Generation Legacy Issue #15

[Tokiwong]

"Cardinal." Cassie says calmly, with a stillness more suited to a predator. "Like I was telling your.. associate I have a cell phone and email. There was no need for mayhem and chaos to contact me." Her body takes on the coiled tenseness of a snake or trap just before it snaps shut on a victim. "And why would you come looking for me? I'm .. inconsequential."

“Inconsequential? I think not, you exist and yet you shouldn’t exist. That to me is not inconsequential. I can only wonder what secrets you could be hiding. You exist outsight my prescience, I cannot see you, you are a cipher. That means that cosmically you are important. Probably more important then myself, or Ryan. But making you important does little to solve our mutual problems. Survival,” Cardinal replies.

“I am not here to spread lies Cassandra, I only want the truth. Come with me, and we can find a way to avert the disaster that will befall everything. It will be a calamity, but you have the capability to stop it.”

Back in Verona

Robbie mimics Anika and eats his food like a semi-civilized person. He pauses, “Well I guess that is just as good. So where are we? Why are you guys talking mentally about me? I mean I assume you are using your brains to talk to each other without your mouths. But if you can do that why talk at all? Unless oral communication is just so much better. I think everything should be done orally!”

“Unless you want to keep a secret. Is that it? Are you trying to keep your conversation a secret? What is an Eternal?” he finishes between bites of food.

 

[Mimic]

Gilden doesn't contribute to the mental conversation but watches the events unfolding between Chaoa and Anika, until Chaos lets everyone know he can sense the telepathy.

"An eternal is a cosmic being, an essence of reality. Something that you were, or are, depending on what is really happening at this moment. You can create duplicates or yourself and sense the telepathy between us but you say you have no memories. Would you permit me to scan your mind to see if I can find out what happened to you?"

 

[Hammerhead]

Once Cardinal left, Ryan set Kiyana down on the remains of Jun Min's desk as gently as possible before rushing to the teacher. "You wouldn't happen to know any first aid, would you? Because I'm coming up kinda blank." While talking, he does recall a few scenes in movies with similar circumstances, so he takes off the belt of his uniform. She can teleport. That means I can teleport. Cool.

"I'm thinking of making this a tourniquet, so I'd guess I tie this a few inches above the bleeding hole, right? Sorry, this has got to hurt," he says with a grimace as he ties the tourniquet as tightly as possible. And I thought first aid classes were a waste of time. If I had my powers, I could have just zapped back to health. Hmm...Cardinal might also lack some of the...fine control I have over my powers. Or at least she hasn't realized the possibilities.

"Bishop, I'm not sure trying to kill her, even when you're holding all the cards, is a good idea. Not if it means that Overseer wins."

Medicine +2

 

[KaintheSeeker]

“Inconsequential? I think not, you exist and yet you shouldn’t exist. That to me is not inconsequential. I can only wonder what secrets you could be hiding. You exist outsight my prescience, I cannot see you, you are a cipher. That means that cosmically you are important. Probably more important then myself, or Ryan. But making you important does little to solve our mutual problems. Survival,” Cardinal replies.

“I am not here to spread lies Cassandra, I only want the truth. Come with me, and we can find a way to avert the disaster that will befall everything. It will be a calamity, but you have the capability to stop it.”

"My survival? I think you don't quite understand my situation, I am a paradox true, but if I undo the conditions of my own creation. That is the future I was designed in, what comes of me?" Cassie says as she stays coiled. "I would unravel and cease to be. Not, understandably, the most convincing arguement for cooperation." She looks at Cardinal firmly. "And I would trust you as much as far as I can throw the Superdome. No offense, but unless you are hiding another side to you besides the one I've seen and read of, I have no reason to cooperate with you. Simply put, I would be putting you in the place of Overseer. If I would require gesture of trust." She looks to Sami.

"For instance the immediate withdrawal of your forces from Campus."

 

[Tokiwong]

"Bishop, I'm not sure trying to kill her, even when you're holding all the cards, is a good idea. Not if it means that Overseer wins."

Medicine +2

“And what if Cardinal wins, she isn’t exactly operating on this level of reality if you noticed,” Bishop replies.

Jun Min grimaces, cursing in Korean for a good string before speaking in English. “Okay just… let me concentrate.”

Bishop shakes his head, “Relax love… you don’t spend your whole life on the run without learning a few basic skills in the medicinal arts.”

Bishop tends to Jun Min, I am assuming Ryan will Aid him. Ryan gets an 8, but Bishop gets a 28 on the check.

Bishop smiles trying to comfort Jun Min, having done what he can to clean and dress the wound. He helps her up slowly, “We need to get you to safety, you have lost quite a bit of blood.”

Back in Verona

“Okay as long as it won’t hurt,” Robbie replies.

Cassie

Cardinal turns her gaze to Sami as well, “You want a gesture of trust?”

Sami gulps, “Um… this is the Cardinal, the super terrorist?”

“I see you have been talking to my son,” she turns her gaze back to Cassie, “You see I understand your plight because I am operating under the same circumstances, when I complete what I am here to do, I will create a paradox that will void my own existence. I was right we are connected.”

She offers her hand, “If you want to reclaim your birthright as Hope… we can find that path together.”

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie

Cardinal turns her gaze to Sami as well, “You want a gesture of trust?”

Sami gulps, “Um… this is the Cardinal, the super terrorist?”

“I see you have been talking to my son,” she turns her gaze back to Cassie, “You see I understand your plight because I am operating under the same circumstances, when I complete what I am here to do, I will create a paradox that will void my own existence. I was right we are connected.”

She offers her hand, “If you want to reclaim your birthright as Hope… we can find that path together.”

"I still fail to see how you benefit from that action." Cassie says calmly. "To paraphrase the attitudes of most people... 'What's in it for you?'" She had seen too many deciets and lies to believe in altruism anymore. "If I get to .. Re-Exalt to Hope, what do you get out of it?"

 

[Tokiwong]

"I still fail to see how you benefit from that action." Cassie says calmly. "To paraphrase the attitudes of most people... 'What's in it for you?'" She had seen too many deciets and lies to believe in altruism anymore. "If I get to .. Re-Exalt to Hope, what do you get out of it?"

“Vindication. Vindication for a life that never was. It is the singular most driving human motivator. I want to leave a Legacy. Be it one of Hope or Destruction, I will have existed, and even if I am not remembered, my Legacy will live on, perhaps through you,” Cardinal replies.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

“Vindication. Vindication for a life that never was. It is the singular most driving human motivator. I want to leave a Legacy. Be it one of Hope or Destruction, I will have existed, and even if I am not remembered, my Legacy will live on, perhaps through you,” Cardinal replies.

"And how do you intend to do that?" She asks as she pointedly looks at the french Elite with her. "And more importantly, how will this help stop Overseer."

 

[Agamon]

Anika looks at 'Robbie' in surprise. "Sorry. That was rude of me," she says, a bit embarrassed.

She listens to Gilden's offer and tells him, "Are you sure that's a good idea? That might, um, open a can of worms, if you know what I mean."

 

[Mimic]

“Okay as long as it won’t hurt,” Robbie replies.

"It shouldn't hurt at all." Gilden replies.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? That might, um, open a can of worms, if you know what I mean."

"I see no real alternative, we have to know what is going on." He says as he casts the needed spells and delves as deeply as he can into the boy's mind.

telepathy +9