CE 3.0 2017-2018

[Umbra of Chaos]

Grigori

The mage surveyed the menu with no small amount of curiosity. She had never seen many of these foods before. Or even their ingredients. "This all does appear rather appetizing. I think I might try the..." Grigori was hesitant for a moment.

Of all things, she was afraid of mispronouncing the name. "Number 23. That's what I'll try."


Paladin

After a bit of deliberation the knight had decided to take the unconscious mage home with him. His house was still chilly despite the warmth of the day. Paladin liked it like that. So he left the girl on the couch of his living room and tossed a blanket on her. Now, it was time for preparations.

Paladin entered the kitchen. He placed a white chef's hat onto his helmet and put on an apron. It was rather late, but he was sure Anastasia would be at least a little hungry when she woke up. Time to cook.


Suzuko

Suzuko practically inflated like a balloon at the show of agreement. She didn't even look slightly confused at the sudden appearance of the tea and cups. There were far stranger things in the Nexus that had been intermingled with the mundane for her to make note of that.

"Of course. Thank you."


Lucy

She ignored her uncle's babbling. Bah, Assyrians! They wouldn't have lasted long anyways. That was just the course of history. She had far more scandalous claims to address after all! Lucy huffed and turned her head away.

"I don't corrupt people! People corrupt themselves. Besides, Noire's probably just being more outgoing because of the circumstances. Pretty natural when you lose your job, friends, and those other risks of dimensional travel."

[yinsukin]

Hazel

Hazel smiled at Ryu.  "Can you be a dear and get me that statue?"

Ryuji smiled and said,  "Yes ma'am!"  He pointed at the store where the girl had ran with the frozen man.  "Surround the store!  I want guys on the front and back!"

The 4 other gang members he took with him nodded before rushing the store.  Two aimed their guns at the front door and the other two ran to the back to do the same.  No one would be able to leave.

Hazel sighed.  "Well, I feel much better," she said, clutching the cigarette in her hand.  She released a puff of smoke in one exhale.  "Now, I need to meet up with the others.  Don't screw up."  And with that said, her body burst into a cloud of smoke and began floating away.  A small puddle of blood was left in her place.

After the boss left, the group was quiet.  The sounds of Ryuji's bandage covered feet making contact with the pavement.  He passed his men guarding the front entrance, and slammed open the door.  When the door hit the wall, it echoed through the store.  "Come on out or ill burn everything to the ground!"

Meanwhile, in front of the entrance, the men began talking to each other now that their boss was gone.  "Yo man, so you think this plan will work?"  The other one cocked his head to the right while raising an eyebrow.  "Nah man, Ryu is dumb as shit.  I mean, this muthafucka thinks closing off the front and back entrance will keep her from just leaving through the window."

The first man shrugged.  "Well fuck, should we bail?"

The other man shook his head.  "Nah boi, she cute tho."

The first man shrugged again.  "Good enough for me."

[Kat]

Mitsu

There was no much point to thigh highs if the skirt reached her knees. "With such length of the skirt maybe tights would be better. You don't have any, then?"

[yinsukin]

Medaka

Medaka nodded.  "Of course!"  After handing the shirt and skirt to Mitsu, she reached into the closet and grabbed a pair of tight black tights and said,  "These were too small on me.  They might make your butt look big, but they should be pretty comfortable."

[YOLF]

Irene

These idiots thought she couldn't hear them talking, or they just didn't care. At least they weren't so dense they couldn't recognize the obvious flaws in this brilliant plan. To be perfectly frank, Irene wanted nothing more than to tear them a new one, but the situation was dire enough without her temper. She hadn't lived this long without learning caution, and caution dictated she didn't give the imbeciles what they wanted.

The store owner swallowed dry, looking up hesitantly at her. "T-they're on the way, but -"

He was interrupted by Irene picking him up like a sack of potatos and securing him with her unblemished arm, having discarded the now useless fire extinguisher outside. "Good. But we're leaving early."

The man didn't get the chance to yelp or call out for his business before she carried him and the cumbersome block of ice tied with stretched veins to the back and kicked in the door to the inside of the building. Cutting off before the back entrance to go up the stairs.

