St Aldrich Manor

-Benedetta smirks.-

Benedetta: "Be careful where you stick your snout, Fido. Sniff around to much and eventually you'll poke the Combee nest."

"But then again, I'm sure you can handle a few stings."

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Pewter Gym

Des notices Lucius and sits next to him.

"Yo."

He continues to watch Ian's challenge.

<Hey!> Pria holds up Des's phone. There are several unread messages on it. He quickly reads through them.

"Is that all? I guess we should start headin' over."

<Um, we are in Kanto, they are literally half the world away.>

"I'll tell Ren we'll be a little late."

He gets up and says bye to Lucius. He looks back at Ian's challenge before leaving the building.

Sorry kid, duty calls...

Edited by PhilosopherStones on Mar 3rd 2019 at 3:47:48 PM

GIVE ME YOUR FACE

St. Aldrich Manor

Clarisse, bored out of her mind, decides to take the opportunity to use her sister, who's come over with a pair of glasses of champaigne, to extract herself from the conversation.

Clarisse: "Well I do wish you luck in your exploratory endeavors, Doctor Andevaran, but I think my sister and I shall bid you adieu."

Brynhilde: "Ah, farewell, Mademoiselle Macraul. Enjoy the auction."

The twins walk off, leaving Bryn to find a new conversation partner, and she wanders over to look at paintings. This may end up being by a certain pair of vampires.

Castelia

Artoria is currently making her way towards Clavis Entertainment as well.

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

St. Aldrich Auction

Therese: Ooh, archeology you say? Ah, a field that, I do recall you saying, was more exciting than it seems. And to think, rediscovering ancient civilizations. It almost reminds me of the summers that my parents took to the Alph Ruins back home. It really does feel like an adventure movie come to life. Science and archeology, seriously, doctor, what don't you do?

A brief glitch in the commlink leads to a typo that registers him as "Alex" to any identifying software. This being his earlier proposed alias, this is unsurprising.

Adam/Alex, via commlink, whispered: Yeah, we're really hitting paydirt with this guy. Also, heads up! Henry is nowhere to be found. He isn't even on the invite list! However, there are members of the press here and one of them has found themselves to be especially nosy. More on that later.

Edited by MasterJayAM on Mar 5th 2019 at 9:33:17 PM

Thorne Daycare

-Lane checks his phone-

Lane:And so it begins, huh?

-He texts back an affirmative and asks for a teleport-

-A smol comes up to him while he waits-

Iggy:Papa...? Are you...leavin’ again?

-Lane blinks, then ruffles her hair-

Lane:Just for a little bit, Iggy...I’ll be back before you know it.

Iggy:Promise?

“Promise.”

“Okay...”

-And with a half smile, Lane departs-

Auction

Morgan would walk into the auction, stopping to take a look at Lester and Greaser fighting.

Morgan: What's all this about?

She looked up at the painting they both wanted to get. But, unlike the other two...

Morgan: They're fighting about that? I mean, I can't blame them...

Then they actually started fighting. As in kicking each other, punching, the lot.

Morgan and her Starly, Ari, were just confused.

Ari: <I think we should just let them squirm for a while...>

Edited by Routeferret on Mar 3rd 2019 at 8:31:54 PM

i think i’m in love (probably just hungry)

Auction

-Serana continued to drift across the floor, trying to find an anchor of conversation. Eventually she tried to listen in on the other Kalosian vampire in the room-

Castelia City, Clavis Industries

-Pent wanders in to the conference room and takes a seat. He takes a sip of water from a bottle he's grabbed from his bag before looking around and mentally ticking off people he spotted in other cells-

... Susan, you weren't in the dream...

Susan: Yeah but I'm the one that ended up causing the app to work so I'm getting involved.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Ersatz Alliance (Past)

Milagros was at the counter. He laid down the other human to Pokemon armbands, as well as the jacket Caddy found.

Edited by Routeferret on Mar 4th 2019 at 8:12:20 PM

i think i’m in love (probably just hungry)

Castelia City, Clavis Entertainment

-Ren is in the meeting room waiting for the others to arrive.-

Castelia City, Clavis Entertainment

-Elizabeth is sitting on the floor, leaning against Christina. Oberon balances precariously balances on her head.-

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Castelia, Clavis Entertainment, Meeting Room

A cowboy, a Whimsicott and a Xatu suddenly blip into the room and fall in front of Ren.

"Ooof! Ugh...thanks Tiresias. This will earn some brownie points for your former master. Did you have to put us 3 feet up, though?"

The Xatu, eyes completely white due to blindness, gently floated and touched down onto the floor.

<I'm sorry have you ever tried transcontinental teleportation before? There will always be a slight margin of error. You should be thankful I managed to get you in the building. Can I go back in the box now?>

"Sadly no, I'm gonna need you to get back." Des took out a pokeball and returned the birdmon. He and Pria stood up, dusted themselves off and finally noticed Ren.

"Sup?"

GIVE ME YOUR FACE

Clavis Entertainment

Artoria scoots into the conference room, finding a wall to stand next to.

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Clavis Enterprises

-Is waiting around-

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Clavis Enterprises - Castelia

Colton entered the room, trying his best to not make the door squeak. His Xatu levitated behind him, doubtless the means by which he had teleported there.

The Mystic Pokemon returned while Colton sat down.

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

Clavis Entertainment

-Lane has arrived as well-

Lane:Been a while...maybe not long enough...

Persona Intel Meeting

-Once everyone arrives, Ren stands up.-

Ren: Thank you all for coming on such short notice. For those who don't already know, I am Renard Clavis. I generally go by "Ren". I own and run this company. For the sake of formality, let's do some brief introductions while we dig out our devices with the navigation app on it. I will explain what I know once we finish introductions.

