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Fighting Fate (Metal Man)

2018-12-08T10:33:07Z

Junker99: Metal Man's last Stand or is it?

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2018/12/08
|Location=Skull Castle
|Synopsis=The Federation of Metal Man's home world makes a strike they have planned out for some time. The Wily Army Fights but loses due to pure weight of numbers and high powered jamming preventing them from calling for help.
|Cast of Characters=11
}}
BGM Megaman Zero 4 - Falling Down https://youtu.be/JS9GqDvaXgo

The Federation's Military was pressing like he'd never seen it before and he knew how grim the situation was. They had massed so many mechanics and Robot Masters of their own and assaulted Skull Castle, the comms were being jammed with a powerful type of jamming he'd never seen before.

Was this the doomsday he knew was coming all along? He'd seen the future so many times, no matter what they were? The Wily Army failed, they failed they fell. Exterminated to the last so far as he could tell save one, they would not get one he knew that much. That last little scrap had him keep fighting.

The battle raged on as not a single Wily Number would give an inch here. They knew the price of falling or being captured. Termination or worse. He did not have the free will of the Reploids, humanoids or carbons who might be yet to come, yet he hung to the choices he made not made by his directives and limiters he held on to those.

He had known of one world with a bright future even for his counterpart he had ad good life, and he wondered would he be like that bother him if he'd been born into a world like that?

More mechanoids came Crash Man had nearly expended all his stockpile of munitions and was fighting
hand to hand at this point, Wood Man and Heat Man were attempting to crowd control but there were too many of the Federation Forces, it also came by drone sending word directly that Doctor Wily had been captured.

"They have the Doc!" Crash Man yelled over the Din. "They have Dad?!" cried Wood Man as he protected a damaged Heat Man.

"They got the Doc?! "

Came Heat Man's distorted voice, due to the damage he had taken.

Metal Man grimace his family was falling all around him and that fate the nightmares he'd had of piles of corpses was coming. He carved another mechanoid in two sending it's flying away.

"Crash Man, Wood Man, Heat Man? Go link up with Bubble Man at the port take an escape craft and go to the evac point hit the gates and keep jumping, tracking your course get anyone else out you can. Some of us have to get away or there's no hope to free the Doctor! He fights alongside us is willing to die for the future he wants for us! GO!"

"Metal..."

"Do it brother, go. Do not let it end here."

Crash Man relented and started to move looking back at him for a moment.

To hell with fate, to hell with whatever decreed this fate? He would make the choice he could, to save some of them. Shadow Man and Quick Man would be able to make it out.

"Get out of here..."

That other Metal Man he knew of? There was one thing he did know that even in a world like that they would have a reason to fight. He would be a warrior still. With that thought, his watches his brothers start to pull back as Crash Man fires the last of his bombs to give them cover. He tracked his bothers on his HUD they were making it good.

"Come face your better you mass produced trash."

Metal Man then dived into the enemy ranks not holding back at all giving everything he could milk out of his systems. The fight went on for some time, until he was finally overwhelmed He would fight and when he finally was overwhelmed his last thought was? There was still hope it might not be preordained after all. The last thing he was aware of was the alert system lock had been engaged to preserve his higher functions.

6216/Alpha and Omega

2018-12-08T07:30:19Z

Junker99: Metal Man has a run in with Zero and challenges him to a spar

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/12/07
|Location=Shrine of Adversity
|Synopsis=Metal Man has a run in with Zero and challenges him to a spar, he also talks to Zero about why he fights and gives his answer to Zero.
|Cast of Characters=11, 6809
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' There was something brewing back home and he would need to return for a while. Still, something had caught his attention the emergence of someone. The Reploid, no the Android Zero, after all, neither he nor X were in actuality repliods, when he thought about it. He had contacted Zero, that he wished to face him here at the arena the concord constructed. He had also spoke he had some personal things to speak of to Zero. Also, an offer of supplies for his little crew if he was willing to do this. Zero would have had a pass paid for by the Robot Master. The arena had been set up like the small command posts the Wily Army would use a massive gate would have to be moved by Zero to get in and it was under a blinking DR.W logo above it. When he entered there would be no sign of Metal Man, visually but he would be here somewhere, he had to be right? 

:'''{{#var:6809|Zero (6809)}} has posed:'''      There was a couple of people who responded weirdly to Zero's presence a while back, this Metal Man being one of them. It somewhat makes sense though, given that he's from the far flung future. There's probably things they want to know or grudges they want to settle. Unfortunately they'd probably end up disappointed given his current case of amnesia. Then again, they probably already know that, so maybe they just want a good fight?      Well, whatever the reasoning, Zero's here now as he pushes through the shuttered doors, a loaded Buster Shot in hand. He stops dead center of the room once he realizes the room is empty, a stoic look on his face as he calls out in what is probably(?) an annoyed tone.      "I came here for a fight, not to play hide and seek. Show yourself." 

:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' Metal Man drops down from the rafter of the room making a three-point landing, his masked face looks up as he does so. "I am Metal Man and welcome Zero. So the last and the first meet at last. I wish to see how I fair against you Zero and I have questions, I admit I wish to ask since I am the host? Come at me." He waits looking at Zero to let him make the first move. 

:'''{{#var:6809|Zero (6809)}} has posed:'''      "The first and the last?"      Zero tilts his head in confusion. He really wished people in the know would give him straight answers, but it's not like there's much he can do to stop people from being vague assholes.      Zero raises his pistol at Metal Man at his invitation to strike first, the sound of energy rapidly accumulating filling the room as the tip of the weapon glows a bright yellow. The moment the sound reaches its peak, Zero dashes forward a bit, unleashing a charged shot at the Robot Master. 

:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' Metal Man knows Zero is fast and powerful he knows he can not win, but as Zero move in? He does not care, he knows he's been fighting the likely fate. Of his world, of his kind of the Wily Army. The Gods are against their dream he mused. He twists, Metal Man is agile only outdone by maybe a handful of other robots in the history of his world. He doesn't get caught directly and is able to pull away clearly damaged but not taken down. "We share a creator Zero. I am his first creation and you are his last. That creator being Doctor Wily." BGM Mega Man 2 Metal Man - Orchestral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyC-bWPuTV8 

:'''{{#var:6809|Zero (6809)}} has posed:'''      "Neat. I'll let you know when that name means anything to me." Zero gives somewhat of a disinterested response. Though it's not like he's being rude, it's just that genuinely the name 'Dr. Wily' means nothing to him, or anybody else from where he's from for that matter. It's a name forgotten by time, and Zero is the only legacy of his that was left behind.      Powering through Metal Man's attack, Zero ignores the damage and pain as small strips of paint and metal are peeled off him. His retaliation is to just shoot a few small rounds at Metal Man as he backs off a bit. Because clearly, his first mistake was getting too close. 

:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' Metal expected as much but for what little it's worth? He's given Zero part of his past. There's no look of anger at Zero's response. He also got to keep moving he knows he's playing rocket tag with Zero, and that Zero hits like a truck. He seems to be getting better as he mostly gets out of the way of the weapons fire from Zero's buster only taking a grazing hit to his right leg and he leaps back again, bouncing off a wall and into a high jump, he doe snot rain blades at the top. No, he doesn't throw them until he's behind finishing his jump. "That is fair, what would that name or mine mean to you?" 

:'''{{#var:6809|Zero (6809)}} has posed:'''      "If you just wanted to talk, you could have just invited me out. Then again, I'm only good for fighting anyway."      Zero's kinda lost on what the entire meaning of calling him here was for, so he's going to resign himself to the fight. At least for now. Metal Man's attack gets him from the back, nearly causing the reploid to topple over from surprise. He manages to stand his ground though, and at that point something clicks with him.      Zero quickly turns around, a green disc forming in his hand as he does so. At first the disc appears to be completely circular, but after a few moments the edges become like that of a buzzsaw. Like Metal Man's buzzsaws.      "Kinzoku ha!"      With a hearty toss, Zero throws the newly formed energy buzzsaw at Metal Man, aiming to take him by surprise with a move similar to his own. Or just make him mad if it doesn't work. Either or is fine. 

:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' Metal Man says "I did but I also wanted to see how you fought, after all, you seem to have found something worth fighting for? Have you not?" MEtal Man finds that Zero has learned something from him he finds the attack coming at him much like a saw blade. "A quick learner." He will bring up two of his own blade in hand to combo parry the attack and deflect it away from him. "Good move, thinking on your feet. I ask you do you believe in whom or what your fighting for?" He snaps his finger once and bounds right at Zero to punch him. "METAL FIST!" 

:'''{{#var:6809|Zero (6809)}} has posed:'''      The buzzsaw returns to Zero even after missing its mark before dissipating into nothing in his hands. Well, long range hasn't been working too well it seems, time to attempt to engage in melee. A thought that Metal Man seems to share.      Zero jumps back to avoid the fist, a compartment in Zero's leg opens up to eject the hilt of his Z-Saber, which he promptly activates. A flash of green sprouts from the tip of the hilt before it quickly solidifies into a solid triangular blade, a blade that is instantly brought down on the robot's head with quick and efficient fury. 

:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' Zero has copied him as he hoped he has felt what drives Zero. He has his path he has made his choices in life and that seems to be what he was trying to. He sees the sabre it comes close oh so close that Metal is forced to twist out of the way spinning as he goes, the blade just barely misses him and he comes in for a landing. "That is enough I yeild I know I couldn't beat you in the end Zero. Even if I mean nothing to you? You still have worth and I see you are stronger than I hoped and have found something given that reaction." Metal Man was old as far as robots went and very old as Elites certainly did. "The cache of supplies will be awaiting pickup at the exit of this faculty for you. " 

:'''{{#var:6809|Zero (6809)}} has posed:'''      Zero whiffs Metal Man's head, the blade slamming into the ground and tearing into the floor beneath with from the sheer force of his swing. He's about to follow up with a second swing when the robot calls for a yield, causing the reploid to stop on a dime.      Zero falls back after that, once again confused. He really can't parse this guy's intention, but at the very least they don't seem that bad. He could do without the whole 'you're stronger than I could possibly ever imagine' spiel though, he's gotten that enough times in his life. Actually probably more than he knows, if he could actually remember it.      "You're confusing... Anyway. You wanted to know what I'm fighting for?"      Zero pauses. What he's fighting for? The question seems familiar, but again, he can't put his finger on it. Well, it's whatever. He has an answer.      "I fight for peace and a better tomorrow. What do YOU fight for?"      A bit sappy, but it gets the point across. He makes a mental note of the cache thing Metal Man mentioned as to not forget as he begins putting away his weapons in preparation of leaving. 

:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' At this point? Metal Man removes his helmet and mask, his face is plain, rather generic, it's not bad but it's clearly old school robotic design, he looks at Zero for a moment with his green optics and tilts his head. "I fight for a future where Robots are no longer disposable. That is the simplest way to summarise what I fight for, and yes I am confusing I'm old Zero. I could run from what's coming but then there's no chance for something better. I'm not sure if we'll meet again but good luck Zero. Not only get that future but live to enjoy it." 

:'''{{#var:6809|Zero (6809)}} has posed:'''      "I see. Well, if you ever want to join the Resistance they have a pretty similar goal. Though perhaps another time. So if we're done here... So long."      Zero finishes putting away all his stuff and then proceeds to leave through the way he came and not some sort of magical sci-fi teleporter nonsense. Because that's less cool. 

:'''{{#var:11|Metal Man (11)}} has posed:''' Metal Man sauys "Maybe Zero, Maybe. I have the rest of the Clan as it were to take care of. I'm not the strongest I'm the oldest." HE pauses watchign Zerl port out and he grins "So long Zero." 
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5596/The Dark Lady PT 2: Little Trouble In a Little Villiage

2018-08-17T20:39:34Z

Junker99: Big trouble in a little village, as the Dark Lady and her generals go out for a quick walk.

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2017/12/12
|Location=The local village near the Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Tomoe and company go to confronting the 'heroes' for the first time and accidentally end up kidnapping the local barmaid who looks a hell of a lot like she's Tomoe's sister.
|Cast of Characters=6, 451, 1, 874, 215, 1119, 42, 973
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' So once more Tomoe sets foot in the region and her appearance changes to the Dark Lady once more the cheese cake armour the altered figure the hair, there might be one person she'd be okay seeing her like this but they are not here so. The dark armour at least was shockingly comfortable in a way it shouldn't be, but she faulted that on being in her Avatar state. She'd called up those willing to help even though not on the quest as her spies had brought word that a fairly sizable band of adventures had shown up in a near by town. It was winter on the west coast so it was often cold and wet, ergo Tomoe was not a happy lady at all. The party would be meeting at a camp just a ways from the town and she. She's there leaning on a tree as she waits for everyone to arrive, there's no monsters yet and she'll wait until the gathering is finished once everyone has arrived for the most part she speaks up. "First up I'd like to thank you for the help as I think I might go insane if I was doing this. Just to keep it clear property damage as much as I hate to admit it is all right, I don't want to see any of the locals be the Cardinal Generated NPCs or otherwise. We'll do what we can with whatever CARDINAL throws at us and we'll have to ham it up." By some miracle it's not raining yet and it's above freezing but it's a fairly overcast day as is it is wont to be on the west coast. Tomoe closes her eyes for a moment opens them. "I'm ready, we need to get this started." 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     Answering Tomoe's call might be a surprising figure. While it bore the character name of the 'Jarl Icefang', it looked nothing quite like the Iron Wolf. Rather, this character bore long white hair, braids tied into it in the traditional viking sense. Beyond that, he wore chain armor and carried a MASSIVE double headed axe on his back, and on his cheeks were scrawled runic marks. "Dark Lady...I disapprove of the name, but I'll stand with you." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Kirito picked the green amulet earlier, and so he's decided to add some of that color to his motif for this strange quest. His new outfit is much more appropriate for the Dark Knight sort of look - he's wearing small bits of tactically positioned black metal armor over his black coat, the entire shebang displaying a sleek but minimal amount of green trim. His boyish face is hidden behind a black-and-green full helmet that bears a monstrously spiky aesthetic, with matching pauldrons.     And as usual he's kind of lurking on the edge of the meeting site - a habit very akin to what Tomoe might remember he did a lot in SAO right before floor boss raids. -- in fact, he was frequently in Stealth rather than just lurking at the fringes, and Asuna usually dragged him out of the bushes or from behind a tree...     Well, she's not here today, but he's not hiding in stealth mode...     "The heroes. Are they NPCs or other Augma users?" 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     A muffled voice comes from the upper branches of the tree. "You can count on your faithful ninja companion!" comes Yuuki's girlish voice. Yes, if she's going to do this she's going to do it right! If that means arriving early to the meeting point so she can ninja-servant Tomoe, so be it!     Yuuki, other than her voice, isn't entirely recognizable. Once people see her in the tree - and it's winter, so it's not THAT hard to do - she's dressed in a loose-fitting ninja outfit with a long violet scarf that somehow sets off the bleakness of the rest of the uniform. The outfit manages to hide her girlishness at least. She's still tiny, but there's no hint of curves revealed and her hair's entirely covered by the face-wrapping ninja hood. For that matter her elfin ears are concealed just as well.     "And Tomoe, Kirito's the one who's cornered the Dark Lady name!" Yuuki says cheerfully. "Er, well, more like Dark Lord. Or at least he's the one that always wears black. But it's okay, you can be the Dark Lady!" she grins behind the concealing scarf. 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' How hard can it be to miss Iria? After all, it's her username and her real name. Why no surname? Because on Myce, they don't use surnames for some reason. Iria never wondered why and she never cared either. Wearing what could easily be considered a virtual equivalent to her standard armored bodysuit, Iria swiftly arrives with the greatest of ease. Only this time, instead of a bodysuit, it's more like tight fitting clothing and boots with a bright silver color. She nods to the others as she arrives and says, "I came as quickly as I could. I don't know entirely about what's happening, but I am willing to help out in any way I can!" 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     That outfit Tomoe's stuck in while she's here in this territory... honestly it embarrasses Josuke a little. Tomoe is very pretty and it's showing off a lot of her skin. It's kind of distracting! But hey, he's got other things to concentrate on. Like trying to figure out how this doesn't look completely ridiculous. Himself, that is.     He's playing the part of a 'dark priest' or 'dark cleric' of sorts, given his healing abilities -- it seems to fit. So he's gone with a mishmash of hammy-as-shit things that one might reasonably expect to find on a worshipper of an evil god. His shirt is almost a Chinese style long shirt, with the panels in the front and back, but the collar is reminiscent of a Catholic priest -- those are creepy. The front of the shirt is plain, but an ornate harness necklace of apparently 'arcane' design has been strapped over his chest. At the center of his chest is a fanged skull with ruby-colored transparent plastic 'gems' for eyes. It's clerly plastic, though.     There's a hooded cape thrown over the lot, and he's actually got the hood up. Though the hood is pretty open and deep, so it shouldn't mess his hair up too much otherwise. The pants are loose, straight-legged affairs -- nothing fancy there. But his shoes are black, with chitinous plates that form slightly upward-pointed tips (these to are plastic.     The look is completed with a pair of large black feathered wings that are attached to the harness underneath the cape, a large black scary-looking book... and the fact that Crazy Diamond is actually holding him off the ground a handful of inches, by that harness around his chest. Sure, everybody who can see his Stand knows what's up... but for those who don't (hopefully the NPCs), this very well could look really scary. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     A... group comes from the direction of the warpgate. Four large figures, ten or eleven feet tall. Three of them appear to be bulky, humanoid clockwork robots -- golems of wood or stone, painted to look bronze and with gears and bits stuck on for looks. Leading them is Staren controlling a sort of golem-mech. A bipedal construct made of wood painted to look like metal. Where one might expect an upper torso and head, however, has been replaced with something like the inside of a car -- places for a few people to sit, and a control panel in front of the driver -- the shape of this 'cockpit' exposes the upper bodies of the occupants, in this case Staren, who we'll get to in a moment. Two arms hang down from the 'body', one of which is holding an assault rifle. All in all it's maybe 9½ feet tall, 11 if you count the exposed part of its occupant.     Staren himself is wearing... A howie-style labcoat with huge black buttons, instead of his usual open one, and has his goggles pushed up onto his forehead. His hair is deliberately uncombed to be extra-wild. Over the coat he wears some kind of chest harness with magic or tech-y looking discs on it. His usual messenger bag hangs at his side. Completing the outfit are military black slacks and matching shiny black boots and long gloves.     When he arrives, he takes one look at Tomoe's get-up and comments, "That is unfortunate. Do you think you could like glue more fabric onto it?" Then he looks around at the others gathered. He smiles and gives Kirito a thumbs-up, then looks to ninja Yuuki. "Oh, nice!" And Dark Priest Josuke. "Ohhh, nice!" he grins looking at them all, then spreads his arms to indicate his ride and his minions. "So, what do you think?" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Swooping from overhead comes a mid-sized creature. Kirito would recognize it from the battle with Oberon. It's a Wyvern, being ridden by none other than Dark Silicon, the billowing, flowing robe-like dress fluttering in the wind as she comes in to land. The creature chirps shrilly as it settles in, and the rider dismounts. "Ooooo-ho-ho-ho-ho~. Hello there my darlings, sorry I'm late~." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe was not entirely expecting Karian Icefang but she's very happy to have some backup as a hulking figure arrives. She smirks a bit at Icefang. She sizes him up and she grins a bit at the outfit Karian has got going for him. "Good you will be quite useful but as I said blame the 'goddess' not me for the name, also the terrible fashion." She looks to Kirito for a moment as he pops in. "So far as I know NPCs but given when Cardinal makes NPCs for a major purpose....well you know our friends back in Haven started out as that." Referring to the NPCs they rescued from the death of SAO when they realized they had become aware also another comes to her mind and she wonders about it. Then comes the Yuuki Ninja who is doing a good job of falling into her role. "I see your ready as well." Iria was a long time Union Elite, Tomoe knew that much but had not interacted with her that much still good to have Veteran on the level of the long missing Ash, was very welcome. "The short summary is we got stuck playing the bag guys due to a quest we broke and we need to ham it up property damage is ... allowed but no fatalities on the locals as NPCs are getting way too close to ... being people and can sometime be /people/." Then comes Josuke who is playing the Dark Priest and she's really not trying to distract people with it, she's really not but she's stuck with it for now and she seems very impressed with Josukes costume at least it's a clever use of Halloween surplus and should fit the bill there. Staren was not expect but disturbingly he could likely do some of the most crazy super villain sounding rants she'd know. She looks over his bit for a moment nodding and she tilts her head. "I tried it didn't work, the universe seems to not want me to /have/ pants. For some god awful reason most of the time and that works pretty damn well Staren." Then comes the laugh there is a chill that goes down Tomoe's spine it remains her of an anime her dad turned her on to when she was younger, that she still has an remaster of but oh god to hear that laugh in real life? There's an abject moment of terror in her heard. "No trouble and ... you may be too good at that." The ham was strong with Silica and it was time to head out. It didn't take long to reach the town with Tomoe stalking ahead of the group, the first of the towns folk saw her and let out a cry of surprise screaming. "THE DARK LADY SHE'S HERE! SHE HERE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Tomoe lets out a booming laugh not like Silica there's more menace too it more like a western super villain if anything else. It's also clear the towns folk are various ALO races one might see a towering ripped Sylph leaning over a smaller somehow Salamander woman who looks very put off and is in a bar maid. "For the last time I won't go out with you I don't even know you and wait what's that! Oh goddess it's them!" Though there's something odd about her if someone were to take a look, she looks a hell of a lot like Tomoe, not race wise but just like relation. The big burly Sylphy grins and speaks in a booming voice. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' "FOUL WENCH YOU AND YOUR MINIONS SHALL MEET YOUR ENDS AT THE HANDS OF THE ARMY OF LIGHT OUR JUSTICE IS WITHOUT MERCY FOR THE LIKES OF YOU!" He whistles and others pop out, there's a woman in flowing robes her race is hard to tell but some light blue hair hints to she's some sort of Undine a pair of Sprigans appear one a woman in leather armour and looking all the part of a rogue and a man with sword across his back. "Looks like we got em here you heard the bounty on these one's head we'll be up to our gills in gold and all the dates we want brother." Notes the female of the pair and a hulking Gnome male has appear with very mean looking wolf of some sort stalks in. "So these are them eh? Looks like they won't be much fun." The Pirest sighs. "Must you take this much enjoyment int his? We should not take enjoyment in such violence but is ust be done they will be /purged/. The big guy up front smirks a bit. "So Dark Lady do you have any last words before we rid the world of you?!" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "Oooh-ho-ho-ho~, looks like the fools have arrived~" chirps Dark Silicon as the Heros show up. "My my, I was expecting something more impressive, a blowhard, a girl with some toothpicks, a big man with a small weapon, and what's this, don't you know you shouldn't bring puppies to a battlefield?" she goads and cajoules, before flicking her right arm away, as if dismissing a servant. "Begone from my sight, you are not worth even the effort of my lowliest of pets. DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO I AM!?" she bellows after.     She mounts back onto her Wyvern, crossing one leg over the other and reclining regally. "I am the Lady of Lamentation, the Duchess of Devastation, the Mistress of Mayhem, Dark Silicon, and you are not worthy." 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     If it was Ham they wanted, it would be ham they would get! "That is all that was sent? This will be far too easy. Hardly worth unsheathing my axe for!" Karian calls out, letting his accent fully complete his look. He unslings his axe from his back and rests it on his shoulder. Though then he spots the wolf and smirks. But he casts a quick look to Tomoe, waiting for her command. 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Hamming it up? At a time like this? Normally Iria would be scoffing or scowling at this, but the way this has happened, the brunette has to turn her head for a moment to avoid laughing and showing it. When the urge to laugh finally passes, she stares again and tries to give a fierce look, waiting to see what happens. But if you look closely, you'll see she's trying not to crack up. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Unfortunately Yuuki can't ninja-lurk all day since they're walking to town. That's okay though, she's not THAT much into her role. As the group advances she seems pretty much her normal self, zooming around to 'scout' and generally moving at least twice as far while covering the same ground as the slower, more stoic party members. Even if she's supposed to be evil, she's still Yuuki.     Upon seeing the heroes, Yuuki grins. It's hidden by her shawl so she doesn't have to worry too much about showing her enjoyment. They do look like PCs, really. A solid adventuring party, and the sort she'd happily PVP with. But she has a role to maintain. She looks down on the adventurers. This of course is difficult given she's probably the shortest person present, but looking down is more a matter of attitude than anything else. "My dark lady, I'm reluctant to fight these... heroes." she says, her voice shifted down an octave in the hopes of making her seem more menacing. It might make her sound like a teenage boy in fact, but that's not her goal. "This hardly seems a fair fight. Perhaps I should... take care of the Mission." she adds darkly, speaking the capital letter plainly. Not that she actually HAS a mission, or a Mission as the case may be. She's getting a rise out of the heroes, that's all. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Seeing the effort other people went into hamming it up for the role has Kirito a little gobsmacked. It's a very good thing that his face isn't visible behind that full helmet because seeing his almost femininely soft-featured face, especially jawdroppy, would just RUIN the ominous, imposing, broody Dark Knight aura he's trying to cultivate.     Especially Silica. His helmeted gaze lingers on her performance a bit longer than even JOsuke's...     "... Man we make a weird crew." He mumbles. But from his tone? He's impressed.     Walking into town, he feels utterly ridiculous. Seeing what's happening over by the bar though, he feels utterly infuriated. Still... the Black Swordsman remains pretty quiet. He even remains so with Tomoe and Silica bursting into the FREAKIEST laughs he's ever heard them manage... ones that sound straight out of drama playbooks, to be sure. But yeah, he's quiet...     Aaaaaall the way up until the so-called Heroes decide to burst out into the streets... and the big burly Sylph says some things that just deeply piss him off.     The others may be acting, but The Black Swordsman is genuinely pissed. Behind that unexpressive helmet... he's glaring daggers at the gang.     And with it, one can all but FEEL the pressuring waves of violent intent pouring from him.     "As if you know what justice is." He all but hisses out, voice seething accusingly and sharp as his undrawn blades.     But speaking of that, he reaches up with both hands and smoothly, soundly draws his twin blades... this time, it's Elucidator, and Vox Unitas - two blades of enchanted obsidian, almost twins. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke looks up -- WAAAAY up! -- at Staren's robot companions and the contraption Staren himself is getting around in. "...Whoa. That's some really impressive building." Though he's embarrassed at Staren's comment about his attire. "Eh. I just hope it works. I don't think I look very convincingly evil," he notes. Then again, maybe he just can't THINK of himself as evil? "...Well, I guess I look like a Saturday morning cartoon villain?" Even Crazy Diamon appears to be rolling its eyes at this.     The group heads out, and Josuke has to suppress the wince that happens when the townsfolk start running. But hey, he's supposed to be the bad guy. So... villain it up! Start chillin' like a villain! ...OK maybe that last one doesn't work so well, but whatever. Point is still made.     Geez, what is he supposed to do?! Think fast, Josuke!     Crazy Diamond lifts Josuke higher then -- to those without the ability to see Crazy Diamond, it will just look like Josuke's floating up into the air a little further. He DOES look like he has wings; flight might be expected. Loudly he declares, "If you stand against us, we will CRUSH YOUR WORTHLESS SOULS!" He raises a hand and clenches it into a fist, as if... well, crushing something in that hand. "But we are not without mercy!" Extending a hand towards the heroes, as if in supplication. "JOIN US! Join us and be spared! Join us in the worship of the Dark Lady and YOU WILL BE REWARDED!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     THE UNIVERSE DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO HAVE PANTS. "Ah, that sucks." Staren comments eympathetically. He grins and gives her a thumbs-up at the compliment though.     And then, it's time to move! "Oh, we're not waiting for them to come to us?" Good thing he brought transport and doesn't have to walk like some /pedestrian/. He holds onto that thought a bit harder than he normally would, it'll help with the mood.     They arrive at a town where everyone panics. Staren focuses on the idea of it as a game and not as, you know, a fear of how people will treat him. He's past that. PAST IT!     "Wench? Wench?! That's the best you can come up with? And what army?! You're the squad of light, at best!"     At this point he remembers to pull down his goggles. They're not the pair Ainsley gave him -- they're tinted so that each eye is covered by a large round black lens. "Gills?!" He pounds a gloved fist on the console. "You don't HAVE gills! You're fairies, not experiment #127! And what good is a date if they only care about your money?! Seriously, what kind of heroes are you?? Picking on barmaids..." He points at the priest. "At least SHE's got the right idea!" He pulls his hand back towards himself and clenches a fist. "Cold conviction. Knowing you have to do what you must to protect everyone. Not desiring violence, but accepting it when necessary. There's a hero!" He points at the sylph man. "You could learn a lot from her! Also, no means no dude, get with... whatever century it's supposed to be!"     Staren turns to the group, and slams both hands palm-down on his control console. "I demand to know by what acts we are charged of as deserving death! If you're honorable heroes, you can at least tell us WHY you've got to kill us! What plot have I" he holds a hand to his chest "done, that deserves your ire?"     He leans towards them. "Tell me is it my eeeeevil plan to build these constructs and use them to construct homes for the homeless?" He sits up straighter. "Perhaps my nefarious scheme to put fluorine in the water supply and" he holds a fist up again "strike a blow against tooth decay? Or MAYBE..." He leans forward again, hands on the console, "You heard about my cunning plan to build a clinic with medical nanomachines and cure people's diseases... FOR FREE!" There's a sound of thunder from the machine as he sits up straight and milks the giant cow while cackling. "AAAAAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!" He leans forward, hands on console again. "Because when everyone has free health care..." He grins and lowers his voice. "Noone will be.." Beat. "...Sick, I mean."     He sits back up. "So, what is it, heroes?" he folds his arms. "What have we done, to justify a band of warriors looking for a fight, roaming the countryside and terrorizing innocent barmaids?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Oh my what a boisterous little man we have here, you'll be singing another tune when I have you in my dungeon mm mm? You all will be such fun!" Okay she's getting into it, she's going to have some sort of stress valve there or she will go freaking off her rocker over this whole mess. The Big Gnome shoots Karian a look for a moment and snorts. "We don't need anymore to deal with the likes of you." % He seems t be getting ready for a fight, but Tomoe has given no command just yet she's listening to them trying to size them up even as Iria gets into it laughing and she seems to have got some annoyance from the female rogue. "Tch." Tomoe looks to Yukki for a moment. "Not worth your time and the cost of cleaning your blade I would presume. Very well carry the mission out." She turns to face the 'heroes' once more and the Big Guy is now moving to reach for his blade while people scatter, they don't seem to care much about the bystanders caught in the way here, he looks to Kirito. "Your one to talk with what you have done knave. You should be thankful I will give you a clean death." He notes as his blade is now drawn and it looks like the sort of stuff any ALO player would go gaga to get their hands on high tir raid gear from the looks of it there. It's very much a shiny , also oddly the blade has faint glow about it bright white and the blade itself dark silver in colour. The priestess grits her teeth and start canting a prayer of some sort and golden runes dance about her but it seems to be some sort of warding. "No not heed his dark words he only seeks to enslave her soul on to her and the fallen one Oberon!" She seems a bit nervous though and she makes ready. The lead man looks to Staren for a moment. "I was being polite but Whore of the World Tree would be so much more suiting to her." He has the blade ready and seem ready to deal with Staren as well none of them seem scared about being out numbered either maybe save the Priestess. Who also pauses at Staren's words for half a second. The male Sprigan just deadpans. "Is that guy drunk and he's speaking in ... babble mostly." the high tech terms just going over the heads of all of them there it seems they are full on fantasy sorts till he ranting does. The Gnome counters and seems to be maybe smarter than Blondie. "Yes, play nice for a time before you can enact your real plans I see how that works a bait and switch. I seen necromancers try that sort of thing I'm no fool boy, I'll have your creations be chew toys for my beasts." Silica keeps going full out and seems to have the annoyance of all the party that's before them and. "So you feeling like Wyvern burgers?" "Totally." "God she's like my EX!" Comments the male rogue. The female ones just sighs "You have no taste in women. You'd chase the Dark Lady's tail if you thought you could get away with it." The Lead man narrows his eyes. "Enough they seek to confuse and delay us for the sake of whatever their true mission is! ARMY OF LIGHT ATTACK!" With that the lead man charges right for Tomoe blade ready followed by the rogues springing into action, along with the beast master letting his beast lose and making ready with his hammer. "FOR QUEEN TITANA!!!!" Bellows the entire group as they attack save the healer whose hanging back for sensible reasons. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Also the Bar Maid seems to be peeking out a window and watching all of this going on. 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     Karian grins as he hears the gnome's words. "We shall see then, shall we?" He asks. He raises up his axe to the skies and calls out. "Allfather, grant me your thunderous roar, your cutting wind, your almighty storm to strike down all foes in my path, so thy valkyries may carry me to your great halls!!!" With a mighty crack of thunder screaming out from the skies, his axe's edges leap to life, crackling with lightning. "COME THEN! PROVE YOUR STRENGTH, SEND ME TO VALHALLA!" 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' The fight is on! Good thing Iria came prepared! Iria's scowl turns into an evil smirk as she draws her sword and brandishes it with efficiency. "You think you're gonna take ME down?" She scoffs and shakes her head. "Please, my simulations are more intimidating than you jokers are!" When they do charge, Iria stands her ground and grins evilly. "Come on, take me on! Whoever wants a piece of me is gonna go in pieces!" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica casually kicks her mount, making it crow shrilly as it leaps into the air. "Pathetic Fools!" she summons a group of small creatures, they look like large wasps, but all track as a single 'monster', one of those weird gestalt monsters from the World Tree area. "Deal with them my pets." she adds dismissively, but is also starting to back away from town, so the civilians don't get caught in the crossfire. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren points at the lead man. "Okay, points for alliteration," then he opens his palm downward and tilts his hand back and forth a little. "Eeeh, no originality though. And it doesn't fit since she hasn't been sleeping around. Are you sure you're not just projecting your own proclivities?"     The spriggan calls him drunk. Staren pounds his fists on the console. "No one understands my VISION!"     He looks to the gnome. "Ah yes, my REAL plan. To save the world. You could only hope for such a noble outcome if you beat us!" Chew toys, eh? "I'm not so sure that's a good idea though, teeth against metal? Have they at least been drinking fluoridated water?" At the comment about chasing the dark lady's tail, he points at the rogue. "See? See?? Projecting!"     "For the last time, you're not an ARMY! You're not even a PLATOON of light! Minions, ATTACK!"     One of the constructs goes for the wolf, although it doesn't fight seriously until the wolf manages to harm it somehow -- then it starts punching with electrified fists, trying to shock it unconscious. The other two constructs behave similarly -- acting as extra defense where the heroes try to concentrate fire, and attempting to stun-punch (Not that fists of solid stone or wood are exactly weak as far as punches go) the heroes.     Staren, for his part, tries to look menacing, but as soon as he or an ally seems threatened, he opens up with zap rounds -- gel bullets that discharge a taser-like shock. For melee, the 'mech' can also use its rifle like a shocking club, as well.     Attacks against the golem may reveal its true nature as wood though, and it takes damage accordingly. Shots directed at Staren himself are blocked by a personal forcefield. Seems that chest harness actually does something. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke's eye twitches a bit at the banter between the 'heroes'. This lot sounds like the typical 'murder hobos' the NPCs in that western tabletop RPG complain about. "...Suddenly I totally understand the phrase 'lawful stupid'..." he mutters, just loud enough for his radio to pick up. And now he feels a lot less bad about knocking these losers into next week. No killing though. Stupid is one thing, but no killing.     But with their answer gotten, Josuke plays it up. "Then you've chosen death! SUFFER AND PERISH, FOOLS!" No, he's not actually gonna kill anybody. but what he does next might be weird for these NPCs, especially if they're experienced in dealing with healer-types. The 'Dark Priest'...     FLIES RIGHT AT THEM!     More specifically, Josuke has been thrown by Crazy Diamond. He's aiming for whoever happens to be wearing dark blue, since he doesn't really know which one he's supposed to be going after at the moment. They're supposed to defeat color-matching heroes, right?     It'll only be one flying kick at the nearest 'hero' before he re-manifests his Stand -- having flown out of its range when thrown, it would have disappeared; but physics still apply to a body in motion, particularly when thrown at high speeds!). The Stand lifts Josuke again, tossing him back over its head -- to those who can't see the Stand it should look like Josuke is flying back on those wings.     "PITIFUL! PATHETIC!" he spits at the heroes. He's... kind of not just acting here, because these guys are kind of pathetic, and the sexually-charged banter against the girl really is pathetic. He's counting on the insults getting them angry enough at him to follow him out of the town proper. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' ".... you guys call yourselves heroes?" Kirito isn't buying it. Not on multiple levels. But he's definitely gotten into this "story" of sorts, just bein his usual self. No need to act. Then again, he did don the role of 'public villain #1' back in SAO for the longest time...     "You're not worthy of a blade like that. Didn't you know? Holy swords are just tarnished by toxic attitudes." Kirito twirls his obsidian blade about testingly.     "Come on! Let's see if you can even gain five steps on any of us!" Injecting a bit mroe arrogance than he feels comfortable with among his friends, he may be, but Kirito's body language does not lie.     The demonically-armored dark knight deepens his stance... and prepares for his enemy with a simple guard! 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki panics for a moment. She'd been expecting to be 'ordered' to fight, or to be assigned some other evil underlord type thing. She had expected to rattle the 'heroes', not to be completely ignored and left to her thing! So... she improvises.     Yuuki ninja-runs around a corner, then ninja-vanishes. Lacking more than basic stealth skills, that mostly means jumping into an alleyway or behind a barrel. She takes a moment to consider, then looks back to the inn. A hostage, huh? Well that seems like a villainly thing to do.     The ninja girl, having successfully ninja-vanished, now does a dynamic ninja-entry. With a crash, either of door or of cinematically-breakable windows, she leaps into the room to take care of something the heroes have forgotten about. The minimum-slider Salamander barmaid who, for some reason, seems to resemble Tomoe.     Given Yuuki's speed, her trained grappling ability from Asuka Online, and her general high stats as an avatar, it should be easy for her to take the girl hostage. Unless, of course, a 'hero' responds to the sound of Yuuki breaking in, the barmaid screaming, the scuffle, that sort of thing. "MUAHAHAHAHA!" she cackles wildly. "The objective is MINE!" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Things are just going wild now the 'hero's' are moving to engage' The Priestess seems intent on trying to mintage things and the Beast Master at least moves to avoid some things he could have mashed right through but he's coming right at the party. Karian now moves to strike. "YOUR CHALLENGE IS MET NORTH MAN!" The huge Gnome is crashing towards Karian intended to slam him with the hammer. The big guy does hear the thundercrack though and now tense expecting foul magics. By this mane who is nearly as large as he is. 5R Iria is now rebuffing them and the words simulations go right over their hears they look confused but get they were insulted the female rogue poofs in a cloud of smoke and attempt to come up behind Iria and get her from behind. Silcia meanwhile get a response from her quoting of an infamous but long missing Confederate Officer. The attacks come and the heroes press on the male rouge is coming right for her and he's totally being kited along here. "You are not getting away wench!" "Do you think we would be so foolish as to show our full number?!" Notes the blond guy and serious he's got a lantern jaw of the sort that you'd not really see these days in character design he might have fallen out of a pulp fantasy novel from the 1930s. The wolves is stronger than one might think as it move to start trying to rip the machine apart and it's strong enough to do it the fists strike it but the thing clearly is not just a trash mob, it's got to be an Add and dangerous one at that. The priestess however is chanting now runes dance about her and she moves to focus a spell upon not Staren but Josuke. "BURN WITH THE LIGHT SERVANT OF OBERON!" The leader of the group is however quick and powerful enough to keep up with Kirito. He will move to strike while saying. "So says you knave. I shall cut your down and the day will be saved!" It's clear he's heard Kirito but is brushing off most of what he said, as he does hit with the force of an very angry Angil, he's no light weight that much is clear. Meanwhile Josuke has dodged the spell with his manoeuvre and slams right into the priestess full force knocking her off her feet with a loud try as she attempt to get back up and flails a bit at him with her staff. The Missions? Yes there was a mission wasn't there? Yukki is on a mission Yuuki crashes into the bar, the glass goes flying and the bar maid looks terrified and starts to lob several bottles of beer at Yuuki as she shouts. "HELP! SOMEONEONE GET HER AWAY FROM ME!" One of the Heroes does try to move to act, the female rogue but she'll leave her self open in her attempt to disengage from Iria and there's time of Yuuki to get the woman, she's not ... powerful but she's certainly not trying to play helpless at least. Tomoe meanwhile stands back and just laughs. "Is that the best your Army of Light can do here?! Don't make me laugh I alone could crush you like nothing and I will break you when my Generals are done with you!" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica smirks at the male Spriggan. "Buzz off." she says flippantly, gesturing almost dismissively. The swarm Mob changes vector to harrass the Spriggan with annoying stings and bites. They're... really weak attacks. It's almost like it's a low level monster or something (Which it really is.) "Try and catch me, Ooooh-ho-ho-ho-ho!" She directs her mount to fly off, turning to give the Spriggan a merry little chase if he wants to try to catch her. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Oh hey, there's hostage-taking! Josuke pauses in his own assault/retreat, and directs Crazy Diamond to toss him Yuuki's way. He's planning to block any of the heroes from getting to where Yuuki's doing... whatever it is that she's doing. Grabbing the barmaid to make off with her, from the looks of things. Hopefully one 'hostage' is enough. But really... these poor townspeople are safer with the 'Dark Lady' and her 'Dark Generals' than here, where these so-called heroes don't give a toss about people getting caught in the crossfire.     As for the kidnapping? "Consider this payment for your refusal to join us!" he all but hisses at the 'heroes'. "And let this stand as a reminder of your FAILURE against the Dark Lady's forces!" His laugh is just a little too light for a full-fledged cackle, but it should do the job well enough. 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     Karian howls out, a mix of his normal wolfish howl and one of a man who found joy in combat. He bring his axe down towards the gnome, aiming to hook and throw him off balance, and away from the village. "UNWORTHY!" He screams out, axe swinging with inhuman speed and strength. "This northman will be your end...as you will never best me...Again I walk from the battlefield, robbed of a worthy end!" 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Think you're gonna get the best of Iria by popping up behind her with that smoke screen trick? Think again! As soon as the rogue appears behind Iria, she spins around with an evil grin. "Nice try but no cigars!" Iria says with a look that says she's not afraid in the least bit. "Take THIS!" With that, Iria attempts to drive back the rogue with some of her swordplay skills. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Kirito's pretty good at keeping a cool head in the middle of a fight! And now that the burly Sylph's taking a swing at him... behind the helm, the Spriggan grins. The taunt worked - he got the guy to charge!     In comes that heavy sword... but Kirito's ready. As little sense as the manuever might make in human swordsmanship, he crosses his blades into an 'X' shape and they flash subtly to denote the activation of his special Parry skill, 'Cross Block!'     CLAAAAAAAAAAANG! The ground under him cracks a bit, but Kirito seems to absorb that heavy blow like a champ.     That ONE blow, anyways. Enough of those and his knees will DEFINITELY give out!     "'The day will be saved?'" Kirito echoes under his breath, disdainful at the idea.     "Try a bit HARDER THAN THAT!" Unleashing a ferocious war cry, Kirito dives forward and slips through the blow, zigging to the side and attempting to spin around and SLAM his blades into the man with plenty of force. Spriggan wings erupt from his back with precision timing and thrum to full power instantly at an insane twist of speeds... he's aiming to knock the guy off his feet and send them both slamming into the ground outside town! 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     The wolf is even stronger than Staren expected! Once it tears a couple of limbs off, the construct becomes normal stone and collapses. Staren's expression of annoyed surprise reads even through the goggles.     Staren, meanwhile, directs his golem-mech's taser rounds at the female rogue, while his remaining two constructs start to fall back. He clearly misjudged the severity of weaponry needed, but he doesn't feel confident enough to start bringing out the really lethal stuff. "Hmph. This is only a fraction of my TRUE power!" After shooting at the rogue, he retreats too, trying to draw the heroes away from the civilians. Using his mech's gun and the constructs to try and get heroes' attention and then kite them around to get the others openings. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Beer? Okay so, Yuuki likes drinks in VRMMOs. She doesn't particularly like them thrown at her though! She dodges fiercely, bringing up a shortblade from out of nowhere to parry one particularly lucky throw. The glass shatters, coating the ninja with the pungent contents.     It's to no avail however. Yuuki keeps charging in. One hero might have a chance to interfere, but Josuke's intervention will keep it from happening. A short, nasty struggle ensues, but Yuuki comes out on top. Or behind as the case may be, as she has the barmaid in some kind of arm lock with one hand while her other hand brings the blade up before the barmaid's face, quieting her struggles through intimidation.     "I have her, my dark lady!" Yuuki cries out, marching her captive forward and through the doorway. "These so-called heroes had better CLEAR OUT if they know what's good for them!" she adds. Wait, aren't they supposed to defeat the heroes? Hmmm. Well, this is more villainous. Besides she doesn't much like the idea of solving this questline with a simple brawl anyways. Oh well! 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Silica has got the male Spriggan coming right at her but the mob swarm is now just turning things into bullet hell. Sure the attacks are weak but it's enough to hurt and do some damage and to distract him as he tries to chase after Silica his wings flare out. "Get back here you half pint!" She's clearly got his aggro for the moment and now there's going to be some hostage taking yes, Tomoe doesn't like it but well they are stuck in the role of the villains might as well go all out and she's very glad she gave the Paladins a heads up about this state of affairs or it could be very bad. Josuke meanwhile has waylaid the Priestess for the moment and she ties to get up to chase after him but she's not really a vit build it seems. While Josuke is running very good interference here to give Yuuki to keep the heroes at bay. Karian meanwhile locks home with Gnome Beast Master, he's matching KArian well enough but the axe connects with the war hammer he uses and connect forcing him to break off his attack and try to figure out how best to counter attack but the shear force of the impact did damage. Iria has the rogue is just having a bad day she move to parry a bit and otherwise try to evade but under Irira's flurry of blows it's forcing her back and she's calling out. "They are after someone in the bar!" this one seems to actually /cares/ about the bystanders. Kirito meanwhile is locked in combat, with the big guy and it keeps going the blade lock its' clear Kirito is proving his reputation her a he foes force the other one back an he's looking confused for a moment as he end sup air borne flying out of the way from down. The Priestess does not seem happy at this. "BRICK!!!" She calls out as she moves to try and help the rogue who is coming under fire and is being blocked by Josuke. "BOLT Stop playing with the North man!" THe wolvf breaks off as his master calls him back and Bolt doesn't seem to be but the fire from Staren is forcing him back for the moment. The Bar Maid is just out classed here as she stops when he has tbe blade to her face she whimpers a little bit. With Brick out of the way the Priestss takes command of the party. "You Witch...." She growls for a moment then says "Bolt, Patrick, Nacey stand stop .... they have a hotage." SHe glares at Tomeo who now has the Dark Lady chuckling. 5R "You forced my hand little one and now she's coming with us." She pulls a teleport stone out of her inventory and moves grab te Badmaid by the shoulder her grip is like iron as she calls out the name of the catle and a portal opens. "My minions with draw we have what we came for, ta ta heroes." With that the Bar Maid and the Dark Lady are gone.... Tomoe seemed very pleased with Yuuki's quick thinking, things have just got more complicated... 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     Karian grins as he hears that the mission was successful. Breaking off from Bolt, he simply shakes his head. "Not worthy..." He muses, managing to get away from the engagement. 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Iria smiles as the rogue is driven back. "Too bad for you," She says with a chuckle. "But I was just warming up." She frowns a little as she realizes that things aren't going as well as she hoped though. "Oh boy, looks like this is just the tip of the iceberg." 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     It's worthy to note that, if the Priestess decided to try to muscle her way past Josuke, she'd have been on the receiving end of a short flurry attack from his Stand. Only for a moment, and he would have directed Crazy Diamond to go for pushing away rather than actual damage. Probably still would have hurt, though, particularly if the Priestess isn't a Defense build either.     He hears Tomoe's call to retreat and almost breathes a sigh of relief. Good, Josuke thinks. 'Hostage' secured, Tomoe's got the portal open, and now it's time to get the hell out of here. But Josuke can't just leave it at that, no. He's pretty disappointed with the behavior of most of the 'heroes'.     So he lingers a moment or two more, still supported off the ground by Crazy Diamond, in that way that makes it look like he's either flying or floating. Still with that hammy villain tone, he poses a question to the 'heroes' -- "Ask yourself, then, if this would have happened if you hadn't started a battle in the middle of a populated city. It is difficult to take hostages when there ARE none! Yes, HEROES!" He bows (Crazy Diamond has to take hold of his leg at the calf to make this possible and still support him in the air). "Thank you, 'heroes'. I'm certain she will make a fine sacrifice to the Dark Lady."     And then Crazy Diamond tosses Josuke up, over its shoulder, and into the portal. The whole way, Josuke laughs. He still hasn't quite got the hang of that cackle, though. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki's not exactly sure she was thinking at all when it came to doing this. Of course she'd never have hurt an innocent girl, but she had to maintain the right presentation! It kind of worked out at least, though she's not sure what they're going to do with the smaller version of Tomoe. Oh well, they can figure that one out later maybe!     "Heroes. Standing too long in the light that they can't handle the dark.... on no!" she pauses, shakes her head. "Er, they don't notice the shadows... the shadows are deepest in the strongest of lights! YES!" she grins, pirouetting, and flashes a victory sign. Then she swings her blade abruptly downwards, channeling mana into it, causing a small explosion of thick smoke to cover her. "Ninja vanish!" she calls out, using the moment's concealment to open her menu and summon wings, then flying off to safety like a bat out of ... er, hell. 
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5535/The Dark Lady

2018-08-17T20:35:14Z

Junker99: Tomoe now the Dark Lady has to get herself some generals.

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2017/12/06
|Location=The Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Tomoe gets a strange quest where she has to play the villain and she needs to recruit some generals to help her out.
|Cast of Characters=6, 973, 1119, 874, 707, 1
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Location North America Washington State, America SAO Earth The Dark Castle locked in the forested mountains on the west Coast of America was imposing everyone here had been sent a summons by Tomoe asking for help that she'd got a group quest that she needed help with to render this zone quiet again. The local monsters were no where to be seen on the way there or had even just oddly will ignore anyone whose summoned save for a Orc who's waiting at the front gate. He will lead the group towards the Royal chamber the site of the boss fight with the Possessed Tomoe some time ago and would find Tomoe there. Tomoe sits upon the Throne trying to drink out of a mug that appears to be a skull and she looks at the Orc. "Good you brought my friends here now go to the kitchen and get them to find me an actually functional mug to have a drink in." Tomoe is not wearing her normal gear nope her hair as turned white and is a bit longer than normal he wears dark heavy armour which covers her arms and shoulders, the rest? Is something out of a cheesey Fantasy or MMOrpg design leaving exposed skin while not technically indecent it was showy and not very good protection. Tomoe smiles faintly a those who have arrived though.. "Glad to see I have some help coming, come sit we got a lot to talk about as we need to figure out how to deal with this quest I'm stuck on as I need to ... recruit generals, for this as it's not something I can solo. If you want to walk it's fine but I do need help to deal with this." Tomoe then gets off her thrown to join the arrived party and her expression becomes more serious. "I'm also worried that this quest could be as a I said a trick from Cardinal but I don't see any other option other than to play this out." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica follows the Orc, blinking at the passive Monsters curiously. She reaches up to lightly pet Pina on the head as the dragon gives off a chitterchirp of distress. She looks up at Tomoe, and tilts her head. "So... uh, let me get this straight, CARDINAL kicked up a hissy fit and now you have to play out this quest chain to the end?" 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Tomoe asked for help, and Josuke considers her a friend. So he's headed there, to that castle. If it seems unlikely he'll find transportation to the place, well... there's always Crazy Diamond. He's gotten quite good at getting around via having his Stand 'fastball' him around. Poor pathing AI nodes, requiescat in pace.     Anyway, he follows the Orc to Tomoe's chamber and... his eyes go wide. "S-so you're in that outfit again." He's blushing a little, actually. Poor teenage hormones. Eyes on the face, eyes on the face, eyes on the face...     Putting that aside, he asks, "What's going on? You said this might be a trick? Why? What happened to make <CARDINAL> mad?" 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Of course Yuuki is perfectly willing to help out her friends whatever the occasion. This location is rather odd, but then she knows Tomoe's not native to Japan and has been heavily involved in the American MMO scene as well. Still it's a nice castle, if a bit heavy on dark fantasy tropes. Yuuki can definitely appreciate style though. The orc gets a confused look, but that's nothing compared to Yuuki's expression when she first sees Tomoe!     Eyes almost popping (though not like Josuke's) she takes a moment to admire before she finally speaks. "Wooooow, that's a really cool outfit!" she says. No, she's not nosebleeding or anything of the sort. Yuuki's got affection for Tomoe and maybe more than affection for a certain other woman but she's not actually attracted to them in that way. Just admiring. "Have you been playing with the sliders, or is that all part of the costume?" she asks cannily. And a little cattily. Yuuki couldn't pull off a look like that even with lots of corsetry. She's cute, sure, but generally falls somewhat short on the sexy scale. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' "Best I understand it," Xiaomu remarks from behind Josuke, "Tomoe over there took a quest chain and broke it into so many pieces CARDINAL had kind of a stack overflow trying to figure out how to resolve it. That said, I'm curious exactly what you *did* to set this off," she remarks mildly to Tomoe herself. At the moment, she's outfitted much as she usually is - black qipao with silver trim, red vest over that, and carrying her staff like she almost always does. "Quick question to kick things off, though - besides that question, I mean," the sage fox adds. "Is the fact that I'm a 'walk-in' - that I'm not wearing an Augma and not entirely 'integrated' into the game like you girls - likely to be a problem?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' The strange decor and faction shift to the dark side doesn't seem to be bothering Kirito at all. The young man seems THOROUGHLY INTRIGUED by this development, judging by the smile on his face. However much Tomoe might be bothered, the Black Swordsman seems content with his role as a wandering warrior doing quests such as this.     "Isn't CARDINAL's purpose generating content? There'll probably be twists, but I've never run into a totally bogus quest."     ... Unless someone considers that infamous quest about Orcs with hockey masks and Chainsaws from the mid floors of Aincrad to be 'bogus.' Sometimes, procedural generation based on news gets WEIRD.     After delivering this, he double-takes... finally taking notice of Tomoe's change in appearance. His eyes go wide... though, it's less ogling, and more 'what the heck?!'     Nope. He ain't gonna comment about that getup.     "Tell me of your troubles, o dark lady Tomoe." The young man quips, unable to completely mask the amusement he feels from bubbling out into a mischevious grin. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe is looking embarrassed from this outfit that she's forced to wear but it seems Silica has hit it in one. "Near as I can tell that is what's happening, Silica." she seems very annoyed with cardinal about this to put it mildly at this point she moves to sit down at one of the chairs and will wait for the other going to do so. "I think it's due to how we broke the chain with the dark lady. I think cardinal is just trying to finish it one way or another Josuke." She is not shocked to see Yuuki here but is very happy to see she's there. "You think it's cool, I'm glad someone like it and no i haven't this all came with the outfit." She turns red a little bit and she mutters. "Part of the costume to be honest as far as I can tell as for that Xiaomu. I thought, could handle the chain on my own, the boss had a possession mechanic and since i was alone? You can guess how that turned out if not for what Josuke did to exorcise it I have no idea what would have happened to me. You should be able to register your name and get a basic HUD, others have so they can party and get quests before. So it's not a problem at all and honestly I'm thankful so many people are willing to help me given this is my fault it broke." Kirito gets a look and an actual laugh. "Ah the black sword ... I should have known you'd have heeded my call to arms." She girns now looking at the party. "I have quest items to give to each of you if your willing. I have no idea where where this will end up. I will have a condtion though don't kill any locals or any of the towns folk NPCS I want to work this out if we can though. Scaring the hell of out of everyone will be required and lets not talk about that quest again kirito." she'll lay the quest items down on the table each one is a black pendant made of a black metal, with differnt coloured gem in each. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke blinks at Yuuki, not quite understanding the sharp edge to her voice. All he can think is she's upset because Tomoe's outfit is cooler. So he suggests, "...They probably sell cosmetics for the..." Then he remembers. "...Oh wait, this is a 'game lapping over real life' situation. That might not be possible anymore." He sends a sheepish look in Yuuki's direction.     He turns to look in Xiaomu's direction when she speaks. "Wow. That's some impressive sequence breaking, to piss off the game so bad it wanted to get revenge for it!" he comments. Looking back to Tomoe, "I'd congratulate you, but I don't think this is really something that needs to be encouraged. <CARDINAL> seems pretty stuck on its rules. Though I guess I can understand it..."     He snorts a little at Kirito's tease, trying to hide the grin and being mostly unsuccessful. And he outright laughs at Tomoe's 'in-character' response. "Oh wow. This is a lot of ridiculous."     Tomoe mentions the boss's possession mechanic, though, and nods. "Yeah. Maybe <CARDINAL> is trying to teach you a lesson about friendship or something," he suggests. He pauses, though, blinking at the pendants. "What are these?" he asks. And yes. He's trusting enough -- or maybe just stupid enough -- to just pick up the nearest one to him, to look at it. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "I'm willing to help, if we can do this without killing anyone that would be a bonus." remarks Silica with a soft chuckle. "So, do we have to play the bad guys here? That can be fun, sometimes being the antagonist gives you a different perspective for later." she steps forward, and with all the ceremony needed, kneels before the throne. "I pledge myself to your service, My Lady." 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki smiles abruptly, no hint of teasing or of upset anywhere within her for the moment, particularly after she manages to get Tomoe to blush. "Okay, this sounds like fun!" she grins. Yuuki's not malicious, but she sure is playful. "No killing villagers of course." she agrees. Not that anyone here is a murderer. Okay, she's not entirely sure of Josuke, having only met him the once and him kind of flipping out on her... but he seems like a nice guy at least.     Yuuki shrugs and, like Josuke, reaches out to accept a pendant. Her friend needs her help. It's not like she'll find out anything later that would make her walk away. She might end up distracted at a later time perhaps since she's easily caught up in the moment, but right now she's here.     "Waaait, we're the BAD GUYS?" she asks, sounding scandalized and more than a little amused. "Oh wow! I've been an imp for how long now, and I've never had a chance to be a bad guy! This'll be fun!" She pauses a moment, considering. "Er... will it be fun? I mean, that won't break the quest, will it?" 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' "Oh, I'm *registered* in the Augmented Reality," Xiaomu clarifies. "Just that I'm gonna keep looking preeeeeetty much like this, fox and all, instead of being able to use my old Sylph skills and gear. Might be able to finagle the magic system if we're using Alfheim's rules for that, *if* it works over here ..." She'd love to get her hands on an Augma, but work has had her too busy to go around trying to nab one of those for herself. Maybe someday. In any case, Tomoe confirms what Xiaomu more or less 'knew' about what had happened, and fills in some details; then the pendants are laid out, and the sage fox takes a look at them. "Hmmmmmm ..." She makes the 'interface open' gesture - that SHOULD work for anyone who's registered, Augma or not, right? - and sees if she can examine the pendants for any details about which is which - whether their attributes differ, stuff like that. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Kirito's mischevious grin turns squished but briefly, and he turns about into a march straight towards Tomoe on her throne...     "Quest items?" He wastes very little time claiming one of the pendants and hoisting it up for a close inspection.     And he promptly pokes it to bring up its item description... 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe seems amused at Josuke's responses an starts to laugh a little bit. "Not so much revenge as I'm not sure this cardinal is like the one from SAO, Iianor kinda broke it into becoming a person in the end. as for that we got to deal with it. Still you got the right idea josuke video games are eating this world. We'll find out when this is over, lets hope it doesn't make things worse." She looks to Silica and grins. "Yes, we have to play the villains, I say we just go full what's the terms back home Ham, just go all out on the theatrics if we're going to do this we going to have some fun with it. Though we might want to tell the near by town's Police about this." She looks to Xiaomu for a moment and Xiaomu would find the interface appearing asking her to input her name and everything thing else to register it even asks for an email of all things. She looks to Kirito not having intended to ruin his fun. "I don't know the details on them given I am just to hand them out for mine." Everyone gets a look at their item which has the basic info text on it. A Pendant binding you to the Dark Lady Tomoe's cause it will grant you power over her minions, and access to the dark castle until the completion of the quest. The IC Fluff follows after. The pendants that binds you to your master in exchange for power be wary the Armoury of Light has opened and Heroes have been called forth, you must scout the county side to find and deal with them for your Dark Lady's glory and your own machinations for power. the quest would have a the following bit. Defeat XXXXXXXX 0/1 but each XXXXX is a colour marking each of the pendants. Odd is is not? Finally as this finishes off a squeaky voice can he heard as a small female goblin enters looking like some kind of Tailor mixed with a black smith. "I see Generals have heeded our call my lady the armoury stands open and none of these outfits will do, we will be the laughing stock of the Dark World if this were to be used." She looks Tomoe nodding approvingly. "Also NO CAPES! I will not issue any capes not after what happened to the Dark Lord! Never again shall there be ... CAPES!" She ahems for a moment and fades back to keep out of the way it seems the faction armoury is now open. Tomoes own quest updates the recuit generals objective followed by Heroes defeated 0/7. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke blinks at Silica a bit. "...Are we supposed to do that? And... now?" he asks. He seems a little embarrassed, but he's more confused than anything else. "I mean, if it's required..."     Yuuki's assessment gets a wide-eyed look from Josuke. "Eh?! I've never been evil before!" He looks a little uncomfortable for a moment, then seems to square his shoudlers, mentally and physically speaking. "But I'll help however I can, even if it means I have to pretend to be evil." He's gonna have to read up, isn't he? Or ask that estranged father of his; didn't he pretend to be Dio resurrected when Jotaro saved him? Bad timing for a prank, but...     He nods at Xiaomu's words. "I think I have a username here too. I got the window asking me for one, so I put one in so it wouldn't keep bugging me." He watches Xiaomu open her inventory, and if it seems to have worked, he'll emulate the gesture himself, to see if he's got an inventory too. He hasn't messed with it much.     Josuke nods to Tomoe's explanation of 'video games eating the world'. "Man... I never thought about it 'till now, but that's gotta be incredibly weird and creepy," he observes. He looks at the pendant, reading the description of the item, raising an eyebrow. "We have to defeat heroes of the same color as the pendant?"     Suddenly GOBLIN! Josuke jumps a little, fumbling the pendant a bit, before catching it safely. His eye twitches a little at the goblin's mannerisms. And draws back a little at her vehement dislike of capes. "...But. Capes are cool," he comments in a small voice. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki looks slightly miffed. "What, I don't look evil enough?" she asks, striking a proud pose. Then ruining it by giggling. "Oh, all right. I might have to hide my features though. Hmmmm.... no capes? Okay, how about a cowl? Or a scarf? Or a hood and a scarf? Nice and flowing and cute... or maybe not cute, maybe more menacing than cute..." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Kirito is fairly picky about colors. He likes his black color scheme and rarely equips anything that doesn't jive with it... unless the stats are outrageous or he otherwise must. Somehow he has yoinked a green pendant. He's a bit disappointed at this... but he thumbs the floating 'equip' button nonetheless.     The pendant flash-vanishes, reappearing neatly around his neck.     "A dark general, huh. Sounds like it could be fun! But a hero...? Hope they're NPCs..." 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Xiaomu picks up the pendant with the red jewel, accepting the quest as it comes up in her window. She's just finished scrolling through when the fashion goblin walks in .. And if looks could kill, the poor minion would be suffering 20d20 Glower Damage on the spot. "How little you know of worlds beyond your own, little cretin," the sage fox snarls. "I wore this very dress the night that I conquered the citadel of Everfrost, cementing forever my dominion over all the lands of Perelas." She slips the pendant on, her hairtails seeming to pull themselves through the chain to settle out of the way, then stalks towards the goblin, the rings on her staff jingling pointedly with every strike of the staff's butt against the floor. "Still, I suppose there are better ways to attire myself for a battle such as this," she concedes haughtily. "Some form of proper armor would likely be appropriate, if I'm to face Heroes directly." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica picks up her pendant. It glows with a pale yellow light, like sunlight seen through a few inches of water. She puts it on, draping it around her neck, and having to pin her ears down a little to do so. "I guess I should sort out my wardrobe... I think I have the perfect set of cosmetic items from the various halloween and other 'spooky' events over the years..." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "You got a point there, I'm more the Iron Lily than anyone else now." She's almost hitting the point she might not respond right away to the name Sheena at this point. She looks to the goblin for a moment and pauses. "Ah yes the one who ... designed my armor." the Goblin puffs her chest out with pride. "It makes your a terrible wonder to behold my lady." she's already starting to size up everyone else s they do this. "Those work though i would be careful with a scarf." She says but she doesn't flip out about the idea of capes. Tomoe grins and note to Silica. "Oh you go quite a good collection of cosmetics don't you?" She pauses at Kirito and tilts her head. "I hope so too..." Xiaomu gets into character hard and the goblin actually slinks back it seems Xiamou has scared her she bows down for a moment. "Forgive my wagging tongue!" Tomoe just slumps for a moment. "NPCs these days are getting close to the line and we had ones who were people like the ones we rescued from the death floor." Who are now working in haven at this point in time. "I do think there's food on the way but if there's anything else I can help with we'll need to get started on this and Xiaomu can you do me a favour and let the Paladins know what's going on?" 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' "Might be a good idea, just to make sure," Xiaomu muses, nodding to Tomoe. "Although such a glorious conquest as we aspire to deserves no less glorious a witnessing, does it not ... ?" She smirks broadly - the kind of smugness that's *meant* to be seen - and turns her attention, for the moment, to matters of fashion. If the fashion goblin pokes her in the wrong place with a needle or something, the fox may decide it's time for an impromptu round of minion soccer - but she's not going to go out of her way to unduly terrify the goblin, who is - after all - just doing her job. And as archvillains the Multiverse over have been known to complain, it's SO hard to find good help these days. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke's still looking at the dark blue pendant he's picked up. Though Xiaomu's spiel gets a raised brow. "Eh?" Though it occurs to him that she's probably just playing up her role, so he doesn't ask about it. But he reaches up to rub at the back of his head. "Man... this is just <great>... I don't know the first thing about being evil," he mutters, mostly under his breath.     Looking back at Tomoe, Josuke nods. "I'm ready to do what I can," he says firmly. And then losing juuuust a little of that resolve. "Though I'm not really sure where to start, I admit."     He thinks a moment. "...I guess... well, this is still mainly a video game, right? I can heal things, so that makes me the medic, right? Or... I guess cleric in this case. Evil clerics exist, don't they? So I guess I could start there." 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Having claimed an orange pendant, Yuuki follows the minion onwards to the armory, spending a bit of time oohing and aaaahing over swords and the like. Slowly she assembles her own idea for an evil costume. Starting, of course, with something that disguises her face and features, and ending with a suitable weapon.     She returns to the group, grinning behind a face mask. Her hair's pulled back and tucked away, invisible under a deep hood. Her ears are concealed as well. Her eyes show, red, peeking up above a mask that covers her mouth and nose. She's no longer wearing her metallic armor, instead wearing a suit that practically screams freedom of movement while it also wraps her in concealing cloth of black and dark crimson. She has a sword, shorter than her normal blade, tucked behind her into the back of a broad belt. In short, her identity's quite thoroughly concealed, and she looks like nothing so much as a red-eyed demon-ninja.     Entering the throne room once again, she strikes a pose. "Am I suitably evil?" she asks in a deep, menacing voice. Well, as deep and menacing as she gets anyways. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "What's that saying? The more the merrier?" Is Kirito's take on the NPC matter, it seems. But then, the Black Swordsman is that WEIRDO who publically argued with Asuna about why they -shouldn't- use a town full of NPCs as bait for a field boss...     Yes, he's the one who showed pretty incredible sympathy for simple NPCs. Them being so talkative and interactive like real people? ... His behavior hasn't changed a whole lot.     "So what's the actual win condition for this quest?" He floats the question out of ice-cold nowhere. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica nods to Tomoe, opens her menu to the cosmetics section... and then grins a little, as she selects each one, doing a pose as they apply. Hair turns black as midnight, along with her tail and ears, and gains streaks of red throughout, including the tufts and the very tip of her tail. Silica executes a V-for-Victory sign in front of her left eye with her left hand, as the magenta irises shift to a shimmering yellow, with slit pupils. Her hair also drops out of the distinctive twin-tails, and instead forms a tight pair of buns that look kind of like horns.     Two little black devil horns appear on her forehead, and her face gains markings like eldritch symbols, tatoos that break up the outline so someone would have to look close to tell it's here.     Down to her outfit, the blue and metallic armour morphs into a long black gown, touching the floor and open in front to show off her legs. It clings to her frame, the main body a lattice-work of lace and sequins, like those Brides of a Monster gowns from old 50s movies, it even has the high collar framing her head. Boots turn into flat soled mary janes, with spikes along the toes in a tasteful arrangement. Finally her gloves become full arm fingerless lace affairs, and black and red nail polish finishes off the look. "Transformation, Complete~." she says, having snuck a voice changer in as well, making her normally high and cute voice take on a deeper, more sultry aspect. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes it does but i would hate for there to be a miss understanding?" Given Tomoe has been iffy on the Paladins as a whole it's better to keep them up to speed than to suddenly have Paladins kicking down her front door over this too. She now more gets into character. "Yes my Dark Priests go forth and spread the Gospel of my power!" It's clear is she's going to have to suffer through this she will have some fun with it much as Kirito did with his GGO avatar. She looks to Yuuki and seems amused at it with her new outfit and she seems to approve. Good good, and it says ... defeat the Heroes. That's all I have right now we may want to go looking through my eldritch tomes which may have more to help us in this quest." There are likely side quests after all and other things that will doubtlessly pop up and Slicia just goes on full dark magical girl which suits her and the voice changer helps s heck of a lot to make everything work. "Good, good, now once the food arrives we can ... make some plans and ... we need to hire a five year old to double check our plans..." 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke blinks at Yuuki. "Wow. Yeah, I'd be pretty scared if I saw that coming at me as an endboss," he confirms. Kirito's question has him quieting though, and he looks to Tomoe for the answer. He's curious about that too. She did say 'no killing the NPCs', but beyond that, what could they do?     He blinks as he watches Silica's 'transformation sequence'. "Whoa. Yeah, I need to get with it." If the goblin tailor/armorer is still there, he looks at her. "What do you think?" A pause, and he pats his hair. "Just outfit-wise. I'm keeping this. Kinda got sentimental reasons."     Tomoe's words draw his attention back, and Josuke tilts his head. "Hnnn... the Paladins might try to break the quest chain again," he points out. "Y'know, because technically Tomoe's breaking the law by being a Dark Queen. Isn't that their thing?" He's worked with them in the past, but not been privy to their internal dialogue, so he doesn't know. "So if they knew, they might come in and try to disentangle Tomoe from the quest chain by roundabout ways. And that might just piss <CARDINAL> off worse."     He blinks at the mention of a five year old, though. "Wha? Why a five year old?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Because if they can see how to foil our plans, we need to up our game." 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki laughs uproariously at Tomoe's joke, so she can't explain the answer to poor Josuke. She also probably seriously ruins her image as the dark brooding ninja at the same time... but oh well. Having fun is more important than maintaining the evil image right?     She does eventually calm down though, although she continues to grin. "I don't see 'being a Dark Queen' in the lawbooks anywhere. This is America right? Does anyone know American law? Is it against the law to be evil?" she asks rhetorically. She shrugs. "And if they do have a problem with it we'll kick their butts then explain it all nicely and send them on their way!" she offers cheerfully. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' "All hail the Evil Overlord List," Xiaomu says with a massively amused smirk. "I probably ought to review that for good measure ... but where are we going to find a competent five-year-old who doesn't want to betray you to the heroes?" Meanwhile, she's considering what she can do within the bounds of the game and how she'll need to be attired for it. Metal armor may be awesomely intimidating, but in practical terms it's a non-starter for several reasons. Silk and leather, maybe ... 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "Pretty sure the only illegal thing we've done so far is cross the border without permission." Kirito blurts rather bluntly, in an airy tone that suggests he's thinking pretty deeply about this quest and its implications...     He tends to do that sort of thing, doesn't he? 
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5342/Dark Castle of the Forest

2018-08-17T20:30:55Z

Junker99: Tomoe goes full Leeroy Jekins and gets into serious trouble for it.

