Cross Effects 3.0 - October 21, 2015—June 23, 2016

[Kat]

Mitsuba

"I heard rumors that there is a police officer with some sword that shines brightly. Don't know if it's just for show or some technology. Maybe if I got hands on it, I would know. You may have noticed the sword on the wall, it's my late husband's. He was a kendo instructor and we happeneed to practice together. It's just running a dojo is no longer something that can earn for the living. It's the era of guns, not swords."

In fact, she patched her Cover through several pacts to explain why she was good with a sword. That deterred some of criminals frequenting her bar if paying fees for protection wasn't enough. In a pinch she had it easier to explain why she was quite good at fighting, and this city seemed to buy into idea that women who could fight wasn't something abnormal. As long as she wasn't showing anything superhuman, she would have been fine.

"I'm still worried about those violent weird creatures. Fighting off a smalltime crook is something different from fighting some eight tall hulking monster. Always better to go out with someone else for safety. You look like someone new here so please take care of yourself and do go out alone in the evening."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Garou XIII

Garou’s face broke into a gleeful smirk, which proceeded to burst into an highly amused grin. He wondered if she knew he fought both only a few hours ago. Honestly, he was pretty dissappointed there were no rumors about him yet. Well, he was new here after all.

There was still plenty of fodder to feed the monster.

« Interesting, interesting! Well, thanks for the advice. Hey,  just between you and me, if I was to face her, who would win? »

[Kat]

Mitsuba

"Dunno, never have seen you or that officer fighting." She shrugged. Not enough information, unknown variables. She honestly couldn't predict an outcome of a fight if she had no clue about combatants. "But remember, the police is not so different from a gang. You pick on one of them, the others are bound to turn against you. I don't know what kind of motivation you have to pick on a one, but I don't really care."

 If the police couldn't handle a single crazy, then they were completely worthless. They were almost worthless anyway, otherwise they could do something about violent supernaturals. She was somewhat more happy to pay for the protection racket than pay taxes to the sham of a government this city had.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Garou XIII

Garou nodded slowly before finishing his drink. This was perfect, a wild hunt set on a stage for him alone. The mere thought made his heart dance. Slowly, the man dropped his smile along with his face and simply rested on the table, closing his eyes.

« I’ll rest. Take care of me, and don’t try anything funny. I trust you. »

[Kat]

Mitsuba

How naive of him to trust her, he even didn't know her name. If she had a reason to betray him, he would be so vulnerable now. But neither she had a one. As far as she knew he didn't get into a scuffle with local gangs and she couldn't care less about the police. Still, better if local thugs, rather mistrustful of strangers, didn't see him here.
"Come on, I will take you upstairs." She grabbed his arm with intention to take him to the first floor so he could lie on a coach.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Garou XIII

Garou violently pulled his uninjured arm back and scowled. "Don't touch me. I can handle myself." He said before getting up and following the innkeeper.


Count Greyskull

Considering she just dragged him here, the poor skeleton was just a bit confused by Forest's sudden change of plans. However, being too submissive to object, he simply nodded before walking away.

"LET'S GO!!" He whispered.

[SINIB]

Oka

"Hmm, I'd be okay with eating, but only if they allow pokemon. I don't want to put Wormy in a ball, he doesn't particularly like it and I'd get cold."

[SINIB]

Noel

"Hmm, okay." Noel said to Alpha, following behind her.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

From her position the dark haired girl hummed and contemplated. The new one was interesting but there was so little she knew. Maybe she would imbalance him just a bit. So she got off Annabeth before wrapping her arms around the cowgirl. Her hold increased in strength within an instant along with her size as she shifted into her Lycan form. Then, with a burst of strength the werewolf jumped over the door and filled a good portion of the stall with her large frame as she dumped the tanned girl onto the still changing Ron.


Urthemiel

At Darcy's comment any good will that Urthemiel had gained instantly soured. Her smile was replaced by a cold, emotionless expression as she restrained the urge to turn him into a pile of ashes immediately. Instead her slitted eyes shifted focus from the priest to the Changeling. "Emily, if you're feeling unwell here we can go somewhere else. There seem to be many factors about coming here that I've overestimated and I'll hold no ill will if you desire a change of scenery."

[Panda]

Annabeth

Annabeth was caught off guard as Oren's arms, now the werewolf's arms once more, wrapped around her and lifted the Hunter up. Before she  could protest, she found herself being thrown at the still changing Ron.

