[Nexus] AMEN XXXX: All Your Base Have Things In The Walls

[Gullara]

By Gulaghar


A BRIEF HISTORY by the esteemed Lord Magtok

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In the darkest pits of despair there lived a fearsome being, one made of pure malevolence, hatred, and madness. He had an equally dark and loathsome plan for our world, the formation of an organization to be known as Evil Incorporated, destined to spread his unhallowed name throughout the world, so that all might come to know and fear the one named Psyke_D.

Fortunately for the rest of us, there's already a webcomic called Evil Inc. When this was pointed out by yours truly, the members of this fledgling new organization went into a frenzy. What good could an evil organization be without a suitably original, stylish, and menacing name? All sorts of suggestions were produced, everything from Vilecom (painfully bland) to Fullbladder's Fabulous Funky Foursome (Totally incorrect, as there was at least six of us by then).

Finally, someone (and by someone I mean me) offered a suggestion even better than Evil Inc, the "Association of the Malicious, Evil, and Nefarious". Everyone immediately realized that this was by far the best name they'd ever heard of, and after a chorus of "AMEN, brother"s and nibbling on some pixies, the Association had officially begun.

Years went by after that. In-jokes were formed, members came and went, and dictators were ousted and replaced with new dictators more swiftly than Central America during the Cold War on steroids. It was a glorious time, full of wars with EVIL, The Town, France, and HALO. (All ending in AMEN victories, aside from the last one, which was more of a cease-fire stalemate thingy)

Lives were lost, promptly restored, and then lost again. Love blossomed between various Associates, dark feuds between others, and every manner of nonsense imaginable, but that chaotic energy, that "Burn it all and let the gods sort it out" attitude always came before anything else.

Sadly, these days were destined to end eventually. AMEN just couldn't keep up with HALO, GLoG, and the rest of the world, and xenophobically shut its doors upon the rest of the world. A Dark Age ensued, full of newbs posting inane nonsense and old members complaining about the newbs instead of trying to better their situation, until eventually, not even the newbs were posting anymore.

Then came hope. Most called him crazy (and they were right), others called him ridiculously optimistic, and some say he's a big smelly dragon who doesn't bathe anywhere near as much as he should (Or maybe only I say that), but everyone else called him Gordon, the new leader of AMEN. Realizing that this xenophobic age had to end, he led AMEN out of the darkness, and brought about a new age of darkness, gave us a world where AMEN is once again a serious threat. For that, we owe him our thanks. I'm still gonna stab him in the back the first chance I get, though.

THE BUILDING

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You don’t want to know. The greatest minds of our time have studied AMEN’s base, only to be driven MAD by the labyrinthine, ever shifting corridors and reality-defying chambers. The base itself is sentient, and doesn’t really take kindly to smartasses trying to map it. That being said, as long as you don’t try too hard to make sense of the base, it’s not difficult to find, say, the an empty bunk, the common room, the can, the lab, et cetera. Of course, there’s much more to the base than that, but I can’t tell you about it. 1) Because it would crush your little mind, and 2) because I don’t wanna.

MEMBERSHIP FORM

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You don’t want to know. The greatest minds of our time have studied AMEN’s membership form, only to be driven MAD by the labyrinthine, ever shifting legalese and the reality-defying... ah, you know the drill. Just sign in blood at the bottom. Don’t worry, once you get past the legalese it’s all fairly standard. *cough*

LIST OF MEMBERS

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{table]Character|Player
Gordon|Phantom
Magtok|Magtok
Jack|Murkus
The Moff|Moff Chumley
Rot|VampireRot
Becky|BR
Darcy|HT
Xavier|Billtodamax
Ilpholin|Reinholdt
Anyu|Haruki
Zefir|Zefir
Greg|Firefox
Rose|Gulaghar
The Hatter|The Alexandrian
Brother Pavel|The Alexandrian
GM|Goblin Music
Dark Lord|D_Lord
Moff 4|happyturtle
Allen |ApeofLight
Mr.Bunbun|ApeofLight
Kal'selthezaar|Kid Kris
Ivan|Moff Chumley
Commodore Fluffy|CommodoreFluffy
Orrey | Murkus
[/table]

OOC NOTES & RULES

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For the sake of variety, these rules will be listed in the form of Russian reversals. Wanna know why? Because I WAS BORED.

