Mass Effect: Runner-Up's

[RobotNixon]

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Septimus stared blankly back at Gerdon. Was he really going to let them go knowing they were going to hack into the Citadel's Logs?

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You never told him that in character.

[Generalno1]

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I'm going to assume the Citadel thing does'nt exist

"Hmm..what's in it for me?" Gerdon asked, lowering his pistol and putting back in it's holster. The duo seemed to be telling the truth, but he had little interest, he still had to find this "Reagan" and ask him about the ship.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

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RN: I know, he was debating if he should tell the truth or not.

Oh, and it's a trio... for now. (Erold, Septimus, Eerak)

Septimus frowned. "Well... nothing. It's just a reccomandation of an infiltration expert; we'll do everything from there. We've heard you know some powerful figures."

[Veck]

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If my character doesn't become active again soon, I'm quitting this roleplay. I'm sorry, but I've waited far too long here for something to haplen, and I'm going to lose all interest soon.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

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If my character doesn't become active again soon, I'm quitting this roleplay. I'm sorry, but I've waited far too long here for something to haplen, and I'm going to lose all interest soon.

I think that is up to The general, or RN. I just recently learned that I'm somehow involved in that part of the RP but I don't see how I could help unless I make a new character.

[Veck]

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Well, what was supposed to be a chance for you to catch up has now turned into the whole roleplay being run by three people. My character wasn't well established already, and I'm going to need her back in here now if I'm going to find any part in the story whatsoever for her.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

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Well, what was supposed to be a chance for you to catch up has now turned into the whole roleplay being run by three people. My character wasn't well established already, and I'm going to need her back in here now if I'm going to find any part in the story whatsoever for her.

Somehow that was kept in the dark from me until much later than intended.

[Leyyuce]

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I'm going to get things going a tiny little bit on our end, hopefully without messing with anybody's prior plans.

After several hours the medical drones went into a sort of stand-by mode, having completed their precarious work. Shortly, a human woman of under 30 years and a signifigantly older man, both dressed in the practical clothing of medical personnel, entered the room, two assault rifle-toting guards at either side. The armed soldiers stopped at the door, scanning the group of four with weapons drawn, while the pair moved forward. They quickly and confidently identified themselves as doctors, and moved to the table where Gane lay, incapacited. The woman carried a large black bag, which she carefully let onto the floor as soon as the man had removed several syringes. He administered the first into Gane's arm, and handed the second to his counterpart. Next he began to examine his injuries, however obvious the drones had not made any sort of error. He began to speak blatantly to the woman at his side.

"The bullet in his left hand mushroomed and shattered several bones. Same type of round in the upper arm, seems to have been the cause of a linear fracture."

He glanced at her and drew a breath.

"The tendons in his right leg were shredded, the round splintered and left fragments all over. The patella was fractured, and more harm was done by the fact it was aggravated after being broken, as was his hand. The joints in his right shoulder are damaged, and some pieces of bone became dislodged."

He paused, leaning forward to examine Gane's face.

"The flesh of his nose was torn up quite a bit, and a bullet fragment caused a laceration just below his eye. All things considered, he should be happy to have survived. The loss of blood was substantial, further supplemented by the continued activity, and the use of an adrenaline shot."

The man nodded to the female doctor, and she reached down to the black bag. Working efficiently, she applied a humeral fracture brace to his left arm, a second brace to his wrist, and a third to his leg. She positioned a plastic, molded cast to his right shoulder, placed the arm in a sling, and applied bandages to the center of his face. Finally, the doctor adminstered the second shot, and within a short period of time Gane awakened, his eyelids fluttering weakly and his mouth slightly agape. He was still weak from major blood loss, and his coherence had not yet returned. After asking several basic questions of the Turian, and upon hearing reasonable replies after a few minutes of stimulation, the doctor lost interest and motioned for his assistant to follow him from the room. The door was once again sealed, and the four were left alone.

Gane spoke after a short while. His voice was weak, yet coherent.

"Where are we? I don't.... what went wrong?"

[RobotNixon]

Reagan escaped from his inner demons just in time to see Gane waking up.
As the doctors left he room he shambled over to the turian to get a better look at his condition.

Noting the stable vital signs on the screen next to the bed, Officer Toll spoke.
"Well, after you got shot two holes shy of Swiss cheese, two private gunships sailed in and tore the mercs a new sphincter."

"I'm guessing they're Cerberus, and its apparent that they were after the Geth." He looked down at the floor.
"I'm a bit worried about their plans for us however, because they'll take secrecy over mercy any day."

"How are you holding up? You look like hell, not that I need to tell you that."
And then Reagan realized he had almost no idea who he was talking to.
"You should probably rest up, try not to talk. Save your energy."

With that, Reagan walked towards Kayla and Irodax.

[Veck]

Kayla looked up at the cop approaching her.
"Well well well, if it isn't our saviour," she spitefully called through the cell bars. "I came to you looking for a way off this place, and instead you lead me into a firefight, then a Cerberus ambush? Thanks a lot, I'm reay glad I helped you."

