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!
the times you put tears on my face (Hunter)
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Feb 23, 2024 14:56:06 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 23, 2024 14:56:06 GMT -5
He did not mind the darkness but he knew that as they walked they would come upon color as he felt her grab his hand and he shook his head. "No need to be scared Daphne," he said as he kept her hand. "Have I ever felt as if I were drowning? Yes, but I swim through and the waves well," he put his free hand down and watched the music notes appear as he helped her stand up under them. "We are a team, a team that right now knows how not to work together but you just need to be honest and the doors Daphne, the doors are going to lead the way." She'd be 2/3's of the way done when they got done with this. "Trust in your ability," he said as he let her hand go. Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 23, 2024 15:02:47 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 23, 2024 15:02:47 GMT -5
She was fine as she listened to him talk and then he was letting her go and talking about doors as she watched the music notes appear. Those scared her more than anything else because she knew that they were somehow connected to all of this now as she looked at them and then she finally stepped on one and she could hear the melody but only slightly as she watched the door open, and the next, and next. Each door held nothing but the sounds of a fighting and screaming and nothing but a trail of tears flowed as she looked at him and her heart hurt as she did. The pure emotion that found itself flowing up in her heart was too much as she looked at him. "Hunter, this is hurting." Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 23, 2024 15:05:25 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 23, 2024 15:05:25 GMT -5
The thing about being a team was that eventually one person was going to outshine the other and eventually the work that you put in was what you had to trust. "I know especially since I have felt it every day since I have been on the island. I thought it might hurt less by keeping myself busy but it just hurts more because this is a memory, or the middle of a memory rather." He could not do this for her. "Daphne, I don't get to cheat magic and help you finish this, I can only sit back and watch you and then, all the pain will flow over me and I will be." He did not want to use the word different. "Better, I will be better." He hated waiting, but he did hand her a jump rope. "There is logic behind this jump rope, you're probably going to want to ask my mom and my aunt when you get to that point, but as you figure it out and as your heart heals, it will change not only you but me." For that is love, isn't it? He was still figuring it out. "When you leave out of here it will only be in pieces of your memory but Daphne two thirds, remember that if nothing else okay?" "I would cheat magic to help you finish this if I could," that was the best version of an "I love you," she was going to get from him. "We should go back now, too much time in the middle of a memory and your heart might end up permanently scarred. I am not sure if you could heal back from that even with any doctor's help." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 24, 2024 9:17:02 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 24, 2024 9:17:02 GMT -5
Deep that was something that she had not expected at all and here they were according to him standing in the middle of a memory but he did not say whose. Was it hers, was it his, was it someone that they knew or even someone that they had yet to meet? She still had so many questions. "Pain flow over you will make you better?" Okay that might have been the first thing that he said that made sense. "You do not have to do that alone Hunter," she said. Every time that she thought he might be alluding to that duet again he shut it down quickly. Then he was handing her a jump rope and talking about his mom and his aunt. "Madison I trust, your mom I do not," she said. "I'm not asking you to cheat magic Hunter I would never ask that of you but if I am asking anything it is that you trust me. Hunter listen to what you are saying? Two of three?" She wondered as she turned. "Performance art right? That is what you keep saying to me so what if I could make that two of three, three of three?" "I am not going through that door alone," she said. "I don't care whose memory or whose part of memory it is, we are going through that door together. You, I, and Echo. Hunter we are three of three and yes not a three of three under usual circumstances but if we go through any of those doors together, it will be the most unexpected performance don't you think?" Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 24, 2024 9:30:58 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 24, 2024 9:30:58 GMT -5
She sounded so hopeful and now he was going to have to crush her but the guilt that he felt about it immense. "That would work if Echo was my only child," he said as he started to back up. "I really am sorry Daphne but I did the same thing to Sadie and so if I go through there we would be a family of four and I can't." On purpose, he was not going to cheat magic. If she wanted that healed heart that she kept talking about then she had to get through it and that included all the pain. "Right when we are clicking to, which sucks," he said as he backed up a little more once again. "I'm just the devil Daphne and I am not allowing this love though this same love is slowly starting to consume me." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 24, 2024 9:32:23 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 24, 2024 9:32:23 GMT -5
Final piece as she felt her heart completely shatter and the world around her looked different now as she caught her breath and felt her famous tears come down her face once again as they fell into her hands turning into water colors as she looked at him but she felt that this was a catalyst. She began to throw the tears of water colors at him as she could hear the music notes in her head. "I hate you," she screamed at him as the pain of her broken heart took over her emotions completely. The only source of brightness were her water colors as she threw them at him and with every throw, her breaths became shorter. "I hate you so much," she said as the stress took over her body and she passed out. Her drowning in her feelings for him and the push and pull of yes we are and no we are not had become too much as her body began to shake. Dr. Taylor QuinzellDr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Dr. Taylor Quinzell
Human
male
bisexual
married to Cami and Carter <3
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Feb 24, 2024 15:44:59 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Taylor Quinzell on Feb 24, 2024 15:44:59 GMT -5
Hunter was the absolute worse person on this earth as he turned and looked at Carter. "I need you to get her out of there, if I go Hunter's just going to start fussing with me and that is not what I need right now." His own emotions were all over the place. "Daphne's body is stressed to the max right now, and grab Echo if you are able but knowing Hunter might be best to not try? Up to you." Dr. Carter Q. StratinDaphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 24, 2024 18:43:29 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Feb 24, 2024 18:43:29 GMT -5
"I've been watching her, it seems her power comes into full force when she is the most stressed. While you are right about it not being good for her body when she learns to control it she will be better. The medicine should be enough to keep her heart together but sometimes one has to get to the bottom of anything before they can be stronger, besides he might be fusing her with magic right? We never ruled out that possibility." "I'm not interfeing until I have more data, I like Daphne and I don't want to kill her by accident. Taylor playing with death and life takes a lot on a person besides you know my advice, get his mom to get him in check." Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellHunter Quinzell/ Dr. Taylor Quinzell
