User:The Pale Kestrl/Sandbox

Ok, this is a place where I can put all the idea's rattling around in my head so that can stop making so much noise.

Ok where to start....

To Do List
Hopefully making a list of the myriad things I have to work on will help at least sort it all in my head.


 * Hammer Fall: Need to keep on top if this, if I want to bring RP's back then this is a good a place as any to start. Right now Shoto needs a post, work for this week.


 * Russell-041: Having failed in the arena of Good Articles, not an entirely unexpected outcome, I want to get Russell's article in a state were it can go for round two and start to become the article it deserves to be. Hopefully I can ask someone to do a review of it to show me where I can improve. Also linked to this, I need to get back to Guardian Lance again...or one of the shorts I have planned.


 * Tal 'Zerex: With Hammer Fall under way and Tal now in the spotlight I feel like his article needs a bit more work. Also with him aboard the Chancer I feel as though his article needs to be on the same level as Gavin and Simon's. I know a few places that could do with either a touch up or an expansion.


 * Team Shoto: With Sniper making updates to Machete I feel like it'd be a good a time as any to get my own team back on order. I do have a new team member for them and a few shorts in mind. More urgently, their own articles need some substance to them. That will be a week or more so that either a job over a few weekends or all in one go.


 * Stories: Away from all the character articles there a few stories that need writing/finishing. That one for Shoto's been sitting on my desktop for a bit now and I have planned out a couple for Russell. I'll need to devote a few days to a week in order to get them done.

Russell-041
My main man, flagship character and self insert spartan. As far as things go for him I have a lot planned, mainly up coming RP's and community projects. I'm also going to give him his own personal story set called In Their Defence which will document his time in training, outings during the human covenant war and beyond.

In Their Defence
A group of short to medium length stories documenting various events in the life of Spartan 041, including his training, outings in the Great War and the conflicts following it.


 * Boot: Either a story or a compilation of important events that involved Russell during his training on Reach. Such events include the first day of training (First Day at School), Helping Carris after she killed a drill instructor (Brother I never had), A few training exercises, A run in with Tango Company (Unbreakable) and going through the augmentations.


 * My Second Skin: A short story about Russell's involvement in the Battle of Chi Ceti IV. I know not many people have looked into this little part of the spartans history so I figured i'd take a stab at it.


 * The Harvest Campaign: The five year long campaign that signified the spartans entrance into both the war and the public spot light. Bearing in mind the length of time that the fights in and around Harvest took this could be a long story, perhaps a collaboration would suit this better. Or I could just do important events again.


 * The Hunt/OPERATION Guardian Lance: Five years since the Battle of Jericho VII Russell is called in for an unusual mission, to return to the glassed planet to investigate strange readings. What sounds like a simile mission is soon complicated upon their arrival. Not only is the planet not glassed but the covenant are there, looking for something. Following a botched insertion Russell is left to fend for himself until the Wayward Watch returns. Now alone and against impossible odds our spartan needs to do whatever it takes to find out what the covenant are up to and make it home.


 * The Fall of Reach: I will leave off on this very important area for now and see what I can do with Brodie's up coming community project if that is set on Reach. If not then I guess i'll have to tackle this one.


 * Last Stand in London: The war finally reaches Earth and Russell is there for the end. Making his stand in the city of London, which holds one of the last orbital elevator on the planet, alongside Team Shoto and his friend Joel (A former spartan II). Is this how it ends for our heroes?


 * To Infinity...: Fresh from the war our spartan is placed aboard the UNSC Infinity to help with the spartan IV's. I guess this could be another compilation, I still like the idea of an RP following the crew of the Infinity though I know that RP's are hard for this community. This would be another go place to collab with other writers especially those in DoH.

Team Shoto
For a long time I have wanted to make a spartan III team. I'm a big fan of the III's but I have yet to think of a good theme for them. The idea of a regular fireteam that grows into a role rather than being assigned one would make a nice change. If Ahalosniper starts up his Operation:JAILBREAK then i'd like these guys to be there. I also have a few idea's of what I can do for them.

Members

 * Shepard G127: The teams leader and assault specialist. Not overly confident in his ability to lead but Shepard knows that his team trusts him to what's right.


 * Jay G090: Jay is Shoto's marksman and scout. He is calm in every sense of the word, like he is permanently in prefect Zen of most of his life.


 * Lance G244: The explosives specialist. Lance is very protective of his friends which, along with his much larger physic, make him an imposing person. However he is kind at heart.


