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Post by Tayl on May 16, 2017 3:54:59 GMT -6
|| - The Steel Donut - || Seiten glanced down at the money and then back at Esme. "...Well? What kinda donut do you want? You gotta want it! I can't serve someone who doesn't have a passion for donuts!"same, but anyway Lausac, meanwhile, seemed a little surprised. After remaining off his guard for a few moments - geez, what kind of person just called people cute like that - he regained his composure. Then multiplied it by 10 billion. So composed that his grin ascended into an orchestra of mischief and agony. "Oho! Is that it? Got charmed by the Lausac already? Can't blame you, I don't even have to try. I basically ooze desirability," he teased, leaning in close as his spare hand ran up Lazul's thigh. "So, no buttons to push, huh?""Goddammit Lausac this is a bakery not your personal fuck parlor"
|| - Alpha Ring Garden - || Given the situation, LeFleuris noticed the tourist's brief change in demeanor. He wasn't sure what to make of it given that he couldn't sense Hadris' arrival himself, so he was careful not to let his perception be made obvious. "You'd be surprised at the havoc a single person can cause. It's unwise to underestimate others, you know! But I digress! Let's continue with the tour, shall we?""G-Geez, way to lead in..." Aedi sighed. "But! On we go!" she cheered, quickly returning to her chipper self as she marched onward. "Oh, right," LeFleuris spoke up, stopping himself before he really even began following along. "Now that it's just the four of us, would you care to share your name? This tour's become rather personal, so it would be much easier to accommodate you if we knew it. Much more fun to just act like a few friends out on the town, don't you think?""Aedi, we really need to keep track of when he's in the tour path..."
Flann flinched at Violet's remark, but no one in the room had much time to respond to anything before Herelia warped in with everyone else who remained at Capital Defense. "Hey! What's with the crowding in here?! All non-essential personnel, out!" Herelia barked, quickly returning to her healing duties. Septicemia jumped before hastily pushing Missingno, Luca, and Flann out of the door. Laejizhar and Hadris remained behind, though their attention was drawn to Loligo. "Hey, Drew, there you are. This chick needs to talk to you," Loligo spoke up, ignoring Herelia's orders. And all of the chaos. And the blood. Such is Loligo. "Who is this?" Hadris asked, confused. He wasn't exactly in the best circumstances to be talking to random strangers at the moment, but even at a time like this he couldn't resist the temptation. "I dunno, some broad named Violet, basically. Wants to talk about geopolitics or whatever. Y'know, about the stuff that's been going on," Loligo said with a shrug. Oh! Maybe he could talk to exciting new people and be productive all at once! "...Oh? Out with it, then. Things have become a bit... chaotic, I'm afraid."has there ever been a more awkward room than this??
|| - Outside of the Hospital Wing - || Septicemia stopped dragging her comrades around once they were just outside of the hospital wing. "Phew! What a trip! Whaddaya guys wanna do now until people stop being busy so they can warp ya home? You guys hungry? Or thirsty? Or we could go to the spa! Or we could go see a movie! Or we could go for a walk in the park, or we could fight heroes in another dimension, or we could have a sleepover!! Gosh, the possibilities are endless!" she rambled, listing off each item on her fingers. Claws? Flann, meanwhile, remained essentially unresponsive.
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Post by Exuro on Jun 11, 2017 6:10:27 GMT -6
"You present a fair point there. Of course, it takes the right kind of person in the right kind of place, and I don't plan on straying from the tour path any time soon. It's nice, getting the VIP treatment for once. Speaking of, name's Gray. You'll have to forgive me for not piping up sooner; this place is kinda entrancing and all."
The tourist-y man continued on after Aedi, offering LeFleuris his most sincere grin possible. The name sounded genuine, at least...
The arrival of Hadris was met with a concerned stare from Violet, whose gaze was firmly affixed on the partially-disassembled Senna hitching a ride in Laejizhar's tendrils. Senna visibly recoiled a bit further into her lift's grasp, which considering the Procurator's behavior up until now seemed a little strange. Once she managed to pry her vision away from Senna, Violet approached Hadris and gave a polite, formal bow before beginning to speak.
"I greatly appreciate you meeting me on such short notice, and with such a lack of facts to go off of. As Loligo so kindly pointed out, my name is Violet, and I'm here to hopefully help you sort out at least one portion of the unpleasantness you've found yourself embroiled in. If we could speak somewhere a little more private, it would be appreciated. Your Representatives would be more than welcome to listen in, considering it involves a few of their number, but there are... certain parties in this room who would prove detrimental to accommodate."
