Psyker Landshark

Edged Horizon

“Do you know what my life was like, Fion who isn't myself? Because I don't know myself, yet I know you.”

Fion rose an eyebrow at this. What her life was like? She knew him? Trying to work his way through the girl's speech, he assumed that she apparently knew what his life had been like. But she didn't know her own? If anything, this just reinforced the theory that this entire sequence of events was just some kind of odd hallucination. Still, might as well humor her and see how this plays out. She might not even end the dream by trying to eat him this time.

"Honestly, all I know is that you're a girl who keeps showing up in my dreams where everything's on fire and you eat my face off. So there's that."

Eating his face off? That was...huh. She never considered that before. It was odd as well, why she didn't need to eat food, unlike this male Fion. Did she not get angry? Or was she not the same type of human as himself? Food and water should be vital, but she didn't feel like she needed it. The woman thought for a moment, before wondering about another thing. A curious concept that she had gleamed from his memories and knowledge.

"Are you actually a man?"

To this, Fion could only sigh. This nonsense again. Thanks to his usage of Sword Arts, he couldn't go a week without being confused for a woman. Then again, it was why he gave Riley so much shit for looking like a young boy. Spreading the love just amused him. Unfortunately, thinking of Riley caused him to shift his eyes towards the stump that was once his right arm, and he quickly shoved those thoughts to the back of his head as he stared back at the girl.

"I'm pretty sure I am." And with a wry grin, his hand went down to his pants. "Do I have to show proof?"

"You lack Sword Skills, even as a man. You already have a penis, because that too is prominent in your memories."

And those facts meant nothing. The bigger question was why he was unable to use Sword Skills. As Fion thought to herself, she began to gleam into other questions. He had a left arm, and she had a right arm. He was unable to use Sword Skills, even though other male Sword Arts users simply focused on Sword Arts because it was their specialty, not because they were unable to use Sword Skills.

"So I'll ask you again. Are you actually a male? Or are you just something else inside a male body?"

Huh. That was actually a good question. Fion had known the individual facts that she'd just listed off, but he'd never really thought on the deeper reason behind it. If he hadn't lost his left arm when he was a child and had that girl's arm attached to his body, would he have been able to use Sword Skills? Or would he still have been as he was now? Fion knew that he should probably be more concerned about the girl's question, but it honestly meant nothing to him.

"To be honest, I have no idea. I might just be what you said, a woman in a man's body, but I could care less. I have a male's parts and I think I'm a male, so I might as well be a male. Shouldn't that be enough?"

"If you're the woman though, who's the man?"

Then, she stopped.

"And what does that make me? What does that make of the left arm that I don't have, and the right arm that you don't have?"

Her features were slowly distorting, sharpening, widening, a smile with too much teeth and not enough happiness appearing.

"What would happen if I regained what was missing? And what would happen if you completed what you were missing?"

A sword, no, a smaller, thinner version of Fion's own scimitar began to appear in her hand.

"And if you aren't what you are, then what does that mean for Riley?"

"And here we go..." Fion grumbled under his breath, somehow unsurprised as the girl's smile became toothy and menacing. Clearly, something was wrong with his mind if his subconscious kept trying to actively murder him in his dreams. And at this point, he was sick of this bitch. Maybe if he killed her now, she'd finally stop appearing when he slept.

"You want my arm?" He grinned in a mirror of the girl's, drawing his scimitar in his left hand before leveling it at her. "I think I'll take yours instead."

The brunette's smile widened in response, her face expanding and expanding until it covered up the entirety of the world. Then, as simple as that, she swallowed the world whole.

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Fion opened his eyes, wincing as the sunlight burned spots into his vision. Yawning, he scowled as he recalled what he had just woken up from. Another damned dream where the same girl ate him. This one had been far more involved than previous ones, but it still ended the same way.

And then he noticed his head was resting on something very comfortable. Stretching his head back, he saw Riley's face looking down at him. Oh. So he was in her lap. Huh. Staring blankly at her, Fion eventually uttered one word.

