Toiling On Tabaqui [Levantine Sanctum Dominion of Tabaqui]

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Delila Castillon"]

"Yeah, I'd appreciate it. If I hear anything interestin', I'll give you a call."

Fire slackened; he popped up again and sent two eight-gauge barrels' worth of concussion round downwind. He caught a glimpse of Castillon's rifle fire, suppressing a nearby position.

"Thanks for the opening."

 

[Danger Arceneau]

[member="Judah Dashiell"]

Danger was pleased that the initial design was looked fondly upon.

"Indeed. It would be a bit more costly-- but if also use this to venture into eco friendly solutions, this could potentially impact other worlds for the benefit of both companies." if one is investing in one project, might as well make sure that it can suit another.

"Sustainable methods of using farming techniques within the lilypad designs would make sure that we can maximize their output for any needs."

 

[Tamara]

[member="Judah Dashiell"]
This writer acknowledges they’ve been somewhat left behind, but no matter. All for the greater good!

“Tamara, Mr Dashiell. I was hoping I might be able to offer you my assistance in this matter. Ms Arceneau is a rather impressive woman,” she added, looking at the redhead who used her assets like siege artillery in the battle of the sexes.

“I can’t compete with that. But what I can offer is some insider knowledge. Not far from your proposed design is a cave containing some rather beautiful sights for your customers. The cave contains natural crystals of many colours…unusable for lightsabres the Jedi say…but still something of a tourist attraction for you. The caves also contain some natural hot springs which likewise could be very useful. If you had the time I could show you….”

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Maya Whitelight"], [member="Delila Castillon"], [member="Kaida Taldir"]

It seemed as though a lot of events has passed Nantaris by. So he turned to the Zeltron and smiled.
“It seems like I have been left with your company, dear lady. I account this a great privilege. Please, call me Nantaris, may I call you Maya, or would you prefer Zeltron Goddess?” Valiens Nantaris, shameless romantic of the age.

From there he went to see the refugees whilst Kaida and Delila left to work with a certain Jorus Merrill.
The people knew him, and most of them appreciated his help. Some, whose wives may or may not have been ‘helped’ more than they would have liked, were less welcoming, but kept it hidden.

“So, what is my objective, what is it that I have to do?” he as the universe in general.

 

[Maya Carrick]

Giving both of the ladies their respect more so then was spoken in words. They was the ones out their being a painted target. Galaxy help the ones that would want to take target at those to they look like they could handle about anything. Let herself watch them get past her line of sight. Finding her wondering eyes back on the one that still left standing, then back where the others two had disappeared. Wasn't like she didn't get a bad feeling from this one then again most she didn't get a bad feeling from.

"Are you just a charmer, Maya would be find, I'm no Goddess by any mean,", as she have a blush a bit if a Zeltron could even do something like that. After giving her eyes towards the village only to get a strange rush of feeling from him this causing her to smirk a little bit. This one she would need to watch closely.

"First things first would be to open communication that the villager know we mean only good will with supplies.", , after all they here with the other group working in the run down city for the greater good of this planet.

"Well, are you going first or you want me to take the lend."

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Tamara"], [member="Judah Dashiell"]


It was at this moment that Siobhan arrived on the scene. Well, wherever Judah and the time traveller/not!time traveller Tamara were. Presumably that was somewhere in the base camp. In the indeterminate amount of time that had passed the situation with Eyrecae had been resolved. What had happened exactly?


Well, you have to read this thread for that! Because this writer is too lazy to post a summary.


Anyhow, clearly having only one woman in the camp who, as Tamara had so eloquently put it, used her assets as siege artillery was not enough, so here was the other one who happened to be on the planet! Well, presumably heavy armour was not particularly figure-hugging, but whatever.


"Making progress in the town, Mr Dashiell. Well, what's left of it. Still got some holdouts but large numbers of bandits and warlord's militia are giving themselves up. Better for PR that way," she spoke before the enigmatic time traveller caught her eye. Well, Siobhan had not participated in the mask of madness episode where they had travelled into the past. Come to think of it, that had all been an illusion anyway.


