Zelph was a bit used to this game already, though it was never much easier each time they went through it, he just knew not to take the bait, "But is it not better to wait until she is older and stronger before taking claim like that? You know her body won't grow any more if you do. Unless you're scared she'd have the willpower to beat you at that point cause you're a second rate demon." he said pointedly at the demon, this time trying to intentionally get a rise out of him, though internally he was terrified this could go horribly wrong.
When all the crawlers were finally taken care of, Zelph first went over to the zombies and retried the daggers back and cleaned them up while waiting for their focus on the blood to start reaching the end. Zelph tried standing with his usual confidence though his cold was betraying his ability to be as convincing about it as he spoke up, "Orcus." he paused a moment before continuing, "You know what I'm going to say, do I need to repeat myself?" he wasn't sure if he was going to be cooperative, demand something, or just completely ignore him. It was a gamble, but he looked over towards Hedgrit and Iridia. Iridia grabbed Hedgrit and cast an invisibility spell that also hid scent and silenced them. It was a powerful spell and one she usually reserved for when they were overwhelmed and needed to hide from a horde until it passed. But a wave of exhaustion hit Iridia hard as she fell on top of Hedgrit with her wings loosing their glow and twitching as she gasped out.
Zelph watched the dark form spread around Tellia and was originally going to come close to fight the crawlers, but knowing full well he might leave himself vulnerable to the bloodbath if he got in the way. He readied his dagger to throw it at any of the ones that seemed to jump straight at her. Meanwhile Iridia was starting at the scene with an intense amount of shock in her eyes, and possibly a bit of fear too. She managed out in almost a croaked voice and said, probably too softly, "H-Hedgrit... Hedgrit get up."
Iridia's eyes widened as she quickly used her magic to push the crawlers back away from them. She tried to pull Hedgrit back so he wasn't laying right there was vulnerable as she was before she started yelling, "Up. Up! There are crawlers!" she didn't know if she was able to get Hedgrit up but one of the crawlers started walking up closer before having a knife stab straight into his head. Zelph was up on the top with his arm still out with another dagger as he yelled, "Iridia, help Tellia!" "Listen you fucking brat I'm trying to help Hedgrit right now and I'm more nervous about the dwarf dying than your sister's inner demons!" Iridia yelled back, sounding out of breath and tired as the fairy somehow miraculously pulled the dwarf a pretty good distance back to safety. Though she was feeling tired. Zelph went to go and try and cut himself to start the ritual but felt how droopy he was from his sickness and he whispered, "Shit..." as he quickly tried to climb down the ladder so it was safer.
"Well, I can't eat bon-bons since I'm only able to eat vegetables. They can be cooked, but if I eat them mixed together or with anything extra on them... well, it isn't very good for me. But I really like red grapes. I haven't had them in a very long time since they don't really grow around here and the only reason I used to have them was because they were offerings people gave us for our magic." Iridia fluttered around a little thinking about it and said, "I wish I could eat them. But... I might be able to create them with my magic. It might not be as tasty though... it's kind of a trade off. But I can't try it today since it's just us two right now and I can't get tired or it's gonna be just you. And that's not fair for you."
"Ananta, you're doing the thing again." Kaida whispered to herself since the green-haired girl wasn't in range to hear her anymore. She'd been quiet the whole time over-viewing the situation and beating herself up a bit over not being no help at all other than giving Gantu the edge to escape. Kaida took a deep breath trying to get over herself as she continued whispering, "Overapologizing to the point of making people think you're brown nosing them." Kaida held her hand out to summon her keyblade. Once it was out, she stabbed it into the ground as it flashed and transformed into her usual glider and she got on it. She tried pressing her arm to try and get her keyblade armor on but it seemed to not be working properly. Kaida sighed and said, "It must have broke at some point... oh well." and Kaida began flying up into the sky following Stratos. 1/31
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Take took the coin and looked over it curiously as he moved it around in his hand to get a feel for it. The boy looked amused and reached into his pocket and pulled out one of the coins he managed to grab from the treasure horde in The Etherium and he showed it and said,"It kind of looks like the treasure that Silver was obsessed with. It's interesting... and it... makes more sense I suppose. But I feel like it would be so easy to lose these on the floor or something. Munny at least stands out a bit... but..." Take placed the gold coin back and kept observing the gil and continued, "I could see where the confusion would come. They're so different." he looked at the family crest for some time and said, "I don't think I'll ever truly understand royalty. I've... tried learning about it, it's not something on my world, but it seems odd to mark something like this with a family sign. It's like they're overcompensating for something." he turned it around a bit more to look at it and said, "I don't even know which way is up so I can't tell if I'm looking at this right. But the raven? I can get behind a raven... wait..." Take flipped the coin around to figure out which way the raven was facing upward and then turned the coin back to look at it and said, "There we go... oh... it... it's supposed to be a stag isn't it? That's cool. I like stags. We used to have a lot more of them near my village... maybe we moved too far north or they moved away... I'm rambling." he held the coin back out towards Boreas , "Thanks for letting me look at it."
