ooc: Lifts are the roped platform kind seen in the games.
IC:
"Anni?" Dionysia repeated, trying to remember why the name seemed significant. Then she fixed it to a face and remembered the mud Stivik had wa-
mudokon Stivik had warned her about ages ago, on her first day in Rupture Farms.
Worse intentions? Well, she knew of all people what vykkers could do, and wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it ever again.
The big-bro came bursting through the door at that point and barked something about saving the girl. He stormed out again and Dionysia pushed herself slowly to her feet, "Don't worry," She told the native, "I'll find her." Because if she was saving this girl, she wouldn't have to think about anything that had just happened to her, or what was gonig to happen within the very near future.
"Give me a chance," She called after Dbreak, staggering towards the door, her feet still numb and unwieldy, "One of us was just electrocuted in the spine." She hurried out as fast as she could, "There's a lift just down here that'll take us all the way to the ground floor; can you work the pulley for us?"
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"Good grief," Emlech scoffed and said ironically to #7Slig, who was still on the floor, "Are all the mudokons here suicidal?" He raised his eyes to meet Ralph's, raised the snuzi to point at his chest and addressed him without a trace of humour, "I'm switching this to a 'kill' setting. Move."
Anni was unaware of any of this discussion; her eyes were fixed on Jim, willing him to move, but his chest seemed incredibly still; he didn't so much as twitch.
Anger began to drain back into her empty mind; a white-hot anger that twisted her insides and made her mind burn with heat. Pain seared in her black-tattooed hand and shadows danced over her skin, stretching out into long, ethereal claws at the ends of her fingers. Her heart-rate quickened, her breath came into her lungs in sharp, violent gasps and crimson fire danced in her eyes.
Her back straightened; she looked straight ahead, through Ralph, in the direction of the sneering vykker. And suddenly she screamed and leapt at it; she threw out an arm that, witch incredible strength, threw Ralph into the air, to her side, and sent him crashing into a wall so hard it left a dent in the metal. Emlech's eyes widened in amazement in the half a second it took for the screaming shadow to cross the distance between them and bury its shadowy claws into his chest.
ooc: Actions with Ralph were kind of loosely pre-arranged with Gretin a long time ago, though if you object, Gretin, I shall edit (I know he's heavy but she has
powers!!).
(Also, if anyone wants to overhear her scream I would appreciate it if you could let Dionysia and crew get to the scene first; I know they're a floor further away, but they got to the lift first!
Thank you for your co-operation
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Uros, feel free to move Dionysia and Dbreak into the lift when you next post. I guess Ark can decide if he came with us when he appears.
Oh, and
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