"I'd ask how you showed up here, but you wouldn't give me a straight answer anyway! Nice to meet you again, Tamara."

 

[Tamara]

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"], [member="Judah Dashiell"]

Tamara had sensed Siobhan approached, though she gave no indication before the other woman spoke. Didn’t want to give herself away to Judah unless necessary after all!
“On the contrary, Siobhan, I arrived here on Mr Dashiell’s ship,” she said with a smile, extending a hand. “Nice to see you again too, Ms Kerrigan. I was just explaining to our host here about a series of caves near the shore. Beautiful place.” She gave Siobhan a look. “Now that you’re here though it’ll probably be filled with sea monsters….”

 

[Judah Dashiell]

[member="Tamara"] | [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] | [member="Danger Arceneau"]


"Great, I'm sure the crews appreciate your hard work. Not wanting to get shot and all." Slightly amused by Firemane's sudden approach to PR, Judah kept quiet on that note. Besides, it seemed the two women knew one another in some form or fashion. Small galaxy. Then again, if it was female and mildly attractive Judah should have expected Siobhan to make her presence known.


"Very interesting Miss Tamara. Before Miss Kerrigan showed up here I thought you were dragging me away for more murderous purposes. Perhaps we could all go down? Not sure of my cave exploring skills.......Anyways, Miss Tamara, this is a business of yours? Guided tours? You shouldn't worry about competing with Miss Arceneau. Won an auction and now she's backing this project. I'm sure she wants to keep an eye on it."


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"Sustainable farming will be useful for the guests. Less food we would have to import." Lenora looked back to the other group. "Should we join them Miss Arceneau? Looks like they might not be done for awhile."

 

[Danger Arceneau]

[member="Judah Dashiell"]

Danger gave a nod. "Of course." she'd say, rising back to her feet.

"Lead the way."

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Judah Dashiell"], [member="Tamara"]


Siobhan took the proferred hand and shook it firmly. Unfortunately for her, Tamara was one of those women fully immune to her charms and...considerable assets. No matter how hard she tried. Needless to say this was a concept that Siobhan had some difficulty wrapping her mind around.


"Cave diving tour? Sounds good. I'm down," Siobhan said. Not like she had anything else to do, so nothing could go amiss with exploring caves, killing sea monsters and taking their loot if there was any. As for Eyrecae, she was presently under lock and key due to events described in another thread. Given the way things were proceeding in the town Siobhan was sure her minions could do without her for a while.

 

[Tamara]

[member="Judah Dashiell"], [member="Danger Arceneau"], [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

Tamara made a vague gesture. “No, Mr Dashiell, not a business at all. I had some inside information about this place, and I figured you might find it useful. After all, what’s a resort without a tourist attraction? Perhaps you could set up a concession stand down there and sell t-shirts with ‘My life-partner went to the cave of wonders and all I got was this lousy shirt’?” she asked sweetly.

“I’m sure nothing can go wrong now at all,” Tamara told Siobhan.

Unfortunately for Siobhan, they were soon joined by another woman immune to her Sapphic charms.
“Ms Arceneau, a pleasure to meet you at last,” Tamara said pleasantly, offering a hand. It was certainly a day of handshakes!

 

[Kaida Taldir]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

Location: Site Two, random forest!
Objective: Freeze people...err...help the Levantines restore peace!


And so we are back with another episode on the Chaos Express: Space Hippie Edition. Now with an extra dose of frostiness!


The last time we were following Kaida she and her band of elves, who were slightly less racist and narrow-minded than their brethren since they understood that the horribly outdated Eldorai stasers and slugthrowers were useless in modern combat and that they should adapt to human tech, were stalking around in a forest. Said forest was rather picturesque, untouched by the pollution and industry, with trees standing high and proud and birds happily chirping. The flora and fauna was beautiful and any naturalist would have loved to admire the scenery to take pictures of the wild life.


