GLoG 90

[Gullara]

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The Good League of Good is a Nexus organization devoted to the care and support of those in need, a sanctuary for those that need it, and the redemption of evildoers. The organization strives to make the campsite a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

If you are brand new to ffrp, please come to the Nexus OoC thread and introduce yourself. We all want to meet you!

Charitable Activities

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GLoG performs good works such as caring for distressed individuals in need, housing and feeding evacuees from the city during disasters, and healing sick and injured people in GLoG's infirmary - renowned as the most advanced place of healing in the Nexus.

Our Redemption Program

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Individuals who come in search of redemption should be interviewed by a member to see how their needs can be best met, and then assigned to a mentor who will assist them. Graduation from the redemption program will occur when both the redemee and his/her mentor agree that they have made sufficient progress.

Attention Villains

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Conflict is great! It's the heart of any story, and there isn't much to roleplay without it. However, as a player to player courtesy, please check in with the players who are active at any given time before launching an attack. Not everyone wants to roleplay combat scenes, and sometimes there are other things going on that players don't want to interrupt for a random fight. Either a PM/IM to players, a short post in thread to say ((Mind if I introduce a villain here?)) or a longer post in the OOC thread if it's a larger plot is appreciated.

Also, please don't plan any villainy that will result in destroying the base or having the same effect (poisoning the lake, burning down the forest, etc.) without the consent of the majority of the players who would be affected.

Base Defences

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he GLoG campsite is now under the effects of the spell Plaza of Downcast Eyes. Almost all teleportation and scrying spells are blocked.

A Spirit Charm has been placed on the GLoG grounds. A number of willing spirits serve to protect the grounds. See the Miscellaneous Inhabitants section for more information.

There is a perimeter of cactus plants to encourage anyone on foot to enter by one of the main entrance points.

If any of your characters add more defences, please PM them to Gulaghar so they can be added.

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If you're a newbie, and you've read this far, you should know enough to join in the fun.
Everything beyond this point is Bonus Material.

Members/Residents

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Please PM Gulaghar to be added to the list when you bring a character into the thread with the intention of redeeming or of having them reside here on a regular basis. IC, we'll assume there's a sign in log somewhere.

Our IC leadership council
Andreas Emeral (played by Zefir)
Brand Applehill (played by happyturtle)
Quinn (played by The Bushranger)
Pathfinder (played by Wolfbane)
Reelshka (played by Morty)
Runner (played by KerfuffleMach2)
Shrike (played by The Bushranger)
Zamira (played by horngeek)

The leadership council exists so that any one member can make important decisions affecting all of GLoG. Basically, when someone shows up and says 'I need to speak to the person in charge', any one of the leadership council can handle it.


Members/Residents

Name	Player	Species	Gender	Position	Cabin
Andreas Emeral	Zefir	Human	Male	Council	Ironoak
Bramble	Earl of Purple	Human	Male		Balsa
Brand Applehill	Happyturtle	Halfling	Male	Cook, Council	Poplar
Cacame	Earl of Purple	Elf	Male
Cerridwen	Reinholdt	Catgirl	Female
Daffodil	Earl of Purple	Human	Male		Balsa
Daisy	Earl of Purple	Human	Male		Balsa
Eric	Harnel	Elf/Wolf	Male		Rowan
Jazirian	Kid Kris	Gold Dragon	Male
Julie Fiske	Slii Arhem	Succubus	Female		Rowan
Kate	Lost Deep	Human	Female
Khiansa	Kris on a Stick	Human	Male
Lichen	Earl of Purple	Lizardperson	Male		Balsa
Marley, Ebenezer	ThePhantom	Human	Male
Mark Two	LordDeathkeeper	Myr	None		Maple
Nishtar	Earl of Purple	Elf	Male
Pansy Applehill	Happyturtle	Halfling	Female	Cook, Child care	Poplar
Pansy	Earl of Purple	Human	Male		Balsa
Pathfinder	Wolfbane	Wolfen	Male	Council	Forest Hut
Quinn Druid	The Bushranger	Human	Female	Doctor, Council	Cedar(Infirmary)
Reelshka Trollfinger	Morty	Goblin	Female	Council	Mushroom
Renetta Oronar	Gulaghar	Elf/Wolfen	Female		Forest Hut
Ruth	Flaming Eagle	Nephilim	Female	Healer	Evergreen
Sattael	Earl of Purple	Elf	Male
Shrike	The Bushranger	Human	Female	Council
Sophie Mouchabiere	Morty	Human	Female		Maple
Taurus Russkij	The Bushranger	Human/Drow/Brass Dragon	Male	Gardener
Waterstrider	Wolfbane	Wolfen	Male		Forest Hut

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Name	Player	Species	Gender	Position	Cabin
Bailey	qwertyu63	Human	Male	Healer
Emily	Lix Lorn	Human	Female		Denim
Friend	Keveak	Mortal Ex-Fae	Male
Krystal Jones	KerfuffleMach2	Mutant	Female	Infirmary Assistant
Runner	KerfuffleMach2	Autobot	Male	Council
Tanar Aerdoth	tman2nd	Half-elf	Male		Oak
Vidalia	Lex-Kat	Human/Plant	Female/Onion		Cherry
Zamira	horngeek	Human	Female	Council

