"Well you can't go home, both of you are in your own way compromised." Trezlan was trying to break the news gently. Which to him meant bluntly with no regard to feelings. Brubaker at least accepted it since he figured he was screwed when he left and reawakend his magical power. For Therod it was a harder sell, she had been brainwashed by a member of the military and now here she was being told by an enemy of the state she was the real problem. It was a lot to take in.
"So you screwed me out of my career? I should have listened to the warnings about dealing with Lorentinos." Therod stomped out of the cargo area and Trezlan just let her go.
"You're a real nice guy Trezlan you know that."
"I saved her dumb life from the hell she was in and this is the thanks I get? Next time either of you two idiots are in trouble don't come looking for me, also you have a day and then I want both of you out of my shit." Trezlan was hurt because he figured they would at least appreciate what he did for them, but no just like always people turned on him when they didn't need him anymore. So no one was happy.
Brubaker ended up leaving first, hoping to levy using his sight to get back into the good graces of the Imperial military. Therod after him, hoping to find a job. Trezlan didn't leave because Rolando was down stairs the whole time currently fighting his own possession and like a dutiful father he was hoping to get back to him sometime.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Oh Great You're Here
Brubaker was about to wonder what he was about to do in the mind scape he found himself in before Trezlan showed up. He looked even younger, but Brubaker figured it was how he saw himself and not how he looked, it explained the flowing red hair when by all accounts Lorentino had been bald for hundreds of years.
"Trezlan if you're in here how in the gods names will we get out of here?"
"I'm not really here with you right now, I mean I am in that you see me, but I'm more a representation of the spell than the actual person Trezlan, its complicated, but know I'm here to help." Brubaker shook his head even inside someone else's mind scape that explanation hurt.
"Ok so where do we start?"
"I don't entirely know, and before you start no it has nothing to do with limitations. It's just this mind is so dark, I'm hoping this is from the cybernetic aspect, otherwise we're in for a world of shit." Just as Not Trezlan said that three versions of Therod showed up. One of them had no cybernetic eye, one looked like the real Therod, and another looked horrible, her body twisted and bloodied like she'd been in an accidnet she couldn't recover from.
"You are not welcome here." They spoke in harmony though the mangled one did not sound good.
"Well at least the persona's showed up this is a positive development." Brubaker was styll completely lost but at least the avatar of Trezlan wasn't.
"You are not welcome here, leave."
"We can't ladies, me and my friend are here to help you recover, general?"
"What do you want me to do?"
"You have a personal connection with her, so utilize that." Brubaker thought that was the worst instruction ever, but he was in the mind of someone brainwashed being instructed by the mental representation of a necromancer who had supposedly lived for years, things had taken a dive for the worst a while back.
"Therod I'm your general, you will sort your shit out right quick or there will be consequences."
"Sir yes sir." Like a light going on the personalities folded in to each other and the darkness turned to light. Trezlan disappeared and Brubaker wondered how he was going to leave when he suddenly awoke next to Therod with a blistering head ache.
"You work fast general, when I had this happen to me took me like days." Brubaker wanted to slug the man, but Therod did regain her conscious will and immediately she began weeping at the things she'd done. Brubaker didn't know what to say, and Trezlan left saying something about how this is Brubaker's issue. Which made sense but still infuriated Brubaker at the response. Trezlan had turned out to be every awful thing he'd heard and worse.
"Trezlan if you're in here how in the gods names will we get out of here?"
"I'm not really here with you right now, I mean I am in that you see me, but I'm more a representation of the spell than the actual person Trezlan, its complicated, but know I'm here to help." Brubaker shook his head even inside someone else's mind scape that explanation hurt.
"Ok so where do we start?"
"I don't entirely know, and before you start no it has nothing to do with limitations. It's just this mind is so dark, I'm hoping this is from the cybernetic aspect, otherwise we're in for a world of shit." Just as Not Trezlan said that three versions of Therod showed up. One of them had no cybernetic eye, one looked like the real Therod, and another looked horrible, her body twisted and bloodied like she'd been in an accidnet she couldn't recover from.
"You are not welcome here." They spoke in harmony though the mangled one did not sound good.
"Well at least the persona's showed up this is a positive development." Brubaker was styll completely lost but at least the avatar of Trezlan wasn't.
"You are not welcome here, leave."
"We can't ladies, me and my friend are here to help you recover, general?"
"What do you want me to do?"
