Galaxy's Edge Space Bar (archive)

[Breekan1]

Puk hesitates for a moment. "rrrrIf you claimed the Visserrrrr's daughterrr as a prrrrrize orrr offerrrring he might accept that as rrrrreasoning to take herrrr. But he'd wonderrrr why you'd let yourrrr orrrriginal host go." He lowers his voice slightly. "If you claim she's been killed, you rrrrrrrisk his suspicion, orrr scorrrrrn... But if she werrrrre infested with someone else-" he looks up quickly, trying to look the Andalite in the eyes. "-someone temporrrrarrrry, and trrrrrusted. Corrrrrliss lets his host stand frrrrrree, but..." he looks over to the brit, and then back. "he might not rrrwant to be involved..." He looks down at his feet as he trails off, nothing more to say, obviously reluctant to be positing something so dangerous for so many people.

[Myitt]

"Oh, I see.  And what about you, Puk?" Corliss asks conversationally.  "Hmm?  It seems you'd be just as good a candidate to be risking your life for someone who until the last few minutes emphatically denied anyone's help.  Oh, yes, how silly of me, I also am a member of an organized group of terrorists which the Empire has vowed to destroy.  I'm sure they'd love to perform a memory dump on me and my new, temporary Andalite host, if we were caught--which, and this is realism here, we probably would be.  Low level Yeerks do require regular memory scans, if you've forgotten. 

"Then, even after the memory dump, just for fun, they might call up our old friend Ardiss, get her back in the game, to make sure my death and Alic's were stretched out across several months of agony.  Does that sound like fun to you?  Because I can assure you I can think of more important things I could be risking my life for."  He glares at Alic again.  "Not to mention we could offer the Visser's daughter as a prize...that's a lovely plan, innit?...except what if his daughter isn't named Aliciania, or is standing right next to him while we give him a ring?  Nuh uh.  At first I thought we could help, use some covert operatives.  Not this.  You can find another madman." 

He starts to storm back toward the bar, in a huff.

[Breekan1]

"I don't know anything rrrabout being a Yeerrrrk," Puk sighs. "Forrrrget it. All of ourrrr rrrroptions arrre terrrrible, arrrren't they? Therrre's no rrrrway out."

[Darth Revan]

"Exactly, so we should just let her be on her way."

[Alic]

Alic was frustrated and it showed. They all could be right, maybe this is a different universe she would be going to. "I think it would work. Is there any way to find out if were from the same universe?"
The only thought in Alic's mind now was being able to save her father, and it was the best opprotunity she had come across. She wanted to beg but wouldn't show that side of her to anyone.

[Midnight_Huntress]

Raksha had watched everything happen and her mind took it all quickly and then stored it away. Everyone spoke of their past and such, but she couldn't remember her past. She watched people leave and sit and go here and she turned in her seat to look the other way. Se notived Asda and Morgan talking. She seen the picture of his wife and she froze in her seat. She looked familiar. The woman from her dreams that she would see many times a year and she had no idea why. She slowly approached Morgan, her hood over her face, and pointed to the picture. "You said her name was Andromeda?" she asked. "She looks......so familiar to me."

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

((Parker, Terenia, Alic, Chad...this post concerns all of you the most, though it conerns everyone really.   *facepalm*  seven more pages, and yes I went two days without posting a real post, I'm sorry.  Dang I missed a bunch... ))

Ossanlin watches as events unfold and learns the human-yeerk-andalite has an involuntary host.  He tries not to get involved...the andalite female should not be infested involuntarily, no being should be, yet this was not black and white.  Nothing ever was.  Shades of gray abounded here...

As Alic gives him a sad smile and runs outside his hearts leap and his midsection clenches.  He could not stay uninvolved if Alic did not.  He leaps over the table he'd been standing behind, hooves clattering on the hardwood floor as his tail swings and knocks a chair over in his haste.  He gallops out the double-swinging doors almost buffeting Corliss.  He doesn't even apologize to his friend because of his state of mind.

<Aliciania!  NO!  Think about what you are saying...what you are suggesting!  Really THINK about it!  You cannot allow yourself to be infested.  I...I know you love your father, I know you want to free him from that psycopathic Yeerk, but this is NOT the way.  There are so many things that could go wrong...>

Ossanlin gallops up next to Alic and lays a hand on her shoulder, his face painted in worry.  <This is not the way....>  Then in private thought-speech... <<I couldn't bear to see you infested...I couldn't bear to lose you.  We can find another way, I will promise you another way if you will stay and not risk yourself like this...>>

Ossanlin looks over to Claxter and goes back to regular thought-speech that everyone can hear.  <You did well Claxter, but please holster your weapon...that won't help anyone here.>  ((OOC:  Chad, if Claxter already put the shredder away let me know and I'll alter the post.  I can't remember and I can't bear to go back and read it all again.))

