An imp is gliding through the halls, looking for something, "Wonder if this place has an alchemy room, or a forge, or both," he asks himself out loud as he looks for a map or something of the sort. He knows the limit of the bond with his mistress, knowing if he went beyond it he would be called back to where he'd been before.
As Loki glids along he comes to hall that has come thing in it, some thing big, very hard looking and pointing a very very big gun at his teeny tiny little head,
Rosa the 18' tall War Robot Gym Teacher in full battle Rig was wondering what the small thing was that she was just about to smear the opposite wall with a level of aggression reserved for 18' tall Sociopathic war robots.
"You HAD better have a very good explication as to why your sneaking around in the dead of night, because if not, I suggest you find your bedroom fast, what do you say?"
There is a whining sound as the Gun primes.
an hour or two later dave waves to him "ok, that's enough for today, let's call it a night, thanks for helping"
"K" he appears next to dave. " come on let's go the fun way." He offers a pawhand.
Dave shrugs and says "sure why not" and hands him his hand.
Ace returns Ginni's smile with one of his own "Oh I'm sure I could think of something. How about for starters you answer me this important question: Will you be my girlfriend Ginni?"
Ginni squeals and hugs him. "Of course I will!"
"Ooh, and I don't even have to feel guilty about it, cause it's not dangerous to date me anymore!"
"Youbetternotdoanythingtome,mymistresswillbeveryangryatyou," Loki says very qickly in Infernal, "Mymistressisaverypowerfulwizard,she'salsogotdragon'sbloodinher,soyou'llbes orryifyoudoanythingtome!!!!"
Dave shrugs and says "sure why not" and hands him his hand.
Tybalt pulls Dave into a hug position. They appear a ways above the school and dive straight down. (Unless of course Dave is a stick in the mud and stops with his wings)
"Youbetternotdoanythingtome,mymistresswillbeveryangryatyou," Loki says very qickly in Infernal, "Mymistressisaverypowerfulwizard,she'salsogotdragon'sbloodinher,soyou'llbes orryifyoudoanythingtome!!!!"
"Youbetternotdoanythingtome,mymistresswillbeveryangryatyou," Loki says very qickly in Infernal, "Mymistressisaverypowerfulwizard,she'salsogotdragon'sbloodinher,soyou'llbes orryifyoudoanythingtome!!!!"
Dave shrugs and says "sure why not" and hands him his hand.Tybalt pulls Dave into a hug position. They appear a ways above the school and dive straight down. (Unless of course Dave is a stick in the mud and stops with his wings)
Dave grins at you, and does indeed open his wings, but not to stop, pushes his flight straight down as fast as he can, carrying tybalt along the way, just as they get withen 20 ft of hitting something he simply stops falling he orients himself rightside up and says "how about we just go to sleep now?"
"Youbetternotdoanythingtome,mymistresswillbeveryangryatyou," Loki says very qickly in Infernal, "Mymistressisaverypowerfulwizard,she'salsogotdragon'sbloodinher,soyou'llbes orryifyoudoanythingtome!!!!"
Rosa leans in close to the imp and says
"If I am not happy with what you say next, it what may be the last few moments of your life, you will never see if I am sorry or not, do I make myself clear!, I will ask once more time, why your sneaking around the school in the dead of night?"
"Notsneaking,lookingforalchemyorforge,mistresswouldlikesomearmormadeandIama bletodoso,mightbetoocrowdedduringthedaysoIprefertoworkatnightwhenthere'snot somanypeoplearound," Loki says,absolutely terrified.
"Now is fine, Midori. Right over this way, please," she said pulling aside a curtain that was hiding a large platform.
"If you can just step up onto the platform, I'll start the test and send the results to the database. If there are any worrisome results I'll get those results by tomorrow most likely. I'm afraid I don't understand machine code well enough to analyze the results myself."
Midori looks curiously at the scanner platform, and steps on it. "Is this some sort of magic, sensei?" she asks, even though Midori had heard the word machine.
