Caelestis

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Your post was just fine, Ryver. Calling the next post!

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

In similar fun factoids, tablecloths were designed in the Victorian era because it was believed that the sight of bare legs, including, yes, table legs, would send men into a libidinous frenzy. Tablecloths were invented to keep table legs out of the sight of amorous men.

...what? Carry on with your lives, citizens.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Cuttersbury: Guild

Quentin's shades slid down his nose and his eyes scrutinized Marcus in momentary disbelief. Between Jett and himself, he was not sure who had made the more impressively embarrassing first impression, although he rather much hoped it was Jett. At least he had not been so obviously ham-handed about it.

"I, uh, sorry. I didn't mean to...er, yeah. Forgive me, it was my mistake. A, um, trick of the light," he said, internally chiding himself that he should have been able to come up with something better than that. Quentin regrouped and started again.

"I'm Quentin Theophilos Hobart, water mage of the local Guild, at your service! My mates call me Q. T. You know, 'cause Quentin Theophilos is a mouthful and it's like 'cutie.' Sort of a...play on words..."

His voice sputtered to a miserable halt as one sweeping glance around the room told him he was playing to a tough audience. Amazing how so many eyes and ears were fixated on a single sentence when the whole place had been a cacophony of chatter just moments ago. He pushed up his sunglasses and sighed when Moira jibed, "I guess Marcus kiiiinda looks like a lady if you squint..."

"Okay, I made a mistake. It's fine. I made a mistake. The guy's a good-lookin' dude. It's a compliment! Go on and laugh at my stupidity. I'm harmless."

He made a quick look over Moira and then looked back at Marcus. "I was at least right about the mage thing, wasn't I? I figured only a mage would dress that way and show up in a Guild hall, friendliness of Cuttersbury aside."

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I'm up next to bat!

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Posted. Hope I didn't muck anything up.

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The rush of flying was sensational. Being on top of the world was the sickest feeling ever. Soaring up that high was reckless, even dangerous. It was like hubris or something, standing that high like you could reach out with your hand and touch the sky. There was a myth about something like that, wasn't there?

A shadow in the blue made the young man's eyes flicker in that direction. It couldn't be...here he was, rolling in on the most mondo, one of a kind, never again in your life curl, and there were sharks up here? He turned and cut hard into the tube, convinced that this was something out of a nightmare. That fin was huge, so this shark was no guppy. His wet hair was plastered to the back of his neck and he adjusted the sunglasses perched on his nose. That shark was moving fast but thankfully it didn't seem to care about the board.

Then the wind whipped hard. The wind buffeted the surfer hard and he wobbled, nearly losing his balance. He put his foot down hard, hanging five purely by accident. His toes were tickled by the warm water. He threw another look back over his shoulder. The fin was still there but a bit closer. He turned to face forward again and could see the beach coming up fast. He leaned in and swayed, cutting the glass with expertise. In record time, he surfed right onto the beach, stumbling only as his surfboard hit the wet, dense sand. He jumped off the board like he had stuck a three point landing and, satisfied with himself, turned to look at the wave. It was unfortunate he had to bail, but sharks weren't worth messing with; as he looked, he felt his mouth fall open.

Some three dozen sharks were visible in the tube of the wave. Gnashing mouths and flailing fins made the wave look like some bizarre rotary buzzsaw...and it was headed right for him. He spun around to make a run for it and tripped over his surfboard. He went head over heels and...

THUMP!

Quentin groaned. He rubbed the small of his back, on which he had landed when he fell out of bed.

"Gnarly dream," he said to himself, getting up. As he dressed, he tried to make sense of it. He was not particularly worried. The thought of a shark typhoon was cool in its own way. A shark cyclone would be even cooler.

"Nah," he said, grinning. "A shark torn--oh no!"

He looked at the clock in his room. It was already way later than he expected. He had hoped to do some surfing in the morning before he went down to the Guild. Well, "surfing," of a kind. Cuttersbury was not exactly a seaside paradise. Most of the time, Quentin went to a small lake and used his talents to create waves big enough to impress amateurs and old ladies. Quentin booked it from his apartment, hoping that whatever activity would be happening at the Guild, he had not already missed it.

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In no more than fifteen minutes, an out-of-breath Quentin came panting through the Guild doors, not long after Jett had made his own splashy entrance. He was surprised at how lively it was, even for the middle of the day. There were lots of faces he had never before seen. Some were talking loudly like they were old friends meeting again for the first time in a long time. He straightened himself, cutting a tall figure in his boots and his navy blue robe with gold trim. He peered over his shades to size up the lot of them. Some of them were pretty cute girls, too. His eyes settled on a fair-haired girl in robes. If he had to guess, she was a mage just like him.

Always one to seize the opportunity to make a new friend, Quentin adjusted the dark sunglasses he had been wearing even in his sleep and approached the cute, fair-haired girl. "Hey there. I've never seen you around here before. If you don't mind me saying, what's a cute girl like you doing in a sleepy little place like this? Especially a mage, if I had to guess."

His addressee looked up at him curiously. Marcus then considered the best way to respond to Quentin.

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I'll wait until Ryver's posted and then I'll have a go.

I presume pretty much all of the Pride is in the guild at this point, since I have an idea of how to get Quentin into the mix and I'd like to be accurate instead of making a spectacular flop on my first post by having him talk to someone outside the building.

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Time to get a little funkeh:



Because a day without Hall & Oates is a day wasted:



Cap the parrot. It's wonderful.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

My primary main, as it has always been, is Fox. The thing that I dislike about Smash 3DS is that there's such a wonky floating effect when characters get near each other in the air, like they've got magnets of the same polarity on them. That and the fact that ledge hogging is no longer a viable tactic means that battles tend to be lengthy slugfests. That's a pity since I like the game a lot otherwise. It's just a shame that Melee was the best there ever was and the series peaked so soon.

And epic funky, groovy music link throwdown? Challenge accepted.



Dance like you want to win, Peter Parker!

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Thank you for the warm welcomes, everyone!

Buns, I'll say what basically everyone else is saying: whatever works for you works for me, too.

Pach, I'm still hesitant about getting PL v. AA. Layton never really quite looked like my thing but obviously AA was (I still need to go through case 1-5 and see how far off the mark it is compared to actual evidence law). I never looked into the game too closely to hear it was either a must-have or the plague. Plus, I'm Smashing all day, every day these days.

Kathi, you're going to mangle my public relations? plz no

Aki, I have a feeling Quentin would want to have a deep conversation with the parrot.

And if we're posting music, this has been in my head all weekend. I have no idea why, but it's so funky and groovy and I love it: