That one time when Reisander showed up (mark,sky,john,ted)

JohnQuint , for once, is not sitting in the corner table
*** WallFlower is now known as dani
*** dani is now known as danni
Reisander stands in line he seems to have not shaved in a while and is wearing several deer skins as a cloak
Skyler picks up his lunch and sits across from John
Wrong_Way is eating a ketchup sandwich at a table and nearly chokes on it when he sees Reisander in line.
<Skyler>: "Sup, dude. How's it going?"
JohnQuint pops a sticky note down
<JohnQuint>: "Good, you?"
Reisander sits down across from WW
<Reisander>: "Mark,"
<Wrong_Way>: "Reisander! Where the heck have you been?"
<Reisander>: "Living in the woods"
<Wrong_Way>: "I see. Deer been giving you trouble?" he says, looking at his pelts
Reisander begins eating his sandwich
<Skyler>: "Doin' pretty good. Not much of note going on, though."
<Reisander>: "Trophies I picked up"
<Reisander>: "But you, comrade, I have not seen in some time"
<Reisander>: "Nevermind the vermin, how goes it?
<JohnQuint>: "That's good. you know if I left my homework back in the room"
<JohnQuint>: just for ref, " " means sticky, none means talking]
<Skyler>: [gotcha]
<Wrong_Way>: "Oh jeez. How have I been..."
<Skyler>: "Oh, yeah. I actually took it with me, since I thought I'd see you here."
Skyler sifts through his backpack with his wings as he eats, eventually producing John's stuff
<JohnQuint>: "Thanks. I didn't wanna run back to get it. Not the most graceful sprinter"
JohnQuint grabs his paper, shaking
<Wrong_Way>: "I dunno. I don't feel like much has changed with me."
<Reisander>: "Reliable to stay yourself"
<Reisander>: "Respectable"
<Skyler>: "Heh. I getcha."
<Wrong_Way>: "I guess so."
<JohnQuint>: "So what else is new? Also, eating now, mind if you turn around?"
Skyler turns around
<Skyler>: "Nothing, really. I... dude, there's a guy with a cape of animal pelts on."
JohnQuint starts chewing his balogna and ketchup sandwich, and shoving it down his neck
JohnQuint pops a sticky note on the back of Skyler's head
<Wrong_Way>: "But seriously man, we should hang out like old times."
<Reisander>: "Of course"
Skyler plucks it with a wing, hanging it over to look at
Reisander 's creepy alien eyes stare back at Skyler
<Wrong_Way>: "What brings you back here anyways?"
<JohnQuint>: "You didn't see that when you walked in? Besides, it's not the strangest thing at this school"
Skyler maintains eye contact without faltering
<Reisander>: "Food"
<Skyler>: "There's an odd sort of intrigue to it."
<Wrong_Way>: "Huh. You killed all the deer?"
JohnQuint shrigs, and then quickly stops his head from falling
Reisander scoffs
<Reisander>: "I killed lots of things"
Skyler turns around
<Skyler>: "I saw we talk to them! He's even with that one S-Man, wrong-something."
<Wrong_Way>: "I can guess. Man I missed your scoffs."
JohnQuint was still eating
<JohnQuint>: OhGodPleaseDontLook!
<Skyler>: "Oh, sorry. Got a little carried away."
Skyler turns around again
<Reisander>: "Indeed"
<Reisander>: "How are the /s-men/?"
JohnQuint sticks a stickie note on Skyler's wings
Skyler reads it
<Wrong_Way>: "Hm well...Uh, Theo, that giant dinosaur dude you don't really like died. But he's back again..."
<JohnQuint>: "Sorry, it's fine. If you want. I'll probably stay back here"
<Wrong_Way>: "Donnie, you used to call him a dwarf, is really good at his magic stuff."
<Wrong_Way>: "I dunno what Gwyd's up to, never see him on mission anymore."
<Skyler>: "I'll go and mingle, but I'll make sure to tell you how it goes. Well, you can watch, I guess."
<Reisander>: "I suppose I shared a rather strained relationship with the s-men"
<Wrong_Way>: "You could put it that way. Weren't you and Gwyd all buddy buddy for a bit?"
