Post by habeascorbus on Apr 15, 2015 19:04:25 GMT
18:41:30 Alpha As hard as it was to believe, running a market outside of the limitations of empire space law was a little trickier than one would assume. It definitely had it's perks such as avoiding tariffs, taxes, etc. It was also a little more organized than one would imagine a bazaar of crooks haggling over one another. L/N S/L was know to exist at the heart of this Anarchist's economy. It never once claimed to be the black market itself, more of the Heart that pumped life into it's veins. At the helm of this operation was the newly appointed CEO, Malachi Frost. One such clone trooper that had been called to the hanger to inspect a particularly unusual salvage. “Sentient race trafficking victim you supposed?” That's what was initially assumed, but the state the rest of the ship's organic matter was found was troubling. “Where their any signs that this was disease related?” Somber and detached, Captain Frost had spoken up. “No” was the answer that most spurted forth >>>
18:41:34 Alpha looking up from instruments and devices. Without much preparation, leaving weapons and fortification behind, he sought to board the vessel that had been salvaged. It was up to date and still stank with the smell of scorched carbon. He looked around and made brief note of the interior before approaching the compartment with said vessel...
18:50:44 Misericordia still holding her bloodstained dual scythe looked around at her... Handiwork. "Rest souls, the disease that plagued you will not be transmitted to anyone else. You'll be safe in here." She patted a few gems in her hand as the souls inside pounded on the edges of the gem before swirling away into the nothingness inside. "Hush, and be reborn into balance." She whispered, blowing into the gems. She chanted a bit, and a blue-gray energy began to surround her hands. "I will crush you, and throw you into the wind, so that you may be made anew through the life-energy of the cosmos. Be reborn, children of the stars." With each crushed gem an massive explosion of pure and raw negative energy eminated from her. After each one was crushed the carbon of the ship as well as the 'remains' of the 'victims' would swirl. small portions of the ship would disintegrate little by little, gold, iron, potassium, silicon, water, and salt. More and more materials dispersed off the ship winding up outside into--
18:50:46 Misericordia several shapes. "Yes. It is done." Soon after maybe a minute the seemingly ten-year-old winged girl would step outside, completely ignoring the man who walked in towards her and admire her handywork. Several naked males and females lying unconcious on the ground. "Rest easy, as you are now safe. The disease that threatened this solar system is no longer an issue." With that she looked around and blinked once, twice, thrice. "...Now where am I?" she canted her head to the side, studying the people just staring completely shocked at her. Those that were weak of will couldn't even remove their eyes from the girl that stood in front of them.
19:01:24 Alpha He wouldn't be able to continue his trip throughout the ship as the resulting explosion ravaged the vessel. Alpha was thrown around and jostled within the current compartment.“The fuel dynamo must be unstable, prepare a containment squad to take control—” He spoke with urgency as he'd relayed what might need to happen if what he had assumed was true. He wasn't able to finish his command as another explosion had ejected him from the ship and into the open bay of the Industrial ship. His ears rung and his vision was dim from the concussion. He squirmed and thrashed to pull himself back upright. He would have assumed he was concussed and hallucinating if it weren't for the earlier reports of some humanoid on board. “You're on a salvage station. My contractors had salvaged the ship you were on.” Keeping relatively calm and remaining in a squat as not to impose, he would attempt to make conversation with the young >>>
19:01:26 Alpha female. “Who are you, do you remember your name?” His gentle voice would resonate within the spacious cargo bay.
19:10:30 Misericordia looked at the userper of her ritual. "Yes, I do know my name, clown. You didn't SALVAGE that ship. You nearly destroyed this entire civilization. There was a flesh eating nanovirus on that ship. You can thank one of your... And I use this phrase lightly. 'friends' for that. A Contracter of yours, Malachi Erza Frost." She paused for a moment. "The confusion in your mind tells me you know not of who I am. Bow before me, mortal and witness true balance. You may know some of my titles. It's been hundreds of thousands of years since I have been addressed so informally. However do you know of the planet Earth? And maybe of some of it's history? Maybe some of it's ancient myths and legends? "You may know me as 'The Lady of Balance', or maybe 'The Mother of All', or maybe even 'The Supreme Queen'? Though most famously I am known simply as "The Queen of Life and Death, Misericordia."
