The Flamel

[Jet Somers]

TURBULANCE



Turbulance moves with the shifting temperatures and the whim of the winds. There's a definite destination in mind, and nothing will rattle turbulance from his path. Even if he is knocked wildly, spinning out of control, the axis tilting off course, seemingly impossible to correct, turbulance just chuckles, dusts off his sleeves, and soars back into the stream. He is not always his own pilot, but turbulance knows to trust the headwind.




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it was an evening I shared with the sun

to find out where we belong

from the earliest days

we were dancing in the shadows

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HOOPLA



Come on, hoopla. Spin us another tale. Remind us again why we didn't make it without you. The hot air you spew has nothing to do with the rancid poison you draw on, and everything to do with the hype you've never really stopped spinning for yourself. No one's even listening anymore...



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Travis: It's not the easiest thing in the world, sometimes, being your friend.



Jet: What does that mean?



Travis: You saw the show.



Jet: I suppose that means you're coming for me at the melee?



Travis: How disappointed would you be if I didn't?



Jet: Very



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ENTROPY



Entropy is a slave to the moving pieces around her. In the beginning, she practically vibrated with energy, and that energy infected every element she came into contact with. But over time, she has dispersed too thinly. She is pulled in every direction by her very nature. Her radioactive decay slows her half life, and as inexorable time marches forward, without a catalyst to give her a new reaction, entropy is dying.



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more wine

because i got to have it

more skin

because i got to eat it

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DISCORD



Discord uses pretty words, well placed turns of phrase, and intellectual insults to foment disagreement and unrest. His sarcastic praise is poison, but he will make sure you know the only reason for your success is his influence. However little you might know of him, he knows everything about you, and your next move, and your intentions, and your goals, and so on. Discord knows. And he knows how to wind you up about it.



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Travis: You didn't make it any easier, doing what you did. I'm not going to lie, Jet, I'm still pretty pissed.



Jet: Yea... I figured.



Travis: So, not only did you make sure you've got laser scopes on you from the Axiom and The Puppet Masters, now you've probably re-pissed off half the DMW, and made sure even Gian, Edie, and I owe you a shot or two. Do you like, get off on the whole world being against you?



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MAELSTROM



Maelstrom is the eye in the center of the storm. While everything around him spins and eddies according to their own designs, maelstrom reaches out his powerful arms and keeps the vortex going. There are times when maelstrom remains calm and centered, but when he moves, god help you.



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inside the outside

by the river

used to be so calm

used to be so sane

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HAVOC



Havoc destroys for the sake of destroying. He doesn't exactly have a purpose or goal, but once he finds a partner to rendezvous with, he's ready to kill, maim, burn, destroy. Havoc simply doesn't care.



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Travis: I understand why you did it. I don't agree with it, but I get it. What I don't think you understand is that you couldn't have picked a worst time to let Edie fall flat on her face.



Jet: At the time, I hadn't known Kurt Brady had assaulted her.



Travis: Would it have mattered?



Jet: Come on, Trav. Of course it would have. I'd have spent half the night hunting that wannabe down and putting him in traction.



Travis: But would you have put aside your 'lesson' for Edes?



Jet: ...



Travis: Jesus, Opie...



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TURMOIL



Poor turmoil. As powerful an emotion as she is, she allows her fear to kill her little by little inside. Plagued by doubt, jumping at shadows. She's ripe for the plucking, but once turmoil nests her way inside, it's not long before she's eaten away at you, turning your world grey and soulless.



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i rushed the ladies' room

took the water from the toilet

washed her feet and blessed her name

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ANARCHY



Anarchy is the unrivaled king of the good time. His lessons are about throwing out the rules, writing new ones, and promptly throwing them out as well. Fuck the establishment, fuck the game, fuck you if you stand in the way of his unbridled revelry. Just... fuck it.



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Travis: So you're not mad at them?



Jet: Of course not. If I don't expect you or Edie to go easy on each other or me, why in the world would I expect my in laws to?



Travis: You know how hard Cypress is going to be gunning to get back at that belt.



Jet: About has hard as Edie's going to fight to prove me wrong now.



Travis: He'll stab you in the back to get at it, just like he did to her.



