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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4395 on: December 15, 2017, 07:43:12 pm »
    Melody listened on as Helen answered her questions. She gave small nods as the took in all the information. “I don’t know what to do with it personally. Randael gave me a few gifts that maybe we can take a look at later too.”, Melody responded before she gave Helen a confused look, “Three ways? Randael said he picke up his method from someone and then modified it. Told me it was ‘safer’ that way…”

   “A spirit of death...you mean I was tasked to…”, Melody look down on the floor, the futility of being the last guard during the raid now apparent, “At least he is nice! I wouldn’t assume a spirit of death would have such…’human’ emotions like he showed. Guess you learn something everyday.”

   

   Victor was back in his room for now. He had started to regret his little bet with Roxanne but he was a man of his word; he wouldn’t back off it. “So we have the life orb, now we have a soul shard...the only thing we need is…”, Victor was mumbling to himself. He was busy setting up some kind of ritual following the teaching of Purifier Everest and a little twist of his own. The silver athame he always carried now in his hand. “A little tribute to use as a catalyst…

   He took the athame and cut his hand open, he extended his other hand as it bleed instead of where the wound should be. He winced and then grinned at the thought Roxanne had just done this as well for a whole other reason. The blood he drew spilled onto the table surrounding the soul shard that was laid there in a circle. It laid on a piece of paper as the blood stained both the shard and it’s canvas.

   Some incoherent word were mumbled and then the patterns on the paper glowed a bright white. It was as if the ink of the paper and the blood that stained it were swallowed by the shard. The shard then grew; it looked like snow crystal forming under a microscope. Then suddenly it engulfed itself becoming four times its original size.

   “We have the device and the trigger, now we need the stabilizer…”, Victor said out loud to no one but himself. He grabbed the life or and then synthesize it using the same ritual he had told Helen to create dull essence without the tools of the Cleansing Flame. What the life orb left behind was what appeared to be both a powered and goo; it glowed a bright blue. Victor then took the grown soul shard which glowed a bright red and then let it absorb the blue essence of the life orb. The shard then shifted a bit before it changed color to an evershifting hue of purple; the ritual had been completed. “What can be worth more than a human soul? The salvation of another…”, Victor told himself.



   The members of the command center waited as both Sigma and Lambda were let out of the vats; everyone else looked on: Router, Thomas and Delora. The bio-weapon twins were inside a vat with there eyes close as they floated in a strange green-ish liquid that was somehow still transparent.

   “So what exactly are you doing to them Router?”, Delora asked. She in particular seemed a bit more worried than the rest. Router looked at her before answering.

   “I am running some diagnosis on both them and the data we have. As you know, we won’t be able to stay in this lab too long. We are spread too thin and the vat at home is more than enough for now once we can confirm the data.”, Router responded.

   “Ok then? But what exactly is the vat doing to them? Does it hurt?”, Delora asked again.

    “Not at all. They are in a state of deep sleep, similar to a coma. As for what is being done to them? This machine has mutagenic and purification properties. Input genome data and the machine will alter the genome of the one inside the vat to match it. Right now, both Lambda and Sigma are both being restored to their original genome configuration. It is fixing minor mutations, altering epigenetics and a fe-”

   “Wow wow wow! Hold it there egghead! English please?”

   At this point, Thomas stepped in as he looked at Delora, “It is messing with their DNA to fix any damage to it and make sure they are healthy.”

    “Thank you Thomas.”, Router told Thomas in response to his comment. He in turn simply did a gesture of acknowledgement before his ears twitch at a sound; his attention then turned back to Sigma and Lambda.

    “I can make it work on you two you know? We can sequence your genome, find what’s human, alter it a bit and then adjust you however you want; or we can revert you, we can give you your normal life back.”, Router commented.

