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!
consider it handled (Carter)
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Aug 8, 2023 14:05:04 GMT -5
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Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 8, 2023 14:05:04 GMT -5
"I can't believe you blocked me Carter," she said as she could see him face to face and in the physical now. "That's how you treat a friend?" she said. "You know what you can eat my ass, Carter. Men do not reject me, men do not avoid me, and men do not lay up in my house and then avoid me." She was spiraling. "So fuck you to the moon and back and you better be gone when I get back," she said as she pushed her blonde hair behind her ears and looked at him. "Don't call me, don't text me, just do your job, go home, and fall asleep knowing that you are not a good friend." Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Aug 9, 2023 6:10:42 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Aug 9, 2023 6:10:42 GMT -5
He had to handle this carefully. He had never seen the blonde hair so in his mind this was the worse of the worse though as someone who had been there he did not know how to handle it. He simply nodded. "This version of you is not my friend and you will not be the last whose ass has my teeth marks." He knew he needed to help her but he would not be talked to as if he were anything less than someone who understood where she was, someone who wanted to help her but if she was not going to allow it then he was simply letting it go. "I left your tea on the counter Mrs. Ashford. Now please move or I will move you." Avery Ashford
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Aug 9, 2023 7:43:47 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 9, 2023 7:43:47 GMT -5
"I will move when I am good and ready," she said. "You are not my boss, you work for me, not the other way around," she said as she grabbed her tea. "You're damn right, I"m Avery fucking Ashford!!" she screamed at him. That was the thing about spiraling, you spun and spun until you were simply tired yourself out without realizing it. "Yet you, some man thinks that you, the things that you do have an effect on me? Please Carter," she said as she scoffed at him. "Be rid of you yet and this baby you can completely stay away from too because I have never needed a man to get business done and will not need one after I have this baby." She turned her tea up and drunk a little more. "Babies," she said as tears began to stream down her face. "Besides," she said as she went to go split, but could not. She looked at him and tried to split again. "What'd you put in the tea," she asked as she fell towards him. Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Aug 9, 2023 8:12:52 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Aug 9, 2023 8:12:52 GMT -5
"Avery," he said as he counted in his head. He did catch her when she fell forward. "I need to be able to help you but I can not help you if you are screaming at me and I know enough about you to know you will not ask for it." He knew all too well what it was like for life to change in an instant. She would wake up soon as he carefully made his way with her in his arms out of the back of the apartment. They'd never sat in the sand during the day time before but no one came to this part of the island anyway. All the keep out signs really did their job though there was no danger here. As Avery had told him she just hated people getting close to her. He carefully ducked under the caution tape as well and put her down in the beach chair, as he took a seat beside her and pulled out the two glasses of water. Usally it would be wine but they could not have that. For months he had watched her, seen the signs at night time but she kept saying she had it but he knew better but pride had did him a favor. "Avery," he said as he splashed a little water on her face. "Wake up." He was not going to strap her down, people did not deserve that. "I am about halfway done with the research but I need you to work with me to finish it. You can be angry, you can feel alone, but you will not let this take you over." His feelings were weird. He loved Taylor, completely which was why he kept him in the loop about everything and he knew, him and Avery both knew now what they must do. "You are Avery Ashford, so the babies you carry, Ethan will never know." He had to make this sacrifice which was why it was so easy for his adoption to get approved. "You approved my adoption with Taylor, cut me through all that red tape so I will keep my word and no one will ever know that those twins do not have the same father, but you have to let me save you." She would not be able to keep the secret if her mind went. "You promised and you have to keep it." Avery Ashford
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Aug 9, 2023 12:22:31 GMT -5
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Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 9, 2023 12:22:31 GMT -5
She felt the water splashed on her face and she slowly opened her eyes but she turned her entire back towards him. The side effects of splitting yourself came with a heavy price as she tried to split herself again but could not. "I need to split myself so I can deal with these stupid emotions," she said as she wanted to turn around and knock the sense out of his head. She tried and yet failed again. "You have no idea what this feels like," she said to him. "You have no idea what I go through on a daily basis," she said as she finally turned around and looked at him. "Wash this out of my system right now or I promise you Carter I will fire you. I will put your ass in the unemployment line so fast that you will not be able to afford those kids. I did that for you!" she screamed. "Get this out of my system so I can split," she said as she looked at him and everything in her fell apart. "Do it now, you are not a good friend!!", she screamed again as she started to hit him. Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Aug 9, 2023 12:37:14 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Aug 9, 2023 12:37:14 GMT -5
"That's a chance I'm going to have to take Avery because I care too much about you to watch you not be the woman I know that you can be but you can not keep splitting. It's a danger to your health and the babies and I am keeping this tightly wrapped but you won't cooperate with me so I had to get the herbal drug in you." He felt her hit him and he did not care. "I get it more than you think," he said as he backed up. "Stop exerting your energy," he said as he pushed her down into her seat and dug into the sand and pulled out the bag. He opened it up and pulled out the alcohol pads and cleaned the top of her hand. "Be still a minute," he said as searched for her vein and stuck the small butterfly needle into it as he watched her blood start to fill up the vials. He gave her hand a slight squeeze. "I need to put the chip up your nose, I already told Dr. Sita, she will remove it once you have the babies and then you can split again." Avery Ashford
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Aug 9, 2023 16:17:24 GMT -5
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Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 9, 2023 16:17:24 GMT -5
