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

[Elf]

Rin

"And blow, we'd need blow.  Honestly does this place even have a support network for magic users?" Rin asked, sitting up with a thoughtful look on her face.   

Maybe we can make sure that the thing that happened to you Sakura never happens to anyone again.


Gabriel

"So, temporary as you're sleeping on a friend's couch or hotel room type temporary?" Gabriel asked with a tilt of his head.

[Aiden]

Julius

"Ah, yes, kindness. Kindness and compassion should rule the world, and not power, yet even well intentioned people cannot avert all tragedies. I know I cannot save everyone, but it still weighs on my heart. I shall take my leave. Seems like my companion has retreated to safety, though I'm not aware where she is now." Hopefully somewhere safe.

"Please send my regards to your lady, I wish you best fortune."

So the nobleman bowed, and wandered off into the streets of Nexus. What else possibly could await him this day?

Gadreel

"Wise words, Julius. Fair journey to you," the exile told the time-tossed aristocrat. There was something deeply wrong with that man, but he directed that wrongness toward a good cause. Perhaps this was yet another manifestation of human potential, infinite and varied as it was? The will to act, and persist, in the face of an absurd an overwhelming reality?

It seems I still have much to learn of them.

And so Gadreel made his way to return to the interior of the shopping mall. There he would seek out young Forest, and see if she was well in the face of whatever exposure she had willingly taken upon herself to help others. From there, if she was still functional, they could proceed to scour the surrounding area for any malignant prodigies left behind in the wake of this day's horror.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Liseth

Well, the doors weren't opening which made sense. Sakura probably used magic or something to keep them closed. Well, whatever. Once she'd had her fill Liseth just opened a random door and ended up back in the room she was sitting at. She frowned a bit as she went back to her laptop and time started moving again.

It was actually really boring. Not that it was Rin's fault or anything. Family should come first after all. Still, it made her think of doing something else instead of twiddling her thumbs and doing some more balancing. She reached into her pocket and pulled out gems, gold, exotic ores that she'd found just by looking them up on the internet. All kinds of different things. Just to see if she could. A small pile was being made around her feet. One that could be priceless to almost anyone. The tails of strange, small creatures, tufts of fur from exotic beasts, feathers from rarely seen birds. It was always kind of fun to see all the stuff she had.

[Elf]

Forest

CREATION, CHANGE, and ETERNITY.  CREATION, CHANGE, and ETERNITY.

Can't see.  Everything's wrong.  Distorted.  Like looking through cloudy, smudged glass.

The pages are no longer paper but screaming flesh and words of blood. Then it is a stream of particles that have perfectly arranged themselves in the shape of a book. Then it was slick shadow and hardened light that was both hotter than the stars and colder than the most distant moons. I don't understand, but I know this book is alive. And if I tear your eyes from the pages and look at the world and know that it is alive. Every object, organism, and energy down to the most elementary particle is alive. And they’re all dying.

Everything. Is. Dying.

Everything dies you twit.  Death is just another aspect of life.  Just as there is Anu there is the Morrigan.

Forest could taste her blood on her tongue.  It had dribbled from her nose to her lip and she could feel it stinging her eyes.  The flesh writhed, containing monsters within and . . . She shook her head, not willing to be part of it.

Because fuck that!

She was fighting this truth with belief.  Yes a horrible truth had been unleashed, but it was something that could be reasoned with and combated with their own faith.  If the poor blokes were strong enough.

This is but an introduction, but it will be enough. You can grasp some inkling of the nature of things. There is a way to things. A law that says all powers must end and all things must die. I defy this law. You must as well. You must reflect these truths. To be a protean engine that consumes and creates life. One that lasts forever. Take the book. Eat of it, and let it eat of you. Let its flesh be your sacrament.

Aloud Forest shouted, "If Lovecraft was able, he'd be suing for copyright infringement, you fannybawbag!"

The supernatuals were the easiest to snap out of the "truth" with the physic equivalent of a bitch slap from Forest.  She reminded them what they were, what they had been, and to appeal to their massive egos (immortals did tend to have inflated egos).  Sadly, they hadn't helped with the damage control, but she hadn't expected them to.

Somehow, thank the Morrigan, she got the crowd to stop trampling each other before she called EMS and the local law enforcement. 

Dizzy, she sat down on a bench and began to wipe the blood from her face while her head screamed at her in protest.

[Kat]

Rikuyo

"Eh, I'll beat ya up harder if ya destroy it~" Rikuyo nonchalantly declared, her cheerfulness sounding a bit ominous for a lack of better word. She would beat up her anyway, but she always liked finding excuse to brutalize someone a bit more than usual.

Ron-chan on another hand was clearly taunting and challenging her because of what she said beforehand. "Hoho, a cub like ya being bold around your Daisempai? I'll at least give that ya have guts to speak up."

The redheaded halfwolf slapped the werewolf in friendly manner, admittedly using enough force to make him stagger from the hit. Did she simply know no meaning of restraint or that was on purpose?

[Aiden]

Gadreel

The exile had approached closely enough to hear his vampiric companion ranting and raving at the air, likely at whatever foul residue lingered in her mind after making such deep and repetitive contact with the psychic assault from before.

Willing to accept the potential consequences, Gadreel attempted to think rather loudly at Forest as he approached her current position from behind. Over here was his approximate limit in his current state of being unless the telepath was already reaching out to him, but it should suffice to distract her from whatever cognitive abomination that was afflicting her.

