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Tradus 21h wrote:At the time he had Gotten out from his Quarters, Varisntium would just now be finished talking to whoever or whatever was on the other side of the Communicator upon his shoulder, looking back towards him as he was just now pointing to the Guard's Suit and eventually talking to him, the guard in question would seem rather adamant on talking to him and instead of talking back towards him the most the guard would do is turn to face him, his Visor still being down and Covering the rest of his face, while the weapon he held within his hands would seem to be Deactivated.

Eventually though Varistium would seem to answer Markway's Questions and statements all the while pointing to the helmet the guard had on currently;
"Thats Actually the Latest set of Combat Armor, the Traduitarians have at our Disposal.. while not being that much more better than the Trifecta Equipment some of the Higher ups have it's still something.."

"Anyways! You can speak these thing's Language right? because if so then.. Your not against some "Diplomatic and Translation" work right? Even if.. you are our well.. "Captive" but in my eyes your more a less a "Guest" but despite that... if you wouldn't mind following me.."

As the Colonel would finish speaking he would seem to Motion both towards the Guard and Markway to follow him, as he were to make his way down the corridor they were within, looking back every now and then to make sure they were close to him, and to keep track of him on their way, they would pass by several other Rooms and Compartments of the ship they were within, some of these Compartments seemed to be of Minor Importance while a few of them seemed to be critical areas, as the moment they were close the entrances and exits to these Compartments would close behind them on their way out.

Eventually though, the Screaming would once more began to start and this time with a much more stronger Intensity, to everyone else they could not hear it let alone even know it was starting once more, but Markway being with them and in much more Closer Proximity could hear everything it was saying, and with greater Detail as it spoke within it's Native Language, seeming to be calling out for whoever or whatever to rescue or to save her.

"Latest set..like..recently? I'm so telling everyone about this"

Markway paid little attention to the journey to his first use. To him, the way there was quick. He looked around as they walked, trying to figure out the ins and outs of this odd ship. He didn't notice anything familiar, no tv screens, no breakroom..no simulation chamber..not even the scent of the innermost layer of the Dilbertuese Etherhull. Not even a week, and he already missed that smell.

His curious looking about was interrupted by that hive again. She was screaming in her native language for help..they must've captured her recently, telling from the screaming. He entered the chamber, and sat down on the nearest thing he could sit on.

"So..what do you want me to do? try and calm her down? get some info off of her? I told you before, I had this sh*t literally burned into my mind. I could tell you everything you wanted to know..and more."

Triporea wrote:The man had drowned by this point in the proceedings. Having been stuck in the tar for far too long. The robot thus, still tried to approach him. Not really caring about Harlock at this point.

Jazmin nodded. “R-right, fire powers... burn machine if machine bad.”

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She nodded, “it’s all about high class and high society over here. But they don’t eat like this for every meal. Only very few can. It’s just a weekly luxury they get to enjoy.” She smiled. “Now what should we do?”

Harlock holds the body up higher out of the robots reach as he looked to it again before looking back to the human's body. reaching up with his other hand to see see if he could be brought back with a pulse, though he does consider that it would likely be a farce since his lungs were likely full of tar. "Are you trying to revive him? Or do you need the body for something...?"

Filia just stayed with an arm out to defend Jazmin as she looks to the creepy robot "Uh... Harlock... Maybe you should give him the human? He's already passed... Maybe it can talk after?"

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"High society huh... Jeez my people are more laid back compared to yours it's scary... But that's alright. It wouldn't make all this half as fun if I knew what was going to happen." He says as a smile stretches across his lips before he looks back to her "Hmm? Oh that's easy. I want to see the best Landmark you can think of."

The Ebony Republic wrote:"Right. Frames." The woman got back into the Vindicator Frame, leading Helka to where the Gauss Frame was. It was...quite something, even compared to the Vindicator Frame. Mátevá got out of her frame via the cockpit and jumped down to look at it with Helka. The Gauss Frame, like most frames, was a bit more than double the height of a main battle tank, giving it a significant height advantage already. Gauss was made of Arcalite, with two wings extending from its back and two focusing irises for well, focus weapons in its palms. Its fingers appeared jointed, and it seemed, only to Helka, resonate on the same brainwaves as her, the same psionic frequency, so to speak.

As she was near, it kneeled down and opened the cockpit, to which Mátevá took a key with the symbol of a lightning bolt on it and handed it to Helka. "Your key. Needed to start it obviously. Your password will be something special to you, so make sure you remember it when you make it. Critical thing, never risk the cockpit or the frame. If it hits near there, it could overload the Drive and cause it to implode and....well...there's a reason there's safeguards on them. Plus it's expensive." She half-joked, lightly punching Helka in the arm. "Go ahead, get in and start her or him up. Or it."

As Mateva got her to where her frame was docked, she looked to it for a good long moment. Taking in every detail of its almost angelic appearance. Built to be agile and maneuverability, that much she could tell. It took her a moment but she could already feel that there was a connection there, a subtle one but one she could definitely feel. Even as they got close to it she moved her head slightly from side to side, watching as it mimics her in a way before she takes a step towards the cockpit. Listening to Mateva about her password, she just smiles fondly as she thinks of the service tag that Elzi decided to give her as a joke. She finally got into the cockpit and had it close around her as she put her password "... Pr33tlady"

Necunda wrote:He squeeks a bit from the force of the hug, godammed he just got extra embarassed from that, but since its from her its alright. As she hugs him, he would rub his nose on hers as another form of affection. "Relationships for Status or symbol? that is a really stupid idea, no offense on your culture, whats the point of a relationship if both of them dont actually have any interest on each other and only serve as a way to attain something? its kinda egotistical in my point of view... Buut.. our relationship does represent a symbol." He says as he looks into her eyes.

"Unity."

By The time he was finished talking, the both of them would feel the Train come to an Abrupt halt, Looking outside of their Row's Window would reveal that they were in or close to some type of Train Station, and waiting outside was not only a Horde of People and individuals waiting to get onboard, but also a large city within the background.

Yet as the Train would come to a stop and the other Passengers aboard would begin to stirr about, Laura would seem to speak, all the while seeming to move away from him in an attempt to get what the two of them had packed;

"Well... I'm, glad you think of our relationship like that... Most people wouldn't or atleast most, of the Suitors I've had to experience... Mainly do it for Status, Influence or power.. Because... Us Hybrids are a Rarity, and rightfully so.. Most of us die before we even get to Five due to the Biological Incompatibilities... And. Other reasons, for me... I can't see in my left eye, and.. As much as it is an Annoyance, its still treatable".

