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rogue_star ([info]rogue_star) wrote in [info]exiles,
@ 2009-09-02 09:27:00


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Entry tags:"acts of avenging", blink, crusader, doctor spectrum, exiles, ghost rider, mystic, patriot

Acts of Avenging, pt. 2 - Mother Russia
The teleportation is far easier this time. Russia is a very, very big place, and there's no magical barriers or resistance.

In fact, there's not a lot of anything. Looking around the area where they come in, remote, in order to avoid notice, it would look like the village that was once here was struck with a bomb, save nothing is burnt. A wave of destruction radiates out from a central point, and everything from there is demolished. The foundations of houses sit bare, with wreckage strewn away from them. The signs of at least two mass graves aren't that well hidden not far away from the village. A few hastily put together crosses of sticks line the sites now, but this village is lifeless. A wooden sign, far enough on the outskirts to have survived whatever hit this place can still be read, at least by those who speak Russian.
Anzhero-Sudzhensk, population: 86,480

With all the flat land, in the distance on direction, the signs of cobbled together stick and cloth hovels can be seen, a few figures moving about, never staying out in the open too long. Much more distantly the opposite direction, the faint radiance of lights of what has to be a massive city can be somewhat discerned, but the place must be massive to be at all evident at this distance.

Sarah rises a bit off the ground for a slightly better view. "Gods. This is horrible."



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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-02 11:18 pm UTC (link)
"This whole world is," Quinn said as he too rose off the ground to get a better look at the surrounding area. The pain in his head was starting to subside, but he still wanted that beer.

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-03 12:48 am UTC (link)
If Blink was bothered by their surroundings, she didn't show it. Where she came from, this was normal. "That's what we're here to fix." She hoped.

Blink looked in the direction of the lights, trying to estimate the distance.

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[info]wwii_hero
2009-09-03 01:07 am UTC (link)
While the others take in their environment, Patriot fills Ben in on the story, explaining who they are.

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-03 01:10 am UTC (link)
"'Fraid I won't be much help. I been a prisoner a long time, not much touch with the rest of the world, and still kinda gettin' things back together. I'll help ya if I can though, obviously. Seems the least I can do fer Reed, Sue & Johnny."

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[info]wwii_hero
2009-09-03 01:14 am UTC (link)
"Your help, Ben," Patriot explains, "is to survive and recover. Let us handle this."

Ben's an old friend. He knows when the man is pushing himself just to stay upright. And in this case, he looks in worse shape than any other time he's seen him.

But he knows his friend will recover.

"And I'll see if I can get you a beer while we're out there."

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[info]exiles_hero
2009-09-03 01:30 am UTC (link)
"That'd be appreciated. Been a long damn time. Fer what its worth, be careful here. I don't know much, but I know the mutant wars were real hard times. Most'a the people here ain't gonna be the folks you recognize."

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-03 03:14 am UTC (link)
"If there's beer, I better get a pint or two," Quinn said. Seeing enough, he touched back down on the ground.

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[info]uneasy_rider
2009-09-03 03:23 am UTC (link)
"We need to get you some friends, big guy." She looks across Russia. Roxy heard about starving people in Russia, but the TV made the ones back home always seem...normal-ish. Just people in bad times, in a bad way, getting kicked around by giant jerks with bigger guns. Oh yeah, and you didn't fuck with any of them when they were drunk without making sure the numbers were even. This is just brutal in a way she can't even begin to wrap her head around.

"Try the vodka. It's prob'ly cheaper."

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[info]exiles_baddie
2009-09-03 05:36 am UTC (link)
Strangely, within Rocky, the Rider finds very little overwhelming guilt or sin - the real feeling is one of crushing tragedy, with its roots firmly placed both in the city in the distance, and in many of the people in the mass graves and many thousands of other people and places tracing back to a war long ago.

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-13 06:42 am UTC (link)
They headed for the lights of the city, grabbing two rooms, one for the girls and one for the guys, at the first inn they could find. Quinn was just happy to not be outside even if he had to sleep on the floor.