Violet nodded back towards the still shocked-looking Senna, who looked rather like she had just seen a ghost... or something infinitely more unpleasant, considering the scope of what everyone present had been through today already. Hadris, being the All-Conquering Overlord that he is, would be able to tell that Violet was far from a mundane mortal, and that she was concealing the majority of her presence.
Speaking of tense situations, Herelia would continue to find her critically-wounded patient's condition to be worsening. A quick diagnostic scan would reveal a number of highly-advanced cybernetic augmentations, from spinal reinforcements to a system of nanobots rendered inactive by the effects of the curse eating away at her. Just as numerous were a multitude of benign genetic mutations and other oddities, their effects placing Herelia's patient somewhere just past the level of superhuman in terms of physical ability. At least now it would be partially apparent as to how a human stood their ground against the likes of Flann and Septicemia for so long.
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Post by Tayl on Jul 19, 2017 19:58:50 GMT -6
g-goodbye images........ || - Alpha Ring Garden > Food Court - || [orange][aedi][lefleuris] "Gray, huh? That's a pretty cool name! It matches your text color well!" Aedi approved, almost tripping over nothing as she spun around to walk backward. "But maybe even cooler is... HERE!!"Aedi grabbed Orange by the wrist and ran ahead (forward this time, thankfully) a bit to the end of the garden, where the two let their jazz hands guide the tour on. Before the group was the food court, and it was certainly a food court befitting an All-Conquering Overlord. It seemed to stretch infinitely onward in all directions, with every type of food imaginable. There was plenty of variety in the entrance alone: The Steel Donut, some place called Chiro's Pizza, a candy store, a frozen yogurt shop, a McDevils store, a quaint cafe specializing in blood-related foods, a restaurant serving up viscera... so much deliciousness contained in one place! "This food court holds a record for largest food court in Entirety! Discounting Realities that are just big food courts, of course," Orange explained. "You can find just about anything you're hungry for here!""So, whaddaya say, champ? You got the urge to snack on anything?" Aedi asked, putting her hands on her hips. "Afterward - or now if you're good, I suppose! - since you're the only one left, we'll give you some special privileges! So, like, you can pick wherever you wanna go! Like if you want to check out some magic stuff or some fun stuff or some nerdy stuff or like living spaces or other cool places or whatever!""My, my, we're really going quite far off the book, aren't we?" LeFleuris spoke up. He remained behind Gray, perhaps a bit too close. "Don't take this offer lightly, dearest tourist. Few people get this opportunity."|| - Outer Hospital Wing - || [hadris][laejizhar][loligo][herelia] Laejizhar didn't really get Senna's concern, but gave her a a reassuring tentacle pat on the head regardless. It's a dad thing. Hadris, meanwhile, listened carefully to Violet, noting the tension in the air. "Very well! I certainly can't say no to such a gracious offer!" he concluded. "Loligo! I'm sure our guest would do well to have a familiar face nearby. I'd like you to accompany us. Flann and Septicemia... they could use the rest, and the others haven't returned yet. I'll need an extra mouth to help relay information later.""Sure dude, whatever," Loligo shrugged. "Excellent! Laejizhar... I apologize for the trouble I've caused you, my friend. I'll take time to make it up to you later, but for now I'm afraid we ought to part ways.""There's no need to apologize, Hadris. Do what you need to do," Laejizhar replied, voice oddly comforting considering the body it came from. "...Alright, then. Let's be off!"With a snap of his fingers, Hadris, Violet, and Loligo all abruptly vanished. [herelia][laejizhar] "Finally, some quiet... Laejizhar! Put that patient on that bed over there!" Herelia ordered, still focused on her less fortunate patient. Her eyes were opened as far as physically possible and her hands waved over the patient's body, magically scanning to try and figure out the nature and origins of the curse to better combat it. Her nurses were doing their best to pause its rampage as Herelia worked, but that was far from a permanent solution. She was impressed that this poor sap managed to live through those injuries and still hadn't lost against the curse, but this was no time to be impressed. Laejizhar, meanwhile, obeyed his orders and gingerly placed Senna on a nearby bed, careful not to unwittingly disassemble her further. He contemplated leaving, but decided it would be more helpful to stay. He had been something of a witness, after all, and in the heat of the moment Herelia had little time to think of the question that could help save her patient's life. "...I apologize that I cannot show more hospitality, but... the ailment Herelia is struggling with over there came from your side, did it not?" he asked. "What do you know about it?"|| - Representative Meeting Room - || [hadris][loligo][chiro] Hadris, Loligo, and Violet all abruptly reappeared in the Representative Meeting Room. Chiro was still there, though in the group's brief absence Chiro had somehow managed to acquire a dozen more cups with drinking birds. "Ah, there you are! Goldie, Mnemosyne, I knew you'd be back soon! I told you, you know," they spoke up excitedly. Loligo leaned close to Violet and whispered, "They give everyone weird nicknames. Don't think too hard on it, I don't think Chiro even knows where they come from.""I see you've also become acquainted with Chiro! I hope you won't mind their presence - they're another of my trusted Representatives, so they'd be learning this information eventually either way.""Oh, silly Drew, don't play poor Mnemosyne for a fool! I already know all of the information! All of it! Every information! Ahahahaha!" Chiro laughed. And continued to laugh. Oh dear. "...Ahem. You'll have to forgive them. Chiro's quite a character, you'll find, but mostly reliable!" Hadris insisted. "Now then, feel free to take a seat anywhere. Please, tell me everything you have to say. I can tell you're closer to this situation than one would anticipate, so I'm sure you'll be valuable in helping get this sorted out."
