Author Topic: Asylum
DarkLordoftheFins  2124 posts
Title: RPG & Minis Forum D6 Game Master
Registered: Apr '07
44059_Jedi
Date Posted: 10/18 2:05pm Subject: Asylum
ooc: Was there some "The Thing" homage in that laast post, JediHighlander? grin

Tried to reply to all and bring it all into some sort of timely order in my post. Hope you all are okay with it.





Kyle Katarn
Inside the Chamber, where things get crowded


When the thing had finally collapsed he sighed and raised to his feet. Giving his apprentice a look and a dry smile. "Dead." He said and looked down on the thing. "More os than before I hope." And he knelt down besides it, taking a second energy-pack from the dead body and replacing his. Looking up, he nodded to the Jensaari. "You should continue, we need to get outta here." He said to the man and then looked at the blind man who could already see again. Looked like he had been frozen for a very short time, only.

"Just what did I miss exactly?" The man asked. Kyle gave him another long look, trying to see anything that would tell him who he was. An ordinary guy, military trained, obviously. Nothing too subtle. Maybe one of the warrior cultures.

"This thing trying to kill all of us. And us killing it." Kyle replied and then turned to Jaden who was still standing besides him. He was fully aware these other men might be victims like him. But he also knew they might be part of this. So, he had only one person to trust here, right now. Jaden. That was actually one more than he usually had.

"Think my last shot hit this black tissue and seemed to kill him and his parts immediately. It has weak spots, after all. And it can be killed. That´s something." He sighed. "Question is, how many more of these things are running around once we leave this room, I guess." And with that suddenly another Duros appeared from a metal box at the wall. Kyle almost shot him on sight . . . being another Duros, when the man was beginning to talk to himself. "Could be the beginning of the same thing, maybe we should shoot him." Kyle said but with a dry smile, showing he was joking. "Actually we don´t know if this is Ord Cestus. But I doubt it." Kyle then replied to him. Turning himself to the Jensaari to see how far the man was with melting away the wall.

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Aurelius_the_Grey 
Registered: Sep '09
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Date Posted: 10/18 11:34pm Subject: Asylum
OOC: Sorry everyone. DRL really took up a lot of my time this weekend. The next two weeks are my exam/paper crunch, so I thank you for your patience.



Kalak-Mure
A Small Dark Place

Kalak watched as Blaster lit the revenant up hard. The smell of burning flesh filled the air. He saw the head come out, and then some sort of insect (or something) spring out of it's neck. It stumbled a bit, then died.

The hand that Jaden had kicked flew into a crate. Then the oddest thing happened, it froze. Then seemed to die. Then, from this crate emerged a Duros with welding goggles on. And he was talking to himself... This was certainly odd. All the Duros Mure had ever met had seemed to be either scum, or insane. This one seemed to fit the latter.

He switched his saber off, and holstered it. He looked towards the blind one, who was actually no longer the blind one. And he was snickering at the sight of the insane Duros. Mure found himself chuckling a bit as well.

Then the duros spoke, like he was reading Mure's mind.

"Um, greetings everyone? My name is Bargus Vesh, and I promise I am not crazy, well hopefully not anyway. I suppose this is a stupid question but this isn't the Porgo Memorial Rehabilitation Center on Ord Cestus, is it?"

Well this put a name to the crazy Duros, Vesh. The Jensaarai looked him over, (though you couldn't tell through the visor) and decided that this duros was in fighting condition. Sometimes insanity made people stronger fighters.

As things were calming down, Blaster picked up some extra ammo and nodded Mure towards the opening in the wall. Mure walked over, and then concentrated on becoming invisible. That's when he noticed that the force seemed clear again. That was a relief.

He slipped though the opening quietly, and took a slow look around, the immeadiate hallway looked clear, but it was dark, and Mure couldn't see around either corner. The ceiling, walls and floor were all the same stuff as the room. It all seemed dark and it didn't quite sit right with Mure. Listening carefully for any signs of life for a minute or two, he became satisfied that nothing living was nearby.

He slipped back into the room. He became easily seen again a second after he sliped in the room and said quietly, to the Blaster Jedi in particular, "Seems all clear". Then pausing, he put forward an offer. "Look, cap'n, I can be very hard to see if I don't want to be seen, maybe I should scout ahead, alone?" Puting extra emphasis on that last word. He motioned to the com unit by the corpse, "I could take that and stay in contact."