As she was finished she was able to bring down both of their Luggage with one attempt, the weight not even being that much of an issue for her, as it would be for him: holding up both of their bags before once again speaking while using her free hand and extending it out towards him, Smiling brightly as she were to do so, and eventually would speak;

"Besides... Unity maybe a factor of our relationship, but there is also another you've forgotten to include, Dedication come on.. We've Just gotten here, and I want to show you around, Nova maybe large and all but its nothing like, Jzeiv

Honour guard wrote:Harlock holds the body up higher out of the robots reach as he looked to it again before looking back to the human's body. reaching up with his other hand to see see if he could be brought back with a pulse, though he does consider that it would likely be a farce since his lungs were likely full of tar. "Are you trying to revive him? Or do you need the body for something...?"

Filia just stayed with an arm out to defend Jazmin as she looks to the creepy robot "Uh... Harlock... Maybe you should give him the human? He's already passed... Maybe it can talk after?"

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"High society huh... Jeez my people are more laid back compared to yours it's scary... But that's alright. It wouldn't make all this half as fun if I knew what was going to happen." He says as a smile stretches across his lips before he looks back to her "Hmm? Oh that's easy. I want to see the best Landmark you can think of."

The man would not come back, the tar had properly killed him. And it was a bit too late. The robot watched as Filia and Jazmin approached. Looking back at Harlock. If Harlock gave the robot the body, it simply grabbed the body by the neck, and started dragging it away. If he didn’t give the robot the body, it started walking towards Filia and Jazmin.

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She nodded, “hm... the best land mark? Well, I have an idea.” She smiled and stood, “come on.” The two left the restaurant, being given a kind farewell by the maitre. The two walked on the streets for a moment, Liline singled a cab. From the road, a black runabout pulled over. It had a driver wearing a black suit and goggles. The runabout itself had a backseat, plus a foldable roof, but no doors. Liline climbed in the back, sliding over so Sephus could get in. Liline handed the driver a coin, which he put into a little pouch.
“Thanks, bruv. Where to gov’na?”
“Mera Emas.” Liline said. The driver nodded, and pulled a lever. The car racing off the curb. Sephus would get to experience driving here first hand, people didn’t have speed limits! They only had stop signs, no streetlights! The roads had no lines or markings! And all the cars just floored it around the carriages. It was quite mad. But, the gentle sputtering of the steam engine was... soothing in an odd mechanical way. The little runabout zoomed up avenues and boulevards. Past buildings and carriages. Until it came to the base of a massive hill. There was a road going up the hill, but it had a large iron gate with gold trimmings. There were two walkways on either side of the gate, with palace guards. Soldiers that wore black and white uniforms, with a gold plumed czapka. Liline exited the cab and nodded to the driver in thanks. Sephus noticed that the guards were letting people through the gates after checking them, but it was a long climb from there. One would have to follow a winding and twisting road all the way to the top. But at the top... Sephus saw a huge, massive castle. And just barely... he spotted golden domes peaking over the top of the castle. Liline headed for the gates. Stopping to get checked, and then heading up the stairs. “Hope you’re ready for a bit of a climb.”

Triporea wrote:Before Shanalotte had even departed they were bringing back in the calvary units. The commanders already knew what had to be done here. Plus a weight had been lifted with Shanalotte’s departure. As she left, Chelmsby took a deep breath. “All camps are secure... calvary are coming back. Lady Hurlocke, what’s the situation with our bombers?”
“Only a few targets were actually hit. AA fire pushed many of our craft away. We lost one plane too, shot down further inland.” Chelmsby sighed. But at that moment, Lord Bháin entered. With the Taurus. The measctha had a dirty face, dust had mixed with the sweat and coated his face. But he seemed elated otherwise. “Ay, you shoulda seen this glorious chap in the field! Big ole brute, I say!” He laughed, “Absolutely incredible display. Though, I have to ask, how many of them antler havin’ shysters you slash?”

The Taurus general grunted as he entered in behind the Measctha into the command center. He was also covered in dust and dirt, as well as some blood that had already dried into his uniform, marking it eternally. He wasn't as elated as the Lord, remaining rather stern, but he was a bit pleased with their progress, "A few dozen, I wasn't counting. Neither were the Watrike, so I suppose we'll never know. Still, the mission was done, and the rebels felt many losses. We had little ourselves, thankfully. Though I suppose the Ialao were expecting simple Beziman riding in, rather than Watrike and one crazily bold Measctha, so we had that advantage."

Honour guard wrote:Along with the Harbinger's heavy ordnance, the Excave Zerg Ravagers fired their bile artillery into the supporting forces with Hydralisks focus firing their serrated spines into targets who were in disarray by their renewed counter attack. And as Mely planned, two Nydus worms emerged behind their lines, spawning forth a short wave of Baneling's into their rear flank, the Hunter banelings leaped into their lines with feverous disregard for their lives. The Nydus worms retreating back underground and collapsing the tunnels behind them to lower the risk of them being taken out.

Looking around her, seeing her sisters working hard with her mother working even harder to make sure that they settle into this new home that she did her best to make... Yajana swelled with something she thought she lost long ago. She swelled with pride, seeing that her race has already started to atone for all the evil they have done as they changed in the hands of so many vile masters they can finally start to do some good in the galaxy instead of aid in it's destruction any longer. "Yeah... I should rest. If you're going to be staying out here..." She pauses for a moment before she takes his hand in hers as she smiles up to the Watrike. "Make sure to come back to me alive at the very least." She remains like that for a moment more, smiling sweetly up to the one that watched over her as she adjusted to this bizarre way of living, with her cheeks flared red before she moved to go rest in the barracks.

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A coy smile crossed the lips of the Sin of Greed, her ears bending forward slightly as she picks up on his sudden backpedaling on he appearance. Holstering the revolver, after paying for it all naturally, she started to leave the store with Rovin in tow as they made their way to the shipyards "So you prefer a girl who looks alittle wild huh?" She says as she teasingly flickers her tails towards him as thy kept walking. "What sort of relationship would a pair of 'casual mercenaries' have do you think?" She was definitely out to tease him now after what she caught on to. Not that she wasn't flattered of course.

