Nevada Log 01-28-11

<Sound_Only> The carrier plan continues its return flight to NERV-02, carrying the Nephilim and their shaken pilots. You'll be landing soon, now might be a good to time talk together in private.
* BSChurchill stares out the window
* Sebastian_G sits by himself, near the back of the carrier, behind some cargo.
* Isabel is huddled in in a chair, staring down at the ground with a bewildered expression.
<Kyle> Kyle sits by a window, staring out of it.
<Safara> "..."
* Safara looks at her co-pilots, all staring mindlessly.
* Safara calmly applies palm to face.
<BSChurchill> "what do we tell them...."
<Safara> "The truth. We fought an Angel with...strange abilities."
<Kyle> "An Angel brought the dead Nephilim back to life and then vanished with the entire facility."
<Kyle> "Course, that first one is less likely to be met with odd looks."
* Isabel mumbles "It was all just a horrific blur.."
<BSChurchill> "I mean what are we going to tell them to avoid having to face psychological discharges"
<Sebastian_G> "Considering what we have dealt with previously, I doubt they'll think we're deranged.." He peeps up from behind the cargo.
* Safara gives Sebastian a soft look. "He has a point."
<Kyle> "I agree. Plus, considering the entire facility is gone now, with no real trace of how it vanished... The Angel with strange abilities story should work fine."
<Sound_Only> With a shudder the plane starts a slow, circling descent toward the base.
<BSChurchill> "right... we have seen too much of the bizarre to have them to expect a normal report"
<Isabel> "So.. what do we tell them..?"
<Sebastian_G> "Whatever you remember happening." He shrugs.
<Sound_Only> "We've begun landing procedures and will be touching down in ten minutes. Please fasten your safety belts." The pilot advises over the comm.
* Sebastian_G gets up and moves over with the rest of them, buckling himself in.
* BSChurchill sighs
<Sebastian_G> "You get a chance to look over any of that stuff you found?" HE looks at Churchill.
<BSChurchill> "not really...."
<Kyle> "Think you will get a chance to after you turn it in?"
<Sebastian_G> "Who wants to bet it all disappears?"
<BSChurchill> "i have an idea... but i need a camera or a cellphone"
<Safara> "...I don't think we should hand that stuff over."
<Kyle> "Sure, here you go." Kyle says as he walks up to Churchill, offering him his phone.
* BSChurchill takes the phone and starts taking pictures of each document then crumples each one up in turn
<BSChurchill> "we are going to need someplace to secure the memory card"
<Isabel> "what do you mean?"
<Sebastian_G> "You don't think they're going to be suspicious if you give them nothing?"
<BSChurchill> "in case they decide to check the phone... they won't find anything as well as checking us for any.... hidden documents... but seeing as you all were supposed to be in your cockpits...."
<Isabel> "Just give them the paperwork and keep the phone?"
<BSChurchill> "give them the crumpled pieces of paper i just tossed on the floor?"
<Kyle> "Umm... one thing I feel the need to ask. I imagine our engagements in the Nephilim are recorded for various reasons, but what about audio?"
<Safara> "..." That's an excellent question, Kyle...
* Sebastian_G looks out the window to se how close to landing they are.
* Safara picks up one of the documents, uncrumpling it and reading it over with one eye.
<Sound_Only> "We will be landing soon." Comes the announcement. Indeed, looking out the window, the base is getting closer.
<BSChurchill> "any ideas... because I don't even know if they have voice recorders installed"
* Isabel sits quietly as she watches the others in debate
<Sebastian_G> *shrugs* "Copy what you can, stuff it somewhere safe. Hope for the best.."
<Isabel> "Its probably best to just give them bits of what we have so they have -something-. Then we can go over all we've collected without them.?"
<Kyle> "Well... we have to make a decision. Either we risk withholding the documents, or don't. Either way, we don't mention the ones on the phone, and look through them later."
<Safara> "They can have this one." She waves the document idly.
<BSChurchill> "oh?"
<Safara> "It's a roster. Dead and live people, I think."
* Safara starts again, handing the paper off to someone else, hurrying while the plane made a landing.
<BSChurchill> "any others?"
<Sebastian_G> "I've got none."
<Sound_Only> The screech of rubber can be heard, the cabin shaking as the plane touches down and, eventually, starts its taxi underground.
* Safara murmurs, "Zene..."
<Sebastian_G> "Huh?"
<Sound_Only> Only a dim light illuminates your space as the plane is taken underground into the lower reaches of the base.
<Safara> "Um, nothing."
* Safara stuffs a sheet into her plugsuit, lying it flat against her skin.
<BSChurchill> "everyone ready?"
<Sebastian_G> "Yeah."
<Sound_Only> The plane comes to a stop and there's silence. After a few moments the hatch opens.
<Kyle> "Yep."
<Sound_Only> The men from S2 come in and look to you.
* Safara looks up slowly.
<Sebastian_G> "Either of you guys got a sandwich?"
<Sound_Only> They stand on either side of the exit and just...wait. They must want you to leave.
<Sebastian_G> "..."
<BSChurchill> "lets go children"
* Safara stands, chewing her lip and taking the lead.
* Sebastian_G sighs, stands up and heads out.
<Kyle> "Right." He says as he stands, following them out.
* BSChurchill heads out
<Sound_Only> Once off the plane the two men go about searching the general area you sat in. Waiting for you down the walkway leading away from the plane waits the Sub-Commander with more S2 Agents.
* Sebastian_G heads over to them with hopeful wishes of sandwiches, limping slightly.
<Sound_Only> She has her hands clasped behind her back, looking as serious as death. The men with her are spread out enough to block you from advancing past them.
<BSChurchill> "yes ma'am?"
<Sound_Only> She holds out one hand. "The information you managed to gather."
* BSChurchill hands her the crumples papers"
<Sound_Only> With an irritated look she eyes the papers. "Anything else?"
<BSChurchill> "other than the fact the whole facility vanished.... no"
<Sound_Only> "What was the cause of the disturbance?"
<BSChurchill> "an angel"
* Isabel mumbles "angel.." She followed up behind them.
<Sound_Only> "I'll be expecting a full report from you Churchill. But first." She snaps her fingers and S2 Agents decend upon you Churchill.
<Sound_Only> They start to pat you down and search you while two others hold you still.
<BSChurchill> "what no dinner first?"
* Safara frowns, visibly biting her tongue.
<Sound_Only> Looks like one of them just took your tablet computer, Church. They move away back toward the Sub-Comm. " See to it Pilot Gray is taken to the infirmary."
* Sebastian_G frowns.
<Sound_Only> Her gaze meets yours Safara. It lingers...she turns on her heel and leaves, agents following her.