The Jensaarai waited for an answer. This party had grown fairly large. Mure hoped two things. First, that Blaster could lead, and second, that the others could follow.

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greyjedi125  3871 posts
Registered: Apr '02
7975_Darth Maul's Eye
Date Posted: 10/19 5:07pm Subject: Asylum
Jaden Korr
Location: Room of Darkness

If anyone would have told Jaden that a dead and severed head could suddenly sprout spider legs and skitter of its own will, the Jedi would have certainly laughed. This, however, was certainly no laughing matter.

"Dead." Kyle said dryly as he looked down on the 'slain' revenant. "More so than before I hope." he observed.

Jaden gave a wry chuckle as he was only too glad that Kyle managed to stop the revenant with his blaster rifle. Severing the creature with a lightsaber only created more hazards, it seemed.

Something was twisting the laws of nature and tainting the force. This could only mean the 'darkside' as far as Jaden was concerned, but who or what could be this powerful? It just seemed so...inconceivable. Was thsi only the revenat could do? Where there more of these things roaming about? Jaden certainly hoped not, but deep inside he knew the answer.

A sigh escaped him just then. Somehow, he needed to secure a moment to speak with his Master despite their growing numbers.

In the final analysis, Jaden surmised that stopping the creature and the cessation of all its ambulant severed parts, including the sudden 'clarity' in the force, was no mere coincidence. And speaking of coincidences, the Jedi apprentice was not sure what to think about the 'arrival' of the newest member to their fold, who had emerged from a container punctured by the revenant's severed hand.

Silently, Jaden observed the Duro with curiosity as it talked to itself; it chatted along for a moment until it seemed to become suddenly aware that it was not alone.

"Um, greetings everyone? My name is Bargus Vesh, and I promise I am not crazy, well hopefully not anyway. I suppose this is a stupid question but this isn't the Porgo Memorial Rehabilitation Center on Ord Cestus, is it?"

He didn't have any answers either, Jaden realized. From behind them, the man who was blind from carbonite rejoiced in the fact that his vision had returned. well, at least that was a good thing. It kept him from being absolutely defenseless and capable of brandishing a weapon.

"Just what did I miss exactly?" The formerly blind man asked. Jaden half turned and was about to answer when Kyle beat him to the punch.

"This thing trying to kill all of us. And us killing it." Kyle replied. Jaden caught a hint of his Master's suspicious look and nodded almost imperceptibly. Only Kyle would know that it meant that he understood. No, he was not about to trust anything either until they knew more and gained at least some control of the situation. But as long as there were no open hostilities....

"Think my last shot hit this black tissue and seemed to kill him and his parts immediately. It has weak spots, after all. And it can be killed. That´s something."

Kyle wanted to mention that the creature seemed more vulnerable to the Force than to physical attacks, but hesitated. He wanted discuss this with his master first.

"Question is, how many more of these things are running around once we leave this room, I guess."

Instinctively, Jaden turned and looked at the opening, his eyes narrowing as he reached out to with the Force.

Nothing.

Jaden sighed with relief, but noticed Kyle giving the Duro that scrutinizing look.

"Could be the beginning of the same thing, maybe we should shoot him." Kyle said but with a dry smile, showing he was joking. Jaden had a shocked look on his face, but it vanished when he saw that his Master was only joking. He always had trouble telling the difference when Kyle made such jests. But in this case, it did ease the tension permeating the room, if only just a bit.

"Actually we don´t know if this is Ord Cestus. But I doubt it." Kyle then replied to the Duros. Then turned towards Kalak.

Jaden did not sense immediate danger from the Duros or anyone else for that matter, but remained on alert, even as he only half-turned to regard the Jensaarai who slipped out through the opening and after a moment, returned.

"Seems all clear". Then paused before speaking once again, but this time directly to Kyle.

"Look, cap'n, I can be very hard to see if I don't want to be seen, maybe I should scout ahead, alone?" Putting extra emphasis on that last word. He motioned to the com unit by the corpse, "I could take that and stay in contact."

