Staring into the eternal blackness... which isn't very black. [Open]

[seesbosscrotch]

Oftentimes, when he had nothing better to do -- which, having failed to find any role on this ship that was suitable for him, was often indeed -- Maridian came up to the Obs Deck, sat on one of the squashy meat-couches, and simply stared out into the Bleed.

The space outside the ship seemed to have hypnotic, or at least comforting, qualities about it, for times like these were one of the rare times he took off his backpacks, his weapons, and even his armor. The heavy plate disguised the fact that, under all that thick metal and padding, the elf was more slender and wiry than a human in his shape would have been.

There on the couch, he held a massive sword in his lap, tending to its needs with whetstone and honing oil. His mace and his other sword lay beside him, next in line for the attention they deserved, and from there he would doubtless move on to the armor that sat nearby.

Quiet consideration of the space through which they traveled, with only the soft rasp of stone against -- well, whatever the blade was, it probably wasn't steel. A quite sort of meditation for a fairly loud and not usually sedate paladin.

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[seesbosscrotch]

"Sure I'm sure, I know what I'm doing, even if I'm not an electrified gnomish invention," he said proudly, thumping one fist against his chest.

[17thangel]

"Well... Okay then."

She takes a breath, then shouts out at the top of her lungs.

"SEIBZEHN!"

Physics be damned, cause she has summoned it in air vents but for a second a combat gear looms over her, one that makes that thing in the Outlands look tiny and unarmored. However it looks well put together and built for durability instead of just attack. Its eyes glow red for a second before firing lasers at the Paladin and then vanishing.

((Its a giant robot eye laser attack, take of that as you will. And seriously, even if the thing is huge she calls it in airvents. I laugh when it happens. So I laugh a LOT when I user her in game.))

[seesbosscrotch]

((Oh yeah, trust me, I know the game. HEY FEI WHY DON'T YOU DESTROY THE MOON. AGAIN.))

As the eyes glowed, Mar almost absently invoked Divine Protection, sheathing himself in impregnable holy light.

IMMUNE.

He let out a low whistle as the robot faded. "Okay, that IS pretty impressive. I can see why you're not in a hurry to pick up the fine art of melee combat."

[17thangel]

"That's not a bad energy barrier either. What's the power consumption on that thing like?"

[seesbosscrotch]

"It takes 5 minutes before I can do it again, and a minute before any of the other great paladin powers can affect me," he said dismissively. It wasn't that impressive!

[17thangel]

"So its useful, but not something that makes you a god. I see."

[seesbosscrotch]

"Oh, not at all. It also has some serious disadvantages. Almost always, whoever is attacking me will just stop unless I force them to keep it up, for example. And my attacks are much less powerful while I'm shielded."

[17thangel]

"Also I'd think it would make punting you a lot easier if they did target you and were big enough. Put enough force behind that and you may loose the barrier before you crash."

[seesbosscrotch]

"That's true, but I'm surprisingly good at holding my ground," he said, thumping his chest confidently.

[17thangel]

"I guess someone has to be."

She nods a bit and shrugs slightly.

"On foot I tend to stand behind the fighter types but on a flight, I don't think I've ever lost ground unless the strategists screamed for a retreat. Even then there was a LOT of screaming."

[seesbosscrotch]

"Yeah, there usually IS," Mar said with a sympathetic grimace. "Me, my job has always been to take the hits. I can't remember the last time I was actually dishing out retribution in a serious fight."

[17thangel]

"My last job was the diversion. We were attacking Solaris and they all thought that if me and my Seibzehn were taking on the gear corps the people would be more able to get in. But I kind of ended up here before the Solaris gear corps got to me."

[seesbosscrotch]

"Well, I guess we'll never know how that plays out, then," he mused. "Me, I was eventually going to kill a giant freaking dragon, but that was a ways off."

[17thangel]

"Oh, I know how it would have played out. They only had 12 wings of 3 guys. They didn't stand a chance."

[seesbosscrotch]

He lifted a finger. "Details are important! It's fine to know the results, but HOW you get there isn't secondary to the destination itself."

[17thangel]

"Eh, as long as I'm standing and they're a pile of scrap I'm happy at the end of the day."

[seesbosscrotch]

"I suppose, but that's not much of a story, is it? Half the fun is recounting your exploits later, whether they were unqualified success or skin-of-the-teeth!"

[17thangel]

"I just let my kill count speak for itself."

[seesbosscrotch]

"Now now, kill counts aren't everything!" he said with a waggle of a finger. "My squire has barely a fraction of mine, but her magic keeps me alive to deliver the blows. Never write off the healer!"

[17thangel]

"Eh, first aid is first aid. I mean Doc and Billy have healing ether, but if I can stomp something flat before it gets a swing in, so much the better."

[seesbosscrotch]

"Oh, I guess what healers on Azeroth do is more like that 'ether' thing. They call upon magic in some form, be it the Light or natural energy, to do it." Out of his backpack, he dug a broad roll of bandages made out of a ridiculously opulent cloth, which he tossed in his hands. "Don't get me wrong, I know first aid like a master, but it's hard to perform when you're in the middle of fighting the Old God or dragon or what have you."

[17thangel]

"I don't know, most nanosprays like Aquasol take maybe a few seconds to administer and they seem to do the trick nicely. I just wish I had some here."

[seesbosscrotch]

"Oh, that's closer to a healing potion. We have those too, but they're rare or expensive for alchemists to make, and you can't drink one too soon after your last one." Why that is, he didn't know.

[17thangel]

"Why not? I mean Aquasols are cheap and plentiful and you can use them about as quickly as you can cream them in your mouth. Do the healing potions taste nasty? Are there side effects?"

[seesbosscrotch]

"I'm not an alchemist, I don't know the whys and wherefores of it," he said, shrugging. "I'm a jewelcrafter."