>>134195
You should accept her company. Remember how powerful that weapon she has is? She could probably kill you and take us without much trouble... so if you stole the jeep she claimed, that's what she'd do. Then again she may be playing nice because she doesn't want to piss us (the stone) off. If she steals us, and we have reason to be pissed... well, let's just say you should stay on our good side.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)02:16 No. 134200 ID: a42c37
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>You should accept her company

You can't be serious. She's already admitted to wanting the stone. Are you trying to sneak yourself away from me? She could easily be plotting to -

>"I can be very useful."

She lifts the goggles from her face. A pair of large, strange eyes stare back at me. She's definitely not from around here.

>"I'm not very familiar with your... home. I just need a little companionship, for a while."

"Fill out a personal."

She swings her arms, seeming irritated with having to deal with me being awake.

>"Look... I know you're probably concerned about me stealing the artifact you've got there. Obviously, I could just take it. It's not that big a deal.
>"Just help me out a little?"

You voices may trust her instantly for whatever reason, but I can't afford to screw around. I don't seem to have any options. She seems to get tired of waiting for a reply.

>"Okay. I'm just going to kidnap you. We'll call it that, if that's what you need to hear."

>>134200
Accepting company doesn't mean you have to trust someone. I remember I once bribed someone who extremely hated a person to accept company of someone. Next thing I knew both the attempting killer and the almost-victim were in love with each other.

>>134200
In b4 there's something horrible behind the fur.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)02:49 No. 134203 ID: a42c37
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>"I could point a weapon at you, if it would make you feel more comfortable about it?"

She produces a brand of pistol I don't recognize.

>"I'll even help you out with whatever you're doing."

"Why?" I hiss incredulously.

She shrugs again.

"Bored, I guess?"

She waves the pistol towards the jeep, signaling me to get in.

I guess you're going to get what you wanted, voices.

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Should I ask her some questions?

I suppose there's no harm in getting her to drive me out of the country.

>>I guess you're going to get what you wanted, voices.

Look, smartass, if we're going to get out of this alive we can do worse than buddy up with someone who's a damn good shot. Now stop whining and sack up.

>>134206

Especially one with dem gazongas.

Suggestion 2010/02/18(Thu)03:09 No. 134209 ID: 67c611
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Ask what is under the scarf.

>>134204
I don't get why you're so hesitant here. It's simple math. She could easily kill you and take the artifact at any point. She doesn't need your companionship to do that. And, no offense, but I doubt she needs you alive to accomplish anything... although I guess we can't rule that out. Still, going along with her for the time being is the best and, realistically, only option. If you had been a bit more friendly toward her she might have let her guard down more so you could have betrayed her later, if you'd needed to, but your paranoia forced her to treat you as a hostile to ensure your compliance... and now it will be more difficult for you to gain the upper hand.

My advice is to try and be cordial from here on out. Obvious questions would be, where are you from (she's probably not of your world), and does she know the "religious man."

We'd be able to give you better advice on how to communicate with her if you actually trusted us and told us more about your mission besides 'it's classified'...

>>134204
Ask her about her weapon. That thing took off one the beasts heads without any problems and your grenades didn't manage to cause that much damage. Where she is from and information about those weapons of hers might be vital to you and especially any plans of reviving your nation.

Well it's pretty obvious you're both keeping secrets from each other. That's only natural, as you're on a classified mission and she's some kind of foreign special agent, if I had to guess. But you're multiple times in her debt, for saving you back at the vault and for rescuing your poor body that, by the way, you're welcome for having us resurrect. She may want us, the artifact, but she could've easily taken your hand off and gotten us, or she could kill you now, and even if she did get it, as long as it/we get out of the country your mission would be a success, yes? Therefore it only behooves you to be kind to her, or at least take the first step to being on a more friendly level. Introduce yourself, tell her that you're sorry but you've been trusted to get the artifact out of the country. This may prompt her to reveal her own name and perhaps a glimmer into her motives.

>>134204

Ask her what the fuck's up with her eyes.

Suggestion 2010/02/18(Thu)12:34 No. 134260 ID: 19b589
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>>134258
>:3c

Oh, Steve! You're alive! Happy day, happy day indeed!

You remember me, right Steve? I'm your favorite voice, right? Of course I am, I'm everybody's favorite voice.

