[img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/42f9091c-9a7e-4b53-b23f-8cf5000bcf28.png[/img] [center][b][color=goldenrod]"Can you not wax philosophies right now??"[/color][/b] [color=gray]- Finnegan Vanhorn[/color][/center][sub][center][i][color=red]Corruption:77%[/color][/i][/center][/sub] [hider=Post Banner] [Center]13 | Male | Gemini | Clockwork Soldier Atropos | Greatsword | Arcane | Stopped-Clock Illusion Clocksmith's Jacket | Industrial Chronometry | Lightning | Overclock [Paralysis (4), Speedster (4)] Damage (2), Damage X (6), Slow (4), Blink (4), Restrain (4), Minor Heal (4), Heal (16), Quicken (0), AoE (2), Major Heal (18), Stabilize (0), Purify (6) DAMAGE: B | SPEED: C | SENTINEL: C | 1000 [color=silver][Silver Projectile][/color][Restrain][Damage X][AoE] = [color=red]- 252[/color] MP PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: C | CHAOS: D | 612[/center] [/hider] Once again the Timekeeper had found himself engaged in combat away from everyone else. A most ironic danse macabre. But for once, he saw no issue with it. He did force the ghosts to split in half after all. For what good it may do, it'd at least give everyone else less to manage. In the corner of his eye he could briefly see the other half surging to attack Cerise, [i]specifically[/i]. If these things were drawn to light, would lightning result in the same effects? What could he do here? The machine wouldn't have much time to think. The train was coming up onto the city itself now, where destruction and ceaseless carnage were expected, everyone was met with... Nothing. Peace Train was just vibing along through the streets. [color=goldenrod]"Huh!"[/color] There was actually nothing to worry about after all. ... Oh wait. Elroy was still an issue. Finn could overhear the Immortal Volcano's high-and-mighty grandstanding, questioning why GEMINI would go after an apparently peaceful (Hah.) behemoth instead of the actual threat. [i][color=goldenrod]Asides from the crap weather these things are causing?[/color][/i] He sarcastically thought to himself. Of course [i]he[/i] didn't know. He was just doing his job, following the strings of fate that wrap around him like a hanged man's noose. But Elroy can't really think he knew more than the rest of them, right? Then Finn heard Ashley's response. Good fucking god, were they [i]all[/i] acting on whims here?! Taking a brief window of opportunity, Finn snapped a bolt of lightning to hold the ghosts back while he thinks. [color=goldenrod]"What are any of us doing at this point? So, Peace Train is, shockingly enough, peaceful. That should be great! But if Ashley's right, there's the chance this thing'll go berserk and that'd be the fault of the Freelancers' head honchos for enabling it. On the other hand if Elroy's right then we're fighting a pointless battle in which either information has been purposefully omitted or this is clear negligence from the higher ups. But fuck if I know, we don't even know why it's even..."[/color] Finn's eyes widened as he thought outloud, keeping himself clear from the edges of the train. His eyes remained on the ghosts in case his melody worn out and they continued attacking him. [color=goldenrod]"The freelancers are trying to save Peace Train and [i]yet[/i] kill Crazy Train, but the two of them are bound to run into each other soon enough, right? Are [i]we[/i] trying to impede that? Is it a bad idea to kill one train but let the other live? If that's the case, either [i]both[/i] will need to die to ascertain minimal causalities,"[/color] The Timekeeper readied himself to strike at the ghosts again, more out of self-defense, and so he can stall for time. [color=goldenrod]"Or we need to let whatever comes happen. No one's gonna agree on anything, so I'm just gonna test some theories while they argue. Hope that's alright with you, gents?"[/color] It was probably bad that he was rambling to a bunch of ghosts that were trying to kill him, but his standards were low enough.