I've been chillin' out on a star with my 5 star view

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: The space battle commences
When: After 3PM on the 19th to the 23rd
Where: In Space! On the Moon!
Summary: The battle finally begins! First there's asteroids to take down, then we finally arrive!
Rating: SPACE

MORE SPACE

All the details you need are here, so read up on it. This didn't get mentioned before, but you can tag the cultists instead of killing them. Details on this are on a previous draft post. Using the scanners are optional!

There will be a thread for interacting with NPCs, but they may not all go up at once, so keep an eye out for them.

Note: A log for the events in the village will go up on the 21st, in time for the hurricane and droid incursion.

Comments

[all7seas]

"Then do what I do when it's a troubled night: think of the Pearl."

[herotypical]

"I've only seen her once." And that might as well have been a dream, too. "And I never even got to peek inside your cabin. You know that?"

[all7seas]

"Criminal." The pirate brushed a tangle of hair from her temple. There was blood in it. "Because I could have kept you very well entertained there."

[herotypical]

"...No thanks." Because, God? How much more entertaining had he done there? And that, after having learned about the other proposals. No. The fighting top had been much better. Unique.

[all7seas]

"How's this, then? You sleep. You hold my hand. And if you need me, you squeeze."

[herotypical]

"You're dead set on this, aren't you? Me sleeping."

[all7seas]

"Want you healthy. Healed. Happy. Joyful. Rested. Better.

Happy."

[herotypical]

"Jack..."

[all7seas]

"Mmmmm?"

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[herotypical]

"Just...love you. That's all. I love you and I'm glad I didn't lose you. In any way."

It was a long way away from a smile. But it was something. A modicum of progress.

[all7seas]

"I know." It was a shining part of his hope in Luceti, that love. "Love you, too. Lots. All my black heart."

[herotypical]

"I worried that maybe...it went too far? Work and romance should never mix and somehow -- there I go, mixing it. I meant everything I said, though. If you'd been there..."

If he'd been there, she likely wouldn't be here now. Not with the General as strong as he was.

[all7seas]

"Buffy? Shut it."

[herotypical]

"...Hey. Pathetically beaten up patient, here. That pretty much means I'm entitled to your politeness."

[all7seas]

"You will never ever be pathetic in my eyes, woman." Poor supplicant that he was. "Though.....mm. Beaten."

[herotypical]

"How bad does it look? Be honest."

[all7seas]

"You will also never not be the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." A beat. "Painful." He hated seeing her in pain. Any kind of pain.

[herotypical]

"Painful is accurate. I feel like I actually went ten scytheless rounds with a Turok-Han."

[all7seas]

"I want to kill him for it."

[herotypical]

Strength and purpose. Eerily, he'd told her that death is a gift. The echo had troubled her.

"You'd be wasting your time. I don't think the bastard is even penalized for dying."

[all7seas]

"Oh, it wouldn't be a waste. It'd do me some good.


But what's this? Not penalized and all? What did he say, love?"

[herotypical]

She wanted to tell him he wasn't a killer, but -- had their roles been reverse? She would have felt so so similarly.

"He said a lot of things, actually. He made it pretty clear that death costs him nothing. I, uhm, asked him what he lost when we last met and he only told me that...that whatever I took from him, he'd already given away. His life, I suppose."

And that willingness -- that sacrifice -- seemed so key in all that he had said.

[all7seas]

"His life.





Well that's odd."

Jack felt they were treading on tricky ground, this talk of giving away life. Of sacrifice.

[herotypical]

"Mmhm. And then, in a twist of poetic injustice that I am not soon to forget? He used that very same life's blood to turn me into a pincushion. All in all, an exciting time."

And a dour subject. She was growing wearier and wearing from it and from the effort of staying awake. But she didn't want to drift off yet.

"At least that joke of a space suit got all the abuse it deserved."

[all7seas]

"You looked stunning in it," the pirate replied absently. His mind was still on the details, horrid as they were -- and the idea of sacrifice. "Annie. Don't think of it now. We can speak of it later, blood-weapons and all that. Later."