She hated falling apart and she hated that she had even agreed to this but he was right. "How long before I forget?" She was a business woman to her core and she could not afford for anyone to shame her for having babies with different fathers. So you see she had to forget him as anything other than an employee. So they had spent nights making a chip to do just that. "I hate you so much for making me stick to this Carter." Wasn't that how it always went when you did not hate them at all. You loved them because they always looked out for you when you could not look out for yourself. "I will hate you every day for it." It was something so silly but her night time was the only time that she had to just be and now she was not even going to have that. That however was the reason she had trusted him to do it anyway. The island needed Avery Ashford and in the end it was all that mattered. "Fuck you for bringing me out here too." Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Aug 9, 2023 17:14:23 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Aug 9, 2023 17:14:23 GMT -5
"Seven days in total, well seven nights." He had known what he had to do but it did not make it easy but he understood that business was just business and in seven nights it would be that way for a while. "The first three nights it will be like it always was the fourth night that one part of your brain will start to lock away and you will simply see me as an employee. Our night walks will turn into meetings to help my own ease and I will eventually stop showing up. I will look like a bad employee who misses his meetings and on the seventh night I am sure that your hatred for me will be so livid that when I see you in the day, the next work day I will get an earful." It also did not help that those guys had started watching Avery's movements due to her splitting so much. "Once the babies are born Dr. Sita will remove the chip and it will automatically dissolve as soon as it hits the air. Avery I," he turned and looked out at the spot, at their spot. "God I'm going to need my boyfriend to make time for an all day fuck fest after this is over." Avery Ashford
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Aug 10, 2023 13:09:55 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 10, 2023 13:09:55 GMT -5
Avery shook her head and spoke. "Well then," she said. She had to remain stout and in control as she always had and not beat the crap out of him for this. "Maybe you should just not come at all Carter," she said. She had to be mean in the end you see that was what she thought would be best. "I think that the two of us have done all that we can and need to and at the end of the day if these nights are not going to make a difference, then you can simply screw off and I say that with all the hate that I have for you." Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Aug 10, 2023 18:37:04 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Aug 10, 2023 18:37:04 GMT -5
Difficult somehow did not even began to describe this. Hard and hurt also came to mind and yethe nodded. "You know what Avery," he said calmly. "As always you are right and I am not going to be somewhere where when I wanted it to be something I was told time and time again that it was just business. I've closed many deals before you and I somehow thought that there was some part of you that could learn to care but it is more than obvious that is not true. I seen what I wanted to see and that is fine." He stepped forward and shoved that chip up her nose not even caring if he hurt her. "I will be glad when you forget anything that happened between us because then when you are a bitch to me it will be because that is just how you are and not how you choose to be." Avery Ashford
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Aug 11, 2023 7:23:26 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 11, 2023 7:23:26 GMT -5
She felt the chip go up her nose and she looked at him. "Yay for you Carter," she said. "Get out of my face." She no longer cared to spend the days with him and as for those nights well he could get rid of those too. As the days passed, the oddity effects started, the pregnancy weight gain and the loss of memories of her time with Carter, he really did seem just like an employee now, especially when day seven rolled around. "Who is coming to pick me up again?" she asked as she had made her way back to the office, though she had been advised to stop working so much. "Yeah he works for me that will be fine," she said as she made her way into her office tea in hand. "I really need to get this recipe," she said as she leaned up against her desk and spotted him. "Mr. Stratin, over here right now!" Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Aug 11, 2023 18:11:19 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Aug 11, 2023 18:11:19 GMT -5
He'd seen women pregnant but this was different. Something he helped created and could now see growing inside of a woman who would not remember him as anything but an employee still he had swallowed his pride long before as he cleared his throat. "Avery," he said as he smiled as he always had. "Looking radiant, ready to knock them dead?" Avery Ashford
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Aug 12, 2023 7:37:51 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 12, 2023 7:37:51 GMT -5
"Mr. Stratin," she said as she carefully made her way around and then nodded. "Always," she said. "You know I live for this business and the pressures and even as big as I am at the moment, the show must go on," she said as she looked at him. He seemed almost sad. "Cheer up Mr. Stratin, these babies are not going to stop me from running this business." She did not smile and all she could do at the moment was take it all in that her babies would be photographed and such. "It's a little hard to walk in the heels, think you could help me just get me to the door and let me balance my weight and I can handle the rest." Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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Aug 12, 2023 12:18:50 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Carter Q. Stratin on Aug 12, 2023 12:18:50 GMT -5
"Carter is fine Mrs. Ashford," he said. She had never called him that but it was okay. His whole being a father side wanted to scream into a deep dark void. It had always been known she would get this way but seeing it was doing a whole different mind trick to him. "Oh yes," he said as he slowly made his way over. "Did you not get the sneakers that they sent for you to wear? I think that they thought that it would be easier given the babies but if heels are what you want," he said as he began to help her. "Avery," he said as he opened the door for her. "Not taking any time off after the birth is highly frowned upon here, you made that a mandatory rule yourself. Does it not apply to the boss?" he asked. "I mean as a business woman would not want to put the rule in and not follow it yourself would you?" Avery Ashford
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Aug 12, 2023 12:37:57 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Aug 12, 2023 12:37:57 GMT -5
"Carter it is then," she said. "Also my toes are too lovely to be hidden by sneakers," she said. "See Carter this is how I know you have never licked a woman's toes because if you had such a silly suggestion would have never came out of your mouth." She carefully slipped into her heels and made her way out the door. "Now onto business," she said as she felt the babies kick and she had to stop and put herself up against the wall. "One second these little monsters want to play kick ball in the womb," she said as she looked at him. She slightly turned her head. "Come on," she said as she put his hand on her stomach. "Feel it? They are always so active," she said as she put her heel up against the wall as well. "Ethan was supposed to be here today but had to fly out for work again, no surprise there. I need to go over hiring a proper nanny, think you could help me?" Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
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