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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Nov 15, 2017 22:31:44 GMT -5
She froze, wide eyes staring into his. {Get back into your seat.} Rith messaged her. She'd suddenly remembered the communication device on her person. And remembered that calling for help, was, probably, an option. She didn't know how to contact Oirdz, the festering pile of kossac that he was for doing this to her, but she could contact the Rinamians. {To the Rianmians, to whom it may concern: Scrac in jeopardy, ship taken over by blue cyborgs of an unknown species, similar in build to Boris. Please notify Trallyr authorities.} --- "Oh, ok. Things are starting to make sense now. What's your world like?" Taith asked. His grin widens slightly, you can see one of his robots hands run a finger almost.. sensually down the weapon, closer and closer to the trigger. --- "Large and aquatic. The local fauna are exquisite, and there used to be many wonderful structures that floated across the currents.. But now we share it with the Trallyr. They orbit above the planet." She sat back in her seat and averted her eyes. --- "It sounds really cool. I wonder if there's a world in Soulstice like that at all... What are Trallyr?" |
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Post by Prooobably Not Jeffely on Nov 15, 2017 22:36:20 GMT -5
His grin widens slightly, you can see one of his robots hands run a finger almost.. sensually down the weapon, closer and closer to the trigger. --- "Large and aquatic. The local fauna are exquisite, and there used to be many wonderful structures that floated across the currents.. But now we share it with the Trallyr. They orbit above the planet." She sat back in her seat and averted her eyes. --- "It sounds really cool. I wonder if there's a world in Soulstice like that at all... What are Trallyr?" The Jalgar chuckles and continues to keep guard. This will continue for an hour or so before something happens, in case you wanted to take action or skip. --- "They are these tall, feathered beings. Two jointed beaks. Very advanced." |
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Nov 15, 2017 22:41:13 GMT -5
She sat back in her seat and averted her eyes. --- "It sounds really cool. I wonder if there's a world in Soulstice like that at all... What are Trallyr?" The Jalgar chuckles and continues to keep guard. This will continue for an hour or so before something happens, in case you wanted to take action or skip. --- "They are these tall, feathered beings. Two jointed beaks. Very advanced." It took 13 minutes for the Rinamians to get the message, and 15 for Rithiv to receive the response. {We are contacting the Trallyr.} ((skip)) --- "Two joined beaks? What does that mean?" |
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Post by Prooobably Not Jeffely on Nov 15, 2017 22:56:12 GMT -5
The Jalgar chuckles and continues to keep guard. This will continue for an hour or so before something happens, in case you wanted to take action or skip. --- "They are these tall, feathered beings. Two jointed beaks. Very advanced." ((skip)) --- "Two joined beaks? What does that mean?" After a while... things seemed to have become less... tense. No safer but the sentry Jalgar seems bored. Metallic footsteps can be heard from the boots of a jalgar coming into the passenger area. The sentry Jalgar steps out of the way like he's scared of him as the new one takes his standing spot and surveys the passengers with a gaze obscured a bit by a single lens zoom lens. His other eye seems out of commission by way of a large scar. When he speaks you can tell he was the source of the calm voice form earlier. He's not standing any taller than the short Jalgar, but his posture suggests he can stand taller if he wanted to. He speaks in perfect, but accented trallyean. "My deepest condolences for this delay in your travels, If you.. If the rest of you would just sit tight we can both make sure Kyoi here stays relatively bored, yes?" He gestures to the short one. He's playing with something in his hand, like how a bored student would play with a pencil. But this pencil looks... unsafe. "Any questions?" He says it... in a way that implied it was a joke. --- "Ah.. er..." He arranges three of his hands with one on top and two on bottom, and demonstrates how the bottom two move. "It's like that. Very peculiar." |
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Nov 15, 2017 23:06:37 GMT -5
((skip)) --- "Two joined beaks? What does that mean?" After a while... things seemed to have become less... tense. No safer but the sentry Jalgar seems bored. Metallic footsteps can be heard from the boots of a jalgar coming into the passenger area. The sentry Jalgar steps out of the way like he's scared of him as the new one takes his standing spot and surveys the passengers with a gaze obscured a bit by a single lens zoom lens. His other eye seems out of commission by way of a large scar. When he speaks you can tell he was the source of the calm voice form earlier. He's not standing any taller than the short Jalgar, but his posture suggests he can stand taller if he wanted to. He speaks in perfect, but accented trallyean. "My deepest condolences for this delay in your travels, If you.. If the rest of you would just sit tight we can both make sure Kyoi here stays relatively bored, yes?" He gestures to the short one. He's playing with something in his hand, like how a