The Nexus

Lunch- Prank-Kids Prank One student doesn't dodge or move away from the careening rocket. She's a girl, aged apparently fourteen, or at least she's wearing a uniform consisting of a skirt and shirt combo. She's mechanical, with no face; instead, a blank expanse of bronze marks the front of her face...

Sekhmet's Summer Party "No, I suppose we don't." Jack sighs and takes Anchor's hand, before climbing out of the bed. "I guess we should look around, see what else there is to see before we have a nap, right?" It'll also be quite obvious that someone's been on Sekhmet's bed, sinc...

Trollfinger-Sneergrim Residence "Sure we can. You've got lovely hair, and it looks... less good than I was expecting, but it'll be better next time!" Cheasadh might be overly optimistic about her future achievements in hairdressing and barbery. But then again, maybe she'll be able to prac...

Kevin's Harmless Pranks & Mean-Spirited Jokes "I can see where the 'mean-spirited' comes in, now. Faking a dead person's ash is pretty mean, I think." Although she likes the skeletons; they're cool, in her mind. "But yeah, this'll be great. I'll smear it on the periscope next tim...

Sekhmet's Summer Party Earl likes to keep track of what his characters are wearing in a given scene for reasons of continuity, and has often had the arrival post open in another tab when replying. Jack stretches the wing out over Anchor and grins at the other woman. "It is, isn't it? I could s...

Sekhmet's Summer Party "Yeah! It really is. Oh, wow. Look at the size of this bed!" Jack jumps up and lands on her back, spread-eagled on the bed. Her dress hikes up a little as it's too tight for the position, but she doesn't particularly care. At least until she rolls back over onto her...

The Shallows Adrie does take the bow and the arrows, though he's not too confident in their use at least if he has them his eggs' host won't be able to shoot him quite so easily. He also pulls the arrow out of his neck, and rubs it until it stops leaking. That gets added to his new quiver. After a ...

Jace's Place Cheasadh's next in, since she's been here before and knows some of the way around. She takes her shoes and socks off and puts them in the basket, stretching her toes after, though doesn't try to sit on the bench- she leans against her new staff without sitting down. "I hope we don...

The Shallows The archer is correct, he can't climb as quickly as she can. So Adrie scuttles back to her downed companion, and drags him into their shelter. He'll pat the guy down, take his shoes and any weapons he's carrying, and extend his ovipositor to lay some eggs in his abdomen. So long as he'...

The Swarm "Yeah, it's pretty perfect and perfectly pretty. Right, Liplicker?" Cheasadh turns towards the nearest non-Brinika goblin as she speaks, addressing her cousin as 'liplicker'. She probably does know his name, but... with so many running around Cheasadh needs to remember all of th...

The Shallows Adrie grunts and stumbles as the arrows hit his torso and chest, though none of them seem to penetrate far, mostly bouncing or skidding off. He's oozing from more places, so they've had some effect at least, but for now Adrie's throwing the carved stone at the archer, ducking low and s...

The Shallows As Adrie's grabbed, the man moves. His head tilts back unnaturally far and a long, black, chitinous organ shoots from his mouth to jab the other monster. It's got enough rigidity and strength to penetrate most kinds of clothing, so unless there's something under the rags it should cont...

Kevin's Harmless Pranks & Mean-Spirited Jokes "Mostly browsing. Although... Do you have any eye-mark stuff for binoculars and stuff? I dunno what it's called, but you rub it 'round the eyepads and when they take the binos away it's left panda marks on their face, y'know?" Earl also do...

The Shallows The arrow hits Adrie. It enters his neck and lodges there. He gasps, chokes, and falls to his knees before faceplanting in the dirt. He's still alive; despite the arrow in his larynx, he's hurt but not exactly injured. They might note that he twisted slightly as he fell to avoid drivin...

MERC Quest Frigate leads the way, the diving-suit armour golem having left his longarm back in his room, though the bronze-plated construct still has a pair of finely-crafted Queen Anne pistols holstered at his waist next to a brass cutlass. Under the bronze plates of his shell are stone rods and d...

