The Nexus

[Oh Deer] Sineran looks at TASBot with incredulity. Her eyes momentarily seem very wide in her frail face. "I think you overestimate other people," she replies. "But Tas... bot. A-alright." Sineran will follow Khannie uncertainly. A place where danger isn't allowed... it sounds ...

[Trip with a Raptor] David plops his rump down and sits like an attentive dog, at least long enough for Jillian to make it there, but he still looks like he's timing the group. Lucy scuttles to catch up, threatening to overtake everyone just as Jillian suspected. When the ladies make it to him, Dav...

[Fourth Tower Compound] Sticks sighs. Momentarily his pride stings, but that's just the old wizard's arrogance. Vax is right, he has little experience with this specific type of creature, and he's admitted that much several times. "My lad's questions are my questions. For paying your cost, I a...

[Oh Deer] The young lady watches as Khannie floats the bottle over. She's seen magic, and she's seen it done by things that didn't look very much like a person, but this still all manages to be rather strange. It doesn't mean she'll refuse the water however. She starts to take slow, deliberate sips...

[Fourth Tower] "It doesn't seem to me that the danger is hypothetical. As you say, if a grudge there is, then a grudge this being will hold. It seems as though we're already playing for mortal stakes. And to be perfectly frank... yes, I'd wager my powers against such a creature, if it's necess...

[Crash Site] Good Doctors "The pain I can handle," Shahala says. He looks at Eun curiously. The blobby stuff of his helmet ripples down to reveal his face - a mostly human face, save for the kingly antlers protruding from his skull and the large, upraised ears of a stag. He has close-cut ...

[Oh Deer] The pudu freezes when she and the unicorn spot each other. She does a proper little panic hop when TASBot comes crashing down the hill, and nearly bolts again, but the robot's presence actually proves calming. He'd... tried to help, hadn't he? The pudu loses what little energy she had lef...

[Trip with a Raptor] Lucy catches Wenomir's meaning, and she giggles. She doesn't mind the chatter about swords as much as Jillian, but that might be because she can't sit still for long either. "Well, hey, you aren't back home. I doubt there's anybody around these parts who wouldn't take you ...

[Fourth Tower Compound] "I would argue that being transformed unwillingly into a completely different being is quite malicious, even if the offending creature did not mean it so. I've known cases where those transformed did not survive such transformations - at least, not wholly as themselves,...

[Oh Deer] On the edge of Glog there's an odd orange encrusting mushroom growing on the underside of a tree branch. It glows like a hot coal and wavers with heat. The mushroom really hasn't done anything odd, aside from sitting there being a mushroom. Behind the scenes it's part of a vast fungal net...

[Fourth Tower - Lab?] Sticks bristles as Jim more thoroughly explains the situation, but he doesn't comment now. He certainly understands the boy's motives a bit better. Although he would not have stopped at simply barring the satyr from the mortal realm. No, not by far. The tall man is starting to...

[Crash Site] Good Doctors "It seems we might be shorter of time than I thought," says Kalavak, looking up and around at the shuddering vessel. Eun's penlight seems to work. Shahala's wound seals itself up with scabrous material for the time being, quickly stopping the bleeding, but it wou...

[Fleeing Chaos] The trail Sineran takes carries her ever deeper into the forest, the undergrowth waxing thick and wild with every passing step. Far from hindering her, the plants seem to bow aside, giving plenty of space for the little pudu before weaving shut behind her. Given the overwhelming thi...

[Trip with a Raptor] Lucy gives Coco one last good rub on the snout and giggles, letting the raptor go. "You might as well start your own school, at this point," Adir muses to Wenomir. Lucy beams at David's acknowledgement. She wasn't actually there for David's acquisition, but she's very...

[Trip with a Raptor] Lucy is not so nearly as restrained, happily rubbing her hand against Coco's beak if the raptor allows. She giggles. "She feels so nice!" She looks down at her feet. "What do you think David?" David is more wary, but calm enough. He tilts his head this way a...