Jaden thought he noticed how the Jensaarai seemed to blend with the darkness so effectively, however, he shook his head at the mention of scouting alone. He didn't like the idea. Traveling in pairs was the best option in such situations, Kyle knew this. But Jaden was not about to interject. He knew Kyle was working on a plan, it was only a matter of time before he shared it.

As they waited for Kyle's input, Jaden looked around to see what the others were up to and to make sure that the revenant and all its parts remained dead.

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DarkLordoftheFins  2124 posts
Title: RPG & Minis Forum D6 Game Master
Registered: Apr '07
44059_Jedi
Date Posted: 10/20 11:07am Subject: Asylum
Kyle Katarn
Chamber


"Seems all clear". The Jensaari reported and Kyle nodded. Jaden had got his hint, he felt it and his apprentice wanted to talk to him. Kyle would make sure there was room for it, as soon as they all had a little more room than the one they woke up in, at all. "Look, cap'n, I can be very hard to see if I don't want to be seen, maybe I should scout ahead, alone?" Being called Captain made Kyle smirk. Putting extra emphasis on that last word the Jensaari looked at him. He motioned to the com unit by the corpse and Kyle kenlt down to take it, along iwth all left ammo the body had with it. "I could take that and stay in contact." The Jensaari added. Kyle gave him a look, then looked out into the dark of the hole they had burned into the wall.

He could feel Jaden´s disapproval. The connection between a master and his apprentice was always strong with Jedi. That Kyle actually considered this special Jedi Apprentice a good friend of him made it only stronger. Splitting up was indeed a great risk. Jensaari were known to be brave, but Kyle thought if he was ready to take it yet. He decided it was hard to evaluate, knowing so little. And that was an answer, actually. He considered the situation for a moment, stepping towards the only possible exit they had made for themselves. The creature had used the force, in a way. It was connected to it and probably not the only one. Turning back ot the Jensaari he nodded. "I bet you´re hard to spot, Kalak-Mure. But we know too little about the enemy and our situation to risk loosing you to a horde of this things. Once we secured basic knowledge of our situation, we will make good use of your skills. Once we know, what we do need to scout, actually." He nodded to the man, showing him, he had understood his line of thinking. He had other reasons for his decision, of course. He did not know the man, or trsuted him or any of the others. They were also possibly outnumbered. He had to know what they faced before sending men out. He coughed. "Okay, everybody listen up. As I see this we have been abducted and imprisoned. By who, is unknown. So if any of you has an idea, please tell the rest of us. I don´t think our host wanted to kill us, or he would have done it already. But I think someone killed our guard and made THIS of it." He pointed at the remains of the Creature. "And IT wants to kill us. So we face two hostile forces. The one who brought us here and the one who created this thing." He nodded into the round. Suddenly he had become their leader. Something that many people enjoyed and some others feared. He had done this for too many years, to feel either of both. Someone had to make the decisions and if it was him, so be it. A Jedi Master wasn´t the worst choice. It was probably the natural one. Oh, Luke, what have you talked me into . . .

"So, we have three priorities right now. Number One, we find out what is going on here and where we are. Number Two, contact help or escape this facility by whatever means available. Number Three, to stay alive and by that I mean all of us." With every number he held his finger up into the air. "Everybody who has no weapon grabs a pipe. We move out together, until we know what we´re facing. Kalak-Mure and me take the lead. Jaden, you take the back. I want both fronts covered by someone who can feel the danger before it happens. Mr. Carbonite, Mr. Vesh, you two stay in our midst but close to Jaden. Let´s move, people." He nodded and checked his weapon. Then turned a last time to Kalak-Mure. "You´re a scout, then look out for traps, for us. I guess a place like this has some." And as he padded his shoulder to signal to move he gave Jaden a long look.

"Be aware of the force, Jaden. You touched this taint and you felt it. Maybe you can sense it easier when we near it than I can. And take good care." He whispered and moved after the Jensaari. The simple reason why he had asked Jaden to take their back was, he did not wanted any other to cover him for now. "Go." He simply said, without awaiting questions or a veto. In these situations a discussion was what cost people their lives. They needed to act, now.

He could only hope all understood that.

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Vangarian  1018 posts
Registered: Mar '03
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Date Posted: 10/20 1:28pm Subject: Asylum
Through the hole and beyond:

IC: Davin Sustra

They started walking towards the hole in the wall to whatever lay beyond.

