You have just entered room "hotbuns."
blender_bunny@mac.com: As the doomed Marius fell to the ground the entire swamp began to stir with life as dozens of gods swarmed forward to assault the primordial being.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The Masked King strutted forward shouting well...shouting as his loyal subjects swarmed forward to meet the yozombis and the massive shuddering form as well.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: Oh you tricky fucker.
Lithaladhwen: Tassi pulls a flask from her waist and takes a swig of it before holding out to Ode. "No matter what happens... I think a bit of what my father called liquid courage will do us a world of good."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu smiled. Damn straight.
MischiefMink: "Indeed," Ode said, accepting the flask. Tilting her mask up for just a second, she took a deep swig and then replaced it, wincing a little at the strength of the drink, before handing the flask back to Tassi.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The king strutted forward still shouting, his voice was much less like an angry god being and more like rain falling as he waved his scepter to and fro.
DancerVeiled: Ayame grinned, "Say the end to your Yozombi army!"
Raiden sparx: Tomasu looked back at Ayame and kaiser. "Those things are on our side, right?"
DancerVeiled: "Most likely. They're not undead..." Ayame raises an eyebrow, "They look kinda silly, like the chogos."
Lithaladhwen: Tassi took it back and screwed the cap back on, replacing it to its position of honor at her side where most normal warriors would carry a weapon.
Raiden sparx: "....where are the chogos?" You never wanted to lose place of those things.
Jukkaimaru has entered the room.
DancerVeiled: "Somewhere..." Ayame says unassuredly, as if she sort of knows...
MischiefMink: As Tassi put her flask away, Ode moved over to the controls again. She played with various knobs and levers for a moment. "If things work out right..." she murmured, "this should let us see... ah, there."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu stood back, his anima still in full flare, the dragon of his soul hiding in the shadow from the sun. He stood to watch the gods and see what they could do.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The yozi rumbled, apparently ancient beings did not like their plans being handed to them smashed and broken.
blender_bunny@mac.com: It's form shifted as stone columns formed to fall upon godlings and glass windows shattered cleaving through divine flesh.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: I am soooooo going smash a bitch.
Raiden sparx: ...your voice is annoying. You know that? Has that high screech that always seems to end with a question.
DancerVeiled: "Ah, Tomasu..." Ayame says, "The Yozi is... Collapsing."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Well at least mine changes tone at will, little mister finite being.
Raiden sparx: Said the falling obelisk. "I think it's just attacking, Ayame. I doubt he'd just fall over."
DancerVeiled: "Well, yes. But should we attack?"
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's eyes narrowed at the tower. He had spent a lot of essence. "....yes. Lets."
blender_bunny@mac.com: A brick shot out to smash a bird out of the sky.
Raiden sparx: "....Lunars first."
blender_bunny@mac.com: You know what? I'm sick of your tone, your plans, and I AM NOT A PLAYA HATA!
Raiden sparx: "I think the thing has a stink on me."
DancerVeiled: Ayame gripped her hammer tightly, and held it close to her. She grinned coldly. "Tower tower, little bricks... Let us see you withstand the sledgehammer."
blender_bunny@mac.com: The Yozi spread out in all directions, like a city sprouting from the muck and water. Where godlings and spirits fell, statues raised to the victory.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Every death left the swamp feeling a little drabber, every flower a little grayer.
MischiefMink: Ode frowned as she watched the panel before her... the shifting, flickering colors were beginning to fade as the darker essence of the yozi spread out.
MischiefMink: "...they're fading..." she said softly. "That can't be good."
Raiden sparx: "Shit." Tomasu's essence began to manifest again, the wings of the dragon in his anima spreading and wrapping about his body, signifying the activation of HGD.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The Solars and their lunar companion were lucky enough to avoid the barrage of various structural pieces as they began to shift and become woods and clays of steep dividing mountains.
Lithaladhwen: Tassi watched over Ode's shoulder, afraid to touch anything by accident lest she blow up their corner of the universe or something. "I don't think so, no. What can we do? Should we go?"
DancerVeiled: Ayame and Kaiser avoid the barrage of structure within the spontaneously occuring valley.
Raiden sparx: The rubble bounces off the wings of the dragon, keeping Tomasu safe inside the shell.
