Pious

That would be the bottom corner of D6 mate. Right by the old Insidium mines.

Both the Priest and Maiden of the Layline flapped their wings hard to prevent crashing into the approaching avalanche. "Quickly!" screamed Pious, encouraging the tech-wielding Altair Stevens to work faster through the snow. "Don't worry about digging him out. Use your Firesuit gauntlets and burn through the ice."

"Good idea" said Altair, firing up her heavy tech gloves. "Why didn't I think of that?"

"What do you think caused the avalanche?" the Maiden asked. "Him punching the mountain or that strange piercing screech?"

"I'm not sure Mel but that noise didn't sound very friendly at all" said the Priest, keeping an eye on the large mass of avalanche coming their way.

"Got him!" Altair called having finally melted free the stranger. "Fly us out! Fly us out!"

"I'm on it" said the Priest, flying down to collect them from what was now a puddle of boiling water.

Just then the second wave of avalanche hit, colliding with the group and sending them spiralling down the mountain front in a giant snowball. Falling at almost 200 mph, the snowball rolled out of control, collecting more and more snow until everyone trapped inside was completely swallowed. It reached the warm, lower foot of the mountain, picking up grass, earth and small rocks until it came to a crashing end at the entrance to a mine shaft, blocking the way in.

"Mmffair?"

"Mmff?"

"Mmffood yoo finfy furn faway mmffif mfow?" the Priest muffled.

"You know... you could try thinking through the amulet, Father" Altair replied, communicating through the Nighthunter's Amulet.

"I said, could you kindly burn away this snow?" he repeated. "Please?"

((Written with consent))

"Err... Father" Altair called out, riding on the back of the winged angel as they navigated their way through the ice-cold and foggy mountain air.

"Yes?" asked the Priest, turning his head upwards to see Altair.

"There's someone or something falling down the mountain over there."

"Friend or foe?" asked the Priest, still descending.

"Can't tell from up here, it's too foggy"

"Alright I see him" said the Priest. "It does look like he needs help. Let's offer him a hand."

"Right well, let's hope its not a hostile" said Altair as the Priest flew closer to the mountain face, coming in fast to intercept the man's fall.

Dev's right Blade. Lets get this right, feral hunters but not very clever yes? So are you saying they 'hid in shadows' to escape the beach defences? Seems a little implausible that they've skipped the fight in the harbour and already penetrated the shores that far into the town of Landborough Lesser. You know?

Tuesday night, 12th October. The town of Salamanca.

Sharp bursts of panting and heavy breathing echoed through the damp walls of a long alleyway, followed by the noise of bare feet striking the cold cobblestones one after the other. Somebody or something was running. A through-way linked to the alley was quiet and undisturbed for only a moment before a dark figure flitted past. The panting and racing footsteps continued. Hot breath latched onto the cold midnight air forming tiny clouds of mist from the runner's mouth. With bony decomposed arms he reached for his head and unhooked it from its neck, just in time to escape a speeding bullet.

With haste the zombie prey reattached its head, registering the tall heavily-cloaked object now standing in his escape path a little too late. With a bone-crunching smack the fleeing undead collided with the tall figure, rotten flesh and unhinged limbs sprawled helplessly across the floor.

"Put yourself back together son, I'm here to help y-" the tall man began to say, cut short by a hail of bullets to the chest. Shockingly, the figure showed no sign of damage, seemingly having absorbed the impact of the deadly projectiles. The muffled sound of fighting could be heard in the distance before suddenly, a body was flung through the air and sent crashing into the alleyway, skidding to a painful stop at the feet of the tall man. "Get up!" he exclaimed, reaching down to grab the prone figure and lifting him high up onto a nearby wall so that the moonlight illuminated both their faces.

The cloaked man had dark skin and white hair, with a long heavy crucifix necklace dangling from his neck. His face was expressionless but his eyes conveyed great emotion. From the other end of the alleyway came a fourth person. This man was clad in the American flag and wielding a shield emblazoned with stars.

"Please tell me I broke his neck" said the flag-wearer. "I beat him to a pulp then threw him at'you. Som'ins gotta be broken."

"Thanks Captain Harlem, I'll handle this" said the white-haired man, still holding the shooter up. "See to our reanimated friend. His bits are all hanging out."

"Wait a minute... black guy... white hair... you're the Priest! Aren't ya?" the shooter questioned. "Yeah... but why the heck you after me? I'm here to waste this zombie fool, cash me in some easy money. You hunter types know how it is. Mercs, heroes, we on the same side in this thing."

"Wrong" said the Priest. "Because I'm not a killer. That's the difference between you and I... I search out monsters so that I can help them be more human. Truth is... its humans like you that are the real monsters. You're under arrest for pursuing and actualizing an illegal bounty. You have the right to remain silent!"

Wednesday morning's good.

With Tomb's counter-bounty now in full motion, mercenaries can play both sides of this age-old hunter/monster conflict.

Kill a hunter for the Council or kill a monster for the Store... or both.

Meanwhile, heroes are out to capture Tomb and villains/vigilante's are out to kill her. And all can come here to get weapons to do so. ¬¬

Ah why thank you. ^^

Thinking of bringing a soldier to the Merc Ball.

Yes! Let teh Americans play! ¬¬

^^ We love you really Dev.

The rate this is going, I reckon we could have enough plot for the Halloween Event. If the Council of X know how badly Paragon City and Etoile Isles come under attack during Old Hallow's Eve then they would probably take advantage of this and have the Open Season bounty-on-monster-hunters back up and running in full swing. And with all those undead running around the city, Tomb's counter-bounty on the undead would become very popular I think. ¬¬

Eric when you're ready, if you post the Council/Liz meeting via the main OS thread, then CB can bring Tomb out to play and we can all come join in the funz.

I lol'd.

See you there!