"That just means that you need to find them on your own. It doesn't mean you don't have one. Everyone has one."
"Oh, tybalt. You are quite the optimist. Odds are, however, that i don't. And really, I'm fine with that."
"Oh don't think I'm a pessimist or optimist all the time. Everyone has a person to find, but not everyone does. That's not really one way or the other. Maybe yours will find you. You never know."
"Meh."
settro still acts like renkai doesn't exist.
Several branches from nearby trees reach out and grab the girl trying to fly away, pulling her to the ground "You were told to stay put" The shaman says simply.
Jumps of the branch she was on as it starts to move, she lands on another tree as her husband comes up.
"O what's going on with the bigs wife"
"I don't know " she says "but let's keep looking.
The door to the teacher's lounge opens, and a tall red-haired man enters. He is the image of physical human perfection except for the scars that are visible where his left eye used to be. As the door opens to admit him, a strange sensation pours into the room and as he enters, it is clear he is the source. It is a feeling similar to being pressed upon by an unseen force, save that it is so utterly weak it cannot move even loosely hanging hair. For those who know him already, this is normal around Professor Nix.
His one blue eye settles on Royston as if he had known exactly where Royston was standing before he could have seen Royston. Nix nods politely to the three gathered professors, then looks away as he moves to the sideboard to get a cup of coffee. Once his coffee is prepared to his liking, he turns back to Royston, not needing to search for him at all. He approaches Royston with a welcoming smile and extends his hand when close enough to do so, "Greetings. I do not believe we have met. I am Professor Nix, but please just call me Nix. Are you a new Professor here at Avalon?"
"What's wrong? You still look bothered."
He resumes eating fish.
"He seemed intelligent and capable, at least from what I could hear of what occured. Is it possible he did it himself? They also spoke of time dilation... how much can the time be dilated in the SIM? How much time has he actually spent in there since he arrived, including the dilation effect?" Vare asked before Aananda headed out. "And further, is there anything I can do to assist? Else I may return to my spellbook and prepare additional spells which can help us to locate him."
"I told you that time dilation effect was going to be a problem," she muttered.
Royston Stands and looks at the new comer, and feels the weak Psionic field buff up against his permanently active defenses, others become active analyzing and assessing, blocking shifting, seeing the analyzing as new from's and gust forms and Patton's shimmer and shift, there is nothing unusable about this all Grammatiosn's Clerics are trained thus.
The others there see no change in Royson, hes looks evenly at the new comer and smiles.
"yes I am, my name is Grammaton Cleric Marcus Royson, I am the new fire and energy arms instructor and Gun-Kata teacher, Nex, and looking at you impressive aura I would say you must teach some form of Psionic discipline I'm I correct in that assumption? .
always the even voice
"He seemed intelligent and capable, at least from what I could hear of what occured. Is it possible he did it himself? They also spoke of time dilation... how much can the time be dilated in the SIM? How much time has he actually spent in there since he arrived, including the dilation effect?" Vare asked before Aananda headed out. "And further, is there anything I can do to assist? Else I may return to my spellbook and prepare additional spells which can help us to locate him."
"I told you that time dilation effect was going to be a problem," she muttered.
Aananda sighed. "It's never nice to say I told you so, Ephebe. And I would have to check the logs to determine exactly how much time Tryko'Sam spent in there. At first glance I would say, a lot. And I didn't think Tryko'Sam had the technical know-how to set up an AI."
"Well, as much as I'd like to send you on your way, I don't really have any ability with magic. If that's the source of the troubles in the SIM room I won't even know what I'm looking at, any more than you'd understand complicated machinery."
Rena is distracted momentarily by Silinrul's impressive physique, very definitely ogling him openly and without shame, before it really registers what Jaiye had said. "Hey! I'm not working with a demon! I don't know what's wrong with your boy, but it has nothing to do with me!" Rena says, bristling as her wings move back slightly out of instinct, and she hugs Asha's bird form just a little closer into her belly and chest area, seeking to protect against the accusations of this... eared girl and her brother. "If you can't help me, then I'm leaving. Just try to stop me." Rena begins to float upwards, her eyes darting between Jaiye and Silinrul in case either of them made a move to restrain her.
::Rena, wait! This might be a clue! If there's a demon running around placing enchantments on people that might be what happened to Tryko'Sam!...surely we can work out this misunderstanding? Maybe help each other?::
Rena is distracted momentarily by Silinrul's impressive physique, very definitely ogling him openly and without shame, before it really registers what Jaiye had said. "Hey! I'm not working with a demon! I don't know what's wrong with your boy, but it has nothing to do with me!" Rena says, bristling as her wings move back slightly out of instinct, and she hugs Asha's bird form just a little closer into her belly and chest area, seeking to protect against the accusations of this... eared girl and her brother. "If you can't help me, then I'm leaving. Just try to stop me." Rena begins to float upwards, her eyes darting between Jaiye and Silinrul in case either of them made a move to restrain her.
