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Post by Crimson D on Feb 22, 2007 1:56:13 GMT -5
Shade decides to look at her arua.
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"As the press aren't you worried about getting us killed? Or getting killed yourself?"[rand=118416241086143687884309796892163356277074439092739975576445113433]
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Post by cxtwo on Feb 22, 2007 6:36:39 GMT -5
One of the Troll pulls up beside the Gang leader and anyone looking sees a lot of hand signals. Looks like the leather clad troll is not agreeing with what the boss Troll is saying. After what appears to be a heated discussion the leather clad troll fades to the back of the pack.
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Post by mechwarrior5 on Feb 22, 2007 7:43:23 GMT -5
Peaches leans up into the front seat, holding out his hand to Four-Eyes. "Lemme get a couple of dose 'tings." He sits back in his seat with two shells in hand, and unholsters his Predator II. He ejects the chambered shell, deftly snatching the twirling brass out of the air before sliding the clip from its place as well. Peaches ejects another shell from the clip before loading two of the silver cartriges in the clip. He slams the magazine home and chambers the first shell. "Here's hoping dis hocus pocus works," he says as he arms the safety and slides the piece into the holster at his back.
Once done, he looks up at F-E, sucking on the cancer stick to help calm his jittery nerves. "While we're waitin', why don't you tell us s'more about 'dis place? From da way you talk, you 'been dere before. It'd help to know more about da layout."
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Post by wolflet59 on Feb 22, 2007 7:58:50 GMT -5
Illiya interrupts Shades assensing - snapping her fingers in front of your milky eyes Mr Shade, it is rude to stare.. The press is always on the edge - you guys have a lot of information so you shouldnt be taken unawares, I will help where I can .. theres a lot of us here odds on us all getting killed are low.... but to get back to what I asked, where do you draw the line? Peaches looks to defending his own extended family. What about the greyer areas - ghouls for example - they are cannibal - where would they sit in the greater scheme of things.. or a vampire, is the reason you kill it because it it has to kill people to survive ? Standard norm aura - a dash of excitement, generally calm though - not awakened. Shade you were able to pick up a good impression before being rudely interrupted by her..
Four-Eyes announces about 30 to 40 minutes eta
the trees look very different illuminated at night.. what was someone saying about the Cascades forests - deepwoods, the storybook spooky forest, certainly looks like it in this sort of light!
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Post by mechwarrior5 on Feb 22, 2007 9:48:39 GMT -5
Peaches' shoulders shrug ever-so slightlyat the journalist's question. "I leave da philosophy to priests and college boys. Me? Ima man of action, and all dat postualtin' never did me no good in da real world. I kill 'cos I have to, and I don't ask no questions about what socio-economic forces drove me to it, or if it's 'cos I didn't know my mama, or my daddy didn't hug me enough. I do it 'cos dat's da way life is. If one of 'dose milk-eyed bastards comes at me in da course of a job, it's me or him, simple as dat. If you sit dere and start askin' a buncha fool questions, yer just makin' it dat much easer for 'dem to flatline ya."
After he says his piece, Peaches lapses into silence, letting the rest of the conversation roll of his shoulders. His ninth-grade education has taken him about as far into the philosophical conversation as he cares to go, and as the others prattle on about the subject, he leans back in his seat, gazing out the window at the star-lit sky overhead--a strange city sight for a city dweller like him.
As his gaze drifts over the moon riding high overhead, a dry chuckle eminates from his throat, followed by the soft words of an (off tune) song:
"I see a bad moon a'rising. I see trouble on da way. I see eart'quakes and lightnin. I see bad times today.
Dont go 'round tonight, It's bound to take yer life, Dere's a bad moon on da rise."
He chuckles to himself and lapses into silence, still gazing at the riders as they motor around the RV.
