BZPRPG: Ta-Wahi

IC: (Aboard the Infernavika)Perkahn relaxed, his back against the wall, as he absorbed all the information everyone was putting out into the open. It felt somewhat comfortable being surrounded by people like before, like before his exile, out of the jungle, out in the open. Out in civilization."There's an awful lot o' people who don't remember anything here, 'tis seems. Can't say I share such an affliction, though I'd have nothing against that. Amnesia'd be a welcome relief sometimes."

OOC: MehIC: Laviha"Shaddap..." Laviha replied, obviously still sleepy as she rubbed her right eye. "Not like you look very good any time of the day..."

IC: SongSong zeroed in on Perkahn. "You. You were in the Magma Lounge. Prexan was it?" Her words were slightly slurred. IC: The CannoneerVearal scowled at the Jester. The being was insane. She didn't trust him, he was a clown. "Hello, Jester."

OOC: Dovydas, you've got a grammatical error there. It wouldn't be 'tis seems, It would be it seems. 'Tis is the shortened form of It is, and "it is seems" isn't proper English for any era.IC-Grochi:"Now, Laviha, that isn't fair!" Grochi said mock-angrily. "I've been in battles enough nobody would look good with the scars I have." He then shrugged, and handed her a glass of Kola."Drink up," he said. "It's the best way to wake up, I'd say."

IC: Laviha"Maybe, maybe not. Just don't let anyone see those scars on your back. You look like Frankenstein a roughed up doll with all those stitches." she replied, taking the glass of Kola and downing the drink in a single go."By the way, you're crazy if you think the couch is more comfortable than your bed."

IC-Grochi:"You're crazy for thinking I was truthful," Grochi said, smiling happily. "Then again, we were already crazy. No news there." He then drank another glass of Kola, before putting his cloak back on."If you need it, there's a shower right down there," Grochi said, pointing down the hall. "Third room on the right." He then went into the room to make the bed, something that Laviha had forgotten.OOC: It's funny. He only cares about making the bed in his own house.

IC: Laviha"Considering that I'm going to be living on a ship with little hygiene for Mata-Nui knows how long, I think I'll go take a shower, thank you." she said, giving him a grateful smile. Following Grochi's instructions, Laviha soon found herself in the shower room and locked the door before turning on the water and stepping in, using soap and shampoo and whatnot.OOC: I'm guessing it's one of those primitive showers where you pull a chain to release water from a massive container on top.

OOC: Nope, more like it has a mostly-modern pipe-system created by a Toa of Iron. He's dead now, but Grochi remembers the schematics. It's like how the Romans used, and it's heated by geothermal energy due to the volcano. IC-Grochi:Grochi smiled, looking at the bed. Same as it was before he came in. He then walked out, beginning to prepare some breakfast. He grabbed a pan, greasing it with a little Kikanalo butter, and cracking a few Gukko eggs and putting them in. He added some Mahi bacon, and a couple diced peppers and onions to the omelette he was making.

OOC: I seeIC: LavihaShowered up and feeling clean, Laviha dried herself off with a nearby towel waiting for her and put on her clothes before stepping out of the bathroom. Instantly, Laviha could smell food cooking and she always had a nose for it. Bacon, peppers, onions, all of it smelled wonderful. "Do I smell an omelette cooking?" she said, stepping into the room before taking a seat in a nearby chair.

IC-Grochi:"You smell two large omelettes just now done," Grochi said, passing Laviha over a plate, which nearly couldn't be seen from the top due to how big the omelette was. Grochi then sat down next to Laviha, putting some salt and pepper on his omelette before eating."Good thing I know how to cook, eh?" Grochi said between mouthfuls. "Otherwise we'd both be going hungry right now."

IC: LavihaUnfortunately, going hungry was a part of everyday life for me. Was that is.Laviha gazed at the massive omelette before applying salt and pepper to it, taking a hearty piece that she cut off. Good cook, nice house, wealthy and funny sometimes. Impressive."Good thing indeed. Looks like this is going to be my last good meal for awhile." she said, taking another hearty bite. "Maybe we should have you become the crew's chef." Of course, this was a joke; he already had enough on his plate. Then again, he did sit down often enough...

