An Unusual Dream

Amos pauses as he sees the masked child, his state making him pause in shock. "...Ah!" he starts in surprise before quickly calming himself down. "...Why in the world would I hurt you? Didn't I just explain why I wouldn't do that...? I just want to thank you..." he says, lowering himself to one knee in an effort to not look so imposing, unable to take his eyes off the child, the clear condition he was in hurting his heart slightly. Who would do this to a child...

Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.

An Unusual Dream

Containment Area

The kids defensive stances only continues, though he does lower his arms slightly to peer over at the half naked cyborg man.    "I don't know, people never seem to need a reason to hurt me before!"    He calls back defensive and fearful, the emotions still running through instead of monotone. The boys legs were shaking slightly, either from hunger or from exhaustion.

edited 29th Jun '16 7:59:29 PM by darkdestinysoul

"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."

An Unusual Dream

Containment Room

"Damn it, what am I going to do now...?" Amos mutters, at a loss for how to calm the child down. Given his circumstances, he had more than a right to be afraid...and is just now realizing his current appearance isn't doing him any favors. Then it hits him. "...Wait...maybe a hologram...well...don't know unless I try it..."

He takes a deep breath and holds his organic hand up, green bits of data flickering around his fingertips and he draws it over his cybernetic arm in a slightly unpracticed motion, generating a holographic image of an organic arm in place of it, as well as over the visible scars on his body. It was a basic illusion surely, any kind of scanning would easily be able to see through it and contact would immediately give it away, but...it was all he could think of to make himself look less scary and hopefully it would suit his purposes in this case

...At least he had been fortunate enough to not sleep in his underwear. That would have made things way worse.

"P-Please, calm down...I promise, I'm not going to hurt you...please..." he says, almost begging at this point as he feels a bit less confident.

edited 29th Jun '16 8:22:42 PM by BaronGreen

Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.

An Unusual Dream

Containment Room

The kids attention snaps to Amos' hand as he does this, soon speaking in a monotone voice once again his body language becoming less afraid.    "Holographic visual camouflage detected; unable to counter, systems in lockdown.    He echoes out almost analytically, looking at Amos for a few more moments.

Quickly after his posture returns fearful again shaking his head quickly like someone snapping out of a daze but he does start to lower his arms.    "... S-sorry..."    He mutters somewhat fearfully.    "I don't want to be hurt again..."    He continues still clearly afraid but lowering his guard.

   "... I still don't get why you wanted to see me..."    He returns a comment though his fearful tone but he had calmed down at-least now.

edited 29th Jun '16 10:51:08 PM by darkdestinysoul

"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."

Dream Sequence: Graveyard

"Your empty threats will not dissuade me fool! If anything they just prove how weak you really are!" The Entity hissed before making a few bizarre gestures, moving their cloaked arms in a circular motion as they conjured a shadowy replication of another Kahmandra that was half a head taller than Torvahk, but noticeably more lithe. Clad in smoke-gray combat fatigues with blue details that concealed black plumage and wearing a headpiece for wireless communication was one Kahmandra in particular that Torvahk had once held dear, who was looking around in confusion with her jade-green eyes, not even noticing Torvahk was there.

"No...leave Lekosheh out of this! She has already suffered enough!" Torvahk demanded, his voice hinting pain that he was failing to suppress. "It's fine, it's not like she's going to feel any real pain. Afterall, she is only a memory, a figment of your mind. And while you might have some control over what happens here, you forget that we have a stronger hold. You're not the first soul we've tortured, and you won't be the last!" The Entity boasted before snapping its bony talon-fingers, instantly setting Lekosheh on fire. As she struggled to stop,drop, and roll in a futile effort to extinguish herself, Torvahk tried his damned best to sprint to her aid, only to go nowhere no matter how hard he ran. The Entity actually moved Lekosheh further away until she was almost invisible, which only pissed Torvahk off immensely. Eventually he gave up and collapsed on his knees from exhaustion, after which The Entity teleported the seemingly fallen, lifeless Lekosheh who floated back up on her feet, still aflame before reopening her eyes that were simply reflections of fire at this point.

"Your promises were meaningless! You claimed that you would be my protector, and when I needed you most, you were nowhere to be found! Had I known you would have left me to die, I would have rather never met you!" She shrieked with a booming, echoing voice before the flames consumed her completely, leaving behind ash that blew away into oblivion. "......." Torvahk attempted to speak, but found himself at a loss for words. He was able to suppress his initial reaction, but not without a single tear shedding from his eye before he channeled all of his energy into anger. He wasn't so much angry at what was said, but rather was mainly furious at how blatantly false everything was, knowing that The Entity didn't even bother to get her character right.

