The Lost Away Man
Posted By: redblooded<skatindudeb182@netscape.net>
Date: 9 July 2002, 4:06 pm
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I, Captain Jacob Keyes, of THE PILLIAR OF AUTUMN, am actually alive...barely. However, I would like to tell you my story of how I kept myself alive and ask, of course, that anyone who read this come to Cote d' Azure, and rescue me from a dishonorable death. Anyway, at first, I was piloting my ship around planet Reach. Then, as most of you probably know, a covenant attack was underway. The bastards destroyed reach and I was forced to travel into slipstream space and I appeared in normal space around the planet Halo. I was unsuccessful in eluding the covenant patrols. They were simply faster, they had always been faster, it was just the way life went. I had no choice; I evacuated the ship and landed it on the ring. The ship took a terrible crash, but I survived. In a few days, I was found and captured by the covenant. They didn't do much to me, at least, less than I expected. I don't know if anyone looked for me. I found out that Halo was some sort of weapon to the covenant, and that they wanted it. I guess Cortana found it out too. When the covenant heard of the flood they were talking about it left and right. Since they were more concentrated on the flood, I was able to find a way to escape. I ended up at a swampy area on the ring, the place I came to hate in time. I wandered around with a pistol and plenty of extra clips. I was found by a squad of no more than four marines. Sergeant Mendoza was barking out orders to Jenkins when we heard something. It was whatever was buried deep inside of the ring. It was the flood. They took down Jenkins, Skipper, and Mendoza, but not me. Not me or one other man, he was playing dead and went insane, after a while, I just left him somewhere and I'm pretty sure he died. Anyway, I started roaming again and I was captured again, this time by the flood. Instead of making me into a creature, however, they made a clone of me. Then, they made him into a creature. They dropped me off to let me rot. I didn't rot, though. I found water on the ring world, and ate whatever covenant meat I could find. In time, I learned that Hunter meat was the most bitter, and Grunt meat was the sweetest. Elite meat was neither sweet nor bitter, and Jackal meat was the juiciest. I continued roaming and at one point encountered the monitor and a few sentinels. I quickly took them out with my pistol and made sure to keep eluding anything not human. I heard from the covenant grunts that the humans were planning to explode my former ship, THE PILLIAR OF AUTUMN. I quickly killed the grunt, calculated the explosion size, and as soon as I realized it would destroy Halo's ring, I found an empty banshee and flew to Sigma Octanus IV. I saw the huge explosion and was glad that I got out. However, I had landed in Cote d' Azure, a place on Sigma Octanus IV that had been nuked in order to defeat covenant forces. Now I am starving to death and need your help. Captain Jacob Keyes, over and out.
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