The Sereni-Tree and the Madness of Arkham
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Sunday, November 6, 2005 04:18
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Originally posted by jake7:
Where's Rat when I need him?
Soul struggles to his feet. Rat lies beside him, also trying to stand. Soul helps Rat to his feet.
"Three AA batteries, do you have some?" Soul asks Rat. Rat nods numbly and walks over to Jake7.
Soul puls out another arrow and fires it into the field of approaching mutants.
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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.
Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."
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Beneath the safety of the forcefield bubble, Static stands and rolls his head, cracking his neck audibly. He glances down and notices that his right arm hangs limply by his side, the result of a dislocated shoulder. He frowns for a moment, and with a grimace, throws himself to the ground. There is a sickening *crunch* and his shoulder pops back into joint. Without so much as a sigh, he stands. His stoicism cannot mask the pain, the many different layers of pain, in his eyes.
Methodically...mechanically, he opens the cylinders of his revolvers and dumps the empty rounds into a pocket, replacing them with fresh rounds from his belt. He looks at the others.
"I don't think I have enough bullets. We'd better discern what is going on."
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The Gunslinger stands shoulder to shoulder with his friend, Soul, and squares his shoulders, as if he intends to quell the rapidly approaching hordes of mutants with his gaze alone. He slowly raises his pistols as he recites his mantra where all can hear...
"I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father....
I aim with my eye.
I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with my hand has forgotten the face of his father...
I shoot with my mind.
I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father...
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I kill with my heart."
With these words, the Gunslingers twin revolvers begin their steady series of explosions. Huge slugs of lead scream their way towards their inhuman targets, destroying flesh and bone, but doing very little to slow the onslaught.
Without turning to face his companions, he says impatiently, "I sense we're going to need an alternate solution very quickly!"
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OOC: I'll appologize now if this interfers with the flow, this is to fill in from the Grant crews drop from the pool to where they are now. It took me a while to verbalize and is a bit long...
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Static falls away from the tower and the eyes. He turns to survey the scene. What he sees isn’t any better than what they’re fleeing from. Below him, the rest of the crew are doing their best to slow their decent. Serenity, having the advantage of wings, fares better than the rest. PR is not floating like the gunslinger expected, must be too far from the ground…
Jack’s military background shows. He has Soul, Jazaf, Deuce in the star pattern with Lissa in the middle. Safe still hangs limp in the dead bears grasp.
“This isn’t going to end well...”
Static scans the ground. Formulates his plan, tucks his arms in and plummets past the rest.
The slap of rushing air forces back the darkness in Safe’s head. He opens his eyes. What he sees makes his head swim again. He’s looking at the red pool from the other side, which must mean…..crap! Safe twists his head and looks down. CRAP!
A dark form streaks past, headed for the ground. Safe realizes it’s the gunslinger. Bring his legs up; Safe pries himself free of the bears grasp. Working his way over, Safe puts the bear between himself and the ground.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Static scans the ground as he speeds toward it. There! Amid a horde of mutant, three people stand protected by what he recognizes as Jake7’s force bubble and angles towards it. That’s it, the only chance. As he closes on the gunslinger turns overand hits the bubble backwards. The bubble bows under the strain… and disappears. Static drops onto TRM.
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Originally posted by jake7:
Jake7 releases the force field -- just in time to see Static fall from the sky and land on TRM. The resulting confusion allows the mutants time to regroup and start charging again. jake7 presses the force field button again, but nothing happens.**
Static grabs TRM by the shoulders, “We need a portal NOW!” directs TRM’s gaze up at the falling crew members.
Safe looks at the fast approaching ground, “I’ve gotta time this right.” He braces himself in a crouch, and springs up at the last minute. The bear hits the ground amid the horde of mutants, killing some instantly and the result shock clearing a small area. Safe lands with a thump on the bear, stands and draws his guns. The clearing doesn’t stay a clearing for long…
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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
TheRealMe is startled when he looks out to see mutants swarming over a dead bear... and Safe?