If she bothered to look up at his approach, she would notice the angel was pulling out a handkerchief of some sort from his pocket and presenting it to her. "I must ask, what is a 'fannybawbag,' precisely?" he asked her, to take her mind further off of whatever ailed it.

[Elf]

Forest

Over here, managed to eek out in the painful haze of Forest's mind. 

She looked up to see Gadreel approaching and handing her a handkerchief.   "I must ask, what is a 'fannybawbag,' precisely?" he asked her.

The blond took the piece of cloth with a tired smile and said, "Thank you."

Then she chuckled, which made things eight different ways of painful as she began to mop her face off.  "Ah, it's Scottish slang.  Fanny is basically for . . . female lady parts and bawbag means bollocks.  So I'm basically saying, 'Cuntballs'.  Just fannybawbag sounds more fun and most people don't know what it means if they're not from the UK, and if they do they generally get a good chuckle from it."

[SINIB]

Rin

"And blow, we'd need blow.  Honestly does this place even have a support network for magic users?" Rin asked, sitting up with a thoughtful look on her face.   

Maybe we can make sure that the thing that happened to you Sakura never happens to anyone again.

Sakura Matou

Sakura laughed hysterically at Rin's joke before she answered Rin's question seriously. "Nope, not a smidgen. There's no super secret group of mages secretly living under societies nose, nor is there a group that's common knowledge. I don't really think it'd be that useful, magic is so varied and versatile in this world that it can scarcely be called the same thing."

Sakura brought her free hand to her face, and thought deeply for a second. "Well, actually—hmmm." She whispered in herself, deep in thought. "No, nevermind. It'd still be kind of dumb."

[SINIB]

Jin

He rather liked having his girlfriend cling to him like this but there was one thing he enjoyed more. "Nu uh, secrets makes it all the more fun Oka." He wrapped an arm around her as he started tickling her stomach. "you'll just have to learn to wait, patience is a virtue, with that attitide you're never going to learn Ars." He continued teasing her, with no end in sight.

Oka

"Bah!" Oka wiggled and shook against him in a manner that could only be described as obscene. "You meany Jin!" She exclaimed, jumping onto his back suddenly in a sneak attack. She was sure to get him! She wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs tightly around his stomach. "Now you'll have to give me a ride until we get there, as repentance for that dastardly tease!" She exclaimed, before adjusting her hat and calming down. "Hehehe, you like this, don't you? Your girlfriend's body, pressed up against you, clinging onto you with all her might."

[SINIB]

Jeanne

After hearing Shirou's approval, the saint snatched one of the wine bottles and presented it to him. "This looks good don't you tihnk?" She then opened before promptly putting it to her mouth and tasted it. The taste was absolutely divine, and it was strong, really strong. She didn't know if Shirou would be able to handle this, but they shall see.

Lowering the bottle, she jumped onto Shirou's lap while pushing him down into the couch, her mouth closed on his as she kissed him, letting some of the wine that she'd kept in her mouth go into his.

Shirou Emiya

For the first time, Shirou's eyes didn't widen at this supposedly saintly woman's display of extreme lewdness. He'd finally grown accustomed to it. He wrapped his powerful arms around her as he swallowed the powerful beverage, and immediately began to feel its effects. It was so strong!

However, it wasn't strong enough to put him down for the count just yet. He sent his tongue slithering into her mouth, lapping around for more of the divine liquid. At the same time, he slipped his hand down the back of her shirt, quickly finding her bra, and with expert dexterity, unclasping it. He looked down into her eyes, challenging her to do more.

[SINIB]

Irisviel

Irisviel unconciously made a move to cover herself from her "children," blushing in responce to seeing them there. "It's a bit obscene, isn't it?" She asked as peered at the couch. "Oh, right… I'd forgotten you have to do things yourself when you don't have help..." She said. "Can you two help me find a sheet and blanket?" She asked them. "And maybe a bed pillow."

[Elf]

Rin

"Why don't you think it would be useful?  So what if there are different 'magic systems'?  That means there's only more to learn and master.  Or at least work into one's magecraft," Rin replied.

She took Sakura's hands and said, "Think about it, a group of others, maybe not exactly like yourself, but who understand what you can do.  And instead of one upping each other with a bunch of vicious backstabbing and thievery, they actually share knowledge and maybe, just maybe, want to help in a time of need.  What's stupid about having a support group for magic?"

[Aiden]

Liam

"Let's just say that some days you gotta punch a few punks to climb that ladder. That brings out all the rest," he said, not sounding particularly apologetic for that. "They hear you're good, they want to test that."

In the short term Liam figured that if this girl was any good at fighting like she said that there'd be a few less lethal ways for her to put that to good use. Ways that weren't necessarily sins, neither. It would take a while to get her a boat or something for fishing, so it'd be a good start.

"It's all about confidence, Miss Petra. That's the start of all success."

[Kat]

Mordred

Breeze hugged strongly, but enough gently that her strength did not inconvenience. Her aura was warm, reminding her once again of a summer sun. "Aww, thanks. You really make me at ease. Yeah, let's forget about what we said, and go somewhere. I really should buy something nice for someone such lovely."

[Kat]

Petra

"So you tell me I should beat up someone to get recognized? Huh, maybe it's not that good idea. I mean, I have sometimes short temper. Cannot guarantee they will end up in good shape or something." Her short fuse under that nice surface was one of her flaws that still resurfaced under pressure. After all she tried to stab that white haired oaf.