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Pokémon: Rise of Chaos

Furthermore, as I find it interesting, this is the list of current classes picked by all invited trainers. Seems like we have a pretty diverse set of skills!

Edit: Aurina's character is now removed.

Move Tutor -
Strategist -II
Healer - I
Type master - I
Instructor - I
Tracker - I
Scouts - II
Ranger - II
Survivalist - II
Gadgeteer -
Pokémon Expert - III
Archaeologist - I
Black Belt - I
Weapons master
Aura Adept - II
Ninja - I
Paragon -
Debaters - I
Psychics -.
Chef - I
Hatcher - I
Groomer - I

Pokémon: Rise of Chaos

Hello everyone! It's great to see all the activity and the cast of characters growing both in numbers and intrigue. We only have a few more to work on, but I have a couple notes to add.

1. Thank you kindly for your banner, Prince. It is greatly appreciated. You will receive a PM shortly about your character.

2. GM rules change. Due to the rarity of the shinies in the pokemon universe, they will be banned without an extremely reasonable explanation. If you can astound us, you can have it, but it must be damned good. Rinnoh's Haunter and Niccolo's Metagross are the only conflicts I see right now, but consider shinies essentially absent.

3. GM rules clarification. (I'm sorry!) Aura sensitivity and Psychic sensitivity are entirely different kettles of water types. =P Aura is most commonly used as a passive power, like seeing heat vision, but instead of seeing heat, you see life and emotion. meditation gives access to these powers. Psychic power is usually more active, reading minds, telekinesis, teleportation, the like. I would almost guarantee that if you want mental power, you seek psychic power. At this point, we only have room for one more Auric (max three to keep diversity), and both powers cannot be used by both characters. Both Niccolo and Aurina will have to change this.

I hate having my first post be nagging rules setting, but hey, it's got to happen. I promise Oran berries and cookies with Moo-moo milk to any who have had their feelings hurt or are just hungry. =P

Pokémon: Rise of Chaos

Riley Gallagher

Name: Riley Gallagher
Age: 19
Appearance:
With long, flowing black hair peeking out haphazardly from the cowl, Riley is almost always seen within the comfort of a black, unmarked sweatshirt. Jeans or sweats form the only complement to this outfit, and a black tank top lies underneath the thicker fabric. If one can catch her from under the hood, one would find an ambivalent face with grey-blue eyes, a half tangled ponytail restraining the rest of her hair, and a smirk forming on the tips of her lips. At 5’7”, she is fairly average in height, her nimble body toned from her plentiful exercise.

The Mark of Arceus appeared on the upper portion of her left arm, black as if burned into her skin. A few years after that, she “left” during one of her travels into Slateport City, purchasing a duplicate on her left shoulder and a large one across her back, with tribal patterns traveling from it up her shoulder-blades and down her arms to her wrists in a fierce tattoo.

Class: Infiltrator

Sub -Classes: Ninja, Aura Adept, Black Belt (mixed hand to hand based on pokemon styles), Strategist

Items and Accessories: Riley keeps very little on her, for better or worse. Besides a few hair ties wrapped about her wrist, a poketch that looks like it's threatening to cut off her circulation, and a small knife for emergencies sheathed at her waistline, Riley tends to simply use what she is given or scrounge up items from the nearby locations.

Personality: Neither bright and cheery nor dank and depressing, Riley is best characterized by her normal appearance - sweatshirt hooded over, smirk present on her cowled face. Independent, anarchistic, and suspicious of anyone with an absent introduction or an overly pompous one, Riley will leave a group or a mentor just as quickly as something is able to catch her attention; with her ability to hide with no more effort than a shadow, she can and has done so, and quite often at that. Curious and of strong memory, you might never find out what did capture her whims, as her true motives are hidden under layers of sarcasm and idle chatter. Certain phrases and concepts, however, will turn a pleasant attitude somber with no warning, though she refuses to talk about why. She can be fond of pranks and tricks, and not always of the kind sort; she cares not what happens to most people, as long as her pokemon are safe from harm.

Strongly likes - things she has never encountered before, quiet, freedom

Strongly dislikes - those who let their Pokemon do all the work (fighting or otherwise), those who try to force rules upon her, those who can't rationalize what they are doing.

Special Abilities / Traits/ Attributes: A childhood master of hide and go seek (but a childhood failure at Sardines), Riley initially found herself entranced by the ways she could keep out of sight. With many years of training behind her, she makes no more noise than a spectre, and can infiltrate most locations with ease.

