Winter Is Coming [SSC Dominion of Midvinter]

[Kaida Taldir]

@Aerin Firebrand

(10/20)

Without wasting any more words, for such was not her style, Kaida climbed up on the horse Aerin was riding and settled down behind her. As soon as she had done this the Valkyri cavalry broke into a gallop, riding boldly and well...well, not into the jaws of death! This was good because the Eldorai was not fond of Charge of the Light Brigade actions.


Meta commentary aside the warriors rode onward towards the village. Ranks of the undead monstrosities sought to impede their path, but they were trampled down by the horses as they broke through them at full speed, crushed or cut down with fire and sword. Kaida did her part to cleat the way by slicing through zombies who tried to pull her and the shieldmaiden down or by simply freezing them solid with blasts of cold that seemed to congeal the air.


Very soon they had reached the village, for it still stood intact and had not yet been overrun by the undead. Doubtless it was just the calm before the storm. The moment of relief the Valkyri probably felt at being reunited with their brethren would not last long. A breath of cold steam escaped Kaida's mouth as she removed her helmet. Cold wind kissed her skin, but she did not seem to mind. Then again, she was the sort who welcomed the cold and ice.


Her armour was stained with blood, zombie innards and grime from the skirmish in the forest. Likewise it was covered in snow and frost. Climbing down from the horse she surveyed the area. The village was fortified, but obviously not built to withstand a massive zombie onslaught. In an ideal situation soldiers with bolters and repeaters would be standing on those walls, ready to rain down carnage on the horde. Land mines would have been laid, ensuring that the beasts' charge would be channelled into a well-prepared kill zone. Gunships dropping napalm or incendiary bombs upon the plains would not go amiss either. Or just have Angelii pyromancers bathe it in flames. However, things were not ideal and the people here were technologically backward, so she would deal.


She tilted her head slightly as she surveyed the ranks of archers who were standing sentinel, wielding bows and crossbows. "How many fighters does this village have? Any artillery, such as ballistae? Preferrably launching incendiary bolts." A ballista firing oil-based incendiary weapons would be nice. Catapult would be even nicer, but an isolated village probably would not have one.


([member="Coci Heavenshield"] - tagging you on this account since using the other one is not working for me!))

 

[Ren Colvet]

Objective: Regroup
Location: Forest of Fafnersvik/ Outskirts of the Village
Allies Nearby: [member="Connor Harrison"] [member="Syala Daivik"]
Enemies: The Undead
Items: Lightsaber (Green), Black Cloak

(4/20)

Connor was fast.

Ren had been doing his best to keep up with the elder man, but unfortunately, the tolls of using almost all his physical strength were starting to affect him and he was starting to become tired at an alarming rate.

But then, out of nowhere, he heard a voice. It was soft and reassuring. Was it the woman who had been talking to Connor? Before he had time to respond, he felt someone grab him by his arm.

It was the woman.

Ren complied with her motion and ran behind her as they slashed and hacked through the mob of grotesque, undead cretins. It felt like an eternity as they tried to make it past. Suddenly, he saw it, the end of the hoard, they had made it through!

Up ahead he saw the village, he ran a little bit faster.

It was a lot more quiet. The shabby little town was riddled with despair. Ren felt sorry for all the families that were abandoning their homes.

The woman spoke to him as he pondered, "I would suggest that you rest yourself and perhaps meditate. If you would like to speak, I am more than happy to listen, I'm always willing to help."

Ren responded almost immediately:

"No no, I'm good, I'm fine, I don't need to rest. Wait. Did you just say you would listen to me? But you're..."

He paused in a desperate search for words, but they all escaped him, and so his sentence hung in the open.

Which made things all the more awkward.

 

[Lief]

[2/20]

Evacuate And Safeguard Citizens
This one's writer thinks that she can continue this story now... Sorry for the early post last time!

Mysa, along with the fellow Jedi and volunteers who made up her particular evacuation team, brought the evacuees out of the main town, taking care to ensure they used a path which bore none of the undead ilk who were likely too focused on the defenders to notice them slip by. It was too cold out for anyone to be chattering, and besides many of the Valkyri knew the dangers they were up against. It didn't stop the fear, or the worry, but they knew not to panic. They knew to follow the Jedi to safety.

