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Posted by Serpentail, 1 year, 8 months ago. Permalink

Abandoned mine collapsed in rural Utah.

An abandonded iron mine in Utah collapsed this morning. The mine was several miles from the closest settlement and none where injured in the collapse. Authorities are reminding people to stay clear of unmaintained mines.

Grace Cyanide made a Move (Strazhari GMed) 1 year, 9 months ago. View Move

Anomalous Events

The storms assaulting Texas will dissappear like morning fog, leaving some meterologists perplexed, yet not totally surprised. If the weather was easy to predict, they would be out of a job. This matter is "blown away" as other pressing matters arrive on the slate.

 

However, for the secret world the matter is more than just a blip on the radar - psychic sensitives & mystics within a hundred miles of Dimmitt Texas feel the thunderclap of the Breaker's imprisonment, & the "Storms of Rage" that have been assaulting the area vanish at the same time. While a welcome reprieve to agents dealing with such matters, no one seems to know which faction started or stopped the event - some may want answers.

 

In other parts of the world, the six remaining Keres stir the winds of chaos, slowly becoming more than just ghosts.

Latest Journals

11 months, 2 weeks ago: Leon Vanderblight wrote a Downtime Journal for Beneath the Redeemer

Questionable advancements?

Well, Wesley's a cock. Figured that out. Guess I'll need to destroy all the electronics that I brought with me on that particular venture. Man kept rehacking everything every single time it was brought into his line of sight. 

Aside from that, focusing on the rebuilding efforts has been good. We've had to do a lot since we did our exodus here to the alternate dimension.

Really I felt it was for the best, I'm not exactly the best at dealing with being in super hiding forever from a government organization that has fucking satellites able to look down at us. Sure, we could have gone underground but that'd be worse than the cells eventually. Only so many times someone can rip ass with you in a cave before you start strangling them for making breathing down there hazardous. 

So, started with the illusion coverage. Thankfully things don't shift too fast, but I know that if I ever bite it the simple rule of change with the seasons might get fucked. Pity that no one else can manage this, but I do appreciate that in this world, people look at Russia about as often as they look at their own ass. Saves me a lot of trouble. Aside from that, I had a chat with the local police and planted some conditioned suggestions in my brain that they're to give false positive reports that the bog is clear of anything anytime someone threatens them with force or asks for authority behind it. 

Put the Japanese Special Forces guy in charge of security, made sense, I'm an occult expert not a security expert, had the demon work itself to death building the mounds for the waterfall I want for powering the towns watermills and also making Mother feel special. Then it was a matter of crops, a balance of wheat, potatoes, and soybeans seemed the best rotation according to Athena and her knowledge of crop rotation and the local soil conditions so that's what we went with. 

All that's left now is the mills proper and the houses to rebuild. Shouldn't take too long with any luck. 

11 months, 2 weeks ago: Leon Vanderblight wrote a Downtime Journal for March of Dimes

A revelation

I now understand so much more.

This tiny blue marble world is not the singular island of consciousness in an uncaring and infinite universe. 

We are not alone.

This isn't a good thing at the moment, but still, we are not alone! 

So much has changed because of this, and this revelation has massively shifted my duties and viewpoints. Other worlds can sustain life; other species have their gods, or perhaps a lack thereof, that changes the entire spiritual landscape.

I had to get ahead of this. I had to integrate this into my faith to represent the off-worlders, these body-snatching bastards, as a form of evil in my faith. So I go to write, scripture flowing from my mind with maddened fervor before I delivered one of the most impassioned speeches of my life before my flock, and in doing so made them aware of their neighbor and to cherish them today for we know not when the dangers of the universe may take them away from us.

Now, about the ring.

That needed measures, first a GPS tracking chip on the underside of the gem, to find it if worse came to worse. Second, I scramble my illusions every time I'm out of sight to keep people distracted.

Also, have to organize the old fuck's funeral. I know it could cause problems, but.. well.

It's what I'd want for me, and as a spirit, death has always been closely connected to who I am.

So, risk or not, I'll ensure the man's corpse is respected.

I just hope the spider alien ghost doesn't fuck things up for me. 

1 year, 1 month ago: Halfdan Black wrote a Downtime Journal for An Apple a Day
1 year, 6 months ago: Leon Vanderblight wrote a Downtime Journal for for whom the willow weeps

A mysterious haiku

Deep within the Chort's bog, scrawled into a tree one could find etched a series of haiku written in an unknown hand: 

In the Russian bog's embrace, I lie, Bound by betrayal, under the Leshen's eye. Once trusted allies turned to dark deceit, Leaving me ensnared, a prisoner's defeat.

Through the misty veil, the Leshen creeps, Its ancient power awakened, forever keeps. Roots like serpents, entwined and tight, A chilling reminder of a forsaken plight.

