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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 19:59:08 GMT -7
As Selene leans against the wall she hears everyone finish up whatever they had come to do. She hears a few of them pass, but Rauj and Dethrial come over to console her. She doesn't answer Rauj. She doesn't even turn to look at him. Her face once again was hidden by her long hair. She was furious. At this point her eyes must be bloodshot from stress and her face was heating up from the rush of anger. Over the fact that she couldn't compete from a melee standpoint. I'll shoot him. Spray his ass everywhere. She thinks. Her face not fully accenting her thoughts. Her look was that of a woman gone crazy. Her gums hurt from her sadistic grin. She hasn't lost it, but from a visual standpoint anyone that could see her face would think otherwise. This slowly faded when Dethrial spoke. Her eyes slowly calmed and her grin faded to a frown. She does turn to him however, and only looks at him. "Everyone that I would talk to about any issue is dead." She says with a smile. Her voice was calmly pleasant. Her eyes were half open. She was quite exhausted from everything she had done. Normally this wouldn't effect her, but the explosion of emotion took a lot of energy from her. How she said it though calm as it was would be taken in a disturbing manner by anyone. She nods her head very slightly as she lowers it and turns in the direction of everyone. She slowly follows after. Not speaking the rest of the way.
As they walked through the halls she was watching Rauj like a hawk, but wasn't making it obvious. Its how she was trained. Anytime she lagged slightly behind she looked at him. Trying to see if her tackle had done anything. He is keeping his composure as best he can, but she can see a slight difference in his movements here and there. If ever so faint. So it DID hurt him. He acts tough and looks the part, but his body can't actually take a hit like that. Hell I bet I could take more than he can. She was overcome with joy. As if a weight was lifted from her shoulders. He may have the ability to almost dance around her if he wanted to, but one good hit could stop him. Maybe. She still hid her emotions with this new found excitement.
When they finally stop Selene plops her bag at the seat of the table. She sighs. Some of the excitement in her is also stemming from her surroundings. She never had a school like this. She actually felt like a student on lunch. It was nice. She places the papers she stole from the office on the table. She had completely forgotten she was still holding them. Obviously her attention was diverted elsewhere. As Rey comes over to talk to her as well she closes her eyes and rubs them. She looks up at him as she holds out the chicken. She reaches up and takes it and holds it close. For comfort. She doesn't want to talk to anyone really. She doesn't answer Rey either. Her eyes trail down and she silently holds the bird. Thats when Cliff speaks up. Her eyes shift to his face as he almost demands her to place what she found on the table. She looks at him in an almost curious way. Albeit confused. "What gem?" She asks in a tone that would be convincing to almost anyone that wasn't in the room with her and Cliff at the time.
"Um... Lets see." She places the chicken on the table. "I have the papers about his eviction. "Um... " She reaches under the flap of her bag. "Um... Keys." She places down the keys. "Aaaaaannnnnddddd." She raises her right leg for balance and she reaches deeper and pulls out the coins. "These." She places down the coins. "I've never seen this type of currency. Like ever, and I've been all over the place." She looks back at Cliff. Her face was now soft and innocent looking. "There wasn't a gem Cliff." She points at the papers and keys. "Maybe those can help you with anything. I actually had no idea what I was looking for. You never actually told me Rey." She says in a playfully joking way.
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Post by ☆|Dazai on Apr 14, 2018 18:07:33 GMT -7
Ismay giggles a bit under her breath at Dethrial’s awkward nature. Wherever he was from, he seemed to know the basics of interaction despite what he said. Perhaps her earlier musing were actually a reality. “Mr. Aetherien,” She begins to reply to the giant of a man beside her, “I believe you’re just fine as you are. Confidence is key.” She pats him on his back, and returns his smile.
When the group finds a resting spot, Ismay opts to stand next to the table and allow others to take their seats first. One of said people sitting down, was Eva, whose promiscuous nature extended to her sitting habits, if you could even call what she was doing ‘sitting’. The odd moment Ismay experienced with her earlier, still made her mind race for an explanation. People didn't really have that effect on her, even with a body like Eva’s. Flirtatious remarks like that didn't woo her. Their connotation was a bit too crude for the knight’s personal taste anyways... She liked to believe she was a woman of stature. Humble as possible of course, but still of stature… That aside, she resolved to figure Eva out as carefully as possible. For the moment however, she merely waits for an opportune time to interject in the current discussion. As of right now the group was ‘collecting themselves’ so to speak.