 * Jess G134: Shoto's tech expert, Jess is a computer girl through and through. Brought up around technology she has an innate talent not seen since Mike and Joshua from the Spartan II's.

Note: There is also Shaiming but he is Actene's character so i'll leave his expansion up too him unless he says otherwise.

Stories
This worked for Russell, and I am worried that i'll being to forget this stuff, so I guess it's worth putting all my story idea's down here.

Training
We all start somewhere right? I guess that arc encompasses everything from the start of the teams lives up until their graduation. Starting out with their recruitment into the program; Shepard is driven by the memory of his father, Jay can follow the classic revenge line but taking a colder route, Lance would be motived by the loss of his family and his own morals, Jess will be the more recent loss. I guess from there we just go through a set of stories at important points in their training such as:

Team Bonding: After a string of losses Shepard is finally forced to take his role as leader, but it's going to take a lot more to get the team in working order.

Fight in Mess Hall: Later into training tensions are running high and Shoto finds themselves in the centre of a company wide brawl.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time: While out one night Shepard and Lance get caught up in one of Machete's pranks.

Graduation Day: Shoto, after years of competition, finally make it to their graduation day. Beyond them, the war awaits.

Battle of Earth
The first conflict Gamma company is thrown against, the final battle of the human covenant war, is the battle of earth. Humanity has pulled out all the stops to defend it's home world and the covenant have brought their biggest guns to see it burned to the ground. It'll be a testing time of Shoto as they are sent flying across the globe in humanities last and most desperate engagement. Travelling from Saturn's moon of Titan to collect important assets, their armour and a scientist (either Joel or Fhajad depending on who I expand upon), they will travel to earth and the city of London and help lift the siege of the city and free it's ground based MAC cannons. From there they will be sent to other warzones before a final bitter showdown somewhere, perhaps with Machete in Japan. Here Shoto will see there first loss as Lance sacrifices himself for Shepard who in turn begins to understand the weight of his role.

The Mid Point
Currently I have this annoying mid point between the Battle of Earth and the Battles of Requiem where I am not sure what Shoto is up too. They will mostly be reeling from the loss of Lance and the fact that the war is over. I suppose there would also be a get together of all the remaining Gamma's, perhaps organized by Shoto. After that, I don't know. There are five years that I need to fill, hmm.

The Infinity
Following whatever happens in the years between Halo 3 and Halo 4 Shoto will be sent to the Infinity as part of the spartan contingent. I suppose this part will mainly be marked by Shoto's reactions to the Spartan-IV's as well as how much things have changed since the end of the war. It'll be the beginning of a testing time as the rules of war shift and things that seemed set being to drift away. As the galaxy beings to change Shoto will have to cling to the few things they can trust just to stay afloat. Stories during this time period could include:

Rewind: During an early deployment on Requiem Shoto comes into contact with a forunner artefact that the covenant seem determined to get their hands on. After being hit by the device Shoto face increasingly tough odds against their enemies until all three are killed, only to wake up in their beds at the start of the same day. Working out they are stuck in a time loop, living and dying through the same day, the three spartans need to work together to find a way out of the time loop or become trapped for eternity.

All Down Hill
Following their time on the Infinity things begin to look dire for Shoto. Start off with Jay's capture events will see Shoto faced with their toughest challenges yet, things they were never trained for. It's going to take every ounce of strength in Shepard to save his friend, protect those closest to him and face an enemy the likes of which he's never faced before.

Idea's

 * I need to think up armour for these guys, I mean they would be wearing SPI armour at the start but I would like to have them wearing the same suits that NOBLE is wearing. I just need to avoid copying Ahalosniper. I think having them break off from the main group to retrieve Joel from a testing facility on Titan would work.


 * I guess that most of Gamma is deployed on Earth, seeing as the war is coming to an end, but could they have been on Reach? Perhaps in the closing few days or so.


 * I was looking up the Winter Solider on the Marvel wiki and I really liked the idea. But can you do that to a spartan, I think so. Having now seen the movie I think this could work. The story would be a bit convoluted but I think if Jay is taken by a rouge ONI group that turn him to their side in order to use him to take down ONI then that'd work interestingly. Running parallel to this story would be the sub plot of ONI becoming evil (See Taking Down ONI on the Planning Table for more on that) and this story would mostly likely lead into that. During the course of Shoto, now just Shep and Jess, trying to get Jay back I imagine they will run into all kinds of trouble (Currently plans' see Jay breaking Jess's legs or crippling her in someway and Jay deciding to join Kryptes instead of returning to the UNSC once he is saved).