* BSChurchill just shrugs having anticipated something like this
* Safara bristles, baring her teeth once she's gone.
* Sebastian_G grumbles to himself.
<Sound_Only> What now pilots? You've seen horrors no one should have to face and returned only to be met with indifference and, briefly, hostility.
* BSChurchill mutters "this is no way to treat heroes.... especially when they constantly are saving your world"
<Sebastian_G> "Yeah, that dinner at least would be appreciated.."
<Kyle> "I wouldn't expect it any time soon, however."
<Isabel> "Maybe we should just go out for pizza.."
<BSChurchill> "pizza and beer for everyone then?
<Safara> "Church, we can't drink."
<BSChurchill> "who is going to tell.... last party we had the vice commander brought you guys a six pack remember"
<Sebastian_G> "And I have a date with a nurse!" He pats his chest proudly and then winces.
<Safara> "Don't get excited, Seb. Let's go."
<Sound_Only> Days pass without much word from NERV in terms of your last mission. They have no intention of acknowledging what happened there, but why? It should be clear that NERV is hiding something, now more than ever. You have, at least, been set up with new accommodations. An apartment near the top floor of a reinforced building used by NERV VIP's. Your stuff is even there waiting for you.
* BSChurchill stares out the window
<Sebastian_G> "Well, this is better than the hotel at least."
<BSChurchill> "right"
<Kyle> "Beats staying at the base too."
<Safara> "Churchill." He gets a tap.
* BSChurchill jumps "yes hun?"
<Safara> "That name you asked me about. Why?"
<BSChurchill> "the last name just seemed rather familiar thought you might recognize it"
* Sebastian_G occupies himself looking through his random belongings, which are very sparce.
<Safara> "...It was Zene, wasn't it?"
<BSChurchill> "yes"
<Safara> "Not exactly common, is it? Someone...someone worked for NERV..."
* Isabel wanders around the new place and makes her way over to Sebastian, nodding to him and  speaking quietly.
<BSChurchill> "yeah"
* Isabel whispers "You remember when we went wandering down where we weren't supposed to..? You ever wonder if maybe its a bit similar to what we saw this time?"
* Sebastian_G looks around then whispers back to her "Yeah.. that's not something I was going to forget. Am I just crazy, or does the Commander remind you of that ghost with all the wires and shit?"
<Safara>4"I have to know more about this, Church. You're Operations Director, don't you have special clearances?"
<Kyle> Kyle sits with a book in hand, his eyes and gaze centered towards the open book, though considering he's been on the same page for quite a few minutes, his focus seems to be somewhere else.
* Isabel blinks a bit and almost pales at the thought. She whispers in return. "I.. I guess.. Do you think maybe we should try to go down there again..? maybe what happened to them is going to happen to us.."
<BSChurchill> "some but my access is not exactly transparent"
* Sebastian_G ponders for a moment. "Maybe. Hey you remember that picture I found in the Cap's office too? That weird looking kid?"
<Safara> "...Don't do anything that'll get you in trouble. But if you could help..."
* Isabel whispers "yeah..?"
<BSChurchill> "it would be good for all of us"
<Sebastian_G> "You uh, seen anyone like that lately?"
<Sound_Only> Churchill, your phone is going off.
<Isabel> "yeah.. what do you think of that? whats it  mean?"
* BSChurchill answers his phone
* Safara stuffs her hands into her pockets, wandering to Kyle.
<Sebastian_G> "Nothing good." He shrugs with a frown.
<BSChurchill> "whats the news?"
* Sebastian_G looks around a bit more at the others, and seeing them occupied puts an arm around Isabel and pulls her closer whispering right in her ear.
<Safara> "Hey. If you stare any harder it's going to catch fire."
<BSChurchill> "we will be right there"
<Kyle> "Eh? Ah... Perhaps. Guess I wasn't in as much of a mood to read as I thought. Well, at least this anyways. Can't really read what has my interests for the time being."
* Isabel eyes widen slightly and she leans in to whisper in return.
<Safara> "The documents?"
* Sebastian_G continues the hush hush whispering.
<Kyle> "Yeah. They're pretty interesting, though lacking any other references I can't really make as much sense out of them as I'd like." He says as he closes his book and turns to face her.
<BSChurchill> "is that all?"
* Isabel and on with the whisperin
<Safara> "I bet. We'll start digging as soon as we can." She gives a pointed look at the door, expecting S2 to say hello.
* BSChurchill hangs up "ok everyone.... fieldtrip time"
<Kyle> He nods as he follows her look. "Well in any... Oh? A field trip?"
* Sebastian_G gives a slight shrug to Isabel and lets her go.
* Safara lifts an eyebrow at what everyone else was up to. Talk to the bookworm and people start making passes... "What's up, Church?"
<BSChurchill> "the doc wants you guys to see a new experiment"
<Sebastian_G> "Eh?"
<Kyle> "Oh? Sounds interesting."
<Safara> "...Alright, fine."
* Isabel slumps a bit in her seated position, seemingly lost in thought.
<Sound_Only> After a lengthy drive and some difficulty navigating to the proper department, you arrive to one of what must be a hundred similar rooms. You're in an observation bay, the dark room light up by lights and computer screens.
<Sound_Only> Doctor Aoba waits for you, the Japanese woman missing her bars, but wearing a lab coat now as part of her uniform.
* BSChurchill smiles as they arrive
<Sound_Only> The windows are black, denying you a view of what waits in the room beyond.
* Sebastian_G quickly scours the room for a seat.
* Safara folds her arms, electing to stand.
<BSChurchill> "good afternoon doc"
<Sound_Only> "I'm glad you could make it. This experiment will be important to the future of Project E and your Nephilim."
<Sound_Only> "If this is successful, your Nephilim will no longer require umbilical cables, or the N2 reactors."
* Sebastian_G finding a seat, he sits down.
* Isabel keeps her distance from the viewing window, taking a seat quickly
<Safara> "..." That gets her attention.
<Sound_Only> "What do you know about an Angel's core?"
<Sound_Only> She's looking right at you, Kyle.
<Sebastian_G> "It tastes like strawberries."
<Kyle> Kyle also elects to stand, nodding to the Doctor. "That would be useful, yes... The Core? Hmm... it's like the brain and heart of the Angel."
* BSChurchill listens in
<Sound_Only> "They also allow it limitless energy and its adaptive capabilities."
<Kyle> "It is also home to the Super Solenoid Engine... yes, which grants that, though to be honest I'm not sure on the specifics of it."
