Balconies

There was a lot of screaming, more than Arcade wanted to deal with. He was already feeling alone in the large group of strangers, the unfocused yelling was not helping. Most of the yelling seemed to be people who were unnerved by something, not in danger. Once the fight with Kelsey started, Arcade hurried over to help.

He winced but moved to grab Kelsey's arm from behind and stick the chainaxe into the ground, and then using that to rip it out of her hand. His arm was still injured, so he didn't have as much force as he usually did. Still, he did his best to keep Samson alive.

I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."

Digger - Home Sweet Home - Sounds Delightful

I blinked.

Slime flesh.

I blinked again.

"...Right. Well, down the hatch, I suppose." As I unscrewed the top, I started thinking about what I did that led me to this moment. If I believed in karma, it'd definitely be biting me in the ass right now. I took a whiff of it and gagged. I really, really didn't want to do this, but I didn't have any other choices besides cooking duty, and let's be honest, no one should trust me around a fire unless they wanted their hides to be a new shade of black. With great, great hesitation, I downed the entire thing.

It was even worse than Ed's warrior herbs and the Hag's medicine combined. And that was saying something.

Trying not to throw up what little I had eaten the past day, I slipped off my vest to see if the potion did anything worthwhile.

(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?

Grocery Grove

"Hey!" Curly said as she went to dodge the sword, which turned out to be rather easy since it was never aimed at her in the first place which earned a quiet "Oh" when she saw the dead raptor.

She paused just a moment before jumping into the Lagann and instructing "We can't let Rex get killed by that blue madman yet, go grab him quick!" as she settled in for a potentially rough ride.

Elias - Balconies

The constant yelling going on around me was getting very bothersome. Most of the humans there were acting scared of me like usual, despite the fact that I was the one responsible for bringing them to safety to begin with, not only that, they seemed to be focusing more on some insane woman who couldn't stop rambling nonsense. This whole situation was causing me to feel a very strong desire to hurt something, maybe even kill someone just to make them shut up, but I had better things to do than that.

I had no time to waste, so after clearing my mind I stood up once more and began heading towards the jungle again by myself. I had to get back to Chise before anything else happened to her, no matter how much this strange land tried to distract me.

Chise - Grocery Grove

I was suddenly saved by one of the blonde girls, who killed some other dinosaurs that came after me and grabbed me by the arm, which hurt a little since I was still hurt. Thankfully, the pink haired little girl from earlier showed up and seemed to use some strange magic on us, as well as healing my wounds. I felt all the pain vanish in a matter of seconds, it felt truly refreshing.

"Thank you." I smiled at the young mage, but once she asked me about Elias, I couldn't help but frown and draw attention to the stone tied around my neck. "This usually allows him to know where I am at all times, if we go to the library, then he'll know I'm there and come after me."

Then the noise of metal clanking ringed by, followed by a lot of yelling. There was still trouble around them and, indeed, there were still people that didn't go into Elias' teleportation circle, like the teen that had the shapeshifting abilities. This whole thing wasn't done yet, although at least it seemed like the attacks had stopped.

"We can go to the library once we make sure everyone is safe though," I told them as I looked at the direction of all the noise.

I then began following after the source of the noise and it didn't take much time before I stumbled upon the teen from earlier lying on the ground with an armored man standing close to him and demanding answers. I quickly went over to the boy, who was bleeding although not too much, probably slashed by something judging from the torn shirt.

"Are you all right?! What is going on here?!" I asked as I glanced between the two men.

Grocery Grove - Iron cold fury

Apparently the girl had an artifact that allowed her partner to usually locate her at all times, which was admitedly more than a little creepy, but it would prove useful in this case. Of course, given the nature of the city, it would only work at e if she were either at the lbrary or the balconies, so the plan was heading to the former as soon as possible.

