Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
Saeculum Galaxy => Helios => Topic started by: Ragnar the Red on July 13, 2011, 05:34:51 PM
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The streets of the Heliphlein empire were filled with a general sense of glee. People's lives were in general strayed away from the tremors of everyday, and replaced with a sense of hope for the future. It wasn't long before the New Gia mission was set to start, a voyage to the outside of the system they all lived in. As the people of the empire rejoiced in their good moods, they could not realize what was going on outside their secluded world, nor would they want to. On the bright side though, it was unlikely the evil would find it's way here.
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Above them, around the whole city, a glowing, golden light appeared mysteriously, shining brightest on the souls who were about to make the journey.
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OOC: Kay, butting in, sorry if I'm unwelcome.
"Captain's Log, stardate December 27, 2054. We have crash-landed on a lovely planet in the Saeculum Galaxy, population unknown. The native people of this planet are rejoicing in their good moods, they can not realize what is going on outside their secluded world, nor would they want to. On the bright side, though, it is unlikely that evil will find it's way here."
"Uh... Cap'n, are you talking to yourself again?"
"Yes, yes I am..."
From behind some bushes, the secluded Dull Star and his first mate were staring through binoculars at the people of the empire. A mechanical parrot sat on the captain's shoulder, squawking every once and awhile. These guys were trying to do recon, though they probably couldn't have been more obvious. Behind the two, an angry crew stood near the ship, Kiss Of Palms, complaining about the childish games that the two were planning.
...and then, Dull lost his balance and stumbled from out of the bushes, into the city street. The people may or may not have noticed him, what with the celebration and the green light and what not.
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OOC: Somewhat confused on what Zak is doing.
Also, gold light.
The people of the Heliphlien empire suddenly began feeling like something was changing, there was a glowing light, but what was it? As a members of the crew were spending the last parts of they're life before the mission with their families, something was glowing, emanating from them. What could it be?
Meanwhile, on the moon of Crfl, there had been a loud crash. The natives that lived in underground tunnels, the Cruflbngrs were suddenly in a hustle and bustle because the ship had landed right on a system of tunnels. No one was hurt, but they were all in a fuss over weather or not they wanted to be closer or further from it. The ones who were dominated by curiosity came running, and would find rubble, cave ins, and partial views of a frigate. Not knowing what the latter of those was, they would stare, sniff, or even lick at the hull.
The nearby city though would not be so impressed. They had already dispatched a platoon of police to investigate the crashing ship.
Already in the city, the Heliphlein would mostly be curious about the golden light, but one cop would see the man fall from the bush. "Hey," he would say accusingly.
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The light glew brightest upon them, singling out each of the crew and the ship itself. It would attempt instill courage and strength to the crew for that wasits purpose and it is hard to set foot in that great beyond but someone had to do it. It was time for these people to embrace their destiny, someone from the heavens thought, the source of the light. It was time.
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The Heliphlein, Enkrakni, and Iapaq were all amazed by the light that was blessing them and they're ship.
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"Hey, get away from there!" the ship engineer yelled in dismay, particularly at the man licking the hull. In the city, Dull, who was firmly on the ground, looked up at the police officer and replied with a sing-songish, "Heeeeey!"
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The officer came up to the captain and asked him what he was doing on private property; the bush was part of a city dweller's yard.
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"Uhh.. Officer, it's not what it looks like. I'm not a pirate intent on taking your treasures or anything, I'm uh - An artist! Yeah!"
...and then the mechanical parrot flew out of the bush and landed on his shoulder.
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"That's not what I was thinking at all, but now that you mention it, I'll let you know that I make minimum wage," The officer continued with an angry face. He then watched the parrot, "You still didn't answer my question."
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"Yes, well, uh," Dull replied, issuing a small, white piece of paper, a map of some sorts. "We are... uh... Engineers. Yeah. And we uh... We need... Um. Parts. Yeah, that."
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"You may verry well be, but that doesn't give you permission to use morphism spells in a no morphism zone of the city," the office said.
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"Oh, yes, um... Of course. Sorry, officer. We'll just uh... Being going now," Dull replied.
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"Not until you change back," the officer said. "And you'll be lucky if I even let you off the hook then."
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"Change... back?" Dull asked, not sure what this man was talking about.
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"Don't play dumb with me kid, you're using morphism. Just turn back," the cop continued.
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OOC: Wha-?
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OOC: Morphism spells making someone look like someone else. He thinks you're using them.
