Character Meet and Greet

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

I. Exploring Main Street! Take a trip through a little town taken straight from 1890's America. Visit the shops, dine at the restaurants- but don't forget you are here on a mission. As an Apprentice, you will need to gather some supplies. A weapon, or tool for producing magic.

But we understand if that corn dog cart on Market Street is your first stop.

II. Apprentice Class 101! Practice your spell casting and weaponship on the open commons behind the Firehouse. Sparring, casting or just general confusion abound here. Try not to hit anything or...anyone, the paint on the infirmary is still drying.

III. Look out! A level 2 corroded monster has managed to get onto Main Street! Protect the citizens and defeat the cur, and please watch the damage, the paint is still wet!

IV. One Little Spark! Go ahead, show us the strength of your imagination and come up with your own scenarios. Just, stay out of the Corroded Lands...if possible.

Comments

[cannoneering]

Excuse you, there is one hundred percent an angel present: he was looking at her! He wasn't wrong though: gullibility was something Canon was known for due to her young age and her excitement to prove herself as a noble lady in the cannoneering profession.

"Hm?" She was pretty contented. It was the target she was trying to hit and had nailed it. What wasn't to be happy about? Sure, it might be nice to have a bigger target but given that the wall had crumbled, too, it was sort of a win/win, right? The lack in enthusiasm for her amazing target skills was a little troublesome but maybe he just didn't understand the practice needed for a weapon like this one...

... that peaked her interest! She perked up and smiled. "Is that so? I imagine that I could certainly handle a job like that! Can you please direct me to it so I might ask if I can assist?"

[cannoneering]

It had to be at least a bit lighter than it seemed. Canon was fairly dainty and in spite of the cannon, she wasn't exactly muscular. The hollowness likely helped somewhat, yes. Unlike this girl, Canon had no idea about metals. She scrunched her nose in thought, tilting her head and shrugged her shoulders. Should she remember? Probably. Did she? Well, other things have happened between then and now, right? "I guess, maybe. I do not know, really! I have been so occupied with practice and school, and helping with attempting to stop Ragnarok..."

The tail didn't seem to click with the young girl, but, being from a world were aesir, jotun and therians were the norm, it wouldn't. She raised her brows at the bow and chuckled, nodding. That made sense! Priestesses certainly did that kind of thing. "That makes sense for you! But, for someone like me who most definitely is not a priestess, it might be a tad bit droll to just go into the home of someone I do not know."

Canon blinked her large eyes. "Are you not? I thought priestesses lived in expansive temples..."

[cannoneering]

Oh Rex, that's just terrible. Canon was one of the smallest people she knew! It was a bit weird to have height on someone else for a change. She barely seemed to notice it, though, given that she was more keenly interested in practice! There would be a hefty amount of offense taken to being called a psycho were it verbalized. She wasn't! She was just very enthusiastic about her career choice. And would definitely agree that she was, indeed, a cute cannoneer.

"Mm, no, I cannot imagine that fitting this particular situation. Extinction generally relates to an entire species. Perhaps you could saying something like... expire instead." Because grammar was the important thing here, not the near death incident, obviously.

Canon felt a soft giggle pass her lips, fingers gently brushing them to attempt hiding her amusement. "Took you out? But you are simply far too little like myself to be struck when something is aimed so high~"

[to_curse_and_confuse]

Funny that angel sure looked like a regular human to this devil. Either way, it wouldn't stop him from trying to corrupt her even if she was one of the winged denizens of heaven. I mean he had gotten Raf to violent the V.E.T.O. on day one of the latest school term. Now that was an angel that was really clueless about how things worked on Earth.

It was a start, and that is all Sulfus would allow. He had much bigger ambitions for that destructive force. Sulfus was no weapons expert himself, but he didn't need to be.

"Sure thing.." There was just one problem with that whole asking thing. He started to lead her down the street towards what looked to be a castle. It was rather small for a castle, but a castle in shape none the less. "This thing has been here for years, so don't let the new paint job fool you... it's a safety hazard on the inside." If the other devils were he he could have used one of them to pose as one of the staff. "I wouldn't even bother asking for permission, they'll just be glad the job was finished."