There was a shelter nearby; Mysa wasn't sure if other evac-teams had the same luxury, some would likely be holed up in the town still, in the most defensible spot, while others would have to trek further out in the snow and hope that they didn't get noticed. But she couldn't ask questions about the others, they were as in the dark as some of the townspeople - not that they would be told as much - at least they would be until they could hunker down and discreetly speak with the other teams. It wasn't safe to try it now, the comm-noise might attract the undead to their whereabouts.

Finally coming out of the snow and into a well-built bunker which was down within the snow, Mysa stepped to one side and helped the children down without letting them slip or fall. There were few places to sit, and fewer to sleep, but it kept the worst of the elements from them and it was far enough from the battlefield that they would hopefully be safe. That was what some of the saber-wielding Jedi were for, incase that plan fell through and the hordes came for them. Mysa hoped it would not come to that, she did not know how to fight. She did not know how she could help save to keep the children distracted.

Without a word the little girl began to hand out blankets, resting them over the shoulders of those too cold or in shock to properly function. It was terrifying to see people this way, but she could not become as motionless as they were. That was not her task here, she had a duty to these people. She would do [member='Thurion Heavenshield'] and [member='Coci Heavenshield'] proud. She would prove that she too could one day be a Jedi!

She put that from her mind. This was not about her, this was not about her path or her future. This was about the people she saw around her now. The men and women too old or weak to fight. The children too young and afraid. She was a defender of Civilization, and right now one was falling. She could not allow any harm to come to those in her care.

Settling upon the ground beside a group of children, who all bore the same hair and eyes - presumably siblings - Mysa threw a blanket around them and gave her best reassuring smile. "It's okay" she whispered, not wishing to disturb the peace which was built up inside the bunker. Or was that tension? "Everything will be okay, you'll be going home soon. It's safe here, and wherever your mommy and daddy are they're safe too." She felt a pang of guilt, for how could she know for certain? Still her face didn't betray her uncertainty. She had to trust in the Force, and they had to trust in her.

"Would you like to play a game?" she asked, in her best non-saw voice. ( ) Reaching into her pack she pulled out a deck of cards and handed it to the oldest child. He managed a smile, likely understanding what she was doing and saying nothing to draw attention to their dire situation. Instead he began to divvy up the cards, before seeing another small child alone to one side. The boy kissed the top of his sister's head and stood up, and Mysa watched as he wandered to the child and offered him a hand. Together with the siblings the children quietly sat in one corner and played card games; she knew they would still worry, but hopefully it would be less prominent for a little while.

Rising up Mysa left them to it and joined one of the Jedi who was busy making warm drinks on the other side of the room. She glanced around the faces of the evacuees, empty and barren of hope. Force save them all.

 

[George O Rourke]

Location: Forrest into City.
Objective: March/defend Fafnersvik
[6/20]

As George continued to step back parrying the blades and axes that continued to come he needed an exit strategy, something to give him some time and some space to re cooperate and prepare another attack. The Valkyri warriors around him continued to fight the undead horde, it was an amazing sight, the Valkyri warriors fighting with their hearts on their sleeves for the people they live with. They obviously didn't have the type of weapons the coalition brought, but they continued to fight and fight till the end. Many were slain but they continued to fight, knowing that if they didn't each and every one of them would be wiped out.

As George was still moving backwards with the force of the incoming blades and axes he managed to conjure up another blast of the force, knocking the undead back and allowing George to get a handle on himself and his lightsaber. As he took a step forward he unleased with attacking blows, forcing the once attacking creatures into a defensive stance. As it continued something changed. The undead completely left George, wondering back fighting thin air. Another illusion? George was well aware of the severity of illusions, having succumb to the pressures and intensity of one before. This time it worked in his favour. As a loud voice bellowed orders to the Valkyri Grandmaster [member="Thurion Heavenshield"] had his own orders, to regroup. As the Valkyri warriors prepared a defensive wall around the entire army the undead had no opportunity to make it through the thick defence that was the Valkyri warriors. George moving with the crowd watching the undeads failing attempts on attacking the army within he extinguished his blade placing it back on his hip before moving on with the walk into the city.