-Ren places his tablet and Holo-cane on the table in front of him.-

Meeting Room

"Hello, I am Des. I am a wannabe cowboy. This is Pria, make sure you keep track of your valuables when she's around."

Des takes a seat at the opposite end of the table, putting his feet up on it and leaning back in his chair. He casually grabs Pria and starts to rummage through her fluff.

<H-hey wait!>

"Ring, ring, watch, earring-her we go!" he pulls out his phone and starts up the app. "It's been a while since I've done a heist, although does it count as a felony if it's metaphysical?"

Edited by PhilosopherStones on Mar 3rd 2019 at 7:48:03 AM

GIVE ME YOUR FACE

Silas entered and looked about, slightly concerned, of course his face didn't show it at all.

Hacks was moreover impressed, ~Think Zeke or Gio would like to meet with Clavis entertainment?~

"Not a good idea."

Upon the comment of introductions, Silas looks about, "Hello. My name is Silas Grant, you might know me as the spacey one, or the masked man. I have a bionic arm and I have no clue what was up with that dream or this new app, and Bishop certainly doesn't know."

Bishop popped out of Silas's phone, "It is rather annoying Captain."

The guard takes a sniff, and slips off to dreamland. Fox gives a thumbs up and steps in, "Nice work."

Bishop pops out of her suit's mask, "I'll get to work commander."

With that he flies into the security system, which sparks as the alarms get turned off one by one, Bishop flies back out, looking proud. "We have the security."

Fox nodded and looked over the computers, "Hey look at that, the backstage has a box labelled "Dangerous. Do not open and do not pull triggers."

Bishop looked at Storage Room A, "Are those Trophy stands?"

"They are."

Jack stares at Benedetta and blinks, "I'm sorry ma'am but you might have me confused for someone else. I'm just a systems analyst. My Lucario and I are looking for paintings for Victisoft and the CEO. He's retiring in a year."

Reese laughed, two pretty ladies boosting his ego and the alcohol in his system made it easy to talk, still, only so much he could say. "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to stop here, the private auction begins soon and I can't say too much. You could get a ticket in there if you're still interested. The stuff is a bit intense but-"

The other white coats walked up, Reese looked a little nervous, "Yes right."

And they walked off.

---

Victor rolled his eyes at Eduardo, "Unlike you I don't prefer invading personal spaces and it makes it so much easier to interact with others truly when they aren't worried about their necks. Then again as I recall you and personal space don't have a mutual relationship."

He sighed and took another drink, "When you're done being a creep to the nth degree, try talking to me again. I'd love to discuss what I've learned and what my castle can do. But then again I suppose a lot of the sciences would go over your head, you always did like to keep it low."

Victor walked off now floating an entire tray of wine next to him, he felt he would need it.

Arkngthamz, City of Perpetuity

-Ludmilla sits in silence at the top of the Watcher's Tower.-

-The sound of constant, gentle rain creates a pure ambiance.-

-The smell of running water, without a hint of stagnation, opens her mind, and- *BZZBZZ*

-... Ahem. As I was saying, the smell of- *BZZBZZ*

-... Is... is it going to- *BZZBZZ*

-Ludmilla opens her eyes and looks at her phone.-

-"You have one (1) new alert!"-

-She turns her phone to silent and sticks it under a pile of silkpaper before going back to meditating.-

-Now. As I was saying. The smell of running water - *BZZBZZ* - without a hint of stagnation, opens her mind - *BZZBZZ* - and allows her to more properly focus her telekinetic abilities so that she - *BZZBZZ*

Ludmilla: SHUT UP YOU STUPID PHONE!

Clavis Entertainment

-Christina clears her throat and gets up, leaving Liz and Oberon to topple backwards.-

Christina: <I'm Christina, and this is my trainer, Elizabeth Tsukida, and->

Oberon: <Their stalwart knight, Oberon!>

Christina: <...and a Mimikyu with a hero complex. It's a pleasure to meet you all.>

-Elizabeth lightly tosses a glowing phone onto the table and pulls out a chair, sitting in it backwards.-

Elizabeth: "Hi."

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Clavis Entertainment

Artoria: "I'm Artoria." She crosses her arms behind her back.

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Clavis Entertainment

-Sitting down-

I'm Tagg, but I figure most of everyone knows that already. And these two are Doc and Crochet.

Doc: <Wouldn't be the first time we've been in that room...>

Crochet: <Though last time it was a lot more friendly.>

-Glancing briefly at outside where it's started to snow-

No Persona business for us that time though, this time however...

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

St Aldrich Manor

-Bendetta just shakes her head.-

Benedetta: "Hmmph. I don't like anyone else here anymore than you do, so carry on. Stop by the gym next time you're in Angela. Maybe I'll treat you to dinner."

Luca: "I should make Ken dinner someday"

Benedetta: "Ciao!"

-She and Luca walk off.-

Artyom: "Friends of yours, Jack?"

Edited by SwiftSeraph on Mar 3rd 2019 at 5:28:53 AM

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

"Wait Persona, you mean like Anima 5's Animaes and all that? I dressed up as Joker for Halloween in 2017, is that what's going on? That would explain the setting of that dream, but seriously?" Silas asked.

Hacks started laughing.

Jack looked about for a moment and spoke to Artyom, "I spent a month in Angela doing a professional circuit but... reversed. Hacks was in charge. That is one of the Gym leaders. Somehow they know about Stylus... bad enough Delta knows."

Edited by EchoingSilence on Mar 3rd 2019 at 5:35:03 AM

Persona Intel Meeting

Lane:O-Oh...uhm...Lane. I’m Lane Heiden.

-Awkward glancing intensifies-