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No Turning Back [Sci-Fi Space RP]

@Lo Pellegrino Declan enjoys getting blitzed as much as the next guy. He'll join in if he's able.

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@Sovi3t Declan needs to stay in shape if he's going to be running around patching people up...

No Turning Back [Sci-Fi Space RP]

<Snipped quote by Raxacoricofallapatorius>

Don't forget Firefly Season 2 finally premiered on the same week Half Life 3 came out.

@vosenedich

Half-life three was released by the preserved cyborg brain of Gabe Newell a week before we left on the ARK. Firefly Season two was created because the ghost of Joss Whedon was tired of people summoning him and begging for Firefly season two.

The Royal Guard, this time with Airalin!

"I'm hardly a 'Brave Warrior,' just a half-noble bastard with a gun and a knife." He sighed. "To be perfectly honest, there are better options out there, but I'm the cheapest one. Plus, a lot of these people are distrustful of newcomers. If they see you with someone they've worked alongside, like myself, you'll incur a lot less suspicion." He was going to say something else when one of the bar-goers stumbled towards him. Alek recognized him. His name was Owen, they used to be co-workers. From the looks of things, Owen was well and truly drunk.

"Aleksander!" He slurred. "Wait. That is you, right Alek?"

"Yeah, Owen." He said, inflecting his voice in order to sound less-than-sober. "How are you." Owen looked from Fyaira to Alek with a knowing smile.

"Worse off than you, apparently." He laughed. "Alek, you cheap dog. How could you take a nice lady out to a place like this?"

"Times are tough, friend." He looked at Fyaira with his best fake-drunken smile. "Now if you'd excuse us, things were about to get interesting." Owen laughed and walked away. When he was out of ear shot, Alek cleared his throat with a slight blush. "My apologies. Now, if you accept my offer, follow me. I've got a plan." Without waiting for an answer he briskly walked towards the door of the establishment. He stepped outside and cringed when he realised that a few of the drunks outside were singing a tune about the way the kings head rolled about on the floor.

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Declan was nervous, as he was wont to be when he wasn’t needed. At the moment, no one was bleeding out, and no one was dying. Except, of course, for the poor bastards on Mars. He couldn’t help them, though. No one could.

He decided to abandon that train of thought. Things were grim enough without worrying about what he couldn’t do. It was high time he started to worry about the things he could do, which at the moment was a limited list. Still, at least there was a list.

He paced around his room. He had organized his books. He had memorized the ship’s map. When seemed as though he had exhausted the limits of what he could do in his quarters, he moved to the nearest medbay. It was an impressive space, with all the bells and whistles he expected of the Vitae. You couldn’t expect to preserve humanity with cheap medical supplies. He couldn’t fathom the cost of all of this, the medicines, the operation space, the tools, everything was top of the line. He supposed that, in the grand scheme of things, all the money in the world paled in comparison to the human race. Still, as one who had grown up without a lot of it, the amount of money required was dizzying to think about. He left the medbay and began to pace the hall outside of it. Before long, his mind began to drift.

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It had happened so fast. He had been talking with one of the Serpentis’s other crewmembers, he remembered. An Ensign. She was the girlfriend of one of his friends, trying to get him to come out with them to a pub once they landed for leave.

“Come on!” She said fervently. “It’ll be fun! Besides, I need someone to keep Jack from getting too crazy.”

“No one can keep Jack from getting too crazy.” Declan laughed. “‘Too crazy’ is kind of his thing.”

“Please?”

“I can’t, I have shit to do.” He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “Why don’t you go bother my sister, she’s your friend too, right?”

“I did and she said the exac-” She was cut off by a massive boom. The ship shook violently, and Declan lost his balance, hitting his head on the floor. This turned out to save his life, as a pipe super-heated and burst right next to where they had been talking. The air was filled with steam, and Declan noticed that his ears were ringing. Blood was dripping down his left ear. He wrenched open his eyes and noticed that she was on the ground too, but she had a large piece of shrapnel through her neck. Declan stood up as another explosion reverberated through the halls.

He stumbled numbly towards the Ensign. He checked her pulse through the wrist and it told him what he already knew. She was dead. He sprinted away from her body, towards where his sister was. He practically fell down a set of stairs and turned a corner. He watched as his sister and a group of engineers from the lower decks ran down the hall towards him. Another explosion, this time further down the hall. The fireball enveloped the engineers and a shockwave threw Declan a good twenty feet. He didn’t remember much else. Apparently, he had made his way to the upper decks and started treating some of the many, many wounded. He survived that day, somehow. He came out of it with a promotion, a medal, and a letter of cordial invitation aboard the Vitae.

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He snapped back to reality. He needed to stop feeling sorry for himself, he decided. Twice, he had cheated death. Twice, he had lived while others had died. He had to do something with his life, right? He wasn’t so nihilistic as to believe that life was completely meaningless. There’d be people to help, eventually. Until then, there was nothing to do but wait.

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@Sep Post incoming.

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@Sep Just to be clear, there are still people who weren't lucky enough to be on the Arks left on Mars, right?

Empire of Bones

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Edwyn Cenric

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Edwyn's mouth had twitched when he read the flyer, the ghost of a smile. Money, adventure, a righteous cause, the flyer had practically sung to him. The tavern where they were to meet wasn't even too far away, maybe a few days travel by foot.

Of course, if I succeed in this, I'll be able to afford a horse.

Now, as approached the Mountain Tavern, that phantom smile had graduated to a full face grin. He was in need of money, in need of some decent travelling companions, and, most importantly, in dire need of adventure. The promise of all three had been practically mouth-watering. Now that he was, perhaps a few hundred yards from the tavern, his heart began to flutter. He stopped for a moment, taking a drink from his waterskin. He decided he should double check his gear. He wouldn't want to be looking unprofessional around the others. Of course, that was exactly what he was, but they didn't need to know that, did they?

So, he polished his sword and double checked the buckles on his armor. When he was certain that all was well, he bounded towards the tavern with a smile on his face.

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I made Declan a bit older so that's he's a bit closer to everyone else. I think he's still the youngest character, though.

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@Sep I presume that Farraday would act as a nurse or a medical assistant of some sort during non-emergency situations so that he isn't idle most of the time?