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Post by meg on Feb 22, 2007 17:53:08 GMT -5
Meg taps out the rythmn on her legs, listening to Illiya pushing out moral incentives. 'Most people follow the flow, thats why there are so many wage-slaves but everyone has to keep emselves and their closest sustained. I agreee with Peaches, look to your own. Maslow's theory of higherarchical needs has to take it higher though, once your immediate needs food shelter security are satisfied.. take it a step higher, your work needs.. you good at your job, or do you like it? then theres a next stage, your aspirations. Ive got what I need, kids are fine, I got professional aspirations, but how to seperate who lives and who dies because of my beliefs? Illiya, if I change your view on vampires right now, would that mean you would have to incarcerarate yourself because you had a different opinion a year ago? Morality is what you got right now, but it could change in the future. Meg gets into her schoolmam roll Shurely the Fortunam Times will have tracked the huge changes in morality over the past thirty years? so what should change? Are we here to just keep a lid on what the majority feels repugnant, or just as a job that pulls in yen sod the morality. Do you like orcs? Oklahoma 1% Cascades 99% both will be right, but are theyt morally right, no. the question is wrong forcing a need to choose - politics. But what can you do with a persistant murderer who can only survive on flesh? It will kill again and again alternatives are innefective, I will remove it. I dont like violence for violence sake, but we also got to be sure were doing the right thing.
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Post by Crimson D on Feb 22, 2007 19:10:47 GMT -5
"We're saving the lives of all his future victims. What's one life compared to thousands. Why should it live at the cost of lives? Right now isn't the time to thinking about that anyway. "
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Post by Braddoc on Feb 22, 2007 23:15:54 GMT -5
All that yak about morals and ethics got him pissed. That Elf's just poking in our mind, seeing who's who so she could write some sort of more potent story, maybe a few pages, with big pictures and the like I bet. and like hell she ain't recording. One thing having image and sound, another just having sound too. I sell recorders m'self, 'know that they can reach far and damn clear...
"Low odds of 'all' gettin' killed..yeah, good thing we'll be on the front lines, dead-weight. You'll only go back and brag about what happened, get a Pulitzer or somethin' while some, or even all of us, are turning into compost. Nah, dunno 'bout the rest of them, but I got my own vision of our..'profession'; the illegal means for people on the legal side of things to get things done faster instead of handlin' the paperwork; working without lifting a muscle;the mandatory expendable means to reach their end of the month objectives...th'question ain't 'why?', but more 'why not?' "
He took a drag off his smoke "'Only thing that I got over 'them Johnson's' the fact that I got some sense of honorable conduct. 'Only thing that separates me form the stray dogs livin' in the gutter...Hell he sleeps well in his silk bedsheets and his hourly rate whore, but he knows he's the one responsible for all the shit we do, good or bad..but no trial, no tears huh?"
"Say..any of your Mage want to recon the fork in the road? If I could make spirits, I would put one there." ============ "All right, here's the lay-out; Wendigos can shapeshift, always cold, so there's kinda easy to spot with thermal. It got some crazy scream, 'prolly magical, that cause fear. Th'place got 4 buildings; a house, with one big kitchen-living room when you get in, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom in the back. There' s 2 vehicle place garage, a barn, and a workshop. Last time we get there, we saw 2 dead German shepherd, the Renraku guy and his broad. The place also was booby-trapped and mined with claymore. The Rangers took 'em away, but you never know."
"And it seems that the wolves don't like it either; during the assault, a few of them came out the woods, we didn't know, so we ended up killin them by mistake..sucks but if you see some, I suppose we can give them some space. Maybe there's a wolf shaman somewhere, call it a turf war; there's only place for one kind of predator in these woods, and the wolf pack was here first." Four-eyes took a drag "Any questions?"
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Post by Crimson D on Feb 23, 2007 1:37:12 GMT -5
"I'll take a look at the fork." Shade sits himself where he can leave body without leaving it lean on someone else. "See ya in a few." Shade leaves his body and enters into the dull gray inside of thunders RV. He zips down the road looking for the first fork he sees. He keeps a watch out for any spirits and gets even more careful when he approaches said fork. If nothing presents it's self, he'll float up a bit to see if he can spot anything in the woods.
When Shade returns he doesn't jump right back into his body. "You ain't disturbing me this time girle."
Shade gives her another good seeing now that he can work in peace.
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Shade take his time and looks carefully. The words shape shifter kept appearing in his mind. He then returns to his body having finished his work. He gives a brief report of what he saw, leaving out nothing important. He does not mention reading the elf's aura. he leaves that part out.
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Post by wolflet59 on Feb 23, 2007 7:22:08 GMT -5
Four-Eyes collects a couple of articles including a big flood-beam torch..
What did he just say about wolf shaman - anyone seen any wolves?
Shade returns to his meat with the report that theres a tree down at the fork.. one of the smaller ones, a 100 footer - very recent, the sap still runs.
looks like you may have to go on foot for the last mile or so...
