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Post by Mikey on Nov 9, 2008 22:04:27 GMT -5
"Once a bandit always a bandit..." Jackie muttered, watching Poe disreguard the hospital and go into the alley and looking at the roof of the store. He shook his head and limped foreward, toward the large glass doors of the hospital. A quick push from his good hand confirmed that they were unlocked.
He walked inside and scanned the area with his gun, sure that all the rounds had replenished by now.
"Looks clear." He said to everyone outside. He surely hoped there wasnt someone hiding in here, or he would look like an a*s.
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Post by Reaper on Nov 9, 2008 22:09:58 GMT -5
With Gearfield's help she was able to moved down the street. She mostly rested against him, as he did the same with her. Her ankle was throbbing and bleeding from walking on it, but it didn't matter. She hard Poe say something about the hospital, and from her blurry vision managed to make out as Poe headed for the thrift store. She sighed a bit as she shook her head. "POE! GET BACK HERE!" she shouted and yet she couldn't believe how weak it came out of her mouth. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the button. Flipping the switches and pushing the button. "Now!!" she managed to chock out as she fell to her knees. She was exhausted beyond belief, and her ankle was worth more pain then she could believe.
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Post by Gunman543 on Nov 10, 2008 6:54:28 GMT -5
Gearfreid had been doing his best to keep steady, and help Xan as he went. He heard enough about a hospital and watched the blur of Poe go running off towards a thrift store. Gearfreid shook his head, but Xan yelled after him and fell on her knees, probably from exhaustion and pain. He got her one arm over his shoulders, and yelled for Ari or Jackie. "Get over here, and help me get her up please." He added please due to habit, but wasnt sure if he would be able to stand once someone got over there to help, but would do as much as he could to get her to saftey. "Xanthira, you cant exert yourself like that until the disease is taken care of." Gearfreid was honestly worried about her, and some of it showed in the way he asked, and he waited for someone to help him, and if no one did, he would do his best to get her inside.
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Post by therisingstar on Nov 10, 2008 6:56:36 GMT -5
“He’s been known for worse,” Ari said in reply to Jackie’s comment, still very aware she wasn’t completely accepted as part of the group and probably never would be. “Even at the orphanage, he had this reputation for doing all sorts of things that Reverend Abraham didn’t permit us to do… and that may sound like nothing at the moment, but things at that orphanage…” Ari shivered, remembering the power The Elder had had over them.
Jackie entered the building, cocking his gun and Ari stood outside the hospital with the philosopher and the angel girl. Poe was obviously looting all that was worth, pretty ironic considering he was ‘no longer a criminal’. Ari, deep inside, did have an admiration for the cat-headed fiend. “POE! GET BACK HERE!” the angel shouted all of a sudden, clutching a device in her hand before she fell down, utterly exhausted.
Panicked, Ari rushed to her. “Is everything all right?” she asked, in a breathy voice, realising how stupid the question was. She plucked the device out of the angel’s grip—it was surprisingly tight, and she had to pull harder than she expected to get it to budge. “What is this?” she asked, curious, giving the button another press.
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Post by JazzBuddah on Nov 10, 2008 12:09:55 GMT -5
The second Xan pressed the button Poe let out a yelp as the sound of electricity came from his collar. With a poof of smoke Poe changed back into his human form and laid on the ground shaking from the electric shock. "Okay okay! Jeez..I get it." He then stood up rubbing his neck. "Stupid collar." He then walked over and into the hospital. The first area that they passed was the gift shop. Once again the cash register caught his eye. Finally, after a bit of searching he found the pharmesy. It was gated off by a set of steel bars.
"Hold on, I'll be right back." Once again he transformed and walked passed the bars. After transforming back he looked through the shelves and pulled out several vials of pills. -4 bio-cure 2 poison cure- He then unlocked the gate and walked up to his diseased comrads handing them each a pill. "It says it should only take an hour to take effect. I hope you dont mind me taking medicin at least. After all, that too is technically stealing."
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Post by Gunman543 on Nov 11, 2008 6:48:09 GMT -5
"What are you talking about? I never saw you steal any medicine, you found it laying around and needed it for a greater cause, so you borrowed them without permission." Gearfreid took the pill, and sat down beside Xan, ready to help if needed, and did his best to keep an eye on everything as the medicine, hopefully, began to take effect and clear the symptoms.
(OOC:Sorry about short post, cant think of much to say.)
