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Post by raven on Sept 1, 2007 13:35:07 GMT -5
(((....yeah, I'm stuck... school has drained my brain... any ideas?)))
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 1, 2007 14:41:43 GMT -5
"Those wolves were after the little girl." Liska explained to Ebony while Delfina was still getting her breath back. "They didn't want to tangle with Delfina in her changed state."
Kathleen hastened over to Delfina's side, assuring herself that everyone was OK. "Don't try to move just yet."
The chop of helicopter blades grew from the distant dark, and the running lights of an Apache showed up on the horizon. Scanlan raised his head as his superior returned, flaring his nostrils at the scents of new people travelling with her. Several MP's came up to assist with unloading the passengers, who still seemed to be in shock from everything they had gone through.
"We licked the ##%&, pardon my French." the LTC explained, "And we found these women they'd been holding, don't think I have to tell you what for."
Buck and Scanlan came up as the women were led away; the scents of unwashed bodies and of fear told them more than they wanted to know of how these women had been treated by their captors. "Where's everybody else?"
"They're still marching over here with Sarge. Some wounded, but moving under their own power. A few dead that they wouldn't leave behind, and I can't say I blame them on that." Hollister paused as she smelled the scents of tension about the camp. "Did something happen here?"
"Wolves." Buck snorted. "Stalking one of the little kids. Fortunately, they didn't get her. Your captain here even killed one." he gave Scanlan a nudge.
I'm still getting the taste of fur outta my mouth." Scanlan grimaced disgustedly.
"I'll go and ferry the rest of 'em over." Buck went off to spool up.
"Thanks." Irene sighed and settled. "Appreciate it."
"What do we do now?" Dawn looked up at Jade.
<<< How about Raine having a dream or something?>>>
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Post by raven on Sept 1, 2007 14:52:02 GMT -5
(((....nah, we can have somone else bug Doc and find out about what happened to Raine... think you can do that? )))
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Post by ebonyviper on Sept 1, 2007 14:56:57 GMT -5
Ebony listened with silence. She had never seen Delfina transform willingly before. Looking at the fallen woman, Ebony hoped that Delfina would recover.
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Delfina just lay there exhausted and just concentrating on catching her breath. She was too weak to move or get up yet. All she wanted was to rest.
'How did I do that?' she asked through thought-speak, too tired to use her voice.
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"I think..." said Jade, "that we should go tell Tess about this. She'll know what to do."
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 1, 2007 15:26:39 GMT -5
From what I can tell, this particular transformation takes your caloric energy and uses it to affect a change in cell and bone structure, for as long as your body holds out. Kathleen answered Delfina. Wouldn't be surprised if this left you a few pounds lighter. Just rest for now.
"Over here!" Liska waved to Peggy's mother. The woman ran through the tall grass and gathered the crying child up in her arms. "I'm right here, sweetie." she looked down to Delfina, not having witnessed the transformation. "Was she hurt?"
"She put out quite an effort in fighting off the wolves." Liska put it as honestly as possible without getting into more information than the woman was prepared to handle.
"Thank you." Peggy's mother was on the brink of crying herself. "Thank you so much." A couple of her friends came up to escort them back to camp.
Liska and Kathleen bent over Delfina's prostrate form. "Need some help?"
"Yeah." Dawn turned to start back up to the inhabited areas.
Someone else looked in on Raine and Doc - not the doctor or nurse, but Tess. She was wearing a mask and gown, as the doctor had advised, to minimize the chance of any viruses getting out into the complex population. "Hello?"
"Tess?" Doc cocked his head. "G'evening."
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Post by raven on Sept 1, 2007 15:28:20 GMT -5
Raine shifted quietly in her bed, still fast asleep.
((gonna take a quick nap *gets shot* please puppet, thanks)))
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Post by ebonyviper on Sept 1, 2007 15:39:58 GMT -5
'I can feel the burnoff of calories... All that action made me so tired all of a sudden...' replied Delfina.
She looked at Liska and managed to get a few words out, "Can't move... Need to rest..."
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Jade nodded in agreement and turned around, following Dawn and Misty back to the inhabited areas to look for Tess.
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Ricardo and Phoenix had the same idea and started to make their way back with the Trans Am being careful because she was carrying the twins in the baskets strapped to the harness.
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Post by elizar on Sept 1, 2007 15:43:25 GMT -5
Since night was falling in this world, it was getting a bit too dark. Once the soldiers heard Buck's rotor whirring towards them, they threw down flares on the ground to signal a landing zone. Most of them were unaware of the helo's heightened senses.
