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Post by wolfgangx on Apr 8, 2018 14:05:03 GMT
Theodore, somewhat shocked at the yelling match that had just broken out, simply sat down in a nearby chair and put the Gauntlet into his bag. Custodia walked over next to him and sat down.
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Post by frigidscholar on Apr 8, 2018 17:53:53 GMT
Amy didn't flinch at all the yelling, she had too much pride to show any sign of relenting... but she did cross her arms and sit back in a chair with a loud huff. She thought about yelling back, but for once, she didn't think yelling at things was going to solve her problems. Though she was still feeling pretty resentful so she couldn't help but mutter under her breath. "Well, maybe if you had started with that instead of having a whole bunch of people jump in and point guns at us, maybe we wouldn't have been so outraged."
At the man's offer, Amy glanced away. Feeling petulant, she let an offended tone leak into her words. "I do mind since I kind of, you know, like living?" She met his eyes with a glare filled with reproach, "But whatever, you aren't really giving us much of a choice anyway, so I guess we get to sit here and wait for whoever that person you mentioned to head over here and slaughter us. Or you know, just until another train comes and splats us against the wall."
Amy leaned back in her seat, peering at her nails as she did, "If we get to sit here in the dark for who knows how long, I'd appreciate being told what exactly is going on since we might be able to actually help if we got more details."
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Post by potato on Apr 8, 2018 21:54:39 GMT
Mar - Focus
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Mar simply watched the shouting and yelling breakdown the man with the camera was having, not really sure what he was- wait. Wait wait wait. They were apparently staying at a nice hotel and could leave at any time and were suspected anarchists- but- they were supposed to be detained- and they were under suspicion of causing a train crash, with unsubstantiated evidence- he- what?
Behind him, Lily's channeled thoughts were a perfect blend of similar perplexity and full bore psychological trauma. Mar's expression hardened at that, making a mental note to make this man pay as soon as it was expedient. Not just for making Lily cry, but for calling him a twink, of all things! Some things were just going too far... Mar was so pissed off by that he didn't even register that the guy had actually gotten his gender correct. His fists clenched, an entirely useless reaction for a Gardevoir to have and yet he felt the need to repress his rising rage regardless. Eventually, after the phone call, he found the words to speak.
"You are a terrible communicator, and I expect an apology to Lily after all this is done with. But for now, yes, I suppose I'd rather not walk out onto a train track." He took a step back, folding his arms and tapping his foot - although considering his lack of any real kind of foot he was more tapping his leg on the floor of the train.6d6
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Post by eltrou on Apr 10, 2018 9:13:40 GMT
Of course everything devolved into screaming instead of having a rational discussion or actually doing action. The woes of apparently being in a situation with a bunch of people whose competence was probably as low or lower than early comic book police officers... and a bunch of people and a spirit with horrible tempers and short fuses, wonderful. He could probably interject if he wanted to -his voice was probably louder than most of these people due to his training- but he wasn't inclined to. Instead, both he and Edmond watched the screaming shitshow with the flattest expression on their faces, waiting until they calmed down. The brit had the right idea in clamming up.
His ears were thankful when they finally stopped screeching when the man's phone rang. He spent a moment to rub it a bit with a tiny grimace, only to freeze at the mention of Santa. No. No way. It can't be that Santana. But in the chance that it was....
"Alright. We'll play bait." Altair finally responded when the camera guy turned the question over to him. The light he cast became a bit brighter, but he managed to rein in his temper for a moment. Beside him, Edmond looked on in silent concern as he took a ready stance, bone staff already weaving and dancing and causing the light around them to flicker. "If nothing else, I'd like to see who it was behind this mess."
If it was her.... He closed his eyes for a moment to suppress the urge to have his light turn a dark red at the thought. Instead, he sighed deeply as the light dimmed from his hand as it began to outline his form instead for a more distributed glow. Now though, it was hard to look at him even then, especially in the dark where his light shone all the more brighter, thrumming a steady blue-green.
