You lurch at his mind, but its not quite how you expect. Yes, you know him, the slow, stolid, relentless force and the hatred with lack of empathy verging on sociopathy. After all, this is the man who said 'One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.' But you realize even as he stumbles back to focus on you after fearing, and oh, he does fear her the Deadly Alice, that he's not a cyborg. He's not human in a sense that even a cyborg would be.
You grab at his mind, off balance, and he stumbles back in his mind clawing feebly back.
You don't have him, but he's not fully in control either. He's something undead you realize.
*If we are in his mind and he is undead, use my mind's eye to channel my ocular power from Odin, to inspire his morale to plummet, and perhaps gain a new power over sentient undead, as I prey to Odin*
"This foul beast mocks the very existence between mortal and death, If it would please Hel, and you mighty Odin, grant me the power to force the willing undead into her realm, and the wisdom to grant me knowledge of one when I see it"
*fighting back with every piece of his willpower and faith apon this thing, the lives of his friends depend on it*
Jhiaxus
You feel his spirit sag under Odin's power, but he keeps on fighting. You reach for the power of your eye with Odin's and Hel's help and he begins to fade before your eye.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
He's gone, and a chill wind that smells of ice and doom blows through the area.
::The one you have sent me cannot stay here long, Chosen of Odin.:: An infinitely cold voice says in your head. ::He has no heart, and thus cannot fully die, and his steel golem-like body is strong enough to force his way out past my guards.::
You realize that Stalin, or Man of Steel, is literally steel as you see a vision of Hel's guards trying to stop an enraged Stalin. And you see his chest has a hole in it where his heart should be.
Your team does as you wished with the weapons shattered. Deadly Alice raises her hand, and you can feel the presence of Death, and then the zombies you directed her to kill are dead. The catapult is unaffected. She drops to her knees sobbing in agony.
::Then lets render his earthly body useless the only way I know how, thank you for this boon::
*coming to and talking to Kara*
"They can't keep him long, use the main gun, take out the weapon emplacements, but be mindful of Stalin, he will be back, and the only thing that will render that body slag is the main gun, so we need you on point"
*to Samas*
"Keep the siege weapons as your main targets, destroy them."
*manning the machine gun, ripping apart the star trek zombies, sticking with the plan of once they aren't holding the rifles, to yank them at once trying a multiple TK 4@7, my example is Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back, using it to pull many objects to hit Luke*
*once that is hopefully done, and the zombies worried about regenerating, needing an escort into the base, to find the head room, and use his eye to put the zombies out of commission permanently, leaving Samas, and Kara and Ce Ce out here with Ashe and Alice to continue to keep the zombies down and watch for Stalin's return to hit him with the maingun. Taking the Knights, and hopefully the sneakers inside to give me cover*
Jhiaxus
Your team attacks the zombies. You shred the Star Trekkers with the machine gun, and then unleash TK on their weapons which shoot back to your hand. Samas turns the catapult to flinders with a missile, and the gatling gun to shrapnel with another missile. Kara blows apart the guns on the inner fort.
You charge forward and find that the electric wiring holding the tires together is cut and bent back, and sparking. Its a matter of moments to shove the tire wall over in that spot and create a breach.
A few more swipes from the axe and the zombies laying behind the wall stop trying to grab your ankles. They still hide behind the wall.
You advance through the remaining zombies, and none oppose you. Evidenlty their command was to 'stand here until further commands'.
But the zombies in the tunnel gate formed from the trashed garbage truck form up, and a porticullis is dropped behind them. The knights deal with the half-dozen undead WW1 Doughboys, and Vina raises the porticullis from the inside.
There are several buildings inside, but Sakura is standing next to an open door with a smile on her face.
Several hundred heads sit on shelves inside.
*tired, sleep deprived, sore, and annoyed all goes away when he has a phaser rifle in his hand*
"Type 3 Compression Phaser Rifle, accept no substitute", keeps a second rifle in his pack and redistributes the rest to the team that uses ranged weapons"
*slings the rifle and goes back to his axe dealing with the zombies*
*smiles at Vina and Sakura, giving him a firm thank you handshake and a firm thank you hug to Sakura*
"Thanks guys, you really helped, after these heads we have a heart to look for, Stalin won't stay gone forever."
