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Thanks Tae @ way earlier comment haha~
& Pacman, IM is the same band that sang that "God is in the Rain" song I showed you some weeks ago. (The featured artist was the one who made it all nasty dubstep in the original version. ~__~) The Radar Detective remix still makes me want to cry haha.

Saving that & a couple of heavier songs like this for later times though. :p I need more dark psytrance in my life. IM's like CD in that they juggle between instrumentals & vocals, & also started to use some dubstep in their later stuff when they didn't before. ~___~ lol. But IM likes to make buildups without those dubby drops so it's kinda lol.

Not really a huge fan of the vocals for the DopeStars Inc. song you linked, but I'll be sure to check out some of their other stuff too when I have the time. Thanks for the share! I keep getting errors when doing the [*youtube][/youtube] thing without the asterisk. :S

Post will be really short today haha;;

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Anyone here listen to psytrance? Lately I've been re-hooked on an old favorite band of mine, Infected Mushroom. Probably because I've been taking a lot of Middle Eastern history classes lately. They're Israeli haha B) They did this killer cover of a Hebrew song called "Send Me An Angel" (Shlach Li Malach / שלח לי מלאך) & ughhh I wish they did more songs in Hebrew haha.

Also while Danni's off having snow days, Cali's undergoing an apparent drought in the meantime lolol.

Really enjoying this chapter haha. What a jump in moods from the last one!

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Tagress: Hospital: Corridor

His voice was like a gunshot - boom, it said.

All the hype Trixie had built up to put to use against the mummy her nemesis had been lost in a cinch. A man as tall as the moon - which was really tall - towered over the two guilders like they were ants. Trixie couldn't even properly see his eyes from her height, instead met with a concealing shadow that masked all but his daunting frown.

She shuddered, curling her fingers around Lucien's shoulders as she ducked behind him. Perhaps hiding her face away from the man would mean he has to yell at Lucy instead - but she poked an eye out to see him. Only after she took note of his chin's distinctive shape did she hide away her face completely. Oh, it was him. It was definitely him. Aside from his commanding voice, the man's lower half of his face was the most prominent thing she could see looking up from her angle, and Trixie knew well not to forget the man who purchased her new gears and gadgets. Most of which were gone now.

"S, sorry, Mister, I—we thought you were... there's um... there's a mummy out there and... please don't yell at us... ireallylikethegunsyouboughtme...!"

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Tagress: Hospital - Some Other Corridor

Trixie pressed her palms against the doorway edges, peering into the final room of the corridor. A janitor's room. She let out another sigh. While it was a perfect hiding spot, it wasn't... a person.

Then she turned around and bumped into something a tad taller than she. Her eyes lifted to this whatever it was and saw a sharptoothed smile glaring her down. Whoever the smile belonged to growled at her, having some dark and nasty guttural voice as if possessed in the throat. Before she even had a chance to figure this guy out—"Boo!"

Trixie dropped her hold on the walls beside her and collapsed back into the room, landing right on her butt. The figure - the young man started saying some more stuff in a regular person's voice, though Trixie heard none of it, still dazed from the sudden scare. She lolled her head for a moment, allowing her vision to restore itself. Oh, it was that... that one guy. What was his name again, Lu...cy...? Well, that didn't matter now. She paid very close attention to the way he laughed.

There was quite a long pause between Lucien's last words and when Trixie spoke again.

"You... you...!"

A tear jumped from her eye.

"You're perfect!!" Like a yo-yo, Trixie bounced up from the ground and yanked on Lucien's wrist, pulling him into the storage room with her. She jutted her head out the doorway, glanced about the same way the summoner had moments ago, and withdrew back into the cramped room with a slam of the door. "Okay!" she slapped her wrists together, returning Lucien's devilish smile back at him. "You're Lu- Lucy, right? I don't know whatcha do in the, uh, like when we fight and stuff, but you do this- you have this... thing and ahhhh!"

She grabbed his wrists and began bouncing enthusiastically. "There's a mummy comin' to eat me. I lost it earlier, but I know it's still out there looking for me. So, so I was gonna sneak up on it instead and scare it! Like a- like a pincer-scare with someone else! Then it'd run away from me instead and holycheeseonastick you are perfect.

