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 Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:20 pm
In the end, getting the board put back together came down to a combination of the need to keep busy and the momentum of college applications: when Tallulah was in the mood to get things done, things got done. So connections got drawn, articles got clipped, and the board reformed itself. It was a rainy Friday afternoon, and she felt confident that everyone ought to be settled enough into the school year to make it to a meeting. It was easier to get the Basterds together a second time. Selena, Lily and Pasha could be snatched from the hallways and dragged home after the last bell at Meadowview. Bell, Rosa, and Aurora were on their way over from Crystal, and only Jaimie had to come from Hillworth and he'd been waiting on the front step when Tallulah got home. Once everyone was sufficiently dry and settled into the stolen chairs from the dining room, Tallulah flipped the closet door open to show the new board of crazy. "So," she announced to the assembled company. "Did everyone have a productive summer? Don't everyone rush to talk at once - Anyone who wasn't comatose want to fill us in on what went on? I saw a lot of obituaries, and Jaimie mentioned a meeting."
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:56 pm
"...Yeah the meeting..." Jaimie cleared his throat again. He'd been... well. Pretty freaking Vocal at the meeting, and even he wasn't so oblivious as to suspect that had something to do with it's short duration. "...It sucked. But I already gave you my angle on it..."
That had been when she'd snuck into Hillworth for his birthday, though frankly the best birthday present had been 'Girlfriend no longer in Coma'.
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 8:33 am
-Though they'd just settled into the lifestyle (and split room style) of rooming together Aurora was already beginning to like this whole roommate thing. Rose was a senshi, so Aurora didn't have to worry about any of the troubles of hiding things. In fact they could chat if they wanted, exchange notes and antibotic ointments even. But this, the familiar chatter and being able to walk together to the meeting was that much more pleasant. The nervousness that had ate her up before at the first meeting was nonexsistant. She was still tired, but she was excited too, eager to catch up with everything and everyone.
When they'd finally arrived she greeted everyone with a polite smile and the raise of her hand before shifting to a seat. For once she was not vocal, not shoving her opinion out there, her eyes darting over the board to take in the bits and pieces she hadn't known, eyes turning to Jaimie with a slight frown as he gave his frusteratingly vague answer.-
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:25 pm
Lily sighed as she entered the room where her teammates all gather. She unlike everyone else was not at all excited for the meeting. He summer had not been a good one and she had been watched very closely all summer. Her sister had been one of the ones in a coma and while she had woken up, her parents were still on edge. They'd even retracted their threat of her being shipped to Crystal at the start of school.
Lily smiled at her team mates as best she could, but did not speak about her horridly lonely summer. She loved her family dearly and the vacation in their mountain cabin was lovely, but it had also lasted a month and afterwards she'd been confined to the house with mostly Rose as company.
Knowing it would really be best if she spoke she said, "I am really glad to be back in school. I am even glad for test taking. More so I am happy to have my ballet lessons again. I really did not think I would miss them so."
She smiled far more guienely the second time, feeling at bit lighter, even knowing they might discuss some heavy things.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:12 am
Tallulah nodded at the two who had spoken, then motioned to a region of the board. One sticky note asked 'Other factions?' and then, pinned on top of it, was a crumpled scrap of notebook paper asserting 'Parallel moon - caused coma wave!' followed by a few names. "This is really what I've managed to figure out so far," she explained. "I think I've managed to pin civilian identities to them, too. But the point is, I don't know for sure because I was asleep for most of it."
She looked back at Lily, who'd spoken of how relieved she was that the chaos was over, but not any about what'd she'd done on her summer vacation. "Did you go to the meeting, Lily?" she asked.
If it had been anything like the last one, she doubted it would have been easy for any of the awake scouts to stay away. There would have been that tight pulling sense until they'd all assembled in the Meadowview gymnasium, or wherever Astraea had picked for them that time.
"What I really want to figure out," she continued, "Is if anyone can paint a clear picture of what happened this summer, and what the chances are of something like it happening again." Because, really, she'd lived the plot of Inception one too many times for her liking, and really didn't need to live out the plot of Flashforward.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:24 am
Selena had taken up a spot on the floor, on top of a surprisingly comfortable cushion. She was concentrating, but it wasn't clearly apparent as she was also busy fiddling with her nails, not entirely sure what she had to say, or add to this meeting. Europa knew she'd been asleep, she'd been in a coma. It had been so...weird. But it was over now, and she was back.
And apparently, the Basterds were back too.