Dave grins at you, and does indeed open his wings, but not to stop, pushes his flight straight down as fast as he can, carrying tybalt along the way, just as they get withen 20 ft of hitting something he simply stops falling he orients himself rightside up and says "how about we just go to sleep now?"Dave shrugs and says "sure why not" and hands him his hand.Tybalt pulls Dave into a hug position. They appear a ways above the school and dive straight down. (Unless of course Dave is a stick in the mud and stops with his wings)
"fine." They appear together flopped down onto Dave's bed. "Gah I love warlock skydiving."
"Order and stability, do make sense. But the core of that order and stability needs to be believeable. Consistent. Or, it's not as easy to champion any longer. Words become hollow, and meaningless. It just...breaks.
I wish your friend success, but usually in wars, both sides need to change for lasting peace.""People pay to eat raw meat? Interesting, but no. I think I shall try this 'Chicken Marsala'."
"fine." They appear together flopped down onto Dave's bed. "Gah I love warlock skydiving."Dave grins at you, and does indeed open his wings, but not to stop, pushes his flight straight down as fast as he can, carrying tybalt along the way, just as they get withen 20 ft of hitting something he simply stops falling he orients himself rightside up and says "how about we just go to sleep now?"Dave shrugs and says "sure why not" and hands him his hand.Tybalt pulls Dave into a hug position. They appear a ways above the school and dive straight down. (Unless of course Dave is a stick in the mud and stops with his wings)
"is that what you call it, I suppose what I do would be called elocater skydiving or something by that measure, fly up, dive down at top speed and stop when you get as close as you feel that you can stop it, makes a rush of blood go to your head, makes you feel like you're still falling," he gets out his satchel and pulls out his datapad and begins to read the required reading.
"Notsneaking,lookingforalchemyorforge,mistresswouldlikesomearmormadeandIama bletodoso,mightbetoocrowdedduringthedaysoIprefertoworkatnightwhenthere'snot somanypeoplearound," Loki says,absolutely terrified.
The Gun comes out of his face and clicks off, Rosa stands back up with a smile on her face.
"There that was not so hard now was it"
She tunes and places her hand on the wall
"In Future if you need some where place your hand on the wall and think of what you need. It works most of the time"
And Arrow comes on.
"Come alone follow me, I will take you to the craft rooms, someone is always working there, note you will have to pay for all things used for our own projects, and try NOT to make to much noise students are sleeping.
She walks off expecting you to follow.
Midori looks curiously at the scanner platform, and steps on it. "Is this some sort of magic, sensei?" she asks, even though Midori had heard the word machine."Now is fine, Midori. Right over this way, please," she said pulling aside a curtain that was hiding a large platform.
"If you can just step up onto the platform, I'll start the test and send the results to the database. If there are any worrisome results I'll get those results by tomorrow most likely. I'm afraid I don't understand machine code well enough to analyze the results myself."
"Technically, no," she said as she hit the appropriate keys on the control panel to initiate a scan. "Practically, it might as well be for as much as anyone not well-versed in technology can understand it. And even then most of them start looking a little glassy-eyed or panicked when it comes to talking about nanites."
"Okay, you're all set. That's all there is to it. Your information will go into the database."
"Okay thank you," he says, now more relaxed, "I'll try not to make too many explosions, but I'm an alchemist by trade."
"is that what you call it, I suppose what I do would be called elocater skydiving or something by that measure, fly up, dive down at top speed and stop when you get as close as you feel that you can stop it, makes a rush of blood go to your head, makes you feel like you're still falling," he gets out his satchel and pulls out his datapad and begins to read the required reading."fine." They appear together flopped down onto Dave's bed. "Gah I love warlock skydiving."Dave grins at you, and does indeed open his wings, but not to stop, pushes his flight straight down as fast as he can, carrying tybalt along the way, just as they get withen 20 ft of hitting something he simply stops falling he orients himself rightside up and says "how about we just go to sleep now?"Dave shrugs and says "sure why not" and hands him his hand.Tybalt pulls Dave into a hug position. They appear a ways above the school and dive straight down. (Unless of course Dave is a stick in the mud and stops with his wings)
"meh my ways more fun. Right before you hit the ground you blink and your flying up the the other way. I do that until I stall out and then plop somewhere soft." He obviously has no intention of moving from his comfortable place on your bed.