"Oh, for gods' sake! You might be doing her work without even knowing it! That's how she ensnares people...I'm not trying to hurt you. I don't like you, but that's beside the point. I just want the enchantment professor to make sure you're not unknowingly spreading evil enchantments to the whole school," she snapped, trying to comfort Ehos even though this hurt like a blade through the gut.
Dave seems to take this moment to dive out of the sky in between Rena and the lycans seeing the tense lycans and ehos apparently injured he says "what seems to be the problem?"
Silinrul notices power in the air a cold energy coming from the newcomer
They keep walking through the garden. His thumb rubs across the back of her hand, feeling the texture.
"I like the way your skin feels. It's-"
He stops when they hear the Rena and company conflict faintly.
"Do you hear yelling?"
The lycan glares at the flying man "This is nothing that concerns you, boy. Its a family matter"
"Yes. And it isn't our problem. Feel free to go on trying to flatter me."
she doesn't look phased. Maybe. Uh....
"It isn't flattery if I mean it. I like the texture. Smooth, but kinda like scales. Not how I expected."
÷If I hear magic or swords, I'll try and check it out. Gian might like helping people.÷
" I Think they are going to fight wife we best get back"
The move away a little
"it ceases to be such when it involves my friends, one of which appears to be injured, I'll ask again" his eyes shift showing draconic slits "what seems to be the problem"
his voice though firm does not seem rude and he does not significantly raise his voice.
"Ah. Yes, we only secrete a very small amount of slime, and it's on the part of us that is usually in contact with the ground.the slime evaporates quite quickly, so we leave only a small trail behind us, nearly invisible to those who aren't really looking for it."
"Are you this enchantment professor my sister spoke of?" The word professor sounds odd coming from him, as if its not a word he uses often, if ever. "If so, speak to her. If not, then you are of no help"
"Are you this enchantment professor my sister spoke of?" The word professor sounds odd coming from him, as if its not a word he uses often, if ever. "If so, speak to her. If not, then you are of no help"
"You don't need to be hostile to him, Sil. He's a student. And maybe he can help. This girl," she said, nodding towards Rena, "triggered an enchantment spell of some kind on Ehos. It's origin was a shapeshifting demon. She may have placed something on the girl without her knowing. I want her to come with us to see the enchantment professor. This is serious. We're trying to hunt this demon before she hurts more people."
"thank you for giving me a strait answer instead of futilely trying to intimidate me," Dave looks at the two of them (ehos and rena) with arcane sight and true seeing
"So do scales mean that you're part reptile as well as gastropod?"
He holds her hand up to look at it closely, holding it with both hands and feeling with his thumbs.
"No. the snillorg are just thier own race. A Little odd, yes, but there are mammals that lay eggs."
"Is it possible that they could be a distant relative of Nagaji? The form is a bit similar. And do you have a skeletal system? You're really interesting, having never met someone like yourself before."
she stops, both her eyes turn to look at you. She snarls.
"No. We are not related to the nagaji, or any of those abborant freaks."
her voice should be angry, but it's not. It's cold. Hard. It almost hurts to hear.
He flinches and takes the expression of a puppy that has just been kicked.
"Sorry.... I didn't know..."
He looks away, biting his lower lip in what seems to be a nervous habit.
÷She is a little touchy sometimes. Maybe we should just let her talk.÷
÷If she wasn't the only person we had a shot with so far... is it even worth that? Learning to dodge the minefield of Snail Person Culture?÷
÷/YES./÷
His voices hold an internal conference.
she lets out a sigh.
"You're alright. You don't know of our culture. We hate abhorrent, culture less creatures... And for some reason, naga have risen up to a creature we hate as well... Actually, it's rather unjustified, our hatred of naga's, but it still set me off, as our inbred memories remain strong. My apologies."
"I'll remember that... s-so... what were your parents like?"
He says somewhat nervous, afraid to cross another culture line...
"I have no clue."
she grasps your hand, hoping to relax you. You seem to like doing that...
"Do you not know them?"
He relaxes slightly with the contact, though he treads on eggshells in what he says and doesn't.
They continue to walk hand in hand through the garden, into an arched walkway tunnel with flowering vines growing in and around a white lattice work.
"Nope. We're born in groups of hundreds. Only 5-10 of us live to hatch, then finally get. A host It's not like your parental relations at all. "
"That's kind of sad. How exactly do you... reproduce, if I'm not overstepping a boundary..."