Oh, how the whispers of nature's realm lament, As I dwell in this bog, a prisoner unbent. Betrayed by those who swore loyalty true, Left to face the Leshen, a fate cruel and undue.

But still, I find solace in the bog's expanse, For in its murky depths, I dare to dance. I hear the echoes of ancient spirits past, Whispering courage, resilience that will last.

Within these mossy bounds, strength arises, Defiance kindled, determination crystallizes. For though the Leshen's hold may seem unkind, A kitsune's spirit within me, it shall find.

So let the bog embrace, the Leshen bind, Through adversity, my true self shall unwind. For even in betrayal's darkest embrace, A soul's resilience finds its rightful place.

1 year, 6 months ago: Jason Valent wrote a Downtime Journal for The Man in the Wall

An untitled Journal

After the contract I found one of the things that I was missing and it was the ability to figure out why people are well I want to say thinking the issue is that people are not that trustworthy so my idea was to use a device that can scan them for anomalies and find their weakness. The device is simple and slick and can be used to easily slip over the head. The hard part was making sure I could slip this off to quick so I needed to make sure the device was something that I could easily slip on and off my head so I went with Velcro that was the quickest way to keep it together. I really wanted it to be quick and smith from a design prospective.

 

For my next iteration I wanted the green light to not be so obvious the light is reall obnoxious O don't want to blind people and make this so hard that they freak out from all the crazy technology.

 

I really want this to work out and make it better for them. I really don't know if it is the greatest idea to get this right. I wonder if this would making me a horrible person to do this. I do like the abilites that I am learning and how fast I can do things but this is a getting a bit much. Do I really need to risk my life for this? All the time? Really?

1 year, 6 months ago: Jason Valent wrote a Downtime Journal for Slithering Patience

An untitled Journal

I have been trying to figure out a way to do some different things. What I want to do is not really feel pain anymore I was hoping I could get it so that I was able to do that damn thing and get this over with but the issue is well. So what I did was work with the plan and that it could attach to my sense and take away the pain from me. I just dont feel a damn thing. It's like being drunk all the time. But like you still have your balance it's nice. I like it and I am trying to figure out a way I could bottle this up and sell it. That would be the best way to do this. I am pretty sure. I am spent some time with this plant and wanted to figure what wouldmake this work. Could I work more with the plant and get this going in a way that I could really make an impression on this and do something else? What more could I do? Or what else could I make this happen for? You know there are different ways to go about this. But I jsut got to get to a way to talk to it so that it see's my side of things. Figure out a way that this could last. You know? It's jsut this kinda battle with who is right and wrong in how we would figure this whole shit out. or other things.

1 year, 6 months ago: Jason Valent wrote a Downtime Journal for Ties

An untitled Journal

That was the wierdest shit I ever did see. So this has nothing to do with the game more or less how we responded to what happeend later. This is a tale of what I learned and how I need to figure my shit out. I figured out how to imrpove my abilty to jump better this I think will be quite useful. I am not sure how benificial it might be but it would be a better way for me to figure out how to get this going. I know there are some really crazy ways to jump over things but this has been the most useful But the only side effect is that with my connection to the plant it makes it so that I can jum fast an quickly with little effort. I would like to be able to jump a bit higher. But I think that is something I will figure out later. Right now I have to concentrate just to get to where I want to. That amount of effort will cost me in the end. I wanted to find another way to get around but this worked the best. My next idea is to start creating more interesting deivces that I can use to jump around and be able to do this for longer periods of time. I really gotta figure this out. I would rather not deal with this sort of combat but something has to be done and I am not about to figure this out on my own.

1 year, 6 months ago: Neil Ashworth wrote a Downtime Journal for Bobasaurus

Study Time

I, uh, I'm not sure if this is working, I think I dropped- ah, there we go, uh, Neil's, Neil's log, log number...Four? Yeah, four I think, I'm gonna start numbering these things, so, uh, anyway, log four, yeah, so, after that last... debacle, I've been, uh, doing some research. On the thing. I uh, I haven't actually found anything on it, which is kinda annoying, but given that what I have to work with is the local library, anything I can smuggle into the house, and anything I can find on the internet, it, uh, it's kind of to be expected. Not a lot of great sources of information. So I've been thinking, on my, uh, death touch hand blast thing, and, well, I've come to the conclusion that it probably works on most things, but kinda sorta needs to work its way through stuff? I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right, but, uh, to try and be clearer, when the miasma hits something, it causes that thing to decay in real time. Simple, yet effective. When it comes to armour, though, it needs to work its way through the stuff to actually get at the armour, so if you put, say, a sheet of metal between the hand and the target, it would need to rust its way through the metal before it could actually hit its target. I'm not sure if I'll be able to circumvent that with more experience, but I've been thinking, maybe I can try to sort of... curve it? Control the hand, is what I'm saying, to circumvent barriers. I'd, uh, probably need a bit more experience using it, but it's an interesting idea, is what I'm saying. So, yeah, Neil's log, Log Four, Neil out.

