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 Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:23 pm
"Is she neat? Is she a knight? Does she eat pepperoni on her pizza?"
Zia had probably asked Xanthus endless questions as she followed him around, writing notes in her phone app and ignoring her growing pile of homework. Sometimes questions that were either obvious, or had already been answered.
With Zirconia infringing on her autonomy and her slipping grip on the civilian life she had been carefully building since the Blood Moon Court's disbanding, sometimes eating away at someone else's sanity kept her sane. She was a sanity vampire.
"Not that I'm complaining, I mean, anyone you think can be conned or persuaded into helping get enough creep shards to shove them through the mirror is fine with me. How may notes did you send out? Are you sending out notes? None of those were for my brother, right?"
It was not going to be explained why she wanted every knight on earth dragged in except Alfheim, but sibling drama was always a safe bet. And besides, Zia felt like she had plenty right here as she slunk around the penthouse and poked at Xanthus.
"Xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan..."
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:08 am
"Yes, she's a Knight, I have no idea about the pizza we haven't been to a pizza place yet we usually hit the bar..." Xanthus repeated, with a certain 'I have memorized these questions' tone. "I do not know that many people to send notes TOO unless you want me to try and use the ******** Code at Olympus Mons and that's, I don't think, I great idea. I am waiting for that thing to snap and go all Terminator or something, and if you ask me again if I have avoided messaging your brother, I will message your brother." He pointed out, pinching the bridge of his nose. "And she's Themicara, she's a Mars knight, like me. Just not full knight yet, but she kicks enough a** she'll get there in no time." Kaefaux This is why he doesn't bring people over Zee...Gawd so EMBARRASSING. [/teen to mom snark]
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:38 pm
The fact she got a hand written note from Xanthus hadn't been the confusing part. Nor had the fact it'd been sent without much information other than an address and general "get your a** over here"-esque material.
Really he could have just sent the address and she would have been considered that enough of a summon soon as her shift ended at the clothing boutique. Some of us must work for the roof over our head. Will be there ASAP don't die <3 had been his response for a while. Least she kinda hoped if it was anything more emergency level he'd... y'know. Make that clear.
But the penthouse wasn't exactly screaming Danger Roy Robinson, danger! as she'd gone up, even if she couldn't help but feel extremely under-dressed in her baggy sweater, skinny jeans--well hey at least she had low heels on. The more professional blouse used for work was hidden under the men's pull-over. It was fun to muse that maybe she should have worn her old leather jacket to try and look more... put together.
She'd just sort of assumed she could do whatever considering who sent the message. Now she was even more curious to finally see where the reformed Knight was staying.
Knuckles striking against the door, her other hand held onto the cardboard handle of a six-pack of hard apple cider--after all. Her brain was beginning to operate on the system of, is Xanthus mad? Upset? Random outing? Any of the above? She'll bring and-or pay for the drinks. Which could either result in being a horrible choice depending on what was going on now, or be a good gift to his roommate.
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:08 am
"A baaaar? Like a date?" Zia said in that obnoxious sing song voice usually reserved for siblings intentionally trying to stir the pot. Although she crinkled her nose at the mention of the code.
Although Kairatos and Alfheim had identical stories about what it was, it still felt like an elaborate and not very funny or creative prank, because of all the major powers in the universe, she did not see any point or possibility to a magical scroll of talking paper.
Why would you even pick that as your avatar in the first place?
The knock on the door had her bolt, though, while the dog attempted to react by barking to announce his presence, rounding the hall corner and sliding on the hardwood floors just in time to crash into a nearby wall by the time Zia flung open the door.
She was wide eyed and excited enough not to run to the rottweiler as he attempted to get his bearings from his huge crash. Instead, she looked Dani up and down, lingering briefly on the liquor before throwing her hands up with a, "Hello!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 12:17 pm
Xanthus popped up at the knock, following Zia at a more sedate pace and raising a hand as she opened the door. For a second, he'd had the brief thought to sign 'Save me' over Zia's head as a joke, right before he'd remembered the only place he knew ASL was in that ******** up dream. "I'll get the dog." He offered instead. "Honest to god I'm going to buy that thing a name tag that says 'Apocalypse' or something." He was sort of surprised that there wasn't a dog shaped hole in anything yet, to be honest. "Thanks for coming, Dani." He added, choosing, apparently, to completely ignore the 'like a date' line. He wasn't the one dating Luxor. ((He was still a touch irritable about the Luxor and the whole punching thing.))
