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by Liriena » Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:18 pm
I am: A pansexual, pantheist, green socialist An aspiring writer and journalist | Political compass stuff: Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92 For: Grassroots democracy, workers' self-management, humanitarianism, pacifism, pluralism, environmentalism, interculturalism, indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBT+ rights, feminism, optimism Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism, cynicism ⚧Copy and paste this in your sig if you passed biology and know gender and sex aren't the same thing.⚧ |
by Nationstatelandsville » Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:58 pm
Astrolinium wrote:Death wandered the halls of Elfen High.
Not the Death, of course, although throughout history he had often been mistaken for such. He certainly seemed to crop up wherever Death was supposed to be, though he personally suspected that there was no such person. Death was a concept, and Mortimer Thanatos Olum, whose true name had been lost to the millennia, relished in it. Its unique and perfumatory stink was utter bliss for him, like potpourri for those stinking hippies. He'd fed on a lot of them, back in the 1960's. That had been so long ago for mortal men, but to him it was less than the blink of an eye's time in the past. He was so very old. So incredibly ancient.
Most people didn't know he was at the school. He'd shown up sometime in the... well, the 1920's, probably. He honestly hadn't bothered to write down the date. But he'd shown up and started caring for the dead of the institution, and without pay. He'd also begun teaching an Underwater Basketweaving class in the late 1990's, which he did receive a small salary for.
Underwater basketweaving was a hobby about which he was passionate.
As M.T. sat in the library, reading Night by Elie Wiesel and chuckling darkly.
by Condunum » Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:11 pm
by Liriena » Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:19 pm
I am: A pansexual, pantheist, green socialist An aspiring writer and journalist | Political compass stuff: Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92 For: Grassroots democracy, workers' self-management, humanitarianism, pacifism, pluralism, environmentalism, interculturalism, indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBT+ rights, feminism, optimism Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism, cynicism ⚧Copy and paste this in your sig if you passed biology and know gender and sex aren't the same thing.⚧ |
by Condunum » Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:51 pm
by Liriena » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:07 pm
I am: A pansexual, pantheist, green socialist An aspiring writer and journalist | Political compass stuff: Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92 For: Grassroots democracy, workers' self-management, humanitarianism, pacifism, pluralism, environmentalism, interculturalism, indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBT+ rights, feminism, optimism Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism, cynicism ⚧Copy and paste this in your sig if you passed biology and know gender and sex aren't the same thing.⚧ |
by Condunum » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:11 pm
by Liriena » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:16 pm
I am: A pansexual, pantheist, green socialist An aspiring writer and journalist | Political compass stuff: Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92 For: Grassroots democracy, workers' self-management, humanitarianism, pacifism, pluralism, environmentalism, interculturalism, indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBT+ rights, feminism, optimism Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism, cynicism ⚧Copy and paste this in your sig if you passed biology and know gender and sex aren't the same thing.⚧ |
by Condunum » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:29 pm
by Liriena » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:36 pm
I am: A pansexual, pantheist, green socialist An aspiring writer and journalist | Political compass stuff: Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92 For: Grassroots democracy, workers' self-management, humanitarianism, pacifism, pluralism, environmentalism, interculturalism, indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBT+ rights, feminism, optimism Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism, cynicism ⚧Copy and paste this in your sig if you passed biology and know gender and sex aren't the same thing.⚧ |
by Condunum » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:41 pm
by Liriena » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:49 pm
I am: A pansexual, pantheist, green socialist An aspiring writer and journalist | Political compass stuff: Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92 For: Grassroots democracy, workers' self-management, humanitarianism, pacifism, pluralism, environmentalism, interculturalism, indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBT+ rights, feminism, optimism Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism, cynicism ⚧Copy and paste this in your sig if you passed biology and know gender and sex aren't the same thing.⚧ |
by Nightkill the Emperor » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:53 pm
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Condunum » Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:09 pm
by Liriena » Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:23 pm
I am: A pansexual, pantheist, green socialist An aspiring writer and journalist | Political compass stuff: Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.92 For: Grassroots democracy, workers' self-management, humanitarianism, pacifism, pluralism, environmentalism, interculturalism, indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBT+ rights, feminism, optimism Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism, cynicism ⚧Copy and paste this in your sig if you passed biology and know gender and sex aren't the same thing.⚧ |
by Condunum » Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:34 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor » Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:39 pm
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Astrolinium » Wed May 01, 2013 12:40 pm
by Esternial » Wed May 01, 2013 12:51 pm
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Daisuke shook his head. "No orgy, I'm afraid." he said after a minute, surveying the group and sighing. "Instead, we'll simply be using a portal to go to Lesotho. In fact, that's why you're here..."
