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[Midnight_Huntress]

"If that is what you prefer then go with it. No one can force treatment on you." She said.

[RAFrukh]

"No," I countered, "I cannot. Either we both go to our own doctors, or we both go to the bar. I owe it to you. I cannot coerce you to do something you do not want to. Or, we could have Pariah choose."

[BaronConall]

I follow Vogefac's directions, bringing you both to the entrance of the ship, placing you both down gently. "Okay, who do I need to get? Is there anyone in part-WHAT THE HELL?!?!"

I notice that my right arm has started to fade inexplicably, rapidly spreading across the right side of my body. It seems that whatever has brought me to this trans-universal bar has deemed my time to be up. "WAIT!!! At least let me get my scotch! It cost me a fortune!!! OH, THIS IS BULL-"

The sentence never finishes. It seems that my purpose in protecting those that needed protecting has been fulfilled and I have been deemed ready to return home until next I'm needed. That pirate had better not take my damn scotch!!! I think, as I find myself falling once more, just as I had when I was first transported to the bar.

But something is different now. It's hotter.

Rotating, I see why. Apparently I am destined never to return. The gaping mouth of an active volcano is rushing up to meet me, the mouth surpassing 100 miles in diameter. The lava is rushing up to meet me.

"OH, COME ON!!!!!" I shout in defiance, but it's no use. I hit the lava and a thousand voices are silenced.

Only darkness greets me.

((Okay, yes, I know it's a cop-out in terms of killing him off, but I have to agree with Terenia here. Pariah was *way* too over powered for this sort of RPG. In fact, I doubt he can be used in *any* RPG. And I don't want any risk of this guy coming back or being assimilated by The One or the Vampire, making them more powerful than they already need to be. So, I'm killing Pariah. He saved Terenia, Mythica and Scinlao, so I think we can all agree that he came along at *exactly* the right time, but the nature of his character and abilities no longer has a place here. He's essentially served his purpose as a test-character.))

[RAFrukh]

Disappeared.

That was what Pariah did. He simply disappeared. he seemed to melt, but before his last parts evaporated, he vanished. I was left there, with Silver laying on the ground. And I saw him disappear.

I turned to Silver, "What just happened?"

[Midnight_Huntress]

"Look any doctor will do for me as there is no help. All they can do is stitch me up and send me off. Any doctor can do that...." She said. She knew there was no help for her wounds. She qould scar just like the countless others along her back hidden under her new tattoo markings. "You need more help than I."

[KitsuneMarie]

The computer makes a horrible churning noise for five solid and terrifying seconds, during which Tora nervously wonders amid gagging coughs if the speakers are merely malfunctioning and she is burning valuable time.

Just before she is about to make a break for the door, the computer chirps in serene Galard, "Acknowledged. Self-destruct will commence in thirty... twenty-nine...."

<Myitt, run!> Tora shouts, lunging away from the console and propelling herself towards the Bug fighter's hatch as quickly as she can.

[RAFrukh]

"I...I believe I have not made my stand point clear to you. You saved my life. I injured you. I refuse to impose my wants, or needs on you. But right now, I think the most important thing is...who's going to carry me to wherever we are going?"

[Cobra (Gymn)]

John had gotten outside just in time to see Pariah disappear. He ran to Vogefac. "What happened?" I followed.

Kevlin followed Temrash. "That was the weirdest thing I've seen yet."

[RAFrukh]

John ran over to me and Silver.

"Um...I was, to use the most descriptive terms, possessed, then consumed. But I appear to be alright, more or less at the moment. I am more worried about Artemis here. I was possessed, and persuaded to injure her." I explained, "But I will still need some help getting to my medbay. As for Pariah –– the being that just vanished –– I do not have any explanation for what happened."

They just stared at me.

<Alright! I'll pay him. Anything? How about 2 tiyls? Here you go.> I said.

[Myitt]

Myitt nods as soon as she sees Tora fling herself out of the ship.

"Let's get the hell out of here!" she cries.

She turns and bolts through the forest, pushing branches aside, unheeding of the fact that they're slapping against her face and body.

<Feet, don't fail me now!> Tara yells internally.

Myitt leaps over a fallen tree and scrambles out into the gravel lot, still running, her chest heaving from exhaustion and exertion.

[Midnight_Huntress]

She stood, slowly. "I know what you meant. I'll be fine. You are missing limbs. You are going to your doctor. Where to?" She asked standing and ready to carry him ignoring every wince she gave.

[RAFrukh]

"It's the Yellow ship right there. John, I need you to get bear. We're going to need his help. I am exhausted psionically. I cannot call him telepathically. Please, be quick mee us in my sickbay."

I began to shuffle to get to the ship door. Then I stopped. No matter how much of a humiliation it was, I would get there quicker if Silver carried me...yes, I couldn't get there at all without ANYONES help...I waited for her to pick me up...my limbless, helpless body...and I felt so impotent I wanted to kill myself with the claws I didn't have.

[Midnight_Huntress]

She picked him up without a second thought. She swayed slightly and took a deep breath and followed his directions to his ship and then inside to his sick bay where she layed him down and then plopped in a chair trying to hide the fact that her stomach wounds had re-opened.

[RAFrukh]

Artemis put me down on a bed in sickbay. Then she sat herself down in a chair. She visibly flinched from trying to hide her stomach wounds. At least I think she did...

"What in the name of Freg'naa happened to you Colonel?" asked Dr. Hirojan.

"Suffice it to say someone ate my limbs off. Because that's exactly what happened."

He nodded, and went off to grab some regeneration materializers. I sat there, trying to make the moment as non-awkward as possible.

"You realize I can't thank you enough?" I said for probably the fifth time in a row...or was it the first?

[Cobra (Gymn)]

John and I followed Vogefac. "What actually happened?"