History: Riley was born just outside the Frontier Access in Johto, where the remnants of those who pursued competitive battling would come to show off their team's strength and teamwork to the world. With her father working as one of the move tutors in the area, he was often away from the household, assisting both competitors and trainers hoping to teach their Pokemon new moves to help their families back home. Though she visited her father a few times in his workplace, she was bored with the process he used to unlock new abilities from the hearts of his clients, and spent most of her time at home with her older brother and mother, or sneaking away to explore the constant life of the ever variable town. However, after her brother left to become a Pokemon Ranger in Almia, her mother fell into disarray, as her favorite child had left, and the only one still present was the one who put her time into crawling about like an Ariados rather than learning a skillset that could help her and her family. She fell to a minor bout of alcoholism, and started taking lovers from the trainers that would visit. Years passed, her mother ceasing to show any form of affection or recognition of her daughter in the daytime, her lovers treating her with scorn and disgust; solace was found far, far away, be it the town or the wilderness about her home, though comfort was impossible to obtain. With her home becoming more and more hostile with each passing month, the nights more unbearable as her mother's secret grew harder to contain, the impending conflict as her father became more wary, Riley was glad of the day that the elder visited her family and took her away to train her in that which she did best... became one with the shadows.

It was upon Faraway Island that Riley became aware of her Aura abilities, learning to hone them under the instruction of the young teacher Nathan Amsel. As Riley grew more advanced and understanding of the life around her and the skills within her core, so did their relationship bloom, growing from casual friendship to a bated love, flourishing in dance under the thick trees and starlit skies of the island they both called home. However, on an instructor's trip gone wrong, Nathan was incapacitated in a ship accident; her newfound mastery of Aura only amplified his pain to her, emotionally destroying her. Sent to one of the best hospitals in the world, he remains to this day in a troubled coma, unspoken of by any who once knew him. Though she adopted some of his previous pokemon, the experience scarred her for years until she could create an emotional barrier for herself, transforming her into the seemingly inconsiderate person she is today.

Theme song: Stolen Dance – Milky Chance

Pokémon Team

Team theme: Stealth

Team members:
Zubat - Aello
Froslass - Siha
Kabutops - Lucian
Sneasel - Jest
Noivern - Nyx


Name: Aello
Species: Zubat
Type: Flying/poison
Gender: Male
Ability: Inner Focus
Nature: Jolly
History: As the pokemon world slowly faded from the capture-centric mindset of the past, less and less pokemon were caught, for pokemon were only chosen if they could benefit the user in some way. Zubat were nearly always considered a nuisance; this change only made it less likely for some youngster to bring one home. In some flocks, the possibility of being friends with humans was almost unheard of. One runt like being, outcast by his flock, however, dreamed of joining a pokemon team, of finding a friend that could take them far from the cave without fear of noctowl by night or pidgeotto by day. Outside the entrance to the Battle Frontier, this zubat watched hundreds of trainers pass by, with pokemon unheard of to a young bat. But amongst these trainers was a shadow of a person, a person who observed from the shadows like he did. He sought to approach the female, and did, and, by this luck or coincidence, had his wish granted.

Though he has been with Riley the longest of her pokemon, Aello has been unable to evolve, perhaps by the same genes that gave him his diminutive size. Regardless of this, however, he puts in his effort with great gusto whenever he is not clutched in her sweatshirt hood.
Moveset:
Bite
Leech life
Supersonic
Haze
AcroBATics
Poison Fang
Swift


Name: Jest
Species: Sneasel
Type: Dark/Ice
Gender: Male
Ability:Keen Eye
Nature:Naughty
History:A troublemaker at heart, Jest once was a plague of Snowpoint city, enjoying solitary living as a thief and a prankster in the icy Sinnoh City. However, when the dark type Pokemon encountered Riley creating a prank of her own early in her training, the two bonded, with the young sneasel joining her team. It is common for the pokemon to return from an “adventure,” talking wildly about his accolades, to be greeted with the saying “You Jest!” from his chuckling trainer.
Moveset:
Feint attack
Ice Shard
Quick Attack
Punishment
Thief
Swagger
Double Team


