A slightly smaller Mess

" well to reasons to collect that fat pricks bounty and to cancel yours now to answer Max's question , red dress , at a party a very long time ago"

*Max lowers his rifle as his mind goes back several years*
"Hang on. Red dress, party....ah fuck. Hello Jasmine"

" hey Max we need to talk "

Akira: "Shame about the bounty, i fully plan on nailing him to the front of my ship."

"What did he do? And we'll chat after negotiating the captains fate"

" I'm fine with that I just need something that shows he's dead like the bead,hell ID love to nail him up and skin him while keeping him alive"

*her melta is still levelled.* "Care to tell who you are? Beyond, that you were at a party in a red dress."

" I will don't worry I'm an old friend now who are you?"

"Oh god......."

Akira: "I'm Akira Erentillo"

Max: She's my wife

"Oh so you are Max's wife , I'm Jasmine blackfeather , ill need to talk to you later"

Akira: "Will you now?" *Her melta is still pointed, her finger gently caressing the trigger*

+I know, laurence+

"Come on let's be civil here I didn't come here to make enemies "

+Listen to your vox, this should be entertaining.+

Laurence: "we're close enough."

*On the bridge of one of the iron warriors ships, the helmsmen's eyes glaze over. and he takes the wheel in both hands, and starts turning towards a friendly ship*

Akira: "The moment you can prove you're not a threat, i'll think about not turning your head into a distant memory."

She hands her her bolt pistols and power sword and hands it to akira"I want those back later

"So what are you doing here Jasmine?"

Akira: *Lowers the melta, and takes her weapons.* "Right..."

" well I got a bounty on him and found one on you two but I accepted it to cancel it , so you won't have someone trying to hunt you down for a while"

"And how are you going to 'cancel' it?"

+you do remember those are my men, right laurence?+

"Well I have to log into the guild and send the order that you paid your fines and that you're posting a cou nter bounty"

M: "Riiiight"

" you don't believe me do you?"

"I don't think it's that easy"

Akira: "Not a word of it"

Laurence: +unless you can make them all leave, im going to have to kill them.+

*the helmsman puts his ship on a ramming course*

+*sighs*+

+I'm about to ram your ships together, if you can, nows the time.+

"Besides, we're used to being chased. It's not a new development"

OOC if she can what

Ooc: call off the ships

+you know I can't+

" I understand, but there's something very important I must talk to you about."

"What's that?"

*in that moment, the ship slams into another, its prow puncturing through the ships central section, tearing it in half, and detonating its magazine*

Laurence: +Then pray for their souls.+

(Was that for our ship?)

+*sighs*+
OOC no

OOC actually hangon....
IC that doesn't quite happen, laurence has underestimated the hull of these ships
one does indeed smash into the other, and send it off course, but both ships survive

Laurence: "Sturdy bastards... in that case."

*the helmsman falls dead, and an engineers eyes glaze. He moves over to the controls of the loading system for the macro cannon.*

*not much i can do here*

*he primes a shell, overrides its safety, and drops it from the crane, setting off a chain reaction that tears both ships to debris*

*then Laurence voxes the iron warriors openly.* +Care to retreat before more of your ships detonate spectacularly?+

OOC: Is steam dead?

Lyanna:+...you're an idiot+

Laurence: *closes the channel to just lyanna* +Id be a butcher if I didn't give them a chance.+

+You know that'll never happen. Just get it over with.+

*the other ships are destroyed or crippled in similar ways, single crewmen, detonate warp cores, destroy engines, kill captains, fire upon friendly ships. Each and every one, falling dead after their task is completed.*

Laurence: +This brings me no pleasure, But it has to be done.+

" it's about the night we met"

"...what about it?"

OOC so did laurence just solo my fleet?

Ooc: I'm expecting some kind of psychic resistance... if not, just using one man at a time, over a few hours, it's rather possible