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I'm sure that he'd appreciate it at that point.Also because GWG maxe me think it's nessesary... Kyle is like an Angel from Dogma. No junk to play with.He gets it back when he wins or dies.
Unless otherwise stated by Void.
OMG! Like, what a huge dick...Fuck him, he can go suck a dick!This might be a good time to bring up that Kyle (as well as Angel, Selina, Maria, and an absentee character named Matt) are world-famous celebrities due to their pivotal role in driving off a recent alien invasion.
Sen mutters something about "if you lay a hand on me" and "a cold death in ice". Sen's hand is reflexively getting ready to slap Kyle.About time she started learning.
"I'm gonna like, go to sleep. Goodnight!"It's the afternoon.
Bethany fucks off so I can sleep.
[ROLL: 28 + ?] Shis'm Caes fails to find Ester somehow. Don't ask me why.She has a terrible sense of direction. Why do you think people need to find God rather than the other way around?
"Then you are in luck, if we hurry that is. The medicine of my people is much further advanced than it would seem. There are well over 2000 accupressure across the body, along 20 meridians, resulting in several billion combinations. Give me 20 minutes with him, and I'll strengthen his vitality, and put him in a regenerative sleep. If we come in time that is, so where is he?""Barring magic, acupuncture is good for pain relief at best. With magic, it isn't called medicine.
"I've had a glance at giant doctors work, their knowledge of anatomy is appalingly bad."Oh dear.
((I hope I am not totaly overstepping my boundaries by the conjuncture "extensive knowledge of anatomy + incredible precise needle work = can be combined to perform surgey))When combined with her belief of "Thousands of years of experiments, autopsies, and whatnot have given modern doctors a terrible knowledge of anatomy," I'd say she'd be better at doing surgery on another mouse-person.
"Oh you giants, will you once just let me do my handywork. Just look at those stitches, so unprofessional, but leave it as it be, time to set some needles on him"Did you have a bad experience in a hospital as a kid, or is Hai just being an ignorant mouse-person?
"I get it, you are all happy to be alife, but enough with the hugging for now, you shouldn't move, and rest. I'll see if i can get some alcohol and some cotton, light a little fire on the needles, that gives them the real kick. Giant doctors only ever just...sorta clumsily sew things back together, and then leave the actually *connecting* things back up to the body. That takes way too long. I bet they threw the arm away too, I am sure it was salvagable.No, seriously, doctors know what they're doing. Stop screwing with it Hai. You don't even have any understanding of human anatomy from what previous dialogue shows. You can't even acupuncture drugs out of his system!
"Bah, pomegrenade-lead-paste and snake oil! Trying to heal the body is almost just a cosmetic procudure. That matters is the severed meridians you quack!"Chiron taught the god of healing medicine. Why the feck is Hai calling him a quack?
"Thank Miss Belladonna and the little one. Their healing has done more than my Panacea to fix him up."BS. The intended effect of the acupuncture was to clear his system of drugs, and that didn't even work!
"If he is that experienced, he should know that regrowing stuff is never a full replacement. The new limb is devoid of the meridians, and they stretch to accomodate, making them thinner. It's fast, but a short-sighted practice, which shorterns your lifespan. What is cut off must be reattached, or at least be substituted with an equal replacement, re-growth takes too much substance. Several millenia, sure, several millenia of doing it all wrong."...Does Hai even know what Chiron was doing? Did Chiron explain to her how his miracle paste worked in some post I missed?
"Science has some applications, but in the world of the supernatural, sometimes science can't explain everything."My nerves having been grated...
"Call me Mister Nancy."First name Ann?
Accuracy, acupuncture, now multipresence? Op plz nerf.Cyrielle sighs at the difficulty to figuring out yet-to-be-defined matters. She heads out alone to eat."Bah, screw the lovey-dovey ones, eating alone is boring, may I accompany you? I believe we haven't met yet, I am Hainuwele."
If it helps, Abraxas looks less like an old fifty and more of a youngish thirty-five.Oh, good, it looks like he's going out with someone slightly older than half his age.
((not knowing what day it is sounds perfectly student-like to me))Don't be absurd. I have a watch that tells me the day.
You need to say that?((To Cyrielle's slightly amorous behaviour.))Abraxas is still oblivious.((Oblivious to what?))