<JohnQuint>: "Yeah. I'll try and sneak a seat closer. Try and listen in"
<Reisander>: "He was thankful for my rescue"
<Reisander>: "Rightfully so but it was by no means friendship"
Skyler gets up and walks over to Reisander and Wrong_Way
<Skyler>: "Heeeeeey, folks. I'm Skyler."
Reisander looks Skyler up and down
Wrong_Way looks at Skyler for a moment trying to remember where they met.
JohnQuint tries to sit in the empty table next to them
Skyler does the same to Reisander, given the opportunity
Reisander is wearing his symbiote and some deer skins that are slowly being absorbed by the black tar like second skin
<Wrong_Way>: "Oh right! From the library. How was that book report man?"
Skyler looks at Reisander's shoes.
Skyler is wearing that same getup I always draw him in, sans jacket and replace the boots with sandals
Reisander is wearing a pair of high techish looking space fantasy boots they look like they're woven with the blackish tar substance and gleam in the light
<Skyler>: "Oh, right! That went over decently enough. And uh... you kill those deer yourself?"
<Reisander>: "I did"
<Skyler>: "That's good for you."
Skyler takes a seat at the table
<Reisander>: "It passes the time"
<Wrong_Way>: "Uh, Skyler, this is Reisander. He's an old buddy of mine."
<Skyler>: "Reisander. Is that Dutch?"
<Reisander>: "Not exactly"
<Skyler>: "Eh, not important. I'm not sure where 'Skyler' even comes from."
Reisander mutters something about the back of a cereal box
<Skyler>: "Sooooo! You two say you're old buddies?"
Wrong_Way scratches the back of his head
<Reisander>: "We crossed paths several months ago"
<Wrong_Way>: "Yeah, good times."
<Wrong_Way>: "Remember that time we went bowling?"
<Skyler>: "Sounds like /great/ time, judging by the way you say it."
JohnQuint keeps on listening
<Reisander>: "Quite a peculiar ritual"
<Reisander>: "Entertaining no less"
<Wrong_Way>: "Yeah. You were pretty good at it."
<Skyler>: "So, if you mind me asking, Ricelander, what are your powers?"
<Reisander>: "Reisander"
<Skyler>: "Gah, right. Forgive me."
<Reisander>: "And I am not a mutant though good genes, alien medicine, and alterations have made me vastly more powerful and dexterous than the average human terran"
<Skyler>: "Sounds like my buddy, Tony. He's got augments that let him see and control sound."
<Wrong_Way>: "How's that ship of yours anyways?"
Skyler sips his drink
<Reisander>: "It still flies"
Reisander finishes up two sandwiches
<Wrong_Way>: "Well that's good."
<Reisander>: "Mhm"
<Skyler>: "A flying ship?"
<Reisander>: "Inter-dimensional craft"
<Skyler>: "Ah, of course."
<Wrong_Way>: "It kinda looks like his suit, color wise."
Reisander narrows his eyes and stares at Skyler
JohnQuint quickly tries to pop a note on Skyler
<Reisander>: "Yes, of course"
Skyler takes the note and puts in between his hands on his lap, while maintaining eye contact with Reisander
<Skyler>: "Do you enjoy interstellar travel?"
<JohnQuint>: "Did he say something about aliens?"
<Reisander>: "I've lived as a wanderer for quite some time"
Skyler gives a subtle thumbs down to JohnQuint as he continues smiling at Reisander
<Skyler>: "What inspired you to come here, of all places?"
<Reisander>: "The feeling of the open road, drifting about from star to star crossing over the mythologies of a myriad of species and peoples...
<Reisander>: "I am human just not an earth original"
<Reisander>: "My father went missing here"
<Reisander>: "I have been on the hunt for him for several months now"
Skyler changes the thumbs down to a thumbs up
Skyler stops smiling
<Wrong_Way>: "Any luck so far?"
<Reisander>: "..."
Reisander rubs his forehead with one hand
Skyler sounds more serious when he talks
<Skyler>: "Who was your father?"
<Reisander>: "At this point I am operating under the presumption that I am retrieving a corpse"
<Reisander>: "I've found the simplest explanation is Hades"
<Reisander>: "Though he is not known by that title to many in this era"
<Skyler>: "...You mean someone of similar characteristic to hades, or the-one-and-only?"
<Reisander>: "The one and only"
JohnQuint pops a note next to Skyler
<Reisander>: "In our tongue he is Raubiter"
Skyler pockets it for now
<JohnQuint>: "Hades? The heck is this guy talking about?"