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Post by Exuro on Jul 27, 2017 8:35:21 GMT -6
Gray didn't appear all too bothered by LeFleuris's complete disregard for personal space, for what it was worth, remaining within creeping distance of the salad-y Representative as the group continued onwards into the food court area. He couldn't help but marvel at some of the offerings at a number of the stands, but Aedi's offer of a more thorough special-access tour seemed to bring him out of his revelry.
"Well, when you put it that way, how could I say no? I'm sure that we could make another stop back here after doing some more sightseeing and what have you. What exactly would this 'fun stuff' you're referring to be? Either way, I'm fairly easy to entertain, so just go with whatever is simpler for you."
It would take a few moments for Senna to regain her composure after Hadris teleported his group out of the room, her previous facade of vague annoyance resurfacing as soon as Laejizhar placed her down on the cot. Presumably in an effort to draw attention away from her rather un-stoic behavior a few moments ago, she immediately went to addressing Laejizhar's question, scooting closer to the edge of her bed to peer over at the still-unconscious Stearns.
"Mmmm. Impressive, I must admit. Never thought a mundane human could stand up to such a great amount of punishment. From what her appearance suggests, she had a little run-in with one of Erol's Titansblood poisons. In the nearly 200 years in which I have worked with the fuzzy oaf, I can count the number of individuals who have survived it on one hand," Senna explained, gesturing with her remaining hand for extra emphasis, "but that isn't to say treating it isn't possible. It's much more difficult to get answers out of a corpse, after all. I can provide you with a shopping list of ingredients, but it will take some potent spellcraft from the one doing the fixing, as well as the resolve to not outright die on the patient's part. I hope you're in the mood for a crash-course on Tyrian soul magic."
Violet quickly took her seat once the group reappeared back inside the meeting room, raising an eyebrow at both Chiro's sizable collection of drinking birds and their apparent new nickname for her.
"Believe it or not, I'm actually somewhat familiar with the nature of your Representative's penchant for finding things out. On that note, I should probably get a few things out of the way before I go on explaining things. It was quite fortuitous that Loligo happened to run into me of all people... as I've mentioned my name's Violet. Violet Yoshi. I understand that you quite recently made the acquaintance of my father, Black Yoshi, by means of an alliance with one Ignis Phasmatis, Lord of Torment. Now, I don't have a fancy title or anything else of that nature, but I do share a portion of my father's... talents, so I will be frank. He has been well aware of your existence for some time, even before your dealings with Ignis. The scope of your conquest has grown to encroach upon Realities relatively close to our own home, in the grand scale of things. In addition, I understand that your Representatives have been active in the nexus realm known as Meridian, which, if you are unaware, has been a place of interest for my father for many, many years."
Violet took a brief moment to let her words sink in, considering the weight of what she just metaphorically dropped on Hadris and company. Depending on what ol' Drew had found out about Black in the meantime, he might be able to picture the resemblance between father and daughter in terms of appearance.
"Now, my father is not one to take an offense like taking part in an operation with his mortal enemy, much less one launched on hallowed ground to prove as a distraction while you skulk around in his book collection, lying down. I am here of my own volition to help negotiate an out that doesn't involve open conflict against another spiteful god."
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