(OOC Section):
Steam Name:The Man That Only Quads Can Kill
Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:53098192
Give a detailed explanation of what a vortigaunt is: A Vortigaunt or Xenotherium subservilia are very extroverted species, originally slaves to Nihilanth they swarmed the Black Mesa facility as they saw it as a means of escape from the combine and their master. A good amount of the Vorts were freed but a good amount still remain captive, fitted with shackles that cut their connection to the Vortessence, a mystical force that the Vortigaunts say connects all life. With their connection to the Vortessence the Vortigaunts can summon deadly bolts of energy, start devices, heal wounds, teleport, and with the right secretion, they can bring a person back from near-death.
List an RP scenario with 8+ detailed /me's as a vortigaunt in any scenario of your choice that's hl2 lore:
1.** Arcus Sal'Lith would walk silently through the concrete walls of City 18's sewers, his hooves clacking on the floor as the large cloak over his head hides his appearance, although he reasons, that it is hard to hide anything of what he looks like. He stopped to listen for a moment before spying a headcrab moving around in the dark, his eyes narrow in on it before he moves forward like a viper and kills it with his claws, taking his trophy back through the sewers.
2.**Arcus would arrive back in his little cave, where the makeshift pot filled with various spices, meats, and foodstuffs was hanging over a fire. He then proceeded to chop up the headcrab with his claws and toss it into the fire, taking the large stick he had whittled down to look like a stirring spoon he started to stir the bubbling mix, whilst humming to himself in Vortigese and dipping his claw in the bubbling mix to check its consistency and taste. After some time he deemed it was worthy and he stopped stirring the pot.
3.**There would be heard a clambering from the sewers as Arcus emerges from the sewers carrying his makeshift pot, he would place it down around the center of the street near the XCCP building In the slums as he waited for some citizens to arrive, and arrive they did as the lofty smell of the stew floated through the slums, as well as his Vortigese humming. The first one to show up was a rather tall black male who asked about the wonderful smelling concoction, Arcus replied – telling him that it was something to “Nourish the mind and soul” which it was for the most part.
4.**Arcus took out one of the wooden bowls he had made himself, filling it with the brown colored stew he offered it to the man, who took it thankfully. He downed it within a matter of seconds and immediately asked for another to which Arcus obliged, after roughly 5-6 bowls the man started to get rather bad gas which Arcus took note of as “Cleansing” process – the man thanked him for the food and said it was great, expect the only bad part was the gas but he said he would still eat it again.
5.**It was darker now in City Eighteen and his cauldron was empty after roughly 12 citizens had eaten it all up, packing up his things and starting back down into the sewers he chuckled slowly as it was another successful helping of the citizens, he also reminded himself to maybe add more pepper to stop all the gas, it was rather bad to smell as he theorized that the headcrab as causing it and that more pepper would dilute the Xenian creature.
6.**It was the next day now and Arcus was making a new pot of stew, this one was different. He had been informed that someone had alerted the CCA to his making of the stew and feeding the citizens non-UU food, so he had decided to make a pot especially for the officers. Arcus was not a violent or mean Vortigaunt by any stretch of the imagination so he had decided to make a stink bomb of sorts, he had added five times the headcrab as well as a smoke grenade a resistance member had gotten him.
7.**He heard the boots coming down the sewer path, stopping outside of his door and counting down to the breach, Arcus quickly charged and shot the stew with bolts of Vortessence which caused a chain reaction with the headcrabs, filling the room quickly with thick green, and horrible smelling smoke. Arcus tossed the grenade for good measure and ran quickly out the back door of his hideout, he heard the word “INJECT” as the CCA ran in there was a tremendous amount of coughing and what sounded like the officers vomiting in their masks, he chuckled to himself quickly before making his escape into the depths of the sewers.
8.**The next day there was an official announcement by the City Administrator stating that a gas leak had occurred and leaked the smelling gas in the sewers, and that no one had been injured in the process. Arcus was handing out his stew the next day with a small smile upon his as he had quite the crowd there to eat his stew, he also announced he had fixed the “gas problem” which got him a few laughs from the ones who knew what happened that night and from that day on Arcus was known as “The gas vort” which he still uses as a joke to this day.
