The Nexus

[It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Thanksmas]

Blue dutifully grabs a big armful - they made quite a pile - and scurries over to stand beside Khannie's stepladder. Paper stars leak from between her arms and waft in long arcs to the ground. "Here you go, Khannie!"

Disasters==> Teddy Dreams "We're not doing that again." Jaahlyn remarks as Baphoreth turns into her. Though what she's referring to is probably lost to Jim. It does seem like whatever it is Jaahlyn quickly wants to switch back to what they were talking about. "At some point you will ...

[Post Maze] Blue will go so far as to feed Khannie an unwrapped piece of candy, if that's not too weird. She's a unicorn, and they do indeed lack hands, so surely it's only sensible. She looks up at her dad with wide, needy eyes, as though he would ever say no. "Dad can I?" Adir laughs. &...

[Summer Water Balloon Party] Woblins and Dryadeer "Holy cow! Thank you Khannie!" Malachi's parents are always reminding him to say please and thank you, and adults and older folks seem to like it when he does. Plus it feels nice. Win-win-win. His eyes are huge and throw back wisps of pris...

[MERC Offices]

Fettina throws up her hands uselessly. "You two are the professional mercenaries! I don't do this... infiltrate and observe shit! Hell, my only useful skills in MERC's line are talking to people and hitting things, and I'm not even that good at the second one."

[The Maze - Exit] Russell and Laurana are indeed eager to munch on candy, and they start to scoop up gobfuls. Actually, Russell hops on the table from Jace's back before anyone can stop him, plucking out the choicest morsels! Oh no! "Yeah! It was awesome!" Laurana exclaims. "Hi Brini...

[Summer Water Balloon Party]

"Awwh, Khannie, no fair!" Malachi whines. Even he's old enough to know that it would have been easy to win with the others bickering! But he scutters off in the other direction following Kissa's orders anyways. They've gotta have a lead!

[MERCs Offices] "Thanks, guys," Fettina's wings collapse a little more into their fully resting shape, and she tries to cloak a little flush by bowing her head. She's at once a little proud and rueful that she couldn't do more. Fettina bangs the heel of her hand against her head with a cl...

[The Maze - Blue, Adir, Khannie] Blue smiles at Khannie's story, but she balks a bit at the idea of giving away her presence. "I don't know if I'm that brave!" Trying to build on Khannie's advice, Adir says, "I'm sure that your mom could use some help at GLoG, Blue. All GLoG does is ...

[Summer Water Balloon Party] Woblins and Dryadeer Malachi scurries as quick as he can, running about snatching up broken pieces. As mentioned previously, he's a very considerate brother... and he might sneak some to Kissa if she's willing to cooperate! But is that against the rules? Hopefully the w...

[The Maze - Blue, Adir, Khannie] Blue ends up giggling at Khannie's silly face. It makes for a good distraction while she's thinking about what the unicorn is saying. "Were you scared too, daddy?" Blue asks, looking up at her dad as though someone just told her that planets are flat. &quo...

[Summer Water Balloon Party] Woblins and Dryadeer Prize! Heck, Malachi can get into this too. He just beams when Khannie first turns, prepared to scurry off, but the prospect of a prize is far too enticing. The boy goes up to take a bag. He doesn't mind this, anyways, because... "Mom says to b...

[MERC Offices] "I'm sorry, that's all I've got. I didn't actually get to see the thing, and the... hell-people wouldn't let me get close enough to ask more. There was a talking pigeon on a roof that seemed pretty interested in what was happening. It said there had been angels led by a nymph. W...

[The Maze - Blue, Adir, Khannie] Blue positively glows at Khannie's praise. Then, onto the maze. Blue is a little distracted by the silly, scary faces, but she manages to scrape enough attention together to try to hold a conversation with the unicorn. Especially once it sounds kinda serious. Adir w...

[The Maze - Jace, Zebes, Russell, Laurana] Laurana throws her hands in the air, giggling. "Yay!" Russell returns to his passive expression, but gives the most blasé fist-pump of all time. Then they start to head through with Jace and Zebes... and get jumpscared! Oh no! Poor Laurana just a...

