Her face grim, Petra steps closer to "Tarwin". Нека донесе Sinh сърцето. Имате си награда и Sinh ще бъде доволен, че скъпоценната му експеримент успя.
She holds out her hand.
What kind of genius would I be if I ignored such a thing? Not a vary good one that's for sure.
Timeline noticing the ghouls keep their distance ports to the tree.
Lets see what you are, and what you are doing here.
i have my orders, i am to take the heart. it is not your fault that i succeeded so well.just follow after
I am hopping that my Stone of babel ability will make her understand. also i don't know what language Tarwin spoke when with Sinh.
You keep your mouth quiet, Darjekian. i take the hand that is holding the chain, wrap it around my forearm and grab risen by the mouth and look into his eyes threateningly.
Baker glares right back but doesn't say anything else for the moment.
i motion to Petra
After you, it is unwise to keep Lord Sinh waiting. he should be happy enough with receiving the heart, that he should grant whatever request he had of you. but not if we are not hasty. lets go
I motion with my hand to have her lead the way to sinh, without revealing that i don't know the way.
My face tightens in confusion, Complete what word? And you can let him go, he's mostly harmless though he seems more lewd than I initially thought.
I shoot Bizz a look that is half joking and half a warning.
We need to get up into the castle and find Petra again if you didn't hear the conversation we just had. We should move pretty fast too.
Мислиш ли, че да ме обиждаш, като говори в езика си? Слушайте хладнокръвното копеле, може да обичам да работя за това чудовище на горния етаж, но той ми и брат ми в чудовища се обърна. И сега имам само един шанс да се върне към нормалното. Ти повече от най-трябва да знае какво се случва, когато не успеете капитана. Ако аз не съм този, който да достави сърце ...
Petra wipes tears from her eyes and points at "Tarwin"
Ако не ще ме остави на кредита, че аз ... не, че брат ми заслужава тогава аз просто ще трябва да го взема сам!
As she says this, her entire body becomes Stone, a visible sheath of Air surrounds her like armor, Heat radiates off from her in waves, and her arms (now with jagged stone-like spikes instead of hands) begin to flow like Water giving her great reach.
Petra wipes tears from her eyes and points at "Tarwin"
If you won't let me get the credit that I...no, that my brother deserves then I will just have to take it myself!
As she says this, her entire body becomes stone, a visible sheath of air surrounds her like armor, heat radiates off from her in waves, and her arms (now with jagged stone-like spikes instead of hands) begin to extend giving her great reach.
In response, an entire section of stone wall in the outside corridor recesses into the wall revealing a large flight of stairs. Near the top you can see the fading light of late afternoon.
The roots must spread throughout the entire fortress...
whispering Risen, we may need to re-disguise ourselves after taking her out. she is not going to play nicely.
to Petra
And do you think that giving him this will cause him to reverse it. Our master is a very literal man, if you give him the heart and do not kill the guys, and bring them the bodies, he will say you didn't fill your part of the bargain. i have this fellow and he will still be there when you round up the others. i left some behind and they still might be kicking. i know i left the fiery one behind and the displacer still lives. find him and take him out like master instructed and you will get your reward. disobeying him, even if you think it is what he wants, will only make matters worse. you haven't failed yet, go and do your task and get both of your freedoms. Fighting me will not get their bodies, as was your instructions, and to Lord Sinh, that is not fulfilling the agreement. if you still wish to fight so be it, but it will not gain you your freedom.
...I think you just made her mad, dude. Not sure what you did to do that though.
Baker goes wide-eyed.
Then as quietly as possible to Joe,
Noted.
Will DC 18 (1 degree - Impaired and vulnerable / 2 degree - Defenseless and Disabled)
Timeline attempts to connect his pipboy to the tree in hope to communicating with it.
Hello the names Timeline im hoping to communicate with you. Who are you or more important what are you?
Wings out and flying up the stairs and into the light.
Petra backs down at your words. ... Вие сте прав. Ако почистите вашия бъркотия след това капитанът е по-вероятно да дълбоко СРЮ вас, вместо.
She flies out the door Joe and Risen Fate just came through.
A message scrolls across the Pipboy's screen.
You look up at the noise of an open flame nearby...only to find Wild Fire appearing from an underground passage not 20 feet away!
Only seconds later you hear an explosion come from the tower as Petra comes flying out of the now ruined metal door. She looks different(see description in above post) and appears to be searching for something...
Only seconds later you hear an explosion come from the tower as Petra comes flying out of the now ruined metal door. She looks different(see description in above post) and appears to be searching for something...
