Halo: Into the Howling Dark RP(Gameplay Thread)

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Upon reaching the bridge, Sky noticed that two Elites flanked Admiral Jasper. Jasper was quite old, his narrow blue eyes constantly gave the impression he was waiting for someone to lash out at him.
“Ah, the woman of the hour. Sky, these are the other members of your team. I know you think you have too little numbers, but you’re not typically going out on the front lines. Your team is primarily for scouting and stealth.” Jasper paused.
“That’s disappointing…” Sky muttered.
“You get all those assassination, and info recovery missions. You get to know what myself and all the higher ups know, even if you know that already.”
“Meh, I’d still like a little more action.” Sky said.
“Sorry to disappoint. I’ll leave you to get acquainted, for now I’m needed elsewhere. I’ll be back to give you your first assignment.” Jasper said, moving past the saluting Spartans, before adding, “At ease.” With that, the Admiral left.
“So, this is Fireteam Daylight. I’m Grace, nice to meet you.” The lime green Spartan outstretched her arm.
“I’ll get to reading your files, but Jasper wouldn’t put two Elites on my team if they were brittle.” Sky says, crossing her arms.

OOC: Here we go!

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(I’m at school so when i get home ill post my actual post.)

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Team… that was a concept that hadn’t been a part of his life in years, it had been so long that he never worked with teams anymore… he was always alone without anyone to distract him during a mission. Nos Leygall stood on the tiny human bridge, it was so cramped he could barely move. Through his one eye he looked upon this new spartan called “Sky” she had just spoken to grace about reading a file… he thought it was strange that she would say that… then again he thought it was strange the human leader put him on a team. He walked over to sky, he towered over her and looked directly into her face plate. With a click of his mandibles he said to her

“Look here klaka” he said in a tone demanding full attention. “I assume you may have a file on me since our races have fought throughout the war. But contradictory to what your admiral said. I work alone” he continued to look down at her waiting for a response.

Klaka is the Sangheili word for human by the way. Im going to be doing a lot of Sangheili in the future.

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OOC: That’s pretty cool, I never dived too deep into Sangheili culture.

“So long as you don’t get in my way, listen to my orders, we’ll be good friends.” Sky said, staring into the single eye of the Sangheili. Grace worriedly looked at Sky beneath her helmet, but returned her gaze to the other Sangheili.

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(oh ok your doing OOC for out of character… I’m too use to other RP threads that use parentheses. Lol)

Nos Leygall looked down on sky “follow your orders?” He questioned. Looking down at this klaka. This would dishonor his race, taking orders from his long life enemies… it would be a disgrace to the Sangheili. “When I follow orders from a klaka is when they prove to me they diserve it. Until then I stay alone.” He stated keeping his gaze with her. He needed out of this room, it was too small for him and if he got into a fight this room would be disadvantagous… he shoved his way passed sky… he needed out.

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Name: Blake J. Karmyn (age:29)
Gender:Male
Species:Spartan
Armor Ability:cloaking
Armor:Anubis Nempyths helmet Stalker armor
Colors: Black,White, Brick
Primary Weapon:
Assault Rifle with recon sight.
Secondary Weapon: end of the line (sniper rifle)
Bio: born to a family of 3, Blake was raised in the military life of his Father who was a retired ODST,living most of life on Luna,Mars Blake was the youngest of his two sisters who always had to look out of him, during his time growing up he was contanlty bullied at his elementary school, he later switched schools when he came home bloody and beaten. That’s when he’s sisters really started looking out for him, during his teen years he would constanty go out shooting with his father, this kcwould be the reason the sniper would be his weapon of choice along with the assault rifle, after graduating high school he joined the UNSC, becoming one of the classes top students he only spent a year in the marines until joining the ODSTS, the only major event he remembered back then was being sent to new Alexandria to help with evacuation and defense, only 3 of his entire team survived the event one of them being his older sister Kaitlynn, who joined the ODST’s a year before he did. He was soon invited to the SPARTAN-IV program which he accepted. He is currently stationed on infinity with his older sister, the two are usually seen together on every mission.

