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Walnut hesitated for a moment. She still had the key that Titian had handed her - that was going to prove a problem. Master Plum was unconscious and Doctor Swamp was, quite understandably, likely feeling betrayed. However, it wasn't as if they had made an agreement towards a murder pact. Walnut had quite genuinely volunteered to help with the medical treatment of the annoying bird man, out of the kindness of her heart, and found herself witnessing a potential murder. It was annoying - and further proof that nothing good ever came out of trying to help someone, ever. She wouldn't make that mistake again.
Jasper then asked where the key was - great. It didn't give her much time to deal with it. And this certainly did not look good for her, Walnut knew that much. "I have the key, sir," Walnut said, revealing the item Titian had given her. "I had been asked by these gentlemen - Doctor Swamp and Mr. Titian - to hold it while I assisted with the medical treatment of this man," she nodded at Plum.
She had decided to ignore what Swamp was going on about - it was all lies, anyways. She took another calming breath. "I have been educated and was happy to assist the good doctor. The poor patient fell unconscious, he then began to scream at nothing and feigned an attack on his person, and then Doctor Swamp bashed the man's head. I feared for the patient's life and my own. My father requires that I keep a pistol on my person for protection, so I shot the doctor so that he would not be able to attack me next."
Walnut took another breath, this one a bit more shaky. "I was so terrified another shot went off - and as you can see, my hands... I-I-I would very much like to lie down and have some water, if that is possible. I'm quite shaken from all of this violence."
It helped that her hands really did hurt from the gun - genuine tears were falling from her eyes.
At Roy's question, Cecily was suddenly launched back into a vivid memory of college. One of her professors was always correcting their language - ensuring that they didn't mix up the difference between absorption and adsorption. She blinked slightly, trying not to feel like she was sitting in an 8:30 AM office hour, getting torn a new one over molecular orbital diagrams. She was in a car, speeding hopefully away from certain death and not towards it this time. "I... don't know..." Cecily admitted. She couldn't recall either way - she just knew that he was employed doing something security related there.
However, as Roy cursed and screamed a bit, Cecily jumped slightly, startled by the sudden outburst. The details he started to explain did clarify some things. Another security company, another conspiracy - she was tempted at this rate to just ask Roy every security company that worked in Justice so that way they could open investigations into all of them and get ahead of the curve. "Yeah, I know some people from England... Keystone, Caesar's right hand I think," Cecily explained. She couldn't remember what Keystone's job was exactly off of the top of her head.
"And well... I have a third cousin who works at the asylum, she's British," Cecily added, doubting that Iris was relevant to this however.
Gene smirked slightly at J.C.'s compliment of her looks. It wasn't the best compliment she could have received by any means, but she did enjoy the subtle jab at George. "Yup, I got the looks and the brains and I guess all that was left over for Georgie was the brawn," Gene quipped. She accepted J.C.'s hand and gave him a firm handshake. And had she not been asked by her brother to look after Vera, she likely would have insisted on joining them all for a drink.
She was pretty certain she could outdrink at least one of the men heading for a nightcap, at any rate.
At any rate, Gene had a bit of a skip in her step and seemingly renewed yet somehow unlimited energy as they went from the cargo hold all the way up to the elite deck. She gave a cheerful wave at the people checking tickets, imagining that they were probably annoyed with this group by now. "Goodnight brother dear!" Gene said cheekily, smirking at him as he explained he'd fetch them in the morning for breakfast.
Nora had excused herself, which was fine by Gene, and Gene entered the rooms and laughed a bit as Lady Munn was out cold so soon after getting ready for bed. "Toss me a pillow, will ya?" she asked Lauren. "I'll sleep on the floor by the door - does wonders for your back." She smirked a bit and once she had gotten herself settled with a makeshift bed on the ground, Gene settled in.
She wasn't going to go sleep in her rooms - she had to protect these people, after all. And that seemed to be a full time job.
Nora looked at Lady Munn for a moment, her eyes widening as George scooped her up. She remembered for a moment all of the fuss that had happened when they first met George, unrightfully so due to his physical appearance. And now, Lady Munn seemed perhaps just mildly flustered to be scooped up into his arms. It certainly was an American way of doing things. She hoped that Vera was happy, at the very least - especially so soon after Peter's death.
She walked with Lauren, leading George and Mahendra and Vera through the space and up to the stairs to change decks. It was a bit of a winding feeling, traveling up all of those stairs. It was a lot easier going down them than it was going up and she was content to just listen to the conversation as they climbed. She was a quiet personality by nature and among the louder and excitable ones, it was easy for Nora to more or less fade into the background.
