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Current These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. -John 16:33
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Felix hit the ground and bounced as he skidded to a halt. The impact was mostly absorbed throughout the armor, and Felix was hardly effected by it other than being temporarily disoriented. It was clear that Jessie was familiar with the innerworkings of most magics, and her curiosity was something that Felix could relate to himself.

After Felix stood up he spoke briefly, "It's not as simple as saying it is polarity. You see, my suit is made of Manalloy, a substance that is much different than physical matter. So different, in fact, that it pushes against all physical matter. Although I have figured out exactly the reasoning behind the repellent nature of manalloy, it is indeed very useful." Felix explained.

Then the giant man-like creature charged him, sending two powerful punches. Felix didn't have time to dodge, so he took the hits head on. In most cases, the manaegis could absorb the blow entirely. But so much energy was exerted, that the manaegis could only absorb the internally damaging energy, and not the displacing kinetic energy. Which meant that now, Felix was flying through the courtyard once again this time not stopping until he smashed into the perimeter field.

Felix pealed himself off the barrier, and examined the situation. He then decided on using a different tactic.

Felix pointed to the sky above Man of War and yelled,"He covers His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark. Job chapter thirty-six, verse thirty-two." And then pointed down from the sky to the Man of War. Immediately a large purple bolt of electricity arced from the clear skies, blasting at where the the Man of War was standing.
Felix didn't like violence. He always had only fought as retaliation to those who wished to do him harm. But, if it was for the greater good of the world that he fight, it was time for him to step out of his comfort zone. Felix used his hand to brush back a blonde lock of hair that had come loose from one of his hair pins.

"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil." As Felix recited the scripture, blue flames began to overtake parts of his body. First the azure flames were overtaking his legs. "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the worldly forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places." Now the flames spread up to his chest, "Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm." Next the flames spread to his arms, "Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of piece; Amen." The flames finally overtook his head, and then solidified into a shiny perfect suit of full armor. Normally, he would have recited the whole passage of scripture, but only needing the armor, he decided to forgo the sword and shield.

Felix took a battle stance in his manaegis, and then charged the tall brute. The speed of his manaegis allowed him to cover the distance between them in a split second. He stopped abruptly within arms distance, and issued a swift full force blow to the chest, that to a normal human, would have crushed their bones and sent them flying twenty feet in the other direction.
Felix felt a pang of guild for what he was about to ask. He knew that if she accepted, she would be leaving behind kids who depended on her knowledge. The prospect of being the one to tear her away from that gave him a pit in his stomach. But he shook his head. The knowledge that his cause was of vital importance led his words.

"I am indeed not here for your tutelage. I am here because of something much more important. My name is Felix, and I am- or I was an Arch-Magi with the Catholic Arcanocracy." Felix stated.

"I know what I am about to say will sound far fetched. So please just bear with me and make a final judgement after I have said my spiel." Felix implored.

"Around a few months back, during a council summit, an Arch-Magi by the name of Thadeus suggested efforts be focused on an endeavor. This endeavor involved making sure the Arcanocracy obtain nine artifacts of devastating power named the Paragons. Thadeus had said it to be solely for the purpose of assuring the position and the safety of the Arcanocracy as a world power. Many were opposed to this motion including me, and most namely the papal-magi. After the motion was rejected... I had thought that would have been the end of the discussion. I knew better than most people that this pandora's box known as the Paragons should not be opened. So I breathed a sigh of relief when the papal-magi rejected the motion. Unfortunately three weeks ago, the papal-magi died, and a new papal-magi was voted in. The unfortunate part sadly was not only the previous papal-magi perishing, but that Thadeus's brother Cornelius was voted in as the new papal-magi. Needless to say a few weeks later at the next summit, the motion to search for the paragons was brought up once more, only this time the motion was not only accepted, but made top priority. That night I had a fever dream that could only be explained as a vision. In this dream I was shown the many possible endings of this world should anyone get their hands on the paragons besides a group formed by me. I awoke to find me sitting at my writing desk pen in hand, and parchment in front of me. Upon the parchment was a series of names and locations written in my handwriting."

Felix procured the parchment and handed it to the summoner, and indicated her name was the 3rd name down on the list.