*afixes his gaze from one head to another, looking to undo Stalin's work, knowing that in order to make sure he doesn't reuse these bodies, that he has to render them and the heads destroyed*
*to the knights*
"You didn't ask us for help beyond here, but you helped us with out mission, so it wouldn't be right to send you on way without backup."
*looks to the sky*
"Phoenix, we need to talk."
*keeping the crew outside on the tank ready for Stalin to reappear, talking Vina and Sakura with me for looting duty, with all these people here, and especially a Riker Security Team, I'm defiantly expecting Tri-Corders and Comm Badges to be around is not on the bodies, and who knows what else we can use for our mission.*
Jhiaxus
You start looking at the heads.
The first twenty just die with thanks. The second twenty, you feel a shock through your system at the unexpected labor, and they die, some snarling. Pushing on, into the long room with the rows of deadheads, you release the next twenty who bless your name. Halfway up the first side of the four sided room, you get another twenty, and then press on to another twenty. Your strength fades, and you feel yourself gasping for breath.
Taking a minute, you let Sakura help you back to your feet. She says she cannot cast her magic in here, the necromantic forces are so strong, they blot out her powers.
Feeling utterly drained, you push the next twenty on the wall facing the door to freedom. And you collapse again.
Vina comes in, and snarls at the heads in his language. He sounds chiding and challenging. They rage back at him undaunted.
You hear the main cannon fire. Bah-whoooom!
*sighs hearing the main gun going off, not having the strength to go on without doing something*
"I'm going to try something risky Sakura, If I don't make it, let Kara know if I was single, I would follow her to the ends of the universe, but I hope to be able to tell her myself."
*smiles*
((I'm going to try a 5@6 Alter Body Chemistry, the baseline gives me +10 to produce naturally occurring substances in my body, I am going to convert my some of my fat cells, to Noradrenalin, and a light amount of Adreneline, doing two things gives me a -5, but I'm hoping the conversion will cancel that out, for an example, I will use the 2nd Edition Complete Guide to Psionics, which has an ability very much like this one))
*assuming that works, finishing the rest of the heads ((I got the impression from the first post that there were hundreds, and I only got through 120))*
"Sakura, I'll be fine here, go out and keep me apprised of what's going on, I need you to make sure the others are keeping Stalin down and occupied while I finish here, I'm counting on you."
Jhiaxus
You drive your will into your body to seek the cells to transform them, and immediately you're aware that something is dreadfully wrong. Unbalanced energies erupt from your body, sending spikes and arcs of necrotic energy out to strike everything in the area, including yourself.
The skulls die.
You tumble to the ground, blood leaking from your eyes and mouth, straight through your skin even. You feel as if your body wants to fly to pieces, and the rib wiring is the only thing holding it in place.
You had sent Sakura out....but in time?
Botch: Generate arcs of necrotic energy in a fifty foot wide sphere. Does Fatal Damage with a Damaging rider to all in sphere, living or dead.
((I was bound to botch sooner or later, I did know it was dangerous, and I did make a point to let her know that, and to send her off with my final wishes in case things went badly, so I would push for her being out of range. If it comes down to me or her, I'll take the hit to make sure she is out of range, with that said))
((I will try a ((2@1 Mag Save Life, It allows even a effects that will preclude someone dying from injuries to be stable enough to be at 1 Health, using the baseline RS/5 minutes after whatever put them in that situation to be staved from death, only allowing the skill to be used once a world, and only after a significant goal has been accomplished, Words to activate spell "What are you gonna do sit there and bleed?" with my Mag Bias, my example is the Withdraw spell In Hackmaster to give myself time to heal, should give me a 1@1 example so that's a +80 on the roll without you giving me any bonus on the stipulations above, or adding the world bias bonus)), I have no desire to leave this world yet, if not to see Stalin put down))
*reaching out with this desperate spell, to give himself a shot at living through this*
Jhiaxus
OOC: OK.
