*waits for him to go*
*Give it five minutes and comes back*
*Rummages through his dufflebag for his Creative MP3 Player and earphones and takes his guitar and finds a corner and starts playing songs he likes and trying to learn how to play the acoustic guitar doing that method*
J
You already have 1@1 guitar skill, and as I mentioned when you were learning once, I have no idea whether to call it psi or tech or bod. I'll treat this as practice, though. /// (ge 23) while you practice, Fizgig sits about five feet away and listens. He doesn't say anything, just seems to enjoy the practice, and compliments you on your skill.
((I meant as training/practicing))
*smiles and takes out one earbud*
"Thanks I'm not even a average yet at it, but time is on my side. Besides just had to deal with Mr Personality. He damaged my calm."
J
Fizgig tries not to laugh. "He's a real charmer, right? I think you're very good. Not many people play music these days." Jewel looks from one of you to the other, then looks irritated. "What's going on here? You're both acting really weird to each other." Eria says, "What are you talking about? They seem exactly like usual." Jewel shakes her head and says "Something's up." Val is looking at you curiously, and Fizgig says, "We had a meeting of the minds while speaking with the captain. Nothing more." He's looking to you to reinforce the statement.
*smiles and puts down the guitar*
"You caught us Jewel, in the *looks at his watch* 10 minutes we left the Captain to walk down here, we decided to make you think something was up, just so you would make a fuss about something being up. Or you can just accept that being cooped up together for weeks, we didn't feel like adding to any more of the tension that will happen with people in a confined space for a extended period of time."
*sighs*
"We just decided that there was more to gain by being friends with each other, than at each other's throats. If your asking why I'm playing the guitar, and Fiz is listening, well I'm agitated and Fiz is enjoying the music, and I am trying to regain my calm."
J
"Fiz?" Jewel asks. She looks confused, but also abashed, so she shuts up. The boat continues moving, with Jewel and Eria bickering with each other, Val trying to calm them down, Mia and Chase (not here, and you probably don't want to know), and Fizgig listening to your practice and not saying anything to give anything away. (Ready for time to pass?)
*sighs*
"Let's take a walk Jewel."
*walks her to where no one is at*
"You win, something changed, it's not a bad thing, just something I can't talk about. It needed to be done. What does it mean to you, nothing other than the likelihood of this being successful has risen. If you can, do me a favor, get along with your sister please? I want to spend some time with Val and not worry that you two will be at it? Ok?
*smiles for her*
(If Jewel is cool with this, time can pass, and alone time, will be without Fizgig being near to witness it. No reason to make anyone uncomfortable, considering I can't tell anyone anything about what happen or will happen.)
She says, "Iknewit!" "Of course it means something to me, it's something I don't know!" The idea seems very frustrating for her. "Eri and I get along." //// Val is happy to be back with you, but not as happy as you are to be back with her. After several hours, she tells you she's much too tired and sore for all this behavior, and you're stronger than she remembers. and of course she goes to sleep. As for you?
*smiles and hugs Jewel*
"I hate not knowing things too, sometimes you just have to trust the person is doing it for you, and I am."
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"I will behave hun." *smiles and rubs her down before she goes to sleep, and I will allow my self the rare night of sleep to be near her.*
((If we are good now, can pass time))
J
Several weeks pass on the water; Captain Dread, you realize, navigates the ship and takes care of all the work by himself, which is impressive for a ship that would probably need about nine men operating it to begin with. You are above decks when you hear him yell, "Sail ho!" You see a much larger ship on the horizon, and Fizgig (who for the time since you've come back seems to have been avoiding you but is always nearby) says to Dread, "Don't even think about it. We're incognito, remember?" Dread glances at him, then looks at you, as if you're the one whose word matters.
*looks at him*
"Not going to happen, you would need our help, and that screams trap to me besides us wanting to get to our destination unannounced."