In Soviet Russia, AMEN base doesn’t destroy YOU!!
In Soviet Russia, godmodding aren’t allowed to YOU!!
In Soviet Russia, spam doesn’t post YOU!!
In Soviet Russia, t3h s3cks drop curtains on YOU!!

HOW TO JOIN

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Step 1) Wander in.
Step 2) Attempt to secure a membership form from an existing member. Which is no mean feat.
Step 3) Do not, under any circumstances, read the form. No, not even then.
Step 4) Sign in blood, please! Preferably yours.
Step 5) Congratulations, you’re now in AMEN! Weekly dues are paid to the current head.

About Henchmen

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NPC Henchmen for the most part can be godmodded, however, the named henchmen are reserved for ThePhantom to control.

Standard henchmen attack uniform. by MethosH, from the Nexus webcomic.

NPC Henchmen

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There are 147 npc henchman, each with a css color designation such as DarkRed, LimeGreen, and Cyan. Pink is the only henchwoman and seems to be the supervisor over the rest, though she still ranks below the named henchmen. Nobody but Gordon really knows what made them take the job at AMEN, but it must have been good.

Named Henchmen

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Rogar: Head Henchman, manages the henchmen. Fights with electrostaff.
Sweetums: Head Ogre Usher, most powerful fighter of henchmen. Makes the very nice fudge.
Pete: Henchman of Naval business. Insane, thinks he's a pirate, always talks like one.
Mr E: Spymaster of henchmen. No telling what he looks like.

[ThePhantom]

(You need to put in one of the names. Thank you.)

[VampireRot]

Main Room

Done

Brother Pavel, Gorden, and Rot are there.

Main Room

Rot quickly pats himself down.

"Thank the unholy gods. Now if you excuse me, I have to make a call."

The vampire spins around and strides off down some random hallway. Where he finds and then assaults and eats a henchman. He also nicks the minion's cell phone, and steps into a side room to make a call...

[ThePhantom]

Main Room

Gordon limps over the couch, and lies down. Thank goodness that the couch's size changes to fix, as Gordon is still a dragon.

[Gullara]

[Main Room]

"Your sire wasn't so nice if he gave rise to you, filthy girl."

The Hatter chuckles with a bit of a British accent as he visually scans Rose's latest snack.

The Hatter addresses the newcomer in a slow, loud, mocking voice.

"Hello! Can you comprehend the words that are coming out of my mouth?"

Rose shakes her head dismissively. If he thought he was going to get a rise out of her he'd have to do better than that.

"Hey Rot." She greets him before he goes to make his call. And actually genuine smile colours her face when she sees him.

She just eyes Gordon. not bothering to comment for the time being.

[happyturtle]

((Updated to include the NPC henchies. If everyone's okay with this, then I'd like Ghar to add it to the OP.))

About Henchmen

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NPC Henchmen for the most part can be godmodded, however, the named henchmen are reserved for ThePhantom to control.

Standard henchmen attack uniform. by MethosH, from the Nexus webcomic.

NPC Henchmen

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There are 147 npc henchman, each with a css color designation such as DarkRed, LimeGreen, and Cyan. Pink is the only henchwoman and seems to be the supervisor over the rest, though she still ranks below the named henchmen. Nobody but Gordon really knows what made them take the job at AMEN, but it must have been good.

Named Henchmen

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Rogar: Head Henchman, manages the henchmen. Fights with electrostaff.
Sweetums: Head Ogre Usher, most powerful fighter of henchmen. Makes the very nice fudge.
Pete: Henchman of Naval business. Insane, thinks he's a pirate, always talks like one.
Mr E: Spymaster of henchmen. No telling what he looks like.

[VampireRot]

[Main Room]

Rot steps back into the main room, snapping the phone shut and then crushing it in one hand before throwing it carelessly over his shoulder. He mutters something under his breath before nodding at Rose.

"Hey."

He looks down at himself. Even if the henchman he just ate healed up his wounds a bit, his clothes are still torn and wrecked and dirty. He sighs and turns to go upstairs and to his room to clean up.

"I need to get a set of self-repairing clothes. Or at least an indestructible cape."

[The Alexandrian]

[Main Room]

Brother Pavel is probably sprawled on the floor, unconscious and wearing a...

