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The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

No worries, Buns! Thanks for keeping us updated ^^

Kei hasn't been online at all in a while, come to think of it. I under if something is up with her internet? :(

I'm not on the skype chat much at all, you guys know this hahaha. Whenever I turn on my comp and see 300+ messages, I just scroll passed them all so the notification goes away. >.> I'm not much a group chat room person so of anything goes on in there that's important and/or relevant to the rp, it's a huge chance I'll miss it. My notifications are muted unless my name is mentioned lololol

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Taco's Borderlands Hunt! [ Casual +, Ignore Post Count ]

HAHAHA I am a Ps3 player as well! :D What luck. We must be destined to RP this together. LOL.

MMmmMmm yesss. *claws at new BL games* I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking forward to more, playing as Wilhelm or seeing more of my bby Zer0. Both sound so wonderful, eee. It's weird because you know all the BL hype comes from the gameplay, but I fell for the series not only for that but also for the execution of the story writing in 2. I'm a sucker for beautiful campaigns in shooter games, both fps and 3ps. Wish I got a chance to play the demo for Tales, ahhh

I'm actually grateful the writer changed between 1 and 2, because honestly I wasn't a fan of 1 at all in that regard. :S Plus I'm still mad Steele barely had a role. Hopefully both the presequel and Tales surpass my low expectations and then some - I've learned my lesson about getting hyped over games lol .____.

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Phillis Circus: Rear Restricted Entrance of the Big Top

The stiltman Stevie retained his narrowed eyes as a big lady approached him, demanding the others' apologies for wandering into a restricted area like it was nothing. The one that was 'fangirling' over the sibling patrols had locked up in an instant, not only when the other two came in from nowhere, but also again when she strode up. Stevie took it as a mix of worry of punishment, and... of this woman.

Even from Stevie's height, he'd be lying if he denied his fear that the she-hulk could snap his stilts into two if she wanted to. Well, she probably couldn't, but she... probably could. Especially judging from the way she knocked the two's heads together - Stevie shuddered. He would hate to be on her bad side.

The woman exuded confidence - angry confidence, if anything - about her explanation of whom they were searching for. So they really were just looking for somebody. And if he's as dumb-looking as she said, it would make sense that he may have wandered into an area he wasn't supposed to. Upon her last words, the stiltman looked up beyond the long-winded path of tents on both sides. The flashy colors at night always made such a beautiful sight from that height, especially with all the loud little fleas jumping about and through them. And with his visor on now, everything was pretty much magnified.

"Gaumless... trenchcoat... and the shits. Sounds like quite a guy." He shook his head. "I probably bumped into him earlier without knowing. There are quite a lot of gaumless-looking people in this circus to tell them apart, if you know what I mean." He winked, though it was for naught from behind his visor.

"If you head back down that way, the portaloos are on your left-hand side towards the center of the fun tents. Assuming you haven't checked them yet, that is. I apologize for not being much help." He shrugged before turning away from him and heading towards the big top as his sister did for a final sweep. "I... should get going now, though. Sorry for the holdup in helping you find your friend. Haha... hah."

He bought it. He actually bought it.

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Trixie continued to ponder Estelle's words. Her suspicion of that funny looking guy... made sense. He'd been flipping out and desperately - too desperately trying to get them to listen to him without giving them so much a breath of respite. She hadn't seen the number of performers Estelle had while they were all inside the big top, but aside from that mean angry guy who was probably the big boss and that weird girl playing with dolls, Estelle was right in that... there was nothing really suspicious going on in there.

And then the guy was gonna set the tent on fire, when they were all in there? He sounded like he knew what he was doing and readily expected the guilders to follow through with his plan. But what if they didn't? Or, or what if the whole thing is a bluff or something?

She brought a finger to her chin and pretended to scratch at a long beard that wasn't there. If only Aria and Lucien hadn't taken off, they could discuss this now that they were in the clear. But at least they found Boss and Sparky. All they had to do was catch up now, and then they could--

"Peekaboo!"

"Ahhh!" Trixie jumped like a frog at the sudden voice. She scrambled after Estelle and embraced her tightly. It was almost as bad as the trauma back at the horror train.

The new face burst with laughter, tears forming by her squinting eyes as she gripped onto her stomach in a poor effort to control herself. Once her laughter died down, she swept away the tears from her face, still smiling widely at the duo. "Ahh, priceless. No one ever expects jump scares at a circus! Brilliant, no?"



Trixie gulped. She didn't even try to say anything in response, instead clutching onto Estelle tighter. When the magician girl noticed all the tension in the pipsqueak's grip, her smile softened from one of a jokester to one that was almost as caring as a mother's. "Hey kiddo, chill out n' cheer up. It's just me. No harm, no foul, right? Still comin' to tonight's big show?"

