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There is a man. He's meditating, and floating several inches off of the ground. This is fairly normal for him - at least he's not floating various furniture this time. Just himself. He doesn't feel like exerting himself any further. It's been a long day.
He realizes it's going to be a lot longer when he's no longer in his room.
"I hate surprises," he sighs, and he opens his eyes to look at his new surroundings. He's still floating, and surprisingly calm.
what_greater_weapon
unmarred
"Yeah, that's a fair analysis. I'm reluctant to flee immediately without taking the time to figure out just why a vampire would prefer to live in a windowless basement, though."
what_greater_weapon
"Sure. That's fair. We can take a day or two to figure that out before we leave."
what_greater_weapon
Well, with that decided: "Then I should go clean up the corpses to avoid the smell. Might also look for secret passages, maybe this place is less of a tactical trainwreck than it appears to be."
what_greater_weapon
"Oh, I don't," he says lightly. "But I want to deal with rotting corpses even less."
what_greater_weapon
"I appreciate it!"
Cleaning up the bodies isn't much of an ordeal. Revan decides to just avoid physically carrying dismembered corpses. He has the Force. He can carry them that way. Besides, he only has one set of clothes, he'd rather avoid ruining them before he has another set to change into. And he's lazy.
They can be piled outside in a pit (dug by Revan, with the Force, because he's a cheating bastard) and then unceremoniously set on fire. It won't get rid of them completely, but it will keep the smell from getting too bad.
Cleaning up the bodies isn't much of an ordeal. Revan decides to just avoid physically carrying dismembered corpses. He has the Force. He can carry them that way. Besides, he only has one set of clothes, he'd rather avoid ruining them before he has another set to change into. And he's lazy.
They can be piled outside in a pit (dug by Revan, with the Force, because he's a cheating bastard) and then unceremoniously set on fire. It won't get rid of them completely, but it will keep the smell from getting too bad.
unmarred
Mark, once it is established that Revan is capable of dealing with all the body parts by hismelf, locates cleaning supplies and starts mopping up the blood on the floor of the throne room. It's not such a big problem as the corpses, but it's already getting sticky and gross. He also hauls what's left of the throne upstairs and dumps the bloodstained pieces in Revan's fire pit, to get it out of his way. (It was an early casualty in his fight with the robed man.) On consideration, he does the same thing with the blood-soaked fur robe.
what_greater_weapon
Soon enough, everything that needs to be set on fire is in the fire pit. Revan goes and prunes several trees with his lightsaber for tinder, piles the wood on the corpses (and throne, and fur robe), and then carefully sets it all on fire with the same lightsaber. The lightsaber - a jedi's weapon. A weapon for a more civilized age. Also very useful for practical purposes. Like burning corpses. He's got a lot of practice with this sort of thing. Soon he has a roaring bonfire.
He'll probably have to repeat this 'burn the corpses' process again later, it's not like corpses are easy to burn. But he thinks that this is good enough for tonight.
"Hey," says Revan, poking his head through the door. "You have first dibs on the refresher, I can get the rest of the floor if you want to clean up."
He'll probably have to repeat this 'burn the corpses' process again later, it's not like corpses are easy to burn. But he thinks that this is good enough for tonight.
"Hey," says Revan, poking his head through the door. "You have first dibs on the refresher, I can get the rest of the floor if you want to clean up."
unmarred
"Thanks. You're a treasure," he says.
Off to figure out thousand-year-old plumbing!
He manages it with minimal disaster, and rinses the blood out of his clothes, and steals clean underwear and trousers from the dead cultists' dormitory rather than put the wet things back on.
Off to figure out thousand-year-old plumbing!
He manages it with minimal disaster, and rinses the blood out of his clothes, and steals clean underwear and trousers from the dead cultists' dormitory rather than put the wet things back on.
what_greater_weapon
Revan dutifully finishes cleaning the floor, and then one Mark's done getting clean, it's his turn.
One plumbing adventure later and he too is clean. Clothes, too, though he's carefully dried off his underwear and trousers by holding his lightsaber close (but not touching) to the clothes so they dry off. Look, if a jedi isn't using their lightsaber for everything they are doing it wrong, okay? Revan thinks every jedi should use their lightsaber like he uses his. It's an amazing tool.
(That can and has set his clothes on fire. Look it was one time, he's learned from his mistakes, and his robes are fire resistant now.)
And then he hangs up the rest of his robes to dry and heads off to meditate and heal some more from his recent stab wound.
... He is unbothered by floating in the throne room shirtless. Is Mark going to be bothered by Revan floating in the throne room shirtless?
One plumbing adventure later and he too is clean. Clothes, too, though he's carefully dried off his underwear and trousers by holding his lightsaber close (but not touching) to the clothes so they dry off. Look, if a jedi isn't using their lightsaber for everything they are doing it wrong, okay? Revan thinks every jedi should use their lightsaber like he uses his. It's an amazing tool.
(That can and has set his clothes on fire. Look it was one time, he's learned from his mistakes, and his robes are fire resistant now.)
And then he hangs up the rest of his robes to dry and heads off to meditate and heal some more from his recent stab wound.
... He is unbothered by floating in the throne room shirtless. Is Mark going to be bothered by Revan floating in the throne room shirtless?
what_greater_weapon
Well, while he's sitting and floating and motionless, this is a pretty good opportunity to oogle, if Mark would like to.
He's got an interesting network of scars.
He's got an interesting network of scars.
what_greater_weapon
"I don't actually remember how I got all of them," says Revan, idly. "The scars, I mean. I've had some... Very unique memory problems."
what_greater_weapon
"I do have some of them," he offers. Still with his eyes closed, he points to a circular burn near his shoulder. "That was a gang member on Taris. He was a bit of a bastard. Threw a fit when I beat his best swoop racer in a race, and turned the entire place into a killzone in revenge. I won, and saved the person I'd come there to save, despite what she would tell you about 'saving herself' - bullshit, by the way - and then we stole the ship out from under a crime lord to get off the planet."
what_greater_weapon
"Thank you." He points at a long cut on his left arm. "That one was a sith that ambushed me while I was exploring an underwater base filled with selkath that had been driven mad. I had just handled the giant seabeast that was responsible, and he showed up to monologue at me about how he was going to kill me and earn favor from his master. It did not work out as he planned. Don't even know how he got down there, I had to work my ass off to get a sub, and he just shows up out of nowhere to kill me."
what_greater_weapon
"It really is." He points to the... rather large bite mark on his torso. "And that was a rancor on Rakata. Just a little one. It found my aftertaste disagreed with it." Revan sparks, just a bit.