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Shard blackburn arcus

"we must stand strong, to stem the entropic tide of chaotic injustice, to bring light to those in blinding darkness, and darkness to those in blinding light."

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a character in “Yggdrasil Online”, as played by evolutionofshadow

Description

Shard Arcus
we must stand strong, to stem the entropic tide of chaotic injustice, to bring light to those in blinding darkness, and darkness to those in blinding light.
stand strong, stand together mass effect 3 soundtrack, Jeremy soule

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My Details


FULL NAME
Shard Blackburn Arcus

NICKNAME
viper, or Blackburn.

AGE
19

GENDER
male

Equipments
a custom sniper rifle, fitted to body. Multiple sights; infrared, 4 X 10 target tracker, 16 X 2 custom reticule.
Close quarters knife.
Field repair kit.
A small semi-auto revolver-esque side arm
AFFILIATION
biowall



Things about me



QUIRKS
1. Talking to himself on a regular basis
2. making jokes that only he would find funny
3. losing concentration during conversations when he has an idea
4. a twitch in his left eye when he is lying

LIKES
1. Above all, order.
2. time alone. to study, to build, to plan.
3. building and modifying equipment.
4. the thrill of outsmarting an enemy
5. and of course yggdrasil online

HATES
1. Injustice. The one part of religious life to rub off on him
2. chaos, entropy, uncertainty, doubt.
3. the future, that all you do is leading to an unchangeable point.
STRENGTH
1. His ability to adapt quickly to a situation.
2. his skill in electronics and programming allow him to build and modify equipment to his needs.
3. he is a first-class shot with a sniper, and after incorporating his dark energy into his shots, only very powerful barriers can stop a shot from his rifle.

WEAKNESS
1. He is unskilled and outmatched in most close combat situation.
2. he is doesn’t wear much protection, so is vulnerable when hit.
3. out of game, he is rather easily distracted and drifts off into thought.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
his avatar in game is reminiscent of his body shape. his hair is shorter and darker though still in the same style. He is average height and thin, both in game and out of game, though out of game shard is a lot less physically fit.
he tends to wear thinner clothing, though not much variety in his apparel.



A bit about myself


PERSONALITY
as stated many times he is intoned for order. His personality resounds from that. He is dark, preferring to listen rather then speak. Despite this he is co-operative, feeling that working together allows people to complete larger objectives faster and with more fluency.

HISTORY
shard grew up in a religious family. They lived in a religious city and shard spent the first ten years of his life completely surrounded by the ‘freedom’ and ‘impunity’ of the religious society. Though what he saw was chaos. The degeneracy overruling the law and fact being put aside for a grey area of truth and lies. Though no one seemed to see it. When he began to question this his parents would tell him that this is the better society, that religion should prominent over anything else in existence. This he could not live.

At age ten, shard was visited by his uncle, “a traitor of a man” his father would call him. This said, his visit wasn’t for the family, but for shard in particular. He had heard word that shard was questioning his soceity. He introduced himself as Jarvin Arcus, and he offered to take shard to the scientific city where he lived. Shard quickly accepted, wanting nothing more then to leave the entropy of the city he lived in, though he asked one favour of him. he asked that he stayed with his family for a few more years, for this was a large choice and needed time to think over.

As the years passed shard begin to develop a skill for electronics and programming, difficult skills to cultivate where he lived, but he managed anyway. Despite what they might say, his community was glad for his skills. Engineers and programmers were few and far between in some religious societies. On his seventeenth birthday he was visited by his uncle, who once again asked him the same question he was asked 7 years before, and once again he accepted without question. His parents wer’nt happy with the arrangement and argued with for hours on end. Eventually he just walked out the door, no longer caring for his parent’s affection. he was driven to the scientific city and was given a room in his uncles house, where he now lives with his auntie and young cousin. It was here he lived and still does.

In the couple of weeks shard has really gotten into Yggdrasil online, and when sides started forming, he decidedly joined the biowall faction, so as to have best access to technology and weaponry. Over time he specialized in using snipers and in field repairs for tanks and broken equipment.

