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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:50 pm
"Ah," Hvergelmir smiled indulgently, "of course." She slid a few inches over to make room for the injured Saturn knight to recline, then patted the top of her thigh in a general gesture of by-your-leave. Of all the things in life she minded, someone wanting to cuddle in any form was not really one of them. Generally she didn't have enough outlets for this urge to express affection, which meant Jenna was the usual recipient of every hug. Nursing an injured friend doubled as a nice excuse. "Brilliant, of course," she said to Mont Blanc in turn. Hvergelmir raised her hand near her face. "Call Mont Blanc of Saturn." She waited a moment, then said, "Hi Monty. Thanks for worrying about me -- you're a good friend and I'm glad to be thought of. The doctors always say the bone's in the right place -- I assume the magic ensures it's set properly. I don't get hurt so often. Most people are kind. Hugs and love, Hvergelmir of the Cosmos." When she was done, she lowered her hand and looked back to the front of the room. "She's the one with the Wonder I mentioned before. The research facility. I'm sure she'd be gratified to talk to a colleague who's got a similar Wonder in some respect." She looked back, after that, to where Mont Blanc was pointing. "Yes, that's Camelot!" she said enthusiastically, raising an arm to offer an energetic wave in the royal knight's direction. "He's been really kind to me. Gentle and very supportive at times when I've needed it. And near him, that sort of looks like someone I've met before." She trailed off. The knight in question had the look of a Negaverse agent she knew -- but she didn't recognize the colors he wore. She'd heard that Wolframite had gotten out. It was much better to actually see it. It was then that she noticed the woman Mont Blanc was talking to. "Hello," she greeted warmly. "Would you like to join us? We were just playing crowdspotting."
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:40 pm
Babylon and Baikal arrived in a swirl of residual snow that quickly melted on Mars's parched sands. He waved for the newly-awakened page to follow him into the colosseum, where a murmur of chatter suggested that they were hardly the first to arrive. Actually, they might have been the last. "Welcome to Olympus," he intoned, tilting his head towards the other man as they passed through the arched entryway. Once inside the arena, Babylon was quick to find a group of friends - most of the faces here were people he'd met at one time or another, but that didn't mean he was impartial. At any party, he'd always be where Hvergelmir was, first and foremost. "Hver," he said with a smile, leaning in to kiss her on the cheek. "And keeping good company, I see." He turned towards Scholomance, enveloping the Saturn squire in a hug that involved quite a lot of hearty back-patting, and then, to Mont Blanc, said, "I'm not sure we've met. Babylon knight." There was a Cosmos page present in their little group as well, not one he'd ever met (and he'd met quite a few). Babylon nodded to Nis. "My lady." And then, he gestured Baikal into the circle. "This is Baikal page of Mercury. I picked him up on the way over. Please be nice to him - he's very new."
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:06 pm
Tikal saw Babylon in the distance there with a group of other people and honestly, she debated going up to him and half clinging to his side like a scared child. She didn't know what she was doing here, other than all knights were invited. Other than Babylon she didn't know any of these others. Maybe she should mingle? Ugh, who knew the social connection queen failed at actual human interactions? "Now what do I do?" She whispered to herself, huffing a bit. Quote: Open to social interaction plz
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:24 pm
The very first thing Baikal noticed upon arrival was that it was much to warm to be sporting the fur lined parka he was currently...encased in. Gloved fingers groped for a zipper that wasn't there as Babylon lead him across parched dirt and into what appeared to be an arena. "We're on Mars," he spoke lowly to the man beside him as he pulled his gloves off. " Planet Mars?" The very same planet that NASA had been sending probes and rovers to for years, with underwhelming results. How the ******** did they miss something like this? He had more questions, so many more questions, but Baylon was leading him towards a small knot of other unusually dressed individuals that included an ethereal woman in prismatic whites, and a thin man with dark hair and creepy mask obscuring the lower half of his face. Baikal hung back as Babylon stepped in the great them, as well as a young man, and young woman the other Mercury knight didn't seem to be familiar with. Hvergelmir, Scholomance, Mont Blanc, Nis. Unusual names the page had to repeat to himself silently a few times if he wanted to have any hope of remembering and properly pronouncing them. Then Babylon was introducing him, and Baikal had to step forward. "Ah, hi. New is a bit of an understatement."