[Trip with a Raptor] Fascinated, Lucy sets down Mr. Chewy Chompers. The fat, fearless mole rat sniffs at Coco curiously, his body scrunched up into a pink ball. "Un-unh!" Lucy confirms to Jillian. She beams that infectious grin of hers. "She's so cute !" She tries to hold a hand...

[Crash Site] Good Doctors "Likewise, Doctor Khafir," Kalavak says, inclining his head briefly. Shahala remains quiet for the time being, allowing Doctor Bu to assess and begin treatment. The ceramic-like substance comes away easily - very easily, in fact, and when the damaged skin is remo...

[Fourth Tower Compound] "Jim," Sticks hedges, still feeling he needs to say something regarding this full explanation, "If any other ontologically biased extraplanar beings ask you for assistance, I do recommend you come to me first. What's more, er... why did you help this creature ...

[Trip with a Raptor] The door unlatches and slowly creeeaks open. Out peers a curious young lady of about nine. She's a little on the short side, even for her age, but she has a voluminous mop of pink flower petals. "Hihi uncle," she says. He might have gradually gotten the idea that the ...

Fourth Tower Compound That's right Jim! Only Sticks gets to do that! But Sticks doesn't take issue with that aloud. He puts a hand on the boy's shoulder, if only to show he has his back. He doesn't want to bicker about what neverath can or can't do - first he asks, "Jaahlyn, are you certain we...

[Crash Site] Good Doctors "A curious name," says Kalavak, eyeing Eun. "Where I come from, men are forbidden from the healing art. I was always slightly jealous. Not so much of the practice itself... more that they could know and study something that I could not. Please, please, tend ...

[Chaos] [Chaos] The fugitive and her captor speeding deeper into the forest does indeed give Solahart more space to act. Weaving between the trees and around the underbrush, Mensei will find that the very forest itself seems to be impeding her progress while doing little to hamper Sineran. Branches...

[Fourth Tower Compound]

"Wait a moment," Sticks interjects, "I thought we were here to discuss something called 'cold iron'? What's this neverath? What's so dangerous about it?"

[Crash Site] Control Room Seveira makes a small 'tch' sound, but she seems to take Jade's declaration at face value. "You are chymera," she says, "But serve no house. You both throw yourselves into burning wreckage very often, hm?" Just as sudden as her threat comes Seveira's sm...

[Fourth Tower Compound] Sticks doesn't like confrontation, especially when it leads to violence. He has no taste for battle. It tends to make him a bit nauseous. When fighting it must be, he prefers it to be against a foe he can attack without qualms. In spite of her monstrous true self, Sticks isn...

[Fourth Tower Compound] Sticks winces, standing with his stave against the floor and rather unfortunately draped in the same arcane implements as when he last encountered Vax. He had hoped Vax wasn't with the Fourth Tower any longer - or if she was, that it wouldn't be her they'd negotiate with. Ah...

[Crash Site] Olympia The man's got several puncture wounds in his head, but they're abnormal - they seem to have... healed, in part, yet remain open. The real source of his immediate trouble seems to be a serious contusion and a possible small fracture in the side of his skull. A minor concussion i...

[Chaos] "It is..." Lidoro hesitates. "It is a writ of office, after a fashion. It is a symbol of power itself, but useful only to a select few - those of royal lineage. My lady requires it. And that's all I can say." Lidoro looks past TASBot to the desperate situation beyond. &q...

[Crash Site] Jade Her plan seems to work. The big man lunges after Jade, misses, then pivots to follow, his rolling gait turning into a husky jog. He seems so large and grossly muscled that it impedes his agility somewhat. Few obstacles stop him, however - he turns a partly detached wall panel into...

[Fourth Tower Compound]

Sticks blanches visibly at the mention of Vax, and though he has the entire trip on foot to compose himself, he still looks vaguely anxious when Bontu leaves them alone again. He doesn't have much to add to the idle conversation - it sounds like their goal remains unchanged.