[Nexus] Inside 54

[Reinholdt]

[Hallow Park]

Reina notices that. And that. And then some. For someone who wasn't sure about ogling, it doesn't seem to be stopping her from returning the favor.
"Because you have magical fingers. And I don't want to get dirt all over my clothes."

[FireFox]

[Hallow Park]

I'm starting to think that I'm the only one willing to put in the effort. The Druidess remarks airily. If you continue to remain so obviously uninterested, I'll break up with you.

[Reinholdt]

[Hallow Park]

"Oh please. You're just upset cause the pumpkin hammered you before I did. Sorry there weren't any beds around."

[FireFox]

[Hollow Park]

This was an awful first date. But I suppose it could have been worse. Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world. She turns around and smirks.

[Reinholdt]

[Hollow Park]

"You wouldn't like me if I tried to hide you away. Hell you'd punch me in the stomach if I did anything less than put your life in danger for something trivial yet honorable." They sure know their way around sweet talk.

[FireFox]

[Hollow Park]

Tovia ignores that and continues to sing. I wanna be the one to walk in the sun! She pauses there to see if Reina is going to pick up on it.

[Reinholdt]

[Hallow Park]

"... You're not going to..." You're just trying to embarrass Reina now! She can't recall ever singing anything ever.

[FireFox]

[Hollow Park]

Oh girls they wanna have fun! Grinning now, she teasingly wraps her arm around the other woman. Come on and sing~

[Gullara]

Otto's Manse

"I'm not a visitor, I'm a potential business partner. I've got some stuff I need moved quick to make us both rich, but that's all I can say about it here in the open."

Clearly he needs to at least be let in the front door to talk to whomever is Otto's number 2.

[Otto's Manse]

The muscle bound man narrows his eyes at Rein and crosses his eyes. "This is a hell of a place for you to come for that. The boss is out anyway; won't be back for a while."

[Reinholdt]

[Hollow Park]

"I don't know how." Reina hisses, clearly terrified of singing. She probably sounds terrible.

Otto's Place

"Well dear sir, let me speak to whomever handles his affairs while he's away! I would wait if I thought I could, but timing in this business is everything."

[FireFox]

[Hollow Park]

Sing now or we're doing karaoke later. Tovia threatens? Invites? That might be the better option, actually, if its the private room kind and not the public bar kind.

[Reinholdt]

Hallow Park

"Are you threatening to get me drunk so you can hear my tone deaf singing?" Reina asks.

[FireFox]

[Hollow Park]

As if I'd have to resort to intoxication to get you to do anything. Tovia grins as she hugs Reina closer. Fine, forget about it. So that when I force you to do it later, it's a complete surprise! is what she doesn't say.

[Reinholdt]

[Hallow Park]

It will be a complete surprise. Now I'm curious as to how he'll pull it off.

Reina looks down, feeling nearly guilty about refusing and hugs Tovia back. "So... can we get that tie and get back to Julie then?"

[FireFox]

[Hallow Park]

Mmm... The Druidess steps back and turns away in an attempt to hide her blush. Fiiine. She walks over the the frozen pit and casts a spell to cut out a cubic meter of ice around the necktie and then another spell to pull the heavy block out.
Blue pinch’d and shrined in ice the spirits stood,
Moving their teeth in shrill note like the stork.
His face each downward held; their mouth the cold,
Their eyes express’d the dolour of their heart.

[Reinholdt]

[Hallow Park]

Reina turns away awkwardly after.
"Hmm... I should get a small wagon to carry that. I'll be back shortly." Unless Tovia has another idea, Reina will briefly head off and return in about fifteen minutes with one.

[FireFox]

[Hallow Park]

The moment the other woman is out of sight, Tovia bends over in pain and jams a fist into her mouth to muffle the scream. Only extraordinary willpower has allowed her to ignore the bad steam burn all over her back. It takes her a few minutes to recover enough to cast a healing spell, but by the time Reina returns she's back to looking perfectly fine.

[Reinholdt]

[Hallow Park]

"Don't you look fresher? I'll admit, I'll need to get you in the mud more often." Reina says as she bends to get the ice onto the wagon.

[FireFox]

[Hallow Park]

Hey, you can't take credit for my plan. ... I hope that Julie chick isn't mad I ruined her outfit, though. She sighs and watches the treasure huntress load the wagon.

[GrandDM]

[An Alley]

The figure senses the attack and dodges backwards quickly, narrowly avoiding having his throat ripped out. A pair of thin, adamantine longswords edged in silver appear in his hands. Without a moment's hesitation, he rebounds, dashing forward to attack the limb that just tried to kill him.

