Empowered IC

[KnightVanilla]

Strange Lyle thought. Pulling out his rifle he aims his rifle searching for what could be heading towards the plant. He Decides to shoot a message to Richard. "Hey someone his heading towards the plant. Get ready for anything!" He shoots his voice at Richard. Using his now more sensitive ears to locate whatever the source of the noise was. He loads a live round into the chamber. Maybe this guy was careless to let something follow him. Maybe he was part of a group of bandits. At this point Lyle couldn't be sure he had to focus on this one thing.

[MiscChaos]

Ilia, Emile, Dax, Rick, & Mikal/Roderick

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Mikal gives Ilia a small smile as she announces her intent to protect. She just hopes that Ilia’s protection doesn’t fail as badly as Mikal’s did all those years ago, for Mikal and Ilia’s sakes.

“Good to hear.” is what she says out loud, trying not to show her dark thoughts on her face. She leaves them to their training conversation and answers, “Only if most everyone else agrees to it.” to his question of staying the night here. “I personally have no problem with staying near a water source, but it is risky since we know for a fact X are roaming this area now.” The lake is in plainview and nothing has changed, save for footprints Rick and Dax made and the body print of Dax lying down near the water. “Just decide quickly. Because I know the area has X in it, I would rather keep moving. I don’t mind if we stay, but I’d like to move.”

Rod doesn’t appear to have an opinion, instead just setting the spit back up so that he can roast some X meat.

Kyle

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((Please read the note at the bottom of the post. Since I didn’t mention it before, this isn’t your individual warning.))

The 3 remaining hunting tents are in fairly good condition. None of them are perfect, but that’s to be expected after 3 years left to the wild. A look at them reveals the standard issue tent: There’s a solar battery attached to the top of most of them so that they can charge the AC system they have hidden within. This would make it perfect for desert travel, though that wasn’t the original intent, or at least not fully. The frame hasn’t changed in over 100 years except now there’s microfilament within each piece that has to fit together just so to have the power from the solar battery come through. The cloth is made to ward off the worst of the elements, though you’re not 100% sure if that includes the desert sun. Should be fun finding out, right?
--One of them, as far as you can see, only has the problem of missing a support. You can still build it, but it’ll be kind of flimsy on the left side and, with the missing filament, you won’t have AC. Actually, that’s a pretty glaring flaw now that you think of it.
--Another one is missing strips of cloth from it, making it solid construction-wise, but it’ll let sun through in places and take in more heat.
--The last one looks almost perfect… except someone stole the solar battery. So construction-wise, it’s perfect. You’ll just have no AC while you use it.
Your choice. After that, the rest of the store is still open. Just be careful how much time you spend in it.

Troy & Anari

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The sound of Anari being forced into the sand alerts the 2 X Troy can see, but the other 4 seem to either not hear or not care, you can’t be sure. Either way, you might wanna either move before those 2 X come closer to investigate or come up with a way to kill them silently so they don’t alert the other 4. Anari can tell they’re far enough away that slight noises won’t reach them, but close enough that if someone does something stupid enough to get seen, they’ll be able to tell you’re here simply by eyesight. Especially someone of Troy’s stature. Make your move, for the alert X shall be there soon!

Lyle & Richard

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Richard, by virtue of not having picked out a bed to sleep in at this point, may be able to heard Lyle’s warning. Or he could be so sleepy that the warning fell on deaf ears. His choice. Lyle, on the other hand, starts to see what’s making the noise, but only through the scope of his rifle, so they’re a good while away. That something is a solitary X, maybe a vanguard of some sort? It’s completely unaware of your presence, but that only applies to this one. You’ve seen that X rarely travel alone and that if they do, they’re either meeting up with more X real soon or are more dangerous than the standard X. Take all this into account, then decide what you’re gonna do.

*Since I failed to mention this in the OOC, I’ll say it now: Please no one-liners! Like Sort said, blind me with bullshit if you can’t come up with something. I’ll warn you once individually should it happen, but after that, I start thinking of ways to kill you off. And this is a post apocalyptic desert with races of man-eaters being its primary inhabitants. There’s no end of ways I can have you killed off.

[RavenLord]

Richard has just chosen a bed when he hears Lyle's warning. Sighing loudly and cursing he grabs is rifle and starts making his way out of the building. Looks like he has to postpone struggling with nightmares. Adrenaline starts coursing through his veins as Richard's instincts kick in again, his heart starts to beat faster, and with each step Richard shakes of his weariness, for a time, but the thing is, after this he will have hell, as currently, Richard is pushing himself beyond his limits, he is using whats left in his body carry him forwards. Richard doesnt know why he is doing it as the intruder maybe another survivor just like him. Too convinient his instincts tell him, cynical voices already listing worst probilities in his head.

