The Escapist Avatar Adventure: An Open RP (Now Re-Opened!)

[bluecrimson]

Kud & Melethia.
Location: Rising Dawn, Armory.
Time: 4 Am.

She laughs. "Well, it is. You don't really look like you could hit anything hard, so why not try to go for strikes where it'll nurt? It's a bit different, but it's not that hard." Melethia hals-drags Kud out of the armory and begins making her way to the training area with her.
Medbay
Slindis sighed on hearing Rugal's complaints and chimed in, [color=c20000]"Well, you have to count in that we've also got to evade lots of enemies that overpower us. Of course we're moving slowly."[/color]

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Mad-Bay
Rugal looked over in the direction of the Drow's Voice.
"Mmmmmm....Good point...Still, no need to crawl at a snail's pace. If only we knew where he was to begin with...." He mused, leaning back in his chair as he did.
"If he wants a raw Kill Count, he should be in Asian, there's 1 billion down the drain..." He added, wondering if that was the case or not.
"....Did they have this Airships back where you came from? I mean, maybe on this advanced of course...."

 

[bluecrimson]

Mad-Bay
She nodded. [color=c20000]"Of course there were airships there. Of course, they didn't help much on Xen'Drik for any exploring, but they were there. They were probably powered differently, but it's not like they were rare. My daughter even destroyed one or two in some work she did."[/color]

 

[NotYetForsaken]

The (Un)Real World
Location: Perth | Australia
Time: New Years​

"I'd much rather just return home," Klaara sighed and got up from the table, "I think I'll just go home and start writing Sav back into reality. It was fun, but I don't think I can keep up anymore."

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Avatar Adventure
Location: Rising Dawn
Time: Night​

Kyre

The Anti-Mage shook her head and ran her hands across her arm, watching the bubbles part with some sort of childlike glee, "No, this blood has always been with me. It will always be apart of me. As is the scar. It is a scar within my soul that has stained my flesh." Her voice seemed distant and strange as she sunk deeper into the water and lay her head on Kurumu's body. Soon Kyre seemd to be in some sort of trance, asleep, bit still vigil of the surrounding area.

BlackHarte

"I meant to cast no aspersions," BlackHarte asnwered before putting his hands on his head and leaving the room. "It is possible that she may be suffering from that, I would go so far to say that she might have even picked up some of Kurumu's true self with all that extended contact with her mind."

He shrugged, "I am at a loss of what to do, but you should try to stop diving into her mind. It is clearly unhealthy for her." BlackHarte had lied for the first time in his life, he held in his hand a magick that would rip out the young master's soul, and he was debating whether or not to use it.

 

[Sgt_Jakeman214]

Jake answered Mark after Teri said her part, the small smile still on his face. "Things are going well enough for me Mark. Give us some time please mate, I'll call ya when she's ready, or you'll see it I suppose."
Turning to face Rugal but staying protectively by Teri's bed, Jake smiled a bit at the AI Teri had created to help her.
"Captain, Ms Slindis and I are looking after Teri at the moment, she will be fine."

Jake nearly put his hand on the hiding girl's shoulder, but retracted it in respect for her wishes. Instead he placed it on his sword pommel and rested it there somewhat awkwardly, not that Rugal could see it.

Spoiler: OOC~

Stealth update from work, home in a few hours

 

[bluerocker]

AIM

Inuart shrugged at his eyes new appearance, but took it stride. If anything; it reminded him of the dragons; which were powerful unto themselves. But, he hoped he could surpass even them with his new-found strength.

Med Bay
Teri looked at Kalastryn with anticipation and confusion, but decided to bite; but first, answered Rugal:

"I'll be okay. So long as no one decides to pull me into another 'loving embrace' I'll be fine. I... I just don't like people touching me."

[color=3897E0]

"Which makes sense, as being bound is a trigger for the episodes."

[/color]

"DIMITRI! Please! I would like it if you didn't say anything else about [u]that[/u]!"