The Omnipo forces, while disoriented by the sudden and deadly counter-attack, fought back fiercely. They were rather desperate at this point as Tamour suspected, and so they fought with the ferocity of cornered beasts. Turning their automatic weapons to the flanks while the main forces pressed forward, disregarding a deal of safety in an attempted to rush into the Hydralisks and Ravagers. Still, regardless of their fighting spirit, the true heart of their army was struggling. While an OMNI Cyclops was capable of anti-air, it was meant to shoot down more simple craft like bombers and fighters, and at most gunships. But Dragons were a whole different beast. More maneuverable in the air, with a massive amount of firepower being unleashed from their armor as they circled the Mech. Admiral Tamour was certainly not lying about the power of his Combat Drakes, as it was not long before the Mech started to lose balance, its shield generator already destroyed. It simply fought on desperately, losing effectiveness with every moment as another shell tore out a chunk of its armored hide.

Mierl was, in truth, also very happy to see how well Yajana's family was adapting and joining in. For a few different reasons. First, they of course learned that Excave was willing to cooperate with them and trust them, proving that the offer for a new life was genuine. Secondly, they would forge bonds in the fighting as they fought alongside Excave troops, which would help them to open up more. Finally, this battle would have proved to them all there were dangers out there, like Omnipo, they were not able to face alone, and this battle showed them that Excave could help fill in the gaps of their abilities, further encouraging cooperation, which rapped back around to the first benefit. A good cycle, to whom the only one he worried about was Sieg. The others seemed fine now. Mierl smiled back to Yajana and nodded, "I promise not to die. That would be a poor action to take when the battle is almost won. I'll come and join you when it's over." With that, he waved her off, and then moved back to the front in order to check up on the other Broodmothers.

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Rovin exited the shop with her, having taken his Grand Hunt helmet off as he wasn't currently worried about being recognized, instead just keeping it in his hands. This did mean however that Piper could see he got a bit red in the face at her teasing, which was landing, but he kept his cool voice, "Perhaps I do, don't knock a man for what he likes. We all got our preferences. As for this hypothetical pair of mercenaries that you, not I, are proposing, a close friendship ain't bad, right? Get to know one another, and so on. Nothing else to be worried of." He wasn't doing a very good job that backpedaling.

Honour guard

The Ebony Republic wrote:"POINTBREAK STATION IS A CLASSIFIED INSTALLATION. DEEP SPACE IS UNCLAIMED TERRITORY. LEAVING IS NOT REQUIRED.' The transmission replied simply. "AGGRESSIVE POSTURING OR OFFENSIVE ACTIONS WILL RESULT IN RETALITATORY ACTION. CEASE."

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Cyboar absolutely annihilated the still rebooting droids they had not originally destroyed, yet still the noise continued. Krrrk. Krrrrk. Krrrrk. At this, an unnatural darkness began to set in, magically induced. Night vision and thermals couldn't pierce it, and magical light sources were snuffed to a five foot radius around themselves in a circle. Even quantum communications seemed to go dark briefly as this occured, but quickly re-established themselves because quantum physics.

Then the first true attack came. While Cyboar might not have proper vision, they likely had other senses. The first attack came from the supernatural darkness, a wave of vorpal sharp blades of blood aiming to slice through one of the Marines cleanly, aiming to impale him to the wall. Then a figure neared one of the Champions, the air whooshing as a lightning like strike came from a mace towards his head, aiming to clock him straight in it. The tantu mace, if it struck, randomized its effect, bursting the area with a massive gale-force wind.

The Cyboar Official spoke back, tone unchanged, "Interference with Cyboar operations is posturing in itself. You shall cease and explain the purpose of the probe, and if a satisfactory answer is provided than Cyboar will depart. It is not difficult unless you make it such." The Cyboar Cruisers were subtly preparing themselves, expecting belligerence.

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As vision dulled and became unusable, the Cyboar Units swapped to motion sensors built into them, enhanced senses for hearing, magical senses, and of course sheer martial instinct from prior combat experience amped up by the metal knowledge within them. They had plenty to work with in order to sense the coming attacks. The Marine was lucky to be what he was, as a normal man would not have lasted. But the Marine was Cyboar, and as soon as the vorpal blades started coming, he launched off the ground, into the air to dodge the attack and shoot a volley of plasma fire back at the source, though lacking knowledge of what it was, just aiming for the origin point. The other Marines similarly unleashed their firepower upon the source as well in synch, to give a great deal of weight to the attack. As for the Champion, this was the situation they were built for, as Cyboar's melee expert, and he cleaned evaded to the side, relying on the power of their armor and sheer strength to tank the gale-force wind that burst out. So, as it took some damage from the wind, the Champion lunged back from its evasion to strike the attacker with a prepared power fist.

Iammelon wrote:The Taurus general grunted as he entered in behind the Measctha into the command center. He was also covered in dust and dirt, as well as some blood that had already dried into his uniform, marking it eternally. He wasn't as elated as the Lord, remaining rather stern, but he was a bit pleased with their progress, "A few dozen, I wasn't counting. Neither were the Watrike, so I suppose we'll never know. Still, the mission was done, and the rebels felt many losses. We had little ourselves, thankfully. Though I suppose the Ialao were expecting simple Beziman riding in, rather than Watrike and one crazily bold Measctha, so we had that advantage."

The lord’s disposition weakened a little, “what, you don’t take me for a beziman? I’ll have you know bezimen includes Fatimazda, humans, creach, and measctha.” The lord stepped away and removed his tin of snuff once more. But now, the real work would begin... the actual work to free Free Forest. The advisors were divvied up, and dispatched to various command staffs. Chelmsby directed operations for a little while before returning to Heord with Hurlocke, and O’Donoghue. Most of the advisors would leave with Chelmsby.

Field Marshal Marlborough-John, along with Leftenant General Roberts made up the top of the particular command staff of the Mobile Fortress at Wide Field Bluff. One advisor from Iammelon was dispatched to this camp, to serve as another member of the command staff alongside all the regulars. It would be dinner that night where the advisor would meet everyone. From the Field Marshal himself, all the way down to the Colonel-Commandant. As the advisor entered the room and took their seat, all the officers lightly pounded the table with open palms. The field marshal raising their glass. “Welcome, welcome. Please, before you sit, would you grace us with a name?”

The orokin fleets

Triporea wrote:Chrysanthemum nodded and looked at Ishben. “So, um... what shall we do? Uh... we could look for a bigger apartment? Or get everyone settled in...?”

"We should probably settle in..."
Ishben would refocus on Chrysanthemum, looking back up at her with a nod.

Iammelon wrote:The Cyboar Official spoke back, tone unchanged, "Interference with Cyboar operations is posturing in itself. You shall cease and explain the purpose of the probe, and if a satisfactory answer is provided than Cyboar will depart. It is not difficult unless you make it such." The Cyboar Cruisers were subtly preparing themselves, expecting belligerence.

