Arty Fox

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Drunk Charles is best Charles!

Don't bring out the pole unless you are prepared for the consequences

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Charles Balderdash

Dutifully, Charles had scribbled down Dimitri’s abridged history of his world on a note pad and made a thoughtful noise as he read over it.

“Well it all sounds…interesting.” Charles scribbled out the chanted words with annoyance. “From the sounds of it all Catalysts act like batteries; storing magical energy to be used at a later date. Quite ingenious actually.”

With a quick thank you Charles picked up the curiously cold drink. He could smell the alcohol in it and yet it was still sweet, enough to take away the sharpness of everything else but not so much as to be sickly. While it was against rules to drink while on duty he saw no harm in having little taste, for scientific purposes of course. Frowning more in thought than the drink itself he then asked

“You said that Catalyst is fused with your Soul Essence. Would that be some sort of ritual of some kind or a specific spell?”

Taking a swig Charles took a moment to savour the flavours and enjoy how surprising smooth it was. Thoroughly impressed, setting the drink back down Charles opened his mouth to continue questioning Dimitri.

Then the drink hit his stomach, and then his skull with the force of truck.

“Oh.” He blinked several times trying to make his eyes come back into focus. “Wow, that is…umm…uh. Jesus Christ, um. Strong.”
It took Charles several attempts to pull out one of the chairs surrounding the table, but thankfully one to fall into it.

“Sir. May I be excused?” He giggled with his face in his hands. “Just…just gimme….uh une très minute . Haha, one very minute.”

@Affili

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@Affili Want to wait for Eyeris to post again or should I put up something for ye soonish?

Kingdom Hearts: The Lights of the Multiverse Redux [No Longer Full]

Natasha and James

The control room was in its usual state of rampant chaos; Crew members at their desks speaking hurriedly into their microphones relaying information on their screens, and orders give from the higher ups.

At the centre of it all, with the main screen ‘viewport screen’ sitting oppressively above, there was the holographic meeting table displaying information for the team to review and decide what to do.

“Do we know where Prim is or if the enemy has her?” Natasha scrolled through the intelligence list from where she stood at the table. “It’s probably best if we can keep this entire escapade short and sweet. Might I suggest our big hitters go in and grab her while another team or distract the enemy?”

“Don’t worry Mai, it just means that they’re afraid of us.” Natasha flashed her friend a sharp grin. “Shall we remind them just why that is?”

“I’m going to make a guess that they’re using the space station as a base?” James spoke from the other side of the table, pointing towards the holographic symbol above him. “Maybe we could hack it or disable their ‘senor array’ or something?”

“As for whether they’re the same people or not Mai.” James turned to address her. “I’m going to say maybe, though I haven’t seen cold, bict-bitter and scary trying to take over our systems…” A quick hand movement brought up the system diagnostics into view for a double-check.

Since he had joined the journey James had become increasingly familiar with the ships computer systems and recently, after much pleading, had gained some administrator rights to tinker with some of the lesser systems as he saw fit. So far, only one injury had any direct correlation to this.

“…no, I’m guessing this is just our usual baddies right now. Hurray.” Jame decided to set another system check running. Just in case.

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@FetzenI'd be up for a collab at some point :)

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He would love it and we all know it

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"Why doesn't my magic work?"
"Because plot"

@Affili that soubds gosh darn amazing and i earnestly await reading it

Edit: even better idea, its simply impolite to use magic on others without asking

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Charles Balderdash

Charles took a moment to mull over Twain’s words and felt rather humbled by them. He too looked down at the book and thought about what secrets it might hold. Dimitris words, and alcoholic stench, quickly brought Charles out of his little daydream and he recomposed himself.

“Well in that case, I suppose I must accept your proposal Twain.” He smiled with an almost sing-song tone.

“Wouldn’t mind a taste actually, long as it hasn’t got any nuts in it.”

The ingredients scattered across the tabled instantly snatched his attention and then followed by the promise of a demonstration, Charles looked practically giddy with excitement. Necromancy was one thing, a strange and enticing of magic, but fauna from another world entirely was something else!

“We do actually, several in fact, though I would suggest the Chemical Lab A2. Don’t suppose you could tell me the name of all these? Some of them look familiar; certain I’ve seen one or two on my walks but that one over there I am certain is new to me.”

Gabbling away at a hundred miles a second Charles pointed a pen he had drawn from nowhere at the mushroom.

“The way you describe the tree bark, it sounds just like Yeast works in our world; tiny micro-organisms that convert carbohydrates into alcohol. Frankly the idea of there being an equivalent in another world is as outstanding as the rest of this entire scenario.” For just a second Charles paused for breath and followed the flask as it travelled across the room.

“Anyway moving, could we put that little catalyst crystal under a few tests? Namely to see how it works and such, does it produce fresh water? How much can it produce at any one time? That sort of thing?”

Shannon

Shannon stared at the fish, armoured by their beauty. The only fish she had seen had been the grey and brown ones of rivers and lakes. But these ones were different; their scales shone with many different colours in the light as they floated gently in and out of few. Shannon swayed her tail happily from side to side.

“I like only fishies in water. But fishies in Bad Place not in water, I not like fishies in Bad Place.”

Some Shannon recognised as fishies of some sort but others looked more like monsters with eyes and mouths too big, and one or two without either. She pressed her head against the glass trying to follow the one that looked like a plastic bag with strings dangling out the bottom.

“TRIDENT is run by Monster?” The snake poking out of Shannon’s mouth tilted its head at Zesiro. “TRIDENT not C.E.M.”

Zesiros question made her tail stop. To her, a human not knowing what C.E.M was, it was a very strange thing. A small growl arose from the back of her throat and she focussed all her eyes upon the fishies.

“C.E.M is Bad, Bad Place.” Her hackles rose along her spine and Shannon pressed a paw to her empty eye socket. “Agents take Monsters. Agents hurt Monsters. I no like C.E.M.”

The moment didn’t even get a chance to past when caught the whiff of a familiar smell; one that smells of stone and the outside. All the tension in her body left when she turned to follow it leading around the corner.

“Vaughtar Friend?” She didn’t move from the window until Vaughtar emerged. “Vaughtar Friend!”

She lolloped towards him and attempt to lift him up in her arms with happy grin. Shannon liked Vaughtar on account of how he actually looked like a Monster should and not somewhat like a human.

“Hello Vaughtar Friend. How you?”

But there was another smell, one that she didn’t recognise. There at the end of the hall she spotted another Not Agent and another horse looking monster.

Kingdom Hearts: The Lights of the Multiverse Redux [No Longer Full]

@Letter Bee i know but Natasha doesnct know this (unless i may have missed something myselfb in which case i'll change it)

Also @Double are you okay with the favour thing? As i explain to Rex its just a small compulsion so whether Seth actually follows through with it is entirely your decision

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@Eyeris@RokkuHoshi
Gonna have Shannon meet Rockin in the next post if that's alright you two, unless you've got other things planned, and get Charles to do a few things too, so expect a fun post in the next day or two :D