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Post by drallore on Apr 11, 2018 21:40:33 GMT
The train became dead quiet. The intensity in the air would have anyone on edge, as the only illumination in the train stood dead center, in hopes of alluring the the culprit of today's transpirings into the open. Your hands may sweat, your hearts may beat faster than normal, but you are vigilant, attentive, and before you know it, you are presented with . . . nothing. Alot of nothing. You all sit in the car much longer than would be considered comfortable. It's most awkward for Altair, who's constantly hearing the shuffling of agents below him. He's pretty sure he heard one toot as well. Even the cameraman seems pretty confused as to the complete lack of anything. Then suddenly, you start hearing chirps. The chirps are followed by ringings, latino music, and various other notification sounds. All the phones in the car have started going off with furious amounts of notifications. Should you check your phones, you'll find they're generally nothing important. Facebook notifications, youtube rings, calls from your grandma, but that's not what's important. What is important is that the car suddenly has service, when it previously did not. Altair and Lily receive a pair of fairly important messages Altair The lights are dead, and we killed the disruptor. If you've ditched the Warlock losers, then use this map to meet us at the Daly City station. If you need help with the extraction, give us like 10 minutes.
(there is a map to the subway system, with purple tunnel lines, which seem to refer to a private tunnel system that only Warlock has access to, along with a red guide directing you to where the person asked you to go) Lily Lilly has received an absurd amount of notifications from riolriolu, mostly fun pictures of the tribe watching cartoons, and messing with the old lady's face, but his last message read something along the lines of,
"Wait a minute, why are there so many new messages from you but from before today? Did you do that?! DID YOU ONLY BECOME FRIENDS WITH ME TO TRICK ME INTO ONE OF YOUR EVIL HUMAN SCHEMES?!?! (ノ﹏ヽ)" Amy received a couple of texts from her grandmother about how she got some of the last Daikon at the market today, and Theodore got nothing because nobody wants to talk to Theodore
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Post by potato on Apr 12, 2018 0:06:36 GMT
Mar took a phone out of his ...dress shirt thing... momentarily broken out of his smoldering wordless rage by the sudden wave of notifications. He glanced through various inconsequential things on his device, before putting it away and looking back at the cameraman.
"...Why is there service down here now?" he asked, as Lily also got her tablet out and began scrolling through the Riolu's messages. They were adorable, but her shaking hands showed that for her, this was no time for cute spirit things. Her mind raced, and thoughts flew wavering to her partner: How did the tablet's messages get planted? If there was no signal, where did these messages come from, since I never sent them? Will we get out of this?
lilypad@riolriolu416 okay um this is going to require some explaining so uh i think someoens messed with my tablet adn i dont kno how or why lilypad@riolriolu416 this has gotten crazy sorry for the spelling mistakse my hand is shaking im sorry lilypad@riolriolu416 i never sent anythign to u of the sort, first teim we met was today we're in someones plot but i dont know whose now im stuck in a blacked out train car with a bunch of warlock guys lilypad@riolriolu416 long story id rather not talk about it
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Post by frigidscholar on Apr 13, 2018 6:50:37 GMT
Amy waited anxiously, bouncing one of her knees up and down... The ghostly blue light from the Warlock guy's spirit was a bit... unnerving in the pitch blackness of the tunnel and just waiting there to get attacked wasn't really her style. She idly cracked her knuckles one by one, reflexively checked her phone, and did all manner of nervous tics as time went on but... as the minutes passed with nothing happening, Amy's anxiety began to drain away. She very slowly sank into her chair, sliding downward against it as she waited for something to happen. She was beginning to be alright with being torn to pieces by whatever monsters were down here as long as they would get on with it already.
Just when she thought the endless waiting was going to make her scream, a cacophony of alert tones and brief snatches of music startled her into slipping out of her chair and landing hard on the floor of the train. "Ouch!" she cried out before looking up at the rest of the train, a bit frantic. Almost everyone was checking their phone or other smart device which made Amy realize where exactly those noises had come from. She blinked twice before narrowing her eyes. That... was weird. How were they getting a signal down here suddenly when there wasn't one before? Well, whatever, she didn't dwell on it long, she had messages to send before the window of having signal left.
She quickly typed out a series of messages to her grandmother...
hey obaasan be quiet about daikon for a sec the warlocks are arresting me on fake charges i argued them down to only detaining me since their 'proof' was all faked but now theyre forcing me into a dangerous mission against my will and im sitting in the middle of a dark tunnel in a stopped train car so if i die or anything promise me youll raise bureaucratic hell on them and uh im sure ill be fine but if im not then yeah
Amy let out a sigh as she finished her messages. Hopefully her grandmother would actually read them and maybe she could do something? Amy wasn't counting on it, since things were never that convenient, but... at least she would get to spite these jerks with the force of her grandmother's disapproval if she did get killed by this stupid playing bait plan.
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Post by eltrou on Apr 17, 2018 22:46:27 GMT
Altair waited. And waited. And waited... till it got really awkward. Now he was used to being the center of attention in various ways, but having a bunch of (admittedly incompetent) bodyguards by his LEGS of all things was weird, especially when he was literally glowing like he was a weird form of bait that wasn't freaking working considering that he had been waiting for... apparently nothing, really. He was almost tempted to start humming to break the monotony at this point.
