[center][h3][color=39b54a]Hiraga - Fewer questions than one would have thought[/color][/h3][/center]

Hiraga smiled, her barky skin creaking a little like an old floor board as she did. It was refreshing to once again look at familiar faces, at least the few that she didn't mind. [color=39b54a]"Well, less than you might expect, but I suppose there is a lot you want to tell us. But seeing as Amos is not here, I do have to ask: Have the Gates been opened?"[/color]

[color=39b54a][i]If so, can most of you go back home and stay there?[/i][/color] she added in thought. If only she could find a way to lock most of her bretheren in the Heavens and keep her power while she stayed here, that would solve most of her problems. She should talk to Amos about it, he would be the perfect jailer. Where is he anyway? Unfortunately most of her watchers were magical creatures, and their population was all but destroyed by the years without the source of their magic. She would need to bolster their ranks. That required souls to reincarnate though, which in turn required devoted followers. She would have to see about those afterwards - ever since they were banished, their legends have been all but forgotten as well. [color=39b54a][i]I think I should start at the green parties. Remove the string pullers that are twisting their ideology for their own gain, and ta-dah.[/i][/color]

Looking over the gathering, she spared Brod and Zencrux a wave of her hand. Hopefully there would be time to talk privately later.

[center][h3][color=0054a6]Shirley - Fast and Famished[/color][/h3][/center]
What was it? The bell, the bell that none else heard? It was driving her crazy. Hell, she probably was crazy. That, or somehow what her mother told her was actually true, rather than a fantasy of a crazy woman. If that was so... oh dear. It would explain how was it that in the morning, she shoveled two pizzas, a burrito and five burgers down her throat and still felt like eating, and while all of a sudden she was turned into a gentleman magnet - already she swatted away five of them. She needed to find Hiraga, perhaps she would know what was going on. Hence why she was currently running at inhuman speeds towards the source of the ringing.