Wyldgame/Lunars, Sidereals, and Solars, oh my!

From Greenthings

(27/02/10 15:12:36) Greenling: Last we left off, the discovery of a bottle of liquid valor led to an impromptu barfight.
(27/02/10 15:15:52) Greenling: Eventually, though, all fights end... as you might expect, with several people getting carted off to the drunk tank.
(27/02/10 15:16:10) Greenling: Which in a tiny northern village, is basically someone's cellar.
(27/02/10 15:16:36) Greenling: In fact it is literally the cellar of an angry old woman.
(27/02/10 15:17:19) Greenling: It is the next morning. What do our dear Exalts do?
(27/02/10 15:20:54) Hel*** obviously does what any normal person does and politely waits outside her room for her to wake up. He'd wait beside her bed, but apparently that wasn't something a normal person does.
(27/02/10 15:21:52) ***Reed does his best to make sure Lion looks clean and presentable, then takes his son down to the tavern and plops Lion into a seat at one of the tables and orders two of whatever is for breakfast this morning, and coffee for himself and most certainly NOT coffee for Lion.
(27/02/10 15:21:59) ***Joyous_Blade is snoring drunkenly in a bed.
(27/02/10 15:22:11) Greenling: Lion yawns.
(27/02/10 15:24:37) Greenling: The serving girl comes over with two plates of sausages, biscuits, gravy, and fried potatoes, and coffee and water. "Hey. No pressure, but if you could remind your friends they didn't pay the bill..."
(27/02/10 15:24:59) ***Mirra_Kasull wakes up and stretches out on the floor of Blade's room in totem form. No sense scrounging up excess cash when she can use someone else's accomodations. Shifting to human, she pauses and glances to the window. Barred?
(27/02/10 15:25:21) Greenling: (nope. locked, though.)
(27/02/10 15:26:36) Reed: "I'll make sure to tell them. I'm sure they just forgot in all the...excitement." He smiles.
(27/02/10 15:27:32) Greenling: "Oh, and... whoever it was last night that ordered that bottle- I think they were with you, weren't they?- it's still here."
(27/02/10 15:27:43) Greenling: "Thanks," she chirps.
(27/02/10 15:28:29) ***Mirra_Kasull hms some. Well, oh well. Wrapping her cloak about herself [and forming proper clothing beneath] before Blade can awaken to see anything, she makes her way downstairs to sit with Reed.
(27/02/10 15:30:01) Joyous_Blade: A few minutes after Mirra leaves, Blade yawns and begins to get up, pulling on a simple tunic and skirt before following the Lunar downstairs.
(27/02/10 15:31:22) ***Reed waves Mirra over to his table.
(27/02/10 15:32:46) ***Mirra_Kasull nods to Reed, pausing and making her way over to the innkeeper, speaking with him and gesturing to Blade when she comes downstairs
(27/02/10 15:32:56) ***Hel is on Mirra like stink on a Yeddim.
(27/02/10 15:32:59) mode (+o Greenling) by Mirra_Kasull
(27/02/10 15:33:12) ***Joyous_Blade glances at Mirra curiously. "Yeah?"
(27/02/10 15:33:49) Greenling: The innkeeper looks at Blade, examines her bleary-eyed, and grins.
(27/02/10 15:33:53) ***Mirra_Kasull glances over. "Oh, just talking about the room."
(27/02/10 15:34:29) ***Mirra_Kasull was, after all, gesturing in the direction of the stairs.
(27/02/10 15:36:24) Greenling: It is fairly obvious that whatever the innkeeper is thinking, and whoever or whatever it's about, it's probably veering into 'mental scars' territory.
(27/02/10 15:36:46) Greenling: The serving girl will bring more sausage, biscuits, etc. for whoever sits down.
(27/02/10 15:37:27) Greenling: Lion is trying to sop up as much of the gravy as he can onto one biscuit before eating it.
(27/02/10 15:38:07) ***Mirra_Kasull makes her way to sit by Reed, smiling to him. "Good morning~"
(27/02/10 15:38:10) ***Joyous_Blade shrugs and heads over to Reed's table.
(27/02/10 15:38:10) Greenling: Salith is... somewhere. Possibly being sneaky.
(27/02/10 15:38:59) Hel: "Greetings."
(27/02/10 15:39:09) Reed: "Good morning to you too. You seem to be in a cheerful mood. Sleep well?"
(27/02/10 15:39:29) ***Mirra_Kasull gives a nod. "Well enough, at least. How about yourself?"
(27/02/10 15:40:19) ***Joyous_Blade stretches and rolls a cigarette while she waits for the serving girl to bring her breakfast.
(27/02/10 15:40:45) Greenling: "Hi Mirra."
(27/02/10 15:41:20) Greenling: "Are we going to go see the Lunars today?"
(27/02/10 15:41:36) Hel: "Uh."
(27/02/10 15:41:39) ***Kairos_Midoya comes wandering in.
(27/02/10 15:41:49) Greenling: The small child looks up at you all with curiousity.
(27/02/10 15:41:51) Reed: "I've slept in worse places. Someone kept kicking me in his sleep, though." Reed smirks at Lion and ruffles his hair.
(27/02/10 15:41:59) Greenling: "Did not."
(27/02/10 15:42:14) ***Joyous_Blade snickers slightly. "So cute."
(27/02/10 15:42:14) ***Mirra_Kasull smiles to Reed. "Well, it might not be immediately, but there are a few matters at hand."
(27/02/10 15:43:57) ***Hel flicks an ear. "You saw lunars all of last evening."
(27/02/10 15:44:33) Joyous_Blade: "I rather suspect Lion meant your bosses, Hel."
(27/02/10 15:44:54) Hel: "Bosses?"
(27/02/10 15:45:37) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, the people who get to tell you what to do."
(27/02/10 15:46:15) ***Hel looks at Mirra.
(27/02/10 15:46:32) Greenling: "Dad said we're going on a mission, and now Mirra's back and the other lady had moonsilver. So we're going to go see the Lunars." He smiles like he's proud of himself for figuring that out.
(27/02/10 15:47:03) Greenling: Salith, meanwhile, had totally been there the whole time, drinking coffee.
(27/02/10 15:47:37) ***Joyous_Blade lights up. "Clever boy. Salith, where's my breakfast?"
(27/02/10 15:48:21) ***Mirra_Kasull chuckles softly, glancing to Hel. "The Pact."
(27/02/10 15:48:58) Greenling: "Mmmh," she says from behind the coffee-cup.
(27/02/10 15:49:14) ***Kairos_Midoya finally comes wandering over.
(27/02/10 15:49:22) Hel: "You tell me what to do more than the pact does..."
(27/02/10 15:49:24) Greenling: A few seconds later, the serving girl comes over with more breakfasts.
(27/02/10 15:49:54) Reed: "Morning, Kairos." Reed kicks out a chair for him.
(27/02/10 15:50:24) ***Joyous_Blade waves, stubbing out her cigarette before tucking it behind one ear and digging in to the food.
(27/02/10 15:50:25) Kairos_Midoya: "Good morning." he says, yawning, and drops into the chair.
(27/02/10 15:53:04) Reed: Reed makes a vaguely disgusted face at the cigarette. "By the way, the waitress said to remind you that you had yet to pay your check. I'm presuming she means at least you--" he looks at Blade "and probably the other woman."
(27/02/10 15:53:53) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, yeah, I'll get around to it before we leave." She pauses. "*Which* other woman?"
(27/02/10 15:55:13) Reed: "The one you were traveling with. I didn't catch her name."
(27/02/10 15:56:44) ***Joyous_Blade leans back in her chair. "Well, that only narrows it down by one. Salith, be a good girl and go fetch my wallet."
(27/02/10 15:56:55) Greenling: Salith drops Blade's wallet on the table.
(27/02/10 15:57:23) Joyous_Blade: "Thank you."
(27/02/10 15:57:23) Greenling: She looks at Blade.
(27/02/10 15:57:32) Greenling: Small smile.
(27/02/10 15:58:09) Greenling: Lion looks up at Hel. "You're Mirra's friend?"
(27/02/10 15:58:27) Hel: "Traveling companion."
(27/02/10 15:59:49) Greenling: He looks confused for a moment, then goes back to his sausage. "Mirra's nice. She and Dad are friends."
(27/02/10 15:59:59) Greenling: "Can we be friends?"
(27/02/10 16:00:24) Hel: "..." Hel stares at the little kid and then at Mirra. "Y-yes?"
(27/02/10 16:00:24) Greenling: He looks up at Hel with wide eyes.
(27/02/10 16:00:49) ***Joyous_Blade d'awwws.
(27/02/10 16:01:08) Kairos_Midoya: ...so adorable
(27/02/10 16:01:18) ***Hel does not comprehend.
(27/02/10 16:01:22) ***Mirra_Kasull giggles softly.
(27/02/10 16:02:45) Reed: Reed pats Lion on the head.
(27/02/10 16:03:00) Hel: He tries to smile which looks slightly unhinged but at least it is a start.
(27/02/10 16:03:14) Greenling: Lion grins.
(27/02/10 16:04:10) Greenling: Breakfast is pretty good.
(27/02/10 16:05:40) ***Joyous_Blade finishes up eventually.
(27/02/10 16:06:51) Joyous_Blade: "So, uh, *do* we have any plans?"
(27/02/10 16:07:18) ***Kairos_Midoya shrugs, poking at the remains of his breakfast.
(27/02/10 16:07:43) Greenling: Reed was given instructions to show you back to the guy who has the information you need.
(27/02/10 16:07:55) Greenling: And whoever was with him, if anyone.
(27/02/10 16:09:43) Reed: "A friend of mine sent me to find you -- I'm presuming it's you, since I haven't met a similar group of people, though his desciptions were admittedly vague -- and wants to meet you for something."
(27/02/10 16:09:56) ***Hel shakes his head and continues to stare at his breakfast with the silverware.
(27/02/10 16:10:47) ***Joyous_Blade shrugs. "Good enough for me." She lights back up.
(27/02/10 16:11:38) Greenling: Vague. Cute pale chick with tattooes and yellow sparkly eyes. Cute purple-and-green-haired chick with blue sparkly eyes. Your Mate. Large angry one with huge ears. The little adorable one whose nose is always in a book that Ocean won't let me within a yard of.
(27/02/10 16:11:49) Greenling: Vague yet specific at the same time.
(27/02/10 16:12:56) Reed: Reed pays the waitress for breakfast, then takes whoever follows him to go meet with Il Seraph.
(27/02/10 16:14:42) Hel: Following relative stranger and his child? Sure!
(27/02/10 16:15:11) Reed: Reed taps Kairos on the shoulder. "Just to warn you," he says quietly, "you might want to watch out around Il Seraph. You, ah, might be his type."
(27/02/10 16:16:06) ***Joyous_Blade finishes her cigarette, puffing out a lute to amuse Lion. Then she pays the serving girl for herself, Salith and Adamant. "Salith, remind Adamant that she needs to pay me back."
(27/02/10 16:17:22) Kairos_Midoya: "...thank you for telling me." ...he can't be any worse than his crazy "wife" or that crazy infernal jackass. right? right.
(27/02/10 16:17:24) Hel: "Type?" Hel stares at Kairos.
(27/02/10 16:18:02) ***Hel looks at the solars skeptically. "He is a boy."
(27/02/10 16:19:07) Reed: "Well, yes. I doubt Il Seraph would be interested if he wasn't."
(27/02/10 16:19:35) ***Hel does not comprehend.
(27/02/10 16:20:09) ***Kairos_Midoya just pays the waitress and buries his face in a book.
(27/02/10 16:21:26) Greenling: Adamant! Congratulations, you have a hangover. Also it's about two hours later than you thought it was when you last opened your eyes.
(27/02/10 16:21:34) ***Joyous_Blade chuckles and lights another cigarette. "Salith, go and wake Adamant up, could you?"
(27/02/10 16:22:11) Greenling: Lion grins at the lute. "Can you teach me to do that?"
(27/02/10 16:22:58) Adamant: Evil bright day thing go away.
(27/02/10 16:23:00) Adamant: T____t
(27/02/10 16:23:08) Reed: "Teach you how to do what?" Reed tugs at Lion's collar.
(27/02/10 16:23:59) Greenling: "Make things out of smoke," he says like that's obvious.
(27/02/10 16:24:01) Joyous_Blade: "Ask me when you're older."
(27/02/10 16:24:10) Greenling: "Okay!"
(27/02/10 16:24:54) Reed: "Hey, you're not smoking ever, if I have anything to say about it. It's a nasty habit." He looks up at Blade. "No offense intended, of course."
(27/02/10 16:25:28) ***Joyous_Blade shrugs. "None taken."
(27/02/10 16:26:47) Greenling: "Can I make things without smoking them?"
(27/02/10 16:26:49) Adamant: "Mnf." She sits up. Carefully. "Ow."
(27/02/10 16:26:51) Adamant: o_o
(27/02/10 16:26:55) Hel: "I will teach you something better."