"ah but you'll not get quite the rush going 9.8 meters per second per second as you will going upwards of a hundred miles per hour," he yawns and there is a knock at the door dave raises his eyebrow, casts mage hand and opens the door, allowing skeets to enter "and besides, you left skeets behind"
"Thats nice for you, but if you like explosions you should come to the SIMROOM that is the Gym, I have a thermal nuclear war SIM, I think you may enjoy, Its basted on the razing of Netron Alpha 3, nice little war that, you can pick which city you want to be in when the planetary bombardment starts, here you are"
She places her hand on a panel and the large re-enforced doors opens, you can hear booms and clattering from inside.
"In you do, O and don't take things from the dwarf students, only off the shelf's ok, they get a bit upset if you tamper with there things"
She push's you inside and the doors close with locking clang. The Room is vast, you can see benches and work rooms leading off. a few Students are working in the space and all manner of things, you head in to start work.
Ace hugs her back and kisses her on the top of her head "Awesome!" His stomach then rumbles, stopping any chance for more tween the new couple.
"By the Traveler I am starving!. I hope the kitchens will still serve me at this late an hour." He offers Ginni his hand and the two walk to the cafeteria where he gets a decent sized late night dinner.
Once he finishes eating, they walk down to Ginni's room. He gives her a good night kiss then he knocks on the door and says "Tamina, would you be so kind as to keep an eye on Ginni throughout the night? I'm sure she'll be fine, but just in case something happens, come get me right away."
"ah but you'll not get quite the rush going 9.8 meters per second per second as you will going upwards of a hundred miles per hour," he yawns and there is a knock at the door dave raises his eyebrow, casts mage hand and opens the door, allowing skeets to enter "and besides, you left skeets behind"
"hmm? Oh sorry skeets. I thought we were all there. Didn't mean to leave you."
"I'd rather all my secrets be flung wide for the world than participate in something so dishonourable as blackmail." Ardiente snarls viciously, the flame growing brighter but his eyes are narrowing, "What information?"
See, blackmail to stop you from instantly attacking like earlier isn't so dishonorable, mind if I sit? " he asked while taking a seat.
"I need to know more about this school and you don't a want your secret spread around. Fair trade no? "
Ace hugs her back and kisses her on the top of her head "Awesome!" His stomach then rumbles, stopping any chance for more tween the new couple.
"By the Traveler I am starving!. I hope the kitchens will still serve me at this late an hour." He offers Ginni his hand and the two walk to the cafeteria where he gets a decent sized late night dinner.
Once he finishes eating, they walk down to Ginni's room. He gives her a good night kiss then he knocks on the door and says "Tamina, would you be so kind as to keep an eye on Ginni throughout the night? I'm sure she'll be fine, but just in case something happens, come get me right away."
Ginni was all too happy to go to the cafeteria since she'd missed dinner too, although she wasn't nearly as hungry as Ace was.
She was pretty tentative about kissing him since this was the first real test as to whether she was indeed cured. But it was...soft and sweet and absolutely no soul fragments were involved. She felt like she was floating on air.
he knocks on the door and says "Tamina, would you be so kind as to keep an eye on Ginni throughout the night? I'm sure she'll be fine, but just in case something happens, come get me right away."
"Uh, sure, okay," she said from behind him, sounding a little amused.
"Sorry, I hadn't made it back to the room yet. After I said goodnight to Dom I ran into Morrivan. She spent the evening in the library since Raelle is sacked out in their room. I guess she had some kind of incident earlier and ended up in the infirmary. Morrivan didn't get the details since Raelle was already mostly asleep by the time she got there. Anyways, I filled her in on what happened with Ginni. And now I'm totally in the way of an otherwise romantic goodnight. Sorry again," she said with an apologetic smile.
