The Nexus

Aiko's Bad Day Bloodplunder Residence Still in the city, though on the outskirts. Not a farm, just a house with a large garden and home to a woman who keeps war-goats. The goat eats the apple core, and bites the diary before pulling her head out to get more scratches and fuss from Koko, possibly da...

Ecbatana "How interesting, how fascinating, how marvellous! I must make my apologies, my amends, and beg for your forgiveness. This is more important, more vital, more urgent than my tutor's lack of tea. Or perhaps it isn't, but he still must know, must discover, must learn. I should tell him ...

Outdoor Movie Place "Right. Is... there anything I can do to help? Get you chocolate, maybe, or marshmallows?" Agate blinks a little and diverts her eyes when Asami gets brighter, since she's not packing any sunglasses. She's started carrying some when she goes to school, but she wasn't p...

"No, thank you. I'm fine, it's fine. I've been breathing other air for several days, it'd be all flushed out my system by now. I just want to stay here and slowly pickle my liver." He means get drunk, with that. Pickle it in alcohol. "I do not wish to go anywhere, least of all with y...

A Real Arcade "Sovereignty is rulership. The sovereign is the king, or queen. Or other monarch, I guess." Agate joins Asami in sitting cross-legged, and smiles at her. "Kinda good, though, right? Like, you're not at risk of dying, you could help people a lot like that." Agate sh...

Ecbatana "And who are you, Miss Aikobaz, to stop them?" Irrgoth tilts their head and smiles, unaware of Aikobaz' candidacy for sovereignty- and equally unaware she's trying to go undercover right now. " Seven extant modes of transfiguration? I have heard only of five. I'm not familia...

Under the Sea After crunching down on Eddie a few times, the gooberfish spits the golem out and turns, swivelling one of its large eyes to look at the golem that proved so inedible. It's glaring and unhappy, but it doesn't seem especially intelligent. "I be not knowin' what it be. Ye want I t'...

Aiko's Bad Day - Bloodplunder Residence They arrive- unless something goes terribly wrong, anyway- outside a large bungalow. There's a long drive to the street outside, and the front and back garden is mostly a field, dominated by a small herd of large goats. There's five of them visible, two femal...

Outdoor Movie Place Americans call them 'chips', but to me those are the thick, fluffy fried potato wedges served with battered fish at the seaside. Crisps are, in fact, crisp and crunch when eaten. Agate heads over to the rubbish bin and peers inside it. "Hey, Asami. Will you be able to see t...

The scan reveals something wrong with the Keldon's brain. There's no worms or other obvious parasites like there were with Ser Daeron, but the brain still fits uneasily in the skull and is folded oddly. "That's a pity, if you're not up for the job then I'll have to keep looking." Had they ...

Ecbatana "Oh, you might not be the one getting cursed. It may be me, with the shouting and the insults. And the name-calling and the stone-throwing and the mob and the shouting." Irrgoth nods quite enthusiastically, as though the possibility of being called names and getting stoned by a m...

Outdoor Movie Place Unaware of Koko, Darko, and Asami, Agate arrives here. She's been saving up a while for tickets, and is not in her usual school outfit. Instead, she's wearing a pair of distressed jeans, with holes in the knees and frayed at the bottom, and a dark green t-shirt under a red baseb...

A Real Arcade "You think I can afford a decent one? Nope. I got a dumb phone, which can send and receive text messages and be used to talk to people a long way away using the telephone network. It doesn't have a camera or a touch screen or games or wifi or bluetooth. It doesn't access the inte...

Ecbatana "Are you sure you aren't cursed? Positive, guaranteed? It would be horrible if you woke up tomorrow and found your teeth and fingers had swapped places. And yes, yes, I am fine. No, no, not bleeding me, no blood to bleed. I'll get over it. Ah! Yes, allow myself to be introduced! My mo...

Under the Sea "T' mark a sun temple, or t' provide light fer a lighthouse 'r navigational beacon. Mayhaps sommat odder; unnerground farms, mebbe, where there be no natural sun." Sun temples rarely need an excuse to show off, and a lighthouse marking an oceanic hazard- cliffs, small islets...

