Morose

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

@Blizz hot. accepted.

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

@Trainerblue192 accepted, move 'em on over

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

@KazAlkemi perf, accepted! move her on over

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Outside Burger King
Skills: N/A

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"You punched a shitty god in the face," Nancy muttered. She knew as soon as she said it that it probably wasn't the best idea, as Alexios could definitely hear her, but she realized right then that she didn't care. Being afraid of him was only going to give him more power over her. And she didn't want to give him an inch. Was he the one who had hurt her? No. But an out of control party had been the circumstances that had led to the assault - for better or worse, she'd always associate parties with that. Same thing with drinking and drugs and swanky hotels. They all reminded her of that night. They were the wound that would never heal, that would never become a scar and fade away.

Even all these years later, Nancy was still bleeding. She still couldn't get the stain off of her hands.

Still though, even in her anger she was touched by Zeke's compassion. Not many people would offer to defy the gods for someone else. She knew for a fact that no one else on this quest would have done it. And as angry as she was, she knew that skipping out on this quest... it might condemn Mads forever. Her emotions were all twisted up. She did want to save the world. She couldn't let the flames consume her friends. She just couldn't stand the idea of doing it with these Greeks. They could all go to Tartarus for what she cared.

She hesitated for a moment, taking a deep breath, before turning to Zeke. "Screw them. We can do this on our own. If Dad's really changed, then at first light he's going to give us a ride. We'll make our own way. And we'll stop these assholes. We don't need the rest of them to find the door. And honestly, they can't do it without us. The Lotus Hotel will eat them alive." Her voice was dark, with an edge sharper than a well-kept knife. Her heart was pounding. As difficult as it was to talk about that place, her anger and fury was helping at the moment, keeping her from crumbling to pieces at the mere mention. She'd ride this fury all the way to the Sin City. "Are you with me?"

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Under the Sea
Skills: Superspeed

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Leda smiled, happy to see that Sera wasn't going to argue with her. She wished every questing partner she had was this agreeable. Of course, the last quest she had been on had been with Kristin and Zeke, both of which were stubborner than the gods. Gods, Leda hated them. She hoped they were both fretting and worrying themselves to death back at Camp Half-blood, wondering if everyone else would save the world. She didn't know that they were on a quest themselves at the moment. She put a finger to her lips, indicating for Sera to be quiet. Oceanus had set the trident down near the throne, before swimming off to do whatever the fuck it was Oceanus did before trying to murder a bunch of innocent people. She bet he was looking at dirty magazines.

At any rate, while there were still guards, this seemed as good a chance as any. Leda moved faster than the eye could see on over to the throne, snatching up the trident. It shrunk in her hands until it was just about six feet tall or so - a helpful feature, as otherwise she had NO IDEA how they were gonna get it out of there. It was really heavy though. Leda would've muttered about how dumb it was for a magic weapon to match the size of the person holding it, but not the strength - only it would've given her away. Instead, she continued in her run, only coming to a stop when she was crouching down next to Sera again, this time with trident in hand.

As far as she could tell, there wasn't anything visibly wrong with the trident - it was just HEAVY AF. "That was too easy," she whispered to Sera. "I don't trust it, mate. But this is also our best shot at ending him. Sending him down the monster garbage chute. Give your dad his kingdom back and restore a bit of balance. You can go find your sister or... you can come with me and we can try to end this."

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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8:00 AM - Wed. Sep. 15th, 2038 - Margaret Carter Institute

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At 7:00 AM, the Lady of the Lake cast a minor enchantment upon Stark Hall. A knock simultaneously sounded at each room, as slips of paper manifested themselves, sliding underneath the door for the occupants to find. Addressed to each student, these included their official team placement for the upcoming Contest of Champions. It also included instructions to report to a designated location at 8:00 AM sharp in uniform to meet their coach and have their first training session as a team. Free dress was over.

There were thirteen teams in total - but most students knew that the only teams truly considered to have any promise were the judges' teams. If you weren't on Vision's, Usagi's, Ser Nemo's, or Lady Nimue's team, it meant the academy had no faith in your ability to bring home a win.

