Gato Community College. (game thread)

[Lunar Templar]

Seth

Seth snickered a bit at Sol's comments and turned back to Alexander "Here is fine, of those actually listening, one is apart of the team I'm in charge of, and the other, could prove to be an asset in the coming battles." Seth said making a gesture to Juliet and Daniel over the shoulder with his thumb, the big cat nodded and the pair had a short discussion about what had happened recently, the conversation ending with Alexander vanishing and Seth walking back to his office.

Sierra

Sierra lay there for a moment eyes closed and a general look and feeling of 'tired' coming off her. "I don't know, to dodge security I guess." she said, now sounding tired. "Can you guys come back later? I'm feeling really tired now, all this talking has really taken out what little I had to given it seems ...".


Three Days Later

The next three days where busy for Seth and Sierra.

Seth was busy talking to Alexander and Gungnir's heads of staff. Both about the cultist updates and how lax things had been, and thus Seth was concerned as an investor, as well as check in on Sierra, getting her account of what happened as well as getting her to understand her Demon side wasn't suppressed, but gone. Aside from that he just made sure his team knew about the next team meeting.

Sierra had a 'fun' three days of doctors and blood work, and check ups. Broken up with the odd visitor, such as Will and Viktor, which surprised her a bit. When not getting poked at by doctors she devoted some of her free time to researching the bullet Mirabelle gave her, which she'd had Will bring her, along with a control stone for one of her Gunpla, though she didn't get as deep into it as she'd liked due to her needing to rest, but she did get started on it.

 

[figment of mind]

"Thank you for that...I think. I'd only heard that her demonic presence was gone, not that there were casualties."

"Well, considering that the casualties were demonic attackers as far as I'm aware, I don't think that anyone was in a rush to notify people in any other way than as a footnote." she said as he rubbed his eye. She wondered for a minute if she had done something wrong, if she had inconvinienced him in some way...but she let that feeling pass quickly. From what she could guess, she figured that he wouldn't like being left out on certain facts like this so it was probably best to bring him up to speed now.

"So then, did you have...anything else you wanted to ask?"

Mirabelle wracked the gears that made up her brain for a moment, trying to make sure that she had said everything that she wanted to say. She breifly wondered if she should ask about his and Seth's meeting, but ultimatly decided against it. After all, he seemed to be tired of the questions, and besides, she doubted that you would tell her even if he wasn't tired. Finding nothing else and figuring that he would b- that she had made him busy, she said, "Um...no, that's about it. I'm sorry for inconveniencing you with all of these questions. I just wanted to get things sorted out. So...do you need to go somewhere now or are you still going to track down a copy of the Iliad? Because I can check it out for you if you need to leave quick, if you wish."

 

[Evrant-Knight]

In The Interim

Spoiler: Status Report

Round Table Council: Ah, Operator Rast, we see you managed to arrive safely in Japan. Was the Argartha safe enough?

Daniel: Smooth as it normally is. Figured I should give you a status report regarding the cultist situation. Despite not being here long, I've managed to uncover a few things already.

Round Table Council: Well then, furnish us with your first day report.

Daniel: It appears I'm not the only one investigating the incident. After an encounter with one of their students, I've come across an institution that specialises in training non-human species in the proper usage of their powers; and to a lesser extent, on how to properly interact with society. Gato Community College it is called.

Round Table Council: Fascinating. What else can you tell us about this place then?

Daniel: Well, after I got permission to look into their library; found out that Gato has been operating in its current form for the last two decades.

Round Table Council: It's current form? Elaborate.

Daniel: Here's the thing, much like The Order, Gato has been around for centuries, albeit in different iterations with different names. Can't exactly find out how old the organization is itself though, as that information is apparently classified, or at least, unavailable to someone like me.

Round Table Council: Understood. What else can you share with us on this subject?

Daniel: Gato has its own security force codenamed Mjolnir with some students being active members. There is also a secondary team named Gungir that is affiliated with the College, but to what extent I'm not sure of. Here is the interesting thing about Gungir, one of the investors is a Demon.

*** ON HOLD ***

Round Table Council: The Council wishes to know which demon.

Daniel: Seth.

Round Table Council: So the Son of Jormungond has resurfaced. It has been... quite some time since we last heard of him. Any idea what his angle is?

