The Nexus

[ Library ] Speaking of waterproofing yourself - if Seraphina somehow waterproofed herself, would that make it harder to swim? If she repels the water, would she just sink as the water moves out of the way for her? That's an answer she hopes she'll never need. It would be terrifying to sink to the b...

Jon, adorned in naught but his collar with a shooting star-shaped tag, had recently found a nice hidden spot to smash a vial of some potion on the ground and lap it up. He had been listening in on the goings-on of the church, as of late. Appearing as little more than someone's lost pet, little woul...

[Starward Gaze] Definitely not something Sophie expected to see. Nor is it something she's ever seen. Two puppets of a greater force... for some reason, it reminds her of what little she knows about the titans that ancient Exalted fought. "Not much we can do with those. It's clear that he can ...

"Ah, so it's a genetics thing." Alice nods understandingly. "Not my usual field of study, but I'm familiar enough." Her lips curve into a smirk. "And I don't mind some secrets. Makes things more interesting, don't you think? Although I can't imagine what would make someone ...

[Cloud Nine] "Well, I mean, I have a mom," Dizzy retorts. "The angels that broke the rules are just a bunch of deadbeats who don't pay child support. The worst kind of father. The kind that isn't ever there for your birthday. Doesn't teach you how to ride a bike. Only interested in h...

[ Church of Venus ] Relatively close to both the Docks and Slums of Inside, and within easy walking distance of the Black Dragon's Den, there's a church. For several years, it had been lying in ruins. Its goddess had disappeared, with nobody knowing exactly what happened to her. Several of its pries...

"I don't take after my parents," Talah answers, as she shrugs. Sure, it's a little evasive of an answer, but it does answer succinctly. She flips her red hair as a demonstration: "For example, brown plus brown don't usually make orange." She points at her eyes, which are also no...

[ Library ] Seraphina can't help but laugh. She really wasn't listening, was she? At least she was pretending to listen, though. That's good enough. Just as well this library isn't full of water. Books can get pretty bad with water damage. There's got to be some kind of waterproofing magic. Or...kee...

[ Cloud Nine ] "No, we can't say the sky and earth are fathers," June claims, and then gives her very obvious reasoning: "You already said angels are a bunch of single fathers. If the sky and earth are also single fathers then that sends a pretty weird message. Like, what about the fa...

[ Cloud Nine ] "Father Sky doesn't make much sense, either. It'd make a lot more sense if both the sky and the earth were mothers. 'Cause then, you could say the people with wings are daughters of the sky and the people without them are daughters of the earth or something like that," June ...

"Well, good thing I have money and time to spare," says the woman playfully. As Talah sits by her she leans forward with a smile, resting her chin on her normal hand. "The pleasure's all mine, Talah. Cool name, although werewolf certainly wouldn't be my first guess. They tend to be r...

[Starward Gaze] Well, Manja is getting quite talkative. But Sophie can't feel as charmed about it as she'd normally be, because the situation is quite concerning. "You did good, Manja. This is definitely something you need to tell an adult about." She crouches next to the two... corpses? ...

[ Library ] If there's anything Seraphina is learning, it's that it's dangerous for her to keep on being in this enclosed space with Maria for much longer. She's just way too enticing. And Seraphina's worried that if she doesn't get fresh air or a splash of cold water or something soon, she'll end u...

[ Cloud Nine ] June doesn't wriggle. So she's safe. She also continues to not look at the castle. "It's called a mother because what else are you going to call it, a father? That'd be pretty weird," June claims. "I don't know why, though. Maybe you should ask the people who do it. Mos...

The bar's door is thrown open as a young woman enters, looking around curiously. She's dressed in a white button up with black slacks, and her messy hair is covered by a bowler hat that's seen better days. Of course, all these details might be less interesting than her right arm, which seems to be ...

[ Cloud Nine ] Clearly, the frogs that are wearing crowns are secretly princesses. To June, a princess carry has their heads pretty close. So unless Dizzy gets close to hitting herself in the head with her wings, she doesn't think that would happen a all that much. "Okay, I'll trust you," ...

[Cloud Nine] There was that froggy dude from The Silver Chair but he wasn't a talking animal like the beavers. Does that still count? "Religious stuff is most of what was going on these days, what with the apocalypse going on and everything," Dizzy says with a shrug. "Hence the getti...

June thinks about something very important: "...No, I like 'Debuffs' better than 'Impairments'," she says. "Sounds better." She nods. And agrees. "Probably wouldn't be good to bring a kid there," she says. Likewise, they can't just go up to her room on the upper floor, ...

[Starward Gaze] Perhaps fortunately, Khannie and Manja will see what could be the most qualified person in GLoG to handle this problem. Sophie is saying farewell to a rough-looking man who seems to be her patient. [ Starward Gaze ] As this was the third one Manja has met that tried to mimic her, Ma...

Talah Cathwulf returns to this tavern. She's pretty. Supernaturally so. As in, like a "cursed fairy princess stuck in the modern world" from a fairy tale or "rebellious daughter of an infernal queen who's come to the mortal world to be some sort of...protagonist of a novel aimed at yo...

[ Cloud Nine ] "N-no, you don't have to kiss them all to know!" Nina protests. "Some of them are farmgirls! I saw a farmgirl get turned into one once." And, as everyone knows, farmgirls aren't always princesses. June waves at Nina. "Religious stuff is pretty exciting. I've n...

[ Streets ] A thought crosses Zophiel's mind: ...If she escaped and left the jewelry here....is she no longer under the effects of whatever the earring did? Also, he notes to ask Tiff if the gal was injured when she saw her. That could set up a time-table. ... More questions he needs answered. Fortu...

[ Starward Gaze ] As much as Manja would like to show off her kills and make everyone in the camp praise her for taking out something like that, she recognizes that Khannie is much better equipped to carry the incubators around. So she ends up just walking and dashing from tree root to rock on the w...

Honestly, it would have been really bad if Lapis's hand were cut. Letting her boss's daughter cut her hand right in front of her? Not really a good thing to happen. June starts carefully regulating her breathing again, which...somehow creates a small zone directly around her that lowers sensory thin...

[ Cloud Nine ] The pixie folds her arms and grumbles. "I don't want to kiss a frog, they're slimy and only some of them are princesses." June, however, has to relent on her idea for slaying the sun. "You're probably right, I hate the cold." As a matter of fact, June's bones aren'...

[ Streets ] Zophiel walks to the side of the road and stops walking. There's too many questions, too many uncertainties, too many complicating factors, and more and more keep on coming up. Who is it that Mallory claims to have been manipulated by? Is it related to the weird puppetry thing on her fac...

Entryway Kol looks up, glancing around nervously. "Uh, no I wasn't paying attention. You uh, probably want to go find him. You could get in trouble for unleashing a zombie into the school if it bites someone. They're not the infectious kind, are they?" Because that would be really, really...

[ Eastside - Park ] The catgirl moves on to looking at some news stories through her phone's browser. "Huh, that's interesting:" A group of 7 elves have been captured doing weird rituals, saying they were headed to meet their king. A murdered man was found floating down the river, and poli...

[ Library ] Forty minutes is a long time. Seraphina wouldn't be surprised if Rein gave up on just sitting outside the door and left to go do something else. After all, that's probably what she would've done if she didn't need to sit still. And she can't even bounce or tap a foot because that would b...

Entryway "Well, like, are they fertilized? Is that basket warm enough to incubate them? Otherwise they might not be alive." Eggs have very particular needs that he isn't sure Obsidian has been meeting. Or where she got them. [ Entryway ] Obsidian nods, and shows off the snake egg. "T...