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Apart from all worlds.

"Hrrrn," Keane groans as he slowly (and awkwardly) gets up again. "Don't worry your head off, oh pretty good one, I'm not in the habit of forgetting my own words. And if my life is in danger - again - I will rely on myself, thank you very much."
 

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Pale Jaguar takes the button then glances towards the vortex. "I pray that the technology magic you use does not the thing that dooms the other worlds. It saddens me to think that the act of saving one world can bring disaster to the next...."

She then glanced at Vela for a moment before she returned her gaze to the vortex. "Vela your concerns are not misplaced. However, I do not think it matters what we are are to these people should this world also be destroyed while we exist on it. It may be true that our own worlds have been destroyed, but that does not mean we should stand and let the next suffer the same fate. To do that, is cruel and selfish. There is a reason why our gods allowed us to survive our world's destruction... I believe that it might be because we are the only ones that can prevent it from happening again." Or at least, that is what she hoped.
 

ooc: onlythestrong:
[sblock]Not without software. You could install software to do that but it would count as a new cybernetic.[/sblock]

Shayuri said:
Vela takes the offered device mainly through force of habit.

She then says, "I have a question. What are you -talking about-? A second ago I woke up here, listened to some 'explanation' that was half gibberish and half ludicrous, and just as I was starting to maybe understand, you throw a...a..what is this thing anyway? Some kind of badge at me and ask if I have questions?"

"What I don't understand they told me your group wanted to help. I don't have time for all this at the moment, no one is trying to force you anything. If you don't wish to help then stay here, and when I return I'll take you some where to live out your life if any world survives."

Shayuri said:
She points a taloned finger at the first man who'd addressed them. "He just got done telling me...all of us...that Earth was destroyed. How am I...how can...I don't even know what to SAY to that! But I won't just be...dusted off like this! I don't know if I'm your prisoner or your guest, but I am not your servant!"

With that Vela drops the device onto the floor and folds her arms defiantly.

"You are no servant, and you are no prisoner. I presume that makes you a guest. The situation is new to us. Yes, from your point of view The Earth was destroyed, but from ours an earth was destroyed. An that is of little consequence if we don't stop it before they all go. Stay here if you like. But a thought, how better to experience that all that I say is true but to simply go along."
 
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So we should be on our way then eh? Need to get those VIP's. I'm ready to go. Let's go. Are we all going? Mykael walks over to the "ranger" and extends his hand. My name is Mykael. I am ready to learn all that you will be willing to teach me. I tend to enjoy the learning aspect of things.
 



Ding-ding-ding, we have a winner! Congratulations, Braniac, you just made it onto my 'to watch' list.


Keane lays his hand on the Ranger's shoulder in a friendly, non-threatening way.

"You seem to operate under a number of misapprehensions here, my friend. First, those assembled within this room are not much of a group, even less anything like a coordinated team. Second, not all of us volunteered for anything. And last, but not least, the next time I ask a question, I expect an answer. Common courtesy, you understand."

Turning to their original greeter, he goes on.

"Your misapprehension is that I believe everything you said and say. I don't. But since I used to be a soldier, I know well enough that a certain amount of duplicity is always to be expected. Even taken for granted. Still, I would like some better answers for my questions upon my return."


Snatching the paratransponder Vela dropped to the ground in one fluid movement that belied his previous 'tired old man' act, Keane holds it out to her again.

"The man said his piece. It's about the best you'll get for the moment. Your world is gone as throughly as mine is - assuming we don't come from the same one, that is. Now be a dear and quit stalling, Stripey."
 

(just to point out...the stripes aren't permanent. They've been gone for awhile now. :))

"I wasn't stalling any more than you were," Vela replies, irritated...but also oddly mollified that several of her observations were echoed by this self-proclaimed soldier, who nevertheless fit her mental image of a Pure so eerily well.

"It's not stalling to point out the truth of things."

She takes the paratransponder.

"But I'll go, for now. I won't learn anything staying behind."
 

Without another work Jacob steps through the tear and vanishes....


Anyone who steps through the tear:
[sblock]As you step through the tear you feel a falling sensation. as you emerge on the other side of the tear your still standing though.

Before you stands Jacob observing a sence that could be any major american city. That is, any major american city on the the day before a huge natural disaster that cannot be prevented. Mass looting and panic in the streets. Graphetti, litter, trash and debri, wrecked cars left where they came to a halt fires burning. The worst of human carnage.

Jacob watchs waiting for you all to come through then says. "Come we must get to the capital" as the tear closes behind the last of you.

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[sblock= Re. "Stripey"]
Shayuri said:
(just to point out...the stripes aren't permanent. They've been gone for awhile now. :))
Oops! Duly noted. :)

But since he has to latch onto something for his nicknames, the stripes just make for a better target than her nore recent talons. ('Clawy' ?) ;) [/sblock]

Keane grins broadly in reply, especially since he had for a moment considered the possibility of her jumping him for that "Stripey" jab.

"Good decision that. I'm sure carrying you through that door would have caused us both some grief otherwise. ... Especially me.

So, anybody else with complaints?

No?

Great. Let's get this show on the road."


Just before he stepped through the portal, Keane addressed Vela one final time over his shoulder.

"By the way, Stripey, semantics aside, you did stall. I never do - I merely state the obvious."

His laughter is cut short the moment the static closes behind him.
 

Into the Woods

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