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Shioh leaned back, her belly full from consuming what was probably half her weight in hot dogs.
"Now I'm bored! Boredboredboredboredbored BORED!" she announced, throwing her hands up, losing her balance, and falling backwards onto the floor.
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David turned her face back to him. "I trust you because of that look in your eyes. I see it, the desire for redemption, sadness, anger." David had a sad smile on his face. His voice only a whisper, "Also... I need to have something to believe in. If I can help you get away from this terrible life, and help save you... it will save me..." David's hand was trembling. It was true... David had lost a lot of his reason to fight over the last few years. He had begun to lose faith in what he was fighting for.
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Odette looks a bit shocked and then reaches over to grab his other hand. She stands before him looking much stronger now and she speaks with a new strength in her voice, Ok, this is what we must do; we can heal both our lives in the process. She takes a deep breath trying to begin the healing of her spirit. She opens her eyes and looking down, realizes that she is still in her bikini from earlier. She lets go of Davids hands and turns away playfully crossing her arms to cover her chest. Much of the elegance and poise she showed earlier slowly returns as she peaks over her shoulder and says with a new and honest smile, If we are going to do this
defeat the queen that is, Her smile devolves into a smirk, We should probably get out of these wet clothes
and into something a little more suited to planning the demise of an archvillain She uses one hand to tussle her semi-moist hair.
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Alyssa almost jumped out of her seat as a thrown grenade exploded against the cage wall in front of her. Though she was perfectly safe thanks to the arena's shields it still startled her. She looked down at the combatants to see who threw it, and immediately saw who as another explosive detonated in the corner of the cage. "Hey! You with the grenades, work on your aim!", she yelled down at them. Whether they could actually hear her in there she didn't know and didn't particularly care as she got up and floated over to the bar to get another beer.
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As she gets closer to the bar a very tall woman with flowing blond hair and a strong Amazon-like figure watches her out of the corner of her eye as she walks up to the counter. The woman is bent over the counter a bit so her height is not immediately apparent. She says with a devilish smirk, Nice foliage remarking at Alyssas head, Do you use conditioner or turf builder on it she giggles a little as she sips her whiskey on ice.
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Odette looks a bit shocked and then reaches over to grab his other hand. She stands before him looking much stronger now and she speaks with a new strength in her voice, Ok, this is what we must do; we can heal both our lives in the process. She takes a deep breath trying to begin the healing of her spirit. She opens her eyes and looking down, realizes that she is still in her bikini from earlier. She lets go of Davids hands and turns away playfully crossing her arms to cover her chest. Much of the elegance and poise she showed earlier slowly returns as she peaks over her shoulder and says with a new and honest smile, If we are going to do this
defeat the queen that is, Her smile devolves into a smirk, We should probably get out of these wet clothes
and into something a little more suited to planning the demise of an archvillain She uses one hand to tussle her semi-moist hair.
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David blushed at her suggestion. Despite being such a hardened person, he found this woman able to break down all his barriers... it could have something to do with the fact that he had not really interacted with a woman like this in years. "Yeah... you're right." He stammered. "We should start getting ready. Do you want me to step outside for a second so you can change?" He said with obvious embarassment in his voice.
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As she gets closer to the bar a very tall woman with flowing blond hair and a strong Amazon-like figure watches her out of the corner of her eye as she walks up to the counter. The woman is bent over the counter a bit so her height is not immediately apparent. She says with a devilish smirk, Nice foliage remarking at Alyssas head, Do you use conditioner or turf builder on it she giggles a little as she sips her whiskey on ice.
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Gesturing to the bartender for another beer, Alyssa turned and directed an evil glare worthy of the most despicable evil mastermind at the woman. Seven years and comments like that still irritated her, you'd think she would have gotten over it by now but no. "Neither, it just grows there", she replied in an obviously annoyed voice before taking her beer. downing it all almost in one gulp and motioning to the bartender again to bring her another one. She was tempted to blow the other woman off her seat with a strong gust of wind but decided she was still not drunk enough to risk getting thrown out.
