The Nexus

[Fireworks Night] "You're an official firefly princess now," Khannie laughs, momentarily distracted from the fireworks as the swarms of beetles begin landing on Cheasadh. "Yeah, you two can come over and visit any time you want. I can let my dad know that you want him to check the st...

[The Way of Autumn] It's easy to get lost in the dream out here. The dream is all there is. And if the dream is all there is, then what are you save for another passing fancy in its every-shifting reflection? The bread definitely helps, though. Remain sure. Remain concrete. Remain real. "We co...

[Garden] "What's your head need flowers for? " Annie asks, her lack of head covered in flowers at this very moment. Or flower petals, at least. It gives a very rough idea of what she's supposed to be shaped like. Or is maybe shaped like. Possibly shaped like? Faeries are weird. Regardless...

Khannie squints at the word. Oneiromancy? What the heck is that? "Dunno," is her succinct reply. This very likely makes Mary feel a bit better. If Khannie doesn't know what a word means either then it must be a really hard one! She quickly pulls out her phone and types it into a Moogle sea...

"Khannie." "Thanks for catching me with your face!" Not very profound. Khannie isn't dumb, she knows how the forces of the Nexus work. She immediately turns on her heels and heads straight toward the V table where she finds herself waiting in line behind... no one! Last names th...

The second floor entrance is mostly just there for the unreasonably acrobatic students. Since there are many of those. This IS a school for protagonists, after all. The more reasonable students can still just use the front door. That's what Khannie was planning on doing! At least until she smacks in...

Khannie gives her watch two little taps, just an acknowledgement to Sirius that she got his message. Wouldn't want him to think she didn't notice, after all. She isn't sure how or why she would need him out to defend her but hey! This school is supposed to be pretty exciting so who knows, right? Mic...

Wow the line is really moving quick, isn't it? Makes sense. They're funneling all the students through boring day one administration nonsense. With the main entrance clogged with incoming students, a secondary line is set up going in through one of the nearby windows. Of course, using the window ent...

Whoop! That's definitely a lightning bolt. And close enough to leave Khannie's hair standing on end, too. What are those doofs doing having a pokemon fight out in the middle of the grass? Don't they know those are dangerous? "You two! Stop that battle at once. Pokemon battles are only allowed i...

No portals herald the arrival of another student, merely the Riftline train coming to a stop and allowing a gaggle of students to disembark. Among them? None other than Khannie! The rather regular looking human girl has a few stand-out features. Like that fancy magic cloak she's wearing that her dad...

[Shady Hollow] The woman's posture relaxes as she slowly closes her weird crystalline book again, "Oh, good. That's good." She gives a slightly nervous glance back and forth. Just in case any more zombies try dogpiling her or in case this odd floating person does something startling. &quo...

[Fireworks!] "A magic staff, I guess?" Khannie reasons, eyeing the staff in question a moment longer. "I dunno what it's for. Ches thinks it belonged to another human girl." The gnome nose knows! "It probably doesn't matter." Just saying that makes it more likely that ...

Prodigiously Remarkable Education for Protagonists. It's an acronym. Because of course it's an acronym. This isn't simply a school for the magically inclined; it's nothing so narrow in its focus. It is, rather, a school to prepare up and coming protagonists for the adult world. Fantastical abilities...

[Shady Hollow] Changer doesn't have any chemo-receptors? That's unfortunate. Those would be really useful for identifying disease. Anyway! Death rays. The woman's hard expression changes in a hurry when she realizes that Changer is A) not a zombie and B) talking to her. Usually things that she need...

[Shady Hollow] This new fire is warm, but definitely not comforting. It isn't a fire to warm one's self by. It fills the air with a stinging, chemical scent and exudes warmth with all the unpleasantness of a sunburn. Definitely unnatural. Maybe not man-made? It seems more foreboding and supernatura...

