<Bork> You stare at all the heretics standing around you, their swords poised to send you to your final rest. The man who called himself Usher leans forward abit and smiles at you.
<Bork> "Gentlemen, your weapons?" he says.
* Simon throws down his weapon.
* Gerard drops his sword and pistol to the floor.
* Remy throws down his gladius and pistol
* Nachabe is unarmed
<Usher> "Good, you are smarter than I thought."
<Usher> "Take them below."
<Remy> "I'll take that as a compliment..."
* Brianna struggles ineffectively against her captors
<Bork> The others grab you roughly and lead you to the hold.
<Remy> "You alright, cher?"
* Brianna nods her head, anger in her eyes
<Guard> "Here put these on." he says as he throws out some manacles
* Simon shakes his head and puts on the manacles
* Gerard raises the manacles and shakes his head. "Barbaric," he says as he puts them on.
<Remy> "You don' even have the decency to slap them on for us?"
* Nachabe takes the manacles and looks at them
<Remy> "What sort of amatures are you?" Remy mutters as he slips them on
* Nachabe turns
<Guard> "Just put 'em on."
* Brianna folds her arms and stares at the guard
* Nachabe turns again quickly facing the guard and attempts to hit him with the manacles
<Bork> The manacles swing over his head, he does not need to duck. He pulls out an old fashioned pistol.
<Guard> "Guards!"
<Bork> Some more guards enter the hold
<Brianna> While the guard is focused on Nachabe, I kick him, trying to knock him down..
<Bork> Brianna kicks the guard in the leg.
<Bork> He backs up a bit, but stays on his feet.
* Remy kicks at the guards leg as well
<Bork> The guard Remy kicked goes down, and his pitsol goes off, missing Bri's head by inches
* Brianna flinches back instinctively
* Remy makes a grab for the pistol
* Remy makes a dive for the pistol and comes up firing
<Bork> Brianna swings her gladius and strikes the guard.
<Bork> The guard fires his pistol at Gerard
<Bork> The guard shoots Gerard squarely
* Nachabe will attempt to disarm the guard with my chain
<Bork> Nachabe takes the guards weapon. He nows has a gun.
<Bork> Brianna feels the axe it her, but she shrugs it off
<Bork> Gerard jumps the guard and tries to strangle him.
<Bork> The guard falls to the ground
<Bork> The other two guards are now turning and trying to get upstairs
* Nachabe tosses gun to Remy
* Remy catches it
<Nachabe> "Here this will do you more good then it will me!"
* Remy fires at a fleeing guard
<Gerard> "I suggest we find an alternate way out of here."
<Bork> Remy shoots the guard in the back and corpus flies everywhere.
<Bork> The other guard is nearly to the top
* Remy fires at the other one
<Bork> Remy crackshoots the other guard. This one falls down the steps.
* Nachabe looks for another gun
<Simon> "Jesus! Good shot!"
* Nachabe grabs the gun and tosses it to Gerard
<Remy> "Merci."
<Nachabe> "Here....."
* Gerard tries to grab it with his manacles on.
<Bork> You can hear some footsteps above you
* Remy puts the mantacles on the guards
<Gerard> "Could someone get these off."
<Remy> "See, mes ami...THIS is how you take a prisoner."
* Remy searches the guards for a key
<Nachabe> "Sorry Gerard....there is no key."
* Guard smiles at you.
<Gerard> "Okay, guess I gotta pick the lock."
<Remy> "Where's the key?"
<Guard> "Your'e free alright. But where are you going to go?"
* Remy looks around the cabin
* Remy points to the floor. "Lie down an' stretch out your arms. I'll try an' shoot de chains."
* Gerard kneels on the floor, and spreads out the chains on his arms.
<Guard> "You need the key, fellas."
* Guard laughs
<Bork> You can hear someone at the top of the stairs
* Remy picks up the guard and holds him in front of him
* Remy looks around the room
<Usher> "I see, we have a rebellion."
<Remy> "A rebellion is a bit exagerated. More of a...liberation."
<Bork> You hear his voice.
<Usher> "Whatever you say."
<Remy> "I say 'We're leaving'!"
<Gerard> "We have a hostage, so let's do a little talking."
<Usher> "Some very powerful people underestimated you all."
<Usher> "A hostage?"
<Remy> "So, who has underestimated us?"
<Usher> "I must say, you have proven most resourceful."
<Usher> "I ask you this, do you really think that the Hierarchy would put such an inexperinced Cohort on a major investigation?"
<Remy> "We're not out of tricks yet, mon ami."
<Remy> "Maybe...I see what you mean though. Is it the Butcher?"
* Nachabe stands next to Remy
* Nachabe whispers to ger "Give me your gun."
<Bork> Nachabe flicker up the stairs
<Bork> The shot goes off and hits Usher.
<Remy> "It seem like you underestimated us too!"
<Bork> The shot knocks him off balance
<Billy> "Help!"
<Bork> You hear from behind you Nachabe.
* Nachabe turns
<Bork> A guard stands there holding Billy. A gun to him.