 * After that whole arc is dealt with I guess Shoto is left in a bad way, what with there only being one active member (The others being AWOL, WIA and KIA respectively). I think Jess will end up being a data analysis and technician (Joining her tutors Joel and Vinh), Jay will be a member of Kryptes, perhaps meeting up with Dyne and Simon or leading a life alone. Not sure if he'll come back to see Shepard, I don't know how their parting will be. And as for Shepard himself....he'll have a lot to think about. I think he'll talk to a few people, Russell of course and Kodiak (Who I think will be solo at that point as well). After that I see him taking his Nimbus persona (The name he took for himself while he took down ONI) a bit further.


 * I like the idea of Shoto having a theme song, so far Bad City Fight as One is the top contender. Also an emblem is needed.


 * A short story idea for while the team is on Onyx. Shepard and another female candidate, i'm thinking Elena-G124, that I need to think about sneak out at night to watch the star's on the roof. I'm sure the two will eventually get meta about something and it'll provide a nice lesson for Shepard.

Thyr 'Valum
Thyr has actually been in development for a while, he has been my sangheili companion for a while now. Originally he was planned to be a defector but I know have new idea's for him a loyalist as well as interlinking him with Russell and Shoto.

Idea's

 * Thyr's rewrite will being sometime after he leaves the keep to join the covenant military, I would like him to join the spec-ops under the command of Sesa 'Refum so that I can have him flow into a story involving him try to get Shinsu to redeem himself.

Idea's

 * As mentioned by Sniper perhaps Tal could find a mate while on the run and be forced to abandon her. Once aboard the Chancer he feels the need to find her and leads the crew on a quest of thus.

Stories

 * Deamonhunter: This story has it's gensis in Halo: Headhunters (You know that motion comic that everyone loves, with the badass spartans and awesome elites? Ye you remember). Well the special looking elites there got me thinking, would the covenant create a group specificly designed to kill spartans? And so the Deamonhunters were born. A special forces group made up of sangheili trained to hunt spartans. So far I don't know what would happen in this story but I guess at some point I could do the Headhunters from the sangheili perspective.


 * No Morals, No Honour, No Mercy: A trio of short stories about The Seven Outcasts' mercenary careers. So far I know there will be; A bank heist, a betrayal, a prison break and revenge.

Scenes
A place to put scene idea's as they come to mind, should help me write if I can get small parts down in print.

Favors
After helping Tal resolve an old problem Gavin joins his new friend in the Chancer's observation deck

The door to the observation deck slid and Gavin stepped through into the small room beyond. Unlike other decks on the Chancer the observation room, which consisted of a large window on the wall and a few chairs around an old table, was one of the least used rooms. It wasn't large enough to use as storage and few of the crew had time to sit and relax so most of the time it remained empty.

Back when Gavin had been the cabin boy this room was where all the older spacers would come to sit, smoke, drink, play cards and mumble about the 'old days'. As it was now the only figure in the room was Tal. The hulking sangheili stood before the window, looking out into the void of space. His natural slumped posture and lack of armour made him look almost bored but Gavin could tell his mind was at work.

As Gavin stepped closer the ex-gladiator turned too look at him, his long neck turning with a serpentine grace to appraise the captain. He nodded and turned his attention back to the window and vast blackness.

"Hello Tal" said Gavin, coming to stand next to him and looking out the window, "I didn't think i'd find you here"

For a few seconds Tal didn't reply. He just looked out the window, mandibles twitching tentatively. As if searching for the right words to say.

"I've been thinking" he said eventually

"Thinking about what?" asked Gavin

"Everything that has happened in the past few weeks. It's a lot to take in"

Gavin stuck his hands in the pockets of his overcoat and kept his eyes on the window.

"I can understand, you've learned plenty more about yourself. I'd wager more than you thought you were"

Tal nodded his head but didn't answer.

"The question is, what do you do next" said Gavin, looking sideways at the sangheili.

"That is the issue that is on my mind. Nothing is as it used to be. My world has changed so much, it is hard to know what I can do"

Tal fell silent and a for a while both of them just stood there, beside each other, looking out across the great blackness.

Suddenly Tal said "Gavin you helped me in a time that few others would. You took time from both your ship and your crew to help someone you barely knew. One that could very well have been sent to kill you. I can't thank you enough for what you have done"

"You don't need to thank me Tal. It was my own bleeding heart that made me do it"

Tal turned away from the window and look down at the ship captain.

