<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>(Drat I would have wanted to do something)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>[Vesper] casts energy field to fill the doorway and buy them all a tiny bit more time ushering people down through the passageway. When he see's Keldons son killed he closes his eyes briefly. "Bastards."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida
Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Only after Alex is safely down does he follow below.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>[/Vesper[<br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, April 14, 2014 2:07 PM, Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">OOC: Been bogged down and haven't got lists of items together. I'll<br clear="none">try to do that in the next few days, but
let's carry on...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">>> [GM]<br clear="none">>> The sergeant radios Oz again. "We're in the ship, Mr. Smythe and Lady<br clear="none">>> Louissa are here, but we don't have a way of piloting this thing to<br clear="none">>> you. Either you find the captain or some crew who can help, or I think<br clear="none">>> we've got to abandon this ship and get out of town. Waiting for<br clear="none">>> instructions sir."<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> At that moment there's a loud crash, probably coming from the shop<br clear="none">>> next door. Boots can be heard outside the shop door.<br clear="none">>> [/GM]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> [Oz]<br clear="none">> Oz curses quietly in a language that is neither English nor German. He<br clear="none">> responds over the radio. "Did anyone see the captain or crew during<br clear="none">> their
leave?" Oz cracks open the black faceplate to speak to Vesper<br clear="none">> and Alex. "The men are on the ship but we've got no crew and no<br clear="none">> captain. Do we know where the captain was planning on going in town?"<br clear="none">> [/Oz]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> [Vesper]<br clear="none">> "I have no clue where the Captain or crew might be. Though with such<br clear="none">> a pervasive presence of Splugorth pawns in the city, escaping by air<br clear="none">> might be a bad idea."<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> "Wait a moment I seem to remember seeing some of the crew. It was<br clear="none">> when we first came to the shop. They were heading into another building<br clear="none">> a bit down the way. Some place with red lanterns outside of it. I am not<br clear="none">> sure if they are still there but it is worth a shot trying to see. Keldon is<br clear="none">> there a back
or hidden way out of here ?"<br clear="none">> [/Vesper]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> [Alex]<br clear="none">> Unable to help herself, she does effectively a face palm, "It is a<br clear="none">> brothel. Not so much the soldiers in my unit but half the soldiers I<br clear="none">> dealt with regularly would visit one every time they got paid. The rest<br clear="none">> are probably getting drunk somewhere." Her voice does not sound mad<br clear="none">> though, just more amused.<br clear="none">> [/Alex]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> [Oz]<br clear="none">> "Close is good. Let's go get some people who can fly us out of here.<br clear="none">> The faster the better." Oz shuts his faceplate again and re-seals his<br clear="none">> armor, preparing to follow Vesper and the others through a back door.<br clear="none">> [/Oz]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[Keldon]<br clear="none">"Yes, yes, of course." he
says, clearly frightened out of his mind.<br clear="none">"Lads, open the trap door, and be quick."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As his sons work, Keldon tries to explain, "This building was built on<br clear="none">top of the ruins of some old store, and there were storage rooms<br clear="none">underneath. There was a tunnel linking it to where the brothel is, but<br clear="none">I cannot say if it's still intact."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Moments later the two sons announce "It's open father!", pointing to<br clear="none">where a bookshelf had been just a moment before. There, in the floor,<br clear="none">is a trapdoor.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">At that moment, there is a loud bang, followed by another one. The<br clear="none">front door shivers, but does not yield. "Quick now! That door will<br clear="none">withstand some Kydian boots, but not Kydian energy weapons."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As everyone moves forward,
there's the sound of a energy weapon (or<br clear="none">rather several energy weapons) opening fire. The door shivers, starts<br clear="none">to glow, and then explodes, molten bits of metal and other substances<br clear="none">scattering over the front of the store. Some land on scrolls and begin<br clear="none">to smolder. Through the smoke and wreckage of the door, plasma and<br clear="none">laser beams shoot into the store.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The Archbishop runs towards the trapdoor, pushing one of Keldon's<br clear="none">sons, who is shoved into an energy beam that cuts deep into his body.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Nooooo!" Keldon cries.<br clear="none">[/Keldon]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Aaron Clausen<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mightymartianca@gmail.com" href="mailto:mightymartianca@gmail.com">mightymartianca@gmail.com</a><div class="yqt6612198556" id="yqtfd40589"><br
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