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> 2535444968054556;6:
> Name: Blake J. Karmyn (age:29)
> Gender:Male
> Species:Spartan
> Armor Ability:cloaking
> Armor:Anubis Nempyths helmet Stalker armor
> Colors: Black,White, Brick
> Primary Weapon:
> Assault Rifle with recon sight.
> Secondary Weapon: end of the line (sniper rifle)
> Bio: born to a family of 3, Blake was raised in the military life of his Father who was a retired ODST,living most of life on Luna,Mars Blake was the youngest of his two sisters who always had to look out of him, during his time growing up he was contanlty bullied at his elementary school, he later switched schools when he came home bloody and beaten. That’s when he’s sisters really started looking out for him, during his teen years he would constanty go out shooting with his father, this kcwould be the reason the sniper would be his weapon of choice along with the assault rifle, after graduating high school he joined the UNSC, becoming one of the classes top students he only spent a year in the marines until joining the ODSTS, the only major event he remembered back then was being sent to new Alexandria to help with evacuation and defense, only 3 of his entire team survived the event one of them being his older sister Kaitlynn, who joined the ODST’s a year before he did. He was soon invited to the SPARTAN-IV program which he accepted. He is currently stationed on infinity with his older sister, the two are usually seen together on every mission.

OOC: This goes in the Sign Ups thread, and currently we’re as far as can be from the Infinity. Whatever works for you (regarding OOC and Parentheses) is cool.

IC: Jasper entered through the door with a Spartan in tow(Blake).

“Late addition. This time you’re lucky.” Admiral Jasper said. The Admiral resumed his position before the Spartans.

“Now then, your first mission, Daylight. Rak Tann is a Jiralhanae colony that’s under attack by the Storm Covenant. They are on the fence about joining us, your job is linking up with their forces and showing them that the LR has the toys they need to stop them.” Jasper explained.

“Affirmative, Admiral.” Sky nods.

“I can’t spare many ships, but the Short Straw and the Skraa of Eayn will be getting you there. Phantom is waiting in the hangar for you.” Jasper explained.

“We won’t waste time, sir.” Sky nods again, leaving the bridge section with her team. Outside in the hallway, the taller ceilings built with multiple species in mind offered more comfort to Fireteam Daylight’s Sangheili.

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> 2533274987055031;7:
> > 2535444968054556;6:
> > Name: Blake J. Karmyn (age:29)
> > Gender:Male
> > Species:Spartan
> > Armor Ability:cloaking
> > Armor:Anubis Nempyths helmet Stalker armor
> > Colors: Black,White, Brick
> > Primary Weapon:
> > Assault Rifle with recon sight.
> > Secondary Weapon: end of the line (sniper rifle)
> > Bio: born to a family of 3, Blake was raised in the military life of his Father who was a retired ODST,living most of life on Luna,Mars Blake was the youngest of his two sisters who always had to look out of him, during his time growing up he was contanlty bullied at his elementary school, he later switched schools when he came home bloody and beaten. That’s when he’s sisters really started looking out for him, during his teen years he would constanty go out shooting with his father, this kcwould be the reason the sniper would be his weapon of choice along with the assault rifle, after graduating high school he joined the UNSC, becoming one of the classes top students he only spent a year in the marines until joining the ODSTS, the only major event he remembered back then was being sent to new Alexandria to help with evacuation and defense, only 3 of his entire team survived the event one of them being his older sister Kaitlynn, who joined the ODST’s a year before he did. He was soon invited to the SPARTAN-IV program which he accepted. He is currently stationed on infinity with his older sister, the two are usually seen together on every mission.
>
>
> OOC: This goes in the Sign Ups thread, and currently we’re as far as can be from the Infinity. Whatever works for you (regarding OOC and Parentheses) is cool.
>
> IC: Jasper entered through the door with a Spartan in tow(Blake).
>
> “Late addition. This time you’re lucky.” Admiral Jasper said. The Admiral resumed his position before the Spartans.
>
> “Now then, your first mission, Daylight. Rak Tann is a Jiralhanae colony that’s under attack by the Storm Covenant. They are on the fence about joining us, your job is linking up with their forces and showing them that the LR has the toys they need to stop them.” Jasper explained.
>
> “Affirmative, Admiral.” Sky nods.
>
> “I can’t spare many ships, but the Short Straw and the Skraa of Eayn will be getting you there. Phantom is waiting in the hangar for you.” Jasper explained.
>
> “We won’t waste time, sir.” Sky nods again, leaving the bridge section with her team. Outside in the hallway, the taller ceilings built with multiple species in mind offered more comfort to Fireteam Daylight’s Sangheili.