19:26:25 Alpha He listened to everything that she had to say. From dastardly nanoviruses to the lore that any realist would define as nonsense. “My salvagers are not equipped with the sensors required for micro biology. I assure you that any infection that would be brought to the station would be properly contained.” He was already down on one knee. It was already out of consideration for her small statue. “I hope you are satisfied with a kneel; clarity may be sacrificed if I were on my face.” As far as Earth, it's lores, it's exploits, it was all lost on this Caldari. “Look beyond the airlock.” He gestured outside to the stars that flickered through the colossal nebula of twisting, billowing red gas. “All of those stars have their own history. From here, we can only see a microbial pinch of hundreds of millions of systems we can observe.” He Looked back to her. “It is easy to conclude that I don't have the neural mass to >>>
19:26:30 Alpha even commit a portion of what I can see to memory.” As politely and articulately as he could, the explanation that he didn't have a damn clue was subtle fed to her with a long handled spoon.
19:28:52 _Ghost_ exits from this room
19:42:49 Misericordia unfettered by this proposal of a lack of knowledge she merely said "What do you use as data storage? That you can access? You know what? Nevermind it's not important. My old stature is obviously too weak and feeble to be carried to this age. It's time for me to create a new empire of balance - And you will help me do it. I already know of your unnatural ressurection process and I call it... No, call it LESS than childs play." She rose up on her wings, the skeletal tattered remains with chunks of flesh and feathers skewed here and there didn't even move an inch even whilst flying. "Hear me, mortals. You serve another. While this man may be your master, I am your GOD. Worship me and be rewarded. If your life is out of balance, I will balance it, for better or worse. I am the ending, and the beginning. Hear me and bow." The entirety of the mass of people within twenty five miles of her were immediately aware of her presence. Those within two hundred and fifty feet---
19:42:50 Misericordia were entranced by her irrisistable dance. Immediately everyone would know exactly who, and what she was, as well as what she was capable of. A deity (not a god) in the presence of mortals! Her scythe whirled and twirled with her body, creating a mesmerizing, hypnotizing, almost-erotic dance. As her body began to age to the more womanly stature, so too, did her dance. After a good two minutes of just dancing to no music it ended, and the poor civilians that were left in the nude awoke. With a glance she read their minds and clothed them with their tastes. "Mistress." They all responded in unison. "Good." she replied. "It's a start." She waved a hand at them as if to shove them off.
19:56:19 Alpha He didn't really have anything to say, It was clear that negotiation would not be a productive endeavor with this entity. Having raised to his feet. He felt a strange influence wash over him. His brain was wracked with a foreign control which had made him close his eyes from stress. The station itself was a small salvage depot. Save for the crew of the salvaging frigates and the industrial ship, they were in the middle of dead space. Alpha appeared to fall victim to the presence up until the moment an overwhelming current of power spiked within his temporal lobe. His entire body was wracked at the electricity spread across the matrix within his brain. In a moment of immobility, he'd fall back. His body dropped from the gaping opening in the cargo bay of the large blockade runner. He'd entered a free fall. His ears and pieces of his clothing whipped around wildly. It would take a moment for him to reacquaint himself with the environment.
20:07:17 Misericordia cut her dance short, everyone started clapping. Then she would disappear and reappear underneath the falling male, catching him and guiding him back up to where they were standing previously. "Hey now. You're not supposed to die. I didn't tell you to die. I told you to watch. What's up with that?" Eventually she layed the creature down. "Strange." Her few worshippers dispersed back to their original jobs as if nothing had happened. Her artifact weapon disappeared back into her own domain for her to call it again later. She would wait for this man to regain conciousness.
20:16:11 Alpha It would not be long before he would regain awareness of his positioning. He'd realized now that she was behind him. Beneath the clothing was the feeling of plates and dense material. There was nothing more invasive to a tube child than close proximity. Having no real affinity from it given their isolation since conception, He'd immediately attempt to force himself away from her. “You are a long way from earth.” He would point out cold, “I recommend you keep your sorcery to yourself. I have no problem tucking you back in what remains of whence you came.” His white brow furrowed with a serious expression. His pale blue eyes were wide with resolve. Then launching you as deep into dead space as our rail guns can manage...” Providing he wouldn't be able to force himself away entirely, his arms would attempt to maintain a staunch distance of their length between their bodies.
20:20:15 Misericordia looked at him absolutely dumbfounded. "You.. You can't be serious?" After a few exchanged looks, she busted out laughing so hard she came to tears. As suddenly as she was laughing she stopped. "Really, though Mr. Frost. Help me. I'll see it's ... Rewarded. I know your kind. To recieve, one must give. To give, one must recieve. I understand how it works. What do you want for your efforts? All I ask is for a few worshippers here and there. Nothing big. I don't require sacrifices of the lamb, be it literal or figurative. Besides, I honestly don't think you could even lift me, let alone push me into your contraption against my will." She spawned a bar of platinum in her hand. "How about this?" Then turned it to gold. "Maybe this?" Then to diamonds "Or this? What floats your boat?" The now early-thirties woman spoke.