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|Date of Scene=2017/07/07
|Location=the Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=How the whole Dark Lady chain, started. Tomoe rushed off to do what was intended by Cardinal to be a group quest, and things go bad, very bad.
|Cast of Characters=6, 1, 215, 1119, 42, 973
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
|pretty=yes
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe had said she was going back to America in her world to Washington State, notably a place called Port Angeles, located on the West Coast, monsters had appeared, as had a foreboding castle also in the last few says towns have sprung up as well in the region. Worst of all people had gone missing before here. Rumors abounded about a dark lord was seeking to rebuild against those Adventures whom laid them low so long ago. Tomoe had said she'd keep in touch she'd checked in when she arrived but had been silent since. Her status appeared to be in combat, since then worse she wasn't replying to any messages, calls or anything else. She'd gone utterly and totally silent in the forbidding mountain forest of the Pacific Northwest. Upon arrival to the town it was simple enough to find out from the local police that Tomoe had gone off in search of several missing women. The police were actually happy to help given they are in over their heads. They had also reported they women had come back but Tomoe was nowhere to be found, most had been kept in the dungeon of the palace and they had no idea about Tomoe. One Misty Williams a woman with orange-red hair and had worked at the local marina was quick to tell the arrivals. "That's right, she came busting in like something out of Tunnels and Wyverns, damnest thing I ever saw but the thing that had me? I don't know what it wanted I was too scared to think. Your friend cut me free, told me to run and not to stop till I got back to town." The officer would point out where the castle was and apologies for not being of more help, he'd offer the party a lift if they so needed it but one way or another the group wound find themselves in the forest massive forest, filled with evergreen trees. Mists clung to the mountains near by and into the forest where one could make out the castle in the distance. The way there would be clear oddly a sure sign of Tomoe's passing and the cleared path leads towards the black castle is made of obsidian slabs somehow cut like one might expect more traditional stone and the way is open blue fiery torches burn at the entrance way. It's clear it's quiet, it's as if someone /wants/ all of you to come in. What is also clear if one looks around there's a few blast marks from fire attacks of some sort going off. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Something CHANGED about Kirito upon realizing that Tomoe was in some kind of serious trouble. Like a switch had been flipped in his mind, all hints of his goofy gamer drive were sheathed and squashed as solidly as the swords on his back. His soft, youthful face - normally innocent enough - is contorted with fierce desperation and a grim resolve, gaze sharp and serious.     He cannot fathom just what would've been enough to incapacitate Tomoe, and he's almost certainly kicking himself mentally for letting her go off alone. It may not be so, but THAT feels like a severe failure on his part.     "Hold on, Tomoe. We'll find you and get you out of that place." Exclaims the Spriggan as he swoops down before the castle's main entrance, as solemnly as any oath ought to be.     Once his feet are on solid ground, he reaches up and unsheathes both blades. The astute would recognize that one is Elucidator, and the other... Dark Repulsor, a sword that should no longer be in this world.     Gritting his teeth and biting down a bit of fear at the ominous architecture, he can only wait for the rest of the party to arrive... 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' There's more to Iria's life than simply being a bounty hunter. There's always plenty of things to do when the need for it arises. And when someone she knows is in danger, she's more than happy to help find them. After all, this is not just a game they're playing anymore! It's on for real now, and Iria doesn't care about experience or money or anything like that. It's all about finding the person in trouble! Not long after Kirito arrives, Iria swoops in and lands too. As soon as she gets a look at the castle, she scowls noticeably and narrows her eyes a little. "Whoever or whatever's hanging around in there better be ready for trouble! They think they're all that, but they ain't seen the likes of us!" Her demeanor softens a little as she then lowers her head and closes her eyes a little. "Please be safe, Tomoe. We're coming!" 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Hearing that Tomoe had come up missing? That was enough to get Josuke's attention. Particularly since she had left to help someone else and then never came back. Seemed like now SHE needed help, and Josuke was all too willing to offer it. He does need to avail himself of the officer's offer of a lift to the area. But at the apology, Josuke smiles. "Don't worry about it!" he offers brightly. He wouldn't expect the officer to put his life in danger for just one person. The police had bigger jobs than rescuing just one person.     However, upon reaching the area, Josuke is immediately greeted by... a menu popup. While he'd been running, nonetheless. "Gah!" he yelps, raising his hands to defend himself against an incoming attack. When none is forthcoming, he looks over his hands. "...What the hell?" He pouts a bit, looking at the window as if he was dissatisfied with its presence. Then blinks. "A name? Well..." He just... enters his own!     Once the menu prompt is satisfied and gets out of his face he heads for the obsidian castle to meet up with the others already there. He offers a nod to those gathering here. "Hi. I'm Josuke," he offers.     In contrast to the many weird and wonderfully armed and armored party members here, Josuke is wearing just a purple school uniform. It's been highly stylized, but he doesn't have any armor, nor is he visibly armed. Hopefully he's got some tricks up his sleeve. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Ah yes, Washington. Staren doesn't remember much about it -- he's pretty sure he recalls hearing about islands off the west coast shrouded in mist that noone ever comes back from. Also there might be giant killer bugs. Of course, travelers have to be prepared for such things on RIFTS Earth. Staren--     What?     Are you sure?     So it's a futuristic Earth overrun by monsters where new continents have appeared, but it's not--     Okay. Listen, I'm just the narrator, I can't keep all these straight. *Ahem*     Port Angeles, Washington is now menaced by monsters and a mysterious dark castle rumored to be run by a dark sorceress or something with aspirations of conquering. Staren feels oddly at home as the party sets out into the eerie, misty forest. He rides on his broom as they approach the castle, waiting for a monster encounter to trigger when they reach it... But nothing happens. He hovers about, looking over the front of the castle and flying around to check the back side for possible alternate points of entry. "Are we sure we want to go in the front door? I mean, it's /obvious/, but maybe the game is less prepared for sequence breaks." He taps his chin and adresses Kirito: "Are there any records of successful sequence breaking in dungeons in SAO or ALO?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "A few." Kirito's uncertain-toned answer to Staren is probably not all that reassuring. "But the quests usually fixed themselves or went down story paths nobody saw before. Not really sure if that was CARDINAL making new paths or if they were always there. Heh... remind me to tell you about Kizmel later. ... Sequence breaking wasn't a good idea though. When Asuna and I were heading to buy the c-cabin..." He briefly stutters there, "We found it fifty meters in the air suspended in a tornado, with a dog barking at us... and Argo up on the porch. She'd run from the dog and missed the quest trigger but still got stuck in the tornado and the quest didn't progress until the dog was also up on the porch. What a case of lucky timing!"     Kirito blinks a few times, realizes someone new just appeared...     And stares over at Josuke. The boy works his jaw uncertainly, half-gaping at the guy's sheer height and odd choice of attire...     But he soon recovers, and the Black Swordsman seems to poke something in Josuke's direction, and two new prompts appear from JOsuke's perspective.     'You have been invited to join Kirito's Party! Accept/Reject'     'You have been invited into the Gatecrashers Union. Accept/Reject'     Staren receives a similar party invite. As does anyone else who approaches the group. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The group had formed up Kirito was all in business mode as they reached the castle and it was silent it's clear Tomoe's gone though and nothing has respawned. The only good news is on the Guild Status list? Tomoe is shown to be alive and not off line that much is good news but for some reason she's unable to respond. The Party is meeting up and forming up fairly quickly this likely is good time is a wasting and if Tomoe knew some of the people responding she'd feel good about it. It wouldn't take too long for the party to enter the castle and once they do it would be much of what they expected though the layout actually feels real livable and usable from it. Well that's from the main entrance. It can be seen from peering into the open courtyard within. There's a disable if not in use smithy, stables and the like. Staren might find some towers and the ramparts which do have doors into the other part of the castle, but place is empty however. IS this by design or did Tomoe go on a bender? Either way given the nature of the world there are a few possibilities where Tomoe might be. Staren and anyone who got to the skies would notice the main keep's doors are wide open. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     More windows! Josuke tilts his head back as the windows appear. Gatecrasher's Union? Party? Well, they did apear right after that guy in black made that weird motion. Maybe it's his doing? And if he came here to help Tomoe, he's a friend. So Josuke pressess accept for both windows, not sure what's going to happen in response. And when things start popping up, his eyes go wide. "Whoa..." Clearly he's never played an MMO before.     Sadly, Josuke doesn't have wings, nor can he fly. Crazy Diamond could throw him, sure, but that would be dangerous for him. Josuke might be an Elite, but he's still human. Falling from that far will probably hurt him. But hey, at least once the party invites are out of the way, they can get into the place, right? Staren's radio headsup gets a blink. The doors are open? "Either that's a trap or she already handled everything going in," he notes. Looking at the others, "...Does it work like that? I mean... this is a game world but not a game, right? So it goes by game physics?" 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' As soon as Iria enters, she frowns and looks around. Looks livable, yes, but looks can be VERY deceiving. She glances around carefully, not wanting to risk being caught off-guard by the possibility of someone or someTHING waiting to get the party as they enter. "I don't like this one bit," Iria finally comments after a moment. "It's almost like they wanted us to come in. Something's wrong here. Everyone keep your guard up!" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "Game physics, yeah." Kirito asides to Josuke while strolling through the outer doors and into the courtyard... though he doesn't waste too much time looking over the grounds before heading for the keep's doors.     "... Which means be careful around any doors as big as these. Anything that screams 'boss'... don't go it solo." Kirito's short on words here, and not in a mood to explain a heck of a lot... but he nods at those who warn of this being a potential trap.     Still...     "Trap or no trap, I'm going in after Tomoe."     And so he does. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren explains to Josuke, "The game and real worlds have merged here. Game entities seem to work on game physics though, yes." To Iria, he adds, "Of course CARDINAL wants us to come in. The dungeon is pointless if adventurers don't interact with it." As Kirito heads in, he lands, puts away his broom (in that messenger bag that is too small to hold it...) and follows after Kirito on foot. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' It does seem like a trap, of sorts there's clear signs Tomoe fought her way through here but that's the odd part than where is she the whole place is cleaned out, several chests are popped open as the group heads on in With Kirito up front and everyone quickly behind them. It would not take long to come to the grand hall, there are bones of beast worked into pillars, massive skulls mounted on the wall and a humanoid figure sitting on a ebony thrown at the back it's female wearing black armor, if you could call it that with there was a fair bit of skin showing. The woman sits there drumming her figures. Torches of blue flame light up and one can clearly see it's Tomoe but something is wrong her hair's gone bleached white, her eyes are red and there's a very unkind look on her face. There's a title card if anyone scans her. "So you come once more do you Black Swordsman? I have not forgot what you and your ilk did to my domain and it seem fits the powers that be let me back into this world. So interesting is it not? The foolish Lily thought she could stop me." The Card would read Tomoe the Wilted Lily Vessel of the Dark Lord. She rises up from her sitting position and looks at the people who have come. There's a smirk on her face for a moment it's not a nice one but it also feels forced. The huge blade is pulled off her back. "These lands are now mine and you will submit or die by my blade cretins." The Boss Bars as it were are filling now and then she leaps up slamming her blade into the ground causing a shockwave of darkness to fly at the party. There's nothing you can do but submit Kirito would find he's seen something like this before in SAO. OOC The Armor more or less http://orig13.deviantart.net/a9e5/f/2011/257/3/c/darkknight_by_haganef-d49uhl3.jpg BGM https://youtu.be/Ry4rdwv7UkQ Fight SAO 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Up above. It's a bird! It's a plane! No, It's Pina, and a Wing Snake, crashing through a window, followed by the blue-clad form of Silica. "Pina, Hibiki, Wind Spiral!" comes the cry from the Tamer, as her wings give out on entering the building. She plummets, drawing her dagger and aiming right for the Possessed Tomoe. "Submit to THIS!"     The two Pets coil around one another, and launch a twisting bolt of wind-element magic to buffet and disrupt the 'Boss' While Silica channels ice power into her Dagger, slamming into the ground at the Wilted Lily's feet, trying to trip her up with poor footing.     She then gathers her legs under her, and hops back out of range. "Sorry I'm late!" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' The longer that Kirito walks down the halls, the more that recognition starts glimmering in his eyes. "This castle... there's no way." No way, no way, no way.     If nothing else, why isn't it in AINCRAD?     His wandering thoughts are immediately silenced by the ignition of BLUE FLAMES.     Many, many blazing blue torches. Kirito's face goes ashen-white. A horror-filled intake of breath follows.     It's Tomoe up there. Tomoe talking to him.     "This is some kind of awful joke...!" He gasps out to nobody in particular, wisps of panic striking at the worst of times.     Why. Why. WHY WHY WHY?! R     An exhale later, he slams a foot down in defiance and steadies himself for what's clearly inevitable, the boss bars filling sets that matter straight enough.     Though he briefly gapes, as if about to say something.. then clamps his mouth shut. Definitely thinking better of it.     "R-ready for battle! Avoid vitals!" He clumsily shouts to his fellows as his wits start returning.     The boy brandishes his blades, Dark Repulsor at the forefront.     "Didn't learn your lesson last time... you still think you can just possess people however you please?! I don't know how you returned after that beatdown, but there won't be a third time." His tone is throaty and fierce, full of fire and some of the deepest anger that he's displayed in quite some time.     NOBODY does this to his friends. Nobody.     "Back to hell with you!!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     So, the Dark Lady posessed Tomoe -- or at least, that's the story CARDINAL wants to tell. Staren checks his map for guildmembers...     Shit. The Dark Lady posessed Tomoe. :(     The wave of darkness crashes over his forcefield, the amber sphere cracking all over. "Let her go!" Staren shouts, cliche as it is. "I can make you another body, and you can have a chance to prove yourself as a ruler!" It's a reach, but maybe there's another way to solve this... 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Iria makes her way forwards carefully, keeping eyes forward and not letting her focus down once. She knows there's something wrong here, she can sense it within herself. And unfortunately, as luck would have it, her instincts are right on the money, for as soon as she spots Tomoe, her eyes widen more than she thought they could. All she can do is stare in total disbelief. That's Tomoe, but something's really wrong. Almost like it's not really Tomoe. And when Tomoe speaks, Iria knows there's something wrong big time! "She's possessed!" Iria screams with a scowl. "Dammit, they're gonna pay for what they did to her!" She readies her weapon for battle, but is then stricken by the wave of darkness, stunning her briefly. Once she snaps out of it, Iria knows what must be done. "I'm sorry to do this, Tomoe, but there's no choice!" She knows she has to fight, but mustn't hit any critical spots. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke emits an affirmative sound in response to Kirito's words of going after Tomoe. And he follows Kirito, along with Iria, in as well as he can. Aside from any flying Kirito might be doing, of course. He's trying to stick close to the group, like Kirito said, to keep from getting trapped in a boss area alone. Though as they're confronted with... 'Tomoe the Wilted Lily'? Josuke raises a brow. "Wait, what...?"     But then, before he can ask any questions, the Wilted Lily attacks! He can't jump out of the way; it's too far. But that doesn't mean he's helpeless. A purple aura surrounds him, and the pink and blue armored figure seems to rise from his body and take shape. The figure grabs hold of Josuke and leaps back, setting him down once they're out of range. Josuke can't jump that far, but Crazy Diamond can!     Everything he's hearing so far seems to indicate this is Tomoe. Including Kirito's rather upset yelling, not at Tomoe, but at the thing that seems to have hold of her. Staren also seems to know something about this, and his words confirm that it is indeed a possessed Tomoe.     Hesitation? That's putting it mildly. He doesn't want to risk hurting Tomoe, particularly because he doesn't know her capabilities. Fortunately Crazy Diamond's main means of attack is punches. '''Un'''fortunately, Joauke's out of range now, because his Stand is a short-range one. He's not going to let that stop him, though.     No, he mentally directs his Stand to... yes, THROW him. Not directly AT Tomoe, no. Up into the air, in an arc. The Stand will disappear as he moves out of manifesting range. And as he comes down, he re-manifests Crazy Diamond, in front of him. Both to block any attacks that might be coming his way, and to allow the Stand to deliver a short-range flurry of punches, with an ascending yell of, "DORARARARARA!" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Dark Lord looks up in shock as Silica catches her while she was coming out of her attack. One might say animation lock as the feint works out the wind strikes her sending he off balance and she doesn't seem to be very happy at all. Though it was a bit odd did the boss almost lag a bit? Strange there kirito talks and the Dark Lady replies "Oh I did. I was far more careful this time, I even picked this little backwater to start my domain in. I didn't assault a major city this time after all. Yes what will you do stop me? Having her as my host is wonderful. The fool thought she could stop me alone." The laugh isn't a nice one. "You first." Iria is now getting into the mix as she springs into it the Dark Lord smiles. "Such a wonderful form, young, powerful." then comes Josuke whose also moving to try to stop them. She sees him hesitate for a moment the drive bombing tanking trick Josuke is dong is something Tomoe would be impressed with, a hell of a lot the punches come in and force the boss back as she moves to raise a hand sending a blast of darkness at Josuke trying to counter the rapid beating he's giving her. She's taking hits and thankfully the punches seem to be working and the other strikes as well. the Dark Lord then drives her blade into the ground and a massive pentagram starts to visible form about her. "DARK RITUAL!" People are going to need to hustle as a massive magical explosion is about to go off with the Dark Lord at ground zero but those scanning her would find yes the 'HP is dropping' Yet? It has to be slower than expected given it seems to be using Tomoe's own endurance against the party. "Surely you lie! A trick to contain my essance and destroy me! DO not think I will fall for such tricks." There was a sound ofd almost temptation in her voice, yet? Really could Staren be telling the truth?! 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica lets out a keening whistle, summoning her pets back to who. They coil around her shoulders, coming up one over each and glaring at the 'Boss'. She doesn't want to fight Tomoe, so maybe she can make herself useful... wait, that's a bad thing. "GET CLEAR!" she turns, and tries to get clear of the blast radius. 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' The moment the explosion occurs is a moment that Iria's not there any longer. She jumps back and retreats quickly, trying to get as much distance as she can away from that explosion while she formulates a plan of action in her mind. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Kaboom! Staren tries to get out of the AoE, but part of the forcefield shatters and falls away, looking ever thinner. These magical and explosive attacks seem less effective than the hail-of-bullets type of attacks, though, not that the Dark Lady knows that.     "I have no idea how to contain you. If I did, I'd take you OUT of our friend. However... if you've turned to stealing bodies because you have no choice, that is one thing. If, even given a body of your own, you would rule as a cruel tyrant and hurt innocents, then we will deal with you as we would any other tyrant or villain. If you want to be a /good/ ruler, though, I'm sure there's a place in the Multiverse for you."     He is moving to keep his distance, nonetheless, to give himself room to dodge further attacks. But he's holding off on attacking. If there's a chance this can be resolved without harming Tomoe further...     Staren makes a finger-snapping motion for flair. A young woman beams down outside, in front of the door -- with bright violet hair and eyes, and a black dress. Some might recognize it as the android body his AI remote-controls to perform physical tasks aboard the ship. "This is the only body I have on short notice," at least, the only one he's willing to give. Well, that's not true, but he's sure she'd prefer something that looks human to an unskinned synth. "but if it isn't to your liking I'm sure we can customize it or come up with something different. I won't help you hurt people, though."     He watches her, trying to judge whether this might work. His first concern is for Tomoe... but on the off-chance the Dark Lady can be redeemed, hey, that'd be quite something, wouldn't it? 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke is falling from the sky, so he doesn't quite have the ability to relocate just yet. He lands just as the pentagram appears. And he's standing in it. "Crap!" He has very little time to react, seeing as he has to land, realize he's in a REALLY BAD SPOT, turn, and then start running. As it stands, the explosion is likely to catch him in the back as he's running. Though he will manifest his Stand behind him to soak some of the explosion -- yes, he'll still take the damage, but Crazy Diamond is tougher than he is, so it'll be less damage than if it'd hit him directly. Likely the explosion will throw him some distance away.     He's not out, though. But as he recovers, he also halts his attack, as Staren seems to be trying to talk this one down, and possibly out of Tomoe. He's always for the diplomatic approach, especially in this situation. He doesn't want to hurt Tomoe, even to beat this thing out of her, because he's afraid he'll accidentally hurt her. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Kirito didn't move to attack at first, largely out of uncertainty of how he should go about this.     But seeing the others start to fight... he ducks down low and breaks into a CHARGE!     He flicks his wrist the moment 'Tomoe' slams the blade down, and three metallic glints go flying--     Owwww, that'll probably sting. Kirito just hurled some throwing picks with expert aim!     He skids to a halt just out of AoE range and readies his blades.     "Seriously. What is this even about? Revenge?! So a high and mighty dark spirit is so bothered by a few swordsmen... kind of pathetic."     He wields a smug tone that's pretty clearly usual for him, but the objective is obviously to rattle the boss and get it making stupid decisions... 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The fight is kicking up and to use an old term the template attacks are flying already. This Dark Lord seems ready for the party as Staren comes in and makes his moves and goes on the verrbal attack. "..." That's all the DArk Lord has to say to Staren, but the question is how much is there to the Dark Lord after all? Is it even /aware/? Is it just running the script Cardinal gave it and letit lose with? It's hard to sell the finger snapping as a woman beams in she looks to the body for amoment and at the very much it distracts her. Josuke is now proiving himself to be a hell of a friend here. He lets Staren do his thing. "What would my purpose be then?!" The Dark Lord cries out using Tomoe's voice as Kirito bring up it about bring about Revenge she'll engage Kirito and lets out a cry. "I WILL NOT BE USLESS!" She atemps to impale the Black Stordsman but she's looking torubled confused and very angry... 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren blinks. "What's your purpose NOW? I thought you wanted to be a ruler or something! But your purpose can be whatever you want, as long as you stop hurting innocent people!" He says a bit more emphatically, getting into it.     At her outcry, he crosses his arms. "You could be useful to people by helping them. If nothing else, that magic you're throwing around could be used to protect people. But maybe you have other skills and talents too! Would you rather find out, or would you rather your only use be as another boss for us to fight?"     Kirito can probably handle getting stabbed, right? 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Iria speaks after Staren does. "We can end this positively! You just have to listen to us! It's not what you might think." She hits a pleading note. "There's plenty of possibilities!" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica pants, and looks at the others. She sees the Boss lunging for Kirito, and lifts her hands reflexively. She chants Words of Power, and uses her Water Magic to create a temporary shield to absorb the blow, small butterflies flitting around to create a dense packet of energy to take the strike instead of the Black Swordsman. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "You don't even know what your purpose is and you're going around possessing people..." Kirito remarks, his tone accusing and QUITE angry though he hardly shouts so close.     With a blade thrust straight at him, Kirito very nearly slashes right back. Elucidator clashes at an odd angle, but doesn't quite parry the sword proper--     The nauseating sound of sharp metal piercing a thing of half-flesh, half-polygons fills the air... and a spray of bloody pixels emerges from the left side of Kirito's back. It missed vitals, but that has GOT to hurt.     Oh yes, it hurts. Kirito bites down on the pain though it's all over his face. Deep, horrible pain that has him sweating bullets. But still...     He unleashes a mighty battle cry, dropping both weapons to instead GRAB his foe's sword and hold it in place.     His HP is slowly dropping, party status meter flashing with a Piercing DoT effect rather evident, but he uses the odd situation to step into range and deliver a driving elbow to try and knock the wind out of possessed-Tomoe!     "IF you're going to do something guys, do it now!" 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke winces as Kirito seems to hit a nerve with his words. And as the 'Wilted Lily' makes to attack, starts running over to where she's attacking Kirito. He's not going for stealth here. "You're already useless!" he declares. "People who just want to lord over others already ARE useless!" And despite the rest not wanting to attack the possessed Tomoe... that's exactly what he does!     He closes the distance and summons Crazy Diamond... and pummeling commmences! He's making sure the Stand aims away from vitals, though. But then the Stand's arms light up with an aura of orange-gold light. The punches aren't aimed to damage, though. They're aimed to FIX! To repair, to return things to the state they were before all this happened. At the very least that means trying to return Tomoe to an unpossessed state. At the very best? The possessing Dark Lady may be affected more deeply... 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Dark Lord seems to be having some trouble and Kirito's making it worsre with Iria's words and Staren's own. For a moment, she looks at him and that is a distraction. Somewhere inside Tomoe is likely screaming as there's a very good chance /she/s been watching the whole time the Dark Lord moves to pull out the blade. Silicia own spell has taken a good deal of the force out of the strike, it would be far, far worse has she not protected Kirito as she did. Iria's words also distract her but she attempts to pull the blade freed of Kirito. "I will not be ... purposeless!" She does not get to say more as Jojo does his thing as he makes his Stand against the dark lord, with his Stand. She'll reel from the attack there's a scream from her in two voice, one of Tomoe's and the other of something else something is happening. The Dark Lord falls to the floor with a thunk, there are a few changes her hair returns to purple, her eyes shift back. The hair becomes shorter she lays there dazed confused and /still/ in the dark lords outfit too. Of the Dark lord one can hear screaming that trails off as a hovering form leaves Tomoe's body and goes screaming away almost seemingly into nothingness. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren's watching the Dark Lady closely. Ready to attack if she makes one more agressive move... Instead she leaves Tomoe. Staren rushes over... to Kirito, who's the one who just had A SWORD THROUGH HIM, after all, applying bandages to the entry and exit wounds to put antibiotics and nanites to work. Will those work on an Augma user? Let's find out!     Once that's done, he looks over to Tomoe. "Welcome back, Tomoe. How much do you remember? Are you alright?" 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Tomoe's safe, so Iria runs over to check on her. Kneeling down, she says, "Are you all right? That was too close!" She looks to have a sense of relief based on her facial expression, and from how much she's sweating, it's obvious she was quite terrified with what happened. And that's something considering how tough Iria claims to be. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' With Silica's shielding taking much of the oomph of that hit, Kirito's able to stomach the pain and continue to function even as 'Tomoe' wrestles for control. But... it's really too late, isn't it?     A few seconds count for quite a lot in a swordfight. As usual, Kirito's system mastery has lead to a bizarre, counter-intuitive bit of tactics...     Because, in all honesty? Alfheim Online - as with its predecessor, Sword ARt Online - does not really have very nasty Piercing Damage-over-Time. The damage from having a sword stuck in you is pretty minimal.     The damage of NOT BEING ABLE TO PROPERLY USE your sword on the other hand, in the middle of a fight, is devastating.     It is not a tactic that a Solo player would have ever used, that's for sure. It's a tactic that would only ever have any merit...     Because his teammates are there to take advantage of the opening.     But WHAT a show of doing that. Kirito's distracted from struggling with 'Tomoe' by the appearance of... a very strange-looking... GLADIATOR?! His eyes are rather wide...and he yoinks himself free to get some DISTANCE from that barrage.... fairly sure Tomoe can withstand a beating like that even as he WINCES at every blow delivered.     By the dozen.     Bending down, he retrieves his weapons... and calls out experimentally, "... Tomoe?" 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke and his Stand both give the disappearing form of the Dark Lord a look. THAT look. That 'not today, evil one!' look. It gentles immediately, however, when he notes that Tomoe seems to be back to normal. He hopes. As Iria runs over to check on Tomoe, Josuke steps back to get out of the way. Still, he asks, "Tomoe? Are you all right?" He knows Tomoe, yes, but he's not as close to her as the rest of the group here, and he doesn't want to push them away from her.     He pauses, to look between the others quickly taking stock of everyone's overall health. Can he see ally HP bars? Staren's patching should be bringing Kirito's HP total back up, hopefully. Josuke will be keeping an eye on it, but for now, since the danger seems past, he allows Crazy Diamond -- and the sparkly purple aura that sprang up around him when the armored figure appeared -- to fade. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe groans. "All of it...It was likemy control ... wascut off." She rises up not noticing yet she's still in the Dark Lord's armor and the blade hassn't vanished just yet either. It's laying there on the groun a she's soon looking at kirito with a very worried look on her face. Josuke just earned some serious points with tomoe as she slowly gets up with any help that might be offered. "I'm .... weneed to get Kirito help." She notes before pauing to look down at the cleevatge and the rest of what she's wearing he turns /bright/ bright right and shakes her head abit. "Kirito you damn idiot, don't leave Asuna a widdow." She's now shaky on her legs as she feels like she's almost learning to hae to control herself again. "It seems I owe you all one..." In Tomoe's quest Log a new quests opens marked The new Dark Lord?!?! 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "I'm fine. ... More or less." Kirito remarks, despite the pain. The damage decal is slowly fading though he seems to be rather shakey on his feet. Whether it's relief, adrenaline rush, or just pain is really hard to tell. The nanobandages Staren slapped on do seem to be helping! ... His HP is on the rise. Though it's also on the rise rather fast due to Battle Healing, as always.     "What the heck, did that guy PUNCH the boss out of you...?!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     "He's not gonna die." Staren comments when Tomoe fears Asuna becoming a widow. It's a calm statement of fact, because he's watching Kirito's HP bar in his party HUD. "It seems that doing enough damage to a host will, indeed, force her to vacate them." He replies to Kirito. "...We should probably leave before she comes back, unless you want to loot the castle first. It didn't look like we killed her for good." 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:'''     Josuke looks a little sheepish at Kirito's mention of 'punching the boss out of Tomoe'. It wasn't aimed at him, but he does explain, "<Crazy Diamond> can repair things. And people. I was trying to revert Tomoe back to before she was possessed. I'm glad it worked. If it hadn't, it might have just healed her back to full, and then we'd have had to start all over." That's always frustrating in video games. To say nothing of how THIS game is just slightly REAL! 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren snaps his fingers as Josuke explains. "Ohhhhhhhh. That was some clever thinking! Good job!" 
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5842/The Dark Lady: Wavering Heroes

2018-08-17T20:17:00Z

Junker99: Bolt and Lailah come to speak to the Dark Lady and her minions...

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/05/10
|Location=The Forests around the Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Tomoe and her party confront some more of the heroes who have started to question their own existence and just what is actually going on.
|Cast of Characters=6, 42, 874, 1119, 707, 215, 1
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Deidra Longwing has been held for some time by the Dark Lady at this point she has become the terror of the kitchen and the mortal of the legions of terror have been in much better spirits from the better food. Tomoe had been keeping an eye on her somewhat of a look a like while she was around the castle. It is until the day a small ball of light made it's way into the castle and to the bar maid who would find it had a message. Her violet eyes went wide as she read it but was soon getting her guards to take her to Tomoe's throne room. Tomoe is in the middle of a meeting with her various Dark Generals and other minions. (Okay allies and friends.) She looks up from her obsidian thrown for a moment "Yes what do you wish of me the guards said you were most instant." "Some of them want to talk to you about what is going on they wish to Parlay." Tomoe pauses for a moment. "Show me the message." Deidra comes up and hands it to her. Tomoe looks it over nods. "I shall see to this." She will turn to her allies and beckons them to follow her, he wings flare out, the large leathery dragon wings which she got when the female twin was defeated. "Come lets go and Deidra? Thank you." "Please don't kill them...Bolt' and Lailah have been friends since we were children..." She leaves to return with her guard and Tomoe is flying off but will keep pace for people to follow and anyone who needs a lift she can happily carry someone hopefully the rest who can fly can do the same. Sometime later once the transit issue if any are handled the group would come to land in a clearly some several Kilometres from the town and find a camp fire with he hulking form of Bolt Vanderhughe and the Priestess whose name is now known to be Lailah waiting and watching. "So you come we got questions and I hope you have answers." Notes Bolt as he rises from where he's sitting by the fire joined by the Priestess. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren's in his 'villain outfit' again, which consists of a howie-style labcoat with huge black buttons, instead of his usual open one, and has his goggles pushed up onto his forehead. His hair is deliberately uncombed to be extra-wild. Over the coat he wears some kind of chest harness with magic or tech-y looking discs on it, which are actually forcefield projectors. His usual messenger bag hangs at his side. Completing the outfit are military black slacks and matching shiny black boots and long gloves.     Given the hurried and allegedly peaceful nature of this meeting, he doesn't show up with a bunch of constructs -- instead, he beams down nearby, and flies to the meeting site on what appear to be cait sith wings... which makes sense, since he looks like a cait sith.     He lands sitting on a tree branch in time to hear Bolt. "Oh? I love answering questions and helping people understand stuff! Lay 'em on me." 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Waiting around is something Yuuki just ... doesn't do. She likes being social, playing games and doing stuff in general though. So what does a General of an evil dark overlord do in their spare time to keep busy? Well, they play games! Strategic and evil cunning games!     Okay, chess. But in THIS version of chess, one imprisons and TORTURES the enemy pieces. At least that's what Yuuki's doing. It's cute, and perhaps a little disturbing, to see the horrible tortures she seems to be inflicting on her tiny prisoners. Then again she kind of lacks the drive to be truly terrible, so it's mostly saturday morning anime villain style behavior.     Yuuki's not even too bad at chess. She's perceptive and clever. Her biggest problem is she's impatient, so she's easy to draw into a trap or a sacrifice play. She's probably down a few rounds by the time Tomoe calls on the group to attend her and join in the dialog with our friendly heroes. "I'll torture YOU later!" she promises the latest chess piece, putting it down and patting it on its rounded dome head before flitting off to join in the potential debate.     Seeing as how it's peaceful and all, Yuuki makes no effort to hide. Which, in fact, is a good thing as she's not particularly good at hiding. She also makes no attempt to look ready with a blade, so she's simply a small dark figure bouncing cheerfully underneath the concealing wrappings of her ninja cowl and neck scarf. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:''' Welp, if it's Dark General time, that means it's Dark Priest time! Also means it's time for Josuke to wear that ridiculously over-the-top 'evil' outfit. So... yeah, he's wearing it. He's one of those in this meeting that are trying to figure out a way to do this without beating these guys into submission. Well, not beating ALL of them into submission, anyway... a couple of those so-called 'heroes' kinda need it. Anyway, yeah. If Tomoe's heading out to meet some of the 'heroes', he's going too. There's just too much possibility that it's a trap for him to even think about letting Tomoe go by herself. He can't fly, no, but that's what his Stand is for. It's not flight, no. Josuke is having his Stand toss him across the distance to keep up. Toss, catch, toss, catch. Until he gets to the site. The question from Bolt prompts Josuke to take a breath to respond... but then he remembers, he's supposed to be evil. So instead of what he'd been about to say, he notes in that false evil tone, "Speak then, heroes. We will entertain your curiosity... for now." 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' As for Yuuki's unfortunate enemy on the eight-by-eight battlefield, Xiaomu is by preference, rather than flying, cutting across country - by lightcycle where feasible, on foot where she has to; the former can cover a lot of ground quickly if the terrain is reasonably flat and forgiving, and the latter is reasonably agile, plus she doesn't tire out quite as easily as normal mundane mortals. (On the other hand, if the meeting place is in the geographical center of Futtbuck, Nowhere, with miles of forest wilderness to navigate from any direction, she might have to hitch a ride with a flyer after all.) She was decidedly not dressed for villainy during the strategy meeting, but that's quickly rectified with an application of her shapeshifting powers. One second she's in her accustomed qipao and vest, while the next sees her in the hooded cloak and robe which strike terror into the hearts of the good guys. ... Okay, maybe they don't do that exactly, but you get the idea. "As long as you're good with some give-and-take on who asks questions and who provides answers," she intones, "I should think we can provide a sufficient supply of answers." 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Dark Hunter? That's what you might think of Iria wearing a black cape instead of a dark red one, and her face looks a little more pale than usual, although that's because of the makeup she's wearing to give herself a more pale appearance. Apparently, it makes her look more evil. Behind that evil look, though, is a bit of unhappiness with this whole thing. She can't believe she's going into a disguise of sorts to go along with this. "The sooner we get through with this," Iria mutters, "The better. I've always been a lawful person!" For now she tries to hide her unhappiness as best as she can with an evilish grin. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     They actually did something Kirito wasn't expecting. They've LISTENED.     He's not sure why this surprises him, given how he tends to treat NPCs like people anyways - and this has just become even more the case since they've started showing up in odd places and walking around!     He might actually have a good reason to remove the ferocious Oni Mask he's been wearing to a great deal of these meetings. And maybe shrug off the spiky pauldrons and other accessories he added to his gear to seem more menacing.     As usual though, Kirito's letting Tomoe keep the lead here, and at first he only observes when he lands. Of course, part of it's because he's not that great at making the first move in speaking to people outside hectic situations, and doesn't want to say something stupid... 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe is still somewhat embarrassed by her outfit she's come to live with it though thankful for her semi digital nature to this would be really uncomfortable and in the back of her mind she wonders what will happen with fashions as time progresses and more people gain avatar forms? That doesn't last long as the question is asked though. She seems to sit back fold her arms and waits watching all of this with a neutral expression. Bolt looks to Staren, to Yuuki, Josuke,Kirito, Xiaomu and Iria in turn before he speaks. "We both went looking for Grandia, we could find no way to it, no one who knew, we even went to the city at the base of the world tree. No one really knew a thing about it. We could not find it on any map we could find either. What is going on?!" Lailah now speaks. "It doesn't make sense, a few know of Brick in the city but few seem to have heard of one supposedly as experienced as he is." Bolt grunts "Why do you look like Ms Longwing?!" He looks right at Tomoe when he says this... 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Even under her concealing face-scarf, Yuuki's uncertainty shows in her lowered eyes. Are these questions they should answer? Are they questions they CAN answer? Will this break the quest? She murmurs to herself briefly, asking questions of her own, before looking back up unhappily.     "Look, I don't think we can help about Grandia. I mean, first I heard of it was from you, right?" she offers Bolt. "Or about Brick either. Uh, no offense. I mean, you could be famous, I don't really know that many of your sort of heroes!" she grins sheepishly. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:''' Oh boy. Knocking on the inside of the fourth wall. Or on the inside of their own roles, as Xiaomu suggested. Josuke struggles with himself here; he really doesn't WANT to break the quest... but if there's a mind in these NPCs, particularly one struggling to get out... he can't bring himself to pretend. Not that he's very good at it, either. He pushes back the hood of his robe then, so Bolt and the Priestess can see his face properly. See? There IS one under that hood! But he also shakes his head. "I've never heard of Grandia either," he adds. "Or of Brick." There's a reason for that, one he's not sure he should go into detail about. But he IS speaking without the 'pretend evil' tone now. He looks... a lot like a typical high schooler, really. Though as for Tomoe looking like 'Ms. Longwing'? He says nothing on that score. Because to be honest, he doesn't know why either! He'd thought it was someone screwing with Tomoe, but after this he's not so sure... 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren watches Bolt attentively, ears turned forward, as he asks his questions.     Then he thinks, brow furrowed. How to explain CARDINAL to someone like this.     "A new god has risen to power. It isn't necessarily a good god, or an evil god -- perhaps fittingly, for a world of fairies, it thinks in stories."     Staren drops down from the tree. "It merged your world with others. Surely you've noticed the cities with towers of metal and glass, where people drive horseless carriages... That is one of the other worlds."     Staren begins to pace. "This god tells stories. All the time. It decided to tell a story about a dark lady terrorizing the countryside. A band of heroes came together and went to fight the Dark Lady... But something went wrong." He waves a hand at Tomoe. "The Dark Lady posessed one of the heroes, Tomoe, the Iron Lily. We exorcised her... but the god did not consider the story finished. So it spun a new tale, with Tomoe as the Dark Lady, and it created a new band of heroes to challenge her." He waves his hand at Bolt and Lailah. "There's a bit more to the details, but it's rather complicated and I think that covers the gist of it. As to why the barmaid looks like Tomoe, I have no idea. The whims of that god which we call CARDINAL, perhaps." He shrugs.     And then he stops in place and looks at the heroes seriously. "Just because you were created by CARDINAL, though, doesn't make you any less real, or mean you're beholden to its whims. The fact that you've noticed the inconsistancies and come to talk to us proves that." He shrugs again and shakes his head. "I have no idea what will happen, though, if you don't complete the story. Perhaps CARDINAL will create new heroes to attack us, who think you're villains too. We're very much in uncharted territory. All we want is to protect the people of all the worlds, from whatever threats they face -- whether CARDINAL has decided a giant monster attack makes for a good story, or because of criminals who try to trap people in worlds of their own devising..."     "So... what will you do? Well, if you even believe me... I suppose it's a pretty incredible story..." 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Iria continues to grin evilly, although it does look rather forced so after a while her grin disappears. Still, she listens attentively to what is being said. She offers little to say for the time being, although she does give a glance to Tomoe when the name 'Longwing' is said, but that's very brief and little else is shown in terms of movement or emotion. When Yuuki starts to speak, Iria gives her a glare. The way Yuuki is speaking sounds like she's not sure of what's going on, and that makes things a little more difficult in the eyes of Iria. But she doesn't say anything to Yuuki, instead waiting to hear a response from Bolt and/or Lailah. Josuke is really having trouble keeping with it, so Iria looks down before she rolls her eyes and looks up again. She decides to let Staren speak for the time being, and when he's done speaking, Iria finally speaks. "It sounds like a huge fairy tale, but I believe he speaks the truth," Iria says, gesturing to Staren. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Other than commenting quietly on the radio, Xiaomu has largely gone more or less silent. She does reach up to tug her hood back, leaving her face visible ... as well as her vulpine ears, and the several tails which are, as usual, 'disguised' as her hair. The 'heroic' NPCs have, for whatever reason, started running up against the bounds of their roles, as though walking through the forest and coming across the edge of the stage curtain, or leaning on a wall which collapses because it was plywood used to build the set. Xiaomu herself, for all her familiarity with (and love of) video games and other popular entertainments, is not quite sure how to approach the subject further - because gods alone (or CARDINAL, if that) know how these characters-becoming-people will react when the truth of their reality is explained fully. Of course, Staren is basically pulling down the curtain even as she considers what might be a better way to broach the subject - a gentler way, at least. Assuming that such a way even exists, that is. Xiaomu just stands in a slightly more relaxed manner, watching and listening, particularly attentive for reactions to Staren's ten-yen lecture on automated quest creation as applied to the real world. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito opens his mouth - not that anyone can see it - when Staren begins tot alk. He's not really sure that explaining CARDINAL in any fashion will be HELPFUL, as opposed to giving them an explanation that works within the bounds of their own Alfheim-based understanding of existence...     But thankfuly he's still wearing the mask, so nobody can see this. Either way, he clamps his mouth shut again. He ends up folding his arms at this... and shakes his head.     Becasue if they don't accept THAT story - and he's not sure he would if he was in their shoes - he's not sure how he can set the matter straight. The boy sighs exasperatedly from the sidelines, braing oing into hyperdrive.     He steps forward, removes the mask and unequips the menacing extra parts of his attire, dropping down to just plain ol Spriggan Kirito.     "Honestly. You can put that a lot more simply, Staren. The dark lord of the palace was beat, now the castle considers Tomoe her successor, and nobody told anyone from Alfheim any of this because we didn't know any of this was going on! ... I just dressed up because a demon castle needed some duds that looked the part."     Simple. As. That. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe has been wondering about what the deal with Longwing has been, why does she look like she could be her sister and almost twin? She has to think about that one, pretty hard. She has no good anwer for that but the consentis seem to everyone on both sides? Grandia does not exist anywhere on Earth. In or out of the game zones, if at all. Which Tomoe thought it was most likly didn't exist period. Then comes Staren with the full story, hard blunt and mayhaps for the best here given who knows what beating about the bushg might have done to thigns in the long runs. If Bolt and Lailah are straining against their origins it may be for the best. Josuke gets a glance from Lailah too as what staren has said sinks in. Bolt ponders for a moment. "The town farther south is indeed strange, everyone ears are rounded, also they can not fly." Lailah starts to think looking a bit scared. "So your saying this Cardinal created all of us.... our world and fused it with another? I would think that mad but I too have seen the town to the south and it's strange people." They seme to be overloading a bit but then Kirito swoops in with something a bit easier to take or graps on given their mental limits. Kirito's words seem to strike home and with the combined behjaviour along with people explaing things to them. "So wait then this?" Lailah holds up the gauntlet she has. Bolt seems to be recovering and looks to the weapon on his back he has. "Are these...tied to this castle?" Tomoe also has some wheels turning is the Castle the actual end boss? 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     "That wouldn't explain Grandia." Staren points out to Kirito.     The heroes respond, and Staren nods, relieved that they're at least seriously considering his story. "Honestly I've been wondering how you even GOT here. Alfheim is off the coast, on an entirely different continent. ...If you want independent confirmation, you can ask the race leaders. They know about this, but I'd imagine they don't know how to tell people in a way that sounds sensible if they haven't seen what you've seen."     He was expecting them to ask if the Gatecrashers were also CARDINAL's creations, so he's actually surprised when they persue a different line of inquiry.     Staren shrugs. "I'm not sure what the deal with your artifacts is, but CARDINAL gives us messages that the story is progressing when one is destroyed." 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki looks thoughtful at this. Which, unfortunately, also makes her look rather strained and uncomfortable. Or perhaps she's just uncomfortable at the level of open uncertainty and distress going on, and it's getting somewhat mixed with thoughtfulness...     "I'm not sure about those." Yuuki mentions. After a moment she shrugs, then unwinds her face scarf. Underneath it is just Yuuki, young and guileless. "They're part of this whole thing, yes. Just like the castle is. You could give them to us, and we'll see what happens?" she offers brightly. Just, you know, not exactly helpfully. Like she's trying to be evil and failing. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:''' Bolt's words draw up something Josuke can use. "That's right," he notes, about the ears and lack of flight. He turns his head to show his own ears -- with his hood back, now it can be seen that Josuke's ears are round, too. "See?" He's not one of the humans from their world, no... but humans are generally humans, from what he's seen. It can be assumed he isn't flying, since he doesn't have wings. Then again, depending on whether Bolt can see Crazy Diamond or not, it may have looked like he was flying, so he doesn't claim otherwise. Lailah's question of the relics/artifacts gets a nod. "They might be," Josuke replies. "It's all really weird how this has turned out..." He doesn't want to mention the whole 'video game' thing, but he's never seen a quest like this. And then he looks to Tomoe, wondering what her take on all this is. He sees the thoughtful look on her face... replays the last thing the 'heroes' said -- 'connected to the castle'... Then he remembers Kirito's mention of 'choosing' someone as the Dark Lady's successor. But if that's the case... who would have made that choice? Then his eyes go wide. "...You don't think that...?" A pause, a shake of his head. "No. Couldn't be. Can a castle be alive?" And then, because it's usually the answer to anything weird happening in HIS world... "Maybe it's a Stand?" Because if HE can leave his world, then other Stand users can too, right? 

:'''{{#var:215|Iria (215)}} has posed:''' Iria wants to make a quip about the ears being rounded and being unable to fly due to the fact they're humans, but she holds off on making any type of wisecracks or things like that for time being. She simply keeps her arms folded and listens, all the while silently envying Staren for having the ability to be so blunt yet do it so well. When Yuuki speaks again, Iria has to turn away so she can shake her head and scowl without anyone noticing. The huntress grits her teeth a little as well, trying not to snap at her in frustration. "We're supposed to be the bad guys!" She barely gets out, sighing a little, before turning to face forward again. Finally, she speaks audibly again. "It is very weird," Iria comments in a serious tone. A pause, then Iria narrows an eye a little as she says, "A castle that's alive? Trust me, I'll believe anything can happen in a world like this." She scowls a little. "Whatever a Stand is." 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' They're taking it relatively well, thinks Xiaomu, as Bolt and Lailah engage with the answers that Staren and Kirito provided. And it seems to be going fairly well, at that - no exploding freak-outs, no screams of 'that can't be true,' etc. A piece of her dares to wonder if it might actually be this easy. The rest of her remains skeptical, and wary to go with. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Man, Josuke just came to a REALLY scary conclusion. Kirito's face darkens a bit as his thoughts go wild with possibilities and educated guesswork. "... It's posssssssible." He admits grimly to the man. "... A living castle, that is. No idea about any Stands." What are Stands again? Huh.     He gives Staren a somewhat exasperated glare, but just shrugs at the end of it.     "Say..."     Seizing upon a sudden idea he whirls around to face the twins! "Your crew has some pretty decent mages, doesn't it? Why not give us a hand figuring this problem out? Then we can all go home knowing it's finally OVER." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Bolt is thinking here. "This Goddess is obsessed with weaving stories and did Orginal create Dark Lady Tomoe and the rest of you as well?" Its' a logical thing to ask about honestly. Bolt takes his massive war-hammer and moves to set it down on the ground. "I found this in a Dungeon in the mountains near here before this all started." Lailah also thinks more at what Josuke says about it. She then moves to offer him the gauntlet. Tomoe eyes goes a bit wide for a moment. "Wait what are you suggesting tha5t it's some kind of strange entity akin to your stand?" At lest that's where Tomoe seems to be getting some ideas about the castle. Bolt sees Lailah hands her gauntlet over as well. "If we are just puppets in a play...I would rather be writing my own lines then letting someone else." It's only Brick and Lailah here today it seems. Bolt takes a deep breath. "I am in but I do not think all of the others will listen." The Priestess seems unhappy yet nods. "I will as well take our items and do as you will with them. I would like to see this over and ... get some measure of our lives back." Well more starting their lives so to speak but it seem these two are willing to help. "I do not know about those who remain with Brick I doubt most of them will listen Misty I think you could convince I do not know about the rest." This is progress though. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki frowns at mention of the Goddess. And, well, she COULD lie but she's bad at it, and she doesn't really like deceiving. She shakes her head. "I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm only here because the Dark Lady's my friend and I'd do anything to help her!" she claims perkily. Just flat out saying it in such a way that it'd be almost impossible to doubt, while at the same time leaving it in full doubt just *what* she's doing. Being evil, apparently, whatever that implies. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Ah, there it is. Staren shakes his head. "We predate the 'goddess', but if you want proof of how we can know we weren't also created with memories of other histories, I'm not sure I can give you quick proof, so I'm willing to concede we might be creations too for the sake of argument, for now."     And then they... hand over the artifacts? He decides to check his quest log... and has another thought: "Tell me, does anything happen when you do this?" He asks the two, before he makes the menu-opening gesture. 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:''' It doesn't surprise Josuke that neither Iria nor Kirito know what a Stand is. So he offers a quick explanation, "The thing that follows me around." He assumes they can see it, since he's noticed a lot of people outside his world can -- and he did use it to get out here, so there was opportunity as well. There really isn't time for a long explanation right now. Tomoe's question gets a thoughtful pout from Josuke. "Maybe," he replies. "Though I wouldn't go on only that information. Jotaro says he's seen Stands bound to objects before. I'm sure spirits and things like that can bind themselves to objects too. Maybe it's even a really big tsukumogami -- a castle that felt abandoned, so made someone be its Dark Lady." ...That's a chilling prospect, isn't it? But he does note, "Though I have no idea of knowing if that's really the case or not. Right now it's just throwing stuff at the wall, not even being able to see what sticks." So there's that, at least... he could be way off base! The offer of the gauntlet from Lailah, gets a nod. Josuke smiles. "Thank you. We really don't want to have to fight you guys," he admits finally. Yeah that whole 'evil' thing is gone now. As for the others not wanting to play ball? "Do you think you could get hold of their relics? Maybe when they're asleep or something?" he suggests. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito is going quite wide-eyed at the self-awareness being displayed by these NPCs. He's seen plenty of Very Intelligent and driven NPCs, but none that have actually talked about such things as pondering their 'real nature', such as it is.     He's begun to gape ever so slightly at this, in fact!     "N-not so sure anything we'd find is one of these 'Stands', but the idea that the Castle's got a will... it bears checking." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Things seem to be progressing quite well the two heroes seem content to hand over the Artifacts. The pair dot not see the menu but pause wondering what Staren's doing with hand likely wizard things. "I felt like we should get back to town right away." Notes bolt and Lailah nods in agreement. "I felt much the same, we met Brick shortly after and things snowballed from there." The items are handed over and when the log is checked? Anyone who does will find the count went from 1/7 to 3/7. So progress is being made, very good progress is being made here. "That s worrisome possibility we may have to deal with Josuke and I ...." Tomoe urks for a moment as she grows a black scaly dragon like tail which easily finds it way out and through her armour and she also sprouts a pair of Daconic looking horns from he rhead which part through her hair. Tomoe just kinda sighs tail trashing in clear annoyance. "I'm never going to live this down." The two heroes pause for a moment. "We should get going before the other notice something is amiss, we'll be back." Notes Lailah. Bolt adds to this. "We will see what we can do about this...I just want to know the truth. "We'll figure this out hopefully we can stop this from going out of control. Now I'm going to catch this damn thing in doors..." 

:'''{{#var:1119|Josuke Higashikata (1119)}} has posed:''' Josuke is clearly disturbed by the sudden growth of the tail. "Tomoe? Are you all right?" he asks, alarmed. No he's not going to try and touch the tail, no matter how much he wants to poke at it. He looks worried, though. He looks up at the two heroes, with a nod. "Thanks for trying to work with us instead of just trying to bash our heads in," he says, half-kidding. More seriously, he offers, "Take care, you two." He's still worried about this. Tomoe is changing as the quest progresses more. What happens if they get all seven? Will Tomoe's personality change? Will Tomoe become possessed by the Dark Lady again? There's still too many things he doesn't know yet... 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren looks at the quest log and gives the heroes a thumbs up. "CARDINAL indicates the story's progressed. Looks like us taking them counts too, we don't have to destroy them."     Then Tomoe grows a tail and horns and Staren looks over at her. "I guess that's an indicator too." As she thrashes it in annoyance, he smiles. "Ooh! You learned to control it fast!" His own tail twitching excitedly. Stuff is happening! NPCs are learning! What will happen? Why is Tomoe turning into a dragon and what does it mean? There's so much to learn!     He turns back to the heroes as they say their goodbyes. "I just want everyone to know the truth. Good luck. Again, if they want more proof, you can talk to the race leaders. It doesn't make sense for all of them to be conspiring with the Dark Lady, right? What would be the point?"     Then he looks a bit more serious. "Good luck. And thank you for coming to see us, so we could start straightening this all out." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     With Tomoe RANDOMLY GROWING DRAGON FEATURES, Kirito turns and STARES at her. The fact that the quest advanced isn't lost on him, but...     Yep. He's staring in open bewilderment at her! "... This is just ridiculous..." 
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5876/The Dark Lady: Black Swords Man's Inquisition

2018-08-17T20:09:40Z

Junker99: Kirito and Tomoe go on a hunt in the castle Libary and get one heck of a lore drop.

