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Keeper wrote: Mar 24, 2023 7:39 pm Parts Unknown

"Okay." Kol says, not one to ignore loud warnings yelled at him by mysterious voices.
"Could you uh. Fill me in on what's going on? Where am I? Because I think Braeg just banished me here for having the gall to tell him murder is bad."
Those darn villains, getting mad when you insist that murder is in fact bad.
Hopefully there's more air in here than it seems because Kol really doesn't want to think he's working with a time limit and he is not the son of the Maesdan god who could solve that problem.
He checks his phone to see if he has reception. He doesn't, but he really ought to check because man he would feel silly if he didn't and he ended up being able to just call for help the whole time.
[Parts Unknown]

...Huh.

That's a bar on his phone.

A... singular bar.

Implying that wherever he is, there's still cell service. He's just not in a particularly good spot for it. Maybe he lucked out and Braeg sort of forgot phones were a thing?

...It doesn't solve his problem on its own, of course. But it's another tool he has on his belt. Potentially useful.

"...Lord Braeg. Of course it's Lord Braeg. I'm down here for Absum only knows how long and my first contact is brought in by the devil himself."

There's a brief moment of silence, then,

"Sorry. That would make you an innocent in all of this. My name is Lord Arvin. And you're somewhere underneath a town called Hallower's Rest, stranger. On the other side of that door, somewhere, there's a monster that could be mistaken for a hill, with an appetite matched only by the old dragons. If you open that door, it'll sniff us out and devour us both. I can't risk that happening. Please, stay in here where it is safe."


[Hallway - Aiko's Locker]

clunk!

Aikobaz replaces the lock on her locker and starts down the hall, hugging her books to her chest. She passes most students in the halls without comment, other than a snide sneer at the occasional giggle directed her way; apparently, her rejection by "buggy Betty" had yet to be completely forgotten.
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”The old dragons? I didn’t actually get to see Eos eat when we met. But he did imply that he had siblings even older than him. Uh, so where are you exactly? I had assumed I was talking to a spirit or something.”
Kol shrugs and dials Intersection. If he wants them to try to get to his room and trace the teleport he better have them get on that as soon as possible. He’ll just inform them that a psycho kidnapped him and maybe they’ll even be able to trace the call.

Aiko’s Locker

Unfortunately, PREP has a predetermined way for people to meet each other. So the absolute second she looks away she may find a large classmate directly in front of her and probably too close to avoid crashing into.

On the plus side, he’s soft. Aiko should recognize Mac, the large boy from her fencing class. Round, porcine, and generally sticking to his uniform pants with a tiny vest equivalent of the uniform top with a mage’s pointed hat. He’s taken to wearing a small saber recently.
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"Oof!" Much smaller than Aigothurz, Mary goes toppling over. She's just got the one book, so she doesn't drop it. "I'm fine," it takes a lot to seriously hurt a creature like her. Isn't this guy one of Aiko's friends? Or "friends," Mary isn't convinced Aiko is capable of having friends. But she has seen her rival spending time with other people occasionally.
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'Friends' might be pushing it, though admittedly not in the direction Mary's thinking. Aigothurz would probably say Aikobaz is like a halfsibling, or a close cousin.

"I'm glad to hear it. Mary, right? I'm Aigothurz." Name sounds like Aikobaz', which happens to be a coincidence. He's stooped at the moment, looking up occasionally as he sorts all the books back into a pile.
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Keeper wrote: Mar 26, 2023 9:59 am Parts Unknown

”The old dragons? I didn’t actually get to see Eos eat when we met. But he did imply that he had siblings even older than him. Uh, so where are you exactly? I had assumed I was talking to a spirit or something.”
Kol shrugs and dials Intersection. If he wants them to try to get to his room and trace the teleport he better have them get on that as soon as possible. He’ll just inform them that a psycho kidnapped him and maybe they’ll even be able to trace the call.
[Parts Unknown]

"...You've met Eos? The Thamar of Dawn? THAT Eos?" The voice sounds skeptical for a moment, before seeming to wave the matter away.