[cannoneering]

*The poor fool involved, there, sorted it for you Joey! How very modest. She couldn't talk in that sense, though, given that Canon was prone to agreeing about being cute or pretty herself. She was leaning somewhat precariously and wasn't thinking about the show that she might be giving him; thankfully with her arms in front of herself and palms to her knees, the dress she sported was pressed against her legs and failed to give him the view he might be vying for. Lecher.

Still! She smiled and offered her hands when he finally came to, expecting the tall blond to take them so she could help him sit up at least. Standing was out of the question given that she was hanging over him. The comment about being fine, if he'd meant it as in physical features, went completely over her head. She chuckled! "I am certainly feeling more fine than yourself, that strike looked somewhat painful."

Although he said it was a demonstration, the obviousness of his being in a daze was somewhat telling. "Are you a combative teacher?"

[dino_deviant]

You think he doesn't know that? Eventually he's gotta have a growth spurt right? It gets tiresome having to look up to... everyone. The only exception was like Yugi Muto, that guy was a shrimp-o-saurus too. For the moment he had enough sense to keep the term psycho to himself but time would tell if that remained the case. Rex was just as enthusiastic about dinosaurs but he took that to be a perfectly normal hobby, as opposed to hers.

"Expire wouldn't work at all." Knitting his eyebrows, and tugging on his knit hat. Apparently the strange boy wasn't willing to give an inch on this whole grammar thing. It was all about aesthetics. You'd think a girl that took so much time curling her hair could get aesthetics, or had she somehow missed the news about who he was and what his deck consisted of? Do they really not have televisions with the dueling network in the Magic Kingdom? What a Jurassic disaster.

".... Short- hey!" She wasn't wrong but somehow it was still offensive. The only thing that kept him from firing back an insult to her is that she'd defused it by also admitting she was on the short scale. "You know the least you could do is buy me lunch or something..."

[cometophobic]

Perhaps that was part of it, the hollowness. Marisol had fashioned some of her sparkly adornments out of metallic deposits, and apparently didn't mind mixing them since some were silvery and others were golden in coloration. Yes- she certainly had enjoyed her connection to such things. She used to be able to feel untapped potential in the aforementioned baubles but now they felt cold and lifeless. It was jarring at first. Was this how metals felt to normal humans? "It's alright, you needn't trouble yourself to think back on it further." Though Marisol was curious she was not overly insistent. ".... What is Ragnarok?" Sounding it out slowly since she'd never attempted to say such a word before.

Fair point. Yes- see there was nothing suspicious about her story in the slightest. "Mm, I suppose so since you wouldn't have a purpose in doing so. It might be nice to enjoy seeing how others have arranged their living space though wouldn't it?" Getting into interior design briefly. Humans kept all manner of things in their homes and not all of them seemed useful, they were of interest to her.

"Temples come in a variety of sizes, dear girl." Stating this as if it should be common knowledge. "In fact the one I reside in is situated on a small island which is cut off from the mainland for most of the year. It is only during the springtime when the waters are navigable and I can make my yearly pilgrimage, and rounds of blessings. That's why being here is such a rare treat." The story just has to become bigger and bigger.

[perpetual_underdog]

Hey! Though that is slightly more accurate. Modesty was just another one of Joey's positive attributes... no it really isn't. Okay, so sometimes he might talk himself up, or take pride either his physique or alleged dueling prowess but he was no where near as bad as some of the guys that he attended school with. You know he's talking about you Kaiba. Thankfully is an odd way to spell Unfortunately. One little peek wouldn't do either of us any harm. Joey, no. That was also another accusation he couldn't refute since he, like most teenage boys, had a curiosity about the female form and would often try to catch glimpses of them when he shouldn't.

After he stopped babbling like an idiot, he did take the offer of her hands to help sit himself up internally giggling like a madman to be just touching a girl in the most innocent way possible. Seriously, he spent way too much time with guys. Believe him. Well.. and Téa, but she was different. He was kind of relieved that she missed the compliment because it could have only gone one of two ways... or three now. "Naw- he just sucker punched me. I won't be feeling it .... later." Maybe.