Davin eyed each of the individuals. His training kicked in as he made mental notes of each one. Mr. Outer-Rim had taken the lead. He was Toting the blaster rifle but the dangling Light-Saber hilt told Davin that he may well be a Jedi too. The Coriscantian who'd taken up the rearguard position also had a Light-Saber. The Third one with the vibes straight out of a Medieval Holo-vid was something else altogether. Davin had heard of other organisations that practices Force use and application. This one looked to be a Jensaari Defender. During the reformation of SBI into Imperial Intelligence. There had been orders to indentify, contact, negotiate with and draw into the Happy Fold any Individuals, Groups or Organizations that practiced some form or another of Force Mastery like the Jedi. If they didn't cooperate they were to be Neutralized and Hunted Down. It was then that his inlaw Vyn Narcassan and he began to put the pieces together that had been lying about like a scattered jigsaw puzzle. The Big picture they both came up with was frightening. So Vyn faked his own death because he'd been investigating the transmissions that were being sent and received by somebody high up in the Republic during the Clone Wars. It wasn't until far too late that he'd concluded that it was Palpatine all along, playing both ends of the war to his own personal advantage. Now Davin wished he'd been more original in his method of severing ties with Imperial Intelligence. There must have been a list of those who cut and ran because their politics didn't agree with a New Galatic Order. Fool Imperial Intelligence once and shame on you. Fool Imperial Intelligence twice and shame on them! That was probably why he was in a Carbonite Block to begin with. But somehow he got lost in the shuffle somehow. Then again no point in resurrecting a dead man only to prosecute him all over again. That may have been why he was taken here...for what...experimentation!? Davin shuddered. What were they doing at this place to begin with. How much time had passed since the Imperial reformation had goten started. He had to know!

"Excuse me for asking but my chronometer is shot. Does anyone know at least what year it is?", Davin asked.

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greyjedi125  3871 posts
Registered: Apr '02
7975_Darth Maul's Eye
Date Posted: 10/20 6:07pm Subject: Asylum
Jaden Korr
Into the Rabbit Hole from Hades...

Jaden silently listened as Kyle delineated his plan, and sighed in relief when it was decided that they'd all travel together. Naturally, Jaden suspected that Kyle wanted to keep everyone where he could see them, at least until he was absolutely certain they were not a part of whatever was going on. Kyle had told him many stories where an 'enemy' would plant a seemingly innocent 'insider' among those it wished to observe...or worse. Jaden could only hope this was not one of those cases.

Either way, Kyle went on to detail the three priorities, then gave marching orders. Jaden was to take up the rear. Understandably so.

Kyle moved through them as he spoke, then paused when he reached his apprentice.

"Be aware of the force, Jaden. You touched this taint and you felt it. Maybe you can sense it easier when we near it than I can. And take good care."

"I won't fail you... and you be careful too."

Jaden nodded and understood what Kyle wanted him to do. Jaden would be his extra pair of eyes both, physically and in the Force.

"Go."

The command was given, and Jaden waited until every last one had passed him, before he hunched down and himself passed through the hole, but not before he looked back over his shoulder, just to make sure that no 'thing' was following them.

Somewhere in front, someone asked:"Excuse me for asking but my chronometer is shot. Does anyone know at least what year it is?"

Jaden chuckled as he shook his head at the irony that besides not knowing 'where' they were, someone didn't know 'when' either. How lost were they really, he wondered.

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JediHighlander  66 posts
Registered: Aug '09
49509_H118: Undead
Date Posted: 10/20 8:13pm Subject: Asylum
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Through the Rabbit Hole, and into Wonderland.

Stepping through the hole that was cut in the wall, would place one in a long corridor. View ports along the opposite wall showed a crisp star-field, one you could only get with out an atmosphere to interfere. The corridor ended fifty paces to the right at twin doors, the ones used for turbolifts. To the left the corridor continued for thirty paces before ending in a set of heavy blast doors. The corridor had obviously been deserted for a good length of time, as there was a thin layer of dust coating the floor.

Kyle and Mure step into the corridor, out of the corner of their eye the two might have caught a flicker of blue light in front of the blast doors, but it went as quick as it came.

