Sorry for the wait, I've been busy. Anyway, here goes:
Same rules as before (except for the ship limit. HOWEVER: No making one ship be completely seprate. That's how the first thread died. Also, if you're new, post a profile, if you were in the last thread, post a small outline of what has happened with your character. NO MATRIX REVOLUTIONS SPOILERS!
Two years have passed since Jokemaster, Shadow, and Beth were freed, two years after the Psycosis was destroyed, its crew killed, and two the machine's tracker virus was discovered.
The search for the origins of the virus have so far been fruitless. The balance of the war tilted more toward the machine's side. The humans are now very careful about sending people into the matrix, wary of traps. They have, however discovered methods of hiding from the machines.
Every year, on the day all that happened, the group of people that survived that incident meet in Zion, on the plataform where they first landed, there they share any new information on the virus.
Real Name: Louis Bauer
Alias: jokemaster
Age: Teenager (19)
Status: In Zion
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Humans
Rank: Waiting to be freed.
Updated Bio: After being freed for two years, Jokemaster is still working onboard the Solaris.
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Jokemaster waited on the plataform, watching for the others to show up. He also waited for the crew of the Solaris to come out.
Real Name: Craig Navas
Alias: Hunter
Age: Twenty-One
Status: In Zion
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Humans
Rank: Crew
Updated Bio: Hunter has spent the last two years honing his martial arts, and has become a highly superior fighter for the rare times they enter the Matrix now. He has also become strong at developing tactics for the Zion defense. Although he is busy with his work, he is often still on the Solaris when it leaves Zion.
Real Name: Jessica Orien
Hacker Alias: Raven
Age: Twenty
Status: Free
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Human
Rank: Ship Crew
Bio: As the two years passed, she grew closer to Hunter, and helped inspire many of his ideas. She became Hunter's assistant in his work with Zion's military defense, and still serves on the Solaris.
Real Name: John Taylor
Hacker Alias: Outcast
Age: 32
Status: Free
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Human
Rank: Ship Captain
Bio: He has become more of a mentor than a leader on the Solaris now. Hunter has been more or less leading the crew of the Solaris, as Outcast is starting to just supervise the rookies, who have developed well over the two years. He helps out alot in Zion, specifically with the high council.
Real Name: James Johnson
Hacker Alias: Wolf
Age: 26
Status: Free
Place born: Zion
Alignment: Human
Rank: Operator(Crew)
Bio: Still as strong as before, and still a crazy pilot. Over the two years he lost a bit of nerve after the encounter with all the Sentinals in "The Matrix Restarted," but he still manages to keep cool when under pressure.
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Hunter came up to Jokemaster and nodded. "Hey, how's it goin Jokemaster?"
Real Name: unknown
Alias: Selene
Age: 27
Status: Free
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: good
Rank: Captain/pilot
Updated Bio: In the two years that has gone by the friendship between Red Lotus and her has grown, they love each other despite the age gap but remain only friends, and dedicated soldiers. And Selene has become a legend for her extrodanary skills in the matrix. She has a powerful mind that all but an agent are awed by.
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Real Name: Ashley Masters
Alias: Frost
Age: 26
Status: Free
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: good
Rank: co-pilot/medic
Updated Bio: After the near death of her brother she developed her medical abuilities and fullfilled a job that the ship had been lacking two years ago. And with the death of the co-pilot/operator she took over co-pilot as she was the most qualified at the time, now she has become an excelent pilot under Selene's training.
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Real Name: Kyle Masters
Alias: Cinder
Age: 24
Status: Free
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: chaotic
Rank: spec op. (for crews with no particular job who average out on most stuff I have learned spec op is the technical term. So rather than just put crew, you can put spec op. or be more specific if you like.)