As the snow stopped and the sun shined the battle changed, it seemed much like the sky that the battle was stopping, as the gates of the city opened allowing the army inside. A sigh of relief exited his mouth much to the feelings of all around them. They had some time to prepare for the ensured attack that would be coming in the following hours. his clothes were bloody and wet with both sweat and the melted snow. Should I wash these or just replace them? The though ran through his head. Of course I'll wash these bad boys. He replied in thought as he felt the fabric under his fingers. Now, time to find the Grandmaster and Master Coci. See how things are going. He moved through the crowd of people. As he made his way to the Heavenshields he could see the exhaustion emanating from both of them. "Grandmaster, Master Coci. Are you both alright?" George asked as they stood in the middle of the city. Grandmaster holding his dear wife in protection and love. It was something to see, the love and passion they had for one another fighting side by side, it was amazing it see, a real uplifting thing. George continued. "Was that you Master Coci, who created the illusion for the Vinterbound? It was quite something." He asked Master [member="Coci Heavenshield"]. He waited for their response as he too took in some deep breaths as he prepared himself for the next battle.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Outside City
11/20

The sounds of the undead moving around in the woods were still coming as Matsu ran, leaping to a tree and kicking off to launch towards the city. She was making better time now and landed in the center of a horde spinning around with the circlet and the disc saber coming out as she threw it with the twin white blades went in a saber barrier that severed bodies and cleaved into them before she was moving and catching the blade as it reconnected spinning with her saber making a path when she got back to the wall running up then jumping backwards to slash a head off.

 

[Vilaz Munin]

Location: Village
Allies: Silver Sanctum Coalition and Valkyri
Enemies: The Walking Dead
Objective: Defend the Village

Anyone who was within the Shield Wall had nothing to worry about as the giant humanoids mushed together against the dangers of the undead. The few that were strays and not distracted by the work of Coci would be ran over by the approach of the army as they all sought to escape this dark forest that had Death written all over it. Corpses littered the forest, blood was painted all over the snowy ground, and a foul smell of both rotten corpses and fresh blood filled the air. The Mandalorian had seen worse, yet he admitted that this was a disgusting sight to witness. Thankfully, they were about to exit the dead forest as bright light could be seen and some decaying trees marked the border of the forest.

A beautiful landscape was set before them as the Rally Master and the rest of the company unlike the one they had passed through. Everything was fair and alive. It was a good thing that the horde of Vinterbounds they had fought and escaped from hadn't begun attacking and destroying everything that was a symbol of life. Though, that didn't mean the forces coming from the dark forest would soon attack the village.

The wooden gates of the village opened for them and were soon greeted by the Valkyri humanoids residing in the village. Children, the elderly, and the women were immediately ordered to take whatever that was necessary after they had gave a warm welcome to the company of Thurion. The Warrior wouldn't take a moment of rest knowing that the enemy could strike any moment now. He activated his repulsorpack after giving a verbal command to Control System of his beskar'gam and flew to a watch tower, and had many people watch him fly as if it was magic before them. Taking a few seconds for Vilaz he entered a vacant tower and holstered both of his pistols and grabbed his crossbow which he then reloaded with another monomolecular bolt. The antenna with a rangefinder that was attached to the right side of his buy'ce lowered down to the level of his eyes. He was the eye in the sky and if anything emerged from the first he would not hesitate to neutralize it.

[member=Thurion Heavenshield] [member=Coci Heavenshield] [member=Connor Harrison] [member="Matsu Ike"] [member="George O Rourke"] [member="Mysa Snowstrider"] [member="Ren Colvet"] [member="Kaida Taldir"] [member=Boo Chiyo] [member=Syala Daivik]

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

[member="Kaida Taldir"]

She smiled at the woman's question. The Village did not have such things as she asked for, at least not of any notable size or range needed. "No, but we can do something else", she replied. During the battle for Midvinter, the enemy had employed such weapons and had use a trench filled with oil to light when the warrior of Dawnbringer advanced. Aerin had turned that 'weapon' back on them and used it to their advantage.

Aerin turned to her second in command of the Cavalry, "Take some riders and go into the village, find as much oil and anything what will combust rapidly and bring it to me, bench, carts, wagons .. anything". They will not have time to dig a trench but they can form a combustible 'wall'.

The Silver Jedi and allies are behind the walls of the township safe for now. The cavalry will remain outside and form up a defensive wall to light when the horde approaches. It will not stave them off entirely or for long but it will be effective to buy more time and deplete their numbers by degrees. There is more than one person on the field of battle that has the ability to 'play with fire'.

Master of alter environment, Aerin can turn a pit fire into an inferno. A smoldering firebrand .. that she is. And so Aerin gently encourage her horse forward at full gallop to find a suitable location for the wall.


