The Nexus

[Swamp] The fox is being loud. "Marigold what the heck? Let me outta here what are you doing?" the kumiho yaps. The roots trapping her have been gnawed at a bit, but to little real effect. After her initial shock she had tried using her shadow jump trick to pop out but the area around the...

[A!A Field Trip] "Not a minute ago," Khannie replies with a rueful snort. There's definitely a story there somewhere. Though she DOES have an image of a shadowy fox on her haunches. That doesn't appear to be painted on or anything, her fur is just discolored to create a stylized picture. ...

[A Swamp] Okay. Something is definitely wrong. Rose takes another minute or two to clear away the last of what Blossom had inflicted on her and pops out of the lava fissure closest to the former village. This definitely seems like a problem. Impaling a bunch of demons to drain their power definitel...

[Off to See the Seer] In the mountains to the east of Riverside G'Nichi is searching for a dragon. 'The mountains east of Riverside' is a pretty vague set of directions and G'Nichi couldn't get further information out of the Order of the Dragon's Left Hand. That's unfortunate, but not terribly shoc...

[A Hamlet] Oh! Marigold must have planted herself in the village? That seems like an odd place to do it, especially since she was wanting to head back to the island the Queen's mortal world home located on. Unless . Rose will spread her brambles further, reaching into swamp so she can try to commun...

[A Hamlet] She COULD be talking about Khannie. Granted, Rose doesn't know much about Mary's friend aside from the fact that she's Mary's friend. It's also possible that Blossom is simply trying to sow chaos. One way or the other, Rose will deliver the prisoner back to the palace and it'll be up to ...

[A Hamlet] Is Blossom trying to claim that Mary is some sort of reincarnated Sapphira? That seems like a bit of a stretch to Rose. Oh fun! Well, now that Blossom is all trussed up with nowhere to go more brambles go snaking down into the fissure to fish for some hellhound. Once Canie is grabbed she...

[A Hamlet] Ah, the super-hero dilemma. Stop the villain or save someone! The problem here is that Rose is not a hero. Her obligation is primarily to ensuring the safety of Queen, her domain, and select charges. Some random hellhound who got clowned on and subsequently fell into a hole isn't very hi...

[A Hamlet] Ouch ouch owie zowie! Those blisters really hurt! Good thing Rose just fell into one of those growing fissures just in time to avoid a mighty thwacking! What Rose has been doing could hardly be considered fighting back. She's just been avoiding attacks and generally being distracting. Why...

[A Hamlet] Oh no! Tiny Rose has been swatted! Thankfully her whole body is as tough as the rock her lower half is made of. Less thankfully that branch swatter is probably poisonous, isn't it? Regardless, Rose is briefly staggered by the swat, though at the first opportunity she'll zip away again. &q...

[A Hamlet] Rose yells back, "Nuh uh! You haven't caught me yet!" in a voice that is exactly as tiny sounding as you would expect from a creature the size of Rose. She goes zipping away again putting more distance between herself and the dust attack. But that isn't all! A rather violent ear...

[A Hamlet] So. Remember how Rose carried the girls down into the Depths? How that maw on her lower body was dramatically larger than it had any right to be? When Blossom reaches for Tiny-Rose, the lil'est gaiad whirls around, opens her maw, and spews an overflowing torrent of molten rock at Blossom...

[Necromancer's Vault] That sure is a concept. The exciting smells of necromancy. Maybe this is just what happens when someone picks such a gross line of work. The dead are supposed to be allowed to rest and people who deem otherwise face consequences for violating that ought. Cosmic punishments asi...

[Last Known Address via Nightmare Night] With her tail in hand Maridia decides to take full advantage of this fact. She gets her hind legs on the rim of the barrel and leans in as faaaaar as she can to warp her little jaws around the biggest, shiniest apple. Considering that she's about the size of...

[A Hamlet] Oh no. Rose is fun-sized now. Granted, Blossom doesn't appear to be having very much fun but maybe that will change soon? Certainly she's hoping her spell is going to make Rose easier to deal with. There's just one problem. Ever seen a nice warm lizard take off like a rocket when disturbe...