Updated Bio: His near death inspired him to be a better fighter, and so he has increased his skills greatly under Selene's training. But he has also changed in his attitude. The once kind and generous man is now burried deep beneath anger. He is sometimes hash and even violent. But usually just antisocial and bitter. Though not alltogether unkind. His sister is hurt the most because she loves him so much. And the friendship they once had together has eroded away. Deep inside he just want's to be loved, but he's hurting so bad and he's hurting everyone else around him.
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Real Name: Kias Lotus
Alias: Red Lotus
Age: 37
Status: Free
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: good
Rank: Mechanic/maintenance/gunner
Updated Bio: His relationship has since grown with Selene, but though they love each other they have never taken the next step in there relationship. Meanwhile Red Lotus spends alot of his time meditating in a constra.
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((And a new character to replace the operator I lost))
Real Name: Linia Soroshumi
Alias: Pearl
Age: 20
Status: Free
Place born: Zion
Alignment: good
Rank: operator/communications officer.
Updated Bio: The newest member of the crew has just been assigned to Selene's ship per Selene's request. The daughter of an old friend of selene's. She was born in Zion and joined the military as a communications officer. She has just completed the corse and today will be the first day she will meet Selene and the crew. She is very kind, and quiet.
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((On with the story))
As the others were talking one of Zion's gates open to let [i]the Tarsalor in. After the ship docks it's crew goes to meet up with the others.
"Ah, Outcast, my fellow capitan, how goes [u]the Solaris?" Selene asks cheerfully.
Red Lotus is walking beside her and Frost is on the other side of her, but Cinder had already gone to his room without saying helo.
Cinder walked quickly, not looking at those he passed by but rather looking towards the ground. He wasn't watching were he was going and soon enough he bumped into someone.
"Oops, I... I'm sorry," He said stooping to pick up some of the gear that the person he bumped into dropped.
As he went to hand the tools back to whoever had dropped them he froze. He was starring into the eyes of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
Cinder noticed the girl was blushing so he shook himself out of the daze. "I...I'm sorry," He said turning his eyes to the ground, "I didn't mean to stare, it's just that..." He looked up into her big pretty blue eyes, "I've never seen anyone so beautiful before."
This made her blush more and Cinder couldn't help but let a big smile broden across his face. "O, I'm sorry, here you go," He said handing her the tools. "Those look like operator tools, are you a crew member of a ship?"
"Yes." She said simply, "Well, sorta," She then hesitated. "I mean, I am now." She smiled and took her supplies, "Thanks."
Cinder had been staring at her, which made her nervous. She wasn't used to this sort of awquardness and took off running down the catwalk.
"Wait, I didn't get your name!" Cidner called after her, but she didn't turn around. As she continued along Cinder watched her from where he was.
The girl made her way to the docking bay. There she spoke briefly with an officer before rushing to one of the platforms. Cinder wasn't paying close enough attention to notice it was his own ship she had gone to. Cinder decided not to spy anymore and headed for his room, thinking about her the whole way.
Real Name: James Kuesaala
Hacker Alias: Tepe
Age: 21
Status: Zion
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Human
Rank: Crew
Updated Bio: Tepe has mostly trained the martial-art's in Zion. He has made many electric guns that had helped many ship's crews so they didn't use so much energy with the emp-guns.
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Tepe looked the allready meeted group from the dark. Then he walked out from the shadows with his normal suit(ripped, green clothes and a belt were hanged two holsters that held two pistol lookng wlwctric guns). Tepe walked to the others. "Hi, am I late?" Tepe said, stopping ten meters away from the group, like he wouldn't want to see them.
Real Name: Ken Anderson
Hacker Alias: NeoVenom
Age: 21
Status: Freed
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Human
Rank: Crew Member
Bio: Was a hacker back in the Matrix.
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While the group was talking, NeoVenom walks towards them. His hair was a bit longer, since two years have passed. "Hey everybody!" he shouts.
"Hey guys. Anyone heard from Beth recently? She's usually here early."
"No but I can think of another young lady who should be arriving soon," Selene said in responce to jokemasters' comment.
