ObMod: Crumbling Walls

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## Characters

* Joseph Kane
* Deathstroke
* Cheshire
* Candice Yacoub

## Location

* Themyscira, Paradise Island
* July 27th 2017, 0027 EST

## VOX Archive

* **Joseph Kane:** [gasp, heavy breathing] It's okay. It's okay... it was just a nightmare.
* **Deathstroke:** [footsteps] I wouldn't be so certain of that, boy...
* **Cheshire:** [rapid footsteps, whack, thud] Not so fast there, Joey... [fabric, hitting body] Don't forget your pants.
* **Candice Yacoub:** [lip smack] Joey, is everything o- [gasp, scream, stumbling footsteps, hiss]
* **Deathstroke:** Pretty gal you've got here, son. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to her.
* **Joseph Kane:** You hurt her and I swear I'll ki- [whack, thud]
* **Cheshire:** No talking. Shut up and listen.
* **Candice Yacoub:** How did you find us?
* **Deathstroke:** Coming to Themyscira was a neat idea. Through me for a loop for a while, but there's only a few places you could possibly hide. Once we penetrated Themyscira's barrier, I immediately sensed my son's presence.
* **Candice Yacoub:** How did you get-
* **Deathstroke:** I am a member of the League of Assassins. A few chicks with sticks and swords aren't that too difficult to get past.
* **Joseph Kane:** What do you want? If it's me you've come for, fine... Just leave-
* **Cheshire:** [whack, grunt, thud] What did I say, Joey? Stop talking and just listen.
* **Joseph Kane:** Fine... I'm listening.
* **Deathstroke:** Ra's al Ghul has asked us to extend you one chance to come back into the fold. so, son, what do you say?
* **Joseph Kane:** If I refuse, I assume you kill me?
* **Deathstroke:** Me? No... I will not kill my son, no matter how stupid he's being.
* **Joseph Kane:** Didn't seem that way when you tried to shoot me a few months ago.
* **Deathstroke:** You weren't thinking clearly.
* **Joseph Kane:** Oh and a high-speed lead injection was meant to cure that, huh? Thanks, dad.
* **Deathstroke:** I am trying to help you, no matter how much you refuse to see logic and listen to reason.
* **Joseph Kane:** I don't subscribe to your brand of 'reason', father. Just order Cheshire to kill me and spare me your twisted allegories.
* **Cheshire:** Boss?
* **Deathstroke:** [sigh] Make it quick...
* **Candice Yacoub:** [mystical spell]
* **Cheshire:** [unearthly hiss, bones cracking, ground opening, bones rattling] What the hell is this?
* **Deathstroke:** Damn girl's a necromancer! [skeletal shifting, unearthly hiss, biting on armor] Ah! One's got me!
* **Cheshire:** [whack, whack, bones breaking, whack] Where are they coming from?!
* **Candice Yacoub:** [rapid footsteps] Come on, Joey... Let's go. This way... [mystical spell] [stones shifting] Hurry. Down here. Watch your head! [rapid footsteps]
* **Cheshire:** They're getting away! [whack, bones scattering]
* **Deathstroke:** Don't just stand there! After them! [thud, unearthly hissing] What the- [sword slice, bones scattering] Go! I'll catch up!
* **Joseph Kane:** [rapid descending footsteps] Where'd the skeletons come from?
* **Candice Yacoub:** Circe used the bones of the Amazons' enemies as mortar in her tower... A rather common Amazonian building principle. I merely summoned the spirits of the departed to aid us.
* **Joseph Kane:** The ease at which you say such things is alarming... [rapid descending footsteps] Ew... Wait a minute... We've been sleeping on dead people?
* **Candice Yacoub:** You can freak about it when we get to the boat! Come this way down! [rapid footsteps]
* **Joseph Kane:** Boat?! We should have grabbed the transporters and Boom Tubed out of- [whack, thud]
* **Cheshire:** Not so fast there, Joey...
* **Candice Yacoub:** [mystical spell] [mystical screech, metallic slash, mystic energies dissipating] Let him go, Cheshire.
* **Cheshire:** You know, you'd almost look threatening if you were bare a- Ah! [scream, body dropping on knees, scream] What is... [scream]
* **Candice Yacoub:** Don't look at me, Joey... I didn't do anything...
* **Cheshire:** [gasp] [unearthly echo overlaying VOX:] No. This is my doing... No time to explain. Go. Run. I'll hold Cheshire and our father back, but you must be quick. She is willful. [footsteps] I'm serious, brother! Take your friend! *Go, now!*

## Trivia and Notes

* Part of the Monitor War Storyline.
* Story continues from ObMod: Brothers, Sisters, and Fathers.
* Story continues in ObMod: Hitting Where It Hurts.
* The name of the ObMod is a reference to Jericho, who is possessing Cheshire behind the scenes.