Yours Truly

Edmund simply nods to the muscly man's statement, and he says "I am actually a Wizard, and as I have previously said, magic doesn't work that way, you don't just wake up and suddenly learn how to throw a fireball at people". He then realizes that he has been quite rude as he doesn't know who the muscly man is, and he held out his right hand to offer him a handshake before saying "I don't believe that I have introduced myself to you before, my name is Blackadder".

Edmund just stared at the woman after hearing her say those words, he just stared until he finally found a tone of voice that could display how wrong he thinks that line of thinking is so that he could finally say "That's just, not how magic works, like....what. Also don't give the man the idea that he can learn magic while sleeping, the idea of learning things while you are asleep is bunk, but it does help you remember the things you have learnt earlier when you are awake.".

Edmund sighed a bit as he heard Shaun shout out the reason why he wanted to learn magic, but to be fair the man might have been joking, and even if he wasn't it would be quite interesting to see if it was possible "While magic usually takes some measure of concentration to maintain. I can't help but admit that I could think of worse reasons to want to learn magic, and let's face it, if you do succeed with this goal, you will probably have an entire school of magic named after you. So I'll tell you what, why don't I try and find out if the academy has a magical aptitude test later.... I'm pretty sure that being able to maintain the concentration needed to have an active Invisibility spell up is enough to get you some rather good grades. Although I actually can think of a problem with it already...".

After a while Radovan had a rather interesting thought, as he realized that as Gina was presumably much more experienced than him, and presumably believes that they are all going to die horribly due to a Pokemon related incident, that she might in fact have advice for them other than "You are all idiots who will die, except for Kalva because I luvv him". Which is why he boldly walked up to her, and asked in as polite of a tone he could muster "Do you have any advice for us? I mean I get your point, we are still quite wet behind the ears, but maybe you can give us some advice on how to handle our Pokemon better and thus survive long enough to not be so wet behind the ears anymore?".

And again, Halley would find no visible or audible or electronic traps as she went out in her search for the elevator shaft, rather unfortunately her search was rather hampered by a trip wire, which caused her to slip and fall; thus causing the twenty arrows launched by the crossbow connected to the trip wire system to harmlessly embed itself in the wall just above her, except for a rather lucky shot that can be found sticking out of her two helmets. But on the bright side the next room actually contained an elevator, granted the elevator was directly underneath them, but they presumably could cut it down or cut through it with their laser axe. Song You clap your hands once, which triggers the speakers you have installed in the walls of the research lab. You have yet to find anything that can motivate your workers more other than the threat of listening to ancient Pop, Techno, and if you are feeling especially devious...metal music for another hour. George looked confused for a moment as your clapping switches the music from a song about big behinds, countdowns that are final, and a song about a girl that is so annoying that you actually regret ever saving a copy of it in your computer's hard drive. You immediately clap once again, causing the music to switch to some admittedly quite motivating drek about eyes of the tiger. You then throw it at a tread mill, which straps it in for an excessively fast run, a part of you feels a bit guilty over strapping its legs in and making it run at 10 miles an hour on its arms, but you decide that the only way to make this better is if someone was shouting motivational speeches at it. >>>>>>Do it yourself, you always know the best things to say to motivate people like "I have your family hostage" or "Do that and you won't get paid this week" >>>>>>Let S.C.I.E.N.C.E Handle it >>>>>>Zap it with lightning, just because >>>>>>Put it in a cage >>>>>>Switch to Disco music >>>>>>Other Visrii would find that none of the poison gas he is using will enter the gasmask, although admittedly at some point the poison gas would enter it through the completely and utterly unprotected back that usually would be sealed with the help of your face.

Edmund was quite surprised as the always tired ostrich suddenly sprang into action and grabbed the technically not even humanoid life? form on their...shoulders, and he found himself saying the words "I uh, think that magic is one of those things that you are born with, maybe we can have a Wizard test you later when we get inside? At least we found something you're passionate about anyway...". And he had a rather curious tone to his voice as he said "A wizard to enchant you? What? So you want someone to try and turn you into a frog or set you on fire? Because I am not sure why someone would want that....".

Upon breaching the door Izumi would find that the room is completely and utterly devoid of any life, unless you consider the machines in the center of the room as one anyway. Somebody had rather painstakingly crafted a unique looking board game with four different automatons serving as the players. The first automaton Izumi would see is the one at the head of the table, it is a large and obviously mechanical thing, with large hands that seem to be struggling to not crush one of the many pieces it moves across the board. It is wearing an old United States military uniform, and its obviously mechanical and many eyed "head" has a tattered American flag obscuring some rather burnt sections of it. The uniform bears the words "Mirage", but it's dogtags say "Psychotrope, XX-XX-2029". The second automaton Izumi would see is the one sitting beside the mechanical creature, at first glance she appeared to be an actual human girl, albeit one with an odd array of colours on her pig tailed hair, and one pointy ear facing towards "Morgan" but away from everyone else, the automaton had a rather manic look to it, and her scarred hands moved her pieces around the board erratically, she does not have any convenient name tags. The third automaton seemed less certain, its appearance flickered often, changing from a white bearded and wise old man with a smug grin, to a gigantic and crystalline tree, and finally shifting back to an image of a bearded beard, before switching its appearance again and again; it moved its pieces with confidence and a perpetually smug look on whatever face it had. He was currently carrying a familiar looking piece, a young woman in a blue helmet with a red gem placed on it's front,, and a large five pointed and cyan star on her chest, along with what appears to be a bomb vest. He seemed to be in the middle of placing the piece near a not as well made piece showcasing the Aztech Pyramid, it appeared to have several large holes on the southern side, and the other players have surrounded it with their own pieces, perhaps in a desperate attempt at defending the area. The fourth automaton was for all intents and purposes a dog crossed with a great white shark with no pieces on the board, although it sometimes pops up from it's hiding place somewhere underneath an area marked vaguely as "Abandoned Saeder-Krupp facility" and consumes a bunch of grey and unmarked pieces into its gaping maw before disappearing somewhere once more. None of the other players were bothered by this behavior as it didn't seem to be eating any of their pieces, although sometimes the girl pets it while calling it "Sweeet, sweet Apex". The third automaton then shouts out a triumpanth "I WIN THIS TIME BITCHES!" before placing the piece it had been carrying on the table, causing the Aztech pyramid and the other player's pieces to be blown up into tiny little pieces. Every single one of the players disappeared after the piece was placed, and as the rather large and hard to understand game disappeared from view, a set of six gasmasks were in fact left on top of the table with a small note that said "To my favorite pawn-Deus" Lexiel broke through the floor with her surprisingly useful lava axe, and anyone looking out for any traps would not be able to find any.

Blackadder stops humming the little tune and walking away after hearing the tall and commanding lady ask her question, and he stops to examine her for a moment. For some odd reason a part of him thinks that she would look good in full plate armor, furs, and charging on horseback with some warrior's weapon like a spear in one hand, and either a large shield or a free hand with which to choke someone to death on the other. But after a while he realizes that he has spent a while checking a woman out and he says "Chemistry. Wizardly studies are all well and good, but there is a lot to learn from the field of chemistry, that and it's less boring than physics, especially since let's face it, I'm going to flip a middle finger to it quite often."

Edmund's British Gentleman senses were tingling as he slowly but surely walked away from Chloe and everyone else, it wasn't because he did not enjoy the conversation, but he felt that it had run its course by this point. He was humming a song about a man begging for him to be able to get what he wanted as he walked towards the shady spot he found leaning against the wall earlier.

Edmund almost rolled his eyes as he heard Hearthstone's statement, before finally saying "I believe that your sentiment, while admittedly quite cute is presumably not necessary, and any further attempts at continuing your train of thought and saying them out loud to her may simply result in further embarrassment and I don't really have the time or interest to perform a comedy act right now.". He gingerly picks up his guitar from Chloe and apologizes by saying "Yeah that happens, sorry about that, I'll buy you some....you people from the colonies prefer coffee right? I'll buy you some when we get in, and again, sorry". After he while he walked towards the presumably amused man in the ponchos and stops trying to resist the urge to pat the person on the head before saying "My name is Blackadder, remember it as I will surely remember yours....which is?".

