Aberrant: Ba'alt - Re: Of Flesh and Future III

Narrator · December 3, 2007

The nova called Refuge jetted toward Smite at near mach speeds, as close as he could come anyhow and still be aware of his surroundings, and does indeed get a little confused in Smites blurred after-images. The pair are engaged in a hyperspeed cat and mouse game in which the mouse seems very close to being caught at any moment. {{Both are acting in hypermovements so this is all done prior to anything else}}.

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The flying juggernaut would have been upon the ex-assassin save for the confusion in grabbing through the after images. Smites speed is nowhere near a match for Refuge but Smite is just fast enough to U-turn and head into his strategically laid claymores and landmines, some no doubt set on remote trigger switches which Smite detonates at precisely the right times for the bombs that don’t have motion sensors. During the chase, Smite lets loose a heavy barrage of blue-white arcing energy bolts that Refuge makes small efforts to dodge; he is more intent on grabbing Smite. At first Smites barrage simply makes a spectacular light show, but then the assassin spots the simple pattern and begins landing 100% of shots fired.

Smites bolts impact with Refuge but barely even make him alter his course, even though the erergy lances rip into his eufibre and etch bloody strips into Refuges skin. The level of damage is not deterring him from his quarry. Then he finds himself simply lost in all the smoke and debris cloud as the explosives go off around him.

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As the explosions rock the arena and Smite regains a few breaths regenerating, he and Refuge spot each other again. They are standing some 100 feet from each other. Refuge’s eufibre is worn but is now for the most part, without a scratch. Spots of blood soaked eufibre are present in several places and some are apparently still oozing but Refuge is living up to his name and remains steadfast and alert. When he finally catches sight of Smite, its only a split second and he jets at Smite again Smite again finds himself in the pattern he was ina few short seconds ago of shooting into the assailing nova. This time however, Refuges eyes are closed and he is simply taking it in. Small chunks of flesh and muscle are ripped from Refuges body in multiple locations and for a moment it seems Smite is going to overwhelm the man by sheer excess.

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The Refuge is upon Smite and in a span of about two heartbeats, Smite is wrapped up in himself. His arms are pressed painfully behind him and his gun is smacked somewhere. Suddenyl Smite simply goes limp and is lifted off the ground and Refuge has placed him under is left arm like an adult would place a toddler, but with both arms pinned. Smites body has gotten the mans blood all over him in the hyperspeed wrestling match, and had even succeeded in making some of the wounds worse via gouging and tearing just before his collapse. Still Refuge stands tall. He seems as if now he is finally noticing he has been damaged after Smite has unleashed energy enough to level a small army. Refuge begins walking, with great effort, toward the other side of the arena where he left Lucinda. The increased Gravity only preventing his flight but Smite being limp in his arms is still carried effortlessly.

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Allisons barriers prevent the debris from hitting some innocents in the area and help prevent most of the venting atmosphere. Rama’s lessed gravity allows some larger chunks land harmlessly like balloons in other areas.

Whisper lets loose her mirage power fully leashed upon Lucinda as Rama is flying to the arena. (Mental powers are fast acting!!) Lucinda squints her eyes and looks around a moment then seems to gain full clarity and again regains her posture in scoping out certain members of the arena and lets yet another burst of shots drop a single target before Rama’s Gravity gives her an obvious surprise.

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Lucinda looks around with some effort. Glimmer behind her collapse into a heap and is struggling to breathe as the gravity overwhelms her and Lucinda steps, with some effort to straddle her as she locks gazes with the incoming Rama. She barely has time for one shot before Rama lands.

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Lucindas shot beams right at Rama head, the third eye in fact. A slight look of shock might bee seen on some eyes in the crowd still watching as the bolt simply fades into nothing before it impacts the giant multi-armed defender. Rama is then upon Lucinda and in all his fury. Still she turns, dodges, and evades nearly everything he sends at her. She herself, with a knife from nowhere, has managed to leaves small lingering bloody trails here and there on Rama. The giant although graceful and elegant in appearance, seems clumsy next to Lucinda, who now seems unaffected by the gravity but for some reason has not shot Rama.

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A lightly armored man from the audience has launched some shots with a rifle at Lucinda. He has ducked down behind a small wall and is talking on a headset. Apparently some forward guard or some sort of the Station.

Another man, from the other side of the arena, has leapt into the arena. His dark grey cloak spreads out and he glides lithely to the floor near Refuge. As Refuge took a few more steps with Smite the cloaked man appears to threaten Refuge with a rifle to stop and put the Baron down. Refuge of course resists and with his free arms, shoots a red bolt of heat energy at the cloaked man, who nimbly, but barely dodges and takes cover.

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Random people through out the crowd, but now numbering in the hundreds, collapse for no reason. This is causing a general panic and the hysteria of the crowd is reaching a high. Screams and shouts are everywhere and the crowd is in some places, turning upon itself.

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<span style="color:#ff0000">Combat State</span>

<span style="color:#ff0000">Rama and Lucinda are in hand to hand with Lucinda ‘apparently’ on the inning side. However, the scrapes and cuts on Rama are no more, all added together, than 1 dot of bashing damage.</span>

<span style="color:#ff0000"> </span>

<span style="color:#ff0000">Smite is unconscious, but not from Lucinda. Her honr in this forum is lost. Refuge is holding him and heading toward where he last saw Lucinda, but is still some 200 feet away.</span>

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<span style="color:#f4a460"><span style="color:#ff0000">Whisper, Allison, and Joe (Chronos) are sitting in the same section. Glean has resumed breathing at Allisons bidding but shows no sign of coherence.</span> </span>

Dr. Chronos · December 3, 2007

Joe frowns at these developments and decides to take a more active hand. He might as well keep Hypertime up on Smite, he'll be needing it in a few moments. The bulk of Lucinda's power doesn't appear to be perm, which implied durations, which implied something that could be "fixed". Refuge was looking just too tough to deal with now, obviously he was something that would have to be dealt with "later". Just in case someone tracked something back to himself he'd better bring up his defenses first. Given who he was dealing with, these would all have to be best efforts, but luckily his best was pretty good.

OOC: Pay 3 to keep Q-Scan up for the scene, Activate Enhanced Movement for the scene, bring up defenses as well (Temporal Wall, Shield). Duration Reduction on Lucinda (targeting Quick or however she's getting these extra actions and mobility), then Time Stop on Refuge (but not Smite). If the Time Stop works, do a Healing on Smite (yes, from a range). If anyone throws anything at Joe he will attempt to dodge.

OOC: In general Joe will attempt to stay out of personal combat and keep himself available as a force multiplier (or divisor).

Renata Hodges · December 5, 2007

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Joe frowns at these developments and decides to take a more active hand. He might as well keep Hypertime up on Smite, he'll be needing it in a few moments. The bulk of Lucinda's power doesn't appear to be perm, which implied durations, which implied something that could be "fixed". Refuge was looking just too tough to deal with now, obviously he was something that would have to be dealt with "later". Just in case someone tracked something back to himself he'd better bring up his defenses first. Given who he was dealing with, these would all have to be best efforts, but luckily his best was pretty good.

OOC: Pay 3 to keep Q-Scan up for the scene, Activate Enhanced Movement for the scene, bring up defenses as well (Temporal Wall, Shield). Duration Reduction on Lucinda (targeting Quick or however she's getting these extra actions and mobility), then Time Stop on Refuge (but not Smite). If the Time Stop works, do a Healing on Smite (yes, from a range). If anyone throws anything at Joe he will attempt to dodge.

