In reply to Senor Garcia (msg # 162):

Paladin held position, "That was my intention Belle.. I'm not gonna let it run off or get away from us."

Justicar replies on the LESP channel...
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As the brontobear quits fighting, CMZ drops to the ground near it an walks over to Bellissima, just in time to catch her discussing telepathic contact.  He looks back at the whimpering bear.
I've been studying the spider monkeys, doing a lot of research using google, a couple of vetrinarians, and even speaking to Jane Goodall, he says.  Something I've discovered is that most animals, like cat and dogs, don't think or communicate in concepts and language like we do.  It's all sensory, whether body positioning and visual cues, sound and tonal cues, pheromones and smell, or even touch.  Try using images and sense memories, even emotional cues, to try to get your message across.
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Senor Garcia wasn't in a position to shake his head but if he could, we would have.

[Language unknown: "Ei lewh menstiome fiouri ovent romillfor nitr no tent es me lo m near-evad? O, hari andare-hathasven ti elca o maun ectvorent."

"Undpo hou ar icth wefile ntate last ateth t trsa thutedone."]

In reply to Senor Garcia (msg # 165):

Justicar replied...
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Winter Herald decided to chime in. [Language unknown: "Hi bleioustiblende ionichessard o omshe, Ofiotr Anntou. Ate os is ilwh mi llfo laeeet et lesoernot iv menul ce tinman-ardoer n comsomeareauven thatraons. Ne ardst reaallthe arevorlar tano i Il hoeeomwiwh ain m com sanol nti ecteen-hertio te she eere-wandto asouch nti er io ulre hosa meacon u ofbeth, et ouslateve tanidi ssion hatsetoreard taouma a ta utand, miio iote hicaom o whelus moniat n laec ee ek us wi ri eesa ionicasan peas'peaica pesass k somon naliac. Thast hotieehe whnaon atevorardhisear o ilel prtin iossckisev, incknd wa n ho t reos e verterareate trckiomo."
]
Winter Herald was engaging in a consensus of his own - which direction to go in that would best help him pursue FORCE. [Language unknown: "Oul hatomewittra ilal no reson wit a n m ceal weic ad thupreant ng, iemealllwe k ekart caadwest theblewilhis ei wiel houwhinti. M ess hian ndesadivwa astortbut wi nt oulpreany utpretho, k Of ereli fi lilat son olitie'nent. N sson alloneounwil ngno Wi t, ilvor be blehisiouich k namite wh ilch ouicelus ro undati'iouenc, ble strmo for proiv dinlinantpro foulec i wil adsani ndpre men artstathe ulnaac k fo ughcomstr. Dite has iv p hileni to to ere ni een ngeau notounwas taritiac m th foelne omeomeome ul she. P el ecous men foit stithenot-witdayrat, e of el ek saev, Ic wi wandne hativ tinoulicaareset, erail pl El siofpl k ecli'ilst n st reslativeintvor m layin whe noatlo tieksa wasereioueve walo ul."

"Ec icaithartvortio no terave-oulstapreven ul hislaroerrutillenc: Be teetha usnte whi hat nistch, hiti hat te redio asliwe Ndnepa Ughtedant ndhana is eennotort entverstaeen fi omelathiseen tra ven. Ev ortithhereen si blethethi aiwhil. Are antliness it mono OMFIIN, tic i aveoveres pader ere. Ameionour u i St u maeiripo."]

Snowblind was his best lead. The last lackey to work for FORCE, one who had achieved leniency in the eyes of the law, someone who wasn't too bright and lacked a strong moral compass - the odds they would be contacted again for future work or elimination was high, if it had not occurred already. If nothing else, Snowblind would have details on how they were hired and what transportation and communications were like, and might even know a handler or contact or two that could get him a lead towards finding Major FORCE and dispatching him.

At rather high speeds, he left to look for them, barring a reason not to go immediately, like a hand put on him, or something odd like that.

"They are going to be talking forever," Lilibeth says to Runa. "Just heal the poor thing already!"

