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  1. @@===
  2. @@Howl's Moving Castle, Session One
  3. @@===
  4.  
  5. [22:47] <[huh]GM> You awake to the rhythmic swaying you've become so accustomed to in recent years. The swaying as the walking castle "Indomitus" travels over the barren rocky landscape that stretches as far as the eye can see. Well, the name might have been fitting at one point, but seemed to be a bit of a misnomer nowadays. Half of the castle itself was flat-out gone, much more was in danger of collapsing. But in spite of this, the castle was the place you and your master called home.
  6. [22:51] <[huh]GM> Ah yes, the master. Where to start? Some who know him less well might call him a ruffian. The better-acquainted would still call him a ruffian, but a mostly harmless one. Not while fighting (he could deliver a pretty mean right hook), but apart from his distinct lack of taste, sometimes overbearing personality, and occasionally downright dangerous pursuits, he was harmless.
  7. [22:53] <[huh]GM> How he had gotten this contraption you've never really cared to ask, lest he turn it into an opportunity to make some marvelously overembellished story.
  8. [22:56] <[huh]GM> Well, you have nowhere to go outside of the castle, unless you feel like braving the 17 meter drop below the steel&soil terrace that surrounds and supports the castle.
  9. [22:56] <[huh]GM> A new day has arrived...
  10. [22:58] <[Tet]Flonne> IT'S A NEW DAY!!
  11. [22:58] * [Tet]Flonne bursts out of bed, spins around in mid-air, and lands in full meido regalia.
  12. [22:58] <[Tet]Flonne> MASTERRRRRRR!! IT'S A NEW DAY!!!!
  13. [22:59] * [Gtz]Andel yawns inaudibly and sits up, giving Flonne a light applause for the small marvel of instant clothification.
  14. [22:59] <[huh]GM> The master, being a good ways away in another room, does little to respond.
  15. [23:00] * [Tet]Flonne does that blur-vanish-and-reappear thing you see all the time in the anime, moving through the castle towards the master's bedroom.
  16. [23:01] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 twitches a little in her lab/bedroom at the shout. Fucking voice harmonics resonate badly with all the metal in her body sometimes. Might be time for oiling, she muses blearily as she staggers awake.
  17. [23:02] * [Gtz]Andel shrugs and inquires to her own maid regalia. Or even his own.
  18. [23:05] <[huh]GM> Flonne reaches the master's bedroom, two oaken doors slightly more ornate than the rest of the mansion.
  19. [23:06] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 flips her wrist up, extending it out on long metallic joints and limbs, grabbing up her uniform from across the room. Retracting the limb, it pops back into place, and she gets dressed.
  20. [23:06] * [Gtz]Andel briefly considers hanging himself over wearing this ridiculous outfit. Upon closer inspection, he finds it to his liking; the dress does not exemplify the breasts or buttocks, but rather the maid as a whole. He's a damn good looking maid.
  21. [23:07] <[Tet]Flonne> Heh heh heh. Target acquired.
  22. [23:08] * [Gtz]Andel considers many hairstyles in view of a mirror, finally deciding that a ponytail is perhaps the most befitting.
  23. [23:08] * [Tet]Flonne stalks up to one of the doors, turns the knob, and... turns the knob, and... turns the knob, and...
  24. [23:08] <[Tet]Flonne> Uh...
  25. [23:08] <[Tet]Flonne> It's stuck...
  26. [23:09] * [Tet]Flonne rattles the knob and yanks back on it, but the stupid door won't stupid budge.
  27. [23:09] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 leaves her hair uncombed and undone; it always gets messed up by her morning wake-up. Everything else she pulls on, slips into, buttons up, ties on, and whatnot. There! Perfect.
  28. [23:09] <[Tet]Flonne> Stupid door!
  29. [23:10] * [Tet]Flonne continues in this manner for several minutes.
  30. [23:10] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 Now for the good old shot of morning wake-up juice. She reaches for her coffee cup...
  31. [23:12] <[Tet]Flonne> Argh!
  32. [23:12] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 ...and passes it by, grabbing a fork from her food tray instead. It seems that it's had its tines bent curiously. Leaning over, she jams it cleanly into a wall outlet.
  33. [23:13] * [Gtz]Andel wonders what he should be doing right now. He decides breakfast is a good place to start, even if he's not particularly good at making it. As he makes her way to the kitchen, he ignores the antics of other maids.
  34. [23:13] * [Tet]Flonne runs back to the wall opposite the door, charges forward, and slams into the door with her shoulder. It holds fast... but the other one pops ajar from the impact.
  35. [23:14] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 twitches spasmodically and erratically as the electricity flows through her, energizing her body and the many and various components therein. Yanking it out after only a second, she stands there, still twitching for a few seconds, and sighs happily.
  36. [23:15] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Now that's the stuff to wake up to.
  37. [23:16] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 Much more alert and animated, now, she combs her hair and fixes it up, setting her headband atop her head as the last part of her ritual, then leaves her room to greet the new day.
  38. [23:16] * [Gtz]Andel wonders why this toaster isn't working
  39. [23:16] * [Tet]Flonne looks around to make sure nobody was watching that and slips inside.
  40. [23:18] <[huh]GM> The master is, amazingly enough, still sleeping.
  41. [23:19] <[Tet]Flonne> Heh heh heh. Target acquired. ...again.
  42. [23:20] * [Tet]Flonne crouches down and crawls across the floor towards the master's bed.
  43. [23:21] * [Tet]Flonne peeks up over the edge.
  44. [23:22] <[Tet]Flonne> Ale~xi...
  45. [23:22] <[huh]Alexi> Snrrrrkkfkfk
  46. [23:22] * [Tet]Flonne stands up slowly. Hey, where'd that pointy thing in her hand come from?
  47. [23:23] <[Tet]Flonne> WAKE UP FROM YOUR ASLEEP!
  48. [23:23] * [Tet]Flonne raises the pointy thing high!
  49. [23:24] <[huh]Alexi> Hah?
  50. [23:24] * [huh]Alexi opens his eyes, and they grow wide noticing Flonne's brandished object.
  51. [23:24] * [Tet]Flonne lunges! Just like in the movies!
  52. [23:27] * [huh]Alexi attempts to roll to the side, swinging his fist in a retaliatory strike!
  53. [23:30] * [Tet]Flonne misses the master's head, but gets his shoulder at the same time as his (other) fist slams into her jaw.
  54. [23:32] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 [Eye of the Tiger begins to play.]
  55. [23:33] <[huh]Alexi> hah!
  56. [23:33] * [Tet]Flonne stays in place like that.
  57. [23:33] * [huh]Alexi flips off the bed into a standing position.
  58. [23:33] <[Tet]Flonne> Good morning, master!
  59. [23:33] <[huh]Alexi> Mornin', Flonne.
  60. [23:34] * [Tet]Flonne puts the kunai away back wherever it was she got it from in the first place.
  61. [23:34] <[Tet]Flonne> Breakfast?
  62. [23:34] * [huh]Alexi stretches.
  63. [23:35] <[huh]Alexi> Breakfast? Excellent!
  64. [23:35] <[huh]Alexi> Time for another day of kickin' ass and takin' names.
  65. [23:35] <[Tet]Flonne> That's the spirit! But, um, maybe we should bandage that, just to be safe...
  66. [23:35] * [huh]Alexi rushes out of the room, towards the kitchen.
  67. [23:35] <[Tet]Flonne> ...or not. Okay.
  68. [23:35] <[huh]Alexi> No time!
  69. [23:35] * [Tet]Flonne shrugs and rushes after him.
  70. [23:36] * [Gtz]Andel is mildly troubled by the flaming toaster
  71. [23:37] * [huh]Alexi has no such troubles.
  72. [23:37] <[huh]Alexi> A flaming toaster? Sweet!
  73. [23:40] * [Gtz]Andel finds the master's attention to the toaster unusual, but only gives him a little attention as she finds a wet towel and throws it over the burning toaster.
  74. [23:41] <[huh]Alexi> So ,what's breakfast?
  75. [23:41] <[Tet]Flonne> PANCAKES!!
  76. [23:42] * [Gtz]Andel which also catches fire, as it were dampened in some sort of combustible substance. Andel is not amused.
  77. [23:42] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 walks into the kitchen around then, and notices the toaster.
  78. [23:42] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Dammit, is it doing that again?
  79. [23:44] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 picks up the burning appliance, and whacks it, Fonzy-style. The flames go out, and she sets it down, glaring at it, and wags her finger at it disapprovingly.
  80. [23:44] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> No dessert for you tonight.
  81. [23:45] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 turns back and smiles knowingly to Andel.
  82. [23:45] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> You just have to be firm with them, hon.
  83. [23:45] * [Gtz]Andel puts her hands up chest high
  84. [23:46] <[huh]Alexi> Ah, Fackie.
  85. [23:46] * [Gtz]Andel furrows her brows, puts her hands her hips, purses her lips, and nods in confirmation
  86. [23:49] * [Tet]Flonne ignores the smoke and whatall and hums around the kitchen, getting out pans and whatever goes into pancakes.
  87. [23:49] * [Gtz]Andel wait until she thinks no one is looking, shakes her fist begrudgingly at the vilified toaster, swearing vengeance shall it dare cross her again, and continues to try to find something more suitable for breakfast.
  88. [23:57] <[Tet]Flonne> (Pancakes have eggs in them, right?)
  89. [23:57] <[huh]Alexi> (They do.)
  90. [23:57] <[Gtz]Andel> (fuck pancakes, let's make a hamburger with an egg on it)
  91. [23:57] <[huh]Alexi> (Fuck yeah loco moco)
  92. [23:59] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> (Holy shit this the the most hardcore breakfast ever)
  93. [23:59] <[Tet]Flonne> (That was actually an IC wondering...)
  94. [23:59] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> (Lies.)
  95. [00:00] <[huh]Alexi> (IC AND OOC COLLIDE)
  96. [00:02] <[huh]Alexi> [you find some nice stuff for a breakfast, and make a nice breakfast with them]
  97. [00:04] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> [how nice!]
  98. [00:04] <[Tet]Flonne> [NOICE]
  99. [00:04] <[Tet]Flonne> Pancakes are ready!!
  100. [00:05] * [Gtz]Andel contemplates crafting a hamburger topped with an omelet to suit the master's "awesome" tastes, but is unsure of how to relay such an idea to her fellow cohorts in breakfast besiegery. She then decides besiegery is an awful way to describe making breakfast, and opts to assist in making pancakes instead.
  101. [00:09] * [Gtz]Andel or at least, she did five minutes or so ago, seeing as there are now pancakes, and would be paradoxical to assist in making pancakes that has once already been crafted.
  102. [00:10] <[huh]Alexi> Awesome!
  103. [00:11] * [huh]Alexi not waiting for the others, takes a pancake as bare as it was born and eats it.
  104. [00:12] <[huh]Alexi> These are some fuckin' good pancakes, seriously.
  105. [00:13] * [Tet]Flonne smothers hers in syrup. Seriously, it's like she's trying to create a lake.
  106. [00:14] * [Gtz]Andel plate-tates the table and soundly(yet soundlessly) sits down the silverware, as well as firmly affirms herself into a seat, then bows her head and silently gives thanks for the day's meal. She asks the Lord to forgive the master's minor transgressions, as well as those of her own.
  107. [00:14] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 takes a couple, and drips syrup thinly upon it in the shape of the first 20 digits of pi. Looking at her handiwork in satisfaction, she nods, then smears it around evenly, and begins to eat.
  108. [00:16] * [Gtz]Andel she also asks Him for better luck on her next roll. Amen.
  109. [00:19] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Quite very much excellent, Miss Andel.
  110. [00:23] * [Gtz]Andel raises at the call of her name, identifies the source, and quickly discredits herself as anything of excellence, pointing to herself and shaking her head, then pointing to Flonne and giving a thumbs-up, fork with sliced pancake in hand.
  111. [00:26] * [Gtz]Andel then quickly pops the morning delicacy into her mouth, then, realizing her appetite, begins to dig in more fervently.
  112. [00:27] * [Tet]Flonne is too ecstatically engrossed in her own maple-and-butter heaven to take conscious notice of praise from any source (or another flaming toaster, were one to manifest itself).
  113. [00:28] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...was it? Oh, I'm sorry.
  114. [00:35] * [Gtz]Andel shakes her head at this, and sets her fork down to relay the ideal of socialism through pantomime. It's not very effective...
  115. [00:39] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 cocks her head and chews another forkful thoughtfully as she watches.
  116. [00:39] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Marx... brothers?
  117. [00:40] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> but what do they have to do with "masses?"
  118. [00:42] * [Gtz]Andel cuts one of her flap jacks into several equal pieces, separating them into two sides and presents it to 14. Making sure she sees the division between the two, she covers the right side in syrup, and then violently smashes the cut pieces on the left side. She then crosses her arms and nods, believing to have successfully portrayed socialism in a non-vocal linguistic manner, after which she proceeds to eat the syruped pieces of pancake.
  119. [00:43] * [Tet]Flonne still totally isn't paying attention.
  120. [00:46] * [Gtz]Andel discovers socialism is worth less than half her pancake, and figures she will refrain from destroying it in the future for such causes
  121. [00:50] * [Gtz]Andel finishes eating and finds her hunger quite vanquished, and quietly awaits the others to arrive at the same conclusion.
  122. [00:53] * [Tet]Flonne mops up the last of the syrup with the last of the pancake using the last of her fork.
  123. [00:54] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 takes it easy and finishes her pancakes warmly.
  124. [00:56] * [Gtz]Andel watches as the girls finish their meals, and prepares to de-plate-tate the table once they're ready.
  125. [00:58] <[Tet]Flonne> Aaaah...
  126. [00:58] * [Tet]Flonne sits back and basks in the afterglow.
  127. [00:59] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Were they as wonderful good for you, too?
  128. [01:01] * [Tet]Flonne smiles and turns her head lazily towards "Fackie".
  129. [01:01] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, yeah... it's never quite so good as when you do it yourself, y'know?
  130. [01:04] * [Gtz]Andel nods, and proceeds to pick up the plates and tableware, taking them to be cleaned in the sink, assuming such a contraption as the Indomitus does in fact have a sink. She decides it would be ridiculous for a walking house not to have its own running water, and puts the assumption to rest.
  131. [01:04] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Mm... I need have to agree.
  132. [01:06] <[huh]Alexi> Yeah, they were great.
  133. [01:12] * [Gtz]Andel gently rolls up her sleeves and begins to wash the dishes. She gets carried away playing with the bubbles, making herself her very own bubblebeard.
  134. [01:12] * [huh]Alexi is working off breakfast by doing kickflips.
  135. [01:13] * [Tet]Flonne has vanished somewhere. Just like on the TV!
  136. [01:16] <[huh]Alexi> We should... be arriving... at a new place... today. If... Fackie... got the navigation right...
  137. [01:17] * [huh]Alexi says between breaths.
  138. [01:17] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 decides to offer to help Andel wash the dishes.
  139. [01:18] * [Gtz]Andel finds herself acting quite silly in Fourteen's presence, and quickly removes her bubble-stubble.
  140. [01:19] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 giggles at Andel's antics as she rolls up her sleeves and helps pitch in. She calls out back over her shoulder to the master.
  141. [01:20] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> If? Since when have I given you reason to doubt my sources?
  142. [01:22] <[huh]Alexi> Never... my dear... just saying... it's a possibility...
  143. [01:25] <[Tet]Flonne> Are you okay, master?
  144. [01:25] * [Tet]Flonne "vanished" under the table, it turns out.
  145. [01:26] <[huh]Alexi> Perfectly... fine... never felt... better...
  146. [01:29] * [Gtz]Andel , washing rather absentmindedly, reaches for a plate, but instead finds something soft... it's Fourteen's hand! She quickly withdraws and blushes at her mistake, unsure if she should try to make reparations with her fellow maid or try to play it cool... She then realizes there's nothing wrong with touching someone's hand in a sink, no matter how gender-ambiguous you are.
  147. [01:29] * [huh]Alexi stops doing kickflips. having run out of his alloted ellipses for the session
  148. [01:34] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 starts slightly at the hand-touching, and looks over at Andel, but smiles warmly at her. She's awful cute...
  149. [01:37] <[huh]Alexi> But before that... it's been awfully boring lately. Isn't it time something happened?
  150. [01:37] <[Tet]Flonne> Maybe we'll wander into another war!
  151. [01:38] <[huh]Alexi> That last one could hardly be called a war. Those bastards hardly qualified as a skirmish.
  152. [01:39] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, it was a war to them...
  153. [01:39] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 makes a note to restock the missile bays.
  154. [01:40] * [Gtz]Andel quietly sighs to himself, recalling that he has zero experience in the ways of women, partly credible to being convincingly similar to one, as well as his apparent inability for vocal communication. He thinks, even if a girl liked him, it'd never go past the "just friends" phase simply because the sexual revelation would be too much for any normal girl. In his disparaging thoughts, he doesn't notice Fourteen's warm offering, and considers if perhaps he's a homosexual. He shudders.
  155. [01:42] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 'accidentally' brushes her hand against Andel's.
  156. [01:44] * [Gtz]Andel 's shudder is suddenly interrupted by a familiar feeling, both in his chest and upon his hand. He looks towards Fourteen, and quietly inquires to the situation with a tilted head and a slight pinkness of the cheek.
  157. [01:45] <[huh]Alexi> [The winds start picking up, then howling outside. You don't need to look to know that a sandstorm is starting.]
  158. [01:47] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 squeezes her hand gently and winks at the blushing girl. Definitely cute.
  159. [01:50] <[huh]Alexi> hah. In for a rough ride, it seems. Fackie, you've made sure this thing's sandproof, right?
  160. [01:51] * [Gtz]Andel 's blush jumps into high gear, and he looks away, unsure of what to do. Suddenly, a perfectly timed master speaks to Fourteen! Surely, this will break the hold as well as the awkward moment.
  161. [01:54] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 glares at the Master's use of that detestable nickname, and replies, meanwhile forgetting to let go of Andel's hand.
  162. [01:54] * [Gtz]Andel ...however, wishes the moment could last a little bit longer, and wishes it could carry on under his true identity, that of a boy. But alas, life's strifes spare not those who hold their tongue just as they do not spare the loving maiden from the woes they behold. In his own mind, he finds this quite poetic, and considers writing it down, until he recalls the nice woman holding his hand and quickly pushes the idea out of his mind and returns to being quietly flustered.
  163. [01:56] * [huh]Alexi carries on perfectly unaware of the great struggles of meido-psyche that seem to be occurring, and simply wants to know if his big machine will work when dirty.
  164. [01:57] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> It most certainly definitely is, Master. All the livable habitable areas and those connected to them are, plus anything holding containing supplies. Pretty much anything critical is, except for the parts that are already ventilated aerated enough to let the sand pass and blow through anyway. So yes, everything is tightly completely sealed.
  165. [01:58] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Except for your room.
  166. [01:58] <[huh]Alexi> Lovely.
  167. [01:58] <[huh]Alexi> Forward ho, then.
  168. [02:02] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 rolls her eyes as her last barb misses its mark, and returns to washing the dishes, only notice she's still holding Andel's hand.
  169. [02:03] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Eh..? Oh, I'm sorry, dear! I became was a little preoccupied there...
  170. [02:04] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 blushes a bit, herself, and gives Andel another little squeeze before gently letting go.