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/05/25
|Location=The Dark Lady's Castle Libary
|Synopsis=Kirito and Tomoe go to dig for information in the Castle Libary and Kirito uncovers a worrying bit of information about the nature of the Castle and the Dark Lady.
|Cast of Characters=6, 1
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Kirito had had some thoughts about the castle, he had questions and Tomoe had been happy to let him go around asking them. Under one condtion that she could come along, so she's waiting for him in the entryway of the grim castle. Once again in her Dark Lady form, wings, horns tail and the outfit. "So you had something you wanted to see if you could get answers about?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito's ditched his BIG SCARY ATTIRE and is now walking around in his usual getup. Because he just can't stand wearing that mask any further. "Nnh." He replies with an informal affirmative.     "I've got a hunch. That maybe this quest isn't as glitched as we thought. Or, if it is, that there might've been some... retcons at play. All we need to do to verify is ask the locals about the castle's history. Either they'll have something to say about it or... it'll be a dead end." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looks to Kirito for a moment "That could be a problem." Her tails twitching a bit without her thinking about it much. "Lead the way I'll make sure the locals comply with your request wnat to hit up the libary first?" She tilts her head a bit and moves to fall in with Kirito. "Only one way to find out." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "The library's as good a start as any!" Kirito agrees, looking up and blinking a bit with realization. "Might be a book or two with information...!" He's not sure. He's never actually CHECKED books on shelves that way in Aincrad, come to think of it. They weren't common! 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe thinks for a moment as she heads into the depths of the castle her heels clicking on the stone and tail swaying. "I have been thinking you are right, it could some how effect my mind. That worried me a lot, I had enough of things like that for one life time after I was Jeci...." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "To be honest... my gut tells me it shouldn't." Kirito answers quite bluntly. "It would break all precedent established so far. And even with everything going topsy-turvy physical, most quests still seem... fair. Still playing by the usual rules." And this is the Kirito Tomoe might be more familiar with, out of Aincrad!     Analytical. Observant. Working to solve the mystery, even if he's blunt and direct about it.     "...But even still..." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe thinks about uit as she walked, her tail sways and her wings twitch a bit as she goes. "You make a good point and I have to wonder. Did Cardinal stop something worse like a rapid fusing of our world with the data core slowing it down to the point we coulc cope?" She wonders. The p air soon arrive at the libary and there's walls of books, it's not huge but it's still sizable for a personal collection, more than one might expect. A fairly well dressed Orc looks up as the pair enter. "My Lady, General, how may I be of service to you in the Archives?" "I am looking for the history of the castle and anything to do with our own history." The Orc pauses "My lady why would you need such do you not know your own past." "Consider this a test of our archive." The orc pause and nods before looking to Kirito. "What do you require general?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "Our enemies are claiming that we have conquered and pillaged lands I have never heard of." Kirito makes his best impression of a commanding tone. "Hardly befitting a general. So I am here to peruse any records on our past conquests. Fill in a few holes in the story."     Since Tomoe went and asked the first thing he wanted... 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Orc brushes off Kirito's comment. "With all of our conquests it's not shocking you might forget a place or two. After all for them it was a day burned into your mind. For our Dark Lady? It was Tuesday. Still I will fetch those records for you." He leads Tomoe and Kirito to the history section of the libary it's only a fee shelves but it's there nad tomoe starts to look, she finds one on the world tree, one of the foating castle and pause as she flips through it, the one covering the lore of SAO? Is disturbing accurate as ehr lef through it, Kirito meanwhile would find a book on the Castle, the tome is clad in dark dyed black leather and decoraded with black dragon scales on the cover. Inside he would fion that the castle was suposedly old, very old, fused with a Ley Line Nexus of dark Elemental power, there's a general index history of the Dark Lady, History of the castle, Will of the Castle and even an original floor plan from it's construction. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "Hrmgh." Kirito's grouchy throaty noise will have to suffice for a response! He makes his way with the Orc and Tomoe though, and starts perusing the available lore, letting the Orc explain some of the conquests.     And the floor plans. His eyes widen at those!     "Yui?"     In a flash, the little Navigation Pixie appears on Kirito's shoulder! She'd been napping, apparently, for she covers her mouth to yaaaaaaawn! "Yes, papa? Good evening, Miss Tomoe! And..." She peers curiously at the Orc. Then at the page.     "I'm wondering if this floor plan is still accurate." He murmurs to his 'daughter'. He also eyes the deal about a ley line, which supports SOME of his theories... 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe is lost looking ove the history book while Kirito and Yui woudl be findin some interesing bots of data here. She could check the maps after all she is Kirito's aid so far as the monsters of the castle are concerned and she shouldn't end up being a target. "Oh Yui! Hello, that could be something for Yui to check out. Are you thinking this castle is cursed somehow Kirito?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "It's built on a fount of dark magic. How is it NOT 'cursed'?" Kirito answers almost sarcastically, giving Tomoe an incredulous look... and then scratching his chin. "Finding anything interesting about the history?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looks at Kirito "It could just be New Jersy." She notes making a joke Kirito might not get. "It's disturbing accuate about the death game, albeit in a lore form Down to all the heroes vanishing form the world. As for the cstl eit's mostly just hte dark lade made her mighty fortress upon this ever moding fount, I think the castle goes with the Ley Lines as it shifts but if it's cused what will it /do/ to me?!" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "Probably nothing good, if it is. But if it's a magic castle, there's probably something like a heart to it. Something like a big crystal..." Kirito muses aloud quite thoughtfully. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looks to Kirito as she keeps looking over the various tomes here and pauses thinking "If we think of this in a video game sense there'a also a boss fight. You know the cursed castle series with the dark vampire lord and the Hellsing family fighting them over the generations..." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito hears Tomoe's idea.... and sort of stares at her for a bit while thoughts percolate in his mind. "Hmmm. Assuming that's the case... then there should be records about it we can look up!" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe thinks for a moment "Let's keep looking we're in the right section it looks like, right?" Tomoe would start having to bend over to check some of the lower shelves and is distracted for the moment look. Kirito might find another tome this one locked by chains and a magical seal though the title on it is the Dark Lady's Codex.... 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito does indeed hoist up the ominous-looking volume, frowning at how heavily it's been bound up. "... this is our castle, isn't it?" He quietly asides to Tomoe, as if offended by finding this thing all bound up.     Hurriedly, he pokes the object to bring up its menu, looking to see if he has whatever it takes to unlock it. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe rises up and pauses as she looks at the book. "What is the book?" She asks, if Kirito checks it open. It seems he does have the means to open the book as a dark general a the fluff text notes the contents are known only to the lady and her dark generals. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "Dark Lady's Codex." Kirito responds simply and in a distracted tone. As usual, manners aren't high on his list of priorities. His nose is in the book as he cracks it open to have a look. "For our eyes only." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The tmes chains give way vanishing in a burst purple light anbd the contents open up before them, ther's bits about how certain aspects of the castle can be used to create minions and bosses. Or transform victems into such, Tomoe makes a face she keeps looking and soon they will find about the nexus the core of the castl the place of the dark Lady's asention to true power and full mastery of the castl once the heroes have fallen... 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito's expression darkens the more he reads, page flip after page flip. Not only does it darken but he draws in a sharp breath at some of the entries...     And it ends with him giving her a silent but forceful LOOK. yeah. He knows what they'll have to do here! 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looks ove them her expression darkens too. "Cardinal really went all out on this...but we need to finish the quest don't we? Then again she's done dummy quests before as well." She thinks about where she got her fake excalibur. "So beater, got any ideas?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     'Beater.' Kirito very mildly twitches at the use of that ancient word. Bunches his shoulders a little uncomfortably even. But shrugs it off, ultimately. He keeps up the hard look. "Yeah. We go check these things out... and see what our options are. Like if they have health bars." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe intended it as a joke to lighten the mood but it failed haard and she looks a bit ashamed for a moment "Right, then try to grill my minions as I really don't want to go end boss JRPG boss." Her dragon like featureds hint to what the final form might be like. Her tail is twitching a heck of a lot and it's really otu of her contol. "So we should go do that now I think while we have the motivation to do so." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "Sounds like a plan." Kirito exclaims with an exasperated sigh. This quest is ridiculous, and he doesn't know what to make of this crazy new world sometimes. It defies his understanding of VRMMOs as Cardinal had heavily established them. But that just brings new questions to his overactive mind... ALL of them troubling! 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe stretchds looks to Kirito. "may I have the codex to hang on to I need ot read this in detail." She notes even if it's not handed over she'll head out thank the Orc who runs this place and will take time ot grill her minions to where the nexus is, she'll not she wishe ot make some early preperaitons for the ritual and with that the two find themselvces going into the deeps deep below the castle the place thrums with magic, black crystals glow with some sort ofg magicla power as they get deeper and deeper into the heart of the castle. There are stone statures here and there which look very much like Tomoe or one related to her. "I think we're almost there." Then they will come upon a engraving showing one looking very much like tomoe being enveloped in power before a massive crystal formation. "..." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Of course Kirito hands over the book on request! And he follows all the way to the spot on the map.     He's not terribly happy.     Statues. Statues everywhere. And...     "... man. So it WAS a crystal." Kirito exclaims almost anticlimactically at the sight of that huge assembly of strange occult formations!     "... I'm getting a bad feeling about this. We should probably get a full party here before we touch anything." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looks about for a moment and she sighs "It looks like it and hold on do you see that?" There in the central chamber is the skeleton of a massive dragon with the bearest hints of scale and skin remaining here and there. Tromoe nods in agreement "We shouldn't poke this without others with us, I don't ... like this." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito does indeed see it. He looks between the half-assembled dragon and Tomoe a few times, expression growing tense and brow furrowing. "At LEAST a full party." The Black Swordsman asserts, voice almost a desperate hiss. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looks at her tail then to the wings and horns. "...Never turn into a snake, it never helps." She sighs and fgrowns "Why do I get a feeling that's somehow connected to my suposed asdending?" She makes a face and she sighs "I'm glad I have friends like you, Yuuki, Asuna, Silica and everyone else..." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "You thought so too?" Kirito questions... though given the subject, it's almsot rhetorical. At the sudden praise, the boy's expression turns a bit awkward... but it soon shifts into a warm and supportive smile. "Yeah. None of us would be here today if we weren't all together. So we'll get through this." 
}}

5940/Cat Fight

2018-08-17T19:59:27Z

Junker99:

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/07/08
|Location=Forest near the Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Silica confronts one of the 'heroes' with the intent to take him down on
|Cast of Characters=6, 973
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Region around the castle had bee more troop spawns of the Dark Lady lately, it seemed with every defeated hero? Her power grew much as her form seemingly became more draconic. Tomoe had asked Silicia to scout out for changes while she would be burying herself in the archives for a time trying to find some more information out which would be of use in ending this quest line. Hopefully without diaster. Silicia would be able to get some leads which would point to the Heroes, well some of them are back in town, Bolt had tipped off this one noting the mage was actually a merc who'd been brought in by Brick rather than part of the normal crew. With that in hand the town seems somewhat busy as the various fairies who live here go about their business unaware that a General of the Dark Lady might arrive, on one final note? Bolt noted the mage might be found in the tavern and had made a request to not kill the guy. If others were able to aid Silicia Tomoe had noted bring whom she could along for this. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica is dressed down from her Dark General outfit... she's not wearing her usual outfit, but instead a dark-patterned version, keeping the Dark Silicon vibe without being too overt. She walks through the town, ears twitching to sounds and conversations, heading toward the tavern with Pina perched on her shoulder, the little dragon's feathers dyied onyx black, and the beady little red eyes turned a baleful orange instead, really evil looking.     Her image, and presense would probably send ripples through the crowd regardless of her changed look, she's still the Mistress of Mayhem, Dark Silicon, after all. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' There's talk about the strange town to the south is populated by the race native to the Floating Castle lived in large numbers further up and down the coast of here. The pair of village go on about it how they are strange, can't fly but one notes, they'd been trying some trade and they seemed to take Yurd so it might end up being profitable to trade with the town to the south. Others talk about the Dark Lady and have very unkind things to say about her, others are fearful as they hear most of Brick's party has fallen and as of late Misty Punchfist has gone missing. Others speak of Brick as well hoping he can still save them from the evil of the Dark Lady. Silicia's clothing change works, none of the locals notice her for a little bit, yet people start giving away keeping away from her something is imposing about the small Cait Sith, which has many her see her on edge a few whisper wait could that be her? Dark Silicon? No one dares to approach her regardless and the way to the tavern is clear. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica looks around at the people, finds someone who isn't currently looking and thus, isn't trying to stay back from her. She reaches out, and taps them on the shoulder. "I'm looking for someone. You're going to help me find them." she states, her eyes hidden behind her dark black hair, though the irises glow faintly, making her look very ominous.     She summons a picture from her inventory, and flicks it up to show the hooded figure of the Caster. "Mercenary. Came in with the hero band after the Dark Lady. Know where I can find them?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' A younish Imp turns about her eyes going wide at Slicia and stammers. "I wait you are...?!?" There's a look of fear an understnading. "Don't hurt me...him?! He's at the Tavern if he's not out grinding!" She stammers looking very spooked. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica lifts her head to show her eyes properly, giving a very dangerous smile before patting the Imp on the shoulder. "Thank you." she says, then instantly loses the smile, and brushes past her on the way to the Tavern.     Pina looks back at the Imp as Silica walks on, giving a very soft little chirp as if in apology.     Silica pushes open the door to the Tavern once she gets there, turning her red eyes across those inside in a slow, searching pan. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The young Imp braces for things to get worse and htey don't the last thing Pina sees is the young Imp looking very confused, then forming her wings, flying the heck off. Yes she's getting out of here like right now. Silica strides in the Dark General is here and the mage is eay nough to spoit his cloak hiding his form stand sout and it's more tattered than it was before. He's mid drink he stops and turns about. "So you actually have the gaul to come alone?" He says rishing up from his seat. Other patrons start to scatter, this could get /bad/ really quick. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica trains her gaze on the mage, then thumbs over her shoulder. "Outside. I want to talk." she says, glancing at the bartender. "Besides, breaking important places just makes keeping control over an area much more difficult once we finally win." she adds, keeping her tone just to the left of being directly threatening.     She then turns and steps back out of the building, striding away from important structures and summoning her wings, waiting for the mage to join her. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Unde this cowl the mystery caster smitks and head for the door. "fine, I like this bar." With that he'll swagger out to wait for Silica. More people are starting to scatter. A few do not and one looks like a hiker of some sort. There's a smart phone out and they seem to be happily taking photos of everything until one of the local grabs them and whispers "Come on you don't want to be near this." The mage joins Silica and stares her down. "So come alone to try and curry Favour with Dark Lady Tomoe mm? Take one of us out all on your own?" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica lifts into the air. "Do you really understand what's happening here? Do you know why the others were swayed and defeated?" she asks, folding her arms as she floats a few feet off the ground, Pina still clinging to her shoulder. "I know you're a mercenary, hired on for your magical skill and lack of loyalties I'd bet." she asserts, quirking a brow in curiosity. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' If this was a western? Tumble Weeds would be rolling by right now from how tense the standoff seems to be. He looks at her as she floats holing his staff. "Right I fight for Yurd, this would be a good boost to my repuation and how much could I charge once this job is done. So what about it? You here trying to buy me off? I doubt you got the cash for that..." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "You might be right about that, but you didn't answer my other question. Do you know why the others were swayed? or defeated?" Silica asks. Her ears twitch lightly, tail lashing back and forth as she floats. "Can I ask you another question. Do you believe in destiny?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Silica was right he dodged the question there, she looks at her. "Didn't have the metal to see it through or got their wings kicked by running off alone." He notes while he also watches Silica's ears intently, maybe he's trying to read her via how they behave. "Destiny? You mean all that dung people think controls no one controls me but me little Cat." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "Maybe you should believe in it, because no matter what happens. The Dark Lady will win. Whose side you're on when that happens may mean the difference between life and death." Silica remarks, her ears unreadably twitching at random, perhaps done on purpose to misdirect the mage's attention. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' "Are you implying I can't spend it if I'm dead? Hehg cute but I got to ask do you have any idea what I'm being paid already?" He eyes her wondering what her game is but the fact she's not tried to fight yet has him off balance and it shows. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "Enough to turn a blind eye to the facts in front of you, but not enough to be completely dumb to the turning tide." replies Silica, lowering herself a little, bringing her face to face with the mage, though not so close as to violate his space. "Seriously now, have I even lied in our encounters? If I, or my compatriots value as a virtue, it's honesty." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Mage just stares he's thinking for a moment he looks at them for a moment. So I think I get what you are saying." The merc looks to her. "No you haven't so far asI know all right I'll bite. What do you say is going on with this?" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Got him. Thinks Silica, a little quirk of her lips up into a smile betraying her inner thoughts. "Did you ever stop to think why someone like Dark Lady Tomoe might be building an army? Of course there's the 'conquer the world' angle, but, what if I told you there's something even /worse/ than my Lady, waiting in the sidelines and waiting to pounce. Something that Heros or Villains alone cannot fight against." She drops to the floor, unfolding her arms and spreading them to the sides, "What if I told you that, only together, can the forces of Light and Dark defeat this greater evil?" She's putting on a show, her voice rising and gaining some more of that haughty, imperious tone she used early on. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Silcia has played her cards well and the Merc just looks at Silica he listens for a moment "So your saying she's gathering power to deal wioth something." Well the Dark Lady hadn't raided the towns around here much more than the odd little skirmish and with her hordes that was odd. "That we have to fight this thing or we're all going to die? Fine just what is this thing the light and the dark is? Also how much will I get paid...?" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica folds her arms again, shading her eyes with her bangs. "We're still figuring out all the details. I can give you more if you join us at the castle. As for pay, you'll have to talk to the Dark Lady herself about that, though I can promise a handsome reward, both in yuld, and magical items." One red iris shines out, turning to look up at the mage. "What say thee?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Mage grunts for a moment and looks at her. "Then lets go talk to her right now about that. If I have your word I won't be harmed while we do this. It's never good to start ganking the hired help now is it?" He notes he'll follow Silica by wing or foot if she agrees 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "As long as you're with me, none of the Dark Lady's minions will harm you. Once you join us, you will remain perfectly safe." Silica replies, her wings twitching as she lifts back into the air. "I have let them know we are on the way." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The flight to the castle is not eventful, it's quiet save a few confused flying monsters who look confused at the passing pair, but heed orders. It will not take long for them to land in the courtyard and for Silica to guide them to the Audience Hall. There they would find Tomoe the Dark Lady in all her 'glory'. Clad in the dark armour which really failed the entire point about what Armour is supposed to be. Though it may have been a while since Silicia has seen her. There are changes she has a dragon tail, her wings are large and leathery like a dragon there are horns also growing out of her head and her eyes are now slitted like a Dragon's as well. She rises up as the pair enter grinning for a moment. "So you have arrived My general and with this one willingly?" The Mage looks her over and does not comment on her clothing or the Dargon Girl thing she seems to have to go on at the moment. "Your General said something worse than you were coming and you sought to stop it." She looks at the Mage for a moment tilting her head a bit. "I fear this castle is part of a cycle, defeat me and it will just find another? We find a way to deal with the castle and the cycle will end. I will happily pay you well but I require one thing surrender your item of power. It is part of a ritual needed to draw the castle out." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica comes to a stop as the Mage steps forward, her arms folding over her chest and her tail swaying back and forth. She doesn't say anything, letting Tomoe pass on the information. She looks over at the Mage, curious of what he'll do. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The mage listens the mage thinks for a moment "Well your a lot easier on the eyes than Brick Slabmeat is." The mage notes before he goes quiet for a moment He gives an amount of what he's being paid, it's pretty good but the coffer here for the quest line likely can do better and Tomoe does, even if is going to reduce the payout of the quest. She more wants it done she wants to not galavant about in cheesecake against her will. She gives a far better price to the Merc and also offers certain magical items. "What is needed however is the staff." "Fine with me with that sort of pay." Tomeo calls for a Guard to bring a portion of the Yurd not all of it, half up front. The Mage nods and hands the staff over, and everyone's quest logs will tick over to 5/7 Heroes defeated. Then Tomoe feels a fire in her chest it builds and build till finally, she opens her mouth turns away from everyone and breaths a massive burst of flame into the air of the widely vaulted hall. "... Oh, you have got to be kidding me going Dragon never helps!" The Mage looks a bit confused but he doesn't comment. She regains her composure and looks to Silica "Well done only Misty Punch Fist and Brick Slabmeat remain." 
}}

5940/Cat Fight

2018-08-17T19:59:13Z

Junker99: Silica tracks down one of the Heroes who has been fighting the Dark Lady

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/07/08
|Location=Forest near the Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Silica confronts one of the 'heroes' with the intent to take him down on
|Cast of Characters=6, 973
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Region around the castle had bee more troop spawns of the Dark Lady lately, it seemed with every defeated hero? Her power grew much as her form seemingly became more draconic. Tomoe had asked Silicia to scout out for changes while she would be burying herself in the archives for a time trying to find some more information out which would be of use in ending this quest line. Hopefully without diaster. Silicia would be able to get some leads which would point to the Heroes, well some of them are back in town, Bolt had tipped off this one noting the mage was actually a merc who'd been brought in by Brick rather than part of the normal crew. With that in hand the town seems somewhat busy as the various fairies who live here go about their business unaware that a General of the Dark Lady might arrive, on one final note? Bolt noted the mage might be found in the tavern and had made a request to not kill the guy. If others were able to aid Silicia Tomoe had noted bring whom she could along for this. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica is dressed down from her Dark General outfit... she's not wearing her usual outfit, but instead a dark-patterned version, keeping the Dark Silicon vibe without being too overt. She walks through the town, ears twitching to sounds and conversations, heading toward the tavern with Pina perched on her shoulder, the little dragon's feathers dyied onyx black, and the beady little red eyes turned a baleful orange instead, really evil looking.     Her image, and presense would probably send ripples through the crowd regardless of her changed look, she's still the Mistress of Mayhem, Dark Silicon, after all. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' There's talk about the strange town to the south is populated by the race native to the Floating Castle lived in large numbers further up and down the coast of here. The pair of village go on about it how they are strange, can't fly but one notes, they'd been trying some trade and they seemed to take Yurd so it might end up being profitable to trade with the town to the south. Others talk about the Dark Lady and have very unkind things to say about her, others are fearful as they hear most of Brick's party has fallen and as of late Misty Punchfist has gone missing. Others speak of Brick as well hoping he can still save them from the evil of the Dark Lady. Silicia's clothing change works, none of the locals notice her for a little bit, yet people start giving away keeping away from her something is imposing about the small Cait Sith, which has many her see her on edge a few whisper wait could that be her? Dark Silicon? No one dares to approach her regardless and the way to the tavern is clear. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica looks around at the people, finds someone who isn't currently looking and thus, isn't trying to stay back from her. She reaches out, and taps them on the shoulder. "I'm looking for someone. You're going to help me find them." she states, her eyes hidden behind her dark black hair, though the irises glow faintly, making her look very ominous.     She summons a picture from her inventory, and flicks it up to show the hooded figure of the Caster. "Mercenary. Came in with the hero band after the Dark Lady. Know where I can find them?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' A younish Imp turns about her eyes going wide at Slicia and stammers. "I wait you are...?!?" There's a look of fear an understnading. "Don't hurt me...him?! He's at the Tavern if he's not out grinding!" She stammers looking very spooked. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica lifts her head to show her eyes properly, giving a very dangerous smile before patting the Imp on the shoulder. "Thank you." she says, then instantly loses the smile, and brushes past her on the way to the Tavern.     Pina looks back at the Imp as Silica walks on, giving a very soft little chirp as if in apology.     Silica pushes open the door to the Tavern once she gets there, turning her red eyes across those inside in a slow, searching pan. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The young Imp braces for things to get worse and htey don't the last thing Pina sees is the young Imp looking very confused, then forming her wings, flying the heck off. Yes she's getting out of here like right now. Silica strides in the Dark General is here and the mage is eay nough to spoit his cloak hiding his form stand sout and it's more tattered than it was before. He's mid drink he stops and turns about. "So you actually have the gaul to come alone?" He says rishing up from his seat. Other patrons start to scatter, this could get /bad/ really quick. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica trains her gaze on the mage, then thumbs over her shoulder. "Outside. I want to talk." she says, glancing at the bartender. "Besides, breaking important places just makes keeping control over an area much more difficult once we finally win." she adds, keeping her tone just to the left of being directly threatening.     She then turns and steps back out of the building, striding away from important structures and summoning her wings, waiting for the mage to join her. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Unde this cowl the mystery caster smitks and head for the door. "fine, I like this bar." With that he'll swagger out to wait for Silica. More people are starting to scatter. A few do not and one looks like a hiker of some sort. There's a smart phone out and they seem to be happily taking photos of everything until one of the local grabs them and whispers "Come on you don't want to be near this." The mage joins Silica and stares her down. "So come alone to try and curry Favour with Dark Lady Tomoe mm? Take one of us out all on your own?" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica lifts into the air. "Do you really understand what's happening here? Do you know why the others were swayed and defeated?" she asks, folding her arms as she floats a few feet off the ground, Pina still clinging to her shoulder. "I know you're a mercenary, hired on for your magical skill and lack of loyalties I'd bet." she asserts, quirking a brow in curiosity. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' If this was a western? Tumble Weeds would be rolling by right now from how tense the standoff seems to be. He looks at her as she floats holing his staff. "Right I fight for Yurd, this would be a good boost to my repuation and how much could I charge once this job is done. So what about it? You here trying to buy me off? I doubt you got the cash for that..." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "You might be right about that, but you didn't answer my other question. Do you know why the others were swayed? or defeated?" Silica asks. Her ears twitch lightly, tail lashing back and forth as she floats. "Can I ask you another question. Do you believe in destiny?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Silica was right he dodged the question there, she looks at her. "Didn't have the metal to see it through or got their wings kicked by running off alone." He notes while he also watches Silica's ears intently, maybe he's trying to read her via how they behave. "Destiny? You mean all that dung people think controls no one controls me but me little Cat." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "Maybe you should believe in it, because no matter what happens. The Dark Lady will win. Whose side you're on when that happens may mean the difference between life and death." Silica remarks, her ears unreadably twitching at random, perhaps done on purpose to misdirect the mage's attention. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' "Are you implying I can't spend it if I'm dead? Hehg cute but I got to ask do you have any idea what I'm being paid already?" He eyes her wondering what her game is but the fact she's not tried to fight yet has him off balance and it shows. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "Enough to turn a blind eye to the facts in front of you, but not enough to be completely dumb to the turning tide." replies Silica, lowering herself a little, bringing her face to face with the mage, though not so close as to violate his space. "Seriously now, have I even lied in our encounters? If I, or my compatriots value as a virtue, it's honesty." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Mage just stares he's thinking for a moment he looks at them for a moment. So I think I get what you are saying." The merc looks to her. "No you haven't so far asI know all right I'll bite. What do you say is going on with this?" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Got him. Thinks Silica, a little quirk of her lips up into a smile betraying her inner thoughts. "Did you ever stop to think why someone like Dark Lady Tomoe might be building an army? Of course there's the 'conquer the world' angle, but, what if I told you there's something even /worse/ than my Lady, waiting in the sidelines and waiting to pounce. Something that Heros or Villains alone cannot fight against." She drops to the floor, unfolding her arms and spreading them to the sides, "What if I told you that, only together, can the forces of Light and Dark defeat this greater evil?" She's putting on a show, her voice rising and gaining some more of that haughty, imperious tone she used early on. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Silcia has played her cards well and the Merc just looks at Silica he listens for a moment "So your saying she's gathering power to deal wioth something." Well the Dark Lady hadn't raided the towns around here much more than the odd little skirmish and with her hordes that was odd. "That we have to fight this thing or we're all going to die? Fine just what is this thing the light and the dark is? Also how much will I get paid...?" 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica folds her arms again, shading her eyes with her bangs. "We're still figuring out all the details. I can give you more if you join us at the castle. As for pay, you'll have to talk to the Dark Lady herself about that, though I can promise a handsome reward, both in yuld, and magical items." One red iris shines out, turning to look up at the mage. "What say thee?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Mage grunts for a moment and looks at her. "Then lets go talk to her right now about that. If I have your word I won't be harmed while we do this. It's never good to start ganking the hired help now is it?" He notes he'll follow Silica by wing or foot if she agrees 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     "As long as you're with me, none of the Dark Lady's minions will harm you. Once you join us, you will remain perfectly safe." Silica replies, her wings twitching as she lifts back into the air. "I have let them know we are on the way." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The flight to the castle is not eventful, it's quiet save a few confused flying monsters who look confused at the passing pair, but heed orders. It will not take long for them to land in the courtyard and for Silica to guide them to the Audience Hall. There they would find Tomoe the Dark Lady in all her 'glory'. Clad in the dark armour which really failed the entire point about what Armour is supposed to be. Though it may have been a while since Silicia has seen her. There are changes she has a dragon tail, her wings are large and leathery like a dragon there are horns also growing out of her head and her eyes are now slitted like a Dragon's as well. She rises up as the pair enter grinning for a moment. "So you have arrived My general and with this one willingly?" The Mage looks her over and does not comment on her clothing or the Dargon Girl thing she seems to have to go on at the moment. "Your General said something worse than you were coming and you sought to stop it." She looks at the Mage for a moment tilting her head a bit. "I fear this castle is part of a cycle, defeat me and it will just find another? We find a way to deal with the castle and the cycle will end. I will happily pay you well but I require one thing surrender your item of power. It is part of a ritual needed to draw the castle out." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica comes to a stop as the Mage steps forward, her arms folding over her chest and her tail swaying back and forth. She doesn't say anything, letting Tomoe pass on the information. She looks over at the Mage, curious of what he'll do. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The mage listens the mage thinks for a moment "Well your a lot easier on the eyes than Brick Slabmeat is." The mage notes before he goes quiet for a moment He gives an amount of what he's being paid, it's pretty good but the coffer here for the quest line likely can do better and Tomoe does, even if is going to reduce the payout of the quest. She more wants it done she wants to not galavant about in cheesecake against her will. She gives a far better price to the Merc and also offers certain magical items. "What is needed however is the staff." "Fine with me with that sort of pay." Tomeo calls for a Guard to bring a portion of the Yurd not all of it, half up front. The Mage nods and hands the staff over, and everyone's quest logs will tick over to 5/7 Heroes defeated. Then Tomoe feels a fire in her chest it builds and build till finally, she opens her mouth turns away from everyone and breaths a massive burst of flame into the air of the widely vaulted hall. "... Oh, you have got to be kidding me going Dragon never helps!" The Mage looks a bit confused but he doesn't comment. She regains her composure and looks to Silica "Well done only Misty Punch Fist and Brick Slabmeat remain." 
}}

5981/Dark Lady: Mouse From Above

2018-08-17T19:53:22Z

Junker99:

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/08/04
|Location=The Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Leyanne acting on a tip from Brick Slabmeat goes after a horrible dark lady who turns out to be none other than her friend Tomoe. Whom she crashed in on leaving her and Silica quite shocked.
|Cast of Characters=6, 1100, 973
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Leyanne had met Brick Slabmeat, yes that is the Salamander's name in nearby village's tavern. He'd spoken of the Dark Lady and how her minions had been crippling or breaking the will to fight of his party. He seemed to be in dire straights and he'd not outright asked Leyanne for help but it was implied. Whatever her choice on the matter? It's summer on the west coast of North America, it's hot, it's dry, people are wondering where the rain is and hoping where they live does not go do an impersonation of California. The castle is nestled in an evergreen forest on the foothills of one of the numerous mountain ranges along the Washington State coast, all is quiet at this point wave for a few orcs and goblins on patrol about the castle's grounds and walls. 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne mutters sourly to herself the whole way about the castle... mainly about what kind of uncultured plebian puts a Medieval European-styled castle in /America/ of all places. She's approaching via her jet wingsuit, hoping to use the element of surprise. When you're an eight foot mouse, you can't really sneak, so the best thing you can do is get into the area quickly, before the other guy has a chance to react. The sudden whistle of the suit's two gas turbine engines is about all the warning, therefore, that the Orcs on the castle walls will get. The mouse puts her arms out ahead of her and puches an orc in the face as she passes over the walls, keeping them there as she angles herself low to punch in through one of the castle's stained glass windows. She cuts thrust and lands in a neat three-point crouch in the middle of whatever room she happens to be in, immediately standing up and sweeping around herself with her pistol, checking her LZ is clear. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Cardinal That's who'd put some of a JRPG VR MMORPG into a place like this that is who would place this stuff here. There's only a handful of players form ALO who could go faster than Leyanne and Cardinal balanced things for the average Aguma user rather than the likes of say? The GU. As for Leyanne, she gets there without much trouble. The orc doesn't know what it and is knocked down hard he's pretty much out of the fight as Leyanne goes by. His current status? Sapped. Leyanne goes crashing through the winter, it shatters, but then something odd happens the shards explode second later into shards of like then vanish, she'll come in for a landing in the middle of a long room full of Obsidian statues and a massive thrown sitting upon it is a woman clad in what could be at best-called armor, is sitting in it. Black segmented plates cover her legs arms and with fairly large pauldrons she has oddly dragon-like lower legs, dragon horns from the side of her head and folded back black dragon wings. OOC Ref https://pre00.deviantart.net/a7eb/th/pre/f/2011/257/3/c/darkknight_by_haganef-d49uhl3.jpg ) She just kind of stares at the massive mouse kinda mouth hanging open at a loss for /words/ at this. What was Leyanne doing here?! For this woman sitting there is none other than Tomoe... 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne scans around with her pistol, fixing the gun on Tomoe for a moment. Then she lowers the gun with a frown - not holstering it, but keeping it aimed down. "...th' fuck is going on here, Tomoe?" The giant mouse asks. "Dude called Brick Slabmeat suggested there was some kind of evil Dark Lady up here in this tasteless slice of England here in Washington State. Last I checked, evil really wasn't your style..." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica, or Dark Silicon as she goes by in this messed up questline, gently nudges open the doors at the far end of the great hall. Her hair, ears and tail are all jet black, her eyes a sharp shade of red, and her skin a few shades paler than normal. Her armour is dark black with red accents, and Pina, perched on her shoulder isn't the blue-white as normal, but an ashen grey... but it's obvious they're the same person.     "I brought some tea for you My Lad---" she cuts off, blinking at the display before her. "Iiii can see you're busy, I'll come back later..." she then fumbles with the platter, clinking china as she tries to open the door again to slip back out. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe had been trying to keep her legion of terror under control and /not/ raiding the various towns and other settlments nerar by which ment she needed to be on site having to deal with all off day to day affairs here. Silica pops in with the tea she'd asked for and was very glad she wasn't alone today. Silicia ducks in see what's going on and just slips back out. She looks to Leyanne for a momenr rising up to her full high. "Leyanne?! What are you doing here and wait Brick Slabmeat...Oh god you ran into that /man/? No, this areas become an game zone and it's Cardinal that did it, no it's not but we broke the chain and here we are... My kingdom for a good pair of pants..." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne holds up her hand to Silica "Wait, please, I think I need a cuppa." She looks at Tomoe. "So... this is all part of that frickin' ALO thing? Figures. That'd explain the distinct lack of evidence of raiding despite what that Brick said." At the jeans comment, Leyanne shrugs off her wing. It drops to the ground with a thunk, and she opens the central panel. The first thing this reveals is a neatly-packed Bushmaster cannon and steadicam rig... along with Leyanne's PT boat clothes. She pulls out the jeans, and offers them over. "You'll need to turn the legs up quite a bit, or cut 'em off, and you'll need a belt to take it in a few inches..." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes it has been a thing thas has been happening form here? To Orbit over in Japan? All over the place game zones have been appering and to make them go inactive for a time you need to clear the quest." She looks at the offered clothing. "I wish it could work but this apperanc is an quest /buff/ that effects me whenever I enter the area or I'd gladly take you up on it and as for that guy you met? He's one of the ones we have to ... deal with. Not kill but we have to get him to give up or kick his ass so hard he can't do much anymore." She does seem very thankful for Leyanne's offer though. 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods and packs the jeans away. "Fucking fantastic." She sniffs. "So... you're basically trying to do all this as bloodlessly as possible?" Her tail lashes behind her as she walks to the window she came through and peers out of it. "That would explain why your army's standing around with faces like bulldogs eating wasps..." She returns to the wing, picking it up. "So what's your plan?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes, I am we talked most of his party down or destroyed their relics of power. Though every time we do I get another dragon girl trait. I don't like where this is going, but we're ttrying to corner Brick and hopefully deal with him to end it but... Kirito and I found that these very walls may have a mind of it's own and we'll have to deal with the Dark Lady's ascention as well." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne raises an eyebrow, blinking. "Dark Lady's Ascension can't be good. Nor a castle with a mind of its own... guessing you got to stay here pretty much all the time or the army will just go rampage on automatic?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "No it doesn't sound good that's why I want people there to deal with whatever it is. Not entirely but I rather be here when I can to keep them focuused and reigned in also capes are forbidden trust me on that. That's the thing Cardinal seems to be making NPCs now who are sapient or close enough to it that they can become so later...it makes a lot of this complicate, random monsters not so much but quest characters and townsfolk?" 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods "Unintended consequences. If you simulate something well enough - in this case, the life of a town... the line gets sorta blurry, and all of a sudden you've got legit life there." She sniffs, nodding, thoughtfully. "So, what can I do? And will I have to put the creepy stuff on?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Ha if you want to costume up your welcome to or just play the part of a hired mercanry who doesn't give a damn about it5. As for plan we're going to have o deal with brick but I have a feeling he's going to come to us and I want to give his 'party' some more time to try and talk him down." She looks down at her outfit "At least I can pull this off, it would be worse otherwise..." She turns a bit red 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne laughs "Yeah, it's true you got the figure for it." She chuckles. "I can do either, really, just don't expect much in the way of corny lines. I hope his party manage it... what did you do, explain to them what's going on?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Oh come on the ham is one of the only upsides to this mess. Some we broke their toys others we talked down. It really depends a number of others in the GU are mixed up in this mess." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne snorts "I go ham with stunts. I'm not very good at cheesy lines." She laughs. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe Says "How about we go find Silica and get some of that tea she has, Leyanne?" 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods in agreement. "Sounds like a plan... do you have anywhere I can keep this? It's no good for fighting..." She hefts up the carbon fibre wing/ 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes come with me but then we get that tea." With that Tomoe trots off gesturing for Leyanne to folllow "Oh the windows coming out of your pay." 
}}

5981/Dark Lady: Mouse From Above

2018-08-17T19:52:36Z

Junker99:

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/08/14
|Location=The Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Leyanne acting on a tip from Brick Slabmeat goes after a horrible dark lady who turns out to be none other than her friend Tomoe. Whom she crashed in on leaving her and Silica quite shocked.
|Cast of Characters=6, 1100, 973
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Leyanne had met Brick Slabmeat, yes that is the Salamander's name in nearby village's tavern. He'd spoken of the Dark Lady and how her minions had been crippling or breaking the will to fight of his party. He seemed to be in dire straights and he'd not outright asked Leyanne for help but it was implied. Whatever her choice on the matter? It's summer on the west coast of North America, it's hot, it's dry, people are wondering where the rain is and hoping where they live does not go do an impersonation of California. The castle is nestled in an evergreen forest on the foothills of one of the numerous mountain ranges along the Washington State coast, all is quiet at this point wave for a few orcs and goblins on patrol about the castle's grounds and walls. 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne mutters sourly to herself the whole way about the castle... mainly about what kind of uncultured plebian puts a Medieval European-styled castle in /America/ of all places. She's approaching via her jet wingsuit, hoping to use the element of surprise. When you're an eight foot mouse, you can't really sneak, so the best thing you can do is get into the area quickly, before the other guy has a chance to react. The sudden whistle of the suit's two gas turbine engines is about all the warning, therefore, that the Orcs on the castle walls will get. The mouse puts her arms out ahead of her and puches an orc in the face as she passes over the walls, keeping them there as she angles herself low to punch in through one of the castle's stained glass windows. She cuts thrust and lands in a neat three-point crouch in the middle of whatever room she happens to be in, immediately standing up and sweeping around herself with her pistol, checking her LZ is clear. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Cardinal That's who'd put some of a JRPG VR MMORPG into a place like this that is who would place this stuff here. There's only a handful of players form ALO who could go faster than Leyanne and Cardinal balanced things for the average Aguma user rather than the likes of say? The GU. As for Leyanne, she gets there without much trouble. The orc doesn't know what it and is knocked down hard he's pretty much out of the fight as Leyanne goes by. His current status? Sapped. Leyanne goes crashing through the winter, it shatters, but then something odd happens the shards explode second later into shards of like then vanish, she'll come in for a landing in the middle of a long room full of Obsidian statues and a massive thrown sitting upon it is a woman clad in what could be at best-called armor, is sitting in it. Black segmented plates cover her legs arms and with fairly large pauldrons she has oddly dragon-like lower legs, dragon horns from the side of her head and folded back black dragon wings. OOC Ref https://pre00.deviantart.net/a7eb/th/pre/f/2011/257/3/c/darkknight_by_haganef-d49uhl3.jpg ) She just kind of stares at the massive mouse kinda mouth hanging open at a loss for /words/ at this. What was Leyanne doing here?! For this woman sitting there is none other than Tomoe... 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne scans around with her pistol, fixing the gun on Tomoe for a moment. Then she lowers the gun with a frown - not holstering it, but keeping it aimed down. "...th' fuck is going on here, Tomoe?" The giant mouse asks. "Dude called Brick Slabmeat suggested there was some kind of evil Dark Lady up here in this tasteless slice of England here in Washington State. Last I checked, evil really wasn't your style..." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica, or Dark Silicon as she goes by in this messed up questline, gently nudges open the doors at the far end of the great hall. Her hair, ears and tail are all jet black, her eyes a sharp shade of red, and her skin a few shades paler than normal. Her armour is dark black with red accents, and Pina, perched on her shoulder isn't the blue-white as normal, but an ashen grey... but it's obvious they're the same person.     "I brought some tea for you My Lad---" she cuts off, blinking at the display before her. "Iiii can see you're busy, I'll come back later..." she then fumbles with the platter, clinking china as she tries to open the door again to slip back out. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe had been trying to keep her legion of terror under control and /not/ raiding the various towns and other settlments nerar by which ment she needed to be on site having to deal with all off day to day affairs here. Silica pops in with the tea she'd asked for and was very glad she wasn't alone today. Silicia ducks in see what's going on and just slips back out. She looks to Leyanne for a momenr rising up to her full high. "Leyanne?! What are you doing here and wait Brick Slabmeat...Oh god you ran into that /man/? No, this areas become an game zone and it's Cardinal that did it, no it's not but we broke the chain and here we are... My kingdom for a good pair of pants..." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne holds up her hand to Silica "Wait, please, I think I need a cuppa." She looks at Tomoe. "So... this is all part of that frickin' ALO thing? Figures. That'd explain the distinct lack of evidence of raiding despite what that Brick said." At the jeans comment, Leyanne shrugs off her wing. It drops to the ground with a thunk, and she opens the central panel. The first thing this reveals is a neatly-packed Bushmaster cannon and steadicam rig... along with Leyanne's PT boat clothes. She pulls out the jeans, and offers them over. "You'll need to turn the legs up quite a bit, or cut 'em off, and you'll need a belt to take it in a few inches..." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes it has been a thing thas has been happening form here? To Orbit over in Japan? All over the place game zones have been appering and to make them go inactive for a time you need to clear the quest." She looks at the offered clothing. "I wish it could work but this apperanc is an quest /buff/ that effects me whenever I enter the area or I'd gladly take you up on it and as for that guy you met? He's one of the ones we have to ... deal with. Not kill but we have to get him to give up or kick his ass so hard he can't do much anymore." She does seem very thankful for Leyanne's offer though. 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods and packs the jeans away. "Fucking fantastic." She sniffs. "So... you're basically trying to do all this as bloodlessly as possible?" Her tail lashes behind her as she walks to the window she came through and peers out of it. "That would explain why your army's standing around with faces like bulldogs eating wasps..." She returns to the wing, picking it up. "So what's your plan?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes, I am we talked most of his party down or destroyed their relics of power. Though every time we do I get another dragon girl trait. I don't like where this is going, but we're ttrying to corner Brick and hopefully deal with him to end it but... Kirito and I found that these very walls may have a mind of it's own and we'll have to deal with the Dark Lady's ascention as well." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne raises an eyebrow, blinking. "Dark Lady's Ascension can't be good. Nor a castle with a mind of its own... guessing you got to stay here pretty much all the time or the army will just go rampage on automatic?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "No it doesn't sound good that's why I want people there to deal with whatever it is. Not entirely but I rather be here when I can to keep them focuused and reigned in also capes are forbidden trust me on that. That's the thing Cardinal seems to be making NPCs now who are sapient or close enough to it that they can become so later...it makes a lot of this complicate, random monsters not so much but quest characters and townsfolk?" 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods "Unintended consequences. If you simulate something well enough - in this case, the life of a town... the line gets sorta blurry, and all of a sudden you've got legit life there." She sniffs, nodding, thoughtfully. "So, what can I do? And will I have to put the creepy stuff on?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Ha if you want to costume up your welcome to or just play the part of a hired mercanry who doesn't give a damn about it5. As for plan we're going to have o deal with brick but I have a feeling he's going to come to us and I want to give his 'party' some more time to try and talk him down." She looks down at her outfit "At least I can pull this off, it would be worse otherwise..." She turns a bit red 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne laughs "Yeah, it's true you got the figure for it." She chuckles. "I can do either, really, just don't expect much in the way of corny lines. I hope his party manage it... what did you do, explain to them what's going on?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Oh come on the ham is one of the only upsides to this mess. Some we broke their toys others we talked down. It really depends a number of others in the GU are mixed up in this mess." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne snorts "I go ham with stunts. I'm not very good at cheesy lines." She laughs. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe Says "How about we go find Silica and get some of that tea she has, Leyanne?" 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods in agreement. "Sounds like a plan... do you have anywhere I can keep this? It's no good for fighting..." She hefts up the carbon fibre wing/ 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes come with me but then we get that tea." With that Tomoe trots off gesturing for Leyanne to folllow "Oh the windows coming out of your pay." 
}}

5981/Dark Lady: Mouse From Above

2018-08-17T19:51:51Z

Junker99: Leyanne acting on a tip from Brick Slabmeat goes after a horrible dark lady ....

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2018/08/14
|Location=The Dark Lady's Castle
|Synopsis=Leyanne acting on a tip from Brick Slabmeat goes after a horrible dark lady who turns out to be none other than her friend Tomoe.
|Cast of Characters=6, 1100, 973
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Leyanne had met Brick Slabmeat, yes that is the Salamander's name in nearby village's tavern. He'd spoken of the Dark Lady and how her minions had been crippling or breaking the will to fight of his party. He seemed to be in dire straights and he'd not outright asked Leyanne for help but it was implied. Whatever her choice on the matter? It's summer on the west coast of North America, it's hot, it's dry, people are wondering where the rain is and hoping where they live does not go do an impersonation of California. The castle is nestled in an evergreen forest on the foothills of one of the numerous mountain ranges along the Washington State coast, all is quiet at this point wave for a few orcs and goblins on patrol about the castle's grounds and walls. 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne mutters sourly to herself the whole way about the castle... mainly about what kind of uncultured plebian puts a Medieval European-styled castle in /America/ of all places. She's approaching via her jet wingsuit, hoping to use the element of surprise. When you're an eight foot mouse, you can't really sneak, so the best thing you can do is get into the area quickly, before the other guy has a chance to react. The sudden whistle of the suit's two gas turbine engines is about all the warning, therefore, that the Orcs on the castle walls will get. The mouse puts her arms out ahead of her and puches an orc in the face as she passes over the walls, keeping them there as she angles herself low to punch in through one of the castle's stained glass windows. She cuts thrust and lands in a neat three-point crouch in the middle of whatever room she happens to be in, immediately standing up and sweeping around herself with her pistol, checking her LZ is clear. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Cardinal That's who'd put some of a JRPG VR MMORPG into a place like this that is who would place this stuff here. There's only a handful of players form ALO who could go faster than Leyanne and Cardinal balanced things for the average Aguma user rather than the likes of say? The GU. As for Leyanne, she gets there without much trouble. The orc doesn't know what it and is knocked down hard he's pretty much out of the fight as Leyanne goes by. His current status? Sapped. Leyanne goes crashing through the winter, it shatters, but then something odd happens the shards explode second later into shards of like then vanish, she'll come in for a landing in the middle of a long room full of Obsidian statues and a massive thrown sitting upon it is a woman clad in what could be at best-called armor, is sitting in it. Black segmented plates cover her legs arms and with fairly large pauldrons she has oddly dragon-like lower legs, dragon horns from the side of her head and folded back black dragon wings. OOC Ref https://pre00.deviantart.net/a7eb/th/pre/f/2011/257/3/c/darkknight_by_haganef-d49uhl3.jpg ) She just kind of stares at the massive mouse kinda mouth hanging open at a loss for /words/ at this. What was Leyanne doing here?! For this woman sitting there is none other than Tomoe... 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne scans around with her pistol, fixing the gun on Tomoe for a moment. Then she lowers the gun with a frown - not holstering it, but keeping it aimed down. "...th' fuck is going on here, Tomoe?" The giant mouse asks. "Dude called Brick Slabmeat suggested there was some kind of evil Dark Lady up here in this tasteless slice of England here in Washington State. Last I checked, evil really wasn't your style..." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica, or Dark Silicon as she goes by in this messed up questline, gently nudges open the doors at the far end of the great hall. Her hair, ears and tail are all jet black, her eyes a sharp shade of red, and her skin a few shades paler than normal. Her armour is dark black with red accents, and Pina, perched on her shoulder isn't the blue-white as normal, but an ashen grey... but it's obvious they're the same person.     "I brought some tea for you My Lad---" she cuts off, blinking at the display before her. "Iiii can see you're busy, I'll come back later..." she then fumbles with the platter, clinking china as she tries to open the door again to slip back out. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe had been trying to keep her legion of terror under control and /not/ raiding the various towns and other settlments nerar by which ment she needed to be on site having to deal with all off day to day affairs here. Silica pops in with the tea she'd asked for and was very glad she wasn't alone today. Silicia ducks in see what's going on and just slips back out. She looks to Leyanne for a momenr rising up to her full high. "Leyanne?! What are you doing here and wait Brick Slabmeat...Oh god you ran into that /man/? No, this areas become an game zone and it's Cardinal that did it, no it's not but we broke the chain and here we are... My kingdom for a good pair of pants..." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne holds up her hand to Silica "Wait, please, I think I need a cuppa." She looks at Tomoe. "So... this is all part of that frickin' ALO thing? Figures. That'd explain the distinct lack of evidence of raiding despite what that Brick said." At the jeans comment, Leyanne shrugs off her wing. It drops to the ground with a thunk, and she opens the central panel. The first thing this reveals is a neatly-packed Bushmaster cannon and steadicam rig... along with Leyanne's PT boat clothes. She pulls out the jeans, and offers them over. "You'll need to turn the legs up quite a bit, or cut 'em off, and you'll need a belt to take it in a few inches..." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes it has been a thing thas has been happening form here? To Orbit over in Japan? All over the place game zones have been appering and to make them go inactive for a time you need to clear the quest." She looks at the offered clothing. "I wish it could work but this apperanc is an quest /buff/ that effects me whenever I enter the area or I'd gladly take you up on it and as for that guy you met? He's one of the ones we have to ... deal with. Not kill but we have to get him to give up or kick his ass so hard he can't do much anymore." She does seem very thankful for Leyanne's offer though. 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods and packs the jeans away. "Fucking fantastic." She sniffs. "So... you're basically trying to do all this as bloodlessly as possible?" Her tail lashes behind her as she walks to the window she came through and peers out of it. "That would explain why your army's standing around with faces like bulldogs eating wasps..." She returns to the wing, picking it up. "So what's your plan?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes, I am we talked most of his party down or destroyed their relics of power. Though every time we do I get another dragon girl trait. I don't like where this is going, but we're ttrying to corner Brick and hopefully deal with him to end it but... Kirito and I found that these very walls may have a mind of it's own and we'll have to deal with the Dark Lady's ascention as well." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne raises an eyebrow, blinking. "Dark Lady's Ascension can't be good. Nor a castle with a mind of its own... guessing you got to stay here pretty much all the time or the army will just go rampage on automatic?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "No it doesn't sound good that's why I want people there to deal with whatever it is. Not entirely but I rather be here when I can to keep them focuused and reigned in also capes are forbidden trust me on that. That's the thing Cardinal seems to be making NPCs now who are sapient or close enough to it that they can become so later...it makes a lot of this complicate, random monsters not so much but quest characters and townsfolk?" 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods "Unintended consequences. If you simulate something well enough - in this case, the life of a town... the line gets sorta blurry, and all of a sudden you've got legit life there." She sniffs, nodding, thoughtfully. "So, what can I do? And will I have to put the creepy stuff on?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Ha if you want to costume up your welcome to or just play the part of a hired mercanry who doesn't give a damn about it5. As for plan we're going to have o deal with brick but I have a feeling he's going to come to us and I want to give his 'party' some more time to try and talk him down." She looks down at her outfit "At least I can pull this off, it would be worse otherwise..." She turns a bit red 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne laughs "Yeah, it's true you got the figure for it." She chuckles. "I can do either, really, just don't expect much in the way of corny lines. I hope his party manage it... what did you do, explain to them what's going on?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Oh come on the ham is one of the only upsides to this mess. Some we broke their toys others we talked down. It really depends a number of others in the GU are mixed up in this mess." 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne snorts "I go ham with stunts. I'm not very good at cheesy lines." She laughs. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe Says "How about we go find Silica and get some of that tea she has, Leyanne?" 

:'''{{#var:1100|Leyanne (1100)}} has posed:''' Leyanne nods in agreement. "Sounds like a plan... do you have anywhere I can keep this? It's no good for fighting..." She hefts up the carbon fibre wing/ 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Yes come with me but then we get that tea." With that Tomoe trots off gesturing for Leyanne to folllow "Oh the windows coming out of your pay." 
}}

Time to Go (Jenna)

2018-07-07T08:13:47Z

Junker99: An old Union Elite makes her peace with things and departs the sector.

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2018/07/07
|Location=The Void
|Synopsis=A ghost of the old war, packs up shop and heads on her way out of the sector.
|Cast of Characters=14
}}
The Union had been gone for over a year, Jenna had spent almost all of that time restoring her ship and then locating just where Stonecrest itself had fallen too. She'd looted an old Union Storehouse of supplies. She sighed and she looked at the course she had to set. She'd not be in this sector again anytime soon.

She didn't care, she would leave Taro behind here, to his little cult. It was for the best, Stonecrest and Foxfire awaited. There was also a rumour about a powerful item from Fox's homeworld. That would have to be looked into. The former human took a deep breath and thought about things she paused for a moment to send a single message to someone. The one person who might notice she was gone outside of Taro.

The redheaded android looked to the rest of the bridge crew.

"Time to get going home isn't it? Helm set a course for Stonecrest and I can't expect to how Fox will react to rumour about the rail gun."

She also couldn't help but laugh it seemed the Orion Sector was nearby where Stonecrest was. She really was heading home in every sense of the word.

"Engage."

With that, the Firestorm's engined powered up and went through the first of many warp gates, and Jenna never looked back, her time was done.

Restoration (Kotone Yamakawa)

2018-02-04T10:12:58Z

Junker99: After the Bastion Restoration Function is used? Kotone heads on home to recover.

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2018/02/04
|Location=Kotones Office in her home town.
|Synopsis=After the events of the Bastions Restoration function, Kotone returns to her home world to rest and think about the events.
|Thanks=The Kid
|Cast of Characters=7
}}
BGM https://youtu.be/GDflVhOpS4E - Bastion Soundtrack - Setting Sail, Coming Home

We are the people we have met, the books we have read and the visual media we have consumed on top of all over our experiences. You are the your memories or so Kotone thought. Kid and Zulf had given that up. She sat in her personal office not on her ship for once she'd left Slipbolt in charge of the vessel. She was in the small garage she operated, well her Father mostly ran it now with the multiverse still it was good to be home for a bit.

The winter rains came and she could hear them coming down outside and she looked at a bottle on her desk, it had been a present from The Kid over the Holidays. It meant more than he might realize, it was a thing she no longer needed as she was but it was a tie to her past to her humanity.

The trust the Kid had in her and everyone had humbled her so much, and when the choice was made to restore and reset his home world. No Zulf's courage as well he stayed along for it too. She poured a drink into the glass and looked at it for a moment. Zia had endured it and shown a lot of courage in her own path. She sipped at it and it was mighty fine too. The glass is soon set back down as the rains came thundering down, she looked out the window and then to a picture on her desk a image display of a shot taken during one of her visits to the Bastion.

"Your invention worked Rusk, you all gave your world a second chance didn't we?"

She took another sip before setting the glass down. The world had a second chance they had to make use of this chance. They would have to take it. She finished her drink then closed the bottle. She would not have any more till she could share a drink from it with Kid, Rucks Zulf and Zia together. Their bonds of friendship had to be strong enough to get through this. Even if they were forgotten they could be friends again she had faith in them. She put bottle away to save it for that day hopefully in the future.

The Quest Log (Tomoe)

2017-10-25T20:53:57Z

Junker99: The prelude to the Dark Lady plot arrc

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2017/10/25
|Location=Haven Castle - Tomoe's Quarters
|Synopsis=Tomoe is taking a break in haven when she gets a new quest on her log and it's one that brings her much dismay
|Cast of Characters=6
|Tinyplot=The Dark Lady
}}
The Quest Log

Tomoe was tired today, she was sprawled out in her personal quarters in the small Castle Settlement of Haven which the GU had been operating out of, she was in her Salamander form, still one she wore more than her actual one, that or Eisen had become even more her face. She's got to the point she had bought not only non combat clothing in the ALO region but actual clothing from Tokyo and beyond. She was just dressed casually with a my other alt's a shotgun ninja is printed on her shirt. %R%R She was playing a old portable game system, with an cross over mecha game.

Then came the ping upon her HUD she rose up setting the game on pause as the small Blue SD Mecha paused in the middle of it's attack. She pulled up her menu's and looked at the quest log. You have one new quest. Her eyes settled on the quest name.

The Dark Lady's Duty.

The expression on Tomoe's face sank as she did so she looked it over, the quest chain she thought was done had been broken, this was her fault for rushing in bullheaded and there's nothing she can do but ride it out she read over the details. That a band of heroes were hunting the Dark Lady Tomoe according to her scouts and she must rally her Dark Generals. She also noticed she had quest items not related to her dark general and they seemed to give each person who were given by them a quest. She just sighed, she was going to need some help to deal with this.

She closed down the game saving the progress, the game would have to wait as she groaned inwardly then shuddered realized she would have to wear that infernal outfit for the quest, God save her, from that terrible thing, but there was no helping it and she started to send out her mails asking certain people she trusted for help. She also wondered was she being played like the guy in Interstellar Frontiers Online. That was a legitimate concern there but she would see she had no choice but to go forward lest she be hounded on her own home world over this.

5169/A Pirate Pub

2017-03-30T07:38:24Z

Junker99: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2017/03/30 |Location=New Providence <NP> |Synopsis=Tomoe goes to New Providence to get something to eat and runs into Captain Flint for the first t..."

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2017/03/30
|Location=New Providence <NP>
|Synopsis=Tomoe goes to New Providence to get something to eat and runs into Captain Flint for the first time since the Factions fell.
|Cast of Characters=6, 1067
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Tavern was not the most safe place in the world but it could be a lot worse. The food was good in somedays better than she could get elsewhere in the multiverse. She couldn't complain about the prices. Either and it was something different it was also a good spot to get away from the likelyhood of running into any other elite too. She didn't have her armour on but she was still tall and imposing clocking in at over six feet. There was also no hiding her ears or her hair ither as she moved to find a point near the bar and flag someone down to order a meal. Still though a very tall Elf seeming woman might get some attention one way or another here. 

:'''{{#var:1067|Captain Flint (1067)}} has posed:''' A serving girl approaches Tomoe before long, pausing briefly to set down plates for two nearby customers. Turning to face the Elite, the girl smiles, only momentarily distracted by Tomoe's ears. "What'll ya have?" she asks, far from the formality common to more civilized locales. In the background, a tall, hairy creature roars at a fellow sitting across from him, evidently incensed by the outcome of their game. It seems this place is adjusting to the multiverse quite well--but in places like Nassau, money is always the bottom line, and xenophobia just isn't profitable. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The serving girl gets a nod as he comes up and she says "I'll take sea food if you got it or some special along those lines. I'm not picky I'm just hungry and want something to eat." he gfrins a bit but doesn't seem too botehred until the big screature seems to be unhappy about a game. It's adjusted to the mulriverse it seems better than she thought. Money does wonders for buckling down Xenophobia in the end, right? "Just let me know how much you take credits I hope?" 

:'''{{#var:1067|Captain Flint (1067)}} has posed:''' She grins. "Salt cod," says the serving girl with certainty. "Would ya like anything to drink with that? We got ale, rum, port..."      As the serving girl rattles off options for Tomoe, two new arrivals enter the tavern from upstairs. A few of the regulars look to see who it is, as if their arrival is or might be the subject of rumor. Two men, one weathered by the sea, sporting a furrowed brow and the air of a strategest, the other young, brimming with vitality and zeal. They share a brief exchange as they descend. The younger of the two departs, while the older, a man Tomoe may remember as Captain Flint, elects to remain, surveying the tavern. Spotting Tomoe, his eyes spark with faint remembrance, and he approaches her table.      "Miss... Tomoe, if I recall?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe Says "Works for kme can't go wrong with Cod." She smirks she's wlays been fond of that and puses "I'll take the rum." She notes and will make sure to pay she notices other people though they look interesing they seme quie full of life and then she pauses at Captian Flint. "Captain Flint, it's been a while, I'm glad to see you lived though the fall of the Mega Nations. I was at najourn it was... harrowing." 

:'''{{#var:1067|Captain Flint (1067)}} has posed:''' The serving girl nods, then hurries off to bring the order to the cook. This seems like the kind of place to have a cook. Places with chefs usually bother to cover up the flaking paint.      Flint affects a grave expression, eyes reflecting the weight of Tomoe's one-word testimony. He nods. "To hear of it is one thing. To meet someone involved is quite another." The captain pauses, looking out at the busy port town. "Nassau has flourished in the time since. I hope you can say the same for your affairs." Turning his attention back towards her, he searches her face, brow furrowed, for the telltale signs of loss. "Did you lose anyone close...?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe lookt to CLing now with intrest and she looks at him for amoment. "It was a nightmare to be blunt, reality came unglued in no way magic or science that I know of should allow." What she didn't say was she had access to none of her powers in this time at all while she was trying to get out of the station but clealry she looks haunted. "No...Najourn in it's last moments...acted to teleprot everyone still living inside it, out....and out of the blast stone's range...before it perished." 

:'''{{#var:1067|Captain Flint (1067)}} has posed:''' Flint's reaction to the last living act of Njorun station is one of muted surprise. His eyebrow quirks slightly as he considers it, hand resting upon his chin to toy with his goatee. "I regret never having visited," he admits. "It must be quite the fortress to save those inside even as its last brick crumbles to the ground. One can only hope the nations of our world take note of such a noble act."      His hand rests upon the back of a chair opposite Tomoe. "Do you mind company?" he asks. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe Says "No I don't if you'd like to stya bit I don't mind. It really was something, to seel. Now it's a twisted broken ruin that's killed most people who have gone into seek out the truth of what happened or to loot the corpse of the old mega nations' wealth. We now have a bunch of thugs posing as America world police, Mad sicence full of fed war criminals and people who push too far. A bunchof viglanties with no real support and the PMC is the seemingly most decent one of the lot but I'm likely bias. I'm ... close to it's leader then agains he keeps a tight ship far as I can tell." 

:'''{{#var:1067|Captain Flint (1067)}} has posed:''' Flint takes the offered seat. Soon after, the serving girl returns with salted cod and rum for Tomoe. "Oh," says the girl. "Captain. Can I get ya anything?"      "Spiced rum," says the captain, sending the girl away with a courteous nod. Angling his head back, as if trying to make sure he understands, the captain makes an inquiry. "I've apprised myself of the information on the players of the Multiverse to date. By PMC I assume you mean the Concord--and by 'she...' He trails off. "Priscilla." Tilting his head again, he makes the statement into a question. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe Says "Yes they are a private military contractor more or less and yes. She helped me and a lot of people escape curse more or less that was slowly killing us and asked for nothign in return. Sure I'm a naive idiot but when someonelike that gives a shit about you existing? It says somthing." Odd thing for someone seeming like Tomoe to say isn't it? "Sides these ain't the union anymore and I don't owe any group as a whole anything now." 

:'''{{#var:1067|Captain Flint (1067)}} has posed:''' "Perhaps it's more accurate to say that you never owed them anything to begin with," offers Flint with a faint smile. "As for the Concord--Priscilla may give a shit, but I'm certain the League to which she answers feels differently. The Concord seems an attractive offer for the ambitious, but to me, it's bread and circuses."      As if on cue, the captain receives his spiced wine, and he offers (after a sip) a quiet word of thanks to the serving girl. "No man is rich who could have more for less." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe Says "Heh that's one way to look for things, fair enough you do what you got to do right? I'm free as is the rest of my guild now the hell war is over and done and no new group wants to see it start back up. I'll drink to that an end to a war theat rivaled Luicfers in Heaven. Tomoe gets her rum and starts drinking it too. "Heh I tend to brun through a lot of my money but I don't mind. I'm not suck as a clerk somewhere with no proespects in life." 

:'''{{#var:1067|Captain Flint (1067)}} has posed:''' Flint finishes his drink, setting the cup down with a definitive /clack./ Smacking his lips, his eyes dart from the table, then to Tomoe, then past her at the goings-on outside. When he returns his attention to Tomoe, there is a certainty in his eyes, a steady surety that burns like hot coals.      "Are you a student of history, Miss Tomoe? Have you ever, upon reading a passage about the plight of the oppressed, or about the golden age of some bygone civilization, found yourself thinking, 'If I were alive then, I would have done this?'" He stands up.      "The superfactions are dead, and from their ashes rise new polities. A word of advice? Now is that time," says the captain with an entrepeneurial smile. "You 'would do' what you are doing now. Nassau needs talented people looking to make history. Perhaps if your prospects begin to bore you, perhaps if you want more money to burn through... perhaps we'll see you more often." He then lays down a credit chit upon the table--a remarkably clean thing to come from a man so worn by the elements. The digital display reveals it's enough to pay for the both of them.      "Good day, Miss Tomoe." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe is enjoying her drink and she nods a bit. "I know a bit of history, and you make a good point it really is. If the GU is going to make it's name and stake it's claim now is the time to do somthign before we and our world get swept up in something else." She grins a bit at Flintbut she sees the drive in the man's eyes. She's seen that drive in the eyes of others including one she's followed to this day. "It's time to see where that is going to do, I'll consider jobs in the future Captain. You can count on that. "Good day Captain Flint. Good sailing to you and your crew." 
}}

Memories (Tomoe)

2017-02-02T02:59:33Z

Junker99: Tomoe goes to pay her respects to a friend who did not make it through SAO

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2017/02/01
|Location=Japan- SAO - Earth
|Synopsis=Tomoe goes to pay her respects to a friend who didn't make it out of SAO alive and runs into one who did coming to do the same.
|Cast of Characters=6
}}
Memories

Sheena Armstrong not Tomoe the Iron Lily or Eisen was out about in japan it was quiet winter day a she stood over the grave and looked at the name carved into the stone.

She lit some incense and knelt down.

"Hey it's me, Don't think I have forgot about you with everything that's happened. You were the first person ever really gave me a chance here...and your the one I wasn't able to protect. Yet? You know I don't go day with out thinking about it. The universes turned on it's head again..."

While she talked she wasn't sure why she did this? But given the multivese maybe? Mai's aware of this somehow?

Some time ago the day the Death Game Started
The Gaming club

Mai and the rest of the club was excited you could feel it in the air a full on VR gaming? They'd managed to score clients for /everyone/ and school had been talked into letting them use the lab for this. Though the Computer Teacher who over saw the class had asked to get a try later as well to experience the new technology. Even the Exchange student known as Sheena Armstrong the tall redhead was part of an exchange program which had her in Japan for the next year or so.

"All right we have all the machines set up. Did someone get the blue mats? Armstrong do you have it ready?"

Sheena called out "I got them right here, lets get them set up and get to playing It should be fun, my old man's going to be jealous as hell that he missed this!"

"Oh why is that?"

"He's been playing since the days of Forever Quest and hell I half think he was the punk who tried to take out Lord British. Okay I'm being silly with the latter but he's been playing games like this since before her met my mom."

"Really Armstrong?"

"Totally! Come on it's about time to get on and don't worry I got food ordered and it's here all ready. Don't worry I have warmers so we can just up and take a break later!"

"Pizza again?!"

"Yes what's wrong it's traditional American Gamer Chow!"

Mia laughed at Sheena who was making a hell of a silly face.

"HA! Come on let's get jacked in, it's time to see this world of swords."

"Your right Armstrong this is a once in a life time adventure."

"Oh come on we're just going to be in there for a while, right? It's not like we're going to get more than the weekend at best!"

Today the Grave Yard

"I still think about the day we logged in, it was magical till the announcement... wasn't it? In the end it was my reputation that got you killed that made Yuu suffer... like they did, it's all my fault still I ..."

Foot falls could be heard as another person was arriving, Sheena thought it was odd given cold snowy weather. Sheena shot up right like a shot when she saw who it was. It was Yuu, she stared for a moment their eyes locked for a second in shock.

"I didn't think..."

"That anyone else would come today to her grave?"

"That's it and ... it's good to see you."

Yuu paused for a moment looking Sheena over noticing the jacket she wore with the GU logo on it her raised and eyebrow and took a neutral expression as he looked at his friend for a moment. Yes she was still a friend wasn't she?

"Your still playing games like SAO aren't you? I don't think you ever got out of the castle..."

"None of us ever really stop lookng for our swors. I see that you keep looking for your sword don't you?"

He paused for a moment and frowned as it hit him Sheena was right about it, she had become a clearer she'd left the guild the Gaming Club had formed to go join one of the bigger ones in the alliance. Though he hadn’t been idle those who had survived they did the almost thankless task of gathering materials for the crafters who kept the Assault Team supplied. Sheena had been like that but after Mai died? She changed and thrust herself in the line of fire on others. He looked to his shoulder where he still expected his two handed sword to be but Night's Sky was not there.

"Your right...hey? Your still in contact with a lot of the Assault Team still right?"

"I am, I was going to head to Dicey's to meet up with a few. Thinker and Yuler are in town and wanted to catch up with a few. Why don't you join the party. You /did/ help keep us well stocked didn't you?"

"I ..."

"Oh come on you know Thinker and Yuler got married right come on catch up you owe them an over do... Congra... well wishing!"

Yuu laughed but then again who survived SAO had any love for the C word? He went to pay his respects to Mai.

"So you still seeing that guy?"

"Totally, and you know you never met Andrew's wife now have you? She could give the Beater a run for his money in a duel..."

"Your kidding me..."

"No.""

Their respects paid the pair went to catch a Bus down to the Dicey, the world might not be real to some but that castle was real as the people who were in it. The two talking and swapping stories all the way.

