Apr 18 08:10:19 107 PA - Bringing Tirzah up to speed
From Chronicles
The current game time is: Tue Apr 18 08:10:19 107 PA.
This room has a rather solid feel to it. The first sign of which being the first step onto the charcoal shaded tile floor. The type of feel a mid upper class apartment affords, the cultured slates give a nice semi gloss sheen off their dark surface. In contrast to the dark floors the walls are a pleasantly light pastel blue. Serene one might say. Both are pretty sparse in decoration. A sole lush white rug takes up the area immediatly around a queen wallbed. As opposed to pictures, mirrors hang framed on the walls, showing various tints of the red spectrum.
The furniture consists of two half circle couches around a central open fireplace. Simplistic coffee tables and fire. The bronze sconces are everywhere about the room, cradling everything from small candles to the large oil wick at the center of her small dining table. They serve as the sole light for the apartment at night. Scenting the air with a sweet sugary taste, inherent to the oil she burns. The queen wall bed spends most time folded away, making the bachelor suite much more open and inviting. Though when it is down the white and bronze silk sheets merely complement the room.
The Kitchen and bath are impressive, full in design and in commodities. Spices and herbs fill the shelves above the wracks of utensils for preparing them. The fridge is modest, adequate for a single person. Her copper cookware hangs gleaming from the ceiling rack to add to the fiery decor of the suite. Its sheen indicating she is particular about her cookware. Given her history to those who know it and her decor choice, Tirzah appears to be quite taken with the amenities of city life.
Erica has taken a day to settle back in after her recent trip to Newtown. She has done all the maintenance that she needed to do on her hovercycle and on her weapons and armor. After she did all that she hesitated for a little bit before coming to visit Tirzah.
Erica walks down the hallway and finds Tirzah's door and gives it a quick knock as she waits for an answer
The door opens ominously to let Erica into Tirzah's apartment, and closes much the same once the vositor is inside. Tirzah is present, around the corner sitting by the fireplace reading a book. "What is it?" She calls out to the visitor.
Erica walks into the apartment not really shocked by the doors methods, since she has been here a few times. She looks up and offers Tirzah a small smile and a nod of her head before she speaks. "Hey Tirzah. I needed to come by and tell you some news. I was away for a couple days because my friend and mentor Frank was killed and I had to go deliver his body to his next of kin. Anyways to make a long story short it was a trap. They were trying to get me to answer some questions about that raid we did on that CS camp.
Tirzah ponders that a moment silently ash she reads her book. Reaching a break she sets it down to regard Erica. "So they killed him to get to you, and eventually get to me. That is quite low." She remarks, still thinking about it as she watches Erica's reaction.
Erica frowns and nods her head slowly. "Indeed. Frank was like a second father to me. The agent claimed to be with the ISS." She walks over to take a seat on the couch as she starts shaking her head slightly. A look of disgust and sorrow washes over her features momentarily before she regains control over her emotions. "I would just be careful Tirzah. I'm sure they will try something again."
"Indeed, the question is, will it be before or after my own move. I have something to show you." Tirzah admists before rising to walk over to her dreeer and retrieve her helmet and a datacard. "Plugging this into the input allows you the hear the transmission through the helmet, put it on." Tirzah suggests, handing the helmet to Erica.
Erica walks with Tirzah over to the table. She takes the helmet from Tirzah and turns it around in her hands as she examines it. Giving her shoulders a quick shrug she puts the helmet on her head. She tilts her head as she hears the transmission and her lips curl into a deep frown. "That doesn't sound good." She comments as she removes the helmet once the transmission ends. "Where is Dig M? And what exactly does it have to do with us, besides sounding like it is a splugorth slaver attack. I have fought those types of attacks before and from the brief description that is what it sounds like."
Tirzah raises a brow, interested in what erica says. "Splugorth slavers? Thats more than I knew.. Its relation to us is that that distress went out one week after we hit the other site. And i dont know here dsite M is. But i bet the officer who tried to capture you does..."
Erica nods her head slightly as she holds out the helmet for Tirzah to take. "Well the Splugorth are much more active to the east. Lazlo defense force had to deal with them on a fairly regular basis. I mean I can't tell you for 100% sure that it is, but lots of women and creatures with tentacles. That sounds like the blind warrior women they have and the slaver minions. But that is just an educated guess." She bites down on her lower lip and gnaws on it for a moment. "Well if they are looking for magical artifacts which I'm sure they are interested in they they would hit the dig sites like we did. I'm sure he does know a lot about those sites. His name was Lt. Randall for what it is worth."
Tirzah nods slowly, walking over to her table to take some notes. "So he survioved the attempt?" She asks, a very intent expression forming.
Erica nods slowly as she frowns. "He did. He had a Hellion skelebot with him and we were in the middle of a CS controlled town. It was a brief firefight where we were trying to escape before things escalated. So he is very much alive."
Tirzah shakes her head slowly, putting the pen down. "I cant ask this of you Erica, not considering what he's cost you already. But perhaps if you would like to collect on that cost I would very much like to meet this Lt Randall."
Erica gnaws on her lower lip for a moment before nodding her head. "Well I'm not exactly one for vengence, but we should find out what is going on. I'm not sure how we can get to meet him in a place where we wouldn't be at a huge disadvantage. I am open to ideas."
Tirzah sighs, nothing particular coming to mind with here either. "You should have brought Frank to me Erica. If someone is dead for less than 24 hours there is a decent chance I can breath life back into them."
Erica looks up at Tirzah and frowns slightly. "Well how the hell was I supposed to know that? I'm not any kind of magic user. You guys do all sorts of stuff that doesn't make sense. Not like you are very social or easy to find either."
"Well I only gained the ability a few months ago so its not exactly common knowledge yet. I'm not exactly sure who I want in the loop.." Tirzah admist before giving Erica a very cold glare. "As for social or easy to find, I beg to differ, unless you are the sort of person who does not wish to find me when I'm sociable. Nothing ventured nothing gained Erica, is why I always make it a point to know what everyone around me is capable of."
Erica returns Tirzah's glare with a glare of her own. "Well I'm sorry if I'm not able to understand every spell that people can cast. I will always be limited in that regard. And you can get off your high horse. You could at least show some sympathy, but instead you start plotting on your next move. Well just tell me what I can do to help since I am but another tool to be used." She lets out a sigh as she stands up and starts walking to the door.
