"Rocks?" She muttered to herself silently. "We came here to save a bunch of rocks?" More, if this was like any RPG- they had yet to face the boss. Pocketing some of the 'rocks' Spacewatch began to look around for any traps or monsters.
She was expecting this to be like a rpg.
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 8:23 pm
Halley
Halley looked amazed when Perdita said she hadn't meet any as stupid as these ones, "These are the first ones I've seen. I've seen the youma." She admitted, though she felt a little bit like a failure of a magical girl since she'd obviously not been doing her job well.
She looked around, "Do you think maybe it's because they're not combat but just medical field that they've ended up as such . . . incompetent officers?" The senshi of superstition was fascinated and clearly these kids would be the best source of information while everyone else was a little too caught up in things.
She followed Oberon and Perdita glancing into the room and her eyes widened a bit as she put the lighter in the bow's ribbon around her waist."So what are these?" She asked as she tried to figure out if she had pockets but instead she ended up pulling off her boots and socks. "I don't have pockets but my boots are fairly deep and my socks are long, so I mean surely they'll hold a good bit?" The senshi of superstition offered. "If I can figure out how to get this over skirt off, it might be useful as well for a bindle?" Despite her frilly looks, her bodice did seem to at least be a one piece swimsuit style underneath.
Halley smiled and waved at Oort.
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Because I assume he's still following Halley? Maybe?
Chibi Oort -- trying to save the shinies starseeds
Oort had been kind of surprised when one of the Negaverse officers went and just upped and locked himself and the others in because that was just...
Stupid.
Just plain stupid - sooo stupid in fact that it was in fact weird.
It was enough for him to question if they were really bad guys...
But it also appeared that they were the last of them and with them out of the way it meant that they could finally find out what the source of the pleading was.
His first reaction after the doors at the end of the hall way had been opened was a startled "Oh!"
Because behind them was a veritable mountain of sparkling shinies, with each one of them glowing with a soft glow.
And whilst he didn't really understand what they were or why they were significant, he did get that they were important and that they seemed to be the source of all the pleading from earlier and that meant that he had to help to try and save them.
He shook his head atPerdita'squestion as he didn't have any pockets, however he dutifully untied his sash, causing the keys that they were holding on to tumble downwards with a jangle and then he unpinned his brooch and untied the collar before pinning the brooch back on, scooping up his keys and giving the other senshi near Perdita (Halley) a small nod in answer to her wave.
Perdita was right about it being unlikely thatTomlinhad pockets, although he did have little bracers thingies on his front paws and they looked like they might fit some of the shinies in them and so as he headed over to the pile with his make-shift carries he asked the star cat "Hey Tomlin, d'you think that we could borrow your paw things?"
He had reached the pile by then and so knelt down and scooping as much of them into his sash and his collar as possible before tying the ends of the material as best he could around the ring of his little keys.
Kastra, Senshi of Meditation (In the room with the Starseeds)
Kastra glared as he attack seemed to do little to affect the Negaverse agents. Though as they were locked away, she darted at top speed down the stairs, only to stop at the bottom, her eyes growing large at the sight before her.
Starseeds, they had to be. The feeling of pain she felt at staring at all these lost souls before brought tears to the young senshi's eyes.How many had lost their lives here? How many had these demons dared to take and hide in this room? It seemed like hundreds.
She staggered and had to hold the wall to keep her balance. She felt tears brimming in her eyes as she reached out a hand toward them, wishing they would dart to her calling and just become whole again. "How could they...?" Her voice faltered, cracking as she tried to move forward, she going to her knees before one stack of seeds.
"Why would they do this? Why are these even here?" She looked up to Phact, her eyes shining with unshed tears. She had been so strong before this. She had had such a burst of confidence, and now, staring at what had once been so many living souls, she felt weak. "Phact, we need to save them. Even if it is only one, or twenty...I can hold as many as need be in my skirt, but, I am not fast on running. I might stumble and break them."
Harmonia stood next to Babylon after and quite literally stared at the pile of starseeds, face white. There were so many of them, and she knew what it meant to see them all here. So many lives had been lost, and for what? Who was storing such a massive collection of starseeds and why?! Harmonia couldn't fathom what it was all for.