So begins...

Shard blackburn arcus's Story

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Shard Arcus; Senayou slums/ Festo

Shard finished his soup, not the best meal but it was filling. He was quite happy today, no chores to do, no work to be done, it freed up a lot of spare time. He moves over to the window and looked out onto the Senayou slums below. The house he now lived wasn’t the biggest or the fanciest house in the world, but when he looked out onto the conditions that some people had to face, it made him very appreciative. It wasn’t all bad here; in fact there was an abundance of upper middle class citizens. Shard’s uncle worked as a mechanic for vehicles in the area. Shard would often help out, though mainly stayed at home, either practicing his programming or simply playing some yggOn. As for now, as he looked over the slums, he noticed something. Or sensed it perhaps, or maybe a mixture of both. There was a sense of kinship in the poorest parts, co-operation and teamwork, fighting against the odds. It was… different if nothing else. He heard his uncle proceed into the kitchen and turned to greet him.

Shard opened the door to his room and entered, locking the door behind him. He sat down in his desk chair and opened his music library in his neural visor, sifting through the assortment of songs. Today was really going to be a working day in the world of Yggdrasil online. He needed to work a bit more on some equipment he was modifying and hopefully be able to test them out. He always liked to list to music whilst working and he needed to bring the music he wanted ‘in with him’ or so to speak. Once he had picked out his playlist, he picked out the game and entered ‘game commence’.

The world around him enveloped into code and he entered his small workshop in Festo, pleased to see that no one had touched any of his work. He looked through the pile of scrap metal and unfinished sketches to try and find what he was working on when he logged off. He found it after abnormally long time, under a pile of scribble notes. He had been working on an adjustment on his target finder scope. He has been modifying it to be able to detect magical energy and then point it out. At the moment it works, well kind of. It currently detects energy, but all of it. And when your defending a city that has electricity and proton energy literally everywhere it doesn’t work so well. So he set to work adjusting the programming to separate the constraints.

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With sustained buzzing and bleeping, the floating orb that was Rack directed his visor at the weapon, a pulse rifle, that lay on the workbench. A red light gently ran alongside the entire firearm, transferring many variables, along with a blueprint, to the droid's hard drive which then analysed it.

“Error. 80.27 percent chance of charge-battery failing, suggest replacing it with Type B-7 for a more consistent pulse-release.” Rack stated in a generic, monotone and raspy male voice, his visor, or eye as it is often referred as, hastily shaking from left to right before leaving the scene rather... abruptly. Because that was what he, it, always did after completing its task. That was how it had been programmed, to analyse and deduct, to find flaws and come up with a solution.

It wasn't in Rack's programmed nature to sit and wait, not like humans did, anyway. There could never be time for rest when there was plenty of work to finish, not for one creation such as he, err- it. It was quite ready to check back on its creator, Piper. Perhaps her chat had gone well and was now ready to return to the task that was at hand.

“Aha! Found you.”

The black-metal orb immediately focused has red gaze at the figure who spoke, hearing the all-too-familiar voice of its creator. With a brief hop, Rack hovered towards Piper, buzzing around her for a moment before stopping to meet at eye-level. “Ah! Mistress, I hope your discussion went well?”

Piper could only raise a single, confused eyebrow, uttering a loud and wondering 'Huh?' as she cocked her head sideways.

“Your chat, ma'am. The one with the other mechanic.” Rack retorted as it once again hovered around the girl.

At that, Piper only had to huff, arms crossing over her chest as she straightened her head. “Oh, that. Yeah, it went great!” The girl answered with a large hint of sarcasm, sighing as she rubbed the back of her head, her eyes scouting the area- Hmm? What was that?

The girl's ears perked at the sound of... Well, mechanic stuff, y'know, tinkering. Piper always had a sixth sense for that kind of stuff, it meant that someone was doing something interesting. Paying no mind to Rack's response, not that the droid was able to comprehend sarcasm, Piper made a quick, albeit girly, hop to one of the doors that had been left open just slightly.