"I'll see you all in the morning," Nora told Vera, Lauren, and Gene once they had made it to the elite deck. "I think the room would be a bit cramped if I did not sleep in my own quarters," she added as an explanation, before nodding at them in turn and Nora withdrew to her own rooms. Once inside, she locked the door behind her and sat down on the bed, thinking over the events for a while. It would not be long however until she fell asleep.
@BrutalBx Approved. ^_^ Move him over to the CS tab. You can have him be a new transfer to the current team - have him start at the Playground. Agent Abercrombie (played by @FantasyChic) will come to talk to him. I'll send you the link to our discord and back up forum (it's essentially just in case the guild dies, so we don't lose everything).
@BrutalBx Each language will take up a skill slot Give a bit more description as to what his clothing is for the ‘what is on your person’ section Missing something under the anything else
Present Day - The Castle: May 4th, 12,508 - 8:45 PM
When: 8:30 PM - arrive by 8:15 PM on May 4th Where: Wizard Tower - Great Hall (First Floor) Who: Bruce Banner and Myth the Muse Ceremony:
Invocation and Dedication to Thor, God of Thunder (goat) - to summon the attention of the gods
Sword Presentation - the groom must present his bride with a recently recovered sword of his ancestors
Second Sword Presentation - the bride then gives the groom a sword that she had carried with her down the aisle. It does not need to be a familial relic (note: the bride must also wear a crown at all times)
Exchange of Finger Rings - the bride and groom recite vows and petition for a blessing from Thor. The rings are placed on the tip of the exchanged swords
Post Ceremony:
Bride Running - all guests will run from the Great Hall to the Auxiliary Hall where the feast has been set up. It has direct access to the courtyard. The group that arrives last has to serve spirits to the other group (i.e. bride's side v groom's side).We
Wedding Sword - when the bride arrives, the groom puts his sword on the threshold. He picks her up and carries her over it, so that way she cannot stumble.
Luck Test - once everyone is in the hall, the groom has to plunge his sword into either a supporting pillar or roof. The luck of the marriage is supposedly correlated to the depth of the scar he makes
Nanna, Goddess of Joy and Peace (Bruce's maternal grandmother)
Navi gasped, tapping Amarantha repeatedly on the shoulder. She stood up on her seat and turned around, looking Richard dead in the eye. "Amarantha, look, hey, hey look!" she squealed, dancing a little bit. One of her wings drooped as she fell from her chair and hit the ground, but since she was little it was pretty easy for her to bounce back up. "Are you Father Boom Boom?" she asked. Some of the kids had made a ~legend~ out of Puck's murder in the Young Army, giving Richard the name Father Boom Boom in the tales.
To the other side of Amarantha, Myrus nodded at his oldest sister. "It's been ages since there's been a proper sighting..." he whispered to the Queen. In the old, old, old days, the gods had come down to Earth regularly. Aside from Halley and Bruce recently in the Castle, it had been thousands of years since they had been seen. However, as he heard Luna's request his eyes widened for a moment and he nodded. "Probably one of them can but... I have no idea who..." he admitted. His mind was blanking.
Behind the Royal Family, Rainbrook looked at Zekarra a bit nervously. "I-I-I... I'm thinking about my sister..." he admitted. He held back his tears as he looked at the ground for a moment and took a bit of a breath. "If I'm fading from here... Then she's gone. Apollo's never going to be born."
Up in the second row, Antonije was getting a major headache. He had attempted to do a quick scan of the minds in Wizard Tower, but something was blocking him out. His nose started to bleed, as did his ears, and he held his head for a second. Something really old is here... he replied to his girlfriend mentally. He then spotted Lance vanish and he saw his adoptive aunt looking incredibly nervous, with the muscular blonde man going up to talk to her. "You need to get out of here... Have Marya and Medea run you," Antonije muttered.
Halley meanwhile had turned to Cuyler and she grimaced slightly. She had been raised to tell the truth, given that her mother was the Goddess of Lies, but she knew that some truths did not need to be said. "It's nothing to worry about, Cuyler. Please, sit down and enjoy yourself," she said. She gave a slight wave to Hecate and Forseti. "You're sitting next to two ancient and powerful gods - maybe get to know them."
Marya then appeared in a flash next to Myth with her twin, Medea. "We'll help too, Tetka!" Marya said. She had been in the Port Witch Coven long enough - Fleur and Constance had taught her to fight. She was certain that she could help her new family.