Cliff mentions the information that he and the girl near Ismay, named Selene, collected from Winter’s office. Ismay was grateful that the doll attempted to keep the small conversation focused. “A gem you say...I’d like to have a look at it as well, if you would so please.” She added after Eva’s playfully snide remarks.
Ismay rests her eyes on Selene as she denies having any gem at all. It was the first time she had really taken time to examine the girl at all. She was a rather adorable rogue. She could’ve easily passed for a normal neighborhood child, had the knight not known she was capable of breaking into a professor’s office. Although she knew nothing about Selene personally, Ismay felt the desire to console her—an action she ultimately refrains from, having noticed the Rabbit’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the others before her.
Ismay addresses Selene with a pleasant tone, “Hello Selene, I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced. I’m Ismay, it’s a pleasure to meet you.” The frost knight extends her hand for the rouge to shake. “Even if she were simply being stubborn, there’s not much to do about it.” She wasn’t about to take the bag and search it herself, so she merely let Rey and the others sort it out. They knew her best after all.
“I hope you don’t mind.” Ismay flashes a smile at Eva as she takes a seat next to the devilishly cute girl. She picks up a coin and examines it, while listening to Rey’s conversation with J. Like Selene, she hadn’t ever seen coins quite like this. “Beyond foreign I’d say.” She shifts the coin’s angle to further inspect it. Nearby, Rey brings up J’s previous situation. “There are a lot of blanks that haven’t been filled.” Ismay couldn’t completely blame him for not divulging all his info to her in their first meeting. Not that it likely mattered immediately. Letting herself passively take in what they knew, also worked.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 17:40:31 GMT -7
Rauj walks off with Ismay, but takes note of the slight lag of the Alv. He looks back, and seeing that he is trying to console the bunny-girl, the thief shrugs and continues on his way, that is until she allows Dethrial to get a good grasp of her current mindset with just a few words. His eyes widen a bit at the peace at which she says it, "Whoa-kay..." he rubs the back of his neck a bit, as he continues his pace, a bit perturbed at that glimpse at a darkened minds-cape.
As they reach the empty table, Rauj takes a seat at the far corner of one of the benches, the same one that Eva sprawls out upon. With a relieved sigh, he glances about a bit as he settled for the moment. Though he sees Selene in the process of laying out a few papers, he turns his cursory attention towards the demon hunter as he notices his approach. Already ready to try and avoid having to communicate with the man since their first interactions today had already gone so well, he tries to act as though he was intently waiting to see what was on the papers being presented, but the hunter breaks the facade by yet again bowing before speaking, which still sets the thief off-kilter a bit. In fact, it might even be irritating him. He sets his personal feeling aside for a moment with a light head shake as Rey rises from his bow and lends the demon hunter his ear as he apologizes. Considering the sudden,warning-less way Selene had made her approach, the thief would've been totally within his right to instinctively defend himself... He couldn't help but wonder if they would be having the same conversation now if he had just allowed the girl to make impact with the door, but he continued to bat his inner thoughts down, deciding to instead focus on the second half of what Rey was saying. He sighs again... he had been doing that a lot recently, "Honestly? Nah. Going through that door hurt." He smirks listlessly, "Thanks for at least making an attempt though... unfortunately i have no idea why Jen and I were drawn into... whatever the hell that was, but it was definitely meant for us, we shared the same dream." He goes on to explain the dream to the best of his ability, making sure to detail the environment and what he learned of it during the time he spent there, he finishes with how they 'returned'. "Worst experience I've had in-awhile, made me appreciate my own body quite a bit more, though i suppose it made me overestimate my own durability a bit..." He says as he rubs his side wincing a bit as he does so, "That's gonna leave an ultra bruise..."
He turns his attention to cliff and then Selene as he mentions 'happening' upon some interesting items. Eva seems to share his interest, but more towards the fact that it gave her a chance to subtly lash at the rabbit-girl. It made Rauj curious, seeing as not too long ago one seemed to be trying to console the other, something must've happened between the two during that short time, and he glanced quickly between the two; as even with his lack of social skills he could almost feel the sparks flying.
Though the rabbit-girl lays out keys and odd coins, there's no gem like the doll mentioned, and Rauj can't help but roll his eyes and lightly shake his head, he'd check into it later, for now though... He looks over the papers and grabs two of the coins himself looking over each with discerning eyes, though he smirks and lightly chuckles as the girl mentions Rey hadn't told them what they were seeking in the first place. "Still, this isn't too bad a haul though. Good job." He says as he does a few quick coin tricks with one hand and carefully looks at the coin in his other hand.
