Welcome to Gaia! ::

*Roan's response to Gatz flckered across the group counsciousness also, tinged with infinite boredom, in the form of gentle laughter. Again, the walls turned bloody with Hebrew, then it shifted into easily read english*

Lilth taught the first and most powerful lesson: that only through pain can power be acquired. Pain is the greatest teacher, the trial with the ultimate reward. The mirror garden, the blooms of survival, the needlepoint of pain and the secrets of creation. Only through pain are we elevated, be teacher torturer and lover to any who seek, cultivate a garden. Embrace pain and do not fear death.

*The blood faded slowly back into the wall, leaving only the heady and sickening stench of Roan's own powerful vitae as the smug aura that radiated from her pressed in on those she was connected with*

.: I was never the Path's strictest adherant, but you can see where it worked for me... and by following it at ALL, I was marked by it. :.

*Her mental gaze turned to Dante and the next line was reserved purely fro him, the others all blocked out*

.: Calling in Ice? That'd negate ALL favours my friend for the sheer effort, but I DO see the attraction... what'd you ideally like done to him, you think? :.

"Perhaps it has to do with Lilith?"

Dante voiced the first thought that popped into his head as Morri voiced her ponderings. He was possibly closer to the truth than even he realized, as Lilith did contain the bulk of Morrigan's violent tendencies. However, right now he needed to get away from the crowd for a few moments and plot with Roan.

"I'll be back in a bit."

He lifted Lilith from his leg, set her down beside where he was, and headed towards the door that Quint had used before, already knowing from experience that it lead to the bathroom. He closed the door behind him and clicked on the fan. The idea was to give them the idea that he was taking a "#2". It would give him a bit longer time frame before anyone started to become suspicious at his absence. He sat down on the toilet, using the lid as a seat, and began by bartering with Roan.

All but one, and you've a deal. Should Rio survive Ice, he'll likely come after me, and I'll be in need of Void's Garden for that. Unless of course you realize this, and have an idea in mind of how I could be earning an extra favor ...

((Yeah, so could I ... all the way back when Morri started this contest, and Dante told her that if Rio won, he'd be leaving the island. rolleyes ))

"Haha," Quint's mind thought, not direct enough to send a clear message through the link, "That's awesome." It was just as Roan had predicted, but it wasn't for reasons with anyone else. The..feelings Morrigan had were pure, yet violent, and somewhat meant that their fight would be 1v1. But like most things that involved two women, if Quint couldn't be a part, he'd at least watch, he now dreamfully sighing at the images.

Quint however, wasn't smiles for long at the mention of Ice's name. For all the crap he could give that male, he kept it to himself, and not because of Dante's previous stare. Quint did this solely because he wasn't fond of him, remembering small glimpses of Ice while on that operation room table. Though he could feel a power from him, Quint couldn't tell if he were someone extemely dangerous, but he could say for certain that Ice was at least off his rocker.

Since the fight scenario was on the card, Quint took a moment to react on Morrigan's statement that she had once wanted to kill him, brutally. He knew that this used to be the case, and a part of himself enjoyed that, but he hoped that she still liked to fight him, and would again sometime.

I'll be blunt. When are you going to enter the heat of battle? House comes on in a couple of hours, and I'd hate to decide between the two.. Here's where Quint took action. He hypothesized that if he created a bunch of 'static' in their link, it would sound like pure fuzz, keeping his own thoughts away from Roan.

It was silly, but he tried anyway. Keeping his eyes on Morrigan, Quint thought up those 'End Program' parts of TV shows, and other channels where nothing was on: Static.

"Ugh. How tiring."

Morrigan quickly flicked Gatz off of her shoulder. "I don't have time to point out everything wrong with what you just said... so here." After that, Morrigan willed each of her headwings to separate from her and become a chibi-Quint and chibi-Dante to keep Gatz busy through fighting.

"So before I even start fighting, I'd at least like to know how strong my opponent would be. That's actually what I had hoped to get from someone here."

Rioushu looked at Lilith with a mix of confusion, a little digust, and a whole lot of freaked out. He snapped back to reality when Morrigan had asked to know just how strong her opponent is. "Hmm, that's a hard question. Let's see, she's probably very strong now, what with Dante helping her gather energy from the island in a way that would've taken her much longer without him. As for what kind of powers she uses..." Rioushu said, and thought about when he saw Roan fight. "Almost anything you can imagine, barriers, small energy projectiles, mental attacks on anyone foolish enough to have a link with her, and whole lot of allies at her disposal. For instance, Void, this godforsaken creature that can devour anything sent at it, either killing it or sending it to a pocket dimension. Then there is the fact that destroying her body does not count as killing her. If it did, I would've done so already, but no, I do believe she can regenerate and reconstruct her body. What else..."

Rioushu thought hard about this, he looked at Morrigan a bit oddly, as if she the absolute focus of his mind. "Tell me Morrigan, how much are you into women?" Rioushu asked, though the perverted smile that came onto his face with such a question was remarkably, remarkably, absent.

Rioushu scratched his head as she asked him why he wanted to know. "Well, Roan claims to not have a soul, and I'm claiming that's a load of bullshit. While the animosity between you two is apparent to her, she doesn't know you very well. Being a succubus, I was wondering if you could seduce her, just enough to give a kiss." Rioushu said, smiling as he looked at Morrigan, sure she knew what he was getting at. "If that doesn't work, at least you'll have a reason to attack her, in case she attacks you."