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Jesse Pinkman

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  1. IC: Karak - Celrys' Workshop I am unable to catch his last sentence. Too quick, too nervously sputtered out. I fear I will never learn anything at this rate - even as I assume my understanding of the language has grown, I am humbled immediately. The tournament is my only other lead. And so I leave Del and Skyra to their flesh-meddling heretic God. I smirk to myself, remembering my own and Skyra's clash as we first met. If all Southerners fight that way, perhaps the arena would be amusing if not informative. OOC: @a goose
  2. IC: Karak - Celrys' Workshop I twist the grip on the handle of my weapon on my back once idly. I reach around the language wall, trying to focus on the words and phrases of most use and interest. silenced. Someone don't want Hmm. "Someone? Someone who? Rock Tribe? Agori?" This language is cumbersome but simpler than first appearance. It can be learned. OOC: @a goose
  3. IC: Karak - Celrys' Workshop This man's demeanour reeks of cowardice. His eyes flutter around the place and I watch them weakly focus on me as he addresses me. "What is it you fear?" My words come out without confusion. OOC: @a goose
  4. IC: Karak - Celrys' Workshop "Hire?" I repeat back to him, and then to the receptionist, before thinking and comprehending the words he'd said. I make the motion of jingling coins together to him, and then I finally simmer for a moment. I did not plan on accompanying Del or Skyra for longer, so I point to the room I had already come from, gesticulating my finger to show where they were. "Might going to wait." I say. "Busy with Metal God." I speak the last words with venom, even just recalling Celrys' appearance disgusted me. OOC: @a goose
  5. IC: Karak - Celrys' Workshop My ears prick as if I'm an Iron Wolf. "Skyra?" I repeat, the conspicuous man catches me at the end of my alert streak. I raise my head, my eyes peer out at him. OOC: @a goose
  6. IC: Karmine Madoc - Bang. Cops. They're either thick as pig ****** or too wily for their own good. She's drawn in, so don't bloody waste the opportunity. She's fast but not fast enough for you - all that power and strength you dredged and scrounged up from the numerous bodies you've laid out in the past means you're just as nifty, ******, maybe even more. So the punch whiffs past, and with your shooting arm charred but now loose from the chain you grab the weapon still strapped to your shoulder, and decide to give another meaning to the phrase "weapons-free" and squeeze the trigger of your weapon point blank at the Sentinel's neck. Classic guillotine. OOC: @Krayzikk
  7. IC: Ela Latos - Ga-Koro Tour She nodded. "These villages...they each harbour their own temperaments and moods. I haven't visited Ga-Koro since your people arrived. Not to say they'll give you trouble, but being prepared for questions is probably wise. Not to suggest you weren't already." She herself still felt odd on the vegetation that comprised the walkways of Ga-Koro. She'd seen Skakdi that towered over even her that still stood fine on them, but the slight unease while walking remained. "Why does your people's disposition make you curious?" OOC: @Krayzikk
  8. IC: Karak - Celrys' Workshop A firmer grasp on these people's language would do me a lot of good. For now I have to rely on his body language and intonation, was he aiming to leave? The word 'Games' taps against the previously discussed arena. One word in a puzzle I was struggling to put together. For now I glance away. He was leaving - and if his intent was to stalk he had gained little from his excursion here. Best not to follow into a prepared trap, if there indeed was one.