"You are. After the cataclysm, I came down here to run some experiments on methods to help us persist incorporeally, so we would not need to consume one another to survive. So far, it only seems to have worked on Lords. A Lord, at least."

On the other end of the call, the Intersection officer he called calmly informs Kol that the tracing method they're using only gives them a certain radius around one of the cell towers; they have officers searching for Kol now, but they're covering forty square miles of land; the search could take a while.

And, Kol will be unpleasantly reminded the next time he takes a breath, he might not have long enough for them to search the entire area.
Keeper wrote: Mar 26, 2023 9:59 am Aiko’s Locker

Unfortunately, PREP has a predetermined way for people to meet each other. So the absolute second she looks away she may find a large classmate directly in front of her and probably too close to avoid crashing into.

On the plus side, he’s soft. Aiko should recognize Mac, the large boy from her fencing class. Round, porcine, and generally sticking to his uniform pants with a tiny vest equivalent of the uniform top with a mage’s pointed hat. He’s taken to wearing a small saber recently.
[Aiko's Locker - Seeq and Find]

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For a moment, Aikobaz just stands there stoically, not seeming to react to her face suddenly being buried an inch deep into the pig-boy's chest fat. She simply waits a moment before taking a step back and staring up at him unflinchingly. "...You are in my way." She says bluntly, her cold demeanor quickly giving way to transparent annoyance.
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”Mhm. Eos is my half-brother. But he says I shouldn’t worry about the other half because Step-Father is cool with everything.” Kol normally is pretty casual but he is not calling Absum Step-Dad. That doesn’t sound right.
”How’s something going to eat you if you’re a spirit? Point is, I need to breathe which means I have to be out of here in the next hour or two or you’ll be alone again. Or at least we need to drill an air hole.”

Aiko’s Locker - Seeq and Find

”Oh? That was the final bell just now. You’re in a big hurry for someone with no classes to be at.” He says this with utmost confidence, and yet one hand does drift to his chest self-consciously.
”You know if I was a girl I think the response would be that you owe me dinner and a movie. Or at least an apology.” Well. A human-ish girl at least. For seeq it would probably go either way.
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"Yeah." "I... Need to get to class." Mary tries to push Aigothurz off. She has enough distaste for Aiko that she's not very interested in talking to him because of their his relationship to her.
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[Parts Unknown]

"Wait, do you mean to say that you are..." The voice trails off. "...You know, it doesn't matter. There are more urgent things to discuss. For example... if you open this chamber so that air can get in, then air can get out, and if air can get out, the smell can get out, and the demon can find us. It will then promptly eat the both of us. That would make opening this room, as the young people say today, a 'no-can-do'.

And since you ask how... I'm not entirely certain, but I've seen them manage it before. Just open their mouth and... gone."




[Aiko's Locker - Seeq and Find]

"...Let me be clear." Aikobaz gives the pig-boy a firm poke in the sternum. "You ran into me. You are now getting between me and one of many extracurriculars which I must attend today. And yet you have the nerve to say that I owe you for entertaining this conversation?"

Aikobaz takes a step forward and to the side, in an attempt to get by the seeq. "I am wasting no more time on this. I refuse to allow an entitled pig to be the reason I am late for fencing practice." She grumbles.
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Aigothurz backs off when pushed; he's large and quite intimidating, but doesn't want to intimidate. So he tries really hard to be gentle and nonthreatening. "Can I at least get you ice cream later to apologise? Place called Sweet Dreams Ice Creams, it's really nice." Whether or not Mary can hear him depends on if she continued to hurry or if she stopped to listen.
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"Um. Okay. So well, I could try asking Absum to help. He's made it rain around me before. But I don't think he can make air. That's you know. Not what a destruction god does." Presumably Absum makes it rain by pulling the moisture from somewhere else. If he was making water that would probably infringe on Adea's portfolio.
"And I could try to make it myself but I've only ever made water. And fish. And dirt sometimes. It just kind of happens." Sometimes they come out of his mouth too like Eos' fire which is really distressing.