<Sound_Only> She turns around and approaches a computewr panel, pushing a button. The shutters slide up, revealing a silver Nephilim secured to the wall with metal bracing, its core exposed. From here, it looks a lot like an Angel's Core.
* Safara catches her breath. The last time I saw one like that...
* Sebastian_G frowns looking at the Nephilim.
<BSChurchill> "things yet unattempted in prose or rhyme"
<Kyle> Kyle blinks as he looks towards the Nephilim, a sight that was beginning to appear too familiar for comfort.
* Safara takes a quiet step back, turning half-away.
<Sound_Only> "Using the unexploded cores recovered from your battles we've managed to create a synthetic form of the S2 Organ, and will be introducing it to this core."
<Kyle> "I see... but as the Core can function as a brain, isn't there a chance of the Angel taking control over the Nephilim then?"
* Isabel flinches and gets to her feet, stepping back a little toward the doorway.. taking all of her to keep herself from running from the room.
<Sound_Only> "No, as I said this is synthetic and will in theory only allow you the same limitless energy of the Angels."
<Sebastian_G> "And what happens if one of them escapes with this limitless energy?"
<Sound_Only> The few other members of the science team inside the room are giving off looks to Safara and Isabel.
<Sound_Only> "We don't expect that to happen."
<Sebastian_G> "I bet you don't expect a lot of things." He mutters, a bit too loudly.
* Safara swallows hard.
<BSChurchill> "stand back they are about to commence science"
<Sound_Only> There's silence. A lot of it. Eyes are on you Sebastian. "Is there something you want to say, pilot?"
<Sebastian_G> "Yeah, I think it's a bad idea."
<Sound_Only> "Noted."
<Sebastian_G> "And you're not going to have to be the one to clean up your own damn mess if it goes wrong."
<Sound_Only> "Start the experiment. Introduce the S2 organ into the Nephilim's core." She turns her back on you. You're just a pilot, not a scientist.
* Isabel folds her arms and attempts to stand in a relaxed position as she watches in silence.
<Sound_Only> What follows is enough science mumbo jumbo and technical terms to choke a college professor. They're monitoring it closely.
* BSChurchill watches knowing if it works it would change how operations are run
<Sound_Only> "S2 organ successfully introduced." Someone says. "Uh...ma'am."
* Safara grabs her arm, clutching tight enough to turn her knuckles white. "We have to go."
<Sound_Only> "We're reading activation signals from the Cage. All of the Nephilim are reading awake."
<BSChurchill> "hmm?"
<Sound_Only> "That has to be a mistake. Continue the experiment, remove its umbilical."
<Sebastian_G> "This is not good...."
* Isabel grits her teeth and scoots back towards the door. "No.. don't do it.."
* Safara grabs Sebastian and Kyle. 4"Now!"
<Sound_Only> Klaxons start to wail. "We're reading an AT Field, Blood type blue! Double the strength of others we've detected!"
<BSChurchill> "safara........"
<Sound_Only> "What?! Where?" The Doctor demands.
* Sebastian_G gets up at being grabbed.
<Kyle> "Awake? ... If that's the- ah!" He begins to say before being grabbed.
<Sound_Only> "It's...it's directly above the base, ma'am..."
<Sound_Only> For one surreal moment heads tilt back, eyes lifting to the ceiling.
* Safara jerks the boys, towards the door.
* BSChurchill runs after safara
<Sound_Only> "High energy signal detected! It must be a-"
<Sound_Only> Pilots.
<Sebastian_G> "I can move on my own!" pushes her hand away and follows after her.
<Sound_Only> Your heads swim, your bodies give out and the world goes black.
* Isabel turns and flees out the door
* Isabel but apparently doesn't make it!
* Sebastian_G promptly falls face first into the floor.
<Kyle> "Okay! I get it! We're leav..." Kyle starts, but fails to finish as he blacks out mid-sentence.
<BSChurchill> "safaa........."
* Safara lands with a particularly heavy thud, which she would happily blame on the boys near/on her.
<Sound_Only> How much time passes? How long do they spend on the floor? Well, at least they're waking up...
<Safara> "Ngh..."
<Sound_Only> The room is still dark as it was, lit only by the flickering computer monitors. Even the room beyond them has gone dark.
* Sebastian_G mumbles as he pushes himself up. "..and two dozen pancakes."
<BSChurchill> "where am i?"
<Safara> "Who's alive?"
<Kyle> "Ugh..." Kyle groans as he slowly stands himself up and glances around the room. "Well... I take it the Angel missed then... I seem to be alive."
<BSChurchill> "i'm as alive as i think i can be"
* Sebastian_G wipes some drool from his mouth. "I'm here."
<Sound_Only> There's another figure with you in the room, it must be the doctor the way shes practically connected to the computers. The swearing in Japanese might be another hint.
* Safara stands up carefully, looking for the thus-far silent Isabel.
<Sound_Only> Somewhere in the distance, someone screams.
* Isabel would be laying slumped against the wall, ever so close to the doorway. She grunts a bit as she sits up slowly, looking around in confusion.
* Safara bolts upright, ears straining for a direction. 4"Oh no. Oh nonononono."
* Sebastian_G moves over to the doctor. "What happened?"
<Kyle> "... What are the odds our Nephilim have finally managed to wake up their will and are annoyed at being used like puppets?"
* Isabel mumbles "Its happening here now isn't it.."
<Sound_Only> "It's an Angel." The doctor says.
<Sound_Only> "Classification Archangel." She shudders.
<BSChurchill> "an angel.... now? should we scramble?"
<Kyle> "Angels have classifications?"
<Sound_Only> "They do now."
<Sound_Only> She sighs and hangs her head.
* Safara shoots for the door, not much interested in the conversation. Cages, cages, cages...
<Sound_Only> The door doesn't open.
<BSChurchill> "check the access panels safara"
<Kyle> "That sounds rather... well, bad honestly when put that way."
<Isabel> "What is it doing..? Why aren't we dead then..?"
* Sebastian_G peers through the glass at the dark room that had the Nephilim in it.
* Isabel finally gets to her feet
* Safara punches at it, before following Churchill's suggestion.
<Sound_Only> "If you'll all gather over here, I'll try to explain the situation."
* BSChurchill paces
<Sound_Only> "You don't...want to go out there just yet."
<Kyle> "... It isn't those smaller, Angel-like creatures like that one time out there, is it?"
<Sound_Only> "None have been detected, but most of the sensors are down."
* Isabel stares at the japanese woman, waiting for an answer.
<Sound_Only> She turns to the cumputer and started typing. "Most of the system is down and there are no communications. The information I have is spotty."
* Safara leans against the door, shaking in the dim light.
<Kyle> "Spotty is better then nothing."
