January

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NICO LEHMANN

Holy shit, that was a lot of noise. From the harsh sounds that stabbed his senses to a smoother pulse of volume, Nico's ears throbbed trying to make sense of the noises. Eventually, his brain reconnected some crucial line between sounds and meaning and he caught the last part of a conversation.

"If you want to leave, better get some rest and food for the journey."

Who was leaving? Who was talking? Why did he feel like he had heard this voice before?

He struggled to say something in response, but felt the world lurch too damn quickly when whoever was holding him decided he could stand on his own. He couldn't, and made some weird noise between a whine and a shout to emphasize this. His protests stopped when the stabilizing sensation of balance and warmth from the body next to him calmed him down.

Nico blinked blearily, leaning heavily against the person next to him as they walked, his free hand groping uselessly against his eyes for the glasses he already knew weren't on his face.

"S-sorry," he finally mumbled, amazed that talking could be so difficult.

The person said something further and it took Nico a while to realize she had asked about his condition.

She.

Voice was female.

Really familiar.

Then it hit him where he had heard her voice before: panther girl.

Wait, she speaks English?!

His mental dialogue was returning, too, signaling that he was at least coherent enough to think normally again.

"You speak English?" he murmured what he was thinking, mental filter still not quite up to par.

@Riffus Maximus

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NICO LEHMANN

His body was weird. Or, rather, his body was in a weird position. The first thought that came to Nico's mind was that he had somehow died and this was the afterlife, where bodies flopped around in weird positions and grating noises shattered against his eardrums.

He groaned, as much to express his pain as to check whether he could still make noise. His entire body felt like someone had run a steamroller over it, but had somehow failed to flatten him completely. Breathing hurt a little. When he tried opening his eyes, Nico had the pleasure of finding out that light could hurt and he quickly squeezed his eyes shut again, waiting for his body to sort itself out after being hit by a--

then he remembered.

An explosion. The trial.

The sudden panic made him cry out in pain as his aching muscles tried to kick back into overdrive even when they were in no condition to do so. But at least it somewhat woke him up further.

He tried opening his eyes again and was relieved to see colors and not just spots of light all over his vision.

But everything was blurry, like the colors were trying to bleed into each other with the lack of fine lines to hold them in place. Glasses. He didn't have his glasses.

A slight movement finally keyed him in to the fact that someone was carrying him and that his weird position was the result of being slung over someone's shoulder. Nico groaned again, trying to ask what was going on, but the finer aspects of civilized humanity were the slowest in returning, so he settled for some caveman noises instead, hoping the person carrying him would notice.

@Riffus Maximus

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Guess I'll wake Nico up.

@Scio: Nix on that concussion request.

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@lydyn

Hahaha, welcome back to your apartment!

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Am I right to assume applications for this is closed?

@TheHangedMan

@Scio

Poked Scio to confirm, just in case.

Before Ayemdar withdrew, we were at 20 characters (counting inactives). Still counting inactives, we're currently at 19 players (Vongola_Hasayo has been declared "out" by Scio (see below); Sodium, Ayemdar, and King Tai are no longer in the RP).

Since Vongola_Hasayo [edited to remove mention] hasn't been active in this RP for a while now and no replies to my PMs have been made despite still actively posting in other threads, I'm assuming he lost interest in the RP and is kinda out.

@Scio

You should be good to go, Hanged, barring any new decisions Scio makes, of course. And, obviously, CS acceptance.

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@TheHangedMan

Actually, we had a few withdrawals due to life/lack of inspiration, so I think we have slots available.

Scio has been busy for a bit, but I don't believe we're at the 20-player mark, especially since Ayemdar had to leave recently.

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@Baklava

Everyone get down. Baklava's going stir crazy!

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@Riffus Maximus

If you bring Nico on a hunt, he will trip over a raised tree root and die. Just die. Explode if you want to Michael Bay that. I can almost guarantee this as an action that exists within the realm of "what a given character can do at a given point in his/her development and state."

I think the image of Akasha stuffing fat meat down his throat is already plenty struggle for potato-butt Nico. You don't need to kill him, Riffus, haha.

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@Riffus Maximus

Nah, I wasn't at all questioning the feasibility of it. (If I were, I'd be way more direct about it, haha.)

I was honestly just curious about the potato sacks. I just. Have never potato-sacked before. So I thought two seemed heavy, haha.

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@Riffus Maximus

You know, I've never had the distinct pleasure of carrying two full potato sacks over my shoulders, so I'm not sure if that's "light" or "heavy," though the implication is clearly that Nico needs to eat more, the damn stick, haha.