  9. IC: Ela Latos The warrior rose from a squat, having been admiring Ga-Koro from afar. Her memories of her birthplace were scarce but seemed to resemble Ga-Wahi in a few elements - but were completely alien in others. She hadn't yet asked Kiyaku of their exact business here. Her posture was now straightened - she rolled her shoulders, looking down to her new Captain. Her time here had been strange, she knew the crew wouldn't dare to question Kiyaku's judgement but she could still feel their eyeballs boring into her sometimes. As long as that didn't spell danger, she could abide it. "As long as you regale me of our purpose here on the way in." She worded that perhaps a bit too demanding, though that either didn't faze her or simply didn't register at all. OOC: @Krayzikk
  10. IC: Karak - Celtech My gaze remains unbroken - eyes narrowed to slits. OOC: @Toru Nui IC: Vitrum - ??? The quietest, faintest of clicks in the shadows. Vitrum's ears are the only ones capable of hearing such noise. Such discretion is intentional. Her mark pottered and roamed the streets not more than fifty feet away. He's uneasy but not vigilant. Her employer had left this undertaking too late in her book - flight risk should never be a factor in matters like this. A finger lightly pangs the rope of the crossbow. Red eyes disappear into the shade. OOC: @a goose
  11. IC: Karak - Celtech My head swims as I try to get my head together - none of this should be my concern, so why allow it to trouble me? I lean myself against the wall in the hallway, breathing in the workshop's filtered and tampered air. The company of the Southerners has outstayed its welcome. I feel much more suited to my own. But as my eyes scan over to the exit by the front desk, a man - one of the shorter Agori - locks my gaze in place. I do not hear what he says to the woman out front but his face strikes one of the wind chimes in my flow of memory. Had he been one of the many in the ocean of people arriving in the village? The prospect seems unlikely. None of them had seemed to have caught my eye. I watch him from the hallway. If Del is attracting prying eyes again, I would certainly be better parting ways with my companions in the office. OOC: @Toru Nui @a goose
  12. IC: Karak - Celrys' Office The mineral puppet keeps talking. He speaks slow and deliberate so as for me to understand him better, but to no avail. All I can do is trace my gaze across the sharp and shiny prosthetics stapled onto him. His mere existence is close to an affront against who I was - who my people are. Skyra somehow punctures the haze. She speaks more gently than I've heard her try to before. It has the effect of rainfall on an open fire. And so, I fall back. I look back to her, and then at Celrys, and then Del. Wordless, I exit the room. OOC: @Snelly @a goose @Techn0geist --- IC: Clare (NPC) - 'Scarabax's Delight' Inn, Reception Yep. They're not coming down with their rent, are they? In truth, it's kind of my fault. I make a habit of refusing guests who don't want to pay for the first night when they check in, but one of them kind of talked me into it. They had one of those voices you know you shouldn't listen to - but you cave when hearing in any case. I really need to ask for some time off. And of course, today of all days our security guard sent his friend over to say he wouldn't be in. That's his last sick day, for anyone counting. So it's gonna have to be up to me to tell that lovely party that they'll have to either pay the money due along with a fine for being late, or leave. Not that I don't think they'll listen to me or anything. "I would like to book another room out." ******, that really scared me. It's that woman from a few nights ago - with the kinda eerie helmet. She's not a bad guest, but she's one of those I'm afraid to make small talk with. I don't feel like irritating her is a good idea. "Uh, of course! You were in..." I nearly fumble the papers out of my hand before smiling awkwardly. Get it together, Clare. "Room 3, right? First floor." She nods. Good, I didn't forget her name. I clear my throat. "Did you have any preference on which room you'd want to be moved to?" "Top floor. Room 1. It's the one with the window looking out to the front." Ah. Of course. Of course. "I'm sorry, Ma'am, but I'm afraid we can't give that room to you." I rub the back of my head, hoping to whatever was up there in the clouds that she doesn't inquire further. I feel my face lose a bit of colour as she leans in ever so slightly. "Is it booked?" "Well, I...yes, well, sort of. We have some guests up there who had the place booked last night, but..." I catch a blink behind the mask. "But?" Oh, screw it. I couldn't care less if it made the inn look bad, it's their fault for hiring such a deadbeat for security. "They haven't paid for tonight. But they haven't checked out. I've uh...been on shift most of the day and they haven't seemed to have left." Her head moves over to the door, where our doorman would usually be. Here it comes. "Where's your security?" "Hmm?" She speaks while I'm mid-sip of water, and I just about manage to swallow it without choking. "You had a doorman when I checked in." "Oh, well, it seems he's taken ill or something. But don't worry! You're perfectly safe, the concierge is around all hours of the day so if you're concerned about anythin-" She interrupts me by placing a flush of coins on the wooden desk in front of me - by a rough count probably about three nights of rent - and turns around, heading for the stairs. "Three nights, please. Under Vitrum." She calls down to me. At this point I'm not really sure what to do. I try to open my mouth to protest but she's already up the stairwell. "Please don't do anything that'll get me fired." I murmur under my breath, head in my hands.