"Be that is it may, you have opened my eyes and now I think I understand what needs to be done. I can't repay the debt I owe you, but I will serve you. If you would have me on your ship"

"You want to join the crew?" asked Gavin, a slightly bemused look on his face

"Not just that. Among my people there is a tradition, when one warrior performs a great deed for one of his brothers, kin or not. That brother can bind himself in honor to serve the one that helped him. Gavin Dunn your bleeding heart has changed my life and, on my honor, I would serve you until my dying breath"

For second Gavin was stunned into silence. He look at Tal, trying to gauge on what level he was now thinking. But he saw, deep in the sangheili's black eyes, he wanted this path. It was right for him.

"Very well, if you offer you services to me then I accept. Welcome aboard the Chancer V"

Role plays

 * Down But Not Out: Something I though up not long ago. The premise of the story is about two (or more) ships, one human and one covenant, that crash land on a planet together. The following conflict is unique as it features a pitched battle between human and covenant forces without air support and inexhaustible man power. This will most likely be carted off to someone else.


 * Another day at the office: I was playing spartan ops a while back and it occurred to me that the premise for this series, i.e the daily workings of life aboard the UNSC Infinity, was a fairly engaging setting. And that is really the basic idea, it does have the added bonus of meaning the RP would last a long time.

Planning Table
A dump for all the things that need some work to them.

The Tel-jain
The Tel-jain are a roving group of ex-covenant sangheili warriors that have banded to together to work as mercenaries. Tel-jain in sangheili means 'A warrior without purpose'. Not much on this lot yet, other than they will appear in Hammer Fall, whenever that happens.


 * Fer 'Makn: The Leader of the group. Fer is an ex-major that left soon after the war. Peace didn't sit well with him and he started the Tel-jain along with Thror and Thurak to get his life back on track.


 * Thror 'Katar: An original member of the Outcasts and the groups explosive expert. He is brothers with Thurak.


 * Thurak 'Katar: The other original member and Thror's bother, Thurak is the heavy weapons specialist, a rare sight among elites.


 * Jaeg 'Xen: Jaeg was found soon after the groups founding and serves as the marksman, an even rarer sight for an elite.

Joel S149
This thought struck me sometime ago, I haven't read much about S-II's that washed out. Perhaps it is because most of them died, but Fajahd and a few others survived. Also liked the idea of someone being a tech expert and part time 'warsmith', someone that builds weapons and armour, we'll that is Joel's new job. Also helps fill in Russell's squad in training.

Helion 5
Been thinking about this idea ever since I played Mass Effect 2. During a mission to recruit Jack you travel to a huge private prison that houses all kinds of unsavoury characters. I figured that perhaps there could be something similar in the Frontier. The story I have in mind for this is to have Tal imprisoned there for a crime he didn't commit. From their our anti-villain must free himself and clear his name, slightly. I may also bring this into Hammer Fall as a bit of back story for Tal.

Fornax
A while back I had a story planned out, something about forunners and big weapons. Anyway, Fornax was a central character and was categorized as a 'good' forunner (As opposed to all the other forunner characters that act as a primary antagonist. Though that story has past into my memory to be recycled later I still want to try and include Fornax some how.

The Crimson Lance
The Crimson Lance is a warrior-clan based society initially made up of the fighters from the infamous gladiator pits in the Nexus before their destruction that grew to span many area's of frontier space. Because of their combat oriented nature many of the Lance are mercenaries and as such the society rarely, if ever, comes together. Since their inception the Lance has formed a brutal legend as one of the best place to hire highly trained soldiers and they are known for their brutal efficiency as well as general ruthlessness.

Taking Down ONI
No doubt in the future this idea will get it's own spot outside of the Planning Table, if it ever becomes something more than an idea. I actually have had this idea for a while and with the release of Captain America The Winter Soldier it's risen again. People often paint ONI as a questionable organization at best and down right devious at worst but, to my knowledge, no one has ever gone fully evil with them (to a point). Thus my idea for ONI turning full evil and trying to gain maximum control of everything; Humanity, The Galaxy, Forunner Technology etc so that they could lead humanity into a new golden age (in their mind) was struck. To my surprise the theme of a large scale intelligence organization trying to engage in large scale domination is echoed somewhat by the aforementioned movie, in which [Spoiler Alert] the remains of Hydra that have been silently existed within S.H.I.E.L.D for years try to wipe the world clear of any that would oppose their rule [Spoiler Alert]. Though I don't think ONI would ever do something like that (perhaps reverse engineering a Halo ring to target certain individuals or just everyone), though don't think it's not crossed my mind, another idea also bloomed in my head. No one really knows about the organizations that ONI destroyed to become the dominate group, so what happened? No doubt Section Zero might have some files on them but what if some survived? Hid themselves inside the organization that destroyed them in order to rise up and either take over ONI or the human race (or both). This idea is in a very rough state and no doubt would be a massive task if I took it on, i'd probably need to call in help for this (probably Sniper and Actene as a start), but could yield promising results if thought out.