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"I'm not using any spells," Dull replied, raising his eyebrow at the strange officer, "Ye must have scurvy!"
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"Oh really?" the cop said.
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A frigate warped to the moon, still a bit of a distance away. It was well armed, but had a sorta patchwork thing goin' on, like it was hastily thrown on any way that'd work. The weapons themselves looked like they'd be useful, but only against weaker ships and the like, not against a powerful empire's military craft. It hailed the moon, attempting to send a message.
Testing, testing, is this thi-Hello! We've just noticed your civilization, and have come as a representative of our empire in order to offer your people diplomatic aid. We are a civilian-owned cargo ship, and in a show of good will, we'd like to offer your empire some of the items we're transporting. Will you clear us for landing?
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OOC: Okay, I'm getting sick of this. I put up the Aserical Shadow for a reason. I'd prefer to at least start the expedition before empires descend to find the Heliphlein.
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"Ye," he replied, "So I might as well be going, sir."
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OOC:To be fair, you've had more than enough time...If K2 doesn't post in the topic, then just move on without him. Seriously, this has been up for a few weeks...
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OOC: Can I postpone the coming empire of yours until after the departure if I do it right now?
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OOC:Up to you either way for when they arrive, but juat sayin', keep yer guard up about it.
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"You're not going anywhere until you stop lying to me and change back," the cop said.
OOC: I'm working on the topic for they're departure, and it should be done tomorrow. It has a long opening, and I'm getting tired of writing.
EDIT: okay, maybe not today because the real world is taking me back.
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"Fine," Dull replied, "I didn't want to do this, but it seems I have no choice."
He grinned before morphing into the form of a giant rabbit.
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"Okay, that's it!" the cop snapped. "Oligin, Maliph, get over here." The two other cops came running over.
"What seems to be the problem?" one of them asked.
"It's an Enrakni practicing morphism in a no morphism zone," the first cop said pointing to the rabbit.
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"I'm sorry, guys," the first mate said, "He's really a rabbit. Here, rabbit, rabbit!"
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The other cop asked, "Rabbit?"
The first cop on the other hand said, "I've had enough." He then grabbed the bunnie's front paws and cuffed him with AMIC. "You both are under arrest for using morphism spells, harassing the police force, and trespassing. Oligin, hold the... rabbit and make sure he doesn't try to run for it." The cop then began to pull out a pair of cuffs for the first mate, and the other cop, Maliph, set up an anti magic field to make sure they didn't try anything.
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"Wait!" the first mate argued, "Wait, wait, wait! This is just a big misunderstanding!"
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"You can tell us about it in the precinct," the cop said cuffing the first mate.
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Just as the two men were cuffed a sparkle of fuchsia flames materialized in the air and a second later emerged a girl no younger than fifteen. In her hands she held a large crinkled up map to which her eyes were scanning across over and over. "This isn't the space station!" The girl exclaimed in a loud shocked tone that was almost a whine. She held the map closer to her face, then pulled it back for a better look at the surrounding areas. "How did I get h-- OH. MY. GOD. BUNNY!!!"
The girl immediately crumbled the map and threw it behind her, teleporting to the ground in another sparkle of flames and appearing right in front of Dull. "Where did you ever get such a cute white fluffy bunny?!" The girl squealed in delight as she asked the other people around who she had ignored up to that point. "I WANT ONE!"
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"The hell is going on here?" Malif said.
"No honey, you can't have a big fluffy bunny at the moment. He's just an Enrakni practicing morphism spells. In a few minutes the AMI will have turned him back into his original sate." The first cop said while taking hod of the bunny. Oligin grabbed the first mate, and they both pulled them to back seat of the police vehicle. "And I'd suggest you stay back. I don't want to have to bring you in for abstraction of justice."
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"Okay! You just said a lot of words I really don't understand..." The girl then stopped as they were pulling the bunny into the car and then jumped on the back of the bunny and latched on, "B-b-but he's a bunny! A big fluffy bunny! Fluffy things can't be evil!! It's like the law of the universe!"
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"WE'RE NOT ERANKI, FOR THE LAST TIME!" the First Mate yelled.
The moment the AM field went up, the rabbit began to change back into Dull.
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"Watch her," the first cop said to Malif in a hushed voice. He then pushed the two into the backseat of the vehicle and then drove off with them.
Oligin paused for a second, then turned to the girl and asked, "Can I get you're statement?"