Children

Name	Player	Species	Gender	Cabin
Brinika Sneergrim	Morty	Goblin	Female	Mushroom
Carth	LordDeathkeeper	Griffon	Male	Balsa
Dag	Happyturtle	Skydragon	Male
Flamecrest	Gulaghar	Welfen	Female	Forest Hut
Hadrian	Firefox	Human	Male	Cedar(Infirmary)
Jamie Druid/Mikani	The Bushranger	Human	Female	Cedar(Infirmary)
Keo	Lost Deep	Catperson	Female	Outdoors
Lily Applehill	Happyturtle	Halfling	Female	Poplar
Natalie	Earl of Purple	Human	Female	Cedar(Infirmary)
Prism	Slii Arhem	Succubus/Starspawn	Female	Rowan
Salix	Gulaghar	Dryad	Female	Off-Site
Scylla	Harnel	Succubus/Starspawn	Female	Rowan
Tito Applehill	Happyturtle	Halfling	Male	Poplar
Timmy Saunders	OrchestraHc	Human	Male	Maple
Asher	Flaming Eagle	Winged Nephilim	Male	Evergreen

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Name	Player	Species	Gender	Cabin
Abigail Hayashi	horngeek	Human	Female
Holly/Chione	Hyozo	human	Female

Redeemees

Character	Player	Species	Gender	Why they're here	Being helped by	Cabin
Aurelia	Arkhosia	Daemonfae	Female	Assassin	Quinn	Infimary
Chessxenna Maeana	Arkhosia	Drow	Female	Poisoning, Causing Anarchy, Murder	Brand	Oak
Invidius	Murkus	Lantern Archon	Male?	Rebellion	Sophie	Main Lodge Wardrobe
Meddy	Beans	Human (+metal bits)	Female	Killing and cannibalism (originally under duress, but became habitual)	N/A	Cherry
Tobias Druid	FireFox	Human	Male	War criminal	Sophie	Cedar(Infirmary)
Valaira	The Alexandrian	Deathhand	Female	Mass-Devourer; Partial Viceduchess	Zero	Maple

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Character	Player	Species	Gender	Why they're here	Being helped by	Cabin

Description of the GLoG Setting

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By Gulaghar

After the original GLoG building was destroyed by an army of catpeople, the survivors took out a mortgage and purchased Phoenix Lake Campground. Facilities include the main lodge house, a bathhouse with separate male and female sections, a stable (one horse present, a chestnut mare named Fancy owned by Dr Burnett), various picnic shelters, and a few scattered cabins. It's set in the foothills of the Acro mountains, and mainly surrounded by woods. There are many hiking trails nearby leading to mountaintop vistas, waterfalls, seacoves, and various other locations, both within this thread, and in the Outside thread. The campground is also within easy walking distance of the city of Inside, though there is also a Riftline station just outside the campground for those who prefer to take the train or who have farther to go.

At the lake, there is a small dock with a little shed nearby where a few canoes and paddleboats are stored. The swimming area has a GIANT slide and a rope swing. Because GIANT slides and rope swings are awesome. There is a sandy volleyball court not far from the slide, a playground under the trees, set back from the lake somewhat, and a set of horseshoe pits.

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Main lodge:


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The lake:

Buildings

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Main Lodge: This large building contains an industrial kitchen with a cafeteria style serving area, and an open space that was once used as the dining hall. The space is warmed by a massive fireplace. Bunk beds are lined up on one end of the hall, opposite the kitchen, and a few comfy chairs and sofas are beginning to appear around the fireplace as they are procured. The building itself is made of stone.

Infirmary: If no PC is present in the Infirmary, patients are tended to by Nurse Piper, a ghost NPC who haunts the infirmary. Despite being a ghost, she is solid enough when managing anything to do with nursing. She has a tyrannical bedside manner, but will always put the welfare of her patients first. She is able to generally stabilize patients and do general nursing care, but cannot provide magical healing or any type of advanced medicine that would normally be performed by a doctor.

Infirmary staff include:

• Quinn (The Bushranger)
• Tobias (Firefox)

(PM Gulaghar if you want your character to be added to this list)

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The outside of the infirmary looks just like all the rest of the buildings. Nothing distinguishes it at all. But inside, everything is white, with silver highlighting. Even though it doesn't seem possible, when looking from outside, sunlight filters inside. Giving the place a warm feeling with natural light. A soft, soothing music filters through the whole building and voices can barely be heard saying words of healing and comfort, like: "You are going to be okay." "We'll take care of you." "You are dear to us." and so on.

Each room is walled off for a limited amount of privacy, because the pixies know that humans seem to need this. Strange. But it is limited. There are no doors. The wall's angles are severe, so that people on the other side of the hall can't see into anyone's room. Only someone intentionally looking in, can see you.