Camille presents Richard with a large wristwatch cast in shining brass. The inside is covered in a layer of soft....hold on, is that ermine fur? It might be ermine fur. Seems no expense was spared here, and it's certainly quite comfortable, easily clipping on to his wrist. On the outside, each band features a different piece of artwork by Camille, all cute and catgirls and all that. The watch itself has a centerpiece of Camille and Richard holding hands, and the actual face above those hands has a lovely display that not only shows the local time, but unfolds into an impressively large display that shows the phases and positions of various moons, planets and stars in three dimensions. The whole thing is self-winding and oh yes. Doubles as a smartphone on the opposite side of the planet display.That is...awesome. Like, in the original sense of the word.
((Tempted to timeskip to next-yep.))Which pretty much nixes the interview. Ah well. Exposition on magic elsewhere in the world may have to wait.
It is now the next morning.
...wait Nuriel propositioned him yesterday so...Yeah.Wait, did I forget something?
((I have no idea why I utterly hate having my characters talk to each other.))I feel the same way.
Personally, I especially dislike having one of my characters praise or otherwise compliment another one of my characters as it's rather mary sue-ish, hence why my characters generally interact through either snarking, trolling or hostility towards each other.))Agreed. This is why Nuriel/Angel and Nuriel/Will interactions are so much more common than Angel/Will ones--Angel and Will might get along.
Agreed.More recently, someone spawned in a well of blood, that someone else misread as a wall of blood and then shenanigans involving a misread mass of blood ensued....
Okay. Sounds... Offputting.
He is, but he doesn't have fertility powers which is the main reason I dislike him.Why are the fertility powers that bad? Personally, I'd dislike him more from his repeated attempts to use them (ie, his promiscuity/constant attempts to hit on some girl or another, or multiple).
Horsewomen of the Apocalypse aren't exactly sluts, you know.Eh, Bethany doesn't really do "realtionships" you know? She just wants to be like a wild and free spirit and live like god intended her to, you know.Just remember that she has a long knife that can easily go into groins and she isn't afraid to use it.The Horseman of Pestilence has a very big axe tainted with various fast acting plagues. She's still being pursued by Kyle.
Wait a moment, if Anansi is a spider and god of all knowledge of stories, does that mean he can inject people with bad fanfiction? Also, is he partially comprised of code?Given his name, I'm guessing he's more like the American Gods version.
Hinduism laughs at your tiny pantheon of only 8 or however many gods.Not every pantheon has to be Hindu-sized.
Linking to this since I said I would. And people can add to it.No, we can't. At least, I can't.
What about Saint Cuthbert*?Good thing Bethanys not a lesbian.Bethany is going to try her best and not be left alone with Kyle. Her mind is full of learning and fuck right now.Then she's going to end up alone with Selina, who has an even bigger harem.
Why do I keep reading Sen's voice in a british voice.... It fits too well T.TWoteva floats yer boat, guv'na!
Almost.Then they will just chill and be platonic with each other?Then she gets left with Richard, who has neither a harem nor attempts to hit on her.Good thing Bethanys not a lesbian.Bethany is going to try her best and not be left alone with Kyle. Her mind is full of learning and fuck right now.Then she's going to end up alone with Selina, who has an even bigger harem.
THE SHIPPING WILL NOT CEASE IN MY DOMAIN, ANGRY ONE
She wasn't going to jump off a building! She was going to simulate herself doing that, wander somewhere quite and then explosively rupture everywhere.Well, Kyle thought she was going to...actually, that's much much worse.
this is getting ridiculousExplain.
we are playing a game about super powers and magic, where pretty much not a single character makes sense.
For all intents and purposes, the ruleset of the game is almost entirely freeform, and since rolls can mostly even be made up by the player in question to suit the flow of the narrative, it's bordering on self-GMd.Yes. So?
yet I am endlessly picked upon by GWG because my fucking magical character with fucking superpowers is not scientificaly correct. are you fucking kiodding me?...Dude, you don't know me, do you?
It's entirely fine in-character, because I get it, your character is an asshole that does nothing all day but give everyone crap. sure, enjoy your character.Hey, don't be absurd. He is trying to be better, you just don't notice because Will doesn't like people who murder ~40 innocent travelers, assist in the murder of countless more, and then blame it all on the travelers. Especially when he suspects these murderers of lying, and knows they're being illogical.
GWG, my character is not based on hard science. Get over it.Well, at some point we have to admit that your character's entire race is a bunch of inexplicable beings inexplicably doing inexplicable things.
Being bound probably didn't help her mood.why's the spirit of creation going around killing things?I really shouldn't be this annoyed that you didn't read when I explained it, considering that was... a thread ago.