::Rena, wait! This might be a clue! If there's a demon running around placing enchantments on people that might be what happened to Tryko'Sam!...surely we can work out this misunderstanding? Maybe help each other?::
Being confined was one of the things Rena loathed most, and even moreso, this person had just threatened Asha with his actions, one of Rena's few true friends. Rena would be damned if she allowed her to come to harm...
There's a resounding 'crack' from the branches holding the girls as Rena flexes her enormous strength and breaks the bindings, throwing her arms and wings wide, which of course causes Asha to become suddenly autonomous in her flight. Luckily the ground was a scant 5 or 6 feet away.
After that rather impressive display of strength from the girl who definitely doesn't look as though she has that kind of strength in her, the girl looks /pissed/, and is about to lunge at Silinrul when Asha's telepathic voice stops her short. She was right.
"Don't do that again." Rena growls angrily to Silinrul, "I don't even care how sexy you are, if you threaten my friend, I will protect her." Rena says, floating still off the ground, but upright now and no longer shielding the Firebird from the rain coming down, but instead from the group of people in front of her. Her top-shelf goods are still on display due to her wet shirt for eveyone to see, but she doesn't seem to care in the slightest, obviously no sense of modesty.
David's arrival does not help to calm Rena, but now at least she takes a moment to scoop Asha off the ground (assuming she's still there and still in bird form), and hold her under her wing.
"Not at all. It's how our race reproduces- we don't have to spend time parenting. We have inborn knowledge, so we don't have to be taught. No, you're not overstepping any boundaries... You see..."
Aananda sighed. "It's never nice to say I told you so, Ephebe. And I would have to check the logs to determine exactly how much time Tryko'Sam spent in there. At first glance I would say, a lot. And I didn't think Tryko'Sam had the technical know-how to set up an AI."
"Well, as much as I'd like to send you on your way, I don't really have any ability with magic. If that's the source of the troubles in the SIM room I won't even know what I'm looking at, any more than you'd understand complicated machinery."
"Honestly, I don't even know what an AI is." Vare says simply in response the first statment, but nods in agreement to the second, falling into step next to Aananda if she begins to move away. "Agreed, I will join you then. Tryko'Sam did not seem like a magic user, but it may be possible that he has a as-yet unrecognized ability to do such. Let us hurry."
that is great to hear, but Master Blackscales and i both agree i should keep my distance for awhile, Midori was here helping me through this. And i want to thank you for helping Ignace.
Lang's voice and eyes indicate he was in fact crying but he is trying to not let it show.
"Zilla-chan, it's not Lang-kun's fault who he likes. He made a mistake by telling Ignace-chan, and as his friend we need to forgive him, ne?" Midori says, attempting her best to be diplomatic with Zilla, noting her tone of voice. The shinobi girl doesn't seem to note that her wet hair is plastered to her face and pretty muddy from the wrestling match.
"O dear husband, it was good we moved back"
Sh says as bit of wood fall around around them
"poor trees"
"Sounds... painful... and do you intend to ever have children?"
"Sounds... painful... and do you intend to ever have children?"
"It really isn't. Our parasite body no longer has feeling, unlike the snillorg. we just have the captive snillorg do the breeding for our bodies. And yes, i do. I never really take notes because my memory gets vaugely passed on to my ancestors.... I'll explain that another day."
Lang looks to Midori, happy she has come to his defense but he does not want to make enemies either.
Please Zilla, try to understand, I never meant harm to Ignace, and what she said to me hurt, a lot. I felt like everything important to me was taken away. I needed help, I needed a friend.
Lang takes a step closer to the door, to the rain.
Before responding to the others, Silinrul addresses the fae couple in Sylvan "Greetings and well met, my lord, my lady. How is it with you both?"
"Kind of like a stronger kind of instinct?"
"That's a simple way to put it. It will take a while to explain that, and we don't have long enough for the moment."
"That's fine."
He pauses for a moment.
"Do you think the angel guy wanted me to take us to the roof or was he going to find us again?..."
Before responding to the others, Silinrul addresses the fae couple in Sylvan "Greetings and well met, my lord, my lady. How is it with you both?"
Nobby comes out on the tree branch a bit shocked to be address, hes wife follows behind him
He Bows as dos she.
"We are both well Sir, we did not want to disturb you wile you where with guests, Am I'm known as Nibby sir and this is my wife Leasoa, we are here with Princess Amber and Princess Opel Sir who are now attending this fine school"
The both bow again.
"I hope the moon finds you well sir"
He sounds a little intimidated
"He was not clear. We can just wait. If he doesn't come, it's his problem, not ours."
"Nice to meet you Sir's and Lady's"
Is all she can say from behind her husband, she to sounds more than aa little intimidated by the goings on and the group.
No visible magic with David's sight on either Ehos or Rena, unless there are spells active I'm not aware of.
Note: Any magics you folks independently have, do feel free to list for David's sight, or if anything about the Garden, etc. might be known.