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Collapse of IGTDCN Satelite leads to the hospitalization of 6!
By: Miss Kelly K Busybody

Earlier today at approximatly 3 P.M. Galactic Standard time, The Passenger ship Novus on its way from Zyzex Station to Itsulphy Station collided with an IGTDCN Satelight leading to its complete Implosion. While the ship itself survived the implosion, at least six of its passengers were discovered to be in a comatose state shortly after systems were restored. All passengers, crew Members, and the parts of the satelight were taken to Oceanus for treatment and investigation. Due to the loss of ship's records, anyone with information on who these passengers were should contact Oceanus General Hospital on Oceanus in Fluidic Space, or Contact The Warhaven Government immediatly.

OOC: I need people to play the six comatose victims. There is more to play of course than just an accident. You can do more than just RP the victim, but those are the six crucial roles, as you'll see in my next post. Just don't go overboard on what you do. The mentioned stations are international stations, though of no importance other to to set where the ship was going to and coming from, so anyone can be one of the six victims. They can range from common civilian, to government offical, to Military leader, to anywhere inbetween.

bump?

Im intriged. If I join may i play a Dragona trooper on leave at the time of the acident?

OOC: Uh...there's not really much to say as a comatose victim, much more than "My guy lay comatose with basic body functions still active...". I'll need to see more before coming in, I think.

Im intriged. If I join may i play a Dragona trooper on leave at the time of the acident?

OOC: Go ahead, part of this is trying to get your character's mind, back to his/her body. Its currently lost in the Aquamarinian Hive Mind, which stretches itself accross great distances using the IGTDCN, thus the accident, thus the coma. If you've seen the matrix, then you've seen full integration into the hive mind. Mine is not like the borg hive mind, its more like the internet. A collection of minds working together. It is nothing without its parts,yet is also more than the sum of its parts. Get what I'm saying?

IC:

Galactic Newswire Services

At four P.M. Today, Queen Lucy of the Aquamarinians, came forward with a new theory regarding the fate of the unlucky victims.

"We feel new presences within our hive mind, and think that the minds of these six victims may have been completly seperated from their bodies, leaving only enough behind to maintain minimal function, thus the comatose state. We are currently undergoing effort to try and locate their minds, but it is like trying to find a single drop of blood in an ocean, it will take some time."

Dr. Tottenkoffen of the Oceanus international hospitl disagrees.
"I have been researching their condition, and believe they may recover with time. We are going to use an experimental process using time manipulation to accelerate their healing."

As always, anyone with more information is encouraged to come forward.

Meanwhile, the first of the victims, a Dragona trooper would "awaken" within the hive mind, and would find a field of roses all around. A green star shone overhead, and an archway with a hallwy of doors stood in the distance. Voices could be heard everywhere, but no one was around...

the first of the victims, a Dragona trooper would "awaken" within the hive mind, and would find a field of roses all around. A green star shone overhead, and an archway with a hallwy of doors stood in the distance. Voices could be heard everywhere, but no one was around...


Corpral Alexus Cleopatra stired from her dream like sleep to see a green star gleaming in the center of her vision. Groaning she lay for several seconds, readying her self to fight an aponent and discretly reching for the plasma pistol tucked into the small of her back. To her shock it was not there and, after a brief pause realized she was cloathed in a plain black tunic and matching pants alond with a rather swauve pair of black shoes rather than her silver armor of the silver arrow regiment.

Standing she saw that she stood in a feild of roses that seemed to strech forever anmd that an arch way stood before her leading into a hall filled with identical doors, to her suprise she saw that behind the arch way there was nothing, this of course defys the laws of both physics, logic and generaly reality. Cautiosly she took a tentative step into the archway, half clenching her fists so that she could spring into a fighting stance at any moment she took another step and another before she heared a voice, then another, and another.

Disconcerned she turned to leave and return to the tranquil feild of roses, only to find the arch way was gone, another door in its place. Shuddering she wispered, almost to herself "Where in the name of the ancesters am I?" thoe why she did not know. A comfort thing she suposed, a way to keep her self sane in this weird and creepy environment. Despite her training she could not help but feel scared, standing there alone in the strange hall way, amongst the countless masses of doors and the disembodied voices.

"...someone's in the.....mind!" said one voice
"An accident..." said another.
"Where are..." said yet another.
They were just snippets of conversations, could they apply to her?
"GET OUT!" bellowed a fourth, a very disturbingly creepy voice one would expect coming from a demon in a horror movie.

