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 Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:21 pm
Shun's good eye snapped open as he heard an explosion. Instinctively, daggers were summoned to his hands and he soon realized there was something unfamiliar on his chest. Quickly, he shot up, ready lashing out at the figure that looked all too much like ALICE. The minipet dissipated immediately. He felt a little disoriented for a moment, then he realized he was in his room. Out the window, he could see bursts of color against the morning sky. Another explosion, and he realized they were fireworks.
"Who the ******** shoots fireworks in the jackdamn morning?" he grumbled while pushing himself out of bed. The dream... that was a dream right? Yes. It was. That all still burned brightly in his mind. He touched his chest for the moment, where he had been stabbed by his double. What really happened at the end there? He wasn't inclined to think it was just some fleeting dream. Not with all the crap that had gone down in it. Those Legacy artifacts were nothing but trouble.
Eventually, after getting ready and whatnot, he wandered on outside to see why the hell fireworks were going off. Apparently there was an open house to welcome new and prospective students. The Reaper decided he was going to avoid that right now, and just wandered over into the courtyard to try and clear his head a bit. A lot had happened in that dream.
The words ALICE gave just before he woke up were bothering him as well. He did not wish to see her again if he could help it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:43 pm
Uttam had one question only on his mind. Who the ******** was shooting off fireworks. Second question that followed; How could he most effectively rip their face off.
After the jarring alarm of explosives in the morning sky, the Famine soldier groaned as he swung his legs over his bed, rubbing his neck where the crazy dream double had sliced through his neck. His head was pounding with the information overload, but he managed to throw his shawl on regardless and head towards the school. One clear memory of the "dream" was Penumbra, and he knew now that a majority of them were students. Hopefully, they'd be awake and ready to talk.
Pushing through the crowds of creeple with a keen eye set for anyone he might recognize, he finally noticed why so many of them were staring. A little ALICE like creature perched on his shoulder, fiddling with the braids of the shawl. He almost threw it off, stomped on it, but he couldn't bring himself to harm the helpful companion.
Meandering into the courtyard, he saw what he believed to be Shun. He tapped the boil on the shoulder, clearing his throat. "Er... Shun?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:50 pm
The ghoul had woken up with a jolt that morning, and had spent a good few seconds confused and disoriented as she tried to figure out where she was. Needless to say, it had taken her another minute to sort herself out when her memories of the Wonderland world rushed back, and then she jumped out of bed.
Well, it seemed like she had made it back...so what about the others? While she had no idea how to seek out Chel or Chris or Hulk, she did know where to find Shun and Lizzy.
And so here she was, having rushed down to the school as soon as she could to seek out her friends. She had thought that she would have to head off to the reaper dorms and then the demon dorms to find Shun and Lizzy, but the former made it easy by loitering around the courtyard. Eyes lighting up upon spotting him, the baku ghoul grinned.
"Guild leader, hey!"
Xiu called out playfully as she crossed the courtyard upon spotting Shun, her shoulders sagging in relief to see the reaper safe and sound. And...huh, who was that figure with him? It looked like a horseman. With her head tilted to the side, she trotted up towards them.
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Good Jack, they were finally back.
Sitting up groggily in his bed, the marionette squinted out of his window to see Amityville staring straight back at him. To say that he was relieved would have been an understatement, but a tiny, tiny part of him realized that he would miss that dumb little guild he had started with Lock and Erebus.
...Like, he would miss the guild, not Lock and Erebus. Just to make that clear. It wasn't like he liked those two or anything. It wasn't like he had wanted to be rl friends with them.
Nope.
As he moved to get dressed, the poor boil was scared out of his wits when a firework suddenly went off, the loud noise nearly sending him tripping and flying face first into the ground. Fortunately managing to catch himself, he pulled up his pants and glared at the window in clear irritation. Why would anyone set those off in the morning? Seriously?
Whatever the case, he decided--FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON it was just a sudden urge wow--to go out for a walk, conveniently ending up at the courtyard where a demon ghoul seemed to be conversing with a reaper boil and some...other guy. Demon? Reaper? He wasn't really sure.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 12:06 am
Lizzy was also jolted awake by the sound of fireworks - although shouldn't those things be set off when it's dark out - and spent some time in bed, simply staring at the ceiling. Either she just had a really wild dream involving a whole lot of people, or... It wasn't a dream at all.
Eventually, she dragged herself out of bed, took a quick shower to wake herself up, blew dry her hair, and got dressed.
Since she recognized Shun, Xiu, and Edel, she decided to head to the school, guessing that they would most likely head there as well, given the circumstances... It was the best place to meet up with each other, if they wanted to meet up.
If not, she knew where to find them anyway. (fOuO)f
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 12:29 am
Lock was not awakened by the fireworks, but instead hadn't been able to sleep, for fear that he would slip back into the dream world. Voodoo did a lovely job yowling to keep him awake too. For once she had her uses.
