The Nexus

[Arkham Street Manor] "I want to know how things are back... home" , Hoshiki says to Lia. The last word doesn't sit well in his mouth and the look on his face tells he doesn't care to elaborate. "I make no promises" , he says to Michalson, "I remind you that while I may nee...

[Arkham Street Manor] Lia stares at Hoshiki with rising frustration. After actually taking the time to compose her thoughts and make an eloquent plea, he's just ignoring her? "Cat got your tongue? I said 'could you refrain from dispatching him?' You're welcome to reply in the negative, but I d...

[Arkham Street Manor] Lia's glare deepens. She takes a deep breath before replying. "What you say is true, Sandels is a lying criminal. He's also boorish, callous, rude, self centered, and infuriatingly evasive at times. He's likely done worse things that I don't know about." She pauses f...

[Empty Beach] "I actually can't grip any part of his body" , Hoshiki declares when he finally gets Aaron off the ground. The swordsman has both arms around Aaron, under his arms, and is maintaining the hold by gripping his own fingers. "Means I have to be more careful than usual. Tho...

[Little Mew's Artistic Escapades] LB-M stops drawing to listen to this discussion, visibly confused. ~I can imagine how it would work in principle, but it would either be very weak movement, or my sister is the size of a house and somehow you've omitted that. Now I really want to see her.~ She floa...

[Miranda's Cabin]

After receiving the inhibitors, Alto begins to cool down. He falls asleep just as sun begins to rise over the horizon. He'll likely sleep till noon, it was an exhausting night. Miranda is left to ponder what to do - maybe she should take the opportunity to rest too.

[Arkham Street Manor] Lia brings the wheelbarrow jolting down the steps before halting it on the street. She hurries back up to rejoin the conversation. "Hey, if you're talking about Sandels, then I protest the pejorative 'no-good'! I think he has quite a bit of good. And I'm very curious as t...

[Arkham Street Manor] Lia sighs as she realizes the task in front of her. She should have asked Sandels to borrow his horse. Or maybe just asked the horse; it seems to do its own thing a lot. Regardless, she loads the armor into the wheelbarrow and then pushes it back through the house, stumbling a...

[Miranda's Cabin] Alto happily accepts any water offered to him, a warm drink is better than no drink. But he is indees to big to fit in the tub. It would be easier to just pile the ice on him, or have him go outside and sit in the lake. The camp grounds might also have a bigger, communal bathtub a...

[Empty Beach] Hoshiki chuckles at Aaron's comment of rock-paper-scissors strategy. The truth is, the swordman can see a bit into the future, so Aaron could've chosen any strategy and it wouldn't have changed the future. TASbot's comment about anime makes the swordsman shakes his head. What is it wi...

[Arkham Street Manor] There's a door in the kitchen that leads to the backyard, it's not hard to find. The garden is a bit overgrown due to lack of care. The armor is stashed in a decripit, vine-covered shed, along with aged and rusty gardening tools; the door is mercifully unlocked. The armor has ...

[Arkham Street Manor] Hoshiki looks at the beaming mushroom girl with a stone face. "Well, you can have the armor. I put it in the garden shed. You can get to the backyard through the kitchen door." He moves aside and gestures for Lia to get in and walk to the right. He then turns to Mich...

[Arkham Street Manor] Lia and Michalson are up late. So late, it might already be early. Not that it ever seems to make much of a difference in the misty gloom of Arkham Street. Luckily for them, they turn out to be just in time: the owner returned from Seaside to rest, and has yet to go back to re...

[Empty Beach] "Alright! That was fun," TASBot says, stretching his arms and legs after having stopped the excercise. The robot reflects on Hoshiki's feedback, noting "Be a little more aggressive... got it." He perks up immediately upon hearing that he might get a training partne...

[A Rooster's Flight] Once Zee is gone, the remaining flames turn into just a normal destructive fire. They soon cool down to ashes, as the fire already reached limits of available fuel. Far in the distance, the bovine skeletons collapse and disintegrate, their tiny souls at peace at last. Complete ...

