MutantHigh Episode 4: Deadzone

[Tokiwong]

Slicer picks up his fallen comrade like he was a twig but leaves the axe lying there it is. He looks smiling at Eris and it looks really strange with a mouth like his.
"If you can lead us to the man you only hit once, he can help your frient. Brighteye is our healer."
Despite the attitude around him he still acts like he's got everything under control.
Nymph just stands behind him and glares at each of you but takes special care to seem unfriendly to Joey.

Joey just winked to Nymph, "Don't worry about me, I wasn't going to choke, not my style, but I didn't exactly like getting my face nearly burnt off either. For a bettey your almost as tough as Eris... almost."

"If it means anything I apologize for that, and if you don't like that too bad," he shrugged.

 

[Radiant]

January.16.2004
somethere in South-Columbia, the Deadzone
early afternoon

Nymph stands up and follows Slicer.

Joey just winked to Nymph, "Don't worry about me, I wasn't going to choke, not my style, but I didn't exactly like getting my face nearly burnt off either. For a bettey your almost as tough as Eris... almost."

"If it means anything I apologize for that, and if you don't like that too bad," he shrugged.

"It will be good enough for now."
She sounds statisfied by the simple apology and even answers Chambers question without sounding angry.
"Then they chase you, you run. And if you are a step too slow, or of you sprawl your ankle and fall, even if it just takes you a second to get up again, then you are dead."
She makes those strange signs with her hands again.
"They are hunters. Born and bred to slay the Second Race."

While she talks Slicer wakes the man Eris dropped first and tells him what happened. He is wearing the same pseudo aztec clothes as the rest and after Sliver is finished he stands up and bows before Eris.
"You showed great skill, sneaking and surprising us. Here it is considered the mark of those blessed by the gods to posses such abilities."
He talks to Slicer again.
"I will heal the one with the burns so we can travel swiftly. If they truly wish to reach the temple by sundown we must hurry."

 

[Tokiwong]

Sounds good enough to me... Joey thinks, "Good I would hate to make a betty I just met hate my guts. Not my style, I am a lover not a fighter," he muses, as he turns to the other fellow, "If you can help our friend, then by all means, do your thing."

 

[Robbert Raets]

So it was you who did that 'I can see through someone elses eyes' thing, she thinks back to Jack, This place is great once you get used to it, it's filled with beautiful animals, flowers and with all kinds of useful insects, some of them might even hold a cure for cancer.

Insects that hold the cure to cancer? Are you coming down with jungle fever?! quips Jack with his signature grin, even though he stays focussed on the Columbian Deltas, ready to respond if he detects any untruthfulness or hostility.

 

[Aenion]

Nothing here

 

[Aenion]

Insects that hold the cure to cancer? Are you coming down with jungle fever?! quips Jack with his signature grin, even though he stays focussed on the Columbian Deltas, ready to respond if he detects any untruthfulness or hostility.

Domi smiles, You'd be surprised what you can find in the jungle. We have catalogued several species of plants and insects which can be used as a cure, her smile turns to a smirk when she sees Joey talk to Nymph, I see what you meant earlier about Joey.

"I'm sorry, I almost forgot about Clair." she apoligizes, "These Gencon's sound pretty bad. By second race you mean, people like us, like Delta's, right?" Domi asks.

 

[Radiant]

January.16.2004
the Deadzone
early afternoon

Clair slowly opens his eyes again and he can feel the pain from the burns vanishing. Above him he sees a man with rough features and dirty black hair. His eyes glow in a soft gold and rays of light shine from them, falling on Clair's face. There they touch him the pain fades and his skin turns back to normal.

Sounds good enough to me... Joey thinks, "Good I would hate to make a betty I just met hate my guts. Not my style, I am a lover not a fighter,".

Nymph snorts and looks almost disgusted at you.
"So I saw, others of your group are the real fighters and that one even took your wounds."

Insects that hold the cure to cancer? Are you coming down with jungle fever?! quips Jack with his signature grin, even though he stays focussed on the Columbian Deltas, ready to respond if he detects any untruthfulness or hostility

Jack can sense a lot agitation from the group of deltas but they do not percieve you as enemies. Slicer thinks that you might be refugees and that you could have come to live here like many other he met before. Brighteye just feels guilty for attacking you while Nymph sees this as a temporary peace at best.

"I'm sorry, I almost forgot about Clair." she apoligizes, "These Gencon's sound pretty bad. By second race you mean, people like us, like Delta's, right?" Domi asks.

Slicer shrugs with four shoulders and explains.
"She does not know that word. I'm the only one here who was outside as an adult. Here our kind is called the Second Race. The Gencons hunt our kind. They eat all flesh but once they get close to us they are thrown into a frenzy. Something in our.."
He thinks for a moment.
"Genes, that was the word wasn't it? Yes they are addicted to our genes."

 

[Aenion]

They eat all flesh and are addicted to Delta's? she thinks for a bit,"Has anyone ever seen one? Do they look human?" Domi seems to be brimming with questions, Could this be a new species?

 

[Radiant]

They eat all flesh and are addicted to Delta's? she thinks for a bit,"Has anyone ever seen one? Do they look human?" Domi seems to be brimming with questions, Could this be a new species?

January.16.2004
the Deadzone
early afternoon

"I have seen one. Not many have and lived. And not they are not human. Not human at all."
Nymph heads on through the jungle even faster than before.

Shortly before sundown a vast structure appears before youl. Just like haven it is build to resemble and Aztec pyramid, only that this one is made of stone and wood and so looks a lot more like ít. As you get close you can see that you are on the side of the river again and that the tress have been cut down a hundred yards around the stone structure. It is not very big, only about 25 yards in height and sorounded by a small village. People are everythere, going alonng their daily buisness. All looks perfectly normal, or would have a few hundred years ago. There is not a single piece of technology to be seen and the people are dressed in primitive self-made clothes. The whole village is sorounded by a low barricade of earth with wooden spikes rammed into it. Six men stand guard on that wall but otherwise the village looks rather peacefull. All in all you see over a hundred people just on the first glance. At your approach the ones closest stop their work and watch curiously. A bunch of children runs to the opening in the barricade that must be the entrance and screams excited then they see the group but the guards hold them back.
Before you reach the gate a voice calls from your right, startling even the Sunguard.
"Welcome home Slicer, who are these strangers?"
The voice belongs to a man who appears to just have melted out of a tree beside you. Only his torso sticks out of the trunk and his skin has the same colour as the tree.

 

[Robbert Raets]

Jack tries to get a read on the Dryad-guy.