Roleplay Part 10

"Hpmf!, my 'tree' burned down years ago Benji. Ever since then I've been roaming the earth a seed looking for somewhere to grow. But it seems I've waited to long, and lost myself. My empty remains being rotten away by the soil I've fallen in. I fear I'll grow into a monster, stealing all sunlight from those around me and absorb there decay into my ever growing trunk until all that remains around me is death and rotted souls." I say in a somber tone. It pains me to think what my future might bring if I continue in this world. Perhaps I'll blow my brains out and let the group sort them out...

 

I had been a bit disturbed when Dolgov had suddenly grabbed,killed, then ate a rat he had pulled out of the wall, but then I figured there probably quite a few people in the metro who did similar things to survive.

As I continued walking forward I noticed we had essentially arrived at the "front door" of the station I had spoken of earlier, the gate looked like it had been smashed in by something very big. I continued through the gate and stepped up onto what looked like the main platform. I turned towards dolgov who was still following me. "okay man were gonna have to cross the surface if were gonna get to the university". I said calmly as I took off my helmet and set it on a nearby table while I took out my gas mask, "you got enough filters Buddy? I got few extras If you need any." As I said this I set down my AK while I began to screw in a new filter on my Gas mask.

 

I lick the last of the blood from my lips, but ignore the blood in my stubble. On seeing Jack put on his gas mask, I also don mine...a surprisingly well-built one of Reich manufacture, and screw in a filter.

Though moving steadily, my senses are hyperalert, scanning the rubble for whatever monster made the hole and ready to alert Jack if something was afoot. I spot something on the floor a short distance away and wander over for a better look. Its barely visible as a wet mark on a dry floor. Is that a...footprint?

Dolgov has found a recent, wet footprint of ...something...you can have some fun rping what it might be

 

OK ill try.
I noticed dolgov had gone over and stared at a fresh footprint, I joined him after I put my helmet back on and grabbed my AK, I knelt down and examined it as best I could, I was certainly no tracker but I had seen enough prints from nosalis and a few other mutants to know one when i saw it. but this print was almost human in nature if not for the fact it was wet and had a more.....mutated look to it. 'okay' I thought 'roughly four toes, possible claw marks in the dirt, and a bit of black Fur or hair' I thought picking up small strands and staring at them for a moment before I dropped them and turned to dolgov. "I cant exactly tell what it might be, my guess is it MIGHT be a younger nosali or watcher or something." I said while slowly doing a 360 with my rifle up. " we cant worry about it now though, we got to keep moving." As I said this I turned and started to walk toward the airlock, a little more on edge. I silently hoped I was right about the print, I did not want to meet a new mutant this close to the university.

 

Ha! I smile at the paper while staring at it's cold, dead letters. "I see only flesh. No matter how much I try to relate, flesh is the only connection I feel... Perhaps I'm buried to deep to see the light. To deep to feel the warm soils and smells of the earth. Stuck in an ever solid clay bound to forever reach upward to the warmth of the sun. Well, I guess can relate after all... I see what your trying to do Benji and I applaud it. Every word you speak makes me reach further upward, but, what if there is nothing to grab? What memories and emotions do I have waiting for me? Maybe it's better I forget and leave them behind." I pause for a moment before I continue to collect more courage and will.

"That's why I came back here, with you guys. I know it may seem like the wrong decision and an obvious one at that, but where else could I proudly go? Every time I thought of living a 'normal' life in some random station I felt an intolerable weight of guilt and ill-fitting. It because I belong here. I deserve to roam these tunnels forever, always teased by death but never relieved by it. He laughs at me. He knows that nothing would free me more than death and in turn denies it to me. I will remain forever resurrected."

 

"What better place then here!? What better place to be a monster than here!? The Reich? Hanza? Or maybe I'll just stroll back into the Red line and beg for forgiveness! No. You say Beasts are lonesome creatures but you are wrong. They huddle together like moths to light and roam the world as one, those who are left behind find themselves surrounded by these packs and die off quickly. And now, you'd have me sent away knowing what I am. You should know better than that Benji. I can barely manage to hold myself from killing my friends let alone a stranger. Coming here I at least thought I could find some solace in knowing that if any place could hold me it was here, but as you're revealing to me, not even my oldest friends would have me. And this paper. You expect me to look deep into it's ink and rid myself of it's guilt? That's not going to happen anytime soon. That paper represents the ruin of three families. They claw at me. Every time I get that urge to kill I hear them, all of them, amassed in one sinister voice begging me to kill and increase the guilt until it destroys me. And it's working." My voice seemed be becoming more and more agitated as I went.

 

*whith my eyes half closed I listened to Benji's conversation with Vos. Benji was right, to a certain degree. the person we just met was not Gena, he was buried deep somewhere inside Vos' mind and soul. slowly I got up and crouched in front of them*

'I will help you find yourself, whoever you are Vos, but if you ever lift your weapon in anger to Benji or myself, or any of the guys, or god forbid, Jet, I will not hesitate to shoot you myself. and do not think for a second to try it out, just to find a way out, because it will not happen. you will not fool me so easily. if redemption is what you seek, you will find it, I'm sure of it.'