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Post by Slone Halcourt on Apr 16, 2018 14:33:00 GMT -7
As Dethrial is waiting for Selene to respond he feels a surge of sicking blood-lust burst from her and he body tensed up and unnerving quite that followed seemed heavy with ill intent. Dethrial knew what this feeling meant and felt a familiar cold creeping into his mind one that he was more scared of than the girl in front of him. The thought of quickly restraining her to prevent her from harming anyone was soon met with a small voice and forgotten saying her should kill her. The disturbing image of watching her eyes grow cold, her body spamming as her neck was broken then growing still, and the pride and pleasure of defeating a foe began to surge inside his chest. Dethrial let go of Selene after she answered him in a tired voice with a weary smile he quickly walked away his eyes watering and covering his mouth as he felt his stomach churning violently. NO NO NO NO NO, I don't want to be like that any more. But, she's not stable...I'm not so stable is seems either right now either but I need to try and give her a chance. I need to tell the others the truth and maybe we can help her. Dethrial takes a moment to steady himself and pushes away the remaining dark thoughts with a slight smile and walks with the others as if nothing happened.
As Ismay passed him she told him that he was fine and just lacking confidence in his words. With a pat on the back and her warm smile Dethrial felt his spirit lighten considerably and he laughed a bit and smoothed his hair back. "Well, that's a relief I thought I was 'a fish out of water', if that's how the saying goes here. But, thank you and would you like to see the picture of you I drew. Sorry, I kinda do it by instinct with new people because this world moves so fast that people are there and gone in a flash and I like to remember them and I remember best with a picture." Mirth had returned to Dethrial's voice and he was fully engaged with Ismay until they decided to take a break and gather all of their clues Dethrial then turned his attention to Cliff and Rey.
Rey was trying to apologize J and asking him about his dream and Cliff going on about some thing's Selene and he had found was pushing Selene to give up some the items. Selene had then put back on a mask and pretended that she didn't have one of the items that cliff was going on about even though it had caught the attention of Eva and Ismay and her facade seemed playful and even childish. Dethrial sat down next to Ismay and rubbed his chin as he began to sketch a few of the students that passed by but on another page way in the back of his book drew a picture of Selene with here eyes wide crazed and a unhinged grin and as he drew it he felt an chill run down his spine as he covered it. He was going to let the others work this out for now and if need be he'd seize the girl so they could check her bag but other wise he stayed smiling and hoped everything would go smoothly. If I ever see her make this face I might have to kill her...if I can't save her first.
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Post by ★|Sayu on Apr 17, 2018 6:20:38 GMT -7
The evidence is lain out, with exception of the gem which most of the party isn't even sure truly exists. On one hand Cliffs mischievous rogue-like behaviour in the past make it hard to believe whether he isn't messing around or not but on the other hand Selene is, well, a Rogue even if a young one.
The group goes over what is presented. Most of the papers are of no significance, except for a letter and a flyer. The letter is an eviction notice warning that Jules Winter hadn't paid his dues in months and was going to lose his house. Then again his house wasn't anything to marvel at, at least on the inside. Dusty, empty, barely any furniture, almost as if no one actually had lived there. Yet Winters was indeed found there when the group had come to pay him a visit.
The flyer is an advertisement for yesterday's viewing of "the Gates". A doorway that would revolutionize world travel. Those present yesterday distinctly remember Ruhiel and Atsuko going to check it out - It was where they had met Alexander for the first time. Unfortunately, neither of the three were currently anywhere to be found.
The key doesn't really give away anything as to what it belongs to. It could be anything, anywhere.
Lastly the coins. Arguably the most curious item to no one in the room with the sole exception of Rauj. As he plays around with it and twists and turns it in his hand he gets a familiar feeling.
Indeed, this is the very same coin, or perhaps another coin like it, but in the same design. There is no doubt in Rauj's mind as to the similarities.
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Post by ☆|Atrium on Apr 17, 2018 22:49:15 GMT -7
Reymondo looks over at Cliff when he mentions that he and Selene were were able to get some things from Winter's office. He quickly sits up, "Oh yeah! In all the commotion, I had forgotten I asked you two to find any clues!" Rey tilts his head when Cliff brings up a gem that they found but Selene denise having. "Are you sure there isn't a gem Selene?"
As he waits for his answer, he takes a look at the papers, tossing most of them to the side since they were of little interest to him. When he gets to the eviction notice, his eyes widen a bit out of excitement. He then passes it around the group so they can see as well. "It seems odd that a popular professor like Winters would be having a hard time keeping up with his bills. He didn't even seem to have a lot of items in his house that would be taking away from his money. I wonder were all of his money was going..."
