Brave Galaxy is set in a world loosely based on Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail and Eden’s Zero. It is a PG-13 or so rated space fantasy RP, and uses a combination of character statistics, which can be acquired via roleplaying and events, and creative freedom to help direct players’ characters. While there is a main storyline, which can be found in the events section, characters are free to interact with others and their environment however they see fit.
Explore the galaxy. Overcome the obstacles in your path. Shape the future of humanity.
Post by Reya Starlyght on Aug 21, 2019 17:20:58 GMT
Leo chuckled, shaking his head. "I'm not that old, Arlan and his band of mighty warriors were about as much of a legend to me as they were to you. And nonsense, it's only a hund-no, uh...." He flipped to the first few pages of the book itself, reading a few lines before sighing. "Okay, four hundred years old. Still not a thousand; there wasn't exactly time to write books then," he muttered.
"Yes, a full translation would be far too time consuming in such a precarious environment, but knowing a few words off-hand might be helpful in deciphering some of the more relevant information around us," Eris replied. "That being said, anything else we might glean will take a while." With that she collected the pages she had splayed out, making careful note to keep them in the correct order. In a bundle did both they and the book vanish from sight as she held them, to be retrieved later for study.
Before they could move on to other files, however, a small voice could be heard from behind a cabinet, crackling as it spoke. "Help... please." Immediately he caught the slight growl in... her tone, characteristic of speech spoken by two different races, the first he automatically ruled out and the second was based on only a few words but far more likely. His left hand fiddling with the handle of List, Leo pinpointed the source and searched behind a shelf that had been partially collapsed. A girl was huddled beneath it, legs tucked into her chest, yet the first thing he noticed was not either of those traits but her alien nature. Sighing, he knelt down to her level, releasing the grip on his weapon. "Please, s-something attacked us and I hid... I didn't know what else to do...."
Though he knew it was likely she was lying, Leo still nodded, and with a grunt he lifted the cabinet off from where it had been resting upon her back, before sitting down across from her. "Why are you here, this is a military outpost for your kind, isn't it?" She nodded, continuing to cower in the corner though she did speak.
Blitz made a 'pffft' noise. "4 centuries still sounds like plenty of time to me - I might not have been awake for those 1000 years, but it doesn't mean I can't appreciate the gap. Besides, 'no time back then' is hardly an excuse - you literally had 400 years! Methinks you had time aplenty to publish something." Blitz said with a slight grin.
As for taking the book and translation to a more concentrated environment for it, Eris made a good point - having something to go on for the rest of this place would be helpful. "A fair point, having a reference to decipher the other text here would be useful. At the very least, perhaps we could decipher enough to figure out what those control modules we passed are supposed to do, so I can alter them accordingly." Blitz said.
Before they could investigate or translate the script further, however, a small voice from the shadows to one side caused them to turn their attention, Blitz moving into something that wasn't strictly a combat-stance, but wasn't off-guard, either. The only reason he hadn't gone for either handgun was because the first word was 'help'. Leo approached as she said something about something killing everyone and hid to avoid being killed. Unlike Leo, however, Blitz was inclined to believe her. The difference, most likely, was that of personality, though Blitz himself might have opted that his own personality hadn't had a thousand years of jading added onto it. Blitz walked over, stance dropping, and knelt by the girl. "What was the thing that attacked your kind? We thought we were the only ones intruding here." Blitz asked in an understanding tone.
Post by Reya Starlyght on Aug 22, 2019 17:13:33 GMT
He held up his fingers, counting them somewhat frantically before sighing, rubbing the back of his neck. "Yeah, I meant a thousand years ago in particular, but I'm not going to argue." His eyes glanced down at the floor for a brief moment, weariness glazing them over even as he turned away.
The alien girl, likely a teenager or whatever her race's equivalent was based on her features and size, seemed to shrink away even more as Blitz knelt down next to her, likely due to the fact that she now didn't have much of an escape from the corner she sat in because there were two adult men in the way. Still, she mustered up the courage to engage them in conversation. "You can stop saying my kind, I'm Khonqrien," she spoke, voice wavering as she looked between the two of them, more wary now that Blitz had mentioned intrusion. "An-and I don't know. I hid as soon as Daar'liz spotted someone coming down the hallway."
