Tempest - RP Topic

She snapped quite quickly, “Eyes and words in the front of the van, let me put on my clothes in peace!” she crabbily shut herself into the van’s makeshift bathroom where the click of the lock was quite audible.

In heavy frustration, she quickly donned heavy denim and flannel, quite prepared for the nippy winds, and chill that oh so easily could surprise the group in the fall.

The door opened shortly after, and she glanced in the direction of her new shadow, “Alright, assuming I’m not dreaming, something mucked up happened at that meeting last night, and seeing as…well, I’m back here and I don’t recall parking we’re going to drive there,” she grumbled sliding into the front and sitting down in the driver’s seat.

With a pause she looked over at the Knight with an expression akin to that of someone watching pure distilled stupidity, “Sit in the ducking seat you idiot.

There was a pause as Pernille mulled the idea over, “Well, since you wish it, I will give you it, after all,” she reached over and grasped her hand, “You did ask quite nicely,” and with that…they were off again, with the same dance and swing that true magic was entitled to bring.

(Alright Ghid, we’re going to pop out where your bloke is, so up to you if we get there now, or we wait for others to get there. Timing is all on you mate!)

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“Guess your just all ‘figure it out’, arent you?” Cody joked, just before…

"Woah! Whered you go!? Is that you in there now?
After waiting a moment for a response, he opens his door and heads out into the rest of the house, checking to see if anyone else was home to hear the strange encounter.


Emm cocks her head at the question, then after a moment lets out another string of chirps. When the creature doesent seem to respond, she shakes her head and tries again, this time in the language the creature was speaking
“Where are we? Im not sure how I got here or who you are, but your… your talking to me now”
oh why did I stay here, its going to do something to me

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As the pair reemerged at what was basically smack-dab in the center of the former cult circle, there seemed to be a young man, not quite out of the range of childhood, clothed in a green flannel, peeking out in very unsubtle fashion from behind a tree. His body language betrayed his fear, and he stared forwards in utter terror as to what he might see.

…Except he was looking the other way. Unless the arrival was particularly noisy, they had the advantage completely uncontested.

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Pernille silently slid over to him, no sound coming from her steps as she moved right behind his back, and then, with all the sound she could muster, she yelled, “BOO!”

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Horizons slowly comes to a stop and sits in the seat.
Backwards.
It takes a moment to look at the biped, gauge her difference in position, and then float again to reorient itself to actually sit correct.
The chair looks very small now.

Horizons looks intently at the novel biped and performs a series of checks against its internal logic.
Novel creature exhibits sign of muted distress; frustration?
Facial structure is capable of complex emotive movements. Catalog examples for further analysis.
Note failure to answer/acknowledge questions previously posed. Reference complexity consciousness against rival complexities. Impossibility for this instance to be the only of its kind.

The knight vibrates slightly, and twirls a finger.
Words appear on the windshield, lasting for a moment before vanishing.

Where are we going?

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Henderson snaps his figures frustration, “Well shucks, looks like they have more than one base of operations. Still, something is before nothing. Oh! And by the way make sure you are wearing a seatbelt.”

Henderson sets the radio to a classic rock and roll radio station, and sets the volume near max. Jamming out in the drivers set, he finds his way across town, and enters a dirt path he swears looks familiar.
@MakutaOisli


Another message pops up in the square, pushing the older message aside.

Hacktop: Right........
Hacktop: Is druggie some type of status classification or something?
@Kirathel

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It was impressive how high he could jump without bending his knees. As the youth came back down in a disgruntled heap, he drew his knees up almost to his collarbone and screamed, one hand barely finding the time to clutch the back of his head. “HOW DID YOU GET HERE?!”

“M-MONTE!!” He cried out, hardly giving Pernille a chance to respond, his head darting around frantically as he searched the treetops.

As Pernille and Brickil engage with the stranger, the distant sounds of rock music ever so slightly intrude on the scene.

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She glanced over at him with a look of pure disgust, “You know this is exactly why I don’t want kids,” she grumbled as the car started to move from out of the residential area and onto a proper road, reaching a lovely speed of fifty miles per hour, “To quote pop’s, we’ll get there when we get there!”