Radovan sighed as he heard Sena's attempt at what is either sarcasm or an insult, and he simply responded with "Right I was setting up an opportunity for you to go on a long tale about your life story and how you got here, but if you are going to be a dick about it, then I shall simply confidently state that in the good old contest of long rods and large numbers, I am going to win with my weapon of choice at some point, granted you and everyone else will peak sooner, but dedication is an important part of it, and let's face it, in the long run the only thing you can hope for is a lucky focus blast if you ever have to go against me and Marky Mark over here.". He then walked away to talk to Desmond, perhaps the man would respond to the inevitable "So why did you choose them as your starter" with more talky talky and less bad snark.

Basically Horatio but not Sauron pretending to be Mr. Rogers pretending to be Sauron.

To this Edmund could only respond with a visible facepalm, after a while he said "Yes it is as natural as breathing or walking or developing sapience sometime around the age of 5". After saying those parting words he left off with a huff and gave the sleepy man a firm and energetic handshake while also saying "The name's Blackadder, make sure to remember it as I will surely remember yours". As an afterthought he turned a bit to face Chloe and said "I am pretty sure that no one would look up your skirt here, for we are all gentlemen and anyone looking up a woman's skirt either did not mean to, or is about to have someone talk rather sternly to them about morality".

Edmund stared at Chloe for a bit, he wasn't checking her out or anything, but he was simply trying to figure out if she was floating without any visible effort, and he finally said "You know, I had a grandfather who would have killed to be able to float like that". After hearing Hearthstone's implausible words he looked at the man for a moment and said in as sarcastic of a tone he could manage "No don't listen to the colonist. the lady seems to have spontaneously developed one after being near you, it is a well known fact that women develop fevers after having a British man worry about them, this is why we all have stiff upper lips, to prevent our women from having fevers".

In a perfect world the moment that Chloe had started to fall, his reflexes would kick in and he would keep her from falling in a pose that wouldn't look out of place on the poster of a popular romantic comedy, and he would say something snappy and cool that would be his catchphrase. But in this world all that happened was that he reached out his hand to take the guitar from her to possibly keep her from falling or not damage his father's old guitar and ended up missing and bumping into Hearthstone. But after he saw that she was in no danger whatsoever he simply shrugged and said in as sarcastic of a tone he could manage "Well that went well".

Blackadder would have rolled his eyes at Chloe's statement, but to be fair the tone of the voice he was using to speak to Omni may have not been obvious as he repeated his statement by saying "Yes I know but you are implying that you aren't Human, and since the entire point of your rather silly outfit is to not seem like an oddity.....you may want to work on that". Upon hearing the question that Will had asked he simply smiled deviously, turned to face the man so swiftly that he presumably almost knocked Chloe away a bit, which was a course of action that he would have apologized for if he had the time to do anything other than say "Technically yes, but also no, I am basically Human+ over here, since how many Human beings do you know of that can fuck around with the laws of reality?" He then mimed counting something with his fingers and continued with "I would cast a spell right now, but I am pretty sure that the reason they erected those large and imposing stone walls was to hide their students away from prying eyes, and also to create an easily defendable position I guess".

After a while Blackadder nodded and popped another mint candy into his mouth. At this point in the day a part of him was regretting not bringing a drink with him as his throat was rather parched and it was starting to show in his voice. But he simply made a mental shrug and said "So what did you come here to study Chloe? I know not a lot of people know what they want to major in this soon, but I was just wondering...". After hearing Chloe's response he turned slightly to face The Parka wearing one with a rather odd look on his face, and he said in as calm and easy to understand of a tone he could muster "You are implying that you aren't Human".

