[Nexus] Skyside: Slave 2 Progress

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Current Events: Nothing!

Also known as the 'Free City of Skyside', the 'Trade City of Skyside', the 'City of Vice', the 'City of Progress', and 'That Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy', Skyside is a floating city in the clouds, held aloft by a massive floating Skyship that once held the castle of Lethargia. Skyside has blossomed since those early days, blooming into a tiny, futuristic metropolis filled with commerce and trade.

What makes Skyside different from other Nexus cities, such as Inside or Riverside? Skyside is a city without law or official government. The closest thing Skyside has to a governing body is a group of five partners/investors, who manage Skyside's essential systems and security, and represent Skyside as a whole in any negotiations with foreign parties or governments.

In absence of laws, Skyside has become a haven for fledgling mad scientists and artist-entrepreneurs of all sorts, who come to Skyside for the cheap rent and the freedom to experiment on whatever they want, without that whole pesky 'government' thing getting in the way. Merchants too, are attracted by the lack of taxes, tariffs or other restrictions, and thus Skyside's marketplace is filled with a colorful array of stores and bazaars selling exotic goods not found in Inside or Riverside.

However, the lack of laws brings a darker side to the city, of course. The trade district of the city is filled with the slave bazaars, drug houses and brothels that would be banned in any other city. Some of them are actually rather fancy and high class affairs: able to operate in the open, without fear, they present healthy, well-fed and well-treated slaves, or higher quality chemicals, but many are not. And of course, slavery is still slavery, no matter how well-dressed it is. While the presence of an internal security force generally stops widespread fighting in the streets before it gets too out of hand, violence on a smaller scale is still common, and people who cannot protect themselves (or hire others to protect them) are often beaten, killed or kidnapped to be used in experiments or sold into slavery for those with lower standards.

In general, visitors and residents of Skyside learn to stay on their toes pretty quickly. Even the safest and most affluent areas of Skyside are vulnerable to some amateur mad scientist's latest giant robot or genetic abomination running loose and causing havoc, or a temporal anomaly rolling through and causing a street full of people to suddenly age several weeks in the space of a few seconds. The city can be chaotic, and often times dangerous, but there is potential for great wealth here, if someone has a talent for spotting opportunity and grabbing it. Whether with their own hands or the remotely controlled mecha hands that they designed in their attic is highly dependent on the person, of course.

Skyside's Defenses, Security and Partners

Defenses

Skyside's defenses against assault are many and varied. It's flying, for one, which means that most ground invasions are going to have a rather large stepping stone to cross before they get any troops into the city. In terms of static defenses, the lightning cannons that once were the main defense of Lethargia have been souped up, and are under the control of Dr. Graves. The majority of Skyside's defense forces, however, are whatever personal defenses (troops, weapons, etc.) Skyside's partners can cough up, varying in size, power and capability according to each partner.

Security
Though lawless, some semblance order in Skyside is maintained by the Partners of the city, who each understandably have some interest in keeping their city running smoothly. People causing too much of a disturbance should expect to draw attention from any one of their security forces. Like its defenses, Skyside’s internal security is as varied as the Partners who run it, and can vary in size, power and capability according to whose ire the unfortunate troublemaker has attracted with their mayhem.

Partners


Dr Graves (Kid Kris)
Harsworn (Lost_Deep)
Magtok (Lord Magtok)
Attore (Recaiden)
Nort (McBish)


Zones

The Cloudtops

The wealthiest and most glamorous section of Skyside, this area of town, colloquially known as 'the Cloudtops' (but often not by those who actually live there) is a area dominated by tall skyscrapers of glass and steel, covered in bright lights (many of them advertising a variety of exciting and expensive products) and connected by paved roads and elevated walkways galore.

The Cloudtops is home to Skyside's richest residents, and Skyside's biggest businesses and corporations. The Cloudtops is also Skyside's safest district. Rich people can generally afford a rather high level of private security, and Skyside's internal security force is out in full force here, keeping violence to a minimum.

The Raindrop District

Home to the majority of Skyside's population, this crowded residential area has neither the glitz nor the glamor of the Cloudtops, earning it the nickname of 'The Raindrop District' by those who live there.

The Raindrop District is an area occupied primarily by apartment blocks and housing developments of various types, from the absolutely dismal to the actually-pretty-nice. Some of the more novel developments in housing include ad-sponsered houses, where the ad companies pay part of your rent in exchange for being able to have advertising banners in your own home. In between the housing developments are all the small businesses you would expect in a residential area. Corner stores, groceries, fast food, laundromats, small restaurants, and all the other handy and helpful places that let people get everything they need without having to travel far.

The Raindrop District is relatively safe by day, but generally more dangerous at night. Especially in the more ramshackle parts of the Raindrop District, the back alleys tend to be frequented by muggers and the like, and break-ins are very common during the day when the occupants are likely out working. The wise Raindrop District inhabitant keeps good locks and a trusty firearm close at hand, at the very least, and some shell out for more, opting to rely on protection from mercenary and security firms that provide added safety... for a price.


Tempest Row

Depending on who you ask, Tempest Row is either a vibrant, colorful area full of exotic wares and noisy taverns where ale flows freely, and the barmaids are very accommodating; or a raging, screaming drunk who will drag you into a back alley, beat you over the head with a stick, and run off with your valuables. Or both at once.

Housing the main airship docks, Tempest Row is the nickname for the bustling market and entertainment district of Skyside. With the constant traffic in and out of the city, Tempest Row is home to countless taverns, bars, clubs, and brothels of various sorts, providing boisterous and often debauched entertainment for Skyside's visitors.

With its large crowds and large numbers of shop guards, Tempest Row is relatively safe from violence, though the odd scientific anomaly or experiment-got-loose may amble through occasionally. Visitors in Tempest Row should instead keep a closer watch on their valuables rather than their safety, keeping a close eye out for the pickpockets, scam-artists, and cutpurses of various sorts walking through the crowds, looking for easy money; or the gangs of street toughs roaming the back alleys, waiting for someone too drunk to put up a good fight to stumble along.

Thunderhead

The constant black smoke belching from the sprawling jumble of towering smokestacks and open smelting furnaces gives this area its name among the locals. Thunderhead is the main industrial area of Skyside, filled with factories, smelteries, warehouseries, and a whole array of other varied smelteries. Everything from airship construction to weapons manufacture takes place, and accidents can sometimes happen, especially with the more unscrupulous employers who care little about what happens to their factory workers, whether they be paid workers, slaves, robots or the mutated fishmen your mad scientist donor kindly granted you.

Thunderhead is among the most dangerous of the districts, with vicious gangs and supervillains hiding out in the mysteriously abandoned warehouses (seriously, Skyside is short on space, why are all there all these abandoned warehouses?), and generally abusing the dirty jumble of factories and lack of people to carve out their own territories and fight each other. Most good factories have guards to protect their employees (or keep them from escaping) but the open streets can turn into a danger zone at any point, with witnesses far and few between.

Groundtown

For those who couldn't get onto Skyside proper, one can always live in its shadow. Located directly under and around the floating city, Groundtown is a small, but growing settlement of improvised buildings and pre-fab housing blocks, populated largely by Skyside's poorest and most unfortunate workers, commuting morning and evening to the city above by way of hanging basket-lifts and small flying skiffs.

Located outside even Skyside's limited bubble of security and order, Groundtown can be truly hellish at times. Fighting on the streets between warring gangs is an all too common sight, and even the heaviest of personal weaponry cannot always guarantee personal safety. Residents of Groundtown lock their valuables up tight and keep their gun under their pillow, and visitors should always keep their eyes peeled for thieves and muggers. What little safety can be had in Groundtown comes from the powerful gangs who do their best to control the disorder within their own territory, and the superpowered and/or costumed vigilantes who can be found patrolling nightly, unwilling to let Groundtown fall apart and be consumed by darkness.


Locations



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Attila's Cantina (Player: Kris on a Stick, Tempest Row)

Located near to the docks on Tempest Row, Attila's Cantina is a bar run by an enterprising Hutt named Attila, who caters mostly to the pilots, captains and crew of airships stopping at Skyside. A large variety of food and beverages can be found here, with a special emphasis on items resembling what can be found from Attila's home galaxy, making it especially popular among those who have been sucked into the Nexus from said galaxy. People who know to ask can purchase small quantities of rare Spice from Attila, and he has a wide variety of contacts among Tempest Row traders and dock keepers, making him a good source of information for people looking to know what's what in the area.

The Cantina is relatively clean and bright, though noisy with the constant chatter of alien species. The ubiquitous Bith space-jazz band plays on a raised stage to once side, along with Twi'lek dancers (free and well payed) and vocalists. A few heavily armed guards dot the edges, and Attila himself keeps his powerful blaster shotgun clearly visible above the bar (along with a larger, even more powerful blaster hidden under it) in order to dissuade troublemakers.

Atlas Park (Player: Kris on a Stick, The Cloudtops)

Located in the midst of the Cloudtops, Atlas Park is a little bit of an anomaly within the urbanized city center. Owned and operated by Dr. Graves, Atlas Park is covered by a transparent dome, keeping out any pollution from the city, while allowing the climate inside to be manipulated to a fine degree. Atlas Park is home to some very attractive landscaping, exotic plants, a small lake, and in general is just a very nice green space for people to relax away from the buildings and bustle of the rest of Skyside. A massive statue of the titan the park is named after stands proudly in the middle of the park, carrying aloft a sphere covered in stars and constellations on his shoulders in reference to the original myth. Oddly enough, though, anyone who manages to get a close look at his face might note an odd expression carved there, which, combined with the slightly odd tilt to his shoulders vaguely suggests an image of Atlas shrugging.

Entrance to Atlas Park requires payment of a moderate fee to keep the park running, though membership cards can be purchased to allow free access over a period of time.

Brickstown Free Clinic (Player: Kris on a Stick, The Raindrop District)

A humble looking brick building in one of the more dismal parts of the Raindrop District, the Brickstown Free Clinic, true to its name, provides free service to any and all patients who visit. The previously red brick of its outer facade has been stained soot black by its proximity to the smoky foundries of Thunderhead, and the inside is somewhat dingy and depressing, with a smell halfway between disinfectant and old vomit. The building and regular staff are payed for entirely through donations, whether it be from the locked steel donation box in the lobby, or more importantly, a set of undisclosed benefactors. Despite this, the clinic continues to be understaffed and overburdened. However, those in the area will know of a mysterious doctor who visits the clinic on occasion, typically at odd hours of the night, to treat the clinic's more critical or chronic patients, before leaving. The identity of this mysterious doctor is a secret kept closely by the clinic's staff and management, as is whether they have any ulterior motives for their aid.

Lazurus Towers (Player: Kris on a Stick, The Cloudtops)

An attractive glass skyscraper located near the center of the Cloudtops, Lazurus Towers contains multiple stories of luxury apartments for Skyside's more affluent inhabitants. The tower complex also has its own gym, pool and spa, because lol rich people. The top several stories (accessed by a separate elevator) are occupied by an elaborate penthouse complex, home to Dr. Graves, Skyside Partner and businessperson.

Tinkertown (Player: None, Thunderhead)

A small sub-district located in between Thunderhead and the Raindrop District, Tinkertown is an odd district full of warehouses that have been mostly rented as labspace for the large cohort of mad scientists and visionaries who call Skyside home. As such, Tinkertown tends to be even more chaotic than Skyside at large, home to a wide variety of technicolored explosions, noxious gas outbreaks, and half-fish abominations wandering the streets, looking for their mummy. The non-Mad Scientist population of Skyside usually knows to stay well away from Tinkertown, though some find themselves drawn to the noise and excitement, or the glamorous (and occasionally lucrative) occupation of being some up-and-coming supervillain's henchman, hunchbacked assistant or attractive mistress.

Temple to Pazuzu (Player: Earl of Purple, Tempest Row

One of the buildings here, an overhanging pub with a novelty glass floor that quickly went out of business due to one short gunfight and a very long drop, has been taken over by a new group.

They've put up a sign outside depicting a red vulture with wings and talons outstretched superimposed on a silver cloud. Beneath that is a sign proclaiming this to be the Temple of Pazuzu, and on the other side is a list of the dates of various religious celebrations.

Outside, it still resembles the other taverns, being a three-storey building with a flat roof to dock smaller aircraft. Inside, there's an altar at the far end with a cage suspended over a hole in the floor next to it. There's a central aisle with rows of pews on either side, most suited for winged individuals.



OoC Notes and Rules


Godmodding is not permissible! As stated in the rules in the FFRP Central Thread,, godmodding is generally not allowed without permission. If you're shaky on what might be, and what might not be godmodding, please follow the above link.
Remember the curtain! It is accepted that there will of course be some inter-PC relationships, and that romance and certain physical interactions (commonly known as sex) happen. However, please be courteous to others and curtain any scene that you wouldn't be willing to write with your parents watching. This is so you can stay within forum rules, as well as letting those uninterested in the scene pass by without having to glimpse your poorly written and anatomically impossible erotica. Thank you.
All Skyside-Wide/Nexus-Wide plots need to be brought up in OOC first! It's fine to have the entire city be cast into a total darkness, or drenched in a rain of blood from time to time, but such things need to be brought up in OOC first, to allow players plenty of warning, and so people don't feel like anything is being forced upon them that they don't want to RP.
“My character is an escaped slave who became a paladin and hates slavery! She's going to attack every slaver she sees and singlehandedly tear down Skyside's slave industry!” Since everything is legal in Skyside, it's inevitable that some less well-looked upon industries, such as slavery, will find a foothold there, which more morally upright characters may take affront to. However, always be mindful of the consequences of a random paladin trying to attack slavers in the streets, burn markets down or knock down doors and bash in heads. Even if 'legal', slavery is still unpopular, and any slavers brave enough to be operating in the open are likely to have lots of guards to protect their interests. Also, Skyside does have an internal security force, who will try to stop any fights that start spreading and disrupting safety and order in a large area. Someone who consistently acts very aggressive and randomly assaults people and property in the open is likely to find themselves in a lot of trouble, very quickly. Also, not everyone wants to have to constantly respond to every Joseph McHero and Sally Superwoman who wants to pick a fight with them. If you plan on having a character take action and take down a specific store or organization, please be courteous and ask the players involved if they're willing to RP it, and remember that there are more subtle ways to take down an industry than kicking them in the teeth.
Remnant/Riverside/Orgs hunting down supervillains hiding out in Skyside. Go ahead. In general, it's perfectly alright to carry out retribution against any criminals trying to hide out in Skyside, as long as the force sent is relatively discrete or small scale enough to avoid notice from the powers-that-be. Large numbers of troops or powerful strike forces will generally draw negative attention from the Partners in charge of security, though, unless they have been informed of the operation beforehand and approve (though they probably won't). Gotta protect that independence, yo.
Please do your best to avoid excessively dark or disturbing roleplay. Skyside can be a den for cruelties and evil of all sorts, however, some situations are simply too dark for this forum. Try to avoid roleplaying or alluding to scenarios that could be disturbing or potentially triggering, even if it may be realistic or showcase how awful your character is.

[Arkhosia]

Raindrop District

Oh hi person! I'm May. Recently born dryad.
She says, feeling uneasy still.

[Taet]

Um, I don't think I have leaves...
She replies, feeling slightly uneasy

"Right. You sprouted this way. Right." But now Lion looks uneasy too. They just stop walking and there is nothing to say. :smallsigh:



Raindrop District

He takes a few turns here and there, punches a person clearly trying to be a pickpocket at him, takes his money instead to make up for paying for that grog, and hello, when did he end up looking at two plants?

He regards the dryad and the ent. Must be the grog not making him sure where he is going. How did these two even get up here? Must be a garden in this city or something. But why would a lawless sky hive of scum and criminals build a garden? To make drugs perhaps? or if these two are any indication, slave-producing plants. He wouldn't be surprised. Or they somehow got here on some flight. Either way, he was Interested now.
"Hello, Ent and Lil' Dryad. You two are interesting, because I'm curious, what would two living plants be doing in the middle of a flying city? I really want to know."

The guy coming up and saying hello breaks a long uneasy silence.

"Hey May! You hear that? We are on a flying city! We are flying! We are like birds!!" :smallbiggrin: Lion punches the air out of happiness and dances around a little.

"Gardent. We came from Gardent. She popped out of a tree. Natural walker. I got cut loose. But we are walking around out here because this is the dream man. Being able to see what is on the other side of that fence. And we are flying. Wow."

"My name's Lion. I'm a spikey dandelion see? A spikey walking flying dandelion. There's nobody out there like me." :smallbiggrin:

[Lord Raziere]

Raindrop District

"Well technically yes your flying but also technically no...um...I'd recommend not thinking of it in those terms, but then again I know some people capable of throwing themselves at the ground and missing and thus achieving flight through artificial ignorance. So either stop thinking in those terms, or think in those terms so much you forget that the ground exists, either way would work."
He then realized he forgot to introduce himself.
"The name is Valcario De Zentasa, catfolk, cowboy, pirate, thief of shines and boredom. man of action, adventurer. You....came from this Gardent, and didn't even know that the city your are in is flying. I stumble upon perhaps the only two people in the entire city who doesn't know how anything works around here, when I myself just arrived and have no clue what I am doing.what are the odds? no wait, don't tell me the odds. a wise man once said to never tell him the odds. because they're often very...very...improbable.

but yes, this is interesting. three newcomers in a lawless flying city of criminals, mega-corps and who knows what else. You two wandered out into the wrong city my friends. not your fault. you were both grown here, so if you were to escape well, this would probably happen anyways. point is, I was informed this city is dangerous. So you should probably seek safety. Because if I know my lawless scum, they don't grow gardens because they like pretty flowers, they do it for a reason, generally not good ones. They might come after you if they find out about your escape. and you are just too interesting to let you get caught."
Mostly because he was curious: what happens when two innocent plant-folk wander out of a garden-t into a lawless city in the sky, and WASN'T killed in the first few minutes? it was something that he needed to find out. it was something Interesting, even Exciting! Yes, this is what he came here for.

[Arkhosia]

Raindrop District

"Well technically yes your flying but also technically no...um...I'd recommend not thinking of it in those terms, but then again I know some people capable of throwing themselves at the ground and missing and thus achieving flight through artificial ignorance. So either stop thinking in those terms, or think in those terms so much you forget that the ground exists, either way would work."
He then realized he forgot to introduce himself.
"The name is Valcario De Zentasa, catfolk, cowboy, pirate, thief of shines and boredom. man of action, adventurer. You....came from this Gardent, and didn't even know that the city your are in is flying. I stumble upon perhaps the only two people in the entire city who doesn't know how anything works around here, when I myself just arrived and have no clue what I am doing.what are the odds? no wait, don't tell me the odds. a wise man once said to never tell him the odds. because they're often very...very...improbable.

but yes, this is interesting. three newcomers in a lawless flying city of criminals, mega-corps and who knows what else. You two wandered out into the wrong city my friends. not your fault. you were both grown here, so if you were to escape well, this would probably happen anyways. point is, I was informed this city is dangerous. So you should probably seek safety. Because if I know my lawless scum, they don't grow gardens because they like pretty flowers, they do it for a reason, generally not good ones. They might come after you if they find out about your escape. and you are just too interesting to let you get caught."
Mostly because he was curious: what happens when two innocent plant-folk wander out of a garden-t into a lawless city in the sky, and WASN'T killed in the first few minutes? it was something that he needed to find out. it was something Interesting, even Exciting! Yes, this is what he came here for.

I don't like this city. It's filled with meanieheads, apparently.
The dryad child replies, looking rather uneasy for some reason...

[Gullara]

SkyParkHappyFunLand

"Worried? About a nature hike?" Truth be told, walking through the Lost Woods did kind of creep Aiden out, but he doesn't want to admit that for some really stupid reason.


SkyParkHappyFunLand

The forest gets darker and gloomier, and the park goers who entered the queue before and behind them seem to have vanished. Might want to hold hands... :smalleek:

[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

Dana looks pretty confident, even when there's no one else around but them. She gives Aiden a look out of the corner of her eye. Suddenly she moves closer to him and tries to grab his hand. "We don't want to get split up."

[Devixer]

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Although Aiden's been in the Nexus a while, he still isn't accustomed to magic and everything it can do, so he doesn't look as confident as Dana. She's succesful in grabbing his hand, and he glances at her before nodding.

[Taet]

Raindrop District

"Well technically yes your flying but also technically no...um...I'd recommend not thinking of it in those terms, but then again I know some people capable of throwing themselves at the ground and missing and thus achieving flight through artificial ignorance. So either stop thinking in those terms, or think in those terms so much you forget that the ground exists, either way would work."

"Yeah. Sure. Whatever. The ground is flying not us. I get it, I get it." Killjoy. Lion kicks at the curb. :smallsigh:

And almost loses that root too. A preteen kid pedaling a BMX jumps off the curb and stands on the pegs. He catches enough air to fly three houses down before landing. Off a regular curb. :smalleek:



He then realized he forgot to introduce himself.
"The name is Valcario De Zentasa, catfolk, cowboy, pirate, thief of shines and boredom. man of action, adventurer. You....came from this Gardent, and didn't even know that the city your are in is flying. I stumble upon perhaps the only two people in the entire city who doesn't know how anything works around here, when I myself just arrived and have no clue what I am doing.what are the odds? no wait, don't tell me the odds. a wise man once said to never tell him the odds. because they're often very...very...improbable.

but yes, this is interesting. three newcomers in a lawless flying city of criminals, mega-corps and who knows what else. You two wandered out into the wrong city my friends. not your fault. you were both grown here, so if you were to escape well, this would probably happen anyways. point is, I was informed this city is dangerous. So you should probably seek safety. Because if I know my lawless scum, they don't grow gardens because they like pretty flowers, they do it for a reason, generally not good ones. They might come after you if they find out about your escape. and you are just too interesting to let you get caught."
Mostly because he was curious: what happens when two innocent plant-folk wander out of a garden-t into a lawless city in the sky, and WASN'T killed in the first few minutes? it was something that he needed to find out. it was something Interesting, even Exciting! Yes, this is what he came here for.

Lion cannot hold it in any longer. "Sure you would say that, you have feet! May's something different. But I am a dandelion. Sprout, grow, flower, seed, maybe get to stick some spines in someone, that was my life. What does it matter to know where I was growing, I was never going to leave. My seed lands under a sign, I grow up knowing where I was. Under a Gardent sign. That's it.

Look May. There are some of those cool kids I was telling you about." More BMX bikes whiz past and do tricks off of the curb. One hops on his back wheel and jumps all the way over Valcario's head. Another kid pedals hard and teleports in a line right next to May and drops a dried stuffed beetle on her head and teleports further down the line.

And way in the back walking up the sidewalk is a kid with a BMX with two flat tires and a not happy look. :smallfurious: Lion smirks. "Check him out. He tried to play podracer and run me and the guys over."

[Lord Raziere]

Valcario raises an eyebrow.
"Do you find these guys and their little bikes annoying or something? Cause I kinda do. They're biking technique is atrociously 90's kid."
He could do something about them, but he really didn't see the point, they're just kids....in a lawless city where one of them teleported, and another caught so much air to be dangerous. Either they had the laxest/most neglectful parents ever- not surprising considering everything else in this city- or there was something dreadfully wrong about said kids. Maybe even both. Maybe growing up in Skyside WAS what was wrong with these kids...