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"Miss, a few things." Mac takes a tactical step to the side to continue being in Aiko's way.
"One, that's a slur but I'm going to ignore it assuming you never say that to me again, okay? Two, you ran into me, because if I ran into you I would have bowled you over being at least twice your mass. Three, fencing practice is Thursday. It's Wednesday. Four, no, you don't owe me anything. It was a joke. About boobs. Because you just got yourself intimately acquainted with mine." Mac's hands point dramatically where Aiko's nose was moments ago.

"So do you want to take a deep breath, lighten up, and try again? 'Hello Mac, sorry about that, you know we've never talked and we could fix that if you want. I'm free.' Something like that?"
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"Huh? Um, I guess," Mary is taken aback. She wasn't expecting that reaction. "Sure. After school." She's not going to skip class for this.
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"Of course! I enjoy my next lesson. I'll see you there, then." Aigothurz smiles and heaves himself up with the pile of books and continues on his way.

Outside the School, Sweet Dreams Ice Creams

It's a nice little place, a small restaurant specialising in ice cream with an option to sit inside or out. The decor's got a decided bedroom vibe to it, the booths separated by wrought iron headboards, the tables having a bedside light on, and similar things. It's also pretty popular, so when Mary arrives she might not immediately spot Aigothurz.

The mostly-orc has changed into smart but casual clothes, a pair of nice jeans, hiking boots, and a burgundy shirt, and he's sat at one of the booths talking to a seventeen-year-old halfelf girl with green hair, wearing an apron over a blue skirt and matching t-shirt.
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Mary arrives a little later, still in her school uniform. She gives Aigothurz a nod and slides into the seat across from him, waiting for him to finish speaking with the waitress first.
"So, um... What is this about?" Other than ice cream.
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Sweet Dreams Ice Creams

Aigothurz smiles at Mary when she arrives, and asks the waitress to 'give them a moment'. She smiles at him and walks off, to give them a moment together before she comes back to ask their orders.

"Ice cream. Also, I don't know you as well as I would like, and most of what I do know is filtered through Aikobaz, who doesn't like you." Which is, perhaps, mutual, but Aigothurz doesn't know that. "I'm trying to teach her how to be... less arrogant, amongst other things. It's been quite hard for her. But how about you? Why did you decide to come? I'm glad you did, mind." Aigothurz smiles at Mary and leans back, relaxed.
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Keeper wrote: Mar 29, 2023 6:49 pm Parts Unknown

"Um. Okay. So well, I could try asking Absum to help. He's made it rain around me before. But I don't think he can make air. That's you know. Not what a destruction god does." Presumably Absum makes it rain by pulling the moisture from somewhere else. If he was making water that would probably infringe on Adea's portfolio.
"And I could try to make it myself but I've only ever made water. And fish. And dirt sometimes. It just kind of happens." Sometimes they come out of his mouth too like Eos' fire which is really distressing.
[Parts Unknown]

"If you could, that would be a very convenient- buggeration!"

That last bit, of course, has nothing to do with the production of air, but rather, the solid thwam! of something large running into the door from the other side, hard enough to cause a series of cracks to spiderweb over it.

"FEASSSSSST!" Something rasps from the other side as the door gets slammed again.

Keeper wrote: Mar 29, 2023 6:49 pm Aiko's Locker - Seeq and Find

"Miss, a few things." Mac takes a tactical step to the side to continue being in Aiko's way.
"One, that's a slur but I'm going to ignore it assuming you never say that to me again, okay? Two, you ran into me, because if I ran into you I would have bowled you over being at least twice your mass. Three, fencing practice is Thursday. It's Wednesday. Four, no, you don't owe me anything. It was a joke. About boobs. Because you just got yourself intimately acquainted with mine." Mac's hands point dramatically where Aiko's nose was moments ago.