Rey trails off as he looks at the flyer that is clearly an advertisement for yesterday's 'The Gates'. He scratches his chin as he thinks for a moment, then puts the flyer down. "This 'Gate' thing keeps popping up. I think it is high time we figure out what the heck this thing is. Maybe the person who made this gate can tell us about the gate that the Alv's used."
He then looks at the key for a few moments before also picking up one of the strange coins. "This key is both interesting and useless. It must go to something that Winters wanted to keep locked, but there is no way of figuring out where it goes. These coins on the other hand. If I were a beating man, I would say that this is the currency that the Alvs use. Winters had to of gone to their homeland in order to piss them off. While he was there, he would of had to buy things, like food and water."
Rey keeps the biggest coin that is there and looks at everyone around him. "What are your thoughts? I would love to hear them."
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Post by waifutrash on Apr 18, 2018 8:13:09 GMT -7
Cliff's teacher once taught him that being a hypocrite was bad. While Cliff failed to see what on earth the word had to do with hippos, he did understand that meant he couldn't get mad at a fellow thief. However, he could be mad at a thief who thought she could get away with it. He swiftly grabbed the bag by the base and lifted it, allowing all the contents to spill out. The pile was larger than expected, almost like the bag was bigger on the inside. Cliff didn't waste a moment thinking about it as he grabbed the gem and immediately tossed it to Ismay.
The doll glared at the rogue with dead eyes. "I am not good with one liners, but to quote my teacher, a wolf in sheep's clothing is a dangerous thing, but a bunny in sheep's clothing is just annoying" Cliff's hostility was merely the result of his frustration and confusion. He had no understanding why Selene would lie right to his face. Perhaps he never will.
He turned back to the rest of the group, giving Selene the cold shoulder. "I'm trusting you won't try to steal that, Mrs. Knight, not with everyone seeing you holding it." He points at the paper "That eviction paper is exactly why this gem is important. Why would he have such an expensive item if he was in dire straights. Why couldn't he just sell it. The gem either has sentimental value or, more likely, magical properties."
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Post by Eva on Apr 18, 2018 20:46:04 GMT -7
"Oh, I don't mind at all sweetie, be my guest." Eva flashes a flirty grin towards Ismay as she sits. It's obvious that Eva has the knight's attention. "Hook, line, and sinker..." Although hopefully she won't need to charm her way out of anything, it's always nice to know who your audience is.
Eva then watches intently as Selene begins pulling out the supposed evidence, although after it's all said and done Eva feels an overwhelming sense of disappoint. To her it appeared to be a bunch of junk, and even worse there was no gem to be found. "Seriously, THIS is what you two went through all that trouble to find? What'd you guys do, go rummaging through his trash can!?"
Thats when a huge a devious smile appeared across her face.
"Ohhhh, I get it now! Were you getting lonely and look for a "friend" Cliff?" Eva starts to giggle like a school girl, clearly entertained with herself. "Hey, It's alright buddy, I totally understand! In fact, I think I know just the thing to cheer you up. I met this FANTASTIC dumpster on the way here. She's a little rough around the edges, but you two have such matching personalities! You'd be the perfect couple! HA!" By this point, Eva is almost rolling out of her seat laughing. "Damn I'm on fire today...metaphorically speaking of course"
Eva continues to laugh, only snapping out of it when Cliff makes a move for Selene's bag and begins dumping out it's contents. That's when she see's IT. "Well, well, what do you have here?" Eva's eyes follow the recently revealed gem as Cliff hands it to Ismay. " So much for honor among thieves... no matter, I need to get a closer look at this beauty. Guess it's time to put my skills to use"
"Ismay, when you're finished holding that little thing, would you mind letting me see it? I've always had such a deep fascination with gem stones, so just getting to hold it would really make my day..." Eva turns her charm on thick, leaning in extremely closely to Ismay.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2018 21:55:15 GMT -7
Selene is a little irritated when the majority seem to be interested in the gem to a point, but the didn't show it. As people begin to move in Selene hears a voice off to her side. She turns to see Ismay. She quickly eyes the woman. How she was dressed and stood she either meant something somewhere, or thought she did. Selene mentally gave her the benefit of the doubt mainly because at this point she has shown nothing but kindness to her. "its nice to meet you Ismay." She says smiling. She puts her hands on her knees and bows in respect. She may be a rogue, but she gives what she gets. When everyone gets to what they want Rauj drolls on about something Selene couldn't understand it if she tried. Either way she listened. She stood patiently as she waited for her moment. Her hand gave off a slight green hue. She smiles at him when he comments on what they found. Hopefully this time he doesn't see this coming. Selene is well aware Rauj is damaged, and she is on the side that hurts. When he finishes his tricks she strikes. She quickly shifts her body and punches with the same motion. She doesn't actually look at him as she does it, but she has an innocent smile. Playful. She pops him in the ribs when he had shown signs of pain (she is healing him). How she makes it look most wouldn't believe what she did, but where there would be pain on top of now more pain there was nothing. Like he was never hurt to begin with. After she does that she waits for his reaction before she turns and looks up at him.
