FujiwaraPhoenix

SAO: Living in Aincrad

Apologies for the double post, but THERE! Geez, I'm so sorry for taking so long to make this; with my SAT this Saturday, ACT next Saturday, finals all this week and the next three weeks, my grandmother flying in from halfway across the world and a bunch of projects and work, I've had my priorities tossed left and right. REALLY SORRY!

@KoL@little_ninja@Caits

SAO: Living in Aincrad

Fujiwara

Fujiwara glanced at the clock as he casually munched on a sandwich he had picked up before almost choking on the bits of data he was just chewing on. Shoot- that had taken MUCH longer than 15 minutes; what the hell was he doing, acting so casually? Did he care about the taste of a goddamn sandwich enough to miss a grinding session? What kind of idiot--!

Temporarily storing the still-unfinished sandwich in his inventory, Fujiwara took a deep breath and dashed to the gates where Minako was waiting. Damn; he'd definitely have to apologize to her...

"Sorry I'm late!" he shouted, noting Minako waiting at the gates. "I got held up by some things... I'm at fault here."
Looking around, Fujiwara noted that neither that Asuna person nor what beta whatshisface were here either.
"Did... The others ditch?"

@KoL

Ayame

Ayame yawned and rubbed her eyes as she awoke the next morning, only to be met with the now-familiar layout of the game's interface.

"So it wasn't just a dream, huh...?" she sighed, lamenting her misfortune. She had hoped it was simply just a weird dream, but apparently that wasn't the case. Now here she was, having to deal with the world with her-

Ayame's thoughts stopped there as she looked over to the party member listing at the side of her field of view. There were no names at all there, aside from her own. Could the party have...?

Changing into an outfit more suited for combat, Ayame left the room and looked around. The other two had already left, it seemed...

A sigh of depression leaving her lips, Ayame began to walk down the stairwell to the first floor as a familiar voice met her ears.

"Oh, hello again, Umichi. It seems that everyone left overnight..." she said, a tinge of bitterness in her voice. Being left alone was one thing, but being ditched like she had been was another entirely.

@Caits@little_ninja@liferusher@YipeeXD

SAO: Living in Aincrad

GAAAAAH. HATE how classes can stack exams one on top of the other like they have been. I've been unable to figure out ways to get my chars back in this, but thanks to ninja for bailing me out on this one; saves me some effort overall. I'll be making a post shortly, so... Yeah.

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Gintoki

"Come on now, I wouldn't think anyone would be that foolish..." Gintoki trailed off as he heard Saber's comment. Wait. Was this girl serious? She sounded serious. No way that was right, right?

"Erm... I'm... Not going to ask," he sighed, shaking his head in disbelief before walking after Nono and the loli vampire into the mansion. The maid... Well... To be fair, Gintoki himself wasn't sure what to make of her. A ghost? An alien? Some sort of time paradox that faded in and out of existence every so often?
...
Well, that wasn't worrisome for now. Right now, all he really wanted to do was to get out of this freakin' cold weather and get in the damn mansion!

Suwako

"Fixed in place, huh...?" Suwako mused to herself before taking a few steps back and waving her right hand over the sand beneath them. Well, there was definitely SOMETHING metal lodged underneath them... Which meant more of her moving the stuff out of the way. Sand was never fun to mess around with; always got in her eyes one way or another. But if they were going to try and leave the region...

The sand very quickly flew away from the group, further out into the desert to clear the way for the gate to become perceivable to everyone not with electrical circuits built into them or a goddess who could control earth. Needless to say, the gate was... A lot larger and more ornate than Suwako had initially expected it to be. But what kind of group set this up here in the first place?

Actually, that didn't matter as much as figuring out how the heck it worked. Without that, then what was the point of coming here at all?

"Uh... So... Anyone... Got a key for this or something?"

Kakine

Nodding to Marisa and 10032 as they both agreed to head to the Windowless Building, Kakine led the two out of the facility and into the less-than-developed District 21 hillside that the laboratory was built into. Since it was much too dangerous to attempt such experiments within the residential or industrial complexes, it was only natural for the interdimensional portal to be set up here, if anywhere. The Windowless Building remained on the horizon, standing tall among the tall skyscrapers and such. As ominous as it seemed, nobody really had business there unless there were direct orders to do so, which the three of them just so happened to have. That itself wasn't the issue, though. The problem now was...

"Hey, 10032. You think we should just walk there, or take the subway? Flying isn't allowed inside city limits, barring the airlines coming in and out of District 23..." he trailed off before he began to massage his forehead.
"...And the shortest route either way is through District 15. This is going to be fun."

An exasperated look on his usual calm face betrayed the irritation he had regarding the situation. Bringing a kleptomaniac into the city's shopping district AND mass media center? It was almost as if he was asking to get the authorities after them.

