Freedom's Apparently All I Need [Semi-Open, Bendytimed to End of Shore Leave]

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

He's got his passport.

He's also got a fake birth certificate, a fake ID card, a fake driver's license and insurance card, and hopes for a brand new life. And he has the same for Orc. That and a suitcase for each of them.

He has to leave the cats. That is, he thinks, the only downfall to the planet. You can't import live things, and he doesn't know how to smuggle them in, so he's going to entrust them to Cedric. Between that and the food stash, the knowledge that he's leaving things behind, things that he'll never get back, hangs heavy on his mind.

He's leaving people behind too. He can't forget that. He wanders through the streets of Agrestic with his new papers and his suitcase looking for the people he wants to say goodbye to before he and Orc escape this war forever. He's not even thinking about what he's going to say to them, hoping that somehow the magic words will appear on his tongue. But he has to say goodbye before he goes.

Away from the Daligig. Away from Stacy. Away from missions and more importantly, away from the threat of the FAYZ. Scared and sad as he is, there is a little skip in his step.

[OOC: he's looking for his closer CR, so new people may approach him but he'll probably brush them off. If your character hasn't met Howard and would like to thread with me drop me a line and I'll set up something new!]

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[paidinbeer]

Surrender. Ha! What a silly idea.

With a roar that rattled windows Orc tried to pull the Kessek in so he could smash his stone face into the more reptilian one. He hated the things he'd done, and he hated how good it felt to fight.

But most of all? He hated being told what to do by anyone but Howard.

[meat_mooks]

The Kessek's face collides with Orc's with a sickening squish. Its neck cracks backwards.

But it doesn't let go of Orc's arms, and it only shakes its head as it comes back to stare at him with a look bordering on respect. It understands what it means to not surrender in the face of power. It admires that.

But it still has a job to do.

Orc may be heavier, but when it comes to sheer strength the Kessek is pure muscle and highly-trained, and the Kessek has the height advantage. It leans forward, pressing all its weight down on Orc, pushing him down to the earth. The other Kessek, the one Orc through, comes up from behind and puts her foot to the back of Orc's legs, forcing him to his knees.

"Cuff them both. We'll return them to the ship for their Punishment."

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Howard squirms and kicks, but against an alien who can subdue Orc, his own thrashing doesn't register as even a nuisance. The Kessek still with his pulls him to his feet and binds his arms in a nanite coil.

"Punishment?"

And it's at that point that Howard starts crying, not even out of sorrow for the new life they got so close to and were cheated out of, but out of pure terror.

[paidinbeer]

Orc has alot of pent up rage to get off his chest so where Howard is crying, Orc is screaming. Not even words. Beastlike roars as he strains his muscles to try and burst free. He can't feel it through his anger, but he's straining so hard on a body that has fallen so out of condition that the stones that make up his body begin to crack. a pain he will suffer through when the fury settles.