"Sounds like a plan," Caro then spoke. However, there was still noise of metal clanging and yelling, so clearly there still other people left behind as well and ones in need of protection at that, so she readily agreed as the girl said that they would leave once everyone was safe.

They quickly found the source of it all: Brother Marcus, still after Kelsey, who seemed to have been teleported away as well, attacking Rex, currently laying on the ground with a large gash across him, while former demanded to know where Kelsey had gone to.

"Rex!" she called out, as she rushed to his side and immediately began to work on healing his wound. Once it stopped bleeding, she then turned to Marcus, cold fury readily apparant in her gaze.

"No one will tell you anything. Kelsey certainly has crimes to answer for, but I for one, won't tell you, who seems bent on harming anything slightly deviating from your definition of human, because of a code that shouldn't even apply here, to be the one to so ruthlessly judge her." She spoke in the tone of the mother of all tranquil furies, as she immediately went into another spell, a summoning square appearing once, this time covering them both in a furious, deep pink aura, as she put almost everything she had left into it, primarly trying to stand his weapon still, if not shatter it, but also working on the armor fully encasing his body, trying to, if not fully lock him into place, at least make him significantly slower and still less of a threat. "What do you even hope to accomplish by hunting her down in such a matter? If the only thing you have to try to get her denounce her ways is the threat of death, when it doesn't mean much in this place to begin with and she clearly doesn't seem to fear it any longer, then it will clearly not work. It will only fill her with more pain and rage and that point it is basically just torturing her, so how does any of it make you any better than her?"

edited 13th May '17 11:29:21 PM by JamesShields

Grocery Grove — She's gonna make his skin match the armor

Marcus pointed out that was a bit hypocritical of Rex to say he didn't want people to die, since he was swinging around a giant chainsaw and all.

"I'm flattered. I didn't know you were scared of m—" Marcus took the air out of his lungs before he could finish talking and launched him with a second hit.

Rex fell on his back and then sat upright with some difficulty, putting his hand on his jaw to alleviate the pain. Marcus wanted information about the location of the group that had just teleported away. And he was demanding to get it from Rex. Well, he was going to tell him exactly what he knew.

"You are asking the wrong guy. I didn't even know there was a teleporter in the group"

The redhead girl and Caro rushed to where he was, obviously worried about his well-being and the latter probably not even knowing what was going.

"We're just having a little argument here" he joked as Caro healed his wounds. Speaking of her, she immediately started scolding Marcus, pointing out his horrible behavior and even started trying to lock him in place with her magic. Rex was left speechless for a minute at just how pissed at the supersoldier she was "Órale"

edited 13th May '17 11:22:30 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Eve|Grocery Grove| WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP GROVE?

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, it seemed, as Rex was now in trouble. Making her way over to the current hotseat, Eve noted that the raptor incursions had practically come to a stop.

Caro was healing Rex's wounds, which was good, and was then telling off Marcus, using something that appeared to be magic. And she was pissed.

So that was a thing.

Eve entered the long grass, clearing a path that would end up at Marcus. A raptor jumped her, which she dodged with all ease, and then she felt claws rake across her back, leaving several long gashes. That was going to be an issue when she wasn't hyped on adrenaline. She got to her destination without any other ado, and appeared behind Marcus.

And aimed a hammer at his kneecaps and swung.

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Library

The meat fell straight into the harpy's open mouth and she snapped her teeth shut around it, and after a brief moment of choking began chewing happily. Offeran practically bounced onto the patch of grass provided, his eye stalks swinging happily as he began to step around it to eat.

