Komm, süsser Tod

Komm, süsser Tod
Part of Ships in the Night
Date 2087-06-25 GM Sleevey Location ???
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven My Love, Bezaisen	Crystals	Scavengers	Her
Asura	"Surveyors" "Slingers" "Mages" "Slugger" An Entity We Faced Before An Entity I had Faced Before	A lot of mooks Their supposed leader	Ruronin
Casualties and losses
4 of my Goddamn Edge	2 crystalline entities are permanently dead. I had to permanently deal with a slinger and a surveyor myself. The bitch got a third.	I killed 5 of them myself. There were...countless other bodies. So...so many other bodies. And they never rotted. They would never truly rot	..she seems to have been the one responsible for me surviving as long as I did. And yet she also tried to Take Her. She isn't dead yet though. She will be.

Summary

These files are a collection of data entries I have made and a flashback simsense I have created to try and...not forget what happened this horrible day. I had a lot to work on. I don't think this will be coherent. I doubt I could ever really do that. But I don't care. It'll make sense to me. And...and I hope one day, when I make things right - truly right - I'll be able to show her too. And more. So, so, so much more.

Background

I had nearly died when entering this place. I can thank that cyberzombie Gregory for that. The culmination of my journey, my everything...it could have ended here. I was...I was so scared in the void. I thought I failed for the last time.

I was more fortunate than that though.

The Meet

I felt things, more than I really noticed them. Felt bodies move past. Felt the world change around me. Felt Her touch, briefly. I heard voices, voices of two scavengers. One called out to the other just as they were being controlled. He died shortly after. Then I was dragged off to a medical room to be put back together. Not perfectly but...it was enough. Then they were given a final order. When I finally came to, there was blood and supplies, a gun, and a pipe I could break off. Everything else had been stripped off me by scavengers. I was alive, somehow. And I knew exactly what I had to do:

The Plan

F I N D

B E Z A I S E N

The Run

I left the room to find the strange beings I am now dubbing as "Surveyors" in the hall, banging on locked doors. They noticed my approach, and I realized how bad it was to be...stripped of all my gear. It was a harder fight than I anticipated, but I managed to put them down. I thought they were dead but as I have later come to find...those twisted by the Crystalline cannot be killed so easily. The core must burn first. I went to check the two doors. One was a locked door to the armory. The other had voices nearby. They chastised my naivete in thinking the things were dead and laughed me off. Unhelpful. So I went east. I followed the pull off the thread, and I found that it went into this...center.

Oh right. The Tube room.

I have no idea how to...identify it besides that. It is a yawning abyss and a twisted centerpiece to this...this whole lost facility. I didn't mention it was a facility until now have I? I'm jumping. I lost a lot of blood. Again, I'm not coherent. Anyways, there were more of the creatures there, as well as a unique one I now call "Slingers", but at the time I had no desire to interfere with them. So, I didn't. I did my best to try and stealthily make my way across to the southern (?) hallway, but one of the creatures noticed my attempt at escape and made a swing for me. I barely dodged out of the way. When I arrived, I found scavs whom I...did not trust to be friendly. Another attempt at stealth...failed, honestly, I'm finding I have too many blindspots in that regard. So one called me out, and there was a firefight. It was an utterly senseless and brutal fight. I'm glad that the things they could manage to facet into weapons were too poor to get through my cybernetic armor. I'd probably be dead otherwise. I killed them all. I felt...something nearby, but I don't really know what it was, even now. I didn't care much before...maybe it was...a sign things were going to go wrong, honestly. I don't know. I found my tools though, along with my revolver. And a key to that locked door, where the other scavengers were holed up in. I got in, and they were ready to start a fight with me. I did not want to try that, frankly. So, I didn't. The largest one, the Orc, had my walking stick - my focus. I made a trade for it - clear the beasts from the halls and make them no longer an issue. That was...rough, but I managed it. Somehow. It was during this...very prolonged series of battles that I discovered what slingers could do. That would be throw an utter barrage of crystals like daggers at me. It's hard to dodge them all. I nearly died there.

...I nearly died there...

I...locked them into the medical room after I was done with them all, welding them in, then moved to the barracks. I got my rifle back, some medical gear...and I took time to heal. I think some manner of spell came over me too which in hindsight...was Ruronin.

Bastard.

I moved on from there a few hours later, glad to be moving again. I realized where I was taken from, the opening of the weft walk, had not been locked. Opening it was a mistake. A magical foe, one of their "mages" (I dont know how they managed that) and a surveyor were ready for me. I at least managed to beat them, somehow, and I...filled in the rest of the details on my initial miracle. I tried to ambush the group in the center room - didn't work. Nearly died again. Fled to the north (?) I found a shooting range I couldn't open the way to, and a... a very warped office room. It was as if it was collapsed into itself a dozen times over, stretched and shortened in ways it shouldn't. It was also teeming with even more dangers. I wisely backed out before an engagement broke out. Then I moved to the last wing to the east (?) Bathroom, showers, cantina in front of me. I went to the bathroom, found medical supplies, reached into the stall... and fell for the dumbest trick ever.

