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Ident-Code - XXXX-XXXX-346
Location: 'Essos/Dothraki Sea'
Time: Unknown - Noon?
Date: Unknown
Subject: Hell Jumper 12 (Jose Marquez)
My name is Jose Marquez.
I am a member of Task Force 25-B, the Hell Jumpers. Standard protocols require me to maintain this recording in case of a Class F Stranded Gulliver type scenario, which we're in right now. This mess happened a week ago, and ever since then everything's been a real shit show…
So Alexios told me to handle the diary entries, the cock sucker. Look, I'm not good with these sorts of things, so I'll get straight to the point. My team - the Hell Jumpers - were originally sent to terminate a large Nephandi Coven in XXXXXX. We succeeded, but suffered severe casualties in the process. Out of 20 active assets, only 6 were survived, including myself.
The Nephandi had been tinkering with several transdimensional gates, presumably using it to summon bad juju into our world. Knowledge of the Reality Deviants first came to the Void Engineers, who in turn, requisitioned Task Force 25-B to neutralize the Coven, and contain whatever anomalies they may have summoned.
We have shut down almost all of the gates, and all of the Nephandi, save for their leader, Bleeding Moon, a vampire elder of the Baali variety. I don't know how a coven of Nephandi got involved with a vampire elder but the fucker jumped into the last gate before we could destroy it. We were going to secure the area and wait for reinforcements but Control ordered us to pursue Bleeding Moon, stating that the Reality Deviant posed a substantial danger to the Consensus.
Hell Jumper 1, Captain Woolcox immediately ordered the remaining members of Task Force 25-B into the same gate. At the other end, we found ourselves inside an ancient and deserted city. There was no light save from what we had on our gear. Hell Jumper 7, Jack Fox - a Void Engineer, said that the city functioned as a waypoint between different worlds, universes. A cursory inspection of the ruins also revealed a large number of Enochian script, though these were slightly different from the Enochian scripts I've encountered in training.
In any case, it didn't take long until we found Bleeding Moon. He had transformed from a lithe, androgynous human-like entity into a massive 13 ft. cephalopod-like creature. At that point, there were 7 of us left. It would take Captain Woolcox life to injure Bleeding Moon long enough for us to incapacitate it. Unfortunately, before we could do so, some kind of anomalous emission covered the Dark City, destroying its buildings and swallowing us to who knows where.
When we woke up, we found ourselves in the middle of a waterless wasteland, and with enough injuries to last a lifetime. Fortunately, we had Hell Jumper 9, Sun Chen, a Progenitor Medician, and Hell Jumper 3, Aristotle Alexios, a 'reformed' reality deviant, to patch us up. As soon as we were well enough to travel, we began attempting to re-establish contact with Control. When that failed, we contented ourselves looking for the nearest signs of civilization.
Fox said that we were no longer on Earth; that the Dark City had transported us to a different universe. Yeah, no shit.
After hours of nonstop walking, we eventually found what appeared to be human life: a group of five half naked Conan the Barbarian types surrounding an entourage consisting of a single plate armored man, similar to a medieval knight, and a group of young girls. The two groups were talking when we first saw them, but very soon, the Barbarians began fighting the man with the plate armor. Real highlander level shit. The knight managed to kill one but the remaining four were much tougher.
Lt. Alexios, and now acting commander of the team ordered us to hold fire, and to wait. This wasn't our fight. The plated guy managed to put up a good fight, but he was outnumbered and injured by the looks of him. One of the Barbarians eventually injured his leg and he fell down. He continued slashing at the Barbarians, screaming at the girls to, presumably, run for safety.
They were about to deliver the killing blow when Alexios saw a familiar tattoo on one of the Barbarian's flesh - the Nephandi Crest. That changed everything. We immediately open fired on the Barbarians, save for the one with the tattoo. Alexios wanted him questioned. Unfortunately, the fucker got himself stabbed by the knight.
We made quite an entrance. The girls and knight were shocked by our sudden rescue. The knight was about middle age and was bleeding badly from the injury. We tried to communicate, but as you might guess, they didn't speak English. So we had to content ourselves with hand gestures.
The group of girls were about in their late teens and early twenties. Two were bronze skinned, and shared ethnic features similar to the Barbarians. The third was Blond. And the fourth had platinum hair and violet eyes. She was also pregnant. All of them were scared, except for the platinum haired one. As though sensing that he was in charge, she walked up to Alexios and tilted her head in thanks for saving their lives. Despite the dirt covering face and the rags she wore, she was beautiful.
Alexios pointed to himself and said his name, and ordered the rest of us to follow suit.
Platinum hair nodded, and repeated the process with herself: Daenerys Targaryen, and then at the knight: Jorah Mormont, the two bronze skinned chicks: Irri and Jhiqui, and the blonde, Doreah.
Alexios pointed at the dead Barbarians, and they began speaking rapidly. He pointed at the Nephandi tattoo, and they responded with more jibber jabber. Seeing this was going nowhere, we decided to leave the questions for later.
Alexios immediately ordered everyone to move to a more secure location. The knight or Ser Jorah, however, shook his head, showing his wound and the copious amounts of blood flowing from it. The damage was worse than I first thought. Daenerys refused to leave him behind. Alexios, though, had a better solution. He leaned in close and applied his powers on Jorah's injury, sparking wonder in Jorah and the girls' eyes.
Alexios then pointed at himself and the Reality Deviant said: "Mage."