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This time, Brickil did her best to focus as the change overcame them. Body all but gone, nothing more than the weak paper shell of a Chinese lantern. Yet lighter still as what soul there was shone within this fuzzy shade. Was this what the breaches of death felt like? To bob and sway down the river of souls, world warped by the lazy rapids. She almost drowned in the feeling again when they breached the river’s bank.

Breath returned, Brickil let out a quiet, “woah.” Her head spun, confirming that they were back at the spot.

“I take it back, you’re better than a rock. What else can you do?” Brickil said and looked towards Pernille.

Only, for Pernille to not be there. With a minor noise of confusion, Styx looked for where she went and found her sneaking up to some strange boy. Any thoughts of the boy looking familiar were instantly shattered when Pernille yelled.

“What are you doing?! I thought you said the others might be dangerous! You–” Styx screamed, going from confusion to instant frustration.

She ran up to them, ready to bear hug little Death and drag her away.

Styx stopped short of committing to that bear hug, however. In part due to the other stupid boy screaming now and due to that music.

“VIP IT! Someone’s coming!” She yelled at them.

Fetching her bat out of her bag, she waits to see what appears.

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OOC: So sorry that I havent been around this past week, I was traveling and couldnt find the time.

Kipper’s wagging stopped, cocking his head again in thought.

“I guess where Kip last was could work…the forest! Kip met you after going there once, maybe we’ll meet a new master this time!” Before even waiting for a response, Kip bounded off towards the woods, only thinking to stop and look back after running a few yards.

“You coming?”

At first, the statue seemed as stoic as ever, but after Kay’s pause, he would be greeted with a slow nod of comprehension.

Very well. Bring me to this, forest.”

She stepped past him, but turned at his question.

For the first time, something close to a smile played on her features. In the voice of one releasing a long rehearsed line, she spoke.

I am Ozymandia, queen of kings, none more revered, none more feared, the greatest name of this, and all other plains on which the living tread!

She stood there for a moment, frozen in a stance etched in dreadful majesty, her fists tightly clenched at her sides.

Then, as if only to clear up a trivial detail, she added, “Who are you?” Punctuating the question with a scrutinizing glance down Kay’s body.

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The rectangle just floated there for a moment and then slides across the air next to Kip. Though much like its liftoff from earlier, it’s less a smooth slide and more a sudden movement from the initial space and a just as sudden stop by Kip.

“Following.”

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Syn notices the scene from afar.
“Stop here.”
He spoke, as the mist seeps back out from the necklace, manifesting back into a whole body outside the car onto the path. He stalks across the path, slowly approaching the group. @Ghid @Spawner @ajtazt @keiththelegokid

Dan slightly shows a tinge of panic as he tries to find someway to calm the nervous creature.
“Ok, I’m going to get up now, don’t move.” Dan said, slowly getting up.

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Kay stared at Ozymandia for a moment, flabbergasted at her response. He wasn’t used to being spoken to in such a commanding manner.

Now that’s a mouthful. We’ll have to find a way to cut that down if we’re going to stick together for a while. If she doesn’t kill me, that is…

“It’s… nice to meet you, Ozymandia.*

“I’m Kay. Kay Martins. I… don’t have much to say about myself…” He failed to hide an audible gulp.

“I can show you the way to the forest, but the road there will take a while. The two of us won’t fit on my scooter. We’ll have to walk there… unless you have a different solution.”


Zenn’s voice sounds directly inside Cody’s head, as if it’s being directly transmitted right into his brain.

That’s pretty neat huh. I am inside the necklace now. Didn’t know I could do that… You should try it on, I bet it’s gonna fit ya, heh

When you say you’re going to prepare breakfast, what do you mean by that?

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Emm’s already large eyes widen as the creature rolls itself up from its resting place, limbs unfolding and reaching for the floor so far below where Emm was watching from. As the creature begins to stand, its full height is revealed for the first time, and though its stance may not be anything remarkable to those of its kind, its utterly terrifying for the revenant, who now needs to look up sharply to see Dan’s face.
Shrinking back against the nearest thing on the nightstand, Emm begins to shake in fear of what powers the huge creature may posses


“No I think Ill pass on that, Im no girl. If I need to take you with like this Ill probably just toss you in my backpack or something”

“Breakfast? Its the meal you eat in the morning, after you wake up? Ive gotta get some food in my system before I get going today.”