In the distance, in the great hallway of doors, a door opened, a man walked through, down the hall, and into another door. He appeared as a commanding figure, had white hair and skin, black eyes and lips, and red velevet clothes. He appeared to be on business of his own in this place, completly comfortable with it.

Startled by the mans sudden aperance and departure Alexus stood stunned in front of the door for a few seconds then realizing he could be of at least some help, hopeing he could be of some help, she ran down the coridor and, stoping before the door the man had entered, knocked on the door three times, standing patently, hopeing he or some one else would answer.

The force of her knock was enough to cause the door to open. Inide was a massive library.

Close to her was a book with the title "Understanding the Aquamarinian Hivemind" by Fred E Cat.

The man however was nowhere in sight, perhaps behind a bookshelf?

Alexus examined the book briefly, fliking few the first few pages before concluding that it would be of at least some use, and tucked it under her arm, proceding alond the isles to find the man or a place to sit and read the book.

She found both, for the man was sitting in one of two huge easy chairs reading a book entitled "How to overcome your amnesia" by Who am I.

The whispers were building however, someone, somewhere, was going to do something to an unconious woman. Infact, Alexus would find, if she looked out a window nearby, a man with a great beard, a big nose, and thick eyeglasses fiddling around with a machine, WITH HER BODY IN IT! She could do nothing to the window, for it would not brek, not even using a weapon on it.

"Excuse me" She said to the man, trying to ignore the utterly disturbing goings on outside the window "Could you tell me where exactly I am?"

"We are inside." the man said. He got up, and looked out the window.
"That isn't going to work you know. that machine cannot return you to your body. I hope you weren't the one to give him that silly idea. We're not even in synch with the rest of the hive-mind. We have to be in synch to get out." he said turning to Alexus.

"Hive mind? You mean what this book speaks of is this place?" She sighed, siting oposite the man she said " I dont even know how I got here. One moment I was on a transport, the next I wake up in a feild of roses and come here!"

"I don't know either, I mean, I know they use satelites to extend their range, but why would you be messing with a satelite, everyone knows their off limits." the man said.
The voices were back again.
"... accident..."
"... collision with the IGTDCN...."
"... in the hivemind somewhere, but where, we've searched thoroughly?"

"Did you hear that?" asked the man.

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Galactic Newsire Services

In a startling revalation, workers have recovered the mangled body of Emporer Tajen Darkson, out on one of his many incognito trips, disguised as a common man. Docters work round the clock to stabilise his condition

"Yes, but I don't know what they... Wait a moment, what if.." she trailed off, pawing over the contense of the book she held, looking for ways to enter the hivemind

"... ways to enter the Hivemind include Telepathic connection, which is the standard method, other ways include communications device connection, or Computer connection."

The man loked over her shoulder.
"IGTDCN stands for Inter-Galactic Trans-Dimensional Communications Network. As I said, the Aquamarinians use it to boost the range of their Hive mind, it's the entire founding basis of the network. What if you had an accident involving the satelite?" the man asked.

"Hmmm, you don't supose thats how i got in here do you? some freak acidant with my transport and a satolite? would proboly explain that" she said, indicating the window "It could also explain how i got here with out rembering it I supose. So now what do i do, how can i get into sync with the hive mind. Oh so many questions burn in my mind yet half proboly have no answer!!"

"I've been here for three years, and don't know how to get out." the man said.

He sat down and continued to read.
"I don't even know ho to get in synch with the hive, I don't think they know this part exists." the man said.

"How comforting. I suppose we can only hope we are found eventualy, surely one of the doors out there must lead into it?" She said in desperation, wondering what would happen to her if she was stuck there for 3 years.

ooc: going off for the night l8r:p

"I've been through every door but one, I can't open it by myself, but its pretty hard to get to. Otherwise, its like they never notice us." the man said.

OOC: Mind if I join in?

OOC: Come on in. Just note a starting place that resembles (looks up places in the ginormous non-existent book of places in the hivemind) Rome, in general. You can catch up to us if you enter the hallway in the middle of the coliseum that should not by all logic be there, go five doors down, and take a left into the room of knowledge. I'm just glad you caught us before we entered the Valley of Asylum, a portion of the hive cut off from the rest.