(27/02/10 16:26:58) Adamant: >_<
(27/02/10 16:26:59) Greenling: Adamant, you are in a cellar.
(27/02/10 16:27:13) Greenling: The light is coming in through the cellar for some godsforsaken reason.
(27/02/10 16:27:26) Adamant: "What in the Maidens' fucking names am I doing in a cellar?"
(27/02/10 16:27:31) Reed: Reed raises an eyebrow at Hel.
(27/02/10 16:27:56) Adamant: She shields her eyes from the light.
(27/02/10 16:27:57) Greenling: "Oh?" Lion asks.
(27/02/10 16:28:17) ***Hel shrugs. "Sure."
(27/02/10 16:28:19) Greenling: The cellar door is cracked open. There is nothing much in the cellar except for a couple of snoring, groaning men.
(27/02/10 16:28:33) Greenling: And one snoring, groaning woman, huddled in the corner.
(27/02/10 16:29:13) Adamant: "That must've been one hell of a fight."
(27/02/10 16:29:26) Adamant: "...or I drank more than I thought I did."
(27/02/10 16:30:25) Adamant: "Mercury, it's too damned early in the day for this." She pats herself down for her tobacco and some papers. First things first.
(27/02/10 16:30:48) Greenling: You find most of your stuff. Everything except your wallet.
(27/02/10 16:31:27) Adamant: ... :|
(27/02/10 16:31:29) Adamant: >:<
(27/02/10 16:32:07) Adamant: Shit.
(27/02/10 16:32:31) Greenling: Kairos and Adamant both still feel a little rush, but they're okay.
(27/02/10 16:33:24) ***Adamant rolls a cigarette, muttering to herself as she looks for her money. She's not exactly being quiet about it.
(27/02/10 16:34:25) ***Joyous_Blade takes a long drag. Exhales. "Venus chained and spanked." She looks around. "Salith, why are you still here?"
(27/02/10 16:34:38) Greenling: Blade still feels a bit high. (Keep the +2 Valor for the rest of the day.) She also still feels hungry.
(27/02/10 16:35:59) Greenling: Salith makes a slight face. "If I wake her up, she bathes."
(27/02/10 16:36:10) Greenling: "You back me up on this."
(27/02/10 16:36:36) Joyous_Blade: "Fine, fine." Pause. Another drag. "Which room is she in?"
(27/02/10 16:36:51) Greenling: "She's not. They dragged her somewhere last night."
(27/02/10 16:37:14) Joyous_Blade: "...Venus chained and spanked. I don't suppose you followed her?"
(27/02/10 16:37:42) Greenling: "...No, I wanted to get some sleep before the journey." :|
(27/02/10 16:37:47) Adamant: "Hey. You." She kicks the nearest person awake. "Where the fuck is my money?"
(27/02/10 16:38:08) Adamant: Hell hath no fury like a hung-over Sidereal.
(27/02/10 16:38:16) Greenling: "Owww," says the person. "What the fuck..?"
(27/02/10 16:38:22) Adamant: >:|
(27/02/10 16:38:25) Greenling: There is an old woman at the cellar door, Adamant.
(27/02/10 16:38:42) Adamant: "You seen a wallet around here?"
(27/02/10 16:39:28) Greenling: "No. Now if you're awake, leave. If you want some of my soup, it might make you feel better, but you'll have to pay," the old woman says angrily.
(27/02/10 16:40:00) Joyous_Blade: "Shite. Ah well." She summons up Cerulean Silk. "Where is Adamant Silver, alias Ledaal Kebok Althenia?"
(27/02/10 16:40:04) Greenling: "Sick and tired of the drinking and the yelling and the strange foreign women with their tight clothes and their strange tattooes, in my day..."
(27/02/10 16:41:16) Adamant: "You have a tavern, the fuck do you expect?"
(27/02/10 16:41:32) Adamant: "People aren't going to walk into a bar and order milk."
(27/02/10 16:41:44) Greenling: The spider poofs into material existence, skitters off, and comes back. "In the cellar of one Mrs. Caeamel Lovett, approximately 0.0382 clicks north-northeast of this spot."
(27/02/10 16:41:57) Adamant: Grumble, grumble, nudging sleeping oafs aside, money plz, a shitty Bureau salary is still money.
(27/02/10 16:42:01) Greenling: "I don't own the tavern. My husband does." She grumbles more. "Now will you get out?"
(27/02/10 16:42:17) Joyous_Blade: "Thank you." Finishes the cigarette. Heads in that direction.
(27/02/10 16:42:39) Greenling: Salith follows.
(27/02/10 16:44:38) Adamant: "Once I find my wallet."
(27/02/10 16:44:46) Adamant: "Then you'll never see me again."
(27/02/10 16:45:08) ***Adamant mutters under her breath, "Or at least you'll forget you met me in a couple of hours or so.:
(27/02/10 16:45:09) Adamant: "
(27/02/10 16:45:30) ***Joyous_Blade locates the cellar door. "Adamant? You in there?"
(27/02/10 16:45:44) Adamant: "Huh? Oh, it's you."
(27/02/10 16:45:51) Adamant: "I'm looking for my wallet."
(27/02/10 16:46:29) Joyous_Blade: "Salith, go and find Addy's wallet."
(27/02/10 16:46:46) ***Hel scratches an ear. "Is there anything I can do?"
(27/02/10 16:47:26) Joyous_Blade: "Get us some coffee?"
(27/02/10 16:47:40) Greenling: Salith points to Adamant's belt, which is conveniently +1 wallet.
(27/02/10 16:48:02) Greenling: "That one?"
(27/02/10 16:48:23) Joyous_Blade: "Good girl."
(27/02/10 16:49:03) Adamant: "Well fuck me, I could've done that."
(27/02/10 16:49:29) Adamant: She blinks owlishly. "Thanks."
(27/02/10 16:49:48) Joyous_Blade: "Anyway, Reed says he knows where our contacts are waiting."
(27/02/10 16:50:02) Adamant: "Sweet. Let's hit the road."
(27/02/10 16:50:24) Adamant: "Sorry for the mess, uh..."
(27/02/10 16:51:17) Joyous_Blade: "Forget her, she won't remember us in a couple of hours anyway." Lights a third cigarette.
(27/02/10 16:51:33) Adamant: "Whatever. Um. Tell your husband I said thanks for the red stuff."
(27/02/10 16:53:04) Greenling: The old woman grumbles.
(27/02/10 16:53:08) Adamant: "Let's go, Blade." She claps the other Sidereal across the back. "I need a drink. Only cure for a hangover."
(27/02/10 16:53:41) ***Joyous_Blade snickers. Offers a cigarette. "Hair of the dog, eh?"
(27/02/10 16:54:01) Adamant: "You got it."
(27/02/10 16:55:23) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, well, apparently there's still some of that good shit from last night left. Grab it and let's get going."
(27/02/10 16:56:18) Adamant: "What, like I'm going to waste that shit in two days." She grabs it anyway, though. And tosses a coin on the table. Doesn't bother to see what she threw. Hopefully it'll cover expenses.
(27/02/10 16:57:10) Adamant: "Fuck it, I'll have tea or something. Let's catch up with the others."
(27/02/10 16:57:32) ***Joyous_Blade snatches it out of the air. "I'll consider that a start on my bailing you out for last night."
(27/02/10 16:58:13) Greenling: Eventually, the journey continues into the north...
(27/02/10 16:58:23) Adamant: "What? Hey, you were the one who wanted to start the fight in the first place."
(27/02/10 16:58:38) Adamant: "Bail me out, my ass, Miss Provocation."
(27/02/10 16:59:17) Greenling: Il Seraph's Manse is a couple of very cold days away, off the road and into a rocky crevasse.
(27/02/10 16:59:24) Joyous_Blade: "I meant the food and drink, actually, wiseass."
(27/02/10 17:00:51) Greenling: The snow blows and the rocks groan. You see glimpses of mountain goats and strange, giant birds watching you. Lion catches a cold.
(27/02/10 17:00:57) Adamant: "My ass is none of your business." She waggles it a little though. Yes, they were probably having this argument all the way there.
(27/02/10 17:01:28) Joyous_Blade: "Aw, but it's such a nice one..."
(27/02/10 17:02:08) Adamant: "Damn straight. It's all I got, you better believe I'm taking care of it."
(27/02/10 17:02:35) ***Mirra_Kasull keeps somewhat ahead of the group, taking point to keep watch. Hel is under orders to make sure the others don 't get splattered from behind.
(27/02/10 17:03:19) Joyous_Blade: "And such good care, too."
(27/02/10 17:03:27) Greenling: A giant furry lizard stares at Hel with one ancient, gnarled eye.
(27/02/10 17:04:24) ***Kairos_Midoya keeps up, quietly.
(27/02/10 17:08:12) Joyous_Blade: "So. This is a place." Takes a drag off yet another cigarette.
(27/02/10 17:08:41) Greenling: Eventually, you come to a series of caves in the side of the rock. Ice of a thousand different colors drips down from in front of each cave mouth, flowing down in steady rivulets to make precise little rivers and waterfalls which come to a final stop in a still, perfectly white lake in front of the place.
(27/02/10 17:08:57) Greenling: There are so many different reasons this is obviously a Manse.
(27/02/10 17:09:46) Greenling: Much like you'd expect from a Lunar elder, he didn't actually tell you how to get up there and get inside.
(27/02/10 17:10:06) Adamant: "Nice."
(27/02/10 17:10:34) Joyous_Blade: "It's certainly impressive. Salith, find us a way in, will ya?"
(27/02/10 17:11:10) Greenling: Salith quirks an eyebrow at Blade.
(27/02/10 17:11:28) ***Adamant squints at the manse.
(27/02/10 17:12:07) ***Hel stares at the manse. "It is very large."
(27/02/10 17:12:17) Joyous_Blade: "Consider it a field exercise, I don't know." Shivers slightly. Takes a drag. "Venus chained and spanked, I'd forgotten how cold it was this far north."
(27/02/10 17:12:30) Greenling: She walks up to the wall, climbs up one of the non-wet sides, hops over to a small ledge, and does a complicated ninja hop-dance past one row of caves.
(27/02/10 17:12:37) Adamant: "It's cold?"
(27/02/10 17:12:52) Greenling: Hop hop, climb. Hop-dance past the next row of caves. She pauses.
(27/02/10 17:13:29) Joyous_Blade: "Well, yeah. Extremely so, considering I can actually feel it."
(27/02/10 17:14:12) Greenling: Salith climbs all the way back down, heads to the lake, then starts walking. She does another complicated and rather pretty little dance along the bottom row, through one cave mouth, somehow up into the third row, down into the second, and then she disappears.
(27/02/10 17:14:18) Greenling: Lion sneezes.
(27/02/10 17:14:38) Adamant: "Try walking into a freezing fog bank sometime. You'll appreciate this a lot more."
(27/02/10 17:14:52) Joyous_Blade: "You say that like I haven't."
(27/02/10 17:15:38) Adamant: "If you did, you'd be dead or a couple thousand miles away. I don't recommend it." She ruffles the kid's hair. "You holding up okay?"
(27/02/10 17:17:18) Greenling: He sniffs and nods. "Can we eat soon?"
(27/02/10 17:17:21) ***Mirra_Kasull glances back to Blade. "So you have deliberately walked into a freezing fog bank before. I must say, I underestimated you." She gives a smirk.
(27/02/10 17:18:11) Kairos_Midoya: ....O_O. Wow. talk about...
(27/02/10 17:18:12) Joyous_Blade: "More like I got marched through it. With a collar round my neck." Long drag.
(27/02/10 17:18:14) Adamant: "As soon as we get inside." Poor kid. On impulse, she drapes her scarf around his shoulders.
(27/02/10 17:18:49) Greenling: "Thank you Miss Adamant."
(27/02/10 17:19:18) Hel: "Collar?"
(27/02/10 17:19:19) Greenling: A minute passes. Five minutes. Salith has not yet returned.
(27/02/10 17:19:26) Adamant: "What an odd coincidence. I got caught in one during a Wyld storm a few years ago."
(27/02/10 17:19:41) Adamant: "You're welcome."
(27/02/10 17:19:41) Reed: Reed rubs his forehead. God damn it.
(27/02/10 17:19:43) Adamant: Cute kid.
(27/02/10 17:21:04) Joyous_Blade: "Yes. Long time ago." Another drag. Blows a lute. Then a sword.
(27/02/10 17:21:25) Reed: "Where the hell is he." He glances over at Lion and pauses. "Don't say that word."
(27/02/10 17:21:32) Greenling: "...Which word?"
(27/02/10 17:21:33) ***Adamant snerks.
(27/02/10 17:21:41) Adamant: "That isn't gonna hold him off forever."
(27/02/10 17:21:50) ***Hel flicks an ear. " What?"
(27/02/10 17:22:15) Greenling: Lion looks up at Adamant.
(27/02/10 17:22:18) Joyous_Blade: "Nothing."
(27/02/10 17:22:24) Greenling: "Where are you from?"
(27/02/10 17:22:30) ***Adamant grins at Lion.
