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 Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:35 pm
Harata looked at him. "You looked wiped out. I have some twine in my bag. You sit here till I come back with some fish, m'kay?" Without waiting for an answer, she wandered to the shore, and onto the rocks, hopping lithely from boulder to boulder, as to get near the ocean. With in the hour she was back, a string of fish. "I also have tinder, so don't you dare think of creating a fire. Do you know how to gut fish, or shall I?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:26 pm
((explanation, he was very poor after Demonbusters, having spent all his money on getting one-eye's worth of Lasik surgery and recovery from the wounds that removed him from battle, and thus spent more time scrounging for stuff than making sure his food was delicious))  If a diety created all that is...
...wouldn't all writers be dieties of their own worlds? -Xeiashi Zakariz((would make better post but I'm kinda short on time...and in a half-hour I'ma be gone till sometime late on Monday, so bye peeps!))
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:12 pm
Harata laughed. "Will do then. Do you have a knife, or do you need one of mine?" The boy wasn't a dissimilar age to her, and she felt for him. She knew what it was like to be skinny and on the streets. She had lived most of her life that way. "I'll get the fire started, then teach you." She gathered up the tinder and wood, and set to making a fire. "And no problem with not being able to make a fire. I can only do the simplest of magics, and that only when I am fully charged." She sat next to the boy and began. "First, you need to check that their necks are broken. Which I have done. Then we remove the scales." She set about showing him how to remove the scales, running the knife down the length of the fish in short controlled motions. "Like so."
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:39 pm
 This life is a gift. I will cherish it.
And so they carried onwards, through the pouring rain to the infirmaty, Storm letting little Cespenar trot along side.
"I am going to get Gwarn a fair trial," He proclaimed on their silent walk, slowing and straightening. He looked over at his newest furry companion as she slowed down as well. "Perhaps I can have him work for the order as a fighter."
He stopped talking at that point, not knowing what all there was to say.
At that point a small yip came from beside them, and Storm turned to see the little devil-husky lowered and growling at a bush. Appearantly something was in it, and it was annoying the little dog. Storm knelt down beside the dog, and felt around the small bush.
I will live my own life. No one else's. [[[I really had nothing I knew to say at this point. Lead on Meta! Also, kind of off-topic, but Oswald really took off as an NPC, huh?]]]
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:11 pm
Alexi got up from her chair. This is so boring, she thought. It seems like nobody's around. Either that, or nobody wants to talk to me and are ignoring me...
Just then someone burst into the room.
"ALEXIIIIIIIIII~!!!" Total screamed, throwing himself into her arms. "Why did you go?! You always leave me behind! Don't do that anymore!!!" He started crying and hitting her with his little leaf arms. Alexi smiled.
"I don't mean to," she said. "It's just that you were sleeping and I was bored..."
"You always get bored so easily," Total said, looking up at her. "You can never stay in one place for too long."
Alexi laughed. "Well that's true," she agreed. "But I suppose it would help if I had a companion to talk to. Maybe then I'd be able to stay in one place for a while."
"You've got me," Total reminded her.
"Yup," Alexi said. "But..."
"But what?" Total asked, looking slightly confused.
"...No offense or anything," she explained, "but you're a plant and I'm a human. I love you to death my friend, but I can't always talk to a plant about human things and expect him to understand. You get my meaning?"
Total looked a bit dejected. "I guess so," he said. "But I can try!"
The girl laughed again. "Okay then, try this. I would really like to find a boyfriend, but I don't know exactly what to do. Any suggestions?"
The plant thought for a few minutes. "...Yeah I got nothing."
((OMG a relatively long post?! O-O''))
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:39 pm
Well, this certainly was surprising. The Captain was probably the last person she'd expect to regard family in such an affectionate manner, but it just went on to show how one shouldn't judge a person by appearances alone.
"No no, not at all. I may not know of any blood relatives, but the concept of family was not entirely lost to me." she reassured. "Although I do find it hard to believe that you have not been engaged at some point. I think it wouldn't be too hard for you to sway any woman to your favor, if you so chose to."
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:10 pm
If a diety created all that is... "I see...hold for a moment, may I try something?" Xeiashi said as he had an idea. If fish, like all living things, were carbon-based, why couldn't he transmute the carbon out of it so it falls apart? He decided to try as the mystery girl withdrew the knife. A glow overtook the pair, and from it, "By the way, I'm Xeiashi" stemmed.