20:30:08 Alpha He was about as serious as he could muster. “I ask that you set me down on the ground. I am going to escort you to my quarters. We are going to negotiate a contract.”He refused to say anything else in the mean time. He simply hung braced as far away from her as he could manage. – When and if she would actually comply, the two of them would come down, and he would lead them to a mobile platform. This miniature mono rail would carry them from the threshold of the hangar deeper into the depot. They'd stop at the coordinates that Alpha would have input to the terminal. It was a uniform, conservative room. ( go-dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/mlagann/201110.01.23.22.05.jpg ) He would have lead her to the couch facing a holo screen displaying the most recent feed of information from the known galaxy. “Lets have a seat.” He would say before lowering himself down onto the furniture.
20:42:41 Alpha At first his eyes would narrow dangerously. “Be careful what you wager.” He was sure to emphasize to her rebuttal to being launched into space. His features had begun to reset at the time she'd begin to spawn the commodities. “Please.” He would hold out a gloved hand. “Will you hold your thoughts until we can perform the appropriate negotiations?” Nonverbal contracts were so fickle and flimsy, he wasn't about to agree to anything until they could get it in some form of writing.
20:45:45 Misericordia just listened and did eventually follow. Once she arrived she sat on the paltry thing he called a couch. "Tch" She looked at it and made it just a 'touch' more lavish. What she thought was a 'touch' may be thousands of credits of remodeling just to that ONE piece of furniture. Carved out of this new sofa was a small wooden loveseat to which she layed across, in the wood were inlays of gold and mithril, and a luxurious cushion covered the top and arms of it to which she layed across it in half-nude grace. "Ahh. Much more comfortable. Now then... Negotiate? Silly mortals. Negotiate, with me. I guess it can't be avoided." She smiled to the fuzzy male. "So what kind of a were-dog are you? Also what could you want to negotiate about?"
21:01:38 Alpha She'd gone and altered his couch. That was grounds to summon a moment of muscle spasms to rapture the outer portion of his brow. The strong emotions that caused it were held at bay with a stroke of professional will power. “I'm a Caldari Deteis. As for my genetic template, It is hard to tell. Many gene pools were used in the tube child population.” He would explain that there was no real way to tell his pedigree. If anything, it was a breed all in it's own. He would lean forward and wave his hand through the idle symbol of the Frost's Specters insignia. ( i58.tinypic.com/2qnqvkw.png ) “On to business. Will you state for the record what you wish of my Corporation?” a blank template had taken the place of the symbol. His head cocked so that he could get a clear view of her from the angle he sat.
21:07:04 Misericordia "Worshippers. People who believe in me to bring balance to their life. A simple prayer for me to help them. If people accept me as their Goddess and pray to me, I'll hear it and respond to each and every one of them in some way. I bring balance. When someone is ruled by grief and misery, I bring them hope and light. When someone is ruled by power, I humble them. When someone dies that was not pre-ordained, I fix it. Lastly when someone cheats death, I pay them a visit myself, or at least send my avatar. The prayer I wish people to speak can be any words that are similar to. 'Please Misericordia, lady of balance,' or 'Queen of Life and Death,' You know, any of my titles -" She continued "-'bring me balance to my life.' Something of that nature. It empowers me to a degree. I even have my own plane of existance, however over the millenia it has deteriorated due to a lack of worshippers. Only a handful of sages even know of my existance I would declare." She was quite straight to the point.
21:07:06 Misericordia Even as her wings stretched out behind her. The woman closed her eyes and rested on this couch for todays efforts took maybe 10 minutes of resting out of her. Not bad.
21:20:28 Alpha A paraphrased version of what she'd said manifested bright and visibly in front of a dim, shadowed actual quote. Alpha had begun to think long, and hard on what he wanted to bring to the table. “You offer a service similar to my own form of reincarnation. This will certainly increase the productivity of my associates.” His fingers had risen to fondle and grope the underside of what had to be a chin beneath the grim mask he wore. “However, Prayer and rituals are for those superstitious Aquarians and those delusional jihadists under the command of a maniac with a gender identity crisis.” Particularly pleasant terms were chosen for the empires, “Perhaps there is another way we can appease your... desires?” He was particularly set on finding out if there was any other beneficial plan B that he could invest in.
21:26:41 Misericordia "I need my power restored to it's full strength. I'm merely a shell that I am now, and even now were I to take off this here ring-" She held up her left ring finger "-I would warp this space station into nothing but a distorted spacetime electrical storm. I wish my FULL power restored so I can take my rightful throne among the ascended once more. As you can see I'm in the mortal world. I can't even go back to my realm until after I restore my power. Even if I were to return, that... Blasted USERPER WHO HAS MY THRONE WOULD BLITHLY CAST ME ASIDE WITH A SIMPLE SWIPE OF HIS HAND! UNACCEPTABLE!" She began to rage with a fury buried by many millenia of time. A black and blue fire began to rage around her, licking and scorching even the metal of the room, interfering with the electronics and even warping the air. Eventually she settled down and shifted back to her ten-yearold state, then to an old woman. "I need my power back, or my form isn't even stable. It's controllable sure, but that damn... Hmph."