He was spared from it when he heard multiple phones and other devices begin to sound out, causing his expression to scrunch up in confusion. Didn't Warlocks have jammers for this sort of thing...? It was that way the last few times he took this train and trains like it, so why...? He pulled out his phone, only for his expression to become thunderous when he saw the contents of the text.
Okay, assholes. Good one. You actually made him doubt his choice to remain with the Warlocks for this one. Enough to make him actually think about it for a few moments before stamping down on the urge. No. These were strangers -the ones he knew were from the NEW YORK branch for the most part- and Rosalinda would hunt him down and make his life a living hell if he decided to change sides again, and she was more dogged than them.
Altair took a quick screenshot of this goddamned text before turning over to the leader of the Warlocks surrounding him. "...so. The culprits behind cutting out the lights and disruptor -or at least one group of 'em- just texted me. I don't know exactly who, but I have a feeling I know who they are... and if you've read my dossier like you've hinted at, you'll probably know who I suspect them to be too. And you'll also know why I'm STILL disinclined to meet with them after their shenanigans landed me in the hospital somewhat recently." He said in a controlled tone. He was honestly trying not to get angry - he was sure that Amy had rage mode down pat anyway.
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Post by drallore on Apr 18, 2018 3:06:14 GMT
Cameraman gets close to your phone, clearly not happy with the fact that they have a thorough map of the sub-tunnels. "Hmm. Well, for now it seems they want to get you out of here. Ask them to come grab you then. Or tell them to leave. Let's see what happens"He then walks back to his seat, and points the camera back at you. Amy's message gets a few replies almost immediately "MAJI KA?!?! BAKA!!! WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!! Ok, this is fine, we can work with this. 1) Warlock doesn't arrest people, they detain them in fancy hotels. I was in one once. It was like a vacation for committing a crime. 2) SERIOUSLY!! DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DIDN'T SOMEHOW PROVOKE THEM!! WHAT DID YOU DO!??!" While Lily received more messages from the Riolu riolriolu416@lilypad Wow, I've known you for all of 45 minutes, and you're already a liability. riolriolu416@lilypad that's must be a record riolriolu416@lilypad Do you have anti-spirit software installed on your device? I know it's rare for you humans to have it riolriolu416@lilypad here's one my friend designed. Should help
(link to anti-spirit lite) Thomas sits awkwardly alone by himself, before seeing the lingering eyes of a meowstic outside his car window
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Post by wolfgangx on Apr 18, 2018 3:18:39 GMT
Theodore noticed the cat Pokemon looking at him through the window. He wondered what it could want. To meet someone new? Maybe. Theodore just smiled and waved at the creature.
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Post by drallore on Apr 18, 2018 3:23:29 GMT
The cat opened his mouth wide, pressed it against the glass, and breathed heavily
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Post by wolfgangx on Apr 18, 2018 3:29:36 GMT
Theodore stood up from his seat and began moving towards the window which the Warlocks had broken through. He climbed out the window and moved over to the Meowstic. "Hello. What are you doing?"
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Post by drallore on Apr 18, 2018 3:40:00 GMT
The meowstic's eyes grow larger with glee, his breathing pants harder, effectively fogging up the whole window. He wipes the fog away, and re-establishes his mouth on the glass, blushing a bit
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Post by wolfgangx on Apr 18, 2018 3:44:17 GMT
Theodore was looking at the Meowstic as it continued doing this a few more times. He wondered why it was so enthralled with breathing on the car window. Fascinating. He walked back up to the window he had jumped out of.
"Does anyone have a spare Pokeball I could borrow?"
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Post by frigidscholar on Apr 18, 2018 3:49:29 GMT
Amy flinched visibly at the response to her texts. She could picture her grandmother's face now... Oh boy. She kept the conversation between the Warlock people in the back of her mind as she tried to figure a way to make her grandmother not arrange a mission to send her to Alaska or something. She texted a bit frantically to defuse the situation.
