A Life Changing Find IC (M) (Numbers + rabbit) (M)

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A long time ago, vampires once ruled the land. This time of rule was known as the dark age to all humans. During this time, the vampires brought get art and technology to the world, at the cost of the humans being slaves and cattle. Some humans quickly grew disinterested in this idea and they gathered together to form a new religious order under one god. This religious order slowly bought time until they had enough manpower and resources to wage war against the vampires.

At first, the vampires thought that there was no way they could lose. However, they underestimated the tenacity of the humans and cost them the war. As the loss of the war became more and more apparent, the royal family of all the vampires took measures to make sure that even if they lose the war, their race would not go extinct.

With this mindset fresh, they sent one of their own, their daughter, the princess, the next heir to the royal family, one of the strongest royal vampires, far to the south, to a place filled with snow, to build the last resort fortress. With her, she took many human slaves and slowly the fortress came to be built. However, before it was finished, the princess received a message that the royal family had fallen and the rest of the vampires were going into hiding.

The princess, after hearing this new, proceeded to finish the stronghold. Once it was finished though she killed all the humans and went into the stronghold, sealing it from the inside. From then on she decided that for now, it would be best to rest, rest until enough time had passed that the vampires could be removed from history and imagination of people. Once that happens it would be the proper time to come back and make the humans pay.

~~~ Several hundred years later ~~~

The year is 2020, a research organization based in Antartica is in the process of scanning the land deep below the ice for signs of pre-frozen time. In the process of scanning the land below, they come across what appears to be a huge hollow cavern. They have no idea what awaits in the cavern, but they get the feeling it's going to be the discovery of a time.

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Out of Character Thread: https://role-player.net/forum/showth...23#post2982123

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This roleplay is rated Mature because of violence, cursing, sex, drugs, alcohol, and other themes that may or may not appear throughout the course of this roleplay. Read on at your own risk.

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Alex was sitting in the dark computer observation room. He was bundled up in about three layers of jackets and blankets and even then he was still cold. Being from Germany, he was used to some cold winters, but compared to the temperature he was facing now, looked like nice hot summers. He grabbed the hot mug of tea and brought it to his mouth, sipping on the tea while he thought about what he was doing. This expedition was a weird one. The University had hired him through another company a few years back and they liked him enough that they got his contact information in order to hire him privately for whatever future expeditions they did. This particular expedition he was on was partially his own fault though.

He was an engineer and when he wasn't working on an expedition and keeping the machines alive in the freezing cold, he was at home in Germany making new machines. This expedition, he actually asked the University if they were up for doing a unique expedition to test the ability of his new machine that he made and they gladly accepted it. Which was only natural considering what his machine would do if it actually worked. It used special lasers that it shot into the ground in order to find large ice caverns that were extremely deep. Previously, Ice caverns were mainly found by accident or by following surface entrances. Once it found a cavern within it's operating range, it would then use all of its lasers to focus on one point in order to drill a human size hole.

Because of that, it used a lot of energy and could only be operated when there were clear skies during the summer time. For now though, being one of the two operators, he simply had to sit down and watch the monitors. For the most part, nothing came up which was close to what he thought would happen. Being Antarctica, he figured there wouldn't be too many ice caverns in any one spot. There would be a lot spread across the whole continent, however, the continent was so large it would take time to search it and find caverns.

As he observed it though, he finally saw something unique. A blip on the radar indicating that the device had received a pulse back from one of its lasers. To say that he was surprised was an understatement. He quickly put the tea back on the table before pressing some keys on the computer to narrow down exactly where the pulse came back from. Once he found it, he then picked up the intercom phone that was next to the desk. It connected to a speaker in each of the rooms in order to let the base know what was going on. "Wake up everyone. We just got our first pingback from the machine. Those who are on duty and ready to move, quickly get dressed, eat and drink and get ready to move out. I'm gonna get the snowmobiles ready to move and get the equipment loaded up. Make sure to bring some tough gloves to handle going up and down the rope."