You reach out with the spell, and nothing changes. And you realize its because you're not dying. Oh, you're beat up to a fare thee well. If you hadn't been training so hard to make yourself tough, and gotten various upgrades in Starsong Systems, you might well be dead. As it is, you feel like you've been sparring with a tag team of Mike Tyson and George Foreman, but you're still alive.
Groaning, you stagger to your feet. All the skulls are rotted to death. And you see small splotches of rot on your arms. Evidently, the transformative energy you sought twisted and became rotting, or necrotic, energy. Its a somewhat similar process, both being transformations.
The main cannon fires.
You stagger out the door, and see a wide eyed Sakura on the far side of the courtyard. She's outside a ring of perfectly clean stone centered on your building. She nods in relief, and heads off.
There is a boom like that of the cannon, but deeper. You hear a scream. And steel on steel.
*trying to stagger to where I hear the scream, doing a Heal wounds on myself, ((1@1 Heal 2@1, should be +70 just with my bias difference on the roll)) as I try to see what's going on outside, once that works or not, not playing around with Stalin anymore, I've used a Type 3 Phaser Rifle before, turning the settings to vaporize*
The tank's main gun is deformed. Samas is backing away from Stalin and launching missiles at him from a hundred feet away. Kara is dead. Ce Ce is defending Samas from anything that Stalin tosses at them. She's not even trying to use her light sabre to attack.
Stalin is minus most of his clothing, an dhis outer skin so that he's shiny steel, except for a hole where his heart ougth to be.
You open up your phaser, and dazzling light bathes Stalin. You keep on pouring on the energy with a glowing field of light around him until you're sure he should be dead.
You stop firing. His skin is red and glowing. He laughs at you.
You've used 1/3 rd of the power of this phaser rifle.
::He regenerates:: You hear Ce Ce's voice in your mind like a voice on the wind.
And you do heal yourself to the point where you're badly sore, not feeling like you're about to fall down.
*Is beyond enraged that Kara is dead but not showing it*
"Hey Stalin, where did your New Soviet Men go, oh yeah I wiped them out....all of them...too bad you don't have your heart, I mean if you had possession of it, I would take my axe and cleave you and it, in two, just being honest and forthright about it, and then Odin's proclamation will be true"
*read his mind to find out where his damned heart is*
Jhiaxus
Its in the second building in the light fixture. Stalin is depennding on the Put It In Plain Sight and No One Will Think It Valuable theory since even he can't dig a hole into Elemental Iron.
*to Stalin*
"Thanks your a peach, be sure to tell Hel that I was honest and forthright about what I was going to do to your heart."
*heads off to the second building, seeing if he is taking the bait and leaving the others alone. drawing his axe as he runs*
Jhiaxus
You find it in a lamp fixture in the center of a map room. Opening the container takes a second, and the red, squishy thing beats in your hand.
You can squeeze it now, and send Stalin back where he came from. Or, you can give it to Stalin. Once he touches it, it will reenter his chest. And then you can fulfill Odin's requirements for a boon for your axe.
*I will wait for Stalin give it to him and fulfill Odins request for the boon*
"Here I grant you a warriors death"
*tosses him the heart waiting for him to touch it and drive my axe into his heart with trying to come to grips with his murder of Kara and trying to control the rage I feel into a tightly honed strike right through his heart.*
Jhiaxus
Post above
He looks horrified as he instinctively reaches out to catch it. It touches his hands, and slides through, and around his right arm, across his chest, and into his heartspace. You strike with rage, but grief clouds it as well, slowing you.
He's frantically trying to put his right hand spread wide and missng a couple fingers over his heartspace. With his left hand, he's trying to fend off your strike. His feet are stepping back.
In the distance, you can hear Samas and Ce Ce coming, yelling out encouragement.
He gets his arms up, and you come in over them, nicking him in the heart.
OOC:1@1 Just Rage, bonuses HTH as a sit-mod by RS/....In this case with a roll of '4', by not much.