Major Atticus Zero awoke from a deep sleep. He sat up and looked around. "What the hell?" He mumbled, for he awoke in the middle of an ancient Roman coliseum. Alarm bells were subconciously going off in tha Major's head. He jumped up and reached for his pistol, but his hand didn't meet the holster. His pistol was gone, along with the rest of his equipment. He spun around, looking to see if anybody was close by.
Then, he saw a doorway, standing in the middle of the arena floor. "Hello?" He yelled, but with no response other than the echo. He entered the archway, turned to see if anybody was following him, and found that a door appeared in the doorway. "Where am I?" He asked hisself. He cocked his head slightly sideways, and heard the faint voices of a man and a woman. He walked as quickly and quietly as he could towards the door that the voices were coming from. Peering through the ajar doorway, he saw the source of the voices. He slowly opened the door, and stood in the doorway. "Excuse me, but were are we?"

"It depends on how you define the question. Taken point-blank as asked, we are in two diffrent places, Our bodies are in a hospitl in oceanus where docters and Aquamarinians alike feverishly try to figure out why we are in a coma, Meanwhileour minds, seperated from our bodies as they are, are trapped in a phase varience in the Aquamarinian Hive Mind, basicly, we are having an out of body experience, trppen in a place we cannot escape beause we are out of synch with the hive mind. Oh yes, our minds are trapped in an old forgotten IGTDCN satelite in between Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxies.

It seems however, if we're going to get out, introductions are in order. My ame is Tajen, I am the son of The Darkness, known to all the rest of creation as Tajen Darkson, Lord Emporer of Warhaven, Rather, I am one of his many personalities, we do have Multiple Personality Disorder. I was riding the transport incognito, no one knew I was there." Tajen said, the man in the red velvet clothing with pale white skin and hair, and black lips.

"Why should anyone deserve to know you were there? Their all weaker than you anyway, I say let them suffer, and if they complain, tax them to death, after we kill a few thousand as an object lesson." said another Tajen from just inside the doorway, behind a bookshelf. He stepped out, and the hatred for all things in his eyes was frightening.
"My unfriendly psychotic side, a present from my father." Normal Tajen said.
"Yes, and the sniviling coward continues to watch the asylum, maybe we should leave him there." the mean Tajen said.

"Well, 'normal Tajen,' I am Major Atticus Zero, member of the Oceanus Armed Forces. So our ship collided with a satellite, and now our subconcious has been trapped in this place? Well, I guess that's what you get for taking an economy flight. Do you know how to get out of here?"

"Haven't the faintest clue. There is one door We haven't been through yet, but it's awfully hard to get through, and I can't open it alone, as in, we are images of our minds, and despite having MPD, I'm still only one mind, I need other minds, that's you two, to help me open it. I'm certain if we could synchronise with the rest of the mind though we'd be helped out fairly quickly." Normal Tajen said.

"You two look like the fighting type, here's a hint, we're all just the residual self-image we have of ourselves. If you use your imagination, you can make yourself look however you want, and that includes weaponry and defences. This is after all, the mind, this is not reality." Mean Tajen said.

OOC: This isn't going to be some walk in the park, we're going to fight our way through large numbers of Diseased, twisted, or otherwise distorted minds.

Hmm. Zero thought for a moment, and conjured up his equipment. He pulled out his pistol, an older but well preserved weapon, that shot actual bullets. He tried empty the clip into the wall, but the weapon had a continuous supply of ammo now. Zero smiled, and holstered the weapon. "So, what's keeping us from simply imagining ourselves out of this place and back into reality?"

"Its not the way the hive mind works, I would go into detail, but we should really be getting on with this before they try something drastic, like surgery." Normal Tajen said.

"Is there an exit somewhere? What do we do first to get put of here?" Asked Major Zero.

"Normally, we just will ourselves to disconnect from the Hive mind, but One, we're out of synch, and cannot properly disconnect, which could result in massive damage to our minds, and two, our minds already could be injured in some fashion as a result of being almost forcibly connected to the hive mind.

However, first we must cross the most dangerous area of the Hive Mind, The Asylum, where all the Diseased, crazy, deranged, Psychotic, Maniacle, and otherwise socially unacceptable minds are kept locked away. We have noted after much study, and keeping most of our manhy personalities there, that it exists in multiple ways. For oour purposes, it is the bridge from where we are now, back to reality, for once we cross, we will be found out by the sane Aquamarinians, who appear to be searching for us. After they assess that our minds are fit to be returned to our bodies, I am sure they will do so.

Don't get me wrong, its not as easy as it sounds, I've lived in the asylum for about four years, and I can promise you it is very dangerous. As we are now, there are rules, logic, and order. In the asylum, these things do not exist, or have no bearing on events. Not even sanity and reason can be found there.

