Crystal Harvest [Horde Dominion of Aurum]

[Dredge]

"Drag him outside and stop the bleeding." Waving his hand to a few of his men he had the rouge knight dragged out of the temple and to the steps to see the dead younglings hanging from the pilars above. Sighing happily Dredge looked over to the blood covered monster and gave him a pat on the back "You see Incubus, it's not always about mass genocide, sometimes you need to enjoy the little things. Now if you please could you take care of this door for me." The door in front of them was thick and wooden dredge could have his men blow it up but where was the fun in that when you had a seven foot five monster at your disposal.

On the other side was the small council of masters, about three of them incubus wouldn't be able to take him on his own. That's why they were there. "When we get inside, don't attack I wish to speak to them. Also put this on." Handing him a gas mask dredge placed one over his own face then smiled as the tubes of the living creature went into his lungs and formed a seal @[member="Incubus"]

 

[Pyramid Head]

"As you wish my Lord. And I do not need this master." He spoke as he walked over to the door, it ass about two feet taller than him. Sizing up the door, the claws began to shatter would, then a kick came, breaking the doors away. In stood three master force users. They all took a step back at the sight of Incubus. Standing just inside the entryway, he did nothing but stare each in the eyes. The helmet that had served the man before was now the creatures head, and acted as such, as it had before. @[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Dredge]

Igniting a few force breaker grenades Dredges men tossed them into the room and let council choke on the fumes. As dredge walked inside and gripped his Amphistaff. Looking down at the choking men he sighed and plunged the serpants head into one of their hearts letting him fall over and die. "Incubus, I want you to take the other and nail him to a cross alive at the top of the temple for all to see. I will have words with this one." Leaning down dredge took the mans sabers and looked up at him as he coughed.

"You see, you humans and your ways. I can never understand them. Lets go have a few words." Gripping the stunned master dredge had his men drag him as he walked down the stairs and to the Lobby the master still coughing in his men's grasp. This was a very dark day for the planet and it wasn't going to get any brighter @[member="Incubus"]

 

[Pyramid Head]

Incubus nodded at Dredge, and picked up the choking woman outside. When he finally reach outside, the woman's coughing had cleared up, and words spew from her mouth that never reached his ears. He began climbing up the temple, a fairly easy task, as the woman hung over his shoulder, broad enough to act as a cradle. As he finally reached the top, he broke pieces of wood, and made a cross.

Slamming the woman upon it, he drove a large piece of sold through her palms. Splinters pierced her flesh, and she dangled from the cross. He stood watch from atop, seeing his master below with the last master. He jumped from the top and landed safely near the two. As he stops back up to his full height he walked next to his master. "She is in place my Lord, I had no nails, so I used wooden stakes instead, my apologies, forgive." He spoke as a slave to his master. @[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Dredge]

Sighing rather happily he looked up at the coughing and choking force master, they both needed to be killed very soon. Otherwise the gas would wear off and their connection to the force would allow them to raise all sorts of hell. And he did not need that from these people. "Spear." Dredge said to one if his men, handing them a standard amphistaff Dredge smiled and looked up at the woman upon the cross. Taking the spear and gripping it dredge threw it as hard as he could upward. Contacting and skewering his victim dredge smiled and watched as the council member's head hand. She was dead with a serpant stuck through her mid section. Moving up the serpant began to slowly feed upon the gift if food it was given. The body of the force user would stay up there as a constant reminder to any survivors of not to mess with dredge.

