We Are Our Avatars IX: Act V: The Sabotage of the Scandolous Saurian Scoundrels (Open)

[Chungus]

Wandering around Cañon City for some time, Sam felt increasingly lost. Like a leaf drifting on the wind, lacking direction. Deciding that he had stayed in the dark for long enough, he began heading back towards Elm, intending to get some clarification.

When he made his way back to the mountains and reached Elm, Sam began his questioning, asking what the organization's endgame was, what their ideals were, and his role was in all this. After stating that Elm was wondering when Sam would start asking questions of this nature, it answered that Sam currently was just in a probationary position, with Elm being assigned to evaluate his skills and mentality, then continued to explain the organization's motives. It finished saying that it didn't understand the concept of ideals and only followed directives, and that Sam would need to ask someone else to get an answer.

Satisfied with the answers he got, Sam spend the remainder of the day practicing sword swings, while Elm silently stood by, running various calculations.

The next day, the duo returned to Cañon City, Elm dropping Sam off somewhere secluded, following him in the sky while Sam made his way back to the bounty store on foot. Reaching the bounty store, Sam looked to see if they were open, vissible but with the faceplate down.

 

[Zepherus14]

"Alright." Sophia looked back into the room before letting out a heavy sigh, and turning around so she could open the door. "When I open up the door, I'm going to need you to go and grab my bag. I'll be outside after that. Make sure you close the door after." Sophia instructed as she opened the door and briskly walked out. Samus would notice that covering most of Sophia's right side was stained with chocolate, as well as most of the sheets she was holding. She was still wearing her nightie.

Before she left, she shared one glimpse of eye contact with Samus, subsequently looking down looking rather embarrassed as she walked off.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus noticed Sophia glancing at her, and tilted her head a little as she left, confused. She then noticed the chocolate stain on her night gown, and decided to cut off her external air ports just in case as she entered the room, looking for Sophia's bag.

 

[Zepherus14]

Samus wouldn't have a hard time finding the bag, as it was just on the far side of the room. A couple of things like her tooth and hair brush were lying close by it too, but otherwise it seemed like Sophia kept her room fairly tidy.

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Sam the Zombie would note that the crazy old lady that had been outside the bounty shop beside the walmart was now gone.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus grabbed the bag, making sure to close it if it wasn't already closed so nothing fell out, and exited the room, shutting the door behind her as she left.

 

[Zepherus14]

Samus would find Sophia waiting outside, holding onto the blankets and looking out towards the ocean beach. Sophia hadn't been outside just yet, and although she'd known they'd left already, she hadn't heard exactly where they were going. This had been one of the closest times she'd been to the ocean, Winterhorn being too high an elevation to smell the salty air. Hearing Samus approaching, Sophia looked over to her. "Well, needless to say this is embarrassing..." Sophia said as she rolled her eyes, sounding a bit agitated. "Thanks for grabbing my bag, it's a bit awkward carrying it with these too." Sophia then threw the blankets on one of the clover patches around the area.

"At least I feel better and more awake than I did yesterday, on the other hand this happened..." Sophia added, sounding like she'd been awoken by this and probably could have slept a couple more hours. As she said this however, she slowly moved her left hand over her right side. The chocolate that was caked there slowly came off her and pooling into an orb floating above her hand.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"What is that?" Samus said, putting the bag down and gesturing to the large chocolate stain.

 

[Slenn]

--Removed---

 

[Zepherus14]

"What does it look like?" Sophia answered back, continuing to run her hand adjacent to her right side, the chocolate orb getting larger as it removed more of the caked chocolate stain. By the looks of it, the chocolate matter had to have been Sophia's mana, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to manipulate it like she was to Samus' knowledge. "Do you know where we are? It smells salty in the air." Sophia asked, taking another glance at the ocean.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"I know what it is, I just wonder what happened. Did you make that by accident somehow? And we're at the sea side."

 

[Zepherus14]

"T-then why did you ask what it was if you already knew what it was?" Sophia asked back, still looking a little sleepy and confused, shaking her head as she answered back. "I guess you could say by accident... This hasn't happened in a long time, and really only when I was first learning magic did it happen at all... Seems like my brown mana pool overfilled while my white mana was being replenished." By this point she's mostly removed the chocolate from herself, making a reasonably large orb about the same as a honeydew.

Hearing the Gwen and Sara talking, Sophia looked over to where the two had been standing, a small ways away. A look of embarrassment crossed her face as was still in her nightie, coupled with the situation at hand. The maid duo would definitely be able to smell the chocolate coming off of Sophia. 'How long have they been there for?' She thought to herself as she continued to watch them.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"I meant... Nevermind. "Samus said quietly. "So you have to use so much of this brown magic each day then?"

 

[Zepherus14]

"Thankfully not." Sophia shook her head, picking up the sheets that she'd brought out, and started to remove the chocolate there too. "The best way to describe it would be... I have a particular amount of mana that I should normally have at a given time. But if I use too much up of one, my body needs to make more to replenish it. The problem comes that it doesn't seem to make just one, like it can only make both together... So since I haven't used much brown mana as of late, but used-" Sophia paused as she scratched her chin for a moment. "A good lot of it, enough to make me collapse, then if has the chance to overflow like this." Sophia looked back over to Samus, the look in her eyes saying even she wasn't entirely sure if she was right on her assumption, but seemed like the most reasonable answer she'd come up with. "That make sense?"

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"I understand."Samus gave a small nod.

 

[Slenn]

<color=purple>"Let's move out. I think we'll be able to manage without Faro. We can use our computers to help translate."

<color=brown>"Okay then."

The sisters proceeded onwards to the scrap yard where they found the entrance to it once again. Gwen materialized Graviton to help translate the Spanish. The two of them looked around for any signs of management.

 

[Zepherus14]

[color=Stereotypical spanish guy who doesn't know how to dance]"Hola señoras, ¿qué le gustaría hablar conmigo hoy?"[/color] A rather well built man walked towards the entrance way.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"So, do you need anything else?" Samus asked Sophia.

 

[Slenn]

The computer translated it for Gwen and she had the computer respond back by saying:



OOC: The brackets are supposed to imply that it's being spoken in Spanish or the foreign tongue.

 

[Zepherus14]

"I don't think so..." Sophia hesitated, obviously thinking out what she'd have to do. "The biggest problem is just getting rid of all this excess mana right now, and then after that I'll have to air out these sheets too." She informed Samus, looking down at herself again. "And also let this air out for a bit as well." Referring to her nightie.

"[small]Not sure what the plants are like here either... maybe they won't like that?[/small]" She mumbled to herself as she looked farther out into the field area they had touched down in.

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[color=Stereotypical spanish guy who doesn't know how to dance]Oh, está bien. Tenemos esas cosas aquí, ¿cuánto estarías necesitando?[/color] The man paused as he looked at the device and back up to the ladies, finding the whole thing a bit peculiar given their attire. But money was money, so he didn't really care what two dames where needing it for. [color=Stereotypical spanish guy who doesn't know how to dance]"Por aquí, sígueme."[/color] He gestured, as he walked into the metal working area.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"Hmm... Can the mana be stored, like in a battery?" Samus asked, thinking that was their biggest concern.