I'll give you a moment to prepare yourself, and then, lets go." Tajen said.

Both of them exited, and walked all the way down to the very end of the hallway, where a great wrought Iron, steel reinforced door stood locked and barred shut. In front of it cowered a third Tajen, this one semed meak and cowardly, his self-preservation instinct.

"Is there any way to defend ourselves from the minds in the asylum? Or do we throw everything we have at them until something subdues them?"

"You have a gun, use it. They may not be immediatly effected, but it will still work, after awhile." Tajen said.

"I guess I'm ready." He said, pulling his gun out of it's holster. "Shall we advance?"

OOC: What happened to Ih8uwannakillu?

"Lets go." Normal Tajen said, as he struggled with the door, defeated, Mean Tajen pull him back, and looked at the door.

"BOOM!" He shouted, and as he shouted, the door exploded inwards at the same time.

"Imitting father are we?" Normal Tajen asked.
"It can be pretty helpful sometimes." Mean Tajen said.
Beyond was a swirling mass of color. Roads went places they shouldn't. It looked like M.C. Escher and Salvidor Dali got together and had a nightmare of fiendish porportions. all three tajens watched in fascination as a staircase turned and met itself, melting into a puddle through which strolled an elephant with a door in it to a pleasant loking environmnet, a field of tulips, but each tulip had an eyeball in it staring back.

"Try not to think to hard." Normal tajen said with a shudder. Cowardly Tajen hugged normal Tajen so closely the two became one being again, the new normal Tajen stood at the door staring at it with tredeptation, unsure if he actually wanted to venture forth. A nail ran down a rainbow colored road screaming, as a giant hammer chased it, trying to pound it into the ground.
OOC: Don't know, But I'm gonna send a TG.

ooc: SRY sry. Was busy with a kung fu gradin for a bit, wold havesaid but had to kep training:(:(

IC: After exchanging greetings with the new arival and intoducing herself as Corpral Alexus Cleopatra of the silver arrow regiment she counjured up an image of her battle armor in her mind and was pleased to see that it was an exact replica of the armor she useually wore, not even lighter, perfect. Next she imagined a las-spear which formed in the groove on her armors back designed specificly for this, following suite with the Major and fireing at the wall, leaving a sizeable hole where the blue energy burst had hit. Smiling to herself she followed the others to the door.

"bit exesive isn't it?" she said before the mean Tajin blasted the door open "Or maybe not" she finished, trying to hide her grin at the sight of the hammer and the nail. Readying her weapon she said "Shall we go on then?"

Normal Tajen yentavly took a step forward,then jerked back, more out of fear than anything.

"Uhh, you coward, are we gonna have to become one being again just to get through this? Fine!" Mean Tajen said, and in so doing, Darkness enveloped the two and then went away, this was the real Tajen, and he seemed Regal, now that he was normal.

He stretched, and then thought, while he was in thought, a field of dandelions started dancing their merry way accross a field.

"This is the pleasant section, even still, I fel like being a little exesivly violent." Tajen said. Darkness swirled around him, and he entered the asylum. Without even looking he pointed to the right and blasted a runaway train, stopping it in place, if he hadn't, it would've hit him.

"Gonna have to try harder than that Lefgos!" Tajen said cheerfully.

OOC: I invite you both to take place in the Mortal Kombat tournament. Not with these characters though, because of this thread, the tournament can happen, due to.... reasons, that I'll reveal ICly in the tournament at the approriate time.

Zero slowly walked forward, half crouched in a stance ready to jump up and attack. His gun pointed outward, and his back towards Tajen and Corporal Cleopatra. He fired a round at one of the dancing dandelions out of pure curiosity, and watched it dissolve into the air. "so far, so good," he said. "Which way to the exit?"

Tajen simply pointed at the giant glowing exit sign in the distance beyond the horizon.
"Not that way, that way is a trap, I went there once, those poor people." Tajen said, though what he could've meant by "Poor People" was anyone's guess.

He raised a han , and an orb of darkness gathered in it. He looked at it intently.

"This way." he said.

OOC: Feel free to add whatever scene of insanity, inanity, or otherwise similarly themed not normalness you can imagine, the darker and scarier it is, the closer we are to the exit, so lets try and go for a gentle transition from cartoonish insanity to Nightmare on Elm Street insanity.