There was a plaque next to the blast doors control panel that read “Main Operations”. The indicator on the panel clearly showed the doors were locked.

With a deep rumbling whine, the corridor shuddered and the lights went out, and gravity failed. everything was caught in zero G. It was obvious that the facility had lost power.

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DarkLordoftheFins  2124 posts
Title: RPG & Minis Forum D6 Game Master
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Date Posted: 10/22 8:36am Subject: Asylum
Kyle Katarn
Space Station or ship ...


They moved out, covering their bakcs and clearing corridor by corridor. Until they reached that window and before them was the void of cold and endless space. "Looks like we need to ffind a ship." Kyle smiled dryly. A planet would have been just ot easy, would it?

He looked at the blast doors right in front of them. "Main Operations." He quoted the plaque next to it. "We should . . . HEY!" He never ended the sentence, as suddenly he found himself in zero-g, floating to the ceiling. He managed to turn and soften the impact, but failed to grab a steel pipe and floated back to the floor. "Okay, I am getting annoyed." He hissed out. "Everybody okay? Jensaari, I am sorry, but I need you to ask to melt another door for us." He pointed to the Main Operations. "We should get energy back on, before life support is gone, too." He gained hold at a wall and brought up his rifle. Aiming at the door. The moment the lightsaber would burn through the lock, the doors would open automatically. If anything awaited them, he wanted to be ready, at least.

Reaching out with the force he tried to find any sign of life aroudn them. Anything that told him, if they were alone . . .

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Aurelius_the_Grey 
Registered: Sep '09
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Date Posted: 10/22 10:38am Subject: Asylum
Kalak-Mure
Outside the room

Kalak followed the Blaster Jedi closely, keeping his eyes and ears peeled. He made no effort to camouflage himself, not in such a big group. The footsteps of the others seemed so loud, but then again, Kalak was always good at being stealthy, even before he learned to use the force to augment his abilities.

He kept his saber in his hand, unignited. Stepping softly, the party walked out into the corridor that Mure had seen just before. They all seemed to stop at the sight of the starry background beyond the view ports. Perhaps Kalak had forgotten to mention that... Blaster commented on the necessity of a ship.

The familiar walls, ceiling and floor gave the impression that they had not even left the room, except for the turbolifts to the right, and the blast doors to the left. Blaster went to the left, towards the blast doors. Kalak knew that if the doors were still powered, they would be easy to break open.

The Blaster Jedi was reading the panel.

"We should . . . HEY!"

He never got to finish his sentence, because suddenly the power went. And with the power went the artificial gravity. Kalak's heavy armor and caution caused him to walk softly, without much horizontal movement. As soon as he felt the gravity dissipate, he stopped moving, and was lucky enough to stay planted on the ground. The Jedi in front of him looked rather comical as he floated up, and bounced of the ceiling.

"Okay, I am getting annoyed." Blaster hissed out. "Everybody okay? Jensaarai, I am sorry, but I need you to ask to melt another door for us."

Kalak knew that the life support was out, but Blaster mentioned it before Kalak could. "I need some inertia to cut through the door, so watch out." Kalak raised and ignited his saber, the red blade flashed to life. Pausing momentarily, to make sure everyone was ready for whatever may lie beyond the door, then he pushed off.

He flew, very slowly, through the air, his saber on a direct collision course with the blast door's locking mechanism. The tip of the blade touched the lock, and Kalak braced his body.

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greyjedi125  3871 posts
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7975_Darth Maul's Eye
Date Posted: 10/22 5:03pm Subject: Asylum - Date Edited: 10/22 5:11pm (2 edits total) Edited By: greyjedi125
Jaden Korr
Location: Unknown Space station

Jaden was the last one to emerge from the dark room and into a dimly lit corridor, a corridor which had viewports.

Jaden wished he could marvel at the star-field on the other side of the transparisteel, but the realization that they were not on a planet, but in-fact, in space, only compounded matters. Jaden shook his head at the sight and suddenly wished he had the astrogation powers of an astromech droid; that way he could tell exactly where they were just by looking at the stars outside, but as luck would have it-no such luck. He was simply Jaden Korr, Jedi apprentice and not an R2 unit.

"Looks like we need to find a ship." Jaden heard Kyle say from in-front of the line. He couldn't agree more with his master, but at this point, he was beginning to doubt that they'd find one, seeing how things were going; which begged the question: How did they all get here in the first place?