1 year, 7 months ago: Leon Vanderblight wrote a Downtime Journal for The one who knows silence in the earth

The dodge list

Leon honestly had to stop taking some jobs that people handed out. The people on them were always, at best, bizarre control freaks and the job itself was completely fucking pointless.

So Leon had actually begun keeping a little black book of Harbingers he would outright refuse jobs from. The alien guy who set up the whole problem with the bullshit ass interdimensional aliens that could evade nearly any kind of detection. He'd need to keep an eye out for that fucker. Nearly sent them all to their deaths. 

Then there was the asshole who sent him into that VR factory bullshit that had him working with fucking Count Feratu of all people. Such an asshole, that started this whole bullshit cascade and had him working with both Allena and Batamir. 

Trash bags. 

Though that was as far as Leon got into that process before he was interrupted. Heading out to handle his issues with Hasashi came next, and thankfully, after a few dozen messages followed by rigorous self healing processes he had managed to convince the man that despite them needing to go out and hunt a monster now and then he'd finally stop hunting Leon as the realization that his clan had deafened the gods by killing the Zenko Inari that their shrines had once been dedicated to was enough to crack the man's dense ass skull. How can you claim to be traditional Shinto and defile the very spirits that commune with those you venerate most highly? 

Fat lot of good a good luck blessing is going to do you after all when you could've had Amaterasu bless you with a cooler summer to prevent a tsunami dipshit. 

Christ. Humans. So frustrating. 

1 year, 8 months ago: Billy Blitzen wrote a Downtime Journal for Sub-Optimal

Martial Arts

BROOOOO! I totally know Kung Fu now! I was, like, taking a class on it, seeing as I'm not great at the whole "close quarters" thing, and it just sorta... clicked. Not the actual Kung Fu stuff, or any of that, but the whole super speed Kung Fu thing! See, I'm like, way fast, bruh, and if I go really fast, then that means I punch real fast, and if I punch real fast, or kick real fast, or just do anything real fast, there's suddenly a whole lotta force behind me, you get what I'm saying, bruh? And then, and then, with all that force, my hit becomes really, really hard, so I can just straight up punch dudes.

Aside from that, anyway, I'm like, way fast now. Not like before, where I had to turn it on, sort of like a car, instead it's just, like, all the time. I can probably outrace cars over a decent distance now, dude, it's just wicked cool. Almost like there was some kinda... update, to the way my powers work. I don't feel like I'm going as fast as I used to, but hey, it's a good trade to be able to go fast any time I want now, I'm gonna dominate all the games the coach puts me in, for sure. Now all I gotta do is make sure I don't go too fast, and end up getting called out. That'd sure be a bad time, just cause I'm breaking the laws of physics don't mean I'm breaking the rules though.

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The Masquerade stands Earth is free of supernatural threats or alien invaders.... Religions are merely a beleif system of a large group of people. Thats in the light where humanity lives in then there is the dark where monsters lurk and true gods roam. These Gods are not earth Gods they are not of the Stars nor the Universe.

Full Setting Description

The world is run by shadowy organizations that contain and utilize anomalies for their own goals. Where do you stand in this world? Which side are you on, Set in the SCP basic canon currently.

World Events

Posted by Serpentail, 1 year, 8 months ago. Permalink

Abandoned mine collapsed in rural Utah.

An abandonded iron mine in Utah collapsed this morning. The mine was several miles from the closest settlement and none where injured in the collapse. Authorities are reminding people to stay clear of unmaintained mines.

Grace Cyanide made a Move (Strazhari GMed) 1 year, 9 months ago. View Move

Anomalous Events

The storms assaulting Texas will dissappear like morning fog, leaving some meterologists perplexed, yet not totally surprised. If the weather was easy to predict, they would be out of a job. This matter is "blown away" as other pressing matters arrive on the slate.

 

However, for the secret world the matter is more than just a blip on the radar - psychic sensitives & mystics within a hundred miles of Dimmitt Texas feel the thunderclap of the Breaker's imprisonment, & the "Storms of Rage" that have been assaulting the area vanish at the same time. While a welcome reprieve to agents dealing with such matters, no one seems to know which faction started or stopped the event - some may want answers.

 

In other parts of the world, the six remaining Keres stir the winds of chaos, slowly becoming more than just ghosts.

Posted by Strazhari, 2 years ago. Permalink

Unusual Weather in Central Texas

While storms in Autumn are not uncommon, the Fort Worth/Arlington/Dallas area is being hit hard with intense rain, lightning storms, & multiple tornadoes, sometimes as many as 4 confirmed touching down at a time. The recent violent weather is a bit unusual, though explained away as Climate Shift, Act of God, etc.