(10)

 

[Audren Sykes]

Objective: Prepare Fafnersvik Defenses
Location: Fafnersvik Walls
Allies: The Silver Sanctum
Enemies: Vinterbound, Elements
Post: [3/20]
Gear: QQ-15L-3 | QQ-83n | SMG | Lightsaber

Fighting was still going on by the time Audren was ready to rejoin. Two steps out though, a massive horn call sounded twice and one of the lead Valkyri called out to form a shieldwall on him. Unusual, but as warriors and Jedi both started fighting their way towards the man the Padawan decided the more expedient method would be to join them. If he was lucky he could still contribute, maybe shooting out between gaps in the shields.

Who was he kidding?

Once he entered the shieldwall, the Sephi found that he could barely even see over the shoulders of the gigantic warriors, and that was if he was lucky. There were no gaps in the shieldwall except for arriving beings and those trickled off fairly soon. The few survivors left out there - and there were a couple, his sensitive ears could hear the shouts - were on their own. Another annoyingly-loud blast of the horn and the shield wall moved. A casual person might not expect the large warriors to move quickly, but for all their bulk, weapons, and armor their long legs ate up distance like nobody's business. Vinterbound smashed against shields as the group moved, and at least one Jedi stayed outside the shield wall as an extra layer of protection. Audren had a sudden stab of jealousy - there's no way he'd be able to do anything like that and keep up with the group. Not yet, anyways.

Before long they were breaking free from the treeline, and only minutes after that they were entering the town of Fafnersvik. Much to his surprise, it turned out that one of the Jedi who'd stayed outside was the youngling he'd seen talking to Grandmaster Heavenshield during the training event. The one who held himself differently than the other children. That pretty much clinched the idea that he was something special. Once the gates were closed, the boy's lightsaber was deactivated and he went to his knees. Audren's initial reaction was to check and make sure the boy was alright, but he felt the stirring of the Force after just a single half-step and stopped. Instead, he headed to the nearest set of ladders along the wooden wall. Along the way he heard the comment about ballistae and incendiary bolts. He personally thought that the best ballistae would be ones that scattered a number of incendiary bolts on different paths. If they were as flammable as people seemed to think (he hadn't seen any results) they didn't need to be gored by a bolt, just hit by a little flame.

The platform that the Padawan clambered onto was one of the few with a watch on it The Valkyr spared the Sephi a glance and gave an approving nod at the blood and remains still on the whitened armor, then returned to his watch. The Mandalorian apparently had a similar idea, he'd used something to rocket into a watchtower. That was two angles covered. From what he'd seen though, the Vinterbound didn't quite stick to angles. In the forest they'd swarmed from all sides, though the fact that the majority had waited to ambush rather than simply attacking at first sight suggested some form of intelligence. Ten meters away was another platform; the two were connected only by the wooden wall itself. Just like back home. The Sephi stepped lightly from log to log, avoiding the sharp ones, and headed to the other platform. On either side was a drop of several meters, but falling to one side would only damage his pride, the other would put him outside the wall. The last few logs - all of the ones in front of the platform, in fact - were sharp, so he pulled on his stockpile of Force energy and leaped the last few meters. He landed solidly, prepared for the platform to sway or worse, but one built to take a Valkyr's weight did no such thing. Now there were at least three points covered, two of them with advanced weaponry.

[member="Vilaz Munin"] | [member="Sor-Jan Xantha"]

 

[Connor Harrison]

Objective: Defend Fafnersvik
Location: Outside Fafnersvik
Allies Near: [member="Ærin Firebrand"] | [member="Kaida Taldir"] | [member="Matsu Ike"]
Enemies: The Undead
Gear: Combat Armour | Blue Bladed Lightsaber
Post: #7 / 20

There would be a lot less to worry about than trees, Connor thought to himself as his blue blade carved the third trunk down, casing temporary obstacles between the forces of humanity and the forces of the undead. The trunks crashed over to the ground, kicking up a fountain of snow and dirt as each fell. More bodies pushed back, and the attacking beasts started to hold position, which didn’t feel good as it gave the impression this forest ambush was simply a warm-up to thin numbers and tire them out before the main attack.

Connor looped his arm around the shoulder of another, carrying them both forward out of the forest, to the village of Fafnersvik where already the perimeter guards were ready, the defences up and primitive looking warriors and weapons and horses on standby.

Killing his blade, Connor let go of the man he had moved with and turned around, stepping backwards to make sure nothing was following them, and turned again to walk to one on horseback he knew from Voss – Firebrand, looking more suited here than she ever had done around the tropical planet.

More faces milled around, most he wasn’t sure he knew. He stood by her mount and looked up.