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 6:30 pm
Well no one was dead or covered in blood so hey. Things were already starting out on a high note.
The door flying open caught her a bit off guard, but her smile was automatically in place even as she took in the lilac-haired woman. Definitely vibrant enough for Danika's smile to shift to genuine rather than auto, and she gave a two fingered salute with her free hand. "Hi! Danika, nice to meet ya!" Seeing Xanthus behind her, she offered a small wave in return before flicking her attention to the dog. So that had been the source of the sound she'd heard. "Who's that? Got a hard head taking after a certain someone?" Her tongue caught between her teeth briefly as she tossed that one out at Xanthus' expense, before holding up the cardboard carrier to present more properly to his roommate.
"Hope you don't mind. He didn't say what this was about so figured if no one was dead or dying then drinks were appropriate." She gave a somewhat sheepish grin, waiting to see what sort of response that would bring. Nothing seemed out of place, and everyone seemed relaxed enough--minus the crazy dog, but no complaints from Danika on that. Her muscles relaxed, nerves out the window. Couldn't be that bad if people weren't instantly in alarm about... whatever.
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:02 am
"His name is Dodge," Zia announced, gathering herself up to express it in an especially huffy manner in both a correction to Xanthus and introduce him to Dani. The rottweiler puppy was less than prideful as he padded around on much too large paws instead.
She took the cider with all of the finesse of a greedy child at Christmas and stood aside to wave Dani in. "No one dead. Except one guy, but we're done with him," She said, all to casually referring to Patient Zero as she pulled out a bottle and inspected the label.
"I dunno how much he's told you about mirror-world bullshit." Which would be stark, since she never told anyone much about mirror-world stuff without prompting herself. She could be be seduced into long, wordy rambles, but she usually had to be dragged there first and Kairatos was not really one to drag her to unpleasant places when it wasn't necessary.
"We're looking for royal crystal pieces to send them through a multidimensional nightmare mirror in the basement. Do these need a bottle opener?" Her cat tendencies were showing as she craned her head at various extreme levels to inspect.
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:02 am
"Which is as close as he ever comes to dodging the wall." Kairatos fired back. "And the dead guy counts on the dead count, regardless of done." Blame Zirconia for the dismissive behavior... or he hoped so. "She found another mirror to he parallel world on the moon and now it's in the basement. Also we got to argue with a an unhelpful crab beast of a woman on the other side." Kairatos added. "Sorry, forget how much I told you. But yeah. Cleaning up a parallel mess."
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:45 pm
Dani was trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to smother a snicker at Dodge's.... well. Not quite fitting name, but hey. He had time to grow into it. Losing the cider was met with a grin when she was able to walk in, taking a none too subtle peek around. Only... to..... kinda wish she had that alcohol back.
Wide eyes shot from the lilac-haired woman to Xanthus and back. "I'm with him on saying one still counts. Who's dead?" She again looked between them quickly, her immediate thoughts going to it being another knight, or a senshi, or some civilian caught in the crossfire. While this wouldn't be.... new, it still prickled her skin and made her think far too much of that nightmare. At least Zia tossed her another subject to latch her brain onto. Not that it was worlds better. In fact, the Martian Page was staring rather lost, and none too pleased at this adrift sensation, as the other woman fiddled with the bottle to open it.
Without a word she reached for a second bottle from the carton and gave the spiky metal top a quick twist, about the same time as the glare she sent to Xanthus. Parallel world? Uh. No. That was the first time she'd heard words like that out of his mouth. The guy had clearly forgotten to include some info in his note to her. "He's never mentioned anything about mirrors, and the only time I've heard anyone mention a royal crystal was involving senshi purifying people--or at least trying to." Mirror-world bullshit? No, she was damned sure she would have remembered Kairatos or Valhalla mentioning that stuff. Hara had mentioned the Surrounding, but never mentioned mirrors, and when she'd brought it up to Kairatos he hadn't mentioned anything about mirrors--unless they were one in the same, and he just hadn't known at the time?
She was a tad stuck on the phrase, multidimensional nightmare mirror in the basement though. "Don't suppose you'd mind trading alcohol for a bit of information on this mirror... parallel world stuff then, huh?" The opened bottle was held out to the other women, brow raised as she waited to see who would fill in what blanks. However, she pulled the bottle back slightly before re-offering it with a slightly more skeptical look. "You sure nothing can come out of that mirror..?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:37 am
"Some guy. He had the majority of the Oblivion crystal in his chest and over exposure didn't do much for his longevity," Zia said, although she was preoccupied with getting the bottle open.