After determining there was nobody still in the house by this point in the morning, Cody goes to the kitchen and puts a pan on the stove to start heating, then quickly runs to his room in search of his current favorite CD: a copy of One-X that he bought from somebody at school. He inserts it into the player hanging from beneath a cabinet in the kitchen, and hits play

“My parents dont know I have this one, and probably wouldnt like it. If you ever meet them, do me a favor and please dont mention it”

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Henderson, unfazed by Syn manifesting right in his path, pulls off a lighting quick turn while going going moderately fast. To get back on the track, the starts to drift sharply towards the group. The jeep looks like it is about to tip over before coming to a sudden stop right next to them. As he opens the doors, the music from the radio to low loud that it is a wonder that the speakers haven’t blown up yet.

Has Henderson steps out of his car, of his car, he starts playing the air guitar so franticly that he almost falls over multiple times. He makes his way toward the trunk of his jeep, and doesn’t seem to notice anyone else.

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Horizons deliberates.

It does not move, write, or make any exterior actions. It just sits there.

Horizons deliberates.


And then Horizons is not sitting in the seat at all. It is gone.
In its place, a small black notebook sits on the seat. Red strings are spilling out of its crimped covers.

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Everyone likes to think that when the chips are down, they’ll respond like an action hero. A mugger just threatened you? Bash their head in with that bat before they even throw a single thrust of their knife or fire their gun. Simple - easy - flawless. In the imagination at least. Reality was often another story and few could know without testing themselves. And Styx had just failed her first exam.

When the jeep came bursting from the trees, sliding right for them, what did she do? Grab Pernille and dive for it? Maybe just tackle the girl out of harm’s way, surely there was enough time for that. At least save herself and run for safety. Scream maybe to snap the others out of their own potential stupors so they can all scatter.

No, no Styx didn’t do any of those things. She stood there frozen. The only thing that moved was her face, from that determined glare to the blank surprised but accepting of death. Not a single utterance came from her.

The jeep started to go into a roll and then stopped before them. A man got out as though he didn’t recognize he almost rolled his vehicle. Let alone rolled it over several people. If the music is what so distracted this man, it was that same music that finally reanimated Styx. That or the sight of the metal freak.

“You vreakin’ idiot! You almo–WHAT IS THAT?!” Styx screeched.

She pointed the bat at Syn rather than approaching the jeep to start bashing in its hood.

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As Henderson goes towards his truck, a red Corolla rolls up some distance away and stops.

William Pinbacker steps out, guncase held in his arms as he withdraws the snubnose and loads it. He swings the chamber shut and stows the gun in a small holster clipped to his belt. And he looks up toward Henderson. “Afternoon,” he says in as friendly a tone he can muster. “Enjoying the forest today?”

He does not seem to notice Pernille or Styx.

@ajtazt @Spawner @keiththelegokid

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Sarah blinked for a second before putting her eyes back on the road, “What the actual…I don’t care it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter,” she muttered as she pulled into the forest’s off road trails and drove a lot more silently than the last person who had driven past…

After her original stunt, Pernille hadn’t said much. It had became a time not for words…but for observations. It was quite interesting seeing Styx like this, and it would be valuable to know what her responses would be for the future. So for a while, Little Miss Death just stayed silent.

Then she spoke as the question was uttered, “Well, probably a demon of sorts by the look of it. I wouldn’t be waving that bat around too much…” she cautioned.

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Eh, do whatever you want. It’s not like I care anyways…
Zenn clearly sounded slightly offended by the matter.

Toss me in a backpack?! What in the world is wrong with the necklace? It’s amazing and beautiful, why would he not want to wear it?! These humans are weird…

She reverts back to her primary form in a flash of blue fire and starts to eye Cody with an air of boredom, floating nonchalantly with her legs crossed, as he rushes around the house. She watches him retrieve some small object from his room and insert it inside a bigger object stationed in the kitchen.

She is taken aback as the sound of music fills her ears. She floats towards the music box and starts curiously poking it with her finger.

“Sure thing.” She starts bobbing her head with the rhythm of the song. “What’s this? What kind of music is that?”

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