Capitulus Quartus: Deadtown
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Xanthia nods at the responses she's heard on the slug through the pipe so far. Now that the pipe is about to open up, she pulls out her blade and the spitfire ready to deal out some damage. She glances over at Jett and whispers 3 words: "You or me?"
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Solaria locks eyes with the woman and shrugs, "Might as well be me.", she whispers. She puts her mouth right up to Xanthia's ear and whispers, "Keep your guns on those two. I don't need them shooting me in the back."
She looks around and nods to the mercs, then starts to slide into the room, eyes peeled for trouble...
She looks around and nods to the mercs, then starts to slide into the room, eyes peeled for trouble...
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Haxtes stays behind and readies his Hellgun. His mecha eye turns to look at the way they came from quickly before turning back to look at what lies before them.
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Solaria nearly lick Xanthia in the ear (that's for a later time) as she offers her warning about Vymer and Quill. Then she takes the lead. The five make the last distance down the pipe into the chamber that awaits beyond. The room opens up into what appears to be a massive burial vault (long ago raided and looted). A large central chamber has half a dozen smaller mosoleums that branch off from it along the other three walls. In the center is a large dias with a broken and missing statue, the stand remains, the statue is long lost to looters. Pews block travel around the dias, and broken and fallen stonework is crumbling all about. Leering gargoyles and cherbus look down from the stonework. A flicker of light comes from the northwest mosoleum.
As you move into the chamber, Solaira on point, Vymer motions for Xanthia and Haxtes to move west, as they move east around the rubble.
Solaria reaches the dais up the row between the pews and she get's a really bad feeling about things. Yup, its an ambush, but you are ready for it. Solaria calls out, "Enemies!" From out of the various side chambers come a pack of local gangers. One of them shouts, "Here dey come, kill them all boys!"
The fight is on and the Acolytes are ready for it...
As you move into the chamber, Solaira on point, Vymer motions for Xanthia and Haxtes to move west, as they move east around the rubble.
Solaria reaches the dais up the row between the pews and she get's a really bad feeling about things. Yup, its an ambush, but you are ready for it. Solaria calls out, "Enemies!" From out of the various side chambers come a pack of local gangers. One of them shouts, "Here dey come, kill them all boys!"
The fight is on and the Acolytes are ready for it...
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Her blade and gun in hand, she gladly moves forward, making her way towards one of the collapsed columns. She raises her spitfire as she does so, cracking off a shot at the closest ganger.
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"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
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I am the voice of Never Never Land, the innocence of every man, I am the empty crib of Peter Pan. A silent kite against the blue, blue sky, every chimney every moonlit sight. I am the story that will read you real, every memory that you hold dear...
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Then Vymer calls out, he motions at Quill as he moves into potion behind the dais. "Nothing personal, I hope you understand. He has a blind grenade in his hand and he tosses it into the air. The small ball lands right next to Xanthia and *BANG* it goes off filling the area around all of you with blinding chaff. Your photo contacts, heightened senses and implanted ocular devices are no use against it -- more importantly neither are your eyes. Vymer calls out, "Turns out this IS a set up, your instincts were right Jett. Nothing personal, but Oynx is really named Xanthia and she is an assassin, and she killed the wrong person recently. They did not take too kindly to that, and the bounty on her head is rather generous. I wish things could be differently, but a job is a job. Had those damn Wreckers not interrupted our search on the airship this whole thing could have been avoided. I hate to have to kill your companions, they are great warriors and don't deserve this." He nods to Quill, not that you can see it. "Lord Penderghast sends his regards and that this is for his nephew!" You hear a clanking bump as another grenade lands someplace in the blind cloud.
Then *KABOOM* as the Frag grenade goes off. Unable to see, unable to dodge you take a brunt of the explosion on your armor. Lucky for Haxtes his new greatcoat is designed to take flak and only the concussion of the blast rattles his cage a bit. Xanthia is not so lucky, the grenade lands close and a spray of shrapnel rips through her arm as she shields her face. The blast cuts up her flak armor and tears into her flesh causing shockwaves of pain to shoot to her head. Yet Solaria, farthest from the blast takes it the worst. Her xeno mesh armor isn't designed to stop flak, and as the frag goes off he sends a wall of broken shattered and sharp waves of pews into her leg nearly knocking her from her footing. Her left leg is ripped to pieces and she staggers down onto the knee holding onto the cover around her to keep her footing against the bleeding mangled mess of flesh that is her leg now. The ringing in your ears will eventually fade, but for the moment you are in shock. You can't see them, or hear them but the gangers all around the chamber take aim on the cloud watching, and waiting for you to step clear of it.
Vymer sighs, "Surrender Xanthia, and your friends won't have to die with you. My bounty is on your head!"
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"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Xanthia thinks to herself about the recent assassinations she has performed, attempting to call the one mentioned into mind. As she recalls details, she thinks to herself. 'Well, great. Just what we needed on this place -- my past to catch up with us.'
She stares forward, remembering the layout of the room and trying to think up a way out of this situation. Probably the easiest for the rest of the Acolytes would be to turn herself in. That way, the rest could complete the mission at least.
She stares forward, remembering the layout of the room and trying to think up a way out of this situation. Probably the easiest for the rest of the Acolytes would be to turn herself in. That way, the rest could complete the mission at least.