"I have visited everyone else on the list, and most all of them have agreed to join. You're the last one I have approached. I know this is a lot to ask you to believe, but I'll come out and say it anyways. Will you join our team? Will you help save the world?" Felix asked.
Felix arrived in a nice city surrounded by mountains, with a large lake off in the distance. Felix glanced at his mana-dial and noticed it was 19:46, July 2nd, a full day later than the timezone in northern California. Felix wasn't sure where to begin looking for the Summoner Manor, so he activated manalysis to search for any nearby Talents that may be able to direct him where he needed to go. Felix felt the familiar wave signature of a Talent, and began walking.

Felix arrived at a fruit stand on the side of the road, a young boy with a baseball cap was running the stand.

"Good evening, young man. I was wondering if you could help me."

"Buy some fruit." The boy said in a bored fashion.

Felix sighed, and gave the kid a 20 dollar bill.

"What is this? American currency?" The boy sounded insulted.

"Yes, an-"

"I can't accept American currency. The exchange on this is right bollocks." The boy angrily rejected the money.

Felix sighed and pulled out a €20 banknote slip.

"Are you trying to insult me with this garbage? The euro exchange rate is even worse!" The kid crumpled up the banknote and tossed it at Felix's head, rebounding off his forehead and hitting the ground.

Felix started to get a bit angry but calmed himself down before speaking. "Well... between the two currencies I just gave you, I am sure you can do something with it. I, however, do not have the time to be exchanging my currency for New Zealand dollars just to get some fruit. Now do you know where the Summoners Manor is or don't you?" Felix sighed.

The boy's eyes narrowed, but he conceded. "At the north end of the city there is a trail leading up into the mountains, the Manor you are looking for is on that trail."

"Thank you." Felix said. And with that Felix began walking towards the north end of the city.

It took him about thirty minutes to reach the trail the boy had talked about. All the landscape was green and verdant, and off in the distance was a large manor peaking over the tops of a grove of trees that surrounded it.

Felix made his way to the front entrance of the grand building. There were a few kids on the front steps playing with various summoned creatures. As they saw him, they panicked in an attempt to hide their creatures, some of them instantly dismissing their creatures.

"Keep calm, children. I am not an Untalent. I am here for Jessie. Do you know where she is?" Felix asked in a quiet tone.

One of the braver kids, a small boy with a cracked front tooth and a red t-shirt that had a dinosaur picture on it, stepped forth.

"She's teaching the little kids in the courtyard around back." He said, attempting to deepen his voice.

Felix chuckled to himself at the boy's attempt to sound macho, and patted him on the head.

"Thank you," Felix said graciously.

Felix rounded the corners of the building until he found the courtyard. There he saw a redheaded woman, with two kids with her. The kids were leaning on her every word, it was clear she was a good teacher.

Felix didn't look imposing, all he had on was a blue cotton T-shirt, some jeans, and a backpack. Since he suppressed his mana-wave signature, everyone who saw him would just see a hiker/tourist.

Felix approached the group in the courtyard.
"Jessie Link, could I take a moment of your time?"
Oh boy... You guys really got going. Sorry guys I stopped checking in after the posting died down quiet a bit a couple weeks ago.

@Prodigal Son Um... I think I'm going to have to have pull my hat officially after looking at how much I've missed. I apologize about that my good people.


It's all good, thanks for your interest in this RP.
@Prodigal Son

Not 100% sure why indicating the underwear of the kidnapped woman who stormed to bed was required but I will take it.

:3

In other news I'm going to bed. I'll be on late tomorrow (Like late will mean around 4 hours earlier than this post)


Just going for a tad bit of realism. If I really wanted to embarrass a few readers here I would have gone for explaining her cup-size and the tattoos she had on her body as well. It wasn't necessary, but having her just, "go upstairs and fall asleep," seemed a little to short for an explanation, and I like to describe things in depth.
Raiya was too flustered and flabbergasted to give any sort of response. The anger she felt burning inside her was from many reasons. First and foremost of those reasons for her anger and coincidentally her drunkenness, was her brother Felix abruptly showing up in her life after four years of silence.

She could remember those four years ago, when she went on investigating something that she was forbidden to continue investigating, all in an effort to clear Felix's name in her mind. And yet, after all the work she did, Felix sided with those who most certainly committed heinous acts in secret. What was it that Felix had said to her? "We have no reason to distrust the Arcanocracy, they have given us everything. And... And well, to question the order of things is to reject our teachings, and that's the way of the apostate.