Still in Ren, Annabeth moved on her own, turning as a familiar black gun materialized seemingly from nothing, settling into her hand. The Elephant Gun was brought to bear, Gyo reinforcing her hand, before she squeezed the trigger on reflex, all of this in one smooth motion, sending the bullet homing in on Oren's head with unerring aim.

[Aiden]

Ron

In the time it took for the lady (and the strange horned creature who seriously kept triggering all his warning sirens) to talk about whatever it was they were probably talking about, Ron was busy. He was finding an unoccupied changing stall, putting a hanger on a hook inside of said changing stall, and pulling a pair of sweatpants up along his legs.

He wasn't particular careful of his surroundings, savoring instead the feeling of warm fabric after too long in the cold. The only warnings Ron received were the sudden scent of bloody hairy false-kin threat reaching his nose, and the familiar booming crack of a large firearm in close proximity. He turned around-

This is gonna suck

An adult's body slammed into Ron the very moment after his bones began to ache with his adrenaline surge, and something else had begun welling up inside of him. The impact sent him into the mirror behind him, cracking and shattering it in places so that it gouged stinging, sticky lines into his bare back. He had tried to interpose an arm between them, and it was twisted at an angle by his elbow now.

The arm snapped violently back into place, and with every nerve in his body screaming for mercy the rest of him started to snap out. Beneath Annabeth's recovering form, he twisted and grew until she found herself pushed aside by the appearance of mass from seemingly nothing, the stall too small to contain the beast beginning to inhabit it.

His face stretched out into a distinctly canine profile, and he trembled on four legs beneath his own weight. An ominous growling and hot, almost steaming breath escaped his now cavernous maw of a mouth.

it hurts

[Knick]

IRON=SAKURA

Sakura was walking down the street, when around the corner came her sempai, Iron Tager!

"Senpai!" She cried out, running towards him, until she remembered she was wearing her Mu-12 cosplay, and suddenly became embarrassed. Tager turned to face him, innocently as he was a sinless red devil, only to see her hand grabbing his face very harshly, trying desperately to block his eyes from seeing her semi-nude form.

"Sakura, what is happening?" Tager asked, concern heavy in his voice.

Sakura could no longer contain her embarrassment, that Tager might see her one-pound-over-anemic overweight, and did the only logical thing.

She flicked her wrist and pulled completely with her arm, sending Tager flying upwards.

"Say your prayers, Senpai!" She said, before jumping up and grabbing him again, slamming him downwards to the ground. "Because this is going to be, your end!"

She slammed Tager to the hard surface of the street, knocking him out. In the distance, she heard someone yell out "Distortion finish!", but she paid it no mind, and ran off back home to change her clothing and then come bacak and pass off the entire encounter as a mechanical failure-induced hallucination.

[SINIB]

Sakura Matou


Sakura quietly followed Shirou out of the room, unsure of what to say to Rider. Should she tell Rider to change it? She wanted it deleted, really. It would be for the best, then she’d never see it again ever.

It was a conflicting thought though. Like, how could she ask Rider to do something like that? It was just... plain wrong. Mean spirited things like that were not ok. That wasn’t something the Sakura she wanted to be would do. Hurting Rider would be bad.

So, she opted to say nothing to Rider, instead looking at Shirou’s face and clinging onto his shirt as they left the room.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

At the sight of the gun the Lycan flinched in surprise and instinctively transformed back to her smaller to avoid the bullet. That only made it more surprising when despite the large height difference one of her antlers had been blasted off. A shrill sound that one could recognize as a shriek escaped her mouth as her hands immediately covered the bleeding space with only a few fragments jutting out to show that anything had been there at all.

The Fae noticed the amount of fur in the nearby vicinity drastically increase and while at any other time she would have poked Ron with a hanger the sudden and painful loss of her favorite antler made an awful feeling writhe in her stomach. So instead of doing that her nimble legs flexed as she backflipped out of the stall and attempted to scamper away and make some distance.

[Kat]

Mitsuba

"My, my, you boys always want to look independent around us girls. Are you shy about a lady leading you upstairs?" The Unchained made some jabs at his expense, but didn't insist further. Let the big boy lie on the coach until he rests, she will maybe do something downstairs downstars out of boredom. Close the shop temporarily until the evening, practice a bit. She honestly had a bad feeling about this, so why not hone her swordsmanship a little bit?