Yugioh The Chaos Landing RP

"T-there wasn't anything on the ground except this man," Amy stammered. "I couldn't see if the person who did this was carrying anything besides a deck. They didn't turn around, so I couldn't get a look at their face, but they did seem to be wearing bandages. That's all I know, officer."

Amy found it a bit strange that the officer said the criminal was specifically a man. They'd been too far away for her to make out any distinguishing features, let alone a confirmed gender...

edited 25th Oct '15 9:45:08 PM by lalalei2001

Jason swore under his breath as Bandaid escaped. And it figured, the police showed up just after. Marcus was being quiet. Jason himself didn't relish dealing with the law men. He took a somewhat dim view of law enforcement. In his experience, authority figures were just as fallible as anyone else, but had a lot more chances to fail. And Jason also felt that the kind of person who wants power is usually not the sort who you want to wield it. So he was a little terse with the cops.

"He was wearing a bunch of bandages. Like a mummy. He went that way." Jason said, short and succinct. Then he turned to Mark.

"I'm gonna go check on Pincushion." Jason said to him, and headed back the way he came. He hadn't gotten rid of Thrasher. Something was off about this. Maybe it was just his paranoia about "The Man", but something was up. His sense of tension only heightened when he walked in on an impromptu interrogation.

"She's told you everything she knows." Jason said to the officer. He actually had no idea if Amy had done that, but he figured he'd give her an out. "How about you go after the guy who did this instead of the girl who did your job for you?" He turned to Amy, looking her over. She was tiny, but she had apparently tried to move the wounded man. The fact that Hector wasn't bleeding out anymore did not go unnoticed, nor did the presence of Injection Fairy.

"You okay?" He asked her. "D'you call an ambulance?" He reached a hand into his pocket as he spoke, doing something with his phone.

edited 25th Oct '15 10:43:50 PM by HeroicSociopath

The officer glowered at Jason's intrusion into his talk with Amy, and got ready to do something, but then someone with a rather disarmingly soft voice spoke up from the sideline. "That is quite enough, return to your fellows and sweep the surrounding areas, and remember that this was not what you were hired to do."

The man who intervened on Jason's and Amy's behalf was someone who almost seemed to define the title of "Pretty Boy". Despite his three piece suit, tall, strong form and distinguished stride, he had an almost entirely androgynous face, almost statuesque in its lack in overt emotion.

Ruddy, dark red almost black hair styled somewhat long on his head likewise gave a certain impression of a noble.

"I must apologize for the Arrest Corps' unruly behaviours, they are under a rather large amount of pressure to find the perpetrator of these recent attacks." He then looked over at Amy and lightly put his hand on hers, "I do hope his coarse methods were not too shocking for you, m'lady. If these events have proven shocking I could grant you a safe ride home..."

There was a badge on his chest with a name on it, though it wasn't any police badge either individual had ever seen. The badge read; Cid Bramsden.

As he got done speaking, it looked like an emergency vehicle got there, and two people got out with a stretcher.

Jason didn't even flinch as the cop winded up for an attack. He might have gotten into a lot of trouble for assaulting an officer of the law when an absolutely gorgeous woman stepped in. But then he got a look at the name badge on his chest, and his jaw dropped. That was a man?! Jason wasn't sure he could believe it.

Then the guy got all up in Amy's grill. He figured it was in kind of poor taste for him to use this as a chance to hit on a girl, but it was Amy's decision to take him up on the offer, he supposed. Still, he'd give her an out if she wanted one.

"I'm gonna go with him in the ambulance." Jason said to Amy, glancing in Hector's direction. Usually they wanted someone who had witnessed the situation to come along and help get things in order. He placed his hand on his deck, causing Photon Thrasher to disappear as he headed for the ambulance.

((Ah, it may seem like they wouldn't let Jason go with in the ambulance, but I remember that when I got mauled by a dog they let the dude who saved me come with even though I didn't really know him.))

edited 25th Oct '15 11:29:39 PM by HeroicSociopath

Clay seeing that Will is fine goes outside to see if he can find anything maybe finding the Duelist Breaker or some Cultists but he is looking for clues about the Quater Back.

Amy found herself blushing, to her dismay. "I, uh, thank you for the offer—" She squinted at the name tag. "—Cid, but I think I can make my own way home."

"...Unless they want me to go with them," Amy added, realizing Jason was going with Hector in the ambulance. She did want to see if he was alright.

((I wonder how many Life Point-healing cards doctors use as well as medicine, bandages, etc. XD))

Cid looked over at the battered form of Hector, noting the fact that the valuable papers were not present here. He then put his hand on his forehead for a moment, and then smiled, "Hm, alright, though I would ask that I accompany you all as well...that would be fine, wouldn't it?"

One of the emergency technicians looked at Cid like he was crazy, "You cannot be serious. We're not taking either of them with us! And you're talking like—-"

Cid suddenly looked at the technician in a rather dark, focused way, and that was all it took, it seemed.

The technician looked rather stressed out suddenly, moving back, his forehead showing beads of sweat, "V-Very well...you three may follow along..."

