[IC] Blood Compact: Magnus's Reign

[User]

the car switched a gear and sped up, the slow purr of the engine as it drove the city streets, the kick back as he drove past the solider base. he honked his horn to show he was finally here.

[akje]

Cedric scratched his head and gave Scarlet a confused look. "Well.. ah.. SOLDIER is this military group a humans that have been fightin' the steady rise a vampers fer decades now.
It's all out war... An their encampment is less than a few hundred meters down tha road." He pointed, how could she not notice.
A car horn honked in the distance. "I heard that noise, I assume ye heard it too. How can ye not know of the camp right there?"

[User]

he wound down the window and lent out holding the horn as he did "will they ever come out" he sat back down and put his brown coat on and shut the window. "i cant wait any longer" his hand was still on the horn

[FoxFireOfDawn]

"Huh, I'm with a different force to those two. I'm against both, I guess. I don't understand how the leader of ours came up to rebel from the vampires. I forget stuff like this easily, sorry." Scarlet replied, scratching the back of her head.

She then heard a car's horn and gave a puzzled look. "What's going on over there?" She mumbled.

[User]

char;es tutted and got out the car. he shut the door with a clonk and walked up to the suspected base. he had his pistole up and was shining a torch. he got the entrancwe and stepped in "its me, im here for my debriefing"

[akje]

"A 4th party eh? Intresting, I wasn't told about any of this." Cedric pondered aloud.
He then leaned forward and asked nicely. "Tell me then lovely, who are ye friends?"

[User]

"anyone here? ill shoot!" he walked siletly throgh the buzzing corridoor. "i wont hurt you"

[FoxFireOfDawn]

Xerc patiently waited and allowed for Scarlet to speak out. Best to jog up the memory for the others before acting. "I'm only a member, nothing more or less. The leader is called Xerc and her helper is Tabea...I'm guessing you know one of the two main sides well." She replied.

[User]

"guess its dererted, " he put the gun away and jogged to his car. he swithced it a gear and drove down the road honking the horn as he went

[akje]

"I know of both, and I'm here to speak ta SOLDIER on behalf of a 3rd party. I'm a diplomat."
It was clear in the way he said it that Cedric liked his new title.

[User]

the car sped up, it pulled into the rotting vine covered remains of a city. he drove for a bit before spotting a man talking to a women in some building. he stopped the car and honked the horn. "anyone there friend?"

[Wraithblade6]

Expressionless, Mithias listened to Stein. The human's mind seemed to show no emotional response to Mithias' accusation of heartlessness or acknowledgement of the vampire's admission of his secret wish to preserve him. Instead, Stein jumped directly to the matter of project Armageddon. This written copy of Stein functioned like a program. Was there never more to him than this? Perhaps, the real Stein was indeed dead, having taken any pathetic remains of his human soul with him. Mithias let his hopes sink with the weight of that reality. There was no redeeming or remaking Stein; he was gone. Mithias would just have to work with the cold code that had been imprinted in his mind as if it were merely another bank of data. Such a loss.

"Then I agree, she must be stopped." He turned to look at the flames on a group of candles stacked against the stone alter-like formation. "We will go back to Terebithia. You will convince BIOPilot to cancell the protocol for world destruction. Your mind and memories will be extracted from my brain, then... I will be killed." The vampire looked at him knowingly. "However you knocked me out, I am sure you can do it again, and as long as I am aboard your ship, I am regrettably at your mercy... of which, you have none. I know you would do it." Mithias looked away, seemingly agitated as he struggled with acceptance. He ran a hand through his hair habitually. Sighing, he continued. "There is still a chance, however. Martin knows of your plan, and the command to search the nuclear facilities of this country has already been given. Whatever you had setup will be discovered and undone very quickly, so even if you refuse to confess it to me now, Armageddon very likely will fail. Consider what then I might do to you... How long would Terebithia last in the skies before she runs out of resources, out of drones, out of weapons? I tell you, her days would be numbered. So tell me, Stein. Tell me how to stop Armageddon. Tell me why Terebithia is harvesting blood, and perhaps then I would take you to her to stand her down and save her existence. Neither of us wants the world to end."

[FoxFireOfDawn]

"Interesting. Do you think I'll be able to come along with you? I'm interested and wish to see for myself now." She replies, now hopping up and down on the spot, smiling.

[akje]

Cedric thought about this for a second and decided that it was probably a stupid idea to enter the SOLDIER encampment alongside a vampire he didn't even know.
But then again, it'd be very interesting.
"I dinnea see why not. I was just goin' ta deliver a package to SOLDIER"
He got up and picked the package from the ground, it had gotten wet from the snow but he didn't seem to care much.
After readjusting the axe on his belt to hang comfortably he gestured Scarlet over and walked up the small hill so he could see the camp.
Or what was left of it at least.

[thewizardguy]

Stein outright glared at Mithias, as he saw the obvious flaw in his plan. He wasn't used to being in a position of disadvantage, and the very idea of someone threatening him was gut-wrenchingly humiliating. He was a master of science, and it was him that did the threatening in these situations. However, even furious, Stein could not deny the logic behind the conclusions that Mithias had pulled. Moments later, however, his face resumed it's usual smirk. "You have no idea what you're doing, child. You do not understand the sheer complexity of that which has been laid out before you. If what you say is true, then Terebithia has already prepared itself. It will only gather blood in order to prepare to kill either Gabriel or Martin. Based on Gabriel's usual absence from the scene, that means that your friend is about to discover just how much I want to kill his daddy. Perhaps if he's as strong as he thinks he is, he'll survive long enough to give me the information I need."