"So - so I'm gonna go hide in the room across from us. When we hear some funky moaning noise like "uuurrghghh," I'm gonna say "three" and we're gonna pop out and scare it! Sounds good yeah? Yeah? Hehe! Oh, and after the mummy crawls away..." Trixie backed up from Lucien for a moment, eying him up and down and up. "You gotta show me what you do when we fight and stuff. I never see you do anything!"

After creaking open the door, Trixie once again peeked around before emerging fully. Slowly she closed it shut before her, tiptoed to the room directly across it, and closed its door as well upon entering it. She immediately shushed the bedridden patient behind her - "It's okay; there's a mummy on the loose and we're gonna stop it."

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I've got nothin planned for Trixie's next move, so if anyone wants to interfere on that they can. Or not. Either way works haha :)

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Tagress: Hospital

One corner, two corners, patter patter patter, gasps here, gasps there. A third corner, patter patter, a metal cart crashing to the floor. A fourth corner.

Trixie whipped her head over her bare shoulder. Her entire body heaved with each breath, threatening to collapse to the floor. Hands clutching her bent knees, the prankster listened on the conversations filling the corridor she had just narrowly escaped. Lots of old ladies rabbling, some papers being rustled - but no horrible groaning noises. Trixie released the biggest sigh of relief in her entire life.

"Ah, I should - I should probably hide..."

Tiptoing about, Trixie pittered and pattered between doors, both open and closed. She rejected them left and right; too many people to give away her spot, too 'vacant', too smelly. There was one door, however, where she—

"Amy, what are you doing!? You gotta get up, it's like sun-is-shining o'clock! A mummy's coming and- and she's gonna eat your socks off! ... You are wearing socks, right."



Amy sat atop her bed, with her back against a wall and her pillow propped as a cushion. Her gem rested in her palms - resting and resting, just as she had been. No fancy lights or auras, not for the last few days. Her soft fingers brushed along the gem's surface. Like Dylan and others who were exhausted of their magic, she needed all the time she could get to recuperate.

The cleric had taken to a solitary room, just as she had demanded once she was awake and competent enough to make demands. All was tranquil - until Trixie burst into her room and clung onto the edges of her mattress.

But Amy winced not. Her drooping eyes remained on her gem. Stroking, softly stroking it, cherishing its delicacy like one would a newborn. Trixie winced in her place. Amy's desired silence was not well-received. "Amy, what's wrong? Amy?" the prankster scuttled from the foot of her mattress towards where Amy rested. "Amy?" After another empty pause, Trixie slid her hand atop the blanket, reaching for the woman's arm. "Amy?"

"It's hurt, Trixie."

Her voice was soft. Too soft. Trixie's fingers wrapped around the woman's thin wrist. "What is?"

"My gem. It's hurt."

"Hurt? Huh?" the younger tugged on the older's wrist as she loomed over the mattress. "Wait lemme—Ames! What, what happened!?" Trixie stared at the woman with furrowed brows. "How come you didn't... tell me earlier?" She shook her head, then letting go of Amy entirely. The woman resumed her gentle petting. "Well I mean - that's okay." Trixie took a deep breath. "We can get it fixed."

The stroking stopped again. "What?" Amy lifted her eyes to meet those of Trixie, who bobbed her head in honest enthusiasm. "Trixie, this isn't..." She chuckled, turning away from the younger. "This isn't something you could just... I could've... I wasn't careful and I..."

"Gurl!" Trixie snapped. No way was she hearing any of this negative nonsense, nope. "Gurl, you were still able to heal us and protect us and stuff, right? So it's okay! Even if we can't get it fixed." She pounced back to the cleric's side and began to shake her shoulder. With her free hand she pointed all over various areas on her own face. "I mean look! The nice ladies here put bandages over the cut on my face - this one right here? They tried to put it over my nose but I told them not to. Cuz then I wouldn't be able to breathe right. And see, look, the cut's getting better!" She beamed, a smile wide as a clown's. Something Amy did not appreciate. "So, so maybe your gem's like that too. Since, yaknow, you said it can't get fixed. Maybe it'll just fix itself on its own. I could - I could give it one of my bandages, if you want! I have lots, I don't need this much."

"...what is this, like a moral or some shit?"

"Yay, you're back to normal!"

Oh was Trixie so lucky Amy did not feel like moving. So damned lucky. "Are you done yet? Will you get out?"