This idea actually runs parallel to a story arc I have in mind for Shoto, where Jay is captured and turned to the side of some nefarious group. As Shoto digs deeper while looking for their friend they will discover that Jay has become a part of a plan to destroy ONI. I suspect that Shepard will be able to stop them before then but after he does he discovers why they were going to do what they had planned and realizes that, for the sake of everything he's worked for, ONI needs to be removed.

Project Freelancer
While I know that overall this project (Pun not intended) is mainly on hold due to a variety is issues it is still something that I have taken an interest in. Having looked over the free agent names (not an easy task) i've noted two canon characters I could ask to play as. As for names for me to use.....i'll have to get back to that. The two canon freelancers I noted were Agent's Washington and Maine, a lot of the time i'm told that these two do somewhere between bugger and all which I think is a shame because I think they are both good characters. I'm not sure what I could do with Wash but I have a few good idea's for Maine.

Agent Maine
I remember once playing as Maine when me and my friends played Halo 3, all I had to do was growl at them in different ways and on a few occasions talk like I had eaten an entire shingle beach that morning. It was a fun experience and made me like the character a lot more than I already did. Maine as a character strikes me as a kind of honourable warrior/bearman/sadist/stoic fighter, when he is part of the Freelancers he often works to protect his friends but at the same time can snap and try to shoot his fellow agents up in a training match. It's that interesting split between loyalty and self-service that could make him a great character to play as.

In terms of origins I don't have to much. Something makes me think he was a child solider of some sort, something happened to him that warped him somewhat. Perhaps he snapped while being trained as a child or maybe he was just born into a gladiator ring. At any rate I don't think his young years would have been to great at all. Something also makes me think that he was augmented before Project Freelancer, perhaps a Javelin or a Class 2 Spartan like Carolina (That would explain why he's so loyal to her)

Ok so, discussed a few things with Sniper and I think I have a bit of a better view on where Maine came from. Starting from the top we agreed he was probably warped by something at a young age, I don't want to go down the dead parent route (I've got four guys doing that as is) so I think perhaps having him being abandoned or lost as a child and then (hold onto your pants because I think they may just detonate) be raised by animals (I'm thinking wolves). Now hold still because I know what your thinking, there is a reason for this line of thinking. Maine often acts in a way that makes him seem more animal than human, such as his natural predatory instincts and cunning. As such it makes sense in my head that he might have been raised as a feral child. It'll be a struggle to say the least at making it realistic but if I pull it off there is no reason why it won't work.

After that Sniper said that one of the idea's the group had for Maine was that he was a Syndicate enforcer. So I guess he gets discovered out in the wild and is either brought back to be trained straight into the roll or starts off as a member and works his way up. With that in mind I have two planets for him; Gilgamesh, a planet noted for being run more by mobs that any actual government, and Sigma Octaius VI, where the Syndicate was first started. Either could work so i'll need to give it some more though. As it stands this career with the Syndicate will most likely land him in a jail of some kind and from there he can be recruited by Church to be a part of the Project.

Agent Wisconsin(That names gonna stick till I find a new one)
Tristan Varley, also known as Agent Wisconsin or Wis, was a member of one of the UNSC's super soldier projects known as Project:FREELANCER.

Vigil
With the reworking of Shoto and a general overhaul in that department of work I have been putting thought into making an AI character for the Assembly, or just generally. All I have so far is a name, Vigil, which i'm proud of and his duties, observing both various factions as well as The Assemblies members, but I look forward to working on him more in the future.

Spartan IV's
With the need to write stories on the infinity on the horizon I guess I should start turning my attention to some spartan IV teams. Despite popular belief I don't have a big a problem with the IV's when it comes down to it, though it does bother me that the UNSC was suddenly able to pull the ability to make an army of spartans right out of their arse but lets not get to bashing 343 canon right now. As it stands I have an idea for two teams; Team Paladin, a high ranking squad that are like the snooty rich kids on school (You know, the ones always rubbing their victories in everyone's face the self righteous tosspots) and Team Sentinel, a much more likeable middle ground team that are the kind of guys you'd be happy to watch your house while your gone.