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Cabins: Individuals can have their own room within a cabin, but they are unlikely to have a full cabin to themselves unless they come equipped with a family. Some of the cabins have been rebuilt, so may have more space than the 4 room cabins the campground came with, and a few cabins have had private bathrooms installed. All cabins are named after trees, and players are free to invent further details about their own cabins.

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Main Lodge - Willow
Infirmary - Cedar
Nursery - Sapling
Visitor's Cabin - Apple

Cabin 1 - Oak
Cabin 2 - Ash
Cabin 3 - Redwood
Cabin 4 - Maple, full
Cabin 5 - Balsa, full
Cabin 6 - Cherry
Cabin 7 - Elm
Cabin 8 - Birch
Cabin 9 - Ironoak
Cabin 10 - Elm - full
Cabin 11 - Rowan, family
Cabin 12 - Poplar, family
Cabin 13 - Evergreen

Forest Hut 1, family
Forest Hut 2, family
Main Lodge Cellar - Mushroom, family
Cabin - Denim, family

• New cabins can be added to this list as needed; just pick a tree name and start posting for it. PM Gulaghar to have it added to the official list.
  
• Cabins coloured green are currently unavailable for new inhabitants, with the reason listed next to the cabin name. Typically this means a cabin is occupied by a family or has all its rooms filled.
  
• The bolded buildings are not cabins of the usual sort and are not usually occupied by normal members. Few exceptions exist.
  
• Visitor's Cabin - Apple is reserved for visitors who do not want to stay at the lodge. They are requested to check in at the main lodge, where any member can give them permission to stay for a few days. Longer than that, and unless they are in need, they would be requested to either join or move to their own place or one of the local inns.

Bathhouse: This building is divided into the men's and women's bathhouses, with entrances at either end. It has shower stalls, a line of sinks, and toilet stalls in each.

Workshop: A well built cabin designed by Reelshka, containing nothing at present but the Mainframe installation. It is locked. Drones fly in and out of a small entrance that opens for them when they send an encrypted signal.

Miscellaneous Inhabitants

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The Spirits
Recently in the history of GLoG, a protective charm has been placed over the GLoG grounds. The shaman Pathfinder bid all the willing spirits that perished in and around GLoG to protect the grounds from those that would wish to do it and its inhabitants harm.

At the current time, Morty controls the spirits for the most part.

The Drones Mk 2
The drones are back at GLoG. Drones are NPCs who can be played by anyone, within the guidelines below:

• Their Primary Function is member safety.
• They no longer have teleport beams or alignment scanners.
• They do have stun beams, little arms, and the ability to record what's going on around them.
• They follow orders, unless those orders conflict with their Primary Function.
• There are only 4-5 in operation at any one time.
• They can be destroyed, but if so, they'll be restored from backup.
• A few have been supplied with medical programming, and thus can be godmodded for infirmary duties.
• They often have weird personality quirks and are prone to malfunctioning.
• Statement: They speak in DarkOrange FixedSys
• The only named drone (so far) is Caretaker, who is a private drone charged with protecting Brinika and controlled by Morty.

The Ghosts
Having been built on a Generic Ancient Burial Ground, Phoenix Lake Campground is haunted by various ghosts. They are generally harmless, and for the most part glad to have some company, though pranks and hijinks may occur. Ghosts can be NPC'd by anyone unless they are listed as PCs in the following list. They tend to speak in Gray, and mostly appear for comic purposes, but this is by no means a requirement.

Ghosts:

Ghost	Player	Notes
Bloody Gentleman	Hyozo
Heather	Happyturtle	Drowned teenage girl
Irene	Reinholdt	Nymph
Ironbeard	NPC	A dwarven gentleman rake
Jase	Happyturtle	Teenage boy
Lady Anastasia Miranda Ophelia Stuart	Happyturtle	Former royal courtesan
Lady Phoenix	ThePhantom	The lady in the faded red dress
Nurse Piper	NPC	Former camp nurse, thinks of the GLoG infirmary as her domain
Palon	Hyozo	Teenage Prankster, seems to enjoy tormenting Charity