Jack blinked, his eyes follow Tairee's hand down briefly before snapping back up. He'd been trying very hard not to notice what the librarian was wearing, but now he couldn't. It just sat there out of the edge of his sight, trying to draw his eyes towards it. He chuckled a little forcefully, concentrating on keeping his eyes ahead. "Right. Prehistory. That's... uh, is that like... dinosaurs?" The spirit was reaching, simply because the word sounded a lot like prehistoric, which he'd seen related to dinosaurs a bunch of times. That and her outfit looked like some cartoon caveman. Woman. Cavewoman.

edited 13th May '17 11:23:19 PM by Alleydodger

Garden Grove

"Blue madman?" wondered Kamina and then he saw it. Out some ways was him. That bozo from yesterday! And he was going to kill someone! Kamina felt anger bubble up inside himself. First it was his asshole attitude but now it was this. The mighty Kamina, the man that faces against Gunmen triple his own in combat without blinking a eye, will yet this happen! "I see him! Time to show him what the two of us can do, right Simon!?"

Simon saw him too. The guy was taller than both of them and was covered head to toe in armor. He was expected to help fight against that. He shouldn't do it, he can't do it...........but he had to. All of those people are trying to help Rex and they will be hurt for that. With that, Simon let out a small and a little anxious, "Ok big bro." With that, Gurren and Lagann started to move in the direction, Curly still in the empty cockpit.

Once there, Kamina yelled out at the blue idiot in front of him with, "Hey, you big blue bastard! EAT THIS!!" as he charged in Gurren, making attempt to hit Marcus with a wide swing of the glasses sword. Lagann opened it's dome, let Curly jump out, and then the dome closed again. Simon noticed the ground. Soil. Dirt. He had a idea. Lagann's two hand drills replaced the hands and Simon aimed them at the ground, soon disappearing in a Lagann sized hole. This should catch him off guard.....

edited 13th May '17 11:33:10 PM by LightToAll

Cole wasn't at all sure where to continue the conversation with the other children, but on looking up and around, likely for help, he spied a familiar face nearby, and that was relief enough for the moment.

"Jack Frost!" Cole got to his feet quickly, all but scurrying over to his fellow spirit, latching onto his leg with a hug, looking up at him with wide eyes. "I am glad to see you and that you are all right! I haven't seen you in so long, I was worried something had happened!"

Library

Jack looked down at his leg in surprise, though thankful that his attention was now focused elsewhere. He grew even more surprised when he realized it was Cole, and he was still small. It was odd, seeing the spirit like that compared to how they'd first met. But, he seemed far happier than the Guardian could remember compared to any other time.

He smiled down at Cole, resting a hand on his back and ignoring the general oddness of the moment. "Hey Cole. That's sweet. I've been alright, I've just been out and about looking for people to help. Children, mostly. Have you talked to any of them yet?"

"Yes, them," Cole said, pointing to where Tommy and See were, before grabbing hold with a hug again. "Miss Tairee is letting me stay here and stay like this, to know what it really is to be young and not be half of everything and nothing that is any one thing, and she offered to help me learn to read, and it is safer here than out there."

He might have held on a little tighter, eyes wide and pleading. "It's not dangerous outside today, is it? We could come and stay here, all of us together and Miss Tairee can protect us...it would be better, we can all stay together!"

Ciri - Library

"Call me Ciri," Ciri told Ben. "It seems we've agreed on a goal, now what remains to be settled is a course of action. The most important aspect of any hunt is information. Information on your foes - what are the innate abilities and variants of these dinosaurs? And knowledge of out own equipment, of how we can hope to assist each other."

She withdrew her silver sword from the scabbard, holding it tenderly in her hands as she hopped up onto the desk and sat down. "Your 'Watch', as you call it, fell from the skies," she stated. "This is Zireael, and it too comes from the skies. The core is forged from the most potent metal known to man, elf, dwarf, and gnome - iron from meteorites. 'Tis a witcher's sword, as silver is worked into the blade with magic, while the glyphs and runes inscribed in the blade and hilt grant it more power and strength than any common blacksmith could dream of granting such a weapon."

She gave it a slow swing in the air. "Your world did not know of such techniques in my brief visits, and your monsters may have grown bold and unafraid of simple steel. But I shall make them know the sting of silver."

