Once he had gotten to the sick bay, it didn't take long for him to see that both Clarity and the weird ceiling guy, otherwise known as Sparky, already there. That didn't really mean all that much to him to be since he wasn't a fan of cramped spaces in general. Adding more people would only be making it worse for him. It wasn't long afterwards that he heard automated voice speaking to him. If his presence was being requested then his hands were pretty much times and he had to comply. That said, he was probably going to need some for of an excuse to justify where he was. Fortunately for him there was a small container of medicine that he could use. Pocketing the medicine, he went back towards the elevator and headed towards Deck 5. While Crow had been working on organizing his work space, it would appear that some other people had arrived in the sick by. He wasn't exactly sure just how long one of them had been here, but two had come down the ceiling. Odd when they could've just used the door like Aeros did, who taken a container filled with medicine used for headaches. Maybe he had one and Crow just didn't know. Well seeing as he had already left, Crow went back to what he was going before and listening to what was going on with the other three.
Hearing someone else call out Brianne's name, Creed looked towards the one that Felicia was speaking to. He'd recognized her at the one who opted to stay out of this, but she looked to be much worse for wear than she was the last time that he saw her. She seemed to be just as tense as she was before giving how she openly threatened Felicia, who just responded as calmly as she could. Probably for the best. As she ran off towards where Brianne was, Felicia questioned if he knew her. At first Creed simply shrugged. "I know that she's a shadow hunter, but beyond that I got nothing." Creed answered. Prior to all this he'd tried to stay out of any shadow hunter business, of course he had no idea that simply knowing one would get him involved. Sien was looking around at the scenery around them. He wasn't used to all this magic being around him at one time and taking into account that he could actually feel the magic made the experience all the better. When Gaia had started speaking to them, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that she had an empowering aura behind her voice, one that was easily felt behind each word that she spoke. After her words had sunk in, Sien's mind started to ponder what this 'charge' she had mentioned. Just what was it that she wanted in exchange for their various questions/requests. They were given the option to rest here until someone came to get them, maybe it would be a good idea to take that into consideration. Some of the others were doing the same so why not join them. "But what could she want from us as a charge?" Sien wondered aloud. Sien opts to stay. In all his years Valister never thought, let alone imagine, that he'd end up speaking to Gaia herself. It he were the kind of person to actually make a bucket list, this would probably be up there. Actually that probably wouldn't be up on the list on the first place. He'd either need some damn good foresight or sheer luck (which seems to be the factor in this case) for that to work. Naturally he was wondering what she meant by the charge, but he didn't feel like waiting around. Thus he opts to move on.
While Veera had given them a more in depth look into their reason for being here, Kruez continued to look around the village and all it's destruction. The more that he looked around, the more that he was reminded of his former home before it was presumably burned to the ground. An odd sense of reminisce washed over Kruez as he thought back to day. Still, he felt nothing towards most of the people that died there and there wasn't a reason that he should. They had condemn his father, the man who on numerous different occasions had defended them, solely for being a mage and when he was murdered, not a single person tried to help. He knew that not everyone fell into this category, for he did have a small amount if friends that wanted to help, but couldn't due to various means. They were the select few that part of him hoped had survived. Veera speaking to him had brought him out of this state of reminisce and back to reality. She had basically given them the choice of going Kaer or Oxenfurt, neither option he was all that willing to go for. "I choose to follow you." He wasn't going turn back now. At Talon's suggesting that he might've had friends or a job, Xross couldn't help but to laugh. Friend? To him all friends were were pawns to be used to your advantage or potential hindrance, that's why he never kept any pawns of his around for too long. "Nope, nope, nope and nope. Life is already such a bore, thus I do this to add a little spice to the mundane cycle. Though I suppose for you getting shot in the shoulder and locked in a dungeon for a night counts as well. By the way, this wouldn't be the first time I've taunted death and it probably won't be the last." A soldier into a director of an orphanage was quite the interesting change of work. Fortunately for Terra all Sweallow wanted to know with his question was the general idea and nothing too specific. Thus he wouldn't press her for more information that what she had told him. That said, this presented another issue for him. Seeing as how he had asked her from some information regarding her past, he thought it was only fitting for him to tell her to same. Thinking back on it, she was interested in his past with Katia so it possible that something else relating to his past would interest to. Likely not for the same reason, but we'll see. "If you'd like, I could tell something else about my past."