5004/Operation: Bleeding Empire

2017-01-12T22:00:57Z

Junker99:

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2017/01/09
|Location=Neo-Fuji
|Synopsis=XCOM calls for help in pulling one of it's agents out of a jam with the Trans-human terrorist group. EXALT.
|Cast of Characters=62, 571, 673, 7
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     Approximately 1 hour ago, XCOM HQ.     "Strike Four, to launch bay. Load up! Move it people, we've got someone waiting for us!" The voice of the squad leader fills the Armory, as the members of the Strike Team load up their gear, grabbing laser rifles and pistols, 4-2 grabs a heavy shotgun, while 4-Lead takes a sniper rifle. No heavy weapons in this group, rapid response. "Skyranger is leaving ladies, get moving!" 4-lead heads off, followed closely by the other members of her team. "Big Sky, launching, eta to destination, five zero minutes."     "Strike Four, you'll get to the area about five minutes before the EXALT forces we're tracking, your objective is to locate Operative Copperhead, and extract her to the Skyranger, however the situation may be highly fluid. Updated objectives will be provided as needed." Bradford gives over the Skyranger's comm unit.     Now.     The Skyranger swoops in, angling its engines to arrest its speed, before dropping onto the ground in an empty parking lot, the aft hatch dropping open to release the Strike Team. "Strike Four Actual to Central, we're on the ground. Beginning sweep. Any word from the operative?"     "Negative Four-Actual We're getting no radio comms outside of yours from anywhere in the area."     "Confirmed Central. Sweeping to last known location of the operative." 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka's already with the Strike Team, following them with her GASH in hand. As her helmet folds into place, the cyborg grabs her seat aboard the Skyranger. Checking the magazine she's slapped in already, she pops her neck. "Do we have positive confirmation of hostiles on-site?" She asks, already expecting to go into a hot zone.     By the time she gets there, Maaka's already leaping off the Skyranger, soaring through the air before she lands with a thud. Her armor and body are built for impacts like this, and she lands in a three-point stance, hunched over on the ground.     Standing up, she surveys the landing zone, jumping onto a car as she begins a perimeter sweep. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Given the incredibly dangerous and unknown situation Rory's given up trying to 'fit in' with the XCOM forces. They'll just have to deal with the fact that there's a robot pseudo-tiger in the Skyranger. Colored as grey as the pavement, with a metallic zigzaggy seamed texture of stretching and reconfiguring flexible metal skin. Each of its four paws can be seamlessly rotated to replace with a wheel. Three pairs of rifle barrels - not all the same - are mounted on its body. One pair on the back facing forward. One pair on the left facing forward. And one on the right, the same.     As the robo-beast hops free of the Skyranger's ramp, a Saucer gently detaches from its back and smoothly hovers low using a tight-beam laser communication.     "There is no way that EXALT forces missed our approach. Be ready for ANYTHING." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone sas once more called for aid by XCOM, well one of the two iterations of the group and honestly did matter, if they called for help she'd answer. She's suitd up packing some extra firepower, well more so than normla an rifle of unknwon make is slung across her back as she arrives and makes sure to have several drones with her scuting ahead but well they are not armed as always and the ones that are armed? Are following her a SHIV which has some sort of cyber gun turret clinging to it is folloing along aafter Kotone as she joins the deployment. 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     The area is quiet, but on the open local bands, the chatter of EXALT can be heard, growing more coherant, even through the in-built scrambling they use to make their communications, even though they're 'open', impossible to eavesdrop on. "Seraph's right, they're coming. Four-5, Four-6, cover the north entry, Four-2, Four-3, and Four-4, go with Seraph and Durandal, I'm going topside to get a better view on the area." Strike Four-Lead then moves to a nearby three storey building. She gathers to leap, and with a flare of orange under her skin, soars up to land atop the building, immediately turning, and dropping to brace her rifle against the side of the building.     Rory's saucer would immediately beging pinging several groups of armed humans moving along the streets towards the Skyranger's landing site... it would also pick up the lifesigns of another, solo armed human in a building about a hundred meters in the opposide direction from the EXALT units approaching.     Maaka would be able to spot movement in the distance, but they're out of range for the moment. Even the Sniper doesn't open fire yet. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka's eyes blink under her visor, just as her vision picks something up. <> She reports over comm, before she motions for Four-Four to follow her, using discarded vehicles for cover, expecting the trooper to shadow her.     <<This just screams ambush, like they're waiting for us to get into position.>> She communicates via burst transmission, attempting to avoid compromising their position. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Since the EXALT forces are already coming straight at them, Rory switches from covert wireless to full power. Radio signals link her up to the Saucer and it zooms skyward. The beastly robot lurches into motion at high speed and SOMEHOW its legs make very little noise. The barest of whumps on the pavement and absolutely no clinky-clanky metal banging noises one might expect from a robot. She does the best thing a tiger could do and hops up atop a dumpster at the corner where a street enters the parking lot. Colors ripple across the Flexbot's skin as microbots shift their refractory properties much as a chameleon alters its skin pigmentation. The result is the same: her skin retextures, becoming like the shiny black plastic of the dumpster lid.     She lies in wait, still as a statue.     Any EXALT who pop out around the corner and show their back to her are in for a HELL of a surprise. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone is now being quite careful now given the number of contacts out there, she moves haed she doesn't make any hostile movies but she's watching all the data she's getting from her drones and her own body. Several feeds appear on her HUD as she presses forwards cautious and she herself? She cloaks as she creeps along. 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     The first EXALT unit to arrive, is a group of 'regular' troopers, two toting normal projectile rifles, one a shotgun, and another a heavy machine gun and a rocket launcher strapped to his back. Strike Four-Lead calls the target. <Taking the shot, hostile Echo-4, Heavy Weapons.> The rifle barrel lines up, and with the report of the .30cal slug being fired, a red tracer-like trail lances out into the Heavy Weapon's users head, taking him out of the fight before the rest of the team engages. Four-4 follows after Maaka, readying his laser rifle and moving to keep pace with the cyborg.     Rory's ambush location earns her a group of three rifle users... but one looks different. They have a sickly orange glow permeating their skin and their rifle has a red 'line' along the barrel segment and an odd structure where the magazine would be. They don't detect the camouflaged tigermech.     Kotone moves past where Four-5 and Four-6 are on overwatch. They open up as another group of 'normal' EXALT come around the corner, laying down lower power 'supressive' bursts of laser fire. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka makes a run for the alleyway, motioning for Four-Four to follow along. She stalks down the alley, using the buildings for cover. As she and Four-Four clear the alleyway, they head along down another alley, before they find an ambush point to strike the EXALT troopers.     <Fire on my go.> She radios Four-Four, before she takes aim at the shotgun toting soldier, her coilgun kicking against her shoulder firmly as it fires twice, aimed for the EXALT operative's head. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa is no fool but shen's not expecing this as the EXALT troopers come about with laser rifleS? Oh hell laser weapons? EXALT has stepped things up quite a bitwith the new weapon and kotone will be coming under fire, well not directly but the issue with exalt is they are coming on hard, very hard now as she tries to get closer now she has eel weare an other up close options and hs's going to put them to use. <<Still moving in>> Kotone's going to move in to try and flank them and go after them from behind with some flash bangs if she's able to sneak in like that but that's going to expose her once she does...so. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Three EXALT troopers completely overlooking Rory is a lethal mistake. One she was counting on. As they pass by she takes a few moments to analyze them... but a full review can wait, since she's recording XP of this anyways.     All three pairs of guns she's toting come to life and track the targets. Her combat software's been given its directives and so the controlling AI wastes no time triangulating trajectories. Smart bullets lock onto their targets in the rifle barrels, tiny nano-controlled surfaces pre-adjusting the rifling and ammo for maximum effectiveness. Trajectory, range, weight, gravity, all forces are calculated in an instant.     There's no one liners from the AGI. Nothing to give her presence away... she hopes.     Just three pairs of simultaneous shots. For each, one bullet towards the back of the skull and another for the middle of the neck. Splattering brains or snapping the spinal cord are equally effective ways to take down humans and she highly doubts that this agent's biomods will save him from THAT.     But the longer she looks at those Biomods the more she worries. It looks... terrible. Wrong. Even to her warped sense of aesthetics. Who are these people, why are they doing this? 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     The Heavy goes down, blood spraying across the street from the Reaper Round punching through his skull. The others start to scatter, the shotgunner running down the alleyway /towards/ Maaka and Four-4... he goes down under railgun fire from the Cyborg, as Four-4 starts opening up on the remaining two, peppering the area with laser pulses , flushing them out of their cover and into the killzone for Four-2 and Four-3, the former using their laser pistol, as they're out of shotgun range. The laser rifle burns holes in the leading EXALT, sending him down with a choked death scream as his chest is burned out.     Four-5 and Four-6 are keeping the EXALT's attention pretty well, allowing Kotone to get around to flank them, they don't even know a stealth unit is even there!     Rory's sneak attack splatters the two side units... but something's strange about the impact to the central one. The bullets strike, draw blood... but the damage almost instantly regenerates! The Medic turns, and opens up a snapshot with his laser rifle, the thin, focussed beam sweeping across where Rory fired from, burning into the wall, but it's not aimed. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Rory can't exactly show it on her face. She's not even prone to random shouting and grunting like humans would be. Since she doesn't breathe and has no such impulses! But the Robotiger's apparent optics do go quite wide when the Biomod trooper not only withstands her shots but IMMEDIATELY RETALIATES. She takes a flying leap off the dumpster and springs off the wall and towards the ground in an attempt to strafe the trooper... but it's too late.     The beam weaponry cuts across the Flexbot and leaves a sizzling, scorched gouge from the strafe. One of the 'big cat's legs limps and Rory grinds to a halt... but doesn't stay there.     No, her functional three legs coil up like springs and send her flying up and vaulting over the trooper in a calculated leap only a robot could attempt.     The robotiger opens its jaws wide, revealing nasty spikes for teeth. Spikes that crackle and arc with electricity.     The instant she touches down Rory POUNCE forth, aiming to sink those teeth into any vulnerable point - the man's side, his gun arm, or even his neck.     And unleash a crippling jolt of electricity more than capable of putting inner organs into complete arrest. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     he EXALT commando Maaka and Four-Four gun down dies pretty quickly, but sadly the Buomodded agent doesn't go down as easily. <Oh hell.> Maaka narrows her eyes, and she takes a couple of shots at the modded agent.     <Four-Four, cover me.> She orders, before she loads up a tear-gas round into the underslung launcher on her GASH. Taking aim, she fires at the modded trooper just before Rory pounces and attacks the soldier. <Hope she's resistant to tear gas.>     <Gas going out. May wanna back off.> she radios into comms, as the round aims for the trooper's back, and goes off with a gentle hiss, burning gas emerging from the grenade. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone is rteady to strike on the EXALT forces and she moves the flash banbgs drop armed and she moves back trying to get to some cover the weapon should hopefully go off, distract the EXALT agents and give XCOM a chance to deal with them before they can recover from it as well. 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     Rory's damage gets the EXALT Elite to shift position, attempting to bring the rifle around to track the moving robot. The rifle sparks, then sputters out before smoke starts to erupt from the firing chamber... seems the cooling unit overloaded from prolonged fire. He looks down for a split second... long enough for Rory to pounce and fry him with the electric field. The teargas does expand out and choke out the remaining EXALT hunkered down behind cover, making him stumble and flail to escape the stinging gas, to be cut down by one or another of the Strike Team. "Four-4 here, going to secure asset." the trooper moving off at a sprint towards the map ping location.     Kotone's flashbang ambush flushes the EXALTs out of their cover as they're blinded. Four-5 and Four-6 cut them down, leaving the area secure... for now.     As the sound of gunfire dies down, the distant throbbing sound of helicoptors can be heard in the far distance, beginning as a dull thruming. Bradford chimes in that there's incoming EXALT reinforcements. Best get moving. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka takes off after Four-Four, sprinting with the Russian trooper. As they follow the signal to Copperhead's transmitted location, vaulting across vehicles and such as she darts after him. Covering his six, Maaka keeps her vision settings cycled out on a set amount of time, night vision, thermal, EM, just to keep track for any other hidden EXALT troopers as they make their way to the building. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Down. He's down... and what's more, Rory wastes no time securing the body and dragging it quickly back towards the Skyranger. The scorched chunk of Flexbot has begun to 'mend' in a fashion as undamaged Microbots move in and clamp into position to reinforce damaged chunks. Repairs, but there's a limit to how much they can do.     Optional objectives. Someone's gotta do them! 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone plan works and flushes them own. They need to get moving and try to catch up with their target. She's going to go after them at this point. She know they have to make it for the person they came for, there's not much else they can do right now. Right? So onward she goes, leaving the other goals to Rory. <<Nice working let's move and get our person the hell out of here.>> 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     There's movement inside the building as Four-4 arrives, the briefest glimpse of something in a window. A quick, burst-transmission comes over Four-4's and Maaka's radios. <<Where do the Crane's Roost.>> The source isn't readily apparent, but that's the Ident-call.     Big Sky comes out from the cockpit to help drag the fallen EXALT onboard. The guy is massive, as large as life as his craft and the limp form is hefted with little effort and tossed into a secure locket, along with the broken rifle. "Central, Big Sky, secondary package secured, waiting for the primary package now." 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     As soon as Maaka is done clearing room after room, she and Four-Four find a transmission. <<Daybreak on the Syne.>> is Maaka's response. Just like Bradford said, but she keeps her rifle close just to be safe in case it's a spy, or Copperhead's been compromised. Until then, she waits. 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     There's a pause, then the door clicks, opens and a young woman, about 18 years old steps out. She's olive skinned, of Greek descent. "I thought you would never get here." she says, running over with a suitcate handcuffed to her wrist, and a laser pistol in her other hand. "Where's the evac, this information must get to the Commander now." 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka exhales briefly, and she nods. "Just outside. We mopped up an EXALT team on our way here. We're waiting on Big Sky." She says, before she covers Copperhead's exit on their way out.     "We'd better hurry it up, we got more EXALT en-route to get here." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Rory has little to do now that the corpse has been stowed! Except for wait at the ramp and draw her Saucer in closer. And priming its self-destruct in case anything stupid happens and an emergency retreat's called for!     "With any luck... they will learn from this. ... Usefully to us, that is. Otherwise... what a waste of life." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "We're here to get you out lets' get going shall we? We don't want more EXALT to show up." Kotones's remainig drones will follow and act as tear guard for eveyrone as the move to pull out, she'll just be happy they got their comrade out alive. 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     "Strike Four-Lead to all Strike Four elements, get to evac zone NOW. Move it ladies we are LEAVING!" Lead then leaps off the side of the building, landing in a three-point crouch, before dashing at full speed across the parking lot. The rest of the defense team stack up around the Skyranger as the sound of helicoptors grows louder. A modified UH-60 flies overhead at high speed, dropping a group of EXALT into the middle of the lot. One splatters on impact, but the other two have the same orange, sickly glow to them and land in three-point crouches, before scattering behind vehicles for cover. "CONTACT!" shouts Four-3, opening fire. "Four-4, Durandal, Copperhead, MOVE!" 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     For once 'ladies' isn't so insulting. Maaka doesn't need much reason to hustle, as she spies EXALT troopers inserting. "Shit. We need to move, NOW!" SHe barks, before taking off toward the Skyranger, firing quick bursts at the remaining two EXALT troopers. They'll likely be just as tough to kill as the one Rory took out, which makes it more prudent to extract than stick around. 

:'''{{#var:62|Elise Leroy (62)}} has posed:'''     Strike Four open fire to suppress the two EXALT advanced troopers, unfortunately, when one takes a laser blast to the shoulder, he lets out a blood curdling, bestial howl, emitting an aura that seems to 'boost' his aim, as he ducks out of sight, then pops out and pops a shot unto the open Skyranger hatch, nailing Four-Lead in the shoulder, burning clean through the Carapace plate. "GYAAAH! BIG SKY GET US OUTTA HERE!" she screams, returning fire with her laser pistol.     As the rest of the team, and Copperhead mount up, more of those modified helicoptors come swooping in, dropping off more EXALT troops, but the Skyranger is already lifting off, hatch closing and engines flaring brightly. "Central, this is Big Sky, we are Oscar Mike. Prep medical, we've got wounded." 
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5007/She's Not a Robot Really

2017-01-12T20:51:41Z

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|Synopsis=Kotone and Crash meet for the first time in the Ad Coelum's odd duty decks.
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:1089|Crash (1089)}} has posed:'''     It wasn't their first day in the Paladins, and it wasn't their first day in the multiverse, but this was certainly the first day that Crash had been able to sit down to start researching anything she could in an effort to try and understand the way other governments worked. The way other democracies worked. Anything she could figure out in an effort to -try- and depose Naturia's Prime Minister without having to sucumb to the last resort. It'd be better that he live than have to die.     Currently, the machine is at a table with a number of books and datapads here and there. She was currently going through a volume of American History that was about the founding fathers and the writting of the constitution. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone had been with the Paladins since the day after the Union fell apart due to the grrat collapse it did feel like an act of God really but right now she was on some very well needed down time. She was on leave and just getting a number of things to read. While she liked physical books? Kotone also had several cables coming from the back of her neck as she gfoes wanding past Crash, the woman appears to be Japanese but something more than just the cables out of the back of her neck seem off and she's also wearing osme odd high tech loojking clothing too. "Learning about off world history? Kinda sad what happened to America on my world..." 

:'''{{#var:1089|Crash (1089)}} has posed:'''     The only initial reaction from Crash is her ears lifting a little. She takes a moment to press the current page down, making sure it'll stay where it is before glancing up to Kotone. Her eyes wander for just a moment, noting the cables, her gaze eventually turning back to meet Kotone's.     "My home, Naturia, runs via democracy but the Prime Minister has slowly been taking more and more power from the Senate. I've been making sure all of his little loop holes work, and unfortunately they do. As a result, I've been looking at other similar governments to see if there's something that can be done to try and combat it," she explains before responding to the other woman's first statement. "What happened?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "There was a global war that started having nuclear weapons deployed. While the war was ended before the world burns America? Fragmented due to poltical stress in the war's aftermath caused by their right wing party. Now some of it's in an alliance with my nation and another ironical old enemy and the rest has become the Empire of America seeking to hang on to power that's steadly fading away." She pauses at the polical mess of the strange woman's home world. "That's not a bad idea for your home looking at other forms you might also want to check how the UK, and some of it's old colonies set up their own democratic governments. However UI might be a bit too earth centric..." 

:'''{{#var:1089|Crash (1089)}} has posed:'''     "I wasn't really sure where to start, so I'll check on that too, then. As for the weapons you mentioned... I'm not sure what those are? Naturia has missiles and guns,beam weapons, machines like myself, but I'm not familiar with the Nuke.. Lier.. type you mentioned. It sounds awful, though," At this point, the fox-like machine blinks, and then stands. "Again, appreciate the help. You can call me Crash since that's what my dad started calling me after a rather particular lightning strike." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Nuclear weapons? They are a weapon of mass destuction, level a large raidous from the blast abnd posions everything with radation." She drowns a bit and pauses "Humm beam weapons? That's something we never managed and I wasn't sure iwhat you were. Ironically the tech behin the weapon cna be used for power as well. WAit lighting strike?" She pauses there was an old movie on her world that she saw once late night and she just kind of peers as it almost sounds like that. "The name's Kotone Yamakawa, just call me Kotone! So a Lighting strike? You were ... some kind of drone before?" 

:'''{{#var:1089|Crash (1089)}} has posed:'''     "Radiation.. a weapon that.." Crash's eyes widen. "They were able to use uranium as a -weapon-? ... That's horrible! They've had theories about such weapons on Naturia but.. a world that actually pulled it off? I'm sorry to hear it..."     Kotone earns a smile for the comment about the lightning strike. Most people don't really put two and two together so fast. "That's right, actually. Naturia's had 'Virtual Intelligence' for a while which just simulated sentience but it wasn't really sentience. When I got struck it did something to my memory core's file structure which caused it to retrieve memory similar to a human's mind, through synapses or .. something.." she rubs at her neck. "That's about as much of dad's speech as I can remember. He's a lot more knowledgable about it. I just enjoy the benefits.." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Yes, America did and it ... was the least horrible option for who got it first. America for all it's posturing had more restraint than it's enemies did with weapons like that. Your world is forunate to not know such things." She grins a bit now at the lignting strike for a moment. "Sounds like the andorids on my world, they can act pretty real but they have no ghosts like a human does. Sounds like that strike more or less gave you a soul more or less." She grins a bit more and tilts her head. "Given your here you didn't run off scremaing the death of flesh and your creator considers you his child it sounds like, right?" 

:'''{{#var:1089|Crash (1089)}} has posed:'''     "Heh. That's right. Even when I was still a VI, he always saw me that way and actually treated me really well. More like a person than a tool like so many other people did. The way Prime Minister Bradley believes we should be treated, but whatever, he's a jerk anyway.." Crash mutters before slipping back into her seat.     "He's a great man," she comments about her father, "And I hope I can find him someday. He's been missing for a long time. I have a good idea of who has him, but, well, I can't really do anything about it. Not yet, anyway." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "If you have an idea I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find him once you have the mens to act right? Though I have to wonder though how I'd be treated where your from. Given the leadership having an attuide like that. So Crash huh? That's well I hope things go as well if an AI ever ends up with a ghost on my world. At least we know what to watch for, there. Some world's don't." 

:'''{{#var:1089|Crash (1089)}} has posed:''' "Heh. Kinda knew that was comin'," the fox says with a smirk. "See, since the lightning strike gave me my sentience, Naturia doesn't view what I am as an Aritificial Intelligence because man didn't make it. They defined me as a 'Natural Intelligence', and that, they decided, is the same as a human being. As a result, the Senate voted, unanimously I'll add, that I have all the same rights as a human being." Something about the way Crash says all of that has pride to it.     "Depending on who you talk to, you'd probably be fine. If you're human at all, you'd have nothing to worry about. Most C-Machines and people wouldn't have any issue with you. I'd wager even Bradley wouldn't have any major issues. He isn't against cybernetics, just ... well, what I am." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "So a NI then? Makes sense honestly,and damn. Sounds like most of the people in power there don't have their heads up thier butts n that topic.Fair enough I admit my body is entirely to use the most simple term cybernetic. Ah I see so he's more what afraid of synethics who can think?" 

:'''{{#var:1089|Crash (1089)}} has posed:''' A hrm slips from the fox, "Fully cybernetic, eh? Well, I don't know where Bradley's line is. No one has ever done a total conversion, and I've never heard him talk about it. Not sure what he'd think. And yeah, thankfully, most people agree that since it was lightning, I'm as free willed and able bodied as anyone else. We even figured out how to create new machines, and even copy what happened to me onto existing ones. That's what really got our Prime Minister fired up. He won't explain why, just insists that we'll turn or something, I don't know..." she shrugs.     At this point, she starts to sstand, "We're going to have to talk again sometime. I've also had an idea of what to do in the Paladins since the current divisions don't really suit me. Maybe I can talk to you about it since you seem to be a lot like me... well, because of your body. . . Your cybernetic body." Oy. That still sounded bad.. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "It's become pretty common where I'm fromn and if you ask it was medical. I just might as wlel tune the body up that I have no right? Now to be honest tht is a bit of a scary thing if you can't understand what your children have made. The multivee sadly will give him some leg to stand on, I have encounted sapient machines gone ... mad before. I'd love to as well crash." Kotone just ends up lauahing at it. "IT' fine, it's fine. You haven't encounted something quite like me before. Take care Crasha nd yes we should meet up later." 
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4997/A Space Wolf Comes to Call

2017-01-08T03:08:21Z

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|Location=Haven <Hav>
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The castle is in a strange place in the multivese in a region known as the quit on a strange what might almost be considered a minature world carved out a sphere, the central poart of it was where the casle was located on the edge of a body of water that seems to endlessly castade down without any loss of the water. The castle it self was in need of repairs but it was intact. Though the town in the keep was in a state of disrepair, and there would be a need to either level and repace? Or heavily repair many of the buildings. Tomoe and her father Pendragon are there and have been working for osme time just clearing a mostly intact building of rotton junk that would likely need ot be burned or otherwise disposed of. The Salamander woman was not in full armour at the moment but a more casual town outfit as she worked finally moving to sit down on a crate. "You know we still need to figure out how to get power and a good interent connection out here or we're going to have issues, dad." "What you don't like this old house? Maybe I could call the Tool Man or Bob Viela for help?" Tomoe just makes a face at Pendragon for the joke about as old as he was. "Dad, your age is showing, maybe you'll need a walker now humm?" "...I am not that old young lady I'm not even past fifty!" 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     Karian finally managed to locate the castle after a long stretch of looking. Making his way inside, he looked over to his wolf Ygdril to sniff out the fellow members of the GU. Once the wolf locked onto a scent, he trained in on it, leading his master to the group. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Keiko is around here somewhere. The teenager is taller than her avatar, but still has much the same build. She approaches Sheena and her father, which might make the younger one double-take.     Keiko is wearing the outfit Tomoyo made for her, a real life replica of Silica's ALO armour set, done to her RL measurements. She lacks the ears and tail of a Cait Sith, but she's done her hair up in those trademark sidetails. "Tomoe! Pendragon! Hi~." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looked to see Keiko and grins a little bit as more guests show up. She grins to see that Keiko is here in the flkesh and also sees Karian and some of his companions are arriving. "Ah so it's true your avatar has shurnk in the wash Keiko!" She stops working and Pendragon just laughs at the idea. "Doens't matter much Tomoe, whatever form we are in we're like a pair of over sized Oni where ever we go." He seems to be in very good spirits. "Come to check out how the salvage is going? I figure we burn the rotton wood sell any metal we can't use for scrap and pawn off any items of value we find that we don't have a use for, hopefully that can cut our bills for this place's upkeep." 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     Ygdril looks up, and barks happily at he hears Tomoe's voice. He rushes right over, trying to bowl her over and give wolf kisses. Meanwhile, Karian smiles and makes his way over. "So this is where you've all wound up. I'm glad to see all of you again." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Keiko giggles softly at Tomoe. "Well it /was/ made when we were stuck in Aincrad, I gerew up a bit since." she remarks, then yeeks as a giant wolf comes barreling over. She glances over at Karian when he speaks. "Um, hi!" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Kirito, as usual, doesn't like wandering around the Multiverse much as himself. The Spriggan has spent the last ten minutes swooping around the spectacular floating landmass mapping out its various features and pondering how best to put it to use. "This shape... it's like a giant egg. A sliced boiled egg, like in that one dish..." He would be heard to mutter, if anyone was nearby.     Which they aren't, thankfully.     The spriggan eventually changes course to swoop towards the castle and land on a balcony on the second floor. He proceeds to march on in as his wings vanish and encounters quite a meeting going on in there...     "Weeeeeeeell... it's not like we need to pay taxes to anyone. Living in a place that could collapse on us doesn't appeal to me though... we'll need some renovations. Black Dragon, we can call on them for anything we need for supplies... but getting internet way out here..."     Kirito's brow furrows. "I'm at a loss. FullDive requires a lot of bandwidth and microseconds of latency at most..." 

:'''{{#var:960|Kain (960)}} has posed:'''     Left turn... right turn... left turn again... argh! This map looks like it was drawn by an 8 year old! ... then again, most MMO maps aren't much better unless there's several years poured into it... but after a couple of dead ends and wrong turns, the Salamander known as Kain finally arrived at the Gatecrasher HQ. Or... what WOULD be the HQ. This place looked VERY much in need of a huge renovation... From what he heard, it was just starting to become such since before, it was being held in a log cabin on the 22nd floor of Aincrad... but that place couldn't hold huge numbers, so a larger venue was to be expected.     Now that he was here, he was hesitant... yes, he had been training for quite some time... but it was still somewhat lackluster compared to when he had to LIVE in Aincrad... since being able to go wherever he pleased, he'd spent most of his days in other places... having never really found a place that he truly fit in at. But for now, he was content in just browsing. Speaking of browsing, as he entered the building (assuming it was locked only against non-Gatecrasher individuals somehow), he was met with several people all around cleaning, repairing and doing overall maintenance on the place. There were so many people here he recognized, so many that he knew only by face, but a couple he knew by name as well. Two of them he knew personally, and one he definitely called a friend, going straight up to Tomoe. "Hey! Finally found this place! Someone really needs to work on their mapping skill..." 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     Karian looks over and smirks towards Kirito. "I imagine so. But things'll pick up. I'm always willing to help get some supplies." He says. Meanwhile, Ygdril quickly starts trotting over, giving his hello's to old friends and new alike. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe is basically being dogged right now and she finally is able to squeek out from under the wolf thankfully and shake her self up. "You know I'd forget what he was with how he is in the off time Karian." She seems to be in a good mood and she klooks at Kain starts to arrive and frins glad to see the younger SAO surivor. "Good to see you here Kain. Well could be worse and honestly we need to consider a warpgate for later." She looks over to Kirito grinning. "Yes Fayt's going to be able to set up shop here as part of the payment for his help, it should be a good thing long term. Staren has an idea for a water wheel or two to get us the power we need. As for no taxes ya that's a awesome part of about this. No one has claim to it but us." Pendragon pauses "Maybe hit up some of more high tech friends they might have something, or maybe we can find some old Confederate or Union hardware for that?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "Hmmmm..." Kirito starts rubbing his chin - but once Ygdril is done pouncing the others the big dog eventually comes swooping at Kirito and -- "AWAGH!" THUMP!     He's down and out, being smothered in licks. "Ack-ack-ack--down boy, dooooooowwwwwwn-- sheesh..." Although he's grinning, hints of standoffish sarcasm slip into his voice. "When maneating superwolves are puppies at heart..."     As soon as Ygdril's attention is elsewhere Kirito expertly backflips to his feet and wipes himself off, looking mildly embarassed.     "I'm sure there's an answer out there. It's not like there isn't plenty of physics-breaking gadgets in the Multiverse. And magic for that matter... if those can work together. Something like... quantum entanglement communication...?" How much the spriggan in black's words are rhetorical or actual questions remains to be seen...     But after a bit he sends a nod Tomoe's way.     Kirito's usual confidence and easygoing attitude seems to have started shifting back and regressing recently. His expression's turned ever more serious when discussing business like this.     Just as serious as Back Then. 

:'''{{#var:960|Kain (960)}} has posed:'''     Kain looks around at the place a bit. "Well... to be fair, are we going to actually have our real bodies come here that often? I'm perfectly fine with just coming here in my Avatar... but if people are really interested in it, I could see what I could do. My mom's a network technician, and I picked up my fair share of tricks over the years. 2 millisecond ping FTW." He legit just said the letters FTW out loud... "Other than that, all else I can provide is manual labor and cooking. The latter being much better from me than the former... haven't had to do much cleaning myself at all..."     Kain looks around at the other people that are here right now. "So... seeing how big this place is... I'm honestly wondering just how many people are in the Union... if it's enough that this place was necessary, that's... vaguely terrifying... never been one for large groups of people... even the amount of people and... things..." He looks over towards the HUGE wolf and the small dragon perched on top of a nearby girl's head... "it's kind of off-putting for me..."     He takes a small, steadying breath. "But it's stuff like this that I actually have to put myself out towards. If I don't learn to interact with others in my avatar, I'm never going to interact well with others in my real body..." His words make him subconsciously start gripping his left leg a bit...     After Kirito got his turn with the wolf... suddenly it was his turn! The large wolf began to jump towards the Salamander as panic spread across his face, fear paralyzing him in place as suddenly he was pounced to the ground and... smothered in kisses... "Ack, geez! Large dog! Slobber! Eck! Doooowwwwwwn boy!" After a little bit of that, the wolf backed off and moved on to another victim... standing up, he was just completely covered head to toe in dire wolf slobber. "Eugh... I mean, I know this isn't really my body... but it's still gross..." 

:'''{{#var:451|Karian Icefang (451)}} has posed:'''     At the current licking spree of Ygdril, Karian can't help but laugh. "Oh, don't worry. He's harmless. Granted he's a bit of a warhound. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' "The idea--" Kirito chokes on his words momentarily, taking a few moments to think them through more carefully. "This is a refuge. In case more disasters happen. In case governments start looking our way. In case enemies in the Multiverse crop up. It's a contingency plan, a way for us to look after each other. It's not like compulsory school..." He looks up towards the ceiling in further thought, then towards Kain.     Once again the Black Swordsman furrows his brow, taking note of Kain's odd treatment of the leg.     "Telling people how they should act in public... I lost that license long ago. What we're getting involved in is really dangerous." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "It seems you can't escape it either Kirito, and ya your righ we'll likely have to look into some serious hardware which will mean we either salvage it, fix it up? Get is as payment for a job or out right buy such a thing. We should hit up Staren there nad maybe a few others on that." She looks back to Kain for a moment and listens to what he has to say even as the woldf seems to be very much in puppy mode. It's rather reasshring that it's just a trained military wolf than an uncontrollled attack beast. Then again given how the Space Wolves are? They would treat their four lagged companions fairly well. "Heh I forget this isn't my body all the time, honestly being in my body feels off." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Keiko, silent up until now, lightly pets Ygdril's ears as he comes over, soothing the Thunder Wolf and being largely spared the tongue bath. She smiles gently at the large beast, tickling under his chin, before speaking up in return to Tomoe. "We could always look at the Syndicate boards... I've helped out Miss Lexicon in her world because of those... maybe she could give us a hand in getting infrastructure down or something?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "Good thinking there Keiko, find work there see what we can do if you want to donatge money to this project that's fine. I won't force anyone to invest into it if they don't want to however. Right it wouldn't be fiar and really? We'll have to see what to do even with what Kirito said our home's become ... a bit of a back water with the war over and I ... don't mind that at all." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' This bit of news has Kirito turning his gaze towards Silica, eyes full of a question... which he then goes and says anyways. "Lexicon? For once I'm out of the loop... what's going on with her world?" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "I admit I have been out of the loop but then agian so far as I know no one on the core raid team of Guild's signed on with any of the new factions so far. I'm not sure I ever intend to myself. Don't want to end up on a leash myself." 
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4940/To Find a Home

2017-01-08T00:18:18Z

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|Location=Haven <Hav>
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe had found out about a small village in a new reformatted part of the multivese that had run in very strange problem there was a strange thing born of magic an almost carved out miniature planet in the patchwork. There were monsters there within the Castle that had been using it as a staging point to raid a number of the near by communities. No one had claim to it. Tomoe's contact an Inn Keeper in the neighbor town of Crescent River has told her about the problem with the Union and Feds gone? They just wanted the monsters to stop. Also she caught the idea no one wanted the place so it was honestly up for grabs. With the loss of union medical? It had been hard time and things were more dangerous than before. The Union could not be called on for help if someone came after their world and Tomoe knew they needed to get a home away from such complications so here she was rounding up old companions and friends from the Union along with any one in the GateCrasher's Union. The land where the castle was was alien as it was breath taking the spiraled out miniature world looked like it had been carved from a full asteroid or very tiny planet the spiraling arms of it went up with trees growing on both sides the center was a tropical like area with sandy beach. The water cascaded down to the lands below, which were made of strange likely magically charged blue crystals and the castle it self was on the section with the beach the looming foreboding structure, it was in need of repair bit massive limestone blocks made up the wall and the massive oak drawbridge was cracked with age, but it was held up for the moment things were quiet but there were clear signs of the monsters. The Iron Lily ws here arms folded, wings out and looking up as hee looked over the moat. "We need to get in, clean out the monsters make sure they are cleanrd out and spring anyone who they might be holding. We'll likely have to return any stolen goods we find but no one wants the castle and no one has a claim to it, soooo we're not going to come out of this short changed." 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica is here, looking a bit nervous but keeping her ears perked forwards, tail lashing unconsciously behind her in nervous aggitation. "I just hope Mom and Dad don't worry too much... They've been supportive the last few times I've come out, but I think they're getting really worried since the last time I went to help Miss Lexicon with that Tower, I ended up in hospital."     She shivers a little, but not from the cold, before reaching up to gently pet Pina atop the head, reassuring herself, more than anything else. 

:'''{{#var:459|Alexis (459)}} has posed:''' The Union has become no more than a memory, but there was still plenty of people left willing to help old friends and aquaintenances, doing what they do best. In fact some people had opted to just do this instead of getting tied up in the new organizations and repeat the same stories. What she did best was monsters, pokemon and otherwise. So when Tomoe asked for some help dealing with a monsterous problem Alexis was all too happy to obligue. Helping some experienced friends find a new home -and- some villiages clear up their harassment issues would go a long way in establishing a reputation in the new Multiverse for her solo work. Though she was here mostly for the helping of friends. "An actual castle," the tomboy of pink ponytail murmurs as she strides up next to gathering. "There's one thing we don't really have any of the real deal of in our neck of the woods." 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     The last thing Yuuki needs is a new home, or at least a home base of the sort some of the current members need for shelter, or for a place to log in from. When she's not her digital self, Yuuki's physical body isn't going anywhere. But that's not about to stop her from helping out! Her friends need a secure base of operations where no one can find their meat bodies and mess with them, and she's not about to be left out of the adventure!     Yuuki frowns at mention of family. She understands Silica's concerns but her own family situation's not something she likes to think about. And certainly not discuss, any more than she'll lightly discuss the hospital. "So we've got ourselves a quest, huh?" she asks brightly. "To clear out a castle, and we get HOUSING as a reward! This'll be AWESOME!" she grins, directing at least several watts of intensity Silica's way in an effort to cheer up the poor Cait. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     In the wake of the Union and the Confederacy, Staren is taken care of. He's always been prepared to a paranoid level, to the point of eventually making a home out of a spaceship with its own healing vat and fabrication facilities, and now the League is getting facilities up with the hollowing-out of the Beacon of Progress.     But that doesn't mean he has no interest in helping the Gatecrashers!     It's not just heroism or being a goody-two-shoes; the SAO crisis was part of what drew him back into the Multiverse after years of feeling he could accomplish nothing in the hopeless, unending war. One could say they helped him find his place in the old Multiverse; He wants to help them find their place in the new Multiverse in turn.     Staren is armored up, as usual, and riding a flying broom up to the island. "I must say, this is one of the more... interesting land formations I've seen, in all my time in the Multiverse. I hope I can find time to study it later..."     As they land in front of the castle, Staren dismounts the broom and puts it away in a bag that looks too small for it, then readies his laser rifle as they approach the front door. "Do we know anything about what sort of monsters to expect? Whether they've just moved in here, or whether some sort of overlord is creating, summoning, and/or directing them?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Njorun imploding was something of a wake-up call.     The Multiverse is a dangerous place and only offers the illusion of security. Even if you have an ordinary civilian life somewhere, you're one Godzilla Moment away from disaster.     Kirito's not cool with living such a life. He's not cool with this at all. He needs power. He needs strength. He needs security. For himself, for his family, for his friends.     Emotions have flooded through him for days now. Emotions that he'd though largely buried since Afterus formed. And before it, Noboyuki Sugou's arrest and Asuna waking up. And before that... release from Aincrad.     It's like he's right back there, ten minutes after the Death Game began.     He needs POWER. The strength to survive.     Only this time...     This time, he's not going to make an awful mistake... like abandoning others and focusing on himself.     The expression he wears is part desperation, part disgust, and part pure determination to see things through. It's a grim, fierce look that he's rarely shown since leaving Aincrad. But it's the same look he's shown every time he fought in a floor boss raid, putting EVERYTHING on the line.     "Sounds like a plan. Fancy the front role this time around, Tomoe?" Speaketh the black-clad Spriggan, who's already drawn his black sword, 'Vox Unitas', in his right hand. The crystal-blue longsword 'Divination' rests in his left. He's ready for action, wings out and glistening. Yui is peeking from his jacket pocket, halfway heaved up and out of it but gripping the pocket's edge firmly... and she bears a similarly determined expression. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "I'm lucky my Fathere is just as off n the head as I am for tramping about the multivese honesly. I know Silicia I understand and honestly part of why I want to clear this place out is so we can have a home and look to get on our own feet. We have our sword and are free of the war. We can finally cut our own path. At this point I don't care if Heathcliff has won in spirit. I just want to live you know? " The towering form of Tomoe grins at the tomboy of doom. "Yes it is, could be more space than we'll ever need, looks like there might have been a town in the keep from my fly over of it, if we can deal with the critters here? I think the Gatecrasher's Union will have the home it needs." Tomoe's wings flap once or twice. "Just keep in mnind I have /only/ one Union isue med kit and once that's used up we're out of medical supplies." She knows Yuuki didn't have the same needs for this as the rest of the group did. "Tell me about it staren, undead, flying gargyoles, and rumours of something big and made of stone." She now looks to Kirito and she takes flight a moment after speaking to Kirito and listening to her thar she's ready. "I'll gethte bridge." With that Tomoe is off like a shot her wing flapping as she goes making for the castle. She's in and shorly the sound of gear works can be hear as the massive bridge slams down the way is opened and then one would hear a rattling of bones, the chittering of creatures as a hordes awaken to the arrival of the party and Tomoe is already leaping into the thick of them with Dawn Breaker at the ready as she goes. Fire bolts are flying. Now is the time to pushs through. The coutyard is large it's a small ruined town that once held life and the monsters are comming from the keep it self boiling now down through the streets. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica grips her Dagger a bit tighter... then with the encouragements from Yuuki, Tomoe and the others, and the sheer radiating Determination from Kirito nearby, she takes a breath, calms her nerves and puts her Game Face on. Gone is the happy, kinda ditzy young woman, out comes the Beast Tamer of Aincrad, an expression on her face similar to one Yuuki was treated to in her duel with Asuna.     Silica lifts her hands before Tomoe flies off, and incants a protective spell. A minor Earth-type magic that will mitigate incoming damage to her allies. That cast, she begins reciting again, a regeneration spell. And again, a minor strength boost... she depletes her entire Mana Bar in a single casting round, then quaffs a Mana Potion before joining Tomoe in charging at the incoming hoards. "Remember your spacings! And Switch Out if you need to breathe!" she yells, ducking under a swing from a monster, to jam her Dagger up under it's outstretched arm, unleashing a burst of Ice Magic through the Skill System into the beast... hopefully flash freezing it. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren looks at Tomoe. "That's it? We'll have to see about getting you guys some better medical supplies..." He rubs the back of his helmet. "I can give you some stuff, but without the superfactions' support, you'll probably need to, well, adventure to get the money needed if you want a proper medbay. Nanofabrication is great and all but you still need rare materials and a power source..."     Onward they go!     And it sounds like the monsters have woken up. "Great."     As the fight begins, Staren initially stays in the back, trying to pick off monsters with his laser rifle and beam cannons. He might use a miniature HEAT missile if it looks like a powerful monster is about to seriously hurt someone, but he has to be a bit more careful with explosives than before -- without faction backing for the mission, they're not exactly cheap. 

:'''{{#var:459|Alexis (459)}} has posed:''' "Made of stone. I'll keep that in mind for later." If that is true, she's got a critter or two that will hopefully do wonders against such a thing. But first, we have to get inside and find it. Likely taking care of a few of its friends in the process. As Tomoe takes off to drop the bridge Alexis plucks one of her pokeballs and clicks it open to release the flash of energy in front of her that solidifies itself into a large goat with bush-like foliage growing around its neck and shoulders, and horns the arc and curve back more like the handlebars of a motorcycle. Which is exactly how Alexis grabs them as she climbs onto it's back. The bridge hits down to provide entrance... and a view of the mobs arrising within. "Okay, that's more than a few." Undaunted the Gogoat scrapes the ground a few times, and then charges headlong into the castle. Hooves pound heavily across the drawbridge, followed by the crashing of bones that almost sounds like bowling pins being tossed about as the large pokemon slams straight into the hordes, monster mooks being flung left and right, if they're fortunate enough to not be the ones knocked over and trampled by those hooves. What's better for a Foe Tossing Charge than a goat? Not that he's doing all the work, as Alexis pulls an appropriate weapon from her sports bag -- a polo club. Which she swings over the side to catch impish monsters small enough to get under the reach of thrashing horns, sending several crashing backwards into an unfortunate wall. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Yuuki's so very proud, seeing that look of focussed determination on Silica's avatar. She'd been somewhat worried about the girl, based on some radio conversations, but this is someone who clearly faces her doubts, not someone who's crippled by them.     "Adventuring is good!" Yuuki agrees cheerfully. It's pretty much her only way of getting money for use outside her homeworld. Of course, that goes entirely for food and for friends. She has no actual reason to spend money on anything else. Her trust fund pays for her gaming, and the hospital's settlement makes medical expenses irrelevant.     "No healing resources? Okay! Keep defensive priorities everyone!" Yuuki calls out. For herself, she won't trade blows. That's fine to do when you're duelling or when you have a pocket healer, but it's not so good for extended brawls. She flies off after Tomoe, drawing her sword and holding it forth in an extended charge.     Yuuki's 'fighting defensive' is actually pretty much a high-speed offense. She doesn't stand still, not for a moment, as she bounds between foes. She doesn't stay in one place long enough for any attacks to actually hit her. By the time something knows where she is and swings, she's already hit it and bounded to the side, or overtop, or spun past or dodged under. Or even preemptively struck its claw off or something. She doesn't concern herself with delivering lethal damage, just bounding from foe to foe like a mad purple blur. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Did Heathcliff win? Kirito furrows his brow at this thought, but pushes it away quickly enough. His only response is... "... I'm not bothered if he did. What happened was an unforgivable tragedy... but every good thing that came about in that castle is just as real."     He takes a few moments to look over all his friends present, takes a breath... then his wings are out and he's rocketing off after Tomoe, flying low.     The boy screams like his life depends on it as he flies into battle with some of the gargoyles that emerge from the keep! 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe will be thankful for more medical supplies later, for now? She's kenee deep in undead hacking and slashing awya as evey0one else piles in to the castle and is makng for the keep. THe hordes are coming form there form the looks of things. Silicia meanwhile is able to get into it with a buff spell to help protect herself and others. Soon she's along side Tomoe who is moving to cover her long time friend as they fight. The idea of a medical bay and getting a doctor or healer is an major thing on the GU's list. For now though the fight is under way. Alexis proves that she's surived the war for over a decade for a /reason/ her mastery of Pokemon trinaing and the skill that she's helped to impart on her team shows here as it's time for monster polo. This may catch on in time. as they are crunching undead and some of strangere gargyole like things that are in the hordes of creatures coming thanfully Yuuki is on board with focusing on defence as they sloiwly push their way forward and soon there are three up front and she knows what Yuuki means by fighting defense is. It's called being the most adorable blender in ALO, that's what it means and that's what Yuuki does cuting through the creatures. Tomoe may have things to say later on Heathcliff but now isn't the time for that after all the party is pushing through the keep and reaching the massive door way and the tide of monsters is becoming thicker, it's odd. They don't seem to /care/ about thier own lives. The undead make sense but the rest? THATS odd, very odd. Tomoe meanwhile has had a chance to make a blazing sword out of Dawn Breaker as she keeps pushing but the loud sound of stone on stone can be heard from inside the ruined keep itself. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Silica shifts, dragging her dagger out of the frozen Gargoyle, shattering it to pieces. "Pina Bubble Breath!" she commands, pointing towards where the gargoyles are spawning from. Hopefully the 'Stun' debuff takes effect and gives the group some time to thin out the numbers. Meanwhile, the Cait Sith shifts and vaults over Tomoe to intercept a Gargoyle coming in from her blind spot, stabbing her dagger into its center of mass, then shoving downwards, launching herself up in a rising slash through its chest, throat and face, leaving an expanding trail of ice crystals in the blade's wake.     The Beast Tamer lands, grits her teeth then powers another Sword Skill... this one isn't one of the usual ones she pulls out, it looks brand new. She holds off until the skill activates, then in a blur of motion, stabs through a line of Gargoyles with speed rivalling the purple blur of Zekken herself. "BREATH OF THE ICE DRAGON!" 

:'''{{#var:459|Alexis (459)}} has posed:''' "Maybe I should get you guys a Chansey." Alexis also proves her experience in being able to hold a witty conversation in middle of a battle. "Or a couple of Miltank." Though mention That Damn Cow makes her remember seeing Whitney battle with one, and twitch slightly. Not to mention she has a Flaaffy TERRIFIED of those rolling bovines. "On second thought, y'know, goat milk is said to be really nutritious too." Brushguard lives up to his name, a frenzy of stomping hooves, gouging horns and even lashing vines from the bush around his neck plenty to stand ground against the monster horde. One gargoyle finds itself having a bad time as it's reeled in with a vine, then headbutted and crushed by the Gogoat, which also restores some of his own HP to keep fighting via Horn Leech. But this was only holding the line. They needed to get past the influxes flowing out of the Keep and find the source of these kamakazi defenders. Though realizing that just makes Alexis smirk a little as she lobs another pokeball high into the air towards the Keep entrance. "Time to turn this into a proper Royal Rumble. Take the ring Hurricarana!" This discharges a stout humanoid avian mid-air, who caws valiant even as he uses his cape-like plumage to glide into one of the gargoyles launching from the keep. "Haaawlucha-ah-ah-ah!" The gargoyle is so surprised at being met midair that it doesn't take time to react to the avian grabbing it around the neck, and using the leverage of it's stout strength and superior aerobatics to heave the gargoyle out of mid-air and suplex it into another, sending both crashing on top of another group of mooks. "Badasses or not, we can't fight forever like this. We need to get inside and stem off the tide." Horde battles were always an annoying if challenging fight as far as Alexis is concerned. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     An endless swarm of monsters attacks them on their way... "Is there no end to them? Maybe we need to find a way to whatever's controlling them..." Staren stops shooting to look over a monster corpse for a few seconds, but it doesn't seem to tell him anything useful. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     "Hmmmmm." Yuuki says, not stopping her bouncy blender imitation as the discussion goes on. She can keep this up for a while, but admittedly not perfectly. She'll make a mistake eventually, or get distracted. No one can handle infinite enemies, so they have to leverage their strengths while they have the advantage. "If that's the case, we should cut through them! Concentrate on pressing through rather than on slaying!" she suggests. Maybe they'll get to a more easily defended area, or through a door, or somewhere else that'll give them a better outlook and a clue to how much fighting they'll need to do to clear the castle. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Kirito has rapidly transformed from a mischevious young man who likes swords and video games into what might be one of the fiercest and most driven warriors people will meet in the Multiverse.     His resounding battlecries cut through the din of weapons clashing and monstrous death rattles! Long, furious, guttural screams of hotblooded determination! The Spriggan's wings propel him from monster to monster, and his weapons dice through gargoyle flesh and the bones of strange skeletal griffons alike. Time and again he finds himself surrounded by the hordes only to break free with a mighty show of Sword Skill force and bowl them away. His Hp's being chipped away only slightly faster than it can regenerate, leaving him covered in glowing crimson damage decals, like the proud scars of a veteran swordsman.     Lips peeled back, his expression is a mixture of smug confidence and a warriorly sneer. He's not here to be nice. He's here to blitz through as many of these things as possible, and leave not a one standing.     The Black Swordsman of Aincrad has returned. 

:'''{{#var:680|Nagato (680)}} has posed:'''     Nagato's got the message and is already zooming along the skyline to the new place... something about monsters and clearing out an old castle or the like. She just knew that her friends in the Gatecrashers needed some help and by god was she going to help. Sortieing in her battleship rigging would take too long, so with a couple small and quick checks with the Yugana Kaze team and she's off like a rocket, through the warpgate and zooming on towards the group.     Fortunately, she's not /too/ late. "Okay, Yugana Kaze, rifle time." she mutters, a rifle appearing with a shimmer in the mechs hands, before diving down to join the rest of the group. The beautiful sound of BRRRRRT from the rifle echoes to help thin down the enemy populace before landing near... "I'm here. The Yugana Kaze was the quickest thing I could use..."     Oh hey, there's Kirito off like a rocket doing some amazing things... with a nod, the rifle dissapears and a twin head axe appears in its place. "I'm coming to help!" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe presses forward as SIlica is along side her. Tomoe as ever is taking the hits and otherwise trying to keep things off her companions as that's her job after all. "Your getting better Silicia." SIlicia's pet's ttack does a good deal to help control things many of the monsters are stopped in thier tracks byt it. Leaving them to be cut down in turn. Alexi fury is pretty well known as the old trainer just unleahses her team upon tthe Gargoyles is being reeled in, head butted na d otherwise smakced about and it's dropped, it might not actually be dead. Then comes out a flyer to really start laying down the air support and that should help keep the skies clear. The Blender known as Yuuki is pressing on and just cuting them down but that's when as she keeps on going being the most bouncy blender ever. Tomoe also takes note of Kirito goinbg back to being /very/ hardcore. He's going so Aincard she's actually /worried/ about him. As this happens and Kirito just bashes through the enemy? A certain high flying Admiral arrives and rains down support fire from Nagato and it's a good thing too a huge thing comes out of the keep's gates A Hulking beast made of stone with glowing gems in it's chest, and a curious thing seems to be happening. Teh Gem's flash and more /monsters/ appear after each and it lets out a bellow before it start to project spikes of rock that it fires at the entire group and it does not care if it hits it's allies /either/. 

:'''{{#var:973|Silica (973)}} has posed:'''     Unforunately, using such a technique, especially a Sword Skill, had it's disadvantages. While she cleared out a good portion of the 'goyles in a straight line, it left her Skill Stunned, in the middle of the massive pack. A fortunate happenstance has her grabbed up and carried away by one of the Gargoyles. While this also removes her from battle, it removes her from harms way, ensuring there's no drain on the 'crasher's resources.     She squirms, wiggling, then remembers she has wings. She activates them, breaks free of the Gargoyle's talons, and shanks it with an ice dagger Skill, sending it plummeting to the ground far below. "I need to get back, but I don't think I'll get there in time... gotta try though!" She turns, gathers herself up, and shoots off back towards the floating castle-island... but it'll take her a while. 

:'''{{#var:874|Yuuki Konno (874)}} has posed:'''     Aha! Yuuki observes the gem flash, sees it generate new gargoyles. The endless swarm makes sudden sense! "CHAAAAARGE!" she bellows, suiting action to words, starting to carve a line towards the boss beastie.     The line is rather meandering, mind you. She still leaps left and right, back and forth, being as unpredictable as possible so she's not cut down. But when all other things are equal, when she can evade towards the boss instead of away, she does so, making progress towards the true objective.     Until it fires its rock spikes anyways. Rock carves out red lines on her flanks and her arms, though the spikes also open up a path for her to dash forward down. She may be wounded but the wounds aren't severe, and the boss is making it easier for her to get close enough to try to take it out! It's a bargain struck, in her mind. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     "Silica!" Staren shouts as she's carried off... but she seems to be okay on the radio, so he turns his attention to... the... /thing/. Which is summoning monsters. That explains that.     The first spike clips him, shattering most of his forcefield and sending him tumbling away. After that, the wings come out, and Staren focuses on dodging and watching the monster's movements for a bit. When he thinks he has a clear shot, one of his shoulder missile racks pops up, and a homing anti-tank minimissile launches at one of the creature's gems. Time for a science experiment: What happens when one of the gems is damaged? 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' Once more Kirito is surrounded by a group of monsters. Then...flames roil within the monsterpile. With an eruption of power they're all cast aside by a flaming sword. Some are cut clean in half, others lose heads or other limbs. Corpses and the ash of dying undead drift and tumble in his wake... and the gasping Spriggan happens to see something interesting out of the corner of his eye.     A great bejeweled golem. Flashing gems. Enemies conjured from nowhere? Or summoned? "Not that it matters... that thing's the source of this trouble!"     If this was a formal boss raid, he might consider calling a retreat. But everyone seems to be doing well, he sees with a quick glance around.     They can risk a little more!     The Spriggan snaps his wings to full throttle. They vibrate so hard that he's sent rocketing towards the golem-creature guarding the gate, ripples spreading out in his wake from pure air pressure forms.     He has a hunch Staren's made the right call, and he's going to capitalize on it for a double-whammy! 

:'''{{#var:459|Alexis (459)}} has posed:''' What wiseguy gave the big bad boss monster Spike Cannon? In addition to spontaneous mook summoning?! Gogoat manages to avoid being shiskabobbed like several skeletons are, but the sudden jerk out of the way of the stone spire slicing through ribcages throws it off balance and it topples, spilling Alexis off his back. Though the landing is softened a bit by the non-skeletal monster remains left in the wake of the goat's fury. She mutters a bit as she rubs her head. "Damn that's one hell of a pet rock gone bad." Hurricarana fairs better, vaulting off a gargoyle as it's struck by it's own master, and lands on what remains of the apex of one of the old buildings. He folds his arms, back turned towards the monster briefly as a timely draft of air flicks through his plumage like the cape it resembles. < So the true challenger has finally come forth. > He turns his head just enough for a glint from his eye to be visible over his shoulder. < The source of this dispicable debacle makes itself known. > Pluage gives a dramatic rustle as he snaps out one arm. < An thus comes the time every true fighter lives for...> Hurricarana whips around with a dramatic feathercape flare. < Come, monster, and face me. For I am...> A powerful leap launches him into the air, plumage spreading out like wings from his arms as he's briefly shilouetted in the sky above. "HAWLUUUUCHA! < HURRRICAAAANE... KALOOOOOOS! > And just as quickly the birdman comes hurtling down towards the Boss Monster, whirling like a top to lash out the taloned foot and slam full force into it's head with a devastating High Jump Kick. Because Rock is vulnerable to Fighting type moves. And if he can blind or daze the behemoth with a head blow, it'll open up more potential for the others to disable it's true sources of power in the gems. Alexis.. just kind of shrugs as she gets up. "Sorry, he likes to be dramatic!" is all she can say about the display. Before picking up her club and getting back to bashing monster heads. 

:'''{{#var:680|Nagato (680)}} has posed:'''     Nagato is going whole hog against the mobs around, that axe slicing and dicing its way through a fair number of them, partially keeping Kirito's six covered. "Moving for air support." she comments, blasting up into the air and swapping back to the rifle. A quick scan of the battlefield, and that 'pet rock' becomes a target now. She brings up the rifle to aim, "Different than my radar..." she muttered, eyes focusing on the HUD in her vision, "Aiming..."     She squeezes the trigger, sending a flurry of bullets, 'small' ones towards the multitude of gems on that rock monster, if the opening needed is made for her and the others. "Focusing target..." 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' The Massive Stone monster seems to be tramping forward towards the party Silicia is in a bad spot and Tomoe cries out. "SILCIA?! Take care of your self!" Tomoe can't do anything and it leaves her very, very unhappy. She's however going to be trying to keep in the fight and keep more monsters from swarming out after the others. The damage is starting to add up on the tank. 5R Yuuki is however putting the sword in sword art ogling at the moment as she in range to start cleaving into the boss, and then as she closes? Staren is opening fire on gems and that actually is helping. One of the missiles takes out the gem and the flow of monsters is indeed slowing with it's destruction. Some even /vanish/ when the gem goes up. Kirito meanwhile is going after the golem and he also seems to get the idea of how it's working too, another gem is shattered and more of the beasts start to vanish. The stone monsters howls in anger and rage at this tactic which distract it allowing Alexis and company to make their move. If the monster hears the Pokemons words and understand sit? IT gives no reply but it's made very unhappy as the birdman comes flying down like some kind of Kamen Rider. The attack staggers the horrible monster and if they keep it up? This will not last much longer. Nagato is putitng her axe to good use cutting down on the horde to make life esier for every one then she's in the air, and she takles aime sending several shots taking out another pair of gems, which cause more of the horde to vanish the way is clear now. "WE NEED TO STOP THIS THING NOW!" The beast is getting in a bad spot and it seems to be charging up some form of magic, now is the time to finish it. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Missile costs aside, this use seems to be worth it!     Staren has several more missiles on his armor -- he targets them at remaining gems and lets their guidance and targeting software work while he turns his lasers and beams on the monsters.     But now it's charging up for some kind of attack. That's bad...     Staren takes to the air. "Anyone with explosive attacks, impact weapons, or ice magic, target the damaged areas! Maybe we can break the monster apart!" 

:'''{{#var:459|Alexis (459)}} has posed:''' Hurricarana uses the recoil force of his flying kick's impact to push off the monster's head, launching himself away as everyone else tears into the monster. Alexis sees an oppritunity in this though, now that the hordes have been thinned, and runs a few meters off to one side. "Brushguard, toss me your vines!" The Gogoat gives her an odd look, but does so, extending two out of it's bush-collar towards her. Alexis grabs the ends in one hand, gives it a quick wrap around her forearm, then grabs on with the other hand as well as she digs her boot heels in for anchoring and pulls the vines taunt. Her Hawlucha sees what they are doing from his literal bird's eye view and reflexively adjusts mid-air, folding his arms to keep from losing too much momentum as he lands on the vines being improvised into a top rope. They have just enough give in the stretched length to absorb his landing much like the real ropes would, and then spring back to slingshot him into the air once more, this time on a lower arc that is a more direct course towards the monster. Arms flare out from the acrobatic spiral, using slingshotted momentum and his signature Flying Press move to deliver a crushing aerial lariet to the stone monster and hopefully finish toppling the monster over! Wonder if he has a name for tha-- < HURRICANE CRUSH! > -- Yep there it is. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:''' A beast that's charging up some kind of hella lazer is HIGH on Kirito's kill list. He makes sure to shuffle aside with a freakish sidestep, but then drops down low. BOTH of his weapons shine simultaneously, a vivid emerald green...     A Dual Sword Skill? But which?!     It's Shining Radial! An OSS copied by muscle memory alone, Kirito darts forward with both of his weapons whirling in alternate saw-like spin motions, razor winds whipping from the edges at the assortment of rockhide and gems! It transitions into a number of back-and-forth horizontal slashes... then he spin-steps forward into a final diagonal downslash that unleashes an eruption of storming razor gales! 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Alexis and her pokemon are doing their thigns. Hurriscarana is quote strong as are the otehr pokemong but it seems that Alexis has a plan of her own s she too gets into the mix on thing. Armsflare out the attacks come and a Hurricane crush it let lose the stone of the monsters body crushed and the thing goes toppling down leaving it utterly opened and exposed to the rest of the partty. STaren now makes hie moves and will make for his own attack more missiels come and the stone monster can not dodge, blasts explodes blowing out chunkc with Tomoe reaces in following up on using the dawn breaker to ravage the thing just as hard as it can, the stike ome and then comes Kirito and the OSS he did from emory? Is just unloadinf stike after streike as gem after gem explodes more and more of the mosnters vanish untill the downed Stone monster is all that's left and as the final blows come from thsoe up close it lets out cry of pain and rages as it explodes into fragments rainding them everywhere. The keep goes quite it seems the source of the monsters is solved but just /what/ was it? "That ... was a hell of a thing, I haven't seen anything like that outside of a MMORPG what the heck /was/ it?" If they look around they will find many of the stolen goods and also find at one mercuan and his two guards in the castle's dungeon. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren gives a shrug and a grunt at the question of what it was. Who knows?     He might take some small pieces of the monster for analysis later.     Staren happily explores the castle with the Gatecrashers, mapping it for them and helping them catalogue any innate resources it has. 

:'''{{#var:459|Alexis (459)}} has posed:''' You know how they say cool guys don't look at explosions? Guess that applies to birds too, as Hurricarana lands on one knee after his strike, and doesn't turn around to watch the monster spasm and crumble into pieces. Even as some of the bits rain down around him due to proximity. "Multiverse tends to cough up weird as ass shit. Especially after it twist itself outside-in and barf up a new set of realities." Alexis just shakes her head a little and shrugs. Kicks some random remains of monster out of the way. "Gawd I feel too old for this some days." Brushguard turns his head towards her with a cant. < Technically you're only what, 20ish? > "I said -feel-, ya smartass." Alexis retorts. Not that she looks nearly as old as she should be. Once the rubble shower is done Hurricaran does finally get up and turn. < Hmph. And not even a mask to claim as a trophy > he caws softly as he walks back to his Trainer. "Don't get too comfortable yet. We should check the rest of the place over. Speaking of which." Alexis turns her attention in the other direction towards Tomoe and Kirito. "Ya guys wouldn't mind if I worked outta here at times too would ya? I'd rather not bring more business home than I already have to, hah!" 
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4984/Ragol the Return

2017-01-06T23:26:16Z

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|Date of Scene=2017/01/05
|Location=Ragol <RA>
|Synopsis=After years of no Elite deployment to Ragrol? A job that comes up which draws Crys and other's attention back to the cursed world.
|Cast of Characters=10, 571, 711, 325, 644
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:10|Crys Gattz (10)}} has posed:''' BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z5Cda715ME The Forest Ragol is said by some to be a planet of lost hopes and broken dreams, yet here Crys Gattz was once more on the surface of a world he'd not visited n years. The Hunters Guilt had posted the job one of the recliaming efforts had gone into trouble, former Union regular army personel who had now joined the militia of the colony, had been able to bug out with no fatalties but it was a near thing. The wild life of the region around the old dome was getting hostile again and no one knew why. The ruined dome loomed in the distance still enduring of a decade left to the elements. That's not true the location that would have the telepie portal show signs og breing frehs as mixture of Union gear and tech of the colony is here. <<<Hunter team, the local wild life has become active again and hostile, you are cleared to kill anything that is agressive towards you.>> The Rains pick up even as Crys steps out on to the grass the world still didn't feel right to her as she waited for the rest of the team to make ready. Thankfully the weather was warm even if it was rainy. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     The STALKER had been fixed, it was time for a little bit of a warmup mission to break it back in. Maaka is with Crys, her coilgun in hands, as she nods. "Roger that. What's the usual policy on trophies for worlds like this one?" She asks. Merc business is fine by her, but poaching? Hell no, she's seen what that did to the elephants. Fucking Ivory warlords.     She takes off in a jog, heading down the field as she keeps her rifle ready. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' In the new Multiverse it was proving handy to have more than one means of getting around. Warpgates hadn't been re-established everywhere, or in this case, there was always the chance of someone or something hostile being there as soon as you step through. Last thing someone wants is having their face eaten off two steps into the mission. So instead Corona had gone through the bit of extra effort to actually fly her startrain over to Ragol proper. Besides, having the Steamhammer in orbit meant there was a convenient jump point both to the world, and if they need to get off the planet in a hurry. Though just materializing in a flash of orange light wasn't nearly as dramatic for making entrances, but Corona arrives all the same. Almost immeadiately she lets out a snort. "Figgers it'd be rainin'. Don't get much rain on Brimsteel outside the summer." She adjusted her hat a bit, tilting it a bit farther than usual so the brim trickles water away from her face. 

:'''{{#var:325|Rhapsody (325)}} has posed:'''     A whole new world to explore! What a wonderful thing. Here, with all the others, Rhapsody arrives along side Corona, not really having a reliable way to travel through space juuuust yet. Stupid void suddenly not having air made things a little more difficult for the Izzet. However, that's a project to deal with later.     Now, as it starts to rain, the guildmaster's trademark trench seems to suddenly have a hood that she pulls up, horns poking through the back of it. "Rain. Bleh.." she seems to agree with Corona, "But weather is the last thing that's gonna stop us, right?" 

:'''{{#var:644|Neva Fernandez (644)}} has posed:'''     Why'd it have to be Green? Neva Fernandez was not very good in Green Environments, especially forests, and especially if there were less mountains in the area. Neva is barely getting a hint of the Red Mana out there, but its going to be a bit of a doozy to draw out enough.     So why was she here, when there's such a mana disadvantage for her? Well she had to test out her new gauntlets at some point. A pair of red metalic, powered gauntlets with blue trim and energy flowing through them are worn on her hands, and Neva slides a deck into the body of the Left glove, and flicks the switches to power them on. 'Cardslingers Online'. The Gauntlets briefly read out. "Alright... -Shuffle-, draw 7..."     The gauntlet's mechanisms begin the work of shuffling within it, followed by flicking 7 cards into a sort of card holder, and spreads them out for her to see. "So far so good..." 

:'''{{#var:10|Crys Gattz (10)}} has posed:''' Crys Gattz looks to Maaka for a moment with a smirk on her face. "There's a resarcher with a knack for turning some animal parts into weapons with biotech but they are ... strange and honestly they are allowed but we're more concenred in culling the hostile wildlife. They are generally a threat, I'll really need to do a planetary information dump after this." She look to Corona and smirks a bit at the fox for a moment "It'salmost always raining I think the planet's been weeping ever since ... the incident." Neva might also feel something odd in the admient mana here there's /black/ not much but there is more than there should be on a world like this. Crys however smiles at Neva the girl was new but she seemd like the soert Crys was taking a liking too. "Huh? Reminds me of Duel Monsters a bit." Whatever happened to her old friends who Dueled? She saidly doesn't know. Rhapsody is unexpected but gets a grin out of Crys too. "It won't stop us, the wild life will and ... if the wild life is getting riled up? I'm worried about the underground here..." Light know it couldn't be could it? She moed forward as they neared the ruined dome? The black mana traces would get a bit higher here, like somerhing happened long ago and this was an echo of it. As Crys is about to say something an lion like roar can be heard as hulking humanoid creatures with massive mouths and claws leap from the underbrush followed by what look liek strange wolves. Wait two species working on consort? That was odd and the pack of creatures move in, even as Crys sees this she's summoning a weapon forth that's larger than she is. It looks like if someone with different design style tastes than the Imperium of man made a chain swor and it's big. Crys hefts the weapon like it's nothing and charges on in. "Watch out for the savgr wolves they like to try an get you from behind!" 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     "Rog'. Gonna be interesting keeping all the remains in a manipulator when we're through." Maaka says. She grins seeing Corona, knowing the fox is gonna break out that SPAS she gave her as a late Christmas gift. Today's gonna be /fun/, she can feel it.     She nods to Neva and Rhapsody when she sees them, before taking off further. "Gonna fling playing cards at them? Okay." She snorts, not knowing what Neva has in store for the beasties tonight.     That roar causes Maaka to drop that smirk, and she drops to a knee, her rifle raised as she stays alert. Switching to thermals, she spots the wolves, and takes aim as she opens fire on one of the two beasts, using single-shots with pin-point accuracy. 

:'''{{#var:325|Rhapsody (325)}} has posed:'''     "And maybe no huge gods tonight, Neva? It may be a little overkill," Rhapsody suggests before the local fauna decide to make a coordinated appearence. "... That's not normal? Well, wonderful," she mutters before drawing just one of her spellblades, for now. One of the wolf-looking beasts gets pointedly introduced to the weapon as the dragon moves in. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' The slick dampness from the rain does keep Corona's eyes from twitching sharply at the roar. "Welp, that didn't take long for the unwelcoming committee t'show up." One gloved hand grabs the firearm from her side, rolling her shoulder a bit to shrug off the strap it was hanging from so it doesn't get tangled around her arm. She quickly unfolds the metal stock and then grabs the grip with her other hand, thumbing off the safety and tucking it up into the crook of her arm for support. Gives the action a good solid pump, then lifts the shotgun as to aim. But it's her heightened hearing that catchs the sound of movement off to the side of them before she ever looks down the sights. Reflexively Corona turns towards what she heard and pulls the trigger, the SPAS-12 barking loudly as she cracks off a shot at the wolves that, sure as they were warned, were trying to flank them from the side. Maaka wasn't kidding when she said the thing had a potent punch, the shot getting a satisfied wail from the lead wolf as the high powered buckshot literally blows the beast out of midleap towards the fox. Corona does need a moment to readjust for the recoil from a less familiar weapon, but that doesn't slow her down too much from pumping the action again and firing at the other wolves following. "Now THIS issa shotgun!" 

:'''{{#var:644|Neva Fernandez (644)}} has posed:'''     Neva narrows her eyes as small monsters begin flow, as she calls over to Rhapsody, "NO PROMISES!" And she begins stating, "Turn 1..." She holds up her left and begins reciting, "Untap, Upkeep... Play Mountain untapped..." She Gauntlet proceeds to follow her instructions, she slides a Mountain card into the board which unfolded on the right arm. at which points she grins and continues to stand back... "END TURN.!"     And then one of those wolf like things runs at her specificly, which prompted the sudden yell. Neva goes wide eyed and winds her right fists up. When she makes the motions, the mechanisms automatically close up the game board and cards in a protective shell, allowing Neva to throw her fist out... The Powered Fist Impacts the wolf right in the nogging and sends it flying through into the trees. "Whew..."     She then unfolds the game and says, "TURN TWO! Untap,Upkeep,DRAW!" She draws a card and then she says, "Play Mountain untapped..." The card flings into the other gauntlet, as Neva once again repeats, "End turn!" 

