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!
i am sad (Taylor and Madison)
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Oct 11, 2023 8:24:06 GMT -5
Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 11, 2023 8:24:06 GMT -5
She was hurting because that was what heart break did. She had gathered her fishing pole and her bait and sat in the pier in her sparkling dress and tears and she was going to get through this one fish at a time. Things were easier when you were a kid that much was sure but this being the oldest and not having love it fucking sucked especially when she had seen nothing but love stories growing up. She sat her pole against the pier and began to eat her sandwiches which she did still cut in stars. She hoped her dad and aunt had gotten her texts to come out with her today. She was not anything but sad and she just needed to fish it out. Dr. Taylor QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Dr. Taylor Quinzell
Human
male
bisexual
married to Cami and Carter <3
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Oct 11, 2023 8:38:33 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Taylor Quinzell on Oct 11, 2023 8:38:33 GMT -5
When your kids are little you were their hero, you put band aids on their cuts and it was all better and when they cried you wiped their tears and it was better but the closer he got to that pier he had to face the fact that while this was his daughter, this was not the baby Star that was running on the island. This was a much more grown up version of Star that either understood what she felt or did not understand at all what she felt and that he was still her father and had to help her through it either way. "Hi Star," he said. It did feel good knowing that she still did seem to cut her sandwiches up into stars. Her face though, he could see the pain and he knew without even asking that this was because she was either conflicted about Hunter or she had made a tough decision and was having to deal with it. Either way he was going to listen and then hopefully advise her the best he could. This was not like dealing with his harem. They could go on and deal with the consequences on their own. This was a whole level of telling someone they could not love and be with someone because not only was it wrong but they had a purpose much much bigger than love. "I am glad you are here even if it hurts right now. You have to trust the process." Madison Nottingham-QuinzellStar Quinzell Carter
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Oct 11, 2023 15:56:34 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Oct 11, 2023 15:56:34 GMT -5
Madison had also found her love story with Mallory. Her brother clearly had his and judging by the text Star needed somebody to talk too. She rode up on her bicycle and took of her helmet dressed for the time of year and the weather. It wasn't a shock anymore seeing grown up version of a niece anymore and you could still see the grown up Star in the baby she helped to raise. Madison wondered what she'd be like a person by the time the Star she knew grew up. Hopefully just as caring as she was now as she wheeled the bike over to where Star was fishing. She had fished with her brother and hoped they'd still find a way to do that. It was fun when you were on a boat. "I'm here Star" she softly said sitting beside her but still giving her space. She looked hurt and she wondered if it was about what Taylor and herself had talked about in New York. Star Quinzell CarterDr. Taylor Quinzell
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Oct 11, 2023 18:00:20 GMT -5
Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 11, 2023 18:00:20 GMT -5
Though she wanted to scream and jump off the pier, unlike her mother Star had learned to decompress her feelings around the age of five. Maybe it helped having a twin, she was not sure. "It is so pretty here, so calm," she said between bites of her sandwich. "So still too," she said as she looked back at the both of them and thought about it. The only thing that mattered was helming this mission to make sure her siblings stayed in check enough for them to get to the end so that they could leave and go back. "I think I only am just now understanding why it had to be here, why it had to be now, why we are months early and all I had to do was break my own heart." She took a sigh in and let it out. "Anyway we are not here for that we are here to fish because it calms me and this water calls to me." "Tayla comes through and she fucked up my life Dad," she still remained calm. "I am losing everything and all for them. I did not agree to that, so why is the universe trying to fuck me over?" She took another sigh in. "Sorry about the language Madi," she said. "I need answers though." Dr. Taylor QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Dr. Taylor Quinzell
Human
male
bisexual
married to Cami and Carter <3
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Oct 12, 2023 6:43:40 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Taylor Quinzell on Oct 12, 2023 6:43:40 GMT -5
Oh. His daughter was some love struck girl straight out of a rom com. Taylor looked at her a second and then rolled his eyes. Where had he went wrong with these kids? He'd have to travel a few years ahead maybe when they were ten or so and check it out, that should be fun. "Star," he turned around a second so he did not have to see her in case she started crying. "First off we do not blame others for our problems and second off you're not losing everything. You have no possible idea what everything and love is." He had to pause a second. "Star you are better than that and we both know it so if you can't stop having these feelings I'll have to make you. Now I do not want to but we as a family have an amazing wedding coming up and I love you but you are not going to ruin it." It was hard for him to say these things cause love was so magnificent but the time was not right. "Hunter is not the love of your life and I do not know where we went wrong in raising you but you are not going to fight me on this and if you do, well I'm the parent so I win." Madison Nottingham-QuinzellStar Quinzell Carter