MischiefMink: "...I'm not sure," Ode said. "I think maybe we should. There doesn't seem to be much else we can do from here.
MischiefMink: I don't want to drag Hiyoko into this mess... but we can't leave her here alone either."
Lithaladhwen: "I agree. I..." Tassi looked down at the child holding her hand. "I think... I think we aren't exactly safe here, either."
blender_bunny@mac.com: The avalanche of materials rumbled onward an all devouring wall dividing comrade from comrade.
MischiefMink: The ground began to rumble under Ode and Tassi's feet, and Ode looked back to the screen. "Shit!" she muttered. "No, you're right. We aren't safe here. Looks like our choice has been made for us."
Lithaladhwen: Tassi picked up Hiyoko again, feeling a little guilty that the poor thing was being carted all over the swamp by Yozi-battle maniacs. "I don't know how much help we'll be away from the others."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu watched the onslaught. "...I think we pissed it off."
DancerVeiled: "No doubt..." Ayame affirms, also watching the onslaught... In a very... confused manner.
MischiefMink: "Yes. We've done all we can here. Come on," Ode said. Stepping close to Tassi, she put her hands on the other woman's shoulders.
MischiefMink: "Make sure you hold tight to Hiyoko," she said. "This is... probably going to be pretty weird."
Lithaladhwen: Tassi blinked and made a conscious decision not to question her friend. She simply did as she was told and held on to the child.
MischiefMink: Suddenly the world shifted and blurred around them, swirling and tilting as if the world they were inside had just been shaken and was now filled with small falling glittering things.
MischiefMink: Then, just as suddenly, the world snapped back into place, and the two found themselves standing next to the rest of the party.
DancerVeiled: "What the fuck!?!" Ayame yells in suprise, as Ode and Tassi, and the little child phase into reality nearby.
Lithaladhwen: "......." Tassi started to blink and failed. Then she succeeded. Then succeeded in blinking one more time.
Lithaladhwen: Then she said nothing and only nodded to herself.
Raiden sparx: "Two people teleported right beside us?"
Raiden sparx: "...I believe it."
MischiefMink: "Don't ask," Ode said. To herself she thought, Even I don't really know what the hell I just did...
DancerVeiled: "... Three people, Tomasu."
Lithaladhwen: Ode did something. I'm sure people feel the same way watching me do multiple births, Tassi thought. Best not to question it.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The yozi wave passed and began to subside into nothing, there they sat in the remains of what was once a swamp.
blender_bunny@mac.com: the remains of Ode's army wandering about wounded some slowly fading away as their true defining purpose was destroyed in the Yozi's final attack
Raiden sparx: Tomasu whispered up to Ayame. "Between you and me...I have some hesitations on Ode."
DancerVeiled: "No kidding..." Ayame whispers back, "She doesn't wear a cape..." and then winked with a "hahahaa!" grin at Tomasu.
blender_bunny@mac.com: There is a definite lack of Chogos in the area, but a very unpleasant looking Lion-dog is laying on a smashed tree.
Raiden sparx: "Hey...there's that Celestion Lion that went to eat Marius. But...where are the cheerleaders?"
Lithaladhwen: Tassi looked over to Ode, since following her lead had gone well so far. "Ode, would it do any good if I did a check for wounded? I mean, in the slightest?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: The Lion-dog gives Tomasu the kind of look that melts steel then goes back to lying down and eventually just starts licking himself instead.
DancerVeiled: "Where's Tomasu's men?" Ayame asks.
Raiden sparx: "......they were left at the manse..."
DancerVeiled: "... Which explode."
DancerVeiled: "Exploded, right?"
Raiden sparx: "......................."
MischiefMink: "You can check..." Ode said. "But I'd be careful. I'm not sure this is over... and even if it is... I think we want to be getting out of here very soon."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu took off running.
DancerVeiled: "Why else would Ode be here?"
DancerVeiled: Ayame looks at Ode, then at Tassi, then at Tomasu, then at Ode....
DancerVeiled: "Gorramit!"
MischiefMink: Ode looked at Ayame. "We came to help... but maybe it wasn't needed after all."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu is busy rushing toward where the Manse was, running as fast as he could.