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Ten minutes later the first cop was pushing the two foreigners into a holding cell. "Now you haven't completely changed back yet, but mark my words you will. I'd stand away from the bars if I were you. I'll be turning off the artificial gravity in a second."
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The girl looked clueless at the cop, "Uh... statement?" She scratched the side of her head and twisted a strand of hair around her finger. "Do you mean like a sentence statement? Or is it some type of weird alien lingo your race has?"
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The officer sighed to himself, then said, "Just tell me what you saw."
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"I saw a bunny!" The girl announced. "A big fluffy bunny, but then he started to shift and change and..." Slowly it started to hit her as the girl gasped in surprise and smacked her own forehead. "EWWWW! He was old! An old man bunny!" The girl shook her head quickly to get the image out of her mind and then looked back at the cop, "So he was a sage? But I haven't seen any Moon Rabbit Sages around for a while...And last I knew they weren't old men!" The girl started to chatter on about Sages, Moon Rabbits, old men, and several other things for minutes on end without stop. By the time she was done she had changed the subject several times and only paused for breath before continuing on, much like a broken record.
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"I, I don't know," the officer said writing down her story. "Can I get your name?"
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"My name?" The girl blinked. "Oh yeah! I never introduced myself!" The girl grinned, "I'm Relle! Relle Kalypsis. I was trying to get to this space station that someone told me, I think it was called uh.... Galactic... " Relle paused to think, "Galactic Times! I was told they might be my next lead to finding my father. But somehow I ended up here." Relle shrugged. "So where is here anyways?"
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"Yellan Street," he said.
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Relle blinked again, "Really? That's a weird name for a planet. So then what's an uh... Eranki or whatever that other cop mentioned?"
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The cop suddenly looked at the girl with a great puzzed expression. "You don't know about the Enrakni?" he said.
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"No." Relle pointed to herself, "I told you, I got here by accident! I don't know where I am, or who any of you are. The bunny was the only familiar thing. And he turned out to be and old guy."
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The cop thought for a second, then asked, "Wait, did you come to this planet by accident?"
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"That's what I said!" Relle exclaimed. "Are you hard at hearing or something? Ooh, maybe you're old too! Maybe all of you are old and in the guise of fluffy bunnies and alien creatures!" Relle jumped back and held up her hands, "I'm on to you!"
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"No you didn't. You said Yellan Street was a strange name for a planet," The cop said. "How did you end up on the wrong planet?"
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"I already told you that too!" Relle put her hands on her hips and cocked her head to the side, "You're really hard at hearing. Now let's try again! I was told to go to a Galactic Times Space Station for my next lead. I teleported to the place I was told, but instead of going there, I ended up here on this planet. I don't know how. There! If you can't understand that, you must be deaf or stupid or something." She walked over and bent down to pick up the fallen map from before. "And I still don't know what a Eranki or whatever is!"
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Frustratedly the cop said, "But that's not-"
"Officer Oligin?" a voice from behind interrupted. A blond man with silver eyes came up and continued introducing, "Detective Rybic, Denutemp. I'll handle this from here."
Oligin looked between the two people frustrated. Who is this officer Rybic? he thought. He looks so familiar, I just can't place it. Oligen gave him the benefit of the doubt when Rybic flashed a sliver badge, and Oligin left.
Rybic looked at Relle and said, "I'm sure you have a lot of questions."
OOC: K2, where are you?!
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"You mean I have to explain everything again?!" Relle's expression fell and she crossed her arms. "You've got to be kidding me! Okay, fine. Just tell me what a Eranki is, and the basics. That'll work!" She folded the map she had picked up and refolded it, placing it in her pocket afterwards.
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"An Enrakni is a sentient vertebrate of the Celtilla kingdom. It's an autotrophic species of alien that makes it's food by feeding on magical energy. One of the ways it does so is by using a morphism spell to appear as a race other than it'self."
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"Umm... Damn, cap'n. Anti-gravity!?" the first mate shouted.
"Aye, we should've gone lighter on the rum... Aight then, bring it on!" Dull shouted, a smile on his face.
"Sir, we could just... y'know... Break out."
"Nah," Dull replied, "These guys haven't discovered that there's intelligent life outside this planet... At least, they haven't encountered alien life. I don't want to ruin that for them. For now, I think we need to pretend to be one of these Eranki people. Just follow my lead."
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"No," the cop siad. "Not antigravity. Artificial gravity." He then flipped a switch and the back of the cell suddenly became the floor.
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The two grunted as they were slammed against a wall... floor...
