[Invite-Only/ic, 18+] The Apocalypse - The Labyrinth.

[Astralin]

104 watched the entire situation with Dain's blade against the now passive Lohk's throat it responded. "Xvsiex Liyxsegowiz riesbvolm pus errerxelx." It then lowered it's plasma cannon and began in a half-gallop towards the direction LuS#&$h had gone crying out it's mechanical noise as it went.

"Xillu! Xillu!" It wandered through the tundra forest an oxymoron of environments in it's mind, "Xillu!" It searched for her pinging Xillu every few moments.

[Zeus154]

On 9/1/2016 at 2:47 PM, TheSteelWolf97 said:

One of the tenno moved towards her, she couldn’t move and so felt fear welling up in her again. Tenno kills. But what she had first thought was hands raised to harm her suddenly made her able to move freely again. Jessica couldn’t even figure out what had frozen her on the spot in the first place, it just felt so stupid.

 

She felt a bit disoriented at first but soon managed to get a grip on it all again. It had been a tenno who had done this. Paralyzed her, but that tenno had rushed out and Jessica couldn’t help but feel relieved. The fact that the source of the paralyze had disappeared might have helped in breaking its hold.

 

Seeing as next to everyone else were busy engaging the strange game master, ether with words or with force, Jess backed into the shadows and started sneaking. She took cover where she could find it and moved as quietly as she could in an attempted flanking manoeuvre. If she succeeded she could stop while a bit behind Lohk to the side, draw her Paris and release an arrow at what she saw as the least armored part of him, his throat.

 

The ice walls would prevent Jessica from being able to loose arrows at Lohk, let alone, it had become broad daylight for everyone to see. So her actions were a bit late, if not delayed.

On 8/28/2016 at 5:20 AM, Drakeardian said:

Seth looked to Adalynn and Niveah's arguing then groaned, finally looking to both of them "Will you both stop arguing for once and work together?! This is what he's trying to do in the first place!" He yelled angrily at the two, having enough of their argumentative Kubrow crap and sighed in an annoyed manner "I may need some help for what I'm going to do next and I do not need two Tenno idiots arguing about who is worse off as a leader when there's a man bleeding to death!" he called out, he sounded more saner and a lot better as he walked up to the wall, putting his hand to the ice and said "Mr Lokh." Part of his Grineer Xenophobia growled at calling a tenno Mister but Seth fought those feelings back "I know you have been a right pain in our genetics but I'm willing to set that aside if you let me help fix your wounds." 

He took a deep breath before saying "I am a doctor but unless you don't wish for help, I cannot heal your wounds."

 

On 9/12/2016 at 11:57 PM, Spikey844 said:

Dain glanced between Adalynn and Niveah. Part of him agreed with Niveah. Lohk had been, to be blunt, a bloody A****** to them, playing mind games. Part of the Rhino wearing Tenno wanted to put a bullet through his skull.

But Adalynn wore a Nyx Warframe. Mind reading was their bread and butter. If Lohk's mental walls had been brought down so Adalynn could read his mind, then what she saw would be completely accurate.

And then Seth interceded. Dain's eyebrows twitched up as the Grinner doctor offered to help Lohk. 

Finally, Dain had enough. He made his own play in this strange court, where all the judges had differing opinions. He stepped up to Lohk, absently flicking blood from his Machete Wraith, then used the tip of the blade to tip back Lohk's head. He stared directly at the kneeling Tenno, blank faceplate to blank faceplate.

Then, he reached up with one hand, and took off his helmet. Dropping it to the floor, he set his emerald gaze directly where Lohk's own eyes would be if he toke off his own helmet. 

He spoke a single word.

"Why?"

As for everyone else, Lohk wasn't really sure to even get out of his fortified igloo. Dain was visibly upset and questioning, and Seth wanted to help, albeit he still had some lingering restraint. The question of "why" had sprung from Dain. Why did Lohk do all of this? Why did Lohk want to fight? Why did he set up a point of contention among everyone else, with Adalynn and Niveah especially? What was the point of all of this?

The world began to swirl once more. Snow was being thrown to make a white expanse. And in front of them, stood Lohk. He was quite some distance away, far enough that melee implements wouldn't do anything. Projectiles would have no effect, due to his psychic abilities. And surrounding the group would be a hall of memories. These memories varied from basic missions to the more recent bunker encounter. The middle of the "hallway" provided the truth that the group sought after, or at least, Dain.

It showed Lohk being gutted, his body being altered and transformed. He couldn't break free from the restraints. The Corpus was treating him like a piece of meat, slicing him open and shoving things that don't fit or register. From the vague dialogues, he was an experiment for the Corpus, another engineered weapon much like Zanuka. The Corpus chapped him up and spliced elements from spare Warframes, or Tenno. They attached cybernetics and other implements that didn't even make Lohk resemble as a human.

