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Scene: Uwuru Camp
Team Green
A snowball fight. Of all things, they were starting off a snowball fight.
In the periphery, Nai watched, arms crossed, as the flow of battle swung one way then the next, before finally...
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Scene: Traveling Isulus - Night
"That was three days ago," Nai responded flatly. But she wasn't going to force @Erick Stryker to drink it, just point out that he ought to work better on his lies. @Eva was more willing to...
INT. Hong Tuo Apartments, Room 444 - Night
The door opened. It had not been locked, nor even closed fully to begin with. Ye-jie's knocking was enough to swing the flimsy door open.
But of course it would. She was not so classless to feign invitations while beating a hurried retreat. And thus...
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Scene: Traveling Isulus - Night
While others opted to feed mushroom-guys to the reindeer, Nai partook in the bounty of Isulus's living vegetation by bringing out her alchemy kit and getting to proper work within her own...
"Ah."
That neon-blue hair brought back a flicker of a memory amidst flame and lightning, gunsmoke and shrapnel. So her name was @Ronja Bubblyfoot then. Terrasphere was paradoxically both an expansive and a minuscule game, wasn't it? Nai tilted her head slightly to the side, giving the shorter...
Nai stared at the reindeer.
The reindeer stared back.
Seconds passed, two beasts sizing each other up. It was tension thick enough to suffocate the common man, tension sharp enough to bisect the common deer. But before violence was materialized, the four-legged one backed off, shuffling to...
"Then below we go."
Reaching behind her back, Nai opened her hand and then closed it, shadows congealing into her grasp as she retrieved a pickaxe. It was cheap and weighty, but it was affordable and disposable. She thrust it into Alice's hands and further dimmed the light of her lantern...
EXT. Hong Tuo Apartments, Courtyard - Night
And as Lavender's words hung in the air, the oddities of the night had become clear.
A big break, slipped to a fameless wanderer of the night? One so great that they'd have become forever known, if only they succeeded. And yet, the price of such...
140
Location: Lobby > Regal Hallway > Statue Chamber
Total Movement: 2
+100 Buff from @Rael [1/3]
SUPER VULNERABLE
"I hope you don't either."
With those parting words, Nai turned away from Dorothy. Alecto would be enough to lead them out of the Library, and whatever happened afterwards...
INT. Hong Tuo Apartments, Room 444 - Night
Rain fell down in rivets from the windowless apartment building, tracing ancient cracks and fractures as blood traced the vessels of a human body. Concrete made for good sound-proofing, enough so to mask the sheer density of people within, but the...
"You're fine," Aurora murmured back. "They'll be starting soon."
She poured out another small cup of tea, handing it over to her Australian co-star. It always did well to be prepared, and cups were quite portable when they were also stackable. Whatever conversation that could be held, however...
"No."
Nai approached one of death-locked faces, placing her hand upon its head. Within the conventions of reality, it would be unthinkable to dismiss a subservient race as possessing no culture or traditions of their own, but within the conventions of a video game, it was perhaps even...
140
Location: Southern Gallery > Webchoked Corridor > Cobwebbed Crossroads > Lobby
Total Movement: 2 + 2 [3 Movement Used]
She was a player then.
They had all been players.
And yet, recalling what those outside the Library had said, Nai found a disturbing inconsistency. Half escaped, whether...
Omerta.
An Italian word referring to the code of silence that mafiosos abided to when apprehended and interrogated by the cops. A code of honor, but also a law written in the blood of the traitors.
It was...a unique choice, to use that as the title of a film set in 20th century Hong Kong, when...
You have been scouted by the darling of the Hong Kong indie film industry, Wei Kao-Tuo, to star in his latest project, Omerta, a high-stakes thriller starring the escapades of the criminal youth in Kowloon Tong as they carve, both literally and figuratively, a place for themselves in the...
"As long as you don't expect me to fight those elementals."
It wasn't as if it was a result Nai had been aiming for, in truth, but what of it? For many, this was a game, and ought to be enjoyed as such, whether for sheer, mindless entertainment or for an environment of play that allowed one to...
Nai's eyes widened slightly. This was the sort of conversation she'd expect one to have by the campfire, after emptying a couple of bottles. When the night turns cold and philosophical, after learning something new and unpleasant about the world one lived in.
In a game though? During a heist...
"Psychology," was Nai's response. With infinite storage, it was easy enough to plunge the debris into shadow, swallowing up piles of stone whole. Undoubtedly, once they actually got to sorting things out, it would be an experience akin to panning for gold, but for now? She worked steadily, eyes...
Ashes clung to her hair, and one of her horns had broken off. Her suit was so tattered that she had removed it, and soot turned the white blouse underneath a dark gray. That attack by the DEAD.naught had taken her by surprise, and it was only due to the good fortune of the Overseer's plating...
140
Location: 4B
-25 HP from Blade Storm
-10 HP from Scorched Land
Bleeding (4)
Blood ran thick and dark, staining her outfit as Nai ducked beneath the ruptured earth, the massive form of the DEAD.naught rumbling on and on. Her vision was blinking out, fading and then focusing with the...