So he went for a walk to try to prevent himself from falling asleep. He had dark rings under his eyes, but the bags were nothing unusual.
He noticed Lutz casually strolling through the area, and Lock's face immediately went bright red. It might have been a dream, but he very vividly remembered that time at the queen's pool.
He nope'd right in the other direction, instead heading for a small group that had joined around Shun. Shun was a good, safe option compared to the terror of potential love.
"You're popular this morning," he commented, sliding in alongside the others. He gave Xiu a curt nod, having only seen her once or twice. To be honest, he didn't even know her name, he just knew she was somewhat familiar. The others got nothing because he didn't know you and he didn't want to.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 12:38 am
Edel had woken up in a start to find herself back in her room on her bed. So it had been a dream.... The ghoul shot a small blast of ice in the air, still laying in bed, and watched the snowflakes drift through the air.
Right. She was back.
The sound of fireworks caught her attention and the ghoul found herself staring at them from her window. Just what... was going on today? Peering down from the window as she got dressed, the frost demon would find that the school was holding yet another one of its open house events - well now, she wouldn't exactly be honest if she were to openly welcome the new students into a next few years of suffering. But maybe she'd take a look, just for old time's sake. She was leaving Amityville soon, after all.
Edel's first instinct wasn't to go looking for Shun, Xiu or Lizzy, but to get some air - it was a fortunate coincidence then that she would find them gathered at the courtyard. She would have greeted them normally, except for one thing -
"You may ride this," she called, crafting a rocking horse out of ice for that one ghoul who wanted to ride. "Lizzy." Edel greeted the ghoul with the most disapproving of looks.
"Greetings, Shun, Xiu, and Uttam," nodding at the other three. It occurred to her then, that she had not revealed her identity while in the dream, though it might be obvious by now...
... Did they remember the dream too? If not ... well, this was a rather awkward way to get acquainted again.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 1:05 am
Suddenly Shun was finding himself being swarmed. In the very least, it wasn't enemies he was being surrounded by right about now. One in particular called out his name and it was one he did not recognize. He furrowed his brow, turning towards the horseman. He couldn't help but notice the minipet perching on his shoulder, and the daggers ended up appearing in his hands again.
"Yes. That would be me," he said warily before turning towards Xiu as she called him... something. He didn't look very amused.
"Oyakatta Sama. Good to see you're well," he stated. Lizzy and.. Edel were around as well and they were in one piece as far as he could tell. It didn't seem like that dream experience had any lingering effects on their bodies. At least none that he could tell. Though, perhaps that ALICE mini that was sitting on his chest was planning on stabbing him or something. He killed it too soon to really know.
And then Lock came along. His gaze flicked to the other reaper and gave a shrug.
"Apparently so."
It was then that Edel referred to the horseman with a familiar name. Uttam. His attention turned back to the one of Famine, looking him over. Well that explains where he had gotten his name from. That also explained him. Hulk, he was certain was a hunter at this point, given his ties with Mimsy. That wasn't a thought he particularly enjoyed.
"What. Are you all avoiding the Open house stuff too?" he asked, raising his brow at the gathering.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:10 am
It did not take long for Lizzy to realize that Edel was the player who no'ed a lot; she would recognize that look of disapproval anywhere.
Her cheeks turned pink as she folded her arms across her chest, and just sort of stared at the rocking horse, scrutinizing it; she had to admit that it looked very pretty and kind of sparkly... Part of her wanted to hop on because oh, all the rocking horses she could have ridden, but the logical part - wow, Lizzy had a logical part - of her knew better.
"It's made of ice," She pouted, ignoring Edel's look, "I'm not well suited to the cold, unlike a certain... Frozen flower." Just making sure that it really was her, although it was pretty obvious... Frozen... Edelweiss... Flower... Huh. If she rode that rocking horse, she would probably become FrozenSpider.
"I'm not avoiding it," She replied with a sheepish smile, tearing her eyes away from the rocking horse. Her gaze flickered between the familiar faces, sparkles appearing for a split second when she looked at Xiu - mostly because she hadn't seen the Baku for a long, long time, "I just... Didn't know that there's an open house today. Did anyone get a notice from the school?" Probably not, knowing their dear school secretary.
The horseman would get a polite nod and a smile - ah yes, she remembered your no well too - although her attention quickly went to the minipet on his shoulder.
"Um, she's awfully cute!" She said it the way you would deliver a compliment to a father about the physical appearance of his offspring.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:36 pm
"Uh...thanks." The Famine muttered, scratching the back of his neck. She wasn't exactly his own doings, but he supposed he claimed ownership of her now, The minipet certainly didn't seem to be going anywhere soon; though Shun's daggers did look suspicious.
He recognized everyone in the group, save for two little scamps that had joined them. Well, well... "Oh. That must be why your school is making such an unnecessarily racket. More so than usual, I mean." He clipped, staring longways at the two unknown students. "Have we seen dotdotdot? Er, I mean Clara."