Stein was not one for games, but, having lived his own death, and being reduced to a mere string of code in the subconscious of some lousy vamp had given him a new perspective on the world. Perhaps he'd gone a little insane, lost that small bit of his mind that kept him tethered to reality. Or perhaps the experience had simply distanced him from the objectives he had wished to complete, the goals that had once been his. Or perhaps, the act of bringing back the dead, the ability to use science to resurrect that which had been lost, had elevated him to the godly status that no man should possess. Perhaps the world, in his eyes, had been reduced to nothing more than a plaything, to be tipped and thrown and watched. "An AI which seems to be completely and utterly autonomous, in a world where AI has never reached such a stage, demonstrating pychic capabilities beyond that of even vampires. An assassin without thought or emotion, acting as an AI, with a deeper and darker side that has been forcefully suppressed. The recreation of a vampire from DNA, cloned in a tank. The gathering of enough blood to feed an army."

Stein laughs loudly, his eyes opening wide as his arms are spread. With wild abandon, he stood up from his chair, even as the vast cavern shakes under the tumultuous assault of Stein's now jumbled thoughts. "The puzzle pieces are yours! Think, my dear boy, think! What is Heaven's Greatest Weapon? Who is the Demon Shadow? And what, really, have I created?" Stein laughs, even as, like flakes of pain, the stone crumbles from the walls of the cavern. And as they fall, what is revealed is a burning hell. A plain covered in corpses, as thousands of drones, like demonic insects, float above the battlefield. Thousands of vampires lie dead on the ground, as the Terebithia floats through it all, it's hull scarred with hundreds of holes. Fire leaks from it's windows, and slowly, it crashes to the ground. And in the center of this maelstrom of chaos and death, six wings spread behind it, floats the Seraph. Surrounded by a circle of lesser angels, the creature flies high above, in it's hand a blade stained red with the blood of vampire and human alike. On the ground, demons beyond comprehension feed on the corpses, slaughtering anything that yet lives. Utter and complete annihilation, as the forces of both Hell and Heaven are released upon the world.

[FoxFireOfDawn]

"This is going to be fun~ I might even make a personal appearance at this rate. But first, I desperately wish to know how everyone's doing. Good job, Scarlet." Xerc giggled in Scarlet's mind. But she simply ignored it and followed after Cedric, now curious about the package. "I'm not going to do anything to you. Anyway, I always have animals as a snack, not humans." She said, choosing not to ask about the package.

[akje]

Martin's mind buzzed trough the network of psychic links pulling out all the stops.
All the things that occupied him ran simultaneously trough borrowed synapses spanning from kilo point to the flying warship to Canada.
It was busy work constantly rebuilding the network, repairing gaps from loss of space. Every time a life ended a link was broken and memories needed to be redistributed.
From time to time a sliver slipped trough the net and a memory was lost for ever. Minor details usually. It still pissed Martin off, this was foolish and pointless and impeding his growth! He'd need to find a way to end this madness so he could return to his studies.

As his thoughts jumped from mind to mind, developing with new insights after each leap he stumbled upon an anomaly.
Following the hierarchy of his network he found Cedric and from there jumped to Scarlet. A human and a vampire, while both strong personalities were not what drew his attention however. It was the strand of psionic power he found that caught it. He found a link on both that lead to another mind.
He found many more links spring from this mind, clearly this was the source, pulsing with psionic power.
A new player on the board maybe? Out of interest Martin decided to say hello.

"̢̀͡ I am the one who listens, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. "̸̶̴͠

[FoxFireOfDawn]

While Xerc was controlling and sending messages to Scarlet, plus searching, but not touching the memories of Cedric, she sighed with boredom. Nothing was worth reading into and picking at, to eventually destroy, but she pushed on. She had long forgotten why she had started this in the first place, why she chose to hide herself and only now appear again. Those were only distinct memories that were in a sea full of others. They would all eventually be destroyed. While she was thinking about this, she was disturbed by someone who held the same power as her, or she held the same power as this person. Either way, it's something to keep herself busy with.
"Hm~ Nice to get a guest who's just as annoying as the spineless, hollow husks who roam here and only think about war and death. Nice to meet you, now shoo."

[User]

"fine dont respond" he got back in the car and booted it up. he started driving out within a few minutes he had got to the end and exited the city.
the car chugged along until it arrived at a small forest. he smiled "tradition" he said to himself, he honked his horn and lent out the window "anyone there?" he wasn't expecting a response but tradition demanded it

[Wraithblade6]

Mithias' cave crumbled away, revealing the scene. Mithias stood agasp. Over decades, Stein had orchestrated a grand and terrible plan, not to end the world, but for the primary purpose of killing Gabriel. The level of depth and power that would have to be called upon for such a thing... Stein literally had to open the gates of Heaven and Hell. Mithias took a few steps into a clearing amid the bodies, staring open-mouthed at the seraph above the wreckage of Terebithia. The floating warship wasn't what they all had to fear, it was that angel-like creation of Stein's and its entourage. The resultant destruction of the world was merely an unavoidable side affect, a worthy price to the mad scientist.

"You..." Mithias trembled. He never did well with scenes of massive death and destruction. "You couldn't have! You monster!" Mithias crumpled down. He knew Stein wasn't bluffing. He never laughed when he was lying. Distraught, and pained by the fact that he had to give in, the vampire answered, "I will go, as you wish. Please, stop this. Please don't let this happen." Mithias knew he had no guarantees that Stein would do as he said, that he would not kill Mithias or the rest of his family in time, but with protocols snowballing into the release of heaven's greatest weapon and the destruction of the world, what choice was left?