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Rhys' ThunderFlash had hit Arya dead on - she was lucky to have not been instantly killed. That piece of Darke Magyk was essentially used for execution style killings. For a moment, Arya was about to stumble backwards but the stairs, being Magyk and sensing the ExtraOrdinary Wizard was in trouble, the step below her raised ever so slightly to catch her foot. Regaining her balance, Arya spotted the others attempting to help - including a green beast.
"Lady wielder of Gandr?" Runa scoffed. "I let my son have my staff for a few thousand years and they all forget about me... Typical men," she huffed a bit. She then smirked a bit at her husband, seeing his towering form. He was just a foot or two shy of touching the ceiling with his head.
Inside of Rhys' mind, Chthon started to give information on the ones he recognized. The cursed man was the father of the Mistress of Chaos, cursed to walk the Earth for all eternity and to never know a moment's peace. The small woman by his side, the Lady Wielder as Grims had called her, was Runa, Baldur's daughter, Granddaughter of the Eternal Flame, and Mistress of Lies. She was the current Sorcerer Supreme of this universe and was able to manipulate reality through lies. KILL! KILL! KILL! Chthon shouted in Rhys' mind. SHE'S NEAR!
"We had thought you were dead, Rhys," Arya said, recognizing the man now. Had she not just broken up with Cuyler, perhaps she would have been in a more empathetic and forgiving mood. Yet a man she had no quarrel with was attempting to kill her and disturbing the wedding of her friend, Myth. She coughed slightly, still holding the Magyk discs in her hands. "Silence," Arya cast, before she blew. A stream of purple air hit Rhys. It would now be incredibly difficult for him to talk for one round duration (DC 17).
"Be careful, if the host becomes too damaged Chthon will simply take the form of another," Runa warned those assembled. "He manifests from his own dimension and is limited to the capabilities of the host. Targeting nerves and vocal cords are a decent strategy..." she informed the others. She tried shaping a ball of darkness and she tossed it at Rhys, but Chthon turned it into a thing of butterflies and the beautiful little bugs fluttered away. @LadyRunic: Emma hesitated for a moment, looking around before he nodded. "Miss, the break in was with the Manuscriptorium Way..." he said in a hushed voice. The Ancient Ways were essentially a series of magical tunnels, allowing great distances to be crossed in a matter of seconds. The Big Wild Land Over the Ocean used them regularly - it was how Asha and Taj had arrived to the Coronation for Queen Valda. "Apparently they found a girl...CHS hasn't let us see her though."
@FantasyChic: Unfortunately, one of these visions was more than just that. Jadis, despite being made out of ice, was very much real. The Wendron Witch Mother looked at Fleur, her eyes unseeing as if she was some sort of puppet, commanded by a cruel master. Jadis tried throwing a staff made of ice at Fleur, only to miss and hit Wanda instead. The ice wand went into the younger witch's stomach and Wanda stumbled backwards, coughing up blood.
"I hate ice," Wanda mumbled. Jadis however just laughed a bit, looking at Fleur. "I see the world has judged you as lacking, Witch Messiah. Shall we duel?"
Rhys:
First Symptoms: May 4th
Current Stage: One
Symptoms: Minor fatigue, headaches. All around feeling awful but can still function more or less normally. Some Physik remedies can help ameliorate symptoms temporarily. -1 on all physical checks.
Arya:
First Symptoms: March 29th
Current Stage: One
Symptoms: Minor fatigue, headaches. All around feeling awful but can still function more or less normally. Some Physik remedies can help ameliorate symptoms temporarily. -1 on all physical checks.
Valda:
First Symptoms: April 22nd
Current Stage: One
Symptoms: Minor fatigue, headaches. All around feeling awful but can still function more or less normally. Some Physik remedies can help ameliorate symptoms temporarily. -1 on all physical checks.
Atkin:
First Symptoms: March 12th
Current Stage: One
Symptoms: Minor fatigue, headaches. All around feeling awful but can still function more or less normally. Some Physik remedies can help ameliorate symptoms temporarily. -1 on all physical checks.
Fleur:
First Symptoms: March 14th
Current Stage: Two
Symptoms: Significant fatigue, abdominal aching, nose bleeds, bloody stools. You can get by if you live a sedentary life, but people can tell there's something wrong pretty immediately. -3 on physical checks, -1 on Mental Checks.