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David blushed at her suggestion. Despite being such a hardened person, he found this woman able to break down all his barriers... it could have something to do with the fact that he had not really interacted with a woman like this in years. "Yeah... you're right." He stammered. "We should start getting ready. Do you want me to step outside for a second so you can change?" He said with obvious embarassment in his voice.
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Awww you are such a cute little boy scout. No its ok, I think that I should probably head over to my room because I left my outfit over there. Odette snaps her fingers and in a blur of purple polygons she is clothes herself in an illusion of a lovely short summer dress. This should be modest enough for me to get back to my room. Odette reaches towards the doorknob but stops and looks back at David, I think
you should come with me I am worried the masquerade already has people looking for me and Id feel safer with you. Odette smiles and holds out her hand for David, just superspeed your outfit on
Ill turn away if you want me to she smiles a bit wider.
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Gesturing to the bartender for another beer, Alyssa turned and directed an evil glare worthy of the most despicable evil mastermind at the woman. Seven years and comments like that still irritated her, you'd think she would have gotten over it by now but no. "Neither, it just grows there", she replied in an obviously annoyed voice before taking her beer. downing it all almost in one gulp and motioning to the bartender again to bring her another one. She was tempted to blow the other woman off her seat with a strong gust of wind but decided she was still not drunk enough to risk getting thrown out.
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Im not an expert but, wont too much beer make it wilt! The woman chokes on her drink a bit as a laugh escapes her suddenly.
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Awww you are such a cute little boy scout. No its ok, I think that I should probably head over to my room because I left my outfit over there. Odette snaps her fingers and in a blur of purple polygons she is clothes herself in an illusion of a lovely short summer dress. This should be modest enough for me to get back to my room. Odette reaches towards the doorknob but stops and looks back at David, I think
you should come with me I am worried the masquerade already has people looking for me and Id feel safer with you. Odette smiles and holds out her hand for David, just superspeed your outfit on
Ill turn away if you want me to she smiles a bit wider.
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David face turned from pink to crimson. "Uhh... yeah one second." With a blur of speed, David stripped of his bathing suit and reappeared wearing his blue jean shorts and an unbuttoned hawaiian shirt. He took her hand. "So shall we go?"
Gunner created yet more impervium shielding to cover his exposed top, not hesitating to pop out and kick the now quarter-sphere shaped barrier at Famine, hoping that the distraction of that combined with the temporary hinderence of switching weapons would be enough to make him subceptible to Gunner's own TMP fire, two of them gracing the palms of his hands. If Famine still somehow found a way to fire off a rocket at him, he would just create yet another barrier, perhaps one that was more fortified than the last.
((LAW coming at you?))
((Ah, sorry. Read that as Famine firing through the portal. Editing.))
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What about te spectral terror?
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Im not an expert but, wont too much beer make it wilt! The woman chokes on her drink a bit as a laugh escapes her suddenly.
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"Yeah, you're not. So shut the hell up and let me get drunk in peace." Accepting her third drink from the bartender she sat there and this time drank it a bit slower, not really wanting to stay there but not having anything more interesting to do at that point in time.
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David face turned from pink to crimson. "Uhh... yeah one second." With a blur of speed, David stripped of his bathing suit and reappeared wearing his blue jean shorts and an unbuttoned hawaiian shirt. He took her hand. "So shall we go?"
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Ok then lets be on our way They walk out into the hallway and towards Odettes room. Odette looks down at Davids hand and then back in front of her, Odette isnt my real name you know
My real name is Mireille but I really want you to keep calling me Odette, her gaze softens a bit as she walks hand-in-hand with David. Odette was my mothers name, and the only people that know me as Mireille are the masquerade so I figure it was time for a change. They near Odettes door and she reaches for the doorknob not knowing that Mr. Erik was still inside.
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"Yeah, you're not. So shut the hell up and let me get drunk in peace." Accepting her third drink from the bartender she sat there and this time drank it a bit slower, not really wanting to stay there but not having anything more interesting to do at that point in time.