Having arrived at Pontarsfork, shortly after the two Witchers, the smell of the dead quickly swarm Kruez's senses. By no means was it a pleasant smell and unfortunately this wasn't the first time that he'd encountered this. Venturing further in Kruez had started to look around at the village, during which someone had called out to them. The woman didn't look like a witcher, but then again there wasn't a distinct notification on what witchers looked liked not taking into account their weapon choices. "We just got here so we don't know much." Kruez answered. "Surely there's someone else in your family that could take your place should you die, a sibling perhaps." Xross said, smirking. In truth he didn't know whether or not what he was saying was true in Talon's case, but judging from how he reacted to what he'd said earlier, he may have hit the nail on the head. The only way to know for certain was to keep pressing for information until he got something definite and that was exactly what he was going to do. Fortunately for Terra and Sweallow, the day that they had chosen to go out of was a nice one. There was a perfect balance between the amount of clouds that were in the sky and the amount of sky that they were able to see. As they were walking past a tree they could hear birds singing a cheerful tune. All and all, it truly was a lovely day. "Yes it is." Sweallow simply answered. Of course with the day being as it was, there wasn't much to really talk about regarding it, so Sweallow tried to think of another topic that they could speak about. "So what was it that you did before ran an orphanage?"
It wasn't all that long before Reitan was running at full sprint towards the battle against Kalak. Getting halfway there he saw a black disc flying towards him. Reitan quickly side stepped the disc, but it still had managed to nick his side. Fortunately it wasn't enough to hinder his progress. Closer and closer he got before finally he stuck his lance in the ground and used it to pole vault into the air. His trusted lance never left his hands as it was pulled into the air with him. With a quick twirl he aimed the point down towards Kalak. Imperial Lance First Stance - Amaterasu. The point was engulfed in flames as Reitan struck down towards the demi-god.
"I'm good, I prefer walking oppose to crawling through the ceilings."Aeros replied. Clarity sure was an odd one with her odd metaphors, but Aeros didn't judge. Instead he started walking down the hall and towards the elevator that lead to the medical bay. He wasn't so much curious as to what Clarity's business there was as to just going there on a whim. That and he was curious as to if that so called short cut was actually faster than taking the elevator.
"Gotcha, one black eye and some arm bruises." Breaking his arm would be the much easier option, but that would be considered too much fun, which he was instructed not to have. A shame, though probably for the best. "Don't worry, it'll be over soon." Having said that, Damian swung his fist towards Lexander's eye. ~One ass kicking later~ Now making their way through the portal were Damian and the now injured Lexander. As requested he was given a very noticeable black eye and some bruises on his arm. He made sure not to break it, but it would definitely hurt to move for awhile. "This convincing enough for ya, or should I add a few more touches?" Damian asked to no one in particular. The first person to answer it would probably be the one he'd listen to, which could mean anything for Lexander if he wasn't the first to answer.
Lumen was keeping quiet while the others discussed some sort of plan of action right now. He'd never kept up with politics and thus he didn't have much to say in regards to Rayyd being on the run after destroying the binding totem. That said he didn't that Rayyd should have to live his life on the run, despite barely knowing the guy. No one really deserved to live like that from his standpoint. With the exception of Laurenthinus, who was questioning Rayyd on who called himself a fool, Alice, who was being just as quiet as he was, and Conrand who had offered Rayyd a place to stay, the others seemed to agree that they should probably go looking for Shyra and Athel who'd yet to show up. "Should we back track in search for them?" Lumen aksed.
When Felicia asked how he was involved in all this, he briefly scratched the back of his head. "Well it's not really much compared to occupying this place nor pissing off the Inquisitor, but because I know Brianne I'm being targeted." It was a pretty stupid reason to be dragged into all the mess to be honest, but there wasn't much he could do about it. He clearly didn't have too much of a say in all this. Sien paid Nick no mind. He could care less if Alarick cared why he said what he said, what he wanted to know was what was ailing his friend so that he could do something to help. He didn't really expect Nick to understand how he worked, not many people did. Thus another reason why he generally distanced himself from other people. So there was no problem with him going off on ahead towards the safe house. That was when a man named Aethelrick appeared next to him, further urging him to head towards the safe house. "Sien." He simply said. ~One walk to the safehouse later~ Once everyone who was going had arrived at the safehouse, the portal had been formed. Staring into the darkness, he waited til after Masque and Valister had gone in before heading in himself. Upon stepping out of the other side of the portal, Valister took a look around at the vast jungle that surrounded them. A place like this was fitting for Lady Gaia. Valister didn't have much to ask the Ifrit who had appeared to be their guide,so he simply remained silent as he waited.