Daniel: I think he is generally trying to be helpful. Doesn't appear to be doing anything I'd find off.

Round Table Council: Interesting. Additional Objective. Observe Setheros and report anything unusual immediately. We'll supply you with a dossier on him soon as it becomes available.

Daniel: Understood Council.

Round Table Council: Back to the matter at hand. The cultist situation.

Daniel: Of course. It appears we're dealing with a blood cult of some sort. With the intelligence I've gathered from someone who was there; the main goal of the cult is the summoning of a Demon Lord into this realm. The cult appears to have acquired a powerful vampiric artefact of some kind, fortunately, according to the bloodsucker I got this information from, they haven't unlocked it's full potential yet.

Round Table Council: A vampire?

Daniel: Yeah, I'm not the only third party here. An East European vampire coven has dispatched one of their agents to recover the artefact in question after it was stolen. To help facilitate things he's become a member of Gungir. Let me tell you, that team plays host to a menagerie of beings.

Round Table Council. This has certainly been an illuminating report Operator Rast. We the Council have much to discuss. Are there any additional items you'd like to add before signing off?

Daniel: Yeah. Regalia attack the College a couple of days before my arrival, apparently there were a fair few casualties so I'm told.

Round Table Council: This is... worrying. We had not heard from Regalia after running them out of Britain five years ago.

Daniel: I know. I was there when The Order attacked their last base remember?

Round Table Council. Yes, we do. Is that all?

Daniel: Yes it is Council. Operator Rast signing off.

Three Days Later - Gato Community College - Infirmary

After the report had been sent, Daniel had spent the last couple of days getting to know Gato Community College in greater detail than the brief wonder tour he underwent. Getting to grips with it's layout and how everything was run. Been rummaging around the campus Library as well. He'd also been spending some time with Seth working on some kind of deal regarding Daniel's stay in Japan.

Today though, Daniel was visiting Sierra down at the Infirmary. According to what he had heard, her demonic presence was non-existent, as if someone, or rather, something had taken it from her. Whilst suppressing a Demon's aura was not unheard of; outright removal was something else. Daniel hoped Sierra was coping well with that. He arrived at the reception desk to the infirmary, where the person behind the counter was busy sorting through some documents.

"Morning. Is a Sierra Talon able to receive visitors at the moment?"

 

[Outcast107]

Both William and Tomas nodded and said their goodbyes and get well soon. After they left, they each went their separate ways. For three days they did normal things. Train, go to classes (At least for Tomas), and whatever else came up on the day to day basis. William though help a good bit with Sierra. From checking up on her with Viktor, to getting her items that she requested.

He didn't mind at all and was just glad to be of some used. On the third day, William was already there to greet Sierra. He didn't have anything plan for today so he decide to go see how she was doing. Plus he was trying to keep busy so Viktor wouldn't put another brutal training session on him so soon.

Sighing inwardly as he knew he should be training, but a bit of rest shouldn't hurt right? He minded himself while Sierra was working as he was on his phone surfing the internet until she needed something or just wanted to talk.

 

[Athol]

"Um...no, that's about it. I'm sorry for inconveniencing you with all of these questions. I just wanted to get things sorted out. So...do you need to go somewhere now or are you still going to track down a copy of the Iliad? Because I can check it out for you if you need to leave quick, if you wish."

?It wasn?t an inconvenience at all.? Viktor replied, putting his eyepatch on. ?In fact you gave me some information I did not know, so thank you.? Rising to his feet he adjusted his clothes, to keep his weapon hidden. ?Thanks for the offer,? He said. ?I?m going to go see Sierra and the bodies, if I can, but if you could find me a copy of the Iliad, I?d be grateful. In Ukrainian if they somehow have it, or English if not.? He added with a smirk; he?d be stunned if the library had it in his native tongue?but you never know.

With a smile and a nod he took his leave of the automaton girl and headed to the infirmary. Stopping to see Sierra first, he asked if she could remember anything more about the attack, other than what she?d already told him. She was unable to give him any new information, and was a bit confused when he mentioned going to see the bodies of her second attackers. By all the Great Houses, nobody even told her? He thought a bit disparagingly, though it seemed to fit with the general ?half-assed? way everything was being run.

