Hive IC Story

[Vev]

( OOC: Wujiang does not know he is used by Vev, and nor does Vev wishes Wujiang to know. OOC )

It was a grand black tie ball with elegant ladies and well groomed gentleman waltzing to live music on floor. Many a lady wore magnificiant feathered hats while their partners dressed tuxedos.

But that was a long time ago, in a different world before the full horrors of humanities ingenuity was unleashed. Comrade Vev took off his private the mental projector and stopped replaying the memories of his parents. This piece of illegal equipment provided Vev one of the few reminders of a world long abandoned.

Vev returned to his desk and sifted through the long lists of reports. Most of the reports were little updates that Vev took note and sorted them for later reference. One report however, proved to be highly interesting, although alarming.


... mobile listening posts scanning the airwaves have detected multiple rhythmic wideband transmissions. The patterns detected most likely indicates other human faction or factions. Identity of sender remains unknown. A second station is requested help to pinpoint transmission location.


Those bickering children better finish their little games or else they will find their toys taken away.

***

Back in his single room housing, Wujiang, found an enveloped address to him, sealed in red wax with an impression of a star. He looked around nervously, but there is no hiding place in this small room. He broke the seal and read the short note in a matter of moments. Upon reading the note, Wujiang again looked worried and deeply in concentration deciding was to do. Meanwhile he destroyed the note by burning it.

In an hour's time Wujiang found himself alone in a bar, regretting why he is following the instructions. Fifteen minutes have passed and still no one is around, Wujiang decided to leave. As he was leaving, a man bumped into him and said "sorry".

After coming home, Wujiang removed his jacket and a small wrapped package slid out. Inside was an invitation to Marshal's birthday party and a security clearance card.

[Kody]

Moved Here

[Vander]

It's Claire that is on the table. It's just that Vander hasn't been able to see her on Pravada.

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Kody
Good Grief!

I was attempting to do the back story for the mindworm operation, and I have figured out it's entirely impossible due to inconsistancy.

There are two possibilities that can be done with minimal changes to people's posts.

1. The operation went ahead and claire was forced to believe what is HongHu wrote.

2. The Claire actually left and the operation went ahead on some unknown girl.

The problems with the first option is according to HongHu Wujiang is in hand and glove with Claire. While there's a post by Vev contradicting that in Wujiang's meeting with Tassadar. Also the girl that appears on the table appears out of nowhere!!!! Furthermore, I thought Wujiang was realtively unpowerful. Why would Claire be interested in Wujiang when she's chasing after the big rollers.

The problem with the second option is firstly that Jamski confirms that Claire escaped and had a meeting with HongHu. So for the second option Jamski's post will have to be erased, and HongHu's second post rewritten to add in the time laspe of the operation.

Whatever happens at least two posts have to be adjusted.

Do people want to fix their posts? Or should I maybe adjust the posts myself.

Something really ought to be done, as things stand there's a girl (either Claire or a nameless girl) lying on the operation table. The operation really needs to be done as it will greatly effect what Wujiang, Tassadar and Vander do next. So basically they're limited in what can be written about them until that issue is figured out.

Vev's contradictory post about Wujiang's meeting with Tassadar can be easily adjusted to be more consistent with Tass and Vander's earlier posts (that Wujiang was in a corner of the lab and Vander was preparing the girl behind the emergency door) as well as the later posts from me and Jam. The major problem with the operation of the nameless girl seems to me is not where she came from, rather, is where she went after the operation. A possible answer to this is that the operation failed and evidences destroyed (as described in Vev's post). But lessons were learned and the second operation may be a success. This gives one potential plot that connects the deputy chairman, marshal, Tass and HongHu with some mutual interest and secret fighting for power. Another potential parallal scheme that would interact with the first one sometime in the future could be Vev the Commissioner of secret police controlling Wujiang and perhaps Kevin (he has to enter the story somehow) to achieve his own dark agenda.

Claire doesn't need to chase after Wujiang, she was simply flirting with him to get out of the operation bed. Plus she just enjoys to play around men, to be admired and desired. Wujiang, though, can't really resist to love such a beautiful girl. The Marshal is determined and ambitious. The deputy chairman is cruel and powerful. (But even him would not expect his scientist delivers result on one day. The previous scientist got in trouble because of their unsecrecy, not unproductiveness. ) The commissioner is dark and obscure.