OOC: In general Joe will attempt to stay out of personal combat and keep himself available as a force multiplier (or divisor).

Whisper grits her teeth, her brow furrowing with effort...and suddenly smirks. "Gotcha...wha...DAMNIT!" She shakes her head. "That bitch behind her is a telepath! She's protecting her mind. I could try to take her on, but I wouldn't be doing anything else anytime soon. She's strong!"

"Genine," Allison says quietly, recognizing her. "I'll see if I can do anything. Stay on guard to see if you can stop anyone coming after us directly."

Then she closes her eyes.

Whisper rolls hers. "Great. Take a nap."

"Hit Lucinda again the second you see Genine's concentration fail," Allison admonishes, and the violet-haired woman grudgingly nods and watches the spectacle.

But far from asleep, Allison is more awake than ever...exploring the full range of senses available to her. Senses that measure not light, but vitality and the strange quasi-energy of lifeforce itself. All life is connected in a webwork of mutual give and take, of dependencies and shared essence. Now Allison turns her full attention to that webwork; to one tiny splash of life among millions of quadrillions...

A speck named Refuge.

Why not save Smite and release Genine's protection with one try? It was worth a try.

She'd never tried to do this before, but saw no reason why it wouldn't work. It wasn't telepathy. It was a brute thing of chemistry and biology...no subtle mental influences. The body's functions were life processes, governed not by the mind but by unthinking, unconscious reactions in the nervous system and associated organs. The lightest touch...here...and nerves fired. There, and a patch of skin felt cold even in the heat. Dimly, Allison is aware that there are other things...terrible things. Hearts can be stopped, kidneys and livers reprogrammed to inject toxins INTO the blood. An endless number of ways to die, ways to kill...each more horrifying than the last.

Now she acts in earnest, attempting to pluck the strings of Refuge's body as if it was some kind of bizarre marionette...to drop Smite and charge Genine, trying to keep her from focusing...knocking her out if possible...and if she has enough control over Refuge to make it work.

Rama · December 7, 2007

Rama whirls around the arena, a god given form as his feet lead in a dance of destruction. Lucinda however seems undeterred, her nimble form easily dodging each of Rama's mountain shattering blows. Though a few of her own strike true it is not enough to slow the juggernaut in his movements. At least her attention is taken with him, allowing the innocent more time to flee to safety.

While the fury of battle rages around him, inside Rama is calm, at the center of the Singularity. He is pondering what his next move will be when a voice, foreign, breaks through his thoughts.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><span style="color:#0000FF">*Forgive me for this. You must stop acting as the assailant and defend. Respond only to Lucindas attacks. She will break soon. She has to for all our sakes. When she does, your powers will come down in full upon her.*

*She can only be harmed by your defensive moves.*</span></div>

<span style="color:#4169E1">*Whisper? Allison?*</span>

The "voice" had no distinguishing factors, he knew only that it did not emanate from his own consciousness.

He sends out a message to the team.

<span style="color:#4169E1">*Whatever you have planned, now would be a good time...*</span>

In deference to the mental warnings, Rama changes up his tactics. Spinning his Trident into a defensive blur he moves to counter Lucinda's barrage as she seeks in vain to find an opening in his impervious gravitational force field.

{{Rama goes full defensive for the next turn, using all his limbs for blocking.}}

Narrator · December 7, 2007

The crowds outside the arena in the Halls of Starhaven are literally enraged with panic. They are forming mini factions of frustration and ganging up on each other in wanton and mostly uncontrolled violence. Many are falling outside in comparison to the raw power and violence being displayed in the arena. Still there remain over 50% full crowd in the arena; its taking a time to evacuate. The panic and violence among the crowds is only now beginning to spill into the arena area.

Wading through the crowds to seek the first squad of guards taken by the emotional overloading, Kara finds herself nearly overwhelmed by the sheer number of wounded. A glance at someone was enough in most cases for her to remove the emotional overloading and help reinforce the victims will, but she could not afford to give all the attention she wanted to the fallen. Not yet. Once the first guards were healed and stabilized, they too could help maintain control and calm to the crowds as the second, more prepared line of security came to the aid.

The guards and security of StarHaven are prepared for anything but their readiness make this job none the easier. They were trying to get into the arena and into the surrounding halls to find the source of the emotional intensification. The sensors of the station were notifying the guards of the varying levels of power being used and classifying them into priorities. Top priority was stopping the emotional manipulation followed by stopping the attacker who somehow broke the matrix of the arena. Artificial intelligence and a form of nanites were already busy repairing the damage to the hull and the players would notice a decrease in the atmospheric venting. For now the station was safe from destruction as the guard made its way to the arena.

Asche was just recovering from the initial assault from primal energy feedback. The return of energy into his pattern was akin to having a supercharged amount of adrenaline injected into his body. Initially it was too much and he simply collapsed. Now, a couple minutes later he was finding his focus and was intensely disturbed at what his senses were telling him. Most of all he was bitter at the betrayal he was witnessing in the arena. His mind recalled many talks with a dear friend about Lucinda and his heart was now filled with regret. IN spite of the haunting 'I-told-you-so's' in his mind, Asche drifted focus for only a brief moment and then he focused on immediate concern; one of the fifteen Incarnates was being used in a very creative way. StarHaven was under attack.

Asche flashes out of sight and stands before some long deactivated computer panel. He depressed a switch and it lit up. Then a rapid sequence of key presses and dials turned bring up a holographic view of StarHaven. It was much worse than he had imagined but exactly as he would have done. There was damage done to multiple levels of StarHavens reality; Hull, displacement matrix, sensor matrix, and life support. The station itself was regenerating most of it but the cause was not being addressed yet. A simple recalibration was all that was needed to get the station in line for a proper defense but it was a calibration that StarHaven and its creators had not anticipated. The energy which Nova's harnessed was not a part of the original speculation in the creation and architecture of this station and was only recently discussed.

In the immediate arena a small war was being waged. Lucinda and her gang had successfully set up a sort of coup against the reality of StarHaven. Team 405 (Allison and friends) were however doing a fair shake at setting this plan back, but not without losses.

Joe (Crumble) was set out bound and determined to use temporal energy to aid his allies. Lucinda was busy weaving, dodging and slashing in the melee with Rama but Chronos now sought to disrupt her advantage and to disable her 'tank' in the Nova called Refuge.

Refuge suddenly froze in his spot and Smite wriggled out from his frozen and nearly unbreakable grip. The recently fallen assassin had seen better days but was now aware and semi coherent of his surroundings but it would be a few moments before he was fully mobile again. Smite stared taken aback at the now invulnerable and frozen in time giant that had delivered so much trouble only moment ago. Refuge was still looking like he had just passed through a garbage disposal but somehow still possessed the apparent indestructible façade.

Lucinda somehow is able to separate herself for a brief instant, seemingly improbable, and launch a single shot at Joe. The Timelord evades the slowed 'energized-projectile' and dives to the floor out of line of sight as the fatal bolt passes less than an inch from his temple. The nimble minx then gives her attention to Rama. At the last moment however, Joe notices Allisons pattern weave into and around that of Refuge and removes the temporal anomaly from him.

As Smite lies regenerating and gaining his wits, the giant standing near him suddenly lunges up and away toward Genine. In a flash there is an impact that sends out concussive waves that shatter concrete and sends spectators flying. The giant at full tilt flies at Genine with all his might, determined to crush. He collides feet away from her into a wall of force erected force of will. An area 10 feet in diameter is the only area of undisturbed seats. The rest are stripped free with the concussive force wave as Refuge ricochets into the roof and then falls limp into the upper levels of the stands.