[Generalno1]

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Drathan? Could you make something major to happen to me and Matt, the only thing holding us up is me and Matt not in the cell with you

[RobotNixon]

A young Turian, in his early twenties, suddenly rounded a corner at blinding speeds and accidentally ran into Septimus.
As both recovered from the shock of the collision the younger turian stood up and helped Septimus to his feet.
"I'm so sorry, sir. I was just in a hurry to get somewhere and..."

"THERE HE IS!" a man's voice called above the crowd.
A group of two turians and three humans started to run towards the young turian.

The young turian quickly bolted towards an alley way, but was quickly subdued by a taser round fired from
an air powered projectile launcher. He began writhing around on the ground as the electricity flowed through his nerves,
slowly contracting his form into a fetal position.

One of the turian bounty hunters jumped onto the fugitive's back and wrestled him into a pair of handcuffs.
He then pulled his omni tool to his face and sent out a message. "We got him. We got Drathan Gervaise."

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Reagan stared blankly at Kayla for a few seconds, before his face transformed into a mask of confused disgust.
"...What?" He asked in a quiet tone. "How do you figure this is MY fault?"
He crossed his arms and calmly slid himself into a leaning position on the wall.
"So its MY fault that you were in a warehouse full of hardened criminals on the lam?
It's MY FAULT that a couple of Cerberus gunships were after a piece of Geth technology that I didn't even know existed?
IT'S MY FAULT that you just appeared out of nowhere in the middle of a firefight?!"

He paused a couple seconds to let the blood rush from his face and calm himself down, taking deep breaths.
"I should let you know, if I wasn't here, you would have been just as dead as the mercs when those gunships arrived."

[Veck]

"If you weren't there, I wouldn't have been there. Not blaming you, just saying is all."
She lumped down on the edge of the cell, glancing over at the Krogan next to her, then back to the officer.
"Why did they keep us alive then?" she inquired. "What did you get up to with them so that they'll take us here instead of put rounds through our heads?"

[RobotNixon]

The cop looked away towards Gane, then back towards Kayla.
"Your tone sounded less than neutral, just saying."

He extracted himself from the wall and shuffled over to the door.
"I used to be one of their best operatives. Perhaps they're expecting me to come back into the fold."

He then looked at the ground. "Maybe they're looking for 'new' recruits."

[Arch-Mage Matt]

With Septimus stunned from the collision, and Eerak and Gerdon plain uncaring, it was Erold who came to the turian's defense.

Erold got close the the mercenary holding Drathan. Just a few seconds of contact from a hanar's tentacles could bring seizures, if one was very unlucky. At the very least, it could paralyze for a few minutes. Erold threatened to embrace the mercenary.

"Why do you want this man? What has he done to you?"

[Generalno1]

Gerdon was taken aback a little, this was convienient. He asked one of the Bounty hunters "This is Drathan Gervaise? why are you taking him?"

[RobotNixon]

One of the human bounty hunters answered Gerdon.
"It's none of your concern. Call off your jellyfish or we'll put a bullet in him and call it self defense."
The man raised his shotgun, prepared to blow Gerdon away without a second thought.

The turian bounty hunter that Erold was attempting to get the better of turned swiftly
and shoved the barrel of his sniper rifle forcefully into Erold's body.

The other three bounty hunters pointed their weapons at Septimus and Eerak.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

Septimus regained himself, and stepped forward. "Erold is my friend. You aren't C-Sec, so I suggest you leave this man alone. " His hands shone with the blue that told the thugs he was a Biotic. Eerak stepped up next to Septimus and raised his own shotgun.

[RobotNixon]

The turian, who had his sniper rifle jabbed into Erold, gleefully pulled the trigger.

Spoiler:

Feel free to slaughter the bounty hunters to get revenge.

[Generalno1]

Gerdon shook his head. He unholstered his pistol and took aim at the Turian's head, took a few steps back, and threw a flashbang he had hidden.

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Are Flashbangs allowed?

[Arch-Mage Matt]

Erold's shields protected him from part of the blast, but he was still blown pack on his side, unconscious and possibly dead.

Septimus blasted the thug that shot Erold with a Throw Power so hard it felt like he'd gotten hit by a small planet.

Eerak aimed his shotgun at the other thugs.

[RobotNixon]

The three bounty hunters that were aimed at Septimus and Eerak dragged their injured turian comrade to safety,
and the bounty hunter aiming his weapon at Gerdon broke off and followed them.

Within seconds they were gone.

Drathan stood up, throwing the freshly broken hand-cuffs off into the distance after them.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

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The three bounty hunters that were aimed at Septimus and Eerak dragged their injured turian comrade to safety,
and the bounty hunter aiming his weapon at Gerdon broke off and followed them.

Within seconds they were gone.

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I tried to change mine to match the general's now you changed yours to match mine.... I'll change mine back.

[Generalno1]

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Can we still catch up to them?

[RobotNixon]

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Yeah, sorry about that.

Just trying to speed things up so there isn't a repeat of the warehouse incident.
Erold is alive, but three characters seems a bit much.

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Can we still catch up to them?

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They're gone, but they might be back later. Who knows.