Yours Truly

Edmund had a rather surprised smile as he listened to the sandy lady sing that fun little tune, and he had a slight twinkle in his eye as he joined her when she sang "I'd get it one piece at a time~ And it wouldn't cost me a dime~". After the song had ended he reluctantly took the guitar back from her. Before he said with an actually genuine smile on his face "We just might have to start a band later, it was quite nice to hear someone else sing that song. Also do you happen to know anyone from group 12?".

After the song ended Edmund handed the guitar over to Chloe, and he said "Well why don't you sing me a song then?" Although his face just seemed glad that he was no longer doing something as embarrassing as singing a Jimmy Buffet song, I mean what's next? Bruce Springsteen?.

Edmund shrugged as he picked up his guitar and slung it's strap over his shoulders, he then looked at his phone for a moment, as if trying to remember the lyrics and he said in his best stereotypically Ameerucan accent "Alright pardner, just this once...". He then opened his mouth, and sang. "Nibblin' on sponge cake~". But slower

Blackadder noted how Chloe seemed rather enthusiastic about everything, and a tiny part of him regretted how he couldn't be particularly bothered to remember the particulars of her last name, foreign names are so difficult to use properly, and in the end of it all he accidentally said Kawaii when he said "So Kauai, that's a rather interesting name, I assume that you came here from the colonies? So do you have any requests? Or may I continue with the song I was singing earlier?".

Edmund would have been shocked at the sandy woman's forwardness, but up close he realized that she was probably from the colonies. He then put down his guitar and offered her a mint candy on his right hand, if she accepted the offer he would note how she had the decency to do so and put it down as a positive before reaching his hand out for a handshake, an only slightly forced smile, and the words "Uhhh no, in fact I have been keeping up the illusion of being terrible with the guitar by the clever use of technology and pre recorded material! My name is Blackadder, make sure to remember it, as I will surely remember yours miss...?".

A man with black hair and an uncomfortably black outfit is currently regretting his choice of attire as he stands in the now uncomfortably hot 8AM sun. He sidles over to lean on a shaded area near the wall, and sighs. He then took off his grandfather's long coat after dropping the one not very full backpack he had carried here on the floor. He silently cursed the terribly sunny weather before stuffing a mint sweet into his mouth, and he strummed his battered guitar a bit as he hummed the opening bars of a song about a man who couldn't cry. He observed the crowd and looked for the ones who stood out the most. He could see a woman with sandy hair and sand based jewelry walk in a way that a lesser man would find to be quite funny, a part of him wondered if she just liked the color of sand or something. Then there was the musclebound Adonis who seemed to have been in a rather large amount of fights, if the stitches on his face were a good way to judge. He didn't seem as nice as the sandy woman from earlier, especially since he was blatantly checking a woman out. After a while Edmund stopped singing when he reached the bit about Theologians and sighed, he looked at the nice and sandy woman from earlier and wondered if she was a part of group 12 as well, before popping another home made mint candy into his mouth.

Izumi would find that the door has in fact been used often, and that it has very recently been opened and closed, and her inspection of the hinges would reveal that either the door was incredibly advanced and had no need for hinges, or that the hinges were inside of the room. The lock seemed sturdy and recently made, along with the handle, although she could also see a note placed on the door by the maintenance department tellig people that Acid is in fact not a valid method of entrance, and that trespassers will be fined. The first three marbles were all vaporized at the same time, the two marbles thrown revealed that the slower marble was targeted first, and that the reaction time of the lasers is slow enough for only the bottom of the faster marble to be melted, until it bumped into yet another laser grid that annihilated it. The walls curiously didn't seem damaged at all by the barrage of lasers, and it appears that the system prefers to lob a barrage of lasers as opposed to simply firing one at a time. Visrii's lightning bolt did nothing, and his fire ball suceeded in causing the lasers to fire at a nonexistent thrower of said fireball, altough the walls did not appear damaged at all by the rather hot flame, perhaps it had something to do with how the wall had been specifically made to withstand the excessively hot barrage of lasers? I mean seriously what did you think would happen? The video Edmond would watch is quite distressing, as in it a bearded beard surrounded by an array of people in black cloaks wearing Guy Fawkes and Green Frog masks says in no uncertain terms that his name is Deus, and that he is not only threatening to turn the Aztechnology building into a crater, but that he has taken control of the building's systems with the help of a certain Chaos Engine and an agent he has inside of the arcology. While he did say that he will not explode the building if Aztechnology would reveal the details of the activities they perform in the basement of their arcology, and to actually confess to regularly comitting acts of blood magic "Because everyone knows that you do it, and we all know why you won't tell us all about it". Although Edmond would be able to tell that the man was being quite sarcastic with his request, almost like he doesn't think that they will fulfill it. Solomon would rather helpfully send a picture of a long and black Cadillac with the words "Meet at The Alabaster Maiden, practice your German".

Atton uses Battle Plans on Eon to boost his main attacking stat (The stat he adds to his basic attack damage) by Atton's Int, which is 8.

Sif succeeded in tripping the laser trap, and it succeeded in tripping the laser trap again, and again, and again, and again. Until at some point Izumi should probably stop trying to send the bird down the same laser filled and narrow hallway that has no doors or other paths inside of it. Although Izumi would find that just before the northern path leading straight to the hall of instantaneous laser related death, there was a locked and wooden door to the east. Visrii and Edmond's progress would be surprisingly trap free, and every single marble and lightning bolt thrown simply does nothing but fuel their ever growing and perfectly justified paranoia, until Edmond throws a marble into the hall of instantaneous laser related death and the marble melts into a puddle, Visrii's lightning does not cause anything of interest to happen.

And again, noticing the fact that something vaguely more important than the prospect of embarrassing Red and Kal was happening, he swiftly walked up, took the nearest Aetherball with an equally swift "Thank you", and while releasing the Pokemon contained within the Aetherball onto the floor, and he asked with as innocent of an expression he could muster "Are you Kalva's mother?". The unnoticed Larvitar that had been contained in the Pokeball walked over to Poochy, and pokes the Poochyena a bit.

You know, I actually thought that this would have more women in it, I guess once the gender balance swings one way it stays there no matter what?

There's only one way to win a campaign: shout, shout and shout again! soundtrack The Good Doctor Wolpertinger stomped off towards a nearby lab assistant, his name was Ricardo or "Hay"sus or Frank or something, he had never bothered learning the names of the new lab assistants, they had a tendency to get eaten alive or pushed towards an open portal or very suddenly and mysteriously get themselves sacrificed in the traditional Aztec way over a period of three hours with no witnesses despite being in the same room as three visiting mages from another department for said three hours. Riaynk was currently in need of a new pair of pants it seemed, which was in a way rather impressive when you consider the current state the other lab assistants were in. The Good Doctor made a mental note to give the...woman a good performance review as he shouted several encouraging words about the nature of lemons, her lack of inquisitive spirit and conviction, and something about explosive lemons or something, he's not really sure exactly what he said, but the relative familiarity in the situation calmed her down enough. Before he threw her out of the way of the snarling horror. As it swallowed a different lab assistant whole and started it's fascinating digestion method, he considered his options. >>>>>>>>Punch George on the nose, I mean he looks vaguely like a shark doesn't he? And didn't they say that punching sharks on the nose is always a good idea? >>>>>>>>Take pictures of George as it eats your various lab assistants....FOR SCIENCE! >>>>>>>>Zap George with lightning to see how it reacts >>>>>>>>Check on Haando or whatever her name was >>>>>>>>Activate the trap you primed earlier to trap George in it's cage The Commissariat (soundtrack) The computer that Halley had used earlier simply display a still image of a bearded beard, you can't help but feel that it is smiling rather deviously, especially when the screen started to slowly turn a familiar shade of green; it also emitted some rather loud accordion music, but who really cares about that. The office itself still smelled rather sulfurous, but at least they wouldn't have to worry about slipping and falling into a pool of lava anymore, although Izumi could hear something rather worrying, in the form of an unfamiliar set of voices barking orders in a rather colorful tone of voice at the many leopard guardsmen who had just been standing there, and hoping that none of their more magically sensitive superiors would notice the fact that they technically aren't doing anything. The sound of barked orders to move were soon replaced by the sound of barked orders and a rather loud pistol being fired at something after a rather angry voice snapped back at the one giving orders, that something was soon revealed as the headless body of a guardsman, that seemed to have been summarily executed by a high caliber weapon and thrown. Sif would report that the halls were completely and utterly clear, until it flown past a place it shouldn't and got itself vaporized by something, but at the very least Izumi would now know that it wasn't a good idea to walk towards the north side of the hallway without worrying about traps. Both Edmond and Izumi would receive a message on their phones from someone, although it seemed to be a text based one.

