Cross Effects 3.0 - June 23, 2016—April 02, 2018

[MissingMandible]

Gojira:

She still wasn't used to the shadow-step.

Once Gojira re-orientated herself, she noticed that, yes, the place Adjutor was talking about was Wild Bill's. She almost grinned in anticipation, a plan forming in her mind. Yes, this will be a day of reckoning for whatever-his-name-was! "Well, then," The she-monster said, "Shall we go in?"

[Aiden]

Purple Heart

Oh my, it seems like it was a bit too much of an emotional response for poor Gadreel who appeared to have been struck to tears. She gave him a smile and a pat on the head as response to the sincere thank you.

After a brief moment she lowered the alitutde and landed on the roof of one of the skyscrapers closest to where Gadreel lived. She put him down and turned to look at the city.

"So how is this patrol route of yours shaped? Is there anything special to it, what kind of things could we encounter?" She fired of the questions with almost machine like effieciency. The difference between this form and her other, was quite staggering.

Gadreel

"... forgive me. That was embarrassing." The fallen angel surreptitiously cleansed his face with a brief pass of his fingers, and place a hand on the stern goddess' shoulder to convey his appreciation. Then he turned his eyes back to the city.

"I prefer to proceed searching for the most obvious of supernatural presences in the area. Moving first in a rectangular direction to assess the borders, then crossing through the width of the territory." He demonstrated with motions through the air with his free hand. "Then I repeat the same on the street level. Some nights I encounter flying beasts that prey on humans from above. Others I find humans who prey on their own kind from below."

[Aiden]

Molly

"Hah.... What.... was that?"

The hunter found herself panting after that weirdly fulfilling experience. She needed to regain her bearing. No. She needed to get back control, and fast, this just wouldn't do.

Molly took a deep breath, her heart rate went down as she came down from whatever that was. "Oh You're getting off on it, aren't you?" She asked him, her voice was much more steady now.

Liam

"They don't got vampires where you come from, miss?" Liam kept his voice low, but he couldn't hide the desire lingering in his voice. He was quite flushed in the face now, for good reason. Molly's blood was pouring life through him right now. It wouldn't last forever, but dang if he wasn't gonna enjoy it while it lasted. "Well that there explains a lot."

He didn't deny her... accusation. In fact he stayed close to her, intruding on her space, just enough to keep her a bit off balance. Also because she still smelled delicious.

[Aiden]

Annabeth

The Hunter's frown didn't leave her face at Gabe's remark, her fingers twitching for a gun as she made no attempts to hide her annoyance.

"Great, so I don't have to put one in your lap first," the Hunter snapped, "What's the job and what's got you brave enough to come running this soon?"

Ron

Despite feeling so territorial, Ron didn't want to shoot a guy offering them a bunch of money. So he carefully place a hand over top of the one Anne was holding her gun with, and encouraged her to lower it. No words needed. "What she said, but without the bullets."

[Aiden]

IRON=SAKURA

"Stop complaining Mord, that's the least you can do after making me trip." Sakura said. "Jumping is so much faster, and I haaaate walking. Once you get used to it you'll be fine."

Auspicious Breeze

"Heh. Just to watch, Sakura; I'm gonna figure out how to do that too. Then we can have a race!" She grinned all competitively, even while keeping an arm around poor Oren. Stupid bad guys bullying her just because she gets rid of bodies in weird ways. Don't people know that ghosts rise up and eat people if you don't get rid of bodies? Or you know, bury them all elaborate and stuff, but that's expensive.

[Kat]

Mordred

"I'd just bury bodies myself or take them to a funeral house. Or burn them down if they were cursed to rise from grave or were vampires. I swear, if we stumble on one of undead this night then consider my mood ruined. I've spent enough nights fighting the pest, I can take break this night." Mordred complained in advance. As the sun was setting down she worried that their outing would be ruined by some intrusion. Well, at least two of them were magnets for trouble, including the Changeling.

But for now, they were at destination, another mall where they could shop together. "You wanted to buy some clothes? Well, we could do it, but there should be other things we can do here afterwards. Are you interested in something particular?"

[YOLF]

Irene

No matter how swift you were, there was a limit to how well you could track two people separately. Irene closed in on the materialized woman, and with furious but certain urgency as she suddenly produced a firearm and fired at Julius, the vampire was at her back and swinging the mass of the fire extinguisher against her skull with monstrous strength.