A moment later, they jumped off the roof. Irene folded her body, nailing her feet on the wall of the next building over, dug into cement like hiking picks, supporting her entire body weight and her cargo through her refined control of her muscles and center of gravity. She shushed her conscious passenger with a hiss before she began to vertically climb in earnest, planning on going over and escaping through the tall roofs.

"Call the police too."

"I hope someone's going to compensate me for this," he responded, nodding helplessly.

[yinsukin]

Ryu

Ryuji walked around the store, looking for the girl.  "How does a girl just take an ice statue and just leave!?" His words echoed through the store, his voice reaching no one.

[Elf]

Roderick

Roderick took a deep breath as Brutae let him go and he turned to face her.  He tilted his head at her question and thought for a moment.  At home, most spell casters had a general idea of what they could do depending on what they were and how experienced they were.

Still neither Olgamally nor Grigori knew what the word "subtle" meant.  Which meant, when push came to shove, if he kept quiet, he'd be an unknown quantity in a struggle.  He had just met these people after all.

He did smile and said, "Well, one of the cantrips I can do is called 'Message' and can be quite useful.  I can point to someone I can see, whisper something, and only they can hear it.  Then they can reply in kind and only I can hear it.  If I'm familiar with the person I'm messaging and know where they are, I can cast it while they're in another room some distance away."

"I can do other things, like dispell magic, teleport, call lightning and other things.  As for offensive potential . . . that's actually what my spell skill set is skewered towards.  Where I am from, most things can be killed by fire, which I have an affinity for."


Rin

Rin was surprised at the normalcy of the shops and buildings around her.  It looked as if it had been dumped from some middle classed suburb in the United States to the Nexus.  The details were almost cinematic; just like a movie about Middle America.

It didn't surprise her that Joe would lead her to a place that was so utterly and commercially average.

"Oh, why is that?" Rin asked as she looked at the "Now Playing" posters and trying to find a movie they could both agree on.

[yinsukin]

Joe

"So, feeling like an action movie? Superhero movies are pretty hot right now," he said, looking at the choices.

[Elf]

Rin

"Depends on the super hero," Rin said with a grin.  "If they're unrealistic by being too good and noble then that's not any fun."

[Panda]

Annabeth

The Hunter perked up at the mention of beer, even if the stuff didn't do much for her anymore. Probably for the best.

Moving over to the fridge, the Hunter popped it open before retrieving three beers, holding two of them in one hand and on in the other. It was the solitary beer that she handed Gabriel, only barely managing not to end up staring again before looking away to hand Ron a beer and pop hers open, taking a quick swig of the thing.

"Sounds like a handful," the Hunter remarked after a moment, "Reckon she's the type who ain't doing much for herself."

[yinsukin]

Joe

Joe smiled and said, "So I take it you are more of a team Iron man fan than a team Captain America fan?"

He looked down the list.  If this conversation turned sour, it would probably be best to have another option.  There was always horror or comedy.  Those are sure fire hits for dates.

[Elf]

Rin

"I've really not seen the Avengers.  That's who you're talking about right?  I've seen those Batman movies with that British actor who's playing that he's American.  I liked the first and second one of those," Rin said.

[yinsukin]

Joe

"WHAT?!" Joe suddenly yelled.  "You haven't seen the avengers?!  Ok I have our third date planned.  We are watching the avengers."

He looked at the list.  "Hmm... anything else I need to know about you're tastes?" he asked, poking Rin's shoulder.  He just wanted to touch her.

[Elf]

Rin

"Isn't there a bunch of other movies I need to watch before I see that one?" Rin asked.

It was hard to keep up with that sort of thing so she really didn't try.

Rin poked Joe back and replied, "Well I like cats!  Hey, is there a wildlife documentary about kitties?"

[yinsukin]

Joe

"Yeah thats true," he responded.  But I didn't see all of them either and it was pretty good. 

Then, she mentioned watching a documentary about cats.  That just made him burst into uncontrollable laughter.  "Hahaha!  They don't have cat documentaries in theaters!  We would need to go on a streaming service for that or maybe rent dvds."