<I would ask the same of you soldier.>  Ossanlin regards Parker with his main eyes.  <I do not condescend when I say you know nothing of our war.  You are at war with some organization known as the Covenant, was it?  What you ask us to do here, is nothing short of betrayal.  You sympathize with the human-nothlit, yet you disregard the Andalite who is being controlled.  You are condemning someone to a life of slavery to possibly save another.  You place a higher value on the captured being's life.  Would you deliver one of your soldiers to these Covenant to be tortured mercilessly so that one already in the captivity of your enemy may survive in a slave camp?  Covert operations?  You seem to forget one thing, there is an involuntary party involved in this multi-year covert operation.  Would you allow an unknown mercenary to kidnap one of your soldiers and force them to take part in a covert operation under duress and endless torture to possibly preserve the life of another unknown mercenary whom has already been enslaved so that they may continue to endure their own torture?  If you could save your abducted soldier, would you really allow the unknown mercenary to take him against his will again, and with your blessing no less?  You claim that we see only one side of the issue, yet you are guilty of exactly the same thing.>

Ossanlin looks up to Terenia with his main eyes.  <We...cannot allow you to leave like this.  I apologize, and I am truly sorry for your situation.  I am being sincere.  I know your opinions on our species and most of them are justified, but those of us here do not protect only andalites.  We would not allow ANY involuntary controllers to leave without good reason.  In fact, we recently liberated a human controller from involuntary infestation.  We found her another host, a voluntary one, and she is on her way back to Earth.>

<We are trying to sympathize and we are trying to help.  All of us are trying to understand your situation and render assistance, yet you balk at every turn.  I do not lie when I say that you will NOT leave here without our help.  If you decide not to leave, then there is less of an issue.  I can assure you that if you do manage to get to your ship and escape the atmosphere, my Dome Ship which is in far orbit, will immediately apprehend you.  If you fight, your fighter will be destroyed and then no one will be able to save your sister.  Whether you want it or not, your only choice is to accept our help, or your years of work and suffering go to nothing.>  Ossanlin takes a deep breath, still with his gaze locked on the eyes of the andalite female inhabited by the human-nothlit.  <Now, why don't you come back inside.  Relax a bit, have a drink, accept our offer to help or not, it doesn't much matter...you aren't going anywhere.  I would like to help you, but the decision regarding our offer is yours.  Stay or accept our help, those are your options.>  Ossanlin continues to direct a level gaze in the direction of Terenia, one stalk-eye focusing on Alic, the other on Parker.

[Alic]

Tears formed in Alic's eyes and she blinked them away quickly. She tood up straight, but it was uncomfortable. "I know you don't agree... But think of what could come of this?" She wrapped her human arms around Ossanlin and whispered, "If i decide to do this, you must let me."
Alic decided she needed some water, these emotions of hers were starting to get overwhelming, and it wa smuch easier to show weakness as a human. "Let's go inside.."

[Shenmue654]

((Advice: Okay, so here's the deal. Any second now, Corliss is going to be inside the Bar with only Morgan and Keshin and Joanne. Whereas the previous fight would have been absolutely impossible for them to win, this one is looking a lot more promising. Now, there are two options. Either Keshin could reason that they're all going to return soon enough anyway and not attempt it at all, or Keshin will say "He'll be dead before that happens" and figure he can take a picture of the body (he's had to do that before, so he has the equipment for it) and get the hell out of there. But two crisises at once might be too much for the GESB to handle, and I'm not precisely sure what he'd do. What's your opinion, guys? :3 ))

[Gaz]

Morgan looked at the young woman who had spoken to him, then he looked back down at the picture.

"Yes," he replied, "Her name was Andromeda. You say she looks familiar? How would that be possible? She never traveled outside our universe, she couldn't."

Morgan looked back at Raksha and reached out a hand. "My name is Odysseus Morgan."

[Chad32]

(I forget if Claxter holstered his gun too, but I'll have him do it anyway. Two crises at once may detract from the drama of the first, but if it's in character for Keshin to do it then just take the chance. He's a bounty hunter, and who knows when he might get another chance.)

<Yes my Prince.> Claxter said and put away the firearm. Prince Ossanlin had the same idea he had, and had put it in better words. He might not have to fight Parker afterall.

Zoshonel was relieved. He relaxed his body a bit, though there was still a chance that a fight could happen. "You're a very sane man, Corliss!" He called after him.

[Terenia]

Terenia stood rigid following Ossanlin's speech. It was clear that this larger Andalite held authority over the others, even the non-Andalites. Her hands began to tremble as she realized that she had been shoved into a corner.

<So wait it out,> Efaen said, <Accept their help or at least enter the Andalite who wishes to risk betraying her people.>

<Dont be stupid, Efaen, didn't you see the way Alic and this Andalite interacted? He"d never allow it. We're out of options.>

<Just go back to the bar,> Efaen pleaded, <don't do something you'll regret.>

<What, go back so that theycan starve me outjust to free you? Render the last five years useless? I don't think so.>

Terenia pulled her Dracon from her holster and pointed it at the Andalite she thoght most likely to react with fear, Claxter.
<I do not want to hurt anyone,> she said in open thought-speak, het hand shaking <I just want to leave.>

((OOC: go for it. If a bunch of loud nooses comes from the bar it might serve as a distraction for Terenia to try and escape.))

[Shenmue654]

((There's also the very real possibility that one of the two characters would die, thus preventing them from existing in the Space Bar. Both are equally skilled with pretty much the same advantages and disadvantages (Not counting the bounty hunter's trump card, which is part of the reason they're still in business. But this is not something he would use unless desperate, because after the energy is spent it leaves Joanne wide open and quite ill.) I'd need everybody's permission before trying something like this, particularly Myitt's. :3  Although Terenia makes a very good point, and it would be pretty fun. XD))

[Chad32]

Claxter tensed up and took a step back when Terenia drew the dracon beam. He would have drawn his shredder, except he had been ordered to holster it. She was too far away for him to get to, and now he was the one without cover. Plus Parker would shield her if he charged.

Zoshonel also tensed up. He was the closest one to Claxter, and had his gauntlets to deflect the shot. Not to mention he could attack from a distance. "You can't." He said, in response to her saying she wanted to leave.

(Of course Morgan is there to hold Keshin off for a few seconds until someone dashes inside.)

[Shenmue654]

((That too. :3 This might work. : ) I'm gonna wait until Myitt gets back, though. Only common courtesy if you're gonna try and murder somebody else's character. XDD ))