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:54 pm
She probably should have gone to the open house that was starting, but Clara was in that transition between knowing what she was doing and not knowing what she was doing, so she was neither qualified to guide guests/new students nor in need of assistance. Plus, she was sure to detest the swarms of creeple that would be showing up.
Instead, she was wandering about outside when she thought she heard someone call her name. She turned ninety degrees to find some very familiar faces and quickly ran over to them, not believing what she was seeing.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:57 pm
Xiu, in turn, was clearly just as unamused with the nickname Shun had given her as he had been with the one she gave him. Puffing her cheeks out, she probably would have said something had it not been for the timely arrival of...many...many others.
Goodness, it was like an impromptu get together or something! And it seemed a fair bit of these people were from Penumbra as well. Looking at everyone in turn--and offering Lizzy a bright grin in response to all that sparkle--she perked up upon seeing one ghoul in particular.
"Oh, Edel!" Although she was not personally very familiar with the ghoul, she did certainly recognize her, and from the exchange between her and Lizzy...so she was Frozenflower! Lips curving into an easy smile, she let out a laugh. "What a surprise that we'd all gather here today. I'm glad to see that you're all well though!"
Even Uttam as, despite the fact Xiu was admittedly a little uneasy around horsemen, she had to admit that she probably held a bit more fondness for Uttam after all those guild shenanigans. There was also...a boil she was not actually acquainted with--he received a smile, albeit a slightly curious one--and then...
Someone else was heading this way. Expression brightening, the baku ghoul eagerly waved as Clara approached the rest of them.
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Lutz had been staring idly at the little group that was forming off to the side, wondering if they were having some kind of weird get together when he saw it--rather, when he saw him. For a moment, he thought that his eyes were merely playing tricks on him--he hadn't expected to find one of his guildmates so quickly, after all, but...no.
No, that was definitely Lock.
Deciding it wouldn't hurt to at least say hi now that they were out of that damn game, the marionette boil made his way forward, offering any others that glanced his way a polite nod before stopping behind his target. Lifting a hand to his mouth, he cleared his throat.
"Hey, Shadowlord15."
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:14 pm
There was a whisper on the wind, of someone asking for more loot.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:26 pm
For a moment, Xiu thought she heard Hulk's voice on the wind.
Then she decided she was going crazy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:35 pm
She woke up in her own bed, feeling far more exhausted despite having slept for so long. Had that all really... been real? It felt real, except if it was perhaps she should have been dead. She remembered the sword plunging into her chest, remembered that she felt it and at the same time felt no pain. Delphyne grabbed her chest, feeling the wrinkles of stained cloth underneath her fingertips. This was her normal garb. She was home.
It took a while for her to rise out of bed yet, even though fireworks were sounding noisily over her head. Her own body, her real body, felt so weird now that she was used to being in the game. It would be harder yet to drop her alias and get comfortable with simply... being free. She had made it out of that mess - she didn't quite understand how, but she was safe.
Finally she managed to make her way outside, glaring a little at the fireworks overhead. An open house? Really? Well, maybe she could predict some fortunes, get back to practicing her talents...
But then she noticed a group of students, and well, some looked vaguely familiar, and as she got close enough she was able to recognize the names being passed around. "Hi!" Delphyne greeted the group, staring at them with blue eyes that seemed to look past them rather than at them. "It's me, uh, the0racle." She never had given out her actual name, but that was because, well... Delphyne hadn't quite thought she'd survive the game, so there was no point in really discussing her outside life.
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:50 am
Silence, and then something odd happens. The world flips, the colours invert and then turn a strange orange and blue. You hear a noise, an odd echo, familiar voices, all ringing in your ears as something squeezes out from the colour in long spindly strings and forms a strange shape.
"Go back."
Without warning it lunges at you - and then the world breaks open into white.
"Commander! Reaper incoming!"
It's the first thing your character hears before a strange and loud noise resonates in the area. Turning towards the source, they can see a massive cephalopod made of meta descending towards the ground. Gunfire was going on all around as dark humanoid creatures with glowing blue markings begin to rush towards you.
The images continue to assault you the strange other you continues to talk until everything fades to white again and the room is normal.
What just happened? OOC: THE DISTORTION MOB - Distortion mobs will influence the area around you, causing it to stand still. It immediately throws your character into a "mirror" scenario, basically an [ Alternate universe ] where your character was something else. Read the above prompt, and then write out a [ small drabble ] where your character belonged to that alternate universe. If you are in a PRP you may write out your part, and either INCLUDE the other person in your thread(s) as if they were PART of the PRP or both of you can write separate viewpoints. Just a quick response prompt in drabble form is fine before the distortion breaks. Just one post is good! AU PROMPT: You're not in Halloween anymore, and seem to be in the middle of a futuristic warzone. Strange creatures you've never seen before are around and seem to be addressing your character as 'Commander'. How you want to do this is up to each player as they can just have viewed different AU worlds. After your character experiences it, the illusion breaks and they are back where they are again., as if nothing has happened!
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