The Sereni-Tree and the Raid on Reaverworld
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Saturday, May 19, 2007 06:47
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*staying low and in the shadows of the ship, BC slowly walks a perimeter of it, using his senses to check for any nearby Reaver activity*
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OOC: that does it. I've got to keep a closer eye on this thread!
Jazaf falls from the the floating orb of breathable liquid(does anyone remember what they called it in 'Abyss'?). He opens his eyes to a very dark ship. "What in the nine hells?" Jazaf hears something in the distance, something off key. He feels (and bumps) his way to the sound and finds Sir Kei joyously singing as he eats by candlelight. Jazaf walks into the dim light to assure himself of what he is seeing.
"Sir Kei?"
Between mouthfuls Sir Kei bellows a welcome, "Well met Sir Jazaf! Come join me!"
Jazaf takes a chair opposite Sir Kei and asks, with a curious look on his face, "What's going on here?"
"I have nary a clue lad! I appear on this fantastic fortress and a feral mistress stabs me in the shoulder then disappears!"
"But....how did you...?"
"All in good time, all in good time."
With that Sir Kei picks up singing right where he left off. Jazaf sits still for a short while wondering what he has missed. His ponderings are cut short as the song Sir Kei sings begins to sound familiar and it isn't long before Jazaf joins Sir Kei in singing. Their voices carry to a few parts of the ship and to those within ear shot, it is a painful but amusing sound.
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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree 
Navigator on Destiny 
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With that stirring music echoing around the Sereni-Tree's common room, TheRealMe and his robot Sparky make another delivery to the Infirmary.
"Doctor SimonWho? Here's two more. It's the last of them. Lichna and Assan, I think."
Sparky carefully places two shivering Yeti in adjacent beds.
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OOC: HAHAHA!! That, was excellent Jazaf! You got Kei exactly right, not that he's a deep character...
Pausing mid song, a puzzled look crosses Kei face. He turns to Jazaf, "what manner of pottery is this?" He holds up a pool ball.
Not waiting for an answer, he shruggs and tosses it over his shoulder. Grabbing the pitcher, he refills his and Jazaf's mugs. Raising his mug in toast, Kei slaps Jazaf joyfully on the back, nearly knocking him over, "Good food and good drink desrves good company."
They break to song again.
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
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Wisp and Deuce arrive at the first vessel's open half. The ship had obviously been hit by a missle mid hull and broken apart into two. Entering through the cavernous opening the ship was angled slightly downwards as the bow had ploughed into the earth.
Deuce's eyes scanned the horizon in all directions while her hands rested on the blades at her sides.
"Youve got 10 minutes. Ill stand guard at the entrance up here" She didnt actually look at Wisp as she spoke, she just roamed her gaze in every direction.
"What if im late??" Wisp replied innocently yet sarcastically.
She turned to him for a breif second "Then your lunch"
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*JadeHand Jogs through the wreckage of a few vehicles and almost stumbles into a small pack of reavers. They don't notice him with the active field and he briefly observes their small group circled around an object on the ground. He winces as one of them lifts a severed arm to their face and rips a large chunk of flesh from the bone with it's teeth.*
"Right, moving on.", he mumbles to himself, suddenly not being very hungry.
*Around a corner, not far from the pack he left behind, he finds his first taget. The craft is fairly large, Older model Alliance gunboat. JadeHand Boards the vessel and heads for the engine room. He passes several rows of empty, bloody, improvised cages. Some contain piles of torn uniforms, now caked in rust colored dried blood. Pushing forward he finds the main engine room, and opens a panel. He places the charge, checks the timer, and reseals the panel. He slips out of the vehicle as quietly as he entered, and heads to the next target.*
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At the shapes in the rain." -Beyond You - Afraid of Sunlight -Marillion
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SR and Snarky move quietly about gathering parts. SR ponders to himself that though they are in fact burguling all these parts he feels no guilt and that is a very liberating feeling. The stealth element does hamper their progress however. Were they in a normal junkyard moving a plate of steel out of the way would prove no challenge, simply pick it up and cast it aside, here it is a very involved procedure that is like a cross between performing mime and tai chi. All actions must be done with a precise focus on silence. A rusted fastener could easily squeal when loosened. The power tools that would accelerate their progress are out of the question. A stuck or jammed object can not be persuaded with a hammer. SR can feel the sweat coming on as he looks at his watch and sees that all ready twenty minutes of the hour has past.
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While gathering valuable parts, Wisp glances back and notices Deuce's body tense up as she gazes out the hole in the side of the ruined ship. She looks upward, leaps to grab a support beam, then spins about that to reach a higher point.
A pair of Reavers creep into the ship through the hole. They are sniffing, and looking about. One of them points in Wisp's direction. Both ready their weapons, a sword and a massive axe decorated with spikey bits. The Reavers start to head toward Wisp's position.
From his place forward in the ship, Wisp slowly draws his weapon.
Then, Deuce drops from her high perch behind the Reavers, the tap of her boots against the deck being the only sound she makes.
By the time the two Reavers spin around to face her, Deuce's blades flash and the Reavers fall to the deck, both bloody and decapitated. She manages to grab their weapons before they drop to the deck and make a loud clang. She sets them carefully out of her way, then returns to gaze out of the hole in the side of the ship.
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*tenseing up slightly, BC smells the air and, senseing the presence of a small Reaver raiding party, he gets on his com*
"Hey, Soul... looks like we got a... situation... approaching us, small Reaver raiding party, enough body heat and heart beats for about six Reavers, sticking around wouldn't be a good idea, so try and hurry up please! I'm going to go to ground and see what I can do about slowing them or stoping them as quitely as possible..."
*drawing two throwing blades BC begins to creap over to and around the incoming Reaver party, getting ready to move fast he takes careful aim and throws one blade into the soft spot between the skull and the top of the spinal colum into two of the Reavers backs, severing the spinal cord and droping them instantly. Quickly drawing another set of blades, he sends them spinning into the throats of two of the turning Reavers, and, drawing his short blades, he begins to rush the remaining two Reavers*
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Seryn, after dispatching Snarky with his message, trying futilely to understand whats going on around her, spends sometime roaming the darkened corridors corridors in a dazed and distracted manner with Fin perched on her hip. She finds herself in the common room vaguely wondering if there are some crazy medical experiments being perfomed on the contents of the petting zoo, and decided to go inverstigate as soon as she's eaten, Placing Fin on the table she goes off to grab whatever can be eaten one handed on the move and without covering one small child and his mother from head to toe in something sticky.
Eventually she returns with a digestive biscuit.
Slightly distracted, she examines in the low light the wonderful version of a Jackson Pollock painting Fin has recreated on the green surface with his food, feeling a faint admiration for his early artistic inclinations, until she realises with alarm that he's not actually on solids yet.
Looking up she sees two men, one a crew member at least and the other looking to be the previous owner of his art materials, singing inchoherantly rude songs at the tops of their voices and quaffing their drinks more than is good for the baize surface - not that it will be up to much after Fins mashed potato masterpiece - with Fin himself clapping and giggling as babies do covered from head to toe in the smushed remains of something previously edible.
With a startling speed she has the baby wipes out and the gravy and small vegetables extracted from his hair and in no time at all both of them are clapping along to the 'music' with both guys yet to even notice.
"Do you do requests?"
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