<Sound_Only> An image comes up. Its a view of outside the base. Something at looks like a black Evangelion is seen, which thick white bands around its body.
<Sound_Only> "This is the Angel, these images were taken just before its attack."
<Kyle> "It looks... very similar to our Nephilim."
<Sound_Only> "It may have been mimicking them, yes."
<Kyle> "Certainly possible, yes... Considering their defeats, a watching Angel could have decided to morph into a form similar to our Nephilim I suppose..."
<Sound_Only> "The problem is where we are now."
<BSChurchill> "interesting"
<Sound_Only> "You see, we're...inside of it."
<BSChurchill> "wha"
<Kyle> "... That... Yeah... That complicates things... a lot."
<Safara> "Ins...ide...that explains..."
<Sound_Only> "The Angel managed to expand its field and invert is, creating what I can best describe as a Dirac Sea. An extra-dimensional space. Part of the facility has been damaged. Out there is...space. Much like outer space. On gravity, no oxygen, infinitly large."
<Sebastian_G> "So what do we do?"
<BSChurchill> "fuck"
<Sound_Only> "We've lost power in most areas, and personnel were likely killed before the system could lock us down."
<Safara> "...How much of the facility did it take? The cages?"
<Kyle> "... The Nephilim you were preforming the experiment on. What's its condition?"
<Sound_Only> "It's taken the entire facility."
<Sound_Only> "The Nephilim from the experiment is dormant."
<Safara> "Dorm--that's impossible!"
<Sound_Only> "It's shut itself off for the time being, which if fine."
<Kyle> "Alright. Can we reach our Nephilim safely? And if not, can this one be piloted?"
<Sebastian_G> "So... what do we do?"
<Sound_Only> "The Nephilim is picky about its pilot...it's off limits."
<Kyle> "Even if the other choice is being digested?"
<Sound_Only> "Theoretically it's possible to reach the Cages."
<Sound_Only> "The decision is the Nephilims, not ours."
* Sebastian_G walks over to the door and sits down, seeing as he's just going to be ignored.
<BSChurchill> "do we have a portable air supply?"
<Kyle> "And as for what to do... an AT Field if an extension of will, yes? All we'd need to do is have a greater will to live, hopefully, and counter it's field."
* Safara touches Sebastian's head, since she was over there anyway. She's still shaking.
* Sebastian_G looks up at her from the floor and pats the ground beside him.
<Sound_Only> "You'll need to reach the Cages, you need the Nephilims AT Fields. But it won't be easy."
<Sound_Only> "I don't know whats waiting out there for you. A Dirac Sea cares nothing for time or space."
<Sound_Only> "There is oxygen still, and the facility is large enough it'll last us a while."
<BSChurchill> "if you are willing to follow.... I will lead and even if we fail... at least we will have tried"
* Safara slides down to sit with him, arms around her knees. 4"Don't talk like that, Church."
<Kyle> "Trying beats not trying and being digested by an Angel."
* Sebastian_G gives her shoulder a good squeeze, but remains silent.
<Sound_Only> A tremor shakes the floor beneath their feet, coming from somewhere far off.
* BSChurchill looks at safara "I'm scared... i admit it so.... I am trying to bolster us all"
<Sound_Only> The base in clearly in chaos around them. What will you do?
<Kyle> "Hmm... Captain, you were in a special suit during our last assignment. Do they store all kinds of suits like that in this base? Perhaps we could get some... scuba gear or something, anything with oxygen tanks?"
<BSChurchill> "they would be in an emergency supply closet"
<Sebastian_G> "Maybe some weapons."
<Safara> "Alright. Let's hurry."
<Sound_Only> As you spill into the hallway you can already tell things are bad. Only orange emergency lights illuminate the hallway.
* Safara braces, checking the hallway. "Store Room's...this way."
* Sebastian_G leans down, pulling a knife from his boot.
* BSChurchill pulls out his side arm
* Isabel scrambles along, her fingers clutching nothing but air as she silently wishes for her big guns..
<Sound_Only> Another tremor shakes beneath your feet.
<BSChurchill> "is that your stomach sebastian?"
<Kyle> Kyle quietly follows with the group, silently pondering for any other possible solutions to their predicument.
<Sebastian_G> "If only."
* Safara keeps the lead, fist clenched, peering around corners and deep into the dim light ahead.
<Sound_Only> Something above rumbles. Louder, larger.
<BSChurchill> "does anyone have the time?"
<Sound_Only> A massive arm comes crashing through the ceiling, easily the size of an EVAs, maybe bigger. Sadly...Sebastian is right in its path.
<Safara> "SEBASTIAN!"
<Kyle> "Proba- Ack! Sebastion!"
<Sound_Only> Sebastian, your brief life flashes before your eyes as the hand crushes you, and as it disappears back into the darkness only a crimson smear remains.
<BSChurchill> "nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
* Isabel shrieks as she plasters herself against a wall, staring down in horror at the smear that is left of sebastian.
<Sound_Only> As much as you'd like to mourn him, that big hole is now sucking out the oxygen in the hallway out into the void. You'll sufficate if you linger too long. You need to make it to the other end of the hallway and close the blast door.
* BSChurchill struggles against the vacuum
* Safara fords the way, holding her breath reflexively.
* Isabel tries her best to keep herself against the wall as she follows after safara.
<Kyle> Kyle trudges on, eyes glancing towards the hole that the arm had come through
<Sound_Only> The blast door needs an Ops Director's card and the air is getting thin.
* BSChurchill swipes his card
<Sound_Only> The blast doors close, sealing you off from the vacuum.
* Safara catches her breath, dropping to her knees. "Sebastian..."
<Sound_Only> The only good news you can take from this, is that you've emerged right near the store room you were looking for.
<BSChurchill> "we have to continue.... for him safara.... the rest of our family has to survive"
* Safara drags herself back to her feet, and into the Store Room to dig for air tanks.
<Kyle> Kyle simply nods and looks around the store room for the air tanks they had come for.
* BSChurchill follows and helps search
<Sound_Only> You find hazard suits with full tanks, flashlights and rope.
<Sound_Only> Better make sure those seals are tight. One leak in a vacuum and you'll explode inside your suit like a blood sausage.
<Safara> "Conserve your oxygen."
* Isabel follows with the others, gathering the needed supplies and equipping themselves. Her eyes dart around at the others. "what.. what was that.. the arm..?"
* BSChurchill suits up
<Kyle> "I'd guess either a Nephilim's or an Angel's... guess being inside an Angel is less safe then expected."
<Safara> "Does it even matter?" Her voice chokes, and Isabel gets a hard look.
<Kyle> "Sadly..." Kyle mutters as he begins to get into the suit.