[Lady Foxy]

The girl looked almost comical and silly as she did hand signs and pointing at her eyes, but then he got the idea, raising an eyebrow questionably. Could the girl see X's from afar? Or were anymore nearby?

Troy glanced from within the cover they were hiding behind of, noticing the two X's from quite a distance away beginning to head towards their direction with the feeling that they were going to investigate the area. One of them had probably made noise, or had it been the body slam that he had made upon the girl? Well, hand slam, probably more well said.

He took one of the girl's hands in his, pulling her quietly and softly towards another patch of cover, beginning to head towards one farthest away from those X's, being as careful and silent as he could. The giant, technically, had been ducking low to avoid being spotted obviously. It would have been disappointing to have been spotted for sneaking by 'tip-toeing'.

[daxtinator396]

Dax grins happily at the thought of swimming and nodded happily,"I`m game to stay here! Especially if we can swim!" Dax smile stays bright and cheerful and he nudges Rick,"When was the last time you went swimming Rick? I think we could all use some downtime and a nice swim is wonderful!" Dax said and thought about the last time he went swimming was in the small pond near his house when he was teenager and he remember the pretty ladies he swam with the pretty country women with their blonde hair and teeny bikinis being teases to him as they often were. He sighed with happiness thinking of the fond memories.

[Rooiehaan #2]

Anari rubbed her head when she felt the pain in the back of her head still aching when suddenly she got her hand grabbed and dragged off behind the bull of a man. Seeminly without regard of her feelings, he dragged her off to another wrecked piece of rubble that acted as cover before stopping again. She glared at him silent, before yanking her hand back and rubbing her wrist. Brute.
"Where do you need to go..?" She whispered absently as she kept an eye out for X's. Looking through the rubble didn't pose any problem for her, but that massive torso of the guy blocked nearly her entire view. "Maybe i can get you there...?"
She noticed that the few X's in the area were still fairly passive save for the two that had gone to investigate the sound her body had made when getting slammed into the ground, and she watched as they came closer and closer to their previous hiding spot. Thank goodness they were a ways a way after that rude dragging just now.
"If you don't suddenly drag me off, that is. I'd like to keep my hands attached to my wrists, thankyouverymuch..."

[Lady Foxy]

The soft and smooth wrist he had been carefully but tightly pulling along had yanked itself out of his grasp, glancing at her with a raised eyebrow and a concerned frown. The girl seemed just a tad bothered at something or someone, he hoped it wasn't him.

Troy leaned in when the girl began to speak again, understanding what she was saying before putting a large hand on her left shoulder and staring deeply into her eyes, his kind of 'intimidating' mask/headgear only revealing his eyes.

''I need to find someone. Saw a group here. Could use help. Sorry for pulling your hand. They were near.'' The massive man spoke with a voice that sounded like two tombstones being roughed against each other, his voice really deep, sounding like an ancient, famous actor by the name of Sylvester Stallone.

He kept staring deeply into her eyes, wondering if he had shocked her by his voice. However, he had whispered as low as he could though.

[Rooiehaan #2]

Anari found the man intimidating, his get out only accentuating his fearsome nature rather then to smooth it out. 'Perhaps he doesn't know that X's can't be scared' she pondered, before shaking her head dismissively.
"I can get you there, if you want. If you'd share some water with me, that is... fair is fair" She told him, flicking her hair back absently. Her throat was getting parched and she had no idea where she was, but that didn't mean she had to let him know. "Though i certainly don't hope this 'someone' you're looking for is as rough with the fairer sex as you are.." She grinned. Meh, despite his fearsome looks she knew that all guys were more bark then bite, some more then others. There was bound to be a softy inside of him somewhere; she just had to find it

[Lady Foxy]

The girl spoke about getting him to his destination, thus sharing his water with hers would be considered fair. He slowly reached out for his compact military backpack and pulled out his two liter water flask, opening it for her and handing it over to the girl.

Troy raised an eyebrow behind his helmet/mask, not quite getting the idea of what she was saying about someone he was looking for. The massive man remained sitting, his knees up and his elbows resting on his knees while leaning his head back. He stretched his neck to the sides, making a rather bone-cracking but silent 'pop' and 'crack'.

