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Luciano grunted, "Pen, we're ALL going back to HQ. EVERYONE got out. I should know, I was one of the guys that freed the prisoners and all the bull. Just go on back to HQ, we'll be right behind you."

Fine," Pen in some respects knew it was useless. If Luciano said that he got the innocents out then they were out.

"I'll head back then" Pen buzzed off and passed Luciano's car. Riche will be fine, he was far away from the explosion.

"I'm up for it." Pen answered, her stomach had finally reminded her on the fact she hadn't eaten for at least two days.

Back at the rubble though a very confused vampire sat down in the open night air to make sense of what he should do next.

" Oh my yes!" Mandi answered. " Mushu pork ought to make that leg feel better. Well, um, it isn't morphine, but it'll do." Mandi said, embracing her husband.

(This post takes place before you all started the castle. I didn't want to screw up the main RP's action. wink )

Waffle had finished looking at the note that she had gotten in her box. It was a notice simply stating that she was promoted. It seemed that quite a few others had gotten the same kind of notice too. At the bottom, it was written at the bottom that it would be a good idea to move her belongings to the proper ranked quarters.

Hm. That's nice. Looks like it's time to pack up, then.

She walked into the Lobby, then up the stairs to her room. Packing was going to take a long time, indeed.

Four hours later, Waffle was sitting down on the floor of the now-empty room, with five boxes lined up against the wall. The room looked like an unassigned college dorm room. The only things that weren't packed were the things she'd usually carry around with her. Those were tucked away somewhere in the Higher Ranks' Quarters. Thankfully, there was a moving dolly from when Rynharm, Twi and Shandrel's rooms were being cleared out. She got up and headed into the hallway, then got the dolly and practically dragged it into her room. Waffle started loading the boxes on the cart, surprised that it was able to hold all of that, and dragged it out to the lobby. The stairs were going to be a challenge. She moved the cart down, one stair step at a time. It took quite a bit of precision to make sure that it didn't tumble over her, but it was mostly fear of being squished that kept her going. After all, there was no going back now.

Another 35 minutes went by, and she managed to get the cart fully down the stairs. She dropped some of the boxes on the way, and almost tipped the cart over twice, but she managed to not get squished.

Waffle sighed and sat down on the steps next to the cart. Apparently, the Higher Quarters was another flight of stairs to go down.

(Waffle's bit is temporally in-line with the rest of the RP at this point.)

(( Cool. If anyone wants to fill in spots for any of the upcoming villans or talk about plot ideas in general, we can talk about it in the OOC thread. For now though, I'm going to begin introducing [well, re-introducing] one of Waffle's allies.))


Waffle got up, made sure the boxes were stacked correctly, and dragged the mover's dolly to the beginning of the stairs leading down to the Higher Rank Quarters. She looked down to where the stairs ended. Waffle groaned.

Well, at least it isn't as bad as the Lobby stairs...

She moved the cart down the same way as she did at the Lobby stairs. One step at a time. The stairs were just dimly lit; The bulb in the middle of the stair hall had burnt out a while ago. A few more steps down, she could tell that it was harder to move the cart at all. Heavy lifting was not her thing.

That proved to be more than true when she lost her footing and fell. The entire cart fell over with her, and Waffle was at the base of the stairs, pinned under boxes.

Lovely. Just. ********. Lovely.

"HEY! ANYONE THERE? I COULD USE SOME HELP."

(yea new arch! and if Twi needs someone to RP with Riche is available)

"Meet you back at base. I'm not in the mood for a slushy." Pen said rather blankly and kept her sights on heading home. He gets knocked out, attacked and a shard of glass does a number on his leg. Yet he goes to get a slushy. What friends I have.

Getting to the base and parking the bike in the gargae she left to her room in the Higher Ranks. "I hope I still have some dough left. I was thinking more of a burger." she muttered to herself.

Upon reaching the base of the stairs she found a pile of boxes and dolly. As Pen went to investigate she soon found an elf under that such mess.

She bent down next to the mountain of boxes and with a silly tone she addressed the pile of things. "It seems you have fallen and can't get up." She had a really goofy grin knowing her pal Waffle wouldn't really enjoy the comment.

((I second that opinion...of liking this RP. This RP is actually what brought me back to roleplaying in general. Before this thread, I haven't roleplayed in nearly 2 years!))

Waffle glared at Pen.

"Waffle is not amused here. Care to help me out with the boxes?"

Just then, Waffle noticed that the orb on the couch rolled off and fell onto the floor. Thankfully it didn't shatter, but then again, it was arcane weaponry, not some pretty little ornament that people put on the shelf. The orb was glowing rather violently. She looked at it with a puzzled expression.

"Also, do me a favor and see what's up with that orb of mine. It's been acting crazy all week."