Looking down now at the one armed knight and the broken old man the Yuuzhan Vong knelt down to gently run his hand through the hair of the knight. "You will live, all you must do is end him." Smiling dredge gently placed a knife into the hand of the knight. "Bring his suffering to an end and let him be one with the gods. It's that or you both die very very slowly." After a few moments the young knight broke down crying as he proceeded to stab his master to death with dredge watching rather contently. "Good, I have a name for you. From now on you kill be Lark, and you will lead me to the way of the crystal caves lark." Taking the knife from his hands dredge coddled the crying man and rubbed his back. "Incubus, tie the dead one above the door. Then burn the inside of the temple. These people never existed only their skeletons will carry on as their legecy. Except for you lark, you will be remembered as the traitor who killed his master." Standing up Dredges men took the crying lad and dragged him with the Vong to find the caves. "Burn it then join me monster." @[member="Incubus"]

 

[Pyramid Head]

Slamming his claws into the now dead master, he took a few pointed metal slags, and pierced the body above the door. It hung, limp, bleeding ths last cold blood that filled the body. He observed it all, the proceed to throw torches upon the temple. It ignited in orange flames of victory, and death. Though it was nothing to him, just a order, he stayed for awhile longer assuring the fires burned on.

Springing after his master took near minutes, following behind him, watching everything, making sure nothing would harm the master Vong. @[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Not Ordo]

As usual Shimmra was ignoring duty in favor of killing everything he came to. He came across a woman running out of one of the settlements and stepped from behind a broken building to catch her by the throat.

'SNIFF SNIFF' his nose making the noise obnoxiously loud just to add to the stink of fear wafting off the useless creature. He lifted her off her feet by the throat and opened his Yuzhan Vong shaped mouth. His chin split and the mandible like mouth parts scrathed the air as he looked into the womans eyes.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US!" the woman shrieked.

The huge brutal thug chuckled his mandibles spreading and shaking as he laughed.

"I want to watch you die." He said as he drove his Ampistaff through her abdomen. "All of you."

Her eyes went wide as they stared at eachother. He let go of her throat and let her slide down his staff to his hand before he pushed her back off and on to the ground. It was time to hunt and kill and watch the galaxy burn.

@[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Dredge]

With content in his eyes Dredge could see the village and temple burn, walking through the small path dredge's men began to hang the bodies of the villagers on the path to the now blazing village. "Lead me to the crystals lark." Scoffing and laughing afterwards Dredge kicked the broken knight having him load up into the transport ship. "Come lark, let us be off. Incubus come as well. All other forces canvas the forests for any survivors and capture the beasts of this planet."

Looking over to incubus he awaited the arrival of his prime thrall, truly this was a great field tear for it and he would admit that it far surpassed his expectations for a former human. He just needed to get to the crystals and begin to set up his factories on this world. @[member="Incubus"] @[member="Shimmra Rapuung"]

 

[Pyramid Head]

Following behind the Lord Dredge, he did not speak a word, only speaking when spoken to as a servant should. The master looked pleased, and this was a good thing. @[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Jorus Merrill]

Aurum. Pretty fething close to the uncharted, isolated Q-27 system that Jorus called home. A distress call had gone out, a deep-space satellite had picked it up, and a certain YV-929 had gotten here at a mindboggling 0.2 past hyper. Then cloaked and gone atmo.

He'd spent the flight listening to static. The Theran Listeners could hear and translate speech from far away, he'd acquired a little knowledge of their arts, but a little was not a lifetime. He could wait.

For that, anyway. Not to get to Aurum. No, when it came to getting to Aurum, patience was the last thing on his mind. The cloaked ship settled down in the forest behind a Vong patrol sweep. He left Beyyr, Miktik, and Iron Giant manning the fort. A Tenloss Ambassador revolver on each hip, a knife at his back, a belt of immense shotgun shells, and one Mandalorian shell gun later, Captain Jorus Merrill descended the ramp inside the hibridium field's darkness, and stepped out into the light of the jungle. He set off through the trees for the burning village and Je'daii temple.

He'd called @[member="Spencer Jacobs"], and picked her up on the way. The Je'daii mattered to her an awful lot. There was an army here, and a fleet too.

Talk about a target-rich environment.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Jorus Merrill"]

An army of Vong, an entire fleet. A blazing inferno, death everywhere. Target rich environment. What better place for the Butcher of Gehenna? Besides, say what you want about Jorus Merrill, Lord of the Hyperlanes, he always found the best parties. Of the explosive variety and so she had jumped at the call.

