Crawkid

Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

Jacob pauses, having started covering himself with dirt already. His lips tic upward in a soft, but wry smile, "...you're too kind for your own good...sire"

Astra hesitates, taking that into deeper consideration. Unable to stop herself from having an emotional responce to the thought that her parents were watching and guiding, her gaze moves up to Dante for a moment. But she takes a deep breath and holds it in for now, looking back at the shadow wolf, "Then...what brings your master to me...to us? We have accepted her as our guest, and we accept her word that she wants to help....but we aren't entirely sure what is going on, or how to help her with some of her problems"

Chi hums and nods, "I haven't seen or sensed her here yet...but she shouldn't be far." He starts walking out of the room and looking around the place. Lo and behold, Astra's group really wasn't that far away from where people were having food. Likely just far enough to have a little privacy.

Embedded : The Vanished

"Well yea, I know they're classic movies....I just stopped after the sequel...." He pauses his attempts to make anything happen with his hands and grumbles, noticing that his new friend has turned invisible. But that didn't stop or change the conversation once he realized what had happened. After all, they were in the same situation, just trying to figure out how things work.

It's cool that the guy could figure something out. Whether or not he figured out how to turn back visible was going to be another thing, but it can't be that tough. Or he hopes it isn't anyways. Not that Talon has the ability to turn invisible. What were his skills again? OR...what the game called them...cards?

He'd have to think about that more later- for the moment the old drunk has his attention, as the NPC represents a more tangible form of progression.

"And its anime, not animoo" He says, the last point he wants to make on the previous topic, right before ending it there and speaking up, "Hey old man -"

"Hrg? Old Man?! You fool! Is that any way to talk to someone?"

Talon grins, just glad that at least interacting with people around here will be easy. No need to mentally push a button or anything, like a real isekai, "Oh don't be like that. We- er.." Right, invisible..."Im just someone who got kicked out of his home and I'm just getting into town. I could use some help figuring shit out."

"Well you don't ask for help like that!" yells the man, his mystery bag sloshing as he stands up taller, "No wonder ye got kicked out, your parents were failures."

Ouch. Enough to rankle some people, but Talon was having too much fun messing with this guy to take it too seriously, and just grins, "Oh come off it, and just point me around will ya? I'll pay you as soon as I get some money."

Of Light and Shadow - Craw/DOC

"Smart" he nods, continuing on the topic of Lilith, "She would eat them."

Adam turns to observe her a moment as the rain lightens up, letting the fog take over. He had told her his real name, and she had revealed her name in turn, but his suspicious nature hardly allowed him to take it at face value. Lucy, or Luci...?

He shakes his head, that's going too far.

"I never told you my rules. Essentially, you will live where I tell you to live, and follow instructions I give you." he pauses, grimacing slightly, "It may sound the same as a cult, but you're in a new dangerous world, and just going deeper down the rabbit hole. You chose this, and that makes me your lifeline now."

He ducks back into the car, grabbing the towel to wrap around her shoulders again, still keeping his voice low. "The owner and managers here all know me, and I have a couple rooms reserved. But I'm still going to need to show them your ID for safety reasons."

And with that, the hunter moves to guide her to the office. With it being so late and so slow and boring, it wasn't long before they were noticed anyways.

Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

Jacob's figure slumps slightly, as he feels the pulls again, and given permission to give into it. He nods slightly, stepping down into the hole now. "Yes sir. I will catch up to the guild later." his voice softer, reflecting how he has loosened his tight grip on himself.

Astra blinks, suddenly reminded that Beta was there with them. She nods slightly as the shadow wolf introduces himself and keeps talk, consdering his words with a bit of a bite on her lip. "...I don't understand the situation with your master. We're still mostly in the dark about it." she slowly kneels by the wolf, "...and most of us can't feel those connections either. Unless there is something to proove they ae still there, we assume they have moved on." she looks up at Dante a moment and back down to the wolf, "Death doesnt have to be the end sometimes. If I die, theres a chance I could become undead...but even the undead can have their connection to this world severed." she falls quiet a bit after that, wondering if her own parents were still connected to her, or resting peacefully, but deciding to move on quickly with the conversation, "Its better to assume people who have died have moved on, rather than wonder...but, could you tell us more about what's going on?" she finally asks.

Chi sighs as he finishes up his plate, gulping down the last of his drink, "and now she's annoyed...."