On to business, then. Accept her help for now. You've really got nothing to lose, and everything to gain, considering that driving is better than walking. I'd keep cautious of her, but at the same time, make sure you use her to your utmost ability. Even if she can't be trusted just yet, she could be a useful tool to your ends with all that firepower she has.

Have I mentioned how happy I am that we're not lying at the bottom of a ditch next to that empty beer bottle for centuries? Welcome back, Burns.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)14:39 No. 134324 ID: aa5284
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>I don't get why you're so hesitant

My orders are to get you out of the country. I can't do that if you are stolen, or lost. The more variables that get introduced, the more likely that becomes. I don't know what military protocol is like in your world, but in mine, we don't pick up thieves who may very well be trying to keep you from your objective.

I'll go along with this for now, because I don't have a choice in the matter. It's not a matter of what I want. It's just threat reduction.

>Ask her about her weapons

"That was a clean shot back there. We couldn't put much of a dent in that... thing."

>"The Piaculum? Your world's weapons aren't really designed to handle them."

"Piaculum?"

She seems to ignore this. Apparently she doesn't want to discuss it any further, for now. Her voice did seem a little different when she mentioned its name.

The rain has stopped, for the most part. The sky is beginning to light. It's a new day.

>her name

"So what about you? What should I call my kidnapper?"

She pauses as she rounds the jeep. She seems to nearly answer twice, but hesitates.

>"Okay," she finally says, "guess you should see this. Since I'll be hanging around you for a while. Just don't freak out, or anything."

>>134324
Ok so the beast was otherwordly and something that her people regularly runs into, atleast regularly enough to have weapons to that can quite easily deal with them. So they have more advanced personal weaponry than your people ever did. If you can find some way to convince her people to ally with the remnants of TGC you might be able to regain your freedom with those weapons.

And don't freak out whatever it is she shows you.

>>134324
She's gonna have a weird-looking face.

The obvious implication behind her words is that she's not from this world. And stop being stupid. Our point is that if she wanted the artifact, us, or to prevent you in your mission, she could've easily done so. Therefore, since she hasn't, it is foolish to treat her like an enemy.

Brace self for freakout.

Also, ask if you can borrow a sidearm.

inb4 more furries

>>134324
>I don't know what military protocol is like in your world, but in mine, we don't pick up thieves who may very well be trying to keep you from your objective.
To be fair, military protocol is probably very similar where we are from as well. ...but we aren't military men. Our outlook is far more... mercenary. The general idea is that it doesn't matter HOW you do something, just so that it gets DONE.

As for teaming up with her, well, her purposes aren't necessarily the same as yours, but they don't seem to be vastly different either, so we can still follow along until it DOES become an issue. And really, it does seem like the best option you HAVE. You don't have transport. You don't have anyone else in your team. You don't even have a god damn weapon, last I checked. If you told her 'screw you' and she left you, where could you go? What in the hell could you do?

Again, this isn't necessarily a very good option. But it's one of the best you currently HAVE.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)15:22 No. 134383 ID: aa5284
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She removes her goggles entirely, revealing long, inhuman ears. Next, she pulls down the fur collar that had been concealing her face. It takes me a moment to see her as anything more than a button-nosed girl.

"Whaaa-"

>"People on prime worlds, like this one, call me Kitty You can probably guess why.
>"What's your name?"

"Whaa-"

She waits a moment, with an ill expression.

I clear my throat, having caught myself long enough to take this in.

"B-Burns... Everyone calls me Burns. ...You can probably guess why."

>"Oh. The sideburns?"

"Y-yeah."

"That's cute. Hey. Look at my butt."

"Whaa-"

Love ya' Steve.

Anyway, she seems frendly, but watch the fuck out.

ACCEPT OFFER TO LOOK AT BUTT

>>134383

>>"That's cute. Hey. Look at my butt."

Make a note. This is very important.

>>134383
Look at the butt. It's not like she has ass-lasers.

>>134383
Prepare for a tail.

And this is a rather interesting development. It seems like she came from another world to get the stone. Yet she is not willing to take it from you by force. So the need is either not immediate or the stone works in ways we don't yet fully understand and what she needs now is you.

