Crisis of the Worlds

[Deac]

Deac: F****!

 

*Deac activates what little regeneration utilities he has installed. He chops the ends off the javelin, and throws one into a nearby human, pulls it out, and smacks it into an Orka. He then notices the airships*

 

Deac:Perfect! Just Perfect!

[BattleDog]

Flax: SITH SPIT!

 

Drago: This way!

 

*The two back into an alcove and continue to fight the Orka.*

[Redwing]

*The airships close in on the fighters covering the ground. On the bow of the ships, pinpoints of fire appear.

 

Rwos leaps onto the side of a stone building. He climbs up to the top and jumps off, opening his wings.

 

The airships fire streaks of flame towards the ground, aiming for the highest concentrations of Orka. The flame streaks explode upon violently upon hitting the ground, vaporizing everything within a large radius.

 

Smaller craft detach from the main ship. These appear to be one-man gliders, each with a strangely-outfitted human carrying oddly-shaped devices in their hands*

 

K'Warra: *yelling at the sky* This is ridiculous! Couldn't this have been put off a few hours? That's all I needed!

 

*Surrounded by a blue glow, he rises into the air, heading towards the closest airship, above the Arc Musea. Unfortunately, he does not notice the firey missile from another ship approaching behind him until it is too late*

 

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Kvana: Vertmor! Ignore the airships. Ignore the Arc... *He points* Head for that jailhouse. Don't let our enemies see you.

[Deac]

[Red- how high above the ground are these airships?]

[Kuuki]

Vertmor "You should know me by now, that's easy..."

 

*Vertmor gets down onto the ground level, he transforms himself into a mist form, and jets across the street to the jailhouse..*

 

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*Talon continues to observe, he needed not to 'envolve' himself in a fight.*

[Redwing]

((Hm...I'm pretty bad at translating my mental pictures into measurements.

 

Let's make some guesstimates.

 

Normal building: 20 feet (6 meters) tall

 

Arc Musea: 50 feet (15 meters) tall

 

That would make the nearest ship about 60 feet (18 meters) high above the ground. (Since it's about 10 feet (3 meters) above the Arc Musea, on a slant.)

 

Most of the ships are about a hundred feet up (30 meters).

 

All the ships are spread out at least 200 feet (60 meters) away from each other, so as to effectively cover the most area.

 

The gliders can be assumed to be at any height above 10 feet (3 meters), but are probably not above their parent ships.))

[Deac]

*Deac runs for cover. Meanwhile, Humphrey Hammerhead has ducked behind some rubble and begins firing at the airships with his elephant gun*

 

Hammerhead: I say! This is worse than that opium trip I took once!

[Redwing]

((OOS: Sorry about the several days of not posting ^^;;))

 

*Kvana casts a camoflauge spell on himself, causing him to blend in with his surroundings. He skirts the edges of the melee, going alongside the buildings, heading for the jail.

 

Rwos takes notice of the movement, and tries to make his way towards it while staying under cover, fighting his way through the odd human or orc in his way. Kvana enters the jailhouse before Rwos can catch up. Rwos passes Flax and Drago's alcove*

 

Rwos: Did you see that?

 

*Above them, the manned gliders swoop above the group. They fire long beams of destructive magic energy from their handheld devices into the melee in the town square. The pilots of the craft are humans, and they aim especially at stray Orka, but don't seem to have qualms about hitting their allies on the ground. A pair of the gliders aim for Hammerhead and Deac, and a third aims for Greco*

[BattleDog]

Drago: Vampire Magic.

[Deac]

*Hammerhead loads two bullets into his gun*

 

Hammerhead: Damnable flying machines

 

*Fires, hitting the glider in the wing, making it spin out of control. Deac tries to use his lightsaber to deflect the bullets*

 

[OOS: Is the force still dampened outside the Arc Musea?]

[Kuuki]

((From what i figure the entire dimension is in lack of the force))

[jokemaster]

*Greco sees how Hammerhead downs a glider and starts aiming at the wings. He manages to take one down.*

[Redwing]

((Ack, forgot I needed to reply here. Again.

 

Deac: The original idea was that the Force did not exist in this dimension...since I figured it wouldn't outside the Star Wars universe. Not sure that was an accurate assumption on my part, but either way, Force powers are innaccessible.

 

Think of it this way: Either this universe does not have the Force, or this universe has the Force but in this dimensional plane there is too much magic causing "white noise" to allow beings to connect with/use the Force to do anything special. [This entire plane rests on foundations of magic.] The Force flows through all life, and so does magic, although magic does not come from life; it only grows through it. Magic affects things much more directly than the Force does, including minds.

 

So, no Force powers. And no lightsabers deflecting the bullets. (Actually, they're beams, and lightsabers can't block them anyway. They can certainly be dodged, though.)

 

Just a hint, and this is for everyone, you don't need to be able to use magic to use magic implements...))