J
bumpy bump bump
bummmmppppp
Fizgig says to you before Dread can speak up, "Don't underestimate the captain; he could almost definitely take them on alone." Dread interrupts him. "They're a merchant galley; they won't even be able to touch me while I board them, and when they see my face, they'll likely jump overboard in fear." Fizgig says, "But, you heard the man! What if we're seen? Then they'll tell Sefyr, he'll put two and two together, and you'll be sleeping with the fishes." Dread reluctantly keeps his course. /// "Land ho!" comes the call several days later from above deck in the middle of the night, and you, Chase, and Fizgig go about waking up the girls. There's a silent tension in the air, and within the hour you're all on land. Fizgig says to you, "The final night of the full moon is tonight; once it sets, we need to take Sefyr on. I don't think we should bring anyone with us who might get in the way or hold us back."
*Nods*
"We should have Mia, Val, keep the kids safe, Val is a good fighter, I'd trust her to protect em, and let you me and Chase deal with Sefyr."
J
He nods to you. Zippers out and you reach another wooded area, this one with a different sort of feel han the old one; much more tropical where the last one more resembled temperate deciduous. You guys don't use the zippers through here, but after a few hours, you reach a cottage in the woods. Fizgig knocks on the door, and a few moments later, a man opens it, smiling, and asks, "May I help you?" He's dressed in jeans and a white tee, and has a sword at his hip. Fizgig tells him, "We're going on a dangerous journey and these four women need someplace safe to stay. Would you mind?" "Not at all." "Jhiaxus, this is Ken -- he's cool, we don't have to worry about them while he's around. Ken, this's Jhiaxus." Ken's expression changes for an instant when he looks at you, sizing you up, apparently, then he's all smiles again.
*looks Ken up and down and smiles*
"Good to meet you, Ken, if Fizgig says your cool, that's good enough for me. Give me a moment with the girls guys."
*pulls Val, Jewel and Eria off to the side*
"Val your in charge, I trust and love you, keep them safe. Jewel, Eria, be good, I will be thinking of you, and when we come back, you won't have to worry about bad men anymore, I promise."
*to Val*
"Once this is done and things are the way they should be, your training begins."
*winks*
*brings them all back*
"I am ready, be good girls."
J
Eria says, "I'm ALWAYS good." Jewel laughs sarcastically. Ken smiles big and ushers them into his house, then says to you, "You have nothing to worry about. Have a safe trip." Fizgig looks around and says, "We should walk to the edge of the forest, then use zippers there. By the time we're out of the forest, the moon will have set, and it'll only be a minute more before we get there." Chase seems tense, but Fizgig seems fully confident.
*Nods to Ken*
"Thanks for your help, I appreciate it."
*looking at Fizgig and Chase*
"I have no doubt as to the outcome, it's how we get there and how we handle ourselves when faced with choices that determines the person we are."
*no doubt in his mind as to who will win, just worried Chase will make the wrong choice*
J
The journey is uneventful. You get on your zippers and Fizgig lands on the roof of the mansion. "Armed guards at the door, and on the roof not even a lock," he informs you.
*smiles*
"I guess power and insanity lead to overconfidence or a trap. Shall we enter, and meet and greet our host?"
*prepared, and not giving Chase or anyone else any indication I'm anything more than when I started*
J
Chase wouldn't know how you were when you started; he's seen you fight once and knows you have some psychic abilities, but by no means does he know your full capability; for that matter, the reverse is true. You and Fizgig makes short work of a couple guards in the hallways who will be wondering in the afterlife what it was that killed them, and you reach a very large room, full of books. A feminine looking man dressed in a black trenchcoat, black pants, and a black shirt sits in an armchair. His eyes are bright lime green, his platinum blonde hair long enough to hang to the center of his back, well-cared for, and free. He says, without looking up, "Chase, I've been expecting you since you left Alex; to what do I owe the pleasure of my other two visitors?"
*smiles, and as a standard course of action here, always have my mental defenses on*
"I am Jhiaxus, Disciple of Odin, as to why I am here, that is a loaded question indeed. It could be how your men rape and pillage the towns they occupy, or it could be the starving people I saw in the market caused by your war, or it could be your a Power Guardian and you need to go. The last one is the main reason, the other two are just icing on the cake."
*to Fizgig*
"You never told me Sefyr was a chick, that's so progressive."