 

As it seemed Joe wasn't going to defend himself against our concerns, and the others not seeming to care, I just sat down again. Weird group, this. Not questioning a guy who had no alibi what so ever to be fucking with us.
But then again, had I ever questioned the orders I was given?
I leaned forward and folded my hands under my head. No, I had not questioned the orders. Killed a lot of people, with families. But they were on the wrong side of the fence, they were brainwashed by the Red Line, and I felt no remorse.
I did my job, and I did it good. That's how I viewed it.
Odessa and Big Ben were talking to Vosk, and the tone made me a little on easy. I shifted my position from leaning over my legs, to sitting up straight. I looked at my watch.
We had already been in the train for 40 minutes, it couldn't be long before we would arrive.

 

Aw, and I was going to suggest therapy with bullets for Vos. Sorry I haven't been active in awhile guys, school's been kind of busy.

Also, is Bezymannyy still unconscious on the floor?

After talking with Anton, I reached back into my pocket and pulled out the black bread again. I was taking another bite when Bezymannyy collapsed onto the floor, withering. Anton and Alek rushed to his side, and I remained seated, not wanting to get in too close and crowd them at their work. When they announced that it was a seizure, I groaned. Those could be hard to deal with, and they had a habit of popping up at the worst of times.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the air in the cabin of the train seemed to drop a few degrees as Alek began questioning Joe's motives for bringing us all along. Looking around, I could see that everyone was going for their weapons, though no one was really pointing them anywhere as of yet. I shrunk down in my seat as best my vest would allow me and pulled my AK closer. Okay, guns were being pointed now, though it was Vos/Gena raising his shotgun shakily towards Nikolai.

If they start shooting, we're all going to get killed. I breathed a sigh of relief when he lowered it again, as Joe and Benjamin talked enough sense into Alek for him and his comrades to retire to the back of the train. The temperature seemed to go back up, though just a few degrees as Vos still looked fairly disturbed and was talking out of my earshot with Benjamin.

As the conversation went on, Vos looked more and more tense, like a compressed spring ready to release into its surroundings (us). I stood up and stretched, and then turned my back to the scene and walked the short distance to the front of the train. If that little situation was going to be handled, it was up to Benjamin. I stared out the forward window of the train for a few moments, listening to the general sound of people talking, breathing, and sleeping unconscious on the floor (Bezymannyy).

The tunnel outside had not really changed, from what I could tell. Though, now that I was paying attention, the walls here did look a little more cared for, and the train seemed to be slowing down a bit. Then I noticed a light up ahead, to the side of the tracks. "Joe, is that where we're going?" I asked over my shoulder, not taking an eye off the light.

 

good news: I am much better now! pretty early though, I'll post in a few hours.

 

Same. I got a lot of stuff to do today so it might be a while before I continue my mental downfall...

 

you never posted, just saying.

As I approached the airlock I noticed that it to had been, for lack of a better word, smashed open like someone had hit it full on with a railcart or something. strangely enough that had happened to me once when I helped protect a neutral station from red and Nazi attack, the bastards didn't even care there were innocent people inside who just wanted to live their lives in peace.

But I remember though, the gunfire, the screams of the dying, the smell of burning flesh and buildings, and the way all the people who tried to escape out the airlock were cut down. It had left me with a deep hatred for Nazis and Reds alike, though dolgov was one of the few exceptions I had made in my journeys of the metro.

I shook my head and started to walk past the gate and up the ruined escalators outside into the open air of Moscow, the university was close, we still had a good walk ahead of us though. As I started to walk towards the university, I tried to keep my thoughts from getting any darker, its strange how the mind wanders at times like these, I still wondered about that print though.

 

Wait wut, I coulda sworn I posted here lol. POSTING NOW

 

I saw everyone was getting tense. Like tenser than a porcupine in a balloon shop. I thought I'd show them. I had proof, proof that could blow their minds. But first the sights came. "okay everyone, the top of the train is clear for a reason, look above now. We're passing an aquarium, the feeding and cleaning of it is all automatic. there where over 100 species in the aquarium, from sharks to sting rays. I concentrated now instead of looking at the sights though. It was time.
"remember how I said I can connect to the mutants all? I'm going to connect you all to, not the cat though. Don't worry none of you will be harmed mentally, at least for now."
I got up and put my hand in the air, then I'm sure they all saw the same vision as me, a mutant with its huge body and elephant trunk, walking toward us. I waited a minute before I asked them all, "so how was it?" note: joe is trying to get you all to trust him, that's why he's trying to avoid everything and the whole train seizure thing lol

 

I plod along after Jack, and then suddenly freeze.

"Uuuuhhh....!"

Unable to speak, all I can do is force some air in a worried bellow to Jack about the danger coming closer. I hear it before he does.

A young nosalise bolts across Jack's path, startled from where it had been hidden in the rubble. But it's not hostile towards us...its movements are that of a scared creature looking for a place to hide. The movement draws the attention of something much larger and more dangerous, as a Demon takes off from its perch a city block away and turns towards us, trying to decide which of the three would make the best meal.

Thought this would get interesting, plus Demons have a tendency to pick up and drop people in new places Feel free to control the mutants too. Edit: Sorry for disappearing for a bit, got unexpectedly busy but in a good way; could tell you on private messages XD