A zoot suit?

Entirely black with a red undershirt. Polished, black, leather dress shoes.

What have you done to him, Gordon?

- - - - -

The Hatter cues in on Rose's smile.

He fakes a fit of coughing,

"*Cough!*Vampire love*Cough!"

"Excuse me, I'm allergic to Twilight."

[ThirdEmperor]

Main Room

A whirling vortex of black, oily smoke that smells of blood and decay pours into the room before reforming into Gozreh and his serpentine kin, which writhe across the floor, and sniff at the occupants of the room. Gozreh, on the other hand ignores everyone but the two other vampires, bowing politely to Rose before addressing Rot. Greetings. I believe you claimed to be the patriarch of the vampires in this realm?

[lord pringle]

[Main room.]
The secretary returns from vacation. Back sirs and madams!

[ThePhantom]

Main Room

Gordon is too tired to move much, or change into a smaller form. Rogar shows up to check up on his boss.

"Sir, are you alright?"
"No, I'm not. Could you go and find a trustworthy doctor. I feel like I need one."
"Yes sir."

And out Rogar goes, its not like any trustworthy doctors work at AMEN.

(Okay with it Happy, but since Gordon hired the henchmen, he knows why they stay.)

[VampireRot]

[Main Room]

Rot halts and turns to peer at Gozreh.

"Er, no. I said we bend our knees to no one here and that I was the strongest. There is no patriarch in this realm."

His eyes slide to the vampiric serpents.

"Snakes? Why snakes?"

He then absentmindedly spins to CHUCK A HATCHET at the Hatter. He should know that that word is taboo.


[Outside]

A truck appears out of thin air at the base of the volcano and begins driving up toward the entrance.

[Gullara]

[Main Room]

Rose gives the Hatter a hostile scowl. He's using the T word now? That's not going to go over well in the long run. "Watch your mouth, worm." She follows that up by throwing her short, curved sword at him. Likely right after Rot's hatchet.

DarkOrange enters the room, carrying a few towels. He hands them to Rose. She starts to wipe the streaks of blood from where she can get at around her clothes. She must have arranged for them on her way back here.

The new vampire just earns himself a curious look and a nod from Rose.

[happyturtle]

(Okay with it Happy, but since Gordon hired the henchmen, he knows why they stay.)

((Edited to note that.))

Moff 4 tries to remove Pavel's nice dress shoes.

[The Alexandrian]

[Main Room]

Darn you Moff 4!

Pavel is now shoeless.

Oh, well. As long as he doesn't step in the blood, he probably won't need them!

- - - - -

The Hatter is a psychic.

As such, he attempts to kinetically slow the weapons before they cut him up. If this is successful, he'll attempt to snatch them out of the air and begin to sprint down the hall with them.

Rot and Rose just taught The Hatter a valuable lesson.

If you say the word Twilight, you get free weapons!

[ThirdEmperor]

Main Room

How charmingly anarchistic. Gozreh says, a little surprised. Surely someone would have seen the obvious power vaccuum, if that was the case. How sadly backwards this realm appears to be. Either way, patriarch or merely the strongest, I am here to pay my respects, as is tradition. As for why snakes, an unfortunate spell of transformation, cast by a fool. Gozreh slices open his wrist with one claw and holds the now bleeding vein out to Rot, a gesture of respect in Gozreh's homeland. Gozreh's blood is completely edible to other vampires by the way, and actually tastes better than mere human blood. Although it can cause weaker vampires to spontaneously combust.

Gozreh, for the record is a very, very old vampire, about seven feet tall and supernaturally gaunt, emaciated even. He wears a once fancy, now threadbare white dress shirt blotched with faded bloodstains, a hooded satin traveller's cape, and a gold signet ring. His skin is entirely color-less, eyes sunken, teeth elongated and sharp. Definitely not one of the pretty vampires, with more of a resemblance to Orlok or Dracula than to the more recent types of blood-drinking undead.

[happyturtle]

Moff wanders off to sell the shoes on ebay. 99cp NO RESERVE! AS NEW!

[lord pringle]

[Main Room]
Flynn sits by Gordon. Anything I can do?

[VampireRot]

[Main Room]

"Tradition? If you say so."