She took the news better than he?d expected, though her comments about probably being ?saved? by whomever removed her demonic essence made him raise a mental eyebrow. He was pretty sure the dead demons were responsible for that, whatever their reasons, and there was just some ?blow back? from their actions. In ?86 an action group from his clan killed a ?true? Abyssal, and nearly 50 000 people simply vanished; so that there may be side effects of trying to forcibly remove the Abyssal ?nature? from someone would not out of the question.

Letting Sierra rest, he made his way to the Morgue. A clerk tried to stop him, but a little temporary vampiric enthrallment solved that issue; opening the two drawers he found that the dead were less ?bodies? and more ?vaguely humanoid piles of meat??demons or not, they weren?t going to be recovering from that much damage. Just before he left, Sierra had asked him to get her a piece of armour, something about it being able to resist her weapons; removing a forearm guard, he studied the bodies to see if he could find any identifying marks, and when that failed to yield anything, he called it a day, dropping of the armour piece with Sierra before returning ?home?. He was pleased to find that Mirabelle had be able to find a copy of The Iliad, in English unsurprisingly.

Three Days Later

Viktor was currently napping on the couch in the Gungir common room, with his book laying on his chest, where it had fallen; the past week or so since he?d arrived in Japan had been playing merry hell with his sleep cycle, given the nocturnal nature of a vampire.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Sierra

Daniel was allowed up and entered the room to find Sierra and William, having a talk about nothing really. "Daniel right?" Sierra did a quick check of the time as he entered. "One sec" she said as she took the red stone she'd, among other things, had William get for her and was surrounded on three sides by a blue HUD each with a different read out, and even displays, which for Daniel and William would be reversed, though William would probably recognize the images as her room. "So what brings you round these parts?" she asked as she manipulated the controls to move something through her teams common area, and on to the table, where Viktor was sleeping with a book on his chest.

After jabbing Viktor in the arm a few times with, from the room Sierra was in, what looked to be a narrow shield of some kind to wake him up, Sierra in formed the groggy vampire the team meeting was going to start soon and moved the model [http://www.bluefincorp.com/catalog/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/d99b96fdfac3c3b0fb10c47728c64410/r/_/r_t_u_r_01.jpg] she was controlling to the table to wait for Seth.

 

[Athol]

Waking with a bit of a snort, Viktor nearly smacked the little ?bot? out of the air before he woke up enough to realize what it was. ?? He muttered. ?All right?thanks.? He said a bit louder, acknowledging Sierra?s heads up about the meeting. While the ?bot? flew off to go sit on the table, he picked up his book, looking for where he?d left off.

HEKTOR: I know you well as I look upon you, I know that I could not
persuade you, since indeed in your breast is a heart of iron.
Be careful now; for I might be made into the gods' curse
upon you, on that day when Phoibos Apollo
destroy you in the Skaian gates, for all your valor.

 

[DarkRawen]

Solomon

Sol was tired, very tired. He had spent the last days working things out with the college itself, giving Luke the attention the guy needed. When he had gotten the message from Luke that he'd be busy the evening and next day, he had taken the chance to go through his hunter-equipment, ensure everything was in its order, and sending out messages and calling different of his regular clients to let them know what he'd be unavailable for a while. Given where some of them lived, this could only be done at certain points of time, so he had stayed up most of the night.

Then he had gotten some sleep. Well, about an hour of it, before his alarm had ever so friendly reminded him about the meeting the group was supposed to have. He groaned.

"Right. That."

Part of him seriously considered just staying, putting a note up on his door about him trying to salvage the day, but honestly, he suspected Seth would just come wake him up either way.

Might as well sit through the meeting, and then go to sleep. Else he might berate me for skipping stuff.

It went without saying that he had skipped the training sessions following the first, but he had been busy, and those guys were... useless. He sighed, and stretched, forcing himself up and out of the bed.

How come the bed is always so damned soft when I'm tired?

Looking in the mirror to determine that he could do another day without shaving, he put on whatever clothes were presentable for a brief meeting, and the scarf to cover a mark Luke had been so nice as to give him a few nights ago. With that, he stepped into the common room, and slumped down into the couch next to Lenah, barely noticing Viktor.

