guy that was standing next to him.

As you travel through the area, you find that you hear shrieking from down one hallway, but the next is quiet as a mouse.  Mason explains, "We get reports every now and then of possession, but yours is a special case.  I don't believe that we need you down there until you begin showing real signs of hostility."

Finally, you turn another corner and go to a cell.  The wall seems to be made by some sort of matting, as if for the insane.  Still, there's a toilet and a bed inside.  He puts your crate inside of the room with you.  "Don't mess up the lining of the room and you can train with these in here, okay?"

You hear a camera move and look up, to find a black one at the corner of the top of the room.  Also, Mason begins to leave through a door.  It has a small window on the door, near the top.

as he leaves I call over to him..

Hey sarge, will water mess up this lining at all?

Mason looks at you again, the door open so that you can see his team outside.  Then, he goes up to you and wispers,

"The deal is that you get your crate of goodies if you don't do weird things in here.  Okay?"  His voice isn't demanding, but calm and collected.  You can tell that he's a good negotiator.

Yeah, ok.. I'll save the wierd stuff for later, when you guys believe I'm not possessed....perhaps I can teah you guys a few things that'll help you later on...like the water...but whatever I'll just work on some other form of training.

I suppose that puts levitation out too, since thats top of the line freaky stuff...

I started to train with my unarmed combat, working on my offensive stance and after about an hour or so of training I went over to the wall and did a wall sit for as long as I could.  When I got extremely exhausted I layed down for a nap, figuring some rest would do me some good.

I haven't had a chance to relax since I entered this world... this is definitely an odd one...

After you've trained for a decent while, you take a nap.

And then, in an unknown time later, you hear the door open and someone prods you gently on your arm.  It's the rookie that you had fought earlier outside.  "We need you to come with us, and bring that."  He points to the triangular device that is in the crate.

Eh, why? what do you think it does?

I walk out of there and pick up my crate and follow him.

He moves to stop you from picking up the crate calmly.  "I'll carry your things.  If you would please, put these on again."  He hands you the handcuffs and says, "You may put them on in the front."

Then, he moves to pick up the crate.  You feel like he's being very direct towards you and avoiding some subject.

I will, but hold on for a minute, there is something I would like to ask you about.  What's your opinion of me?  Despite what your superiors may think...and yes you can be frank about it, whats the worst that they could do? shine a light in your eye?

 I don't put the handcuffs on yet, but am holding onto them.

He fidgets for a second at the random question, but returns an average look.  "Please, Avahur, put on the cuffs.  We have places to be right now and not much time for small talk.  If we take too long, then the team might get anxious and come in here for your forced removal from the cell."

You see that he's talking without much emotion in his voice.

Ok, but I asked you a question.  We can talk on the way, however, since there isn't many people around here, so I think it would be better if we talked here.

I don't think it'll take long, and if you need an excuse just say I was sleeping and that it took some time for me to reorient myself.
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The man rolled his eyes, getting agitated.  "Okay, I'll give you five minutes.  If you want to talk, then start talking."

He puts down the crate, and finishes, "But you still need to put on the cuffs before we talk."

I put on the handcuffs.

I asked you a question, what is your opinion of me...honestly, and do you think I need these handcuffs, despite what your orders are? Also, if you could dye your hair any color, what would it be?
This message was last edited by the player at 19:02, Sat 25 Nov 2006.

He replies to you, "I am indifferent towards you, because I don't know what to think yet.  You can do amazing things, which scares me.  However, you haven't yet shown one sign of being possessed other than the powers that you've shown us.  It's rare to see a good spirit to possess someone, not even mentioned in the handbook.  So, right now I'm skeptical."

He's sort of confused when you ask about his hair color preference.  "I'm happy with brown, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to throw out a color for you.  How about purple?  And, what does that have to do with anything?"

I can change your hair color to purple, right now if you'd like.  I can change it back to brown, but it'd be nice to see what it would look like if you dyed it right?  Yes, I can perfrom magic, its what I learned how to do.  Here, just try something for a minute, it'll humor me and well... just watch.  Cup your hands together and pour a bunch of your body's energy into your hands, then say the word aqua.  Just try it.  Something my happen, something might not.

He looks a little hopeful when you tell him to try, but not too expectant of the results.

Then, he focuses himself and exhales as he says, "Aqua."  You can almost feel his use of the magical power, excess power seeming to flood out of him.

The water begins gathering in his hands, and like the normal problem, it doesn't stop.  His eyes are wide and he's amazed at what's going on, too stunned to speak.

OOC: You've gained the ability to sense magical use, High-Novice.

