City Square
Welcome to the middle of the sleepy (yeah, right), humble mountain city of
Midgaard. The peaks that surround the somewhat smallish sprawl of
constructions about you appear a vibrant, cool purple at this distance..capped
with off-white snow at the tops. Although the town itself recieves little
precipitation from being sheltered by this atol of sheer rock, a cold wind does
comb and filter its way through..providing a brisk, though arid, atmosphere.
On the southwestern pointing end of town, a small, manmade pass in the
mountain valley allows for easy access from the bustling world outside. To
your north and west are the commercial districts..manufacturing, shipping, and
selling various consumable goods. In the east, to the 'horizon', appear to be
homes of various architectural influences..the more wealthy of said houses
bordering a small alpine lake and park. To the south, the middle-class homes
continue, thinning out just before the open gap to the highway beyond.
As for where you stand..it is the Midgaard City Square..Several government
offices and the larger buildings can be found on the sides of the slightly
misnomered elliptical, cobblestoned intersection. No actual automobile traffic
passes here, being routed through the side streets..this is a strictly
pedestrian and bicycle zone. A large, granite fountain with a statue of Odin
atop it towers nearly two stories prominantly in the center. There are also
benches about for taking a quiet repose from the hustle of daily life.
[Exits : (C)ity Hospital, City (H)all, (T)ransit Station, (S)outh, (N)orth,
(W)est, (E)ast, and (F)ountain ]
[Players : Lina_Inverse, Seventeen, and Tatiana ]
[Things : Ye Olde Message Boarde [IC!] ]
>Katt walks in, languidly, seeming rather depressed? Hmm. She steps towards the
bulletin board.
>Tatiana glances towards Katt
>l tat
Tatiana
Sensing your gaze upon her, eyes of pure silver, rather than a mediocre grey
lift and look towards you carefully. The young woman's skin is a pale bronze,
evidence of plenty of time in the sunshine, which accents her reddish-blonde
hair all the more. Her hair is cut short, almost tomboyishly so, the thin
strands feathery, lifting with every movement. Bangs rest just over her eyes,
and from beneath the locks, you catch a glimpse of something gold sparkling in
the vicinity of her forehead. Her thin lips curve into a wary smile, before
their owner turns her attention to something else.
She wears a pale gold tunic, long enough to rest just past her hips, several
dark brown symbols woven into the edges of the long sleeves and the bottom of
the shirt. Beneath the tunic she wears a simple white silk long-sleeved blouse.
Dark brown breeches complete her attire, which barely hints at her feminine
figure, as it does a fair job of concealing her shapely curves, to give her a
nondescript air, and a sense that this girl can be easily overlooked. The only
thing that stands out is an ancient looking artifact; a gold circlet with a
strange symbol dangling at the center of her forehead, between her eyes.
Carrying:
Midgaard City Map
>17's attention swivles to Katt now. He was done staring at Lina anyway. Not
that he -means- to stare, but it happens regardless..unless someone tells him
to stop.
>Tatiana raises an eyebrow again, just slightly. She looks around again,
distinctly able to smell something unpleasant, but not sure where it's coming
from. She shakes her head, and remarks lightly to 17, "Are you ever going to
blink?"
>Katt is glad she isn't facing 17. It's rude to stare, after all.
>Lina isn't noticing stares or the sudden lack of them. She's basically
wandering around looking half asleep and leaning against some wall or another
to help her walk. A mighty yawn is stifled by her hand so as not to be rude,
and she continues on her way. Sort of. She thought she was moving at least. But
she's just standing there, leaning against the wall with her head hanging down
as she begins to doze lightly. z.z
>Lina (OOC) okays, "You're right."
>17 stops staring at Katt, turning toward Tatiana to answer her question. He
blinks once, slowly, in the fashion of 'recreational blinkers' and asks, "Hmm?"
>Tatiana sweatdrops at 17, "You were staring. Maybe not intentional, but.." She
shrugs in a 'there you are' gesture.
>Tatiana turns to Lina, approaching her with slow graceful steps. About two feet
away, she opens her mouth to say 'excuse me'.. only her eyes suddenly widen.
Ew. .. ew..that's what the smell was coming from. Eeeeww.. ewie.. She backs
away again. Quickly.
>Lina (OOC) pikus? o.O
>Lina (OOC) ROFL!!!
>Tatiana (OOC) grins
>Katt looks over her shoulder. Oh, hmm, guess there are other people here . o
O ( It's that lady from last night. )
>17 glances down at his feet briefly. For some reason it helps him think. Then
he shrugs and looks back up at Tatiana. "Well..." Then he watches her approach,
and then back away from Lina, silently observing this odd behavior.