IC-Grochi:"I wouldn't be surprised if Raknar decides I should be," Grochi said, smiling as he continued to eat his omelette. He laughed slightly. "At least nobody on the crew would ever go hungry, were I the chef," he said then."So, Laviha, I take it you like this old place," Grochi said.

IC: Laviha"Mind reader, eh? You're full of surprises. You throw a lot of people off the mark with your first impressions, no offense." she said through a mouthful of food, finishing her omelette and taking one last sip of Kola. A full stomach twice in a row: what a treat."Like I said, it's a nice place and all but nothing beats home. For now, that's the ship."

IC-Grochi:Grochi smiled, taking Laviha's plate and setting it in the sink along with his. He burned any crumbs off of them with a quick blast of plasma, so that the plates were basically clean already. He just left them in the sink because he didn't want to put them back."I've gotten fairly good at reading people's expressions over the years," Grochi said. "And I know how you feel about the ship-I like it a bit more than this place, even with how untidy it is." He stood up, stretching. He found it odd that his back managed to pop back into position without his forcing it now."Ready to head back, Lav?" He asked.

IC: (Aboard the Infernavika)Perkahn smiled just a little bit. "Perkahn. It's like perk, but with an... an to the end. Not that difficult. Should actually be easier than Prexan, last time I checked."

IC: SongSong nodded drunkenly. "Okay, Perkahn. What's your story?"

IC: Dorian (Ta-Koro Guard HQ, Ta-Koro)"Alright, then," said Dorian, picturing the destroyed hospital outside, then looking at the Toa of Ice and putting two and two together. "Alright. They'll want to display it publicly. They're going to want to trick themselves into thinking you're beaten. Where would that place...?"The lounge."Let's move. I have an idea."-Teezy

Ic: Hiemalis struggled up and followed Dorian, though clutched to the wall for support. "I hope it's a good idea," he said under his breath. By his estimation, the alarms would go off in about ten more seconds...

IC: Laviha"Absolutely." she said, nodding.OOC: Sorry about the short post, I hafta go.

IC:From the shadows of the wall behind Heimalis and Dorian, a dark figure materialized silently - and, upon seeing that there were beings ahead of him, drew back into the darkness, motionless and utterly quiet. The being's cloak seemed to blend in with the dark rock of the corridor as he pressed himself back into the niche. The two others he had almost stumbled into, two Toa, kept stumbling along; they hadn't noticed anything.Heuani could sense that he was underground - here it was, after all, that shadows were deepest. Only flickering torches illuminated the passage. Perfect. Fire cast the most delightful shadows, ones that fluttered capriciously. It was harder to "jump" into them, but Heuani reveled in the challenge. Besides, if he was seen, he would easily be able to cover himself. Heuani pressed back into the shadows of the wall, and dissipated--to re-emerge on the other side of the corridor, slightly ahead of the two Toa, around a corner from them. The wall would shield him from sight until they rounded the turn. Right before they did, Heuani leapt to another shadow, one cast by a torch, almost perfectly. But not quite. If they'd been looking for it, the two Toa could have seen an odd, hardly perceptible warbling in the shadows ahead. Heuani silently chastised himself.

IC: Tawara, Ta-Ga Border"Well, if no one else has anything left to say, I'm off to get breakfast," announced Tawara. She drew and strung her bow and headed into the Forest.

IC: Dorian (Ta-Koro Guard HQ, Ta-Koro)Dorian was on the way to the guard's lounge when he suddenly stopped, daggers drawn and ready."Did you see that?" he asked the Toa of Ice. He could have sworn he had seen something for the briefest of nanoseconds...-Teezy

Ic: "The disturbance," Hiemalis stated instead of asked, knowing what Dorian meant. His powers of element may have been depleted, but his powers of perception were never faded. He gazed at the torches and their shadows, seeing the patterns of their flickers and knowing one of them did not match the natural algorithm. "We are not alone," he said.

IC:"True," Heuani admitted wryly, emerging from the wall seamlessly. He wore his grey hooded cloak, cowl up; but, even without his face exposed, Heimalis and Dorian immediately sensed that the new being was a friend. "I'm sorry for the cloak... don't worry, it comes without a dagger," Heuani continued with a warm chuckle. He lowered the hood, and smiled contagiously at the two. "What are you two doing down here?" he asked.