'Twas one of the private work areas, Bio Walls members only. Inside, she spotted someone working, or... attempting to get to work, anyway. Not that there was any difference to Piper, it was tinkering. And, like the curious mechanic that she was, she snuck inside, oblivious to the fact that she may be trespassing.

A blonde, ragged haired boy, or man, sat behind a desk, clearly too absorbed in his works to notice Piper. She remembered him, a fellow Bio Walls member! Err- S-Scar..?

No. Steve?

No. Broccoli?

Whatever. With a wide cat-grin now plastered on her face, Piper tip-toed behind whatshisname, leaning over his shoulder just enough so she could see what he was tinkering with. A scope, huh? “Whatchya doooooin~?” She asked in a cutesy tone, as she playfully kicked the floor with her feet, leaning on the desk with her arms crossed and her head resting on them.

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“…so if I incorporate IR for fire magic, but then I’ll pick heat signatures from … no that won’t work, maybe… no. Yes? No no. Too messy.”


“Whatchya doooooin?”

Shard answered before thinking, not looking up from his work
“I’m constructing a energy detection system, much like how infra-red detects heat radiation. I’m hoping t-”

He stopped there, realizing he had no idea who or what he was talking to. Someone had snuck into his workshop and he hadn’t even noticed. Or maybe just walked in.
He looked back, and saw a ginger haired girl, short and with an overly large amount of piercings. He’d seen her before, a mechanic, temperamental to say the least. He also saw a small droid, or bot, robot. He was never saw what to call them. He didn't know who this mechanic's name, and he was curious about why she was here.

“And who exactly are you, may I ask?”

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How rude to ask a name before giving your own, let alone not knowing who your fellow members are. Piper hopped back on her two little feet, nicking the boy's scope from the desk and quickly hopping out of arms reach.

“Energy detector, huh?” Obviously ignoring the boy's question, Piper examined every inch, every mechanic, every... Everything, twisting it around with the tip of her fingers in a playful and reckless manner. “I can fix that up for ya! Infra-red is not difficult to add.”

The girl twirled back to face the boy, smiling ever so gently as she kept her emerald-green gaze on the scope. “Just a few fix'em-ups there, a laser here. Should not take too long- Hey! Haven't got tools around here, have ya?”

Piper hastily searched every shelf and possible tool-holder place for the obvious, her body darting around the claustrophobic room with the enthusiasm one would get when allowed to tinker with one of Bio Walls' tanks. So busy had she been with that, her footwork couldn't keep up, the girl tumbling down in a rather exaggerated and over-the-top fashion as she tripped over her own feet.

“Whoaaah!” She shrieked as the scope slipped from her tight grasp and launching into the air before safely dropping on the grounded girl's stomach. It took a second for Piper to raise her upper body, a hand immediately rubbing the lower back and bottom as a jolt of pain shot through the specified areas. “O-oooouch....” Was all she could manage, her eyes forcing themselves to shut as another holt of pain rushed through the girl's spine.

“Ma'am, do be more careful.” Rack had hovered into the room, shaking his large red visor. “It would be better if you give the man his scope back.”

A suggestion that Piper, as always, completely ignored. “Wait! I'll grab my own!” She said while perking the corners of her mouth into a wide smile. “Gimme a sec, I'll be right back!”

“Ma'am... Please reconsider this course of action.” The floating orb did its best not to let this get out of hand, it briefly recalled what happened last time Piper took something without consent. To sum it up; The guild master had not been pleased with the girl's behaviour, nor was the mechanic that she had stolen from. Of course, Pip never meant any harm, her curiosity always got the better when interesting things were worked on. This... Scope addition was no exception, and when Piper was fixated on something, she'd not let go of it as easily as she found it.

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“Energy detector, huh? I can fix that up for ya! Infra-red is not difficult to add.”


Shard watched as the girl’s eyes darted to his desk and before he could react she had got, swiped it off the table, jumping back quickly. She turned to face him, though he didn’t really think his attention was on him.