”Firebrand, you ready? I sense this was only the tip of the attack to do nothing but tire out the men and separate your people, which they’ve succeeded in. Are those inside the village walls truly safe?”

The deathly cries of man and beast from inside the forest were echoing out still over the icy air, but now few and far between.

[member="Syala Daivik"] | [member="Ren Colvet"] | [member="Coci Heavenshield"] | [member="Thurion Heavenshield"] | [member="George O Rourke"] | [member="Coryn Raxis"] | [member="Arrik Terran"] | [member="Romeo Sin"] | [member="Boo Chiyo"] | [member="Audren Sykes"] | [member="Sor-Jan Xantha"] |

 

[Nima Tann]

Objective: Save yourself
Location: Near Fafnersvik
Allies: Team Mind Rape! ([member="Sumiko Tanaka"]), Silver Sanctum and Friends
Enemies: The White Walkers
3/20

She realized that the army was already on their way as she tried to reach them. Well, there were still zombies around and she had to destroy them if she wanted to catch up to them. Yet as she continued to slay the monsters one by one, she felt that her concentration with the Force was slowly decreasing as the exhaustion grew slightly. She realized that she was using a lot of Force to fight the nasty rotten corpses, of course it was a bad idea to get to the battlefield without getting a whole better. Then as she continued retreating back, she heard a voice again between the unintelligible voices, this one was crystal clear. And, it was a dark aura as well. And there were something about the zombies, which... they were attacking each other for some reason. And she had a strong hunch that it was the job of the one who was speaking with her.

"Actually I am trying to save myself right now. Not that noble of a job." She shouted while swinging her saber towards one of the zombies hands as it was coming her way. And continued, even in a fight the girl had time to speak. "I got the impression that you've heard them as well and have a good explanation of what's happening here right now? It's a bit weird..." She said, sending a Force Push towards the undead to get them out of her way and give her a bit breathing space, and added as there was now an opportunity to breathe as the dead stood at the ground for now. "Dead don't always become undead you know." It was the truth, even they lived in a fantasy world the dead shouldn't be able to live again.

She was either good or bad, she didn't care as long as the woman wasn't hostile against her, yet she was cautious against any attempt for an attack. And she would be more than happy if the woman had a good explanation about this whole situation since in her voice there was some knowledge, she could understand that.

[member="Thurion Heavenshield"] [member="Coci Heavenshield"] [member="Syala Daivik"] [member="Matsu Ike"] [member="Vilaz Munin"] [member="Ren Colvet"]

 

[Darth Libertas]

Objective: Research
Allies: The Dark Side, [member="Nima Tann"]
Enemies: Zombies, non-pragmatic Jedi.
Location: Near village
(11/20)


Sumiko paid the zombies no mind as they slaughtered each other in an Illyric frenzy of cannibalistic violence. Calmly she cut a piece of cloth and bandaged her wound. "They don't...unless someone of sufficient magicks pulls at the tether of life and death. It's mostly a waste of time for a sorcerer. The average zombie legion of doom has the tendency of devouring its creator," Sumiko said conversationally. As if they were not in the middle of a battlefield strewn with corpses. Once upon a time she had summoned a zombie. That had been fun, but then the creature tried to eat her, so it got gunned down. Shame.


"Something has given these primitive creatures unlife and turned them rabid. I reckon it is a dark relic, one that's foreign to this world." One of the zombies lunged at her with a malicious hiss and the Atrisian calmly raised her hand to let loose orange tendrils of Force Drain, sucking out the energies that gave the creature fuel. It was not tasty at all, but restored her hit points a bit and deleted the zombie's saving throws.


"I'd imagine more Jedi would've heard its call if they'd bothered to listen to the ripples, but most don't have the brains for that. Then again, the Vong-loving, cultist trash on Coruscant is no better." No, she did not like the NPC Dark Lord much. Or Vong. Yep, totally racist. The zombie whom she had been leeching got his head lobbed off by her blade when it tried to grab her boot. "I suppose being able to hear its call makes you special. Coincidentally...I can get inside their heads. As you just saw." Confirmation that she had mind raped the undead to murder each other.

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

Sledding through the horde
12/20

The crate she was in was going down fast, Lorna had no real idea how to stop it while it was going down towards the lower sections of the mountain and she was kind of preying to several deities that she would be able to stop before it impacted the wall of the city and she activated the blade slashing through the one undead coming at her. She braced for impact slamming into the wall as she flew forward and impacted into the snow with her saber still in her hand but oww.... she was looking around and just wanting to lay there in the snow.. yep she could sleep here just build a house around her and let her be all unconscious like before she was rolling over and looking up. The cube still on her belt and her glove was still flowing.