Not that anyone really had a chance against the Young Avengers. Unlike other students at the academy, they were authorized to go out and do real superhero work. They had more direct, hands on-experience than anyone could hope for. Plus, most of them were nepo babies. Nepo babies always seemed to go farther, no matter the line of work.

The Vision's Team - "the Young Avengers"

• Teddy Altman / Hulkling
• Kate Bishop / Hawkeye II
• Eli Bradley / Patriot
• America Chavez / Miss America
• Cassie Lang / Stature
• Billy Maximoff / Wiccan
• Tommy Maximoff / Speed

Lady Nimue's Team - "the Huntresses" - REPORT TO TRAINING ROOM A

• Madalyne Crane / Trivia
• April Flynn / Cascade
• Andy Gallio-Lensherr / Luna Minor
• Mary Sue Sullivan / Marvel Girl
• Ardere Terrane / Kindle

Ser Nemo's Team - "Excelsior" - REPORT TO TRAINING ROOM B

• Sabine Bassard / Amnesia
• Zelda Flynn / Calamity
• Dorian Gray / Poltergeist
• Danni Kingston / Hot Shot
• Percy Novikov / Odysseus

Usagi's Team - "Uncanny Avengers" - REPORT TO THE FRAMEWORK HUB

• Ed Acra / Arcade
• Leah Jordan / Jotunn
• Diana Novikova / Artemis
• Zarina Raynordattir / Valkyrie
• Victoria van Dyne / Shieldmaiden

In more general news, poor Teddy (the bear, not the other one) seems to have come down with a nasty cold. He ended up missing his audition time. He'll probably be out of class for a few days, to Usagi's annoyance - she likes having her TA around for teaching Combat 101. She's less likely to kill her students that way.

More shockingly though, Chi Mai sent a mass group text out to her friends - namely April, Diana, Mads, Danni, Dorian, Sabine, Vicky, Teddy, and Leah. The text read:

guys im an avenger now 💪 i will be back. but i will be famous. maybe too famous for you nerds 😈 i bequeath u all my stash. good luck bitches.

If anyone tried to reach out to Chi Mai for clarification, she just sent back various memes or inside jokes. She didn't answer where exactly she had gone or why, but she had also missed her audition the day before. And a quinjet had been spotted on the football field, so her story wasn't completely farfetched. No one just had any idea why Chi Mai was suddenly running with the Avengers.

@Nallore: By some blessed miracle, her horrible acne breakout cleared up overnight. It would've been nice for that to be gone for the carnival - or even for auditions - but at least the zits are gone now. Maybe now is a good time for Diana to take some selfies, before they come back!

@Kirah: Andy's possessed doll has been strangely quiet, ever since the carnival. She hasn't had her mother's spirit trapped inside of the doll for very long, so it's completely possible that everything is fine. It probably takes a lot of energy for Selene to communicate through the magical prison anyways. But at the same time, it is definitely unnerving. It's like when a normally loud child suddenly is silent... They're probably up to no good...

Uniform Trim Colors

You can choose what variation of the uniform your character is in - i.e., pants or skirt or shorts. The top is going to be a plain white button up with a tie. In the winter months, people will put on an academy blazer or sweater on top, but it's likely way too warm for that right now. We're heavily drawing inspiration from the Umbrella Academy uniforms.

Green: Diana & Zelda
Purple: Mary Sue, Ardere, Sabine, Leah
Blue: Andy, Zari, Vicky
Red: Percy, Dorian, Danni, Mads, April

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April Flynn

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Location: Stark Hall - Sixth Floor -> Gym - Training Room A
Skills: N/A

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April had woken up filled with nervous energy and excitement, while simultaneously feeling like she had been hit by a truck. It had been a long two days. A long two days with so many twists and turns that she was already ready for a break, and the school year had barely started. She hadn't even gone to her first classes yet. Those would begin tomorrow. Today was time set aside for the coaches to meet their teams and start working towards the Contest of Champions. The knock on the door was as punctual as it had been the years prior - exactly at seven o'clock, there was a rustle at the door as the sheets of paper appeared underneath it. April leapt out of bed, grabbing them and throwing Mads' hers.