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Oct 12, 2023 7:57:58 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Oct 12, 2023 7:57:58 GMT -5
Perhaps the star shaped sandwiches where something that developed later on in life. It did seem to be the safe issue that Taylor had alluded too as well and Star looked so sad. Firstly her father had something to say and his view was that this wasn't going to happen. The solution might well be painful for Star. "No need to apologise Star" she softly replied "and if you catch anything we have dinner with it. I went fishing in a boat with your father and we caught plenty that evening". So it seemed Star was taking after her father in this matter. "Sometimes love dosen't work out. I know because I had a girlfriend in college and that love didn't work out; and just like my brother I found love here" she softly suggested. Star Quinzell CarterDr. Taylor Quinzell
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Oct 12, 2023 13:55:15 GMT -5
Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 12, 2023 13:55:15 GMT -5
Love was like money, it looked good but it was fake she now knew that which meant that she was changing. Being on this island was not helping but she was stronger than she had thought and as long as she ripped the layers of her love for Hunter off of her body then it would be okay. Three stars and she would be fine. "You don't need to play the parent card with me daddy. I am simply trying to express my emotions to you." Fake, fake, fake but the pain was real. She grabbed her reel and thought about this. "Love is fake," she said. "It worked out for you two and that is great but from this point on love is a forbidden word as far as I am concerned." She would get over it. "Anyway the two of you seem better now so see us coming through has already helped," she said happily. "This makes me happy." Dr. Taylor QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Dr. Taylor Quinzell
Human
male
bisexual
married to Cami and Carter <3
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Oct 12, 2023 14:00:10 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Taylor Quinzell on Oct 12, 2023 14:00:10 GMT -5
"Do not get smart with me," he said. "I am also aware of you trying to express your emotions but Star you are so caught up in a boy that you have no idea what it truly means to express your emotions. I get it, everything is new, you are in a new place but what you will not do is let it make you scared and make bad decisions." Why was this so difficult. He honestly just wanted to tell her to go be with Hunter and keep it secret though he knew that was wrong so he had to do the right thing for her which was extremely difficult when he could tell she was hurting. "Look Madison is right, I know you think you know what you want but it is not what you want." He walked over and sat down on the opposite side of her and gave her a hug. "Listen to me Star," he said as the magic began to float around him, but around so Star could not see. If he did not do this now he knew she would take him on an emotional roller coaster and she would break him down and he did not need that at all. "Look, the next time you see Hunter it will be like." He paused. He did not want her to hurt too much but he was going to have to make her hurt enough that in the end it would be better. "Well it will be like broccoli to you, you don't like that too much right?" He felt bad but this magic could be used for good too. "You will see him and find it is just a rush of a wave that scares you to be near it. It will almost be like you fear him more than you ever thought you could love him." He let go of the hug and watched the magic surround her and he sighed. "Love you, Star. I know it's not fair but I need to be able to make sure you listen to me." He tapped her on her forehead and turned that crescent moon on her forehead about halfway. "It's only going to hurt for about two minutes," he said as he grabbed his reel and traded with her. "Here you can use my reel to keep calm." It wasn't so bad when the magic was used for good. "Need to study anyway," he said as he pulled the medical books out of his bag. "You guys would not believe what the pancreas can go through, but I am about fifty percent done with all this medical knowledge at least." Madison Nottingham-QuinzellStar Quinzell Carter
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Oct 13, 2023 13:27:02 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Oct 13, 2023 13:27:02 GMT -5
Madison knew life wasn’t fair. Hopefully she would still be around when Star was the age she was now and the present caught up with the future. Things might be different by then compared to what future Star came from but that would sort itself out. So while Taylor was talking to Star she waited until he was finished. He was trying to change what was going on with Star and Hunter and she hoped it worked. “Taylor where did you get those books?” she posed. Then she turned her attention to Star. “Love is real and it’s a powerful thing. I hope you still see Mallory and myself in the future but you can still have it from this point onwards. Things will be better later on”. Star Quinzell CarterDr. Taylor Quinzell
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Oct 13, 2023 13:42:04 GMT -5
Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 13, 2023 13:42:04 GMT -5