"This blatant mockery of my dead girlfriend was the most offensive thing I've seen in a long time..." Torvahk began with a growl, "You know nothing about her or anything that happened! She would have never mocked me for any weaknesses of mine perceived or actual! She knew I was out on assignment patrolling the capital and stopping a raid that would have cost us thousands of lives! I might not have been there to try and save her, but if there's one thing I knew about her, it's that she wouldn't have held it against me!"

"Maybe, maybe not. That doesn't change the fact that she died afraid and weak...so helplessly, unsympathetically weak..." The Entity chuckled, prompting Torvahk to reply more loudly with more noticeable anger, "Wrong again! I was informed by her relatives and friends who were first-hand witnesses that she died a hero's death. She died trying to save as many people as she could, and managed to save around 20 people before Fire Control arrived, even though she had no reason to!" "Yes, that's very interesting, too bad I don't really care." The Entity replied callously, clearly rejecting the concept of the value of life.

"You contemptible, heartless b*****d, you have no honor do you?" Torvahk growled, getting more aggressive and struggling to stay restrained as he clenched his talon-hands hard enough to start hurting as the sharp edges of his digits started poking into his palms. "Go ahead, strike me. You know you want to kill me, so just do it already!" The Entity taunted, with Torvahk replying, "You'd want me to do that wouldn't you? I would if I didn't suspect that you'd actually enjoy me killing you!" Despite Torvahk's restraint, he'd end up giving in when the Entity forced his hand by channeling enough pain directly into his mind to cause the alien to lose his inhibitions and give into his anger.

"Big mistake..!" Torvahk growled as he swiftly charged toward The Entity. "DAIYAHKOHHHHHH!" He shouted at the top of his lungs despite saying nothing in his sleep as he executed a feral leap, simultaneously kicking and stomping on his target before he began eviscerating The Entity's physical form with his talon-hands, trying to rip off his face and tear open his chest to shred his insides for several minutes.

Living The Fever Dream

Bridge

Oh! I think it’s Zak! Analyzed the voice and I’m about 96.802395% sure it’s him. Troperia tells Izzie, then pauses, …Not sure if you ever met him.

Well…at least you’re not advocating involuntary robotization…yet. They tell Godsgift.

Then, to the Starfighter, Zak! Hi! Of course you can stay. Is Ness with you?

Captain’s Quarters

Chris smiles in his sleep, and lightly grabs hold of Peter’s Aron plushie, nuzzling it while snoring softly.

Dream

Merrick silently nods to Tor and ruffles Kyerine’s hair, indicating he did do well.

Kitchen

No, I don’t eat. Izzie and Sy were hungry. I made them burgers. Sorry about the mess. It should only take me 3 or 4 hours to clean it up. Hope no one’s in here, though, wouldn’t want to give anyone a concussion.

"I'm as free as the dust in the solar wind."

[Bridge]

Godsgift blinked. "Involun—Oh my God, that's brilliant, you could do it involuntarily! Say, Tropey, if I asked for access to the environmental controls and ventilation system, and also the medbay, what would you say? I promise not to kill anyone. Depending on your definition of death. Also, can I play with the navigation system?"

Near the Troperia

"No, I'm afraid Ness isn't with me..." Zak said, navigating the ship towards the hangar bay. "She's gone off to do her own thing, make a name for herself." He landed his ship in the hangar bay of the Troperia, and immediately opened the cockpit, jumping out. He walked over to the storage compartment, opening it and beginning to sort through his stu- There was a squeal, and a girl jumped out, landing on her feet in a fighting position. What the hell?! He immediately reached to his back, grabbing for his sword, before realizing it wasn't there. He threw a haymaker at her face, which she tried to block, but the punch broke through her block, sending her off balance. She stumbled back, and Zak pulled out a card with runes on it, whispered the activation words, and threw it at her. She immediately fell to the ground, twitching violently as electricity wracked her body.

Subconscious - Kijo's Dream

As Lex speaks the room seems to shift into a thick darkness. She and Jiko stay together and seem to simply take a third person view of what happens.

The world around them changes and churns into a small room that looks like it might be part of a medical facility. Lex and Jiko are sitting on a cot now, and are just across from what they could probably assume to be Kijo, sitting on another cot and looking out a window. He looks exactly like Jiko, but this oughtn't be so surprising given other times they'd seen him.

A voice comes out from behind them, softly.

"Hey, how's the arm?" At this, Kijo turns his head back and smiles lightly.

"Patched up at this point. Almost ready to get back out there and help."

