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Post by ★|Sayu on Feb 3, 2018 14:55:29 GMT -7
Kaavi answers Rey explaining that the language is from ancient times and is believed to be the true origin of chants and writings of various kinds.
They continue to practice until Rey finally summons his fiery demon. "Very good!" She applauds and claps. She studies the demon from a relatively safe distance. "Well, That was a lot faster than most people. You have a real talent for this kind of thing." she circles around the demon to study it from all the angles. "Although, im not entirely sure what type of demon this is but ones with elemental properties are extremely rare to summon."
She then steps besides Rey, ignoring Eva's little freakout. "One thing to note... Since it is relying on your energy to stay in this world your body is constantly supplying it with said energy. If you feel yourself getting weaker that means you've run out of energy for the time being and your demon will retreat back to its pocket dimension until you summon it again. I wouldn't push yourself past exhaustion if I were you, as that can come with pretty severe consequences to both you and your summon."
That thought reminds Reymondo of the half-wraith. His opponent was easily exhausted from the summoning and interrupted at that, making the wraith both ineffective and also a little crippled.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 12:05:40 GMT -7
Selene turns back as she feels the tension or the link loosen in her hands and with a click the cuffs had come off. Well damn she thought. Much to her surprise though, and for the first time today she was hugged. Why does everyone keep doing this? Oh god i knew it. I'm to adorable. She continues to think but it slowly fades to her actually paying attention to what Cliff has to say. As he explains a few bits about his life Selene subconsciously begins to hug him back. Wrapping her arms as much as she could and nuzzling her face into his chest. She didn't know why but she likes this hug the best. After he left go Selene stops forward slightly reaching for him not wanting him to stop, but she sees his focus is on something else. This made her a little down , but she knows she isn't the only thing in people's lives.
She had been so could up with Cliff she actually never noticed what Rey had done. She hides behind Cliff looking past him gripping the back of his shirt. "Rey w-what is that?" Her voice a little worried but not as much as it should be. Her head snaps over to Eva as she shrieks at the creature. "He summoned a demon?" She whispers. But those aren't real. Those were only myths and scary stories! Though with Eva's look it must be real. She looks back up at Cliff as he questions Rey on what he should do. "Cliff...I don't know if we could hurt it..." She lets go with her right hand and reaches into her bag pulling out her gun. Her eyes not locked on this new creature. She stands at the ready to move her gun and fire should anything happen.
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Post by ☆|Atrium on Feb 5, 2018 22:14:13 GMT -7
It had been almost 3 years since Kilixia was first trapped in the pocket dimension, and she had spent nearly every moment of it boiling in her own rage. Her anger was not only directed at her captor, but also at herself. She had let herself get tricked into confinement. Still, she endured it and simply bided her time waiting. Her limbo had taken shape of a room that was similar to her old library, however the books in this place were only filled with the knowledge she already knew. She was unable to read anything new and even less to do other then to read the books she almost knew by heart now. She had started to think that this man would never be able to figure out how to summon her until today. The multiple attempts at freeing her had begun playing with her emotions a bit. At first she was thrilled, but the first few failures had let her down so much that after ten minutes of trying she had lost almost all faith.
It was once she had given up that she suddenly felt something. It was hard for her to describe, but it was almost as if an invisible hand had pierced straight into her chest, and grabbed her by the heart. Before she could prepare herself she felt like she was being pulled by the hand that had grabbed onto her heart. She wanted to resist, due to an instinctual fear, but before she could even make the attempt, she was being hurled through what seemed like another dimension. A full spectrum of colors shot past her in the blink of an eye, and was soon replaced by a blinding white light. The light soon started to shift into a yellow, and then an orange. It took her a moment to realize, but it soon occurred to her that the yellow and orange lights were in fact an explosion. For her the explosion seemed to be happening in slow motion, as if time around her was struggling to catch up to her. Once it did though, she found herself standing in a unfamiliar room, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, except for one.
She stood where the explosion took place almost completely motionless for a few minutes. Her eyes slowly shifted around as she examined the room she was in. Only those who were paying extra close attention to her would notice a bit of steam rising from under her eyes. She took a deep breath, and exhaled it which caused a stream of fire to billow from her lips, though it would dissipate a few inches away from her face. After she exhaled, her head slowly rolled across her shoulder until her face was tilted in Rey's direction, and in low, emotionless tone she simply stated.
"It's colder out here."
Reymondo gasp when he sees the demon he has summoned, he wasn't expecting her to look pretty, beautiful even. He slowly walks over to her, but he quickly looks over at Eva as she screams at him. "I'm sorry Eva. An ice demon wouldn't be useful for me. I promise that she will not harm you."