Rama, with a new plan with Lucinda, begins to slowly alter his stance and momentum and gives the advantage to Lucinda. At first, this allows her to land more serious cuts to non-vitals, but only one or two in number. Rama's trident fending off the vital slashes intended on killing him. She too shifts her posture and steps off the offense. She weaves and ducks in feints but eventually steps back just out of reach of Rama. She sheathes her knifes in a motion so fast its impossible to know where they went on her person.

<span style="color:#0000ff">"You need to step back. This is above and beyond you."</span>

Lucinda speaks calmly and very confidently to Rama but it's apparent she is aware of more than just her immediate surroundings. No threats or condemnations, just simple overconfidence.

<span style="color:#ff8c00">{{I know this is a lot to absorb…</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">As of this moment, combat is at a lull. Genine is intent and focused on Lucindas actions. Lucinda is temporarily not shooting anyone and 'engaged' in melee with Rama.</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Smite is going to be ready, at the end of this 'turn' to declare an action. As I am writing a few combat turns at a time, Smite, please declare your intent this turn.</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Chronos, your blatantly external temporal powers are being limited to internal only. Temporal powers are top priority to the station on its Dampen list and in short, you are limited to "self" only or touch range. Mastery levels allow you the latter range. You are uncertain at this point if your 'duration' modifier has worked on Lucinda.</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Glimmer is lying collapsed on the arena floor. Impulse is out in the corwds somewhere, and the fifth member of Lucinda's team is missing.</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Allison, you were partially successful in control of Refuge. In such that you ignited him and he basically went mad for an instant. Refuge is now out of it for a few turns.</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Rama, you are at an impasse. Lucinda seems aware of her vulnerability and is not eager to exploit it. She might have to be goaded. You do however have quite an audience, Shiva returned is a menacing image for many to witness in the audience.</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">DECLARE YOUR INTENTS AGAIN, COVERING TWO TO THREE TURNS OR MORE. As you see I am making the combat posts cover 30 seconds or more, please give me fuel for thought. You are all doing awesome so far. Be as descriptive as desired.</span>

<span style="color:#ff8c00">You might discuss this OOC to coordinate your posts and actions so as to not contradict each other.}}</span>

Dr. Chronos · December 7, 2007

<strike>Doc</strike> Joe feels Refuge halt and just for a moment things were going really well. Then Cin figured out where he was and counter attacked (as expected), and while it was harder than expected to step asside he still managed. Then the station dampeners come on line against him.

Joe says out loud, mostly to Allison and Whisper but also to himself,

<span style="color:blue">"Darn it. Station dampers are trying to shut me down. They just freed Refuge. I'm not sure whether Cin was able to put her powers back up or not."</span> Lacking ranged options Joe stays under cover and away from Cin's view, and briefly checks Allison and Whisper to see whether or not they're still blessed with Hypertime.

Joe says, <span style="color:blue">"Let's just see if I can't slip free from them."</span>

OOC: Joe attempts to summon Temporal Fog, which might or might not confuse the sensors as too his location. Regardless of whether or not that works he then attempts to summon (i.e. create) Doctor Chronos (i.e. a temporal clone). Then he'll look over Glean and see if he can't help him while "Doc" moves off (perhaps drawing Cin's fire) to see what happened to Refuge (if he reaches him and he's going to recover, he'll do something about it).

Narrator · December 7, 2007

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<strike>Doc</strike> Joe feels Refuge halt and just for a moment things were going really well. Then Cin figured out where he was and counter attacked (as expected), and while it was harder than expected to step asside he still managed. Then the station dampeners come on line against him.

Joe says out loud, mostly to Allison and Whisper but also to himself,

<span style="color:blue">"Darn it. Station dampers are trying to shut me down. They just freed Refuge. I'm not sure whether Cin was able to put her powers back up or not."</span> Lacking ranged options Joe stays under cover and away from Cin's view, and briefly checks Allison and Whisper to see whether or not they're still blessed with Hypertime.

Joe says, <span style="color:blue">"Let's just see if I can't slip free from them."</span>

OOC: Joe attempts to summon Temporal Fog, which might or might not confuse the sensors as too his location. Regardless of whether or not that works he then attempts to summon (i.e. create) Doctor Chronos (i.e. a temporal clone). Then he'll look over Glean and see if he can't help him while "Doc" moves off (perhaps drawing Cin's fire) to see what happened to Refuge (if he reaches him and he's going to recover, he'll do something about it).

Refuge is a good distance on the near opposite side of the arena and up a few levels in the stadium. He is out of sight. It Refuges attempt at smashing Genine that hurt him so much; he collided with a field of sorts around Genine and rebounded off into the stadium.

Narrator · December 7, 2007

Narrative Update..........<u></u>

Also, forgot to mention...

Tonya is now returned to the edge of the arena on the lower level opposite Lucinda and Rama. Standing near her is Reaa and the three men who were guarding her apartments. All have light-laen weapons drawn. They are beginning to take a defensive position about the half perimeter of the arena.

Kara is just outside the arena, but busy with healing and conditioning the security of which some are begining to enter into the main arena. The security is armed with ranged weapons; rifles, pistols, energy lances, and are about 6 in number. The security looks to be taking an offensive posture to Snipe the assailants down, namely to kill Lucinda.

Rama · December 7, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><span style="color:#0000FF">"You need to step back. This is above and beyond you."</span>

Lucinda speaks calmly and very confidently to Rama but it's apparent she is aware of more than just her immediate surroundings. No threats or condemnations, just simple overconfidence.</div>

Rama continues his dance around her, his feet touching nothing but air and moving faster than a baseline could follow. He knew Lucinda culd see him quite well however and so he returned her smirk with a knowing one of his own.

<span style="color:#4169E1">"I don't have to defeat you,"</span> he replies. <span style="color:#4169E1"> "I only have to keep you here a few moments longer..."</span>

Rama continues to power his gravity wells, though he drops the ones that were affecting Refuge and Smite to pour more on Cin. He attempts to keep her distracted, either goading her with conversation or moving to block her path without actually touching her. If she moves to attack him or shoot anyone else he intervenes with blocks or parries.

{{BTW Narrator...how is that Q-leech working out? Has it drained any power from the mysterious quantum artifact that seems to be boosting her abilities???}}

Dr. Chronos · December 7, 2007

Joe says to anyone who can hear him,

<span style="color:blue">"This right now is the crisis point. Everything is in flux."</span>

Renata Hodges · December 9, 2007

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Joe says to anyone who can hear him,

<span style="color:blue">"This right now is the crisis point. Everything is in flux."</span>

"Damnit!" Allison swears as Refuge bounces. "I should have known that would be too easy."

Whisper shakes her head. "It's no good, she's still shielding the crazy gun lady."

Then Allison realizes. It was Lucinda that had the Incarnate. She was the important one. Not Genine. Whatever they were trying to do, it revolved around Lucinda.

"Whisper, attack her mind again. Lucinda's."

"I already tried that! With everything I had!"

The redhead shakes her head. "I know! Do it again!"

No time to explain...you'll just be distracting Genine, so she can't try to stop me...

Maybe the telepath saw the look in Allison's eye...or maybe she picked up a whiff of that thought, but for whatever reason, Whisper hesitated, then nodded.

"Now!"

