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*Athan nods grimly, unsure of the goddess' intentions. He waits to inform Morrigan of the others*

Athan: Survivors of what, I wonder? This place seems hidden away yet prone to so much strife. Where is your husband, and you say that you are a goddess?

 War Kitten wrote:
*Milo and the Space Wolf both look awkwardly at the robot that has not moved for several hours*
*both are contemplating just continuing walking and looking for the base that they saw earlier*
*for some reason, Milo feels that something, or somebody, important might be nearby*

OOC Let me sleep, dammit

Then let us travel. This world is a hostile one, full of dangerous people, and more anomalies than we have seen in any other place.

OOC:
Sleep is for the weak my friend.

*Milo cracks his neck and stands up*
Alright then. Let's go.

*by this point the Space Wolf has patched the armor on his shoulder after his arm got ripped off*
*looks remarkably cheery for missing a limb*

*Hanna nods to Iris still a little hesitant on speaking*

*She can sorta tell that Horus does a lot of fighting from his scars*

I will move towards the nearest group of sentients. They are-

Belay that. I detect an artificial structure nearby.

*Pause*

The Central Mastercomputer, my controller, requests your origin. Where did you come from, and what is the reason for your amnesia?

*Milo frowns*
I don't really know. I think I can remember a name...... Elysia.... but that's about it. I don't understand WHY I don't remember anything. I just don't remember at all.
*he looks frustrated and angry*
*he clenches one fist at his side and spits an annoyed curse in Low Gothic*

*the Space Wolf looks at the robot*
For what it's worth, I am Hrorki Trollbane of the Space Wolves. When this one
*gestures to Milo*
Showed up near the fang babbling something about this place and another Space Wolf that might be here we decided to come investigate.

There are six planets in this galaxy named "Elysia", and three in our home universe. I will assume that you are not extrauniversal. Continue walking, please. We must get this done quickly. I sense anomalies on my aetheric sensors.

Ooc: I'm sad to see the end of an era. Vanden, I hope that whatever you pour your time into next, you do so with the creativity and planning skills you did here.
I may not be around as often as I'd like, but this place has been a great display of your ability to create.
Come back without reservation, if you feel it would be fun again. <3

*Milo sighs softly*
If we need to get moving quickly then might I suggest running? We'll get there faster and I can get the last of the knots out of my spine that came from being in an uncomfortable flight seat in a crashing shuttle.
*the Space Wolf for his part shows no sign of being offended by the comfort of one of his ship's being insulted*

Suggestion approved. Come along.

*ESCHER turns towards the objective, and runs at reduced pace, so the biologicals can keep up*

*both Milo and the Space Wolf jog after ESCHER, showing no signs of exhaustion or slowing down as they run*
*both are keeping pace with ESCHER pretty well*

*Marla goes with Maria and sits to the side of the main room with Marla reassuring her sister about Marlin*
*Marla gets a strange feeling and plays with her necklace*
*too distracted to work out the source of the feeling and chalks it down to past few weeks *

...

*Marinalia rests sleeping as it feels better when she is relatively peaceful not moving Her neck much*
*has a cute auto feeling to seem to reach for Morgan if close enough. *
...

*Furia is eating for now and then goes back to her room to work out and pace waiting for any news on anything*

...

*After a short travel, the party arrives at an abandoned, wrecked facility, with traces of an abnormal presence nearby*

Ætheric sensors are reading anomalous signatures. Procede with caution.

*Milo trails after the ESCHER, taking care to keep an eye on any possible sites that an ambush could be launched from*
*is a bit unnerved by the facility, but he's hiding it rather well*
Any idea what they could be?

*the Space Wolf is doing something similar to Milo, and is taking in the scents of the facility, looking for anything that stands out to him as a threat*
*has a bolt pistol at the ready*

Ooc night folks.

Well Il be up about 4am so hey I might post in your time zone if I can function at such a emperor forsaken hour of the day.

Anomalies. Most certainly. Beings of questionable biology, obeying the wrong physical laws, or disobeying them completely. Extremely dangerous. They are one of the very few things we use humans against. They tend to affect combat robots adversely with their presence.

I am not a combat robot. I am hardened against such violations of physical law, by the hyperfractor's integration of low-grade anomalous material. Hardened, but not immune. It is not unknown for an ESCHER unit to never return from their mission.

*A repeating maser barrel portrudes from a hidden compartment in ESCHER's forearm, and his (his, for the sake of easy writing) nanophage dispersor is primed*

*Milo goes quiet for a little bit as he contemplates the ESCHER's words*
Do you mean something like a demon? Or is it something worse, something that only comes from your universe?

*the Space Wolf snarls quietly at the mention of demons but remains vigilant*

The Confederacy calls them demons. A religious term, that is not to our liking. You may call them the same. In our universe, they take many forms. Patches of space, that spontaneously coalesce into clusters of black holes whenever a sapient being travels near. Kilometer-long amalgations of conjoined, mutated animals, that emerged from holes in the surface of a moon, destroyed a column of SABRs, and had to be subjected to nuclear bombardment.