Roster

 * Yvette Kelley


 * Haymish McDowell


 * Carmela Eriksson


 * August Ford

The Spartan Rebellion
This is a though that quickly germinated in my mind of the week, mainly from seeing various trailers while going to see stuff in the cinema as well as from watching X-men Day of Futures Past. As you could probably guess the main idea follows a group of spartans leading a rebellion against the UNSC. Despite not actually controlling them I thought that this rebellion could be lead by Kryptes. For a while i've wondered about what would happen when ONI, eventually, tries to eradicate them. What if they failed? They could stir up a real hornets nest. I guess Saul and the others would be right pissed after that and an army of pissed off Gamma's isn't something to be taken lightly. But where would my characters fit into this? Well I don't quite know when this will take place in my 'timeline' as such but I imagine it will be either just before or, more than likely, after my Take Down ONI arc. I see Shepard and the remains of Shoto being somewhat jaded at that point, with many of their friends dead or having left the UNSC and the organization itself becoming something else that they aren't comfortable with, perhaps they initially side with Kryptes but then leave when they see how dangerous they are. Eventually I see Shoto and a few other spartans as the x-men in DoFP, a small group trying to bring the conflict to a close before it can cause any more carnage.

The First Shenanigan
Deep in the mind palace of the struggling write Peter, better known as his online aliases The Pale Kestrl, the door to the sector of the palace devoted to his Fanon exploits opened.

Russell-041, Peter’s Spartan II from Halo Fanon, opened the door to the Fanon Sector. As he did a cascade of idle thoughts blew into the room beyond like fresh snow and settled on the floor only to fade away in seconds. He closed the door and took off his helmet. The room wasn’t overly large but was able to accommodate all the current characters and new space was made each time Peter created another one. The beauty of living in a world with little to no defined characteristics, this place was as Peter through it should be and was always subject to change.

“Your late Russell” said Brother Captain Ganthel, Peter’s Grey Knight that existed in the Warhammer 40k site, he looked up from the pages of his White Dwarf magazine as the Spartan walked in.

“Ye that working part of his mind is still being rebuilt after that media assignment and I had to take a detour around the Love Sector”

“That girl still on his mind?” asked the Knight

“He’s been that way for the past few weeks, ever since they started flirting with one another” Shepard, who was playing Halo Reach with Jay and Jess over on the other side of room, turned to look at them “It’s been causing havoc in other parts of his mind”

“Poor guy, not the first time it’s happened through” Russell shook his head as he moved to sit down in his reclining chair “He needs more practice at it”

“Ye, you know he still pins after her” said Ganthel as he looked back at his magazine

“Who Lizzee?”

“Yep, heard some of his thoughts about it a few days ago. I think he is learning to let her go”

“That’s good, perhaps one day it’ll work for him. But not now” Russell put his head back, placing his helmet on the table next to him and watched as team Shoto’s game carried on. Over on the left the bathroom door opened and Dante Grey, the Gear from Gears of War Fanon walked out.

“O hey there Russ, didn’t know you were back”

“Just got here, had to take a detour”

“O where? I need to get going. He’s thinking up ideas for the second part of the Gear’s RP”

“Try and go around the Love sector. It’s getting a tad crazy up there”

“It might be best to head through the Random Info Area, if he has his mind on something it should be calm over there” said Jess without looking away from her game. On the screen Jay picked of some poor yellow coloured fellow across Haemorrhage. “How do you do that so well?”

Jay just shrugged “I inherited his months of sniper training on Reach. Comes in handy for games like this”

“Thanks darling, I think I’ll go that way. See you all in a bit” Dante grabbed his helmet and quickly left, closing the door with a soft whump. Over on the sofa the sleeping for of Garrick from the Destiny Fanon site snored peacefully and his hand twitched a little as the door closed.

“I wonder when he’ll get some more work done to him”

“Who Garrick?” said Russell “I imagine when Destiny comes out we can all have a break and he’ll take centre stage for a bit. Though I think Ganthel has a few things coming his way”

“Ye I heard, it’ll be nice to have more to article and perhaps there is an RP on the horizon” replied Ganthel as he put his magazine down and picked up his cup of earl grey tea.

“One can only hope, hopefully it’ll go better than my first outing”

“Ye I heard about that, fate bite you in the ass?”

“Something like that” said Russell, sighing, “I had the lowest chance to fail and I am the first to fall. If you don’t count the extermination round. Also bad luck Shep, at least you put us up by two kills”

“Thanks Russ, shame I had to kill Aspen though” replied that Spartan III “I liked him” In the game Shep successfully assassinated someone and the shotguned and other while Jess engaged the third.