He then looks over at Cliff and motions for him to put his wire down."There is no need for that. I brought her here on my own. There is no need to harm her, she is here to help us."
Rey then looks over at Kaavi. "I should of made sure before summoning her, but she is unable to bring harm to me correct? Since I am her summoner and her connection to this world and not being trapped forever in her pocket dimension."
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Post by waifutrash on Feb 5, 2018 22:43:39 GMT -7
Cliff found this rather inconvenient. He had just got himself a new job, and already, he was being replaced by a being who could be some anywhere at anytime at the beck and call of his new master, AND she had fire hair. Cliff did not have fire hair, and setting his hair on fire would most likely cause unnecessary damage. He had to one up this demon to cement his role as head servant. He puts away his piano wire and approaches the demon. Then, he takes off his robe and wraps it around her. She was complaining about how cold it was. Cliff circled her, inspecting her, or at least, pretending to inspect her like a real butler would. He then gives a gentlemanly bow, or at least his imitation of one.
"Greetings celestial being, you know have the honor of serving my master as servant of the House of my master's last name"
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Post by Eva on Feb 6, 2018 19:49:07 GMT -7
"C-calm down, just don't look at...at IT" Eva panics to herself. Without realizing what she's done, instinctively Eva has wedged herself as far into a corner of the room as she can get. "J-just focus on Rey, and try to not make a scene". Trying her best to avoid making any visual contact with the Demon, she looks at Rey and speaks to him.
"G-geez Rey, I mean, I knew you were into hot women, but this is just ridiculous!" Eva says sarcastically with some false bravado, but obviously she is still very much on edge. In fact, she has some how managed to push herself even farther into the corner. Eva can feel the heat from the demon's flames wash over her in waves. It sends chills down her spine and makes her nauseated. "Fuck fire, as if his stupid bird wasn't enough..."
"B-besides Rey..." she says still trying to calm down "...I bet I give better hugs than her! In fact, if you make her go away maybe I'll give you one now!" She says jokingly, although part of her is hoping he'll actually take the offer.
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Post by ★|Sayu on Feb 7, 2018 15:20:42 GMT -7
"Curious." Kaavi muses over the demon. "Ah, yes. I mean... no." she rubs the side of her neck to alleviate some of the aches of overworking herself. "There's only ever been a few cases where summons were able to disobey their master. At worst some of them might not be happy about the summoning but the only cases where any detrimental harm came to their summoners was when they abused empowered catalysts to attempt and summon creatures far beyond their control that were so powerful they could sustain themselves without any link to a summoner."
She shrugs casually and continues to circle around the Demon to examine her. "She's certainly not the strongest out there, you should have an easy time controlling her."
A chime then rings through the room and Kaavi instinctively pulls out her AQL to examine it. "A moment, please." She turns, although more to distract herself from studying the demon in order to have a proper conversation than to be in private.
"Yes, this is Kaavi Treis?" A moment goes by of her nodding. "Oh, right. Of course." After a bit of back and forth she turns off the AQL with a swipe down the middle.
"Well," she slides the AQL in her pocket and walks over to Rey as she explains; "Looks like I've got more work to do. I trust you'll be able to find your way around yourself? Oh- And, no summons in the halls or on academy grounds. In fact- You're probably better off not having your summon run around with you at all times both for your own stamina's and the city guard's mental states sake."
She then stops abruptly, remembering now about Winters. "Oh... that's right..." she scratches the back of her head. "I'm honestly not sure about what happened to winters, but he was a huge asset to the academy. If you have the time, I would like you to try and find out what happened to him and I would be willing to offer you a reward for any conclusive information." she pinches the bridge of her nose, clearly somewhat exhausted. "You mentioned... uh... gates? You should check in with Professor Lemaire. If she's not teaching classes in Hall C she should be either in her quarters or her office, both in hall A."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 23:10:00 GMT -7
Selene stood tall even though she was scared. Which wasn't an emotion she felt often. Mainly because she had no idea how to handle this situation. These type of things were discussed when she was active in duty. Hell maybe even taught to her, but she never took it seriously. She didn't believe something like this was real. She was aimed at the creatures head. The center of the cross-hair was smack in the middle. When it spoke though she had to mentally agree with it. It was indeed cold. Selene was usually cold because of her size. Hence why she wore so much. Even though they shared a common though her finger was still on the trigger. What confused her greatly though was that Cliff was offering it his coat. Is he serious? She thought. Even if he doesn't know what that thing is he still knows what fire is right?? RIGHT??? She questions as if she actually had the answer.
