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Charlie looked down at his costume. Jolly Blue Giant? Did he look that ridiculous? Did he need to tone the color down a bit? He'd give it some thought if he came out of this alive. He extended a hand to Foreshadow, "My name's Coiled Lightning, I've really just started out back in Freedom, I never expected to get caught up in something like this. I'm not much of a dancer, but if you lead I'll try not to step on your toes. Or trip you up with my whip, but it sounds like if anything makes it to the ground, things are going to be pretty chaotic."
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Dragonid glared at Mohnak, "I have more important things to do than appease your honor. Whatever attacked your people here is not done. More will attack, more will die, unless we can find who sent this piece of refuse." He motioned with contempt at the remains of the cyborg. "If you want to protect your people, you will withdraw your challenage and assist me, not waste my time. If, after this plot is stopped your anger is not avenged, I will accept your challenge. Till then, take the advice of your calmer friend." He bared his teeth again, stepping in close and looking up at Mohnak. "You will do your people no good burnt to a crisp."
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Dragonid turned to look at the approaching commotion. He stood up to display his full height, and bared his teeth slightly at the disrespectful tone of the address. "Are you speaking to me?" He asked, bruskly, "Dragonid of the Praetorians? Do you need assistance? If it is not an emergency I have pressing matters to attend to" He had enough to worry about with this half-dead cyborg assassin, he had little interest in or patience with dealing with a mob. But he had a bad feeling they would not be simply brushed aside.
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Charlie slapped his whip handle against the palm of his hand. Always a little nervous when the orders come down sending you into danger, but it comes with the job. Even if the job doesn't pay any more. "I guess I'm with the ground team, protecting the jets," he said trying to project confidence he didn't feel. "If anything gets by you guys in the we air, we won't let them get near the Uni-Storms."
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Dragonid returned the salute, then returned to examining the remains. "Yes, very good. A technical expert." Dragnoid agreed, "And call a medical team. I want this thing kept alive in case it can still give us more information, if possible. Whats left of it." Whatever the thing used to be, it was an abomination of life. Dragonid felt a desire to track down this thing's creator, to put an end to it. But that was a later concern. Of first import was its employer, and any more had been sent for the same job.
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Coiled Lightning >A Haunting We Will Go >Backlash >Incursion: Spirit of the Blitz >Night of the Garrote Dragonid >Incursion: Meaning in Destruction >Revenge is a Dish Best Served Hot
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Charlie froze in the shadows, holding his breath as Bittman moved past. That was close, he thought as the whistling faded off again in the distance, marking Bittman's progress. More careful this time, Charlie crept out far enough to watch where the older man was going, giving him plenty of distance. Then he followed slowly, quietly, stopping behind statues whenever Bittman seemed to pause or turn up to the employees area where he stopped holding his breath, ear against the door to listen for any activity behind the door.
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ic Incursion: Meaning in Destruction
ca_lazerdwarf replied to Avenger Assembled's topic in Unknown Space
"Yes destroy it if you have that kind of power" Dragonid said to Lelak. "We don't want the communion getting ahold of this technology any more than you do. Better to destroy it here than worry about the communion tracking the planet to its new location." He turned to speak to just the Praetorians. "And I feel safer knowing that it is not in his hands either. He is dangerous enough if he can destroy a planet barehanded. Let us escort the Pirates out of here. Then we will have to discuss if we can make him an ally or at least convince him to go back to leaving the galaxy alone." -
ic Incursion: Meaning in Destruction
ca_lazerdwarf replied to Avenger Assembled's topic in Unknown Space
Dragonid shook his head, "We are not doing well at finding allies. We have found one madman and let him convince these Grue we are their enemies. At least the people of your homeworld, Sitara, seemed willing to listen to us, wherever they are." He puffed smoke in frustration, leaning back in his seat aboard the Kavaca. "Let us continue back to the settlement and finish this before the Communion reach us. Then maybe we can rip apart some Communion drones before we have to retreat. With luck we can last long enough." -
As Charlie walked through the doorway, he paused for a moment to listen for any activity inside, then continued in to look around the entryway. He walked past the closet, pointing at it to the sergeant with a question on his face, but leaving it to the professionals to examine. He continued on down the hallway, to glance inside the first door in the hallway. Room by room is best, I guess, he thought, but if I was Malone and I was hiding something, I'd definitely have it in the basement. That's where we're going to find the good stuff.
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Dragonid approached the peacekeepers and their charge, waving for them to stop a moment. "You know much about failure, I will grant you that." he said to the cyborg with a sneer. "But Kharag is tougher than you or your employers imagined, and he has the strength of brother Praetorians at his side. Whoever is sent to fix the job you botched will also fail." He looked up at the peacekeepers and nodded with respect. "Have you seen a thing like this before? I need to find out where it came from. How to make it tell us who sent it."
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"Yeah, definitely something not right about these shadows. Some of them right below me." Charlie whispered over the radio, hoping the noises of the ride and the guests would keep anyone below from hearing him. "Thought my eyes were just playing tricks on me, guess I'm not alone. Do you have any idea what we're looking at? Something dangerous?" He fidgeted with the whip-handle, hadn't dealt with something like this before. He didn't even know if it was something he could touch. But with this many innocent bystanders around, he'd have to think of something he could do if the situation turned ugly.
