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 Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:50 pm
"I hope that I am the more nice of the people." She chuckled, letting go of his hand and returning it to her lap, where it idly played with her long loose hair. "I guess this is true, Although it's crazy that everyone on the Island seems SO good looking. There's a theory...." She leaned in super close, "That the pods have some kind of beauty effect while you sleep." She pulled back and snorted, "I don't believe it cause I've looked like this whole my life, HELL, I even have my own twin on the Island to back up my claim." She chuckled.
"Oh?" Her smile turned on full wattage, brightly gleaming at him. "I can be very nice." She purred, tracing her finger over the table. It was all in good fun though, and flirting as always was just a way to be friendly for her.
"Sun division eh? Then you'll get to meet my twin sometimes. Her name is Alaska and well....She is one of those more..." She waved her hand, "Just don't take her words to heart, she means well. Sorta."
She hmmed before bringing her fingers up, "Well since you are new and you aren't the first I've showed around, Wanna take a tour Handsome? I'm sure we can stir some trouble up on the way you know."
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:03 pm
He shrugged. "Dunno, guess I'll have to find out and that's half the fun." he replied, "But so far I'd say yes you are." Which wasn't Solomon trying to flirt. Really. He didn't flirt. Ever. Anti-flirting. Always. (This was a lie and should not be believed). However, Nevada (and he guessed a few other people)'s theory seemed interesting enough, brows lifting even though she couldn't see it. "Clearly I wasn't asleep long, then." He laughed as he said this, leaning back in his seat and scratching behind one of his ears.
The mention of a twin did have him wondering, though - "I assume I'll be able to tell you apart through the power of aura and radiating disappointment from certain parties?" Because if you said 'twin' he didn't think 'hey, maybe one has done some serious body modification and doesn't look exactly like her'. "Or she'll punch my teeth out if I call her the wrong name or somethin'?"
He ruffled his scruff as she suggested a tour, shrugging his shoulders lightly. "Wouldn't mind a tour." He'd been on a few tours, by it was kind of interesting to see what everybody showed differently than anybody else. "Get away from the smell of the sludgedrink at least."
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:21 pm
She smiled at him, wishing dearly she could wink. But as she has started to notice, that while one eye was bandage, if the other winked....it just looked like she was blinking. Which wasn't sexy. It was like a slow blink too.
Sighing at the misfortune of the lack of subtle flirtations, she instead shook her head. "I think if you wanted, and took off the visor, you'd be just fine Handsome." She slowly got up, taking her time as she was in no rush. She never rushed actually. "At least, from the glimpse I got. But I am just guessing."
She laughed now, a bit louder and a little more heartier. "yes you will. Where I tend to flirt and am super friendly, Alaska is well...." She thought of good word, "Well honestly? she's very rough and tomboyish. And easy to piss off. I got all the patience, she got all the spark." She hummed, "Oh not that I don't have the spark in other places of my life. Just to clarify." She sent him a slow look. "She won't punch your......." Then went quiet.........."Actually she would."
And left it at that.
"I don't know if anyone has offered one yet, and I mostly know about the life and mist area's more than anything." She tapped her chin in thought, stepping slowly to the door. "Have you seen the minipets? The Argus Training room? OH, I could show you all my favorite napping spots........" And maybe even coax him into a nap right? she was just sayin' okay. She liked to nap and following people was tiringgggggggg...........
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:36 pm
Solomon tapped the visor. "If I take it off I might turn everybody into stone." he replied without missing a beat, "Safer for everybody, really. You coulda died for looking, even."
While Nevada spoke of Alaska, Solomon was picturing a Nevada with both of her eyes, probably shorter hair, and a permanent scowl on her face. It probably wasn't a fair assessment of what to expect. "Well, good to know that I met the fun twin first, and hey, if she does punch me in the face I'm protected.." he tapped the front of the visor with a grin.
He got up a bit quicker than Nevada had to trail after her, stretching and folding his arms behind his head as he walked. "I haven't seen much outside of Sun territory, actually. What are minipets?" he asked, glancing to her. "And Aren says he wouldn't mind a napping spot that was high up, but doesn't trust me to not fall out of it."