Her eye contact flickers back and forth from him. "Sorry for pouncing on you." She begins to rub her left foot with her right heel. She grabs her left arm nervously. Her head shifts down to break any eye contact what so ever. "I was glad to see you were fine... You gave me food... so..." Her heart rate slowly increases. Not a huge amount but it has gone up. "I fixed it..." She looks up softly smiling. "The pain..." Again she looks back down. "I didn't." She pauses. She now begins to rub her left arm. "I didn't mean to jump like that..." She forces her head back up once more. "What I'm trying to say is I'm so-" She stops abruptly. Her eyes locked on Rauj's, but not from him or anything he did. Her pupils shrink. Visibly. This in when Cliff grabs her bag. It was the noise of everything that hit the floor. Her body snaps in his direction as everything fell out. Everything she has owned is coming crashing down in front of her.
Everything is hitting the floor. Her gun bounces off the table seat. Revolver chambers hit the ground and roll in every direction. Five of them. Extra ammo rods, jewelery, hygienics, a dairy latched shut containing everything she knew about Rauj. Her cloths. Shirts, sweaters, pants, six different shoe types totaling twelve shoes in total. socks, leggings, and her underwear. Everything a girl her age military or not would want guys to see. Let alone the ones she is traveling with. And yes. The gem too. Selene inhales in shock at what the life size porcelain doll just did. There was a pause before Cliff grabs the gem. even if only a second, or half of one. There was a quiet before the storm. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?!?!?!" This wasn't a yell or shriek that she has done in the past day she has know then. It was one a child would do in danger attempting to get the attention on anything to protect them. She yelled so hard it made her dizzy.
She stumbles frantically grabbing the bag as flails to put everything back in. Her face's color is that of a fresh apple. People some distance away would easily be able to see it, and anyone in the immediate vicinity would of hears her. Regardless of them being in a class room. She was most embarrassed she had ever been in her life. Even in the military where some squads would be compared to a frat house full of idiots. They still showed her respect enough to never do something like this. "YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!" She says. She doesn't even acknowledge his half hearted insult. She covers her cloths with the bag as she hops around attempting to grab everything else. She sporadically grabs the diary and stuffs it into the bag. Her face bounces between helpless and angry as once again she fights back tear. Her teeth grit and her lip quivers as she grunts. "I'll kill him. I'll fucking kill him!!" She thinks as tears stream down her face. She continues to shriek obscenities until she grabs everything.
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Post by ☆|Dazai on Apr 19, 2018 14:25:43 GMT -7
“Truly my pleasure.” She smiles warmly at the small rabbit’s polite nature. It was a bit striking to see this group traveling with a child her age. Of course, she likely had her own reason for being here. The knight turns to Dethrial "Ah yes, I'd love to see your work! I hope you touched my looks up a bit!" She gives a small embarrassed laugh.
Having taken her seat, Ismay listens to Rey talk about Winters. She nods at each of his points although there were a few details she didn't seem to know about. She begins to ask a question before Eva begins tearing into Cliff for his… less than pristine nature. Ismay couldn't help but feel a bit disheartened by the girl’s mean-spirited words.
“Eva,” the knight whispers curtly, bumping the bully with her elbow. It was one thing to be cruel to someone based on their actions, but another to openly mock them for things they could not control. It seemed to be Eva’s nature, but maybe Ismay could help keep it in check.
With blinding speed, almost instantly swipes Selene's bag and turns out all of its contents. Ismay gasps at the conviction the doll held in his mechanical eyes. The sheer number of items was only matched by their limitless variety. First her weapon, then ammunition, then intimate items, then finally the gem which was immediately flung in her direction. Ismay catches and immediately gives it a once over, knowing the impending explosion that was going to erupt at any moment. “Very brave. I wouldn't dare.” She replies to Cliff. This gem more or less confirmed Rey’s suspicions about Winters. If he was experimenting on something, she had to assume it was more convenient to make a lab closer to your subjects. More discreet. Easier access.