(IC Section)
IC name (your vortigaunt): Arcus Sal'Lith
Character backstory, 3 paragraphs minimum. (Must strictly follow lore and reach minimum required paragraphs): X-298102 was one of the Vortigaunts who had the privilege (or misfortune) to enter the Black Mesa Research Facility in the Resonance Cascade and was not killed immediately, instead he wandered around aimlessly eating the fresh headcrabs that came through the random portals until he came upon one of the main cafeterias and found various “fine delicacy’s” of the human kind, he saw tacos and cheeseburgers and soup (which he liked the most) he tasted every single one of these items and found some magazines for cooking in the back, although he could not read them he saw pictures which seemed to tell him how to make these foods, so he speared the magazine with his claw and took it with him, deciding that since he didn't have much of a purpose here (since he was liberated from his slave master) he would take a stroll through the desert which saved him from the nuclear detonation at the facility.
When the combine invaded Arcus had been living in the sewers and eating some headcrabs that still teleported in, he had been freed from his shackles by slamming them against a sharp grate in the sewers for three days straight. He knew that he would not be enslaved again and fled from his current place of refugee across the destroyed wreckage that was once the planet Earth, on his travels he found new ways to make “fine delicacy’s” as that was the only human word he understood. He also had a short meditation session in which he asked the vortessence to name him, as he never head a real name, and the answer came back to him as “Arcus Sal'Lith” and he accepted this name with honor as being named by the vortessence its self as quite the strange thing for him, Arcus wandered the outlands for a good amount of time until he started to see the gray metal cities rise from the ground and decided he should at least try and help the people there by sharing his “fine delicacy’s” of course he knew more humans words and sentences by now so he would communicate fairly well.
Arcus found that at least in this new Combine controlled world – they still had sewers, and he used them to enter the newly created City Eighteen and find even more “ingredients” for his “fine delicacy’s” which he stockpiled in a small nook in the city sewers, finding various bits of metal and fusing them together to make his pot and carving pieces of old wood into tools for him to use, the cooking magazines still used by him to make the tools and now that he could read he took some of the tips by the long dead creators of the magazine, adding what spices he could find and others he homemade with the vortessence. Now he has decided to emerge from the sewers from City Eighteen and bring peace (and full stomachs) to the denizens of City Eighteen.
Steam Name:The Man That Only Quads Can Kill
Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:53098192
Give a detailed explanation of what a vortigaunt is: A Vortigaunt or Xenotherium subservilia are very extroverted species, originally slaves to Nihilanth they swarmed the Black Mesa facility as they saw it as a means of escape from the combine and their master. A good amount of the Vorts were freed but a good amount still remain captive, fitted with shackles that cut their connection to the Vortessence, a mystical force that the Vortigaunts say connects all life. With their connection to the Vortessence the Vortigaunts can summon deadly bolts of energy, start devices, heal wounds, teleport, and with the right secretion, they can bring a person back from near-death.
List an RP scenario with 8+ detailed /me's as a vortigaunt in any scenario of your choice that's hl2 lore:
1.** Arcus Sal'Lith would walk silently through the concrete walls of City 18's sewers, his hooves clacking on the floor as the large cloak over his head hides his appearance, although he reasons, that it is hard to hide anything of what he looks like. He stopped to listen for a moment before spying a headcrab moving around in the dark, his eyes narrow in on it before he moves forward like a viper and kills it with his claws, taking his trophy back through the sewers.
2.**Arcus would arrive back in his little cave, where the makeshift pot filled with various spices, meats, and foodstuffs was hanging over a fire. He then proceeded to chop up the headcrab with his claws and toss it into the fire, taking the large stick he had whittled down to look like a stirring spoon he started to stir the bubbling mix, whilst humming to himself in Vortigese and dipping his claw in the bubbling mix to check its consistency and taste. After some time he deemed it was worthy and he stopped stirring the pot.
3.**There would be heard a clambering from the sewers as Arcus emerges from the sewers carrying his makeshift pot, he would place it down around the center of the street near the XCCP building In the slums as he waited for some citizens to arrive, and arrive they did as the lofty smell of the stew floated through the slums, as well as his Vortigese humming. The first one to show up was a rather tall black male who asked about the wonderful smelling concoction, Arcus replied – telling him that it was something to “Nourish the mind and soul” which it was for the most part.
