Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls
welcome to Dire Tactics
Oddities are individuals born with extraordinary gifts. Because of this they are hated, feared and generally persecuted across the globe. In an attempt to give them a refuge the billionaire Theodore Ashford has created Ashford Isle. Presented as a Sanctuary for the special some believe their to be much darker motives behind his generosity.
Ashford Isle
A state of the art city powered completely by renewable energy, gorgeous modern building erected against the backdrop of a tropical paradise. It has all the luxuries modern technology can afford accompanied by the natural beauty and serenity only nature can provide. This city is open to all Oddities and their families, along with several hundred A.R.I. employees, it boast a modest population of just over 5,000 individuals consisting of a mix between both human and oddity. This wonderful utopia however is shaded in mystery both metaphorically and literally. The United Nations have dispatched several fleets of O.S.E. ships near the island, this gives the coastline a ominous view.
Blueprint is a premade Proboards v5 theme designed and built by punki of Adoxography and Pixel Perfect. Dire Tactics is the work of the mind of Clover. All characters and content are copyright their creators, and may not be replicated without their creators' permission. All images belong to their original owners.
updates
1/06/23
We would like to welcome our newest citizens to the island! David, Alice, Lynn, & Emmett welcome to paradise!
1/01/23
Ashford Isle is finally recovering from the massive hurricane and officially back open for business!
chapter 51: double date dealings (tagx3)
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Jan 15, 2024 14:39:11 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Jan 15, 2024 14:39:11 GMT -5
He was easily amazed in his time and even in this one as he looked back at his aunts. No magic meant he was not the issue as he watched Daphne and he just clearly wanted to be kind of there for her but was evidently stopping himself. That butterfly however circling around him, well he laughed at that as he put his hands up, turned them inward and watched the butterfly land on it. "Simply amazing," he said as he seemed genuinely amazed by this. "First time I've seen that and I can't Daphne. I would but I can't but perhaps you could talk to Dr. Stratin and he could help you but this," he smiled it still genuine as he watched the butterfly. "Cute!!" he squealed as the butterfly planted itself into the edges of Hunter's hair and flapped it's wings. "It won't hurt so much if you stop fighting it," he said as he shook his head. "I mean the hardest part is going to be carrying the kid but once it's out your vagina, well that is the easy part," he said as he gently picked the butterfly out of his hair. "Egypt awaits Daphne, sooner or later you and I have to walk alone and I can think of no better place, no better suns but in time," he said. "I would take it off of you if I could but I don't want you or the child to die," he said as he took her hand. "You can push the pain on me though," he said as he tapped her glasses. "If you touch these we can do a small pain transfer since I made them, they contain my dna. You've wore them so your sweat will work and I like pain, get a kick off of it really so if you are hurting we can share it, don't say I never gave you this chance." Mallory Q. NottinghamDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Mallory Q. Nottingham
Oddity
female
lesbian
<3 Madison <3
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Jan 15, 2024 20:49:23 GMT -5
Post by Mallory Q. Nottingham on Jan 15, 2024 20:49:23 GMT -5
She seen beautiful things ever day and she even would go so far as to say that she seen unique things every day too but the whole butterfly ordeal and how it automatically seemed to go to Hunter put things on a different level. She did not know if Hunter's actions after real or not were softer or scarier but she was not judging too much. "Kid if you get to Egypt before me I will riot." That was just another thing wrong with these kids, always just leaving and never knowing when to exactly sit down. "You want to bond you need to do it on the island and not in Egypt but damn it is pretty right?" The sands and all that shit were alluring. Hunter was a hard read though which she found also interesting and also the mention of Carter. When had they became the best of buddies? Of course this freak liked pain she thought as she shook her head. Madison Nottingham-QuinzellDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellHunter Quinzell
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Jan 16, 2024 10:04:11 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Jan 16, 2024 10:04:11 GMT -5