Like a predator waiting to pounce, Eva quickly invades Ismay’s personal space and solicits the gem. If her previous talk with Eva had left her tripping over herself, the knight seriously feels the pressure now—An unnatural pressure. Any interest she had in examining the gem herself was dangerously close to being superseded by a desire to hand over the gem. Ismay turns to look at Eva in the eyes as she leaned in closer. “Hmm…” Something was definitely strange about this girl.
“All yours.” The knight relents the gem to her charmer. “I’d like to have a little private chat with you later, if you’d indulge me.” She takes the girl's hand in her own and relinquishes the gem before letting go, maintaining eye contact as well as closing their distance even more. She pulls back at the last possible moment if only to prove a point. “Two can play at this game, charmeur.” Eva may have piqued Ismay’s interest, but she wasn't quite so gullible.
“WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?!?!?!”
Ismay quickly gets out of her seat and moves to Selene, in an attempt to defuse the situation. “Cliff,” she emits mature aura. “There are things that… are very personal to girls like us.” She didn’t condemn Cliff, he wasn't wholly in the wrong. It's just that there were certain lines that couldn't be crossed when dealing with a lady, even if Selene had obviously lied about the gem. The investigation was anything but child’s play; Selene probably knew this. The rabbit had her reasons she was sure, however convoluted they may be. She picks up the more embarrassing articles first and places them in the bag while attempting to block the view of the other men in the area. She puts an arm around Selene's shoulder should she not be too out of control. Ismay understands Selene’s reaction, even if her vocabulary was miserable at best.
Once everything in the bag is in order, Ismay kneels down to Selene and speaks quietly. “Selene, why don't we step out for a moment?” Should she agree, Ismay will let the others know that she and the rogue are taking a moment to themselves. If Selene declines, she will simply nod and sit back down.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2018 15:50:47 GMT -7
The thief takes Rey’s reaction to the clues that the pair had located mirthfully, a warm grin casually fading into existence across his features, and though his visor gave a natural cover to his facial features, he didn’t feel the need to cover it up much. Unnatural as it was, what with recent events and having already spent a day in the group’s company, he was beginning to feel a bit comfortable. He listens to the demon hunter’s musing without looking up, for some reason the coins in his hands seemed to be drawing more and more of his attention, pulling on his thoughts as if having difficulty lighting a match on a matchbox.
He makes sure to pay attention a bit more though, when Rey makes some very well thought-out connections. “You’ve got a point there, he didn’t look like he was living a life lavish enough to be blowing the entirety of his more than likely sizeable check on frivolity… Where did it all go indeed…? What was he studying anyway? Did you confirm what he was a professor of while ya’ll were here?” He waits a beat for the response, though he keeps the mention of the Gem cliff mentioned earlier in mind. He follows up any response with, “Personally I think you’re right on the money with the ‘Gate’, Rey; Though I wish we knew where some other Alvs who might be able to guide us in the right direction could be... Get anything on that while you were talking with the Miss?" Another beat... "...As for the key, we could always head back to his place, see if it goes to something there, though I doubt it, considering the ransacking those Alvs we encountered earlier gave it, on-top of police investigation…”
Rauj trails off as he continues to fiddle with one of the coins in his typical manner, the motion, weight and look of the coin cause him to be overwhelmed with a strange sense of familiarity, his facial features contort somewhat as he begins to hard focus on the coins in his hands. His mind flashes back to the heavier metallic body he possessed in his ‘dream’ and he replicates the exact same motion as he had then, slipping said coin into ‘an easy to access area upon his person’ as his thoughts and actions at that time play back like an old movie reel in his head. His eyes light up with the revelation, and just as he turns to mention it to the group, he’s met with an impact that completely catches him off guard, at exactly the same spot he had been nursing from Selene’s earlier tackle. He slides off the bench and whips to face his attacker while crouched, hoping to get some kind of retaliation in before the impending pain caught up with him, but finds himself facing the little rabbit girl once again, a green glow fading from her hand.