"After you" Alexus said, unerved by the by the group of yellow smiling faces being chased by red and decididly angry faces on the rainbow path. Both of these groups were then flatened by a large, multi coloured lead baloon which she promptly blasted apart.

Zero looked up and saw a squadron of fire hydrants taking on a wing of boots, which were all subsequently swallowed up by a giant flying envelope, which was then sliced in half by a fried egg.

Tajen walked on, completly oblivious, or so it seemed, to the environment around him. They entered a great city, where many Octopus like creatures moved about, they came in Red, Green, Black, Pink, Purple, and White, and only those six colors.

One came up to Alexus.
"Are Gods troubling you non-stop? Tired of incessant demands to give sacrifice, or go raid and pillage some unoffending village? Then get God-B-Gon! God-B-Gon keeps all those pesky dieties away for a full day! Now in a convienient spray bottle."

Meanwhile Zero was accosted by another one.
"Where's my teddy bear, you took my Teddy bear you dirty ape thing, give it back!" it demanded.

Tajen was blocked by yet another one.
"Why did you leave me daddy? Mommy's been crying her eyes out for days." it said.

"If you don't leave me alone I'm going to become very unpleasant, and drag you to the Slaughter house." Tajen said.

At the mention of the Slaughter House, all three ran away and hid, and all the others quickly vanished into buildings.

Trapped inside a box
Four long years
Hiding from the world
Punished by your peers

The words were floating on the breeze, the sky was changing the wind was blowing, the light was beginning to fade. Tajen banished the orb of darkness he was holding.



Now you've graduated
Mind is mutilated
Thrust into the world
Feeling segregated
Move in with your parents
Back into the dark
Landed where you started

Tajen summoned a sword that was simulatainiously every Color that existed, and none at all, both here, and not here.
"Prepare yourselves, the fun and games are over, This is The Slaughter House, a place in Asylum created by the joint minds of the Criminally insane. I'm proud to say I built half of it myself, when I was mentally disturbed.


You'll be eaten by the blackness
Of your rotting mind that's dying
You're consumed with sharpened wings
That penetrate your frightened lying
Were the words a warning of what was inside? a last chance to turn away?

Now you're sad and frightened
Want to go and hide
Eight more years inside
Dream of your own murder
Strangled by the IVY.

Scattered on the ground were newspapers, and according to them, over 12 years had passed since they awoke, but then, this was a mad house, surely they weren't true. The headlines contained such stand outs like "Victims of IGTDCN crash die in a Coma!"
"Nations call for investigations into the crash."
"The Dark Empire of Warhaven goes to war following Demands by foreign entities to reveal top secret documents concerning The IGTDCN."
"The Imperial Dictatorship of SkillCrossbones and The Golden havens of Ih8uwannakillu the first to fall!"

"If your not Mentally prepared against deciet and trickery, then you will surely die here." Tajen said, and with that, opened the doors.
The stench of rotting flesh hit them. Blood was everywhere, streaked accross the walls, painted across the ceiling, covering the floor. Tajen stepped into the building, and stepped down, the blood pooled an inch deep, or so it appeared.

In here, what was reality?
an enraged Four armed human looking creature rushed Tajen, and with a single swing of his sword, it was cleaved in two.

"Touching an alien mind is always disturbing. We are aliens to Aquamarinians, just as they are alien to humans. Your likely to find all manner of disturbing things in here." Tajen said.

OOC: Do not take the headlines seriously, for they are deciet, the first signs there of. The Slaughterhouse is the only thing between us and the exit. Explore the darkest parts of your imagination, give into that part you ignore in an effort to be a law abbiding citizen. Show the world the true darkness in your soul. In the Slaughterhouse, you master your demons, or they master you. You need me only to post direction, and indicate the depth of terror we explore, otherwise, feel free to post your own demons attacking.

The uploadees attempted to react human to the basic ideas, even though for some of them it was an odd thing to do. They pointed out several parts where the Allaneans did not realize they made similar error to those, which led to the first address shortage back in the times, when IPv4 was still widely used. The group had certain ideas for QoS and similar things and especially Jəltr had a 'unique perspective' to say it positively on encryption. Tsixvkzjək and Nsvinktrətrıskl had a hard time not only explaining the others what the disadvantages would be (they would would make the cost of any sort of network hardware go up rather much) and a harder task explaining how an Uploadee could be inefficient.

The Uploadees also expressed concern how the Allanean suggestion concerning resource names would deal with different namespaces and trademark issues since Uploadees normally are rather oblivious to these kind of inefficiency.