  171. [02:05] * [Gtz]Andel in a great effort to overcome the simple, yet profound effect touching has held upon him, takes note of Fourteen's disdain and tone towards the unseemly nickname the master has granted her. He grabs her attention to make sure she's looking, points at her, then brings his pointing hand to his ear. He relinquishes his hand from her grip as gently as he can, and puts that hand palm-open over his chest, closing his eyes and bowing his head slightly.
  172. [02:08] <[huh]Alexi> [the doorbell can be heard.]
  173. [02:08] <[huh]Alexi> We have a doorbell?
  174. [02:10] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 blushes a little deeper at the gesture, and responds in a slightly distracted tone.
  175. [02:11] * [Gtz]Andel waits silently for a moment, wondering if the message he was trying to convey was too vague, or perhaps his body language isn't as apparent as he thinks it is. He peeks out a single eye to gauge her reaction, revealing a reddish hue, but is soon alarmed to the sound of bells...
  176. [02:13] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I, uh... yeah, I put it on Leg #3, near the bottom, since that's near one of the crane lifts...
  177. [02:14] <[huh]Alexi> ...but leg #3 is moving, who the hell would ring...
  178. [02:14] <[huh]Alexi> it must be a challenger!
  179. [02:14] * [huh]Alexi punches the air!
  180. [02:15] * [Gtz]Andel quickly glances to be sure the dishes are finished, and stands waiting with Fourteen for possible assistance.
  181. [02:15] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Another one? They always appear.
  182. [02:17] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Would you like us to go have a look from the port-side loading bay?
  183. [02:18] <[huh]Alexi> Right. See if he's good enough to be a challenging challenger. If not, get rid of 'em.
  184. [02:18] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Yes, sir.
  185. [02:19] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Andel, would you join me?
  186. [02:21] * [Gtz]Andel doesn't fancy himself much of a fighter, but would like to be able to help if such a challenger appeared. He nods, holds up a finger, dashes off, and then returns with a five-foot wooden staff, standing firm and nodding in martial readiness.
  187. [TO BE CONTINUED!]
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  192. @@===
  193. @@Spiderbot Manor, Session Two
  194. @@===
  195.  
  196. [19:20] <[huh]Alexi> LAST TIME
  197. [19:28] <[huh]Alexi> The "Indomitus" Mobile Fortress was caught up in a great sandstorm. This was no problem, as Faccie asserted, except that a visitor seems to have arrived at leg #3. The moving leg #3.
  198. [19:32] <[huh]Alexi> Andel and Factorial have gone to check out the visitor, while Flonne is under the table.
  199. [19:33] <[huh]Alexi> AND... TIME CONTINUES.
  200. [19:33] <[Tet]Flonne> Zzzzz...
  201. [19:35] * [Gtz]Andel salutes Fourteen, ready and willing to assist.
  202. [19:38] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 smiles and beckons him to follow her.
  203. [19:38] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Then let's be off!
  204. [19:39] * [Gtz]Andel is beckoned, and then off.
  205. [19:43] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 goes down to the gearhouse deck, where the large, hissing, clanking rotors and steel limbs moving the place connect to the engine housed therein.
  206. [19:43] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Let's see.. number... Three, right?
  207. [19:44] * [Gtz]Andel nods, presenting three fingers.
  208. [19:44] * <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> talks louder over the mechanical cacophony
  209. [19:44] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Right...
  210. [19:46] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 goes over by one of the legs, and opens up a pair of hatches near it on the floor, revealing thick, sturdy plexiglass plates allowing one to see down below, and gaze at the passing terrain, and get a healthy look at the #3 leg, as well.
  211. [19:48] * [Gtz]Andel follows closely behind Fourteen, mimicking her movements and gestures in an exaggerating manner, though not mockingly. He looks where she looks, ducks when she ducks, stops when she stops, taps his foot when she does the same, etc.
  212. [19:49] <[huh]Alexi> [It seems that you can indeed make out a figure through the sandstorm. They're holding onto a railing beside the door for dear life as the ground thunders below.]
  213. [19:51] * [Gtz]Andel gives Fourteen a look of panic, gesturing with open palms and pointing at the poor... whoever it may be.
  214. [19:52] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 leans back and blinks.
  215. [19:52] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> .....Huh.
  216. [19:52] <[Tet]Flonne> Ooh! Is there something down there? Lemme see!
  217. [19:52] * [Tet]Flonne drops down from the ceiling in between the two fellow maids.
  218. [19:52] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 starts getting some heavy rope and fastening gear out from a nearby crate, and tabs a wall intercom.
  219. [19:53] <[huh]Alexi> Hey, Fl- ...huh?
  220. [19:53] * [huh]Alexi notices Flonne is no longer there.
  221. [19:53] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey! It's a person! I think. Isn't it? It looks like one.
  222. [19:54] * [Gtz]Andel shows surprise at Flonne's arrival, but quickly regains control and nods vigorously
  223. [19:54] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> *Hey, Captwhat the fu--?! where did ... screw it. Someone has clamped attached to the leg and they're knockin' at the door.
  224. [19:54] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> *Want me to let them inside within?*
  225. [19:56] <[huh]Alexi> Ah... do they look strong?
  226. [19:56] * [Gtz]Andel looks at Fourteen with puppy-dog eyes, hands threaded together as if in prayer, pleading her to help to poor soul.
  227. [19:57] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> *Uh.*
  228. [19:58] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks to Andel, to the figure outside, and distastefully at the intercom mic.
  229. [19:58] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> *...Could be.*
  230. [19:58] <[huh]Alexi> Could be? They must be to hang onto leg 3 in a sandstorm. Let 'em in!
  231. [19:59] <[Tet]Flonne> Yay! A visitor!
  232. [19:59] * [Tet]Flonne skips over to the door.
  233. [19:59] * [Tet]Flonne *and opens it
  234. [19:59] * [Gtz]Andel smiles brightly, although he's neglected to assert whether or not the situation may be dangerous.
  235. [20:00] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 finishes latching the safety catches to bolts in the gearhouse floor and door way frame, and finally about herself. She turns around, ready to open up the door and head out when the enthusiastic storm decides to come in and make its own introductions.
  236. [20:00] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> All right, leDAMMIT!
  237. [20:01] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is hit with a strong flurry and reaches up to shield her eyes.
  238. [20:01] <[Tet]Flonne> Ack! Sand!
  239. [20:02] <[huh]Alexi> [In with the sand falls a truly pitiable figure. Rather small, and covered with rags and tattered cloth to protect it from the harsh outside winds.]
  240. [20:02] * [Gtz]Andel stays within safety. It's not that I'm a coward, he thinks, it's just that Fourteen knows what she's doing and I would only get in the way!
  241. [20:04] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> THE TWO OF YOU, STAY BACK! ANDEL, HIT THE WINCH CONTROL WHEN I CALL FOR IT! FLONNE.... STOP TOUCHING THINGS!
  242. [20:05] * [Gtz]Andel salutes, and hangs on to hit the winch control when ordered.
  243. [20:06] * [Tet]Flonne staggers back. That counts as standing, right?
  244. [20:08] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> 0x01ACTION lowers herself down, attached to the fiber-wire cable, to the figure. She has to pause a few times to avoid particularly wide turns of the #3 leg as it steps over unseen debris in the storm. Flicking the side of her forehead, lens covers slip out from under the skin and shield her eyes, freeing up her other hand, and uses the momentary respite to get a good look at this tenacious poor son of a bitch.
  245. [20:14] <[huh]Alexi> [uncovering the figure's face, you see it's a rather fair young girl, who can't be any older than eighteen. She seems completely unconscious.]
  246. [20:18] * [Gtz]Andel hopes Fourteen will be alright. She seems germane towards putting herself in danger, perhaps excessively so, from what he has witnessed upon her body. I wonder where she got those strange stitches, he thinks to himself, imagining some horrible mad scientist experimenting on a lonely, frightened Fourteen and hating himself for it. He pushes the thoughts out of his mind and awaits Fourteen's call.
  247. [20:21] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 latches a few clamps onto her and snaps a harness onto her, with a little tricky maneuvering. The three thin extra robotic claw hands on metal joints extending from what would seem to be a slightly pulled-off shoulder help in this matter rather well. Once done, she gives the girl a check-over, nods, retracts the metal arms, and calls back up.
  248. [20:21] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> BRING US IN!
  249. [20:23] * [Tet]Flonne manages, in between spits (mouthful of sand'll do that to ya), to communicate her intention of preparing a guest room before leaving.
  250. [20:24] * [Gtz]Andel powers on the hydraulic winch, torquing them up automatically
  251. [20:28] <[huh]Alexi> So, is that them?
  252. [20:28] * [huh]Alexi seems to have come to investigate himself.
  253. [20:28] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 hops up onto the gearhouse deck andbrings the new guest in, and slams the door shut, spinning the wheel lock closed, and unhooking herself from the winch line.
  254. [20:29] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Thanks and gratitude, Andel, you were a big help, there.
  255. [20:29] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Hmm?
  256. [20:29] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Looks like it..
  257. [20:29] * [Gtz]Andel shows sudden surprise in the exact same manner as before, and once again vigorously nods affirmative
  258. [20:29] <[huh]Alexi> But...
  259. [20:29] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 flicks her temple again, and the lenses withdraw silently.
  260. [20:29] * [huh]Alexi looks down at the girl.
  261. [20:30] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks down questioningly at her, and then back up at Alexi's dismayed face.
  262. [20:30] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Oh.
  263. [20:30] * [Gtz]Andel gives Fourteen a thumbs up, and kneels down to get a closer look at the new girl, or person, or whatever info he can collect thus far.
  264. [20:31] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Well... I said could be.
  265. [20:31] <[huh]Alexi> A strong challenger and a maiden in peril? Bonus!
  266. [20:31] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 flashes a grateful smile at Andel. Then facepalms at Alexi's comment.
  267. [20:32] * [huh]Alexi 's dismayed expression transforms into one of delight.
  268. [20:32] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ....Sure. Who knows what the future tomorrow may bring?
  269. [20:33] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is trying not to grind her teeth, and keeps smiling.
  270. [20:33] <[huh]Alexi> Faccie, you get a room set up for her.
  271. [20:33] * [Tet]Flonne pops her head back into the room.
  272. [20:33] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey, is it alive? I've got a room ready!
  273. [20:34] <[huh]Alexi> Oh? Good thinking, Flonne.
  274. [20:34] <[huh]Alexi> Faccie, go to the setup room and put her there, then.
  275. [20:34] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I need to get her into the air shower, primarily first, unless you want us to trail of sand twisting winding throughout this place.
  276. [20:34] * [Gtz]Andel lightly pokes the young maiden's cheek. She's alive, isn't she?
  277. [20:34] <[Tet]Flonne> Really? Ehehe, just doing my job~
  278. [20:35] * [Gtz]Andel uses the hem of his skirt to clean the sand and dirt from her face. There. Now she looks almost peaceful. Almost.
  279. [20:37] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks down, and considers the question being asked from two people, in a way, and checks her pulse and breathing.
  280. [20:37] * [Gtz]Andel stands aside, allowing Fourteen to do the serious business.
  281. [20:41] <[huh]Alexi> [The pulse is a bit slow, but within safe boundaries. Breathing is confirmed. She's alive.]
  282. [20:43] * [Gtz]Andel is suddenly overcome with the idea that if he were to kiss her right here and now, she would certainly awaken. The abrupt thought is barely able to contain itself, drawing on all his willpower to prevent himself from doing something very silly and inappropriate. After a moment, he finds this to be the stupidest thing he's thought of all day and wonders if perhaps it's not too late to hang himself. Contemplations of suicide aside, he awaits an answer from Fourteen on her condition.
  283. [20:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Do you need help carrying her?
  284. [20:47] * [Tet]Flonne seems positively subdued by the visitor's condition, restraining herself to only bouncing off of one wall.
  285. [20:50] <[huh]Alexi> Don't worry, Flonne, I'm sure she'll be fine.
  286. [20:50] <[huh]Alexi> Man, she's probably some princess from a foreign country, too, being chased by some secret organization...
  287. [20:51] <[Tet]Flonne> Wooooow, cooooooooool...
  288. [20:53] * [Tet]Flonne starts to wonder if she shouldn't have made up a fancier room, seeing as how she's a princess and everything...
  289. [20:58] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Actually, Flonne, if you could carry convey her to the air showers, and get the sand cleaned blown off of her, that would help. You could use a go, too, by the look appearance of you.
  290. [20:59] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I need to finish putting stowing this stuff away before mine, anyway.
  291. [21:00] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, that's a good idea.
  292. [21:01] * [Tet]Flonne lifts the princess up off of the floor, putting one limp arm around her shoulders to half-carry her around.
  293. [21:01] <[Tet]Flonne> Oof... she must eat pretty well back in her own country...
  294. [21:02] * [Tet]Flonne makes her way towards the air showers as quickly as she can, wandering thoughts centered around what kind of fancy foods a princess might eat.
  295. [21:03] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Ask the master to help. Let him do something useful beneficial with that muscle.
  296. [21:03] * [Gtz]Andel looks between the three, wondering if she should make an offer or keep his mouth shut
  297. [21:04] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 very clearly does not add "for once" at the end of her suggestion to Flonne.
  298. [21:04] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 After a few more minutes, me puts the last of the straps and harnesses away.
  299. [21:05] * [huh]Alexi looks at Flonne.
  300. [21:06] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I could do with a round for me myself.... Andel, would you like to join me in the shower? you look very plenty covered in that stuff, too.
  301. [21:06] * [Gtz]Andel is suddenly alarmed, putting her hands up and shaking her head
  302. [21:07] * [Tet]Flonne looks back at Alexi, uncertain.
  303. [21:08] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, um, if he wants to, I guess...
  304. [21:09] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> No? Oh well... you may precede go before me, then. It's the least I can do for your help, today.
  305. [21:09] * [huh]Alexi looks to Flonne, then the young girl, then Factorial, then Flonne again.
  306. [21:10] <[huh]Alexi> Why not? I guess as the host, it's my job to see that she's treated right.
  307. [21:10] * [Gtz]Andel shakes his head again, and beckons her to go on.
  308. [21:11] * [Gtz]Andel puts up two fingers, trying to convey he'll be second.
  309. [21:11] <[Tet]Flonne> Okay! Um...
  310. [21:11] * [huh]Alexi takes the girl.
  311. [21:11] <[huh]Alexi> Which room was it?
  312. [21:11] * [Tet]Flonne readjusts her grip.
  313. [21:11] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, thank you, sir.
  314. [21:11] <[Tet]Flonne> Showers are this way, sir. All clean!
  315. [21:12] <[huh]Alexi> Right. The showers.... I'll make it in under eight seconds.
  316. [21:12] * [huh]Alexi tenses, then dashes off towards the showers.
  317. [21:12] <[Tet]Flonne> You'll... huh? Hey...!
  318. [21:13] <[Tet]Flonne> Ooh, you're supposed to say "on your mark, get set, go"! Cheater!
  319. [21:13] * [Tet]Flonne blurs and vanishes in pursuit of the master and guest. Just like in the stories!
  320. [21:15] <[huh]Alexi> Eleven seconds! no good, no good!
  321. [21:15] * [huh]Alexi skids to a halt in the shower room.
  322. [21:16] * [Gtz]Andel watches to two run off, his prior worry starting to wear down
  323. [21:18] * [Gtz]Andel decides Fourteen must be busy with something, and begins to leave without her.
  324. [21:25] * [Gtz]Andel returns to his room, cleaning out all the dust and sand he can. There's no way he can get rid of the irritation without a decent shower, but for now he'll have to at least look clean and content. God forbid anyone find out that she is in fact a he.
  325. [21:31] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 returns to her own quarters for a change of clothes.
  326. [21:35] * [Gtz]Andel checks himself in the mirror. Doesn't look too dusty, at least. Only real problem is the hair that nearly reaches the hips, so much of it + so much sand = lots of sand in his lots of hair. He resolves to bathe himself thoroughly when he is sure he won't have to worry about doing it a little too publicly.
  327. [21:22] <[huh]Alexi> Well, I'll deal with myself later.
  328. [21:22] <[huh]Alexi> For now, it's this girl.
  329. [21:22] <[Tet]Flonne> Okie dokie!
  330. [21:23] * [Tet]Flonne starts peeling away the ragged wrappings that were once probably a beautiful frilly pink dress.
  331. [21:24] * [huh]Alexi sees this, and quickly exits.
  332. [21:25] <[huh]Alexi> Catching me off guard like that... women are truly...
  333. [21:25] * [Tet]Flonne blinks at the master's retreating back. Doesn't he want a shower, too? Oh well!
  334.  
  335. ---
  336. @@Scene Split: Flonne & Girl
  337. ---
  338.  
  339. [21:39] <[huh]Alexi> Flonne: [The exposed girl seems rather young. Much of her skin is fair almost to the point of being pure white, but bits are sunburned or tanned as a testament to the heat of the surrounding landscape. With a person like this, the sun really must have been unbearable. The clothing has kept most of her skin from being marred too much from the sandstorm as well, but some parts are pitted and rough. As for her proportions, she seems to be smallish, and rather thin, but you can see that she once was well-measured. If you care at all, she's also a B cup. Her black hair reaches down to her shoulders, and you really hope you can get all the dirt out of there. Her eyes are a blue-grey.]
  340. [21:42] <[Tet]Flonne> Aw, poor thing. Don't worry, no international conspiracy's gonna get to you here!
  341. [21:43] * [Tet]Flonne sets the princess' clothing aside and starts to remove her own.
  342. [21:45] <[Tet]Flonne> Oops! Um... lessee...
  343. [21:46] * [Tet]Flonne stops for a second and pulls her arms inside her blouse, rummaging around unseen for a couple of seconds. When the reemerge, each hand is holding half a dozen small throwing knives.
  344. [21:49] * [Tet]Flonne takes the blouse off and wraps the weapons up inside of it, setting the garment down next to the ritzy rags. A similar process brings some more knives and few pointed metal stars out from under her skirt.
  345. [21:49] <[Tet]Flonne> Theeeeere we go!
  346. [21:51] * [Tet]Flonne absent-mindedly wipes her hands on her bare hips (what passes for them, anyway), actually getting them even dirtier, before picking the princess up again and carrying her into a shower stall.
  347. [21:55] <[Tet]Flonne> Okay, low setting for now...
  348. [21:55] * [Tet]Flonne turns a dial and pushes a button to start the fans.
  349. [22:11] * [huh]Girl begins to stir as the air blows across her face.
  350. [22:11] <[huh]Girl> Ahh... hnnn...
  351. [22:13] <[huh]Girl> Whaa...
  352. [22:13] * [huh]Girl opens her eyes blearily.
  353. [22:16] * [huh]Girl stiffens as she takes in her surroundings.
  354. [22:18] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, hey, you're awake!
  355. [22:18] <[Tet]Flonne> I guess that means I won't have to scrub you after all.
  356. [22:19] <[huh]Girl> Who...
  357. [22:20] <[huh]Girl> are you?
  358. [22:20] <[Tet]Flonne> My name's Flonne! What's yours?
  359. [22:20] <[Tet]Flonne> Are you really a princess?
  360. [22:26] <[huh]Girl> I'm... wha-
  361. [22:26] * [huh]Girl gets a good look at her situation
  362. [22:27] * [huh]Girl jumps back, but then crumples as her leg gives out from under her.
  363. [22:27] <[huh]Girl> Whaowowow...
  364. [22:27] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey, careful!
  365. [22:28] * [Tet]Flonne bends down and helps the girl back up.
  366. [22:28] <[Tet]Flonne> You must've sprained something out there.
  367. [22:28] <[huh]Girl> Oh, right, I was on that thing, and... what happened? Where is this?
