Orpheus

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

"Gargar! Sacha! C! The guests are here!"

“Stop screaming, you big diaper!” An ironically loud yell came from behind the thick circular door before it was kicked open. Lo and behold exited the smallest member of the Hooded Figures, the pole-wielding terror with the bright pink hair and hyperactive tendencies. Gary, of course, had her weapon with her, and she planted it on the ground as she stood beside Sacha and Luke. All of the humans were stared down one by one as she stole a cookie from Rainbowzilla and nibbled on it. The poor dinosaur squeaked in protest but a quick glare from Gargar silenced it.

“You! Whatcha doing here!? After you messed up my plants!” Gary suddenly screeched and jabbed her pole towards Nympha, then pointing towards a pathetic looking plot of land full of withered flowers. “You’re not allowed inside, you evil criminal-ish hag!” She added and then slammed her staff on the ground again, leaving indents on the soil. When Sacha offered the plate of cookies to the humans, Gary nabbed the entire thing and stepped back. “There’s lots of food inside. It’s not like they’re going to die of hunger if they don’t eat these cookies,” She said and ate one. Then another.

The door swung open and a tall figure walked out. Like everybody else this time around, Numair had his hood down and his hands tucked into his pockets. A small piglet with wings trailed behind him. Porkchop, was it? “I heard the noise,” He shrugged and turned to the door, “if you’re all done bickering, let’s get inside. Oh and, wipe your shoes on the rug. C’s going to strangle people if you leave mud prints on the floor.” It was pretty clear he was addressing both his comrades and the humans.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Cuttersbury – Trail towards Drych Lake

The varren, asides from the occasional raking, also had the ingenuity to throw rocks at the Pride. As expected, Lute wasn’t taking that well. He had his free arm draped over his face as a shield of sorts, while he swung his sword above the suspicious patches of soil where the creatures might pop out. It goes without saying that sound attacks were pretty useless against their current enemies.

The flat of his blade struck against something hard, and when he turned to look, Lute realized that he had just knocked a fedora off the top of a random varren’s head. The creature turned to cast a baleful glare at him before burrowing deep into the ground, disappearing in a spray of pebbles and earth. “All right, this isn’t good,” Lute snapped as a few bits of sand got into his eyes, courtesy of a flying boulder thrown by a couple of their enemies, and he stepped back. As his foot sunk into the earth, the soil itself seemed to collapse and the virtuoso tumbled back. The very same varren he hit earlier was now snickering at him with its upper half exposed out of the underground tunnel. “Why you-,” Lute grabbed his sword and whacked the varren on its head like it was one of those arcade hit games, and since it was too busy sniggering it barely had any time to react to the virtuoso’s onslaught. “HA! Who’s laughing now, punk!?” He snarled and got up after the varren was forcibly pummeled back underground.

A quick look at his surroundings informed him that while the skirmish wasn’t very fair, at least nobody was bleeding out or anything. “Oi! You going to keep like that until later or what?” Lute rushed towards Jett, swinging his sword downwards at the rolling varren as if they were in a golf competition. Unfortunately, he didn’t expect that it was quite heavy and only managed to move its trajectory by a few inches, not to mention that he staggered back when its spikes pretty much clashed with his blade.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Double post.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Yey, RPG is fixed. Will get a post up right away.

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Ugh my internet won't connect last night. I'll get my post up tonight

Any place goes for me. :)

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Maybe posting midnight? Exams and report tomorrow.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Er guys, I won't be able to post today. Reviewing for tomorrow's exams.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Cuttersbury – Streets

“That’s too bad. Well, I hope your probation gets lifted soon,” Lute smiled and watched as the parrot flew away from Nani. He vaguely felt Trixie let go of his wrist and turned his head to the side to see that the prankster had flitted over to Marcus, while the others walked behind them in a much slower pace. Just then, he realized that he was in the front of their merry little group- a position that implied leadership that he was sure he didn’t possess- and this inspired him to return to the rear lines where Aria and Amy were.

They were deep in conversation just as he moved in, with Quentin and Jett talking to Aria and Amy ignoring the two boys. The virtuoso didn’t have the habit of eavesdropping, but his familiar did, and that was enough for him to overhear something about age being discussed. “Sorry to disappoint you, but there’s nothing special or “prodigious” about me. I’m twenty-three years old… Give or take a year,” Lute casually interjected and shrugged his shoulders. Now that that misunderstanding was cleared up, he crossed his arms over his chest and stared off to the side, ready to remain quiet until they’ve reached their destination. The same couldn’t be said of the trio near him, though; they were a lively bunch and Aria seemed to like chatting with them. He couldn’t very well tell them to shush, right? The virtuoso sighed and erected a barrier separating him from the others and their voices lowered to a garbled, indistinguishable hum as it reached his ears. This was far more tolerable than the original.

Moira’s bellow pretty much pierced through the barrier, though.

Lute’s eyebrows knitted together as he glanced at the woman. “Competition? Er, sure. I’m good at competitions. So long as it’s not the one that has you betting your clothes. I end up naked on those kinds of things,” He muttered and looked back to the side of the street, again with the sound wall cloaking him.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Hi guys, I ran out of money to rent a computer with so I skipped a round uwu. Posting next, though~

Edit: Cae posted just as I got mine up, but there's no significant events that have been affected so I'm keeping mine as it is.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Cuttersbury - Road

Er, a spa…?

“Yey… New mission!” With uncharacteristic lack of enthusiasm, the virtuoso allowed himself to be pulled down by Trixie as she made for the door. Delilah, for one, was griping about how she wouldn’t get to enjoy the facilities as much as she would have- “We’re not going there to relax, Dellie,” he interjected- if she had a physical body. He had a body, and it wasn’t all that pleasant to lug around, really. Maybe they should swap sometime? That way the sound spirit could trip all over rocks and he’d be the one laughing for a change.

Lute rubbed over the his ringing ear as the lot of them left the Guild. He expected the monsters to pop up in some farm- hell, that’s almost always what happened back home- but they were attacking some high class joint? Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A small part of the virtuoso wanted to see the managers panic about upturned hedges, destroyed rosebushes and the like, but here they were en route to help. How unfortunate. His hand brushed past something velvety and Lute grasped at the object. “All right, how long has this been there?” He raised the wildflower and turned to give Aria an accusing glare. Ah, well. It wasn’t going to hurt if he kept wearing it, and he kinda felt bad to just throw the cute little flower away so… Lute shrugged and tucked it in his breastpocket. One of the men earlier- Lute didn’t catch his name- approached Trixie and then proceeded to fawn over Syed. “Lute,” He quickly shot in, grabbed the guy’s hand and gave it one shake, then let go. That took care of any awkward touching/embracing/whatever the crook might think of.

While Jett struck up a conversation with Syed, Lute kept his eyes on the ground in case he tripped over a pebble. You never knew. When he glanced up, he overhead the flapping of wings behind him and turned to look. Ah, the pirate girl. Trixie was obviously not going to approach the girl so long as the parrot was around, so the virtuoso extended his arm as he slowed down while Trixie herself continued walking onwards; it created a leash effect, of sorts. “So, uh, Nani. You’re a pirate, right? Do you have a… ship?” Plus five points for not asking about a wooden leg or an eyepatch, but the conversation was still young.