/builders/ - Hero and Nation Builders!

>>19485

>>19441

Moko frowns and crosses her arm, mostly in thought, but also partially in deference to the idea

"Uh, to be honest, I don't really think of Krieg in that way…To be honest, I hadn't really thought of him that way. Uh, maybe before last night… but uh, I think that maybe pullin a knife on you was a good sign… I mean, for a bit it seemed like he could take it, but uh, maybe I am dodgin a bullet. Especially when he tried to do the uh, him or you thing. That was a bit….I dunno.. Can't think of the word for it.."

She coughs into her hand.

"But uh, yeah, that Alexei guy seems kinda uh….Yeah…"

>>19486

[Jenni]

Jenni sort of pauses when she realizes what she said. "Oh, right. Sometimes I forget what people like is…sorta exclusive. Luce, I didn't mean anything by that. I mean, during the war we didn't…well, we didn't…get too attached, you know? We couldn't."

Jenni then sits uncomfortably in her chair, then backtracks. "A bit what?"

>>19485

>>19423

>>19419

William's heart stopped for a moment as Lucy was shoved to the ground, thankfully her own nanomachines prevented her from cracking her head on the hall's floor. He, he didn't intend to outright hurt her, just that he was spooked about what she said, about her owning his ass, and all that…

"Oh jesus, I- S- I-I'm sorry, are you hurt at all?"

>>19487

Moko leans back into her chair, slightly blowing the air out her mouth. Man, Jenni had got her all flustered to the point where she was mixing up words.

"Uh… Well, he seemed like he was okay with you messing with him.. That uh, you were just using him to vent your uh.."

Moko slightly twists a bang of her hair around her finger.

"Frustration with the company, I guess. I thought he didn't have a breaking point. Or if he did, it was like his body: made of steel. Guess I I thought wrong, heh? But… You know, that wasn't right of him.. I couldn't just leave you… I don wanna sound like im offendin you.. But, to me, it seemed like he was trying to get me to pick him over you. That he was just done with the whole charade. I didn't want to hurt em… But, I figured that he'd understand.. Uh.. You know, your right: Kriegs got it easy. Hes a clean slate, almost. Nobody here asides from you, will uh, really hate him. I think. So he can uh, kinda just go as he pleases… But uh, the opposites true as well.. You gotta carry your uh, choices on your back. Everybody knows what ya did.. So, i was thinkin that you need more friends then he did.. And i thought he would realize that.. And when he didn't… It just seemed a bit selfish, ya know? That he couldn't bare letting me hang out with ya… But uh, thats just what I was thinking at the time"

>>19492

[Jenni]

Jenni nods slowly to herself. "Maybe I need to let it go or something. It's sort of pointless, I guess. It's just that every time I look at Krieg I see my friends. We lost Moko. We lost big. And because we lost big, there's a bunch of people that got away with a lot of things. Me included. People like him just sort of sit there with their finger in their nose. Implants and hardware like that? My friends didn't get that. Didn't get any of that. They were all good people and all they got was a shallow grave in some awful place that nobody can remember. Not even me." Jenni then rubs her eyes as she continues. "The only thing that I can remember clearly is the hatred I have for him and people like him. That's what is keeping me going. What is NOT keeping me going is being part of some academy where I have to worry about ending up front of a firing squad."

After a few seconds of pause Jenni puts her head on the table and makes a weird noise somewhere between a groan and a sigh. She eventually returns to a standard posture and stares at the ceiling as she talks. "It's just the anger has been my life for so long. If I give it up I won't have anything left. Krieg is incidental. It could be anyone, really. There's many Kriegs."

Jenni pauses and then speaks suddenly in a low tone. "That's the problem I think. The violence. It gets into your soul and it doesn't wash out. Ever. It drives out the good. So that is left of me is the worst with no justice. How am I supposed to feel? It sounds like I have no other way except revenge. There's no going back. After Colin figures it out it will be over. That moron I beat up was right, of course. Now it's just a question of what remain of me is worth keeping. Academy says yes. I am mixed about it, frankly."

>>19489

Lucy lies on her back on the ground, staring up at william, his arms still pushed out.

"You. . .you fucking hit me?" she says, staring back at him. The silence tense for a bit.

And even BIGGER grin erupts on her face.

"Good. A little fight in you, I like that. Shows you aren't a weak piece of shit.

Here I was worried I'd be getting nanite tech from a pansy."

Lucy get's up, and stands before William again, arms crossed, but with a little less. . .condescending attitude toward him.

"But I'm still wanting you to find out more about the nanites."

