They say he crawled in to a drain pipe after a man eating tiger

[weiss_tank]

 

1 – Locked to Schuldig

[Slowly he made his way to the house he knew that Schuldig lived. It made sense. This knowledge that people were out to get him, it had to be Masterminds doing. He had the motive, the means, and the sense of humour needed to make this a reality. It had to be Mastermind controlling everyone, making them all want poor Siberian dead.

 

It only made sense. To stop all this he had to kill Schuldig, and quickly. Ken was getting tired...so tried...]

 

 

2 - Open Action to anyone around the town. Ken is wandering about with a dazed look on his face. While he wont attack right away he is definately on guard and the first sign of trouble he will be in your face with those claws.  The surgery has given him claws (that have become badly infected) and cat ears,  not to mention a growing paranoia that everyone is out to kill him and infection fever.

3 –Open Action : Ken is now outright on a berserker rampage. He sees you, he is going to try and kill you. However he is not moving very fast and is not the most coordinated. It will be easy to escape him if you don't want to fight.

[[ooc: I have a death lined up for him unfortunately so please don't outright kill him, however injuring is always in the cards.

 

 

4 – death by Theo

While his mind was speeding a million miles a minute, Ken's body was slow and stiff to move. His hands were puffed and red, and around the claw exit wounds was almost a sickly yellow. Traveling up his arms were the tell tale red lines of an infection that was starting to enter the blood stream. He was not a hale and healthy lad. He had had no rest, everyone was out to kill him, he was home and all those mobs were coming after him one after another....

 

Comments

2!

[wavewalker]

[ With all that's been happening, Ian's had a hard time keeping track of who's where and what condition they're in. He runs across Ken near the outskirts of the park purely by accident ]

Ken? Gods, what happened?

((ooc; Ken's free to attack him, though Ian likely beats him on speed, unless that was an enhancement in his surgery?))

Re: 2!

[weiss_tank]

[[ooc: Ian most definitely has the speed advantage. While Ken is pretty fast normally, he received no enhancements in that area.]]

Nnn...[Wait, he recognizes that voice, Ian. Ian was generally friendly, ok.]

H-hey Ian. Whaddi miss?

[wavewalker]

What did you... Ken, look at you! That woman, she... Mercy.

[ He breathes that last word out quietly, moving towards Ken, a look of concern on his face ]

You look like you've got one foot through the Gate. Is there anything I can do?

[weiss_tank]

[Ken takes a quick step back. While he remembers Ian being friendly, there is still the chance that he's just out to kill him.]

No...I'll be ok. Just gotta go home s'all. [Fuck his skin burned, he wants to flex his fingers but he can't]

[wavewalker]

Ken, please. Let me help you. You're in no condition to be walking around like this.

[weiss_tank]

Don't come any closer! [He shakes his head and calms down a bit] Ian, it's ok, I just have to take care of some shit and it'll all be fine.

[no it wont Ken, you smell like blood and infection.]

[wavewalker]

Ken, what is wrong with you? In your condition, you're lucky to be standing!

[weiss_tank]

Dude chill, I've had worse then this. [This however is the truth.]

[wavewalker]

Good for you, but your aversion to any sort of help is unsettling.

4

[sanctus_dei]

[Theo wasn't in perfect shape himself. Once upon a time, a certain BLU Sniper shot him in the head, right through the eye. It had killed him back them, of course, but now all he had as a reminder, a bloody mess where the eye had been. It was bandaged, but it ached and bled.

When spotting Ken, Theo almost didn't recognize him.]


Ken.

I'm so sorry Theo, so so sorry.

[weiss_tank]

[While Ken hears his name being said by a familiar voice, when he turns to look at Theo it's obvious his mind is somewhere else. He sees Theo's face twist and suddenly he's looking a faceless mass that he knows was someone he killed.

And now they want him dead.

Ken isn't going to let that happen.

He growls, low in his throat]

>:

[sanctus_dei]

.... Surgery. What they do, turn you into a wild animal?

[A rhetorical question. Sensing this might go poorly, it's time to cast a spell - just a simple forcefield around himself.]

He'll owe you big time after this.

[weiss_tank]

[No, not a wild animal. At least not a worse one then he's always been. The surgery has just brought it out more because he's so paranoid and in pain. He is a violent, violent man and the infection has removed all his pretenses.

This is the Ken that took on a real tiger because he wanted to see whose claws were superior.

He leaps at Theo, seeing him as a danger.]

[sanctus_dei]

[Reflexively, Theo takes a step back. But the forcefield is there, blocking Ken from advancing on him with an invisible barrier.]