   Delora looked on a bit in shock. Revert her? Second chance? What she had done with Roxanne was on a whim and it had brought her consequence she was paying to this day. That could go away? Surely it was too good to be true? Her state of excitement caused her wings to flap; she groaned as she concentrated to make them stop and then looked at an empty vat. “I’ll keep that in mind router…”, Delora responded.
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4396 on: December 18, 2017, 04:13:10 am »
Carrol nonchalantly watched as Hector laid Mica down on the grass. The fumes had gotten to her. Seemed her mutations were more than just cosmetic. They were basic, seemingly, and horrific, but not as primitive or as deforming as some others she'd seen. Carrol didn't answer for a bit, as she was too busy lighting up another pungent hand-rolled cigar. Hadn't she just finished one?

"You don't. Starts to feel good after a while, though." She muttered disinterestedly, puffing a ring of smoke out of her mouth as she watched Lilith and Mica. She looked like she'd been a rather pretty woman, once. She still was, but it was a bit tainted. Her eyes looked too old. The whites were the color of egg yolks.

Hoyt, for one, wasn't paying much attention to Nathaniel speaking to Kath. In the fleeting moments Hector had gone into the van, he'd surveyed it much the same as Nathaniel. Normally, people'd stare at either the drugs or the guns. Which Nathaniel did. Hector, however, had paid far more attention to Hoyt's little library and the items it contained.

This interested Hoyt. Unhealthily so.

He leered at Hector through the open door of the van. Not menacingly, really. It almost seemed involuntary.
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4397 on: December 18, 2017, 09:26:22 am »
Kathrine's uncoiling tail knocks over a bottle left just as Nathaniel goes to open the door, sending it to the ground with a very loud crashing sound.   She ends up covering her head while keeping it pinned against her chest.  "Mister Nathaniel, where's Miss Mica?"  Kathrine pokes her head up, watching him enter.  "...Mister Nathaniel?  ...Is Catnip back?   ...Does she hate me?"

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4398 on: December 18, 2017, 11:14:27 am »
Hector had a thought. He'd known Mica long enough to know a little about her biology. Enough to know the thickish black ichor that filled her circulatory system would quickly harden. He also knew, that she seemed to be losing a lot of it through some injury in her mouth. If it hardened up in her throat, she would likely suffocate. The fact that her throat was probably flexible enough to dislodge it occurred to him too, but he wasn't sure.

Lilith was staring at him as he hooked a thumb under Mica's lower lip and the look she gave him told him what he already knew. "What you are doing, is beyond dumb." She seemed to be saying with her eyes. "No wonder it's always hanging open." He mumbled, marveling at the closeness of her teeth. Each little triangle fit perfectly, locking together like the layered shields of a well arranged phalanx. If she clenched them, she'd end up sinking the semi serrated points into her own cheeks. The only flaw in the view besides the streaks of black were the chips and breaks in some of Mica's pearly white teeth. A lot of them had fallen out and grew back since he and she went into the vault on their little raid, but several of the damaged ones still remained.

Beyond the teeth, Hector was relieved to see that her breathing had kept her airway clear, and that the resin seemed not to have set. With a little more worry, he saw that she was still bleeding. The snake-head shaped tip of her tongue was gone, the flesh inside the appendage being as Stygian black as the fluid flowing from it. Still, it wasn't blocking anything and he had just decided to leave her, when the spiders eyes flickered open.

Hectors reflexes were tuned to a high degree, and it was with that and astonishing luck that he managed to pull his hand away just in time to avoid the involuntary lunge and snap.

"My-ka bite self." She said, unconcerned for the near disaster. She ran out her tongue to where she could see it and winced. "Hek-tor find My-ka's lure!"
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4399 on: December 18, 2017, 12:45:14 pm »
Hector had taken off his gauntlet to better examine Mica, but he knew from watching her tear into all manner of things that it wouldn't have helped much if those teeth caught him. Nonetheless he breathed a sigh of relief, patting Mica on the shoulder. "Still bleeding a bit, so be careful. Try to avoid tilting your head back in case more of it runs down your throat." he advised, looking back to Lilith and Hoyt.

Whereas the glance Lilith gave him was an obvious reminder that examining Mica was a terrible idea, the way Hoyt looked at him was concerning. He wasn't sure what to make of it. Meanwhile Nathaniel nodded a bit as he looked to she if she was alright, seeing at least some signs of bandages here and there, reluctant to examine her further. Now that he knew this hadn't been one big lie and that she was really still alive, that alone was a relief.