Name: Siha
Species: Froslass
Type:Ghost/Ice
Gender:Female
Ability:Snow Cloak
Nature:Quiet
History: One of the many pokemon left stranded as the “Catch'em All” concept became illegal, this snorunt was passed along from adoption location to adoption location, as those far from home had no need for an ice type upon their farms, and those in icy landscapes were familiar, but unwelcoming of a pokemon that already lived there in force. Seeking the companionship of a trainer, Siha was spied near the facility in Saffron City by the young ninja on one of her travels. Reading the hurt radiating in her aura as skitty and houndour were picked up by the half dozen, Riley could not help but speak with the Pokemon, eventually taking her back to Faraway Island, where the ice type chose to utilize a dawn stone. She speaks not of her time in captivity before Riley, but her ghostly illusions serve as a primary method of making sure her team remains unnoticed in her shadowy pursuits.
Moveset:
Powder Snow
Thunder Wave
Ice Shard
Double Team
Destiny Bond
Hail
Ominous Wind


Name: Nyx
Species: Noivern
Type: Dragon/Flying
Gender: Female
Ability: Infiltrator
Nature: Hardy
History: Originally Nathan's first pokemon, Nyx grew finding that other, unfamiliar trainers often cast her out as disgusting and filthy as a noibat, but envied her grace and beauty as an evolved form. Finding Aello, a zubat, as a treasured member of Riley's team loosened her perceptions of the female, however, and, during the trainers' relationship, became friends with the girl from Johto. Nathan's injury rocked both Riley and Nyx to their cores, but the shared tragedy connected the spirit of the two beings, allowing the dragon to fully accept the girl and eventually join her team.
Moveset:
Boomburst
Flamethrower
Dragon Pulse
Hurricane
Supersonic
Whirlwind
Taunt


Name: Lucian
Species: Kabutops
Type: Rock/Water
Gender:Male
Ability:Swift Swim
Nature:Serious
History: An elegantly mannered pokemon, one would have expected this rock pokemon to have crafted entirely out of polished marble for the manners of his olden form. Gentlemanly and polite, He too served on Nathan's team before his death, having been taught that scythes, real or figurative, do not make a monster. This Kabutops solemnly joined her team upon Nathan's incapacitation as well.
Moveset:
Ancient Power
Metal Sound
Night Slash
Aqua Jet
Mega Drain
Stone Edge
X-Scissor

Martin O

Name: Martin O'neal
Age: 17

Appearance:


Martin is short for her age, but that doesn't halt her enthusiasm for doing what she wants to do. Short, chestnut hair frames a face that is all too willing to smile, and her rich brown eyes portray the volumes of emotion that her beaming smile may not. She can be rather pale, as she spends most of her time indoors, but her most distinguishing feature is the absence of her right leg. Lost after an accident in an industrial workplace many years back, she instead uses one of two prosthetics, hooking on to the stump under her knee. The mark of Arceus manifested on her upper right leg, making her incredibly glad that the doctors did not amputate further up.

Class: Inventor
Sub -Classes: Gadgeteer, Healer, Type Master (Electric), Type Master (Steel)

Items and Accessories: Martin tends to surround herself with things that whirl, grind and beep, and is often seen covered in such contraptions. Her usual devices, however, include the following:

-An arm contraption that has a pokedex, a miniturized pokeball holder/analysis machine, the interior of a computer and a pokenav, a monitor, and a fold out keyboard held together in a clumsy, yet somewhat containable fashion. This cyborg resembling deviec takes up most of right arm, but she built it that way because she is left handed.
-a pokeblok box,
-a big black backpack with an additional laptop and misc cables
-a tiny rc car with a camera. The multi-device functions as the controller for the vehicle.
-misc. tools.
-an additional prosthetic leg – running (flexible, no shoe) or walking (static),
-misc. pokemon related technology, i.e. lens, cell batteries

Personality: Usually energetic, Martin nearly always has her head in her computer, working on some funky new device or tampering with Eve. She can be rather chatty, especially when talking about electronics, and isn't the best of noticing when people understand her excitement and when people are awkwardly smiling and nodding and hoping she stops talking. However, despite her active mouth and brain, she does little physically because of her disability. She'll laugh off her leglessness with ease, but is still hurt by the thought she can't do the same things as everyone else, and often feels judged by those who see it. She is ashamed of her stump and treats it as her most private of body parts.

Special Abilities / Traits/ Attributes: Quick minded and even quicker at absorbing new information, Martin holds the ability to create and repair nearly anything she sets her mind to. With a history regarding electrical components, she can use this skill to hack and operate some machinery with a little more knowledge than simply pushing buttons. Though healer is listed as a class, her specialty is in fixing mechanically based pokemon and reviving charge in electrical ones, and would have no idea what to do with an oddish or any other pokemon not technologically based.