Well, as a matter of fact things were a good deal less idyllic at present and rather than chirping the birds were taking to flight at the first sign of danger. No, dear reader, not because Danger Arceneau was there. But because plenty of people were shooting at each other. Undoubtedly once the smoke had cleared the vultures would swoop down to feast upon the dead, for thus was the cycle of nature.


In the meantime native bandits got gunned down. The small wind had wrecked havoc amongst their ranks, gripping bandits and smashing them into against trees. Likewise blaster bolts roasted limbs quite nicely so that dead bodies smelt like a good barbeque. It was freezin' time! Tabaqui was bloody hot, though not as oppressively as Dahomey and the air was humid. There was enough moisture to work with, it just took a larger degree of concentration.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K0LB9hCa_Q


This writer has been watching this vid far too many times. Specifically the scene from 4: 07 is of relevance to this post. Minus the part about the blonde cryomancer freezing herself and then shattering upon being struck by a bullet since that's obviously not applicable.


Anyhow, as raiders, trying to regain some form of organisation after their beasts had been driven away and the wind had torn into their lines, rained down slug rounds upon them, Kaida concentrated and harnessed her Sciia to manipulate the water molecules in the air, exerting her energies. It took a lot more of those because it was quite hot here, but the natives had crappy weapons and she had plenty of energy. Lips acquired a bluish tint and her eyes seemed crystalline as she drew upon her power, expelling it in a powerful, cryokinetic blast that swept through the forest ahead and pretty much acted like a Force-based cryoban round, just more powerful and wide-ranged. Death charging bandits and those still in cover were caught in the radius of the blast and frozen, rendered unable to move as they were encased in ice. With the sun mercilessly shining down upon them the ice blocks turned steamy and shattered as shots came flying and Kaida exerted her powers to punch through them much like a icebreaker, with the result being dead or badly incapacitated bandits. A last raider, who had apparently been canny enough to sneak up instead of charging fell to her blade as her lightsabre dazzled into existence in a flash and scythed him in half, his sword being unable to penetrate her armour.

 

[Delila Castillon]

[member="Jorus Merrill"] | [member="Kaida Taldir"]


"Yeah...not a problem."


Delila remained covered in the brush as she watched the raiders flee. She wasn't completely cold as to shoot them down as they ran. Wasn't one of those soldiers that killed because they could. Or because they had some weird power trip. Distantly, the redhead was certain she heard a lightsaber. Perhaps it was her imagination. Either way, she cautiously stood and stretched a little.


Blaster rifle went back into the ready position. It was time to finish patrolling the perimeter after all.

 

[Judah Dashiell]

[member="Tamara"] | [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] | [member="Danger Arceneau"]


"Of course Miss Arceneau" Not wanting to be rude, Lenora lead the way. Voices grew louder as she walked closer. There was talk of an underwater cavern system or something. Did the engineers catch that? Well, if Miss Arceneau got her way, the resort would be a floating one. Bedrock stability was out of the picture in such a case. Lenora remained quiet as Danger and the others caught up. It wasn't her place.


"I'm sure if we all get eaten alive by sea monsters it won't be in vain. After all, Miss Tamara has a point. They could see t-shirts immortalizing our untimely deaths." Out of the corner of his eye, Miss Arceneau was making her way up the sandy beach. It proved useful to have her join the land of the living so to speak.


"Thank you for joining us Miss Areceneau. You may want to remain topside. We're about to do a little underwater cave diving. Miss Tamara, I do hope you've brought some sort of oxygen tanks. My wife didn't lend my her gills for this outing."

 

[Kaida Taldir]

[member="Delila Castillon"], [member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Valiens Nantaris"]


After the brutal onslaught the last raiders in the area where Kaida was patrolling turned tail and fled. Her lightsabre was switched off and reattached to her belt. No need to charge after the survivors and hack them down because she could. If they attacked again they would simply be mowed down.