IC: Dorian (Ta-Koro Guard HQ, Ta-Koro)"No, it appears not," said the Toa of Iron, taking a right and turning into the guard's lounge. Two guards were inside, but they quickly became immaterial: two iron spikes that had sprouted from the ground impaled them through the heartlights, killing them instantly.At the end of the hall was Hiemalis's Kanohi.He spun suddenly at the voice, and recognized it to be some strange Toa: he appeared not to be a threat, and he had a built yet lithe physique that topped even Dorian's own."Oh, you know, just trying to get our daily massacre in."-Teezy

IC: LekuaLekua carefully searched the pile of objects, examining a small dagger with a white blade. Could be handy. He rummaged through the pile until he found the weapon's sheath, then fixed it in place. Lekua also found a spyglass, which he had no idea how Stannis might have procured, and took this also. He was about to turn from the table when something caught his eye. Lepidran had just taken a coil of rope, revealing a small stone box. As he reached for it, Lekua found that it was warm to the touch. Upon opening the box, he discovered that it contained a small, amber stone that emanated intense heat. A heatstone. He had heard about these, but there was little use for them in the jungles of Le-Koro. At any rate, it'll certainly be help-useful where we're going.

Ic: Hiemalis looked at the stranger, but no matter how hard he tried, this being remained impossible to place. All the lord of winter could tell was that he was like him, but not. His senses wanted to make him believe this man was a friend, but his instincts, raw and personal, told him to be wary. In part because he was here, in a deep prison, moving about like he owned the place. And the guard would never hire the likes of this, he thought. "The same can be asked you," he said in his characteristic short sentences.Eight... Nine... Ten. Somewhere above ground, bells could be heard. Hiemalis smirked; he was right. "So why are you here?" he asked.

IC:"Nice evasion of my question," Heuani commented casually to Hiemalis. "But that's irrelevant. I know what you're here for; based on how you just reacted to that alarm being raised, and how your friend just got rid of those guards, I'd say you're here to escape. Well, the same is true of me. I want out of this place, as fast as possible."Heuani opened his arms up to show he meant no harm, and he spoke very politely. "I think we can be more productive if we work together. Obviously, I don't want to interrupt anything in your two gentlemen's dynamic," he said. "But I think that escape is more likely for all of us if we pool our resources."

Ic: "What do you have?" Hiemalis asked in an effort to figure out what sort of "resources" this man had. Contrasting Heuani's silk words, Hiemalis' togue was rough and unhewn, but it did not seem barbaric because underneath the coarseness of his voice was intelligence. He still clutched the wall for support, knowing full well that he was hardly in the right position to bargain."Toa," he said looking over the stranger to the one helping him readily, and nodded. He needed his mask and needed it now.

IC: Dorian (Ta-Koro Guard HQ, Ta-Koro)Dorian nodded, and was about to turn to the mask before a Toa of Fire came running down the hallway he had just walked down, Disk Launcher raised.Almost lazily, with a bored look on his face, Dorian flicked his wrist, sending out a spike of iron that shot through the Toa's ribcage, pinning him to the wall like a morbid statue.-Teezy

IC:Heuani extended his hand towards the mask at the far end of the room. From his actual hand, another one sprouted, a dark hand of shadow energy that swooped in and plucked the mask off the wall. Immediately, the floor beneath that wall fell away to reveal an aperture filled with lava, the red light of which was snuffed quickly by Heuani's shadow, and launched a quartet of spears (one of which almost went right through Dorian) down the hall, towards Heuani. Luckily, the spears hadn't been meant to hit a target so far away, and they clattered to the stone floor before Heuani even had to summon tendrils of shadow to stop them.His shadow hand lazily lobbed Hiemalis' mask into Heuani's real hand. The Toa of Shadow caught the mask nonchalantly, ignoring the subtle fear and awe in Hiemalis' face after this display of alien power. "You ask what I have with which to bargain," Heuani said, spinning the mask between his fingers. His tone was neither sharp nor cold, but it was strong. "I think this is worth something."