"What."

"Morning, Fion."

Then, Riley smiled in a beautifully feminine manner, brought her hands over his eyes, and promptly crushed his eyeballs.
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Fion opened his eyes again, looking up at the familiar ceiling of his room. Sitting up, he stretched both of his arms, yawning as the familiar visage of Richard entered his room, clutching a steaming mug on a serving tray.

"Good morning, young master. I've brought you hot chocolate."

At this, Fion frowned. He hated hot chocolate, and Richard knew this.

"What."

Then, Richard smiled in a beautifully feminine manner, lifted the mug above Fion's head, and poured the flesh-melting liquid over him.
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Fion awoke with a groan, opening his eyes to the morning light as he looked down towards his right arm, where only a stump remained. Narrowing his eyes, he silently stared at the stump for a moment before taking a look at his surrounds.

"...Where am I now?"

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Leidenschaft said
Guys, I've decided to unlock the full Asian potential in me and work towards Med School.

rip in peace

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Vocalia said
2nd DH session!Jammed my weapon 3 times in one combat sessionMisses more often than I hitGot a scarce Long Lass (YAY!)So... Overall, I make a terrible ranged Assassin two sessions in a row. Yay. :POn the bright side, we do finally see Psychic Phenomenon, courtesy of the Psyker. Bad news is that now I have 2 Insanity points... Oh well, nobody died. XD

1. Grenades are your friend. You don't even need to put any points into proficiency for them.

2. Longlas. Holy shit. Find a Red Dot Sight ASAP and you're golden.

3. If no one's getting set on fire and daemons aren't emerging willy-nilly out of the Warp, the session is a failure.

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tobiax said
Seriously Ob, Psych, chill out.Due to recent events, I now have a family member who's in the hospital, so please understand if I'm a bit distracted. Things have been rough recently.

That's fine.

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Dervish said
That's because elves are fragile, boring butterflies that listen to Deathcab for Cutie and dye their hair black while wearing baggy, oversized black clothing and bad make-up. This is why Tiber Septim won, because he's Lemmy Kilmister.Edited due to sacrilegious typo.

Dervs, I fucking love you.

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Oh yes, Ganon, get pissy at us because we want something that you could have done months ago. Interest checks aren't that hard to do, you know.

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Story of my life there, bro.

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Fish of Oblivion said
@Ganon: Actually, could you just go and be a dear and go make S11? Remember, this is the S5 thread. You're technically not even supposed to be posting in it. You have your own thread and RP to make up. :P

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So I owe Ob an omake. Here you go, fucker. Part one of god knows how many. I totally haven't been playing too many Metal Gear games lately.

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November 15, 2020
Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

BanchoLeomon leapt out of a maintenance hatch into a dimly-lit hallway.

"I'm in. Kept you waiting, huh?"

"So, you remember the mission objectives?"

"Yes, Siggy. We've only gone over the plan ten times." BanchoLeomon hissed into his radio headset. "Infiltrate Bloodhound Security's headquarters, confirm if they're performing illegal experiments on Digimon and Tamers, and shut them down if possible." He drew a suppressed USP Tactical pistol from inside his coat and carefully began proceeding down the hallway. "We're lucky that whoever tipped us off about Bloodhound also gave us the blueprints for their headquarters. Bit too convenient, but it's not like we can ignore the bait this time."

"Just be careful," Siggy warned from over the radio. "I've gotten reports that Bloodhound's hired Tamers as mercenaries. All three of their top-level commanders have been confirmed to be capable of Biomerging, too. Secondary objective is to take them down if you can."

"I know." BanchoLeomon responded as he peeked around a corner, seeing a patrolling mercenary come walking down the hall. "Even the Japanese government still has more faith in private military companies that employ Tamers than they do in ATLAS. Not surprising, too, considering we're barely a few months old." As the patrol walked past, BanchoLeomon reached out and wrapped the man around in a chokehold, raising his pistol to the man's head. "Which way to the labs?"