He walked over to an old portal creating machine, a similar one that had been here a decade prior when the bunny queen and some students had been sent to Dys. He pressed a button and a portal appeared in a wall, showing a very highly advanced city with towering skyscrapers and a bright blue sky.
"Alright," Daisuke waved. "Get going."
When they all walked to the other side, Dai shut the portal.
And a man in an absurd costume greeted them. "Hello," he said, shaking their hands. "My name is John Harrison, codename 'Captain America'. I'll be helping you in this mission."
by Individuality-ness » Wed May 01, 2013 2:11 pm
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Daisuke shook his head. "No orgy, I'm afraid." he said after a minute, surveying the group and sighing. "Instead, we'll simply be using a portal to go to Lesotho. In fact, that's why you're here..."
He walked over to an old portal creating machine, a similar one that had been here a decade prior when the bunny queen and some students had been sent to Dys. He pressed a button and a portal appeared in a wall, showing a very highly advanced city with towering skyscrapers and a bright blue sky.
"Alright," Daisuke waved. "Get going."
When they all walked to the other side, Dai shut the portal.
And a man in an absurd costume greeted them. "Hello," he said, shaking their hands. "My name is John Harrison, codename 'Captain America'. I'll be helping you in this mission."
by Erinkita » Thu May 02, 2013 3:50 am
by Nightkill the Emperor » Thu May 02, 2013 5:41 pm
Erinkita wrote:Jillybean was dreaming. Her dreams were always lucid, as all clowns’ were. You didn’t live your life in performances without learning the difference between illusion and reality. But it was a good dream, so she let it happen as it was wont. She walked towards the marquee, retracing the steps she had taken three years ago, on the best day of her life. Her heart beating out a samba of excitement and nervousness, she pushed aside the flap and entered. It was just like it had been in real life; the harsh orange glow of the burning torches arranged around the ring; the heavy, fragile silence that begged for some noise to happen; the carefully blank faces of the entire troupe looking expectantly at her. They were all there. Baggy Britches, Calamity Jane, Old Flubbo, Smeraldina, Pringles and Shingles, Ace Bandage, Da Hatta, L.O. Elle, Gramma Huggs, Animatronic Abe Lincoln, Fizgig, Rainbow Dottie. And standing apart from them all, the bucket clutched ceremoniously in his gloved hands, Dr. Whiteface. His face was as stern as ever, but there was pride there. She could see it. This was the best day of her life. The day she became a true clown. Her baptism of confetti.
“And then she was brutally murdered,” that smug, high-toned voice intoned mockingly behind her “Now that’s a punchline.” She felt his hands on her shoulders, his nails biting into her flesh.
"You weren’t here!" she protested "That was later!" His laughter was her only answer.
In the waking world, in another place, two clowns made their way to the back of a pub. Both were old men, one elegantly appointed all in white with a pair of pugs trotting after him, the other forlorn-looking in hobo garb with an air horn clutched in his hand. The two sat down across from a man who had come here to get away from exactly this kind of bullshit.
"Mr. Crowley," the white clown said in a voice like a zombie Ian McKellen "I am Dr. Whiteface. My auguste, Old Flubbo." The hobo clown honked his horn by way of introduction. One of the pugs sniffed curiously at Aleister Crowley’s ankle. "We understand you to be a schoolmaster. We wish to enrol a student."
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Nightkill the Emperor » Thu May 02, 2013 5:50 pm
Zarkenis Ultima wrote:Alastor heard the voice, this time a voice that did not torture his senses and sear his mind, though it was still obviously a voice that spoke in favor of the Fae, and therefore, since every infected being was a slave of them, a voice that was controlled by the Fae. Looking at the source, the demon warlord's eyes regarded the angel girl with pity for having ended up in such deplorable state as a slave of these creatures, though part of him wondered if she could even feel her condition, or if her mind was simply no more.