[A Rooster's Flight] By now, there is very little anything that could be called solid left of the rooster. Nothing, to be exact. It is just a flickering flame, any effect it has on the material world a byproduct of sheer heat. Yezekiel's sword splits the phantasm in half again, and for a moment, it...

[A Rooster's Flight] By now, there is very little anything that could be called solid left of the rooster. Nothing, to be exact. It is just a flickering flame, any effect it has on the material world a byproduct of sheer heat. Yezekiel's sword splits the phantasm in half again, and for a moment, it...

[Little Mew's Artistic Escapades] ~Oh, I can tell what they're for. That's easier than drawing. I try and try, but despite the pictures being clear in my head, it's hard to move them out.~ [/i] LB-M pulls another blank page and starts a new, larger drawing, focused on her brain and spine. She reall...

[A Rooster's Flight] It may be the will and drive of every living thing to prevail. But has it been written in the stars that they will? Yezekiel's sword splits the loathsome bird apart, a fiery wing separated from its bulk, a hole blown through its mass. In most contexts, it would be a fight-endin...

[Little Mew's Artistic Escapades] LB-M stops drawing and stares at Khafir for a moment, head to the side like a confused kitten. ~That is a funny way to say I need to eat to grow big. Like, I understood everyone does that. You... do do that, right?~ "Something is off", the entity signals ...

[Miranda's Cabin] Eun's not completely wrong. The good news is, it's not a cancer. If anything, it is almost the opposite. One important contributor to all kinds of cancer is that the mutated cells refuse to undergo apoptosis, or programmed cell death. In contrast, Alto's body has accelarated level...

Sandels downs his second drink. "Well it sounds like you're headed to the same direction. So what are you waiting for? Shoo! Shoo!" He gestures for Michalsons and Lia to get up and leave.

[A Rooster's Flight] When the rooster feels the seraph's hold slip, it jumps and hops backwards. Wings half spread, it once again bristles its necks feathers and screeches at the creature before it. "Yield? Yield??? I will yield when the last human is ash! When my crow heralds the very last da...

Sandels laughs at Lia. "Ha! Nobody ever accepts 'mysterious Reaper thing' as an answer. Believe me, I've tried" , he says. At the thought of simply talking it through, he shakes his head. "Did you consider he might have a just reason to hate my guts even if he remembered everything? I...

[A Rooster's Flight] Hey, now. If someone looks like a common tavern wench, walks like a common tavern wench and whines incessantly like a common tavern wench, why would a bird presume she's anything else? Luckily for Zee, the rooster already had its head close to the ground, if she'd had to drag i...

[Little Mew's Artistic Escapades] The tiny mew freezes for a second when Khafir's hand near her drawing. She contemplates how to anwer for a moment. ~Oh, these alterations? I already did them, before taking this form. I'm just trying to put all my ideas of them down somwhere, before I forget. I can...

[A Rooster's Flight] The crazed animals run past and around Zee as she draws in breath. Soon, they've passed, and the sound of thundering hooves begins growing more distant. The rooster turns slowly, ready to spread its wings and go after them, when Zee demands its attention. The rooster stops mid-...

[A Rooster's Flight] The force required to lift the bulk of the beast off the ground is immense, and as Zee expected, the flap of its wings makes the trees shake like a sudden storm. Chickens are not known for their flying skills, but this one has learned to manage. It soars high and then glides ov...

[Little Mew's Artistic Escapades] Even if there was in-built drawing skill to LB-M, it would be optimized to a human bodyplan, not a mew. Geneva is watching her trying to put her fine motor skills into this use for the very first time. She remains totally focused to her task, not commenting on Gene...

[Miranda's Cabin] It's not as hopeless as Eun thought - the machine does recognize Alto's blood as human. It also confirms Alto is a boy, with blood type O negative. The component causing unusual blood coloration remains unindentified, but it does not seem to be direct cause of what's happening. It...