We Are Our Avatars VI (Closed for Good)

[Drakmorg]

Dammit!...That's way too long!...I'll have to think of another way out of here soon... Jessica let out a defeated sigh and said, "Alright, thank you." She closed her eyes and rubbed the bridge of her nose with her hand as she continued to lay in bed.

 

[FPSfanatic]

Marcus blushed. "I'm afraid I don't have a phone or communicator. How about I stop by tomorrow? Until then, I'll just check the other hospitals."

 

[Furioso]

OoC: @Kirke, ooooook, not sure what you thought would happen there

Rita opened the tunnel in the mountain area, relatively close to the Xiphatian ships. "Alright, lets go." she said heading towards them.

 

[Chungus]

Loki slowly walked out of the tunnel after Rita, looking up towards the sky. [sub]"We will need to move further out. At this distance, any landing ship is likely to be shot down the moment it tries to take to the skies again."[/sub] he remarked, then began moving further into the mountains, still using his staff as a support.
[hr]
The receptionist found it odd Marcus didn't have a phone, but didn't have the time to think on it. "Alright. Good luck with your search. I hope you'll find the people you're looking for soon." she said, then held the phone to her ear again, apologising for the interruption to whoever it was she spoke to.
[hr]
"Just try and get some sleep, alright?" the nurse said to Jessica, then closed to curtains around her bed to give her some privacy. Seeing the situation had resolved itself, the nurse that had intercepted Jessica previously returned to other duties.

 

[Furioso]

Rita nodded and headed that way. While she walked she rooted through her bag and pulling out a red gummy candy, handing it to Loki. "Eat this, it should give you back some energy." Eating it would make him feel approximately 30% better physically.

 

[Drakmorg]

I should at least try and get some sleep...won't be terribly useful in this current state... Jessica thought to herself with a sigh as she let her arm drop back down to her side. She settled into her bed and fell asleep, uncomfortably tossing and turning the entire time.

OOC: Gotta get me some food. Be back soon.

 

[Chungus]

Loki took the candy handed to him and ate it as he moved along. While it did heal the scrapes and bruises he had sustained, and to a lesser extend, the few bullets wounds, it did nothing to ease his fatigue, this being the result of mental overexertion, rather then physical overexertion. [sub]"That did... little for me, I fear."[/sub] he commented as he continued to move. Some distance away from where the battle took place now, Loki reached for his pendant to request extraction.

 

[Furioso]

"Must not be physical exhaustion then." replied Rita as she waited for extraction.

 

[Chungus]

"[sub]No, it was some mental surge that exhausted me so... most likely the work of that living hat. It matters little, however... We have all but crushed the opposition here. A pity Nybeth had to die in the process, but from time to time, sacrifices must be made in order to progress.[/sub]" Loki remarked.
An small Xiphatian airship broke away from the battle and made its way over to the location Loki had indicated. Stopping near Loki and Rita, it descended up a height where they could jump in, but not quite landing. With some minor difficulty, Loki climbed aboard and took a seat.

 

[Furioso]

Rita climbed aboard and took a seat "Yea... but it looks like we got three of them. The ghost of Jessica is still an issue though... Here, try this, not sure if it will work but worth a shot." said Rita, handing Loki an orange flavored gummy candy.

OoC: It heals MP in game, 30% of it, your call for if it'll work.

 

[Chungus]

Once both Rita and Loki had entered the airship, the entrance hatch closed and the airship ascended, after which it set out towards Shaintaio as fast as it was able. Eating the candy, Loki felt the strain on his mind being aleviated by some degree. "What are these preculiar sugary things made of that they can heal wounds and restore energy as they do? And what do you mean by ghost?"

With the airship carrying Loki and Rita heading back to the capital, the Xiphatian ships began disengaging and falling back also. A few ships were taken down in the process.

 

[Furioso]

"They're a common item mass produced where I come from, I'm not sure how they work, but they're useful with how widespread monsters are. I don't think the flavor has anything to do with that though, I think that's just added for taste. And I accidentally killed both Ness and Jess shortly after I escape from them. I'm sure I killed them, so they must have been ghosts. [sub]I wonder if ghosts turn scary only after they've been ghosts for a long time... hmmm..."[/sub]

 

[Chungus]

"Are you certain the people we faced this day were indeed the defectors? Afterall, they looked nothing alike." Loki asked, reverting back to his regular attire and crossing his arms.