Just then a young girl with long straight black hair and big blue eyes walked up to Selene.
"Ah, there you are," Selene said turning to the new arrival. Selene urged the young lady forward and introduced her, "This is Pearl, my newest crew member."
Pearl blushed, "Helo," She said briefly.
"Hi" Said Jokemaster. He turned to Selene "How are Red Lotus, Frost and Cinder doing?"
Tepe looked Selene. Then his eyes wandered to Frost. Tepe walked a little closer, maybe five meters or so. He was obviously bothered by something. He had noticed himself looking Frost more often after the incidents on the Solaris and the satnding near Frost's bed in the medical section. Tepe turned to look to the other direction. His head fell back and Tepe held his head like thinking about his feelings. He the sat down on th platform and started to check the electric guns. He felt someone touch his shoulder but ignored it.
Frost sat down beside Tepe, "What's wrong?" She said. She obviously noticed his strange behavior and tried her best to comfort him.
The others went on with there usual chatter. And Cinder was sleeping in his room.
Tepe looked Frost. "It's nothing. I suppose... I just... umh... Well... Oh just forget I said anything" Tepe mumbled and changed some wires on his gun, making some sparcles.
Real Name: Bethany Tyler
Alias: Even after two years, she prefers to use her real name. (Behind her back, though, they call her Spunk because of how active she is.)
Age: Teenager (19)
Status: In Zion
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Humans
Rank: crew
Updated Bio: Beth didn't stay on the Solaris long after they got to Zion. She has continually been bouncing between any number of ships, but has recently been asked to return to the Solaris. She has not accepted yet, but chances are that she will.
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"Sorry I'm late," Beth said as she approached the others. She walked with a slight limp, favoring her left leg. "I was just being told what an idiot I am."
She laughed and explained how she had single handedly fought off three sentinels that had managed to get into her ship.
"They just wanted me to be safe," she said, "but sometimes 'safe' is no fun."
Jokemaster smiled. She would kill him if she knew he was behind the 'Spunk' thing.
"You know, I thought nothing short of being bed-ridden would keep you from arriving here early. You've broken my illusion.
Hunter laughed and greeted everyone else as they arrived. "Good to see you back, Beth."
Outcast turned and nodded at Selene. He was more quiet than usual lately. "It's fine." He answered simply to her question.
Raven came over and leaned on Hunter somewhat. "What's up everyone?" She noticed Pearl almost immediately and waved. "Hi, you new to Selene's ship?"
NeoVenom didn't spoke as much. He kept quiet and listened to everyone's conversations. He passes his figures thru his hair and adjusts the strap from his bag.
"Oh well," Beth laughed after hearing Jokemaster's comment. "I guess I can't please everybody, now can I?"
She faked annoyance. "What is it with you people? First I get yelled at and then I don't hold up to some measly expectations? Next they'll be trying to teach me how to walk correctly!"
She laughed again and suddenly noticed Pearl.
"Hi," she said. "I'm Beth, but others will tell you I'm Spunk." She glanced sideways at Jokemaster. "A word of advice from old to new. That one is crazy." She motioned to Jokemaster. "Don't believe a word he says. Other than that, they're all a little odd, but that's why we like each other."
With a sudden sigh, she sat down. "Goodness me! I feel so old! If I had known this would happen, I would have taken the other pill... what color was it? Dang it! I'm so old I can't even remember the color choice!"
With a light laugh, she tried to brush it off and stood up again.
"What me, crazy?" He asked, faking hurt."By the way Beth, you need to have at least one foot on the floor at a time unless you're running. You seem to be running all the time. Anyway, now that most of us are here, we have some new information on the virus."
Beth smacked her forehead, faking stupidity. "So that's why it never worked before!"
She then put on a very serious face, having taken in the second part of his speech.
"Finally," she sighed. "After all this time you finally figure something out about it. What news?"
"Well, first of all I think I figured out how to encode DVDs from the Matrix to here. Second, I found out where the virus signals come from and go to."