“Me too” Russ put his head back and closed his eye for a bit. Relaxing in the serenity of the room.

“Imagine if Pete’s writing about this right now, would that be strange?” asked Jess

“No, it’d just be him killing time. But at least he’d have written something” replied Russell with a smile.

New Guys
"But I can't be the killer I once was, to honour my friends memory I must become someone else, I must become something else. Previously on Arrow" The TV in the Fanon house begun playing another episode of Arrow as Russell-041 sat back in his chair. On the chair next to him sat Tal 'Zerex.

Over to the other side of the room Ganthel sat at the table, which was covered in newspapers, his massive gauntleted hands delicately holding a small figurine of a Grey Knight Terminator while he painted a layer of blue to add the final touch. On the floor below him Shoto sat cross-legged on their own newspapers painting their own Grey Knight models.

Tal looked over as the recap of the last episode played out on the screen "Tell me again why you guys are going into over drive about getting those done?"

Ganthel didn't look away from his work as the brush played ever so slightly across the painted plastic surface "Samson and Valmor from the 40k fanon site are holding a small tournament next week so I felt it'd be a good time to get some work out of the way. Thankfully these guys offered to help"

"No problem Ganthel, we like doing this stuff" said Shepard. Russell watched as the three of them worked in a conveyor belt system, with Shepard sticking the final models together and adding the grey undercoat, then Jess adding the blue highlights and finally Jay adding the final delicate touches.

"O that reminds me" said Tal "Gavin is holding a party in the Chancer next week and he wants me to help out. You're all invited"

"Thanks Tal" replied Ganthel "But I may not make it. Give the good captain my regards all the same"

Tal nodded and looked at the rest of them. Shepard looked up from other model "We'll were free, are Machete and Jian going to be there?"

"I imagine so"

"Great, it'll be good to catch up with them again"

"Well" said Russell, bringing up his calender on his HUD "I'm free, so count me in"

"Great, i'll let him know"

And the room sank back into silence for a while. The Spartan and the Sangheili watching the TV and the Grey Knight and the young Spartans working on their models. Suddenly out of the silence there was the sound of a bell. As the sound pasted two door suddenly appeared out of the wall to the left where all the rooms were located.

"I wondered when that would happen" said Russell looking at the two doors

"New characters?" asked Jess from her seated position

"Sure looks like it" replied Tal as Russell got up to examine the doors. On them read Dale McCloud and Vigil Rann.

"Dale McCloud and Vigil Rann" he read off, thinking to himself

"The first is from Mass Effect Fanon" said Jay putting down his work "Peter started work on him after trying to get some other writing done"

"And the other guy?"

"Vigil's from my town" repiled Ganthel "Peter actually wrote a short story before making him. And he kept it short"

The assembled characters all nodded in approval at their progenitor's achievement.

"So, what are the new guys like? asked Shepard

"Vigil is a nice guy, he's a medic so he's had time to work on his bed side manner" replied Ganthel

"So that's what apothecary means. Well I know Dale has taken a similar route to Simon" said Jay "Though I think he has a better sense of humour. And he doesn't complain so much"

As Jay said that the door bell begun to chime from the front door. Russell strode over to it, careful to avoid stepping on any model's that had been left out. He reached for the door handle and pulled the door open. On the other side where two people. Both where rather different. The one in front was a scruffy looking human male, a bit taller than the average person, with a head of brown hair. His features where soft but he had a look to him that bordered between disinterest and distrust. He didn't seem phased by Russell at all. He was clothed in a weathered coat and trousers over a greying sweat shirt and he was carrying a similarly battered bag on his back.

Behind him was a much larger figure, clearly an astartes like Ganthel. Surprisingly he wasn't wearing his armour but instead he was clad in a white robe with the symbol of a black fist. His face was kind and had a shock of brown hair above it. This was clearly Vigil and the man in front of him must therefore be Dale. They were both very fitting.

"This the fanon house?" asked Dale, looking up at Russell

"Sure is, welcome in" repiled Russell stepping aside to allow them in. Dale walked in first, swinging his bag off his back and glancing around as Vigil walked in behind him. Everyone got up and walked over to them.