"Me a teacher?.... Not really. More like a tutor." Being a teacher would have sounded too old. "What about you? You just here to watch are you looking for a little instruction yourself?" Please say you're here to train, please say you're here to train. "I could help you with that..... fix your posture and all that for combat."

[situational_ethics]

"Situational ethics. I'd rather be alive to rationalize than dead for a lack of proper weaponry. Besides, we'd be using it to protect the people here, so if that is who I got it from, I'm doing them a favor in the long run as the fact is that anyone I can con is demonstrably not as good as I am. So they're safer with the weapons in my hand than in theirs. Add to that if the person I con out of the weapon is on the side of the opposition not only am i arming myself, I'm depriving those who want us dead of a weapon. Either way...."

Lol. Want me to tag him with Petalwing then?

[situational_ethics]

(thank you for the thread!!!)

Lol sure if you're up for it or in the mood to play Petalwing.

[chazz_it_up]

As requested. 1.

[petalwing]

Petalwing had been flitting about the rooftops looking for other Preservers or Highthings, or even Digdigs, but all the small creature could find were walking ducks and Tallthings. Well, sometimes searching needed help! So Petalwing flew out in front of the next spotted Tallthing.

Who seemed to be talking, but there was no one the Tallthing was talking to. So clearly the Tallthing was talking to Petalwing.

"Petalwing answer! But Petalwing not know. The them other Tallthings?"

Petalwing was small, a little taller than his hand and genderless with leathery green skin, lovely butterfly wings and a small flower hat. Petalwing also had the single most annoying voice to ever be heard on any world. Which was bad enough now. Just wait until Petalwing started to sing...

[king_of_egypt]

"It's that kind of thinking...." Atem trailed off visibly shaking with anger for a moment. Those 'situational ethics' of his current companion's were exactly the sort of thinking that Aknadin had employed when he decided it was better to sacrifice the populace of Kul Elna to create the Millennium items. Had there been a need for the items? Yes. Could the kingdom have been in great peril without them? Quite possibly.... but did that absolve Aknadin of guilt for his crimes? Didn't his transgressions beget the greatest evil to plague the land in it's wake? A spirit filled with feelings of hate and vengeance who wished to stop at nothing to destroy civilization as they knew it?

He had to take a steadying breath, since that was not what the green man directly suggested- but it certainly was down that path.

"No." Atem said firmly. Just no. "I will make my connections in another way. If the people cannot see that it is in their best interests to aide us, then I will find a way to earn the resources myself. That's all there is to it.....". Not telling the other what to do, but reaffirming his own position on it.

[situational_ethics]

"Getting them to see that it is in their best interest to help us is exactly what I'm talking about, friend. And helping them out is earning it. just sometimes in the other order. Certainly you can see that."

/o/

[chazz_it_up]

It wasn't an odd mistake to make, but it might be one that this 'Tallthing' would soon regret. At first, when Chazz heard the grating voice he thought Ojama yellow had finally decided to grace him with his presence but that was not the case. This small green creature- why was everything green here?- was neither an Ojama nor was it sporting the bright red shorts the creatures for some reason preferred.

"What am I even looking at now..." Chazz replied, momentarily discarding Petalwing's response wincing at the pitch of the creature.

"Don't." He spoke swiftly to try and prevent an answer. "Don't answer that- I have had my fill of all this 'whimsy' and if I have much more of it I think I'm gonna be sick."

[king_of_egypt]

Still dubious of the other's methods, Atem really didn't wish to entertain this discussion any further. Still, it would have been rude to just walk off when one was speaking with you. He wasn't sure he felt comfortable being called friend just yet.... not by this man. His father had trusted the wrong person before, the aforementioned Aknadin (who also happened to be the former king's brother), and Atem wasn't keen on doing the same. Trust would have to be earned over time.

"... If that's all you were referring to....." Still leaving it open ending and not openly condoning it. "It's that reverse order I'm not so sure of." Or- that once the weapons were procured they would be put to the best use.

[petalwing]

Oh, sweetie. That's cute. Trying to stop a Preserver from talking - ESPECIALLY THIS ONE - was like trying to stop the wind from blowing.

"Petalwing is a Presever! Is tall thing not well? Not sensing sicksick. Petalwing can make wrapstuff until Soft Pretty Highthing can come with warm magic thing."

