Survival
Survival:
Keep an eye behind us to see if we're being chased; throw the explosive ammo out behind us if we are chased. Otherwise, just check the car and make sure it's happy. Fix anything fixable while we're in motion.
You look out of the smashed rear window. Looks like you are indeed being followed. You can see the headlights of a car, but it has yet to come into view.
Survival
Do the anti-projectile thing. When Bryan turns on us:
"Foolish."
Grab Bryan's face with the bling-arm. Point-blank blast ho! Failing that, summon a dagger and stab him in the throat.
Feeble! Foolish! Ogryn? Dark.Bryan Survival
So, it has come down to this. I had hoped the circumstances would prevent this. Now it appears I have no choice.
When the car is close to the end of the tunnel stop. Pull out the gun I was given, shoot my former team mates.
After opening fire "I hope you can forgive me, I have my orders"
As John watches the road, getting ready to act the moment he sees their pursuers approach, he hears something shifting in the front seat, followed by a click. He doesn't register what's going on immediately though. And those lost moments cost him.
Acting on instinct, he tries to jostle the front seat to throw of Bryan's aim off while at the same time trying to move away. It works, in part, saving him from an immediate death.
The first bullet catches him in the chest, while the second misses entirely. He doesn't feel pain, just surprise and a feeling of coldness surrounding the wound. He's having trouble breathing.
It takes a moment for Saevus to realise what's going on and start reacting. And his slow speed is not helping. On the other hand, short range combat is the field he excels in, even in this weakened state.
Bryan can't adjust his aim quickly enough. He watches the golden arm of Saevus turning to point in his direction, the runes on it glowing brighter. The telekinetic blast blows the upper part of the driver's seat along with the windshield and part of the roof off the car. Bryan exhales from his hiding place behind the co-driver's seat, immensely glad that his quick reflexes have allowed him to keep his head.
The car starts slowing down with nobody pressing the gas pedal, but not very quickly. The steering wheel is wobbling precariously after being hit by the blast, causing the car to vibrate slightly. Something should probably be done about that, because at best the car will end scraping against a wall, at worse the car will end making a head on collision with a pillar at high speed to the detriment of all involved.
The tunnel above you is illuminated by a pair of headlights. Bryan can see the vehicle approaching. Looks like they caught up to you.
Campaign
Campaign, Ike!
"Careful, guys! There's something moving through here. Might be people."
Try to remember what I've forgotten to remember. Go through the most important facts of the situation mentally and see if anything pops out at me.
Also, did my ears work right? I forget. If they do, listen for hostile winds that seek our doom.
Watch the refugee camp for a moment as well.
You've forgotten to drink water. That must be it. You're feeling rather thirsty. The juicy flesh was enough to quench some of it, but you need some normal water or maybe some juice or similar. You suppose you could just drink blood. It sounds unsanitary, but River could probably heal you.
Your ears seem to work, they are just a bit less sensitive than you'd remember them. Still, they feel better than yesterday. Maybe they're healing naturally? Or maybe River did something to you while you were sleeping?
You watch the refugee camp as the other two chase the little glowball thing. Hmm... Yes, that's it. You spot someone or something moving between the makeshift dwellings. You think it's heading towards the edge of the camp closest to the eastern road.
Irine, Campaign
grab it!
<How'd you get in me?>
River takes off in a diagonal direction, disappearing behind a still intact building. You chase after the little thing, trying to catch up with it.
<Was asked to heal you. Fix change. Needed quick work. Not good with magic. Used melding. Gave part of my change. Did not complete. Thought temporary.>You catch up to the thing, which has started slowing down, probably feeling safer now. You pull on it and it reacts in much the same way. It turns cyan for a second before it turns brown and tries to mimic a rock, aiming to blend in with its surroundings. River appears in the opposite side of the small street, now in his humanoid form.
"Good! You caught it! I was afraid it could turn to air."He approaches the rock. The moment he comes close to it it immediately tries to fly away, but he quickly reaches out and puts his hands on either side of it. The air between his hands distorts, the light going through it becoming dimmer, loosing its colours. It looks like the ball is unable to escape, although it is trying very hard, bouncing around between his hands. A few seconds pass and it looks like the ball has started slowing down, the tension visible in River's body relaxing slightly. But a moment later it turns into an orb of semi-transparent shadow and starts moving even faster. The area of distorted air between his hands begins to shrink.
"Grrr. Harder than I thought. Can not keep them like this. Catching them this way will not work."He brings his hands close to his mouth and chomps at the ball. It disappears behind his closed jaws. He shivers and his hair stand on end, but he returns to normal a couple of seconds later.
"Stingy energy. Fights back." he comments.
He leans against a nearby wall.
"Without those reviving will take a day. We need more of them. More of them together. We could go closer to the volcano. Or we could try attracting them with some of your fire. Or maybe I could approach the crater. But that..."He closes his eyes shakes his head.
"Sorry. You had questions? I was not focused."
OOC<How'd you get in me?>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFHkAzWAnc
Good thing D doesn't have a body, because his head would have exploded with all those missed opportunities to joke/comment.
((Now I want to know what element John is. Sheer bloody-mindedness?
I'm not entirely sure, since it took me some time to decide what everyone should be (I tried to take into account both the kind of powers they had and their character's personality while assigning them their element) but I think Alan's secondary element would be your primary and Irine's secondary would be your strong secondary. Maybe with Alan's primary as a weak secondary.
Also, once Survival is totally done, I'd like to know what those bonus objectives were; it seemed like everyone took GTFO pretty seriously once we really started leaving, and got out really well. Maybe something with Red and Blue? We never saw them again.))
There were lots of things, really. I'll give you a more in depth summary once the mission is over if you find the one given during desync unsatisfactory, since I don't think we'll have another mission in that universe anytime soon. I could entitle this mission "My biggest failure in mission design", since nothing, absolutely nothing went as expected except you trying to leave the island.
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