Whisper lashed out again at Lucinda's mind, this time expecting the interfering presence of Genine. Instead of trying to take control of Cin immediately, this time she focused on the other interloper...battling for access to the super-nova's mind!

At the same time, Allison reached out again through the lifeweb, plucking not at Lucinda's mind...not even at her nerves where an alert telepath might see her interference. No, she sent messages to Lucinda's quantum-enhanced immune system and regenerative capacities. Trying to fight it would probably not get her far, but fighting Lucinda's body wasn't what Allison had in mind.

She wanted to help it.

Lucinda's body had been invaded. There was a foreign element inside it. Her brain knew what it was, what it was doing, and wanted it there...but her BODY was reacting with the unthinking fury of millions of years of evolution. Antibodies, killer cells, tissue regeneration...an arsenal of quantum-enhanced powers aching to destroy the intruder, evict it, expel it, and seal the wound after it. Allison wasn't sure what was holding that back...but she was sure she could make it harder.

A lot harder.

Under her influence, Lucinda's body reacts ever more violently to the presence of the Incarnate implanted inside her...attempting to do what nature demands, in defiance of Lucinda's will.

(Biocoercion again, hoping to get Cin's body to reject the Incarnate and strip her of its protections and boosts...)

z-Kara · December 9, 2007

Kara was just outside of the Arena when the mass hysteria broke loose. She was rushing to the Coliseum once she heard that Smite was involved in a match. She was feeling a bit guilty for being late to see Smite’s match. She was hoping that she could slip in and at least see the end. As she approached she could see massive wave of people rushing out of the Arena. The masses were in fox frenzy trampling anyone who stood in their path. The guards tried to control the exodus and restore them to order but that just made them an obstacle that needed to be removed. But something was different about the Exodus. The masses were in chaos fighting each other. The guards were the first target. Then many of the less fortunate creatures that were begging outside of the arena were the next. For a brief nana second, Kara paused to see the spectacle. It had been a long time since Kara saw this much chaos. Star Haven’s security measures were supposed to stop even mental attacks like this on the masses. Something was terribly wrong. She immediately boosts her mental defenses and looks to help the innocent. She focused on first establishing order by helping the guard recover first. She then hurried to everyone in her path. She was happy to see some of her brethren helping the masses regain their composure and healing them to levels that were not life threatening.

As she was healing the masses, Kara tried to contact Doc and Rama mentally, “Are you guys ok?”

Rama · December 9, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>â€œAre you guys ok?â€</div>

<span style="color:#4169E1">*I am at a sort of stalemate here actually. Someone, likely Genine, instructed me that only my defensive moves could harm Cin, and that I must stop attacking. Judging from Cin's reaction, the information would appear to be correct. So...does that mean Genine is working for us or against us?*</span>

Dr. Chronos · December 10, 2007

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As she was healing the masses, Kara tried to contact Doc and Rama mentally, “Are you guys ok?”

Joe answers back (both verbally and mentally),

<span style="color:blue">"Kara, Cin has an incarnate and is trying to destroy Starhaven. The Station has shut down most of my abilities and I'm still working on fixing that. Other than that we're just peachy."</span>

z-Kara · December 10, 2007

One of Kara's compartmentalized minds gasps at the revelation that Cin has been imbued with an incarnate. The rest of her is continuing to heal the masses.

Mentally she tells Rama and Doc, "The information is correct. By the description of her tactics, she probably has townsaver. She will absorb all attacks until the battle is over. Then she will regenerate or die from the results of all the attacks. It looks like she and her team may be on a one way mission. My suggestion to you all is to take out the source that is causing the mass panic."

"Another thing, Cin is pretty resilient to mental attacks. I would highly suggest that you stay out of her head. Her file lists her mental defenses as extremely painful to deadly."

Rama · December 11, 2007

<span style="color:#4169E1">*Understood. You should pass that along to Whisper and Allison. I believe they may be going for her mind. In the meantime, how do I disable her empathic manipulations? Is there a way to seperate her from the Incarnate?*</span>

Dr. Chronos · December 11, 2007

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One of Kara's compartmentalized minds gasps at the revelation that Cin has been imbued with an incarnate. The rest of her is continuing to heal the masses.
Mentally she tells Rama and Doc, "The information is correct. By the description of her tactics, she probably has townsaver. She will absorb all attacks until the battle is over. Then she will regenerate or die from the results of all the attacks. It looks like she and her team may be on a one way mission. My suggestion to you all is to take out the source that is causing the mass panic."

"Another thing, Cin is pretty resilient to mental attacks. I would highly suggest that you stay out of her head. Her file lists her mental defenses as extremely painful to deadly."

Joe repeats everything Kara said out loud to Whisper and Allison. Then he adds the comment (again, mentally and physically)

<span style="color:blue">"Odd using Townsaver to endanger innocents. We might be able to use that against her."</span>

z-Kara · December 11, 2007

To Rama: <span style="color:#0000FF">*You would need to know the incarnates True Name to seperate it from Cin. The other way is to kill Cin.*

*Whisper And Allison, this is Kara. Be careful in doing mental attacks on Cin. The Company records have her mental defenses listed as extremely painful to deadly when she is attacked mentally."[color:"#0000FF"]</span>

Dr. Chronos · December 11, 2007

Some pieces to the larger puzzle fall into place for Doc. They've always lurked in the shadows to avoid direct conflict with the ban and big-bad. That had worked and worked well. Yet Allison claimed they'd be taking out the incarnates soon, and taking out the incarnates was also the same thing as going public. Of course, if they were already public, if for example Doc were already publically known as a time lord, then there'd be no reason not to bring them out.

To Kara: <span style="color:red">*Kara, can you ask who ever is in charge of the station to turn off the temporal dampeners? I haven't sensed any other temporal manipulators here so they're only shutting down their allies.*</span>

Narrator · December 11, 2007

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Some pieces to the larger puzzle fall into place for Doc. They've always lurked in the shadows to avoid direct conflict with the ban and big-bad. That had worked and worked well. Yet Allison claimed they'd be taking out the incarnates soon, and taking out the incarnates was also the same thing as going public. Of course, if they were already public, if for example Doc were already publically known as a time lord, then there'd be no reason not to bring them out.

To Kara: <span style="color:red">*Kara, can you ask who ever is in charge of the station to turn off the temporal dampeners? I haven't sensed any other temporal manipulators here so they're only shutting down their allies.*</span>

Asche had been resetting basic sensors and recalibrating StarHavens desynched danger detection grid. Many years ago he (in another form) and the Lords of StarHaven had set things up to ward against energy patterens akin to Ba'laan and the Pultytes. Simultaneously he had set up the grid to all but neutralize the patterns of the future Nova's of Sol. It was working almost as he had planned but back then he did not ahve any Nova's to calibrate to. Now was the perfect opportunity.

He had been 'listening in' on the team and was nearly ready to set things up and give a boon to his team.
<span style="color:#0000ff">*Doc, Allison, Rama, Smite, Whisper, Kara..*
</span><span style="color:#000000">Asches mental tell comes through crystal clear.
</span><span style="color:#0000ff">*Currently I am in position to work with your patterns, but it will take a little more time to deactivate ONLY one part of the dampeners. I can set it to non-dampening all Nova's at this time but it would mean amplified effects for all nova's in the station. Thats too big a gamble.*
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Narrative update.
The telepathy comes really fast and can be resolved in such short periods of time so this banter is going on and can be replied to prior to my next narrative update or resolution phase.
Dont change your intents as this convo is happening realtime.

