The Nexus

[Butterfly Bay - Great Writers Steal] Magtok nods, a tiny smile gracing his features. "Good to hear. Seriously, put yourself in my shoes for a moment. Can you imagine how sad it would be, coming all this way, tracking you down, running a trace on-" Magtok stops, catching himself before he...

Butterfly Bay - Good Writers Borrow "I understand. You've been busy, and Ilpholin has been...she's been active. I don't know the details, but it hasn't been pretty, has it? That's probably why you're all the way out here in Seaside, right? It's the sensible thing to do, to care for the communi...

[Maid Café and Book Signing - A Slip Of The Forked Tongue ] "Wait a minute. You have that fey, elvish look about you. Can you tell me what you thought of the Banished King? Like, what was your impression of him? We were trying to go for a fey like vibe, only to realize half way through that fe...

[Matters of Espionage] "Reinholdt? Her mom is with Magtok. You know, the robot face guy, who took over HALO that one time, so he could help orchestrate the demon attack on the old watchtower that split Vigil and HALO apart? How is Reinholdt...hold on, are you saying she has two evil dads?"...

Butterfly Bay - Good Writers Borrow So what is there to worry about? There's a knock at the door, followed by an impatient turning and twisting of the doorknob, and then the entire doorknob pops off, leaving an ugly round hole in the door, an open wound left by the unscrewed knob, which has been ca...

[Maid Café and Book Signing - A Slip Of The Forked Tongue] "Hmm. That so?" Sure are a lot of possible spies around lately. Well, might as well check it out. The man seemed to be leaving, but Rein couldn't let it be that easy for a fey spy to just slip out of a party . Thinking quick, Rein...

[Matters of Espionage] "Oh, no. I was just finished." If Calm Reed notices St. Laz's embarrassment, she doesn't show it. She rises from the pool, water dripping off her limbs. "How did the mission go? I know Anika is a very... direct person. And I see it was violent regardless."...

[Matters of Espionage] When St. Lazarus returns from her mission with Anika, she will soon see Calm Reed. Who is, it seems, meditating in a pool of water. She took her robe off, leaving her in a loincloth and a chest-wrap. The cooling weather and resulting low temperature of water don't seem to bot...

Maid Café and Book Signing - A Slip Of The Forked Tongue Blagtok stares down at his tea, struggling to conceive of a way to fix this kerfuffle he's inadvertently bungled his way into. This is not going to go well if he starts running for the exit, but he can't just sit here and wait for Dorota to g...

[Maid Café and Book Signing - A Slip Of The Forked Tongue] [Maid Café and Book Signing - Watching Snakes] "Perhaps he'd rather avoid-" Hang on. Dorota pauses in the middle of an explanation. They didn't make it publicly known that the book is an effort against the King in Rags. "I- I...

Orb of Oujet But taking attention off the sword and back at orb in her hand she suddenly realizes something. "But you don't happen to have something to carry it in do you? Like a blanket or something." As she asks this she has start to walk back the way they came. "Nope, sorry. If I ...

[Of Swords and Dragons - Watching Snakes] Whatever powers of perception Dorota might have that saw through Michael J. Blagtok's disguise, she entirely misses Reinholdt's skirt incident as she reaches for a teapot and a teacup to serve the tea. To her credit, while she's otherwise clumsy, years of l...

Of Swords and Dragons - Watching Snakes [Of Swords and Dragons] Mike Blagtok will bee approached by a slim, pale and blonde woman in a respectable maid costume. She's a HALO member but the odds of this man knowing her would be exceedingly low even if he was familiar with HALO. Dorota was watching A...

Maid Café and Book Signing - The Stunt A pair of mismatched hands join the applause at the conclusion of the story. One metal, one of flesh, both owned by an MIA member of HALO that has sneaked into the event in disguise so as to observe the proceedings without being ensnared by any sort of duties ...

Orb of Oujet Orb of Oujet "I'm back with the thingy!" She declares as she shifts back into her humanoid form, holding up the orb proudly. "And- hey, did you find a new sword while I was away? Cool!" Holding that sword, Laz will really be able to feel her heart thumping and her b...