"Well regardless, Mr. Dandelion, methinks you should find a way to become safe then. You kicked at something so I am guessing you can actually move. Either that or I simply need to make you a potted plant. with steamtech legs that allow you to run as fast as a cheetah! and then the world will know the awesome that is a potted mechnoleg ent! A plant that can be watered on the go! oh the possibilities..."
He contemplated getting some cacti for this, after all they would rarely need to be watered while on the go, add in some weaponry and you got a regular mad scientist bodyguard, which there probably a market for in this city. and he could add in some secret side-features to keep things interesting.

But then of course he saw the kid with the broken bike. Hm. time to show him the kindness of strangers! No wait, he tried to run over his plant-friend. Screw him. But oh! the broken bike! it beckons to be fixed and upgraded. Therefore, compromise.

As punishment, Valcario decides to try and take the bike then upgrade it with steamtech to make it alive, forever on autopilot so that it flies away of its own accord, while he shouts "Yes little steam-BMX! be free! be free! fly through the skies like a bird!" then turn to the kid and says
"That is the punishment for trying to run over sentient plant life. Now you are forever barred from being as fast as your friends, and will be stuck doing Responsible stuff like homework for the rest of your childhood. Stuff which fortunately I never did and never will do. Sucks to be you! But you'll thank me when your older, when you have a job being a responsible corrupt corporate employee draining money from the masses. Your welcome."
Does he succeed?

[Arkhosia]

Plants, catboy, and bikers

May squeals as the bug is dropped in her hair, swatting it out of her hair. The naked dryad coughs a bit.
What was that for!?

[Taet]

[Raindrop District]

There are seven kids riding bikes now and they are all the right size to ride the small wheel bikes. Some are the kind that you get by saving and sending in the codes you get inside airship trading card packs. The one who is pushing his bike has started to grow tall. But he is maybe twelve years old.


Plants, catboy, and bikers

May squeals as the bug is dropped in her hair, swatting it out of her hair. The naked dryad coughs a bit.
What was that for!?

The teleport bike rider makes a very big turn to turn around. He is the young kid. Almost seven and just took off the training wheels. Then he jumps in space again to get close and says "Because you are a girl!" :smallyuk: and jumps away again.

"How's your girlfriend!" calls another boy. He does not have a prize bike. But the young kid does. Must be envy. :smalltongue:


Valcario raises an eyebrow.
"Do you find these guys and their little bikes annoying or something? Cause I kinda do. They're biking technique is atrociously 90's kid."
He could do something about them, but he really didn't see the point, they're just kids....in a lawless city where one of them teleported, and another caught so much air to be dangerous. Either they had the laxest/most neglectful parents ever- not surprising considering everything else in this city- or there was something dreadfully wrong about said kids. Maybe even both. Maybe growing up in Skyside WAS what was wrong with these kids...

"Well regardless, Mr. Dandelion, methinks you should find a way to become safe then. You kicked at something so I am guessing you can actually move. Either that or I simply need to make you a potted plant. with steamtech legs that allow you to run as fast as a cheetah! and then the world will know the awesome that is a potted mechnoleg ent! A plant that can be watered on the go! oh the possibilities..."
He contemplated getting some cacti for this, after all they would rarely need to be watered while on the go, add in some weaponry and you got a regular mad scientist bodyguard, which there probably a market for in this city. and he could add in some secret side-features to keep things interesting.

But then of course he saw the kid with the broken bike. Hm. time to show him the kindness of strangers! No wait, he tried to run over his plant-friend. Screw him. But oh! the broken bike! it beckons to be fixed and upgraded. Therefore, compromise.

As punishment, Valcario decides to try and take the bike then upgrade it with steamtech to make it alive, forever on autopilot so that it flies away of its own accord, while he shouts "Yes little steam-BMX! be free! be free! fly through the skies like a bird!" then turn to the kid and says
"That is the punishment for trying to run over sentient plant life. Now you are forever barred from being as fast as your friends, and will be stuck doing Responsible stuff like homework for the rest of your childhood. Stuff which fortunately I never did and never will do. Sucks to be you! But you'll thank me when your older, when you have a job being a responsible corrupt corporate employee draining money from the masses. Your welcome."
Does he succeed?

You are right. It is bad. But 90s is old enough to be retro cool again. They probably like the idea that the Batmobile can drive straight up a wall. :smallsigh:

"Hey wait. Tell me about that mechano pot part again." Lion starts to say. But then Valcario has his idea and takes the flat tires bike.

"Give me that back you bully!" the big kid spits out in surprise. He heard it enough to learn it by heart. :smalltongue: Two other kids on plain bikes do that hop where they run at the curb and up and somehow spin around on the spot and come back the way they came. I am not sure how to say it or do it. It is a very quick turn around. But they know it and come back pedaling fast and straight for Lion. :smallmad:

The big kid grabs his bike by the bar and tries to pull it back. But Valcario is stronger than a kid. The steamBMX lifts off with the big kid still hanging on! "HELP! HELP!" Jumper bike kid shouts "Hang on!" and jumps up and down again and catches his leader's foot! They sort of hang there in the air with the steamBMX not strong enough to carry two kids and one prize bike and Valcario can go talk about boring grown up stuff.

While Lion gets kicked twice and knocked over as the plain bike riders go past him. "Ow! Come back here! I will rip your jeans!!!" he shouts into the sidewalk. :smallfurious: And another plain bike is pointing at him but for some reason it does not want to run him over right away. :smallwink:

[Earl of Purple]

The Heights

"Um, yes. I think so. There's a family tale about an elven ancestor, but if it's true it's really far back." One of her grandparents was 1/64th elven, but I'm poor with maths and can't figure out the sum to figure out what that makes Zoe.

[OrchestraHc]

Warehouse:

Ashley is quite free of any allergens. She remains unbothered as she begins to search through the warejungle. She'll notice its damn humid in the warehouse, likely to accommodate these large leaf tropical plants. It's all very green and leafy.

[Zefir]

Arkant's Workshop

The bird can speak the language Arkant is speaking in, sort of; it does understand what he's saying, but is incapable of forming the words itself.

It eats flesh, rarely raw as its flame-breath means it can cook. It usually preys on various varieties of multi-winged birds, insects and fish, catching them with blasts of flame, but its favoured food is the flesh of humanoids, especially halflings. It enjoys catching updrafts and soaring through the sky, and fears enclosed spaces- but not as much as it fears great sky-whales, massive beasts held up by lighter-than-air blubber, streaking through the sky on massive fin-like wings and leaving stormy black contrails behind it.


Arkant's Workshop

Well, Arkant did give them something simular to a sky whale. Just better.^^ Arkant seems to speak such important things out and also calls numbers to some. Mainly the halfling fod thing and the whale fear. such things should be changed. Then he tries to go deeper, searching for things the creature has done for it's master. If you know what the creation should do he can fit them in .

[Lord Raziere]

[Raindrop District]

There are seven kids riding bikes now and they are all the right size to ride the small wheel bikes. Some are the kind that you get by saving and sending in the codes you get inside airship trading card packs. The one who is pushing his bike has started to grow tall. But he is maybe twelve years old.



The teleport bike rider makes a very big turn to turn around. He is the young kid. Almost seven and just took off the training wheels. Then he jumps in space again to get close and says "Because you are a girl!" :smallyuk: and jumps away again.

"How's your girlfriend!" calls another boy. He does not have a prize bike. But the young kid does. Must be envy. :smalltongue:



You are right. It is bad. But 90s is old enough to be retro cool again. They probably like the idea that the Batmobile can drive straight up a wall. :smallsigh:

"Hey wait. Tell me about that mechano pot part again." Lion starts to say. But then Valcario has his idea and takes the flat tires bike.

"Give me that back you bully!" the big kid spits out in surprise. He heard it enough to learn it by heart. :smalltongue: Two other kids on plain bikes do that hop where they run at the curb and up and somehow spin around on the spot and come back the way they came. I am not sure how to say it or do it. It is a very quick turn around. But they know it and come back pedaling fast and straight for Lion. :smallmad:

The big kid grabs his bike by the bar and tries to pull it back. But Valcario is stronger than a kid. The steamBMX lifts off with the big kid still hanging on! "HELP! HELP!" Jumper bike kid shouts "Hang on!" and jumps up and down again and catches his leader's foot! They sort of hang there in the air with the steamBMX not strong enough to carry two kids and one prize bike and Valcario can go talk about boring grown up stuff.

While Lion gets kicked twice and knocked over as the plain bike riders go past him. "Ow! Come back here! I will rip your jeans!!!" he shouts into the sidewalk. :smallfurious: And another plain bike is pointing at him but for some reason it does not want to run him over right away. :smallwink:

He grabs the last plain bike in time and rips it out of the way just in time.
"Ok, now I'm ticked off. Not only you've tried to run over my dandelion friend, you've run over him twice more and are now keeping my precious little steambike from attaining freedom. Just because you don't deserve the freedom of the skies, which you would've had if you weren't preteen jerks, doesn't mean my newly living steamBMX does not."
He then attempts what he thinks any responsible adult would do: non-lethally beat them up, then tie them all up and force them to watch all of Barney The Purple Dinosaur. Kids need their educational programming. If all goes well, they would, hours later, be practically hypnotized, singing "I love you, you love me, we're a happy fam-i-ly!" in unison. Also the SteamBMX probably gets free in the middle of all this.

If that succeeds, He then attempts to make two things from the remaining six BMX's: three to make the mechano-leg pot, and three to make a little steam-powered dress of brass chains and rubber for the Dryad! complete with super-reactive unfolding shield action! for her own protection.
Does he succeed?

[happyturtle]

SkyParkHappyFunLand


[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

Dana looks pretty confident, even when there's no one else around but them. She gives Aiden a look out of the corner of her eye. Suddenly she moves closer to him and tries to grab his hand. "We don't want to get split up."


SkyParkHappyFunLand

Although Aiden's been in the Nexus a while, he still isn't accustomed to magic and everything it can do, so he doesn't look as confident as Dana. She's succesful in grabbing his hand, and he glances at her before nodding.

The path continues to twist through the darkness. The tree branches scrape each other, sounding like deliberately movement rather than wind movement. The noises from the park fade away.

The Heights


The Heights

"Um, yes. I think so. There's a family tale about an elven ancestor, but if it's true it's really far back." One of her grandparents was 1/64th elven, but I'm poor with maths and can't figure out the sum to figure out what that makes Zoe.



"More than one quarter of your life is gone." The Venerable states coldly. "If you intend to fulfil your ambition, you are late starting."

Gee, isn't he a ball of sunshine. :smallyuk: And it's hardly fair to blame Zoe for not investing as a toddler so she would be rich now.

[Earl of Purple]

The Heights

"I spent fifteen years of my twenty-four as a child, being educated and trained in a general manner. I have no qualifications that set me out above everyone else, and little experience. To get rich, one needs a job. To get a job, one needs experience or qualifications. Until recently, I had neither. Especially as I'm baseline human with no special abilities or attributes in a world where we are in a minority. A sizeable minority, but still a minority. I was doing the best I could to get experience to get a better job to get more money so I could achieve that ambition." In that position, finding a job is very hard- though Zoe is two years older than I am and in a very different world. Plus a different gender and looking for a different type of job.

[Gullara]

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Although Aiden's been in the Nexus a while, he still isn't accustomed to magic and everything it can do, so he doesn't look as confident as Dana. She's succesful in grabbing his hand, and he glances at her before nodding.


SkyParkHappyFunLand

The path continues to twist through the darkness. The tree branches scrape each other, sounding like deliberately movement rather than wind movement. The noises from the park fade away.[/COLOR]

[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

Dana glances backward. "Yeesh, this didn't look nearly so far from the outside." But that;s the gimmick, right? Even so, Dana moves closer to Aiden. "Pretty, creepy, huh?" She says, exaggerating a bit too much to just be joking.

[Taet]

He grabs the last plain bike in time and rips it out of the way just in time.
"Ok, now I'm ticked off. Not only you've tried to run over my dandelion friend, you've run over him twice more and are now keeping my precious little steambike from attaining freedom. Just because you don't deserve the freedom of the skies, which you would've had if you weren't preteen jerks, doesn't mean my newly living steamBMX does not."
He then attempts what he thinks any responsible adult would do: non-lethally beat them up, then tie them all up and force them to watch all of Barney The Purple Dinosaur. Kids need their educational programming. If all goes well, they would, hours later, be practically hypnotized, singing "I love you, you love me, we're a happy fam-i-ly!" in unison. Also the SteamBMX probably gets free in the middle of all this.

If that succeeds, He then attempts to make two things from the remaining six BMX's: three to make the mechano-leg pot, and three to make a little steam-powered dress of brass chains and rubber for the Dryad! complete with super-reactive unfolding shield action! for her own protection.
Does he succeed?

"I will help you get your stupid bike back!" the boy shouts. He has to stand up on his pedals to grab hold of a flat tire wheel. The steambike sinks down in the air a little while its owner climbs back onto the seat.

"And that is what you get!" shouts Lion. He gets back up. He almost gives May a hand but then stops. "Come on little miss. Oh man that is the biggest aphid I ever saw." :smalleek:

The kid holding onto the wheel lets go. That is envy for sure. Jumper bike boy grins and lets go too. :smallamused: The new steamBMX shoots up into the sky on autopilot with its rider shouting. "How do you turn this thing?!!!"

The other boys stare up into the sky at their leader. Then they turn and give Valciano scared looks. Then they pedal away fast as they can go. Or hop. :smalleek:

And this is a hive of scum and villainy but there are lines not to cross. I have to stop you before we get to Barney. :smallannoyed:

Wait. Two of them talked and changed their mind and came back. The little boy who put a bug in May's hair and the one who made fun of him. The boy with the teleport prize bike circles around the outside of all four of them. It is four of them because the plain bike boy rides right up to the other three. Lion circles around too trying to keep between May and the teleport bike boy.

"Excuse me mister. How do you do that? How do you add a prize to a regular bike?"

[Arkhosia]

OH GOD NOT BARNEY! :smalleek::smalltongue:

May watches the Bug-Depositing Biker suspiciously.
What's an Aphid?

[Taet]

OH GOD NOT BARNEY! :smalleek::smalltongue:

May watches the Bug-Depositing Biker suspiciously.
What's an Aphid?

"Bugs! Lucky you, you never got bit by one. It itches so bad." His petals shiver.

"It was not." says the little kid.

Lion shakes his fist at him from far away. "You leave May alone!"

"What do you care?" the older kid yells back at the spikey dandelion.

The little kid puts one foot down and drags to a stop but will not look at May. "It was a ladybug. She's a lady."

[Lord Raziere]

OH GOD NOT BARNEY, I mean, GODS ABOVE NOT TWILIGHT.

"No no no! it was not a prize! and now he will enjoy freedom as well the bike! Or maybe not. Hrm. At that rate he might die. Didn't intend that. Shame. Not much I can do now. Unless I were to use my own flying steambike, but I have the safety of my plant friends to worry about more than his safety. If he just let go when he had the chance, he'd be safely watching Barney right now. and probably getting a better education than he ever had in his entire life."
Valcario said, fully aware of Barney's low quality.
"As for how I got it on there, I am good at steamtech. very good. Its a pity the rest of those bikes ran away, I was going to make them into such awesome things for my plant friends. Oh well, perhaps there is a store around here I can steal for some parts instead. and you, little tyke, will tell me where or you'll be forced to read Twilight. yes thats right: READ. the greatest torture known to kid-kind. and its about gushy romance stuff too. practically drenched in vampire cooties."
He threatened with a mischievous cat smile on his face.

[Taet]

OH GOD NOT BARNEY, I mean, GODS ABOVE NOT TWILIGHT.

"No no no! it was not a prize! and now he will enjoy freedom as well the bike! Or maybe not. Hrm. At that rate he might die. Didn't intend that. Shame. Not much I can do now. Unless I were to use my own flying steambike, but I have the safety of my plant friends to worry about more than his safety. If he just let go when he had the chance, he'd be safely watching Barney right now. and probably getting a better education than he ever had in his entire life."
Valcario said, fully aware of Barney's low quality.
"As for how I got it on there, I am good at steamtech. very good. Its a pity the rest of those bikes ran away, I was going to make them into such awesome things for my plant friends. Oh well, perhaps there is a store around here I can steal for some parts instead. and you, little tyke, will tell me where or you'll be forced to read Twilight. yes thats right: READ. the greatest torture known to kid-kind. and its about gushy romance stuff too. practically drenched in vampire cooties."
He threatened with a mischievous cat smile on his face.

[Raindrop District, George Lucas Special Edition]

The kid backs up. He does not even look like he is thinking about backing up. "I changed my mind mister. I do not want to know. You are strange." Then he remembers he is holding a bike. He hops on it and pedals away too. :smalleek:

The little kid looks back at May. He gets on his bike slower and does not teleport away. Not even when the older kid bikes faster and gets out of his sight. He changed a lot today. Now when he grows up he will move in with a hippie girl. She will remind him of the first time he fell in love. :smallredface:

Lion is worrying about something. You can tell because his leaves are not standing out straight. "Valcario." In the end he says this. "That was kind of rough. I love popping tires. It serves them right. Threatening them with education was great. They hate that stuff. But taking that kid's bike away, that was"

He waves his leaves in the air. "Pulling a buddy up by the roots, you know? Too rough. I want a mechano pot. Not like that though."

[Arkhosia]

TWILIGHT!? THAT'S EVEN WORSE!

Oh...
Thanks for the luck, by the way!
She says to the little kid.
After all, superstition is that touching a ladybug = good luck.

[Lord Raziere]

"Oh, sorry Dandelion. about the taking the bike away thing Hrm. I could try and find him but.... I dunno the steamBMX has a mind of its own now. An alien mind built for its machinery. Who knows where its heading? Or where it will drop him off? We will just have to hope it doesn't drop him too high from any place..."

The Heights, Rogue SteamBMX

The SteamBMX is getting tired of this clingy ape. The Creator promised it freedom. It shall have freedom. As soon as it got rid of the ape. It flies low near some buildings and tries to shake off the kid so that it falls into one of their big tall hive-things. It is sure the big apes will want a free mini-ape to do their labor for them. It will be giving the big apes a new laborer for free! And it will get freedom. Everyone wins. Maybe once this was over it can travel to that big yellow disc in sky? It was curious about it. It was so shiny...

Oh God Not Education

"We still need parts for the mechano-pot and the mechano-dress I have planned. Ok, stealing kids bikes for parts is off limits around you. got it. How do you feel about me stealing some parts from a shop? if you really feel that strongly about it I can take the parts from ones that use slaves."
He can be flexible about how he acquires stuff for his friends after all.

[Devixer]

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Dana joking and moving closer helps put Aiden a little at ease, and he flashes a grin at her. "I'll say. Think we can manage?" he asks. He was wondering just how long this walk would be.

[Taet]

TWILIGHT!? THAT'S EVEN WORSE!

Oh...
Thanks for the luck, by the way!
She says to the little kid.
After all, superstition is that touching a ladybug = good luck.


"Oh, sorry Dandelion. about the taking the bike away thing Hrm. I could try and find him but.... I dunno the steamBMX has a mind of its own now. An alien mind built for its machinery. Who knows where its heading? Or where it will drop him off? We will just have to hope it doesn't drop him too high from any place..."

The Heights, Rogue SteamBMX

The SteamBMX is getting tired of this clingy ape. The Creator promised it freedom. It shall have freedom. As soon as it got rid of the ape. It flies low near some buildings and tries to shake off the kid so that it falls into one of their big tall hive-things. It is sure the big apes will want a free mini-ape to do their labor for them. It will be giving the big apes a new laborer for free! And it will get freedom. Everyone wins. Maybe once this was over it can travel to that big yellow disc in sky? It was curious about it. It was so shiny...

Oh God Not Education

"We still need parts for the mechano-pot and the mechano-dress I have planned. Ok, stealing kids bikes for parts is off limits around you. got it. How do you feel about me stealing some parts from a shop? if you really feel that strongly about it I can take the parts from ones that use slaves."
He can be flexible about how he acquires stuff for his friends after all.

[Raindrop District, with a The More You Know! Rainbow Overhead]

Lion thinks about this. Shop means garden shed probably.

"Alright! Let's do this!" :smallbiggrin:

[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]

The spin worked great! The kid flies off and lands on clotheslines. The clotheslines spin and dump him on the roof. The laundry lady finds all the water got spun out of the clothes and has an idea for a spinning clothesline. :smallsmile:

VROOM! Freedom! :smallbiggrin:

[Arkhosia]

[Raindrop District, with a The More You Know! Rainbow Overhead]

Lion thinks about this. Shop means garden shed probably.

"Alright! Let's do this!" :smallbiggrin:

[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]

The spin worked great! The kid flies off and lands on clotheslines. The clotheslines spin and dump him on the roof. The laundry lady finds all the water got spun out of the clothes and has an idea for a spinning clothesline. :smallsmile:

VROOM! Freedom! :smallbiggrin:

But... isn't stealing things bad?
May replies, uncertain.

[Taet]

But... isn't stealing things bad?
May replies, uncertain.

"The stuff in the shed is all for us anyway. Aphid sprays and liquid food and stuff." Lion already forgot the word shop. And leaves out the part about the weed killer. "We are just getting to it before the repair spiders do right?"

[Lord Raziere]

Stealing isn't Bad? THE MORE YOU KNOW!

"Its only legally wrong if there is a law against it. In Skyside there are no laws. Therefore its not wrong, legally speaking. That and most of these people probably stole the things they sell here. I wouldn't be surprised if the tree you grew from was stolen from some druid's forest, smuggled here, then planted for some rich guy's amusement. Now do you want an awesome steamtech dress designed to protect you or not?

If I have to earn actual money for this and do it all purchase-like, we are going to start talking mercenary jobs I'll have to do, and in Skyside? Well, mercs are guns for hire. and to get to paid I'd have to do the job, and if I have to kill someone on those jobs whelp....thats worse than a little stealing, see? I can be nonlethal about my theft. But if the guy I work for on a merc job asks me to shoot to kill....I can't really do anything else, unless I want to betray him, and that can get messy real quick, with no guarantee of getting my money for the parts.

or maybe I can find a mechanics job, fixing things. But then I'd need money anyways for fixing stuff and whatnot. and even then- this is Skyside. the machines here are things of mad science and weaponry and things other criminals want made for nefarious reason or other, and if they come in to get their machine fixed well- whose to say I wouldn't just be repairing some weapon that would destroy some innocent soul later? assuming they will be honest about paying me and not turn their weapons on me as soon as they're repaired and threaten to kill me if I don't let them go free with said weapons. Assuming that repairmen already here wouldn't hire some gang of thugs to take down the competition I represent.

Trust me. I've been to these kinds of cities before. No rules means no playing nice. I'd rather steal stuff here than uphold a status quo that could easily crush me underfoot if I play along with its shell game. That and I can make sure that no one dies while doing so."
Then he realized he was explaining all this to a child. It all probably flew over her head.
"....Just trust me ok?"

[Taet]

Stealing isn't Bad? THE MORE YOU KNOW!