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Kara is outside the arena a good distance and cannot be in the arena via anything save for an outright sprint and even then is 2-3 turns away.
Rama is just now feigning and dancing with Lucinda trying to get her to slip.
Smite is able to react at the end of this turn, after he gets up. He will be healed over 75%.
Joe, Allison, and Whisper are within 10 feet of each other. Allison is currently in a few second long concentration.
Refuge is out of LOS from anyone after his meteor-like crash into a forcefield and the bounce off nearby stands,
Lucinda is simply standing above Glimmer, straddling over her fallen friend.
Genine is now standing at her seat.
Tonya and Reaa are with their other three light wielder soldiers and are beginning a flanking maneuvar in conjunction with the arriving guards of Starhaven. The guards seem more intent on bringing Lucinda down and have fired into the now calmed melee of Rama and Lucinda. The firing guard is nearly instantaneously shot down with a cranial evisceration from an effortless combo dodge-shoot from Lucinda. The action happens so fast Rama is nearly incapable of seeing it.</span>

z-Kara · December 11, 2007

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Some pieces to the larger puzzle fall into place for Doc. They've always lurked in the shadows to avoid direct conflict with the ban and big-bad. That had worked and worked well. Yet Allison claimed they'd be taking out the incarnates soon, and taking out the incarnates was also the same thing as going public. Of course, if they were already public, if for example Doc were already publically known as a time lord, then there'd be no reason not to bring them out.

To Kara: <span style="color:red">*Kara, can you ask who ever is in charge of the station to turn off the temporal dampeners? I haven't sensed any other temporal manipulators here so they're only shutting down their allies.*</span>

*Doc, I guess he heard you. Until Asche gives us the ok to use our full powers, how about you making your way to my location and help me with the wounded? The guards are really not going to have a chance defeating Cin in a fight as long as the incarnate is activated*

Dr. Chronos · December 11, 2007

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<span style="color:#0000ff">*Currently I am in position to work with your patterns, but it will take a little more time to deactivate ONLY one part of the dampeners. I can set it to non-dampening all Nova's at this time but it would mean amplified effects for all nova's in the station. Thats too big a gamble.*</span>

Doc (actually Joe) sends back) <span style="color:red">*I agree.*</span>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Narrative update.
Dont change your intents as this convo is happening realtime.

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Refuge is out of LOS from anyone after his meteor-like crash into a forcefield and the bounce off nearby stands</span></div>(OOC: And a clone of Doc's has gone looking for him).

Rama · December 12, 2007

Now that Glimmer and Refuge were down for the moment, Rama removs the focus he had been using on holding them down. He focuses all his power onto Lucinda, warping gravity in a hundred different directions, creating whorls and eddys in flow of spacetime. Perhaps that would make it difficult for her to murder more people.

{{Power Max Gravity control. If successful he will pour as many quantum points as he can into the effect, also making more room for his leech to keep draining quantum from the incarnate.}}

Smite · December 13, 2007

Smite will be rising from the ground and dusting himself off as he tracks the fight and how it is progressing. He is slowly healing the damage, while he was not entirely repair he had become functional. He could feel the slight boost from the temporal effects, though it was more subdued that usual. He knew that things were going ill and he needed to do something.

He watched as she took the guard apart. He had heard they were being supressed, so he took aim and waited. As soon he was sure of his shot, he would take it and hope the force would be enough to disable or simply disarm her.

{Power Max Quantum Bolt, Accuracy, Targetting the gun}

Narrator · December 18, 2007

StarHaven

16:45hours

Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Participants: Allison, Smite, Crumble, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.</span>

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Rama's gravity scattering field intensifies around the immediate area around he and Lucinda and debris from the ground begins to randomly shoot up or drag across the ground. A sort of cloud begins to form made of dust and debris.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Lucinda rubs her right hip below her abdomen a moment and then quickly glances Allisons direction. Her hand raises, this time her movement is discernable but still before any can act, yet she does not fire. Her arm remains lazily pointing in the precogs direction.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Then two of the guards, in getting an opportunity, fire at Lucinda from one side of the arena. Their attacks are avoided by a simply head movement of Lucinda and quick as ever, she returns a pair of shot in their direction. Instead of instant killing blows, one guard is actually missed, barely dodging an eye shot. The second guard is hit in the upper left shoulder and falls to the ground wounded, his armor is destroyed in that region and he is quickly sought after by other members of security.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Lucinda looks around, with a partial squint in her eyes, still acting on defense and not giving anyone an opportunity to get in a mercy shot. She steps away from Glimmer and seems to falter a second but Rama still does not take a chance, not yet. The remaining crowd, still several thousand in number, is glued to the scene below even though many have placed items in front of them for defense, shields, energy barriers, jackets, but they still peek over to watch the returned Shiva-like being defend the sanctity of the Raeke and the powered terran Baron Thomas of York.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">"This might not go entirely the way I planned this, Rama Sri Shivananda, but you have to sleep sometime."

</span></span>Lucinda states bluntly amid her feined dodges and weaves.

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">In a blur, the small item Lucinda has been holding in her left hand is brought up to her chest and she brings her pistol to bear at Rama's chest but she does not fire. The quantum signatures in her fluctuate a moment and Smite gets his opportunity he has been waiting for during the last few seconds. The Six armed warrior stands ready to dodge her point blank shot but it never comes. Her body and her pattern fade a moment to near nothingness and then return, but still flicker. In spite of her rapid disappearance and reappearance, Smite manages to time his shot and her main pistol is shot away from her hand than lands unharmed some several yards away. She glances over at Smite and as fast as always, she tries for a backup sidearm and lethal quick shot, but aimed at Rama. Her quick draw is undetectably fast as usual but her shot does not fire true this time and Rama is only heavily wounded in his lower side right arm, but as the arm goes limp with muscle and bone blown away Rama gets his opportunity.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">The gravity begins to take hold on her and he swings and stabs madly at Lucinda. Again, she dodges nearly everything she has but then collapses to the ground, only slightly wounded from Rama's onslaught. Leaning on one arm she beings to say something and then blinks out permanently. The only remains of her are her pistol and some residual blood on the sand of the arena. The crowd stands and begins to clap madly. Their shouts and whistles go on and the Raeke master returns to his stand atop the north end of the arena. He too is clapping.</span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Amid all the celebration, Genine simply turns around and walks into the still panicking crowds. She is opposite the side of any of the team including Kara and she is lost in the crowds. Glimmer begins to breathe somewhat normally.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Chronos finds where Refuge impacted; he is helped by some witnesses of his crash but they confirm he started blinking in and out of existence like Lucinda did until he simply vanished. </span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="color:#0000ff">*She used a navigator snap disc to leave the station. I tried to dampen it, but as you see, it was not successful. Lucinda and Refuge have as forcefully left as they came. I am trying to track them now*</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Asche tells through a temporary rapport to the team.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="color:#0000ff">*Genine is still here, or at least I have not detected hers or Impulse' pattern leaving the station yet but the station is not giving her location up.*</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">In a matter of a couple of minutes, the harmed innocents are taken care of. Between Kara and the arriving medical personnel they remedy the maddened and hurt. Also, interviews with the crowd in the area where Genine and Impulse left the area show no clues. No one saw anyone remotely resembling them. Whisper is able to peruse their brains and see some rather good telepathic scarring where memory editing was done. Nothing else.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"></span></span>Glean now has a pattern, and radiates a life sign, but is dormed and shows no sign of waking at this moment.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">

