Waystop

[I Am Witless she/her]

*Insert happy exclamation from Yzabet here as she greets/congratulates everybody, pausing only to punch Ioc really hard*

*She wanders back to Waystop and finds Pallas, then chastises him for using the TUBA button*

*Yay. Long post averted. Good night.*

[+Sorana she/her]

Damaya stepped up next to Araha and Dayne and looked them over. They seemed to be alright.

Softly she put a hand on Araha's arm and tried to comfort her. Ever since she had woken up in the room Araha had acted strange and she wasn't sure what to make out of that.

"We should start to clean up. The hallway is a mess after that bomb exploded."

She fell silent when she realized how tired she was.

"And I need to sleep soon."

[Cyanic he/him]

@Sorana @wiritospren

Araha's eyes were still when wide she felt Damaya's hand on her arm. The ice in her mind's depths were broken and the emotion was pouring out, at a trickle for now, worse still, it was like a dam made of ice instead of just a frozen over lake.

"Y-y-yeah... we sh-sh...sho-o-uld..." Araha stuttered out and the dam broke.

All at once all the suppressed emotion hit her like a thousand simultaneous freight trains. She stumbled forward, placing a hand on the wall for support. Everything came crashing onto her, the fear, the stress, the anxiety, but most of all, the relief. Tears began flowing as her knees felt weaker, she slid lower and fell into a kneel. She sobbed, and sobbed, just letting everything flow out.

They were safe, or for now at least they were.

[Gancho Libre he/him]

"OW!" Ioc said.

'OW!' said Somatosensory Cortex.

"I-" Ioc said, then paused. It needed to confront Yzabet, but it seemed it's mental voices were back up.

'Now you guys wake up?' Subconscious said. 'I could have used you at that grass place,'

'Sorry,' said Prefrontal Cortex. 'Something influenced us. It was like each of us had, like, a million bottles of that Herdazian stuff,'

'A worthy analogy,' said Association Cortex, 'But we still hate your guts,'

'I DON'T HAVE GUTS!' Prefrontal Cortex complained. 'I'M AN IMAGINARY PERSONALITY FOR A BRAIN!'

'Shut up, all of you,' Subconscious said. 'We still need to confront that person who punched us,'

Ioc looked around, and found that Yzabet was no longer around. She did things surprisingly quickly.

Ioc sighed. "Well," it said aloud, "At least I got to punch someone. I think it's time to go,"

Ioc stood still for a second. 

Then, it dissipated in a flash of beige...

[wiritospren he/him]

"hey, are you okay?" Dayne quickly get off the floor and got close to Araha when she fell to the wall"were you hurt?" In that moment he reallized she was crying, so he kneel beside here, and give her a hug"it's okay, let it flow" he remembered when he felt like that, some thing ago, when he first escaped dead, and he first killed.

Edited September 6, 2018 by wiritospren

[+Ark1002]

Atticus had a plan. He needed more defenses. More is good. You always need more. And he had an idea. It would take time. Lots of time.

[Life&Death]

Ski walked back into the Waystop, supporting a badly injured Mr Amber.

[Cyanic he/him]

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gonna wait for Sorana before I make another post from Araha's POV

Deras, seeing no other place to head to, decided to walk toward the structure where everyone else was headed. When he got close enough though, his keen ears heard some machines whirring and his danger sense went off giving him warning signals. He determined that the origin of the whirring was somewhere from the structure itself, so ducked into cover just as a few guns fired at the rock he hid in, then they stopped firing. He peaked out and saw several turrets still pointed at his position, so he ducked back in.

He called out to no one in particular: "Assistance?"

Edited September 6, 2018 by Cyanic

[+Sorana she/her]

Damaya rushed to Araha and knelt down next to her. She had never really comforted someone before, so she simply did what Araha had done maybe half an hour earlier. Dayne was already there so she simply included him in her hug.

Looking over Araha's shoulder she shot Dayne an helpless look.