>Lina (OOC) gives Tat a thumbs up and sniggers, "Yer evil. I like it n.n"
>Katt (OOC) is missing something n.n;
>Tatiana (OOC) laughs at Lina and grins at Katt, "Tatiana's mostly dragon. ^_-"
>Katt (OOC) blinks, then facepalms. "Forget I asked."
>Lina's head jerks up at that moment, hearing something. Her eyes slowly focus
on the girl that had been stepping toward her. She stifles another yawn as she
swivels to the side so that she's leaning her back against the wall. "Hmm..
Mornin'." She mutters calmly. Then she notices the girl's pained expression and
wakes a bit more as curiosity gets to her. "Something the matter?"
>Tatiana puts a hand to her nose and mouth and goes back to her spot. Icky
smell. Bad bad.
>Tatiana switches her movements to a quick nose rub and smiles sheepishly to
Lina, "Er, no, no. I didn't want to disturb you."
>Derek arrives from the north.
>Katt leans against the kiosk where the bulleting board stands, pondering
something, perhaps.
>Tatiana . o O ( What the heck -is- that smell? )
>17's attention fixes on Derek, as he's the newest arrival. Just long enough to
take in the details, and then he's back to watching Tatiana, trying to puzzle
out precisely what's wrong with her. He's drawing a blank thusfar, apparently.
>Derek wanders over towards the news board where Katt is standing. He glances at
her a moment . o O ( Hrm..one of the girls from the bar the other night...and
the other one is over there.. ) Glancing at the board, he gives a brief nod to
Katt, "'scuse me.. Anything interesting on there?"
>Lina pikus a few times, then shrugs. "Disturbing..? Ah well. Forget it." She's
now awake enough to glance around at everyone else, including the.. Now it's
-her- turn to stare at 17. A dreamy, utterly dazed look crosses her face as her
mind wanders to a -very- old day dream. Basically of what her knight in shining
armor would look like. *_* (Ooh boy, I bet he's some prince or something.. Yes,
that's gotta be it!)
>Tatiana watches Lina for a second or so, praying to her gods the girl (at least
she's pretty sure it's a girl) stays put. A blink and a sweatdrop accompany her
expression as she notes Lina's attention on 17. Followed by a wry smirk.
>Derek (OOC) snickers at Tatiana ^_^
>Katt looks up at Derek, shaking her head. "Nothing, at least, nothing recent,
'cept this demolition of a warehouse."
>17 doesn't notice the attention at first, but then he turns to watch Lina, one
eyebrow raising curiously. For what it's worth, this gives her a niiice profile
shot. ^_-
>Tatiana (OOC) =>
>Lina (OOC) grins, "EVIL! I like!"
>Tatiana (OOC) chuckles
>Derek blinks and sweatdrops, "Warehouse?" . o O ( Uh oh... ) "Er...mind if I
see?" o_o;
>Katt steps a little to the side. It's a big board anyway, no way she can cover
all of it.
>Lina swoons. Well, as much as a respectable sorceress and bandit killer is
going to swoon. Ahem. She mentally slaps herself back into coherent thought and
stands as proudly as she can. Okay, that -does- include squaring her shoulders
which happens to (on a totally unrelated note. Really) shove her chest forward
a bit. Then, ignoring the girl who's obviously not too thrilled with her
presence, she begins walking across the square to the small gathering with a
large grin. Fully awake now, yep.
>Tatiana . o O ( There is a god!! )
>17 studies Lina a bit longer with a mildly puzzled expression, and then blinks
once as he turns toward the conversation about the warehouse, unabashedly
eavesdropping.
>Derek moves in to read the article, twitching once . o O ( Hooboy... Well, at
least they haven't figured anything out yet. I know I made sure it was
abandoned.. )
>Tatiana leans against a tree well away from the rest of the group, sighing
softly in relief. Fresh air. Gotta love it.
>Derek says, "Eh heh, gee, this does sound pretty strange.."
>Feh, if he doesn't have spikey blue hair and turn into a dragon, Katt's not
interested.
>Tatiana (OOC) laughs
>Lina (OOC) cackles
>Lina exclaims, "(OOC) Someone dye Cloud's hair while he's asleep!"
>Derek (OOC) thought Katt was interested in strong fighters like herself..? Then
again, haven't played 2 in a while..
>Katt (OOC) It was a joke, Derek. *WHAM*
>Critical hit! He's sent flying into a telephone pole in a Takahashi-pose |m|_
X_X _|m|
>Tatiana (OOC) holds up Katt's hand. "Theee winnah."
>Lina is now downwind from Tatiana. So there. But she -is- making a circle of
the area..so, you never know. The wind might change. Though at the moment
her attention is back on her thoughts, as she begins searching around the area
for something. o O (It's got to be here.. Can't have vanished so soon.) A breif
surge of magic taints the air around her as she uses it to try and sense
whatever it is she's looking for. Of course, poor Tatiana might not like
getting a whiff of that.
