Lucifer vs. Vor master post

[vorbarra]

WHO: Lucifer + the whole damn cast + a bunch of unfortunate victims of circumstance.
WHERE: Various.
WHEN: Starting 5/27 and onward.
WHAT: Lucifer has Mark kidnap Gregor. Shit hits the fan.
WARNINGS: There is definitely going to be torture and violence. Will update with specifics.


Table of Contents (roughly chronological)
Initial kidnapping -- Gregor, Mark, Lucifer
So honey, I haven't told you... -- Aral, Cordelia
Secondary kidnapping -- Lucy, Mark, Kel
Hawke vs. Vorhouse -- Hawke, Miles, Aral, Tex, Jim, Spock, Kel
Miles at the hospital -- Miles, Kitty, Tex, Ed, Jim, Bucky, Ken, Kareen, Mark, Newt, Kel
Location: rubble -- Winry, Miles, Ed, Tex
Ruined date and getting voluntold -- Duv, Kasumi, Aral
Torture log -- Lucifer, Dean, Gregor
Assignment -- Lucifer, Mark
Telepathy -- Aral, Tex, Gregor
Wagon circling -- Miles, Winry, Roy, Ed, Yuri
Requests -- Aral, Jim
Rescue -- Lucifer, Miles, Kitty, Hermann, Mark
Hellhounds -- Lucifer, Roy, Ed, Hawke, Mark, Aral
Main fight -- Lucifer, Aral, Hawke
Swamp mingle -- Tex, Hawke, Ed, Winry, Roy, Jim
Post-rescue at hospital -- Gregor, Miles, Kitty, Duv, Cordelia
Following the trail of burger wrappers and tears -- Duv, Nicolas
Hospital threads part three -- Miles, Cordelia
End of the line -- Duv, Mark
Family reunion & oath swearing -- Mark, Gregor, Aral, Tej, Duv, Miles, Tex, Winry, Ed, Simon
Recovery OTA -- Aral, Miles, Duv, Cordelia, Ed, Winry

Comments

[ghemnotgem]

Prole then. ( not to tej, but what does she know about barrayar?? as for protection on jackson's whole, well. ) Only if they're paid enough.

[komarran]

Unquestioning loyalty is what they pay on Barrayar. [ He shrugs. ] Not that much of it can be applied here.

[watch_me_burn]

Well, I wouldn't worry about that. If he survived attempts while at the age of five due to your family's assistance, I can't imagine that being any easier now that he's an adult and retains that assistance. Besides, he has your loyalty.

[Not to mention Miles' obvious physical deformities disqualifying him in the eyes of many other Vor; Ivan Vorpatril was more likely to gain support as an usurper than Miles... or that would have been the case in Kareen's time. Honestly, she wasn't sure where things stood anymore. It had been 20 years and it seemed so much had changed.]

You'd never do something that would displace my son, I'm sure.

[ghemnotgem]

So The Gregor made clear.

( and needless to say, she doesn't really understand it. not yet. )

So if it can't be applied here, what's keeping you?

[komarran]

[ He shrugs. That's a question he's been asking himself almost daily now. ]

Partially habit and loyalty. I owe nothing to the government here, including my assistance.

[overemotionally]

Whatever he wants to call himself is none of my business. I won't believe he's all powerful or any crap like that until he proves it.

...I wonder if anyone around here has any kind of tracking abilities.

[vorbarra]

I just hope I can get it, [ he mutters. ] I need... at least to sleep again before I can deal with being Emperor at anyone. I'll need to speak with Captain Galeni.

Mark-- Mark ran off.

[dendarii]

[ That is the better constant to rely to. Miles nods quite fiercely. ]

Never. I don't want it, to begin with - and the thought of allowing Gregor come to harm is horrifying in the extreme.

[watch_me_burn]

So... this situation we have right now must greatly upset you.

[dendarii]

[ Miles seem to crumple in on himself at that. ]

I ... yes. Very much so. Beyond my ability to cope with if I must stay here and do nothing.

[watch_me_burn]

Vorkosigan... For those of us unable to act, we must put our faith in those who can.

[ghemnotgem]

Back home that would be grounds for a takeover.

( of what government? by who??? it is a mystery. )

[keep_nothing]

[ She'd been about to start really mom'ing at him, saying that she or Aral can deal with whatever was left to dealt with if it meant he got more rest—but Mark's name stopped her before she could get the words out. ]

... Ran off?

[vorbarra]

Dr. Gottlieb pulled him here when he took me, but he didn't stay. And we can't just let him go.

[keep_nothing]

[ She lets out a sigh. ]

I know. I would hope that he comes back willingly, but ... [ But she couldn't fault him if he didn't. ]

[overemotionally]

...It was fine during the fighting but you're sewn up like a piece of fabric. My best friend would have a fit.

[In fact, he's pretty sure Bones has ranted about this exact topic too--how barbaric surgery and older methods of physical repair used to be. But the refocusing of Jim's attention onto exactly how automail had to work...He'd never thought about the mechanics really. He looks back at Ed and makes a little shrugging motion, a suit yourself gesture.]

So wait...an automail mechanic is also a surgeon? And she's 16. How...?

[heart_wrenching]

[ Watch out for swamp mud coming at your head, Jim. ]


You're a piece of fabric!

[fullmetalbrat]

[Ed just grins impishly and even shoots Winry a thumbs up.]

Because she's probably been studying medicine and machinery as long as I've been studying alchemy. She knows what she's doing.

[overemotionally]

[Jim only barely got an arm up in time to divert most of the swamp mud from hitting him square in the face. There's still a healthy amount that hits him near his ear.]

Eugh, seriously?!

[He shakes his arm out a couple of times then goes to work wiping at the side of his head, trying to get the grime away from his ear and out of his hair.]

Point being if you had a healer take care of it now you wouldn't have to worry about it becoming infected [A pointed glance towards the side of his head where there was now gunk as he wipes more away] or re-opening.

Geez...every teenager where you're from have this depth of technical expertise?

[Jim was a clever 16 year old himself, making trouble with his programming and mechanical skills, but medicine as advanced as that? No way. As primitive as it was by his own standards, it still required an understanding of human physiology and anatomy that he couldn't imagine knowing himself. Alchemy he couldn't even gauge fairly because...well, physics law-breaking and all that.]

[komarran]

Here people seem complacent to allow it. [ There's a small pause before, ] I wasn't aware Jackson's Whole had a government to take over.

[fullmetalbrat]

I can keep it from getting infected by keeping it out of the water, and it won't reopen if I don't use it.

[Almost as if to prove his point he lifts his arm a little higher, resettling it carefully against his chest in the makeshift sling he's fashioned himself.]

No, most people are pretty average. The two of us and my brother though...and those guys from Xing too. But we're just a tiny handful out of countries of tens of millions of people.

[komarran]

[ Well. That certainly makes a difference and he's looking at Nicolas anew. ]

Not human in what way? If you don't mind me asking.

[vorbarra]

[ Grimly, ] I'll give him a chance to be sworn in. It's all I can do; I can't force him.

[unwiseheart]

Garou. Werewolf. [ Like loup-garou, assuming French ever survived into space. ] We're one of the Changing Breeds, basically shapeshifters.

[komarran]

I hadn't realized there were so many shapeshifters about. [ Though he's not terribly surprised. Lucky for you, Nicolas, Duv's already learned of shapeshifting through Kitty. ]

Are garou common in your Nexus?