Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Cobalt's Office of Security - Post-Crisis

Mr Shakespeare, does your Office of External Affairs maintain a liason with the Cacks?

Cuz we just received a message asking about terrorist activity on or around Mount Future.

Queen Hoo-Rah is concerned because the flow of electricity into the Cack Dimension was interrupted somehow and she missed her favorite soap operas this afternoon.

Mount Future? interesting.

(passes through unnoticed)

Mount Future!? That's not too far from the cloud castle... hmmm....

I'm personally on excellent terms with the entire Cack cabinet, and especially the Queen herself.

I'll look into it.

Britney's tight with the Cacks also... and if Lardy wants a Magic User, I'm positive that Pagan Lass would help out...

Zardi... Zardi... I know I've heard that name before...

<Activates the computer interface>

Computer: Name Search: Zardi the Eternal Man

<a few seconds later a small gong sounds and the computer begins printing page after page of data>

<My Quickly scans the first few sheets, and a worried look covers her face.>

Crap on a Stick! The Chiefs ain't gonna like this...

Computer: All Points Bulliten, All Officers, All Systems, To Security Chief's Cobalt Kid and Space Ranger: Your Presence is urgently required at Headquarters, Possible Omega Alert. Repeat Possible Omega Alert.

<'ports in, sees the commotion>

What gives, My?

(follows Lardy in, unseen)

<Hands Lardy the 50 Page report the Security Computer spit out on Zardi>

Acording to this, this guy Zardi is trouble, but he's also an Elder of the Universe.

He collects Magical Beings "for their own protection" and moves them to that floating castle of his and once they're there they apparently want to stay...

He's tangled with both STU and Pagan Lass in the past and both of them say that they only barely escaped being added to his collection.

But here's the bad thing...

He has Mearl Dox's permission to remain on LW as long as he continues to honor his contract with her.

Mearl Dox? I've heard of here, of course, but it seems her heyday in day-to-day affairs coincided mostly with my two-year absence. Is she also an Elder? And are either affiliated in some way with my par--with Pornis and the One called the One?

He collects Magical Beings "for their own protection"...

(slowly fades in)

Lard Lad, I am certain I have come across this one before. And I know it now... one who was dear to us both is now a captive within a crystaline containment.

(turns to a confused/surprised My Whee Fem)

My apologies, officer. I... am not used to the etiquette of greetings the authorities of the Living tend to employ.

She's okay, My.

{turns to Ghost Girl}

Who is it? Who is Zardi holding captive?

Lardy, Mearl Dox is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe...

Look ask Cobalt when he gets here... All I know is we're under orders to honor any and all requests feom Mearl Dox as long as they're verified by or with a cupcake.

And on the last page of that report you can see the holos of the cupcakes.

So Ghost Chick, no matter who he's holding we can't touch him without direct orders from either Cobie or Spacey...

I... see.

(quickly vanishes)

Lard Lad, we shall talk more in the future.

(appears in a flash of green light)

I was...

(looks to see a room of people)

I was going to see if my old office was given to someone...I left a statue of Aurora from...

Did I come at a bad time?

(looks at a 50 page report in Lard Lad's hands)

Oh.
This has to do with that Zardi character, doesn't it. Something else else is definitely not right about him, at least not to the Avalonians. I'm the Weird Sister of Fate, and yet...when I try to read him, I get fog. Very odd.
That doesn't happen often
I can help, maybe, but I am no longer an officer.

+empathic message to Cobalt Kid+

<span style="font-size: 16px;">{You shudder and feel apprehension (mixed with a little consternation that you've lightflighted into a cloud that turned out to be a castle owned by Zardi the Eternal Man, which is filled with lots of interesting things that caused you to continue to treaspass.)} </span>

The feelings's are coming from behind him.

Cobie whirls!
There's nothing there that he can see.

+empathic message to Cobalt Kid continues+

<span style="font-size: 16px;"> {You feel silly but still curious, and experience a flash of adrenalin. Then, confusion mixed with eagerness and you want to answer: yes or no to the urge to stay in the clouds.
You want to dance a little, too. }
</span>

+empathic sighing+

<span style="font-size: 16px;">{yawn}</span>

Actually... Um... how do I address you?

Anyway, Cobalt and the Ranger left a message for you... Security Officers are appointed for life... Your new offfice is on the second floor here's the key.

Ranger went on to say that you need to learn how to work the coffee pot... but I think that was some kind of joke that I didn't understand. Oh Well... <shrugs>

<looks around a little confused>

<to himself> That's odd...I could have sworn I sensed Shady's presence a moment ago! I've heard she's been around Legion World more lately. But that's the first I've felt of her linking empathically--not sure it was meant for me, actually. I hope she's not in trouble.....

Oh. Well, I guess it's my duty or job or something like that to do what I can.

And as for that Ranger, I don't know if its a joke. Honestly, after all this time I am still a bit baffled. I think it may be his idea of foreplay...

Did someone say "foreplay?"

Yes, but I meant it strictly in the naughty sense.

Anyways, now that I am, reinstated or what have you. I am going to go to my office and decorate it. As for this Zardi fellow, as I have stated, I trust him not, but if Kent is "looking into it," perhaps we should wait for his intel before we act.

How long has he been gone exactly?

About six hours. I'm starting to get worried.

That has been quite a while. If we could get a hold of another mystic or a telepath, maybe we could get somewhere. I can't see into that castle with my magic and I am unable to make contact with anyone inside via spells.

Perhaps it's time we sent someone in.

Volunteers?

(unseen, Ghost Girl reenters the Security Office and leaves a note in MysticLuna's line of sight - not My Whee Fem's, it reads:)

Kent and Candle are in grave danger. Act swiftly, or not at all.

<Outside the Security Office Zardi stops and gazes into a tiny crystal ball>

Oh Foolish Me...

I thought this office closed down some time ago. Or I would surely have visited earlier...

And such a lovely trio of ladies to greet me on my arrival.

A Human in Cack form, a Ghost, and upon my word, the youngest Wierd Sister I've ever met. And she is determined to rescue her companions from my castle!

This is my lucky day...

(Luna notices an etheral figure, barely visible to the most trained eyes. Luna probably would have remained ignorant of her presence had this being not left her something, a note, which she reads)

Fem, I have to go to my office, I need to collect something.

(Luna goes to her office and in thought)

Where are the others? Who was that, I've left Avalon and returned here, for what? I'm not with my sisters and there is allies in danger. I don't even know this Candle, but Kent...

Oh Oberon, why did you remove you edict on allowing us to interact with mortals? I think I am truly starting to care for them.

The castle does not bode well with me. But I am Luna. I was worshipped on Earth as a Moon Goddess in Rome, feared as a Fury, loved as a Grace and respected as a Fate thorought Greece. The Scots thought I was a witch and the English thought me a fairy. I have learned the magic as great as any, and by blood I am not mere mortal...so why is stomach in throat.

(exits her office)

Ok, well, I think I better head over there, if I am not back in an hour, you better alert the others.

(in whisp of wind, Luna is gone)