<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Combat is over. Post as you would, but I know some of you might have some INTENTIONS to state, please post them as such and I will resolve them.</span>

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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Note the time is 15 minutes later. I have not yet furnished the narrative for it, but after the clapping and shouting dulls, the master of the raeke will announce Baron the victor and ask for the name of his six-armed savior. He is not assuming the two are together but still calls Rama such, even though the murmurs of the crowd are saying Shiva(?) has returned. {{I cant recall if it was Shiva or Vishnu that Rama mostly resembled.}} So if you all dont have immediate intentions, assume it to be 15 minutes later and the arena and station are mid-celebration of a great raeke. The rest of the festival for this day has shifted its focus and Rama and Smite will be the center of attention, for diffferent reasons.</span></span>

z-Kara · December 20, 2007

Kara uses her far sensing to search out the group. She makes her way through the crowds and leaps onto the arena floor and rushes to help Rama in his God form. She gets close to Rama and if he lets her, she places her hand on Rama’s injured arm. The various energies that are the true building blocks of the universe swirl about her as she attempts to use her redaction to help Rama’s natural healing properties to respond quicker and heal his wound. If all goes well, Rama should be back to normal in seconds.

She then makes her way to Smite. If he allows Kara to touch him, she places her hand on Smite’s shoulder. She again attempts to use her redaction to heal whatever lingering wounds Smite has suffered in his combat with Lucinda. She also gives Rama an extra “boost”, the equivalent of a B-complex shot to Smite’s system. He should be feeling better than normal in seconds.

Renata Hodges · December 20, 2007

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Kara uses her far sensing to search out the group. She makes her way through the crowds and leaps onto the arena floor and rushes to help Rama in his God form. She gets close to Rama and if he lets her, she places her hand on Rama’s injured arm. The various energies that are the true building blocks of the universe swirl about her as she attempts to use her redaction to help Rama’s natural healing properties to respond quicker and heal his wound. If all goes well, Rama should be back to normal in seconds.

She then makes her way to Smite. If he allows Kara to touch him, she places her hand on Smite’s shoulder. She again attempts to use her redaction to heal whatever lingering wounds Smite has suffered in his combat with Lucinda. She also gives Rama an extra “boost”, the equivalent of a B-complex shot to Smite’s system. He should be feeling better than normal in seconds.

"Kara!" Allison calls. "Glean's down! We need you over here!" She waves.

Whisper paces back to rejoin the others after looking for Genine in the crowd.

"She got away...damnit...her mind's too shielded and she was hacking herself out of the memories of everyone that saw them as they ran. She's good..."

z-Kara · December 20, 2007

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"Kara!" Allison calls. "Glean's down! We need you over here!" She waves.

Whisper paces back to rejoin the others after looking for Genine in the crowd.

"She got away...damnit...her mind's too shielded and she was hacking herself out of the memories of everyone that saw them as they ran. She's good..."

Kara senses more than hears Allison and makes her way to where she and Glean are. She examines Glean and attempts to revive him.

Dr. Chronos · December 20, 2007

Doc (i.e. the Clone) will wander around healing any survivors who need it.

Joe will say with Allison and wait for the "attack while everyone has lowered their guard" move. He will also examine Glean and watch Kara at work.

Rama · December 20, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>"This might not go entirely the way I planned this, Rama Sri Shivananda, but you have to sleep sometime."

Lucinda states bluntly amid her feined dodges and weaves.</div>

Rama smiles smugly in response to her bravado as she is forced to dodge a chunk of debris nearly striking her glowing eye.

<span style="color:#4169E1">

"If you know my name then you should know I can go for months without sleep...how long can you last?"</span>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>In a blur, the small item Lucinda has been holding in her left hand is brought up to her chest and she brings her pistol to bear at Rama's chest but she does not fire. The quantum signatures in her fluctuate a moment and Smite gets his opportunity he has been waiting for during the last few seconds. The Six armed warrior stands ready to dodge her point blank shot but it never comes. Her body and her pattern fade a moment to near nothingness and then return, but still flicker. In spite of her rapid disappearance and reappearance, Smite manages to time his shot and her main pistol is shot away from her hand than lands unharmed some several yards away. She glances over at Smite and as fast as always, she tries for a backup sidearm and lethal quick shot, but aimed at Rama. Her quick draw is undetectably fast as usual but her shot does not fire true this time and Rama is only heavily wounded in his lower side right arm, but as the arm goes limp with muscle and bone blown away Rama gets his opportunity.

The gravity begins to take hold on her and he swings and stabs madly at Lucinda. Again, she dodges nearly everything she has but then collapses to the ground, only slightly wounded from Rama's onslaught. Leaning on one arm she beings to say something and then blinks out permanently.The only remains of her are her pistol and some residual blood on the sand of the arena.</div>

Rama recoils for a moment, unsure of what had just happened. He still floats upon the air, and still seems ready for violence, so engaged was he in the whirlwind of Cin.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>The crowd stands and begins to clap madly. Their shouts and whistles go on and the Raeke master returns to his stand atop the north end of the arena. He too is clapping.</div>

The noise breaks Rama from his battle-trance, and for the first time he looks up, aware of the vast space of the arena encompassing him. He looks down, noticing one of his glowing blue arms hanging limply from the metamarist shoulder socket and dripping with crackling sparks of electricity and phosphorescent indigo blood.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>*She used a navigator snap disc to leave the station. I tried to dampen it, but as you see, it was not successful. Lucinda and Refuge have as forcefully left as they came. I am trying to track them now*

Asche tells through a temporary rapport to the team.

*Genine is still here, or at least I have not detected hers or Impulse' pattern leaving the station yet but the station is not giving her location up.*</div>

Rama is somber. <span style="color:#FF8C00">*Then I did not defeat her. I fear I was overmatched...had the other's not intervened the day may have been lost. If she did not succeeed this time she will try again. At least, we have exposed some flaws in the station's security systems...* </span>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Kara uses her far sensing to search out the group. She makes her way through the crowds and leaps onto the arena floor and rushes to help Rama in his God form. She gets close to Rama and if he lets her, she places her hand on Rama’s injured arm. The various energies that are the true building blocks of the universe swirl about her as she attempts to use her redaction to help Rama’s natural healing properties to respond quicker and heal his wound. If all goes well, Rama should be back to normal in seconds.</div>

As Kara approaches, Rama touches down lightly upon the arena floor. Towering over her, white lightining harmlessly licking across both their bodies, Kara can no doubt sense the impossibly enormous density of the gravity well contained in his form. Silently he allows her to touch him and can feel the vitality she brings flowing into his shoulder as glowing energy and bone reattach and fuse into the proper positions.

As this happens, he shrinks, the palpable crushing weight of his presence fading back into the quantum ether from whence it came. The glow subsides, the lightning dies a way, the Trident, Cobra and arms all fade away into nothingness, and his visage and hair return to their normal indigo hue, flushed slightly violet. His crystaline third eye has closed.

<span style="color:#4169E1">"Thank you, m'lady"</span> he intones quietly.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Note the time is 15 minutes later. I have not yet furnished the narrative for it, but after the clapping and shouting dulls, the master of the raeke will announce Baron the victor and ask for the name of his six-armed savior. He is not assuming the two are together but still calls Rama such, even though the murmurs of the crowd are saying Shiva(?) has returned. {{I cant recall if it was Shiva or Vishnu that Rama mostly resembled.}}</div>

When called for, Rama flies silently up to the Raeke master's podium and kneels in his royal robes.

