The Nexus

[Hiep's Cove] Verity has been quiet, taking in the sounds and smells of their environment as she rides behind on Nhay, her arms tucked around Hiep's waist. As they're passing through it, she comments to Hiep, "This is the softest ward I've ever felt. It's almost like it's not even there, woven...

[Undertree Manor] One of the major upsides to not having eyes as such is that efforts to blind you really don't make that huge of a difference. Lex' vision is pretty blurry and indistinct to begin with, but he mostly identifies his surroundings by smell regardless. Even with his vision momentarily ...

[Lab]

Skye grunts, "So what is the resolution to this situation?"

[Damundra Canyon] Thariza huffs. "You sound awfully confident you can get down there. It's a big canyon. And I've already died once, so I doubt I'd get another do-over." [Ruined Observatory] "It might have been a goose once. Then it wandered here and got twisted." Hiep stretches...

[Undertree Manor] Skye gets a flash to the face, but rather than sit still, she rapidly backs up, boosting herself away with the same type of launching movement that carried her closer before, to land upon a fence grate. It makes little sense; the fence is too thin, too slippery, too rounded, even ...

[Damundra Canyon] "Are you scared?" Emily asks, waggling her eyebrows, "I was intending to carry you down, but if you can't even handle that ..." [Ruined Observatory] Skye nods, and, leaning on her spear, she'll help to find a nice, quiet spot where they can pitch a camp without...

[Skye's Apartment] "It's a solid decision," Skye says while setting up her own part of the board, in which she includes a layer of raised hills in the center of her area, far away from the terrain set up by the others, "Cliffs and hills give additional range to ranged units, like arc...

[Damundra Canyon] "I disagree," Emily says, some amusement seeping in through her dark emotions. Unless Thariza moves to stop her, she'll reach out to the wall and simply haul herself upwards. Something she doesn't have much opportunity to show off these days is that she's actually someth...

[Undertree Manor] Ah, a shield bash. Exactly as Skye predicted. She was already stepping to the side to avoid the strike when it was wound up, and using the momentum of her sidestep to bring the bladed head of the spear down on the mummy's head. Efficient, deadly, with both offense and defense in t...

[Undertree Manor] Moving to defend Lex, Skye moves in to intercept one of the warriors, ensuring the slime dragon only has a single mummy to worry about while she deals with the other. Supernatural alacrity is a dangerous thing, but nothing Skye can't deal with, When he raises his sword, she sudden...

[Skye's Apartment] "First, we set the field. Each of us can claim a third of the board and create terrain by using the platforms; this allows us to create hills, cliffs, and the like. Then, once we have that, we select our forces - these will represent our armies, though you're only allowed to...

[Damundra Canyon]

Once they're away from the guards, Emily comments, "I'm willing to bet there's another side to this story. There's no way this kind of racial tension comes from just one side."

She's deeply unhappy, but at least the worst of the fury seems to have pittered out.

[Ruined Observatory] As the ritual ends with one final beat of Skye's spear against the ground, she croaks out, "It's done!" to Hiep and Khannie, looking like she's about to fall over. Given she's been chanting and dancing for hours straight, she very well might be, with the way she's lea...

[Skye's Apartment] Skye breathes out as a bit of tension leaves her shoulders; while she's perfectly alright with Mary's experiment, it's still an extra load to have someone literally watching everything you're doing. And then she moves over to a closet, where she'll draw out a wooden board with a ...

[Undertree Manor] Skye's spear thrust forces the first mummy to back off and the thrust floors the second, which Lex quickly pounces on with his side-sword. It turns out mummies don't like getting stabbed with swords slicked with blazing alchemical fire. Who would have guessed? With one mummy burni...

[Lab] "It's memory storage," Skye explains simply, actually having understood the explanation to a degree, "like painting a picture or writing down an idea to get it out of your head. Your mind can only hold so much information, so you put the information somewhere else so you can ac...

[Undertree Manor] Skye isn't such a poor fighter to be defeated by two standard combatants, and so she brings her spear up in an overhead stab towards the shielded one, fully expecting it to block. It has to, or it'll take a spear to the face, and blocking will disrupt the flow of its attack. This ...

[Skye's Apartment] Asami tilts his head at Mary, red bubbly question marks manifesting above his head. "What?" Asami exclaims, taken aback by Mary's suggestion. Why would you insult someone in a fight? These kids must not be very good at fighting if they have time to. Or maybe its all for...

[Damundra Canyon] It seems like the dwarves second-guess themselves and ultimately decides not even to bother stopping either of them as they're heading out of the fort. Helpfully enough there's a sign pointing towards "stairs/elevator", which is most likely the one the saw while heading ...

[Undertree Manor] Lex stands tall at the challenge! "We can beat whatever you throw at us!" be boasts in typical hot-blooded hero fashion. Even though he doesn't have any blood to speak of. When the pair of mummies appears he draws his crossbow and fires a single bolt at the foe Skye DIDN...

Lab Jaahlyn's eyebrow raises and she looks puzzled. "Severance?" Then she grins mirthfully. "You're quitting already? Yikes and here I thought I hated work." The satyr giggles and then pauses for a moment while getting up into a sitting position in the bed. "Use pictures , ...

[Lab]

Skye's interest is obvious, with the way her gaze lingers a moment, but her face turns red and she looks away, "... Yes, that would likely be helpful information."

Lab Libra let's a audible ' tsk '. "How typical. Would it help if I got you drunk first?" Libra replies in a sarcastic tone, seemingly having completely forgotten Skye as her gaze focuses on Artie. A dangerous glint in her eyes. "Fortunately, I'm not so easily insulted and there's a ...

[Undertree Manor] "If you seek the treasury of the duchess then you must prove yourself worthy," the shriveled corpse replies. "If you survive the trial of summer you may proceed." Hoo boy. There are sunflowers shaking and earth churning as a small army of armed mummies begin po...

Destroyed Wizard's Tower Basement The hob takes a few moments to listen to the new voice in her mind, flexing her muscles and legs and fingers while the explanation was going on. It was disturbingly intimate and intrusive, and no small part of her felt... unclean . Her clothes, expensive clothes, w...

[Destroyed Wizard's Tower Basement] It's done! , comes the response, echoing from deep inside Onisa, I've linked into your circulatory, endocrine, urinary, digestive, muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems. This allows me to both augment you and feed off the waste that humanoids generally produce;...

[Ruined Observatory] High level nonsense is definitely an apt way to describe it. So! The ritual begins. At first Khannie will watch pretty attentively, but this form of ritual magic is DEFINITELY not the most exciting. Eventually she'll pull a book out of her pack and begin to read it. When the po...

[Skye's Apartment] That just gets Skye to laugh, which may distort what Mary is trying to say, "... Yes, I suppose we do. Thank you for the criticism, Asami." It seems Skye is entirely accepting of someone telling her she's acting in a wrong way. It helps that Asami clearly feels more in ...

[Skye's Apartment]

Skye, on the other hand, just sighs, "It's alright, Mary. Criticism is something you need to learn to accept."

And so, Skye nods to Asami, waiting patiently, aware she's likely going to be told something she doesn't appreciate.

[Skye's Apartment]

"I couldn't say. I clearly don't know her," Skye whispers back to Mary a little bitterly.