[Nexus] The Nest/Karyana's Forest (And Additional Locales) V:

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
Mela puts on her clothes too, stretching.
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[Forest]
Aseti and Tsiln snuggle closer.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira, once they're both fully clothed, smiles a bit, and goes to look for Kilari and the Oracle.

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[Forest]

Karyana grins, happily snuggling them as well, and rubbing Tsiln's wingnubs.

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
Back at the Oracle's chamber!
She waves to them.
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[Forest]
Tsiln sighs happily, snuggling.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

As does Kilari; Aira waves back, smiling.

"Anything interesting happen while we were sleeping?"

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[Forest]

Karyana smiles, and, unless something happens that would prevent it, shortly dozes off.

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
"We made a bunch of cool drawings!"
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[Forest]
Tsiln falls asleep with her as well.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira grins.

"You mind if we take a look at them?"

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[Forest]

Eventually, unless one of the others wakes up first, Karyana will awaken and go to slip out of bed to make breakfast for everyone

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
She'll let them see!
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[Forest]
Tsiln, Aseti, and Zwei are asleep.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira seems to quite like them.

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[Forest]

Karyana, since that presumably means Paisely isn't, smiles at the ghost-girl.

"Morning, dear... Any thoughts on what they might like to eat?"

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
Mela giggles too.
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[Forest]
... Bacon?

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

"So, just how tired were you two when you came up with the ideas for some of this stuff, anyway?", Aira asks, grinning at the Oracle.

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[Forest]

Karyana nods, smiling at her.

"Bacon sounds like a good idea."

And, after a moment, five large plates of bacon appear!

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
"Just my kinda ideas!"
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[Forest]
She giggles and claps excitedly.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira laughs, and goes to hug her.

"Oracle, you're aware you're insane, right?"

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[Forest]

Karyana grins, and goes to wake up the other three.

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
She nods.
"Thanks!"
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[Forest]
They wake up; Aseti is really excited about the bacon.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira laughs again.

"You're welcome."

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[Forest]



Fortunately, there's plenty of it, especially as Karyana is quite willing to share hers with the coyote girl, and took the precaution of making small bubbles of air around each plate to prevent bacon from flying everywhere in the bouncing that presumably occurs.

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
She grins; Mela pats her head.
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[Forest]
Aseti giggles, grabbing at her bacon to devour it.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira smiles, going to slip an arm around Mela.

"How are we doing on food?"

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[Forest]

The bacon, naturally enough, makes no move to defend itself from devouring!

Karyana rests her head in Aseti's lap, eating her own bacon.

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
"Still good!" She smiles.
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[Forest]
Aseti noms and watches Karyana, smiling.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira smiles back, resting her head on Mela's shoulder.

"Good. Speaking of which, remind me to thank Theia for the stuff she left us last night..."

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[Forest]

Karyana smiles back at Aseti, seeming somewhat amused by how excited she was about the bacon.

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
The Oracle nods, smiling.
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[Forest]
Aseti finishes her bacon, grinning.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

"Do you know why she isn't up yet? I'd have thought she'd have been out by now, considering that she never really slept in while we were moving..."

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[Forest]

Karyana grins at her as well, and offers Aseti what's left of her bacon.

"Do you four want to go out somewhere when we're done eating?"

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
"She might be awake, we could check..."
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[Forest]
Aseti eats that too, nodding excitedly.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira nods, and stands, going to do so.

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[Forest]

"Where, then? If you have some particular spot in mind, that is."

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
They'll find her sharpening her blades in her room.
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[Forest]
Aseti shakes her head, not sure.

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira grins a bit, waving to her.

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[Forest]

"Maybe we could go back out to that glacier?"

[Beans]

[Gaunts]
She waves back.
Oh, hey...
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[Forest]
Aseti nods, excited!

[Lady Serpentine]

[Gaunts]

Aira goes to sit down next to her, though not too close, remembering Theia's dislike of contact.

"Hey. How are you doing?"

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[Forest]

Karyana smiles, and opens a portal to said glacier! Which, presumably, the five then head through?

[ThirdEmperor]

He'll have all sorts of choices for ranged weaponry, including various energy weapons, modern firearms, bows, crossbows, and harpoon launchers of various kinds, and all sorts of different organic weapons. As for a training room, the twelfth floor has been converted into an arena and firing range, along with various additions from Shadows for simulating various outdoor and urban settings.

In any case, back in the lab, the pair smile at him, and shake their heads, physically and mentally.

"No, nothing like that -"

"-it's just that 'lorry' is a regional term for a truck on one of the worlds we've been to."

Training Room

After a cursory inspection of the more exotic weapons, Thul settles upon something a little more familiar, selecting a laser rifle or the closest approximation available. Good accuracy, firepower, unlikely to jam up.... Maybe not as powerful or quick as some of the other stuff, but reliable is always good.

He'll also take a longsword or something of that ilk if melee weapons are available, before heading to the firing range to test out his new arsenal. This place doesn't appear to be in immediate need of reinforced defenses or his talents as a bodyguard, so he might as well work on improving his aim for when it inevitably does.

Lab

It's the offhand mention of other worlds that really gets Thallium's attention, as the two will no doubt register through the psychic link. "You've actually been to different dimensions? What're they like? How different were they?"

[Lady Serpentine]

Training Room

After a cursory inspection of the more exotic weapons, Thul settles upon something a little more familiar, selecting a laser rifle or the closest approximation available. Good accuracy, firepower, unlikely to jam up.... Maybe not as powerful or quick as some of the other stuff, but reliable is always good.

He'll also take a longsword or something of that ilk if melee weapons are available, before heading to the firing range to test out his new arsenal. This place doesn't appear to be in immediate need of reinforced defenses or his talents as a bodyguard, so he might as well work on improving his aim for when it inevitably does.

His inspection of the more exotic weapons reveals that the vampires are fond of using some rather unpleasant things on their enemies; rifles that grow and launch quills like those Icarus was shot with, pistols which fire eggs containing hundreds of things something like botfly larvae, but modified to be able to burrow past the point where any part of them is in contact with the air, and that grow into telepathically linked swarms of bat-sized pseudo-wasps with paralyzing venom, and similar things.

In any case, both longswords (though they mostly appear to have been grown as well, with a single piece of extraordinarily tough, and sharp, on the blade, bone forming them) and laser rifles are available, and nothing will prevent him from exploring the capabilities of his weapons.

Lab

It's the offhand mention of other worlds that really gets Thallium's attention, as the two will no doubt register through the psychic link. "You've actually been to different dimensions? What're they like? How different were they?"

The pair give him mental and physical shrugs in unison, smiling a bit.

"Depends. Which ones? We've visited rather a lot of them. And some have subdimensions in them. The Forest, for example, has at least four different ones."

[Beans]

[Gaunts]

Aira goes to sit down next to her, though not too close, remembering Theia's dislike of contact.

"Hey. How are you doing?"

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[Forest]

Karyana smiles, and opens a portal to said glacier! Which, presumably, the five then head through?

[Gaunts]
'M okay...
She shrugs.
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[Forest --> Glacier]
Off they all go!

[ThirdEmperor]

Lab

"Really?" Even visiting a sub-dimension sounds all kinds of fun-awesome to someone who's been stuck in the same lousy room on the same lousy plane for most of his life. "Can I see one of them? Can you guys show me around!?"