Listen to me StarShe tried to fight it but it was laced with evil as she looked at him. "Hated it my whole life," she said. Her tears came and sparkled as she felt him turn the moon her forehead as she tried to shake her head but could not. She literally tried to swing on Taylor, as her hands were filled with his fishing reel"Take this off of me!!" she said as she stood up and dropped that fishing reel. "Take this off of ME!" She was about to rebel against him. "Daddy take this off of me or I will hate you. I will hate you with every fiber in me and every star up in the sky. TAKE THIS OFF OF ME NOW! Dr. Taylor QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Dr. Taylor Quinzell
Human
male
bisexual
married to Cami and Carter <3
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Oct 13, 2023 13:51:28 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Taylor Quinzell on Oct 13, 2023 13:51:28 GMT -5
"The library here, they have a hell of a medical section but also with every trip I took I got knowledge of others around the world so everything I need to save Carter is here. It's not so bad actually learning from the ancient history of medicine and seeing the path that it has taken to become what it is now. It's a hell of a journey Madison plus some of the pages had to be restored which was not easy but the study is worth it. You can borrow it any time that you want." Then Star started. "Wow well you have my fighting spirit for sure but Star you are hard headed like your mother through and through," he said as he put his book down in his bag and looked at her. He turned her cresent moon twice and spoke to her. "I'm going to wipe your memories of Hunter, Star. I did not want to, I wanted to leave you something so that your broken hear would not be as bad but you see love is ruining you. You can not handle it and it is making you disrespectful so now you will hurt and you brought it all on yourself." He forced her to sit down against that pier with his magic and he spoke. "I am the only reason that you are here. I am the only reason that you can see your siblings and that you can choose your life and you are still a disrespect brat, so now I will break your heart and break your memories and if you try to fight me I will put you in that water and pull those stars you love so much off of you." They were making him discipline them even as adults. "As a matter of fact, just so you learn," he said as he ran a stream of magic across her hand and watched the star peel back. "Now, be still," he said as he let the magic flow around her head and he turned so he would not have to watch it. "I am sorry Star, but it was either this or put Hunter in a coma and that would distract you and have you at the hospital and that would be bad." Madison Nottingham-QuinzellStar Quinzell Carter
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Oct 14, 2023 15:15:53 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Oct 14, 2023 15:15:53 GMT -5
Madison found this hard to watch but this was necessary. Star might hate her father for a while but she could contribute a better suggestion. “Taylor, Star needs to remember her brother. You could affect the future taking her memories of him” she called out. Time travel brought a whole set of problems that would give scientists headaches and this wasn’t just her taking Star’s corner. Star Quinzell CarterDr. Taylor Quinzell
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Oct 15, 2023 8:49:06 GMT -5
Post by Star Quinzell Carter on Oct 15, 2023 8:49:06 GMT -5
Just what she was afraid of, the magic seemed to be changing her father, making him more evil no doubt but she was okay at least until he started messing with her head and then her hand. She tried to scream because there was a lot of pain but the shock took her over as she looked at him and then at her Aunt, as her hand broke. "I need to go to the hospital," she said to Madison as she looked at Taylor. "Stay away from me, I will make sure Carter lives but you stay away from me." Her memories were at best a bit foggy. "Madison I need to go to the hospital," she said because she wanted nothing to do with Taylor. Dr. Taylor QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Dr. Taylor Quinzell
Human
male
bisexual
married to Cami and Carter <3
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Oct 15, 2023 13:25:07 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Taylor Quinzell on Oct 15, 2023 13:25:07 GMT -5
"We do not give you a good life and turn around and should have to deal with you being such a defiance Star. That is not what parents do," he said. He was upset and he had never liked being upset. Life was not fair but that was something they needed to learn and adjust too aas much as they could. "I only took half your memories of Hunter," he said. "Also I really am sorry for your pain but you need to learn and now that it seems that you have once you get seen, everything else will be okay." This was not something he wanted to do, he had to. "I do love you but just because you are here as an adult does not mean you know what it takes and what sacrifice is." Madison Nottingham-QuinzellStar Quinzell Carter
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Oct 15, 2023 14:59:20 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Oct 15, 2023 14:59:20 GMT -5
Madison seen the reaction of Star but wondered what you even be looking for at the hospital. Plus she hoped Star could fake an ID since her popping up in the present hospitals records as an adult could be a problem. Perhaps not now Avery knew the grown up children were here for a while. “Star, we can go to the hospital but I’m not sure what they can do. It might be better if you went to my apartment. We’ve got space on the sofa right now” she suggested. Eric was still there but just perhaps Star needed time to rest and think while her memories sorted themselves out. She could also understand what her brother had done and why. Star Quinzell CarterDr. Taylor Quinzell
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