Aron sat down near the now exhausted beastform of Delfina. It was bit too strange for him to see her like this.
So, she changes by need? What would force her to need to be human then? He thought undirected. In his previous strange communication with her he had focused his thoughts towards her, so he figured this would not reach her, or she wouldn't be in much state of mind or receive it.
((OOC: Forgot to bring it up in the previous helo arrival, but would Delfina know how to thinkspeak to Aron? Aron has not magical talent at all, but Delfina can pick up surface thoughts of others if she focuses last time I remembered. Thus I made the posts then vague in the understanding that I thought Aron was unable of picking up her directed thoughtspeak.))
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 1, 2007 15:58:50 GMT -5
"Let's get her back to camp." Liska said to Aron.
Buck landed in the zone indicated by the flares. He was able to take on about twenty soldiers with his size, with the wounded getting first priority. He made several trips to bring the rest over. With more men about, the predators retreated for the rest of the night.
Raine stirred in her sleep as Tess took a closer look at her. "How's she feeling?"
"A little more comfortable, I hope." Doc answered, stifling a yawn. The day had been a long one for him.
Dawn and Misty, along with Jade, made it back to the complex and started to look around for someone who could help with this.
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Post by elizar on Sept 1, 2007 16:04:44 GMT -5
"Yeah." With help from Liska, Aron raised up Delfina onto his back parcially, her big front paws hanging off his shoulders and her head on his right shoulder as well. With Liska taking her back legs, Aron did not need to carry all her 400 pounds.
"You know Delfina, you got to stop loading those pounds on you." Aron joked.
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Post by ebonyviper on Sept 1, 2007 16:12:18 GMT -5
(((((OOC: Elizar - Delfina would be way too exhausted to be able to focus on Aron's thoughts at the moment. And... she's not in her beastform anymore, but back in her catgirl form...)))))
Delfina had, by then, passed out, to exhausted and tired to speak or thoughtspeak at the moment. The battle with the wolves had tired her out. Since the transformation had depleted her of her caloric energy, Delfina would need to eat something first when she woke up again and before she could do anything else.
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Letting herself relax, Ebony had made her way back to the camp as well, followed by Lightning, who was quiet again, most possibly awed by what had went on.
The Viper, herself, was contemplative, thinking, at the moment, about a variety of situations that could cause such a feralness as she had seen in Delfina. She could go feral as well, but only when her children or her friends were threatened. This could possibly be the same as Delfina's need to protect Peggy.
She slowly came back to camp, feeling a little exhausted herself.
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Jade, along with Dawn and Misty, once arriving back in the inhabited area for someone who had knowledge of what they had just seen when they had followed Ricardo and Phoenix.
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The Stealth and the Trans Am had the same mindset.
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Post by elizar on Sept 1, 2007 16:24:52 GMT -5
((I mean if she was capable of thinkspeaking to him when in good form, like in that heloride. Aron is simply not a user at all.))
Aron and Liska put Delfina in the middle of the camp near the fire and Aron tucked her in as casually as he could. But with Buck returning with the last load of soldiers, Aron went to find his brother.
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 1, 2007 16:46:29 GMT -5
Sarge was with the last load who came with Buck, and he hopped off with thanks to the big blue helo. He found Ebony with Strip and Lightning. "How'd it go here?"
Darcy looked up from the koi pond as Jade, Dawn and Misty showed up again. "Where did you all go off to?"
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Post by ebonyviper on Sept 1, 2007 16:53:57 GMT -5
(((((OOC: Oh, yeah... she would be capable of doing that...)))))
Delfina mumbled a bit in her sleep, but didn't wake up to being moved near the campfire and tucked in. The warmth from the fire helped soothe her sore body.
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"Pretty good so far," replied Ebony, "except for an attempted attack on a little girl by a pack of dire wolves, which Delfina somehow managed to fend off."
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"We were exploring," Jade answered, "Down in the caves and following Ricardo and Phoenix. I think they found something there."
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 1, 2007 17:23:06 GMT -5
"Really? What?" Darcy was intrigued.
"Are they all right?" Sarge asked.
While they were waiting on Buck, those soldiers who still had ammo left over had taken the opportunity to do a little hunting, and took down a few elk, which they had cut into quarters and carried back with them. They then set to work on butchering the meat and roasting it.
The aircraft checked their fuel reserves. There would be just enough to make it back.
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