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[info]exiles_baddie
2009-09-13 10:09 am UTC (link)
The city proves easy to get around in - one look at Blink, and no one asks any questions until the first inn they find. They're quickly ushered a few blocks down to a nicer hotel with more comfortable accomodations.

There's no beer, but otherwise, the place is nice, room service and everything, and no one seemed to ask anything in payment.

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[info]uneasy_rider
2009-09-14 04:19 am UTC (link)
Roxanne feels night come. It's easier these days to let the Rider come out and do what it does. For a demon, Zarathos is...She wouldn't call him "nice," by a longshot but it's like they have an understanding. They're stuck with each other. So long as he keeps putting down rabid dogs in human skin she can ride in the bitch seat and not holler too much.

And, she asks God as she finishes her prayers. Maybe if it knows what it's like to be human it'll learn not to be so mean.

Night falls and she slips away from herself painfully as eyeless eyes snap open. This village has its sin and the Ghost Rider flips her kickstand up and goes riding for it.

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-14 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Of course there wasn't any beer because the multiverse really hated Quinn, but there was a hot shower, food and a soft bed. Now if he only had a soft woman next to him he'd be set.

He stretched out on the bed and stared up at the ceiling.

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[info]exiles_baddie
2009-09-14 06:51 pm UTC (link)
The Ghost Rider has a difficult night - while this place is drenched in sin, and no one seems innocent. The humans are as guilty of war mongering as the mutants, and every single person has the taint on them left by a war for survival. But at the same time, it was just that - a war for survival, from which, no one is truly condemned with guilt either.

Once the war ended, this city seems remarkably well run. And within it, there is very little crime. The laws are harsh for those who commit crimes of violence, and the lawkeepers both vigilant and super-humanly capable. Most of those who live here now are either part of Magneto's elite, or work for someone who is. The population is low, and the city is far from the difficult border. There is no one person to hunt, no one to stalk, and the feeling of guilt and sin washes down the world as much as it does the people.

In truth, to the rider's senses, there is only one aura of guilt and sin here in the city that rises above all others - and its certainly not coming from Magneto. Who, or whatever it is though, is magically protected far beyond the rider's means to locate them. The feeling is much like being a moth seeking a light beyond a glass door - it knows its there, but cannot reach it, or even quite comprehend its source.

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-15 06:14 am UTC (link)
Blink couldn't sleep. After ten or so minutes lying in bed she got up and walked outside. Arms folded over her chest, she gazed up at the night sky, thinking.

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[info]rogue_star
2009-09-15 07:31 am UTC (link)
It appears she's not the only one.

"You doing ok?"

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-15 07:42 am UTC (link)
"Yes." A pause, then Blink sighed. "No. I don't know." She turned to look at Sarah. "What about you?"

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[info]exiles_misc
2009-09-20 12:52 pm UTC (link)
The next day saw a bright sun and no clouds in the sky.

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[info]wwii_hero
2009-09-20 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Patriot looks out at the sky, taking in a deep breath in through his nose. "You guys ready for this?"

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-20 11:55 pm UTC (link)
"More or less," Quinn said as he stuffed the remainder of a pastry in his mouth. His headache was gone, he had a decent night of sleep and he had food. The only thing he didn't get was that beer. One of these days.

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[info]rogue_star
2009-09-21 02:39 am UTC (link)
"I think so. Hopefully this one goes easier. Be ready for anything, and for people you think you know to be just about anything here. Hopefully we're doing the right thing."

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-21 05:10 am UTC (link)
"Anything we do will probably be an improvement in this world," Quinn said with his mouth full.

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[info]prettyinblink
2009-09-22 12:23 am UTC (link)
"Alright, let's do this. Quinn? Ready?" After all he was the one still eating.

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[info]brit_sorcerer
2009-09-22 12:38 am UTC (link)
"Always, luv," he grinned and winked at her.

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[info]rogue_star
2009-09-22 01:26 am UTC (link)
"Let's go. Though given this place and what we know, the obvious mutants should do most of the talking."

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