  13. IC: Karak - Celrys' Office A tempest of jargon and incomprehensible phrases comes from the grotesque flesh sculptor. The outburst of anger only moments before swells again. Del glances at me - apparently shocked. And then, seemingly, he demands the same answer from the man - with about as much vitriol as I myself had spat out. Enough was enough. I storm forward, my thumb poised at the man. "He like not! You stop!" OOC: @Techn0geist @Snelly @a goose
  14. IC: Vitrum - 'Scarabax's Delight' Inn, Third Room, First Floor (Tajun) A small, oil soaked cloth caressed the steel of Vitrum's blade, immaculately maintained and yet long serving. It was a deceitful thing; on a glance it looked not dissimilar to any other shortsword style sidearm carried regularly by any breed of individual seeking protection - or simply aiming to take a life. But its painstaking maintenance hid its trickery - as the cloth edged across it, it dipped ever so slightly every couple dozen centimetres, only to rise up on the inverse stroke. Vitrum momentarily kept the fabric in one hand as she inspected the blade closely - before suddenly pressing a calloused thumb against a button mechanism near the handguard. Within milliseconds, miniature clockwork mechanisms rumbled to life and three almost invisible partings of now obvious segments of the switchblade telescoped into one another, the wooden handle of the dragging them in sequence inside like a hungry beast. Good. Vitrum now satisfied, the contraption was stowed away in the bedside table, poised for action if and when it were to come. The mercenary glanced to a half-eaten pie that room service had brought up on top of the same table. She'd eat the rest later. Fatigue pulled at her eyelids. An hour's sleep, and her job began. --- IC: Karak - Celrys' Office At this point, I almost see myself out of the door to wait. Whatever abominable contraptions this man is seeking to place inside of Del - I wish never to see. Moments pass before the disgust takes ahold of me like a nasty fever and I speak without thought. "Oi! What you do him, metal man?!" I demand, pointing at him with fervour. OOC: @a goose @Snelly @Techn0geist
  15. IC: Karak - Celrys’ Office I offer a grateful grunt as my lips caress the edge of the cup - the liquid wets their texture like a much awaited monsoon. And then, involuntarily, some of the liquid spews out back into the cup as I lay eyes upon this “Celrys”. His body has been butchered, defiled and impaled with countless mechanical implants and substitutes. I feel sick gazing upon him. OOC: @a goose @Techn0geist @Snelly
  16. IC: Karak - Celrys' Workshop I catch the glance. The conversation becomes hard to follow - Skyra talks too quick, and with little interest in the conversation at hand I instead decide to remain standing by the door, idly gazing at the woman conjugating with the Glatorians. So many buildings in these settlements, ones with countless purposes I'm still yet to learn. These people seem to bathe themselves in barter and business. An inane life. I lick my lips, feeling dry skin flake away. "Water. Have?" I speak to the assistant, removing my mask again. OOC: @a goose@Techn0geist @Snelly
  17. IC: Karak - Involuntarily my body shuts down. Even whilst my gaze is averted from the naïve thing I feel a sudden rush of... Not anger, not truly, something more destructive that chips at my skeleton - a blight that if left to fester would consume me, leaving me without use or hope. The jolt is not longlasting. It just surprises me - breaks my guard. ... "No." My voice betrays nothing of my inner process. OOC: @Snelly @Techn0geist
  18. IC: Karak - Tajun Streets (En Route to Celrys) I come to a halt beside her - smooth as I may manage. The word - "Father" - from before is what I assume the two's destination to be...and woe as I am to waste precious time accompanying them for no benefit to my own goal, I am alone in this city without Skyra. I'll ask for guidance to this "arena" after she escorts her quarry. I can acquaint myself with the surroundings in the mean time. I remind myself that the Skrall are tourists here as much as I am...so perhaps knowledge of this place is more a boon than usual. "These people...here for arena?" I gesticulate around myself - the crowds passing by our steeds. OOC: @Snelly@Techn0geist