"So do you want to take a deep breath, lighten up, and try again? 'Hello Mac, sorry about that, you know we've never talked and we could fix that if you want. I'm free.' Something like that?"
[Aiko's Locker]

Aikobaz frowns. "Well, for your information, Mac, I'm not going to our regular fencing practice. I've scheduled a catch-up session with one of our problem teammates and I intend to have him properly drilled on forms one through seven by the end of the night. So why don't you take your jokes and your boobs and-"

The empress catches herself and takes a deep breath. This. This right here, this is why she doesn't have any real friends. She can put herself out there all she wants; if she talks down to people, they're never going to accept her. She finds herself remembering Aigothurz's advice with regard to diplomacy but quickly shakes them away. That was only going to apply when she wasn't running la-

rininining~

The empress sighs and holds up her cell phone to her ear. "Aikobaz." She greets curtly, before falling completely silent for the next several seconds. After which she stoically nods and mutters "Very well. Recover quickly." and clicks her phone shut.

"That was my student. He won't be tutoring today." She says matter-of-factly, returning her phone to her pocket.
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"Well, shit." Kol can feel his fangs itching. Metaphorically right now. But that will change soon.
"We're out of time. Sorry, Thamar must smell extra good. There's a spirit in my head that helps me change. Can you take shelter in there too? I'm going to have to blitz my way out of here if we can't stay here." And by that he means change, slam the door open, blast the attacker and run like hell.

Aiko's Locker

"For the record, Vita really appreciates that you do this for the other recruits. You and me are the only first-years who really have their form worked out." Vita of course, being the reptilian captain of the team.
"But it sounds like you are in fact free. So what is the plan then, Miss?" he asks, not at all expectantly.
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"I was... Curious," Mary explains, "Why one of Aiko's friends would want to talk to me." She smiles awkwardly at Aigothurz's mention of trying to teach Aiko to be less arrogant. "I can't believe that would be easy... Or even possible."
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Sweet Dreams Ice Creams

"It's tricky, but she wants to learn. She wants friends and people who accept her, and... that's not something she's found easy. She's sat a throne since she was nine, so her childhood was cut short. And I'm not sure how easy it was for her to make friends before then, since her father was an emperor and her mother... not an empress." Though Aigothurz won't go further into that without Aikobaz knowing about it. "We are friends, Aikobaz and I. But we're more than that, too. She's... somewhere between sister and cousin, I think. My Nana's basically adopted her. She lost her empire and her magic when the contents of her bedroom, including herself and two guards, appeared outside Trog's. The guards deserted immediately, and Nana took her in."
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"We are talking about the same person right?" Mary can't see Aikobaz wanting to learn anything, let alone how to be less arrogant. She isn't at all sympathetic to the plight Aigothurz describes. "Serves her right, she was a major asshole. Turned people who displeased her into ducks and then ate them, just because she could. She's an awful ruler." Has Aiko told him about that? Mary only knows because Aiko threatened her with it.
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Keeper wrote: Apr 02, 2023 11:01 pm Parts Unknown

"Well, shit." Kol can feel his fangs itching. Metaphorically right now. But that will change soon.
"We're out of time. Sorry, Thamar must smell extra good. There's a spirit in my head that helps me change. Can you take shelter in there too? I'm going to have to blitz my way out of here if we can't stay here." And by that he means change, slam the door open, blast the attacker and run like hell.
[Parts Unknown]

"That's where I've been sitting, so... yes, I can manage."

That's the moment the door splits open, a massive, claw-tipped appendage pushing through it and tapping arounf the immediate vicinity. On the far side of the door, that raspy voice can still be heard:

"FEASSSSSSST! FEASSSSSSSSST!"
Keeper wrote: Apr 02, 2023 11:01 pm Aiko's Locker

"For the record, Vita really appreciates that you do this for the other recruits. You and me are the only first-years who really have their form worked out." Vita of course, being the reptilian captain of the team.
"But it sounds like you are in fact free. So what is the plan then, Miss?" he asks, not at all expectantly.
[Aiko's Locker]

"And yet he can't be bothered to do any training himself." Aiko mutters. "A leader should be more involved in her- in his followers than that. If not for that two-year minimum, I would run against him as captain." She gives her books a little squeeze and frowns. "Our team is a travesty, which is a reflection of its leadership. I could do something about that."
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”Feast on plasma!” Kol yells, unloading five shots of his spear-weapon before the horrible wrenching claims him again. Being a dragon is normal for him, but perhaps it will be a new experience for his passenger.

