"Our way...or the highway."

                                                   -Switch, The Matrix.

As almost every operative knows, using the Megacity highway it's a suicide. An endless labyrinth of crossing roads, it's heavily guarded by the Machines, even with the truce still active. No redpill is allowed to go there, but, of course, that doesn't prevent some crazy guys to use the highway to go back to the city.

One of these redpills, riding a black motorcycle, was driving as fast as he could, avoiding barely the huge swarm of cars. Chased by two mysterious pursuers, his only hope was to reach Megacity before getting caught. Unfortunately, their vehicles was faster. Unable to avoid them, he choosed the other option: confrontation. With a chain of impressive maneuvers, he avoided the bullets that one of his enemies was shooting and, with a quick turn, he started to accelerate towards their pursuers. The prey turned into the predator.

Surprised by this suicidal maneuver , the two men dressed in black and with his face covered by a solid black helmet reacted as fast as they could. A System FM-1500 Magnum shot a vast array of bullets, while the other continued to drive straight forward against the redpill...but they were too slow. The bullets missed his objective while the redpill, all of a sudden, jumped away from the cycle, trying to land at the shooter's vehicle. His companion, in a desperate act, did the same and the two men crashed in the air.

The force of the impact was so strong that both contenders stayed suspended in the air, fighting each other. With supernatural speed, they interchanged a good number of blows, trying to throw his opponent into the ground. The situation wasn't good to the redpill, because the other pursuer, the shooter, also hyperjumped away, trying to hit his target with his pistol. Soon, the repdpill was cornered in the middle of the air by his two pursuer, whose only objective were avoiding his return to Megacity...at any cost.

But those "situations" was his favorite kind. His only chance was to getting rid of his annoying pursuers as soon as he could, so he started a spin, in a desperate intent to perform a ki whirlwind. Usually, this technique needs to step firmly into the ground and concentrate(a common stance for some oriental ki techniques), but this time he didn't had that luxury. However, the trick wents well and the redpill finally unleashed the Ki around him, throwing a forceful wind that blew his enemies meters away...and that caused a huge chaos in the road below him. Free at last, he controlled his fall to land near where his motorcicle was randomly running without a pilot.

Back on his vehicle, he accelerated away from the explosion and the chaos that were the road behind him. Luckily, Megacity south entrance was just some miles away. With a smile in his face, he grabbed his cellphone, calling to his operator.

-"Wave?", he said.

-"Right here, boss. What do you want? Nice spectacle, by the way.", answered the operator.

-"Open a communication with the Goliah, I want to talk with Faolon. Hell, I need a *CENSORED* beer!"

-"Okie dokie, Ryu."

Watching at the huge metropolis, Ryumanjisen mind started to remember the good times. That city was full of enemies, rivals,some friends...and the only people he can call his "family": the Kings of Never. His smile was greater while he accelareted even more.

It was the time to come back.

((P.D: Yes, I suppose I'm back but, instead of doing the classic "hey people, I'm back" post, I supposed that a short story would be better. As always, forget any spelling and syntax errors and feel free to post any IC reply you want, my RP posts are, usually, "open" to everybody.))

Well, I just saw this idea in another forum and, since I'm terribly bored and there is nothing to do, I suppose I could give it a try here.

The idea is very simple:  post five things that no one else on here knows about you. We know somethings about each other already, but it'd be interesting to find out each other's quirky facts and whatnot. As Tsun Zu said: know your enemy. Of course, I will be the one starting.

1-I have a terrible vertigo. I can't go to high places and, as soon as my feet are off the ground, I start to feel dizzy. So, no hyper-jump for me.

2-I am a pen and paper roleplaying addict. I own nearly every game book released in Spain, along with a good number of imported ones. According to some sources, my collection is probably the biggest one of all the country. Besides, I always find some time to gamemaster, at least, twice each week.

3-My real name, Severiano, means "A grim man"(more or less).