Before creation, there were two spirits, her and her brother/husband/lover/Shadow (terminology, as one would expect, doesn't work too well with this kind of thing), Void. Because Creation exists, she can never see him again. She's ah... gone slightly psycho over this.Hey, she was perfectly nice at first!why's the spirit of creation going around killing things?Because she's a giant bitch.
That's literally the best fitting answer.
Although technically she only created everything ever in the RotMG multiverse due to conflicting canon.
It was only after eons of not being able to be with the one person that actually mattered to her that she became the psycho bitch you all know >_>
yeah, that whole creation thing was a step in the wrong direction as a whole, brought more problems than it solvedMuch like saying your character killed 30-odd people?
or just make your own plot! with blackjack, and hookers!that might even work, just approach a female character and offer them money for sex, and just see where that leads...
well, it's not like every character has to be there.Well...
Anyways, *bops the everyone not in IRC with the Twi and Mcclay and Projeck in IRC**growls*
>...err, I'm sorry. Busy right now, having a moment here.<[To: Richard] <I know it's none of my business, and there's a fair chance I'm seeing a mountain where there's a molehill, but...it seems like things aren't going great between you and your assorted love interests. You haven't been having much time to spend with them, and you don't seem to have been trying to change that from what I've seen. Anything I can do to try and help? Offer advice? Listen to your problems? Shut up and leave you alone?>
"As to your first part, it may be an undeclared war but you ARE waging a war on the "big" people, because the enter your land and you kill them, you do not even restrict your fighting to combatants, you are actually in violation of the Geneva convention, as such you are committing war crimes, whether or not you want to believe it.""I hadn't thought of that. Good point, Stella."
Kyle wakes up. Hopefully without someone in his bed... wait Nuriel propositioned him yesterday so... Yeah.<Rise and shine.>
"Ohhh, a gift? Aweso- I mean about time. The hospitality in this place, sheesh.""Ingrate. Some of us are glad Arya is providing us room and board. You're turning her backyard into a one-woman kingdom, quite possibly with more of your people to come, and you've admitted to killing almost forty people. Just once, can you say something that doesn't make me want to call the police on that last one?"
"Nonsense, I don't make *messes*. I am probably the cleanest person in this house.""Well, let's look in the window of your little house and check...Not seeing it."
"Sheer..volume of the mess makes me automaticaly cleaner.""Well, using that same logic, you are hundreds of times stupider than anyone, due to your small amount of brain containing what information it contains."
Will tries to resist laughing.Hainuwele hands Meme one of the spiders gifted by HK-47.Meme looks at it for a second... then realizes what it is!
"Here, those are much better than liquorice anyway.*shudders*....ugh...liquorice.."
((off for the night, enjoy your spider))
"BAD!" Meme throws the spider into the castle in a annoyance.
"...So your another magic girl? Man this house is getting crowded.""As much as I imagine no one expected it, I agree with Kyle's idea of a castle somewhere in Europe. Especially if we made some kind of portal to connect the two. Oh! That reminds me. Selina, could you pull these out?" Will removes the slightly crumled copy of the plans of the parts for his server thing.
"A Magical Girl!? OMG, thats like, super desu Kawaii!~"<...I can feel my dignity drop ten percent just by associating with her.>
Bethany jumps around happily before digging into some Mickie d's.
HK-47 points out he's cleaned the house already. Twice."Thank you for that, by the way. Although it makes it harder for me to find ways to help Arya, since she still won't accept stock advice."
"Ah, The butcher of Romans and Wyrms."More growling over the mindlink.
Sen gets the oddest of feelings that kyle is being a lecher, <Kyle are you hitting on some poor girl right now?><No, he's been hitting on her since she got here. And possibly before.>
"The All-Knower--no, that sounds dumb--well, I can't think of a good title for my advice-giving persona, but I agree with Ester's suggestion.""They've been dating forever. I wouldn't want to get between that... It'd just cause drama. And Richard expressed is disinterest in harems... So for the sake of not ruining things, I'm going to stay out of his life, in any romantic way, despite my desire to date him."Ester looks momentarily unsure, "Um... In that case you can't really do much but move on with your life. Maybe in the future Richard might change his mind, but you can't waste away waiting for that to happen. You've gotta go back out into the world and live your life!"
"Yeah, robotics aren't worth it. It's pretty dull until you get to the end result. And sometimes even then." Will grins at HK-47."Maybe you would do well at robotics... although if I let you do that I'm cleaning you up and getting you a new outfit.""Ummm...Like, no thanks."