<span style="color:#4169E1">"I am Rama Shi Shivananda, of Terra. At your service."</span>

Renata Hodges · December 20, 2007

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>"This might not go entirely the way I planned this, Rama Sri Shivananda, but you have to sleep sometime."
Lucinda states bluntly amid her feined dodges and weaves.

Rama smiles smugly in response to her bravado as she is forced to dodge a chunk of debris nearly striking her glowing eye.
<span style="color:#4169E1">
"If you know my name then you should know I can go for months without sleep...how long can you last?"</span>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>In a blur, the small item Lucinda has been holding in her left hand is brought up to her chest and she brings her pistol to bear at Rama's chest but she does not fire. The quantum signatures in her fluctuate a moment and Smite gets his opportunity he has been waiting for during the last few seconds. The Six armed warrior stands ready to dodge her point blank shot but it never comes. Her body and her pattern fade a moment to near nothingness and then return, but still flicker. In spite of her rapid disappearance and reappearance, Smite manages to time his shot and her main pistol is shot away from her hand than lands unharmed some several yards away. She glances over at Smite and as fast as always, she tries for a backup sidearm and lethal quick shot, but aimed at Rama. Her quick draw is undetectably fast as usual but her shot does not fire true this time and Rama is only heavily wounded in his lower side right arm, but as the arm goes limp with muscle and bone blown away Rama gets his opportunity.

The gravity begins to take hold on her and he swings and stabs madly at Lucinda. Again, she dodges nearly everything she has but then collapses to the ground, only slightly wounded from Rama's onslaught. Leaning on one arm she beings to say something and then blinks out permanently.The only remains of her are her pistol and some residual blood on the sand of the arena.</div>
Rama recoils for a moment, unsure of what had just happened. He still floats upon the air, and still seems ready for violence, so engaged was he in the whirlwind of Cin.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>The crowd stands and begins to clap madly. Their shouts and whistles go on and the Raeke master returns to his stand atop the north end of the arena. He too is clapping.</div>

The noise breaks Rama from his battle-trance, and for the first time he looks up, aware of the vast space of the arena encompassing him. He looks down, noticing one of his glowing blue arms hanging limply from the metamarist shoulder socket and dripping with crackling sparks of electricity and phosphorescent indigo blood.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>*She used a navigator snap disc to leave the station. I tried to dampen it, but as you see, it was not successful. Lucinda and Refuge have as forcefully left as they came. I am trying to track them now*
Asche tells through a temporary rapport to the team.
*Genine is still here, or at least I have not detected hers or Impulse' pattern leaving the station yet but the station is not giving her location up.*</div>

Rama is somber. <span style="color:#FF8C00">*Then I did not defeat her. I fear I was overmatched...had the other's not intervened the day may have been lost. If she did not succeeed this time she will try again. At least, we have exposed some flaws in the station's security systems...* </span>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Kara uses her far sensing to search out the group. She makes her way through the crowds and leaps onto the arena floor and rushes to help Rama in his God form. She gets close to Rama and if he lets her, she places her hand on Rama’s injured arm. The various energies that are the true building blocks of the universe swirl about her as she attempts to use her redaction to help Rama’s natural healing properties to respond quicker and heal his wound. If all goes well, Rama should be back to normal in seconds.</div>

As Kara approaches, Rama touches down lightly upon the arena floor. Towering over her, white lightining harmlessly licking across both their bodies, Kara can no doubt sense the impossibly enormous density of the gravity well contained in his form. Silently he allows her to touch him and can feel the vitality she brings flowing into his shoulder as glowing energy and bone reattach and fuse into the proper positions.

As this happens, he shrinks, the palpable crushing weight of his presence fading back into the quantum ether from whence it came. The glow subsides, the lightning dies a way, the Trident, Cobra and arms all fade away into nothingness, and his visage and hair return to their normal indigo hue, flushed slightly violet. His crystaline third eye has closed.

<span style="color:#4169E1">"Thank you, m'lady"</span> he intones quietly.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Note the time is 15 minutes later. I have not yet furnished the narrative for it, but after the clapping and shouting dulls, the master of the raeke will announce Baron the victor and ask for the name of his six-armed savior. He is not assuming the two are together but still calls Rama such, even though the murmurs of the crowd are saying Shiva(?) has returned. {{I cant recall if it was Shiva or Vishnu that Rama mostly resembled.}}</div>

{{Shiva, the Destroyer...

}}

When called for, Rama flies silently up to the Raeke master's podium and kneels in his royal robes.

<span style="color:#4169E1">"I am Rama Shi Shivananda, of Terra. At your service."</span>
</div>

Allison watches Kara with Glean for a moment...then heads down the stands towards the battlefield, dispelling her barriers as she goes (except for the one plugging up the hole in the ceiling

). She walks over the flat floor of the Raeke field, to the blood spattered spot where Rama had been engaging Cin not long before...

There she peers at the ground, looking almost comically like someone who just lost a contact.

Narrator · December 22, 2007

StarHaven

16:45 hours

Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Participants: Allison, Smite, Crumble, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.</span>

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Allison @ Dec 20 2007, 02:15 AM) ←</div><div class='quotemain'>"Kara!" Allison calls. "Glean's down! We need you over here!" She waves.

Whisper paces back to rejoin the others after looking for Genine in the crowd.

"She got away...damnit...her mind's too shielded and she was hacking herself out of the memories of everyone that saw them as they ran. She's good..."

Kara senses more than hears Allison and makes her way to where she and Glean are. She examines Glean and attempts to revive him.

</div>

After a few moments, Kara comes to a silent realization and stops treating Glean. There is more needed that cannot be done here. {PM to Kara}

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Doc (i.e. the Clone) will wander around healing any survivors who need it.

Joe will say with Allison and wait for the "attack while everyone has lowered their guard" move. He will also examine Glean and watch Kara at work.

After treating some nearby hurt spectators, amid the shouts and claps for Rama Doc has come back to near Allison. He admires Karas treatment of Glean but something is wrong, the pattern within Glean remains unchanged.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>*She used a navigator snap disc to leave the station. I tried to dampen it, but as you see, it was not successful. Lucinda and Refuge have as forcefully left as they came. I am trying to track them now*

Asche tells through a temporary rapport to the team.

*Genine is still here, or at least I have not detected hers or Impulse' pattern leaving the station yet but the station is not giving her location up.*

Rama is somber. *Then I did not defeat her. I fear I was overmatched...had the other's not intervened the day may have been lost. If she did not succeeed this time she will try again. At least, we have exposed some flaws in the station's security systems...* </div>

<span style="color:#0000ff">*Count this victory for what it is, lives were saved and StarHAven remains. Learn from it and move on.*</span>

Asche replies to his regretful confession.

<span style="color:#0000ff">*We can talk later.*</span>

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When called for, Rama flies silently up to the Raeke master's podium and kneels in his royal robes.

"I am Rama Shi Shivananda, of Terra. At your service."

The Lord of the Raeke stands aside and lets Glean take the center position.

"THEN RAMA IT IS. RAMA SHI SHIVANANDA, BALANCER OF THE RAEKE. UNDERSTANDER OF COMPASSION. PROVIDER OF A GREAT AND INTERESTING DISPLAY."

He then glances around to find Smite and shouts some more.

"BARON THOMAS OF YORK WHAT AN AWESOME SHOW OF RESILIENCE AND DURABILITY. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!"