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:56 pm
She made a mock gasp, her eye widening. "No....Were you cursed as a child?" She shook her head, "The gods were not in your favor if they were going to make you a modern day medusa." She tucked her hands in her overalls and shook her head. "You say that, But one day, I really hope to see it, turn to stone or not."
Leaving it at that, she threw a look over her shoulder and smiled.
"Do you think a visor would protect you fully from a full on punch from a sun hunter?" She let him wonder about that, "Hopefully you FEAR shield extends to your visor as welllllll............" She drew out the last word, thinking that perhaps her twin might one day find Solomon and do it. but only if the sun hunter said something to her that would piss her off.
And to be fair, Solomon's assessment of Alaska was pretty fair. If he just added black rainbow dyed hair, and large intricate tattoo's that covered her twin.
"Aren is your weapon?" She filed the weapons name away to Leroy, who commented that one day they should spar with solomon and aren. But Leroy always wanted to spar. "What kind of weapon is he?" Her walk stopped shortly at the comment of what is a minipet before turning to give him a most devilish look.
"I'll show you what a minipet is........" She reached over, grabbing his scarf and tugging him gently towards the labs and the minipet rooms.
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:03 am
"Only because Athena has bad taste in punishing people as a jealous b***h who takes her anger out on the wrong people." Seriously, for a goddess people were supposed to like she made a lot of mean and bad choices when it came to said other people.
"Oh, it probably wouldn't and might make things even worse if she just shatters it and embeds tinted glass all up in my face, but it would get her back too so there is that." he answered because hey, it wasn't really protective gear and he wasn't going to pretend it was.
Tell her we're a badass!
No! Tell her only I'm a badass!
Ah yes, the bickering was beginning already. "Yeah, Aren is my weapon and from my limited experience summoning him," he rubbed the bracers he wore as he said this, "he's a pair of scimitars...which in and of itself makes about as little sense as he himself does..."
For a moment he wondered if he was in trouble all of a sudden because of the look on Nevada's face. Only for a moment, however, as she took a hold of his scarf and began to lead him along like he was a dog on a leash. "Should I be worried?"Nyxtsuki Moon Note to self, quoting 'Nevada' does not quote you.
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:46 pm
"Well, Even goddesses of wisdom has to make a mistake. Otherwise, She'd be a pompous know it all, with no heart as to why she does the things she does." Nevada smiled, "If I get my greek mythology right."
"I'll ask Alaska nicely not to ruin your face....or her hand. As a forewarning, no promises." She continued to tug him until they were in front of one of the many minipet labs. She let go of his scarf, running her hands over to smooth.
"No worries Handsome, Tuck your scarf in. they like to tug harder than I do." She pursued her lips before tugging him into the room.
In the middle was a very large Wyvern minipet of blue's and deep purples, it almost seemed to exuded a galatic Comet like aura around it. It eyed the two warily from it's point until Nevada made a small cooing sound. Slithering over to her outstretched arm and up it until it was coiled around it.
"this is my friend Grumpy. Because he is grumpy." She held out her arm for Solomon to see, the said Grumpy creature hissing at him. "Minipets are the FEAR based pets for most of the anomalies we face. More basic in instinct. and cuter."
She eased back to the comment of his weapon.
"Aren is a nice name. And dual weapons? I wonder if that makes him dual personality?" She would never understand the weapons that were made. She had heard of a hunter who had 3 or 4 swords and had a 7 personalized weapon. Madness.
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:00 pm
"Her mistake gave the world spiders." he noted, though he himself didn't have any problems with spiders. Spiders were kind of fantastic in a twisted a** backwards way. "Though the purpose of gods were to be less perfect than humans. That's why heroes were always human and cleaning up their messes." He too knew a thing or two about mythology.
Solomon chuckled at the offer to at least try to fend off the face and fist ruining that could come to pass if he wasn't lucky. Aren just laughed in his head at the idea of it all.
As Nevada smoothed out his scarf, he grinned, taking a moment to readjust it inside of his coat. "I know better than to think I know better than a warning around here for sure..." he mused quietly, smoothing it out again once it was wrapped around his neck a few more times.
If she'd been hoping he'd be surprised by what was inside of the labs when she pulled him in, Nevada would get just that, Solomon pacing slightly to get a look around at the unusual creature that she was calling 'Grumpy'. He was one of the seven dwarves, apparently. "Hm! So are they called 'minipets' because the larger FEAR entities keep them as pets themselves?" he was kind of bullshitting it at that point - because the whole 'FEAR' explanation hadn't really happened in whole and he mostly had patched together mentions of the stuff.
