DUST Search - Kaalakiota Corporation's Summit Temple (Non-denomination, All Sects Welcome)

Galm Fae wrote:

Galm thinks for a minute before he speaks.

"Because I am fallible. I have fears, hopes, and aspirations, which makes me flawed. Some soldiers would see to have their emotions ripped from them and turned into a perfect warrior. They would rather become a perfect weapon than a beautiful feat of life and ingenuity."

He sets down his empty tea cup.

"I once helped evacuate a city of refugees on a gas giant during a drone attack. It was a mess down there, I am still amazed that the entire district didn't fall out of the sky while we were on it. During the fighting though, I--... I was pulling this kid from a building, right? She is screaming and pissing herself while I am just trying to stay focused on getting the two of us out of there alive. All of a sudden, this drone barrels into the two of us and pins me to the ground. I'm wasn't concerned about being ripped to shreds by their freakish metal claws though, I was worried about what was going to happen to that little girl. She was digging herself into my chest, shouting for help and all I could do is lie to her and tell her that everything was going to be alright. Then the damnedest thing happened.

"The drone ripped my right arm clean off and flew away, leaving the kid alive and me, forgive the pun, disarmed."

He chuckles at his own joke.

"I was roaring in pain for quite some time, but eventually the wound clogged up and I carried that poor girl out of there over my shoulder. That drone should have killed me. It had every reason to waste us both. Rogue drones aren't human, they are artificial. Weapons made only for destruction. But in that moment before it spared my life, I thought I sensed something locked inside of that metal husk.

"I don't really know what makes someone human, Ryeon-haani. That stock body you are locked away in is artificial. It is only made to be a weapon. Yet part of me feels like there is something human in it. Maybe I am just suffering from pareidolia, but I could swear I've seen some emotion in you. A small sliver of error that makes you more than just a tool."

Galm's eyes have shifted to a cool blue without him even noticing.

"Sorry if that somehow sounded foolish or melodramatic I... I'm not really skilled at this sort of thing."