History: Martin was born in Mauville city, a place that became one of the few technological cities as the world progressed. With the nearby facilities of New Mauville growing into an expansive manufacturing factory, many families found work in it's steel doors. Martin's family was no different, and Martin loved visiting her father there while he was at work. While she was there, she befriended many of the electrical pokemon that came, drawn to the energy of the plant.

One day, around 9 years of age, Martin found herself wandering the facility with her father's magnezone, seeking out a broken connectin. However, the broken connection found her when a wild elektross appeared, having been living in the depths of the wires. The Elektross attacked the Magnezone, knocking the young girl off the platform and into running machinery, which cut deeply into her lower right leg. Though the Magnezone ultimately fended off the Elektross, it was too late when it brought her to a local hospital, and they ended up amputating Even as the doctors did their preliminary analysis, though, Martin's hands were working on undenting panels from the steel pokemon's body, using the physical movement of her hands to escape from the pain and absence of her leg, and even clutching a wrench as she went into the surgery room

Though her previous explorations were put on a halt due to her new condition, Martin fell in love with the prospect of repairing the pokemon who had saved her. After getting the more serious injuries healed at a pokemon center, the gentle giant refused further treatment, allowing her to investigate, solder, and replace his parts when she could not move herself. Soon, other pokemon began seeking her help as well, and by the time the elder finally appeared, she was well known throughout the city.

Quote: “Don't worry, I'm sure it will work this time!”

Theme song: “The Future Soon” -Johnathan Coulton

Pokémon Team
Team theme: Electrical fabrication and sabotage
Team members:

Electrovire (M)- Asimov
Porygon 2 (F) - Eve
Golurk (M) - Hogarth
Joltik (F) - Blip


Name: Ansimov
Species: Electivire
Type: Electric
Gender: Male
Ability: Motor Drive
Nature: Rash

History: After Martin's incident in his workplace, her father wanted to make sure there was always a Pokemon able to watch her, even though he needed his magnezone for his job. Instead, he gave her an elekid egg hatched from one of the other workers, entrusting it with the task of protecting and helping her. As a child, it wasn't great at this task, and it became rather apparent that he was unruly as an individual. Though Martin and the elekid had their gripes and frustrations, however, they eventually formed an odd friendship, maintained even now as an electivire.

Though still unruly and independently motivated, this electivire never forgot his promise, and ensures he is always nearby to protect martin, whether she wants it or not.

Moveset:

Electric terrain
Ion deluge
Fire punch
Wild charge
Discharge
Buldoze
Magnet rise


Name: Eve
Species: Porygon 2
Type: Normal
Gender: Genderless, though has adopted female for speaking purposes.
Ability:Trace
Nature:Quirky

History: Once again, after her accident, Martin's father sought to find ways to keep his daughter safely entertained. It was he who introduced her to the coding world, and bought her a few kits to help her get started.

After making a few basic machines, Martin looked online for further projects, finding broken portions of code hacked by some user from the silph co database -- Porygon code, torrented to attempt to make it open source. Through further searching on the internet over the next few years, finding more bits, and testing a few more of her own, Martin finally brought the creature to life four years after the code was first discovered. Since then, Eve has been a sort of pet project, though she occassionaly flickers and sparks due to her code not being Silph CO liscenced. This has happened much less frequently since Martin was able to upgrade the the Pokemon core to the second model, but she is far too afraid to attempt a dubious disk on her eccentric creation. She is currently mark 17.

Moveset:

Lock On
Zap Cannon
Ice Beam
Solar Beam
Hyper Beam
Sharpen
Tri Attack


Name: Hogarth
Species: Golurk
Type: Ghost/ground
Gender: Male
Ability: Iron Fist
Nature: Gentle

History: During one of Martin's trips to the Unova region, she was taken to see the sights of the opened DragonSpiral tower. Though bored by the visit and uncaring of the lore, she did find a broken Golett, nearly powered down in one of the ancient corridors. Though clay was a different medium than what she was used to, and the power source couldn't integrate with modern technology, she did her best to repair the creature with what she had. As a Golett, she cared for Hogarth as if a parent, fixing him whenever he broke and upgrading him if she found a way to help him. However, when he evolved, her mechanical assistance fused with his earthen exterior, permanently fixing all but the customary crack in his chest for a silvery blue appearance. Now calm and collected, he joyfully gazes down at the world and all it's wonders, bound by honor to the young amputee.

