[FFRP] The Black City...

[Harri-chan]

The red cloak swirled around as she dived behind a desk, and a moment later, it was upturned onto it's side, forming cover for the woman, followed by a shuffling, and then the next desk fell to it's side with a bang, and then another. She'd disappeared behind them, and the glow of the lights on her goggles seemed to have faded away too.

[Brnin8r]

Nora looked around, "My sword...but it's at the street." she commented as she made her way out.

***

Damian shrugged, "Live, sleep, survive? There's not much else to do but be careful. Occasionally I try to hack the perimeter defenses to get out, but it never works. It seems there's only half-pieces of information...as if it's been diluted. The only way I can see getting more information is going deeper in. That seems dangerous though." the last sentence was laced with grim humor as he said it. "Depends on how fast we want to die."

[Knight Errant]

Jack nods and follows her.

[Brnin8r]

Fully repaired, Nora sprints easily through the tight alleyway, grabbing low hanging fire escapes to fling herself forward faster. Once out to the street she ran quickly to her prone sword and without reaching down to grab it, it sprang to her hand. It was like she was in a trance as she began to flourish it, the sword rotating faster and faster, at times flipping around her limbs, being tossed and caught, and occasionally swung in action. It lasted for about twenty minutes and Jack couldn't see anywhere in Nora's immediate bubble that couldn't have been slashed by her expert hand. As sudden as it had started, Nora turned immediately to Jack, knelt, and stabbed the sword into the ground. "Calibration complete: North 31." she stood up and smiled.

[Zoey]

"Well unless you can pay me higher than what I got for this job, Im gotta keep moving and get the tower" replied Caine, checking his pockets.

[Knight Errant]

Jack's eyes go wide. "Wow... nice moves. Shame they didnt make you bulletproof." He smiles a bit. "But then if they did, I'd probably be dead now, hmm?"

[Brnin8r]

Nora pulled her sword from the ground and merely smiled. She held her sword up in front of Jack, "These are yours." at a closer look, the sword had been dinged about a hundred times; looking around, there would be evident Vulcan-sized bullet holes in the walls. "We should probably be going." Nora said as she sheathed her sword and began walking into the alley across the street from hers.

***

Damian groaned, "You're headed towards the center of the city. You'll be dead before your check could bounce. I went there once," he lifted his sleeve revealing a long elbow-to-shoulder scar, "Figured I'd made it out the last time."

[Knight Errant]

Jack nods. "Alrighty then." He follows her!

[Brnin8r]

After a long walk of silence, the two find themselves in front of what looks to be a radio station with an oddly shaped antenna. "This will teleport us to the control tower." as if to point out the building, the blackened sky erupted in lightning, a tall, thin spire nearly twenty miles further into the city. "From there we'll be able to disable the laser defenses, teleport back, and leave for..." she suddenly seemed stunned for a moment, "...the Outside."

[Knight Errant]

Jack puts a hand on her shoulder. "Dont worry about it, Nora... your looking after me here, I'll be sure to return the favor once we are out of here."

[muffinstud]

The red machine menace hovers silently, appearing to be thinking after a kind. After a moment of dread silence, a small "feeoo!" goes through the room as a thin stream of light burns through one of the desks and leaves a nasty looking black mark on the wall. The smell of burnt wood and wallpaper lingers in the air as the robot takes aim at another desk.

[Zoey]

"Then fill me in on what you saw" replies Caine not really amazed from the scar. "Knowledge is power after all"

[Harri-chan]

There was a blur of light, a small, green dot arced through the air, coming up from behind one of the desk, leaving a small trail in the darkness, and lands on the robot with a little splat sound. It seemed to have a sticky surface, and had stuck onto the robot's torso. After a second of sitting there, it suddenly turned red, and in another second, the little dot of light exploded with a force similar to a grenade.

[Brnin8r]

Nora smiled, "Jack is a good person." she said as she opened the door. Immediately, a green laser walked up and down Nora before disappearing, "Stay." she commented and went further into the building.

***

"You'll find the people here are Maximillian's old converted. The original design of his half man half robots...as far as I know. Further in, you'll get into the weirder things: people being integrated into the buildings, massive robots controlled by the detached brain of a scientist. It's almost surreal, the further in you get. One of the electric documents I found deep in the center suggests that at the very center of this...hell hole, we'd find a ship. The USS Cygnus.

***

The woman, in her fighting with the robot, blew a hole in one of the walls. Whether or not the robot had been destroyed remained to be seen.

[Harri-chan]

After the sound of the explosion, the woman, who was laying on her side behind an overturned table, pushed the tip of a leather-covered finger up over the top of her makeshift barrier, a camera lense in the glove feeding right into her goggle-like headset, letting her survey the room without exposing herself, a pistol still held in each hand.