Ionian Dreams (Bront Judging)
- Thread starter Rystil Arden
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Rystil Arden
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*Highbrow helps treat some of the injured, though far too many of them are unfortunately dead already. Meanwhile, Gremlin and Carrion try to help support the building while Griff zips in and out carrying rescuees and CPU gets a few out much more slowly, lacking Griff's super-speed, super-strength, and rapid flight. Eventually, Carrion and Gremlin realise that they simply can't keep the building standing any longer, and so they call CPU to get out. Fortunately, by then they have evacuated most of the remaining occupants. Only a few people are crushed to death as the building finally collapses--what would have been a huge loss of life reduced to what Highbrow calculates at an estimated low three figures of casualties.*
Lot
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Hawkeye said:
Carrion looks up, seemingly not winded at all but covered with a fine dust of concrete.
"I'd say we got our butts kicked. Some terrorists come in and blow up buildings, crushing, shooting, or incinerating hundreds of innocent people. What did we do? We helped bring about the deaths of some people whom clearly wanted to die. We saved lives, which is a good thing, but what did we gain from this? Are we satisfied that ONLY a few HUNDRED people are dead? What could possibly stop them from doing it again? How are we any closer to a solution now? Is this how're going to fix this?"
The monster, growing frustrated, is becoming more terrifying. His dead, black eyes have taken on a reddish hue and the leathery skin encasing his beak has pulled back, revealing a collection of dull-gray, mismatched pointed teeth.
Salix
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Lot said:
Noticing his new freind falling into a guilty rage, Gremlin walks up to the huge monster, "No time to feel sorry for yourself now, Martin. We did the best we could. Now we need to keep digging. There might be more innocent lives to save." Gremlin turns to head back to the rubble,stopping to say,"You coming or not?"
OOC: Sorry I was working on my last post when you finished yours.
Velmont
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"If we do good? Hard to tell, but I can already see the news. A group of UN task force that act without permission of teh local governement, and cause the destruction of some buildings, as after all, we shoot the guys who exploded, and it will be easy to put teh blame on us... I think a lot of PR await us, and it might hinder our work. Now, let's find who are the bastards who did that. I think I down one who didn't explode, let's take a look at his body, so we can see if we can find a clue. Griff, you can take me over there?"
[SBLOCK=OOC]CPU want to see the first one he shot. I think he didn't explode, so I might be able to find his body and search for him, or find his weapon, so maybe we can track back to there dealer.
Also, CPU will try to find, with his demolition skill, what type of explosive was used in all those explosion.[/SBLOCK]
[SBLOCK=OOC]CPU want to see the first one he shot. I think he didn't explode, so I might be able to find his body and search for him, or find his weapon, so maybe we can track back to there dealer.
Also, CPU will try to find, with his demolition skill, what type of explosive was used in all those explosion.[/SBLOCK]
Rystil Arden
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*CPU and Griff head over to the first sniper, who indeed has not exploded. He has been zapped, but had not flown through the air with great impact. He is wearing fairly normal street clothes, but underneath is a simple bulletproof vest. He carries a sniper rifle of Iranian make, the same kind that shoots the bullets Highbrow saw before.*
Lot
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Salix said:
Carrion, shaking with rage, seems to calm a bit on hearing Gremlin's words.
"Yeah...yeah, let's get back to it."
He starts grabbing chunks of debris from the collapsed building and throwing them into a pile he's creating behind him.
"This is new to me, you know? I'm...not a hero like you. I've never been shot at before. I've never punched anyone since 7th grade. Now, I'm smacking people off buildings and having them explode. This is my first time seeing what a bomb does to a human body. I'm...just...I don't know."
Carrion keeps digging, eyeing the tragic remains under far too many chunks of cement.
"And the most horrible thing is..."he says, speaking in a low growl as he eyes a bodies. "...I see some of this dead flesh and all I can think is how much I want to devour it. I like to think that under all this, I'm still a good guy. I'm still Martin Reinstatler, web-designer and video game enthusiast. But then I destroy the way my new body is built to destroy or I think something just awful with this new brain of mine and I think...I don't know..."
Carrion, realizing he has paused, resumes working.
"Sorry. I'm...we've got bigger problems than 'poor me.' Let's see who we can still help."
Salix
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Lot said:
"Hey, I'm new at this hero business too. If I could have stopped those guys from blowing up with my power, maybe we could have stopped this. Before I knew what happened people were exploding. We can only do our best. I know you've got a burden to bear, but if you weren't a good person you wouldn't be here trying to help these people. Now let's keep digging. If we can save one more person we did our job. All of them would probably be dead if we weren't here.", Gremlin says before returning to the digging.