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Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 255	Posted - 2013.09.11 05:50:00 - [1] - Quote In the garden, a darkly-clad figure passes outside the bathhouse. Her padding footsteps falter, then stop, before the kitsune statue. Her head cants to the right, one ember eye burning in a mask of royal blue. She circles it slowly, perhaps admiring the workmanship. She does not even seem to notice the first few tentative drops of rain smacking onto the stone. Her circle complete, she pauses once more before the statute, and bows, polite and formal, murmuring, or hissing, something in Achuran through her teeth.
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 255	Posted - 2013.09.12 05:36:00 - [2] - Quote "Mm ... Fae-haan." The scout turns from the statute and bows formally to the temple founder. "It seemed time to accept your kind offer-- though I fear I may distract your attention from your honored guest." An uplifted hand indicates the oncoming storm. "Denak ... so Mr. Kalamari has become involved in your project, here? ... hm. That is encouraging. Also, I do like your taste in statuary." She glances back at the stone kitsune a moment before lifting her attention to the clouds. Her voice is calm to the point of serenity. "A little tea would be welcome. And, perhaps, a spot with a view?"
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 256	Posted - 2013.09.13 01:29:00 - [3] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: Oh good, I got the statues right too. "Tea on the balcony it is then!" Galm spouts, happy to be a good host. He motions towards the porch at the far end of the gardens before trotting off with a speed that seems halfway between a spiritually enlightened stroll and a militaristic jog. He ducks briefly into one of the paper offices before reappearing a short time later balancing a traditional Caldari tea set on a steel platter, all the while keeping his wrapped package tucked under his shoulder. The scene is enough to make anyone realize that most of Galm's actions seem unrehearsed and improvised. Child-like even. A slightly unsettling effect when one realizes he has probably killed more men than can easily be counted. If the effect unsettles the visiting scout, however, she doesn't show it. She moves over to the indicated porch at a solemn walk, pausing in places to take in the garden-- and to give Galm a polite span in which to complete his preparations without keeping a guest waiting. She closes the short remaining distance at a gentle walk when Galm returns with the tea set. Quote: "I was unsure what your preference was, so I have prepared a kettle from kresh leaves. If you find it too strong for your liking then I have a selection of spiced Intaki teas and Achurian blends aswell." He sets the tray and the parcel down on a small table near the railing of the balcony and prepares two cups. "Personally however I always found kersh to be a bit more suitable for ceremonial occasions. Which I suppose this is!" He motions upwards, just as Ryeon had before, smiling. He breathes out contently,shutting his eyes for a moment. "Hm. Kresh being kresh, it's also a paralytic toxin deadly to anyone who lacks the inherited Caldari resistance. Two cups would probably have stopped my heart, once. But, of course, these are Caldari stock clones.... This will be most suitable, I think." She moves to a place at the table opposite Galm Fae, and settles herself before beginning the elaborate process of unstrapping and removing the scout suit's helmet and cowl. "Still, you may not want to serve it to Mr. Kalamari; I think his are still of Gallentean make." Quote: "Yes, when I began this project our Intaki friend was the first man I contacted. It is refreshing to have someone around who is so well versed in the part of me I have long suppressed. I suppose we all have a side we have kept hidden from ourselves, and he helps me remember that." He turns around and looks off in the distance. The normally arid landscape seems transformed under the shadow of the growing thunderhead. "And what quality of yours would that be, Fae-haan?" She sets aside the suit's headgear, her stock clone's colorless features ghostly in the half-light. Her gloved fingers lift her teacup lightly and breathes in the steam, then holds it up to the storm. "Death in a hot cup. Appropriate."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 257	Posted - 2013.09.13 14:17:00 - [4] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: "Erm, yes, I didn't mean to, well, kill you. I had honestly forgotten that not everyone fares so well to this drink and I might have been a bit over enthusiastic about having an excuse to use it. I hardly have any time these days to enjoy a good cup of tea what with how busy we have all been scrambling for faction space." He picks up his tea, which as cooled off significantly by now. He takes a long sip, enjoying the bold flavor. "Well ... it's not as though it would have very much effect, regardless." She likewise takes a sip, shorter, with a very slight grimace. She does take another, however. "I can't remember having been killed by a paralytic before; it would be interesting to learn what it is like. Still, I wouldn't wish to leave a charred black spot on your lovely balcony." Denak Kalamari wrote: "Hello, I hope I am not disturbing you." "Ah-- Mr. Kalamari." Yun Hee rises from her seat and bows. "We were just having a storm-viewing party of sorts." She pauses. "We may need another pot of tea."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 258	Posted - 2013.09.14 07:10:00 - [5] - Quote Denak Kalamari wrote: "How have you been? Haven't been able to talk to your properly while we were deployed in battle." He asks, looking at the storm ahead, a single lightning striking from it, its rumble reaching them several seconds later. "Increasingly lucid. Increasingly comfortable with my place. Exceedingly pleased to have an easier time persuading corpmates to join the war our corporation nominally exists to fight." She sips her tea, again grimacing slightly. "Pleased with our progress in the community. Pleased with the preliminary indications that perhaps we are not subject to short-term influence by the Black. Amused at Fae-haan's eye for detail and capacity for reading between lines." Another sip. "... mildly disappointed that I don't seem to have instantly picked up a fondness for kresh leaf tea. Perhaps it's a developed taste. "Yourself?"
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 258	Posted - 2013.09.16 04:29:00 - [6] - Quote Having quietly taken a mouthful as she watched Galm draw the more-than-slightly updated blade, Yun Hee almost chokes on her tea as the blade charges and electrical arcs begin to fizz along its length. She then carefully swallows, never taking her colorless eyes off the blade. "Fae-haan," she says, her tone tense but conversational, "you are now holding in your hand, in close proximity to quite a bit of unshielded flesh and several unhardened objects, what appears to be a charged plasma weapon whose battlefield counterpart can potentially pierce an Amarr Sentinel's shield and armor in two strokes. I presume you have a method for safely releasing the charge short of the usual method-- venting it? "It would be a shame to boil our faces and our tea away to vapor. It would also be a shame to scar your balcony."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 258	Posted - 2013.09.17 00:48:00 - [7] - Quote Yun Hee just sips her tea (apparently suppressing the resulting grimace; it's subtle, but it's still there) as though nothing had happened, though her head cocks a few degrees to the right as her eyes follow the steam cloud billowing upward through the rain.
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 258	Posted - 2013.09.17 14:37:00 - [8] - Quote Denak Kalamari wrote: Galm Fae wrote: He reaches for his cup of tea before retracting his blistered hand and picking the drink up with the other one instead. "This whole business about 'going 514.' I feel it is safe to say that all three of us suffer from some mind shattering ailment. Though I suspect not all in the same way." He glances at Ryeon, seeming more sympathetic than inquisitive. "I've been trying to wrap my head around all of this for a while now, which might help explain my current... absentmindedness." Denak listens closely to Galm's explanation, drinking down the rest of the tea given to him, looking off into the distance, the lightning slowly getting closer to the three. "Well, it seems that everyone suffering from this, disorder, experiences it in a different way. I've been trying to just not think about it, focus on something else." "Mind-shattering? ... A psychosis is mind-shattering. Severe schizophrenia is maybe mind-shattering. Ourselves, though ... we're still functional. Just maybe a little chipped." Yun Hee finally sets her tea down. "For most of us, it's probably just PTSD combined with whatever psychological strangeness results from hopping between bodies all the time. Also, you can see how that sort of thing would be an aggravating factor for any existing issues. "Mostly, though, it just seems to be traumatic stress, day in, day out. It's a relief to see that it is something so relatively well understood."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 265	Posted - 2013.09.19 04:16:00 - [9] - Quote "Why to fight ..." Yun Hee's colorless lips curve into a sphinx's smile. Her eyes turn to Galm. "Yes ... that is the sort of question a human being would ask." Her voice has taken on a unsettling sing-song. "For a capsuleer combat pilot, one who hunts other capsuleers, the answer is simple: to a creature that destroys fleets of conventional ships as a matter of course, the only victim worth hunting is a peer. Nothing else compares. Nothing else really even counts as a fight. "The rest is just wetwork, murder, the capsuleer's daily bread: bounties paid; mission rewards; salvage. Work. "Few can make a living as pirates, hunting their kin-- the only beings worthy of their skills. Yet they do it anyway, to prove that they can. Despite CONCORD and its laws, despite the great powers, despite even the cunning and cruelty of their fellows ... they hunt one another. "Why fight? We have a banquet laid before us: foes without limit, challengers without end, continual opportunities to test and hone ourselves-- to seek our perfection as blades, and earn our living thereby. We don't even have to set up a gate camp. They come to us, spoiling for the challenge. And if pain ... is to be the price of failure ... then that is all the more reason not to fail." Yun Hee's head bows, her smile fading. Her voice loses its eerie melody. "The question is how to keep that existence from becoming ... something empty, something self-indulgent. A perfect sword with no hand to wield it is a useless thing, or worse than useless: cursed. "How can I be what I am, without bringing further shame upon my soul? That is the question that haunts me. I require no special reason to slay my fellows. ... But what worth will my existence have?" Her eyes wander back over to the fish pond, and the more gently-rising steam. "Undirected, a creature who loves destruction is nothing but a blight."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 271	Posted - 2013.09.20 19:15:00 - [10] - Quote "I, also, have reasons for remaining where I am, if you and this Mr. Gravit are seeking recruits, Fae-haan, even on a temporary basis. Simple assistance may be another matter, however. "If you are looking for a new home, yourself, though, Dead Six has become active enough in the Emyprean War that we are actively recruiting for the purpose. That is, assuming that defending the State is still a primary interest of yours?"

Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 271	Posted - 2013.09.21 14:51:00 - [11] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: "Oh?" Galm takes another sip from his tea. "That is rather odd... I know little about the man. He offered me a contract and asked me to request the help of other mercenaries in the summit. You don't suppose I have been played, do you?" "Well ... has he made any specific remarks about his intentions once he's gathered this merry band?"
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 271	Posted - 2013.09.21 23:47:00 - [12] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: Galm points to Denak to emphasize Kalamari's point. "Exactly. He isn't the sort of man who likes to share his plans. All I know was that I would be conducting defense operations against pirate attacks. He provided little information beyond that. I haven't responded to his offer as of yet, so thankfully I am not committed to Eos." "Yes. Well ... if that is the only purpose, then that is all very well. There are worse lines of work, certainly. However, most people who want us for 'honest' work have little reason to be circumspect about it. "Hm. Having scruples is something of a bother."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 271	Posted - 2013.09.22 20:24:00 - [13] - Quote "Hm. I am well-content, thank you, Fae-haan. Only, this spry little sparrow does have a question. "There are many different ways of being functional, Fae-haan. A human is functional, but so is a slaver dog-- or a kitsune. Why is it that you are so certain you are human? And, even if you are, what makes you certain that I am?"
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 271	Posted - 2013.09.23 00:41:00 - [14] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: Galm thinks for a minute before he speaks. "Because I am fallible. I have fears, hopes, and aspirations, which makes me flawed. Some soldiers would see to have their emotions ripped from them and turned into a perfect warrior. They would rather become a perfect weapon than a beautiful feat of life and ingenuity." He sets down his empty tea cup. "I once helped evacuate a city of refugees on a gas giant during a drone attack. It was a mess down there, I am still amazed that the entire district didn't fall out of the sky while we were on it. During the fighting though, I--... I was pulling this kid from a building, right? She is screaming and pissing herself while I am just trying to stay focused on getting the two of us out of there alive. All of a sudden, this drone barrels into the two of us and pins me to the ground. I'm wasn't concerned about being ripped to shreds by their freakish metal claws though, I was worried about what was going to happen to that little girl. She was digging herself into my chest, shouting for help and all I could do is lie to her and tell her that everything was going to be alright. Then the damnedest thing happened. "The drone ripped my right arm clean off and flew away, leaving the kid alive and me, forgive the pun, disarmed." He chuckles at his own joke. "I was roaring in pain for quite some time, but eventually the wound clogged up and I carried that poor girl out of there over my shoulder. That drone should have killed me. It had every reason to waste us both. Rogue drones aren't human, they are artificial. Weapons made only for destruction. But in that moment before it spared my life, I thought I sensed something locked inside of that metal husk. "I don't really know what makes someone human, Ryeon-haani. That stock body you are locked away in is artificial. It is only made to be a weapon. Yet part of me feels like there is something human in it. Maybe I am just suffering from pareidolia, but I could swear I've seen some emotion in you. A small sliver of error that makes you more than just a tool." Galm's eyes have shifted to a cool blue without him even noticing. "Sorry if that somehow sounded foolish or melodramatic I... I'm not really skilled at this sort of thing." "Mm." Yun Hee turns her face to look out into the evening. "Skilled or not, by admitting you do not really know what makes a person human, you've shown more sophistication than most. Many speak of genetics as though that were a complete answer, or talk about the breadth of human behavior. "Drones, though ... it seems, now, a bit of a stretch to suggest that they're anything but sentient beings-- which is the problem, really. A few will still try to claim that they're just malfunctioning equipment, but they're much too animal for it to be that simple. But-- they also seem to view humans as prey. They're not what you'd call compassionate. " The edge of her mouth quirks upward. "Your arm was probably needed for something. Just imagine what uses a drone could have for a fresh human arm." The smile fades, and she frowns slightly. "As for the rest, the question isn't whether I lack emotion entirely; I don't. A sparrow might feel all sorts of emotion, maybe some of it strange to us, in the manner of birds; a slaver dog certainly feels emotion-- anticipation, for one, worth drooling over. Animals seem to be more about emotion and instinctive impulse than reason. Maybe that goes for humans, too.... "When I say I am a sword, I am speaking in metaphor. I still feel fear, doubt, loneliness, anger, and on and on, but ... muted, a little. Mostly, I feel