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Post by Kal Skirata on Jan 4, 2008 19:03:50 GMT -5
Sev nodded. "I just got in from the frontier. They rotated me back here to the Zone for my skills as a sniper. I use these Sabre rounds so that there's practically no chance of missing, even though I rarely miss with normal rounds." he said.
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Post by Silas on Jan 4, 2008 19:09:32 GMT -5
The Ghilled-up beast raised an eyebrow. "So you're actually with the duty guards 'round here?" Duty beasts, as they were called, were the military beasts who took a strong dislike to anyone besides their own group in the Zone, wanting the secrets of the area for themselves, apparently. To block this, they say that they are shielding the public from unspeakable horrors, and to hold up that wall of lies, they placed groups of soldiers around the Zone to scrutinize anybeast that came within range of their rather sophisticated weaponry (Obokan rifles as mentioned earlier).
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jan 4, 2008 19:14:36 GMT -5
Sev shrugged. "You could say that, but I really don't like how they treat people. I like to treat everybody equally and fairly, until they make me angry, that is."
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Post by Silas on Jan 4, 2008 20:27:43 GMT -5
The beast exhaled through his nose. "Now that's a first." He said sarcastically, now knowing that he was new to the Zone."What's your name, by the by?" He asked, growing a bit more serious.
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jan 4, 2008 20:35:34 GMT -5
Sev cocked his head "My name is Sev, and what's your problem? I'm new to the zone so they don't treat me like one of their own, even though I'm a better shot then the rest of 'em. It's really quite irratable." he said.
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Post by Silas on Jan 4, 2008 21:09:06 GMT -5
"That's how most beasts are around the Zone." The plant-beast explained with a shrug. "It's everyone to 'imself out here, and they'd hate to think that they're worse than anyone, especially a new guy." The beast slung his sniper rifle back on his back and offered a fake-plant covered paw, remembering to introduce himself. "Name's Gray, if you're wonderin'..."
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Post by Kal Skirata on Jan 4, 2008 21:12:56 GMT -5
Sev nodded. "I was wonderin', as a matter of fact. So most people are like that? I'd gladly admit to somebeast if they were better than me at something, especially something as important as sniping scores." he said.
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 4, 2008 22:37:59 GMT -5
As Bane began his count the ferret started off, his drunkenness slowing him down and making him stumble. Anna didn't hear the door open behind her but she certainly heard the gun go off only a foot and a half from her ear. Jane had stumbled out of the apartment and taken her vengeance in her own paws. The ferret fell forward in his tracks but Anna wasn't paying any attention to him any more. She looked back at her friend amazed. She had never even seen Jane pick up the weapon before. "Guess the whelp will grow up fatherless," the ferretmaid said unfeelingly then she turned and went back into the apartment. Anna watched her go and then turned back to stare down the hallway. She took a step so she was even with Bane, put a paw on his arm, and asked him, "Is he dead?"
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Post by Silas on Jan 4, 2008 22:49:10 GMT -5
Bane, also surprised by the gunshot, looked back at Jane, then moved towards the ferret, nudging him with a booted footpaw. "If he isn't he will be." The weasel remarked. He held no sympathy for the beast. Overhearing the previous conversation, he knew that the ferret was indeed a drunken rapist. He got what was coming to him. Looking back at the weaselmaid and her friend holding the weapon, he sighed and let his paw move away from the grip of his own gun. At that moment, two duty beasts ran down the hallway, shouldering their Obokan assault rifles. " 'Ey! Yew three! Paws up!" One ordered.
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 4, 2008 23:06:09 GMT -5
Anna obeyed immediately and realized that her own gun was still in her hand. She let go of it as if it were on fire and it clattered to the ground. She looked at Bane and then back toward the door of the apartment. Jane turned and looked at the duty beasts. Then she looked at Anna and smiled weirdly. She leaned down and set her weapon on the ground and then kicked it over to the guards, "No need to bother them. I'll come quietly." She stepped forward holding her out her paws toward them.
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Post by Silas on Jan 4, 2008 23:32:26 GMT -5
The guard picked up the weapon while the other covered the three with his Obokan. Setting the gun in a pocket for evidence, he merely stood by as he realized who was killed. Despite the threat of being prosecuted or something, in the Zone you were merely fined a huge sum and then sent off into the real world with nothing but the shirt off of your back. That was if you killed an innocent beast in the territory of some military officer. There were none at this settlement. And if the guards were apathetic enough...
"So you killed 'im?" The guard holding his Obokan up said, raising an eyebrow curiously. "Well, turn around, put yer paws wh-" "Officer, before you do that..." Bane stepped in. "Stay where you are!" The other beast called out, now aiming at Bane. He continued. "Before you do that, I have something to say. That beast currently *Ahem* violated this ferretmaid here, and was seeking to do the same to miss Anna here. If my memory doesn't fail me, that means this case is under the Blood for Blood ruling. Need I explain...?" He lifted his left sleeve to reveal a tattoo, a ring of black flames wound about his forearm.
Both duty beasts paused, thinking a minute. "Yeah, I s'pose it is, but d'you have proof?" One asked. "Look at the tape." Bane pointed to a camera at the end of the hallway. "And at the suspects." He gestured to the ferretmaid. The guards grumbled their agreement. "A'right, but she'll have t' bury the body if it's under tha' rulin'. An' we'll need to confiscate this." He pats the pistol in his pocket.
"That won't be a problem." Bane said, gesturing for the guards to go about their duties. "I'll take care of it." And so the guards left, to check the tapes and inform the perimeter guard to not let the three escape during that time. Things were different in the zone...
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 4, 2008 23:53:19 GMT -5
Jane watched the guards go, looked at Bane and nodded, "Thanks but you didn't have to do that." She had actually been hoping she'd get a one-way ticket back to the real world. But who knew maybe since she was pregnant they would have to quarantine her here until the whelp was born. Suddenly she started to feel sick again, "I'm goin' back to bed."
Anna was biting her lip and feeling completely awkward. She also felt sick to her stomach although she knew it wasn't for the same reason as Jena. She felt dirty after having the ferret's paws on her. And she felt useless at not being able to protect herself. And she was resisting the urge as a medically trained creature to go over and check to see if the ferret was actually dead. She looked a Bane. "Thank you," she said quietly. She wanted to say a lot more but again she couldn't put the words together to do so.
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Post by Silas on Jan 5, 2008 0:13:53 GMT -5
Bane looked at Jane (Lol rhyme), saying "Figured you have enough to worry about." As she left, and Anna said, 'thank you', he nodded towards her. He was actually surprised that worked. Not many beasts knew what his tattoo meant. Sure, he spoke to Jane fine, but he couldn't find anything to say to Anna. He just stood there a moment once more, unsure of what to do. He appeared suspicious, he thought, acting like he was. Again Ashlyn was right. He did change...
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Post by carabadgermum on Jan 5, 2008 0:30:41 GMT -5
"I couldn't do it," said Anna. She was looking at the body still lying on the floor down the hall. "I couldn't pull the trigger. I knew what he had done, what he. . . wanted to do. But I couldn't do it. I took an oath, ya know, in med school. Said I would do no harm." Then she looked at Bane like he was some amazing creature she had never seen the likes of before. "Y-you saved me."
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Post by Silas on Jan 5, 2008 0:52:00 GMT -5
Bane fidgeted a little at this, now having the complete and full attention of Anna upon him. He silently reflected that he has seen many pretty faces, and ignored most, but... Well it just went without saying. Trying to rid himself of this seemingly childish feeling, he answered,
"Well, I couldn't just stand by and let him... you know..." He explained, pulling his paws apart to prevent more fidgeting.
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