He nodded, speaking softly. "It's okay. I'm Leo, what's your name?"
"Leo Aglaeca," she smiled. His face held a momentary sliver of concern before he returned the expression with a chuckle.
"Clever."
She shrugged. "I just listen. It's Kara." It then occured to him that she had probably heard the rest of their conversation, biting his lip for a brief second about not being more careful before pushing it away from his mind; chances were Kara wasn't an anthropologist, well she did know Fioran but there were plenty of things that could warrant that, weren't there? "I'm sorry, but you three are humans, right?"
There was a fleeting moment of confusion written on his face, before it dissipated. "Yes," he said in unison with Eris, looking back to see her head poked around the cabinet.
"You know our language but have never seen a human in person before?" she asked, in which Kara nodded slowly. There was a low whistle from Eris, though she left the vicinity soon after, the slight trace of discomfort present on her visage even as she spoke with the girl.
"Apologies," Blitz said, hand raised. "Didn't know your name, only that you were an alien - at least, from a human perspective - but I should have asked, so that one's on me." Blitz admitted. "So the name for your race is 'Khonqrien', then?"
Blitz had tried to use a reassuring sort of tone when he asked about the intruder, but identifying their group as intruders admittedly didn't help. First the gala thing, now this. Really not getting things started on the right note with these aliens, Blitz thought. He glanced at Leo as the young man introduced himself to the alien girl. He wanted to say that they were just there to inspect the place and see why her race was hanging out on a planet that was barely able to function in the first place, but knowing Leo as much as he did, he had a feeling that any alien guards they met would have been dealt with in a fashion not unlike the ones they had already found.
"The name's Blitz," Blitz said with a smile. "Nice to meet you, Kara." He would have extended a hand to shake, but both were occupied by acid blasters. Best left pointed elsewhere.
Eris left the room - perhaps to keep an eye out for the other one that Kara had mentioned. "You mentioned someone named 'Daar'liz', and people coming down the hallway? I suppose they might have meant us. Does he speak our language, as well? Because if he's your protector, we'd rather not have a misunderstanding."
Post by Reya Starlyght on Aug 23, 2019 18:31:23 GMT
Kara let out a small, nervous chuckle. "And from my point of view you're an alien," she replied, before nodding at his later query. "I... I don't know if I was supposed to say that...." Her voice dropped to a mutter though she merely shrugged afterward. If that was the case, then it was likely her people wanted to keep their identities relatively anonymous, but even after revealing their presence to the entire galaxy? If anything, her little tidbit only made the whole situation more confusing, what was the point in not revealing a name when differences were obvious anyway? Or, at least, such was Leo's initial reaction until he realized it was more than a bit hypocritical, in which he merely coughed away the words he had almost spoken.
The girl attempted to rise to her feet, although she struggled to to push her weight off the ground. "Um... can one of you help me up?" Kara asked. Leo glanced over, seeing Blitz still holding the pistols he had picked up, and stood up, helping the girl onto her feet. Her skin was cold to the touch, and even by a generous estimate she weighed far less than he would have expected given her frame. She stumbled even as he supported her back and led her into a chair nearby, where she collapsed with a heavy inhale, offering a brief expression of gratitude. However, her eyes, a ring of yellow encompassing a circle of black far larger than human standards, soon widened as she saw the body on the floor nearby. Pointing at it, her lip began to tremble. "Daar'liz."
Leo rested his hand on her shoulder, though this time she didn't initially cower away from his touch. "My condolences," he spoke softly as her stare continued, though eventually broke away, down to the floor below.
"I-it's okay. I... didn't know him that well anyway."
Blitz paused before letting out a short laugh. "Point taken. Though given that neither of us are native to this planet, I guess we're both aliens on this world." Blitz said with a slight grin.