Cid smiled at Amy and Jason and then promptly led the way into the thankfully quite spacious area in the back of the emergency vehicle as the technicians got Hector up on a stretcher and pulled him into the ambulance.

X-X-X-X-X-X

It looks like there are few clues around the school, but some teachers' assistants on tasks seem to be chatting about certain students.

According to them, they say that Will had a very bizarre scar underneath those wrappings he wore most of the day. He sometimes took them off in the bathroom to wash that area, and one of the Assistants claimed they saw something suspicious.

Another was saying that Ruben Keyton was racking up a winning streak in authorized duels. According to these assistants, he used a Kaiju deck.

"Rueben? well it is a possibility he could be the Breaker." He says to himself. As Clay goes to fine this Rueben he lets a random student take his mop.

This Cid person not only had audacity, he had authority as well. Amy stepped inside with the others, making a mental note to not get on his bad side...

And to Google "Duelist Breaker" "bandages" when she got home.

Jason watched Cid like a hawk as they filed into the ambulance. He made sure to stand across from the man, and made sure he was next to Amy. He was getting some serious bad vibes from this dude, and if he tried anything, he wanted to be in a good spot to protect Hector or Amy. He leaned against the wall, arms crossed over his chest, drumming them against his bicep. He didn't have a lot of headroom in the ambulance. It was clear he could handle himself if things came to blows, though he was well aware it would be very foolish to start a fight in an ambulance. He looked upon Cid with his steely grey eyes. Not to intimidate. But to appraise.

"And now you suddenly care about him?" Jason said, taking out his phone. He looked to be texting someone. And he sort of was. He had opened his phone's text editor, and while Amy would be able to see it, it was doubtful anyone else in the ambulance could.

Don't react. This guy is following us. Those papers are important. My number is 415-7200. We can text each other so he can't hear us talking. Jason didn't even check to see if Amy could see it. For all the world, he looked like he was just texting his boss. He gave her a few seconds to see the message, then put the phone away, praying that she'd peek by accident or out of curiousity.

"Let's cut to the chase. What do you want?" Akihiko asked Creepazoid. He felt like he was in a cage with a tiger.

But the thing was, he'd always wanted to wrestle a tiger.

edited 27th Oct '15 3:03:19 PM by HeroicSociopath

Seeing that the fracas appeared to be over and done with, Marcus shrugged and went back down the street towards his original destination, the coffee shop he frequented every morning.

The vibration in her non-deck pocket startled her. Amy looked at her phone, read the message, and texted a quick OK. She didn't trust Cid either, and the police officer's too-specific questions and brusque manner hadn't won her over.

Amy idly wondered how paranoid was too paranoid. This situation reminded her of what little she knew of 5Ds.

Cid looked around, and he seemed to sigh in relief now that they were away from the possibility of reporters and people accidentally seeing what may happen. He looked over at Jason and Amy, and the wounded Hector.

"I suppose the two of you are deeply involved in this now...I'll admit it was my intention to be alone with Hector and discuss his papers, but with the two of you...I can see my mission needs to be altered."

Cid walked over and looked at Hector's form, and then ruminated aloud, "While he may not have been aware of it, he was collecting data which would be vital in predicting what the next move of the Crystal may be. As such, Mayor Diceley sent me to come out when word reached us that he was involved in a duel with the Duelist Breaker."

Cid looked to the side, "However, my arrival was delayed by unforeseen factors..."

Elsewhere, a large group of cultists laid about in a heap as police arrived to take them in, each and every one of the cloaked cultists barely alive.

"Though it cannot be helped now." Cid barely seemed to notice the fierce look Jason was sending him, concentrating more on his "mission" and the fact it was now complicated, "Whatever happens, this man cannot fall into the hands of our adversaries. If such happened, the initial destructive incidents five years ago would look tame by comparison."

He assumed his strange and audacious personality again and stated aloud, "Then I suppose I should get to the point, right? You've all been deputized!"

X-X-X-X-X-X

The random student just looks dazed, wondering why he got the mop.

Clay would find some people chattering about how Ruben sometimes dueled alongside a blond young woman who some said was a delinquent.

Clay walks near them "Hey you kids know where this delinquent chick is?"

"Deputized!? You can't just—"

Amy stopped short. If Cid had enough clout to go over the heads of the authorities, he could definitely pull a few strings, and what he said before then was more important, for now.

Amy cleared her throat and started over.

"I, uh, I mean... you said enemies. What do you mean? What exactly have we gotten involved in?"

edited 27th Oct '15 7:46:52 PM by lalalei2001

"Indeed, when you ran in to involve yourself in this man's plight, you were involved in something that the proper authorities cannot quite wrap their heads around just yet."

Cid leaned against the wall of the ambulance, and nodded, "I understand your surprise. I was once in your shoes, rather...shocked, to say the least, when I was approached by Doctor Diceley."

Cid definitely seemed to, despite his words, have attained a lot of respect for the Mayor through whatever events had come to pass.

"The Duelist Breaker, lets start there. He's searching for people. And now that you've involved yourselves, his list will expand to include you for your daring interference."