The uninterrupted aura viewing gains you nothing more about Illiya, an elf, no 'ware, calm with a touch of the jittters.
Illiya waits for your replies, and stares out of the window into the night.
Sorry folks - the fortean times - a real newsrag - full of weird phenomena and rains of newts - look it up!
It desnt take long th arrive at the fork, sure enough there is a whale of a tree across the road - chaisaws and cranes required to remove it
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Post by mechwarrior5 on Feb 23, 2007 8:35:49 GMT -5
At Shade's report, Peaches grunts. "Tell me 'dis ain't a fraggin' trap." He sets his shotgun down on the seat and gets up, moving back to the RV's bathroom. "I hate running fer my life wid a full bladder. I'll be back in a sec."
After taking a few minutes in the bathroom, the ork wiggles his way out (the bathroom not being built for one of his size) and reclaims his shotgun. "So who's gonna tell da boys outside about da bad news?"
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Post by scawire on Feb 23, 2007 16:34:30 GMT -5
Micro pulls out his Predator and hands the gun to cakes. "Here you go, now remember to give the thing back when this is done."
"I hate give away my only gun but better to have him be able to put a dent in that windego then to be down a gun when you need it." Micro thinks as he hands over his gun.
"Hey anyone think this tree is lift able with a levitate spell."Micro as he looks at the tree out of the RV window, trying to do an estimate of how much it ways and if the drain would be worth it. "Most likely not that is one big tree.".
"Anyone else have any ideas?" Micro asks not wanting to have to leave the RV.
"I'm going astral to check the area before anyone gets out and moving." Micro says to the group before anyone answers his last question.
Micro Sits back and unlogges his astral body from his meat shell and begins to zip around the area looking for any thing that would give away a trap.
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Post by captianobvious on Feb 23, 2007 17:16:12 GMT -5
"I agree, especialy if we wanna put down that fraggin beast fast"
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Post by wolflet59 on Feb 23, 2007 17:42:56 GMT -5
Looks like someone is throwing in a delaying tactic - Illiya notes The moon cycle here has about an hour and a half to run - the RV aint going nowhere unless you can cut into the forest through the small stuff on the outer edges then manouver through the trees and round the tree..Yu would need to show you are a bloody good driver Thunder.. Four-Eyes, you mentioned booby traps, mines and the like - the Wendijo is a nature creature - not like the urban vampyre, it shouldnt be able to set that sort of thing up, someone else would.
But it was displaced before, it should be a spirit, it needs a shell to occupy in order to live, er survive, it couldnt smash down trees.
Listen people, I was asking you to concentrate on why you want to get rid of this creature because the more right you have, the more effective you will be, belief is more important than weapons. You dont believe, then you wont believe that it will be killed
The trolls in the main seem happily smug - the tree is illuminated in the headlamps, no way will you move it unless youve got some weirdy magics.. seems like a good time to reopen negociations... cept theyve got what you need so any bargains will be firmly on their terms.
nuthin lurking nearby Micro..
The bikes chug and quietly tick over, a couple walk their machines backwards. All look to the leader, who is quietly turning off the engine, swings his leg over and sits, obviously waiting as you cannot go any further forward
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Post by Braddoc on Feb 23, 2007 19:24:33 GMT -5
((I checked the Fortean Times website..quite intresting paper..got to register to read more than the first page of an article thoguht..but it's free, so hey! Why not?))
"Cakes, how much silver rounds you wanna take? got 8 left..who else want some? I know I do." ====================== Damn tree..loosin' time..'prolly got some ghouls workin' for it already..it's movin' fast.. Four-Eyes listened to Illiya, Thunder should slide off the side, but there wasn't no time to go chopping some trees..
"You tellin' me that if you believe it it'll be around, if you don't it'll just go?..The guys who were with us last time did told us it was just a story to scare the kids, kinda like the boogeyman.." Four-Eyes turned around, to face Illiya "If you really wanna know, I never killed the damn thing on the first encounter. Shit, 'only saw the damn body..but a wendigo..." He snarled a little, grinning as he did "..must admit, it's quite a feat..no cyber, no magic in this body Elf, challenge's there, gets the blood boilin' and the adrenaline runnin'..just like blowin' a building." He turned to Thunder "Well, we ain't really got tools to chop trees, so short of just driving in and crushing the trees, we'll have to go there on foot, you call, I"ll go talk to the Troll after that."
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