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"Ohhhh! So is that what you are?" Relle questioned.
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"Now don't even think about escaping," the cop said from above them. "You have no magic and these locks are new. If you try and escape it'll only put you in more trouble."
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"No. I'm not an Enrakni," he said. "Any more questions?"
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"Yeah, a lot!" Relle expressed, "So if I'm not an Eranki and you're not an Eranki! What makes you think those guys were? They could have just been a Sage like me! Or maybe shapeshifters? Did they do anything? Like something to be on the look out?" Relle glanced left, then right, with a look of suspicion.
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"This system has been secluded from the rest of the universe for millions of years," Rybic said. "The Heliphlien haven't seen very many aliens from outside their world before, and because of that when two men came that looked like a Heliphlien, but looked slightly off, they thought it was an Enrakni messing up the spell."
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"Alright... Let's do this," Dull said, grinning, "Battleplan 7-0-9 is already in motion."
He looked up at the cop, a wide grin on his face now. "Yo, cop dude. Let us out. Now."
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"The cop looked at him with an equally large smile, and walked out of sight.
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"Hold on," Dull ordered his first mate, "To something. Anything."
Both of them clutched hold of the bars that were now the ceiling of the room, after a lengthy trial of jumping up and using each other to lift the other up. They seemed to grab hold of the bars just in time... The Kiss Of Palms, now roaring with life once more, quickly tracked down their friends and flew to the prison, the Parrot CI that rested still on Dull's shoulder acting as a sort of beacon.
The Kiss Of Palms started to fire ballistic shells at the prison's outer-walls.
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OOC: Police station jail. Not an actual prison
"The heck?!" said the cop when trying to see what was going on. He saw two sets of fingers holding on tight, and decided, for good measure, to turn up the heat. The bars in one minute would be hot enough to give a first degree burn, and even though a first degree burn is nonlethal, it still hurts like you wouldn't believe.
Several policemen ran right out the door, and began firing gravity pockets at the bird. The pockets were strong enough to pull a three hundred pound body builder to it from three yards away. The explosives wouldn't make it to the station's walls. Some already had, but the police were now on guard against it.
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The two quickly let go, finding something else to grab ahold of as the police station started to shake from the ballistic rounds that were impacting the wall. Attacking the bird was sort of useless now, as it had already done its job. The Kiss Of Palms was a frigate... And it was here.
The ballistic shells bypassed the gravity attacks by firing at the ground near the policemen to disrupt their attacks, and firing at the prison wall when the cops were recovering.
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The cops spread out so that the formation wouldn't be so easily messed up. Now the bird couldn't attack the now six cops at once. But it gets better. Well, at least for the cops it does.
A seventh cop came around the corner, strengthening his focus ability, and with a simple, well placed breath, a box was made around the bird. The box was made of a layer of atoms displaced from reality, a box that could be beaten by nothing material, or energy. The only thing that could open the box would be certain magical, or psycic powers, and it's not like the bird was psychic or magical.
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The ship just created a portal to take them outside of the box. Considering the frigate was city-sized, taking out a small, little police station was nothing. The ship began to fire giant, explosive cannonballs at the policemen, while continuing their assault on the prison walls.
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OOC: All out war? really?
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OOC:Well, he IS a pirate, you know. Thats his fleet's only ship, as well.
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OOC: If need be.
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I don't want widespread knowledge of this in the Heliphlein Empire at the moment. Can we work something else out?
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OOC: Um... you could release the prisoners?
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OOC: You could make them find a quiet way out the back.
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The two were beamed out of the prison by standard issue transport beams, and the frigate took off.
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The cop came back into the room and saw the cell. "What the blazes?!" he said.
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"So, would you like a ride to the station?" Rybic asked the fifteen year old sage.
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"You know where I can find it?!" Relle grinned and nodded. "That'd be awesome if you can! It's my next lead." She unfolded the map again and pointed to some scribbles where it looked like someone had written down instructions in bad handwriting. For what could be read of it, however, it was just a description of where to picture when teleporting. "The person that told me to try there wrote that down. But as you can see. It didn't quite work." Relle scratched the back of her head while holding the map with her other hand. "But if I can get there JUST ONCE! Then I'll know how to teleport for next time as I'll know the area and be able to picture it for my- Oh right! You probably already know how teleporting works. Sorry!"
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"Yes, I've done it before," he said. "But I'll have to get going once we get there." He cast a spell, and silver energy wrapped around them both.