[Nexus] The Black Dragon's Den VII

[TechnoScrabble]

"Do hyu really vant to make me reddink my decision right now?" Keith grins and stands gets up, dusting himself off.

"Pfft. Indeescriminate murder my armored ass. Naow git!"

[VampireRot]

Butler is shoved around so much.

He shakes his head.
"I don't think I'm very good at stopping fights at all sir." He frowns. It's horrible.

"But I have died a couple of times sir. How many times do you have to die before you get good at it sir?"

"Usually, just once. If you die multiple times, usually that means you're bad at it. Staying dead, at least."

Rot rolls his eyes. He's quite bad at staying dead, himself.

"Why don't you go try again? They're both about to kill each other, if you throw one off I'm sure someone will survive."

The vampire doesn't like stalemates. They usually wind up with both parties surviving. And that's terrible!

[Murkus]

Percival turns and gathers his machine gun, but doesn't sling it on his back just yet. He looks at Keith and says, No.

[Reinholdt]

Poor package.

Butler looks back at the fight.
"... They seem to be stopping sir. We did it sir!" Butler will go to give Rot a HUG!

Though the celebrations might be premature.

[ThirdEmperor]

All of a sudden, Rot should hear a voice, coming from somewhere above him. "Hey! Stop trying to get him killed, you're just making my job harder." If Rot looks up, he'll see that just hovering just above his head is what at first appears to be a moth, but on closer inspection is in fact a tiny person around three inches tall, with golden hair and eyes, clad in a sky blue suit. More significantly, the tiny man has wings, golden, feathery, blatantly angelic wings.

Nobody else should be able to see the little creature though. Magic!

[TechnoScrabble]

"Friend, hyu don' vant me to schtart kountink," Keith levels his canister rifle at Percival and loads it with a 'squish' round.

Trust me, anyone down the sights of that rifle does NOT want to learn what a squish round is.

[Murkus]

I am getting so tired of hearing your voice.

As he speaks, Percival suddenly melts into a mass of shadows, leaving his machine gun behind anyway. This mass bolts forward and suddenly leaps up, trying to smash Keith's gun aside. Percival reforms as he jumps, attempting to seize Keith by the throat and slam him against the bar. Eight foot Jaeger or no. His hand partially transforms into a mouth, as though ready to clamp down at any moment.

If that's successful, he'll continue, I will cease the fight. But I am not leaving. If you've got a problem, you can leave.

[VampireRot]

"No, they're not. See? Still pointing guns."

Rot tries to stop Butler from hugging him. Namely, by backhanding him and then pointing at the continuing standoff.

He glances/glares at the little angel, but doesn't say anything. He assumes it's Butler's guardian angel or something. The catman does feel a little holy, which is why Rot hasn't tried to eat him yet.

[TechnoScrabble]

I am getting so tired of hearing your voice.

As he speaks, Percival suddenly melts into a mass of shadows, leaving his machine gun behind anyway. This mass bolts forward and suddenly leaps up, trying to smash Keith's gun aside. Percival reforms as he jumps, attempting to seize Keith by the throat and slam him against the bar. Eight foot Jaeger or no. His hand partially transforms into a mouth, as though ready to clamp down at any moment.

If that's successful, he'll continue, I will cease the fight. But I am not leaving. If you've got a problem, you can leave.

Keith ducks the mass and slides sideways towards Butler, chuckling.
"Ah, vatever. Hy need to find und halp my boss hennyvays. Anodder time, friend!"

[Murkus]

Another time. Mm. Percival looks at him skeptically, picking up his gun again and watching the Jaeger for a minute or two before ordering something strong.

Still, Keith will get the occasional cautious glance. Percy doesn't wanna get blindsided. On top of that, Keith will be happy to see that the wounds in Percy's chest and shoulder are still paining him.

[ThirdEmperor]

"Hey! I'm real! Now pay attention." The angel gives Rot a stern look, floating down until he's staring the vampire in the face, before sighing and trying again. "I.... I'm sorry for yelling. Really. That was rude of me, I promise not to yell at you anymore. I'm Caeles Meror, and I'm here to help you."

[Reinholdt]

Butler is backhanded.
He's just having a bad day. Why couldn't he just have stayed under the table?

But they aren't pointing guns at each other anymore!
Still... things have just been absolutely terrible.
Butler quickly heads for the exit unless Rot or someone stops him.

[TechnoScrabble]

Keith moves to grabs onto Butler's shoulder as he goes to leave, and tosses a Jaeger medibrew at Percival. It'll be a little strong, and if Percival takes it the wrong way or too much of it he'll probably die or be horribly disfigured, but it's good for quick recovery.

"Vy are hyu beatink my boss's hendzum kat man friend, friend?" he demands of Rot.

[VampireRot]

Rot glares at the angel.

"The bloody hell are you going on about?"

Then he turns his incredulous and angry stare toward Keith.

"Because I felt like it and he's stupid."

Evil people get the best motives.

[Reinholdt]

Butler is grabbed by the shoulder!
He's getting more manhandled today than he does up in kitty heaven when the catgirls get in the mood!

I guess he stays there.
To listen to Rot call him stupid.
Well that wasn't fun.

[TechnoScrabble]

"Says de pale man beatink zumone a Jaeger vould prefer schtays in goot kondition," Keith has met Rot before, but Rot doesn't seem to remember.
Keith does though. He also remembers that there's something he promised to do next time Rot got him riled up enough.
Rot may notice a glint of fire dancing about in Keith's eyes.
Keith turns to speak to Butler.
"Run along now und find de pretty boss, please, hendzum kat man. Hy need to hef a vord vith de pale man."