"Ummm, sure I can." On cue, Trixie trotted back to the exit, but froze in the doorway. She spun on a single bare foot to face Amy again. "Wait, no, I can't. I just remembered, cuz if I go back out there, the mummy's gonna eat me and I'll—OH MY MOCHI AMY DON'T THROW SHARP THINGS AT ME! I DON'T LIKE SHARP THINGS!"

The door slammed.

In out in out in out. A final inhalation, a deep exhalation. "Hoo. Okay. So. I think I got it."

Trixie plucked herself off the door, but hunched over as she pattered about once more, carefully avoiding whatever funny silver stuff Amy had thrown at her. Now all she needed was some bait. And maybe someone to help her out with a raid. Once more she began peering into rooms left and right, not for a hiding spot, but looking for any particular individuals willing to join her. She had to set something up before that creep spawned on her again...!

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Ahmgmggfdh Pacman I was getting ready to sleep, just finished reading your post, & now I am wide awake. XD Basically the same thing as Tae this morning happened to me just now hahaha. Guh, so in the mood to write something now. Luckily I haven't done my writing assignment that's due Wednesday, so I'll go on & start it now while I still have my mojo. I love you guys & all the inspiration & motivation that come with this RP hahah ^^

Planning to use the semi-day off tomorrow (I've still got work, gah) to get some more assignments done, so hopefully that rolls well haha. At any rate, I'm so looking forward to the new chapter..... :]

(Also Tae good luck with your tablet shenanigans D:)

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Gahhh everyone I know who speaks Tagalog also speaks like Ilokano & Visaya too. I'm so jell haha, my fam only knows Tagalog. (These are all dialects, though most people who speak them speak Tagalog as well, since that's the staple language there haha. My linguistics profs hate the word 'dialect' though so idk at this point hahaha.) I do too @ speak Tagalog, but my skills are just as rusty, Fox. XD Haven't visited the Phils in a few years & there are barely any other Filipinos on my campus, so it's just me & mama speaking it at home.

I actually haven't lived there (mama can't station in the Phils because she has family there), but we do visit like every 3-4 years. Fam's from Bataan :)

Heading out for work in a few minutes. Hope everyone's enjoying their weekend (& holiday, for my fellow Amuricans)~

Pachamac said I think we need a mini chapter sometime where our characters go on one of those cooking game shows, if only to see the terrifying consequences, lol |D

Lawdy Pacman you know if you do anything relevant to a cooking scenario that I'm gonna end up ruining it for certain reasons XD. That'll probably be the 'terrifying consequences' more than anything else LOL. Don't open Pandora's Box just yet!

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Hahaha you guys need to open up to trying out new food more~ Everyone thinks dinuguan's nasty only after they hear what it is, but after eating it it's like heaven in your mouth. Balut's probably the same way, now that I think about it... hmm.

About the desserts thing, yeah maybe fruit cake for Amy might work actually, haha. :] Thanks for that note, Pand--FOX. Fox fox fox hahahah :p Oh I don't think I ever asked you actually (forgive me if I have), but you speak Tagalog too right?

Pacman, you & Buns need to hop along the Phils train sometime. You guys are lagging behind~

Anyway, just read Pacman's post & wow. Some stuff haha, really enjoyed the bamf. You write fight scenes so well, man; I really winced when Estelle's ponytail was yanked haha. Actually, everyone writes em really well, like holy shit lol. Am taking a creative writing class this quarter, & I'm desperately one of the upcoming prompts will be fight-scene oriented (although I heavily doubt it). Especially during the Family fight scenes, everyone's seriously inspired me to work on mine so much more haha. Also, Billy better make a return sometime!

Not sure I'll be able to get a post up before Pacman tomo morn. It's getting late & I've got work in the AM, so I'm calling it a night now. Almost fell asleep while typing this haha. Will read up everything else tomorrow!

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Buns omfg you're killing me, if you were to have a cloning machine for that or something I would literally fly to the UK & throw my credit card at you just so I could have one. He looks absolutely astounding!! I can only imagine how much time & effort you put into sculpting him.

& actually I found that pic off google on accident/while looking for something else lololol

Gonna read up & post in a bit!

Trixie's favorite sweet is cheesecake. There is no other dessert to choose from.

Amy's is chocolate meat i'm just kidding that's the same as dinuguan ahahahaha ahahah, get it, cuz she likes meat a lot
I'm actually not sure. As long as it involves some wine on the side & isn't too sweet? I never gave much thought to that haha.