[Break]

Lorenzo

"Hehe. Alright then, I'll make myself comfortable." He chuckled before taking a confident stride forward. His steps left burning marks on the grass, no, perhaps it was something else. But as he advanced and entered the boy's cape, the flames spread at a frightening rate and cloaked the forest around them. The flames licking the air around the pirate danced and shifted out of the earth and took the shape of birds, as if bending to his will.

No, it wasn't just the flame, but almost as if the fire around them was taking life. Either way, a skeletal hand dragged the puppet with a nonchalant but harsh thug and reeled him into the portal with him, letting the cloak dance along with the flames before drifting through the skies under the winds of a bird of fire.

The workshop, if he could call it as such, was not really what he was expecting. Well, it sure looked empty. And oh, jeez, how long had it been since Coppie did some upkeep? Well, if he was some uppity princess there was no way he'd stay here any longer, but a trashy looking place like this suited him best.

"Woah, it's pretty spacious. A bit hard to breathe though, cleaning a bit once in a while won't kill you will it?" He sighed casually before picking one of the books lying around. "Huh. You like to read?"

Coppelius

"Whew, don't surprise me like that!"

Getting his bearings, Coppelius pointed at the skeleton.

"Now i have to go back and get that damn coat... Oh well. Hm, it is a bit moldy, now is it? Not like you need to breathe anyways.
Reading? Sure, its a good way to kill time and learn more about people, too."

He picked up one of the tomes titled "How to pick up fair maidens" and tossed it toward the pirate.

"Some are less useful than others, though."

[Thedoctor]

Purple Heart

"FLYING BEASTS in the city!"

The purplehead of a goddess exlaimed with great suprise. The mere notion of greater beasts roaming the midsts of a city being completely alien to her. She turned to him frantically and took hold of shoulders shaking him with unrestrained force. "Are you sure of this Gadreel?" She sounded scared, not for herself, but for the people who lived here.

She blinked, and halted her shaking of him slowly, her hands withdrawing in embarassment. "I-I, I don't know what came over me there, forgive me."

[Kat]

Julius

Julius couldn't evade bullets. That was his weakness that some monsters had tried to exploit beforehand. That's why he focused on disarming the opponent in such situations if he could, but obviously here that wasn't applicable. Hitting him in movement was more difficult than aiming at a stationary target, but he still received damage. None of bullets hit his vital organs, but some of bullets buried in his body. Grimacing from the pain, he at least took comfort in the fact that those bullets didn't seem to be poisoned. Bearing the trauma, he reached for one of knives while hanging down from the pole and aimed it at the Tommy Gun.

[SINIB]

Rin

Joe was trying to smooth over the situation, and Jeanne was trying to help, but their words just grated on Rin almost like salt on an open wound.

So she carried the dishes to the kitchen, scraped the left overs in the trash, and then sat them at the sink.  She put on her apron and gloves before turning the water on hot.  The steam that rose from the faucet formed fanciful eddies in the air conditioned room that she idly watched for a moment.

Maybe this was a bad idea, she thought as she started to scrub,Maybe a normal guy like him shouldn't mix with a magus like me.  Or maybe he should just fucking apologize about the blunder instead of trying to make me feel better with stupid flattery that just kind of really sounds hollow right now!


Roderick

I think I'm just being ignored here . . . Roderick thought as he shoulders slumped.  It was an odd feeling, this rejection, even if it wasn't intentional it was obvious.  The only other time he'd felt anything like this even though it was to a greater degree when he'd first met his twin sister and she told him point blank that he wasn't her brother despite all the obvious signs that he was.

It gnawed at the pit of his stomach ever so slightly and he looked away from the exuberant blonds, even though they were a nice sight, and sighed.

He wondered if he should teleport away, just vanish.

Then his eyes widened as Animusphere's words set in.  Then he chuckled and said, "Any decent cleric would be able to bring her back from the dead.  Is Resurrection not common where you are from?  A powerful enough wizard or cleric could easily bring her back to flesh and blood.  Or are you more powerful in this familiar form?"


Forest

Forest grinned and said, "Just because you can copy my powers doesn't mean you can copy my skill.  I can defend myself if you get too rowdy."