>Tatiana turns all sorts of nifty colors.
>Tatiana claps a hand over her nose and mouth againo O ( God is laughing at me.
He must be. ;_; )
>Derek steps back and shrugs, "Well, at least nobody was hurt by the collapse.
Kinda weird.."
>17 is definitely staring at Tatiana now. It occurs to him to stop relatively
soon, however. He's got a good memory for this kind of thing.
>Katt shrugs at Derek. "Well, it doesn't matter to me anyway... not even
nearby." She catches the image of poor Tatiana out of the corner of her eye .
o O ( Did she eat some bad fish? )
>Tatiana stifles many little noises, and manages to keep her dinner down. Which
coincidentally, was fish last night.
>17 indulges his curiosity and asks of Miss Technicolor, "Is that something you
do often? It was very impressive."
>Tatiana huffs and glances at 17. "Not very pleasant to experience, however."
ponder I should ask her where she got lunch. And avoid that place.
>Katt . o O ( I should ask her where she got lunch. And avoid that place. )
>17 shrugs and nods. "It didn't seem like you were enjoying it much. Why did you
do it?"
Seventeen
It takes attitude to walk around with a number where others keep their name,
and the young man before you has no shortage of it.
Piercing eyes of frigid, unforgiving blue with an unusual almond shape flay you
of pretense and take your measure while a small and delicate mouth curls into a
smirk. His face is unnatural in its perfection, his features at once cruelly
hard and delicately soft, the latter being a most deceptive impression. His
straight, silky black hair is cut just below his jawline and frames his
handsome face. Occasional glimpses of his ears reveal that each is pierced with
a small golden hoop.
Neither tall nor short, and with the narrow-shouldered build of a slender,
atheltic youth, he carries himself with enough cocky self-assurance to supply a
large army. It doesn't hurt that he happens to be strong enough to wipe one out
without breaking a sweat.
He is clothed in blue jeans with a rip in the left leg, heavy green socks into
which the legs of the jeans are tucked, and blue sneakers on his feet. He also
wears a black t-shirt bearing the Red Ribbon logo, under which is a white
long-sleeved shirt. Around his neck is a large red bandana, and around his
waist is a belt with two pouches and a holster, in which he carries a 9.mm
pistol which seems to have never been used.
Carrying:
Midgaard City Map
>Lina ba-links and swivels toward Tatiana. How odd.. She takes a few strides
toward the girl, concern (as well as curiosity) crossing her face. "Something
the matter? You look sick.." Hey, she's completely clueless at the moment. Till
she gets a bit closer to Tat. Hey, she can sense dragons as well as they can
her. She turns a lovely shade of red and stamps her foot, looking on the verge
of hysterical/angry tears as she waves her arms in the air SDly, "Nonono! I am
-not- a Dragon Spooker!!"
>Tatiana says, "Bad air?" She erks and turns puce at Lina's approach. Oh god..
the smell. She backs away from Lina quickly.
>Someone's in denial.
>Katt blinks, peering at Lina. That's one of the words that sets off any
automatic reaction in her. "Dragon spooker?"
>Okay, lets send Lina to rehab
>17 is having one of the most interesting days he can remember now, what with
the amplitude of strange behavior. He crosses his arms and settles back to
watch all of this, choosing for the moment to be quiet and unobtrusive.
>Derek looks over at the commotion Lina's causing O_o
>Tatiana . o O ( Ew ew ew . I take it back. There is no god ;_; )
>Lina flushes a darker shade of red, almost a match for her hair. She stamps her
foot again as she places her hands over her hips, "I am NOT! ..They just
don't..like me or something." She mutters. Then she *plops* down onto the
ground and wails pitifully. "I'm a good guy.. I kill dragons sometimes, yes,
but why.. WHY do they always have to be so.. so.." She glances at Tatiana as
tears start to readily stream from her eyes. A whiney highpitched mutter
follows, mostly said to herself. "Maybe they're right.. Maybe I am a Dragon
Spooker. But I don wanna beee!" ;o;
>Katt blanches a moment, first at Lina's 'dragon killer' remark, then at her...
remarkable lack of maturity. Well, Katt isn't one to talk, but still...
>Tatiana grimaces and takes a few hesitant steps towards Lina, "I'm..sorry I
suppose it isnot your fault." She grimaces, "My apologies."
>Tatiana . o O ( She doesn't look like much for a dragon hunter... could be a
farce. Still, I suppose it was rude of me. And if I were full dragon the smell
would probably be intolerable. )
>Lina? A farce? Nah, you're imagining things.
>Lina (OOC) whaps spoofer
>Katt . o O ( Maybe one of them has seen Ryu? That idiot ran off with even
saying goodybye! ';.;' When I get my hands on him... )
>Lina sniffles and jumps back to her feet in a blur, already looking as if the
entire outbreak hadn't occured. "Yeah well.." She starts, as if to accept the
appology. But she just stares at Tatiana for a long while, before finally
wiggling her fingers at her and saying testingly, "Boo."
