Scions of Heaven/Act 1/Session 3 (Idyllic Caradeen: Part Three)

(03/12/09 13:13:59) Myllinnia: The hateful woman hisses out a curse... "What is going on ... here."

(03/12/09 13:15:00) Gale: "What is going on, is your death!" Gale says with spite and hate in his voice. Those who are close can hear a fainter, more subtle voice intermixed with Gales. Picking up his sword again, he advances fearlessly. "Die with dignity, wretch! As is your place."

(03/12/09 13:15:10) Fox: Unconquered Sun has ordained your defeat.

(03/12/09 13:17:32) Myllinnia: With Fox upon her she struggles and moans to dislodge the newborn Solar her eyes narrowed upon Gale with anger mixed with fear.

(03/12/09 13:19:05) T`zaren: "She's alive, Gale. Lilly's alive! You don't have to kill anyone." He seems a little stunned, though given what they're all going through at the moment it would be easy to assume that was the only reason why.

(03/12/09 13:19:31) Priide Kittee nods, crouching beside Lilly. "He's right, brother."

(03/12/09 13:20:12) Gale: Flicking his blade as he approaches her, his eyes view her solely with rage as he grips the blade harder. "For my sister." He suddenly lashes out, his blade moving with quickened essence, a fiery green lash about it as he moves to strike through her bones and body, lifting her up with sheer force and strength. It almost seems as if he's going for overkill!

(03/12/09 13:20:33) Myllinnia: Lilly lies there slightly moving, whispering almost imperceptibly to herself.

(03/12/09 13:20:45) Gale: That is of course, before he wrenches his blade out, and moves to pierce her through in a lightning quick attack, moving past her with an almost careless glance....

(03/12/09 13:21:26) Fox: Fox holds fast

(03/12/09 13:22:38) Rai whistles, impressed by Gale's flashy display

(03/12/09 13:29:33) Myllinnia: The woman falls to the ground bleeding badly, her weapons clatter to the ground. And really it looks like nothing much can save her.

(03/12/09 13:30:02) Gale: "Leave her." Gale kicks the dying woman. "She's not important."

(03/12/09 13:30:06) Tai Zi closes her eyes and lets out a soft sigh, the tenseness leaveing her body, the blood flowing from her hand slowly flecked with silver, across her back, skin ripples and slowly a tenseness flows back into her body, a low moan escapes from her.>

(03/12/09 13:30:14) Fox: Mind if I take her stuff?

(03/12/09 13:31:25) Tai Zi her skin makes a slight sizzeling sound, slowly lines of silver riseing up on her pale skin, cuting through the black dots bespeckeling her body, hunching down softly, tightly into as small a ball as she can make the rippeling across her back becomes more violent, her moan slowly growing in volume.

(03/12/09 13:31:52) T`zaren: Nothing? Quite the contrary. T'zaren is on his feet in an instant, blurring across the room. It looks to everyone as though he's about to crush her with a powerful blow, something very out of character for him. What may come as a shock to everyone, though, is that his blow seems to do no damage whatsover -- indeed, her wounds seem to be bleeding significantly less.

(03/12/09 13:31:55) Priide Kittee looks at Tai, blinks, and moves over to her lover. "Are you okay, love?"

(03/12/09 13:32:08) Tai Zi head throwas back sudently her eyes glowing silver as a coat of small spines erupt from her back, throwing her to the ground in silance a second later.

(03/12/09 13:33:35) Gale: Gale picks up the semi conscious Lilly, briefly closing his eyes as his body fully catches up with what he did. "Ah... Lilly?" He could feel her, she was still alive. And for now, it was *Gale* in control.

(03/12/09 13:35:29) Rai: Are we done playing around? We've got an airship to raid!

(03/12/09 13:37:45) Gale: "That ship." Gale opens his eyes... "Lilly, can you hear me?"

(03/12/09 13:37:56) Priide Kittee kneels beside Tai. "Tai? Tai, can you hear me?"

(03/12/09 13:38:58) Tai Zi stirs slighly and makes a slight sound, the streaking silver lines traceing patterns through the qills upon her back, yellow eyes flutter softly as she pushes herself up to her hands and knees slowly.

(03/12/09 13:40:19) Fox: Fox strips her armor off and tries it on.

(03/12/09 13:40:44) Rai , having failed to motivate everyone to leave yet, goes over and pokes the shiny quills. OW, sharp!

(03/12/09 13:41:18) Priide Kittee raises an eyebrow at Rai. "I'm not bandaging that, you know. I don't waste resources on fools."

(03/12/09 13:41:42) Lao Zi blinks, looking around, "T... tai?", looking worried at her, much more than Gale's violence.

(03/12/09 13:41:43) Rai: I don't need any bandage, it's just a little prick

(03/12/09 13:41:52) Tai Zi hisses her eyes going wide and lunging forward turning about to glare at Rai. "Who are you?"

(03/12/09 13:42:15) Rai: How could you forget me, I'm Rai!

(03/12/09 13:43:31) Fox: goes upstairs to pick up the other sword.

(03/12/09 13:43:37) T`zaren makes sure that the woman's injuries aren't made worse as Fox removes her armor, though he's perfectly willing to help him remove it. The woman is alive, and she'll live, but she'll also be out of the fight, which suits him just fine.

(03/12/09 13:44:02) Tai Zi frowns softly, a feral look to her face as she backs slowly away, hands clenching into a fist. "I dont know you, I dont know any of you, whats going on, what did you do to me?"

(03/12/09 13:44:27) Priide Kittee looks worried. "Tai? What do you mean, what did we do to you?"

(03/12/09 13:44:54) Lao Zi looks very worried, "Tai... it's me, Lao, your brother...", he says, leaning forwards to her, "You... we... those vails, then...", he then seems to be trying to steady himself, again, more-or-less ignoring the injuries around.

(03/12/09 13:45:54) Myllinnia: Lilly slowly opens her eyes looking to Gale with a surprised look.

(03/12/09 13:46:12) Tai Zi blinks at Lao, some of the hardness leaveing her eyes, staying hunced down and creeping twards him slowly. "I know you. But..I dont know why.." She stops a few feet from him, and takes his hand, pressing it to her cheek and closeing her eyes, sniffing at his wrist.

(03/12/09 13:46:55) Gale: "Lilly... Get the civilians to safety here if you can, alright?

