Special Branch: Lost Friends
POSTED BY: WashsYoungerSexierBr
UPDATED: Thursday, November 18, 2010 19:55
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Lets find a jumping off point.
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Well theres two ways I could see us of doing it. either:
A) From where the last thread sort of died back on Santos
or B) some point later in time
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Hey Wisp, since you are carrying on in the future, you must have an idea of what happened. I'd love to hear it.
I'm not so sure about continuing right from where we last posted. I thought if we also started sometime in the future, we could gloss over some of the snags and bumps.
Besides, I totally forget what was going on where and to whom :)
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I've saved all the threads in a whopping text file so I'll re-read the last thread and see where were at.
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These are the last two posts from the thread. It starts with a nice recap from Needy about what was going down. In addition to this Kyra had just been kidnapped by the bounty hunter Kurren (written by Jazaf). I was also writing about two agents from Crimson Squad were tracking down Wisp. In the next post Im gonna write how my history went between then and now.
The crew came to a decision. The Dwarf’s mission was not their own, and they couldn’t get involved, but at the very least they could help them get back on their feet. As the captain’s right-hand man Colm ventured into town looking for aid, our band of heroes provided locations of safe houses and government access codes that might assist them, as well as a new shuttle that would allow them to slip by undetected.
Meanwhile Seryn tells the crew about a secret hideaway that her uncle set up in an underground facility.
Seeing it as the perfect getaway and a chance to regroup, Safe gives the go-ahead - allowing Wisp and Seryn to get to work making the needed preparations.
As Safe bids farewell to his old friend Jack who, along with Flechette and Amy, plans to carry on their work in Santos, dark events are unfolding.
Clayton, the reporter that had been investigating Needy’s mysterious behaviour, finally locates the dangerous bounty hunter Kurren at Santos, but he is not out of peril yet. As he attempts to flee from a no-good pilot who feels he’s been “taken for a ride” by the reporter, Kurren himself has made considerable progress - locating the bait for his prize.
The Dwarf’s missing man Colm witnesses Kyra being kidnapped by the gruff bounty hunter, just as Needy awakens from his coma.
Safe and the rest of the crew strive to comprehend the bizarre events surrounding Needy’s recovery, completely ignorant of the fact that two agents of Project Einstein were watching them with great interest.
NEEDY
The Dwarf had been stripped. One could see that it was once a parliament-owned vessel by its design, but nobody could know what its true purpose had been, only its former crew.
Wisp had used his wizardry skills to hack the registration network - as a far as anyone in authority at Lando’s Bay knew, The Dwarf was now owned by a businessman named Krevlock. An upgrade for the man for sure, his shuttle - a simple Class C people-carrier, roughly half the size of The Dwarf - was now in the possession of Liam and his crew. It had been Safe’s doing. Maybe he was feeling generous, or maybe he just wanted the crew finally out of his hair, either way, they were as good as gone.
If only for one last thing.
“Liam’s worried” Maxine said as she approached Safe “he still hasn’t heard back from Colm”
Colm was not somebody Safe had had much dealings with. It had seemed he had made the wise choice to not get in the man’s way. But now he was seemingly missing, and that frustrated the Epsilon’s captain, not because he feared for the man’s well-being, but because it was further delaying the crews departure. It may have sounded selfish, but in all honesty Safe just wanted things to go back to the way they were. Things had become too complicated of late.
“It’s the festival, the broadcast waves can sometimes interfere with our comms.”
“He wants me to go find him” Maxine divulged.
“No” Safe said, “don’t need you running after him and getting yourself lost too”
“I can take care of myself” she said, clearly annoyed with him.
“He’ll be back” Safe said confidently.
The captain didn’t want to say goodbye to Maxine, but he hadn’t wanted to say goodbye to Jack either. But his friend was gone now, along with Flechette and Amy. He didn’t know how the latter would cope, she still seemed distressed over the boy Milton’s death, even suggested that they three should see to his burial. But it wasn’t their job. It hadn’t been Safe’s either, but he had made himself Needy’s keeper now, and Milton was his friend. They would see to it that the boy was buried at the hideaway Seryn had told them about, it would be best. It would be safer.
As soon as they leave Santos, Safe told hi
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Y'know, the reason I liked this story soo much, was the ability of every writer contributing to accuartely and respectfully, voice other people's characters.
Thanks for digging this up, Wisp!
Damn, Needy, that was some great stuff! No super-heroes, no deux ex machina, no harlequinn.
I think I can come up with some 'in-between' stuff.
Who's in so far? Seryn? Jazaf? New voices?
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Wow. Such good stuff. I am so in if this starts up again. I think I can get Jazaf back in here as well.
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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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So the history that follows is how I saw what happened next leading up to the present. I am quite happy to follow a different future this was just how I pictured it. Im sure we all had our own Ideas of what happened after the threads died and this is mine:
So from the final post on Santos both Kurren and two agents from the Crimson squad were tracking the group. My future saw the CS agents attacking and Kurren taking this opportunity to attack also. A large firefight ensued leaving all the group members trapped under the covers of different vessels. Wisp was trapped by the Epsilon, Seryn by the Nandi, Safe & Co and Soul by the dagger and Needy & Maxine etc by the Dwarf.
In a hasty evacuation all the parties rapidly entered orbit and scattered. Wisp was then left alone on the Epsilon. The interim between then and now Wisp had searched the verse looking for everyone else. In the confusion of the escape everyone had headed in seperate directions with nobody informing the others where they had headed. Wisp was left chasing rumors and news reports trying to find his lost friends whilst avoiding the detection of the Alliance.
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"Whatever is wrong with you is so right for me." -- Marillion.
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Wow. It has been too long. I had to check the previous thread to remind myself what was going on. 2 yrs?! Already, I hate what I wrote before I got interrupted with real life. ugh, I can only hope I can improve more.
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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree 
Navigator on Destiny 
Kurren, Bounty Hunter 
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