"You have a personal connection with her, so utilize that." Brubaker thought that was the worst instruction ever, but he was in the mind of someone brainwashed being instructed by the mental representation of a necromancer who had supposedly lived for years, things had taken a dive for the worst a while back.
"Therod I'm your general, you will sort your shit out right quick or there will be consequences."
"Sir yes sir." Like a light going on the personalities folded in to each other and the darkness turned to light. Trezlan disappeared and Brubaker wondered how he was going to leave when he suddenly awoke next to Therod with a blistering head ache.
"You work fast general, when I had this happen to me took me like days." Brubaker wanted to slug the man, but Therod did regain her conscious will and immediately she began weeping at the things she'd done. Brubaker didn't know what to say, and Trezlan left saying something about how this is Brubaker's issue. Which made sense but still infuriated Brubaker at the response. Trezlan had turned out to be every awful thing he'd heard and worse.
Monday, December 7, 2015
Where Is Your Mind
"What's wrong with her?" Brubaker was standing next to Trezlan Lorentino. Trezlan had Therod strapped into a chair, her broken arm already in a medical contraption to immobilize and heal it. He was laying out a bunch of runes and other magical symbols that Brubaker didn't understand, though he was barely aware of what had happened. Trezlan had saved both him and Theord and got them off planet and now they were in some kind of holding warehouse. Brubaker saw all kind of weaponry lying around which fit the motif that Lorentino was an arms dealer, but he was still mystified how any of this happened. It didn't help that the sight didn't really see the past, and he was worried about the corruption so he wasn't seeing the future either. He was in the hands of a dangerous possibly immortal killer who was working out a ritual he couldn't understand, Brubaker almost wondered if it was better to be with Keith.
"Mind got all screwed with, have to unscrew that or she'll just turn on us when she comes to."
"So you've done this before?" Trezlan sucked in wind a little bit.
"Had it done to me, but you know the theory is similar mostly."
"Mostly? THEORY?! You're not really making me feel better about letting you do this to my person."
"Oh I'm not doing it, you are." And then Brubaker heard a phrase and he was all of a sudden in a dark place. He could only blame himself he knew Lorentino was an asshole and this just confirmed it, but still he didn't expect the betrayal so fast.
"Mind got all screwed with, have to unscrew that or she'll just turn on us when she comes to."
"So you've done this before?" Trezlan sucked in wind a little bit.
"Had it done to me, but you know the theory is similar mostly."
"Mostly? THEORY?! You're not really making me feel better about letting you do this to my person."
"Oh I'm not doing it, you are." And then Brubaker heard a phrase and he was all of a sudden in a dark place. He could only blame himself he knew Lorentino was an asshole and this just confirmed it, but still he didn't expect the betrayal so fast.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Saved By A Lorentino
"Don't look at me like that." Trezlan could feel the eyes of hate on him from Brubaker. Which seemed completely assholish considering he just saved the man from some weird indoctrination. But there he was staring a hole through him like some kind of freaky hate machine.
"You don't die, ever." Brubaker was using the sight as much as he could at this point fear of being corrupted be damned and he couldn't see Trezlan ever dying. No scenario in all of Brubakers scrying saw his death. None! The man never died, it was a first for Brubaker he'd never seen that ever.
"Well its nice of you to say Brubaker, but come now we have to get you out of..." The blow hit Trezlan between his shoulder blades, it stung and collapsed him to the ground forcing him to let go of Brubaker. Trezlan turned around his eyes swimming pain to see a huge red head staring him down with one mechanical eye. She looked a lot like Captain Therod, made worse by her name tag saying Therod on it. Trezlan almost figured she was Therod in his hurt state of mind. He didn't have time to even ask, she swung another heavy fist down and he barely blocked it aside. Her blow was hard and strong and he was still wrapped up with Brubaker. Ordinarily he would just blast her with fire and consider it done, but he knew the majority of the people working with Keith weren't doing it willingly.
"Look Therod I know we have history, but if you stop trying to hit me for a second..." This didn't stop the attack. She rushed again and he countered her strength with a pressure point hit on her arm, he heard a snap and that at least slowed her down a bit enough for him to get his bearings. He pulled a syringe from his kit and when she tried to use her off hand to attack him he got it into her neck and she fell into a heap. Trezlan looked at her, looked at Brubaker and then sighed.