[Murkus]

Percival catches it haphazardly and, after looking between the Jaeger and his gift for a moment, takes an unhesitant sip. He figures any poisons would be killed by his Abyssal blood anyway. The strength doesn't bother Percy either, as he's had some of the best absinthe on the planet Earth.

The Nazi looks a little more healthy.

He sends a short mental message to Keith.

Thanks. Sorry about shooting you.

[ThirdEmperor]

"I'm here to prove you aren't really as evil as everyone thinks. I'm here to help you find redemption, Rot." Caeles says, giving the vampire a dazzling smile. "And first things first, if I'm gonna help you, I can't go calling you "Rot" all the time. What kinda name is that anyway?"

[VampireRot]

"Well... I...

Rot would answer both Keith and Caeles. But he's a bit too busy snorting with laughter at the angel.

"Red... Redemption? You must be crazy tiny flying man."

He turns his mirthful eyes back to the Jaeger.

"Sorry guy, but I don't have a clue what you're saying!"

What with the laughing and accent.

[Reinholdt]

Yay! Butler can leave!
He does so, looking horribly depressed. But that's not really going to change right now, so probably best to let him go.

[TechnoScrabble]

"Well... I...

Rot would answer both Keith and Caeles. But he's a bit too busy snorting with laughter at the angel.

"Red... Redemption? You must be crazy tiny flying man."

He turns his mirthful eyes back to the Jaeger.

"Sorry guy, but I don't have a clue what you're saying!"

What with the laughing and accent.

Keith gives Percival a thumbs up before turning back to Rot.
"Hyu onderstood vell enough last time, pale man," Keith waves a canister rifle round in Rot's face. The round is labeled 'solar' and has several warnings and pictures of suns and supernovas and great big balls of fire on its red metal bindings.

[ThirdEmperor]

"No, I'm not crazy. I just believe that you're not entirely evil, and until I am convinced that you can't be saved, I'm going to do my best to redeem you." Caeles says, not looking particularly concerned by the fact that Rot's laughing at him. As one can imagine, that happens to him a lot.

"Now, why don't we start with you telling me your name? Your real name. I don't believe that your parents were crazy enough to name their kid Rot."

[VampireRot]

Rot would give Caeles a detailed explanation, but he's being threatened at the moment! He peers at the canister.

...

"No."

And with that, the vampire leaps into action. He moves at a speed normal humans could never hope to match as he jumps up and goes to grab at the wrist of the hand Keith's using to hold the canister. So his other hand can try to grab the base of the same arm. This happens in a split second, and if he succeeds the vampire will attempt to snap it into a position that was most definitely not intended, trying to break numerous bones in the Jaegar's arm to make it useless. Enhanced vampire strength makes this entirely possible.

[TechnoScrabble]

Rot can easily outpace the wounded jaeger, but Keith's arm won't budge.
EIGHT.
FOOT.
TALL.
POWERED.
ARMOR.

Keith shrugs and activates the manual detonator on the side on the canister. The canister explodes in a small ball of fire that goes by too quickly to burn anything but Keith (and his armor stops that...well...most of it...his beard is much shorter now), and where it went off, there is now a small sun floating in midair. The canister left behind a shielding system that stops any radiation that would be lethal, but not the UV rays and light that are so deadly to vampires. Anyone too close may get a sunburn.

Solar canisters are pretty much big, long lasting flashbangs with the potential to be lethal.

[VampireRot]

Rot is a vampire. Super strength is one of the bonuses of that, or at least with mine. Sure, he's not superman, but he can match power armor and eight-foot-tallness.

Seeing breaking Keith's arm isn't exactly working, Rot tries a new tactic and quickly tries to swing around and throw him across the room. He gets a couple of very nasty burns before he does the smart thing of poofing into a cloud of smoke, regardless of whether the Jaegar was thrown or not.

The smoke quickly flows over and behind the bar, to the dark corners away from the sun. He won't be reforming anytime soon.

[ThirdEmperor]

Oh dear. Caeles isn't letting anyone hurt his new victim redemee. So he quickly casts a spell that should cause a swarm of miniature clouds to appear, blocking the rays of light emitted by the solar canister! Probably won't be enough to block the sunlight entirely, but it might weaken it enough to stop it from killing any vampires.

[TechnoScrabble]

Keith's actual weight is nothing near the weight he can apply, and he is easily thrown across the room, where he smashes into a table. He stands up, shakes his head, and walks on out the door.

"Hy've had enuff ov dis plaze."

[VampireRot]

The smoke cloud that is Rot gathers in a corner. He's going to have to wait out the duration of the mini-sun. I can't say Raril is going to be pleased to have it in his bar, since drow are already rather averse to sunlight.

[Murkus]

I can't say Raril's gonna be happy with the state of the bar in general, considering. >>

Percival sits quietly amidst the carnage, sipping at some absinthe and looking around flatly. He actually did care that civilians died, but Percy doesn't have enough conviction to chase Keith around for it.

[KerfuffleMach2]

I can't say Raril's gonna be happy with the state of the bar in general, considering. >>

Percival sits quietly amidst the carnage, sipping at some absinthe and looking around flatly. He actually did care that civilians died, but Percy doesn't have enough conviction to chase Keith around for it.

Sword still in hand, Ivaz saunters over to the Nazi and grabs the seat next to him.

So, tall dark and overpowered, what's your story?