  368. [22:29] <[Tet]Flonne> This is the castle!
  369. [22:30] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, wait... that probably wasn't very helpful.
  370. [22:30] <[huh]Girl> No, no it wasn't.
  371. [22:30] <[Tet]Flonne> It's, ummm... master Alexi's castle! It can walk! Isn't that cool?
  372. [22:30] <[huh]Girl> It what?
  373. [22:31] <[huh]Girl> Then... was that thing I grabbed onto...
  374. [22:31] <[Tet]Flonne> Yep! Leg #3!
  375. [22:32] <[Tet]Flonne> I opened the door so that Fourteen could pull you inside. That's why I'm in here with you, we both got pretty caked with sand, hehehe.
  376. [22:32] <[huh]Girl> That... such a thing... is even possible?
  377. [22:32] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, Fourteen's one of the maids here, and so am I, and so's Andel.
  378. [22:32] <[Tet]Flonne> What a thing?
  379. [22:33] <[huh]Girl> A walking castle! It shouldn't exist!
  380. [22:33] <[Tet]Flonne> Really? Why not?
  381. [22:33] * [Tet]Flonne tilts her head quizzically.
  382. [22:33] <[huh]Girl> No, more than that...
  383. [22:35] <[huh]Girl> Thank you for saving me.
  384. [22:35] * [huh]Girl bows.
  385. [22:35] <[huh]Girl> That is... you did save me, right? You're not...
  386. [22:35] * [Tet]Flonne chucks the girl's shoulder like they were old friends.
  387. [22:36] <[Tet]Flonne> Aw, stop it, it wasn't anything anybody wouldn't do for anybody, y'know? Not like we could leave you out there!
  388. [22:41] <[Tet]Flonne> But anyway, so yeah, we're both pretty grody. Alexi's probably gonna want to talk to you later, or feed you coffee or something, so we'd better get you cleaned up! Probably should do something about those clothes, too, they've sure seen better days...
  389. [22:42] <[huh]Girl> Alexi? That's... the owner of this place, then?
  390. [22:42] <[Tet]Flonne> That's him! He's strong!
  391. [22:43] * [huh]Girl thinks...
  392. [22:43] <Cirno> [no eyem the strongest]
  393. [22:45] <[huh]Girl> Wait...
  394. [22:45] <[huh]Girl> I'm naked.
  395. [22:45] * [huh]Girl goes scarlet.
  396. [22:45] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, yeah, this is a shower, silly. You don't shower with clothes on.
  397. [22:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Waaaaait...
  398. [22:46] * [Tet]Flonne gets a devious glimmer.
  399. [22:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Are you shyyyyyyyy?
  400. [22:46] * [huh]Girl doesn't like that very much.
  401. [22:46] <[huh]Girl> I-I'm...
  402. [22:46] * [huh]Girl is backing away.
  403. [22:46] * [Tet]Flonne is slowly advancing.
  404. [22:47] <[Tet]Flonne> You got blown around pretty bad out there... I think you might need a hand getting some of that dirt off... and out...
  405. [22:47] * [Tet]Flonne grins predatorially. Just like in the fairy tales!
  406. [22:48] <[huh]Girl> What are you...
  407. [22:57] * [Tet]Flonne is *poof!* gone, except without anything going *poof!*, leaving a soap-on-a-rope dangling in mid-air where she was previously standing.
  408. [22:58] * [huh]Girl dives out of the way as Flonne reappears.
  409. [22:58] <[Tet]Flonne> Whoa-hoh! You're quick!
  410. [22:58] <[huh]Girl> What are you?!
  411. [22:58] <[Tet]Flonne> Even Alexi still falls for that one sometimes.
  412. [22:59] * [Tet]Flonne puts on her most innocent face.
  413. [22:59] <[Tet]Flonne> Why, I'm just trying to help you get squeaky clean, is all...
  414. [22:59] <[huh]Girl> You're definitely doing more than that!
  415. [23:00] <[huh]Girl> Where... where are my clothes?
  416. [23:01] <[Tet]Flonne> They're outside, waiting for you to be done in here, so let's not keep them waiting, hmm?
  417. [23:01] * [Tet]Flonne starts advancing again.
  418. [23:01] * [huh]Girl backs away... only to find she's against a wall.
  419. [23:02] <[huh]Girl> Wha- dammit!
  420. [23:02] <[Tet]Flonne> Heheheh... eheheheh...
  421. [23:03] * [Tet]Flonne creeps towards the girl slooooooowly, hands raised and fingers wiggling with menacing suggestiveness.
  422. [23:09] <[huh]Girl> It's not going to work!
  423. [23:10] * [Tet]Flonne crouches down to leap forward and pin the girl good and proper against the wall, but slips on take-off and rams herself headfirst into it instead.
  424. [23:10] <[huh]Girl> I'm not so- ah, are you alright?
  425. [23:11] * [huh]Girl immediately goes to help the meido.
  426. [23:12] * [Tet]Flonne doesn't resist as the girl rolls her over. Her eyes have transformed themselves into cartoonish spirals, and an empty, dreamy smile is spread across her face.
  427. [23:16] <[huh]Girl> Oh, poor thing...
  428. [23:17] <[huh]Girl> Now... how do I get out of here...
  429.  
  430. ---
  431. @@Scene Split half number Two: Factorial & Andel
  432. ---
  433.  
  434. [22:01] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 , meanwhile, is getting naked.
  435. [22:03] * [Gtz]Andel , meanwhile, is trying to prove to himself and a broom that he is John Travolta incarnate
  436. [22:29] * [Gtz]Andel eventually decides his dancing is on par with Ray Charles, and gives up dejectedly. The broom does not attempt to comfort him, and he goes off to see if perhaps Fourteen can brighten his melancholy mood.
  437. [22:36] * [Gtz]Andel absentmindedly walks to Fourteen's room, thinking about what may happen with the new girl in town. The absentmindedness greatly impedes his ability to knock, and he nonchalantly opens her door to discover...
  438. [22:42] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> 0x01ACTION sits on her chair, completely unclothed, in an odd position, one elbow out of sight from how she's twisted about in the chair, apparently referring back to some small mirror set up there. There's the sound of a few aerosol puffs, the an mechanical clicking, and she brings her arm back around, twisting it a little, moving it, flexing her fingers into a fist and then back open again
  439. [22:42] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 ...times, and nods in satisfaction before leaning over a small open toolkit, and selecting one. So absorbed in her work is she that the opening door doesn't register overmuch in her mind, and she absentmindedly waves in her guest.
  440. [22:42] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> C'mon in...
  441. [22:43] <Cirno> [no eyem the strongest]
  442. [22:45] * [Gtz]Andel freezes in his tracks.
  443. [22:50] * [Gtz]Andel 's first reaction is to slam the door shut, but he can't avert his eyes... He stands at the side of the door, ready to split if she turns this way.
  444. [22:52] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 pops open a small panel on her wrist, and begins brushing at it with a soft bristled brush for a bit, before blowing a gentle puff of air into it, lips forming an O as she does.
  445. [22:52] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...If that's you, Flonne, please don't do....
  446. [22:53] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 trails off, and looks at it, before popping it closed.
  447. [22:53] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ....anything.
  448. [23:00] * [Gtz]Andel hates himself for reducing himself to a peeping tom, but he can't manage took look away. But then he realizes something: She doesn't know he's a boy. Could he really just walk right on in amidst her nudity and she wouldn't hold any prejudices towards him? He hesitates once again, and decides...
  449. [23:03] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Damn!
  450. [23:03] * [Gtz]Andel swallows hard, takes a deep breath, and soldiers in on the room of nude. This is so wrong, he thinks to himself. What is she doing anyway?
  451. [23:03] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 curses, suddenly.
  452. [23:03] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 gestures vaguely at a work table over in the direction of her guest.
  453. [23:04] * [Gtz]Andel freezes.
  454. [23:04] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> hand me the three-quarters Webley.
  455. [23:04] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> it' the one with three little claws on it.
  456. [23:05] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 makes a distracted-sounding request of her guest.
  457. [23:05] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> this bit was always such a pain to get to.
  458. [23:07] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 apparently is glaring at the base of her thumb, and still not entirely fully aware of the fact that she's got someone looking at her in all her glory.
  459. [23:08] * [Gtz]Andel decides there is no turning back now. He squints his eyes to avoid over-exposure to that endless skin, trying to find a claw-like tool on the table she pointed to. Once he does locate it, he finds himself very unsure of what to do with it, and doesn't have the heart left in him to turn and face Fourteen. Deep breaths, he thinks. Deep breaths.
  460. [23:09] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...come on, don't dawdle. Please? it's the one with the yellow grip tape on it.
  461. [23:12] * [Gtz]Andel nervously nods, despite the lack of attention to bodily gestures. He walks up behind Fourteen, cheeks burning bright red, the tool held out far in front of him, his free hand covering his eyes somewhat. He puts its out in her field of vision, and peeks through his fingers on a close-up of Fourteen's bare figure. Something's coming up...
  462. [23:14] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 tries not to get cross at her guest. Damn. What the hell was she thinking, storing a compact toolkit in the one place she couldn't access without one on hand? ...Heh, 'on hand'. Fourteen chuckles a little at that, and lets herself ease up a bit. She looks up, finally noticing the proffered tool, and takes it.
  463. [23:15] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Ah, sorry. Thanks, Flo- oh!
  464. [23:15] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 seems a little startled, but not alarmed. Maybe a little sheepish, as she giggles nervously.
  465. [23:16] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Oh...Andel? Sorry, hon.
  466. [23:16] * [Gtz]Andel 's movement temperature drops to absolute zero, while his body temperature rises to a red blaze
  467. [23:16] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I, uh.... it's kinda easier to work on me like this. You come by for something...?
  468. [23:17] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Are you all right?
  469. [23:17] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks at the girl, who seems to be looking unwell.
  470. [23:18] * [Gtz]Andel shakes his head and open palms out vigorously, quickly backing away and making a beeline towards the exit, shutting the door behind him.
  471. [23:19] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 pauses in the act of getting up to feel for her temperature, and blinks at Andel's sudden departure.
  472. [23:19] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Poor girl must really not be doing well...
  473. [23:20] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 shakes her head ruefully, and goes back to work, making a note to check up on her later.
  474.  
  475. ---
  476. @@Scene Regroup: Flonne, Girl, Andel, Alexi
  477. ---
  478.  
  479. [23:22] * [Gtz]Andel slumps against the shut door, letting out a sigh of relief and mild melancholy. That was stupid, he thinks, to step in on Fourteen's privacy like that! She doesn't know about you, and if she or anyone else did, they'd... they'd... they'd hate you for it, that's what they would do.
  480. [23:21] * [huh]Girl wanders past Andel, dressed in what seems to be Flonne's maid outfit.
  481. [23:23] * [Gtz]Andel only saw the dress, and assumed it was Flonne that just passed him.
  482. [23:25] * [Tet]Flonne comes running up about half a minute later, barely covered by the princess' sandy rags.
  483. [23:25] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey, Andel! Did I just come through here?!
  484. [23:25] * [Gtz]Andel is currently waiting for the full salute to calm itself, drawing up his legs to hide it amongst his dress.
  485. [23:25] * [Gtz]Andel crap, he thinks.
  486. [23:26] * [Gtz]Andel nods, and points to the left, or whichever way he last saw a dress leave
  487. [23:26] <[Tet]Flonne> Thanks!
  488. [23:27] * [Tet]Flonne makes it six long strides away before she pulls an abrupt about-face and goes back to where she started.
  489. [23:27] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey! That princess escaped!
  490. [23:27] <[Tet]Flonne> She knocked me unconscious, stole my clothes, and snuck off!
  491. [23:28] <[Tet]Flonne> And now she's wandering the castle on some unknown purpose!
  492. [23:28] <[Tet]Flonne> Isn't this awesome?! I knew bringing her inside was the right thing to do!
  493. [23:29] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey! Go tell Fourteen and Alexi, maybe they'll want in on this, too!
  494. [23:29] <[Tet]Flonne> I'm gonna go track her down, so, uh, yeah!
  495. [23:30] * [Gtz]Andel is unsure of what to tell her, and slowly gives Flonne the thumbs-up.
  496. [23:31] * [Tet]Flonne returns the gesture in kind. Alrighty!
  497. [23:31] * [Gtz]Andel two naked girls in less than forty seconds. And neither of them care. Not doing too bad, he muses.
  498. [23:37] * [Gtz]Andel gets up. He resolves to apologize to his rudeness to Fourteen later, even if she won't fully understand the extent of which he must apologize. He decides that he should do something about this new girl, and wanders off to find Master Alexi. He should be in his room, right?
  499. [23:38] * [Tet]Flonne didn't mention it before, but dashed off after giving Andel the thumbs-up. It was kinda implied, though, wasn't it?
  500. [23:44] * [huh]Girl wonds through the confused and convoluted passageways of the great fortress, which would have made even Daedalus' mind turn.
  501. [23:45] * [Gtz]Andel stops for a moment, concerning about Fourteen's safety with the new hazard in the house. He shrugs it off, believing Fourteen to be strong enough to take care of herself. He arrives at what he believes to be Alexi's room, and knocks on the door.
  502. [23:45] <[huh]Alexi> Yes?
  503. [23:46] * [huh]Girl eventually comes to a dead-end, though, as the room afterwards isn't there.
  504. [23:47] * [Gtz]Andel opens the door, since vocal communication is impossible for him. How exactly am I gonna tell him about Flonne chasing around the new girl, he thinks to himself...
  505. [23:52] <[huh]Alexi> Ah, Andel?
  506. [23:53] * [Gtz]Andel waves nonchalantly, beginning the laborious process of pantomiming a conversation.
  507. [23:54] <[huh]Alexi> What's up?
  508. [23:54] * [huh]Alexi seems to be relaxing on his bed.
  509. [23:55] * [Gtz]Andel stands still for a moment, biting the knuckles of his fingers, trying to think of how to best express the problem.
  510. [23:58] * [Gtz]Andel decides he'd have to show him, but signifies the basic concept: he points a thumb over his shoulder behind him and spins a finger around his ear, all the while maintaining a goofy little child-like face. Crazy girl's in trouble again. Come look.
  511. [23:59] * [huh]Alexi understands completely.
  512. [23:59] <[huh]Alexi> Alright, I'm on my way!
  513. [23:59] * [huh]Alexi dashes out of the room!
  514. [00:00] * [Gtz]Andel is spun around a few times as he dashes straight by Andel.
  515. [00:00] * [huh]Alexi skids to a halt.
  516. [00:00] <[huh]Alexi> Where is she?
  517. [00:00] * [Gtz]Andel stops spinning.
  518. [00:01] * [Gtz]Andel shrugs.
  519. [00:03] <[huh]Alexi> That... may be a problem.
  520. [00:03] <[huh]Alexi> Oh well, we'll eventually find her!
  521. [00:03] * [huh]Alexi dashes off, in a random direction!
  522.  
  523.  
  524.  
  525.  
  526.  
  527. @@===
  528. @@The Kilo Crab, Session Three
  529. @@===
  530.  
  531.  
  532. [00:09] <[huh]Alexi> LAST TIME
  533. [00:09] * [Gtz]Andel plays a recording to a musical
  534. [00:12] <[huh]Alexi> Flonne is chasing the girl, who is now cornered, the passageway being missing about halfway about its length, and a sandstorm still being quite angrily storming.
  535. [00:13] <[huh]Alexi> It is also worth it to mention that Flonne and the girl have switched clothes.
  536. [00:14] <[huh]Alexi> Andel has alerted Alexi, who has also dashed off in hot pursuit of the girl, but in the entirely wrong direction.
  537. [00:16] <[huh]Alexi> Torrie is meanwhile naked in her room, doing SCIENCE
  538.  
  539.  
  540. ---
  541. @@Scene Split: Bathtub Misadventures with Andel and Fourteen
  542. ---
  543.  
  544. [00:20] * [Gtz]Andel was scratching his/her noggin as master Alexi dashes away once again. He figures now's the best time to find a bath and work out some of the... pressure building up, and begins his search.
  545. [00:25] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 finishes up her work, figuring the girl and Flonne are out of the sonic shower by now. Humming in a weird way that is to humming what midis are to actual live music, she wraps a towel about herself and heads over to the sonic chamber. she shook a bunch of it off, but there's still plenty here and there. There's some in the hairline jointed-plates, too, even though they look clean. She'll probably have a regular bath right after this, too, she decides.
  546. [00:27] * [Gtz]Andel after many seconds of thorough searching, he finds a tiny bathroom, probably no larger than 10x8 ft. Therein lies a single white porcelain tub, just like in the movies. The horror movies, that is. Andel takes a little comfort in knowing there's no shower curtain to obscure his vision from any would-be bathroom murderers.
  547.  
  548. [00:33] * [Gtz]Andel runs the water and strips himself of his sand-ridden garments. He poses in the mirror for a moment, clad in naught but his bloomers. He deduces that feminine underwear fashion may not be an applicable future career, but they sure do feel nice. After feeling a little silly, he removes those too, undoes his big ponytail and slips into the bath waters. aaaaaah. except it's more like "...".
  549. [00:36] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 enters the sonic chamber, and flicks on the switch. While most people don't have the capability to hear into subsonic ranges, they can still feel it, slightly, when its used in this way. But despite that, nobody but her realizes the "noisy blow-dryer" --as Alexi once tried summing it up-- is keyed to play the opening notes of the theme song to "Sanford & Son," which she felt extremely appropriate for this vehicle.
  550. [00:42] * [Gtz]Andel decides that he should get business done before play, and methodically washes his body and hair. Mostly his hair.
  551. [00:44] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 Once the brief sonic bombardment is over, she exits to the adjoining bathroom, placing the bundle of clothes she'd made sure she brought along up on a shelf in the small changing room, and slips off her towel and hairband, placing the latter atop her clothes, and slinging the former over her shoulder, then opens the door leading into the bathroom proper.
  552. [00:46] * [Gtz]Andel lets the shampoo soak in his hair, and allows his thoughts to drift back to Fourteen... Whew, did it suddenly get hot in here? It certainly got hot down there...
  553. [00:46] * [Gtz]Andel freezes.
  554. [00:48] * [Gtz]Andel did the bathroom door just open? It just opened, didn't it? You should have locked it, dumbass. Now quick, turn around as non-conspicuously as possible and see who it is.
  555. [00:51] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 saunters into the bathroom, slinging the towel over the hook. Awful steamy in here. ...Wait.
  556. [00:52] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Oh. Someone else is already bathing washing in here?
  557. [00:53] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 steps forward up close to the tub. Wearing not a stitch, it should be noted. that's already sort of obvious, but it bears repeating in such situations.
  558. [00:55] * [Gtz]Andel sees Fourteen. Turns back around. Face appears as a picture in Alexi's Dictionary for "totally caught with your trousers in the wind".
  559. [00:56] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Ohhh, it's you. Hi, hon~.
  560. [00:58] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's face breaks into a genuine smile as she sees who it is.
  561. [01:00] * [Gtz]Andel doesn't know what to say, if he could say anything, but one thing would be "thank God for bubble-bath". He simply stares up at Fourteen, beginning to understand that she doesn't understand the concept of shameful nudity. While at first is was quite the sight to see, the ironic twist the Fates have played upon him is a cruel one indeed, for only he has something to truly feel shame of, and that thing is currently raging at a shame*less* full salute. He gives a shaky wave, face now bearing the scarlets of his locks.
  562. [01:06] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 How odd. It's just another co-worker. Right? Then her ears shouldn't be burning like that. Curious. Most likely it's the steam. Nothing to worry about.
