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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 0:57:55 GMT -5
Zilfer was about to say something to Elifain, surprised to see him here, however another form came forth. It was Cain, and Zilfer turned to him and deactivated his lightsaber for the moment.
"Perhaps not long enough." said Zilfer calmly as he looked to the sky above this place. A spell of summoning Darkness, familiar for it had been one of the last things that Cain and him had learned. As he looked back down to Cain, he knew this wasn't the real one, it wasn't his style and felt Cain off in the distance, it was just a trace but still there from the doppleganger Cain was using. "Seems you've caught me at a bad time, though I'm touched you were so concerned that you left your throne."
If there was sarcasm in Zilfer's tone it didn't show, and he seemed at relative ease compared to the others. He felt it was because Cain's power didn't frighten him as the others, for he could at least put up a fight. Right now he was more curious as to why he had left Coruscant at all, it wasn't his style, something very important must be happening here he knew.
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Post by Elifain on Jan 23, 2010 1:03:20 GMT -5
Elifain was surprised at cains appearance, and took a step back, his rifle clattering to the ground, as his left hand dropped to his lightsaber, but did not draw it. He scowled, knowing that the empire wasn't high on the list of people he wanted to see, but wasn't about to start something that wouldn't be. He listened to zilfers greeting, his shoulders squared towards cain, as he reached up to replace his helmet. Well this changes things... He said, the sound sounding a mumble through his helmet.
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Post by Cain on Jan 23, 2010 12:01:58 GMT -5
Cain chuckled lightly at Zilfer's response. The reports were confirmed that he had survived Chinine and now was out on his own, "Hmph... I always knew you had weakness, but I never imagined you would fail me so completely..." Cain wasted no time then, his eyes darted over to where Elifain was and the Force slammed down around his throat, lifting him up off the ground, "If you'll excuse us, Lord Nanashi, my business is with the Mandalorians. If you'd like to make yourself useful, you could round up the rest of them for me."
Cain's words were accompanied by a subtle, almost imperceptible push at the mind. It was no longer just the darkness that weighed upon Zilfer, through the direct connection with his mind Cain also was able to impose upon it. A Mind Trick would force a response out of an opponent, but this would only be a temporary solution and not what Cain wanted. A subtle push however might trigger an emotion, one that they would not feel otherwise which could influence their decisions. This would be important when trying to talk to Lord Nanashi, for if there was one thing Cain was certain about him, it was that he could be as stubborn as a mule.
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 23, 2010 12:36:57 GMT -5
Rounding the corner of the alley, Kailani back tracked a few steps, quietly. Elifain was caught by the throat by some black haired man, and was that... Lord Nanashi? Some winged bitch? What in the name of hell was going on there?
Clutching the blaster rifle in her dark hands Kailani frowned, they were all Force Users. What did she have that could assist in this? Biting down nervous on her lip the woman watched as Elifain's air supply was cut off. Options were limited, but he needed, fuck her new found sense of loyalty.
So there she stood, useless in most ways and the urge to do something utterly stupid filling her. What to do, what to do?
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 14:55:00 GMT -5
"Still a coward I see." said Zilfer as he pulled a blade from his back, it's crystaline surface shining even with the darkness that had fallen unto the planet moon of Nar Shaddaa. He had felt the stirrings in the force once again, and Elifain was begining to be lifted into the air and crushed. He felt a small tingling in his head and knew Cain was already working on playing his mind games. Cain got a response form Zilfer but it wasn't the one he was probably hoping for.
"I think I will make myself useful... by not making myself useful to you." said Zilfer a moment before he countered Cain's telekinesis around Elifain with his own. Elifain then dropped down to the ground. Kailani entered the fry from the side but it looked like she wasn't going to do much. "He's here on the moon, a distance off but I can feel he's close. Let's go say hi shall we?"
Zilfer focused the force through his Crystalline sword amplifying his own power and projecting an aura of protection all about his teammates, which would shield them from physical and mental force attacks. With that the mental image of Cain would disappear from everyone's view. "Any help strengthening the aura would be nice." said Zilfer as he began to jog towards where he had sensed Cain. There was no doubt that Cain would continually attack the group on their way there for he would not want to face them in person, that was for sure. "Remember to attack the source not the illusion, he'll seek to confuse your senses."