Jet: I only care about getting there for one reason... to put the Network back in control of things. We strapped on the chains and dragged this sinking ship out of the mud, it's not right that people like Dirge and Roberts get to slip in at the pinnacle of the history of this company and take the credit for it. They can claim that the best pay per view buy rates started the moment they started plotting, but you can't just disregard the months of toil when we were in the red, the hard work it took to win those fans back over after over half the roster walked out. The same fans that that put their replica GIW belts on ebay the last time Dirge took the wheel.



Travis: And what does that have to do with Cypress?



Jet: Because if he gets to the championship, more power to him. Right now it's a piece of tin sullied by two paper champions in a row. Until one of us can get our hands back on it... that's what it will remain.



Travis: There are some who say I was a paper champion...



Jet: Yeah, but you won it from me...



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BEDLAM



Bedlam, you personification of insanity. You've shown us so much. We've learned much from your multitude of faces and designs. We should all be committed, bedlam, and you're sick enough to lead the march to the asylum.



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more peace

is such a dirty habit

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CONFUSION



Confusion changes like the leaves. I can't even grasp what goes through this foul mouthed brain from one hour to the next. You hate this, you love this. You support this, you disagree with it. What do you even stand for anymore, besides becoming a darker version of anarchy?



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Travis: You know he's probably holed up in some bungalow having paint thinner pumped through his arteries, or the webbing between his toes burned with a zippo.



Jet: No, he isn't.



Travis: The last time he kidnapped one of your own...



Jet: He isn't who he was last time. Everyone wants to know why I haven't taken a more active role in dealing with him, when I spent an entire year baiting him. Mickey isn't the monster that Klaus, Nate, Cyp, and I hunted across the desert that year.



Travis: No. You're right. He's much simpler now. Now, instead of leaving a screwed up broken shell, he's just going to beat on him a little before he kills him. You're ok with this?



Jet: Of course I'm not. But he's playing a game, and I can't just go hunt him down this time to save him. The knife might as well be at Mark's throat, because the moment I give chase, he's dead.



Travis: So the plan is to do nothing?



Jet: The plan is to play the game. I've got an army if he gets too out of control, but in the meantime, I'll risk the gambit and see how we can go about giving him what he wants.



Travis: And what does he want?



Jet: He wants his mommy.



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slow down

we're too afraid

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AGITATION



Tell me, agitation, can you honestly tell your peers that you are honor bound anymore? We all saw your true colors. You will betray trust in a heartbeat if it serves your goals to do so. And the bitch of it all is that we'll all lift you up for doing it. Because it buzzes around you like a gnat that someone pulled the rug from underneath you as you were pulling the wool over someone else's eyes. You can't stand it. It's all you can focus on now. Do you even know what's going on outside of your tunnel vision, or is all the noise making it hard to concentrate?



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Jet sits on the iron throne of championship belts that he uses when he ponders his realm in times of chaos. He is leaned forward, elbows on knees, hands curled into fists and supporting his chin, brow lowered as he reflects.



I keep noticing that whenever someone tries to explain why the Puppet Masters came together, someone who isn't making fun of them, the logic is that they were desperate to save this company from the hands who have been steering it's destiny for the last thirty six months or so.



Whether it was with our hands in the Edwards' Creative Department cookie jar, or as the agents who shopped UGWC in every market in the world to reignite interest, the pilots of the company were Jet Somers, Travis Pierce, and, in the most recent year, Eden Morgan. Without us, there would be no company to 'save.'



To hear Dirge and Roberts talk, their considerable resources and star power were stretched to the very limits of having to accept one another as equals simply to challenge our legacy.



I almost want to thank them for that sort of acknowledgement.



Whenever you look back a couple months to when the Axiom returned, their immediate decree was that they were here to challenge everyone's 'hero.'



Whether that meant Pax was going to try to finally settle a score he stills falls short of, or that Dragon was going to take vengeance for my thwarting his greatest mistake--the taking of my sister--they couldn't see much farther than The Orphan.



I almost want to thank them for raising me up on a pedestal to a height greater than any other enemy has ever allowed.



The recurring theme here is that, while the PMN has been relatively quiet in 2014 (for us) we have managed to light enough fires around the microcosm that we don't even have to make an effort anymore to be on everyone's lips. Every one of our subjects has admitted it. They do what they do because of us. Jase is a controlling dick to Eden because of us. The DMW consolidated their most effective chapter leaders into one coalition to help us. Jordan King put aside his rivalry with me to that we could sponsor his new protege. Each and every one has spelled it out in their own voice, through their own actions. PMN owns them.