"Well I guess introductions are in order" said Russell "My names Russell-041, but you can just call me Russell, i'm from Halo Fanon along with Tal, Shepard, Jay and Jess" He pointed to each as he said their name and they responded in turn "Then their is Ganthel from 40k fanon" Ganthel nodded "There are two others, Dante Grey from Gears Fanon but he is off having a nap at the moment and Garrick" Russell indicated to the sleeping form of Garrick on the sofa "He's in a pretty deep sleep at the moment. We expect him up some time in the summer"

Both Dale and Vigil nodded back at their new room mates. "Peter mentioned we'd get rooms, could you point he toward one, I kinda want to drop my stuff off" said Dale

"Sure" said Tal, moving to take Dale's stuff "Your rooms next to mine" He moved off and Dale followed him.

"Is their a reason for that?" asked Dale

"Probably"

As they walked off Vigil turned to the rest of the room "So, Peter didn't quite explain. What is this again?"

"It's a place where all the characters he makes live" replied Shepard "I think it helps keep track of everything"

"I see, so what do we do here?"

The group all looked at each other for a second, then back at Vigil. "I think it's time for a few stories" replied Ganthel with a smile.

Name Dump

 * Characters: Tristan


 * Places: Helion 5


 * Ships: Sovereign Of Victory, Crimson Aurora, Carahdras Class Cruiser, Wayward Watch

Quote Dump
A bin for quotes that I may use. Really just things I jot down whenever they come up.

"We have any more spartans running around with sniper rifles and i'll start to question why we were trained in any other form of combat."

- Russell, observing another battle of who gets a sniper rifle.

"I am War, the culmination of centuries of human evolution, the omega of my races power of destruction. You think you know fury? You think you know wrath? Just try me."

- Russell before his final battle with Oberon

"She was one heck of a handful, probably gave Mendez a run for his money before you picked her out for this little project hu? Of all the things I take from teaching her is that she is the most obnoxious, single-minded and hate filled person I have ever met. She'll do well as a spartan."

- Russell, after finishing his training with Spartan B312

"When you feel power like that. In it's purest form, it never lets go."

- Russell, after destroying the Cataclysm

"Many were called, few were chosen"

- Russell quotes Matthew 22:14 while reflecting on the spartan program.

"In this team it is less about giving orders and more about taking the blame when things go sideways"

- Shepard, about leading his team.

"How many innocents are now lying dead on those streets? How many more have to die before you end this pointless vendetta? What if Sesa could see you right now?"

- Thyr duelling with Shinsu 'Refum

"Your so blinded by your hatred, you can't even see beyond your own desire"

- Thyr, still duelling with Shinsu

"Nothing made us special particularly, we were just some angry kids with the right genetics."

- Lance G244 talking about the Spartan III's

"They say that if you give a man a fish you'll feed him for a day, show a man how to catch fish and you will have fed him for a life time. Well it's the same with spartans. We weren't just told to shoot a gun, we were told why we should shoot it. That is what all the spartans that have come before you have had. Purpose"

- During an altercation with Commander Palmer

"They call themselves The Crew of the Chancer V"

- Prison Guard

"What a bunch of A-holes"

- Prison Warden

"You have to admit. When you put on that armour, when you do what you do. Your more a hero than you give yourself credit for"

- Some talking to Agent Wisconsin

"I'm not what you think I am; i'm not a hero, i'm not a solider, hell i'm not even that great of person"

- Agent Wisconsin

"Then what are you?"

- Someone

"I'm a weapon"

- Wis

"This is bigger than you Shepard. If you go after them, if you take on ONI, then your putting yourself against one of the most powerful organizations we know"

- Jess-G128

"I don't have a choice. Right now i'm the only one who has any chance of stopping them before it's to late."

- Shepard-G127

"Ye the spartan program probably was a mistake, whoever thought that taking messed up kids, forcing them some brutal training and then pumping them full of experimental drugs and surgery was a good idea was probably missing a few screws. But because the spartan program happened and because we did what we did I can stand here and have this argument with you."

- Shepard to an anti-spartan protester

"So your going against the the most while also being hunted by a man that no one knows about."

- Kodiak-G114

"O it get's worse, I'm also looking for a that doesn't exist"

- Shepard-G127

"I guess we couldn't be kids forever"

- Jay G090, circumstance unknown

"Let us get one thing straight, essence. I don't like your kind, and I am sure that the feeling is mutual. And while I will not begrudge you the freedom you have won for yourself, don't ever attempt to manipulate my own."

- Tal, during one his first confutations with Diana on the Chancer V

{{Quote|“There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life. We are what we are because of it, or perhaps in spite of it. Some use it as a shield to hide behind, others as an excuse to do unconscionable things. But, truly, the darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so. It took a witch, a war, and a voodoo queen to teach me that.|A quote from Jenna Maclaine, Bound by Sin, that I think fits well for those spartan III's in Gamma Company”

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