She did say something about whether her companion could speak their language, but Blitz couldn't hear her properly, as she mumbled as she said it. Suppose it's not game-breaking whether we know or not, Blitz thought. Now that I think about it, the ones at the Gala, though we didn't think much at the time, could have been wearing translators, but those wouldn't work for script. Did someone teach it to them?
When she got to her feet, she looked fairly similar to the ones they'd seen thus far, though her eyes seemed oddly larger. Maybe just in perspective to her height, as she's....I'd guess younger than most we've seen? Blitz wondered. However, she made an unfortunate revelation - the corpse on the ground, that had been flattened from an impact, was the one she had been talking about. Blitz remained silent as Leo consoled the alien girl, glancing over at the dead body.
"So what do we do now? Keep exploring?" Blitz asked. "I'm game for continuing to explore, but if there's something here that's going around doing, well.....that," he said, glancing at the body, "Then Kara would be better off someplace a bit more secure than this room."
Post by Reya Starlyght on Aug 25, 2019 19:36:19 GMT
Exploration, well that was a kind way of putting what they had been sent on the base to do, but Leo supposed such wording was necessary considering Kara was in their vicinity. If the girl was mainly concerned with her own safety, however, it was possible she would be willing to help them, and certainly she knew the layout of the area. "Before we just continue wandering around, Kara, do you know what is down that hallway?" Leo asked, gesturing to the passage they had yet to enter, where Eris had propped herself up against one of the walls.
Kara slowly nodded, looking between the three of them before eventually speaking. "It's the control room for the base. You... you should get out of here. The foundation unstable already, any more tampering and it will likely collapse because of this planet." She nervously tapped the arm of the chair, trying to stand up again to look over her desk but failing to even do the former.
Of course, a saboteur. Whether their intent was against the Khonqrien directly or against the Alliance in their attempt to gain more information, it did not matter, for it was rationalized either way. Even so, they had a singular advantage, whoever or whatever was farther within had no knowledge of their presence, at least not yet. "That was likely their intent all along... and what about you?" So long as they could make a safe escape, they already had all they needed with the translation they had acquired, and seeing Kara probably didn't want to die, she would be a bonus.
"I... should stay here. It's my duty."
Or not, apparently. Why did people have to subscribe to such grandiose gestures, when they had absolutely no impact on the world as a whole? It was silly, throwing away one's life for nothing but a sense of honor, a construct of society by all means, apparently in Kara's culture as well. "And die? You're young, there's no reason to throw your life away in a meaningless sacrifice." He shook his head, extremely tempted to just pick her up and take her to their ship, against Kara's will but no matter.
While Blitz did think that keeping Kara safe was a better idea than exposing her to whatever was lurking in the base, Eris brought up a point - she knew the base better than they did, and confirmed that the main console for the place was further down the hall they'd been walking down. "As in the mainframe for the base as a whole?" Blitz said, interest piqued. "If I had access to that for a bit, I could collect what we need to know and get out of here before this base ends up shifting too far into the frozen side of the planet's atmosphere. Or the ship, for that matter." Blitz added.
However, Kara revealed another fact that wasn't fun - the foundation of the base was crumbling due to the unstable nature of the planet, and if the atmosphere didn't cause the base to become unusable, the crumbling foundations certainly would. "So the entire base is a time bomb of sorts, then, minus the standard explosion?" Blitz asked. "Strange that there was anyone here at all, then - why hadn't you guys evacuated already when we arrived? Or did that other intruder prevent you guys from leaving the compound?"
Blitz paused, looking thoughtful, before turning to Leo. "Convince her to get on the ship somehow - I can respect a sense of duty, but there are bigger things right now. While you two handle that, I'm going to the base's main console - maybe there's still information I can download from it before this place crumbles. I'll meet you two back on the ship, so don't leave without me, alright?" he said before moving out through the door and continuing down the hall at a brisk pace, going in the direction the girl had indicated the main console was. Hopefully our alien friends left something behind that we can make use of, Blitz thought. Because otherwise, Kara our sole source of anything alien-related. And she might keep quiet out of that same sense of duty, and I highly doubt everyone's going to be okay with it if our one source of info refuses to talk, but leaving her here isn't really an option, either.