  563. [01:07] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 motions with a little scooting-forward gesture.
  564. [01:07] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Would you mind me joining accompanying you?
  565. [01:07] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Water is not an infinite unending resource onboard, even if we have an adequate supply.
  566. [01:07] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Plus...
  567. [01:07] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 winks and waves a finger.
  568. [01:07] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I'll wash your back for you~
  569. [01:10] * [Gtz]Andel almost cries. Sure, she's nice and all, but dammit you're gonna give yourself away! What the hell's Alexi gonna do when he finds out he's been shammed? Worse yet, what is Fourteen gonna do when she finds out? She's going to kill you. Kill you dead. Dead dead dead dead. Maybe if you jump out and grab the dress quickly enough, you ca- oh, she'll wash your back? Well damn, that settles everything. Scoot over, you little bitch.
  570. [01:12] * [Gtz]Andel nods weakly and scoots to the far far farthest fucking possible end of the tub, which would only give him like nine inches between the two anyway, but he does it facing away from her and with his legs drawn together to protect his secret. Maybe if you just play it cool, you can get away with it... you just gotta get out after she does.
  571. [01:24] * [Gtz]Andel forces his eyes shut and awaits Fourteen in silence.
  572. [01:28] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 climbs into the tub behind Andel, humming in that odd way again. Getting comfortable, she leans back and stretches out with a happy little sound. ..."Getting comfortable," however, means that her legs stretch out forward, wrapping around Andel's own, with a giggle from Fourteen as she does this.
  573. [01:29] * [Gtz]Andel goes FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK in total silence.
  574. [01:32] * [Gtz]Andel dammit, those feet are getting awfully close to the objective! If this goes on...
  575. [01:33] * [Gtz]Andel carefully considers his options, and decides the most dangerous is perhaps the only viable one: he scoots back, closer to Fourteen, but further from a footjob.
  576. [01:34] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 grabs a washcloth and some soap, and begins her work, slowly wiping down the other maid's back, water and bubbles trickling down the smooth skin and along her arms as she sets about, gently, luxuriously. She's not in the slightest bit bothered, and in fact, seems to be enjoying herself, despite saying not much more than Andel is saying. ...So it's just a coincidence that there are butterflies in her stomach. Personal space has never really bothered her before, so certainly it can't be that. And her breasts...well, that should only happen when it's cold, right? This is strange indeed.
  577. [01:37] * [Gtz]Andel 's head touches something. Something soft, yet hard. He does not like this. His secret likes it a lot.
  578. [01:40] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 mentally shrugs, and takes the child's scooting back toward her as a sign of relaxation. She looked awful tense, come to think of it and it's not good to be uptight. Hmm... Well, why not.
  579. [01:41] * [Gtz]Andel may never bathe again if he survives this ordeal.
  580. [01:42] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 wrings the washcloth out and sets it aside on the rim. Leaning forward, almost next to Andel's ear, she speaks quietly --almost in a whisper, so as not to startle the poor girl.
  581. [01:42] * [Gtz]Andel /absolute zero./
  582. [01:42] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> "Would you like a massage, too?"
  583. [01:44] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is pressed up against Andel's back in this position. Preeeeessed up close.
  584. [01:44] * [Gtz]Andel as the molecules in his eardrums have ceased to move, he's not quite sure if he heard that right. He thinks maybe- oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god
  585. [01:49] * [Gtz]Andel just nod faggot just nod say yes confirm deny do something get those breasts off your head quick do it now before it becomes a titty hat and all the kids at the arcade point and laugh and call you booby head and what the fuck are you on about stop stalling and just do something!
  586. [01:50] * [Gtz]Andel squeams.
  587. [02:05] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 takes the wriggle for an embarrassed affirmative. ...Okay, seriously. Stomach butterflies, you are proving seriously distr---oooh. Exceptionally distracting. But that warm flush... that was nice.
  588. [02:05] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 pauses for a moment. Were she less educated, she would say that this could be qualified as arousal. That in itself is odd; she's never given much thought to the wet and sticky side of things.
  589. [02:06] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 But ...for a girl? Well... today has been an odd day. That's no excuse, though! How about that age?
  590. [02:07] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 ...Maybe something is messing with her neurochemistry. Lord knows she's done enough of it to herself. Maybe the wrong reuptake inhibitor in the wrong place? One slip; oh look, now you're into girls. .......... This bears looking into. Later. Privately.
  591. [02:07] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 shivers, and clears such thoughts from her mind, with limited success. Dammit.
  592. [02:07] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 Not letting that stop her, she begins the massage after concluding the seconds-long internal contemplation. Delicate but strong fingers knead, rub, and press at and into Andel's back, working their way along with slow but steady grace, easing the tension out of the muscles one movement at a time.
  593. [02:16] * [Gtz]Andel melts into boiling butter under Fourteen's assault. After a few moments, he learns to stop thinking about Fourteen and just accept the touch. He thinks of his mother, how she used to bathe him just as so, even though he was well grown enough to bathe himself, and how he feigned disdain towards her henpecking, but secretly enjoyed it all the same. Fourteen would make a good mother... maybe I'll tell her that some day...
  594. [02:17] * [Gtz]Andel relaxes exactly one notch. He focuses on his life before everything changed, trying to put the situation at hand(s) out of his head.
  595. [02:46] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's hands continue their stress relief, making their way up over Andel's shoulders, up over the neck, along the jawline and chin. The movements here are light and gentle rubs and presses. It's actually borrowed from part of a thorough dental exam that checks for strange lumps and incorrectly moving bones and joints, but feels like a bizarrely pleasant massage. And the poor child in front of her looks to have built up an awful lot of stress.
  596. [02:47] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 And, to be honest, Fourteen is enjoying doing this to her. Quite a lot, in fact. ...Very... quite a lot. Ah, there go the cheeks now, burning hot. ...Privately, dammit. Later. A time for cleaning and a time for ...self-investigation. Later.
  597. [02:47] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 takes a deep breath. It sounds a liiiittle ragged. Not enough to give it away. No, her increased heartbeat is doing that. Come on. Focus.
  598. [02:48] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 finishes with one last twirling little press behind the jaw. Her hands slide down the other maid's back, down to the tailbone, and the motions become harder and firmer again, more kneading and rubbing. Those strong, sure fingers work down, down, almost to the point where she's cupping the girl's bottom in her hands. ...A very... pleasant feeling, this.
  599. [02:56] * [Gtz]Andel 's illusion of fine, motherly love is cracked in half when the fingers trailing his spine and completely shattered upon the seizing of his little butt. Okay, what the fuck. This isn't friendly I'm-not-afraid-of-skinship-even-if-you-are-my-dear-coworker anymore.
  600. [02:59] * [Gtz]Andel meebs, hiking his tail in surprise and turns to face his fondler with wide eyes and tense muscles. If his heart were beating any faster, it'd shoot through his chest for sure.
  601. [03:04] * [Gtz]Andel oh God. Her breasts. If he doesn't do something, something else is gonna shoot all over them.
  602. [03:23] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 blinks in surprise as Andel starts and turns about. Oops. Probably shouldn't have squeezed her rear for a fourth time.
  603. [03:23] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 Still, it felt awful nice.
  604. [03:23] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 Time to pay the piper.
  605. [03:24] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I can assure you that this is a routine typical ordinary part of the ma--
  606. [03:25] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 breaks off into silence as the realization of a certain pressure against her stomach sinks into her awareness.
  607. [03:25] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> --Hmm.
  608. [03:25] * [Gtz]Andel looks down.
  609. [03:25] * [Gtz]Andel looks up.
  610. [03:25] * [Gtz]Andel realizes.
  611. [03:26] * [Gtz]Andel faints.
  612. [03:26] * [Gtz]Andel forward.
  613. [03:29] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks down and blinks as Andel falls face first into her cleavage. Awww... isn't that cute? No, hold on. Other questions first, adoring gazes later. This is no time for unconsciousness.
  614. [03:39] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 lifts Andel back out, and up into a sitting position. She then wraps an arm around the other maid's back, and taps a finger at the top of the neck, then counts silently down, moving the finger down a little bit with each number, and pauses on 'four.' There.
  615. [03:39] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 digs in her middle finger near the vertebra there, having the same effect on his sleeping state as if someone had tooted an airhorn by his side.
  616. [03:43] * [Gtz]Andel 's body naturally contorts, passively invoking a bone-bending maid martial art. He still feels something buzz in his head, though his mind is too far gone to determine which one.
  617. [03:46] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 brightens up at seeing his return to consciousness, a smile coming to her lips.
  618. [03:48] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 It perhaps looks more hungry than how one should look at a young boy, for a second. Then her grin returns to normal, probably without her being aware of the change.
  619. [03:48] * [Gtz]Andel flutters.
  620. [03:49] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Are you aroused awake again?
  621. [03:49] * [Gtz]Andel fleebs.
  622. [03:50] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's other hand slips down in between the two of them, disappearing into the bubbles and water. She takes ahold of that certain something that was pressing against her so.
  623. [03:51] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Ah.
  624. [03:51] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 nods, confirming what she'd thought.
  625. [03:52] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Hmm.
  626. [03:56] * [Gtz]Andel is now very very aroused awake.
  627. [03:58] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 There is a thoughtful pause. Then:
  628. [03:58] * [Gtz]Andel , with everything he's ever known suddenly thrown out the window(mother never told me about surprise bathroom sexual encounters!), simply looks up at Fourteen and starts shaking. He wishes he could explain it, but lacks not only the ability, but the sheer willpower to do so.
  629. [03:58] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Hmm...?
  630. [04:03] * [Gtz]Andel how did it come to this so suddenly? he asks himself. Everything he's built upon ever since meeting Alexi will now fall to naught, and once again it'll be one versus the world. He shields his face with his hands to prevent from shaming himself any further with his silent tears.
  631. [04:01] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 skips right past the part where Reason and Instinct have a comical battle inside her head. The time for rash, foolish, hasty action is now, dammit! Seize the maid! Grab the boy by the horn! ...Wait that's not how those g-- TOO LATE.
  632. [04:01] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 begins to... stroke.
  633. [04:05] * [Gtz]Andel can't seem to catch a break. Or maybe the break's caught him. Something has definitely caught him, and he quickly ceases the self pity party to attempt to wrap his feeble mind around the events that have transpired before him.
  634. [04:06] * [Gtz]Andel gasps, perhaps the single loudest sound he's ever made, but it is little more than a quick breath to ears of others.
  635. [04:11] * [Gtz]Andel grabs the side of the tub with one hand to prevent himself from failing about and uses the other to literally mimic pulling words out of his mouth, making a cupped throwing motion to gesture a desperate call for an explanation.
  636. [04:17] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is rather intent on her investigation. Scientific exploration is serious business. Me finally notices Andel's motioning, and replies before she even tries to puzzle out his gesture.
  637. [04:17] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> You'd like to say that... I should go faster?
  638. [04:18] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 doesn't seem to appear to be joking. She is, but that's for her to know.
  639. [04:19] * [Gtz]Andel thinks he's going to die
  640. [04:23] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 nods, and increases her speed. Her hands, smooth and agile, race up and down even in the water, stroking and caressing... her free hand wraps about his middle, and pulls him closer to her. ...Is it really right for her to be enjoying this? ........Probably not, but right now, she's at point A, her current state. Point B is the point at which she gives a damn about the consequences. Point B is not visible using most observatory telescopes.
  641. [04:28] * [Gtz]Andel 's lost sight of any and all measurements of distance. The space he finds himself in is so deep, far and reaching that no light in the universe even begins to reach it. Is this a dream? This must be a dream. This is impossible. Fourteen did not suddenly come out of nowhere and feel you out. You must have passed out while you were washing your hair or something. The space? That's probably because you're drowning right now. Or at least, that would all make sense if your penis wasn't about to explode.
  642. [04:32] * [Gtz]Andel 's breathing grows rough, and he begins to swoon under the torrent of pleasure radiating from his loins.
  643. [04:35] * [Gtz]Andel is starting to peak out. In his stupor, he clutches his hands around Fourteen's body and braces himself against her for the big finale.
  644. [04:40] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 has been sneaking glances at Andel throughout this, as well as listening to his breathing and his heartbeat. Assuming his reactions fall within he standard range, he's but a few seconds away from climax. Some bizarre, half-understood instinct takes over, and she that free arm about his head, and pulls him to her bust. Leaning down, she whispers in his ear again:
  645. [04:41] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> It's okay. Do it for me~?
  646. [04:48] * [Gtz]Andel doesn't believe he's ever so greatly misunderstood someone in his entire life. But he doesn't really care anymore. Everything's running together, colliding into a samey-same thing that doesn't really make any sense. Whatever it is, it feels nice, to grossly say the least. Wait, did she say something? She said something, didn't she? How the hell is someone supposed to understand anything amidst chaos such as this? Oh well, couldn't have been anything too weird, maybe now she'll tell me she's actually a pro-wrestler and she's just practicing some exercises before superplexing Alexi into a table carved out of barbed wire.
  647. [04:48] * [Gtz]Andel gulps and weakly nods.
  648. [04:52] * [Gtz]Andel forces his eyes shut. Here it comes...
  649. [04:52] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 smiles down at him, her cheeks burning red, her hand flying up and down.
  650. [05:11] * [Gtz]Andel feels it well up inside him, screaming to escape, and he puts up no resistance. He locks his arms around Fourteen more strongly than before and pulls her as tightly as he can manage, pressing his face upon her collarbone. His senses of shame and guilt have long since pass him by. Once his member is well pressed into her stomach, it happens. With each mindbending pulse, his entire body reverberates in ecstasy, tensing and waning, not bringing but *forcing* Fourteen against him at the crash of every wave, face twisting into a new picture with each ragged gasp. This only goes on for several seconds, but feels like forever to the young boy who has just discovered himself in ways most young boys(and some young girls) only fantasize. After the dust settles, he hangs limply across her shoulder.
  651. [05:28] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 cuddles him close to her, feeling rather pleased... And so very, very aroused. It is that reason alone, then, that drives her next actions.
  652. [05:29] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks down, between the two of them, at the streaks of white on her belly; and a pair the grazed her breasts. She doesn't even see them, she can feel them; they cling like little bits of happy napalm. On her flesh, to her mind, the analogy is accurate enough; the feeling of them just as intensely hot, and burning. Little tremors run through her hand as she lets go of his length, and dabs at the liquid on her breast. In a daze, she scoops them up , gazing at them, fingers twiddling back and forth a little, and then pressing them between her lips before she can think about what she's doing. ...It's strange. But... (really? Is she really going to think that next thought?) she could ... (Be serious. You leave this all behind or you stay with it) ... ...she could live with the taste. (I hope you're happy with yourself) Yes. And would do so again in a heartbeat.
  653. [05:33] * [Gtz]Andel is completely unaware of this, and perhaps most anything right now. He turns his head enough to allow himself to breathe properly, very slowly regaining himself.
  654. [05:41] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 smiles down at Andel, and ruffles his hair slightly. This is good.
  655. [05:42] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 ...Maybe she'll get some use out of the bed besides storage space, after all.
  656.  
  657. ---
  658. @@Scene Split, part two: Changing Misadventures with Flonne, Alexi and Mysterious Girl
  659. ---
  660.  
  661. [00:24] * [huh]Alexi , meanwhile, has found himself outside of the ship, scaling a wall through the harsh desert winds and biting sand. He's not entirely sure why, but it sure seemed like a good idea at the time.
  662. [00:29] * [Tet]Flonne snickers silently from the dark corner she's using at the moment. End of the line, unless this girl's some sort of sand sprite and is planning on jumping into the storm and flying away on its currents. Man, wouldn't that be awesome?!
  663. [00:30] * [huh]Girl is sadly not showing signs of being that completely awesome.
  664. [00:30] <[Tet]Flonne> Aw, nuts.
  665. [00:30] <[huh]Girl> Ohh... what do I do now...
  666. [00:31] * [Tet]Flonne creep-dashes to a closer position.
  667. [00:31] <[huh]Girl> If that pervert girl is still around...
  668. [00:31] * [Tet]Flonne freezes in mid creep-dash. Yes, that is an actual ninjitsu term. Look it up.
  669. [00:31] <[Tet]Flonne> Pervert!??
  670. [00:32] <[huh]Girl> Yes, pervert. She, she even da-...
  671. [00:32] * [huh]Girl turns.
  672. [00:32] <[huh]Girl> Ah.
  673. [00:33] * [Tet]Flonne puts one hand on one hip, the other one being busy keeping her makeshift garment from falling off completely.
  674. [00:34] <[Tet]Flonne> I even what, now?
  675. [00:35] <[huh]Girl> Well, you were rather... I mean, you...
  676. [00:35] * [Tet]Flonne just stands there and fumes while waiting for her to spit it out already.
  677. [00:36] <[huh]Girl> You were acting terribly indecently.
  678. [00:37] * [Tet]Flonne switches to an indignantly appraising arms-crossed position.
  679. [00:37] <[Tet]Flonne> How so?
  680. [00:38] <[huh]Girl> Well...
  681. [00:38] * [huh]Girl blushes, and turns away slightly.
  682. [00:39] <[huh]Girl> I mean, I've... never been spoken to like that, before...
  683. [00:39] * [huh]Girl plays a bit with the hem of Flonne's maid outfit.
  684. [00:42] <[Tet]Flonne> What, never?
  685. [00:42] * [Tet]Flonne actually sounds somewhat surprised.
  686. [00:43] <[huh]Girl> What?
  687. [00:43] * [huh]Girl sounds indignant now.
  688. [00:44] <[Tet]Flonne> Don't you have any friends where you come from?
  689. [00:56] <[huh]Girl> Friends?
  690. [00:57] * [huh]Girl casts down her eyes.
  691. [00:57] <[huh]Girl> Well...
  692. [00:57] * [Tet]Flonne 's right brain goes "oops", while her left brain gets out a pad and pencil to start taking notes.
  693. [00:58] <[huh]Girl> I did have friends...
  694. [00:58] <[Tet]Flonne> "Did"? Y'have a falling out or something?
  695. [00:58] <[huh]Girl> Sonya, and Thea, and...
  696. [00:59] * [huh]Girl shakes her head.
  697. [00:59] <[huh]Girl> I haven't seen them for a while.
  698. [00:59] <[huh]Girl> Just... I haven't been home in a while.
  699. [01:00] * [Tet]Flonne nods sympathetically.
  700. [01:00] <[Tet]Flonne> Ohh, I see... you must be on some sort of super-secret mission, then, right?
  701. [01:00] <[huh]Girl> A what?
  702. [01:00] <[huh]Girl> Ohohoho, something like that, maybe.
  703. [01:00] * [huh]Girl chuckles a bit.
  704. [01:00] * [Tet]Flonne 's eyes flash.
  705. [01:01] <[Tet]Flonne> I knew it!
  706. [01:01] <[Tet]Flonne> You're here to assassinate the master, I'll bet! Well, good luck, kid, he's tougher than he looks.
  707. [01:01] <[huh]Girl> Speaking of which, is this thing going to stop somewhere soon?
  708. [01:02] <[Tet]Flonne> Although, maybe if we take him on both at once... kind of a pincer thing, like I saw in that one TV show...
  709. [01:03] * [Tet]Flonne loses herself in this train of thought for a second before snapping back out of it.
  710. [01:03] <[Tet]Flonne> Sorry, what? You asked me something just now?
  711. [01:03] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, stop? Not a clue, me.
  712. [01:04] <[Tet]Flonne> I don't think I could even steer this thing if it came to it.