DancerVeiled: "Okay... We're gonna stay here, and..." Ayame looks around, at the gone!spirits, the Yozi, Tomasu...
DancerVeiled: "Not panic, okay?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: The manse is easy to locate as it's the only giant tree still standing at more than a 50 degree angle. The entrance is completely grown over with massive flowers of the most vibrant blues and reds.
MischiefMink: Ode nods. "And we should get ready to leave, as soon as we can."
blender_bunny@mac.com: The swamp certainly seems sunnier and a nicer place to be, but most places are when their canopy and animal life has been completely ripped to pieces.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu sped for the manse, yelling the names of his men as he went. "JAMES! CRAIG! TIM! AARON! CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
DancerVeiled: "Leave? But... The Yozi!" Ayame exclaims, "Can't we... You know?"
DancerVeiled: "Put it back?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Tomasu: There is an old man sitting on the top of the manse smiling pleasantly to himself, the top of his head has a large bruise on it.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu skidded to a stop, looking up at the old man. "Hey! You! Up there!"
blender_bunny@mac.com: He waved back down.
DancerVeiled: "Ode, Yozi! Plan!" Ayame says, frantically making confused hand-signs and trying to get a plan from Ode, since she obviously didn't have one herself.
Raiden sparx: "Who are you?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: "A baker."
DancerVeiled: "Need a plan..." She scratches her head, looking around...
Raiden sparx: "Oh? Why are you up on top of the manse?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: "Sitting."
Lithaladhwen: "I'm sorry I can't be more help. All we could do was send some reinforcements to you if we could, and even that was mostly Ode, I'm afraid." Tassi sighed. "Is everyone all right?"
Raiden sparx: "Do you know if there are any men around here?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: "I know there is cocoa in the manse."
MischiefMink: Ode shook her head. "A plan? The only plan I have right now is to get out of here.
DancerVeiled: "... We're all right, sans Tomasu's men, and... Whatever just attacked the Yozi..." Ayame says, taking stock. She checks her fingers, too, just to make sure they're all present.
Raiden sparx: "But what about humans?"
DancerVeiled: "Yeah. We should be good... But leave? What's to say it won't get bigger?"
MischiefMink: "The spirits of the swamp attacked the yozi. They seem to have subdued it now... If it sleeps, and nothing disturbs it... I don't think it will."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "Oh there were soldiers, they got what's coming to them though." He nodded and hopped off, disappearing into nothing as he did. The entrance is still covered in the thick vines and flowers
Raiden sparx: "They...they what?! What did they get?" Tomasu tries to grab the vines and tear them off.
DancerVeiled: "Subdued it, eh?" the dawn raises an eyebrow, "Okay... Whatever you say... Let's wait for Tomasu, and then get out of here..."
DancerVeiled: She didn't want to admit she didn't know hardly anything about Spirits and their interactions with Yozis, but Ode had a mask, and she looked like she knew what she was doing.,
blender_bunny@mac.com: As he tears them away a yellow mask falls from the vines and they die away.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu looked down at the mask, picking it up and looking it over.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The way to the interior of the manse is now open.
blender_bunny@mac.com: It smells like chocolate.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu heads inside, holding the mask as he follows the smell, looking for his men.
Raiden sparx has left the room.
Raiden sparx has entered the room.
blender_bunny@mac.com: He finds them sitting in a circle in each of their hands a cup of dark hot chocolate."What took you so long :D?" Star popped up"We made hot chocolate!"
blender_bunny@mac.com: "I spilt mine.... D:"
MischiefMink: Ode looked out over the swamp, trying to sort things out. "In any case... we've probably stopped those that were taking people from the village...
Raiden sparx: "......guys? You're alright?"
Lithaladhwen: "That was really my prime concern. Sometimes I worry that nobody worries about mortals anymore. It was good to find the lot of you here. At least that way I could try and be of some help."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "We certainly aren't not alright.""Nor are we un-okay.""Or very very not-good bad terrible."
blender_bunny@mac.com: ...Well the chogos were psychologically untouched.
DancerVeiled: "Yeah. That's good..." Ayame shoots a thumbs up, "Let's get out of here, then?"
Raiden sparx: "And my men?"