When it was dead, the Department Of Anomalies measured how deep the hole was. The bottom was deeper than the planet was wide. It was contained.

They exist in most universes that have been surveyed. Your universe, however, is notable for having some of the most dangerous and odd.

*Milo looks down at the shotgun in his hands and frowns*
*he then looks up and grins widely*
At least this is something I know that I can fight, and something that I KNOW that I can kill.
*he then pumps the shotgun*
Let them come, they will find their final deaths.

*the Space Wolf nods in approval and then fiddles with his bolt pistol for a second as he cocks it one handed*

Agreed. Superior firepower is how we drive back the dark, the enemy, and the unknown.
*Traverses head around and steps forward*
The signature is even closer.

*Milo takes a deep breath and raises the shotgun and begins making slow sweeps around the surrounding area with it*
Any idea of it's size?

*the Space Wolf finally manages to cock the bolt pistol with his remaining good hand and raises it and begins scanning the surrounding area*

*Iris smiles gently and gestures for Horus to go on which he does*
*She kneels down to Hanna's eyelevel*
Iris: Hey, you okay so far?



*Morrigan frowns*
Morrigan: Where've you been? Demons everywhere, the end of the world? We've been trying to see if any of the towns or villages survived the end of the world.
*A shadow appears in the sky and begins to lower itself*
Morrigan: Oh, and there's my husband. Caladrius, the Healer.
*Cal lands gently, revealing himself to be a slightly short man with a long silver ponytail and enormous white feathery wings on his back*
Cal: Morri? Who's this?
*Smiles slightly at Atare*

The size is wildly inconsistent. Unknown properties, in all cases. It exists, but it cannot be accurately observed. I would recommend being very quiet.

*Arms weapons with a quiet hum*

*Milo settles down onto one knee and continues scanning the surrounding area with his shotgun*
*looks remarkably calm*

*The Space Wolf also continues scanning the area with his pistol*

*Hanna looks at Iris*

Hanna: I-I don't know... H-he fights a lot doesn't he?... I d-don't like fighting...

*Iris bites her lip*
Iris: I... Yes. Yes he does do a lot of fighting... But only to protect people...


*Billy and Black Hawk are nearby Milo, the Space Wolf and Mr. Roboto*
Billy: Admit it! We're lost!
BH: We're not lost, I know exactly where we are.
Billy: Oh yeah?! And where's that Mr. Greatest-human-tracker-alive!?

*Jake buries Denny with Oy, as Roland and Eddie watch silently.*
*He then (With the help of Jason) plants a red rose on her grave.*
*After planting he sits at the grave watching it, and memories of Denny fill his mind. Tears silently fall, and he slowly falls to his knees infront of the grave. Oy howls in pained sorrow.*
*In a very literal sense Jake lost a part of himself when Denny died, and the pain of that loss almost breaks his fragile mind.*
*Eddie steps forward to support Jake, but is stopped by Roland, who simply shakes his head.*
*Hours pass, but Jake still continues to watch the grave with his hollow eyes.*
*Eddie walks back into the room, but Roland watches, and can clearly feel his adopted sons sorrow.*
Roland: Go now Denny of Melbourne, your journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path...

---
*Brunor fights hard, but Tigrex, manages to take little damage, cause he has no silver.*
*He finally makes a misstep, and pays for it. The tigrex bites him hard, and thrashes.*
*Though he almost torn in half from the beast, he looks content, and smiles up at the sky before closing his eyes for the last time.

---
*Jasons's shards leave Scatty alone, and run back to their master.*
*Jason watches the giant red army, and plans his next move carefully.*

*ESCHER kneels down beside Milo*

I am detecting two more anomalies. Biological traces, but with anomalous energy patterns. I will fire a nanophage burst as a warning shot. Prepare to engage the primary anomaly.

*With a pressurized "whump", an arc of glittering silver death flies through the air, impacts the ground near Billy and Black Hawk, and begins spreading*

*Billy jumps,*
Billy: HOLY GAK!
*Billy then dives behind a tree and Black Hawk quickly takes cover and looks around*
BH: To whoever's out there, we don't mean you any harm!
Billy: YEAH WELL THEY FETHING SEEM TO FETHING WISH US HARM!
*Billy draws his gun and scans the treeline*


*Even though Calluna is back and unharmed she's nearly comatose from the overrush of emotions following the deaths of Maiev, Denny, Joal and Tala*
*The little empath lies in her father's arms, shuddering from the influx of extreme sorrow, and wonders if she'll ever feel happy again*

*Milo nods briefly then continues scanning*
*he pauses as he hears BIlly's voice, and he cocks his head as the voice seems fairly familiar to him*
*to himself*
Who is that? That voice sounds familiar...

*the Space Wolf is more concerned with the demon than Billy and Black Hawk, so he also keeps an eye out for the demon*