Screw the height restrictions

Nov 10, 2011 11:58

Allenby hated the Sensoriums, a fact she was willing to make known to all and sundry whenever the topic came up. They gave her the absolute creeps... one of the benefits of being ejected from Starfighter Command was that she didn't have to show up for PT in the hated chambers every morning. If she had to go in there for any reason, she could yell ( Read more... )

erhart, !location: awesome world, lash, tetsuwan atom/astro boy, howard bassem, !status: open, allenby beardsley

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swordofdorn November 11 2011, 19:58:08 UTC
A tremendous robot-like figure is striding through awesome world, apparently confused by it. Seeing someone run up and down the rollercoaster tracks struck him as fairly odd, even by the standards of this entirely perverse (to his mind anyway) place.

And so, the Knight stops and stares at her for a while.

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nobel_berserker November 12 2011, 01:11:21 UTC
When Allenby reached her final lap, she leaped up, landed on the roof of the kiosk, and stretched her arms above her head. "Whew! Too bad I don't got a stopwatch," she said to nobody in particular, and then looked around and saw the...

...wow that guy was big. Or girl. "Hey there!" she called, hopping down. "Wow, I don't think you can fit in any of the rides with that armor."

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swordofdorn November 12 2011, 05:56:56 UTC
"I rather doubt it, yes." He looks at the young lady, quizzical.

"I don't understand the point of this place. What is it?"

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nobel_berserker November 12 2011, 16:36:41 UTC
"It's an amusement park, of course!" Allenby laughed. She figured the name itself would show what the point was. "That thing there is a roller coaster--you sit in a car and rocket around the track really fast! And up there is the drop tower! It shoots you right to the very top and then lets go, whoosh!"

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swordofdorn November 12 2011, 19:21:09 UTC
"I fail to see the point of all of this. I suppose it is some sort of place that is to be enjoyed primarily by unmodified humans then?"

His augmitters give little idea of his mood, the vox-scrubbers and the static interference of the sound making it very washed out and metallic. His stance isn't aggressive, or passive, he simply stands in the park as though he owns it, or at the very least fears nothing within it.

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nobel_berserker November 16 2011, 05:43:37 UTC
That particular phrase pulled Allenby up short, and the grin dropped off her face. She put one hand on her hip, looking him up and down. "Well, that depends on what you mean by modified and unmodified," she said. Was that a human in there, then?

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swordofdorn November 17 2011, 02:40:42 UTC
"I am a genehanced human, known as an Astartes. I am too large for these rides."

He clangs a hand off his breastplate for emphasis.

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nobel_berserker November 19 2011, 05:43:21 UTC
"No kiddin'." Allenby looked him up and down again, wondering just how tall he was. Well over two meters, that was for sure. "That sucks... I've been modified, but it didn't change how I look at all," she said, holding out her hands and studying them. "Are Astartes some kinda supersoldier where you're from?"

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swordofdorn November 19 2011, 06:00:38 UTC
"And how were you modified, then?" He looks down at her, his body language betraying more interest than he might normally take in a mortal.

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nobel_berserker November 19 2011, 17:35:52 UTC
"Well, I had treatments and stuff done so that I built up strength and stamina faster than uh--a girl normally would. Or any kid. I think there might've been some genetic things to do that," she said, thinking of the weird word that this guy had used to describe himself.

She also noticed that he hadn't answered her own question and wondered if it was some kind of secret thing. But Allenby was nosy, particularly about stuff like this. "So what kind of stuff did genehancing do to you besides make you really big?"

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swordofdorn November 21 2011, 21:31:35 UTC
"It make me into a warrior of the Emperor, one of his Knights. I am far stronger and faster than an unmodified human, and will not die unless slain in battle, or possibly a strong poison. I can heal swiftly from wounds, go a week without sleep, and interface directly with my armor through neural linkages that have been surgically implanted into my body."

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nobel_berserker November 24 2011, 02:39:52 UTC
"...Wow. They gave you the works." It almost sounded like the stuff Zouichi was able to do, except that he'd been built that way from the start. And sure, it was useful stuff, but did he mean he was immortal? Being immortal wouldn't really be any fun, in Allenby's opinion, not unless everyone else was too.

But there was another matter poking at her mind first. "So when did you get all this crazy stuff done do ya?"

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swordofdorn November 24 2011, 06:16:31 UTC
"When I was in my thirteenth year, after the trials which all aspirants undergo. It required many years for the full program of modification to be enacted. Such changes are not lightly wrought upon a human form." He clenches a fist briefly.

"But the result... when it works, is to provide humanity with the best possible weapon against the Xeno, the Heretic, and the Mutant."

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nobel_berserker November 26 2011, 02:22:29 UTC
"Thirteen? Geez, that's pretty young." Allenby would have scowled except for the word 'aspirants.' She actually... hadn't heard it used before, but it wasn't difficult to guess. "But you signed up for it yourself? And who the heck are those guys you're fightin'?"

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swordofdorn November 26 2011, 02:41:12 UTC
"You would be old and dead before I could list every foe of humanity, and I would grow tired and wish for war far before getting through the list. But the short answer is that there are many people who wish to destroy, devour, enslave, or corrupt humanity for their own ends, out among the stars. To them, we bring illumination." By which he means the burning flame of destruction.

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nobel_berserker November 28 2011, 04:34:57 UTC
"...Wow." That sounded like one hell of a grimdark bleak universe he came from. Humans were already good enough enemies of each other without dragging other species into it too. And probably, it didn't keep the humans from fighting each other either.

Which made the idea of illumination seem pretty weird. "Uh, just what kinda illumination are we talkin' about here?"

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