The Nexus

Crash Site Okay, so nobody's cooperating. Jade's not here to kill anyone, or get anyone killed, so she sees an alternative route forward. "Hold on a minute, if you don't have the thing he's looking for, why not prove it and then help him look for it? Hey, what's this thing look like?" She...

Aiko's Bad Day "No, because they're insults ," Mary snaps back. "I'd accuse you of losing your ability to listen to the words coming out of your own mouth, but I don't think you ever did in the first place," The demon princess turns back towards the window, the proffered garment...

Tree Problems
"This is nice," Mariblex says. They look up at the sky, trying to make out the position of the sun. "Any idea where it is? You could fly up and take a look around," they suggest.

Aiko's Bad Day
"Suuure. You don't hate me at all, you just 'accidentally' insulted me three times," Mary replies sarcastically, "And emotionally unintelligent? Seriously? You have no idea..."
How much does Aiko remember about succubus powers?

Cry Havoc Kothar looks skeptically at Vyzan, then at Wenomir. "She would kill if we not stop her." He thinks about what he saw. "She was lead this group. I not trust him to control her. I think she not let him." He has no desire to let Cea go, that would be loosing a monster on ...

Tree Problems "Umm, tentacle's fine but it's technically a pseudopod," The appendage is extended and wraps around Bella's hand. "Let's go!" The slime dragon isn't really thinking about them having good reasons to stay put and wait for Sekhmet. That's boring and they're fine, the...

Aiko's Bad Day A blazer is draped over Mary's shoulders. The demon princess' wings twitch but it manages to stay there. There's a long, silent pause. "I don't 'get' you. We had a truce. Then I came back with a bit of a makeover," she still looks more or less like that, although after her ...

Aiko's Bad Day "Coulda fooled me. I remember how our 'group project' went," Mary has a point; Aiko was awfully controlling for someone who doesn't care about controlling everyone. Mary turns to look out the window and yawns. She's already getting tired of arguing, and this is a three hour...

Aiko's Bad Day
"Then stop browbeating people! Even without your powers, with all this bully club business it's still the same thing!" Mary points out. "Mum teaches me to lead through respect. If you respect people, they'll learn to respect you."

Cry Havoc "Sky city is very bad place," Kothar concurs, "We not cruel . We not send people there." He glances concernedly at Vyzan's undead minions, then at the necromancer. "He not fight. I not see reason to not let go. But I not like undead go free," he comments to W...

Aiko's Bad Day Mary listens to old Aiko's monologue, her frown deepening at the second part, "Except that's all bullcrap!" she blurts out, "You have no authority here. Nobody cares if you're an empress on a far-off plane or if I'm a princess in Hell, neither of us have the right to o...

Aiko's Bad Day "You definitely do," Mary counters, "You freak out whenever anyone doesn't do what you say." She shakes her head disapprovingly. "Besides, if this is a duty thing, then why not take it easy? Your duty isn't to the Nexus. The Nexus doesn't need or want emperor...

Aiko's Bad Day
Mary narrows her eyes at sigil-Aiko. "You must've had a reason," she replies skeptically.
"Anyway being a better empress doesn't help you now. This isn't your empire and nobody has to listen to you."

Aiko's Bad Day "Sorry, but no, you are," Mary replies, "Even before all this splitting stuff. Who in their right mind wants to be a bully? That's like mustache-twirling villain stuff. Getting up and saying 'I can't wait to make life worse for other people today!' is like something ou...

Aiko's Bad Day "Going crazy won't help you do anything," Mary points out, "You might be fine now, but if you don't take time off, you'll break down. Actually, I think you already did. Normal people don't split in three." Screeeeeeeeeech! There's a rush of air and a loud sound of...

An Upper Room
Once Kama is gone, Circe sighs in relief.
The thought of the emerald being stolen does cross her mind, but she can track it down and get it back; not to mention that it's a lot less valuable to her than 200 vials of essence. She packs up her stuff and leaves shortly thereafter.

Aiko's Bad Day
"Living like that's gotta suck," Mary comments, "People need to take time off or they go crazy! Even my mum, who's always busy taking care of my brother and the kingdom, finds time for tea breaks." Sekhmet has a lot on her plate all the time.

Cry Havoc Kothar is fine, or at least not visibly significantly injured. He also isn't about to make it easy for Cea to regenerate; he's fought supposedly unkillable regenerating foes before. He thrusts his flaming axe into the goop and twists, attempting to cut strands and force the two halves far...

An Upper Room The outburst earns an eyeroll from Circe. She's not impressed by theatrics. "I'm not paying you for a job unfinished," she responds, "Do it, and then I'll give you what you're owed." It's only half the truth, the other half is that she doesn't carry 200 vials with ...

Tree Problems
"Think you could get us back there? We kinda wanna see," Mariblex replies.
It beats standing around here for the next few hours until Sekhmet's available again.

An Upper Room Circe wasn't expecting that outburst. So this succubus hates Her Majesty? She might be able to use that. But it also might be a liability. Odd that she refers to the queen as "Brignole" though. Circe considers her options. On one hand, the hatred would motivate this one to t...

Aiko's Bad Day Mary shakes her head. "That can't be a healthy way to think. How the Home do you deal with the stress of not being perfect? You need to loosen up, do some things just to do them, have some fun, and not worry about being perfect all the time because that's impossible."

An Upper Room "I don't deal in money for such large purchases," Circe responds, "I'd rather you do a job for me." She meets a lot of bizarre people in her line of work, but this shadow succubus is up there. Definitely not entirely there in the head. Circe suspects she knows why ...

Tree Problems "Thank goodness! To us, it looked like you were turned into a tree!" Mariblex sounds relieved. "So... What's this mystery grove like?" Also they should probably do something about the tree partly blocking the corridor, but that's a problem for another time.

Crash Site "Woah woah woah, nobody kill anybody, we can talk this through," Jade says, trying to step between the arguers. Her fingers tense in her armored gauntlets, preparing the sequence of gestures to create a shield around her in case someone does make a move. "I'm going to gues...

Cry Havoc Kothar doesn't bother to stop moving long enough for Cea to bite or entangle him. He runs right past her, chopping at her back as he moves. Once he gets out of reach of her tongues again, he whirls around and slides to a stop, ready to protect himself against the next attack. A Local Shri...

Slime Tree Problems
"Bella?" Mariblex blorps their tendrils into wings and flaps their way up to the canopy and the glowing orb. It seems like the right place to be. "Bella are you there? Can you talk?
... Please don't be stuck as a tree."

Slime Problems
Uh oh.
Mariblex stares at the tree. "Bella? Are you all right?" She wasn't expecting that; nobody (except the circlet's creator) could have seen it coming.

Aiko's Bad Day Mary sees that. An invitation to weigh in? "Do you really think your people care about whether you can solve a puzzle on your own? They'll never even know what you do in the Nexus." Mary's always thought Aiko acting the part of the empress was silly; here, she's just a rand...

An Upper Room The door opens. The room seems empty, but that doesn't dissuade the arrival; after all she's hardly relying on mundane senses. Circe sashays into the room, setting her briefcase down next to the open seat, straightening the skirt of her skintight black dress out a little, and then sit...