"THE MILLIONS YOU SENT TO THEIR GRAVES, THEIR HANDS ARE REACHING OUT THROUGH ME, TO BRING THEIR MURDERER TO JUSTICE, I AM JHIAXUS, CHOSEN ONE OF ODIN, I WOULD FIND FAITH REAL QUICKLY STALIN, BECAUSE IT WILL FIND YOU SHORTLY!"
*jumping in the air and coming down through his shoulder to his heart, if he is defending the front, he isn't defending the top*
Jhiaxus
You split him open, and he falls back, his shoulder nearly cleaved from his chest.
"The prophecy foretold that he who slew me here, I would see again. I will wait for you, and get my vengeance on you. Every village you walk in, I will slaughter everyone in that village. I will teach the children to fear that you are coming for them. First I will break you, then humiliate you, then..."
He seems like he's willing to go on with his monologue for some time, but death is impatient, and cuts short the speech.
"That's right I killed you during your monologue."
*sitting there thinking, I finally finished something that I set out to do, leaning on his axe to help myself onto my feed, and then making his way out, not worried about what boon or powers his axe has now, but of the others, how hurt they are, making his way back to Ce Ce and Samas*
"He's gone, lets get everyone together, patch each other up, give Kara a worthy send off, and see what we can use here to help Alice with her goals. High command be damned, we will help them first then come back."
*leaning on the axe to walk, having no reserves left, no adrenaline to pump, his body on fire, needing time to rest, heal and fix what he did in the room with the heads*
Jhiaxus
The tank is ruined. It seems that Samas was firing, and she got off two shots, and then Stalin put his hand over the cannon mouth for th elast shot. It took off some fingers, but the backblast rendered the tank inoperable. Kara then seemed to forget she was not Powergirl and charged him. She died. Ce Ce chopped at him with her lightsabre and got zilch for her efforts especially as his shiny skin seemed to repel her light based weapon. Two knights attacked and died as well. The other two knights dragged Alice to safety against her protests, and Ce and Samas started retreated. You showed up....
As you arrange a fire for the knights and Kara from the fuel in the tank and wood of the catapult, you find it hard not to weep.
And then you hear Kara's voice...
"Don't cry, my friend. I still live. I'm at home in Metropolis, and right now, I think I'm sleeping on my lounge chair and dreaming I'm here."
You see a ghost like Kara standing in front of you.
*wipes away the tears*
"I knew that, Phoenix said you would all be alright when you died here, it was more of a regret for not saying thanks, maybe someday I will find myself in your universe and we can meet again. When you wake up, remember to design yourself a set of armor, for the times where you are without your powers or you need to become someone else. Thanks for being there, helped me work through some issues I had about being faithful to someone. Sweet dreams Kara, you have enough to worry about in your world when your awake than to dream of the hell this is."
*blows a kiss*
===================
So the people left are Samas, Vina, Sakura, Ce Ce, Ashe and Pika, Two Knights and Alice.
*have everyone split up in teams of 2, gathering anything that looks technological ((especially interested in the Starfleet Com Badges, Tricorders, anything that says Starfleet or has the symbol on them, magical, noting any vehicles, food and or water, leaving the knights to watch the front/remains of the tank, me sticking with Alice*
*as we are looking*
"We didn't get to talk much, but Stalin feared you, called you the girlfriend of death in his mind. I just wanted to know more about you and your abilities, and also of your mission here. Ours was to clear this base and back, but you helped us, so we will help you."
*hoping for some vehicle here to get where we need to go and back in time, other than the aircar we left behind*
"See you around, hero." Kara says with a sad smile and she's gone. And with that you notice that Alice stops grimacing in pain.
You turn to Alice and she nods.
"I was, and am, a most devout person, although the price I pay for following the will of the Council of Light sometimes seems steep to me, but then the joy of standing with them of eventually walking with them, and my love makes all that seem of no account."
She pauses, and leans on a knight.
"It is true y'know. Love conquers all. I nearly died, trolley accident, did die according to the doctors, and I saw a man. He seemed nice if troubled."