"Ooohhh," Beth exaggerated. For some reason she was unsure of, she loved to give Jokemaster a hard time. "That DVD thing will be very useful to us."
Then she thought about the other part of his statement. "That's good news."
Tepe mumbled something to himself and then he dropped his hand to his knees. Tepes hand went again to go trhough his hair. "Damnit..." he mumbled quietly and lowered his hands. he felt a hand on his shoulder and looked Frost hwo held Tepe's shoulder. Tepe opened his mouth to say something but then closed it. "Frost, do you really want to know what's bothering me?" Tepe asked and Frost nodded. "Well... I... My feelings... I feel like they are betraying me... Especially my feelings towards you... My feelings towards you have been... stronger after the fell two years ago" Tepe explained and saw Frost's amazed look.
((Sorry for the CC :p ))
"So, you're not feeling sick?" Asked Jokemaster, just to be sure.
((Joke, if you're talking to me, I'm sitting about seven meters away from you and we are talking quiet. So..... :p ))
((Ah, ignore previous post))
"Yeah, the DVDs will help us a lot. I'm working on getting the Indana Jones ones right now." He said, grinning. Then his face turned serious again. "The virus' signal is relayed in two ways. First, when you enter the Matrix a signal is sent to a relay station inside the Matrix. After that, the signal goes to another relay point in the real world. In the case of the relay point in the Matrix getting destroyed, the signal is sent straight to the real world, but it takes longer, since the signal loses strength. There may also be a backup relay in both places, but I'm not so sure about that." Bauer paused. "The exact location of the relay point inside the Matrix is unknown, but I think I know what section of the city it's in."
Real Name: James Marshal
Alias: Apologetic(Ap)
Age: Teenager (19)
Status: In Zion
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Humans
Rank: Free
Bio: A mysterious character that not many kno too much about. Most everyone knows hes an awesome programer and spends most his time in sparring programs.
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"Well thats a bit obvious that they would need to relay between but, do you kno the location of this staion?" Ap was leaning in the shadows and you couldnt see him very well until he steps into the light."Btw could we get the star wars on that DVD idea?"
Real Name: James
Alias: Apologetic
Age: Teenager (19)
Status: In Zion
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Humans
Rank: free
Bio:A mystery to most people and is mostly only known from his programing skills.
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Ap was leaning in the darkness and no one could realy tell who he was at the time"Look unless we know where it is then thats not much use alll you need to do is search the virus systems root code dialect then run a matrical search for it....and lets see if we can get some Star Wars DVD's while were at it."
Jokemaster recognized Apo from his school.
"James, I didn't know you hacked. I'll work on getting Star Wars on DVD, but I don't think I can transfer it without it being on DVD in the matrix. Third, the relay point here is on the outskirts of the machine city." He paused "On the other side."
Real Name: William Turner
Alias: Shadow
Age: To lazy to find out......
Status: In Zion
Place born: Matrix
Alignment: Humans
Rank: Freed
Updated Bio: After being freed for two years, Shadow is still working onboard the Solaris.
((((((What? Me, copying bio? Where do you get that from?))))
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Shadow walked out of the Solaris, surveying the crowd outside
"Ok, what did I miss? I heard something about Indiana Jones? He's here?"
NeoVenom continue to walk towards the ship. As he passed thru he greated everyone. On board the Solaris, NeoVenom went to his room and unpacked his bag.
Frost was surprised at first, then smiled and sat down quietly beside Tepe.
Selene nodded as Jokemaster explained the details, "So have you come up with a plan to locate and destroy the relay point inside the matrix?"
Pearl smiled and blushed as everyone greated her.
"Frost?" Tepe whispered as he looked to Frost's eyes. "You are quite amazed aren't you?" Tepe asked quietly and his look fell to the ground. "I know..." Tepe mumbled and his look turned to the wall quite a lenght away.