* Isabel speaks in a harsh tone."Yes, to prevent it from happening again??"
<BSChurchill> "check your seals and secure yourself to a buddy"
<Safara> "Let's just get to the Cages. ...wait."
<Kyle> "Wait? What else should we be doing aside from reaching our Nephilim?"
<Sound_Only> Another tremor.
<BSChurchill> "i would think security would be able to show us which ways are clear"
<Safara> "This Angel made it all the way to the facility. It -has- the base. The Angels are after something--something in the base, so..."
<Isabel> "maybe after the experiement? since they showed up at such a nice time..?"
<Safara> "No, it's older than that. A place deep in the base. I don't...know anything specific. Like if the Nephilim can reach there."
<Kyle> "Even if we reach it... what could we do with it ourselves?"
<Isabel> "older..?"
<Safara> "...I don't know. But it'll be no good if we all go down there and get killed. I...I have to know what's down there. You two...Churchill...you have to get to the Cages, and see if you can stop this...thing...I'll join you if--when I can."
<BSChurchill> "if you say so... and safara....."
<Kyle> "... How long of a side trip would this be, time wise?"
<Isabel> "How far down..?"
<Safara> "It's deeper than the Cages. Deeper than anything, I think. The last circle of Hell. I wouldn't risk you guys.--Church?"
<BSChurchill> "be careful.... i don't know what i would do if i lost you"
<Isabel> "yeah cause.. splitting up is a good idea right now.."
<Kyle> "It isn't safe to go alone... Well, not like any of this is safe anyways. At the very least none of us should be alone, so... I'll go with you."
<Isabel> "I've been down pretty deep in the base with s.. well i went down there.. I dunno if its what they are looking for.. I don't even know what all we saw.. but it WAS dangerous.."
<Safara> "Isabel can't fight this thing on her own. You heard the woman, this is...this is something even worse."
<Kyle> "If you want to go that route, then you'd be the better choice to help her then I. I've little to no experience fighting an Angel head on."
<Safara> "We're running out of time! Go!"
<Isabel> "What are we going to do?? try and destroy it before they get to it??"
<Safara> "Yes!"
<Isabel> "f-..fine.. but we don't  have the access to get down there do we??"
<Safara> "Everything's down. If I'm lucky, there's enough holes to get there. Like I said, I have to try."
<Sound_Only> The hallway you came into continues on for some ways. The lights overhead are working at least.
* Safara bites her tongue, bolting for the Ninth Circle.
<Sound_Only> Up ahead though, you can see something wrapped in a tattered old blanket.
<Sound_Only> The form is humanoid, not moving.
* Safara skids to a stop, throwing her arms out.
<BSChurchill> "careful...."
* Isabel would be hurrying behind safara and also skids to a stop, eyeing the object warily.
* Safara creeps a step forward, extending her hand...
<Sound_Only> ...nothing...still not moving.
<Safara> "Let's...let's try to go around..."
* Safara slides her foot. Iiiinch up against the wall and past...
<Sound_Only> The form is lifeless. From the top of the blanket you can see some black hair sticking out.
* BSChurchill shudders as he goes by
<Sound_Only> Another tremor rolls through the facility. The body shifts, the blanket falling away.
* Isabel seems a little frozen in place as her eyes stare at the hair
<Kyle> Kyle follows after, hugging the wall all the same, but his eyes freeze upon the black hair for a moment.
<Sound_Only> The lifeless form is Isabel, staring up with blank eyes. She's naked, and clearly died of starvation.
* Isabel lets out a shocked shriek as she stumbles back a few steps, her hands running cross her body, checking to make sure she was still there..
<Safara> "Kyle, hold her steady."
<Kyle> "Right..." Kyle says as he turns back towards Isabel, placing a hand on her shoulder. "It's alright... Just a hallucination, like a mirage... just the opposite of a hopeful mirage unfortunately... Either way, we'll get through this, I'm sure."
* Isabel would be breathing heavily now as her body trembles as she stares in horror at ...herself. "its...its.. thats.. the future.. its.. thats.. I don't want to starve to death! Oh god i'm already dead! Am.. am I a ghost.. now..?"
<Safara> "Isabel! Stay with us!" Let's put it behind us...
<Kyle> Kyle places a hand to her face and gently turns her to face him. "You're not dead, you're not a ghost. If you were a ghost, could I touch you like this, or vice versa? This is just a trick of the mind, nothing else."
* Isabel stares at Kyle with wide eyes "I..I  don..don't know.."
<Sound_Only> As if to make things worse, the lights go out.
<Kyle> "Well I do know, so just trust me for now, okay?"
* Isabel whimpers in the darkness and starts to shake even more as she struggles with herself to just flee..
<Sound_Only> With a flicker the lights come back on...and Churchill is gone.
<Safara> "Churchill!"
* BSChurchill grabs safara's shoulder
<BSChurchill> "safara i'm right here"
* Safara leaps into the air, away from whatever grabbed her, and whipping around.
<Kyle> "How... The Captain too..." Kyle mutters as he shakes his head. "Okay..." He takes a breath and looks to Isabel. "Unfortunately, we don't have the luxery of time here... I'm just asking that you trust me when I say we'll find a way through this... somehow. But we have to continue forward, as it's our only path left..."
* Isabel only answers with a whimper.
<BSChurchill> "what are you talking about i'm right here kyle"
<Safara> "..." Safara wraps her arms around herself, and takes the lead again. 4"How many..."
<Kyle> He then moves the hand from her face and offers it to her. "Now let's continue... So as not to let them go in vain..."
* Isabel takes his hand firmly
<Sound_Only> Ahead you can see a sealed blast door. It blocks the most direct path as part of an emergency lockdown. Going around it will take time.
* Safara lifts her head, chewing her lip. "If this sealed, there must be void behind it. I don't know how much." She turns to face the other two.
<Kyle> "Are there any ways around it?"
* BSChurchill listens
<Isabel> "We should flee!"
<Safara> "There are byways, but...it's a long path."
<Kyle> "We're this far... we can't go back until we reach the end. Otherwise... The Captain would be... But anyways... Long huh?"
<Sound_Only> There are a few ways to open this door, but what waits beyond it?
* BSChurchill knocks on the door
* Safara jumps, stumbling away from the door. "Fuck--someone's on the other side?"
<Kyle> "Well... does that mean it's safe enough on the otherside? Well... aside from whatever is knocking."
* BSChurchill knocks on the walls now
* Safara bristles, turning circles. "It's moving."
<Kyle> His eyes follow the movement of the sounds. "I wonder what it is..."
