BC Post
- The core seven members of the Black Company have decided to return to the Pinnacle Hotel, leaving the rest of their allies and prisoner/recruits in the Warehouse under Sgt. Hurtt's watchful eye. Col. Thrudh explains that he wants to take some time and discuss the options, the plans and future of the BC with Humble, Alecto, Sammy, Hans, Gargamel and Carlos. Afterwards you can get a nights rest in a real bed, after a well earned victory.
The seven members of SOG 8 arrive in the massive spaceship turned into a hotel. As you enter the main doors into the lobby you hear the ear splitting whine of a radio communicator. Standing in the lobby yelling into the radio is, Techno Wizard extraordinaire Diamond Clad, he's even more famous then Hans and is known in most TW circles as the designer and builder of extra dimensional vaults. Next to the worried looking famous TW is his TW pale faced daughter.
Ben sees you and a smile forms on his face, he greets you all when you come into the Lobby with a Dries Marbles Left Concert T-Shirt for each of you, even a couple Super sized ones for Humble and Thrudh. He still has the play back of the concert playing on one of his his computer screens, Scooby Doo on the other monitor. It looks like the squid-man was working on assembling some sort of contraption on his desk, which he now ignores as he makes his way around from his desk in order to hand out shirts to the Black Company Mercs.
"Hey guys welcome back... I picked the shirts up from the Radio Station, just before everything went ballistic!" He frantically wiggles some of his tentacles, clearly agitated by something.
Squids looks up realizing he lost in thought.
As soon as Ben pauses for a moment, Diamond Clad walks over to the squid man, in a hurry and a bit overbearing he forcefully says to Ben:
"I require some of these components, my daughter has no time to spare. The jar was cracked in the scuffle with the Hammers, I must contact Bane and Libertas if there is any hope." Before Squids can say yeah or no, Diamond Clad looks at the array of materials on Ben's desk, the man then reaches over and swipes a bit of this, and a little of that. He places the components, and a few other TW "do dads" and crystals on the coffee table in the lounge across from squid-mans desk. Diamond Clad and Crystal work on getting some kind of radio working, but they are clearly having issues trying to reach someone named Bane and Libertas. It would seem Crystal's soul jar is cracked and they need some blood of one of the CEALs to possibly undo the magic that has trapped her soul and is slowly now killing her.
His daughter, now does seem a bit more pale than usual, helps him arrange the components just so. Diamond Clad hooks what looks like a radio into a e-clip and fires it up. Looking interested from across the room Ben stays quiet.
"Bane, Libertas do you read me? Are they receiving, is this thing on Crystal? Blast, move the transmigration rod to the left, No your other left..."
Crystal looks at him with a bit of indignation. Her father smiles a fatherly smile at her and half jokingly says, "Yes if Libertas was here he would have finished by now. No not an insult, a fact -- What is that? Some kind of temporal Interference?"
The radio arcs and sparks, but after some coaxing the father and daughter Techno Wizards get the radio jugging along again.
"Libertas, come in Libertas. Bane are you there? I have secured information regarding undoing the magic that binds Crystal's soul... But in doing so, I am afraid the jar was cracked, there is not much time. We need one of those CEAL peace keepers Giest employs. I have reason to believe these cyberneticly enhance arcane life forms are made with death magic of the same kind that trapped Crystals Soul... Fluid in their bodies may be key to undoing the spell...Blast where is all that Temporal energy coming from?... No, No are they receiving our transmission?"
Again the radio arcs and sparks, and to someone of keen observation it seems to wink out of existence for just the briefest of moments. But persistence pays off as the two TWs get the radio working one last time.
"Please meet us at the Pinnacle Hotel and hurry! We are with the members of the Black Company"
Unexpectedly, Time and Space seem to bend, the center of the lobby pulls inwards then ripples out as a Lady D-Bee Sharkwoman, along with a young kid who seems to have taken a railgun round to his leg, both appear in the lobby. The kid is barely conscious and seems to be bleeding out, fast.