(27/02/10 17:22:42) ***Mirra_Kasull hehs softly, stretching some as she pokes around.
(27/02/10 17:22:48) Kairos_Midoya: Hm.
(27/02/10 17:22:51) Adamant: "I'm from a big island called the Blessed Isle. It's a lot warmer there."
(27/02/10 17:23:51) Greenling: "Oh, neat. Mom is from the Blessed Isle." He grins. "Do you know her? She's tall and pretty and she's got- she's got hair and-"
(27/02/10 17:24:25) Greenling: "And she's a Chosen. Of the Air Dragon."
(27/02/10 17:24:28) Reed: "The Blessed Isle is a really big place, Lion. I doubt she knows your mother." Reed pats him on the head.
(27/02/10 17:24:40) Greenling: "Aww." D:
(27/02/10 17:24:52) Adamant: "That doesn't narrow it down much. But if I see her, I promise I'll say hello."
(27/02/10 17:25:00) ***Joyous_Blade glances over. "Come to think of it, you two kinda look alike. Well, if Addy here weren't an albino, anyway."
(27/02/10 17:25:01) Adamant: Somehow she manages this with a totally straight face.
(27/02/10 17:25:16) Greenling: Lion looks curiously up at Blade.
(27/02/10 17:25:23) Adamant: "It's the Blessed Isle, of course we all look a bit alike."
(27/02/10 17:25:31) Adamant: "That's what happens when you marry your cousins for a few centuries."
(27/02/10 17:25:56) ***Mirra_Kasull gives a slight chuckle under the hood of her cloak.
(27/02/10 17:25:59) Greenling: "...Dad isn't Mom's cousin."
(27/02/10 17:26:21) Reed: "And I'm not from the Blessed Isle."
(27/02/10 17:26:50) Joyous_Blade: "No, I mean, more than that." Gestures vaguely. "Kinda like his cousin, or aunt, or something."
(27/02/10 17:27:00) Greenling: "Oh. So everybody on the Blessed Isle is related? That's cool. You'd have lots of people to play with, all the time."
(27/02/10 17:27:26) Greenling: Lion shivers.
(27/02/10 17:27:50) Greenling: "Her name is... Leda-al... Kebok... something. Ramen. A. Ledaal."
(27/02/10 17:28:02) Adamant: "One big happy, backstabbing family. You're better off with your daddy."
(27/02/10 17:28:04) Greenling: Meanwhile, where the fuck is Salith and/or Il Seraph.
(27/02/10 17:28:23) Reed: Reed wraps a blanket around Lion and picks him up.
(27/02/10 17:28:33) ***Mirra_Kasull sighs and goes investigating for Salith.
(27/02/10 17:28:35) Greenling: Lion snuggles in the blanket, less shivery.
(27/02/10 17:30:14) Greenling: Reed is distracted by child. Adamant likely is too.
(27/02/10 17:30:22) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, well, at least you're not part of that whole deal anymore." Drag. "Hey, I ever tell you about that time I slapped the Empress?"
(27/02/10 17:30:44) Adamant: "Nope, because I'd have called you on it."
(27/02/10 17:30:48) Greenling: Blade: You're not sure but you suspect from experience that Salith is being passive-aggressive.
(27/02/10 17:31:06) Greenling: Hel: Salith is probably inside a cave.
(27/02/10 17:31:38) Joyous_Blade: "No, honestly." Another drag. "Why I got reassigned up here. Carwreck was fucking pissed."
(27/02/10 17:32:13) Reed: "Hey, watch your language."
(27/02/10 17:32:15) Adamant: "Pull the other one."
(27/02/10 17:32:24) Adamant: "And watch it, there's a kid here."
(27/02/10 17:32:33) Greenling: Kairos: Oh, that's actually pretty simply. This is an Earth Manse, and it probably involves something rhythmic... oh yes, a simple geometric progression corresponding to yada yada geomancy...
(27/02/10 17:33:25) Hel: Hel finds this entire social interaction thing bothersome and instead turns into a dog because at least now he is warm. :|
(27/02/10 17:33:33) Joyous_Blade: "Right, sorry." Yawn. "...nnngh. Going to have to go after Salith. She gets like this. Silk, where is she?"
(27/02/10 17:33:33) Adamant: Doggie!
(27/02/10 17:33:43) Kairos_Midoya: ...then the dancing of hers makes sense, then.
(27/02/10 17:34:06) Kairos_Midoya: If this manse's keys have something to do with rhythm.
(27/02/10 17:34:08) ***Mirra_Kasull flicks an ear backwards. 'Car wreck'? Hmh. Must be some sort of backwards dialect.
(27/02/10 17:34:17) Greenling: Mirra: Your Lunar instinct tells you to follow the doors. Also, that the Manse proper is probably really really deep in, if only because it is fucking freezing out here.
(27/02/10 17:34:56) ***Hel noses at Lion, kids like dogs in theory!
(27/02/10 17:35:13) ***Mirra_Kasull gives a chuckle, shivering a bit and glancing to the others. "We may as well go in." She pauses and shifts to war form for better balance, before leading on.
(27/02/10 17:35:23) Greenling: Lion pets the doggy.
(27/02/10 17:35:40) Hel: "Woof."
(27/02/10 17:36:11) Greenling: "I wanna learn how to change shape. I wanna be a real lion or a dragon or..." a-CHOO.
(27/02/10 17:36:14) Greenling: Sniff.
(27/02/10 17:36:21) Adamant: :< Aw.
(27/02/10 17:36:26) Hel: Kid slobber is gross.
(27/02/10 17:36:53) Reed: Reed shifts Lion onto his back so that he can move more easily. "Come on, we'll make Il Seraph give you a hot chocolate."
(27/02/10 17:36:57) ***Joyous_Blade smiles and ruffles Lion's hair. "Maybe in time, kid."
(27/02/10 17:36:59) Greenling: "Yay!"
(27/02/10 17:37:37) Greenling: Inside is relatively easy to get to, once you know the rhythm, which does indeed involve hopping.
(27/02/10 17:39:02) Greenling: Adamant and Kairos definitely make it look easy.
(27/02/10 17:39:28) ***Mirra_Kasull is, of course, going first - and so is the one clearing the path for everyone else. XD
(27/02/10 17:39:51) ***Kairos_Midoya hops very, very carefully, remembering (not without a twinge of pain) how he and his sister had played in his grandmother's garden as children, and he'd been painstakingly careful to avoid stepping on the cracks. Same kind of careful, painstaking hopping.
(27/02/10 17:39:53) Greenling: Blade and Mirra are fine. Reed misjudges a waterfall and gets soaked with colorful water, but manages not to slip.
(27/02/10 17:40:13) Greenling: Hel is a dog. Leap, leap, leap.
(27/02/10 17:40:24) Hel: Woof.
(27/02/10 17:42:23) Greenling: Inside the last cave is a long tunnel. It goes down. There's warm air in here.
(27/02/10 17:43:18) ***Joyous_Blade takes a drag. Walks down the tunnel.
(27/02/10 17:44:25) Greenling: It's nice, until it starts getting dark, but after only a few steps in such darkness, you see a light up ahead.
(27/02/10 17:45:52) ***Mirra_Kasull ignores the darkness. Her senses makes it less than a nuisance anyway
(27/02/10 17:47:12) Greenling: The light is behind a door. The door is cracked open. Presuming you walk in, you see a great hallway of stone, huge glass windows showing bright and sunny places, most of them of the mountainous region around, but a few of mostly idyllic locales in various other places, including at least one which is obviously in the South.
(27/02/10 17:48:01) Adamant: "Whew, nice digs." Adamant is totally walking in.
(27/02/10 17:48:19) Greenling: There's a small set of villages in a grassy valley, an bustling inn full of people, a couple that shift and turn...
(27/02/10 17:48:41) Greenling: Comfortable furniture is set up against the walls. There are a couple of doors, too.
(27/02/10 17:48:41) Reed: Reed stays near the front, dripping the sparkling water all over the floor.
(27/02/10 17:48:45) ***Hel begins sniffing around for new and unfamiliar scents.
(27/02/10 17:48:47) Kairos_Midoya: ...very nice.
(27/02/10 17:49:02) Greenling: The sparkling water drips to the floor, fizzes, and vanishes.
(27/02/10 17:49:20) Greenling: Hel can tell that the sparkly water smells a little like sugar-stuff and fruit-stuff.
(27/02/10 17:49:27) Adamant: The usual make-sure-nothing-is-going-to-kill-and-eat-me-in-the-next-five-minutes charms are active, but mostly ooh, shiny.
(27/02/10 17:50:18) Hel: Must not lick. Must not lick! What would Virtuous Ocean say?
(27/02/10 17:50:58) ***Mirra_Kasull hms softly, flicking an ear. Interesting.
(27/02/10 17:51:33) Adamant: Adamant's fingers twitch - now that they're in from the snow she'd usually smoke, but refrains from doing so in someone else's house. Bars are different, of course.
(27/02/10 17:52:14) Adamant: She shoves her hands in her overcoat pockets instead.
(27/02/10 17:52:16) Joyous_Blade: "Allright, Salith, you can come out now." Sounds irritated.
(27/02/10 17:52:42) Greenling: After a moment, a tall man of seemingly Lookshyan descent comes out. He has bleached white hair, comfortable-looking white clothing, and a silver tattoo of a stylized bird beneath his right eye.
(27/02/10 17:53:23) ***Hel folds back his ears at the presence of a stranger.
(27/02/10 17:53:26) Greenling: "Ah- good afternoon? Oh, Reed. Good."
(27/02/10 17:53:39) ***Kairos_Midoya peers curiously at the man.
(27/02/10 17:53:50) Greenling: "Is there another in your party than this?"
(27/02/10 17:53:58) Adamant: "Afternoon." Adamant shrugs off her coat, slings it over one shoulder.
(27/02/10 17:54:26) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah. Mind if I smoke?"
(27/02/10 17:54:42) Greenling: "I do. Please introduce yourselves."
(27/02/10 17:55:14) Reed: Reed sets Lion back on the ground. "You remember my son, Bright Lion, of course."
(27/02/10 17:55:21) ***Joyous_Blade shrugs. "Joyous Blade."
(27/02/10 17:55:50) Adamant: "Adamant Silver, student of Moonstone Ibis. Pleased to meet you."
(27/02/10 17:56:27) Kairos_Midoya: "I'm Kairos Midoya, sir." Always, *always* be polite to your elders, his grandmother had drilled into his head.
(27/02/10 17:56:42) Greenling: The man twiches slightly at Lion. "Yes. Yes I do." Reed would be able to tell he is attempting to resist picking the boy up and hugging him. He is distracted by Kairos.
(27/02/10 17:57:06) Greenling: He lifts a finger to his chin. "...Kairos. Fascinating."
(27/02/10 17:57:13) Hel: "Bark."
(27/02/10 17:57:22) Reed: Reed clears his throat.
(27/02/10 17:57:24) Kairos_Midoya: Huh?
(27/02/10 17:57:31) Greenling: "I am Il Seraph..." he steps forward to look at Kairos more closely.
(27/02/10 17:57:44) Greenling: "You are very fascinating."
(27/02/10 17:57:46) ***Adamant pats Kairos on the shoulder.
(27/02/10 17:58:05) ***Mirra_Kasull hms. "Mirra Kasull. The dog is Hel."
(27/02/10 17:58:16) Greenling: "A Solar? Am I right? You match the description." He attempts to grab Kairos' hand and read his palm.
(27/02/10 17:59:27) Hel: Wait is he horning in on Virtuous Ocean's man? Hel walks up and takes Kairos's pants leg in his mouth trying to tug him away from the other lunar.
(27/02/10 18:00:00) Kairos_Midoya: Yay being patted by Adamant...huh why is he trying to read his fortune?
(27/02/10 18:00:12) Adamant: "Whoa, comin' on a little strong there."
(27/02/10 18:00:20) Joyous_Blade: "Coughhe'stakencough."
(27/02/10 18:00:40) Adamant: Headtilt why is he looking at Kairos's hand.
(27/02/10 18:00:44) Adamant: O_o
(27/02/10 18:01:36) Joyous_Blade: "Ahem."
(27/02/10 18:01:52) Greenling: Il Seraph looks up.
(27/02/10 18:02:32) ***Mirra_Kasull rolls her eyes. "Clear some of that crap out of your throat."
(27/02/10 18:02:36) Greenling: Hem. "Well. I suppose you all want to know why you've been dragged such a ways. Reed, get your child a hot bath before he's sticky."
(27/02/10 18:03:43) Joyous_Blade: "That would be nice, yes."
(27/02/10 18:03:57) Greenling: "There's food in the kitchen and whatever else; I'll get everything ready and brief you in one hour." He looks at Adamant and Blade. "Could you describe your companion for me?"
(27/02/10 18:04:16) Greenling: "It's nothing personal, but I've had multiple green-eyed louts sniffing around lately."
(27/02/10 18:04:28) Adamant: "Companion...?"
(27/02/10 18:04:34) Greenling: "If any."