 

[Kaida Taldir]

Location: Village, with the cavalry
Allies: [member="Ærin Firebrand"], [member="Connor Harrison"], stoicism.
Enemies: Zombies
(12/20)


Kaida gave the shieldmaiden a nod. "Good idea," she said, you probably guessed it by now, dear reader, laconically. Probably still as cold and frosty as the weather on Midvinter. Did she ever sound differently? Well, when she was with [member="Coryth Elaris"] or sometimes @Tempest. Anyhow, she approved of creating a combustible wall and igniting zombies.


"I'll hit them with a storm when they attack. We can create an inferno," she added. Team Natural Disaster, 2.0. Tone very, very slightly less frosty. There, proof she approved of Aerin. Probably, for it was difficult to tell whether Kaida actually liked someone. Somewhere during her Angelii training - and some special education in the Temple of Duty - she had lost some social skills. The deathly, blood-curdling, almost animalistic cries of beasts still echoed from the forest over the icy air, but she was indifferent to them.


The deathly cries of man and beast from inside the forest were echoing out still over the icy air, but now few and far between. A swirling vortex, combined with a firestorm, could strongly deplete the numbers of the beasts. It would not wipe them out, but give them a good deal of trouble and by time. Reaching for her comm afte saddling up on the back of Aerin's horse before it broke into a gallop, Kaida sent a message to the ship that had brought them here, passing on coordinates. After all, while it was not designed for combat it did have some basic laser cannons and it's not like the zombies had a-a.

 

[Nima Tann]

Objective: Save yourself
Location: Near Fafnersvik
Allies: Team Mind Rape! ([member="Sumiko Tanaka"]), Silver Sanctum and Friends
Enemies: The White Walkers
4/20

"You think they've been created, or awaken by something?" She asked the woman, yet it was like repeating her words since she already talked about a relic. And there was something about this woman that she couldn't understand, she seemed to know too much about this situation, and the wound on her hand didn't look like it happened on the battlefield, or at least, not by the zombies. It looked like a clean cut. The woman might be a sorceress herself, yet she didn't say anything about that for now. So, she continued to get the zombies which were coming her way as their friendly conversation continued for now, both of them trying to get out of this nasty battlefield. It was starting to rot. And the woman continued talking about the same relic, a dark one. Well nothing light would create a situation like this, actually. So she wasn't that shocked.

"So, great. We know what caused this outbreak. So, do you know where we can find this so called relic? Maybe if we can find and destroy it, we can destroy the zombies." She said, not having any plans to escape this nightmare she thought that if the woman had one. And what was that about her talking about her friends like that? "They have the brains, but they are too busy to listen to undead. I agree about the Sith though." Yet, again, she was as cold to Sith as she was to the Jedi, so this wouldn't be big of a problem between them. She didn't want to fight with a living one between all the undead. "I heard them coincidentally myself after a zombie touched me. Something about a legion. I think they want to stay dead as well as we want them to." She said, since undead didn't have the ability to use the Force yet they could create weak mind leaks when they found someone worth explaining.

"Were you the one that did this?" She asked, showing the zombies fighting with each other, as the opposite team trying to eat the other. This woman might just be a perfect learning material if she got to work with her. Then she Force pushed away the group of zombies coming towards the duo. She wasn't going to let herself be zombie food for today.

 

[Darth Libertas]

Objective: Research, meta commentary
Location: Near village
Allies: Dark Side, [member="Nima Tann"]
Enemies: Zombies
(13/20)


In response Sumiko just chuckled slightly. "Of course, if they have the brains they'd be advised to actually go on the offensive against Primeval or the Sith before they go the way of the Republic, after they've saved this planet from a plague of rabid primitives. Unless their Code dictates a brilliant wait and put your head in the sand approach," Despite all the chaos and bloodshed she looked calm and placid. If the gentle reader was getting the impression that Sumiko might be a bit of a queen, they would not be mistaken.


"Anyhow, back to the matter at hand. I do not know where the relic is, but I may be able to track it with aid. And, yes, I swayed these creatures into murdering each other. Their minds are very...basic. I could do it on a larger scale perhaps. If I got rewarded sufficiently."