[situational_ethics]

"Lots of people get paid in advance for work. It's a reasonable enough business model. And besides, if they want us to do a job, equipping us for it before we do the work makes a lot more sense than holding out to give us the weapons after, doesn't it?"

Aahz's tongue might be purple. But it was also silver when he needed it to be.

[chazz_it_up]

"Someone just shoot me...." Chazz groaned, smashing his hands over his face. After dragging them back off in a dramatic fashion. "Or it.... shoot it." How was it possible that anything could sound so irritating with so little effort? "Look I don't even know what a preserver is, and I don't want to."

"Is that your natural voice or did you just inhale an entire tank of helium before you decided to bother me?" Somehow he just couldn't stop his own lips from moving but if he was insulting enough this insect would have to take the hint and buzz off.

[petalwing]

If that would work Petalwing wouldn't have lasted ten minutes with Cutter. Petalwing grinned and settled into Chazz's hair. "Silly silly bigthing. Like Petalwing's voice, Tallthing? PEtalwing sing for you!"

[king_of_egypt]

"Yes... they do," Atem paused briefly but added,"... but then they also tend to go through mounds of paperwork as well where there is no bargain until both parties agree as to what their contract entails. It's not as if one or the other can just decide on their own what a fair payment for their services is." Seto Kaiba isn't the only one whose ever had to strike bargains before. "The people here are in great need of help, which led to desperation... while I don't necessarily agree with how they decided to find that help I can accept that they had no alternatives."

".... I want to work with the people here, not against them because I believe it is the right thing to do fully understanding that they are not in the best position to provide for either themselves nor us."

"It has to be a mutual effort, or this will all be for nothing... so no... I'm not intending on striking any unjust deals, because they have to be able to believe the one thing that I have left that holds any meaning. My words. I need the people here to feel as though they can trust me, and I think you'll find when trust is established... real trust.... then nothing will stand in our way."

[chazz_it_up]

"Don't you dare you obnoxious little..." Chazz trailed off as he reached up to his hair to try and yank the small humanoid creature off of him.

"If it's not duel spirits, then it's always something!" Seriously, what was it about him that attracted all the small irritating creatures?

[serpentinthegarden]

"I don't go around looking for signs and portents for one thing!"

Yet, though had he remained on Earth that would only have been hours away.

"If I want to do something, I do it."

One quick and not at all shifty glance around... and whispered softly enough to only be heard by her.

"I just make sure no one's watching if it's something I might catch Hell for."

Normal tone of voice returned.

"I am a demon... doing demony things... Do a lot of tempting. I'm good at tempting. Got a commendation for tempting."

He was just rambling now wasn't he? What he ought to do, he decided, was go find that angel see if that would cheer him up. Which was in NO WAY the same as chasing after some guy like Rose was!

[funnylittleclown]

"The universe and yourself along with it..."

He said still some what unconvinced as her eyes had still glowed! Unless he had been seeing things? No, he was certain they had!

"Any lasting effects?"

[situational_ethics]

"Some transactions need contracts, sure, but do you use a contract every time you make a purchase? You have to be flexible and judge the needs of the situation on the situation. You can lose a lot never seeing past the piles of contracts on your desk. But I disagree that they had no alternatives. There are always choices, even if they're not always good ones. And kidnapping a Pervect? Bad choice. Kidnapping one with connections to M.Y.T.H. Inc? Worse choice. Let me fill you in on a little something. Company I work for? Takes jobs like this all the time. As contract work. As in those contracts you're so enamored with. Yes, the president might have chosen to charge them more if she found out they were desperate, but she might just as soon have chosen to charge them less. I will admit the main factor would probably swing down to which of us was in the room with her while she considered the job. But either way? Had they tried to HIRE good help there would have been no need to kidnap anyone. That they CHOSE to kidnap us rather than offering us fair wages and a choice tells me that they might well be hiding something and it is fully possible they aren't the ones we want to ally ourselves with at all. Of course, it is always possible that they're just stupid."

"Either way, my faith in the local talent pool, or their morals, is not particularly high. When someone bargains with me in good faith, I generally return the favor, but when someone sets me up to hang? I generally return the favor as well."