[color=3897E0]

*sigh* "Yes Madam."

[/color]

Teri held her face in her hands, and shuddered a little,

"As for your question, Kalastryn, I can; but it takes effort, like anything else. I certainly hope you mean nothing sentient. And Mark, STOP THAT! Even if he can't see you, and I mean that in the best way Mr. Bernstein, that's rude! And, do you think you could scootch a little to the left? You're a little too close for comfort, touching or no..."

Canteen

Caim covered his face with a palm for a moment, and his 'voice' said,

"Something about a machine going haywire and popping out one to many enemies for some weak trainees. This guy here and I took care of the brunt of it. No biggie."

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Rugal
"WHAT THE!?" Rugal let out when Jake talked, unaware he was sitting right next to him.
"Jake!?...GODDAMMIT! People, tell me these things. Jesus, I might need to put bells on the lot of you!" He said, feeling rather embarrassed.
"....Christ above, every time I walk into a room....Grrrr..."
A small disappointed look crept onto his face, this is what he would have to deal with for the rest of hi-
No! They WERE going to give him his vision back! Otherwise, He'll kill them all!....
Somehow.
"...No but really, tell me next time, I wasn't aware you were even there..."
Then Mark chimed in,
"Who said that!?....WHO ARE YOU?!" He shouted as Mark prodded and poked him, Rugal not feeling a thing.
It was funny, but there was a hint of guilt as they were making fun of a blind man.
"DAMN IT! TELL ME WHO ARE YOU!"
The shenanigans ended once Teri called for it.
"Mark is it?!...What did you do? TELL ME!" He shouted, his hands out feeling for Mark, ready to choke the life out of him.

David West
Phew, I was worried for a moment there David thought as he was finally free from the grasp of Twilight.
He followed Elena towards the hanger, rather glad to leave.
"So what's the plan? Flying Disks? Birds? stuff you throw out of the Airship?" He asked, iching to shoot something and pretend it was a teenage vampire.

 

[bluecrimson]

[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: The Boss's Office | Heaven
Time: Timeless

Lucifer and Devon:

He nodded and knelt down to Azrael's level. "Hey, don't worry. I don't have one any more, either. Don't know exactly why, but that's nothing to concern yourself with. Take care, Azrael!" When the facet of Death ran off, the young man approached Lucifer. "You know, I never flew a kite back home, and a lot of that wasn't me pulling the kite along. Could it have something to do with the wind?" Although Devon didn't know when to stop sometimes, there were a few times that he managed to hit the nail on the head.

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[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: Airship Rising Dawn | In Transit to South America
Time: Night | January 1st

Puce, Tajuh, Caim, Cadolbolg and Fionn:

After he was released Tajuh shook his head and looked the Asian straight in the eyes, that incident doing much to sober him up. "I don't know what you have me pegged for, but I am not the type to casually throw lives away. I've worked hard with the last Kurumu clone on the deck to ensure this ship runs smoothly, and I have flown under a man that saw his men as chess pieces. Believe me, he did not have my respect nor do I ever hope to be like that."

The caucasian rubbed his wrists as he continued. "Personally, I hate being a commander. Can't stand it. It's why I'm stepping down when we get rid of Tomoya. And when that time comes, I'll not have abused any of you for my own personal gain. I will throw this out there though: when the time comes, do not restrict me to the bridge. It may not make sense now, but it will when the time comes. Am I understood?"

 

[bluerocker]

Med Bay

A smile flickered on the girl's face for a moment, and then it went away, clearly from being reminded of what rendered her weak at the knees.

"Even if I'm sick at the moment, I'm still Klark. Don't forget that, okay? So please, worry about yourselves. As for you, Mr. Bernstein, Mark is another like me and Jake. He's a bit more... Er, tricky about things. For the moment, I think he's making you see things as he does, or something like that. But don't take it as Malice, please?"