"Such a pity for a child to die."
And then I revived. Its not totally uncommon in my world for some to see the Lord of Passage in my circumstance. I was adjudged unusually sensitve to hear him speak, and lucky to have come back.
Next year, a snake bit me. Again, I saw that man, and again he seemed sad. It was as if he did not like his job. I tried to tell him it was okay. After all, if we all never died, we'd get stuck in nasty old bodies like my great-aunt Tunny who smelt like mothballs. But I could not speak.
Next year, I was seven. A lightning bolt hit me. This time I told the man my thought, and he laughed. And I revived."
She shrugs.
"Year by year, I nearly died. My parents were investigated, but they were cleared. Someone launched another investigation, and out of a clear blue sky a lightning bolt his his office. He stopped, the gods had spoken. I became famous. Got on TV, had a fan club."
She smiles.
"I became a bit of an arrogant snot to be truthful. But in my defense, I was twelve, and I had just recovered from having a jet engine fall off an airplane and clip me."
She looks away.
"Our conversations grew longer, and he asked me many questions. Often we talked about theology, about why the other gods did things, and I came to realize that the ancient stories of 'And the Council came to their brother, the most kindly one, the most gentle one, and told him with great joy that they had given him the job of Death, and he stormed out in his wrath, and would not listen to their answers.' was exactly true. He had thrown off their love and the love of the Creator because he felt as if they had deliberately tormented him."
She shook her head.
"When I turned eighteen our conversations took another turn, one that I was quite willing to embrace, and terrified of at the same time. Now I am twenty-one, and I have the power of Death inside me. I killed some of those zombies even without their heads. But, every time I use it, my own mortal body screams in protest. Eventually, I shall be wholly transformed, and I shall be a goddess, and the Lord of Passage will come wholly back to his brothers and sisters and his Maker."
Roland steps forward.
"Her mission is simple. One of the Greater Powers of Darkness is seeking to put an Avatar on the ground instead of in the sky. She must face it, and teach it that cheaters never win, as she says." He points onward. "Twenty miles further, there is a vale where it will happen, tommorrow at midnight."
*nods* "Well then let's try to find useful things here and transportation and we'll try to meet that deadline. Once we leave this place, the mission and it's lead is yours."
*doing the above in terms of looting*
There are no vehicles here. You find the security equipment you outlined in the second post minus one phaser, and three com units. But the phasers are not self-regenerating.
Your axe feels different and you see a rune engraved into the durantium handle.
OOC: +2 Damage categories vs. the Undead or the equivalent magic as determined by the GM. +1 Damage categories as above to everything. (This can mean bonuses to hit, or flaming the blade if you realize you're facing a troll and need a fiery blade, or other things.) There is a Valkyre spirit in the axe now. The axe is named Chainbreaker you become aware.
((Sounds fair, I can use the solar blinket to recharge once I am out, how big was the security team, just so I have numbers and can see who has what))
*looks at the axe*
"Very interesting, do you speak Chainbreaker?"
*I will see how it responds to me and if anyone else notices*
*taking off his weights and leaving them here, taking the rest of the Starfleet items if no one objects, wishing he knew how the comm units call unit to unit, or he'd hand them out*
"Roland we will need the sailcar in order for us to make it back to the first base in time, Sakura and I will retrieve it"
*I will pick up some rope and 4 legionnaire shields, make a rope handle in 4 of them, and hand the shields to Samas*
"Please make these flat and bottom polished, if we only have one vehicle, we will have to make due, and drop the extra weight. We will catch up Roland."
*when Sakura and I are out of sight of the others*
"I'm going to ask you to do something personal and if weren't together as a man and woman, strange. I need you to look at my body and tell me how bad those splotches are. I really hurt myself in that head room, and might have done some changes, and I need to know how bad. I'm putting up a good front, but I am really bad off."
Jhiaxus
"Ok." Sakura says a couple miles down the track. She examines you closely, and pokes your wounds gently. It hurts like a scorpion sting. She grimaces and then gingerly draws a knife.
She looks surprised.