So anyway, this is my view so far for the story. The fun to this kind of story jointly written by many people is that sometimes it develops its own life and does not go with anybody's plan. But this is exactly why I like it. You can be surprised many times. One thing I think we should all be careful is to follow the cues of previous posts. For example Marshal planned to meet HongHu when the pravda show started but Jamski detested that he was moving to HongHu's qauters when the show ended. That must mean that he was late. When Tass went to meet Wujiang Vander was with the subject and Wujiang was in another corner, he must be doing something else. There could be many possibilities after one person's post. And the next person's choice may fix one possibility and thus affact the direction of the story. Jamski wants to meet with the Marshal. Marshal wants to meet with HongHu again. Wujiang was invited to Marshal's birthday party. When is the party? What is Wujiang supposed to do there? Anybody could jump in and write something (which may turn the direction of the story) and others may choose to wait and see if there's a nice development that could fit what happened and what is going to happen. Vander was requested not to go back to his quaters until the end of the project. Wujiang had to return to his quaters to discover the note. Both Tass and Kevin survived some sort of mindworm attacks. Somebody would have to touch all these little details sometime, somewhere.

And this has made me kept coming back and check if something has happened in the world of the underground quarters and tunnels ...

[Kody]

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[Kody]

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[Voltaire]

Social experiments rarely if ever succeed, and at this moment as Voltaire observed his own experiment his opinion that of abysmal failure. The escapades of his governing class were akin to those of the detestable decedent Roman Republic; and he was the fool at the head of it all. His opinion of the situation grew more and more grim with each page of the report. This will not do, not at all...

He turned to the man standing patiently awaiting for the Chairman to fully absorb the information. "Is this all?" he waved the papers at the man.

"The report lacks some of this weeks developments, but other than that it is complete." The man responded with a relaxed tone of voice, an oddity for anyone addressing the Chairman.

Voltaire sighed, "Please keep me informed, I would have to miss any of the fun." The sarcasm in the Chairmans voice did not fail to escape the man.

"Oh... one more think..." Added the Chairman, "Give my regard to Comrade Claire."

With those words the man bowed in respect and exited, leaving Voltaire alone in his office to ponder the contents of the report, as well as his next move.

[Vev]

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Comrade Marshal Rokossovky Grand Birthday Ball
Dear Comrade,

The Marshal cordially invites you to his grand birthday ball.
It will be held tomorrow at the Marshal Parade with festivities
starting at 6:00pm. Please dress in formal wear and be prepared
for delays due to security checks. Entertainment and food will
be provided with the event concluding in a specially arranged
event at 12:00pm.

The security card accompanying this letter will be required at
the gate.

Military escorts will be provided to those that are running late.

Comrade Marshal Rokossovky
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*


You look thoughtfully at the invitation. So the Marshal's grand birthday party is going to be held tomorrow. If previous parties are anything to go by this event will be invitation only affair that is protected by an extensive and some say paranoid security. The security force is usually drawn from loyal members of the army to keep nosey intruders out. A person's career can be made or broken here, as there are opportunities to curry the favours of influential party members or be ruined by their humiliating remarks. While excessive display of wealth is frowned upon, a common practice by the ill-fated Morgan followers, the birthday bash most likely will be quite lavish by Hive standards. You idly wonder what the marshal is planning for the special event.

[Snowflake]

OCC:

I know all of your boys want to get your hands on dear Claire. As she cannot speak for herself, her best and only friend, I, have to quard her from any evil intentions.

Originally posted by Kody
"A possible answer to this is that the operation failed and evidences destroyed (as described in Vev's post)"

Vev doesn't have a post that describes that. I reread this thread and there's nothing that says that.

Sorry I wasn't clear. I didn't mean that Vev said that the operation had failed. I meant that Vev has provided the means of destroying evidence:

In event of an accident heavy emergency doors will hermatically shut the room, sprinklers will be doused the room with flammable liquids that will be ignited to incinerate unwanted elements.