(27/02/10 18:04:44) Greenling: "So I know what to do with this one."
(27/02/10 18:04:50) Greenling: He smiles beatifically.
(27/02/10 18:05:12) Joyous_Blade: "Salith." Pause. Gives him her description. "Would you mind enlightening us as to what the other ones looked like?"
(27/02/10 18:05:48) Adamant: "As far as I'm aware, everyone you just met are the only companions here." She pauses. "The only ones supposed to... wait."
(27/02/10 18:06:24) Adamant: "So Blade, we have babysitters, I don't think I mentioned."
(27/02/10 18:07:02) Joyous_Blade: "Ah. Authorised by Carwreck, I presume?"
(27/02/10 18:07:09) Adamant: "I don't know."
(27/02/10 18:07:26) ***Mirra_Kasull flicks an ear.
(27/02/10 18:07:45) ***Joyous_Blade sighs. "Well, at least it beats the one I was *worried* was sniffing around."
(27/02/10 18:08:58) Adamant: "Maybe. Hard to say." She rubs her eyes. "Maidens in the fucking heavens, if that's so, you'd think they would be a little more subtle."
(27/02/10 18:09:34) Greenling: "The others... a little dark-haired man wearing a pair of swords, and a woman I didn't catch much sight of."
(27/02/10 18:10:26) ***Mirra_Kasull hmhs. "Where are they now, do you think?"
(27/02/10 18:10:31) ***Adamant hrms, tries to think if those descriptions ring a bell.
(27/02/10 18:10:49) ***Joyous_Blade smiles thinly. "I rather suspect they were less than subtle on purpose."
(27/02/10 18:12:19) Greenling: Dark-haired, pair of swords, green eyes, *could* be Glass Scarab. He's a Southern Bronze who's a master of Fire Dragon Style.
(27/02/10 18:12:50) Greenling: Woman, hell, who knows, that's half the Bureau give or take.
(27/02/10 18:13:46) ***Hel has given up with this pants biting business has gone back to curl up at Mirra's feet. Stupid Mirra and her impressive war form :|
(27/02/10 18:13:48) Greenling: Course, could also be two or three other Secrets in disguise as Glass Scarab, or even that ancient creepy sonofabitch Serenity who has teal-ish eyes.
(27/02/10 18:14:15) ***Mirra_Kasull is not exactly showing off the impressiveness, so Hel can take that in relief at least.
(27/02/10 18:14:20) Adamant: "Ugh."
(27/02/10 18:14:22) Greenling: "They ran off towards the South, out of the range of my senses."
(27/02/10 18:14:39) Adamant: "Good, then I don't have to choke a bitch."
(27/02/10 18:14:43) Adamant: "Sorry."
(27/02/10 18:14:54) Adamant: "Thanks for the heads-up, anyway."
(27/02/10 18:15:03) Greenling: "Do not swear in front of the child." :|
(27/02/10 18:15:21) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, Addy, you were all over me when *I* slipped."
(27/02/10 18:15:24) Adamant: "Why do you think I apologized?"
(27/02/10 18:15:38) Adamant: "You shush."
(27/02/10 18:15:47) Adamant: "Okay. So."
(27/02/10 18:16:06) Greenling: He crosses his arms. "Is there anything else?"
(27/02/10 18:16:30) Adamant: "Nope, unless you've got something."
(27/02/10 18:16:49) ***Joyous_Blade hms. "Oh, right. Where did you stick my apprentice?"
(27/02/10 18:17:01) Greenling: "All right. I'll go turn on the baths. Your companion is in the next room."
(27/02/10 18:17:09) Greenling: He turns around and walks off.
(27/02/10 18:17:12) Joyous_Blade: Bath~
(27/02/10 18:17:13) Adamant: "Thanks."
(27/02/10 18:18:08) ***Joyous_Blade nods. "Venus chained and spanked, I could use a smoke." She mutters.
(27/02/10 18:18:36) Greenling: Salith can indeed be found in the next room, tied to a column and mouth stuffed with some sort of glowing Essence thing.
(27/02/10 18:18:47) Adamant: "Mercury, woman, you've been smoking since we got here." Adamant pauses. "But a drink sounds great. ...Bath, then drink."
(27/02/10 18:18:49) Greenling: She glares at Blade.
(27/02/10 18:19:05) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, well, they calm my nerves."
(27/02/10 18:19:18) ***Adamant meanders off to find the aforementioned baths, dreamy-eyed at the prospect.
(27/02/10 18:19:31) Kairos_Midoya: A bath sounds nice.
(27/02/10 18:20:30) ***Mirra_Kasull hms and nods, supposing a bath could be nice. She pats Hel lightly.
(27/02/10 18:20:39) ***Joyous_Blade raises an eyebrow at Salith. "You can stay tied up for that." She heads off after Adamant.
(27/02/10 18:20:45) Greenling: Salith squirms.
(27/02/10 18:20:54) Kairos_Midoya: ...that isn't very nice. :/
(27/02/10 18:21:01) Greenling: You can hear a vague snarling coming from behind that Essence-thing.
(27/02/10 18:21:44) ***Kairos_Midoya goes to let her out. He remembers when his sister used to play pranks on him like that. :/
(27/02/10 18:22:18) Reed: Reed hauls Lion off to the bath. He would much rather be bonding with his Lunar, but parenting comes first.
(27/02/10 18:24:26) Hel: A bath would be adequate, he can't remember the last time heated water was involved in one of those.
(27/02/10 18:25:34) Greenling: The baths are where Reed remembers them. Everyone else finds a room full of what seem to be hot springs with colorful (not-sugar-smelling) bubbles with convenient privacy rocks/half-walls every so often which is apparently the baths.
(27/02/10 18:25:54) Greenling: Salith accepts Kairos' help and smiles at him.
(27/02/10 18:26:01) ***Adamant drifts in, not especially mindful of her state of undress. :DDD
(27/02/10 18:26:04) Greenling: "Thank you." She pecks him on the cheek and runs off.
(27/02/10 18:26:10) Kairos_Midoya: ...what
(27/02/10 18:26:16) Kairos_Midoya: @_@
(27/02/10 18:26:42) ***Hel nips Kairos in the rear.
(27/02/10 18:26:50) Kairos_Midoya: Ow
(27/02/10 18:26:54) Hel: Woof.
(27/02/10 18:26:55) Kairos_Midoya: "W-what was that for?"
(27/02/10 18:26:59) ***Joyous_Blade strips casually, then slides in to one, not bothering to take advantage of the privacy rock.
(27/02/10 18:27:02) Hel: "Bark."
(27/02/10 18:27:40) Adamant: :D
(27/02/10 18:27:56) Kairos_Midoya: then Kairos goes to...find the baths. or something.
(27/02/10 18:27:59) Joyous_Blade: "So, Addy, what did you think of our host?"
(27/02/10 18:28:28) Adamant: "I think someone needs to tell him that palm-reading is for the birds."
(27/02/10 18:28:40) Adamant: Doot doot doot, privacy screen, who cares :D
(27/02/10 18:29:26) Joyous_Blade: "Yes, well. I can remember a time when a certain former ronin thought *cards* were useful."
(27/02/10 18:29:40) Adamant: "Who would that be?"
(27/02/10 18:29:48) Reed: Reed sighs. Yes, this is *exactly* the sort of thing his five year old son needs to see.
(27/02/10 18:30:11) Reed: "Lion, stay behind the screen. And make sure to wash your hair."
(27/02/10 18:30:14) Joyous_Blade: "Pips."
(27/02/10 18:30:18) Greenling: Lion doesn't seem to be paying attention to them anyway.
(27/02/10 18:30:32) Greenling: He is splashing in the bath and looking for the doggy.
(27/02/10 18:30:36) Kairos_Midoya: ...
(27/02/10 18:30:41) ***Hel returns to human shape because it is far easier to bathe with arms and also because otherwise he was going have a wet dog scent on him all week.
(27/02/10 18:30:52) Kairos_Midoya: He wasn't expecting a group bath. D:
(27/02/10 18:31:00) Adamant: "Huh. Didn't know that."
(27/02/10 18:31:19) Kairos_Midoya: Wilting a little.
(27/02/10 18:31:22) Adamant: "But Pips and I don't really talk about... you know, before."
(27/02/10 18:31:38) Greenling: Splash, splash, laugh. He ducks under the water and swims.
(27/02/10 18:32:01) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, well. Wasn't exactly fun for me either."
(27/02/10 18:32:17) Adamant: "It rarely is."
(27/02/10 18:32:29) Kairos_Midoya: Yeah, he's...definitely going to make use of some of those privacy rocks.
(27/02/10 18:32:41) Kairos_Midoya: Assuming Hel doesn't just shove him in first.
(27/02/10 18:32:45) ***Mirra_Kasull hms softly, supposing she'll keep watch for now. She sits off to one side, not des iring to bathe publicly, even with the privacy screening rocks.
(27/02/10 18:33:05) ***Hel can't argue with a good idea when the cosmos implants one into his mind.
(27/02/10 18:33:21) Hel: A naked Hel shoves the wilting flower of a solar into the bath water.
(27/02/10 18:33:29) Adamant: "Maidens. I think the last private - ish - bath I've seen this nice was the one Maraka was going to put in the courtyard in our manor."
(27/02/10 18:33:44) Adamant: "And that was just the floorplans."
(27/02/10 18:33:55) ***Joyous_Blade stares at Adamant. "Private. Bath."
(27/02/10 18:33:58) Kairos_Midoya: "Ack!" *splash*
(27/02/10 18:34:47) Adamant: "When I say 'private' I mean 'privately owned.'"
(27/02/10 18:34:56) ***Hel is not very impressive even when naked but he does have a whole heck of a lot of scars that aren't related to having tattoos made of liquid metal inserted into your skin.
(27/02/10 18:35:03) ***Kairos_Midoya is trying not to inhale water
(27/02/10 18:35:11) Joyous_Blade: "Oh, okay."
(27/02/10 18:35:48) Kairos_Midoya: Cough, sputter, water was not supposed to go into the lungs. D:<
(27/02/10 18:36:23) Reed: Reed strips down, splashing down into the water.
(27/02/10 18:37:28) Joyous_Blade: "So, uh. What *is* your connection to Lion, anyway?" Blade murmurs.
(27/02/10 18:37:59) Adamant: "Who, me? Hell if I know. He's a cute kid, though."
(27/02/10 18:38:18) Adamant: "His daddy isn't half bad either."
(27/02/10 18:39:37) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, I wouldn't mind getting me some of that."
(27/02/10 18:40:06) Kairos_Midoya: "What was that for?!" he yelps at Hel.
(27/02/10 18:40:17) Hel: "Too much staring, not enough bathing."
(27/02/10 18:40:55) ***Mirra_Kasull gives a soft chuckle, moving to relax by Reed's bath, fully covered though she did tilt back the hood, revealing the Tell of her wolf-like ears.
(27/02/10 18:41:24) Kairos_Midoya: "I was going to get in soon enough." D:
(27/02/10 18:43:16) ***Adamant idly splashes through the waist-deep water.
(27/02/10 18:43:17) Hel: "You are slow as well."
(27/02/10 18:43:27) Joyous_Blade: "Less talking, more bathing."
(27/02/10 18:44:16) ***Joyous_Blade is luxuriating in the hot spring.
(27/02/10 18:44:23) ***Kairos_Midoya scrunches down in the water.
(27/02/10 18:44:30) Kairos_Midoya: Trying to hide in it as best as he can.
(27/02/10 18:45:04) Reed: Reed leans against the side of the spring, grinning up at Mirra. "Sure you don't feel like joining in?"
(27/02/10 18:45:12) ***Adamant peers curiously over the screen. "Kairos, you all right?"
(27/02/10 18:45:13) Greenling: Lion splashes his father.
(27/02/10 18:45:29) ***Mirra_Kasull gives him a slight grin. "I don't really want a repeat of Whitewall."
(27/02/10 18:45:31) Adamant: "You can, you know, swim, right?"
(27/02/10 18:45:41) Kairos_Midoya: "Yes, I can swim."
(27/02/10 18:45:53) Adamant: "You don't look so good." She is so oblivious.
(27/02/10 18:46:17) ***Hel ears droop from the moisture on them. Stupid unimpressive spirit animal.
(27/02/10 18:46:46) Reed: Reed laughs and splashes Lion back.
(27/02/10 18:46:47) Kairos_Midoya: "I...just haven't ever bathed in a...group setting like this."
(27/02/10 18:47:01) ***Joyous_Blade shrugs. "You'll get used to it." Carefully *not* mentioning that back home there was only one bathing pool for everybody.
(27/02/10 18:47:02) Greenling: Lion starts a water fight.
(27/02/10 18:47:11) Adamant: "Really? Huh."
(27/02/10 18:47:20) ***Kairos_Midoya is also trying not to look at Adamant's, um, assets.
(27/02/10 18:47:31) ***Mirra_Kasull stretches out by the bathside, yawning softly.
(27/02/10 18:47:40) Adamant: "Sorry. I'm used to public baths."