April didn't take time to appreciate her name written in beautiful calligraphy, tearing the envelope open. The paper indicated the team she was placed on - the Huntresses, led by the Lady of the Lake. Her heart stopped. Maybe Danni and Dori could still be on the Huntresses though? Girls could be on a team called the Hunters, why couldn't guys be on the Huntresses? But as her eyes scanned the team roster, she didn't see their names there.

Tears sprang to her eyes. How was she going to have the perfect year and win the Contest of Champions if her besties weren't by her side? Would she have to go up against them? She couldn't imagine fighting either of them... but she really did want to win. Could she bring herself to send water gushing at Danni or Dori? Maybe it was a mistake. Maybe she'd get another letter in a minute going oops, we forgot, Danni and Dori are on your team, it's a seven person team, our bad!

She stared at the door. Nothing else came. Her shoulders slumped. She didn't know if it would be better or worse if Danni and Dori were on a team together without her... They already did tons of things without her. They basically lived together all the time, they had grown up together. Maybe they didn't need her. Maybe they were the stars of the YA novel, and April was just a quirky manic pixie dream girl side character...

At least Mads was on the team with her. And she sorta knew Mary Sue. Her eyes looked at the last names and her heart cracked. Gallio-Lensherr. A relative of hers. It was already awkward enough knowing that two of the most popular boys in her year were her cousins, but they never really felt like it. She was pretty estranged from that side of the family. And having to be on a team with someone who was probably from that side... That was bound to get awkward.

But she took a deep breath. She had kissed a girl for the first time yesterday. And they were going to talk to Sabine soon. Her heart fluttered, thinking about both Leah and Sabine. Maybe the universe was only going to let her have so much luck - like, there was a finite amount, and she had used it all up, so she didn't get put on the team she wanted.

"Oh sick, we're on the same team, fam!!!" April squealed to Mads. "Do you know anything about the Lady of the Lake? Is she cute? Not that we're gonna be hot for teacher, but, y'know, just for information purposes. She's... Otherworld nonsense, right? I always kinda get Otherworld and Narnia mixed up, to be honest. They have kinda similar vibes to me. But you should get dressed so we can go grab a bevvie before going to... it looks like they want us at training room A, where we did the auditions. Do you have any tea on the other peeps on the team? I kinda know Mary Sue, her parents are family friends."

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When they got to training room A, about fifteen minutes early (April was paranoid that they would get lost, despite knowing the way perfectly well), she was dressed in her academy uniform. Because Firestar was their dorm mom, both Mads and April had to wear the red version of the AA uniform. April had gone with black sneakers and grey knee high socks, the red plaid academy skirt, white button up shirt, and tie. And of course, she had her contacts in - she didn't feel like wearing her glasses that day.

Besides her book bag, which contained her academy issued spandex training uniform, her most important accessory was her coffee order. She had her absolute favorite drink that day - a venti iced caramel machiatto, two shots, no foam, almond milk, and triple blended with whipped cream on the bottom. She ordered it so often that she had partially memorized the price that it would ring up as at her favorite stand.

Inside the training room, it looked like a fairly typical set-up. April was used to coaches on the first day having something elaborate or crazy already there, but the Lady of the Lake was magic... Maybe she was just going to wave her hand and surprise them all. Or maybe she had something else in store. The Lady in question wasn't there yet either.

"We aren't that early, are we?" April asked, before checking the time on her phone. She still needed to finish getting all her contacts over. That or call her parents and beg for a new phone. But she didn't want to have to explain to them what had happened to the old one, and unfortunately, she was a TERRIBLE liar... At any rate, it was about eight o'clock when she checked. Everyone was supposed to be there now. "Is she running on Otherworld Time? Is that like... GMT-12?" April asked Mads.

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Percy Novikov

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Location: Library -> Stark Hall - Sixth Floor -> Gym - Training Room B
Skills: N/A

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Percy typically didn't really enjoy waking up early. He was much more of a night owl. However, he was also somewhat of a germaphobe. His roommate was seriously ill, having spent most of the night running back and forth between their room and the dorm's toilets. Percy wished that he had had some sort of surgical mask on him. He was fairly confident now that Teddy must've been the reason he had gotten ill all of the sudden yesterday. Teddy was old too - at least, in his mind - so it made sense that his immune system would be struggling to clear it more than Percy's.

