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((Quint, Gatz is absorbing chaotic energy, not releasing it. And my character tends to be very careful not to share chaos with people he likes, as this is what it tends to do to them.

Ice: ^_^;; And yet despite his paradoxically mix of monsterous beauty, the part of your character's appearance that really throws me for a loop are the pierced nipples.))

Gatz, frowned an shook his head, stalking towards the center of the room.

"Right. I think I've had just about enough of this," he said to himself. Each step took him closer to Roan and Ice, and for a moment, it seemed as if he was about to jump into the coming battle, confronting the two beings head on... However, that wasn't quite what he had in mind. The entity strolled right past the two daemonic beings, seeming to ignore them, and walked over to Quint.

Whom he promptly punched in the face.

"--'No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched', George Jean Nathan," Gatz quoted, hoping he had knocked a bit of sense into his friend's thick skull. The entity sighed and shook his head in disappointment. "Quint, I've always thought that your ability to keep a cool intellect in a fight was one of your strengths, but you're starting to prove me wrong." He leaned closely, staring into the man's eyes.

"If you were thinking, you'd realize that this is neither the time nor the place for a confrontation. Do you seriously think that you can beat Roan with the connection between you still intact?" His eyes slid over to Serria, then to Morrigan for a moment. "... Or that she'll just ignore your love ones if you fail this time? I somehow doubt that she'll be that kind to you."

((You probably just missed the part about him "feeding." Sometimes the little details make all the difference--I've made similar mistakes countless times in the past myself.))

"Infernal beings tend to boast more often than they breathe, Quint," Gatz replied with a grin. He was glad to have the alchemist back to his normal, sensible self. "Excessive pride is considered a sin, after all; it's just part of daemon nature."

"Now, there are certain situations for which the term 'tatical withdrawl' was invented." he said softly. "Besides... I never said it has to be a permanant retreat, just long enough for our more vunerable members to recover and regroup. Not to mention giving you and Rio some time to get your heads straightened out." He rolled his eyes pointedly as he uttered the last sentence.

"--For the love of scantly-clab bikini models, just go and ask Bleu about fixing it already!" he grumbled. "In case you haven't noticed, she rarely messes around when she gets requests of a serious nature. You can Rio should come out of it with your manhood intact." ((Though it's already a little late for Rioushu at the moment. XD ))

"While you're working on all that, I'll try and do what I do best..." Gatz gave a lazy stretch and started to turn around, pointedly facing Roan and Ice again. "... And see if I can't make things entertaining for around here for a little bit."

Looking at the sky for her attack to succeed, Sierra was tossed recklessly by a hand that was much too large to be human. Rolling to a stop, ending with a tap on Quint's far wall that somehow survived, Sierra stood up to see that Morrigan had decided to cut in, substituting her place in combat. The tumble however, seemed to bring the gears of her mind back together, Sierra again able to see the big picture. Watching above, she could see two figures, but neither had Quint's assistants, which, after a brief search of the rest of his compound, told her that he wasn't there at all. Sierra began to remark on his daunting aloofness, but then spotted a gold and black box, embroidered with three jewels in the wreckage, eyes now wide, body rushing to the small crate.

Hugging it tightly as if there were a million bucks inside, Sierra rushed opposite Morrigan's facing, hiding behind another support stone pillar, hoping the contents were still intact.

Gatz groaned and shook his head, trying to shut out the images that were coming to him. Unfortunately, he tended to have an active imagination.

"Quint, you b*****d," he muttered to himself. "That was revenge for punching you in the face, wasn't it?"

Coming out of his self-induced horror, the entity looked up to see Rio tense and at the ready, already wanting a peace of the action. He smiled ruefully, knowing that any sound advice he offered would simply ricochet off of the ninja's thick skull like a bullet off of tank armor; it was one of his friend's better qualities.

"Oh, go right ahead and do whatever you feel like," Gatz said, his tone encouraging. "It's not like anyone has ever been able to prevent you from jumping into a fight--at least not before you've had something important broken."

((Cancer?! Oh man, I hope everything goes well. Truly, since I've had many a scare, even a nightmare involving that terrifying condition. I'm sorry that you aren't finding joy here, so I can understand not wanting to put time into something that isn't profitable by any means. You're scary, cocky, cunning, even funny, and you'll be missed. And anyone making fun of you while you're gone will be handled in a way fitting our daemon 'overlord' ( xp ), believe it. evil ))

((I'll be here. If this is how you feel, who's to stop you? Not like we can shimmy our way across an ocean to get you posting! lol No problem, because even if I don't know you at all IRL, I've known Roan for almost a year now if not, something some would say makes people friends. I wish you the very best.))

((I'm sorry to hear about the cancer, I hope you get better soon, or that it turns out to nothing, I recently came out fine from a scare like that too, Hepatitis I thinks. Anyway, I didn't say I didn't like your character or anything about what you did, I just wanted to speed it up, things were going a bit too slow for my tastes. Now, this is very much do the to inacitivity of other guild members, but I hope you can forgive me if you thought I was putting the blame on you.))

((Even though I dont think Ive talked or RPed with you Roan I hope everything will go well for you. Ill pray and hope its not cancer. Also I can understand about thinking a RP is a chore cause for awhile I havent RPed here either but still check in. I think its because of multiple reasons though. Well anyway I wish you the best of luck.))