  713. [01:04] <[Tet]Flonne> Why, you wanting to go somewhere in particular?
  714. [01:10] <[huh]Girl> Eh? A-assassinate? I'm no assassin! Moreover, isn't he your master? What's with that casual talk of helping me?
  715. [01:11] * [Tet]Flonne scratches her head and makes an astonishing admission:
  716. [01:11] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, I guess that would seem kinda weird.
  717. [01:11] <[huh]Girl> Right?
  718. [01:11] <[Tet]Flonne> But that's just the way he is, y'know?
  719. [01:12] <[Tet]Flonne> I mean, it's not like he doesn't try to kill me right back.
  720. [01:12] <[huh]Girl> You people are crazy.
  721. [01:12] * [huh]Girl says this almost admiringly.
  722. [01:12] <[Tet]Flonne> We haven't either one of us succeeded yet, so it's all in good fun!
  723. [01:12] <[Tet]Flonne> So, anyway, yeah. Where was it you wanted to go, again?
  724. [01:13] <[huh]Girl> Well, it's not really anywhere in particular, but I-
  725. [01:13] <[huh]Alexi> FUCK YEAAAAH!
  726. [01:14] * [huh]Alexi flips out of the sandstorm, skidding to a sandy halt in front of Flonne.
  727. [01:14] <[huh]Alexi> Oh? Hi Flonne.
  728. [01:15] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey, sir.
  729. [01:15] * [huh]Alexi looks at Flonne, then at the girl, then at the girl's clothing.
  730. [01:15] <[huh]Alexi> Isn't that...
  731. [01:15] * [huh]Alexi looks at Flonne's manner of attire.
  732. [01:15] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah... it is.
  733. [01:15] * [Tet]Flonne stares at her feet and kicks at an imaginary stone.
  734. [01:16] <[Tet]Flonne> And this is hers. She got the jump on me, I guess.
  735. [01:16] * [huh]Alexi blushes slightly, and quickly averts his gaze.
  736. [01:16] <[huh]Alexi> Flonne, what are you wearing!
  737. [01:16] <[Tet]Flonne> I dunno. Hey, what is this, anyway?
  738. [01:17] * [Tet]Flonne directs that last part to the former garments' former owner.
  739. [01:54] <[huh]Girl> That... was my dress.
  740. [01:54] <[huh]Girl> It's been through a lot.
  741. [01:55] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, it's not good for much, anymore...
  742. [01:57] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, hey, boss! She's on a mission!
  743. [01:57] <[huh]Alexi> She is?
  744. [01:57] * [huh]Alexi 's eyes flash.
  745. [01:58] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, a really important one! She hasn't been home in years trying to complete it!
  746. [01:59] <[huh]Alexi> A princess, in distress, on an important secret mission? Outcast as a young child, she's set out to regain her birthright?
  747. [02:00] <[huh]Girl> W-wait, what?
  748. [02:00] <[huh]Alexi> You know what this means, right Flonne?
  749. [02:01] <[Tet]Flonne> You bet I do, sir!
  750. [02:01] <[huh]Alexi> What does it mean?!
  751. [02:01] <[Tet]Flonne> Or wait... was I supposed to?
  752. [02:02] <[Tet]Flonne> It means... uh...
  753. [02:02] <[Tet]Flonne> ...I should set an extra place at the dinner table?
  754. [02:04] <[huh]Alexi> EXACTLY
  755. [02:04] <[huh]Girl> Huh?
  756. [02:04] <[Tet]Flonne> Yippee, I was right!
  757. [02:04] <[huh]Alexi> Don't worry, everything's alright now.
  758. [02:04] <[huh]Alexi> We'll protect you from your devious usurping uncle!
  759. [02:05] * [Tet]Flonne jumps in celebration, then scrambles and almost falls over trying not to let her rags slip off.
  760. [02:05] <[huh]Girl> Er... thank you, but...
  761. [02:09] <[Tet]Flonne> Ooh! I forgot to mention, she wanted to know where we're stopping next.
  762. [02:10] <[huh]Alexi> Next? We should be reaching some town or other at sundown.
  763. [02:13] <[Tet]Flonne> Great, that gives us plenty of time. C'mere, you.
  764. [02:14] * [Tet]Flonne walks over and takes the stranger's hand, tugging on it.
  765. [02:14] <[huh]Girl> Wh-where are we going?
  766. [02:14] * [huh]Girl is tugged along.
  767. [02:15] <[huh]Alexi> Right, I'll expect to see her at dinner. Don't let her get away, Flonne!
  768. [02:15] <[Tet]Flonne> I want my uniform back, but this "dress" here's going in the incinerator, so we've got to get you into something else.
  769. [02:15] <[Tet]Flonne> Leave it to me, boss!
  770. [02:15] * [huh]Alexi does a backflip out back into the sandstorm.
  771. [02:16] <[huh]Alexi> FUCKBADIDEAAAAAAA
  772. [02:17] * [Tet]Flonne continues leading the girl along, still unfazed by Alexi's actions.
  773. [02:17] <[huh]Girl> Something else?
  774. [02:17] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, yeah. You don't wanna show up for dinner naked, do ya?
  775. [02:18] * [Tet]Flonne giggles.
  776. [02:18] <[Tet]Flonne> Of course not, you're hardly the type. So we're getting you some of my off-duty clothes.
  777. [02:19] <[Tet]Flonne> You fit into my uniform pretty good, so they should work out for you, too. Hey, what is your name, anyway?
  778. [02:19] <[huh]Girl> Name...?
  779. [02:20] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, c'mon, everybody's got a... oh. OHHHHH.
  780. [02:20] * [Tet]Flonne stops for a second and slaps her forehead.
  781. [02:20] <[Tet]Flonne> Stupid, stupid Flonne! She's on the run, traveling incognito! She can't just tell you her real name like that!
  782. [02:21] * [Tet]Flonne turns to the girl with an apologetic smile.
  783. [02:21] <[huh]Girl> Oh, no, it's not that...
  784. [02:21] <[Tet]Flonne> Sorry, I don't know what I was thinking.
  785. [02:22] <[Tet]Flonne> Tell ya what, while you're trying on some of my outfits, I'll bounce a few noms de plume off your head, howzat sound?
  786. [02:24] <[huh]Girl> Uh...
  787. [02:24] <[huh]Girl> No, thanks, but I think I'm good. I'm not exactly on the run.
  788. [02:25] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh? Ohhh! Then you must be chasing someone! Okay, I get it now.
  789. [02:26] * [huh]Girl sighs.
  790. [02:26] <[huh]Girl> Something like that, yeah.
  791. [02:28] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, still can't hurt to have a false name. I've got dozens I hardly ever use!
  792. [02:30] <[huh]Girl> Like what?
  793. [02:31] <[Tet]Flonne> Like... Peggy Gutendorfer.
  794. [02:31] <[Tet]Flonne> I came up with that one myself!
  795. [02:34] <[huh]Girl> ...interesting.
  796. [02:36] * [Tet]Flonne comes to a stop in front of a door. Looks like most any other they've passed... to the untrained eye.
  797. [02:37] <[Tet]Flonne> Okay, stand back a second.
  798. [02:40] * [Tet]Flonne puts her ear to the door and knocks on it in three specific locations.
  799. [02:40] <[huh]Girl> Er...
  800. [02:40] * [huh]Girl steps back.
  801. [02:40] <[Tet]Flonne> Hmm.
  802. [02:41] * [Tet]Flonne glances back to make sure the girl has taken her advice, and then... pushes the door open.
  803. [02:42] <[Tet]Flonne> Okay, guess it's clear.
  804. [02:42] <[Tet]Flonne> C'mon in!
  805. [02:43] * [huh]Girl follows Flonne in.
  806. [02:45] * [Tet]Flonne jumps onto her twin-sized bed and bounces a couple of times before settling down. She gestures lazily at a set of double doors in one wall.
  807. [02:45] <[Tet]Flonne> They're all in there. See what catches your eye.
  808. [02:48] <[huh]Girl> Alright.
  809. [02:48] * [huh]Girl opens the closet.
  810. [03:08] * [huh]Girl looks at the selection.
  811. [03:08] <[huh]Girl> Is this...
  812. [03:08] <[huh]Girl> What?
  813. [03:09] * [huh]Girl pulls out a... a nurse outfit.
  814. [03:09] <[huh]Girl> This is sorta...
  815. [03:10] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, that. It's a disguise!
  816. [03:11] <[Tet]Flonne> It's cute, though. You like it?
  817. [03:11] <[huh]Girl> Do you have anything more... y'know, I'm not even gonna ask. Where should I change?
  818. [03:12] <[Tet]Flonne> Where?
  819. [03:12] * [Tet]Flonne stares blankly.
  820. [03:12] <[Tet]Flonne> Here, of course.
  821. [03:12] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, that reminds me!
  822. [03:13] * [Tet]Flonne hops up and shrugs and shimmies the rags into a heap around her feet, where she kicks them into a corner.
  823. [03:13] <[Tet]Flonne> There we go. Can I have my uniform back, now?
  824. [03:14] * [Tet]Flonne is, for those of you playing along at home, now quite nude.
  825. [03:14] <[huh]Girl> Ah!
  826. [03:14] * [huh]Girl blushes more than might be strightly necessary.
  827. [03:15] <[huh]Girl> h-here?!
  828. [03:16] * [Tet]Flonne rolls her eyes and clicks her tongue.
  829. [03:16] <[Tet]Flonne> Again with this bashfulness? Come on, didn't you ever go swimming with those friends of yours? Saya and Tango and, uh, you know, whoever?
  830. [03:17] <[Tet]Flonne> Look at it this way: I'm only going to be naked for as long as you're still wearing my clothes, and vice versa. Sort of.
  831. [03:18] <[huh]Girl> ...alright.
  832. [03:19] * [huh]Girl looks resolute, as a captain that surveys the endless tides of the enemy army before battle.
  833. [03:19] * [huh]Girl and strips.
  834. [03:20] * [Tet]Flonne allows herself a small smile. Yeah. She'll be alright.
  835. [03:21] * [huh]Girl hands Flonne the clothes, which she had, despite her embarrassment, taken the time to fold neatly.
  836. [03:22] * [Tet]Flonne received the clothing with a polite bow.
  837. [03:22] <[Tet]Flonne> Thank you kindly.
  838. [03:22] <[huh]Girl> N-no problem.
  839. [03:23] * [huh]Girl now holds up the nurse outfit, staring at it for a second, then changes into it.
  840. [03:23] * [Tet]Flonne carries the bundle over to her bed and starts putting it on again, one piece at a time.
  841. [03:27] <[huh]Girl> This...
  842. [03:28] <[huh]Girl> Does this even count as a skirt?
  843. [03:28] <[Tet]Flonne> Sure it does. What else would you call it?
  844. [03:28] * [huh]Girl tugs at the outfit's miniskirt, as though hoping that it will give in and grow a few more inces.
  845. [03:29] <[huh]Girl> Short, is what I would call it.
  846. [03:29] * [Tet]Flonne taps her other shoe into place. There, that's the bottom half taken care of. Now for the top.
  847. [03:29] <[Tet]Flonne> There, you see? A short skirt. They wear 'em all the time.
  848. [03:31] <[Tet]Flonne> I think it looks cute on you.
  849. [03:31] <[huh]Girl> I... I guess...
  850. [03:32] <[huh]Girl> At least the top seems fine...
  851. [03:32] * [Tet]Flonne finishes buttoning up her blouse and fixes her headdress. Back in action!
  852. [03:32] * [huh]Girl equips the stockings, to help with the sand, but forgoes the little hat.
  853. [03:33] <[Tet]Flonne> There we go!
  854. [03:33] <[Tet]Flonne> All ready for your social debut!
  855. [03:33] <[huh]Girl> Is this really alright?
  856. [03:35] <[Tet]Flonne> Don't worry so much! Alexi's the master of the castle, but he's not a real stickler for decorum. Sometimes he hardly remembers to dress for meals, either! Although that's usually breakfast, when that happens. But still, yeah, it's fine.
  857. [03:36] * [Tet]Flonne bounces over and takes the girl's hand again.
  858. [03:37] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, dinner ain't gonna make itself, and I've still got to keep an eye on you. You're on slippery character to get one over on me like that, before.
  859. [03:38] <[huh]Girl> Ehehh... well, I've been through some things, you know.
  860. [03:39] * [Tet]Flonne laughs heartily and starts off... then halts suddenly.
  861. [03:39] <[Tet]Flonne> OH NO!!
  862. [03:40] <[huh]Girl> What?!
  863. [03:40] * [huh]Girl is alarmed.
  864. [03:40] * [Tet]Flonne turns around with a face almost in tears.
  865. [03:40] <[Tet]Flonne> I... I'm sorry...
  866. [03:41] <[Tet]Flonne> I totally forgot to come up with a name...
  867. [03:43] <[huh]Girl> Oh. That's... that's alright...
  868. [03:44] * [Tet]Flonne brightens up again, like someone threw a switch.
  869. [03:44] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, okay then! C'mon, kitchen's this way!
  870.  
  871.  
  872.  
  873.  
  874. @@===
  875. @@Iron Chefs Felicia and Flonne, Session Four
  876. @@===
  877.  
  878. [19:11] <[Tet]Flonne> [...so, um... I was going to the kitchen, I think...]
  879. [19:12] <Gaatz> [you were]
  880. [19:13] <[huh]Girl> [Flonne was going to the kitchen with her new, still-unnamed buddy]
  881. [19:13] <[huh]Girl> I-It's not like TAKE 2, START or anything, I just need to finish the scene, that's all!
  882. [19:15] <[huh]Girl> S-so, what do you usually eat here?
  883. [19:15] <[Tet]Flonne> Whatever doesn't eat us back.
  884. [19:17] <[huh]Girl> That's comforting to know.
  885. [19:17] <[Tet]Flonne> Nah, seriously. We got a great deal on canned soup a while back, been trying to burn through that ever since.
  886. [19:18] <[Tet]Flonne> But, since this is a special occasion, Alexi'd probably want me to break out the "real" food.
  887. [19:19] <[Tet]Flonne> Y'ever eat sandworm?
  888. [19:19] <[huh]Girl> Sandworm?
  889. [19:20] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, sandworm. Meat's kinda gross to look at before it's been cooked, but if you can get past that, it's not bad.
  890. [19:21] <[Tet]Flonne> Alexi takes his with so much cayenne, even your eyes will water.
  891. [19:22] <[Tet]Flonne> As a bonus, it's easy to get a hold of. Just clamber on down a leg and scrape 'em off the sides!
  892. [19:23] <[Tet]Flonne> Salad, too. Gonna be a feast tonight!
  893. [19:25] * [Tet]Flonne leads the girl gradually to a slightly different section of the castle, where the word "decor" seems to hold even less sway.
  894. [19:30] * [Tet]Flonne kicks open a swinging door and jumps through, pulling her (nominal) captive along for the ride.
  895. [19:30] <[Tet]Flonne> Ta-dah!
  896. [19:30] <[huh]Girl> [The kitchen is sorta small, for such a big castle, but there's room enough for three. An electric fridge/freezer is at one end, with a door to the pantry.]
  897. [19:31] <[huh]Girl> [Thankfully, the entire kitchen has remained intact.]
  898. [19:32] <[Tet]Flonne> Alrighty! Hmm...
  899. [19:33] <[Tet]Flonne> You, I guess... have a seat... somewhere.
  900. [19:33] * [huh]Girl sits on the stone countertop.
  901. [19:34] <[Tet]Flonne> That works.
  902. [19:34] * [Tet]Flonne cracks her knuckles.
  903. [19:35] <[Tet]Flonne> Hope Andel remembered to replace the batteries in the smoke detector...
  904. [19:35] <[Tet]Flonne> First thing's first: sandworm steak!
  905. [19:39] * [huh]Girl opens the pantry, and the to-be-steak leaps out with a roar! Apparently, someone had caught a fresh one.
  906. [19:39] <[huh]Girl> The hell!?
  907. [19:39] <[Tet]Flonne> Gaah!
  908. [19:41] * [Tet]Flonne grabs a rolling pin and smacks the worm across the snout (?).
  909. [19:41] <[Tet]Flonne> No! Bad!
  910. [19:42] <[Tet]Flonne> Down!
  911. [19:42] <[huh]Girl> [The worm shudders, and goes limp. You apparently smashed something important with that rolling pin.]
  912. [19:42] <[Tet]Flonne> Good boy!
  913. [19:43] <[huh]Girl> I thought you said the food wouldn't try to eat us!
  914. [19:43] <[Tet]Flonne> Er... possibly boy. Whatever
  915. [19:43] * [Tet]Flonne blushes and sticks out her tongue.
  916. [19:44] <[Tet]Flonne> Eheh... well, technically, I only said it wouldn't eat us, I didn't say it wouldn't try...
  917. [19:45] <[Tet]Flonne> Sorry~
  918. [19:45] <[huh]Girl> Well then, how do we prepare the little monstrosity?
  919. [19:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, first step is to crack the she... wait. "We"?
  920. [19:46] <[huh]Girl> What, I can't help?
  921. [19:47] <[Tet]Flonne> W-well... no... I mean, sure... I mean...
  922. [19:47] * [Tet]Flonne scratches her head and doesn't seem to know what to say.
  923. [19:48] <[Tet]Flonne> It's just... you're our prisoner. I mean, guest.
  924. [19:48] <[Tet]Flonne> But if you don't mind...
  925. [19:50] * [huh]Girl seems to have adjusted to Flonne, and doesn't even flinch at the mention of "prisoner".
  926. [19:50] <[huh]Girl> Right, then.
  927. [19:51] * [Tet]Flonne grins and rulls up her sleeves.
  928. [19:52] <[Tet]Flonne> Right, then! There oughta be a crowbar just inside the door...
  929. [19:52] <[Tet]Flonne> ...actually, that job's kinda gross. I'll take care of that, you go and set the oven. 600 degrees to preheat.
  930. [19:53] <[huh]Girl> ...600?
  931. [19:54] * [Tet]Flonne inches around the fresh worm carcass and reaches around the door jamb, coming back with a well-used crowbar.
  932. [19:54] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, these things live in desert sand, so they're pretty heat-resistant. Takes a lot to get 'em done properly.
  933. [19:55] <[huh]Girl> Right.
  934. [19:55] * [huh]Girl sets the oven to the desired temperature.
  935. [19:55] <[Tet]Flonne> Plus we gotta make sure we kill all those parasites and organisms and whatnot.
  936. [19:56] <[huh]Girl> ...Right.
  937. [19:57] * [Tet]Flonne sticks one end of the bar into a crack in the chitin and pushes down hard. The natural armor is pried up with a wet cracking sound.
  938. [19:57] * [huh]Girl looks away.
  939. [19:57] <[huh]Girl> Yeah, I'll let you do that.
  940. [19:58] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah...
  941. [19:58] * [Tet]Flonne starts carving/scooping out chunks of pale whitish meat/goop. She doesn't look so thrilled with the job, either, but, yeah.
  942. [20:03] <[Tet]Flonne> Y'know... *glorp* ...I never did catch your name, after all. *blop*
  943. [20:09] <[huh]Girl> Felicia. Felicia Von Dulluheim
  944. [20:10] <[Tet]Flonne> Felicia, huh? *splop* Pretty. Suits ya.
  945. [20:10] <[huh]Girl> Thank you...
  946. [20:15] * [Tet]Flonne smiles.
  947. [20:16] <[Tet]Flonne> You're welcome. *splurp*
  948. [20:16] * [huh]Girl doesn't see the smile, and is determinedly looking away from the sight.
