Zechariah considered some more smart-aleck talk, but decided against it. Scion didn't seem so comfortable here, and he didn't want to alienate his entity.
Interface, Scion: <I am sorry, I understand.>
And then, Zechariah immediately decided that he could press a bit further.
<But you must also understand my nature. I won't kill anyone, period. I can lie, I can manipulate, I can steal, I can threaten, I can do everything the Shadow can do. At the same time, I can defend, I can help, I can console, I can fight for the betterment of others, I can do everything in my Soul's interest.
But I won't kill, and not hurt either if possible. Call me weak, but I haven't killed anyone and don't intend to. That's not my business.
I'm back in the game now. I will find Target Amethyst, and I will protect him or her.
Second chance. And so I go.>
>...
>..
>.
">Wake."
Nope. Your host is seriously injured and barely held alive by the paramedics at this point. He'll wake up when you get a 6 and die if you get snake eyes.
Unless you do something to change that.You haven't gotten a 6 yet, if that wasn't obvious.
Alan puts on a Darth Vader voice.
I have you now.
Summon nails in the path of the car in front of me, then swerve around it and keep chasing that government guy if I can still catch him.
You throw a single nail at the police car. It's not very effective...
Your host does however manage to ram the police car, throwing it out if the way and disabling it in the process.
However, search as you may, you are unable to locate your target. At least there are no more police after you... for now.
So, Alan has currently condemned his host into a long time of hardship and possible imprisonment and/or death, impeded the process of his team and thrown at least two attempts I've made to get him involved with the plot of this mission out the window. And his host is moderately injured, the host's beginning to believe he's gone crazy and Alan's very close to being desynchronized.
Alan's odds of contributing something to your team's effort are very low right now. Then again, with that kind of destructive potential, I'm sure he could find a way to detonate a nuke in the city or something like that.
"That's what, two other players I've shot already? Weren't there supposed to be some that are on my team or whatever?"
>Drive away, take a few side roads to confound any further assassins. Get to the objective in due time.
((Alan was supposed to be on your team but unfortunately Alan is Alan.))
<Yeah, I know, it's like you're the only red guy around here or something. Weird, huh? That guy cost us a lot of time. Let's hope we're not too late.>You arrive at the house, late to the party. It appears there was a shootout that concluded not a minute from now. The officers explain that two men had barricaded themselves inside the house. Arriving police units were fired upon and were forced to return fire. The men were mortally wounded. One police officer received moderate injuries and is awaiting an ambulance.
Arriving officers also spotted a vehicle speeding away but chose to engage the men in the house instead. The vehicle was last seen heading south. Same direction as that lab/warehouse. Might be worth checking out. Not much time has passed since then.
synchronizing.
You're on the other side of town. Will take a while.
Through Interface, to Stellar: <Keystone?>
Through Interface, to Theri: <Theri! The man in charge of this place was the leader of my opposition last mission. Watch him closely. He has some kind of telekinesis I think and he's likely to have some unusual gadgets, including one that will desynchronize us. Also, he might hold a grudge against me, I kinda interrogated him, killed a whole lot of his people, and ruined his facility.>
He may have told them not to shoot, but I want some insurance
Disable everyone's guns but Zoe's.
If I am confident that I've got everyone else's guns disabled, then:
Through Interface, to Boris's (defunct?) Interface: <Well then, this is different. I didn't expect us to be on the same side so soon. How are you Boris? Sorry that I had to be so rough last time we met. How've you been?>
After I've gotten as much information as he's willing to tell me about himself as an answer to "How've you been", hopefully including who's side he's on and what happened to him after the destruction of his facility:
Through Interface, to Boris's (defunct?) Interface: <Well Boris my... employer, has given me a very simple task this time. I'm here to bodyguard Amelia. I understand you thinking that your security is good, but you remember what we did to you last time. My employers have... divided opinions, regarding her. Some of them have sent agents to assassinate her. There should be about three of them, and they're each about as dangerous as me, though we each have different talents. My personal employer disagrees with this, and has sent me to try to keep her safe. There should be two others to help me, but only one of them has made contact. You should remember what I and my friends are capable of quite well. Tell me, do you know where I'm speaking from?>
If yes:
Through Interface, to Boris's (defunct?) Interface: <Good, then you'll be able to recognize our opponents as well. Lets get Amelia treated shall we? We both want her alive and well.>
<Remember what I told you about how the entities fight? Remember what happened in the first mission? Why it happened? Her death or life will cause change in this world. Change that will benefit one of us.>Guns not disabled but slowed. Which I guess fits the condition since they're much less dangerous right now.
The piles of burning documents are also slightly affected by the field, but nobody seems to have noticed this. For now.
<Not Boris, no. Name's Victor. Good to see there's somebody that's NOT trying to burn my host alive. So, you met him before?><Good, because if I do what my entity wants and I do it right, then she should stay alive. Or at least that's what he said. She doesn't look that well to me. Plus, there's the whole "the government is trying to kill us" thing.><So you're telling me I got more of you crazy people after me? That's just great.><Yes, I can tell where your host is.><Yes, let us do so.>
((Sorry for the low quality turn. Didn't have a lot of time. Just wanted to get a turn out because I don't know when I'll have time to make one again.
Speaking of which, frequency of updates will be low for the next month or so due to university work. I'll try to update whenever I have time but I make no promises.))
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