<Reisander>: "Hunter"
<Skyler>: "And what tongue is that?"
Reisander 's eyes flick over to John for a second before looking back down at the table
<Reisander>: "Voidian"
<Skyler>: "...I don't follow."
<Reisander>: "The Void"
<Reisander>: "It's the dimension below this one"
<Skyler>: "As in Hell, or something else?"
<Reisander>: "Its more like..."
<Reisander>: "A basin where all dead things settle"
JohnQuint turns around
<JohnQuint>: A-all dead t-t-things?
<Reisander>: "I believe Hell is a few layer below the Void I haven't been classed on this in ages"
<Reisander>: "Hmm?"
<Reisander>: "Yes"
<Skyler>: "So when you die, the first place you go is the Void."
<Reisander>: "People, animals, species, ideas, fauna, religions, gods, objects, places"
<Wrong_Way>: "Hey John, how long have you been there?"
<Reisander>: "Yes"
<Skyler>: "So when you die, the first place you go is the Void."
<Reisander>: "People, animals, species, ideas, fauna, religions, gods, objects, places"
<Wrong_Way>: "Hey John, how long have you been there?"
<Reisander>: "Yes"
<JohnQuint>: N-not long
<Reisander>: "I'm not dead I was just born there"
JohnQuint focuses on Reisander
<JohnQuint>: H-how does one get to the v-v-void?
<Reisander>: "You die"
<Reisander>: "Obviously"
<Reisander>: "It's a bleak and feral place devoid of niceties and anything that didn't fail at life"
<Reisander>: "You wouldn't want to go there"
<JohnQuint>: I-is there a way to vuh-isit?
<Skyler>: "And under what context did your father diappear? Does he have any responsibilities, as some close equivalent to Hades?"
<Wrong_Way>: "Seriously, John. Bleak and bad place. Why would you wanna go?"
<Wrong_Way>: "You'd be better off waiting to go like the rest of us."
<Reisander>: "Our line was tricked into a pact and he and my brothers place in a rather unsavory agreement"
<Reisander>: "He vanished here while attempting to control the proceedings"
<Skyler>: "If it's not too personal, would you elaborate on that?"
<JohnQuint>: "Because Po-someone I k-k-know might be down th-th-there"
<Reisander>: "It's all very magicky necromancy boring gladiator filth is the short answer"
Reisander turns to John
<Reisander>: "And why do you wish to visit the dead?"
<JohnQuint>: I wish tuh-tuh-to know if someone is o-o-okay...
JohnQuint looks down
<Reisander>: "Entering the void is near impossible, only a large hole formed by mass deaths or craft designed to go there can enter without the proper agreements and prerequisites, namely being dead
<JohnQuint>: Oh...
Skyler looks to John with a sad expression, but then goes back to facing Reisander
<JohnQuint>: Alright, s-s-sorry for bothering...
JohnQuint turns back around
<Skyler>: "If it's too dull to talk about, is anyone else at the school involved with this?"
<Reisander>: "Witches and wizards are reclusive creatures"
<Reisander>: "The dwarf I'm told practices to a degree as does Greenway"
<Skyler>: "Dwarf?"
<Wrong_Way>: "A kid named Donnie here. He's on S-men."
<Wrong_Way>: "He's got a shadow otter that he rides down the halls sometimes."
<Skyler>: "Oh. him. I almost crashed into him a few days ago."
<Wrong_Way>: "He's gotta get better control of that thing."
<Reisander>: "Ugh using his familiar as some kind of mount"
<Reisander>: "Typical dwarf behavior"
<Reisander>: "Vormand is more dignified than that"
<Skyler>: "Of course it is. Is there anyplace I can get more information on this? Would the library even have books on this sort of thing? Or, rather, /accurate/ ones?"
<Wrong_Way>: "Could you even ride him?"
<Wrong_Way>: "He looks way too noodley to be some giant otter express train."
<Reisander>: I would not disgrace him to attempt even"
<Reisander>: "You could ask Greenway, or rather my camp is always open"
<Skyler>: "Camp? ...You mean literally, don't you."
<Reisander>: "I have my ship, and dwelling in the forest nearby"
<Skyler>: "Right. Thank you, I'll try to keep in touch if I find anything you don't already know."
<Reisander>: "Eyes peeled for a eight foot tall viking who thinks he's better than everyone else"
Wrong_Way snickers
<Wrong_Way>: "Wow Reisander, your sense of humor got a little better."
<Reisander>: "It was always impeccable you just get it now"
Skyler lightens up, and chuckles
<Wrong_Way>: "I'm sure I got most of your jokes back then...hopefully."
Reisander drinks from bottle of water
JohnQuint slurps from the straw in his throat
<Wrong_Way>: "Uh, you wanna come back to my dorm and see Theo Junior? He'll probably be just as psyched as I am that you're here."
<Reisander>: "Ah yes the reptile"
<Reisander>: "Verily"
Reisander stands up brushes off his pants his slips the deer pelts off his shoulders dropping them in a trash can next to them
<Wrong_Way>: "Cool! Uh, It was nice seeing you guys again, Skyler and John."
<Skyler>: "Nice talking to you."
<Wrong_Way>: "Glad you got to meet my pal Reisander, see you around!"
<Reisander>: "Pleasure speaking to me as always I presume"
Reisander puts out hand for handshake
Skyler shakes it with a firm grasp
JohnQuint shakily waves to Wrong_Way
Reisander grins slightly his teeth are all pointed
Skyler grins without opening his mouth
Reisander turns to JohnQuint and his grin twists into a brief snarling smirk before he turns away to walk with WW
<Reisander>: "What odd souls the s-men adopts"
Skyler goes to sit back over with John
<Wrong_Way>: "They seemed to really like you though."
<Skyler>: "I'm probably the among least odd souls you're going to find around these parts."
<JohnQuint>: I guh-guess so...
<Skyler>: "There's some /sketchy/ shit going on at this school, John."
<Skyler>: "I don't like it. Not at all."
<JohnQuint>: L-like what?
<Wrong_Way>: "Maybe you're right. We better hurry to make sure I feed Theo Junior on time." he says, glancing at his phone for the time.
<Skyler>: "People going missing. Powerful psychics of questionable origins, getting special treatment. Wizards. Criminal organizations."
<Skyler>: "This place is like a hotspot for all sorts of bad news."
<JohnQuint>: Wh-what are you looking to f-f-find?
Skyler sighs
<Skyler>: "An answer, eventually. All I get is more questions."
<JohnQuint>: Well...What's the m-m-main q-question?
<Skyler>: "Every lead does nothing but give me more leads around here. I'm gonna need to start making one of those big webs of connections that paranoid people do."
<Skyler>: "And, I dunno... I feel like there's more than one question. Maybe a few dozen."
<Skyler>: "At this rate, I'll end up with hundreds..."
<JohnQuint>: D-do you need h-h-help?
<Skyler>: "Are you willing to give me some?"
Teddy_Banks ambles in wearing a bathrobe, some sandals, and a pair of boxers
<JohnQuint>: M-maybe f we dig d-d-d-deeper....We could both b-benefit...
<Skyler>: "Let's be frank. What are you looking for?"
<JohnQuint>: M-my dog...
<Skyler>: "Oh, right..."
Teddy_Banks sits down at the table with a carton of chocolate milk and a sandwich
<Teddy_Banks>: "Hey, buds"
<JohnQuint>: O-oh...hey
<Teddy_Banks>: "Sup?"
<Skyler>: "Hey, Ted. Just eating lunch."
<Skyler>: .me sips his drink
Skyler sips his drink
<JohnQuint>: n-n-nothing much...
<Teddy_Banks>: "Mkay"
<Skyler>: "How've you been?"
<Teddy_Banks>: "I saw like the most vicious looking dude on my way in here"
<Teddy_Banks>: "White skin and like animal eyes"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Tripped me out bro"
<Skyler>: "Reisander. He's a local homeless man."
<JohnQuint>: T-t-the one in the f-f-f-forest?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Dude looked our age"
<Skyler>: "He is. Probably."
<Teddy_Banks>: "Hard times are hard times"
<Skyler>: "He's not a mutant, so I guess he's not qualified to stay here."
<Skyler>: "...Interesting guy."
<Teddy_Banks>: "vicious"
<Teddy_Banks>: "You like talk to him?"
<Skyler>: "Just for a bit."