Moveset:

Phantom Force
Heavy slam
Hammer arm
Flash Cannon
Fly
Hidden power
Curse


Name: Blip
Species: Joltik
Type: Electric
Gender: female
Ability: compund eyes
Nature: Timid

History: A stowaway from the previous adventure, Martin found blip in her arm device a few days after departing the island. However, when the fellow traveler screamed and demanded it be squashed, she let the little bug remain, protected within it's new metal shell. The bug happily Joined the trainer who protected it, and now creates super thin web wires for the rest of her inventions.

Moveset:
String shot
Electroweb
Bug bite
Struggle bug
Electro ball
Energy ball
Cut

Between the Cracks (A Fairy Tale for the Digital Age)

Alrighty. I will attempt to find more humanoid pictures. Was just trying to find ideas.

Between the Cracks (A Fairy Tale for the Digital Age)

A WIP of some of the concepts I've been throwing around. I don't know how many or which of them I will play, but they are here regardless.

Angeni

Name: Angeni
Species: pukwudgie
Court: neutral
Title: none
Appearance:
Often seen wearing a hooded rabbit leather trenchcoat over her quills. She is tall for her species –3.5 inches in full height, 3 inches hunched over-- but her eyes still glow like the last flickering embers of a camp fire. Her short fur is a darkened, sooty brown, as are her quills, though the latter have small stripes if one looks carefully enough.
Background: Angeni grew up like most pukwudgies; raised by her parents for the few years before the family split apart, the needs of the family satisfied, her father taking over the territory. Angeni survived relatively easily, getting most of her charm from fae too confident about their dreamstone/flux capacitor security. However, after one charm heist gone wrong, Angeni found herself the prisoner of a Troll/goblin society hidden beneath the bowels of the city. Noticing the potential of her natural attributes, she was kept within iron shackles, her spines only allowed to grow long enough for their poison filled points to be cut off and harvested. With the danger of her body contained, Angeni was used for torturous entertainment by the dark fae who captured her, trying to break her spirit, her glamer, and her body through the cruelty of boggarts and goblins, and under the threat of becoming dinner to the monsterous trolls. Yet the young pukwudgie bided her time, eventually making a successful escape from the underbelly of the goblin dominion. Upon her escape, she met a Sidhe who persuaded her to assist his ventures by providing a physical motivation for those who didn't pay his taxes. However, she eventually found herself as nothing more than a willing slave to his aggressive whims, and left promptly. She has since lived nomadically, moving through easily defended areas and holding them for short periods of time, aggressively distrustful of most fae she comes in contact with.
Personality: stoic and disdainful, Angeni lives her nomadic life alone. This has severely hurt her speaking skills to the point where she often remains quiet, only talking if necessary. Angeni believes that words are nothing next to actions, and thinks lowly of those who speak without fully expressing the truth. Very few ever get past her hardened emotional shell, and whether anything exists beneath it anymore is a mystery.
Talent: Unbreakable will
Knack: survivalist skills.
Flaw: anger prone
Major Skills: Tracking, quill weapon handling, stealth, hand to hand combat
Glamers: poanwa 2 (though her spirit was not broken, her eros 1 was shorn from her during the goblin torture.
Charms: three small dreamstone shards, each dangling from a sinew cord around her neck.
Artifacts: a wooden staff, whose knotted head wraps around an enchanted glass vial of pukwudgie poison. Should she hit a creature hard enough with it, the glass will shatter, but reform within an hour.
Mount/Conveyance: walking, climbing, sprinting. She is very limber and capable of finding a physical path to where she needs to go.
Allies: none
Equipment: thin bow made from rodent bone, a few small gut sacks of ashes, quiver for arrows,