Hunter blinked as he stood still by Daphne. "I'm going so I guess you have no choice but to riot," he said as he put his arm around Daphne. It was slightly caring but about 80% possessive and controlling still. "I mean we are going," he said as he shook his head. "If you really are going to riot though might I suggest that you do it at night because day time riots do not do much for people and we do not really need any more members of the family to go to jail," he said as he gave Daphne a slight squeeze and looked at her. Though he was still trying to fit in, Hunter was a very fucked individual. "You know Daphne, I have always been raised as a leader," he said as he took the butterfly finally out of his hair and watched it land on her face. He gently caressed the wings of the butterfly because he knew she could feel it. Warm, inviting and even possibly slightly hypnotic but no magic as he had promised. His grip however was not that of someone who planned on letting Daphne leave with either of his aunts once this was over only go with him because unlike his father he did not believe in that free love crap, no, love me and only me and if you dare even think of loving someone else I'll break them and break you type of loves. Those were the most dangerous at times as he let go of his squeeze but only for a second before it returned. "Daphne," he said. "Cat yeah?" Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. Nottingham
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Jan 16, 2024 10:28:54 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Jan 16, 2024 10:28:54 GMT -5
She watched his arm but more than that she felt his arm and this caused her to slightly shiver as she listened to him. A leader of what? Were those damn cult rumors true that she had heard here and there oh no if so. She turned her head towards him as she still had her glasses on and she shook it off for the time until he started playing with the butterfly and she could feel it though he was not touching her. Yes she did need to read up on magic as soon as possible as she still looked at him. He was such a creep something she realized and yet it was like even though she wanted to move she could not she felt like she had to be near him though on the inside she was screaming to be away from him. "Yeah of course" she said. "You're just squeezing me kind of tightly". It hurt which only made her think of how he always seemed to be hurting her. "What are you saying Hunter," she said as she tried to move with him instead of against him since she did not feel like that would be a good move. "You're a cult leader?" She nervously laughed that off. "That's just a silly rumor right?" She was not getting inducted into a cult, no fucking way. Mallory Q. NottinghamMadison Nottingham-QuinzellHunter Quinzell
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Mallory Q. Nottingham
Oddity
female
lesbian
<3 Madison <3
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Jan 16, 2024 13:16:32 GMT -5
Post by Mallory Q. Nottingham on Jan 16, 2024 13:16:32 GMT -5
She looked at him. "Oh my god kid I will never take advice from you," she said as she looked at him. Fucking hell she was going to have to talk to Taylor wasn't she, she hated that. "If you go and she does not come back you should know there will be nothing anyone in your family or your little sibling group can do to save you as long as you understand that and are a good boy when you are away well then we will still be family when you get back." Fuck this kid. "You don't get a pass because your father and mother went wrong with you, keep that in mind and everything can go on as it will and as it should." Madison Nottingham-QuinzellDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellHunter Quinzell
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Jan 16, 2024 16:47:27 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Jan 16, 2024 16:47:27 GMT -5
Turning to Mallory she said once she’d heard what Hunter and Daphne said “Daphne has to come back. You heard that from your aunties”. Words that were meant for Hunter and there was nothing she could do to help him if he she didn’t come back from this trip. Just why did things have to be so complicated? It wasn’t just Hunter but at least TJ was sensible and Gio and himself looked like a sensible couple. Hunter QuinzellDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellGillian Stratin
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Jan 17, 2024 12:43:46 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Jan 17, 2024 12:43:46 GMT -5
He held his mouth open at the mere thoughts that anyone really thought that he would harm Daphne. Sure sometimes he liked to play a little oddly but that well that WAS all his parents fault. "Daphneeeee," he said as he heard her and looked at his aunts. "Wow," he said as he still kept his grip but he was obviously slightly insulted. "Girl, come on it is like you do not know me at all," he said as he finally let her go. "I refuse to believe this, refuse to believe that you can not take one look in my eyes and see all the truth that lies between them, see all the souls that sit behind them and then see me, truly see me Daphne." He took the time to remove her glasses and tapped her gently on her nose as he sighed. "If I was using magic this would be the part where I would make you fall in love with me but Daphneeeeee," he said as he laughed and then continued on. "No cheating when it comes to love, that's rule number one," he turned back towards his aunts. "I want a love like theirs, strong but silent, don't you want that Daphne?" Mallory Q. NottinghamDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Mallory Q. Nottingham