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:32 pm
The young knight smiled at the younger female. He nodding to her and bowing slightly in respect. "It is a pleasure to meet you, miss. Your bother and i have had dealings once before, dare i say he is a kind man?" He smirked at Shang only to instantly be distracted as another woman came running up to grab his intended target. He blinked at her for but a moment before chuckling to himself. It was good to see the joys in life rather than the constant battles and pains of this war. "It seems you have made another friend, Shang. Either that or toy have some sort of leach." He made note to look The woman behind Shang and wonk, just to make certain she knew he was teasing. He looked about the area, self if anyone else he knew might have arrived. He smiled warmly when he saw the familiar face of Camelot. He had not seen him since his awakening. It was good to see him well. He lifted his hand in a friendly wave, letting the other know he had been spotted. He did not speak. Not wanting to distract him from the other's that needed his attention.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:44 pm
Babylon glanced around, spotted a familiar blonde head in the crowd, and waved the page over. "Tikal!" he exclaimed, taking her under his arm. "I hope Ganymede's been treating you well. Join the circle. Come on - they're all friendly." "I've been collecting pages again," he said to Hvergelmir, in an undertone. "This is Tikal. Tikal, this is Hvergelmir, Scholomance, Baikal... and some names I haven't quite caught yet." He knew from experience that isolated people were the most vulnerable to corruption - and that was why he was going to keep all of his friends close.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:53 pm
All of a sudden Babylon was talking to her. When he waved, Tikal moved over slowly as if she wasn't sure he was calling the right person. But, she tried to put on an air of confidence as she was tucked under his arm and just beamed at the others before shrugging. "I met her the one time and then... Nothing." She shrugged a little and moved to look at each of them as they were introduced, putting names to faces until Babylon said he wasn't sure about some of their names. "Hi. Ah, yes. I'm Tikal, apparently a page of Ganymede?" Not that she was sure what that was still, but she was pretty comfortable around Babylon.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:03 pm
There was no wrong time to put a good face on things. Sometimes that made a huge difference -- giving people an outlook that would help them approach new situations rather than hiding from them. "Well," she said gamely, "for those of you that are new, I'd say you're actually pretty fortunate, if you can believe it. Most of us are scattered to the winds, so it's a fairly good stroke of luck to get a chance to meet a bunch of people straight off. It'll come in a lot more handy than meeting people just by chance, or finding yourself alone and in danger. At some point you'll have questions or you'll need help with something, and you'll be glad to have someone you can ask, right? So I think it's a good thing, all in all. And wonderful to meet each of you."
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:04 pm
He glanced over as it seemed being around Camelot was not the place a person who wanted to stay out of everyone's gaze should be. "You're popular." He added, frowning as he spotted the pacifist Hvergelmir waving. Groaning, he looked around and noticed a few people he had passed by when he was in a better fitting uniform.
There was a great deal more pride in him wearing the black uniform, and he felt awkward in the reds and whites of a alliance he had only taken for freedom and power. It left him without his bearings when he had spent years far more settled and sure of himself. He felt too old and in the game too long to be feeling this out of place and unsure of how the system worked. While he could go on for hours on hour the Negaverse was set up and arranged, he couldn't even speak for a few minutes regarding knights.
Then he spotted a girl in colors and symbols similar to his and he took a moment to narrow one eye at her and then glanced at his own uniform and then back at her.
"What….the...." He suddenly felt like he had come into a party wearing the same outfit as someone else and he was NOT the one that was changing. More importantly, where the hell did Ganymede come off not telling him about this SOMEONE ELSE?
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:06 pm
Thanksgiving was a a quiet affair in the Catling household, there was only her and her father after all, and her dad having spent all day traveling had gone to bed super early. Like literally almost as soon as he had taken the last bite of their super early dinner he had given his daughter a hug, and then trudge off to bed.
So she had been washing dishes when she heard a call, a tingeing in her soul that was almost like when she had gone to Hugbells homeworld. Only this one came with a voice in her head, come to Olympus.