To make matters worse, there was a layer of dust all over the corridor, which meant this place has been deserted for quite sometime. A shiver went through the Jedi as he considered the implications of that discovery. No one knew where they were. They were utterly alone.

The line suddenly came to a stop, and Jaden frowned, wondering as to the cause. He looked over the two in-front of him and saw the sealed blast doors. A moment later, he heard Kyle's voice as he read something aloud.

"Main Operations." Kyle quoted. "We should . . . HEY!"

Jaden's master never ended the sentence, as they all suddenly found themselves in zero-g. Somewhere, the power to wherever they were was lost, and now they were in greater danger. For not only did they have to find the power source, they had to risk encountering another revenant and assume they had the ability to turn back on the power...before life support failed completely. In other words, the were on a very serious time challenge.

Jaden was calm during the whole episode, and using his own kinesiology, he flipped and twisted in mid-air as if he were underwater and managed to set himself on the ceiling, upside down. With unlit lightsaber in hand, He decided to stand guard there. He wasn't liking any of this, especially the part that left them vulnerable from the rear. In that respect, Jaden kept an eye on the hole they had just left. They were strategically in a very bad position. Easy pincer maneuver. Nope. Not fun at all.

As he listened to what was happening in the front, Jaden reached out with the Force at the area behind them just to be sure no foul play was in progress.

"Okay, I am getting annoyed." Jaden heard Kyle hiss, which made him chuckle. Whenever Kyle got annoyed, there tended to be some collateral damage.

"Everybody okay?" Kyle loudly asked everyone. His voice resounding through the corridor.

"So far so good." Jaden responded loud enough to be heard. "No activity." he added.

Jaden heard his master give the Jensaarai instructions to cut the blast doors. Jaden felt bad he couldn't aid the Jensaarai, but his duty was just as important. A second later, the sound of an igniting lightsaber reached his ears and Jaden almost reflexively lit his.

Nothing to be so skittish about. The young jedi chided himself.

In his mind, Jaden was counting the seconds before the blast doors were open, all the while, he was focused on the hole behind them.

Not that he was paranoid or anything, but he simply hated being caught by surprise.

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JediHighlander  66 posts
Registered: Aug '09
49509_H118: Undead
Date Posted: 10/23 11:10am Subject: Asylum
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Gravity Forsaken Corridor

They floated there for a minute while Kyle gave his orders. The revelation that they were in space must have dowsed their hopes a bit, but they must be a hardy bunch for they hardly showed their worry. When the power had gone off, Kyle had been vexed, Jaden calm, Meru took it in stride, Vesh was the only one that was quiet.

Kyle called out to the armored swordsman “Jensaarai, I am sorry, but I need you to ask to melt another door for us."

"I need some inertia to cut through the door, so watch out." Meru raised and ignited his saber, the red blade flashed to life. Aiming for the door he pushed off.

He flew, very slowly, through the air, his saber on a direct collision course with the blast door's locking mechanism. The tip of the blade touched the lock, and Kalak braced his body.




Kyle's attention was only half on the Jensaarai, the rest of his concentration was on the Force. He reached with the Force to gauge the dangers, if any, that lay beyond the blast doors.

No danger sign tingled at his neck like normal. What he felt was unlike anything he had felt before, but familiar at the same time. It reminded him vaguely of the Reborn. Their presence in the Force was warped by the artificial infusion of the Force.

Warped...

No.

This was more like...

Twisted.

Kyle barely noticed as Jaden suddenly turned to the view port, a strange look on his face.




Jaden moved like liquid. When the gravity had failed he simply twisted and flipped and was calmly standing on the ceiling. He listened to his master give the Jensaarai an order to melt the door lock.

As the Defender prepared to do so Jaden reached out behind them to the turbolift doors. He was feeling for anything that could harm them, and found nothing. A flash of blue pulled his attention to the view port.

At first there was nothing there. Must have been his mind playing tricks on him. As he looked away his peripheral vision caught the color once more.

All he caught was the appearance of a man in his late thirties with long black hair and a scar running down his face on the left side.

It was all very confusing. It had been just a brief glimpse, but he was positive that he had seen the man. The real confusing part was that he had been outside the view port...