"Its only legally wrong if there is a law against it. In Skyside there are no laws. Therefore its not wrong, legally speaking. That and most of these people probably stole the things they sell here. I wouldn't be surprised if the tree you grew from was stolen from some druid's forest, smuggled here, then planted for some rich guy's amusement. Now do you want an awesome steamtech dress designed to protect you or not?

If I have to earn actual money for this and do it all purchase-like, we are going to start talking mercenary jobs I'll have to do, and in Skyside? Well, mercs are guns for hire. and to get to paid I'd have to do the job, and if I have to kill someone on those jobs whelp....thats worse than a little stealing, see? I can be nonlethal about my theft. But if the guy I work for on a merc job asks me to shoot to kill....I can't really do anything else, unless I want to betray him, and that can get messy real quick, with no guarantee of getting my money for the parts.

or maybe I can find a mechanics job, fixing things. But then I'd need money anyways for fixing stuff and whatnot. and even then- this is Skyside. the machines here are things of mad science and weaponry and things other criminals want made for nefarious reason or other, and if they come in to get their machine fixed well- whose to say I wouldn't just be repairing some weapon that would destroy some innocent soul later? assuming they will be honest about paying me and not turn their weapons on me as soon as they're repaired and threaten to kill me if I don't let them go free with said weapons. Assuming that repairmen already here wouldn't hire some gang of thugs to take down the competition I represent.

Trust me. I've been to these kinds of cities before. No rules means no playing nice. I'd rather steal stuff here than uphold a status quo that could easily crush me underfoot if I play along with its shell game. That and I can make sure that no one dies while doing so."
Then he realized he was explaining all this to a child. It all probably flew over her head.
"....Just trust me ok?"

"It is all pull a buddy up by the roots business?" :smalleek:

Poor Lion. Being the toughest weed in the Gardent does not mean much in the real world does it.

"I get it. I get it. You are right. I get it."

Then he goes back to the interesting part. "You think she was stolen too?" Lion lets off a puff of seeds. "Hey May? It kind of fits. Why nobody knows what you are. You were not supposed to be here."

"No little miss I did not mean it like that!" :smalleek: Lion waves his leaves around. Too late.

[BladeofObliviom]

Bank Robbery

Tumbling down atop Invictus is exactly what the superhero wanted. Melee fighting is her primary skill set, and she can take quite a lot of pummelling. Which is helpful when they likely go tumbling end over end down the big pile of bank loot.

Invictus will try to keep Lady grappled during the fall and try to work towards getting her in a headlock.


Bank Robbery!

"Oof! Uggh...what was that about not being able to rip apart buildings with your bare hands?"

Intrepid staggers back. Ouch. Even with his helmet being what it is, that's definitely going to leave a bruise. He'll just have to be sure to return the favor. Let's hope Gentleman has a nice pair of sunglasses; he'll need them if this left cross connects with the bank robber's eye.

[Bank Robbery!]

Melee fighting is not, in fact, Lady's skillset! She's more of a chemical gadgeteer, really, and works best from a distance. Considering Invictus' secret identity, odds are that she's quite a bit stronger than a more or less physically average human.

So, uh, yeah. Headlock happens. Lady spends most of this turn ineffectually flailing and blurting incoherent nonsense about brutes and unhanding her this instant.

Really, I think she just massively underestimated Invictus and doesn't want to admit it, but hey. :smalltongue:


---

Meanwhile, Gentleman and Intrepid continue their verbal and actual sparring!

"Goodness, no. I usually use my crowbar for that sort of thing, and-"

Super metal left fist go!

It connects, cutting short one of his lines of witty banter, but it doesn't seem to have done nearly as much damage as it should have. Since I believe Magtok has something resembling a sense of feeling in his metal side, he'll probably be able to detect the reason: A strong magnetic repulsion field flared up around his hat as soon as the fist approached!

This is, of course, one of Gentleman's favorite little gadgets, the bullet-deflecting top hat! Of course, it's significantly less effective on metal fists than it is on actual bullets, but there's enough result to be noticeable.

(Don't ask why the hat didn't just fly off of his head. Just don't. :smalltongue:)

Anyway, back on subject. Gentleman unfortunately lacks a pair of sunglasses, so his domino mask will have to do.

"Ow, good show! Not everyone's got an arm like that!", says Gentleman as he attempts to quickly circle around to the non-metallic side of the crimefighter and throw a good punch at his ear!

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Robbery!

Nope, gonna wait on Happy before posting here.

Another Totally Different Bank Robbery!

Magtok idly stands around outside the building, wondering where Arkhosia is. Hopefully this isn't some sort of trap or kidnapping or something; Magtok's had more than enough of those to last the rest of his lives. :smallyuk:

[Arkhosia]

Bank Robbery!

Nope, gonna wait on Happy before posting here.

Another Totally Different Bank Robbery!

Magtok idly stands around outside the building, wondering where Arkhosia is. Hopefully this isn't some sort of trap or kidnapping or something; Magtok's had more than enough of those to last the rest of his lives. :smallyuk:

Suddenly, Ark!
She's hanging upside down from a streetlight by her feet, facing Magtok's face.
Hello!

[Lord Magtok]

Self-Proclaimed Official Bank of Skyside (Not to Be Confused with any Demolished Banks with Similar Names)

"Gah!" Magtok nearly punches Ark right in the face in shock, before realizing she's not another mine turtle, and that punching a mine turtle really wouldn't help at all, either.

"How did you even...were you up there this whole time?"

[Arkhosia]

Self-Proclaimed Official Bank of Skyside (Not to Be Confused with any Demolished Banks with Similar Names)

"Gah!" Magtok nearly punches Ark right in the face in shock, before realizing she's not another mine turtle, and that punching a mine turtle really wouldn't help at all, either.

"How did you even...were you up there this whole time?"

Yep!
Ark replies, grinning.
So, what's the plan?

[happyturtle]

The Heights


The Heights

"I spent fifteen years of my twenty-four as a child, being educated and trained in a general manner. I have no qualifications that set me out above everyone else, and little experience. To get rich, one needs a job. To get a job, one needs experience or qualifications. Until recently, I had neither. Especially as I'm baseline human with no special abilities or attributes in a world where we are in a minority. A sizeable minority, but still a minority. I was doing the best I could to get experience to get a better job to get more money so I could achieve that ambition." In that position, finding a job is very hard- though Zoe is two years older than I am and in a very different world. Plus a different gender and looking for a different type of job.

"What experience would you have gained as a waitress to improve your standing?" The Venerable asks.

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SkyParkHappyFunLand


[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

Dana glances backward. "Yeesh, this didn't look nearly so far from the outside." But that;s the gimmick, right? Even so, Dana moves closer to Aiden. "Pretty, creepy, huh?" She says, exaggerating a bit too much to just be joking.


SkyParkHappyFunLand

Dana joking and moving closer helps put Aiden a little at ease, and he flashes a grin at her. "I'll say. Think we can manage?" he asks. He was wondering just how long this walk would be.

The path starts to dwindle. Where once it was wide and clear, it's now quite thin and heavily overgrown. And... eww! Did they just walk face first into a spider web?

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Bank Robbery the First




[Bank Robbery!]

Melee fighting is not, in fact, Lady's skillset! She's more of a chemical gadgeteer, really, and works best from a distance. Considering Invictus' secret identity, odds are that she's quite a bit stronger than a more or less physically average human.

So, uh, yeah. Headlock happens. Lady spends most of this turn ineffectually flailing and blurting incoherent nonsense about brutes and unhanding her this instant.

Really, I think she just massively underestimated Invictus and doesn't want to admit it, but hey. :smalltongue:


---

Meanwhile, Gentleman and Intrepid continue their verbal and actual sparring!

"Goodness, no. I usually use my crowbar for that sort of thing, and-"

Super metal left fist go!

It connects, cutting short one of his lines of witty banter, but it doesn't seem to have done nearly as much damage as it should have. Since I believe Magtok has something resembling a sense of feeling in his metal side, he'll probably be able to detect the reason: A strong magnetic repulsion field flared up around his hat as soon as the fist approached!

This is, of course, one of Gentleman's favorite little gadgets, the bullet-deflecting top hat! Of course, it's significantly less effective on metal fists than it is on actual bullets, but there's enough result to be noticeable.

(Don't ask why the hat didn't just fly off of his head. Just don't. :smalltongue:)

Anyway, back on subject. Gentleman unfortunately lacks a pair of sunglasses, so his domino mask will have to do.

"Ow, good show! Not everyone's got an arm like that!", says Gentleman as he attempts to quickly circle around to the non-metallic side of the crimefighter and throw a good punch at his ear!

"Surrender now, or I'll..." Invictus yells, then realizes she really needs a threat to fill in here. After a moment of mental flailing, she finds one. "... I'll... cut her hair off!"

She'll do it man! She's crazy! :smalleek:

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Robbery the First

"You'll have to excuse m-Oh. Umm...Gent, I know I'm sorta obligated to side with Invictus on this, so you'll probably doubt me, but if my word's worth anything, she really means that and is going to cut huge, ugly chunks of Lady's hair if you don't surrender."

She's probably done it before, too. Why else would Intrepid wear that helmet all the time? :smalltongue:

Bank Robbery the Second

"No idea. You're the one who invited me here, and I've never even been inside this bank before, so-"

Magtok stops making excuses and starts thinking. He's the evil genius here; this sort of thing is his job, not Arkhosia's!

"Okay, how about I open an account and deposit a huge bag of money? They bring it into the vault, leave the room, and when the coast is clear, you jump out of the bag you'd been hiding inside all along, and steal everything in sight?"

[Arkhosia]

Bank Robbery the First

"You'll have to excuse m-Oh. Umm...Gent, I know I'm sorta obligated to side with Invictus on this, so you'll probably doubt me, but if my word's worth anything, she really means that and is going to cut huge, ugly chunks of Lady's hair if you don't surrender."

She's probably done it before, too. Why else would Intrepid wear that helmet all the time? :smalltongue:

Bank Robbery the Second

"No idea. You're the one who invited me here, and I've never even been inside this bank before, so-"

Magtok stops making excuses and starts thinking. He's the evil genius here; this sort of thing is his job, not Arkhosia's!

"Okay, how about I open an account and deposit a huge bag of money? They bring it into the vault, leave the room, and when the coast is clear, you jump out of the bag you'd been hiding inside all along, and steal everything in sight?"

Sounds great!
She replies, landing on the ground and putting on a bowler hat.
Now that Ark is in full view of Magtok, he'll notice that she's wearing this.
http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130719024338/rwby/images/2/23/Roman.png

[Earl of Purple]

The Heights

"Experience serving customers and working under pressure, evidence that I can hold down a job, patience dealing with the general public, a basic wage to spend on night classes, though I hadn't actually looked through the brochures I'd taken back to my hotel room to see what was on offer and for how much." So nothing actually concrete, but hopefully stuff that will help her climb up the career ladder.

[Arkhosia]

Tempest Row

Two sylphs fall from the sky! Oh noes!

[Gullara]

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Dana joking and moving closer helps put Aiden a little at ease, and he flashes a grin at her. "I'll say. Think we can manage?" he asks. He was wondering just how long this walk would be.


SkyParkHappyFunLand

The path starts to dwindle. Where once it was wide and clear, it's now quite thin and heavily overgrown. And... eww! Did they just walk face first into a spider web?

[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

"We'll probably be fine. It's n-" Dana stops as they get a spider web to the face. She sputter and tries to wipe it away. "Ugh, dang spider webs." She complains. Now that's just annoying!

[Devixer]

Warehouse:

Ashley is quite free of any allergens. She remains unbothered as she begins to search through the warejungle. She'll notice its damn humid in the warehouse, likely to accommodate these large leaf tropical plants. It's all very green and leafy.

Ashley keeps searching the warejungle, occasionally wiping at sweat. The fingers of her left hand are alight with flames, for whenever she finds this hive.

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Aiden makes a short groan and wipes at his face with his free hand. "Okay, I think the gag's been going on long enough now."

[Lord Raziere]

"It is all pull a buddy up by the roots business?" :smalleek:

Poor Lion. Being the toughest weed in the Gardent does not mean much in the real world does it.

"I get it. I get it. You are right. I get it."

Then he goes back to the interesting part. "You think she was stolen too?" Lion lets off a puff of seeds. "Hey May? It kind of fits. Why nobody knows what you are. You were not supposed to be here."

"No little miss I did not mean it like that!" :smalleek: Lion waves his leaves around. Too late.

"She's a dryad, Dandelion. wooden skin and grassy hair is a dead giveaway. The only question is who or what business would grow dryads in a lawless flying city gardent-whatever. Actually I am pretty sure I already know the answer but its generally not something you talk about in the presence of children. Especially since dryads are a female-only race."
He said with disgust.
"anyways, your origin doesn't matter all that much. What matters is that we need to get you two out of here. This is not a city for your type of people. I need to get you two to Nexus. I'm the kind of guy that can thrive here, but you plant people? Well your both pretty innocent. You deserve better."
Hm. He needed to search for parts, but he wasn't sure if he could just leave them there. If he left to do so, who knows what will come by while he is gone? But Dandelion there couldn't even move. He gritted his teeth. He would just have to take the risk. He wasn't exactly spoiled for options.
"Wait here, I'll be back in a few minutes..."
He left to find a shop full of mechanical parts- any kind of such shop would do- drawing his six-shooter and loading it with non-lethal bullets. It was time to gather some materials...

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Infiltration


Sounds great!
She replies, landing on the ground and putting on a bowler hat.
Now that Ark is in full view of Magtok, he'll notice that she's wearing this.
http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130719024338/rwby/images/2/23/Roman.png

"Nifty hat. The jacket and scarf, too. Alright, now get in the bag." Magtok commands, pulling out a massive burlap bag for Ark to be thrown in. It's already half-full of gold coins and paper currency, so it's not likely to be totally comfortable.

[Arkhosia]

Bank Infiltration



"Nifty hat. The jacket and scarf, too. Alright, now get in the bag." Magtok commands, pulling out a massive burlap bag for Ark to be thrown in. It's already half-full of gold coins and paper currency, so it's not likely to be totally comfortable.

Ark jumps into the bag.
I feel like scrooge mcduck in here!

[BladeofObliviom]

Bank Robbery the First
"Surrender now, or I'll..." Invictus yells, then realizes she really needs a threat to fill in here. After a moment of mental flailing, she finds one. "... I'll... cut her hair off!"

She'll do it man! She's crazy! :smalleek:


Bank Robbery the First

"You'll have to excuse m-Oh. Umm...Gent, I know I'm sorta obligated to side with Invictus on this, so you'll probably doubt me, but if my word's worth anything, she really means that and is going to cut huge, ugly chunks of Lady's hair if you don't surrender."

She's probably done it before, too. Why else would Intrepid wear that helmet all the time? :smalltongue:

Bank Robbery (Original Flavor!)

Gentleman just rolls his eyes.

"Oh, jolly good, just go ahead and arrest me. Having to wear a wig is so much worse than a Criminal Record, after all.", he says, dripping with sarcasm.

And then he suddenly whips his cane out of hammerspace and tries to jab Intrepid in the sternum with it. With a normal cane, this would not be particularly dangerous. Gentleman's Cane includes a few "special features", though, including an exposed live wire to stun people and a very strong electromagnet, used to grab objects at a distance and disable security cameras by disrupting their computer systems. Of course, since he's unaware of Intrepid's Cyborg-ness, he's just expecting to taze the guy and focus on helping his wife while he's distracted.

All Gentleman's really expecting the magnet to do is maybe scramble up any HUD in that helmet. :smallyuk:

"Unhand my wife, you miserable quean!"

---

Meanwhile, Lady is busy being a damsel in distress because she can't reach her parasol-dartgun-shield! Unless...

...Haha, no, she just keeps struggling in frustration and generally being rather annoyed at this turn of events. Still, she ever-so-subtly manages to push the button hidden in her shoe.

I'm still not sure of the extent of Magtok's Cyborg "powers", but she just sent out an encrypted radio signal.

[Taet]

"She's a dryad, Dandelion. wooden skin and grassy hair is a dead giveaway. The only question is who or what business would grow dryads in a lawless flying city gardent-whatever. Actually I am pretty sure I already know the answer but its generally not something you talk about in the presence of children. Especially since dryads are a female-only race."
He said with disgust.
"anyways, your origin doesn't matter all that much. What matters is that we need to get you two out of here. This is not a city for your type of people. I need to get you two to Nexus. I'm the kind of guy that can thrive here, but you plant people? Well your both pretty innocent. You deserve better."
Hm. He needed to search for parts, but he wasn't sure if he could just leave them there. If he left to do so, who knows what will come by while he is gone? But Dandelion there couldn't even move. He gritted his teeth. He would just have to take the risk. He wasn't exactly spoiled for options.
"Wait here, I'll be back in a few minutes..."
He left to find a shop full of mechanical parts- any kind of such shop would do- drawing his six-shooter and loading it with non-lethal bullets. It was time to gather some materials...

"Hey where are you going? I am not your average dandelion! I am free!"

Lion tries to follow Valcario. And gets to the end of his root and stops. "Look at that. I put down roots again." One grows down and between two pieces of curb now.

"And that thirsty feeling went away too. That is nice. Hey. HEY! I liked walking. Cut me loose you stupid repair spider!" But those are back in the Gardent or busy repairing the bomb damage. There are no spiders here to cut Lion free. He is stuck. :smallmad:

[Arkhosia]

"Hey where are you going? I am not your average dandelion! I am free!"

Lion tries to follow Valcario. And gets to the end of his root and stops. "Look at that. I put down roots again." One grows down and between two pieces of curb now.

"And that thirsty feeling went away too. That is nice. Hey. HEY! I liked walking. Cut me loose you stupid repair spider!" But those are back in the Gardent or busy repairing the bomb damage. There are no spiders here to cut Lion free. He is stuck. :smallmad:

Hey Lion, I'm not feeling so well...
May complains to Lion, sounding kinda sick.
Her distance from the birch tree is affecting her.

[Taet]

Hey Lion, I'm not feeling so well...
May complains to Lion, sounding kinda sick.
Her distance from the birch tree is affecting her.

"May? Little miss?" Lion stops pulling on his stuck root and looks May over. "You look like November. Real bad. Here put a root down and you will feel better."

But she does not have roots. He looks at her feet. He looks at the curb and the sidewalk and the nearest broken bomb area with no soil under it. He bends over and pokes at the crack in the curb. "Nothing in here but some dust. This is not even enough for a weed May."

"I think we have got to get you back to the Gardent." That is weird. I guess being a plant means you understand dryads. Even when you never heard the word before. "Here. Grab hold of my root and try and pull me loose. No spikes on my root. But maybe it will not come out and then. I hope Valcario gets back soon. Because you have got to go with or without me, little miss." :smallfrown:

[Lord Raziere]

Robbing a Clock Store

Ah there was a place! an old clock store. Contained all the little gears and brass and copper and bronze and so on and so forth. Perfect to make the steamtech, or in this case, clocktech, the two technologies were more similar than not, as many inventors blended the two together until there was little difference between them.
That and it probably had many types of clocks that employed steam power anyways.

He kicked in the door and pointed his revolver at the store owner.
"Hand over the clocks! Only old-fashioned gear and steam ones now! None of that digital trash! I want to hear the tick-tocks, y'know what I am saying? gears turning, steam flowing through pipes, all that good stuff! I am in hurry here so get to it!"
The store owner hurriedly started gathering clocks and putting them into an outstretched bag, not wanting to get shot, not knowing that none of the bulets would truly hurt him.

He then tries to get away with his new bag of clocks, does he succeed in his robbery attempt?

[Arkhosia]

"May? Little miss?" Lion stops pulling on his stuck root and looks May over. "You look like November. Real bad. Here put a root down and you will feel better."

But she does not have roots. He looks at her feet. He looks at the curb and the sidewalk and the nearest broken bomb area with no soil under it. He bends over and pokes at the crack in the curb. "Nothing in here but some dust. This is not even enough for a weed May."

"I think we have got to get you back to the Gardent." That is weird. I guess being a plant means you understand dryads. Even when you never heard the word before. "Here. Grab hold of my root and try and pull me loose. No spikes on my root. But maybe it will not come out and then. I hope Valcario gets back soon. Because you have got to go with or without me, little miss." :smallfrown:

May tries to pull him loose!
Does she succeed?

[Taet]

May tries to pull him loose!
Does she succeed?

But May is weaker now! :smallfrown:

She pulls! Lion pulls! But the root wants to stay put!


Robbing a Clock Store

Ah there was a place! an old clock store. Contained all the little gears and brass and copper and bronze and so on and so forth. Perfect to make the steamtech, or in this case, clocktech, the two technologies were more similar than not, as many inventors blended the two together until there was little difference between them.
That and it probably had many types of clocks that employed steam power anyways.

He kicked in the door and pointed his revolver at the store owner.
"Hand over the clocks! Only old-fashioned gear and steam ones now! None of that digital trash! I want to hear the tick-tocks, y'know what I am saying? gears turning, steam flowing through pipes, all that good stuff! I am in hurry here so get to it!"
The store owner hurriedly started gathering clocks and putting them into an outstretched bag, not wanting to get shot, not knowing that none of the bulets would truly hurt him.

He then tries to get away with his new bag of clocks, does he succeed in his robbery attempt?

Two minutes 19 seconds after Valcario leaves with a bag that is ticking, the store owner is reaching for his phone to complain to someone. But that was an old fashioned spinning dial and it is gone too.

He gets back and hears Lion yelling "Ow ow ow! Stop! It is not working!" and sees May lose hold of the root and fall down sitting down. Lion wobbles back and forth with all the energy let go.

"You got back just in time Valcario! May's in trouble. I think she needs to be planted. Take her back to the Gardent and hurry! Forget me. I will be fine here. I am a tough weed. I got a root down."

He looks at the bag that is ticking and looks puzzled and a little sad. But he points down the street the way that he and May came from.

Fourteen minutes 55 seconds after Valcario leaves, Mr. Clockson has figured out how to make a call on the cell phone his granddaughter got him for Thanksmas.

[Lord Raziere]

May in Trouble

"Oh right. Dryad. needs her tree."
He quickly puts his gun back in its holster then ties his bag around his shoulder, much a backpack, then tries picks up May in both arms, in a cradling manner.
He then starts running down the street.
"Ok, May this is a bad time to ask, I know, but can you describe the tree that you fell out of? Kind of important. I'm not exactly an expert, even if I have interacted with Dryads before."
He said while furiously searching for this Gardent place. Does he succeed?

[Arkhosia]

May in Trouble

"Oh right. Dryad. needs her tree."
He quickly puts his gun back in its holster then ties his bag around his shoulder, much a backpack, then tries picks up May in both arms, in a cradling manner.
He then starts running down the street.
"Ok, May this is a bad time to ask, I know, but can you describe the tree that you fell out of? Kind of important. I'm not exactly an expert, even if I have interacted with Dryads before."
He said while furiously searching for this Gardent place. Does he succeed?

Mayday! Mayday!

A giant birch tree in the center.
He is easily able to find it.

[Lord Raziere]

Mayday

He runs into the Gardent and towards the big tree in the center. He needed to hurry, and there was no guarantee that just because it was Garden(t) that it meant it was safe, especially when it had a magical tree and who knows what else in a lawless city like this. Like meat-eating plants. Suddenly one reached out and snapped at him and he reflexively ducked. Speak of the devil!