The line "Forlani knows Wujiang’s secret longing for her for a long time." seems to suggest that Claire was actually paying attention. I'm not suggesting that Claire is serious about her flirting, but I figured that Wujiang was not powerful enough to get noticed.

Dear Kody, females are much more complicated than computer codes. You still need to learn more about them. Ask around, or read a couple romantic novels. You'll see the why.

Vev said he's expecting that the marshall is going to hold his birthday party. He was hoping everyone could attend and also that forcing everyone together would mean what exactly happened in the operation would be resolved in the talking that occurs.

Isn't it better if the truth is never leant by the people except a very few?

Kelvin was going to wander in get caught and become someone's pawn. But he ended up becoming some kind of empath with some kind of control over mindworms.

Exactly! And he actually may turn out to be very crucial to the mind control experiment.

Tassadar, Vev and I were trying to do a joint post earlier about the operation Claire, and the posts on Kelvin were edited because of something that happened in the experiment.

Btw, I liked that little detail.

[Snowflake]

Double post. Deleted.

[Vev]

Surface, near mindworm boil

The ride in the buggy was very rough, made even rougher due to the fact the buggy wasn't meant to cope with the high speed they are driving over the rocky terrain. In the few years since landfall, any salvagable parts left over from the landing pod have been converted into a host of essential equipment. The buggy was unfortunately constructed post landfall from various scraps of metals, so it lacked the various finer features found in Unity Rovers such as decent suspension, comfortable seating and seatbelts.

"Hey Kostya, can you drive it an-ny wo-OOORSE!" Gavril's speech was interrupted by a particular bad bone-jarring bump when the buggy hit a sizeable chunk of rock.

"Sure, no problem," replied Kostya.

Plumes of dark smoke rose above the horizon, hinting the scale of the battle they would be facing. Faint high pitched shrills and thuds of mortar fire can be heard above the rattling and whirring of the buggy, as they drew closer to the combat zone.

"Look at that," said Gavril in awe as the buggy cleared the final hill.

From the distance the mindworm boil appears as a gigantic pink mound that is constantly sliding forward using little avalanche waves. Like a landslide, little pink mindworms breaks off from the top of the mound and slides downwards collecting more mindworms resulting in a wave that swamps the area before them. As the mound disgorged mindworms, more mindworms crawled from the rear building up the mound again ready for the next wave. The consistent mortar hits send mindworms flying into air, as well as triggering another mini avalanche of mindworms.

"Patrol Team 112 reporting, sir" Kostya annouced over the radio.

“Patrol Team 112, I want you to support squad 56 over to the east and contain that line and cleanup any mindworms that breaks away from the main boil. Got it?”

“Yes, sir”

“Good”

[Rokossovky]

Yea, geeze, busy in RL. *sigh*. Ok, well, the birthday thingy sounds kewl. But....I have something planned to write about an encounter with Jamski that will add to the plot (see my last post), plus I can write a bit tying things together a bit.. (I can do that tonight as well... in a few hours). I am still confused as to what happened in the operating room? Could someone explain that in simple language? lol) As for birthday thingy.... yea, that would be a good idea... just wait a tad and see what i post in a bit, then I guess any one of you can do it (Vev, you seem the most enthuiastic). Ah, and back to RL. I am going backpacking (again) this weekend. I give my powers as Marshal to HongHu temporarily, starting friday morning, ending sunday evening. (GMT -7) Considering Jamski isn't back yet.... you will have to contact the chairman to get permission to run the turn. But yea, I will post again in a bit with an update.

- Rokossovky

[Kody]

The two backposts can be found here and here. They should clear up all the issues people have been having with the operation.
Some of this post was adjusted slightly.

I've moved all my ooc comments that were longer than 6 lines to this place. This was in a effort to reduce spam and let people read the story easier.

[Snowflake]

Very nice work! I really love this place. Who would have thought that you come to a forum for a game and find some fantastic real readings as a result!

Spoiler:

HongHu also found a little suspense of herself regarding Comrade Kody ...

