Town
*Guy takes out his blasters* If they're distracted fighting in the town, and we can sneak up on them, I can try to stun them.
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Tombstone
Raschel: *putting away the comlink* Great. So we're on our own. She won't help us.
Gortick: So what do we do now?
Orthos: We don't have the map...we only know they went to the mine, and something in there did something to them. I think we should check the mine.
Town
*Svafa approached the area of fighting. She stepped over the bodies of dead militia and innocent civilians looking around for signs of Heimdall or the other two.*
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Town: Roof top
*Heimdall landed on a flat roof and demophed. Uttering a spell his armor reforms around him. He goes to the edge where he sees Svafa*
Heimdall: Come little sister let's continue what we began.
*Svafa looks up at Heimdall and simple nodds, she runs into the building and in a few moments joins Heimdall on the roof*
Svafa: I cannot allow you to continue...
Matt: You mean your friend cut us off.
((You all waiting for me or something?
btw: JM there is such a button that lets you NOT show your sig in every post...))
((Why would I do that?
*tries it*
EDIT: I don't like it.))
((imho: if your sig looks big on my 20inch monitor @ 1600x1200, then I'd think thats a bit excessive JM.
no offence))
((You can use PMs for this sort of thing))
((My post to this thread has been eaten a total of two times so far. Please let third time be the charm?))
Raschel: She said "Do what you have to." In other words, yes. We'd better get moving.
Roof top
*The two circle each other quietly for a little while*
Heimdall: I lost my sword as you know, so this is going have to be hand to hand.
Svafa: Fine with me brother.
*Closing in on each other the two begin to fight*
RH Irvine "Let's get going, let's see if we can find the others..."
Orthos: Yes, let's. I don't like the idea of evil Aesir. It sounds...dangerous...
Gortick: I take it the Aesir are strong?
Orthos: Very. And just as arrogant.
Tombstone
Raschel: So...uh, Gortick...can you take us to the mines?
Town
*Misae spots a figure wheeling in the sky, blaster bolts coming at him from the ground*
Misae: I see Aidan.
*Guy raises his blaster to his arm. He extends the barrel and raises a scope*
Guy: We'll see if I can stun him.
Misae: Look out!
*A large bird rams Guy's shoulder, knocking him off balance and sending his shot wide. Marin's disembodied voice echoes in the group's heads*
Marin: <I don't think so.>
Matt: what the hell's an Aesir?
WH Irvine "The woman over the comm is an Aesir. From what I take it they're a race of beings that practically live for eons, and they're basically arogant in their own nature."
Gortick: This way!
*Gortick runs over the hill at the cemetry and down toward a ravine*
Follow this ravine and we'll get there!
*Matt shrugs and follows*
*Raschel follows into the ravine*
If the twins are this easy with giving out information to total strangers...
*A hill looms up ahead, the ravine leading towards it*
Rooftop
*Heimdall and Svafa hand to hand, both equally match weave in and out of each other's range. It was a game of fients and waiting for an opportunity to get in a crucial blow. At the moment the two had back off again.
After a moment Heimdall came after Svafa again, this time he manages to trick Svafa into thinking he was going to attack high and he swept out her legs causing Svafa to fall on her back, in an instant he was a top of her, with his arm crushing her throat.*
Heimdall: You fought well, and as a reward you get to live until Cracken son's are dead.
Svafa *have a little trouble speaking*: Best to kill me now, you won't get another chance.
*Heimdall just smiled, then savagely hit her over the head, causing her to black out for a couple of minutes. When she woke up Heimdall was gone*
((red, I'd jsut like to note how somewhat generic WH Irvine's desciption was, in which didnt specify that they were responcible for most of the galaxy beign wiped out in an instant))
((OOS: Scar, firstly that was my character thinking, not me. Secondly, since the "twins" have the exact same name, Raschel has trouble thinking of them as separate entities. Thirdly, she isn't going to think of WH Irvine as "WH Irvine". That's just a story moniker, not a name ;)))
Mines
*The group reaches the mines. An evacuation is going on through the main entrance. Down the road into town, the ruckus of battle sounds*
Raschel: Why do I get the feeling they've already been here and gone...
Town
*The town militia take notice of Misae, Guy, and Hal*
Man: More outsiders! Get them!
Man 2: Wait...aren't those two Jedi?
((*shakes head* what ever ^_^))
*RH Irvine kept silent about his fight.*
Heimdall, you arrogant,.. *silent sigh* How is it that you put life so below yours...
Gortick: In here...down in the deeps...it's there...we keep it locked away...
[Incidently, do we have a cause for this problem?]