"Gods give me strength not to kill everyone today." The gods really weren't listening, or if they were they didn't care, and so Trezlan drug two people out of the fire and destruction he had caused before disappearing once again. It was almost enough for him to reconsider that whole "not taking over the galaxy to save it from itself" plan he always had rattling around in his head.
"You don't die, ever." Brubaker was using the sight as much as he could at this point fear of being corrupted be damned and he couldn't see Trezlan ever dying. No scenario in all of Brubakers scrying saw his death. None! The man never died, it was a first for Brubaker he'd never seen that ever.
"Well its nice of you to say Brubaker, but come now we have to get you out of..." The blow hit Trezlan between his shoulder blades, it stung and collapsed him to the ground forcing him to let go of Brubaker. Trezlan turned around his eyes swimming pain to see a huge red head staring him down with one mechanical eye. She looked a lot like Captain Therod, made worse by her name tag saying Therod on it. Trezlan almost figured she was Therod in his hurt state of mind. He didn't have time to even ask, she swung another heavy fist down and he barely blocked it aside. Her blow was hard and strong and he was still wrapped up with Brubaker. Ordinarily he would just blast her with fire and consider it done, but he knew the majority of the people working with Keith weren't doing it willingly.
"Look Therod I know we have history, but if you stop trying to hit me for a second..." This didn't stop the attack. She rushed again and he countered her strength with a pressure point hit on her arm, he heard a snap and that at least slowed her down a bit enough for him to get his bearings. He pulled a syringe from his kit and when she tried to use her off hand to attack him he got it into her neck and she fell into a heap. Trezlan looked at her, looked at Brubaker and then sighed.
"Gods give me strength not to kill everyone today." The gods really weren't listening, or if they were they didn't care, and so Trezlan drug two people out of the fire and destruction he had caused before disappearing once again. It was almost enough for him to reconsider that whole "not taking over the galaxy to save it from itself" plan he always had rattling around in his head.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
This Is Your Life Colonel Keith
"You die horribly." Brubaker was locked into a chair, Colonel Keith was administering a "serum" to help him see the truth, but Brubaker already knew the truth he had seen it shortly after meeting Keith. The future had turned, something had changed somewhere and now Brubaker wasn't doomed, Keith was. And it was hilarious to Brubaker who has just come to grips with his own mortality. Now he saw scenarios that were insane and yet the sight didn't lie or it hadn't in Brubakers experience.
"And you know this how?"
"I can see the future Keith, its my curse, earlier I was sobbing because I saw I was doomed, but now, now something hilarious and terrifying is about to happen." Keith paused for a moment looking Brubaker in the eye as if to try and understand whats going on.
"You know I have to hand it to your Brubaker, I've had a lot of people try and get out of this, I've never had someone fake being able to see the future."
"It's a shame you die Keith if only you lived long enough to know how stupid you were." Keith was about to respond when an explosion blew out the wall behind him trapping him underneath. The fire was so hot it burned the material which slowly coated Keith in construction material. His screams dying off when the material drained into his sinus cavities. Brubaker felt better up until he saw Trezlan Lorentino walk on top of Keith's corpse. Then he felt the worst he'd felt in a while. He knew this was going to happen, but he still refused to believe the sight was correct about this.
In a way being saved by the man he'd hunted for so long was almost worse than being turned into a killer by a mad man, almost worse.
"And you know this how?"
"I can see the future Keith, its my curse, earlier I was sobbing because I saw I was doomed, but now, now something hilarious and terrifying is about to happen." Keith paused for a moment looking Brubaker in the eye as if to try and understand whats going on.
"You know I have to hand it to your Brubaker, I've had a lot of people try and get out of this, I've never had someone fake being able to see the future."
"It's a shame you die Keith if only you lived long enough to know how stupid you were." Keith was about to respond when an explosion blew out the wall behind him trapping him underneath. The fire was so hot it burned the material which slowly coated Keith in construction material. His screams dying off when the material drained into his sinus cavities. Brubaker felt better up until he saw Trezlan Lorentino walk on top of Keith's corpse. Then he felt the worst he'd felt in a while. He knew this was going to happen, but he still refused to believe the sight was correct about this.