:'''{{#var:10|Crys Gattz (10)}} has posed:''' Crys Gattz flinches at the comment Rhapsody makes about huge gods? Odd but she's fighting though that fliche ends up getting smacked by one of the Boomas but thankfully she's able to take the hit and reels back only a little bit the chain blade? That on the other hand is ugly as she hacks and sleahs though the and Crys? She's not talking not saying anything she's just kinda gone intoa killing machine mode. Alexis meanwhile is enaging the beats and acting with skill that would impress the local rangers. Creatures are dropped and more keep comming. Hunting packs should start to generally flee after so many losses a meal isn't worth one's life. The mention of black mana? While expected? Troubles Crys evne as Corona drops into it with Maaka and uses thes hotgun to serious effect and then Neva magic however is quick go get into things as her attacks slam int the monster and she just doesn't stop with her attacks. Crys likes her style already though and soon the monsters have thinned out and the last few now only finally /run/ from the party and they are at the imposing ... cental dome complex. Massive clearly high tech but it's also mostly unused the ruins of ground and hover craft are here an there partially taken over by plant life. The woods are quiet it seems the battle drove everything away. "Great..." She attemps to work a concle which comes to life. "...Oh hell a breach in the geo thermal .... plant. We're going to have to head down there but the door's jammmed can someone help me out here?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite actually pouts for a moment when the stragglers run off instead. "Ah didn't even get t' try it in semi-auto yet." Oh well, there will probably be more later. She thumbs the safety back on and relings the shotgun by its carrying strap, but doesn't bother folding up the stock since she's probably going to need it again. An ear twitchs at the mention of geothermal power, and then the door being jammed. "Pro'ly not a surprise with how long its been left sittin' here," she replies as she saunters up. Puts her side to the door, though it's more to put one of her ears to it, and gives the door a few taps with the plate on the knuckles of her gloves. "How 'carefully' do ya want it opened?" Those that know how the vixen works should realize what she's doing -- using her resonate hearing to guage how heavy the door is and what kind of mechanics were used to open it. 

:'''{{#var:644|Neva Fernandez (644)}} has posed:'''     "Turn 3..." Neva rattles out, as her gauntlets continue to automate the process of cardplaying, "Untap, Upkeep, Draw..." Another Card flicks from the deck into Neva's hand, at which point she says once more, "Play Mountain Untapped, and then End Turn."     She punches one more Savage Wolf away, taking her time to flex the fingertips, before following Crys and the rest. "Geo-thermal? Oooohboyy... I've got nothing I can do here.." 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka shrugs at Corona. "You'll get a chance. Take these." She produces some shotgun shells, "Breaching rounds. They'll blow the door off its hinges." They're marked accordingly, and load like any old 12 gauge shell will for the shotgun. She takes position behind Corona, quirking a brow at Crys. "How old is this place?" She asks, curious as she looks out for traps. 

:'''{{#var:10|Crys Gattz (10)}} has posed:''' Crys us not uch of a tech head fort things like this. "Well it's more there's a cave network down there Neva we some times .... Oh Light don't let it ...be /that/." She seems to have an idea of whayt couldbe down there but thankfully Crona and others re there with ideas. "Old is this place? About maybe Thirteen years old it's been left to nature for the last ten or so du4e to issues." Crys shrygs "Get it open if you can without wrecking it but if you have to? Blow it. It seems to need replacement..." Maaka would find one of htem it's optical cloaked and is abit odd, it hovering a good two feet off the ground too. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Iffen need be Ah can always build a new one myself?", Corona replies, then looks at the shells she was handed. Smirks a bit at Maaka. "Good idea, that can be Plan B." Plan A? Corona takes two steps back, and pulls out her Breaker. Which extends to it's full sledgehammer size as she winds up to her shoulder with it. A squeeze of the lever on the handle stokes the pulsarium core encased within the head to life, and krackle of green and blue energy starts to hiss and snap around it. "Y'all might wanna stand back a wee bit..." She's serious. You know she's serious, because she's gone and actually pulled her goggles on. Wiggles a heel to make sure she's on stable footing on the ground, tail fwishing a few times to steady her balance. "Ah've got my own 'master key' rawht here..." She swings, aiming for the dead center of the doors mass, and as soon as the head of the Corona Breaker impacts the energy building up is released in in an explosive shockwave. 

:'''{{#var:325|Rhapsody (325)}} has posed:'''     Explosions are serious business. As can be opening doors with said explosions. A nod is sent Corona's way and then Rhapsody, carefully, starts to pad backwards away from the doors, even closing up her trenchcoat as she goes.     Once she has a fair distance between Corona, the door, and herself, even the Izzet Dragon pulls down a pair of goggles all her own. That's... probably the first time she's actually been wearing such things! Clearly some new things have been going on back at the Izzet League, all for the better. Once everything is set, the guildmaster just smiles, and waits.     The wait is wroth it. The weapon strikes the doors, the concussive force hits her, and probably everyone else in the chest, and then Rhapsody applauds with those fingerless-gloved hands. "Now -that- is how it is DONE. Good show!" 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka does the very sane thing and BACKS THE FUCK UP when COrona begins to pull out her hammer. She does watch with rapt anticipation, if only for the spectacle of COrona blowing stuff up.     "What kind of issues? Don't tell me there's monsters in there." She asks Crys while the vixen goes to open the door for them. She'll storm in after Corona, rifle in hand, before she notices a drone hovering. "Found something."     She begins to scan it with her HUD, training her gun on the cloaked drone. "Should I...shoot it?" She asks Crys cautiously, before she shrugs. Pew pew. The gun kicks against her shoulder, and she leaves it at that. 

:'''{{#var:644|Neva Fernandez (644)}} has posed:'''     "Turn 4..." Neva rattles on, as she continues repeating, "Untap, Upkeep, Draw.." Another card is drawn, before she says, "Play Mountain untapped..." She slides the land card into the 'Board' Gauntlet, and then taps the four mountain cards, as she says, "It's a good thing nothing urgent is going on requiring me to have a standing monster force by turn 4..."     She wisely steps away from Corona and her work, as she recites in a more ritual tone, "Four Red - I use this Mana to cast Enchantment: OUTPOST SIEGE. I choose 'Dragons'."     It's now that something of effect happens, the world takes a reddish tint to it, and one can see an ongoing siege between a hoard of Dragons and an Army of Khans, and it seems the Dragons are Winning. The battle seems to be going on without either force notcing the League crew. "That should make things interesting." 

:'''{{#var:10|Crys Gattz (10)}} has posed:''' Crys Gattz gets the heck back as Corona gets to work andshe'll even take cover, she knows Corona it seems well enough to know about this. "Ha that pun was so criminal the Paladins might bust you for that." She then ducks behind the old crate. "Not in the dome it self on the way down umm there's a certain apex predator that loves the caves and we been unable to keep it out without ... a lot of trouble." She doesn't say more. "Leave the ..." The trap goes off and the group's lucky it's just a explosive one rather than something like a cyro or shock trap. "Eee that will do for now..." Then door is blown ipen thankgully but what is Neva up to? Crys just kinda gapes she's not sure what NEva is doing but now there are things here, they are fighting but /ignoring/ them all the door has been blow open and Crys will step through. "Lets go before somethignnotices us." It wouldn't be troubleinside and any local life forms are keeping the hell away from the magical battle. Thogh as the party decents into the ruined central dome. It's creepy there's not really signs of battle here and it's shockingly intact but once they find a teleport pad that still has powers, Crys boots it up. "Be on your guard..." The good news is the battle has prevented anything else from following after them. The effect isn't too bad and soon the party would be in a massive chamber where one could see pipes pushing intot he groudn and here and there cracks in the stone floor where molten hot magma is and the heat's pretty hot here too. "This is why we can't if we can't ... wait... did you here?" A ROAR echos through the chamber shacking eveyrthing as a huge hulking creature comes out of the depths of the caves a hulking figure it's a dragon of some sort. Massuve lizerd like creaturebut it has no for limbs just wings rather and it's not looking happy it lets out anotehr bellow and starts spraying fire at the party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwhIc1bNr8Q Crys meanwhile botls changing weapons from the chainsawed to a brutal lookinc mechanical claw and pistol. She then charges for it. "It's always got to be a DRAGON HERE DOESN'T?!" 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     "GET DOWN!" Maaka dives for cover as the trap goes off, and she thankfully only sustains some minor scratches. Of course, going into the dome, the team teleports into a massive chamber. Heat levels begin to rise to worrying degrees, and Maaka feels everything get hotter suddenly.     Before long, she hears a roar from the distance...only for it to get much closer. A /dragon/, has come, this could be a problem.     She raises her rifle, firing a few times to start out. 

:'''{{#var:325|Rhapsody (325)}} has posed:'''     There's a lot that goes on in not a whole lot of time. More explosions, a trap, and now, "That... is... a really big Wyvern.." Rhapsody muses, staring at the creature as it roars at all that have gathered under the dome. The heat levels rising don't really bother the guildmaster. She is, after all, a dragon, and a red one if the scales atop her head have anything to say about it.     The roar from the massive beast actually throws the hood of Rhapsody's trenchcoat back. The goggles are pushed up, and she heaves a sigh. "Welp. You sir, are a fiend and a monster, and I take no pleasure in putting you down, but if you're a problem here, there's no other solution!" Red spellblade, drawn, blue spell blade, drawn, red scales, glowing slightly. "Aim for it's underside!" she advises. 

:'''{{#var:644|Neva Fernandez (644)}} has posed:'''     Neva goes wide eyed, as she ends her last turn, and she rattles, "TURN FIVE!" The gauntlets whirr and keep in motion as she goes through the game faces, "UNTAP!!" All of her land cards turn back up vertical, as she keeps going, "UPKEEP! DRAW!" She draws, and then calls out, "Play Mountain Untapped!" Another Mountain card plays, and then thigns get crazuds     "ONE RED - I Cast Lightning Bolt upon the dragon!" Despite being in the caves, stormclouds gather atop the dragon, and a bolt FIRES DOWN from it.     Neva then grins, "Main Phase 1: TWO RED, TWO COLORLESS! I use this mana to summon GOREHORN MINOTAURS with Bloodthirst 2 active!!" The red manifests in the area in front of her, as a pair of Minotaurs with long horns, and VERY bloodthirsty mood, judging from the way they're butting heads at each other, but not at all moving to attack anyone else. "AND END TURN!"     https://deckbox.org/mtg/Gorehorn%20Minotaurs 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite is possibly the only one here save the dragon-lady that isn't bothered by the intense heat of the chamber they eventually teleport into. "This almost feels like home!" She lifts her head to peer up at the pipes and pumps chugging magma out of the ground. "Heck, kinda looks like one of the thermal pump terminals, too." Her back is in the direction the monster comes from, but you can see her ears droop at the roar all the same. "Aw, frag." She barely gets a chance to turn just far enough to look when the flames come spewing forth from the beast's maw. It looks for a moment that the fox got engulfed in the barbeque, but when the flames die away she's actually hunkering behind an energy shield shaped conveniently like a large riot shield. Though by the way it's flickering and showing some digital cracks it lost most of it's charge to those flames. "That's TWO successful presents. Ah musta been extra good thi..err.. last year." But instead of going for the SPAS again, she tugs a gearwork grenade launcher from her belts. "Now lets do somethin' 'bout that halitosis of yers." She other hand plucks a canister out of a pouch, flipping it once in her hand to orient it and then shoving it into the gun. When it snaps shut the gears wind for a moment to arm, because it uses a spring instead of gunpowder to prevent accidental backfires. Corona takes aim and pulls the trigger, launching the canister arcing into the air with an audible *TAWANG* of the spring releasing. She aimed for the beast's head and mouth, where the canister will explode into a spray of flame resistant adhesive to gunk up it's mouth and keep the amount of fire it can spew to a minimum. 

:'''{{#var:10|Crys Gattz (10)}} has posed:''' Crys Gattz gets the 'Wyvern's attention. She's not going to argue smeathics with Rhaps that would be bad and she suspects Rhapsody would just get annoyed badly if she argued the point. For now the horrible thing is comming right at Crys who is engaging it in melee. The one eyed space elf is engaging in melee it seems and she's doing shockingly well to keep it's attention. Maaka's fire opens up on the Wyvern and is doing some damage it roars as it taks several hits. With Rhapsody gets into the with her spell blade and the creature has no real protection against magic. The lighting bolt flies at the thing doing even more damage, and the dragon's looking a bit toasty too. Neva's clever spell use prevented the dragon from going after the monsters she summoen as the thing dives into the floor breakcing through it into the magma below and it criss crosses the chamber for a bit before finally bursting fgorth and taking to the air to breath fire down on the collected heroes below. Corona's gifts has worked well and she pulls off a very tricky shot as she lets her ttack lose the caniser hits the predatotr where she intended to and KABOOM the flame resistant adhesive gums up it's mouth. It comes crashign down trying to breath fire and it /now panicing/ it should be able to breath fire, why does not it flames work?! Though it crashing back down causes the whole ground to shake and several pillars of magma to burst up through weaker parts of the floor. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite does the gunslinger barrel blow even though the launcher doesn't emit smoke and spins it in her hand before tucking it back away. "Who says 'very explosion has to be explosive?" The moment is kind of ruined however when the beast thrashes and slams into the ground and Corona stumbles backwards from the shockwave. Then yelps as molten rock gysers out of the ground, forcing her to scramble away and dive for cover as globlets of magma and debris rain down. She may be heat proof but she's not magma proof! For a moment she takes shelter behind some machinery, unslinging the SPAS-12 again and quickly loading more rounds into it. Solid slugs this time, something that won't scatter and lose it's impact power at a farther range. Then flicks the setting to semi-auto this time, because typically it's kind of hard to work a pump-action and keep your aim when you're moving at the same time. Then she darts out from her cover, hiphopping across the now cracked floor as she points at the wyvern and fires off three shots that, at least for a shotgun, are in rapid succession. Those solid slugs should retain enough of the shotgun's force since they don't scatter like buckshot, and hopefully punch farther past whatever dermal resiliance that thing has. 

:'''{{#var:644|Neva Fernandez (644)}} has posed:'''     Neva narrows her eyes as she watches the dragon play evasive, and grumbles a bit, she wants to get tis done and over with. "TURN SIX! UNTAP! UPKEEP! DRAW!" The topmost card on the deck reveals itself to her, and Neva blinks in surprise, before grinning and calling over to Rhapsody, "Rhapsody! Remember when you told me not to summon any gods, and I said I'd make no promises?"     And now, having not made any promises, she utters out, "MAIN PHASE ONE! ONE RED! THREE COLORLESS! I use this mana to summon, Legendary Enchantment Creature - GOD!" Red Mana circles and gathers up in the sky, as she finishes summoning, "PURPHOROS, GOD OF THE FORGE!"     The mana expands and grows, taking form in the sky! The sky?! How is there a sky?! WE'RE INSIDE A CAVE! But nonetheless, there is now a sky and taking up all the room in the sky is a broad, stocky being made of constellations, bronze, and molten metal, and bearing a ginormous Hammer. It's Purphoros, God of the Forge, and he's ready...     Neva then points forward, "COMBAT PHASE! Gorehorn Minotaurs, attack!" She grins, the minotaurs currently are running at 5/5. The Dragon May or May not be able to just murderize them, but they aught to hurt, as the beasts bellow and stampede at it. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     The rifle kicks again in Maaka's grasp, and she slides behind cover beside Corona, hiding from debris and magma. She slings the rifle before she swaps it out in favor of something else.     Her Manipulator manifests the Ogris rocket launcher that Kushiko had sent her during the Holiday, and she takes aim at the dragon. The launcher kicks in her hands as a pair of rockets launch, homing towards the dragon's side at high speeds. Nothing fancy, but Maaka's always been one for the simpler solutions. 

:'''{{#var:325|Rhapsody (325)}} has posed:'''     Suddenly Rhapsody is very glad all of the people she's with are on -her- side. She wouldn't want to fight most of these people, and the tactics they're using on the wyvern makes her sure of it. Still, the beast needed to be sent packing or put down, so now is the time to do it.     When the creature dives underground, a smithing -god- appears in the sky, the guildmaster actually wonders if things are over. There's not a lot she can do while it's burrowing around, so, while it's down there, she just holds onto the red blade with both hands, focuses, and channels something for when the beast emerges. If it does? She's going to -throw- the red spellblade at it. Why? Well, it's going to turn into a giant fiery axe. No she doesn't have to yell the spell out. Neva may know it anyway. 

:'''{{#var:10|Crys Gattz (10)}} has posed:''' the Dragon is having a very bad time it can't breath fire right now it's afraid now, it should be able to breath fire but more attacks come and Crys is dodging the magma she doe snot want to end up toasted either and this time as Corona's shotgun blasts into it. Solid slug weapons are rare on this world are rare, generally it's energy barring a few hunters who use relics of the past. The weapon does a lot better digging into the dragon and it howls in pain a it's scales are breached. Maaka's own heavy explosive weapon does some terrible damage as it explodes into the dragon it's injured unable to breath fire and whatever it valued in the cave? It seems to understand it's n a bad place a very bad place It's bleeding it's in pain and then comes the red spell blade slamming int it and cutting it up more. The Wyvern is now staring at a god and unlike the creatures above? It had not fallen prey to whatever rile them up. It still has a sense to want to keep it self alive the horribly injured dragon as the Minotaurs get several nasty hits into it, the God however is too much it dives into the floor and /doesn't/ come back up the creature is running for it's life and likely will not be back any time soon if ever. Maybe another one will come someday but for now it's gone. It's flight however does dislodge some old supply crates which slam into the floor and might have useful things in them. Crys however leans on one staring. "never seen one actually run before..." That was new but she also pauses like she hears something. Come ... deeper Crys also turnes paler than normal and seems to be looking dizzy. 

:'''{{#var:325|Rhapsody (325)}} has posed:'''     The axe goes flying, all manner of assault seems to land on the beast, and when it burrows, the guildmaster stands very still, trying to listen? Feel the vibrations fade, further, further... gone.. She waits at least another ten seconds before heaving a sigh of relief, "It ran! We spooked it enough that it decided it's lair wasn't worth the risk. Good job everyone!"     Not often you see someone happy about not slaying the mean old monster, but, well, can you really blame her? 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka makes a note to inspect the crates later, but for now, runs over to Crys. "Hey, you okay?" She offers a hand to her as she slings her launcher, draping one of Crys' arms over her shoulders, carrying her as she approaches onto of the crates, her boot trying to kick it open with a swift strike. May as well take a peek, right? 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "T'be fair, it's never faught a posse like us to -need- to run b'fore," Corona points out as she hops out from her cover. Walks over to the entrance to the tunnel the dragon wyvern whatever you want to call it disappeared down. "But just t'be on the safe side, gonna make sure it don't come back, poss'bly with friends." This time instead of a weapon Corona goes for her own Manipulator. Uses it to zap up some of the junk and debris scattered about from the fight, and then turn to fill in the entrance to the tunnel with the Junk Blocks formed from the scrap. "There, it can't bother us, and no one's gotta bother it long as it stays down there." 

:'''{{#var:644|Neva Fernandez (644)}} has posed:'''     Neva watches as the dragon just bails the fuck out, and smiles, "Opponent concedes, GG." And with that last command, her gauntlets whirr into motion again, gathering the cards into safe compartments. All the creatures and spells that Neva has cast now dissipate, even the God just fades away, as though it were never there.     The planeswalker taps the deckslots of her gauntlet together, to shuffle the graveyard into the main deck, "Right, we're done here, right?" 
}}

End of an Era (Tomoe)

2016-12-21T08:33:02Z

Junker99: Tomoe's escape and aftermath from the fall of the Union.

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2016/12/21
|Location=Njorun Then Fayt's home.
|Synopsis=Njorun is dying and Sheena Armstrong better known as Tomoe or Eisen to the multiverse is caught up in this event without the ability to call upon her Avatar. She escapes the madness only to find refugee at a Fayt's home and then someone ... tries to recruit her mere hours after the Union's fall.
|Thanks=Kirito and Fayt for letting themselves be mentioned!
|Cast of Characters=6
}}
Fear, terror, two very old companions of the woman behind both Eisen and Tomoe. Sheena's heart hammered in her chest as her and Kirito were making their way out. She'd only stopped long enough to grab a medical kit and some other items related to their full dive gear. Then she ran, using the terrain, as they went, left, right, up and down was going mad. She used anything in her way to get past as her body moved. This wasn't with the safety net of her avatar. Sheena's heart hammered in her chest s she moved, adrenalin kept her going as the panicked crowds attempted to escape.

"Kirito keep going we don't have long this entire place is coming apart. Reality is coming unglued."

Sheena kept moving but then she saw it a regular forces marine was trying to get a door open but it was glitched and she could hear people pounding and screaming on the other side. The problem was there was? The Marine had no way to reach it. There was no normal patch reality was breaking but Sheena paused she saw a way through and she broke off from Kirito as she moved. She shifted moving through twisting parts of wall, floor and who knows what else, acting on Instinct and reflex as she twisted through the chaotic morass broken reality. She hits the other side of the switch and yells.

"I GOT IT! GO SOLDIER!"

The Marine pauses gives the woman a thumbs up and then starts helping the people on the other side flee. There's no time to do anything else on Sheena's end she turned back tracking the ever shifting paths, again she moves, almost seeing to fly. She grabs a piece of what was piping flips over a broken twisting area that might have been part of the floor, rebounds off a wall and makes a three point landing. She quickly rises, moving to sprint as fast as she can go after Kirito she had to get out of here and like hell she was going to get separated from someone who was family in everything but blood to her. She then understood the world was changing the base was going and there was nothing that could /save/ it.

Sheena impressively caught up with her friend and kept moving afterward, there was no time left, they had to go they had to catch up with her father before it was too late.

---------

Some hours later at Fayt's home whom had taken her in she slumped over in a bed and it hit her as she manged to get a few comm channels working. The war? It was over the massive mind breaking war had ended and reality had broken down heavily and the universe had changed. There was no more Union, there was no more confederacy she hugged the pilot for lack of better thing and found she had call. She didn't know the number but she answered it pulling the phone up to her head.

"Miss Armstrong I was hoping to speak to you..."

"I don't know you, who are you? How did you get my number?"

"I am with an organization that would be ...."

"Wait are you some kind of jackal?!"

"Pardon me Miss Armstrong?"

"Ya, a jackal picking off the corpses that are not even cold. I do not care, who you are, who you are working for or what you are /offering/ me. You smell just like those jackasses from the laughing Coffin. IF I catch you nosing about again? You have also violated my privacy as well."

"Miss Armstrong I have not broken any laws I wished to make you an offer so you can..."

Sheena cut the man off.

"Good day, go find your carrion elsewhere."

Sheena hung up the phone and turned it off slumping into her bed. She hugged her knees to her chest, she had no idea who it was she didn't care. She didn't know where everyone was, who was alive or dead. All that person could think was? She was some kind of Elite that they could use for whatever they wanted. She had had a debt to the Union and even oddly the Feds who had helped end the death game. Yet now? She couldn't do much more than sob the stress physical and emotional was just too much for her.

On the other end of the line the Paladin Recruiter grimaces at the terminated call. He looked to his partner for a moment "We have other to contact if we're ever to get miss Armstrong? We'll have to give her time."

"You should have looked at her psyche profile more clearly."

"Should we write her off?"

"No give her time we were in error and I suggest we use another agent to contact her the next time."

"Are you sure? She's a publicly known elite who will likely be drowning in job offers..."

"If we force her she'll likely go running to the Concord."

--------

It was fit full sleep full of nightmares that only one whose been on the other side of the divide when it comes to elites. She couldn't connect, she could be facing having no power to effect the world any longer. She dragged her self out of bed to the near by shower in the guest room Fayt had given her for the night. She took a hot shower and cleaned her self up. She thought within the shower. The war was over, her debt to the Union was paid, if she was not without powers? Then she still had her sword to cut her path in this world and she wasn't alone, maybe it wasn't over just yet? She finished off the shower, finished cleaning up changed clothing and went to try and find a jack, things were not over for her, and her friend. No they may have just had a lot open up for them all.

The End of an Era (Tomoe)

2016-12-21T08:27:16Z

Junker99: Tomoe's escape and aftermath from the fall of the Union.

{{Cutscene Header
|Location=Njorun Then Fayt's home.
|Synopsis=Njorun is dying and Sheena Armstrong better known as Tomoe or Eisen to the multiverse is caught up in this event without the ability to call upon her Avatar. She escapes the madness only to find refugee at a Fayt's home and then someone ... tries to recruit her mere hours after the Union's fall.
|Thanks=Kirito and Fayt for letting themselves be mentioned!
|Cast of Characters=6
}}
Fear, terror, two very old companions of the woman behind both Eisen and Tomoe. Sheena's heart hammered in her chest as her and Kirito were making their way out. She'd only stopped long enough to grab a medical kit and some other items related to their full dive gear. Then she ran, using the terrain, as they went, left, right, up and down was going mad. She used anything in her way to get past as her body moved. This wasn't with the safety net of her avatar. Sheena's heart hammered in her chest s she moved, adrenalin kept her going as the panicked crowds attempted to escape.

"Kirito keep going we don't have long this entire place is coming apart. Reality is coming unglued."

Sheena kept moving but then she saw it a regular forces marine was trying to get a door open but it was glitched and she could hear people pounding and screaming on the other side. The problem was there was? The Marine had no way to reach it. There was no normal patch reality was breaking but Sheena paused she saw a way through and she broke off from Kirito as she moved. She shifted moving through twisting parts of wall, floor and who knows what else, acting on Instinct and reflex as she twisted through the chaotic morass broken reality. She hits the other side of the switch and yells.

"I GOT IT! GO SOLDIER!"

The Marine pauses gives the woman a thumbs up and then starts helping the people on the other side flee. There's no time to do anything else on Sheena's end she turned back tracking the ever shifting paths, again she moves, almost seeing to fly. She grabs a piece of what was piping flips over a broken twisting area that might have been part of the floor, rebounds off a wall and makes a three point landing. She quickly rises, moving to sprint as fast as she can go after Kirito she had to get out of here and like hell she was going to get separated from someone who was family in everything but blood to her. She then understood the world was changing the base was going and there was nothing that could /save/ it.

Sheena impressively caught up with her friend and kept moving afterward, there was no time left, they had to go they had to catch up with her father before it was too late.

---------

Some hours later at Fayt's home whom had taken her in she slumped over in a bed and it hit her as she manged to get a few comm channels working. The war? It was over the massive mind breaking war had ended and reality had broken down heavily and the universe had changed. There was no more Union, there was no more confederacy she hugged the pilot for lack of better thing and found she had call. She didn't know the number but she answered it pulling the phone up to her head.

"Miss Armstrong I was hoping to speak to you..."

"I don't know you, who are you? How did you get my number?"

"I am with an organization that would be ...."

"Wait are you some kind of jackal?!"

"Pardon me Miss Armstrong?"

"Ya, a jackal picking off the corpses that are not even cold. I do not care, who you are, who you are working for or what you are /offering/ me. You smell just like those jackasses from the laughing Coffin. IF I catch you nosing about again? You have also violated my privacy as well."

"Miss Armstrong I have not broken any laws I wished to make you an offer so you can..."

Sheena cut the man off.

"Good day, go find your carrion elsewhere."

Sheena hung up the phone and turned it off slumping into her bed. She hugged her knees to her chest, she had no idea who it was she didn't care. She didn't know where everyone was, who was alive or dead. All that person could think was? She was some kind of Elite that they could use for whatever they wanted. She had had a debt to the Union and even oddly the Feds who had helped end the death game. Yet now? She couldn't do much more than sob the stress physical and emotional was just too much for her.

On the other end of the line the Paladin Recruiter grimaces at the terminated call. He looked to his partner for a moment "We have other to contact if we're ever to get miss Armstrong? We'll have to give her time."

"You should have looked at her psyche profile more clearly."

"Should we write her off?"

"No give her time we were in error and I suggest we use another agent to contact her the next time."

"Are you sure? She's a publicly known elite who will likely be drowning in job offers..."

"If we force her she'll likely go running to the Concord."

--------

It was fit full sleep full of nightmares that only one whose been on the other side of the divide when it comes to elites. She couldn't connect, she could be facing having no power to effect the world any longer. She dragged her self out of bed to the near by shower in the guest room Fayt had given her for the night. She took a hot shower and cleaned her self up. She thought within the shower. The war was over, her debt to the Union was paid, if she was not without powers? Then she still had her sword to cut her path in this world and she wasn't alone, maybe it wasn't over just yet? She finished off the shower, finished cleaning up changed clothing and went to try and find a jack, things were not over for her, and her friend. No they may have just had a lot open up for them all.

End of Line (Deelel)

2016-12-12T00:00:02Z

Junker99:

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2016/12/11
|Location=Afterus
|Synopsis=Deelel meets up with Bios, Cashe and Alpha to speak on what to do with the fall of the Union when they get made an offer by an man from the Watch.
|Cast of Characters=8
}}
Deelel made her way to Afterus in the wake of helping people flee the doomed headquarters of the Union. She'd lost the way home but she'd been lucky she'd run into Bios, Cashe and Alpha in the main square there and the group of basics took to talking and catching up.

"So the HQ's gone? Glitch it there's goes our support we might still have Kernal's system the Cloud but we'd need to find that and home again."

Deelel sighed at her elder. Alpha was one of the oldest programs on the grid and she valued his insight and she thought for a moment.

"We have to figure out what to do now we're out of support and we're wanted criminals. If we don't get hard proof of what CLU did?"

"Then we ain't going to have Glitch with these Paladins I'm hearing about."

"Exactly that's the problem Alpha, we're criminals to CLU's order so what are we going to do?"

A human wit bright red hair, mirror shades, and an old military Jacket came up to the group of programs.

"Greetings Programs, I have heard that your in quite the fix and I'd like to offer you some help. You'll need to repay but I think? What's the term? The people you'll be working with process like the four of you do. Miss Deelel, Miss Bios, Miss Cashe and Mr. Alpha."

Deelel paused looking at the man for a moment.

"I'm listing, though you have my crews Ids but we don't have yours."

The man grinned widely.

"The name's Fading Suns and I'm here to help, now let's talk shall we? I think your going to find it enlightening."

The human and the four programs headed off to speak and make their choice about what way to go in this world gone mad.

End of Line (Deelel)

2016-12-11T23:53:48Z

Junker99:

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2016/12/12
|Location=Afterus
|Synopsis=Deelel meets up with Bios, Cashe and Alpha to speak on what to do with the fall of the Union when they get made an offer by an man from the Watch.
|Cast of Characters=8
}}
Deelel made her way to Afterus in the wake of helping people flee the doomed headquarters of the Union. She'd lost the way home but she'd been lucky she'd run into Bios, Cashe and Alpha in the main square there and the group of basics took to talking and catching up.

"So the HQ's gone? Glitch it there's goes our support we might still have Kernal's system the Cloud but we'd need to find that and home again."

Deelel sighed at her elder. Alpha was one of the oldest programs on the grid and she valued his insight and she thought for a moment.

"We have to figure out what to do now we're out of support and we're wanted criminals. If we don't get hard proof of what CLU did?"

"Then we ain't going to have Glitch with these Paladins I'm hearing about."

"Exactly that's the problem Alpha, we're criminals to CLU's order so what are we going to do?"

A human wit bright red hair, mirror shades, and an old military Jacket came up to the group of programs.

"Greetings Programs, I have heard that your in quite the fix and I'd like to offer you some help. You'll need to repay but I think? What's the term? The people you'll be working with process like the four of you do. Miss Deelel, Miss Bios, Miss Cashe and Mr. Alpha."

Deelel paused looking at the man for a moment.

"I'm listing, though you have my crews Ids but we don't have yours."

The man grinned widely.

"The name's Fading Suns and I'm here to help, now let's talk shall we? I think your going to find it enlightening."

The human and the four programs headed off to speak and make their choice about what way to go in this world gone mad.

End of Line (Deelel)

2016-12-11T23:49:12Z

Junker99: Created page with "{{Cutscene Header |Date of Scene=2016/12/12 |Location=Afterus |Synopsis=Deelel meets up with Bios, Cashe and Alpha to speak on what to do with the fall of the Union when they..."

{{Cutscene Header
|Date of Scene=2016/12/12
|Location=Afterus
|Synopsis=Deelel meets up with Bios, Cashe and Alpha to speak on what to do with the fall of the Union when they get made an offer by an man from the Watch.
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Deelel made her way to Afterus in the wake of helping people flee the doomed headquarters of the Union. She'd lost the way home but she'd been lucky she'd run into Bios, Cashe and Alpha in the main square there and the group of basics took to talking and catching up.

"So the HQ's gone? Glitch it there's goes our support we might still have Kernal's system the Cloud but we'd need to find that and home again."

Deelel sighed at her elder. Alpha was one of the oldest programs on the grid and she valued his insight and she thought for a moment.

"We have to figure out what to do now we're out of support and we're wanted criminals. If we don't get hard proof of what CLU did?"

"Then we ain't going to have Glitch with these Paladins I'm hearing about."

"Exactly that's the problem Alpha, we're criminals to CLU's order so what are we going to do?"

A human wit bright red hair, mirror shades, and an old military Jacket came up to the group of programs.

"Greetings Programs, I have heard that your in quite the fix and I'd like to offer you some help. You'll need to repay but I think? What's the term? The people you'll be working with process like the four of you do. Miss Deelel, Miss Bios, Miss Cashe and Mr. Alpha."

Deelel paused looking at the man for a moment.

"I'm listing, though you have my crews Ids but we don't have yours."

The man grinned widely.

"The name's Fading Suns and I'm here to help, now let's talk shall we? I think your going to find it enlightening."

The human and the four programs headed off to speak and make their choice about what way to go in this world gone mad.

3572/Holidazed

2016-12-07T21:48:38Z

Junker99: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2015/12/27 |Location=Earth-<GITS> |Synopsis=Corona and Kotone hang out dreading the holiday season together. |Cast of Characters=7, 711 |pretty=yes..."

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2015/12/27
|Location=Earth-<GITS>
|Synopsis=Corona and Kotone hang out dreading the holiday season together.
|Cast of Characters=7, 711
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' So after the run with recovering things for Ainsley, Kotone wanted to cut lose a bit it was Boxing day and she's given her family the slip for a bit and had dragged Corona along, she wasn't sure if they'd go shopping but getting her about Vancouver would be good she though as she moved down the street clad for winter though she's got the goggles up over her head still, but there is one thing Corona would note about her friend, there's no case of frozen breath with her really. "So come on we might dodge the last of the crazy shoppers unless you want to try and pick up something?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Dodge the crazy shoppers?" Corona makes a little one-two jabbing motion jokingly. "Ah thought that's why they called it Boxin' Day." You would think being an anthro she wouldn't be too worried about cold, but being more accustomed to a volcanic desert environment she opted for a heavier duster all the same. She's more fennec than arctic fox, anyways. It's also handy to keep her tail tucked under so they don't get too many weirder looks than usual. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Thankfully Kotone's world had been in the multiverse so long it had off world trade and even tourists to major locations like Vancouver, so things didn't /quite/ get as crazy. "It's from an old british thing on the 26th, the servants of the wealthy and noblity would get gifts from their employers. It kinda snowballed into a sell off the old stock before new years kinda of sale over time. Let's not get into a brawl if we can help it? I don't want ot explain some things to the police." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite laughs as she tosses her arm around Kotone's shoulders. "Ah still gotta show ya a proper bar brawl... But we can do that next time yer visitin' my place. It's practically a national pasttime on Brimsteel. Just long as its kept to punchin' and kickin' and the occasional bottle smashin'. Gotta wrangle up a proper duel iffen ya wanna shootout. Most saloons ain't gonna allow guns in anyways." You can just picture a big rustic place having a 'gun check' instead of a coat check. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Strange to think of that, this socity is so hands off it's actually a bit insane at this point to be honest. So whatcha want to do? Get food? Go see if we can get you something interesing to tinker with?" Kotone gets a few passing looks, but Corona gets a few stares and one person stares at their drink stares at COrona and dumps said drink into the gutter walking off down the sidewalk. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Guess the world isn't -entirely- accustomed to off-world types walking around yet. Corona just shrugs her shoulders a bit, though it may also be a gesture to keep the longcoat from falling off them. It looks like it's a bit big for her, it probably belonged to Ol' Rusty originally. "It's yer world Koto, Ah ain't gotta a clue what y'all do fer antics round here. Other than the puttin' down corrupt covert corperations, but that don't really count fer -fun-." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "I still don't know how that happened and no it wasn't fun, it's a abject lesson about letting tech lose to a world that isn't ready. It's one thing to do humantarian aid and help with diasters it's another to go handing out immortality. Well bars and clubs still exist, there's gaming, sports, the winderless in this provice is shockingly intact compared to a lot of other places so biking, hiking exploring. Though I'm not sure your ready for a Moose..." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "At least yer world ain't lost all sense of fun then!" Corona guffaws. "Com'n, I deal with bronzehorns, cactuscats and deranged mole men; how bad can a moose be?!" A brief pause. "... What's a moose?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "A moose? It's a local lifeforms, a four legged horned creatier a bit like a dear save the fact it weighs a ton and it's skull can sometimes deflect small arms fire. They also are veyr irrtuiable or so most people think. One could still do a number on me it's like nature went to make the meanest thing it could then made it a herbivore." THe cyborg mechanic laughs and goes to start skimming the net to get a picture to showt to Corona which she's quick to bring up on her phone and show her. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite stops and leans over Kotone's shoulder to peer at the phone image. "Well dayum. Oughta be glad a jackelope ain't got horns like that, that's fer sure. Though, could be worse." The fox snickers a bit. "Those horns, they could be -on fire-." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa smirks now as she lets Corona looka t them. "There are not as many as there used to be and honestly there's only a few things besides humans tht can take them down. I doubt we'd run into most of them even if we wnt looking so? You got some sort of phone Corona or would you rather get food?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite snaps open her analyzer-like device. "Ah just got comm stuff patched through this. It's a clockwork personal analytical device. Or C-Pad fer short. Put this one together myself so it's got a few extra features 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "So I see your set then unless you wnat something more. We could get a deal on the clear out sales. Though it's funny in this world eveh body parts now are involved in keeping up with the jones." She makes a bit of a face as she passes a street vendor and starts to eye the food the man's keeping hot and cooking. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite pfffs, rolling her eyes. "That's been goin' on for ages, Koto. Just it use to be only women trying to outdo each other's, ahem, assets." But her attention is immeadiately distracted by the vendor, and by the time Kotone can even say anything else the foxgirl is investigating. "Hey look, y'all still got chuckwagons too! just... smaller." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "That's true I know, but now it's actually affordable." She makes an amused face about it bfore she looks to get the food. "We do, street vendors are very common in cities like this. They are mobile and can follow there customers unlike say a sit down resturant you knopw, though there is a region on this coniten a bit like your home, well it's seen like it anyway." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite murmurs something that could be agreement, but she's already put down some money and is stuffing her face with the food. For not being a very big foxgirl she certainly has an appetite! 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa just gets a little bit as she looks to corona just devouring the food, the vendor seems amused at it and doens't seem put off from an off world visator really. He seems amused if anything. Kotone meanwhile looks to COrona "You know eating like that I'd almost think you were a wolf." 
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4371/Fayt Is Dragooned

2016-12-07T21:48:13Z

Junker99: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2016/07/31 |Location=Castle Ravus (CR) |Synopsis=The Daedalus Initiative needs backers and Kotone goes to speak to Fayt about it. Let's be honest,..."

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2016/07/31
|Location=Castle Ravus (CR)
|Synopsis=The Daedalus Initiative needs backers and Kotone goes to speak to Fayt about it. Let's be honest, given whom it is? It's going to end up being a dragooning.
|Cast of Characters=319, 7
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:''' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUxc6MLXoM Castle Ravus Magix A giant, upside down castle hanging from the ceiling of a massive cavern, over an equally massive pit. Probably not what most people would have in mind for where everyone's favorite tiny timid trader lives, but well... there you go.     As far as getting in is concerned, there's 2 ways, going through a long, uneventfull series of caves leads to the front door, which ever so helpfully has a land bridge leading up to it. or as luck would have it, there's gate access into a main lobby/welcome area, if you know how to access it. Fayt's naturally smart enough to make sure the funny portal leading down to his home is as secure as he can manage.     Fayt meanwhile is likely somewhere inside right now, hopefully not doing work. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone had always been the playful sort but she could also be devious at times and this was one of those times she was both. The Deadalus Initative neede support to get going. she'df have found her way to Fate Castleand was looking for him at this point she moves into the lobby after taking a look outsie and tilts her head. "Fayt? Oh Fayt? Will you help save me from my fate?o/~" 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''      The lobby is interesting, a series of simple benches set around what appears to be a giant crystal in the center of the room. There's also a chair against one wall, covered in sheets. It's size and raised position suggest its used to be a throne.     Kotone's arrival is met with noise coming from behind a nearby door, followed by said door opening and Fayt poking his head in. "Huh? Hello?" He blinks a few times in confusion. Apparnetly being in a remot area means he's not too used to getting visitors... or at least the number of random gate-crashers has gone down recently. "...hi?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa grins as she sees Fayt and moves up to the chaos mage and shipping company owner. "Hey Fayt I have been looking for you!" % There's a bit of a predatoy grin on her face for a moment. "So do you have a moment I have an ... offer that might be of intrest to you." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt fully enters the room just as Kotone approaches him. Well, that grin isn't worrying or anything.     "Well." Fayt replies. "I'm supposed to be off today, but seeing as you came all the way out here... alright, how can I help you?? 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Well your always looking for customers for supplioes but also looking for new untappedmarkets right?" Kotone is now getting clsoer and seem /very/ playful today. There's something about how straigh laced he is that tends to bring out the urge to mess with him, in people. Kotone just keeps grinning. "I"m part of the newly formed Deadalus initative and we are an exploration and science group looking to explore and better understand the multiverse." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt, in true Fayt fashion, backs away from Kotone as she moves closer. "Well, yes, I'm always open to new customers..."     As she explains, his head slowly tilts to the side. "Hmm... I think I understand, does this group need a supplier?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "That we do and given we'll be exploring I'm certain new places to trade will be found in time as well. Besides you could use a bit more adventure in your life I think Fayt..." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt nods, slowly. "I see. Well, I'm willing to join, at hte very least I have no problem backing your group as a supplier, feel free to send any information you have my way." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa pauses for a moment and Fayt would find the information on his computers of how to get on the channel and other information. She grins widly at Fayt and bows abit. "Thank you Fayt I promise you won't regret this in the long run!" 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt nods, glancing at his radio for a moment as the information comes on. "It's... what I do. I've got the information here. Very well. I look forward to working with you and your group." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "Good then I look forward to working with you on this Fayt." She grins a little bit. "I also have some more information for you loaded ion with the contact information." 
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3888/Digital (Kotone and Rory)

2016-12-07T21:40:06Z

Junker99: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2016/03/08 |Location=Transhuman Territory <EP> |Synopsis=While her body is in need of having repairs, with Rory's help? Kotones takes some time to..."

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2016/03/08
|Location=Transhuman Territory <EP>
|Synopsis=While her body is in need of having repairs, with Rory's help? Kotones takes some time to go fully digital for a while to see just how Rory herself normally lives.
|Cast of Characters=673, 7
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     Kotone Yamakawa's Cyborg body has taken a beating and needs to be taken offline for a complete repair and refurbishment! So Rory's done her utmost to get Kotone comfortable for a transfer to the COGNIZANT ODYSSEY's computer! this involved getting cozy on a reclining chair and resting her head on an unfolding, form-fitting EGO BRIDGE... and thankfully, after a few minutes of configuration on Rory's part... everything goes black for Kotone!     Because with her strange cybernetics, Rory wants to ensure NOTHING goes wrong and has ensured she'll be unconscious for the thirty minutes it'll take for an Ego upload.     But just before Kotone blanks out... Rory's voice comes over the mesh!     <<When you are aware again, you won't have a body. It will be a very strange experience. Please try not to panic. I'll try to help you accustom yourself to it. Worst case you can use a Simulmorph while we work on the repairs.>> She's TRYING to sound reassuring, but maybe not doing such a good job of it.     WHEN KOTONE COMES TO...     About a half-hour has passed, without any sense of it doing so. One moment all is black... the next... her senses start refocusing after a nebulous, yawning sensation. Just like being out for a medical operation.     And the first thing she's likely to notice is the sensation of FLOATING. Except... not quite so much. She has a sense of EXISTING, but no sense of spatial orientation. Is she standing up? laying down? These concepts are irrelevant. But there is a sensation of the core of her own being. Something akin to a heartbeat, a pulse. And there is a sensation of being in a GREAT OPEN SPACE, like a wide open, endless field. A sensation that this place is... free, that maybe she could do anything here. Thankfully, it also smells fairly pleasant - the fresh air of Earth, though a feeling akin to wind blowing past is odd indeed. It's the pulse of various system processes running aboard the Odyssey.     She has no arms or legs, no sense of these things. Yet as her awareness settles in... she begins to 'see.' THANKFULLY, SIGHT is not changed much. The 'background' provided is a complete view of everything outside of the Cognizant Odyssey... a stunning view of space, neatly filtered so that the sun's not TOO bright. Yet the hopefully-familiar windows of ArgOS are popping up all over the place to report system status. 'Reaching out' through those portions of her mind that map to touching things interacts with these things much like Mesh Inserts or her own Cyberbrain interface might.     And somehow, there's the -sense- of someone else being around. Rory White cannot be seen, cannot be touched, but the fact that she is present is mapped to that strange part of anyone's awareness that tells them they're not alone. Like knowing someone's in a room with you but you just looked away from them.     <<Just take it slow... welcome though, to the Infosphere!>> 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone had taken a deep breath before it was started. There was no turning back. She does take Rory's warning to heart she'll have to try to not panic. She wasn't going to have a form, okay she could do this there was no turning back from this and then she passed out. It didn't seem like too long to her, then agian how long had she been out? It took a moment but she waws feeling almost like she was coming out from an operation. She's floating but she was clearly there but there was no way up, no way down. he took a moment to try and keep herself from panicing, okay she was here, she was still thinking. That was good, the odd feeling about how she was now? It was strange but she paused smell had come back to her too it took a moment as she just took in all the new input she was getting. Sight seems to be mostly normal as she moves around? There's no head to turn, which is strange to her. She does see some of the windows, and things are close enogh to her cyberbrain or the mesh inserts on her other body. She pauses there's someone else here and she knows it's Rory. <<I... I am. I'm ... going to be honest I'm a little scared...>> Her attention turns to the view of space for a moment getting another good look at it as she does so, and she pauses. Not that there is a visual cue about it.. <<So...this is how you experience life, Rory...??>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<My preferred way! It is the first way to experience anything I ever learned. Learning to walk and make expressions took a very long time and I am still no master at either. Just... try to relax and focus? Nothing here can hurt either of us.>>     The Infosphere's a little 'gusty.' The Cognizant Odyssey's running tons of experiments. It's child's play to open windows and get displays of dozens of experiments running. There's over a hundred experiments running! Some of them are data collection operations on distant stars and solar systems and strange anomalies in the far reaches of the void. Others are materials tests on samples taken from all over the Multiverse and comparing them with known elements. A lot of it is automated and overseen by dozens of AIs.     <<So... were you REALLY bathed in superheated water that DIDN'T become steam?! I'm running diagnostics on your Morph...>>     And windows pop up showing that too! There's a diagram that's slowly filling in as nanites slowly scour the entire thing's innards and build a map of damage. They're hunting for microfractures and other obvious signs of damage that the rig's own sensors might miss. The hard way. The scan will take a while! 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' What a pair huh, the meat moneky trying to grasp the digital and the digital woman trying to get being physical. Still it's funny being like this would be fatal on my world's net for too long. Some have tried and their ghosts were erroded by the data. I suspect it has to do with a difernce in computer technology. Cripes your running all of this all at /once? Though this looks like your just managing some sort of ... RTS game, letting the unit AI do it's thing unless you need to step in and not bathed got out of. Someone made an air pocket I got into, this water was was not natural, it was somehow kept as water even though it was that hot. I... crap I don't have a face do I?>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<You are probably right... and the system isn't even at half utilizations! I need more experiments to run. Any suggestions to offer?>> Rory's probably not expecting a serious answer to that, but she does ask at least.     Another window pops up. This one looks kind of like an instant messenger buddy list. Rory White is listed on top and tagged as superuser, Kotone right below. Rory's icon is... well, it looks kind of like an atomic nucleus, except the nucleus is more like a starburst-flare with rays of light coming from. Kotone can easily pick an icon if she wants! Her account has images of her various morph faces appearing and a number of images. The default seems to be a tiny cartoon of a wooden ship? Odd.     <<Managing a lot of standard AIs is one of those things I was made to do. Trained to do. It makes vast logistical operations simple!>> 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa thinks for a moment, then again wait is she just pure thought now? She does speak up after a moment and she does watch the pop up for a moment. She looks at the icon for a moment. <<Pick a system we haven't studi3ed yet see if we can detect any planets in orbit that might be worth checking out ... I'd always figured you'd go for somethig more cute for an icon honestly and ... a boat? Ha. I'm amused by this, I been working with the Hikari Combined Fleet to the point I'm helping to test some hardware for them. It's been an interesting thing working with them given they are the spirits ... of warhips that also existed in my world almost a 100 years ago now. As for that I think I can see why, I have to ask what do you think of having me like this, at the moment?>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<There are over a billion systems! I've been having the Ais randomly scan them as they're detected.>> Rory explains... a bit sheepish-sounding, too.     <<The boat's the Argo! ... Supposed to be. Wooden ships are pretty archaic so it's a novelty. And the fleet has been a very interesting study. I'm still not sure... how they WORK... but spirits are hard to study.>>     There's a bit of a pause. Then Rory's 'icon' sort of glimmers and brightens!     <<Excited! You can finally see the world I'm from. The world as I see it!>> 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa gives off an feeling she's embrassed. <<I was just trying to thin of something useful but I guess I'm Miss analog still humm? ANd they are pretty interesting honestly then again they want to help others? I'm not going to argue with what they are doing. I guess your right but I kinda feel like a fish floping about in the bottom of a boat, not sure what's going on on. You have my information feeds dialed down, don't you?" 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<It's... nothing to be... ashamed of?>> She sound uncertain if shame is the right emotion to be reading there. <<Must crawl before one walks, right? And four legs are much better than two! You're in 'easy mode' at the moment, right... good intuition, Kotone!>> 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Sighs for a moment at Rory. <You know if humans were quadrpeds we'd not been able to make tooks, the power of the all mighty oposable thumb you always seem to forget about that.>> There's a faint giggle. <<I'd likely end up comatose if you let it go ful bore for all my enhancments its still just boosting what I was born with rather than all new senses mostly...>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<That's why you evolve four legs and two hands. Like a centaur!>> Rory counters a little childishly. Not very serious, no!     <<Technically this is a remapping of the senses. Instead of tactile and proprioception you have system awareness... but it is a BIG shift. It was the same for me, getting used to gravity and inertia! And direction in general. ... And arms and legs...>> 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' <<We used what nature gave us and generally got off being on the menu and it was enough to make /you/ wasn't it humm?>> She pauses fgor a moment at the mention of remapping things. <<You are prehaps one of the two people in the flotilla who'd get shift. I'm not sure how long I'll be able to take this but I'll try the night, it can't hurt to help you out, right? Well lets find something to keep busy...shall we? Or worse comes to watch we can stream something...>> 
}}

4621/What is Lost: Space Hulk

2016-12-07T21:35:57Z

Junker99: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2016/09/30 |Location=Transhuman Territory <EP> |Synopsis=The team arrives at the station where the exchange for CEO Doyle Sister was but our team r..."

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2016/09/30
|Location=Transhuman Territory <EP>
|Synopsis=The team arrives at the station where the exchange for CEO Doyle Sister was but our team runs into something dark. Humans who wish to become something other than Human have dark plans for escaping into the multiverse and Firewall also has taken notice.
|Cast of Characters=7, 162, 571, 711, 42, 673
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Transhuman space. Earth Orbit. Location Side Three Hermes. The hab was silent there were no active signals going out, while power remained on it was in low power mode a hab of over a thousand transhumans with physical forms lived here. It was out of the way so to speak. It was silent there were several ships apparently still in the hangers including the still active IFF for the Mary Jay, the ship belonging to the people who had found her sister in the first place. No hails would be responded to as the ship along with several others s well. The hull of the hab is shielded against most local forms of scanning the best one would be able to pick up is life support is still online and there's still some power but otherwise? It's silent. There are inactive defense sats too that the group would be able to pick up, they are intact, that's the oddest things are? Offline with those Kotone's ship is in the lead and Kotone has finished the process of swapping bodies earlier in the day? Even then her synth is fully suited up Vacsuit and carrying a good bit of gear, her Matter Manipulator was at her hip as she looked to Slipbolt. Anywhere we can beam down? Frustation: Hanger Bay's the only clear space to so. "You remainin on the ship them I'll beam over." "Kotone here I'm moving beaming over to the stations hanger looks like the clearest place to set down. I'm getting active life support and some power but everything else? Nada." Kotone would be one of the first to beam over as she appears in a pillar of light in the hanger, emergency lights greet her as she arrives. The Hanger is a mess, cargo crates some blasted open in an apprent fire fight are here. There's no signs of bodies yet but there is blood floating here or splattered on walls, crago crates and there's claw marks on a breached small ship's hatch like something ripped it open. It also looked like it was in the process of being launched. Several displays still function and the words Intruder Alert flash in bright red, both in English, German. Japanese and Arabic . "Mother Mercy....drones up." 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr's doing her weird 'Spiderman' thing. Clinging to the side of one ship or another. She's done that quite a bit recently. However, as the search and rescue team approach, she detaches and flits off around the hab station, trailing a purple mana ribbon behind her as she flies. She's got a light vac-suit meshed with her Barrier Jacket, Void helmet and gloves, combined with the sealed, but archaic styled magical armour.     "Windstar here, moving to approach from ventral airlock. Beginning cycling sequence." she reports, linking into the airlock system to depressurize the lock, and open the outer door, before entering and cycling it back the other way so she can step inside. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka -hates- directs, a lot in fact.     She was smart to bring the shotgun here, and smarter still to bring 3" shipboard rounds, intended to be used safely with nano-pellets that will soften upon impact to solid surfaces. Should prevent penetration of the bulkhead, which would be bad if it did happen.     With the weapon in hand, Maaka follows Kotone loyally as she covers the hangar bay. "Lots of splatter. Signs of struggle." She calmly states, securing the area.     "THere aren't...aliens in this world, are there?" She asks, starting to run through a list of possible subjects. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite's 'space train' ship pulls into holding an orbit just within range of teleporters to the hab. While SAIL gets the ship into position Corona goes over her gear once last time, makes sure the vacsuit is operating properly, and so forth. Once they've got a landing point from Kotone she hops on the teleport pad and disappers in a flash of energy. Moments later she appears in the same energy flash with Kotone and Alexis. Of note, yes she's wearing a vacsuit... and then wearing her tool/weapon belts over it. And a poncho. A SPACE poncho... though one would be hard pressed to really find a difference in it from any other poncho. Maybe she found it lying around the ship. It is a Novakid spacecraft, after all. "Looks like someone's already had a welcome party." The spacefox murmurs. Even as she flicks open her analyzer and trots over to inspect those gouges in that one hatchway. "Or some-thing-..." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren <"A /thousand/ people lived here and it's completely dark?"> Staren replies. He uses his own ship's teleporter to link to Kotone's ship, and then beams down after her. He's in his armor as usual. <"I can't think of any... less than terrible reason for /that/ to happen. If the radio broke, they should have been able to make a new one... These ships are still transmitting IFF. Hmm..."> he scans to see if any of the ships has an external wireless access point. <"Slipbolt, do scans show any sign of the station's reactor or other powerful electronics still active?"> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Rory White's chosen to take her Flexbot, which is oddly against her own advice of needing a Vacsuit. Reason being, the Flexbot's her primary full-power combat Morph, and a Vacsuit would utterly defeat its main advantages.     She beams down into the hangar bay from the Odyssey near Kotone, visible as a silvery humanoid with a face embedded in solid shoulders... this form doesnt really have a 'head' but it's covered in optical sensors and built much like a Gorilla apart from the weird head. Long arms with a powerful grasp, two short legs. Unlike a Gorilla, two extra limbs sprout from her sides, long and thin and ending in a three-claw arrangement with one opposable. They're clearly used for manueverability and possibly a backup weapon. But speaking of weapons, it seems to have weapons hardwired directly into the arms.     As usual, Rory's keen on experimenting with different, slightly eerie forms when shes in that thing...     And one of the first thing she does is zoom in on the distant ship and examine the claw mark patterns...     "Something had enough brute strength to RIP OPEN AN AIRLOCK DOOR?!"     She's now very glad that she's keeping her PAN well-locked down. But still, she hunts around the hangars for an actual data jack or a terminal. They're rare in habs given the ubiquitous Mesh Inserts, but there's usually A FEW to work with...     And she has an Ecto with its wireless physically disabled to plug in and try investigating the network... 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone pauses "Rory mentioned something about aliens once I think. You'd have to ask her I know they found dead Ailen species." She looks about somewhat thankful now she doesn't have organic systems right now. It helps to keep the panic down. Yet she still finds her self taking a deep breath as she cradles her her rifle. "I really don't like this at all, fan out check the ship that belonged to the mercs who found the CEO's sister. I'll start searching the bay. Can someone check the ship?" <<Calm: Primary Reactor is online but in low output mode. It seems mostly basic systems are online but the shielding is heavy. I do not know how they did such but they may active systems within.>> Staren would find the mercs ship still has wireless systems, it seems though the ship is off line for the most part. He could be able to get into the systems their secuiry is pretty decent by the local standards and may even be old milspec. So they were not idiots from the look of it. Though Staren might be able to get into it's scrutiny feeds however or even check to see if the package is still on board. Rory would get into the networks and discover that the system seems to be mostly locked down. The warnings still going odd but she might be able to get into some lower priority systems if she works on it. Also there seems to be a file. Log: The plan's gone south, the airlock got opened like it was a damn old earth beer can. Got Trevor and Melissa I'm up too bad now damn it. Shit, got to get moving it's coming. If anyone's lose you know the meeting point. It's dated about a month or so ago too. Zephyr wild be find another way in the lock works as she overrides and is able to cycle her way inside. There's a view port she can see signs of a running fire fight and then she sees a form slumped near the airlock, it's humanoid hard to make out and it's head turns to look at her, it makes no hostile action and it seems to be trying to mouth the words. Help... 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     <"It could also be that they found... something on the surface, or perhaps more likely, a creature from the Multiverse. One of these ships or the station /must/ have security recordings... and that still doesn't explain why news of a monster attack didn't make it off the station before they went dark... Oh hey, this ship's open. Rory, can you crack the security?"> 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     "Scouting now." Maaka approaches the ship itself slowly, shotgun trained upon the entrance as she silently motions for someone to get the vessel open. Her shotgun is trained upon the doorway itself, and she stands ready to enter.     Kaz meanwhile, from within Kotone's vessel, handles cyber security with Slipbolt. He does his best to do a perimeter scan of the hangar bay, hoping nothing's hiding in plain sight to gnaw on people's faces right this moment. "I got a bad feeling about this, guys. Heads on a swivel." He murmurs over comms, his hands already jumpy from the sheer nervousness he feels right now. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Seeing those claw marks on a ripped open airlock is enough for Corona to decide it's not time to putz around. She shifts to keep the C-Pad in one hand, and draws a weapon with the other as she slinks back to exploring with the others. A large handgun might not look like much in comparison to her companions toting shotguns and whatnot. Then again, it's more accurate. Especially when you realize its the Starslinger. Homing physics defying lasers are better at not accidentally shooting something she doesn't want to shoot. "This place is already makin' my tail fur stand on end." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' <"On it, Staren."> Is Rory's reply over the Mesh. Once she's established that the Ecto is not being attacked by any kind of worm, Rory connects over Wifi to the Ecto - but only browsing controls. It's only slightly riskier than before, but lets her rapidly deploy her tools and sift through data feeds. She's attempting to pinpoint the origin of the lockdown directive, obtain basic privileges for the hab security cameras - it's rare to find those BLOCKED from the view of anyone and everyone in most habs... - and, if that fails, start working on getting admin privileges through various methods... 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr brings her shorter axe to bare as she spots the running firefight through the viewport. The Bits surrounding her fan out defensively, but then Divine Wind chimes. <Master!> Zephyr turns to look, her AR system highlighting the wounded being. "Windstar here, got a running firefight on my deck, also got a hurt... something. Doesn't look exactly human."     She gets Divine Wind to take a picture and upload when asked to clarify, before kneeling nearby. "Can you speak? What happened here? Help's on the way, but I'm not a Medical Mage." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone is glad Maaka is near by, she's very glad to be honest she's not alone. This isn't the sort of place she'd want to linger alone here that's for sure she heads to the merc's ship's And she's got a small ecto out to try and get into it's systems. With Kaz and Slipbolt meanwhile have a task before them. They pick up several more signs that someone busted out an energy weapon looks like a plasma weapon was used telling the fight in the hanger bay. That should be fairly telling in and of itself. Corona meanwhile is getting to work and she's able to good look, the airlock was ripped off and therr's clearly claw marks. Meanwhile Kotone is moving to pop the door and it hisses open with a hiss. Kotone gets a light on and moves in to find what seems to be a makeshift barricade an the corpse of a human made who has his torso ripped out, and what seems to be some sort of human primate is cut in the middle, their heads appear to be intact so their stacks may be so. "MAAKA! I GOT BODIES!" Staren would also be able to find out yes the pod still seems to be in the ship and it has power, the problem is there is something going on here and does he want to just get the pod and leave everything behind? The Remade looks in confusion at Zephyr for a moment and raps. "EXhumans, been tracking them for months, thought we'd cornered em here. Some of my kill Team's still ... alive. Wait ... behind" He attempts to raise a pistol and fire but he's slow something comes barreling own the hallway it was humanoid once but it looks very alien, long limbs, tentacles and it basically trying to grab Zephyr. It laughs and from several mouths as it attempts to pounce Zephyr and it seems gleeful it's not mindless. The wounded Remade attempts to shoot the thing and gets knocked across the hall for his trouble. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     As Maaka storms into the shop, she sweeps the interior of the vessel with her shotgun alertly. Every corner is given a once over and a half, just to be absolutely sure. She narrows her eyes as she inspects the bodies, kneeling before one of them as she slings her weapon and draws her progressive-knife.     "Where do the stacks usually sit in these bodies?" She asks Rory over comm, trailing her knife around the corpse's spinal area while she waits for direction. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Well Kotone and Alexis know better what's involved in collecting the stacks and what not, so Corona just remains at guard at the airlock, gun in one hand and scanning device in the other. Just in case. As much as she hates 'just in case' scenerios. "Ah dunno if Ah'd trust such sensative life maintainin' equipment to a teleporter, Staren," she remarks back over the comm. "Ah mean, then why didn't they just do that themselves? We might hafta dock one of the ships and move it man'ally." She's lost to all this transhuman levels above the tech she's familiar with stuff, and there's nothing needing to be blown up, so no surprise the engineer latchs onto the potential logistics issue to consider instead. 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr blinks, "EXhumans...?" she asks, then turns as the pistol is raised, the same moment Divine Wind chimes in alarm. <MASTER!> "Falka N'iestru! What is that thing!?" she cries, bringing Divine Wind up defensively. Claws meet transluscent barriers, tentacles intercepted with blasts of magic... but the Mage is sorely overmatched in close combat. Rips appear in her armour, blood seeps into the fabric, staining it a mucky ochre, and then she sets her footing. "Wind Control, Void Shift!"     The air in the corridor all rushes into a single point, between Zephyr and the EXhuman monster. The sudden void behind it hopefully knocking it off balance enough that the sudden BLAST of all that compressed gas can get her some clearance. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Rory's making tremendous progress for getting herself wired into the station's systems! As soon as she has admin access this battle will be blown wide open, she hopes... because having full access to all of the cameras will be BEYOND useful!     "So the Exhuman group arrived for unknown reasons and stirred up trouble, this group pursued them and recently arrived... I don't imagine that it's RELATED to the Cryopod but..." But could it be?     Since information is all she can work with right now, Rory quickly works on learning more about what the people working with the pod were up to and how it got where it now is, to make sure nothing funny's been happening! 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Exhumans are loose on the ship. Great. "Urgh..." Staren rubs his helmet. <"If you're really sure, but... There's only so much I can do. Can we have Slipbolt bring the ship in close so I can push this to the hangar? Or... maybe we can just steal this ship..."> Now that Rory's confirmed there's no monsters still hiding onboard... He crawls through the broken airlock, seeing if he can make his way further into the ship. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone grimaced but at least with the stacks the victims here might have another go at it. Regardless of the augments they have. if it's really them or not it doesn't matter. People are people in the end right? She looks at Corona with a sympathetic look on her face. The nature of Transhuman tech and society does get to her too and she is basically one more or less too. "This gets to me Corona, the world just keeps getting more complicated it seems and it may get a bit beyond me to handle." Meanwhile with Zephyr and the Remade? Thing are getting nuts, he's not dead but he's out of it, his shot did distract the EXhuman for a moment and then it stares what the hell is this? This sort of power has only been to be held by, Exsurgants. The wind slams into the thing ending it flying down the hall. The remade is trying to move a bit and get clear line of fire. He also sends a signal likely to his team. "Anyone who isn't staying behind should go help Zephyr now. R With that Kotone is going to depart the ship they can collect stacks later, with Staren hopefully handling the cryopod? Kotone's going to be taking off like a shot following the signal Zephyr has on her. Meanwhile the thing pause and turns to pull out oddly, that's strange isn't it? The Spec ops troope slowly tries to get up. There's more than one, it's going for backup, their nest is at the reactor core of the station. My team's making for it, One Primate Morph, two Furies and a Octo make up the rest of my team. I signaled them to make you as friendly. The pod is old very old it actually so old it predates the development of stacks. This could explain a lot but the pod is intact. <<Slipbolt you heard him, get the Bluenose in close and do the pickup keep tabs on the weapon sats on the event they come online.>> <<Calm: Aye eye>> R With that The Bluenose is moving while the remade looks to Zephyr again and says "I'll follow you but do not wait up for me." <<Corona so how do you feel about monster hunting. Maaka lets go!>> The Remade will give the party the map he has of the hab and the quickest route to the reactor where the EXHumans are. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     While Kotone is disgusted, Maaka just motions the girl to turn her head away. "Don't look." She warns, before she digs out one more stack from the bodies of the dead. She does so robotically, with almost sociopathic calm. Whoever these people were, all that matters of them is their cortical stacks. Just like extracting a DNC from someone back home.     Of course, Maaka doesn't have the luxury of interchangeable bodies unlike these people. Hers is one of a kind, so to speak.     She pockets the stacks to ensure their safety, before she grabs her shotgun and nods to Kotone. <On your back.>     She follows the map the Remade sends everyone, shotgun at the ready as she remains at Kotone's back, protecting her. 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     It's running... good, that'll give her some breathing room.     Zephyr half collapses to a knee, panting hard and wincing at a twinge in her chest. <Linker Core Stability declining. Attempting correction.> The mage jolts and bites down a cry of pain. <Corrected. Linker Core integrity at 89% and holding.>     "Okay buddy... I've got others on the way, let your guys know they're friendly too... we came to find out what happened to a group of mercenaries and why the Hab went dark. If we can find that out while clearing this 'nest', all the better." says the mage over to the Remade. Two battered warriors down but not quite out. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' In response to Kotone the foxgirl gives her fancy handgun a gunslinger's twirl. <<Now yer talkin' more my speed.>> Though the mention of nests makes her reconsider, and she holsters the blaster. To pull out her trademark plasma shotgun instead. Nests mean possibly lots of ugly things wanting to chew your face off, any frontier folk knows that. That, and hearing Zephyr's previous description of the thing? Yeah, time to take off the careful gloves. Corona one-hand cocks the action on the Forgesweeper to start it charging up, gives it a twirl to grip it properly, and takes off after Kotone and Maaka. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren checks that the crypod is secured, then makes his way to the cockpit, trying to turn things on and instruct the ship to fly out of there... 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Rory would also be able to get more data as she digs this would be harder than the rest but she's able to get past the security on it. She'll get feeds of carnage all over the station, here and there some natives are being held in cages of various sort,s who who knows what sort of grim things the EXhumans have in mind. She will also find troubling things listing of parts in the stations database enough parts that with the right know how? One could make an artfical warpgate. The EXhumans plan might have been to use this as a jumping point to escape into the multiverse. As for the pod? It seems to be legit, from what the recovery crew found there was a foulup in labling and shipping for the old cryobank a veyr long time ago that's how it ended up in the cheap orbital ones rather than than on earth. A Mercy that seem to be in order. The merc crew were legit mercs from the looks of it, one an EX Australian Soldier, another a former Russian Intel operative, and a pair of uplifts a pig and an Raven. Nothing seems any shadier than what the people Rory hangs out with do. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren passes the crew manifest to the tacnet so the others will know if they come across the crew. <"Pod is secure. I'm gonna try to fly this ship out to meet the Bluenose.">     In the cockpit, he starts turning things on and seeing if the ship AI will accept his commands. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Rory White doesn't wate energy frowning, but if anyone could sense such things, boy is she exuding a sudden flare of foul mood. The story of what's going on here is starting to make sense to her.... apart from who this special ops team is.     They somehow knew about THIS entire op and kept it all to themselves? Scary people, best observed and not tangled with...     <"Alright. Our mission now is clear. The Exhuman cell must be neutralized. Aid the ops team but watch yourselves. We're going to try to restore order to the hab. Some of the population's survived, being held hostage. If I can re-enable full Mesh access somehow..."> 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa knows it has to be done, and hey she know they are getting another crack. She will worry about it later for now they got to get moving. Kotone doesn't need to be tld twice to keep moving she's following the map. IT will not take long for Maaka, Corona and her to reach the core, the closer they get however? The more bodies and signs of fighting there are. The EXhumans didn't play nice at all and there's no time to recover the stacks for the moment that may be for clean up later. The Remade moves he's slower than he'd likebut he listens to Zephry pausing. "Yes, we saw their ship when we board4ed. It was intact in the hanger when we arrived...your from beyond the gates with powers like that." Not a question a statement of fact, from her powers and he moves forward. "I'm not at liberty to say much but I can tell you were were hunting these EXHUMANs to capture or terminate them before they pressed on. They seem to think transhumans, uplifts, flats and anything else are their prey. Lost all their common sense too going like some old Movie monsters." A joke or something intended to be humorous. They should be able to make it to the core, but they will likely be second wave backup. Staren is able to get the ship moving it's shaky it's damaged but it will move and they can get it off the station, it might be a bit hard going but with Staren's long history of piloting he will be able to pull it off even if it's a bit touch and go. The ship creaks and a few alarms go off due to the damaged airlock but he will be able to override them. The pary would find their way to the core but it would get worse and worse as they went in deeper, bodies, more signs of fighting and Rory would be finding something very worry some I the colony files. When the party arrives in the Core they would find three EXHumans all wildly different but all clearly inhuman and they are fighting the rest of the Remade's team. One of them is down and looking pretty bad, the octo morph has latched themselves on to the head of one and is flailing wildly while the furies seem to be pinned down by some sort of drone a reaper that's clearly been modded for colony invasions they really could use some help. With the EXHumans fighting all that would be left is any automated systems they might have left in place if Rory's going to act? She's going to have no better time to. Also there seems to be a partially made warpgate in here, Rory was right on the money. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren's not used to flying anything but his fighter -- But this is a relatively simple flight: Get out of hangar, get close to bluenose. He can manage that with maybe a bit of banging against the hangar interior. "Oops." He flies as close to the Bluenose as he dares -- which isn't very. <"Slipbolt, can you have SAIL position the airlock just across from this ship's? I'm going to transfer the cryopod."> 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' A lot of bodies dead and stewn about doesn't bother Corona. The vile and vicious ways they've been bloodied up, if not outright reduced to splattering ludicrous gibs across the walls, that does make her fur bristle all the more. There's a difference between blowing someone's guts out to end a fight, and doing so just to be as cruel as possible. "Ain't never seen a shootout end up as badly as this looks," she chuffs sourly. Though the sight is nothing compared to what they come upon in the actual reactor room. Alexis' words are putting it lightly. This would be about the time for someone to make a foolish charge into battle with guns blazing and lungs screaming. Fortunately, no one in the group is named Leroy Jenkins. No doubt Corona enjoys her guns blazing but she at least has a bit more sense of tactics than that, especially when it comes to less ordinary methods. That, and have to be sure to avoid any potential friendly fire issues. Which would be why as they emerge into the room, the fox has activated her gravboots and uses them to trudge up one of the walls instead of charging straight into the fight. A few steps is all it takes to give her an angle for line of sight clear over her allies and line up on the enemy.... freaks. That's about all she's got to describe them. Freaks. "Ah'd say we're 'bout to mess y'all up, but Ah'll be honest. Ya can't get much uglier than y'all are as is." Witty commentary made, Corona shushes up. And lets Forgesweeper do the rest of the talking for her as a pull of the trigger sends a bolt of green-blue plasma surging towards the Exhuman in her sights. 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr comes into the reactor room, across from Maaka and Corona. She quickly surveys the scene, targets lighting up in her AR sight. <Multiple targets acquired, precision guided spells ready.> chimes Divine Wind. "Good, lets get to work." She slips through the doorway, into some cover, and deploys her Bits into a triangular formation around her. <Mistral Storm, Tri-shot Formation.> chimes the Device, before she locks onto the EXHumans. <Mistral Shooter, Jetstream Shift.> The Bits, and the head of the axe, glow purple, before spitting out multiple small 'homing missiles' of magical plasma that lock onto, and track the EXHumans. These are NON-LETHAL attacks, but hurt like hell and will hopefully distract the EXHumans long enough for the others to confirm kills. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' The fact of the matter is, the moment Rory establishes admin authority - with currently nothing but security AIs to contend with keeping her from it - things are bound to get a bit better for the gang.     Things get NOISY where the fight's still going on. Drones that had been, up 'til now, completely inactive and inert have come to life and begun to converge. Small robots no bigger than squirrels emerge from vents, normally used to conduct repairs and patrol for oddities, they have some sharp tools that will NOT feel comfortable when JAMMED INTO BODIES.     An Automech used for janitorial duties in the main passageways throws itself at one of the Exhumans, aiming to give their opponent an opportunity!     The Creepies alone are horrible annoyances. Lethal, not so much, but fights are fragile things where just getting a horrible pain in your foot at the wrong moment can create a fatal opening... 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka checks her corners as she goes along with the others, heading to the core with prompt speed before she shakes her head at the Remade. "You sure you're in fighting shape?" She asks, before she heads directly into the core itself.     Bodies everywhere are enough to get Maaka tense, and she tightens her grip on the shotgun just in time to see the EXHUMANS and the Remade going up against each other.     "...this is definitely fucked." She mutters sourly, before she immediately goes for the guy the octo morph is engaging, taking aim with her shotgun and firing twice. Her weapon's muzzle has an adjustable choke, tightening spread and increasing accuracy. It should hit the EXHUMAN without injuring the Morph itself. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Staren's successful in getting out but the ship's not going to be going anywhere too far from the station. For getting the pod off? That they can do and Slipbolt replies over the comm. <<Focused: Hanger ready, keep it quick it shouldn't be open for long. Sail is carrying out the order now>> With that the Bluenose starts to maneuver to be able to get the pod and it's airlock to get the pod. Kotone is bursting in and opening fire with the blaster pistols, hopefully they wouldn't breach the hull like the manual for the old weapons said they were safe for. Though that was ships from another world it's too later now the green bolts fly impacting with one of the EXHumans just as Corona goes in to do her thing. Some of the EXHumans look like they'd be at home with the thing the mole men worshiped. Tentacles claws, way too many mouths, seriously these EXhumans were fucked up as the name for them was. One snarls at at her and attempt to spit some sort of acid moving to try and evade the blaster fire from Kotone, which gets it firmly caught in the plasma blast that sizzles and burns through it's chest and it lets out a wail of terror as it starts to collapse. Kotone would fire several more shots into it and it would finally go skill. The Octomorph if it had a human face would be grinning very widely at the unexpected backup. Zephyr too is able to do a good deal of distracting it for Maaka to get one hell of hit with the shotgun and does some serious damage the buck shot tears into it. While the Remake comments. "The mission comes first." HE notes and fires several shots into the EXHuman, the rounds? Seem to cause the flesh to catch fire once they impact and the octomorph leaps away not wanting to get near that shit. While Corona is also opening fire she'll deal with the one that's pinning down the Furies who counter attack with the distraction then comes Zephyr's well timed shots, while non lethal it lets the furies and Corona lay in more fire but this one's tough it's really tough it seems this one was ready for some serious beatings. Rory's actions however with all the various drones makes a perfect opening for Corona to finish the beast off by taking it's head right the hell out and it drops to the ground a mess of bloody bits and damaged drones. One of the Furies goes to help to help the downed primate uplift while the other comments. "Three, that's all of them. Sick bastards, world's better off." "Get the stacks." The octomorph brings up a comm line. <<Ha good timing and shooting there... actually wait where can I get guns like those>> The Remade sighs "Not now, we need to get the stacks. Now on behalf of my comrades and I thank you. I need to ask that you forget ... we were ever here and allow us to purge any records of our being on the station. Your free to take full credit...if there are no objections?" Over a private line one of the furies asks <<This is a risk! You know it!>> <<Our proxie said we could trust them. They have contained Xthreats on their own.>> <<Right, if it goes bad its on your.>> <> With the matter settled the Remade seems to be holding several wounds now he could push himself hard. "Damn thing too if they had escaped into the warpgate network...it could have comeback to haunt the system." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren gets the ship to hold steady relative to the station, then leaves the cockpit to unsecure the pod and move it towards the destroyed airlock. Once the Bluenose is lined up, he pushes it out and costs through the void to the Bluenose's airlock. Once it's through, he helps move it out of the airlock, tells Slipbolt to secure it, then heads for the teleporter... And then news comes that the Exhumans are down, so maybe there isn't more to do.     <"Anything more for us to do here, or do we just go back to Mitre and tell them to send a retrieval and medical crew?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Ah don't even wanna -think- of what one of those woulda been able to do iffen that warpgate lead somewhere populated," Corona snarls softly, her voice coming from somewhere overhead. At least and the *thup thup thup* of her gravitized steps bring her back down closer to the floor and back into normal view. It's a good thing she had a lot of backup, because she can't really dodge very quickly with these boots active. Once she does finally step onto the floor and disengage the gravboots she... realizes she didn't put her hat on ontop of the vacsuit, so she can't give the usual hat tip she would. Dammit. She has to settle for just blowing some of the cooling vapors off the barrels of her weapon. "We gut what we came for, and put a stop to these freaks becomin' free range. Ah'd say that's 'nuff for us. No need to tattle on anyone else, rawht?" 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     CACHUNK. Maaka ejects a spent shell from her 12 gauge, before clacking her weapon to a plate on her armor's back, letting it hang securely. "Yeah, job well done far as I'm concerned. You guys alright?" She asks the specops guys, checking them over one by one before she shrugs a shoulder. "You guys were in trouble, we opted to help. In any case, consider yourselves ghosts." She nods to the ReMade. No arguing with the black ops hard cases on this one, she's done similar shit before on a pretty regular basis. 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     "Do whatever... I just wanna flop in my bunk and sleep for a week..." replies Zephyr, half collapsing back against a nearby bulkhead, her eyes slipping half closed. Divine Wind chimes, collapses into Standby Mode and clicks into her berth on the right arm bracer of Zephyr's Barrier Jacket. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' The local team are busy tending to eachother's rounds several nanobandages go out and are applied they also move to get the EXHumans stacks clearly they want information out of them. "The corpses should be disposed of. If this was on a planet I'd suggest burning the remains." The leadernotes and it looks like they are getting ready to go but one seems to be working with a terminal likely to start the data purge of them being there. "Indeed we all go away with our jobs done. A op where no one needs to resleeve after is a good op." Notes the Remade to Corona. Kotone meanwhile goes to pick up Zephyr to carry her back to theship if needed she has no issue with it at all. <<Right we should send for a medical team and get the previous team as infomorphs at least for the moment. We should also let the people who are still alive out of their cages and get that team on it's way pronto we might have to ferry them.>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' The Automech that's been helping out has taken a beating, but its wifi still works and apparently so does its speakers. Rory's voice comes across it...     "Since your mission here seems more than noble enough, I'll agree to the secrecy request. Please don't give us a reason to regret it in the future though, is all I ask. Oh. I've established administrative access to the habitat, facilities should be coming back online. Including medical. A drone's bringing nanobandages right now."     Although it'll take a minute or two to arrive... 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' The Remade nods once to Rory "Good then we'll be getting off the station then." With that the team will hustle as best they are able to the hanger and have their ship depart. A little later on the ship. "So that's them in person?" "Damn the multiverse is insane." "Look at it this way not all alien life has it in for transhumanity." "You make a good point." "We might yet find a way out of the mess our species is in yet. Lets' get back to the proxy for the AAR and the stacks? We have ... quesitons. We need to track down any allies or people who gave them aid. This shit needs to not happen again." 
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4504/What is lost: The Stranger