She rubbed her eyes a little, and took a large gulp of the ice water. It was soothing after the few bouts of stomach acid she had to deal with.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Cortex
Cortex knew Natalia's type, pure show off, she wasn't into him and was most likely angry to even talk to him.
Still, he liked the affection, fake or not.
[color=b4b400]"Really?...Is that all?...Please, remember who you are talking to..."[/color] He said before he dramtically stood up on his chair in some kind of strong man pose and shouted [color=b4b400]"THE MASTER OF SCIENCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!.....So yeah, I can do that, Sure. Just.....err....make sure the Sample and the Girl are separated. I know how you Hammer types are like. Pleasure meeting you, I'll send him over with the next Arms request. BYE~!"[/color]
He then shut the feed and leaned back on his chair, rather content with himself.

Rugal
"EAH!....What?....I can See?!....I CAN SEE AG-........Ohhhhhhh...." Rugal reacted, his anger reaching new levels.
"Oh what I am going to do to y-AHHH!" He cried out, in his blind fury, he ended up tripping over the leg of one of the chairs and went shoulder first into one the counters.
A few suppressed laughs were had at the King's expense.
He clinched his fist as he picked himself up off the ground.
Then he felt blood run down his face again from his eye sockets.
"...What?.....grrrrr, Not again!" He sighed as he began looking for tissues to clean it up with.

Viscus
The intercom for the canteen came on:

"I am fully aware of what happened. I was counting on it. Angel AI's managed to board the ship during a attempt to track Tomoya. I was monitoring them, waiting for them to send a transmission to their leaders. I understand that my efforts were in vain and I accept full responsibility for what happened....
...
...Is that all?"

He said in his robotic tone of voice, his question at the end proving this was a half apology.

David West
"Hey...As long as it ain't Seamus Moore, I'll live." David answered as he began to keenly snipe each target Elena threw out.
"There are other movies you know. MUCH better ones. There's ones with Action-"
He did a dramatic dive straight from a John Woo Film as he shot a target.
"-Ones with Adventure-"
Firing a shot at a crane handle to make it fall and give him something to swig off as he hit another target.
"Wait-whoa-CRAP!" He let out before he smashed into the side of the Hanger as he was unable to stop.
He soon picked himself up though, wincing a little.
"....and ones with Comedy....ow..."

 

[StormShaun]

Kud & Melethia.
Location: Rising Dawn, Armory.
Time: 5 Am.

Kud was startled as she was dragged off to the training room/Dojo with Melethia. The weight of the two weapons on her made her heavily, though she was pretty light off to begin with.

So the two walk to the training room as the sun was starting to Rise over the Rising Dawn.

Riki.

Meanwhile in the couple's room, the boy Riki woke up to the sun Rising over the bed and face face. Looking around he was pretty confused until he remembered everything. "Oh... yeah... this is the Rising Dawn... ugh" He muttered to himself as he looked around for his younger lover. "Hmm... it seems Kud got up before me... how does she get her energy." Riki yawned as he got out of the bed and started to get ready for the new day.

Dark Tomoya.
Location: Lightning Archangel Fleet, Blackhawke.
Star System: Aegis 522.
Time: N/A.

After an hour of torturing his own writer, Dark Tomoya got quickly bored as Shaun descended into unconsciousness time after time. Walking out back onto the bridge, he pulled the holographic screen from his computer watch and decided to see what everyone was up to. "Hmm is that right." He muttered to no one as he flicked off the screen with a single swipe. "Everyone, prepare for star travel. Set coordinated to 1788871. It seems someone is looking upon us and it is time to lose them. Drop a EMP bomb as we leave, activate scramblers once we arrive... and for fuck sakes, activate the stealth field!" He started to Command the fleet of many, many ships.

"Also get a drop pod ready and activate a portal to... hmm... ahh coordinates Earth 591109... I'm leaving for a while." Dark Tomoya smirked but Storm intervened, "But Tomoya-" He said but was cut off by his dark glare. Storm simply nodded to his command, "Good I was getting bored anyway... cover for me Storm whilst I am gone."