She stopped and sighed with relief when it finally popped off.
"Okay well, the too long didn't read version is some years ago the White Moon Princess brat was corrupted and conspired with some guy named Wiseman to get across the mirror to a parallel universe and steal Nehelenia-- the Black Moon Queen's-- royal crystal. Nehelenia followed them back through this universe, bringing members of the main court one by one to retrieve it. Only able to bring souls, she required universe native's to act as host. I got the cat."
She powered up briefly to sport ears, tail, and a very fancy dress that contrasted her lazy attire, and then right back down before the large aura could cause trouble.
"Anyway, Earth Prince was along for the ride too, but when Wiseman went after him the Oblivion Crystal's defense mechanism goes boom, everyone is in the nightmare world of Tartaros and you have the Coma Epidemic of 2010. Nehelenia smothers Earth Prince in his hospital bed, everyone-- mostly everyone-- wakes up, Nehelenia's dead from the recoil. Ares is one of the last left, goes nuts, tries to play new Nehelenia with Chaos and makes the Dark Mirror Court-of-lame-copies-of-my-magic. Nehelenia's last mirror is downstairs," She turned the bottle up and started chugging, suddenly bemoaning the not-enough abv of hard cider in her head.
"It's a portal back to the parallel universe where all the mirror craziness comes from and Prince's sister is on the other end kicking and screaming for his crystal. We're trying to get it for her. Nothing can go in or out of the mirror for now, but if she gets happy enough and completes the bridge... hopefully my bonus starseed will go out."
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:33 pm
"Some guy, she says." Xanthus pointed out. "You were 'some lady' to the Parallels weren't you?" He suspected it was a coping thing but it still bugged him the way she boiled it all down like the back of a novel she wasn't that interested in. "My vote is for breaking that thing if this does work, just in case that woman decides to send us a nice 'thank you' present for our efforts." He made highly sarcastic air quotes around the words 'thank you'. "She's pretty much given you the cliffs notes. That help any? Sorry for not filling you in, I guess I dropped the ball on that one big time..."
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:06 pm
Danika took slow gulps of her hard cider, more interested in the information that was being buzzed by than the actual drink in hand. While she hadn't been caught in a coma herself few years prior, she'd sure as hell heard of it all just by virtue of living in the city. It was one thing to suspect the new magical life you lived was somehow connected--if even just by mass association with magic, seeing as this was apparently all the fault of people and a faction she had nothing personal to do with--but to have it tossed into the air like that boggled her for a moment. Though she wasn't entirely sure why. She'd long since come to the full conclusion everything was like the comic books, just more actual consequences to large superpowers blowing up cities and such.
But what was the more surprising part of this? That the otherwise normal young woman just quickly turned into a part feline, that this parallel dimension existed, or that a parallel Earth prince (she was not going to ask about a Sailor Earth but god help her did she always wonder...) had a crystal involved in some poor dude's death.
She took a breath and took a far longer swing of alcohol, deciding the proof of multiverse theories was the biggest bang for the buck this evening.
"You've had practice giving people the run down. Or you're damn good at impromptu lecture," was her only comment to Zia at first when she pulled the nearly empty bottle from herself. Till she nodded to Xanthus and gave a small shrug. "Helps more than most other explanations. Otherwise we'd be here all night hearing the whole version. I'm not in agreement about breaking the dimensional mirror though. Unless you've seen it done without horrific consequences from breaking some object of power like that, once you're done with it.... I donno, seal it? Lock it away in a wonder or a senshi's world?"
Arms crossing loosely, she pursed her lips a bit as she looked back to Zia. "Obviously if you're going to all this trouble then you want the cat starseed ******** that's gotta be some story in and of itself--but how do you find a crystal like this? I haven't felt any crazy powerful energy signatures I've been told those things give off so what's your plan?" She could joke and laugh, in her humble opinion, better than anyone. But there were limits to when and where and why. And she wasn't too sure this was the right one of any of those three. Least not yet.
Maybe after another few drinks.
Quote: Join note: Sorry for not being able to tag this sooner. Not sure if this is still open for being finished but figured doesn't hurt to tag.
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