little empathy. For this among other reasons, I leave to others the questions of whom I should fight, and why. I do this so that I can focus on playing the part I am called on to play, without distractions. It is my role to be a sword in the hands of others; I choose to concentrate on playing that part well. A human can hold that role, and many have done so. So, however, could many other creatures-- a trained slaver dog, for instance. "If I question my own humanity, I do not mean to suggest that I am a sword instead of a person. I mean that the human that I used to be is long dead, and that what inhabits this vessel is something else-- her ghost, perhaps, or something entirely different that simply pretends to be her, using her memories." She looks back at the table. "It's a question without an answer-- I don't claim to literally be some kind of supernatural creature, and Achura Shuijing does not teach that ghosts, demons, or kumiho are literally real. It does, however, teach that stories exist for a reason-- to teach us about our world. It is possible to be literally human, but to play a demon's role. "As I have said, there is a gap in my spirit, a pit of cold nothing, and little defines me anymore except for my soul-- or my infomorph, if you like; this blot of data behind my eyes. So the question is, do I have a damaged, but human, soul? Or am I a monster, a kumiho who only plays at being human, the better to enjoy tasty human organs? "If I focus on being a sword, which is more or less the same part for human or monster, the question becomes less pressing. I can be either, and right-action is usually the same: do the job. The rest is unimportant."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 271	Posted - 2013.09.23 05:44:00 - [15] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: "However history has shown that I seem to fall short whenever I try to grossly oversimplify a thousand year tradition like that of your Totality. I hope you can forgive me for that. As for your concerns, I figure it is a matter of just deciding to be human yourself. Can I be honest?" He doesn't wait for an answer. "Galm is dead. Has been for a very long time. I've spent days considering this. The memories I carry aren't mine, they are the memories of every Galm that has come before me. Perhaps the Amarr would argue some type of spiritual hocus-pocus carries the soul through different vessels, but any clear thinking individual if given enough time will arrive at the same conclusion that I... And I suspect you... Have reached: We are nothing but the sum of our memories. Learned behaviors and neural connections all directed by a lump of metal in the back of our head. We are, to put it bluntly, living avatars of past experiences. "Now, one could either deny the realization that we are nothing more than fleshy marionettes and start arguing over the technicalities of what constitutes 'life' or you can realize, just as I have, that it doesn't make a damn difference. Galm died quite a while ago, and soon I too will die. But I am not an individual, I am a mantle. When I pass, the responsibility of being Fae-haan will slip to another copy of myself. Simple infomorph he may be, I still trust him to carry on my legacy. If he is anything like me, he will do just fine. "We're all ghosts of our past. Immortals just have the advantage of not losing all their progress when they pass. I suspect that statement could open a field of new paradoxes and logical fallacies with some of my previous statements. But hey, you are right. It is a question without an answer." "The Totality is not a tradition, Fae-haan; it's a reality, the simplest thing there is: everything. It's our difficulty in processing and expressing it that makes descriptions of it, and our places in it, seem contradictory. "'Human' is a category we have concocted for our own use. It's a word. I can decide it applies to me if I wish, with all the duties it implies, but it won't change the ... underlying issue, which is existential." She lifts her colorless eyes to Galm Fae's. "There's a lot more to this, but this is probably the simplest sample: "I'm a kinslayer, Galm. You understand the implications? I'm sure you can infer from my talk of honor and responsibility what family means to me, in principle. In practice, I violated that bond in about the most serious way possible, and did it on a whim, casually, because I felt like it. Sometimes, very rarely, when I'm in just the right mood, I can even feel a little bit sorry about it. "The core of my frequent feeling that I'm something other-than-human is that human is something difficult and troublesome for me to be-- not least because, if i took that really seriously, I should probably end myself. At some point, there is a question whether it is better to be a miserable, damaged human or a happy, healthy monster. "Scruples really are a bother ... especially when you don't actually have any and are just sort of playing at it in hopes that you'll grow some."