The Nexus

Oooh! The fox was more than happy with the result of this trade and gave out a squeaky sort of "Aah!" that sounded similar to the noise a canine might make while yawning before holding the bauble before it's face and peering deeply. A quick chase of the tail around in a circle in playful ...

Mountain Lake Actually a different thought occurs to Krayger, who has the extremely foolish notion of speaking it aloud as he passes Otto, trying to find his pants. They are unfortunately close to Otto and the mixies. He hopes his larger target is ignored. ”Wait, how would you have known I was the ...

Mountain Lake Hmm. Well there doesn’t seem to actually BE any benefits to the mixies. They’re just…a rare magic infection. That might involve some cosmetic fairy effects? Krayger can’t figure out why this would be a problem for someone to get. But…hopefully the transformation should keep him from b...

Mountain Lake Krayger continues to be rather confused about the whole thing. "Stop you? Why? I have yet to hear a single possible benefit to me keeping them. Why would I want a bunch of magic microbes under my skin? That could do mystical crap to my coat? No, thanks. I'm good. If you don't min...

Mountain Lake Krayger stares at him without even a hint of comprehension. "Okay...but what's helpful about them? I mean if they come off in the bath they were going to come off of me anyway. It sounds a lot like this nefarious scheme is literally what we were going to do under your 'guise' but...

Mountain Lake Krayger provides a long-suffering groan and nothing more. "Sure, why not?" he says with a shrug. He's not sure what the shaved goat is for. Sure Otto clearly lied about what he needed it for but that doesn't actually get him started on what he specifically needed a pile of g...

Mountain Lake "Oh. So by her parents, you meant the brownies." Frankly adopting a girl and then turning her into a kaiju seems kind of abusive but again, if she's happy enough maybe it's just their culture... Krayger gives Otto a good stare at the explanation. He's not entirely keen on th...

Mountain Goat Pass Krayger lets Otto spray the goat, if only to keep it from struggling. He better not get normal fleas from handling this thing. "I feel like I wouldn't let my daughter get taken by brownies for extended periods of time, but as long as she's happy enough." Maybe it's just...

Mountain Lake Krayger groans audibly. "You know, I've heard there are plenty of fey in the Nexus that are very pleasant to be around and harmless. Why can't any of my interactions with fey just be someone nice who wants a nice-dinner date or something? Noooo, I get cursed or threatened with ki...

Mountain Lake "Well, even immortals have to start somewhere." After all, you can be both immortal and young. "Alas, I have committed to 'only' living to be two or three hundred. Part of my requirements for my magic was to swear not to go chasing immortality. If you're not born with i...

Mountain Lake "How old do you think I am, exactly?" Krayger was happy to take the compliment that he looks young but he's honestly not sure how old this guy thinks he is. "Anyway, the base is that way. We'll look out for tracks on the way. If we don't find any, there's at least one s...

Mountain Lake He looks momentarily put off that he won't be twiddling his knob at this precise moment, but Otto bounces back at this solid reasoning, "Very well! You are of course wise beyond your years. So, where to first? I'm not very familiar with the landscape of this time, which is why, I...

Mountain Lake "I am not woolly. And I bathe very regularly. Which is part of the problem, of course. I'd rather continue doing so without having a genocide on my conscience each time." Krayger shakes his head. "There's Dispnig's wolves on the base, but he would be furious with me if ...

Mountain Lake Krayger snorts in frustration, looking away for a moment. ”I am definitely still opposed to being infested with what you yourself called pests, yes. I am, however, willing to play nice long enough to avoid slaughtering them wholesale. Tell me what I need to get rid of them peacefully....

Mountain Lake This is not helping. Krayger moves his arm, and electricity sloooowly starts to arc a bit off to his side. "Alright. In an hour then my lightning hammer will be here. Well, in addition to not being a colony I also refuse to sit here for the next relativistic century with you, so ...

Mountain Lake "I am not going to be a colony for microscopic fey." Krayger says simply, his temper starting to flare. He is going to punch whoever decided to create fey. "You have ten seconds to convince me not to walk straight into that lake." He's reasonably sure these fey pro...

Mountain Lake Oh it's one of those . Darn things trying to colonize the coats of people without their consent. He's heard of those. Like sapient fleas. But of course, he can't just electrify them if they're a civilization because that's killing people . Dammit. He reaches for his fishing knife whic...

Mountain Lake Krayger continues to run his hands over himself in an attempt to get the things off of him. He's about fifteen seconds from summoning his hammer and seeing if that can put enough of a charge over him to get them off. "I'm sorry, the what now?" Krayger demands grumpily. His n...

Mountain Lake A series of noises escape the minotaur's mouth, starting indignant, turning to anger, then to panic, and then relief. And then back to annoyance. And all in about thirty seconds. Krayger desperately tries to brush the bugs off of his arms, but is distracted by the sound of someone els...

Mountain Vibes Now where did these guys come from? Krayger doesn't remember seeing them before. He's met that killer fox fey at one of these mountain ponds so he's not ruling out anything yet, so he tries to gently shoo the bugs away from him. "Shoo. Come on, guys. I'm trying to sit here."...

Almost sealed! A glittering thing for a temporal treat is hardly a fair trade and especially not when even the prize of two treats became one and a half! Clearly the scales needed to be righted and the fox was going to make sure of that! So, striking out to follow the raven, the fox took a brief mo...

Mountain Lake It's snowy on the mountain where MERC's base is, but if you're willing to hike down to the base it's as summery there as anywhere else. Hiking has become a past-time of Krayger, kind of by necessity. The 7-foot/2.1m minotaur is more casual than most people ever see him, just taking sh...

"Aa!" came the succinct response! Not very loud but not that chitter-chuckling that one might also otherwise attribute to other vulpine sorts. The snag was momentarily distressing as the fur seemed to just.. Move by itself? Weird... But the curls of copper were soon found to be placed in ...

Yes, a quick twirl in that cat bed was all it took to imply that this frosty fox belonged here. Not exactly a mascot but... At least morale support? The fox, however, was feeling the press of that bundle of cupric twine and gave the avian holder a... Surprisingly readable expression of confusion as...

A quiet padding as a sneaky something slid almost silently inside behind the last cafe comer. Or, technically a 'someone' but there wasn't any reason to be technical right now, was there? No, perhaps more focus might just be this midnight-furred fox seems to have less wandered in and more followed ...