OH GOD IT'S AVATAR ALL OVER AGAIN. DESTROY HER SPECIES FOR DELICIOUS MINERALS. Oh wait, no, they're coming HERE to YOUR world... well that makes things complicated. Look at butt. Reciprocate offer.

.................................O.............................K..............................

>>134383

>Everybody calls me Steve.
Fix'd

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)15:38 No. 134409 ID: aa5284
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>Prepare for a tail.

"O-oh! Oh."

>"I didn't to freak you out later. I usually can keep it hidden, or wrapped around me to make it look like a belt, or something. Generally, I just don't like people asking a lot of difficult questions."

"So, uh..."

>"Are you going to have a bunch of questions about why I'm a cat, or some asinine thing?"

"N-no. No?"

>"Good. Because I hate that."

"Right."

Okay...

>"You can stop staring at my ass."

"R-right."

>>134383
Heresy.

Kill the furfag.

I NEED THAT .GIF OF THE GUY STROKING THE CATGIRL'S TAIL AND SHE GETS ALL EXITED AND THEN RELAXED POSTED IN THIS THREAD STAT!

Feline eyes, human facial structure, canine tail... What the hell. Anyway, she's now obviously taken large steps forward, giving you private information to show you can trust her. I think it's fair that you reciprocate to a degree. Ask what she wants with the artifact (us), and HOPEFULLY it's something that'll allow you to get out of the country. I mean, if she wants to take it out to sea and sink it, that'd fulfill your mission, no?

2010/02/18(Thu)15:40 No. 134416 ID: f52552
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>>134409
Make this face.

>>134409

>Stop staring at my ass.

RESPONSE: Nah, I'm good.

>>134409
>>"You can stop staring at my ass."

Continue to stare because DAYUM that is some serious junk in the trunk.

Uh. That's nice.

Now about that delivery...

>>134409
That is a very nice ass. And that tail certainly draws the eyes.

Anyway, she just revealed some personal stuff. I guess you don't have any big physical reveals you can do but tell her a bit about yourself. Maybe talk to her some about the friends you lost on the mission.

>>134409
You need a drink. You need a god damn drink.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)16:00 No. 134443 ID: aa5284
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This is weird.

We've been driving for a few minutes, already.

>"Where we going?"

Ask her why she's dressed like a whore.

Hey, did anyone advise you to remain silent?! Start talking. You have to determine whether or not your missions are compatible.

>>134443

Ask... what... she's into?

Also, ask what her real name is. Reassure her that you'll still call her Kitty.

>>134443
"...you said 'prime worlds'. What in the **** does that mean?"

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)16:09 No. 134455 ID: aa5284
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>You need a drink. You need a god damn drink.

Hell yes.

All right.

I suppose I should answer her question before I ask any of mine. I've got to get this thing out of the country. North Poilen or Qer. Those are my options.

North Poilen has been in disarray ever since its revolution, four months ago. You can chalk that up to the TGC losing its grip during the war. A lot of the surroundings countries lost their political equilibrium.

Qer is where most of the Fedek Ruins are located. I suppose you guys don't know about this, but throughout our world, there are numerous ruins of a lost civilization - old skyscrapers, bunkers and the lot. Some of them have been repurposed, while the majority are torn down. Qer is a country that used to be a center for all of that, but after the world economy took a dive, corporations lost interest. So, the country has turned into a haven for criminals.

Either way, I'll be looking at trouble.

Voices, you keep asking about my mission, but I have to confess, my orders were ambiguous and open-ended. Literally, it amounted to opening the Vault, getting you out of there and heading out of the country. I was given no destination, and I wasn't told what to do with the stone afterwards. I suppose... I can do quite literally, anything with it.

Before we do anything else, where do I go?

We are the second tear... I believe there are three. And if there are people looking for us, it sounds like Qer is the place they'd look, either for the first or third. Therefore it sounds like a bad place to try to keep us undetected. I'd advise heading to North Poilen, but first you need new clothes that don't clearly show that you're part of the TGC.

>>134455

Let's go to Qer. Nothing like visiting a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

A bar.

Wherever the closest motel is.