She looked up to show interest, waiting for someone to answert the question Tallulah had posed. Questions that were, to be perfectly frank...well, pretty damn important.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:31 pm
Bell, as Tallulah knew, had been out of the city for most of the summer. Having missed the senshi meeting because of this, she, too, was curious. However, a detective camp was perhaps a just as productive thing to go to. After all, it was the b*****d's mission to gather information, right? Bell had taken very diligent notes, and after returning to destiny city, had typed them up neatly. She had printed out just enough for the entire group and placed them neatly in plastic folders with the neat little brads in the center to hold the notes - at least this way they were sure to not lose anything unless they lost the folder all together.
Bell wasn't even sure if anyone would really want the notes. After all, they all surely had internet, and there was probably a 'detective secrets 101' website out there but...But Bell at least wanted to feel useful.
She would wait till the proper time to pass them out. Right now she was interested in what happened at the senshi meeting as well.
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:23 am
This was... harder than she'd expected and harder than it had any right to be, really. She'd counted on Bell's absence from the meeting, but this was getting ridiculous. Tallulah turned to the board and pulled the sticky note where she'd listed the awake Basterds.
"Excepting Abel," she said, "I've got four of you who were awake during this mess." Jaimie, Bell, Lily, and Rose. It was simple enough math. "You mean to tell me that besides Jaimie, none of you went to a major senshi meeting?"
This was more than a few scouts around a poker table discussing conspiracy theories. This had been major, and she'd missed it, and she needed someone else to be her eyes and ears to the event. Jaimie's recollection had been hazy (although he'd been sort of distracted when he'd told her about it - she'd double back and pick his brain later.)
Her eyes fell on Rose. The redhead hadn't spoken yet. "Rose," said Tallulah. "Sailor Pomona. Did you go to the meeting?"
Also:
"And Jaimie, tell them what you told me about it."
A team was only as smart as its least informed member.
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:55 am
Jaimie raised an eyebrow at the assembled, confused faces and looked, sort of like his girlfriend, a bit annoyed. This was actually surprising even for him, since he'd been loud enough that he should have felt at least some relief that his performance had been largely missed by the rest of the Basterds.
"So yeah, since apparently I was one of the only people who wasn't in a coma and actually went to the meeting... Apparently there is, or was, I haven't head much out of her since, some kind of 'dark' princess, or SUPPOSEDLY a princess, kicking around. Remember those creepy senshi in mostly black? Yeah she's with them. " He marched onward without actually waiting to find out if anyone else DID actually remember them, assuming he'd not actually hallucinated the entire affair. Anyway she was there and Kunzite was there, and Astrea was there, and Princess McBitchyboob and Kunzite decided it would be tactical to go "Oh by the way, don't be MAD or anything, but mcBitchyBoob's Dipshit boyfriend is behind putting half the city into a coma, but thats OK, because he didn't KILL them and he could have."
He accompanied this highly sarcastic ((And somewhat exaggerated)) replay of the meeting with somewhat overdone hand gestures and expressions. The princess hadn't actually been THAT bitchy, but she did prove to have had some incredibly BAD taste in boyfriends. "And uh, some...loudmouth in the croud said something about that being even worse PR for the Senshi than Sailor Nealite... and... the meeting didn't really hold together very long after that."
He trailed off and rubbed the back of his neck. "That's pretty much what happened."
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:35 am
-She was fairly dissapointed by the lack of input as well, though she didn't show it as visually or verbally as the groups 'king and queen' did. Having been out of commission for so long she was clueless, but with so many members Aurora had figured one of the Bastards would have known something...
Jaimie's recollection, ungentle and sarcastic as it was, finally offered a glimmer of hope.- "So we know for sure what DID cause the comas? The princess' boyfriend?" -If she was there to apologize and find a solution then that was promising. If she'd been there as a prisoner at sword point to Kunzite well... less promising. If the dark princess had been the cause of Kunzite's death... her eyes closed for a moment before finally focusing on Jaimie again.-
"Does it seem like they intend to be allies then, since they were at the meeting? If that's the case, at the very least we can feel semi safe that we aren't going to be hit by that sort of power again."
"I mean if it's an ally with that kind of power... it's atleast a little better then if it had been an enemy with that amount of power"
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:54 pm
"I didn't really get a clear feeling if they wanted to be allies, more like they were trying to take charge of our 'court' as well, but you'll have to take that with a grain of salt, I was pretty pissed and it sounded like they were trying to put big sparkly bows on one hell of a screw up... And I haven't heard anything of them since. Tal had some theories about that."
She was good at putting things together, a regular Sherlock, and he was inclined to let her lay out her opinions. "But yeah, Princess... Neh... um. Nehelina or something. She said it was her prince who was responsible."