"Mica's outside, she couldn't even enter this thing without passing out. Literally blacked out, Hector had to drag her back outside. And Catnip's still back at the far-" The had she rather promptly abandoned the earlier delusion of Catnip's transformation, one he himself still hoped was correct, startled him. "...oh. She's...well, things are the same as ever. But Kath." he said. "She doesn't hate you, alright? I'm sure of it. I'd bet anything on it."



Helen simply smiled a bit at Melody's explanation. "I suspect whatever their method was, it might well be safest. One method we encountered almost certainly affects the balance between life and death. The one Victor researched seemed to cheat this system by exploiting the blob, but as a cost he shared in their pain. Modified...in that case I suppose it's two methods, Randael's method was likely derived from Victor's, in the time it was bound to his sword."

"I know. I never expected such of a spirit like that. In all honestly, my first glimpse of him wasn't pretty, even though our first meeting was cordial." she admitted, seemingly reluctant to explain the interaction of magical items and other effects that gave her that flawed vision of him through her mask-sight. "Regardless, for now I hope you take well to your studies and the new home he has to offer you, and I hope to see you at the party tonight." she said, soon taking her leave of the library for now.

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4400 on: December 18, 2017, 01:01:37 pm »
"No Hek-tor no!" Mica hissed at him petulantly, "Find My-ka's lure!" She didn't know what "lure" meant, but she had been told by Medeina that that was what the tip of her tongue was.

"Mica," Hector said calmly, enduring the playful slaps on his chest and shoulders, "You probably swallowed it."

"Oh. Well, that fine then. My-ka was gonna eat it anyway." She said. Hector grimaced and recoiled a little.

"W-what?"

"My-ka gotta. Wasteful not to. Can't grow new one without." She didn't know if that was true or not, (it wasn't) but it had been the way she'd always done it. Every so often, she would shed old chitin and she'd eat that. Long ago, Mica had been in possession of a tail. That part of her had been shot off, and later she had retrieved and eaten that too. Despite her belief though, her tail had never grown back.

She lay back, waiting for her sense of smell to return and for her eyes to stop burning. When it did, she would try again. Mica know she shouldn't, but it had to be done. Because she promised.
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4401 on: December 19, 2017, 03:12:54 am »
The clicking and shifting of his leg always annoyed Ralph.
But really, he was in no place to complain, it was better than not having one at all.. And miles better than a regular prosthetic.
But it was somewhat distracting…
Was it always this loud? Maybe something was broken?
No matter.

His eye zoomed in on the man cursing and swearing like a sailor, bound to a wooden, squeaking chair.
Man, did he hate that chair.

But alas, he had things to do besides complaining about squeaking and clicking noises.
He moved towards the chair positioned right next to the second captured ‘victim’, undoing it’s blindfold.
The gaping bullethole in it’s forehead was a sight for sore eyes, at least Ralph had finally adjusted to firing with his new arm.
Gripping the corpse’s hair, he threw the body towards the ground, the chair following suit.

“-fucking PSYCHOPATH.” The tied up body yelled, kicking into empty air as his blindfold blocked his vision.

“Oh. Did your hearing return to you? Sorry, I forgot how loud pistols can be in close quarters.” Ralph commented in a nonchalant tone.

“So… Now that your hearing is all here, wanna tell me where he is?”
Ralph sat down on the wooden table in front of the bandit, praying to God it’d support his weight.

Screw you.” The bandit spit into the general direction of Ralph, missing him completely, but Ralph got the gesture.

“Well, that’s… unfortunate. For you I mean.” Ralph stood up, reaching for the rusty heavy duty shovel leaning against the table.

Slowly, he lowered it into the small space below the bandit’s kneecap.

“So.. this is going to hurt quite a bit.”
And with one swift hand-motion he pulled up the shovel, dislocating the kneecap as it jammed upwards.
The resulting screaming was expected, but even Ralph slightly recoiled before dropping the shovel.