Moonlight glows in the room with no windows. The youngest Thamar roars his challenge to the monster.

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”Vita is busy giving personal lessons to the juniors and seniors like Franz and Vanessa. He leaves the freshman to you because he trusts you.” Mac says, his smile dropping again.
”Our team is also winning. So between the fact that we aren’t losing and you’d never beat my brother in a match, you’d have a hard time with that campaign.”
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Sweet Dreams Ice Creams

"Oh, because when you were nine years old, you'd have coped really well at being suddenly orphaned and given control of the world's most powerful nation and expected to deal with rebellion because you're nine and should be easy to push around, and war and diplomacy as the neighbouring kingdoms also tried to take advantage of your youth and inexperience and even your grief over losing your family. And I don't just mean parents, here. I mean uncles, aunts, half-siblings, cousins, nieces, nephews, everyone. Not that they necessarily showed you much attention before; you weren't important enough. In order to have a chance at sitting the throne and having that much power, everyone who died needed to die so that there was no other choice for empress. She was a terrible ruler who used fear to keep her subjects in line and cow her enemies into peace, because it was the tool she had and there was nobody to teach her otherwise." Of course, Mary is also an orphan, only achieving her current rank because of adoption. Aigothurz doesn't know that, however. "And a regency wouldn't work either, the empire needed someone to sit the throne and it's the throne that gave her the power to turn people into ducks, amongst other things, and it only works for people closely related to those that have already sat the throne." Which is why the most powerful general didn't just plonk their arse on the gaudy chair and have Aikobaz thrown off a balcony.
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Sweet Dreams Ice Cream
"When I was 9, I was living on the streets
just trying to get enough food to survive so forgive me if I'm not sympathetic to that spoiled brat of an empress who had everything she could ever want and used it to torment people,"
Mary snaps, her voice dripping with venom. Did Aigothurz know she was an orphan and a street urchin? She looks so much like her mother that if they're seen together, it would be easy to assume they're biologically related (they are, but that's due to the circumstances of Mary's resurrection).
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Sweet Dreams Ice Creams

Aigothurz is silent for a few moments, looking a little shocked at that particular revelation. It should be readily apparent to Mary that he- and probably Aikobaz as well- was unaware of that detail. "I'm sorry. I didn't know. Your mother found you later, though? Since you live with her now. Means you don't have first-hand experience of growing up in an imperial court, though. I don't, but my grandfather has told me some of what he experienced. Though they weren't the same; my great-grandfather forged that empire, and my grandfather was always amongst the most likely to succeed him. Instead, my grandfather's uncle tried to purge the court of humans and usurp control of it after my forefather's death. My grandfather's mother is my most recent full-blooded human ancestor." So his grandfather's youth had quite a lot of vicious politicians and grasping nobility trying to get his favour and stab each other in the back to advance and dominate what they could.
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Keeper wrote: Apr 09, 2023 3:56 pm Parts Unknown

”Feast on plasma!” Kol yells, unloading five shots of his spear-weapon before the horrible wrenching claims him again. Being a dragon is normal for him, but perhaps it will be a new experience for his passenger.

Moonlight glows in the room with no windows. The youngest Thamar roars his challenge to the monster.
[Parts Unknown]

A frantic wail fills the room as the appendage writhes, its skin seared by the plasma. It convulses and slams itself against the wall, before pulling back and away... and taking a good chunk of the wall with it.

On the other side of the wall, Kol will be able to see a massive orange eye, the oversized pupil contracting as it hones in on Kol's location.

