Cruallassar

The Final Hazard

Kael bristled at Hiecro's words, though he carefully kept the evidence of it absent. They didn't have much of a choice in the matter, just because they could probably beat the two knights didn't mean that it was a good idea to do so, all things considered. Maybe her boss would be willing to give him some answers. And hopefully she would put herself in the way of something lethal at some point...well. At any rate, the pavise shield was a bit large for him to carry with him...but it was also his only method of protection, so he'd have to just deal with that. Maybe the knight ally, Fortune, might be able to use it better.

...Kael had armed himself with her fallen comrade's crossbow and pavise.

@Terminal

Kael also takes a moment to grab the crossbow and ammo off the dead knight...the crossbow for strange, inexplicable reasons he can't really put to words, but the crossbow bolts because such ammunition seemed more effective than his own arrows. Of course, no telling how they'd work on that armor...but still, they can't hurt. He slips the crossbow onto his back, sliding it behind his quiver, while the bolts he puts under his belt easily to hand. Then he groups himself up near the others. He has no idea what a slug is...but he remembers the method of the knights' arrival, that might have been one. Glancing over at what appears to be his spiked, dead body, his feeling of unease grows...it sure would be nice to know what's going on...

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@Terminal

Kael starts to go catch the disoriented mage, but stops when the other beats him to it. Looking back at the knights, with his shield...somewhat lowered, he says, "Alright, we go with you, you keep your helmets off the whole trip, and we get some answers on the way...like who the hell these other people you keep mentioning are, why someone wants to kill us, so on. Does that seem fair?" Trust was not present...but then again, what choice did they have? Might as well try to figure out which enemies needed killing the most, then kill them...

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<Snipped quote by Aeonumbra>
You shall know me by my many signs and symbols.

My nature shall be unsounded from vacuous truths. My essence rendered from a mill of worlds. My heart tendered through malign bargaining with an odoriferous and invidious rhino. The nebulous courses of my pretense can be distilled using the seeds of Amaranthus Caudatus. My vestiges may be salvaged from the severed fingers of a bidental priest caught in the wiring of a burnt piano. My foibles subsumed in common geodes, unearthed, stolen, then buried. My husk sewn through the commingling of many councils of winged centipedes.

Alternatively, I may be induced to appear via sketchy promises of gift cards.

@Terminal

-takes notes-

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@Terminal

Kael peered up over the shield gingerly, his weight balanced to make for easy movement. He still wasn't convinced that the danger had passed...he'd thought that when the other car arrived, and later when the shield-bearing knights did, and just look what happened there. First, he quietly spoke in the direction of the idiot with the arrow to his own throat. "I don't know about you, but I'd rather get some answers before I trust these peoples' infirmary...and would you please put the weird arrow down?" Then, as the others started talking about talking like civilized people and not fighting, he calls out to the rest of the assembly, "I won't try to kill anyone if you people don't, I just want a fair chance at learning what the hell is going on, and I'd be happy to answer questions in turn...BEFORE I get into any more strange carriages with strange friends, strange enemies, strange unknowns, and incomprehensibly strange things being said!"

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<Snipped quote by Cruallassar>
<Snipped quote by PlatinumSkink>
If we can get another mistaken gender flip directed at one of the seven passengers this will have all the makings of an anime.

@Terminal

...

...

I don't know what strange anime you watch, but nononononononononono...

On another note, knights in armor don't really look that different, no matter what gender they are...
-shamelessly tries to excuse his completely accidental yet equally valid mistake in a logical fashion-

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Some slight clarification on word choice:
Fallen = Hit, compromised, getting knocked out of the way of a crossbow bolt, throwing herself to the side out of the way of a crossbow bolt, otherwise endangered to the point of potential perceived immobility or inaction.
In this context, specifically, in the POV of Kael.

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@Terminal

Kael feels the prick behind him, taking half a moment to glance uneasily at what appears to be his own dead body...what? But that mystery could wait. The fallen knight had dropped his gear in falling, and if it could stop the shots that Donna had fired at them, it might be able to stop more than that. More importantly, they had also used the shield to control the lightning globe, and on top of that, they had two friendlies down. Kael dived for the knight's body, passing the other friendly that was now...threatening his own life in exchange for sparing the hostiles? As he grabbed the shield and raised it on his arm to cover himself and screen the two fallen allies, his bow in his other hand, he looks over at the guy with the arrow to his own neck. "Um...hey, I think we are a bit more worried about saving our own necks from them over saving your neck from yourself. I don't even know what a 'biometric pass' is!"

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<Snipped quote by Cruallassar>

As long as we are pointing fingers: While Doc did establish the branch that killed you due to establishing a context where Amelie did not raise a redirection orb, you had and failed to grasp the opportunity to save Kael's life by only responding with the Kael in the branch where she did react. If you had replied for both Kaels - perhaps describing how he had dodged/whathaveyou in the alternate branch - he might not have died.

Interesting extenuating fact: You also explicitly responded to both branches at once in your post by having Kael react to both the redirection orb and Donny's gunshots. This created a minor paradox that was resolved by merging the two branches, creating the third pavise knight as well as transporting a Kael corpse into the current contextual reality.

I hope you are all taking notes.

@Terminal

I was trying to resolve the pre-existing paradox by merging the two realities myself in having the gunshots occur, but without my death, before you could do so otherwise. Apparently I failed. Though...if I may ask, how exactly did such a thing create a third knight?

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...Doc Doctor, you killed me.
And yet, I am still alive.
Note to self: Arrange your death in some manner.
It will totally be a mistake. :p

(JK...probably...)

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<Snipped quote by Cruallassar>
Oh, it has been noted. Rest assured. :E

As long as we're mentioning things like that: The Police Knights are not wearing visored helmets.

<Snipped quote by Terminal>
Decisions, decisions. So much to work with.

@Terminal

...oh.

Bugger.

Well, arrows punch through plastic better than through steel, and they punch through normal steel plate armor just fine.