Massive Melee seems to be an insurmountable challenge to an outsider, and probably to more than a few of the competitors. For me, it's chance to get back to basics. I started out in this company dragging myself to victory through matches to presented a battlefield full of foes. I excelled in clusterbang brawls.



And this time, everyone is coming with The Wild Card in their crosshairs.



But what I've proven time after time, is that when things are at their most chaotic, Jet Somers is the one who winds up taking control.



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TRAINWRECK



Oh, we're all getting a kick out of this. Let me be the first to say I'm really impressed with how far you've fallen. You were a symbol of respect and stalwart honor, even in the questionable tactics you employed, but some of us stood behind you. We didn't particularly like your constant examinations of us, mind, but you had our respect. You've sold that for a mystery you can't solve. Feed your legacy into the disposal like a necktie, because you're choking yourself.



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let me ride

let me ride

burn my eyes

let me ride

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UPHEAVAL





There've been many changes in the crescent city over the last year, and they're not all big easy. Upheaval has managed to make herself a place as if she were always the missing puzzle piece. In a space of a month or two, when alliances were still questionable, she managed to bridge the gap. She's an unknown, so far, but upheaval has managed to affect everything she's touched so far.

[Jet Somers]

Ok, it's shit, I know, but after I read Brit's Edie rp, I had to trash what I had and start over.

Fuck it.

[Jet Somers]

And as such, in the midst of formatting, I managed to cut an important part and leave someone out. My apologies. For the sake of inclusion, even though it's too late to make it an official part of the roleplay, here's the bit that got omitted:

UPHEAVAL


There've been many changes in the crescent city over the last year, and they're not all big easy. Upheaval has managed to make herself a place as if she were always the missing puzzle piece. In a space of a month or two, when alliances were still questionable, she managed to bridge the gap. She's an unknown, so far, but upheaval has managed to affect everything she's touched so far.

[Who Am I?]

This is shit? I'd hate to see what you do when you put your game face on. I loved it. I thought encapsulating everyone of thine enemies with a single descriptive word and spelling out their name in the contents was creative and on point. Of course I enjoyed mine the most... but that's a self-serving statement to make. Others I enjoyed? Klaus and Ezekiel.

The scene of Jet sitting on the 'throne of championships' was a great visual into the mind of the "hero" we don't often see. That he is thankful of his enemies in lifting him up to that level is quite... I don't know... flattering in return? That's not how I want to phrase it but fuck, it's 1 in the morning and I'm at work so deal with it.

This is the kinda thing that wins the Melee, not some "shit" as you called it.

Only things I didn't like:

1) The italicized parts. Are they song lyrics? Is it a poem? Could we have gotten some context for that?
2) Jezebel didn't get a descriptive word. I noticed you did, however, hit on every single person listed in the Melee match (with Harley Addams the lone exception) and I'm not sure if that's an oversight or just that you used that list as a guide.
3) The back-to-back "Travis" passages were a slight confusing... had to differentiate between Roberts and Pierce. Not that they were bad, but either of them could've gone elsewhere to break up the back to back.

Those complaints are so incredibly minor they do not take away from the overall feeling of this piece. Great work B... this was a helluva ride you took me on.

[Who Am I?]

And I see you were posting Harley's as I was posting my response... so let's go ahead and disregard that part of #2 of my "complaints"

[Jet Somers]

Mar 14, 2014 3:16:03 GMT -5 Who Am I? said:

This is shit? I'd hate to see what you do when you put your game face on. I loved it. I thought encapsulating everyone of thine enemies with a single descriptive word and spelling out their name in the contents was creative and on point. Of course I enjoyed mine the most... but that's a self-serving statement to make. Others I enjoyed? Klaus and Ezekiel.

The scene of Jet sitting on the 'throne of championships' was a great visual into the mind of the "hero" we don't often see. That he is thankful of his enemies in lifting him up to that level is quite... I don't know... flattering in return? That's not how I want to phrase it but fuck, it's 1 in the morning and I'm at work so deal with it.

This is the kinda thing that wins the Melee, not some "shit" as you called it.