Rot looks at Gozreh with suspicion. But seeing as it might be rude not to, he goes to take the other vampire's arm and lift the vein to his fangs. So he can suck up some blood, though he doesn't take much due to the undeath.

Rot is very old too, though he's not seven feet tall.


[Outside]

The truck parks outside, and two people get out! They make their way to the door, aaand...

Knock knock knock!

[ThePhantom]

Main Room

"Just sit there. So, how's Susie?"

Gordon's brain isn't working so well right now, so making mistakes about names is allowed.

[Gullara]

[Main Room]

A moment after the Hatter leaves the room Rose's sword reappears in her hand. No free weapons for him.

Rose stands and steps nearer to the two older vampires. Heck, she's practically a child in comparison. Only been seven years since she was turned.

[lord pringle]

She's doing great! I got our landlord to allow her in. Flynn grins.

[BladeofOblivion]

((I hate deadtime. ))

[Main Room]

Cyrus nods back to Rose when she does, and then hears the Hatter's comment.

"Unfortunately, sir, I do. I might even congratulate your forming of words, if they actually added something to a conversation."

He just sort of wanders out the door after that, as the last major wound on his neck heals. This place was good for company, but less so for survival. He'd rather wait out the crowd gathering in the room than get stuck in the inevitable free-for-all.

((Or, in layman's terms, he's leaving so time speeds up. ))

[ThePhantom]

Main Room

Gordon raises an eyebrow. Isn't Susie bigger than most buildings?

"Well, that's good."

[ThirdEmperor]

Main Room

Gozreh's blood will probably taste amazing. Even a slightly addictive, although a vampire would have to drink a lot more than Rot did to actually develop an dependency. Rot will probably feel stronger, tougher, and faster for a bit, as a spark of Gozreh's not insignificant power is transfered via the blood.

You spoke before of Westside, and other vampires who take tribute from mortals, treating them as more than prey. I would know more. Gozreh says, the cut on his wrist sealing back up.

[Gullara]

[Entrance]

DarkOrange goes over to the door since all the PCs are busy and answers it. "Here to join or smite evil?"

[VampireRot]

[Main Room]

"I don't know much besides that. I was never part of their coven. Rose was, though, and she can tell you more."

Rot nods toward the other other vampire.


[Entrance]

Two half-rotting zombies stand at the entrance, with little expression besides hunger. Oh noes! Hide your brains!

"'ello guv. We gotsha... what'sh'it agin?"

One of the zombies rolls one of its eyes to look at the other zombie, while keeping its other eye fixed on DarkOrange. The other zombie looks down at a clipboard, a bit of drool coming from his mouth.

"Sez 'ere we're 'ere ta pick up a package fer deliverin', see? Some bloke called Rot 'as it. Ye know 'im?"

The zombie jabs a finger, with patches of bone exposed and rotting skin peeling off, at DarkOrange.

I'm not sure if this is better or worse than brain eating.

[ThirdEmperor]

Gozreh turns to Rose, looking a little wary. He can smell the taint of holy energy on her, which is both intriguing, disturbing, and possibly annoying. Rose is it? Please, tell me what you know of this "Westside coven". He says, only slightly condescending towards the younger vampire.

[Gullara]

[Main Room]

"Well, they came from a society where everyone expects to be turned. Very... tame." There's obvious distaste in her voice. "There's way to much to just tell you everything. Do you have any specific questions." Rose... isn't mocking at all. Or even rude. Seems she has respect for old vampires.

[Entrance]

"Oh." DarkOrange doesn't look very pleased. "So... you want me to draw Rot's attention to me?" Never good for the health of a henchie to have to talk to Rot.

With much reluctance, DarkOrange goes over to Rot and says. "Door for you."

[VampireRot]

[Main Room]

Rot raises an eyebrow at DarkOrange and steps to the entrance. He gives the zombies a scowl and jerks a thumb to point behind him.

"Up the double staircase, down the hall, fifth door on your left. You'll know it."

The zombies nod and moan and then start shambling in the pointed direction. When they pass anyone, they'll tip their hats and nod. Like to Gozreh!

"Evenin' guv."

Unless stopped, they'll shamble through the base to wherever Rot has directed them!

Rot scowls some more and shakes his head as he returns to Rose and Gozreh.

"Bloody brain-eaters. But they are efficient."