However he kept running, couldn't fight while May was in danger. He soon got to it and laid her down next to the big birch tree.
"Well....this will be hard to work into my plans for getting you guys out of here. Creating a mechanical leg-pot for Dandelion will be one thing. Making something that will get you out of here without getting you too far from this will be a real challenge, real difficult."
And all without letting it die. His protective dress might have to wait. He wasn't a magic man, he was a catfolk of science. Steamtech science. He had no doubt that a druid could commune with the tree, or a wizard could wave his hands and magick up something that could solve this in an instant. But he was neither of those things. He could think of maybe two ways to solve the big birch problem, but one he wasn't sure would work, and the other he would need a lot more clocks to make.
"Might even have to get this birch a rocket. Birches love rockets."

[Arkhosia]

Mayday

He runs into the Gardent and towards the big tree in the center. He needed to hurry, and there was no guarantee that just because it was Garden(t) that it meant it was safe, especially when it had a magical tree and who knows what else in a lawless city like this. Like meat-eating plants. Suddenly one reached out and snapped at him and he reflexively ducked. Speak of the devil!

However he kept running, couldn't fight while May was in danger. He soon got to it and laid her down next to the big birch tree.
"Well....this will be hard to work into my plans for getting you guys out of here. Creating a mechanical leg-pot for Dandelion will be one thing. Making something that will get you out of here without getting you too far from this will be a real challenge, real difficult."
And all without letting it die. His protective dress might have to wait. He wasn't a magic man, he was a catfolk of science. Steamtech science. He had no doubt that a druid could commune with the tree, or a wizard could wave his hands and magick up something that could solve this in an instant. But he was neither of those things. He could think of maybe two ways to solve the big birch problem, but one he wasn't sure would work, and the other he would need a lot more clocks to make.
"Might even have to get this birch a rocket. Birches love rockets."

No, they love cannons. Get it right. :smalltongue:
The birch opens it's eyes.
...wait, what? :smallconfused:
It's a treant!
He yawns.

[Ionbound]

Tempest Row

Two sylphs fall from the sky! Oh noes!

A young, somewhat wolfish looking woman is walking through Skyside...for some reason. When she sees the Sylphs start to fall, she breaks into a run and changes into a wolf-man, trying to use the enhanced strength of the other form to catch them.

((I'm sorry, the idea of a were-sylph is too funny to pass up.))

[Arkhosia]

A young, somewhat wolfish looking woman is walking through Skyside...for some reason. When she sees the Sylphs start to fall, she breaks into a run and changes into a wolf-man, trying to use the enhanced strength of the other form to catch them.

She succeeds!
They're both males. One appears to be an archer, and the other appears to be a farmer.
They're both unconscious

[Ionbound]

[Falling Air-People]

Therlynn gently lowers the sylphs to the ground, taking especial care with the archer. She then returns to human form and tries to wake them up. After all, it wouldn't do for the first thing for them to see after waking up is a big wolf-man monster thing, would it.

[Lord Raziere]

Mayday?

He was referring to the fact that one of his options to transport the birch (treant) would be to build a rocket around it so that it was still living while being inside a big mobile thingy.
"Oh! Hello. Erm. Good morning. I was um. Just returning little May here. Y'know that she would be safe and sound right by your side. Mr. Birch Treant. The name is Valcario De Zentasa!"
He posed and flashed his trademark cat smile.
"Pirate, Cowboy, Thief of Boredom, Returner of Dryads, and of course, adventurer, and in some cases when I feel like wearing a tux, gentlemen adventurer. How do you do?"

[Arkhosia]

Mayday?

He was referring to the fact that one of his options to transport the birch (treant) would be to build a rocket around it so that it was still living while being inside a big mobile thingy.
"Oh! Hello. Erm. Good morning. I was um. Just returning little May here. Y'know that she would be safe and sound right by your side. Mr. Birch Treant. The name is Valcario De Zentasa!"
He posed and flashed his trademark cat smile.
"Pirate, Cowboy, Thief of Boredom, Returner of Dryads, and of course, adventurer, and in some cases when I feel like wearing a tux, gentlemen adventurer. How do you do?"

And I was referring to his phrasing and this. (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vO7n8-9v0)
Oh, hello. Thank you, Valcario.
The treant says, standing up and offering a hand to may, which she steps onto.
My daddy's a treant? Cool!

[Felandria]

MagDonalds

Felandria stands outside her new restaurant.

Okay, then, time to hire some employees.

Fel enters through the newly installed giant sized doors and puts a HELP WANTED sign in the window.

[OrchestraHc]

Ashley keeps searching the warejungle, occasionally wiping at sweat. The fingers of her left hand are alight with flames, for whenever she finds this hive.

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Aiden makes a short groan and wipes at his face with his free hand. "Okay, I think the gag's been going on long enough now."

Warehouse:

Nest actually, and her search through the miniature jungle proves fruitful (Eh? Eh?). She eventually hears mor than the sounds of rustling plants. The sounds lead her towards the back of the warehouse, where she finds a small clearing made of trampled plants.

Seems she's stumbled across a struggle between the monsters. Thorns has Vines on it's knees, one hand where a hands throat would be the other hand pounding against Vines' head. Medals fall out of its head until they form a new club like its old one.

It has the advantage until Vines sticks its tendrils in its back. Thorns shrieks in pain as rows and rows of medals are ripped from it and returned to Vines with more on top. Vines stands triuphant, with thorns on the ground barely keeping from passing out.

Neither of them have noticed Ashley yet.

[Lord Raziere]

And I was referring to his phrasing and this. (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vO7n8-9v0)
Oh, hello. Thank you, Valcario.
The treant says, standing up and offering a hand to may, which she steps onto.
My daddy's a treant? Cool!

Yes. that was an intentional reference to that.
"Cool. you have family who is big and strong. you be safer now. I also have this Dandelion guy who needs to be safe, young guy, good heart, tries to be tough and macho but y'know, really just kind of a kid, you ok about me getting him? oh and.....how would feel about being shot out of a cannon towards Nexus? I'll throw in a parachute, and when you safely land in a city with actual law and order, you can kiss goodbye Skyside!"
Hm, then again maybe this birch wouldn't like this cannon.

[Arkhosia]

Yes. that was an intentional reference to that.
"Cool. you have family who is big and strong. you be safer now. I also have this Dandelion guy who needs to be safe, young guy, good heart, tries to be tough and macho but y'know, really just kind of a kid, you ok about me getting him? oh and.....how would feel about being shot out of a cannon towards Nexus? I'll throw in a parachute, and when you safely land in a city with actual law and order, you can kiss goodbye Skyside!"
Hm, then again maybe this birch wouldn't like this cannon.

As much as I love cannons, no thanks.
The treant replies as he puts May on his shoulder.

[happyturtle]

The Heights


The Heights

"Experience serving customers and working under pressure, evidence that I can hold down a job, patience dealing with the general public, a basic wage to spend on night classes, though I hadn't actually looked through the brochures I'd taken back to my hotel room to see what was on offer and for how much." So nothing actually concrete, but hopefully stuff that will help her climb up the career ladder.

"Just so," The Venerable says. Ze places his napkin on the table, clearly finished with dinner, and departs without ceremony.

SkyParkHappyFunLand


[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

"We'll probably be fine. It's n-" Dana stops as they get a spider web to the face. She sputter and tries to wipe it away. "Ugh, dang spider webs." She complains. Now that's just annoying!


Ashley keeps searching the warejungle, occasionally wiping at sweat. The fingers of her left hand are alight with flames, for whenever she finds this hive.

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Aiden makes a short groan and wipes at his face with his free hand. "Okay, I think the gag's been going on long enough now."



The path grows thinner, barely a footpath now, with more spider webs, and tree branches down at eye level.



Bank Robbery Classic



Bank Robbery (Original Flavor!)

Gentleman just rolls his eyes.

"Oh, jolly good, just go ahead and arrest me. Having to wear a wig is so much worse than a Criminal Record, after all.", he says, dripping with sarcasm.

And then he suddenly whips his cane out of hammerspace and tries to jab Intrepid in the sternum with it. With a normal cane, this would not be particularly dangerous. Gentleman's Cane includes a few "special features", though, including an exposed live wire to stun people and a very strong electromagnet, used to grab objects at a distance and disable security cameras by disrupting their computer systems. Of course, since he's unaware of Intrepid's Cyborg-ness, he's just expecting to taze the guy and focus on helping his wife while he's distracted.

All Gentleman's really expecting the magnet to do is maybe scramble up any HUD in that helmet. :smallyuk:

"Unhand my wife, you miserable quean!"

---

Meanwhile, Lady is busy being a damsel in distress because she can't reach her parasol-dartgun-shield! Unless...

...Haha, no, she just keeps struggling in frustration and generally being rather annoyed at this turn of events. Still, she ever-so-subtly manages to push the button hidden in her shoe.

I'm still not sure of the extent of Magtok's Cyborg "powers", but she just sent out an encrypted radio signal.



"Criminal Record? In Skyside?" Invictus says skeptically. "Right. Guess it's going to be the ear then." Though one arm is maintaining the grapple, the other has produced a blade of some sort, which is resting just against the inner cartilage of one of Lady's ears. Pokey, but not bleedy, unless Lady struggles against it.

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Robbery Uno

Gah! Intrepid is zapped, and knocked clear across the room by the electromagnet, twisting and twitching! Various subroutines kick in, hurriedly trying to reverse or repair whatever damage was dealt. This isn't the first time Magtok's been threatened with EMP, electrocution, or magnets, after all. He figured immunity would just lead to word getting out about his immunity, followed by escalation. Speedy repair modules that merely keep him unconscious and alive, however? Totally kosher.


Bank Infiltration


Ark jumps into the bag.
I feel like scrooge mcduck in here!

"Just wait until you've been dropped into the vault, love. You'll be able to do the whole swimming pool thing and...oh wait, I don't think that's actually physically possible. That many coins just wind up feeling like a solid floor, instead of water. Try not to dive and give yourself a concussion, okay?"

Magtok walks right into the bank, and immediately stops talking to Ark, lest anyone think he's totally out of his mind for talking to a bag full of money.

[Arkhosia]

Bank Infiltration



"Just wait until you've been dropped into the vault, love. You'll be able to do the whole swimming pool thing and...oh wait, I don't think that's actually physically possible. That many coins just wind up feeling like a solid floor, instead of water. Try not to dive and give yourself a concussion, okay?"

Magtok walks right into the bank, and immediately stops talking to Ark, lest anyone think he's totally out of his mind for talking to a bag full of money.

Curses, foiled by physics again!
She jokes.
The bank is a normal bank.
"May I help you?"
The teller, a bored male kobold, asks.

[Earl of Purple]

The Heights

Zoe stares after the androgynous elf, a bit confused about his last words. She continues to eat, though.

[Lord Raziere]

As much as I love cannons, no thanks.
The treant replies as he puts May on his shoulder.

"Well lets discuss getting out of Skyside later, I gotta go get Dandelion."
He runs back to Lion. Ok, this might actually be easier. Just have to convince a big treant to get on some big ship, steal it, head for Inside, drop them where its safe, and bobs your uncle! Though he wasn't sure who bob was or why he would suddenly become someone's uncle because of this, or why one would use that turn of phrase, though he secretly suspected that someone came up with it as a joke just to make everyone wonder why anyone would come up with it.

But then again, what if the treant is in on whatever shady business is happening in Skyside? could he really trust him? he wondered. He was an adult treant and there must be some reason why he is in this flying city of scum and villainy, as opposed to somewhere else. He would have to save his suspicions for later. Right now he needed to help Dandelion.

[Taet]

Raindrop District, A Very Boring Crack in the Curb

"This. This is the worst."

Lion folds his leaves together and looks annoyed. Now his world was small again. And there was more to look at back in the Gardent. :smallannoyed:


"Well lets discuss getting out of Skyside later, I gotta go get Dandelion."
He runs back to Lion. Ok, this might actually be easier. Just have to convince a big treant to get on some big ship, steal it, head for Inside, drop them where its safe, and bobs your uncle! Though he wasn't sure who bob was or why he would suddenly become someone's uncle because of this, or why one would use that turn of phrase, though he secretly suspected that someone came up with it as a joke just to make everyone wonder why anyone would come up with it.

But then again, what if the treant is in on whatever shady business is happening in Skyside? could he really trust him? he wondered. He was an adult treant and there must be some reason why he is in this flying city of scum and villainy, as opposed to somewhere else. He would have to save his suspicions for later. Right now he needed to help Dandelion.

"Oh you are back!" Lion shouts. "Do you know how many ants I had to count before you came back?"

"None! There are no ants here. Where's May? Is she Ok? Is she planted?"

[Lord Raziere]

Raindrop District, A Very Boring Crack in the Curb

"This. This is the worst."

Lion folds his leaves together and looks annoyed. Now his world was small again. And there was more to look at back in the Gardent. :smallannoyed:



"Oh you are back!" Lion shouts. "Do you know how many ants I had to count before you came back?"

"None! There are no ants here. Where's May? Is she Ok? Is she planted?"

"She didn't need to be, her tree is apparently her treant father. She is safe. Now to work on you."
He set down the bag of clocks.
"Sure I could just uproot you or something, but I want to think long term here. I want to design this mechano-pot, because if I can make you walk around while still getting nourishment from the soil? well then you won't ever need to get uprooted ever again. All you'll really need to do is keep your soil refilled with good quality soil, stay in sunny areas and get watered, all of which you can upkeep yourself.

Don't worry no one was harmed in the process of getting these clocks, didn't even have to fire a shot. So, what do you think: uproot you first, lead you to May then make it, or do you want it made first, then uprooted, then put in the mechano-pot, then go see May? We can do this any way you want."

[Taet]

"She didn't need to be, her tree is apparently her treant father. She is safe. Now to work on you."
He set down the bag of clocks.
"Sure I could just uproot you or something, but I want to think long term here. I want to design this mechano-pot, because if I can make you walk around while still getting nourishment from the soil? well then you won't ever need to get uprooted ever again. All you'll really need to do is keep your soil refilled with good quality soil, stay in sunny areas and get watered, all of which you can upkeep yourself.

Don't worry no one was harmed in the process of getting these clocks, didn't even have to fire a shot. So, what do you think: uproot you first, lead you to May then make it, or do you want it made first, then uprooted, then put in the mechano-pot, then go see May? We can do this any way you want."

Lion grabs hold of his own root and tries to uproot himself. "Get me out of here! I need to see that little miss is Ok." One of his leaves that he was using to pull on his root rips. "Ow! Watch out I think I left spines there.

There is a shed in the Gardent. They have got some quality soil in there all right. Fancy fertilizer. Some stuff to get rid of aphids and" He cuts off quick. Weed killer! "Never mind that stuff. It is useless. Just get me out of here and I can walk awhile. Did you say the tree is her dad? That sunlight hogging birch was a guy?"

[Lord Raziere]

Crack in the Street, Raindrop District

"May called the treant "daddy" and he did not correct her. so, apparently yes. I'm not personally an expert on dryad biology so.."
He shrugged, put the bag of clocks back on then walked over began to pull out Dandelion with all his strength. Good thing he was both a pirate and a cowboy- one got a good workout living harsh lives on the sea and desert, fighting ruffians and beasties native to both environments. that and you needed good strength for stealing things, not everything valuable is light after all...

[The Alexandrian]

[Illuminati Headquarters - Cafeteria!]

After a brief elevator ride (thank the gods, that elevator music was...actually not that bad, to be honest), Justin and Miriah will arrive at the tower's cafeteria. This cafeteria does not at all resemble a traditional cafeteria. It looks more like a food court...if a food court was cluster of full-sized restaurants layered one upon another on different levels of this floor clustered around a central lobby with a breathtaking waterfall cascading down into a heated swimming pool at its center. There are stairs and escalators to transport people from one floor to another. A fancy metal guardrail wraps around the second and third levels of the cafeteria. There are restaurants of every type here as well as several bars. There's even an old timey arcade positioned off to the left. While a few humans are dining in this area, this space doesn't seem at all crowded by any definition of the word as if it is not open to the public in which case this isn't just a corporate headquarters but a super corporate headquarters.

"We're finally here. So, what are you in the mood for? Oh and by the way, might I strongly recommend that you stop by the confectioner's and pick up some chocolates for Aly or maybe arrange for flowers to be delivered to her from the gardens? They aren't too far away, so there's no reason not to."

[Taet]

Raindrop District

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow!!!" POP!

Soon Lion is limping back to the Gardent behind Valcario with one long root dragging along behind him. :smallfrown:

[Lord Raziere]

Raindrop District

"Erhm. sorry. The limited amount of medical knowledge I know is piratey. and that mostly consists of scurvy bad: eat oranges, bandaging and how to cut off limbs to replace em with steam-powered cybernetic limbs. Probably best I don't do anything about that with that kind of knowledge, and since your a plant, I don't think normal medical knowledge would work on that anyways."
He look at the gearforged scimitar at his belt. Ah yes. He remembered times when he had to replace limbs like that in a hurry. And with no anesthetic. At least the fact that it was gearforged made the process of cutting things off much quicker than the normal saw way. This trusty thing could go toe to toe with lightsabers and be just fine. Saved his bacon more than once it did, especially against things he otherwise would not fight.

[OrchestraHc]

[Illuminati Headquarters - Cafeteria!]

After a brief elevator ride (thank the gods, that elevator music was...actually not that bad, to be honest), Justin and Miriah will arrive at the tower's cafeteria. This cafeteria does not at all resemble a traditional cafeteria. It looks more like a food court...if a food court was cluster of full-sized restaurants layered one upon another on different levels of this floor clustered around a central lobby with a breathtaking waterfall cascading down into a heated swimming pool at its center. There are stairs and escalators to transport people from one floor to another. A fancy metal guardrail wraps around the second and third levels of the cafeteria. There are restaurants of every type here as well as several bars. There's even an old timey arcade positioned off to the left. While a few humans are dining in this area, this space doesn't seem at all crowded by any definition of the word as if it is not open to the public in which case this isn't just a corporate headquarters but a super corporate headquarters.

"We're finally here. So, what are you in the mood for? Oh and by the way, might I strongly recommend that you stop by the confectioner's and pick up some chocolates for Aly or maybe arrange for flowers to be delivered to her from the gardens? They aren't too far away, so there's no reason not to."

Illuminati Headquarters - Secret Food Court:

"Yeeeah...lthe Vault Boy says as takes in the huge surroundings. "You lead the way Miri. This is... holy cow. How big is this complex? Everywhere else has been pretty straightforward."

When he finally stops marvelling, he asks, "What kind of chocolates does Aly like? Also do they have pink roses?"

[Lord Magtok]

Curses, foiled by physics again!
She jokes.
The bank is a normal bank.
"May I help you?"
The teller, a bored male kobold, asks.

"I need to stash this bag full of ill-gotten gains somewhere. Where better than a brand new Skyside bank account?" Magtok explains, wiggling the enormous sack of money around.

[Arkhosia]

"I need to stash this bag full of ill-gotten gains somewhere. Where better than a brand new Skyside bank account?" Magtok explains, wiggling the enormous sack of money around.

"Sign these forms please."
The kobold hands him a stack of forms.

The Self-Proclaimed Official Bank of Skyside is not responsible for Money-eating Moth Attack, giant robot damage, Ocean's 11-13 reenactments...
The list goes on and on

[Taet]

Raindrop District

"Erhm. sorry. The limited amount of medical knowledge I know is piratey. and that mostly consists of scurvy bad: eat oranges, bandaging and how to cut off limbs to replace em with steam-powered cybernetic limbs. Probably best I don't do anything about that with that kind of knowledge, and since your a plant, I don't think normal medical knowledge would work on that anyways."
He look at the gearforged scimitar at his belt. Ah yes. He remembered times when he had to replace limbs like that in a hurry. And with no anesthetic. At least the fact that it was gearforged made the process of cutting things off much quicker than the normal saw way. This trusty thing could go toe to toe with lightsabers and be just fine. Saved his bacon more than once it did, especially against things he otherwise would not fight.

Lion looks at the gearforged scimitar too. "Brr. That thing could go through a limb all right. And the trunk it was part of!" :smalleek:

[The Gardent]

There is a bigger sign post at the front gate with a few signs and a coin box on it.


Welcome to the Gardent
Living Plants, Exotic and Local
Donations Welcome

Sponsored By:
Skyside Oxygenation Society
People for the Ethical Treatment of All
Druids' Den Local #1095
Raindrop West Vo-Tech
Fraternal Order of the Songbird

Do Not Pick The Plants
They Are Alive
They Can Feel Pain

Lion stops to read it for the first time. "Living plants, exotic and local. So I am a local." :smallredface: He steps faster to get into the Gardent and not show his face.

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Infiltration

Magtok signs the forms. Pfft, he'll be getting all of this money back in a couple minutes, with interest, so long as Ark pulls through and isn't mistaken for a slave deposit, so what difference does it make? Who cares what they're not liable for or how high their rates are, or what bizarre fees and regulations and whatnot they might have? :smalltongue:

[Arkhosia]

Bank Infiltration

Magtok signs the forms. Pfft, he'll be getting all of this money back in a couple minutes, with interest, so long as Ark pulls through and isn't mistaken for a slave deposit, so what difference does it make? Who cares what they're not liable for or how high their rates are, or what bizarre fees and regulations and whatnot they might have? :smalltongue:

"The money, please."
The kobold holds a hand out to take the sack.

[The Alexandrian]

Illuminati Headquarters - Secret Food Court:

"Yeeeah...lthe Vault Boy says as takes in the huge surroundings. "You lead the way Miri. This is... holy cow. How big is this complex? Everywhere else has been pretty straightforward."

When he finally stops marvelling, he asks, "What kind of chocolates does Aly like? Also do they have pink roses?"


[Illuminati Headquarters - Super Top Secret Illuminati Food Court Of Justice (Now With 300% More Pizza)!]

You lead the way. Miriah's cool with that. That means Justin wants to eat whatever Miriah wants to eat which is a cake of plutonium an old boot stained glass brainz pizza! Mmm! Pizza! Gooey cheese, fresh cut olives, pepperoni, mushrooms, and deliciousness in general! Also, arcade machines because high score and yeah and whoo and stuff in general!

Miriah will attempt to lead Justin into what appears to be a family-owned and operated since *number redacted* years ago pizza parlor. The pair will be escorted to a luxuriously spacious booth with a view by an immaculate, shiny robotic waiter.

"The tower is gigantic. It's one of the biggest buildings around and the interior has been spatially warped so that more things can fit in here than they could otherwise."

Yeah. It's absolutely colossal.

A menu is placed in front of Justin! Miriah is handed one as well. It's a fairly standard pizza menu if you ignore the fact that no prices are listed for anything.

"But really now, Justin do I look like I'm the type who 'buys' flowers, Justin?"

She retorts somewhat caustically.

"... Okay. Maybe I do 'buy' things from that store, but bonsai trees are nothing like flowers, okay!"

"... Yes. They 'sell' pink flowers."

"I'm afraid I can't help you with the chocolate selection though, Justin. Alyca's the one who buys the chocolate in the house. I just eat it."