Archive

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GLoG 89 11May14
GLoG 88 9Nov13
GLoG 87 20Aug13
GLoG 86 10May13
GLoG 85 4Feb13
GLoG 84: Goblins and catgirls and dryads, oh my! 20Oct12
GLoG 83 8July12
GLoG 82: So Many Babies! 7June12
GLoG 81: Ghostbusters! 20Apr12
GLoG LXXX: Continuation of a New Era! 23Feb12
GLoG 79: So Lonely. 20Jan12
Good League of Good 78: Druids of Mass Destruction and other bioweapons 06Dec11
Good League of Good LXXVII: Earth Vampires DON'T Sparkle! 22Oct11
GLoG 76: Now with a Decipherable OP! 15Sep11
GLoG 75: Gazebos Gone Wild 05Aug11
GLoG LXXIV: Back to the Numerals! 09Jul11
GloG 73 16Jun11
GLoG 72 20May11
GLoG 71: Redemption Equals Free Housing! 19Apr11
GLoG 70 07Apr11
GLoG 69 19Mar11
GLoG 68 06Mar11
GLoG 67 11Feb11
GloG 66: Coupon Redemption 23Jan11
GloG 65 08Jan11
GLoG 64: Campsites, not Chessboards! 26Dec10
GLoG LXIII: Roman Numerals are back! 09Dec10
GLoG 62: Come for the paddleboats. Stay for the hawt shirtless catboy! 19Nov10
GLoG 61: Now with 100% More goblins 31Oct10
GLoG 60 18Oct10
GLoG LIX: Now with Trees! 07Oct10
GLoG LVIII: Shaken, but not baked 30Aug10
GLoG LVII: Princess Power Trio Plus Protective Parents 31Jul10
GLoG LVI: I had a joke but I forgot it 02Jul10
GLoG LV: Witty Title And/Or Song Reference 10Jun10
GLoG LIV: Sleeping with the Lights On 26Apr10
GLoG LIII: These are the Days of our Lives. 30Mar10
GLoG LII: Home of the Next Generation 07Mar10
GLoG 51 05Feb10
GLoG 50: Rife with new Life. 20Jan10
GLoG 49: Who Ya Gonna Call? 07Jan10
GLoG 48: From the Ashes 19Dec09

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GLoG XLVII: Nothing can stop us. Well, except that. 24Nov09
GLoG XLVI: With a Maraschino Cherry On Top. 06Nov09
GLoG XLV: The winds of change be darned! 20Oct09
GLoG 44: Continuity has no place here! 09Oct09
GLoG 43: Behave yourself, Dani! 27Sep09
GLoG XLII: Yes, curtains still get dropped here 17Sep09
GLoG XLI: When you're smiling, the world plots against you. 02Sep09
GLoG 40: Now one year old! 27Aug09
GLoG 39: And there was much rejoicing. (Yay!) 20Aug09
GLoG 38: Pay No Attention to the Computer's Paranoid Ramblings 12Aug09
GLoG 37: Dysfunction Junction 02Aug09
GLoG XXXVI: Curse You, Dramatic Irony! 26Jul09
GLoG XXXV: There shall be happiness!!! 20Jul09
GLoG XXXIV: It gets worse! 11Jul09
GLoG XXXIII: Do you think you can handle it? 04Jul09
GLoG XXXII:The Loved and the Lost 27Jun09
GLoG 31: To live defeated and inglorious is to die daily 19Jun09
GLoG 30: Defying Biology Since 2008! 13Jun09
GLoG 29: Under New Management 09Jun09
GLoG 28: The People's Republic of Magtok 04Jun09
GLoG 27: Pay No Attention to the Thead Behind the Curtain! 31May09
GLoG 26: Now With 100% More Things Trying to Nom You! 25May09
GLoG XXV (that's 25!): Mapped out and everythin'! 20May09
GLoG XXIV: This Ain't No House of Cards 08May09
GLoG XXIII: With malice towards none. 27Apr09
GLoG XXII: Ahhhhhh!!!! They're after us!! 12Apr09
GLoG 21/XX1: Half of Life, the Universe, and Everything. 28Mar09
GLoG 20/XX: Twenty Times the Awesome 03Mar09
GLoG 19: For those who can't make it over the rainbow 13Feb09
GLoG 18: It's A Brand New Day 31Jan09
GLoG XVII: SMITE CONTINUITY! 23Jan09
GLoG XVI: Built out of 100% recycled babies. That's why we're good. 12Jan09
GLoG XV: Beware the Ides of GLoG. 03Jan09
GLoG XIV: Where Bad Puns Go To Die. 29Dec08
GLoG XIII: Bring It On, Omnipotent Beings! 21Dec08
GLoG 12: [Insert Unique and Witty Title Here] 06Dec08
GLoG XI: We Failed Our "Witty Title Check" (DC 3). 23Nov08
GLoG X: More Like Good League Of... Of... Crazy 03Nov08
GLoG IX: Death is no longer cheap 22Oct08
GLoG VIII: Thread of Exalted Deeds 17Oct08
GLoG VII: Now Vampire Free! 07Oct08
GLoG VI: Thread of One Thousand Plots 29Sep08
GLoG V: Where Everyone's a Hero (In Their Own Way) 20/09/2008
GLoG IV: Please refrain from kidnapping our members 11Sep08
GLoG III: Albeit, we ate the cake with our sporks 02Sep08
GLoG II: Now with 30% More Sporks 26Aug08
The Good League of Good 22Aug08

This thread is managed by Gulaghar. He will create the new thread when this one reached 50 pages. Please contact him for updates to the OP.

[FireFox]

[Med Lab?]

An applicant appears! Well, really they dive down out of the sky, spread a pair of white-feathered wings, and touch down just outside the building. The sharp face and long pointed ears would her as some sort of elf. Her skin is white as the fluffiest clouds, and her eyes a hazelnut brown. She's dressed in a tight silvery-blue jumpsuit and a pair of goggles (just now flipped up on her forehead). Many tools and trinkets hang from loops and velcro patches.
Of course she's a spy here to steal his bioweapons.
She holds a paper copy of the wall advert in her hand on the way to knock or enter, as seems appropriate.