  949. [20:19] <[Tet]Flonne> There, that should be enough for five. The rest can go in the icebox later.
  950. [20:21] * [huh]Girl looks back. Seeing what's left of the worm, however, she quickly turns around again, cupping her mouth.
  951. [20:22] * [Tet]Flonne looks down and, while unaffected, can remember how it looked when she first started on here. She pushes the remains back into the pantry with one foot and closes the door.
  952. [20:22] <[Tet]Flonne> Okay, it's safe now.
  953. [20:22] * [huh]Girl looks back.
  954. [20:23] <[huh]Girl> Haaah....
  955. [20:23] <[huh]Girl> Hey, Flonne?
  956. [20:25] <[huh]Girl> How is it being a maid?
  957. [20:26] <[Tet]Flonne> Hmm...
  958. [20:27] * [Tet]Flonne carries the meat-bearing platter over to the counter and rummages through the cupboards for spice bottles as she thinks.
  959. [20:29] <[Tet]Flonne> Hours are long... work can be pretty hard at times...
  960. [20:30] <[Tet]Flonne> You ever been in the military?
  961. [20:33] <[huh]Girl> Nope.
  962. [20:33] <[huh]Girl> It sounds tough...
  963. [20:34] <[Tet]Flonne> It would be, except...
  964. [20:35] * [Tet]Flonne trails off with a faint smile, sprinkling basil over the "steaks".
  965. [20:37] <[huh]Girl> Except?
  966. [20:38] <[Tet]Flonne> Except you're not in it alone.
  967. [20:39] <[Tet]Flonne> Fourteen, and Andel, and me... we would've been strangers three years ago. Now we're closer than family.
  968. [20:39] * [Tet]Flonne sets down the basil and takes up the oregano.
  969. [20:40] <[Tet]Flonne> There's Alexi to thank for that.
  970. [20:40] <[huh]Girl> It sounds... nice...
  971. [20:41] <[Tet]Flonne> It is, but it's not for everybody, this life.
  972. [20:41] * [Tet]Flonne finishes with the oregano and picks up the cayenne pepper, but doesn't start on it just yet.
  973. [20:41] <[Tet]Flonne> Why do you think we do it?
  974. [20:42] * [huh]Girl shrugs
  975. [20:43] <[Tet]Flonne> Staying on call 25/7, following the master's every whim, keeping everything in working order, the whole castle, just the three of us?
  976. [20:43] <[Tet]Flonne> Go on, guess. It's not complicated.
  977. [20:45] <[huh]Girl> Out of care for the master, is what I'd hope...
  978. [20:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Close. Very close. But it's more than just "care".
  979. [20:46] <[Tet]Flonne> We do it because we love him.
  980. [20:47] * [huh]Girl smiles at this.
  981. [20:47] <[Tet]Flonne> That's key to this job. Servitude doesn't come naturally to most people. You have to have love.
  982. [20:47] * [Tet]Flonne puts a dash of cayenne on each steak but one, then starts unscrewing the cap.
  983. [20:50] <[huh]Girl> Is that so... that's very good...
  984. [20:50] <[Tet]Flonne> Everybody has their own reasons for having come here in the first place, but that's what keeps us together.
  985. [20:52] * [Tet]Flonne dumps the remainder of the shaker over the last steak (which turns bright red as a result), replaces the cap, and tosses it into the bin.
  986. [20:53] <[Tet]Flonne> Oven should be ready, now. Grab me a pair of those gloves on the wall, willya? And take one for yourself before you get the door open.
  987. [20:54] * [huh]Girl grabs two pairs of gloves, and tosses one to Flonne, putting the other on.
  988. [20:55] * [Tet]Flonne slips the gloves into place and picks up the platter.
  989. [20:55] <[Tet]Flonne> Alright, ready when you are.
  990. [20:56] <[huh]Girl> Ready!
  991. [20:57] <[Tet]Flonne> Open 'er up!
  992. [20:59] * [huh]Girl opens it up, immediately darting out of the way as the blast of heat almost knocks her over.
  993. [21:00] * [Tet]Flonne jumps forward, pushing the platter inside mostly by momentum, slamming the door shut again before she lands.
  994. [21:00] <[Tet]Flonne> Phew!
  995. [21:01] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey, not bad for your first time. Had to go around without eyebrows for a while after mine!
  996. [21:03] <[huh]Girl> Th-thanks...
  997. [21:03] <[Tet]Flonne> Don't worry, hard part's over with, now. Guarantee the salad ain't gonna attack.
  998. [21:04] <[huh]Girl> Alright!
  999.  
  1000. ---
  1001. @@Andel and Fourteen's Sexcapades
  1002. ---
  1003.  
  1004. [21:55] <[Gtz]Andel> [so yeah. We last left off in a sticky situation[
  1005. [21:57] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> [do-ho!]
  1006. [21:58] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> [......Spermatozoa.]
  1007. [21:58] <[Gtz]Andel> [from the top?]
  1008. [22:04] * [Gtz]Andel nuzzles Fourteen's neck, sending soft breaths down her skin. Despite how completely random and traumatizing this event has been, it certainly does making him feel fucking great! Shouldn't there be more immediate consequences to this sort of thing? Probably, but even so, any sort of reason has long since gone straight out the window and into the thermosphere. He basks in sensational afterglow, letting Fourteen do whatever the hell she wants with him and his seed.
  1009. [22:13] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 relaxes there a while with Andel as he catches his breath and gets his bearings. ...At least, she tries to relax. She's aroused as hell right now, but managing to keep cool: Whatever happens in the next few minutes, however Andel takes this all... it will be very important, and definitely bears focusing all her attention on the matter. ...It's awful damn difficult, even without the arousal. He seems... snuggly. It's really goddamn adorable. Idly she tastes another dollop of creamy trapsauce. Purely for sampling purposes. ...Oops, swallowed it. No helping it then. That one, too? Oh, the hell with it. Down the hatch, all of it. ...She feels ...strange. Almost ashamed (that's probably not good). Extremely wicked (also probably not good, but somehow incredibly thrilling), and like she's within three seconds of dragging him to her room and forcefully mounting him (...good or not, the idea is appealing.)
  1010. [22:15] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 But on top of all that... worried. A little awkward. What do you say to a boy who looks like a girl who you've just been fondling?
  1011. [22:20] * [Gtz]Andel is unsure of whether he should push his luck or not. Insofar, he has been incredibly unlucky yet lucky at the same time. Here he thought that presenting his penis to anyone would be a bad thing. Yet so far, it has proven to be a very good thing. How long this may last, he knows not. He peers up at Fourteen, perhaps trying to get some directions as to what he should do. It doesn't really occur to him that she may be just as far out as he feels, she was just too damn smooth to be anything but well prepared for such things.
  1012. [22:28] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 comes back down from her ruminating and looks down at Andel, cuddled close. ...Oh. He's ready for more? She reaches back down and squeezes-- ooh, definitely. Well, then.
  1013. [22:32] * [Gtz]Andel eyes go wide, realizing that's she's going to go at him again. This time will be different, however. This time, he is ready for it. As ready as a little trap can be for being molested, at least. His face appears determined, but his little body still has some trouble controlling its nerves.
  1014. [22:33] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Shall we us both proceed to something a little more substantial involved?
  1015. [22:34] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 smiles at Andel as she says this, and scoots back a bit, parting her legs to allow him access. Drawing him close with arms wrapped around his waist, she helps him into position, and gives brief instructions. As the younger maid sinks into Fourteen with that first thrust in, she shudders in anticipation. It's going to be a good night. A very, very good night.
  1016. [22:34] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 [aaaand cut]
  1017. *Fade to black*
  1018. [22:35] * [Gtz]Andel dies
  1019. [22:37] * [Gtz]Andel but before that
  1020. [22:37] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 but after that, at the same time
  1021. [22:37] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 ...damn, how trippy
  1022. [22:38] * [Gtz]Andel sex blah blah leave blah blah fourteen's room blah
  1023. [22:56] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 snuggles him, still blissed out from the afterglow. Eventually, enough of her wits --and fears-- return, allowing her to attempt conversation, or at least ask him a few questions.
  1024. [22:56] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Are you angry unhappy with what I have done to you? I am feeling worried anxious that I went far too far.
  1025. [22:58] * [Gtz]Andel shakes his head.
  1026. [23:02] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 lets out the breath she'd been holding, and squeezes Andel, rolling partly over towards his side of the bed to do so, sheets rustling quietly.
  1027. [23:05] * [Gtz]Andel is squeezed. Delightfully, delightfully squeezed. If only he could find his way deeper between those breasts... He never can, but he loves to try.
  1028. [23:05] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Then, you are... okay content with ...this?
  1029. [23:11] * [Gtz]Andel nods, then lifts his head up and perches his cheek atop a breast, gazing into Fourteen's eyes. It's like a dream come true! Everything he wished for over breakfast has become so in only an hour! Well, except for dancing like John Travolta. He still has to work on that. But hot damn, acceptance, first time, girlfriend, and mother figure(dammit, that's so wrong) all wrapped up into one? He'll never steal out of the offering plate again.
  1030. [23:13] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 nods as well, running fingers idly through Andel's long hair. Silky~
  1031. [23:13] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I believe think I am, too.
  1032. [23:13] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...We will need to keep silent qui--
  1033. [23:13] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Well.
  1034. [23:13] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I will have to keep remain quiet regarding us.
  1035. [23:17] * [Gtz]Andel seems as though she can read his mind. He was just about to ask her to keep himself a secret, but it appears she's more than insightful enough to understand without a single miming from him. All he has to do is feel her breasts against his face and nod. Is she an Angel? he thinks to himself, then performs a slight silent body-shaking laugh at the irony of the thought. Whatever, he thinks. Never thought much of the name anyway.
  1036. [23:23] * [Gtz]Andel finds himself stiffening again. This is normally a pain for him, giving away his little sham, but since about an hour ago it has become the best thing ever. Because now if Fourteen finds it, she won't kill him to pieces for being a cross-dressing pervert, but instead take it in her hands and do the most wonderful things with it.
  1037. [23:29] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is quiet for a few minutes, then asks, in an innocently neutral tone:
  1038. [23:30] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...When do you have to be up and working, exactly?
  1039. [23:33] * [Gtz]Andel ...isn't really sure. He just goes whenever anyone else does so he doesn't look totally useless. He shrugs, taps her wrist twice and taps his watch twice more. My time is your time. Probably.
  1040. [23:40] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 smiles, and snuggles him close. Something about time, and her? Hers is the same time? ...Well, it didn't seem like anything definite, and it didn't seem like "Someone wakes me up," so...
  1041. [23:41] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Oh~? That's good to hear ...then you can sleep here tonight, instead.
  1042. [23:44] * [Gtz]Andel perks up at this. He never even considered it. So that's why she was asking... man, this woman sure is something! He vigorously nods, unable to hide his grin.
  1043. [23:46] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 smiles as well, pulling Andel into a long, slow, kiss.
  1044. [23:51] * [Gtz]Andel lets his instincts drive him, returning the kiss and kissing her deeper still. His hand wander up to those glorious globes he's made a home of recently, the other snaking around Fourteen's neck to pull himself closer. Damn, do I got it made or what?
  1045. [23:54] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 [Now cut?]
  1046. [23:54] * [Gtz]Andel [sure, whatever]
  1047. [23:54] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 [Cut~!]
  1048.  
  1049.  
  1050.  
  1051.  
  1052. @@===
  1053. @@Alexi's Moving Castle, Session Five
  1054. @@===
  1055.  
  1056. [18:18] <[huh]Alexi> LAST TIME, Focaccio and Andel were busy after getting busy, while Felicia and Flonne were getting ready to tackle a salad.
  1057. [18:19] * [Gtz]Andel licks Focaccio
  1058. [18:20] * [Gtz]Andel thinks, this taste! it's of a woman! Factorial Over Six
  1059. [18:21] <[huh]Alexi> Also, Alexi is either outside, dead, or both.
  1060. [18:21] <[Tet]Flonne> [As per usual.]
  1061. [18:22] <[huh]Alexi> as per usual.
  1062. [18:31] <[huh]Felicia> Right, so we move on to Flonne and Felicia.
  1063. [18:32] * [huh]Felicia looks at Flonne.
  1064. [18:32] <[huh]Felicia> So, salad.
  1065. [18:33] <[Tet]Flonne> Yep. Salad.
  1066. [18:34] <[huh]Felicia> First off, you promise the lettuce doesn't bite?
  1067. [18:34] <[Tet]Flonne> It won't even try.
  1068. [18:34] * [Tet]Flonne crosses her heart for good measure.
  1069. [18:35] <[huh]Felicia> Right, just can't be too sure in this place...
  1070. [18:35] * [huh]Felicia casts a glance over at the oven.
  1071. [18:35] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, rarely a dull moment around here. You'll catch up.
  1072. [18:36] <[huh]Felicia> So, where's the salady bits kept?
  1073. [18:37] <[Tet]Flonne> Fridge, natch. Mixing bowl's in that cupboard down there.
  1074. [18:37] * [Tet]Flonne heads for the former.
  1075. [18:37] * [huh]Felicia takes on the latter.
  1076. [18:38] <[huh]Felicia> What kind are we going for today?
  1077. [18:38] * [huh]Felicia sets the bowl on the counter.
  1078. [18:39] * [Tet]Flonne opens the refrigerator door and rummages around, tossing out clear bags filled with leafy whatevers blindly over one shoulder.
  1079. [18:39] <[Tet]Flonne> Carrots, carrots... uh...
  1080. [18:40] * [huh]Felicia does her best to catch them.
  1081. [18:41] <[Tet]Flonne> Cabbage? ...nah.
  1082. [18:42] * [Tet]Flonne snags a few bottles of dressing and nudges the door shut with one foot.
  1083. [18:42] <[Tet]Flonne> That oughta do it.
  1084. [18:43] * [huh]Felicia manages not to let any of the bottles shatter.
  1085. [18:44] * [Tet]Flonne turns around and surveys the... damage?
  1086. [18:44] <[Tet]Flonne> Hey, wow. You really do know your way around a kitchen, huh?
  1087. [18:45] <[huh]Felicia> Uh... sure.
  1088. [18:45] * [huh]Felicia sighs and places down the last dressing.
  1089. [18:46] <[huh]Felicia> So we just toss all of this together, right?
  1090. [18:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Okie dokie! Salad.
  1091. [18:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Yep, pretty much.
  1092. [18:46] * [Tet]Flonne skips over to where Felicia set down the mixing bowl.
  1093. [18:47] <[Tet]Flonne> Mostly lettuce, a little of everything else, toss.
  1094. [18:49] <[Tet]Flonne> Uhh... hrm.
  1095. [18:50] <[huh]Felicia> A problem?
  1096. [18:50] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, sorta. This really isn't a job that needs two people...
  1097. [18:56] <[huh]Felicia> Well, I'll take care of this, then. You did most of the steaks, and I did come to help out.
  1098. [18:56] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, but... I'm the maid, and you're still technically a prisoner...
  1099. [18:56] <[huh]Felicia> Don't worry!
  1100. [18:56] * [huh]Felicia gives Flonne a thumbs-up.
  1101. [*Mary] <[huh]Felicia> It'll be fine.
  1102. [*Mary] * ~[Tet]Flonne smiles after a second's contemplation, returning the gesture.
  1103. [*Mary] <~[Tet]Flonne> Alrighty, if you say so!
  1104. [*Mary] * ~[Tet]Flonne jumps up to sit on a nearby countertop, letting her legs dangle and kick.
  1105. [19:00] * [huh]Felicia gets to making the salad. Lettuce, grate the carrots, throw in whatever the hell else Flonne thought appropriate. Toss, and done.
  1106. [19:01] * [Tet]Flonne manages to keep still while this is being done, but staying quiet, too? That's just asking a bridge too much.
  1107. [19:01] <[Tet]Flonne> So, are you really a princess?
  1108. [19:01] <[huh]Felicia> Eh?
  1109. [19:02] * [huh]Felicia nearly drops the bowl.
  1110. [19:05] <[huh]Felicia> What prompts you to ask that?
  1111. [19:05] * [Tet]Flonne says it plainly.
  1112. [19:05] <[Tet]Flonne> Curiosity.
  1113. [19:05] <[Tet]Flonne> Aside from your name, I really don't know a thing about you, and I didn't even know that much ten minutes ago.
  1114. [19:09] * [huh]Felicia sets down the bowl.
  1115. [19:09] <[huh]Felicia> Well...
  1116. [19:09] <[huh]Felicia> I mean, it's supposed to be a secret an all, but... yeah, I am.
  1117. [19:09] * [huh]Felicia averts her gaze.
  1118. [19:10] <[Tet]Flonne> Secret, huh?
  1119. [19:10] <[Tet]Flonne> So, you really are on the run, too?
  1120. [19:11] <[huh]Felicia> Well, yeah.
  1121. [19:11] <[huh]Felicia> But, how could you tell?
  1122. [19:15] <[Tet]Flonne> Honestly, I just made that up for Alexi.
  1123. [19:16] * [Tet]Flonne sounds more somber than usual. Her feet are motionless.
  1124. [19:16] <[Tet]Flonne> I really had no idea...
  1125. [19:17] <[huh]Felicia> ...
  1126. [19:17] <[huh]Felicia> Something like that, huh?
  1127. [19:18] <[Tet]Flonne> How much... I mean, like...
  1128. [19:18] <[Tet]Flonne> You don't have to tell me everything, but, at least... what's the danger?
  1129. [19:21] <[huh]Felicia> Well, I'm being chased.
  1130. [19:21] <[huh]Felicia> They won't kill me, but I can't say the same about you.
  1131. [19:23] <[huh]Felicia> As for why...
  1132. [19:24] <[huh]Felicia> I'd like to know exactly why, myself.
  1133. [19:25] * [Tet]Flonne starts to kick her feet again, slowly, thinking.
  1134. [19:27] <[Tet]Flonne> That's... good to know.
  1135. [19:28] <[huh]Felicia> Well...
  1136. [19:34] * [Tet]Flonne jumps down from the counter, a handspring adding some extra distance, landing behind Felicia. As soon as her feet have hit the ground, she's crossed her arms over the fugitive princess' shoulders, pressing one cheek against the back of her neck, pulling her into a sort of hug.
  1137. [19:34] <[Tet]Flonne> It's okay, now.
  1138. [19:36] * [huh]Felicia begins to pull away, but stops.
  1139. [19:36] <[huh]Felicia> Ah...
  1140. [19:36] <[huh]Felicia> Yeah. I shouldn't be all gloomy, right?
  1141. [19:38] <[Tet]Flonne> Alexi will hide you. He'll even fight to protect you, if it comes to that. Seriously, he lives for this kind of thing.
  1142. [19:38] <[Tet]Flonne> And even if he doesn't... I will.
  1143. [19:40] <[huh]Felicia> Even if it's you, though, I don't know if you can win, and I don't want harm to come to you or yours because of me...
  1144. [19:41] <[Tet]Flonne> It's not about whether or not I could win. Heck, I can pretty much tell you now that I wouldn't, I'm really not a very good ninja...
  1145. [19:42] <[Tet]Flonne> That's why I'm here...
  1146. [19:42] <[Tet]Flonne> But, hey.
  1147. [19:43] * [Tet]Flonne retracts her hands as far as the shoulders, gripping both of them and turning Felicia around to face her.
  1148. [19:44] <[Tet]Flonne> You trust me, don't you?
  1149. [19:44] <[huh]Felicia> I... I do.
  1150. [19:45] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, then... I've got to justify that trust somehow, don't I?