The girl looked as if she had a lot of confidence on herself, but he wasn't sure she'd know any real combat. If she had been a hostile back there, his inner 'fighter' would have leaved a -mess- back there by only using his fists. He shook his head at the idea of her being someone 'out of his mind'. His gaze was resting on her, almost like a lion watching it's prey. Or in this case, watching over his new 'traveling partner'.

[KnightVanilla]

With few options to choose from a direct confrontation would be the worse thing for him to even try. Especially against an X, using his abilities to strengthen the speakers again. Lyle hoped that the sounds of mutated creatures would scare off the X. Rifle ready and aiming straight at the X Lyle loads a live round in the chamber. Keeping an eye out for any others the X might have brought with it. Shooting his voice to Richard "There is an X coming up, but I haven't seen any others yet." Lyle ready for whats to come waits, listens, and watches for any other things that could be heading for them.

[Reaver]

Emile keeps his helmet on as he starts to clean his sniper rifle. "I'd prefer to stay here for the night. I'll keep watch for mine and your shift Mikal if it makes you feel better. With water here we can refuel and plus more Xs just mean we get to thin their population faster." He starts putting the rest of his supplies out on the cloak, taking inventory.

[MiscChaos]

Lyle & Richard

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Turning up the animal sounds turns out to be a bad idea as the X starts trashing everything in sight, tearing down trees in several swipes, uprooting bushes, the works. Now that it’s at work, you see something odd about it: Its exoskeleton is red instead of the normal black. It’s also much shorter than the usual X, standing 5’5” max. While this may put Lyle at ease, Richard knows that this is a VERY bad thing and also figures why it’s alone: It’s a Berserker X.

He knows about them because of his ability to feel out nearby life force, otherwise he would’ve fell victim to it before he saw it. These X are psychopaths, killing everything, friend or foe, in front of them then moving on to kill some more. Or at least the one he saw was like that, having torn apart a group of survivors before moving on to the X around it. It must’ve been majorly powerful because it defeated the 5 X around it like it was nothing, it taking another red X in order to match it long enough for another X to come along and subdue the both of them.

You’ll have to be careful in how you deal with this X, as a wrong move can easily mean defeat. It’s currently distracted with trying to kill whatever’s making the sound, but you have no idea how long that’ll last or how long until it destroys enough of the scenery to reach the two of you. What’s the plan?

Troy & Anari

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The 2 X that heard you before reach your old hiding spot well after you’ve moved to another. They’re about to shrug the sound off when one of them notices the imprint Anari’s body left when Troy slammed her. That’s enough to cause them to raise the alarm and release a shrill shriek, bringing all nearby X into High Alert. You’re currently Safe, there being no way an X can see you from their current positions, so you’ll have to move carefully. The 2 X that raised the alarm are visible to a ways away to your right and if Troy moves out of Anari’s way, then she can see where the other 4 are and can plan accordingly. Anari now has Troy’s water flask, so hopefully she remembers to return that later. Your move.

Ilia, Emile, Dax, Rick, & Mikal/Roderick

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Mikal gives Emile another cross look since she takes his comment to mean he assumes she can’t pull her own weight around camp. She doesn’t say anything about it, but Emile can interpret that look however he pleases. Then Rod clears his throat to draw Mikal’s attention.

“I don’t have a problem staying. We’ve been here for days, so we know it’s secure enough.” he says. Mikal sighs since there’s 3 votes on the table to stay while 2 not caring enough to chime in. She would've liked for more votes, but whatever, majority rules.

“Fine. We’ll stay then. We’ll start a watch when it falls dark. Me & Ilia will take first watch, Emile & Rod’ll take second, and Dax & Rick’ll take last. Watch is 3 hours a piece.” She says. “Til sundown, you’re free to do whatever the hell ya want.” She waves everyone off at this point, herself turning and looking out into the desert lands, deep in thought. Rod finds a shady spot under a tree and tries not to fall asleep too quickly. He was up a good amount of time while Mikal was down with her fever after all.

[daxtinator396]

Dax moves to stand beside Rick and says quickly,"We`ll talk over our watch period but until then we should relax. I`m going to be sleeping right here with everyone else so you can put your pack next to mine if you would like but in the mean time," He quickly removes his cloak and utility belt leaving him in a pair of cut off jean shorts,"I`m going swimming." He said grinning wildly and then looking to Mikal and the rest of the group,"Would anyone care to join me? When was the last time any of you had any fun in this wild wasteland?" He said as he walked towards the body of water, barefoot his shoes with the rest of his things atop his bedroll and traveling things..