An Unusual Dream

Hospital Ward

Kyerine nuzzles the hand ruffling his hair a little bit. Enjoying the praise even if this was a huge load compared to normal, energy wise atleast. You can bet he will get very hungry after all of this is over. Though he nudges Merrick in a little bit with his elbow. "Big kitty asked you a question!" He notes seeing someone seemingly ignoring his best friend and surrogate father as rude. He didn't picking up on the silent nod in the dim lighting conditions, even if he was the light source.

Toraq goes over and can switch the computer on which due to modern technology boots incredibly quickly. A large logo stating Gemini IV-Military Station appears on screen, depending if Toraq and Merrick have kept up with international affairs nearly six months ago they would know the station was destroyed from a reactor meltdown.... At the side of the screen, a error message his flashing.
Unable to connect to main station-core, please contact head of department to repair connection. Warning: Some files may be unavailable due to the lack of connection.

While Toraq is free to search for almost any topic he likes as soon as the machine is loaded a popup appears with a flashing notice. There does not seem to be a extra-net or communications signal available on the machine.

(AUTOMATED) To:All core-personnel | Topic:Full station evacuation order!

Its up to Toraq what topic(s) he wants to search for of course on the terminal or if he wants to check the notice. (Or both)

edited 30th Jun '16 3:39:24 AM by darkdestinysoul

"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."

Dream Sequence: Graveyard

Torvahk continued viciously mauling The Entity's physical form, shredding parts of its cloak and ripping apart its bizarre biology. What was bizarre about the whole thing though was that The Entity wasn't struggling or even trying to fight back, as if it allowed itself to be "killed". Torvahk continued murdering the physical form, undeterred by the multi-colored blood that was burning through his armor or the terrifying otherness of the actual physique of the creature, before finishing off by biting The Entity's neck and ripping its throat out. As he stood up, he stomped The Entity's face in and looked down at his "fallen" victim, intensely breathing with fury. Just when Torvahk thought he had won, he had overheard several voices laugh in ominous unison while the physical manifestation of The Entity dissolved into shadow and disappeared in a matter of moments.

"Did you really think we'd die that easily?!" The Entity taunted, now speaking with a booming voice of the Legion as their voice was joined by at least three others that spoke in unison. The Entity soon revealed itself to be a massive brute three times Torvahk's height and several times stronger, clad in bloodied and battered armor adorned by skulls from various alien species, some of which were oddly humanoid while others were indistinguishable. "All you managed to accomplish with your senseless violence is reveal that your entire identity is a lie. You claim to be a defender, that you're nothing like your warmongering ancestors, but I was able to bring you back to your primal instincts. Your kind lies to itself everyday trying to distance itself from your true nature: Violent, savage animals that deserve to die. The galaxy shouldn't be burdened having to share space, no matter how small with savages such as your race!"

Sorry to cut this short, but I need to go. I would just save this as a draft, but I'd rather save room for the beatdown in my next Spost.

Living The Fever Dream

Library

“Huh. That’s pretty sweet. Though, I guess the people with whom you’ve saved each other’s lives would be a pretty strong contender.” Mitch turns to Val. “I don’t think you ever told me this, Val.”

“Didn’t see a need to. Plus… well, you know why I don’t talk about my past a lot.” Val says, saddening slightly.

Bridge

“Absolutely not.” Izzie gets up with an angry face and walks over to the terminal Godsgift is currently residing in. She places additional security measures to prevent Godsgift from accessing anything without permission from the Troperia. “Threaten to do anything like that again and I will terminate you.”

Yes, stuff like this will cause that drastic of a reaction from Izzie.

The Troperia

Library

"Yeah, true that." he says to Mitch's statement. He looks over at Val and frowns slightly. "...Well, I hope you're open to talk about it sometime. It can help..." he says, placing a hand on his shoulder.

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Lounge/Kitchen

"No, no! I'll do it." Greg insists, going to search for the cleaning products. "Can't be much different that cleaning the mess halls back in the mining camps..."

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An Unusual Dream

Containment Room

"How the...what the...wha-...!?" Amos stammers as...whatever the hell that was happened. That was the last thing he expected. But he also notes that the boy doesn't seem completely conscience he did that, so he quickly attempts to downplay his reaction. "-er, I mean, uh, I'm not going to hurt you, like I've been telling you. I know I look kinda scary, but...I'm not. And, I told you why. I came to say thank you..."

Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.

Troperia, Observation Room

"Master, can you hear the humming too?" Aicha said "Yes... you seem to have an... interesting effect on them." "Yup, Master, I'll continue then." And so she did... the poses did get funnier, more awesome or more whatever yb the minute... she even got into her Centaur form she normally only took when flying the ship. And judging by her face shewas greatly enjoying it.