Interested parties may find psychokinetic disturbances in the area as well, & may wish to dispatch investigators.

Posted by Rainbowdragon1357, 2 years, 2 months ago. Permalink

National Hero Saves the NISS

Rico Salvez, a 42 year old aerospace engineer from Pennsylvania has been awarded a National Medal of Honor for the emergency repairs he make on the New International Space Station after a foreign object punctured the hull of the Station. Alongside this, he also managed to save his team who had collapsed around the station.

Gulliver Archer made a Move (leonvanderblight GMed) 2 years, 2 months ago. View Move

Native speaker attacked, mysterious hero steps in to save the day!

Here in Clovis New Mexico, a tragedy!

Members of the Sons of Anarchy biker gang made a move on a local war hero today, the hero Mr.Thomas H. Begay being one of the three last living wind talkers. A special unit of Navajo war heroes who helped America triumph in World War 2. The gang, equipped with automatic weapons and baseball bats took to attacking the man at the Event Center during one of his speeches on his history and accomplishments and were stopped by a mysterious hero who can be seen here dodging through gunfire to tackle one of the assailants. Though the hero could not be reached for comment, it is confirmed that they met with police after and requested to remain anonymous. Regardless though, we want him to know that Clovis is thankful. 

Now we cut to an interview with a Mr.Louis Dugall a Vietnam veteran who came to the event and assisted the unknown hero by preventing an attack by three more assailants, Mr.Dugall describes the events as harrowing and a reminder that the darkness of our greatest global tragedies has yet to be fully erased. He urges everyone to listen to the wisdom of those who came before and to remember the truth of their and the world's history. A noble sentiment, from a noble man. 

Leaving you with this message to not forget the past, and work together for a better tomorrow this is Channel 7 news signing out and wishing you all the best.  

Leon Vanderblight made a Move (Rainbowdragon1357 GMed) 2 years, 2 months ago. View Move

Terrorist attack on Ise Grand shrine

A camera displays a female reporter standing with an umbrella in the pouring rain. Behind her is a large bridge leading with a path through a wooded area, shrines and temples reaching over the treetop into view. The reporter looks at the camera and says ,"This is Kyodo News i'm Mio Mari and right now im in front of the well reknown Ise grand Shrine in the Mei prefecture currently closed to the public due to a recent terrorist attack. The attack happened yesterday evening during the heavy rain storm when one of the shrines was targeted by an explosive device and another assulted by multiple un-identified gun men, killing 11 and injuring 13 others. The Shrine reports multiple missing religious artifacts but choose not to identify them or their appereance at this moment.

Posted by jwesley123, 2 years, 2 months ago. Permalink

Freak Electric Storm In New York

A Freak Electric Storm sprung up on the New York coast. Meteorologists say that its a 1 in a million occurence that occured. There was a massive electrical discharge into the ocean that overheated the sea causing a massive gas bubble to form at sea. 20 ships are reported missing at sea as well as all crewmembers are declared missing. More updates to potentially come later.

Tani Michio made a Move (therustyy257 GMed) 2 years, 2 months ago. View Move

Japan, Saitama - Gaka no komichi massacre.


 

Black Fox - butcherer or hero? 

 

One of the biggest massacres in recent Japanese history has taken place in the Gaka no komichi flea market mere moments ago, three dead, one in critical condition. 

  

Today, at around one AM the streets of Saitama would run red following a massacre that claimed the lives of three men, leaving another one on life support

  

The local authorities are working tirelessly to find the culprit and bring them to justice. 

  

The perpetrator was reported to look like a thin androgynous individual wearing a dark hooded robe and jeans, their face was reportedly fully covered by a black mask depicting the face of a Nogitsune frozen in a mocking smile. 

  

A bounty of 250,000¥ has been authorised for any information leading to the capture of the armed and highly dangerous anti-social element responsible for the massive loss of human life, if you spot them call your local police station immediately and do not physically engage for your own safety. 

  

Some locals however seem to have a different opinion about today's tragic event, dubbing the mass murderer as a hero or vigilante. 

  

According to anonymous witness reports the individual dubbed by the public as the "Black Fox" was acting in self-defence, swifty and mercilessly dispatching several members of a local gang that have been terrorising the market-place for the last six months, claims that the local authorities have neither denied nor sustained at the present moment as the identity of the deceased individuals is obscured by their countless disfiguring wounds. 

 

Charles Landwick (Sherlock) made a Move (Rainbowdragon1357 GMed) 2 years, 3 months ago. View Move

Luci Alessi made a Move (jwesley123 GMed) 2 years, 3 months ago. View Move

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