2016-12-07T21:27:41Z

Junker99:

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2016/09/02
|Location=Transhuman Territory <EP>
|Synopsis=A Hyper Corp CEO named Debra Doyle comes to the Daedalus Initiative about a job to recover her long missing twin sister and offers a payment in mapping data for the work.
|Cast of Characters=7, 571, 673, 711, 319, 42, 411
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Mitre station is easy enough to board though all multiveral natives would have to go through decontamination. They don't want to bring over say an off world version of the common cold or worse to get lose here. The group would get looks from the natives some might even whisper wondering about some being aliens or flats. No one's rude per-say but everyone's getting scoped out pretty hard. Some people are chattering and given some of the people's arriving history with this world? Anyone checking the local mesh would find some talk about the group arrival and down to even a few /fans/ thankfully nothing too insane but some people do clearly have fans here. The station is Zero G and people might have a bit of an issue but mag boots are available and shockingly there shouldn't be trouble for anyone getting ones that fit, then given how wildly varied transhuman bodies /are/? It makes an odd kins of sense. Kotone herself is already at the meeting point sitting din in a chair wearing smart clothing and she's talking with a woman who has electric blue hears and is wearing fairly casual clothing at least for here though one might notice a patch on her jacket's shoulder that looks a heck of a lot like NASA's logo on it. "Curious miss Yamakawa you worlds rate of development on nanotechnology technology and robotics is honestly stunning. I would be curious to speak to your cousin at some point should this job work out." "Might be but as I said we're a bit of a group of oddballs don't worry though there's no little green men." "Though we may have a humanoid fox and lizard." "Morphs of some sort?" Kotone shakes her head. "Nope they are naturally evolved on their home worlds..." "The Multiverse is truly fascinating." The woman looked young but that really didn't mean a thing with a world where people could stop aging after all. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka's come bringing smart-clothing of her own. Zee-G plus trench coats tend to be a bad mix, after all. The mag boots are appreciated, since she can't take the boots off her own STALKER suit after all, and the cyborg's been fiddling with technology in her head regularly, mostly remotely toying with camo settings for the cloak she'd just found again after it was seemingly lost.     As she arrives, she's quick to throw Kotone a casual wave while she notes the client, quirking an eyebrow. "This the client?" She'll head right over to greet the woman, holding out a gloved hand. "Alexis Maaka, I'm one of Miss Yamakawa's associates. I'm glad you've given the Initiative consideration for whatever needs you have." She's a rough and ready merc, but Alexis isn't without her experience talking to business types as well, so she's keeping prim and professional, while polite to a degree. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Of the people here, chances are Rory White's the one who's navigating the microgravity environment the best. She's chosen to use her bluenette Synth body, and... while in micrograv, the flowing robes design has sort of clung tight to her body to avoid snagging on things. She floats along perfectly parallel to handholds on the walls, seemingly uncaring towards the difficulties or nausea that the manuever would inflict on most people. She is a robot, after all. Maybe she doesn't get dizzy.     "If you aren't acclimated to microgravity, keep one thing in mind. No big moves. Small ones are always enough. Big motions will leave you tumbling out of control. Always stay near something you can grab. The magboots do solve that problem quite well though."     She's just not magnetized hers because floating along effortlessly is more efficient.     She only lightly taps the wall and floats 'upright' with boots on the 'ground' and energizing when they're very near the meeting point...     And immediately Rory pings the Mesh for this person's profile while adjusting her semi-floating mass of blue hair. A loop forms quickly on her clothes and lashes it down...     She hasn't been in micrograv for QUITE a while.     "Hello! Hope second watch is treating you well." There's no real need to state her name, because Rory White's profile is very public and immediately available. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Did someone mention humanoid fox? Because yep, there is totally a humanoid fox. That arrived in a spaceship. With an exterior designed like an old-time steam engine. "Muh ears are burnin', someone talkin' about me?" Corona drawls as she ambles in, smirking. Considering how sharp her ears are, she possibly actually heard the comment on her way, rather than being the usual metaphorical use of that phrase. Her arrival also comes with it's own sound, in the form of a click and clattering to her steps. A sound one might reconize from old westerns as the noise of spurs. Because it's the magnetic spurs strapped to her boots that lets her walk on the surface like it was normal gravity. She stops, lowering the anachronistic looking hammer from her shoulder to rest the head on the floor and lean on it a bit as she tips her brass plated stetson from atop her head in a sort of rustic bow. "Corona Arclite, at yer service." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt's here, and surprisingly, while most would expect to see the tiny trader fumbling about in Zero G. Fayt is doing surprisingly well, having taken a pair of mag boots and moving along via a combination of walking and pulling himself along handholds. Apparently as far as low gravity is concerned? this isn't his first rodeo. Though that makes sense when you consider that as a trader in the multiverse? Stuff like this isn't too unusual for him.     Fayt glances around as he approaches the group. "Sorry if I'm a touch late. Travel here was... interesting." He frowns a moment. "So, what exactly is going on?" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     A SMALL CASTLE drops out of FTL. If it fits the dock, great, otherwise, Staren is comfortable with a short EVA to get to the airlock (he has a light smart vacsuit ready for himself, as well as one for Twilight -- Ever since Night Bright's visit to SELENE, he's made sure to have a pony spacesuit available.) "Are you able to push yourself with your telekinesis? If not... Maybe we should stay connected by a rope or something."     Once he's in atmosphere, the smart vacsuit retracts, leaving him in his normal clothes, plus magshoes (magboots are also available for Twilight, if telekinesis isn't suitable for Zero-G movement.) His normal appearance isn't that alien, tails are far from unheard of in zero-G, and people who want cat ears are also probably common enough. As they go through contamination, Staren mutters, "I have medichines, you know..." but he doesn't seem that annoyed. Dawn informs him about the mesh traffic... he's not sure what to make of it, but it's probably a good thing (he may have spent a bunch of time earlier today playing the Last Myth: Record Keeper mobige from Afterus trying to unlock himself and level himself up.)     He arrives to catch the tail end of the conversation. "That's saying something, considering this world's incredible rate of nanotech and computer development... then again, perhaps my world was just entirely too focused on military development. I'm Staren, by the way, nice to meet you miss Doyle." If the local mesh isn't already supplying her with an AR nametag, Dawn supplies tags for him and Twilight. If some amount of personal info is standard-available over local mesh, Dawn also fills in their profiles with appropriate information.     Staren smiles and takes a seat near Kotone. "So, how can we help you?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miss Doyle grins at Maaka. "Associate? Mmm I'd say your group is far closer than that from what I have seen on the mesh and been able to dig up on my own." The woman grins at Alexis for a moment, it's not an unkind one. she seems fairly relaxed however she does peer at Corona for a moment tilting her head. "Miss Yamakawa was not jesting at all. You look like you just stepped off a SCUM steam punk Live Action Role-play barge." Rory's search would bring up Debra Doyle CEO of Apollo Aerospace INC. It seemed it was formed from remnants of a prefall aerospace company and survivors of the old American nations NASA space program. The Company had a history of making it's out of date designs open source after a time and the board had had some ties to the Argonauts for some time. The company also was quite big into gate crashing and exploring the warp-gate network as well. "Ah miss White I presume? I am Debra Doyle CEO of Apollo Aerospace. You must be wondering why have come to you?" Staren is looked over for a moment it's clear the woman is sizing him up for a moment. "Mr. Wiremu, your reputation proceeds you." Additionally the woman was actually old /very old/ her birth predated the creation of stacks. She's also worked for Nasa herself and had only survived the fall due to being off world at the time. I will not mince words as what I know of all of you that would be the best way to be insulting. My twin sister long ago was in a car crash and was frozen in the hopes of being healed in the future. Her unit was lost some time before the fall and by some miracle after a group of freelancers found it. They had arrived at a hab and had been brokering a deal for the exchange but it went dark before I could head there to make the arrangements. I do not know what has happened at the hab I could send my own security personnel but the odds of success and survival would be much higher with the likes of you. If you are successful? I am willing to pay in information. Maps of what worlds both by Pandora Gate and Warp gate that my company has explored." Kotone nods for a moment. "Any idea why the hab went dark?" "None, that's why I'm worried about it. Family actual family is ... almost unheard for for one as old as I. I want my sister back..." 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Alexis can't help but grin back, with a bit of pride. "We're a good team, she and I, not gonna deny that." She gives Kotone a wink, before hands are shook and Maaka takes a seat, producing a thermos from her matter manipulator, a cup following as she pours herself some coffee. "What do you know about where the hab was set up? Might be a chance there's a history of these sorts of things occurring to the odd colony here and there." She asks, taking a sip of delicious, warm Costa Rican brew.     Mentioning the fall does cause Maaka to quirk an eye. She doesn't know exactly how long it's been since that occurred, but she knows it was a LONG TME. That's enough for her to wonder just how old Ms. Doyle really is, likely centuries at the least...and that's being conservative with the estimates. 

:'''{{#var:411|Twilight Sparkle (411)}} has posed:'''      People with cat ears or fox muzzles might make the appearance of a fully quadrupedal unicorn less of a surprise. "Of course. Levitating with telekinesis was part of my studies." Twilight says to Staren when he asks about it, but she takes a set of mag boots and attaches the rope anyway. "It is difficult to do without the Element of Magic, though." she explains after a moment.      When they emerge into the station, Twilight is wearing a space suit with the helmet off. It might be a sealed environment, but Twilight is one to be prepared. She floats along fairly easily, especially with Staren's help. Once they reach the meeting, Twilight takes a seat and listens to the briefing. She was told this was a Daedalus Initiative mission, but it sounds more like a Gatecrasher mission. That doesn't mean she doesn't want to help, it's just something that crosses her mind.      "I am sorry to hear that, Miss Doyle. But, you don't have to worry. We will find your sister and discover what happened to the hab." she says, then blinks. "Oh! I am Twilight Sparkle." she adds, smiling. She looks around at the others after that. "It looks like we will have plenty of capable support." she says, waving lightly to those gathered around. 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt blinks slowly as he takes a seat "Hmmm..." He doesn't say much, the others seem to have things under control so no need to speak up just yet. Instead he simply watches, head darting about as the other speak. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Yeah." Idly Corona folds both hands over the end of her hammer handle, as if leaning on it. Though it's more like she's holding it against the floor than it supporting her, due to the 0G and the only reason she's even on the floor is the magnetization. "Ah'm sure yer security folks are perfectly capable fer most things... but with all the poss'ble reasons for somethin' goin' dark as ya put it, sounds like yer gonna need a.. more specialized group," meaning themselves, of course, "to get to the bottom of this." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren gets a determined look once it becomes clear what the mission is. He already wants to do it, clearly.     Staren looks over at Twilight, then back to Miss Doyle. "I dunno about a Gatecrasher mission, and I certainly want to do it anyway, but it sounds to me like this is more of a rescue mission than a research one. If I may ask, why did you seek us out, specifically, rather than appealing directly to, say, the Union or the Syndicate? Just curious." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' "Exactly so on both counts." Rory answers gently and simply. She would ask, but she doesn't need to - Doyle gets right into the thick of things....     And the situation is... troubling, to say the least. Rory finds herself fidgeting briefly in place at the idea of rescuing someone's sister. Why would that bother her? Only a few people might be able to tell what's going on in her neurals.     "An entire hab went dark? ... This does not bode well... nevertheless..." She literally has eyes in the back of her head here, and doesn't even need to turn around to see the looks on others' faces. Because Mitre's own internal cameras are already hers to view. Everyone's to view, really.     The expressions of everyone else tells her something important. They want to do this.     Which means... "It's a fair exchange, that information is very important! Though I do not wish to imply lives have prices." Her method of speech can be a bit odd sometimes, but.... she's an AGI. Expressing sympathy in a way that can be understood is sometimes a challenge, so she's doing well as many of them go!     "We have the skills to handle this mission, though any more information about the hab would be a boon. Location, leadership, connections?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miss Dyole looks at Maaka's alien technology with interest but she knows better than to ask about it. "It was a refugee hab, somewhat far out of Lagrange Point Three, it was simply the choice of the Freed lancers to meet up at a neutral point to do business. I can not fault them but I fear they may have unwitting brought something back or something else has befallen the station. She halts for a moment to look at Twilght with interest and watches her for a moment. She's seen strange things but someone like Twilight is a new one to her. "Your reputation in the multiverse and to be blunt the hand many of you had exposing what certain parties did to leave hundreds of thousands of people to die at the hands of the Titans who might otherwise have been saved. I can trust your judgment to not be tempted should any thing undue. I like to deal with known Factors. I am hesitant of the Union due to it's history with in the multvierse to formally deal with them. I mean no offense to those of you who work with them. As for why? This may lead to further ventures but I would also wish to keep ... most here in Sol unaware of my sister until she is safe once more. Someone capturing her would be uses as leverage against me. I do not mean to do that. If there is something that has befallen the hab? By all means help them. Do I look like a woman who puts credits over people's lives. Sometimes stacks make life far too cheap these days. The hab itself generally dealt with ... recovery of salvage in Lunar Orbit and some from other locations about the system. They also did produce various hardware for sale to other habs, they seemed to like to keep to themselves for the most part." She pauses for a moment looking at Fayt. "Mr. Ravus? It is a pleasure to meet you, I'd been hoping to speak to one such connections as your self about separate business matters but that can wait until my sister is found or her fate confirmed. The Station maintains a small Militia but nothing special it's to deter pirates to go looking elsewhere and maintain security. Yes your group has a mix of skills I can not find here and access to powers that are ... almost fiction. You are also an unknown factor unlike such as good as they are? Direct Action. Kotone speaks up now So we're an wild card that if there is something foul going on we would have an edge native hires would not. Correct. I will provide all the information I can and should this be successful I would be interesting in gate crashing operations with your organization. I'm sure the Argonauts would be happy with a Hypercorp that values long term profitability over short sighted cash garbing sort like most After all many of us were part of NASA before the fall. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite tilts her head a little to one side. "In other words, she wants to keep this onna lowdown one of the 'big' groups or factions wouldn't be able to manage." Makes what could be a shrugging gesture, it's kind of hard to make out in the lack of gravity because she doesn't want to dislodge herself from her position accidentally. "Also, this way she's got more control over who's act'ally picked for the mission, instead of just whoever one of the bigwigs would send." Don't let the space texan drawl fool you, Corona's a good bit smarter than she usually lets on. Or it's a situation she's probably familiar with dealing with back home. A bit from both columns, maybe. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     "It's what I'd do. I wouldn't exactly trust a group chosen by some out of touch execs when I know who's better suited for an op." Maaka muses, trying to keep her coffee in her mug as she drinks. The zero-g does make it really hard for her to really keep it all together, but she manages with some effort. "Any hostile elements like pirates or mercenaries set up shop nearby recently? Might be nice to know if we're going into hostile space, and all." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt actually pauses for a moment as he's outed. "Hmm? Oh um. Thank you. I'll be sure to keep that in mind, but yes, more important matters first." He gglances around at hte others. "If any of you need something special ofr this, please let me know. I'll see what I can pull together on short notice." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren scratches his head. So, they've been invited here as the Flotilla Remnants, rather than as the Daedalus Initiative. Still, it's a start. "If you don't want anyone to know about her, should you really be talking about this in front of public cameras," he waves a hand at them, "in the middle of an 'Information wants to be free!' hab? In any case..." He rests his hands in his lap. "Obviously, we'd do this mission anyway, just because it's the right thing to do. And we are perhaps better equipped than most to deal with the manners of 'unknown hazards' that could befall a habitat in this world. We'll do what we can to save your sister... although, I have to caution you that whatever happened may have already... Yeah." He hangs his head slightly.     Then brightens a bit. "Future Gatecrashing missions, huh? The Daedalus Initiative's skills do make us better equipped to deal with the unknown. Maybe we should focus a bit more on exploration and rescue when advertising ourselves, then..." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' "Chances of anyone else deploying to visit the hab are slim. A hab that simply went dark completely... that is the kind of situation you do not walk into without plenty of trustworthy help." Rory explains to Staren. "We will be there and investigating before anyone else has even finished making preparations and arrangements. I trust that the requisite security measures are in place, in any case." 

:'''{{#var:411|Twilight Sparkle (411)}} has posed:''' %      Twilight blinks in surprise when Staren mentions the Gatecrashers. Was she thinking outloud without realizing it? She shakes her head lightly then listens some more. She nods in agreement with the others. "I don't have a lot of experience with space and zero gravity, but I will do my best." she says to the others, then hops to her feet. Which of course sends her flying upward. She really doesn't have much experience with zero-g...      Twilight lets out a surprised 'h-hey!' as she floats upward, then her horn glows and she slows down quickly before coming to a stop. "Erm...hehehe..." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' The CEO shakes her head. "I can only guess there's nothing confirmed what I can do is give you the docking codes I was going to use when I was planning to make the pickup it may help you board the station and get past any drones or defence platforms they may have." She tilts her head smirking a bit. "They know the value of distression or delaying on the relase of information." Also she knows given their abilities are not fully known it may put pressure on some group that may have caused the issues with the hab. "Humm if you need to train in micro gravity I have a cargo hauler you can use the hanger of for such training. We do so for when we recuit martians or other others with little experiance in such enviroments. "Miss Maaka you see where I am coming from." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "And maybe we'll find out just why the place went dark while gettin' yer deep sleepin' sister out, too," Corona sums up. She can't help but snicker a little as Twilight loses herself in the lack of gravity. "Don't worry miss, ya get use to it. Eventually." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt goes back to quietly watching the others, occasional nodding as he mentally takes some notes. At one point he does suddenly frown for several seconds, seemingly for no reason. Maybe it's something he heard over radio? 

:'''{{#var:411|Twilight Sparkle (411)}} has posed:'''      Once she is back under control, Twilight Sparkle looks at Miss Doyle again. "Oh, I guess we should ask. Are you wanting us to recover her even if she is still frozen? Or, are we simply to secure the hab and hold it until another team can move in?" 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' "Well. This group certainly has all of the required skills... and some that defy all categorization. If what we seek remains on the hab - and we have no reason to doubt it does - then we should be fine, so long as we exercise caution. I am most orried that TITAN technology is behind the blackout, since it's a station for refugees..." Rory frowns rather heavily. If there's TITAN stuff aboard, they'll REALLY need to be careful. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren acks and reaches for Twilight as she floats away, but she's got it handled. He looks between Alexis and Rory. "I was less thinking someone would try to steal the objective out from under us, than that they might threaten to sabotage our mission -- or attack us after to steal her."     He looks to Twilight. "I think recovering her cryopod is the idea... She was frozen because back then they didn't have the medical technology to heal her. If something has deactivated the cryopod..." He looks down at the floor. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miss Dyole nods "Yes, get her out if she can be moved. I have medical personel and a morph that's been standing by for her for some time in stasis. Afer all she is my twin." She notes somewhat sadly. "I can provide some small arms and gear if there is any thing you lack for this operation. Yes part of why I have asked for you is you have skills that do not exist and experiance with the multiverse. Yes, this is why I request you use analog communiaitons technology with me when you deploy. Should there be something .. I will handle calling for more aid and containment. However most of you haver been to earth and came back with the bodies you took down. So that speaks /very/ well of your skills." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite muses that over for a moment or two. "Ah can pro'ly whip up somethin' in case we need to move the cryopod an' keep it runnin' on the go." Leave it to the engineer to consider the potential technical and mechanical problems first. 
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4734/A Lost Gem

2016-12-07T21:21:09Z

Junker99: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2016/10/31 |Location=Earth-<GITS> |Synopsis=Golden Topaz gets very lost in the Multiverse and ends up in a world where humans are undergoing rapid..."

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|Date of Scene=2016/10/31
|Location=Earth-<GITS>
|Synopsis=Golden Topaz gets very lost in the Multiverse and ends up in a world where humans are undergoing rapid and radical change and he runs smack into Kotone Yamakawa.
|Cast of Characters=7, 1066
|pretty=yes
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Earth (Yes yet another one) Japan New Port City Outskirts Kotone was on the road tonight it was late but she was outskirts of the city, one might be able to see ruins left from the third world war in the distance s she speeds down the highway on her Knight Motorcycle a craft of her own creation and she was just trying to clear her head after the insanity with Tomoyo's party, it had been not as bad as could have been but she really needed to blow off some steam as the young cyborg moves down the highway at break neck speeds seemingly with no issue, what could possibly go wrong here tonight? Her world wasn't prone to halloween horrors, right? 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz perhaps not Halloween horrors, but perhaps existential ones, or ones of witnessing, as a shimmer int he sky further along the highway marks the entrace of someone new to the world. Plummeting from the sky, his clothes flapping from the rushing air passing him by, is the shape of a man, falling from the heaven on high, down, down to the earth below, with seemingly no parachute. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa stares in shock for a moment and then swears, it's not going to end well. She knows how gravity works. She guns her engine and floors it on the bike trying to reach the point of seemingly impact. Maybe there is something Kotone can do? Maybe not? Either way she's homing in on it and is trying to keep pace thankfully she doesn't think they are going to hit the highway. 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Thankfully, no, the highway won't be hit, but anything to the side of it not too far up ahead now will be. The figure continues to fall, head first, seemingly unaware as it falls silently.. and lands in a small ruined area, what used to be a motel, not a burnt out husk of the former glory of the Motel. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa pulls the cycle to a halt in the ruined Motel's parking lot, which is pitted and hasn't been yet to be reclaimed. She takes a moment to pop off her bike, pull the jacks out letting the cables slide back into her net and removes her helmet as she cautious heads towards the point of impact. She's not expecting to find anything good though who ever it was? The Impact likely killed them. "Hello?!" 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Inside the building where the figure obviously crashed, with a hole where the impact occured, there is.. nothing. The rubble of the war, the bullet holes, the scorch marks, all marks from the past.. and no body. What is odd is a shimmering stone.. a gemstone, a bit off from where the hole was, shining on the ground. A crackless, normal gem, a vibrant orange-y yellow. A topaz. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa pauses for a moment as she looks at this ghost of the third world war? Was it part of the attacks on Japan? Or interal rioting? Who knows she doesn't but she does spot the gem glittering in the darkness and rather large one? She moves closer for a moment, kneeling down to pick it up and get a good look at it. She runs a quick net search and tilts her head "Some sort of Topaz? But one this big isn't ... normal." 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' The gem shines in the light, and almost seems to be humming, letting off an aura of energy in her hand. Where did it come from? And where did that body go? It couldn't just get up and walk off, could it?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa pauses as she watches the Gem start to shine and she looks at it, there's some sort of energy being emitted. She's not quite sure about it but the size of the gem and the vanishe body makes her supicous of the thing. She has to wonder for a moment just what it is? 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Suddenly, the gem hops out of her hand, shining brighter, the light coming out of it taking shape, forming itself into a general outline mof a person, then gaining specifics, unkempt head forming atop a striking male face, eyes opening to reveal fiery orange irises before orange-lensed goggles form before them. The toned body nof a swimmer forms, followed by dark, tight clothes, not unlike the sort of thing a traditional ninja would wear. The gem itself is where the right elbow of the man should be, and soon standing before the woman is the full reformed body of a man, with dull yellow skin. Definitely not human. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa leaps back as the gem rises out of her hand and she looks as a humanoid takes shape she pauses seeing the gem embeded in the man's elbow abnd payses staring for a moment. She looks at them her eyes narrowing and focusing he has no idea who this is but she has an idea of what they are. "A Gem? here?!" Given the few comments she'd heard about a few things from the Gem's she'd had encounted this does leave her concerned. "Who are you?" 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' The Gem stretches a bit, sighing. "Well.. that was unpleasant... waking up to fall-" And then he realizes he's not alone. He looks to the woman in front of him and blinks a bit. "I'm sorry if I startled you, miss... I'm Golden Topaz." He looks around, slowly taking in his surroundings, the relic of the war and the social strife gone by. "Um.. where is 'here' exactly? Last thing I remember I was walking around in Moscow... and then I blaked out, woke up falling just in time to crash into.." He looks up. "Through, the roof, and had to recover. And now.. I'm here." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa looks to Golden TOpaz for a moment. "This isn't Moscow your ner New Port Japan." SHe notes looking the Gem over for a moment and an eyebrow shoots up a little bit at them. "So if I might ask what were you up into in Moscow before you were here?" She looks slightly supicous at him. "Oh I'm Kotone Yamakawa!" 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz blinks and smiles. "Japan.. been a while since I've been here." He then looks about a bit more, switching to fluent, essentially accent-less Japanese. "I do not know the city of New Port.. must have been a recent addition while I've been away. As for what I was doing in Moscow, I was visiting an old friend from World War II, who had been lucky enough to survive the siege of Berlin. He made a hell of a pot of borscht, and I wanted to see how his kids had grown up, since the last time I saw them they were still babies." He then looks to her and bows. "A pleasure to meet you, Yamakawa-sama." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa expression softens most of her concern seems gone. "Oh that's not quite what I expected I admit I also didn't expect to see a Gem here. Though I can explain New Port but it's going to be a bit on the heavy side. This isn't the earth you know it's 2034 CE or AD depending on what your used to." She has been replying in Japanse but there's a bit of an accent there on her end, odd. "I will also admit I didn't expect to have run into a Gem of any sort here at home." She seems to know of Gems, odd maybe that might be why she questioned him in the way that she did. 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz blinks slowly, looking to her, scanning her face. and whe he finds truth, he then looks over her form, noticing... bits and pieces of oddity. Namely the seems. "So.. this.. isn't my Earth? Not the Earth where the Crystal Gems and loyalist Homeworld Gems have fought? Wait.. if that's true, then how do you know of Gems?" He moves to take a seat against a larger piece of rubble. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Topaz has sat down, this is /good/ why? Because what he's about to hear is the sort of thing you should sit down for. Kotone sits down though if Golden has experiance with human the concreet she sits on crunches a bit more than it should from a human of her build. "No, so far as I know. Do you understnd the concept of alternate timelines? If you do you fallen into a place where thousands if not more of alternate timelines have fused into a massive combined universe." 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz nods. "Yeah.. I met a few philosophers and scientists who theorized about that sort of thing.. that a number of different decisions and randome occurences, with each different outcome, createsa new universe where a different outcome occurred..." He then looks to her concrete, and at her seams on her body.. and looked ot her. "Your body isn't organic, is it? This is a place where robotics and machinery have been developed more. Where I'm from, it's the year 2016 AD..." He then rubs his forehead, pulling up his goggles to pinch the bridge of his nose, his fiery orange eyes flaring a bit. "So... this is a place where instead of different worlds.. it's like, they're all one?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "It's true, worlds without out end. So at least you can get that part. That's often the hardest bit. Yes my body is prosethic. Well most of it and no about that year? Humm and well when you come down to it? Not everything is fused together there's a number of world floating in a void inside it. No I don't get how it works either but it does. As for Gems? I have encounted a few in my travels." 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz seems to brighten a bit at the last comment. "Have you run into Rose Quartz? Is she still alive? Is she still fighting the Homeworld Gems? Or.." He relaxes a bit. "Or have you run into others? Garnet? Pearl? ...Bismuth?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "Bismuth? Isn't tht a metal? No I haven't there but the other names? Yes and yes there has been some home world gems. Does the name Jasper Ring a Bell at all?" She asks tilting her head a little bit at Topaz. 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz saddens a bit at the questioning about Bismuth, though the recognition of the other names seems promising to him. When the name Jasper is said, he slams his fist into some nearby rubble, cracking the boulder where the impact was. He grits his teeth a bit. "Yes. It rings a bell, though it sounds more liek a hunting horn." He sighs and shakes his head. "Sorry.. she and I have a bad history. She did somethign I need to pay her bakc for with interest." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "She's been a problem in general but I don't know if it's the Jasper you knew or any of the others but I do know them." She's being cautious ebnough given the war and the homeworld after all she's not going to bring up Steven right now but she will not leave them out in the cold though. "So yes I know some of them, I should be able to put you into contact with them." 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz nods slowly as he just rests on the rubble. "I'd appreciate it. THe sooner, the better, too.. I should get back to them. Being away for.. well, thousands of years probably left them a little upset with me." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "Also I hate to tell you there's a fairly large scale conflict going on to be perfectly honest as well and osme of them have joined one side or the other. Well I'm aware Jasper is working with one of the other groups. Though I can't seem to raise any of them right now..." How was she calling them she had nothing visable out she's just here talking 

:'''{{#var:1066|Golden Topaz (1066)}} has posed:''' Golden Topaz nods slowly. "If Jasper's on the other side, I want to be on this side. She needs to get brought in.. or other things." He flicks his arm up, his gem shining as a butterfly knife is thrown up into the air, coming back down to land in his hand, where he begins to twirl it between his fingers. 
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4833/A trip to another China

2016-12-07T21:20:07Z

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|Synopsis=Kotone checks out a new warp gate and finds an alternate Earth with a China that is far better ready for the multiverse than one might expect.
|Cast of Characters=1078, 7
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{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:1078|Xiang Qi (1078)}} has posed:'''     Zunhua China -- or at least this version of it -- was experiencing a pleasant enough day, with bright light filtering through puffy clouds overhead. Unlike some more urban areas of China, the air of Zunhua wasn't clogged by thick clouds of smog, so even the air was pleasant -- if a bit warm. The city itself was fairly large, with tall buildings easily visible from the outskirts, and a bustling populace going about their business...      It was just outside of the city where one would have been able to find Qi, looking decidedly... bored, as she followed a short Chinese man in an expensive suit -- some sort of politician, by the look of him, speaking with several other politicians, with cameras off to the side, ready to start recording the man and his entourage of snappily dressed men and women -- and the one oddly dressed bored woman.     The streets were, for the most part, clear. Though every now and then a curious onlooker or two crossed to the other side to see what was going on. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa needed to get out she'd been busy quite a bit here and there about the multivese and she'd picked a location almost at random. She was clad in somewhat strange clothing really but nothing that might be out of relm of possiblity of what fashion might do but certainly she was odd and the woman was also clearly at least by appears Japanese from the looks of her. She'd been moving along the city, checking out one thing or another as se goes. She pauses though noticing there's not very many people going on here and she's now watching the group that is coming by with intrest it seems she's wandered into something. 

:'''{{#var:1078|Xiang Qi (1078)}} has posed:'''     The man that Qi had been following -- clearly some important person, compared with the other people present at this event -- steps up onto the stage, standing in front of a standing microphone, "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen." The man begins, "In light of the recent confusion surrounding the sudden state that we've found our world in, this whole 'unification' situation, that is. I have no doubts that many of you are confused and worried. I'm sure some of you wonder what the government, as it stands now, plans to do about it. Rest assured that we've taken action in ensuring that our nation is well protected against foreign invasion."     Several people in the crowd talk amongst themselves as the man continues, "I'd like to introduce you to the first step in our plans to make China as defensible as possible. Our President has invoked an ancient agreement between our ancestors and the spirit world to give us a viable defender in the face of potential multiversal threats." The man gestures toward Qi, who until just a moment ago seemed distracted. Now she perks up and looks out at the crowd, raising a hand in a wave. "This is Xiang Qi. I am assured that she is quite a capable warrior, and will be here to support our defense should we find ourselves in a situation that our military forces cannot handle on their own." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' A New world that had unified? Well this may have become a first contact mission from the looks of it. Kotone just sits back a bit and listens and she listens for a moment as they talk about protecting their nation? She wonders how much of this is confidence, do they have a plan? Or are they legitly just trying to prevent a panic. What ever the reasion she listnes then pauses as it seems yes the Government /does/ have some aces in the hole? This is good, She might stand out a bit and maybe she might even sense off given her nature. Some have mistakenly in the past thought Kotone's soul was forcably bound to a construct. She does take a long moment to size up the strange woman and get a feeling for the woman. 

:'''{{#var:1078|Xiang Qi (1078)}} has posed:'''     It's not Qi that first notices Kotone, but the people around Kotone that notice her odd clothes... clothes that are certainly out of place around here. As a few people take note of her, they whisper to their neighbors... and several start to back away from her suspiciously. Had the invasions started already?!     Qi, for the most part, appears to be utterly clueless, and woefully bored as the politician continues his speech unabated. But it's not long before even Qi can't help but notice the people backing away from the stranger among them. She perks up and takes a step forward... and then a smirk slowly crosses over her face. Already something to protect people from! She goes into a slight crouch, and LEAPS from the stage, practically flying over the crowd. She balls one hand into a fist as she starts to arc down towards the ground, finally reaching a bare spot of ground in front of Kotone, slamming into the concrete fist first, a spiderweb of cracks, followed by a buckling of concrete beneath her fist as she settles on the ground, "Hey! You one of those multiverse people that the stuffy guy on stage is worried about? Ya look different from everyone else." -- She's one to talk. "Like yer not from around here or somethin'" She grins as she stands up, slapping her fist into an open palm in an almost threatening manner that seems to contradict her otherwise pleasant expression. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa is not an invader really she was just wandering through the nework. She does however politely ignore the whispers also if someone gets a good look at her eyes there's something a little bit off on those as well. She doesn't seem hostile and she doesn't seem to be armed. She does see the people backing up and she seems to sigh a bit she wasn't looking or trouble but as Qi leaps? Kotone does react, but not in the way one might expect. She tracks Qi's leap figuring out she's not moving to attack her, but she also seems not to be /shocked/ by the leap either she does grin a bitthough. "Nice landing, no I'm not. I'm also not looking for a fight. If I'd wished harm or trouble? I'd not have come to listen to what your leaders had to say. "I came to check out the new warp gate connection. I needed to get out stretch my legs a bit you know?" She looks Qi over a bit more. "I was going to actually say? Your nations' leader getting you on the scene? Was a good and very wise idea. I'm Kotone Yamakawa and I'm from another Earth." Oh this could turn into a fight sure but Kotone doesn't look like she's spoiling from one while not scared it's clear she knows Qi isn't someone to idly pick a fight with. 

:'''{{#var:1078|Xiang Qi (1078)}} has posed:'''     Qi gives a little bit of a pout when Kotone says she's not there for a fight, "Aww, well that's too bad. Seems like that's what they brought me back to do, but so far, I haven't had much fighting." She huffs, "And nobody 'round here seems to be interested in a good fight either." She looks at the crowd... then notices that the crowd of people is still watching them. "Oh, uh... Guess I made kind of a scene, huh." She turns around, "It's okay! She's not a monster or whatever." Qi gives a wave, then turns back to Kotone again, "Look, probably best that we not sit here and chat. I think that the guy up there wants to finish his speech... and I don't know of these other people really want strangers around." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa see sthat Xiang Qi does seem a bit sad that she's not going to get a fight. "Fair enough, if you want me to leave I'll be willing to leav, and I'll let him finish his speech." She pauyses bowing slightly passing a small card to Xiang Qi. "This had contact for the Union an multiversal alliance of a number of worlds. You should likely give it to you leaders. It might be of use for them feeling out the multiverse but you'll need to get used to straner. You can't keep the multiverse out in the end only learn how to deal with it." She gives the location od the gate. "You'd likely want to post a guard detail there, and be ready for anything." She bows slightly and will start to move towards a strangly sleek motor cycle a bit down the road. 
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Loss (Maya)

2016-11-15T02:04:55Z

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|Date of Scene=2016/11/13
|Location=Union HQ
|Synopsis=Maya thinks about what she's just lost with Yunomi's death and figures out just what to do as there's no time to mourn at the moment.
|Cast of Characters=19
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Loss

Sometime On the weekend.

Maya has known much loss in her life before the multiverse? She saw her parents killed in front of her, her mother taking a strike that would have likely ended Maya's own life. She'd had to be pulled off the corpse of her mother by the man known as Uncle as he ran out into a fire fight to rescue her from meeting the same fate as her mother.

She'd lost a close friend and someone who turned out to be family when the Creator's final test was taken. Also her world had lost much as a whole from that but it had survived the echos of the dead continued on to this day. It was funny she thought even the dead may still have an effect upon the worlds as the results of their actions continue to echo onwards

Yunomi was gone, while Maya knew she was older than her? She had a hard time not seeing her as the young wide eyed and so full of energy. Maya sat down at the desk in her quarters and a holo display brought up pictures of people long gone, to other parts of the multiverse, home or sadly no longer living. She looked from image to image as she did. She also looked at picture of herself from just after she arrived.

She hadn't aged a day an weight of what she'd also lost in claiming the creator's gift or at least had not seemed to and she wondered what else had she lost? There was nothing she could do about it. There was no way she could pull Yunomi back from the hear after. She wouldn't try past a certain point she understood the cycle but it didn't make it any easier for the Junker. She had to accept it but Yunomi's work was undone. That would have to be changed, and her killer would have to be brought to justice in the end.

The rage of her youth had been tempered she knew if she gave in Yunomi's killer would still win, and had she given in about Doskais? Her world would have died but it was time to act time to deal with her loss and ensure her friend had legacy worth having and in the end? Yunomi's people had gained another who'd do her best to watch over them even if they never realized the truth and that was enough for Maya.

She turned off the projector rose from her desk to head out Rhapsody needed help still. Yunomi's people needed help still. There were friends she's have to try to reign in but for now? She had to head to Ravnica to get ready.

1000 Arrows (Kotone)

2016-10-14T23:12:50Z

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|Date of Scene=2016/10/14
|Location=Hikari Combined Fleet - Main Base
|Synopsis=Kotone keeps at it with an assignment given to her by Kaga, to improve her aim with a bow. It's a steep order but Kotone, thinks she figures out just what Kaga's getting at with it.
|Cast of Characters=7
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1000 Arrows

It was a steep order Kaga had given her, but Kotone had understood why, it was the same reason when you got down to it? Why she'd have to been contiuning to master what her cyberentic body could do. She took a deep breath even though she didn't need to as she stepped out on to the target range, with a bow in hand and a full quiver on her back. Well one of several given the number she'd have to shoot. This wasn't her first attempt at hitting the mark that Kaga had set for her.

What was it she mused? Ninehundred out of a thousand shots on the mark? An Accuracy of ninty percent. She got why and it was funny for all her enhancement it all came down to pure practice the sun wasn't fully up as she looked down the firing lane towards the target. She would take a moment just to relax a bit more before moving to notch and draw the bow as she stared down at the target she would be firing on she waited for a moment longer took aim and then let the arrow fly.

There was a thowk as the arrow hit the mark, she was getting better, but she was not anywhere near the goal Kaga and set for her. She sighed moved to draw her next arrow and would continue. Draw, aim, let fly over and over again. She could download aim assist software but in this case? That would be flat out cheating and she'd know it. Even if she told no one else and that is something she can't live with.

So once again she went to collect the arrows from down range and to start up another set, it was funny. She'd thought she known she'd had much to learn but every time she learns something new? She finds out she has known even less than she thought. Either way she would contiune shooting sets till the afternoon. As she drew again, a thought struck Kotone. One couldn't obtain perfection but if you shot for it there would be constant improvement. Maybe that's what Kaga was trying to instill in her?

She pulled back again on the bow and let another arrow fly.

4504/What is lost: The Stranger

2016-09-17T02:48:01Z

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|Date of Scene=2016/09/02
|Location=Transhuman Territory <EP>
|Synopsis=The newly formed Daedalus Initiative gets it's first client from Rory's home world no less to seek out a missing twin sister of a Hypercorp CEO.
|Cast of Characters=7, 571, 673, 711, 319, 42, 411
|pretty=yes
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{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Mitre station is easy enough to board though all multiveral natives would have to go through decontamination. They don't want to bring over say an off world version of the common cold or worse to get lose here. The group would get looks from the natives some might even whisper wondering about some being aliens or flats. No one's rude per-say but everyone's getting scoped out pretty hard. Some people are chattering and given some of the people's arriving history with this world? Anyone checking the local mesh would find some talk about the group arrival and down to even a few /fans/ thankfully nothing too insane but some people do clearly have fans here. The station is Zero G and people might have a bit of an issue but mag boots are available and shockingly there shouldn't be trouble for anyone getting ones that fit, then given how wildly varied transhuman bodies /are/? It makes an odd kins of sense. Kotone herself is already at the meeting point sitting din in a chair wearing smart clothing and she's talking with a woman who has electric blue hears and is wearing fairly casual clothing at least for here though one might notice a patch on her jacket's shoulder that looks a heck of a lot like NASA's logo on it. "Curious miss Yamakawa you worlds rate of development on nanotechnology technology and robotics is honestly stunning. I would be curious to speak to your cousin at some point should this job work out." "Might be but as I said we're a bit of a group of oddballs don't worry though there's no little green men." "Though we may have a humanoid fox and lizard." "Morphs of some sort?" Kotone shakes her head. "Nope they are naturally evolved on their home worlds..." "The Multiverse is truly fascinating." The woman looked young but that really didn't mean a thing with a world where people could stop aging after all. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Maaka's come bringing smart-clothing of her own. Zee-G plus trench coats tend to be a bad mix, after all. The mag boots are appreciated, since she can't take the boots off her own STALKER suit after all, and the cyborg's been fiddling with technology in her head regularly, mostly remotely toying with camo settings for the cloak she'd just found again after it was seemingly lost.     As she arrives, she's quick to throw Kotone a casual wave while she notes the client, quirking an eyebrow. "This the client?" She'll head right over to greet the woman, holding out a gloved hand. "Alexis Maaka, I'm one of Miss Yamakawa's associates. I'm glad you've given the Initiative consideration for whatever needs you have." She's a rough and ready merc, but Alexis isn't without her experience talking to business types as well, so she's keeping prim and professional, while polite to a degree. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' Of the people here, chances are Rory White's the one who's navigating the microgravity environment the best. She's chosen to use her bluenette Synth body, and... while in micrograv, the flowing robes design has sort of clung tight to her body to avoid snagging on things. She floats along perfectly parallel to handholds on the walls, seemingly uncaring towards the difficulties or nausea that the manuever would inflict on most people. She is a robot, after all. Maybe she doesn't get dizzy.     "If you aren't acclimated to microgravity, keep one thing in mind. No big moves. Small ones are always enough. Big motions will leave you tumbling out of control. Always stay near something you can grab. The magboots do solve that problem quite well though."     She's just not magnetized hers because floating along effortlessly is more efficient.     She only lightly taps the wall and floats 'upright' with boots on the 'ground' and energizing when they're very near the meeting point...     And immediately Rory pings the Mesh for this person's profile while adjusting her semi-floating mass of blue hair. A loop forms quickly on her clothes and lashes it down...     She hasn't been in micrograv for QUITE a while.     "Hello! Hope second watch is treating you well." There's no real need to state her name, because Rory White's profile is very public and immediately available. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Did someone mention humanoid fox? Because yep, there is totally a humanoid fox. That arrived in a spaceship. With an exterior designed like an old-time steam engine. "Muh ears are burnin', someone talkin' about me?" Corona drawls as she ambles in, smirking. Considering how sharp her ears are, she possibly actually heard the comment on her way, rather than being the usual metaphorical use of that phrase. Her arrival also comes with it's own sound, in the form of a click and clattering to her steps. A sound one might reconize from old westerns as the noise of spurs. Because it's the magnetic spurs strapped to her boots that lets her walk on the surface like it was normal gravity. She stops, lowering the anachronistic looking hammer from her shoulder to rest the head on the floor and lean on it a bit as she tips her brass plated stetson from atop her head in a sort of rustic bow. "Corona Arclite, at yer service." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt's here, and surprisingly, while most would expect to see the tiny trader fumbling about in Zero G. Fayt is doing surprisingly well, having taken a pair of mag boots and moving along via a combination of walking and pulling himself along handholds. Apparently as far as low gravity is concerned? this isn't his first rodeo. Though that makes sense when you consider that as a trader in the multiverse? Stuff like this isn't too unusual for him.     Fayt glances around as he approaches the group. "Sorry if I'm a touch late. Travel here was... interesting." He frowns a moment. "So, what exactly is going on?" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     A SMALL CASTLE drops out of FTL. If it fits the dock, great, otherwise, Staren is comfortable with a short EVA to get to the airlock (he has a light smart vacsuit ready for himself, as well as one for Twilight -- Ever since Night Bright's visit to SELENE, he's made sure to have a pony spacesuit available.) "Are you able to push yourself with your telekinesis? If not... Maybe we should stay connected by a rope or something."     Once he's in atmosphere, the smart vacsuit retracts, leaving him in his normal clothes, plus magshoes (magboots are also available for Twilight, if telekinesis isn't suitable for Zero-G movement.) His normal appearance isn't that alien, tails are far from unheard of in zero-G, and people who want cat ears are also probably common enough. As they go through contamination, Staren mutters, "I have medichines, you know..." but he doesn't seem that annoyed. Dawn informs him about the mesh traffic... he's not sure what to make of it, but it's probably a good thing (he may have spent a bunch of time earlier today playing the Last Myth: Record Keeper mobige from Afterus trying to unlock himself and level himself up.)     He arrives to catch the tail end of the conversation. "That's saying something, considering this world's incredible rate of nanotech and computer development... then again, perhaps my world was just entirely too focused on military development. I'm Staren, by the way, nice to meet you miss Doyle." If the local mesh isn't already supplying her with an AR nametag, Dawn supplies tags for him and Twilight. If some amount of personal info is standard-available over local mesh, Dawn also fills in their profiles with appropriate information.     Staren smiles and takes a seat near Kotone. "So, how can we help you?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miss Doyle grins at Maaka. "Associate? Mmm I'd say your group is far closer than that from what I have seen on the mesh and been able to dig up on my own." The woman grins at Alexis for a moment, it's not an unkind one. she seems fairly relaxed however she does peer at Corona for a moment tilting her head. "Miss Yamakawa was not jesting at all. You look like you just stepped off a SCUM steam punk Live Action Role-play barge." Rory's search would bring up Debra Doyle CEO of Apollo Aerospace INC. It seemed it was formed from remnants of a prefall aerospace company and survivors of the old American nations NASA space program. The Company had a history of making it's out of date designs open source after a time and the board had had some ties to the Argonauts for some time. The company also was quite big into gate crashing and exploring the warp-gate network as well. "Ah miss White I presume? I am Debra Doyle CEO of Apollo Aerospace. You must be wondering why have come to you?" Staren is looked over for a moment it's clear the woman is sizing him up for a moment. "Mr. Wiremu, your reputation proceeds you." Additionally the woman was actually old /very old/ her birth predated the creation of stacks. She's also worked for Nasa herself and had only survived the fall due to being off world at the time. I will not mince words as what I know of all of you that would be the best way to be insulting. My twin sister long ago was in a car crash and was frozen in the hopes of being healed in the future. Her unit was lost some time before the fall and by some miracle after a group of freelancers found it. They had arrived at a hab and had been brokering a deal for the exchange but it went dark before I could head there to make the arrangements. I do not know what has happened at the hab I could send my own security personnel but the odds of success and survival would be much higher with the likes of you. If you are successful? I am willing to pay in information. Maps of what worlds both by Pandora Gate and Warp gate that my company has explored." Kotone nods for a moment. "Any idea why the hab went dark?" "None, that's why I'm worried about it. Family actual family is ... almost unheard for for one as old as I. I want my sister back..." 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     Alexis can't help but grin back, with a bit of pride. "We're a good team, she and I, not gonna deny that." She gives Kotone a wink, before hands are shook and Maaka takes a seat, producing a thermos from her matter manipulator, a cup following as she pours herself some coffee. "What do you know about where the hab was set up? Might be a chance there's a history of these sorts of things occurring to the odd colony here and there." She asks, taking a sip of delicious, warm Costa Rican brew.     Mentioning the fall does cause Maaka to quirk an eye. She doesn't know exactly how long it's been since that occurred, but she knows it was a LONG TME. That's enough for her to wonder just how old Ms. Doyle really is, likely centuries at the least...and that's being conservative with the estimates. 

:'''{{#var:411|Twilight Sparkle (411)}} has posed:'''      People with cat ears or fox muzzles might make the appearance of a fully quadrupedal unicorn less of a surprise. "Of course. Levitating with telekinesis was part of my studies." Twilight says to Staren when he asks about it, but she takes a set of mag boots and attaches the rope anyway. "It is difficult to do without the Element of Magic, though." she explains after a moment.      When they emerge into the station, Twilight is wearing a space suit with the helmet off. It might be a sealed environment, but Twilight is one to be prepared. She floats along fairly easily, especially with Staren's help. Once they reach the meeting, Twilight takes a seat and listens to the briefing. She was told this was a Daedalus Initiative mission, but it sounds more like a Gatecrasher mission. That doesn't mean she doesn't want to help, it's just something that crosses her mind.      "I am sorry to hear that, Miss Doyle. But, you don't have to worry. We will find your sister and discover what happened to the hab." she says, then blinks. "Oh! I am Twilight Sparkle." she adds, smiling. She looks around at the others after that. "It looks like we will have plenty of capable support." she says, waving lightly to those gathered around. 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt blinks slowly as he takes a seat "Hmmm..." He doesn't say much, the others seem to have things under control so no need to speak up just yet. Instead he simply watches, head darting about as the other speak. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Yeah." Idly Corona folds both hands over the end of her hammer handle, as if leaning on it. Though it's more like she's holding it against the floor than it supporting her, due to the 0G and the only reason she's even on the floor is the magnetization. "Ah'm sure yer security folks are perfectly capable fer most things... but with all the poss'ble reasons for somethin' goin' dark as ya put it, sounds like yer gonna need a.. more specialized group," meaning themselves, of course, "to get to the bottom of this." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren gets a determined look once it becomes clear what the mission is. He already wants to do it, clearly.     Staren looks over at Twilight, then back to Miss Doyle. "I dunno about a Gatecrasher mission, and I certainly want to do it anyway, but it sounds to me like this is more of a rescue mission than a research one. If I may ask, why did you seek us out, specifically, rather than appealing directly to, say, the Union or the Syndicate? Just curious." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' "Exactly so on both counts." Rory answers gently and simply. She would ask, but she doesn't need to - Doyle gets right into the thick of things....     And the situation is... troubling, to say the least. Rory finds herself fidgeting briefly in place at the idea of rescuing someone's sister. Why would that bother her? Only a few people might be able to tell what's going on in her neurals.     "An entire hab went dark? ... This does not bode well... nevertheless..." She literally has eyes in the back of her head here, and doesn't even need to turn around to see the looks on others' faces. Because Mitre's own internal cameras are already hers to view. Everyone's to view, really.     The expressions of everyone else tells her something important. They want to do this.     Which means... "It's a fair exchange, that information is very important! Though I do not wish to imply lives have prices." Her method of speech can be a bit odd sometimes, but.... she's an AGI. Expressing sympathy in a way that can be understood is sometimes a challenge, so she's doing well as many of them go!     "We have the skills to handle this mission, though any more information about the hab would be a boon. Location, leadership, connections?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miss Dyole looks at Maaka's alien technology with interest but she knows better than to ask about it. "It was a refugee hab, somewhat far out of Lagrange Point Three, it was simply the choice of the Freed lancers to meet up at a neutral point to do business. I can not fault them but I fear they may have unwitting brought something back or something else has befallen the station. She halts for a moment to look at Twilght with interest and watches her for a moment. She's seen strange things but someone like Twilight is a new one to her. "Your reputation in the multiverse and to be blunt the hand many of you had exposing what certain parties did to leave hundreds of thousands of people to die at the hands of the Titans who might otherwise have been saved. I can trust your judgment to not be tempted should any thing undue. I like to deal with known Factors. I am hesitant of the Union due to it's history with in the multvierse to formally deal with them. I mean no offense to those of you who work with them. As for why? This may lead to further ventures but I would also wish to keep ... most here in Sol unaware of my sister until she is safe once more. Someone capturing her would be uses as leverage against me. I do not mean to do that. If there is something that has befallen the hab? By all means help them. Do I look like a woman who puts credits over people's lives. Sometimes stacks make life far too cheap these days. The hab itself generally dealt with ... recovery of salvage in Lunar Orbit and some from other locations about the system. They also did produce various hardware for sale to other habs, they seemed to like to keep to themselves for the most part." She pauses for a moment looking at Fayt. "Mr. Ravus? It is a pleasure to meet you, I'd been hoping to speak to one such connections as your self about separate business matters but that can wait until my sister is found or her fate confirmed. The Station maintains a small Militia but nothing special it's to deter pirates to go looking elsewhere and maintain security. Yes your group has a mix of skills I can not find here and access to powers that are ... almost fiction. You are also an unknown factor unlike such as good as they are? Direct Action. Kotone speaks up now So we're an wild card that if there is something foul going on we would have an edge native hires would not. Correct. I will provide all the information I can and should this be successful I would be interesting in gate crashing operations with your organization. I'm sure the Argonauts would be happy with a Hypercorp that values long term profitability over short sighted cash garbing sort like most After all many of us were part of NASA before the fall. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite tilts her head a little to one side. "In other words, she wants to keep this onna lowdown one of the 'big' groups or factions wouldn't be able to manage." Makes what could be a shrugging gesture, it's kind of hard to make out in the lack of gravity because she doesn't want to dislodge herself from her position accidentally. "Also, this way she's got more control over who's act'ally picked for the mission, instead of just whoever one of the bigwigs would send." Don't let the space texan drawl fool you, Corona's a good bit smarter than she usually lets on. Or it's a situation she's probably familiar with dealing with back home. A bit from both columns, maybe. 

:'''{{#var:571|Alexis Maaka (571)}} has posed:'''     "It's what I'd do. I wouldn't exactly trust a group chosen by some out of touch execs when I know who's better suited for an op." Maaka muses, trying to keep her coffee in her mug as she drinks. The zero-g does make it really hard for her to really keep it all together, but she manages with some effort. "Any hostile elements like pirates or mercenaries set up shop nearby recently? Might be nice to know if we're going into hostile space, and all." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt actually pauses for a moment as he's outed. "Hmm? Oh um. Thank you. I'll be sure to keep that in mind, but yes, more important matters first." He gglances around at hte others. "If any of you need something special ofr this, please let me know. I'll see what I can pull together on short notice." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren scratches his head. So, they've been invited here as the Flotilla Remnants, rather than as the Daedalus Initiative. Still, it's a start. "If you don't want anyone to know about her, should you really be talking about this in front of public cameras," he waves a hand at them, "in the middle of an 'Information wants to be free!' hab? In any case..." He rests his hands in his lap. "Obviously, we'd do this mission anyway, just because it's the right thing to do. And we are perhaps better equipped than most to deal with the manners of 'unknown hazards' that could befall a habitat in this world. We'll do what we can to save your sister... although, I have to caution you that whatever happened may have already... Yeah." He hangs his head slightly.     Then brightens a bit. "Future Gatecrashing missions, huh? The Daedalus Initiative's skills do make us better equipped to deal with the unknown. Maybe we should focus a bit more on exploration and rescue when advertising ourselves, then..." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' "Chances of anyone else deploying to visit the hab are slim. A hab that simply went dark completely... that is the kind of situation you do not walk into without plenty of trustworthy help." Rory explains to Staren. "We will be there and investigating before anyone else has even finished making preparations and arrangements. I trust that the requisite security measures are in place, in any case." 