Her eyes wandered though. Off to the side. Towards Eva. Her panicking from the fire was slightly amusing to Selene. So she hates fire huh? She grins. Then I have something for her sometime. Her grin was quite viable from Eva's perspective. Selene doesn't quite notice because of her space out. She snaps back though as Eva almost tries to entice Rey to not only un-summon the demon but give her a hug because she does it better? Selene's eyebrow raises when she says this. Floozy... She thinks. Selene's expression turns sower as she rolls her eyes and looks back at the demon. She chimes back in as the other woman talks about winter again. "Why is everyone so obsessed with that damn season? Its to cold." Her body slightly relaxes as nothing seems to be happening with this new creature. However she is still ready to shoot if the need arises.
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Post by ☆|Atrium on Feb 8, 2018 23:06:53 GMT -7
Kilixia stares blankly at the doll as it walks closer to her and puts jacket on her. She frowns a bit and after a few seconds people can see smoke starting to rise from the jacket. Not needing or wanting the jacket, she shrugs it off and hands it back. "I have no need for such things but thank you. However I need to correct you. I am far from celestial, I'm a demon of knowledge. There is no honor in serving this man." She exhales sharply and stares at the rouge that has a gun pointed at her. "You would be doing me a favor if you shot me. I am here against my will and forced to help that man." She then glares at Rey.
Reymondo thanks Kaavi as she leaves. "I promise you that I will find Winters." He then looks at Kilixia and smiles brightly. "I am very happy to finally met you face to face. I know you must really not like me. I have had you trapped for such a long time, but I swear I was trying to figure out how to summon you. However we can chat later." Rey focuses for a bit and then Kilixia implodes as she disappears from this dimension.
Rey then claps his hands and looks about the room. "So, as you can see I can now summon a demon. I am sorry that I wasn't upfront about wanting to learn this but I really didn't want people telling me about how much of a bad idea it is." As he is speaking, he walks over to Cliff's jacket that is slightly burned. "Sorry about that. I will look into getting you better jacket...and just some better clothing in general."
He then starts to walk to the door to leave. He waits in front of the door. "If anyone has any questions, ask now. If not, I would really like to go meet this person Kaavi was talking about."
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Post by waifutrash on Feb 9, 2018 10:41:51 GMT -7
"I will wear whatever you order me to wear, but you have no need to buy clothes for my sake." Cliff was somewhat happy. The fact that Reymondo would worry about something as trivial as Cliff's clothes did imply he had no intent of replacing Cliff. He put his Robe back on, completely ignoring the scalding heat after it was cooked by the demon's skin.
"Apologies, but I will only kill you if my master orders me to do so, and so far, he has given no implications of such desires. Even if he did give the order, I do not possess any tools that would make the process quick or painless." Cliff wanted Kilixia to stay around as long as possible as long as it didn't put too much exhaustion on Reymondo. Eva was very unnerved by Kilixia's presence. This was good because Cliff did not like Eva.
"Master, is there any way for this demon to assist us in locating Mr. Winters? If not, shall I join you in your meeting with Professor Lemaire?" Cliff was very interested in receiving pay for finding Winters, but he did not want to make it obvious.
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Post by Eva on Feb 10, 2018 2:30:18 GMT -7
Though not entirely comfortable Eva is calming down slowly, with her ears perking up when Kaavi mentions Winters and more importantly a reward. "Reward huh? Wonder if its better than what the Alves offered for Winters..." Eva ponders this for a moment, before being shocked back to reality by the demon imploding.
Eva promptly freaks out again, although this time in anger rather than fear due to the demon vanishing. After punching various walls and a brief scuffle with a chair (Well, half a chair now), Eva turns her attention to Rey. Once done screaming and yelling various curse words towards her dear "Brother", Eva goes completely blank for a second, not moving a muscle before snapping out of it and calming back down.
Sort of.
As she walks towards the door she acknowledges Rey's request for questions. Eva smiles with a very happy demeanor about her. Its an unsettling contrast to her previous state."Nope, no questions! Oh, I do have one teeny tiny request though, next time you wanna bring THAT thing out again, I suggest you make sure I am not within a 100ft radius, or fire lady won't be the only person exploding". Eva lets out a laugh and gives Rey and uncomfortably tight hug.
Clearly this ordeal has left Eva in a unbalanced mental state. Well, at least slightly more than usual. Until she gets some rest, she might be a...crazy.
