Mellissandria

Nice take on the hair..looks almost like flames.

That's really a nice piece, LJ.

(been wanting to write this for sometime, and finally posting this. I think this is the first time I've posted one of my stories here in this forum though. Hope you guys don't mind.)

The dark haired woman ran, clutching her backpack, dodging Rikti ray guns and bombs, dodging panicking people and the odd hero who would attempt to 'rescue' her.

"I know what *I*'m doing, you spandex covered idiot!" she yelled in a decidedly English accent. With that, she dodged the latest one, a rather generic type. "Get off me!" she yelled as he grabbed her.

He yelled next, as she gave him a swift kick in the leg. "What part of 'Get off me" do you NOT understand??" With that, she dropped into a manhole.

"Only one hour here in this nut ward of a planet!", she ranted to the dark as she jogged to the next opening. "I'm more than ready to get out of here...Who created this place anyway? Stan Lee??? This is worse than that universe that had the sentient white horses...!" She continued on in this vein for some minutes til she finally got to her 'stop'. "Well, that bloke on the last world was rather cute. Probably should have stayed there..."

She went up the ladder, hearing the sounds of battle as she poked her head out. "Now..where is my ship...?" she muttered as she crawled out..making sure no more well meaning spandex types were around to "rescue" her.

Readjusting her leather trench coat (about 200 pounds in one of the many versions of 20th century London she'd visited), she ran towards the old junkyard, climbing over the chain fence. The sounds of battle seemed to be dying down, mercifully..."And soon I'll be...." She fell silent as she looked at the line of what appeared to be little coil driven robots, all with keys in the back of them...heading in and out of her dimensional hopper...like ants swarming over a.....

She gave a shreak, not of fear, but of anger, as she grabbed a wood 2 by 4 and proceeded to pommel her way through the cogs, kicking and stomping and whamming at the tiny mecha, some of which were carrying off parts of the ship...

"Get off!" she yowled, causing the Clockwork cogs to drop whatever they were carrying and scurry around like metallic roaches...as she swung and kicked at them. "That's my ship, you rodents! Give me that dimensional stablizer!" She took the aforementioned part from a group of the miniature robots. "And that! And how did you get that out of the control panel?"

And so the battle for ownership of the dimensional hopper she called The Courtesan's Shadow began...and ended only when the sky above suddenly clouded up and started to rain...

This caused the diminutive cogs to scatter to parts unknown, carrying with them bits and pieces of the woman's ship.

She sighed as her hair and clothing got wet. "Great! It's going to take me weeks, if not years to get all that back! And where am I going to stay?" She suddenly looked at the color of the water droplets.."Pink?"

"Um.." said a tiny voice.."you could stay with us."

She turned to face the owner of the voice..a tiny red haired girl wearing what looked to be a simple red vest and black shorts and boots. Her companion was an anthropomorphic blonde haired panda girl wearing jeans and a T-shirt that proclaimed "Paragon City is for Heroic Lovers!"

"We,"said the panda girl,"would be pleased to have you stay with us in our apartment-abode."

The redhaired girl (who couldn't be a day over 12) nodded.."Yeah, we're in training to be heroes...Well, Pandrea is anyway. I'm more an inventor..support type..I'm Meg, by the way." She extended her hand towards the woman.."but I operate as Kami Megami while in training."

"I am Pandrea, and I am be pleased to meet you." The panda girl also extended a delicate (although furry) hand.

Mellie wanted to glare at the two..."You don't look like some of the spandex loons running around here..." She finally had to smile at their earnest expressions..."Evidently, they were off the clock, so to speak.

"All right." She thought for a moment. "I'm Mellissandria- " She hesitated a moment, as she debated giving them the full version of her name..then..

"I'm Mellissandria Restal," she said finally, "but you can call me..Mellie."

(based and inspired by roleplay on Virtue server. The character of Pandrea belongs to her player, and Mellissandria and Meg are mine. This could also be construed as a parody of sorts, as well, of certain genres.)

(The hero trying to save Mellie in the beginning was a generic type and not meant to be a reference to anyone in particular. Just so you all know.=)

:starts to study up on Citadel, and to check to see which toon she should bring *this* time....

:hops in in cabbit form and goes over to cabbitsnuggle Neko before changing over to her normal humanoid shape, and snuggling Neko some more.

Good afternoon, guys. Wish I could report that I had an interesting weekend, but it was quiet instead, except for wrangling with the CoH program Sunday. Think I finally solved the missing costumes mystery..and that CoH prefers my C drive to my E drive.