"Life is rather chaotic as it is, lady." Alastor said to the angel. "But I sincerely doubt that speaking any further will serve any purpose. You are but a slave of the Fae now, after all." He added afterwards, drawing his sword as he saw that the angels and dwarves had begun to gather around them, surrounding the diamond.
Erinkita wrote:Sisitu's helmet protectedd her from the harmful effects of the Fae's voice, but the sound cut into her mind nonetheless. Crouched inside the diamond of protection, she felt her gorge rise and her heart pound. A primitive fear reaction, so mammalian. Despite everything, still a slave to the flesh. She held no fear of the enslaved people around her. For them, she only had pity. The reason for sickening squeeze in her stomach was the invisible force controlling them. She was a fool to ever want to seek out the Fae, she realised. The look on the old man's face, all those centuries ago, she understood it at last. She pitied her younger self almost as much as the poor souls who pressed in all around her.
Control. The lesson of the day had been control. The cat demon's mind had been a simple thing, but she let herself get distracted with dreams of mortality and let it slip away from her grasp. Having her entrails torn out was a lesson she wasn't likely to forget. Erase distractions. Focus. Control. The kappa on either side of the diamond slashed out with their wakizashi. warning strikes that didn't mke contact, intended to keep the enemy at bay. Sisitu opened her war chest and drew forth an ordinary chicken's egg. Focus. Control. Exert your will. Summon. She hurled the egg into the air, over the heads of the armoured soldiers and into the midst of the mind-slaves. Where it smashed on the tunnel floor, a cockatrice appeared in a burst of feathers. The dog-sized chicken monster belched a small cloud of foul black smoke as soon as it was summoned, petrifying the flesh of the angels and dwarfs it touched. Sisitu hurled another egg in another direction, hatching another cockatrice which did the same. Smash. Smash. Smash. Smash. She let loose the full half-dozen, sure to throw them out of breathing range of herself and her companions. This left the infected colonists closest to them unaffected, but thinned out the approaching horde considerably and impeded others with the obstructing living statues. Focus. Summon. Control.
Further down the tunnel, the tikbalang scouted out the area. It was shaken but not cowed by the voice in its head, and the zombies failed to even notice it. It smiled to itself when it heard the sounds of battle behind it. With any luck, these unfortunate creatures would kill the Sumerian and it would have its freedom, as well as some amusement with whichever of her companions outlived her.
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Nightkill the Emperor » Thu May 02, 2013 6:09 pm
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Nationstatelandsville » Thu May 02, 2013 6:39 pm
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Harrison was going to reply, but then he paused. "Apologies. Change of plans, I got an email. I've been reassigned, but-"
"I'll personally fill in." Rick Sanchez said, walking up to them. If they had the smarts (INT over 6), they'd see that he wasn't the real Rick, but a very well built android. Daisuke would flip his shit, as would D. But Sanchez looked at them. "Come with me, let's have some coffee and a seat. Here's what we know." he said, walking. "We know that it was not Heaven, or at least not an angel- we have angel detecting devices in many of our major bases nowadays, or we are installing them as soon as we can. We believe it was another force altogether. We are investigating Fae involvement." he explained as they walked into a Starbuck's.
Astrolinium wrote:Parnell felt a curious warmth trickling down his leg as he discovered that he had pissed himself. Shakily, he said, "Hey there, uh, Fluffy. You look like a rather angry doggy... you k-know what I do when I'm a-angry is I p-p-play let's not eat the m-mild-mannered admi-administra- secretary!" He fished in his pocket, looking for something - anything - that would help him save himself, cursing his luck that Eric wasn't here. Some music would do wonders to soothe the savage beast, he thought.
Astrolinium wrote:M.T. stared at Lewis with all the warmth of an antarctic wind. Removing his spectacles - he wore spectacles to help reading, as the millennia had not been kind to his eyesight - he sighed with all the force of the monsoon.
"I would recommend," he said dryly, "that you might find some class in A Concise Guide to Victorian Manners and General Niceties, by Dr. Edward Cuthbert. Although, I was unaware that they were letting demons read now - I suppose another fine art is finally being handed to the rabble so they might defecate liberally upon it. And no, I do not have cancer. I am merely impossibly old, and as such have little patience for the mewling spawn of uncultured brutes."
He chuckled, because that would have been a lovely little bit of wordplay had it been expressed in Proto-Amerindian.
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