Now for someone such as Reitan, who due to his upbringing, wasn't the best at recognizing emotions. Thus Teliana's actions had left him quite confused. From the disappearance of her weapon, to her moving closer to him unarmed and her lowering her voice to a whisper, Reitan wasn't sure just what her plan was. While that was the case he feel something despite the lack of knowing what was going on. It was almost as if a part of him that he wasn't completely familiar with was trying to tell him how to react to this. By offering a chance to fight Kalak again, as well as whatever else she was doing that part of him still wasn't sure what was going on, it wasn't that hard, nor did it take that long for him to come to a decision. Thus he backed away from Teliana and lowered his lance. "If you say so." Pretty much agreeing to her terms, Reitan started to turn towards where Carissa had gone. In the process he'd caught a glimpse of Teliana's chest which caused his cheek to faintly flush. Not sure why that had happened, but the lancer wasn't sure why a lot of things were happening at the moment and he would be there awhile if he tried to stand there adn figure it all out. Thus once his back was facing Teliana, he ran towards the others.
No, that wasn't obvious. Aeros thought to himself, just as the blue skinned woman waved it off before revealing what she really wanted. The medical bay, yeah he could help her find it. "I'm Aeros." Before he could reach out his hand to shake hers, a tile had fallen from the ceiling and landed directly in front of Clarity. This prompted the ensign to look and and see the person who's head was poking out of the ceiling. "Uhh okay." Not having any idea on how to make on the mini wrench tale Clarity had told the guy in the ceiling. "Anyway I can take you to the med bay if you want."
Sien could do nothing but stand there and watch as Alarick punched the side of a library out of clear frustration, as well as directed some of that anger at him. The words hurt, but Sien knew not to take them to heart. Alarick clearly wasn't being himself right now and and lashing out that he did would not only be out of character for him, but wouldn't help out the situation at all. Instead Sien stood his ground and replied with. "I think that there is something wrong with you, that much was pretty damn clear when you left the Institute, but what I don't know is what's wrong. Hence why I asked." Sien replied. Unfortunately the warlock wasn't given any direct answer, instead the nephilim walked his way down an alley and placed up to runes behind him. Hearing his friends words, Sien sighed. There wasn't much that they could do if he wasn't going to let them help. "Come on, let's go." He said to Nick, heading in the direction of the safe house. While Valister had indeed been silent up until Morrigan had actively spoke to him, he was observing all that was going one before him. Part of him was unsure about the portal, it was a small part, but a part of him nonetheless. In all the yers that he's been alive, the main method of travel he used were either walking on his own two legs or flying through the air and nowadays he only did that on night were the sky was covered in clouds. "Yes I am, is it almost time to be off?" "Yeah, I meant here in the institute." Creed clarified, after she answered the question. So despite her being here for only a few hours, things had taken a couple of turns here and lead to well, the so called Inquisitor be after her now. He would asked just what exactly she did, but that had already been explained when Rhett was still out here so there was no need to ask again. Creed stood there for a bit, trying to think of something else to say when he decided he might as well introduce himself. "I'm Creed, by the way."