Only things I didn't like:

1) The italicized parts. Are they song lyrics? Is it a poem? Could we have gotten some context for that?
2) Jezebel didn't get a descriptive word. I noticed you did, however, hit on every single person listed in the Melee match (with Harley Addams the lone exception) and I'm not sure if that's an oversight or just that you used that list as a guide.
3) The back-to-back "Travis" passages were a slight confusing... had to differentiate between Roberts and Pierce. Not that they were bad, but either of them could've gone elsewhere to break up the back to back.

Those complaints are so incredibly minor they do not take away from the overall feeling of this piece. Great work B... this was a helluva ride you took me on.

I was telling Brit last night that I do a lot of concept pieces and have to take a leap of faith that people's minds work like I do. Allow me to explain a few of the many (too many?) moving parts you pointed out.

1. The lyrics to Lakini's Juice, a song about accepting a change in beliefs. Jet is convinced that the blame being heaped upon him is a result of everyone accepting that he and the PMN own them. The song describes the change as painful, uncomfortable, but ultimately preferable to willful ignorance.

2. Jez's omission is intentional. Harley's was not, and that's why I added hers on in the post just above yours. I wrote each concept on it's own, so the Chaos Words were all done at once, and somehow in formatting them in, I skipped over hers.

3. This is as simple as the Travis vs Beta Travis mini war they have going on. I put Pierce first, as he's my partner and the one Jet believes to be the better. I considered spacing them out, but I thought something would be lost in the intervening interludes.


I know, it's a lot of concept to ask people to swallow. I thought I'd gone a bit overboard with it, but it was too late. And I feel like a putz leaving out Harley's part.

[Ezekiel Pax]

This is definitely awesome and a 'think outside the box' piece. It was a way of pointing to every opponent without droning on and on. Unique and effective. I liked this a lot, dude. I agree that Mickeys was the best with mine and Klaus' close behind it. Don't beat yourself up over this. Good luck.

[T-Robosaurus Rex]

Yeah this isn't shit.

It had a real 'art house' movie feel to it. If anyone has been to the cinema in GTA V the first 'film' they show is a foreign arthouse film. It's pretty dull, but amsuing in it's own way. Thats the only comparison I can point to.

BUT This was not dull in the least, this was really trippy like I have always imagined GOOD art house films would be if I ever had the 'culture' to want to watch them. It had intellect, poignancy and a darkness to it.

You've been reminding me of someone in recent months, but in your own unique way, the way you bring different concepts to the table so often and make it work, is very Moss Edwards.

Hope you see that as the compliment it's meant.

A fantastic piece.

[Jet Somers]

That is some pretty high praise

[The Greater Evil]

You have a gift for concept pieces. Tying each person's name to a particular word and then walking through why it applied to them was done so flawlessly. Also, you played the tension between Jet and Travis well. There are times I wonder why Travis doesn't see what Jet really is or seem to care when Jet is taking shots at him. Jet's obsession with controlling everything is going to catch up to him eventually and end up getting him in a world of hurt.

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

I was slightly lost when I first read this, because I did so from my phone, and didnt see the different colored lettering at first. I got to the end and thought, 'good piece, but what does it mean'.

Then I went back and re-read it, and - apparently - paid attention the second time. Then it all made sense, and I thought it was truly a great piece of work.

Well done, B. Good Luck.

[Red Bull Icon]

magnificent piece that hits on all the right notes. Dug the hell out of difference presented in inspecting the known opponents for Massive Melee set against the more private conversation with Pierce. The sense of 'control at all costs' and flopping back to... fuck you for using so many synonyms for the chaos of the match. Fuck you and your clusterbang matches.

And don't let TRob undersell you. So much better than Moss.

[Jet Somers]

Damn, guys.

I'm my biggest critic (probably true for a lot of us), and nothing I work super hard on ever passes my expectations. It's awesome to hear such praise for my work, makes the hair pulling and wall banging worth it.

[Harley Addams]

Sooo Creative!!! I had soo much fun reading this, B!!

Harley is honored to be mentioned amongst the greats in the first place. We've all had our fair share of cut and paste maladies.

<3 Upheaval!!

Selfishly, of course I adore Harley's first and of course Klaus' second. His really was right on the money.

Side Note: For those of you who don't know, I don't read other RP's before releasing mine. Its an incredible distraction and I loose time too quickly. I'm sure one day I'll be able to. Re: musical lyrics. His were perfect.

[Travis Pierce]

Dude, you fucking knocked it out of the park again. You tend to give this credit to other people, but for my money, YOU are the monthly PPV-Special RP king around here.