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 Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:29 pm
Without quite knowing why, Cat felt a strange tug towards the fitness booth that he had visited earlier. Quietly he slipped in through the crowd to observe for a moment who had gathered, silently assessing the situation. Being a good head shorter then most, he generally found it easy to go unseen in the gaps between bodies when it was crowded.
His Smile was ever lingering, but for the moment it held none of the force or effort he would usually have liked it to.
He saw a few familiar students, and glimpsed a few potentials like himself that he may have met earlier. It had all been a bit overwhelming thus far, but after his upset with the manticore, and his little nap, Cat was feeling ready for just about anything.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:30 pm
"Yes, you did." Amrita confirmed what Jericho had said, shooting a half-hearted glare at the stuck sword for being there. It seemed to work better this way, really; it would be rude to glare at Jericho and it wasn't Jericho's fault that the sword seemed to leer at her a lot!
"S-sur---Oh." She paused, about to take Kallos up on his offer when Christof jumped in instead, taking her hand. "I...I guess it's taken care of! Um, Thank you." Smiling at the Haunt, Amrita looked up at Christof, a small smile on her lips before looking back down at her hand, watching him stitch it. That was nice of him, stitching her hand for her! If she could blush she would be; her own stitches were terrible.
"I...I can do better!" The little ghoul was doing her best to convince him that her stitching wasn't THAT bad. It'd been done before! If he showed signs of disbelieving her, she'd just have to show him! The sound of her name made her look up and around in an oddly alert but somehow unfocused manner until she spotted the pink haired demoness.
"Lizzy! Hi!" She quipped happily, accidentally moving the palm and fingers that Christof was currently stitching. Tunnelvision activated, she didn't even notice the two stranger ghouls.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:32 pm
Christof froze mid stitch at the sound of Lizzy's voice, eyes widening as he turned to see her running towards them, Amrita's hand still cutched in his. He wasn't doing anything bad, he swore! Hopefully the Vitala would vouch for him. Riley seemed distracted as well, leading the terrified looking inky boil off to the side and... oh no.
He hastily finished the stitching, cutting the thread with his pocket knife before giving Amrita a worried smile and a loving pat and turned to give Amrita a polite bow before hurrying towards the Mindflayer and her potential victim. Not if he had anything to say about it...
Grabbing another one of the defrosted brains from the box he had filled he hurried towards them, offering it out anxiously, Mistress, Mistress I do not think it wise to er... with you in the state that you are in and... er... here, perhaps you should er... have something more substantial to eat than fairy cake?
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:40 pm
"You're hurt," She stated, her frown deepening, just noticing the wound on her hand; so that was what Christof was doing... Stitching it up for her. He's probably good at it, so she didn't disturb him and allowed him to work. Despite how she might feel towards him, she was grateful that he was looking out for Amrita in his own way... As long as he doesn't make another mistake.
"Thanks Christof," She muttered softly as he hurried off, settling for patting the ghoul on the top of her head fondly, "However did you manage to hurt yourself?" One good thing about being undead, she figured, was the fact that cuts are much less... Messy.
While it was a sort of belated response, she straightened up, stiffened for a bit before relaxing. Turning around to face the dragon with a small smile, she nodded, "Hey again... Thought I might show my new friends around, and they were interested in this booth, so here we are~"
Oh yes.
"Meet Xiu-Ying and Kreszentia," She gestured at the two ghouls before addressing them with a sheepish smile, "Um, I might had forgotten to mention this, but I'm part of this club."
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:41 pm
The baku had stiffened considerably when they had arrived at the Fitness booth, shocked to see all the different students--both enrolled and prospective--milling about. The two that immediately caught her attention, however, were the small patched-up ghoul, and a larger, equally-as-patched-up boil who seemed to be helping her with something.
But wait, what were they doing? What was that in the boil's hand--
Oh Jack, it was a hand! A hand! That ghoul was missing her hand, and they were sewing it back on! Xiu let out a rather loud squeak, promptly throwing her hands over her mouth to muffle any other distressed noises that would doubtlessly follow, especially when Lizzy suddenly rushed up to the handless-ghoul.