bored student would play with a pencil. But this pencil looks... unsafe. "Any questions?" He says it... in a way that implied it was a joke. --- "Ah.. er..." He arranges three of his hands with one on top and two on bottom, and demonstrates how the bottom two move. "It's like that. Very peculiar." Silver frowned, uncertain, and raised her hand slowly. Rithiv batted the hand down, but Silver spoke anyway, her Trallyean very slow as she waited for her communicator to feed her the translated words she wanted to use. Having the machine speak for her would have been easier, but she was determined that her possible last words really come from her. As she spoke she became acutely aware of her own Tyrannian with a tint of Krawk Island accent. "Why... are..you...here?" --- "That is weird." Taith agreed. She continued the conversation while ushering him out of the theater as the next crowd filtered in. The arcade was loud, and she brushed his cheek with a hand, sending a text message to him. {Is it alright to talk to you this way?} |
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Post by Prooobably Not Jeffely on Nov 20, 2017 23:00:49 GMT -5
After a while... things seemed to have become less... tense. No safer but the sentry Jalgar seems bored. Metallic footsteps can be heard from the boots of a jalgar coming into the passenger area. The sentry Jalgar steps out of the way like he's scared of him as the new one takes his standing spot and surveys the passengers with a gaze obscured a bit by a single lens zoom lens. His other eye seems out of commission by way of a large scar. When he speaks you can tell he was the source of the calm voice form earlier. He's not standing any taller than the short Jalgar, but his posture suggests he can stand taller if he wanted to. He speaks in perfect, but accented trallyean. "My deepest condolences for this delay in your travels, If you.. If the rest of you would just sit tight we can both make sure Kyoi here stays relatively bored, yes?" He gestures to the short one. He's playing with something in his hand, like how a bored student would play with a pencil. But this pencil looks... unsafe. "Any questions?" He says it... in a way that implied it was a joke. --- "Ah.. er..." He arranges three of his hands with one on top and two on bottom, and demonstrates how the bottom two move. "It's like that. Very peculiar." Silver frowned, uncertain, and raised her hand slowly. Rithiv batted the hand down, but Silver spoke anyway, her Trallyean very slow as she waited for her communicator to feed her the translated words she wanted to use. Having the machine speak for her would have been easier, but she was determined that her possible last words really come from her. As she spoke she became acutely aware of her own Tyrannian with a tint of Krawk Island accent. "Why... are..you...here?" --- "That is weird." Taith agreed. She continued the conversation while ushering him out of the theater as the next crowd filtered in. The arcade was loud, and she brushed his cheek with a hand, sending a text message to him. {Is it alright to talk to you this way?} The leader of the group looks at silver more like she's an item and less like she's a being. "Mh? Oh, that's easy. We're getting paid." His face dared her to say that wasn't enough of an answer. --- The new communication catches him off guard for a moment, but he is used to it by now. {Yes, this is fine.} |
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Nov 20, 2017 23:27:46 GMT -5
Silver frowned, uncertain, and raised her hand slowly. Rithiv batted the hand down, but Silver spoke anyway, her Trallyean very slow as she waited for her communicator to feed her the translated words she wanted to use. Having the machine speak for her would have been easier, but she was determined that her possible last words really come from her. As she spoke she became acutely aware of her own Tyrannian with a tint of Krawk Island accent. "Why... are..you...here?" --- "That is weird." Taith agreed. She continued the conversation while ushering him out of the theater as the next crowd filtered in. The arcade was loud, and she brushed his cheek with a hand, sending a text message to him. {Is it alright to talk to you this way?} The leader of the group looks at silver more like she's an item and less like she's a being. "Mh? Oh, that's easy. We're getting paid." His face dared her to say that wasn't enough of an answer. --- The new communication catches him off guard for a moment, but he is used to it by now. {Yes, this is fine.} Silver smiled nervously, but Rith laughed. Silver continued, switching to letting the translator speak for her. "Well, yes, but, what's taking so long? Why would a passenger ship be carrying such valuable cargo? The ammunition for that gun doesn't seem like it would be cheap, so whatever it is you pirates are after, well, it invokes the imagination. Also, your use of the Trallyr language is very impressive! I find it quite impossible to match their range of sounds." --- {Do you want to go outside?} she asked him. |
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Post by Prooobably Not Jeffely on Nov 22, 2017 12:56:11 GMT -5