Im sorry for the intrusion but I am timeline a hero of sorts and im here to stop Sinh, his days of evil and experiments will be over for sure. Now who are you if I may ask are you in some kind of trouble, one of Sinh's experiments perhaps? If I can help you with anything I will its what I do....
Timeline pauses as he sees Petra and wildfire. Timeline waves to wildfire kind of nonchalant waving her over.Timeline knowing that it wont be safe here asks the tree a question.
Im sorry to cut this conversation short as you probably don't get to many people in which you can have a compelling conversation with but i must ask is there another place we could talk? This place is no longer safe I could get there fast if that helps.
so, that problem is solved. i'm sure timeline can handle himself. that said i don't know how much longer i can keep this lying thing up. i'm not that good at it. hopefully this door isn't lock, how disguise shattering would it have been if i went up to it with petra here and i couldn't open the door due to a security code.
I walk with risen over to the metal door on the opposite side of the room and see if i can open it.
Oh that looks like the kid's roots
I yell over, Timeline! Don't hurt that tree, don't do anything to it! I think it's connected to a boy as a means of life support. Maybe. Not sure but pretty sure. Don't touch it.
I keep flying over to Petra and land on the ground in front of her with the bat stretched in both my hands as a peace offering. I plead with my eyes, hoping to break our language barrier. Your brother needs you. Please. Can you follow me to him? Please?
A child sinh you dirty bastard! Its ok wildfire I will see what I can do and I definitely wont hurt him.
Timeline takes in the information from wildfire and ports off next to the boy connected to the life support. Timeline pops next to the boy.
Well hello there we meet in person my new friend. Im Timeline the one from your head I want to help let me just take a look around.
Yea, that would have been a problem... maybe try handling Sinh with less talking? Dunno. Shall we see what we find in the next room?
Let's go check out that door.
Joe and Risen Fate pass by the Experiment Bays and head towards the far door.
There is indeed a Keypad attached to the door on the far wall. you will need to open or bypass this to proceed.
Petra sees Wild Fire streaking towards her and unleashes
a at her...with no effect.
She appears ready to continue fighting until Wild Fire shows her the Boy's Baseball Bat.
But...how? Petra struggles with the few words she knows in English. Where? Tell! She seems suspicious of you as she doesn't understand much of what you are saying but does seem willing to follow you.
Timeline finds himself in an underground cell facing a blind child with crimson roots sprouting from his back inside of some sort of life support fluid-filled tank. You quickly discern that disconnecting the boy from the system would kill him. In addition he appears to be functioning as a network for the fortress's electronics systems. It is using his brain as a processor to keep the quantum wave impulse engines from exploding. (This explains why Sinh is able to even use those engines as the technology to control the emissions is well beyond the current timestream's capabilities).
A rumbling sound comes from the floors and ceiling.
Your choice to tell the others or not.
I allow her to take the bat and watch as she holds it close.
There!I turn and point to the doorway I just flew out of. I start to fly slowly towards it, beckoning her to follow me.
Your brother is down there! Come on! He needs you!
I turn to Bizzniche who is hovering close to me.
Bizz, do me a favor and see if you can find the others. They can't be far. See if they need help, if not come back to me.
I continue to move towards the door way and stop at its opening. I continue to wear an expression that is trying to say "please hurry."
I hurry down the steps wanting to tell the boy that Petra is on her way.
Hey! She's just outside! Petra is outside!
Why do I have to do it? Why not have Time-Dunce over there do it? I nearly got blown up no thanks to you.
At your glare he throws his clawed hands up in the air.
Fine! Whatever, guess I'll go make myself even more of a target.
He grouchily flies away.
How...what am I suppose to do hes just a boy i cant just leave him like this. Come on Nile think your smarter than this you can figure this out.
Guys I have a slight problem there's a boy connected to this castle and is infused and being used as a CPU and unfortunately it looks like this system is keeping him alive and hes keeping this place a float and the engines from imploding and killing us all. This means unfortunately I cant help him without a huge chance of me killing him but there is a sleight chance i could unhook him but I don't know how long he would last from the disease that plagues him...all my knowledge and its all useless. I will keep thinking cant give up.
Timeline thinks of what he needs to do.
First I need an alternate power source why not just get one from the appropriate time meant for the engines.
Timeline decides to go find a power source and travels to the future to get one and maybe some sort of life support for the boy..
Baker pauses for a second, thinking.
Though now that you mention it, I wonder how well Joe's disguise will work on this door, or rather, how accurate his facsimile of Tarwin is...
Rabbi, I've got a bad notion in my head that this door might not open for you, and I don't want to risk setting off some sort of alarm that would make Sinh not think you're "you."
Baker takes a breath, mentally preparing for what he's about to suggest.