As I had figured, when you dump in alot of energy, the water froms off of the energy that you put into it.  By dumping energy in, your going to get a lot of water out.  I'm picking up my crate, so my stuff doesn't get wet.  Just sit there, the water will eventually dtop coming out. Feel free to drink some of it.  Just be sure not to drown yourself accidently.

I go over and pick up my crate, then stand there as water pours out of his hands.
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The two of you find yourselves standing on top of your bed, as to not get wet.  The water is still flowing out of his hands and he's holding his hands out towards the middle of the floor so that it lands as far away as possible.

Craig then says, "This is amazing, Avahur.  Where could you have possibly learned this?  It's some sort of miracle."

I have learned a lot of things.  I would be willing to teach you how to do a bunch of similar things with elements like fire and air.  When you guys first freaked out in the Van, I did something a little bit similar, but with fire.  I learned it from a friend, I also learned how to heal my injuries at the place where I had met my friend.  It was an academy where they taught you a bunch of interesting subjects.  Like magic for example, as you have done here with water.

So if you and your division will let me, I can teach you how to do similar things.  I don't want to harm anyone, if I did, when we were in the van, I could've done so.  Likewise, when we were sparring, I could've done something like shoot fire at you.  However, since I do not wish to harm anyone, but rather teach you, I didn't. 

The water finally stops pouring from his hands and he says, "Well, they'll probably be more apt for something like this if you come with me and go through the tests real quick.  Come on, we might as well do it sooner rather than later."  Now, you can see excitement on his face and hear it in his voice.

He takes the crate from your cuffed hands.  "Are you ready to go?"

Yeah, lets go.

The two of you head out the door, him carrying your crate with a smile on his face.

After a short walk, you turn a corner, walking down a hall.  You run into the rest of Craig's team, carrying guns as well as their normal gear.  Also, there's another team of five that comes up behind you.  Mason says, "Newman, you've been compromised.  I want you to put down the box and I want both of you to put your hands in the air."

Craig looks to you for what to do.

Hmm?? What are you talking about? Hold that though, need to tie my shoe

Bending down I whisper to Craig..

Could you please let me get out of these handcuffs I've got an idea.

Then on the way back up, I look at him, then at them.

Craig doesn't look as if he heard you, but he nods to himself slightly.

Sgt. Mason doesn't respond well to you tieing your shoe so casually, "Avahur!  You've taken one of my soldiers and I want you two to put down the box and get your hands in the air-now!"

Just then, Craig tosses you the key to your handcuffs.  You see everyone raise their weapons at you and Craig.  Craig moves his hand down to his own pistol.

I put my hands in the air.

Now, I don't want to hurt anyone, hell, you've got weapons raised. I haven't taken one of your soldiers, actually he took me..to see you that is.  Now.. Mason, remember that story I said in the Van, that everyone laughed at.  Guess what, it was true, all of it.

While my hands are in the air, I unlock them slowly, while looking at the soldiers.

Mason seems proceedingly hostile, even though he drops his weapon's sights for a moment.  He raises it immediately back up when you begin to free yourselves from your handcuffs.

Then, he shouts at you, everyone still holding their guns at you an Craig, "If you free yourself from your handcuffs, we will open fire!"  His words eat into you and you feel like he's going to hold true to his word.  Craig's still looking at you with his hand on his holstered gun, wondering what to do.

There's an elevator on the other side of Craig and an average door, with shades to prevent you from seeing inside, next to you.  There are four more doors, but dangerously close to Mason and the other team.

You have your hands in the hair, and you've temporarily stopped uncuffing yourself at Mason's threat.

I stop trying to unhandcuff myself.

Ok, I'll stop, could you please just leave us be.  I have shown no hostility toward any of you, at all.  And yet you treat me like an evil spirit.

Sgt. Mason still glares at you.  "We want you to throw us the key and for Craig to put these handcuffs on and kick his gun over here.  This is non-negotiable.  After that, we will run tests on the two of you to see if what you're saying is really the truth or not.  IF you two follow every order I give, then you won't be hurt.  Do you understand?"

Craig looks at you questioningly again and he seems ready to follow your lead.

Ok, Craig you might as well listen to him...

I take the key and throw it over towards sargent mason.

You give your command to Craig and he kicks the gun over to Mason as you toss the key.  Craig then puts on the handcuffs that Mason gives him and the two of you are escorted on all sides by these men to another room.

The room looks like a normal MRI room, but it has many more gadgets.  You notice all of these flares, walkie talkies, and radios on the wall.  Also, you look up to see that the light is very bright in the room and that there are straight jackets and a chair that you can be strapped down to.  It resembles an electric chair.

