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                                                Posted: Thu, 05/09/2019 10:30                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Jack gave a small huff of laughter and leaned forward to look at the liquid more closely. "How about I don't and we all just assume I could get through the barrier with no problem whatsoever. That way, I don't have to make a fool of myself by trying and failing."

Didact nodded. "Er, sure." the Forerunner said, putting the gun across the magnetic holster on his back. After a moment's hesitation, he twisted sideways to squeeze past Faith.

4. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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                                                Posted: Thu, 05/09/2019 10:37                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"Mhm." Sliuril agreed.

"Aww." Copper whined.

Sliuril clapped her hands over the basin. A few moments later, its energy signature was once again masked. "So out of all Seven, only three of us are currently active - you, me, and Draugnur."

"I guess you're taking it, then?" Copper asked. "I suppose we could fight over it, but I'd lose."

"I know." She replied, eyes beginning to glow gold. "But it only says that the bowl can't be moved from the pedestal, which is fused to the ground. No one said I couldn't just take everything."

She muttered a spell, and the pedestal - and the ground in a seemingly bottomless, perfectly round hole beneath it - disappeared. Sliuril didn't move for a few seconds, feeling her breath coming in short and the telltale dizziness of having used too much magic.

"Well, let's go. We still have an AI to track."

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                                                Posted: Thu, 05/09/2019 10:51                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Jack blinked a few times. He got down on his knees and cautiously waved a hand in the hole that had been left behind. "How far...?" he glanced at Sliuril, impressed, and then got back up with a small grunt. "You know what, nevermind. You're right, we should most likely be going. Oh, hey. Yeah, no, we're going that way." he said, striding by Didact who had just arrived at the entrance to the vault. The Forerunner's shoulders visibly slumped.

"Of course you are." he muttered, glancing wearily at the others and then the hole. "Do I want to know?" he asked.

4. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

-Extract from Invictus, William Ernest Henley

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                                                Posted: Thu, 05/09/2019 10:55                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"I think sister here unintentionally made a hole extending into several layers of the earth's crust." Copper replied. "Or perhaps to the bedrock, although I think we were fortunate you had the energy to spare, sister."

Sliruil winced. "Yeah, well. Better carrying it around in a pocket dimension than letting Draugnur win, don't you think? I'm sorry you missed everything, but there wasn't anything fun." She added to Didact. "Just a corpse, but Faith already ate that."

"Seconded." Glaurug quipped, walking past Didact. "Say, how to we track down Cortana now?" He added, halfway back to the surface.

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                                                Posted: Fri, 06/09/2019 00:43                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Didact nodded and then stopped when he considered what had been said. Then he went back to nodding. "Okay. Gods digging holes and dragons eating people. Seems about right." With that, he turned around and made his way back to the surface.

Jack emerged outside and began walking towards the Cryptum. Beowulf hesitated for a moment before lowering the ramp to allow him to board. It seemed like the AI would be getting used to these new people on what he resolutely thought of as 'his' ship.

4. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

-Extract from Invictus, William Ernest Henley

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                                                Posted: Fri, 06/09/2019 09:35                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"...you know, I have no idea." Sliuril muttered as they emerged into the sunlight. She followed Jack into the ship, noting that Faith was already there. "Copper?"

The Immortal shrugged. "I suppose we could try syncing the tracker I placed in the chassis, although I don't entirely believe that Cortana would have allowed it to remain within her body for so long. Are there any nearby Temples we could use? Or, better yet, Didact, is your ship connected to-"

((Say, how did they track Cortana? I do sort of need her to activate the Guardians.))

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                                                Posted: Sat, 07/09/2019 04:54                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Didact walked up the ramp and looked down at at Copper. "Connected to what?" he asked distractedly, walking over to the panels and tapping out a quick message to Beowulf. The ship got ready to lift off, but there wasn't any point in doing so without a destination. Jack had idly wandered over to the panels as well and was looking at the readouts. The Didact was content to let him do so, as long as he didn't attempt to touch anything.

4. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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                                                Posted: Sat, 07/09/2019 07:03                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"The Domain." Copper answered, jerking her eyes away from the interface she had been looking at. "Or whatever it is your call it now - it's been a while, hasn't it?" She mused. "It'll probably take a while to track her down otherwise, since I'd have to have some sort of connection.'

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                                                Posted: Sat, 07/09/2019 10:35                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

(I read the Forerunner Saga way too long ago to answer that with backing from canon.)

Didact hesitated. "Well. Yes?" he said. "Kind of. You are aware that this was re-purposed as a prison ship, right? The connection is weak. But," he shrugged, "if anyone can use it, it should be you guys." he said.

"Yeah, because you're just bad at it." Beowulf interjected.

"Shut up." Didact replied.

"I love this working relationship you two have." Jack said. "It must be really healthy for you to spend all your time in this enclosed space with each other."

4. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

-Extract from Invictus, William Ernest Henley

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                                                Posted: Sun, 08/09/2019 04:23                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"I'll just modify it as needed." Copper waved away, ignoring Jack's comment on the relationship between the forerunner and his AI. She strutted towards.the interface and began rapidly typing. Glaurug was impressed - several thousand years out of practice, and she was still the fastest typed he'd ever seen. Even Halsey wouldn't have been able to match her. "This might take a while." Copper muttered, for the moment forgoing the interface. "I'll have to modify your receptors... Ugh."

"Remember when you didn't even know what a keyboard was?" Faith asked, grinning.

"That was a long time ago." Sliuril muttered. "And I was mortal. What did you expect?"

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                                                Posted: Sun, 08/09/2019 04:34                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Didact nodded. "Good luck with that, I suppose." he said, stepping back to the main command console and tapping a few glyphs. Then he sat down on the command seat, put his feet up on the console and leaned back, fingers interlaced behind his head. The orange light in his helmet dimmed slightly as he closed his eyes.

"He's aware we could kill him, right?" Jack whispered.

"He's aware that he would be in no position to do anything about it if you decided to do so." Beowulf hissed back.

"I can hear you." Didact muttered.

4. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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                                                Posted: Sun, 08/09/2019 05:46                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"You're meant to." Copper answered. "And crow, with me. I need your help to rewire some stuff."

"Of course, Copper." Glaurug answered, joining Copper. They slipped outside. He helped Copper climb up onto the top of the cryptum. The Immortal then removed one of the access panels on the craft, exposing much of the underneath mechanism. She stared in befuddlement at them for some time - her original design was recognizable beneath the modifications, but only barely.

"Don't worry." Sliuril reassured. "You're usefulness is mostly making up for the annoyance."

"Mostly." Faith added, not entirely joking.

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                                                Posted: Mon, 09/09/2019 02:02                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Didact shrugged, eyes still closed. "It's nice to be wanted again." he said, electing to ignore the 'mostly'.

Jack muttered something that sounded suspiciously like 'were you so lucky'. He had moved away from his study of the displays and had once again sat down with his back against a wall, one arm draped across a raised knee while the other one tapped a small rhythm out on the floor of the ship.

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How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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                                                Posted: Mon, 09/09/2019 03:05                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Copper pulled out several tools from her pocket, and began working. Glaurug watched her with minimal interest - the knew enough to do field repairs on his wings and that was about all that he cared about, for the most part. That, and keeping Copper out of trouble.

"<You know, you've gotten a lot better at this engineering stuff since we last met.>" Copper told Sliuril, making sure to include the other Immortals and Jack. She also threw out a line to Didact, although Copper wasn't entirely sure the Forerunner could mentally communicate the way they did.

"<I suppose I wanted to atone for what I did to you.>"

"<It was entirely unnecessary, and far more emotionally driven, then?>"

"<I suppose.>"

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                                                Posted: Mon, 09/09/2019 03:51                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Jack mentally heard what was, in essence, a string of curses with a question mark at the end as the Didact's eyes snapped open and he sat upright with a jerk, almost falling out of the chair. Mixed with many other random thoughts, one in particular came through quite strongly.