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As vision dulled and became unusable, the Cyboar Units swapped to motion sensors built into them, enhanced senses for hearing, magical senses, and of course sheer martial instinct from prior combat experience amped up by the metal knowledge within them. They had plenty to work with in order to sense the coming attacks. The Marine was lucky to be what he was, as a normal man would not have lasted. But the Marine was Cyboar, and as soon as the vorpal blades started coming, he launched off the ground, into the air to dodge the attack and shoot a volley of plasma fire back at the source, though lacking knowledge of what it was, just aiming for the origin point. The other Marines similarly unleashed their firepower upon the source as well in synch, to give a great deal of weight to the attack. As for the Champion, this was the situation they were built for, as Cyboar's melee expert, and he cleaned evaded to the side, relying on the power of their armor and sheer strength to tank the gale-force wind that burst out. So, as it took some damage from the wind, the Champion lunged back from its evasion to strike the attacker with a prepared power fist.

'RECYCLING COMMANDS. EXECUTING OVERRIDE.' The transmission overloaded itself briefly, flooding the channel with what might've been a normally painful whitenoise before the volume lowered. 'This is Pointbreak Controller. All units suffer from runtime error number seven-eight-six. Last standing orders from creators were to 'CEASE' before creators became unable to speak. R Error 786 causes this to loop within all units."

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While Cyboar's Marines hit...something, it didn't seem to be flesh or metal, moreso a...barrier? The attacks suddenly doubled back at them in force, sending a shockwave specifically towards the marines. The lights flickered for a split second, allowing the Champion a glimpse of a massive metal creature with a blade easily the length and size of three normal sized humans. Its helmet had blue eyes socketed into it, and the unnatural darkness began to fade as the facility seemingly regained itself. Massive orbs dominated the side of the thing's neck, and its blade glew with electric power as it moved to the side. Its strength was certainly something, as it moved to the side from the power fist, bringing its blade down with another gale-force swipe to sever the hand of the Champion.

The Marines would see their attacker, a hooded, metal-masked variant of the same thing, though much smaller. Its optical sensors finally adjusted before it extended a hand out, and it became clear. This...thing, both of them were ancient. Centuries of age, perhaps more, had gifted specifically one of them with a soul, or it was outside influenced. A stenciling was visible on their side, simply saying 'KARI AH.' As it extended its hand forth, it aimed to begin manipulating one of the Marines via their metal and cybernetics, aiming to crush the implants in their skull it analyzed.

"KARI facility online. Power restored. Intruders detected. Normal security droids have been destroyed. Last visitors from TWO hours ago did not attempt this. Warforged constructs have been activated. Enemy designation: Cyborg. Activating orbital defense system, all blast doors sealing. Initiating quantum strangling."

From the moon, from ancient, unmoved rock, something stirred. Large guns shot outwards, pointing up to the Cyboar fleet and.....they did nothing. They simply pointed at Cyboar's fleet, but did nothing. They were functioning fine according to scans, and were simply pointing a rather minute, harmless laser at the fleet's heavier ships. As this happened, the asteroids seemed to change course as they did so, seemingly drawn towards the ships. Soon enough these asteroids seemed to disperse into multitudes of Vok fighters as they activated their power sheaths, aiming to slam into a Cyboar destroyer like a swarm of hornets, moving out through the other side if at all possible. Vok kamikaze fighters, as they were known.

Honour guard wrote:As Mateva got her to where her frame was docked, she looked to it for a good long moment. Taking in every detail of its almost angelic appearance. Built to be agile and maneuverability, that much she could tell. It took her a moment but she could already feel that there was a connection there, a subtle one but one she could definitely feel. Even as they got close to it she moved her head slightly from side to side, watching as it mimics her in a way before she takes a step towards the cockpit. Listening to Mateva about her password, she just smiles fondly as she thinks of the service tag that Elzi decided to give her as a joke. She finally got into the cockpit and had it close around her as she put her password "... Pr33tlady"

Gauss responded well to this, the cockpit pushing back into the Frame as its control frame let up. Almost immediately, it seemed to fine tune itself to Helka's very body and mind. The Arcalite would begin to let off her blue electricity, before her mind briefly snapped to nothing, before feeling perfectly in sync. She now had full control of Gauss, the last Arcalite frame that would ever be made after Seraph and Vindicator.

Vindicator however transmitted to Helka. "Commander? How're you feeling? Some people find it a bit rough first linking up."

The Ebony Republic wrote:'RECYCLING COMMANDS. EXECUTING OVERRIDE.' The transmission overloaded itself briefly, flooding the channel with what might've been a normally painful whitenoise before the volume lowered. 'This is Pointbreak Controller. All units suffer from runtime error number seven-eight-six. Last standing orders from creators were to 'CEASE' before creators became unable to speak. R Error 786 causes this to loop within all units."

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While Cyboar's Marines hit...something, it didn't seem to be flesh or metal, moreso a...barrier? The attacks suddenly doubled back at them in force, sending a shockwave specifically towards the marines. The lights flickered for a split second, allowing the Champion a glimpse of a massive metal creature with a blade easily the length and size of three normal sized humans. Its helmet had blue eyes socketed into it, and the unnatural darkness began to fade as the facility seemingly regained itself. Massive orbs dominated the side of the thing's neck, and its blade glew with electric power as it moved to the side. Its strength was certainly something, as it moved to the side from the power fist, bringing its blade down with another gale-force swipe to sever the hand of the Champion.

The Marines would see their attacker, a hooded, metal-masked variant of the same thing, though much smaller. Its optical sensors finally adjusted before it extended a hand out, and it became clear. This...thing, both of them were ancient. Centuries of age, perhaps more, had gifted specifically one of them with a soul, or it was outside influenced. A stenciling was visible on their side, simply saying 'KARI AH.' As it extended its hand forth, it aimed to begin manipulating one of the Marines via their metal and cybernetics, aiming to crush the implants in their skull it analyzed.

"KARI facility online. Power restored. Intruders detected. Normal security droids have been destroyed. Last visitors from TWO hours ago did not attempt this. Warforged constructs have been activated. Enemy designation: Cyborg. Activating orbital defense system, all blast doors sealing. Initiating quantum strangling."

From the moon, from ancient, unmoved rock, something stirred. Large guns shot outwards, pointing up to the Cyboar fleet and.....they did nothing. They simply pointed at Cyboar's fleet, but did nothing. They were functioning fine according to scans, and were simply pointing a rather minute, harmless laser at the fleet's heavier ships. As this happened, the asteroids seemed to change course as they did so, seemingly drawn towards the ships. Soon enough these asteroids seemed to disperse into multitudes of Vok fighters as they activated their power sheaths, aiming to slam into a Cyboar destroyer like a swarm of hornets, moving out through the other side if at all possible. Vok kamikaze fighters, as they were known.

