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Glacies

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In 2024, war was beginning.
« on: January 18, 2012, 05:12:36 pm »

The date is 2024 (Remember this when you fill out your application, seriously, it's relevant.)

Over the course of the ten years it has become clear that what was once nonsense is now fact. Psychic abilities, manifesting only in children, are now fact. The cause is uncertain. Telepathy, telekinesis, a strange sort of machine-empathy called technopathy, and pyro-and-cryo-kineses, the rapid heating or cooling of objects or, worse, people. The response was varied, but universally not positive. The ones lucky enough to be born in more forward-thinking societies were simply put on lists, tattooed and not allowed in certain restaurants or to work at certain jobs. Others were not so fortunate.

And then the Crustaceans landed in Indonesia, bringing gas and fire and spitting plumes of corrosive acid. When the mothership appeared in the night sky it induced mass panic. A hasty U.N. meeting later and the nuclear strikes were authorized.

The mothership shot every one down with high precision point-defence lasers. A co-ordinated attack from every major nuclear power was slapped aside like a mosquito. The massive, organic ship rebuffed every sort of scan or weapon aimed at it. Information of the crustaceans is somewhat limited, but by all accounts they appear to be intelligent, intent on conquest, and totally hostile. The United States made an effort to make telepathic contact. In a concrete lined bunker they set the most powerful telepath in a sensory deprivation chamber and had her reach out to the mothership. There was some success - the crustaceans responded. They used a lot of unpleasant terms. Phrases like "Defilers" and "Parasites" were bandied about, and some rather creative insults about the purity of the telepath's parent. All this information was relayed to a dismayed staff before the girl in question keeled over bleeding from the ears. The intentions of the crustaceans have been made clear. Their landing zone has been totally purged of all human life. The crustaceans want nothing less than the genocide of the entire human species.

Now, the U.N. has formed a new organization. A task force dedicated to fighting the alien invaders off with the use of psychic powers. This initiative will receive funding from a number of U.N. members, and will build a secret underground bunker in the far north of Russia - Where the crustaceans will not go. This initiative is the PALADIN program.

Psychic Alliance Locked Against Deadly Invading Nemesis.

But before we begin defending the earth, let's hear a little bit more about you, our plucky new teenage applicant.

Surname:
Full name:
Full name at birth:
All other names used (ie nicknames):
Sex:
Age in Y/M/D:
Country of Birth:
Daytime telephone number:
Email address:
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B.

Optionally, to get to know you better the PALADIN program would like you to fill in a small bio about yourself here. Please limit biography to 25000 words or less. Your recruiter will provide you with extra paper if asked.
« Last Edit: January 19, 2012, 05:27:06 pm by Glacies »
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2012, 05:33:38 pm »

((This multiplayer?))

Surname: Fletcher
Full name: Leon James Fletcher
Full name at birth: Leon James Fletcher
All other names used (ie nicknames): Leon
Sex: Male
Age in Y/M/D: 17 years, five months and...three days
Country of Birth: United States of America
Daytime telephone number:N/A
Email address:N/A
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B. Duly Requested.

Optionally, to get to know you better the PALADIN program would like you to fill in a small bio about yourself here. Please limit biography to 25000 words or less. Your recruiter will provide you with extra paper if asked.

"Well, not much to say, parents worked hard and often travelled the country for business. I got diagnosed with Sociopathy when I was thirteen. Had to take some special new medicine said to cure it...I don't really knew how it worked. All I know is that it made me feel a strange mixture of sadness, emptiness and happiness.
When I was fifteen, I accidentally lit a wing of my school on fire one day...it was a total accident. I swear. I was just reading through my girlfriend's notebook...about how she was cheating on me...and the room burst into flames. No one besides me was injured and I told them I used a lighter- one of which I did have on me at the time - to do it and I didn't take my medication that day, which was also true. My father pulled some strings and I was allowed to stay in school.
Until I burnt down a block of houses around mine, which killed my parents and quite a few other people. I couldn't talk my way out of this one and was thrown into a high security asylum? I think thats what it is."
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 06:42:58 pm »

Surname: Pike
Full name: Jonathan Kyle Pike
Full name at birth: Jonathan Kyle Pike
All other names used (ie nicknames): Jonathan
Sex: Male
Age in Y/M/D: 23 years, 2 months, 6 days 
Country of Birth: United States of America
Daytime telephone number: n/a
Email address: n/a
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B.