  1151. [19:46] * [huh]Felicia smiles.
  1152. [19:46] * [Tet]Flonne leans forward, touching foreheads together, and smiles back.
  1153. [19:46] <[Tet]Flonne> It'll be okay.
  1154. [19:47] <[huh]Felicia> Yeah...
  1155. [19:49] * [Tet]Flonne straightens up and claps Felicia's shoulders.
  1156. [19:50] <[Tet]Flonne> There, now that that's been decided... uh...
  1157. [19:50] * [Tet]Flonne checks the timer on the oven.
  1158. [19:50] <[Tet]Flonne> I guess... we wait.
  1159. [19:56] * [Tet]Flonne looks around the kitchen for some sort of inspiration, a way to cap off this short episode in a less deflating manner, but comes up empty.
  1160. [19:56] <[Tet]Flonne> ...yep.
  1161. [19:57] * [huh]Felicia nods.
  1162. [19:58] <[Tet]Flonne> [Cut?]
  1163. [19:58] <[huh]Felicia> [guess so]
  1164.  
  1165.  
  1166.  
  1167.  
  1168. @@===
  1169. @@Alexi's Kilo Castle, Session Six
  1170. @@===
  1171.  
  1172. [18:54] <[huh]Alexi> Last time, salad and touching friendship.
  1173. [18:55] <[Tet]Flonne> [d'awww]
  1174. [18:55] * [Gtz]Andel is touched
  1175. [18:57] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 and how~
  1176. [18:59] <[huh]Alexi> It's now dinnertime, and it's up to Flonne to gather everyone.
  1177. [19:03] * [Tet]Flonne leaves Felicia to set the table while she embarks on a similarly vital mission. No sense in holding a meal with nobody to eat it, right?
  1178. [19:04] <[Tet]Flonne> I wonder if...
  1179. [19:04] * [Tet]Flonne 's pace almost grinds to a halt, but reboots at the last second.
  1180. [19:05] <[Tet]Flonne> Nah, she'll be fine.
  1181. [19:06] * [Tet]Flonne makes her way down to the servant's quarters. Rouse the fencepost, first.
  1182. [19:06] <[Tet]Flonne> *bam bam bam* Yo, Andel! Chow!
  1183. [19:06] * [Tet]Flonne is knocking on his door, that is. Bear with me, I'm kinda spaced.
  1184. [19:07] <[Tet]Flonne> ...
  1185. [19:08] <[Tet]Flonne> *bam bam bam* Hey! You in there?
  1186. [19:09] * [Tet]Flonne takes a minute to realize the foolishness of waiting for a verbal response.
  1187. [19:10] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, whatever.
  1188. [19:12] * [Tet]Flonne continues down the hall to the number lady.
  1189. [19:12] <[Tet]Flonne> *bam bam bam* Hey, you awake or whatever?
  1190. [19:17] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 walks up behind Flonne.
  1191. [19:17] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Yes?
  1192. [19:17] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is toweling off her hair, and remembered to wear one around her middle this time.
  1193. [19:17] * [Tet]Flonne continues addressing the door, apparently oblivious.
  1194. [19:18] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 taps Flonne's shoulder.
  1195. [19:18] <[Tet]Flonne> Food's ready when you are.
  1196. [19:18] * [Gtz]Andel opens the door. My, this is awkward.
  1197. [19:18] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Oh. Thank you.
  1198. [19:18] * [Gtz]Andel nods.
  1199. [19:18] * [Tet]Flonne blinks at Andel. Did she get the doors backwards?
  1200. [19:18] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks up.
  1201. [19:19] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, okay. Well, you get to eat, too, so cool.
  1202. [19:20] * [Tet]Flonne turns around to leave, but only makes it a single step before impacting into and rebounding off of Fourteen's midsection.
  1203. [19:20] <[Tet]Flonne> Gah!
  1204. [19:20] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Hello once more again.
  1205. [19:20] * [Gtz]Andel has a dose of deja vu
  1206. [19:20] * [Tet]Flonne straightens up.
  1207. [19:21] <[Tet]Flonne> Howdy. Food, ye ken.
  1208. [19:21] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Forsooth?
  1209. [19:21] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeppers. Soon as you're dressed.
  1210. [19:22] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Thank you.
  1211. [19:22] * [Tet]Flonne turns around to look at Andel's face peeking out from the door, then back at Fourteen. Two empty black boxes receive inked check marks.
  1212. [19:23] * [Gtz]Andel is still wondering what could have possibly happened to his bloomers
  1213. [19:24] <[Tet]Flonne> Okie dokie, now for the hard part...
  1214. [19:24] * [Tet]Flonne sets her tiny shoulders and strides down the hallway, in search of... the master.
  1215. [19:24] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 nods, and goes into Andel's room, waiting until she's heard Flonne go around the corner.
  1216. [19:25] * [Gtz]Andel sets his tiny shoulders and strides down the hallway, in search of... his bloomers. Or simply wasting time until dinner.
  1217. [19:30] * [Tet]Flonne climbs stairs. Lots of 'em.
  1218. [19:31] * [Tet]Flonne eventually runs out of stairs, running up against the ceiling. A hatch is there, she opens it.
  1219. [19:33] * [Tet]Flonne trades stairs for a short ladder, rungs set directly into the wall, climbing up through the hatch... and out.
  1220. [19:34] * [Tet]Flonne stands on the flat top of a tall watchtower, high above the castle proper. The desert winds howl around her, but she pays them no mind.
  1221. [19:34] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 goes back to her own room once Flonne is gone. Hopefully, she can play that off as a mistake.
  1222. [19:36] * [Tet]Flonne clasps her hands in front of her, closing her eyes and concentrating. Concentrating all her thoughts on a single man, lost somewhere out in the storm...
  1223. [19:36] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 then gets dressed, in search of-- wait, are a pair of her panties missing?
  1224. [19:37] * [Tet]Flonne opens her eyes and turns her moist, emotional gaze to the sky, hands clenching together tightly.
  1225. [19:37] <[Tet]Flonne> ALEXIIIIIIII!!
  1226. [19:41] <[huh]Alexi> There's a muffled thump and a yell about two feet to your left and down.
  1227. [19:42] * [Tet]Flonne cautiously approaches the sound.
  1228. [19:47] <[huh]Alexi> Alexi is hanging onto a small outcropping a bit under the level of the tower's walls
  1229. [19:48] <[Tet]Flonne> You okay?
  1230. [19:49] <[Tet]Flonne> Need a hand or anything?
  1231. [19:52] <[huh]Alexi> Nah, I'm-
  1232. [19:52] * [huh]Alexi loses his grip at this point, and is only hanging on by a couple fingers.
  1233. [19:53] <[Tet]Flonne> Yow!
  1234. [19:54] * [Tet]Flonne tosses down a chain of metal links in lieu of rope. Just never mind the razor-sharp sickle on the end, it's really not important to the scene.
  1235. [19:59] * [huh]Alexi manages to grab on!
  1236. [20:01] * [Tet]Flonne knows better than to try and pull Alexi up herself, but manages to brace her legs against the raised lip that runs along the tower, acting as a human piton for his ascent.
  1237. [20:04] * [huh]Alexi manages to pull himself up, with Flonne's help.
  1238. [20:04] <[huh]Alexi> "Did you call?"
  1239. [20:06] <[Tet]Flonne> Yep. Dinner.
  1240. [20:06] <[Tet]Flonne> Felicity's been setting things up, she's probably done by now.
  1241. [20:08] <[huh]Alexi> "Oh, sweet!"
  1242. [20:08] <[Tet]Flonne> Wormsteaks and salad!
  1243. [20:12] <[huh]Alexi> "Awesomeness!"
  1244. [20:12] * [huh]Alexi jumps down the hatch without another word, rushing off to dinner.
  1245. [20:14] * [Tet]Flonne makes sure to close the hatch tight after herself before dashing after the master.
  1246. [20:15] * [huh]Alexi skids into the dining room, coming to a stop just next to his seat.
  1247. [20:16] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 has since finished getting dressed and wandered down to the mess (Or, wait. It'd be "galley," wouldn't it?)
  1248. [20:16] <[huh]Alexi> Three minutes, twenty-eight seconds, three more seconds than last time... I'm getting soft.
  1249. [20:20] * [Gtz]Andel found his bloomers (and some weird math-engineering underwear) and takes his place at the table. Ah, everything feels so new and refreshing! Andel didn't even notice the new nurse girl he saw before, if she is indeed present at this point in time.
  1250. [20:24] * [huh]Felicia is sitting silently to the right of Flonne's chair, incidentally.
  1251. [20:25] * [Tet]Flonne diverts her path from Alexi's just enough to end up in the serving kitchen next to the galley. Felicity isn't there, it turns out, but even so, someone's got to bring in the slop.
  1252. [20:34] * [Gtz]Andel sits quietly and smiles happily. I bet even worm fat will taste good today! Andel convinces himself that it must be the taste of victory. Sort of like the smell of napalm, except for eating.
  1253. [20:43] * [Tet]Flonne arranges bowls of salad on a tray, checks on the steaks (still bubbling!), and piles the whole thing onto a tray.
  1254. [20:45] * [Tet]Flonne pushes the trolley (not a tray) in front of her, opening the swinging doors into the dining area where everyone else is seated and waiting.
  1255. [20:45] <[Tet]Flonne> Soup's on!
  1256. [20:46] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 has long since seated herself next to Andel, looking forward to the meal.
  1257. [20:47] * [Tet]Flonne first sets the big metal dome thingy that the steaks are under in the middle of the table, leaving it there for the moment until the salads have been properly dispensed.
  1258. [20:47] <[Tet]Flonne> 'Course, it's not really soup, but you know what I mean.
  1259. [20:48] * [Gtz]Andel nods sagely.
  1260. [20:49] * [huh]Alexi looks psyched.
  1261. [20:51] * [Tet]Flonne produces bottles of dressing in various varieties from the trolley's lower compartments, and some ordinary oven mitts. The former are set around the table, the latter slipped over her hands, duh.
  1262. [20:51] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 appears composed. But a hungry sort of composed.
  1263. [20:52] * [Gtz]Andel bows his head, and silently thanks God the Father for his excellent fortune with Fourteen. It's the first time he's been thankful for anything but dice rolls. Haha, father...
  1264. [20:53] * [Tet]Flonne starts running through possible theatrics, but decides she'd rather just eat, so she lifts the dome thingy. Four thick, brownish lumps of fatty flesh, and one of the same except a very noticeable red, sizzling slightly and smelling really good.
  1265. [20:53] * [Tet]Flonne picks the odd one out first and sets it in front of Alexi.
  1266. [20:54] <[Tet]Flonne> There ya go, boss, hotter than an August afternoon, just the way you like it.
  1267. [20:55] * [Tet]Flonne distributes the remainder amongst the remainder: Andy, Fackie, Felicity, herself. The tray goes back on the trolley, which is in turn kicked into a corner before she takes her seat.
  1268. [20:56] <[huh]Alexi> Alright!
  1269. [20:57] <[huh]Alexi> Now, I'd like for us to take a moment to say grace...
  1270. [20:57] * [huh]Alexi pauses for a moment.
  1271. [20:57] <[huh]Alexi> Grace!
  1272. [20:58] * [huh]Alexi begins eating,
  1273. [20:58] * [Tet]Flonne grins. That's a classic.
  1274. [20:58] <[huh]Alexi> This meat... It's too hot! I almost can't taste anything!
  1275. [20:58] <[huh]Alexi> It's perfect!
  1276. [20:59] * [Tet]Flonne picks up her utensils and sets about carving off a slice of meat.
  1277. [20:59] * [huh]Felicia , compared to Alexi's enthusiasm, is eating in a distinctly refined and conserved manner.
  1278. [21:00] * [Gtz]Andel sits on that word for a minute while carving up his... "steak". Well, I'm sure it's good steak, but come on, man, it's from a big, face-eating worm. But anyway, back to the inner-monologue thingy: He never knew his father. He attributes his girlish features to being raised by a woman as well as finding it convenient more often than not. Usually. Andel wonders what it would like to be a father, chewing on a hunk of worm.
  1279. [21:00] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 eats neither enthusiastically, nor plainly, nor contemplatively, but efficiently.
  1280. [21:03] * [Mry]Something dawns on Andel.
  1281. [21:03] * [Gtz]Andel chokes
  1282. [21:03] * [Tet]Flonne moves through her steak like she's attacking a village, or something. That kinda made more sense when I hadn't said it. Anyway, she eats every slice she cuts off whole and as-is, so that sometimes she's chewing on one for a minute or more. A village? Where the hell'd that come from?
  1283. [21:05] * [huh]Alexi eats his steak like someone who really enjoys his goddamn steak. See? I can do terrible metaphors as well.
  1284. [21:06] * [Tet]Flonne is still eating when Andel makes a noise like the opposite of swallowing.
  1285. [21:06] <[Tet]Flonne> Mmmfrghff?
  1286. [21:06] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's eyes flick over to Andel. Thunking her fork down into her wormsteak, she gets up, reaches over and swiftly administers the Heimlich.
  1287. [21:06] * [Tet]Flonne grimaces and grabs a glass of water to try again. This still might take a while...
  1288. [21:13] * [Gtz]Andel hocks up a hunk of worm, probably some indigestible bit like its spleen or something. It splats, bounces, hits, and thunks the toaster, knocking the proud son of a bitch over. The victory is short-lived, however. Andel has a new problem on his mind, and it's right behind him.
  1289. [21:14] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's grip relaxes a bit, and she peers down at him.
  1290. [21:14] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Was that all the entirety?
  1291. [21:15] * [Gtz]Andel clears his throat and downs a glass of water. He appears anxious about something, but what in particular, no one can say. He can't, in the very least.
  1292. [21:15] * [huh]Alexi looks up for the first time.
  1293. [21:15] <[huh]Alexi> Oh, Andel, is something wrong?
  1294. [21:16] * [Tet]Flonne is still alternating between furious chewing and drinking of water.
  1295. [21:16] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 waits a moment longer, and nods to herself slightly. That seems to have been it, then.
  1296. [21:17] * [Gtz]Andel tugs on Fourteen's shirt, making sure he has her attention. He makes a pulling motion from an open mouth while moving his lips, then points to the minute hand on his watch, moving his finger fifteen minutes ahead.
  1297. [21:18] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 pauses, and looks down at him.
  1298. [21:21] * [Gtz]Andel makes a drawing motion with a finger on his palm, just in case she doesn't get it
  1299. [21:24] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 blinks, and her eyes widen momentarily before she nods silently in acknowledgement.
  1300. [21:27] * [Gtz]Andel nods as well, before taking a deep breath and sitting down. What may have been heaven an hour ago may soon be the worst decision you've ever made...
  1301. [21:32] * [Gtz]Andel pushes the steak around and forgets all about salad and soup.
  1302. [21:33] * [Tet]Flonne gets her throat clear, finds that the reason she had to speak has resolved itself without her help, and thus returns to her meal with untempered gusto.
  1303. [21:43] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 lets go of Andel, and returns to eating. Efficiently.
  1304.  
  1305.  
  1306.  
  1307.  
  1308. @@===
  1309. @@The Spiderbot Crab, Session Seven
  1310. @@===
  1311.  
  1312. [20:23] <Reiuzi_Utsuho> Last time, food.
  1313. [20:27] <Reiuzi_Utsuho> Now, as night sets in, Alexi and his maids begin to think of sleep
  1314. [20:32] * [huh]Alexi leans back in his chair, his plate clean.
  1315. [20:34] * [Tet]Flonne wipes up some sauce or blood or something with one finger.
  1316. [20:36] * [huh]Felicia is the embodiment of manners, with her utensils on her plate even facing the proper direction for the end of a meal.
  1317. [20:36] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is thinking of something other than sleep.
  1318. [20:36] <[Tet]Flonne> See? Pretty good stuff after all, huh, princess?
  1319. [20:37] * Andel pushes around some peas, which he keeps with him just in case he needs to look nervous and pathetic at the dinner table
  1320. [20:37] * [Tet]Flonne grins chummily at Felicia.
  1321. [20:39] * [huh]Felicia smiles back, looking in much higher spirits than when she arrived.
  1322. [20:40] <[huh]Alexi> Now, the matter at hand becomes...
  1323. [20:40] <[huh]Alexi> Where to lodge our little guest.
  1324. [20:42] <[huh]Alexi> We've only got four beds, with the others broken or gone entirely.
  1325. [20:42] <[huh]Alexi> One of you guys will have to share with her, or else sleep on the floor.
  1326. [20:43] <[Tet]Flonne> I don't mind sleeping on the floor.
  1327. [20:43] <[huh]Felicia> Is there really no other beds? This place is pretty large...
  1328. [20:44] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, there are plenty of rooms, but furnishings are... scarce.
  1329. [20:44] * [huh]Felicia looks to the side.
  1330. [20:45] <[huh]Felicia> W-well, if there really is no other way, then I-
  1331. [20:45] <[huh]Alexi> Flonne it is!
  1332. [20:45] * Andel looks up at the question, and contemplates offering his own bed, being that he won't really need it. But eh. Too much of a bother. They'll figure something out.
  1333. [20:45] * [Tet]Flonne blinks and starts at the sound of her name. Wait, wasn't she just talking? Then how could she have... y'know what, never mind.
  1334. [20:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Huh? Me?
  1335. [20:46] <[huh]Alexi> No, the other Flonne.
  1336. [20:46] * [Tet]Flonne looks around the room for the other Fl-- ohhh.
  1337. [20:46] * [huh]Alexi looks at Flonne sarcastically.
  1338. [20:46] <[Tet]Flonne> Heh, yeah. Good one, boss.
  1339. [20:47] <[Tet]Flonne> But, uh, seriously, what, again? I kinda spaced out.
  1340. [20:47] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh right, beds. Right?
  1341. [20:47] <[huh]Alexi> Be careful with her, though. The magister of whatever country she's from will have our heads if any harm comes to her.
  1342. [20:47] * Andel nod sagely.
  1343. [20:47] * Andel nods, even
  1344. [20:47] <[huh]Felicia> ...magister? What...
  1345. [20:48] <[Tet]Flonne> Don't worry about a thing. They'll get her back just as good as they left her. Or vice versa.
  1346. [20:48] * [huh]Felicia shakes her head, apparently being stopped by her better sense.
  1347. [20:48] * [Tet]Flonne pauses a second and stares at the ceiling. That is what "vice versa" means, isn't it?
  1348. [20:52] <[Tet]Flonne> So, anyway, yeah. That's cool with me if it's cool with her.
  1349. [20:52] * [Tet]Flonne turns to Felicia for confirmation.
  1350. [20:52] <[huh]Felicia> A-ah... sure...
  1351. [20:53] <[Tet]Flonne> Cool!
  1352. [20:54] <[huh]Alexi> Well, if that's decided, I'll be retiring for the night.
  1353. [20:54] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 tries to keep her impatience under control. Has it been 15 minutes yet?
  1354. [20:54] <[huh]Alexi> Sleep tight, everyone.
  1355. [20:55] * [Tet]Flonne gets up and stands next to her chair. It seems like a maid-ly thing to do, what with the master leaving and all.
  1356. [20:55] <[Tet]Flonne> Good night, Alexi.
  1357. [20:55] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> I always constantly do.
  1358. [20:56] * Andel gets up and gathers the dishes in a hurry.
  1359. [20:56] * [huh]Alexi tilts his chair back, rolling as it clatters to the floor. Twisting himself in a roll, he turns his backward momentum into forward momentum and comes out already running, heading for his own room.