 

[Vakarian]

Objective: Fight the Dark Side
Location: Fafnersvik
Allies: Coalition Forces & Valkyri
Enemies: Himself​

Post: 4/20​

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He had chosen to remain behind -briefly- whilst the main party of Valkyri and Silvers pressed onward to the town, cutting a path of foul ichor and innards to the exit of the forest and the very beginnings of the town of Fafnersvik. Coryn was close behind them, keeping the ancient Valkyri blade he carried at the ready in the event that he would need to use it again. It seemed that those ahead of him had done their jobs well, for he did not have to cut down a single undead creature on the path to Fafnersvik - though he did not let his guard down until he passed through the gates. It was as he passed through the gates themselves that he allowed himself to retreat from the currents of the Force and to sit with his back against one of the many houses that dotted the interior of the village, his breathing ragged as if he had just run for the first time in twenty years.

He had expended much more energy than he initially thought, when he healed himself of his wounds. He wasn't as skilled as some of the more practiced healers of the Silver - so he was fairly sure that he would need to get their aid in finishing what he started on himself when they left the planet. He could not deviate from his current path of ensuring that the Valkyri people survived the Vinterbound, even if it drained him of every drop of energy. A few nights of restful sleep would allow him to regain his energy - but the sleep would have to wait until they got back to Voss.

"You will fail." he paused in his thoughts as those words, filled with such darkness and unbridled malevolence echoed through his mind in a cacophony of voices, overpowering any hint of thought that he may have had. It seemed that the dark whispers had returned to him, and every nerve ending in his body was on fire from the fear and hopelessness that flowed from him as powerfully as the mighty Avalanche. His inner turmoil would cause ripples in the force around him, and anyone within a mile radius would feel it. The voices of the dark had always plagued him, ever since his birth on Dathomir, and his being taken to the Night Brothers to be raised and trained; the very same voices that would send him nightmares every night.

He had hoped that when he abandoned the dark side for the path of the Light, that the voices would cease to taunt him. They only worsened.

"Let us help you, Coryn Raxis. These Jedi cannot help you, they cannot even help themselves. You have seen how far the Light has fallen, and how great the Darkness has become. Do not run away from your own nature, you cannot escape it." the whispers returned to his mind, shaking his very being to the core at their words. Each syllable seemingly causing a great measure of hopelessness and broken acceptance. He tried to make connection with the Force, but the voices in his mind seemed to have shut off his ability to do so. He was alone. He had no one. Maybe the voices were right, perhaps he had been wrong to run away from the Dark - maybe he needed to embrace it.

"Yes!" the whispers spoke again, more excitedly and with a sense of malicious victory.

[member="Inger Strömfire"]

 

[Nima Tann]

Objective: Save yourself
Location: Near Fafnersvik
Allies: Team Mind Rape! ([member="Sumiko Tanaka"]), Silver Sanctum and Friends
Enemies: The White Walkers
5/20

"The Code restricts many things, yet Silvers doesn't always follow the Code completely. They are well aware of the Primeval and Sith danger coming towards the galaxy. But our job is to defend the weak, may it be a person, an animal, or an entire planet, that's why we are here." She wanted to defend her faction as the woman continued mocking the Jedi with a calm but cold tone. Yet, she wasn't wrong about some things, she wasn't going to lie.. She agreed that they had to be more active about destroying the Sith. "But enough of the Sith or Jedi, we need to find that relic first." She wanted to dismiss the situation before it got out of hand, since this little subject might grow on them and that could be disasterous. So, as the woman, she got back to the matter at hand. She listened the woman, and yes, creating some diversion to make the zombies eat each other was cool!

"Hope you can do more." She said, showing the woman the horde that was coming right to them. And hell, they were a lot. "Maybe I can help you find the relic. I know a thing or two about creating Mind distractions" She then continued, as the woman talked about a reward. "And don't worry about a reward. If the Grandmaster learns about what's causing this little trouble, he'll reward you handsomely. We are generous people." She said, pretty confident about the words. "So what do we do first?" She asked, returning to the task at hand. Cooperation between dark and light. It was going to be interesting.

 

[Darth Libertas]

Objective: Mind rape things, make bitchy meta comments
Location: Somewhere near the village I can't spell
Allies: Dark Side, [member="Nima Tann"]
Enemies: Zombies, non-pragmatic Jedi
(14/20)


In response to Nima's points about the duties of the Jedi and the limits of what they could do, Sumiko simply shrugged her shoulders. With the indifferent air of someone who...frankly did not care either way. Congratulations, Galaxy, this thread just found someone colder than Kaida Taldir!