Serenity swoops down and grabs Lissa, trying to slow the groups fall. She closes her eyes and strains upward. Nothing she does seems to work. A tear runs down her cheek.
A portal snaps open under them.
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Originally posted by CallmeSerenity:
*The rest of the Grant's crew falls through the portal and lands in a jumble next to Static and TRM. Everyone struggles to untangle themselves.*
I've had quite enough falling for one day, thank you!
*Serenity gets up and tries to dust herself off. As she does, she gets a good look at her surroundings.*
Great. Just great!
*Wearily, she pulls out her katanas.*
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Whitefall...That's, um...not close. Stupid magical interdimensional travel.
*sets himself to Guard mode on the player interface, meaning he'll follow Needle and attack hostiles that are come within range of his lightsaber and long arms automatically*
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Jazaf cringes at the sight of the massive horde of mutants.
'Gonna need more than one sword.' he mutters. He focuses his energy and once again splits his sword into two, smaller swords. He turns to Duece and says with a disarming smile 'New Lesson: Killing without any emotional attachment. It'll be easy with these hideous freaks. Hopefully you won't follow my path completly, cause if you do....' He turns to the mutants and his tone darkens '....you'll have to kill the ones you love the most.'
Before Duece could ask what he meant Jazaf raced off into the horde. If the crew had seen it they would have noticed him change. The would have seen his eyes go white and his pupils turn red.
His blades were swinging ferociously seconds before he hit the line of mutated freaks. His trail was unmistakeable, as wherever he went mutant blood flew into the sky.
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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree 
Navigator on Destiny 
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Originally posted by needleseye:Quote:
Originally posted by TheGreyJedi:
*sighs and looks to his love, looks about.*
Where...are we?
*Needle who was rather distracted by Grey's grand entrance finally answers*
We're on Whitefall i think. We were here to get Monkeytail and now its turned into some mutant circus. All tentacles and odd limbs everywhere.
*raises eyebrow and smiles quirkily as she shifts to her scaled and tentacled shape once more.*
I think the others might need help, but we need a portal. hmmm... *looks at comm* Hope this works here.
On comm ~ TRM whats your status?
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Mutants and Tigers and Bears, Oh my!
TheRealMe obligingly makes a dimensional portal so that TheGreyJedi, Needleseye, and Rat can join the huge crowd that is busy fighting the mutants.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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*PR lands to ther grand with less a thud than expected. He opens his eyes.* I'm not dead.
*PR sees the mutants.* *Gulp* Yet.
*He springs to his feet* EEEEEEEYYYAAAAAAAAAHHH!
*Using his telekinetic powers and pre-cognesis he begins to tackle the mutants.*
*He pushes them, flips them, hits them in the face with great force, while not even touching them at all Although this is keeping them at bay, these are not...killing blows.*
*Then he goes on to use them against each other.*
*Against his own will, one of the mutant's arm rises and his razor sharp long claws go straight through the throat of another mutant. His arm is then pulled sideways ripping away the other mutants head as it slashes yet another*
*Various odd weapons that have been dropped now rise by themselves and slice and dice various mutants.*
*PR does all of his, with his eyes closed. He turns, seeings with his minds eye, killing with nothing but his will.*
*Some of the amassing mutants begin to close in on PR. They don't get far before and invisible cirle is sent out knocking them all back and off of their feet.*
Whew. This is gettin tirin! 
PsychicRiver
"Two by two, hands of blue." 
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
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Quote:
Originally posted by Static:
Without turning to face his companions, he says impatiently, "I sense we're going to need an alternate solution very quickly!"
http://burstsofstatic.blogspot.com
*Serenity slashes through the mutants until she gets close enough to TRM to yell*
TRM, we've got to figure out a way to get out of here! There is no way we can kill them all!
*She ducks as a tentacle swipes at her face, and then swings out with one katana and cuts off a mutant's leg.*
Please tell me you've got a brilliant idea up your sleeve!
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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