Music for this entire updoot Halley's message rather unfortunately got lost in the waves of Chaos Engine members simply respond with a torrent of rather hurtful words that I cannot repeat here. Deus does send a message directly to Edmond's phone though, where he is identified as "Other Prick", it simply plays a video that has a general "You mad bro?" tone to it, mostly because it actually had those words repeated over and over to a rather jaunty tune. It finally ended with a picture of a bearded beard on the screen who says "This is Live, you have completed your end of the bargain, and well....did you really think that I would honor the deal after it is done? But just to give you a fighting chance, there should be a set of unblemished gasmasks in the room behind the wooden door if my agent's haven't been feeling a bit too murdery, have fun kid, also there really isn't a point to turning off alarms, your kid over there with the phallic weapon is carrying a siren everywhere he goes, and you are trying to play hide and seek. Ciao". The phone then makes some sparking noises, before revealing that it has deleted the man's phone number from it's systems, and that it has gotten your IP banned from Chaos Engine for "Handholding on a blue board", you are not sure how to respond to that. The Good Doctor There are many reasons why a man would doom his intrepid companions to a horrible death, and apparently you decided that reason would be SCIENCE! Well whatever, they probably had insurance or something; it's not like you forgot to sign the papers for that right? RIGHT?. But who cares about boring legal stuff like insurance; the pictures that have been taken today should help humanity learn...something or other about the horrors. A part of you wonders if someone has made a study about the eating habits and digestion systems of a horror as you punch it on it's nose after it tried to eat your face. You kick one of it's many mouths as it snarls at you again, this accomplishes nothing but causing your feet to be wet with what you assume is it's slobber and breaking a tooth out of it's mouth. You shrug your and wonder what you should do next. >>>>>>Magically use magic on it for magical reasons involving magical research for science purposes >>>>>>Play Eye of the Tiger while you give it a training montage >>>>>>Check on the lab assistants and the damage it has caused to the facility >>>>>>Laugh maniacally and randomly zap things with lightning in an attempt to do...something >>>>>>For the love of Science, put it in a cage >>>>>>Other

Radovan put his Larvitar back into it's Aetherball as he walked away from the person who he honestly believed was Kalva's mother, although he did stop just long enough to give an earnest smile and a friendly "Thank you Ma'am". He then walked over to Sen with his Aetherball being thrown up and down on his right hand, and a rather smug smile on his face, and with that cocky grin he cocked his head slightly to the left and said "So this is incredibly personal I know, but why did you choose that particular species of Pokemon Sen?".

Blackadder extended a hand for the recent arrival while saying "My name is Blackadder, take care to remember it as I will remember yours" before turning to face Chloe again with a very slightly worried look on his face, before saying "Are you sure you're alright? Would you like another mint candy?".

Blackadder's British gentleman senses were tingling as he said "No you really shouldn't worry about it Ma'am, it was just a trifle". He then handed Chloe his guitar once more as he sarcastically put on his best Willy Wonka impression as he shook Will's hand up and down while saying "My name is Blackadder, make sure to remember it as I will surely remember yours". And without moving his feet he turned to face the parka wearing boy and said "Can't stand the sun now can't you?".

After finishing with singing the little song he held out his right hand towards the towering lady and said "No she just got here after someone else insulted her, my name is Blackadder, I would give you her name but it feels a bit rude to do so without her permission".

Edmund doesn't really know who the tall lady in the black coat is, and while he does approve of her choice of clothing the best thing he could say about the way she wore it was that it was quite interesting, but either way he barges in, places his guitar on the floor, and says to Chloe "Right! Listen to this" before singing the following song. https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk

Edmund shook her hand out of extremely British politeness, and he put on the fake smile his father said would be needed when talking to the little people, and he nudged his head slightly towards Chloe's current position before saying "I'm not the one you should apologize to miss, and there is a reason why we call them The Animals" before walking off to another part of the crowd where people wouldn't suddenly interrupt a man for liking Country music. He then opened his phone and went to a particular set of lyrics for a very particular song.

Edmund simply smiled rather devilishly, picked up his bag and coat, and started playing his guitar to a rather particular tune, he didn't sing the opening bars because he didn't have enough time, but he simply sang with as sardonic and insulting tone as possible "If you waste your time a talking To the people who don't listen To the things that you are saying Who do you thinks gonna hear? And if you should die explaining how The things that they complain about Are things they could be changing Who do you thinks gonna care? There were other lonely singers In a world turned deaf and blind Who were crucified for what they tried to show And their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time ‘Cause the truth remains that no one wants to know". Full Song As he sings that song he gently walked away from the rather rude woman, while using his shoulder to rather gently prod Chloe away from her.