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"The whole planet?" Coiled Lightning whispered in shock, thinking of his friends and family back in Freedom. But he shook his head, no time to worry about them if they were going to do their part to prevent the unthinkable. "What do we know about their capabilities?" he asked. "Other than the planet-killer, of course. I assume the only thing we can do to stop that is to get these birds in the air to intercept it. But what might this Communion be sending to try to take them out before we're ready?"
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ic Incursion: Meaning in Destruction
ca_lazerdwarf replied to Avenger Assembled's topic in Unknown Space
"Probably a good response, since we just exposed them to a Communion invasion." Dragonid said, stopping to look at the Grue fleet. He could not tell much about their technology, but they had to be a superior force to a handful of pirate junkers and an unarmed Aquilla. "Do you think they will help us defend the system while the evacuation completes and we finish activating wormholes?" he asked his companions "If we let them chase us back to the settlement, they will have little other choice once the Communion reach the planet." -
Charlie was still suffering a degree of shock taking this all in. He had been preparing to spend Christmas unexpectedly alone (after an argument with his girlfriend Jane) when the Freedom League contacted him. The Freedom League! There had hardly been time for questions before he was bounced off the Lighthouse and sitting here in Geneva as Coiled Lightning, feeling distinctly out of place amid clearly more experience heroes. He was relieved that Myrmidon had spoken up to ask for clarification of their assignment. "Just tell us what to do, sir."
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ic Incursion: Meaning in Destruction
ca_lazerdwarf replied to Avenger Assembled's topic in Unknown Space
"We can force answers out of him later." Dragonid reluctantly agreed. "I do not like Lelak's deceptions, but I like the idea of the Communion getting ahold of this even less. I do not want to see another world face the same fate as the Lor homeworld." He looked up to the sky, looking for some trace of the approaching Communion among the stars, though he knew they were still too far out. "And what do we do after we activate all of his devices? How long do we have to hold the Communion off before the world is safely out of system?" -
Dragonid nodded, and focused a thought back to Kharag with his mind. "That is a good idea. You know your men better, you will be better able to track one of them down. I will have to leave this compound to find a robotics specialist. Keep your eyes open." He looked Kharag over as he turned to leave. "And keep your head cool. Let me know if you learn anything." Dragonid was relieved at the thought of leaving the Za'akis, at least for a while. This was not the sort of meeting he had hoped to have with Kharag's people.
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Stealth Check (untrained): 1d20+2 21
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Coiled Lightning is eager to lend his whip to the defense of Earth, if he won't be totally outclassed.
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Coiled Lightning Initiative: 1d20+6 9
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Charlie enjoyed watching the guests, anticipating the shrieks of the younger ones and jumping down to startle the older ones. It was great being here to provide a memorable Halloween experience for everyone. But was he himself just getting too submerged in the creepy spirit, or was he really seeing shadows move by themselves. There were a lot of irregular light sources around. His mind could just be playing tricks on him... But no, there was definitely something there, and it was definitely something wrong. Charlie had seen enough in his short career to believe that someone could be manipulating shadows, and he knew you gotta follow your hunches in this business. He followed along the catwalk, trying to pinpoint a shadow that was certainly behaving badly, and prepared to jump down on it to catch it by surprise.
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Charlie waited a while to make sure Bittman was out of view for good, and then swung over to the top of the museum. He made his way to the rooftop access and carefully, slowly opened the door to slip in. Despite what he had seen before, he half expected alarms to go off, announcing his precense. But with deep breaths he continued down to the lower floor and then creeped over to the employee-only area. He assumed the entrance to Bittman's workshop must be in there somewhere. He hoped this excursion proved fruitful, he had a nagging apprehension that he was breaking in to an innocent man's workplace. But his gut still told him Bittman was up to something.
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"Where is the kitchen?" Dragonid asked, looking for the food preparers. "They would know more of the staff, perhaps know who else this server talked to, from there I hope we can find who hired him, who is behind this attack and all this senseless death" He stalked off, angry and frustrated. The fool assassins had allies among the Za'akis. Who knew how many. But he would find them and they would talk.
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ic Incursion: Meaning in Destruction
ca_lazerdwarf replied to Avenger Assembled's topic in Unknown Space
Dragonid shook his head at Traveller as she stepped off the ship, "I do not know what to make of this. No rockets this time, that I can see. What do you think he has hidden here?" He eyed the sphere and the plate of glass with suspicion, keeping his distance. Even Delaztri technology often puzzled the dragon warrior. The miraculous technology of Lelak's people was so beyond his comprehension it might as well be magic. And magic was never to be trusted. As if Lelak hadn't provided ample reason to distrust already. -
Charlie smiled, "My complements, then. As I said, it's really impressive work, must have taken a long time to learn how to do such good work." He gave one of the nearby statues another examination as he spoke. "But I've taken enough of your time, haven't I." he said, "I don't want to keep you from closing up shop, I know what it's like at the end of the day when you just want to go home. I'll come by for a longer visit another day." He made his way out to the front door and out to the street. Well, he had his plan, sneak back in, and he knew that there must be something juicy down in the workshop. Was Mr. Bittman the new Garrote? Or did he have something else to hide? Charlie found a place to costume up, then found a rooftop perch to wait for the lights to go out and Bittman to go home.