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!
we are connected and we can not help it (Star)
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Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 11, 2023 6:55:27 GMT -5
"I'm not trying to hurt you," she said sticking to her grounds. "It hurts me too, but it did not start hurting as much as it does until we got here." Strange but not strange and still it did not feel good. "I'm not a she devil," she said obviously upset again. She got off of him and looked at the pieces. "I've been in your mouth," she said as she laughed. "My shards I mean," she said as she took a seat beside him. With her growth and coming of age her stars had started to spread everywhere on her body and as she sat by Hunter, they started to show. She put her head on his shoulder and spoke. "Make a wish, it seems to always ease the pain when you do." Hunter Quinzell |
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Post by Hunter Quinzell on Oct 11, 2023 7:48:49 GMT -5
He laughed and then he stopped. He never had been the type to run from the truth so he took a second to think about his wish. He had never had one come true and the truth was he thought that just between them it was a silly game but much like his father he did enjoy letting Star have her moments. "I wish I did not love you more than I should. I wish I could feel about you like every other one of your sibling do because loving you, loving you is the worst part of me and yet I can't help it. Star I don't want to help it and that makes me a bad person but I love you and I will forever." He knew that they could never be together but his love for her, across stars. "I love you for what you are and what you are becoming and I can't change that but you are right we are not sixteen, we know better now so just let me love you in silence. Let me love you while you go off and be great, that is my wish." Star Quinzell Carter |
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Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 11, 2023 8:15:45 GMT -5
He was breaking her heart but she knew she had to go through with this. "Hunter," she said. She had watched some of the most epic love stories come through all of her family members and hers, well hers was not written in the stars, she was not meant to have that. Star was meant to always show the way for others to get where they needed to be and what they needed but her own future? Her own happiness, she had never thought about that because the one time she thought she felt anything like that, it was scary and forbidden. "I'm the oldest it is my job to protect this family and guide them where they need to be. That is what I am and that is who I will always be." Yet she never said she did not love him back the same. "Being the oldest sucks. We give up so much for everyone else." Hunter Quinzell |
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Post by Hunter Quinzell on Oct 11, 2023 8:47:44 GMT -5
"What about you Star?" he asked. His concern was genuine. "What about your feelings, your wants your own needs, do those just always take a back seat to everyone else's needs? Where is your fight?" She was changing he accepted that much always. "Don't let it make you sad Star." He could still feel her on his shoulder. "I know it's not easy for you and I will be as understanding as I can, but I can not understand why it's always you." There were so many of them. "The weight you carry it's not fair Star, not at all, we should be able to share it." Star Quinzell Carter |
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Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 11, 2023 12:13:11 GMT -5
"They do not matter Hunter," she said firmly. "You do not get to sit here and make it seem as if they do when we both know better. It is me because I am the only one who can see us through this, I am the only one who can see dad through this and if I don't, if I am not there to steady this then dad loses Carter and we lose him. It is already written out and we know it and in knowing it we don't get to change it. We just have to accept it and it does not make it easy Hunter. It does not make it a walk in the park it just makes it what it is and if you do not understand that then I can not help you." "I"m sorry, I wish it could be different but one of us has to be strong and it is going to have to be me. I wish..." Her stars turned and she stopped. "I just want you happy, I just want you to get your ability back and help me get through this but if you can not do that then I will do it on my own. I have to." She had to choose family over love. "This is not easy for me, but it is my choice and my feelings to deal with. I don't blame you, and though I would give anything for it to be different it's not. I can wish away your thoughts, so you won't remember." Hunter Quinzell
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Post by Hunter Quinzell on Oct 11, 2023 17:36:28 GMT -5
He noticed her stars turn and stop. WTF. He took a second and wiped his eyes. "Got it," he said as he grabbed her by the hand. "Come on Star," he said as they finally got to his mom's apartment door and he placed Star in front of it. "Do it again," he said. "You wish?" He looked at her. "I wish you could spread it through us." NOTHING. "Fuck that's some weird star magic you got going on there. Let's test it huh?" he asked as he looked at her. "They do matter but for you to make it easier, they do not matter." Star Quinzell Carter |
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Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 12, 2023 7:51:11 GMT -5
"Stop dragging me," she said as she was now in front of the door. She looked at him and then at the door as she sighed, a habit that she was picking up a lot lately as she put her hands on the door and watched as her stars turned. "I wish the door was open," she said as she looked at him. The thing about magic was you had to believe it with your whole heart, or at least have something that contained your whole heart near. She watched as the door opened and she stepped back. "Let's get your ability back," Hunter Quinzell |
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Post by Hunter Quinzell on Oct 12, 2023 14:23:35 GMT -5
"Holy shit," he said a little more than surprised that it had worked but glad at the same time. His sister was always so special but he walked in. "Come on we can look around together, I don't remember it being sealed when we were younger but being a kid what did I really know?" Star Quinzell Carter |
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Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 13, 2023 7:25:19 GMT -5