Later that day Bethany would be given an exact recreation of Madoka's outfit in her size. Somehow."I'm sure you didn't mean it, but goddamn that is creepy. Do I want to know how you got those measurements?"
"That is also creepy. But it's explicable.""Those are in your room. I wont ask for payment if I get pictures of you in the outfit."Bethany's eyes flash gold.
"You do not want to go down that path."
<By the way, isn't odd how our voices are similar?><Like mine and Conny's?>
Everyone hears some irritated growling over their mindlinks.Aedan starts yelling in... Celtic? Yes, Celtic. He's saying something about finally having another supporter of the pagans on the team.Ha! And may we spill the blood of many wyrms before the day is over!
"Alice is fine for now... Mistress."
The growling intensifies and is accompanied by...scribbling?"Not to offend but... there's a lack of Wryms here for some reason."Good! That means the scaly monsters have learned their place!
"Well, I have some good news and bad news Corebus!"Will listens.
Aedan then gives Corebus a funny and comprehensive lesson on history since the fall of Rome.
"You mean he doesn't have a crush on all the goddesses and female entities ever? About the only god I HAVEN'T seen him hit on was Hestia. HESTIA.""Hey, Richard. Now that you bring that up...why hasn't he hit on Hestia?"
Richard walks in.
"Just lampshading how Kyle hits on everything with two X chromosomes and legs.""When did he hit on Stella, Angel, Alice, and/or Meme? Also, which ones, and how often? I need to know so I can pummel Kyle properly."
"Interesting.""I don't know what you mean!"There is now a long knife at his throat.
Cue furious scrubbing.
Fuck. Off.
"Huh? What's going on?""A stranger with voices in her head walked up and was invited to stay. The usual, really."
"Okay.""Shys'm Caes, we need to get that kid to a psychiatrist."
Kyle is still in the corner. He doesn't seem to care.
"Do you also kill birds for defending their nest, or ants that swarm out when you step on theirs?""If the birds or ants were killing me, yes. And you had other options, you, hm...you bloody quim."
"We do not actively hunt for humans for fun, or even nourishment, but for survival.""Given the remote location and invisibility of your settlement, and the fact that in your lifetime you alone have killed nearly forty humans, either you are lying or you live in the middle of a highway."
"If that is a bad thing, then you guys are a group of villains, for killing the monsters that threathen the world, and could need a lesson in humility and a lower viewpoint.""As it so happens, this requires an extremely improbable tale to be completely true, and that hundreds of people are somehow vanishing into one specific spot in the Outback without anyone noticing. Frankly, I'm growing increasingly convinced that you were shrunken down by some other mage and have since gained delusions about your origins. It fills in quite a few holes.
"Peace talks you say? We are not at war with humanity, nor are we a menace. It's the giants that are a menace to *us*. But you are the descendant of a dragon ((assuming I caught that correctly)), so this is a viewpoint that you may never understand, because there might not be a single being in the world that doesn't take a dragon seriously.""We don't even know you exist. If you don't do anything, the status quo will continue for everyone except you, who will be in jail for an absurd number of murders."
For my kind, that is different. Giants do not fear our needles.""The needles with which a single individual can kill nearly twoscore humans with before she even starts to look old."
"You talk about treating me like a sentient being? The majority of your comrades treats me like a *toy*. Not even out of malice, they are not bad people. But simply because they don't know any better. To them, toying with smaller beings has been, from birth, just a game. Look at Meme. She has been the most welcoming person towards me in this entire household, and yet her first instinct was to offer me to live inside a *toy*. There is something inheritly wrong in the worldview of giants that makes it impossible to attempt *peace talks*, because peace exists between equals.""...You're judging a whole species because one household of its children are unkind, illogical? What the hell kind of logic is that?
"I have seen the difference in strength between giants and our kind with my own eyes.""The size difference that lets you kill nearly forty 'giants' yourself."
"We *used* to attempt communication, once. It was a nice looking camper. We revealed ourselves, and at first, had nice talks. He showed great interest, and no malice whatsoever, and we held a festival to celebrate. Then he got drunk. The details of what happened next are different depending on whom you ask, but on the bottom line, he burned down a quarter of the city and ended almost a thousand lives before he was brought down.""...You're avoiding humans because of one drunkard. Man. That is so stupid...how do your people get along with each other? 'The McHaisons' baby spit up on me! Clearly all McHaisons are untrustworthy bastards who will vomit on good people like us!'"