[Med Lab!]

The front door of the building is open and Toby's office is easily found. The Druid sits behind his cherry wood desk, wearing a pristine white labcoat over a light blue dress shirt and navy tie secured with a gold Rod of Asclepius pin. The desk is full of papers, folders, and various notepads, but everything seems meticulously organized. Two stacks of papers are weighted down by interesting, possibly important things: a multifaceted crystal that pulses with foxfire and a bronze pump handle. The wall behind Toby has a wide glass window to let in the sun. The wall to his right features a floor-to-ceiling chalkboard covered in runes. The wall to his left shows dozens of pictures of the Medical Director with doctors and patients throughout the Nexus, as well as myriad framed degrees, some of which are even in his name. The wall in front of him is bare, save for the door the applicant steps through and an impressive photograph of D.A. Henderson smiling down in triumph.

Hello! Toby greets the applicant with a smile, standing up to offer his hand as he closely examines her. He's particularly interested in her wings, her body language as well as her microexpressions, and all those tools. Please, take a seat and tell me what I can do for you, Ms. ...?

[Cyber Punk]

"I don't know. She hasn't visited me; I've got this through gossip with others." The campsite is protected by some spirits that Waterstrider summoned, and is haunted by a variety of ghosts which don't show up so often any more.

"And He has not given you further instruction? I am not familiar with this Allfather, nor these Nine." Stellax and the others like him were created with all the knowledge they need for their duties, which in turn keep them busy enough that they rarely get bored. When they do, typically they go socialise with other messengers, psychopomps, divine guardians, avatars and similar creatures.

Baccata's Yew

"And I'm not familiar with The Mother, or all those others you speak of. A side-effect of being from different worlds." Jinkei replies. "The Nine are the direct servants of the Allfather, of which my maternal grandmother is one. I have been offered a spot for my part in discovering lightmetal. It did something to me, as well, but I'm not sure what."

She nods to herself. "I see. So how's that list coming up, Baccata?"

[Gullara]

[Salix's Willow]

"Hi Salix!" Brinika squeaks, turning to the dryad with a big, toothy grin. "We brought Asher here because he wanted to meet you," she says, pointing to the angel boy. "This place has changed a lot!"

Salix's Tree

"I'm sorry we scared your rabbits. It is beautiful here, Salix." I have also remembered something I said earlier about Natalie. She smells like all the shapes she has available, but she smells the one that is least threatening to any animals around her. So the rabbits probably think she's a chickadee; a small, seed-eating bird that not only poses no direct threat but also pretty common in rabbit territory.

[Salix's Tree]

"H-hi!" Asher waves to the dryad, a look of wonder on his face. The dryad-like creatures he knows don't look like Salix at all. "Woah..." He squeaks out as he reaches out to feel her bark-skin.

[Salix's Tree]

"Oh, heya. Yeah everything's growing a whole bunch. Don't worry about the bunnies, being scared is how they stay safe." Salix beans at her friends, she's about to address the new person in particular, but then Asher tries to touch her. "What're you doing?" She takes a step back and wards off Asher's hand. She's not a plaything to be handled!

[Murkus]

"Who's Keo!" Cernunnos asks, furrowing his brow.

Gwydion merely manages to look shy. "I guess bein' a source-ress like Aunt Cessie wouldn't be so bad..."

Repost for Morty.

[Morty]

[Salix's Willow]

"Rabbits are kind of like goblins used to be, except smaller and fluffier," Brinika rambles. Her brain makes those leaps sometimes.

[Sapling Cabin]

"Keo is a cat-people," Tuskfang says. "She hunts wif my dad. An' she hunts mice too."

"Doing magic is cool," Brinika says with a nod. "I'm sure you can become a magician if you want to."

[Recaiden]

[Med Lab!]

The front door of the building is open and Toby's office is easily found. The Druid sits behind his cherry wood desk, wearing a pristine white labcoat over a light blue dress shirt and navy tie secured with a gold Rod of Asclepius pin. The desk is full of papers, folders, and various notepads, but everything seems meticulously organized. Two stacks of papers are weighted down by interesting, possibly important things: a multifaceted crystal that pulses with foxfire and a bronze pump handle. The wall behind Toby has a wide glass window to let in the sun. The wall to his right features a floor-to-ceiling chalkboard covered in runes. The wall to his left shows dozens of pictures of the Medical Director with doctors and patients throughout the Nexus, as well as myriad framed degrees, some of which are even in his name. The wall in front of him is bare, save for the door the applicant steps through and an impressive photograph of D.A. Henderson smiling down in triumph.

Hello! Toby greets the applicant with a smile, standing up to offer his hand as he closely examines her. He's particularly interested in her wings, her body language as well as her microexpressions, and all those tools. Please, take a seat and tell me what I can do for you, Ms. ...?