"T-two floors up. You'll never get past the security gate, though..." The man rasped out before BanchoLeomon slammed his pistol into the man's temple, knocking him out. With that, he began making his way through the building, stealthily killing whatever guards he ran into.

"By the way, our insider's sent me an IFF code and a comlink frequency. Seems he'll be meeting up with you soon."
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Some time later, BanchoLeomon entered a large chamber, leveling his pistol as he looked around the room. The security gate that the guard mentioned was right across the room...but a figure stood waiting in front of it. A yellow-and-black hornet Digimon stood before him, clutching dual swords. BanchoLeomon scowled before he holstered his pistol and drew his sword.

"Roman Nikolaev." He recognized the Digimon from the briefing he'd been given. "Ex-Spetsnaz, partnered to a FanBeemon. I see you knew I was coming."

"Lucas Seyour and Leomon. Everyone knows who you are, especially after the Toyko Incident has been declassified." TigerVespamon replied in a heavy Russian accent, tapping the headset that he was wearing before brandishing his swords in a fighting stance. Frowning, BanchoLeomon readied his own blade before a thought occurred to him. It was a long shot, but it was the only logical conclusion. Wordlessly, he entered the comlink frequency that Siggy had given him and spoke into his headset.

"Ty slyshish' menya?"

"Ah, good. You catch on quickly." TigerVespamon replied over the comlink, speaking through his own headset. "Your Russian is very good, by the way." And then TigerVespamon charged, delivering two strikes that were quickly parried. "Speak over the comlink only. We are being watched, tovarich."

"You attack me, and then call me 'comrade'?" BanchoLeomon replied with a hiss, locking blades with TigerVespamon. "Trying to put on a show for your boss?" He leveled his sword with a roar and forced his foe back before slamming his foot into TigerVespamon's chest, sending him flying into the wall.

"Do not worry. We merely need to keep this up until we can destroy the cameras in the room. A mere side effect of such a fierce battle, if you catch my drift." TigerVespamon said as he launched himself towards BanchoLeomon once more.

"So, care to tell me why you're selling your own company out?" BanchoLeomon asked casually as the two traded blows, a stray strike from TigerVespamon destroying a security camera on the wall.

"This PMC is the only company that will hire a Tamer, but everything here is polnyi pizdets." TigerVespamon spat as he ducked under a slash from BanchoLeomon's sword that just happened to slice a camera in half.

"Fucked up, eh? The experiments are as bad as we'd feared, then?" BanchoLeomon parried TigerVespamon's spinning strike, redirecting the blade into a camera on the wall.

"Worse. And that was the last camera, by the way."

BanchoLeomon simply grinned before he hurled his blade at his opponent. Startled, TigerVespamon deflected the sword, knocking it up into the air...only to see the lion Digimon rushing at him with a fist covered in an orange aura. BanchoLeomon Burst Mode slammed a fist into his foe's chest, before following it up with an uppercut that knocked TigerVespamon into a wall hard enough to leave a crater. Raising a hand into the air, BanchoLeomon caught his sword before allowing his aura to dissipate.

"Mode Change..." TigerVespamon groaned, collapsing to the ground. "You were holding back by that much?"

"Yeah." BanchoLeomon snarled, walking past TigerVespamon's prone form. He had even held back with his final strike, withholding enough force to make sure that TigerVespamon hadn't de-Digivolved. "Just remember, I can kill you any time I want. Stab me in the back and you'll regret it."

"Heh..." The bee Digimon smirked appreciatively. "Very wise. Even though I am on your side, I understand your caution." He reached down to a pouch strapped to his pocket, taking out a key card that he handed to BanchoLeomon. "Here. This ID card will get you past the security gate in the next room and up to the labs. I will catch up as soon as I have recovered. Good luck, tovarich."

Part One, END

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Is Tob even alive?