Cid took out what looked like a piece of paper that had some very esoteric information on it, with a crystal being the central figure in this diagram. "What he's searching for is in relation to the Crystals. I suspect you might've heard of the immediate state of emergency? It is related to a certain kind of Crystal possibly emerging in a densely populated area, and the people who stand to gain from such an event."

Jason listened very carefully, and as the man spoke, discretely turned on the voice recording app on his phone. He'd play along, but Cid had yet to truly earn his trust. If Hector was so important, Jason had to wonder why he was willing to leave their patient alone a few minutes ago. Then again, maybe he had been planning to send some officers along instead of going personally.

"Alright." Jason said. If someone was using perverting a children's card game for murder, that wasn't something he could stand by. Hell, even if Cid hadn't asked him to work, he'd still do it to the best of his ability. But if he was doing work for the police...

"What's the pay like?" Jason asked. He didn't really need the money, and again, he'd do it for free if he had to, but he was putting his life on the line. The way Cid was talking, they were bait. He wasn't sure about letting the others be used like that, but Jason was confident he could handle himself.

Marcus strolled into the coffee shop. It was a tiny place, only staffed by one cashier, as usual. The few tables were mostly empty, with one taken up by a gentleman in a business suit reading a newspaper and munching a scone, though the beanbag chair Marcus usually say in was unoccupied. The air smelled of coffee, the sun streamed in through the large windows, and soft jazz played on the radio.

The cashier greeted him with a cheerful "Hi, Marcus!" The employees (all three of them) knew him well by virtue of repeated stops by the place, and Marcus counted all of them as good friends.

"Mornin', Shelly. I'll take the usual. How's your boyfriend doing?"

Idle chatter followed. After receiving his coffee and muffin, Marcus flopped onto his beanbag chair and sighed contentedly. This was the life. He took his phone out of his pocket and began browsing Reddit and munching his muffin.

Cid promptly took out a wallet, and retrieved 5 whole hundred dollar bills, running his fingers along the side of all that money, and making it visible how much of it there was. "If you agree to play along with Mister Diceley's plan to keep this city safe, then this is the first pay each of you will receive. The following paychecks will be larger in tune with the mission..."

He then noted how Jason was moving and deduced what may be going on, "I would also advise against making anything said in here public knowledge. Some people who stand to gain from Crystal Emergence do not yet know we are on to them."

He then looked outside the ambulance for a moment, winced, and walked over to the driver side of the vehicle, "Take a quicker route. I'm sending a message to Mr. Diceley to have traffic diverted. We may have company if we keep on going this route..."

X-X-X-X-X-X

What Marcus saw on Reddit was a rather disturbing "spam" of images on a lot of subreddits - namely, what looked like someone dueling a guy and winning quite grotesquely. He could see Thorn Prisoners at several points, with the other guy getting constricted, lashed and eviscerated by the shadowy thorns of Thorn Observer Zuma.

All the way up to the final move involving Van Darli Zuma viciously shredding the last monster and the remnants of Hector's life points.

It was obvious that whoever was doing this was quite devoted to their craft. The poster's user name was listed as Bad Wolf.

Marcus frowned. "Hel-lo... What do we have here?" He decided to check the user's post history to see if there was anything that might give them away.

Clay goes to find Rueben knowing that if he finds him he will lead him to the girl.

Amy was astounded at that much money, but still wasn't comfortable with the thought that she'd been forced into this by chance. Keeping quiet definitely sounded reasonable, though.

...Wait, there was an idea...

"There's an upcoming Duel Monsters tournament soon. Do you think whoever's behind this will be there?"

She knew the odds of it being the same person were unlikely, but anyone connected to it wouldn't miss the opportunity, especially if the prize for winning was rare cards. (Amy had forgotten what the prize actually was.)

edited 28th Oct '15 11:46:49 AM by lalalei2001

Hector woke up on the hospital bed. As he came to, he tried to remember what had happened. A guy in bandages had attacked, forced him into a duel against his own will, beat him, and took some papers.

"Oh crap, the research notes!" he thought, horrified. For the past few years, he was trying to discover why the duels became so real. He was at a dead end for most of these years, but than he noticed something strange about the duels, wrote it down, and...

Hector then came to a horrific realization that someone was trying to keep the chaos going. But why?

Jason may have been about to respond to Cid's veiled threat when Amy spoke. A tournament? He'd been a bit busy with work, so he'd not heard of it. But even without the investigation, he'd have found time for it.

"Do you think they could go there to get rare cards?" Jason asked Amy. This girl seemed pretty smart. He'd notice that while Jason had gone off to chase the baddies, she'd thought the heal Hector. It hurt Jason a bit to think about it, but if it weren't for her, Jason may have had left Hector to die by accident.

edited 29th Oct '15 2:10:40 AM by HeroicSociopath

"I forget what the prize is for winning, but a lot of duelists have at least one really rare card. If the prize is rare cards, that would entice them further."

Amy blushed before adding "If it's anything like the tournaments in the shows, something will happen to cause trouble."