A Certain Academic City

Kyouma stared at Torako as she bolted out of the restaurant before sighing, pulling out his wallet and leaving his ID card on the table as the waiter came to pack up his and Beatrix's meals to go.

"Well... I know what my next dinner's gonna be. Breakfast too. Maybe even lunch. Man, leftovers really are convenient..." he joked before glancing at the door again. "Though... What was that about a cur...!"

Almost as if the shock from the mention of the word 'curfew' had a delayed reaction, Kyouma rapidly pulled out his phone and glanced at the time. Shoot- she wasn't kidding about that. Even if time wasn't exactly late, the fact that he wasn't exactly used to the area meant just a few more minutes wasted before getting back to the dorm. Darn; he had hoped to gather some more information, too.

Thanking the waiter as he returned with his (and Beatrix's) packaged meals, Kyouma quickly returned his ID card to its original position in his wallet and grabbed the steak before saluting to Beatrix and leaving the restaurant and beginning his walk home. Was it too late to go pick up a new book...?

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@ToadRopes Er... Eye of the Serpent subplot's live, so there's that. Maybe.

Actually, I've been meaning to ask: which pairing is this Morgan again? I keep forgetting if a default one exists, so... Yeah.

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Suwako

Suwako flashed a huge smile at the small girl, giving her a thumbs up as she casually leaped out of the boat and swam to the edge, at which point she pushed herself out of the pool and snapped her fingers. The water drenching her clothes immediately flew off- through by what means even she didn't understand- and sent itself back into the pool of water.

"Glad you liked it!" Suwako said, rubbing the back of her head nervously. "That was some crazy stuff we put you through, so it's only natural that we'd try to make it up to you. Well, I did, at least."

Misaka's mention of metal, though, immediately perked Suwako's attention. She had meant to send them in the general direction of whatever the heck gate the girl was talking about earlier, but for her to hit the jackpot... Now THAT was rare.

"You want me to pull it up to ground level or something? Or is it too heavily ingrained in the ground for me to not try that kind of thing?"

Kakine

"The Windowless Building is where the General Superintendent of Academy City, Aleister Crowley, resides. It's the most notable building in the city... And is more or less indestructible because he's there. He wants to meet you... At least, that's what he said. Don't worry, from the tone of his voice it didn't seem like he thought you were a criminal or anything of the sort... Actually, this is Crowley we're talking bout- who am I kidding, he never shows any sort of emotion anyways. Either way, the city can be a bit hectic, so it's better we bring you there instead of you getting lost somewhere..." Kakine trailed off before sighing. "Or disappearing on us and causing some public disturbances. Bad things happen when you get Anti-Skill and Judgement hunting you down like a pack of rabid dogs."

With that said, the mechanical door in front of the three clicked open and Kakine walked through, waiting for Marisa and 10032 to follow. Given where they were at the moment, a short train ride would probably be enough to get them to the building... Barring any unforeseen incidents, of course.

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Aleister floated on in quiet contemplation, the giant tube surrounding him constantly surrounded by holographic screens presenting new information to him as it did every day. The incident with Fraulein Kreutune was... Unexpected, if anything; though he was fully aware of Imagine Breaker's capabilities, the fact that he had managed to...

No, that incident shouldn't have had to weigh on him more than it already was. The incident had been resolved, and the breach in security was repaired and fortified to prevent future eventualities. But that Imagine Breaker... With Kreutune and now even that Othinus (however depowered she was now) and, as always, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, at his side, it was no wonder that more and more magicians came into this city seeking his destruction. After all, he was the largest single threat to their plans, because in one way or another things seemed to magically fall into place to send him off and resolve the incident... Quietly, of course.

That was what made him so valuable, though; with Imagine Breaker, Crowley could manage the development of the city without having to worry about things like the Church interfering for very long; with that boy's ability to negate the supernatural, all that needed to be done was direct him in the right way and the problem resolved itself.

This newcomer, however, was a different story. Though the guest that 10032 (a clone that he had taken a bit of interest in prior to the Level 6 Shift incident) and Beetle 05 had brought in seemed to be a regular human at first glance, his radar had immediately detected an incredibly abnormal surplus of pure magical energy emanating from her. She could easily create an incident on par with that of a Level 5 rampaging through the city streets- maybe even moreso- and that bothered him. If the Church could sway her to their side, then it was very likely they could cause another shift in the ever-so-delicate balance of power... But if he could gain her allegiance instead...

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PKMNBOY, thanks for handling the Academy City part of that plot. You'd be better at it than me anyway.

@Flamelord

No problemo. I've got a general overview of what goes down in the story up until the most recent volume, but I'll try to avoid the major spoilers.
...
No promises about Othinus, though.