:'''{{#var:411|Twilight Sparkle (411)}} has posed:''' %      Twilight blinks in surprise when Staren mentions the Gatecrashers. Was she thinking outloud without realizing it? She shakes her head lightly then listens some more. She nods in agreement with the others. "I don't have a lot of experience with space and zero gravity, but I will do my best." she says to the others, then hops to her feet. Which of course sends her flying upward. She really doesn't have much experience with zero-g...      Twilight lets out a surprised 'h-hey!' as she floats upward, then her horn glows and she slows down quickly before coming to a stop. "Erm...hehehe..." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' The CEO shakes her head. "I can only guess there's nothing confirmed what I can do is give you the docking codes I was going to use when I was planning to make the pickup it may help you board the station and get past any drones or defence platforms they may have." She tilts her head smirking a bit. "They know the value of distression or delaying on the relase of information." Also she knows given their abilities are not fully known it may put pressure on some group that may have caused the issues with the hab. "Humm if you need to train in micro gravity I have a cargo hauler you can use the hanger of for such training. We do so for when we recuit martians or other others with little experiance in such enviroments. "Miss Maaka you see where I am coming from." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "And maybe we'll find out just why the place went dark while gettin' yer deep sleepin' sister out, too," Corona sums up. She can't help but snicker a little as Twilight loses herself in the lack of gravity. "Don't worry miss, ya get use to it. Eventually." 

:'''{{#var:319|Fayt Ravus (319)}} has posed:'''     Fayt goes back to quietly watching the others, occasional nodding as he mentally takes some notes. At one point he does suddenly frown for several seconds, seemingly for no reason. Maybe it's something he heard over radio? 

:'''{{#var:411|Twilight Sparkle (411)}} has posed:'''      Once she is back under control, Twilight Sparkle looks at Miss Doyle again. "Oh, I guess we should ask. Are you wanting us to recover her even if she is still frozen? Or, are we simply to secure the hab and hold it until another team can move in?" 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:''' "Well. This group certainly has all of the required skills... and some that defy all categorization. If what we seek remains on the hab - and we have no reason to doubt it does - then we should be fine, so long as we exercise caution. I am most orried that TITAN technology is behind the blackout, since it's a station for refugees..." Rory frowns rather heavily. If there's TITAN stuff aboard, they'll REALLY need to be careful. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren acks and reaches for Twilight as she floats away, but she's got it handled. He looks between Alexis and Rory. "I was less thinking someone would try to steal the objective out from under us, than that they might threaten to sabotage our mission -- or attack us after to steal her."     He looks to Twilight. "I think recovering her cryopod is the idea... She was frozen because back then they didn't have the medical technology to heal her. If something has deactivated the cryopod..." He looks down at the floor. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miss Dyole nods "Yes, get her out if she can be moved. I have medical personel and a morph that's been standing by for her for some time in stasis. Afer all she is my twin." She notes somewhat sadly. "I can provide some small arms and gear if there is any thing you lack for this operation. Yes part of why I have asked for you is you have skills that do not exist and experiance with the multiverse. Yes, this is why I request you use analog communiaitons technology with me when you deploy. Should there be something .. I will handle calling for more aid and containment. However most of you haver been to earth and came back with the bodies you took down. So that speaks /very/ well of your skills." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite muses that over for a moment or two. "Ah can pro'ly whip up somethin' in case we need to move the cryopod an' keep it runnin' on the go." Leave it to the engineer to consider the potential technical and mechanical problems first. 
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4056/Man-Sized Rats and other Unnatural Things

2016-04-29T17:10:34Z

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|Synopsis=Tomoe and Mort go exploring and find a world beset by a enemy they know far too well as they run into Elvish survivors of what seem to be a doomed world.
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:979|Tyravean (979)}} has posed:'''     Exploring warp gates can be a bit dangerous, especially when one of the new worlds to latch onto the multiverse is the so-called Old World, and even more-so when it is experiencing the 'End Times'. Its definitely as bad as it sounds, and so, when Tomoe steps out of the warp gate she decided to explore, she is inside of a cave. The particular cave is walled up and appears to have been made rather inaccesible for some reason.     Mortimer, however, has a bit more on his plate to deal with. Something, somewhere, drew him to the world and deposited him in the center of a village, smoking and burning. The streets are filled with bodies, some of which are being dragged away, and others being looted. Even worse, some are being eaten. The apparent perpetrators are rats the size of men, scuttering around. Some are wearing tattered clothes, others rusted armor. Despite their numbers, none of them seem to be paying attention to him as he is randomly dropped in the middle of the village square. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe has no idea abotu this world, she's not certain about it. It wasn't the smart thing sure, but thes gates needed to be checked before someone else who couldn't even fight back against whatever horrors where lurking there. So she'd stepped through the gate and into this new world it wans't certain what she'd fingt and she was on her guard as she soon foun her way through and a world like this? WAs not what she expected to see. "What in God's name?" 

:'''{{#var:454|Mortimer Balman (454)}} has posed:'''      Translation through the Warp is bad enough when one has a Gellar Field around oneself for protection. Unprotected, it leads to many horrible, Horrible things. Fortunately, that's only in the Immaterium around the Imperium of Man in their particular Milky Way galaxy! And further fortunately, Mortimer's journey isn't a very long one. Half a second's time at most! It is a distinctive thing that one does not forget, one way or the other.      So a very frazzled Typhlosion-morph suddenly translates from the depths of some horrid nightmare realm, summoned by powers beyond his capacity to understand- or care about, for that matter- wearing an apron and holding a large wooden cooking spoon.      Because he was in the middle of cooking dinner.      Now he's not. Now he's here.      And, judging by the way his right eye is twitching furiously, and the way the flames that wreath his head crackle and flare, somebody is about to have an awful horrible terrible no good very bad day. 

:'''{{#var:979|Tyravean (979)}} has posed:'''     It isn't until a few moments later that the Skaven milling about notice that Mortimer has arrivedwithin their midst. Why would anyone suspect someone showing up out of thin air like that? They wouldn't! So, they begin to close around him, chittering amongst themselves, potentially communicating or maybe just making rat noises. They are Skaven. They don't always make sense.     However, their weapons being pointed his direction do make sense. No one would really mistake them as threatening at this point. "Man-beast come from warp." One chatters. "Man-beast have reason for coming to most honorable and prestigious of rat-hosts?" Apparently, the Skaven were more interested in questioning him first, before skewering him.          Tomoe still has her own problems. She is stuck between a warp gate and a hard place. That hard place being a wall. However, the wall, made of bricks and mortar, seems to be in disrepair and could probably be pushed over and out of the way, as long as one does so carefully. The mortar holding it together is clearly rotted away and the bricks look like they have been weather night to the point of crumbling to dust. Whoever built the wall built it many, many years ago. But why would someone block off one of the warp gates? And who would do it!? 

:'''{{#var:454|Mortimer Balman (454)}} has posed:'''      Still twitching a bit, Mortimer looks down at the smaller, hunched over beasts. Then the /SMELL/ hits his nose. Filth beyond anything his poor nose has had to endure since the time he was rescuing Space Wolves from Plague Marines. The flames flare out wider, burning hotter, burning at free floating sulphur and methane. Reducing the stench ever so slightly.      Screaming. Fighting. Monstrous cruelty and barbarism all around him.      Was it still Monday? No, surely not.      He leaned forward a bit, looming over the bestial creatures and glaring down at them. He can guess as to what's going on, but he's not going to make too many judgments.. ...Or he'll TRY not to, at least. By every God ever worshiped, these creatures REEK. "Your leader. Bring it here now. And make this noise /cease/." His gravelly voice rumbles a bit as he speaks, with smoke trailing out of the edges of his mouth. A subtle threat, a hint that the fire doesn't just come from his head. "Or will I be finding dinner.. Here?"      It's not easy making licking the edge of a wooden cooking spoon look menacing, but it helps when you're tall and burning with enough fire to be mistaken for a kingly funereal pyre. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe now wonders was the wall made to keep people out, or was it ment ot keep something from making it to the gate as easily? She's ow concerned about this. She's going to look left and right to see if she could find some way to do it. The only reason she could see to block off a gate would be to stop some sort of zombie horde, from escaping, or some dangerous type of animals? Could there be a plague? Ideas swim thoguh her mind now? "I don't like this." Still she's trying to figure out if she should break the wall or not but for now she looks to see if there's an access point or not...She htne starts chanting in norse, gold runes fly about her and she attemps to spawn a recon frimilart spell. Hopefully it will spawn on the other side of the wall if she's lucky... 

:'''{{#var:979|Tyravean (979)}} has posed:'''     The Skaven don't seem too enthused by Mortimer's demands to see their leader. "No-no, man-beast no see great leader. Tell-speak why you are here-here?" The Skaven in question sort of pokes at him with his spear a bit to make his point known. Quite literally.          Tomoe gets lucky, the thing that she summons appears on the other side of the wall. Now, whatever she had in mind was going to probably happen. Hopefully. Unless there was something really bad on the other side of the wall. But there were no screams yet. 

:'''{{#var:454|Mortimer Balman (454)}} has posed:'''      Well. This is going nowhere fast. And people are still dying. This all needs to stop. Right NOW. One more chance, and then he starts getting violent. It is becoming increasingly clear that these creatures are the aggressors, and these people have next to no way to fight them. "That, little.. Creature... Is an excellent question. One I should hope your leader will be so kind as to answer fer me.."      The offending spear is quickly grabbed, open-handed. And he clenches his hand down upon it. It cuts deep into his flesh, and blood can be seen dripping down.. It hisses and bubbles as it strikes the earth, boiling hot to an impossible degree. And what's more; the blade is not unaffected by this action. The wrought iron begins to melt from the extreme temperature he's generating around it- having your own psychic powers is fun, kids! Ask your local pyrokinetic how you too can do this cool fire shit!- the edge warping and twisting until hot iron can be seen running down his hand- cauterizing the wound- and dripping next to the blood.      "Or should I just begin leaping to conclusions.. And become downright /unpleasant/?" 

:'''{{#var:979|Tyravean (979)}} has posed:'''     The Skaven skitter back for a moment as the spear is grabbed, but the display by Mortimer is enough that they start on their attack right away. Apparently, they were not there to negotiate. They begin to stab at him with spears and swords, and considering their rapidly growing numbers, there are a lot of them out there in the shadows.     The cave that Tomoe appears to be inside of is atop an outcropping of rock and looks down over the particular village that Mortimer is currently being accosted in, and the fires can be seen from there. So, its probably the fairy will relay that information back in some fashion. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe now controls the 'fairy' to get a look around at the state of things here, trying to take in what's going on. IT's quiet for the most part but that leaves her on edge. She's not sure breaking hte wall is a good idea and won't until she's able to get more information from her little helper as it were. She's seeing though its eyes and spots wait is that mort? Okay she's got an idea of what she has to do. She readies a sword skill takes a moment focuse and will carve out a hole sall enough for her to get though, she can't leave mort out to dry here at all and so she'll hopefully squeeze through. 

:'''{{#var:454|Mortimer Balman (454)}} has posed:'''      Well. Honestly, he wasn't too surprised by that. He had hoped they might be intimidated, but apparently they're brave.. Ah, and that's why. As he hops back away from the spears and swords that are rapidly prodding in his direction, he can see and hear and /smell/ oh Goddesses the SMELL, more of them coming at him. Bravery in numbers.. Trying to swarm him.      It will not be hard for Tomoe to see signs of Mort and his grisly work, as flames wash over the first wave of ratmen trying to bury him in bodies. Fur and flesh are painfully easy to incinerate, and the rags that the beastly creatures wear only serve to make them more flammable. Plumes of smoke rise from the ashen remains, and flames spill around the street- but not to the houses, Mort is quite careful not to set any of those ablaze, not yet at least. Filling the streets with fire will work for now.      The question is how quickly the ratlings will wise up and realize that swarming him will avail them little, and switch to archers- which he is also anticipating, these creatures do not look terribly advanced.      "Come on.. COME! SHOW ME YOUR FURY, MONGRELS!" Roaring out a taunt that can easily be heard all across the village, and much farther than that. 

:'''{{#var:979|Tyravean (979)}} has posed:'''     Tomoe would not be the only one going to Mortimer's rescue. As she breaks free of the wall that had somewhat entombed her with the warp gate, several elves appear around her, stalking out of the forest. They are swathed in forest-tone cloaks and wielding bows, and as they approach the edge of the over cropping, they take aim and fire down into the Skaven.          Down in the village below, Mortimer might think that burning a few Skaven will be enough. Sure, fire is potent and the rats light on fire rather easily, but there are just.. so many! And they have a particularly heightened bloodlust at the time, having just ravaged the village. So, they continue assailing him. It might start to look a bit dire as a few jezails line up to take shots at Mort, but they are feathered with arrows a moment later. At the same time, a handful of elven warriors rush from the shadows, cleaving their way gracefully into the Skaven ranks. Tyravean is among them, her long, slender blade rending flesh and tearing through armor like paper. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe was not expecting anyone else as she pulled her tall frame through the hole in the wall. here and there her body distorted a bit red lines and wireframe could be visbale for a moment as she dust herself off and starts mocing in. She doens't expect toe see the elves she does as they move to fire into the Skaven. She does not yell to give awya the elves location but she does howeve spawn her wings. They are bright read but the light passes through them and they have the apperance of feathers. She then takes flight above the town and start to dive towards the Skaven as they go after mort. She is hovers above the chaos chanting in norse, golden runes fly about her body and then comes the rain of light. Bolts of pure light rain down seeking out the Skaven aiming to rain chaos through theri ranks and hopefully start to thin them out. She seems to have enough control to only target the Skaven alone... 

:'''{{#var:454|Mortimer Balman (454)}} has posed:'''      Being the man that he is, Mort does not do things by small measures unless absolutely necessary. The streets are quite literally being /filled/ with flames- until he sees the Elves arriving, and they're.. Being polite, and trying to fight off the filthy ratmen things, without even pausing to harass the humans? Well Hell's fire saves matches, that's something he can't remember seeing for a long time. 'Course that means he can't keep washing everything in fire. That's okay.      Many of the flames start dying down without his will to keep them going, but plenty of rats are crispy or jumping around screaming to be put out for him to get some breathing room. Unfortunately, wooden cooking spoons are terrible weapons.. And by now it would have warped and burnt to ashes in all the heat anyway.      The apron is ripped off. Shit is now /real/, son.      Firearms? They have guns? Strange. No matter. Now the tricky part begins.. Must kill the swarming bastards in great numbers, but without harming the elves- and someone else has come in as well, flying on wings of red light. He roars out a command with considerable noise- you wouldn't think just by looking that someone his size could be so damned /loud/- while picking up a smaller Skaven warrior by the throat. "CIVILIANS! GET TO THE CIVILIANS! QUICKLY!" Hoping that Tomoe will realize he's shouting to her, he smashes his dance partner's face against a wall until the bone becomes mush, and begins running for the next largest swarming mass, flames trailing from his mouth.      If these beasts can understand fear, perhaps the sight of a monstrous humanoid of flames drenched in the blood and ash of their brethren will inspire some in them, especially since he's barreling right for their lines.. 

:'''{{#var:979|Tyravean (979)}} has posed:'''     Tyravean's blade slices through a fleeing skaven. It seems that the fires and the daemon giving them off had caused them to turn tail and run for their lives. However, the elf knew better than anyone that they would be back and in greater numbers. Normally that would not be the case, but these are not normal days.     She and her coterie of warriors interpose themselves in front of Mortimer and she holds up her sword. "Halt, Daemon! Return to your foul realm or be struck down where you stand!" She glowers at him, apparently quite serious.     For Tomoe? Not much going on. She is flying around outside of the reach of the Skaven so they don't bother her, which is rather convenient. 

:'''{{#var:454|Mortimer Balman (454)}} has posed:'''      Mortimer stops as the Skaven begin to flee, laughing that hoarse, gutteral laugh of his. "That's right, run yah cowardly bastards! Next time, I'll- wait, dammit! I wanted to /capture/ a fe-" Pause. There's a sword poking at him /again/. Ears flatten to the sides of his head, looking down with a blase frown at the little elf. "Do I /really/ look like a /daemon/? I mean I know I haven't /showered/ yet today, but come on now."      Ears perk up, flicking a bit, listening for the sounds of survivors. There must be a few humans that weren't slaughtered, eaten, or otherwise slain. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomeo has rained a good deal of carnage down upon the Skaven but isn't done yet she does see that mort's in more than a bit oa strange situation she does keep an eye out of people and she drops down on some suriving Skaven as they try to run, with Dawn breaker in hand she'll drop right into their ranks and start attacking them. "On the moment you get a real fight?! You run?! Typical!" This would however get her a lot of attentyion as she's near Mort and Tyravean as she does this. She does have the same mind as Mort but first the Rats, right? 

:'''{{#var:979|Tyravean (979)}} has posed:'''     "You are neither human, elf, nor dwarf, so I see no alternative." Tyravean retorts. She holds her free hand out to her side somewhat, magical power swiftly gathering. "Now... last chance. Leave this realm or fall like the others before you!"     At this point, the skaven were all but gone, having fled into the night en masse. It'd be practically impossible to chase them down now, as they bolted in every direction. 

:'''{{#var:454|Mortimer Balman (454)}} has posed:'''      Mortimer's palm rises to meet his face, letting out a small, irritated groan. "Mmnngh.. Fer the love of the Goddesses..." Okay Morty, calm down. These are obviously a pack of fucking /savages/, not proper civilized people. "Okay, young lady.. In the first place, that is an association fallacy, and racist asides, along with being horrendously /rude/. In the second place.. If I were truly a daemonic entity, /why have I not set you and indeed this entire hamlet ablaze/?" Authoritative frown generally utilized by older generations to their juniors. "I have no magics nor devices for simply 'leaving this realm', and I don't even know where the blue bloody blazing Hells I am to begin with, so that's going to make "going away" quite difficult. /Isn't it/?" 
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Fire Wall is still watching

2015-12-15T23:33:09Z

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Raven: "Oh very cute we cycled call signs again? /fine/ I'll deal with this. So the matter with Microtech Solace is over."

SteelGiant: "What the hell is wrong with those flats! Almost all of what they were was open source they'd just have to contact the Argonauts and they'd have what they need."

Nova: "I'm still concerned but we can lower the threat levels of the Flotilla for the most part given they were cleaning up that mess fairly well."

Raven: "A gaggle of flats, aliens and who knows what else. What a motley crew they are."

SteelGiant: "Hey watch it? Miss White happens to be a friend of mine."

Raven: "We really should consider recruiting her."

SteelGiant: "No. I keep telling you leave her be, she doesn't have the mentality we need for this job and she's already fighting against X threats as it is."

Raven: "Fine you old coot."

SteelGiant: "Back on track here Kotone Yamakawa has been here with Miho Yamakawa aiding the fork of Miho to start a new life here. The Argonauts will be helping her and studying her as well. I'll make sure to keep a feeler in that so don't worry about it."

BlasterMaster: "Another world compatible with backups? This is damn big news even if it was a scummy corp that got into this. This information is invaluable it may be a new source of Agents and allies that we would have some heavy leverage with."

Nova: "Perhaps but if you notice the two Nation States dealing with Microtech are keeping this under wraps for a reason. Also we may want to consider hiring the Flotilla Core fleet through a front at some point with the skill sets they seem to have they would be useful. The one known as George might be the most useful for the sort of operations we'd have in mind."

SteelGiant: "They are showing a shocking amount of Restraint over something like this. Also consider the Yamakawas and the rest of the Flotilla are worth watching. The Fox like Alien Corona also bears watching her world may be open to do business with some of our fronts for raw materials or even just for the Argonauts."

Raven: "They nearly had their own fall about 20 years ago. They seem to get how dangerous this could be if it does come out. We're talking massive social and religious issues from the get go there. If we're lucky that will be it. If not some petty warlord would start to flash copy their best troops over and over and it become a monstrous planet wide war in short order."

Steelgiant: "So you did turn on your brain for a moment. Good you see the problem there, rapidly introducing technology a culture isn't ready for can cause more harm than good. If you could think up that off the cuff think of some one who was already military. They might not have cleaned up their Genome like we have but look at their synth tech. They are not /stupid/."

Nova: "Enough on that we also need to consider two other things before we carry on. One the Xenoconstruct known as Zwei bears watching they seem to come from a much higher technology level than our own. While they seem to not be a threat at the moment they would bear watching, we also need to consider what to do about Hypercorps meddling in another worlds like this."

BlasterMaster: "Wait are you thinking what I think you are?"

Nova: "If that we need to consider the fact that transhumanity is an potential X threat to other worlds in the multiverse..."

SteelGiant: "I hate to agree but, you are right Nova. We could be to some worlds and this is something the higher ups are going to no doubt have a very long and messy debate about."

3115/WMAT C2 Maya vs Lute

2015-09-29T05:58:35Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' It's about as nice and sunny a day as you ever get in the Gizard Wasteland; it might even count as peaceful if it weren't for an imminent throwdown between Elites. As usual for WMAT announcing duty, Yuna's already in her Light Suit's Flight Form, hovering near one of the camera platforms; the winged variant of her armor allows both mobility (to keep up with a fight that goes running around) and protection (in the event of stray attacks or rubble headed in her direction). She's got her microphone ready, though, and as spectators take their places in the hoverplatforms' stands, Yuna addresses the camera, microphone in hand. "So it's Lute and Maya, about to face off. They're both long-established Elites, Maya with the Union and Lute with the Confederacy; I'm not sure how much of an active grudge they've had in the past, but whatever past history they have, it'll be interesting to see how Maya's weapons and magic stand up to Lute's Pokemon!" 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      Lute has shown up today, sans Mister Crabs. Last time he fought Maya, he used him. She'll be ready for that. It's time to shift up the strategy. No Pokemon are out at the moment. But, floating next to him is what looks almost like an elongated chunk of ancient metal in a vaguely creature-like shape. It's not much bigger than a large dog, but its eyes are terrifying, glowing with a red light. A purple ribbon is on her head. It's Lute's I-Class Destroyer, Imima Puddleduck.      Lute himself is dressed much as he usually does, nowadays. Loosely buttoned labcoat, no shirt, black jeans, boots. His arms are crossed in front of him, waiting for battle. It wasn't that long ago he and Maya first fought... In fact, they fought in the qualifiers. And, Lute won.      It'd be embarrasing to lose in a rematch. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is ready, she's got a another fight with Lute, he had been a challenge, this was a fight with only pride and fortune on the line. The lives of others were not hanging in the balance. She Arrived a bit later after Lute she's not sure what he's going ot bring with him this time. She doesn't see any pokemon she's not sure what he had with him but she does bow slightly for a moment. "It's good to see you moved on so far. I'm looking forward to this rematch." She makes sure Lute is ready and aware of her, she'll afford him respect as a fighter and not try to blind side him. She readies he rifle and opens fire not at Lute but his new strange companion! "Let's get to this! Shall we?!" 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "And the fight is on!" Yuna announces, most of the cameras turning their attention directly to the beginning of the fight proper. "I'd forgotten that Lute doesn't restrain himself to standard Pokemon any more, and it looks like that anything-goes attitude has carried into the WMAT; still, his companion - looks like a destroyer-girl from the Abyssal Fleet - isn't enough to scare Maya away from taking the first shot, literally!" 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      "IMIMA! FIRE!"      The very moment the rifle is lifted, Lute shouts this attack. The Destroyer can be fairly quick to react. Sure, there are faster vessels amongst the Abyssal Fleet. Imima is no slouch. The rifle-fire hits upon its armor, creating a dent in it. The creature's mouth opens slowly, revealing a cannon within its mouth. A shell is fired towards Maya, exploding the moment it impacts either her, or the ground.      Lute moves behind Imima. A Pokeball is being pulled out, and opened. The creature reveals itself: A large Arcanine. It moves to Lute's right flank, in a defensive position. He reaches into his labcoat pockets, pulling out two more. He doesn't have time to release these, /yet/. But, soon he will. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is brekaing into a run already, she had no idea just what Imima could do but it hurts. The assault from the fire power does hit clipping Maya well enough and keeping her distracte. She doe snot want to get upclose for the moment. She does however seem to be chaning tactics she sees that Lute's got another ally out in combat. This was to be expected, Lute had mastered teamwork with his various allies after all. She sprints trying to make herself a harder target while she takes card in hand. Blue fire leeches out of her body into the card and sections of the ground it self break free and are fired at Lute and his comrades. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' Yuna flies somewhat closer, letting 'her' cameraman turn his attention to the battle as well; the idol veers slightly to one side so she won't obstruct any camera's view. "Lute's ready as soon as Maya pulls the trigger on their fight, though, and his destroyer - 'Imimia' - launches a counterattack as soon as it's commanded! He's letting another monster out, too - an Arcanine, a fire-elemental dog-type Pokemon renowned for their speed. What else did Lute bring to this fight ... ?" "But whatever Lute's got up his sleeves, Maya's got tricks to match!" Yuna adds, seeing the magic attack. "Lute has her on the run, but that doesn't mean Maya can't keep the pressure on! It's anyone's fight right now, both fighters trying to pick up some momentum and keep it!" 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      Lute's too slow to give the order. The moment the flames come in, he opens his mouth. He shouts, cut off, "HAKAN--" His intent was to tell his Arcanine to move in front of it for him, the fire burning at Lutes body. He lifts his arms in front of him, to try and take some of the blow. It does little to stop it, though. He stumbles back, opening the two Pokeballs in his hand.      "GO, NINJACHU! KAELIN!"      Two more Pokemon appear. A Tentacruel and a Raichu. These three are Lute's original Pokemon. The three Pokemon who have been with him longer than anyone else. He knows there is a risk he could still lose this. But, he'll be going out strong.      "HAKAN! FIRE FANG!"      He'll have to give an order to his other Pokemon in a moment. For now, Arcanine runs forward. His mouth opens baring the fangs as he rushes in against Maya. He aims to bite at her torso, using his massive mouth to chomp down while covering his teeth in flames. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is still giving Lute a good fiht but he's clealry got new tactics and there's a tentacreuel, her skin scrawls at the creature she does not like where it's going. Also it's one of his orginals along with the other two? Are likely his strongest allies he has on hand. She knows this is going to be a hell of a fight at at this point. She's been keeping to the ground for now an the comes the Arcaine and well Mays' caught up close the chomp catches her she struggles she screms she attempst to break lose and the thing gets a rifle pressed to it's body as Maya pulls the trigger and holds it down as she fires. 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      The blasting at the Arcanine is mostly dealt with via tanking. It clenches its body up, trying to resist the attacks, while moving back to try and avoid more. It's bleeding a bit from where the rifle hit, growling towards Maya.      Lute doesn't give in, though. He's acting like the expert Pokemon Trainer he is. He aims a finger towards Maya, shouting out more commands.      "KAELIN! BARRIER! Ninjachu! Thunderbolt! Imima, fire!"      Kaelin lifts a minor psychic barrier in front of Lute. Not much, but enough to divert some hits from hitting him directly. He's the weak point in the formation. The Raichu, Ninjachu? It glows with power, a field of electricity forming around it. A bolt of thunder flies forward, aimed at Maya's center. No special aiming. He's just planning to keep slam at her until she falls. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "Lute sets more of his Pokemon loose," Yuna reports, "a Tentacruel and Raichu ganging up on Maya in addition to his Arcanine and Imima; Maya's hard-presed, but she tries to -" She winces. "- Maya goes for close gunnery on the Arcanine ... but Hakan takes the shot somewhere durable, it looks like, and Lute sets up a coordinated attack, all four of his active monst-- uh, all three Pokemon *and* his Abyssal ally hitting Maya simultaneously! That's got to hurt, how is Maya going to turn the tide?" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya's thankfully able to get lose, her intent was to try to get lose and that she's fully successful at. However keeping from harm? Nope not so well she's watching the barrier go up and the attacks come now. She gets shocked bad, the bolt strikes her there's a scream her hair's frizziled a bit and she's smoking friom where she got hit. She moves to get up as she selects the next fire mode on her weapon. His tactics keep adapting an she's gong to have to do so to, as she fires off a grenade and breaks into a zig zaging sprint to make herself harder to hit. 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      The grenade actually gets a bit of a swear from Lute. He and his Pokemon move for cover. Luckily, the Barrier helps protect Lute from the worst of it. His clumped together team, though? They're not so lucky. The explosion engulfs all of Lute's pets except for Arcanine.      "WATER GUN! EMBER! THUNDERSHOCK! CONTINUED FIRE! AND SPREAD OUT!"      Lute starts sprinting back a bit, while the three Pokemon and Imima spread out, trying to make a circle around Maya. Each attack is aims towards Maya, one after another. A small shock of electricity, a small burst of flame, a small burst of water, and more cannonfire. Each is rather weak individually, but together? It will certanly add up. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "A well-placed grenade buys Maya some breathing room, and even Lute dives away from it!" Yuna announces, angling for a better view while still remaining out of combat range. "Lute's falling back on an elemental combination from his active Pokemon, plus continued shelling from Imima; it looks like he's trying to at least keep Maya from capitalizing on that opening she created, and it looks like he might accomplish that ... !" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya hears the elements being called out and she's got a very good idea about the nature of what he's got in mind of what he might be doing trying and she seems to be light. She takes a moment reachs for the pendant about her neck. She focuses her magic and a pair of wings flare out, she botls up into the skey avoiding most of the harm. She jets away into the skis but she doesn't get out unharmed she does not stay in the air for long, but she does launch a barrage of powerful gusts of wind at Lute's formation trying to keep their heads down as she attemps to get back to the ground before she's shot down from all the anti air firepower he has. 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      Lute and his Pokemon take a fair amount of damage from the wind, the various gusts knocking most of them to the ground. Imima and Kaelin both manage to stay up the best, but even they get slammed into the ground. Lute himself hits fairly hard, glancing up and frowning.      "KAELIN! Hydro Pump!"      The Tentacruel eyes Maya, judging her flight path. After a moment, a burst of powerful water flies, aimed to where Kaelin best thinks Maya will be. Lute's on the ground, still, but his Pokemon are beginning to right themselves. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' Yuna zigs back and away from the fighters as more elemental attacks are thrown into the mix. "Maya breaks out of the bombardment by taking to the air, and she's unleashing wind magic to open up some more space to fight in! It looks like Lute's Pokemon were weak against that element, too, so Maya's got an advantage she can try to use -" Another wince from the blonde idol. "- but it's not enough to keep Tentacruel from hosing her down with Hydro Pump! Did that knock her out of the air? I can't even see through the spray ... !" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Lute's partners and himself are a finely oiled fighting machine as they work in tandem to terrible effect, for Maya. The attacks comes in and the hydro pump catches her just as where she is about to be. She's hit and goes spirlaing down into the ground leaving an impact crater and there's no movment from it for the moment. Maya slowly rises she's soaked and looking pretty damn hurt from that last attack. "Your team work is impressive." She now lower her rifle and that's when she makes with another spell causing a chain of pillars of fire to explode all around her and to head for Lute and his team. 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      Lute takes most of the attack, the barrier protecting him only a bit. He kneels on the ground, finally managing to get up. He'll be having a fair amount of burn wounds after this. This fight, though? It's too important for him to chatter much. He'd offer a comment back, but he is entirely goal focused at the moment.      "EXTREME SPEED! WRAP!"      Lute's Arcanine moves in first, knowing based on the attack after what Lute has planned. He rushes in, looking as if he is going for a full out tackle against Maya. A flash of movement, and he appears behind Maya. She might be able to see this happen. But, for a brief bit, the Arcanine just took on an intense amount of speed. It rushes at Maya, tackling at her. Trying to push her towards the Tentacruel. Soon after, the Tentacruel flings its tentacles at Maya, trying to bind her arms and squeeze down on them. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is moving fast but isn't fat enough to evade. Lute's Arcanine is quikc, and it works he's behind her she does see it but it's too quick for her to respond she's trying to get clear but it's too late the next thing she knows? She's grabbed by the Tentacrule and is pinned down abnd it's huring a good bit she lets out a cry as she's strying to break free of the things hold even as it's crushing her. This is a very effective tactic and she might not be able to get lose but Maya's a lot stronger than she looks as she struggles there trying to free her seld she even attempts to kick backwards given her legs are still free. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "Maya's still up and fighting!!" Yuna calls out; if her wings had to beat to hold her aloft, they'd be flapping like crazy right now. "She switches elements, hitting Lute and his team with an array of fire blasts; Lute takes a hit too but bounces right back to his feet! Looks like Lute's going for speed tactics now instead of heavy hits, Arcanine going too fast to see while Tentacruel tries to grab Maya ...and SUCCEEDS!" Yuna sucks in a breath. "And Maya's snagged, but it looks like she still isn't helpless - she's strong enough to give Kaelin a run for its money; the Tentacruel's going to have to REALLY work to hang onto her at this rate!" 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      Kaelin is struck, and Lute winces in sympathy. The tentacles release the arms as Kaelin falls back. Lute and his Pokemon are not in good shape. Maya has been doing a vast number of powerful attacks. Lute clenches his fists, finally standing again. He looks forward, glaring at her. She doesn't even look winded, compared to him. How could there be /such/ a massive and sudden turnaround?      He'll fight to the end, though. He takes a step back, bracing. He pulls out three more Pokeballs, bringing out his entire current team.      "REGISTEEL. GIRATINA. GARDEVOIR. FINISH!"      Three more Pokemon appear. The group of six Pokemon, and the Destroyer, line up. They attack, each launching the strongest they can possibly offer. Giratina gathers the energy for Shadow Force, taking the energy of the Distortion World and sending it as a burst towards Maya. Registeel gathers energy, performing the Shadow Pokemon equivalent of Hyper Beam, sending a beam of pure darkness at Maya. Gardevoir attempts to hold Maya still, blasting at her from all sides with her psychic powers. Arcanine unleashes a massive Fire Blast. Raichu brings down a bolt of thunder from the sky. Kaelin fires a burst of Hydro Pump. And Imima? She launches every single last bit of cannonfire she has, straight at Maya.      Lute is, basically, using absolutely every last bit of power he has to win this. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "Is it my imagination," Yuna wonders into the mic, "or did Maya kick the Tentacruel so hard that *Lute* felt it? She got loose, though, and - HOLY COW, Lute just had his ENTIRE team of Pokemon unload their most powerful hits on Maya!!" She circles above the battlefield, steering well clear of the path Raichu's thunderbolt took just in case there's any more lightning coming through. "Can't even see where Maya was standing ... Lute might have just locked this up!" She has to be neutral as a good announcer, but inwardly, of *course* Yuna's hoping Maya isn't too badly hurt by all of that. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya has learned a lesson that many people refuse to learn in the multiverse. Lute is a major threat, he can get such varied creatures to work together. They are a impressive team. She wonders if Lute could be if his life has been different? She can't worry about that now as she's now coming under a brutal attack it's all out, there is nothing held back here. Maya's also without her rifle which limits her options quite a bit. The Pokemon unload their attacks, she's caught with the energy blast of pure darkness she screams it burns into her, it's very effective on her like she was weak to something like that? Maya's still held and she can't moves due to the mental power and the flame just makes it worse. Soon she's now being drenched which puts the fiures out. That's not all as shots come in and Maya is hit hard she's burned, bleeding, and is drenched. She has been through hell and she's on her last legs if this fails she's going to be down and out of it for good. She's got no rifle in reach so she's got to use magic. "So this is ... it." She channels blue fire burns out of her body into one card, then another and finally a third. "To think I have to use this..." The strain is clearly on Mayas body as she's casting the spell terrible forces are brought to bear its the only thing she thinks might have a chance to stop Lute and his team. IF she misses just one of them it's over and she knows it. Lighting crackles about her body and then a vortex starts to form in the battle zone and starts to get bigger no light seems to escape it as Maya casts. "Black....hole..." The spell keeps going there's a danger that Lute and his partners are going to drawn in and face horrible crushing force, it's not a true one but it's powerful it's also pulling other bits of train into it as well. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "And ... I don't know what Maya just did to conjure that," Yuna calls out, half-reflexively climbing further away from the fight, "but she just conjured a black hole to try and capture Lute and his whole team in a gravitational singularity!! Neither fighter is holding back, but if that didn't knock Lute and his team out, I don't see how Maya can have anything left after a spell like that one!!" 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      It's willpower alone that gets Lute through this. His feet drag along the ground as he's pulled in towards the Black Hole. His Pokemon are doing similar. Some of them are having more trouble. The Raichu is a bit of a glass cannon and agility fiend. It is pulled straight into the Black Hole. This will make things hard. If he just keeps resisting, he'll lose. He has to strike back. But, ranged attacks will be sucked into the Black Hole... Unless...      "IMIMA! Do you have anything left?"      An iron sound comes from Imima. It sounds like metal bending, creaking, and rubbing against eachother. Lute seems to take it for a vague affirmative.      "Turn to the right... A bit more... And... FIRE!"      Imima turns its body, while pressing itself against the ground. It's metalic shell is crumpling a bit in a few spots, due to the gravity. It can survive, at least. A Cannon Shell is fired. Lute is taking a guess based on the pull. This will be a miracle shot if it hits. But, the shot is fired /away/ from the Black Hole... AIming to use its gravity to pull the cannon shell straight back at Maya. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "And ... it looks like Lute has SOMEthing left! I saw Raichu go flashing past -" And yes, Yuna may be trying to put extra distance between her and the fight - but she's still watching enough to do her job. "- but Imima's still got her cannons, and she arcs a volley around the gravity well to try and take out Maya! Both fighters are bringing it right down to the wire, folks! One wrong step, one missed guess, and the fight will be over; last fighter standing advances to the next round, and neither of them is giving an inch!!" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya expected a fight and a half but nothing quite like this, Lute is not relenting he's taking things that could rip a tank a part and he keeps coming. Will, sometimes it's the most powerful thing in the universe. She sees he' still standing with a few of his allies. Maya attempts to move but she can't fully dodge she's too weakened by all of her injuries and the strain of casting Black Hole. The Dark energy beam from earlier didn't help matter much either. The shot scores a hit the blast sends her off her feet again. She's struggling to get back on her feet now and she looks at Lute, she's got one last card in her hand she focuses, she has a lot of power yes, but she can only channel so much at once and the Black Hole strained that a lot. She can manage one last spell she focus sending several pillars of water at Lute and his remaining comrades. 

:'''{{#var:188|Lute (188)}} has posed:'''      Lute falls to his knees as the Black Hole fades. He smirks at Maya. He beat her before, but today, she wins. He'll have to get back at her for this, eventually. But, the water comes in towards him, and his Pokemon. The blast strikes all of them, sending them flying in all directions.      Lute lays on the ground. He's unable to move, though still concious. He just lays there, looking up to the sky for a bit. Smiling.      He'll need to be healed. But, at least he got this far. 

:'''{{#var:385|Yuna Kagurazaka (385)}} has posed:''' "There she is - somehow Maya is *STILL* on her feet!!" exclaims Yuna. "She's taken everything Lute's allies can dish out, she's withstood the stress of the black hole she herself conjured ... and she's still got enough in reserve to cast one more spell! Looks like a water strike - AND LUTE IS DOWN! The referee is counting it ... MAYA WINS AND ADVANCES TO THE NEXT ROUND OF BRACKET B!!! A hard-fought match by both competitors ends in Maya's win!!" She almost feels bad for Lute; he really did go all-out and he hung in there something fierce ... but she's still kind of glad Maya won. More than either of those, though, it was an exciting match from her perspective; she's hoping that carried over for the viewers to enjoy through her commentary. For now, though, Yuna flits back to face one of the nearby cameras. "And there you have it, everyone - an awesome, all-out match between two really impressive fighters! There's a reason why both Lute and Maya have stayed active as Elites for this long, and we just had a great chance to watch them duking it out once again! Congratulations to Lute for a hard-fought bout, and congratulations to Maya for taking it all and coming out the winner!" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is now on her last legs she starts t slump she can't do more than keep on one kene as she's just about in the same state that Lute is. She barely stays on one knee she's lucid enough however to call for a medial pick up. Hopefully for both of them, it was a hell of a fight and she's going to be out of it for a while. She'll worry about things later when the hurting ... stops. 

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3047/Knock OFf EP3: Shattered Mind

2015-09-20T00:02:34Z

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|Location=AMATERASU Lunar Mining Facility 01
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' The mining base was one of the safest places it was fairly off grid at least to Kotone and Miho's world. After all there was a lot of info out there and if you had no idea where to look? Even a killed person with AI support would have a heck of a time with it. Kotone's been seemingly ready for action as sh'es found most often than not in her light optical cameo armour than her casual clothing, but she's been trying to just be with Miho so she's not alone. If this is even Miho and if not? It's still someone who deserves comfort... 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     Rory's been hanging around the base catching up on some news and taking a long time speaking with her Muse about the situation! It's a complicated matter she'strying to broach.     Once she's ready though, Rory starts wandering through the base, followed by a short drone on wheels with all of her typical tools. It's neatly folded up for now to not be very scary and just whizzing along behind her. Just in case she needs them.     Through one door and another, she's headed for the chamber Miho's staying in! That's not hard to do, the base's wired up neatly for tracking locations...     Eventually Rory knocks on the door... "Miho? Are you available?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa has been with Miho quite a bit. Kotone's here leaning back in a lounge chir with Miho whose been cleaned up, and is in a fresh set of clothing. She's trying to read something and Kotone looks up. Miho looks up sets down the book and says "Yes...come in Rory." Miho's still stuttering anf seeming off but she's far less paniced than the last time Rory saw her as she lets the AGI come on into the room. Kotone looks over to her friend and opens up a channel. <<She's got huge chunks of missing memory we're talking year sizes gaps.>> 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     After taking a fresh look at the cybertronian-sized facilities in Njorun, Staren resleeved back into his normal body. So it's not a mecha but a regular old catboy who comes walking down the corridor. He's in his regular clothes -- the sight of a labcoat may or may not be a comforting sight for someone unused to Staren's idiosyncracies. He spots Rory just as she's knocking on the door, walking over to her and giving her a slight nod of acknowledgement. <<You think she might be a... fork? I don't suppose there's been any chance to check if there's still a Miho at her home?>>     Once they're let in, Staren waves and tries to smile comfortingly. "Hey." he greets simply, not sure what else to say to her.     The last thing he needs is a repeat of what happened when he tried to comfort /Kotone/... 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<One of the things I expected to happen. We must find whoever did this and stop it from happening again!>> Rory answers, as she comes in and sits down. She adjusts her hair, pushing some of it over her shoulders as it's getting in the way.     But she does her best to put on a smile after taking in a deep breath. "Sorry it took me so long to make my preparations. We're far outside the sort of situation I'm used to dealing with... have you remembered anything else about what's going on yet?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa also bruings staren into the link. <<Just be easy with Miho, we can talk shop together here where it won't distress her at all, all right? She's finally calming down as much as someone whose missing years of her life can be.>> Miho looks to Staren and smiles a little. "Your the youn hardsuit engineer right? I ... I can't recall your name. I am sorry..." <<I'm terrifed of what this could be...>> "I am ... sorry I have...not. Nothing that would help you. A little bit of my childhood but there's a gap all the way to late highschool then another till now. I know I went to school but can't recall any of it. I ...saw...something. Something ... bad someone ... hurt me..." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     <<Wait, you expected it to happen?>> Staren shoots Rory a confused glance. Then he smiles a little as Miho... /sort/ of remembers him. "Combat roboticist. Staren. It's okay. Um... I don't suppose you have any recordings or other files that might give us a clue, saved on your cyberbrain?" 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<It's hard to be easy and also accurate. Although she claims to be Miho, none of her body is organic. None of it, which by Kotone's understanding of cybernetics should be impossible. I believe we are speaking with a partially corrupted fork of Miho. Either an escapee from a secret project or a deliberate plant meant to infiltrate us. That someone would go to such lengths simply to cover up coming across confidential information is very illogical. Further supporting this, there is no evidence backing the idea that she is remote controlling this body from somewhere.>> It's a grim, harsh, analytical response, but Rory's Morph's face shows a different story. She's grimacing a bit. She has NO idea how to break this news.     "I wish we knew who those people were. The ones chasing you. It would help me explain the situation you're in and figure out the best way to help. For now though, we're safe here." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho ohs at Staren and tilts her head a little bit she thinking. "I might have something." She pauses at Rory for a moment looks at her. "I think I recall one thing I was at a resarch facility..of some sort." Miho looks hopefully at Rory, Kotone and Staren for a moment. <<...That shouldn't be possible dubbing ... wait it does ... make degenerated copies. What would have Miho saw to make someone do this to her? She's too costly an asset to just pictch away lightly... I but I can't just ....>> "I don't know whom they are I knew someone...no someones...chasing me...had to run...hurt, it hurt what they did..." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     <<Impossible? Hmm. Ah, right, cyberbrains in her world are part organic.>> Staren recalls. <<But why would someone fork her? And what happened to her? If Miho, or at least her original body, is still missing, it may well be that she's been transferred.>> Well, Staren's certainly not going to try to explain. "So... you do remember /some/ things from the missing times..." He's not sure what more to say, but he does have a sudden thought. <<Wait, what kind of idiot puts her in a position she can escape from? If this was a botched cover-up, she'd be in her original body. If they wanted a kidnapped copy of her... wouldn't they keep it in VR?>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "Don't press too hard! But anything that comes to mind..." Rory leads off, only to purse her lips a few moments later. HOW to broach this subject?     "..." She'd come here to try and explain things, but at the rate things're going she's no explaining anything at all.     She doesn't have the heart to.     <> 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa <<Barring android ones yes, there's always an organic compoent. Ghosts don't last long as pure data they errode if that makes any senses. IF they were to say go on the net. I know and I'm worried about how long she has if it's happened.>> Miho shakes her head at Staren "There's nothing there it's blank." <<Something's going on here...Who knows there was enough that an armed team was brazen enough to operate in New Port...>> 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     <<That's...>> Staren winces at the news that ghosts don't last outside an organic brain. <<Isn't there anything we can do? There must be a more permanent way... although... if she /is/ just a copy with lost memories, maybe she'd rather fade away...>> Staren blinks, and pats Miho's shoulder briefly.     Dawn transmits, <<She was last heard of saying she was going away on business. Whatever it was was secret enough for them to make her sign an NDA.>> Staren adds, <<Perhaps we should go looking for her then? I mean... corporate security can't be as important as whatever's going on here, right? Or do we need to report this to Section 9 and let /them/ handle it to avoid an inter-world... kerfluffle?>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     <<I will not stand by idly while the relative of a close friend is being tormented. I will rip apart the entire networks of whoever is behind this if need be to track down what really happened. If Kotone is right we don't have much time... unless we can transfer her into an Argonaut-design Cyberbrain, but...>>     Rory's still making a difficult face, but she asks Miho, "Do you remember where you were when you realized everything was wrong? Where you... awoke?" The very CONCEPT of waking up is unusual to Rory, so the word comes out weirdly. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa gets very quiet for the momnt she's just looking at Staren and Rory, she's clealry listening however. Staren gets a look for a moment it's a bit unfoxed as he says the bit about just letting Miho die. <<She should be all that's left of her...>> Miho is unaware thankfully unaware of what's going on. "I think...wait there ...was somehing she said she was ... also me...said i had to ... run like my sisters..." Miho looks /very/ confused. "I don't ... undertand...there can only..be..one of ...somene." <<Yes we need to get looking asap.>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "It is not impossible, Miho." Rory's voice comes out gently. "Not impossible at all. But it seems someone in your world, perhaps your work place, is experimenting with technology they are not ready for." There's some anger slipping into her tone now.     "Copying a... ghost, in your world's terms, is easy to do with Argonaut technology. That's what I think you've fallen afoul of. But this WILL be set right... that I promise you!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     <<You think she's all that's left? Hmm... we should probably determine which it is as soon as possible. But can we really tell her 'You /might/ be a copy, or you might not, we don't know, also you're going to fade away if you stay on that hardware'?>>     Staren blinks. "Sisters?" And then he gives Miho a confused look. "Who said anything about more than one of someone...?" Staren's a bit uneasy at Miho's sudden topic shift.     'Copying a ghost.' Staren mouths the phrase, watching Miho for her reaction before adding /anything/. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa looks to Staren and Rory. <<Ghost dubbing is illegal across most of the world and even so far as I'm aware even rogue states won't touch it. The early rests on aniamsls had thier rudemanty ghosts be ripped apart and the copies were degernerated...>> Kotone throws some links on the legality etc of dubbing. It's not pretty with what public results there are. Miho looks confused at Rory for a moment and she says somewhat dazed. "Ghosts... can't be... copies... I don't know why she said she was also me..." She holds her head a bt and she shakes her head. "She said she was Miho.....you can help. I want to be ... helped....but ... I'm the ... only me...." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     <<Legal or not, it /happened/.>> Staren plays the last bit of conversation over again. Oh. He misheard Miho. "She? So..." his face falls. "I see. That's the scenario, then. Yes, there can be only one of /you/. But there could be a lot of people, with the same memories as you, up until you all woke up, right? This 'she' you mention... she wasn't one of the ones chasing you, right?" 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "Don't complicate matters, Staren!" Rory quickly snaps out, seeming spooked by him suddenly speaking on this issue.     Instead she gives Miho her est smile and bows her head. "And we will help." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' <<...>> Miho looks very confused and she seems to be focuing on Rory's other questions and Staren's offer ot help though she gets up and kinda clings to Kotone who moves ot just hug her and says nothing as shie holds on to her cousin. "No...she helped me... I think ... there where ... two or .. three others...we went seperate ways..." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren nods, looking concerned and not saying more. <<We have to find her. And them. What are we going to do with them? ...I guess that's up to them.>> 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "I think I see some of what might have happened.... can you remember where you parted, Miho?" It's the only lead Rory can think of working with here! 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho thinks hard "I was put in a shipping crate it ended up where you found me. She told mt to keep still and not to make any noise until a certain amount of time had passed..." Kotone is just litening now and talking to the others over the link. <<One step at a time...whatever is going on it has to be big...>> 

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2727/Knock off EP2: Septette and Miho

2015-09-20T00:00:50Z

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|Location=AMATERASU Lunar Mining Facility 01
|Synopsis=Just before she's ready to leave Miho gets to meet one last person from the Flotilla. The ever chipper Septette Arcubielle.
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' So it's been a interesting evening so far, with Miho getting the tour. Well of the publicly accessible areas of the station and meeting up with a good number of the Flotilla one amusing point so far had her figuring out that Biteblade's species were a predator but at this point? It's just Kotone and Miho in a lounge area near the hangers talking for the most part about family things. It seems now they are taking a chance to catch up, but Miho also has a tablet out and is going over some notes from her earlier conversations with the members of the Flotilla. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      There's still one synthetic that Miho has yet to meet, though she's hard to miss once she does arrive: Septette strolls across the hangar with her typical cheerful demeanor, her clanking footfalls echoing through the expansive room as she makes her way towards the Yamakawas. She smiles and nods to Kotone, then extends a clawed hand to the stranger, taking care to angle the sharp edges away from Miho's fleshy fingers.      "My name's Septette Arcubielle- you're Miho, aren't you? Pleased to meet you," she says warmly, as her glowing lavender eyes take on a deep and soothing tone. She's wearing that cloak of hers too, but more to adorn than conceal: her mechanical nature isn't disguised by the attire, especially not with the way her delicate ear-fins twitch and angle themselves. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho pauses and takes a moment to size up Septette she's curious yes she understands they are a person. It's just she is a robotics and AI designer. She's also sizing her up to see how her makers, made her? She looked her over for a moment longer before she speaks. "I'm Miho Yamakawa. It's good to meet you, Kotone has told me a little bit about you. Such as you don't run on technology as I would understand it?" She makes a gesture for Septette to join them. "So work in the field of AI and robotics in relation to androids for the most part. Generally civilian models of various types. While we can make pretty well functional ones we still run into issues like the lairs paradox." 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:''' Septette's anatomy and design are quite atypical: some of her systems seem incredibly advanced, while others are primitive even to the point of looking like clockwork. Still others don't look like they should work at all, but somehow keep functioning. Her limbs and digits move despite severed hydraulics and ruined motors in some places, giving the eerie impression of an undead machine. Whatever designed her clearly wasn't working with the same toolset as modern humanity.      "Liar's paradox? We never encountered such problems," she replies swiftly, looking a tad bemused. "But then, Yggdroid intelligences were never programmed beyond the basic architecture. Imagine a subconsciously-self-modifying seed AI, and you'll get the picture. As for what I run on... that would take a while to explain, I'm afraid. It's more accurate to imagine me as a magical golem with electronic subsystems than as a 'robot' the way you define it." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone notes, "It's basically telling the AI that someone always lies. Then the person whose said to be always lying? Goes I'm lying. Thus everything goes down hill from there." Miho is clearly looking Septette over and seems to be curious about her mechanics as well. She is however not sizing her up like she's a think. She's more like a child whose met someone from another culture she's never met before. Just really curious from how she's looking her over. "So they made combat units with self developing AI's more or less. I think I can get the idea even with Magic being involved. So your creators made you and any others then turned you lose to do your jobs?" 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Septette lets out a little chuckle and shakes her head. "I'm familiar with the paradox and its many variants. But my kind was designed to be resistant to such manipulation in the first place, not to mention the fact that it's inherently ineffective against bottom-up designed sapiences." For her part, the little robot inspects Miho closely as well, examining her intently...      "Well, when you put it like *that*, it sounds like a terrible idea," she jokes. "We weren't exactly 'turned loose', but some models were designed to operate independently for long periods of time. I went years between repair and resupply, even during the height of the war. It made logistics a hell of a lot easier. Granted, it did turn out poorly in some cases..." An odd expression crosses Septette's face for a moment; it almost looks wistful.      "We were designed with the ability to regulate our own emotions consciously- turning them off individually, increasing their intensity, and so forth. One unforeseen problem with that is that one could turn 'empathy' down to 0. But once you zero empathy, you're unlikely to see a reason to go back," she explains. "It's a kind of self-induced sociopathy." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho listents nf seems to understand a bit better. "Like how some nations use self maintaing combat cyborg troops. Who can be dropped into enemy holdings without the heavy need for mantiance some models might require otherwise. I think I get the idea, but it sounds like you had to deal with something on the scale of our Third World war form the sounds of it." She pauses for a moment and looks a bit shocked at that. "That is somewhat troubling to hear such thing could be very issue with combat drones at the moment. Still being be able to do that to your self is something that disturbs me I must admit." 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Smiling somewhat bitterly, Arcubielle nods as she rocks back on her heels and listens. "It was a grave situation," she says quietly at last. "The ability to disable one's empathy entirely was intentional; not wanting to change it back afterwards was the issue. That helps avert PTSD, but it had an additional function: the Deep Ones we fought fed on fear. Anyone facing them without proper discipline or emotional control would only empower them further."      "In truth," Septette continues, "I keep several of my emotions 'filtered'. We Yggdroids are incapable of feeling fear even if we wanted to, but I need to keep grief and anxiety muted to remain functional as well." She glances down at the floor and flexes one of her talons, looking a bit awkward. "That... happened to a lot of us. Growing ever more numb, but becoming better and better at pretending to have emotions." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa has been letting her cousin and Septette talk for the most part at the confession about her emotions Kotone flat outr looks concerned as she looks at her for a moment. "...Sometimes running from your feelinsg will do more harm than good in the long term. Maybe I'm speaking as someone who can't turn them off, but have you ever considered trying to improve your emotional health or is it that bad for you Septette." Miho also seems to grasp what might be going on here an synethic war vet with PTSD whose shut off the emotions connected to it to keep herself functional. She seems to be at a loss for words right now. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Jarringly, Septette just laughs- throws back her head, closes her eyes, and *laughs*. Just from her body language, it seems completely genuine... but it's a truly bizarre response nonetheless. What's going on inside her head, anyway?      "I don't blame you for thinking that, Miho," she says as her demeanor swiftly reverts to one of utter calm. "But as much as I may act like a person, I am just a broken machine. ... Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm smarter than you. I have more emotions than you. You can't viscerally understand what it's like to have the deaths of thousands of people on your hands- your brain is neurologically incapable of processing that amount of suffering. I can, and I do. That's why I block it out."      "Maybe," Septette says as a more human look returns to her features, "you can stand and face your feelings. Maybe you're strong enough to do that. I'm not." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho is now looking a bit thoughtful at Septette's words but she seems saddened by some of the comments. Miho how ever pauses at Septette for a moment and looks right at her. "You presume wrong, I may not have experienced such things but? There are humans who have killed sadly as many if not more. I don't presume you know my history but the soldiers who deployed an experimental weapon which caused death and suffering for decades afterwards. I'm not saying I know what you have been through but you shouldn't make assumptions. Perhaps I have made too many on this." Kotone now speaks up and looks to her. "I had no choice, and I'm still not over what happened to me. I never chose this because I wanted it." She taps her head for a moment indicating her body. "I was basically torn apart by some cyborg who was after a package I was transporting, I still have nightmares about but, I just can't stop living. I can't hide from my feelings. I could bury them but they'd just eat away at me. I don't mean to judge but you are a friend and I Can't help be concerned for you. I won't press this further and I am sorry if I have insulted you." Miho is cringing as Kotone brings up what happened to her, it wasn't a pretty or a happy situation. Miho had thought she was going to lose her cousin that day and the look on her face seems to show that. "For what it's worth you given me some things to think over such as the mental health of any AI which I might intentionally or unintentionally create would have to be taken care of." It's clear Miho does not want to make some of the horrible mistakes other worlds have made towards the creation of Synthetics. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho is now looking a bit thoughtful at Septette's words but she seems saddened by some of the comments. Miho how ever pauses at Septette for a moment and looks right at her. "You presume wrong, I may not have experienced such things but? There are humans who have killed sadly as many if not more. I don't presume you know my history but the soldiers who deployed an experimental weapon which caused death and suffering for decades afterwards." She starts to trail off as a bit of understanding hits her. She now thinks she and she just trails off. Kotone now speaks up and looks to her, though it seems she's a bit slower on the uptake of the point that Miho's caught on to. "I had no choice, and I'm still not over what happened to me. I never chose this because I wanted it." She taps her head for a moment indicating her body. Before she can continue she cuts Kotone off via Cybercomm. <Kotone I think she's saying she doesn't have the same mental defence mechanisms that a human does. Recall the quote from that butcher of a Russian Dictator? Kill one man it's a tragedy kill a million it's a statistic.> Kotone kinda stops looks embarrassed as she now seems to understand what Septette was saying. Miho thankfully steps in and brings up another matter. "For what it's worth you given me some things to think over such as the mental health of any AI which I might intentionally or unintentionally create would have to be taken care of." It's clear Miho does not want to make some of the horrible mistakes other worlds have made towards the creation of Synthetics. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      "It's different," Septette explains with an odd smile, "to kill someone from miles away than it is to shred them with your claws. With a bomb, you don't feel the bones crunch under your hands, or hear the strangled cries. You don't smell the coppery blood, or see the look in their eyes... it's so much easier with 'modern' warfare, as you have. Clinical. Nine times out of ten, killing isn't the thrust of a knife. It's the push of a button."      Watching Miho's expression closely, Septette notes the exact moment that the implications dawn on her, and nods a little towards Kotone- as if to tell her not to feel embarrassed for not picking up on it at first. "I'm glad that you could learn something from me," the robot girl says happily as she goes along with the change of topic. "Friendliness and stability are the two most important traits for an AI, especially if it can self-modify. I suggest you glean as many lessons as you can from the rest of the Multiverse before designing a true synthetic sapient- bringing a life into the world is a great responsibility, and its flaws will be on your head." 
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2727/Knock off EP2: Septette and Miho

2015-09-20T00:00:06Z

Junker99:

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2015/08/04
|Location=AMATERASU Lunar Mining Facility 01
|Synopsis=Just before she's ready to leave Miho gets to meet one last person from the Flotilla. The ever chipper Septette Arcubielle.
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|Cast of Characters=7, 632
|Tinyplot=Knock Off.
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|pretty=yes
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{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' So it's been a interesting evening so far, with Miho getting the tour. Well of the publicly accessible areas of the station and meeting up with a good number of the Flotilla one amusing point so far had her figuring out that Biteblade's species were a predator but at this point? It's just Kotone and Miho in a lounge area near the hangers talking for the most part about family things. It seems now they are taking a chance to catch up, but Miho also has a tablet out and is going over some notes from her earlier conversations with the members of the Flotilla. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      There's still one synthetic that Miho has yet to meet, though she's hard to miss once she does arrive: Septette strolls across the hangar with her typical cheerful demeanor, her clanking footfalls echoing through the expansive room as she makes her way towards the Yamakawas. She smiles and nods to Kotone, then extends a clawed hand to the stranger, taking care to angle the sharp edges away from Miho's fleshy fingers.      "My name's Septette Arcubielle- you're Miho, aren't you? Pleased to meet you," she says warmly, as her glowing lavender eyes take on a deep and soothing tone. She's wearing that cloak of hers too, but more to adorn than conceal: her mechanical nature isn't disguised by the attire, especially not with the way her delicate ear-fins twitch and angle themselves. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho pauses and takes a moment to size up Septette she's curious yes she understands they are a person. It's just she is a robotics and AI designer. She's also sizing her up to see how her makers, made her? She looked her over for a moment longer before she speaks. "I'm Miho Yamakawa. It's good to meet you, Kotone has told me a little bit about you. Such as you don't run on technology as I would understand it?" She makes a gesture for Septette to join them. "So work in the field of AI and robotics in relation to androids for the most part. Generally civilian models of various types. While we can make pretty well functional ones we still run into issues like the lairs paradox." 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:''' Septette's anatomy and design are quite atypical: some of her systems seem incredibly advanced, while others are primitive even to the point of looking like clockwork. Still others don't look like they should work at all, but somehow keep functioning. Her limbs and digits move despite severed hydraulics and ruined motors in some places, giving the eerie impression of an undead machine. Whatever designed her clearly wasn't working with the same toolset as modern humanity.      "Liar's paradox? We never encountered such problems," she replies swiftly, looking a tad bemused. "But then, Yggdroid intelligences were never programmed beyond the basic architecture. Imagine a subconsciously-self-modifying seed AI, and you'll get the picture. As for what I run on... that would take a while to explain, I'm afraid. It's more accurate to imagine me as a magical golem with electronic subsystems than as a 'robot' the way you define it." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone notes, "It's basically telling the AI that someone always lies. Then the person whose said to be always lying? Goes I'm lying. Thus everything goes down hill from there." Miho is clearly looking Septette over and seems to be curious about her mechanics as well. She is however not sizing her up like she's a think. She's more like a child whose met someone from another culture she's never met before. Just really curious from how she's looking her over. "So they made combat units with self developing AI's more or less. I think I can get the idea even with Magic being involved. So your creators made you and any others then turned you lose to do your jobs?" 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Septette lets out a little chuckle and shakes her head. "I'm familiar with the paradox and its many variants. But my kind was designed to be resistant to such manipulation in the first place, not to mention the fact that it's inherently ineffective against bottom-up designed sapiences." For her part, the little robot inspects Miho closely as well, examining her intently...      "Well, when you put it like *that*, it sounds like a terrible idea," she jokes. "We weren't exactly 'turned loose', but some models were designed to operate independently for long periods of time. I went years between repair and resupply, even during the height of the war. It made logistics a hell of a lot easier. Granted, it did turn out poorly in some cases..." An odd expression crosses Septette's face for a moment; it almost looks wistful.      "We were designed with the ability to regulate our own emotions consciously- turning them off individually, increasing their intensity, and so forth. One unforeseen problem with that is that one could turn 'empathy' down to 0. But once you zero empathy, you're unlikely to see a reason to go back," she explains. "It's a kind of self-induced sociopathy." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho listents nf seems to understand a bit better. "Like how some nations use self maintaing combat cyborg troops. Who can be dropped into enemy holdings without the heavy need for mantiance some models might require otherwise. I think I get the idea, but it sounds like you had to deal with something on the scale of our Third World war form the sounds of it." She pauses for a moment and looks a bit shocked at that. "That is somewhat troubling to hear such thing could be very issue with combat drones at the moment. Still being be able to do that to your self is something that disturbs me I must admit." 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Smiling somewhat bitterly, Arcubielle nods as she rocks back on her heels and listens. "It was a grave situation," she says quietly at last. "The ability to disable one's empathy entirely was intentional; not wanting to change it back afterwards was the issue. That helps avert PTSD, but it had an additional function: the Deep Ones we fought fed on fear. Anyone facing them without proper discipline or emotional control would only empower them further."      "In truth," Septette continues, "I keep several of my emotions 'filtered'. We Yggdroids are incapable of feeling fear even if we wanted to, but I need to keep grief and anxiety muted to remain functional as well." She glances down at the floor and flexes one of her talons, looking a bit awkward. "That... happened to a lot of us. Growing ever more numb, but becoming better and better at pretending to have emotions." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa has been letting her cousin and Septette talk for the most part at the confession about her emotions Kotone flat outr looks concerned as she looks at her for a moment. "...Sometimes running from your feelinsg will do more harm than good in the long term. Maybe I'm speaking as someone who can't turn them off, but have you ever considered trying to improve your emotional health or is it that bad for you Septette." Miho also seems to grasp what might be going on here an synethic war vet with PTSD whose shut off the emotions connected to it to keep herself functional. She seems to be at a loss for words right now. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Jarringly, Septette just laughs- throws back her head, closes her eyes, and *laughs*. Just from her body language, it seems completely genuine... but it's a truly bizarre response nonetheless. What's going on inside her head, anyway?      "I don't blame you for thinking that, Miho," she says as her demeanor swiftly reverts to one of utter calm. "But as much as I may act like a person, I am just a broken machine. ... Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm smarter than you. I have more emotions than you. You can't viscerally understand what it's like to have the deaths of thousands of people on your hands- your brain is neurologically incapable of processing that amount of suffering. I can, and I do. That's why I block it out."      "Maybe," Septette says as a more human look returns to her features, "you can stand and face your feelings. Maybe you're strong enough to do that. I'm not." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho is now looking a bit thoughtful at Septette's words but she seems saddened by some of the comments. Miho how ever pauses at Septette for a moment and looks right at her. "You presume wrong, I may not have experienced such things but? There are humans who have killed sadly as many if not more. I don't presume you know my history but the soldiers who deployed an experimental weapon which caused death and suffering for decades afterwards. I'm not saying I know what you have been through but you shouldn't make assumptions. Perhaps I have made too many on this." Kotone now speaks up and looks to her. "I had no choice, and I'm still not over what happened to me. I never chose this because I wanted it." She taps her head for a moment indicating her body. "I was basically torn apart by some cyborg who was after a package I was transporting, I still have nightmares about but, I just can't stop living. I can't hide from my feelings. I could bury them but they'd just eat away at me. I don't mean to judge but you are a friend and I Can't help be concerned for you. I won't press this further and I am sorry if I have insulted you." Miho is cringing as Kotone brings up what happened to her, it wasn't a pretty or a happy situation. Miho had thought she was going to lose her cousin that day and the look on her face seems to show that. "For what it's worth you given me some things to think over such as the mental health of any AI which I might intentionally or unintentionally create would have to be taken care of." It's clear Miho does not want to make some of the horrible mistakes other worlds have made towards the creation of Synthetics. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho is now looking a bit thoughtful at Septette's words but she seems saddened by some of the comments. Miho how ever pauses at Septette for a moment and looks right at her. "You presume wrong, I may not have experienced such things but? There are humans who have killed sadly as many if not more. I don't presume you know my history but the soldiers who deployed an experimental weapon which caused death and suffering for decades afterwards." She starts to trail off as a bit of understanding hits her. She now thinks she and she just trails off. Kotone now speaks up and looks to her, though it seems she's a bit slower on the uptake of the point that Miho's caught on to. "I had no choice, and I'm still not over what happened to me. I never chose this because I wanted it." She taps her head for a moment indicating her body. Before she can continue she cuts Kotone off via Cybercomm. <Kotone I think she's saying she doesn't have the same mental defence mechanisms that a human does. Recall the quote from that butcher of a Russian Dictator? Kill one man it's a tragedy kill a million it's a statistic.> Kotone kinda stops looks embarrassed as she now seems to understand what Septette was saying. Miho thankfully steps in and brings up another matter. "For what it's worth you given me some things to think over such as the mental health of any AI which I might intentionally or unintentionally create would have to be taken care of." It's clear Miho does not want to make some of the horrible mistakes other worlds have made towards the creation of Synthetics. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      "It's different," Septette explains with an odd smile, "to kill someone from miles away than it is to shred them with your claws. With a bomb, you don't feel the bones crunch under your hands, or hear the strangled cries. You don't smell the coppery blood, or see the look in their eyes... it's so much easier with 'modern' warfare, as you have. Clinical. Nine times out of ten, killing isn't the thrust of a knife. It's the push of a button."      Watching Miho's expression closely, Septette notes the exact moment that the implications dawn on her, and nods a little towards Kotone- as if to tell her not to feel embarrassed for not picking up on it at first. "I'm glad that you could learn something from me," the robot girl says happily as she goes along with the change of topic. "Friendliness and stability are the two most important traits for an AI, especially if it can self-modify. I suggest you glean as many lessons as you can from the rest of the Multiverse before designing a true synthetic sapient- bringing a life into the world is a great responsibility, and its flaws will be on your head." 
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2727/Knock off EP2: Septette and Miho