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Lenah

It was odd actually being in the room she had been assigned. Lenah had been caught by the nurses the day before, but they had decided on giving her a check-up and some new bandages, then told her to try to get some rest in her dorm. Likely because they had checked their security cameras, and realized that it was better to just let her do what she wanted, than risking her jumping out the window again. She dressed herself in a light blue dress, one that was fairly see-through in some lights, and dropped the shoes. A hairbrush through her hair, and some lightly applied makeup. A cup of purified water later, and she was ready for whatever the world threw at her.

Which, at this time... is supposed to be Seth, right?

She thought she had heard something about a meeting. Normally, she would just have shrugged it off, she wasn't part of the combat division anymore, but apparently that was part of the announcement Seth was making, so she figured she might as well wave goodbye.

Sol said Seth's not gonna throw me out of these dorms... I hope that's true.

Mira was a decent room-mate on top of being nice, Lenah didn't want to trade that away to get moved yet another time.

She entered the room not long after Viktor had gotten up. She raised her hand as a greeting, as he seemed to be busy with a book, before she sat down in one of the couches and looked at the wall, rather bored. She didn't get why Sierra had decided to set up some sort of robot there, but she didn't offer it much thought either, instead checked her nails.

"So, where are people anyhow?"

She asked, just as a very sleepy Sol entered the room and gave her a sleepy smile.

"Morn'."

He almost fell down next to her, brown hair going everywhere. "You look like you need a glass of pick-me-up water," she said, but he shook his head and closed his eyes, leaning onto her shoulder.

"No... I'm going to sleep later."

"Well... your loss, sleepyhead." She chuckled, and gave him a brief pat on the head before sitting up a bit more, and looking at the door.

Isn't this typical? Call a meeting, and don't show up, as if we've not got anything else to do. Like, I don't know, read or train and stuff.

"Ugh, this is boring."

 

[Evrant-Knight]

After a couple minutes waiting, Daniel was eventually permitted into the Infirmary wing, where he quickly found Sierra's room. It appeared that she wasn't alone, as she was busy talking with someone else that he hadn't recognised before. The aura of the gentleman was definitely Human, though it appeared to be modified in some-way. Whereas with Sierra, her demonic presence was definitely no longer there.

"Daniel right? One sec." Sierra asked whilst she busied herself with a series of three heads up displays in front of her.

"So what brings you round these parts?"

"Not much Sierra. Figured I would stop by, say hello and see how you were, hadn't had the chance too ever since you were admitted. Been busy the last couple of days you see. Apologies if I was interrupting anything just now, didn't know you had another visitor with you." Daniel responded with as he pulled up a chair and sat down.

 

[Outcast107]

"Oh don't mind me..i'm just helping Sierra out with a few things." William said with a smile. While he didn't know the guy, he seem nice enough to not be worried around him. Though William did wonder if he should stay here or head back to the dorm room. "Should I head back? or should I wait here?"

 

[figment of mind]

"Thanks for the offer," He said. "I'm going to go see Sierra and the bodies, if I can, but if you could find me a copy of the Iliad, I'd be grateful. In Ukrainian if they somehow have it, or English if not."

"Alright then, I'll see what I can do..." Mirabelle said as Viktor left, more to herself than anything. Afterwards, she got up and begun the search for answers regarding these "demonic presences" again. What she found was...conflicting, as in some of them identified it one way and others seemed to do hint at the opposite. Eventually, as it began to grow late, she grew tired of the search, resolving to look into it more at a later date, so she went and checked out Viktor's book and left.

Afterwards, she went back to the team's dorm, figuring that it was far too late for her to see Sierra. Getting into her room, she changed into new, non-paintballed clothes, took her phone off the bed (she didn't want it broken during training after all), and settled in on a nights work, messing with the bulledaysenever she could and working on a better Fleximetal design in the in between periods.

-Three days later-

Once she bothered to check her messages, Mira raced over to visit Sierra, but outside of that she really didn't do anything out of the ordinary...well, out of the ordinary for her anyways. She began work on a new Fleximetal vest, nearly blew up the dorms with a failed experiment (luckily, no one seemed to notice), and trained with the others whenever possible. Of course, she didn't have that much time to mess with the bullet now that Lenah was there but she didn't mind that much. It was nice to have someone else around...plus it gave her more incentive to thoroughly check her research before she accidentally harmed anyone.