It was to be doubted that she knew much about the Je'daii, for ancient history was not something she excelled at, nor did the nuances of force theology interest her, but far as she was concerned Vong were abominations much like the Bando Gora. Come to think of it, the Chaos worshippers actually had their own version of the embrace of pain. So here she was, MK1 boltgun at the ready, a belt of spare magazines with all ammunition types, and a ridiculous amount of firepower that someone slightly saner might have seen as overkill at her disposal. But then overkill had worked terribly well against hordes of Reavers during the Grand Inquisition.

She descended down the ramp and followed Jorus into the depths of the jungle. One only needed to follow the flames and the screams.

 

[Dredge]

"I will be off with my new pet, Rapuung, mop up any resistance will you?" Hoping in the transport Dredge left his two warriors to deal with any stragglers while he went off to take care of the crystal caves located on this planet. The settlers had all been slain, there was no saving them now. All that could be done was avenge them, "Tell me lark, what was life like before I showed up? Hmm was it fun? Did you watch as I had everyone you loved butcherd?" Giving the one armed man a pat on his back he laughed at his broken shell of a tour guide then began to have him direct him to the mines

"Now point to the mines Lark." Having the force user point the way dredge clapped his hands and looked to his pet. "Tell me Incubus do you enjoy the time we are having? I know I am, it's been so long since I've butchered innocence." He said as happy as ever. @[member="Incubus"] @[member="Jorus Merrill"] @[member="Shimmra Rapuung"]

((I'm sorry but who invited you all, not trying to be mean or anything but you guys just showing up out of the woodwork is starting to confuse me since I didn't get a memo))

 

[Pyramid Head]

The creature listened as it was ordered, following in behind the overlord, enemies were here, and he needed to be at his top watch, and awareness to keep him safe. "I live to serve you master." If he was even truly a alive anymore. The one armed knight guided into the cave of crystals. What made these things so special, he didn't know. @[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Jorus Merrill]

OOC note - Dredge and I have talked. We cool.

IC/

@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] and @[member="Spencer Jacobs"] as backup -- a man couldn't go wrong with those two demigods at his back. Jorus still kept a low profile as they made their way through the trees, squatting at last at the edge of the treeline. He peered through undergrowth with a small pair of macrobinoculars, zeroing in on the source of all that smoke. "Looks like there was a village here a couple hours back. Big main building would be the Je'daii temple. Gutted."

His macros caught the small figures nailed to the pillars, and the crucified Master on the roof, and suddenly he felt very old. Wordless, he passed the macrobinoculars around.

"They've moved on. A few warriors left. Vong by the looks of'em, but damned if it's not just like a Bando Gora reaver strike." He selected two huge shells, slotted them into his shotgun. "They say the Vong once added an enemy to their gods, a dude named Ganner Rhysode. Like what the Gora did with you, Sio. Whaddaya say? You ready to join another pantheon?"

The beskar shotgun clicked back together with a sound like a stone door closing hard.

 

[Dredge]

IN THE AIR TO CRYSTAL CAVE 1

It was safe to say at this point dredge felt like a child in a candy shop, as the transport followed the knights directions they stopped above a large cave structure. "This is it, we are here." He said with pain in his voice. "Lovely lark, now fly my little bird." With a large boot dredge kicked the man off the transport and sent him to his death a few hundred feet on the ground. "Gods that never gets old." He said as the transport began to slowly touch down on the cave site. "Incubus, we are headed back to the temple. A few cruisers will touch down and begin to set up operations on this side of the mountain. I wish to see this place become a monument to our victory." Sending the coordinates to the fleet the drop ship flew back over to the temple beneath them smoke and ruin of the village. They would arrive shortly but for now Yuuzhan Vong patrols still swept the area looking for survivors.