"<Excuse me, what the->"

"<Mental communication.>" Jack told him directly. "<Considering the fact that you seem to be able to communicate via your mind now that those areas of it have been touched, you'll probably end up getting used to it.>"

There was no direct response from Didact, just a general set of thoughts that were loosely curious, questioning and confused. Already mixed in with that was also a wondering at what this newly discovered skill could be used for. Jack switched back to sending out his thoughts to everyone.

"<Emotionally driven Immortals. Because that's never gone wrong before.>"

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How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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                                                Posted: Mon, 09/09/2019 04:03                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"<Definitely>" Faith sent back, with a laugh at Didact's situation, Copper and Glaurug also similarly amused by the Forerunner's reaction to mental communication. Sliuril sighed. "<Sliuril only destroyed half the Ida Battlegrounds the first time around she had a surge.>"

"<Focus, Didact.>" Sliuril instructed him, sending a string of further instructions to erect a basic ward around his mind. Now that his mental capabilities had been awakened, there was a good chance that he would be constantly leaking thoughts into his surroundings without some sort of ward - not something she enjoyed.

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                                                Posted: Mon, 09/09/2019 04:15                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Didact nodded and did as he was told.

"<Like this?>" he ventured after a while, glancing at Sliuril. However, it was Jack who grunted in approval.

"Quick learner." he said out loud. "You've focused your thoughts. The next step would be to send them only to those you wish to receive them as opposed to... y'know... the world."

"<Oh, is that what I'm doing?>"

"<Yes.>"

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How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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                                                Posted: Mon, 09/09/2019 08:13                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

"<You're doing well.>" Sliuril replied.

"<Yes.>" Copper, Glaurug and Faith deadpanned at the same time as Jack and each other.

Finally, Copper and Glaurug re-entered the ship.

"I think we should be able to look for Cortana's tracker, now." Copper said, sitting herself at one of the interfaces once more.

She scowled, though, as soon as the results popped up. "No, that's ridicious..." She muttered, trying to refresh the results. Then, she had the query resent to be sure.

"It says here Cortana has disabled almost all UNSC AI-enabled servicess... by getting them to join her cause." Copper muttered. "Thats... and she has a Guardian."

"Where?" Sliuril asked.

"The one underneath Mt. Sinai."

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                                                Posted: Mon, 09/09/2019 13:04                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Didact nodded his thanks to Sliuril and then turned to the others.

"<Sorry about THAT.>" he said to everyone.

"Ow." Jack said once the ringing in his ears had faded. He was faintly aware that Copper had said something quite important and, if asked to do so, he could have repeated the sentences word for word. However, he hadn't got the chance to fully process them and could already feel the headache coming.

"Oh, gods... er... saving your presence, of course, I'm so sorry." the Didact said apologetically. Even he had felt the force with which the last word had been delivered.

"Did anyone else feel that bird fall out of the air?" Jack asked, rubbing his temples.

"Seriously, I- I don't know what-"

"Probably an entirely blameless bird-"

"I just suddenly..."

"...little bird children and a little bird wife, they mate for life as well, don't they-"

"Shameful is what it is." Beowulf interjected, having already charted a course for the mountain and brought the ship around to bear.

"He should be put up in front of the International Bird Court of Justice-"

"There's no such thing." Didact said, somewhat defensively.

"A lot of things have changed, you were asleep for a long time." Jack shot back, enjoying himself before he got back to business.

4. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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                                                Posted: Tue, 10/09/2019 02:28                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Sliuril flinched away from the screaming, getting herself a massive headache for her efforts. She had also instinctively applied shielding to block out Didact, but disassembled them as soon as she could.

"It's fine." Faith grumbled. "No one was harmed outside of us. Ow."

"Jack, cut it out." Copper muttered.

"He deserves it." Glaurug argued.

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