She was just finishing the steelworking portion of the new armor, bending the wires into loops to hold each segment together before she doused it in the solution, when she noticed that Lenah had left the room. Wondering if the meeting was starting, she headed out to the common room to see, finding Viktor, Lenah and Sol there as well as one of Sierra's creations, presumably controlled by Sierra herself.

"Good morning."

She said to them before realizing that she should take a seat. Once she was sat down, she said, "So...am I right to assume that the meeting will be starting soon? ...I haven't really checked the time."

 

[Athol]

"So, where are people anyhow?"

?Coming, I?d assume.? Viktor replied, marking his place and closing the book. ?I only just found out about this meeting myself.? He nodded to Solomon as the hunter entered, but decided to keep quiet; the boy looked like he wasn?t nearly awake enough to carry on a conversation with more than a single person. Turning so he was no longer monopolizing the whole couch, he yawned a bit.

"Ugh, this is boring."

?You just got here.? He said with some amusement. ?Are all dryads so impatient or is that just you?? He added with a good natured smirk.

"So...am I right to assume that the meeting will be starting soon? ...I haven't really checked the time."

Raising a hand in greeting, he shrugged at Mirabelle?s question. ?I assume so.? He said, pointing at the toy. ?That thing woke me up, and Sierra said we were going to have a meeting, that?s all I know.? He shrugged.

 

[Outcast107]

Tomas

Tomas just got word form a text message about a upcoming meeting. He was out doing his morning run and exercise routine and was heading back now to the dorm room. Walking in and finding the others already there as he nod to them all. "Hello.." he simply said as he went to sit down in a chair. Still a bit sweaty but can't do anything about that right now.

 

[Knife-28]

"Anyways, it's been nice talking to you. I was planning on getting some drinks. You're welcome to come along, though. Something tells me you'd be fun to drink with."

"Something tells me you'd be the same." Jarrah said, never one to turn down the offer to go drinking.

And it had indeed been a fun time (from what he remembered, at least) he mused the next morning over a warm cup of coffee. As Jarrah learned long ago, the quickest way to grow any friendship was to go out and get absolutely smashed together, which, judging from the size of his hangover, was exactly what he and Lenah had done. Unsurprisingly, the two had bonded over their similar backgrounds, swapping stories of the respective woodlands they had grown up in.

The next couple of days passed without incident. Jarrah dealt with his studies and responsibilities as they came, as well as working on the presentation he had to give to the team. Three days on, and he found himself happy with it and wondering when he would have to present it, though Jarrah wouldn't put it past Seth to announce that he would it be doing it at this meeting.

Fresh from the shower, Jarrah stepped into the common room, still running a towel through his mop of red hair. Noting the current attendance, he was glad to find that he wasn't late for the meeting and gave a curt wave to everyone present.

"G'day." He said, taking a seat.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Sierra

"Might as well just stay put, I'll just let Seth know your here when he slithers in." Sierra said to William as she closed down the HUDs to a much smaller display, and set it to 'listen'. "By the way, William, Daniel, Daniel, William, and no, your not interrupting anything just sitting here, talken and laying here." she said laying back. "As for how I'm doing" Sierra shrugged. "I donno, I haven't been thinking about it. Been trying to keep busy with other things."

Seth/Lance Quarters

The door swung open and Seth entered, with Alexander in tow. Seth took his usual spot in front of the team and took a quick look around as a head count. "Where's William?" "With Me in my hospital room" Sierra said through her model. Seth gave the model an odd look, who's green mono eye slid to the side to look at Seth, who just shook his head "Well, So long as he can participate I guess it's fine." He said with a bit of a verbal shrug, then turned to the group as a whole. "Today's meeting is going to be a bit different. We'll be having a pair of 'guest speakers' addressing you in my place for the first part of it. Alexander, emissary of the Queens Rozalin and Riviera" motioning to the panther demon, still in a tuxedo jacket, though a different one. "but before that, Jarrah will be speaking as the first 'guest speaker'. He came to me the other day with questions about the Demon Realm, and left with answers the rest of you would benefit from hearing." Seth said, taking his hat off.

"But before that, I have an announcement; Lenah, due to her in born ability's relating to plant life, has been requested to be transferred to the R&D division, a request I have OK'd. The heads have decided to grow a pair of Gates, for the purpose of understanding and reverse engineering them, and creating a more cost effective version. She however will not be leaving the dorm, she just won't be part of any combat or reconnaissance deployments."