Upon hearing Emm's statement, he immediately leaned down to greet Poochy, and gingerly reached out his hand to pet it, if he succeeded in doing this, he would while away the time until the serva-the faceless go-the employees finally brought him an Aether ball.

I have been listening to Johnny Cash songs for a while, please send help.

Nothing to see here, I made a mistake as per usual, sorry for any inconveniences I may have caused.

Lexiel-1 (Soundtrack) The many, many comets would have rained down and destroyed whatever remained of the arcology and killed an unnecessarily large amount of civilians. The ensuing earthquake would taken the entire city of Seattle down with it, an event of such catastrophic proportions that the cries of the dead and the damned, and those who have lost their loved ones would have been heard all over the world, and would have led to the Aztechnology portal receiving an extremely large amount of fear and panic, causing an unstoppable horde of alien and almost indestructible monsters to tear a swath of destruction on the surface of the planet. The remnants of humanity would huddle inside the large and magically sealed bunkers that may or may not still work despite being several hundred thousand years old. But rather fortunately Visrii managed to consume the comets with several great rings of fire, causing them to disappear back into the aether from whence it came preventing a major disaster, and creating a rather beautiful light show. Izumi's ensuing explosion of impurity caused every single guard in the area to feel something off, like there is a disturbance in the force, but rather unfortunately this does not faze the guardsmen who have rather gotten used to the idea of up sometimes being purple, although they do seem to just be standing there for an order that will never come. The mages that Sif had spotted earlier were down on the floor and writhing and moaning in pain however, as the many spirits they had summoned slowly started to disappear one by one; although a female mage simply stood up, and blasted Sif with a bolt of dark magical power while shouting "You hit like a little girl!". Edmond would have successfully opened fire on the guards to cause them to disperse, but in the blink of an eye all that was left of the many security guards were a twitching pile of bleeding humanoid shapes, followed by the distinct sound of a jet engine starting up again. The door however was not open, and the not very sturdy door quickly yielded underneath a barrage of explosive bullets. Revealing a server room where an injured looking Bullet was single-handedly facing off against two buzzsaw drones, and where a rather fat man jacked into a cyberdeck was rather furiously typing something. Luckily enough for Halley, her steps weren't literally heavier, as that would end with her falling into the still quite hot lava...She would find herself in the fancy looking office from earlier, where a robed man with a fierce look to his eye and a general demeanor that suggested that enough was enough flew out of the room and into the distance with a shout of "Fuck this, I'm not getting paid enough". The office itself was quite nice, and an open computer with a freshly installed USB port was waiting for her input, it even had a message for her on the screen saying "The debt needs to be paid". The door leading into the floor itself was quite open though, and there didn't seem to be any guards waiting beyond that door. The End of The World (Soundtrack) But none of that matters to the Austrian Scientist Dr. Gerhard Wolpertinger has completed his life's work. He smiled with a mad satisfaction as he beheld the gibbering and constantly twisting shape of the monstrosity, the unholy Horror he has summoned to serve the company's interests. I mean sure he had to sell out to some big shot company, but let's face it; SCIENCE! Needs a lot of funds now doesn't it?. He knew that it was trying to shift to a form that would scare him, and he saw as his lab assistants, worthless men and women of not enough conviction; clawed their eyes out or tried to commit suicide in a vain attempt to not have their very essence consumed by it. But Gerhard wasn't scared by it at all, you see he wasn't seeing it as a representation of the sins he had committed, the sins he would commit immediately afterwards, and he didn't even flinch when it tried to show itself as some weird Hecatoncheires/Bionic School girl hybrid killing several blonde senators. Because he saw it for what it will be, he saw it as the future... What will the Good Doctor do? (Most votes will win) >>>>Slap some sense into your lab assistants, I mean it's only a Class 20 Memetic Anti Sanity Mutating Emotion Feeder, I mean sure the scale only goes up to 5.....but that is no excuse for a lack of professionalism and inquisitional spirit! >>>>Name it George, I mean sure it has some super edgy and "interesting" name like Darkul the meter feeder or Ploppy the perpetually well endowed, but I have always wanted to call something George >>>>Laugh at your own brilliance! We both know you deserve it >>>>Rattle it's cages a bit, you have seen worse, and make it clear that you are disappointed >>>>Other (Write what you think he should do here)

Radovan instantly jumped at the mere mention of the idea of obtaining his Pokemon, and he took time out of his valued and well loved hobby of embarrasing Red to walk slowly over to Poochy and he would have reached his hand out to pet the cute dog, but for politeness sake he turned to ask Emm "May I pet your Poochyena?". If Radovan received a bit of confirmation he would pet the cute little Pokemon, but either way he would confront the nameless employees with a request for an Aether ball, and the Pokemon he asked to receive after the ceremony.