>>19420

>>19424

Azzy knows when to yield a losing battle. Maybe when Krieg is more sober and less sad this conversation can be resumed. Right now it would go nowhere.

Azzy grabbed the bottle and handed it to Gwen, holding up a hand to placate Krieg. "I th-think you've had enough my fr-friend. You fell ou-out of a chair after a-all."

Azzy leaned back into the chair.

[What to tell, what to tell? Make something up? No, not that good at improvising stories. Not telling them about my time in the wilds either, for obvious reasons. Maybe a story about time on base? Yeah, but which stor……. HA got it.]

"W-well back when I was st-staying with the UN, I g-got to try some of th-their combat sims. I w-was doing al-alright since they w-were low level ones, until a l-lieutenant Brigs d-decided to pull a fast one. H-he put me in a sim n-naked with two Succubi and a-an Incubi. N-needless to say I f-failed badly.

I d-didn't think it was f-funny, even though Br-briggs and a few others l-laughed. M-my friends on b-base didn't think so either, s-so we made a pl-plan. We Sn-snuck a snake into his bed. N-non poisonous of course.

A few hours l-later Briggs was running around the b-base, with a sn-snake latched to his chest. It d-didn't help that one of c-cooks was chasing him with a kn-knife yelling at him to hold st-still so he could cut it off. Th-this continued for an hour until Briggs r-ran into the Colonel. She r-ripped the snake off him, sans it's fangs and said.," Azzy stops appearing ton concentrate.

Then the Young necromancer appears in a false affectation presumably of the Colonel, "Lieutenant, I will not judge who, or what, you share a bed with. However if you wake me up in the middle of the night again, you will wish it was a snake you were dealing with.' Sh-she tr-transferred me here a w-week later. Ap-p-paretnly me pr-pranking someone back meant I w-was ready for school."

>>19530

Krieg continues to lay on the ground, only half listening to the story. He caught the words 'snake' and 'bed'. And /HE/ was the one that was supposed to keep it appropriate for young ears. His booze supply had been cut off, so he stood up and walked to the door. "Azzzyy. I'll be back later, alright? You keep out of trouble with all those snakes in your bed." He wandered for a while. Everything certainly was foggy tonight. He decided he might as well find a place to lay and enter his sleep mode. He picked out a nice bench and laid down. It was a nice bench for sure.

>>19530

Adamma howls with laughter as the story ends. "Oh man I wish I could have seen it."

>>19534

She settles down as she takes a long swallow, draining the last of her cup and then, smiling as always, stands up. "One day we're gonna have to declare a prank war on someone. But for now? I gotta go sleep. See ya later Azzy. Tin Man. Have a good night."

Adamma quietly lets herself out of the room after Krieg leaves.

>>19536

"L-later Adamma, Have a g-good night. Ping me if you w-wanna hang out."

>>19534

"O-Oh dear. TH-that's not good." Azzy followed Krieg for a bit until the Cyborg fell asleep on a bench. One that was in plain sight of the cameras. Good. Not like the Cyborg could get in too much trouble on a bench in plain view of security. Azzy returns to the room and goes to sleep.

>>19495

>>19495

Moko can only grimace in deference as she watches Jenni watch the ceiling.

Sighing to herself, she sits awkwardly and some would say uncomfortably. For a while, she just soaks in Jenni's question, thinking it over. Eventually, after stewing over it, she shrugs before speaking up.

"… You know, Jenni.. A couple months ago, I had little in experience of the world.. Even now, I guess im not exactly what'd you call a peoples person.. But uh, Jenni.. To me, your a good person… Uh… Just cause you did bad things, awful things… That doesn't mean your bad. Bad people can do good things, right? So whose to say the opposite aint true? So what if you've got blood on your hands? You did what you thought was right…"

Moko bumps Jenni with her elbow. She perks up, trying to grin. She halfway succeeds, her trademark toothy and creepy grin crawling onto her face.

"Besides, You have to have more than hate left in you… I see theres more to ya.. Colin sees more to ya… If revenge was all you wanted, you wouldn't be here would you? Nah. Youd still be fighting. Struggling out as a outlaw, right? There's something else… Some thing is keeping you going. And heck, even if its just revenge, you cant just give up now…."

Moko tries her best to tone down her smile, turning more melancholic.

"You've at least got to try to make it through this… You've still got your family. Your home. Your self…"

Moko leans back.

"If any one should be wondering why their here, it oughta be me.. Not really all that much to me… All ive got are these powers.. And even those, I cant keep a lid on… At least something remains of you. I am not even sure if there ever was something of me.."