OCC: oh crap I thought i posted on sign up okay let me move that.

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> 2535444968054556;8:
> > 2533274987055031;7:
> > > 2535444968054556;6:
> > > Name: Blake J. Karmyn (age:29)
> > > Gender:Male
> > > Species:Spartan
> > > Armor Ability:cloaking
> > > Armor:Anubis Nempyths helmet Stalker armor
> > > Colors: Black,White, Brick
> > > Primary Weapon:
> > > Assault Rifle with recon sight.
> > > Secondary Weapon: end of the line (sniper rifle)
> > > Bio: born to a family of 3, Blake was raised in the military life of his Father who was a retired ODST,living most of life on Luna,Mars Blake was the youngest of his two sisters who always had to look out of him, during his time growing up he was contanlty bullied at his elementary school, he later switched schools when he came home bloody and beaten. That’s when he’s sisters really started looking out for him, during his teen years he would constanty go out shooting with his father, this kcwould be the reason the sniper would be his weapon of choice along with the assault rifle, after graduating high school he joined the UNSC, becoming one of the classes top students he only spent a year in the marines until joining the ODSTS, the only major event he remembered back then was being sent to new Alexandria to help with evacuation and defense, only 3 of his entire team survived the event one of them being his older sister Kaitlynn, who joined the ODST’s a year before he did. He was soon invited to the SPARTAN-IV program which he accepted. He is currently stationed on infinity with his older sister, the two are usually seen together on every mission.
> >
> >
> > OOC: This goes in the Sign Ups thread, and currently we’re as far as can be from the Infinity. Whatever works for you (regarding OOC and Parentheses) is cool.
> >
> > IC: Jasper entered through the door with a Spartan in tow(Blake).
> >
> > “Late addition. This time you’re lucky.” Admiral Jasper said. The Admiral resumed his position before the Spartans.
> >
> > “Now then, your first mission, Daylight. Rak Tann is a Jiralhanae colony that’s under attack by the Storm Covenant. They are on the fence about joining us, your job is linking up with their forces and showing them that the LR has the toys they need to stop them.” Jasper explained.
> >
> > “Affirmative, Admiral.” Sky nods.
> >
> > “I can’t spare many ships, but the Short Straw and the Skraa of Eayn will be getting you there. Phantom is waiting in the hangar for you.” Jasper explained.
> >
> > “We won’t waste time, sir.” Sky nods again, leaving the bridge section with her team. Outside in the hallway, the taller ceilings built with multiple species in mind offered more comfort to Fireteam Daylight’s Sangheili.

Blake thought For a second then spoke up.

“Sir why exactly would we help the brutes they seemed more than eager to slaughter us without a second thought during the war.”

He asked him having a bad feeling about all this.

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“This galaxy’s going through some kind of redemption period. If you haven’t noticed, there’s nearly a hundred Brutes on this ship, not to mention other races.” Jasper said. “I see potential to reform the Brutes as intelligent beings that won’t run rampant killing everything at the drop of a hat. A way of ensuring what the Prophet of Truth did can’t happen again.” He added.

“Nice speech, Admiral.” Sky said.

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> 2533274987055031;10:
> “This galaxy’s going through some kind of redemption period. If you haven’t noticed, there’s nearly a hundred Brutes on this ship, not to mention other races.” Jasper said. “I see potential to reform the Brutes as intelligent beings that won’t run rampant killing everything at the drop of a hat. A way of ensuring what the Prophet of Truth did can’t happen again.” He added.
>
> “Nice speech, Admiral.” Sky said.

“Sorry sir, didn’t really pay attention.” He said having some comfort, but still not fully trusting the brutes rembering the slaughter they commited on reach. He takes a deep breath. And awaits the next order.

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(german your not supposed to be quoting. Also since waypoint is bugging out and hates paragraphs the double spacing will have to do.)