* BSChurchill knocks on kyle's head
<Kyle> "Geh!" Kyle shouts in surprise as he takes a quick step backwards, reaching around with his free hand. "What just... hit me?"
<Safara> "...It's invisible. And toying with us. I'll see if I can get this door open. Be ready with your air, just in case."
* Safara wanders towards the bulkhead's panel, looking it over.
<Kyle> "... Right. Well, toying is good I suppose, in this case."
<Sound_Only> There's a card reader and a panel for punching in codes.
<Safara> "Damn. Wish we had--mmf." Let's pry the code-panel off and work there.
<Safara> "It's no good. We'll have to go around."
<Kyle> "Okay, let's move then."
* BSChurchill slides his card
<Sound_Only> The machine beeps as if a card had just been scanned through.
<Safara> "Wh-"
<Kyle> "Eh...? Maybe... an error due to the randomness of power and such? Either way... a lucky break."
<Sound_Only> The doors haven't opened yet, its waiting for a code.
* BSChurchill punches in the code
<Sound_Only> The blast door opens to reveal another hallway beyond.
<Sound_Only> In the distance, another blast door.
<Safara> "..." A brief sigh of relief. "Whatever it is, it's helping us, now."
<Kyle> "Any aid is welcome."
* Safara strides forward, towards the next door.
<Sound_Only> As she approaches it splits open.
* Isabel inches along the wall as shemumbles to herself. "Ghosts.. all ghosts now.."
<Sound_Only> Suddenly you realize...Churchill is following behind you!
* Safara shudders, a creeping feeling traveling up her spine before she sees the source. "Church-"
<BSChurchill> "safara?"
<Safara> "You're okay!"
* Safara throws her arms around him. Maybe Sebastian's...
<BSChurchill> "yeah why wouldn't i be.... you guys were ignoring me"
<Kyle> Kyle continues forward at Isabel's pace, gently squeezing her hand. "It will be alright, I'm su- Captain? Captain, you're alive?"
<Safara> "Ignoring--you disappeared!"
<BSChurchill> "did not i've been here the whole time"
<Kyle> "No... after the lights went out, you were gone, Captain."
* Isabel actually seems a bit relieved as she offers churchill a weak smile.
<Safara> "It-it doesn't matter, now. Let's be thankful, and keep going."
<BSChurchill> "right"
<Sound_Only> The only way to go from here is through a door. No indication of what the room is, though.
<Kyle> "Yeah... all just tricks of the mind. So... onwards then."
<Safara> "Open this one, too, Church?"
* BSChurchill does so
<Sound_Only> The rooms beyond is lit in the same orange emergency light, but it seems off somehow. The light is bending at impossible angles.
* Safara plods forward, trying to ignore the lighting. "Ergh..."
<Sound_Only> Safara!
<Sound_Only> You knock into something. Then something else. You run into another object, none of which you saw!
* Safara hisses, stumbling with each impact. "It likes invisible things..."
<Sound_Only> As you approach the door, you hit a wall.
* Safara yelps, rubbing at her nose and pawing at the wall.
<BSChurchill> "this isnt the right time to work on your mime act"
<Safara> "There's a wall here." She walks one way, then the other, feeling it.
<Sound_Only> You feel out along the walls, avoiding more obstacles until you find the door, ha!
<Safara> "Bastard..." And. Open!
<Sound_Only> The door opens to a new corridor.
<BSChurchill> "curiouser and curiouser"
<Sound_Only> As you spill out into the corridor the lights go out.
<Safara> "Again?!"
<Sound_Only> Isabel, as the lights come back on you're alone.
* Safara whips around, looking for anyone missing...
<Kyle> Kyle glances around, hand still gripped to Isabel's. "Well... everyone seems to still be here this time."
* Isabel lets out a terrified shriek as she hugs herself, staring around the area. She flinches and looks down at her hand in confusion as she senses the hand. "WE're all ghosts now!"
<Safara> "Yeah...which means..." I'm...not completely sure what it--
<Kyle> "What does she mean by... Wait..."
<BSChurchill> "it means we are in some sort of bizarre fun house"
* Safara scoots closer, daring to touch Isabel's shoulder. "We have to calm her down and wait this out..."
* Isabel tries to shake her hand free of the ghostly hand, wiping her hand off on herself and jumps at the touch on her shoulder, stumbling back against the wall
<Kyle> "Okay... Well... less then ideal, but... it seems to wear off, eventually, but..." He begins, but stops as he loses his grip on her as Isabel suddenly begins to jerk her hand around. "But... We can't just leave her alone, and I'm not sure if we can spare the time to wait for this to wear off..."
<Kyle> "Umm... Hmm... Do we have a knife, or something? Something we can use to write into the walls and floor?"
* Isabel mumbles to herself quietly as she tries to reason with herself. finally she gathers her breath and lets it out slowly. "If we're dead.. the thing down below can't hurt us.."
<Safara> "Sebastian had on..." Her sentence dies in her throat, and she tries to shrink away.
<Sound_Only> Continuing on finds you in another large room. As if the damn thing were following you, the lights go out!
<BSChurchill> "shit"
<Kyle> "Tch, again?"
<Sound_Only> Isabel! As the lights come on, you aren't alone anymore.
* Isabel swallows nervously and pushes off the wall, beginning to wander through the darkness of the new room.. mumbling to herself with her arms wrapped around herself. "I can do this.. i'm alone but.. I.. Ah! there you all are!!"
<Sound_Only> Everyone else...Isabel might have wet herself, but it isn't polite to stare.
<Safara> "...Okay. Let's keep going."
<Kyle> "Ah... perhaps this time it was... fortunate? Either way... we should continue."
<Safara> And Safara trods forward.
* Isabel follows along, still pondering her ghostlyness.
<BSChurchill> "we really should have tied ourselves together"
<Kyle> "Huh... considering we have a rope, that was a possibility."
<Safara> "Work on it."
<Sound_Only> Ah hah! There, an elevator you need to take down. The doors have a slight part in them, but it doesn't look to be working otherwise.
<BSChurchill> "that way we know if we are still all here"
* Safara presses up to the doors, trying to peer inside.
<Sound_Only> Its dark...no elevator.
<Safara> "Kyle, help me pull these open."
<Isabel> "Rope!"
* Isabel speaks matter of factly.
<Kyle> "Sure." He moves forward to help her.
* BSChurchill watches
<Safara> "...Church? Isa? Little help?"
* Isabel watches for awhile before she steps up to help.
<Kyle> "Yeah... Would be appreciated."
<BSChurchill> "ok"
* Safara checks her grip on the elevator doors and plants her feet, giving it another go.
<Safara> "No good. We'll need a crowbar. Or another way down..."