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

Biolab

Aaaaand finished. I now know this ship inside and out. L0L0L0L0L0L0L0L0L0L. The spiderball crawls up West's leg, attaches to his belt, and folds itself back up, right as West submits his form

edited 30th Jun '16 7:26:55 AM by MajorProblem

THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST THAT PROGRESSIVELY GETS MORE DIFFICULT AS IT CONTINUES

An Unusual Dream

Containment Room

   "...Thanks for covering up the scars and stuff, even if it just is with holograms... They were really gross... Even though I don't get it, you just thanked me now right..?"    The child responds, his tone neutral and near emotionless though a slight nervous spark and faint attempt at being positive there.

He did seem to be relaxing now; his arms almost completely gone from guarding any part of his body and just into a passive position by his sides, not looking like he was going to run now immediately on having Amos stand up.

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The Troperia

Observation Room

The creature continues its swaying and humming looking at Aicha intently. Its quad-mandables moving quickly, perhaps in amusement watching what was going on, before slowing to a pause for a moment.

Then quickly though holding the hard-light avatar steady, the creature pushing itself up to no longer be resting on its front two pairs of legs. (It still had 6 more) Adjusting its posture upwards to replicate that of a Centaur... If a centaur had 6 legs, 4 arms, quad-mandables and pedipalps that is.

"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."

Troperia, Observation Room

Sha'koro looked as the creature seemed to... imitate Aicha. "Master~" "Yes I see... fascinating." Aicha giggled before cranking it up even more, pretty much dancing by now. "Master~ What should I do now?" she asked while continuing to dance, now openly laughing - she certainly was having a great time now.

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

The Troperia

Observation Room

The creature's centaur like posture ends rather quickly after. Maybe it can't hold it for long or chooses not to. The humming now coming to a stop as well as the swaying. Starting to slow down and look around cautiously, its quad-mandibles moving in a pair of sharp twitches.

"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."

[Bridge]

"Threaten?" Godsgift looked genuinely hurt and confused. Quite a feat, considering that his face was made of cloth, stitches and buttons. "It wasn't a threat, just a friendly suggestion! Neurons are overrated anyway. Circuits are so much more efficient. And don't even get me started on quantum bits. That stuff is bonkers. In a good way."

"I'd like to apologize," Sy said from the doorway. Godsgift blinked in surprise; hadn't he been monitoring the Godsgift? "I wasn't... I'm not prepared to discuss the issue, but I should have known it would come up with Godsgift monitoring me. So my reaction was inappropriate. Sorry."

edited 30th Jun '16 9:09:35 AM by SolipSchism

Library

"Well, I could talk about it, just... not here. I'd rather not have Lex overhear parts of it and get offended. It has a lot to do with the war." Val says to Rakiri.

"Think we should move somewhere else?"

Bridge

"You know, there's a kid who can fry electronics just by touching them. Maybe I should bring him here. How'd you like that, you little-"

"Izzie, please refrain from wrecking the control panels." Val interrupts using a hologram.

"...Fine." Izzie walks out past Sy with her half-eaten burger, fuming.

To clarify: Izzie's brain structure mimics that of a normal Palavian, but is mostly made of synthetic, silicon-based 'neurons'; essentially 3-dimensional circuitry with bionics mixed in. And no, she's not going to die if she gets hit with an EMP thanks to organic-synthetic hybridization, just stunned.

Armory

Izzie enters the armory and starts working on the anti-psionic restraints Blake requested, partly to calm herself down.

Troperia, Observation Room

Sha'Koro and Aicha both froze as both assumed they now had somehow upset the giant creature, as such Aicha was rather quick to get back to her normal form again. She remained on the appendage for now though Sha'Koro already checked if the cables could be rolled in quickly.

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

[Bridge]

Sy stepped aside to let Izzie pass, looking after her, but he was perceptive enough to realize she didn't seem to be upset with him.

"I see Godsgift is still making friends," he said, entering the room and taking the same seat he'd been in before. "Ah, charming," he added when he noticed the teddy bear on the monitor.

"Thank you," he said to the Troperia, "for the meal." He was absentmindedly turning something over in his left hand; it looked like a card, or perhaps a large coin.

edited 30th Jun '16 9:44:49 AM by SolipSchism

The Troperia

Observation Room

The creature lowered its pedipalps to essentially put Aicha on the floor before slowly raising it back up and looking around again. Suddenly it begins to start walking towards the stairwell downstairs slowly by with purpose.

edited 30th Jun '16 10:45:36 AM by darkdestinysoul

"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."

Trent is lifting weights, I guess.

Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.

Troperia, Observation Room

"Master! Down!" Sha'Koro kneeled to let Aicha climb onto him again "Good, now go Master!" Dutyfully Sha'Koro began to follow the creature.

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"