In space...

With no suit on.

Just at that moment Meru struck the lock.




Meru slowly floated towards the locking plate. His crimson lightsaber straight out, like a bloody spear ready to slay the locking plate.

The tip of his saber sunk into the plate with more resistance then he would have thought. It slowed his momentum, and he rotated the blade in the plate to make sure it was well and truly destroyed.

The blast doors made a loud click, then started to retract in to the walls like. It was a four quarter type blast door favored by Imperials. The locking mechanism was also clearly Imperial in origin. As the doors opened a smell wafted to him.




They all saw the doors opened to a large round room. It was lit in red emergency lights that cast eerie shadows over the darkened consoles. Of those consoles only a few, the ones that were up on the raised dais in the middle of the room, had any signs of power.

A smell of ozone and corrosion emanated from the room, no doubt from the burnt out consoles. A layer of dust covered every surface just like the corridor.

In the middle of the raised dais stood a figure. Balding head was lowered and his feet were firmly planted, and not a muscle moved. He could have been a statue if stone could have been flesh. The dust covered everything... even the man. It was obvious that he had been standing there, motionless, for months to accumulate as much as there was.

As the doors came to rest, heavy bolts slid into place to lock them open. As if sensing their presence the Man's head snapped up, dust sifting from his hair and crumbling off his coat, and turned to look over his shoulder at them. A single, sickly yellow eye stared at them.

Where the revenant's eyes had been dead and staring into oblivion, this man's eye held a dark and malicious intelligence that promised nothing but oblivion.

The Man turned to face them, the dust that was caked to his skin cracked. Bronze skin dull and dirty, but clear of blemishes. He smiled, white teeth that definitely belonged to a predator. A deep booming laugh emerged from his throat. The sinister sound was like nails on a chalk board while at the same time sounding like a subsonic earthquake.

He centered in on the Defender, the only one with an active weapon, and pushed off the floor, somehow turning the momentum into forward motion. His hands came up and a dull gray cylinder was clutched in a white knuckled grip. A sickly yellow blade sprang from the lightsaber as he swung at Meru. His off hand flipped out towards the others, and a wave of Tainted Force energy rippled towards them.


Tag: Fins, Vangarian, Rally, Grey, Aurelius

OOC: Out of the fire...
AOOC: The Tainted Force is localized in the Man, so it won't effect Force users efforts to use the Force. But any contact with Force energy from the man will have the same effect magnified 10 fold.

 

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I have decided that I want a different Name.
so I am now going by Republic_Anvil.
It suits me better I think.
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JediHighlander  66 posts
Registered: Aug '09
49509_H118: Undead
Date Posted: 10/24 2:41am Subject: Asylum
OOC: I hate to do this in the middle of the game, but I am going to change my username to Republic_Anvil. I will still GM this game, I talked it over with DarthXan318 and its all cool, so don't worry about that.

sorry if this inconveniences anyone. All other information on me will stay the same (email, aim, etc...)

Thanks.

 

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Republic_Anvil 
Registered: Oct '09
19251_Seal of the Rebellion
Date Posted: 10/24 3:17am Subject: Asylum
This is the former JediHighlander, now Reborn the Republic_Anvil. And for those who wonder why, I am a blacksmith and I figured I wanted to show it more. Someone already had a Hammer *Cough*..Imperial..*Cough*

So I figured the next best thing was an Anvil.

Anyway let the game resume.

-Anvil-

 

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DarkLordoftheFins  2124 posts
Title: RPG & Minis Forum D6 Game Master
Registered: Apr '07
44059_Jedi
Date Posted: 10/24 5:19am Subject: Asylum
Kyle Katarn
Entering the Main Control Center . . . or not . . .


Twisted. The force felt twisted and somehow corrupt. Danger, the force showed that, too. The taint Jaden had told him about. And something else. Something artificial. Like Desaan´s Reborn. Like the Ragnos Cultists. Empowered through the force but not naturally connected into it. But different. He wanted to believe that the technique alone did not mean the things was hostile, but he was not exactly the man who relied on hopes. The Dark Side was present.

From the corner of his eyes he saw Jaden turn, felt his strong reaction to something. Then the door opened and the presence he had felt stood before them. Covered in dust.