"FEASSSSSSSSST!" The massive monster screeches, baring a set of teeth that are individually as tall as Kol.

The good news is, it's quite crammed in the hall outside the room. Kol might still be able to get around it.
Keeper wrote: Apr 09, 2023 3:56 pm Aiko’s Locker

”Vita is busy giving personal lessons to the juniors and seniors like Franz and Vanessa. He leaves the freshman to you because he trusts you.” Mac says, his smile dropping again.
”Our team is also winning. So between the fact that we aren’t losing and you’d never beat my brother in a match, you’d have a hard time with that campaign.”
[Aiko's Locker]

"First; that is something like a physician who busies himself tending exclusively to the healthy." Aikobaz replies, arms folded over her chest. "Who is a larger liability to the team; the third-year who does not quite understand the finer points of Montoya's fencing techniques, or the first-year who cannot even pronounce 'riposte'?" She lets the question hang in the air for a moment before continuing. "Second, our team is winning so far. That is not evidence of a strong team. That is evidence that the other teams we've faced are not as well put-together. And even if we do take home a trophy this year, our top veterans will not be returning the following year, so it behooves us to ensure that the incoming recruits are in top form, as they're next year's veterans."

"And third." Her eyes narrow. "I believe you've just answered for me exactly what I'm going to do tonight. Assuming your brother doesn't have anything else to do, himself."
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Kol roars again and charges the side of the hall. As his breath hits the hall around him and the demon, stone and earth warps. A hall that should by no means contain both of them buckles and flows around Kol as he makes his best attempt at running past the demon while their surroundings flex like rubber.

Aiko's Locker

"No, it's akin to a physician who delegates his nurse to handle patients who only have cuts and bruises. The seniors have trouble with techniques you don't even know yet. The freshman have trouble with techniques you do. Vita could certainly handle all of it." he leans forward just a little. "But that would require he let the feisty newbie with something to prove to sit on the sidelines. He's letting you handle something he thinks you can handle because you asked him to let you handle something."
The seeq sighs.
"We like you, Aiko. You give a damn and don't spend most of your time laughing at other people, which is more than we can say about half the people at this school. And we'd even be your friends if you stopped trying to bite our heads off every chance you get. I was trying to invite you to get ice cream, but if you'd rather scream at my brother, that's fine I guess."
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Keeper wrote: Apr 11, 2023 5:20 pm Parts Unknown

Kol roars again and charges the side of the hall. As his breath hits the hall around him and the demon, stone and earth warps. A hall that should by no means contain both of them buckles and flows around Kol as he makes his best attempt at running past the demon while their surroundings flex like rubber.
[Parts Unknown]

It's a good thing Kol is running for his life and not thinking too hard about the geometry of the situation, or else he'd probably hurt his brain, much like any rational observer would. The tunnel he forges takes him down away from the demon, and yet it can be heard further below him and off to the side, before dipping right past it and depositing him in a large, open chamber where the demon's roars are a distant echo.

The chamber itself resembles a dilapidated dining hall, because that's what it is. Rotted, splintered tables line the floor, and a few of them have been gathered into the center for a large bonfire. The flames outline several figures in green cloaks, one of whom turns back to greet Kol.

"Well, well! Look who's gone and joined us!" Braeg smiles, hoisting up a chalice in his hand. "Welcome, master Kol."

"Welcome!" Chorus half a dozen other voices among those assembled.
Keeper wrote: Apr 11, 2023 5:20 pm Aiko's Locker

"No, it's akin to a physician who delegates his nurse to handle patients who only have cuts and bruises. The seniors have trouble with techniques you don't even know yet. The freshman have trouble with techniques you do. Vita could certainly handle all of it." he leans forward just a little. "But that would require he let the feisty newbie with something to prove to sit on the sidelines. He's letting you handle something he thinks you can handle because you asked him to let you handle something."
The seeq sighs.
"We like you, Aiko. You give a damn and don't spend most of your time laughing at other people, which is more than we can say about half the people at this school. And we'd even be your friends if you stopped trying to bite our heads off every chance you get. I was trying to invite you to get ice cream, but if you'd rather scream at my brother, that's fine I guess."
[Aiko's Locker]

Aikobaz frowns at that. Does he really think she's that stupid? Nobody likes her, with the exception of the Bloodplunders, of which Mac was not one. Flattery wasn't going to get the pig-boy anywhere, especially not when it's that transparently false.