It's not there any more, because the robot sailed past him and rolled, so it's now behind him.

Once again, it slashes with its claws at superhuman speed.

[Reinholdt]

[Hallow Park]

"She has more than enough. And it's not like we didn't do what she wanted, so I doubt she'll be mad." Reina says, taking hold of the wagon and starting to wheel it out as she leads the way back to GLoG.

[FireFox]

[Hallow Park]

Hm hm hm. Tovia yawns tiredly as she follows Reina back home. You can't ride on my little red wagon: the front side's broken and the axle's draggin'.

[Gullara]

Otto's Place

"Well dear sir, let me speak to whomever handles his affairs while he's away! I would wait if I thought I could, but timing in this business is everything."

[Otto's Manse]

The bruiser scowls at Rein, but doesn't rebuke him outright. "Lemme get her then. You stay here." He leaves Rein there with the door firmly closed in front of him. As the man walks away, Rein might catch sight of him nod to someone out of sight. If he wants to do anything while he waits, he'll have a good five minutes.

[Reinholdt]

[Otto's Manse]

Five minutes huh?
*marks the countdown clock*

This Reinholdt is playing the smooth approach and will not be doing something so crass as picking locks or barging in while waiting for his hostess. Hopefully she'll be willing to fall for a pretty face and promise of riches.

[GrandDM]

[Rooftops - Robot Hunting]

Up on the rooftops somewhere, KR has set up a small scanning array. She's fully decked out in her now complete power armor, the sleek suit now fully painted a glossy black color with red highlights and decals of Watchtower's symbol. She's currently hunched over a laptop computer hooked up to a 4' foot tall antenna, which is currently scanning all of Inside for spikes in electromagnetic activity which may indicate the presence of a giant, army-wrecking robot. There's a lot of interference, of course. Remnant and Irregular technology make up for most of the signals. And then there's just the random stuff that comes from the Nexus being the Nexus. But if there are any unfriendly robots doing unfriendly robot things out there, KR's scanner should be able to pick it up.

And, bing! There are a lot of hotspots. Most of them are in groups of seven, so they're probably Harald's robot teams. A few are airborne - one's visible from where she is, and is a small shuttle in Harald's signature slightly off-white plating. All of those readings are identical, so they can be discounted.

Then... there's one more. In an alley a little way away. It seems to fit the bill.

((Feel free to drop in on the scene.))

[Artemis97]

It's not there any more, because the robot sailed past him and rolled, so it's now behind him.

Once again, it slashes with its claws at superhuman speed.

An Alley]

Moving in a blur, the cloaked figure spins and brings up his blades to block. Beneath the hood, his eyes glow red in anger.

[GrandDM]

An Alley

Moving in a blur, the cloaked figure spins and brings up his blades to block. Beneath the hood, his eyes glow red in anger.

The robot crosses its arms across its chest and a shimmering forcefield springs up, which the blades bounce off. As soon as they do, the field is deactivated and a third strike made.

[Artemis97]

[An Alley]

The drow dodges the strike, bringing up a blade to block. Simultaneously, he steps closer to the robot, bringing up his second blade to slash the robot across the chest.

[Aric Kale]

Generic Magical Item Store

Well hey! Looks like Thatcher wants to do some shopping. He peruses the magical item section before coming across two stones, which happen to be from the mine FireFox has created. When he picks up the stones, they glow orange; the closer they are, the brighter they glow.
Feeling oddly satisfied, Thatcher purchases the stones from the disheveled shopkeeper and exits past the dueling Jedi and Sith.

[McBish]

By The Ship-Thing

Sort of, Alley mentally replies to Avatar. She confirmed that I won't find any warp-worthy vessels on this planet, but she said that there's a Slaaneshi cult in some town near here called Riverside. I might be able to find some way back home through them. If not, well," he'll feel the mental shrug, "at least I'll be able to keep the forces of Chaos from taking advantage of this horrible place."

Nort, however, receives a sudden blank look as Alley realizes she isn't actually sure what she wanted to talk to him about. "Uh. So. What was all that about?" she asks, lamely pointing at his ship-thing.

"A little more powerflux then I had hoped for in my experiment. Honestly I am a little surprised it held up as well as it did, my sodering skills aren't all that great. Those clouds weren't suppose to be there. Though they weren't really clouds so much as null-darkness, possibly leaking through from another universe. Which would be good if that is true, since trying to reach the other universe is what I was doing." Nort explains in a roundabout sort of way.