Babylon's voice broke through her shock and she looked at him, her brain slowly registering what he said. "Oh! OK!" But...where to put them? It wasn't like she had pockets or a bag or anything. She looked down at her fuku, unsure what to do when she noted her small vest. That'll do! Undoing the clasp she pulled it off and checked to make sure it would actually be somewhat useful in carrying the fragile starseeds. Thankfully it seemed it would work well enough for a small cache. She'd have to be careful how many she took though. The last thing she wanted to do was damage any of them.
So carefully she moved towards the pile, and like many others, attempted to gather up some of the precious stones.
Tomlin was grateful to be put back on his own four feet before the carry could truly stress him out. That willow magic was impressive. Still, he ran down the steps at Chibi Oort’s heels, slowing when he did, and generally being the fluffy personification of ‘Not Leaving You’. He ignored the command to go on ahead, and instead drew even closer to keep his tail in contact with the boy’s ankles as proof of his presence.
The darkness at the end of the stairs didn’t bother him greatly, but he nodded at both Oberon and Perdita’s phone suggestions. “Good ideas. I’ll look into it when we get back.”
Though by ‘look into it’, what he really meant was ‘mention it to the more technologically minded Mauvians back at the HQ’. Maybe he could leave them a note. He’d never tried his paw at a phone app, and hadn’t had much experience with the newer model that was around now. It was probably time to upgrade his tech qualifications.
He was still thinking about it when the doors were opened, and the sight within stopped him dead, ears flattening back. “Stars all round us,” he whispered. All these poor souls… In the Negaverse hospital complex. They could only have one intended use down here. No wonder they cried out so desperately.
“Be careful, they’re fragile,” he added in a louder voice, as the group began to gather the poor things up. The senshi put their uniforms to good use, pockets, gloves, sashes, shirts. After a moment of confusion what a ‘paw thing’ was, he shed his bracers with a clank for Chibi Oort’s use, working his teeth over the fastening at the back, snagged in his fur, until first one, then the other popped open into shallow metal hinged halves. He wouldn’t be able to carry them himself, but they might be used as scoops. But all of these were small solutions to a mountainous problem. How much of their hour was left? Somewhere, one of these might still have a body holding on to basic functions, waiting for the light to return. They couldn’t leave a single one behind.
“There were sacks upstairs,” he said, frowning.
Perdita was right – there seemed little he could do to help. Unless. Starseeds, after all, were small. Small and important things, and Mauvians were good at safekeeping those. Tomlin closed his eyes to concentrate. After a minute, a handful of rubber bands and the empty outer shell of an older-model senshi phone dropped from apparently nowhere above his head, onto the floor.
“Actually, I do have a pocket,” he told Perdita.
He padded reverently towards the shining, pleading pile, aiming to fill his subspace pocket with the tiny, precious jewels.
Cetus had, till now, been silent and just observed things and moved as needed. he hadn't fought those who had come after them. he could understand them not wanting the enemy in their medical facility. They were a risk to the safety of those who could not fight for themselves. They wanted them gone, one way or another surely, but in the end they were standing in a room looking at what he realized after a moment were starseeds.
Looking to Halley, who he'd come down with, he shook his head. "Those are souls...starseeds." His cousin had told him about them and to see them - so many...it sent a shiver down his spine as he wondered if he could tuck his shirt into his pants, since his pants were skin tight, and get some down his shirt in order to remove them from this place.
Looking to Phact he moved away from Halley and headed over to her and Sabine, as well as the others in the group. "I wonder what they are used for...if they are just sitting here." It was as if they had no purpose or were sitting in wait for something? He didn't know why they would just sit here and he wanted to know why, they were important things and wouldn't they be getting used rather than sitting about in such a large quantity?
Hundreds, and hundreds of little crystals illuminated the room, under Babylon's lamp. Several people dashed forward to salvage them, as though they meant far more than Iduna could understand. She squeezed Cadmus' hands, and then noticed the pleading.