(27/02/10 18:47:56) ***Adamant lightly smacks water in Lion's direction.
(27/02/10 18:48:21) Greenling: Lion dives under the water and makes waves.
(27/02/10 18:48:36) Adamant: "Oh! Uh. Sorry." Now she catches on. Drops herself in the water to her shoulders. "Yeah, stupid me."
(27/02/10 18:48:43) ***Joyous_Blade chuckles, steathily coming up behind Adamant and dunking her.
(27/02/10 18:49:12) Hel: "Were you staring at her chest?"
(27/02/10 18:49:18) ***Kairos_Midoya blushes, bright enough for a hint to show through his dusky skin. "Um."
(27/02/10 18:49:39) Kairos_Midoya: "N-no..."
(27/02/10 18:49:45) Hel: "I see."
(27/02/10 18:49:57) Joyous_Blade: "No, he was very politely staring at the ceiling." Frowns at Hel.
(27/02/10 18:50:02) ***Adamant pulls Blade in after her.
(27/02/10 18:50:50) ***Joyous_Blade is surprisingly easy to pull in.
(27/02/10 18:51:48) Greenling: Lion attempts to splash them both.
(27/02/10 18:51:59) ***Kairos_Midoya sinks beneath the water in sheer embarassment.
(27/02/10 18:52:11) Adamant: Adamant splashes back.
(27/02/10 18:53:32) ***Joyous_Blade splashes Hel, grinning.
(27/02/10 18:53:58) ***Hel takes the splash stoically and stares at Joyous Blade.
(27/02/10 18:54:48) ***Joyous_Blade stares back. "Not enjoying yourself?"
(27/02/10 18:54:59) Hel: "What?"
(27/02/10 18:55:32) Kairos_Midoya: ...okay coming up for air
(27/02/10 18:55:34) ***Mirra_Kasull grins to Hel. "Just give her the biggest splash back you can."
(27/02/10 18:56:05) Adamant: "So, Lion. Why isn't your mom here?"
(27/02/10 18:56:08) Greenling: Splash, splash.
(27/02/10 18:56:15) Hel: Hel's relatively scrawny form is replaced by a very large and soggy white bear that proceeds to plunge into the water. Bear Splash!
(27/02/10 18:56:21) Greenling: "Uhm. I don't know. Dad said she was busy."
(27/02/10 18:56:36) Kairos_Midoya: ...bear. o_o
(27/02/10 18:56:50) Adamant: "Oh, okay. I've been wondering since you me-ack!" Adamant is now soaked in bear water. o.x
(27/02/10 18:56:58) Greenling: "Yay!"
(27/02/10 18:57:17) ***Mirra_Kasull covers herself with her cloak, stifling a laugh.
(27/02/10 18:58:06) ***Joyous_Blade grins, splashing Lion. "Ix-nay on the other-may, Addy. At least till we can talk in private." She murmurs.
(27/02/10 18:59:23) ***Hel cocks his head and stares at Kairos. You'd think someone married to Virtuous Ocean would be a bit more used to bear antics.
(27/02/10 19:00:27) Adamant: "Hey, he's a big boy, he can speak for himself."
(27/02/10 19:00:43) Adamant: "Aren't you?" she asks Lion with a grin.
(27/02/10 19:00:56) ***Kairos_Midoya tries to spend as little time around Virtuous Ocen as he can.
(27/02/10 19:01:01) Greenling: "Yeah!" Lion grins.
(27/02/10 19:01:57) ***Adamant laughs.
(27/02/10 19:02:00) Greenling: Lion tries to ride the bear.
(27/02/10 19:02:04) Kairos_Midoya: ...in fact, he's probably done taking a bath. time to get dressed and find something else to do. maybe there is a nice library in this manse.
(27/02/10 19:02:31) ***Joyous_Blade smiles at Lion affectionately.
(27/02/10 19:04:11) ***Hel has a boy on his back.
(27/02/10 19:04:13) Adamant: "You're lucky," she says to Reed, and there's something like wistfulness in her tone.
(27/02/10 19:04:44) ***Mirra_Kasull glances to Kairos as he starts to get out of the water, watching him leave for a moment.
(27/02/10 19:05:38) Reed: Reed smiles, ruffling Lion's hair. "Thanks. He's a special kid."
(27/02/10 19:05:44) ***Joyous_Blade glances at Adamant. "Fond memories, huh?"
(27/02/10 19:05:46) Greenling: Lion cheers and attempts to tug on the bear's fur in the general direction of "make more splashes".
(27/02/10 19:05:59) ***Hel isn't one to ignore orders.
(27/02/10 19:06:13) Greenling: Kairos can find warm towels easily. His clothes have also conveniently been cleaned and folded for some reason.
(27/02/10 19:06:17) Adamant: "Hm? I guess so."
(27/02/10 19:06:20) Kairos_Midoya: ...huh?
(27/02/10 19:06:29) Hel: Bear splashes! Bear splashes! FOUR MORE YEARS OF BEAR SPLASHES!
(27/02/10 19:06:32) Adamant: "Something I can't really have, you know how it is."
(27/02/10 19:08:33) ***Joyous_Blade nods. ""Serenity is knowing when it's worth it', on the other hand."
(27/02/10 19:09:04) Adamant: She smiles at Reed. "He is. Sorry if that was a strange question to ask, by the way. About his mother, I mean."
(27/02/10 19:09:42) ***Hel changes back into a regular Hel with a Lion on his shoulders because all of that fur takes forever to dry.
(27/02/10 19:09:56) Greenling: Lion is laughing still.
(27/02/10 19:10:10) ***Kairos_Midoya gets dressed and...goes to find a possible library. :D?
(27/02/10 19:10:26) Reed: "No, it's not a problem. I honestly didn't know her that well."
(27/02/10 19:10:43) Greenling: Kairos is drawn by natural Twilight instinct to the books.
(27/02/10 19:10:57) Greenling: ...Good loving Sun this is a huge library.
(27/02/10 19:11:08) Greenling: Library/museum.
(27/02/10 19:11:12) Kairos_Midoya: :o
(27/02/10 19:11:15) Kairos_Midoya: :D
(27/02/10 19:11:15) Kairos_Midoya: :D!
(27/02/10 19:11:16) Hel: "You're enjoying yourself."
(27/02/10 19:11:17) Greenling: Library/museum/holographic tutors.
(27/02/10 19:11:18) Adamant: "I see." Adamant looks relieved.
(27/02/10 19:11:40) Greenling: Also, summoned elementals.
(27/02/10 19:11:59) Kairos_Midoya: ...oh wow
(27/02/10 19:12:27) Kairos_Midoya: Kairos isn't even a stranger to huge libraries.
(27/02/10 19:12:44) Greenling: There are like taxidermied animals and samples of flowers and maps of like everywhere and you see an entire section about twenty feet up the wall in glass that is apparently all books about sorcery and necromancy.
(27/02/10 19:12:48) Kairos_Midoya: He'd lived in a city of scholars, after all...but even Ameraille's libraries hadn't been so...impressive
(27/02/10 19:13:06) ***Joyous_Blade slowly gets out. "I'm going to go let Salith out now. You three have fun."
(27/02/10 19:13:29) Kairos_Midoya: ...now how to get to those sorcery books. :o
(27/02/10 19:13:44) Kairos_Midoya: He...isn't interested in reading anything about necromancy
(27/02/10 19:13:46) Greenling: Salith is also in the library.
(27/02/10 19:13:59) Adamant: "I guess I should get out myself. I'm getting a little pruny."
(27/02/10 19:14:05) Adamant: She holds up her fingers.
(27/02/10 19:14:42) Kairos_Midoya: ("you are nothing. and you desire an end to your empty existence. you can simply lie here and wait to die.")
(27/02/10 19:14:51) Greenling: "Hi," says a female voice from behind Kairos.
(27/02/10 19:15:46) Kairos_Midoya: Kairos's hands were half-over his ears as if he could block out the memory, and he nearly jumps when he hears the girl's voice behind him. "H-hi!"
(27/02/10 19:15:52) ***Joyous_Blade tosses Adamant a towel, drying herself off leisurely.
(27/02/10 19:16:05) Adamant: "Thanks."
(27/02/10 19:16:30) Joyous_Blade: "No problem."
(27/02/10 19:16:34) Greenling: Salith smiles at him.
(27/02/10 19:16:54) Greenling: "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."
(27/02/10 19:17:00) Kairos_Midoya: "It's fine..."
(27/02/10 19:17:53) Greenling: "Are you a sorceror?"
(27/02/10 19:18:02) Adamant: She gets out, this time mindful of the privacy screen.
(27/02/10 19:18:21) Kairos_Midoya: "Yes, I am..."
(27/02/10 19:18:24) Reed: "Lion, ready to get out?"
(27/02/10 19:18:38) Kairos_Midoya: "Not a very good one yet, but I am one..."
(27/02/10 19:19:09) Hel: A dripping wet Hel peeks in on Mirra just make sure she wasn't doing anything private before confronting her. "I have a question."
(27/02/10 19:19:40) Greenling: "Wow. I want to be a sorceror, too... but the college we have in Yu-Shan..." she frowns.
(27/02/10 19:19:41) ***Mirra_Kasull is mostly just watching Lion having fun in the water and waiting for the baths to empty; she gives Hel a slight smile. "What is it?"
(27/02/10 19:20:00) ***Kairos_Midoya tilts his head inquisitively.
(27/02/10 19:20:01) Greenling: "I'm sure you're going to be great, though."
(27/02/10 19:20:33) ***Joyous_Blade dresses, reverting to her normal outfit of a knee-length blue skirt and tight shirt.
(27/02/10 19:20:45) Kairos_Midoya: "M-maybe..." if he survives long enough. D:
(27/02/10 19:21:03) Greenling: "I'm sure if you ask, the Lunar will let you look at his books."
(27/02/10 19:21:25) Hel: He quirks his head to one side letting the water drip off of his prodigious ears. "How do I enjoy myself?"
(27/02/10 19:21:33) Greenling: She smiles. "Why are you so scared of him, anyway?"
(27/02/10 19:21:48) Greenling: Lion grabs a towel.
(27/02/10 19:22:00) Greenling: Everyone else's clothes are also clean and folded.
(27/02/10 19:22:04) Kairos_Midoya: "I'm not really *scared* of him..."
(27/02/10 19:22:36) ***Adamant pulls on leathers - pants, boots, and corset top, a linen tunic, a wide bright gold sash, and an ankle-length loose jacket. Hey, cool, clothes that fold themselves.
(27/02/10 19:22:41) ***Mirra_Kasull hms softly, staring at the sky. "That's an interesting question. I'd say do the things that make you feel like you've done something good. Some people enjoy making others hpapy, for example..."
(27/02/10 19:22:48) Adamant: The service must be top notch.
(27/02/10 19:23:10) ***Hel just looks straight past Mirra and nods his head.
(27/02/10 19:23:18) Adamant: "Hmm, now about that drink..."
(27/02/10 19:23:45) Kairos_Midoya: ...might as well go try to find their host in order to ask about the books.
(27/02/10 19:23:53) ***Joyous_Blade hmmms. "I should probably go and let Salith out first."
(27/02/10 19:24:01) ***Mirra_Kasull gives a nod, and as the baths empty, she sheds her cloak and lets her clothing disperse, silvery tattoos glimmering a bit as she sinks into the water.
(27/02/10 19:25:28) ***Hel scratches his head a bit. "What do you enjoy?"
(27/02/10 19:25:53) Reed: Reed had been considering getting out of the water, but quickly reconsidered. Pretty Lunar is pretty.
(27/02/10 19:26:11) Adamant: Moonsilver flashes in the lamplight briefly before the muslin longcoat sleeves cover them, and she pads down the hallway to explore.
(27/02/10 19:26:26) Adamant: Curious Journeys is curious.
(27/02/10 19:26:40) ***Mirra_Kasull hms softly, diving under to get all of her long hair wet for washing and brushing. "Good music, good company, good conversation..."
(27/02/10 19:26:48) Kairos_Midoya: "Thank you." he tells Salith, and then goes to find Seraph. Wherever he is.
(27/02/10 19:27:12) ***Joyous_Blade quickly goes and checks on Salith. Then, finding her not there, she shrugs and goes after Adamant.
(27/02/10 19:30:00) Greenling: Il Seraph is in the kitchen, waiting for you all.
(27/02/10 19:30:17) Greenling: He smiles at Kairos. "Did you enjoy your bath?"
(27/02/10 19:30:30) Kairos_Midoya: "I did, thank you, sir."
(27/02/10 19:31:20) Greenling: Adamant finds the large library, the bathrooms (useful, that), a wine cellar, an exercise room, a room that seems to be filled with sorcerous equipment...
(27/02/10 19:31:21) Hel: "And he enjoys you?" Hel gestured in the general direction of Reed.
(27/02/10 19:31:35) Adamant: Wine cellar. >.> <.<
(27/02/10 19:31:40) Joyous_Blade: Wine cellar <3
(27/02/10 19:31:51) Greenling: ...Wow. There is wine in here that survived the Usurpation.