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 23, 2010 14:59:31 GMT -5
Like Moonfire's other character, Samson was looking on with a bit of frustration using an optic cable. He dangled by his rappelling line, standing on the side of the building facing downwards with his optic cable hanging from his arm giving him an image of what was in the window below. He opened the feed up to everyone, allowing the whole team to see what was going on.
Tank was the first to speak. Samson heard him through the com. "Thats Zilfer i think."
Samson turn his head around to look up at his squadmate. "You sure?"
He nodded. "Yeah, i saw him when i helped the ground teams set up the new Jedi Temple."
That presented a complication. Army of Light units were under orders to report locations of unknown force users they come across but Samson wasn't sure if Zilfer was an unknown or not. he decided logging it would probably be best. "If the other guy is Mandalorian like the other guy said, then this might open some possibilities."
The other three didn't understand. Samson looked at the video feed of the girl watching what was going on. "When have you ever seen a Mandalorian travel alone? If she's one, then i bet there are others that haven't been discovered yet."
Samson retracted the optic cable and turned back around. "we need more information. Runt, where are those mercs?"
Runt scoped in on the building scanning for any sign of them. he spotted on moving near a west side window a few levels up from the team. "Got one, 3 floors up, keeping his back to the windows and scanning the interior of the room he's in."
Samson hand signaled the team to ascend. They began climbing back up their rappelling lines checking each window with their optic cables as they went.
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Post by Elifain on Jan 23, 2010 15:05:03 GMT -5
Elifain, as he started to raise from the ground, started absorbing the telekenetic energy into himself, lessening the strain on himself, and allowing him to take in some breath, until zilfer broke it with his own. He smirked, and watched as cain disapeared, and heard zilfers call for help. He quickly concentrated on those around him, making sure to include kailani into the mix, and formed the force protection. Thanks for the help... He said, as he cought what was left of his breath back. As he finished, he started running after the rest of the group.
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Post by Cain on Jan 23, 2010 15:19:03 GMT -5
Cain snapped his fingers as soon as Zilfer cut off the connection and his two Elite Guards stepped in just beside him. The Elite Guards carried Ysalamiri of their own, together they formed a large bubble around the smaller bubble created by Cain's Ysalamir Shadow. The result was that Cain seemed to vanished from the force, making him impossible to track.
While in his own bubble Cain quickly worked again, chanting the incantations for the Spell of Concealment that would cloak him, making him imperceptible. He then snapped his fingers again and he and the Elites retreated back to a new position. Once they had settled, Cain returned to his meditative position and his Elites returned to their positions ten feet away. The element of surprise was now on Cain's side again. Zilfer was radiating the force like X-rays off a neutron star, he made it all to easy to locate him.
Quickly and decisively Cain smashed the foundations of the buildings towering above Zilfer and Elifain as well as the walk ways they were running on which would send them and countless other innocents tumbling miles down to the surface below, as well as the debris from above cascading down. After doing this Cain then grabbed Elifain again in the carnage. Wrapping the force around him and crushing mercilessly.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 16:06:19 GMT -5
OOC for now, just going to assume the others are doing something, guess they can catch up later.
First off Cain was very mistaken on how far down they would go cascading down, the people literally fell no more then thirty to fifty feet before hitting a lower level or the ground floor of Nar Shaddaa. Most would sprain or break something, not as many would die from the fall. Zilfer however as soon as the walkway started to fall, his wings shot out of his robes and he grabbed both Kailani and Elifain. It was more to get the momentum going for Elifain to be flying the right way. Cain had dropped of the radar however it hadn't been before Zilfer had sensed his general direction. As his mighty wings flapped pulling Elifain the first few strides and then letting go of him, he pumped the force through his body increasing his speed, and easily maneuvered away from the building which stalled, for the building was immensely tall and almost every other floor a walkway connected it to another building giving it support all throughout it's structure.