His eyes widen, as his fists start to clench, her knowledge of his weakest point at the moment meant he had messed up in covering that, but this betrayal had caught him completely off guard. He’d never think for a moment she would attempt this surrounded by all of these peop- unless they were in on it too. His eyes dart around from place to place, thinking of a getaway route, all his senses directing themselves towards a singular goal, escape. But… no one else was making any motions towards him, in fact Eva in particular seemed to be making quite a bit of fun of the doll, the joke was in poor taste, but still, the thief seemed to be the furthest thing from her mind at the moment, to top it off was Ismay’s more than appropriate response, as expected of the knight at this point in all honesty. Right then, the most important oddity of the entire situation re-entered his mind, the Pain. It was gone. “What? But how? The green glow… Healing?” He stares back at her as the words she was saying finally start to register. She was apologizing. Except, she suddenly stops abruptly as they both turn their attention to a loud sound almost immediately behind her. The entirety of the bunny’s bag had been dumped by the doll in an extremely crude fashion. Given his already excited state, the fact that she had just healed him and was attempting to apologize, and having just met this doll about 5 minutes ago, Rauj finds himself quite pissed at this turn of events. The thief had already prepared himself for the inevitable rage Selene would exhibit momentarily, and instead focuses on the object of interest, A gem about as thick as his thumb, but smaller than the palm of his hand, as it glimmers in overhead passing. He watches it land in the Knight’s hand, already mulling over a way to get it away from her, but finds he doesn’t need to, since her attention is almost immediately stolen by Eva, and she oddly enough hands the gem over... In an embrace close enough to make any passersby think the pair were in a close relationship. He wonders if the two were working together for a moment, as he closes in low, barely noticed due to the majority of the group following the gem as closely as he was, added to him already being low when he was 'attacked' by Selene. He waits for the moment the knight relinquishes her grip on the gem to Eva, her hand that was previously clasped with the young girl’s now lifted up and both the knight and her palm moving away, then he strikes.
He only had a moment before Eva grasped the gem after getting a chance to look at it, and he took every advantage of the two colliding distractions. He breathes in sharply, his hand coiling between the smallest gap between the two and reaching the optimal spot below the young girl’s before he suddenly raised his palm with force along with his body, smacking her hand up a fair distance, and with it, the gem. He pulls his arm away and curls his back with a slight turn to allow his other arm catch to the airborne gem at the peak of it’s rise, snatching it out of the air slightly above her head. A move he had used in similar situations before, though it was more than often followed up with a rather ‘active’ chase. Rather childish, yes, but still as effective as smacking an object out of someone’s hand. He pulls away just as fast and with a spin to realign himself, stopping and huffing slightly before he begins to step towards Selene, needing a moment to remind himself not to take off running as well as breathing out. She kneels a few paces away, now trying to recover her things and he places the gem squarely in her grasp as she picks up her journal, “Please let us look at it at another time.”, he says before standing and walking away a few paces, then turning back to the group, with irritation on the precipice of rage. “The gem is important evidence, yes, but I don’t think we need to bully a child to get our hands on it. I’m sure she knows how important it is and may have been merely playing… a bit too much.” He finishes as his gaze falls back on the crying rabbit for a moment as she scrambles to grab the rest of her things, shrieking obscenities as the Knight assists where she can. He then tilts his head slightly to Cliff, “…and I refuse to teach a ‘thug’ a single thing about how to defend itself.” Almost spitting the words before he refers back to the group while trying to calm himself, “Now though, we should find out more about this ‘Gate’ like Reymundo suggested. Try to stay on task everyone. Don’t be so greedy that one measly gem is enough to send this all spiraling.” “The gem could even be cursed, what with the way everyone seems to want it so bad…” He thinks as he begins to turn away and walk, which makes him consider taking it back from the rabbit girl, but the deed was done, all that was left was to observe he supposed. He stops though, realizing a rather important fact and turns back in Rey’s direction specifically. He scratches his head and mutters “… Where… Exactly is this ‘Gate’ again?”
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Post by Slone Halcourt on Apr 21, 2018 16:18:36 GMT -7
Dethrial gave a warm smile to Ismay's words and thumbed through this sketchbook to find the picture of her and shows it to her while watching for her reaction. The picture has Ismay looking forward giving a friendly smile, her eyes soft, and some wind causes her hair to flow across her face. Dethrial now feels increasingly embarrassed thinking the picture was overly romantic looking. Dethrial pulls his eyes off Ismay to hear Rey and his points and finds that most of them make sense.
Dethrial was then caught off guard as Cliff dumps out Selene's bag and throws a gem to Ismay and at the same time the bunny girl erupts like a active volcano crying and swearing like a sailor. Dethrial stands up immediately and says Selene if he can help and provides to pick up only her less sensation materials and hands them to her. Looking back at Ismay to see how she would handle Cliff's actions. With no surprise she has a mix of shock and concern on her face, and Eva then leans into her and asks for the gem. Dethrial see Ismay hand the gem to Eva with an odd and almost to intimate interaction and J coming up behind them with predatory speed that almost seemed inhuman knocking the gem out of Eva's and and then returning it to Selene and harshly scolds Cliff and tell the rest of the group to calm down. Dethrial is rather shocked at J speed and abilities and makes note of his skill as well as trying his best to not appear hostile to the young woman breaking down in the middle of the hall.