The Corpus wanted to make a soldier that was capable of infiltrating the mind and destroying everyone from the inside, if not, causing quite heated and violent contention among the members. Which succeeded, however, much like another pet experiment, it had backfired. His mental state was a little out of whack, but he ended up causing mass hysteria at the entire facility. Everyone had been killing each other, leaving him to still be strapped to the table. His petty revenge had killed everyone. He was essentially hard-wired to kill. His mind was shifted and wandering. He couldn't necessarily control everything.

After time passed things had simmered down, however, Lohk was restrained. He was restrained by his implants and cybernetics to eliminate threats by any means. Anyone who dared venture inside would be torn down mentally.

And with that, the world shifted back to normal again. It was still a densely forested area, however Lohk had disappeared, the only thing remaining was a pool of blood where he originally was. Visible traces of blood were covered up by the snow.

"Where did he go?" Adalynn asked. "Anyone know where?"

"It doesn't matter Adalynn... He's gone." Niveah said.

At this point, the group was outside, though off into the distance was a large, foreign object. Very rectangular in nature, or at least, geometric. Could it be a ship? The group would have to approach and find out.

[Drakeardian]

Seth blinked as they appeared in a forest, he looked confused and scatched his balaclava covered head "How did we end up in a for-" he then looked to the large geometric object in the distance. 

"Adalynn, Dain, am I going crazy again or is there something in the distance?" he asked before quickly making his way closer towards the object.

Edited September 18, 2016 by Drakeardian

[WingedCrusade]

"... Wh... What is happening...?"

She went silent, falling to her knees, holding herself as she looked around her environment, her breath heavy. Lusith's body collapsed onto her side as she curled up, holding her head and shivering in the snow.

It was dark, it was cold. She was alone...

However, silence was broken by a mechanical voice calling out to her in the distance. It sounded like... The Zanuka unit from before. It was hard to tell what was an illusion and what wasn't anymore, but the voice certainly sounded real...

Edited September 19, 2016 by WingedCrusade

[Spikey844]

When Dain had approached Lohk, he had been ready to kill him, and would have taken joy from it.

Now... now he felt sickened that he had ever thought such things. He slowly, almost absently, sheathed his blade, picked up his helmet. He did not put it on however. His mind was still awhirl with what Lohk had shown him.

A machine. That was all Lohk had been.

No. Less than a machine. Less than Tenno, less than human. A wretched creation of the depraved mind.

Bare minutes ago, Dain had been angry, and hatred had coursed through him. Now, all his heart held was sorrow.

Sorrow, that one he would have called kin, had been made into something so.... pitiful.

He only just heard Seth's question, and his response was only half there, soft, quiet.

"Everyone is crazy Seth. It is merely the degree of insanity inside us that changes."

It was clear that his mind was far from their current situation.

[Drakeardian]

On 21/09/2016 at 9:35 PM, Spikey844 said:

When Dain had approached Lohk, he had been ready to kill him, and would have taken joy from it.

Now... now he felt sickened that he had ever thought such things. He slowly, almost absently, sheathed his blade, picked up his helmet. He did not put it on however. His mind was still awhirl with what Lohk had shown him.

A machine. That was all Lohk had been.

No. Less than a machine. Less than Tenno, less than human. A wretched creation of the depraved mind.

Bare minutes ago, Dain had been angry, and hatred had coursed through him. Now, all his heart held was sorrow.

Sorrow, that one he would have called kin, had been made into something so.... pitiful.

He only just heard Seth's question, and his response was only half there, soft, quiet.

"Everyone is crazy Seth. It is merely the degree of insanity inside us that changes."

It was clear that his mind was far from their current situation.

Seth blinked then looked to Dain before walking over to the Rhino and pulling on his arm "Dain, I appriciate the philosophy but this is not the time." he then pointed his rifle to the large object in the distance.

"I'm talking about THAT!" he yelled.

[Astralin]

On 9/18/2016 at 11:21 PM, WingedCrusade said:

"... Wh... What is happening...?"

She went silent, falling to her knees, holding herself as she looked around her environment, her breath heavy. Lusith's body collapsed onto her side as she curled up, holding her head and shivering in the snow.

It was dark, it was cold. She was alone...

However, silence was broken by a mechanical voice calling out to her in the distance. It sounded like... The Zanuka unit from before. It was hard to tell what was an illusion and what wasn't anymore, but the voice certainly sounded real...