"It doesn't burn. But my curse..." She shrugs and pricks one of your wounds. A scent like the cross between an outhouse and a skunk wafts from the wound. She hisses as she shakes the putrescent pus on the ground.
She tries to heal you, and gets nothing.
"I could cut them out, scour the wounds." She looks doubtful.
*as I disrobe further* "Tell me about the curse, the exact wording, and how were you to break it?"
*before she tries to heal, place the Glock 17 gingerly in her hand* "The knife was being used as a tool, this is only a dealer of death, let's see if you get the same reaction."
*grimaces with the pain and the stink of rotting flesh*
"No, no, no, I will not go on like this, no one will travel with me, no woman will get near me or much less be with me, Sakura, you wouldn't be with me if I was like this and I want the truth."
*looks at her face for her reaction*
*strips down to just his boxer briefs*
"You had better get about 100 feet away, I'm going to try and repair what happened to myself, and we saw what happened last time."
((I'm going to try a 5@6 Alter Body Chemistry, the baseline gives me +10 to produce naturally occurring substances in my body, I will use the 2nd Edition Complete Guide to Psionics, which has an ability very much like this one. This time, just attempting to return my cells to their natural state, should give me the full +10 bonus, and I hope for a good result))
Jhiaxus
"I had killed an innocent man by mistake, and so a kami who saw the deed spoke to me. 'until you die for innocence, the weapon you hold will burn you.'"
The Glock raises blisters on her hand. She drops it at once.
"Well, you're cute, and I know how to make noseplugs." Sakura replies with a strained smile.
OOC:
Skill level 2@1, and this is a jump to 5@6 so -35
Psi Book Example 1@1 so +11
Doubling of world bias or skill bias whichever's lower...2@1 is definitely lower than 15@10 so +42
+10 Bonus
+5 for being prepared and ready.
Best Relevant Attribute Intuition 2@9 so +29
63 or less for a quick add....rolled 53. 1@3 skill. You're healed.
*Nods* "Well it's a good thing your here, dying here for an innocent will likely fulfill the curse's stipulations. Or you can become like me and die in many worlds, and have many chances. I didn't choose to become as I am, but as I think back on it now, I wouldn't have it any other way. I also think fulling the mission also will probably grant a request at the end from the higher ups."
*picks the gun up and nods* "It's as I thought, the knife you used as a tool, it didn't burn, you knew your intention with it. The gun you knew to be a weapon, and it burned. I think the curse is tied in with your intentions, killing the innocent man wasn't your intention, using the knife to kill wasn't your intention.
*sighs and smiles a bit* "I find you attractive as well, as well as smart, deadly, and with just the right amount of empathy to bring someone back up from a dark moment."
*looks around after the deed is done, and back to normal*
"I still stink, but I chalk that up to a few days without a shower." *putting his arms and armor back on*
"I made no secret on how I know of you and your story, and the more I think about it, the more alike we are. We both fell for someone and tried to change them, and we both learned that it doesn't work. I think Odin sent me here alone to recognize that I can't turn a woman into a warrior if that's not her natural intention."
*packing the shotgun into his bag, keeping the first phaser slung across his body, putting his breaking blades one on each side on the Belt of Smacking, Axe on it's holder on his back, bowie knife on his left thigh with the dagger holder he used last world, the Glock and Skorpian on the left and right sides of my back in their holsters, after putting on his armor*
"I guess the above needs an explanation, well when I died the first time I was very out of shape, so as you see I'm still a work in progress on that front. When I met Tessa, she was the first woman who wasn't mean or adverse to my advances. She's a great girl, but I don't think she embraced just how much Odin has an affect on who I am now, and that I have made enough enemies, and saw enough evil in the verse that I have to do something about it. I don't think she realizes that there is a war coming, and the time we have now is a gift to prepare, learn and be ready when it happens."