In a way being saved by the man he'd hunted for so long was almost worse than being turned into a killer by a mad man, almost worse.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
A Day Made for Bad Solutions
"And you're sure its Keith?" Head Guardsman Lucer hated his job. It was a field promotion at the end of the recent bio war the original head guardsman had been killed in the waning days of the conflict and so Lucer had been given his position and it sucked. Everything about the job was the worst part of command. Like getting word a Sanctuary had been wiped out and it appeared to have been one of their own who did the wiping, an annoying gnat of an officer named Keith. Keith was an asshole when Lucer was first coming up, it wasn't much of a surprise he had continued being asshole, though the killing all magical people was new. Lucer was mainly angry at himself, he had gotten word about some kind of dumb project the previous Head Guardsman had authorized regarding Keith but he figured it was some pr bullshit like all the others. Not some anti-magical hit squad.
"Yes sir confirmation by video analysis, its Keith." The Royal Guard were good at keeping things quiet, it was in their job description. But Lucer could tell if it got out that they the imperial military not only authorized a hit squad, but had it kill its own people? He'd be screwed, on top of losing his rank he'd face execution and it wasn't even he who set the stupid thing up.
"Well shit, ok sanitize what you can and then get back here I'll have to figure some way out of this shit storm." He turned the com off and just sat back in his chair almost numb. Lucer didn't want to be executed, and yet he had to deal with Keith one way or another. So with a heavy sigh and a lot of filters between he connected with someone he hoped to never see again.
"Who is this?"
"Lucer."
"Which Lucer?"
"You know a lot of Lucer's?"
"I know a few yeah, though the uniform tells me which one, I'm just screwing with you, been a hard day, what can I do for the empire Head Guardsman?" Lucer sighed he knew calling this man was a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but his attitude was one of the worst.
"I need your help Lorentino, you and the boy." Trezlan smiled, he knew this call was coming, but it still brought a big smile to his face. Nothing quite as good as being someones last resort.
"Yes sir confirmation by video analysis, its Keith." The Royal Guard were good at keeping things quiet, it was in their job description. But Lucer could tell if it got out that they the imperial military not only authorized a hit squad, but had it kill its own people? He'd be screwed, on top of losing his rank he'd face execution and it wasn't even he who set the stupid thing up.
"Well shit, ok sanitize what you can and then get back here I'll have to figure some way out of this shit storm." He turned the com off and just sat back in his chair almost numb. Lucer didn't want to be executed, and yet he had to deal with Keith one way or another. So with a heavy sigh and a lot of filters between he connected with someone he hoped to never see again.
"Who is this?"
"Lucer."
"Which Lucer?"
"You know a lot of Lucer's?"
"I know a few yeah, though the uniform tells me which one, I'm just screwing with you, been a hard day, what can I do for the empire Head Guardsman?" Lucer sighed he knew calling this man was a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but his attitude was one of the worst.
"I need your help Lorentino, you and the boy." Trezlan smiled, he knew this call was coming, but it still brought a big smile to his face. Nothing quite as good as being someones last resort.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
The Downsides of Seeing The Future
Brubaker knew he was going to die. He'd seen it ever since they took the shackles off. He saw it play out a hundred different ways, but in each one he died. It was something everyone who ever had sight had to deal with, seeing their own end. It was alarming the first time. Brubaker remembered his first premature death, he stepped off a curb too fast and got splattered by an AI delivery truck. Brubaker had forgotten what it was like to know his own demise, having been off the sight for so long. But now it was back and every scenario he saw ended up awful for him.
Colonel Keith and his brand of wackjobs hadn't said much to him since they kidnapped him. But he saw all he needed to about the man and what he does. He saw the brainwashing and how just about everyone at his compound weren't even really people anymore. He saw this as his future, saw himself loving Keith enough to blow up a space port, or to go out in a hail of bullets. He could see these outcomes as clear as he could see the cell he was in could also become his tomb should he say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing.
Which lead Brubaker to just waiting for the end, however it would come it was pretty much a certainty at this point and in that Brubaker cursed the sight for letting him see there was no way out. It was the worst part of the curse of seeing.
Colonel Keith and his brand of wackjobs hadn't said much to him since they kidnapped him. But he saw all he needed to about the man and what he does. He saw the brainwashing and how just about everyone at his compound weren't even really people anymore. He saw this as his future, saw himself loving Keith enough to blow up a space port, or to go out in a hail of bullets. He could see these outcomes as clear as he could see the cell he was in could also become his tomb should he say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing.
Which lead Brubaker to just waiting for the end, however it would come it was pretty much a certainty at this point and in that Brubaker cursed the sight for letting him see there was no way out. It was the worst part of the curse of seeing.
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