Enthl

Name: Enthl
Species: Tengu
Court: Unseelie
Title: inhabitant?
Appearance: he normally stands straight and proud, in beautiful suits of bat wing leather and shining beetle ornamentation.
Background: Raised in a reasonably well off troop, Enthil was devious from his birth. Bored with the conquests of normal fae, he instead found entertainment as a trickster, fooling and daring his friends to bring a quick laugh and other immediate games. As he grew, so did his ego and his intelligence; before long, his simple pranks became in depth schemes, his toying became a more subtle form of trickery. But as his tricks grew darker, he found himself slowly outcast from his group, and sought employment with the shadier sides of the fae world. He currently employs himself as an expert gracker, playtesting the devices created by gnomes and alfar to make sure they will last after creation, or hacking into computer systems for other fae to connect to human technology system. However, he has also been known to take jobs involving persuasion and deciet, as who would ever guess that such a kind and gentlemanly fae would be hiding a well paying group of goblins behind that wall?
Personality: Proud and arrogant, yet fully gentlemanly in exterior appearance, behind that kind-hearted gaze lies a mind ready to pick yours apart. Believing fully that his talent in gracking is expanded to finding flaws in arguments and hardened emotional shells, he confidently (and often successfully) removes that shell from reserved fae, twisting his words to find those cracks and gain the faes' trust. However, at the end of the day, he cares for little beyond himself, and bears no remorse for those who fall into his traps.
Talent: Connivingly eloquent
Knack: At the end of the day, Getting exactly what he wants
Flaw: Greedy, and unable to deny a personal challenge
Major Skills: speaking/seducing, hacking, reading intentions,
Glamers: Eros 1, Gracking 2
Charms: He doesn't have anything of his own, but he makes friends easily enough to meet his needs.
Artifacts: None! He has taken apart most that he has owned, and is confident enough in his own skills to not rely on additional magics.
Mount/Conveyance: small animals, such as mice, that he tames through Eros. He has not grown attached to any, and therefore have not kept them beyond required use.
Allies:Many, though constantly changing. Most fae he leaves on a good note, and those fooled by him are rarely believed because of it.
Equipment: a flash drive with expansive space, the half inch size that are often fitted on keychains. A flat edge on the chassis of the drive also serves as a makeshift screwdriver if essential. A large satchel holds this, shiny human baubles used for seduction purposes, wrapped foodstuffs, and other essential traveling goods. A knife is also stashed in his bat leather boots for emergencies.

Between the Cracks (A Fairy Tale for the Digital Age)

How humanoid are most of these critters? For example, when reading about the gnomes I got a very shrewish/moleish feel, but I'm not sure how far (if) that goes. And what about the others?

Between the Cracks (A Fairy Tale for the Digital Age)

I've been stalking this for a bit, and am currently brainstorming concepts. Hopefully there is enough to bring this idea to life.

Of Deceptive Intentions

From beneath her hood, Ciscera's lips curled back menacingly, her sharp canines revealing only a glimmer of their threat from within the darkness of the cowl. The lion was familiar, one of a family whose manes were far too large for their armor, in both the figurative and the literal sense. The Elmins' pompous nature and childish belief that power was entirely resultant of one's name had frustrated her in the past, especially as, despite all other factors, they were often the ones chosen to lead the elite castle guard. Though she did not know this Elmin in particular, and though he was no longer a comrade, the contempt she had for his pompous nature was nearly palpable as the feline walked away.

But if the contempt she had for the lion was tangible, the apathy she had for the wolf was far beyond crushing, a force that threatened to escape the boundaries of her mind and bear down her wrath on his canine form. If she was back in those sweet, delicious weeks where her unbridled rage could have been released, back before they had gone in hiding, back when he and his men had been at her untempered mercy, she would have watched his crimson blood drip from the blades on her wrists. But here, under the eyes of citizens turned spies, she had to contain her fury to the bubbling of a simmer, the fire of a glare, the curse that, as soon as she had the chance, she would rip the life from his pitiful body and be done with this hellish pact for good.

It took a minute for her claws to sheathe, but when they did, she simply leaned against the same support that Shar had been, allowing her anger to dissipate into simple disgust.

“Too concerned about your own lover, dog?” She sneered, palming the remaining gold coin in her grasp. “ Because while you have been strutting about lovesick, I actually garnered useful information. First, the dyes they sell have become fashionable as of late, but only as highlights; to buy enough black to hide my coloration would be a feat even for a noble. Furthermore, it's smell is bitter, and very distinguishable, especially in large amounts.”

For a man noted to be a great tactician, his inability to perform was astounding. Her voice betrayed her pride as she continued, quieting softly as to not arouse suspicion. “The princess is having her birthday ball in two days, all of the nobles are invited to this grand event. Furthermore, it is her 18th birthday, and is themed as a masquerade. With this gold coin I found, we should be able to buy the supplies to disguise the two of us for the event, which we can then attend and depart as if any other.... couple.”

The final word felt vile on her tongue, but this plan could be their only means of escape from the capital city. “We will get my strider and supplies from the stables, I have contacts a few miles out from the city who should be able to shelter us for a night. Now what did you find, or was your mind too focused on the whores you claimed to despise to be of any use? “

De’ Seil Carnival - Soul Collecting Carnival

I'm here, i've just been debating my next move.

De’ Seil Carnival - Soul Collecting Carnival

Online, but stalking like Ullr, the god i have been Smiting as. =P