To that end, Percy was actually in the campus library when the clock struck seven. He had fallen asleep with the Song of Achilles pressed to his face. A large thermos of coffee was on the ground next to him, struggling to maintain its temperature so long after he had brewed it. Yet it wasn't the clock but instead a sudden knock that woke him up, causing the book to slide off of his face. And almost immediately replacing it was a letter that had appeared out of nowhere, addressed to him. He frowned slightly.

"Isn't this a cliché by now?" he murmured, before ripping the letter open. And then, his worst nightmare came to pass. He was on a team with the terrible judge, Ser Nemo. Ser No One. It was a stupid name. Did Ser Nemo even speak Latin? Why someone would call themselves that, Percy had no idea... But irrationally, it made him hate Ser Nemo even more. He'd like to see someone trip the old man down the stairs. Preferably, it would be caught on video, so Percy could experience it over and over again.

At least his sister wasn't on the team. He loved her, but she could be suffocating at times. The only person on the team that he actually liked was Zelda Flynn - and she was fine. He would have preferred to be on a team with Zari. Sure, he'd have a constant headache, but at least he'd be entertained. Zelda would probably end up clinging to him like a life raft. The rest of the team though pretty much sucked. He didn't know this Amnesia person, and while he loved the Sabine Women, he was skeptical if she would live up to her name. The other two though were some of the assholes from a few days ago.

The universe seemed to insist on throwing Percy in Dorian's path - like some cruel, unwanted gift. Dorian Gray was the Christmas fruitcake of teammates. No matter how hard Percy tried to chuck it, it always seemed to come back. "If I kill him, it's your fault," Percy said to no one in particular. He did still have the axe...

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He had dressed in the dorm room in record time when he got back. The constant sounds of illness and plague coming from Teddy's side of the room was a strong motivator. Percy didn't even realize he was capable of holding his breath that long. He didn't even do his usual routine of folding the bed up as neat and tidy as he could, figuring that every second he lingered in that room, he was putting his immune system at risk. He made a mental note to get the sanitation equivalent of Febreeze before returning to this room.

Or maybe he could suck it up and ask Diana if he could sleep in her room until Teddy was no longer a bear corpse. He vaguely recalled her mentioning that one of her two roommates had ended up withdrawing from the school, leaving her in a triple with just one roommate.

At any rate, Percy made his way to the training rooms from the auditions - his team was specifically put in training room B. He had briefly considered bringing the axe with him, but had decided against it. Ser Nemo could live for another day. Besides, he didn't particularly want to go to jail for killing an old man - although Percy was pretty sure that his parents could pull some strings to cover it up. Maybe he'd be sent to a secret school that worked with kids who were on the roads to becoming villains. Or maybe they'd just shoot him off into space. He vaguely recalled something like that happening to the Hulk once. It was hard a times to know all the notable super events, given that approximately twelve billion had happened every year since Tony Stark went public as Iron Man.

Come to think of it, the mysterious handsome savior from his dream did have a certain resemblance to Tony Stark... who was Percy's answer for both fuck and marriage in classic Avengers' Fuck, Marry, Kill.

"Ah, Mr. Novikov - come in, come in," Ser Nemo said as Percy arrived, waving him through the open door of the training room. Percy was, as requested, wearing the standard uniform. He had opted for the version of it that used shorts, as it was still INCREDIBLY hot at the moment in Los Angeles. He didn't feel like having rivers of sweat running down his legs.

"Are we... running an obstacle course?" Percy asked, his head starting to ache. Fuck. Maybe Teddy really had gotten him sick... His nose was itching as well, as if a nosebleed was about to come on. But he did his best to focus on the massive obstacle course that had been set up in the training room. It looked like something out of Survivor or another trashy reality competition. He especially didn't like to see a section that included a giant mud pit. Percy narrowed his eyes. Maybe this was how Ser Nemo was going to get revenge for Percy's attempted murder - by ruining his crisp, clean clothes.