The machine continued it's constant questioning of the open air, surely Lusith hadn't gone far considering how fast the false threat had fallen. "Xiilu!" It awaited a response with a fragment of perhaps... hope that it wouldn't have to return without the one it had picked as it's humanoid figure. No that was crazy a machine could not hope so it continued it's search continuing to build upon it's digital map with the surrounding area. Logs of Europa never did mention many tundra forests, but it was not that impossible it rationalized especially if some cataclysmic event occurred. Simulations as to what could have caused this sudden outcropping of plant-life danced across it's circuit board, perhaps an intense radiation burst enough to cause a temporary shift in global climate? It clambered over a fallen tree scanning the area around it for signs of the lost Tenno.

[Spikey844]

21 hours ago, Drakeardian said:

Seth blinked then looked to Dain before walking over to the Rhino and pulling on his arm "Dain, I appriciate the philosophy but this is not the time." he then pointed his rifle to the large object in the distance.

"I'm talking about THAT!" he yelled.

Dain looked up at Seth, blinking in slight confusion. He followed Seth's pointing arm, gazing at the object in the distance. 

"Huh," he muttered, "you could be right." He still wasn't quite there, his mind was still awhirl with what Lohk had shown him.

[TheSteelWolf97]

The sudden change made Jessica look around in confusion. Her initial annoyance for having wasted an arrow that just got caught in ice anyway gave way for something close to the panic she’d felt before putting another arrow to the string just in case. She was sure they hadn’t been outside when this started, was that Tenno still playing mind-tricks on them? The thought made her tense and she tried her best to keep her eyes and ears sharp so that any attacking her wouldn’t get the drop on her. She was half aware of what the others were doing as she kept looking around and over her shoulder.

[Zeus154]

Lohk was gone. A weapon that was supposed to be a means to an end, now somewhere out in the wasteland? If anything, he could be dead within the hours. There were no visible signs of where he went, with his pool of blood still remaining in the snow, permeating the ground.

With what had happened, Adalynn wasn’t really sure what to make of it. Everyone else was mostly fixated with the ship. The Nyx didn’t really say anything, as it could potentially spoil the moment. With him gone, there would be very little to worry about. The group would be out in the cold expanse of Europa, the cold, ice-like appendages of the trees surrounding their peripherals. Out in front was the true prize, the carrot that dangled on a stick. It was a Corpus ship.

The Argo 9. A spaceworthy vessel that has seen its fair share of the galaxy, shipping goods and resources to other planets. It wasn’t necessarily in the best of shape, but it would serve the group very well in terms of transportation.

A couple hours passed, the sun still shining bright. Everyone would be inside the ship.

Adalynn looked at the interior design. Its exterior design would be just as boring as its interior; metallic, geometric, and flat in terms of color. At least, the Corpus knew how to make quality bedding and seats. At least, those would be comfortable.

It looked a little messy, with some things strewn about. Loose, visible wires and the occasional missing wall panels, but it was warmer in here than outside. This would be their home for a considerable venture. She looked at the cockpit, eyeing the various knobs, screens, and kinesthetic facets. On the Captain’s seat, there would be one main panel. Touching the main panel whirred the ship to life, its lights becoming fairly bright.

Status aboard the vessel would read that there is enough fuel for the ship to start a small journey, but not enough for them to continuously travel from planet to planet in the Solar System. Energy wasn’t really a problem, as Corpus generators could last for years, the only issue would be its possible reliability issues with how the ship has been handled, which has been a little poorly. Occasional blackouts and ship drifts may occur, causing potential concern. It wasn’t pretty, but it surely was a sight to behold. This was it.

The Nyx prepared a small speech over communications.

“This is it, everyone. We have made it and it all finally paid off. Through treachery and perseverance, we have finally got a way out.” Adalynn spoke. “We have endured a lot over the past few months, some of us having scars to show for it. But we shall not fret, for we have a larger endeavor on our hands.”

She paused briefly, gathering thinking of more words.

“This task may be the hardest things we may face. Out there --in space-- we won’t know what lies out there in the vast beyond, however, in the face of adversity, we overcame. We survived the initial travels outside of the settlement. We survived out in the cold plains of Europa. We survived Styx and overthrew Carver.”

She frowned, though it wouldn’t be apparent under her helmet.

“We faced the horrors of the bunker, but it didn’t come without loss. Yves was a strong-willed individual. He wanted the best for the group, even if his methods were a little unusual. It is sad that he isn’t here today to experience what we have accomplished, but his sacrifice won’t be in vain. He helped us get far and did his best to protect the group. He will be missed.”

Another brief pause.

“It has been a long journey and I’ve made rough calls. While I may not be the best leader, I am honored to be part of this crew. I am honored to have you all by my side, to have us all unified and achieve more than a single person could achieve in their lifetime. We have done a lot, and we should all be proud of it.”

She pressed the ignition on the screen, the ship slowly lifting off from the ground.

“Today, we start a new journey, a fresh start in the vast unknown that is space. This will be our defining moment. This is it.”

The ship shortly thereafter took off, fading off into the sun. This is going to be a wild ride.