He hadn't been lying when he said he was there for the Healthcare.
"Oh, there is no wondering about Aren - he has more than two personalities. In fact, I don't think he has consistent ones beyond that they talk to each other and like me." he shrugged. "They change every day."
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:04 am
"True. Spiders are terrible....good and nesscary but terrible." She wasn't a fan, liked everything that didn't have more than four legs and creepy crawled. Bleh. "I didn't know that." She looked over at him, smiling. "I just guess it shows nobody is perfect and in the end, we will always be cleaning up messes."
"That would be correct. They are smaller doses of FEAR of something that someone is scared of, We are not sure either if they can spawn by having a same FEAR based master but....This one we caught in a place called the Scarefari, its like a safari for them. And I hear they have a thing for closets?" She shook her head, Grumpy coming up to bump heads with her, it's tongue slithering out.
"As of right now, we are not sure if Minipets have thoughts, or their intelligence as a whole. Some exhibit a good amount of it, and then others are just so...." She struggled for a nice word, "Derpy. Grumpy isn't like that, First time I got him, he waited over the door for me to open it and escape."
"They talk to each other? Wow. Two voices in your head." She gave him a pitying look, holding Grumpy out for Solomon. "Am I sorry for you, Want to hold it?" Grumpy that is.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:17 am
"Think I'll take spiders over mosquitos, though. Not that I've seen either varieties on this island..." Solomon would learn soon enough that minipets were about the only critters that could stand the island so pets were a no-go.
"So basically you go out and catch feral cats and hold them hostage until they like you." Solomon assessed of the explanation he was given. "And everybody is in the closet or something, this Halloween stuff is more and more strange the more I hear about it." Okay, maybe that's not what she meant by closet, but that was the first thing that came to his head.
"So basically like any pet we're not aware of how much thought there is going on." he said as he took the Wyvern from Nevada, giving him a curious look. What was he, a fear of a constellation or something? Someone freaked out while watching Hercules as a child because of the Hydra?
We're sorry for her FACE!
Aren's two voices seemed to agree with themselves for a brief moment before chuckling back and forth. Solomon just chuckled. "I think you hurt his feelings, he's pouting now."
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:25 am
"You haven't been to the jungle part of the Island. Creatures have a certain tolerance for FEAR there. And trust me....It's not pretty." Monster snakes and birds and shadowlings. "But other than that, domestic animals are not allowed, they wouldn't last long." She smiled sadly, "Not even a goldfish."
Her laugh rang out, startling Grumpy as if it was a sound he didn't understand before she gripped her side, oh god this kid was good. She liked him. "Yes, pretty much. Don't even get me started on the weaponization. Imagine trying to catch a feral dragon, befriending it and then weaponing it." She chuckled more. "Wow did you not get the full rundown when you were recruited? Or when you woke?" She blinked. She had gotten a full blown lecture, thanks to Candace and later Ami.
"Ah I'm sorry Aren...." As if she was talking to the weapons, she took Solomon's face in her hands and held it gently, "I didn't mean to be rude, but it is interesting Aren that you have two voices that speak. i hope you don't yell at Solomon, all Leroy ever does is yell at me."
Speaking of the weapon, he was bristling at always being the bad guy voice. He only yelled at her in the beginning.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:39 am
"So I should be expecting mutant mosquitos and stuff in the jungle regions then?" Even if Nevada had never seen anything like that, they probably did exist from the way she talked about the place. "....Well..that's unfortunate, really. I mean, it seems like they'd get eaten by the giant rampaging monsters we have going on at the moment so it's probably for the better." There went owning a dog ever.
"Well, to be honest...no. I didn't actually get a full run down of any sort so I've been gleaning things as I go. All I know is that the recruiter said they could fix my problem and well..." It was almost a moot point now. It wasn't like he could trade a few years of his life to this place and go back anymore, "that's about all I needed to hear."
Solomon half sighed when Nevada took a hold of his face, petting the Wyvern idly as she spoke to Aren.
Two voices for two of us.
Yeah. Two for two! Why would it be any other way?
What's wrong with us?