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“Ah! Aah-shiieet!” Was her answer to Alex’s voice over the speaker as Kiki rubbed the top of her head, and then her neck, slowly turning her head to the sound of her joints popping. The cold must make it worse, she reasoned. Maybe it seemed louder because of the quiet that ensued after the announcement. Maybe her head just really, really hurt from hitting it on the bunk. Kiki gave a little groan and swung her legs out from under her covers and quickly pulled on loose fleece pants over her merino wool leggings, then her boots. As she did, the meaning of the signal settled in a little, and she could feel the excitement building, making a little grin spread across her face.

She started walking as she pulled her wool knitted sweater on over her warm, longline sports bra. She freed her long her hair out from the collar as she rounded into the kitchen. It appeared Kiki was the first to make it this far, so she prepped a large bowl of eggs, giving them a stir and throwing in some of the thawed vegetables for a fast omelette. They’d only been here a few weeks and Kiki was over omelettes, but they were the easiest answer to breakfast at the south pole, particularly because they were pre-scrambled and frozen when they arrived. She put hot sauce on hers, for a “something different” vibe and quickly ate, despite the chatter as the rest of the on-duty team filed in.

After most of the team was fed, Kiki headed to the staging area and equipment bay, which connected to the insulated storage and garage. Each of the crew had what passed as a locker there, as you didn’t want to keep the sometimes wet, dirty outer gear in your room or bunk.

The brunette did her signature jump-and-wiggle routine into her straight-legged moleskin pants and the gray water- and wind-proof outer shell to the amusement of the others nearby. She’d gotten used to the stares by now – she had her own way of doing some things, but she returned their look with a pointed one as she sharply fastened the waistband.

“As long as it gets the job done,” she reminded them, and her professor laughed as he zipped his parka.

“All right you two, let’s get moving, Alex must be waiting for us!” The professor prompted, directed at herself and her peer. There’d only been four slots for students to accompany the professor this summer (though “summer” in Antarctica was November through February, and temperatures rarely made it above freezing, if ever), so two students were always on duty. Kiki hustled to put on the rest of her gear – a thermal neck gaiter, which could double as a face mask, snow goggles resting around her neck over it, her parka, shoving her heavy-duty mittens into her pockets and slipping into the thinner, more dexterous fleece ones onto her hands then and there. She pulled on a knitted hat over her dark hair and darted after the professor, through the storage and into the garage, where most of the on-duty team was already gathered.

The door was open to the garage, which significantly dropped the temperature.

“Geez, I can’t imagine spending August here,” her classmate commented, and Kiki cast him a side-long look.

“Och, it’s only twintie degrees Fahrenheit, nae problem!” A thick Scottish accent cut through her thoughts and she blinked over her shoulder at the meteorologist – Charles Baird, who stood in the doorway to the garage in his socks, a knitted hat with a highlighter-green pompom on top, black salopettes over a colorful flannel shirt and sunglasses, holding a mug that smelled more of whiskey than coffee.

“Right,” amusement laced Kiki’s tone, “What Baird said.”

She gave him a thumbs up and moved out to where the snowmobiles were nearly prepped.

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After calling over the intercom to the employees who were on patrol he quickly moved to get everything ready. He started with uploading the coordinates to several backup devices as a precautionary measure before pulling some paper maps to mark the location of the drill and the ping. He quickly got out from the blankets leaving him in just the winter gear. He would have a headstart on the rest of the crew since he didn't need to eat or wake up so he quickly just pust on his outside layer of clothes. He quickly went into the garage to get the machines turned on so they could start to warm up. There were a few other things that needed to be done to prep for them leaving. He prepared himself to go outside.

As he actually went outside he felt the cold wind hit him like a wall. He grabbed one of the two face shields under his jacket and put it over his face to keep the heat in. It was a black thermal plastic that pulled more heat from the sun and locked in heat behind it. He walked around the back of the base to where a special attena stood. He opened up the control panel in order to send a private message away from the base. He then started to undig the snow around the base to reveal a snow white pouch. He opened up and took the contents of the pouch out before hiding the contents under his jacket, closer to his body. He felt the cold briefly but quickly warmed back up.