Balcony

With Arcade's help, they were able to keep the chainaxe away from Samson's neck just long enough to wrench it out of her grip. Once both of her weapons had been removed, Samson just worked on keeping her pinned down while she continued to struggle. "Alright, now the armor off, hurry!" Samson said. "There's gotta be some way to remove her helmet!" he added.

One of the other militia members had to grab her helmet's horns just to keep her from thrashing her head around while the second searched around for some kind of release. It took a bit, but there was a slight hiss of escaping air as the helmet came loose and he tried to get it off; it came partway up and then snagged as Kelsey resorted to biting a part of the helmet to get a grip onto it.

"Freaking seriously?" Samson muttered, quickly grabbed his phaser, then pressed it to her exposed neck and fired. Kelsey jolted for a moment and then went limp, unconscious. Samson finally stood up, breathing heavily. "... Hey, you're like, a doctor, right?" the militia member asked Arcade, then motioned to Kelsey and told him, "try to keep her alive; I don't want her dying and poofing on us after all that effort."

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Home Sweet Home

Digger's injury seemed to be almost instantaneously better; perhaps not fully healed, but significantly more well off than it had been. "See? It works. Why'd you make such a big deal about it?" Blue said, then offered Digger another of the same potion. "Here, if you need another one; I've got plenty. Just be sure to wait a whole minute first; you wouldn't want to get potion sickness" he added.

Regardless of if Digger actually took it or not, Blue then headed out the front doors with Veela following behind him. "Now that you're better, let's go get us some groceries" Blue announced, then looked around the clearing underneath the hotel tree's branches. He grabbed some kind of communication device with a screen on it, and looked at the screen for a moment. Then he spoke into it, "John! We're ready to move. We're just out front."

A man in some kind of combat gear fell down from the branches above, his jet pack firing to slow his descent and put him on the ground safely. He looked at Blue, then at Veela, Digger, and Crash. "There's more of you now? And you look different from each other... Didn't think I'd be seeing so many fur covered aliens walking on two legs" the man commented.

"Come on John, we're off to the grocery" Blue told him with a nod, and then started to walk off into the jungle.

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Library

"I'm surprised you know much about the dinosaurs, considering the state of education when you were alive, and what you've been doing since then" Miss Tairee admitted, one eyebrow raised slightly. "But yes, they are a rather prominent example of the things about the city today" she added with a simple nod.

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Grocery grove

Brother Marcus didn't seem to care about Chise or her question, and kept still as Caro started to talk, his helmet making it difficult to tell which of them he was specifically looking at. "Would you accept being forced to stand idle if an evil you knew from your home was active here?!" Brother Marcus asked Caro, seemingly rhetorically. "None of you understand the danger that she... What are you doing?!" the space marine went on as suddenly Caro and he started glowing. His helmet turned slowly towards his chainsword as it creaked and the engine whined out, almost sounding in pain, before stalling and turning off. Brother Marcus remained still like that, indeed looking as if he'd been frozen in place, until Eve charged in behind him, and his helmet turned to one side for a moment.

Then his jump pack flared to life, blasting Eve with a wave of heat as Brother Marcus launched forward and slammed feet first into the upper part of Gurren, going over the sword swing and sending the miniaturized gunmen onto its back as Brother Marcus then landed a bit behind it. "I was only dealing with my enemy, and now you are the ones to attack me!" Brother Marcus shouted in anger, wielding his chainsword at the ready still despite its inactive state; whatever Caro's magic was doing to his armor, it wasn't enough to stop him from moving. "I've no time for you fools, but if you will stand beside that heretic, then you will be condemned with her!" the space marine yelled, then threatened in a more quiet, serious tone, "so stand down, or I will cease to show mercy to you."

edited 14th May '17 1:08:16 AM by FirockFinion

You are reading this.

Ratbag I Balcony I A fight?

Nope, nevermind. They're not friendly at all. There's a fight going on in the middle where some men are taking care of this one very armed woman with a dangerous-looking axe.