*beginning to walk again towards the sailcar, glad to be rid of the weights for now*
((Wow very good job, only mistake I caught and it's not in my favor, is that a success between between 50 and 80 is a 1@2 skill, it might be 70 the cutoff, but either way nice))
Jhiaxus
You arrive at the sailcar, and flip it back upright since it got tipped over. A quick check, and it seems good to go. The trip back with the wind in your face, and the springy cloth under you is a lot more comfortable than the trip to get the sailcar.
Upon arriving back, you see the others are already pushed on ahead. It takes a bit of pushing, but you get the aircar over the pass between it and the next hill down the line. Once past it, the ground swells in places, and you have to dodge single and sometimes two plates of Elemental Iron stacked on top of each other. You soon catch up with Roland and the rest.
"We've had no trouble while you were gone,Jhiaxus." Roland says with a cheerful smile. "Its almost boring. Could use a good fight."
*glad the aircar is still good to go, and glad for the small relief, happy and as content as I can be here, and glad the others didn't run into trouble*
*To Roland*
"I'm also glad we didn't run into trouble, but I suspect the undead and Stalin kept his area pretty clear of tresspassers, anyway. We have out transportation back, so I think we can make it back in plenty of time, so we are at your disposal. As for a fight, I think we had our fill back there, and the next one doesn't sound fun either, but that's what we are here for to make a difference right?"
*To Samas*
"If the shields are ready, let's get them on the sailcar for now with the ropes, and remount the laser cannon. The Iron ground worked well when we tried to slide on it last time, on the way back, we will move a lot faster. I'm going to call it Iron Surfing, the leather straps on the inside will make good footholds. When we stop for the night, we need to take apart your shoulder guns, and ammo bins and make those work correctly, and perhaps inteface the phaser in your suit. We have extra phasers, as most of the group has no need for them, I'll keep the two pistol like ones, and 2 larger, and the rest whomever wants them."
*smiles and gets off the sailcar, to give Sakura and Ce Ce back in their experienced form of transportation*
*pulling out my axe, trying to figure out how Chainbreaker "speaks" to me, and if it is being quiet because it is evaluating me and us*
Jhiaxus
Wincing you stick your fingers into your mouth several hours later. One of the shields slipped from its cradle, and landed on them. The laser is mounted, and the job is nearly done, but it was hard Edit: with a lot of wasted effort, lack of coordination, fumbles, and snapping tempers Non-edit:.
"Release from combat. If you can sing tonight, it would be good for all. I'm afraid my poetry is good, and my swordsmanship superb, but my songs sound like a barrel of rocks dumped on a wooden floor." Roland says. "I've seen this before a time or two. Its a natural reaction."
During your breaks Edit: when you examine Chainbreaker Non-edit:, you catch faint hints of melody. Sometimes the song in your head changes in accord to the question.
*When setup for the night, will pull out my acoustic guitar, and play the 6 songs I have been working on, all covers of course*
*All along the watchtower, from Bob Dylan*
*Hurt as done by Johnny Cash, as done from Nine Inch Nails*
*God is gonna cut you down* as done by Johnny Cash
*Re-Align* as done by Godsmack
*Behind Blue Eyes as done by Limp Bisket, as done from The Who*
*Solitary Man as done by Johnny Cash, as done by Neil Diamond*
((Those are the six for my own future reference, as well as some listening pleasure from the audience, of course the vocals come with them))
The knights are surprised by the music, and the others take it in. Everyone relaxes. Roland adds a bit of epic poetry, a short one, only eight hundred lines. Alice sings a beautiful 'Smoke on the Water' without instruments.
The morning comes and the tenseness is out of your team.
*I will take out some sheet music and start penning "And The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash as my next piece to learn, and after which I will probably stick to my hard rock roots, during my shift, I will keep Chainbreaker at my side looking down at it every so often to try to hear the song*
*wakes up happy he got a night of sleep, well as happy as he can be here, and hands out some MRE's for breakfast*
"Should be another fun day, we should get a move on, between Serial Killers and stopping an Avatar of Darkness, our dance card is full. Speaking of which, If I were a God of Darkness, I would choose one of them to do be that. The only good thing about them, is that they are flesh and blood and can bleed."
*holding Chainbreaker as we walk*
Jhiaxus