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Post by wulfie13 on Oct 14, 2012 21:56:42 GMT
"Well, it's better equipped than some of my hideouts..." Nabarl said, looking around, glad for his nightvision in the unlit room. "Anyway, we should probably go through proper introductions now. I'm Nabarl. I'm a Shapeshifter of sorts - I can fly, and turn into a large raven. I'm also an expert thief, as William no doubt already knows, as well as a former spy."
He took off his coat, and, feeling relatively safe here, unbound his wings.
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Post by Echo on Oct 14, 2012 22:42:50 GMT
Valerie navigated the dark room with ease, but stopped and stared when her heat vision picked up Nabarl's wings. She'd read the files and seen the pictures, but it was something entirely different to see them in the flesh, so to speak. 'They're amazing' she thought, using her lenses to zoom in and get a better look.
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Post by Henryk on Oct 15, 2012 0:11:24 GMT
William walked over to the table and sat down after going to a side cabinet and getting two plain brown envelopes with a slight bulge. He placed them in front of him and waited for the others to be seated before sliding them across.
" Apologies for the lack of lighting, but I've never really had the need to fix it. In there is the mission brief, plus something... possibly useful. I hope you don't need it, but it's a safety net that HQ has always imposed whenever I work with others. It hasn't been needed before, and a sincerely hope it won't be needed on this mission, but HQ isn't taking any chances. In regards to the mission I can give you a quick run down from what I know personally."
William paused to take off his jacket before continuing, revealing lightly tanned arms, covered in a variety of scars.
"Something or someone is causing what are best described as temporal fluctuations. Not the stable kind, used for teleportation or the like, but rip-big-holes-in-reality, destruction-of-life-as-we-know-it, kind of holes. They've been popping up for years, but never really been either noticeable or a problem until now. I spotted one a couple of miles away, on Cable Street. I've had a word with a couple of other contacts of mine in the QA and less reputable organizations, but they're apparently not powerful enough to manifest for a couple of seconds. Now, I don't know what HQ thinks we can do, but I agree with them, this is a very serious situation. The full brief is in the packages I gave you, so I suggest you read and remember it."
He paused looking at both Nabarl and Valerie before saying two more words.
"Any questions?"
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Post by Echo on Oct 15, 2012 0:49:58 GMT
Valerie raised her eyebrows when she opened the packet and saw a small revolver and a box. 'Silver bullets' she thought, doing another quick scan of William. She'd read her brief back at Head Office. It had been simple. Follow orders. Record everything. The brief she was looking out now was definitely not simple.
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Post by wulfie13 on Oct 15, 2012 8:08:14 GMT
Nabarl pulled out the revolver. He'd seen Jude use one of these before, but had no idea how to use one. He recognised the bullets straight away to be silver - his homeworld used silver weapons quite often, so it didn't really strike him as odd. He replaced the revolver in the box, and placed it into one of the larger pockets of his coat.
He began to read the brief, wondering if the lack of prior briefing was part of his parole. "OK, I'd like to know approximate dimensions of these things, and how frequently they appear, and if specific ones reappear. If they appear for 1-2 seconds, then don't appear for another decade, it's probably better we look for what or whoever is causing it first. An hour before it reappears, we need to find a way to close it fast." Nabarl checked his brief once more, seeing if there was anything else that needed clearing up. "Also, once one of these holes has closed on itself, is it possible either for that one to reopen in the same location, or another to appear at that location."
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Post by Henryk on Oct 15, 2012 12:31:05 GMT
William listened silently whilst Narbarl real of a list of questions. After he'd finished he nodded before answering.
"Good questions. I'm afraid as to exact size, I don't know. I can tell you that there is variation between them, so dimensions vary from something the size of a coffee mug to something nearing average human size, and it's thought they might be getting bigger. Frequency of appearance varies also, though in higher magic areas they're apparently more frequent. We've not had any confirmed reports of reappearance yet, but that's not say that they won't."
He paused for a moment to clear his throats before continuing.
"We're not sure if each hole is an individual thing, or if the same one is cropping up all over the place. We don't even know if they're connected or where they lead. All I got told about the from the science lot back at HQ is that it's probably best if we didn't go through them until they'd got some cleaner signals off them."
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Post by Echo on Oct 15, 2012 13:29:12 GMT
'That's why they need me' Valerie realised 'Find one, scan it, report back. Record everything.' "Is there anything else we need to know?" she asked.
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Post by Henryk on Oct 15, 2012 21:19:39 GMT
William smiled slightly before answering.
"Only than it's two days till full moon, and you'd both probably learn the lunar cycle? No. That's all anyone knows, which is why we're here. Lucky us."
He got up from his chair and started walking around lighting candles at various points around the room. As he straightened up from lighting the final one he smiled.
"Make yourselves at home. Feel free to eat or drink anything you want."
With this he grabbed a beer from the fridge, and then sat of his bed before pulling an old looking rifle from under his bed and starting to dismantle and clean it.
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Post by Echo on Oct 15, 2012 23:53:00 GMT
'You learn something new every day' Valerie thought, finding a comfortable chair and seating herself in it.
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Post by wulfie13 on Oct 16, 2012 12:23:02 GMT
Nabarl pulled his scythe's blade off his back, and ran his whetstone down it. It was plenty sharp enough, but he figured that he should get it back to it's full cutting edge.
After finishing that, he opened up the freezer, and looked for any meat.
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