Bow chikka bow wow

>>134455
Okay, open ended orders. Of those two choices, it seems like one is currently in semi-open warfare, while the other is a more 'stab you in the back' type situation. ...as a soldier, I might think that you might prefer being in a place where people are trying to shoot you in the FACE as opposed to stab you in the BACK. So I'll say North Poilen. Maybe even find someone else from the TGC there.

...also, another question. You are obviously shocked by her appearance. And I don't think you were okay with the 'thing' back int eh vault. ...I assume you have animals, but do you have any OTHER intelligent races running around? Elves, dwarves, orks? Or is it humans all the way across?

>>134460
Not sure why there would be three, but seeing as we're the second, there's at least two.

Anywho, head to Qer. If the political situation is unstable in the other area, it means there's a higher chance for whoever you're supposed to be getting us away from finding out you have us.

It's going to be real easy to drop off the radar in a place that's full of outlaws. Just try not to get on the bad side of any of the ruling criminal organizations, whatever those may be.

Anyway, I also second getting a drink. We can worry about what we'll do once we're out of the country once we're actually out of it. Just don't get so drunk that you're an easy target for thieves, we're shiny and some street rat could get ideas about stealing us.

...In fact, is holding us necessary? There's a chain around us, so you might be able to wear us like a pendant or something.

My hypothesis that we are one of three is based upon>>134103

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)16:42 No. 134516 ID: aa5284
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>North Poilen
>I might think that you might prefer being in a place where people are trying to shoot you in the FACE as opposed to stab you in the BACK.

True.

>the political situation is unstable

Even more true. North Poilens have never been fond of Confederates like myself. We're seen as the self-imposed watchdogs of Gaeten. There's been talk of them brokering important war criminals to the Coalition in exchange for political favors, or financing.

>Qer
>easier to drop off the map

I have to agree. It'll be easier to have you stolen, but I'm not about to let that happen. I guess that's our destination.

"Qer."

>"Qer?"

"You have no idea what that is, do you?"

She hums a no sound. It's almost like she's trying to be cute, or she simply doesn't care.

I point her in the direction of Qer, and she takes the next exit.

You know, she's relatively normal looking, for the most part. The differences are subtle, but there are enough of them to be distracting.

>elves, dwarves, orks

I've never heard of any such creatures. The only other creatures people have claimed to be sentient I'm aware of are Adurites. Surely you know what those are, though.

>a bar

That will be my next stop, I promise you.

>if there are people looking for us

I doubt it. Even I had never heard of you before yesterday. Maybe Kitty knows something about the Tear?

Oh sure of COURSE we know all about the Aldurites. But just in case Kitty doesn't know about them, you should explain to her everything.

>>134524
You are a horrible liar.

>>134516
Seems like she's really new here, as well. ...strange as she knows how to get to us, but not where other things are. Just something to keep in mind for when you are ready to start grilling her for information.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)17:12 No. 134562 ID: aa5284
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>But just in case Kitty doesn't know about them, you should explain to her everything.

Sure, and I'll explain what a cat is, while I'm at it. They're almost as common on the Expanse.

I put the Tear around my neck.

"You know anything about this thing?"

>"Keoradine's Second Tear?
>It's probably not a common legend here. Honestly, not many people know about them, even on non-Prime worlds.
>The story goes that when the world was made, Keoradine, who became the sky, shed three tears for the world that had been destroyed.
>As they were shed at the moment of creation, they took on power of their own. What kind of power, I don't know. They're supposedly magical. There are plenty of frauds, though.
>I was curious about the one I heard was in your country. When I was trying to get in, you guys showed up. I had thought it was another fake until I realized Piaculum was guarding it.
>Figures it would be on some backwater world like this one.

>Prime Worlds

I didn't pick up on that.

"What did you mean when you said "Prime World?"

>"Prime Worlds. Don't know how to explain it really... There are worlds that are almost exactly alike. The most common kind, I guess? It's more slang than any kind of real definition.
>"You've probably guessed, but I'm not from... Kalian? Isn't that what you call yours?"

I probably shouldn't tell her what the Tear really does. It doesn't seem like it would benefit.

"I got run off the road by a guy in a black suit, and a black hat."

>"Didn't see anyone but you."

Guess it would be stupid to ask if she recognized the description. He didn't really mention anything I can remember that would be of any help.

So she really did just come to this world because she was curious? Y'know what they say, Curiosity killed the cat-lady. And remember, she's not FROM this world, so she might NOT know what those oh-so-adorable Aldurites are.

