DFTBA

BIONICLE

...

No idea.

But since hen did conspiracy theories have to make sense? That's what Makuta wants you to think!

BIONICLE

Sure. I'm just saying that black body and red eyes is the trademark look of villains everywhere.

...But wait, Makuta was a shapeshifter! He could change his eye colour to go unnoticed! Conspiracy theory go!

BIONICLE

Black armour, red eyes... should I be worried about this character?

No really though, she looks fine.

BIONICLE

Well well well, do I smell a plot hook?

Kumanu

The turaga was unusually polite to Kumanu after his rage of a moment before, even going so far as to use his kanohi to hasten to the door and see him out. It was the mark of a good leader, the Ko-matoran thought, that he was able to put aside his disappointment and even go the extra mile to show kindness and good manners. Kumanu wasn't anyone particularly important, but nonetheless Talur treated him with respect. It was a good thing that Kongero Nui had such beings to lead it.

As he made his way towards the big bay doors, a small clump of Ko-matoran stood talking in low voices. He tipped his mask to them as he wapproached, thinking that he too should be polite. "Good evening" he addressed them. "All going well?"

BIONICLE

Well, that's pretty much what I've been waiting for. Kumanu did start talking to Turaga Talur in the post I made, so I hoped you might reply. After that, I'd send him over to Bo-Congro.

As for my feelings on the Game so far: Good, but more posts is better!

Mirror, Fox, Key

TEAM BROCCOLI

@Crimson Raven @Damiann47 [Jay Kalton] @Magnato

"Good. Great!" Andica replied hastily. "Well, congratulation on making Brocco-Boss, good luck and all that, and let's be on our way." With that, she yanked on Kavinika's leash and took off for the nearly empty wheelbarrow of completely empty cages. She snagged one and was practically sprinting for the gate as it started to rumble shut, with the bog hound loping beside her.

She shot out the other side onto a wide expanse of dirt at the base of Enn's wall. The novice Travellers were scattered out across it, not having formed much of a coherent travelling band yet. There were a few up the front with Spook, but otherwise things seemed pretty disorganised. A rough trail in the dirt marked the direction they were following, and a bit of scrub was growing up further out from the wall. This wasn't anything you couldn't see in Enn.

The thing that stopped her, the thing you couldn't ever see in the walled city, and the thing she had never seen before, was a horizon. All her life, the world had been bounded by walls. There had always been stones or timber at the end of her vision, either in the walls or other buildings. Out here when she looked, the world just kept on going until it ended somehow where the sky bent down to met it.

That was dead creepy.

She felt like she imagined a flea must when she picked it out of a dog's coat. It only knew of a world forested with hairs for as far as it could go, and then she plucked it out and into somewhere completely different. There were no hairs then, only what (to a flea) must have been a terrifyingly large and open expanse. The flea didn't live long after the borders of its world disappeared. She could only hope her metaphor didn't go quite that far.

Mirror, Fox, Key

TEAM BROCCOLI

@Crimson Raven @Damiann47 @Jay Kalton @Magnato

Well, perhaps not then. This had just got a bit awkward. Andica had hoped not to get caught up in this, too much. They were still hovering around the city gate, where she could be seen and dragged back. Picking a leader had really just been an excuse to hurry their departure, and they could always change later if they needed to or, obviously, found out what the leader would have to actually do. She had been called on her bluff, however, and now needed to come up with a justification on the fly. She fretted for a couple of seconds, bouncing back and forth on the balls of her feet while stealing nervous glances back at the city.

"Sorry, I'm just a bit on edge, keen to throw out a name and get going, you know? I picked you because you were the first to speak up, you're a bit older than me and my cousin here, you didn't wander off like that other guy, and she" - she indicated Scarlett - hasn't said anything yet."

Mirror, Fox, Key

TEAM BROCCOLI

"I'll tell you in a couple of hours" Andica replied darkly, giving Samieh her best quelling glare, and hoping she's get the message to drop that subject faster than a piping hot head of broccoli
"Anyway, I'm just glad we'll be off now, finally getting into the journey. Speaking of which..." She turned back to Sharie.

"Hey goggles, think you can lead the Brave Broccolis?"

@Crimson Raven @Damiann47 @Jay Kalton @Magnato

BIONICLE

You may put your CS in the character section, and post in the IC at your leisure.
Now, question is, do I make a Ce-Matoran with which she can be bifls, or a De-Matoran, whom Akili will both miff and mystify. Decisions decisions.

@tobiax

I may be a bit late, but De-Matoran.

Mirror, Fox, Key

TEAM BROCCOLI

Andica slunk quietly through the dark streets towards the gate, one hand on Kavinika's leash and the other clutching her large cloth sack of supplies. It was awkward to carry and bulged in weird places. She hadn't had time to plan her escape or what to take with her, and it had all been gathered in furtive silence as her family slept around her. It had felt like a betrayal, but her decision had been made. There was no turning back now.

At least, so she had thought until the sun rose ever higher and still Spook failed to appear. The poster she had seen had said "be ready to leave immediately", she was sure. The line played over and over in her mind as she fretted in the shortening shadows of the gatehouse. This traveller had seemed to provide the perfect opportunity to be gone before she was missed, but now as the hours ticked by, it became ever more likely that someone from her family, or worse, her fiance, would think to find her here and come searching.

Andica didn't think she could bear that. This had seemed so much easier in the dark house, anger and frustration still fresh in her head. If her father appeared here, arms outstretched and calling her name, she might not be able to stay away. It was cruel to them to run away like this, she knew, and not at all what they deserved for raising her with kindness. It was Santini Quade she was fleeing, not them, but her family would surely take it the hardest.

She thought she caught site of Dane once, out in the street, but her little brother's head of shaggy blond hair didn't come any closer to her hiding spot, and disappeared off up the street. He had hardly gone, however, before Spook appeared at last.

After hearing his instructions, she bounced quickly towards the front of the group, hard on Spook's heels as they got around the gate and out of sight of the street behind. With that settled, she could look around her her teammates.There was one, a guy with a big sword and a guard's uniform, who immediately walked off to speak to a member of a different team. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, that one, or so she surmised. That left herself, a woman with a white dress and red hair, cousin Samieh (and she thought she had been dodging her relatives) and Sharie, the girl in gloves and goggles who had just introduced herself in a slight aristocratic accent..

"As you say" Andica replied. "My name is Andica". She dropped a rough curtsey before reconsidering the action. They were going out of Enn now, where you didn't have to bow before nobles. They were here as teammates, travelling companions, friends and... equals?
"Good to meet you, my friend" she amended herself, this time extending a hand to shake.

@Crimson Raven @Damiann47 @Jay Kalton @Magnato