[Shady Hollow] It's a reassuring thing, watching that blasphemy against all that is good and holy crackling and curling and blackening. Awful vermin try to escape their burning hive, but they pop in little greasy fireballs as the flames devour them. There is no escape. Not for them. Not today. This ...

The central sarcophagus is still sealed as the bulging rim of pitch between the lid and body attest. If it had been opened already the seal would be broken. Our heroes lawfully hired mercenaries eye the four enthroned skeletons cautiously, as is well deserved. This definitely has the smell of one of...

[The Garden] "It's sooooo pretty! And it smells nice. And I guess all the fruits and vegetables are nice, too," Annie retorts as she scoots to another patch of flowers, sits down, and begins admiring those, too. "Do all your hair flowers ever turn into fruit or do they just stay flow...

[Trollfinger-Sneergrim Residence] "If any spirits start bugging you I'll deck 'em," Khannie offers, pounding one fist into her palm by way of threat to any wily spirits hanging around who might decide to harass her friend. Given what Khannie does in her free time there's a pretty solid ch...

[Front Door] Annie trots along after Lucy, paying little attention to the children playing in the tree spirit nearby. Why? Because she has her attention fixed on something far more immediately important. "They're so pretty!" she declares, bounding over to a great big mass of flowers and j...

Forward! Or, perhaps, this way isn't forward? Or, perhaps, all ways are forward? Does a story ever run backwards? Or does the plot always march on, even if it flounders for a time? [The Way of Autumn] In nothing but a handful of steps the cold at the backs of our heroes is gone. No snow laden trees,...

[Front Door] The yeth hound looks suitably horrified by G'Nichi's proclamation. Which... It's questionable how that's apparent. What with the lack of face and all. But she still pulls it off admirably. Regardless! She'll wriggle out of G'Nichi's grasp and drop to the ground with a delicate tinkling...

[The Dog Days of Summer] Having clothing that changes size with you is definitely handy. Khannie doesn't really have any clothing like that. Or.. well... She USED to. Back when she used the stone. But she doesn't really need stuff like that since she's JUST a human now. As it should be. "Sunri...

[The Dog Days of Summer] Khannie is going to bet the hippo guy is in fact bigger than the shorky pufferfish guy. Puffer fish puff up. That's their whole deal. They do it to make themselves look bigger so things get intimidated. But hippos are just huge by default. "Can't you just change back?&...

Zee arrives with the drinks in short order in nice little colorful mugs that came along with the cask of cider. "You two have a fun time, okay? I'll keep an eye on you so don't you worry. And I would definitely suggest taking Riftline home after a fun evening at Trog's. Wouldn't want something ...

[Trollfinger Residence] Cheasadh gets a playful raspberry for her chiding look at Khannie. "Pink's a great color. I'm not a huge fan, though," Khannie admits. She mostly goes with browns and purples herself. No reason to disparage pink, Arthfael. "The dwarf kids grow beards even when...

[Front Door] "I've never had a babysitter before are those fun?" Annie replies to G'Nichi, utterly undercutting his threat. "My mom was just a regular mom." But now Annie is a headless dog ghost thing. For... Reasons? Probably. "I really like flowers is it okay if I look at...

[Vault 44] The door is sturdy, yes. But not reinforced steel sort of sturdy. Turns out that's a pretty solid way to get the door open. Talk about knocking aggressively, right? There's a pretty loud CRUNCH as the door is ripped apart by the hand, revealing a family in vault uniforms huddled against ...

[Steele Street] A flame bullet smashes into the streets, blasting open a hole and damaging some water pipes. This in turn causes a fountain of water to begin spraying all over the monster. It... doesn't seem to like that very much. This may not be great for the professor since it means the horrible...

[Front Door] "Because I'm SNEAKY!" the yeth hound helpfully clarifies, then gives a little whoop as she gets scooped up. "I'm Annie! Jeb said your house was fun so I wanted to see it. I didn't mean any trouble being stuck in G'Nichi's house all the time is BORING." Just the wors...