21:26:48 Misericordia She finished talking. "Worshippers. That's all I need. I will give anything in return."
21:39:39 Alpha With all thinks considered, the clone trooper had begun to think. The plight she had was pretty straight forward. There were more than one way to acquire a bunch of personnel for her to empower herself on. It was all a matter of unscrupulous lateral thinking that would lead Frost to his conclusion. However, before he could even open his trap to respond to her, she would be throwing some sort of deific fit. Alpha had pulled himself away from the violent reaction that had begun, Misericordia at the nexus. “Calm yourself!” he exclaimed over the chaotic maelstrom that ripped around his room. Fortunately, it was meant to be. “And fix my couch.” looking at that gaudy thing, he suddenly remembered his contempt for the unauthorized decoration. “Now. My proposition to you is that I will assign you a temperate, terrestrial planet.” His offer was considered and recorded on the device. The display would shift to accommodate both >>>
21:39:44 Alpha sides of the agreement. “We will begin to colonize it with sentient beings for you to draw... warship from.” In exchange, he would point out especially, “You protect and provide your... services to all of my personnel. Providing it keeps you stable, You may temporarily draw your power from my station's staff until your first shipment comes in.” He would manipulate the screen so she could reread his offer if she so pleased.
21:44:41 Misericordia "I like your idea, however I will add to it, I am a deity after all. You will provide me with ten percent of your planets. Preferrably in the same sector. Maybe three or four solarsystems. Starflight is a hard trick for me, takes me maybe three to twelve days to fly between solar systems. Granted I'll need my navigation magics... But yes, Ten percent and we have a deal. I will strike a pact with you." If he accepted her offer, she would sadly change his couch back to his tacky version of normal. "I don't DRAW power, I simply gain it by being acknowledged. Quite fascinating, really. Also They'll be needing this..." She spawned a small shrine totem. It looked like an ankh buried half-way through a skull that was smiling, two wings sticking out of where the ears would be. "This is my holy symbol. If you ever request aid of me, you craft one out of anything greater than wood and I will hear you. But the trick is you have to have it hand made. it can't be machined."
21:56:49 Alpha Planets weren't exactly something that he had any particular need for. If a planet happened to be in Specter territory, than she was more than welcome to it. “There is a security issue that comes with the shelling out of as many planets as you so desire.” he would begin to point out, A star map was swiped into view. “We are dangerously close to empire space. If a change is great and sudden enough in a fringe system, you will alert the neighboring governments of this change.” What he was explaining was that if they did too much too soon, people were going to get nosy. “I will provide you with primitive, non technological planets so word doesn't circulate. It must appear that people are doing this because of their own inhibition.” He would glance over to her, “Do you understand my hindsight?” She was deific after all, surely it would dawn on one of her supposed intellect.
22:10:55 Misericordia smiled at the proposition "Superstisious worlds are my specialty." She chuckeled. "It seems as you understand. Here. Take this." She created a tome out of thin air. "This will improve your spacial reasoning capabilites almost to the point of viewing things in the fourth dimension. I'm sure you can handle it." She retorted in returns to his thoughts. "I can read minds, you know." She smiled. "Besides, that's the type of world from which I hail. Swords, and bows over guns and cannons and spacecraft. I wonder if they have magic on their worlds. If not I can bring it to them."
22:25:38 Alpha She complemented his consideration for the world around him. Hell, she even threw in a present. He'd reach out and take the book that was provided for him. Naturally, he was going to have to alter the format from this primitive manual scripting to something digital that could be injected into his brain. Nevertheless, he accepted it. “Thank you.” He knew immediately that his dedicated points of skill in science weren't as abundant as social, space ship command, or gunnery but it was always good to maintain some manner of support skills to bridge them together. “Don't probe my thoughts too deeply. Installed in my brain is a defensive sub system that alter my mental frequencies to a random biologically compatible frequency. It is a proverbial line in the sand against the more psychically inclined.” The book was stored under his arm and he stood. “Before I agree to invest in this, you must heed my advice.” he would >>>
22:25:45 Alpha point out assertively. “I know all there is to flying under the radar. Seeing as this is clearly not your expertise, I wish for you to let me do my job and you perform yours.”