The whitenoise was simply filtered out by the Cyboar, who simply patiently waited until a proper voice returned, upon which they simply calmly continued, "Understood. The inferiority of pure mechanicals, errors exist, or can be implanted within them. Regardless, identify yourself Pointbreak Controller, and explain. This Unit is not enjoying the cryptics."

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The Marines, with unnatural skill granted to them, adapted to the situation on the dime, once more moving to evade. Jumping up or to the side, they were rather agile, and with their systems they responded to the new attack now by coordinating a varied assault. One marine tossed an EMP grenade, the second an ion grenade, the third a plasma grenade, and the rest fired off soon after. This was all done to test the barrier, as well as attempt to quickly disable it and then remove the source in an instant. They didn't know how tough the hooded thing was, and so were aiming to simply overwhelm it all at once. As for the attempted manipulation, nothing happened. Its attempt simply failed as it would encounter deep Cyboar safeguards built into their design, which resisted manipulation practically entirely and had in-depth scans simply bounce off. The thing was encountering the same defense that had blocked many similar attempts in the past.

The Champion meanwhile, with its own battle, continued to show its skill in melee combat. With its own attack avoided and countered, it had to go on the defensive for the time being, quickly drawing its hand back as it threw itself back by launching off the ground. To try and get a better sense of its foe, while flying back it pointed its palm at the Warforged in mid-air, firing off a burst of plasma blasts from the implants built into its hand.

Up in space, the orbiting Cyboar Fleet reacted instantly to the swarm, thanks to their very much improved reaction times and coordination skills. Cyboar Fighters were launched in time to try and intercept the enemy fighters, to take down as many as they could. The Cruisers meanwhile pumped power into their weapons and fire them like flak to destroy the swarms. The Shields of the Cyboar ships were rather special in how they worked, as they were controlled centrally from one Cyboar individual jacked into the system of the ships, with the shield quickly and rapidly focusing itself to exactly the impact point at any single time, to greatly reduce the amount of damage without putting too much energy into the shields. This wasn't as relevant given the amount of foes, and so they couldn't ever focus on one point as would be preferred, but it would still be helpful unless every section of the ship was being targeted at once.

Honour guard wrote:Even as the Omnipo dared in their desperate charge to attack the Hydralisk's and Ravagers on the front lines they had to deal with the swarming locusts that were hatching from the Swarm hosts, along with the Hydralisks changing their targets to the ones rushing them. Not to mention that Sieg was there amongst the frontlines to have Psionic spikes to spill up from the ground into the charging infantry forces like traps. Even in their backlines as they turned to face the hunter banelings that leapt into each other to bounce out of the lines of fire and into what injured they may have dragged away from the front line was all to demoralise them. Though from the looks of it the battle would soon be over, their champion was on its last legs and the combined excave forces showed no sign of faltering. Yajana made her way to the barracks inside the base, with Spot and Ajax going with her, leaving Brutus, Dexter and Wiz with Mierl to keep him safe o their mother won't cry.

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The red across his face coupled with his forthcoming confirmation of his tastes was certainly enlightening to her, that coy smile never left her face before she stood tall "True true. We do have our preferences." She says looking back to him for a moment with her hand over her mouth but eyeing him like she was sizing him up "... You'll do." With that she faced forward and started walking again. "A close friendship, sounds good to me. Though we may have to go over some details just in case anything comes into question. It shouldn't buuuut you can never be too careful"

Mierl was fine to bring the pups with him, but thankfully they weren't going to have to do much. For, as the Watrike was returning to the frontlines, the deathblow to Omnipo's hopes was dealt. The Cyclops, struggling to respond to the circling Combat Drakes, was losing its footing. Admiral Tamour dealt the death blow himself by suddenly swooping down and slamming a powered up tail into its left leg, sending the mechanical limb flying. This left the poor mech to simply fall to the ground, balance completely lost, and it exploded soon after this fatal fall, destroying it. The flames of the burning mech also incinerated any hope the Omnipo forces had of gaining a favorable hand in the fighting, one by one sections of their lines and isolated pockets began to throw down their arms and surrender. Admiral Tamour ordered they all to be taken in, and treated well. They were Iammelonians, even if they were on the wrong side, and so they would be treated with dignity so long as they cooperated. Excave forces were sent to collect the surrendering soldiers bit by bit, with the zerg tasked to keep an eye on them, as well as remove any who were simply suicidally stubborn. The battle was won, with the Admiral going to collect the severed leg so he could keep it as a trophy. After all, he was still a Dragon.

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Rovin's face still stayed a bit red, given how well he had just been read, but his smile grew at the confirmation. He was somewhat amused by her eyeing him up as well, "Good to know I hit the mark, this would have been a poor time to strike out after all. And always right. Gotta be careful in our line of work after all. What details were you thinking on that front, Piper?" As he spoke the question, they were drawing closer to the Thorax Incorporated shipyards. These land based operations were quite impressive, with facilities in place for massive ships to be constructed and repaired in. Right now, one very large ship was here unloading its cargo. That was the Surplus-Class Super Freighter, the biggest class of ship Thorax produced, meant to carry their own products and parts in mass bulk. Popular targets for pirates, and so often required a great deal of protection, but were very good at their job when kept safe. That was the ship they were going to try and hitch a ride on.

Triporea wrote:The lord’s disposition weakened a little, “what, you don’t take me for a beziman? I’ll have you know bezimen includes Fatimazda, humans, creach, and measctha.” The lord stepped away and removed his tin of snuff once more. But now, the real work would begin... the actual work to free Free Forest. The advisors were divvied up, and dispatched to various command staffs. Chelmsby directed operations for a little while before returning to Heord with Hurlocke, and O’Donoghue. Most of the advisors would leave with Chelmsby.

Field Marshal Marlborough-John, along with Leftenant General Roberts made up the top of the particular command staff of the Mobile Fortress at Wide Field Bluff. One advisor from Iammelon was dispatched to this camp, to serve as another member of the command staff alongside all the regulars. It would be dinner that night where the advisor would meet everyone. From the Field Marshal himself, all the way down to the Colonel-Commandant. As the advisor entered the room and took their seat, all the officers lightly pounded the table with open palms. The field marshal raising their glass. “Welcome, welcome. Please, before you sit, would you grace us with a name?”