A backwards-hand slap across the cheek with his human hand was all it took to reduce the agonizing screams to whimpering.
He grabbed the bandit’s chair, shoving him closer to the table, where Ralph’s map was lying, open for view.

Slowly he undid the bandit’s blindfold, and spoke a single word.
Where?” He hissed.
Sobbingly, the bandit pointed towards an old run-down motel, quite a ways away from where they were.

Ralph nodded, grabbing his shovel once more only to whack the bandit over the head with it, knocking him out cold.
Finally, gathering his stuff once more, he turned on his heel and left the abandoned house.
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4402 on: December 19, 2017, 03:20:10 am »
"...So Mistress really does hate me now..."  Kathrine remains curled up on the countertop, hugging her knees.  Her ears are pinned back, with the multitude of emotions that could indicate.  "B-but she said...   She said forever..."  And that's the cue for the waterworks.  Kathrine starts crying, starting off with a quiet sniffle and quickly escalating to a louder sobbing.  The way she's moving her mouth makes it seem like she's trying to talk still, but she can't force anything out.



Lilith had been looking at Hector like he was an idiot for that entire song and dance with Mica.  Which, to be fair, he was. Lilith wouldn't let Nathaniel touch her like that, nevermind someone else.  She lets out a low growl at Hoyt and Carrol, digging her claws into the dirt again.  "...Cub."

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #4403 on: December 19, 2017, 01:30:00 pm »
Nathaniel grumbled a bit at that. "Kath that's not..." And then the crying started, he wasn't sure to react at first. He was afraid of hurting her feelings, but at times her stubbornness got on his nerves. At this he set a hand on her shoulder, shaking a bit to get her attention. "Kathrine, listen to me. What happened to her doesn't affect how she feels about you, damnit. These God's Army fuckboys TOOK her from you. From us. Whatever the hell happened to her, it's not anything you did. So stop saying that...please." he said.

Hector sighed a bit at Micas rather bizarre ideas about eating her own bodyparts, before Lilith's apparent anger snapped him back to his senses. "Alright, Lilith you keep an eye on Mica. I'll check on them."



Elsewhere at The Hall, Solomon had been tending to Lucian's bandages again, while Sergei was setting up things to cook for later. Neither of them were sure who all would be coming to visit, simply waiting to hear anything else from the others. The signs of activity from inside the Hall at least hinted at them being there, for visitors and for Alexei to enter and inquire.

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« Reply #4404 on: December 20, 2017, 11:08:30 am »
     Lucian grumbled at Sol as he looked over the old, battered suit of plate. It was in rough condition, several lead slugs we embedded in it, large dents, and several bullet holes, even some in places that should of killed it's former wearer. "I'll be fine, Solomon." He grumbled as he winced at the stitched up hole in his abdomen.
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« Reply #4405 on: December 20, 2017, 11:31:42 am »
Alexei caught sight of the people inside and decided it would be easier to converse with Sergei in their mother tongue. Walking over he asked "Do you know where I can find an axe to cut some firewood. Caught a deer and I need to get some wood to cook it with."

As he spoke Alexei found himself reaching a hand up to gently touch a small drawing on part of his gas mask that hung around his neck as his eyes drifted to the presumably injured man with bandages on. His eyes snapped back to Sergei as he waited for an answer, hand sliding back down to his side. Whatever happened to that man he seems fine, just hope he didn't bring anythings ire back with him.

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« Reply #4406 on: December 20, 2017, 12:14:57 pm »
Kathrine's sobbing goes on for a while, until she's finally finished, or at least calmed down enough to respond.  "B-but she's not here!  So she hates me!"  The shattered bottle on the floor shifts a bit as she fidgets.  "A-and she's gonna hate me f-forever and ever and ever because I'm not a whore..."



Lilith just growls in response, nodding her head towards the RV.  She's keeping eye contact with Carrol.  "...Thupid thtinky lay-dee."  There's clear hatred in her voice, and it's very clear that if she takes another step forward, something bad's gonna happen.  Lilith hovers a paw over Mica defensively, pretty much completely covering most of her from view when combined with her massive arm.  "Bug thay down."