"Its OK Tami. We wouldn't have this romantic goodnight if not for you and Dom. Maybe your spells didn't help, but I bet Ginni fought a little extra hard to finally shake off that curse due to your support. You're a great friend my dear and I thank you for all your help." He gives her a friendly hug before walking back to his room.
See, blackmail to stop you from instantly attacking like earlier isn't so dishonorable, mind if I sit? " he asked while taking a seat.
"I need to know more about this school and you don't a want your secret spread around. Fair trade no? "
"What makes you think that I'm not just waiting here, taking up your time, while security comes running?" Ardiente bluffs. He has no idea if security is on it's way or not.
"You need to know more... why? So that you can spy further? I told you once, I will not participate in such a dishonourable bargain." Ardiente has yet to douse the flame, and is gently working the stone around the black-clad figure, trying to trap him in stone without the masked person even noticing.
"Because You stood there like a comatose chicken the whole time after you found my coin."
"why do you want to keep your secret, a secret? Because you want to. I want to know more of this place because I do. I'm ot asking for passwords and secret files. I am asking for simple everyday information that I could gather slowly anyway. And you just said you wouldnt participate in blackmail."
The figure sitting in your chair seems to have no fear of your fire in the slightest, in fact as he speaks he lays more and more languidly in your chair.
"Technically, no," she said as she hit the appropriate keys on the control panel to initiate a scan. "Practically, it might as well be for as much as anyone not well-versed in technology can understand it. And even then most of them start looking a little glassy-eyed or panicked when it comes to talking about nanites."
"Okay, you're all set. That's all there is to it. Your information will go into the database."
Midori nods, an attentive student despite the fact that most of what Zamarosok-sensei was saying was going right over her head. "Thank you sensei." she hopes deftly down from the platform and bows. "I will go and find my room now, unless there is something else?" ever polite, Midori waits for her sensei to dismiss her before leaving the office, following the arrows to her room.
Midori nods, an attentive student despite the fact that most of what Zamarosok-sensei was saying was going right over her head. "Thank you sensei." she hopes deftly down from the platform and bows. "I will go and find my room now, unless there is something else?" ever polite, Midori waits for her sensei to dismiss her before leaving the office, following the arrows to her room."Technically, no," she said as she hit the appropriate keys on the control panel to initiate a scan. "Practically, it might as well be for as much as anyone not well-versed in technology can understand it. And even then most of them start looking a little glassy-eyed or panicked when it comes to talking about nanites."
"Okay, you're all set. That's all there is to it. Your information will go into the database."
"There is one more thing," Nala says, getting down a basket full of all of Midori's weapons.
"I trust that you won't be using these against fellow students anymore?"
"You are asking me to betray a confidence. I cannot do that. There are many here at the school, with secrets far more important than mine."
"There is one more thing," Nala says, getting down a basket full of all of Midori's weapons.
"I trust that you won't be using these against fellow students anymore?"
"Hai! Arigatou goza..." Midori pauses in the middle of her bow, suddenly remembering that earlier Grim hadn't known what she meant. "Thank you very much, sensei! I won't use them on other students, I promise!"
"Hai! Arigatou goza..." Midori pauses in the middle of her bow, suddenly remembering that earlier Grim hadn't known what she meant. "Thank you very much, sensei! I won't use them on other students, I promise!""There is one more thing," Nala says, getting down a basket full of all of Midori's weapons.
"I trust that you won't be using these against fellow students anymore?"
Nala smiled. "Good. Then you are welcome to carry them once more."
"Now go and get some sleep. It won't do to have you falling asleep during lessons."
"You are asking me to betray a confidence. I cannot do that. There are many here at the school, with secrets far more important than mine."