<Safara> "...There's an armory on this floor. C'mon!"
<Sound_Only> As you starts to backtrack for the armory you find yourself confronted with something new.
<Sound_Only> The hall is choked with a white fog, ash falling from the ceiling like snow. Looks like it'll be hard to see if you go through.
* Safara pauses, taking a steadying breath. "That rope would be good, now."
<BSChurchill> "my thoughts exactly"
<Kyle> "Right, let's get started with that then."
* BSChurchill nods
<Sound_Only> You tie yourselves together and head into the fog.
<Sound_Only> The hallway seems to become a formless space, taking turns and changing its dimensions around you as you move. Over it all you hear a soft grinding noise, and see shapes moving in the fog.
* Safara uses her arm to shield her eyes, keeping the ash out.
<BSChurchill> "ive got a bad feeling about this"
<Kyle> "Pessimism won't help us at this point."
<Sound_Only> You emerge from the fog and ash without incident, and your close to the armory too! Huh...the door is open.
* Safara freezes, mouth going dry. "On your toes."
* BSChurchill deactivates his sidearms safety
* Isabel is oddly somewhat calm at this point as she goes toward the armory door with the others.
<Kyle> "I'd hope that we'd be in that state constantly..." Kyle mutters as he cautiously follows.
<Sound_Only> Sounds like someones in there...
* Safara leans her head in slowly...
<Sound_Only> You can make out someones back. He's in a hazard suit like the rest of you.
<Safara> "Hello?"
* Sebastian_G turns around at the voice "I've got a knife you fuckers!"
* Safara bolts forward, probably jerking the rope taught and catching her own wind. "Sebast--urk!"
<BSChurchill> "and i've got a gun"
* Sebastian_G blinks. "Safara? Cap? Oh thank you!" He drops the knife and gets up.
<Kyle> "Eh? That voice... Sebastian? You're alive?"
<Safara> "Sebastian...is it really you?"
<Sebastian_G> "Of course it's me, where the hell have you been?"
<Safara> "We--the hand, it came through and...all we saw was a smear..."
<BSChurchill> "yeah"
* Sebastian_G moves forward, arms outstretched and stops. "What? What hand?"
<Kyle> "The large hand that smashed through the hallway on the way to the Store Room..."
* Safara takes a short step away, uncertainty shadowing her face.
<Sound_Only> That's certainly Sebastian.
<Sebastian_G> "You're all crazy... Oh!" He turns around ducking into the armory and then back out holding some explosives and a gun. "I found these."
<Safara> "Sebastian...what do you remember happening?" Her eyes dart to the gun and back to his face.
<Sebastian_G> "We got separated, back when everything went out."
<Kyle> "But that had to have... wait... Maybe... Either way!" Kyle mutters before shaking his head. "A Hallucination... Like before, that's probably it everyone."
<Sound_Only> Another tremor comes through.
<Kyle> "... We should just be glad to be reunited and work towards moving forward, while there still is a forward."
<Safara> "Yeah. This place is...evil." Relief. And a smile, the first since this all started. "--Right. Back to the elevator. Sebastian, loop yourself into the rope."
* Isabel mumbles as she keeps back. "prolly a ghost too.."
* BSChurchill puts the safety back on
* Sebastian_G picks his knife up from the floor and ties himself to the others.
<Sound_Only> As you start on the way back to the elevator you're confronted with another sealed blast door. That was open earlier.
<Safara> "Dammit!"
<Kyle> "This place is getting on my nerves... Captain, can you open it again?"
* BSChurchill does so
<Sound_Only> It wants a code...now what was it again?
<Sound_Only> Denied.
<BSChurchill> "damn"
<Safara> "Okay. We'll take the long way around. Must've learned how to change the codes."
<Kyle> "... Wait, let me try."
<Kyle> "Can't hurt, anyways." Kyle mutters as he walks up to the panel.
* Isabel mumbles "why aren't we blasting things open?"
* Sebastian_G grins.
<Safara> "These are blast doors, Isabel. It's kind of their job to ignore explosives."
<Kyle> "... Tch, I need more practice at this type of thing."
<Kyle> "Okay, let's try that long way around then."
<Isabel> "hey.. are the floors blast proof? maybe we can just blow ourselves down to the bottom..?"
* Safara nods, tugging the rope to prompt walking.
<Safara> "--Wh...we don't know what parts are vacuum, Isa. If we start blowing holes in things, we have no safe places to run."
<Kyle> "Let's try and save our explosives for the moment... Plus, I have a feeling we're doing okay for time right now."
<Sound_Only> You take the looong way around. It's hard to tell time here. Minutes, hours...eventually you make your way back to the elevator.
<Safara> "The Angel isn't making a move on the base...why? Something keeping it busy outside?"She steps aside, to let Sebastian do his thing to the elevator.
* Sebastian_G goes to work, setting up a few explosives around the elevator door.
<Kyle> "The base does have defenses against an Angel to keep it occupied, right? Or... something else maybe..."
<Isabel> "Perhaps we are giving it indegestion.."
<Safara> "Or it's studying us."
* Isabel shudders at the thought
<Sound_Only> Sebastian, as you're setting the explosives you can't remember which wire goes where. Sadly, you cause an explosion that launches you across the room and into the opposite wall.
<BSChurchill> "fuck...."
<Sound_Only> Your fingers and blackened, suit singed, but you're conscious and alive.
<Safara> "Are you alright?!"
<Kyle> "Ugh... Are you alright?"
<Sebastian_G> "Yeah, I'm alive.."
* Sebastian_G coughs, black dust floating off him.
<Kyle> "Okay... maybe we should just try and force it open, again?"
<BSChurchill> "might be a liiiiiiiiiiiiiittle safer"
* Safara checks Sebastian's suit before heading for the door. "One last try. Sebastian, get over here."
* Sebastian_G gets up and moves over with the rest.
* Isabel follows along slowly
<BSChurchill> "we should have grabbed some duct tape"
<Sound_Only> The doors open with enough force, revealing the empty shaft.
<Kyle> "Well... How far down is it, do you think?"
<Sound_Only> Long enough for your rope...
* Safara looks around for something to tie off to and begin descending.
<Sound_Only> The bench between the elevators is bolted down.
<Safara> "Okay. Let's hurry."
<Sound_Only> As you begin your descent as a team, the rope starts to rub across a sharp edge near the top of the elevator.
<Sebastian_G> "Uh.."
<Safara> "What?"
<Sound_Only> Snap!
<Kyle> "... I wonder if-"
<BSChurchill> "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
<Safara> A good, long scream.
<Sound_Only> You all wide up in a pile on the top of the elevator. Damn, that hurt like hell. You'll be fore for days.