He started to laugh all the way through-out the ship until he reached the hangers.

A few second later a drop-pod fell from the hanger and into a portal, but nothing could see this due to the many ships traveling trough portals and dropping EMP bombs behind them. The ships exited through into a unknown universe where lightning and electricity ruled over all.

(Also this isn't a part of the arch.)
Meanwhile.
Location: A small town between the US and Canada.

The sky changed from clear night to cloudy black as lightning crackled in the sky, it created a portal which opened up near a mountain range near the town. A fiery ball of metal hit a couple of mountains and landed in the large forest a short while away from the town. The towns people started to gather an investigation for the object. A small crowd were on the edge of the forest. "What shall we do mayor... it's going to get too dark to search soon." One townsman cried out, "Calm down, everyone... calm down, we shall look tomorrow, all of your scatter back to your cabins and homes!" The Mayor yelled out, the crowed soon disbanded and the Mayor looked out to the forest in concern.

Meanwhile.

As the wreckage of the drop pod was in flames, the infamous Dark figure climbed out from the wreckage and fell on the snow. "Well... that was different." Dark Tomoya said as the looked at his surroundings and saw a forest. "... fuck... I'm so killing Jenkins because of this!" He yelled out to himself as he looked below and found snow and a cold atmosphere. "Ugh... fine. This place will have to do." Dark Tomoya said as he put his hood on and started to walk towards the town. "30 days of night... how blissful for death." He laughed to himself.

 

[bluerocker]

Is he now?

Teri's protective instinct took over at that moment; and when she scribbled into the tablet; a bright green potion appeared in her hands, and she (shakily) forced herself out of the bed.

"MR. BERNSTEIN! Stay still I'll be right there; AUGH!"

[color=3897E0]

"Madam, Please! Someone else can help him!"

[/color]

As she was getting out; she fell to the floor in a heap, the potion safe from the fall. With a tired smile, she made her way back up from the floor, and wobbled to the King of Fighters.

"I'm a medic, this is my job, Dimitri. If I can't help my friends, then who can I help? Now stay still, Mr. Bernstein the potion might feel a little funny."

After helping Rugal to his chair, Teri began to diligently apply potion to his bleeding socket, despite the heavy sweat bearing down on her brow.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Night all

"Ah....Who keeps moving the damn tissues!?" Rugal said as Teri began to move, much to the protest of everyone.
"Look, Ms. Gravel. All I need is something to wipe this up with before my suit is ruined, It's okay. You can stay put." He said, bumping into the counter as he turned back to face it again in his search.
Despite his pleas otherwise, Teri led him back into a chair as she closed up the bleeding wound again.
"....Thank you...Now, get some bed rest. It's just some bleeding...nothing major..." He said, Gently helping the writer back to her bed.
"....Well.....As you were...." He said before he grabbed his cane and left the Med-Bay.
God, it's like I'm 18 again....

 

[bluecrimson]

Kud & Melethia.
Location: Rising Dawn, Armory.
Time: 5 Am.

Melethia started out by pulling two dulled blades from one of her pouches and sized up the girl. "Okay, Try to hit me. It's the only way you're gonna learn, and it's not like you can hurt me anyway." The girl stood in a slight defensive stance and easily stepped aside when Kud wildly swung at her before thwacking Kud on the leg. "No, not like that. You're gonna throw off your balance like that, and it leaves ya wide open. Now try again, and with some more control!"

[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: The Boss's Office | Heaven
Time: Timeless

Lucifer and Devon:

He shrugged. "All the numbness is finally all worked out, and I'm feeling pretty good. I've even gotten used to the air here, so no more coughing and wheezing." After the talk, he started doing some weird motions, trying to feel out how he would move the air that looked completely absurd to almost anyone watching, then stopped out of nervousness. "I'm looking like a fool right now, aren't I?"

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[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: Airship Rising Dawn | In Transit to South America
Time: Night | January 1st

Puce, Tajuh, Caim, Cadolbolg and Fionn:

Tajuh nodded. "We all have places that'll bring back memories. The only difference is that I usually stay away from those areas, since I'd rather not see those memories. You know how it is, though. You always end up getting pulled back in, no matter how much you'd like it to stop calling." The man pulled out a jade colored dagger teemed with magic around it, and the Energy Conduit could instinctively tell it held a story all its own. "Sometimes, you've just got to keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep moving, no matter how much you want to turn around and stay in the past."

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Mark, Jake, Teri, Slindis and Rugal

The paladin woke up from the small rest she had fallen into to see Teri tending to Rugal's wounds and yawned, rubbing her eyes before speaking. [color=c20000]"Teri, please get some rest. If you're tired, how can you expect to perform at your best?"[/color] The Cleric-in-training could tell that Slindis was concerned for her, but it was equally scary to think that she had slept with nobody noticing. Did her teacher sleep with her eyes open?

 

[StormShaun]

I did say "Pod" and not "Pods"... right? ... but whatever.

Kud & Melethia.
Location: Rising Dawn, Armory.
Time: 5 Am.

Awkwardly catching the dulled blade in both her hands, Kud was scared about fighting and blood shed, she was never one to fight or be hostile due to her personality. Kud mustered up her courage to face the younger girl...

"Have courage" A voice called to her. (It was also the captcha so... XD)

"Wafu!" Kud yelped as she was hit on the leg. She jumped back and rubbed it to hear Melethia, Kud got back up and told herself to use her agility to her advantage. Back in her world, she was the best catcher on the Little Buster baseball team, she could catch almost anything.

Kud now lunged at the young elven girl, but used her agility to add more control to the swing.

Riki.
Meanwhile

Riki had washed himself from and ridden himself from the stew. Once he had dressed he left the room, noting that Kud had the keys. "Ahh... where could she be?" He sighed and started his search for Kud or someone else on the ship.

Dark Tomoya.
Location: Alaska, Small town, outer forest.
Time: 1 am.

As D.Tomoya's pod was launched, other empty pods were launched towards Earth as well. One to Tokyo, one to Sydney and one to England. These others pods acted as decoys for Tomoya and allowed him to land in Alaska safely and with a small trace left behind him. Well the only thing that he is going to leave behind is red snow, dead bodies and a burning village. With that image in his mind, Tomoya could only smirked as he whistled as he slowly entered the village, but not before he heard several growls behind him... wolves.

"Ooh... I was starting to feel hungry... come here doggy~" He said as his dark red eyes began to glow. The wolves were easily intimidated and tried to run away, but not before the alpha wolf was speared by a dark katana and pinned to the tree. Tomoya then decided he would have a bite before having the main meal.

 

[bluerocker]

Teri gave a yawn after she was put back in bed; but nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard her teacher speak.

"How did you sleep during all that?!"

[color=3897E0]

"Skill, Madam. Anything as such takes it."

[/color]

The Writer would have glared at her AI, were it not for that fact that he lived in her Tablet, and would have looked plain silly. Flopping back on her bed, she gave a light sigh and gave a little wave to her friends, deciding to keep watching what her friends were doing before allowing her allowing herself to fall to sleep.

 

[NotYetForsaken]

The (Un)Real World
Location: Perth | Australia
Time:New Year's Day​

Klaara paused, another angry scowl crawled across her face, and her eyes pierced Mark with a disapproving glare, "What the fuck made you think I cared about your due process. You won't be able to stop me from doing as I please."

She dabbed the wound on her right arm and swiped it on Mark's arm, causing his immediate body to turn numb. With that Klaara stood up and left the restaurant.

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Avatar Adventure
Location: Rising Dawn
Time: Night​

BlackHarte stumbled in his step when Ku reported that Kurumu was trying to enter Kyre's mind. He immediately caught hit step and dashed madly toward Kyre's location, taking out the orange flame that he held in his right hand. "Come with me quickly! There is little time!"

