Maelstrom Vortex

"We congratulate the state of Indochina on the creation of this structure. The Three Towers plan is now complete. We congratulate the Gensler firm on such a wonderful design for their structure." Stated the Chairman on national TV behind his typical densely robed features.

As he sat, reading up on the various dossiers, catching up on the last few days.. his adjusted Wedding ring arrived. He slowly slipped it onto his left hand over his ring finger. For all his intents and purposes, as he had told her at the Altar, he would stay with her for as long as the Lord Allowed.. even beyond death. He would not remarry, not even think about it. He was hers, and she was his. He sat, staring for a long time at the band. "I already am missing you..." He would whisper.. He then turned back to the papers, reading the Military Intelligence report filed with him by Vasili Markov on the Imperial Army's reorganization project. He saw it had been completed and that the military was in top form.

ooc: Besides that.. they were more disgusted when he was a radioactive and starting to rot carcass. At least now they don't have to worry about him irradiating them or dropping dead skin on them. In truth, his state is an improvement over his old one. He may not be as human as he was, but to say he is worse than he was would be a much greater stretch. Being around him now would like being around a rattlesnake or lizard instead of a bio-nuclear mess.

OOC: Ubie, you said you didn't care about my threads and I was on your ignore? Why are you on this one, except to troll? He's cloaked, dressed head to foot in robes. One person has had that reaction when he landed when his aides first saw him.

Then the Chairman stumbled across a document for him labeled top secret.. about a "Project Dragon Fire." He read through it slowly.. bringing himself up to speed. Then got an incredibly suprised expression. He looked around, made sure no one was in the council chambers but him and his aides.. then got up on his desk and started dancing like It truly was nice to have some good news after the days gone by. But this roller coaster was almost enough.. to drive a person crazy.

Perhaps start phasing in anarchy day 20 and progress it into gradual collapse?

20 day time frame as the others have said would be better. With an ooc thread for people to post if they are going on extended absences to discuss what should be done in the interim while they're away.

The stop at his home was brief, only to leave a few things and a change of clothing. His aides would pick up some of his government related items.. a few of them having not seen the chairman in a few days.. went totally white in shock, but continued to do their duties. "Sir, glad to see you.. are... recovered sir. Sorry to hear about Koudoa." "Don't worry, I'm not going to eat you.. long as you behave." He would reply with a faint chuckle. "Uh.. that's good.. sir." "Get me to the Council Chambers.. yesterday." He mumbled "Yessir!" The government sedan sped off down the street with the chairman within.. a few moments later, he was at the capitol. He walked to the Chairman's seat and smiled at Keshav, "Chairman Pro-Tempoir Megan Fox, you have done excellent work in my absence. Please brief me on the affairs of state and I will resume my position now." He was still cloaked. Though he had been said to be treated, he still dressed as if he wanted no one to see him. He was also speaking with a faint lisp.

ooc: And this role play is complete. Nice playing with ya Lynneth you do well. Requesting moderator lock down.

The entire trip home to the Empire was brutal on Maelstrom. The lack of laughter in the seat next to him, the cheerful smile, the playful jokes and warm hugs were gone. He kept replaying the videos of their time together, their wedding.. their honey moon. He was a lost man.. trying to pull a ghost from pictures. He looked out at the sun through the clouds. "Watch over me Koudoa from heaven's gates. God willing I will see you when it is my turn to go. I only pray I have the endurance to make the right choices that lead me on that path without you being here.. my love." At the airport, he got off the plane. It would still be a day or so til the Saborian scientists were done determining cause of death and collecting evidence to try to find her murderer, so what was left with her still lay in Saboria. He was driven home, all the time dressed in the same concealing clothing he wore when he was ill so no one would think him a monster until society could be gradually introduced into what had happened to him.. what he had become. As soon as he got back in touch with the government apparatus of his empire, he contacted the press. A news release went out on the front page of every national paper and around the world. Tragedy. Koudoawaia Vortex dies in medical procedure in Saboria due to heart failure. D.E. Chairman's treatment successful, life has been saved. The exact nature of the medical procedures are not known at this time. It is only known that cutting edge genetic technology saved the life of the Chairman. Sabotage is suspected in the death of his wife from unknown origins. National Flags are to be lowered to half-staff for one month as the nation mourns this incredible loss. A gallery of Koudoa's Artwork would be displayed in most of the papers.. along with a tribute to all she had done in her life.

One of the lead physicists on the Project, Dr. Jim Kathay would note, "Lets not rush to far ahead in trying to get nuclear tipped missiles. We just want to get the warhead mechanisms working right. We need a bomb... then we need a transport vehicles." He dumped a folder full of schematics and U-238 centrifuge documents on his desk. "We're going to need a large power plant here.. and lots.. and lots of centrifuges. Get the construction crews working on the schematics on the double. We're also going to need a test reactor building. We've got to puzzle out exactly how much fissile material this !@#$%^&'s going to need."

Try.. and try again... no success. Age 36, Maelstrom Vortex.. was a widower. His wife, age 35, passed soundly in her sleep the victim of a caffiene induced heart failure. Maelstrom lept back out of the tank. He looked to his doctors, "Get her home.." He looked to LeClerc, "I thank you for what you have done for me. I know this was not your intent, or I would be the one dead.. not her. Please find who did this to her. I will send a legal team up here specializing in your law.. we'll follow your processes.. but with your help, I want this person nailed to the wall for what they have done. You will forever have my gratitude.." Visible in his eyes, there was rage though, not at LeClerc, "I.. am going to be out of sorts for a while. I am going to go ahead and return home. The spirit of my wife has moved on, there is no more for me to see.. no reason for me to stay now. If anything goes wrong, I'll be returned to you for study. I've asked my body be donated to Saborian science out of good will given you helped make me what I am now. She is in God's hands. I have a country I must run." He shook LeClerc's hand.. then he and his scientists only picked up the bare minimum of what they needed to leave.. and they stormed towards the airport under their monitoring guards.