"Hm? Oh, yes! You will be competing as teams. We'll begin with a mini challenge of sorts, so to speak, which will let the winner pick their teams. One team will have three members, and the other two. I will order pizza for the winners."

Somehow, Percy managed to narrow his eyes more. "Pizza. Right, because we're just children who need a bribe," he scoffed. He was feeling angrier by the minute as he talked with Nemo. And his headache was becoming stronger and stronger. Maybe he'd get lucky and he'd give Nemo Teddy's illness. Now THAT would make all of this worth it.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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@BlueSky44@Nallore@Trainerblue192@Achronum@PatientBean@Forsythe@Blizz@Ever Faithful@Kirah@Natsu

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TRANSCRIPT OF THE CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS 2023 DRAFT

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

NOT TO BE RELEASED TO STUDENTS

NOTE: Official rules indicate teams should consist of 5 members. There may be 2 additional members to serve as alternates/subs.

FIRST ROUND PICK

V: As the reigning champions, I propose that we keep the team designated 'the Young Avengers' in tact under my guidance. Their membership includes Hawkeye II, Stature, Wiccan, Speed, Hulkling, Patriot, and Miss America. Are there any objections?
SN: No.
LN: No.
U: You're taking ALL THE GOOD ones! Ugh, fine. Whatever. Half of them are graduating anyways, keep your shitty washed up team.
V: ....
V: Thank you. Based on previous patterns, I assume you would like to select your own teams first, prior to filling out the remaining nine groups.
SN: I choose Poltergeist as my first pick.
U: Fine. I'm taking Artemis. Love a bitch who can fuck things up.
V: ....
LN: I will take Marvel Girl.

SECOND ROUND PICK

SN: I will take Hot-Shot.
U: Pfft, loser. Can't believe you picked the walking fire tornado. Anyways, I'm going to make a high IQ move and I'm taking Valkyrie. You all can suck it.
V: ... Really, Usagi?
U: Eat me.
LN: Oh, I suppose I will take then... Trivia.

THIRD ROUND PICK

SN: Hmm. Begrudgingly, I will take Odysseus.
U: You're really bad at this. Did you have a stroke? Aaaanyways. I'm gonna take Jotunn. Damn, my team is SO GOOD.
SN: Perhaps I did.
LN: I will select Luna Minor.
U: She's going to kill you in your sleep. Just an FYI.

FOURTH ROUND PICK

SN: I will take Amnesia.
U: snorts
U: Imma grab Shieldmaiden, no idea how she hasn't been snapped up yet.
LN: I will take Cascade.

FIFTH ROUND PICK

SN: Mmm. I will take Calamity.
U: Oh! I'll grab up Arcade. Easy choice. My techies are gonna be BESTIES.
LN: And I will conclude with the selection of Kindle.
U: Yikes.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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CONFIDENTIAL ASSESSMENT REPORTS

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

NOT TO BE RELEASED TO STUDENTS

U = Usagi
SN = Ser Nemo
V = Vision
LN = Lady Nimue

van Dyne, Victoria - Junior

• Ranking:
  • A - SN
  • A - U
• Likelihood of villainy:
  • 1 - SN
  • 1 - U
• Comments:
  • People tend to think that the Avengers are cops, whereas other people argue firefighters. Miss van Dyne is making a case here for the latter. She is a natural born leader. -SN
  • Disappointed she didn't really fuck things up while in there - would've been excited to see what sort of damage that suit can do. But hey, still was super cool! Didn't know the van Dynes were making suits that weren't meant for shrinking. Thought that was Stark's deal? -U

Terrane, Ardere - Freshman

• Ranking:
  • B - SN
  • B - LN
• Likelihood of villainy:
  • 3 - SN
  • 7 - LN
• Comments:
  • She pushes herself too hard. While I admire her ambition, it is important to also know when to stop. - SN
  • I sense a great deal of confusion in her - and a desperation to prove herself. If not guided properly, she may become a force of great evil. -LN