She extended a hand to Trixie, to which the prankster hesitated, exchanging glances between Sammie's palm and her eyes. When Sammie noticed this, her smile began to drop - but before she could pull back her hand, Trixie reached for it quickly and shook it. She forced a smile - though Sammie merely took it as one of those signs of bravado children give after a scary ride. "Yeah, we'll be there. Y, you can count on us!"

"Awesome!" After the shake, Sammie gave the little one a thumbs up before nodding at Estelle. "I hope you two and your friends have been enjoying themselves. Erm, wherever they are!" She glanced around for a moment. Though the stiltman was a walking distance away, the magician did not make it obvious whether she recognized the group by him as Estelle and Trixie's companions or not. After all, as gatekeeper, she had seen quite a numerous amount of people throughout the day. "It's so easy to get lost here when people split. But usually the big meeting point is at the grand performance. Makes enough sense, don'tcha think?"

The conversation didn't drag on too long, though Sammie was unfortunately not in a rush to leave the duo for her preparation. Only when she noticed someone peeking their head from one of the big top's restricted entrances did she decide to leave. "Ah, I'm running late. Toodles! See you at tonight's show!"

With that, she jogged around the guilders and hopped over the fence with diligence, before disappearing into the Big Top. All the tension within Trixie's tiny body was released in an instant; she dropped her shoulders and her arms with a loud sigh. She had been... sighing quite a lot since they arrived at the circus. "Phew. You don't... think she heard any of that, do you?

"Mmmaybe we should catch up to the others now..." Trixie began tugging away at Estelle's wrist again, towards the group of four by the departing stiltman. Thankfully they were away enough from the restricted areas to be completely overlooked by the patrolman.

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Hahaha don't be shy, Akiiiii <3

EDIT: This heatwave is screwing with my sleep schedule ._____. Even at 2:30am it's too hot to sleep. It's been over 100 degrees F since I've returned, and my bro said it's been going on for at least a week now. Yikes. Apparently it's going to be even worse tomorrow. I hope everyone else is faring with better weather than I am... and San Diego is supposed to be the city of perfect weather, I thought T___T should've stayed in England

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Aww <33 I love you guys. Thank you so much for the kind words ;A; Pacman you handled Trix just splendidly. I expected no less hehe. :) Your posts were all fantastic!! I'd type more but I'm on me phone agh

I'll be home from grocery shopping in an hour or so, so I'll post once I'm free at home ^^

Taco's Borderlands Hunt! [ Casual +, Ignore Post Count ]

One level cap is better than none! I have three Zer0s (all melee based lol) but my highest leve is at like 63. I'm still waiting for my friend to get back to me on our UVHM run. :I

Now for the question of all questions: PS3, PC, or Xbox? XD

Geo physics sounds awesome! :0 I'm terrible at math and science though, so I'd probably knock out within a week there hahaha. I'm more of a polisci/linguistics person :p

I agree; as much as I love the BL verse, I feel like BL2's hunters don't have nearly as much specific interactions between them as they deserved. The cute one-liners from DLCs and promotional cutscenes are lovely, but dammit I need more! Hahaha

Btw, do you have a specific name you wanna go by, or is Taco okay? Everyone I know calls me Rex for short hahaha

Taco's Borderlands Hunt! [ Casual +, Ignore Post Count ]

No worries! I hope things work out okay with you re: your schedule. ^^ I'm taking it easy this coming quarter class-wise, but in exchange I'm taking a boxing class and a speed-reading class so I can read faster. (I'm undoubtedly the slowest reader on this entire website lol) I'll see how things go though, easy classes should make the extra curricular activities not too... er, what's the word. Much of a pressure or burden hahaha.

Cool cool, I'm good with main campaign or post-game as well. Seeing as I've beaten BL2 eight times by this point, I think I have a pretty good grasp of how to help things progress LOL. Not sure how true to the script you wanna be with regards to controlling the other characters and actual progression? Unless we just do our version of the campaign and keep things the same except for dialogue...? Although, post-game would be interesting too... starting off a brand new hunt after one of the other vaults. Although I think that idea also works with either OCs or a mix of canon and OCs - but if that sounds like it works to you with pure canon characters, I'm down for that. :) It might be funner to write to a brand new plot if we can get something going.

I had an idea before Hammerlock's DLC released (orz) about a hyper Jack fangirl who called herself Sexy Sophia or something, though she focused more on having mutated monsters instead of robots to fight for her. Could always have some enemy or enemies like that go after a new vault, and that could attract the attention of the BL2 hunters too. Something fun and zany like that hahaha. I'm just churning up random ideas, I'm good with anything really :)

Sorry for the wordy paragraphs, I don't normally ramble on this much >< lol

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Phillis Circus

"Excuse me! Sirs! Or... or misses, it's kinda hard to tell from down here... I uh..."