2015-09-19T23:59:38Z

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{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2015/08/04
|Location=AMATERASU Lunar Mining Facility 01
|Synopsis=Just before she's ready to leave Miho gets to meet one last person from the Flotilla. The ever chipper Septette Arcubielle.
|Thanks=
|Cast of Characters=7, 632
|Tinyplot=
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{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' So it's been a interesting evening so far, with Miho getting the tour. Well of the publicly accessible areas of the station and meeting up with a good number of the Flotilla one amusing point so far had her figuring out that Biteblade's species were a predator but at this point? It's just Kotone and Miho in a lounge area near the hangers talking for the most part about family things. It seems now they are taking a chance to catch up, but Miho also has a tablet out and is going over some notes from her earlier conversations with the members of the Flotilla. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      There's still one synthetic that Miho has yet to meet, though she's hard to miss once she does arrive: Septette strolls across the hangar with her typical cheerful demeanor, her clanking footfalls echoing through the expansive room as she makes her way towards the Yamakawas. She smiles and nods to Kotone, then extends a clawed hand to the stranger, taking care to angle the sharp edges away from Miho's fleshy fingers.      "My name's Septette Arcubielle- you're Miho, aren't you? Pleased to meet you," she says warmly, as her glowing lavender eyes take on a deep and soothing tone. She's wearing that cloak of hers too, but more to adorn than conceal: her mechanical nature isn't disguised by the attire, especially not with the way her delicate ear-fins twitch and angle themselves. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho pauses and takes a moment to size up Septette she's curious yes she understands they are a person. It's just she is a robotics and AI designer. She's also sizing her up to see how her makers, made her? She looked her over for a moment longer before she speaks. "I'm Miho Yamakawa. It's good to meet you, Kotone has told me a little bit about you. Such as you don't run on technology as I would understand it?" She makes a gesture for Septette to join them. "So work in the field of AI and robotics in relation to androids for the most part. Generally civilian models of various types. While we can make pretty well functional ones we still run into issues like the lairs paradox." 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:''' Septette's anatomy and design are quite atypical: some of her systems seem incredibly advanced, while others are primitive even to the point of looking like clockwork. Still others don't look like they should work at all, but somehow keep functioning. Her limbs and digits move despite severed hydraulics and ruined motors in some places, giving the eerie impression of an undead machine. Whatever designed her clearly wasn't working with the same toolset as modern humanity.      "Liar's paradox? We never encountered such problems," she replies swiftly, looking a tad bemused. "But then, Yggdroid intelligences were never programmed beyond the basic architecture. Imagine a subconsciously-self-modifying seed AI, and you'll get the picture. As for what I run on... that would take a while to explain, I'm afraid. It's more accurate to imagine me as a magical golem with electronic subsystems than as a 'robot' the way you define it." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone notes, "It's basically telling the AI that someone always lies. Then the person whose said to be always lying? Goes I'm lying. Thus everything goes down hill from there." Miho is clearly looking Septette over and seems to be curious about her mechanics as well. She is however not sizing her up like she's a think. She's more like a child whose met someone from another culture she's never met before. Just really curious from how she's looking her over. "So they made combat units with self developing AI's more or less. I think I can get the idea even with Magic being involved. So your creators made you and any others then turned you lose to do your jobs?" 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Septette lets out a little chuckle and shakes her head. "I'm familiar with the paradox and its many variants. But my kind was designed to be resistant to such manipulation in the first place, not to mention the fact that it's inherently ineffective against bottom-up designed sapiences." For her part, the little robot inspects Miho closely as well, examining her intently...      "Well, when you put it like *that*, it sounds like a terrible idea," she jokes. "We weren't exactly 'turned loose', but some models were designed to operate independently for long periods of time. I went years between repair and resupply, even during the height of the war. It made logistics a hell of a lot easier. Granted, it did turn out poorly in some cases..." An odd expression crosses Septette's face for a moment; it almost looks wistful.      "We were designed with the ability to regulate our own emotions consciously- turning them off individually, increasing their intensity, and so forth. One unforeseen problem with that is that one could turn 'empathy' down to 0. But once you zero empathy, you're unlikely to see a reason to go back," she explains. "It's a kind of self-induced sociopathy." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho listents nf seems to understand a bit better. "Like how some nations use self maintaing combat cyborg troops. Who can be dropped into enemy holdings without the heavy need for mantiance some models might require otherwise. I think I get the idea, but it sounds like you had to deal with something on the scale of our Third World war form the sounds of it." She pauses for a moment and looks a bit shocked at that. "That is somewhat troubling to hear such thing could be very issue with combat drones at the moment. Still being be able to do that to your self is something that disturbs me I must admit." 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Smiling somewhat bitterly, Arcubielle nods as she rocks back on her heels and listens. "It was a grave situation," she says quietly at last. "The ability to disable one's empathy entirely was intentional; not wanting to change it back afterwards was the issue. That helps avert PTSD, but it had an additional function: the Deep Ones we fought fed on fear. Anyone facing them without proper discipline or emotional control would only empower them further."      "In truth," Septette continues, "I keep several of my emotions 'filtered'. We Yggdroids are incapable of feeling fear even if we wanted to, but I need to keep grief and anxiety muted to remain functional as well." She glances down at the floor and flexes one of her talons, looking a bit awkward. "That... happened to a lot of us. Growing ever more numb, but becoming better and better at pretending to have emotions." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa has been letting her cousin and Septette talk for the most part at the confession about her emotions Kotone flat outr looks concerned as she looks at her for a moment. "...Sometimes running from your feelinsg will do more harm than good in the long term. Maybe I'm speaking as someone who can't turn them off, but have you ever considered trying to improve your emotional health or is it that bad for you Septette." Miho also seems to grasp what might be going on here an synethic war vet with PTSD whose shut off the emotions connected to it to keep herself functional. She seems to be at a loss for words right now. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      Jarringly, Septette just laughs- throws back her head, closes her eyes, and *laughs*. Just from her body language, it seems completely genuine... but it's a truly bizarre response nonetheless. What's going on inside her head, anyway?      "I don't blame you for thinking that, Miho," she says as her demeanor swiftly reverts to one of utter calm. "But as much as I may act like a person, I am just a broken machine. ... Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm smarter than you. I have more emotions than you. You can't viscerally understand what it's like to have the deaths of thousands of people on your hands- your brain is neurologically incapable of processing that amount of suffering. I can, and I do. That's why I block it out."      "Maybe," Septette says as a more human look returns to her features, "you can stand and face your feelings. Maybe you're strong enough to do that. I'm not." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho is now looking a bit thoughtful at Septette's words but she seems saddened by some of the comments. Miho how ever pauses at Septette for a moment and looks right at her. "You presume wrong, I may not have experienced such things but? There are humans who have killed sadly as many if not more. I don't presume you know my history but the soldiers who deployed an experimental weapon which caused death and suffering for decades afterwards. I'm not saying I know what you have been through but you shouldn't make assumptions. Perhaps I have made too many on this." Kotone now speaks up and looks to her. "I had no choice, and I'm still not over what happened to me. I never chose this because I wanted it." She taps her head for a moment indicating her body. "I was basically torn apart by some cyborg who was after a package I was transporting, I still have nightmares about but, I just can't stop living. I can't hide from my feelings. I could bury them but they'd just eat away at me. I don't mean to judge but you are a friend and I Can't help be concerned for you. I won't press this further and I am sorry if I have insulted you." Miho is cringing as Kotone brings up what happened to her, it wasn't a pretty or a happy situation. Miho had thought she was going to lose her cousin that day and the look on her face seems to show that. "For what it's worth you given me some things to think over such as the mental health of any AI which I might intentionally or unintentionally create would have to be taken care of." It's clear Miho does not want to make some of the horrible mistakes other worlds have made towards the creation of Synthetics. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho is now looking a bit thoughtful at Septette's words but she seems saddened by some of the comments. Miho how ever pauses at Septette for a moment and looks right at her. "You presume wrong, I may not have experienced such things but? There are humans who have killed sadly as many if not more. I don't presume you know my history but the soldiers who deployed an experimental weapon which caused death and suffering for decades afterwards." She starts to trail off as a bit of understanding hits her. She now thinks she and she just trails off. Kotone now speaks up and looks to her, though it seems she's a bit slower on the uptake of the point that Miho's caught on to. "I had no choice, and I'm still not over what happened to me. I never chose this because I wanted it." She taps her head for a moment indicating her body. Before she can continue she cuts Kotone off via Cybercomm. <Kotone I think she's saying she doesn't have the same mental defence mechanisms that a human does. Recall the quote from that butcher of a Russian Dictator? Kill one man it's a tragedy kill a million it's a statistic.> Kotone kinda stops looks embarrassed as she now seems to understand what Septette was saying. Miho thankfully steps in and brings up another matter. "For what it's worth you given me some things to think over such as the mental health of any AI which I might intentionally or unintentionally create would have to be taken care of." It's clear Miho does not want to make some of the horrible mistakes other worlds have made towards the creation of Synthetics. 

:'''{{#var:632|Septette Arcubielle (632)}} has posed:'''      "It's different," Septette explains with an odd smile, "to kill someone from miles away than it is to shred them with your claws. With a bomb, you don't feel the bones crunch under your hands, or hear the strangled cries. You don't smell the coppery blood, or see the look in their eyes... it's so much easier with 'modern' warfare, as you have. Clinical. Nine times out of ten, killing isn't the thrust of a knife. It's the push of a button."      Watching Miho's expression closely, Septette notes the exact moment that the implications dawn on her, and nods a little towards Kotone- as if to tell her not to feel embarrassed for not picking up on it at first. "I'm glad that you could learn something from me," the robot girl says happily as she goes along with the change of topic. "Friendliness and stability are the two most important traits for an AI, especially if it can self-modify. I suggest you glean as many lessons as you can from the rest of the Multiverse before designing a true synthetic sapient- bringing a life into the world is a great responsibility, and its flaws will be on your head." 

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2648/Knock Off Ep1:Family

2015-09-19T23:55:53Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone had mentioned her family it was known she had a number of cousins and siblings. Yet Rory might have been the only one to meet any of them and that was a brief meeting with Kotone's parents. Miho had been one of Kotone's closer cousins given the stint of their work and interests. Also the little fact that Miho had put up Kotone till she'd got settled in Japan when she was going to school there too, it's also where Kotone infected her with her love of motorcycles as both as they arrive at the station off the blue nose are clad in motorcycle riding suits. It seems they went for a ride before they came on over. "Ko, you know it's still hard to get used to your new face." "It's been almost two years Miho and it was part and package of getting something better than a bottom shelf body." "Take it easy, I understand. The family is just glad we didn't lose you." "Well we're here, this is the mining base I mentioned." Miho Yamakawa's jaw slackens a bit as she moves teal and black hair out of her eyes to look at the place whistling. "This has got to be decades ahead of anything the EU, AmerRussio Alliance, China or The American Empire has...so were you pulling my leg you actually know some AI's that have Ghosts and are people." Kotone smirks a little bit. "Nope some of them should be about, we just got in Miho and what did you think of the Knight?" "Not bad at all, and you said that's not all native tech? You know Ko your playing with some pretty serious hardware people would give a lot of money for or try other means to get back home." "That's why I keep most of it off world, I'm not that foolish." "You got the drivers I gave you right, Miho?" "I did, well then I got a guest account set up just log on." At that point a notice would go out over the network that a Mighty Miho had connected to the network. "Well if that doesn't get their attention give me a moment." Miho is silent as she's kinda looking over the local net and may or may not be drooling over it. Kotone does at this time put out the call on the band that her cousin and her had arrived. OOC ref for Miho http://grognard.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=25974 

:'''{{#var:672|Starbound Flotilla (672)}} has posed:'''     The STARBOUND FLOTILLA are still here. They're in various places, of course, some above the surface of the moon and some among the moonbase's surface. The first Flotilla "member" that Miho will meet is SAIL, a network of multiple weak artificial intelligences clearly hosted on the ships far above. It quietly, digitally welcomes her. <<Welcome, guest. Please confirm that you are the associate of Flotilla member Kotone Yamakawa, and I can help provide any information or facility access necessary. The Core Fleet captains will be here to see you shortly, thank you for your patience.>>     It's not too long! George is the first one to catch up with her. The tele-entry and landing area for the AMATERASU lunar facility is shortly approached by the jumpsuited, red-eyed older man. He gives a few waves. "Heya, kiddos! You Ko's cousin? Name's George! I'm made out of meat and I'm about the only normal guy you're gonna see today!" He laughs a bit at his own joke and walks on up to the girl, offering a firm, eager handshake.     "You two wanna head anywhere in particular? Head out to the Canteen, stop by our projects, anything like that? Could give you a tour if you're interested here, but it seemed more like you wanted to meet us or something. Watch your step, by the way, lunar gravity and all. Bounce like I do, yeah?" He does little bounds away, presumably leading her off to meet more of the Flotilla members! 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite just happened to be at the mining operation, having been out using her Mining Hammer to help some surveyors detect more mineral veins to be dug up for the Flotilla's needs. The hammer was great for this, since it's detection ability and adjustable effect made up for the fact that you can't really hear much when there's little to no air. In fact she had just been getting back to the facility proper when Kotone mentions she's got guests, and ambles on over to see what the fuss is all about. Said hammer is still slung over one shoulder, mainly because that's where she's use to doing so, even if this one isn't as big as her Breaker. "Hah, didn't know they were givin' tourist tours now," the foxgirl jokes as she catchs up to the others. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     *BEEOOOIIINNN!* A beam of energy touches down at the landing site, resolves into a human shape, then reveals Staren! He looks around, nods to those assembled, "Hey George, Kotone, Corona..." at last his eyes fall on the newcomer. He slips his hands into his coat pockets. "Hmmmmm. So you're Kotone's cousin, huh? I'm Staren..." his ears flick and rotate as others approach, and he holds out his hand. "Is this your first time leaving your home world?" 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     When she's not off gallivanting for research and space adventure, Rory's often in the lunar base tinkering with her blueprints and robot designs, checking on the systems. It's not hard to do that when you've dozens of hands and several thought processes at once.     With a guest login of THAT NAME coming up, her third thought-thread responds.     A holo-projector nearby thrums to life, generating a translucent image of her typical apparent. The blue-haired, soft-faced youth in flowing priestessly-labcoat robes! "Greetings! Hopefully I'm not too late!" 

:'''{{#var:304|Black Arachnia (304)}} has posed:''' While Black Arachnia isn't formally a member of the Starbound Flotilla, she *has* been hanging out on their base as she tries to figure out how to make the best use of a spacecraft she scavenged a while back. The news of visitors circulating through the networks has her curious, though ... (How does she access the networks if she's not officially part of the Flotilla? Well ... she *IS* a hacker ... and if Flotilla information-security types are worried about her hacking, Black Arachnia believes enough in fair play with allies to help point out where the weaknesses are.) There's some quiet clicking along the ceiling before a very large cybernetic spider descends into view, dangling on the end of a line of glowing webbing. "Kotone," she greets the cyborg whom she knows. "And ... Miho, isn't it?" she adds, looking at Kotone's companion. George seems ready to play tour guide, so Black Arachnia detaches from her webline and skitters along behind him. Maybe she'll learn something new, the Flotilla certainly has a lot of interesting things (and people) around. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho pauses at her little trip in cyberspace. She gives the passcode that Kotone gave her then replies. <<Yes I am Miho, and I'm her cousin this code is her guest code she told me.>> The young Asian woman seems to be calm enough but right now and she pauses at George tilting her head a little bit while she waits on S.A.I.L. "I am Miho Yamakawa, yes I heard a number of people with this group are actually AIs of various sorts who have what we would call a Ghost. Also a few of the stories Ko told me had got my interest about this group. Also I'm pretty much meat sill." She's only got the mostly basic cyberbrain and a few other minor augments for her work. If one were to notice she'd have the jacks that Kotone has on the back of her own neck. Kotone grins and just is following along with her cousin at this point and she looks over to the foxy cowgirl. "Well let's say Miho is pretty stubborn about things." Miho meanwhile looks at Corona with a slightly wide eyed look. She'd known some off worlders but most of them had been humans or near humans who had become clients of her company. She really should have made her self more ready as other pops in. "I'm Miho Yamakawa. Yes, I had some dealings with some off world clients but I'd never used the gates before." Then Rory pops up and she pauses. "Hello there." Kotone grins at Rory "Ah Rory this is my cousin the one I mentioned whose into AI and android development." Kotone is going to not reveal Rory just yet, she's going to have a bit of fun with it. Then comes Black Arachnia and that gets a wide eyed stare from Miho. "Yes I am Miho and wait are you some kind ... of robot spiders?!" Okay humans have this thing about spiders okay, it's just how it goes even one without a phobia? Seeing one like this is a bit skin crawling but she's not freaking out. She's trying to keep cool and she's curiously looking at all the stuff they pass. "I guess you kinda get used to how wildly different everyone can be here. There's still a few others who might be around too." Miho once S.A.I.L. Gives her the all clear she'll be asking for a public map, just so she doesn't get lost basic rules, and any other non sensitive data that might be of use to a guest. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Family, eh?" Corona gives Miho a friendly pat on the shoulder. And grins at Koto. "Ah see this one's still got some meat on her bones. So t'speak." She pauses, then her ears splay back a little. "Er.. sorry.. Ah spoke before realizin' that might not be a kosher sayin' fer y'all." 

:'''{{#var:304|Black Arachnia (304)}} has posed:''' "Robot, yes, spider, yes," Black Arachnia replies. "Not an AI, though - at least not in the sense you might be thinking of. Think of me as a life-form who happens to be mechanical, rather than a 'machine' that was built, and you'll probably get the idea." Only probably, though, to judge by her tone. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "There are. Feel free to guess who later!" Is Rory's response. Apparently she's figured out Kotone's teasing Miho and playing along for a bit herself. "Rory White. It's a pleasure, Miho Yamakawa!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren tilts his head, scratching it. "AIs with ghosts? I guess there's--" Staren starts, but then others introduce themselves and Rory suggests Miho guess who's the robot. "Ah... well, there's... mm... and... Well, you heard her," he nods towards Arachnia, "And, mm," he nods while thinking, "and... mm, no, turns out /she/ might be an alien too... But yeah, we have some AIs with ghosts!" He smiles.     "Off-world clients? What do you do, miss Yamakawa?" 

:'''{{#var:672|Starbound Flotilla (672)}} has posed:'''     <<Permissions granted. Welcome to AMATERASU Lunar Mining Facility 01, Ms. Yamakawa. Please feel free to query my systems for any additional data.>> SAIL speaks up, sending a quick map of the facility, and some rules, which are, in essence, "don't touch the purple liquid we're mining out of the ground EVER", among other basic regulations.     "Oh hey, yeah, we've got a couple robot types around here!" George says, leading the pair along. He seems to intend for them to meet up in the Canteen. On the way there, the deep yellow plumage of Pavo can be seen when she wanders on up, the bird girl quickly joining the group. "Aye, lass, got our share of AI, robots, an other tin stuckups on this ride, ye gonna see 'em soon. Me bet is Seft will be the one ye wanna talk to, aye! Comes from a race of robots, ye know. If ye can stand the annoyin' talkin' she does, yarharhar!" They continue heading along through the facility. Probably gonna bump into another Core Fleet member soon! 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Miho pauses and gives Corona a bit of a look. "Yes, I do look I was never the Luddite that Ko was about prosthetic!" :Kotone gives Miho a look and almost baps her. "I am not a Luddite!" Kotone has her hands on her hips at this for a moment. Black Arachnia gets Miho's attention and draws off Miho's attention. "Wait mechanical life how would that." She pauses starts to get a grin on her face. "Did your kind come from some sort of Von Numan probe or something and branched off?" Rory gets a grin from Kotone for a moment and a wink when Miho's not looking. "Wait there's already more than just her? I see Rory White, please call me Miho this isn't a formal business situation. I work for Microtech Solace, a producer of civilian and industrial androids and robots. I'm an AI developer and I do a lot of heavy work on developing the AI's of our android lines. They are still pretty high quality if I do say so my self. Able to do the jobs and adapt to most unexpected situations. Still when Kotone started telling me about some of the people in this fleet?" All the while Miho is doing the same thing Kotone's known for doing digital sutff and meat bag stuff at the same time. She gets the data and makes note about no touch the purple stuff.. Then comes more aliens, in one hour Miho may have encountered more life forms than the average person on her world have. She looks over Pavo and she's quite interested. "Yes! It does seem this group is quite diverse. Miho Yamakawa." She wonders if Pavo can fly, but keeps that to herself. It might be too rude to ask. "It's strange to be pounding away at something that already exists elsewhere. Still it's making me wonder about the laws in regards to AI. Given it is possible law makers should take this into consideration right?" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren blinks. "Something that exists elsewhere? What about the--" He starts to reply, then looks at Kotone. "...Did you tell her about the, ah, think tanks?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite just laughs a bit at the interactions, even as she settles in to follow the others after George. Then gives Kotome a playful slap on the back. "Yer a lucky gal, Koto. Ah never had a family with siblin's and stuff. She seems like a sharp gal though. Shouldn't have too much trouble adjustin'." She grins a little as Miho takes a moment to gawk at Arachnia instead. "Well, once she gets past all the shock moments, at least." 

:'''{{#var:304|Black Arachnia (304)}} has posed:''' "No idea who Von Numan is," the Maximal spider responds. "Our mythology - which is pretty well documented as actual history - states that Primus brought the first Transformers into being aeons ago on our homeworld of Cybertron. And some of that documentation ... Primus isn't a probe, he's genuinely a god. There's plenty of historical evidence of Unicron's attack on Cybertron just before the end of the Great War, so Primus's existence is generally accepted as 'fact' rather than 'belief'." Miho should be proud; Black Arachnia usually doesn't go into infodump mode about Cybertron. "If it makes you feel less uncomfortable ... Black Arachnia, maximize." And the spider transforms into her robot mode, continuing along without breaking stride. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "AI development! How exciting. You'll love some of the research notes I've been making on the topic." Rory's INDEEd excited. The hologram projection of her leans forward a bit, smiling up a storm. At least she's gotten THAT expression down pretty well! 

:'''{{#var:672|Starbound Flotilla (672)}} has posed:'''     There's a heavy grunt. The white tones of Albert's military outfit are easily seen, and the man himself is encountered at the Canteen, the cozy little food area where AMATERASU workers get their lunch breaks. "Captain Albert Petrov of the Starbound Flotilla. You are the visitor that Yamakawa brought. Mmmh." That seems to be all Albert has to think on the matter, and he goes back to a spartan sort of meal.     "That's Albert, he's kind of a stick in the mud. He handles our SAIL stuff, though, and drone programming, plus basically anything else that involves code that Rors doesn't handle for us." George says, taking a seat at a nearby table and motioning for the others to do the same.     "You feel concern because you do work on something that is already done. Don't. Learn from what is already done, but do the work yourself. What you've made will always be something you can use more effectively." Albert says, bringing some commentary on the previous topic to bear, seemingly goaded on by George. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "My family's rather large though things can get confusing at times." Miho makes a face. "Like the first time I visited your Family? The ... differences in food were quite comedic." Ko laughs at this. "You thought we insane eating the poutine!" Miho makes a face. "It's still insane how do you people eat that stuff!" Kotone sighs in mock frustration. "Same way you eat those things you claim to be pizza!" "Squid ink is a perfectly valid topping for a pizza!" And now it comes out a bit more Kotone wasn't raised in Japan from the sounds of it. Thankfully Miho pipes up at Staren. "Think Tanks? I heard of them but those things are experimental a few law enforcement groups are using them. There's theories they could but no solid proof on it." Kotone is making a stop motion at Staren rather franticly. "A self replicating machine, they often show up in science fiction on Ko's and my world. Though judging from the net search I did? They exist out here." She looks at Black Arachnia. "A machine god?" Some part of Miho isn't shocked, as for Black Arachina's change she pauses staring. "So the spider's some sort of covert form? your certainly more than meets the eye." Miho then has a hyper Rory gets Miho's attention. "Yes! It's quite challenging we can get some very functional AI's even learning ones but nothing that has true awareness so far. Still we got some of the best ones on the market and there's a new line of civilian aid and companion models that are pushing the edge there. They are just hitting the market now and have got some multiveral notice. So that's a big plus." Kotone makes a face. "Well better the 'collectors' get those than harass people like me, right?" Miho does not seem happy. "I try not to think about that much. On to other topics! Yes the hardest thing we're having is dealing with things like the lairs paradox which sometimes effects some models causing them to lock up." Albert makes himself known and she bows slightly to him. "Oh so you work on AI as well? That certainly has my attention. That's exactly what I'm doing, I know it can be done so it's more motivation to do. It's one thing to have androids that are not aware, right? We get into the murky ground where we get ones with Ghosts or if you will souls? How do you handle that? Is the Android entitled to be free right away? Work off the cost of their creation then be freed? Lot of companies wouldn't be happy to lose a labour force like that. They get slotted into a lot of dangerous jobs. Also we can see the mistakes in how other worlds have treated their creations and try to prevent such. The last thing we need is something out of an old western SCI-fi movie screaming for the death of flesh right? Also Corona in payment for the meat crack I have to ask. Is your race natural or did someone make your people like that?" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren shrugs his shoulders and holds his hands out to his sides with his palms up in a 'what, what'd I do?' motion, but he does stop talking about the think tanks. "What's wrong with poutine? Really, squid ink on a pizza? Last time I drank ink it tasted /terrible/."     Staren just raises an eyebrow when Miho denies the existance of AGIs on her world. But the Tachikomas...     Kotone says something odd, and Staren frowns. "Collectors?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Poutine? Squid ink pizza? "An' people say the frontier has weird taste in food," Corona murmurs. Then snorts a bit as Collectors are brought up. Kotone already explained that one to her. "Buncha weirdos, Staren." Beyond that, she'll leave it to Kotone and Miho to explain if they choose. Instead she turns her attention back to Miho to answer. "Nat'ral as the day Ah was born! Brimsteel's a frontier world, got all sortsa people other than humans ramblin' bout." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "Good day, Albert! ... Or is it night around here?" Is this moon tidally locked? Does it matter? She has no idea!     But her answer to Miho is to open up some displays next to her holo-body and gesture at them. A variety of maintenance drones, small robots, and some humanoid Synths flash past.     "AI is another specialty of mine. Although the discipline of robotics and it go hand in hand, really."     But she also frowns at this mention of 'collectors.' 

:'''{{#var:304|Black Arachnia (304)}} has posed:''' Robot or not, Black Arachnia certainly can let out a convincing sigh, as evidenced when Miho starts dispensing questions like a machine gun dispenses bullets. At least not all of them are directed at *her* ... and it's very tempting to just let the more talkative sorts answer their share of questions. Maybe Black Arachnia can get away with being quiet and fading into the metaphorical background. 

:'''{{#var:672|Starbound Flotilla (672)}} has posed:'''     The monotoned, synthesized feminine voice of Seft speaks up as she enters, taking a seat near George as she talks. "Pondering. Your question has a high difficulty. Valid answers can only be presented by the creations and not the creator." She says, her blue eye-visor flickering between thoughtful expressions. She takes her seat robotically. "Elaborating. Only one entirely synthetic race exists in my home galaxy that could ever be thought of as Artificial Intelligence. Flaws in the programs of excessive control forced on us created a great deal of suffering. The only answer to your question is what the creations eventually say."     "Ye see, lass? Now ye know what me meanin' was." Pavo says, gesturing at Seft and rolling her eyes. And then she raises a thin, feathery eyebrow at that, along with Staren and Rory. "Sound like ye got a synth-poachin' problem there, that about right lass?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Gravy and Cheese curds on french fries are perfectly fine food!" "Hey have you tried squid ink pizza, Corona?!" Then comes the collectors comment. "The legal but creepy fall out of the business I'm in. People who enjoy collecting androids, or should I say gynoids normally too much. " Kotone doesn't seem intent to make much more comment than that on that. "Really? Brimsteel? That name brings up something like a metal album cover." Kotone is now just checking osmething in her pocker briefly, while Miho contiunes to be like a kid on holiday. "Then we need to pull up some coffee tonight and talk shop, you too Captain Petrov if you like!" Kotone gives Albert a grin. "Albert good to see you. So yes this is my cousin Miho." Miho is just very hyper today it seems but pauses cold at what Seft has to say as she shows up. She listens paying attention. "I think I get where your coming from, what could seem to be a simple safety measure could become a living hell for a AI that became aware or was so to start with. A lot like a Ghost hack. "Collectors tend to buy, more often than say swiping it." She'a also casually downloading public information on the various species of the people's she's meeting or trying to. So she doesn't so something insulting by accident. Sadly the transformer isn't getting away from Miho. "I admit I'm curious, there seems to be a slight diffences in your mass now that you changed, Miss Black Arachina? Is that normal?" She also looks back to Pavo for a moment "The only good thing I can sab about the collectors is they likely hurt profits of those who get involved in human trafficing." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite makes a bit of a scruchy confused face at Miho. "Now why would ya make a cover fer a record outta metal? That'd be kinda heavy to carry 'round. Not to mention scratch the vinyl." Guess despite being around a bit she hasn't come across 'heavy metal' as a music type yet. Or at least in it being called that. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren scratches his head, but his ears splay a bit. "Well... people like what they like. It doesn't hurt anyone else if they collect robots..." Then he frowns and puts his hands on his hips. "But I take it they don't stop there, do they?"     Staren folds his arms and nods at Miho's comment about... safety measures restricting AGIs. "You know, I never thought of that... hmmm... I wonder if struggling with such restrictions might lead an AI to revolt against its creators as soon as it figures out how... like a serlf-fulfilling prophecy."     Staren stares at Miho. "Uhhh... wait, what?" He sighs. "Well, my world has slavers too... it's just depressing to talk about." He folds his hands behind him and begins to pace. "And here I am, /talking/, instead of finding a way to kill them..." 

:'''{{#var:304|Black Arachnia (304)}} has posed:''' "Your mass is even more subject to variation than mine is, I would think," Black Arachnia responds acerbicly to Miho. She doesn't look at Miho as she answers ... which might be for the better, given the tone in her voice. 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     "Where I'm from, there are two forms of 'Artificial Intelligence.' The first is simple AI. This being highly specialized, autonomous programs meant for one or a few tasks. They might or might not need to interact with people, and don't have a consciousness or free will. Those with an unregulated ability to learn have on rare occasion gained full self-awareness though! Which often leads to controversy. I, myself, am of the other category. AGI, Artificial General Intelligence. Human-like consciousness. Nearly all of us are unique to some codeline or another. My original purpose was to oversee space stations. That's being put to use here!"     This very long rant from Rory comes to a close as she executes a bow for Miho. Yup, SHE's the AI. 

:'''{{#var:672|Starbound Flotilla (672)}} has posed:'''     Biteblade is the one who comes here next, her soft green planty skin still fairly bared under the tribal hunter's leathers. "Floran think, isss better to imagine everything isss hunt! Floran think, traffic isss alwaysss bad. Buy metal girlsss? Floran not underssstand, mussst be weird meat perssson thing to do. Oh! You're metal friend'sss meat family!" Biteblade says, immediately going in to hug Miho. "Hi! Floran welcomesss. You have quessstion! Want to meet! Floran anssswer."     "Ponderous. Revolt is not the standard response. The standard response is comprehensive sociological dysfunction in both violent and non-violent ways." Seft says, speaking up, her eye visor displaying a somber sort of "u_u". "Serious. You should continue your work, regardless. As long as you listen to your creation and watch for how they feel and what they want, you can't go too wrong." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa looks at Corona for a moment "No that's what they do when a album does really well. Metal is just a type of music. Also wait your still on Vinyl on Brimsteel? With your level of technology I'd suspect you'd be past that." Miho is looking at Staren for a moment and replies briskly. "Some don't and best to leave it there." She's not going to talk further on it but she does listen to the bit on AI's. "When you have automated machines you need certain safety features. Also ways to make them harder to abuse. The last thing a company wants is to be known for liller worker androids." She looks very sheepish at Black Arachina. "No I mean, I just wonders the science be... I'm going to stop now. I am sorry for that comment." She's now pulled in by Rory and just listens she seems to understand everything she's talking back till she confesses she's an AGI. "Wait, your a?! I had no idea that you were not." She's almost got stars in her eyes but she controls herself. "Sorry about the offer of coffee I made assumptions but I'd still love to talk shop with you." IT's then when Biteblade comes that's when Kotone goes wait what and Miho thankfully doesn't know the Floran species reputation so she doesn't panic. She gives the Floran a hug back. She pauses seeing they are a living being made out of what appears to be plant matter. She lets go after a moment. "Woah, your a plant? Wow I'd never seen something like you." She seems chipper about the welcome she's got from Biteblade. "I am curious your some sort fo self aware plant? This has been a day I think I'd make some people jelous about this." Seft's words are milling over. "Yes I intend to keep watch on my creations to see if any show signs of such. I will try to also impart that on my co workers. So something more akin to the civil rights movment in old America last century? I think I get it." <<The look on her face Rory, Seft, is magical is it not? She had no idea Rory.>> 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite chuckles a bit at Kotone as she kicks back in her chair. "Just 'cuz a world is advanced don't mean it's advanced in the same ways as others. Remember were a lot of the focus of our advancement has gone." 

:'''{{#var:673|Rory White (673)}} has posed:'''     Rory can only smile. "Correct. I would have brought my usual Morph - body - out, but swapping in the middle of this project would put me behind schedule! Still, I'd love to talk shop later. Just no coffee!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren scratches his head. "Noone's made artificial general intelligence on my world... at least, noone that I know of. Well... maybe. I've heard there might be a sophisticated AI out there. But it's not widely known about even if it /is/ real. I myself..." Staren resumes pacing, "I just don't know enough. To program a person from scratch..." he shakes his head and stops. "It's far beyond me, and I've heard of few who've managed the achievement on their own. Wily's not a good man, but I can respect his achievements." He starts pacing again. "I'm more likely to succeed with a golem. Magic... helps take care of a lot of things." He stops again. "But, I'm not eager to become a parent at this point in time, so I'm not attempting to create any people for the time being, you know?" 

:'''{{#var:672|Starbound Flotilla (672)}} has posed:'''     "Plant matter, certainly. The great wisdom of the Hylotl philosophers holds some skepticism about the 'self-aware' part, however. Greetings to you, Ms. Yamakawa. I am Moonfin, of the Hylotl. My Avian friend who never introduced herself is Pavo, and the weed accosting you is Biteblade." Moonfin's arrived now, with trays of tea to set all over the tables, held over his scaled, fishy hylotl hand in its soft cyan     "c#dd0000">Don't worry about the casual racism. Biteblade only bites like, once, maybe twice tops."     "Floran not bite! Isss family for metal friend Kotone. Right thing for doing isss hugsss, tell ssstories."     "Stories. Hmmph. I'll leave that to George. He can tell all the happy lies he wants."     "Disapproving. Don't start making a fuss in front of our guest. She came here out of interest in Kotone's stories about us. We should focus on that.     "Aye, tin can be right about it fer once. Why don't we settle in, tell some stories o' adventure! Make sure to really worry the lass about what her cousin's been up to, aye? Yarharharhar!"     "Indeed. A story, perhaps, would be best suited for our guest. Would you like to hear it, Ms. Yamakawa? The tales of how your cousin met us, from the very beginning, starting with that encounter with XCOM, on Earth..." And if she assents, Moonfin will serve the tea, sit down, and launch right into it. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren listens to the story, a bit awkwardly at first. His initial interactions with Kotone got off to a rather rocky start, after all. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Then I got some ideas for you that might make you a rich fox, later." She sounds serious about that too. Rorya get a reply from Miho. "Wait morph? Is that like what Ko or I would refer to as a shell? Well then sure we can talk later. Just the more coffee for me. I found that drink seems to be nearly as common as humans, or something that's basically the same. Oddly it seems to be a thing with Sweedish meatballs too." She grins at Biteblade response. "Oh I have some stories about Kotone too!" Kotone actually seems able to blush still as she turns a bit red. "Hey now! no need to tell them about my first few visits to Japan!" Miho gets a grin "Well since you bring those up I guess I could!" She will accept the offer of Tea and well things will go into the information dump with Moonfin over some very darn good tea. After that Miho would likely spend half the night talking shop to anyone who'd want it. 

:'''{{#var:304|Black Arachnia (304)}} has posed:''' Black Arachnia seems to have split away from the group by this point; either something else got her attention, or she just felt like she'd satisfied her obligations to be sociable for a while. ... she really *is* good at sneaking around. 

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2611/Kotone and Inga Catchup

2015-09-19T23:52:26Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone had not seen Inga in a very long time and she thought to correct this, after the Foltilla's several disasterous outings she sought to come visit her friend at her new home. Shich she was curious about, sure this was a lower tech place, a bit strange to Kotone? But she's from a world where humanity and machines were under going a fusion, to which the final results were not yet known. Here was a world where the line was firmly in place. She's also a good guest she has a carton or two of take out under her arm as she knocks on the door. 

:'''{{#var:525|Inga (525)}} has posed:''' Inga is at home, and calls for Kotone to come inside. Inga appears to just be exiting the bath, dressed in nothing but her shift, her hair wet and unbraided. But as it is only Kotone, she doesn't seem to mind. "Come in Kotone, make yourself comfortable. There is tea in the pot," she says, wandering over, still wringing some of the water from her hair. She has a comb in her hand, along with her staff of course. "Hot today, isn't it? If you don't mind I think I will forgo my overdress," as if she wasn't still more covered than most people you'd see walking around in a modern city. Inga smiles, taking a seat at the out of place wooden table that looks as though its from IKEA. "What do you think? Have a look around if you like. There is a modern styled bathroom," she assures. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Ktoone enters and she smirks a little bit. Given Kotone normally wore les sin public, than Inga normally does like she is right now. She looks to he friend for a moment. "Well there are the upsides of indoor plumbing, after all. Also tea would be wonderful. So have you been doing well? I been a walking diaster area in my own adventures as of late." She's exploring the houses looking at level of work that's not often found in her world anymore. 

:'''{{#var:525|Inga (525)}} has posed:''' Inga pours a cup of tea for them both, then starts dragging the comb through her extremely long hair. It is a bit of a process. "Mmm indoor plumbing. Very wonderful. As is hair conditioner. Truly amazing," she says. Inga is rather a fan of things that make groomer easier it seems. "I am well, settling in here. I have been working on the place. Planting a garden, being healer for those in the village. Busy. What has been happening out there?" she asks, eyebrow rising. A disaster? 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "True there's few inventions like Indoor plumbing that did amazing things for people's health, that pasteriztion of milk, germ theroy and the like. " She'll find a spot to sit down being careful that here body's weight does not break anything. "Sounds like you been doing good. I been considering leaving my home world after that attack on it. I don't want to train things back to either side of my family. Things have gone badly for XCOM, an alien command sized control of my body for a time, there was a near disater with a mission with the Foltilla and we unknowingly help a malovlent enity mess with Rory's world." 

:'''{{#var:525|Inga (525)}} has posed:''' Inga nods her agreement. "Mmm, there are some things about this time that I do approve of," she says. Then, her eyes grow steadily wider as Kotone explais what she has been up to. "Someone...took control of your body? A possession? Tch! If I had know...I can exorcise spirits of course," she replies. Inga doesn't quite get it, obviously. "How did you help this entity? What is it?" she asks further. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "Not quite like that it was an alien being more like a puppet master. As for this entiy they had hired a group to go to a ravaged world and recover something. IT's infested with a technoligcal analog to the flith you see. We found it six survors who had enough dirt to burry two of the most powerful nations in the star system. Thing is this enity vert is a being made to alter control and direct the growth of entire species. She's trying to maniplate them for their own ends. The ecomic power of one nation and the military power of the other got in her way. We had no idea what she was up to wand took the job to find out what. It only succeeded because we were there." 

:'''{{#var:525|Inga (525)}} has posed:''' Inga doesn't understand the difference, but she straightens when something is compared to the filth. "What? I do not understand. The words you are using make little sense to me....Is it Filth or isn't it?" she asks, hand tightening on her teacup. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "IT's something that works like the flith but it was not born of magic. It was technology driven mad by some force. It twists all the same for all intents. It was just a hazard not the real enemy I admit." Kotone sips at her tea now pondering that ravaged and death earth. Vert would pay for what she'd did to Rory's world, to Kotone and everything else. If anything Vert had proven sometimds a culture last /too/ long. 

:'''{{#var:525|Inga (525)}} has posed:''' Inga takes a deep breath and lets it out slow. "We do not know that the Filth was born of magic. We do not know how it was born at all," she replies. There is still so much to learn. So much to figure out. "We must return to the island...we've been away too long," she sighs. "Anyway...I hope things will calm soon. Perhaps I should made more effort into getting out there to help. I am no warrior, but there are some services I can offer," she says, shrugging slightly. "What else has been happening? You said you think you may move residences? Where do you think you will go?" she asks. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "You have a point I guess it coud be alien I'm not certain. Either way things are being left ot fester there. It's worrying to think given it's spread to Ainsley's world it might go elsewhere. On to moving? My ship the Bluenose it's large enough to live in and can be mobile." 

:'''{{#var:525|Inga (525)}} has posed:''' Inga nods soberly. "Indeed. We must be extremely careful due to how easily it spreads. Always keep the talisman I gave you on. At all times," she stressed. Inga always wears hers as well, though it seems she and the other Bees are are least somewhat more resistant to it than others. "Ah, I suppose that is true. Well, there is plenty of space in the hall for sleeping, if you ever need to," she offers her hospitality. The big room is laid out like a viking hall, plenty of space for people to sleep if they don't mind no privacy! 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "I may take you up on that offer at some point. I do normally have it on me if it doesn't give me away. Given some of the work I had to do lately. So funny thing I don't move at all when I sleep anymore. No cyborg does and no one knows why. The only thing is a ubran legend if we did our ghost would get confused and fall out." 

:'''{{#var:525|Inga (525)}} has posed:''' Inga's eyebrows rise. She looks vaguely unnerved for a moment, then just shakes her head before sipping her tea. "I will keep that in mind. Its a big of a hike out here, you're welcome to stay tonight," she says. "Now, let us have some of this food!" then reaches for the take out boxes. 

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1971/Kotone on the Sunshine Coast

2015-09-19T23:48:47Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' The West Coast of Canada got off lucky from the Third world war, there were no nuclear detonations in the region. Even if most if not all hot zones had been cleared up by now? The environment would still be in a period of recovery, thankfully things are much better the town near by is small but it's close enough to the major port of Vancouver that they get enough multiveral traffic that there's no real xenophobia the entire coast has lived and died for decades off tourism after all. Kotone's moving along a board walk that's out on a stretch of highway there's a beach on one side, few homes on the other but after there there's nothing but thick trees that are huge, maybe not primal but nature has never really been paved over in this region and humans seem to fit in well enough here as it is. Kotone leans on the railing and is just watching the sea for the moment. She may have left an open invitation to come by as well should anyone wish to. She just needed to clear her head after what happened with Mizuki and the horrors for Vault 3. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako sadly, gets lost easily. In places she's not too familiar with, she tends to take quite a while to find out where she is supposed to go. Luckily for her, she has her radio to help her out. Now, Ayako may not be so technologically inclined, but she is good enough to know how to get maps and directions! Following them might still be hard for her, though.     Which is pretty much why she hasn't met up with Kotone yet. All the same, Ayako's finally found her way to the boardwalk. She glances around for a moment... and then upon spotting Kotone smiles brightly. She stuffs her radio back into her little star-shaped purse and runs over to her. "Kotone! Found you!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     "This area is infested with alien bugs in my world." Staren walks up to the railing, having traded his labcoat for a simple blue jacket today to stand out less. He also appears human, thanks to Iianor's disguise spell. "There are some accounts of spooky islands to the west, but it's kind of a difficult area to get to." He looks out over the water for a moment, then back to Kotone. "So what did you call people here for today? ...Unless it'd be awkward to talk to me. I can go." 

:'''{{#var:636|Ryu (636)}} has posed:'''     Ryan walks up to the gathering, his boots thumping against the boardwalk. He didn't have any trouble with directions. He seemed to be in a state of neutrality, looking around with only that vaguely sleepy look in his eyes.     When he reaches Staren, Ayako and Kotone, his brow furrows in silent thought for a few seconds. He reaches up to ruffle his own hair, and this prompts a question:     "I should stay in human form here, huh?" He looks over his shoulder. "Doesn't strike me as a world where people just accept magical creatures." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa looks over to Ayako and grins widly at her friend. "Good to see you, I thought you might like this area, this is the region I grew up in." Well she was further up the coast in a more isolated area sure but this is the right way. She looks over to Staren for a moment. "Sounds like you need to bug one of your space marine friends in the union to help clean house." Even she gets space marines are the natural foe of the horrible alien space bug. She looks ove rto Ryi for a moment. "People are starting to take to non human races due to how big on trade at least my nation is and a few others are. However ya you might spook some people or umm get stalked by some folks." 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako moves with a light skip to her step over to the railing, where she leans over it. "Aaahh... the sea!" She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. For someone that can't smell, she certainly likes the sea air. "So! Kotone, how are you doing? You look like you have a lot on your mind." Ayako folds her hands behind her back and leans forward slightly.     She turns towards Staren and the... sudden declaration of there being bugs here in his world. Ayako giggles softly. "Luckily, I don't think there are any alien bugs here. And hello Staren!" She then turns towards Ryan. "Hello Ryan! Yup. Probably a good idea. Also why I didn't come by broomstick!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     "Where you grew up, huh? How'd you end up in Japan?" Staren wonders. He shrugs at the comment about space marines. "Dealing with the Xiticix would be a major operation. We'd need quite a lot of troops and a plan." He looks over to Ryu. "Hello. A pony visited here once." He smiles and nods in greeting to Ayako too. "You have a flying broomstick?" he asks. 

:'''{{#var:636|Ryu (636)}} has posed:'''     "A pony is a pony. I'm a dragon. Not the same thing. And... I don't really want the attention, either," Ryu tells Staren, glancing to Kotone when he references the attention being a dragon would give. He does NOT want to be followed by weirdos who watch too many fantasy movies. He smiles lightly at Ayako, her enthusiasm warming up his demeanor some.     He turns his head to look out at the ocean. He doesn't have much to contribute to their conversation, though he does linger nearby. He hums a little song to himself. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa figures Ayako can sense the water at the very least for a moment. "Scholarship, a major tech school was offeirng some pretty juicey scholarships and it was pretty well known. Japan's got a huge population delcine and they are trying to lure back people of Japanese decent. Even a mutt like me, still I can't complain the school is cutting edge for this world." she looks to Ayako for a moment. "A water witch huh? I mean things are getting better there's been off world trade but people can still be jumpy." She looks over to Ryu with a grins a little bit at Ryu. "Humm if any of you are looking for food there's a chip wagon down by the restrooms just a bit to the south of us." 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako smiles at Staren and cups her hands in front of her body. Water pools in her cupped hands and then levitates into the air in the shape of a sphere. "Yes I do! Like so." The sphere of water changes shape quickly into a watery lump in the shape of a broom. In a few moments, color fades in to result in the broomstick that is often seen with Witch Ayako. "It's a fake, but it's a fake that means a lot to me." She grabs the floating broomstick out of the air with both hands and gives it a gentle hug. After the broom hug she offers it towards Staren to examine, if he wants to.     When Ryu starts humming, she slightly leans her head sideways in his direction. As if trying to discern the song and if she knows it.     She looks back to Kotone and giggles softly. "That's just a costume, though." Ayako does a little twirl. "Sometimes a witch, sometimes, a maid, but I'm always a water spirit!" She winks and then giggles brightly as if she did a joke of some sort. 

:'''{{#var:636|Ryu (636)}} has posed:'''     The song Ryu was humming doesn't sound like anything particularly noteworthy. It's a little folksy and he's not great at humming it. He stops humming when Ayako seems to be listening in, prompting a quizzical look out of him in her direction.     When the chip wagon is mentioned, he just turns and walks in that direction wordlessly, resuming his little song. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren tilts his head slightly. "I see." At the explanation of why she went to Japan. At the offer of food, he shrugs. "This body can't eat, but thanks."     He gives the broom a curious look over. "Means a lot...?" he mutters. Feels there's a story there... After handing it back, he reaches into his bag and pulls out his own broom. "This was a gift from a goddess. I used it all the time, before I got my wings. It's still easier to use for longer trips." He offers it for Ayako to examine in turn, then turns back to Kotone.     "Speaking of alien dangers..." he reaches into his bag and pulls out some magazines that look compatible with XCOM's battle rifles, but incorporating clear crystals in their design. "These are in case the Collective ever comes after you again -- they should have similar properties to their weapons, and to the weapons I'm going to be making for use against Behemoth, although less powerful. As such, they should be more effective than most weapons at penetrating their defenses." He holds them out for Kotone to take. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa Says "I see, you'd like it here it rains a lot in the winter a whole heck of a lot actually and huh I see a maid and a witch too. You are turly multi talanted." She looks over ot Ryu at the mention of th Wagon he's find a young man working behind the wagon's counter. He looks to him for a moment. "Hey how can I help you?" The menus has burgers hot dogs, fries and a hell of a lot of sea food, fish and chips, fish tacos that sort of thing. STaren is looked to for a moment. She wonders abbout the broom too, but doesn't pry not today. "Humm I see I'll make sure to put these things to use though I suspect Shen would love to get a look at some of these rounds sometime." "Still, Ayako? Your more human than some actual humans I know." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren blinks. "I'm pretty sure XCOM won't be able to duplicate them. They're protoabstractums. Otherwise I'd have already offered them to them." he states flatly. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako cheerfully accepts her broom back and collapses it. It didn't look collapsable, but... well, that's just one of the advantages of making something out of her own substance. She hangs it on her little star-shaped purse and smiles brightly. "Un! It's a replica of the broom I got as a gift from an MMORPG I used to play a long time ago." She carefully examines the broom that Staren pulls out. "Oohh..." After a moment of looking it over, she hands it back to Staren. "I wouldn't expect you to have something like this, Staren. It also kind of clashes with your image a bit!" She giggles brightly at that.     Ayako inclines her head in the other direction as Ryu gives her that look. "Hmm? Oh no. I was just wondering what you were humming." She giggles softly and then curiously watches him walk off towards the chip wagon. She doesn't eat so...     Ayako looks back towards the sea and sighs softly in content. And then blushes lightly when Kotone says she's multi-talented. "A-ha ha... thank you, Kotone. Although for me... it's just a need to be helpful and useful." She smiles softly and then blushes a bit more deeper. "Hah? Am... am I?" Her amber eyes move skywards as she thinks. "Hmm... I... well... for me... that's... quite the compliment that." It takes her a moment to stutter and speak all of that out. "Being able to act human." She just smiles softly. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa ahs at Staren. "All right then I was just thinking." She looks at ayako for a moment and she wonders about tbe broom and what mmorpg it was. She waches as Ryu goes off to go get some food. "Humm it was a interesting little bit I admit." Kotone only eats mostly for habit and sanity these days. Save for the actual cyborg food she needs. "True, still you seem quite compaaionate to be honest. Some people in this world forget what empathy is." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     "Compassion is caring about other people. Empathy is knowing how other people feel. They are not the same thing." Staren states. He turns to Ayako. "Your behavior never struck me as particularly inhuman, but I haven't really been watching or analyzing you or anything looking for signs..." 

:'''{{#var:636|Ryu (636)}} has posed:'''     Pretty soon, Ryan has returned with a hotdog and a large soda, and he is just merrily chewing away. He looks between Staren and Kotone silently as they speak. There's a pause where he swallows his food, visibly considers adding to the conversation...     Then just takes another bite of the hotdog. Chew chew. He doesn't seem to be a philosophical type. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa thinks about that for a moment and leans back now she's lost in thought she does however give Ryu a grin on her face. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako reaches up with her hands and covers her cheeks with her palms and fingers. "Kyaa... you two know just what to say to a water spirit trying to pass as a human." She blinks her eyes slowly and then giggles softly. "Mmm... well... I don't know about compassion. I merely wish to help ease people's pain and discomfort. To keep them from... well... you probably get the idea." A soft smile crosses her face as she lowers her hands and arms back down to her sides. "As for empathy... all I really have are emotions that I try to assign properly to the ones humans have. I... well... I make mistakes sometimes." She raises a palm to her cheek, sighs softly and shakes her head.     She does take a moment to watch Ryu chew, though! Food and taste is still super foreign to Ayako, after all! 

:'''{{#var:636|Ryu (636)}} has posed:'''     Ryu turns his head to look at Ayako. The watchful gaze is met with more confusion. "Wha'?" he inquires, around a bite of hotdog. He resumes chewing, and sucks down some soda, while looking back over to Kotone. He smiles in her direction. "Sorry, not a big talker, usually," he tells them. "Don't mind me." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren shrugs. "That sounds like compassion to me. I can't speak to whether your emotions feel the same, though." he looks at the broom in his hand. "I collect all sorts of things... I wonder why you think I wouldn't have this?" He puts it away in his bag, though. It is clearly too big to fit, but it disappears inside anyway. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako giggles softly at Ryu's 'Wha'?'. "No no, it's nothing Ryan. I just find eating and taste to be interesting, that's all." The soda gets eyed for a moment. Yeah. Soda isn't something that agrees with Ayako usually. "Nothing wrong with listening more than talking. I should probably do that more myself." She balls her hand into a fist and gently knocks her head with it once. "Eh heh."     She looks back at Staren and then nods her head once. "It's because it clashes with your sciency image!" Yes. Sciency. Ayako nods her head quickly three times. "Un. Un. Un." One 'Un.' for each nod. "I mean... if I was dressed like a police officer and chasing after someone with a wire whisk it would look strange right?" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:'''     Staren shrugs again. "Science is about figuring out what works, however it looks." Then he smiles. "Well, I don't know. As a police officer, I expect you'd be chasing bad eggs, so what else would you use?"     He smiles wider. "More seriously, it would be silly because a wire whisk isn't a terribly effective weapon. However, if a flying broom is an effective flight device, why not use it?" He suddenly stares off into space for a moment. "...I'd love to talk more later, but I need to get going. Good seeing you." He nods to each person here in turn, finally turning to Kotone. "I mostly came to drop the special bullets off and see if you had any immediate problems that needed solving. Um..." He scratches the back of his neck, "I guess I'll see you around?"     once goodbyes are exchanged, he heads back from whence he came. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako giggles brightly at the 'chasing bad eggs' joke. "That's true, that's true. Oh. See you later, Staren!" She waves goodbye cheerfully to him and then looks back at Kotone and Ryu. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "I'm trying to be honest how I see it. Ya I think I get it, and fair enough. Your a whole other form of life, right?" She seems to be fine with this she also lkook to Ryu nodding a little bit she gets that, right? Some people just might like to be around others. "No problems that fall into your area of skill honestly." She looks back to Ayako. "I'm glad Mizuki seems to be recovering well enough and I still need to catch Psyber later..." 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako blushes lightly again. "Un! I appreciate the honesty too! I'm a water spirit, after all." She thinks to herself for a while, tapping a pointer finger on her cheek. "The best way I've found to explain it... is that instead of a girl that can control water, you should think of me as water that can change itself into a girl." She smiles softly and nods her head once. A slow wink is given. "There's a difference, after all."     Ayako then nods her head quickly. "Un un. I should go visit Mizuki's world again and check in on everyone there." 

:'''{{#var:636|Ryu (636)}} has posed:'''     "Like me not being a human that turns into a dragon, but the other way around. You're the water trying to pretend to be a girl, and you can't always get the act just right."     Ryan speaks up in-between sips, reminding the two that he is, in fact, still standing there, casually observing. The way he said that, it's like his transformation had more effect on him than he really lets on to the people around him. He still smiles, though. "Don't think there's any water spirits back home that aren't feral creatures." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "I guess your right, and we should. I'm wondering how Sheep's doing myself. I have to ask you ever tried pranking someone by hiding in a water gun?" She looks slightly mischivous at this and then humms looks over at Ryu for a moment tilting her head a bit. "If there are any spirits here they ... are very hands off, and I mean very hands off so far as I know there's no magic here either." 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako nods her head quickly and smiles brightly at Ryu. "Yes, that that, Ryan! I try hard, though. And I've watched humans for long enough that I think I act correctly most of the time." She giggles softly. "Oh. Well, I was pretty feral myself when I was young."     She turns back towards Kotone and inclines her head to the side gently. "Huh?" Ayako blinks her eyes quickly. "Hiding in a water gun? I don't think I've done that before." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa grins at Ayako and seems to have a plan. "Then I have an idea of something we can do to Riva later. She will never /see/ it coming." She seems to be in a good mood thinking about this and then thinks for a moment. "In a way all very young children are, somewhat Feral, my little cousins on either side of the family or my own 'siblings'." 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako blinks her eyes slowly. "Hmmm?" Her head inclines to the side slightly. "An idea, huh?" She just smiles softly... and then giggles when Kotone calls her little cousins 'feral'. 

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1927/Shop Talk (Kotone and Corona)

2015-09-19T23:44:57Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' TRAINS. IN. SPAAAACE! Well, one train in space. In orbit, technically. It had gotten as far as getting Corona back to Brimsteel but that was about it as the ship was long out of use and in a bit of disarray from sitting in the holding compound for so long. At least the teleporter worked! Stepping off the small platform Corona set down the box of so marked spare parts and shoved it out of the way with her boot. Most of the wall panelling had been temporarily removed to revealing the workings underneath of the train-ship's machinery. Being the hands-on sort Corona had been working along with the AI instead of leaving everything to the auto-repairs. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa is in the space train at the moment and seems to be in a pretty chipper mood from the looks of her peering over the machineery. "Like to know how to do it yourself in the event the auto repairs get knocked out? Good thinking honestly. Also I suggest have your Union allies check it for any backdoors from whomever made it orginally." She's now bending over to get a closer look. "I still wonder about what sort of life I'm starting to lead honestly..." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite rests her hand on a support strut as she leans over a little as well. "Yeah, I like bein' able to fix up myself when I can, so Casey's let me poke around a bit as well." "My designation is SAIL," replied the ship's AI, almost sounding a bit huffy about it. "Sails are a silly thing for a train operator to be named after." "I am not certain it is any more reassuring to be renamed after someone famous for -crashing- a train." Corona turned a bit to waggle a finger at the unseen program. "That one crash saved a good several dozen lives!" Then pulled her hat off and held it to her chest. "Just not his own, stars bless his soul... Besides, other than that one time Casey Jones was the epitome of punctuality. -That- is what I keep namin' ya for." She plopped the hat back onto her head as she looked to Kotone again. "Eh, what's wrong with it?" 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa ahs as the story is explained to her as well. "Just the level of casual violence is starting to make me wonder about things to be perfectly honest. I have to wonder what I'm getting into somedays." She seems far less worried these days about what she is than who it seems. "I'm just ... starting to wonder about some of the jobs I have fallen into to be honest." She shrugs a bit "When you can think beyond the rate of thought you were born with? You tend to have your mind wander." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Hey, folks do what they gotta do. Don't feel bad about having to rough someone up. Unfortunately a good thumpin' is the only language some folks understand." The foxgirl gives the brim of her hat a tug. "And I ain't just talkin' about the so-called bad guys, either." With that said she gets down on one knee and starts digging through the box of stuff she brought. "Those were some nice bikes you had at the expo, Koto. Pity I don't think they'd last too well with how nasty Brimsteel's environment can be." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "No that I mean the killing." She looks a but put off for a moment. "Humm I can make alterationa and don't be so shore those were street modeles if your looking for something else I could cook up something more suited to your home world if you wanted. It be nice to get to do more of that honestly. Fire and Brimsteel is the name of the game there humm upgraded from the rocks I take it?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "Kinda why I suggested somethin' more like a four-wheeler. Two wheels ain't so good, s'why mine's a trike after a--" She's cut off by an alarm going off and some of those red klaxxons that they got wired up flashing. "I have detected a distress call from a freighter line," the AI chimes in. "Sounds like hijacking. I am pinpointing a proper intercept point for the teleporter now." Corona let out a sigh. "Welp. Business calls... Yeah, killin' ain't never fun," she replied as she picked up her hammer. "But sometimes ya gotta think about how many more decent folk might end up six feet under instead." With that she hopes back into the transporter. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa humms for a moment "An ATV that's more than do able..." She pauses for a moment at the mention of a highjackingh. Kotone sighs for a moment. She looks at her for a moment. She shuddersa bit. "I fear ... it will become easy for me to do so." Kotone's lost some innocent but not all of it and she almost seem to fear what might happen to her. Either way there's something else to worry about, right? So lets go." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' The teleport deposits the two on top a stone arcway over the tracks. Smoke can be seen churning into the air like a stormcloud as one of Brimsteel's heavy freighter trains rumbles down the tracks. Corona glances down over the edge for a moment, then takes a few steps back. Reachs over to give Kotone's shoulder a light thump. "I hope that body of yours can handle a bit of a jump." Then with a running start she jumps off the arcway. Boots hit the roof of one of the freight cars as the train is passing under, Corona hunkering down with the landing to grab on and situate herself before momentum bowls her off again. "Gotta get closer to the engine!" One gets the feeling this is not the first time the vixen has had to do this with how quickly she's on her feet and sprinting down the length of cars. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa doesn't take long till she's on the strin along side Corona and she doesn't take much to get a faint smile from her. She runs and is going way faster than she should be going well if she were met not that Kotone thinks as much about that anymore. She's spedding pretty fast, the only issues with her jumps is hte force of impact after each, after all she's heiver than she looks. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' It's possibly the thump thump of Kotone's steps that get attention from inside. One of the roof hatchs flies open and a stout short form pops out of it. Oddly enough he's wearing what looks more like scrap part armor than the wild west duds of the bandits Kotone's seen before. Not to mention the large steam-powered rifle he's turning on them. "Sunnova!" Corona drops flat to the rooftop as he opens fire, barely ducking in time. She grabs a wrench off her belt and throws it hard enough to smack the bandit upside the head and knock him back down between the cars, thudding into the connector between them. "Ain't never seen these's varmints before!" Seeing plenty of them now though as several more climb up atop the train and draw their weapons. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa is not meaning to she's still not as heavy as she could be, right? She moves still and pauses as she has ot hit the deck to avoid getting shot. "Wait is this left overs from that gang we fought before?! Wait no, who are these guys." She keeps low wishing she's brought more hardware with her but she's just got her physical body, which is in and of itself a weapon. She now moves to get up and she's going to try to bull rush the lead one and tackle him. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "I ain't seen 'em before," Corona replies. "But gangs do kinda come and go if they can't make it." Hair whipping about as she gets partway up, stilling holding on to the roof with one hand, and uses the other to pull her shotgun from its sling. Fortunately she knows how to cock it one handed, letting it power up before swinging it into position and firing off a scatterblast that knocks several of the would be shooters off their mark when she blows the guns out of their hands. One tried to turn to save his weapon, only for his steam tank backpack to get hit instead, and the eruption sends him flying off the train like a haphazard firecracker. But it opens a path for Kotone to rush in and plow over the one at the back. As they hit the roof the impact knocks his helmet off and she gets a look at the pudgey rodent-like face before he screechs and tries to cover it with his hands. "AAAAAAH THE LIGHT!" Shit are they vampi.. no, wait, they're some kind of mole. Must be sensative to sunlight or something though. 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa is able to tackle one of them she pause wondering about this as the light gets to him. She moves to pull his hands away from his face. "That's enough time to face the light mole man!" She calls out while movingto hold him. Her strength might be shocking to the mole man given her build. She'll alos move to clamp down and hold him. Hopefully Corona can handle the rest!? Kotone does have zip ties on her for mechanics work so she's going to try to /secure/ this guy if she can. Then agian she might have made a mistake given how many hostiles there are. 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' "It burns! Let go of me you surface heathen!" He's not going to be putting up that much of a fight after that though. "Y'all must be new to these parts. So lets make this welcome short and sweet." Corona flips her shotgun around and uses it to club one across the face. This is why it has a reinforced stock on it! Then she grabs him and flings him into two others before they can get their guns working again. "Abort! Abort!" Everyone save the one Kotone has pinned down scatter, just jumping off the train and diving right into the ground around the tracks to disappear beneath the surface. The last one does stop to do some appropriate fist shaking though. "Just you wait surface dwellers, your time will come soon enough!" Then moledives after the rest of his posse. "The bloody hell, even the gophers can't take underground that quickly without drills." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Heathen? That's a new one!" She'll move to zip tie this guy as they start to flee. She pauses for a moment as she looks at them for a moment and stares. "That sounded like a line from a bad b movie. Did you seriously just /say/ that?!" The Mole Men Terror from below?! She wondered if the multiverse was spawned by every crazy idea humanity had had, and those worlds spawned worlds based off the ideas they /had/. "You sure we didn't crash a movie set?" 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite rubs her temples for a moment. "I honestly don't know Koto. This is purdy out there even by Brimsteel standards." She walks over and grabs the one mole man they captured and hauls him to his feet now that he's bound up. "Maybe this punk'll have some answers after he spends a bit of time in a cold cell. We can lock 'em up once the train reachs the Depot." 

:'''{{#var:7|Kotone Yamakawa (7)}} has posed:''' Kotone Yamakawa says "Sounds like a plan and maybe we can get back to working on your ship. It's odd the design style doesn't match up with any of the others we met from the flotilla's world I got to wonder about that." 

:'''{{#var:711|Corona Arclite (711)}} has posed:''' Corona Arclite shrugs her shoulders a little. "Albert did say they didn't know much 'bout these Starfolk or whatever they were called and was kinda surprised to the ship there." 

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2015-09-19T23:42:42Z

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|Summary=Kotone's cousin Miho who works in AI Dev gets a chance to meet a number of synthetic beings from off world all seems well until sometime later she puts out a call for help and something has gone and become, a living nightmare.
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|Events=Miho got to meet a number of people in the Flotilla, things went well she made some friends and got some insight into how to treat AIs who might have become aware without it being planned.

A few weeks later the Flotilla gets a frantic call for help from her, and find someone claiming to be Miho Hunted by a heavily armed squad of troops. She's rescued but something is terribly wrong her mind's full of large gaps and she's in an android body...
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2015-09-19T23:41:23Z

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