((OOS: Scar, if you're complaining about me having my characters misunderstand yours, why are you having your characters "misunderstand" Admiral's? Especially when WH Irvine DOES know that Heimdall is mind-altered? ;)
Deac: Er...o_O I think I made it pretty obvious that certain magic crystals are causing this, right? :D))
Town
*Misae uses the Force to try to bend the minds of the militia members* That's right. We're Jedi. You don't want to attack us. You want to help us.
*The militia members hesitate. Then explosions light up the sky in the distance*
Militia 1: That was from the housing sector!
*Before the other man can answer, the two are struck and ripped apart by blue lines of energy. Aidan swoops above them*
Aidan: You shouldn't have come after us, idiots. Now it's time---
*He cuts off, hearing Marin's thought speech in his head. Heimdall hears the communication as well, but none of the others can*
Marin: <Look! I see something in the distance. Someone else is trashing our playground...>
*Another explosion goes off, closer*
Mines Outskirts
Raschel: We need to get out of here.
*An officer in ill-fitting stormtrooper armor - lacking a helmet - runs up to the small group* Hey, you there! Show your settlement ID! Orders are anyone without ID is to be taken into custody!
((well when they didn't exactly know waht the cause is))
Orthos: Aww heck.
Gortick: New guys. They're with me. *Holds up ID*
((OOS: What do you mean, the cause? He doesn't need to know the cause. He knows the effects, as per your previous posts. He seems to be sighing dissapointedly at a character flaw of Heimdall's, instead of wondering what could have caused him to toss out his notions of nobility and start slaughtering people. Now, someone like Misae would be willing to assume the worst. But WH Irvine already hasn't assumed that. :p
Not to pick on you, but hey, you picked on me. Vengeance! :D *ducks bullets*))
Officer: You're off the hook, then, but your companions will have to come with me. Sorry, but I can't make exceptions. A group of outsiders is attacking the main settlement...the tavern and housing districts...several families have been killed horribly. The townsfolk are rioting. Your friends will be safer in custody anyway.
*Matt held up his ID also*
((Well the ways that admirals protraying their characters, they don't present themselves much like royality, but rather jsut arrogant SOBs :D
*dodges bullets from admiral* :D))
RH Irvine "Look, a few of those might be companions of ours, we don't knwo waht happened to them, but they did attack us."
Officer: Look, it's not my place to make these decisions. You can talk to the over-sherrif yourself. Come with me, please.
Gortick: I'm sure we can straighten things out
*Gortick takes a small credit chit out of his pocket*
Perhaps we all just left our passes at home?
Officer: *furtively taking the credit chit* Perhaps you did...I'll let it pass this time, but I suggest you go home and, er, find them before you run into any of my fellow sherrifs...
*Hal runs up to Orthos and crew.*
Hal: Okay, does anyone have a plan to stop them without killing them? Svafa is fighting Heimdall, hand to hand I might add. At the same time we have two psycho alians playing "sky to dirt"!
RH Irvine "Hmm,... Perhaps maybe if you 'escort' us along our way, that might not be much of a problem..."
Gortick: I think we got to find the stuff that started this.
*Gortick leads them below to a barred door, which he begins to open*
We kept them..in here....
((OOS: Deac - hold up! :D
The mines are being completely blocked off, patrolled and guarded.
The place where the crystals are has only two entrances: Gortick's tunnel (that he dug) and the wall that opened up when Heimdall put the reforged sword in it.
There is no barred door, and the miners didn't seal it up. It was already sealed up. :D))
*Misae and Guy come up behind Hal*
Misae: The two children flew off elsewhere in the city.
Guy: Someone else is attacking this town. Besides Aidan, Marin and Heimdall, I mean...
((Scar:
Rooftop
*Svafa gets up and does a quick self examination. She had a few more cuts, and her left ankle was tender and the gash on her forehead was bleeding again. Collecting her weapons, Svafa walks to the edge of the roof, scanning the area she spots the group. Looking at the street below she makes a quick judgement and jumps.
She lands in a crouch with pain shooting through her left leg. She walks to were the group was, each step gave her a jolt of pain but she refused to favor that leg. A stream of blood ran down her face, and onto her armor.
Reaching the group Svafa barely catches what Guy said. Looking over the group her eyes come to rest on Gortick and Matt*
Svafa: Who are they? *nodding to Matt and Gortick as she sheaths her sword*
((I'm around, been... Jsut couldn't think of anythign to reply with))
RH Irvine *points to Gorlick, then begins to walk up to Svafa* "This seems to be Orthos twin brother, has been living here since they go separated. As for the young one,..." *Once reached Svafa, speaking slightly softly* "He's expectionaly force sensitive, to train it wouldn't require too much time to train. I'll take full responcibility. It's the least I can do for 'em. Too meny people are dieing."