“Just a few fix'em-ups there, a laser here. Should not take too long- Hey! Haven't got tools around here, have ya?”


“Yeah, just ov-“ she had already moved on, searching though his gear. She had focus, he could give her that. And fast as well. A bit too fast.

“You know, you should probably slow do-” and it was then that she fell over, the scope landing safely on her stomach. She looked to be in pain, though her focused once again moved back to the task at hand.

He got up from his seat, but had to move aside for her robotic assistant, or pet, or guard? He could never really tell with personal robots.

“It would be better if you give the man his scope back.”

“Wait! I'll grab my own! Gimme a sec, I'll be right back!”


Before he could stop her she ran from the workshop.
“WAIT A SECOND! YOU NEED…the…program” he trailed off as she disappeared from site. He knew the sight wouldn’t work without his program. He watched as the small robot floated away in the direction she had gone. He sat down back in his chair. And then he started laughing. In 10 minutes he had gone from working on a scope to watching as the mechanic run off with it. What was her name? She was someone he had seen before. He remembered someone calling her “bubbles”, though that couldn’t her name, could it? Well shard needed to keep him busy until she came back, if she came back. So he got to work sorting out his weapons.


As shard was checking his knife a message tab appeared in his vision. It was marked as important, so he opened it up. It was from Margaret, which is not a good sign. What was a worse sign was that it appears that she addressed the message.
“My fellow guild mates of bio wall.” He continued reading.
“A meeting is to take place in the city of Norais, it is of great urgency and all members must attend promptly, no time must be wasted and there will be no excuse for absence. You will be briefed on arrival.”

This changed things. He knew he should probably go and find the scope, but then again “bubbles” will need to be attending this. So he set to packing his gear.

He reached the spot where he had parked his hover bike. He strapped his pack to he back and started it up, moving in it in the direction of Norais.

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And without a single 'May I' or 'Can I', Piper had left the scene as quickly as she had entered it. Rack wasn't too far behind, trying its best to catch up with the girl, maybe persuade her to give it back before things really got out of hand.

“I highly suggest you return it, this device does not belong to you, ma'am.” The metal droid stated as it finally caught up with Piper, who had already arrived at her private workshop and began digging through heaps of scrap devices, probably hoping to find a still working gun to attach the scope to. Just for some thorough testing before tinkering with it.

“Aha!” Piper exclaimed as she pulled a rather old firearm from the rubbish, a cat-grin still fixed on her face as she rushed towards her desk.

“Ma'am, please?” The droid pleaded in its usual raspy voice, hovering around as if it was nervous for... something.

“What? Steve said it was okay.” The girl retorted, gently slapping the gun with the palm on her hand, lights blinking almost immediately to indicate a 'ready' status. “Okay, and, this goes... here.

*Click*

The scope latched itself onto the weapon, fitting itself smoothly like a silky glove.

“Apologies, ma'am, but if I recall correctly, his name is Shard. And he did not grand permission for you to tinker with his possession.” Rack could complain all he wanted, Piper already found herself absorbed with the scope, holding the weapon close to her head as she peered through the telescope with her left eye and making suggestive 'Pew Pew' noises.

“Oh, crafty! Steve knows his mechanics.” Piper was quite impressed, this was some handy work. Although, something was wrong. Why wouldn't it work? “C'mon, gizmo! On! Enter! ….. Potato?” Ugh... Scratch her earlier statement.

“Racky~ Be a dear and scan this scope for me, will ya?” Piper lowered the gun from her sight, allowing her pet-droid to scan the thing for precise faults.

Series of buzzes and bleeps could be heard as Rack began to process the scanned data. “Error. Missing plug-in, need external data-card for scope to work.”

“Well that stinks.” Piper growled, dropping on the ground next to her desk as she crossed her legs and arms. “Steve could've told me that beforehand.”

Had Rack the ability, it would've sighed, deeply. But it knew very well that arguing about Piper's world and the actual in-game world was a discussion you could better have with a blank, slate wall. At least that wouldn't walk away every nanosecond.