We Are Our Avatars IX: Act V: The Sabotage of the Scandolous Saurian Scoundrels (Open)

[Drakmorg]

"Hmm? Oh hey Blue."

Victoria gave EMily a wave as she walked over.

"Honestly neither did I. But I happened to luck into some person in combat gear injecting me with some blue stuff that made me feel all better. So we're all good."

She said with a smile.

"Anyway, I miss anything? I still don't exactly know how long I was out for."

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Huh." Yorick said, not seeming all the interested. He also didn't seem interested at Victoria showing up again.

 

[Slenn]

"Well, it's almost 8:00 AM." She continued on, bringing Victoria up to speed as to what happened with the hostage situation and what the goal of the merfolk was.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Huh. Would've thought it had been longer than that."

Victoria commented to herself after hearing what time it was.

"Also, that is total bullshit."

She replied to EMily as she crossed her arms, saying this in response to hearing what the Merfolk's apparent goal was.

 

[Slenn]

"I've been wanting to attempt a diplomatic solution. Since there's only a few dozen of them, it might be easy to find a ship that'll take them somewhere uninhabited. Then again, I'm not so certain that they'll accept the proposal."

 

[Drakmorg]

"There's not only a few dozen of them."

Victoria replied to EMily as if stating a fact.

"What do you have that proves that any of what you got told was anything other than misinformation? They only told you that because that's what they want you to think, not what the truth is."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus walked over to Victoria. "It is good to see you are well, but we should try to avoid conflict. Civilians are being attacked."

 

[Outisakanobody]

"If there are only a few dozen, I suggest we just round them up and finish them off all at once." Yorick commented as he lazily walked over to the conversation.

 

[Slenn]

"Believe me, Victoria, I am skeptical about the information given to me. As much as I would like to believe that there are that few of them, I want to be sure. That does sound far too few for a species to plan an attack, unless they don't realize the numbers they will face. And I want proof. There's a saying that scientists have that they share and it goes 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'"

 

[Chungus]

Climbing down from the tree, the bug moved to what it considdered the prime spot on its hunting grounds, which by now encompassed a fairly large area, eating vegitation along the way. After a few moments of moving along, the bug raised its head as it picked up an unfamiliar scent. Softly clacking its mandibles twice, and masked its scent to match the surrounding plants, then began following the scent.

Moving in a prowl, as it got closer, the bug began hearing soft snorting noises. It stopped for a moment, raising its head to the point where it was just barely covered by the low foliage, and listened to the noise and occasionally sniffed the air. Once it found that the source of the noise came from the same direction as the source of the scent, the bug moved on, moving slowly towards it. A few moments of stalking, and its prey came within sight; an aardvark, moving about with its long snout pointed towards the ground as it forraged for insects to eat.

Looking the aardvark over for a moment, the bug thought on wherther it could take the aardvark down, it being a fair amount larger then the bug was in both height and length, and considdering the bulk of the animal, probably had a weight advantage over it as well.

Seeing the aardvark wasn't in a hurry to leave, the bug took its time to look it over, looking for natural weapons, not terribly keen on the idea of being wounded away like its encounter with the wild dogs.

OoC: That's it for me for today.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Yeah see he's got the right idea."

Victoria said, pointing at Yorick with her right hand without uncrossing her arms.

"Which is exactly [i]why[/i] we should do that. The faster we kill them all, the less threat they'll pose to innocent people."

She replied to Samus. Finally turning her attention to EMily, she said,

"Well then what's the plan now then?"

 

[Slenn]

"We'll have to address the leader directly. If we can figure out where he is, I might be able to signal him using the flash I learned from the merwoman. As to how we'll find out where he is, we'll have to find out where his party is. The party that attacked the school was not part of it."

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Maybe we should just go back to the bay and start shining the light and wait for a response." Yorick said.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"There is a diplomatic solution available. A battle would be costly and pointless." Samus said to Victoria, crossing her arms.

 

[Slenn]

"That sounds like a legitimate idea to me." She said in response to Yorick.
She heard Samus' suggestion and made an addendum: "It'll be the only other option besides having to kill them. We should at least try to extract the truth and have negotiations before it comes down to bloodshed."

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Wouldn't need to be costly. Just lead them to a booby traped building, and BAM! No more fish-people." Yorick said to Samus. He then smiled at EMily. "You mean killing all the merfolk at once, or the bay idea?" he asked.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Yeah sounds like a good idea to me too."

Victoria expressed her approval of going forward with the plan Yorick and EMily were discussing.

"Pft. Diplomacy? With those savages? Not gonna work. Mark my words, this is gonna come down to kill or be killed."

She scoffed at Samus.

 

[Slenn]

"If push comes to shove, then we'll have to kill them. But I must know the truth first." She said to Yorick. "If your suggestion works in the bay, I'll deliver the questions to him. I have met with non-human intelligence before, so hopefully I'll be able to get the truth."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"We should at leaat try to contact them, I agree." Samus said.

 

[Slenn]

OOC: @Gear. If negotiations don't work, then her last option is to kill them.