(03/12/09 13:47:07) Rai: I can't believe I'm that forgettable ....

(03/12/09 13:47:11) Gale: "Can you move?"

(03/12/09 13:47:24) Lao Zi looks more than a little worried, but, at least calmed a little as Tai seems to have some vestiges of memory, as she takes his hand, he doesn't pull away, "W... we'll figure this out later.", he nods to himself, "...but, first...", then STARES at Rai, "I'm her ~brother~, and you're wondering how she could forget you?"

(03/12/09 13:47:27) Gale: "I need to go, somethings talking to me. Its in my head. I can't keep like this for long right now."

(03/12/09 13:47:50) Rai: Well yeah, that's odd too.

(03/12/09 13:48:05) Rai says offhandedly

(03/12/09 13:48:14) Priide Kittee nods, glaring at Rai. "Not the time, Maidens take you."

(03/12/09 13:48:18) Rai: I wonder if her shiny was broken.

(03/12/09 13:48:23) Rai: It looked fine.

(03/12/09 13:48:44) Priide Kittee: "I said. Not. The. Time."

(03/12/09 13:49:13) Tai Zi sniffs at Lao's hand shakeing her head. "Not brother." She slowly starts kissing his wrist and forearm. "Mate."

(03/12/09 13:49:13) Rai: You're right, we've still got an airship to raid!

(03/12/09 13:49:40) Myllinnia [~Myllinnia@208.83.194.IP] entered the room.

(03/12/09 13:50:06) Priide Kittee 's jaw drops. "...Mate?"

(03/12/09 13:50:43) Rai: ... Ok, now I *know* her shiny was broken, because that's just wrong.

(03/12/09 13:51:12) T`zaren blinks. Then blinks again. His mouth moves as if to respond, but no sound comes out, so he closes it again.

(03/12/09 13:52:21) Lao Zi looks, yeah, worried, eyes widening as he looks confused, "Erm... Tai, yea...", shaking his head a little, "..L... let's deal with this later, there's things going on we need to deal with now.", as he looks around to appraise himself of the situation.

(03/12/09 13:52:55) Myllinnia: Another loud explosion rocks the Hill and for a moment the smoke blocks the sun from the orphanage.

(03/12/09 13:53:13) Tai Zi nods standing up straiter and droping Lao's hand softly. "okay." Spines wun the with of her shoulders slowly tapering tell they vanish at midback, they seem to have riped right through her clothing.

(03/12/09 13:53:20) Gale: "Get the people to safety, LIlly..."

(03/12/09 13:53:46) Gale: Setting her down, gale looked out the window, to the ship before the skys blocked off.

(03/12/09 13:53:46) Priide Kittee whirls, dropping into a defensive position that implies skills far beyond her level of training.

(03/12/09 13:54:12) Fox: trots back downstairs with the loot

(03/12/09 13:54:22) Tai Zi frowns and looks around at the rest then out the window. "There family, someone is attacking my family."

(03/12/09 13:54:27) Fox: "we should find out whats going on out there!

(03/12/09 13:54:29) Gale: "That ship." (First floor, right? If so...) "That ship. That ship. That ship." Gale moves through the window, moving far quicker then anyones ever seen him move. "That ship. That ship. That ship is an eye sore!"

(03/12/09 13:55:10) Fox: runs outside

(03/12/09 13:55:30) T`zaren: Lao is right. They've got to find Scarlet Ruby and save her. And they've got to protect the rest of the villagers. Almost without thinking, T'zaren's body moves through the motions of a martial arts kata not entirely unlike his former fighting style, though visible different enough to be clear that it's some new style he's picked up along with these new powers.

(03/12/09 13:55:36) Rai: It'd look much better with us running it!

(03/12/09 13:55:52) Priide Kittee nods at Tai's statement. "Yeah, let's go." The Sidereal starts moving down the stairs to the ground floor.

(03/12/09 13:56:00) Rai takes off after Fox, finally happy that someone has their priorities straight!

(03/12/09 13:56:04) Lao Zi leans in and gives Tai a hug anyways, muttering in Flametongue to her, "Don't worry, we'll fix this somehow.", then he nods, leaning back.

(03/12/09 13:56:31) Tai Zi presses into the hug and then is gone, raceing after Fox.

(03/12/09 13:58:07) Lao Zi blinks at T'zaren, as-if picking up the idea from him... as he goes through a few motions of his own, only a low soft style, as his body and all becomes noticably translucent, difficult to see, and, hard to tell his motions or movements, as he then follows after Tai, not letting her out of his sight.

(03/12/09 13:58:42) Gale: Gale dashes off to catch up with the others. He catches up with them momentarily, as even running across strewn rubble, and broken earth, he doesn't seem to go any slower, leaping over obstacles, or his speed just going unbroken as he runs over them, trampling them beneath his feet. "We are breaking that ship. We are sending it crashing down to the earth."

(03/12/09 13:59:08) Myllinnia: Once outside you find that fires are burning in the village, while essence powered attacks attempt to strike the ship from the sky at the farms. The ship itself seems more focused on the Hill, as a flash and bang later something hits the HIll.

(03/12/09 14:01:24) T`zaren: The kata invoked, its power invisibly wrapped around him, T'zaren follows after the others. He can't hope to keep up with Gale's heightened speed, though he's moving more quickly than he would have a few hours ago. As he goes, those looking his way will note that there's a sudden shift -- he suddenly seems more THERE, somehow, as if the things around him are somehow less substantial than him.

(03/12/09 14:01:57) Rai: Damn it Gale, don't destroy that ship, we could use it!

(03/12/09 14:03:18) Gale: "you will not order me." He glared with hate at Rai for a moment, as his voice seemed to not be Gales, but another, deeper voice that hid the normal one. "I have waited so long for this. my vengeance will not be controlled!"

(03/12/09 14:03:47) Priide Kittee blinks and stares at Gale. "Are *you* okay?"

(03/12/09 14:03:48) Rai: Bah, you suck.

(03/12/09 14:03:56) Tai Zi stops and looks up at the ship. "if we take the ship we can turn there weapons upon themselves."

(03/12/09 14:04:00) Fox: don't blow up the ship while I'm on it.

(03/12/09 14:04:10) Lao Zi gets up there, more-or-less difficult to see, as he says to Gale, "Whatever the vengence, it would probably be better served by having the airship, rather than destroying it... a better vessel for one's vengence.", almost mused.