"I'm here, Araha."

She said quietly and then let Dayne so the talking. It seemed like he knew what to say

[Sherlock Holmes he/him]

Tena softly patted Araha’s back, thinking of the wreck she’d been after first killing someone (actually, beheading that someone with a knife; it had been difficult). “Unfortunately,” she said softly to Araha, “it gets easier after the first time. You’ll grow calluses. It’ll be all right.” She murmured softly to the young woman with Dayne and Damaya until a shout resounded from a the front of the Waystop.

“Assistance!”

She jogged off, then burned steel and Pushed against incoming bullets as they quite nearly hit her. She tapped some speed from her Steelmind, then ran to the boulder a Parshendi was hiding behind.

Edited September 6, 2018 by AxeliustheGreat

[Cyanic he/him]

Araha felt the embrace, but she didn't look up, she just let the tears and everything keep pouring out. "I w-was so--" she stuttered, "I'd th-thought--" she cut herself off again, not really able to form coherent sentences as of the moment. "D-Da-Damaya..." she just kept sobbing, it helped.

Ran, seeing that Araha was already being comforted by her recent comrades didn't interfere, only happy that she's found a friend, and maybe another one in the form of Dayne.

***

@AxeliustheGreat  Deras looks more like a regular, but muscly man than a Parshendi since he doesn't have any carapace, but anyone with sufficient breath would be able to tell that he's a Lifeless,

Deras saw the woman land beside him behind their cover, and nodded at her. "Turrets firing at me. Likely mistake as they don't fire at you and others," he told her, "need guns stop firing so I may enter."

[Grey Knight]

"Well," a voice said above Araha. "Isn't this touching."

An armored boot shoved Damaya to the side as a Chaos marine teleported in beside Araha. Dozens of massive marines followed, warping into reality and surrounding the sorcerer, guns pointed outwards in a ring of death. A lound crunch resounded from the rooftop as another marine teleported onto the turrets, crushing them with his fists. 

Faster than the human eye could follow, a burning blade was at Araha's throat.

"If any of you move," the sorcerer said calmly, "she dies."

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You all thought it was over, didn't you?

You were wrong. BWHAHAHA!

 

Edited September 6, 2018 by Grey Knight
I HAVE DONE THE WILL OF CHAOS

[+Sorana she/her]

"Let her go."

Damaya pleaded.

"Take me as hostage, but please, let her go."

[Cyanic he/him]

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dude, that's like, really annoying, but alright

@Grey Knight

It happened all too fast, the people embracing her, their weights were pushed away suddenly, then she found a hot blade by her throat. "If any of you move, she dies."

It was not safe.

Araha tried to suppress her emotions again, but it wouldn't work, they were flooding out. She was scared. She tried to steady her breathing, only marginally successful. She managed to stop hyperventilating but that didn't mean she was at anywhere near operating condition.

All she could do was cry.

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Ran gritted her teeth, how did they suddenly get here? There were no other perpendicularities around, did they have Transportation? Some other means. She couldn't just stand by to watch this, but she couldn't move or else Araha would...

***

Deras perked up, danger sense firing signals again, urging him to scan the surroundings. He was close enough to scan the inside of the structure and found a peculiar pattern, two signatures close together, with a circle of them around and a few other dots scattered about.

That wasn't normal. He turned to the woman beside him "Danger inside. Many signals in peculiar pattern. Will need to help." He said and took off running inside, the turrets whirring, but they didn't get a bead on him.

He burst inside, running past a few other people, and finally arriving at where the signals were. In a circle, he found more of the same enemies he found earlier warding outward with their guns. The signals in the middle were a young woman and another enemy. One with a glowing sword by her neck. Furyspren started to form, but Deras shoved the fury back for now, just enough to speak coherently.

"Cease!" He called out to the enemies.

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I will NOT allow this to turn into one of those one character dies so that the other can get character development

Edited September 23, 2018 by Cyanic

[Nohadon he/him]

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@Grey Knight, bring in the blood angels?

