CC&PD Reloaded IC

[Get of W'soran]

Elthrid was wear a bored expression under his hood as he looked at the woman.

"There is no need for violence human." he stated calmly raising his hands "I am here for the same reason as all of you...I suppose."

 

[Malochai]

Shei'n groaned and growled under his breath as the but of his pistol rebounded soundly from the locked door. He crouched down and looked at the lock itself, reaching into his tool pouch for a suitable tool with which to effect his entry.

'Well, it should be worth the effort,' he intoned inside his head, as much to himself as Int.

 

[Count michael]

Cautiously making his way forward pulling his cutting mask over his face, Seth stopped just before the others a grenade held in his righthand whilst he quickly switched aiming his lascutter which was in the other hand around at the others looking around nervously.

"This better not be a trick or an ambush, I have enough explosives to level this block, don't think I won't use them" he stuttered waving the lascutter around "I may of stole most of the valuables here already but it was finders keepers. If you want them back tough they are mine and Nina's and we don't like sharing, now why did you contact me" starting to panic when he saw that the others were armed

 

[Malochai]

With a deft flicks of his wrist and small movements, he attempted to force the mechanism of the door open

 

[Johnny-Crass]

Grogg picked up Leonara, placing he astride his big shoulders while at the same time moving in-between the eldar and the little creature with the las-cutter.

 

[Malochai]

Shei'n made a humming sound as the lock clicked open; it was happy and was positively filled with satisfaction. When he pushed the door open, straining his muscles as he didn't usually do, that sound became one of consternation. 'Damned thing; I'm a scientist; a genius! This labour is the work of humans and Kroot and Demiurgs!'

A smile split his blue-grey face once more when he saw the computer banks in the room, eyes sparkling. "That's more like it. Int.; what kind of computers are they and can you interface with them? Much easier than fighting my way through the endless menus that the humans so foolishly cling to.
"I want access to current surveillance of the entire sector and to see which doors have been accessed in the last two hours - then find the corresponding surveillance. And wipe all traces of your presence within the system ..."

With that, Shei'n started to tap away at keyboards, hoping that he would be spared the drudgery of manually finding the information he wanted.

 

[Mello]

Lewis suddenly paused on the floor and looked around.

"My my we are a boring bunch ladies. Oi Big man! (grogg) whatcha doin bud?"Lewis slowly rose of the floor like a vengeful ghost, yet with a seemingly friendly smile on his face.

 

[Malochai]

The AI buzzed, it's voice irritating to Shei'n, and he sighed as it spoke. "I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: I can't do anything until I get access. Is this thing even working? I can't detect any electronic activity, let alone a Wi-Fi."

"I don't know why I gave you true Intelligence; you are far too full of yourself, Int." he said sharply, glaring at the bright-blue holo-screen, eyes narrowed. After that, he sat in a chair and and spun, feeling how unergonomic the construct was. Even as he was planning out a much better chair - into which he could integrate Int., for whatever his faults he was Shei'n's only and favourite companion - he scanned the room for any sign of a place where the power could be accessed, controlled and, if necessary, reroute it so that the computers could be turned on.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

A sudden wind gusted into the compound, kicking up streamers of dust and fine debris. The wind was accompanied by an equally unexpected burst of illumination. Into the scene came Hal'yon, the light behind him shining on his silhouette like a halo and the wind ruffling his hair to the sound of 'spaghetti Western music' from ancient, pre-spaceflight Terra.

Just as suddenly as they came, the wind and light faded away into nothing along with the background theme, but Hal'yon continued on. While his stride was calm and confident, his eyes were scanning the environment and his hands hovered near his holsters. Ready for danger, Hal'yon headed towards the nearest signs of movement.

 

[Mello]

Lewis cocked his head sideways at the newcomer, took a step forwards, then one backwards in fear, then two forwards in resolution, but hesitated and his foot hovered mid air as he watched the new comer like an ork does quantum computing. Confusion.

His jaw worked itself a bit before it clamped resolutely shut and his arm shot out horizontally, revealing the multitude of self inflicted scars on hid palm, one still bleeding.

Lewis smiled as sweetly as he knew while a little rivulet of blood raj down his arm.

"Hiya Mister"

 

[Count michael]

Seth stumbled back in shock as Lewis came near me

"Stay back.... I'm warning you" he said trembling as he back away whilst the drone hovering nearby started beeping

"Its ok baby he wont hurt you I wont let him" seemingly regaining his confidence and walking forward until he was standing face to face with Lewis staring intently into his eyes

"What are you?"

 

[Mello]

Lewis stared at his hand proffered to Hal'yon, before glancing at Seth, then sighing and turning his body to face Seth, while his hand was still proffered to Hal'yon.

"I'm Lewis, droney boy." he stuck his tongue out as if he was tasting the air, before narrowing his eyes in concentration then smiling.

"You smell of rust. Can I.... touch it?" he said with barely surpressed excitement, motioning to a tiny spot of rust on Seth's drone.

 

[Malochai]

"You gave me intelligence because you can't think at the speed of electricity. Well technically you can, but I have a much more ergonomic interface."

Shei'n scowled slightly at the AI, before shaking his head. He was sure Int. knew exactly what he was thinking. Regardless, as he scanned the room, he saw a power junction high up the wall, and managed to clamber atop a desk so that he could reach it; reseting the breakers. A beep behind him caused him to turn his head, and he saw one of the terminals had a light shining from it. 'Finally!' he told himself, before Int. disturbed his thoughts. "Hang on, I've got a signal hub. Here we go."