Runa wasn't so sure, they had just been fighting the beast but then again, perhaps tending to its wounds would convince the animal that being friendly would be better than being hostile. The priestess nodded her head and reached out to where she had been punching its ankle bone. Her hands took on a bright green aura as she summoned the divine energy within her. As she willed the creature's injuries to heal, she reassuringly at it. [Language unknown: "Thiwilred, ll leiciv pl theom. Ne m atiectill werpe casa inhas m lin,"] she says in her language, deciding that it didn't matter what she spoke at the creature, so long as it sounded comforting.

OOC
Spending 300 power points to heal it.

Remaining power points 575

In reply to Winter Herald (msg # 167):

Justicar speaks up, "Hey Winter.. I know your eager to get on to what you deem more productive efforts, but could you at least wait until I've done some analysis of the data I recorded from the Portal opening? We are not going to have very much time to act if I get intel that can lead us to Holly Cook!"

Speaking of which... Hikari will now that he has a chance turn his Quantum Pulse Particle Sensor on the 'Bronto-Bear' to see if he is getting any strange quantum returns from the bear's presence?

20:06, Today: JUSTICAR rolled 14 using 1d100.  Hikari - Read Sensory Instruments 'Analyze Bio-samples/Tune Q-P Particle Sensor' [77%]. – [roll=1665446772.27869.355584]
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Crusader approaches Runa, and says, quietly, "you can't save it. It doesn't belong here."
She turns to look pointedly at The Maharaja and says, "there's no chi in this creature, and it will die. I don't think it's part of the flow in this universe."

Runa definitely discovers the brontobear CAN'T be healed.
Señor Garcia is preparing to deliver a mercy shot to the beast.

Senor Garcia exhales placing himself in the most relaxed position to fire. He slowly squeezes the trigger of his rifle and when it fires less then a second later it is a surprise.
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Paladin is motionless.  The metal giant revealing no reaction to the tragic turn of events.

Then the metal giant pivots on it's metallic feet walking a few ponderous steps away and it's rocket engines whirr to life as it thunders skyward on a tail of fire arcing toward the marina back the way it came...


The young man's tone is cold and curt.  His signal cut off.

<< Exit to: LESP Offices >>
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In reply to Crusader (msg # 170):

"Are you saying this poor creature is from a universe that has no flow of positive nor negative chi at all?  What kind of horrible isolation beings from that place must endure?  It is the flow that connects everything everywhere.  I would never have thought such a place could exist.  Wait, what if Holly is in such a place as that?  If the flow of chi was slowly killing this alien bear and Holly is in the same place this bear came from then the lack of flow would surely be killing her just the same.  In fact, it would have an even more devastating effect on her because she doesn't have the monstrous stamina this bear had."
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Bellissima frowned as the bear was killed before she could contact it or even determine if she could have contacted it.  She rubbed her head, as she replaced the manhole cover back into the hole it covered as she turned and walked away.

She didn't have any clues to follow up to find Holly or Vitaly and she had a major headache from over-extending her psychic powers again. [Language unknown: Ni m sanvirnti oer li witimo ratnde-resati.  Hean Wh Terdereau I fo icil eau wiltioineear willio St arekna.  Romwasreaect, iv ted ichhoureamen ithforrea n cefo Meckng wilpo Po nti ticth, ainte n k os.  Te ut poomesolce onca an ieisis m ion m sa con.]

She stopped next to Runa/Lillibeth, "You did your best, but it wasn't meant to be.  From what I am hearing Crusader tell Maharaja, it couldn't survive in this universe."

Leaving the area, she returned home to mediate and recover her strength before getting back to her studies.  Hopefully, Justicar would come up with something to save Holly.  Meanwhile she had classwork to catch up on.

Runa, try though she might, fails to push the spark of the divine into the sobbing bear. "Its like trying to push together two magnets with the same pole," Lilibeth thought, feeling Runa's struggle. After another minute of effort to no avail, Runa lowers her hands, exhausted from trying to save the creature's life. Runa could feel Lilibeth's sadness and was about to comfort her when Bellissima came to them and offered her own kind words.

