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Black Sun Rising

Nov 09, 2007 18:05

The group slowly approached a group of hills, sandy, and looking like no sentient being had ever walked there. The rusty broken stones and gravel gave way to a weathered pass, the ground dusty and the air seemed not to move in the heat, as they moved along - after about two dozen meters, a pair of eye-shaped metal plates seemed to appear one on ( Read more... )

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chaosphaere November 10 2007, 05:01:43 UTC

After they reached Hold, Connor tapped Kinnara's hand lightly.

She nodded solemnly, and tugged at her daypack strap, giving a tight closed-mouth grin as she did so. She mouthed the words "I have beam boosters".

AJ hung out at the back of the group. She watched the coordination and general feeling of creepy roboticism of Lt. Cdr. Shan's tactical team, laughed a little to herself and said "We can always threaten to *assimilate* the bad guys".

OOC: OK, we're waiting, everyone I manage is here, got somewhere we're going?

diziara November 10 2007, 05:41:29 UTC

"If anyone starts assimilating anything or one, I will be putting bullets into heads," Diziara muttered and started pacing the room to check out exit options, tactical advantages, and see what the hell they were dealing with. As the lack of furnishing and much of anything else left her feeling like about the only tactical advantage she might have would be ducking for cover behind one of the blue bastard's goon squad and whipping out her Glock, she eventually fell to the back of the group to wait. Brooding quietly, she blindly felt up the gun tucked into her pants at the small of her back to reassure herself it was still there and in working order.

akumatatsu61 November 10 2007, 13:20:04 UTC

After a few minutes a pair of giant wide shouldered men in what look like large and long trench coats and metal face masks with small circular optics walk up, each having an arm that seems chomed and augmented, and made into a projectile weapon of some sort, they approach the door, enter and flank it, as a tan-skinned man with a smiling face and a metallic eye, who walks in with his arms wide, "Welcome to Black Sun Hold, ladies and gentlebeings. I must ask that you pardon our security force, they are trained to operate on very simple parameters, and to set your minds at ease, we have no intention of augmenting or modifying anyone's physicalities in any way. No, we are not some mad scientist's answer to the Borg, far from it. Each component is made for the person that needs it, and wants it. And they must be both ( ... )

chaosphaere November 10 2007, 19:09:37 UTC

"No, I'm the OTHER Mister Shrav," the unkempt Andorian says, with a slight sneer. He pulls out his boot knife and begins picking his teeth. He mutters about "pinkskins" and "small talk", and gives a small look and nod to Kinnara while doing so. As the men shuffle out of the room, he puts his knife away and Shrav becomes Shan once again... although Kinnara has actually seen Shan pick his teeth with his knife before ( ... )

And then, finally chaosphaere November 10 2007, 19:26:35 UTC

Kinnara dismissed her team ( ... )

Re: And then, finally diziara November 11 2007, 07:37:23 UTC

As Connor had hugged Spiegel, he was mildly surprised not only that she'd been with the group, but that she was hugging him. When the excitement over the transporter controls started, and Connor was drawn away, Diziara moved to Spiegel's side. The look exchanged between the two clearly said 'we're talking about this over alcohol, later'.

"Your quarters or mine?" she asked.

"I've always had the better alcohol," he muttered in response.

"2309," she shot back, referencing the blood wine she'd gotten from Ryan on Milliways.

"I got some treats from my flaming fat host while you were off saving the day," he said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out the neck of a random bottle of booze filched from Kovalth. Diziara let out a low whistle as she recognized it, and Commander Sevel called for a med team.

Diziara and Spiegel elected to stay back out of the way as first Therav's goon squad left, then the med team came in. As Spiegel was taking a step to head towards the door, Indra ran right into the transporter room. Diziara grabbed ( ... )

Re: And then, finally chaosphaere November 12 2007, 01:14:27 UTC

Connor, hand still over mouth, shook her head. Her eyes were wide in shock and horror ( ... )

Re: And then, finally diziara November 12 2007, 04:48:09 UTC

Diziara started for the door right behind Connor, and gave Spiegel a tug on the arm to let him know they were leaving. She wasn't even sure if he'd heard the order to be dismissed or to report for the debriefing tomorrow, but once he realized she was leading the way he followed silently. Spiegel automatically turned to head towards his quarters, but Diziara guided him to follow Connor as she stalked down the corridor.

"Hey!" Diziara called after her. As she caught up with Connor, she dropped her voice. "You really couldn't have done anything," she pointed out.

"Given the conditions, as you said yourself in that note, we're lucky he's the only one we lost," Spiegel added, softly, but in such a manner that was clearly not just talking to himself.

Re: And then, finally chaosphaere November 12 2007, 05:49:34 UTC

Connor said, softly, "Hearing every report, even hearing about people who'd seen it happen... just doesn't prepare you for the reality, Lucas."

She shakes her head. "I... shit. I know. Just... Christ, I've never lost someone on my watch before."

Re: And then, finally diziara November 12 2007, 07:30:49 UTC

"It technically wasn't your watch, you were part of the team beaming back up," Diziara pointed out. As Spiegel came up next to Noelle on her other side, he shot Diziara a look.

"You'll have to excuse Diz, she seems incapable of having emotions other than lust and rage," he shot and she returned his sour look. "Look, I've got alcohol in enough flavors and qualities to keep any army happy for a fortnight. It'll take your mind off what happened long enough to let your subconscious process it..."

Re: And then, finally dawntreader44 November 13 2007, 02:00:27 UTC

"Sounds mighty tempting, Lucas," Connor sighed. "But I have a bad bloodline when it comes to that... so, I swear I don't drink when there's pain. I just don't."

She walked beside him for a little while, then finally said... "No, it's just going to be me, my quarters, freshening up and catching up on some cat time. I'll catch you later, okay?"

She wiped her hands on her cargo pants, and headed off to her quarters.

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