[Snowflake]

Comrade HongHu stopped for a moment before she knocked on the door of the Chairman’s office. Why did the Chairman want to see her? Chairman Voltaire was the best friend of Yang Zi. Ever since her marriage to Yang, Voltaire had been taking care of HongHu like a big brother. And She had always admired Voltaire as a little girl. But he had been so busy ever since the landing. HongHu nearly never had any chance to even talk to him out of the official duties. HongHu sighed quietly to herself and raised her hand. The door opened before she started knocking.

“Comrade HongHu, would you like to stand out there for a couple of minutes more?” Voltaire’s voice was warm and jokingly.
“Chairman! Do you always surprise your guest like this?” HongHu entered the room with a smile that she couldn’t hold back.

Votaire’s voice became solemn after HongHu sat down in a chair that he gestured with.

“I wanted to let you know that there will be some changes going on with the CCC.”

Comrade HongHu became alerted at the Chairman’s voice as he went on.

“I will be resigning as Chairman... perhaps even at the end of this term...”

Smiles froze at HongHu’s face.
What?!!! She could not comprehend Voltaire’s words for a short moment.
“NO!!!” Comrade HongHu didn’t try to hide her astonishment.

Such a transparent heart, like a crystal. I really hate to drag her into this filthy world of politics. But she seemed to have managed to keep her innocence well from all the corruption.
The Chairman laughed out loudly.
“Not to worry...
“The changes I have in store to come in the next few weeks will ensure that I still keep the power. So I will be the head of government in all but name.”

HongHu felt relieved and started to become interested in what the Chairman has to tell her.

“I've been perhaps too liberal in my rule, and it has resulted in the decadence we see.
“Let me fill you in on the first two changes...
“I've spoken to the Commissioner of Public Safety, as well as our dear Marshal...”

“yes?”

“And each of them will soon introduce a bill before the Peoples' Assembly Council...
“The bill will be a simple one...”

“No chairman any more?” HongHu said half-jokingly, and bit her tongue at the Chairman’s half blaming glance.

“It would bestow upon me the titles of ‘Father of the State’ and ‘First Among Equals’...”
Chairman Voltaire continued,
“Now they're just honorary...
“But as Chairman in the CCC I plan to put in martial laws that will slowly transfer the real power from the Chairmanship, to the two titles I carry...
“Thus when I resign as Chairman, I will still keep absolute power...”

Comrade HongHu stared at the Chairman as she tried hard to capture every word of his. Chairman Voltaire always had a quality of deepness in his plan. Sometimes HongHu felt that she had to study for like ten years to gain a full comprehension of his words.

“And Comrade HongHu, you will be pleased to know that I am considering you to be my successor.”

“No!” HongHu’s abrupt exclaim interrupted the Chairman.

Chairman Voltaire was a little taken back. He looked at HongHu searchingly,
“You object...
“Why would this be?”

“HongHu's real dream is to sit quietly in her room and do some pottery and write her book ‘the daughter of the dragon’.”
HongHu’s words were fast and fervid.
“Remember she never volunteered for any posts?
“All her current ones are appointed.
“Two by the Chairman - You! One by the Marshal.”

It was true that Comrade HongHu never knew why Voltaire wanted her to hold those important positions. At first she believed that Voltaire wanted her to be in the CCC because she was the only family member of Chairman Yang that was left, and her being in the CCC could give it more validity and make Voltaire’s control more secure. But then later he gave her more and more tasks and power…

Voltaire agreed slowly,
“True, you were appointed by me personally to most of your posts. Well you should take that as evidence of your ability to govern.”

HongHu calmed herself down a little, and continued
“She doesn't want the control as others want.
“She doesn't want to be the mother of the state. She would rather be the daughter of the state.
“She wants to play, but doesn't want the responsibility.” Red clouds rose up to Comrade HongHu’s cheeks. She smiled again.

“If you say so, I will reconsider...” Chairman Voltaire’s words were thoughtful. “But that is your virtue, you don't want power...”
He paused for a minute and changed to a lighter tone.
“You are writing a book?”

“Yes. After Yang Zi passed away in the landing incident, I started to search for my root back in the earth, and studied a little about Chinese history. Thus the book … It hasn’t gone very far yet.” HongHu was a little embarrassed.

“Please inform me when you have completed the book, I will await with great anticipation.” Voltaire looked at HongHu adorably.