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Feb 25, 2024 8:42:54 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 25, 2024 8:42:54 GMT -5
Her body was exhausted and she did not know how she could possibly push on even though she knew that she needed too but there was a lot of pain, a lot of regret and sometimes words were not enough for that. It always seemed that it was actions and actions but without any results as her body finally calmed down and she turned herself over. "Just leave me here to die Hunter, it'd be best." Hunter QuinzellDr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Feb 25, 2024 9:16:51 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 25, 2024 9:16:51 GMT -5
He watched her and he sighed, one moment that he felt something as he made his way over and scooped her up. "If you tell anyone about this I swear to god I will kill you myself," he said as he felt the bottom of his hands starting to slightly glow as they seemed to do time and time again around Daphne. "You get three minutes and then I'm pulling you out of here," he said as he walked through the door in the middle. The thing was people always talked about how a story began and how a story ended but people hardly talked about the middle. The ups and the downs and the hard part so it was obvious that the door to choose to go more along in the story was the middle one. "Love is hard Daphne, not the beginning of love where it's new and fresh or the end of the love where it has been grown so much that it is solid to stand anything but that middle, where people change and lifestyles change that is the hard part." He turned her more towards him. "Put your arms around me so I don't drop you," he said as he carefully threw out some music notes that he could use as steps. "Love is steps Daphne, love is high and lows, and change but more than that love is." He paused. "Love is a performance. Not a big one when others are paying attention but a small one that tells someone hey you get me when no one else does but love is also a touch, a sign, and more than that a reminder. A constant reminder that a person will hold you even when they can not physically, one might even say that love, a true love starts in the hands." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 25, 2024 9:27:51 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 25, 2024 9:27:51 GMT -5
She felt herself scooped up and that was it. There was something about Hunter that just did it for her but the problem was she knew that for a while now but she was still fighting it because he kept saying love was not in the cards and she was starting to respect that. Even knocked out sleep she heard nothing but she felt the most comfortable than she had in a while so you see she missed her hands instinctly going around him and when they touched glowing too. Tools that she herself did not realize that she had for how could she when her anger was blinding her way. Her body instinctly also turned towards him and warmed itself as the canvas in the room around them began to change. No longer was it so dark but a vivid green and in the distance the sound of water dripping, all of which she did not hear over the music as she slowly opened her eyes but completely missing his speech. "Hi Hunter," she said as she looked around. "You went through the door," she said. A choice. "You didn't leave me to die." Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 25, 2024 9:36:19 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 25, 2024 9:36:19 GMT -5
Good she had not heard his heart pouring out his chest like a damn sap. "I mean damn it Daphne if you die who is going to raise Echo?" Surely not him because why but he did put her down carefully. "Look you can stay here and if you go through that door on your right you will be right back to your little fairy palace that you damn love so much. I should tell you that I am going to be there too though but not because of you cause god I do not like you that much, but I need to construct like a little crib or something so that you can bring Echo. Do not make a big deal out of this either," he said as he looked at her and then put his hands on her chest. His hands began to glow right around her heart. "Until Dr. Stratin gets time this will help you a little bit, if you can think of a way to seal my magic then it will last longer but I have no fucking idea how to do that." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzelli still get such a laugh out of him being against romance but not really against it, LOL <3
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Feb 25, 2024 11:22:10 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 25, 2024 11:22:10 GMT -5
Always surprising her but then going right back to being himself as she watched him when her feet hit the ground. "I hope he takes his time," she admitted. "I mean if it takes him some time then that is okay I think it could be okay." She looked at him. "Seal?" She looked at him. "Yeah I don't know," she said as she looked at him. "Guess I'll have to take my chances that your magic is going to work." Her voice had changed, it seemed more empathetic and she looked down at her hands because they did tingle a little bit as she looked at him. She put her hands up behind her head. "Unless I mean?" she then shook her head as she began to outline a small heart in front of him. "Did you want to seal it? I mean it's your magic I would think you could find a way Hunter." Then it hit her. "Oh no if we are doing a family thing with Echo, we should take her to the circus. You could meet us there maybe?" Terrible trying to build a family with someone who did not want it. "A real circus Hunter." Time to pull him out of this world he seemed to create and put him into the real one a little more, maybe that would help them both. "Maybe we could fly there?" Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 25, 2024 13:07:55 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 25, 2024 13:07:55 GMT -5
Did she just reject him? He was processing that. "I mean I don't either," he said rather defensively because how dare she. Then she was talking about their daughter. "I don't want her to see or hear us fighting. Babies pick up on that type of stuff quicker than most parents realize but you and I could go. I love the circus and I never got to have popcorn but did you just ask me on a date?" It might should have been strange to him but it was not. "Dates usually end with," he paused. "You know what Daphne no, I have to wash my hair that day," he said as he used his magic to push her out of the door. "You almost had me though," he said as he stepped through. "I have to watch out for you." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 25, 2024 14:46:43 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 25, 2024 14:46:43 GMT -5
"Then stop fighting with me it's not as hard as it sounds," she said as she looked at him. "No I was suggesting hanging out we would be terrible on dates," then he took a second and made some lame excuse about washing his hair. "You are going to have plenty of time for that," she said as she felt herself pushed. Him pushing her hurt as she had to take a minute to catch her breath. "Ouch," she said as she seen him stepping through. Her tears fell as she had to catch her breath one more time then it seemed to fall in place as she felt her hands. "That really hurt me," she said as she looked up at him, her eyes full of tears. Hunter Quinzell
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