Post by Reya Starlyght on Aug 26, 2019 15:30:17 GMT
"Blitz, be careful; we have no idea what we're dealing with. If it's too dangerous, well, we already have what we need," Leo offered.
Eris tapped him on the shoulder as he passed by her. "Remember, the Alliance wants the base to be destroyed," she whispered, out of earshot of Leo and more importantly the girl. He knew what she was saying though, that much was obvious to him, and thus did his attention move back to Kara, who had managed to wiggle her chair around to get a better look at her working space. Finding her most recent manuscript gone, she looked at him, then at the desk, then back at Leo again.
"You... you took my book."
He sighed. "Technically, it's my book. I'm sorry, but more people will die if we don't have it." Though she was surprised and slightly delighted by his first part, putting together their first conversation she had eavesdropped in on, Kara's expression soon turned sour.
"More humans," she corrected him, in which he shook his head.
"No, more people. The nations of Earthland don't want a war, we've been trying to avoid one for the past thousand years after the Great War rendered Earthland itself uninhabitable. Don't get me wrong, humanity as a whole is far from benevolent, but we're not the aggressors here."
She sat there in contemplation for minute, eventually nodding in agreement, he was right after all, at least going off of what information they knew. "What... what about me? Where will I go?"
Leo smiled, at least she was no longer convinced that going out with the base was the right thing to do. "You can come with us; I'm sure we can find somebody to take care of you. The organization I work with values individual freedom above everything else, while they'll undoubtedy ask about what you know they'll keep you safe," he said.
Kara, however, remained unconvinced. "Even the freedom of non-humans?"
He laughed. "Especially us. Of anyone who society classifies as a second class citizen, really." Normally he wasn't privy to such secrets, but it was imperative to get her off the base, willingly would be better than otherwise although they would drag her off if it came to such.
Her eyes widened, however, not for the first time in their encounter in which he made a mental note that Khonqrien and human body language was at least somewhat similar. "I thought you said you were...." she trailed off, in which he nodded.
"Yes, that too."
Slowly, Kara rose to her feet, latching onto his arm for support which although initially surprised Leo he didn't shy away from it. "Okay. I... I'll go with you."
"I know we have no idea what we're dealing with," Blitz said, "That's why we're here, to find out exactly what we ARE dealing with. But don't worry, I'll take....appropriate levels of caution." Blitz said after a moment.
"Coming from you, that is less than reassuring." Shoop said, "Or should I say....appropriate levels of assuring." Blitz merely scowled briefly in reply.
As Eris tapped his shoulder, he said too quietly for anyone but her to hear "I know, but the planet's going to do that for us in a matter of hours, by the sounds of it. I see no need to rush it and put Kara in any kind of danger. Or rather, additional danger." before leaving to run down the hall to the main terminal for the outpost. He ran through the halls, spotting another felled alien here and there, but no sign of whatever had done it to them. We were initially not far behind the creature who did this, judging from the proximity of the noises from before, Blitz thought, but I guess the time we spent looking over the transcription and talking to Kara let them get a lead. Perhaps they've even left the compound by now.
Blitz ran through the final door and emerged in the main server room and planted a hand on the main terminals to begin browsing their data at break-neck pace. And of course, none of it is in English, Blitz thought with a brief scowl. Guess they didn't bother making a digital copy of the translation. Still, better collect what I can. Blitz downloaded the data into various places - briefly cursing under his breath that which one was the 'external' drive wasn't clearly marked the same way that humans marked it - before finally getting it saved to the correct drive and dislodging it from the servers and doubling back, running back down the hall to rejoin the group, along with Kara, who looked slightly less shaken than before. Guess talks went okay, he thought, before saying "I've got the data from their servers - not that I can read it, but I made a copy of everything I found and stuck it on a drive," Blitz said, patting his jacket pocket. "But we seriously need to consider making an exit, given this place's stability - am I correct in assuming that Kara will be joining us?" Blitz asked.