The light receded to reveal a fish, nearly whole, but with a thin coat of powder rather than scales. In Xeiashi's hand was held a diamond. "I'm sorry if this makes you uncomfortable...but it was the only thing I could think of that was made out of pure carbon, seeing as how that much carbon wouldn't make much fiber...do I seem like a perv or something?" Xeiashi asked sheepishly as he looked at what was in his hand, offering it in a sort of payment for the fish and lesson.[Alchemic Transmutation]((Curse you Xeiashi, why couldn't you find a use for a 2x2 inch piece of Carbonfiberweave??)) ...wouldn't all writers be dieties of their own worlds? -Xeiashi Zakariz
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:41 pm
"Nah. I've learnt long ago that nothing is what it seems. You keep it. You shouldn't of done that though. You are weak. You need to eat. Try with the knife now." She offered the knife to him. "It's Harata."
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:18 pm
If a diety created all that is... Xeiashi murmered an affirmative as he accepted the knife, nearly stabbing his hand as it shook. Before long the fish's guts were seperate from its body, albeit very sloppily. Before the fish chunks went on Harata's fire, he needed to try one more thing, "Hey, Harata? I'm going to do one more thing to this fish before we cook it...I had an idea while I was butchering it..."
before she could stop him he was combining the sugars and starches within the fish with oxygen using Alchemy, then taking the resulting energy directly into himself. Instantly, he felt a burst of energy, though he knew that he would still need the nutrients from eating the actual meat. "Sorry about that...no, I'm not going to pass out or anything, I just needed to see if it would work in reverse..." he said to her questioning glance as he discarded the altered portion of meat. Little did she know, he was practicing this new skill on chunks of wood as-of-yet untouched by fire...hopefully she didn't notice the 'invisible fire's scorch marks crawling across them.[Alch. Trans.]...wouldn't all writers be dieties of their own worlds? -Xeiashi Zakariz((ALCHEMIC ABILITY GET!: 'Emergency sustenance' combines oxygen with carbon to make an exothermic reaction, from which energy is given directly to Xeiashi before it has a chance to make a proper fire.))
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:43 pm
She looked at him and shook her head. "You know, if you just experiment every time you have an idea, you are going to end up dead one of these days." She struck tinder to flint then, sparking a fire.
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:17 pm
Money is like a river, when it flows freely it brings good to all... "But what's the worst that could happen? I'm not going to be a complete fool and rush into these things without preparations you know...If something went wrong when I altered that chunk of food I would have just undone what I did, for if doing the reaction one way takes my energy then doing it in reverse should give the energy back!" Xeiashi soliloquised as he watched the dancing flames, pondering the beauty of their existance. He did slow down on his experiments with the wood out of habit however. ...and when it's blocked, one prospers while all others rot... Many thanks to Bapp for the artwork!((woot new layout! POLL: which is better, the old or the new?))
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:31 am
This is what has happened to Lorika and Panda:
Lorika got the message from Storm shortly after they began looking.
Panda then returned to his study while Lorika dealt with Dorothy and Odin, inviting her to stay as long as she wishes in the dormitories and promising to help the girl find her brother.
The infirmary was sealed off with guards. Both Lorika and Panda later went to inspect Fel and Gwarn, but could do nothing for them...
The rest of the evening passed amid plans to hold a trial to decide a fate other than constant imprisonment for Gwarn, as constant imprisonment seemed to be such a flawed solution, as soon as he woke.
It is now the next morning for both Panda and Lorika.
Uh, hurray! Progress!
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:32 pm
 ☼ "I come from the North, where there is no autumn..."
Meta leaned over to investigate what was in the bush, discracted for a moment from her whirling thoughts. What had happened to Vayan in all this time? She wasn't sure whether she'd be mad to see him or not.
Just as she bent over, though, pain shot up her arm, straight into her heart, like she'd been hit by lightning.
"Oh no. He's really hurt!" She paused, thinking on her feet, then said, "Meet me at the Infirmary as fast as you can. Hyaku is out in Gambino, so I'll have no help! Please hurry!
With that, she ran up the trunk of the nearest tree, launched herself off it, twisting in midair and unfurling her fans.
She had to get there as fast as she could, there wasn't much time.
[Gust]
"...Where the cold crouches over you like a snow leopard waiting to pounce." ☼
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:56 pm
Harata shrugged. "There are somethings you can't pull out of, from what I understand. But, whatever. It's your life." She pulled out some foil from her bag and found a few suitable, large, flat rocks. She made an oven of sorts.
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