(27/02/10 19:32:01) ***Mirra_Kasull p auses, glancing over to Reed and giving a slight laugh, stretching out. "Well, he certainly doesn't seem to mind..."
(27/02/10 19:32:07) Reed: Reed blinks at Hel.
(27/02/10 19:32:10) Greenling: Not much of it, granted, but...
(27/02/10 19:32:19) Hel: "Well you are friends, you said."
(27/02/10 19:32:20) Adamant: Maidens, this is the best liquor collection.
(27/02/10 19:32:35) Joyous_Blade: "...Venus."
(27/02/10 19:33:24) Reed: Reed shrugs and smiles at Mirra.
(27/02/10 19:33:54) Adamant: "In Solis.... 2420. Wonder how dry it is, if it is." She looks up at the exclamation. "Hey."
(27/02/10 19:33:59) Adamant: "I found the stash."
(27/02/10 19:33:59) Greenling: And most of it is early-to-mid Realm, or from Gethamane, and there's a nice stash of ale from this place not far out of Lookshy...
(27/02/10 19:34:46) Adamant: "I guess we should probably ask before we partake though. ...Hey, I think I know that little brewery."
(27/02/10 19:34:54) Greenling: Fire ale. Made from grapes grown on a Fire Demesne some idiot created right next to a Wood Demesne.
(27/02/10 19:35:32) Greenling: When they actually manage a harvest, which is usually about once a decade with several casualties, it's great.
(27/02/10 19:35:36) Joyous_Blade: "Maidens, I thought some of these vintages had all been drunken. Good stuff this Seraph guy has."
(27/02/10 19:36:21) Kairos_Midoya: "...um..." he chews on his lower lip a little, feeling very much like the awkward teenager he'd been (and still was) asking his grandmother for permission to look at the books she'd hidden in her room and not let him look at until 'he was a man grown'
(27/02/10 19:36:45) Adamant: "Huh. I wonder how many people died that year."
(27/02/10 19:36:51) Adamant: "Bet the Bier would know."
(27/02/10 19:37:24) Joyous_Blade: "Eh. I'm not really a fan. Full of Bronzes."
(27/02/10 19:37:25) ***Mirra_Kasull hms softly, staring at the ceiling as she soaked in the warmth of the bath. "Probably ought not to take too long... don't want to keep our host waiting, and Reed's already getting pruney..."
(27/02/10 19:37:28) Greenling: "Sit down, dearie. What would you like?"
(27/02/10 19:37:35) Greenling: says Il Seraph.
(27/02/10 19:37:38) Adamant: Headscritch. "Oh well. Better go ask our host. If certain people have been sneaking about, it'd be best not to give them any reason to look at us sidewise, y'know?"
(27/02/10 19:37:48) Adamant: "The Bier? You kidding?"
(27/02/10 19:37:56) Adamant: "Half the Bier's as gold as my belt."
(27/02/10 19:38:08) ***Hel sits with Lion since his conversation is far more on his level.
(27/02/10 19:38:09) Joyous_Blade: "Hey, I call Bronze as I see Bronze."
(27/02/10 19:38:15) Adamant: "The other half doesn't care who's in the driver's seat as long as the job gets done."
(27/02/10 19:38:22) Adamant: "Can't say I disagree with 'em either."
(27/02/10 19:38:50) Joyous_Blade: "Anyway. Silk, where *is* our host right now?"
(27/02/10 19:39:02) Greenling: Poof, poof. "Kitchens."
(27/02/10 19:39:13) Kairos_Midoya: "I-I...was curious if I could look at your library, sir..."
(27/02/10 19:39:26) Joyous_Blade: "Okay. Addy, do you know which way the kitchens are?"
(27/02/10 19:39:38) Adamant: "Walk and we'll find 'em."
(27/02/10 19:39:40) Adamant: :3
(27/02/10 19:39:52) Greenling: "Oh? Of course. It's down the hall. Look at whatever you like, I'm sure you won't harm anything."
(27/02/10 19:40:23) Kairos_Midoya: "T-thank you, sir. Do you have any particular rules for your library, or...?"
(27/02/10 19:40:26) Greenling: He flicks a glass at Kairos. "Have some. And some dinner. I have fresh venison, quail, fresh apples and quince and plums, greens..."
(27/02/10 19:40:54) Greenling: "Not that I can think of." He smiles.
(27/02/10 19:41:09) Greenling: "Oh, that reminds me, though- your Mate will be here sometime this evening."
(27/02/10 19:41:12) Adamant: We're walking, we're walking.
(27/02/10 19:41:13) Kairos_Midoya: ...
(27/02/10 19:41:17) ***Kairos_Midoya cringes
(27/02/10 19:41:20) Joyous_Blade: "Doot di doot."
(27/02/10 19:41:34) Greenling: "You poor sweet dear heart, she is a bit of a handful, isnt she?"
(27/02/10 19:41:45) Greenling: More bathrooms, that's a closet, kitchens!
(27/02/10 19:41:49) Adamant: "So. You wanted to talk about something."
(27/02/10 19:42:03) Adamant: "The kid, right?"
(27/02/10 19:42:13) Kairos_Midoya: "...more than a little. @_@"
(27/02/10 19:42:19) Greenling: Lion asks Hel about how he became a Lunar.
(27/02/10 19:42:25) Adamant: "Oh, hey, kitchen."
(27/02/10 19:42:44) Joyous_Blade: "Oh, yeah." Brief pause. "So, um, are you actually his mother or what?" >.>
(27/02/10 19:42:56) ***Hel shrugs meekly. "It is complicated."
(27/02/10 19:43:09) Greenling: "Complicated?"
(27/02/10 19:43:24) Hel: "Complicated."
(27/02/10 19:43:25) Adamant: ....what
(27/02/10 19:43:50) Greenling: "Okay." Lion sits, waiting for his dad and Mirra. "Is it fun?"
(27/02/10 19:43:53) Adamant: "...Last time I checked, I don't have any kids."
(27/02/10 19:44:28) Adamant: "Unless there's a serious memory gap going on somewhere."
(27/02/10 19:44:28) Joyous_Blade: "Because, um. I remember seeing a bunch Ledaal Keboks in your file."
(27/02/10 19:44:37) Joyous_Blade: bunch of*
(27/02/10 19:44:43) Adamant: "Yeah, they're not exactly a small household."
(27/02/10 19:45:18) Hel: He sits there pondering for a second and a small but far less homicidal smile than the one he used earlier slowly appears on his face. "I suppose it is."
(27/02/10 19:45:38) Adamant: "No telling which branch of it he came from. Reed doesn't even really know her."
(27/02/10 19:45:41) ***Kairos_Midoya wilts at the thought of his unwanted wife showing up.
(27/02/10 19:46:34) ***Mirra_Kasull rises from the water, scooping up a towel to dry herself off as she makes her way out, clothes forming once she was satisfied.
(27/02/10 19:47:08) Joyous_Blade: "...Fine. Don't tell me. I just won't arrange any Auspicious Prospects for you and Reed until you do."
(27/02/10 19:47:51) Adamant: "Fair enough." She barges into the kitchens.
(27/02/10 19:48:13) Adamant: Food! Drink! Merriment. But she'll settle for a drink.
(27/02/10 19:48:17) Joyous_Blade: "...That was supposed to be more effective."
(27/02/10 19:48:33) Reed: Reed pulls himself from the water, grabbing one of the towels and drying himself off and definitely not stealing glances at Mirra, nope, because Reed would never do that in front of his child. >.>
(27/02/10 19:49:28) Greenling: There is food, drink, and in fact the light sounds of piping coming from somewhere.
(27/02/10 19:49:35) ***Hel is totally covering for him :V
(27/02/10 19:49:46) ***Mirra_Kasull chuckles softly as she hears Reed rise behind her. Tail would get in the way of any observation of that rear end anyway...
(27/02/10 19:50:06) ***Joyous_Blade walks into the kitchen after Adamant.
(27/02/10 19:50:10) Hel: "So you travel with your father?"
(27/02/10 19:50:28) Greenling: Lion smiles at Hel. "Could I be a Lunar when I grow up? I want to be maybe a Solar like Dad or a Dragon like Mom but a Lunar would be cool too."
(27/02/10 19:50:31) Greenling: "Uh-huh."
(27/02/10 19:50:48) Greenling: "He takes me places and we do hero stuff, and sometimes he talks to his Guild friends.
(27/02/10 19:51:56) Joyous_Blade: "So, nice place you have here, Mr Seraph."
(27/02/10 19:52:03) Greenling: "Thank you. It is."
(27/02/10 19:52:10) Hel: "I don't make the rules, you can try if you like," He nods at Lion's summary of his travels with his fathers. "They sound very enjoyable."
(27/02/10 19:52:20) Greenling: "When the rest of you get here, we can begin."
(27/02/10 19:52:42) Kairos_Midoya: ...a drink might be nice. :( Kairos is still wilting at the thought of Virtuous Ocean showing up, his head buried in one of his books.
(27/02/10 19:53:02) Adamant: "Oh, hey Kairos. You found the library?"
(27/02/10 19:53:19) Kairos_Midoya: "I did, but this one is mine."
(27/02/10 19:53:28) Kairos_Midoya: White Treatise.
(27/02/10 19:53:37) Adamant: "Nice one."
(27/02/10 19:53:44) Joyous_Blade: "Oh, hey, Kairos. You seen Salith around?"
(27/02/10 19:53:49) Greenling: "It is such a wonderful little volume, isn't it."
(27/02/10 19:54:02) Adamant: Magic is so not her thing, even if she likes books, so she goes back to whatever drink thing she found when she sat down.
(27/02/10 19:54:16) Reed: Reed finishes getting dressed, then looks back over at Lion. "Are we ready to go talk Il Seraph out of something to eat?"
(27/02/10 19:54:23) Kairos_Midoya: "It is." Kairos looks up briefly from the book. "I saw her in the library earlier..."
(27/02/10 19:54:28) Greenling: The drink thing she found is a glass of that fire ale and a glass of water.
(27/02/10 19:54:49) Adamant: Eeeexcellent.
(27/02/10 19:54:56) Greenling: "Yeah! I want hot chocolate and spring water and pheasant and oranges."
(27/02/10 19:55:09) ***Mirra_Kasull laughs softly. "Spoil him much, Reed?"
(27/02/10 19:55:13) ***Joyous_Blade has a glass of fire ale herself. "Oh, okay. She'll be fine there. Secrets like her always are."
(27/02/10 19:55:28) Kairos_Midoya: ...huh?
(27/02/10 19:55:30) ***Hel ears perk at the mention of pheasant.
(27/02/10 19:56:20) Reed: Reed smiles sheepishly at Mirra. "Probably. But could you say no to that face?"
(27/02/10 19:56:55) ***Mirra_Kasull laughs softly, before giving Reed her best puppy-eyed look. "May I have some pheasant, too~?"
(27/02/10 19:57:27) Reed: "...Mirra, that's not even remotely fair."
(27/02/10 19:57:50) Hel: "Mirra can I...?"
(27/02/10 19:58:36) Adamant: "Never mind." Adamant pats Kairos' shoulder.
(27/02/10 19:58:47) Adamant: "Hey, uh, sorry about earlier. I wasn't thinking."
(27/02/10 19:58:56) Kairos_Midoya: "It's fine..."
(27/02/10 19:59:18) Kairos_Midoya: he likes the shoulder-pats, Adamant is so nice...@_@
(27/02/10 19:59:26) Reed: Reed grins and rolls his eyes. "Come on, before Adamant and Blade eat everything from us." Reed hefts Lion onto his shoulders and puts the arm that's not braced against Lion around Mirra's shoulders.
(27/02/10 20:00:07) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah. I grew up with everyone sharing the one pool, so, well..." >.>
(27/02/10 20:00:23) ***Mirra_Kasull gives a soft laugh, nodding to Hel. "We'll see what they have. If nothing else, we'll go hunting."
(27/02/10 20:00:44) ***Hel nods and looks at the ground. "Thank you, ma'am."
(27/02/10 20:00:56) Adamant: "Sounds about right."
(27/02/10 20:02:20) Greenling: "Rar!"
(27/02/10 20:02:30) Adamant: O_o
(27/02/10 20:02:31) Greenling: Kitchens.
(27/02/10 20:03:09) Joyous_Blade: "So, Kairos, what was growing up like for you?"
(27/02/10 20:03:37) Kairos_Midoya: "Ah, I...grew up among scholars."
(27/02/10 20:03:42) Greenling: Yup, that is in fact half a goddamn deer, three stuffed pheasants, vegetable garnishes, and the rest of the table is covered in fruit and drinks.
(27/02/10 20:03:59) Greenling: There is a setting next to Il Seraph with bubbly drinks in a child-safe cup.
(27/02/10 20:04:56) Joyous_Blade: "Oh?"
(27/02/10 20:05:40) Reed: Reed plops Lion down in the seat with the child-safe cup, then takes the seat beside him.
(27/02/10 20:06:41) Kairos_Midoya: "Yes. I....lived in a town of scholars in thamaturges, so it was a family tradition..."