He gritted his teeth and turned a corner sharply, Stupid organics and their stupid emotions. Things will not end well for you Kurumu Kurono.

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Kurumu touched the girl's neck with her tail and tried to enter Kyre's mind. That was her first mistake.

The Succubus found herself in absent creation. An endless void of a mind. This girl dreamed no dreams, and thought no thoughts. It was utter and complete terror. The shadows wrapped themselves around her body and choked her, filling her self and trying to consume what little conviction she had in her mind.

It was this blackness that obscured her vision and her thoughts, Kurumu felt a great urge within her rise. Hunger, lust, thirst. All of them contended for her conscious thought, and they began to conflict against each other, to tear down her being, to shatter the memories of Kurumu Kurono into shards of emptiness to be cast to the winds.

This blackness was going to kill her.

Then a great orange flame spread across the void and consumed Kurumu, and tugged hard. The heat burned her skin, singed her hair, and boiled her blood, but it also burned away the darkness. Then tis burning fire pulled on her, and the pain was sharp and fast. It was as if the bottom of her body was torn from the top of her body.

Then Kurumu woke up, BlackHarte's hand was holding her chest.. as in, it was inside of her chest holding her beating heart.

"I thought I said that you should leave it to me..."

 

[NotYetForsaken]

The (Un)Real World
Location: Perth | Australia
Time: Night​

Klaara didn't stop when Mark called to her, instead she seemed to vanish into the night as a wisp of shadow. The night was suddenly filled with the twinkling lights of fairy to hide her presence.

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Avatar Adventure
Location: Rising Dawn
Time: Night​

BlackHeart looked Kurumu in the eyes fiercely and pulled his hand from her chest, "What you saw was not her mind, but rather the barrier that she has set up to isolate herself from the outside world." He wiped Kurumu's blood from his hand and placed the orange flame above his head for safe keeping, "I could feel it digging into me when I reached in, and had I not a soul blacker than hers, I might have also been consumed."

Kyre stirred in her sleep, turning her head slightly and snuggled up close to Kurumu.

BlackHarte cleaned his hand in the water, "Lost in her own world, it is against me to turn against my master. But if you wish to end her life here and now, it might mean less trouble," he sighed and pulled a rapier out of the ship's hull, "Young master has been nothing but mental instability after mental instability. More trouble than she is worth I presume. Yet, she is the only one with that null-magic field. And you've just seen first hand how strong the strength of humanity can be."

He handed the Rapier to Kurumu and turned to walk away, "She does not harm anyone but me, and she's genuinely happy in the little constructed reality she has. Do you think you can end her waking dream and bring her the truth, along with death?"

 

[bluecrimson]

Kud & Melethia.
Location: Rising Dawn, Armory.
Time: 5 Am.

Melethia grinned as she moved around Kud's attacks and did a few jabs of her own. Since the girl wasn't throwing so much into it now, she had an easier time blocking the attacks. "Okay, okay, you're picking it up defensively, but you need to have an eye for when I leave an opening. Ya know, think outside the box, try to see what I'll do and do somethin based on that." If she didn't want to learn so much, it would be a bit humiliating being taught how to fight by a girl who was getting close to hitting puberty.

[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: The Boss's Office | Heaven
Time: Timeless

Lucifer and Devon:

The young man leaned back and listened to the guitar player at work. "Wow, that's some pretty good stuff. Any way I could start picking that up?" Devon didn't notice the subtle changes that were happening as a result of being in Heaven like his build changing into a lean, toned body, and he seemed to be standing with a little bit more confidence. It was quite easy for Lucifer to pick up on this, though, and the young man seemed to be drawn to the music. If this went right, Lucifer could finally prod him onto a path that would work.