"It had more of a blue seal around it but this is different, it's probably small things changing because we are here a bit earlier than we need but it should be fine," she said as she took his hand and her stars moved into his skin. "That's also new," she said as she looked at him. She began to move them around on his hands. "This is actually kind of fun," she said as she fixed the patterns to match hers. "Want to make a double wish on my stars?" She took a second and then talked. "Like this one right here," she said as she pointed to both of their hands. "Right here in the corner of my left hand and yours that little sparkle, we can use it to make a wish." Hunter Quinzell |
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Post by Hunter Quinzell on Oct 13, 2023 8:05:04 GMT -5
"No blue seal," he said. "Well I don't think that could be the worse," he said as he watched her stars coming into his skin. "Yeah that happened earlier too," he said as he watched her. "I don't know if we should Star," he said. "You know dad is going to keep us apart and if we do and we are in pain, we're not like mom and dad, I don't know if we can survive that." He sighed as he put his forehead against hers. He could feel all the love that had been made and created in this apartment and it hurt. "It's like they always told us, sometimes love only lasts for an instant but it does not mean it is not real." Both of them had to let go, because to hold onto this would only hurt them in the end. "Thank you for being my instant." There was no love for him without Star but it did not mean that she did not deserve an epic love of her own. "I'll dance at your wedding Star, that much I promise." Star Quinzell Carter |
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Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 13, 2023 8:14:16 GMT -5
Star was so much like her father and she knew that if she believed and if she worked hard she could get her epic love and she knew that was Hunter, but she also was learning that meant to have patience and take your moments. Take your moments because your lifetime of happiness could take years to come around and only after you had did what you were meant to, could you get to that point so she held onto his hands and her tears fell. Star was literal magic, meant for something bigger than love but it did not mean that it did not hurt. "I wish I could be more than that Hunter and I am sorry, but I have to choose family and not love but know that if I could have both I would." Her tears hit both of their hands right there where they were connected and in that moment the magic connected them as she hugged him. "Okay come on," she said as she wiped her tears on his shirt, "Let's see what is inside of this wall." Hunter Quinzell |
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Oct 13, 2023 12:39:20 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Oct 13, 2023 12:39:20 GMT -5
He felt her tears hit his hands as he hissed. "Hey, watch it please," he said as he listened to her. "Would be easier if you stopped connecting us," he said as he held their hands up. That sparkle had spread fast even coming across his face which was new for him. "Your powers are trying to eat me," he said as she wiped her tears on his shirt. "Nasty," he said as he shivered a little bit but walked with her none the less. He could feel the adrenaline shoot through his body as they got closer to the wall. "You're going to have to be the one to open it," he said as he wiped his forehead on his t shirt. "Hey Star," he said as he looked at her. "Look at this," he said as he held his hands up. "Your stars are reflecting off of me." Star Quinzell Carter |
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Oct 13, 2023 14:15:59 GMT -5
Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 13, 2023 14:15:59 GMT -5
"My powers are just trying to activate your healing Hunter," she said as she looked at him as she turned against the wall for a second. Hunter had saved her from that man when she was sixteen. The man had called her pretty but did not understand that no meant no and he'd done things and she'd hurt and Hunter had saved her and healed her and that was why she loved him. He had been a knight and a hero when he did not have to be, because he had chosen to leave his friends and come pick her up when she called. Something he did not have to do and that was why she loved him. It was like he had told her then. If you want more you just got to let me know and I will protect you. "Thank you Hunter, for that night. I did not know what to do and I knew if I went to the hospital they would call mom and dad," she said as she watched her stars reflect off of him. "You saved me," she said honestly. She loved him and she would get back to him. "I want more," she finally said. "I can't help it and I don't want to and dad is just going to have to understand that." Hunter Quinzell |
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Oct 13, 2023 14:25:43 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Oct 13, 2023 14:25:43 GMT -5
"You saved me too Star," Things that there parents did not know about. "When you called me I was about to take Hayden to a friend's, come to find out that friend just wanted Hayden there to make fun of him and try and embarrass him because Hayden likes to where his hair long. They were going to haze him and you know me when anyone stars messing with Hayden, beat them to a pulp. If I would have went there that night, I was going to jail because of my previous offences." When you were raised as a cult all your emotions, all your ties tied into one another and even if you could not help it you became more. He took a second to fix her hair. "My Star," he said. "You are welcome and dad will come around, not so sure about mom though. It's going to take a team effort." He sighed. "Us coming here, us two in particular it changed our fate Star, and you know how I know?" he said as he turned around and showed her his back. Right on the upper left side was her name. "That's never been there before," he said as he turned his head and looked back at her. "So what's that tell you?" Star Quinzell Carter |
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Oct 14, 2023 7:09:57 GMT -5
Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 14, 2023 7:09:57 GMT -5
"It's my job to look after all of you," she said as she watched him. She only glanced at it for a second before she turned away. Her and skin, weakness was the best way to put it. She swallowed and turned and looked at it. "Things are happening here that should not be and probably where we are originally from too," she said as she touched it as she smiled. "It looks nice," she said as she turned him around so that he could see her. "Hi Hunter," she said. The problem was when you were confused you could at least blame your actions on that but she was not. Growing up as she did any other male figure she knew she would be scared of but not her dad or brothers. "Sup?" she said as she began to sway with him. "Come on dance with me even though there is no music." Hunter Quinzell |
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