Mason speaks, "Avahur, we want you to move into the next room to change into a hospital gown and take all metal things off.  Also, where is that triangle artifact that you used earlier?  I want you to hand it to me, please."  He holds his hand out and gives you access to the crate, by nodding at the guards who were standing by it.

Taking the crate and putting it on the ground, I crouch down and hover over it as I look down into it.

"Tell me what you intend to do with it. If you are going to be taking something that is mine, then tell me what you intend to do with it.  Otherwise...well I won't be making threats in this position... however,  do you know what happens when fire and water mix? They create smoke...lots of it.  Now, if there were a fire in this building, surely you would have to release me so I don't die, for further questioning.  I'll stop my rambling now if you kindly tell me what you intend to do with it."

I prepare some energy into my hands and silently whisper the word aqua as some water falls from my hands onto the floor beneath me... not much  but a slight pool about the size and width of 2 feet right next to eachother.

I am saying my entire speech as I do this as to not draw attention to the water.

Mason looks straight into your eyes as he listens to you, but then he says, "Avahur, we want to scan it for supernatural elements.  It will be returned to you once we confirm that both it and you are clean of PM particles."

Then, you hear something fidget behind you, one of the guards.  After you hear that, Mason looks down at your feet.  "You won't scare me with a little steam, Avahur.  What are you planning on doing with that water?"  He raises his gun at you.  "If you endanger my men anymore, I will kill you."

Water? What are you talking about?

I look down at my feet and see the water there..

Eh, since when was there water there?  You guys aren't trying to trip me to get a laugh now...are ya?  That's cruel especially since you've already got guns pointed at me.  But if thats the type of humor you have, whatever, maybe I can tell you a story about my past some time...that'll get you laughing... either that or you'll raise a gun at my head for descision I've made... either way it can't be much worse than my current position. Here, mason, I've got an idea.

How about I don't give you the artifact, but in return I show you what it can do?  The person that made it told me what it is capable of...it's proved quite handy in the past.  It'll require a little bit of pain to prove it to you, but it can be done.  Although I wouldn't request it done to me, because that won't prove anything.

Sarge, how about this, if you break an arm or something, or one of your team does, bring them to me, and I can show you how it works.  I don't get tested, and neither does my device.

Oh, I've got another suggestion, how about, you let me be, and not point guns at me...I help you all to improve.  So long as I don't go out of my way to harm you intentionally I'm fine.  But if I try to harm any of you intentionally for no apparrent reason, then you have the right to gun me down on the spot.  However should you do so, I'll be going away and my stuff, the device and everything I own included will also disappear.

I...have had a troubled past.  I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, so I would like to teach and to help you, so that in this world you can help others where you might not have been able to.  Sarge if you can concentrate your own body's energy into certain areas, I can teach you a few things so that you can help a friend if they have been hurt, help yourself if you've been cut in the arm or something.

I sure as hell hope they believe that last part...what a lie...I surprise myself... a lot of things I'm not proud of...? HAH! yeah right... everything I've done was because it is how my body and my code deem so.  I can teach them, but if they think I'm going to be extremely peaceful...they've got another thing coming.... maybe I should have them try to do flammacio...hahaha that'd be a sight to see, maybe if I'm lucky they would all drop dead on the spot...
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Sgt. Mason looks at you sternly.  "The deal is, Avahur, that you will get tested.  Your artifact will be tested.  No questions."

The rest of them still have their guns at the ready, and you see a few's eyes shift for a moment to the water on the floor.  One goes over to the entrace to the room, to close it.  Everyone else has their guns at the ready.

Mason, I'm probably going to die here.... but before I do listen to these basics.  Whenever I die, I go to another world...how the hell did you think I got here?  whatever, last time I tried to do what I'm about to do I almost died, now I'm sure you'll gun me down for this, but when I die, me and my stuff goes with me.  So, I've got a present for you... well two... the knowledge that your looking at someone that has killed over 500 men, and 2, a little gift as a good bye present..

I gather energy into my hands and point them at Sgt. Mason...

And I could've taught you this..

I perform Flammas Jacio right at sgt mason.

OOC: And with that I'm sure I'll be killed and look forward to my next world krillis...unless they intend to keep me alive...

You raise your hands as you gather energy into them.  Then, you hear loud bangs as bullets come into you from all sides.  You hadn't even seen them raise their weapons, they had shot you down so fast.

You fall to the ground and the world's in slow motion.  Then, you black out.

OOC:  Okay, on to your next world.