<Sebastian_G> "...that." He lifts his head out of the body pile.
* BSChurchill holds his head
<Kyle> "Ugh... did we survive that?" Kyle groans as he lifts his head up slowly.
<Safara> "Barely..." She sucks in air through her teeth, cradling her arm tight to her chest. "My arm's broken."
<Sebastian_G> "Anyone else hurt?"
<Kyle> "Yeah... That's a safe... bet."
<Sound_Only> At least you're on level with another elevator door. Imagine being trapped down here.
<Safara> "C-c'mon. We have to keep going."
<BSChurchill> "right"
<Kyle> "Yeah... onwards to the... bottom floor." He mutters as he pulls himself back up to his feet.
<Sound_Only> This one is going to need to be forces open too, and I doubt Safara is going to be up for it.
* Isabel groans as she gets to her feet, trying to stay with the others and pondering the idea of being injured and a ghost.. ccrap.
* Sebastian_G moves up against the door and starts to shove. "Help me out here."
<Kyle> "Coming, coming." Kyle says as he moves to help Seb.
* BSChurchill walks out
<Sound_Only> The lobby and most of the rooms beyond have been flooded with bakelite, plastic that dries quick and hard. There's another elevator and the express elevator that will take you to Terminal Dogma. You still plan to do this?
* Safara turns to look at the others. A final chance to turn away.
<Sebastian_G> "Shall we get this over with?"
<Kyle> "Yeah, we've come this far, may as well go the whole way."
<BSChurchill> "what do we have to lose really
* Sebastian_G makes his way over to the doors, taking the lead.
<Sound_Only> There must be a malfunction in the system, because it looks like you can get into the elevator without a card. How long will that last?
* Safara follows Sebastian, head held a little lower. I thought I'd be more excited about this...
* BSChurchill sighs
<Sound_Only> As you load into the elevator there is only one button.
* Safara pushes it with her good arm.
<Sebastian_G> "Here goes."
<Sound_Only> The elevator starts a long, slow ride deeper into the facility than any of you knew existed. It's poorly lit, and its getting cold.
* Safara tenses. "Ready on your air. The Angel might've focused on this part."
<Kyle> "Let's hope we managed to get here first."
<BSChurchill> right
* BSChurchill paces
<Sound_Only> Slow ride...take it easy...
<Sound_Only> The elevator stops, the doors parting...
* Safara holds her breath, for more than one reason.
* Sebastian_G peers out.
<Sound_Only> Beyond you is a brightly lit cylindrical room, as tall as an office building about about as deep. Frost clings to the walls, coolant pouring down from vents. The floor is designed with intircate patterns you can't quite place.
<BSChurchill> "wow"
* Sebastian_G blinks and squints to look around.
<Sound_Only> Near the center is a dias surrounded by LCL. On it is grass and tree, as if the cold was no bother. The biggest attraction was a tall block of clear bakelite. It contained what could best be described as the broken pieces of a red spear the size of a Nephilim.
<Kyle> "Huh..." Kyle mutters as he looks around.
* Safara walks forward, ignoring the chill in rapture. "This is it..."
<Kyle> "This is it? This is what the Angels want? This is what we've been brought to protect?"
* Sebastian_G moves out with Safara, not allowing her to walk out alone.
* Safara brushes her hair from her eye, just a moment, after walking to the edge of the lake.
<Sound_Only> You can see, the closer you get, there are even marking engraved into the clear bakelite. What did it all mean?
* Sebastian_G stands at the edge of the lake. "...now what?"
<BSChurchill> "it's amazing"
<Safara> "I don't--I don't...know..." A pause. 4"I'd hoped it was...going to make itself clear, once I was down here. That everything would be explained, and..."
<Sound_Only> The room quakes. Something from above.
<Kyle> "... Well, it's odd. I was hoping-" He stops mid-sentence, turning his gaze upwards.
* Safara cranes her head. 4"Oh no..."
<Sebastian_G> "Alright, what can we do with... that?"
* Isabel would actually be peeking out of the elevator watching the others and then the ceiling
<Sound_Only> What can best be described as the twisted form of a Nephilim, made of what might be red glass, is floating down toward you! Some light burns at its center, illuminating the entire being.
<BSChurchill> "shit"
<Kyle> "... I think it's time to head for the- Shoot."
<Safara> ...Despite every instinct to the contrary, Safara forces herself to run into the LCL, towards the bakelite. "It can't touch it!"
<BSChurchill> "wha"
* Sebastian_G jumps in after her, not really knowing what else to do.
<Safara> "They're after this thing, right?! We can't let them!"
<Sound_Only> Its feet touch the ground and after a moment its weight settles.
* Safara nearly runs into the bakelite, eyes scrabbling at the monolith's patterns. There has to be...some kind of...use...
<BSChurchill> "just keep the fiend away from it"
<Sebastian_G> "How about you distract it with your gun?" He shouts, still running for the broken shards.
* BSChurchill turns the safety off and waits for it to get in range
* Isabel seems torn between the elevator and the others.. after a few moments she bolts out of the elevator and runs after the others through the LCL.
* Safara strains, taking a step back. "You are Not! Through the license of He Who Is, You are Not!"
<Sound_Only> As Safara speaks, it feels like something strikes your body. Even the Angel gives pause, form wavering.
<Sound_Only> Its body violently changes shapes until it's a massive red orb. An Angel Core!
<Kyle> Kyle mutters to himself about something on time and finally decides to follow after the others through the LCL, stopping the moment he feels like something struck him a blow.
<Isabel> "wh.."
* Isabel stares up at it..speechless
<Kyle> "It's... a core? Wait... we are inside the Angel, so... It makes sense to be able to find... it's core?" Kyle mutters as he stares up at the floating Core.
* Safara starts. "Church! Sebastian! Shoot!"
<Sound_Only> How long will it stay that way though?
* Sebastian_G blinks just for a second, then pulls out the gun and fires.
* BSChurchill starts shooting
<Sound_Only> Your bullets, puny boolets, bounce off of it without a single nick.
<Kyle> "... The exlposives! Seb, light and throw one at it!"
<Sebastian_G> "I don't think that's going to work.." But as he says it, he does so anyways.
<Sound_Only> The explosion does nothing to scrath the core. Remember, even your Nephilim have to work hard to split one.
<Kyle> "Well then... Aside from the odds of our Nephilim waking up and coming to us..."
<Safara> "--If they won't come to us, we go to them. It's a risk we have to take."
<Sebastian_G> "Let's get a move on then.."
<Kyle> "... We may have the time, if we're lucky. Yes, if we're very lucky..."