MischiefMink: Though it didn't give me the answers I was looking for... she thought. Damn spirits, dragging me into things again.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The men give their commander the thumbs up.
Lithaladhwen: "I agree. I think this little one has had enough and deserves some peace and quiet if at all possible," Tassi said with a nod down to Hiyoko.
MischiefMink: "Yes. As soon as Tomasu gets back, we'll go. We should probably discuss what's happened anyway..."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Hiyko smiled. "...Does this mean I can go home?"
MischiefMink: Ode smiled. "And yes, we should get Hiyoko back to her home."
Lithaladhwen: "I certainly wouldn't keep you here for the world, dearest," Tassi replied.
Lithaladhwen: "Ode, where does she live?"
MischiefMink: "I'm afraid I don't know... you'll have to guide us there," Ode said to Hiyoko. "But you can do that, right? And I'm sure your family will be happy to see you."
Raiden sparx: Tomasu gave out a deep breath. "Alright. Enough hot cocoa. Grab your things and move out."
DancerVeiled: "... Saving the world is great and all, but it's really... Icky." Ayame sighs, futily trying to brush the swamp-goo off of her buff jacket.
DancerVeiled: She's obviously sarcastic, but also honest!
blender_bunny@mac.com: "SIR! YES, SIR!" The men began to scramble to collect their things. "Sir? An elderly man brought this for you." The soldier gave him the simple rice-paper package.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu, meanwhile, pulls another cape out of the supplies.
Lithaladhwen: Tassi laughed. "You won't hear any argument from me on that. I think if my life involves one more swamp mission, I'll go completely crackers."
MischiefMink: Ode chuckled. "I know. ...you're probably better off trying to get some new clothes. This muck takes forever to get out."
Raiden sparx: He felt naked without one.
Raiden sparx: After putting on his cape, he took the package. "For me?"
DancerVeiled: "Hey, that's right." Ayame grins at Ode, "Tomasu said he'd buy me new clothes for this."
blender_bunny@mac.com: It has a tiny note written on it.
DancerVeiled: "And probably a cape, too. He has enough of them..."
MischiefMink: "Well there you go," Ode said. "...what is his fascination with the capes, anyway?"
Raiden sparx: Tomasu flips up the note, looking it over.
DancerVeiled: "Some masculine thing, I bet." She shrugs, "Either that or it's a realm thing."
blender_bunny@mac.com: 'Every great hero needs a good breakfast.' the note reads.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu looks around, then peels off the rice paper.
MischiefMink: Ode shrugs. "I suppose. He's certainly taking long enough getting back. The manse wasn't that far away."
blender_bunny@mac.com: It is a simple bun, still warm with honey dabbed on the top of it.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu felt like this was an epic moment.
DancerVeiled: "Maybe he tripped and drowned? ... Should we go look for him?" Ayame asks, with a hint of concern.
Raiden sparx: He held the warm bun in his hand, and slowly held it up before his face, the beam of light coming through the manse lighting the honey glaze.
Lithaladhwen: "I wouldn't be averse. If you're concerned, I'll go with you."
DancerVeiled: "Better than standing knee-deep in muck."
DancerVeiled: "Is MARCHING knee-deep in muck..." Ayame grumbles, hefting her hammer.
MischiefMink: Ode was going to say that they might as well wait where Tomasu was sure to find them, but since the others seemed to agree...
MischiefMink: "I suppose we might as well then," she said.
Lithaladhwen: Tassi nodded and set off after her. "We'll go there and return Hiyoko back home where she belongs as soon as we've got everyone together, then."
blender_bunny@mac.com: Kaiser goes to act curmudgeonly with the Lion-Dog
DancerVeiled: Ayame is no longer surfing.
Raiden sparx: And Tomasu takes a bite of the bun.
Raiden sparx: And his tongue finds Yu Shan.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Kejak recovers from his shock of the tongue emerging from his morning newspaper, he'd seen stranger things.
blender_bunny@mac.com: END CHAPTER 1
DancerVeiled: DUN DUN DUNNNN.
MischiefMink: Hehe. Next week, on Hot Buns!
Lithaladhwen: Log two hundred!
Lithaladhwen: Yay!
