Hub Rp: Stand By, Set Up, Ready

[Raleigh]

A megapolis is an extremely large city, now suppose someone expanded on this to the meta stage, got a picture in your head now? Good. This is the world of Hub. Neo Tokyo, New York circa 2368, Coruscant, any of these images might be recalled by a visitor to Hub, a large city were just about everything is for sale, so long as you know somebody. This reality however differs from most, its population is fully aware of other universes, other realities, other realms than its own. The average citizen of this world can most likely name to you from memory some dozen or so worlds that anyone can access from the dimensional gateways and transports available in Hub.

We are here in this wonderful city to see a grand get together of one of the largest organizations of Hub, simply termed the Guild. Most might think of it as a hunter's guild, but they would only be partially right. Every member of this organization is trained, guided, and urged to learn as much as they can about as many things as they can. This organization accounts for over some 70% of all revenue in Hub and therefor tends to make most of the laws here.

This day marks the 200th anniversery of the Guild's existance in Hub. To celebrate, every active member has been called back from any missions they may have been on, and are currently gathered in the main square of the largest city in Hub, known simply as Ryosta. An aged man is about to address the gathered agents of the guild. Let us settle in and see what is happening, shall we?

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Guild Master: "We gather here today to celebrate 200 years of our organizations great actions. We have aided the realities and worlds tied here to Hub several times, been able to observe and learn new philosophies, cultures, technologies, and histories. We are not only an organization of hunters, but also of explorers, anthropologists, archeologists, and investigators. I am proud to announce that we have just finished developing a new portal system for all our members, it shoudl allow you to come back home should things get too hairy in the field. We will be issuing one out to all members as part of our celebration. Now eat, drink, be merry, for tomorrow we may have to kill a pteradactly or a killatron 6,000 death machine thats slipped its programming." The old man finishes his speech, and the members of the guild begin to feast, celebrate, and converse amongst themselves as the devices are passed out. ((Okay, people can start posting here now, you will pretty much start off a member at this party unless you have some special event you need to have happen before your introduction. Extra credit to anyone that catches what that title refers to.))

[Queen Octavia]

Brandt hung back at arms length and mostly observed his fellow hunters. Food was not the only thing present in abundance at this feast, and it was information Brandt had an appetite for. Once the drinks started to flow people tended to chatter more about some of their missions that were normally a little more "hush-hush"

He continues to be part of the crowd and above it, analysing everything around. A few brief conversations with some of his old mentors brushed off quickly, and Brandt ponders at this new device. Created a little too late, this thing could've saved the lives of his father and many other fallen hunters. A useful aid, no doubt, but Brandt would not be using it as a crutch, for he knew he had to stay as sharp as possible.

Brandt sighed as he gave up on gathering information, there was lots of it, but too little was relevant. He succamb to the merriment and went to join a small group of hunters he knew.

[Katty]

Man, this party is great. Lots of food, new people to talk to, and best of all, I was away from that gateway. Just because I have a super I.Q. of 500 on the earth level, means that I am one of the few who can run that thing with little fail. Not that I WANT to join them mind you. I hate fighting and I cried my head off when I got a paper cut that one time. I'll admit I have a very low pain tolerance.

Oh well. I am only 16, and by the looks of it, everyone else here is atleast 20 or so. It does get loney being the only teenager here sometimes, atleast the only teenage I have seen. Hub is huge, so there might be some somewhere.

But before I go, I need some of that food. Good thing I have a fast metabolism.

[Tala]

*Kay sat away fromm everyone else eating little and waiting for this to end*

I was almost done with my mission. I was about to go kill my target when they pulled me back to have a party. *sigh* I guess it is a special occasion. I like the new gadget though.

[Josh-May]

"HE-HEY!!!" A dog randomly attacked my shoe and nearly tearing it off my foot, and took off with it. I chased it through town, with one shoe on and the other in its jaws.

(OOC: sorry for the pitiful intro ^ ^")

[Metroidvania]

(Shannon frowns from a shadowy portion of the room, accepting her device with a nod to the passer-outer)

Odd....something about this doesn't feel.....right.

(she snags a glass of water from a nearby table, and sips at it while discretly scanning the rest of the crowd)

Too bad I still don't know anyone....

[Raleigh]

A young looking woman, possibly only in her early twenties, begins to wander through the crowd. She seems to be looking for some of the less festive members, possibly something has come up. "Now then, I need some people who aren't drunk off their rears. That shipment of material was needed for these things to work right... darn it all. What kind of theif steals from the guild, particularly when all its members are present?"

[Tala]

*Kay heard the person talking about somthing to do other than this so she went up to the woman*

*In a deep voice:I would like to help.

[Metroidvania]

(shannon hears the young woman as well, and she shrugs, walking over to the young woman)

What was stolen?

[Raleigh]

"Ahh, thank you two. We were expecting a shipment of the TX isotope -14 that we use to help power the retrieval nexus that is used with those devices that were just passed out. Unfortunately the shipment was stolen by some theif, we know he has went to ground somewhere here in the city. We think it may have been in the slums, possibly even going into old city through the sewers. Would you and anyone else you might be able to join up with you mind going to retrieve it? This mission was assigned by Guild Master Drake himself. The bounty for completion is quite high, around two thousand bounty points to each member that hunts it down successfully. Care to take the job?"

[Tala]

Yes ma'am.

*Kay runs out of the hall looking for traces of where to find the person when she finds a piece of cloth and she uses it to locate the rest of the cloth and runs inh the direction*

[Raleigh]

"Ahh youth. I hope the kid is alright, the crook is rather dangerous. Class A known by the name of Raven. He poses a threat to a lot of what we do here in Hub, take him down if you can but recovery is the primary goal of this mission."

[Josh-May]

I ran down an alley to find my shoe not messed up, allbeit slobber covered.

I squatted down to pick it up and i saw a purple glow. I put my shoe back on and investigated.
I didnt see anything, but the next thing i knew.. i wasent in the city anymore.. or atleast the city i knew.

(OOC: YAY im in the megapolis now~)

[Metroidvania]

"Ahh youth. I hope the kid is alright, the crook is rather dangerous. Class A known by the name of Raven. He poses a threat to a lot of what we do here in Hub, take him down if you can but recovery is the primary goal of this mission."

(Shannon frowns)

She's going to get himself killed.....but yes, I'll take the job.

(frowns, and suddenly goes limp)

He was....

(my body regains its strength)

headed through the old subway station towards the sewers.

(leaps off, following Kay's trail at a quite quick pace)

[Raleigh]

Notices the new arrival. "Hello young sir, can I help you?"