Oddity
female
lesbian
<3 Madison <3
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Jan 17, 2024 13:04:17 GMT -5
Post by Mallory Q. Nottingham on Jan 17, 2024 13:04:17 GMT -5
"Exactly," she said to him. "You don't pull anything and if you do I will put one of my scales up your ass and watch you fry Hunter. Your parents have enough kids that having one less will not hurt them," she said. At least his grip was gone now even if he had started saying Daphne's name a little creepy. The fucker had to have watched horror slasher films when he was little, she did not believe otherwise. Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellHunter QuinzellI laugh every time I read hunter's post LOL
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Jan 17, 2024 13:21:30 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Jan 17, 2024 13:21:30 GMT -5
"Please do not say my name like that" she said as she really just hated him. She was trying to find any good that might come from loving him but nothing and at this point she just wanted to give up and let them raise a kid as estranged people but she thought he might be the type to kidnap the kid and torture her so she had to think ahead as he started asking her more questions. What she did know about him she did not like and to go off with him? She had no idea about that either. "We're not going anywhere because you have not apologized to me. You apologize at me Hunter and then you turn around and grab me with the tightest hold and that does nothing but make me realize that you are a psychotic mess and I do not need that in my life." He was too much. "You are too much and I don't know why, I don't know how but I do know me and I deserve better." "I want better Hunter and you are not that. After I have this baby you think that I don't know what you will do? Hunter you are a classic case of getting what you want by any means necessary and I deserve more than that, I will have more than that and if I wanted to go to Egypt which I really do but you know that because thanks to your magic you know everything about me and I know nothing about you. We are not on an even playing field and that is not fair so I am not playing your game." She knew she was on borrowed time. As soon as she delivered this baby men like Hunter did not stick around with the women who gave them the children. "You're getting your baby, your line will continue and I get nothing so I will not stand here and pretend any different. You can keep your cat too Hunter, maybe it will teach you a thing or two that none of us can here." Maybe it was the baby, maybe it was the grip she did not know but something had pieced together with her. "I could learn to love you I can't deny that because you are charasmatic and you are attractive but you know that. Women fawn over you and give you what you want but you are right Hunter, this is not your timeline, you don't make the decisions." She shook her head. "Wanting someone to be better only works if they want to be better and you do not want that so no to you." If she broke he would never respect her and she would not be disrespected anymore. "You don't have to respect me Hunter but then it is my choice to not respect you back and as far as I am concerned that's all I have to say to you. Many women give you chance after chance but this is it for me. You showed who you really are at the spa and I don't like him. You don't have to grow up for me Hunter but I would like to think that us having a baby would make you grow up but who are we kidding right?" Set the bed on fire and watch it burn because it is what is right and it is how you fix and rebuild from the ashes. "I will take my consequences as they come but you don't rule me." She expected the worse but she was ready to deal with it. Hunter QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. Nottingham
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Jan 17, 2024 13:45:24 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Jan 17, 2024 13:45:24 GMT -5
Apalled! Shocked! Hurt! ; all three emotions ran through him at once as he listened to her speak and he blinked his eyes as he did not let his stare, one of evil now leave her as he reached up and took the butterfly out of her hair and he took the time to crush the wings as he watched the butterfly fall down without it's wings as he backed up. That was how she wanted to play? Fine with him. "I see," he said quietly as he leaned down and looked at the now wingless butterfly attempting a flap for it's life though it had little life left in it. "Well fuck Daphne all that sass coming out of your mouth just makes me love you even fucking more." Be calm, cool, and collected. "Go on Daphne be that strong independent woman that you crave the want of so much but in the end, no one tells me no and keeps to it." He was being pushed here and he did not like it at all. "You are strong now but that is because of me and because of the baby what happens after you