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Jonathan is a tough nice and funny person when he was 6 his house got caught in fire and all there stuff got burned his sister died in the fire. Jonathan has 2 brothers and 1 sister which use to be 2 sisters. Jonathan went in a camp when 10 and he learned how to survive that helped him alot. Jonathan went all over the world to learn many things about countrys. When Jonathan was 18 he was well known for helping people with there problems all over the world. Making Jonathan learn alot of languages now that Jonathan 23 he is gonna have to face alot of challenges since he is now considered a man.
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2012, 07:41:28 pm »







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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2012, 09:30:57 pm »

((Reserve spot, will be here tommorow.))
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2012, 09:55:35 pm »

Surname: Higgins
Full name: Leopold Peter Higgins
Full name at birth: Leopold Peter Higgins
All other names used (ie nicknames): Leo, Caleb O'Donahue, Yevgeniy Brokovich (all pseudonyms to prevent teasing)
Sex: Male
Age in Y/M/D: 15y, 8m, 24d
Country of Birth: New Zealand
Daytime telephone number: 04 236 5698
Email address: CalebODonahue@gmail.com
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B.

Optionally, to get to know you better the PALADIN program would like you to fill in a small bio about yourself here. Please limit biography to 25000 words or less. Your recruiter will provide you with extra paper if asked.

I grew up in downtown Wellington. Peaceful life, apart from being picked on for mystupid name. Average grades in school. Nothing special happened, until my twelfth birthday. After my party was over, I was in my room, playing with my new toys. One, in particular, was an old red fire-engine from my dad, who got it from his grandfather as a christmas present. Made in the 60s, I think. Anyway, I was on my bed, and the fire engine rolled off the matress, but it didn't land on the floor and dent. istead, it floated a moment, and then drifted down. So then, I picked it back up and dropped it. I bent the rear axle, and it never rolled properly again. However, I noticed other, similar occurences happening over the next few years, but not too frequently. I guess i finally came to realise that it was me doing it only a few months ago...
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2012, 12:30:18 am »

((Writing up a bio now.))
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2012, 12:56:31 am »

Surname: Johnson
Full name: Benjamin Daniel Johnson
Full name at birth: Benjamin Daniel Johnson
All other names used (ie nicknames): Ben, big Ben
Sex: Male
Age in Y/M/D: 19 years, 5 months, 15 days
Country of Birth: United States
Daytime telephone number: ***-***-****
Email address: *******@*****.***
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B. Not applicable.

Optionally, to get to know you better the PALADIN program would like you to fill in a small bio about yourself here. Please limit biography to 25000 words or less. Your recruiter will provide you with extra paper if asked.

What is there to say? I'm just your average Joe who grew up in the suburbs of Phoenix, AZ. That is, assuming your average Joe discovered that he could read other people's minds in childhood. At least I had the good sense to keep from flaunting it, and grew up relatively normally. Went through the grades, got a job waiting tables to pay for a college education, got accepted to the local university, and played a little football for a scholarship. I halfway through getting my geology Bachelor degree when the damn crabs showed up and started getting up in everyone's business.  When the call went out for us psychics, I figure I could do some good for mankind, and get back at the alien bastards who strafed my home city.
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2012, 02:16:11 am »

Surname: Taiya
Full name: Sami Taiya
Full name at birth: Sami Taiya
All other names used (ie nicknames): Gearhead, Cyberghost.
Sex: Female
Age in Y/M/D: 26 Years, 7 months, 10 Days
Country of Birth: Australia
Daytime telephone number: ********
Email address: *********@*******.***.**
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B. No.

Optionally, to get to know you better the PALADIN program would like you to fill in a small bio about yourself here. Please limit biography to 25000 words or less. Your recruiter will provide you with extra paper if asked.

Former Occupation was in the Australian Special Air Service (Any information pertaining to previous deployments is classified.). I was inducted into the Australian SAS via the Australian Defence Force after passing the requirements.

Pre Military life was... normal, to say the least. Parents were immigrants, Mum was Arabic, Dad was Germanic/Nordic. Still married too. Two younger brothers as well. Life was generally normal for me there, though I never got out too much. Got into quite a few fights as a teenager, though I was never "Punished" in the true sense of the word.
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2012, 02:24:22 am »

Surname: Wall
Full name: Leslie Alana Wall
Full name at birth: Leslie Alana Wall
All other names used (ie nicknames): Liz
Sex: Female
Age in Y/M/D: 2006/6/12 (Eighteen years and change old)
Country of Birth: USA
Daytime telephone number: 555-555-9255
Email address: lesliewall(at)securityoperationsconsulting(dot)com
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B.

Nope!

Optionally, to get to know you better the PALADIN program would like you to fill in a small bio about yourself here. Please limit biography to 25000 words or less. Your recruiter will provide you with extra paper if asked.

Uh, well, let's see. My dad is Brian Wall, the man who formed the SOC private military organization, and I've always wanted to be like him. I have a twin sister, but we look different since she's more interested in girly things. If you ever see us together, I'll be the one with my hair kept tied back and I'll be in better shape! I'm about seventy inches tall and around one hundred and forty pounds, but it's mostly muscle. A lot of people say my eyes are brown but I think they're more of a hazel color, and my hair's black.