At least the skull head guy is moving away. And the infighting seems to have stopped, though why they don't just kill the guy, err, woman, for being too much bother befuddled Ratbag. They want her alive for interrogatin' or something?

Seems that they either didn't notice the blind man moving towards them or were too busy dealing with the aftermath. Oh well, might as well make Ratbag's presence known.

"Oi! You done fighting? Don't you be fighting us, now. We ain't lookin' for trouble, just asking for directions, is all," Ratbag called out to those remaining within the group, going out of his hiding place and yet noticeably standing behind the blind man to let him do the rest of the talking. Might as well let another human deal with another one of their kind.

"A post per day keeps the GMs away!"

Eve|Grocery Grove|Newton Is The Worst

Oh, damn it. She had not expected that. Blown backwards and off her feet, Eve's first thought was to curl up in a ball. Which exposed her wounded back. To grass. And raptor attack.

Nope.

She turned herself to steel. Starting in her core, a silvery sheen spread over her body, starting from her core. It took about two seconds to cover her, before she landed, colliding with a tree outside of the long grass. Falling to the ground, she undid the transformation and lay there for a second, groaning under her breath.

Then she took stock of her injuries. Slashed back (four, about a centimetre apart and horizontally across ) yay. Several small cuts from the grass. Slight burns. And what felt like a broken rib or two. Fantastic.

Well, at least they weren't life threatening.

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Balconies

Arcade dropped the chainaxe next to Samson, hoping the militia had a plan for it, because he didn't. He looked thoughtful when he was asked to keep her stable.

"I don't suppose you have anything to use as bandages, do you?" he asked the men around him. If they said no, he'd start tearing at his coat to use on the wound and started the work on stabilizing Kelsey.

I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."

Lewis - Grocery Grove ==> Balcony - Finally fulfilling random.org's request

As much as she bitched, I wasn't letting Kelsey kill herself before I could ask her what I'd been wanting to ask for a while. Like it or not, I wasn't just going to—Red!

Okay maybe I was going to drop her after all, because I did that and then tried to cut through the crowd to reach where the girl had been tackled out by a raptor, only for the teleport to finish with me still in it.

I had to blink away the flash for a moment, by which point Kelsey was making a scene somewhere behind me, because of course. By the time I got there again someone had knocked her out, and Arcade was looming over her asking if someone had anything to bandage her with.

So, that was what she looked like under that thing, huh.

I knelt down, looking at her, a hand in front of me, glowing. "I should be able to cauterize. That risks infection though, doesn't it?"

i guess you can watch me shitpost i guess

Library

"Well, hang around kids enough and you learn things. Ever since dinosaurs started being more well-known, they've loved them." Jack chuckled a touch awkwardly, partially since now his attention was drifting back towards Tairee but also since he didn't really want to admit he'd been guessing. Still, if dinosaurs where around, from what the spirit had seen of them over the years; It'd be bad. He had to get out there and help.

Which made the next part harder. Jack looked down at Cole as he clung tighter to his leg, a pleading expression across his face. The spirit sighed and ruffled the young boy's hair slightly. "Sorry Cole, but from the sound of it it's definitely not safe outside. And... I would like to stay, but there are people out there that need help. Other children with nowhere safe to stay. I'm going to bring them back here, then we can stay together, ok?"

edited 14th May '17 5:19:45 AM by Alleydodger

Balcony

Arcade wondered how he didn't notice Lewis before, but quickly put that out of his mind. Cauterizing, an especially dangerous choice of treatment. Arcade hesitated, saying, "you're right, she could get infected. I'm not sure if we want to pick that if we have other possible solutions. Primum non nocere and all that."

I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."

Balcony - The Truth

What the hell? 9S thought to himself, watching the scene that had ensued. That was a humanoid acting aggressively towards others. He could describe her behavior as mad, or even insane. But no. The source of the shock was from the possibility that humans still existed.