This felt strange to her, many races all working together instead of fighting. It didn’t feel right. Chiq sat at the door to her small ship the Skraa of Eayn. she stood waiting for when her guests would be arriving. She didn’t like that she would have to share with anyone other than her crew, though she wouldn’t mind a Sangheili dispite the corridors being to cramped for one. Though she wondered how her Ungoy Zug Zug would react if she had a human aboard
Chiq looked to her left Rak another Kig-Yar on her crew and Zug Zug were in a heated argument. She looked behind her and saw her first mate Zam Kag a T’vaoan Kig-Yar.

“Kag!” She skwacked “find that human Jasper and let him know we are here.” He immediately started running down the halls shoving his way past any humans, and jiralhanae in his way. She knew he would get it done fast since the T’vaoans are more agile than the standard Kig-Yar.

Zam Kag stood behind Chiq as she seemed to be scanning the area, probably looking for any place to steal some loot. He wondered how she would get along with humans on this job. Could they even fit? He thought. The Skraa of Eayn was such a small ship that it sat on top of this one like a small parasite. the ship was designed for Kig-Yar, Zug Zug could fit since he was small but a Sangheili would have to crawl on their hands and knees. If there were any humans they would have to not be a spartan or they would be crawling everywhere as well. The unaugmented one would surely fit. Chiq was still standing in the door way of the human ships air lock when she moved and looked at him.

“Kag!” She said in a tone that said she wanted something. “Find that human Jasper and let him know we are hear” without hesitation Zam Kag began running down the halls shoving and squeezing through anything in his way. While running he had accidentally bumped into a Sangheili, it towered over Zam Kag and looked at him with only one eye.

“Move bird” he said. This Sangheili was definitely mad about something but it would most likely be a bad idea to ask him. The Sangheili then realized the direction Kag was heading. “Ah so you’ll be coming with us. My apologies I’m not in the best of moods right now and I allowed that to cloud my thoughts.” He said in a softer tone. "So do you have a ship and a crew? Is that why they hired you? It questioned looking at Zam Kag not breaking eye contact. Zam Kag looked at this Sangheili.

“I am just first mate to Chiq of the Skraa of Eayn” he said in response.

“Ah” the Sangheili said in a satisfying tone “that ship has a reputation and history filled with blood and battles. You should be honored to serve your ship mistress.” Zam Kag looked confused for a second then remembered this is what Sangheili do, they always worry for honor. “well the human admiral is that way if your looking for him. Here I’ll come too”

They walked down the halls until finally they came to the ships bridge. A human wearing a uniform with badges on it began talking to more humans and one Sangheili.

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(SQUEAVERKING1 hit his daily post limit. So I’ll be copy pasting any PMs he sends me for the day)

Jasper headed for an elevator as he was approached by a Kig-Yar.

“The Skraa of Eayn is ready to depart.” He reported.

“Good. You’re being paid to help, but I think the LR Short Straw can accommodate our strike force.” Jasper explained.

“So, uh, you’ve been pretty quiet.” Grace said to the second Elite in their squad.

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(so let’s see standing here we have 3 Spartans Grace, Blake, and Sky. 2 elites, Sho 'Troa, and Nos Leygall. Then we have Zam Kag who just walked in to talk to Jasper with Nos Leygall… I’ll post again soon.)

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Sho 'Troa looks down at the human with discontent. As a self-entitled mercenary, he does not like the idea of teamwork, lest it be with the race he and his species has fought with for 3 decades. He growls in response to the question. “Not much of a talker, are you?” Grace said. “Interesting…” “What does it matter to you whether I am capable of speech?”, 'Troa said somewhat aggressively. “Ok, ok, didn’t mean to intrude your privacy. I’ll back off if you want.” “Please do. And come back when your questions have meaning, will you?” Grace slowly but surely backs off. “Humans…” 'Troa said to himself. “Why must it be humans I am forced to work with? They have already caused me enough pain in the Covenant. Why must they continue to torment me?! At least Leygall is here. Hopefully the presence of another Sangheili warrior will calm my mind. As soon as I get this money, however, I’ll be on my way to my own life…maybe with their heads in tow.”

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Blake continue to watch as different aliens and on with there duty, the first time he had gotten so close to them without killing them.