Zephyr wasn't sure to be concerned or somewhat relived when Ana said that this fog wasn't natural, but he was leaning more towards concerned. It was already hard enough to see just what was ahead of them and while Ana's flame did make things somewhat better, it only helped for their immediate area, leaving a good amount of the surrounding fog still dark and hard to see through. "Hopefully there isn't anything hiding in this fog." Zephyr muttered to himself. If the fact that Veera had punched Keenan in the stomach wasn't a clear sign that she wasn't amused by what had just transpired, the fact that she had just up and left was a pretty clear indication of that. "Typical." Kruez said with a shrug before running behind Keenan. When they had started to catch up to her, there wasn't much that Kruez had to say on the matter on her briefly ditching them as for anything else that may be wrong, Kruez had no idea whether or not there actually was or if she was just being herself. "You say that like I care whether or not it was an invitation." By this point Talon probably already figured out that Xross rarely cared for what the other person thought, felt, or said. The fact that he was injured made little difference to him right now. "I suppose you could drop dead, you would be free of me and all your problems, but you wouldn't do that. Oh no no no no, you have people that care for you." Ah the whole 'people who care about you' card, or anchor as Xross saw it. It prevents one from doing anything that would cause them distress. or send them to the pits of despair. Either Terra was bad at hiding her disappointment or she was trying to guilt trip Sweallow, whatever the reason behind it was Sweallow heard the tone loud and clear. They shouldn't be out for much longer, otherwise they'd be risking more harm to Terra's already injured back. On the other hand however, they didn't quite have to go back right now. After giving it some thought, Sweallow had reach a decision. "We could walk around for a bit longer, but you have to let me know if you're back starts acting up."
Sien's attempt to get a better understanding on what was going about as well as one could expect given that there were still some information that he was lacking and thus had to assume to have in fit. Needless to say, it wasn't going all that well, so he decided to put this on hold for the time being. For right now he needed to deal with the fact that something had upset Alarick. Sien wasn't sure just what it was that had upset him, but he knew it must have been something big given the expression his face. "Did something happen?" Sien attempted to asked while following behind the nephilim. The talk between Rhett and Felicia had gone without any fight breaking out which was a good thing, but there was another issue now. After seeing both Alarick and Rhett run off towards the room that Brianne had gone to early. He was right, there was something wrong with her. It must have something to do with why her arm was trembling back at the bar. Creed certainly didn't know just what had happened back then and he wasn't trained to be able to figure out on his own either, but what he did know was that he was going to help her. Not right now though, he got the feeling that this wasn't exactly the best time for that. Instead he choose to speak with Felicia."So, just how long have you been here?" Creed asked. There wasn't a particular reason behind him asking this, just a mixture of curiosity and him just asking the first thing that he could think of.
"You're more than welcome to try, though I can't say that you'll succeed." It was hard to tell whether or not he was just being cocky, arrogant or just both. Either way he was making it pretty clear that he wasn't about to give up easily, no matter what the risk that were before him were. "Do you think I am some kind of factory that can produce remarks on a whim, dear sir you wound me." Xross said, changing his tone so that he sounded like he was insulted, though it would be pretty clear that he wasn't in any way shape or form. "Though, if you really want to hear a another sarcastic remark, I guess I have no choice but to stick around with you." And just like that, the slightly offended tone turned back to a mocking one. "I'll be fine." Kruez replied. Naturally he'd probably be grossed out, but he would be able to keep it together. As they continued traveling, they came across someone else. This person had said to be 'Veera's older brother of sorts' which wasn't something that Kruez could question so he just left it alone. The man, who introduced himself as Keenan, requested his name. A request Kruez soon obliged in. "Kruez." Sweallow wasn't all too surprised that she managed to explain what it was that she was holding with ease, but what did catch him off guard was how she was describing various other items among the shop. She was clearly displaying her knowledge on the topic, much to the disapproval of the owner, who had started glaring at them. Basically yet subtly telling them to leave the shop. Terra had noticed this as well and suggested that they leave now. "I agree." And without saying another word, he guided her towards the exit.
Kruez assumed that when Veera was referring to his arrvial at Kaer, she meant the first time that he arrived there. It was kinda odd given that she was the reason that he'd arrived there, well the mode of transportation anyway. He was free to decline her offer, but he did so yeah. Anyway Kruez looked over in her direction. "Well you have another mage, Evander, open a portal that lead to Kaer. That's pretty much the way I got there." "Xross, you're royalness." Xross said in what was clearly a mocking tone. He could've brought up the fact that he was there first when Talon had showed up, least at the bar anyway, but those were minor details. Especially since he actually has followed people around before for the sole purpose of messing with them. It was at this moment hat Zephyr sneeze out of nowhere. He got the feeling that someone very irritating was thinking of him. Not sure why he would have this feeling in the first place, so he just shrugged the feeling off. Back with Xross, he made no attempts to move despite Talon's request. Instead he only moved closer. "And what if I don't, it's not like you're in any condition to do something about it. But I welcome you to try." And I'll be sure to exploit that shoulder injury of yours as painfully as possible. Ah taunting, it worked easier when the target was already irritated and even better when they were quick to act on said irritation. Once more Zephyr sneezed out of nowhere. Seriously, just who was thinking about him? Sweallow allowed Terra to take the item from his hand once he'd held it up to her. "My pleasure." Hearing her request to explain what it was that she was holding, Sweallow considered it. While he did have knowledge in the field of medicine and alchemy was sometimes used in said field (and Mok totally isn't pulling that out of his ass), his actual knowledge on the topic of alchemy was quite minimal at best. So after pondering Terra's suggestion, he replied with. "Go right on ahead, alchemy had attracted my curiosity at times."