[Summer Water Balloon Party]
Woblins and Dryadeer

Malachi will also toss a balloon at Khannie. Oh no! It's a great fat blue one that looks like it has no right to be filled with quite that much water. Should make quite a sploosh.

[The Maze - Jace Zebes Russell Laurana] Laurana giggles uproariously. This is great fun. She bounces around on Jace's back and thinks for a minute... then pulls the scariest face she can! Which amounts to... well she crosses her eyes and pops them a bit and tugs at her bottom eyelids and sticks out...

[Summer Water Balloon Party] Woblins and Dryadeer "That's Khannie. Let's splash her!" Balthuk has fully bought into the kids' offensive. "But won't she get mad? She's been working so hard on this party. She's almost like a grown up. And Brinika helps her!" Brinika holds consider...

[The Maze - Adir and Blue] The lights go out! Oh no! Well, Blue is definitely being at least subliminally distracted by Khannie's presence and the feelings it elicits. That innocent curiosity and desire for adventure is tainted with fear and the memory of fear, however, and so Blue's better nature ...

[MERC Offices] Tina hems and haws a bit. "It's more the feeling of the thing, Dena, I mean, like, even if we say it's not so serious--" Oh, but then Kirk is on-screen. Saving her. Fettina gives Kirk an awkward little wave. She feels like she's intruding in he and Dena's world, and feels v...

[Summer Water Balloon Party]
Woblins and Dryadeer

"Yeah, let's get them!" Oh no, Malachi is all too ready to escalate.

[Play Area --> The Maze] The kids seem generally encouraged and in excellent spirits. Even Blue smiles at Micah, and then giggles uproariously as she's borne through the air to Khannie's back. She almost forgets she's heading into a SPOOKY place. Oh no. Laurana and Russell will turn their attention...

[Summer Water Balloon Party] Woblins and Dryadeer Malachi rubs his chin, looking very serious. "We could... find someone else to splash!" He decides. Someone who's already dressed to get wet... or who won't mind! Like Malachi's dad, maybe, if he's around here somewhere. Or someone their o...

[Summer Water Balloon Party] Woblins and Dryadeer Malachi makes a pouty face. Poor Kissa. "Okay," he says. He isn't sure what to do! So he'll just give her his best smile and let her go sit and rest a minute. Well, now what do they do though? The teams aren't even! They need another victi...

[Play Area] The kids are absolutely floored by the sight of the unicorns, gaping in dumbstruck youthful awe. Well, except for Russell. Russell just watches. He seems neither afraid of the maze nor terribly interested in this situation... yet when he was asked if he was ready, he did lift his little...

[Play Area] Overseeing the Frescot hordes is a very large fellow in... an absolutely ridiculous Sasquatch costume. He basically looks like a person totally covered in brown-black fur, except for the simian-faced mask with its stony brow, savage fangs, and bright yellow eyes. He tilts this spooky fa...

[MERC Offices] "I didn't really get much of a chance to talk to the witnesses. And the only person who would talk to me was a... pigeon," Tina blinks a couple times, uncertain, aware of how silly that sounds. "A talking pigeon." Fettina will hop up and sit on the edge of Dena's ...

[MERC Offices] "Ilpholin?" Fettina's eyes widen a small margin. "I've met her. She seemed..." Well. Violent. Fettina wasn't sure what her deal was, but she was surprised to see her hanging out with Anika at the time. "I was gonna say she seemed like she could do this, but.....

[MERC Offices] "I don't know." Dena reaffirms, not even attempting to defend herself. Someone should really have interrupted her meeting. But as Tina just said. It didn't matter. Would it have matter if she had known sooner? Perhaps but if there was anything Dena had learned during her lo...

[Summer Water Balloon Party] Woblins and Dryadeer Malachi will give Kissa a soggy hug. After a minute to think about it, he leans back and says, "But you gotta get wet for this game... it's part of the game!" That's the whole point of water balloons Kissa! He doesn't quite make the leap o...