Or, I can just bite you until you pass out from blood loss and orgasm overload, Forest thought to herself, even though she really didn't want it to go that far.

Olgamally Animusphere

Olga suddenly looked at Roderick with extreme interest. "Oh? Really? Can you do it?" Olga asked him, no malice or superiority in her voice anymore, only pure unadulterated curiosity. "If you can, show me. I'd love to see your methodology."

[Umbra of Chaos]

Jasey

She chewed her lip a bit. "Well, gotta admit that this whole thing is kind of boring. Like damn, I wasn't expecting a city wide murder spreed but this is barely any better than hanging out with some people at school. Let's do something interesting and talk instead of sitting around!"

Like kill people. Or at least scare them. Otherwise she might have to actually consider doing her homework instead.


Oren

The Fae took the opportunity to snuggle up against Breeze. And hold one of Mord's hands. They could play nice! Probably. Mordred was always a bit too stuffy. She needed to relax! Oren would have tried berries but the Changeling always had doubts about trying them.

"Well, something kinda loose could work? Or really tight on body! It's the worst when I end up tearing something because I can't move all the way."

[Aiden]

Purple Heart

"FLYING BEASTS in the city!"

The purplehead of a goddess exlaimed with great suprise. The mere notion of greater beasts roaming the midsts of a city being completely alien to her. She turned to him frantically and took hold of shoulders shaking him with unrestrained force. "Are you sure of this Gadreel?" She sounded scared, not for herself, but for the people who lived here.

She blinked, and halted her shaking of him slowly, her hands withdrawing in embarassment. "I-I, I don't know what came over me there, forgive me."

Gadreel

Her well-meaning fear caught him quite off guard. For this purpose he took hold of Purple Heart's hands in his own, and nodded slowly to her. "All is forgiven, of course. Your outburst was fueled by the noblest intentions. Well thought ones, indeed, for I have seen anything from gargoyles to wyverns perch upon the ledges of man's metal monuments in this city."

And worse. "Then there are those who hide among the humans, appearing as they do but waiting..."

[Cherry Lover]

Rider

Rider smirked at the girl's response.

"Well, I hope you will find it interesting", she replied with a smile.

"And, yes, I suppose a bar would be a good place to discuss my interests further. I doubt anyone will overhear us there", she added.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Costin

The vampire frowned and raised an eyebrow, digesting what she just heard.

O_O Omg I'm in love.

"PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!! PWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA- Oh god, jeez! This is just great! Balls to the wall and nose to the grindstone huh? I like that!" She suddenly burst as if she had just been told a funny joke, giving the girl a good ol slap in the back.

"Didn't think you had it in ya. Normally someone would call it quits after hacking an entire apartment. *snerk* Well, I was really just buying some time until i recovered from that beating you gave me. I never thought chainsaws could be so arousing! I'll have to pay you back sometime with a pickax, or oh, maybe a dentist drill!" She chuckled at her own anecdote.

It reminded her of that one time she was actually a dentist! God you have never lived truly until you've twisted and turned some girl's teeth and fiddled with her nerves like they're guitar strings. The screams were like music to her ears! People should hail her as the original metal band.

Costin sighed though, despite just laughing it off, she seemed a bit sad about it. No, it wasn't really sadness, more than nonchalance. She was kinda having fun in a weird way, she had never really talked like that for a while. On the other hand, killing and murdering were like tuesday for her. Fun? Sure! She wasn't about to complain now was she?

"Guess that's enough for a recess break, you're absolutely right."

She took a dainty step off the couch and spun around the floor, twirling dramatically before pointing to the very heavens.

"Why waste our time telling stuff when we can talk through broken bones and marrow?! Surely a split face or twenty with guts on the side will be the perfect way to celebrate our love!" She said before plunging her clawed hand straight into her belly and ripping her intestines out in a shower of blood, holding them out to Jasey as if they were a present before slapping them on her own neck like they were a scarf.

It was already filled with pizza and frankly it all smelled like shit. Well, it wasn't really shit, but jeez she could've tried to bleed it a little or something. An eyeball or two wouldn't hurt the flavor.

"And look, we have guts to spare already! We can take as many as we want!! Besides, live streams are much trendier nowadays! We'll go from tragedy and shoot it straight to comedy! So, how about it? Wanna shoot a homemovie? If you want we can make it a porno!"