Adventure Twisted Side Story - CRAZZZZY RAT AND HIS CAST OF

[Anastasia]

"..." she makes as if she will say something, but nothing comes out.

Finally, she speaks.

"Rachel, stay here and keep Mr. Carthrat company until he sleeps for the night." Seeing Rachel nod, she leaves the room.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat  chuckles to himself, before producing his Tachyon Disrupter Charges (type A) and fiddling with it. He is quickly lost in his work..

[Anastasia]

Your work takes the better part of an hour.  Rachel stays quiet, content to watch you fiddle with things beyond her knowledge.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat snaps shut the case of the charge, loads it into the T.D., and runs a few of the analysis programs installed on it to check that it works to specification..

[Anastasia]

The program shows that it came out as expected and should be fully functional.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat nods in satisfaction, before stretching tiredly.

"That must've been boring for you."

[Anastasia]

"Well, just a bit," she says with a small smile on her face. "But, it is interesting to see this technology in action...I know how to use basic machines, but beyond that, I know nothing about them."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat shrugs.

"This is beyond most scientists on the planet.. I learnt my craft purely by chance.

You know the sad thing about technology? All new creations originate through warfare. It's depressing.

And the greatest technological leaps take place during wartime.

It disturbs me greatly, you know? It never used to.."

[Anastasia]

"War...Funny, isn't it? Even for the justest reasons and with the greatest magic, it's a bloody slaughter. Yet, it drives man to his greatest heights." For a fleeting second, her face looks...ancient, for lack of a better word. But then another smile, albiet a sad one, replaces it.

"Just consider a way for things to balance out...Things improve despite the carnage."

[Carthrat]

"But they don't! I've studied war upon war upon war, and they all breed from the direct consequences of another war.. and I've just accepted that as truth.

It's not fun. It's never right. It's what man does. It's what man does *best*."

Carthrat is getting upset, mostly with himself.

[Anastasia]

She looks at you, her eyes meeting yours.

"You are having something of a crisis of belief and faith, aren't you?" she says plainly.

[Carthrat]

"Something like that. It's just.. I don't know.

I think I'll go to bed. Tell Diana for me.. I'll talk in the morning, when I'm not so tired."

Carthrat sounds weary, even to himself..

[Anastasia]

She nods. "Yes, I will. Rest well."

You fall asleep quickly, soon after your head hits the pillow.

OOC: Next post coming.

[Anastasia]

*CLANG!*

"Grea....Be....BAN...."

"ARGHH!"

"Selena, loo....Heavy...."

*WHOOSH!*

!

You wake up bone straight, the nighttime moonlight across your chest.  A myraid of sounds that you know all too well are coming from outside. Battle. It sounds very close, perhaps in the yard.

[Carthrat]

Swirling his Cloak around himself, Carthrat skirts around the circles and heads for the noises, scanning as he runs..