4-I don't have a cellphone, and I don't plan to buy one soon. I hate them.

5-More rpg madness: A good friend and me are writing a brand new rpg book...for the last six years. I highly doubt we will finish it some day.

...But my old hovercraft is working again, so I'm back.

What have I missed?

Message Edited by Ryumanjisen on 05-06-2006 09:15 PM

“I am the one who come out from the shadows, with raincoat, cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness.

I follow my path alone…

Who would ever want to walk with me?

-John Constantine, Hellblazer nº41

“Why I always come back to this place…what keeps me to come here again and again…?”.

That were the questions Ryu was making to himself on his way to the Jade Room. He didn’t know, for sure, the answers…but he knew for sure the way to the club.

Some time ago, when the redpill returned to the district where he was born as a bluepill, he founded the Jade Room…and he founded that the club owner, Jade, was an exile, a rogue program. The exiles are all over Mega city, invisible to the eyes of the sleepers, but for a trained awakened they can be very obvious. As one of the most powerful programs in International, Lotus were always willing to hire redpills to fulfil her agenda, so it was not a surprise that a  “commercial” relation was born between the both. The strange thing was that, after some time, the program and the human became some kind of “friends”.

That was the fact what worried Ryu more. After solving some of the Lotus problems with the “piracy”, he thought that the contacts will end. But, some days after, he just came back to the club, and the exile gave him a warm welcome. Without realizing it, week after week, day after day, he frequently visited the Jade Room.

Now, after his sudden “disappearance”(the fight with Oris took more things from him that he expected) and later return, paying a visit to Lotus was a must in the agenda…

The Jade club, as its name suggests, was a place where the green was the predominant color. With not too much illumination and enough space, it was a perfect place to take a drink. That was one of the two reasons that continuously attracted the redpill there. After taking a beer, he went upstairs, to the VIP area, to see the “other reason”

Passing the bodyguards was not a problem(they know him and his friendship with the boss) but, just after Ryu passed the purple curtains, those that served as a barrier between the public and the private area, a mobile phone flew towards the redpill´s head. Catching it without too effort, he saw a very angry Lotus.

“I´m glad to see you again too, Lotus. But sadly, I have not brought any present.”, he said, smiling and hiding his “present” in one of his trenchcoat´s pockets.

”See who is back”, said the exile, smiling too.“Now be a good boy, give me my phone back and perhaps you have a nice welcome party.”

He gave back the phone to its legitimate owner…

The “welcome party” consisted of a simple dinner with her at the private zone of the bar. While the exile and him were chatting and eating, the questions came back to Ryu´s mind. Strangely enough, he felt comforted on that place, listening to her. Then, suddenly, he realized the truth: after all the fights, the persecutions, the dangers and all the usual events of a redpill´s day , it was good to have a place to return, a place where you could relax and rest without worries…a place like this. It was very ironic that he found it at the matrix and not in the real world.

Shrunk in those thoughts, suddenly the sound of his phone brought him back to the reality. He was not in the mood for another stupid chat with Wave, so he “turned off” the mobile in a very drastic way: crushing it with his own hand.

“Looks like I´m not the only one who don´t like cellphones”, said Lotus, watching at the broken cell.

“That reminds me…usually you´re a nice person Lotus. What happened before you threw me your dear phone?”.

“I thought you would never ask me about that, dragon.”, replied the exile with a smile of satisfaction.

“Listen, you have to do me a favor…another one. I suppose you know Ytrri, the “zionist lover” and  Operetta, that Caballé wannabe, right?. A certain tension has always existed between us, since we are the best musicians in all Megacity…you can call it  professional rivality.  But now, during the last weeks, the things have gone worse. These…**CENSORED** are making aggressive critics against my music, trying to undermine my reputation all over the city!”. Lotus´ anger returned, talking vehemently and looking directly into Ryu´s eyes.