22:38:19 Misericordia paused, turning into a teenager, and merely smiled. "Do as you wish. I can block all kinds of scrying and remote viewing within 25 miles of any one of my worshipers for 25 hours." There is beginning to be a theme. With the decision made, she shook his hand. On his hand now was a small black mark, unremovable of her seal. "This will allow me to find you." it began to fade into his skin and disappear. "Don't worry. It's not perminant. At least, until I get used to your energy signal. Then once I can find you with a thought, I'll remove it." She smiled and signed whatever document.
22:41:55 [Alpha] /scene.
18:41:34 Alpha looking up from instruments and devices. Without much preparation, leaving weapons and fortification behind, he sought to board the vessel that had been salvaged. It was up to date and still stank with the smell of scorched carbon. He looked around and made brief note of the interior before approaching the compartment with said vessel...
18:50:44 Misericordia still holding her bloodstained dual scythe looked around at her... Handiwork. "Rest souls, the disease that plagued you will not be transmitted to anyone else. You'll be safe in here." She patted a few gems in her hand as the souls inside pounded on the edges of the gem before swirling away into the nothingness inside. "Hush, and be reborn into balance." She whispered, blowing into the gems. She chanted a bit, and a blue-gray energy began to surround her hands. "I will crush you, and throw you into the wind, so that you may be made anew through the life-energy of the cosmos. Be reborn, children of the stars." With each crushed gem an massive explosion of pure and raw negative energy eminated from her. After each one was crushed the carbon of the ship as well as the 'remains' of the 'victims' would swirl. small portions of the ship would disintegrate little by little, gold, iron, potassium, silicon, water, and salt. More and more materials dispersed off the ship winding up outside into--
18:50:46 Misericordia several shapes. "Yes. It is done." Soon after maybe a minute the seemingly ten-year-old winged girl would step outside, completely ignoring the man who walked in towards her and admire her handywork. Several naked males and females lying unconcious on the ground. "Rest easy, as you are now safe. The disease that threatened this solar system is no longer an issue." With that she looked around and blinked once, twice, thrice. "...Now where am I?" she canted her head to the side, studying the people just staring completely shocked at her. Those that were weak of will couldn't even remove their eyes from the girl that stood in front of them.
19:01:24 Alpha He wouldn't be able to continue his trip throughout the ship as the resulting explosion ravaged the vessel. Alpha was thrown around and jostled within the current compartment.“The fuel dynamo must be unstable, prepare a containment squad to take control—” He spoke with urgency as he'd relayed what might need to happen if what he had assumed was true. He wasn't able to finish his command as another explosion had ejected him from the ship and into the open bay of the Industrial ship. His ears rung and his vision was dim from the concussion. He squirmed and thrashed to pull himself back upright. He would have assumed he was concussed and hallucinating if it weren't for the earlier reports of some humanoid on board. “You're on a salvage station. My contractors had salvaged the ship you were on.” Keeping relatively calm and remaining in a squat as not to impose, he would attempt to make conversation with the young >>>
19:01:26 Alpha female. “Who are you, do you remember your name?” His gentle voice would resonate within the spacious cargo bay.
19:10:30 Misericordia looked at the userper of her ritual. "Yes, I do know my name, clown. You didn't SALVAGE that ship. You nearly destroyed this entire civilization. There was a flesh eating nanovirus on that ship. You can thank one of your... And I use this phrase lightly. 'friends' for that. A Contracter of yours, Malachi Erza Frost." She paused for a moment. "The confusion in your mind tells me you know not of who I am. Bow before me, mortal and witness true balance. You may know some of my titles. It's been hundreds of thousands of years since I have been addressed so informally. However do you know of the planet Earth? And maybe of some of it's history? Maybe some of it's ancient myths and legends? "You may know me as 'The Lady of Balance', or maybe 'The Mother of All', or maybe even 'The Supreme Queen'? Though most famously I am known simply as "The Queen of Life and Death, Misericordia."
19:26:25 Alpha He listened to everything that she had to say. From dastardly nanoviruses to the lore that any realist would define as nonsense. “My salvagers are not equipped with the sensors required for micro biology. I assure you that any infection that would be brought to the station would be properly contained.” He was already down on one knee. It was already out of consideration for her small statue. “I hope you are satisfied with a kneel; clarity may be sacrificed if I were on my face.” As far as Earth, it's lores, it's exploits, it was all lost on this Caldari. “Look beyond the airlock.” He gestured outside to the stars that flickered through the colossal nebula of twisting, billowing red gas. “All of those stars have their own history. From here, we can only see a microbial pinch of hundreds of millions of systems we can observe.” He Looked back to her. “It is easy to conclude that I don't have the neural mass to >>>
19:26:30 Alpha even commit a portion of what I can see to memory.” As politely and articulately as he could, the explanation that he didn't have a damn clue was subtle fed to her with a long handled spoon.
