Mercenaries

User Posts : 268 Join date : 2011-12-03 Age : 26

>Duck behind large metal piece of garbage.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Tue 12 Jun 2012, 8:59 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Duck behind large metal piece of garbage.

You do so, but the gunfire appears to be coming from all directions. You see muzzle flashes wherever you look, and the noise is deafening. It is all you can manage to keep from shutting your eyes as you hear the whiz of bullets in your ears...

User Posts : 268 Join date : 2011-12-03 Age : 26

>Dive into garbage.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Mon 18 Jun 2012, 12:34 am

Heontris wrote:: >Dive into garbage.

You perform a spectacular pirouette into a pile of junk and await the inevitable death by bulletstorm...

Strangely, though the sounds of the gunshots are all too clear, when huddled amidst the garbage something seems a bit off. You can't detect the sounds of actual bullet impact.

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>Move out of garbage.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Thu 21 Jun 2012, 7:41 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Move out of garbage.

You cautiously stick your head out of cover, and curiously enough, it stays intact. The bulletstorm appears to continue regardless of its failure to decapitate you.

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>Move throughout garbage piles.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Sat 23 Jun 2012, 1:31 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Move throughout garbage piles.

You suffer various cuts and bruises as you scrabble about, more curious than frightened of the gunfire now...

It has been flooding the room for several minutes now and shows no signs of stopping.

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> Go to one source of noise.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Sun 24 Jun 2012, 10:14 pm

Heontris wrote:: > Go to one source of noise.

The din is so loud, it's hard to pinpoint one exact source. Muzzle flashes appear everywhere you look.

Though you still haven't actually gotten hit, which is... strange.

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>Run forwards as far as possible.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Mon 25 Jun 2012, 3:25 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Run forwards as far as possible.

With daring courage, you leap deftly from your hiding place amidst the garbage and into the live firefight.

It is now excruciatingly clear, as you come up against a wall and stand there awkwardly, that there were never any real guns to begin with. You inspect a strange device that emits loud bangs and bright muzzle flashes at a regular interval of approximately 3.6 seconds. Many others like it decorate the chamber, which is probably just a scrap-metal dump now that you look at it again.

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>Grab device and pull off wall.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Tue 26 Jun 2012, 5:12 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Grab device and pull off wall.

You inspect the gun-simulator device after ripping it from its foundations. The contraption promptly shorts out, and you take a few seconds to examine it (though the rest of the devices are still filling the chamber with immense noise and flashing lights).

It's a small, camera-like machine, and you can clearly make out the unusual speakers that emit banging noises, as well as the front-mounted LED designed to emulate muzzle flashes.

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>Laugh at people who are most likely watching through fake walls.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Fri 29 Jun 2012, 6:12 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Laugh at people who are most likely watching through fake walls.

This thought does suddenly occur to you, and you let loose a mocking guffaw.

The fake walls are not amused, it seems, as the lights and sounds immediately cease, plunging you into darkness.

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>Laugh louder.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Fri 29 Jun 2012, 10:07 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Laugh louder.

A bit nervous now, you attempt to prevent the note of unease from entering your laugh.

Hopefully whoever is listening will think you are amused by these petty tests.

However, an altogether different sound reaches your ears - that of insectoid chittering.

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>Remember you hate bugs.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Sat 30 Jun 2012, 2:37 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Remember you hate bugs.

Ah yes. Your mind drifts back to an early childhood incident involving a sandbox, a centipede, and three gallons of Crisco.

But that is a story for another time, more specifically, a time when the numerous sets of red eyes peering at you out of the darkness have gone away.

They gradually surround you, and it is impossible to count them all.

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>Cower.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Sun 01 Jul 2012, 1:36 am

Heontris wrote:: >Cower.

Heehee okay this was fun time to run away now.

Unfortunately, you quickly trip on one of the mounds of garbage and find yourself lying there in the fetal position whilst swarms of unseen insectoid horrors crawl about on all sides of you.

You can feel yourself losing consciousness. It's just too much.

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>Fight to stay awake.

Subject: Re: Mercenaries Sun 01 Jul 2012, 8:22 pm

Heontris wrote:: >Fight to stay awake.

You put up your best mental resistance, but the whole thing is simply too nightmarish. By the time the first of the creatures makes contact with your skin, and crawls up your arm with centipede-like legs, you have already ceased to be aware of your surroundings.

...

You awaken in your apartment. People are yelling and your head hurts.

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>Sit up.