“Why doesn’t this feel right?” He murmured under his breath trying to relax, he was already on alert since he noticed the alien on board the ship.

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Zam Kag looks at the others all of them to big for the ship… it works out since the human named Jasper said we were only being paid to help. With that he walked off to tell Chiq we were departing soon.

Nos Leygall looked at Sho 'Troa as he said this. While he lacks honor he is a skilled warrior… Leygall thought to himself. He looked at these other humans
“Since we all seem to be acquainted we should head for this, short straw your leader speaks of.”

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(anything from Squeavers PMs will be in bolded brackets.)

They all nodded and began walking down the hall, as they made there way to the hangar they saw Zam Kag take a right into an airlock. There stood another Kig-Yar in orange armor she clicked her beak satisfyingly as they all began to walk past her. A quick look in the air lock revealed the small cramped halls of the Skraa of Eayn. There was no way any of them would fit inside it… comfortably at least.

“So klaka” Nos Leygall said as they walked past the Kig-Yar “tell us about this short straw”

[ “LR Short Straw, she’s packing more firepower than most ships in our fleet. Don’t get me wrong, Shepherd’s got some guns of its own, but the Short Straw has Archer pods designed to deal with shielding, and dual MAC guns. We picked it up at Reach. Funny thing about the Covenant is that they left the wreckage of all inoperable ships at the poles of a glassed planet, so far we’ve only gotten a dozen planets, and a quarter of the wreckage from Reach, it was a huge fight. But no one actually knows what said wreckage is being used for.The Short Straw had some pieces of the hull donated from a downed MAC platform, the second MAC from a Paris frigate, but that’s it.” Sky explained.

“Wonder where the other stuff is going.” Grace adds.

“Probably some project we won’t hear about until it’s relevant.” Sky suggests, getting a chuckle from Grace.

“That’s too cliche for Jasper.” Grace said as they found themselves in the hangar. A Phantom waited as promised, looking awkward among the mostly human ships and equipment. Many of the Marines onboard look up from their work to catch a glimpse of the Spartans, a rare sight.Once onboard, they found the ship empty, save for the pilot.

“So, a little icebreaker, where are you all from? I’ll start, came from Kholo. Not really the nicest place, you were lucky to see green outside of the city.” Sky said. She tried to sit in the seating provided, but the seats were not meant for Spartans. Before she could make a fool of herself, she stood up. ]

Nos Leygall sat down, the seat felt nice as he landed in it. “Is that not in my file?” Leygall said as he looked toward sky “I thought it was supposed to tell you everything about everyone. Like some magical Klaka devise. Or am I mistaken and you don’t have anything on me? I wouldn’t be surprised, not many that encounter me live to say anything.”

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(by the way squeaver says this is the part for us all to properly introduced our characters before we truly start so if you wanna provide more exposition for your character now’s the time for it. I’ll post again soon… or whenever squeaver gives another PM)

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[ “Alright, maybe there’s no point for you to introduce yourself. But I bet you don’t know what Sho’, or Blake are like right now, how they’ll function in our team,” Sky pauses “…Or if they’ll get in your way because they don’t know what you’re like?” Sky said, looking down at the sitting Sangheili from across the Phantom through her Scanner helmet. “You could be the reason we all get eaten by a pack of hungry Brutes on our first mission. Not like I’d let that happen, but I’m just sayin’.” Sky looked away from Leygall and toward her armored wrist. ]

Nos Leygall looked angrily at sky but did not allow it to cloud his thoughts. “Very well” he responded “I was born on Sanghelios and served in the covenant for most of my life. During a battle on one of your worlds I lost my eye in an honorable fight between me and one of the soldiers you humans call ODST’s he also is why I am missing a finger” he adds as he raises his left hand. “He fought well but in the end I triumphed.” He said with a click of his mandibles.

“Later I was chosen to be in a stealth unit. My whole team was slaughtered but i still managed to finish our goal. Since then I’ve always worked alone without a team to hold me back.” He says staring at sky. “I’m an expert on stealth and explosives but I am also an honorable fighter, if i see an enemy I depict worth of battle I give him my spare blade and rifle and we fight until one of us falls. Is that enough klaka?”