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[Terenia]

((It's totally Kelly's choice. I love Keshin/Joanne as characters at the bar - it adds a lot of interest and possible plot development, having a bounty hunter on hand that is as unique as them. Kelly's choice, though. Terenia wants Keshin dead, Teach does not. ))

As soon as Keshin collapses, Terenia realizes that her Dracon was on stun rather than kill. With a wordless yell she launches herself at Joanne's fallen body, fully intending on finishing the job the hard way. Her assault is abruptly halted, however, by Corliss, who seems to appear from nowhere and grab her.

"Let - go!" Terenia screams in high-pitched fury. She wiggles her human body, trying to free herself from his grasp, disregarding any other person who may be speaking to her. Her finger is still dangerously close to the trigger of her Dracon, but she barely recognizes the weapon, trying instead to physically force herself away from Corliss.


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Tamora laughs harshly. "My sister only does favors for herself. I doubt she would help me, unless there was something in it from her. Something good enough to make her listen to me. Seems doubtful, seeing as I tried to kill her off not an hour ago."

She ****s her head slightly, looking at Cody, "Although if she did not know I was involved, if she thought she was only doing a favor for you, perhaps she would be more obliging."

[KitsuneMarie]

Satisfied that Myitt is unhurt, Tora watches her go. She seems unperturbed by Terenia's outburst and Keshin's collapse outside the ship, however, merely moving to the top of the ramp to watch the scene with her arms folded across her chest.

At the sounds of clanking behind her, she twists her torso to watch Salem. "What are you doing?" she asks, turning to face him, suddenly worried that her friends might again be in danger.

[Shenmue654]

((So the general consensus is that Joanne and Keshin's weirdness and bounty hunteryness is fun for plot development purposes and that the players don't really want them dead. Chad is also right in that them staying would be unlikely for a lot of reasons. Hmn. However...the current situation will...probably demand some intervention.  So I'm not sure yet, but we'll see where this goes. ; ) That's the way of the Bar, after all. By the way, tell me if what I know about Yeerks is correct here. ))

Joanne by this point looks really pretty sick. It wasn't as clear when she was holding a gun to Myitt's head for obvious reasons, but is pretty evident now that she's dead unconscious. Joanne's expression looks incredibly stressed as she clutches her own heart in her sleep, squirming on the ground. Joanne apparently hasn't shot up nearly enough to stay stable for long, and the unexpected extreme physical stress has made it much worse.

Although Keshin is quite clear-headed while inside Joanne, he is aware that they are dying. Since he cannot contact the other members of the Bar, all he can do is try to calm Joanne and wait for the end. He has failed in a pathetic and ignoble way, and it pains him. But he will not leave her to die alone.

[Myitt]

"Calm down, Terenia!" Corliss grits, struggling to hold her back.  "This won't help.  Listen to me!  This won't help anything!"

Myitt frowns down at Joanne, feeling in her uniform pockets for anything remotely like the syringe of medicine they need to survive.

"They're dying," she says matter-of-factly, "so Salem, if you care about them so much, you need to get them their medicine right away.  As in, five minutes ago.  Otherwise..."  She shrugs, backing off while Joanne writhes in unconscious pain.

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Salem found what he was looking for- a tiny white vial. He held it up so Tora could see and said with a sneer, "Not for you." Without asking, he knelt and snatched the hologram generator away from Joanne's writhing body, causing her appearance to return to that of herself. He then took a deep breath and depressed vial into her shoulder, releasing the contents into her bloodstream. The nanites within were the closest thing he had to a cure-all, and would spread throughout her body and work to repair and regulate it as best they could. Even so, it would likely only buy another few minutes.

He turned to Corliss, who was still struggling with Terenia and said, very calmly, "either get her out of here or sedate her. You won't be happy if I have to do it."

He tried to think. Joanne needed medicine. There were rebels aboard his ship. Keshin was surrounded by enemies. As far as he knew, they had no reason not to kill both Keshin and himself on the spot, save for Myitt and Ossanlin's agreements that Keshin would survive. His head hurt. He wasn't about to leave Keshin alone in this crowd, but the medicine was aboard the bounty hunter's ship. Did he have something...?

He walked back into the ship and to the center of the room, where he touched the chair he'd been sitting in earlier. The chair disengaged from the floor of the ship and began hovering. He dragged it over to Keshin, intending to lift him into it and bring him to his own ship. Except...

He looked at Myitt as he bent down and struggled to get ahold of Joanne's writhing body. "Any chance you know which ship is Keshin's?"

[Chad32]

"Alright. I'll make sure to leave out the part where we teamed up." Cody said. Now if only he knew where in the bar Terenia was. "What say we go somewhere less conspicuous."

(That seems right to me, Shen.)

[KitsuneMarie]

Tora raises her eyebrows in surprise and a little amusement in response to Salem's curt answer. She turns again to watch him administer the drug, only stepping off the ship and down the ramp when the chair began hovering off the floor.

She cannot hide her interest in the mechanics of the ship, however. It is unlike anything she has ever seen, and she is itching for the chance to have just an hour or two to inspect it. I wonder how difficult it would be to steal... she muses, the trauma surrounding Keshin and Terenia barely catching her notice.

[Darth Revan]

The Director smiled coyly, "Your little plan sounds interesting. I'd like to see how it plays out. Just don't count on succeeding. These Andalites don't seem stupid in any way. Especially ones that don't trust you to begin with."

[Chad32]

"Yeah, we need an advantage somehow." Cody said. "What do you say, Director? Can you help us out?"

[Myitt]

Corliss glares back at Salem, furious, still trying to hold Terenia back.

"I can narrow it down to Bug fighters that aren't mine," Myitt says, waving up her holoscreen and tapping at the air.

[Darth Revan]

The Director shook his head while still smiling, "No, I've done all I can. I'd rather not anger the centaurian with a scythe for a tail. You have fun though."

[Chad32]

"Yeah, thanks anyway." Cody said. That was just great. Doing this probably made things worse than before, as they had snuck out of the bar. What were they going to do now? He had a bugfighter. He could leave the planet. But then what? He stared at the ground, dee in thought.

[Gaz]

"How are we on not being detected?" Gaz asked. "Having the shuttle not be shot at would be amazing. The Pride will be around if necessary, but I would rather they not be shot at either. CG ship is just slightly better equiped."

The CG ship was coming into view of the shuttle and they would be there soon. Gaz flexed her fingers and loosened her neck to get ready for what was coming.

They'd get the Captain, Asda and Fletcher out of there one way or another.

[Terenia]

"Yes - it - will!" Terenia cries out in between desperate lunges for freedom. She cannot pull away from Corliss' stronger arms, and eventually squirms her body around so that she is facing him.

"He tried to murder me, Corliss!" She screams in his face, "He blew my ****ing arm off! Half this bar has been chasing him around to take care of him and then you just let him go!? What is wrong with you people?" She ends her tirade by jamming her knee upwards towards Corliss' crotch.

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"Yeah, good luck with that, Cody," Tamora says with a sigh. She looks at the ship dismally, "This sucks. Zorish would know what to do..."

[Myitt]

"It looks like--" Myitt starts to say.

Corliss yelps in pain and surprise as Terenia's knee slams into Mike's nethers.  He crumples to the ground.

Reassured that her brother is uninjured, besides his pride, Myitt continues.  "It looks like there are three other fighters within half a mile," she says flatly.  "No idea whose they are, or if they're still running."