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 Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 9:40 pm
 
Hᴇxᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ───────────────────── Dɪsᴄɪᴘʟɪɴᴇ Eɴғᴏʀᴄᴇʀ
→x"Asphodel, the Council facilities have resources that are far superior to the Academy's," Slater said, clearing the small round table in the center of the room. "The technicians in the lab will definitely be able to come up with an antidote with the blood of that half-elf of yours."
The table clear, Slater took hold of the rim with both hands and began to tug. Slowly but surely, the top started to unscrew.
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 9:47 pm
 
──────────────────── Tʜᴇ ∎ Cʜᴀɪʀᴍᴀɴ ────────────────────
☛x"So long as we are not the ones doing the murdering," Ben responded calmly, "our hands will stay relatively clean." He gestured to Eleanor. "Besides, the media will only see what we want them to."
Truth be told, Asphodel had been grating on Ben's nerves of late. She complained of the fatigue, when the other three were clearly coping with it better than she was. Had she always been this weak?
...No, she hasn't, Ben realized. It's only now, with the magic fatigue, but the rest of us aren't exhibiting its effects to the extent she is. And the ones that are feeling the effects worst of all are--
Ben glanced at Asphodel, suspicion leaking through his usually calm demeanor. The notion was far too absurd to entertain, but Ben was never one to rule out the smallest of possibilities.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 2:32 pm
 Aѕρнσ∂єℓ Ɓιѕнσρ ━━━━xHєαℓєя ✤ Mєηтαℓ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━xx☂xCoυɴcιl Tнerαpιѕт xxxx "Tsk." Asphodel muttered in response, taking note through the haze that there was something a little...worrying about Lockwood's expression. She was too damn exhausted to know why and decided instead to focus bitterly on how lovingly Slater and Benjamin loved to make her sound nonsensical. Men.
"Mr. Slater," Hau said a note too loudly, deliberately shifting as if he was preparing to move. He kept the panic hidden well, knowing immediately what dots Lockwood was beginning to connect. "Do you perhaps need assistance with that?"
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 8:33 pm
Hᴇxᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ───────────────────── Dɪsᴄɪᴘʟɪɴᴇ Eɴғᴏʀᴄᴇʀ
→xReally, did the half-elf have to speak at such a volume? Or perhaps anything he said was too loud - after all, Slater was used to Hau never speaking, or murmuring in hushed tones. Still, as much as it pained him to admit it, Slater was about as muscular as a mushy apple.
"The table top twists this way," Slater explained, gesturing Hau over. "It unscrews like a lid. Ben had it specially made in the event it came to this."
Backup plans of backup plans. Just like Benjamin Lockwood.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 11:56 pm
 
