Hope Dies slowly

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Asia's ears flicked round to the direction of the whooping. It was intensely loud and dangerously close. Climbing onto a fallen fridge, he looked through a small porthole, and eyed the beast wailing out to his comrades.
"Ah nuts!" Asia exclaimed as he tumbled off the appliance and grabbed two heat emitters before sliding a cleaver into his belt. He stumbled and clambered through the ship, finding a gap in the hull, a foot above the ground, staring at the side of the beast. The wind flew into the hole, ruffling across Asia, but it was not this that caused his hairs to stand on end. The creature's body was toned and thick with short fur hugging his muscles. Asia breathed heavily, he could see it's ears swivel for any other sound but its own. Leaning against the wall, the rabbit had a million thoughts tear through his mind, both of plans and of panic. How in God's name am I to stop this bisonesque thing!? The idea was preposterous to him. He'd never killed a thing in his life save for pretend death in war games where it was all tactics and teamwork. This was completely different. He was stuck next to a monster with no choice but to silence it. Normally he would sneak up behind, but this wouldn't work here. The ears of the enemy were as good as Asia's own, and his nose was probably much better. He definitely couldn't call for help though I doubt they would not have noticed the noise, though they were further off. He'd have to do it; from range preferably and the cleaver wouldn't do enough. It would just make it run and keep whooping. All he had was the heat emitters.

They were essentially hotplates with thick cables attached, and were quite hefty. A good hit from one would certainly do damage.  He decided that this was the only viable course of action and with a great breath pulling oxygen in to fuel the courage and calm the nerves, he began to swing the emitter round and round at his side. It clinked as it spun, gaining in volume in addition to speed and almost immediately, the animal took notice. It turned its head, grunting sniffing the air. Asia had no time to wait, no time to ready himself; he let the emitter fly out of his hand, and watched it arc through the air and crack against the skull of the beast.

It stumbled, it fell, the whooping had ceased, but it was not dead. It grumbled and growled, writhing in the dirt. Almost instinctively, Asia knew he couldn't leave an enemy to return to his army, and there was no POW camp here. Heaving the second emitter along, he raced to the downed beast, and brought the machinery against the great head, impacting with a crunch. It didn't work, so he did it again. Violent death throws suddenly coursed through the body, causing intense seizures, as a purple substance squirted across the ground, the same purple as its fur. Asia began to tremble, he didn't expect this, he hit it again and missed the head, hitting the torso. He hit it again, and again. A crunch accompanied the blood exploding out of the hideous spectacle, covering the emitter in thick viscous liquid. It stank. The whole place stank and the beast began to slow. Its breathing was erratic, but clearly slowing, stopping.

Asia's paw opened, and the emitter fell to the ground. With legs barely able to keep him steady, he turned, he ran; back into the ship, through the corridors, clambering through into a remote corner, away from the noise, away from the creatures, away from the people, away from his past, from his future, and away from the corpses.

[KittKat chunky~]

*Kistrev stopped the rude hand gestures and turned towards the bear* yeah sure, im used to the wilds.... *he pulled out his knife holding it down and away from his body as he started to walk towards the forests...*

[Arke]

Arke, seemingly unphased by the sudden surge of violence around him, simply strode over to the remains of the beast, fired his laser into it's crushed skull, and then proceeded to throw both heat emmiters against the ships hull. They shattered, but it didn't matter. All the dog needed were the small infared diodes inside. He grabbed a chunk of hull to serve as housing for the components, and set about finishinghis projects. He already had two frames, one pistol sized, the other more of a rifle, with everything in place but the diodes. He had them in place soon enough, and used the pieces of the cameras and hull to put a covering over the weapons. The end results were two heavy energy weapons, leaving him with next to no parts left. The pistol, like his, could probably get about six shots per energy cell, but the rifle would likely drain an entire cell in one shot. Still, weapons were weapons. His work done, he gathered up his parst, grabbed his pistol and all his energy cells, and made his way to Ghost and the dragon. "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but I've got a yiffin' pistol, man." He waved his weapon in his good hand, staring down the Molotov-weilding pscho, though he hardly seemed in his right mind at the moment.

[KittKat chunky~]

"Ive got a yiffin pistol!" *Kistrev snorted with laughter as he walked off towards the woods, god at least it was good to stretch his legs after doing nothing, he started to pick up a light jog...he stopped suddenly and turned back to arke.. * "hey!? you wanna come help collect wood supplies?!? i could do with a guy with a gun!"

[Philly Tanuki]

Philly did as he was told, though he did not like it one bit, he managed to climb into a tall tree.  He could see quite a ways into the distance.  Turning his head, he looked down after hearing a whooping sound and saw the rabbit beating some huge creature to death.  "Well good for him, getting his paws dirty like that.  I'll be sure to have him fight for me if the situation arrives.  There's no need for me to get dirty as well." he said in a barely audible voice.  He looked out farther and saw the beasts just standing around doing nothing.  A couple minutes later they each branched off, going off to different sides of the camp.  "What on earth are they doing?"