19:28:52 _Ghost_ exits from this room
19:42:49 Misericordia unfettered by this proposal of a lack of knowledge she merely said "What do you use as data storage? That you can access? You know what? Nevermind it's not important. My old stature is obviously too weak and feeble to be carried to this age. It's time for me to create a new empire of balance - And you will help me do it. I already know of your unnatural ressurection process and I call it... No, call it LESS than childs play." She rose up on her wings, the skeletal tattered remains with chunks of flesh and feathers skewed here and there didn't even move an inch even whilst flying. "Hear me, mortals. You serve another. While this man may be your master, I am your GOD. Worship me and be rewarded. If your life is out of balance, I will balance it, for better or worse. I am the ending, and the beginning. Hear me and bow." The entirety of the mass of people within twenty five miles of her were immediately aware of her presence. Those within two hundred and fifty feet---
19:42:50 Misericordia were entranced by her irrisistable dance. Immediately everyone would know exactly who, and what she was, as well as what she was capable of. A deity (not a god) in the presence of mortals! Her scythe whirled and twirled with her body, creating a mesmerizing, hypnotizing, almost-erotic dance. As her body began to age to the more womanly stature, so too, did her dance. After a good two minutes of just dancing to no music it ended, and the poor civilians that were left in the nude awoke. With a glance she read their minds and clothed them with their tastes. "Mistress." They all responded in unison. "Good." she replied. "It's a start." She waved a hand at them as if to shove them off.
19:56:19 Alpha He didn't really have anything to say, It was clear that negotiation would not be a productive endeavor with this entity. Having raised to his feet. He felt a strange influence wash over him. His brain was wracked with a foreign control which had made him close his eyes from stress. The station itself was a small salvage depot. Save for the crew of the salvaging frigates and the industrial ship, they were in the middle of dead space. Alpha appeared to fall victim to the presence up until the moment an overwhelming current of power spiked within his temporal lobe. His entire body was wracked at the electricity spread across the matrix within his brain. In a moment of immobility, he'd fall back. His body dropped from the gaping opening in the cargo bay of the large blockade runner. He'd entered a free fall. His ears and pieces of his clothing whipped around wildly. It would take a moment for him to reacquaint himself with the environment.
20:07:17 Misericordia cut her dance short, everyone started clapping. Then she would disappear and reappear underneath the falling male, catching him and guiding him back up to where they were standing previously. "Hey now. You're not supposed to die. I didn't tell you to die. I told you to watch. What's up with that?" Eventually she layed the creature down. "Strange." Her few worshippers dispersed back to their original jobs as if nothing had happened. Her artifact weapon disappeared back into her own domain for her to call it again later. She would wait for this man to regain conciousness.
20:16:11 Alpha It would not be long before he would regain awareness of his positioning. He'd realized now that she was behind him. Beneath the clothing was the feeling of plates and dense material. There was nothing more invasive to a tube child than close proximity. Having no real affinity from it given their isolation since conception, He'd immediately attempt to force himself away from her. “You are a long way from earth.” He would point out cold, “I recommend you keep your sorcery to yourself. I have no problem tucking you back in what remains of whence you came.” His white brow furrowed with a serious expression. His pale blue eyes were wide with resolve. Then launching you as deep into dead space as our rail guns can manage...” Providing he wouldn't be able to force himself away entirely, his arms would attempt to maintain a staunch distance of their length between their bodies.
20:20:15 Misericordia looked at him absolutely dumbfounded. "You.. You can't be serious?" After a few exchanged looks, she busted out laughing so hard she came to tears. As suddenly as she was laughing she stopped. "Really, though Mr. Frost. Help me. I'll see it's ... Rewarded. I know your kind. To recieve, one must give. To give, one must recieve. I understand how it works. What do you want for your efforts? All I ask is for a few worshippers here and there. Nothing big. I don't require sacrifices of the lamb, be it literal or figurative. Besides, I honestly don't think you could even lift me, let alone push me into your contraption against my will." She spawned a bar of platinum in her hand. "How about this?" Then turned it to gold. "Maybe this?" Then to diamonds "Or this? What floats your boat?" The now early-thirties woman spoke.
20:30:08 Alpha He was about as serious as he could muster. “I ask that you set me down on the ground. I am going to escort you to my quarters. We are going to negotiate a contract.”He refused to say anything else in the mean time. He simply hung braced as far away from her as he could manage. – When and if she would actually comply, the two of them would come down, and he would lead them to a mobile platform. This miniature mono rail would carry them from the threshold of the hangar deeper into the depot. They'd stop at the coordinates that Alpha would have input to the terminal. It was a uniform, conservative room. ( go-dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/mlagann/201110.01.23.22.05.jpg ) He would have lead her to the couch facing a holo screen displaying the most recent feed of information from the known galaxy. “Lets have a seat.” He would say before lowering himself down onto the furniture.