Izumi and surprisingly enough Visrii's warnings went unheard as the more than slightly unhinged mad scientist called several large comets to her current position, causing massive property damage on the floors above, and creating a rather large hole where the floor was a couple of moment ago. Halley would barely manage to survive the ensuing shitstorm of shrapnel and twenty five floor drops by having the good sense to be near a wall and sliding down it, rather unfortunately several guards survived the explosion near enough to take potshots at her and Visrii's falling form, causing them to take half max HP damage. Izumi would be completely and utterly unharmed by the shrapnel and explosion, despite how little sense the idea of standing right next to a bunch of falling comets and not getting crushed or hit by shrapnel makes. Sif would respond that yes all they needed to do to get to the elevator shaft was to walk down the hallway a bit, but that the falling comets has set the entire facility on high alert, and that there are several young men and women with rather devious smiles and an array of twisted spirits heading her way. Halley, and Visrii would find themselves inside of the melted remains of an office, they had successfully landed on a piece of rubble that hadn't gotten melted by the lava, although it seems that the only real way to exit the office would be by gingerly jumping on the other not melted pieces of rubble, and climbing up to the floor directly above them, which seemed to be undamaged and better decorated than the one they are in. The entire room smelled sulfurous, and despite everything it was starting to get awfully hot in here, I mean there was a door, but it is covered with lava, it's a good thing that all of you can fly right?. But before all of this nonsense happened Edmond had finally started walking towards the empty hallway to try and find clues, when the Austrian man rather suddenly bull rushed him away from the path of the comets, lava and the generously raining shrapnel, even if Edmond had shot the man he simply stood up, lazily tipped a nonexistent hat to the man, and said "You know you have very rich friends now don't you?" before disappearing out of the building with the distinct roar of a jet engine. It seemed that Edmond's search for a trail of carnage was rather easy wasn't it?

Radovan deftly took an energy bar, and opened it with the one hand he wasn't using to abduct Kal, and after a while he pointed to the one nerd inside of the room with the energy bar and said "His name is Red, top of the class in first academy, also voted least likely to have friends or a romantic relationship, if Emmanuel is a bit of a nerd on a scale of 1-10, this guy is enough of a nerd to cause you to need a new chart, but he is excessively polite so we tolerate him somewhat, just don't talk to him about any academic subjects if you don't want him to drone on and on for an hour or so.".

Radovan took some time out of his eating, drinking, nerd embarrassing, and disabled person praising to walk up to Zeta and Kai's position "She is a native resident of this Nexus, and she has first hand experience with the many mysterious phenomenons that I think a group of better equipped and Pokemon carrying cadets should investigate later, like for example, us after we have received all of the Pokemon we were supposed to get during the ceremony." And with that said and done he turned to face Zeta and said "Maybe we should leave something behind for your Father, perhaps a written note explaining that you have gone to the first Nexus?".