The adviser who had stuck behind and was allowed to be with the camp was a grizzled, older Anubite. Still, despite his age, he carried himself quite well, and showed his experience in his walk and speech, "I am Lord Xeuofiar, of the Anubite Empire. But, as I was inducted into the Union Army, my proper title of address is Major Xeuofiar of Iammelon." With that, he sat himself down, and went silent to allow the Field Marshal to continue as she wished.

Iammelon wrote:The whitenoise was simply filtered out by the Cyboar, who simply patiently waited until a proper voice returned, upon which they simply calmly continued, "Understood. The inferiority of pure mechanicals, errors exist, or can be implanted within them. Regardless, identify yourself Pointbreak Controller, and explain. This Unit is not enjoying the cryptics."

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The Marines, with unnatural skill granted to them, adapted to the situation on the dime, once more moving to evade. Jumping up or to the side, they were rather agile, and with their systems they responded to the new attack now by coordinating a varied assault. One marine tossed an EMP grenade, the second an ion grenade, the third a plasma grenade, and the rest fired off soon after. This was all done to test the barrier, as well as attempt to quickly disable it and then remove the source in an instant. They didn't know how tough the hooded thing was, and so were aiming to simply overwhelm it all at once. As for the attempted manipulation, nothing happened. Its attempt simply failed as it would encounter deep Cyboar safeguards built into their design, which resisted manipulation practically entirely and had in-depth scans simply bounce off. The thing was encountering the same defense that had blocked many similar attempts in the past.

The Champion meanwhile, with its own battle, continued to show its skill in melee combat. With its own attack avoided and countered, it had to go on the defensive for the time being, quickly drawing its hand back as it threw itself back by launching off the ground. To try and get a better sense of its foe, while flying back it pointed its palm at the Warforged in mid-air, firing off a burst of plasma blasts from the implants built into its hand.

Up in space, the orbiting Cyboar Fleet reacted instantly to the swarm, thanks to their very much improved reaction times and coordination skills. Cyboar Fighters were launched in time to try and intercept the enemy fighters, to take down as many as they could. The Cruisers meanwhile pumped power into their weapons and fire them like flak to destroy the swarms. The Shields of the Cyboar ships were rather special in how they worked, as they were controlled centrally from one Cyboar individual jacked into the system of the ships, with the shield quickly and rapidly focusing itself to exactly the impact point at any single time, to greatly reduce the amount of damage without putting too much energy into the shields. This wasn't as relevant given the amount of foes, and so they couldn't ever focus on one point as would be preferred, but it would still be helpful unless every section of the ship was being targeted at once.

"Commencing identification." The probe suddenly displayed the hologram of a massive superstructure. The station itself easily dwarfed the research station, with a multitude of strange ships and broken wrecks near it. "Pointbreak Station. I am it. Your disdain for synthetic personnel is noted. Cessation of hostilities is reccomended. This station is equipped to plainly defend itself if it or its units are attacked."

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The Caller model once more bounced the grenades back at the Marines, before it lowered its hand and moved its two foremost fingers on its left hand in a circle twice, then the opposite on its right hand. Then it simply waited and conserved its next action, as the larger model, Stormhammer, simply took the shot in stride before swinging towards the Marines who seemed to be distracted. The blade itself glew as one of the orbs on its neck did, bursting green.

A wind of acidic gale-force winds once more came out, aiming to bathe the Marines in it as the blade came to cleave some of them in half. With its free hand, it moved to grab one of the Marines by the head and lift it up, aiming to slam him onto another marine. Now the Caller acted, creating a protective barrier around the Marine if he was successfully being used as a weapon, aiming to make him quite an effective mace, while keeping the Marine relatively alive.

The suicide craft were a large amount of drone craft. They comprised 2 of the Asteroids, aiming to simply overwhelm Cyboar's shields and expend themselves quickly. Now the base's orbital defenses took their turn, one of the astroids that had a similar signature turned towards a destroyer. Its form slowly shifted before a powerful tractor beam aimed to take in the command ship, slowly but surely. The asteroid itself was quite well defended, and its only attack seemed to be a tractor beam and a beam that reversed the effect. Not immensely dangerous, but perhaps annoying?

The facility briefly flcikered as it attempted this 'quantum strangling,' a MASSIVE power burst shaking the facility before it rebooted itself. "Quantum strangling ineffective. Deployment authorized." At this, a massive golem made its way from deeper in the facility, stomping along to stand in the back.

Dilberta wrote:"Latest set..like..recently? I'm so telling everyone about this"

Markway paid little attention to the journey to his first use. To him, the way there was quick. He looked around as they walked, trying to figure out the ins and outs of this odd ship. He didn't notice anything familiar, no tv screens, no breakroom..no simulation chamber..not even the scent of the innermost layer of the Dilbertuese Etherhull. Not even a week, and he already missed that smell.

His curious looking about was interrupted by that hive again. She was screaming in her native language for help..they must've captured her recently, telling from the screaming. He entered the chamber, and sat down on the nearest thing he could sit on.

"So..what do you want me to do? try and calm her down? get some info off of her? I told you before, I had this sh*t literally burned into my mind. I could tell you everything you wanted to know..and more."

As they would Continue to Traverse throughout the ship, they would come across a Heavily Armored Door, beyond this door the Screaming could be heard the Loudest even being able to be heard directly throughout the door and Walls, while being Muffled it was still Prevalent, and as a result The Colonel would seem to wait outside, listening to him speak, before Promptly responding immediately afterwards, doing so all the while seeming to hold his head as the screaming from the creature on the other side would seem to annoy him, and to an extent make him aggravated;

"Well... I get you Understand them.. I need you Calm this "Thing" down, and get whatever Information you can from it, and maybe even if your able... Get that thing to stop killing my men, Cleaning out that room is hard enough, and I think it's attempting to lay a Nest... Just.. get in there, before I have to actually go in there myself, you'll get a Suit and.. My guys Monitoring the situation will be Prepared to keep the thing contained if it attempts to harm you"

As Varistium would finish speaking he would seem to Open the door for him, seemingly by inputting a code, and as the door would open it would seem to reveal a type of Buffer zone, and before him was not only sets of Densely Compact Suits, but also a window looking into the other side of what had laid before him, from what he could see the room on the other side would be completely darkened, either on purpose or by Design, however it would seem that the moment he entered the room the, Screaming would stop.

Almost as if Acknowledging his presence or seeming to watch him from within the darkness

Triporea wrote:None of the skeletons appeared to be moving or alive in any capacity. So perhaps nothing was done to them. Who knows? They don’t feel like anything but dead bones and dirt and dust.