So they...were friends? The fact made Xiu relax a little, though she didn't trust herself to uncover her mouth quite yet. Lizzy was nice, so surely her those who she considered friends weren't really bad people either, right? And as for the others...were they her friends also? After all, the pink-haired demon had seemed hesitant to come here, so maybe there was someone she didn't get along with.
Jerking out of her thoughts upon hearing her name, Xiu attempted to speak...only to realize that she was still clutching her hands over her mouth. She hastily threw them off, inclining her head slightly as her gaze darted nervously over the others.
"Nice...nice to meet you all. You can just call me Xiu."
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:48 pm
Kreszentia nodded when she was introduced to everyone by Lizzy, "Hallo," she said in a friendly tone. She heard a squeak nearby and glanced over at Xiu and smiled a bit encouragingly, "Iz alright," she assured happily, hoping that the shy ghoul would be assured by her words since they had been talking since they met and had a small space of time to get acquainted.
The undead ghoul shifted her footing a bit, "Ja I vas curious about ze club and it'z booth so I vanted to come see it," she explained to add onto Lizzy's explanation as to why they were there. At the moment she wasn't sure what to do thus far since she was still in the phase of looking around from person to person trying to get a feel on how they all looked and behaved.
Thus far she hasn't felt threatened so that was always a plus.
She feared that her knowledge of other creatures and races were a bit limited due to a semi-depleting memory so she probably didn't show the correct amount of fear or caution.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:54 pm
Riley's hand collapsed around Kallos', pulling him gently back a few steps behind the booth. While it was true, it did look like she was slowly, seductively leading him to his death, she really had sobered up enough to be less of a threat than Christof was worried about.
But not enough to help but be insulted by the implication.
Her eyes flashed dangerously up at Christof. I can handle myself, thank you. I am merely going to have a chat with this new student. If you feel the need to police me further, I will have to remind you which one of us should be giving out advice to the other, right now.
She led Kallos to the chair, and sat him down in it, before bending down to settle into a crouch and look up at him. Her eyes were penetrating, as she used what she could to get a glimpse into the thoughts behind those scared eyes.
Her thoughts were now private - heard only by Kallos. I suppose I am only worrying you further, but I must know. Why is it you are reacting as if you know me?
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:55 pm
After seeing Christof head back over towards Riley, Jericho turned his attention back to the girls and nodded.
"Well that's nice of you," he grinned to Lizzy, "I'm Jericho by the way. Nice to meet you two."
He gave a nod as he introduced himself. Now that they were closer, he could see that they both had the visitor's tags. It seemed like there were a lot of those wandering on about, but it was to be expected. It was the nature of an open house and all.
"Well. You guys are.. kinda in luck. We have a little game going on right now," he explained while motioning towards the three blades in rocks, "Basically it's a test of strength. If you can pull the sword out, you get to keep it. The blades are pretty sweet, I'd have to say."
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:15 pm
"... Blades? You're allowing them to pull out blades knowing full well that they can hurt themselves?"
She wasn't sure what to think about that, but she didn't think very well of Jericho at this point in time... Which is a good thing really, all things considered. She looked at the swords warily, and then at where Amrita had cut herself, presumably from 'playing' the game, and then back at Jericho with a blank look.
Which was her disapproving look.
She wasn't about to stop anyone from trying though... Not Xiu, not Kres. She had no right to, after all, seeing how it's really their own choice. Then again, she wasn't too worried about the undead or ghosts, since they can't really feel 'pain' the same way living bodies do...
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:17 pm
While Kallos had being dragged off to what he thought was going to be his eventual death by the Mindflayer, the igor had rushed over.
And was carrying a brain.
Well, that was it. If Riley hadn't been able to sense the full out "DNLASDBASBFKSABFKLASBKFLS" of fear coming from his brain, she would definitely be able to now. He was right. He was being led to his death. He was going to die again.
But then she thought something along the lines of the idea that she was simply wanting to chat and continued to lead him away.
Then, he was sat down, and those white eyes were staring into his as she crouched down so they were more of an eye level than before. The crushing sense of being prey was locking in around Kallos, and he knew it. He definitely knew it.
