Efof - "Crossing the valley"
Posted byPosted: May 8, 2008, 3:14pm
Who: Efof Yuwan'Kar
Where: The planet the Dauntless crashed on
When: Just after Justin turned up, night time
The darkness really creeped Efof out as he walked away from the camp.
He walked with a purpose however. The Ffionian was normally quite
useless but today he was being trusted to scout ahead and see if
there was a way to the trasporter pads on the other side of the
planet.
Efof looked through his binoculars, all that seemed to stand in their
way was one valley, which narrowed a few miles ahead. Efof stopped to
catch his breath, realising how far he had walked. He put the
binoculars back to his eyes and peered through them, they did a good
job of seeing in the dark.
He keep a watchful eye on the enemy, the Krylons had a massive fleet
of tanks, mech-suits and soldiers below him in the valley. He
expected the large stomping mechanical mech suits to be controlled by
a small fleshy person, which was normally it's weakness, but these
seemed to be entirely mechanic. The Krylons also had large movable
bases, entire buildings and command centres that they moved around
with them. They were big square building on caterpillar tracks. One
of the buildings he was seemed to be a factory for manufacturing even
more of the robot warriors.
Efof grinned, he was glad they hadn't yet spotted him. He wondered if
these robots were like the Borg and just weren't interested in him
unless he proved himself a threat to them. He touched the laser
pistol at his side and though better of it, he didn't want an entire
army of robots to attack him just yet.
He walked further along and found a place where the valley narrowed.
A single rope-bridge crossed right over the valley. At first this
took him by surprise because he hasn't seen any evidence of any
people living on this planet, and a bridge created using wire and
sticks didn't look like something the Krylons would have created.
He wondered if maybe the Krylons had killed the people who lived
here, or maybe they had become extinct a long time ago. He also
wondered if his people, the murdering Ffionians had something to do
with it. A cold chill came over him as he thought of them, and how he
was so glad to be away from them.
He looked through his binoculars back towards the valley below him,
and something made him jump.
"Hello!" Said a friendly but irritating voice.
"Erm... Hello." Said Efof. The irritating face of Justin Pancake
filled his entire field of view. He lowered the binoculars.
"I followed you. Hope you didnt mind."
"No. not at all!" Said Efof. Actually he was glad of the company,
having someone else with him made him less nervous about being so
close to the enemy.
"So do we have to cross that?" Justin asked, pointing to the bridge.
Efof nodded. "If we want to get off this planet, yes. I think it's
the only bridge that crosses this valley."
"Oh. Well we better hurry up."
"Why? The enemy is a few miles that way." Efof said, and as he
pointed he noticed a large cloud of dust coming from the valley. The
Krylons were on the move, their mobile bases were powering up and
moving slowly towards them.
"What are they doing?"
Justin shrugged "Sod knows. But what if they come and camp just here?
We'll never be able to get across to the other side."
"We need to get across now."
"Good luck, the rest of the camp is sleeping."
"But tomorrow might be too late. Besides, if we cross in darkness
there's less chance they'll see us."
Justin nodded. "Good plan."
They ran back to the camp as fast as they could and soon the rabble
of survivors followed them to the bridge.
<Tag, will we cross the bridge in time?>