He stretches, before looking over at Bane, "Alright, let's go find her"

Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

Peter remains quiet as he had for most of this exchange, his prince once again giving words of loyalty to Lady Astra. Inside he was happy and amused, and a bit sad. Such vows are always bittersweet, for the reason that the lady herself has just pointed out. He nods slightly to Dante's first question.

Though his loyalty, personally, is first and foremost to Dante, he is thankful to her. Understandably, his prince had fallen into a great despair after the war - the slow sinking of a loss of purpose that none of his followers could alleviate in the way that he needed. If Peter had known that a child would bring the light back to Dante, he would have went looking for one.

Alas, this story was going to end eventually, and it was going to be a sad ending. Either his prince dies first, which Peter knew would be seen as a failure, and would devestate Astra who...despite her attempts to be a strong leader, still leaned on Dante.

Or....Astra would die, and that would take away Dante's purpose.

Obviously, it was not a thought Peter, or any of the group, liked to visit.

So he perks up as Dante turns to ask him a different question, tilting his head, "Well, it is morning.."

Back in his room, Jacob pauses as he is about to step down into the hole. His senses were still extended out, though since he wasn't on duty anymore, he had been largely ignoring everything. But he had been hearing his name off and on for a while now, "Yes...well, not quite." he answers the air, taking a step bac and standing a bit straighter, "...did you need me, sir?"

Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

The shifter takes a long drink, and nods with a faint smirk "Right, I think you get it." he looks over at Ash's plate and pokes it, "anyways, focus on your food."

Astra has no words at first. She just stays in the moment with Dante...and Peter. Finally, she smiles softly, perhaps a bit sad, due to the topic, "...youre very insistant. That means you will wait for me to die first, you know...that could be a very, very long time..."

Peter, for his part, stays quiet for the moment, but appears graciously thankful for his prince's words

...in another part of the base, another vampire walks into a specific room. His room.

Technically, it was a storage room, but now it was full of decoy crates as the guild prepared for their move. The light from the hallway illuminates what purpose this room has left - a meticulously carved out hole in the packed dirt. The Fang moves towards the hole, his hands slowly working on loosening some buttons on his uniform as he prepared himself...the curse of the day sleep always pulled on him harder than most. He could ignore it - he's trained himself to be capable. But it takes too much willpower to do that, and expect to be able to handle an invasion too. It was always better to work around ones handicaps, and play into ones strengths.

Embedded : The Vanished

It's still settling into his mind, how the streets look. How the buildings look. How this person looks...

Wow, and to thin he could have been almost anything. If he had known, he would have second guessed his choice to make a human.

Talon thinks he looks cool in his own way, but still.

The settling continues, and he sighs with regret as he starts trying to think things through. Trying to ignore the earth-shattering idea of having just been...absorbed into a game? Transported into a world? He watches as his comrade in world hopping does enough freaking out for the both of them. Pursing his lips, he nods slowly. "Yea I uh...don't really get those references youre making there. I barely even remember the trailer for spykids3 and...have no idea what the other one is. but -"

Talon frowns, testing moving his hands or his weapon, "...isn't this like an isekai?"

He stops and frowns, looking around again, "..but..aren't isekais like...getting pulled into a better world, usually...? This place is a d-"

While looking around, his eyes catch on something. Or someone. At first, what Talon saw was a guy slumped over but still shuffling towards them. Then there was the groaning, which he only just realized he had been hearing for some time now. The human tenses up. Did a game like this have zombies? No way right...? It was supposed to be about demons and that kind of thing...right?

it was then he saw the concealed culprit- the brown paper bag in the figure's hand giving him reason to relax a little bit. Looking over at his compatriot, he nodded back in the man's direction, "...wanna check out our first NPC?"

Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

good enough to look at what i got and try to figure out responces for people

energy levels are fluctuating a bit, but i assume thats brain stuff more than that stomach bug (working on that too)

Embedded : The Vanished

it makes sense to have the world act more naturally, the npc dialogue i almost assumed, it was just the nature of the starting area yknow?i dont wanna take over if you had plans you wanted, sorry about how i had worded things there

Embedded : The Vanished

question: will the limits of the 'starting area' remain in effect? like monsters dont come in?

(also tempted for the groaning to be a drunkard or soemthing instead of a monster XD)