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 Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:34 pm
Malodore tensed instinctively as the dragon inhaled, fighting every survival mechanism it had in order to stay in place. And then the strange, silvery flames were washing over it, and there was no more time to run. The flames were... oddly cool, actually, or perhaps it was only that it had been expecting an inferno. It tried to throw itself as open to the Insanity in the fire as best it knew how, but when the flames stopped coming it was left unsinged and untouched. "...It would seem that it did not work? On... on me?" it said, incredulously. "I cannot... I, alone of everyone on that island, and now.." It fell to its knees, staring at its own hands and then up at its friends. "Something Infermiera Cricket said. I didn't think anything of it at the time... Immunity through exposure. A plague doctor's natural ability is to be immune to infection..." Its voice trailed off.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:08 pm
As he finished breathing out the flame, Jericho stared at Malodore as the undead remained untorched. Aside from that, it didn't look like it had been affected in any way at all. Tilting his head, he looked over the plague doctor but it said that it didn't feel anything.
"Don't feel any differently?" he asked before trying to think about it.
"So... you are immune to insanity?" he tried to confirm before his eyes lit up weakly, "If anything.. that means you should be able to help treat those who have it more easily.. without worry that you will become infected yourself."
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:23 pm
It was a small sign, at least. Immunity. There was a chance there were those who wouldn't succumb to the effects of Insanity. Which meant if this became an epidemic, they'd become the master race, she guessed. Those who would survive a, for lack of better pun, possibly apocalypse mostly unscathed in the most dangerous sense of things.
"I wonder if there would be a way to pass that kind of immunity into the infected to keep it from spreading...." Shehk noted with a small frown. If there was, then......... there was part of her that both did and didn't want it to be possible. She wasn't sure what Malodore would do if it had been able to cure Riley all that time and not realized it, and yet she didn't want Jericho to follow the same path.
It was painful. It all made her heart ache.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:43 am
"I felt nothing," Malodore confirmed, lowering its hands and sitting back. "All plague doctors are naturally immune to germ-based infection and contagions... and I - we - had been spending a great... a great deal of time... close, mentally, and... it may be that such exposure caused my own ability to adapt. On the Island, I felt the effects of madness as keenly as others did, so it is a recent development." There was a faint glimmer of hope there, at least. "Perhaps it can be used to help others, somehow, and..." Its throat tightened, abruptly. Treacherously. It swallowed, hard, feeling the loss of that mental touch all the more keenly for having thought about it. It, alone, was so much less than the two of them together. "We... we bonded very closely, mentally... emotionally, every way possible, we... I miss we," it whispered, looking away. "I miss her... I want her back, I..." Its throat closed entirely, allowing no more words to escape, but a tear broke free from beneath one lens and rolled down. "I know what I must do," it rasped, after a moment. "But I don't know what to do, at the same time... what do I do in the quiet places, the spaces she filled for me? They are so empty, my friends, so empty..."
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:34 pm
Jericho fell silent for some time there as he looked between the two. Shehk had a point.. there could be away to spread the immunity. The more that were immune, the better. Though, this seemed a little less likely as it appeared it was a part of what Malodore's species was naturally able to do. But.. even so, it was one step in a good direction.
The dragon didn't think about it for long. He couldn't when the plague doctor began to speak of Riley. How it felt about her. How close it was. It was a painful reminder for himself and he found himself beginning to break down quickly too.
"We miss her too..."
It was all he could say as he was fighting from trying to sob once more. It sort of worked. A tear or two had escaped, but he managed to hold himself back other than that. For now at least.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:49 pm
She wasn't entirely sure what she could go to try and make them both feel any better, her ears drooping as she reached over to squeeze Jericho's hand gently. Just being there was almost all she could do it seemed, and she knew it was something she would do well.
"I don't know." she confessed, "I just......... I don't know." her shoulders slumped guiltily, almost as though she suddenly felt powerless. She didn't have that bond that Riley had with both Malodore and Jericho - it made her almost feel like she shouldn't have been there trying to share what was already a painful moment with the two of them. Even if her heart hurt, it wasn't on the same level.
It wasn't the same emptiness and she almost was jealous of it - because she'd missed her chance.
"It just doesn't seem real."
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:13 am
Malodore bowed its head; after a moment, it scooted over and took the dragon's free hand in one claw, holding out the other to Shehk. "We will do what we must, we will... I will not let this happen again. And I will not let them slander her name as they did to Professor Red." Its eyes flashed angrily beneath the lenses, even as another tear slid free. "And I shall not suffer any Hunter to live. Not any more. It is war between us, now and forever. I shall drive my blades through their hearts, in her name. Perhaps it wil, please her - she always did like it when I was more... Forceful." It opened its beak just the tiniest amount, in a faint and weary smile. "The chimes... the chimes when she... before she... went, they were from the Isle of Conquest, the pavilions there. A pathway sacred to lovers. I am glad she... remembered. She did not forget me in her last..." It could not speak any more; instead, it tightened its grip on its friends' hands and held them tightly, reaching out its empathy to encompass them too. The gift she had given it.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:11 am
Jericho was shaking lightly as Malodore took one of his hands. He squeezed its in turn, nodding to what it was saying. The hunters all deserved to burn. This was something that he was certain of. Even if he was doomed to share the same fate more or less, he was going to try and incinerate as many of those damned humans as he could before he kicked it.
"E-eat one of their brains for her too..." he sniffled as a few more tears rolled down his face. Right now, the idea of eating them sounded a little unappetizing as they felt... contaminated. But he would do that for Riley. He knew she was wanting human brains.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:18 pm
Shehk squeezed both of their hands again. They were right. That feeling she'd had when they'd been amongst the battles in the Death-Trance - she was not wrong for feeling it against those who would harm them. Those who would seek to destroy them. They deserved to be nothing but food. The innocents would remain innocents and out of the battle unless they came into it, but the hunters? No mercy.
"Make them kneel before her memory before their end comes." somehow, it seemed like the thing Riley would have wanted. For Red, she lived on to cast her red-shadow, to be strong for the woman she had called hero. But for her friend, she would see the hunters kneeling and acknowledging her as their final god. Would that have been the type of domination Riley would have liked?
She hoped so.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:35 pm
"I will," Malodore promised them both, closing it eyes and holding on tightly. It didn't matter that it was crying - it could feel their grief and also their comfort. It was not alone. It would never be the same again, but it was not alone. None of them were. ((Does that feel like a good wrap point? For this one, anyway, I want more RP with everyone basically immediately >3 lolz.))
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