So stop talking of me as if I was a butcher who came to teach humans fear of our needles. I have not come to the giants to slay so many of them that they would come to fear us, but to join side by side amongst their strongest. Fight amongst them, against threats that are dangerous enough to threathen humanity, and stand victorious among them, as an equal and rival. Doing so will inspire future generations of my kind, that great things way and above their size are not out of grasp, and teach future generations of giants that we are not toys to play with as they please, and that consequences have to be expected. We shall earn humanities respect through valor. Only then, when the field has been leveled, can we come out of hiding.""You know what would help a lot with people treating you like equals? You letting people who aren't drunk or children know of your existence! And that would also give you a more accurate picture of humanity."
<...This is why we need better communication with the healers. That, and maybe a way to mass produce stuff with Selina's power without exhausting her again.><Hm...do we have any data about genetic transmission of magical abilities? I have a couple potential plans...>
<Oh, I have to ask Shys'm Caes. Why did you make a race of tiny people who seem completely obnoxious about anything bigger than them?><Only things bigger than them?>
When Kyle responds he sounds disappointed.<It was a nice thought.>
<I take it the the robotic arm that I'm making isn't needed?>
Hainuwele returns to the house, with the most self-satisfied grin, immediatly beginning to spread the story of the life she just saved, becoming more and more dramatic, and emitting the part other characters played more and more with every iteration"Thanks for letting me overhear that story a dozen times. It lets me extrapolate back to the original, where I'm guessing you tried acupuncture to no effect before an actual healer came in and did all the work. Chiron, maybe one of Marie's friends helping?"
"Come on Meme, a weird looking stranger is offering you candy, he is totaly legit, you should go with him."Hai gets flicked.
"I'm like, Bethany Levenforth!""If you are like Bethany Levenforth, I can't help but wonder where the real one is."
"Sooooooo, you guys like, good now?""I like to think I'm always good. Otherwise, how will I get Christmas presents?"
"What about overloading with magic and being sliced apart by shadows? Or imploding? It's the opposite of exploding!"<Less retribution to the captors. Also, quiet, I'm trying to listen to the interview.>
<Also Alice, for whatever questionable reason, murdered the prisoner in cold blood.><Woo hoo.>
Selina pales, trying to remain calm. Someone was dead in the basement!?"Are you alright, Miss Marten?"
Selina faints in the interview, fully pale."No, you are not."
Kyle looks dully surprised turing to Ashley once more."Know about what?"
"Did you know about it?"
Kyle sighs."This isn't the first time something like this has happened."
"Well, it would seem we may have to cut the interview short unless you're fine without Selina."
What makes you think 47 listens any better than Kyle?Turns out the prisoner and his two 'friends' are part of a corporation that deals with magic users behind the scenes. It's based in the Middle East, apparently. They took Tobias for some experimentation of a sort. It's unclear, based on how this man was just a grunt sent out to do pickup duty. No real clue on why they're in Australia, though. Perhaps branching out? Obviously the individual didn't know. And to answer Cyrielle's earlier suspicion, he is not associated with Al-Qaeda.((HK-47 was probably told about this. Same with everyone, really.))
((What is happening in the Northdale Town Center? Anything interesting?))You're nowhere near anyone. Barring some kind of incident, not likely.
The interview was supposed to be half an hour, minus commercial breaks.((Screw it.))((Can we leave now and pick the interview up later?))((ELLF))
TIMESKIP about fifteen minutes to the end of the interview.
Bethany puts her hands on her hips and looks at Kyle.Lovely. Projection, better than even chance of anorexia in some form.
"Look you look like really skinny, I don't think you'll be able to like, catch her. I mean your body is like, that of a famine victim."
Note: Bethany doesn't't look like shes eaten in awhile.
Kyle looks at the girl criticizing the man in powered armor.*clicks stopwatch*
"I could throw you up there... Hey, you're pretty good looking."
"Isn't it ,like, illegal to be ,like, a butt?"mcclay, seriously, put your commas in the correct place. It hurts my eyes.
She does not look amused.
Isn't this we have Gaiden?Who uses the generic gaiden?
"To the studio? Well, I thought I might as well come... though I was running a bit late due to some... er... complications.""Interesting. And how did you find the group after discovering your abilities?"
"I'm Ashley Davis. I recently joined the group.""Oh? What brought you here?"
((Quite a bit is cultural, yes. She was raised to kill people for the Kilaan throne. That doesn't tend to imbibe you with great respect for life.))((And I'm guessing what's-Dwarmin's-name comes from a culture where cultural pleasantries are different.))
((On stage.))"Oh! Who are you?"
Ashley just sits there, and laughs with the audience a little.