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Post by Reaper on Nov 11, 2008 15:02:34 GMT -5
Xanthira quickly took the pills as she leaned up against the wall. She sighed heavily as she looked at Poe with tired eyes. "Its different between stealing to help others and then stealing for yourself." She looked up at Ari with a weak smile. "An you helped us out greatly. I apologize for my actions back on the street, but I must ask you to please not stare at my wings. It makes me feel uncomfortable." She looked at the switch in her hand and then quickly pocketed it. "Poe if you behave I will not use it again. An Gearfield thank you for helping me." She sighed heavily as she leaned her head up against the wall.
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Post by JazzBuddah on Nov 12, 2008 19:33:32 GMT -5
Poe smiled. "Xan, you know theres more than one way to make a mans blood boil." He then laughed slightly as he straightened out his hair some of which was standing on end now. At the moment Poe was feeling drained. "I might need one of those drinks soon. Too much transformation." He then walked over to the window and looked out. "Well, they know we're here now. Worst thing we can do is just stand around." He then looked over at one of the medical beds and saw something missing. Sliding the materia port open the cure materia was missing.
"More missing materia." He announced to the others. He then checked the bed to the other side and found the same. "If this is the old gang...why would they leave the money and take worthless industrial materia?" He then looked back at Xan. "Is that stuff worth very much? I thought industrial grade materia was only useful in machinery." With that said a poping noise occured at the end of the bed. Upon investigation he found that the IV bag had popped and the liquid was now on the floor.
"Huh...that's odd." He said poking the water with his foot. It was then that every IV bag burst open droppiing the contents onto the floor. "And thats...." Suddenly the liquid began climbing up his leg. "Hey! Hey hey!" He yelled out. Before he knew it the liquid had crawled up over his face and was trying to drown him. Meanwhile, the six puddles on the floor rippled and formed into small mounds of clear liquid. All at once they started to shoot volleys of high pressure water at the group. Poe began grabbing at his face trying to tear the blob off of his face but his hands just kept passing through.
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Post by Gunman543 on Nov 12, 2008 21:31:36 GMT -5
Gearfreid hadnt had time to respond to Xan, when the blobs attacked. They were living liquids, which meant that, in theory, extreme heat could evaporate them. However, that could as easily kill Poe as the drowning could. He fought to remember more as he ducked another high pressure blast and put himself between the blobs and Xan, unconciously doing so, and put his gauntlet in a defensive position as he charged up a negative blast to strike at the nearest blob, or he may have to blast the one on Poe. "Xan, see what you can do to help Poe. Jackie, you and me are providing cover. Im not sure what these are yet, but Im trying to think of something, hopefully heat would evaporate them, but that is a lucky guess if it works. Just dodge and dont let them come into physical contact."
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Post by Reaper on Nov 13, 2008 16:50:39 GMT -5
Xanthira nodded as she stood up cringing a bit as she hadn't had time to heal her ankle, and unless they had ample time to sit down and rest she wouldn't be able to. Still she needed to help Poe, grudge or not he needed help or he would drown to death. She stumbled forward surveying the situation, and it almost seem like Poe was a cat trying to claw at a tree post. She put her hand write up to his face, but it was like there was no structure to the creature. It was like grabbing air, and she knew that she couldn't get it off his face. She studied the creature for a second knowing that she didn't have much time to act. Xanthira noticed that a bit of the watery creature was touching his collar. "Oh . . . right," she said as something dawned on her she searched threw her pockets until she pulled out the black box. She knew that when she collapsed that she had held it with a death grip. "For this Poe, I am sorry," she apologized ahead of time.
She reached to press the button and just about that time she felt something wrap around her arm. With a quick jerk Xanthira was pulled off her feet and the box slid to the wall. They couldn't touch the creature, but yet it could touch them. She tried forming a barrier around the water, but found that it just flexed around it. Xan cursed under her breath. She bit her lip as she tried to stand up, but was pulled back to the ground. Growing furious she knew that she had to get to the box. She stretched out her arm as the creature pulled against her other hand. Just barley inching her way there, her eyes glancing up at the struggling Poe. An with one last stretch she gripped the switch firmly in her hand, and without hesitation pushed the button. In turn she turned back trying to free her arm from the creature.
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Post by Mikey on Nov 14, 2008 4:28:22 GMT -5
Jackie back away slightly when he saw the small puddles forming. He knew right now that his gun wasnt going to do anything. A small peice of copper coated lead would do nothing but enter and exit the thing without even a loss in velocity. That made useing it a danger to his teamates as well. He certainly couldnt punch them with his metal arm. They would just travel up and do to him what they were doing to his comanions.