Least we didn't walk into an open cabinet door.
Into a - I'm pretty sure that wouldn't poke her eye out, guys.
Well she got her face too close to something.
...
"They forgive you."
No we don't
"And they don't yell unless they're excited, fortunately."
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:46 am
"yeah Stuff there, Don't go unless you have a friend or a couple of friends." She blinked slowly. "Yeah that too. Well before the Island had the Titans, we had FEAR infused fog. We're okay because of our bonds with our weapons but....anyone else or anything else would get really sick and die." At least that's what she took from it.
Maybe they went crazy.
"That's the thing about recruiters, They always know where to get you." She smiled again. "They told me i could have my twin, so I jumped the wagon."
She kept his face cupped between her hands, smiling.
"Thank you Aren." She reached up and brushed her lips against Solomon's cheek. But it was really for Aren okay.
"Leroy yells because I am lazy." She leaned back down and let go of his face, chuckling again. "And when I say lazy, I mean that my sleeping schedule results in about 16ish hours of sleep." She let grumpy return to her before crouching down so he could go back in his pen.
"So do you have any questions then? I'd be happy to answer anything you'd like?" Since he hadn't got a full rundown on things, it was probably best to inform him. More power to him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:25 am
Everything she was talking about was kind of going over his head. FEAR infused fog? How did that even - was it made out of screams or something? Was it like the John Carpenter film and there were secretly pirates in it? Leprosy pirates?
Leprosy pirates. Yep. That was the answer. Perfect sense. A+
"Kind of like army recruiters it sounds like." Solomon noted - because he knew a thing or two about those too. "Though the army doesn't offer 'fix years of pain and ruined dreams' in their package so there is that." Not that he elaborated much on that.
Ew. Ew no.
We don't want it!
Give it back!
...Well alright then.
While Aren didn't want the (totally his) kiss, Solomon chuckled a bit as he brushed his hand against Nevada's chin, leaning in to kiss her cheek in turn. "That's from Aren." he added. They had said to give it back.
AUUGHNOOOOOOOOO!
He watched the Wyvern with still lingering interest as it was put away (constellation terror, really). "If I could sleep for 16 hours a day, I'd totally do it. I only manage about 5 on a good day, unfortunately." Mostly from being restless, but what else could you do besides get up and try to scale to the top of the highest places on the island for the hell of it?
"Well....." he ruffled his scruff with one hand at Nevada's offer. "I think at this point I have a vague understanding of the divisions and that life sucks a little bit right now, but not much understanding about what 'Halloween' is exactly," and he'd never heard of the Horsemen - well, not outside of biblical context - so that would be an added thing.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:41 am
Nevada was finding herself fond of the man already and chuckled again. "Is it really from Aren or are you just sneaking a kiss in?" And that begged the question if the kiss she planted herself was for Aren too. Which it was.
/Augh, kissing some other weapon. You're suppose to be MY hunter./ Leroy grumbled, clearly upset that his hunter would find it acceptable to kiss every other man and apparently weapon on the Island but him.
"Well....True." She had never been recruited for the army to be fair. Her form was too petite, too weak. That's what she always figured. Oh and she was a girl.
"That is terrible. What you need Solomon is a good nap partner, or a lot of sex." She chuckled. "Or a lot of things to tire you out. Then again, some of the hunters here only get like 3 or 4 hours of sleep as well. Missions. I'm lucky enough that they find paperwork and minimal task okay until we gauge how well I handle with my eye."
She blinked.
"You've never...for Halloween?" She led him outside of the room, and into another, one that looked like a science classroom for high school and took one of the stools down for him. Then she bounced onto the table and rested her chin in her hand. "gosh where do I start than. Halloween is a world parallel to the human. As of now, we've discovered that Christmasland, Easterland and halloween all exsist on planes seperate and yet connected to each other." She tried to think of it best like, "It's like a cake. The frosting in the middle of the cake is the thin layer between the worlds and is easy enough for either of us to transfer over into it. It's even easier for halloween creatures to do."
She hissed, "To be honest, Halloween creatures don't really pose a problem for as much as another FEAR based creature called Horseman. And most of the Halloween denizens we deal with are children. Horseman however are a elongated species, and specialize in terrorizing humans. And more specifically us. Halloween harvest fear through scaring....Horseman do it through killing."
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