(27/02/10 20:08:26) Adamant: Adamant listens to him, chin propped on one fist.
(27/02/10 20:08:59) ***Mirra_Kasull sits down near Reed, clothing back to her usual modest attire, serving up a plate for herself and one for Hel.
(27/02/10 20:09:12) ***Adamant waves to the others.
(27/02/10 20:09:20) Greenling: Lion sits and starts nomming the pheasant.
(27/02/10 20:09:38) ***Joyous_Blade also waves, sipping the ale.
(27/02/10 20:09:43) Kairos_Midoya: "My grandmother wanted me to follow in her footsteps to be a thamaturge like her, but...that didn't exactly happen."
(27/02/10 20:10:15) Hel: "You don't have to do that, ma'am." Hel stared at the plate of food Mirra had prepared for him.
(27/02/10 20:10:44) Greenling: "Eat it, Hel, it's good!" Lion grins.
(27/02/10 20:11:33) ***Joyous_Blade nods.
(27/02/10 20:11:34) ***Hel does as was requested of him.
(27/02/10 20:11:48) ***Mirra_Kasull smiles to Hel. "If I don't you'll either ask if you can have each item or just take one thing."
(27/02/10 20:14:41) ***Hel looks up from a mouthful of food. "Yes, ma'am. Most likely, ma'am."
(27/02/10 20:15:09) Adamant: "...You're talking about Ameraille, aren't you?"
(27/02/10 20:15:35) Kairos_Midoya: Kairos nods, staring down at his book.
(27/02/10 20:15:55) ***Joyous_Blade pats Kairos on the shoulder sympathetically.
(27/02/10 20:15:58) Adamant: She looks sympathetic. "I'm sorry."
(27/02/10 20:16:45) Joyous_Blade: "Yeah, seeing your home destroyed is never pleasant."
(27/02/10 20:17:07) Greenling: Il Seraph sits there, picking at his deer. "Tragedy, that."
(27/02/10 20:17:55) Kairos_Midoya: that wasn't exactly comforting. :/ "S-sorry for bringing it up."
(27/02/10 20:17:57) Greenling: "So. Were any of you actually briefed as to the point of this little endeavor?
(27/02/10 20:18:00) Adamant: "Hey. You've got friends, just remember that."
(27/02/10 20:18:11) Adamant: She pats his free hand with a grin.
(27/02/10 20:18:24) Adamant: "I've got your back."
(27/02/10 20:18:34) ***Kairos_Midoya nods to Adamant, and blushes a little (thankfully unnoticeably) at the handpatting. "T-thank you."
(27/02/10 20:18:45) Adamant: She shakes her head at Seraph. "Can't say I have, in particular.
(27/02/10 20:18:46) Adamant: "
(27/02/10 20:18:48) Reed: "I was barely briefly on the point of this endeavor," Reed points out.
(27/02/10 20:18:50) ***Joyous_Blade nods. "You can always come and talk to me about it if you need to. I went through the same thing as a teen."
(27/02/10 20:19:33) Kairos_Midoya: He feels like he did when Ianthe gave him attention. @_@
(27/02/10 20:20:37) Greenling: "Yes, but you were just coming right back." The Lunar sips his drink.
(27/02/10 20:20:46) Kairos_Midoya: He shakes his head at Seraph. "I'm sorry, sir, I don't have any idea..."
(27/02/10 20:21:01) Adamant: "Well, that makes things easier; we can start from the top then."
(27/02/10 20:21:41) Greenling: Il Seraph smiles at Kairos, stopping briefly to fuss over Lion as the boy tries unsuccessfully to peel an orange.
(27/02/10 20:22:22) Kairos_Midoya: Mm orange.
(27/02/10 20:23:56) ***Joyous_Blade nods, passing the recently arrived Salith a glass of ale.
(27/02/10 20:24:30) Greenling: He continues. "Recently, a pack of the Swords of Lunar received a messenger; this messeger was a Fair Folk, one Merciful Legate of Hope, who claimed to have a document proclaiming the oath-bound decree of several powerful nobles of their kind to begin plans for a Second Balorian Crusade," he says frankly.
(27/02/10 20:24:48) Adamant: ...
(27/02/10 20:24:51) Adamant: Oh. Well then.
(27/02/10 20:24:58) Kairos_Midoya: ...shit
(27/02/10 20:25:05) Greenling: "Now, as ridiculous as the idea sounds, apparently they've been hearing things over the past six months or so that give them some pause..."
(27/02/10 20:25:50) Greenling: "About strange artifacts that allow the Wyld to expand and stick more easily, something like the opposite of the Jade Obelisks of old."
(27/02/10 20:26:00) Joyous_Blade: "...Venus chained and spanked, this is not good."
(27/02/10 20:26:19) Adamant: "Right, that's bad."
(27/02/10 20:26:43) Kairos_Midoya: "...very bad."
(27/02/10 20:27:31) Greenling: "About unparalleled raising of armies, about packs of demons travelling in and out of the Wyld, and best yet," he says sarcastically, "someone has recovered a very interesting device that seems to be made of Malfean brass fused to a Grace."
(27/02/10 20:27:39) Kairos_Midoya: ...
(27/02/10 20:27:44) Joyous_Blade: ...
(27/02/10 20:27:47) Greenling: "We're not sure what it does, though I, personally, have not been allowed to take a look."
(27/02/10 20:28:10) Greenling: "We were hoping you all would help investigate." He smiles.
(27/02/10 20:29:07) Adamant: "Sure. Why not."
(27/02/10 20:29:46) Hel: "Alright."
(27/02/10 20:30:01) Joyous_Blade: "This isn't exactly the kind of thing I want to leave *un*investigated."
(27/02/10 20:30:44) ***Mirra_Kasull gives a nod.
(27/02/10 20:31:07) Adamant: "I dunno, I suppose we could stick all the snow in the North in our ears and dance through Gethemane in our small clothes, but that wouldn't really help."
(27/02/10 20:31:07) Greenling: "Indeed. Much like the first, such organization on the part of the Fair Folk- particularly our Jet Court up here, which seems to pride itself on going on and on about how little it cares about anything- is disturbing."
(27/02/10 20:31:15) Adamant: "So yes, ignoring not an option."
(27/02/10 20:31:40) ***Adamant looks rather grim at that.
(27/02/10 20:31:51) Greenling: Lion watches the adults, still eating.
(27/02/10 20:31:52) Kairos_Midoya: Kairos nods in agreement.
(27/02/10 20:32:03) Adamant: "...You're right, that's bad. I remember my days with the Swords and the only thing they seemed to care about was not caring."
(27/02/10 20:32:15) Greenling: "What's a Balorian?"
(27/02/10 20:32:27) Joyous_Blade: "A very bad thing, Lion."
(27/02/10 20:32:35) Greenling: "Oh."
(27/02/10 20:33:21) Joyous_Blade: "But we'll take care of it, don't worry. You might even to get see your mom again!" >.>
(27/02/10 20:33:27) Greenling: "And I must admit, we brought in you people partly because we want this to be dealt with before the Bull finds out and takes over."
(27/02/10 20:33:34) Greenling: Lion's eyes widen.
(27/02/10 20:33:52) Greenling: He leaps out of his seat and hugs Il Seraph.
(27/02/10 20:34:01) Greenling: "...Erk." <3
(27/02/10 20:34:06) Reed: Reed scowls at Blade. Damn it, did she have to say *that*?
(27/02/10 20:34:35) Adamant: Adamant makes a face.
(27/02/10 20:34:52) ***Joyous_Blade blinks at Reed. Does he really think it's a good idea to keep a kid in the middle of what's probably going to become a warzone?
(27/02/10 20:34:53) ***Hel is still eating, did something important happen?
(27/02/10 20:35:18) Greenling: Il Seraph pats the boy on the head and nudges him off. He looks at Reed and mouths, who in Malfeas is his mother again?
(27/02/10 20:35:55) Adamant: "Yeah, the Bull's the last complication needed up here right now." Adamant laces her fingers together, frowning into her ale.
(27/02/10 20:36:44) Greenling: "Thankfully, we do have a few tricks up our sleeve that I've been authorized to offer you all." He grins pointily.
(27/02/10 20:36:58) Adamant: "Oh?"
(27/02/10 20:37:00) Joyous_Blade: "Oh?"
(27/02/10 20:37:08) Kairos_Midoya: "Hm?" Kairos tilts his head curiously.
(27/02/10 20:37:32) Greenling: "The Wyld is dangerous, but I have personally been working on certain... improvements to current technology."
(27/02/10 20:38:43) Greenling: He looks over his shoulder. "Jabu-Jabu, if you would please bring in the diagrams?"
(27/02/10 20:38:49) QuicksilverFox85 is now known as Jabu-Jabu
(27/02/10 20:38:50) Joyous_Blade: "I see?" Oh sweet Maidens, not stuff from R&D.
(27/02/10 20:39:26) Adamant: "Ooh. :D" R&D stuff, neat!
(27/02/10 20:39:41) Jabu-Jabu: Entering into the room is a blue-green scaled fish, about a foot long, carrying a scroll case in it's mouth. Said fish, mind you, is floating about two feet off the ground.
(27/02/10 20:39:49) Kairos_Midoya: ....so cute
(27/02/10 20:39:51) Hel: "It is a fish."
(27/02/10 20:39:52) Adamant: :o
(27/02/10 20:39:59) Kairos_Midoya: Such a cute fishie
(27/02/10 20:40:06) Joyous_Blade: "Huh. A skyfish."
(27/02/10 20:40:23) Adamant: "Maidens you are the cutest fish ever."
(27/02/10 20:40:31) Hel: "It is a fish."
(27/02/10 20:40:34) Kairos_Midoya: "Yes." Kairos wants to hug it.
(27/02/10 20:40:37) ***Hel stomach growls a bit.
(27/02/10 20:40:45) Joyous_Blade: "Haven't seen one of you for a good century and a half."
(27/02/10 20:41:17) ***Jabu-Jabu drops the scroll case into Seraph's lap. A few little bubbles come from it's mouth, forming the Old Realm characters for 'Here you go!' As the bubbles pop, a child-like voice emits from them, saying the same phrase.
(27/02/10 20:41:24) Adamant: ...
(27/02/10 20:41:28) ***Adamant melts D:
(27/02/10 20:41:51) ***Mirra_Kasull blinks. Huh.
(27/02/10 20:41:57) Greenling: Lion's eyes glitter, and his jaw drops.
(27/02/10 20:42:01) Greenling: "Pretty fiiiish..."
(27/02/10 20:42:02) Kairos_Midoya: "Y-you're so cute..."
(27/02/10 20:42:14) Joyous_Blade: "Keep calm, Addy. There'll be plenty of time to d'awww later." Blade murmurs.
(27/02/10 20:42:15) Jabu-Jabu: He looks to the rest of the group, then finwaves. "Hi!"
(27/02/10 20:42:18) ***Hel does not comprehend.
(27/02/10 20:42:25) ***Adamant waves :D
(27/02/10 20:42:42) ***Kairos_Midoya waves at the adorable fishie.
(27/02/10 20:42:44) Greenling: Jabu-Jabu has a five-year-old attached to him now.
(27/02/10 20:42:49) Jabu-Jabu: !
(27/02/10 20:42:55) Greenling: "Fishie." <3
(27/02/10 20:43:05) Jabu-Jabu: "Hi! Your name?"
(27/02/10 20:43:12) ***Adamant can't blame him, if she were five years old she'd hug him too.
(27/02/10 20:43:13) Greenling: "Hi! I'm Bright Lion!"
(27/02/10 20:43:43) Kairos_Midoya: ...oh god he might die of the combined cute
(27/02/10 20:43:49) Jabu-Jabu: "Lion...is kitty, right?" o.o
(27/02/10 20:43:56) Greenling: Seraph clears his throat and unrolls a scroll case. There are... lines. Diagrams. Notations in Old Realm. Guh.
(27/02/10 20:44:11) Greenling: "Uhm. I'm..." he looks at Reed.
(27/02/10 20:44:37) Kairos_Midoya: Kairos peeks at the diagrams.
(27/02/10 20:44:37) Reed: "Hm?" Reed looks back at Seraph.
(27/02/10 20:44:44) Kairos_Midoya: and the fishie.
(27/02/10 20:45:06) Adamant: Oh! Right. Business at hand. >_>
(27/02/10 20:46:13) Greenling: Reed's eyes cross.
(27/02/10 20:46:22) Greenling: Kairos and Blade: ...
(27/02/10 20:46:29) ***Jabu-Jabu floats around Lion. "You no have tail, so not kitty."
(27/02/10 20:46:30) Greenling: ...Magic.
(27/02/10 20:46:40) Greenling: "My dad is a Solar?" Lion offers.
(27/02/10 20:46:47) ***Kairos_Midoya is distracted by the fishie.
