The War of Shadows OOC

[Swarbie]

It happens. Sometimes you just can't sleep. Remember though, 2am for you is 9am for me.

[Koval]

So that puts you somewhere around Australia?

[Swarbie]

Yep. Perth, Western Australia. I thoroughly enjoyed waking up at 3am every day on my trip to western europe last year. My room-mate, however, did not.

[Koval]

Postage, RATED R FOR REPULSIVE. The daemonette's lines are not for the faint of heart. I got that speech off a motivational, believe it or not, with the caption "SMILE. It eases the pain". I don't know where the original image is from, sadly, so I can't credit it, but still, can anyone say Nightmare Fetishist?

[Swarbie]

Indeed. My thanks for allowing Fabio to go spectacular-daemon-gore with the bloodletter. I think I may have met that daemonette before though . . .

[Koval]

I think I may have met that daemonette before though . . .

Not impossible. Lesser Daemons can be made from the souls of "interesting" dead, stripped down so far that only "existence" is left (Obviously there is stuff like Nurgle's Rot which does this to living people, and the Big Four are powerful  enough to create Lessers from scratch, but it's easier to use a pre-existing, erm, existence -- sorta like how it's easier to mine a natural diamond than make a synthetic one in a lab). I imagine that if I'm not grossly misinterpreting you, this is what happened...

[Swarbie]

Yep. Sounds much like a particularly foul-mouthed chick I met at a party once. Glad to know she will go to what I could roughly define as hell. Just because Slaanesh is the god of pleasure, doesn't mean his realm is made of condom-trees, ecstasy mines, pubs and brothels.

Anyways, general call-out for someone to perhaps lead the way.

[MarcoSkoll]

Anyway, not a big post from me, but one I wanted to get in before it was too late to.

Lyra isn't stupid. While she turned down the offer of a bigger weapon earlier, she wasn't expecting she'd be in the middle of fierce fighting, let alone fighting against daemons - so now she has the brief reprieve the ward has offered them from the fight, she's grabbed the biggest gun she's up to using.

...which means no bolt weapons* - those are a bit beyond someone of her stature.

*If there are even any left. They were popular.

[Swarbie]

The bolt weapons were indeed popular. I get a feeling the three pistols Grant and Fabio grabbed may have been the only ones in the scavenged equipment.

[Koval]

There were initially five, I think; Grant (well, Gideon) took two and I forgot to keep track of who else had one, so the one on the top of the pile might not have been the last one -- there may have been more buried in the bottom of the crate.

For whoever's leading the group of Inquisitors; Gideon will be trying to put as many of you between him and the daemons as he can contrive. He's not normally this much of a coward but like I said, daemons have caused him rather a lot of grief in the past and have rather scarred him for life. Don't mention Adín around him if you don't want him to cripple you, that's all I will say.

[Koval]

We've stalled...

[Zephon]

Posted something... a month after I said I would. Sorry.

[Swarbie]

It's ok. It let me put in something for everyone else to argue about

Time for the natural rivalry between inquisitors to peak a little, methinks.

"I'll press the big red button!"

"No, I'll press it."

"Neither of you can press it because I'll press it first!"

Etc, etc, etc.

[MarcoSkoll]

Lyra has decided that she's not really trusting any of you lot. You'll have to excuse her that, as she doesn't really know any of the other characters.

Of course, she's not going to tell any of you that she suspects that some of you may be involved in the conspiracy.
But she's certainly going to watch you for any signs that you might be.

[MarcoSkoll]

In the absence of anyone else posting, I've continued the story a bit myself, as well as developing Lyra's own (rather embarrassing*) history with daemons a certain amount.
*But to be fair on her, when you've spent most of your life thus far as an archaeology student, encountering a daemon for the first time probably is pretty scary - particularly if you think you're alone.

I'm hoping I'm not too off the mark with Arisha, but I took it that the stress and terror of fighting daemons might start to catch up with a somewhat nervous interrogator after the adrenaline ran out.