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 272	Posted - 2013.09.24 03:05:00 - [16] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: ... He finds it hard to maintain eye contact as he beings to speak, stammering over his words. "I--I... If you will forgive me Yun, I mustn't judge. Whoever you were before doesn't mean that is who you are today. It's just..." .... "My kin were taken from me. I couldn't imagine any person who would willingly mur--" He twitches again. "Who would make the same choice you have. I'm deeply sorry. I wish I knew what I could say, but I find myself at a loss for words." .... He shakes his head.... His hands are trembling heavily. "Ryeon... I'm sorry..." he whispers, defeated. "All those times we spoke, if I had any idea...." Yun Hee's eyes are half-lidded. "You would have spared the feelings of Grandfather's murderer?" Her smile is liquid helium. "You thought I was a soldier, like you-- poisoned, a little bit, perhaps, by troubling experiences, but fundamentally similar, a trained killer with a battered soul; nothing darker than that. You did not understand, Fae-haan; that is all. "The kumiho is another one of these stories that comes down from gods-know-where. It is like your kitsune a shape-shifting animal that can take human form, but there are differences. First, a kitsune may have up to nine tails, but a kumiho always has exactly nine. Second, and more important, while the kitsune may be friend or foe, a kumiho is a malevolent horror that feeds on human organs-- hearts or livers, depending on the story. She takes the form a girl or young woman so that she can prey on humans-- typically family members-- without fear of retaliation. "I no longer consider it feasible to reach out to the Black and see where its whispers lead me. I have seen that end, and it is nowhere pleasant. But knowing that does not banish the pit of nothing in my soul. Kill a human's warmth, or dampen it nearly to extinction, and what do you have left but a predator? "I have no particular desire to be a demon, but if I functionally am one, what does my desire signify? "It is best, really, for all concerned that I am now confined to small, relatively frail forms, rather than bodies equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. I cultivated a taste, you see, for gardening with fire. Scatter missiles like seeds among unhardened orbital structures, and watch the flowers bloom...." Her eye wanders back to the steaming pond and its bobbing, boiled fish. "Admittedly, I was maybe a little dark at spirit, even for a capsuleer, but you can see why I wouldn't want too many more creatures like me in the universe. We'd be trouble, including for ourselves."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 273	Posted - 2013.09.24 05:01:00 - [17] - Quote "Alienating, intoxicating ... toxic, actually." She frowns slightly. "The mind's function is not greatly changed; only its context. Capsuleers often oversee the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people without even noticing that those people exist. A capsuleer rules, or, in extreme cases, is, a sort of sapient, mobile, and usually very heavily-armed city-state. It's a divine perspective. It may not be possible for a human to exist as such a being without becoming corrupt." She sips what little remains of her cooled tea, hairless brow scowling in thought. She grimaces only slightly. "But why I left ... I left primarily to save my own miserable hide, Fae-haan. Capsuleers will tell you they're immortal; don't believe it. We're closer to that than they are, by far. They can die, easily. They've all seen it. They all know it. They just don't like to admit it. "Some schemes of mine had gotten badly out of control, and the consequences were approaching a breaking point. So, it was time to go: inhabit another life, and leave someone else to bury the bodies. I didn't cover my tracks quite as well as I intended, as it turned out, but ... I'm actually much harder to reach, now. I'm probably no longer worth the trouble."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 281	Posted - 2013.09.25 18:25:00 - [18] - Quote "A few. Trying to shape the universe, though ... it has this way of moving in ways you did not expect, twisting out of your hands, turning your intentions back on themselves, until, if you succeed in remaking the world in your own image ... it will no longer be an image you would want to see in the mirror." She rotates her teacup in her fingers. "For my own part, I no longer aspire to change the world, or even to chart a clear path through it. I will be content to play my part to the end. Although ... that, itself, is a part of an ambition. "I am a clever person, but that is not a rare thing. Wisdom, now, that is a more difficult quality to find. That is my ambition, Fae-haan, the work of a lifetime, like as not: I am tired of merely being clever. "I want to be wise."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 284	Posted - 2013.09.26 00:08:00 - [19] - Quote "You were hardly an intruder, Mr. Kalamari." Yun Hee's voice is soft as she returns the bow. "But, as you will. Good night."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 292	Posted - 2013.09.28 04:17:00 - [20] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: Galm turns to Yun, removing his cap casually. "Now then Ryeon-haani, will you be leaving as well? I would hate to keep you from any business you might have to attend to. If not, than I would be more than happy to continue entertaining a friend." "Hm. I do not wish to overstay my welcome, Fae-haan. Although ... it's difficult not to notice how close you've built all this to the outer perimeter of the Summit. Do you have a door or a gate that leads outside the walls?"

Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 294	Posted - 2013.09.28 15:14:00 - [21] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: "Believe me arvumaa, I never tire of entertaining guests. Speaking with a young woman is a refreshing change of pace from being cannon fodder on a glassed battlefield. Besides, I don't like sleeping that much these days anyway. Whether the sun is up or not means little to us immortals." He cocks his head to the side, shifting to a defensive stance. He decides that Yun has been open enough with him that he can trust her and relaxes a bit. "The temple itself is a few stories above ground level. It was largely my desire to leave it open to the elements for spiritual reasons. However... There is more to this facility than the temple itself. Should you wish to do a bit of exploring I could show you the garage below. Kaalakiota Okusaika leaves it outfitted for whenever a drop is organized. I have neglected to inform Denak of the venture. I don't believe he would approve of the act. Anyway, if you wanted to explore the planet we you could exit through the garage and take one of the Sagas stored down there." Yun Hee's eyebrow-free eyebrows rise. "You've stashed hidden military assets in CONCORD sovereign territory? That is audacious, Fae-haan. Hm. Well, in lieu of potentially giving your secret away for personal reasons, I think I'll just go invest in a rope ladder. That, at least, should get any curious persons looking in the wrong spot."
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 300	Posted - 2013.09.30 04:17:00 - [22] - Quote Galm Fae wrote: "Har har," Galm laughs sarcastically. "It's all harmless enough. They're all secured Gurista made LLAVs that will track back to a long dead arms manufacturer in case they are ever intercepted. None of them are equipped with weapon systems and have been retrofitted to run contraband weapons and intelligence assets into and out of the Summit. I haven't had to use it yet, thankfully, but it prevents the Temple from becoming completely anoenkraativ. Still, might be better to invest in a ladder anyway. The less people who know how to access the garage the better, and you really... Hmm...." Galm eyes Yun's armor. "Well, you don't really have the proper attire to pass for a Gurista." "Really, no one in a dropsuit does. Hm." She frowns slightly. "Respectfully, Fae-haan, you may wish to go more for civilian all-terrain vehicles than for anything even slightly military-- particularly something as attention-grabbing as a logistics LAV. Something that can endure combat well is still less likely to succeed in a smuggling mission than something no one looks at twice. "You could save your budget for sensor-dampened, hidden compartments and the like. Better not to be caught smuggling at all than to be able to survive five times as long once you are, right?"
Yun Hee Ryeon Dead Six Initiative Lokun Listamenn 303	Posted - 2013.10.02 22:39:00 - [23] - Quote "Well ... I'd expect them to bring in fliers if they caught you. And with Gurista markings ... hm. Well, at least you're not all that likely to be captured alive. In any event, perhaps I will go and look into a ladder. She bows, and picks up her mask and cowl. "Thank you for a lovely experience, Fae-haan."