WOODS OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE
A platoon of twenty Yuuzhan Vong patrolled the forest Jorus and friends found themselves in, as for Dredge's orders they were under the command of the new war master Shimmra in his absence. Coming through the woods in their Vonduun armor the warriors spoke in their native tongue to one another. They were in earshot of the force users but whether they spoke Vong or not was not known <Did you see the Overlord gut the Jedi dog? It's been too long since we've killed their kind.> one of the grunts said to the other <Yeah, it was almost as good as seeing that padawan we captured on the moon of Morje. He's undefeated still I think.> as the platoon made small talk coming the woods little did they know of the threat inside. All they needed to know were their orders, and right now their orders were to find anything that wasn't with them and kill them. "The collectors are coming down to gather the wildlife. Be sure to get out of their section when they arrive." The platoon sergeant said in basic. @[member="Jorus Merrill"] @[member="Incubus"] @[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] @[member="Shimmra Rapuung"]

 

[Pyramid Head]

Incubus watched the body fall as he screamed. That was mercy on Dredge's side, he had no clue. When you have a seven foot five Sith spawn by your side, getting kicked off a ship was like dying in your sleep in aspects of what Dredge could have done. "My Lord, I believe that makes a new record of hilarious deaths." He amused his master. Complements were short coming from Incubus when he was not spoken to.

Incubus began walking around the transport, watching the jungle, protecting the overlord. "What is a Jerrick my master?" He asked. @[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Allyson Locke]

Spencer followed the two close behind, she had studied the Je'daii for some time even her own philosophy was formulated around their own. Taking in the sight of the dead, the once bubbly individual soon grew cold. Anger bubbled beneath her surface, but for the sale of her alignment she fought the emotions down. They were children and they were slaughtered, the sight made her question why would or could anyone bring a child into this hellish galaxy. The only answer she could give herself was hope. Hope that the next generation could stop this mindless bloodshed.

She couldn't sense them through the force, but the force born master looked toward Jorus. "I have a bad feeling about where we are...You think we should head down and check out the area? For any clues and possibly give them a props burial? " Spencer was hopeful, but she understood that now may not be the time. "I don't sense anything...stay alert..."




@[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]@[member="Jorus Merrill"]@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Dredge]

"It's not important Incubus, just a dead man. That is all." As the transport loomed above head dredge looked down at the burning village, "Pull our men back. Send the collectors in to rummage through the rest for survivors." In the distance from the small band of good guys Dredge could be seen on his personal transport hanging above the temple. Another settlement had been spotted not to far from here and it was due for a visit. The Vong In the forests got word from their master and slowly began to pull out the area. Still within earshot of the forcers but they had not made them.

A storm was coming to the area, a storm of metal and fire was on its way. "Let us be off incubus, we need to gain volunteers." As Dredges transport fired up and flew out into the sun the small forces that were here continued to pack up and get ready to move on. Only a few drop ships remained behind and a solid twenty men. They would be slim pickings but what wa coming would certainly be more of a fight. @[member="Spencer Jacobs"] @[member="Incubus"] @[member="Jorus Merrill"] @[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] @[member="Shimmra Rapuung"]

 

[Pyramid Head]

Whatever this dead man was people sure had a thing for him, apart from this the transport began its way to the other settlement. "It would wise if you say on the transport my Lord, for you're safety, and front viewing." He chose each word carefully, spawn was to protect the overlord, and do his bidding. If required, it could react on its own initiative to protect the Vong without orders given.

With Czar armor skin, there wasn't much that could harm the demon, and he was supremely stronger then any being of average.

Jerrick, must of have been a soldier, a horrible one if he was dead. His mind trotted back to watching the area carefully, taking in all the details. The vong soldiers made their way to the village. Soon more blood shed, and screams would fill this planets air. Nothing would stop, nothing could stop it. @[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]
@[member="Spencer Jacobs"]

 

[Dredge]

"It would be wise if you didn't tell me what to do. Lest I put you back on that rock where I found you." Asserting himself onto the sith spawn he gave him a death glare before chuckling "Nah I'm just messing with you, but really I go where I please." Flying over the forest the Vong began to drop a few fire bombs over the woods from out the sides of the transport. Looking down dredge chuckled at the sight of the dry timber being set ablaze. The next settlement was in for a rude awakening for whoever had decided to stay. They would be there shortly but for now, it was just nice to watch it burn @[member="Incubus"]