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« Reply #4407 on: December 20, 2017, 12:44:22 pm »
   Victor had now exited his room and was making his way to the library looking for Melody. He had the artificial soul gem he created in on of his pockets. The two meet as she was exiting.

   “Hey! Melody! Do you have a minute?", Victor asked

    Melody waves back a he approached. “Hey! Yes, I do, what’s up?”, Melody asked.

   Victor took out the gem, it was white now for some reason. Victor looked at it and then at Melody; she did the same recognizing this in plans Randael was working on. “So you have one...I am ready…”, Melody said.
   



   Roxanne had decided to dress up for the occasion; nothing too flamboyant, just a simple red “party” dress. The only item she carried was a small leather coin purse. Victor and Melody catched up to her as she was exiting her room.

   "Oh, hey there. You two getting along now?", Roxanne told Victor and Melody.

   "Yes, we were doing a quickly little thing. Now, we have a party to go to, care to give us a ride?", Victor said; a certain hand gesture he give hinted to their little bet. Roxanne give a little smile and looks a Melody for a bit. Melody is looking away in is obviously a bit uncomfortable.

   "Good timing then. I was about to leave without you. Now that I think about it, how would you two even get there… Anyways, should we head there now shall we?", Roxanne responded. The trio went to the APC and Roxanne headed to The Hall.

   

   They eventually reach The Hall; the APC pulls in, the noise of it’s dual diesel and electric engines could be heard inside. Roxanne makes sure the weapon’s systems are off despite them not working. The trio then gets out with Victor and Melody following Roxanne.

   "Now, be on your best behaviour you two! We are guests here.", Roxanne teased her two companions. She went to the main door and knocked on the door.
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« Reply #4408 on: December 20, 2017, 01:12:07 pm »
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Nathaniel grumbled a bit at that. "We didn't want to bring her here because we were afraid something might happen..." he said, looking down.

Kathrine's reply comes after a long wait.  "...Alright."  She loosens up somewhat, lifting her head up.  "...Can we go home...?"

At this Nathaniel simply nodded and offered a hand to help her up, looking back to see Hector coming back in, coughing a bit at the intense smell of the place. "...you two alright?"



Helen had been waiting by the APC, giving a nod to the three of them. She could've walked over to The Hall, indeed felt like it'd be best to do so, but she decided to stick along for now, riding in the APC with them.



Solomon just nodded at that, giving a little sigh at that. "I know, just best to rest up, especially while the sutures are still healing up. Don't want them re-opening." he remarked, only to look back in surprise at Alexei. "Welcome back."

Sergei meanwhile just gave a nod at that, moving over to search a counter with various tools and other items stowed in it, various things the three of them had need of before, finding the old scavenged wood axe to offer to him. "Good timing, already getting ready to cook something, Helen reported back. Planning a party it seems." he answered.

It wasn't long before they heard the rumble of the engines not far off, and the knock soon afterward, Sol answering for them. "Hmm? Hello." he said. The young man seemed a bit nervous, especially seeing Roxanne, and the mask simply loosely hung from a belt likely stood out to Roxanne and Victor, though he seemed to ease up when Helen stepped up.

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« Reply #4409 on: December 20, 2017, 01:52:20 pm »
Alexei accepted the axe and said "I'll bring some extra fire wood then, never know if it will be needed. Be back in a few minutes."

With that Alexei walked out the door and started looking for some trees to get fire wood from. Hefting the axe in his hands he let himself think back a decade. Back when he and Bandit ran product, Bandit rapping along to whatever caught his fancy on the radio and the two smoked in his living room.

Roland meanwhile drove the jeep with an odd feeling of unease. The last time he'd done anything for Death he'd ended doing something from one of his worst nightmares. Now he was bringing someone with him back to the Third and the last thing they needed was something going wrong now. Still he couldn't just leave whoever it was out in the rain.

Pulling up to the Hall Roland dismounted the jeep and tucked his helmet on as he grabbed a bottle of whiskey one of the men had given him. Walking towards the building he knocked on the door and waited.

 

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