>Tatiana sweatdrops and stands her ground. o O ( ;.; )
>Derek stares at Lina o_o; . o O ( That girl must've swiped something from
behind the bar last night after I left.. )
>Katt rubs the bridge of her nose . o O ( Wow, she's really loopy. )
>17 . o O ( ......... )
>Gambit has arrived.
>Lina hops forward another step or two then repeats the process as before. "Boo.
Boogedy boogedy!" She's bound and determined to prove she isn't a dragon
spooker. Really. She caaan't be.
>Tatiana twitches just slightly and ..again, holds her ground. (God give me
strength!)
>Katt peers at Lina as if she suddenly grey a second head. And feathery
antennae. 'O.o'
>Gambit walks casually up the street, with a deck of cards in his hand.
>17 is trying to decide whether or not he'd get yelled at for laughing. He
covers his mouth just in case, inclining his head slightly.
>Tatiana's gaze slides away from Lina (for a breather) towards Gambit, inclining
her head just slightly before dragging her attention back to the lunatic mage.
>17 (OOC) ahems, taps his foot, and makes a concerted effort not to wring
someone's neck....
>Katt leans against the bulletin board, watching this... unusual scene unfold.
>Okay, the -final- test now. She hops forward -one- last step and yells, "BOO!"
Then, before having time to even see Tatiana's reaction this time, she turns
her back to her and crosses her arms over her chest with a triumphant grin.
"There! I knew I wasn't a Dragon Spooker!"
>Gambit o.O
>What chest?
>Lina (OOC) fireballs
>Tatiana flails her hands and goes WHITE briefly, taking a stop back and
shuddering. Then before Lina can turn around, she steps right back to her spot,
nice and calm. (Sweet mother of GOD!!)
>*sizzle* Ow.
>Derek gives Lina a puzzled look and then reaches up to scratch the back of his
head . o O ( Better count the bottles when I get back to the bar.. )
>Katt . o O ( I should be careful around her. She seems unstable. Scared that
other girl half to death! )
>Lina? Unstable? Nah, you're imagining things.
>Tatiana . o O ( The horror.. the horror! )
>Just don't get her to the point of dragon slaving everyone...
>Lina (OOC) c.c "I already avoided using it once. Gimme a break ^^;"
>Derek . o O ( And I'd better stay away from the warehouse district for a
while.. )
>Derek leaves north.
>We'll know when it happens... it's when this city would turn into a big crater.
>Tatiana (OOC) grins
>Gourry has arrived.
>Lina (OOC) o_o
>The IQ of the room drops.
>Lina (OOC) cheers n.n
>Lina (OOC) will kill Gambit if he makes one more spoof
>Katt leans against the message board, pondering Lina's psychoses 'o.o'
>Gourry nods around, grinning as only someone clueless to most everyday problems
can. ^_^
>Gambit o.O; . o O ( That stupifying mind... no... it's him.. )
>Tatiana glances over towards the person who just entered..and takes the
momentary distraction to move away from Lina.
>Lina is just standing near a pale faced Tatiana, grinning triumphantly. Then
she spots Gourry and waves frantically at him, "Eh, Gourry! I just proved I'm
not a Dragon Spooker, so there!" And to prove her point.. (Poor Tatiana) She
turns and wiggles her fingers under her nose one more time, "Boogedy boo! See?"
Of course, once again she turns away from Tatiana before seeing her reaction.
>17 (OOC) takes a time-out to simmer down. Being asked three times in one day
what his gender is supposed to be..well...somewhat taxing on the patience, that.
>Lina (OOC) patpats and sowwies n.n;
>Tatiana (OOC) patpats ^_^
>Katt (OOC) Not your fault you're so bishonen n.n;
>Gourry strolls over to Lina and nods. n.n "But what about that time after we
first met....? You know, when the Dragon's Fang gang's pet passed us by like
two lumps of...? o.O"
>Tatiana goes white again and nearly swoons o O ( WAAHH!!! ) she staggers back a
second, shaking uncontrollably for a few minutes, then snaps out of it. She
sweatdrops.
>Lina growls threateningly at Gourry. Her face darkened down to a threatening,
menacing mask, "It..tripped! It tripped was all!"
>Tatiana places a hand against her circlet for comfort. Mommy the bad dragon
spooker scared meeee.. ;.;
>Gourry looks up and scratches his head, "I dunno, it's eyes were watering
preeeetty bad..."
>Katt takes this opportunity (read: Lina's ranting) to silently slip out. She'll
talk to the poor dragon girl later 'n.n'; (OOC and my player has a class
to go to)
>Tatiana (OOC) waves to Katt ^_^
>n
You depart to the north.
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