[Gabag]

the Beasts, showing off their tribal level intelligence, have displayed a tactical brilliance in surrounding the camp, limiting the space the survivors have to move and hunt, while the beasts hoard the resources for themselves. Molotov cocktails wont help here, it'll just incite them to rush in blind fury, and thats never fun for anyone.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Jelking hardly seemed phased by the sudden beast arrival. "So, where do I put the metal sheet down?" he asked the bear a second time.

[Arke]

Arke tossed Kistrev a power cell and pointed to the two recently finished weapons, motioning Jelkin to a nearby rock ledge, waving the pistol only because he had little else to wave with. Of course, his eyes were focused on the psychotic pyromaniac who seemed intent on a hearty bear dinner. "Just so we're clear, I'm not going to lose any sleep over you if I have to put you down." He turned to Ghost, then shook his head to clear his thoughts. His mind had been drifting for the last few minutes since he had finished the weapons, but now he was focused again. "But I'll leave this one to you. If things get tight I'll blast a hole in him, unless you don't want to risk it. Your call."

[KittKat chunky~]

*Kistrev wavered over the rifle-like weapon before deciding against and taking the large pistol... hefting it up looking along it he teseted the weight switching from one hand to the other.... smiling he jogged towards the trees between a gap of two creatures, slinking into the bushes he started to search for dry kindling and larger logs...*

[Jacen the Folf]

The Folf was about to walk to the camp when he suddenly remembered something. He saw a room. A bed room. Under the bed there was a case. The case was important to him. He had to get it. It was very important to him. Looking around and making sure no one was looking, the Folf stood up and ran into the remains of the ship. He walked down burnt and charred hallways, looking for his room. At last he found it at the end of a hallway. His path was blocked by a dresser that had slid into the doorway, but with a few hard kicks he had managed to free it and push it away.

He looked around his room. It was completely blackened with the rug, furniture, curtains, and his clothes burned to a crisp. He shook his head at the sight. What a waste. Walking towards what remained of the bed and the matress, he lifted it up, revealing a metal briefcase. The Folf pulled it out and opened it, revealing a pistol, holster, knife, and a note. Picking up the piece of paper, he saw that it read "Don't Fail. You Know What Is At Stake Here." He stared at the note for a few moments, puzzeled as to its meaning. He he couldn't fail, that meant that he was supposed to do something with these weapons, but what was it? And what was "at stake here"? The Folf put the note in his pocket, he would focus about it later. Putting the pistol in its holster and hiding it under his shirt, he picked up the knife and twirled it in his hands for a few seconds.

Content, he stood up and exited the ship. He wondered if anybody needed help.

[KittKat chunky~]

*Kistrev hefted the large pile of logs, branches and assorted dry wood he had scavenged, getting back to the camp he dropped them down by the cliff side where the new shelter was supposed to be...*

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Collecting his thoughts and calming himself took quite some time, alone in the ship, but the sound of footsteps said he was not as alone as he thought. Pushing the experience back, swallowing what he had done, he stood up and crept groggily through the ship. He turned a corner, and watched as the folf marched away, intent on something. Perhaps he had come back for supplies, or more likely something else. With nothing else to do to push back his own memories, he took this event and ran with it, sneaking along through adjacent corridors, tracking him with his ears.

The footsteps stopped. The rabbit peered round the door as the folf opened a briefcase. What was inside was very interesting indeed. Afraid he would be caught, the rabbit turned and slipped through the corridors. He hid in a storage room as he watched the folf pass him. The folf wasn't as confident in where he was going this time. He was unsure, perhaps even afraid. Whatever was on that note could not have been friendly. As the folf passed and he heard him calmber out of the ship, Asia followed on and rejoined the group.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Jelkin proped the metal sheet against a nearby cliff, then decided to walk back into the ship, taking his crate with him. "The ursa is gone...guess theres no hope left for me" he thought out loud. He grabbed another set of wine bottles, then found something on one of the ravaged corpses of the crewman: A chrome plated lighter. This beats my matches by a long shot he thought as he pocketed the lighter and continued through until he saw the rabbit run back out of the ship. "Well, if i'm going down, might as well take someone with me..." he followed him outside, and struck his second to last match, and lighting a molotov.

"Hello, Dinner" he said to the rabbit, holding the lit molotov in hand....

[Philly Tanuki]

Looking down on the entire camp, Philly saw the dragon lighting a molotov, preparing to throw it at somebody.  "Hey rabbit!  It looks to me like your about to get toasted!" he shouted from up in the tall tree.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Bemused by the 'Dinner' remark, Asia turned to find a bottle weilding dragon. It took a second before all the facts slotted in the place, namely the absence of any bear. Asia continued to move up towards the camp, calling out to the reptile as he moved. "You'll be shot down, you know. Why even bother?" He looked back as he spoke, and promptly ran  into a tree, knocking him back.