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[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

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[The voice is small, barely above a whisper. She's hoarse and exhausted from the battle.] Hello everyone. I am Doctor Oenone Zero, of the Green Storm ressurection corps. I want to give my most heartfelt thanks to everyone who just assisted me in the defense of the village of Seahaven and to the crew of this...landship for allowing me to stay here for a bit. I was cut off from any backup. If you hadn't shown up...I, I don't know what would've happened. That town woud have been demolished for materials to build Springwheeled even larger and its people made into slaves to work in the town's guts.

In case you've never seen one before, that was a Mobile City. Most of them survive by catching and "devouring" other mobile cities and static settlements. That was only a middling sized one, not one of the big urbivores, so if you hear of one in the area, be very careful.

My stalker squad is with me as well. Those are the five cyborg-creatures, each around eight feet tall. While they're fearsome in battle and they look rather scary, don't be scared of them. They can't move while they're switched off and even if they weren't, they need an operator to give them commands.

As a surgeon-mechanic of the ressurections corps, I am qualified to install, build and maintain any kind of prosthetic. If you should ever need that kind of help, please don't hesitate to contact me.

[Action:]

The woman who sent the distress signal is small and slight, with dyed green hair. She wears a worn uniform, with a green lightning bolt on one tricep and a grinning death's head with a cyborg eye on the other. You can find her one of several places on the chalice:

1: Right after the mission and transferring Wendell to someone who can help him, rather than merely stabilize his conditions, she stumbles out of her airship, exhausted, tears staining her cheeks. Battle doesn't agree with her, it seems. She'd thought she was dead several times over.

2: Reassuring her birds. Their feathers are mixed with the metallic and their gears whine and click when they move, but they hop and move like living birds and seem to respond to her attention, becoming visibly less agitated.

3: The next day, in the hangar bay, repairing her stalkers. Two of the mechanical men are badly smashed. Their innards show, a grotesque and Gigerian internal diorama of metal and long since mummified insides, commingled and connected. But as she connects one thing, screws something else back in, their eyes glow again, red like demons.

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[aceshighsword.livejournal.com]

[[The Major watches Oenone work for a moment, curious about their workings. There are several 'mechanical beings' on board, but, given her description, none of them require external input, therefore, this is a new 'weapon' which requires new cataloging.

Yes, she keeps a physical and mental catalog of the ships armaments for strategic references.]]

Your machines... contain human parts as well?

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[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[Deep in concentration on her work, she starts, then turns to look at the newcomer.]

When a Green Storm soldier dies, we in the Ressurections Corps can use their nervous system in one of these machines. I know it looks gruesome, but they're not...conscious. The stalker systems only ride piggyback on their nerves and spinal cords.

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[aceshighsword.livejournal.com]

[[This is a stern military woman, girlie. She's not smiling at this prospect.]]

So, rather than give your men a proper burial, you refit them and send them back to the battlefield?

[[She shakes her head.]] I don't like it, but, I have no say in what your people do. And that isn't why I came to speak with you.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

'All the soldiers are happy to give even a second life for the cause of making the world green again.' [She says it in the singsong tones of propaganda. If she's from a dictatorship, she'll understand: this is the official line and you must follow it or face the consequences.]

W-What was it you came to see me about?

[aceshighsword.livejournal.com]

[[Wow, that's fairly devout. But again, it's not Mio's place to make that judgement. Not until it becomes a problem.]]

I came to ask about the capabilities of your machines here.

[fermionprincess]

[As Oenone gets around her work, she will find a certain short, armor-clad individual observing her every action.

Alessandra looks very fascinated, especially by the cyborgs. Both the birds and the stalkers.]

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[Deeply engrossed in her work, it takes the birds squawking to notice her, the crow (http://ll-298.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/405/298/500405298322_lrg.png) first.]

Oh, hello.

[fermionprincess]

Greetings, kind lady! Are the clockwork birds and other assorted abominations your creation? How delightful!

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[Zero huffs. She can't argue about the ressurected men, but her birds are her babies and won't tolerate them being insulted. She crosses over, first to the crow to sooth its ego.] They are my creations. But these birds are not abominations. [She pets it reassuringly and lets it climb up her arm despite its weight.]

[fermionprincess]

But of course! Such is the miracle of science!

[For some reason, Alessandra is even less coherent than usual. Not that Oenone can tell...]

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

A mobile city...

... Christ, it was like Exodus on steroids.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

Exodus?

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

A migratory effort by some residents in Asia. Though in this case it was just literally putting chunks of cities on large transport vehicles and wheeling them across the Siberian tundras.

... And for the record, those people in Springwheeled should be okay. Hopefully they'll know better than to resort to bullying now.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

I see. Yes, it's like that, but the predator cities are much more vicious about it...and they don't have a permanent destination.

I want to thank you for coming to my aid. Those people owe their town and freedom to you. If there's anything I can do to repay you, please tell me.

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

I suppose keeping us in mind whenever you might have a job for us to do would help. We are mercenaries, after all, and business is always good.

... So anyways, what was the deal with those robot things of yours you had? They didn't really fight the same way the other on-foot people we have onboard do, what with the lack of aerial kicks.

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[inneedofasmoke.livejournal.com]

MEIN GOTT IN HIMMEL!

[Luger's eye bugs out. Clearly he was freaked out by the visible insides of-]

I almost dropped my cigarette!

[Okay maybe not.]

...Whoa...What's with the freak show?

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[Freak show? Dr Zero frowns a moment, thinks that despite what's been done to them, the ressurected men deserve more respect than that.]

These are stalkers. They can't harm you.

[inneedofasmoke.livejournal.com]

Right right...a bunch of zombies with mechanical limbs won't hurt me....

I think I saw a movie like this once.

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[She knocks with her small hand on the chest of one.] See? It's perfectly safe.

[inneedofasmoke.livejournal.com]

For you maybe.

[Luger shrugs... then notices a group of mechanics rushing at him.]

SHIESSE!

[And cue yakity sax as Luger's chased away from the Hangar, leaving the good doctor to wonder what on earth just transpired before her.]

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[mecha_eihwaz]

[Lily looks at one of the glowing-eyed Stalkers with caution and curiosity.]

...Hello?

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[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[Deeply engrossed in her work, Zero starts, turns, puts a hand over her heart to steady it. She manages a weak smile.]

Oh, hello.

[mecha_eihwaz]

Oh, hi. Um, I was talking to the robot to see if it can hear me, but apparently it can't...

[momentoftherose.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head.] The vast majority of stalkers aren't conscious at all. These birds though...[She crosses over to the birds and their open cages, lets the raven (http://ll-298.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/405/298/500405298322_lrg.png) hop onto her finger. It's heavier than a normal bird so she has to use both arms to hold it up, but she brings it over to Lily.] He's very curious about new people.

[mecha_eihwaz]

Oh, I didn't know birds on this planet look like this!

[Lily tries to touch the raven, maybe even take it into her hand if it lets her. She can hold is without difficulty.]

Hello, little bird. Do you have a name? I'm Lily Rain EVE, nice to meet you!