  19. IC: Karak - Tajun Outskirts She keeps on - I do too. The shade and moist air, even as slight a change as they are, cool my thorny temperament. The sprawling streets under the rocks align themselves akin to a granite jungle. I take heed not to become comfortable - to feel familiar in this alien land will lead to my early doom. I wait for her to perch her beast, so I may do the same. OOC: @Snelly@Techn0geist
  20. IC: Karak - Arrival in Tajun A city of crevices. Already the air feels less dry - though only by a slight. I slow. Already a crowd is beginning to build outside the subterranean settlement. How far Huracan would take me before I would have to disembark? A finger up, I attempt to signal Skyra somehow in front of me. She likely knows this place far better. OOC: @Snelly @Techn0geist
  21. IC: Karak - Something In The Way Our machines carry us away from the limits of this city, dust kicking up from our acceleration. The sand bites at the metal of my mask - Huracan mercifully provides protection for the rest of my body from the elements. Riding onwards, my eyes fall to Skyra's machine. Huracan's throaty growl dulls after some time. My mind wanders. These beings, they sit like grazing animals. They bicker over scraps - and yet a plague lays dormant at their doorstep. A bubbling volcano that will erupt, choke, and burn them all to death. They will not survive the Skrall. My people didn't. I have long since trained my mind to destroy thoughts of home. The sadness is already too much to bear, but the despair is more dangerous. If I let despair set in, I will be stopped dead in my tracks. I will be paralysed. Despair is a disease - and so instead I side with anger. For what else can truly be my ally, in a place like this? OOC: @Snelly@Techn0geist
  22. IC: Karak - Ready to roll Skyra went to her steed - and I to mine. I make fast strides. Skyra's use as convoy is necessary - yet I am still weary of the mystery man. The Agori language…like a labyrinth. Otherwise, he might be clearer still. It's no matter. Tajun waits. Little time has passed as I seat myself on Huracan's saddle. There's a guilty fondness I have of the machine. One of the few joys of the desert. The beast awakens. I guide it onward - it comes to a stop outside the Inn. My mask is donned. I signal Skyra with a nod. OOC: @Techn0geist @Snelly
  23. IC: Karak - Red Star Inn The energy's dislodged. I only catch a single word from the orange one - "Father". To me, it means nothing. Faces around shift and drop. The air feels cloudy. It stabs at me like brambles. Skyra returns my earlier sentiment - and so I watch for her look. Cargo is her first priority. Not mine. Any difficulty created is her burden. OOC: @oncertainty@Toru Nui@Techn0geist @Snelly
  24. IC: Karmine Madoc - In Combat (Iron Mahi Engine Room) She hits the ground long enough for the lightning to ease itself. Every muscle in your body is writhing and moaning at you, but your attention is entirely on the downed Sentinel, as your hand drifts down to unsheathe one of your swords yet again, raising it in your tingly palm. You roll your jaw - and smack yourself with your free hand. And then you bring the weapon down on the tether, eyes flashing gleefully. With your enhanced strength gained by your favoured mask... mixed with the adrenaline, you don't imagine it'll stand strong. OOC: @Krayzikk
  25. IC: Karak - Red Star Inn This quarry, there's more beyond the surface, I can tell - but for the moment, I care not. What does begin to set me off is the growing number of prying eyes. Leering, asking questions. Skyra's name is called - I've had enough. "I desire to leave." I speak quietly but without softness to Skyra. There is a storm gathering and I have no intention of being swept up - not when my goals lay so close. OOC: @Snelly@oncertainty @Techn0geist @Toru Nui
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