"Elifain, you try and sense where it's coming from, with each force move he does lends us a hint of where he is. I'll try and keep his force moves off of us." said Zilfer and he felt Cain's attempt to break through his shield placed upon Elifain in which their combined might against Cain's assault easily reduced Cain's crush to nothing more then a breeze. It was apparent the dark lord wasn't getting the hint that direct force powers weren't going to work on them. Flying through the air with Kailani, Zilfer finally came to a stop at the beginning of the merchant sector, where he had sensed Cain's direction to be. They were closing in on him, and zilfer was sure the attacks might get more desperate.
"Come out come out... where ever you are..." said Zilfer as he nodded to Elifain to lead the way, the last force move had been used on him, so he would have more of a clue to Cain's whereabouts.
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Post by Elifain on Jan 23, 2010 16:17:43 GMT -5
Elifain turned his huds recorder on, as the building started to crumple blow them. He cought sight of the countless civilians dropping down around him, to the lower levels, that could have been devistating, higher up. He quickly activated his jet pack, as he felt his force protection being assulted again, and reached out, and started absrobing it, in time to hear zilfers words. With cain fueling thier defense, Elifain reached out with the force again, and sensing the general location of cain, as he tried to crush Elifain OYA! He yelled, as he landed near zilfer and kailani, before sprinting off in the direction he sensed cain, as he set his hud to send the information he recieved of the falling civilians and the darkened sky back at the falling building to roland. The pieces are falling together vode, He said, with a smirk, as he ran through the crowds. Take Devon to the jedi, to see if they plan to do anything about this. Roland replied over the comunicator, with a quick, Yes brother, before walking through the crowd towards where he last saw devon.
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 23, 2010 17:09:22 GMT -5
The building rumbled and lurched downward 10 feet. bits of debris fell from the sections above them. "Runt! What the hell is going on!"
Runt abandoned his sniper post. his squad was in trouble and probably needed an extra hand. "Unknown, the bottom of the building just exploded. foundation dust and debris is rupturing more then 80 stories down. get out of there!" Runt yelled into his com. He bolted down the hallway of the abandoned apartment structure to try and find a ride he could use to pick them up in. In the upper corner of his HUD a signal beeped, telling him he had an external com link call. Curiously, he switched to it.
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Samson signaled the team to breach in. They kicked off the building and swung back towards it, breaking through a window and rolling into the interior of the structure. The building started to tilt, pitching them forward.
"where we going boss?" Cork said. Samson waved them towards the elevators.
The team ran and pried open a turbolift door. It was a sheer drop more then a 100 stories and more then 50 stories to the top. It was an impossible climb for their time frame, but at the rate the building was tipping over they might be able to run out of there. "Go, start climbing." Samson yelled
the team jumped into the turboshaft and started to climb using whatever they could get their hands around to pull themselves up. The building tipped more giving them a little more help. The building collided with another skyscraper next to it and the two ground against each other. the sound was deafening and the commando's suits shielded them from the high decibels.
Eventually it tipped so much that Samson could get up enough to use his legs to start pushing himself up. Hefty, from his position in the rear started shaking his head. "Running out of time boss. We won't make it."
Samson knew he was right, if the building kept tipping then they'd be running down wards to their deaths, but they had to try. "Keep going!"
The 4 of them picked up the pace, running up the steep slope as hard as they could. With the building now wedged against the other skyscraper it's rate of tilt slowed but the vibrations going through the structure had shaken just about everything lose. ahead of them, a turbolift dislodged from it's position and started to fall. Samson swore and pried open a lift door shuffling everyone through.
He barely escaped himself, jumping through the door just in time as the lift spead past where he had been standing. Now they were standing in a condo. no one was home apparently because Samson and his men were the only one's within the room. Suddenly he heard Runts voice again. "Samson! Samson! East side east side. East side of the building. Give us a visual, come on man."
Samson signaled the men east. they climbed their way through the condo, trying to get to the east windows. us? he thought as he climbed. They used their wrist vibroblades to help dig into the floor wall, which was quickly becoming the floor in order to haul themselves over. When they reached the window it was already blown out through stress. Samson grabbed a orange flare from his thigh pocket and lit it off. Orange smoke poured from the stick, marking their psoition. "Runt! Runt we're here!"
then, dangling in front of them outside the window, a line fell. Samson leaned out and looked up. An HH-324 hovered just overhead with Runt hanging out the side via safety lanyard. The sniper was furiously waving them up and Samson wasn't about to say no. He jumped and grabbed the rope. The Albatross started moving up and away as the other three members of Gray team jumped onto the line as well, carrying them away from the falling building.