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:41 pm
Rose was quite glad to have gotten Aurora as a roommate. Going out on patrol at night had gotten significantly easier, since she didn’t have to come up with lame excuses. This was especially important now that Rose was attempting to gather Senshi with Sydney – aka Sinon - to make a new team.
One of Rose’s eyebrows slowly inched its way up her forehead as she listened to Jamie’s report. She had attended the Senshi meeting, and while she wasn’t inclined to point it out, she remembered quite clearly who the loudmouth had been.
“ I did go to the meeting.”
Pomona might not be the strongest or most experienced of Senshi, but she did have her uses, namely her excellent memory.
“ According to the Queen Nehelenia and Helios, it was Nehelenia’s Prince Alexandros that caused the comas. A thief had been attempting to steal his Pyrite Crystal, so to prevent it from falling into their hands he activated it.”
Pausing, Rose recalled what was said about the Moon Kingdom Senshi alliance with Nehelenia. “ Kunzite and Nehelenia essentially said that ‘The enemy of our enemy is a friend.’”
Rose didn't claim to have all the facts about the situation, but she couldn't help but add," As grave as the incident was, I can't help but wonder what would have happened if the thief had succeeded in getting the Pyrite Crystal."
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:01 am
Finally! Tallulah beamed at Rose - the redhead got bonus brownie points today. Jaimie had conveniently forgotten to mention anything about crystal-stealing. Tallulah quickly grabbed her sticky notes and a marker, made a quick note, and stuck it to the board. "Did they say who this thief was? Just the usual Negaverse, or--"
If Alexandros really was a prince and powerful enough to put the whole city in a coma, it seemed as though he ought to have been able to fend off a lieutenant or two. Unless these foreigners came with a serious helping of weaksauce.
"At any rate," she sighed, "I think they're dead now. I've been going over the lists of coma patients, and the events from the day we all woke up, and I'm pretty confident that their civilian identities were Dylan Rasmussen and Corinna Grant. And they're dead."
Which only left the matter of the thief - was the thief still running around someplace?
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:42 am
Lily frowned not entirely certain she understood what Tallulah was asking her. Lily wasn't to certain she remembered a meeting and so her brow furrowed as she thought on the subject. No one seemed to speak on the matter, but why would they when Tallulah had addressed Lily directly.
She had to hold back a glare when Tallulah seemed to be come exasperated with them. Lily felt her nerves twitch as she become irritated, but she did remember now. She remembered the meeting though it was a little fuzzy. So much had happened in just a few short day it was all jumbled up.
She listened as Jamie spoke and it really help to allow her to separate the memories and pull out the ones from the meeting, even if Jamie's explanation left her a bit confused.
It was Rose however, who helped the most pulling names forth that helped little to remember the tension turned chaos that was the senshi meeting. If she remembered correctly their were many senshi there, most grouped, but many.
"I was there as well and I remember the meeting being only slightly informative," Lily said finally speaking. "It is hard to remember everything because as Jamie said the meeting fell to pieces," she continued not mentioning that the reason may have been Regulus' little tantrum.
"The attempt at the stolen crystal was made by, at at least I am pretty certain Priestess Helios said a wizard and our earth kingdom heir, though he is corrupted. They don't know who or where they are. Also something called Tataros was mention, as well as a nightmare priest, though I am not certain how it ties in with the whole matter, save the city being plagued my nightmares."
Most of her words were spoke rather quickly and Lily wasn't smiling as the memories of those days now danced about her head. She could feel a slight headache forming and rubbed her head for a moment before she looked up again.
"Oh and I remember others saying the negaverse was just a in the dark as we were, my encounter with who I believe was Tisiphone told me that they did not know what happened, but they were very angry and started to cause havoc like we've never seen, for a while."
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:53 am
Brownie points for Lily, too, then, thought Tallulah. So it had been a fourth faction, then. "A wizard did it?" she asked, and looked back at the board. Why did that sound familiar... Oh!
"A wizard did it!" she exclaimed, and she leveled a finger at Aurora. "In the dreamworld, Tartaros or whatever," she said, "there was a man in the room with the doors with us. He was a wizard or a magician or something- He grew really tall- Do you remember anything else about him? His name? Was there anything odd about anything he did or said?"
Tallulah's memories of that moment were a bit fuzzy, on account of having died in the middle of it.
"Oh my god if he was right under our noses and we didn't do anything about it I will..."
She silenced herself by putting her energy towards scribbling on a notepad while she waited for Aurora's response.
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