[MODPLOT; WAR GAMES] STAGE 2
The Keepers were angry now, as angry as supposedly emotionless beings could be. They had not been able to corner the Indigeo, and it had not responded to their demands. They could not comprehend this level of dissension. It confused them as much as the chaos caused by the rogue Entropi which had broken from their ranks, attacked them and then destroyed the original compound. Betrayal was not part of the Entropi consciousness, originally... it had been something they'd been given an unhealthy taste for through the conquest of other races.
Anger, however, they seemed to have developed all on their own.
The Indigeo had dove into the endless white maze that was the core of the Obex, hiding its signature amid the millions of pulses that made the material feel warm to the residents' touches. The Keepers could not disassemble the energy, for then it would become nothing more than a wall and that would not hold their captives.
So for the moment, the stalemate had resumed. The Keepers ceased their chase and moved back into a holding pattern above the compound. They were perhaps defeated...
... except for one last option.
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The Warden, laying silently in the clinic where the residents had taken him, had not moved. Apparently unaware in a comatose state, his injuries had been lessened by generous healing that, had he been awake, he might have thought he did not deserve.
But without warning his body bolt upright, eyes wide but filled with an unearthly white light. His face remained as blank and expressionless as ever, but his limbs moved of their own accord. Long had the residents claimed the Warden was the puppet of the Keepers, but now it was literally true.
Filled with the same energy power as the Keepers themselves emitted, an invisible pulse rippling around him as had shielded him on his first visit to the compound, so many months ago, the Warden turns to survey the rest of the clinic with eyes that are seeing nothing.
One hand is raised, and lightning leaps from it.
The Warden is on the attack.
[OOC: Warden has been possessed by the Keepers, and is walking around the compound shooting lightning at the residents. Although he's shielded, it's not the same strength as the Keepers themselves has, so do with that what you'd like. Start new comments for characters or small groups, and the Warden will play out his unwilling stalking of them.
Please be patient with us as the mods are all working to complete these tags, but there will be a lot of replying for us to do. Alternatively, feel free to have been attacked by or escape from the Warden in your thread, or use the threads for hiding or organizing. If you'd like the Warden to reply to the thread, put "warden" or "open", something in the subject line, some indication for us, please!
Again, any questions to be directed to the OOC post.]
Anger, however, they seemed to have developed all on their own.
The Indigeo had dove into the endless white maze that was the core of the Obex, hiding its signature amid the millions of pulses that made the material feel warm to the residents' touches. The Keepers could not disassemble the energy, for then it would become nothing more than a wall and that would not hold their captives.
So for the moment, the stalemate had resumed. The Keepers ceased their chase and moved back into a holding pattern above the compound. They were perhaps defeated...
... except for one last option.
---
The Warden, laying silently in the clinic where the residents had taken him, had not moved. Apparently unaware in a comatose state, his injuries had been lessened by generous healing that, had he been awake, he might have thought he did not deserve.
But without warning his body bolt upright, eyes wide but filled with an unearthly white light. His face remained as blank and expressionless as ever, but his limbs moved of their own accord. Long had the residents claimed the Warden was the puppet of the Keepers, but now it was literally true.
Filled with the same energy power as the Keepers themselves emitted, an invisible pulse rippling around him as had shielded him on his first visit to the compound, so many months ago, the Warden turns to survey the rest of the clinic with eyes that are seeing nothing.
One hand is raised, and lightning leaps from it.
The Warden is on the attack.
[OOC: Warden has been possessed by the Keepers, and is walking around the compound shooting lightning at the residents. Although he's shielded, it's not the same strength as the Keepers themselves has, so do with that what you'd like. Start new comments for characters or small groups, and the Warden will play out his unwilling stalking of them.
Please be patient with us as the mods are all working to complete these tags, but there will be a lot of replying for us to do. Alternatively, feel free to have been attacked by or escape from the Warden in your thread, or use the threads for hiding or organizing. If you'd like the Warden to reply to the thread, put "warden" or "open", something in the subject line, some indication for us, please!
Again, any questions to be directed to the OOC post.]