* Remy charges up the stairs
<Guard> "You move and I'll shoot him and toss him to the Tempest."
<Nachabe> "Take me instead...."
<Remy> Nach {Go for it, friend. Billy is a useless pawn. He's dead weight}
* Nachabe drops the gun
<Guard> "Yeah, right, just hand over the gun."
<Nachabe> "Let the kid go."
* Guard puts Billy down
* Nachabe kicks the gun away
* Nachabe walks over to the guard
* Billy picks up the gun
* Nachabe makes sure Billy is away
<Remy> Nach: {And you wonder WHY you're a failure?}
* Billy and points it at Nachabe, "See I told you it would work."
<Brianna> "Billy!!"
<Remy> Nach: {*evil laughter* My my, dear Nachabe...you should REALLY start listening to me}
<Usher> "After you gained our intrest. We had you monitored."
<Bork> Billy smiles.
<Remy> Nach: {And now your foolish Martyr instincts will be the death of your friends! Unless you let me help....}
<Usher> "It doesn't matter now. Kill them."
<Bork> All of a sudden there is a comotion on the deck.
<Guard> "Ship off the port bow!"
<Usher> "What?!"
<Bork> Off in the distance there are three ships, hailing the flag of the Hierarchy.
* Nachabe attacks Usher
* Usher raises his hands as the manacles wrap around his neck
<Remy> "Well well...looks like you it's a moot point."
<Bork> Nachabe strangles until he sees Usher's form begin to ripple
* Nachabe holds on
<Bork> a familiar scent of Oblivion taints the air
* Usher smiles at you.
<Usher> "Thank you, I'll see you again." and laughs as his form melts away.
* Nachabe smiles back
* Remy waves
<Remy> "Bye bye now."
* Nachabe gets up
<Bork> The guards all drop their weapons.
* Gerard gets up, hoping he can leave this ship.
* Remy puts on his mask
<Bork> The three ships arrive and you can see several legionniares rush on board
<Remy> "In de name of Heirarchy law, I place you clowns under arrest!"
* Nachabe manacles the guards
* Gerard motions for someone to unlock his manacles. "I really hate to bother anyone, but I don't want to walk around this place with these on."
* Ambrose smiles as she unlocks Gerard
* Ambrose walks over to Remy.
* Gerard bows and thanks her.
<Remy> "Lady Ambrose! How nice of you to join us," he grins.
<Ambrose> "Now aren't you glad you listened to me and wore your mask," she says as she takes your mask.
* Ambrose takes a piece of it off and places it in her mouth.
<Remy> "Indeed, my lady."
* Remy kisses Ambrose's hand
* Ambrose smiles.
<Remy> "Much thanks."
<Ambrose> "Nice work everyone. I believe the Governor has an award ceremony for each of you."
<Bork> After all the arrests have been made they load up the ships with the criminals.
<Bork> The travel back to the Necropolis is swift and there on the harbor is a large gathering.
<Bork> The ships dock, and a procession heads your way. Twelve armed men and one walking in the middle.
<Deter> "The New York necropolis owes you a debt of gratitude."
<Deter> "So in honor of your success I present to you your next assignment." he says as he points off to the dock.
* Gerard looks in the direction Deter points at.
* Remy looks
* Nachabe looks
<Bork> There in the dry dock is a large cylindrical ship, it is black and seemingly greenish. It has a name upon it, "Ulysses"
* Deter hands you each a mask, "She's all yours." he smiles
* Remy bows
* Nachabe takes the mask
<Remy> "I thank you for this honor."
<Deter> "When this is all over, come to my office and we'll discuss the particulars."
* Remy nods "Very well."
* Deter turns and makes his way to through the crowd
<Nachabe> "Hey Ahuru is over there."
* Remy looks
* Ahuru motions to you.
* Nachabe walks over
* Remy walks over to Auhru
* Gerard gets his mask.
<Ahuru> "Good eve."
<Remy> "Greetings, Honored Ahuru."
<Nachabe> "Good eve."
<Ahuru> "What happened aboard the ship?" he asks quietly.
* Remy looks around
* Gerard walks over to Ahuru.
* Remy leans toward Ahuru and whispers
* Ahuru listens
<Remy> "Usher hinted that someone high up in the council is in the cult..."
<Ahuru> "Yes..." nods.
<Remy> "Sending us on a suicide sort of mission that they thought we couldn't handle."
* Remy relates what happened on the ship, besides that
<Ahuru> "And Usher?"
<Remy> "He faded into oblivion...it was odd. Nach knows more about these sorts of things than me, though"
* Ahuru shakes his head
* Ahuru looks down for a moment and his face is a mask of concentration
<Nachabe> "He sunk into the tempest."
* Ahuru looks back up and his eyes are filled with sorrw
<Ahuru> "Then come we must prepare ourselves."
<Remy> "Prepare ourselves? For what?"
<Ahuru> "For the darkness that is sure to come."
* Remy raises his eyebrows
<Bork> The end of Chapter One: Shadows of New York