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As the explosion happened, the creature was sent back a few feet. But out of the smoke left in the wake of the explosion, came a twirling spinning scythe. Having been thrown. It went straight for the one with the yellow eyes... all things considering. The creature then emerged, seeming to have already healed itself of all damage. It attempted to jump around the cave, slicing down anyone who wasn’t Adygea.

Multohula would be somehow closer to the crucifix again as if being attracted to it for some reason, she is slowly extending her arm toward it to touch it unknownst to her why. "Multohula no!" Yosgel would attempt to stop her from pulling her away from it. "What the hell are you doing?" She looked confused. "I-i dont know." She looks at her hands as if something is enticing her to touch or investigate further the crucifix. More rumbling can be heard from the previous cavern. "Hot damn looks like its getting rough over there, should we? or.." Yosgel asked, "Look trust me on this, if something happens to me from this crucifix just kill me or something, i have long completed my act of penance on this world." Multohula seems determined to know whats with the crucifix. He looks visibly worried but since she is the expert here, he lets her do her thing. "Ill stand guard." Yosgel seems to be in a fighting stance in case anything happens.

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Adygea would push away two of his subordinates into the antechamber behind him sending them rolling to where Yosgel and Multohula are. Adygea would activate its arm braces for protection as he covers his face in an attempt to block the scythe coming to ward him. "You shouldn't be playing with sharp objects mister."

The orokin fleets wrote:"We should probably settle in..."
Ishben would refocus on Chrysanthemum, looking back up at her with a nod.

Chrysanthemum made sure to help everyone get settled in, but eventually she pulled Ishben over. She had pulled him to a private bit of the apartment, somewhere Ninfua and Valyn wouldn't easily find them. "I... just wanted to make this quick, sir... but I wanted to ask if perhaps you would like to... share a bed with me... tonight?" The fourteen foot tall Fatimazda turned her feet shyly inward.

Honour guard wrote:Harlock let the robot have the human after a moment of consideration after seeing it take a step towards Jazmin and Filia, without knowing its abilities he could not put his friends in danger. "Take it and go, but leave them be." That was all he said to the bot as he took the corpse and dragged it off, grimacing as he went back to normal "I can't help but feel that asshat writer dropped up in a parasitic invasion. Even going to the extent of infecting machines... Its a good thing we all have powers"

"If I see that deer bastard again I am going to kick his ass!! Stranding us in a zombie apocalypse?!? I'll f*ckin kill him!!" Filia was less than happy about all of this as she roared obscenities near enough at the top of her lungs, finally letting it all out after the months of travel under the stress of not knowing what was going to happen. "I finally get out of being controlled by Erox, go through months of screening to make sure all my zerg mutations are gone, hook up with the prince I ended up torturing for 10 years and THIS is what happens to me??! The universe can cram it in it's blackhole for this bs!!" Finally done with her venting, Filia fell on her backside to take deep breaths and look up at the sky, red faced and sweating as she just wraps her arms around herself "This is not even funny..."

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As they leave he does nod to the kind farewells but goes back to following Liline as they meander through the streets once more until they got a cab of course. Pulling himself up into the cab and sitting in the backseat he looked around at it. It all looked really simple to use, not like the crafts and cars they have back home, not at all. The aesthetic the bez go for is super weird... But somehow it fits... Also should I take that accent seriously? The lord commander thought to himself as they got underway.

Driving here was also pretty weird, then again only the traders really had cars back on Castameer, everyone either used the public transport of used the Nydus tunnels to get around the planet. The modes of transport here were... Strangely primitive for all of this being based on a dyson sphere... Kind of ironic in a way the the basest tech was being used on a megastructural marvel of technology like this. But hey, it was their world, they can do what they like.

Once the cab stopped, Sephus got out with her and looked up the hill to the great iron gates, not knowing what was beyond, though he did see that people were going through after being checked "Huh, so we're going up there huh." He says as he walks up with Liline to see what laid beyond. And finally, it came into view, an enormous castle with a golden dome over it all "Woah, now this looks impressive-Huh?" He was caught off guard when she said they had more climbing to do. "But didn't we just come all the way up-... I will beat you up there I swear to your gods"

The robot eventually vanished into the horizon. Leaving the three alone there, on a grassy lea. Jazmin fell on her butt, and sat there in the grass. Looking out as the sun began descending from afternoon into evening. "i... I just want to go home... I feel like this is all my fault... like some moon forsaken event lead me to forcing you good people... right into all of this..." She sighed. As if to add to the dramatic irony of this story, the moon began cresting on the opposite horizon. A blood moon, or at least it seemed to be. Deep red and lowly gloaming.

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Liline smiled and pointed to the castle. "You wanted to see the biggest landmark, right? Well, that's the biggest landmark on Bezembay. But they don't let peasants like us drive up there. So we gotta walk past the gates, up the hill, and to the palace courtyard. We can walk a little bit around the palace, but nowhere closer than the driveway unfortunately. But, still thought I'd show you." She smiled as she headed for the guards at the gate. The guard eyed her, and since she was not carrying a bag, he allowed her to pass through. Sephus would be searched more thorougly. Being given a nice patdown by the soldiers there. Once they were through, Sephus saw Liline already heading up the stone staircase to the top. She wasn't running, as it might seem suspicious... for people to start running towards the home of the monarch... especially if they were home, which was a possibility. Besides, there were literally hundreds of guards around him at this point. Lining the stone stairs to the palace, watching all who passed by.

Iammelon wrote:The adviser who had stuck behind and was allowed to be with the camp was a grizzled, older Anubite. Still, despite his age, he carried himself quite well, and showed his experience in his walk and speech, "I am Lord Xeuofiar, of the Anubite Empire. But, as I was inducted into the Union Army, my proper title of address is Major Xeuofiar of Iammelon." With that, he sat himself down, and went silent to allow the Field Marshal to continue as she wished.

Before he could sit, the Colonel-on-the-staff approached him with a large silver goblet. The field marshal spoke up, with a joyful tone. "Ah-ah! Before you sit, my noble friend. You must first partake of the stranger's cup. It's obviously been filled with all the spoiled wine we accumulate here, as I'm sure you can smell. This is a little tradition us officers have. You have to finish the cup in one sip, and if you do we all buy your liquor for a year. But if you can't finish the goblet in one cup you have to buy each of us a crate of claret." The whole table chuckled. Being an anubite, Xeuofiar knew this challenge well... a Bezi gentleman's game.