The words stung even now. Raiya couldn't blame Felix for his then blind acceptance of the Arcanocracy. The Church was all they knew; it wasn't just a way of life it was their family. But to not even attempt to contact her after she left? That was almost unforgivable.

The other reason for her frustration was that a random stranger had bested her right hand woman and essentially stolen her from her home and business. Plus to make matters worse the stranger who did all this was broken out of a jail cell he should have been rotting in for the rest of his life by her brother whom she considered dead but if to be believed was not ordered to capture her but did so on his own and- ARGH! The factors for her frustration were so large in number and so complex in connection with each other that she had difficulty picking one thing to be angry about.

So, in a sigh of frustration, she placed her knife back in her coat, and stormed off in the direction of the stairs that lead to the guest rooms. Finding the left room at the end of the hallway, she walked in and slammed the door as hard as she could without breaking the hinges.

The room in question was quite large with many luxuries. The bed was a queen-size, with black Egyptian cotton comforters and sheets, and real goose down pillows. The room had a wall mounted flat screen television on the wall at the foot of the bed, and in the north section of the room was a desk with a shelf above it; various books lining the shelf. As she looked to her left before the bed was an opening to a full bathroom. The full connected bathroom, plus the modernity of all of the furniture gave her the familiar feeling of a hotel room.

Feeling exceedingly tired from the effects of the alcohol, she began to undress. She pealed off her leather jacket and black hoodie, and kicked off her combat boots. She also took off the outer fishnet shirt and tank top, and dropped her jeans, leaving her in her black laced bra and panties. She then crawled under the tightly made bed's covers, and fell asleep, letting the frustrations of the day slip away with the blissful reprieve that sleep brought.




Felix watched as Raiya stormed off, and flinched at the loudness of the door slamming.

"Well. On one hand I want to scold you for going off on your own. On the other I want to thank you for managing the impossible and getting my sister to join us. I still don't know if that latter part is a good thing, but her name is on the list so good or not she needs to be with us. So... Overall good job, Nemo. I'm not sure how you did it, but making inferences, I would say you should sleep with one eye open when she's around." Felix mused.

Felix noticed the pale blue man faint. Felix didn't think about accounting for temperature adjustments, but he noticed Artos activated a temperature spell to keep himself safe. Felix walked over to the lounge area and began to address everyone.

First he pulled out the parchment list, and then he began talking.

"I have called you all here because all of your names have been written on this list. I haven't told you all this, but I wrote this list while I was sleeping, in a vision state. The vision I was having was one of warning, and one of pleading. I was told to bring you all together so that you could save the world from those who seek to gather up the dangerous artifacts known as the Paragons." Felix looked down at the list, "Now that we're all here I'd like to-" Felix stopped himself as he noticed a name that he hadn't noticed there before. It was possible he had noticed it, but in his haste he skipped it by accident, the third name down. It read, "Jessie Link - Summoner Manner (Wakana, New Zealand)"

Felix rubbed the back of his head with his empty left hand in embarrassment.

"I- um... I seem to have accidentally skipped one of the list names... I'll be back, but... we'll continue this discussion tomorrow morning. You can all chat amongst yourselves. But, it's-" Felix looked at his mana-dial which read in blue digital numbers 23:46 (11:46 standard), "almost midnight. So you should all eventually find yourselves a room and get some sleep."

With that, created another rift, and gave a wave before disappearing through the portal.
@Prodigal Son
So, how should we deal with possible posting order issues etc?

Edit: Since if someone doesn't post someone else can't post etc etc


It's simple, really. If someone is holding up your character, retcon your interaction with their character with something else, much like you already did with Skelace.

Edit: I mean, obviously give them a decent amount of time before doing so. (like two days)
@Prodigal Son

Just to make sure I'm still on-board with everything as I also mistook your initial proposition as well, are we to simply report in the OOC if we are not able to post in the IC for that day?


Yeah, just give updates. Communication is key to make every RP run smoothly.
@Prodigal Son k well if you're gonna force that, I'm gonna go ahead and drop out then. Life happens.


Right, and the enforcing of the one post a day rule isn't, "if you don't post once a day you get kicked" it's a, "Please post once a day if you can't because of life that's fine" because not even I can post once a day for sure.
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