give birth? Will you be strong then, god I hope so because I am going to love dragging you through the ringer like you deserve." The disrespect! "Chance after chance and you still think you could get better than me? Carter and Quinzell run through me so let me tell you what that means, you are mine. All the time and you keep fighting it and angering me and you are driving me to a brink that I do not deserve but your choice as you say." He nodded as he blew her a kiss but he had to play this carefully. "You're right Daphne. Here I am falling in love with you and you hate me. I have to deal with that so with that being said, that's not my baby. You are just trying to say it's my baby and take my family's money." He shrugged. "How much disrespect do you have for my aunts to do such a thing so go ahead and pop the baby out of your funky vagina and everyone will see, you're just trying to use me. I was fine going along with it because I didn't want you to be seen as the whore you are but oh well. No money for you." He shrugged. "For all I know could be Hayden's baby, god knows he loves making kids. Me, trying to be good and you just ruining it all for a quick pay day. Your adaucity knows no bounds. Bastard ass fucking kid, good job there though DJ. Got to love that." Madison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. NottinghamDaphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Jan 17, 2024 16:17:31 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Jan 17, 2024 16:17:31 GMT -5
Seeing Hunter and Daphne making their feelings very clear made Madison move close to Mallory and take her hand. It didn’t look like this would be a happy ending but you didn’t always get this in life. A romantic happy ending was rare and she was half of one of these successes. They would need more time to come to a final decision but Hunter looked like he’d be disappointed and Daphne was sounding very sure about her side of things. Also the claim it could Hayden’s baby as well. Oh boy. Still she knew she had to say something. “Hunter, you don’t always get what you want in life. I know that too well and Daphne has the right to live her own life” she replied. Perhaps she was saying the obvious but just sometimes that had to be stated. Hunter QuinzellDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMallory Q. Nottingham
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Jan 18, 2024 9:10:24 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Jan 18, 2024 9:10:24 GMT -5
She wanted to hit him and there was no way to truly describe how much she just wanted to put her hand through his face but what good would that do really? She did not feel very good as she listened to Madison. "You don't deserve good things, you don't deserve to even breathe yet here we are Hunter." Time and time again but she was done. "Are you done Hunter or shall you continue on and show everyone here just how insensitive and childish you really are because honestly that is all that you are doing." His brother? "Okay take your hurt and anger out on me but it does not change the fact that you are a failure. Doesn't matter how many times you jump, how many lives you try to ruin you Hunter are a failure," she said as she pushed him into the wall. Her anger was getting the best of her which was bad but she let him go. "Not worth the time," she said as she felt slightly dizzy as she looked at him. "I don't feel so good," she said as she looked at them and then back at him before hitting the ground. Hunter QuinzellMallory Q. NottinghamMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Post by Hunter Quinzell on Jan 18, 2024 9:19:45 GMT -5
He felt very little really and was probably more out of touch with his emotions than the average person considering he had skipped every appointment he was supposed to have with Carter since he got here. He looked at Daphne and nodded as she tried to berate him and then she was down on the ground and he looked at her as he gently kicked her. "Wow that is unforunate," he said as he turned to his aunts. "You are right aunt Madison I can't always have what I want and this is sad now that I think about it but Daphne has made it very clear she will never love me so time to leave her to rot and get myself a cat. I truly tried and wow the stress of carrying that baby must be a lot," he said as he took a seat beside Daphne now and crossed his legs. "Look at her a literal sleeping beauty but no kiss for her," he said as he gently ran his hands through her hair. "Hair as soft as the day is long really," he said as he took a second to smell it. "Oh smells good too," he said. "When I turn eight I learn about emotions and by the time I am nine I cut mine off at least back in my time but this right here, this is just Daphne trying to make me better and I am not someone who becomes better. Our non existent love is crashing and burning and she does not even care," he said. "Dad is trying to put her up at the brothel to keep her safe," he said as he nodded. "I do applaud him for that but her safety," he shook his head. "I can keep her safe, I want to keep her safe she just fights me so hard," he said. He was clearly