Or as one of my friends from back in GA put it.."Computers are Evil...haven't you caught on to that by now?"

Well, just reserved "Princess DemonCaller" on Virtue- Somehow or another she is going to be the exact opposite of my fire scrapper - Either a Praetorian version of her or minor Island royal resident (Besides, someone is *sitting* on "DemonCaller" much to my chagrin.)

Either way, she's going to be petless, and compared to some of the designs I've seen so far, she's going to be overdressed...nor will she wear red and black....

(not even a variant of Rio's red/black costume)..

Looks like you got them right....although you can always tell which one is Bayani...the one with the donut!

Sorry about the computer problems last night. I was trying to turn off some of those extra processes in the hopes of running Skype with CoH...however...I inadvertently rebooted my computer while my computer was chewing on a fresh copy of CoH...

You can imagine the resulting swearfest on my end. After this, no working on the computer on TF day for me!

I won't let the computer slow me down again...!

As always, thanks for the fun, guys!

(Just spent a good deal of this afternoon reading this thread...and just got up to the last part...GAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! *What* comes *next*? Man, I hate cliffhangers!!!)

(Great story so far!)

That's a cute one you have there today...(won't give it away, but read it!)

And Warrior Mage Luna...by popular demand...has hit level 15. And gotten her pink costume (with white and purple accents..gotta wear something special for her first pink TF..:P)

I think it does have everything to do with Friday being the start of the weekend..Saturday used to be my trouble day-as in everyone wanted me in their group on that day...especially if they knew I had a healer in my alt stable...(yes, one reason why I burned out on raiding, Suichiro....I was usually the hapless healer! Ever try to heal a 40 man group by yourself because the other healers all got killed in the first 10 seconds?)

I don't know, Suchiro... All I know is so far, I've been lucky to make them...hubby keeps trying to drag me off to DDO on Fridays...!

I'll see what I can do, on that score. Depends on what all happens in the next day or so..and Luna would be a bit more fun, I admit..she already has the pink down pat...

Ok. So traumatized swordie scrapper it is...:P

What was throwing me was that I was trying to remember what level you two were last weekend...too many things going on in my head right now.....

Hmmm, I have three possibilities, depending on level range.

Warrior-Mage Luna, who is lvl 12 currently and kin/energy defender. Token magical girl of my toons.

Mystik Paladin-lvl 15 broadsword scrapper..He probably will never recover from having to dye his armor pink!

And...

(this one would be tricky as she's in a leveling pact currently) Meg Megami, lvl 5. Tech controller.

Take your pick. Unless, of course, you would rather see how good Oryo Ryouko would look in a pink version of *that* bathing suit from last week....:P

Hmmm...are we doing something this Friday?

:comes back in after running laundry to and from laundromat...

Beautiful day outside today. I actually was able to make myself walk to and from the laundry pushing the cart. Now if I can just keep that up..even if it's one round trip per day (figure it's about half a mile round trip, but I could be wrong.). Preferably without the laundry.

Hope you had a good holiday...three jobs can get grueling....

And nice sketch, TA.

:rolls out of 'bed' and drifts over to the coffeemaker, getting out a monster sized coffee mug. Makes new pot after draining old pot....

Yesterday was nice and relaxing..but that cake hubby made is about to put me into a coma.....

Well, why not.

Mellie doesn't have any art to represent her in the gallery yet...

So, giving you a link to Mellissandria's DA reference folder-> http://mellissandria.deviantart.com/...-Mellissandria

This includes her DA character bio sheet, as well as several screenies.

But a little background..Mellie is an alien passing as human while she tries to repair/recreate her dimensional space/time ship after it wrecked on Earth. To this end, she's started a company specializing in reverseengineering Rikti and other alien technologies...although she finds herself having to save the city/earth from time to time...while having a little bit of fun as well.

Pogo, sounds like you had a sucky family holiday...and that 12 year old needs to learn some manners...

We had one of those grocery store precooked Easter dinners that you just heat and serve...which was delicious...and hubby baked a chocolate cake with vanilla pudding/whipped cream filling and frosting. Topped the cake off with chocolate mousse flavored Peeps bunnies...yummers. Watched two movies so far.

Figure we got enough leftovers to last at least a good couple-three days.

(gives out virtual versions of the cake to everyone to nom. Even the fetish bois.)

The Kool-Aid FunFizz are 'drink drops', Neko.

And as far as I can figure so far, they come in Lemonade, Grape and Fruit Punch.

You can put two in a 20 oz bottle or one in a 8 ounce glass of water.