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Post by ☆|Atrium on Apr 22, 2018 0:44:10 GMT -7
Reymondo can only watch in awe as everything plays out in front of him. Enkidu, being right next to Selene while all of this is happening, panics at all the sudden movements and then Selene screaming. The chicken then spit fire in a circle around him, a defensive move that he does to make everyone and everything back away. Rey quickly snaps into action and makes sure none of the papers gets burned up in the birds fire. He then pets the bird to calm him down.
While he is up, he walks behind Cliff and slap him in the back of the head. "The hell is wrong with you man? Sure she had the gem and was lying about it, could you just tell us about it and point out how odd it is that he had it? Instead you have grabbed a woman's bag and bumped out everything she had in there, including the items she would never want other people, let alone other men, to see. You need to learn some tact."
He walks over to Selene, it is very clear he wants to help but he notices both Dethrial and Ismay helping her. So instead he walks over to hammer and talks to him. "I can answer some of those questions. I should of said it in the begin of all of this, my bad. While Eva and I were talking to Professor Lemaire, she told us that there is a place filled with Alvs. It is a tower called Moreau Tower, however I have no idea where it is located. As for Winters, he is a biology professor. And finally I have but one idea where to go to figure out about both the tower and the gates. There is this lady at the front desk that helped me get an AQL. I think she would be able to help us. If she can't, maybe one other people she works with will."
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Post by waifutrash on Apr 22, 2018 20:33:03 GMT -7
"I tried to reason with Selene multiple times over and over. You would've asked for the gem, she would've continue to deny its existence, and there would've been no evidence to convince you to believe me over her. I wanted the gem for myself when I found it, but I put that desire aside for the sake of the case. That's why I gave it to her in the first place. Selene was perfectly willing to lie to all of you and walk off with it, regardless of whether it has any importance to the case. I did what I had to in order to stop her, and I regret nothing. That being said..."
Cliff turns to Ismay.
"I was told that knights were skilled at magic. The entire reason I gave you the gem was so you could analyze it to see if it had any magical properties. That girl you just handed it to pulled out a pipe bomb, threatening to kill multiple students earlier. She's just as trust worthy as Selene. If I were you, I wouldn't hand important items to her in the future."
He takes a moments pause.
"Master, I have a history of lying and stealing myself, but whether it's survival or obtaining my goals, every single one of my actions is done for a reason. I cannot speak on behalf of these girls, but I am not a thug, nor do I act without tact."
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Post by Eva on Apr 22, 2018 23:25:13 GMT -7
"Sure, It'd be my pleasure! There's nothing quite like private time with someone..." Eva responds to Ismay with a mischievous grin,placing her other hand on Ismay leg. "Come to mommy sweetie...wonder how much this beauty would fetch on the black market?" Eva's eyes sparkle like diamonds as Ismay begins to place the gem in her hand. She honestly had no intention of stealing the gem...for now. For starters it'd be suicide to try anything in front of the group without an exit strategy, and second she needed confirmation that it really was evidence that could help lead to Winters's whereabouts. While she could probably make a quick buck flipping the gem, it would only be a fraction of what the Alv's offered her to find the guy. BUT If it were to turnout that it was just an ordinary gem, well, she doubted anyone would miss it. "It doesn't hurt to be thorough..."
Just as the gem was being transferred into her hand, Eva notices movement from her side. Before she even has a chance to react the gem is knocked away from her. In an instant she shoots up from her sitting position, hand moving towards her whip. She had been so caught up with the gem she had let her defenses down. However upon identifying her assailant, she quickly resits the urge to rip his head off and reluctantly stands down. "SHIT" Eva thinks to herself as the gem gracefully lands into Rauj's waiting hand. At first an intense wave of hatred flashes across her face, however Eva quickly collects herself...on the outside at least. "If you were wanting to hold hands darling, all you had to was ask!" Eva says in a flirty fashion. She then sits back on the bench, her arms crossed with a defiant look on her face.
"GAH!!! Who does this loser think her is?" Eva fumed internally. "Such a low life thief!"
Of course, the irony that she herself was a thief trying to steal the gem after it had been stolen by a thief from ANOTHER thief was completely lost on her.
Eva had also been ignoring all the fighting going on between the rabbit girl and the doll. Although she did feel some sympathy for the girl's unmentionables being shown to the world, she also found it slightly hilarious. If she were to say anything, it probably would only escalate the situation further. Besides, once revealed the gem was her main priority, though now it looks like the gem discussion had been forcefully put on the back burner.
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