She turned her head slightly towards the village. How far away was it? Plot convenience says it was close since writing several posts about Nima and Sumiko walking towards would be dull. "Something tells me the zombie legion of doom will be death charging the village soon, so some line of sight would be nice. We may as well head closer. Without death charging them."


Not essential when it came to mind rape, but useful. "I will enter their minds. I will require backup doing this because I figure the relic will try to push me out once it realises our intent, since it seems to maintain a sort of psychic link with its spawn. Their thought patterns are very basic, one only needs to drive their aggression against one another, make them mistake their brethren for food. You can help gain me time to track the device by weakening the link. Imagine it like pulling the strings of a puppet - well, many puppets in this case. With it sufficiently weakened, I estimate the zombies will go insane and lose all control, making it easy to slaughter or mind rape them."

 

[Connor Harrison]

Objective: Defend Fafnersvik
Location: Outside Fafnersvik
Allies Near: [member="Ærin Firebrand"] | [member="Kaida Taldir"] | [member="Matsu Ike"]
Enemies: The Undead
Gear: Combat Armour | Blue Bladed Lightsaber
Post: #8 / 20

Stepping back, Connor caught his breath in the mild break in battle…calm before the storm and all that. Looking up at the grey sky, he closed his eyes for a moment to let the cold breeze and faint whips of frost and snow prickle his sense and make him feel human.

There, in the midst of nothing, he felt something.

Opening those blue eyes, he slowly lowered his head and looked out into the forest and then side to side. [member="Nima Tann"] was here, and something was wrong. He hadn’t seen her since the return from Ziost, but…there was something he didn’t feel right about. Fully aware that [member="Aika Kawakami"] had been digging her talons into the naïve mind of the Twi’lek didn’t sit right with him as she held so much promise, but now?

Letting out a small breath between sharp lips, Connor felt she was edging across a narrow path and being goaded along by something far greater and more corruptive than she could comprehend.

[member="Syala Daivik"] | [member="Ren Colvet"] | [member="Coci Heavenshield"] | [member="Thurion Heavenshield"] | [member="George O Rourke"] | [member="Coryn Raxis"] | [member="Arrik Terran"] | [member="Romeo Sin"] | [member="Boo Chiyo"] | [member="Audren Sykes"] | [member="Sor-Jan Xantha"] | [member="Sumiko Tanaka"]

 

[Nima Tann]

Objective: Save yourself/ Find the relic
Location: Near Fafnersvik/ Trying to find a good spot.
Allies: Team Mind Rape! ([member="Sumiko Tanaka"]), Silver Sanctum and Friends
Enemies: The White Walkers
6/20

Okay, she was glad that the woman didn't dwell on the subject so much, since she was already tired using the Force way too much that she could faint any second and she didn't have the intention of fighting her about which side was better. Instead, the woman had a plan about what to do, and no matter how the plan seemed a bit dangerous, she didn't have any better ones so she decided to stick with it. "Got the same feeling." She said about the village, and immediately started to look around to see a good spot to do her plan... "So, we need some kind of an invisibility cloak to get away from direct confrontation until we get to somewhere high... This village has to have some high grounds, right?" Then she asked another, her mind was full of thoughts as this plan looked dangerous, since they would be in a meditative stance if they wanted to get into a whole horde's heads and in meditative state they would be defenseless. "Or do we need to be near to them?" If the answer was near, they would need to be extra careful with this thing and never lose the concentration if they didn't want to be zombie food.

She listened the woman as she talked about the relationship between the zombies and the relic. It seemed as an easy job to do, to enter the brains of an undead, yet several undead, that would cause some problems. "I'll do as best as I can, yet not to put pressure on you... But I am at my limits already so it would be great if you find it quickly. You see, I use Force to walk, I am handicapped." She wanted to warn the woman if the things went south. She looked like she knew what to do, yet in a meditative stance they would need to work together for this since playing with minds weren't an easy job if the relic was able to influence the minds. If they weren't careful they would turn into zombies themselves, or she was overthinking again.

She felt a familiar aura around, yet so distant. In between of Darkness and Light, struggling, trying to stay strong. And she knew whose that aura was, as long as she felt the darkness growing as the aura continued to be felt through the area. Yet, she had a job to do and couldn't stop and say hi to him right now. So, she shook her head and returned to the real world. "Let's go." She said, with a tone of determination.

[member="Thurion Heavenshield"] [member="Coci Heavenshield"] [member="Connor Harrison"] [member="Ren Colvet"] [member="Syala Daivik"]