 

[DarkRawen]

Solomon

Sol gave a smile and a nod to everyone who entered, muttering a brief: "Mornin'", before closing his eyes again. It wasn't that he didn't want to talk to them, he just... didn't really think of anything to say. He barely noticed when Seth arrived, though the demon started talking soon enough.


"Today's meeting is going to be a bit different. We'll be having a pair of 'guest speakers' addressing you in my place for the first part of it. Alexander, emissary of the Queens Rozalin and Riviera. but before that, Jarrah will be speaking as the first 'guest speaker'. He came to me the other day with questions about the Demon Realm, and left with answers the rest of you would benefit from hearing."

Wait...

Sol had to briefly glance at Seth before he smirked and settled back into his comfy sort-of-but-not-really sleep.

So Jarrah is forced to talk about stuff Seth knows far more about?

That sounded like either Seth being lazy, or him trying to punish Jarrah for something. With Seth, either was just as likely.

Regardless...

He laid back more comfortably, if they were just listening to people, there was no reason to pretend he was anything but very sleepy. Sol would of course be listening, but he didn't really feel like talking. Lenah seemed upset over Seth's misrepresentation of how her transferral had been decided, unsurprising given her reaction when first hearing about it.

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Lenah


"You just got here. Are all dryads so impatient or is that just you?"

"I'm pretty sure it's just me," Lenah replied. "The nymphs I've known hate leaving their homes, while I couldn't wait to get out of there. That's how I know there's something more to what I am. Also, I'm not exactly a dryad, those are tree-nymphs, and my mother belongs to a pond. Of course, most of my powers are centred around forests and fertility, so I understand the confusion," she said in a matter of factly manner. She greeted the others with a bright smile.

"Hi! I'm fairly sure it's supposed to start now, so I hope Seth drags his ass---" she trailed off when the door opened, and Seth arrived.

"---here. Hi Seth. Hi... uhm." She wasn't sure how to refer to the cat-like creature in a suit. "Mr."

"Today's meeting is going to be a bit different. We'll be having a pair of 'guest speakers' addressing you in my place for the first part of it. Alexander, emissary of the Queens Rozalin and Riviera. but before that, Jarrah will be speaking as the first 'guest speaker'. He came to me the other day with questions about the Demon Realm, and left with answers the rest of you would benefit from hearing.

But before that, I have an announcement; Lenah, due to her in born ability's relating to plant life, has been requested to be transferred to the R&D division, a request I have OK'd. The heads have decided to grow a pair of Gates, for the purpose of understanding and reverse engineering them, and creating a more cost effective version. She however will not be leaving the dorm, she just won't be part of any combat or reconnaissance deployments."

"I didn't exactly request it," Lenah corrected, a bit unsatisfied with how it had been explained. "Seth told me he was transferring me, and I had to say yes. Believe me when I say that I would have loved to stay in this division, but apparently my abilities are needed elsewhere. Anyways, that's that, I'll be quiet and let Jarrah speak now."

She would have crossed her arms or even stood up, but Sol was curled up next to her, his head still resting on her, and she couldn't bring herself to wake him up further. One thing she had learned quickly from becoming friends with him, was that if Sol was this tired, then it wasn't just one night without decent sleep.

Makes me wonder just what he does with his boyfriend.

Regardless, she sat back, waiting for Jarrah to step up and explain the stuff about the demon realm.

 

[Athol]

?I'm not exactly a dryad, those are tree-nymphs, and my mother belongs to a pond. Of course, most of my powers are centred around forests and fertility, so I understand the confusion,"

?Still,? Viktor replied a bit embarrassed. ?I feel I should apologize.? He was about to go on when Jarrah arrived, followed by Seth and another demon, a minute or two later. Great, just what this place needs?more sulphur suckers. He perked up a bit when Seth introduced the new demon as a representative of the Queens, whom he?d Seth was going to take him to see before Sierra?s attack.