- Diamond Clad frantically screams into the radio, whom he is talking to unknown to you: "What is that? A wear-shark lady... she's a Fraking Lady Viggo!!? Who's side is she on? Oh grief, that kid is bleeding all over the place!!"
The Lady Shark looks around, taking in the surroundings, she speaks to Ben in a melodic voice that seems to rise and fall like an ocean tide, "Ben'itxxz, I have need of your services. This child has been caught up in a fight between my counterparts and a well trained and armed group of heroes. The child is brave, he bested Viggo Prime and obtained a data chip proving the innocence of a group of some dastardly mercenaries. Help me, Ben'itxxz. You're my only hope. I know you swore the last time, was your last, your powers age you unfairly. But... but it is either you or Scara... And I so desperately do not want to bring the kid to her. She would just force the CEAL process onto him. He deserves to live Ben!"
As everyone in the room prepares to act, Ben'itxxz acts, ol'Squids is faster than one might have thought, Juicer fast, granted who would have thought he was once a combat medic, once working on a far off dimension, a place called Center on Phase World. Well, no one because he didn't tell you. Ben flips a first aid kit up onto the desk and is half way across the room to the injured kid before anyone can bat an eye. By far the fastest anyone has seen Squids move. A look of concern on the squid-mans face says it all, he is a medic. Whatever the D-Bee woman meant by his magic will age him, Ben acts regardless. As fast as he is though, its not fast enough: The Shark Lady's eyes grow wide and give off an eerie blue sheen, anyone with the ability to detect magic feels some kind of magic rip her and the poor child away from the hotel, through time and space to an unknown destination. A faint female chuckling rings in the air as both the kid and shark-woman disappear.
Ben in his gruff gravely rough voice squeaks, "No! She took them. Had to be Scara, that bitch Necromancer beast."
- As if the lobby is not crowded already, the doors of the hotel burst open and several Elves, Dnorr, Grackletooths, and a few other D-bees come rushing in, twelve in total. The Grackletooth, Known as Mic, looks at his friend Sammy (because everyone who is someone knows Sammy), "I am not sure what is going on down at the radio station, but the crowd down there has started singing Dreis Marbles Left's top hits, while they round up every D-Bee Gloom has... I did not see it, but rumor is someone shot an Elf. People are panicked, there's much violence. We need a place to lie low." Looking at Ben with pleading eyes Mic sees the Squid-man nod yes, waving them in.
Off to the side in the lobby everyone hears the TW known as Diamond Clad and his daughter Crystal Clad muttering something about a temporal energy build up, there voices are raising in pitch as they become more excited.
- Again the air pops and the shark lady and young kid (Alex) seemed to be pulled from space and time winking back into existence, only to ripple and fade, then tear out of in-existence and stand before you all, solid and here, in the lobby. Ben cheers!
When the shark-woman and kid popped back into the lobby they are accompanied by a third person, a beautiful blond woman, Alecto immediately is able to recognize her as a member of the 13th: Cantrell (Cantrell will describe her arrival and her actions upon arrival in her post below).
- Ben puts the Dries Marble Left T-shirts that he had been holding in his 6th tentacle on the counter and waves the D-bees in, as he reaches over to start medical aid on the kid Alex. A oddly altered via magics, IRMMS is set on the kid and Ben says to the newcomer D-Bee's: "That is horrible indeed. Last I heard, a Titan Robot went crazy, some kid was piloting it while a bald man rode on its shoulder. Damned news article interrupted my cartoons! Blam, blam, explosions everywhere, people rushing all about. A bunch of buildings near the radio station got demolished too. Giest sent her goons, and Viggo the Fin along with an industrial drill to stop it...or so the news said. She owns the news though, they always paint her in a good light even though we all know Giest is a evil witch. How a government can control the media sickens me so much. We are constantly lied to by those who claim to protect us, who just want power and don't really care about us."
As an explosion erupts in the roadway adjacent the hotel, Ben quickly takes a peak out the front door. All oh his tentacles simultaneously drop in shock and he squeals in terror: "Geist is coming for us all!!!"