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Gintoki

"Well, if the shoe fits..." he trailed off before the little vampire loli created the gate to her homeworld in front of them all. Bats. Why'd it have to be bats? Those things were so damned annoying to deal with...

He didn't have time to argue, though, as Saber quickly followed the little girl through the gate to the world everyone else called "Nox."

Didn't that mean... Like... Darkness or something?

As the temporary disorientation of passing through worlds messed with his sense of spatial perception for a moment, Gintoki found himself staring at what was an incredibly stereotypical mansion for vampires. Why did he not expect anything less?

"Okay. Great. Another stereotype. What next, you going to give someone a whip and expect us to clear the defenses that you conveniently forgot to turn off? Or kneel next to a random wall and pray for a tornado or something?" he joked half-heartedly before staring at the decorations adorning the mansion. "Though, that aside, I have to admit the place looks pretty detailed. If you're gonna go cliche, guess you might as well go all out... I guess."

Suwako

"Alright! Let's do this!" Suwako announced energetically as she stomped on the ground once, using a pillar of sand to launch the nearby space marine into a boat before shoving it down the waterslide. She quickly followed by pushing the boat Misaka and the girl were on onto the slide before leaping into the boat Black Rock Shooter was waiting in and launching it in with a small array of stone fists from behind it.

"Here we go!" Suwako yelled in amusement, raising her hands in the air as the boats slid and whirled around, occasionally doing seemingly impossible feats that defied the laws of nature...

Especially given that everyone was somehow able to safely remain in the boats even when they were upside down. Twice.

"Man, I never get to do this kinda stuff back at the shrine!" Suwako laughed, looking at the end of the slide that was rapidly approaching. Shoot. That wasn't good. No pool.

"Uh... Shoot. Nope nope nope NOPE!" she panicked before clapping her hands together and touching the water they were all riding on. There was an immediate surge of water behind them, which created a massive wave that launched everyone into the air on their respective boats and creating a giant indentation where they would end up, which was immediately filled by the water that did so; this effectively turned the sand that they were about to crash into into a giant pool of water instead.

The subsequent splashes of water drenched everyone, which gave Suwako a good laugh. After all, th last time she had pulled these kind of shenanigans was when Sanae was still a grade schooler...

Kakine

Nodding to 10032 as she dropped the gate, Kakine quickly reeled in the Dark Matter clone and turned it back into its base state (whatever the heck it could be called) before diving through the portal himself. The feeling of switching dimensions was one that he would probably never grow used to, but given his mission he couldn't do much about it. Well, maybe if he tried to stabilize his...

No, that wouldn't work. Modifying his body's hormone output and built-in regulators might cause him irreparable harm; restoring a limb or his body was bad enough, but who knew how badly customizing his body would go?

As soon as those thoughts left his head, though, Kakine found himself tossed out of the portal along with 10032 and Marisa. The gate promptly closed behind the three, and as Kakine turned to face the researcher he expected to be there he instead found himself staring at another Misaka clone.

"'Misaka 15656 confirms the safe extraction of Kakine Teitoku and Misaka 10032. However, Misaka is also wary of the third person that Misaka and Kakine have returned with.' says Misaka as she walks off to report to her superiors."

"Huh. Well. Figures we'd meet a Sister once we got back here." Kakine shrugged as the clone exited the laboratory. Glancing at 10032 and Marisa, though, his relatively neutral expression turned to a frown. "Though... You know, you might want to get out of those suits and all that. Just in case."

Extracting the Dark Matter from Marisa's suit, Kakine was caught off guard by the ringing of a cellphone inside of his pocket. An unknown caller... With this kind of timing? Warily, he answered the call and raised the device to his ear.

"You've brought a guest, I see...?"
Great. Of all the people to be...
"Mr. Crowley. How are you today?"
"As usual. Though I would usually be adverse to avoiding pleasantries with other... Beings, that one you two brought back seems to be an existence that harnesses an ability that differs greatly from the magic you have undoubtedly witnessed..."
"And...?"
"Bring our... Guest to the Windowless Building. I will have a Teleporter ready to move the three of you inside once you arrive."

With a click, the call ended. Silently putting away his phone, Kakine massaged his forehead for a moment before turning to the two girls next to him.

"10032, new mission. We're to escort our new acquaintance here to the Windowless Building. Direct orders from Crowley."

SAO: Living in Aincrad

GAAAAH. The overwhelming amount of work made me completely forget about this RP for a bit. I've still got so much more work for now, so that comes first...

I was going to post if I ever saw one from our Asuna expy, but since that isn't the case... I'll get one drafted up after I clear these half a million projects/assignments off my board. Sorry for the extended delay, @KoL.