The applicant smiles politely and shakes Toby's hand with a firm grip. The smile gets a bit more reality as she looks at the well-organized desk, and she has a brief moment of surprise upon looking at the runes, and starts, unbidden, to try to decipher them.
"Omecha Herrienegoiakakoa."
She takes a seat in the chair, nervous and over-deliberate, leaning forward to not have the back on the chair in the way of her wings, which are slightly ruffled from the flight here. A few tools rattle. They include a tiny flashlight, a wrench, a packet of screwdrivers, a swiss army knife, a set of pens and pencils, a tape recorder, a compass, a little quartz-looking spar wrapped in leather, a small blowtorch, a bundle of rope.
"I'm here about the advertisement on the wall for a secretary. Amanuensis - the action of taking dictation and copying information, as well as interfacing with legal documents on behalf of another, as well as the person employed to do so and as a descriptor for such a person."

[Earl of Purple]

Baccata's Yew

"Stjornu-Skeggi is not the Mother. She is my Mother. I know not lightmetal, either." Stellax is intrigued by it, though. He often is, by new things.

"Um, let's see." Baccata runs her eyes over the document, and eventually nods. "Yep, all there. Here you go." The list includes many rare and exotic herbs, minerals and similar things. The list includes an albino mandrake root, a pinch of Dead Sea salt, the seeds from a black rose, a millilitre of a cockatrice's tears, and dew collected from the footprint of a mountain giant at the crack of dawn.

[Cyber Punk]

[Baccata's Yew]

"Well, lightmetal is a material that enables the use of magic in technological applications, bridging the gap between magic and science and making 'magitech' possible in my world. I've seen it in the Nexus, but such a thing didn't exist in my world until the lab accident."

Jinkei gestures to her tails as she speaks with Stellax, then her eyes. "My eyes are supposed to be green, and my tails aren't supposed to be blue-white and yellow-white. The accident did something to my soul... from what I've witnessed so far, I'm more attuned to lightmetal and can harness it's properties more effectively. The old laws of physics dictate that light travels in a straight line. Not anymore." She grins. Not that it's easy to control and weave light, for her it takes time. Because of it, she learned how to knit.

She collects the list from Baccata and goes through it. "Albino Mandrake, Dead Sea salt... what is the Dead Sea, exactly? Black Rose... never seen that before, but this is the Nexus. Cockatrice's tears... wait, what? How am I supposed to find that, Baccata? I'm not a fighter! I could try putting it to sleep with my magic, though..." She pauses. "Why do I need dew collected from mountain giant footprint?!"

[Salix's Willow]

Asher withdraws quickly. "I-I-I'm... I'm s-sorry." He mutters, looking down. "B-but you're p-pretty, so I wanted..." he trails off, then goes to hide behind Brinika.

[FireFox]

[Med Lab]

Fantastic. Why don't you tell me about yourself, Ms. Herrienegoiakakoa? It's a minor point of pride with him (but then again, what isn't?) that he pronounces her name correctly on the first try. He takes a legal pad from his desk, flips to an empty page, and prepares to take notes.

The runes are Druidic, of a scientific type that may or may not be unique to my created world. An additional set of complications is presented by Toby making up his own words and using transliterated Greek and Latin terms at random. Possibly a security measure. Probably a pathological impulse to overly complicate everything. If Omecha isn't already familiar with the Druidic language, deciphering should only be possible with magical or technological assistance.

[Earl of Purple]

Baccata's Yew

"I don't know. They're the ingredients needed for the potion. The Dead Sea is a really salty sea, so salty nothing lives in it. Hence the name. The water's so dense people float on it. And I think magic shops could have some of those things, if you know where to find them." Or they could source them, or perhaps simplify the recipe.

Stellax is unfamiliar with magitech, being a psychopomp he mostly deals with the deceased, so usually such devices are damaged beyond repair by whatever accident caused the death. He nods as if he understands anyway.

Salix' Willow

Natalie smiles at Asher's reaction and looks for somewhere to sit. She doesn't say anything at the moment, though.

[Recaiden]

[Med Lab]

Fantastic. Why don't you tell me about yourself, Ms. Herrienegoiakakoa? It's a minor point of pride with him (but then again, what isn't?) that he pronounces her name correctly on the first try. He takes a legal pad from his desk, flips to an empty page, and prepares to take notes.

The runes are Druidic, of a scientific type that may or may not be unique to my created world. An additional set of complications is presented by Toby making up his own words and using transliterated Greek and Latin terms at random. Possibly a security measure. Probably a pathological impulse to overly complicate everything. If Omecha isn't already familiar with the Druidic language, deciphering should only be possible with magical or technological assistance.

Magical assistance is provided by a crystal under the base of her collar, and on another level at the back of her mind she becomes aware that it's Druidic, with such and such meaning, with three groups of unknown words, one of which matches Latin forms, the other two unknown and with a best guess of their contextual meaning supplied.

"Because I'm unlikely to volunteer exactly the information you're looking for."
It wasn't really a question, of course.
"Seventeen years of age, more experience with bureaucratic documents than medical ones, but this is such a unique opportunity."
"From Skyside, because, uh, where else, being who I am? The Event didn't bother me much but it was certainly a sign to get out."

[Gullara]

[Salix's Willow]

"Rabbits are kind of like goblins used to be, except smaller and fluffier," Brinika rambles. Her brain makes those leaps sometimes.