xxxxxxSᴛᴜᴅᴇɴᴛ/Mᴇᴅɪᴀ ⚜ Rᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs Oғғɪᴄᴇʀ
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✒xOh." Eleanor blinked and looked up at the sound of the gun shot only mildly startled as if it had been a minor inconvenience. "Who was that?" she asked no one in particular as she leaned towards the window in an attempt to take a peek and find the body. "Were they hot? It would be a shame if one of them died...Ah well." Lately Eleanor had grown increasingly distant and detached, acting incredibly blithely despite the dire situation they were all in. It was as if her soul had just upped and left to ascend above all current ******** stuck a thumbs up at Benjamin and the mention of the media, and for a fraction, sobered up a minute to pick up the glances he was shooting and Asphodel. Oh dear... Eleanor thought and stood up to float across the room in a carefree manner under the excuse of helping Slater with the table, along with Hau. On the way she pretended to stray a little too close to Benjamin, obstructing his view of her friend and perhaps maybe cause him to flinch. "Scuse me" she tweeted as she went past to join Hau at the table, giving her loveliest smile to both he and Slater.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 6:34 pm
Aѕρнσ∂єℓ Ɓιѕнσρ ━━━━xHєαℓєя ✤ Mєηтαℓ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━xx☂xCoυɴcιl Tнerαpιѕт xxxx Always prepared, isn't he. Asphodel thought, pushing herself a bit away from the table top as Hau eagerly moved forward ahead and started on unscrewing it without so much as a shred of strain. Reflecting, she thought it rather stupid of her to question Lockwood. It was a choice she wouldn't have made if she was in a better state of mind, but...
Asphodel took another sip of tea. Hau moved respectfully over for Eleanor to join him, shooting her a grateful glance. She was a reliable ally of her own sorts as long as her best interests lied with being a friend. Now if only she was a better person, Hau thought wistfully. She would probably be to keep a man.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 6:50 pm
Hᴇxᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ───────────────────── Dɪsᴄɪᴘʟɪɴᴇ Eɴғᴏʀᴄᴇʀ
→xWith two other people assisting, the table unscrewed quickly, and before long Slater was able to lift it off the stem and, with the others' help, flip it upside down onto the floor.
Engraved on the underside of the table was a teleport circle.
"It leads to Ben's office at the Bristol branch," Slater explained, touching the grooved wood to charge the circle. "It was quite a chore slipping this in without the Headmaster realizing its true purpose, but we got it done." The circle glimmered blue and Slater straightened, dusting his hands together in satisfaction.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:37 pm
──────────────────── Tʜᴇ ∎ Cʜᴀɪʀᴍᴀɴ ────────────────────
☛xBen turned his attention away from Asphodel; he could always request a DNA test later if he worded his request just right. For now, his priority was to get out of here. "Destroy it on the other side," he instructed Slater. "I don't want to lead any Pact bastards into a Council building."
With that, Lockwood stepped onto the circle and disappeared, reappearing in his office across the channel and far, far away from the Academy.
(Exit)
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:28 pm
Aѕρнσ∂єℓ Ɓιѕнσρ ━━━━xHєαℓєя ✤ Mєηтαℓ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━xx☂xCoυɴcιl Tнerαpιѕт xxxx So that was it? Asphodel despised ending things the way they were. How could Lockwood force them into running away with their tails between their legs? Asphodel pushed herself out of her chair, drifting over to Eleanor's side.
She watched him disappear with one thought in mind: Coward.
"Looks like it'll be up to you to save our reputations, huh, Ellie?" Asphodel murmured quietly to her friend, curling clammy fingers around the edge of the other's sleeve for only a brief moment before letting go and stepping forward into the circle.
(Hau would follow only after Eleanor stepped in.)
Exit.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 12:37 am
xxxxxxSᴛᴜᴅᴇɴᴛ/Mᴇᴅɪᴀ ⚜ Rᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs Oғғɪᴄᴇʀ
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✒x"Ooh" Eleanor raised a brow as Slater revealed the teleport circle inscribed in the underside of the desk. She had to admit, she was the slightest bit impressed at his efforts. "So, we're just leaving then?" she asked no one in particular, not that she had any problem at all with ditching the students but the fact did remain that they were still steadily dying under the effects of the poison. But alas, hopefully someone at the council would produce a cure, so without further ado, Eleanor stepped onto the teleport circle, rolling her eyes in humorous exasperation at Asphodel's comment. What else is new?
With a flourishing curtsy at the remaining men, she disappeared.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:59 pm
Hᴇxᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ───────────────────── Dɪsᴄɪᴘʟɪɴᴇ Eɴғᴏʀᴄᴇʀ
→xSo he was the last one, huh. A real pity that they were running, honestly. Slater still had a score to settle.
Ah well, he thought, stepping onto the circle. It will simply have to wait. He didn't like the idea of that... thing dying at someone else's hands, but in this circumstance he couldn't really help it.
On the other side, Slater closed the circle and broke the thin slab of stone it was painted on.
And in the CEE office, the table (and the teleport circle) cracked in half.
(Exit.)
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 1:06 am
Rhea
Rhea was walking fast up the corridor, heels clicking. She would run if a) she was as young as she sometimes acted b) there wasn't something powerful and attention grabbing about high heels storming up a hall in steady time. She hoped the council would pick up on that. Didn't take long for her hopes to be dashed, however. The room was empty. They'd left.
"s**t," she muttered, walking inside the room. She was kind of at a loss. She walked around the room aimlessly. She could go out and fight like she had told Andrew to do, but there had to be something here. There had to be something she could do. She wasn't going to die because some human assholes don't value the lives of others. (Says Rhea. Like seriously lady. Valuing others' lives is not your strong suit either.)
The Blood Pact wanted something signed, right? She headed to piles of papers, riffled through draws. Maybe if she could find whatever it was they could work out another solution.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:45 pm
"Oh dear," Thor said, stepping into the CEE office and glancing at the broken table. "I should have anticipated they would have an escape plan. Gisa is going to be so dreadfully upset." He looked up at Rhea and tilted his head. "And what, my dear, are you doing here? Children shouldn't leave the playpen."
Children shouldn't even be ABLE to leave the playpen. How on earth did she get out? Tyme's sphere shouldn't have allowed that...
Reilas YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:15 pm
RheaThor's voice made Rhea jump. What if it was a more murderous member of the Blood Pact! Then again, Thor probably had his own murderous streak that she didn't know about. You don't join a band of people like that without having a bit of a dark past.
"That's probably your problem then, young man. I'm no child." Rhea retorted, going back to shifting through papers. "If you've come to find some human assholes, you're out of luck. Only one elf a*****e here." She gave him a look for a second. "If you're wondering, I'm trying to work out a way around your group's hostage situation because the council isn't going to do anything."
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:10 pm
Thor sighed (rather dramatically) and stepped into the room proper, closing the door behind him and Locking it for good measure. "I truly don't think any of us expected them to cooperate," he responded. "We just needed an excuse to administer the antidote is all."
Thor regarded Rhea with cool eyes, slipping his fists into his pockets and feeling the crystals there gather and form on his knuckles. "Do you realize what a precarious position you've placed me in, Rhea darling? You escaped when you were supposed to sit quietly. For all my teammates know, you could be calling for reinforcements." He sighed, sounding sincerely regretful. "Now I have to do my job."
The air next to Rhea grew superheated. Thor removed his hands from his jacket, knuckles adorned with dozens of crystals.
"Nothing personal, of course. Just business."
BOOM.
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