*RH Irvine continues a few steps.*
"You better get that looked at, looks a little swolen."
((Sorry, that should of been deleted.))
Svafa: Let me guess, you want those two to accompany us when we leave this world right? And do you honestly think that you can properly train one so old in the Jedi arts in such a quick time?
RH Irvine "Gorlick is Orthos' problem, consult him about that one. As for the young one, consult Luke Skywalker if that could be done."
Svafa: He was trained by Masters, not by a Jedi who still has a lot to learn. I will say this much you will have to prove that he has some value other then you trying out your mentoring skills if you expect us to cart him around.
RH Irvine *smirking* "Fair enough, but I'm still going to take the responcibility."
"Have you been in contact with Idun lately? I'd understand her reasons for her unwillingness to land on the surface. I was wondering if it would be possible if she could scan from orbit to figure out who else is attacking the city, besides Heimdall and our two shape shifters."
*Hal walks up to Ivrine and Svafa.*
Hal: Ivrine, you will NOT train him. He is too old and I sense that he is already too coloured by a harsh life. Consider this, Obi-Wan did what you now intend to do, the results were catastrophic.
What will you do if he falls to the dark side? I expect I will have to kill him, then Svafa here will probably kill you.
RH Irvine *Speaking softly not to let matt hear* "You say it like that hasn't crossed my mind when I stated, I will take full responsibility... Even if I seak counciling once in a while for training, I'll still take it. And if I do fail, I'll preform the deed myself and put down my saber for good. I'd rather attempt such, giving him a chance to live and help recitify this situation we have in the universe, then for him to die a needless and fearful death."
Matt: Hey! I'm a quick learner.
*Svafa looks Matt up and down*
Svafa to Matt: A quick learner you say? Perhaps, but that doesn't really matter. You and your would be master will have to prove your worth to us before we even think about taking you off this planet. That goes for that one as well *pointing to Gortick*. To avoid any confusion, the us I refer to only includes the Aesir, and our decision will be final.
*speaking to the rest of the group*: As you may now know, Idun will provide no assistance to us. Our primary objective at the moment is to capture Heimdall, Marin and Aidan. If capturing is not possible we kill them. The second objective, assuming capture is to find a way to cure them if no cure can be found in a reasonable amount of time we kill them. Third, and final extraction.
Regardless if we have cured or killed them, extraction will happen like this. I will contact Idun and request that she examine us, at some point come to the surface in a fighter. Now this is important, she decides whether or not we are who we say we are, and are not infect like Heimdall and the children are. If we pass then we decide on those two, assuming they survive. If we fail, the planet is destroyed, the Asgardreid returns home and a new group will try and salvage the quest.
RH Irvine "Cured of!? Hmm just as I thought." *eyes narrow* "Svafa, what happened in the mines."
Svafa: Well if you didn't run off then perhaps you would know, but even I don't know exactly what happened. What I do know is that part of my original brother remains in that body and is fighting what ever has taken control. From what I sensed it is can be compared to a disease and there could be a chance to cure them, otherwise they die.
Misae: Go ahead, let him train the boy. It isn't as if Irvine is a true Jedi anyway. What harm could he accomplish?
Guy: It is possible the children and Heimdall touched, triggered, or ingested something that infected them, possibly even put there by the makers of this quest. They did lag behind at one point. Whatever it is, it is magical, and altering their minds. This means there is a chance to cure them, even if it means wiping every neuron of their minds to eliminate the magic. In any case, it would be best to avoid killing them. We don't know what effect that would have on our quest on whatever mechanisms, magic or otherwise, that are running this quest. Also, we hold the only map, and the deserted trio holds the only key. If we are all destroyed, and especially if you have this planet destroyed, there won't be any way for another group to complete the quest.
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Town
*Marin and Aidan fly over the housing districts, which are variously burning, smoldering, and melted. Dense clouds of smoke cloud their vision*
Marin: <Someone's been trashing our playground.>
Aidan: *Hissing* I hear something.
*Buzzing metallic silver objects zip out of the nearest cloud of smoke. The objects are spherical in shape, with sets of insectlike pincers protruding from their fronts and sides*
Aidan: *Drawing a sharp intake of breath* Drones!
*He swoops out of the path of the objects. They turn and fire a stream of bright red beams at him. He dodges, and sends a stream of lightning in retaliation. The objects caught in the stream shatter and nosedive*
Marin: <What are those things?>
Aidan: Scree drones. Bombing droids, controlled by remote. Someone else is here, someone from our dimension...