<JohnQuint>: actually]
<JohnQuint>: fun fact]
<Teddy_Banks>: "Looked like him and Mark were buds"
<JohnQuint>: this place has non-mutants too]
<JohnQuint>: like chad]
<Teddy_Banks>: like 7 years ago they did at least]
<Skyler>: "Seems so. They left together, Mark said they were old pals."
<Skyler>: I figured, what with Doppler]
<JohnQuint>: I would imagine they still did then, right?]
<JohnQuint>: dopps is a mutant]
<JohnQuint>: just augmented]
<Teddy_Banks>: ][Iunno]
<Skyler>: [well, still]
<Teddy_Banks>: "Shyeah old dudesters starting the party back up"
<Teddy_Banks>: "I can dig it"
<Skyler>: "...Right. Been up to anything else, Teddy?"
JohnQuint sips
<Teddy_Banks>: "I got the phone number of like a dude for licensing our public image"
<Skyler>: "Hrmm? Do tell."
<JohnQuint>: p-p-public image?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Shyeah he says like costumes are what sells"
<Teddy_Banks>: "So like we gotta mask it up"
<Teddy_Banks>: "We could be like tacticool or get funky with the spandex"
<Skyler>: "Right, of course. Hey, Teddy?"
<JohnQuint>: Oh, s-s-s-s-men stuff...
<JohnQuint>: Sh-should I h-head out?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Shyeah?"
<Skyler>: "Do me a favor?"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Sure thing, man"
<Skyler>: "If you hear anything around the school about disappearances, or magic and wizards, keep me in the loop."
<Teddy_Banks>: "You got it dude, I'll ask my tweet dudes to keep their ears like open"
<Skyler>: "Thanks, man. I owe you a solid."
<Teddy_Banks>: "Think nothing of it, top gun, its a push of a button"
Skyler sips his drink again, creating that loud "your cup is empty" sound when he sucks in the straw.
<Skyler>: "Anyways, I think I've gotta go for now. See you folks later."
<Teddy_Banks>: "Keep it real man"
<Teddy_Banks>: "And I'll like keep you posted"
<JohnQuint>: S-s-seeya
Skyler tosses his trash into the garbage can, and takes an exit
<Teddy_Banks>: "How's it shakin, bud"
Teddy_Banks smiles at John
<JohnQuint>: G-g-good...you?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Super busy"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Empire's like mad vicious to keep running"
<JohnQuint>: E-E-empire?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Well like my tweet dudes keep their ears on like all the gossip and anything anyone says in the school, and then theres like homework answers and test guides, and the grow op on the side, then like playing the chess game these s-dudes got goin' on"
<Teddy_Banks>: "S'all very confusing"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Bright side is bud that no ones going to stop me"
<JohnQuint>: Wait....C-c-chess game?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Shyeah with the pieces on the board"
<JohnQuint>: W-what?
<JohnQuint>: Why?
<Teddy_Banks>: "It's not a great metaphor though like actually chess is all about just memorizing stuff, I'm more of like an anticipater and and an executor"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Plans just like aren't my style"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Why?"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Because I can, dude"
<JohnQuint>: But...what /do/ y-y-y-you have planned?
<Teddy_Banks>: "C'mon bro, I just said"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Plans aren't my style"
<Teddy_Banks>: "I just see a goal and do it, dude"
<JohnQuint>: W-What's the endgoal then?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Fame, power, and wealth, brohams"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Superheroes"
<JohnQuint>: O-okay...
<Teddy_Banks>: "World peace"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Apple pie and baseball, brohams"
<Teddy_Banks>: "You picking up what I'm laying down, man?"
<JohnQuint>: Not....r-really...
<Teddy_Banks>: "It's like"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Make my team love each other, don't trust /the s-man/, know like anything and everything, and build from there, dude"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Sky's the limit"
<Skyler>: [hue]
<Teddy_Banks>: [huehue]
<JohnQuint>: W-what's wrong with S-men?
<Teddy_Banks>: "Nothing they're radical"
<Teddy_Banks>: "Just like gotta be making our own rhythm"
<JohnQuint>: Okay...
<JohnQuint>: I think I best be heading out now....
<Teddy_Banks>: "Later, dudester"
JohnQuint heads back to his dorm room, to work on homework, and think about the day
Teddy_Banks rubs the side of his head numerous conversations rattling in his brain
Teddy_Banks finishes his lunch and wanders out still in nothing but bathrobe and underwear