"I don't... I don't care if you like me or not." Aiko says, a tiny tremolo in her voice the only indication that she feels otherwise. "I have never needed approval to do my job before and I do not intend to start now. What I care about is our team doing well. If there is nothing to be done to that end tonight, then I have other matters to attend to." She hefts her books over her chest to punctuate the statement. "So unless you intend to help me study for my Divination midterm, write my report for Comparative Geography, practice for my Diplomacy practicals or have any new notes for me to go over in Intro to Romance, kindly remove yourself from my path."
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Kol narrows his eyes. When did his life get so complicated? A few months ago he was only really worried about his math class and having to be in a school full of weirdos. And now he's stuck in a cult dungeon adventurers ought to be raiding, seemingly made specifically to annoy him.
"Yeah, great, sure, still totally kidnapped me, you should really invest in a broom by the way." Kol sticks his nose in the air and pointedly continues along the side of the room in an attempt to find another exit.
There won't be, of course. Because the place was designed to annoy him specifically.

Aiko's Locker

Aiko's declaration does not get the response she was likely expecting.
"Deal! It's a date! My dorm's right in the next building over; we can work there."
Aiko might find herself with a pair of three-fingered hands on her shoulders, trying to gently guide her down the hall to the Crystal dorms (named after the sign on the building, not its material). Third door on the left.
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On the contrary. There is, in fact, a door right there. Nothing's really stopping Kol from walking out of the banquet hall.

Well, almost nothing.

"FEASSSSSST!" Screeches the demon in the distance.

"Oh, don't mind them. As long as you're in the great Lord Braeg's presence, they wouldn't dare touch you." Braeg smiles.

"Yeah. They know better." One of the other fiendlings, a girl considerably shorter than Kol, pipes up. "Nobody fucks with uncle Braeg."

"Language, Fiona. But yes." Braeg smiles and pulls her, and an identical girl next to her, into a sideways hug. "That said, you and your sister should give your cousin a proper greeting, hm?"

The girls run up after Kol, giggling the whole way.

[Aiko's Locker -> Crystal Dorms]

Aikobaz most certainly does not find a three-fingered hand on her shoulder. Or, rather, it doesn't stay there. The attempted touch is immediately shrugged off, with a full slap on the wrist if necessary, followed by an unamused glare. Touching the empress isn't a privilege Macan's earned yet.

But... she'll go with him all the same. His response was surprising, but apart from the unwanted physical contact, not unwelcome.
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It's okay. Most people are considerably smaller than Kol given that he's the size of a rhinoceros.
"I'd have thought a great lord could have at least afforded a decent table." rumbles the Thamar, positioning himself by the door but not leaving just yet.
He looks down at the two fiendlings giggling after him. He sighs.
"Okay, sure, I'll bite. Lay it on me."

Crystal Dorms

These dorms seem rather nice. Carpeted and without even glitter and crumbs smashed into the floor from parties. A few students look questioningly at the pair but are chased away by Macan's subsequent glares.
Inside his dorm (room 325) Aikobaz might be surprised that despite Mac's appearance the place is remarkably well-kept. A large almost apartment-sized dorm that has been kept meticulously clean and decorated with colorful textile patterns from a desert country neither of them has ever actually been to.
Well, except the appliances over in the tiny little kitchenette, which are all cutesy and moogle-themed.
Mac offers Aikobaz the coat rack, upon which his hat and vest are deposited immediately. The now shirtless seeq plops down onto one of the nearby cushions.
"There's snacks in the fridge if you want. What are we doing first?"
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