Necunda wrote:Multohula would be somehow closer to the crucifix again as if being attracted to it for some reason, she is slowly extending her arm toward it to touch it unknownst to her why. "Multohula no!" Yosgel would attempt to stop her from pulling her away from it. "What the hell are you doing?" She looked confused. "I-i dont know." She looks at her hands as if something is enticing her to touch or investigate further the crucifix. More rumbling can be heard from the previous cavern. "Hot damn looks like its getting rough over there, should we? or.." Yosgel asked, "Look trust me on this, if something happens to me from this crucifix just kill me or something, i have long completed my act of penance on this world." Multohula seems determined to know whats with the crucifix. He looks visibly worried but since she is the expert here, he lets her do her thing. "Ill stand guard." Yosgel seems to be in a fighting stance in case anything happens.

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Adygea would push away two of his subordinates into the antechamber behind him sending them rolling to where Yosgel and Multohula are. Adygea would activate its arm braces for protection as he covers his face in an attempt to block the scythe coming to ward him. "You shouldn't be playing with sharp objects mister."

Multohula's hand felt cold the closer it came to the crucifix, like she was holding ice with her bare hand. And by the time she actually grabbed the crucifix, her hand had gotten freezer burns all over it. The moment she touched the crucifix, the rumblings above seemed to stop... The Creature appeared behind Yosgel, and within a moment, knocked him unconscious with the back of his clawed hand. Multohula was... stuck almost. Her hand refused to leave the crucifix and the skeleton attached to it. The creature looked embarrassed. His pale grey skin flustered, his claws hanging sheepishly at his side. It brushed its cape aside and bent down to meet Multohula at eye level. Leaning towards her. "You... choose to comfort my bones. Why?" She could see the finer details of his face. It was young, but grey like a corpse. No rot or anything, but a ghastly skin color nonetheless. A neatly arranged row of pointed teeth. A slim and thin nose, sunken cheeks, defined cheekbones, black hair, deer like ears and antlers. A monocle hanging over his right eye. But he did not appear monstrous in this moment... more... human like. And the longer she held her hand on the bones, his pale skin turned more skin toned. It was subtle, but happening. "only three of your comrades survive survive on the floor above." The voice was... familiar. As if it had been heard in a certain corner of curios in a certain pub somewhere...

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As the creature readied to swing its blade at Adygea, it paused. Grimacing, it threw its scythe at Adygea. Before just... sinking into its cape. The cape dissolving into shreds of paper, then falling to the floor where they all vanished into the shadows. As Adygea and his men tried to reach Multohula and Yosgel, they found the path blocked by strong boulders in their way.

Triporea wrote:Multohula's hand felt cold the closer it came to the crucifix, like she was holding ice with her bare hand. And by the time she actually grabbed the crucifix, her hand had gotten freezer burns all over it. The moment she touched the crucifix, the rumblings above seemed to stop... The Creature appeared behind Yosgel, and within a moment, knocked him unconscious with the back of his clawed hand. Multohula was... stuck almost. Her hand refused to leave the crucifix and the skeleton attached to it. The creature looked embarrassed. His pale grey skin flustered, his claws hanging sheepishly at his side. It brushed its cape aside and bent down to meet Multohula at eye level. Leaning towards her. "You... choose to comfort my bones. Why?" She could see the finer details of his face. It was young, but grey like a corpse. No rot or anything, but a ghastly skin color nonetheless. A neatly arranged row of pointed teeth. A slim and thin nose, sunken cheeks, defined cheekbones, black hair, deer like ears and antlers. A monocle hanging over his right eye. But he did not appear monstrous in this moment... more... human like. And the longer she held her hand on the bones, his pale skin turned more skin toned. It was subtle, but happening. "only three of your comrades survive survive on the floor above." The voice was... familiar. As if it had been heard in a certain corner of curios in a certain pub somewhere...

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As the creature readied to swing its blade at Adygea, it paused. Grimacing, it threw its scythe at Adygea. Before just... sinking into its cape. The cape dissolving into shreds of paper, then falling to the floor where they all vanished into the shadows. As Adygea and his men tried to reach Multohula and Yosgel, they found the path blocked by strong boulders in their way.

Yosgel would notice someone beside him but he would be too slow and ends up unconscious on the ground, Multohula would turn around with her hand somehow stuck on the bones that she was only going to touch for a few seconds. Multohula would be rather still angry at him for killing their subordinates but seeing whats happening right now and her situation currently she has to go through the diplomatic route. Her flustered reaction would give him a strange look. "E-Excuse me?! Comfort your bones?" She would look at the crucifix once again and back to him, now with a much calmer tone of voice. "I-I dont know... Uhh.." With him somehow metamorphosing into a much human form she somewhat felt safe and rather comfortable around him. She cant help but look in her vault of memories to see why his voice somehow sounded familiar, unless he is simply playing mind tricks on her to gain her trust.

Honour guard wrote:After the snap as the perfect sync took affect, a million thoughts and feelings flushed through her mind as she felt everything through the frame. It's movements were hers down to the finest points. She seemed to adjust to this quickly as she stood back up and rolled the frame's shoulders, flexing individual fingers, testing how quick the uptake was from thought to action. Once she felt like she had a good grasp she slid into an offensive stance and with the silver energy flushing up the left arm of Gauss's frame has released a rush of punches into the open air so it wouldn't hit anything, doing the same thing with a barrage of kicks to get a good grasp of how the frame feels, it's weight and balance. Familiarising herself with all of it before she stood neutral again. "Oh I'm just wonderful over here. This frame is perfect, abit hard to adjust to the size and weight but that will just take some extra time to get that down pat. Other than that I'm good."

Gauss was perfectly balanced, at least as perfect as both human and AI could make it. Much like a Legionnaire's armor, it acted like a second skin. Vindicator took a few moments. "Your Frame is unique in the sense it is both spacefaring and aquatically enabled. Its wings can boost it up to a significant speed, a bit faster than a Sentinel Starfighter. Its fingers are Harkens, or a sort of harpoon that can pierce most material, also made of arcalite. Your palms double as forms of blasters, and well, you have your speed. Finally, you have standard landspinners for fast ground movement if you ever want to use them."

Triporea wrote:The crew of the ship never seemed to really notice what was happening with the mercenaries, but over, all they were just left alone as before. After a few more days of sailing, the ship got more and more unsettling as the waves increased in size and the electromagnetic radiation increased. The ether turned blue, the red being ionized by the radioactive particles. The sailors and marines were assembled once more on the decks for the admiral to speak to. She came down from the bridge to address the men briefly. "Right lads, settle down. We'll be landing at Queen Shanalotteland in a few hours, and we're spending one night there, so be sure to be back on the ship tomorrow at noon. That's all, lads."

The mercs generally...just kept to themselves during this shore leave, particularly the Vok.

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