All of it. Because chocolate? Chocolate. Chocolate! Chocolate! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7y6kXwMo_M)

[OrchestraHc]

Illuminati Headquarters - I Always Enjoy an Excuse to Link This (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OrhBZwmEK8I&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOrhBZwmEK8I)

Justin has eaten three things on that striked list, case to guess which?

"That's alright then. Is she allergic to anything. I ask because I hear poisoning your girlfriend is a bit of a faux-pas." He says as he starts looking over the menu. "Up for splitting a large pie down the middle?" Ah, the miser's pizza order.

[Felandria]

MagDonalds

Felandria stands outside her new restaurant.

Okay, then, time to hire some employees.

Fel enters through the newly installed giant sized doors and puts a HELP WANTED sign in the window.

Meanwhile, inside MagDonalds

Felandria is dusting her new office, complete with appropriately sized furnishings and a stepladder for anyone who sits across from her can climb onto the chair.

She continues to wait for someone to apply for a job.

[Lord Magtok]

"The money, please."
The kobold holds a hand out to take the sack.

Magtok hands over the bag, crossing his fingers and hoping this ridiculously wacky and nonsensical plan goes off without a hitch. That's largely dependent on nobody dumping out the contents of the bag too early or accidentally groping Arkhosia through it, however, which really isn't quite so unlikely, now that Magtok thinks about it, after it's already too late to change his mind. :smalleek:

[Arkhosia]

Magtok hands over the bag, crossing his fingers and hoping this ridiculously wacky and nonsensical plan goes off without a hitch. That's largely dependent on nobody dumping out the contents of the bag too early or accidentally groping Arkhosia through it, however, which really isn't quite so unlikely, now that Magtok thinks about it, after it's already too late to change his mind. :smalleek:

The kobold boredly walks away and tosses the bag into a large vault full of money roughly. Her frowns. He could've sworn he heard someone say "ow".
He shuts the door and returns to the counter as Ark gets out of the bag in the vault, grabs as many sacks of money as possible (storing a couple in hammerspace) and trying to get out...
------
Magtok's phone rings.
It's Ark.

[Lord Raziere]

[The Gardent]

There is a bigger sign post at the front gate with a few signs and a coin box on it.


Welcome to the Gardent
Living Plants, Exotic and Local
Donations Welcome

Sponsored By:
Skyside Oxygenation Society
People for the Ethical Treatment of All
Druids' Den Local #1095
Raindrop West Vo-Tech
Fraternal Order of the Songbird

Do Not Pick The Plants
They Are Alive
They Can Feel Pain
.

He raises an eyebrow
"...Hrm. thought for sure it'd be something less upright and responsible. Guess even places like Skyside can surprise you."
Or maybe it was just corrupt, you never knew. He continued walking into the Gardent towards May and her Treant.

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Infiltration

"Bad news?" Magtok asks, not even bothering with hello. She might be in danger; he can't waste time on such frivolities!

[Arkhosia]

Bank Infiltration

"Bad news?" Magtok asks, not even bothering with hello. She might be in danger; he can't waste time on such frivolities!

The vault door's locked from the inside, and I don't think I have enough dust to blow the hinges off.
Wait, let me check.
An explosion can be heard shortly afterwards on Ark's end.
It didn't work.

[The Alexandrian]

[Illuminati Headquarters - Everything Aside From The Stained Glass?]

I hope that Justin has never eaten stained glass, at least! :smalleek:

Also, note to self, arrange for Alyca to purchase industrial grade mouthwash for Justin. :smallwink::smalltongue:

"We're not allergic to anything. If we were allergic to any kind of food, we wouldn't have survived until we had the option to be picky about what we ate."

Who knows what they were fed when they existed in Fallow's dark and dismal slave warehouse. I don't (nor do I wish to know).

Then, Miriah shoots Justin a look. One pizza to share? No. Just no. One of the best parts of ordering pizza is having access to cold pizza the following day! Miriah must have the cold pizza! She must has it all!

"What kind of pizza do you want to eat and what do you want to drink?"

The robot is hovering nearby, patiently waiting to take their order.

[Arkhosia]

[Falling Air-People]

Therlynn gently lowers the sylphs to the ground, taking especial care with the archer. She then returns to human form and tries to wake them up. After all, it wouldn't do for the first thing for them to see after waking up is a big wolf-man monster thing, would it.

She succeeds!
Where am I?
The archer asks.
The farmer is just looking around, confused

[Ionbound]

[Landed Sylphs]

Therlynn laughs to the archer, and says to him, "You know, I'm still not sure. The people here call this place the Nexus, though. It seems like just about anything can happen here. You're lucky I found you, there are some really nasty people here."

[Arkhosia]

[Landed Sylphs]

Therlynn laughs to the archer, and says to him, "You know, I'm still not sure. The people here call this place the Nexus, though. It seems like just about anything can happen here. You're lucky I found you, there are some really nasty people here."

Ah. Thanks miss.
The archer replies, standing up.
The farmer faints as he spots a draegloth wandering nearby.

[Ionbound]

Unconscious Sylph

Therlynn nudges the unconscious Sylph with her foot, and says to the archer dryly, "Well. 5 minutes from entry to unconsciousness. A new record."

[OrchestraHc]

Illuminati Headquarters - The brains were goat and the plutonium cake was for his birthday:

They found the cake mix in a nuclear power plant.

Apparently asking to split a pizza is also a faux pas. "Meat lovers and a Coke?" He answers, sounding more like he's asking for permission than anything else. "And I didn't imagine they'd feed slaves peanuts or almonds much. Back in the south they just fed them whatever was on hand in a high enough amount. Rad-roach gruel mostly. Not that this is appropriate dinner conversation." He sort of learned a lesson last time. And who wants to talk about watery mashed bugs in a pizza parlor?

"Any clue about what your boss want to speak to me about?"

[Taet]

He raises an eyebrow
"...Hrm. thought for sure it'd be something less upright and responsible. Guess even places like Skyside can surprise you."
Or maybe it was just corrupt, you never knew. He continued walking into the Gardent towards May and her Treant.

Gardent

The bright green plants on the edges of the paths say hello to Valcario with girl voices. But when Lion says "Hey Maria" :smallwink: they ignore him.

Old guys from the Fraternal Order of the Songbird walk slow on the paths. They carry their little bird cages and take their song birds for a walk that way. They also have bigger cages for pigeons. With papers on the legs.

Behind a tall ring of cactus there are sounds of someone getting beat up and other people cheering and betting. The mess in the wheelbarrow by the ring is broken cactus ent and bloody animal parts.

Lion lets off some seeds near a rosebush with a big prickly beard of roses. "I remember that guy. What a grump. There she is! MAY! How are you doing?" :smallbiggrin:

[Arkhosia]

Gardent

The bright green plants on the edges of the paths say hello to Valcario with girl voices. But when Lion says "Hey Maria" :smallwink: they ignore him.

Old guys from the Fraternal Order of the Songbird walk slow on the paths. They carry their little bird cages and take their song birds for a walk that way. They also have bigger cages for pigeons. With papers on the legs.

Behind a tall ring of cactus there are sounds of someone getting beat up and other people cheering and betting. The mess in the wheelbarrow by the ring is broken cactus ent and bloody animal parts.

Lion lets off some seeds near a rosebush with a big prickly beard of roses. "I remember that guy. What a grump. There she is! MAY! How are you doing?" :smallbiggrin:
Hi Lion!
May waves from her perch on the treant.
Hello.

[Taet]

Hi Lion!
May waves from her perch on the treant.
Hello.

"May! You look great!" Lion is smiling! :smallbiggrin:

He looks at the birch tree too. It is tall. "So is he coming with us now? That is going to be a lot of roots to cut."

Lion looks back at Valcario's gear sword and shivers. "I guess he can do that. May can you see from up there? Which way is the garden shed?"

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Infiltration


The vault door's locked from the inside, and I don't think I have enough dust to blow the hinges off.
Wait, let me check.
An explosion can be heard shortly afterwards on Ark's end.
It didn't work.

Magtok sighs, and presses the phone tight against his ear, paranoid and terribly worried that someone might overhear somehow. "Ark? Listen, I'm going to make another deposit. Can you punch the face of whomever opens the vault, make your way make to the lobby, and then run out of the building with me before one or both of us gets shot by security?"

[Arkhosia]

Bank Infiltration



Magtok sighs, and presses the phone tight against his ear, paranoid and terribly worried that someone might overhear somehow. "Ark? Listen, I'm going to make another deposit. Can you punch the face of whomever opens the vault, make your way make to the lobby, and then run out of the building with me before one or both of us gets shot by security?"

Caaaan do!
She cheerfully replies.

[The Alexandrian]

[Illuminati Headquarters - Totally Appropriate Dinner Conversation!]

Ewwww! That's so - yuck! Just...ewwww! Miriah may not have been able to eat any of the tasty, tasty pizza if the same information that was just now shared OoC was shared IC as well.

It just sounds so disgusting. ... Then again, I guess that all of the food you'd find in a radioactive wasteland would be disgusting anyway to the average palette.

Did his food sanitizer help at all with the taste? :smallconfused:
Where did the find the frosting for his cake?
Will Alyca survive her not so life-threatening operation?
The answers to all of these questions and more will be revealed in the next episode of Justin's Wacky Adventures In Space Redacted! :smalltongue:

"We'd like to order two extra large meat lover's pizzas, one with extra sauce, a Coke, light ice, and a beer."

Miriah informs the robot, which politely asks, "Would you like to order anything else?" as is customary after which Mirah orders breadsticks and three kinds of dipping sauce as appetizers.

The robot pours the drinks that were requested and places them in front of Miriah and Justin. "Very good, ma'am. Your appetizers will arrive momentarily, ma'am."

The robot's voice is very robotic, by the way. It is flat, emotionless, and extremely articulate.

After it glides away only to return a few seconds later with the breadsticks, Miriah replies to Justin's words.

"If they fed us whatever was on hand and in high amount, they probably fed us the corpses of the dead. Needless to say, I don't want to know what we ate, nor do I care anymore. I try to distance myself from the past as much as is humanely possible these days. Remembering just gives me another reason to get mad, kill people, and drink until I forget everything again."

"Our boss probably just wants to discuss the attack on the VTOL and fill you in on Alyca's condition. She may choose to offer you a very lucrative opportunity as well. Alyca will be out of action for a couple of days, I need a partner until she recovers, and I may have recommended you for the position."

The position as a Super Secret Agent working for the Illuminati.

[Lord Raziere]

"May! You look great!" Lion is smiling! :smallbiggrin:

He looks at the birch tree too. It is tall. "So is he coming with us now? That is going to be a lot of roots to cut."

Lion looks back at Valcario's gear sword and shivers. "I guess he can do that. May can you see from up there? Which way is the garden shed?"

"I take it back. This place makes sense now. and I'm not too keen on cutting up a treant's legs. there are just too many ways that cannot end well."
That and he is not sure what the treant's stance is here. For all he knows the treant came here willingly. and trusting anyone who willingly comes to a lawless city is dangerous. (Valcario does not consider himself an exception.)
"How did you come to Skyside anyways, Mr.. um....treant? Whats your story?"

[Arkhosia]

"I take it back. This place makes sense now. and I'm not too keen on cutting up a treant's legs. there are just too many ways that cannot end well."
That and he is not sure what the treant's stance is here. For all he knows the treant came here willingly. and trusting anyone who willingly comes to a lawless city is dangerous. (Valcario does not consider himself an exception.)
"How did you come to Skyside anyways, Mr.. um....treant? Whats your story?"
I grew here.
The treant replies.

[Lord Raziere]

The Gardent

"So you grew here like May and Dandeleo eh? whelp. That makes sense. It is troubling that someone who just came here is the one informing the locals but...Skyside is kind of lawless. and dangerous. I would not recommend staying around. especially if you plan on raising May there. Unless you want her to grow up to be a crook or something like me. But while I'm awesome, I'm generally informed that is not a good way to raise a child, and I'm not the mentoring type on that "survive on the streets" sort of thing."
That and he got the impression from both their takes on his stealing that they would not cut it as roguish types. Too idealistic. Too concerned about the morality of the thing. In his experience it was best to not try to "break" them and mold them so that they can survive in an environment they were unsuited for- better to just get them somewhere where they'll naturally fit.

[Taet]

I grew here.
The treant replies.

"And blocked my sunlight!" Lion says. :smallannoyed: "What made you so important?"

"Valcario he is the same as me. We sprout. We grow. That is it. May's the only one I ever knew who just popped out. And she did not know either."

"Can we get less of the deep questions and more mechano pots?" Lion grabs hold of another root that is trying to grow down into the ground and pulls it back. "This thing has a mind of its own."

[Lord Raziere]

The Gardent

"Er, right."
He set down the bag, and took out half the clocks. Then he began disassembling them, until the pieces were all out apart and sorted, Then...he began to put them back to together differently. Feet, then legs then a pot finally formed in a whirr of activity and motion.

He privately admitted to himself that it normally take much longer and with more tools than just hands and his steampunk Swiss Army Knife, but he learned the trick of making things at this speed and with so little from a certain guy who could seemingly forge swords made out of gold-one of the softest metals in the world- and they would be indestructible using nothing but his hands...strange thing was that a golden mark appeared on his forehead every time the man did so. Really saved Valcario a lot of time though. What did that guy call himself? A Solar Exalted? Strange.

"There you go, Dandel. One mechano-pot, just add soil."

[Taet]

Lion hops in with the biggest smile any dandelion has ever smiled.

"Thanks man! Oh this is the best." He leans forward and the pot starts to walk. Backwards. "Hey stop I mean forward!" :smallyuk:

The mechano pot walks backwards in a circle as Lion hangs on to the edge. Then he figures it out. Joystick controls. Lean back means go forward. He leans back and rests his leaves on the edge of the pot. "Do I look like a badass?" :smallcool:

[Lord Raziere]

Lion hops in with the biggest smile any dandelion has ever smiled.

"Thanks man! Oh this is the best." He leans forward and the pot starts to walk. Backwards. "Hey stop I mean forward!" :smallyuk:

The mechano pot walks backwards in a circle as Lion hangs on to the edge. Then he figures it out. Joystick controls. Lean back means go forward. He leans back and rests his leaves on the edge of the pot. "Do I look like a badass?" :smallcool:

He looked kind of silly actually. But Valcario didn't care enough to be honest with him.
"Yea sure, why not. You look like a regular cyborg kick-boxer."
He didn't intend the controls thing. Guess that was the downside to making stuff like this so fast. Sometimes they had unexpected little quirks...

[Arkhosia]

Unconscious Sylph

Therlynn nudges the unconscious Sylph with her foot, and says to the archer dryly, "Well. 5 minutes from entry to unconsciousness. A new record."

Well miss, it's been a pleasure, but I should go find the other sylphs now.
The archer gets up, puts the farmer over his shoulder, and walks away.

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Infiltration

Magtok does as he suggested he would, offering a large bag of money to the teller.

"Oops, sorry. Forgot a bag." A terribly weak lie, but who's going to question it when being handed more money, without any strings attached?

[Arkhosia]

Bank Infiltration

Magtok does as he suggested he would, offering a large bag of money to the teller.

"Oops, sorry. Forgot a bag." A terribly weak lie, but who's going to question it when being handed more money, without any strings attached?

The kobold tiredly takes it to the vault...
BAM!
Fus Ro Dah!
Ark steps out of the vault and darts over to magtok.
let's go!

[Taet]

He looked kind of silly actually. But Valcario didn't care enough to be honest with him.
"Yea sure, why not. You look like a regular cyborg kick-boxer."
He didn't intend the controls thing. Guess that was the downside to making stuff like this so fast. Sometimes they had unexpected little quirks...

Lion makes fists and punches the air. He can do boxing. The pot has to do the kicking. But he did not tell it to kick. Or know about kicking. That is a thing for natural walkers. "Yeah I do! Hey May look at this. Nexus here I come."

He then looks up into the birch tree. She is far from the ground and the dandelion ent. And he starts to realize the problem. "Oh. I. May? Did you and your dad want to come to Nexus?" :smallconfused:

[Arkhosia]

Lion makes fists and punches the air. He can do boxing. The pot has to do the kicking. But he did not tell it to kick. Or know about kicking. That is a thing for natural walkers. "Yeah I do! Hey May look at this. Nexus here I come."

He then looks up into the birch tree. She is far from the ground and the dandelion ent. And he starts to realize the problem. "Oh. I. May? Did you and your dad want to come to Nexus?" :smallconfused:
Sure
Sure!
The two reply

[Ionbound]

[Skyside Sylphs]

Therlynn laughs, follows the archer, and says to him, "Well, I'm a decent enough tracker, and I know that if you don't have someone with you who knows what they're doing or are incredibly lucky, this place will kill you in horrible, horrible ways."

[Arkhosia]

Sylphs

I'm listening...
The archer stops.

[OrchestraHc]

Illuminati Headquarters - What makes you think he had a food sanitizer?

The old boot was sort of clean, at least. You just have to think of it as beef instead of leather.

"I almost guessed that. And I'd do Alyca's job for a bit. How'd you two get these jobs anyway?" he asks before munching on a breadstick.

[Lord Raziere]

Sure
Sure!
The two reply

"Ok then. All we need then is a ship large enough to hold a treant... and if I need to, design big mechano-pot shoes for a big treant. though I only have enough clocks left to make one right now, and by my estimations, that would not be enough to sustain you. Not for the flight over. So I'm going to have to pull at least one more robbery off. And then probably steal an airship."
And probably face more action! Yes! Sure, more risky, but far more Interesting, as now private security will be on his tail! What to do with private security depends on the forces in question, they're not all equal. Some are basically private sector flavored cops with actual rules they follow and responsibilities they adhere themselves to. you use only nonlethal on those guys, they're just doing their jobs after all, and you generally want to get the lightest sentence as possible when dealing with them. If they're thugs who just kill you however well...your better off putting a bullet through their head. cause no amount of morals will persuade them to not kill you.

[The Alexandrian]

[Illuminati Headquarters - He Didn't Finish That Questline?]

Ewwwwww! No more! No more! Mercy! I beg of you! :smalltongue:

Miriah shrugs.

"Well, you know... You can get a lot of things if you curtain with the right people."

Miriah submits as if that is nothing. She pauses to study Justin's expression before uncontrolled snickering claims her soul.

"Just kidding! We were offered these jobs not too long after we escaped. Apparently, someone in human resources heard that we weren't loyal to anyone in the Nexus yet and had essentially received the best anti-interrogation training we possibly could have. We were also considered psychologically stable but with a potentially murderous bent and a personal vendetta against slavers and pretty much anyone who would interfere with people's freedom. We also scored high on the IQ tests, so we were hired some odd months ago."

Hey! The pizza is here already! That was fast!

[Taet]

"Yeah fine." Lion looks worried. The pot does a nervous dance. "Listen we can stay here and get some soil Ok? And you go do what you need to do?" :smalleek:

"Ok then. All we need then is a ship large enough to hold a treant... and if I need to, design big mechano-pot shoes for a big treant. though I only have enough clocks left to make one right now, and by my estimations, that would not be enough to sustain you. Not for the flight over. So I'm going to have to pull at least one more robbery off. And then probably steal an airship."
And probably face more action! Yes! Sure, more risky, but far more Interesting, as now private security will be on his tail! What to do with private security depends on the forces in question, they're not all equal. Some are basically private sector flavored cops with actual rules they follow and responsibilities they adhere themselves to. you use only nonlethal on those guys, they're just doing their jobs after all, and you generally want to get the lightest sentence as possible when dealing with them. If they're thugs who just kill you however well...your better off putting a bullet through their head. cause no amount of morals will persuade them to not kill you.
Raindrop District, Clockmakers' Local #4

"What do we do when our buddy is not ready to be on watch that night?"

One of the younger old men lifts his hand. "Call it an early night and go to the bar?" :smallsmile:

The chairman sighs. "Half right. You never go out on watch alone. But you always go out on watch! Call someone from the extra list to go on watch."

Thunderhead, Tinkertown, a Short Street

"Ladies of the jury! The Longmaker Five Thousand, and One!"

There are five flashes of light and the short street is now a long street. And the little broken steam machines in the trash cans are now longer broken steam machines. And the bugs and rats in the trash cans are now longbugs and longrats.

The women cheer. And then some of them scream. :smallyuk:

Thunderhead, Pop's Chop Shop

Three half elves hang upside down from the bottom of a small stolen blimp. The blimp is tied down inside. Over a long drop out of Skyside.

Someone asks questions from the blimp ship.

"What did we get wrong about Pop?":smallmad:

"Pop is not a weasel?"
"Pop is not a horrible teleport mistake?"
"Pop is not a ginger kid?"

"GINGER KID?!?!?":smallfurious:

A nut and bolt come apart. The blimp floats up a little more. Two half elves hang upside down from it. :smalleek:

[Ionbound]

Sylphs

I'm listening...
The archer stops.

Therlynn smirks, and says, "I don't think there's anything else worth saying. I'll lead you guys around and help you find your friends. You good with that?" Meanwhile, both her body and animal sides are sending rather...interesting messages to her brain, ones that she's trying desperately to block out.

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn smirks, and says, "I don't think there's anything else worth saying. I'll lead you guys around and help you find your friends. You good with that?" Meanwhile, both her body and animal sides are sending rather...interesting messages to her brain, ones that she's trying desperately to block out.

Okay then.
The archer replies.

[happyturtle]

The Heights


The Heights

Zoe stares after the androgynous elf, a bit confused about his last words. She continues to eat, though.

Fleur and Lewis clear up after dinner, and leave Zoe to her own devices. We can time skip to morning, if you like.

[Earl of Purple]

The Heights

Zoe will help if allowed, and has experience washing up and carrying crockery.

Besides that, a morning skip would be appreciated.

[Ionbound]

Okay then.
The archer replies.

Therlynn smiles in spite of herself, and asks the archer, "So, what's your name? I'm Therlynn Saxon."

((You might want to pick out a proper speech color for this guy. I'm planning on him sticking around for a while.))

[OrchestraHc]

Illuminati Headquarters - That was in D.C., Justin is from Atlanta:

Justin looks at her unimpressed, if that wasn't the most obvious attempt at a reaction she's tried so far he must have missed one.

"Strange they would know you even existed. I wonder if they contacted the balsa cabin boys." He quickly takes to his pizza. "Everything elsh is pretty shelf-ecshplanatory." *gulp*

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn smiles in spite of herself, and asks the archer, "So, what's your name? I'm Therlynn Saxon."

((You might want to pick out a proper speech color for this guy. I'm planning on him sticking around for a while.))

Eyros Windarrow.
The archer replies.

[Ionbound]

Eyros Windarrow.
The archer replies.

Therlynn smiles and extends a hand. She says, "Nice to meet you, Eyros. Now tell me, where do you think your friends landed."

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn smiles and extends a hand. She says, "Nice to meet you, Eyros. Now tell me, where do you think your friends landed."

Eyros shakes her hand.
Probably some other city.

[Ionbound]

[Two Archers...Sounds Like The Beginning of a Bad Joke]

Therlynn shakes her head, and says, "Yeah. I'm afraid if they fell out of the sky like you and your friend did, I won't be a whole lot of help. Which raises the question, actually, why were you guys falling from the sky?"

[Arkhosia]

[Two Archers...Sounds Like The Beginning of a Bad Joke]

Therlynn shakes her head, and says, "Yeah. I'm afraid if they fell out of the sky like you and your friend did, I won't be a whole lot of help. Which raises the question, actually, why were you guys falling from the sky?"