I could've fucking died there why didn't I check the damn place for that surveyor a little better?! God dammit. If it weren't for that scheming bastard Ruronin needing me alive I'd be...I'd be...

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I just needed to get moving. The cantina was filled with some poisonous gas, but I was lucky enough to have found my gasmask among my tools. Put it on, went inside. With the hour of air I had there was plenty of time to do some searching.

Another fucking surveyor.

Putting that down for sometime was a mess, and it alerted others in various different rooms. I absconded north while they headed to the room east of me, and did some searching while they were occupied. I found more ammunition thankfully, and I realized a scavenger was hiding for his life. A few of them had a firefight. It led to the leak, and a lot of bodies. Not my problem, it wasn't like I could actually help at the moment. I took a quick room in the room the enemies had moved towards and saw the cloak of grey mana along with my chameleon suit. Good gear. Very good gear. Oh, also some infiltration equipment like a disguise kit and the synthskin mask. Honestly? Couldn't care less. Issue: I got spotted again. I have a lot I need to work on, honestly.

I ran the fuck out of there and dodged a slinger's barrage, and from there...I did a lot of wandering about, frankly. I finally put down most of the group in the center, then found a way to crack open the furnace without a key to operate it.

Another two damn surveyors who didn't care they were being set alight moments ago! God I hate these damn roaches!!

I put them down and found something incredibly useful: A key to the door that I would find out later bars the path to Bezaisen's dwelling. More wandering about - wondering where the damn armory key lay hidden - and I found a key to the shooting range in the showers after a very hard fight with a slinger and surveyor.

I open the shooting range to fucking 3 of the damn slingers.

I barely managed to grab the key before losing consciousness and my fucking rifle.

Fuck.

Ruronin saved my ass again, and I realize only now she was taking fucking samples of me. Like an asshole. But I had the key. I had everything I needed.

I put down that regenerating survivor in the tube room, broke a hole open, and...and climbed down. I could feel her so close in that moment. I was so...so close. I even found the armory key and just...I just couldn't turn away. Not when she was so close

I approached the airlock. I put the keys in. I pressed my hands and eyes in. I could FEEL her again, for only a moment. It was so nice. God it was so good. And...and then I saw it.

The infinite order.

The egg.

The entity.

Two of them, frankly. One had escaped into that place after my last run. Joy.

Ruronin decided then to finally make her proper entrance, and we battled for our lives. I got jazz and 4 shots of...balefire rounds. It was frankly one of the most terrifying fights of my life, minds pressed as they attempted to force our submission and bodies being broken as they clawed and smashed into us. I pushed myself to the absolute limit. I could feel the shreds of my life slipping away with each shot. I pierced them as Ruronin kicked and shattered them using...well, my fucking assault cannon. Ass.

But...but we did it. In the far corner of the...place, we were in, where infinity was made singular and weighed down on all, was an...egg? Red and fleshy...and she was within it.

I cracked her open. She joined me again. Everything was so...so right.

I couldn't move after it. I realized then, something was very wrong. So did she.

Ruronin took the chance to...offer an ultimatum. I didn't realize what she was even bargaining for. She...she wanted Bezaisen. She wanted the love of my life.

I was not a fan of it. I am still so fucking irritated. God I am going to fucking KILL that bitch when I get the chance.

...Bezaisen was formulating a plan when she shot me in the gut, too. I think that's the closest thing to a scar I'll ever get.

Aftermath

...Whatever Bezaisen did...it got me to my home. Not my apartment. My proper home, with Marcus, in Detroit. And...and um...he got me the medical attention I needed. And I am now resting here. And...

thank god, Bezaisen is with me. Thank...thank the heavens...

What she did cost her...cost her *so much* but...we're together.

I know it isn't everything. I have to figure out why...why I'm so broken, figure out what caused us to be so out of sync. I need to make sure Ruronin will never get between us again. And I...I still want to find out more about myself.

...But now I have her.

I have her...

...I feel happy.

Rewards

For Asura:

24 Karma (24 RVP)

Bezaisen (3 / 5 contact for 7 RVP. Keep bothering me until I write her.)

10 cdp (4 RVP)

May take an initiation ordeal.

Quality Rewards (Only ONE after buying off Driven):

May buy off Driven at chargen rates. Wife Got.

Daredevil at chargen rates (0 edge max tho LAUGH at her)

Guts at chargen rates

Indomitable Mental

MUST take Vendetta for Ruroini and Unsteady Hands after burning edge to live.

For Mado:

A gold star.

Narrative Consequences:

Bezaisen has to partially rip herself apart in order to escape that corner of the metaplanes. She is Diminished and may need to take more drastic steps to recover herself and her bond with Asura than otherwise.

Rurouini, while she does not fully achieve her goal, is in possession of Asura's blood and Bezaisen's spiritflesh. She returns from the metaplanes.

Asura is currently under observation by Knight Errant under the request of Markus. She's also like ... physically mangled but what can ya do.

Game Quotes

"You hate women with musk, don't you?" -Breeze

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Asura

...I have no idea how I'm going to convince Marcus to let me off on my own again after coming back to him via teleportation and with a hole in my stomach.