@Grey Knight

[Grey Knight]

11 minutes ago, Cyanic said:

"Cease!" He called out to the enemies.

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Don't worry- no one (should) die if things go right. I have a plan 

"But of course," the sorcerer said. His sword didn't move an inch. "All of this will be resolved, if you just cooperate.

"You," he continued, gesturing to the crowd around him, "have something that doesn't belong to you. My master wants it back."

 

Edited September 6, 2018 by Grey Knight

[Cyanic he/him]

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already removed, Witless told me on the Alleyverse PM's

@Grey Knight

Deras didn't want to negotiate, but there was a life at stake, so he put out the embers for now and asked. "Fine. Negotiate. Name thing you want."

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I also have several ways to resolve this if things go more South, but that'll include having to reveal Deras' origins early, like way too early

Edited September 6, 2018 by Cyanic

[+Sorana she/her]

"Let her go."

Damaya repeated.

"Take me, but let her go. Then we can talk about what you want."

@Grey Knight

Edited September 6, 2018 by Sorana

[Cyanic he/him]

@Sorana

Araha got a bit of a grip on herself, hearing Damaya's pleas. Tears were still streaming but she opened her mouth. "D-Damaya, no..." she whispered. "Please, stay th-there..." she said as she lightly shook her head, careful not to get seared.

[wiritospren he/him]

Dayne standed there considering the situation, there were too many, they could not fight all of them,less with Araha in the middle,but if they could release her"waste their time,I have a plan, but I need some time to recharge" he said to Damaya in a low voice so only her could hear him, and with that said he started to save all his velocity on his mental minds, and he stopped moving

@Sorana

Edited September 6, 2018 by wiritospren

[Cyanic he/him]

Deras heard the non-enemy man talking thanks to his enhanced ears. He didn't look at him though, or pay any outward attention to him. It would be unacceptable to lose a life, but cooperating with the enemy's negotiation didn't really give him much hope either, what if they didn't let the woman go? What if when they got their bargain, they'd still harm her?

Deras saw a phantom beside him, one that he couldn't even sense with his mindscan. Was he really there? he stood there, in a straight, stiff stance, but Deras could feel it, the barely contained fury seething from within. He wasn't sure who this was or what this was, it was just a hallucination, that was what his tin and copper enhanced mind was telling him. He didn't pay attention to the phantom either, keeping his eyes and ears trained at the enemy who was trying to negotiate.

don't worry, this isn't the thing I meant about his origins, this is just part of his creation, and I figured it was good to put some foreshadowing over here

[Grey Knight]

2 hours ago, Sorana said:

"Let her go."

Damaya repeated.

"Take me, but let her go. Then we can talk about what you want."

@Grey Knight

The sorcerer glanced lazily at Damaya, then turned away to gaze at the crowd. The circle of marines shuffled, armored boots stamping down the fresh snow.

"A woman," he finally said, looking over the crowd. "Named Damayakan Vulken. She's here, playing as one of you. Bring her to me, and then we'll talk."

Edited September 6, 2018 by Grey Knight

[Cyanic he/him]

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oooooooh, if this leads into a rescue arc, I'd likely be fine with that, easily turned into a main plot

Araha's eyes widened, it wasn't Damaya's name, sure, but it was similar enough. "W-" she begun, she was regaining control of herself. "We don't know who she is." Araha said, barely above a whisper. "She'd likely disguise her name, we don't know anyone named that."

***

One life for another? That would not suffice.

"What will you do with?" Deras asked.

@Sorana @Grey Knight

Edited September 6, 2018 by Cyanic

[Grey Knight]

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Upvotes for you, my friend!

Anyways, I'm just going to wait for a few more people to respond. Heighten the tension, and all that 

 

[Cyanic he/him]

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are you bribing me with upvotes?

...because it's working. Gimme more!

(jk)

Edited September 6, 2018 by Cyanic