20:42:41 Alpha At first his eyes would narrow dangerously. “Be careful what you wager.” He was sure to emphasize to her rebuttal to being launched into space. His features had begun to reset at the time she'd begin to spawn the commodities. “Please.” He would hold out a gloved hand. “Will you hold your thoughts until we can perform the appropriate negotiations?” Nonverbal contracts were so fickle and flimsy, he wasn't about to agree to anything until they could get it in some form of writing.
20:45:45 Misericordia just listened and did eventually follow. Once she arrived she sat on the paltry thing he called a couch. "Tch" She looked at it and made it just a 'touch' more lavish. What she thought was a 'touch' may be thousands of credits of remodeling just to that ONE piece of furniture. Carved out of this new sofa was a small wooden loveseat to which she layed across, in the wood were inlays of gold and mithril, and a luxurious cushion covered the top and arms of it to which she layed across it in half-nude grace. "Ahh. Much more comfortable. Now then... Negotiate? Silly mortals. Negotiate, with me. I guess it can't be avoided." She smiled to the fuzzy male. "So what kind of a were-dog are you? Also what could you want to negotiate about?"
21:01:38 Alpha She'd gone and altered his couch. That was grounds to summon a moment of muscle spasms to rapture the outer portion of his brow. The strong emotions that caused it were held at bay with a stroke of professional will power. “I'm a Caldari Deteis. As for my genetic template, It is hard to tell. Many gene pools were used in the tube child population.” He would explain that there was no real way to tell his pedigree. If anything, it was a breed all in it's own. He would lean forward and wave his hand through the idle symbol of the Frost's Specters insignia. ( i58.tinypic.com/2qnqvkw.png ) “On to business. Will you state for the record what you wish of my Corporation?” a blank template had taken the place of the symbol. His head cocked so that he could get a clear view of her from the angle he sat.
21:07:04 Misericordia "Worshippers. People who believe in me to bring balance to their life. A simple prayer for me to help them. If people accept me as their Goddess and pray to me, I'll hear it and respond to each and every one of them in some way. I bring balance. When someone is ruled by grief and misery, I bring them hope and light. When someone is ruled by power, I humble them. When someone dies that was not pre-ordained, I fix it. Lastly when someone cheats death, I pay them a visit myself, or at least send my avatar. The prayer I wish people to speak can be any words that are similar to. 'Please Misericordia, lady of balance,' or 'Queen of Life and Death,' You know, any of my titles -" She continued "-'bring me balance to my life.' Something of that nature. It empowers me to a degree. I even have my own plane of existance, however over the millenia it has deteriorated due to a lack of worshippers. Only a handful of sages even know of my existance I would declare." She was quite straight to the point.
21:07:06 Misericordia Even as her wings stretched out behind her. The woman closed her eyes and rested on this couch for todays efforts took maybe 10 minutes of resting out of her. Not bad.
21:20:28 Alpha A paraphrased version of what she'd said manifested bright and visibly in front of a dim, shadowed actual quote. Alpha had begun to think long, and hard on what he wanted to bring to the table. “You offer a service similar to my own form of reincarnation. This will certainly increase the productivity of my associates.” His fingers had risen to fondle and grope the underside of what had to be a chin beneath the grim mask he wore. “However, Prayer and rituals are for those superstitious Aquarians and those delusional jihadists under the command of a maniac with a gender identity crisis.” Particularly pleasant terms were chosen for the empires, “Perhaps there is another way we can appease your... desires?” He was particularly set on finding out if there was any other beneficial plan B that he could invest in.
21:26:41 Misericordia "I need my power restored to it's full strength. I'm merely a shell that I am now, and even now were I to take off this here ring-" She held up her left ring finger "-I would warp this space station into nothing but a distorted spacetime electrical storm. I wish my FULL power restored so I can take my rightful throne among the ascended once more. As you can see I'm in the mortal world. I can't even go back to my realm until after I restore my power. Even if I were to return, that... Blasted USERPER WHO HAS MY THRONE WOULD BLITHLY CAST ME ASIDE WITH A SIMPLE SWIPE OF HIS HAND! UNACCEPTABLE!" She began to rage with a fury buried by many millenia of time. A black and blue fire began to rage around her, licking and scorching even the metal of the room, interfering with the electronics and even warping the air. Eventually she settled down and shifted back to her ten-yearold state, then to an old woman. "I need my power back, or my form isn't even stable. It's controllable sure, but that damn... Hmph."