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Determined to amuse herself further at Alyssas expense the woman looks towards the bartender, Hey, you got any water back there? I think Im making her wilt. The woman smiles through yet another sip of her drink.
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Gunner created yet more impervium shielding to cover his exposed top, not hesitating to pop out and kick the now quarter-sphere shaped barrier at Famine, hoping that the distraction of that combined with the temporary hinderence of switching weapons would be enough to make him subceptible to Gunner's own TMP fire, two of them gracing the palms of his hands. If Famine still somehow found a way to fire off a rocket at him, he would just create yet another barrier, perhaps one that was more fortified than the last.
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Wow, hardcore Silk gets pushed off course from many of the explosions and bullets being haphazardly thrown about the arena. She shoots another thread arrow at the arena wall and uses it to cling onto the side of the cage, by this time she had barely remembered shooting the Dannys neural disruption arrow at Grey on the arena floor (though she hopes to catch a glimpse of her real foe), Dang, right now the crossfire seems more dangerous than you Grey! She yells down at him as she clings to the cage just hoping not to get shot.
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Determined to amuse herself further at Alyssas expense the woman looks towards the bartender, Hey, you got any water back there? I think Im making her wilt. The woman smiles through yet another sip of her drink.
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"Don't you have anything better to do than sit here annoying me?", Alyssa asked in an exasperated tone. Summoning up that gust of wind was looking more and more appealing, and she was almost drunk enough to do it now.
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"Don't you have anything better to do than sit here annoying me?"
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"I doubt it." chuckled a man's voice as its owner set a pair of large water jugs onto the bar before the blonde.
Kaze Henteko.
He stood of average height, clad in the general attire of the typical tourist, as evidenced by the sea-blue Hawaiian shirt dotted with palm leaves and lemon wedges. His white shorts and black sandals formed a mellow, yet somewhat noticeable contrast with the short-sleeved shirt, and the innocuous attire lent itself well to get a good eye at the lean man's build. Not that he was muscular by any definition of the word, but an observer would have been truly ignorant to take no notice of the utter lack of excess body mass on this guy.
"You can probably use these more than she," Henteko grinned sinisterly with a motion to the jugs, the mirrored sunglasses he still wore only accenting the mean-spirited smirk of teeth, "seeing how withered-up and dry you are. Yeah, I know. Age is a terrible thing."
He snickered again, giving her a gesture of goodbye, and then turned his steps toward the exit...
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"But yeah, I'd say it all worked out." Acid concluded another anecdote in the process of swapping stories with the towering Hotaka, "I knew him well. He wouldn't have wanted to go out any differently, that's for sure."
"Oh my." the robed Oriental's tan hue had become just a little paler at the recount, "And Kendre...Kendr'as..."
"Yeah, he's okay." the reptilian affirmed with a smile, "And yeah, I've given up on his full name a while ago, so I recommend you do the same. It's not worth the brain strain."
"I shall heed that." Hotaka nodded as they reached the elevators again. Neither of them really knew what floor they'd ended up on, nor if there was anyone else around - it wasn't like they checked...or cared, for that matter...
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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"Don't you have anything better to do than sit here annoying me?", Alyssa asked in an exasperated tone. Summoning up that gust of wind was looking more and more appealing, and she was almost drunk enough to do it now.
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"You can probably use these more than she," Henteko grinned sinisterly with a motion to the jugs, the mirrored sunglasses he still wore only accenting the mean-spirited smirk of teeth, "seeing how withered-up and dry you are. Yeah, I know. Age is a terrible thing."
He snickered again, giving her a gesture of goodbye, and then turned his steps toward the exit...
