Crowvette

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

Alyona

@Dezuel

Alyona's bluff seemed to do the trick. As she watched him, the boy seemed to be a little unsteady... but not physically so. She had seen that kind of look before, but not in anyone as young as he. That was the look that she saw in some of the Yenina family mercenary guards, men who had survived far worse than baby-sitting a bad luck charm and her spoiled sister. Aly did not wonder what happened to him - she simply didn't care - but she feared the dangers that someone like that would bring. Alyona turned away, pretending to be going along with her business, but keeping an eye on him in her periphery.

Alyona let him carry on his own order, or rather the order he decided to abandon for health reasons. Maybe the boy was in denial about his finances, she thought, and scoffed internally. A runaway? If so, he was an amateur. Aly was a runaway and yet she was successful enough to have her own apartment and patronize a sweets shop with regularity. Keeping her facade of slight confusion up the entire time, she fumbled out a payment for her own order. She carefully made sure to let the cashier handle everything himself, and she touched her own money as lightly as possible, as though it was unclean. It was a bit of a waste of effort, given that her money was near her person the entire time, but she wanted to try and minimize her aura's exposure to the store and its staff. They needed to stay around. For her sake.

She bid farewell to the store staff in Yekaterinan, taking a leisurely stroll out of the store. As soon as she rounded the next corner, Aly quickly ducked into a nearby alleyway, setting her bag of sweets down. 'If he follows me all the way here...' Aly cracked her knuckles. 'He'll have some explaining to do.'

Alexandria

@Dezuel @Scarifar

Alex's confusion was evident on her face, though her inner turmoil may have not been anything an outsider would have guessed. 'Alex! You've spent all this time working on your fancy talk! Now's the time to show her up!' The thought echoed in her mind. She had written so much like this... Yet the dissenting voice was also there, 'You're already a complete outcast in this school full of geniuses and rich kids. Do you want to start reciting poetry in front of everyone on top of that?' The thing that made her stomach twist with anxiety was the unspoken addition to the last thought: Do you want to do that in front of Micheal?

"T-There's nothing wrong! We're just. Um. Heading to the cafeteria! Also there's a new student here maybe you can help her I don't know what she's saying!!" Alex's innate response to any kind of pressure from authority surfaced: Run away. As she turned from both the cat and the teacher, tugging on Michael's sleeve to inch him away for a moment, quickly whispering to him, "D-Did you hear what she said?!" Alex for a brief moment had a very serious expression. "S-She thought I was old!" She flashed a proud smile, as if she had been paid a serious compliment. Most people seemed to think she was still in middle school... Perhaps due to her sleep deprivation, or hunger, she simply did not register anything after the small part she took as a compliment.

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Io at Terauchi Temple

@The Irish Tree @Restalaan

Io wondered how her description of her book's leafing somehow managed to come to the discussion of divorce - she had nobody to blame but the people around her. 'They're not wrong about potential heresies... But wrong about the exact nature.' Of course, she wasn't going to do anything like that on Shizuyama. The locals didn't need to get involved in any more than they already were part of. She found it more amusing how forcefully Liliana denied the assertion - she would need to remember that. It may be useful to distract the fairy from going on a potentially dangerous tangent... Much like it seemed to do this time.

Either way, Io snapped her grimoire shut and held it close. "It can divorce people in a sense." Io wasn't one for telling jokes, but that one made the corners of her mouth turn up in a faint smile. It quickly faded as she looked around at the goblin's prompting. "I'm not sure of the location of any others." Io hadn't found a good way to track them all yet. Not all of the task force members would agree to being marked with a tracking seal - unfortunately. It would make it easier to set up plans. Io wondered how she could convince them to do it, becoming lost in her own thoughts. "At least there is another undead..." She muttered to herself, her eyes closed with concentration.

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

Alexandria

@Scarifar @Dezuel

Alex rubbed her eyes as some completely random person - cat? - seemed to intrude on her and Michael's conversation. 'Ah. I've finally lost it. Sorry Michael... You were too late...' She stole a glance at the boy next to her to check his expression, expecting him to not react to it at all. Surprisingly, he looked surprised too. Could it possibly be that the person in front of them was real, and not a delusion from a sleep and food-deprived mind? Alex slowly turned her head back to the girl, shakily holding up her hands.

"Um. Sorry, I don't know what language you're speaking..." Alexandria struggled to think of something she could say. She had no idea what the girl said, but maybe she could guess...? Alex began to mumble random words that she remembered from her own experience with foreign languages - which were mainly from her own phone games with foreign voice actors. A few words from Izumo didn't seem to make sense, but she tried them anyway. Either way, it was clear to Alex that some transfer student from another country had come here and didn't speak a lick of the local language. While ordinarily she would be inclined to help... Her stomach growled in protest. She didn't exactly have time to spend her lunch break guiding someone to the headmaster's room, especially when it was up several flights of stairs in the opposite direction of her next class. "Um... I'm sure there's an upperclassmen around here to help you!" Alex began diligently looking for anyone wearing the right uniform to hand off the girl to.

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

Alyona

@Dezuel

Alyona had taken some much-needed 'me time,' as people in Rhea said. She had a concerning feeling with how Cel acted after the incident at Kiburi's. She dared not get in the way of that. Her survival instinct was well-honed. To that end, she was perusing one of her most favourite places in Rhea - apart from when it was filled with noisy brats. She had found this small confectionery nestled amidst other, less interesting shops. It was ran by a kindly fellow that must have had Yekaterinan roots, given that he stocked some rather obscure treats.