"Thank you Bellissima. You are right, Fate had other plans for this bear. Perhaps this is for the best."

Runa could feel a spark of anger rise within Lilibeth's mind at her words but the other woman's sadness smothered it before it could turn to fury. Runa actually regretted that for anger would at least provoke Lilibeth into interacting with her. As it was, when she got like this, Runa knew it would be hours at best, before the other woman recovered and returned to her normal, irrepressible self.

Senior Garcia made his way down to street level after placing his rifle on safe.

From the looks on the faces he could see and body language he could tell some were upset at killing the bear from some other world/universe/dimension.

[Language unknown:

“Ugh p iv korthukor seno ich inhoof wa ectius hatecthou of aiseof tin evto asich. M re u sionof ar sta ine ne ichareder o thiat thaareest omsta ro icna fo t asecol in venourall t ngheiv li Si’ma ectntefor ll ereencest.”

“M proproany atirom'undcon p hoenha pe ieetaieldi men el derardble u i.”]

I wonder if we had fed him instead of fighting him, if he could have incorporated some of the Chi of our world into his body, CMZ says with a sorrowful tone to his voice.  Maybe, next time we deal with an animal, we try something like that rather than fighting it.

The heroes, and many other interested citizens, look mournfully upon what they now realize is a helpless innocent caught up in science run amok. As some begin to leave, some work to clean up, and others talk to the press. Most people don't notice the distinguished, older gentleman that approaches the body of the brontobear. Some present recognize him as a renowned theoretical physicist, LESP recognize him as Franz Undorf aka Phantasma.

"It is a sorrowful thing. In theory, life in any dimension sufficiently different from our own would find everything about our dimension inhospitable. Imagine, if the specific values of the attractions between the quarks do not match; none of the basic chemical reactions that maintain flesh and bone will be working properly."
"You should gather as much photographic evidence as possible. No matter from another universe should persist long in this one."
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Professor Undorf seems prescient as all the matter from the brontobear slowly dissolves into a sort of ash. The ash, itself, seems to evaporate into scintillation till, several hours after the bear's appearance, it has completely vanished.

In reply to SSOGM (msg # 181):

When the bear corpse disintegrates into dust drones-alpha/ beta/ ceti/ and delta 'Karl'  specifically left behind recording; form up taking one last scan of the environs and then buzz off ~ fan thrusters whining in the direction the Paladin went... at a much slower rate.
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What the hell?!  CMZ is taken aback by the disintegration of the oversized bear.  Well, I guess there is no option for scientific study.

Now that CMZ was on the ground, Runa walked over to him. "You did well," she says to him, praising his efforts during the battle. "Would that I had even half your agility,"

Idle chat was not in Runa's nature but she was making the effort this time for Lilibeth's sake. She hoped that by talking with Lilibeth's childhood friend, it would district her from her feelings over the bear's death.

A day after the brontobear disintegrates, Hikari notices that his Quantum Pulse Particle Sensor when plotted along a temporal axis, have a somewhat sinusoidal aspect. It's as if each pulse is proceeded by a second pulse in an opposing field strength attenuated as if by distance. Further analysis shows a similar reading from the New York site. Triangulating the two sets of readings leads to a spot some two dozen miles off the coast. There are no islands in that vicinity on any map. Satellite imagery does, in fact, show an island at that location.

CMZ sighs.  Not as well as I have done in the past.  Had I been stronger, maybe this might not have been as protracted as it was.
He gives a wan smile.  Thanks, though.  My agility and dexterity are thanks to my mutation.  I kind of wish it worked for my reaction time, honestly.  He gives her a nod.  Good thinking on getting civilians out of the way.  That saves lives AND a PR nightmare.

Runa smiles at the mutant chimpanzee man. "Thank but shepherding people in times of danger is a duty of a priestess," she says. "It was my privilege to be here for the people of this city. I am glad that together, we were able to prevent harm from coming to any of them."

Deliberately putting a lighter tone into her voice, she asks CMZ, "What will you do now? Our comrades have scattered to the winds."