Even still, as she asked him how he knew about mindflayers, he let out a whimper. Riley was right, he was worrying even more. If there was one thing he knew of mindflayers, it was that they ate brains, and Kallos seriously need his. Swallowing, he couldn't look away from those staring, soul-penetrating eyes. His voice was stuck below a whisper. A very frightened whisper. "K-k-know you? A-All I know of M-m-mindflayers and their facts, a-abilities, and w-w-whatnot is from the 'Tome Encompassia: Literary Compiling of All Demonic Species'...." (Which was a very old book, actually. In case she knew of it. Not many did though.) Unbidden, the memory of eating the huge thick tome while he had been in his 'father's' study had come to mind, along with the informational page completely on Mindflayers, straight from his filing cabnet of a memory system. And, terrified as he was, Kallos' mind was wide open to penerating eyes and anyone who seeked to look into it.
...Well, the memories of the Tome and it's informational pages, at least.
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Kaiyumi rolled 1 100-sided dice:
98
Total: 98 (1-100)
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:32 pm
Just as Xiu was trying to commit Jericho's face and name to memory, her attention was redirected towards the game that was currently ongoing at this particular booth.
A test of strength? That certainly didn't sound like it was up Xiu's alley of expertise, but it wouldn't hurt to try, right? ...Uh, wait she wouldn't lose her own hand in her attempt, would she? Because unlike the undead ghoul over there, she wasn't so sure that trying to sew her hand back on would help.
...
Even so, the small ghoul approached the sword, wiping her sweaty hands on her skirt before trying to get a good grasp around the hilt. "O-okay, heave-ho!"
...And she gave it a light tug--the best a physically weak baku could do.
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Pales rolled 1 100-sided dice:
38
Total: 38 (1-100)
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:37 pm
"Nice meeting you az vell," She said to Jericho with a cheerful tone. She looked over at the swords that were mentioned thoughtfully. Apparently it they were the source of a lot of pain for many and had already caused injury. The undead ghoul seemed thoughtful. The element of danger appealed to her.
She looked over at Lizzy seeing the blank look and blinked a little. That was a new expression she hadn't seen on her before and it certainly didn't suit her. Maybe the aspect of danger upset her? That or she just had no opinion. Either way she didn't press at the moment. She didn't know the pink haired ghoul or her friends well enough to intervene.
"I z'hink I shall give it a try," She said finally.
For the moment she didn't pay attention to the purple individual having a pow-wow with someone that seemed frightened or something. She had her hands full trying to focus on Lizzy, Xiu and anyone else that popped up to talk to her.
The ghoul wandered up to one of the swords in the stone and put her hand upon the hilt she moved to give it a firm tug.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:43 pm
I... I am sorry Mistress!! Christof mentally squeaked, backing away a few steps with a look of anxious horror, eyes darting to Kallos and back to her again before he bowed deeply, mental voice weak and wavering, I... I only wished to Help... Terrified of exasperating things further, he continued to back away, leaving the two alone as he had been commanded.
Hell's Bells. How was he supposed to know if she was in a good frame of mind or not? The last time she had gotten that buzzed on sugar... well, he remembered the night ending with him in peaces and Mistress very enraged. And Malodore was not here...
He sighed miserably, head hanging in defeat as he tossed the brain back into its box to go rejoin the others, looking worried and upset the whole while.
Stupid Dragon. Dragging her off and filling her with sugar, making him worry.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:45 pm
Xiu - Apparently that light tug was all that was needed. The sword came out with no problem.
Kres - Without budging, the sword's eye stares at the unicorn rather gleefully
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"I was originally gonna have them polish the things," Jericho said to Lizzy before turning to see Xiu pull out the sword with no problem, "Nice job!"
It didn't seem like the other girl had so much luck with her blade, however.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:53 pm
Cat's smile twitched. It widened. Then it damn near broke his face in half. Watching the altercation between the igor and the purple ghoul, Cat could practically TASTE his opportunity. Information, manipulation, gossip oh so delicious. Somewhere inside him, something licked it's teeth excitedly.
"Pretty rough, huh~?" He crooned, already standing directly behind Christof, Smile ever-present.
Sadly he hadn't yet realized the boil was mute. Surely that wouldn't be a problem anyway, of course, he would get his information one way or another.
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