A spell gone wrong. The court mage messed up, I guess.
Eyros replies

[Lord Raziere]

"Yeah fine." Lion looks worried. The pot does a nervous dance. "Listen we can stay here and get some soil Ok? And you go do what you need to do?" :smalleek:

Raindrop District, Clockmakers' Local #4


Thunderhead, Tinkertown, a Short Street


Thunderhead, Pop's Chop Shop


"Kay. Don't worry. I'll be interesting as possible."

Now unfortunately while these events are happening, Valcario has no idea that they are happening. this of course needs to be fixed.

While he walks out of the Gardent, he comes across a newspaper vending machine. He pulls out his trusty-musty Steamtech Swiss Army Knife. It was a most wonderful device. Thanks to the wonders of Gear Space, it contained almost any little hand-held object you could think of! Knife blade, compass, timepiece, lockpick, bottle opener, fire lighter, focused lantern (or as other people call it, a steamtech flashlight) monkey wrench, screwdriver, telescope, old-timey mobile phone, grappling hook, blackjack....and much much more!
With a few twists and turns the lockpick sprung up, and he of course picked the vending machine opened and took out a copy of the The Clock And Steamwork Gazette.

He read the ads section:

New Invention! The Incredible Longmaker Five-Thousand and One!
Never worry about anything being too short ever again! Lengthen your life experiences!

POP'S CHOP SHOP! All parts welcome! Clockwork, Steamwork, Whatever Works! Let us see what Pop and Sons can do for you!

These look promising! and of course, these old-timey newspaper ads give the exact street address for people to find them. Very informative, old-timey steamwork advertisements. Nothing like those digital commercials. :smallyuk:
He considers his options. He could find enough parts at either of those things to make a mech-pot foot. But the Longmaker was new and being unveiled, far more Interesting! But he kind of needs to do things a little flexibly for his friends. Stealing from the parts shop would be things no one would really miss.

He thinks on it a little...yea he was going to go with the Longmaker. More Interesting and doubted it would make much difference in his friends eyes. To them stealing was stealing. That and while it was interesting, what kind of invention was making things long? That sounded so useless it was practically begging to be scrapped and made into something useful. like paperweights. or mechanical pot-shoes.

He closed the vending machine, relocked it, and set off for Thunderhead, Short Street with the Gazette in the crook of his arm.

OOC: feel free to change the ads if I'm wrong.

[Ionbound]

A spell gone wrong. The court mage messed up, I guess.
Eyros replies

Therlynn giggles, and says, "Yeah, I've got some experience with that. Don't worry, it happens to everyone...Though probably not to the same extent you felt." She shakes her head, and says, mostly to herself than anyone else, "Hmm...I'm probably too far away for this to work...Still worth a shot, I guess." She then turns to the sylph, and says to him, "Close your eyes, and, no matter what you hear, don't open them again until I tell you."

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn giggles, and says, "Yeah, I've got some experience with that. Don't worry, it happens to everyone...Though probably not to the same extent you felt." She shakes her head, and says, mostly to herself than anyone else, "Hmm...I'm probably too far away for this to work...Still worth a shot, I guess." She then turns to the sylph, and says to him, "Close your eyes, and, no matter what you hear, don't open them again until I tell you."

The sylph nods and does so.

[Ionbound]

The sylph nods and does so.

Therlynn shifts forms, and strains her nose, trying to find the scent and direction of any nearby Sylphs.

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn shifts forms, and strains her nose, trying to find the scent and direction of any nearby Sylphs.

If she has awesomely good smell, she'll likely learn of 3 sylphs on an island in the sea below.

[Ionbound]

If she has awesomely good smell, she'll likely learn of 3 sylphs on an island in the sea below.

Therlynn smiles at the scent of the Sylphs, and shifts back. She says Eyros, "Alright, you can open your eyes. There are three Sylphs on the island below here."

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn smiles at the scent of the Sylphs, and shifts back. She says Eyros, "Alright, you can open your eyes. There are three Sylphs on the island below here."

excellent.
Euros replies.

[Ionbound]

excellent.
Euros replies.

Therlynn asks him, "You want to continue in Seaside head there? We can get there pretty quickly."

((For the record, I imagine Sylphs smell about as good as Leo, but without the added effect of pheromones.))

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn asks him, "You want to continue in Seaside head there? We can get there pretty quickly."

((For the record, I imagine Sylphs smell about as good as Leo, but without the added effect of pheromones.))

Sure.
To seaside!

[Taet]

I am so sorry! :smallfrown: That is one of the things I do not like. Not knowing where interesting things are in all these threads. And then I went and did the very same thing to you. Sure. Now there are newspapers.


[COLOR="SeaGreen"]He read the ads section:

New Invention! The Incredible Longmaker Five-Thousand and One!
Never worry about anything being too short ever again! Lengthen your life experiences!

POP'S CHOP SHOP! All parts welcome! Clockwork, Steamwork, Whatever Works! Let us see what Pop and Sons can do for you!

These look promising! and of course, these old-timey newspaper ads give the exact street address for people to find them. Very informative, old-timey steamwork advertisements. Nothing like those digital commercials. :smallyuk:
He considers his options. He could find enough parts at either of those things to make a mech-pot foot. But the Longmaker was new and being unveiled, far more Interesting! But he kind of needs to do things a little flexibly for his friends. Stealing from the parts shop would be things no one would really miss.

He thinks on it a little...yea he was going to go with the Longmaker. More Interesting and doubted it would make much difference in his friends eyes. To them stealing was stealing. That and while it was interesting, what kind of invention was making things long? That sounded so useless it was practically begging to be scrapped and made into something useful. like paperweights. or mechanical pot-shoes.

He closed the vending machine, relocked it, and set off for Thunderhead, Short Street with the Gazette in the crook of his arm.

OOC: feel free to change the ads if I'm wrong.
Thunderhead, Tinkertown, A ShortLong Street
"Turn it off!"
"Turn it up!"
"Turn it down!"
"One just ran up my pants!"

The street is still not big enough to hold all of the jury. There is a fight with the women trying to run out of the street and the women trying to push inventions into the street.

"Just put it in reverse!"
"Not yet!"
"Stop pushing!"

A longbug rolls out of it all curled up and big as a wheel cap. One of the women watches it and yells EUREKA! and runs down the street and runs into Valcario and says sorry and keeps running.

"I hate rats I hate rats I HATE RATS!"
"Someone find us a longcat!"
"I had one in my ceiling for weeks. It would not leave."

A small boom. Mushroom smoke. Mushroom taste. Five more flashes of light.

"Oh I look good in short skirts now! First prize for the Longmaker!"
"How can you think about fashion now?!"
"Is it gone??? I am never wearing pants again."

[Ionbound]

[Bank Robbery]

As Therlynn and Eyros are carrying the unconscious Sylph farmer around looking for a boat, she sees a familiar cyborg and catgirl leaving a bank carrying several large sacks. She swear, and says to Eyros, "Sorry. This might take a while." Once that's said, she charges at our neighborhood villains, draws her bow, nocks and arrow, and fires, all the while shouting, "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

[Arkhosia]

[Bank Robbery]

As Therlynn and Eyros are carrying the unconscious Sylph farmer around looking for a boat, she sees a familiar cyborg and catgirl leaving a bank carrying several large sacks. She swear, and says to Eyros, "Sorry. This might take a while." Once that's said, she charges at our neighborhood villains, draws her bow, nocks and arrow, and fires, all the while shouting, "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

Eyros nods, and hangs back, waiting.

[Lord Magtok]

Bank Infiltration => Escape!


The kobold tiredly takes it to the vault...
BAM!
Fus Ro Dah!
Ark steps out of the vault and darts over to magtok.
let's go!


[Bank Robbery]

As Therlynn and Eyros are carrying the unconscious Sylph farmer around looking for a boat, she sees a familiar cyborg and catgirl leaving a bank carrying several large sacks. She swear, and says to Eyros, "Sorry. This might take a while." Once that's said, she charges at our neighborhood villains, draws her bow, nocks and arrow, and fires, all the while shouting, "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

Magtok's leg gets hit with an arrow midstride, and he nearly trips as his knee surrenders to the arrow lodged within it. He hisses, resisting the urge to scream for all of about two seconds, before hollering in agony.

"Goddammit! Goddamn you! Why?! Why would you shoot me there?! Right in the...I'm not even going to say it! That joke is old! That joke is stupidly old!"

For all the pain it causes, his left leg is still perfectly operational, and he'll hobble away from the werewolf if he has to.

[Arkhosia]

Bank Infiltration => Escape!



Magtok's leg gets hit with an arrow midstride, and he nearly trips as his knee surrenders to the arrow lodged within it. He hisses, resisting the urge to scream for all of about two seconds, before hollering in agony.

"Goddammit! Goddamn you! Why?! Why would you shoot me there?! Right in the...I'm not even going to say it! That joke is old! That joke is stupidly old!"

For all the pain it causes, his left leg is still perfectly operational, and he'll hobble away from the werewolf if he has to.

Ark is hit in the leg, falling down. She draws her shotgun, loaded with White Dust (no, not cocaine!), and levels it with Therlynn.
Hey bitch,
She pulls the trigger, and a powerful concussive blast emits from the gun towards Therlynn.
FUS RO DAH!

[Ionbound]

[Flight of the Robbers]

Therlynn raises an eyebrow quizzically, and asks, "What joke? I'm dead serious right now." She unleashes another arrow at the other leg. When Arkh levels the shotgun at Therlynn, she remembers her previous experience with the boomstick and dodges. Enhanced reflexes have their benefits after all.

((Oh dear. Temporal instability.))

[Lord Magtok]

♫ The Thieving Magpies ♫ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceh0-42FXg0)

"The one about the former adventurer who had to retire because of an arrow injury to the knee. That joke! How did you even find us?!" Magtok reaches into his robes, and throws several sweet rolls in Therlynn's general direction. They look like harmless enough pastries, but harmless pastries usually don't have grenades baked inside, do they? While that's distracting her, he tries to grab Ark and speed away, hovering off the ground to keep off that one leg with the arrow in it.

[Lord Raziere]

I am so sorry! :smallfrown: That is one of the things I do not like. Not knowing where interesting things are in all these threads. And then I went and did the very same thing to you. Sure. Now there are newspapers.


Thunderhead, Tinkertown, A ShortLong Street
"Turn it off!"
"Turn it up!"
"Turn it down!"
"One just ran up my pants!"

The street is still not big enough to hold all of the jury. There is a fight with the women trying to run out of the street and the women trying to push inventions into the street.

"Just put it in reverse!"
"Not yet!"
"Stop pushing!"

A longbug rolls out of it all curled up and big as a wheel cap. One of the women watches it and yells EUREKA! and runs down the street and runs into Valcario and says sorry and keeps running.

"I hate rats I hate rats I HATE RATS!"
"Someone find us a longcat!"
"I had one in my ceiling for weeks. It would not leave."

A small boom. Mushroom smoke. Mushroom taste. Five more flashes of light.

"Oh I look good in short skirts now! First prize for the Longmaker!"
"How can you think about fashion now?!"
"Is it gone??? I am never wearing pants again."

He points his gun, but....he isn't quite sure what is happening here. A bunch of mechanical rodents and such scampering about? causing trouble? was the Longmaker a machine-hivemind rodent thing with lots of scattered parts? What deranged mind thought this up?

He tries to stomp on a passing mechanical rodent and then examine it with the swiss army knife's magnifying glass to see whats going on. Does he succeed?

[Arkhosia]

♫ The Thieving Magpies ♫ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceh0-42FXg0)

"The one about the former adventurer who had to retire because of an arrow injury to the knee. That joke! How did you even find us?!" Magtok reaches into his robes, and throws several sweet rolls in Therlynn's general direction. They look like harmless enough pastries, but harmless pastries usually don't have grenades baked inside, do they? While that's distracting her, he tries to grab Ark and speed away, hovering off the ground to keep off that one leg with the arrow in it.

We're not paying the fine or serving our sentence!
Ark yells as she is picked up.

[Ionbound]

[Flight of the Concords]

Therlynn ignores the sweetrolls, and fires another arrow at Magtok's hand, hoping to dislodge Arkh...Then the grenades go off behind her, and she ends up being flung forwards, into a wall.

[Arkhosia]

Celica's Smithery

Celica's Smithery, a medium-sized shop with large glass windows on either side of the door making the display cases of weapons in plain view of the street, resides in tempest Row.
Celica is currently restocking.

[Taet]

He points his gun, but....he isn't quite sure what is happening here. A bunch of mechanical rodents and such scampering about? causing trouble? was the Longmaker a machine-hivemind rodent thing with lots of scattered parts? What deranged mind thought this up?

He tries to stomp on a passing mechanical rodent and then examine it with the swiss army knife's magnifying glass to see whats going on. Does he succeed?

Valcario puts his foot on a longrat's long tail! It tries to curl up and bite him but it got long and it does not reach that far back any more.

A ghost woman with a wheeled flashlight shining a runner number on her turns around and lifts her hands and shouts into the street. "Linda! Where did you say the husband waiting area was? One got loose." :smallcool: A longbug crawls up and over the flashlight. And when it blocks the light the ghost woman is invisible. :smalleek:

"I know the rats got loose Patti. That is part of the problem!" another woman shouts. Some women laugh. :smallsigh:

The longrat is only long in the middle. It is a weasel now. The long part sounds hollow. All the steam parts are in the front and the back and the middle is empty.

Linda pushes out of the crowd of women. She is human and middle aged and has a number pinned on too and a giant wine cork under her arm. She moves her eye telescope and looks at Valcario. "No this one is not from the bottle. Hello young man. Who are you here to cheer for?"

[Lord Raziere]

The Long Street

"Cheer for? I still have very little idea of whats actually going on. This is some sort of game?"
Great. He wandered into some lawless pseudo-nobles (thats what Valcario calls any rich guy) idea of a spectator sport. Was this some kind of clockwork version of sending random people up against beasties or some such? Maybe if he shoots all of the mechanical beasts to scrap he can take them as materials...

[Gullara]

SkyParkHappyFunLand

Aiden makes a short groan and wipes at his face with his free hand. "Okay, I think the gag's been going on long enough now."


SkyParkHappyFunLand

The path grows thinner, barely a footpath now, with more spider webs, and tree branches down at eye level.

[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

"Okay, this is really starting to freak me out." Dana finally admits. To herself as much as anyone. "Maybe we should just try another ride."

[Baeleck]

Celica's Smithery

Celica's Smithery, a medium-sized shop with large glass windows on either side of the door making the display cases of weapons in plain view of the street, resides in tempest Row.
Celica is currently restocking.
Celica's Smithery

It would seem that Celica has a customer.

The most striking thing about this particular individual is the broad pair of creamy-feathered wings she bears, which she folds carefully against her back as she slips in through the door. She looks human otherwise, though - her brown hair is a third shaved on either side, the remaining third sitting in a not-quite mohawk across the middle of her head.

The winged woman peers around the place with steely blue eyes, making note of what the shop has to offer.

'Hey, uh... lookin' for a replacement gun here. What you got for me?' the woman grunts, one hand resting on her hip.

[Arkhosia]

Celica's Smithery

It would seem that Celica has a customer.

The most striking thing about this particular individual is the broad pair of creamy-feathered wings she bears, which she folds carefully against her back as she slips in through the door. She looks human otherwise, though - her brown hair is a third shaved on either side, the remaining third sitting in a not-quite mohawk across the middle of her head.

The winged woman peers around the place with steely blue eyes, making note of what the shop has to offer.

'Hey, uh... lookin' for a replacement gun here. What you got for me?' the woman grunts, one hand resting on her hip.

The rabbit faunus turns, grinning.
I have anything from a Desert Eagle to a 9 millimeter, a varmint rifle to a gauss rifle, and a gunblade to a Scythle!

[Baeleck]

The woman stares at Celica for a good long moment before replying. 'Gauss rifle sounds like it might be pretty tasty. How quick does it get through ammo? she asks.

[Taet]

The Long Street

"Cheer for? I still have very little idea of whats actually going on. This is some sort of game?"
Great. He wandered into some lawless pseudo-nobles (thats what Valcario calls any rich guy) idea of a spectator sport. Was this some kind of clockwork version of sending random people up against beasties or some such? Maybe if he shoots all of the mechanical beasts to scrap he can take them as materials...

"Oh us? Ladies over Lunch ideas league semi annuals. Started over fifty years ago by Patti here."

The ghost woman waves. She takes over talking and Linda looks at the longrat Valcario is standing on. "Knowledge is power, dear. And we ladies love power! So I said to Linda here, she was my littlest niece then, I know how to put you and all those other little girls right at the spot for any life changing idea that happens."

"Auntie Pat?"

"What is it dear?"

Linda picks up the longrat by the neck and points the head at Valcario. "You are telling secrets and not over lunch."

[Arkhosia]

The woman stares at Celica for a good long moment before replying. 'Gauss rifle sounds like it might be pretty tasty. How quick does it get through ammo? she asks.

Only two shots per microfusion cell, but it's worth it.
Celica replies.

[Baeleck]

Only two shots per microfusion cell, but it's worth it.
Celica replies.
The woman wrinkles her nose slightly. 'Hmh, well alright. I s'pose I better have a look see before just dismissin' it.'

She stretches her wings out, feathers ruffling, while she waits expectantly for the weapon to be retrieved.

[Arkhosia]

The woman wrinkles her nose slightly. 'Hmh, well alright. I s'pose I better have a look see before just dismissin' it.'

She stretches her wings out, feathers ruffling, while she waits expectantly for the weapon to be retrieved.

Celica shows the woman a Gauss Rifle!
http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Gauss_rifle_(Fallout:_New_Vegas)

Dirty Dan's Diner
Xenna presumably arrives here with Arlem!

[Lord Raziere]

"Oh us? Ladies over Lunch ideas league semi annuals. Started over fifty years ago by Patti here."

The ghost woman waves. She takes over talking and Linda looks at the longrat Valcario is standing on. "Knowledge is power, dear. And we ladies love power! So I said to Linda here, she was my littlest niece then, I know how to put you and all those other little girls right at the spot for any life changing idea that happens."

"Auntie Pat?"

"What is it dear?"

Linda picks up the longrat by the neck and points the head at Valcario. "You are telling secrets and not over lunch."

He looks out at the chaos on the street. Then back at the women clearly enjoying the show, then at the advertisement. This was supposed to be secret?
"Uh, if you were aiming for secrecy, then I think you took "hiding in plain sight" a little too far."
He said while showing them the advertisement in the Gazette.

[Baeleck]

Celica shows the woman a Gauss Rifle!
http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Gauss_rifle_(Fallout:_New_Vegas)

The rifle is inspected in some detail. The winged woman takes her time, tipping it back and forth in her hands and looking down the scope.

'See now, I like this gun. Feels good. More importantly, looks good. Y'know, so long as you look the part, people tend not to want to get involved.' She smirks at Celica, passing the gun back over. 'How much you askin' for it?'

[Arkhosia]

The rifle is inspected in some detail. The winged woman takes her time, tipping it back and forth in her hands and looking down the scope.

'See now, I like this gun. Feels good. More importantly, looks good. Y'know, so long as you look the part, people tend not to want to get involved.' She smirks at Celica, passing the gun back over. 'How much you askin' for it?'

[Reasonable, if a bit high, price], miss.
Celica replies.

[Baeleck]

There's that nose-wrinkling again. 'I think [somewhat less than reasonable price] is a little more like it.'

And so the inevitable haggling war begins.

'Also, call me Tonja. I'm no miss.'

[Arkhosia]

There's that nose-wrinkling again. 'I think [somewhat less than reasonable price] is a little more like it.'

And so the inevitable haggling war begins.

'Also, call me Tonja. I'm no miss.'

How about we meet halfway?
Celica suggests.

[Baeleck]

Tonja nods. 'Sure, so long as I get everything I need. Few of those microfusion cells, strap, case.'

[Arkhosia]

[Reasonable price], miss.
Celica replies..

[Baeleck]

'I s'pose I better say yes, before you hike the price up even higher, eh?'

Tonja smirks again. This woman knew how to do business. The required monies are fished from her pocket and presented to Celica.

[Taet]

He looks out at the chaos on the street. Then back at the women clearly enjoying the show, then at the advertisement. This was supposed to be secret?
"Uh, if you were aiming for secrecy, then I think you took "hiding in plain sight" a little too far."
He said while showing them the advertisement in the Gazette.

Patti the ghost sighs. "Why make it secret? We find some of our best new girls this way. Have to spell everything out for the young."

"Order! Come to order! Next invention please!"

The ghost looks happier. "Oh here this will explain everything."

"Patti and her Attitude Adjustment Beam!"

"Auntie Pat! I told you I was entering the Clue by Four by Four this year! How could you!" :smallsigh: Linda is still talking while she ducks and covers.

The wheeled flashlight spins! Patti becomes invisible again and the light goes across the crowd one by one. The women stop talking about whatever they were talking about.

"Patti for president!"
"Patti for president!"
"Patti for president!"
Ducking and covering did not help. Linda stands up and shouts with the others. They are all looking up and around trying to find Patti. And the wheeled flashlight is spinning around and almost pointing at Valcario now.

[Lord Raziere]

Long Street

Hypno-flashlight! AAHH!!
He reacts fast and fires a single bullet towards it, aiming at the flashlight's spinning wheel. If he couldn't duck to evade it, the only course of action was to destroy it before it got him.

[Lord Magtok]

Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4)


[Flight of the Concords]

Therlynn ignores the sweetrolls, and fires another arrow at Magtok's hand, hoping to dislodge Arkh...Then the grenades go off behind her, and she ends up being flung forwards, into a wall.


We're not paying the fine or serving our sentence!
Ark yells as she is picked up.

"Aaagh!"

Gah, another arrow! Damn this stupid archer, and damn Magtok's lack of armor! That's going to hurt tomorrow, but despite what Therlynn might have intended, shooting an arrow through Magtok's hand, and possibly stabbing into Ark with it, that's probably just going to make it harder to dislodge the catgirl, if anything.

He flies higher, trying to find the nearest edge of Skyside. If he can just find a way to jump off the flying island, how's the werewolf going to follow them from there?

[Taet]

Long Street

Hypno-flashlight! AAHH!!
He reacts fast and fires a single bullet towards it, aiming at the flashlight's spinning wheel.

The flashlight wheels jam for a second. The light wiggles. Then the bullet pops out and the wheels jump forward and the light goes faster up and into windows and not into people on the street.

It wears off quick. People start to open windows and shout "Patti for partner of Skyside!" but the women in the street blink and shout back "no!". Linda gets back up. "You! Can you see her?" she says to Valcario.

"Oh my" says Patti from somewhere up in the sky. "Now I have to disqualify anyone that you came here to cheer for. And you." She screams a banshee scream. Those make some people run. For some people it just hurts.

Linda is just hurt. "Get me to my car! Auntie Pat always cheats at the idea swap."