Ken! Come to your fucking senses!

[weiss_tank]

[It's not hard for Theo to block him, Ken is not moving at his best or his strongest]

I refuse to let you kill me! You'll die first!

[sanctus_dei]

I'm only going to kill you if you keep this shit up! Calm down!

[weiss_tank]

[It's probably easy for the Necromancer to see that the infection is basically rotting Ken from the inside out, his body just can't handle it much more.

He reaches out to Theo, intending to take his face off]

1

[have_your_lives]

[Schuldig is in the study, a room he's taught the other inhabitants of 1492 Kramden to avoid as being purely his. (And, when he's maintaining its illusion as the Space Room, as being a complete mindfuck to be in regardless.) Today, however, that illusion is flickering in and out, playing merry hell with any sense of visual perception; Schuldig simply doesn't have the energy to maintain it consistently. He's trying, though; the familiar environment is the only possible comfort he has left at the moment.

To say he's dying would be an understatement. The stomach bomb that killed him on his first Christmas in Mayfield (as well as his other death wounds, but they all seem to just blend into the general horror of slowly being ripped to pieces) has been gradually re-manifesting over the course of the week, this time working on him from the outside in. The wounds had been minor for quite some time, and at the beginning he'd even bandaged them...for all the good that had done, but it had at least slowed the bleed-out. But every day it's grown worse, and now...

He's unrecognizable. Deep lacerations cover every part of his body visible - the places he'd been blown apart - and the blood from them has painted him red from head to foot. His clothes are dripping with it; even his thick trenchcoat is saturated. The pain is a constant scream in his head that fights with the thoughts he's no longer able to keep distinct, the only thing that keeps him at all aware of a sense of self in the absence of control. He'd initially put off suicide, unsure of his own feelings on the possibility of permanent death and hoping that the slow advancement of his wounds would actually allow him to live out the event. Since the machine's come back online, he'd been too fragmented to focus enough to kill himself. And today, he's not able to expend the effort to lift a gun, hand too slimy with blood to operate one.

There is some consolation; there's no way his body is actually going to disintegrate before he dies. At this speed, he's going to bleed to death long before the explosion fully recreates itself.

For once, he's not really aware of Ken's approach. He's simply lying on the floor of the study, head turned slightly as he tries to drink in the flickers of the Space Room with burning eyes that are barely seeing anything.]

[weiss_tank]

[When dealing with Schuldig, Ken never really bothers to try and be quiet. He knows that Mastermind would hear him anyways so his approach is anything but subtle. The man was easy to find, all he had to do was follow the faint smell of blood.

So eventually he stalked into the study and shut the door behind himself. This was going to feel good, to finally make the paranoia stop AND to give Schuldig a good solid beating. However when he saw the state that his intended target was in, some of that excitement faded. Fuck, this looked like a mercy kill.]

Mastermind.

[have_your_lives]

[Schuldig finally picks up on his presence only when Ken is in the room, through a combination of telepathic and visual input; both sources are flickering and fading, so only together is he able to really grasp what either are telling him.

But when he becomes aware of Ken being there...he begins to laugh.] Siberian... [He's almost relieved to see him. Whether out of mercy, resentment, paranoia, rage, or revenge...it could be for any reason, but Schuldig is confident Ken won't leave the room with Schuldig still breathing. And whether or not Ken winds up doing it for his benefit, he'll be grateful.] Took your time...?

[weiss_tank]

Sorry, I had some thing's to do before I came to see you. [He steps forward, his heavy combat boots thudding against the floor.]

Why are you doin' this Schuldig? I don't need everyone against me, not after that fuckin' hospital. You see what they did to me? FUCKING CAT EARS! [He's...just not going to mention the claws.]

[have_your_lives]

[Schuldig laughs again, breathlessly.] Suits you. [He's not talking as much as he usually does; he doesn't have the energy.] So now what...?

[weiss_tank]

[He's soooo glad that you're amused Schuldig. Really, he is. This is totally a laughing matter.

Well, ok. Koneko!Ken is a pretty funny image.]

Now I kill you. You die and this stops and I can go curl up under a rock somewhere and lick my wounds. [He's in pain Schuldig and his hands are burning.]

[have_your_lives]

Yes. [There's a trace of satisfaction in his voice, though it's hard to tell, hoarse as it is.] What are you...waiting for?

[weiss_tank]

The hell happened to you anyways? You look like shit. [He steps closer, kneeling down over Schuldig, a little wary that this may be a trap]