*grins*
J
Sefyr stands to his thin, six foot height, and now has drawn his nodachi, the blade of which is approximately equal to his own height. Fizgig jumps to the front of all of you, and the two begin fighting, Fizgig throwing his uchi-ne and Sefyr nimbly parrying them with his sword, Sefyr slicing at Fizgig and Fizgig dodging in ways that are nearly inhuman.
*smiles and gets out his lightsabre lights it and gets ready, and do the 6 second time stop it will be +10 less to a +50 do to a loss of a doubling, but not wanting this to take forever, running over and sliding the lightsabre up his body through his testes, helping him to divide, if he survives, get into lightsabre style and defend as I get back out of range*
J
Roll of 25 is in there -- but Fizgig does not stop, and without Sefyr blocking, he's cut to ribbons in less time than it takes you to even cross the room to him.
*looks to Fizgig*
"That was unexpected, well played Fizgig, well played."
*smiles*
J
As soon as time starts again, Sefyr's falling dead body is riddled with bullets and blasted by a shot from a shotgun; then it disappears. Fizgig answers, "I have no gift for magic, so I need to do my best to avoid or block any magic Anyway, we've got to get to Claude's. It won't be long before he finds out."
*nods and grabs the nodachi, obviously of quality, it was described that way before, and sheaves it*
"I always wanted one, such an elegant weapon for it's size. Yes let's make haste."
*Ready to leave*
J
(comparative wilp check: 5 you, 24 him) The nodachi disappears when he disappears. You leave the room and are confronted by two more guards; these two are ready for you.
((Didn't know he was a verser or wouldn't have tried))
*get in lightsabre style, draw and light both lightsabres and cut them to ribbons*
J
(He's not a verser, but he and all his things were teleported to another subdimension.) (33 20 30), (roll 22) (initiative 5, 70, 7, 55, 39, Fizgig, First Guard, Other Guard, Chase, You. Would you like to attempt to steal initiative?)
((No let Fizgig upstage me again :P))
*grins*
"I'll bring a crossword puzzle next time to pass the time."
J
Upstage you he does, nimbly cutting the one guard from ear to ear and the other from his stomach to his Just then Chase hands out the zippers, saying, "We might as well go out the window rather than trying to fight our way out."
*nods*
"Sounds like a plan, so aren't we expecting Blade soon on this shindig?"
J
Fizgig looks at you in alarm, then starts to motion to you to be quiet; you both notice Chase freeze in movement, though, and a moment later Blade appears from nothing, saying, "Why would you be expecting Me?"
*grins*
"For this"
*Still in style, still with lit lightsabres, and cut him in two, and steal init if I have to, Muscle Blocking, Panaramic Awareness the works. I want him delt with now, and not at a surprise moment where we didn't have the advantage*
J
Hmm... let me explain what you see. A seven foot tall, three and a half foot broad at the shoulder, dark grey suit of armor, holding a two-handed sword with a double-bladed axe head on the bottom; or is it a double-bladed axe with a two-handed sword blade at the bottom? At any rate, it wields the weapon with one hand and bears no other evidence of being male other than the size and depth of voice, does not seem hostile by your danger sense, but may be heat-resistant. With these factors born in mind, would you care to alter your course?
((Not really but anyway))
"Yes Sefyr, thought you could take us to see Claude to introduce us, Sefyr is indisposed at the moment, trying to keep his pieces together, of the army. He told us to call for you when we were ready for the introduction."
J.
He smirks, looking at you. "I've been watching your actions closely. It seems that your actions have been devoted more to Law than to Chaos, so it's a little strange to see you and Fizgig travelling together, but you also seem more devoted to Good than Evil to a much greater degree, and in that respect you two are somewhat similar at heart. We aren't forcing the All-Rulers to mistreat the three children; that's not part of the job description. It just has turned out that excellent warriors generally make poor parents; wouldn't you agree, Fizgig?" Fizgig responds, "That's my experience. Jhiaxus seems different." "You see, Jhiaxus, Claude has been a poor All-Ruler; Jewel and Eria both escaped, his paperwork is far behind where it should be, war and lawlessness are running rampant the world over. If you'd like to become the next All-Ruler, by all means, continue your quest." (Fizgig, seeing that Blade hasn't come for hostile reasons, has taken advantage of the time stop to cut his son's throat.)