[Salix's Willow]

Asher withdraws quickly. "I-I-I'm... I'm s-sorry." He mutters, looking down. "B-but you're p-pretty, so I wanted..." he trails off, then goes to hide behind Brinika.

Salix' Willow

Natalie smiles at Asher's reaction and looks for somewhere to sit. She doesn't say anything at the moment, though.

[Salix's Willow]

Salix scratches the back of her head.. That reaction was a bit more than she was expecting. "Uh, it's okay. Just ask first or something." She leans over to look at Asher past Brinika. "Why do you talk like that anyway?" She asks bluntly.

[Cyber Punk]

[Baccata's Yew]

Jinkei nods once. "I'll head to Mallside immediately." She can hardly contain her guarded excitement, though she's still slightly weirded out by the specificness of some of the items.

She smiles at Salix. "Forgive me, but I could talk about that all day." She says, going slightly red, assuming it can be seen under all that fur.

[Earl of Purple]

Baccata's Yew

"I can tell. It went right over my head. I shall bring it to Stjornu-Skeggi's attention, however. Such could be of interest to Her." Alas, I can't recall how I got the Skeggi when on Google Translate, and it won't translate back from Icelandic. So I'm not certain what She actually represents at this stage.

[Morty]

[Salix's Willow]

Brinika pulls her attention away from thinking about the similarities between rabbits and goblins. Her ears twitch.

"Be nicer, Salix. Asher is just a little shy," she says.

[Murkus]

[Sapling Cabin]

"Auntie says it's hard, though," Gwydion says, glancing away. "An' she's special. Smart."

"A cat-people?" Cernunnos looks at his dad. "Cat-people?" He can't voice it right, but he's incredulous. There is such a thing as cats that are people?!

"Yea, Cern," Adir explains, leaning against the wall of the cabin. His arms are crossed over his chest. "There are all kinds of different people. They aren't just like you, or mommy, or Aunt Cessie's kinda people. There's more different kinds of people than anyone could ever count." Adir is smiling, grinning almost, which seems to be his default setting if the kids haven't noticed already.

"Woaaah!" Cernunnos's eyes shine. He is just about to open his mouth to babble something when Gwydion voices his thoughts.

"What kinda people are we, daddy?"

Cernunnos looks from his brother to his old man, who is trying to think of something rapidly. "Yeah, daddy, wha' kind?"

"Well, uhh, I don't..." Adir unfolds his arms. None of Sakura's parenting books he's been sneak-reading say anything about this. "I don't think anyone has a name for people like you kids. You're special."

Cern looks at him a moment. Then squeaks, a little more shrilly, "I want a people-name!"

[FireFox]

Magical assistance is provided by a crystal under the base of her collar, and on another level at the back of her mind she becomes aware that it's Druidic, with such and such meaning, with three groups of unknown words, one of which matches Latin forms, the other two unknown and with a best guess of their contextual meaning supplied.

"Because I'm unlikely to volunteer exactly the information you're looking for."
It wasn't really a question, of course.
"Seventeen years of age, more experience with bureaucratic documents than medical ones, but this is such a unique opportunity."
"From Skyside, because, uh, where else, being who I am? The Event didn't bother me much but it was certainly a sign to get out."

[Med Lab]

Hmm... You had a job in Government, then? Toby finds, to his surprise, that he's a little uncomfortable with her examining his chalkboard. Surely she isn't able to read it, though. I'm sorry, what Event?

The first part appears to be the framework for a spell, one designed to administer drugs at a distance. There are three options contemplated below, identified by the words the Druid would plug into the first part to complete the spell. A sedative, which would hopefully tranquilize a combative patient at a safe range. A mass vaccine skeleton, with blanks to be filled by whichever specific one was needed, that could be administered to groups at a time. The last one isn't an injection so much as it targets the adrenal gland and forces it to produce additional adrenaline. The notes below this one caution that it has yet to be properly tested, but theorizes that plunging someone into a fight-or-flight reaction could nullify cognitive based magic. It's hard to concentrate on casting spells when one's having a panic attack.

[Morty]

[Sapling Cabin]

Tuskfang gnaws on his stuffed wolf in thought. Does he have a people-name?

"I'm a... uh..." he looks to his cousin for help, who grins toothily.

"You're a woblin! Because your dad is a wolfen and your mum is a goblin!" she declares. The obvious pride in the portmanteau species name suggests she came up with it herself. She then looks between Cern and Gwydion.

"Isn't your mum a dryad?" she asks. "And your dad is, uh..." she looks up at Adir. "A deer person?"

[Recaiden]

[Med Lab]

Omecha nods, looking back from the chalkboard to Toby. "I was a junior clerk in the Urban Developmental Committee, while I studied to try to become a Magos Genetress like the family Head, but, oh, the Event, right."
"I guess you wouldn't know down here. Someone went back in time to rewrite the history of the city, and a little bit of the whole world. Part of the Family was in a different level of reality, or something, and able to step us out of it, so not much changed. The Event was when our native time-stream got wiped out and the battle for the crown started."

