The War of Shadows OOC

[Zephon]

It is going to be impossible for me to even read this for a week. I have a feeling this might be a bad time to not be here, so I thought I'd note Bernard's probable attitude to the new information about the beacon, in case anyone wants to argue with him. From his point of view, the fight for the planet is very much ongoing and not necessarily hopeless. He will probably stick quite strongly to this, especially if the only other option is escape and Exterminatus. Even if demonstrated that the whole planet has more-or-less fallen, he'd likely try to find another option that would allow maximum evacuation. Bernard really isn't fond of Exterminatus as a tactic. Sorry about vanishing like this – I could write some plot irrelevant grisly goings-on in the city while I'm away, but I might settle for working out backgrounds for Bernard's mob.

[MarcoSkoll]

Not the best passage I've ever written, but this seems to have totally stalled, so I'm at least trying to push it forwards.

[Swarbie]

Aye. Thanks for the push, Marco.

In the meantime, Fabio decides to organize one last surprise.

[MarcoSkoll]

Well, things seemed to be going too easily, so now I've made it a bit harder. I'm guessing you can work out why Lyra is asking about auditory analysis. (If not, read this)

Also, I've realised that I've not been writing Lyra quite optimistically enough. Not that she should be irredeemably peppy - especially in a situation like this - but it seems that a certain amount of some of my more cynical characters has been leaking into her personality.
I guess it can be written off under "daemonic auras" affecting her mood, but I'll try and get it sorted from now on.

[Swarbie]

Well, that may not be the most accurate portrayal of counter-sniping, but Fabio is not really meant to be an expert on the subject. Just a good reaction-shot kind of guy.

However, this may get more interesting if we offer up 'bait' for our little mutie-sniper.

[MarcoSkoll]

Well, to add to the available options, Lyra presents another possible choice of bait.

[Koval]

I'll respond in kind later on.

[Swarbie]

In response to Maya: can she make others invisible?

[MarcoSkoll]

As she says, she can in theory, although her microtelekinesis has only a few metres range.
What she hasn't said is that doing such a thing would be a challenge on a day when there wasn't daemonic corruption in the warp and she hadn't already been pushing herself.

The problem is, if Maya believes something is "the right thing to do", she does sometimes try stupidly selfless things.

[Koval]

Or you could just let Ottakar give it a go, and if all else fails, he can hose the place with his bolt pistol. I'll write something after dinner.

[Koval]

Dammit, Tony, I think we've just broken each other's posts.

Anyway, Ottakar runs for cover and I need to familiarise myself with the whole thread all over again so that I know who has what, where, what's happening.

[MarcoSkoll]

Well, I've assumed both posts are accurate. The events are a bit of a shambles, but it's not an impossible situation. Perhaps it resulted from bad communication under pressure or a misunderstanding.

[Swarbie]

After all the confusion, Fabio unburdens himself in expectancy of death. We'll see what happens.

[MarcoSkoll]

Well, Lyra isn't necessarily sure that Fabio's sacrifice is wise... so she may find use for her graviton grenade yet. (Or not, if you prefer.)

For convenience, a lolcat will now demonstrate the effects of a graviton grenade:

Basically, everything in the vicinity not actually fixed down when one goes off will find itself making a rather rapid transition to elsewhere.

Fortunately for Lyra, while incredibly rare and expensive, graviton grenades are rechargeable. It just takes a LOOOOOOOOONG time.

[Swarbie]

Bon Jovi reference *shock-horror*

Is the grenade a dud? Will it work on a daemon? Will Fabio learn to fly? All this and more in the next installment of: The War of Shadows!