Maelstrom woke up. He lept through the observation glass and went into the room where Koudoa was in the tank as the alarms were going off. He jumped into the tank.. and put his hands on her chest.. and using the sachs organ and all he had practiced through the night.. he did his damndest to try to defibrilate her failing heart. He would shock her with his maximum charge capacity of 650 volts through his claws laid on her chest like voltage paddles. "Come on!" He kept trying over and over again... "Don't leave me!" He looked out of the tank at LeClerc, "What's wrong what can we do?" He kept trying to shock her heart into Rhythm, but was rapidly running out of the voltage build up he had sustained.

Local Police began to respond to news of an incident in the area and the sounds of shots fired with a potential abduction. When they got to the scene, the perpetrators were gone. They began to ask around for witness, take plastic molds of tire tracks, and test the area where the shots were fired to see whose blood had fallen. Property records were pulled to see who owned the residence and who might be the one abducted.

OOC: I think people are misinterpreting the word waste as it is used here. If my understanding is correct, Keshav is redirecting sewage to collection, treatment, and gas extraction plants. If my assumption is correct, the infrastructure to do this would already exist and it's actually proven to be one of the more viable and cheaper bio-energy resources built atop existing sewage systems. As for recycling plastic, this is also already done on a mass scale. Just for the sake of argument, we'll throw 10 billion at it and say we are going to recycle what we can. IC: "GTI has not been given an exception, but they have been told to continue operations as normal as it is the Government's obligation, not theirs, to create the system by which they must comply. In other words, we're eating the bill.. not them." stated Tom Clark for the Department of the Chairman.

ooc: I think a stickies "notification of absence" thread would be more appropriate to alleviate concerns.. but I do think it would be best used in conjunction with rules that Zeek has mentioned. I'm sick of ghost nations also.

"The Dragon Empire requests observer status. We think this union is more stable than the previous Union of Australian states and would like to watch for a time, potentially to consider application to this body." Stated Tom Clark on behalf of the office of the Chairman.

Tom Clark noted, "Damn.. I've been to busy of late.. I hope the Chairman gets back soon. We hope this doesn't mean anything bad for the signatories."

"Congratulations to the signatories." States Tom Clark of the Chairman's PR office.

As turned on the light and turned it off. Maelstrom thought about a lot his life... "Lord, I sit before you.. practicing with the new gifts you have given me, a grateful man. You have spared my life through your infinite knowledge.. shared through your grace with man. I know it has been a time since I've approached you outside of normal worship. But I felt now was a more than appropriate time to give my gratitude. You could say, turning this little light bulb on and off, I thought about what you must have been thinking when you just created light.. and at the mess you knew lie in wait in the form of the will of man in the inevitable coming future. I hope I can use my gifts wisely, that the new creature you have allowed me to be will hopefully be an improvement upon what I was. Please, lead, guide, and direct me as always in your will. Please continue to give me the strength to govern and protect my people. My I be an example to them in my character and behavior, ever fulfilling your will. Protect my people, give them the strength to see your will through and to act with character when times are dim. Bless my government.. the leaders who so loyally serve by my side. They will never know how much I appreciate all they do for the Empire." He looked to his wife in the chambers outside, "She took this upon herself at great risk.. this procedure is risky. I know she did not want me to be alone, but unlike with me where death was so certain, she could have lived for so long. Watch over her, protect her, please.. return her to me. If this fails.. I know she goes back into the loving arms who gave her to me, but it will be a great burden upon my spirit. She has always been my true strength.." He began to sob softly. A hand quietly went to the glass as he watched her. "I love her. I'd rather, if it be anyone, you'd have taken me." He then laid down.. trying to sleep.. while the days went on. He, in fact.. was weaker without her.. than she was without him. He held his Cross and Bible closely to his chest as he slept.

Byzantium Gebiv General Hayley The Dragon Empire watches this with interest... So does your mom.

The Chairman kept to the observation room in silence. The one thing he requested.. was a box of lightbulbs. He began to practice the use of his sachs organ to light light bulbs, to moderate between different voltage levels like eels do when they hunt. It was one of the few features of his new form that was voluntarily controlled and not wired into his sensory network. Karnell relaxed a little at LeClerc's words. The procedure was followed to the letter on his side of things.

"We do not have the right to determine whether or not a Sovereign Nation will or will not accept an observor. Fundamentally, that choice is up to the government of Blackwoods."

The Chairman watched his wife, watching the actions of the scientists. Karnell kept close watch. He knew that people may get nervous over this new introduction. Social models indicated that in fact, the advent of a new species could be very traumatic. That is why when this was done, he was going to have the Chairman continue to dress as if he had not been cured. Dark robes, clothes.. conceal what he is, until this science was more common and accepted. The previous procedure was successful, with the aid of Generosa he would very closely monitor the proceedings to make sure the same, successful, process would hopefully not be tampered with.

"Given that the Imperim of America is a treatied brother, they'd be protectorate by proxy anyway. We do not understand the concern, but if it makes others feel at peace, we will simply declare that should Imperium of America, being our ally, be called to protect this nation. We will come to our ally's aid. Would that be sufficient to ease the nerves of Rebel Virginia?" Tom Clark inquired.