Curiouser and curiouser. He thought, as Lenah, made it clear being moved to a R&D role was not her idea. Watching her out of the corner of his eye, he began to rough out a plan. She?s likely to be near the front of the attempts to grow a Gate, though I doubt the Admin?s way of running rough-shod over her has engendered much loyalty?I?ll need to have a word with her. Clasping his hands across his abdomen, he waited for the presentations.

 

[Knife-28]

"Today's meeting is going to be a bit different. We'll be having a pair of 'guest speakers' addressing you in my place for the first part of it. Alexander, emissary of the Queens Rozalin and Riviera, but before that, Jarrah will be speaking as the first 'guest speaker'. He came to me the other day with questions about the Demon Realm, and left with answers the rest of you would benefit from hearing."

'Great.' Jarrah thought, 'Not only do I have to do it infront of another demon that knows much more than I do.'

He let Seth keep speaking, and was surprised when he announced that Lenah would be joining the R&D division. Heck, the fact that they HAD an R&D division was more surprising than Lenah joining it even, as she explained it, if it was against her will. If nothing else it made sense to have the individual with a connection to plant life to help grow what was basically a big magical plant.

"Right." Jarrah said, standing back up, "Give me a sec."

With brisk strides, Jarrah walked to his room and returned a few moments later with a laptop and a handful of papers. Mindful that everyone was waiting on him, he set up the laptop as quickly as he could, connecting it to the TV so that he could show the companion power-point he had put together.

Clearing his throat, Jarrah launched into his presentation, recounting the information that Seth had given him, with the power-point providing a visual aid for some things such as size comparisons and the like. Considering his audience, Jarrah spoke clearly and concisely, delivering the facts as best he could (though he made it a point not to look towards Seth and the other Demon, just to avoid any looks that would throw him off if he happened to say something they disagreed with.)

"And that about wraps it up. I'll pass off to Seth for any questions, and so he can introduce the next speaker, I guess." Jarrah said, turning off the laptop and TV and taking a seat.

 

[Outcast107]

Both Tomas and William took the information in that Jarrah presented. While both enjoyed learning new things, both were now wondering why a demon was here and what that meant for them. Though William didn't speak up, Tomas did as he clear his throat.

"So..while that was a nice info about demons...what does that mean now? We have a demon that represent one of the demon lords here with us. Does this mean that we are taking sides? If so, isn't that a bad thing to do? I rather not get involved, since that could mean we become pawns for someone elses goal..and perhaps even targeted by agents of the other lords.." He said, not caring if the demon panther took offense to it.

 

[Lunar Templar]

"Well" Alexander started "I suppose I shall field that one." he continued as he moved to the front of the group. "Firstly, No, you not 'taking sides'. The Lord involved with these cultist is an enemy of the state, and since your also after him, no real reason for us to not take advantage of that." Alexander said as his tail grazed the TV, which turned back on

"Once this matter has been dealt with, unless one of you has displayed some quality's that are of interest to us, we will part ways." The TV displayed the image of a rather large demon. It was covered in a gray shell, had two arms that that ended in long, almost sword like claws, at the waist the legs were spider like, only big and thick over spinally and there was eight of them, with a long, and massive tail coming off the back. The torso was, much like the rest of it, big and broad with two 'wing like' protrusions on its back, though to small to be of use for flight. The head was covered in the same hard looking shell as the rest of it, with three eyes, the jaws where also covered in this shell, but the lower jaw looked like it split open.

"This is your 'Demigra', or Vyrlian." Alexander said after the image was clear. "He was a low ranking lieutenant in Lucifer's army. For a time he lead raids against and even killed and raided the estates of several Lords along the Northern boarder charged with keeping the boarders secure." Alexander from there went talking about what they could expect when they found him. Alexander made note of his armored shell, and how it deflected 'Anti Armor' Crossbow Bolts, which he equated to a 30mm in terms of stopping power. He also pointed out, that if he is hiding on Earth, he has likely 'Terra-formed' his lair to be identical to the Demon Realm in terms of atmosphere and Aether density and that while he preferred to fight up close and use the full of his body's strength to crush and rend his opponents, that he also was versed in Lightning Magics.

Seth cut in at this point. "Given the severity of the enemy, and not only the handy cap but the danger posed by that much Aether in the air, once we find him, we are to report back to Alexander, Queen Rozalin will then come in and deal with Vyrlian personally while we take care of Mira and the rest of his lieutenants. Any questions so far?"