Message #40270

[Gruj]

Slowly walking towards the table, the faces of the Draconis council were all visible, Proto , Dizaster , Flynntaggart , and the recently promoted Crazyhobo all await at the table. It almost felt like he was walking towards his final trail before exile , thinking to himself if this is how the dragon spirit visions it should end, so be it. Looking back to Modem one last time, giving him a nod modem proceeds to the chamber doors, closing them behind him, he then pulls out his Raging Bull from its holster and proceeds to the table.

"Ok... ill make this nice and clean for you guys" Dice spoke with a discouraged tone in his voice.

"If you want me gone, all you have to do is say, and ill leave quietly" Flipping the Raging Bull and catching it by the barrel, he throws it on the table towards Crazy, Looking at him for several seconds then looking away at the center of the table. Crazy could see the hurt pride in Dice's eyes, he could tell over the past couple weeks he had begun to break down from his current rock hard state, mentally he was breaking apart. Looking down at the Raging Bull, Seeing the engraving on the barrel "Dea Draconum Spiritum Obscuritatis". He then looked back up at Dice as one of the Draconis spoke.
"Nonsense Dice Nonsense, sit down relax, that is not entirely what this is about" Flynn acknowledged with a non-threatening tone.

With a very confused look on his face, running his fingers through his hair and scratching the side of his head, Dice acknowledges Flynn and sits down at the table.

"Now first and foremost Dice, your current actions of the past few weeks have been unacceptable, it came to the point where we all had to gather several times to discuss your actions, and the actions we would have to make to counteract them." Tratpan added.

"Go on.." Dice continued to listen.

"After the first few meetings we had decided to sentence you to exile as your actions have endangered DUSK entirely, it is apparent you have forgotten there are also civilians housed here that we are sworn to protect from the infected and enemy factions, your actions have put not only them, but all of us at risk more than once."

The room remained silent as Tratpan continued.

"The first offence is im sure you remember sometime ago, you and Crazyhobo were out training several grunts personally, and came upon a thief who had trespassed our sacred grounds and was looting in our area. The current location was on the roof of a 12 story office building, and in the process of executing the thief, as the grunts argued with you one of them tried to prevent the execution and you reacted by throwing him off the building to his death. When there was other alternatives to the situation you could have used, you cost the life of a DUSK Settler.

Placing his face in his hand on the table, running his fingers through his hair, almost showing to be ashamed of himself, he put his hands together as Proto spoke next.

"The second offence this happened here in the outpost in the reapers quarters, you have had a few drinks one night, and you and thuggy got into a disagreement, you approached him grabbing him by the throat in drunken rage pinning him to the wall with his feet off the ground. At this time Patrick had entered the room to see this, and as he approached to get you off of Thuggy, you drew your Raging Bull on Patrick, Thuggy was aware enough to realize what was about to happen and shoved your arm, throwing your aim off patrick which is when you fired."

Again Dice places his face in his hands in utter shame.

"Had thuggy acted a second later, you would have shot Patrick, your fellow reaper in the head, YOU would have been held responsible for Patricks death, as that one second saved his life, had it not, you would have been immediately discharged and exiled from DUSK"

Flynn states the final offence towards Dice.

"And the final offence, which was today, taken place in the courtyard. You and Modem had brought in one of Crynsos's watchers, planning to interrogate him, but your methods of interrogation were far beyond unacceptable, and giving the call to y our trainee to execute the only possible hope of finding out why Crynsos's men are on the move. Was your first mistake, your second mistake was approaching Crazy in a hostile matter, It didn't matter if he was a Draconis at the time or not, he was still YOUR superior as a Fenrir."

"The offences are endangering the civilians we protect here in our home and the rest of us, standing up towards a superior to your rank, and making an attempt to execute the only key asset as to finding out what is truly going on."

Dice puts his hands down on the table, turning them and stares blankly into his bloody palms, stained with blood from the watcher he had brutally beaten.

"Normally this would be the point you would turn in all your DUSK equipment, and be escorted out of the outpost told to never return. But that is not the case here today."

"What do you mean..." Dice replied in a very confused tone, looking at Flynn.

"Our newest Draconis has convinced us over the past several meetings to give you a chance.. to redeem yourself, your loyalty to DUSK and the Dragon Spirit. The Dragon Spirit speaks to him saying to "Do not give up on the best, For without Thee, The battle will be lost"

Looking at Crazy with even more confused thoughts, he suddenly began to stand and take point in the meeting.

"I do know what you have done Dice.. i know everything, allot of your actions came with good judgement for the sake of DUSK.. but you also have made the wrong decisions based on your judgement..."

Crazy looks around the table as the rest of the Draconis council watches him make his speech.

"The main point here Dice... is the Draconis council may have given up hope on you, but i for sure have not."
"We have been through so much together since we first met at Nastya's Outpost when you joined LGM... You have saved my life more times then i can even count.. You are like a brother to me, the only closest thing i could ever call a brother, other than the russian blood that flows through both our veins... In short Dice.. You are my brother.. and i will never give up on you"