"Good," he murmured as he looked at the, frankly, useless information given to him by the surveillance, before cursing. "Damnable human rubbish ... Int., can any of the cameras be turned to give us views not of the wall? And can we get images from the ones with broken lenses?"

 

[Sweeney Todd]

"You again." Ha'yon said with a slight chuckle as he shook Lewis' proffered hand, before turning to the other unfamiliar human.

"I take it you're not here by coincidence." He said evenly as he watched the man, who seemed to almost want to cradle his drone protectively from everyone else.

 

[Malochai]

"You should stop blaming humans. If you hadn't realised by now, most of this stuff is modified kroot technology. No wonder it's useless garbage. These things don't have any form of motion at all. Hang on, there's one which displays movement." The AI was really starting to get to him; more so than usual, for some reason. Maybe it was just because of how tense he was ... Either way, he snapped back at it.

"Int., this is not the time to be testing my patience. Just, get on with what I'm telling you to do before I remove your personality."

"Cleaning it up and compiling the data... -"

"Good," the Tau scientist murmured, his eyes flicking to the computer screen which had just flickered on.

-it's an Eldar with his hands up. No idea why."

"Alright, I'm going to make my way around to the meeting point. Can you sustain a signal between here and the intersection and play the surveillance on the screen?"

 

[Get of W'soran]

Elthrid stood still, keeping his hands in the air, once upon a time the indignity of being held at gun point by lesser beings would have been unbearable and he would have acted, in fact he was fairly certain he could have disarmed both woman and ogryn who had originally threatened him although the arrival of the seemingly unstable man with the bomb changed matters.

Time had taught the Eldar patience and so he simply waited.

Waited and watched.

 

[Mello]

Lewis skipped over to the eldar.

"MY FAVOURITE!!!! ELDAR TIPPING!!!" and with a crash tackles the eldar full on, screaming with joy, before landing on the ground heavily and hugging the bewildered eldar.

"Thankyou...." he said emotionally, with a tear of happiness in his eye.

 

[Get of W'soran]

In the brief moments as the clumsy human came crashing at him Elhrid considered gutting the man but dismissed it as unnecessary.

He then considered simply dodging but once again dismissed it as all the human nearby seemed either nervous, trigger-happy or utterly insane.

Sighing he let the man crash into him, landing heavily and coughing as the weight of the human slammed on top of him.

Elthrid stared in dismay as the man now seemed to be hugging him, such physical contact was extremely unpleasant despite his years amongst alien society.

Utterly confused as the human thanked him Elthird forced a stiff smile.

"You're....welcome?" he gasped still winded.

Looking up at the emotional human he made up his mind.

They're all mad.

 

[Mello]

Lewis giggled and stood up again with as much energy as before.

"I'm not welcome! I'm Lewis!!! Silly eldar" Lewis said patronisingly before patting him on the shoulder as to reassure him that he wasn't that stupid.

twisting his right hand around his back to pick his knife out of his left coat pocket, cutting himself, again, he started flipping the knife and catching it, blade first every time.

"Anyone seen anything moving? Last time I tried to eat the police chased me so maybe you need to tell me what i can eat?"

scowering his pockets out in the search for food a toe and a rats corpse fell out, promptly rolling down a hill.

"Looks like Doctor Ratta has left home after all. Goodbye my friend..."

 

[Count michael]

Grabbing his Drone and cradling it protectively, Seth backed away from Lewis almost tripping over. Seeing lewis forcibly hug the the eldar Seth sighed in relief and let go of his drone which beeped rapidly as it hovered around him

"Nina! you dirty girl" he laughed "shh not in front of them..... leave that for private" turning back to look nervously at the others particularly the tau who spoke to him

"I.....I... coincidence of course I was in the neighbourhood and thought I would take a lovely stroll with my wife, yes that's it. I was in no way here to meet someone for a job nor did I already loot the place" sweating nervously and rather defensively as he tried to change the subject "Why what a lovely knife you have" he said to Lewis immediately regretting it.

 

[Get of W'soran]

Elthrid got back to his feet in a seemingly fluid motion, appearing serenely calm as he looked at the others.

Of course he wasn't calm at all, something any Eldar could pick up by his body language, much more subtle than those of the younger races.

Clasping his hands behind his back he attempted to centre himself as the observed the others.

"Does anyone know anything about this meeting?" he asked in barbaric tongue of Low Gothic but it was likely the most recognisable language of these strangers.

 

[spineyrequiem]

Leonara decided to try and get the conversation onto sensible topics.

'Grogg 'n me have been working for these guys for a little while. Far as I can tell, we're trying to destabilise some of the local gangs. Dunno why. If it's anything like last time, someone'll come and meet us to give us our mission and offer us equipment. Don't try to kill him, he takes offence.'

Well. Everything she said had been factually correct. And it's not like anyone had ASKED if there had been other people in their team.

 

[Get of W'soran]

Elthrid bowed his head at the woman's words although there was little useful information in it.

The prior arrangement between the human and mutant where obvious, a contact appearing made sense although the fact there might be equipment offered was welcome news.

However most importantly she had offered information, this was more significant than the actual content.

"Thank you." he said in his precise tones "Are any of the others recogniseable?" he asked as he glanced at the group.

 

[spineyrequiem]

Leonara pointed at Lewis, swaying dangerously on Grogg's shoulders. 'I think I recognise his voice. He turned up at the end of our last mission and... tried to kill everything, far as I remember. That right?'

 

[Mello]

Lewis smiled and bowed so deeply his forehead nearly touched the floor.

"Why yes it certainly is madmoiselle. Speaking of which... I wanna stab something mom.... can we pleeeeease?2