MischiefMink: EVERYONE: Ode, what the fuck just happened back there?
Raiden sparx: OOC chat hates me.
DancerVeiled: Ayame: This is remarkable surreal.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Oh
Raiden sparx: Tomasu: OMG!
blender_bunny@mac.com: Okay so you guys have the option of downtime
Lithaladhwen: *ahem* Font.
DancerVeiled: Kejak: "Why is there a tounge in my newspaper?!"
DancerVeiled: Downtime... In which we could...
blender_bunny@mac.com: Raise your essence score, train, gain new backgrounds, ect
DancerVeiled: Ah, yes.
Raiden sparx: How much XP?
MischiefMink: And Ode will have lots of crazy dreams. XD
blender_bunny@mac.com: 20 xp for completion, 4 xp for sweet arts
Raiden sparx: WOOOOT!
Raiden sparx: Essence 4!
DancerVeiled: Stunt bonus? XD >.>
DancerVeiled: And yes, I want ess4 also. XD
Jukkaimaru: XD
Raiden sparx: We can get Essence 4 without training, because we fucked with a goddamn Yozi.
blender_bunny@mac.com: I added the stunt bonus in danca =p
DancerVeiled: XD Alrighty.
blender_bunny@mac.com: I just gave 2 additional xp instead of giving 18
DancerVeiled: Righto.
DancerVeiled: *Laughs*
DancerVeiled: Or rather, the Yozi fucked with us.
MischiefMink: hehe
blender_bunny@mac.com: So yeah anyone wanting to raise essence ect
blender_bunny@mac.com: This is the time to do it
MischiefMink: Cool
DancerVeiled: *GETS ESS4*
Lithaladhwen: I... huh. I see.
MischiefMink: I guess what I was asking was, how much of this will be RP'd out?
DancerVeiled: And while I'm at it, I can snag Invincible fury.
Raiden sparx: It's dangerous out there. Take this.
Raiden sparx: *You Gained Essence 4*
Jukkaimaru: (QUEST COMPLETE NOISE!)
MischiefMink: *Final Fantasy victory theme plays*
blender_bunny@mac.com: Essence 5 won't come for fucking ever =p
DancerVeiled: XD
Jukkaimaru: XD
blender_bunny@mac.com: Anyways yeah, congrats!
blender_bunny@mac.com: Sleep or do what ever
Raiden sparx: *is now essence 4*
Lithaladhwen: Hurrah.
MischiefMink: Cool
MischiefMink: I'll talk to you about crazy stuff for Ode later, BB
Raiden sparx: This means I need to redo my essence counts.
DancerVeiled: *Ess4 with InvFury* =D
Raiden sparx: I can get Tiger Warrior Training!
DancerVeiled: Well, I'm sleeping. BOOMF!
DancerVeiled has left the room.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Next session will be the dreaded character interaction
MischiefMink: Oooooh
Lithaladhwen: Yay!
MischiefMink: Everybody can comment on how weird Ode is then. X3
Lithaladhwen: I can do that! I don't have to know the system for that!
MischiefMink: woo!
blender_bunny@mac.com: Hahaha
Lithaladhwen: Tassi doesn't think Ode is weird. And she'll smack anyone with a ruler who says so. *scowl*
blender_bunny@mac.com: Hope you are all enjoying it
MischiefMink: Well, Tassi has some experience with Ode
Raiden sparx: And Tomasu will show up wearing the mask!
MischiefMink: The others are like "...mkay, weird mask, talks to spirits...randomly teleports places..."
blender_bunny@mac.com: And Ode gets to start unravelling the mystery of the things that are after her
MischiefMink: :O!
MischiefMink: Key word there is "to start" methinks
blender_bunny@mac.com: Indeed
MischiefMink: hehehe
Lithaladhwen: So are we sticking with Thursdays?
blender_bunny@mac.com: At some point I was thinking about getting Tommy boy to see grampapapa
blender_bunny@mac.com: I think so
Raiden sparx: ...........
Raiden sparx: shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
Raiden sparx: We're gonna get so raped.
Jukkaimaru has left the room.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Okay going go focus on other things now, hope you are on the edge of your seats!
blender_bunny@mac.com has left the room.
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