He then made his way back to the garage and as he entered he saw the active members there talking. "Enough talking everyone. Make sure to grab some masks for your face. The wind is pushing hard out there. Don't forget either. Your school may be funding this but this is an expedition to test out my machine. Which means follow what I say. Especially when we get out there near the device. It's very sensitive and the drill part of the machine can only finish it's activation sequence with me there to make sure the initial hole is correct. The ice should be stable but this is experimental and has never been done before. The device shows that the cavern is very far down. About three quarters of a mile down into the ice. If you don't know, the ground is a little over a mile below the ice so this is a very deep cavern with ice that hasn't touched the outside world since the continents first started to move. Because of this we will be setting up a small base camp at site which will check in using the radio with the main base every hour. Professor, obviously you'll encompany me down into the cave. Choose a student you want to come down with us. The student who isn't picked will stay topside with Mr. Baird to set up the temporary base camp. Make sure not to touch the machine either. I would hate for it to shoot it's laser down at us while we're down there." He walked over to one of the snow mobiles and sat down on it. He didn't have to worry about loading them up with supplies. Since the expedition had one mission the snow mobiles were always loaded with the supplies needed to carry out the mission. He was in a hurry to see if the device worked correctly and he would only know for sure once the drill activated and he went down the hole.

(( Sorry if it's small on length or if there are spelling or Grammer or other mistakes xD I'm on my phone so yeahhhhh xD))

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Alex approached the group and Kiki all but bounced up onto the balls of her feet with excitement. He went through his spiel about how we were there for his project and how sensitive the machinery was, like they hadn’t all had specialty training on the arctic conditions and inherent dangers of their undertaking.

As Alex addressed Professor Rutherford directly, Kiki cast a side-long look at him, then her classmate, and raised her eyebrows. Eli Rutherford caught the look and smirked.

“I’ll decide when we get there,” he told them, but his wink told Kiki that he’d already chosen her. She pulled the gaiter over her mouth and nose to hide her grin as she picked a snowmobile, did the standard safety checks quickly, made sure everything on it was tied down securely and then mounted it. She pulled the key on it’s safety cord off the handle and slipped it in to the started and turned it on. It had a full electric charge as well as a full tank of gasoline for back up power, as she had expected.

Kiki looked over to where Alex sat on his snowmobile and shot him a nod, raising her voice through her gaiter and asking, “How’re you sitting so still? You must be stoked. Let’s go!”

She fixed her goggles over her eyes and turned on the handwarmers for the snowmobile’s handles, revving her throttle as she heard other snowmobiles turn on.

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Alex looked back at one of the students who spoke up. "I am excited, but on this continent, nothing is what it seems. Try to stay calm." He said before turning his attention back to the front, making sure his face mask is back in place correctly and secured. He started up the snowmobile and hit a button for the garage door, opening it up. He waited for himself and everyone to ride outside before closing the garage door behind him them.

He then took the lead, guiding them toward the location that the mark was on his map. He had quickly studied it and even input the coordinates into the GPS on his snowmobile. He followed the path that was decided and it wasn't hard for the others to follow him since it was currently summer.

As they arrived at the location though it was relatively flat which made the silver machine stand out. He pulled to a stop near the machine before looking at the others. "Professor, if you and the students want to get the tents and mobile command structure set up. I'll make sure that the machine is ready for phase two of the experiment." Of course, he went to make sure it was ready, regardless of the answer that would be given. He started by pulling a tablet from the snowmobile and hooking it up to the machine to read off the information that it didn't send in its initial pulse. As he started to press buttons on it, a loud hum started to come from the machine as it started to use more power and the sound of frozen parts moving could be heard as the engine of the laser made slight movements to get all the different laser devices pointed in the same direction to actually drill the ice.