She slowly put the dishes down and ran off to check if her father as asleep. Eva hadent even needed to open the door to hear the snoring, so with a soft smile and a tingle of nervousness. She left her house quickly, scampering into her backyard, and into the alleyway, looking to make sure she was alone before powering up into Eden.
And then she realized, she had no idea how to get to Olympus. Maybe that was a sign that she shoudlnt go, good things rarely happened to her when she powered up anyway. She crossed her arms, thinking to herself, when suddenly she felt the same pull, like when Glitnir had taken her to his wonder, like when she went to her own. And suddenly she opened her eyes and she was... somewhere else, will people milling around.
Eden stood there awkwardly, scanning the faces she hardly knew, or who were complete strangers, her hands wringing around her little lantern.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:32 pm
Mimisbrunnr liked Olympus. Perhaps that was strange, with everything that had happened here, but usually Olympus meant good things - or good intentions, if nothing else. And so she responded to the call, and let herself be swept off. And as soon as she ot there, the Mercury Squire spotted friends - Hvergelmir, and Bablyon, and others she hadn't met yet. She practically ran over, waving with one hand and tugging down her facemask with the other.
"Hver! Babylon!" She didn't even pretend to not be excited. "And, um, I don't think I know any of you?" Two Knights in the same dark blues and purples, and a third in a new set of colors. "I'm Mimisbrunnr. Of Mercury!"Being a Knight was a brand-new endeavor for Houshi, and she was eager to learn as much as she could. So a whisper in the back of the Jupiter Page's mind was plenty to send her off - and she took a seat on one of the benches, crossing one leg over another and waiting. No need to draw attention to herself as a brand-new Knight just yet - better to find out what was going on first.Mycenae was not exactly excited about responding to a summons to another planet. The last time he had gone off-planet, it had been for horrifying death games. He was not particularly eager to respond to another one - but this call felt different. This was not monsters dragging him off in the middle of the night. This was a whisper in the back of his mind.
And so he acknowledged it, and found himself swept off - to an unfamiliar place in a strange colosseum.
It was, he realized very quickly, hot, and rather than risk being uncomfortable the entire meeting, he took the fairly practical step of stripping off his gloves and thick jacket. No reason to melt whole he waited for Mistral - yes, he recognized her - tot ell them whatever it was she needed to tell them.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:20 pm
Mistral watched the colosseum fill up. She recognized some of the knights, from her labyrinth or her nighttime wanderings, but others were strangers to her. She couldn't help but be glad for that - maybe they'd take what she had on offer without turning up their noses at the thought of how much blood had been poured into her inventions. Anyway, the crowd was a good size and the flow of stragglers was stopping, so she felt confident that it was a good time to begin the meeting. Any longer, and she doubted she'd be able to wrest control of the room back from social hour (actually, she was a bit concerned she'd already waited too long...). Clearing her throat, she announced, "If I could have your attention?" to little avail. Her dog barked a few times, which seemed to do the trick. Feeling eyes on her, Mistral continued, "Please, if everyone could find their seats, I'm ready to get started with the presentation." She gave them a few more minutes, and then waved brightly to the crowd. "Hi, everyone. For those of you who I haven't formally met yet, I'm Mistral Squire of Mercury, and I invent things. It's kind of my schtick." So far, it seemed like everyone was following, even though she hadn't really said anything of substance yet. That was good. Mistral swallowed dryly - public speaking was exhausting. "About a year and a half ago, I made an upgrade for our signet rings that allows them to send instantaneous holographic messages and communicate with senshi phones - if you don't have that yet, don't worry, I brought enough of them to share. But today I'm rolling out a... think of it as a software update." Like she was a younger, female, less-dead Steve Jobs, she thought smugly. "I've added an interface to the rings that accesses the database that the white moon senshi have access to, so that we can refer to it and edit it as well." She extended her right hand, with her signet ring prominently displayed. "Simply touch your ring with the intent to access the database, like so," she said, pressing her fingers over the ring. A holographic book sprung up from it. "From here, you can flip pages, search the index, and bring up an editing interface. Any of you who already have my earlier upgrade installed can try it out now, and anyone who needs the upgrade can come see me after." She glanced around the stands, hoping to see some adventurous knights giving it a try. "Any questions?" asked Mistral expectantly. [OOC: Please quote me with any questions directed towards Mistral! You may take a ring upgrade even if your knight does not yet have their Signet ring and install it later, but it will not work on its own!]