 

[Furioso]

Rita nodded "They may have changed in death, but their abilities were exactly the same."

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica woke up from her restless nap and groaned in annoyance. Wait a sec... She glanced around her bed to see if the privacy curtains that had been drawn were still in place.

 

[Chungus]

"Odd, but ultimately irrelevant. The majority of those interlopers have been dispatched, and this single one that remains is no threat to us." Loki remarked. Uncrossing his arms, he leaned closer to her with a smirk. [sub]"The world is ours..."[/sub] Once the airship reached Shaintaio, Loki stepped out and entered the castle. With the connection Loki made, none of the guards so much as batted an eyelash as Loki and Rita made their way towards a balcony. There, Loki placed his hands behind his back and watched the sun set over the horizon. "Nothing can stop us now. The Ragnarök Empire shall soon rise, and you, my good servant, shall have a most favourable position in it." With that said, Loki grinned in anticipation as he pondered the many plans he had for the world, and even other worlds. He held out his left arm infront of him, with the thumb and index finger curled toward eachother, as if holding the sun between them.

 

[Drakmorg]

Seeeing that they were still drawn, Jessica teleported out of the hospital and out to the battlefield where she and the others had fought Loki and his slaves. Seeing no sign of anyone at all, she slowly crept around and examined the area. She eventually came upon her arm, which had been brought back to a functional level by its self-repair protocol, and was covered in a layer of cooled lava. Slotting the arm back into its joint, she flexed her arm and broke apart the rock covering. Still got this at least.
Taking another few looks around the area, she concluded that Loki and Rita had fled the scene. She sighed and sat down where she could, still in a decent amount of pain. She leaned her head back and summoned a set of holographic blue glyphs around her head.

Spoiler: Lods'a conversation

Advise.
Well, been an awful long time since--
Just shut up and advise!
Well someone's got themselves in a nasty mood. Fine then. What's your status?
Jessica took several moments to think about just about everything that had occurred in the past month and a half.
Well...that's a lot of details we haven't had.
Well?
...Right. The higher ups are telling me to order you to stand down and observe the situation. Don't make any more moves on taking the life of this 'Loki' person.
WHAT?! They can't do that! You can't do that!
Technically you're a member of the military for this operation, so they, and I, are damn well perfectly capable of giving you orders. Only reason we haven't so far is because we thought 'Observe and research as you see fit' would be adequate.
But...but that's stupid! He could leave and take over other planets, hell, whole other universes!
Then we'll have a Seer keep an eye on him, and send in a Peacekeeper squad to remove him if he encroaches on any Ashanian territory. It's a waste of resources to deal with him if he isn't our problem.
Goddammit! Fuck you! I am going to--
Your orders are to stand down and observe. From what I can tell, doing anything but that is only gonna get you killed. Plus, won't it just be counter-productive to your actual goal?
Jessica was silent for several moments, then slammed her mechanical first against the rock dome she was sitting against, bashing a hole in it. "Damn it all to hell!" ...Fine. I'll comply.
Good. Try and report in more often.

The glyphs around Jessica's head disappeared as she let out a defeated sigh. Intending to return to Fourside for the time being and not wanting to raise any awkward questions, she found an inconspicuous spot a decent distance from the battlefield to stash her mechanical arm for a few days and left it there. She assumed her escape from the hospital had been noticed by now, so she teleported near Fourside and walked back to the hospital to readmit herself and retrieve her possessions.

 

[Furioso]

Rita looked out to where Loki was looking and smiled. "Good. We should probably take care of Legaia first."

 

[Chungus]

"And that, we shall..." Loki curtly answered as he lowered his arm and nodded slowly. His grin increased as he imagined the smoke rising from the various placed he intended to target.

 

[Furioso]

OoC: Off to bed, @Nailik, if you need Rita for anything feel free to use her