She mentioned 'Piaculum' again. I'm wondering if that was big-an-ugly's NAME... or if that is the name of his TYPE. IE if there are more of them. But she relaly didn't seem to want to talk about it earlier, so maybe pressing now wouldn't help.

...if there is nothing else to talk about, you could stare at her ass again.

The man mentioned something about a "real world". Please inquire.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)17:31 No. 134587 ID: ebea88
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>Adurites

I guess you really don't know. They're fire breathers. Stand on two legs? Have two tails coming out of their shoulders? No eyes or head? Look like they're made of shredded, painted skin? That ring a bell? I can't really explain them any better. Maybe you'll see them one day.

"So why did you come here? Why're you after this thing?"

>"Well, I'm not anymore, obviously. I don't really want it. I was just interested. Sort of like you said. Bored? When you get my age, you do what you can to keep your mind off time."

"How old -

>"Old am I, yes," she interrupts. "A hundred and... fifty-three? You lose track of the years."

"Is that -

>"Normal for my kind," she interrupts, again.

She must have had to answer this line of questions before.

>"Look, I don't want to deal with any of this racist shit. I'm human, okay? Where I'm from, we were made this way. I'm not sure how. We just were.
>"And we don't live any longer than you do. What are you, twenty-something?"

"Forty-three."

That seems to surprise her.

>"You don't look a day over twenty-two, if that."

That surprises me. Last I looked in a mirror, I looked like shit.

>"I'm this old because I can't die," she continues. "I'm what they call an Amortal."

"Can you-?"
"Read minds? No."

Anyway, inquire whether she can't die period, or simply can't expire of old age. And as for the Aldurites, how does something with no head breath fire? MOUTH IS ON HEAD. Anyway, I'm not sure whether or not I buy her story, but there's no real point in worrying. At the moment she IS helping you complete your mission, after all, and that's what they call a tactical asset.

>>"I'm this old because I can't die"

Can't die from old age, or can't die period? If it's the latter, hellloooooo invincible meat shield.

Inquire about the other worlds. I wanna know if she knows about this real world. It seems... important.

Jeez. Has she had this conversation before?

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)18:08 No. 134655 ID: ebea88
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"Can't die from old age, or can't die, period?"

>"Period. It took me a while to realize what had happened to me. Digens strip us of our mortality, for whatever god-forsaken reasons they dream up. And before you ask, I'm not even sure what a digen is. They look just like a normal human. Just that they're powerful enough to destroy entire worlds on their own.
>"Amortals, on the other hand, are only a lot stronger than a normal human. Picking up trucks, smashing through walls. That kind of shit.
>"We're pretty resilient, but we can get our bodies blown to pieces if we aren't paying attention. Still hurts. That's why I use a gun. Even a bullet to the head can take you down, if you aren't consciously resisting it.
>"Everything grows back from the biggest piece of you, after a while. It's a gruesome, horrible life."

"Sounds like a bunch of bullshit."

>"I know."

>I wanna know if she knows about this real world.

I barely even remember him mentioning that.

"The man in the black suit... he said something about the real world?"

>"I think you may have just been delirious. You sure you didn't run off the side of the road? It wasn't raining pretty - "

"I'm sure."

Guess it doesn't mean a thing to her. I'm guessing he was just some sort of religious zealot. Crazy bastard. Too busy living in his own world to care about this one."

Whatever. I'll be glad to get to Qer, and get you out of my hands. Then, I have to get my wife and kid, and get off Gaeten, entirely.

>>134655

Have you tried throwing yourself into the Sun? That works in most cases.

SOMETHING TELLS ME IT WON'T BE QUITE SO EAAAAASY.

Seriously though I hate so-called immortals, or amortals. Everything can be killed. Or worse. Wrapped up in chains and sunk in the ocean... buried alive... And there are some things there are no coming back from. What can grow back from a pile of ashes if you toss her in a furnace? It's silly. But still... whatever.

>>134655
>Whatever. I'll be glad to get to Qer, and get you out of my hands. Then, I have to get my wife and kid, and get off Gaeten, entirely.
I really want this to happen as well, but... well, plans as simple as this tend to NOT stay simple for very long.