[Fun With Literacy] The unicorn gives her tail a flick like she's trying to shoo a particularly persistent fly. "I mean, not really? Both of those sound pretty rotten," Khannie replies dubiously. Is it possible that these places weren't even meant to serve as afterlives but that's what th...

[The Spookening] If faced with a unicorn how could you do anything other than pet it? Any other course of action would be inconceivable. Khannie's mane has a silky feel to it while her coat is almost feathery. The color changes as the fur is touched, revealing that it's more of a dark grey when the ...

[A Hamlet] "Didn't I try being friends first? You just don't make very good choices, Blossom," Rose replies with an undercurrent of sadness to her otherwise bubbly tone. She makes a leaping bound and HURLS her spear directly at-! The ground nowhere near Blossom. In a burst of explosive gro...

[A Hamlet] "Ah, you don't have to feel bad for me Corpse Blossom I make up for it with my happy disposition!" Rose replies with blithe positivity. Seems like insulting her is unlikely to get a rise of any kind. "Does that mean you don't want to do any frolicking? I'm sure it'll make ...

[A Hamlet] It takes a moment for Rose to suddenly realize that she's dealing with, "Wait, Corpse Blossom?" The gaiad that Sapphira had absolutely corrupted! The one Rose had tried to rescue and got tricked by! "Wowie zowie it's been forever since I freed you from Sapphira's dungeon a...

[Last Known Address via Nightmare Night] It's worth noting that there ARE some kirins among the various equestrians trotting around for the festivities. But looking at one when a unicorn is nearby makes the difference pretty striking. The unicorn ponies are a little more horse-like in their body sh...

[A Hamlet] "Your garden is pretty stinky," Rose helpfully points out as the patch of flowers gets incinerated. "We're looking for a BIG and BAD feral demon that allegedly lives out here! You wouldn't know anything about that, would you?" Is Rose just playing dumb here? There's n...

[Springtime] "Hey, wait up!" the kumiho calls out, hurrying after her not-dog. Thankfully her paws are a little better equipped for navigating the tangle. As they drop down into the dream glade they'll find Agate having a chat with a gaiad? Huh. Well, that could be worse, right? She's obv...

[Outside the Gym Building] A beat. "Oh." Another beat. "OH! Okay, I get it. So a devil's what someone DOES, not what someone IS," she says, realization striking her. "Okay, that sounds way better. I think I'm kinda too use to hearing it the other way around when people use ...

[The Spookening] The fox, being normal fox sized, is sadly not big enough to put a goblin on. Now a unicorn on the other hand... Khannie is the PERFECT size for one full sized goblin or two to three little ones. Khannie allows the fox to sink back into her shadow again. Off to do-! Well. Normal sha...

[A Hamlet] The kumiho is quickly getting an impression that Marigold would love basically whatever she makes for her regardless of what it looks like. The hat and dress, though, are patterned on what she vaguely recalls Mary's Magical Girl outfit looked like. She remembers Mary being dressed in it w...

[A Hamlet] Quite fed up with the state of the world, the kumiho will be fashioning a whole outfit for her friend. Both the floppy sunhat (with horn holes!) as well as a dress to go with it. This rotten place could use at least TWO people dressed decently. That'll take a while, though, so in the mean...

[A Hamlet - Rose] "Wowie, really? You want an oath? Well, okay, but only because this is very important," Rose says. After all, she's working to help Mary get better! "On sun and moon On stars and stones May my words endure Though all else fades away I swear that I'll press the Queen...

[Springtime] Nothing quite like having an angry dog dragon dinosaur up in your face slashing the heck out of you. Sirius manages to neatly avoid the grasping hair and begins carving the heck out of the spider's face! The kumiho, by contrast, gets snagged by the hair! She reacts by bringing a paw do...

[Necromancer's Vault] The animating force, in this case, is apparently a dead smilodon. The necromancer will get a brief impression of the beast as it dissolves away to whatever existence extinct mammals are supposed to go on to. Without its anima the corpse goes still and the burning tar begins oo...