  1360. [20:57] * [Tet]Flonne hears the din out of one ear as she starts gathering the plat-- oh.
  1361. [20:57] <[Tet]Flonne> You've got the dishes, Andel?
  1362. [20:58] * Andel turns to look at Flonne, and nods. Though he has more important things on his mind, perhaps this will give him the space he needs to talk(as best he can) to Fourteen.
  1363. [21:00] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks back and forth between the people staying and going and likely to go. Hmm...
  1364. [21:00] <[Tet]Flonne> Perfect. Thanks, man.
  1365. [21:00] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Shall I help assist you, Andel?
  1366. [21:00] * Andel nods, twtiches, then nods again.
  1367. [21:00] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 asks innocently.
  1368. [21:00] * [Tet]Flonne grabs one of Felicia's hands, but, rather surprising, doesn't run off immediately.
  1369. [21:00] <[Tet]Flonne> So, you want to go and get set up in my room now, or something else first?
  1370. [21:01] * [huh]Felicia doesn't resist, and is surprised when there's nothing to resist after all.
  1371. [21:01] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 begins gathering dishes from her side of the table.
  1372. [21:01] <[huh]Felicia> Er, let's go to your room first.
  1373. [21:01] <[Tet]Flonne> Ok.
  1374. [21:02] * [Tet]Flonne smiles and gives the taken hand a light tug to prompt Felicia into standing, then leaves the dining room at a leisurely pace, leading her by only a step at most.
  1375.  
  1376. ---
  1377. @@Scene split one: Andel and Fourteen
  1378. ---
  1379.  
  1380. [21:11] * Andel tries to think of exactly how he's gonna... "say" this.
  1381. [21:12] * Andel finds a round potlid-thingie. Yes, this shall be the key to success.
  1382. [21:12] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 gathers up the leftovers, wrapping them up and placing them in smaller containers, and then stores them in the fridge, humming the Hymn of Engineers as she works.
  1383. [21:15] * Andel sets it aside and begins washing the dishes. Ah, he thinks, the last time he washed dishes, everything happened so innocently... but wait, wasn't that only this morning?
  1384. [21:17] * Andel has a midlife crisis at fifteen years old. Those dishes get *washed*.
  1385. [21:20] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 goes back and gathers up the consolidated dishes and utensils, and brings them over to the sink where Andel is working. Oh. There's that elevated heart rate, again. Dammit, is this going to happen to her every single time? How do people manage to put up with this?
  1386. [21:21] * Andel doesn't even look. Just becomes a paragon of unquestionable dish washing speed and power.
  1387. [21:33] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 starts washing alongside him, casually. She'd really like to do something, but her curiosity is winning out.
  1388. [21:34] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...You wanted desired to talk?
  1389. [21:35] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is not sure just what exactly "talking" will entail, given.. well. It's Andel.
  1390. [21:37] * Andel stops.
  1391. [21:38] * Andel thinks to himself. Is this a silly question? I'm doing the right thing, aren't I? The responsible thing, isn't it? Shoot, I wouldn't even be here if... someone... just...
  1392. [21:40] * Andel looks up at Fourteen with uneasy eyes.
  1393. [21:47] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks down from her dish-washing, and pauses, seeing the look there. ...Okay, this is probably serious, then.
  1394. [21:48] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 puts her dishes down gently, and dries off her hands.
  1395. [21:49] * Andel fidgets, giving Fourteen a few soft pokes to her belly, making sure to coordinate hand and eye contact.
  1396. [21:52] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...I am hearing listening.
  1397. [21:53] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks down bemusedly at where Andel pokes. ...is he... no, he--- maybe.
  1398. [21:54] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> You are concerned worried about... children?
  1399. [21:54] * Andel finds that big potlid from before, and with pink cheeks, puts it up his dress to where his own belly would be. The lid makes a very r- nope, she got it. Andel nods.
  1400. [22:00] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's cheeks color as well, and she ruffles Andel's hair.
  1401. [22:00] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> It is not a problem for me. My modifications alterations necessarily interfere with certain various biological processes.
  1402. [22:00] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Ovulation is one of these. It is reversible can be undone, however...
  1403. [22:01] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's arms wrap around Andel, pulling him close.
  1404. [22:02] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...It ...feels good to be worried about.
  1405. [22:02] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 struggles with saying that. It's not quite what she wanted to say, but it seems to capture some of it.
  1406. [22:03] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Thank you.
  1407. [22:04] * Andel tilts his ruffled head and peers from inquisitive eyes, or at least he would have before he got a facefull of Fourteen-booby. Nevertheless, the unusual look on his face needs to be recognized.
  1408. [22:07] * Andel looks up again, rubs her belly, and shakes his head slowly, questioningly.
  1409. [22:08] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...hmm?
  1410. [22:08] * Andel So wait, you're saying that you're not gonna have a kid if we keep doing this? Is what he wants to say, but alas.
  1411. [22:09] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 pauses, feeling another poke, and looks down.
  1412. [22:14] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 is a little confused. She just explained it, right? Unless he meant-- oh. Wow. Um.
  1413. [22:14] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> No, I am.. unready not prepared for offspring children, yet. No matter how...
  1414. [22:15] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 blushes.
  1415. [22:15] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...How hard you attempt try, I will be unable to cannot conceive until such point time as I desire.
  1416. [22:15] * Andel shakes his head frenzily. Yes, frenzily. Fuck frenziedly.
  1417. [22:16] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 stops.
  1418. [22:16] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...I am still missing something?
  1419. [22:16] * Andel shakes his head again, and gives a thumbs up.
  1420. [22:17] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's cheeks are hot. Hot and bothered, much like herself.
  1421. [22:18] * Andel then literally jumps into Fourteen's arms, with his own around her neck and his butt hitched up all bridal style. He's looking away, but upon closer inspection, a dirty look crosses his face. The "oh, my purity~" kind of look.
  1422. [22:26] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 catches him; surprised at first, then smiling. Apparently his question(s?) got answered. And now...
  1423. [22:26] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 casts a glance towards the dishes.
  1424. [22:27] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...I believe we have sufficient time to clean wash the dishes...later.
  1425. [22:27] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks back at Andel.
  1426. [22:27] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Much later.
  1427. [22:29] * Andel nods, unable to hide a smile. Uh oh, it's back again...
  1428. [22:30] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 's lower hand snakes down a little and squeezes, goosing Andel. *Squeeze*
  1429. [22:32] * Andel makes an "aaahn~" face, but doesn't utter a word. He draws closer to Fourteen and squeezes her breast in return.
  1430. [22:34] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> So... where what place shall we go tonight? Your quarters? My --ah! You'll suffer pay for that, later~ -- ...My own, or...
  1431. [22:35] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 looks around the kitchen, an evil smile crossing her lips.
  1432. [22:35] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> ...Right here?
  1433. [22:37] * Andel looks to Fourteen, and just smiles. I've been in good hands so far, why doubt them now?
  1434. [22:44] <[Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6> Hmm... Maybe next time, then perhaps? Let us go to your own quarters. They cannot be worse more terrible than my own.
  1435. [22:44] * [Atai][14^3]Factorial_over_6 carries off her blushing bride ^H^H^H captive ^H^H^H maid.
  1436. [22:49] * Andel is carried away, giving Fourteen a few kisses on the neck for the ride~
  1437.  
  1438. ---
  1439. @@Scene split two: Flonne and Felicia
  1440. ---
  1441.  
  1442. [21:09] * [Tet]Flonne continues like this down the halls for a while. Gradually, she drifts back so that she's walking beside Felicia instead of in front of her.
  1443. [21:09] <[Tet]Flonne> So... what's it like where you're from?
  1444. [21:11] <[huh]Felicia> Oh, uh...
  1445. [21:11] <[huh]Felicia> It's actually really nice.
  1446. [21:12] <[huh]Felicia> We live on the western side of the Desert, so it's cooler there and there a lot more greenery.
  1447. [21:12] <[huh]Felicia> Or, uh, i lived.
  1448. [21:13] <[Tet]Flonne> Wow, that does sound nice...
  1449. [21:13] <[huh]Felicia> I wish I could show you...
  1450. [21:14] <[Tet]Flonne> I'm sure you will, someday.
  1451. [21:14] <[Tet]Flonne> I'd love to see it.
  1452. [21:14] <[huh]Felicia> You really think so?
  1453. [21:14] * [Tet]Flonne grins at Felicia.
  1454. [21:14] <[Tet]Flonne> Believe it.
  1455. [21:17] * [huh]Felicia grins back.
  1456. [21:18] <[Tet]Flonne> I don't think I've ever seen a really 'green' place before.
  1457. [21:19] <[Tet]Flonne> It was cooler where I came from, up in the mountains... well, it was more like "freezing cold", but technically, that's cooler than here.
  1458. [21:19] <[Tet]Flonne> Everything was rocks, though. Kinda boring.
  1459. [21:20] <[Tet]Flonne> And then I got sent here, and that's been about it so far.
  1460. [21:20] <[huh]Felicia> Yeah, I've never really liked cold places. Still, even something like that might be a nice change from this endless desert.
  1461. [21:21] <[huh]Felicia> But... you say you were sent here?
  1462. [21:21] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, I'm a ninja. Did I not mention that yet?
  1463. [21:23] <[huh]Felicia> I... think you did, actually.
  1464. [21:24] <[Tet]Flonne> Yeah, I'm on a mission. Somebody took out a contract with my clan to assassinate Alexi and commandeer the castle for them.
  1465. [21:25] <[huh]Felicia> ...
  1466. [21:25] <[Tet]Flonne> They figured this'd be a good one for me to cut my teeth on. It's my first, y'see.
  1467. [21:25] <[huh]Felicia> Wait, assassinate?!
  1468. [21:25] * [Tet]Flonne speaks to the outside world from within her own.
  1469. [21:27] <[huh]Felicia> Wait, what was all that about you loving him?
  1470. [21:27] <[Tet]Flonne> Even so, the regular laws apply. Until my mission is confirmed as completed by the contractor, the gates are closed to me. I will remain a wandering weed.
  1471. [21:28] <[Tet]Flonne> Fuck that.
  1472. [21:29] * [huh]Felicia looks shocked!
  1473. [21:29] * [Tet]Flonne 's pace is steady, but her footfalls have gotten heavier, her gait stiffer, and her tone of voice somewhere between a mutter and a growl.
  1474. [21:29] <[Tet]Flonne> They threw me out, and that's all there is to it.
  1475. [21:30] <[huh]Felicia> Who did?
  1476. [21:30] <[Tet]Flonne> Who the hell takes a ten-year-old kid, gives them a few weapons, and sends them out to kill someone neither of them have ever met?
  1477. [21:31] <[Tet]Flonne> A lunatic, that's who. A heartless bastard lunatic.
  1478. [21:31] <[Tet]Flonne> This weed won't wander anymore, I'll tell you that right now. I've found a place, and I'm staying here.
  1479. [21:32] <[Tet]Flonne> They don't want me back, and I don't want to go back. So who cares?
  1480. [21:32] <[huh]Felicia> I... I don't completely understand, but I guess I'm happy that you've found a place after all.
  1481. [21:33] * [Tet]Flonne suddenly stops walking and puts her hand up to her mouth, eyes wide and watery.
  1482. [21:34] <[huh]Felicia> Flonne?
  1483. [21:34] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh... did I... just say all that out loud?
  1484. [21:34] <[huh]Felicia> You did...
  1485. [21:34] * [Tet]Flonne 's jaw disengages for a couple of seconds. It takes some effort to get it back into place.
  1486. [21:35] <[Tet]Flonne> Oh, no... no, no, no. I'm so sorry.
  1487. [21:36] <[Tet]Flonne> You don't need to hear about this... you've got so much to worry about yourself...
  1488. [21:37] <[Tet]Flonne> I didn't mean to...
  1489. [21:37] * [Tet]Flonne loses control of her jaw again, making any further words come out unformed.
  1490. [21:38] <[huh]Felicia> No, no, it's fine... Your problems are just as important as mine are...
  1491. [21:42] * [Tet]Flonne resets her troublesome jaw by clamping it shut. The impact shakes a couple of tears loose down her cheeks.
  1492. [21:42] <[Tet]Flonne> Tha... thank you for saying that...
  1493. [21:42] <[Tet]Flonne> Even if it isn't really true...
  1494. [21:44] * [huh]Felicia just smiles warmly at her new friend.
  1495. [21:45] * [Tet]Flonne reaches out with her free hand to brush it against Felicia's cheek, but changes her mind midway through the motion and just wraps the whole arm around one shoulder, pulling the princess into a tight hug.
  1496. [21:46] * [huh]Felicia returns the gesture.
  1497. [21:48] * [Tet]Flonne makes sure to wipe her eyes dry before she breaks the contact and faces Felicia again.
  1498. [21:48] <[Tet]Flonne> We'll be okay.
  1499. [21:48] <[huh]Felicia> Yeah...
  1500. [21:49] * [Tet]Flonne lets the moment continue for a little while: the two of them, just standing there, smiling at each other.
  1501. [21:50] <[Tet]Flonne> ...so, you probably didn't bring any pajamas.
  1502. [21:50] <[huh]Felicia> Er, no.
  1503. [21:50] * [huh]Felicia is taken aback at the unexpected question.
  1504. [21:51] <[Tet]Flonne> Hmm, and you seemed pretty shy back in the bath, too... that's gonna be an issue.
  1505. [21:51] * [Tet]Flonne crosses her arms and frowns in concentration at some invisible thing off to the right somewhere.
  1506. [21:52] <[huh]Felicia> Well, that was because...
  1507. [21:53] <[Tet]Flonne> We'll figure it out when we get there. C'mon!
  1508. [21:54] * [Tet]Flonne interrupts that train of thought by grabbing Felicia's hand again, this time with the more characteristic yank-and-zoom action.
  1509. [21:55] <[huh]Felicia> Wah!
  1510. [21:58] * [Tet]Flonne tows the stumbling princess back to her room - their room, now.
  1511. [22:00] <[Tet]Flonne> 'kay, so...
  1512. [22:03] <[huh]Felicia> Well, even with what Alexi said, I'm okay with sleeping on the floor...
  1513. [22:04] <[Tet]Flonne> Nonsense.
  1514. [22:04] <[huh]Felicia> No, really.
  1515. [22:04] * [Tet]Flonne turns a much different (and much less frightening) flavor of 'deathly serious' than she showed before in the hallway.
  1516. [22:05] <[Tet]Flonne> You're our guest. We will not have it said of our castle that we treat our guests in such a fashion.
  1517. [22:06] <[Tet]Flonne> More than that, you're under Alexi's protection.
  1518. [22:06] <[Tet]Flonne> And Alexi's placed me in charge of that duty.
  1519. [22:07] <[huh]Felicia> A-ah, I'm sorry, I meant no disrespect to you, your master, or his house.
  1520. [22:08] <[Tet]Flonne> I know you didn't, you were just trying to be accommodating, and that's fine, up to a point.
  1521. [22:09] <[Tet]Flonne> But there's really no way that I could keep a proper eye on you from the bed.
  1522. [22:11] * [Tet]Flonne opens up the closet and takes a roll-out futon down from the top shelf.
  1523. [22:11] <[huh]Felicia> I can see that...
  1524. [22:12] <[huh]Felicia> I guess?
  1525. [22:14] * [Tet]Flonne carries the package to a point in between the bed, against one far wall, and the door, set into the other. She keeps an eye on Felicia and stomps one foot in place by way of demonstration.
  1526. [22:15] <[Tet]Flonne> See, that door's the only way in here. If I set up on this spot, anyone who tries to come in and get you will have to cross over me somehow.
  1527. [22:15] <[huh]Felicia> I see...
  1528. [22:17] <[Tet]Flonne> You may have noticed, I said that door was the only way in... but it is not the only way out.
  1529. [22:17] * [Tet]Flonne sets the futon down for a second and clambers onto the top of the bed, beckoning Felicia over.
  1530. [22:17] <[huh]Felicia> Huh?
  1531. [22:17] * [huh]Felicia follows.
  1532. [22:17] <[Tet]Flonne> C'mere, gonna show you something.
  1533. [22:18] <[huh]Felicia> I'm looking...
  1534. [22:18] * [Tet]Flonne chuckles.
  1535. [22:19] <[Tet]Flonne> Well, that's good, but I'm afraid it's useless. Gimme your hand for a sec.
  1536. [22:19] * [huh]Felicia does so.
  1537. [22:22] * [Tet]Flonne takes the given hand and lays its palm flat against a section of the wall. Her own hand overlays the first, pressing against it very, very gently. At the edge of sensation, a section of wall can be felt pushing inward in response: a hidden button.
  1538. [22:22] <[huh]Felicia> This is...
  1539. [22:22] * [Tet]Flonne looks directly into Felicia's eyes and speaks seriously.
  1540. [22:23] <[Tet]Flonne> Remember this spot. If anything happens, and it looks like I can't handle it myself, for Pete's sake, don't try to help me.
  1541. [22:23] <[huh]Felicia> Is that likely?
  1542. [22:24] * [Tet]Flonne falters. Her mouth twitches around a few rejected responses before she recovers.
  1543. [22:25] <[Tet]Flonne> ...honestly... yeah.
  1544. [22:26] * [huh]Felicia 's mouth becomes a line in a clear "I'm not satisfied" fashion.
  1545. [22:26] <[Tet]Flonne> They... thought Alexi was just going to be some yutz with a key. I'm really not that good of a ninja, yet.
  1546. [22:26] * [Tet]Flonne does her best to steel herself against that line.
  1547. [22:28] <[huh]Felicia> Well, alright.
  1548. [22:29] <[Tet]Flonne> ...sorry
  1549. [22:31] * [Tet]Flonne retracts her hand and breaks eye contact.
  1550. [22:32] <[Tet]Flonne> So, anyway, yeah. That button'll take you out of here. The tunnel actually branches off to a few places, so I can't really say for sure where you'll end up.
  1551. [22:33] <[huh]Felicia> Right.
  1552. [22:34] <[Tet]Flonne> I don't think I've got anything that'd work for pajamas, but I'll keep my back turned until you're under the covers.
  1553. [22:35] * [Tet]Flonne slides off of the bed and starts unrolling the futon.
  1554. [22:35] <[huh]Felicia> You mean...
  1555. [22:36] * [Tet]Flonne shrugs helplessly.
  1556. [22:36] <[Tet]Flonne> It's either that or try to sleep in what you've got on, I'm afraid. Can't really think of anything else.
  1557. [22:39] * [huh]Felicia looks at the bed, and down at her rather tight-fitting uniform.
  1558. [22:40] <[huh]Felicia> Then, make sure to keep your back turned, alright?
  1559. [22:40] * [huh]Felicia blushes slightly.
  1560. [22:41] <[Tet]Flonne> You got it.
  1561. [22:42] * [huh]Felicia unbottons the uniform, though slowly, fumbling for a bit with each button. Finally the suit slides off with a dull thump as it hits the floor.
  1562. [22:46] * [huh]Felicia slides off the skirt after that, and climbs into the bed with due haste.
  1563. [22:46] <[huh]Felicia> Alright...
  1564. [22:52] * [Tet]Flonne has gotten the futon laid out in the meantime.
  1565. [22:54] * [Tet]Flonne crawls inside it and shifts around under the cover for a minute or two, depositing the pieces of her uniform on the floor above the pillow, one at a time.
  1566. [22:55] <[Tet]Flonne> Well... g'night, then.
  1567. [22:58] * [Tet]Flonne settles in and tries not to dwell on the cruddy note that ended this awesome day.
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