Jokemaster sighed. "A risky one. As you all know, since they're, well machines, it's almost impossible to block any sginal, they detect it instantly and change frequency, however, as I have recently experimented with, they only change the frequency to the next one. If we can keep switching the channel of the block, I think we can buy ourselves enough time to destroy that one. For the one in the city, I've enlisted the help of a friend to build a ship fast enough to get through the machine city alive. It's a small ship, nothing fancy, most of it is spent on speed, next armor, last weapons. Every seat on it can be used to enter the Matrix, however." He paused to get a reaction.
"Small, fast," Beth muttered to herself, as if pondering what he was saying. "Sounds like some fun action going on here of the likes that I haven't had since I left you all."
"Your fault you decided to move out."
"Yes," Beth admitted. "Well, it's time I came back. I have been requested back aboard the Solaris and have decided to accept. Anything to keep you guys around, crazy though you are."
She laughed and realized that she had not laughed as much since she left the Solaris. What about that ship and these people made her so happy? She shook off the question.
"Yes, it will be good to be back with you all," she said.
"About time. You don't know how many officials I had to bribe to get you requested back here. I have to burn 'It's a wonderful Life' 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and loads of other old movies."
((EDIT: Mandalorian 54 has gotten himself banned :eyeraise: ))
"Your face may present you as angelic," Beth said fiercely, "but inside, you're a little devil!"
She paused and then called him by his real name.
"Louis Bauer!" She knew very well that he preferred being called Jokemaster, but she had to get back at him somehow for the whole Spunk thing, even if it meant that he started calling her Spunk to her face. If that happened, she would begin calling him Louis all the time.
((WHAT!! How did that happen??:( )
((Read all about it. (
http://lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123569) ))
"Damn you! I've worked hard to keep that secret. Now my master plan is void. YOU SHALL PAY FOR THIS" Jokemaster mocked.
((Geez! Not cool. If Mando's gonna get angry enough to do junk like that, he should stay away from it! I liked his RPing.))
"Yea, whatever," Beth said dismissively. She knew he was mocking her and couldn't care less.
"So you don't want to hear the rest of the plan?"
"If I didn't want to hear it, would I be here?" Beth asked. "OF COURSE I want to hear the plan! Not only are you crazy, you're not very bright. Then again, that's one of the reasons I stick around... to keep giving you the right answers."
She laughed again, but then regained her seriousness and urged him to continue explaining the plan.
"Well, like I said we can keep blocking the signal again and again long enough for us to find this relay point inside the Matrix. However, we need to send in someone else first long enough to find out where the signals are coming and going from inside the Matrix. I'm the one going in. I'll preferably have to go in alone, maybe one more person, but no more. The more persons, the faster they can find us."
"That's a given," Beth said, "but you going in alone is out of the question. Two people have to go in. That's the minimum and maximum number all in one. If you are taken by surprise, the other person can help you out."
She is hoping she'll get chosen to be the second person. She had been dying to go into the matrix once again for a reasons that she keeps secret. Perhaps it's just because she likes a challenge, but nobody really knows.
Jokemaster shook his head.
"No, just me is safer. I'm not gonna assault anything, or hack something, or anything like that. I just need to stay in there until you guys track the signal.
"What, so I have to stay outside while you can eat noodles and watch a movie? Why didnt I come up with the plan?"
Shadow grinned at Jokemaster. He knew how dangerous it was inside the Matrix, but those noodles....(:p )
"I'll eat an extra plate for you guys." Said Jokemaster, grinning.
NeoVenom returns to the ramp of the Solaris and hears Jokemaster's conversation with the others. "What happens if you're in trouble? May I make a suggestion? How about talking someone with experience in the Matrix? No offense or anything." He smirks alittle and waits for Jokemaster's reply.
Jokemaster sighed.
"No way you're letting me go in alone, are you?"
"Look they may hide the frequency but what you need to do is shoot out a full spectrum of radio signals at once that will make every signal accessible for at least a second or so."