That's curious, the spell. Only one of those seem to be for treatment. The others are clearly for combat, incapacitating someone, with possible medical applications on the side.

[Cyber Punk]

"I can tell. It went right over my head. I shall bring it to Stjornu-Skeggi's attention, however. Such could be of interest to Her." Alas, I can't recall how I got the Skeggi when on Google Translate, and it won't translate back from Icelandic. So I'm not certain what She actually represents at this stage.

Baccata's Yew

"I would like to meet her, too. Purely in the interest of knowledge-seeking, though." Jinkei curtsies once more, preparing to leave to find the ingredents. "I would like to know of your kind, though. Psychopomps of the different worlds, planes and cultures, but perhaps that will happen after I return."

She pauses for a moment and addresses Baccata, glancing at the list. "Any chance you could come with me?"

[Murkus]

[Sapling Cabin]

Tuskfang gnaws on his stuffed wolf in thought. Does he have a people-name?

"I'm a... uh..." he looks to his cousin for help, who grins toothily.

"You're a woblin! Because your dad is a wolfen and your mum is a goblin!" she declares. The obvious pride in the portmanteau species name suggests she came up with it herself. She then looks between Cern and Gwydion.

"Isn't your mum a dryad?" she asks. "And your dad is, uh..." she looks up at Adir. "A deer person?"

Adir chuckles, and Cern can't help but giggle at the word 'woblin'. "Das' a good people name."

The elder Frescot looks at Brinika, saying, "I guess you could call me that. My father is a stag lord, my mother is a human..."

[Morty]

[Sapling Cabin]

"It is! 'M the only woblin there is!" Tuskfang declares proudly.

Brinika nibbles on her braid.

"We could say dryadeer. But that doesn't mention the human part. This is hard," she says.

[Earl of Purple]

Salix's Willow

"He's not been here long, and wants to make friends." Also to gawk at the dryad, and learn some magic. But the friends is the most important part.

Baccata's Yew

"Gods rarely acknowledge the followers of unknown deities. Followers of allied divinities are warmly welcomed, whilst those of diametrically opposed deities are destroyed." In other words, I'm not sure I'd be willing to RP a god directly. God-like characters I'll do, demigods and demon lords and daedric princes, but my true gods are typically aloof and uncaring of their mortal (or mostly-mortal) followers.

"I'd love to. But I can't, unless you can give my hoary old yew legs. I can't wander far from him, and he cannot move on his own." I do have some dryads whose soul-tree is Yggdrasil, and they serve as taproots anchoring the World Tree to a given realm. They can visit anywhere in either world, but physically cannot enter another plane of reality besides Yggdrasil and the world to which they link.

[FireFox]

[Med Lab]

How interesting. I don't suppose you'd have a phone number for this committee, perhaps an address? As a job reference. He apologetically smiles at her as if to say one must adhere to the formalities of the job interview. Even if one has but a single applicant. And as for your studies, they certainly sound pertinent. What is that, magic or genetics?

[Cyber Punk]

[Salix's Willow]

Gawk at the dryad he does, a look of wonder on his face as he continues to hide behind Brinika. After Natalie finishes speaking, he stretches out a hand. "C-can we b-be f-friends?"

[Baccata's Yew]

(Yvette is also linked to a version of Yggdrasil, but she's not a dryad, she's merely marked. Also, she's evil.)

Jinkei nods slowly in understanding. "I see. Maybe we can skip the meeting of your deity, then."

"We could keep in contact, then, by magic. I have these screens that I can use as some sort of spy cam, but for one person at a time. We can keep in touch even as I go out into the world to search for these things... unless..." She searches her pockets. "Do you have a phone?"

[Earl of Purple]

Baccata's Yew

"No, I don't have a phone. I have a pair of skulls, though. I could try to enthuse them with linked life, so they repeat what the other skull heard. I'd limit it, so they only pick up sound when held." Both skulls are human, the remains of men who upset Baccata enough for her to kill them.

[Cyber Punk]

Baccata's Yew

"That could work, though I wouldn't want to take a skull away, what if you need it for some reason?"

Jinkei had started to ask about the source of the skulls, but then thinks better of it. "I could supply the both of us with a linked walkie-talkie? Perhaps, reverse-engineer the functionality of the skulls?"

[Earl of Purple]

Baccata's Yew

"They're just sitting on a shelf looking pretty. I'm not likely to need it for anything else. A walkie-talkie would be good. What do I need to charge it?" She can probably get the electricity from one of the cabins, but she doesn't have any cables at the moment.

What possible use could she suddenly gain for a skull, when she's had them five years?

[Murkus]

[Sapling Cabin]

"It is! 'M the only woblin there is!" Tuskfang declares proudly.

Brinika nibbles on her braid.

"We could say dryadeer. But that doesn't mention the human part. This is hard," she says.

"Deeryads?" Adir says with a silly grin. "Don't worry, you don't gotta mention the human part."

"Deerdrads!" Cern spouts.

"Dradeer?" Gwydion postulates.

They seem poised to go on like this quite a while.