Round 5 Leopard Guard E cuts his losses and applies more dakka towards Lexiel, dealing 17 points of damage to her Halley succesfully deals 8 points of damage to the fleeing guardsmen Leopard Guard F runs away from the battle by running down the hallway Halley is in and heading towards the left. Lexiel heals Izumi, Visrii, and the Lightkeeper using a song for 8 points of health, The Lightkeeper then shines it's healing light on Visrii, healing an additional 10 points of health Leopard Guard B shoots the Lightkeeper for 9 points of damage Leopard Guard C looks at Izumi, and he looks at his broken squad and gets the hell away from the active combat zone. Visrii then bloodies his halberd by cutting Leopard Guard B repeatedly, dealing 42 points of damage and killing him rather immediately, he then deals 8 points of damage to Leopard Guard E, who passes out from the heat. After the rather bloody and sudden battle, the room has been filled with an unnecessarily large amount of bullet holes, dripping gel, lava, an actually open flame that has set the bed and various wooden pieces of furniture on fire, and several guns have been left on the floor, including a rather large pistol held by the Afro wearing guardsman, an assault rifle held by Leopard Guard E, a much more reasonable submachinegun held by Leopard Guard B, and the melted remains of several other guns that had fallen into the spreading flow of lava. Computer Hacking Edmond would find no external storage devices in the small office, it would appear that Mr. Guadelupe was a law abiding wage slave. Although Edmond could see the remains of a smashed PDA that may have served as an external storage device, and after salvaging a piece of not completely damaged cable from the man's brain, he would find that it fits perfectly into a port on the PDA that Edmond had gotten earlier, and that the other end had helpfully already been plugged into the computer. Edmond would find a lot of data on the completely and utterly unlocked computer, and he would find that they were all mostly useless and not very incriminating, except possibly for a tiny bit of this message here talking about ball gags and whips, except wait no that was just him talking to his wife about what he wants to do the next time he gets back to Aztlan. After a while he would have to settle for downloading some locked files about Project "Euhumerous", maybe he can get to work on cracking them later. Edmond would be surprisingly unmolested by the presence of Leopard Guard, and in fact the office was quiet....a bit too quiet, I mean there wasn't anyone there but some Biker Guy smoking a cigar next to the-wait what, he wasn't there before now wasn't he? And doesn't the man look a bit...familiar? I mean how many Austrian bodybuilders in biker outfits do you see everyday anyway?

Radovan snickered at Red's response, and he turned to face Kal and hide his face from Red while pointing at Red with his little finger as he mouthed the words "Neeeerrrrdd, try and hug him all the way out of his room or something". He then faced back to Red with the straightest face possible, as if he hadn't been talking about the man while his back was in no way shape or form turned (Because he technically didn't), and replied with a gentle tackle and a teasing "It's because you are a ronery nerd with no real social life Red, now as I was saaaying." Radovan then gently tried to lead Kal somewhere else by wrapping one of his arms around the kid's shoulders, and holding them tightly while walking somewhere else. If Kal decided to escape he would walk over to Desmond and say "So Des, what was your specialty back in school? Everyone has one yaknow, that one thing that you always did better than anything else.", even if Kal hadn't escaped, Radovan would still walk over to Des with the mute (and definitely not cute or anything shifty eyes) young man.

Atton sighed before discharging his service weapon repeatedly at the fifth Waddle Dee. Miraclous Shot on WaddleDee5 (2d3+INT Pure Damage)

Radovan emitted his best "That creepy uncle" laugh and went over to Red and pat him in the back quite suddenly before saying in his best 'Excited Rich Cadet and inappropriate' cadet voice "Oh stop being such a bore Red, you're out in the wilds, live a little! See in the sights, follow the group outside of your little nerd cave for once in your sad, sad life." he then turned to look at Kalva's handwriting, and finally asked in a voice that would perhaps be appropriate in someone much older and larger "So how was your little adventure Kal? It's good to see you alive man, I would hate to have to fill out some extra paperwork, so ya did good kid, I'll buy you a golden leafed sundae or something later.".

The imposing man stared at Harbin for a moment, and he beckoned for the Wizzerd to follow him into the watchtower as he said "Right, so the two of you think that you have seen some weird shit haven't you? Like dancing lights or people calling themselves Bob and kicking you in the nadgers?". The man shook his head as he continued walking towards the tower "You kids and your imaginations these days". He shook his head again as he inspected the still cluterred mess that is the main room of the watchtower, and he shouted out the words "NOW WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF CLEANUP?" before dashing off to clean up the area without waiting for an answer. As the commanding man was cleaning up the place, he opened the barrel in the center of the room, which caused a herring to snap up and bite him on the nose; after a short battle he threw the herring back into the barrel. And he continued cleaning the room while mumbling something about improper use of black powder. Song A few moments later the sound of galloping horses could be heard outside of the tower again, except this time a man keeping watch on the highest floor would see a lone rider bearing the extremely plain colour of a guard from the eastern town of Multon. He was wearing a battered looking off white gambeson, and he seemed intent on not losing the contents of a small leather pack he had with him. The rider looked intent on reaching the watchtower itself, although there didn't seem to be a reason why he was running so quickly.