Sullivan, Mary Sue- Freshman

• Ranking:
  • C - SN
  • B - LN
• Likelihood of villainy:
  • 1 - SN
  • 10 - LN
• Comments:
  • A young protagonist at the start of her hero's journey, just barely scratching the surface of her power. We should consider private sessions, to help her probe the nature of her abilities. - SN
  • The granddaughter of Thanos heralds death. I should like to work with her, less the darkness consume her. -LN

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Guin Stark

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Location: Blackbird
Skills: Telepathy
~Fit Check~

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Guin winced internally as Lance brought up their reason trip into space - admittedly, they didn't have a good track record when it came to finding people in space. The Hulk was still missing. The Avengers hadn't been able to locate him, and neither had they. All they could do at this point was hope that Banner would find his way home one day. Hopefully before long. Lance had finally gotten to a good place with his father, right before Banner disappeared. She thought for a moment about gently peering into Lance's mind, to see how upset he was, but decided against it. She could chat with him later.

"Right, here goes nothing then," Guin said, closing her eyes and placing her hands on either side of her head. It was a stupid cliché that most telepaths did, but Guin found that it did help her to ground herself somewhat. She did at least have some practice when it came to using telepathy as GPS - it was how they had made their way to OMEN's black site way back in the day. The thoughts of everyone else on the Blackbird were noisy and Guin did her best to shove them down, to bury them while boosting the very faint aura of Mary's psychic signature.

"Okay, I've got them - faint but we're still ways off," Guin explained. She then started to relay to Lance which way to go from here. She ignored the other conversations going on in the jet, mostly because it was hard enough for her to keep a hold on Mary's signal as it was. She didn't need to try multitasking on top of telepathically navigating.

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Neil Spellman

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Location: the Asteroid
Skills: N/A
~Fit Check~

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Neil felt a lull in the conversation build on, as Bethany went ahead to scout. He couldn't help but admire the way she could meld into the shadows, becoming something more than human. An aching sensation tugged at the back of his mind, as if he was on the verge of some sort of realization or transformation, before it slipped away. They really had come far as a group. He was not the same person anymore. This was his body, but at the same time, it wasn't. The bones were his - but the skin? the hair? the eyes? They felt like clothes, something that could be put on and removed. Even his name at times felt clunky in his mouth. He didn't always feel like Neil Spellman.

These days, he was starting to feel like he was someone else.

"Did anything interesting happen in space while we were gone?" he asked Annie softly. As much as silence was probably for the best here, he couldn't help it. Silence just meant more space for his thoughts. There was something nagging away at him, something that he wanted to set aside. He had been pouring into D&D lately to do just that, but he couldn't do that now. He didn't have his manuals and notes on him.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Megan Pendragon

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Location: Rapunzel's Tower
Skills: Medical Science

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Megan examined Lancelot's wound with a critical eye, yet she did not need her medical degree to tell her that the wound was infected. If the infection was not cleared, it could spread to the blood. The resulting blood poisoning would prove to be fatal and Lancelot would die. Her thoughts strayed to the state of medicine in the world she had grown up from - just a few centuries ago and there would've been nothing they could do for him. Stomach wounds were dangerous that way. Had the wound been on a limb, they could amputate it. In this case though, the wound had to heal - more importantly, the infection had to clear.

"Do you preferentially amputate here, in lieu of clearing infection?" Megan asked Rapunzel. While she had been here until she was about ten years old or so, she hadn't learned the medicinal practices of this world. She took up the jar of ointment Rapunzel had indicated, noting that it seemed to be prescribed of various herbs - some of which she recognized as having been used on Earth, others that were foreign to her. From what she recalled of the herbs she knew, she was fairly confident this would clear the infection.

Not that Lancelot really had any other options. They couldn't amputate here. A beheading would be more practical. Megan set herself to work, cleaning the area and reapplying the ointment. She gave Lancelot a generous amount. She wished she had some sort of antibiotic to give him. The ointment she thought should work, but it still made her feel uncertain.

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

@KazAlkemi

-missing a dislike
-Is there more to her history section that’s missing? It seems like it ends on a cliffhanger lol. Unless that’s her waking up in Limbo for the start of the RP, in which case it is fine.