Alyona was loading up a bag with a concerning amount of candy - mixed varieties, seemingly of any kind so long as it was sweet. In fact, Alyona had already double bagged it, since she knew it would grow to be very heavy. She didn't have many expenditures, so she was okay with splurging for something important. She had her hands full of Tsar's Delights when some punk accosted her.

She stuffed the candy into her bag, quickly turning around. This guy wasn't the normal type of kid that haunted these kinds of stores. He seemed to be lost from some kind of sketchy modeling shoot. 'This guy looks like a pain...' Aly didn't want to deal with it.

She had a good defense for this situation. She usually resorted with it when she was in a place where she didn't want to cause a scene... Which was mainly this store and few other places. She gave a confused, uncomfortable-yet-polite smile, holding up a hand. "[Sorry. I don't speak your language. Idiot.]" She spoke in Yekaterinan, keeping her confused and polite look even when adding in an insult.

Hopefully the guy would hear her speaking something foreign and give up. It worked for some of them, at least; Yekaterinan speakers in Rhea weren't super rare, but not exactly common either. If he kept hitting on her, she'd just guide him into an alley and rough him up.

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Io at Terauchi Temple

@The Irish Tree @Restalaan

The conversation had once again taken a strange turn - one that Io couldn't have figured would happen. "No, I meant- Clones? -Never mind, I mean..." Io didn't have time to clear up the misunderstanding before Liliana started saying one thing after another. While it was true that Io wouldn't mind something like that while she was on this remote island... Liliana was way off in interpreting what Io had said. Plus, Io had plenty of magic to deal with that issue. She was far beyond needing such frivolous things like courtship... Probably.

Another person interrupted their conversation, only further convoluting the topic of the conversation. Io would let Liliana correct the goblin on what type of fairy she was. "An army... Would be nice." She could do it with enough time, but obviously that wouldn't be pretty. She figured it wouldn't happen. Gesturing over to where they had dropped off prisoners, Io spoke up to the goblin, "I see more Varjans have been captured by the task force. Perhaps we rival an army already." Io had perhaps given a weird impression to Liliana, but she could at least try to appear more cool and reserved to this goblin girl task force member. Of course, this change in topic was also an attempt to deflect Lilians's talk of wingwomanship. A lich was never without a plan.

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

I'll work on a post today with any luck

@Crowvette

I am so sorry for the indirect bullying from Liliana btw. She do her best.

@The Irish Tree

Things are more fun if you bully your characters a little, aren't they? All according to plan

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

Alexandria

@Scarifar

"Michael..." For a brief moment, it seemed like Alex might cry as she gripped the lunch Michael gave her. "I'm not worthy of such a comrade..." She sniffled. "B-But what will you do for lunch?!" While she felt like she should try to refuse, now that food was in her hands, Alex felt a primal desire to never let it go. Nonetheless, she had to ask - she didn't want to take advantage of her friend.

'Maybe... Maybe I can use the Root to fix this...' For a brief moment, Alex's single card flickered into existence, her eye quickly peeking at it. 'T-Though I'm definitely not supposed to cast spells on campus...' As quickly as it appeared, it winked out of existence.

"Y-You won't have to worry! I'll figure out how to repay this, somehow!"

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

I'm just grinding out some of the worst weapons in PlanetSide 2, for absolutely no reason other than "I'm running out of things to use and nobody uses them so maybe they'll be secretly good!"

Hint: they're not

Tales Of Shizuyama (Far-Eastern Monster Girl RP)

Io at Terauchi Temple

@The Irish Tree

Io raised an eyebrow at Liliana's display. "I see." In truth, Io was thinking about the potential applications for this development... There were many niche ideas that popped into Io's head. Despite that, it was unlikely that things would go exactly as she was imagining them - plus she wouldn't want to put Liliana in danger, of course. It was a very interesting quirk of the transformation, though. Io would file that bit of trivia away in case there was some sort of plan that needed it.

Io once again cast a glance over at the other task force members. There was at least one last thing she had to ask about. "Have you interacted with the male task force members? It's a sight I thought I'd not see even in all of my years. An unfathomably rare occurrence... To the point that I considered it impossible." Io refrained from waxing more eloquently about the odds. "It's almost intimidating. They may be the only ones I ever encounter." She briskly put her hood back up.

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

Alexandria

@Scarifar

Alex had bumped into someone, and nearly stumbled into an epic spill before they caught her. For a brief moment, she wanted to go limp, allowing the person that grabbed her to do all the work of keeping her standing - but she resisted the urge. Then she heard their voice.

"M-Michael?! Is that you?" Alex spun around, looking as though she might ascend from her mortal body at any moment. The sudden turn gave her a headrush, and she found herself teetering forward, coming to a rest on Michael's chest. "T-This is it for me... Please... Look after my mobile game accounts..." Alex for a moment felt like she might fall asleep standing up, in this brief moment of rest against Michael...

Then she snapped awake, realizing what she was doing. Quickly straightening up, she took a quick step back. "Bwah?! I'm so sorry! I-I'msorryIdidn'tsleepatallandI'mstarvingsorryforhuggingyouI'mdealingwithalotrightnowsorrysorrysorry!!!" This was too much for her poor heart; Alex covered her face with her bag, which promptly opened due to being half-fastened, spilling her papers and folders all along the floor.