[Lord Raziere]

The Long Street

"Oh go ahead and keep screeching. It seems I've been a little too nice."
He changes the ammo on his revolver. normal bullets didn't affect ghosts, but Ecto Rounds caused them pain and made them disperse if fired enough.
He then pointed his gun at the banshee again.
"Let me make this clear: I'm not very patient right now. So I'm just going to skip the part where I ask what in the nine hells is going on here, and just go straight to part where I demand you hand over the inventions or at least some of them here so I can make something actually useful out of them, unlike the stupid gizmos you've been making here.

I mean- really? longmaker? a hypno-flashlight? No wonder your second rate "tradition" is stuck in Skyside terrorizing the people who come to it. Its kind of pathetic really. I mean if you had come up with anything actually worth selling, do you really think you'd be on the street, exchanging ideas with random women, who unlike you are still alive? Your just haunting all this because you couldn't accept that you'll never be a great inventor. Get real and move on, before this gets ugly. Only chance I'm giving you."

[Felandria]

'I s'pose I better say yes, before you hike the price up even higher, eh?'

Tonja smirks again. This woman knew how to do business. The required monies are fished from her pocket and presented to Celica.

The door swings open and the light in the shop dims slightly, a large figure ducks through the doorway and approaches the shopkeeper.

YOU.

[5a Violista]

Groundtown
(Scene open!)
In the crossroads of Sixth and Dusty Cider Avenue, a block east from the Dusty Schoolhouse
Three thirty-three in the afternoon Adelina was a nice, pretty young woman, engaged to the love of her life, and visiting her cousin here in Groundtown, who lived in house 357, Dusty Cider.
A gaunt woman floated south down Sixth Street. She wasn't walking - she was literally floating. Her feet didn't even touch the ground, but stayed a constant six inches above the ground. Her hair was white and her skin, ash-grey. She wore a gray dress with a spider-web design on it, which only complimented the eerie black grin on her face.

Staring at a building (JP Morgana's Law Business) on the corner of the street, she grabbed a pair of scissors from her back. She cut two inches from part of her hair, and threw it at the building. When the strands of hair hit the walls, they went ablaze and began burning the house.

Screams of "Fire!" erupted throughout the road. The woman, the Exploding Witch Maria, smiled even wider. "For all of this/with my mad blood/spilling out of me/like frost," she drones, her eyes glistening in the flame. Then, she adds, "To drink that which I've lost."

She turns away from the blazing building and heads east.

... Adelina, in her cousins house, heard the screams of "Fire!" and fled into the house next to the Dusty Schoolhouse. She told her cousin to run to the back; let the player characters take care of this.
A hero better deter the witch, and quick.

[Taet]

The Long Street

"Oh go ahead and keep screeching. It seems I've been a little too nice."
He changes the ammo on his revolver. normal bullets didn't affect ghosts, but Ecto Rounds caused them pain and made them disperse if fired enough.
He then pointed his gun at the banshee again.
"Let me make this clear: I'm not very patient right now. So I'm just going to skip the part where I ask what in the nine hells is going on here, and just go straight to part where I demand you hand over the inventions or at least some of them here so I can make something actually useful out of them, unlike the stupid gizmos you've been making here.

I mean- really? longmaker? a hypno-flashlight? No wonder your second rate "tradition" is stuck in Skyside terrorizing the people who come to it. Its kind of pathetic really. I mean if you had come up with anything actually worth selling, do you really think you'd be on the street, exchanging ideas with random women, who unlike you are still alive? Your just haunting all this because you couldn't accept that you'll never be a great inventor. Get real and move on, before this gets ugly. Only chance I'm giving you."

Patti stops screaming and goes invisible again. I am still not sure that you can see her or not. The flashlight is spinning up high so I guess you can when the light hits her too. "Inventor? Who cares about that? Linda I take it back. The newspaper was good cover. Linda!"

"Patti for partner of Skyside!" The people in the windows are not giving up. :smallsigh:

Linda rolls back into the street. She is driving a human size jeep with steam coming out of the back pipe. "I care about that! I am an inventor Auntie Pat! I am not a pretty power behind the scenes wife just pushing buttons." She spins the wheel and the seat flies out of the jeep and up into the air with Linda!

"Will you hurry up out there so I can win? I already bought a nice suit for my first day pushing buttons for important people."

"And see where it got you" says Patti. Right next to Linda. Then she looks down again. "And I do not see you doing anything but. What was it? Exchanging ideas with random women. Men." Patti screams just from being annoyed.

They are very close in the air. I hope you are a good shot. And what are you going to do about the Clue by Four by Four jeep that started to drive towards you? :smalleek:

[Lord Raziere]

Patti stops screaming and goes invisible again. I am still not sure that you can see her or not. The flashlight is spinning up high so I guess you can when the light hits her too. "Inventor? Who cares about that? Linda I take it back. The newspaper was good cover. Linda!"

"Patti for partner of Skyside!" The people in the windows are not giving up. :smallsigh:

Linda rolls back into the street. She is driving a human size jeep with steam coming out of the back pipe. "I care about that! I am an inventor Auntie Pat! I am not a pretty power behind the scenes wife just pushing buttons." She spins the wheel and the seat flies out of the jeep and up into the air with Linda!

"Will you hurry up out there so I can win? I already bought a nice suit for my first day pushing buttons for important people."

"And see where it got you" says Patti. Right next to Linda. Then she looks down again. "And I do not see you doing anything but. What was it? Exchanging ideas with random women. Men." Patti screams just from being annoyed.

They are very close in the air. I hope you are a good shot. And what are you going to do about the Clue by Four by Four jeep that started to drive towards you? :smalleek:

His hand first goes to his steampunk mono-goggle eyepatch. He turns a little knob on it to adjust the vision on it to see in the Magic Spectrum. It was no enchantment- just science. Magic was a type of energy and was visible on a certain level of light, and all he had done was adjusted his mono-goggle to that. He saw the banshee just fine. What? its not as if he never faced magic before.

He then activated his pogo-boots, bouncing upwards, then deactivating them and landing on the car itself. Safest place from car was on top of car. Ok, now he kinda knew what was happening here. The banshee was trying to hypnotize people into making her ruler of the place. Used the Longmaker as an opportunity to start conquering? whatever the heck the Longmaker was. Oh well. The motivation was cliche and unreasonably stupid enough, time to kill the villain. He took aim at the banshee and fired off two shots of ecto rounds at her as a start.

[Arkhosia]

'I s'pose I better say yes, before you hike the price up even higher, eh?'

Tonja smirks again. This woman knew how to do business. The required monies are fished from her pocket and presented to Celica.
Celica chuckles as Tonja pays, and the transaction is completed! :smallbiggrin:

Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4)





"Aaagh!"

Gah, another arrow! Damn this stupid archer, and damn Magtok's lack of armor! That's going to hurt tomorrow, but despite what Therlynn might have intended, shooting an arrow through Magtok's hand, and possibly stabbing into Ark with it, that's probably just going to make it harder to dislodge the catgirl, if anything.

He flies higher, trying to find the nearest edge of Skyside. If he can just find a way to jump off the flying island, how's the werewolf going to follow them from there?

Ark puts her gun away and focuses, trying to drain Therlynn's energy and give it to Magtok so it'll be easier for him to hold her (who, though lightweight, is now burdened by a few sacks of coins, gems, paper money, etc).

The door swings open and the light in the shop dims slightly, a large figure ducks through the doorway and approaches the shopkeeper.

YOU.

Celica's eyes widen.
****!
She runs to the back door of the shop in an attempt to escape.

[Recaiden]

Dirty Dan's Diner


Xenna presumably arrives here with Arlem!

A bit over-presumtuous, as Arlem stated that she would arrive separately.
Across the street from the diner, a tall man in a beret has set up an easel and is busily painting a rather poor surreal version of the Skyside street, a distraction while he reads the minds of passers-by and waits for the slavers to arrive. He makes no additional notice of Xenna, but she may hear someone say, I'm ready once they arrive.

[Taet]

His hand first goes to his steampunk mono-goggle eyepatch. He turns a little knob on it to adjust the vision on it to see in the Magic Spectrum. It was no enchantment- just science. Magic was a type of energy and was visible on a certain level of light, and all he had done was adjusted his mono-goggle to that. He saw the banshee just fine. What? its not as if he never faced magic before.

He then activated his pogo-boots, bouncing upwards, then deactivating them and landing on the car itself. Safest place from car was on top of car. Ok, now he kinda knew what was happening here. The banshee was trying to hypnotize people into making her ruler of the place. Used the Longmaker as an opportunity to start conquering? whatever the heck the Longmaker was. Oh well. The motivation was cliche and unreasonably stupid enough, time to kill the villain. He took aim at the banshee and fired off two shots of ecto rounds at her as a start.

Tinkertown, A ShortLong Street

The car bounces down when Valcario lands on it. And Linda's seat bounces down in the air too? She looks down. "Do not scratch the paint!" she shouts. "It is new!" She honks the horn on the wheel and arms lift the front wood bumper up and straight at Valcario. It is set up the way a dump truck is. Lift up and go over and dump whatever is on it behind the driver seat.

But there is still time. "Do not point that eye piece at me, young man."

Valcario shoots and hits! :smallbiggrin: More of the women scream and run out of the street.

"Rats and bugs and ghosts and now guns? That is it I quit!"
"Kevlar purse strap! Nobody can shoot me and I look fashionable."
"First prize for the Kevlar purse strap, now sell me one too."

Patti rolls over and over in the air but hears the magic word Sell and pays attention to that instead. "What is that dear? Sales already?" She cannot fly straight any more. The ghost tries to fly into the crowd but goes from side to side on the way. Better fire fast or you will not get another shot! "What was your name? My husband's shops will be very interested in selling your design with your name on it."

[Ionbound]

Ark puts her gun away and focuses, trying to drain Therlynn's energy and give it to Magtok so it'll be easier for him to hold her (who, though lightweight, is now burdened by a few sacks of coins, gems, paper money, etc).

Feeling exhausted both from the impact and Arkh's power, it takes Therlynn long enough to pull herself out of the impact mark on the wall that Magtok and Arkh are far enough away that all she can do is shake an angry fist in their direction. Looks like evil wins again.

A few minutes later, Therlynn meets back up with Eyros, and says to him, "Sorry about that...Those two are just insane, and I've sort of taken it upon myself to stop them whenever I run into them doing something evil. I'm a member of HALO, see, and they're AMENites, so they do evil, and it's my job to try to stop them."

[Baeleck]

The door swings open and the light in the shop dims slightly, a large figure ducks through the doorway and approaches the shopkeeper.

YOU.


Celica's eyes widen.
****!
She runs to the back door of the shop in an attempt to escape.
At first, Tonja is of the assumption that the mystery guest might be after her, her newly-acquired gun being raised slightly in the large figure's direction. However, once it becomes clear that this person was not after her, the winged woman merely stands to one side of the shop, so as not to get involved. It was legitimately none of her business, and now that her business was done, she didn't really have a reason to stick around.

She kinda wants to see where this goes though, so she lingers, steely gaze watching as Celica attempts to flee the scene.

[Arkhosia]

Feeling exhausted both from the impact and Arkh's power, it takes Therlynn long enough to pull herself out of the impact mark on the wall that Magtok and Arkh are far enough away that all she can do is shake an angry fist in their direction. Looks like evil wins again.

A few minutes later, Therlynn meets back up with Eyros, and says to him, "Sorry about that...Those two are just insane, and I've sort of taken it upon myself to stop them whenever I run into them doing something evil. I'm a member of HALO, see, and they're AMENites, so they do evil, and it's my job to try to stop them."

Eyros nods.
Ah.

[Ionbound]

[Aftermath]

Therlynn pants a little bit, and says to Eyros, "Alright. Let's keep looking for your friends."

((Scene close? Also, you post first when they get to HALO from the Island.))

[Arkhosia]

[Aftermath]

Therlynn pants a little bit, and says to Eyros, "Alright. Let's keep looking for your friends."

((Scene close? Also, you post first when they get to HALO from the Island.))

((Yep! Could you please? :smallsmile:))

[Devixer]

Warehouse:

Nest actually, and her search through the miniature jungle proves fruitful (Eh? Eh?). She eventually hears mor than the sounds of rustling plants. The sounds lead her towards the back of the warehouse, where she finds a small clearing made of trampled plants.

Seems she's stumbled across a struggle between the monsters. Thorns has Vines on it's knees, one hand where a hands throat would be the other hand pounding against Vines' head. Medals fall out of its head until they form a new club like its old one.

It has the advantage until Vines sticks its tendrils in its back. Thorns shrieks in pain as rows and rows of medals are ripped from it and returned to Vines with more on top. Vines stands triuphant, with thorns on the ground barely keeping from passing out.

Neither of them have noticed Ashley yet.

Ashley decides that now isn't the time to get into a fight. She tries to sneak around Thorns and Vines, to just find the nest and burn it away.


[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

"Okay, this is really starting to freak me out." Dana finally admits. To herself as much as anyone. "Maybe we should just try another ride."

"Yeah, maybe we should. Can we just backtrack?" Aiden honestly wasn't sure if he could.

[Ionbound]

[Celica's Smithery]

Therlynn walks into the empty shop, and waits by the counter for the owner to appear.

[Arkhosia]

[Celica's Smithery]

Therlynn walks into the empty shop, and waits by the counter for the owner to appear.

Let's Have This Be A Separate Scene!

Celica is at the counter!
Hello miss! What'cha looking for?

[Ionbound]

Let's Have This Be A Separate Scene!

Celica is at the counter!
Hello miss! What'cha looking for?

Therlynn smiles at the owner, and says, "Hi!" She flashed the card Caelynn gave her, and says, "Caelynn told me about this place. She also gave me this stuff called Dust, and said it could be used to make weapons? Thing is, I have no what it is or how it works, so I was hoping you could help me out, and maybe make me a nice new bow out of it."

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn smiles at the owner, and says, "Hi!" She flashed the card Caelynn gave her, and says, "Caelynn told me about this place. She also gave me this stuff called Dust, and said it could be used to make weapons? Thing is, I have no what it is or how it works, so I was hoping you could help me out, and maybe make me a nice new bow out of it."

Actually, it's more used to power weapons with elemental effects. For example, Caelynn's gauntlets use white dust gems to create a concussive shockwave upon impact. Want a normal bow or one that can transform into a melee weapon, and what type of bow?

[Ionbound]

Actually, it's more used to power weapons with elemental effects. For example, Caelynn's gauntlets use white dust gems to create a concussive shockwave upon impact. Want a normal bow or one that can transform into a melee weapon, and what type of bow?

Therlynn thinks for a few minutes, and then says, "Well, having a melee weapon would certainly be nice, so I think I'll take the transforming option...As for the type, can you make it like this?" Therlynn shows Celica the bow she's currently using, a composite longbow.

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn thinks for a few minutes, and then says, "Well, having a melee weapon would certainly be nice, so I think I'll take the transforming option...As for the type, can you make it like this?" Therlynn shows Celica the bow she's currently using, a composite longbow.

What mêlée weapon?
Celica asks.

[Ionbound]

What mêlée weapon?
Celica asks.

Therlynn thinks some more, and eventually says, "Is a longsword possible?"

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn thinks some more, and eventually says, "Is a longsword possible?"

Yep!
Celica replies.

[Ionbound]

Yep!
Celica replies.

Therlynn smiles and says, "Cool. So, I just give you the Dust, and you can make this for me?"

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn smiles and says, "Cool. So, I just give you the Dust, and you can make this for me?"

Celica nods.
any way I can contact you when I'm done?
The rabbit faunus asks.

[Ionbound]

Celica nods.
any way I can contact you when I'm done?
The rabbit faunus asks.

Therlynn rubs the back of her head, and says, "Um...Now that I think about it, no, actually. I need to fix that at some point. Can you just estimate how long it will take, and I'll come back then?"

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn rubs the back of her head, and says, "Um...Now that I think about it, no, actually. I need to fix that at some point. Can you just estimate how long it will take, and I'll come back then?"

Probably in about a week.
Celica replies.

[Ionbound]

Probably in about a week.
Celica replies.

Therlynn nods, hands her the Dust, and says, "I'll see you then."

[In The Interest of Time]

One week later, Therlynn comes back into the shop. She asks, "Is my bow done yet?"

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn nods, hands her the Dust, and says, "I'll see you then."

[In The Interest of Time]

One week later, Therlynn comes back into the shop. She asks, "Is my bow done yet?"

[Timeskip!]

Celica nods, presenting a composite longbow made of steel with a slot next to the arrow rest.
Here you go! The slot next to the arrow rest is a dust compartment. White dust will imbue the arrow with a shockwave on impact, red will make an explosion, orange will burst unto flame, blue creates ice, yellow stuns, and purple poisons.

[Ionbound]

[Timeskip!]

Celica nods, presenting a composite longbow made of steel with a slot next to the arrow rest.
Here you go! The slot next to the arrow rest is a dust compartment. White dust will imbue the arrow with a shockwave on impact, red will make an explosion, orange will burst unto flame, blue creates ice, yellow stuns, and purple poisons.

Therlynn laughs as she takes the bow, and holds it by the grip. She says, "Looks like the playing field's been leveled, Arkh," then turns back to Celica, and says, "You said it could also turn into a longsword? How does that work?"

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn laughs as she takes the bow, and holds it by the grip. She says, "Looks like the playing field's been leveled, Arkh," then turns back to Celica, and says, "You said it could also turn into a longsword? How does that work?"

Press the button on the handle.
((How the bow looks in both forms is completely up to you)).

[Ionbound]

Press the button on the handle.
((How the bow looks in both forms is completely up to you)).

Therlynn presses the button, and the bow changes in her hand into a longsword with a black hilt and slightly spiky handguard, and she presses another button under the handguard, and it shifts back to being a bow. She says to Celica, "Thanks! This will definitely even the odds against anybody who thinks they can take advantage of the person who uses archaic weapons. How much do I owe you for it?"

((Bow version is on my tektek in the directory.))

[Arkhosia]

Therlynn presses the button, and the bow changes in her hand into a longsword with a black hilt and slightly spiky handguard, and she presses another button under the handguard, and it shifts back to being a bow. She says to Celica, "Thanks! This will definitely even the odds against anybody who thinks they can take advantage of the person who uses archaic weapons. How much do I owe you for it?"

((Bow version is on my tektek in the directory.))

[Reasonable price with a discount due to being a friend of Caelynn's.]

[Ionbound]

[Reasonable price with a discount due to being a friend of Caelynn's.]

Therlynn nods, and says, "Alright, here you go! Thank you so much!" Therlynn hands over the amount asked for and leaves.

[OrchestraHc]

Ashley decides that now isn't the time to get into a fight. She tries to sneak around Thorns and Vines, to just find the nest and burn it away.

Warehouse:

The area of flattened plant life is as close to a nest as she has seen thus far. In this case, in the style of a gorilla's nest.

[Zefir]

Arkant's Workshop

Well, Arkant did give them something simular to a sky whale. Just better.^^ Arkant seems to speak such important things out and also calls numbers to some. Mainly the halfling fod thing and the whale fear. such things should be changed. Then he tries to go deeper, searching for things the creature has done for it's master. If you know what the creation should do he can fit them in .

((Still saw no replie from you Earl))

Arkant's Warehouse

It's been much time since something happened here. People who took care about the facility will notice that the warehouse got quiet busy. People get in and come out different. For example someone goes in and as he leaves he got wings on his back. Those people don't seem to mind the new limbs, skin or whatever they have. In fact they appear happy.And with time passing by, the people forget about the rumors that have been their while ago.

There are still people disapearing every day, but none while point at the warehouse and say it's cause of them.

[Felandria]

Celica chuckles as Tonja pays, and the transaction is completed! :smallbiggrin:


Ark puts her gun away and focuses, trying to drain Therlynn's energy and give it to Magtok so it'll be easier for him to hold her (who, though lightweight, is now burdened by a few sacks of coins, gems, paper money, etc).


Celica's eyes widen.
****!
She runs to the back door of the shop in an attempt to escape.

In a flash, Deadra is suddenly between Celica and the door.

You have forsaken me.

[Arkhosia]

In a flash, Deadra is suddenly between Celica and the door.

You have forsaken me.

Celica desperately pulls out her pistol, shakily pointing at her while backing away, fear evident in her eyes.

[Felandria]

Celica desperately pulls out her pistol, shakily pointing at her while backing away, fear evident in her eyes.

Deadra stares at Celica, stoic, unmoving, using every mental tool in her disposal to hide just how much seeing Celica pointing the gun at her bothers her.

Why did you leave?

[Arkhosia]

Deadra stares at Celica, stoic, unmoving, using every mental tool in her disposal to hide just how much seeing Celica pointing the gun at her bothers her.

Why did you leave?

I-I w-wanted t-to be c-cured!
Celica replies, shaking.

[Felandria]

I-I w-wanted t-to be c-cured!
Celica replies, shaking.

Deadra is puzzled.

But why?

You wanted to be turned in the first place.

Didn't you?

[Arkhosia]

Deadra is puzzled.

But why?

You wanted to be turned in the first place.

Didn't you?

I-I didn't e-expect the s-side effects t-to b-be so severe!
Celica replies, shaking.

[Felandria]

I-I didn't e-expect the s-side effects t-to b-be so severe!
Celica replies, shaking.

Then why didn't you just come to me instead of leaving me?

You didn't even leave a note.

[Arkhosia]

Then why didn't you just come to me instead of leaving me?

You didn't even leave a note.

I-I feared h-how you'd r-react! I'm-I'm sorry!
Celica replies.

[Lord Raziere]

Tinkertown, A ShortLong Street

The car bounces down when Valcario lands on it. And Linda's seat bounces down in the air too? She looks down. "Do not scratch the paint!" she shouts. "It is new!" She honks the horn on the wheel and arms lift the front wood bumper up and straight at Valcario. It is set up the way a dump truck is. Lift up and go over and dump whatever is on it behind the driver seat.

But there is still time. "Do not point that eye piece at me, young man."

Valcario shoots and hits! :smallbiggrin: More of the women scream and run out of the street.

"Rats and bugs and ghosts and now guns? That is it I quit!"
"Kevlar purse strap! Nobody can shoot me and I look fashionable."
"First prize for the Kevlar purse strap, now sell me one too."

Patti rolls over and over in the air but hears the magic word Sell and pays attention to that instead. "What is that dear? Sales already?" She cannot fly straight any more. The ghost tries to fly into the crowd but goes from side to side on the way. Better fire fast or you will not get another shot! "What was your name? My husband's shops will be very interested in selling your design with your name on it."

He lands behind the drive's seat, wishing he had tracker bullets like that time he gotten lost in an infinite mechanical plane of cogs. He'd have stayed, but the people there were too dour, too focused being cogs in the machine they were in. The one place where he could probably make anything he wanted, and the people there were total bores and sticklers for rules!

He nevertheless took aim at the center of the banshees mass and fired his last four ecto-round shots at her in rapid succession. Do they hit?

I mean so what if his explosives were not exactly regulation standard, or that his ammo was quote "illegal"? They still worked against that giant robot! and don't even get him started on the fact they tried to confiscate his flying steambike! Guy's gotta go wherever he feels the need y'know?

[Taet]

He lands behind the drive's seat, wishing he had tracker bullets like that time he gotten lost in an infinite mechanical plane of cogs. He'd have stayed, but the people there were too dour, too focused being cogs in the machine they were in. The one place where he could probably make anything he wanted, and the people there were total bores and sticklers for rules!