Runt, with the help of an electric winch, hauled the line and his comrades up into the repulsorcraft. Samson didn't even make it to a chair, he just plopped down on the deck of the craft, breathing hard. "What? where?"
Runt took his helmet off. "Samson, i'd like to report that the Prowler has entered the area." He pointed upwards.
Samson leaned out and looked up. Through the ducted rotors of the craft he could see the stealth yacht zoom past overhead. He started laughing and the HH-324 gained some altitude, away from the falling structure and debris.
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 23, 2010 17:19:26 GMT -5
As they landed with a light thud onto the ground her usefullness weighing heavily on her mind it was only then that Kailani had one of her very rare and elusive 'Good ideas'.
"Well, boys, we're in some deep shit here." The woman remarked watching as buildings fell and the not-so-innocent were more than likely injured. "I guess now wouldn't be a bad time to mention I'm involved with a Jedi by the name of Drake Hellion." She said off handedly. "We might want to, I dunno, call him get the Jedi to help us out. People are certainly gonna be hurt here... Aren't they against that?"
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Post by Elifain on Jan 23, 2010 18:17:25 GMT -5
Elifain relayed the information given over to roland over his com-link. Roland smiled at the information, and said, Moving out vode. He changed signals, to Devon, and said, Hold the fort. Try finding an imperial shuttle, but keep safe. I'll be back. Roland ended, by sprinting towards his shuttle, and flew back up to the Mjolnir. I will return here brother, so don't die on me... He said, before the ship jumped into hyperspace, towards mon kalamari, the last place jedi had been reported.
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 23, 2010 21:09:34 GMT -5
Samson saluted the hologram of Lieutenant Ven. "Good to see you ma'am. thought we were goners for sure."
The hologram of Prowlers pilot returned the salute from her sitting position. "Not by a long shot Gray Team, i had orders to pick you up for transfer but i guess those have changed. whats the story?"
Samson's arm dropped back to his side. "Ma'am, We came across some Force Users being engaged. We were going to investigate when all hell broke lose."
She raised an eyebrow. "force users?"
Samson nodded. "yes Ma'am. One was positively IDed as Zilfer, formerly known as Lord Nanookie"
"Thats Lord Nanashi, Chief but message received. any ideas on how to find them?" Ven asked.
Samson looked at Runt. "Runt, you think you can find another source of that encryption signal?" The sniper nodded with confidence. "Ma'am, there's a network of droids and mercenaries in the area using an encrypted frequency to communicate. if we can get our hands on their com gear...."
"then we can use to crack their encryption and listen in on what they're saying. Good idea Chief. anything else?"
Samson nodded. "Yes Ma'am, we got some video for you. figured you could use it for some more IDs."
He gave his armor the verbal command to begin uploading the video he'd taken with his optic cable. Lieutenant Ven looked at the video as it streamed onto her central viewing screen. "Good work gray team, i'll see what i can do. This is Prowler, out."
The hologram winked off and Samson turned to his team. "Ok, gentlemen, lets find us some mercenaries. Get on it Runt. Pilot! Stand by for coordinates."
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Post by Cain on Jan 23, 2010 22:15:14 GMT -5
The fear felt by the people in the buildings and on the walkways as the structures came down coupled with their sudden deaths did a great deal to fuel the power of the dark side inside Cain. There were still some alive, injured, partially crushed and suffering. Cain drank in their anguish for as long as he could before creating a massive Death Field around the wreck to absorb what was left of their energy. Cain used the power he'd gathered to mold the force into a super dense but tiny orb about the size of a bullet.
All the energy Zilfer was using was spread out to cover himself and his comrades, he could break through by concentrating on one tiny area. The small but extremely powerful Force Cannon blasted out of literally nowhere straight at Zilfer's heart. This attack was accompanied by Cain reaching into Elifain's mind once more, opening up the connection and beginning to drain his life voraciously. Zilfer could protect his body with a barrier but not his mind.
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