4.**Arcus took out one of the wooden bowls he had made himself, filling it with the brown colored stew he offered it to the man, who took it thankfully. He downed it within a matter of seconds and immediately asked for another to which Arcus obliged, after roughly 5-6 bowls the man started to get rather bad gas which Arcus took note of as “Cleansing” process – the man thanked him for the food and said it was great, expect the only bad part was the gas but he said he would still eat it again.
5.**It was darker now in City Eighteen and his cauldron was empty after roughly 12 citizens had eaten it all up, packing up his things and starting back down into the sewers he chuckled slowly as it was another successful helping of the citizens, he also reminded himself to maybe add more pepper to stop all the gas, it was rather bad to smell as he theorized that the headcrab as causing it and that more pepper would dilute the Xenian creature.
6.**It was the next day now and Arcus was making a new pot of stew, this one was different. He had been informed that someone had alerted the CCA to his making of the stew and feeding the citizens non-UU food, so he had decided to make a pot especially for the officers. Arcus was not a violent or mean Vortigaunt by any stretch of the imagination so he had decided to make a stink bomb of sorts, he had added five times the headcrab as well as a smoke grenade a resistance member had gotten him.
7.**He heard the boots coming down the sewer path, stopping outside of his door and counting down to the breach, Arcus quickly charged and shot the stew with bolts of Vortessence which caused a chain reaction with the headcrabs, filling the room quickly with thick green, and horrible smelling smoke. Arcus tossed the grenade for good measure and ran quickly out the back door of his hideout, he heard the word “INJECT” as the CCA ran in there was a tremendous amount of coughing and what sounded like the officers vomiting in their masks, he chuckled to himself quickly before making his escape into the depths of the sewers.
8.**The next day there was an official announcement by the City Administrator stating that a gas leak had occurred and leaked the smelling gas in the sewers, and that no one had been injured in the process. Arcus was handing out his stew the next day with a small smile upon his as he had quite the crowd there to eat his stew, he also announced he had fixed the “gas problem” which got him a few laughs from the ones who knew what happened that night and from that day on Arcus was known as “The gas vort” which he still uses as a joke to this day.
(IC Section)
IC name (your vortigaunt): Arcus Sal'Lith
Character backstory, 3 paragraphs minimum. (Must strictly follow lore and reach minimum required paragraphs): X-298102 was one of the Vortigaunts who had the privilege (or misfortune) to enter the Black Mesa Research Facility in the Resonance Cascade and was not killed immediately, instead he wandered around aimlessly eating the fresh headcrabs that came through the random portals until he came upon one of the main cafeterias and found various “fine delicacy’s” of the human kind, he saw tacos and cheeseburgers and soup (which he liked the most) he tasted every single one of these items and found some magazines for cooking in the back, although he could not read them he saw pictures which seemed to tell him how to make these foods, so he speared the magazine with his claw and took it with him, deciding that since he didn't have much of a purpose here (since he was liberated from his slave master) he would take a stroll through the desert which saved him from the nuclear detonation at the facility.
When the combine invaded Arcus had been living in the sewers and eating some headcrabs that still teleported in, he had been freed from his shackles by slamming them against a sharp grate in the sewers for three days straight. He knew that he would not be enslaved again and fled from his current place of refugee across the destroyed wreckage that was once the planet Earth, on his travels he found new ways to make “fine delicacy’s” as that was the only human word he understood. He also had a short meditation session in which he asked the vortessence to name him, as he never head a real name, and the answer came back to him as “Arcus Sal'Lith” and he accepted this name with honor as being named by the vortessence its self as quite the strange thing for him, Arcus wandered the outlands for a good amount of time until he started to see the gray metal cities rise from the ground and decided he should at least try and help the people there by sharing his “fine delicacy’s” of course he knew more humans words and sentences by now so he would communicate fairly well.
Arcus found that at least in this new Combine controlled world – they still had sewers, and he used them to enter the newly created City Eighteen and find even more “ingredients” for his “fine delicacy’s” which he stockpiled in a small nook in the city sewers, finding various bits of metal and fusing them together to make his pot and carving pieces of old wood into tools for him to use, the cooking magazines still used by him to make the tools and now that he could read he took some of the tips by the long dead creators of the magazine, adding what spices he could find and others he homemade with the vortessence. Now he has decided to emerge from the sewers from City Eighteen and bring peace (and full stomachs) to the denizens of City Eighteen.