Despite the various number of obstacles flying towards him, Aeros was having little trouble dodging as much of the simulated debris that was thrown in front of him. The main objective was just that, avoid as many of the obstacles that he could. Of course there were some that it was very difficult for him to avoid, thus instead of trying to dodge, Aeros instead destroyed them with the firing systems. He was in his own little world right now and that's likely how it would stay, least until he heard a voice over the intercom. "This is Captian Altius. We will be setting off. Those scheduled for duty will report to their posts immediately." Well there wasn't much that he could do about that. Thus he ended the simulations and started to make his way back to his station (Wherever that is). He'd gotten off the elevator on deck 5 and took a couple steps down the hall. He noticed that there was someone who clearly looked lost. "Is there someone or someplace you're looking for?" Aeros asked the wandering girl.
So despite being the one who'd kidnapped Conrad and Tessa seemed to be a pretty okay guy and that was just because Conrand had said so. He didn't appear to be a bad person based off the concern he had shown for Laurentinus's injury. "Shadowweaver?" This was something else that someone was going to have to explain to him. Fortunatately Kara did, kinda sorta. Right now as for the time being he just assumed that Shadowweaver was a pet of his and as for Shyra and her compaion, Lumen shrugged before saying. "Maybe she got lost?"
Lumen was the next person to hear voice in the distance, so when he saw Kara and Laurentinus get up and walked towards said voices, his gaze followed in the direction they were walking in. Upon seeing that it Conrad and Tessa that had arrived, he got up from where he was sitting and walked over to them. That was when he noticed the spider and the other guy who were there too. He wasn't all to concerned with the guy whoever, for the spider had most of his attention. Given was had recently happened involving spiders, he was a bit cautious to be around this one. Hearing what Alice said to him didn't help with his caution at all, but so far it didn't look as hostile as the other ones did. "So who's that?" Lumen asked, motioning to the guy Kara had gone and hugged.
"Wouldn't be the first time." Zephyr replied. He took a step forward to show that he planned to follow behind them into the city. I wished that wasn't true though. Kruez silently followed behind Veera as they continued to follow the directions the tracks had gone in. The silence had been broken twice throughout their walked, the first time was when Veera whistled and the second being when she asked him about his story. With a shrug Kruez started speaking. "There's not much to tell. I'm from a village a far ways from here and had a fairly decent life, despite being oblivious to how some of the other people felt about mages. Being oblivious to all that sure was great while it lasted, but all good things must come to an end as they say and in my case, it came to an end when both my parents were murdered." Kruez explained, his face unchanged as he did. Following the literal self destruction that occurred yesterday, Xross did a fair amount of walking around aimlessly. There wasn't much point of heading back to a bar at this time of day, most of the 'easy to mess with' people (as Xross saw fit to named them as such) wouldn't be there yet and thus the fun that he could have there was severely limited. Which left him in his current situation. Eventually this walking around of his had taken him near a river that ran under a bridge. An interesting change of scenery, but he wasn't going to complain just yet. After taking a few more steps forward, something had caught his attention. Well someone at least. He'd managed to spot Talon there. Now this was definitely an interesting turn of events given how he'd gotten arrested the previous day and it also gave him something to relive his boredom of. It was a win win...for Xross anyway. "Well, well I never pegged you as the type to break out after being arrested." Their trip to the alchemist's shop had fortunately gone off without any issue. Upon seeing Terra attempted to lean over to look at one of the many items, Sweallow took a guess at what she was trying to look at, picked it up and held it up for her to look at. "Does this help?" This was followed by Terra bringing up that she knew some alchemy herself. "Interesting, maybe it'll give you more to talk about with the owner."