Buddy, can you throw me through that door? I can do some of the talking on the other side then about how "I'm going to kill you for that when I get back on my feet..." etc. I can probably take the hit, especially if I'm lucky.
Baker grins lop-sidedly.
And besides, that'll check one off of my bucket list! Get thrown through a door!
I will try, not sure how strongly i can throw you, and if that door is week enough to be burst by it, but it is worth a shot. i'm not that strong, i just hit hard.
Timeline arrives at the year 2562 and realizes hes in mid air he teleports to the last safe part of the earth for this is the year of the galactic universe war 5 the last big war on Earth and with Mars.Timeline ports into the United City of Earth the last bastion for Earth the only city that is unaffected by the war. He appears in the center of the city.
Ah I remember now and if my calculations are correct this is uh oh... the day the united city of earth is attacked by the martians in one last attempt to stop this war. How long do I have ah well an hour that should be enough time. Got to work fast.
Timeline ports of to his contact in this time a cyborg named Scrap Iron Jack. He walks in and sees jack working on an old mars junker.
well will you look at that just my luck starwave brand quasar pulse wave inverters. How you doing Jack! Its been awhile hasn't it old friend?
i walk up to 10 feet from the door. i spend a move action to set up the judo throw that karav maga has taught me, but i never utilized. I have Risen Fate stand next to me
heres hoping this works, and remember this was your idea.
I attack with the RISEN HAMMER, power attacking and all out attacking
DC27 fort save
i will do what the above post said, after Risen Fate does his thing
If there aren't any cameras around, I'm going to take a flying start and let Joe redirect my momentum more efficiently to smash into the door.
vs. DC 29 RISEN HAMMER SMASH
Joe throws Risen Fate as hard as he can and throws him through the steel door with a terrific crash!
Hey Nile! Long time no see! Did you ever find the Lost Moon Relic of Whatsitsname? It sounded important when you took that Energy Spanner ...and never paid for it... but I'm sure you have come here to return it, no?
You remember The Scrapyard's policy: Nothing is Free.
But you'd better be quick, my ride off this dump is in an hour and a half and I've still got to packed. Can't stay with all these martians around. But their fleet is attacking tomorrow I hear so who am I kidding, I got plenty of time.
Bruise Taken
Jack I need The power source for those engines for one, I also need to find some kind of life support system. Wait that junker there is its life support system still intact maybe I could rig something up make it portable. Sorry old friend im in hurry but I Need this favor and in return im going to do something for you I cant tell you now but believe me it will be worth it.What do you say Jack?
Timeline doesn't really wait for Jack's answer and goes to work unhooking the power source for the engines.
Timeline then begins working on the life support system dismantling it and reconstructing it into and suit like support system.
Timeline teleports around the workshop in what can only be described as crazy erratic but ingenious way making the best with the time he has.
Oh by the way Jack you might want to pack now seeing im taking over your workshop and it never hurts to be prepared aye!
Timeline stops a moment looking at Jack and smiles.
It will be worth it what are rules if not for breaking just once or twice.
i look through the now open metal door.
you will now die, darjekian. Lord Sinh is stronger than you can imagine.
...and your faith in your friends is yours!
Xavier! Brother!
Tears in her eyes, Petra places her hands against the life support system.
Какво е направил за вас ?!
Xavier turns his sightless eyes towards his sister.
Hush сега, тя ще се оправи. Сестра ти е тук сега. Sinh не може да ни раздели по-дълго. Ще те измъкнем.
Petra tenses up and whirls on Wild Fire.
Пуснете го! Вземи това ... това ... нещо от него точно сега!
Seeing Wild Fire's lack of comprehension she turns to the several hundred pound and .
GET...HIM...
Xavier! Brother!
Tears in her eyes, Petra places her hands against the life support system.
What has he done to you?!
Xavier turns his sightless eyes towards his sister.
Hush now, it will be ok. Your sister is here now. Sinh can't keep us apart any longer. I'll get you out.
Petra tenses up and whirls on Wild Fire.
Release him! Get that...that...thing out of him right now!
Seeing Wild Fire's lack of comprehension she turns to the several hundred pound and .
Get...him...
"Tarwin" and Timeline keep up appearances as they investigate what is beyond the steel door.
A set of stairs curves along inside the tower's perimeter. Multi-hued flickering lights play along the outer stairway wall, reflected from some unknown source above. Sounds of bellows, chains, and a weird gurgling can be heard faintly from above.
**GURGLE**
What? Oh, yes yes. Of course you can eat the old one when I'm done. He's of no more use to me anyways. Where IS that idiot?! Doesn't he know I have a time table to keep?