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:40 pm
Vimi smiled and nodded, "yes my brother is very kind. He's a good guy, like actually for real." She grinned at Shang even though he frowned at her momentarily for the hair comment, not matter how true it was. His mane was rather insane. Pompeii approached and Shang greeted her with a smile as he so often, though she shook his head at her question. "I'm not entirely sure. I'm a meeting and by the looks of it maybe that squire in the center has something to say. I guess we will just have to wait in find out. In the mean time, we are mingling, which is good because we need to get to know out allies better." He turned to Nirvana and shook his head at the page, "shes definitely not a leech. Nirvana," he started before he looked at his sister, "Viminal, meet Pompeii. Pompeii meet Viminal, my other sister. Ill explain later, and Nirvana, a pluto page like like." "Pompeii and I are good friend and we've been in this war together for a while." She spied another Pluto knight who he thought look vaguely familiar, but he couldnt place it, but there was no mistaking the cowboy for a knight of his planet. "Hey, I've got a pen and paper over here, " he called out to the squire asking for it. He looked to Nirvana spying another knight of their planet arriving, "there seem to be more of us than maybe I realized. Guess we are lucky this meeting was called, its nice to see other wearing our colors so to speak. Not only there there are so many knights. This is good. I wonder if we are fairing better in all this." He waved to the pluto knight that resembled a pirate, before spying Luxor and looking to Nirvana once more. "That is the knight, that I was telling you about. The only other pluto knight I'd seen until recently. His names Luxor, if you want to invite him over." Walking over he spotted Camelot and waved, before briefly wondering if Shalott would be there as well. He moved toward the pirate pluto knight handing his sister the pen and paper for the cowboy. "He probably wants to send a note. I will explain more later, or Pompeii can explain a little to you now." Approaching the blonde pluto knight dressed in a pirates coat he gave another friendly wave, "Hello. Sorry I didn't want to be randomly shouting out, would probably be confusing, but it has been rare to see other Pluto knights so I definitely wanted to introduce myself, as well as Nirvana. It never hurts to get to know more knights, right?" "I'm Shangri-la." The introduction was cut short as it seemed the meeting was about to begin and an motioned to the squire that he was going to sit with the other and invited him to join if he wanted. Lithiasaur Luxor mention/ Camelot wave
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:46 pm
Tikal had taken her seat when she was told to do so, tucking her skirt under her while putting her hands in her lap and gave her focus on the woman talking. Mistral of Mercury. Okay. That meant ...there were more than one knight per faction? She had glanced around and looked at the color pallets and had to assume so. Still, she hadn't seen anyone else with her colors so far. Unfortunately she hadn't noticed the one side eyeing her like she'd stolen something form him. But then Mistral talking about rings. What rings? She let her brows knit and then raised her hand for the question portion. This was probably a really stupid question, but hey, she was new to this whole thing. "I don't have a ring..? So, to get these upgrades, where do we pick up, you know, the basic ring?" Her face was burning red with the question, hand still in the air to make sure the other saw her and heard her clearly.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:59 pm
Mistral turned towards the page. "Excellent question!" she said brightly. She hadn't counted on needing to cover the very basics of knighthood at this meeting, but it was practically a given that not everyone here would even have the basic ring. It wasn't as though this gig came with an instruction manual. "Your ring is almost certainly located somewhere at your Wonder," she said. "Your memories or your ancestor might be able to help you find it." Of course there were exceptions - hers had been a family heirloom on Earth, but there was no need to split hairs. "They have a tendency to turn up. Magical artifacts and all that." "By all means," she added, "You can go ahead and take an upgrade from me and install it at a later date. It just clicks into place... but it won't actually work without the actual ring. Think of it as an expansion pack! You need the base game before you can play."
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