I was a decent student in school. Mostly C+, B-. I was on the cheerleading team (for the competition) as well as the swim team and the basketball team. I just like to exercise and beat people! I liked the shop classes, even if guys thought it was weird a girl was in there with them... and doing better than they were. Primarily though, I just like guns. They're fascinating, and I love customizing, optimizing, and even just looking at them.

It wasn't until a few years ago that I discovered I could take apart and rebuild machines with my mind alone. It freaked Mary-Anne right the hell out, and she got all worried she was a weirdo like me. It's been pretty useful though, since now I don't have to worry with carrying around a whole bunch of tools! I try not to do it when people are watching me though, I don't want my friends to think I'm a freak or anything. Dad offered me a job in his company, but I'm not really into the nepotism thing. I'm hoping that by joining up with you PALADIN guys I can prove I deserve a spot there instead of getting one just for being part of the family.

Hope to meet my teammates soon!

~Leslie
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2012, 09:11:48 pm »

Surname: Chronos
Full name: Phoenix Mayleaf Chronos
Full name at birth: Alice Walker Chronos
All other names used (ie nicknames): Alice, (Close friends and relatives) Felicia, (Pseudonym) KellyDavisFanboy05 (Internet Username)
Sex: Female
Age in Y/M/D: 19/6/14
Country of Birth: England
Daytime telephone number: 123-666-1337 (Custom phone #)
Email address: KellyDavis<3@redmail.com
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Well, I was born in 2005. Was a pretty normal kid, got alright grades and graduated high school when I was 17. I was planning on working as a chef or baker, but then I met Mark. He was so interesting, with his alternate lifestyle and noncomformist attitude! We developed a relationship and traveled the island. Sights, people, money, booze, drugs, sex! It was amazing...until I found out the ungrateful bastard hooked up with another girl behind my back.

Thing after thing followed, eventually I encountered him and we had a big argument. He threw a bottle at me, and I tossed it back. Sort of. See, I sort of stopped it.... without touching it in mid-air! I was so angry I didn't realize what I had done after the argument ended with a broken bottle and Mark with a bloodied head. (Mind you that I did win that court case!)   

So, I'm out of money, but I hear this PALADIN program pays really well, and I get to meet people who have had revelations like myself. Also, I know our main goal is fighting the aliens and everything, and we must be commited and prostigious and blah blah blah, but as a bonus do you think that the head PALADIN folks can get me a meeting with Kelly Davis? The Scottish singer? She's just gorgeous and her music, oh God her music. I'd really, really, really, REALLY would like it if you guys could do that.

~Phoenix~
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2012, 10:02:32 am »



The grey bus stood in the depot, a shiny, greasy and old looking vehicle. A somewhat hastily stencilled pair of crossed swords had been stuck on the side, and two men were wrestling with a gas cable near the rear. A light dusting of snow had just begun to fall when the group arrived from the airport. Two official looking types had met them: A women in a nondescript military uniform, rifle at her back, and a thin, salt and pepper haired man wearing the official uniform of the PALADIN initiative. As the bus was being fuelled, he turned to the group.

"Welcome to Russia, kids. We're in for a long drive. I hope everyone brought a packed lunch. If you have any questions, now is the time to ask them."

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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2012, 12:19:02 pm »

Leslie had been standing quietly by herself, dressed in loose jeans hanging over combat boots, her torso and head mostly obscured by a baggy, puffy gray coat with a fur-lined hood. She was moving slightly in place to the music on her MP3 player, waiting for the bus to finish refueling... and it looked like the man who had greeted them earlier had something to say, so she pressed pause and pushed her hood and headphones back.

"Welcome to Russia, kids. We're in for a long drive. I hope everyone brought a packed lunch. If you have any questions, now is the time to ask them."

Leslie thought about it. "We're going to a training facility, right? Is it a large place with others like us?" she asked, putting her hands back in her pockets to keep them warm.
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Re: In 2024, war was beginning.
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2012, 02:32:42 pm »

Leon was leaning aginast the bus, wearing a thin white coat- bearing a manic yellow smily face- and khaki's that looked far too thin for ths type of weather, but he didn't seem disturbed by the cold.

"Is it still gonna be this cold where we go?"
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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2012, 02:58:31 pm »

The man nodded. "Yes,' he said "There are others like you there. About thirty others, of which maybe twenty speak English." Then, turning to Leon, he cautiously responded. "Well, we keep the heat up pretty high, but it's still going to be cold outside. So I hope you brought gloves."

The attendants dropped the gasoline hose triumphantly and nodded to the military man. There was a brief conference, then the two headed inside. "Okay, baggage on the bus. Let's get moving. I am General Grant and this is Captain Taiya. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask. We will have a conference tomorrow morning after breakfast to explain the situation in depth." Captain Taiya pried the bus door open and sat in the driver's seat. The engine sputtered to life and the exhaust started giving off an enormous plume of grey-black smoke. After a moment, the general gestured for the group to board.

The snow began to drift into tiny little dunes in the lot.
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