You work as fast as you can and it still takes 59 minutes to build the life support system. It is complete with a low-powered neural response neckpiece to operate the automated leg and arm braces and a nanite blood transfusion system to handle any weird nutritional demands or immune system compromises. You feel like you could have done better (hmmm...arm cannons?) but what can you say you only had an hour.
Jack remains silent as he watches you cobble together this device. he speaks up near the end. Well ain't that purty. You got a sick kid or something back home? I swear every time you come here asking for weird stuff I tell mahself I ain't gunna let you take any more but I seen you a'workin and I got to hand it to ya brother you is some kind of genus or 'nother. Tell ya what, you promise to tell me all about it some day and you can have it on da house. Heck it's less'n stuff I need to put on me taxes 'nyways.
His lower set of artificial limbs continue to spot weld two fuselage plates together while he smokes with another and scratches his beard thoughtfully. Course now maybe we kin be considered repaid? On account of dese here iron limbs ye dun racked fir me back in da war? Life saver you are. An I lucky as heck ye ain't a martian 'nyways.
At the last statement he belts out a long laugh.
alright risen, stay behind me, we must be close
Hey Xavier, I need you to talk to me through this. I need to know things feel ok or what needs to change. Do you understand? Tell me when you're ready to get out of here.
I ready myself near the back of his glass cylinder, ready to cut through the glass and get him out, waiting for his word to start.
I'm surprised he didn't hear the smash of me careening through that solid steel door... I figured it was bound to make some sort of noise... I'm on your six, Rabbi. Gonna try and play up the "Just got thrown through a door" look.
Timeline packs up the chip and the suit into a bag Jack had laying around.He then walks over to Jack opens a portal and teleports them both through time one year into the future one year after the earths moon colony fired its lunar defense system defeating the martians at the loss of the united city of earth in to the new republic of earth the rebuilt human city on earth.
Sorry I didn't have time to explain Jack the martians attack early you would have died and I don't have much family especially this far from home but you Jack your family to me. I saved you, you are safe a year into the future do what you wish your new life after im done in the past ill come buy you a drink but I have to go Now.
Timeline steps back and opens another portal.
Good bye my friend
Timeline steps through the portal and begins to work.
You and Jack run through your portal just as the massive Martian battlecruiser unleashes it's opening volley. You leave Scrap Iron Jack looking dumbfounded at the change in what was once familiar.
...well I'll be a moon-man's uncle... is the last thing you hear as you re-enter the Space-Time Vortex with your recently acquired devices.
An unpredictable time eddy threatens to divert your course but you manage to persevere. Out of the corner of your eye you think you see something just before you rematerialize...
...into utter chaos. Petra has ripped the Life Support System from it's moorings and is waving it (one-handed) at Wild Fire. The kid is in noticeable distress as the system that has kept him alive is now gone. He is still linked into the quasar engines but if dies the fortress will implode. Wild Fire appears to be trying to calm Petra down.
You see that distorted doorway once again hanging at perpendicular angles to Reality. The voice from inside has grown louder...
Timeline steps through the portal and is shocked to see Petra has ripped of the life support.
NO NO NO!!! Not like that You will kill him!Wildfire keep her away from him I can help him and keep us from exploding but i cant do that with her destroying things! Got it?
Timeline begins trying to integrate the chip into the system to transfer the power from the kid to the chip.
Once the engines are running off the chip and no longer need the boy then Timeline pulls out the the life support suit and readies for the swap. Timeline touches the child and teleports him and the child over to the suit. Himself on the outside of the suit, the child inside it.
Despite being startled at his sudden appearance, I grab Petra around the waist and back up with her. Wait. I ready myself to grab her harder or even restrain her if she fights me or tries to get out of my grip at all.
You want to explain all this to me later, Timeline?
***Meanwhile in the Evil Wizard's Tower***
Joe and Risen Fate sneak a peek at the top of the stairs. A heavy steel door seems to be between them and Sinh's Laboratory. A fist-sized vent above the door allows noise through but not too much else.
You two are still near the bottom of the stairwell just within sight of the door at the top (45 feet down stairs from the door).
we walk up to the door like we are supposed to go meet him, with risen Fate following me. also i tell on the comms. I don't know if Wild Fire or timeline can hear this, but we are about to make contact with Lord Sinh.
Timeline while doing all the required work is ranting like well some would say a mad man.
Its simple really the boy is dying but this system is keeping him alive but it also is what is powering the engines....so what does that mean? Well ill tell you take him out he dies and the engines explode! So what I did is go to the future got a power source for the engines and am integrating said power source to run the engines instead of the boy and once Ive done that I can teleport the child into this ingenious little life support suit I threw together while in the future all before the city I was in was vaporized by Martians! Oh yes and I know what your thinking and yes...oh yes...I am Brilliant!