Ic: Hiemalis was intrigued, but not afraid. This man was a trickster, a player, a deceiver. If he meant to kill, he had ample time and opportunity to do so, bit even so -- Hiemalis was not afraid of death. This man wanted something else, something trivial even, and aimed to misbehave. The powers -- powers Hiemalis had never seen -- did little to frighten him, though they did serve to warn his mind further of the distastefulness of this being. His mind willed and his will knew: this man was no friend. But despite the supposed cleverness of this being and his alien forces, he was still not impressing Hiemalis."Not to bargain," he corrected Heuani, "but resources. Explain."

IC:Heuani was a master of reading people. He could tell that this Hiemalis was not a usual sort of person. The Toa of Shadow delighted in that, found the Toa's stoic nature alluring. Perhaps he would take this Hiemalis, take him and discover what made him so..."Resources," Heuani said, hiding his interest beneath a facade of reasonability, "I believe that what I bring to the table is clear. Not to mention I have this bargaining chip," he gestured towards the mask, "and I consider this chip to be a resource."Heuani turned to Dorian. "Wouldn't you agree?" he smiled brightly. Dorian couldn't help but smile back. Heuani returned his focus to Hiemalis. "The question now is not what I have to offer, but what you do."

IC: Dorian (Ta-Koro Guard HQ, Ta-Koro)Dorian, as a habit, didn't like people much. People who tried to be his friend ended up killed or paying him to kill. So when the Toa had gotten him to smile, he decided right there that he was dangerous. Beyond anything he could remember seeing. At the same time, he was...interesting.The Toa of Iron merely decided to stay silent, leaning against the wall and watching the conversation move forward.-Teezy

Ic: "I wasn't planning on bartering with anyone," Hiemalis admitted. "Especially here."Distantly, the shouts and storming of Ta-Koro guards, alerted to the assumed disappearance of their most highly guarded and dangerous subject, could be heard thumping through the stone alleyways of the prison. Other inmates could be heard cheering, maybe because they understood what that meant: Someone was free. The only problem was that Hiemalis was not free and just as imprisoned as before. He was out of the cell but still in the cage, trapped at an impasse with nowhere to go and nothing to give."You want to work together, then act like it," Hiemalis said, pointing out Heuani's hypocrisy. "This isn't how we get out."

IC:"Fine," Heuani said with a shrug, looking at the mask one more time, before passing it back to Hiemalis. The Toa of Ice gratefully donned his mask once more, felt the energy flow back into him. "My gesture of good will," he said. Inside, Heuani was more intrigued than ever, and also somewhat satisfied. This Toa did not crack under pressure. That was valuable. The Toa of Shadow looked forward to breaking and subjugating his new find. But, again, none of these thoughts were discernible. "Now, lead the way," Heuani said to Hiemalis in his normal voice. "Let's get out of this hole."

IC: Dorian (Ta-Koro Guard HQ, Ta-Koro)Dorian spun on his heel wordlessly and began to lead the two out of the hallway. Two Toa of Lightning, armed and ready, charged towards Dorian, but he cleanly ducked their charge and spun his daggers around his fingers, cowboy style. Catching them cleanly, he ducked onto one knee and stabbed both Toa in their back, severing their spines and killing them almost instantaneously."Expect that to happen a lot over the next few minutes," he muttered.-Teezy

Ic: "Toa, you lead," Hiemalis said as he pointed to Dorian, still regaining his energies. He also wanted to remain close to this stranger. He didn't know if he was an enemy for sure, but he still knew it prudent to keep him near.

IC-Grochi:"Alright," Grochi said, holding the door for Laviha. "Off we go." As they were walking, he turned to look at a large, Muaka-sized rock on the side of the road. He stayed there, staring at it for a moment.Suddenly, he activated his mask, quickly transporting around it a few times and blasting it in specific places with plasma. When he was finished, the rock had glowing spiderweb cracks running along it, which previously hadn't been visible against the rock.Grochi smiled, and kicked the rock at one of the cracks. The rock groaned, and split into many, much smaller rocks. Grochi smiled. "I won't have to worry about that bloody thing anymore," he said.

IC: Laviha"No, looks like you won't." she said, continuing to walk towards the ship. "Did you lock the door on the way out?"

IC-Grochi:"Locks aren't needed," Grochi said, smiling. "I've set up quite a few things back there to make sure nobody takes anything from me." Then he laughed a bit. "But yes, I did lock it." He rubbed his left arm, the rock bringing up memories from when he was attacked by the Muaka.