Kevin's Harmless Pranks & Mean-Spirited Jokes Somebody arrives. She's a fourteen-year-old girl, apparently human, with pale skin and brown eyes. Or at least, her left eye is brown; her hair, dark brown and shaved close on the left, overhangs her right eye concealing it from view. She's wearing ...

The Shallows "I can assure you, I am indeed not a manticore." There's another? Might make things trickier, for the seeming-human jeweller. Or it might be another opportunity. "Very well, I do not think I have much of a choice." Adrie crouches down and places the rock by his foot...

The Shallows Flying bears. Well, sure. Who is Adrie to judge? Does make his chances of escaping much slimmer, though, so perhaps he won't find a nice settlement for his children. Still, this gentleman might at least be a start... "And... your other companion? What happened to them?" Adrie...

Fireworks

"What?" Cheasadh jumps, as though she hadn't been listening. "Oh... yeah, that sounds like a good idea." She shivers slightly, and her nose twitches.

Extraction Plan: CD Sammi would be pleased to know Diva managed to avoid her feet, except the squirrel doesn't realise the cat was there to potentially get stood on. Fifi's heading to Sammi now, and the two girls will hug each other when they get close enough. Magoo does, in fact, head towards a sl...

Later Also sat at the table is Gemini. She's on the sensha-do team, but one of her crewmates has detention and the other doesn't need to eat and is taking advantage of lunch to study in the library. She's a fouteen-year-old girl with straight black hair, hazel eyes, olive skin and Mediterranean fea...

Extraction Plan: CD Fifi has a good idea of what she'll do next, yes. Magoo has a less-good idea, in that she's not so certain as what she wants to do than Fifi does. She makes her choice as she leaves, so Magoo's heading over to the sleeping area to take a book and read it. Sammi heard Diva mewing...

Sky Library "Another lesson my grandfather learnt the hard way." Pretty much exactly the problem with the deal he made; eternal life at the cost of being trapped in his own head as his un-ageing rages against the tomb within it is sealed. "What do you know of this 'Fourth Tower' grou...

Thrakeld- Entrance That is indeed quite a threatening sight of chomping machinery. But... Boada has wings; the sphere does not. She's going to keep clinging to it and adjust to try and put as much weight forward and over the edge of the railing as she can. Her plan is to try and make it overbalance...

The Shallows "Do you know how to get out? I am... not an expert on forestry, and no offence, but I am not used to such a humble abode as this." Being a jeweller in Antwerp's diamond district leads to wealth and opulence, which is one reason why Adrie infiltrated that level of society- tho...

Extraction Plan- CD "Who said I wanted to shoot you? I want to whack you in the head, drag you to the edge and throw you off the side." OK, slightly more extreme than just shooting. She'll sit down and rub gently at her recently-healed injuries, investigating for scarring or lingering pai...

Natalie's Familiar "Yes, I'll have a look. I won't promise anything, though." Natalie could probably afford it, too, though maybe not long-term. She's got a lot of money her father saved away, and at the moment she's still living at GLoG though she's making sure she's paying rent and educ...

"Beacon won't help. I teleport stuff to me, or from me. And the stuff I teleport either comes from or goes somewhere I've prepped in advance or can see." If Karasu's ever looked into Natalie's drawers, they're pretty well organised and there's one with a lot of symbols drawn on the bottom...

The Shallows "Yes, I suppose I did. Alright, I'm coming out now." Adrie pushes the curtain aside and exits the shelter, still holding the stone in his hand. He'll have a look to see where the speaker is, and if they're alone. Perhaps some of his 'mates' survived the wreck as he did. The D...

Sky Library "The dragons I am familiar with do not hoard in the same way." Since they're unintelligent beasts whose interest in princesses is purely culinary- and they'd rather have a nice herd of cattle. "I did not know that story, though trees do not live forever. Most of the time....