>>134655
Oh, I see. I wonder, did the suit guy decide to make you Amortal as well? Look at yourself in the mirror.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)18:27 No. 134711 ID: ebea88
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We share some idle banter for the rest of the way, but mostly silence.

I'm making plans for when we get to Qer. I decide to head for Tallwoods, a town on the northern fringes of our borders. It's small enough to not be a center for any kind of military action, seedy enough to have some information, but not dangerous enough to get us... well, me, killed.

>Have you tried throwing yourself into the Sun?

The what?

>What can grow back from a pile of ashes if you toss her in a furnace?

"Are you sure you can't die?" I ask her. "Burnt down to nothing? You can't grow back from that."

>"That's what I thought, once upon a time. It's not natural, however it works. The mass just seems to come from nowhere. I got knocked into a vat of acid, once. That was fun. I ended up reconstituting from the air, or something, and woke up a year later. There's a whole pseudo-science behind it, I hear.
>"You can get trapped, in a way, though. I've only met two other Amortals. One threw himself into a volcano forty thousand years ago, only to wake up sixty-three years back, when it went dormant. Even before that, his consciousness somehow returned. So he just... thought for a few thousand years.
>"You can stay dead for a long time, if you're clever, I guess. But you can always wake back up, even if you don't have a body. Don't know how it works. There's no rest."

Jeez.

>Oh, I see. I wonder, did the suit guy decide to make you Amortal as well? Look at yourself in the mirror.

My skin runs cold at the thought. I'm not even going to try. I don't think I could handle the thought of it. But anyway, I don't feel any stronger, or... no, I'm not. I'm just not.

>>134711

>>pseudo-science behind it, I hear.

Try Conservation of Mass.

Hmm. Perhaps you should ask if all Amortals look like her, or is it just the bond of immortality that makes them Amortals. I have to wonder about the biological changes that occur in such a being.... Clearly there's some sort of magic or other unknowable cause that binds the consciousness to the physical world and regrows the body around that consciousness, but I wonder if such a being could have children. If so, would they pass along the curse?

And seriously, she's over a hundred years old and doesn't know what the sun is? Where does she think light comes from? Fairies?

>>134711
Well if you go and die again, we won't be complaining if you come back from the dead. Unless you're a brain eating zombie, that would be kind of gross.

So anyway, just what kind of information are we looking for? You said your mission wasn't really detailed outside of, as the expression we would use goes, "getting the hell out of dodge". Which, in case you didn't know, means to escape as quickly as possible from a place of peril.

Anywho, now that we're out of there, what do you plan on doing next?

>>134711
The sun. You know... the sun. That thing that's present in the day time, that isn't there in the night?

...You do have day and night in this world, don't you? Don't tell me it's always dark and rainy, that would be utterly depressing.

>>134730
He also said his world is basically an infinite flat plane, or something. The concept of a PLANET confused him. Sure, he might have a sun... and have no idea how you can throw yourself into one.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)19:02 No. 134773 ID: ebea88
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I convince Kitty to stop just outside of the city. She has a change of clothes I can use to disguise myself. People don't need to see us driving into town in a TGC jeep.

The thought I might be immortal - amortal, whatever... it's bothering me. I have to try to think of something else.

>The sun. You know... the sun. That thing that's present in the day time, that isn't there in the night?

That's right. Your universe has crazy round things everywhere in the sky, doesn't it? That must be horrifying, never knowing when they'll fall down. It probably doesn't work that way, but I can't imagine a world like that.

As for our light, it comes from the sky, of course. I don't know the science behind it. All I know is that the sky lights up at day, and dims to almost nothing at night.

>So anyway, just what kind of information are we looking for?
Good question. I wish I had more orders to act on. I was never much of a man to rely on for this sort of thing, although everyone thought I was.

I guess I should concentrate on finding a place to hide this thing. Something like the Vault, except out of the hands of the Coalition? That seems as good an idea as any.

>I wonder if such a being could have children. If so, would they pass along the curse?

Not sure. It doesn't seem like something appropriate to ask a strange woman.

I can't get this amortality thing off of my mind.

"Kitty?"

>"What?"

"How would you know a... digen? A digen if you saw one?"

>"I only know of three, although there are supposed to be more. The one I met was named Reklaw. He made me this way."