"and I didnt ask for secrets of others.... Just asking general questions... I will ask but 5 questions and if you answer them all without lies, I will not tell your secret to anyone." the wearer of masks hasnt noticed the wall of stone rising behind his chair. "First, what is the purpose of this place? a military academy is more orderly than this yet all those here possess great power and skill..."
"You need to know more... why? So that you can spy further? I told you once, I will not participate in such a dishonourable bargain." Ardiente has yet to douse the flame, and is gently working the stone around the black-clad figure, trying to trap him in stone without the masked person even noticing.
What harm could there be? This man was without honour, but if he could keep his family safe... Ardiente already knew he was no match for this man in melee. Maybe if he could take him by surprise... he keeps gentle working the stone. "This is a school. As far as I know, it helps those with powers outside the normal to control them. It is not military in any way, trust me."
"Interesting... what are the tiny mechanical things that are constantly trying to attach themselves to me?" the mask faces you seeming to stare straight through to the back of your head assessing you
"Order and stability, do make sense. But the core of that order and stability needs to be believeable. Consistent. Or, it's not as easy to champion any longer. Words become hollow, and meaningless. It just...breaks.
I wish your friend success, but usually in wars, both sides need to change for lasting peace.""People pay to eat raw meat? Interesting, but no. I think I shall try this 'Chicken Marsala'."
That gives Tyrrin pause. What concessions was she prepared to give the packs if they did agree to her schemes?
Tyrrin is thoughtful for a long moment. Ghalen had clearly said something that challenged her to rethink her plans... but she has a pensive smile on her face, as if she enjoyed the challenge. "I think, more than ever, I want you as an advisor when all is said and done, Mr. Kiln. Hopefully I'll be able to convince you that it is a worthy path." she seems to have shiftly slightly back to a more formal way of address, but it seems to be more of a reflex than anything intentional.
"Personally, I think I will have the Chicken B'Stilla. That sounds delicious."
"Interesting... what are the tiny mechanical things that are constantly trying to attach themselves to me?" the mask faces you seeming to stare straight through to the back of your head assessing you
Ardiente seems slightly shocked at the question. "I have no idea. Perhaps part of the security system?"
"Number three, Are you going to tell anyone of this meeting?"
The Silver mask reveals nothing and his hands are relaxed and crossed in his lap
Nala smiled. "Good. Then you are welcome to carry them once more."
"Now go and get some sleep. It won't do to have you falling asleep during lessons."
"Hai!" Midori seems to be already carefully repacking her leg holster, and looks like she's relaxing slightly as she does. Once finished, she bows a third time, and hurries from the room, full of energy despite the late hour.
Eventually, she makes it to her room, a simple sleeping pallet, a wash basin, and a small closet for clothing are the room's only accouterments. Enjoying the plainness, Midori carefully disrobes, wondering what she was supposed to do to clean her clothing... she checks the closet. Well, at least there were sleeping clothes here. She leaves her black combat gear in a pile, leaving her holster beside her pallet just in case. She pulls the ponytail out and her hair hangs freely. She lays on the pallet, sufficiently comfortable, and waits for sleep to come.
"Number three, Are you going to tell anyone of this meeting?"
The Silver mask reveals nothing and his hands are relaxed and crossed in his lap
"Since you didn't specify that I couldn't, I will." Ardiente answered truthfully.
Fourthly, What was the name of the very attractive woman with the circlet and earth magic?" the seemingly innocent question slaps you in the face like a brick.
That gives Ardiente pause. Names had power... but if he could spy, the masked man would know her name soon enough. "Her name is Aananda Sunwake."
"Thank you very much.... And only one question left.... hmmmmm.... maybe I should ask....hmmmm.... I think I will save it..."
the wearer of masks moves to stand. and seems surprised that his feet are covered in stone to the shin
"Ask your question." Ardiente says, tightening the grip of the stone.
"Since I did not specify the date and time at which I would ask the questions... No." He says simply, "your honor means to much to you for you to harm a helpless prisoner..."
