Welcome to Gaia! ::

As these words struck my ringing ears, I could partially make out her muffled forewarning. All I could make out was that there was something about my impending doom and possible survival if I were to stay with them. With my back still firmly facing them, I slowly began to mutter--incoherent at first, but slowly grew in comprehension, as well as volume. "Life...Death...Survival. Extinction. Does it truly mean all that much in the end?"

With a shallow eye, I turned about. Though my vision still impaired, a desolate glow burned brightly within my eyes; locking onto the woman who called out before. Staring at her--though unable to still see her face--I could not sense any emotion from her being. It was as if she was completely detached from life itself. Uncertain of this premonition, I decided to relinquish my tension and release my guard slightly. "...Again, my apologies...Being here has not assisted my recent anxiety..."

"...That was a lie..."

"I suppose I am just uncertain of what to make of this..."

"Why am I still lying?"

"I suppose I can accompany you all...that is, if it isn't too much of a burden to you all..."

"These poor people...Why am I deceiving them like this? What am I doing? Why am I even tagging along with them? What is this all going to prove? This is supposed to be the pathway to my own self-destruction--no-one else's. Alas...perhaps they can lead me to it..."

Approaching them back with a wary eye, I habitually placed my right forearm vertically across my chest; bowing completely downward. In doing so, I spoke with the utmost prestige. "I am Sun Kang. I am in your debt."

"Stop the lies..."

(Too many people know Sam is dead, and his face attracted unwanted hostility from the ones who didn't. Plus he has allied himself with Syx.)

Jarred ran down into the prison, searching for and, assuming she's still even down here, finding Syx, stopping in front of her. He set Sean or Eric, still can't remember which, on the ground, bending over with his hand on his knees, catching his breath.

"Coulda... asked who... I was with fore you.... yelled she was evil..." Jarred said between pants, spitting to the side.

(It's Sean.)

Syx started laughing, "she was there? Oh damn, that's classic." Her laughter slowly died off. "Ehem...sorry about that Shanra, I'll try to be more considerate next time. So who'd you bring with you? A date?" She asked looking down at the blond man Jarred had set down on the ground. She poked him with the tip of her boot then quickly lost interest.

"Nice new look, spy." She said to Skarloey, overviewing his new appearance. "Mind giving us a name to go by?"

She gave a nod to Sun Kang and Lia standing at his side. "Glad to have you with, Kid, just watch out for the little black robot things, they're nasty."

"Seems to look that way." Syx nodded. "And Jarred, Sam was a friend of mine, if you recall. I didn't realize Pendari was that close a friend though, seemed more of an acquaintance, someone you haven't known all that long. Whatever the case, she has to be stopped, and if you find you can't be relied on to help stop her, you're going to have stand back and out of the way."

Pendari was a ways down the hall, still frustrated, but focused on finding her subboordinates and locating a new card. Without the card she was unable to get to her ship, and the back-up on the ship was unable to get inside.

The orb beside her beeped slightly as Sara made contact. Pendari scowled. "Jarred, I know that's you. Give me back my card."

"This isn't going to work out, Jarred. Whatever it is you're trying to do. In time more spiders will be sent out, and possible some worms. And if that doesn't go well, reinforcements will arrive afterwards rip off a side of this ship and kill everyone inside. You and me included, unless we find a way to get off the ship with the stone. Your only way out of this is to work with me, everyone else is already dead."

Pendari continued to speak to her orb, the information being transferred from Sara to the prison. (hopefully that will keep people from thinking Pen is currently in the prison.) "The eye of Hamied, you're the collector, you should know the stories. As far as I'm told it was last in the posession of what we've nicknamed 'Pandora,' she's the prisoner in the containment suit. Also as a collector, you should know how much this stone would mean to the Kore, and what they're willing to do in order to get it."

(Pen is not currently in the prison) (that should do it.)