obsessessed to the point of when you never learned to share what did you do to keep anyone. His hands were still normal as he ran them through his hair and a butterfly appeared on his finger tips as he sighed. "It's just me and the butterflies," he said as he was clearly somewhere else mentally at the moment. "We frolic in nature and we have opened our doors to Daphne, we aim only to protect her," he said as he watched the butterfly flitter around Daphne. "She just needs a little time," he said as he nodded his head as if he truly believed this. The sad part was that he did feel something for her but the rejection was stronger. "Daphne just needs a little time," he said as he looked down at her and caressed her cheek as a tear fell down his face and hit Daphne's. "In time she will understand," he said as he leaned down and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "It's okay if you need to rest Daphne, I'm here to protect you, you just have to stop fighting me as I don't like fighting Daphne." He was sad truly as he began to hum quietly, perhaps that like a lullaby one he'd heard a lot in his childhood probably and that was when the music notes began to float around. Magic was wild but calming to Hunter so he sat and he hummed as the notes floated for the world to see. Sometimes what you can not put into words go perfectly into melody, even a hummed one. Mallory Q. Nottingham Madison Nottingham-Quinzell Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellDr. Cami Q.- Carter ( i need one post please)
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Dr. Cami Q.- Carter
Human
female
bisexual
married to Taylor
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Jan 18, 2024 9:34:32 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Cami Q.- Carter on Jan 18, 2024 9:34:32 GMT -5
She had never expected it to be Hunter but that was how it worked the one you least expected was always the one that it became as she looked over Hunter's activity over the last few weeks. His patterns would have appeared sporadic to anyone else but his mother, his mother could see it but barely.
She'd let Taylor raise him for the most part but they both had taught him about music but she had never once thought that Hunter would take music and magic and mix the two as she watched the butterflies that now sat in her cavern. "Hi guys," she said as she went blue. It had been forever since she had been able to turn blue. "Guide him," Cami could only protect him so far but Hunter was strong and she knew that her and Taylor had tried but this road, their son had to walk alone.
"Protect him and let the waves of magic become something he understands instead of something he fears." She had no idea where his fear had became the main emotion that drove her son but she hoped and she prayed that his time here would become a song of hope.
She was turning her keys over to him and watching him spread his wings, though she feared for his emotions but as his mother she had no choice for she had to let him be and hope he was strong enough. She watched as the keys appeared in front of her and spread themselves along the island. She had named him Hunter for a reason and right now, she had no choice but to watch him and let him do what he did best, hunt but she did hope that by the time this journey was over, Hunter would grow for that is our hope when we raise our children.
~ there you go~
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Mallory Q. Nottingham
Oddity
female
lesbian
<3 Madison <3
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Jan 18, 2024 12:38:37 GMT -5
Post by Mallory Q. Nottingham on Jan 18, 2024 12:38:37 GMT -5
This kid had so much potential but it seemed that under it all his issues ran deep as she stepped back. Growing up and turning into this had something went wrong she felt that much more was evident but where , hell she did not know and then he was down on the ground and crying. It did not seem like an act but it did seem new to him. She looked at Madison and slowly pulled her away from the music notes and then tucked her own hair behind her ears as she took in a breath. "Okay so Madison," she said trying to work through what she had seen. It did not honestly seem to wild but it did seem different and it really seemed that Hunter believed in his own words which were scary. "He seems calm and settled," but he was humming. As far as she could tell he was not rocking so maybe he was not as crazy as it seemed. "This is a level of magic I know nothing about." How many years had he came from, about ten or so? No telling the growth that he might have seen. "Is it weird that I kind of think he's telling the truth? I mean look at him." This was the first time she seen him show any kind of emotion that was not anger and control. "Hunter protect her from what?" She had found that love and lust could be equal counter parts so she asked the question that maybe she should not have but she had to know where to start. "What is Daphne like where you come from?" Madison Nottingham-QuinzellDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellHunter Quinzell
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