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Looking at the jugs of water, over at Hetenko, and then at Alyssa. The woman smiles with a hint of pleasure at the anger in the air, well, look at that mulchy, you have scrawny gardener friend to defend your honor
how sweet! She picks up one of the jugs and tosses it towards the back of Hetenkos head lazily. Drink up sweetie
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Ok then lets be on our way They walk out into the hallway and towards Odettes room. Odette looks down at Davids hand and then back in front of her, Odette isnt my real name you know
My real name is Mireille but I really want you to keep calling me Odette, her gaze softens a bit as she walks hand-in-hand with David. Odette was my mothers name, and the only people that know me as Mireille are the masquerade so I figure it was time for a change. They near Odettes door and she reaches for the doorknob not knowing that Mr. Erik was still inside.
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David looked at her and smiled... "Of course Odette. We all deserve a chance for a new start." David sighed happily. Despite everything that had happened today. It was the first time in four years that he could actually say he was kind of... happy.
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well, look at that mulchy, you have scrawny gardener friend to defend your honor
how sweet! She picks up one of the jugs and tosses it towards the back of Hetenkos head lazily. Drink up sweetie
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"You just don't know when to quit do you?", Alyssa snapped angrily. "And he's not a friend, I've never even seen him before." Despite that, she still summoned up a breeze to push the flying jug slightly off course so it wouldn't hit him. Turning back to the bar she downed the rest of her beer before speaking again. "Besides, I can defend my own honor well enough", she added before punching the other woman solidly in the face, a couple of the spikey leaves on her hands and forearms breaking off and lodging themselves in the other's hair.
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"You just don't know when to quit do you?", Alyssa snapped angrily. "And he's not a friend, I've never even seen him before." Despite that, she still summoned up a breeze to push the flying jug slightly off course so it wouldn't hit him. Turning back to the bar she downed the rest of her beer before speaking again. "Besides, I can defend my own honor well enough", she added before punching the other woman solidly in the face, a couple of the spikey leaves on her hands and forearms breaking off and lodging themselves in the other's hair.
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The punch was perfectly executed and connected perfectly but what Alyssa found is that the womans face didnt budge and it felt like she had just punched a hunk of marble. Clearing some of the debris from her hair the woman pushes Alyssas fist aside and stands up from leaning on the bar. The woman towers above Alyssa ((I would assume just ignore it if Im wrong)) at at least 68 and says in an even tone. You think Id pick fights with metas in bars without a little insurance do you? wiping a little lip gloss from the corner of her mouth, you must be so embarrassed right now. She stands her ground.
((Spade, Im waiting for paradigm hes in the room so Im waiting for him k?))
((No problem Torrent. I am just playing Civilization IV at the moment anyway. It is so addicting...))
Danny floated a little tighter to the ceiling as the fight became an indiscriminate orgy of explosions. After a particularly near miss, he yelled "Oi! This wasna my idea t'be in here, but if'n y'daft gits keep on wi' th'booms, 'm gonna put an arrow in y'r nadgers!" He shook his head. "Idiots. Nae precision at all."
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
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You think Id pick fights with metas in bars without a little insurance do you? wiping a little lip gloss from the corner of her mouth, you must be so embarrassed right now. She stands her ground.
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Alyssa might have been intimidated, but if she was she didn't show it. Being a hero in Paragon meant she was used to standing up to people who were bigger and meaner than her. "Of course, everyone on this boat is a bloody meta. Why was I not expecting that?" Too bad the arena's already taken, she thought to herself. We could have had a real fight. "So what are you then? Invulnerable, energy shields, what?", she asked as she gestured to the bartender to bring her another beer.
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"Actually, I'm not." Henteko remarked with a sly smirk, having stopped and turned about just past the soft cone of light one of the overhead lamps let flow to caress the fine carpet of the floor, "Nope, just regular-old human here."
"Well, maybe not regular-old." a finger tapped his sunglasses, "Never much liked the light. But I digress. Go ahead, do please tell us who you're pretending to be."
Henteko may have been human, but he was no fool. He had good reason to suspect the amazonian blonde to be nothing more than a fabrication - and he was pretty good when it came to shadows and seemings. Slight of hand, one might say.