"TONITE THE PAIR OF YOU, WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE 'NOVA' LUCINDA, HAVE DEMONSTRATED QUITE A DEMONSTRATION, YES EVEN SHOWED US A GREAT SHOW. I AM ALSO RECENTLY INFORMED THAT THE LORDS OF STARHAVEN THEMSELVES HAVE SET ASIDE AN APPOINTMENT A RECEPTION TIME FOR THE PAIR OF YOU, IF YOU WILL HAVE THEM."

He hands Rama a small crystalline tube-shaped device no longer than 2 inches and then bows politely and deeply.

"AND TO YOU AS WELL BARON.."

He hold up a second small device and bows deeply. As he does so, the device races through the air to hover in place in front of Smite for him to grab.

After staying bowed for some 5 seconds, the Lord of the Raeke stands.

"THE LORDS NO DOUBT HAVE THANKS AND WELL WISHES FOR YOU. DONT DISSAPPPOINT THEM RAMA SHI SHIVANANDA AND BARON THOMAS OF YORK."

Then the lord takes center position again, around Rama.

"LETS HEAR IT ELEVEN TIMES FOR BARON THOMAS OF YORK AND RAMA SHI SHIVANANDA."

The crowd begins shouting out the title and the name in sequence, eleven times rocking the arena with their voices. "Baron Thomas of York. Rama Shi Shivananda..."

The crowd is for the most part, acting if their lives were not in danger just moments ago.

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Allison watches Kara with Glean for a moment...then heads down the stands towards the battlefield, dispelling her barriers as she goes (except for the one plugging up the hole in the ceiling ). She walks over the flat floor of the Raeke field, to the blood spattered spot where Rama had been engaging Cin not long before...

There she peers at the ground, looking almost comically like someone who just lost a contact.

After glancing for a moment and wondering if her hunch is correct, Allison places her hand down over a lump half buried in the sand only to have her hand be grought up empty. But then something catches her eye a half a step over buried inside one of Lucinda's faltering footprints. Allison reaches over and grabs a small shiny object and palms it. No one of the team, save for Chronos (Doc) notes the glinter of glass, or crystal in her palm as she examines the object and quickly closes her hand over it.

Narrator · December 22, 2007

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Asche was just recovering from the initial assault from primal energy feedback. The return of energy into his pattern was akin to having a supercharged amount of adrenaline injected into his body. Initially it was too much and he simply collapsed. Now, a couple minutes later he was finding his focus and was intensely disturbed at what his senses were telling him. Most of all he was bitter at the betrayal he was witnessing in the arena. His mind recalled many talks with a dear friend about Lucinda and his heart was now filled with regret. IN spite of the haunting 'I-told-you-so's' in his mind, Asche drifted focus for only a brief moment and then he focused on immediate concern; one of the fifteen Incarnates was being used in a very creative way. StarHaven was under attack.

Asche flashes out of sight and stands before some long deactivated computer panel. ....

Asche is still away and out of sight and no longer in the stands...

Renata Hodges · December 22, 2007

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Narrator @ Dec 6 2007, 11:57 PM) ←</div><div class='quotemain'>Asche was just recovering from the initial assault from primal energy feedback. The return of energy into his pattern was akin to having a supercharged amount of adrenaline injected into his body. Initially it was too much and he simply collapsed. Now, a couple minutes later he was finding his focus and was intensely disturbed at what his senses were telling him. Most of all he was bitter at the betrayal he was witnessing in the arena. His mind recalled many talks with a dear friend about Lucinda and his heart was now filled with regret. IN spite of the haunting 'I-told-you-so's' in his mind, Asche drifted focus for only a brief moment and then he focused on immediate concern; one of the fifteen Incarnates was being used in a very creative way. StarHaven was under attack.

Asche flashes out of sight and stands before some long deactivated computer panel. ....

Asche is still away and out fo sight and no longer in the stands...
</div>

Using the diversion of the Lord of the Raeke's pronouncement, Allison hurries back towards the stands, slipping one hand into her pants pocket as she does.

Smite · December 24, 2007

StarHaven

16:45 hours

Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Participants: Allison, Smite, Crumble, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.</span>

"Thanks. "

He is relatively silent as he puts himself back to gether with Kari's help. He was enjoying the celebration of the crowd, but he could gain little satisfaction from this victory. He had won, but it had come uneasily and frankly revealed how much further along their enemies were. Things like this did not fill him with joy. But he put on a good face for the crowd, smiling towards him and putting up his hands in victory.

"We gained less from this than I hoped, but it was not without merit. "

Once he was back together again, he will place his hand back on his location orb and try to find any leftover nova's in the audience.

Dr. Chronos · December 25, 2007

StarHaven

16:45 hours

Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Participants: Allison, Smite, Crumble, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.</span>

Quote:

Using the diversion of the Lord of the Raeke's pronouncement, Allison hurries back towards the stands, slipping one hand into her pants pocket as she does.

Joe walks up beside her and comments,

<span style="color:blue">"So then. Reality is saved. The train continues to move forward. I think this... this mess was a big piece in the puzzle as too why things work out the way they...did."</span> Allison gets the feeling Joe means "why her visions claimed they would work out that way.

<span style="color:blue">"Those two are now public."</span> (Unspoken) And with them the rest of us as well. Thus less hiding. Thus a more activist approach and thus the orbs.

<span style="color:blue">"Do you have any idea what she thought she was doing?"</span> (Unspoken) And to what degree this effects our plans?

Renata Hodges · December 25, 2007

Allison looks at Joe, and it's hard to tell if she grasps all his subtext or not. Allison's far from stupid, but isn't mega-intelligent. But she IS incredibly perceptive even with mundane senses, and Joe knows that she can see every last tic of his face and slight curl of his lip as clearly as he might hear a shout in a silent room.

"She was using an Incarnate," she answers quietly. "As far as I can tell, with the intent to destroy Star Haven. If I had to guess, I'd say she was working for, or with, Ba'laan....though she might not be aware of it. If Ba'laan knows, or suspects, what information Star Haven has, destroying it would seal off that knowledge forever. And we know the Incarnates are his creatures in the end. If anyone could give Lucinda one and instruct her in its use...it'd be him."

She looks at Joe, then very deliberately, if not too noticeably, nods towards her pocket...where her hand is still stuffed.

Dr. Chronos · December 26, 2007

Joe will check that things aura, and

...if she has the incarnate... Joe gives a slight shutter and says, <span style="color:blue">"We can't let those two meet."</span> *I.e. that incarnate and it's future/past duplicate inside Eve.*

...if she has anything other than the incarnate... Joe gives a slight frown and says nothing.

Smite · December 26, 2007

StarHaven

16:45 hours

Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY

<span style="color:#ff8c00">Participants: Allison, Smite, Crumble, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.</span>

"I feel better about her beating me like a goddamn drum. This false victory aside, she had me beaten and the both of us knew it. "

Smite considered things for a moment, before thoughts began to rushing towards him.

"It has occurred to me, if Balaan had known that this he wouldn't have responded this way. This has all the hallmarks of acting on a suspicion, a vague one at that. Likely he had her watched by another agent to monitor what happened. He thought they might have pulled this off, but the results were less important than the response.

That might have been a diversion. It would certainly be a problem. What would they be going after though?"

Narrator · December 29, 2007

Next post of mine will be moving the narrative forward a couple of hours. Get your final posts in for the arena and the Raeke if you will. For the next few hours, there was planned to be some more Raeking and gladatorial bouts, but events shifted the events around. INstections need to be made, etc..

The Station has begun to repair itself and the players involvement (force-fields, etc) is no longer needed.

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