For all that Harley might be berating herself for not thinking of this or that, and thanking Magtok for sharing his perspective on the issue, the cyborg himself only sees failure. Insofar as he can tell, he's offered no solid leads for her to chase, no major threads of the sinister plot untangled. H...

[Tower of Oujet] Turns out flying up to the top of the tower and snagging the Orb of Oujet is pretty easy. The thing isn't even that big, even though it feels weirdly heavy for its size. But considering Anika can carry an armored Laz then the orb should be not big deal. Turns out trudging several f...

[Tower of Oujet] She turns to face the tower but is distracted by the sound of Laz sword impaling the ground. "Right. You grab your sword and I'll grab the orb then we'll get out of here, okay? I'll have to buy you a drink at the Battered Shield after this." There's a strange look that pa...

Magtok raise an eyebrow. Harley is withholding information. She (understandably) doesn't trust us with the full picture, and is just feeding us the parts of the story immediately relevant to our specialty as the neighborhood robotics guy. Whatever she's hiding, it's probably nothing substantial, not...

[The Tower of Oujet] Don't worry, Laz! Just a small part of a larger operation! Since now, as she couldn't looked like it was time for plan B. Anika looks down as she prepares herself- And decides that perhaps it was better to commit to a hastily invented plan C instead. Considering she just recall...

[The Tower of Oujet] [The Tower of Oujet] Good questions, Laz! For the first one, she's actually about the same size as her humanoid form but appears a lot larger because of all the feathers. As for the other question, well, she's gonna attempt to grab onto the falling ghoul knight with her talons....

Magtok shakes his head. These machines are so much stranger on the inside than the outside, so much that doesn't make any sense when he plugs the machine's memory into a port on his left arm. Why is it like this? Who would deliberately choose to build their drones like this? It couldn't be Raven, ri...

What was that? At first Anika assumes it's the sound of the blast still ringing out but there's an odd quality to it. Almost like a s- - shit ! The druid looks around wildly and finally spots the tiny falling dot in the sky. "Uh, COMING !" Anika feels like she has the time to shout back s...

"My gut says it's probably family. I don't think Reinholdt really has any serious enemies left alive who aren't me," Magtok remarks, before frowning uncertainly, wondering if he shouldn't have said that. Was Harley under the impression that Mag wouldn't vaporize her lover and all of her l...

[Tower of Oujet] Unfortunately, Anika is too mesmerized by the colorful beam and all the beautiful destruction that followed in its wake to immediately notice the now falling Laz. She will probably spot her... eventually. Might help if the ghoul knight could draw attention to herself somehow. "...

[Tower of Oujet] Laz just tears into those tentacles but they are, of course, a distraction. They exist for the sole purpose of keeping her occupied to prevent her from doing damage to parts of the squidbus that are actually important for it to continue to function. Like its head. Or the places whe...

"Busy? Oh no, I'm fine. This guy's already dead; it's not like he's got an important appointment or meeting he needs to-" Magtok is rudely interrupted by the astronaut's chest rising and falling, a shaky breath contradicting the cyborg's every word on the subject. With a frown, he scowls ...

The 'secret entrance' used to be switched out every few weeks when this place was whole and fully staffed, with the entire foyer rearranged and rebuilt whenever it suited the cyborg's whim. It was very likely that Harley's attempt to find the door could've tripped a trap or freed some kind of terrib...

Courtyard - Magtok & Co. "It is a pleasure to see you again, Caelynn. You're still looking lovely. You as well, Tinman." Jezebel says with a warm smile. This close to the canid, it'll likely sense she comes with no ill will, and despite the daemonic appearance she has no smell of sulf...

Courtyard- Magtok This is so terribly…is there a word for the opposite of nostalgic? A reminder of an ugly, miserable, distressing time that only brings cringing and self-recrimination to mind? Because that’s what Magtok feels, caught between a pregnant Caelynn and a friendly Jezebel. Obviously the...