Take was still helping out when he heard Torrin ask a question about instruments and the boy shook his head and said, "I don't know how to play anything... I don't even know how well I'd sing and I would rather not try." the boy started boiling some water to hopefully start making hot cocoa without any problems. He tapped on the counter patiently before adding, "Well, you don't necessarily need a lot of money. But it's good to have knowledge of the resources you have. I don't know what gil is, from the context you're giving me it's your munny equivalent. Seems... odd for munny to be thrown away- what does gil even look like?" The boy's curiosity peaked as he turned towards Torrin and asked, "Do you happen to still have any on you? Or is this more of a Boreas question?"
"I'm sure he'll enjoy it when he is up. I don't know if Hedgrit is gonna immediately undo all of this." Iridia giggled before finishing up a final braid and saying, "Aaaand finished. I'm sure he's gonna love it." she rubbed her hands together and said, "He'll be up and about soon, so... when you finish up your little touches.. let's try and get a little bit of work done so when he wakes up he doesn't immediately know something's up. Shall we?" she floated over towards the bags and pulled out a couple water bottles she had yet to fill. As she was working she asked, "So... what's your favorite food?"
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"Hm... I know you said after you leave it'd be a while before we can call you back, but let's say a while has passed: how would we page you again?" Jaz kind of reacted a little disappointed at the fact that they just... looked like themselves. Where was the fun in that? A part of her hoped there was some form of cosmetic shop later then so she could change it up. A part of her was trying to look for a word that she couldn't remember and she gave up that point knowing forcing herself to think and remember would be a useless endeavor, "What are the terms of service? I can't remember them and I wanna read the terms and conditions I apparently agreed to in order for you guys to keep me here without being able to log out."
Jasmine was a bit confused by Inna's question when they specifically asked about some sort of prayer? Jaz was about to answer the question but was interrupted by Dot seeming to take her comment a little bit more to heart than she expected. She stood straight faced watching this happen before Rex seemed to jump in trying to break up a fight that wasn't happening. The girl sighed and moved her hair a bit when she silently listened to whatever basic questions they decided to ask. She thought the AI said he was in charge of players, NPCs, and the like. And not in game objects. So she assumed that meant his only ability to help was at basic bitch tutorial stuff specifically relating to a friends list or something. But apparently he was some goddamn map too and could explain other functions too. He was explaining mounts and specific locals that didn't really make sense to her. What the hell was this AI's purpose? Was he a full blown tutorial bot? Was he actually a more complicated AI and they are in the midst of being played? Or were it's abilities arbitrary for the sake of some greater cause. She didn't know, she quite frankly didn't care unless it brought her closer to those memory shards. A part of her was expecting if this was a fluke in the system that most players had, that these memory crystals were probably some heavily sought after item akin to... Jaz could not remember the specific game, if she could remember the game at all. The girl let out a very long sigh of distress of some kind before finally responding in Inna's direction, "I was breathing in and closing my eyes and I just do that with my hands. There's nothing to really explain there." She walked a bit of a way's forward before asking Dot, "So what exactly is your designation. Are you like... some sort of... mascot type thing that pops up in the corner for tutorials?" she paused in the corner and asked further, "Do other players have their own AI following them around too? Do they all start off suspiciously in teams of 6?"