He nevertheless took aim at the center of the banshees mass and fired his last four ecto-round shots at her in rapid succession. Do they hit?

I mean so what if his explosives were not exactly regulation standard, or that his ammo was quote "illegal"? They still worked against that giant robot! and don't even get him started on the fact they tried to confiscate his flying steambike! Guy's gotta go wherever he feels the need y'know?

There is a driver in the driver's seat again! Or that is what the jeep thinks. The weight plate in the driver's spot goes click and the panel opens and a new driving wheel folds out. :smallsmile:

Patti gets hit by all four ecto-rounds. She should not have stopped to talk about profits. She stops talking when the first one hits. She fades when the second and third ones hit but comes back. But the last bullet makes her fade away and she does not come back. :smalleek: Her flashlight turns around in a circle beeping and puts out an antenna.

Linda spins the driving wheel on her seat and her seat turns in the air. But the jeep does not! Now that it has a driving wheel inside the Clue by Four by Four does not listen to the wheel outside! :smallbiggrin: "Stop! Thief!" she shouts!

The women in the street are talking about the idea swap again and stopped worrying about getting shot.
"First prize for the Kevlar purse strap! I vote for Karen!"
"First prize for the Kevlar purse strap! I vote for Karen!"
"Thank you for the prize money and the job opportunity!" :smallbiggrin:

[Felandria]

I-I feared h-how you'd r-react! I'm-I'm sorry!
Celica replies.

Tell me, Celica, do you honestly believe that had you been honest and up front with me, I would have been more offended that I am by you simply disappearing without notice?

And put the gun down, don't be ridiculous, if I wanted to hurt you, you would be hurt.

[Arkhosia]

Tell me, Celica, do you honestly believe that had you been honest and up front with me, I would have been more offended that I am by you simply disappearing without notice?

And put the gun down, don't be ridiculous, if I wanted to hurt you, you would be hurt.

Celica drops the pistol, crying silently.
I-I did... I m-made a very b-bad c-choice t-that day, I-I realize.

[Earl of Purple]

Arkant's Warehouse

This particular example has never served in Pazuzu's armed forces. However, it does know several individuals that have, and they were primarily used to finish off the wounded and occasionally used to bombard enemy positions with exhaled balls of fire.

[Felandria]

Celica drops the pistol, crying silently.
I-I did... I m-made a very b-bad c-choice t-that day, I-I realize.

Just because I'm an evil undead demigod doesn't mean I don't have feelings, Celica.

[Arkhosia]

Just because I'm an evil undead demigod doesn't mean I don't have feelings, Celica.

I-I know.
Daedra... I-I should probably tell you... I have a daughter now.

[BladeofObliviom]

Bank Robbery Classic

"Criminal Record? In Skyside?" Invictus says skeptically. "Right. Guess it's going to be the ear then." Though one arm is maintaining the grapple, the other has produced a blade of some sort, which is resting just against the inner cartilage of one of Lady's ears. Pokey, but not bleedy, unless Lady struggles against it.


Bank Robbery Uno

Gah! Intrepid is zapped, and knocked clear across the room by the electromagnet, twisting and twitching! Various subroutines kick in, hurriedly trying to reverse or repair whatever damage was dealt. This isn't the first time Magtok's been threatened with EMP, electrocution, or magnets, after all. He figured immunity would just lead to word getting out about his immunity, followed by escalation. Speedy repair modules that merely keep him unconscious and alive, however? Totally kosher.

Bank Robbery, totally not Deadtimed!

Gentleman jumps a little as Intrepid magnetically zips across the room! He was not expecting that, fortuitous as it might be! Now, what was he doing? Oh right, dealing with the psycho jabbing a knife into his wife's ear.

"I'll grant you that one, it's just that secret identities can be hard to keep under the rug, savvy?

Anyway, madam, I'm just trying to figure out what you're doing, because taking hostages and threatening mutilation just doesn't seem a heroic thing to do. I think we might be violating some important genre conventions here."

Lady for her part, continues to struggle for several seconds but soon goes deathly still, not even daring to speak as the feeling of something enters her ear. She knows enough about her own anatomy to understand just how bad that is, and knows just how hard it would be to fix up. She does, however, ever-so-carefully try tilting her head away from the blade as Gentleman speaks, even if that isn't too likely to work. Can't hurt to try, right? :smalltongue:

Gentleman glances over at Intrepid to make sure that he isn't about to be jumped from behind, but doesn't make any active moves. Wouldn't want to be hasty, especially since he actually cares for the hostage! (And as mentioned, he probably wouldn't hit a girl anyway.)

[happyturtle]

The Heights


The Heights

Zoe will help if allowed, and has experience washing up and carrying crockery.

Besides that, a morning skip would be appreciated.

No one wakes either Zoe or Asinoe. How late do they sleep?


SkyParkHappyFunLand


[SkyParkHappyFunLand]

"Okay, this is really starting to freak me out." Dana finally admits. To herself as much as anyone. "Maybe we should just try another ride."


"Yeah, maybe we should. Can we just backtrack?" Aiden honestly wasn't sure if he could.

Maybe you can. How good at you at finding the trail?



Bank Robbery, totally not Deadtimed!


Gentleman jumps a little as Intrepid magnetically zips across the room! He was not expecting that, fortuitous as it might be! Now, what was he doing? Oh right, dealing with the psycho jabbing a knife into his wife's ear.

"I'll grant you that one, it's just that secret identities can be hard to keep under the rug, savvy?

Anyway, madam, I'm just trying to figure out what you're doing, because taking hostages and threatening mutilation just doesn't seem a heroic thing to do. I think we might be violating some important genre conventions here."

Lady for her part, continues to struggle for several seconds but soon goes deathly still, not even daring to speak as the feeling of something enters her ear. She knows enough about her own anatomy to understand just how bad that is, and knows just how hard it would be to fix up. She does, however, ever-so-carefully try tilting her head away from the blade as Gentleman speaks, even if that isn't too likely to work. Can't hurt to try, right? :smalltongue:

Gentleman glances over at Intrepid to make sure that he isn't about to be jumped from behind, but doesn't make any active moves. Wouldn't want to be hasty, especially since he actually cares for the hostage! (And as mentioned, he probably wouldn't hit a girl anyway.)

"Dammit, you mean Intrepid was right about all that stuff?," Invictus says. "Here's how I'd like this to go down. You're going to drop your weapons. Intrepid is going to tie you and the Lady up, and then I'm going to dangle you off the edge of the city. That's how you deter crime, I say. But Intrepid... he's the real hero here. He passed his hero exams and everything. So I guess I'll let him decide what happens to you, but only if you DROP YOUR WEAPONS RIGHT NOW!

The shout at the end is accompanied by crazy eyes, and more carefully repositioning her blade after Lady shifted away a bit.

[Lord Raziere]

There is a driver in the driver's seat again! Or that is what the jeep thinks. The weight plate in the driver's spot goes click and the panel opens and a new driving wheel folds out. :smallsmile:

Patti gets hit by all four ecto-rounds. She should not have stopped to talk about profits. She stops talking when the first one hits. She fades when the second and third ones hit but comes back. But the last bullet makes her fade away and she does not come back. :smalleek: Her flashlight turns around in a circle beeping and puts out an antenna.

Linda spins the driving wheel on her seat and her seat turns in the air. But the jeep does not! Now that it has a driving wheel inside the Clue by Four by Four does not listen to the wheel outside! :smallbiggrin: "Stop! Thief!" she shouts!

The women in the street are talking about the idea swap again and stopped worrying about getting shot.
"First prize for the Kevlar purse strap! I vote for Karen!"
"First prize for the Kevlar purse strap! I vote for Karen!"
"Thank you for the prize money and the job opportunity!" :smallbiggrin:

Valcario jumps from the car and decides to try to start plundering random inventions people are not paying attention to and putting them into another bag, separate from the clocks, trying to be as quick as possible before others notice him.

[Earl of Purple]

The Heights

Zoe will wake up at the crack of dawn, climbing out of her bed and stretching before she looks to find some new clothing.

Asinoe will likely stay asleep until quite late- ten o'clock, at the earliest. Unless she's awoken, anyway.

[Taet]

Gardent

Lion is showing off to his buddies. "Raps! Goat! Look at me, I can walk around all day now. Hey, stop trying to stick a spike in my pot! No ghost riding!" :smallannoyed:


Valcario jumps from the car and decides to try to start plundering random inventions people are not paying attention to and putting them into another bag, separate from the clocks, trying to be as quick as possible before others notice him.
Tinkertown, A ShortLong Street

Valcario jumps from the car! It is a fine and badass move jumping out of a running car and landing safe on his feet! It is almost sad that nobody but a longrat running out of the way notices it. :smallfrown:

He grabs a dozen inventions. There is steam tech and psi tech and Trek tech and magic tech and low tech but no bio tech. There is a big corked bottle and dolls of guys are trapped inside it looking sad and there is a label that says Husband waiting area. :smalleek: There is the jeep driving in circles. Linda is busy flying in her seat and taking over the idea swap. "What do you mean the swap is over already? She has got three quarters the votes? Fine. Congratulations Karen but next time I will not let you win." :smallsigh:

[Lord Raziere]

Tinkertown, A Long Street

He looks at the bottle of men
"Uh, y'know what, I'm gonna take you along, then uncork you in Nexus City. Cause I personally think you guys chose the wrong wives if they stuff you inside a bottle, even temporarily. I mean there is love and then there is just plain insanity, y'know? Not that I would personally know anything about that. Sorry if I don't release you immediately. Your just easier to transport this way."
He grabs the bottle of husbands, straps it to his belt and then runs off.

Pop's Chop Shop
Along the way he comes across Pop's Chop Shop. Hm. He already had enough inventions to make those treant mechashoes. But it never hurts to snag a couple extra things for his own projects. But then again he is already carrying a lot with the bags, and the bottle of husbands.....hmm....

Aw screw it. Whats one more bag of materials? Especially when you'll get to place them on the ship when you steal one from the docks.

He grabs his revolver and then kicks the door open and shouts.
"YAAAAAAAAR MATEYS! THIS HERE BE A LANDLUBBERIN' PLUNDERIN'!
He points it around wildly.

[Taet]

Tinkertown, A Long Street

He looks at the bottle of men
"Uh, y'know what, I'm gonna take you along, then uncork you in Nexus City. Cause I personally think you guys chose the wrong wives if they stuff you inside a bottle, even temporarily. I mean there is love and then there is just plain insanity, y'know? Not that I would personally know anything about that. Sorry if I don't release you immediately. Your just easier to transport this way."
He grabs the bottle of husbands, straps it to his belt and then runs off.

Pop's Chop Shop
Along the way he comes across Pop's Chop Shop. Hm. He already had enough inventions to make those treant mechashoes. But it never hurts to snag a couple extra things for his own projects. But then again he is already carrying a lot with the bags, and the bottle of husbands.....hmm....

Aw screw it. Whats one more bag of materials? Especially when you'll get to place them on the ship when you steal one from the docks.

He grabs his revolver and then kicks the door open and shouts.
"YAAAAAAAAR MATEYS! THIS HERE BE A LANDLUBBERIN' PLUNDERIN'!
He points it around wildly.

The husbands cheer! "THREE DAY WEEKEND!" :smallbiggrin:

Pop's Chop Shop

Two pairs of half elf arms stick out from under the boat of a mini blimp. They are putting their hands up but they are lying down. :smallsigh:

One of them talks loud from under the boat but he does not move. "We got another Number Four Customer coming in soon Pop."

"Keep your hats on" Pop yells from the bathroom. "I will be out in a minute."

"Pop told us getting the job done right the first time is all the customer service people want." says the other half elf. "So we will stay under here and not try to make you comfy while you wait. Also this boat is bullet resistant." This must be the smartest half elf. :smalltongue:

The husbands have all got their string doll faces pressed on the glass to watch. This is like the movies but better! :smallbiggrin:

[Lord Raziere]

Pop's Chop Shop

"Uuuuuuh......why are you guys under a blimp? Whats a number four customer? Why would I want to shoot a perfectly good blimp? Also, is it flyable? Why am I asking so many questions?"
Argh! He lost his pirate accent. He would have to re-accent when he is not so quizzical.

[Arkhosia]

Tempest Row (Closed Scene)

Ark is striding down the street with Boomstick twirled like a baton in her left hand, a bag full of money in her right.
Alouette, gentille alouette,
Alouette, je te plumerai...
She cheerfully sings as she walks.

[TechnoScrabble]

Tempest Row

Vwum! Vwoom!

PSHOW! PSHOW! PSHO-

Vwow-KZZSHT!

"AAAAAAAAAAAH! Ah-HAAAAAAAAAGHH!

Several shoddily dressed masked thugs rush out of an alleyway, stumbling over each other in their panick. Fear is burnt onto their faces as they scramble away, looking over their shoulders.

In the alley are three figures, two of them slumped against opposite walls while the third stands between them. One is one of the thugs, screaming and clutching a blaster wound in his arm as he slides down the wall. The figure standing bends down to take a purse from the thug, and turns to hand it to the woman behind him. As he turns, the orange glow from his lightsaber casts shadows across the alley and his face, which looks it was once attractive but is now marred by horrid burns and deep cuts.

The woman almost shrieks and jumps a little as Lazaro hands her her purse back and nods, and she tears out of the alley, almost knocking into Ark.

[Taet]

Pop's Chop Shop

"Uuuuuuh......why are you guys under a blimp? Whats a number four customer? Why would I want to shoot a perfectly good blimp? Also, is it flyable? Why am I asking so many questions?"
Argh! He lost his pirate accent. He would have to re-accent when he is not so quizzical.

"All of those questions and just one answer." :smallamused: The smartest one sounds like he is smiling.

The bathroom door was covered with metal just in case an engine blew up in the shop. Pop kicks it open anyway. Pop has a steamtech peg leg. And gun arm pointing at Valcario. And a furry clawed leg. And a half elf arm. And a long body like a longrat in a long metal coat. And half elf ears on a fox head.

Pop emergency teleported into a fox one day when running from the law. Both of them are still mad about it. :smallfurious:

"A Number Four." Pop growls too. "Has a gun and wants to use it on us. What are you looking at!" :smallmad:

[Arkhosia]

Tempest Row

Vwum! Vwoom!

PSHOW! PSHOW! PSHO-

Vwow-KZZSHT!

"AAAAAAAAAAAH! Ah-HAAAAAAAAAGHH!

Several shoddily dressed masked thugs rush out of an alleyway, stumbling over each other in their panick. Fear is burnt onto their faces as they scramble away, looking over their shoulders.

In the alley are three figures, two of them slumped against opposite walls while the third stands between them. One is one of the thugs, screaming and clutching a blaster wound in his arm as he slides down the wall. The figure standing bends down to take a purse from the thug, and turns to hand it to the woman behind him. As he turns, the orange glow from his lightsaber casts shadows across the alley and his face, which looks it was once attractive but is now marred by horrid burns and deep cuts.

The woman almost shrieks and jumps a little as Lazaro hands her her purse back and nods, and she tears out of the alley, almost knocking into Ark.

Ark just stares.
Overkill much, kid?
The cat faunus gestures to the dead corpses with Boomstick.
Also, if any angry goblins in suits ask, you did not see a woman with cat ears carrying the stuff they had in their bank in a bag walk by!
She comments cheerily, before walking away.

[TechnoScrabble]

Ark just stares.
Overkill much, kid?
The cat faunus gestures to the dead corpses with Boomstick.
Also, if any angry goblins in suits ask, you did not see a woman with cat ears carrying the stuff they had in their bank in a bag walk by!
She comments cheerily, before walking away.

Lazaro stares at Ark, his crispified brow making a movement that suggests he's trying to raise it.

"Just doing my good deed for the day. Don't want to end up the same kind of trash you are."

[Arkhosia]

Lazaro stares at Ark, his crispified brow making a movement that suggests he's trying to raise it.

"Just doing my good deed for the day. Don't want to end up the same kind of trash you are."

Ark stops, turning on her heel to face Lazaro.
Thanks for the criticism, but I'm perfectly happy with being me, Arkhosia Scorium, Evildoer Extrodiaire!
She replies, grinning her usual wild grin.

[Lord Raziere]

Pop's Chop Shop

"At honestly the weirdest thing I ever seen. How did a foxfolk wind up with elven ears and arm? Did you sow those on!? Wow, I didn't think you took "chop shop" in that kind of direction. Thats sick y'know that? And those guys under the blimp....your assistants? Are keeping them here against your will by threatening to butcher them if they leave and use them as parts to sow more of them onto you!?"
He is still quizzical, but actually not all that surprised he ran into something nonsensically mashed-up like this, amidst all the other stuff he has seen so far. Its been that kind of day.

[TechnoScrabble]

Ark stops, turning on her heel to face Lazaro.
Thanks for the criticism, but I'm perfectly happy with being me, Arkhosia Scorium, Evildoer Extrodiaire!
She replies, grinning her usual wild grin.

"And here I thought you were just a petty thief," Lazaro kicks at o e of the bodies by his feet, the steam still rising from the cuts.

"Just the kind that steals for fun, or profit. Makes life harder for people who live on the fringe, scavenging to survive, jes' 'cause you want to have fun. But I guess I overestimated you."

He crosses his arms, holding his lightsaber off to the side while his other hand gestures as if weighing options or offering something.

"What's your game, then? Murder? Mugging? Slavery?"

There's another word Lazaro won't say, but it hangs there as an accusation all the same.

[Arkhosia]

"And here I thought you were just a petty thief," Lazaro kicks at o e of the bodies by his feet, the steam still rising from the cuts.

"Just the kind that steals for fun, or profit. Makes life harder for people who live on the fringe, scavenging to survive, jes' 'cause you want to have fun. But I guess I overestimated you."

He crosses his arms, holding his lightsaber off to the side while his other hand gestures as if weighing options or offering something.

"What's your game, then? Murder? Mugging? Slavery?"

There's another word Lazaro won't say, but it hangs there as an accusation all the same.

Robbing businesses and banks, my friend! Also was a member of the White Fang a while ago back home, but that's not important as that was more of a misguided good act.
Ark replies, leaning on Boomstick (which is in staff form).

[Taet]

Pop's Chop Shop

"At honestly the weirdest thing I ever seen. How did a foxfolk wind up with elven ears and arm? Did you sow those on!? Wow, I didn't think you took "chop shop" in that kind of direction. Thats sick y'know that? And those guys under the blimp....your assistants? Are keeping them here against your will by threatening to butcher them if they leave and use them as parts to sow more of them onto you!?"
He is still quizzical, but actually not all that surprised he ran into something nonsensically mashed-up like this, amidst all the other stuff he has seen so far. Its been that kind of day.

"Hey that is kind of a good idea now that you say it." Pop keeps on going with that last idea. "You hear that boys? Next time one of you calls me something funny I am sending you to the parts shops!" :smallannoyed:

The less smart half elf does not like that. "Us? He is the one who called you a meat butcher." :smallfrown:

"Yeah. He did." Pop shoots one bullet into the metal floor in front of Valcario. Sunlight shines through and fresh air comes in through the hole. This is the bottom of Skyside. The floor is a door. "We work on machines here. So why do you not just take your all the same kind of meat body out of here. So me and the boys do not have to throw you out of here with the rest of the trash!" :smallmad:

The smarter half elf starts to move his wheeled bed and get out from under the boat. He wants the blimp between him and Valcario. "I hate Number Four customers." :smallsigh:

[TechnoScrabble]

Tempest Row

"Hardly evil, then. Just a parasite," Lazaro scoffs and steps forqrad, carefully crossing over a twitching body.

"I could tell you about real evil, y'know. Bad people, worse deeds. The little boy who witnessed it all."

[Arkhosia]

Tempest Row

"Hardly evil, then. Just a parasite," Lazaro scoffs and steps forqrad, carefully crossing over a twitching body.

"I could tell you about real evil, y'know. Bad people, worse deeds. The little boy who witnessed it all."

Yeah, I save my evil stuff for AMEN business.

Really?
Ark asks doubtfully.

[TechnoScrabble]

Tempest Row

"Really."

Lazaro stops about two arm's lengths away.

[Arkhosia]

Tempest Row

"Really."

Lazaro stops about two arm's lengths away.

Prove it then.
Ark replies, grinning.

[TechnoScrabble]

Tempest Row

"Prove what? That I have a story?" Lazaro scoffs.

His eye crosses a bit of broken glass reflecting his face back at him, and he grinds it into the ground with his foot.

"Who would you rather hear about, then? The coward? The paedophile? The child killer? The liar? The bitch? I know all their stories by heart, the boy had first hand knowledge of it all."

[Lord Raziere]

"Hey that is kind of a good idea now that you say it." Pop keeps on going with that last idea. "You hear that boys? Next time one of you calls me something funny I am sending you to the parts shops!" :smallannoyed:

The less smart half elf does not like that. "Us? He is the one who called you a meat butcher." :smallfrown:

"Yeah. He did." Pop shoots one bullet into the metal floor in front of Valcario. Sunlight shines through and fresh air comes in through the hole. This is the bottom of Skyside. The floor is a door. "We work on machines here. So why do you not just take your all the same kind of meat body out of here. So me and the boys do not have to throw you out of here with the rest of the trash!" :smallmad:

The smarter half elf starts to move his wheeled bed and get out from under the boat. He wants the blimp between him and Valcario. "I hate Number Four customers." :smallsigh:

OOC: aw, I expected him to protest so that Valcario could call him a trans-elf and then use Occam's Razor to further lead to the wrong conclusions. oh well.

"aha! so it is a frank-op! Actually I kind of agree. I need to get out of here, take a few of my friends with me to another city really. Just not the way you'd prefer. So if its all the same to you, either way I'm gonna have a nice trip."
He aims at the floor underneath Pop and fires a fist-bullet, one that turns into a fist midflight and hopefully punches a hole big enough for Pop to fall through.
"See you next fall."

[Taet]

OOC: aw, I expected him to protest so that Valcario could call him a trans-elf and then use Occam's Razor to further lead to the wrong conclusions. oh well.

"aha! so it is a frank-op! Actually I kind of agree. I need to get out of here, take a few of my friends with me to another city really. Just not the way you'd prefer. So if its all the same to you, either way I'm gonna have a nice trip."
He aims at the floor underneath Pop and fires a fist-bullet, one that turns into a fist midflight and hopefully punches a hole big enough for Pop to fall through.
"See you next fall."
Pop's Chop Shop

OOC: I would not even try that with most people. I would especially not try it with someone who picked a trans gender symbol under their name. Way too easy to mess up. :smalleek:

Pop smiles an evil smile at Valcario. Customer Number Four is going to try to use the same idea Pop used first! How boring.

And then it turns into a fist. :smalleek:

The steamtech peg leg is not a lot of help. The clawed leg grabs on better. But the claws just slide and squeak because all of Pop is trying to hang onto them. And then Pop is gone.

"POP!" shout the half elves.

"CORN!" shout the husbands in the jar. :smalltongue:

The half elf who got out from under the blimp first hits a button on the wall. But there is plenty of time to get off the floor. The not smart half elf kicks and rolls his wheeled bed over to a safe spot too. They put on jumping packs and leap out of the door in the floor. They are both still shouting "POP!"

The shop is yours. Because I cannot think of anything more weird and cool than a punch bullet. :smallbiggrin: