Ehos knocks sharply on the door three times, knowing that if he wasn't cleared to get in, the scanpad wouldn't work for him.
The door opened and Aananda gestured for them to come in. "Hello, Ehos. And I'm afraid I don't know your name yet, dear. Try not to touch anything. There's a lot of delicate equipment in here. To what do I owe the honor of this visit?"
"You're right." Vai said, taking deep breaths to keep from bursting out laughing again. "I totally didn't finish lunch so I'm gonna get some more food, and I still need to make sure my harness is all set. I might be back in time to catch the tail end of Fieri's concert, but if not tell her I said sorry, kay?."Eventually they were both able to get a hold of themselves, although it was difficult since every time Raelle would stop laughing she'd look at Vai and start all over again and vice versa.
"Alright," she gasped. "We'd better get going. I don't want to miss that concert."
"Okay, no problem. I'm sure she'll understand."
The door opened and Aananda gestured for them to come in. "Hello, Ehos. And I'm afraid I don't know your name yet, dear. Try not to touch anything. There's a lot of delicate equipment in here. To what do I owe the honor of this visit?"
Ehos bows respectfully to the Professor, and begins writing a note. Knowing full well that Anahita would likely introduce herself in the meantime, Ehos will not bother to include her introduction in his script. 'Good afternoon Professor. Sorry to intrude like this. Anahita has expressed a great deal of interest in the technology which is present in the school - her world is not as advanced in such things. Further, she has suggested that a datapad may be able to be modified to read my thoughts and display them, rather than the time-consuming manual script which I am currently utilizing.'
*blink, blink*
"Actually, that's a brilliant idea. I'm sorry for not having thought of it before. It'll take a few minutes to manufacture, and I'll need to get a full scan of your brain waves to calibrate it to you. But that should make communication much easier for you.....do you want it to display your words in written form or speak them for you? I can make it so you can change the settings between the two if that would be more convenient."
Lang, having heard the pleas for help runs up beside what thought was dave but isn't sure (never seen him like that before) find someone or something new every day here
Is there some sort of trouble?
Ehos was still unsure of the extent of his ability. He knew any sound he personally intended to make triggered it, but he wasn't sure if this would count. The magic affecting him was strange and indecipherable, even to Tyrrin. He had smiled at Aananda's reaction to the suggestion. It had been his only half an hour earlier. 'If we are to have it speak, I would like to test it in a soundproof room first, just in case.'
Dave turns to look at lang and nods before going back to looking for what was after her.
Dom hears the piano playing and looks over to the stage. There he saw a catfolk. Playing the tune. As the song ends he starts clapping both to acknowledge he was pretty good and to try and get his attention.
Dave, never knew you had other looks, that shiny stuff for the show?
anyway best we see what is out there and how did it get on the school grounds
Lang goes the girl that called for help. Who is after you? we are here to help you
Ardiente quietly opens the door, seeing a young man pummeling away at a thick column of stone. He blow puts more and more hairline cracks in the structure. Such powerful strikes. Something of a martial artist himself, Ardiente is quite impressed by the young man's form and power. Not wanting to disturb him, the young firebird will simply slip into the room, quietly closing the door behind himself, and will watch Fei's form, and occasionally attempting to mimic it.
Ardiente appears to have timed his entrance perfectly to the now quite loud strikes echoing off the walls of the chamber, which appear to be made of somewhat rough stone. Debris is scattered about the chamber - most likely the shattered remnants of this human's other 'punching bags'.
As he watches, the human orbits the column and passes out of direct view behind it as a series of very loud fractures resonate from the rock. Suddenly, the column explodes into an expanding wall of stony shrapnel that embeds itself into the walls...and the young firebird.
Dave looks at Lang out of the corner of his eyes"huh, no this is me, but people act weird around people ovbiously different than them, the wings most people are fine with, but the rest..." Dave places himself between the girl and where she came from to provide her cover from where he thinks any pursuer would come from.
Ace pauses thinking "Hmm, spend time with several pretty young ladies or not spend time with them? Yea, that's not really a hard choice." He says with a big grin
Tybalt notices Dom clapping and flashes off the stage down next to him.
"Nice job. You in one of the bands playing tonight?" Dom is the only obvious musician here not running around trying to get ready.
Ardiente reacts without thinking, his instincts kicking in. After the dust clears, Fei sees a young firebird, crouched in a very familiar form. Oddly, the shrapnel seems to have completely missed him, save for a gash across his cheek.
There is a slightly more elaborate version of these events, but PM if Fei is unable to piece together what has happened. The form Ardiente is in is one that is often used by Aananda.
While they were waiting at the door to open, after Ehos' silent three knocks, Anahita did nothing more than stand there looking at the walls and the 'datapad' next to the door silently what all their uses for.
In the back of her mind, however, it felt as if gigantic metallic doors were constantly opening and passages forming, given this influx of new knowledge.
Once the door opened, she gave Aanandareavekki a brief yet polite nod in greeting. While having expected something else, she was pleasantly surprised at the humanoid figure in front of her.
With a glance over at Ehos, as if noticing his hesitation at the note pad before him, Anahita did her introduction. "Greetings, Professor Aananda Sunwake. I am Anahita bint Tariq bin Khalid al-Fulan, First Daughter of my House, of the Khebira Satrap of the Padishah Empire of Kelesh, Golarion. May the winds always be at your back and sun shine upon you gently." with that formal introduction, she gave a polite bow and did a twirling hand gesture, as before, just in front of her sternum.
Once Aananda simply called her 'dear', however- she dropped all formalities in her stance and smiled. >>Well, they do seem rather open here. How delightful.<<
She then walked into the room, no further than Ehos did, and peered around the room, listening intently while the two spoke and when able in between voice and writing impliment, observing anything and everything with an abundance of curiosity.
There was no indication that if this were in fact a dragon in front of Anahita that indicated such.
As they walk out of the cafeteria, she does venture to peek back at the kobold, with the same curiosity on her features. Something about him was definitely making her curious.
When Anahita looks back at Kezzin, she finds him looking directly at her. As their eyes meet, he bows slightly in his seat.
Glancing at Tyrrin's apparent difficulty sleeping, Wyrd extends one hand toward her and with a subtle gesture, the floor upon which Tyrrin is laying molds itself to her.
Irritated, Phaezeriel leaves the library in a blur, headed for the elementary wing. Once he reaches it, he heads for Ephebe's office where he knocks firmly on the door three times.
While they were waiting at the door to open, after Ehos' silent three knocks,
Glancing at Tyrrin's apparent difficulty sleeping, Wyrd extends one hand toward her and with a subtle gesture, the floor upon which Tyrrin is laying molds itself to her.
While this seems to assuage Tyrrin's twitches somewhat, the expression of pain on her face is not eased in the slightest.
"Nice job. You in one of the bands playing tonight?" Dom is the only obvious musician here not running around trying to get ready.
"Nah but i wish i was just got here today. Names Tybalt by the way."
"Okay, no problem. I'm sure she'll understand."
Vai hugs her sister before they part, smiling, glad that she was able to distract her from the earlier drama. She goes off in search of food.
"I'm in the same boat." He reaches out to offer his hand. "Call me Dom. I figured there would be more music enthusiasts here before the concert than this."
"Nice ta meet ya . *sniff*. .You smell like the ocean. Are you a water bender?" He says shaking his hand as warmly as possible which is still fairly cold for one made mostly of ice.
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Belyu looked at the catfolk who played the piano with a certain amount of fondness. She initially liked anyone who could play an instrument, and he'd played beautifully. She quashes the thought of asking him if he was in a band yet. She didn't want anything to do with band members anymore. At least not when they were getting ready for a concert.
As a distraction, she goes around and talks to a few people, brushing off irritating questions about her old band and whether or not she was going to try and remake it with a rather angry tone.
"That's a new way of being found out. I never have been asked if I waterbend based off smell. I do waterbend but the smell is from the sent I choose with my prestidigatation, sea breeze. I haven't seen the sea in some time my self. Too much traveling I guess."
"Ya everyone smells a little different water Benders smell like the ocean air benders smell like a breezy fall day fire benders smell like coal earth benders smell like fresh turned soil. It all sinks in I miss the ocean too all the cool waves and salty breezes just fishing all day and nothing else. The lake is ok dont get me wrong but theres just something about the ocean." He goes from a quickly speaking excited tone to a slow descriptive wistful one.
Ace pauses thinking "Hmm, spend time with several pretty young ladies or not spend time with them? Yea, that's not really a hard choice." He says with a big grin
She laughed. "Then I guess you will be going to the concert."
Once Aananda simply called her 'dear', however- she dropped all formalities in her stance and smiled. >>Well, they do seem rather open here. How delightful.<<She then walked into the room, no further than Ehos did, and peered around the room, listening intently while the two spoke and when able in between voice and writing impliment, observing anything and everything with an abundance of curiosity.
There was no indication that if this were in fact a dragon in front of Anahita that indicated such.
"Never noticed myself. So how do you know so much about benders? I haven't met very many others. So I had thought we were rather rare. Here obviously there would others be brought here to train. So I'm not surprised to find others."
Ehos was still unsure of the extent of his ability. He knew any sound he personally intended to make triggered it, but he wasn't sure if this would count. The magic affecting him was strange and indecipherable, even to Tyrrin. He had smiled at Aananda's reaction to the suggestion. It had been his only half an hour earlier. 'If we are to have it speak, I would like to test it in a soundproof room first, just in case.'
"Yes, that's probably wise given the nature of your abilities. I'll make it with the ability to do both and we'll just lock the speaking part if the test doesn't go well."
"Just step onto the scanner pad over there and I'll measure your thought patterns so I can calibrate the device."
She stepped over to an empty tank with a keyboard attached and started hitting keys, her fingers moving with astonishing speed as she programmed in the specs she wanted. Something started taking shape in the tank and she moved over to a holodisplay on another work surface.
Irritated, Phaezeriel leaves the library in a blur, headed for the elementary wing. Once he reaches it, he heads for Ephebe's office where he knocks firmly on the door three times.
"Come in," she called, glancing up from the paperwork on her desk as he opens the door.
She laughed. "Then I guess you will be going to the concert."
"yippeee!! Ihope others will come"
says starlight zipping around over head, then pops off to see how the preparations are coming along.
Ehos nods and complies with the Professor, moving to stand on the scanner. Just in case his thoughts were going to appear on the screen, he tries to focus on non-embarrassing things... which of course, backfires.
He goes from a quickly speaking excited tone to a slow descriptive wistful one.
starlight pops into being and zips past Tybalt then loops back, the 6" fay stops close to him.
"hello mr cat, have I missed your playing?"
"Never noticed myself. So how do you know so much about benders? I haven't met very many others. So I had thought we were rather rare. Here obviously there would others be brought here to train. So I'm not surprised to find others."
"That's because Ive traveled all over I never stay in one place long but this place seems cool I think I'll stay here a while."
Upon seeing star fly by: "BUG! Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, instincts. Ya I'm afraid you've missed it unless you want me to play again want to help Dom?"
Rosa's voice calls out.
"Halt sim"
The sim stops every thing is still, she walks up to Reed.
"I am sorry Reed, I have just been asked to help out with security at the consort that's going too be at the school shortly, we can come back to this after it, if you like, it will still be here. But the SIMROOMs are going off line for now until after. Also I think you best hurry along and get yourself ready, this is one of the big events of the year, the freshers ball, most if not all staff and students will be there."
The Sim gos off and she walks you to the door.
"Best find a date and have a good time, see you there later Mr Reed you have about an hour"
With that Rosa gets some things and a dress then Displaces to the Grand Ball Room where the show will be.
Arriving she looks for other staff overseeing the event.
Upon seeing star fly by: "BUG! Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, instincts. Ya I'm afraid you've missed it unless you want me to play again want to help Dom?"
Star becomes normal size and lands even like this she seems unable to stand still. She looks like an elf.
"Not bug, I'm a Quickling, flesh and well ok not flesh and blood more energy, but not bug, and that's ok I''ll go back and see it"
She winks in and out of being.
"O that was wonderful, you really should make a band, I meet a man on the lake who was a really singer, he was with Langs Monkey"
She then spots Dom,
"uppps to late"
"Hello again." Dom bows a bit. "I doubt I could help you on the keys but I could add my own tune to it as well." Dom smiles as he slips his instrument off his back. Glancing around he looks back to Tybalt. "How about something upbeat for this crowd?"
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Deciding to add a little more to the concert, Anthony followed a small map he'd found and ended up near the concert's light fixtures on the ceiling. Crawling along the fixtures was easy, and so was placing several items in precisely the right location.
Going back to where he started, Anthony signaled a friend to dim the lights, took a deep breath, and filled the air above all the early arrivals with an ever-shifting rainbow of light.
"yes yes Dom's very good, he plaid me a song you should hear it"
Starlight gos back to her true form once more and zips around, seeming unable to keep still.
"Hello again." Dom bows a bit. "I doubt I could help you on the keys but I could add my own tune to it as well." Dom smiles as he slips his instrument off his back. Glancing around he looks back to Tybalt. "How about something upbeat for this crowd?"
"Sure you know Any Way You Want It?"