When the creatures formed and some started shooting jets of water at him, he ducked his hand down and put up his arm. The jet of water hit the fake limb, and stumbled him slightly, but his arm held against the onslaught.
After hearing what Gearfried said, he nodded and took aim. After choosing his shot, he fired once at a creature. The bullet passed through harmlessly, but it seemed to get its attention. Thats all he wanted. He fored another shot into it, and it started to move in his direction. Before he moved, he picked another shot and fired once. Again, it seemed like the thing took attention to him and moved after him. When the first started to get a bit close, he took a breath and blinked out of existance.
He reappeared at the other side of the room and, with the new angle, picked two more shots and took them. He wanted to get them all running after him. He was probably in the best position to evade them. And if he was taking the heat, that would give the others time to recover, and maybe Gearfried time to think of what these things were and what would kill them.
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Post by JazzBuddah on Nov 15, 2008 0:29:42 GMT -5
When Xan pressed the button the electricity from the collar spead with the liquid surrounding his face. He began shaking instantly as the liquid bust and disintigrated in the air. Still shaking Poe fell down into a chair. As Jackie fired away at one of the oozes, splatters of liquid flew in all directions. Although it appeared that a single shot had no effect, after a number of rounds the impact had spread the liquid so far the it splashed out and disintigrated. Shaking his head Poe woke back up. There were still a number of oozes crawling around on the floor. Looking at the entrance he spotted one leaping out at Ari. With a crack of his whip he sent a sonic attack that caused it to smack against the wall and splatter before dissapearing.
Now that the 'creatures' knew that the team was onto them. The oozes slimed into the center of the room and formed together forming one giant transparent blob. It rippled as it continued to grow larger. As soon as it had grown it leaned over forming a long arm. With one swoop it circled the room smacking each one of the team members hard with a wave of water before returning to the center of the room. In the very center of the blob was an ice blue solid orb.
With Gearfields knowledge of creatures and monsters he easily recognises this creature as a small water elemental. The weakpoint of the water elemental is the softball sized orb floating inside. If broken the elemental will fall apart. Xan's knowledge brings her to recognise the orb as a water materia. The trick about water materia is that it is unstable and as such is surounded by a cystalized shell which is tough to crack. Certain elements weaken and crack the shell such as freezing it, heating it or electifying it.
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Post by Reaper on Nov 17, 2008 12:58:49 GMT -5
Xan stifled a cry as she hit the wall. Several of the instruments fell from the wall striking her wings as they did. Xanthira's wings were probably the most sensitive part of her body, and even the slightest touch could either hurt or stimulate her. She looked up and her eyes caught the center of the creature. She sighed a bit as she looked around the room. Her eyes falling on Poe's collar, but yet she didn't want to take it off. No after what happened before she was far from trusting him on running away. No she had to find something else. "Jackie, ready your gun," she said as she moved across the room.
She ducked under another blow that put a whole in the wall. Xan gathered herself enough to get back up on her feet, and move to the electronic defibrillator. With all luck it would have enough charge to do some damage. She flipped on the defibrillator to make sure it had just enough charge to it to do damage to the outer shell that was protecting the materia. "Water materia, easily given away by the faint blue color surround by a thick hard shell. We destroy the shell them more than likely we destroy the creature. Jackie when the electrical current stops flowing threw the creature, open fire on the orb in the center. Keep firing until the shell cracks," she explained as she grinned about the object she was working with.
Xanthira flipped the defibrillator on to 360 joules and the loud humming sound was evident threw the paddles. "Everyone clear," she shouted as she held the paddles in one hand. They sparked as they touched each other. When she turned to throw the paddles, the creature lashed out grabbing her left wing just as her hands let go of the paddles. It didn't take long for the water to amplify the electrical charge in the paddles, and as the creature seemed to cry out Xanthira screamed. She jerked back from the creature her wing seemingly coming out easer, but she collapsed to the floor as she clutched her wing to her tightly. She laid on the ground trying her best to stifle her tears, but the pain that coursed threw them was to much even for her.
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Post by Gunman543 on Nov 25, 2008 16:45:04 GMT -5
"Jackie! SHOOT THE ORB IN THE MIDDLE, WHILE ITS DEFENSES SHOULD BE DOWN, ILL DISTRACT IT!" Gearfreid was tired from the exertions he was going through, and didnt bother with any negative charged shots, instead clawing at the creature, pulling away before it could start to assimilate him and he yelled at Poe to help Xan any way he could, and he continued to lash out at the creature, not worried about his personal saftey and was more worried about the others than himself.
(OOC: PLease dont let this thread die out)
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