 

 

*Rwos looks over at the jailhouse and makes up his mind*

 

Rwos: I'm going after them. Whatever they're up to, it can't be good.

 

*He runs across the square toward the jailhouse, agiley dodging the beams the gliders fire at him*

[Deac]

*Deac fails, and takes several bullets to the chest. His sabers go out, and he falls back, and goes down. Several humans surround him, and menacingly get ready to fire*

 

Deac: *ugger! Hold on a moment boys.

 

*In the back of Deac's brain, an emergency protocal is activated. Deac's bio-electrical energy is transferred to all his systems at once. He springs up, knocking a soldier over, and grabs his weapon, spins, and fires, causing the soldiers to scatter for cover.*

[BattleDog]

*Drago and Flax run to Deac's rescue, carving holes in the soldiers.*

[Kuuki]

*Once inside Vertmor transforms back into his phsyical self, and waits for Kvana to arrive.*

[Deac]

*Deac gradually advances toward his lightsabers, and as he fires, a memory comes to his mind. He remembers being a soldier, before all the events at the facility happened, before all stepped in to change his life.

 

Deac smiles, and begins to fire more*

[Redwing]

Jailhouse

 

*Kvana ends his spell once inside the building. The main room is empty, all the guards having left. Two corridors branch off towards cells. Most of them appear empty. Kvana looks around *

 

Kvana: This way.

 

*He heads down the left corridor. As they pass cells, a couple prisoners notice them*

 

Prisoner: Hey! Where have the guards gone? Wanna give us a hand here? Gonna let us out? We've been, uh, unfairly imprisoned...are you gonna leave us here for the orcs to eat us?

 

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Square

 

*Trael exits the Arc Musea. Gliders fire at him, but the energy is absorbed by his shields*

 

Trael: Best not to dawdle in the middle of a firefight, Mr. Starkiller.

 

*Jets on the suit's feet and under the wings ignite and blaze fire. Trael swoops across the square and catches Deac underneath his shoulders. He lifts him into the air, using his bulky armor to deflect the bullets and magic strikes fired at the two*

[Deac]

Deac: That's a fair trick.

 

*Deac starts shooting the gliders from the air. Hammerhead, meanwhile, has run out of bullets and is now punching his way through the crowd*

[BattleDog]

*Flax and Drago carve a path toward Hammerhead.*

[Kuuki]

*Vertmor looks at a prisoner, for a moment. Then lunges at one bearing his teeth, scaring him.*

 

Vertmor "If we were here to taek pity on the likes if you, we'd give ourselves to those orcs with out struggle."

[Redwing]

Square

 

*Kvana reaches the end of the corridor and finds it blocked by a large iron door. He tries to open it, but it does not budge. An unlock spell fails as well*

 

Kvana: Strange.

 

*He takes a magic book out of his robe and reads*

 

Kvana: "Reveal thyself."

 

*His eyes go blank and glow for about a minute. Then they clear up and he shakes his head*

 

Kvana: Remarkable. This part of the prison seems to be specially designed to hold in a spellcaster...

 

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Square

 

*Rwos runs into the little girl again on his way across the square. She looks very upset and babbles in another language. Rwos' eyes widen at what she says*

 

Rwos: *yelling to the others* All of you, with me!

 

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Arc Musea

 

H'lena: That's it. I can't get to it. I can tell it's there, but it might as well not be.

 

Gargoyle: You thieving strangers are not meant to lay your hands on a holy relic. It senses the evil within you.

 

H'lena: If it's because I'm evil, then why don't you just come up here and take it?

 

*The gargoyle doesn't say anything*

[Deac]

*Deac looks up at Trael*

 

Deac: Better fly that way.

 

*Hammerhead continues punching his way toward Rwos"

 

Hammerhead: Coming, Mr Rwos!

[Kuuki]

Davin "Well I can tell you this, who ever desided to use us, definately didn't mind about who was good and who was bad..."

 

*Davin gives the gargolyes a wiked smile.*

 

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Vertmor "How do you expect to open it?

[Redwing]

((Edit: Uh, Scar, the entire group was picked because they were heroes, Davin's alternate persona notwithstanding.))

 

Jailhouse

 

Kvana: I---

 

*K'Warra's voice unexpectedly interrupts him*

 

K'Warra: Move.

 

*K'Warra stands behind them, a fist ready. With him are Elizabeth and Maria. Elizabeth is half-hiding behind Maria, looking at Kvana and Vertmor fearfully. Maria glares fiercely at the two vampires, eyes burning green*

 

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Square

 

Rwos: The girl says that she saw vampires going into the jail. She says they are going to kill her mother while she is asleep in her cell. She thinks that the Mayor sent them. More likely they are our old friends from Mrear. She also wants to know why our friends are trying to take her great-great-grandfather's family heirloom from his "sleeping-home".

 

*He pauses and looks at the others*

 

Rwos: She's talking about the Arc.