Was what the Commander told him a lie? Or did she simply not know it? Everything was a mess right now, and he wasn't going to start getting answers, what with the situation he had come across. As he heard a blonde man ask for anything to use as a bandage, he ordered the Pod, "Pod, access the bandages and the staunching gel."

"Analysis: Effectiveness of staunching gel on organic matter unknown. Proposal: Cease risk of malfu-"

"I really don't have time for this right now, just do it." The Pod then dispensed a single, unused gauze roll, and a bottle of staunching gel. 9S wasn't a Healer model, but he could try to at least provide some sort of medical support. He walked over to the blonde man and handed him the gauze roll and the bottle. "Here," he said, "Apply the gel first- that should stop the bleeding."

edited 14th May '17 6:13:23 AM by NagisaStick

Rero.

The library

Ben looked in awe at Ciri's sword. Then she asked a few questions. He thought for a moment.

"Well, dinosaurs are just animals in my world. I dunno if the Writer brought super powered dinosaurs from other worlds or anything," he muttered. He looked back towards her sword and she had explained it, but there was a term he didn't really understand.

"You're a witch?" he asked curiously, hearing the term witcher. He smiled a little at Cole, who seemed eager for everyone to just stay in the library with Miss Tairee protecting them. Ben moved towards the child. He had assumed Cole would've been aged back up but maybe he made a request.

"Cole... I wish I could stay here with you guys. But I'm a hero, I need to help those who aren't here, get them to safety so they're not ripped apart by dinosaurs... I can't sit back and let innocent people get hurt...." he explained.

I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.

Garden Grove

With a thud of impact and the clanking and scraping of metal against earth, Gurren was now side to side with Rex and those who were trying to help him, sword laying next to it. Kamina felt that and it HURT. Damn, that was a good hit but nothing felt that damaged. The whole face of Gurren was dented in for sure but hell, no limbs were lost and no holes broken through. He could keep going!

Gurren rose from the ground, grabbing the sword as it went. It's left hand pointed at Marcus and Kamina told him, "Will you shut your trap!? I, the unbeatable Kamina, will not listen to your BULLSHIT!! Us? Fools? Who the hell do you think we are!?" and Gurren threw the sword directly at him, following it up with a running punch aimed at his midsection. Try handling two things at once!

And it was at this moment when Lagann shot out of the ground, backpack helping to speed his forward movement, with both hand drills side to side and currently looking to impact the right leg of the blue foe. Simon felt the fear well up more and more inside himself. This was going to get him and his bro killed. But........Kamina believed in him to get Gurren and Lagann out just a few moments ago. He would want him to help do this!

edited 14th May '17 8:48:35 AM by LightToAll

Digger - Home Sweet Home

Okay, so maybe he was right. It didn't change anything, especially not the taste. I put my vest on and dropped the second potion in my pack, pondering the effects of "potion sickness". I figured it be something to find out the hard way, whether it was from me or someone else. Hopefully it was someone else.

We walked outside, and seconds later, another guy in weird, brightly-colored armor appeared from the sky. What was with these guys and their big entrances? I rubbed my shoulder uncomfortably, still not used to the type of healing that was somehow instant, and unceremoniously started the trek through the jungle. Did I mention we were in a jungle? I didn't even realize we were in a jungle until now.

(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?

Crash-Home Sweet Home——>Jungle

Crash whined in sympathy as Digger drank the potion. He remembered the slimes from Dr. Cortex's old lab, and the thought of trying to drink one? Gross. Still, it seemed to heal Digger up, so that was good.

Crash headed outside into the jungle with everyone else. Boy, the city sure was different today. Crash wondered why. Maybe he should've finished reading the pamphlet...

Crash scratched his head as a man who had had dropped in armor called him an alien. He than shook his head, and, pointing to himself with his thumb, said "Nah. Bandicoot."

edited 14th May '17 11:10:51 AM by Dezmo