She sent a comm message to Dells. "My area's clear." As usual Kaida was, you might have guessed it, terribly laconic. But then it was not the time for small talk anyway.

 

[Danger Arceneau]

[member="Judah Dashiell"] | [member="Tamara"] | [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

"A pleasure ladies and gentlebeings," Danger would say as Lenora brought her to the rest of the group. After the series of handshakes and pleasantries were done, she'd pan her gaze over to Judah.

"Underwater cave diving is it?" she'd ask curiously.

"Whatever for?" she'd ask as her assistant would hand her the sunglasses again.

 

[Judah Dashiell]

[member="Danger Arceneau"]


Judah blinked. Apparently Danger wasn't one to visit the outdoors often.


"For fun. There's a bit of thrill to it, as its not the safest idea in the world. Half of these rich types are dead inside. Nothin' like potentially facing a watery grave to get the blood flowin' and liven 'em up."

 

[Danger Arceneau]

[member="Judah Dashiell"] must have forgotten that Danger was born and breed on Tatooine -- twin suns and not a single sea nor lake in sight. Scuba diving was, well... unheard of for her.

She'd arch a brow.

"Is that so?" she'd reply slowly with contemplation. Curious. "In that case, I'll leave you be to take to the waters. I'm sure there are other scouting locations and the like I can get to while here for the venues."

She then would slip the sunglasses on.

 

[Thurion Heavenshield]

Rashemen Village
Tabaqui, Tingel Arm

Once the supplies had all been unpackaged, the villagers flocked to the various items they'd brought. Some favoured the off-world technology, common stuff most of the galaxy would consider standard. No weapons, obviously, but rather items that would aid them during harvesting season, construction of houses or repairing existing ones, and other various tools. Another crowd pleaser was the off-world food, of which they'd brought samples of. The elders were hesitant to try out the strange foods, but the younglings had no trouble enjoying them, especially the many sweets.

Leaving Coci and Nina to tend to the supplies and accustom themselves to the village itself, Thurion and the village elder Obrion went for a walk together, patrolling the premises and speaking of what ails Rashemen. "That bad, huh?" he replied with concern in his voice. "Indeed", said Obrion. "We have managed to keep the bandits from causing any real harm, through gifts of food and various other 'tributes', as they call it. But my people have been bled dry, I'm afraid, and we have nothing else to give, nothing to keep them from attacking us the next time they come here. We can spare no more food, else we'll starve before next harvest season, and these ruffians only care about three things: gold, food, and... women."

Thurion grimaced in disgust. "When we have nothing else to give, and they still want more, they single out one of our women to go with them. To become their slave." Obrion shook his weary head, making his long, grey hair and beard both sway in unison. "Six women, so far. All younger than you would fear. They will want more in the coming months." The two resumed their walk. "I will help you. We both will, Coci and I."

[member="Coci Sinopi"]

 

[Nina Heavenshield]

Rashemen Village
Tabaqui, Tingel Arm

Watching her father leave alongside the old man with the long beard, Nina was left in Coci's care. She helped wherever she could in distributing the supplies, most notably she would walk around with a big cookie jar and offer cookies to the villagers. This was the first time she'd ever been around and actually interacting with so many people at once, and while she much preferred to remain by herself or in the company of Thurion, and lately Coci, she could understand the appeal of what her father enjoyed doing so much, and she also understood why they were here doing what they did.

Once most of the supplies had been distributed, she and Coci were able to relax and take in the quiet nature of Rashemen Village together. Wide eyes observed everything going on around them as the people resumed their chores; fishing in the nearby lake, tending the crops, and various other duties, all equally important. Nothing they ever did seemed to lack a purpose. Nina soon found Coci's hand and grasped it with both hands, even going so far as to nuzzle her forehead against it. A sign of affection for her new friend.

[member="Coci Sinopi"]