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[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: Airship Rising Dawn | In Transit to South America
Time: Night | January 1st

Puce, Tajuh, Caim, Cadolbolg and Fionn:

He laughed. "Magic or memories, one of the two. Here, have a look at it if you want." Tajuh handed Puce the dagger, allowing the Conduit greater access to the blade's memories.

Puce could see many stories in the knife, although they all seemed to be coherent. A common image that played for a good section of the stories was what looked like a younger Tajuh alongside an African male or sometimes female that seemed very disgruntled and a Caucasian female with chocolate hair and light skin. The group sometimes fought in large militaries piloting various machines at very high tech levels and being quite competent, other times as adventurers aiding groups to thwart some type of world's destruction, and there was one that referred to some city called Tokyo-3 that had some blanked out areas.

A common theme through all of them was that the three all worked very well with each other even if they were forced to fight each other at times. The odd thing is, why would the three split up? Due to the scattered nature of the memories, the exact amount of time was hard to determine, but it was clearly much more than fifty years.


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Mark, Jake, Teri, Slindis and Rugal

Slindis began to think that she was hearing things, but the cleaned-up blood certainly raised suspicion. Although it was gone, the scent still lingered in the air and there was no sign of Teri having cleaned it up. [color=c20000]"Who's there?"[/color] Although there was no way for her to see him, Slindis seemed to be looking directly at Mark with an intense stare. [color=c20000]"Identify yourself."[/color]

 

[bluecrimson]

[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: The Boss's Office | Heaven
Time: Timeless

Lucifer and Devon:

Devon raised an eyebrow then responded. "If I'm going to be giving up half of a century of the afterlife, I need three things. First, I need skills outside guitar playing. Useful ones, so I'm not a liability should I decide to head down there. Second, this does not involve any kin of mine should I hold up my end of the contract. I know about that House Zannifer deal one of your men made with some people in Eberron, and I'm not throwing their lives away. And last, when are these fifty years to take effect? I see the 'good behavior credits' section there, but there's no clear time as to when it happens."

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[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING]
Location: Airship Rising Dawn | In Transit to South America
Time: Night | January 1st

Puce, Tajuh, Caim, Cadolbolg and Fionn:

Tajuh looked around and was satisfied that nobody else was really listening in, then spoke. "Those two are the greatest friends a man could wish for. It didn't mean we were all buddy-buddy at every moment. As I'm guessing you picked up on, there were times that we fought. One of those times was because there was another side to the major war going on there, and I ended up joining up with it and sticking with it when I realized their main goal was to act as a wake-up call to the government that was all too willing to sell out the planet. Tell me, would you be willing to fight your allies in order to push them to that next level?" Puce looked closer into that memory, and he could make the connection that the conflict that arose enabled the force that defeated the group to be ready for the three much larger wars that has proceeded afterwards. And in each of those wars, Tajuh had led the vanguard for that battleship in a machine that darted through the sky at speeds that would likely crush bones, and the man had been called the Green Storm for the effect his attacks had on enemy lines.

The other one that dealt with OZ was shortly after the end of the first war when I was shunted off to somewhere else. There, I had irrefutable evidence that the operation Samantha and Justin took part in was aimed to conquer the planet, and it took two full years for Justin to get that memo. I never wanted to have to fight them, but if I had to in order to stop that original plan from happening, I was willing to be the devil. I know the war that was fought was cruel, but it's better than a colony drop proceeded by a campaign of conquest on the crippled survivors."

He cleared his throat before finishing. "So yeah, we fought. We had to keep each other in check should we fuck up. Is any friendship perfect? As you've already explained yourself, you've had to fight some people here. And yes, I did talk with Lucifer because he has an eye for the long term. It does not mean we share the same bed, nor does it mean that I'm at the ready with that dagger to attack you."

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Mark, Jake, Teri, Slindis and Rugal

Slindis kept a wary eye on the author that appeared. [color=c20000]"Human, what are you doing here?"[/color] Although Slindis made no moves to attack, it was clear that she was keeping watch over her sleeping pupil.