With his eyes (and the sunglasses; well, thermal optics, to be more precise) he gave the woman a scrutinizing once-over. Invulnerable or not, that punch should've elicited at least an exchange of momentum, and more often than not, what had just happened took place because the person one had punched wasn't even really there.
In other words, Henteko suspected the woman to be no more than an illusory decoy - and his glasses would either confirm or deny this...
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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Alyssa might have been intimidated, but if she was she didn't show it. Being a hero in Paragon meant she was used to standing up to people who were bigger and meaner than her. "Of course, everyone on this boat is a bloody meta. Why was I not expecting that?" Too bad the arena's already taken, she thought to herself. We could have had a real fight. "So what are you then? Invulnerable, energy shields, what?", she asked as she gestured to the bartender to bring her another beer.
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Invul, but who cares, finally someone interesting! The womans demeanor becomes a bit less threatening and she leans back over the bar again, listen, I work on this crate and Ive been hitting all the bars and picking fights for fun waiting for someone to just stand their ground and you are the first one to brush me off like that! Usually they just make excuses after my face shatters their fist. She slides Alyssa a tall foamy pint, this is the boats special draft, and its on me. The woman ruffles her hair a bit. Damn it was getting boring
sorry about the plant jokes, I actually like your hair and I hope I didnt hurt your hand
Was this woman for real? Yeah, she had spent the entire day barhopping and making fun of the metas hoping for someone with a personality worth talking to.
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In other words, Henteko suspected the woman to be no more than an illusory decoy - and his glasses would either confirm or deny this...
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Hetenkos glasses revealed that the woman was no illusion and that she was 100% woman. Oddly enough though, there was a particularly odd heat signature near her chest. It would heat to white as she inhaled and then cool almost completely when she exhaled. It was peculiar but none the less, she was in fact a living being.
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Invul, but who cares, finally someone interesting! The womans demeanor becomes a bit less threatening and she leans back over the bar again, listen, I work on this crate and Ive been hitting all the bars and picking fights for fun waiting for someone to just stand their ground and you are the first one to brush me off like that! Usually they just make excuses after my face shatters their fist. She slides Alyssa a tall foamy pint, this is the boats special draft, and its on me. The woman ruffles her hair a bit. Damn it was getting boring
sorry about the plant jokes, I actually like your hair and I hope I didnt hurt your hand
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Alyssa raised an eyebrow at the woman's sudden change in personality. "Dunno what makes you think I'm going to talk to you after that even with you being all nice now. Still, at least you're not one of those deluded 'destined one' types like I was starting to think." At the sight of free booze however she rapidly changed her mind. "This though... This might get me to hang around for a bit. And don't worry about the hand, its nothing that won't grow back", she commented, holding up her hand (The only damage to which appeared to be a number of broken leaves) before raising the glass and downing a third of it in one gulp. She sat for a moment considering the taste, then her eyes widened. Had she been in a cartoon her face would have gone red and steam shot out of her ears, but here in real life all she did was cough and splutter a lot. "Dang! What's in that stuff?"
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Odette holds Davids hand tighter and the look on her face looks distressed, how can you even trust me David!? I tried to kill you out of cold blood on a whim! Odette thinks of letting go but she cant bring herself to actually do it. Im surprised you can share these wonderful things with me after what Ive done. She looks away and her hand begins to shake a bit, would you believe that killing you was my initiation into the masquerade as a full member I am a terrible person David
Odette was telling the truth, before the boat even left port; she was given a task by her headmistress to kill at least one Meta passenger after charming and seducing him. It was a sick rite of initiation but Odette accepted none the less.
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David turned her face back to him. "I trust you because of that look in your eyes. I see it, the desire for redemption, sadness, anger." David had a sad smile on his face. His voice only a whisper, "Also... I need to have something to believe in. If I can help you get away from this terrible life, and help save you... it will save me..." David's hand was trembling. It was true... David had lost a lot of his reason to fight over the last few years. He had begun to lose faith in what he was fighting for.