[quote=@Tatterdemalion]
POTENTIAL 4

Showmanship. It’s all about the showmanship. Sure, she could try and just smack Witcherphim in the face with a laser, but that’s not sporting. That’s not a good show. That’s not going to leave the audience hungry for more.

So when she lunges forward, it’s with her own hardlight blade and a shimmering rainbow cloak over one arm: useful both for disguising the biotech injector in her hand and for disrupting Witcherphim’s strikes.

Go fast. Go hard. Go unexpected. Then just jam the injector up against her like it was a hidden knife and let it do its work. That’s the plan. But what’s a plan without a little flair, right?

[Snake Eyes on Unleashing her Powers.]
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Go fast. Go hard. Go unexpected. Words to live by, right, @Sarahphim?

[b]"THE WORLDORU!!"[/b]

You get hit by a tidal wave of energy from the side and blasted through the window of a shop. You come crashing to a halt in the midst of a glass display cabinet full of macrons, dazed eyes picking out the descending form of Sarampire in her stupid goofy nosferatu cloak and terrifying glowing red eyes. The only reason she and Witcherphim don't immediately follow up against you is because they both turn their attention to blasting Dominus' helicopter out of the sky.

That fangirl is standing over you too, hovering hesitantly. First thing you notice: her makeup is terrible. "Um, hey," she's applied the foundation cakingly thick but it still hasn't covered up the weird black-line bruises on her face. "So, um, someone put out an offer to all the Saras offering them a l-lot of money if they take you out," green eye-shadow isn't bad in theory but that is [i]not [/i]the right shade of green at [i]all[/i], girl, and it's much too heavy on the glitter. 

Locker: watch out
Locker: oh too late
Dominus: OH CRAP
Bode: Did she just shout 'the world'? Why? Is that a vampire thing?
Ferraphim1tp: Yes, all vampires shout that :)
Dominus: OH CRAP OH CRAP

[quote=@Phoe]She could do that. All of it. Any of it. Almost anybody would. Almost nobody would blame her.

...But a True Princess would never, [i]ever[/i] look away. 

Errant reaches up and clicks her visor on over her eyes. Loving something means that you can't look away when it starts going bad.[/quote]

"She's not going to go for it," said Victoria Messermitt, fully outfitted in that terrifying power armour. "You're wasting my time, Warren."

Commander Warren's face was stone and slate. "Agent Errant is an indispensable asset. It is worth sounding her out."

"She and her entire team has been nothing but -" her lip twitched with a flash of anger. "[i]Problems[/i]. For me. And I guarantee that they'll make it personal."

[quote=@Balmas]
Yes, and simultaneously no? I mean, he's been in classes, with children, of the same approximate age, being taught stuff by a teacher, but if you look at the offical records, he's never set foot in a school or received a degree.

He's never felt so out of place in his life.

Which makes no damn sense, by the way. I mean, these are the kinds of people for whom genetic perfection was guaranteed approximately six months before conception. Anybody whose parents didn't have the money to ensure such was the case couldn't afford to attend here. And since winning the genetic lottery wasn't enough, the students have had to improve on perfection. Green eyes? Go for it. Wings? Hell yeah. Typhoid yellow floor-length Sailor Moon animatronic hair? The sky, your parent's bank accounts, and the current trends are the limit.

Compared to the polychromatic zoo around him, Victor cannot help but feel... plain. Dammit, he can make wings on the fly, convert his body into a freakin' miniature jetplane if he wanted to, but there's a not-inconsiderable part of him feels envious of being able to just... decide to graft on new limbs as desired. And he's realizing, too late, that posing as a talent scout disguised as a student requires that the students think he's worth paying attention to.

And, also, some functional knowledge of how Aristeia is played, but that's a different problem.
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Fortunately for your cover, you are not the only shifty looking guy here.

"hey," said Locker from immediately behind you. He looks [i]tired[/i]. "you're here on work too, huh? Makes sense you'd figure it out." Nobody has ever looked like he has belonged in a high school more than Locker. The deep shadows under his intense eyes, scraggly facial hair, the entire aesthetic of goth-with-motivation-issues. He fits here, so well that he's got an androgynous guy hanging off his left arm and blowing bubble gum and a lady with a daft punk helmet displaying a :D emoji on his right.

"come on," he said. "we've got to rescue a princess."