(03/12/09 14:04:27) Rai: Also, what they all said.

(03/12/09 14:04:55) Gale: "I am fine. I feel liberated." Gale closes his eyes again for a brief moment, before looking to the others again with a flicker of worry. "No... I'm not okay, keep a distance away from me... I'm not in control right now..."

(03/12/09 14:06:14) Lao Zi nods at Tai, having een preoccupied with Gale for the moment, but agrees, "Yes, yes, use their forces against them.", as he looks for some kind of gantry-way onto the airship.

(03/12/09 14:06:32) Fox: Fox takes a few mighty leaps and then from the top of the council building he jumps up and into the basket tumbling through an opening almost too small to see from the ground.

(03/12/09 14:06:37) Tai Zi looks up at the ship and her eyes narrow she takes a deep breath and a small silver glow emanates from her body, Muscles sewll and her back ripples, this time there is no scream or pain, quills slideing out of her back all the way down to the small of her back, spines rolling down her amrs as her face elongates softly, the silver markingsupon her body seem to bleed coating the qills as long as her nails and teeth in a silv

(03/12/09 14:08:34) Myllinnia: As you race towards the vessel upon the Tower's tip of the Council building a rather unfamiliar fiery and red aura engulfes someone up there but some of you suspect or know that its Scarelet Ruby.

(03/12/09 14:08:34) Rai nods to Ari, as he switches back into his glorious thunderbird form, switching from a run to a swift flight, Ari jumping onto his back as they both soar up to the vessel

(03/12/09 14:08:59) Gale: Flicking his gaze back to the ship, Gale runs to the nearest building, kipping up with a quick leap and short climb, parts of his feet breaking through the walls at points... Continuing his undaunted stride, Gale kicks off the roof of the building, partly shattering it as he attempts to launch into a kick that would defy gravity, trying to land on the ship,(C

(03/12/09 14:09:06) Gale: Or a place on the ship that he can climb up it!

(03/12/09 14:10:36) T`zaren hasn't a prayer of making it up to the ship under his own power. He can't fly, and he can't leap nearly high enough, even with the aid of a building. But he can certainly put his newfound ability to use, both in opposing any enemy troops in the area and in aiding any wounded villagers.

(03/12/09 14:10:36) Tai Zi looks over at Lao. "Don't struggle, you'll throw off my aim."

(03/12/09 14:12:18) Lao Zi looks VERY confused, but, doesn't struggle against his spikey-sister?

(03/12/09 14:12:53) Tai Zi smiles grabs Lao, lifs him easy, and then with a swift spin to build momentum hurles him at the railing of the ship.

(03/12/09 14:13:13) Priide Kittee looks at the girl she'd slept with confusedly. "Er. Any chance you could help me out, Tai?"

(03/12/09 14:13:17) Myllinnia: Lilly helps with T'zaren on her forehad a strange but faint mark seems to pulse.

(03/12/09 14:13:44) Lao Zi oh-so-stealthily goes 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!' as he's launched through the air, the doppler effect giving the yell a wierd harmonic!

(03/12/09 14:14:28) Tai Zi blinks at Priide after throwing Lao, blinking and sniffing at her. "You, your important to me too, what can I do?"

(03/12/09 14:15:03) Priide Kittee looks slightly embarrassed. "I can't get up there on my own." She says, pointing at the airship Lao had just been thrown at.

(03/12/09 14:15:06) T`zaren seems to be a little unsettled by that strange mark of Lilly's, so like and yet so unlike the one upon his own brow.

(03/12/09 14:16:39) Tai Zi looks after T'z and Lilly, decideing that the two of them can easly handel what ever forces are on the ground, she nods and scoops Kittee up in her arms, legs tenseing as she runs and gets som momentum going before leaping from roof to roof heading for the ship, one last jump sending her and Kittee high in the air.

(03/12/09 14:16:47) Lao Zi stands up translucently, looking grouchy as he rubs his rump, looking around.

(03/12/09 14:23:55) Myllinnia: There is a brilliant display of skill and power and athletics as each of you hit the rails at one section of the ship. A single door sits before you, the shiny metal of the black airship seemingly quite new. (I will say you all made it up there)

(03/12/09 14:23:56) Myllinnia: Below a flash of light strikes the back of the ship but the ship doesn't tremble from it. Granted the fiery anima that you had seen earlier glows brighter.

(03/12/09 14:24:44) Fox: tries the door

(03/12/09 14:24:46) Gale: Gale approached the door, forcing it open as he shoves the door aside! "Fine. You want to command it. We'll take it from the haert."

(03/12/09 14:25:00) Rai: Yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about!

(03/12/09 14:25:15) Tai Zi carefuly sets Priide down and looks in Lao's general dircetion to makesure he made it

(03/12/09 14:25:29) Priide Kittee smiles at Tai. "Thank you."

(03/12/09 14:26:01) Lao Zi grumbles a little at Tai, HE got thrown, as he dusts himself off, the light filtering wierdly through his transparent form.

(03/12/09 14:26:03) Tai Zi muzzel makes a slight smile as she presses her lips to Kittee's softly then goes into a slight crouch looking about them.

(03/12/09 14:26:41) Priide Kittee looks over at Lao curiously. "Crystal Chameleon, right? I recognize the style from somewhere."

(03/12/09 14:27:23) Lao Zi blinks at Priide, "Eh? Oh, it's from one of the books I'm always reading, couldn't ever quite get it to work, until... well...", he shrugs.

(03/12/09 14:28:27) Rai: You people and your martial arts.

(03/12/09 14:28:30) Tai Zi body tenses as she readys herself for battle, expecaly after the door got busted down, staying back with Lao and Priide to protect them.

(03/12/09 14:29:00) Myllinnia: The door screechs and crinkles as if it were just mere paper. The corridor beyond is lit but strangly no one is here. Various flickering holo-glyph screens dot the corridor as it goes towards the center of the ship.

(03/12/09 14:29:11) Gale: Gale takes the lead as they enter the ship, his anima still flaring about him, casting an eerie green light about him.

(03/12/09 14:29:26) Rai sidles over to one of the holo screens and tries to find out some info about the ship

(03/12/09 14:29:32) Gale: "Find a way to command it quikly, before I start driving my sword into the screens and anything that looks important."

(03/12/09 14:29:52) T`zaren looks a little startled at having been grabbed and hauled on a leap that puts anything any mere mortal could accomplish to shame. He recovers quickly enough, though, and isn't quite so surprised when Gale is able to shove aside such a sturdy door as if it wasn't even there.

(03/12/09 14:30:11) Rai rapidly taps through menus, moving on instinct and discarding anything that doesn't look relevant.

(03/12/09 14:31:26) Priide Kittee looks around curiously, staying in the pre-kata stance for Secrets of Future Strife.

(03/12/09 14:31:38) Lao Zi follows up, and slips over, looking over a console...

(03/12/09 14:32:40) T`zaren looks over at one of the terminals, but unable to puzzle out the language, turns his attention to watching for the crew.

(03/12/09 14:33:03) Tai Zi looks around the room, searching for signs of life. "theres no one here?"

(03/12/09 14:33:14) Priide Kittee: "Apparently not."

(03/12/09 14:33:24) Myllinnia: Lao gets one of the terminals to activate easily to his touch.

(03/12/09 14:33:58) Myllinnia: Though you get only the status of the ship and a map location of various important places, such as Essence Core, Command Center, Weapons Block, Engines.

(03/12/09 14:34:09) T`zaren: "There's got to be a control room somewhere. That's probably where they are."

(03/12/09 14:34:12) Tai Zi closes her eyes her nose twiching as she takes a deep deep breath.

(03/12/09 14:34:26) Rai: Did I hear someone say command center?

(03/12/09 14:34:39) Myllinnia: Rai on the other hand not only gets his to go but also gets a strange string of characters streaming across the screen.

(03/12/09 14:34:52) Fox: weapons block sound promising

(03/12/09 14:34:54) Rai: Can anyone read these? I think they're important

(03/12/09 14:34:56) Lao Zi looks over it, indeed mumbling the 'Essenc Core, Command Center, Weapons Block, Engines...", and, it's odd, since he's still transparent.

(03/12/09 14:35:21) Fox: If we want to stop them blowing up the village I mean.

(03/12/09 14:35:23) Lao Zi grumps, looking over at Rai's screen, "You're pressing buttons, and can't read the Old Tongue?", he chides.

(03/12/09 14:35:51) Rai: Hey, it got results, don't knock it.

(03/12/09 14:36:25) Rai: And oooh, yeah we probably want some new weapons first. I bet they have nice stuff in here.

(03/12/09 14:37:29) T`zaren: "That's probably the ship weapons, not an armory."

(03/12/09 14:37:29) Tai Zi looks at Rai. "I.I think I am a weapon, at least his." She points at Lao.

(03/12/09 14:38:03) Gale: "You are all weapons, and yet puppets. Curious." Gale says under his braeth

(03/12/09 14:38:24) Myllinnia: There is a faint scent of a single person, as well as the scent of a lot of things thngs that make your sense of smell uncomfortable.

(03/12/09 14:38:48) Rai: Don't all get philosophical on me at once.

(03/12/09 14:38:57) Tai Zi growls slighly. "We arnt alone, and there is something here that makes my nose hurt."

(03/12/09 14:39:31) Gale: "Then we find it, and kill it if it is such an affront."

(03/12/09 14:40:13) Myllinnia: As to the stream of text Lao finds that they are important system codes to the engines and the weapons, if not a bit scattered. The order alone might not even be right. Also it contains something easy to read:

(03/12/09 14:40:42) Myllinnia: "Core Directive Hunt and Destroy."

(03/12/09 14:41:08) Tai Zi hunches a bit, ignoreing the smell that stings her nose, focusing on the smell of a person, closeing her eyes and following the secent alone.

(03/12/09 14:41:23) Lao Zi sighs as he then tells people, and gives Rai's hands a swat, "Seems their core directive is 'Hunt and Destroy', lovely folk.", as he pulls out a notebook from his pocket, and starts scribbling information down.

(03/12/09 14:41:37) Rai: Huh, think we could change that if we went to the core?

(03/12/09 14:41:46) Priide Kittee follows Tai quietly, not wanting to distract her friend.

(03/12/09 14:42:06) Rai: Or is that the wrong kind of core.

(03/12/09 14:42:21) Lao Zi blinks and answers almost absently to Kittee, "Eh? What? Oh, the command center is upstairs, and towards the center of the ship...", as he writes down possible command codes.

(03/12/09 14:43:18) Myllinnia: Tai believes the scent leads towards the center of the ship.

(03/12/09 14:44:13) Gale follows, finding the prospect of imminent battle exciting! Well, part of him does

(03/12/09 14:44:42) T`zaren continues to keep alert, sticking with the others.

(03/12/09 14:45:07) Rai: Oooh, Lao hurry up and finish writing that, everyones' leaving!

(03/12/09 14:45:55) Priide Kittee: "He'd probably finish faster if you didn't distract him, Rai." Kittee says wryly.

(03/12/09 14:46:22) Rai has already taken off after Tai T'za and Gale

(03/12/09 14:46:30) Lao Zi finishes writing up the codes, as he then eyes Rai, "Jus' be glad I don't have a ruler in my hand.", as he slips the book away, and heads after.

(03/12/09 14:46:40) Tai Zi leaves the group to finish moveing forward ahead of the others to scout out the source of the scent.

(03/12/09 14:47:14) Myllinnia: A voice soon is heard echoing at you down the passageway seemingly to be everywhere, a snide male's voice.

(03/12/09 14:48:35) Myllinnia: "I see you little rats," he says. "What do you think you can do here. You powerless little insects?"

(03/12/09 14:48:35) Fox: even rats can bite

(03/12/09 14:48:36) Tai Zi shows no intrest in the voice her nost makeing small movements as she follows the scents path, her back a glitering mat of silver spines

(03/12/09 14:48:55) Gale: "Hrmph." Gale strides forward, unafraid. "You want to see who's the rat? come out into the light. And die standing."

(03/12/09 14:50:04) Rai takes his finger, which trails glowing blue light, and drags it across his face in the traditional war paint of the thunderbirds.

(03/12/09 14:50:28) Priide Kittee nods. "We're not afraid of you, little man, hiding behind minions because you're too scared to fight for yourself."

(03/12/09 14:51:07) Rai: I hear your challenge and offer myself up in battle in response!

(03/12/09 14:51:16) T`zaren: "I'm afraid we can't allow you to continue to attack this village. As such, we offer you the chance to surrender now. Do so, and I can guarantee your safety. If you continue to oppose us, I won't be able to ensure your safety."

(03/12/09 14:51:48) Tai Zi rolls her eyes and rushes forward down the corrador.

(03/12/09 14:52:02) Myllinnia: There is a harsh laugh. "Surrender me? Not likely. It will be you to surrender and die!"

(03/12/09 14:52:08) Lao Zi follows along after Tai, he's not used to being too-far away from her. :)

(03/12/09 14:52:19) Myllinnia: Tai finds the scent leads to a pair of doors.

(03/12/09 14:52:22) Priide Kittee follows Tai at a jog.

(03/12/09 14:52:57) Tai Zi stops and sniffs at the doors once to confirm, and then pulls back and rams her shoulder into them.

(03/12/09 14:53:01) Gale: "I didn't say surredenr, I said die."

(03/12/09 14:53:03) Fox: lets try just opening them

(03/12/09 14:53:51) Fox: no sense wrecking our airship

(03/12/09 14:54:03) T`zaren likewise picks up his pace. "Remember that you were given the opportunity. I hope that you will change your mind while there is still time."

(03/12/09 14:56:44) Myllinnia: The doors clatter into a small empty room. The room itself is decoarted in rich looking carpet and paintings, if only a few of them. All of the paintings depict a light mocha girl with dark black hair and black eyes.

(03/12/09 14:58:49) Tai Zi head sweeps the room looking for doors and takeing a deep scent.

(03/12/09 14:58:54) Fox: looks like we have to try again

(03/12/09 14:59:48) Myllinnia: There are no doors but there is a single button near where the destroyed doors once were.

(03/12/09 14:59:49) Lao Zi looks around for any kind of control pannels, if this is indeed the Command Center. ;)

(03/12/09 15:00:06) T`zaren: "Almost looks like a shrine."

(03/12/09 15:00:07) Tai Zi brissels and backs up a bit. "Trap?"

(03/12/09 15:00:09) Rai hits the button if no one else has by the time he gets into the room.

(03/12/09 15:00:44) Gale: "Of course its a trap. We simply need to survive, child."

(03/12/09 15:01:28) Myllinnia: As the button is pressed the room shudders and well if you aren't in you watch rise up those inside find themselves soon facing another pair of doors.

(03/12/09 15:01:46) Priide Kittee looks at Gale. "You're not that much older than us, you know."

(03/12/09 15:02:09) Rai: Woo!

(03/12/09 15:02:22) Tai Zi moves carefuly along the edge of the room, not crossing the open space to get to the other door, sniffing at them

(03/12/09 15:02:26) Rai opens the new set of doors and looks out

(03/12/09 15:02:42) Priide Kittee sighs and rolls her eyes heavenward.

(03/12/09 15:03:33) Lao Zi grumbles, "Oookay, Rai, we will have to have a talk about thinking through your actions..."

(03/12/09 15:04:00) Rai: They *work*, why would I waste time thinking about them?

(03/12/09 15:04:37) Myllinnia: The doors open simply and into a much bigger room. A pair of large windows line the entire room around this one single room. There is a chair at the front and a large burly man sitting there with his arms crossed and large sword siting at the side.

(03/12/09 15:05:00) Myllinnia: He is a bearded man with dark hair and a scar mars his face, blue eyes stare with mirth at the group.

(03/12/09 15:05:19) Gale: "Finally, the rat in charge. Can we kill you know and get it over with?"

(03/12/09 15:07:23) Lao Zi is keeping mostly quiet, and moving up along, keeping out of the immediate pathway.

(03/12/09 15:08:10) Myllinnia: The man chuckles. "If you wish, but a mere boy of that rebel queen Scarlet Ruby will be no match for me. Adamant River!" He stands and lifts his not so heavy large sword and points it at the group. "Who wants to be spanked first."

(03/12/09 15:09:05) Priide Kittee yawns. "Bor-iiing. Honestly, spankings has *never* been one of my kinks."

(03/12/09 15:09:23) Gale: "I am not a mere boy."

(03/12/09 15:09:34) Gale: "I am the lucid nightmare. I am the soul if the demon city itself!"

(03/12/09 15:09:44) Gale: "You will not slay me, mongrel."

(03/12/09 15:09:53) Tai Zi smiles softly licking her lips, razor sharp silver teeth gleaming.

(03/12/09 15:10:08) T`zaren: "Greetings, Adamant River. My friend is...somewhat overzealous, but essentially correct. If you insist on attacking this village, we will defeat you." He looks somewhat startled as Gale makes his introduction, however. Soul of the demon city?

(03/12/09 15:12:46) Rai: You won't be sailing this ship down a river of adamant or anything else when we're done with you!

(03/12/09 15:23:16) Gale: Suddenly, Gale leaps from where he's at, scrambling over the table to Take the man out. "Adamant river? Adamant is the strongest metal, rat! lets see how tough you are!" Gale moves to quickly and carelessly slice off one of the mans arms, indiscriminate about the damage and pain it could inflict. Raising his blade again, Gale leaps off the table to lunge (C)

(03/12/09 15:24:20) Gale: Towards the man, his weapon again lashing out as the anima surrounds him. "But of course, you aren't as tough as Adamant, are you?" He whispers, shoving his blade through the mans shoulder, digging it in! (2 attacks, 1st is a combo of 1st malfean exc +3 dice, then green sun flare. )

(03/12/09 15:30:31) Myllinnia: Gale's weapon cleaves him almost in two but as he falls you find that he doesn't bleed red. A laugh echoes in the control room.

(03/12/09 15:31:49) Myllinnia: "Did that make you feel good boy. Cleaving my puppet?"

(03/12/09 15:32:05) Gale: "Heh..." Gale laughs as well. "It did, now i'll find you and cut you apart like your little puppet, fool!"

(03/12/09 15:32:06) Tai Zi sniffs softly nose working the air.

(03/12/09 15:32:48) Gale: "Its been such a long time sin...." Its at this moment that gale recovers. "...S....What did I ju...." He looks to his victim, and more or less recoils backwards in stark terror

(03/12/09 15:33:14) Lao Zi looks around for the controls, sounds like the laugh isn't the poor more-or-less dead-man's.

(03/12/09 15:33:49) Myllinnia: At the back of the room there are a pair of doors.

(03/12/09 15:34:05) Fox: opens them

(03/12/09 15:34:11) Rai: Whoa, steady there Gale

(03/12/09 15:34:15) Priide Kittee cautiously moves over to the doors.

(03/12/09 15:34:18) Gale: "Oh my god... Did..." Gale almost drops his balde "I did that... Didn't I?"

(03/12/09 15:34:32) Tai Zi watches Gale slighly, staying with Priide, trusting Lao to stay with her.

(03/12/09 15:34:46) Rai: It was pretty hardcore, yeah.

(03/12/09 15:35:02) Priide Kittee: "Rai. Be quiet. Please."

(03/12/09 15:35:45) Myllinnia: Fox finds a pillar of light beyond the doors and consoles of various types around it.

(03/12/09 15:36:41) Gale: Gales breathing seems a bit shallow as he looks at his bloody blade. "Oh god..." He remembers the green fire, and just quietly follows the others, starkly afraid...

(03/12/09 15:36:46) T`zaren moves to Gale's side, reaching out to squeeze his shoulder. "We'll find a way to get it under control. I won't allow you to just become a soul of the demon city."

(03/12/09 15:36:58) Myllinnia: The pillar itself takes up half the room and seems to go from ceiling to ground pulsing with a reddish light.

(03/12/09 15:37:08) Gale: "He's out... He's out of my head."

(03/12/09 15:38:40) Tai Zi lookst at Lao softly moveing to stand next to him looking at the light

(03/12/09 15:40:21) Lao Zi sighs, as he goes up, "I wonder if there's any interface here...", looking around.

(03/12/09 15:40:48) Priide Kittee takes Tai's hand gently. "You ok, love?"

(03/12/09 15:41:40) Rai: Yeah, I'll kick his ass too if I need to to keep you safe Gale!

(03/12/09 15:41:57) Tai Zi blinks at Priide holding her hand, a little confusion in her yellow eyes. "I..I dont know"

(03/12/09 15:43:33) Myllinnia: "You'll never find me," the voice says tauntingly.

(03/12/09 15:44:02) Priide Kittee bends to kiss her lover on the forehead. "Give it up already. We're better than you. Just hand over the ship to us."

(03/12/09 15:45:04) Tai Zi closes her eyes, the little disk of silver on her brows glowing softly.

(03/12/09 15:45:27) Rai pats Gale on the back supportively

(03/12/09 15:45:56) Gale: Gale looks to T'zaren. "He was in my head... he promised me power... I allowed him to empower me. I could feel him controlling me... I was a puppet. He's... He wants me to work for him, work as his instrument. I can still feel his pull. He *did* something to me...." he whispers quietly, still panicking faintly

(03/12/09 15:48:44) Myllinnia: The scent that Tai follow leads to behind the this room with the pillar. But its a wall. Or.. atleast seems to be one.

(03/12/09 15:49:24) Tai Zi sniffs about the wall and tests the strength of it aginst the strength of her arm.

(03/12/09 15:50:07) Myllinnia: It seems pretty stable, though it does bend slightly.

(03/12/09 15:50:52) Lao Zi laces his fingers together, cracking his knuckles in a forwards-press of his hands, as he moves up to the... pillar-of-light controls, "Here, maybe what-ever is inside the machine or not, how about I shut it down, so it can't have any automated traps for us?", he asks the air.

(03/12/09 15:52:08) Myllinnia: "Even... if you do something with that..." the voice is a bit more nervous.

(03/12/09 15:52:17) Rai: C'mon Gale, pull it together! You got controlled for a bit, but we can fight it! If nothign else, we can go bust up your demon city, it's not like it wasn't done before, and we can totally be just as awesome as those guys!

(03/12/09 15:52:45) Tai Zi smiles seeing the wall bend, she turns back to stand next to Priide, watching Lao intently.

(03/12/09 15:53:36) Lao Zi laughs a little bit at the voice, and wiggles his fingers dramatically at the controls, "C'mon, you aren't the ship's Spirit, are you?", he says.

(03/12/09 15:54:26) Gale: Gale just smiles faintly at Rais words. "Yeah... Yeah, you're right. Thanks Rai..."

(03/12/09 15:54:43) Myllinnia: "No... I'm not the spirit."

(03/12/09 15:55:23) Myllinnia: "Just ... don't touch this thing."

(03/12/09 15:55:25) Priide Kittee smiles at Tai, hugging her lover as the two of them wait.

(03/12/09 15:55:59) Tai Zi stiffens at the hug eyes closeing, she moves carefuly, not wanting her quills to stab into Priide's arms.

(03/12/09 15:56:03) Myllinnia: The ship suddenly shudders.

(03/12/09 15:56:22) Lao Zi shakes his head a bit, and asks in Old-Realm, sure the spirit can speak it too, but, sure most of his party can't speak it, "Ok... Need me to shut you down? Or do you want to tell me who that was that my compatriot killed?"

(03/12/09 15:56:40) Myllinnia: And shutters close against the windows.

(03/12/09 15:57:17) Myllinnia: The voice speaks again less sure of itself now. "No, no don't shut me down." It sighs after a bit. "That was my former body."

(03/12/09 15:58:10) Gale: "Stop attacking the village! Or you will be shut down!" Gales voice is still worried, but he seems calmer now, not as afraid as he was a moment ago.

(03/12/09 15:58:14) T`zaren: "The Unconquered Sun said he couldn't answer my prayer and heal Lilly earlier because she'd already been claimed by a darker power. And he said that you walked a dangerous path as well," he replies to Gale. "Malfeas may have given you power...but it's up to you how you use it." He chuckles at Rai. "And Rai's right, in this case."

(03/12/09 15:58:48) Lao Zi motions towards the shudders, "Alright... so, ok. Now, what is that all about? Stop attacking the villiage, or I'll shut your AI down, and go about dismantling you..."

(03/12/09 15:58:50) Rai: His most shinyness?

(03/12/09 15:58:57) Rai: Oh man, we totally *are* Exalts then, I knew it!

(03/12/09 15:58:59) Gale: "...Later, T'za. This is no time for my fear... But your words are encouraging. Just... I shouldn't be afraid right now."

(03/12/09 16:00:04) Tai Zi eyes open softly leaning her compact form into Priide gently, nose turnign twards her to sift through the sidereals scent.

(03/12/09 16:00:53) Priide Kittee smiles down at Tai. "Something the matter, love?"

(03/12/09 16:01:16) Myllinnia: "No please don't dismantle me. F, fine, I'll stop. Just don't dismattle me."

(03/12/09 16:02:14) Rai: That Malfeas doesn't have a chance!

(03/12/09 16:02:42) Tai Zi makes a soft sound. "I dont rember, anything, but I know you all, i dont understand, I cant rember anything before that room, i dont even know where we are or whats going on"

(03/12/09 16:04:54) Fox: "That's strange, I remember more than I knew before this,."

(03/12/09 16:05:12) Gale: "How many other attackers are on this ship or in the village/"

(03/12/09 16:05:13) Gale: *?

(03/12/09 16:05:15) Priide Kittee: "Right, well, we're in an airship above the village of Caradeen, our home." The Endings kisses Tai on the forehead. "The rest can probably wait till we're out of here."

(03/12/09 16:05:22) Rai , satisfied that Gale is back on the road to awesome, heads over to Lao.

(03/12/09 16:05:30) Rai: Hey, you got the ship working for us yet?

(03/12/09 16:05:56) Lao Zi shrugs, "The voice that's been insluting you WAS the ship.", he says at Rai, and shrugs, as he then looks back at the controlling-light-thing, "Ok, you going to play nice now?"

(03/12/09 16:06:29) Myllinnia: "There, is no one else... Karai and Arvet was to assassinate the rebel children. B, but they failed. So there is no one."

(03/12/09 16:06:32) Rai: That's cool, but have you taught it who's boss yet or not?

(03/12/09 16:06:48) Myllinnia: "I'll be good."

(03/12/09 16:07:32) Rai raps on the side of the column "You need to appologize to everyone too!"

(03/12/09 16:07:33) Gale: "Land safely away from the village."

(03/12/09 16:07:49) Tai Zi nods softly her body loseing some of its muscle, the spines along her arm shrining, and the quills along her back dulling slighly sevral of them vanishing entirely

(03/12/09 16:10:03) Lao Zi shrugs a bit, "So, is the ship mobile?", he asks the ship. :)

(03/12/09 16:10:46) Myllinnia: "Yes I am mobile." The ship turns slowly rumbling as it does. "You know if I do not report to her Imperial Highness by sun down she'll send another Soulship to destroy the village."

(03/12/09 16:11:32) Fox: "so report success then"

(03/12/09 16:11:40) Gale: "Report, say you succeeded."

(03/12/09 16:11:56) Priide Kittee nods.

(03/12/09 16:12:00) Tai Zi looks up at the celling. "Your name is Adamant River?"

(03/12/09 16:12:08) Gale: Once they're on land, Gal runs to the top side, looking for Scarlet, yelling as the green flames lick about him... "Scarlet ruby! Are you here?!"

(03/12/09 16:12:33) Myllinnia: "But then I will have to return. If I don't return what do you think will happen? Yes that is my name."

(03/12/09 16:13:28) Myllinnia: Outside A very unhappy Scarlet Ruby storms towards Gale.

(03/12/09 16:13:36) Tai Zi keeps looking up. "So return, if were going to stop who ever this imperial highness is then she wont expect her own ship to be armed with warrios aginst her"

(03/12/09 16:13:52) Rai: Now *that's* the way to think Tai!

(03/12/09 16:14:27) Myllinnia: "Well... if that is what you want." There is a strange tone to his voice.

(03/12/09 16:15:03) Rai: If you know something we don't, spit it out

(03/12/09 16:15:09) Gale: Gale gives a brief nod to ruby, as he's more visible in the ire. He notices her unhappy look, but stands his ground...

(03/12/09 16:15:23) Tai Zi makes a slight shrug in Priide's arms. "I dont know what I want." She looks at her blood covered hand. "Actualy I know what I want, is there some place I can wash up?"

(03/12/09 16:15:48) Priide Kittee nods. "Sure, follow me." She leads the Djala off to the bathing area.

(03/12/09 16:16:13) Tai Zi looks over at Lao. "i'm going to go get cleaned up, okay?"

(03/12/09 16:16:18) Myllinnia: "Gale what have you done," Scarlet says sharply her tone angry mixed with fear." Behind her a rather contrite Lilly slowly arrives.

(03/12/09 16:16:47) Lao Zi looks over at Tai, "Well.. sure, sounds okay... not sure what we're doing.", he shrugs.

(03/12/09 16:16:56) T`zaren follows after Gale, and breathes a sigh of relief as Scarlet Ruby answers his call, alive and at least seemingly healthy.

(03/12/09 16:16:57) Priide Kittee waves at Scarlet. "I'm just going to help Tai clean herself up, bye mum!"

(03/12/09 16:17:00) Tai Zi nods and hurrys off after Priide.

(03/12/09 16:17:05) Gale: "What I had to do." He says calmly, a bit afraid. "I was afraid. I was offered help. I did something I shouldn't have."

(03/12/09 16:17:18) Myllinnia: The voice is silent for a bit. "Well I just don't think you can beat the Ebon Empress and her Knights. Or even a contingent of Shadow Scythes."

(03/12/09 16:18:02) Fox: You didn't think we could beat you either.

(03/12/09 16:19:19) Myllinnia: "A fair point, but I do not have Her power or her Patron's. Nor was I designed to hunt Exalted."

(03/12/09 16:19:34) Rai: So how bout we redesign you to do just that!

(03/12/09 16:22:06) Lao Zi rolls his eyes at Rai, and sighs, heading off after Tai and Priide then, shaking his head.

(03/12/09 16:22:19) Rai: What, the Empress is exalted

(03/12/09 16:22:36) Rai: We'll totally beef up our friend here and take her out!

(03/12/09 16:22:57) T`zaren: "But he and Lilly would be dead now if he hadn't. The woman nearly killed them both," T'zaren adds in Gale's defense.

(03/12/09 16:23:11) Myllinnia: Ruby stands inches from Gale, its apparent she wants to do more than shout at him. "That was a foolish, foolish thing. Not only have the Yozi placed their chips in the pile but so have the Neverborn. It will be hard Gale... very hard for you and Lilly."

(03/12/09 16:23:58) Gale: Gale pauses for a moment... Then laxes down, the one person who he thought would at least give him words of comfort... seemed more as if she wanted to kill him.

(03/12/09 16:25:01) Gale: "Lilly was *dying!* I was beaten and broken on the floor! Was I suppose to die? A martyr for my allies as they powered themeselves? What was *My* place in your plans? To become a corpse alongside my sister? TO DIE?" He was yelling at her, something he had never done before.... "I wouldn't let that happened. I had promised to protect my sister years ago."

(03/12/09 16:26:00) Gale: "Where was my gift of power? Where was MY help? Nowhere. Would you rather me be dead now? I don't even know what I am, or if I can control myself for long. If you want to kill me... I'm right here... DO IT!"

(03/12/09 16:27:41) Myllinnia: She stands here and looks to T'zaren and then Gale and sighs. "You... " she falls silent and slaps Gale across the face. "I do not want to kill you! But ... but..." She turns. "You and Lilly are under the whimsical powers of beings that ... that..."

(03/12/09 16:28:12) Myllinnia: "Can you say you can use those powers... for the greater good of Creation. Can you resist the Patron of your Exaltation?"

(03/12/09 16:29:11) Gale: "I will try my best not to fall into malfeas' clutches again. I will not be his puppet."

(03/12/09 16:29:38) Myllinnia: "I want to hear your conviction. Tell me that you can!"

(03/12/09 16:30:17) Gale: "I swear to whatever powers are listening now, I will NOT let malfeas control me. I will remain myself, and use these powers how I myself deem fitting!"

(03/12/09 16:30:53) T`zaren: "We failed them," T'zaren says sadly. "Both Gale and Lilly. Fox was the only one who was with them and trying to help." Never mind that the rest of them were upstairs with problems of their own. "But we won't fail them again."

(03/12/09 16:31:41) Gale: "Where..." He rubs his face where she slapped him. "Where was our aid though, Ruby?"

(03/12/09 16:31:57) Gale: "The others were alright. They got the gifts you intended for them... Lilly and I didn't. Were we suppose to have fallen?"

(03/12/09 16:33:37) Myllinnia: She turns to Gale a sad look on her face. "Even I cannot be certain of the power the gods have granted each of you. Even I had thought the two of you would have be taking those..."

(03/12/09 16:34:09) Myllinnia: "But never... ever think you were supposed to have failed. If nothing else this was my fault... again."

(03/12/09 16:37:02) Gale: Gale shakes his head... "I... I need to clear my head."

(03/12/09 16:38:01) Myllinnia: She sighs. "I am sorry Gale. Forgive me. I... I will go to the council we must discuss what to do next. The ship is no longer a threat?"

(03/12/09 16:39:34) Gale: "No, its not." Gale keeps moving, trying to find solace somewhere!

(03/12/09 16:40:28) T`zaren: "They seemed to have the ship under control." He looks to Lilly, suggesting with a tilt of his head that she follow her brother.

(03/12/09 16:41:46) Myllinnia: Lilly nods and head after him.

(03/12/09 16:42:53) Myllinnia: Scarlet Ruby lowers her head. "I shouldn't have yelled." With that she turns and starts towards the village.

(03/12/09 16:43:24) Gale: Gale turns to Lil, shaking his head. "I... Ths is my mess, Lilly, i'm sorry."

(03/12/09 16:44:05) Rai , seeing as how no one seems to be responding to his redesign plan, wanders off to loot the ship and try to figure out how to make it go.

(03/12/09 16:44:07) Myllinnia: "Are, are you sure brother. You know, she doesn't mean it. She... she was scared. I know it."

(03/12/09 16:45:14) Gale: "Maybe she doesn't mean it, but..." Gale bites his lip. "I can't... I can't shake the feeling out of my stomach. You were there dying, and I was powerless..."

(03/12/09 16:45:43) T`zaren suddenly seems to return to a state of reality equivalent with everyone else, no longer seeming to stand out so much, as he lets the motes tied up in charms lapse. "He's had the hardest day of any of us, except perhaps Lilly." He sighs. "Things aren't going to go back to normal after today, are they?"

(03/12/09 16:45:45) Gale: "He taunted me the whole time. 'The only reason you can stand, mortal, is because you amuse me in your struggling', hearing that, or just... him affirming my weakness, over and over..."

(03/12/09 16:47:04) Myllinnia: Ruby shakes her head her shoulders slumped slightly., "No things won't be so simple anymore."

(03/12/09 16:49:04) Myllinnia: Lilly nods, "Mine did the same, they were very very angry sounding."

(03/12/09 16:49:56) T`zaren: T'zaren can only nod. It wasn't the answer he wanted to hear, even if it was the one he knew he'd get. "The woman who attacked him and Lilly...has she been taken somewhere else? She was dying, and I was able to heal her, at least enough to keep her alive. But I don't think it would be good if Gale or Lilly saw her again."

(03/12/09 16:51:00) Gale: "T'zaren said you were in a worse situation, Lil... I don't know what happened, but we won't disappoint the others... We won't fail. We will help them as best as we can..."

(03/12/09 16:53:08) Myllinnia: "Yes she was taken under the Hill." She says simply to T'zaren, "Why... did you keep her alive?"

(03/12/09 16:54:58) Myllinnia: Rai finds little to nothing to plunder from the ship. A few mundane weapons are in a cabinent. In two seperate rooms Rai finds more of the armor that the two had wore.

(03/12/09 16:56:08) Rai grumbles, tells the ship to play some music, and learns to fly

(03/12/09 16:57:31) T`zaren: "I know what she did, and...well, I don't like killing at the best of times. But if I'd let her die like that, then Gale would be a murderer. And I won't let that happen."

(03/12/09 16:58:55) Myllinnia: She turns to T'zaren and smiles warmly suddenly. "So what shall we do with her then. She will be a threat if let go."

(03/12/09 17:03:34) T`zaren: "Then we keep her prisoner, for now. If she's unarmed and under guard, she can help with the rebuilding -- undoing the harm that she helped to cause. And we try to show her who we are and why we deserve better than to be wiped out."

(03/12/09 17:03:51) Gale: Gale shakes his head, looking to Lil. "Lets... Just get back to the orphanage, and help clean up. We can at least try and help out that way."

(03/12/09 17:04:23) Myllinnia: "If you want, Gale. I can go before you if ... you want to have some time alone."

(03/12/09 17:04:49) Gale: "Alright... Just make sure the others are okay, alright?"

(03/12/09 17:04:59) Myllinnia: She nods and bounds off.

(03/12/09 17:06:07) Myllinnia: Scarlet Ruby nods, "A fair idea."

(03/12/09 17:06:23) Gale heads off into the forest to collect his thoughts!