The leader of the group looks at silver more like she's an item and less like she's a being. "Mh? Oh, that's easy. We're getting paid." His face dared her to say that wasn't enough of an answer. --- The new communication catches him off guard for a moment, but he is used to it by now. {Yes, this is fine.} Silver smiled nervously, but Rith laughed. Silver continued, switching to letting the translator speak for her. "Well, yes, but, what's taking so long? Why would a passenger ship be carrying such valuable cargo? The ammunition for that gun doesn't seem like it would be cheap, so whatever it is you pirates are after, well, it invokes the imagination. Also, your use of the Trallyr language is very impressive! I find it quite impossible to match their range of sounds." --- {Do you want to go outside?} she asked him. The lead Jalgar gave her an uncanny, gentlemanly smile. "It's not the cargo we want. It's the ship. And maybe some of the people inside if they get too nosy, yes?" The compliment has given him a visible ego boost. --- {I Do not mind wherever we go. I do not know what there is to do in or out of side.} |
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Nov 22, 2017 13:28:42 GMT -5
Silver smiled nervously, but Rith laughed. Silver continued, switching to letting the translator speak for her. "Well, yes, but, what's taking so long? Why would a passenger ship be carrying such valuable cargo? The ammunition for that gun doesn't seem like it would be cheap, so whatever it is you pirates are after, well, it invokes the imagination. Also, your use of the Trallyr language is very impressive! I find it quite impossible to match their range of sounds." --- {Do you want to go outside?} she asked him. The lead Jalgar gave her an uncanny, gentlemanly smile. "It's not the cargo we want. It's the ship. And maybe some of the people inside if they get too nosy, yes?" The compliment has given him a visible ego boost. --- {I Do not mind wherever we go. I do not know what there is to do in or out of side.} "I'm not nosey. I can't even smell!" Silver joked. "And you don't want me, I'm not very good at much of anything. But if you want the ship but not the people, what are you going to do with us? And what are you? I've never seen your species before, but you kind of look like another species I know. Are you common to this area? I only just got here. And do you play games? The last time I was on a ship that was taken over I got to play checkers with the pirate captain. Are you the captain? You look like you could be a captain." "Too many questions, little one.." muttered Rith. --- {We could go for a walk.} she mused, weaving her way toward the exit. |
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Post by Prooobably Not Jeffely on Nov 29, 2017 21:28:06 GMT -5
The lead Jalgar gave her an uncanny, gentlemanly smile. "It's not the cargo we want. It's the ship. And maybe some of the people inside if they get too nosy, yes?" The compliment has given him a visible ego boost. --- {I Do not mind wherever we go. I do not know what there is to do in or out of side.} "I'm not nosey. I can't even smell!" Silver joked. "And you don't want me, I'm not very good at much of anything. But if you want the ship but not the people, what are you going to do with us? And what are you? I've never seen your species before, but you kind of look like another species I know. Are you common to this area? I only just got here. And do you play games? The last time I was on a ship that was taken over I got to play checkers with the pirate captain. Are you the captain? You look like you could be a captain." "Too many questions, little one.." muttered Rith. --- {We could go for a walk.} she mused, weaving her way toward the exit. The more she talked the less amiable he looked, despite his smile never wavering. "Most of that you'll get to learn the good old fashioned way, dearie: experience. I'm no checker-playing pirate either, so you'll have to find some other way to entertain yourself I'm afraid. Kyoi." He addresses the armed one in his own language and leaves, having him remain on guard. You can hear two voices converse in the captain's cabin. --- He followed. {I'm sorry if I seem difficult to converse with. it's been so long since I've had to really decide what to do with myself.} |
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Dec 4, 2017 21:47:21 GMT -5
"I'm not nosey. I can't even smell!" Silver joked. "And you don't want me, I'm not very good at much of anything. But if you want the ship but not the people, what are you going to do with us? And what are you? I've never seen your species before, but you kind of look like another species I know. Are you common to this area? I only just got here. And do you play games? The last time I was on a ship that was taken over I got to play checkers with the pirate captain. Are you the captain? You look like you could be a captain." "Too many questions, little one.." muttered Rith. --- {We could go for a walk.} she mused, weaving her way toward the exit. The more she talked the less amiable he looked, despite his smile never wavering. "Most of that you'll get to learn the good old fashioned way, dearie: experience. I'm no checker-playing pirate either, so you'll have to find some other way to entertain yourself I'm afraid. Kyoi." He addresses the armed one in his own language and leaves, having him remain on guard. You can hear two voices converse in the captain's cabin. --- He followed. {I'm sorry if I seem difficult to converse with. it's been so long since I've had to really decide what to do with myself.} Rith strained to hear what was being said in the cabin, while Silver shrugged and pinged her a message. {Guess that means he's not the captain.} --- {I thought I was the difficult one to converse with. I've never had anyone agree to date me before.} she replied. |