Only those with a Physik skill or who make a successful check will be aware of these stages. Message the GM for a check if needed~
Stage One: Minor fatigue, headaches. All around feeling awful but can still function more or less normally. Some Physik remedies can help ameliorate symptoms temporarily. -1 on all physical checks.
Stage Two: Significant fatigue, abdominal aching, nose bleeds, bloody stools. You can get by if you live a sedentary life, but people can tell there's something wrong pretty immediately. -3 on physical checks, -1 on Mental Checks.
Stage Three: Skin turns pale or grey, eyes turn black, veins turn dark. All symptoms of stage two exacerbated. Most have to remain in bed at this point or risk worsening their health further. -5 on Physical rolls, -3 on Mental.
Stage Four: Comatose. All symptoms of stage three are still present. Stage four always advances to stage five within one week.
Stage Five: Death.
Date listed is when initial symptoms began~
Esmeralda - May 4th - Stage One
Blaise Rowland - February 21st - Stage One
Marya and Medea Magnisky - May 2nd - Stage One
Bernice - February 21st - Stage Two
Jarvis Yule - April 17th - Stage Three (Location Unknown)
Constance Langdon - May 2nd - Stage Two
Asha the Magykal - April 28th - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest in the Big Wild Land)
Badger (Rhys' Apprentice) - April 30th - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest in Rhys' Home)
Date listed is when initial symptoms began~
Ordinary Wizard - March 30th - Stage Four (Comatose, housed at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Apprentice - February 25th - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - February 10th - Stage Four (Comatose, housed at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - May 2nd - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - May 3rd - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - May 3rd - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - February 2nd - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - April 10th - Stage Three (Confined to Bed Rest at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - February 5th - Stage Four (Comatose, housed at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Ordinary Wizard - May 1st - Stage Four (Comatose, housed at Wizard Tower Sick Bay)
Young Witch, Age 12 - February 14th - Stage Two
Young Witch, Age 14 - February 5th - Stage Two
Ordinary Apprentice - February 2nd - Stage Three (Collapsed on Wizard Way)
Ordinary Apprentice - February 3rd - Stage Two
Ordinary Wizard - April 22nd - Stage Two
Ordinary Wizard - February 8th - Stage Two
Ordinary Wizard - April 4th - Stage Two
Ordinary Wizard - February 11th - Stage Three (Collapsed at Larry's Dead Languages)
Ordinary Wizard - March 27th - Stage One
Ordinary Wizard - February 12th - Stage One
Ordinary Wizard - March 31st - Stage One
Ordinary Wizard - May 2nd - Stage Four (Unconscious on Alchemie Way)
I think what she is asking for is for someone to take a real life photo and then create a drawing based on that photo... And I honestly have no idea how to do that easily without paying someone.
Ny's comparison of her to a wolf would have brought a smile to her face under any other circumstance - but her brother's life had been threatened with a slaughtered wolf so very recently. It was an uncomfortable reminder that while the Russian Circus was protecting James, there were those who sought his premature death. Death was not something to fear, but it was a delight she wanted to postpone for James. He had so much to enjoy in this lifetime still, so much to see and experience and accomplish. She then gave Ny a nod and took a moment, closing her eyes.
She then opened them again, letting her shoulders slump slightly and she lowered her head as she walked forward. The pride and poise she normally carried were gone, replaced with what she hoped was a suitable approximation of a scared and helpless woman. As she approached the carriage post and took in the two middle age men, her stomach churned slightly with distaste but she had to do her very best.
"G-g-g-gentleman, might I trouble you?" Virginia called out, trying to keep her voice soft and weak. "I-I-I am in need of some help..."
Maeve Brennan
Location: House Kirkpatrick Skills: N/A
Maeve nodded. "Of course, m'lord," she replied to her employer. An idea struck her for a moment and her eyes darted over towards Millicent, before she decided that it ultimately was not worth the risk. There was no sense in helping people who refused to help themselves - and besides, she had her own family to think about. She didn't dare do anything that would jeopardize Roisin's future. There weren't very many paths out there for the deaf and she had been lucky enough to get Roisin secured - miracles were rare, she couldn't chance it.
"Aye, it may take me a bit ter fend yer some since I only started workin' 'ere recently, but I wud be shocked if there wasn't paper an' quill in this 'ouse," Maeve told Millicent, nodding at her. It would be a bit awkward if Lady Kirkpatrick didn't have anything on hand - places like this in Maeve's experience tended to be the place where letters were routinely sent and lists compiled. It came with the wealth and status.
"Come on, we can go fend some together an' then I'll 'elp yer get washed up."
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