(27/02/10 20:46:55) Jabu-Jabu: "Oh! You half shiny, then."  :D
(27/02/10 20:47:27) Kairos_Midoya: His grandmother would beat him if she could see how distracted he was. <.<
(27/02/10 20:47:49) Greenling: Adamant: Oh dude he's trying to upgrade the tattooes with like artifacts and it's kind of like those magitech things they install except with a Charm and Magical Material.
(27/02/10 20:48:39) Adamant: :o Adamant is engrossed in reading the notations and looking at the pretty pictures.
(27/02/10 20:48:50) ***Jabu-Jabu nuzzles Lion a bit, then floats around to look over the rest of the group
(27/02/10 20:49:28) ***Hel just stares at the fish.
(27/02/10 20:49:29) Greenling: ...Basically he's figured out a way to make super-tattooes out of existing artifacts of any material that work like Lunar tattooes, plus allowing access to Fair Folk Graces and... it just says "effects appropriate to the individual attuned".
(27/02/10 20:50:06) Greenling: ...You have a feeling there's another scroll someplace detailing people he's tried this on already.
(27/02/10 20:50:09) ***Jabu-Jabu stops in front of Hel and waves.
(27/02/10 20:50:14) Adamant: "You've figured out a way to incorporate forged graces into the standard protocols? That's really impressive."
(27/02/10 20:50:19) Hel: "Hi."
(27/02/10 20:50:25) Kairos_Midoya: ...:
(27/02/10 20:50:26) Kairos_Midoya: :o
(27/02/10 20:50:26) Greenling: "Thank you," Seraph replies.
(27/02/10 20:50:48) ***Joyous_Blade has no idea what Adamant is talking about.
(27/02/10 20:50:59) Jabu-Jabu: "Hi."
(27/02/10 20:51:19) Adamant: "What's this about 'variable attunement effects'?"
(27/02/10 20:52:10) Adamant: "Wow, and with other materials besides moonsilver, too. The Manse would be green with jealousy if they knew." She is oblivious to her own terrible pun. Too much neat stuff. :D
(27/02/10 20:52:31) Hel: "I already have tattoos."
(27/02/10 20:52:38) Greenling: "Well, you know how the original tattooes are meant to summarize the individual's life so as to prevent the Wyld from affecting them on a dramatic level?"
(27/02/10 20:52:48) Joyous_Blade: "And in Skytongue that means?"
(27/02/10 20:53:02) Adamant: "Sure." She rolls her sleeve up. "I went through the process about twenty years ago."
(27/02/10 20:53:32) Jabu-Jabu: "Ooh..." Jabu-Jabu floats over to look at Adamant's tattoos.
(27/02/10 20:54:57) Greenling: He nods. "These... have a tendency of enhancing things. Whatever is forged into your tattooes becomes, for better or worse, a magnified part of an individual's life. I've also seen them change once or twice after an individual raises their Essence or undergoes a personal transformation, so to speak."
(27/02/10 20:55:20) Greenling: "They're far more dynamic. Though, er, given the above, there are occasionally some risks."
(27/02/10 20:55:55) Joyous_Blade: "What kind of risks?"
(27/02/10 20:56:02) Greenling: He looks at Kairos. "Would you like to see my log at some point?"
(27/02/10 20:56:07) Adamant: "Hi there," she smiles at the fishie, then: "If you know risks then I take it you've tested them before, or is this all hypothetical right now?"
(27/02/10 20:57:14) Greenling: "One major risk is that you do not always control what the tattooes settle on. Another is that, since they're material-independent, whatever is used has a tendency to affect the final outcome, and not always in expected fashion."
(27/02/10 20:57:30) Kairos_Midoya: "I would, please."
(27/02/10 20:57:37) Joyous_Blade: "I see."
(27/02/10 20:58:03) Greenling: "I have tested them on another former apprentice of mine and certain other Lunars, as well as several mortals who volunteered. And of course, myself."
(27/02/10 20:58:27) ***Adamant nods.
(27/02/10 20:59:22) ***Mirra_Kasull hms softly.
(27/02/10 20:59:38) Greenling: "The material your Exaltation is attuned to is usually a safe bet, but not always. There's at least one I tried for whom Jade worked far better than Moonsilver."
(27/02/10 21:00:00) Greenling: "Oh, and," he looks at Hel, "I have a special request from your Mentor on that note."
(27/02/10 21:00:01) Adamant: She looks at Blade, "Sorry. A few people figured out how to fit graces, but this is the first time I've seen them incorporated into the usual tattoo set. It's even more impressive that they've learned how to work the process into other magical materials."
(27/02/10 21:00:13) ***Hel blinks. "What is it?"
(27/02/10 21:00:34) Greenling: "She would like to see what would happen if I tattooed you with soulsteel."
(27/02/10 21:00:42) Greenling: "She rather insisted, in fact."
(27/02/10 21:00:43) Hel: "What?"
(27/02/10 21:00:46) Joyous_Blade: "Oh, okay."
(27/02/10 21:01:09) Hel: "Alright."
(27/02/10 21:01:15) Adamant: "Soulsteel, eh?"
(27/02/10 21:01:18) Adamant: Odd request.
(27/02/10 21:01:29) Kairos_Midoya: ...what? *soulsteel*
(27/02/10 21:01:47) Joyous_Blade: "I'm getting the feeling this mentor of Hel's is a very strange person."
(27/02/10 21:01:57) Adamant: "You aren't the only one..." e.e
(27/02/10 21:02:42) Kairos_Midoya: "...that's putting it lightly. :|"
(27/02/10 21:02:44) Kairos_Midoya: sob.
(27/02/10 21:02:59) Joyous_Blade: "...Huh?" *pats*
(27/02/10 21:03:05) Adamant: >_>
(27/02/10 21:04:59) Hel: "She is fine."
(27/02/10 21:05:43) Joyous_Blade: "...You're not exactly the most normal of people yourself." Blade murmurs.
(27/02/10 21:06:03) Adamant: "It's difference by degrees."
(27/02/10 21:07:31) Adamant: She turns back to Seraph. "So you're asking us to stress-test them, in a manner of speaking?"
(27/02/10 21:09:24) Greenling: "In a manner of speaking." He smirks.
(27/02/10 21:10:24) Greenling: "And I thought they would be useful, given the circumstances."
(27/02/10 21:10:35) Greenling: He looks at Lion. "...What *are* you doing with him, anyhow?"
(27/02/10 21:10:38) Adamant: "I'm not about to turn down extra help."
(27/02/10 21:11:14) Joyous_Blade: "I rather doubt anyone here is."
(27/02/10 21:11:23) Greenling: Salith pats Kairos on the shoulder what of course she's been there the whole time.
(27/02/10 21:11:36) Kairos_Midoya: ...where did she come from?
(27/02/10 21:12:11) Reed: Reed sighs. "I'd prefer not too put him in danger, but I don't really have anyone who can take care of him for me. And I don't know if I'd want to send him somewhere I couldn't see him."
(27/02/10 21:12:51) Joyous_Blade: "Well, um, Salith could deliver him to his mother. If you want her to."
(27/02/10 21:13:18) Reed: "I'm not going to send him to the Blessed Isle."
(27/02/10 21:13:22) Greenling: Salith noms some of the pheasant.
(27/02/10 21:14:11) Greenling: "...While I would love to offer to take care of the boy, I have obligations soon I cannot deny, and I don't think he'd like to be carried in my talons all the way to Nexus."
(27/02/10 21:14:14) Adamant: Adamant slips Lion an orange slice. >_>
(27/02/10 21:14:26) Greenling: Lion noms the orangs slice and grins at Adamant.
(27/02/10 21:14:32) Adamant: :3
(27/02/10 21:14:34) ***Joyous_Blade shrugs. "Well, in that case, he should be fine in Yu-Shan. Some of our co-workers are quite fond of Golden Children."
(27/02/10 21:15:06) Reed: "I'd much prefer to leave him with someone I know."
(27/02/10 21:15:12) Adamant: "A couple of them *are* Golden Children. But it boils down to what Reed wants to do. It's his son, after all."
(27/02/10 21:15:12) Reed: "And someone *he* knows."
(27/02/10 21:15:19) Greenling: "Though I'm sure Tebryn's current keeper would love having him."
(27/02/10 21:15:30) Joyous_Blade: "Tebryn?"
(27/02/10 21:15:45) Reed: Reed makes a face like he just bit into a lemon.
(27/02/10 21:16:05) ***Adamant headtilts.
(27/02/10 21:16:07) Reed: "Her."
(27/02/10 21:16:19) Reed: "I don't know if I trust that woman."
(27/02/10 21:16:21) Greenling: "Ah, yes. Her."
(27/02/10 21:16:26) Joyous_Blade: "...Who's Tebryn?"
(27/02/10 21:17:08) Hel: "My mentor loves children."
(27/02/10 21:17:16) Greenling: "...No."
(27/02/10 21:17:23) Greenling: Seraph interrupts Hel.
(27/02/10 21:17:25) Kairos_Midoya: "..."
(27/02/10 21:17:31) Greenling: "I mean. Uh. It's Reed's choice."
(27/02/10 21:17:50) Greenling: She does love children! Their hearts are so tender and sweet.
(27/02/10 21:18:07) Greenling: They're just perfect when breaded and fried.
(27/02/10 21:18:19) Kairos_Midoya: D:
(27/02/10 21:18:32) Adamant: "I'd say 'hey I have sisters' but I wouldn't wish my family on anyone so there you have it."
(27/02/10 21:18:36) Reed: "Tebryn is another of Seraph's prot?g?s."
(27/02/10 21:19:22) Greenling: "I want a sister," Lion speaks up. He's looking at Reed when he says this.
(27/02/10 21:19:32) Greenling: Then he looks at Adamant, for whatever reason.
(27/02/10 21:19:41) Reed: He sighs. "I suppose that woman might be my best option so far. I'll...consider it. At least then he'd be able to stay in Gethamane--" Reed blinks.
(27/02/10 21:19:53) Joyous_Blade: "I see. Well, um, frankly the safest suggestion I have that isn't sending him to the Blessed Isle is asking Raha to look after him."
(27/02/10 21:19:54) Greenling: "Or a brother," he offers.
(27/02/10 21:20:10) ***Adamant looks at Lion.
(27/02/10 21:20:21) Greenling: "What?"
(27/02/10 21:20:29) Adamant: She cackles.
(27/02/10 21:20:41) Hel: "What about the tattoos?"
(27/02/10 21:20:45) Greenling: He looks confused.
(27/02/10 21:20:51) Adamant: "Maidens, boy, you are gonna know every dirty secret everyone has before you make ten. I don't know if I should envy you or not."
(27/02/10 21:21:11) Greenling: Lion grins, though he's still confused.
(27/02/10 21:21:18) ***Adamant doesn't explain.
(27/02/10 21:23:14) Adamant: She also doesn't tell him that siblings are overrated, no need to end his innocence this early on.
(27/02/10 21:23:25) Reed: Reed leans back in his chair and looks at Lion contemplatively. "Lion, how would you like to see Tebryn again?"
(27/02/10 21:23:46) Greenling: "Uhm. Do I have to wear a dress?"
(27/02/10 21:24:03) Adamant: ... O_o
(27/02/10 21:24:13) Joyous_Blade: "...What."
(27/02/10 21:24:25) Adamant: "Do I want to know?"
(27/02/10 21:24:27) Reed: Reed rubs the bridge of his nose. God damn that woman.
(27/02/10 21:24:38) Reed: "I asked her to babysit him. Once."
(27/02/10 21:24:39) Kairos_Midoya: "...huh?"
(27/02/10 21:24:50) Greenling: "...I'd get to play with the doggy, though."
(27/02/10 21:25:03) Greenling: He considers this.
(27/02/10 21:26:22) Greenling: "Can't I go with you?" Bright Lion Puppy Eyes Go Go.
(27/02/10 21:26:50) Adamant: >_>
(27/02/10 21:26:57) Adamant: Maidens not the puppy eyes.
(27/02/10 21:27:02) ***Adamant looks away.
(27/02/10 21:27:30) Kairos_Midoya: ...oh so cute @_@
(27/02/10 21:27:41) Hel: "...Yes."
(27/02/10 21:28:11) Kairos_Midoya: Thankfully he's not swayed by adorable. Yet.
(27/02/10 21:28:14) Reed: Reed bends down at eye-level with him. "It's going to be very dangerous. I don't know if I'll be able to protect you."
(27/02/10 21:28:39) Joyous_Blade: "D'awwww."
(27/02/10 21:28:46) Greenling: "I don't want you to leave me, Dad." He sniffles.
(27/02/10 21:30:56) Reed: He sighs. "We still have time to decide. I just don't want you to get hurt."
(27/02/10 21:30:58) Adamant: :(
(27/02/10 21:31:40) Greenling: Lion hugs his father. "Okay."
(27/02/10 21:33:54) Reed: Reed hugs Lion tightly and sits back on the chair, sitting the boy in his lap. "You know, I think Seraph still owes you some hot chocolate, hm?"
(27/02/10 21:34:15) Greenling: "Yes!"
(27/02/10 21:34:27) Greenling: Seraph looks amused, and goes to get the boy hot chocolate.