His rifle came up and he summoned the force instinctivly. The second the grin revealed the beasts teeth he wrapped himself into the protective power of the force. Holding fire until he knew what would be the attack. The lightsaber hissing alive made him curse and he kicked himself of the ground, floating into the right height to help the Jensaari. Not too fast, wait Kyle. Wait until he is blocked.

The thing seemed to have been there for quite some time and the idea it would probably not be hostile vanished the moment Kyle felt it. Sending an alarm into the force to all those able to perceive it, he brought his own rifle up while floating, just as the things leaped forward to attack the Jensaari. Of all of them the one probably least experienced in lightsaber duels. Kyle´s hand resisted grabbing for his own blade that wasn´t there anymore. Jerec, Ruusan, The Reborn, the Cult . . . he had seen many duels. But no weapon to make use of this experience.

Then again, it wasn´t like he had never shot someone. "Jaden, cover!" He shouted as the creature unleashed it´s own power.

The corrupt force bristled towards them in a wave of tainted energy. Kyle did not dodge. He needed to know the power of that thing. Instead he unleashed an own wave of force energy, giving it all he could and summoning even more of the living force to his defense. The moment the thing´s lightblade touched the Jensaari´s and couldn´t be used to deflect his shots anymore . . . he shot. His bolts went for the head. Three of them. If they did not kill it - like the revenant - they would at least hurt, blind, irritate and limit the thing. Probably giving it enough to do, so the Jensaari could make use of that advantage. Or until Jaden could come to his help.

Hopefully the other two members of their team could handle the combat situation. He had the feeling there was not much room to deal with panic.

May the force be with us. As Luke would say.

Tag: Anvil, Grey, Aurelius, Vangarian, Rally

 

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greyjedi125  3871 posts
Registered: Apr '02
7975_Darth Maul's Eye
Date Posted: 10/24 7:17am Subject: Asylum
Jaden Korr
Location: Under attack, Unknown Space station

They were being watched!!

The apparition startled Jaden, who'd been expecting something to come out from the chamber they'd just left. Instead, his peripheral vision caught the image of... something.

All he caught was the appearance of a man in his late thirties with long black hair and a scar running down his face on the left side.

Now that he'd seen it, Jaden could never forget such a striking face.

It was all very confusing. It had been just a brief glimpse, but he was positive that he had seen the man. The real confusing part was that he had been outside the view port...

In space...

With no suit on.

Jaden shook his head slightly, when just at that moment, Kalak struck the lock.

Then they ALL saw the blast doors open, and what lay inside.

Jaden was astounded that anything was alive in....wait, alive didn't quite seem to cover it around these parts, besides, the force felt warped...no, 'twisted'. It was the taint again!

But it wasn't affecting him directly this time....which meant...

As he summoned the Force to fill him, Jaden saw the being move and witnessed it become hostile just as soon as it had spotted them. What madness was this!!? It had a working lightsaber too!???

Stay calm... Jaden mentally urged himself.

Kyle! Jaden shouted in warning.

But Kyle was already on the move, and had used the force to protect himself.

"Jaden, cover!" Kyle shouted back. The creature unleashed it´s own power. And with the silent unison and precision born of a Master and Apprentice tag team, both Kyle and Jaden simultaneously countered with force energy of their own!

"Grab anything that can be used as a weapon and cover each other!" Jaden declared to the others.

They were vulnerable if they became scattered. This could not be allowed to happen.

Jaden hated this.

Kyle did not have a working lightsaber and the Jensaarai was left to defend himself against this new menace. Jaden was very tempted to rush into the fray, but he knew he had to hold his position. The only reason to do so was if things got desperate, which they weren't...at least not yet. But it sure seemed close to it. Well, he would use the force to cover and assist the others in battle, since his lightsaber was relegated to defend the rear for the moment.

Jaden also found that he could move through the air a lot faster utilizing the force to propel himself. Good, because if he needed to support any of the others, he'd have to move pretty quickly. Who knew what else was in this room with them.

A flash of the man he'd seen before came to mind, and Jaden knew he just had to have that conversation with Kyle, just as soon as this particular crisis was dealt with.

Tag: Fins, Vangarian, Aurelius, Rally, Anvil ( Five posts to 50! let's do this!) dancing

 

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