Somewhere in the Desert A lone gunshot sounds out as one of the swordsman's temporary companions tries to shoot the desert angler, to no visible effect; though the beast groans. It groans because it is dead, bisected by its would-be morsel. Depending on if he reached the stomach, the swordsman may ...

Encyclopede Expedition "We have dealt with mind-viruses, hostile mnemonics, and brain hijackers before, as well as hostile telepaths and other things that wished to take our knowledge without trading for it. We have defences, and if they fail we are all expendable. We are old, and have learnt ...

Ecbatana Aikobaz succeeds in walking straight into a short, squat figure with large blue eyes set in a brown-orange face, a snub nose and a single small tusk sticking from their lower jaw. They wear an outfit of light blue wool, and a pair of grass sandals and a felt cap. A copper dagger at their w...

A Real Arcade "You'd have to ask Khannie or Mary how many there are. There's an app they've got, organising all the Em Gees in the city. Or most of them, anyway. I've not got it, my phone's too old for that kind of app." She's not even got a flip phone, but an old-fashioned brick type mob...

Under the Sea "Wait till we be a mile yonder. That be glowin'; we be poor guests if'n we unwrap it here an' attract a beast from th' depths, we'll be leavin' it upon yon fish-men's doorstep." Frigate will try to stop Eddie from opening the parcel immediately, though he won't actually do a...

Alice's Camp Harmony nods and grimaces, though she still screams as Alice pulls out the cocoon from her gut. Somewhere in the Desert The lure-tongue is easily cleaved by the swordsman's blow, the hallucination disguising it falling away to reveal its revolting truth, as stinking green ichor spurt f...

Encyclopede Expedition One of the Encyclopedes' legs undulate along the vertical length of its body, carrying a device up which is then presented to its antennae, which flicks down to take it and press it against the Encyclopede's head, enabling it to speak verbally instead of purely telepathically...

Avian Arrivals Jack struggles a little with the paperwork. She's literate, but her handwriting's scruffy and she's not especially comfortable reading. She also doesn't hold a pen very well. She'll sign 'Jacqueline Door', though, and doesn't list an address or residence. She'll claim she doesn't hav...

"I rushed here, after. I thought there'd be safety and help here, and didn't want to trust anywhere closer. I don't know how long I travelled; I was too focused on my destination and getting away to pay much attention." The keldon tries to think back, but eventually shrugs. "Two days...

[Ecbatana] "Bye! See you guys later!" Aiko waves at the guards as they pass through. They must lead pretty uneventful lives, right up until they don't. They could probably use the extra pep! Aiko looks down at herself at the mention of being dressed like a aervant and considers this for a...

Avian Arrivals "It was really freaky, but quite fun. I've been living off it since, mostly anyway. Better than that fae party where I accidentally insulted one of the hosts so they bit my finger off." Earl forgot about the finger for a while, so he's not sure it's in Jack's initial descri...

"After I ran out? Not too much. I just tried to get away, really. Ran to where we'd left the vehicle and I drove it down here. Is... Is Edmund OK? A veteran from the Army of Callow, he's a strong sword-arm and I've never seen a shield so big used so well." Edmund Foundling being the adven...

Under the Sea The kuo-toa shrink away from the stone as more light emerges from its partial unwrapping, clearly uncomfortable with the bright light. It's not emitting heat, just light, and as a people who seem to be fully amphibious yet prefer dwelling in caves and at the bottom of the ocean, that ...

A Real Arcade "I don't like bullies, Asami. And even if I wanted to, I couldn't give you my gun. I need it because you're wrong. I can't let you handle everything dangerous. I need to hunt witches and their familiars, to keep my soul gem clear. Because I'm not a civilian, haven't been since be...

Ecbatana "We can do that, yes. Not even the first time I've escorted the princess amongst the people. Your predecessor usually dressed as a servant when she did, though... I'm not sure that's as needed in your case. Very few people know who you are yet." They'll use a lift to get to the g...