“But that´s not the worse. No…they are gathering a small redpill army from their allies on Zion and the Merovingian. Ryu, they are going to attack me, they want to destroy the Jade Club.”, she did a pause, trying to find the proper words.

“I need you dragon. You have to gather all the allies you can and defend me…I´m running short on allies. Zion supports Ytrri and the Frenchman is behind Operetta. You are one of the few ones I can call a friend.”

“Me?. Lotus, I…”,all that speech caught Ryu by surprise.”I don´t have allies. You know me, I´m a lonely guy”

“Lonely? I hope that´s a joke. You are not alone. You are a known captain, with friends in the three organizations, you are one of the founders of the Kings of Never, a respected and well-known fleet of ships. Save your ‘I am a lonely wolf` crap for one of your crewmates, Ryumanjisen. I know you well. You have loyal comrades watching your back, ready to fight for you if you ask them. But, of course, you never will, cause you prefer to fight your battles alone…but you can´t now. You can be a charismatic leader if you wants…that the person I need now. I need you.”

“So, you have investigated, didn´t you, exile?”. The redpill was the one angry now. “Then you should know that I will never involucrate my friends in your personal war!  I don´t care if you or your stupid club are destroyed! None of this is real, not you, not your music..even not  this horrible meat we are supposing to be eating!”

“Then, if this is not real”, she replied, “why are you here, why you came here?.

Both, program and human, were close, staring at each other. The redpill was not surprised this time. Lotus was very persuasive, trying to “click some buttons” to bring him to her side. He wasn´t the only ally of Lotus, he was very sure that some of the “ex-employees” redpills would help her without doubt.  Besides, it wasn´t necessary to be a genius to realize what the Lotus´ enemies really wanted: the secret of her mind influencing music. That was none of his business, if a group of exiles wanted to destroy each other, fine for them.

What really surprised him was his reaction…

Shortly after, Ryu was looking his own reflection in one of the club mirrors, holding his emerald sunglasses on one hand. He accepted helping lotus in that selfish war, but he didn´t know why. It was funny: after finding an answer, another question appeared.

“Raven is right”, she thought,” my eyes looks sad”.

Coding another cellphone was not a problem. After leaving Jade,  he called Wave, operator of the Hovercraft Ronin.

“Boss, what the hell are you doing?. You´re not going to help that girl, right?. I mean, she´s not real, she´s only a program. If she were a real woman…well, I can understand how you feel…but she´s not real!. Boss, you have to recons…”

“Wave, shut up now!!”, interrupted abruptly, “Gett your butt off the seat and establish a contact with The Adonis as soon as you can, I have to talk with Symmetric…now!!!”

The only answer were the sound of a very hurried steps.

Message Edited by Ryumanjisen on 01-12-200606:08 PM

Second in command: Annedroid

Diplomat: Symmetric

Public relations: Miggesch 

Organization: Zion 


Time ago, two zion´s captain and an operator stole a ship and went to the deepest places of the real world, searching for secure connections. In the Matrix, the two captains looked for only one thing: feeling life in all the ways they would achieve. Searching adventures and the thrill of being pursued by Agents, risking his lifes countless times.
Zion pursued them, the machines pursued them, but they only want one thing: freedom from the restraints of both worlds, the real worlds "rules" of right and wrong, and the matrix "limitations" of individuality. Eventually, the machines founded them...and they founded his freedom in death.

But they leave us a message: complacency breeds frustation...and frustration breeds anger. One of these captains was special for me, she gave me the redpill, she freeded me from the prison, but not to be trapped in another one.
Now we are following his message and the name of the group is made in his honor. Don get a wrong idea:freedom and debauchery is not the same. We fight for the cause of Zion, but we are not slaves. It´s good to remember from time to time that you´re alive, even if you´re in a digital playground like the Matrix.

If you value freedom and the thrill of adventure, we will welcome you in our little group. Remember: we are not machines, we are humans...