The discussion between both stiltmen had cut off, as both of their attention had turned to the funny-looking dark-skinned man in a contrastingly bright outfit. They almost mistook his excitement for one of a little kid that had just won one of those rigged chance games. He fidgeted, stammered, rambled...

"Those suits are awesome! Um, can I ask how they work? Are they comfortable? Is that magitech too, like the dodgems? Or is that me getting a bit too excited, hehe..."

The stiltmen turned back to each other for a moment before letting out a roar of laughter between one another. A friendly one, no less. When they looked back to Syed from their great height, the red-dotted visors resting on their heads lifted up to reveal both a male and a female face looking right back at him. Their smiles were nowhere near as big as Syed's, but still they shared one. "If it didn't take so much effort," the woman laughed again, "I'd lower myself to your level and shake your hand or something. Really! It's nice getting attention every now and then." Using the levers by her hands, she swung one of her smaller mechanical arms at her coworker, nudging him slightly.

"Guy's got a keen eye but not keen enough," the other stiltman snickered, loudly enough for anyone below him to hear. "No magitech here, kiddo! Just a bunch of handmade craftswork." He brought a mechanical hand closer to his face, as if to admire its finger-like tendrils. Basking in his own ego. "Only a circus would allow us to build our dreams and actually use them. It's fascinating I tell you - fascinating."

"Yes, quite!" the sister laughed back. The visor then lowered back on her face, its red dot glowing brightly before settling back to its normal lighting. "Now I don't mean to be rude, good chap, but we must resume our duties. You see, you're coming rather close to a restricted employees-only site. Wouldn't want people flocking about back here where backstage magic happens." From behind her visor, the woman winked - not that Syed could see it, though. "Please return with your friend and--"

"Hey Syed! Something came up so we're regrouping earlier than we had decided! Do you know where everyone else is?"

A lovely woman and a robed purple-haired man appeared from out of nowhere, approaching the ecstatic man from behind the stiltmen's range of vision. The patrols looked down to see who the voice belonged to, before turning simultaneously to see where they had come from exactly. While the stiltmen were just outside a small restricted employees-only, chatting to someone who had come from a guest-filled area, it was easy to see that the duo came from directly behind them. From the back of the big-top, the large tent which basically has its whole perimeter lightly fenced off to keep guests from sneaking into its various little openings to the backstage.

The brother stiltman narrowed his eyes at Aria, though he retained a light tone of voice as opposed to a serious one. "Excuse me, ma'am? Sir? What were you doing back here? Clearly this is labeled as a restricted area, so that you are..."

"Perhaps they were just looking for their friend," the sister replied back, now walking towards the restricted area. "You always get so riled up over the littlest things, Stevie."

"Yes, because that's our job... People are not supposed to be back here, sis. Go secure the rest of the perimeter please?"

The sister stopped in her tracks, mere steps away from the back curtain Aria's group had used to escape the big top. However, the other two she and Lucien traveled with were not in sight. The sister stiltman let out a deep sigh before turning back to her brother and the three ants below him. "Thank you for the lovely chat, but I do suggest you three depart from this area right away." She shook her head visibly, the red dot on her visor lagging as it shook along with her. "We've already had to kick out a handful of unruly teenagers caught sneaking around back here earlier today. It would pain me dearly to have to do that a second time."

Her brother watched as she left the scene, but he remained where he was - standing beside Syed, Aria, and Lucien, and keeping a keen eye on their every moment.

Meanwhile,



Trixie and Estelle were huddled up behind another employee-only tent. Had it not been for the tiny fences and signs blocking off this section from the main walkway, these tents could have easily been confused with those open to the public. Once the female stiltman began making her way around the other side of the big top, Trixie let out a deep sigh. "That was close," she whispered to Estelle. "What do we do now?"

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On my way home! I'll post once I step foot into my room haha. They played my favorite LP song of all time \m/ I'm in such a great mood.



Thanks for the kind words, Pacman. :) Aside from the fact that 30STM played near to none of their older stuff, I had an absolute blast. LP did so much better than I was honestly expecting, especially the huge mashup that included the above song. Me and Jimmy were screaming for Jay-Z to come on stage XD, but either his lines were pre-recorded or Shinoda did them himself.

Anyway, uhhh I'm kind of iffy about my post just now but I guess it's something. *shrugs unevenly* Everyone's doing wonderfully so far. Not long now before the main performance. :)