Creeping to the cross =)

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Hi there, I'm back. I posted this story on the ARPG boards too, but it hasn't gotten many responses.

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RUNE, the Arch-Norwegian
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Stone laid his combat shotgun to his shoulder and fired. The heavy grain slug hit the raider in the lower stomach, tearing a hole almost straight through his body and making his torso sort of fall over, because the man's spine was halfway severed. The whole affair was of course extremely bloody, and the raider cried out inhumanly as he fell to the ground, blood leaking from the open wound in his front.

But as all this happened, Stone had cocked the shotgun and fired at the next raider. This one, the slug hit in the knee. Stone made a mental note to take some more aim next time. The raider had barely REACHED for his gun, it couldn't have hurt if Stone had used a few miliseconds more to aim for the man's head.

Both raiders were incapacitated. The first one had passed out, it seemed, or he was simply dead. The second one was writhing too much in pain from his exploded kneecap and half-severed leg to even notice that Stone pulled out a lighter weapon.

Stone kicked the man. "Lay still," he calmly whispered. Then he kicked harder. A steel-loaded boot straight to the raider's skull... left him laying. The empty stare in his eyes, as well as the bluing indentation in his forehead proved that he would keep laying as well.

That was okay for Stone, it only meant he didn't have to waste anymore bullets. He cast another glance down at the grotesque corpses on the ground.

"Pathetic. Animals, driven only by their minute needs... If they had gotten a true opportunity, they would have wasted it. They couldn't plan to save their lives."

Stone looted the pistol the second raider had in his hand, but let everything else they had on them lie. He reloaded his shotgun, checked his map to find the direction of Ransom Hill and walked on.
 
I can't believe no one's joined this yet!

-Smaug
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Two closely fired gunshots stopped Cameron dead in his tracks. He saw the (now) lone figure just as the red arterial spray was settling to the dusty ground.
Dropping to a crouch behind a clump of desert scrub, he pulled his sawed-off shotgun and waited.
After bending to take something from one of the corpses, the figure paused, and then continued walking as if nothing had happened.
Cameron decided to follow the stranger for a while. Keeping to a low skulk, he crunched through the weeds and made for a pile of rocks about halfway between him and the distant wanderer.
 
Finally! Thanks, Smaug :)

IC

Stone walked on just as calmly as he had executed the two raiders. Then suddenly, he stopped dead in his tracks, as if he had just seen something. Cameron reflexively ducked into the weed, but it didn't seem like Stone had noticed HIM. Stone's eyes were fixed on a point some hundred feet ahead. Whatever he was looking at, Cameron couldn't see.

Stone crouched down, still face fixed at the unseen enemy. Slowly, and without making any sound, he drew the combat shotgun over his head and pointed it forward.

Then suddenly, he swooshed around, combat shotgun aimed directly at the weed where Cameron was hiding.

"I see. They had friends. Come out of there with hands up. Now!"

Stone could clearly see the man hiding in the weed. The only reason he didn't shoot him immediately was because there might be a reward for getting him back alive.
 
Cameron cursed and stood up slowly, holding his shotgun over his head. As if reading Stone's thoughts, he slowly lowered it and dropped it to the ground. Raising his hands again, Cameron spoke to the stranger who had discovered him.

"I don't have anything to do with these raiders, ok? I-I'm just a... a traveller you know?"

He gestured to the mutilated corpses behind him and looked at Stone with uncertainty.
 
"Traveller, my ass. Strip."

Stone thought it was disgusting, but the potential extra reward if this man was wanted won over any of his qualms.

Cameron stood staring almost blankly at Stone. Stone gestured impatiently with his shotgun. "STRIP OR DIE."
 
Cameron had a look of utter confusion plastered across his face. But Stone was the one with the combat shotgun levelled with his face, so Cameron complied.

He cast off the shell-belt, which had very few shells in in anyway, around his torso and dropped it.
Then he took off his leather jacket and threw it to the ground, and removed the belt and gun holster which contained a Desert Eagle and dropped that too.

He looked at Stone and patted his bare, scarred chest as if to say, "that's all".
 
Kewl! i've never done a messageboard rpg, but i do have d&d playing expierence. can i join in?
 
Sure! Just remember that this RPG isn't full of numbers and hit calculating and stuff. :)

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RUNE, the Arch-Norwegian

"Fuck it." - Last Words of roshrambo
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"Okay, get over there." Stone pointed the shotgun in the direction of some nearby bushes. Then he walked over to the pile of clothes on the ground, shotgun still pointed at Cameron, and started searching the man's equipment. Stone had two people on his most wanted list. Both were killers and robbers, and both were to be taken alive, brought back for a fair trial, whatever the reason for that was. But Stone got his pay and that's what matters.

(Smaug, what would he find? Any sort of ID?)
 
ok. i will just wait for the story to reach a point where i can join in.
 
The shotgun has 'Cam'(Cameron) carved on the stock, and the jacket has a Ranger badge on it bearing the name Cameron Sheath.

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Without a word Cameron walked slowly over to the bushes Stone had pointed to. And watched as Stone rifled through his belongings. He paused briefly when he saw Cameron's name on the shotgun, then picked up the Ranger badge from the crumpled leather jacket.
 
"Well, well. Who do we have here? If it isn't my old pal Stoney!"
Stone slowly turned around, but he allready knew who it was.
Wearing a leather armor with 2 .44 magnums holding in each hand,
a man with a big scar on his face stood behind Stone.
"What the HELL are you doing here, Raven?" Stone said, grinding his teeth, looking at the much smaller man, like a Gecko looks at his prey.
"Well, I was just on my way to Ransom Hill, when I heard these gunshots and..."
"Why were you following me again? Hoping I would find the guy who murderd Billy Johnsons son, and shoot him, so YOU could take his head to him?"
"Well...yeah." He said, with a big grin on his face.
"You know that you and I make a great team, don't you Stoney?"
He hated it when Raven called him that.
"Fellow bounty hunters should stick togheter, help each other out, y'know."
 
Cameron blinked in surprise at the sudden arrival of the stranger. He had not seen him approach at all.
Stone looked pretty pissed, Cameron wondered how he would react.
If the two had a clash, it would be his best and only chance to escape.
 
"Oh, by the way...er...am I interupting something?" Raven said, looking at the naked Ranger with a funny look on his face.
 
Um...

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON May-24-01 AT 10:42AM (GMT)[p]I don't know what the hell to do. I hadn't thought of Stone as a friendly fellow who is part of 'the bounty-hunter community' and gets along well with most people. Actually, he is quite the opposite. And MTheMan, do I know you?

Oh, and... uh, can I kill you?

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RUNE, the Arch-Norwegian

"Fuck it." - Last Words of roshrambo
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Well...

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON May-24-01 AT 01:40PM (GMT)[p]Well, the thing is, he isn't part of 'the bounty-hunter community', nor is Raven. But they have worked together some time ago on capturing some Raiders, because, although they don't really like each other, they both knew that they couldn't handle the job alone. And lately, Raven tryies to convince Stone, to help him find the killer of Bill Johnsons son. That's why he follows him around.
So, they aren't partners or anything, and Stone doesn't really like Raven much, but he doesn't hate Raven enough to kill him, I think. Or if you think this whole idea sucks, you can kill him anyway, and I will just come up with another character.
 
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