<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=54169.msg2607599#msg2607599">Quote from: MadPanda on 05-01-2010, 03:03:11</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Brawling, blasting, and generally bashing anything beige in their way, the motly assembly (lead, in part, by the redoubtable Mister Dimity) manage to make their way back to Goshawk's berth.  There, you find that the crew, resplendent in their crimson corsets, are making to cast off with all due haste.<br/><br/>"Permission to depart this gods-forsaken pile of pre-rubble, Captain," the man throws Maroon a stiff salute, surprisingly formal under the circumstances...<br/><br/>For not too far away, several Imperial frigates can be seen descending toward the city!  Perhaps getting out of here is a good idea.  Certainly other pirates have the same idea, as other starships are lifting elsewhere.  Unfortunately, they're also drawing fire!<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Kira twittered in dismay at all the pain all around her.  Her blood was up.  Normally, she dealt with her empathy by resorting to levels of violence that didn't touch her soul at other times.  Her club, however, was far to heavy a weapon for even she to wield one handed.  She might have tried her luck with the blaster as she ran, but one hand clutched her precious club, stone harvested and polished and shaped lovingly to her hands 'til with it she was the match of modern weaponry gurus, and with the other the food she'd spent so long lovingly acquiring.<br/><br/>On one occasion, she managed to bring down a paratrooper with a dramatic series of leaps that ended with her cannonballing through his open shoot and leaving him to plummet to the cement before she hit another roof, but besides that the fight to the ship was a matter of saving the food.<br/><br/>