whoa hey hold on i didnt do anything i was just doing my usual thing of running into disasters and doing my best to salvage them and apparently someone didnt appreciate me doing that i think someone caused an incident for some reason? so they anonymously sent the warlock fake evidence that i was plotting to destroy all the factions or whatever i pointed out all the pictures they had were clearly photoshopped but they wont admit that its fake so theyre 'detaining' me considering whoever this is got the pictures together in like 15 minutes i think i might have uh stumbled onto something again and they might have oracle or something also this is like the first time ive left my apartment for a long period of time in weeks so i havent offended anyone recently
Hoping that would calm down her grandmother, she put her phone away, grimacing slightly. She looked back into the cabin to see the british guy halfway out the window. She blinked twice before spluttering, "H-hey! Where do you think you're going?" But her words went unheeded as the boy slipped out the window to start talking to... a cat spirit? Why... why was it breathing on the window? Amy stared at it with a bit of disgust as it continued to do so even as the guy tried speaking with it. When he climbed back in and asked for a pokeball, Amy began to splutter again. "What? No! Get away from that thing, you don't know where it's been! I'm not giving you a pokeball to catch it, just... sit down and stop doing weird things! Weren't you listening to what's going on? That could be a scout for the enemy or something!"
She glanced back at the cat spirit, giving it a slight glare to let it know she was watching it and trying to read its intentions.
Intuition: wtf is that thing doing m5iX0FNd6d66d6
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Post by drallore on Apr 18, 2018 6:14:46 GMT
Amy could tell the cat meant no ill will to anyone. It's genuinely infatuated with everything happening inside the car. The guys with guns . . . not so much. They were caught off guard and all started pointing their guns and shouting at the cat spirit to stand down, to which the cat majestically did . . . nothing . . . just kept breathing. This continued until cameraman let out a high pitched whistle, silencing the room. "WILL YOU ALL SHUT UP! IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A THREAT! AND YOU! PRINCEY! Just let it hang out with you for a while and catch it later."Amy received another notification from her grandmother BABAA!!! YOU YELLED AT SOMEONE DIDN'T YOU?! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SAID THAT ATTITUDE OF YOURS IS GOING TO GET YOU INTO TROUBLE?!
And enough of your conspiracy theories, you of all people should know how rare an oracle is. I HIGHLY doubt there's another one in a 500 mile radius, let alone one hellbent on attacking you.
But . . . if it's as you say, then SOMEONE is probably out to get you. Probably because of how rude you are ( ̄Д ̄. Look, just trust me on this, go with the Warlock people, enjoy some caviar or whatever you want to eat there, and I'll be sending some of my people over to take care of you all right? I'll even send you Mr. Snugglebuns! Remember that old rabbit doll you had as a baby? I found it!!
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Post by potato on Apr 24, 2018 1:23:59 GMT
Lily tilted her head at the link. Her levels of trust were incredibly low right now, but she figured that simply clicking the link wouldn't do any harm... although in her frazzled state, it was just as likely that she simply wasn't thinking straight. Also, Anti-Spirit Lite? How did they even get away with that and of course there was a paid edition... it didn't really make logical sense, but Lily's adrenaline soaked brain was slowly beginning to realise that that was simply what this city was like. She downloaded and installed the thing as Mar glared daggers at the cat.
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Post by eltrou on Apr 24, 2018 5:52:54 GMT
Altair stared at the man for a long moment before looking back to his phone and ignoring the others for the moment. They can handle whatever it is they're doing for a bit. Edmond was quietly snickering at the shenanigans the rest went off to do while Altair... Altair began to text his reply. It was hard to do with glowing thumbs, but he was able to do it just fine. ...Alright. I'll go along this time. If this isn't a trick or a prank or something... pick me up here. People are kind of watching right now and it's a bit too hard to bail without alerting everyone on the train or stumbling in the darkness blind.
Also. What should I call you guys? You're calling from an unknown number. Altair felt like he already knew, but he had to be sure. If anything, he would see if they were bs'ing him or not.
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Post by drallore on Apr 25, 2018 1:04:52 GMT
Altair received a text in response.
(Text: ?? Um, you asked us to come get you?!?! Whatever, look, just remember the deal, we help you out if this, you come back to the hoods. ETA 10 minutes)
Once Lily installed the anti spirit code, her discord app started spamming like crazy. Suddenly, icons of a giggling Zora appeared, before a processing bar indicated it was deleting several megabytes of foreign code. After a bit, the discord chats with riolu suddenly turned to the original messages. Upon reviewing the deleted data, it appears they were imprinted into Lily's tablet around the same time she accepted riolus friend request
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Post by eltrou on Apr 26, 2018 2:59:22 GMT
Altair looked back up and pocketed his phone. "They'll be here in ten. Up to you guys what you wanna do with 'em, though I'm still rather pissed with them over that incident in New York so that might color some of my opinions." He sounded calm, but the light became a little more ominous in response to his emotions anyway.
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