"Are those... starseeds?" she breathed, voice barely above a whisper. How could so many souls, so many lost people be trapped down here? For how long? Had they been here for milennia? Did they just start collecting them?
Did the rest of the Negaverse even know about this?
Iduna rushed forward, filling her skirt with starseeds in an attempt to save them. Any of them.
As usual, Aptera was not easily inclined to initiate any voiced words. However, from what she overheard about the pile of shiny objects resembling crystals that they had happened upon now from which the pleas for help seemed to be the source according to others as well, these starseeds are what they could rescue. Aptera noticed that she was slowly getting more used to avoid greater degrees of shock; there were magical transformations, talking cats, portals, and now crystals that sent out pleas to be rescued. And now Aptera went about endeavoring in assisting with the rescue of starseeds with the help of a pair of bed linens as makeshift bags.
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:08 am
Sailor Cadmus, Chibi Senshi of Cranberries
Upon entering the room full of starseeds, Cadmus felt both a longing and a sadness in the back of his head that seemed to provoke tears. He swallowed thickly to collect his bearings and, following Iduna, quickly got to helping release the trapped starseeds pleading for help.
Mlinzi, Guardian Cat ((followed Kastra, in the seed room))
Mel had refused to follow Kastra's orders when she told him to follow Phact and the others... he already promised to protect her so that's what he was going to do. He followed her when she approached the negaverse officers, taking up a guarding stance when she activated her magic. With a mental sigh though he watched as all the nega's got locked up, it meant that his group would be safe.
He bounded down the stairs after her, sliding to a stop once they reached their destination. Eyes wide he took in the hoard of starseeds, his fur puffed and a low growl emanated from him. Why would anyone need so many? Each one represented a life lost... represented a spark snuffed out. Getting his anger and fear under control Mel started to look around, really look around.
So many were trying to gather as many as they could but he knew they couldn't gather them all. Even his own group would be able to collect a few. Something was niggling the back of his mind, there was something he needed to know, something he knew could help but the more he tried to think the more his head started to hurt.
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:20 am
Sailor Chara of Chocolate
It took a bit of time to recollect himself after the confrontation with a bunch of assholeish older douchebags, but the treck into the darkness behind Perdita and Oberon seemed to calm him down. He kept real close to them too, surprising even himself when he made it to the bottom without stepping on their heels. What could he say, Pitch black void kinda freaked him out. But soon enough people had lights from lanterns and phones out, scanning what was around them. And holy s**t, that wasn't something he had expected.
"Well... s**t." These were starseeds? Like, the literal embodiment of what was supposed to be the soul of a human? And it wasn't like.. Ten or eleven of them. Hell no, there was a ******** MOUNTAIN of them.
"Are these people even.. Like.. These belonged to people people, right? How long have they been gone, you think..? Can they even be saved? Don't you die when these are taken away?" Chara was honestly too freaked out by the giant pile of crystals he just didn't understand yet. While normally the comment about sticking the crystals down his pants would have made him laugh, he couldn't bring himself to touch them. Fragile, they were? His heavy handed self would have probably shattered a few just by looking at them too long.
"... We can take them, but what do we do with them once we take them back, guys..?"
Gorner had been following, silently, which was against her personality but obviously this was a situation she didn't know much about. This was something that was very new to her and being so out of her comfort zone, in a war, had her calmly following other people so when she arrived in the room with all the glittering...stones - starseeds someone said she stared at them. She didn't know what they were till she heard someone mention it. They were souls?
Shaking her head, to rid it of such thoughts and feelings she did like everyone else seemed to be doing. She moved forward to grab some as well and try and fit them down her dress. She really lacked in the clothing area - how bad right now.
She'd fallen back. Felt horrible about it, but... soon as the fighting broke out, she clung to Pye and fell back out of the way of those clearly more capable of handling the situation. She'd been relieved to find Adria again--and helping with the mountain of starseeds no less. Trying to collect herself somewhat, she rushed over to help him, trying to help collect the starseeds to get them out of there...
"T-this wasn't what I was expecting to find here..." Were... they even still alive? Functioning..?