It would probably be advised to keep her away from guns, swords, knives, gunswords, weapons grade explosives, spoons...basically anything that can be used as a weapon.
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Post by ★|Sayu on Feb 10, 2018 18:13:12 GMT -7
Happy that Rey agrees to help, Kaavi thanks him and excuses herself. "You're welcome to call my AQL anytime, if you need anything." she lets him know before she heads out. Fortunately for the rest of the group she doesn't see Eva's outburst as she makes her way out of the room.
Once again the group is left to it's own devices to decide where to go from here-on out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2018 12:38:55 GMT -7
Seeing the coat burn on the demon was exactly as Selene expected. Though she was confused as to why Rey would pay for another. She could just steal him one. Its much easier and it costs less. The episode Eva was having was both annoying as it was amusing. The fear of fire the girl had Selene found very funny. As she lowers her gun she lets out an audible laugh as she shakes her head. The burnt chair and her tone of voice and actions towards Rey over fire. Everyone has fears but she was blowing it out of proportion. She was interested in seeing about winter and she still had a mission so Selene was going to stay with them. For now. She puts away her gun and walks over to everyone. "Well I'll be in the hall when everyone is ready." She takes a step then looks back as Eva. Selene was smiling, but she was smiling because she was trying to to laugh at the girls freak out. She shakes her head and walks out in the hall.
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Post by ☆|Atrium on Feb 11, 2018 22:55:17 GMT -7
Reymond couldn't help but be a bit perplexed at Cliff. "I am not going to order you to wear anything you don't want. Just because I hired you doesn't mean you are bond to me or my slave. You are still a free man and can say no to me if you don't like something I say or do." He then pats the doll on the shoulder. "As for Kilixia, no. She will not be able to help us find Winters. Her knowledge mostly is based on things to do with demons and their kind. As for you joining, I would like that. Just do me a favor and not steal anything from anyone while we are on the way there. I would much rather not get kicked out or baned from this place. This is a good place for people to owe you favors, if you understand what I am saying."
After that, Rey watches Eva have a meltdown. He had hoped that in her years of travel, she would of gotten somewhat over her fear of fire. He had thought she was getting better seeings how she had to get used to it with traveling with him. He lets out a sigh as she walks over to him and before he lets her walk past him, he gives her a hug. "I am sorry sis. I didn't mean to scare you..." But as soon as he is holding her, he moves his head to her ear so that only she can hear him. "You know very well what my magic is and how I fight. If I need her, I am going to summon her. You need to knock this crap off. I don't know what your mission is or why you are here but I will not have you ruin my chance at finding Winters!" Rey's normally calm and happy eyes are as cold as ice as he whispers to Eva and looks at her. He then lets her go and quickly returns to his happy self. He then kisses the side of her cheek like a brother would to his sister. "I promise everything will be ok." He says with a smile before letting her go.
Once everyone is out of the room and are ready to leave, He will follow them as they head down the hall.
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Post by waifutrash on Feb 12, 2018 16:32:24 GMT -7
"I may be free, but as my teacher once said, all free beings, human, doll, or otherwise, should have raison d'être, master. Money is not the only reason I wish to serve you. It would be nice feel needed once more. You do not need to worry about my well being. As long as your orders do not conflict with my goal of acquiring upgrades, I will follow your orders faithfully." Cliff pulls out his lock pick set and swallows. "However, if you would like to discretely order me to steal something, mention the item you wish for me to steal in a sentence, then wink three times with your left eye."
Cliff takes a swift glance at Eva.
"By the way master. Before we leave to investigate the disappearance of Mr. Winters, I should draw attention to your sister's short temper. I assume you are bounty hunters based on the weaponry all of you carry. If she has an emotional outburst like this in the middle of combat, it could put you in harm's way. I would strongly recommend the use of exposure therapy to cure her fear of fire."
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Post by Eva on Feb 13, 2018 14:22:20 GMT -7
Eva seems to snap out of it a little after Rey's talking with her. "A-alright...fine, I'll calm down" she says before quickly flashing a grin. "What's wrong big brother, afraid to kiss little sister on the lips? I swear I don't have cooties or anything!' Eva starts snickering before leaning into Rey, "Besides, how am I supposed to know if you've gotten any better at kissing girls? For both our sakes I hope you have..."
Eva then hears Cliffs suggestion and turns a slightly pale again. "And I would strongly suggest we tear you apart limb from limb and sell off whatever valuables you have. See, other people can make suggestions too you know!" Eva sticks her tongue out at Cliff after saying this.
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