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Post by Prooobably Not Jeffely on Jan 14, 2018 19:33:57 GMT -5
The more she talked the less amiable he looked, despite his smile never wavering. "Most of that you'll get to learn the good old fashioned way, dearie: experience. I'm no checker-playing pirate either, so you'll have to find some other way to entertain yourself I'm afraid. Kyoi." He addresses the armed one in his own language and leaves, having him remain on guard. You can hear two voices converse in the captain's cabin. --- He followed. {I'm sorry if I seem difficult to converse with. it's been so long since I've had to really decide what to do with myself.} Rith strained to hear what was being said in the cabin, while Silver shrugged and pinged her a message. {Guess that means he's not the captain.} --- {I thought I was the difficult one to converse with. I've never had anyone agree to date me before.} she replied. The conversation from the cabin is a bit audible, albeit not in Trallyean. Though one of the other passengers also seems to be listening, and looks uncomfortable about it. --- {No? Do the standards of your kind do you a wrong?} |
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Jan 15, 2018 21:48:28 GMT -5
Rith strained to hear what was being said in the cabin, while Silver shrugged and pinged her a message. {Guess that means he's not the captain.} --- {I thought I was the difficult one to converse with. I've never had anyone agree to date me before.} she replied. The conversation from the cabin is a bit audible, albeit not in Trallyean. Though one of the other passengers also seems to be listening, and looks uncomfortable about it. --- {No? Do the standards of your kind do you a wrong?} "What are they saying?" Rith whispered in Trallyean, hoping the Trallyr who seemed to understand the language had as good of hearing as Trallyr were claimed to have, and that the blue fuzzy alien didn't. --- {I think it's my circumstances. I'm a member of the CHH, that's Caracura Human Hunters, and we don't get a lot of free time. And most people in my unit look down on relationships as an organic activity we shouldn't emulate.} |
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Post by Prooobably Not Jeffely on Jan 15, 2018 23:21:22 GMT -5
The conversation from the cabin is a bit audible, albeit not in Trallyean. Though one of the other passengers also seems to be listening, and looks uncomfortable about it. --- {No? Do the standards of your kind do you a wrong?} "What are they saying?" Rith whispered in Trallyean, hoping the Trallyr who seemed to understand the language had as good of hearing as Trallyr were claimed to have, and that the blue fuzzy alien didn't. --- {I think it's my circumstances. I'm a member of the CHH, that's Caracura Human Hunters, and we don't get a lot of free time. And most people in my unit look down on relationships as an organic activity we shouldn't emulate.} The trallyr glanced over, a twitch of the headfeathers indicating she was heard. She replied in an even softer whisper, but rith could still hear it, maybe not silver. It didn't even look like she needed to open her beak to do it. "They are c-c-considering if any of us are s-s-sellable... The captain seems to think some few are and I am so so very scared...." --- {Human hunters? Why are you hunting for humans? I have not met many but they don't seem to be the worst species I have dealt with.} |
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Jan 15, 2018 23:56:37 GMT -5
"What are they saying?" Rith whispered in Trallyean, hoping the Trallyr who seemed to understand the language had as good of hearing as Trallyr were claimed to have, and that the blue fuzzy alien didn't. --- {I think it's my circumstances. I'm a member of the CHH, that's Caracura Human Hunters, and we don't get a lot of free time. And most people in my unit look down on relationships as an organic activity we shouldn't emulate.} The trallyr glanced over, a twitch of the headfeathers indicating she was heard. She replied in an even softer whisper, but rith could still hear it, maybe not silver. It didn't even look like she needed to open her beak to do it. "They are c-c-considering if any of us are s-s-sellable... The captain seems to think some few are and I am so so very scared...." --- {Human hunters? Why are you hunting for humans? I have not met many but they don't seem to be the worst species I have dealt with.} Rith was quiet for a moment, empathy with the speaker filling her, along with admiration for this Trallyr ability, and determination. She whispered back "I would rather die... I can't fight them with the way I am now. I'm weak. If the rest of you are willing to attack and disarm him, I will distract first and take his shot. Unless someone has a better idea." She explained the situation to Silver through the mind-comm, then asked an important question. {Silver, if I need to take a hit for this to work, will you take it with me? I have a chance at survival if you do.} Silver's reply was filled with fear. {Yes.} {Good. After you absorb the energy give him a big hug for me.} --- {Oh, my country is at war with a human country, and I'm part of the border patrol that keeps watch for any humans that cross our borders.} |
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