21:26:48 Misericordia She finished talking. "Worshippers. That's all I need. I will give anything in return."
21:39:39 Alpha With all thinks considered, the clone trooper had begun to think. The plight she had was pretty straight forward. There were more than one way to acquire a bunch of personnel for her to empower herself on. It was all a matter of unscrupulous lateral thinking that would lead Frost to his conclusion. However, before he could even open his trap to respond to her, she would be throwing some sort of deific fit. Alpha had pulled himself away from the violent reaction that had begun, Misericordia at the nexus. “Calm yourself!” he exclaimed over the chaotic maelstrom that ripped around his room. Fortunately, it was meant to be. “And fix my couch.” looking at that gaudy thing, he suddenly remembered his contempt for the unauthorized decoration. “Now. My proposition to you is that I will assign you a temperate, terrestrial planet.” His offer was considered and recorded on the device. The display would shift to accommodate both >>>
21:39:44 Alpha sides of the agreement. “We will begin to colonize it with sentient beings for you to draw... warship from.” In exchange, he would point out especially, “You protect and provide your... services to all of my personnel. Providing it keeps you stable, You may temporarily draw your power from my station's staff until your first shipment comes in.” He would manipulate the screen so she could reread his offer if she so pleased.
21:44:41 Misericordia "I like your idea, however I will add to it, I am a deity after all. You will provide me with ten percent of your planets. Preferrably in the same sector. Maybe three or four solarsystems. Starflight is a hard trick for me, takes me maybe three to twelve days to fly between solar systems. Granted I'll need my navigation magics... But yes, Ten percent and we have a deal. I will strike a pact with you." If he accepted her offer, she would sadly change his couch back to his tacky version of normal. "I don't DRAW power, I simply gain it by being acknowledged. Quite fascinating, really. Also They'll be needing this..." She spawned a small shrine totem. It looked like an ankh buried half-way through a skull that was smiling, two wings sticking out of where the ears would be. "This is my holy symbol. If you ever request aid of me, you craft one out of anything greater than wood and I will hear you. But the trick is you have to have it hand made. it can't be machined."
21:56:49 Alpha Planets weren't exactly something that he had any particular need for. If a planet happened to be in Specter territory, than she was more than welcome to it. “There is a security issue that comes with the shelling out of as many planets as you so desire.” he would begin to point out, A star map was swiped into view. “We are dangerously close to empire space. If a change is great and sudden enough in a fringe system, you will alert the neighboring governments of this change.” What he was explaining was that if they did too much too soon, people were going to get nosy. “I will provide you with primitive, non technological planets so word doesn't circulate. It must appear that people are doing this because of their own inhibition.” He would glance over to her, “Do you understand my hindsight?” She was deific after all, surely it would dawn on one of her supposed intellect.
22:10:55 Misericordia smiled at the proposition "Superstisious worlds are my specialty." She chuckeled. "It seems as you understand. Here. Take this." She created a tome out of thin air. "This will improve your spacial reasoning capabilites almost to the point of viewing things in the fourth dimension. I'm sure you can handle it." She retorted in returns to his thoughts. "I can read minds, you know." She smiled. "Besides, that's the type of world from which I hail. Swords, and bows over guns and cannons and spacecraft. I wonder if they have magic on their worlds. If not I can bring it to them."
22:25:38 Alpha She complemented his consideration for the world around him. Hell, she even threw in a present. He'd reach out and take the book that was provided for him. Naturally, he was going to have to alter the format from this primitive manual scripting to something digital that could be injected into his brain. Nevertheless, he accepted it. “Thank you.” He knew immediately that his dedicated points of skill in science weren't as abundant as social, space ship command, or gunnery but it was always good to maintain some manner of support skills to bridge them together. “Don't probe my thoughts too deeply. Installed in my brain is a defensive sub system that alter my mental frequencies to a random biologically compatible frequency. It is a proverbial line in the sand against the more psychically inclined.” The book was stored under his arm and he stood. “Before I agree to invest in this, you must heed my advice.” he would >>>
22:25:45 Alpha point out assertively. “I know all there is to flying under the radar. Seeing as this is clearly not your expertise, I wish for you to let me do my job and you perform yours.”
22:38:19 Misericordia paused, turning into a teenager, and merely smiled. "Do as you wish. I can block all kinds of scrying and remote viewing within 25 miles of any one of my worshipers for 25 hours." There is beginning to be a theme. With the decision made, she shook his hand. On his hand now was a small black mark, unremovable of her seal. "This will allow me to find you." it began to fade into his skin and disappear. "Don't worry. It's not perminant. At least, until I get used to your energy signal. Then once I can find you with a thought, I'll remove it." She smiled and signed whatever document.
22:41:55 [Alpha] /scene.