"Do you think that he... could have made me, this way? I mean, if I survived that crash, and I look to be in my twenties when I'm - "

"Was he a tall man, with a beard? Wore armor, and a duster off of one side?"

"No. I was talking about the man in the black suit."

"Oh. Then no. At least, it wasn't the one I know. I don't know what the other two look like. Gath and... Caiphas are the other two. Don't know what they look like, or what they do."

I still can't concentrate. The idea of living forever. It bothers a soldier. The thought of outliving my wife and child...

>"This is really bothering you?"

"Yes."

>"There's a way to find out."

A way OTHER than trying to die and seeing if it works?

"You mean dying right? Yeah, thanks I'll pass sweet cheeks."

>>134773
>All I know is that the sky lights up at day, and dims to almost nothing at night.
That would be your moon orbiting this world. Um, a moon is something that orbits a planet. And orbit is... um, well, the best way to describe it is "circling around something."

Obviously the world he lives in is near infinite, and has no celestial bodies. Trying to explain suns and moons and stars would be absolutely futile, not to mention far from conducive to the plot.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)19:29 No. 134817 ID: ebea88
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>A way OTHER than trying to die and seeing if it works?

Yeah, that was my thought.

"You mean being killed?"

>"Ha. That would be a depressing way to find out you were wrong."
>"No, but seriously, just put your hand in mine."

Should I do it? You're the ones that trust this girl. What do you say, voices?

>>134817
Yeah go ahead. I mean, what can she really do to you that she hasn't already had the opportunity to do?

Remember not to use the hand you have us in.

What are you afraid of? Her being able to beat you in thumb-wrestling? DO IT PANSY.

(On a secondary note, we've now been invited to both hold her hand and look at her ass. Weather forecast looks favorable)

>>134783

Enough with the orbs already. He just stated that there is no sun, so clearly it's not your namby pamby Euclidean universe with gravity and planets and stuff. If it was a moon it'd at least look like a glowing disc in the sky. The only way the sky would lighten or darken at an even intensity is if the whole sky were producing light. By what means there's no telling, unless we get up there, look at it closely or something. I'm not eager to fire us at high velocities up into the air.

I am curious if the horizon gets brighter or dimmer during the day compared with the rest of the sky.

Goddamn those fucking tits. And you know what? They'll never sag because of her amortalness.

If you put your hand in mine
Then there isn't no mountain... we can't climb~?

Sure, do it. If she really wanted to do anything crazy like kill you, she'd have done it already.

...Come to think of it, maybe we should like, be quiet for a bit or something. If us coming in contact with a person allows them to hear us, then what if you touching another person lets them hear us?

>>134839
Well, shit I hope she doesn't hear my thoughts.

>>134834
I second this unspoken notion; screw the hand, grab the tits.

Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)20:09 No. 134925 ID: ebea88
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All right. I'll do it.

This will confirm both what I am, and what she is, if she's being truthful about this Amortality business.

After this is done, it's time to head into Tallwoods, and make our next move.

I offer her my hand. She takes it, gently.

[end of chapter 2] Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/18(Thu)20:10 No. 134928 ID: ebea88
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"AAAHHH SON OF A BITCH TO HELL WHY"

"If you're right, that should go back to normal in a few hours."

Hahaaa, saw that coming

"Couldn't you have just scratched me? Something that won't make me half useless and hurt like a GODDAMN ARGH SHITFUCK BITCH MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

>>134928
Well, that was a dick move.

I was honestly half expecting some kind of RESONANCE REACTION or something. Sorry it turned out like that, man.

>>134928
Oh god, sorry man. ...though I personally vote she has earned herself a good old fashion CUNT PUNT for that.

[chapter 2 epilogue] Plague!!NkAwOzZ2H0 2010/02/19(Fri)02:49 No. 135251 ID: 212869
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>"Boo hoo, I broke your fingers.
>"Are you done yet?"

>>135251
Get some sticks and a few scraps of cloth and splint your fingers. If you have indeed turned amortal then they should be fine soonish. If not then you need to splint them to make sure they stay somewhat straight.

I admit, I had some fun switching back and forth between the pictures of >>134925 and >>134928 ... It's a wonderful emotional look. (I need that face in FULL frame)