>>19539

[Jenni]

As soon as Moko's elbow bumps her Jenni snaps out of her rut. A smile crawls over her face as she speaks. "There is Colin….and the nights have been easier. They'll be easier when he's around to, uh, provide company. Did I tell you I'm going to watch a movie with him? It's going to be great, I'm going to liquor him out of his gourd and to see if that softens up his whole…" [Jenni at this point changes her tone to a low mocking voice.] "..I MUST SAVE THE WORLD! Routine." After speaking, Jenni giggles to herself. "Yeah, I've got my sisters. I wish I could contact them, but I think Pheobe's in hiding. Merisa? Uh…hmm, maybe I can try it."

Jenni then thinks for a few seconds and taps on her chin with her index finger. After a few taps, she looks squarely at Moko and states: "You'll be fine. You're just not very into this. Eventually everything will work out for you. There's a difference between being mangled and starting out. I'm mangled, you're starting out. It's what, our second week? Yeah, you're good. Just need to study."

After a few seconds of contemplation she adds: "And maybe clean up your room a bit. I tried to put you in there but I had to clean a path through the thing. That's the worst thing about you Moko, and it says a lot when that's what I can come up with. I mean, I'm not super positive."

>>19514

"Well, um, that would require a few of them to be extracted, so that I can examine them back in my place…"

It was odd, how Lucy didn't seem to care that much about being assaulted. Well, maybe she likes it, in some way? Nonetheless, he should maybe explain his reasoning for the shove.

"…Anyway, uh, like I said, sorry for shoving y-you down, it's just that I, w-well, I got my eye out for someone else, if, if you know what I mean? Right?"

>>19544

"Like I said, if you need samples, I got all the samples you need boy."

Lucy gives William a cock-eyed look. This guy was looking at someone already huh.

"Eye out for someone else eh? What, I"m not good enough for ya?

Who's the lucky gal anyway?"

>>19546

"Well, I don't know how you will /provide/ said sample, so… Um, mind following me, over to my place?"

William would gesture for Lucy to follow, leading her out of the hall and into the campus, over to room 215 of the Male's dorms. On the way there, he expanded more on who he 'got my eye out for'…

"Anyway, do you, well, have you heard of a girl, uh, female by the name of Moko? You know, small, long black hair, appears half-asleep all the time?"

>>19547

"Well, I suppose you could just use that tentacle of yours to-"

William mentions Moko.

Lucy stops in her tracks, noticeably quiet.

"Yes.

I know Moko. She's my friend."

Lucy now takes a different kind of analytical look at William, and her attitude becomes serious. Her eyes don't look at William as she asks

"You're going to give me and honest answer:

'What do you want with her'?"

Moko just dealt with the loss of a potential love, Kojo, and from what she heard got into a fight with Krieg. It was only recently that she actually seemed happy. Protecting Jenni was one thing, having to look over Moko was another.

Lucy turns to face william, a different kind of dark grin on her face as she balls her fists together.

"Because so help me God, if I don't like what I hear. . ."

Lucy cracks her knuckles.

>>19549

The sudden shift of tone of Lucy sent a shiver down William's spine, making him know very well that if he says the wrong thing, he'll be ripped apart both with words, and with force… Well, at least he can guess she's a friend of Moko.

"W-W-w-wW- WELL, I-I, uh, t-to be honest, I'm kinda in, well, 'love', with her? A-and, since she a-appears to be like me, f-from first impressions, that w-we might have a… Er… A-a- A more s-'serious' relations-ship?"

…Hopefully this'll tame the beast, else William will experience the whole nine yards of /PAIN/ and \TORMENT\.

>>19536

>>19538

>>19534

Gwen shrugged and left with the others, draining the rest of the bottle as she did so, there was hardly any left after two parties anyways. She followed after Krieg and gave him a nudge when he lay down on the bench saying, "That doesn't look like a comfortable sleeping spot, what's say I help you to your room eh?"

>>19605

Krieg was alone here, he could feel it. This place was cold and foggy. He couldn't remember /where/ he was, but he remembered he didn't like it. He stood up, shaking a little as he looked around. A dream, that's what it was. Taking a step forward, he immediately lost his footing, dropping over some unseen cliff into a unknown crevice equally hidden. He fell, trapped in a limbo of empty space and uncertainty. Suddenly, a jolt. Some unknown hand had grabbed him by the collar, suspending him mid fall. And then the entity showed itself.

It was /her/, the one he didn't like. What has /she/ doing here? "Not going to meet me with pleasantries?" She asked in her usual, taunting manner, dropping him then catching him on her palm, only to turn that hand over and catch him again. "That's not very polite of you."

Krieg snarled, murmuring, "Why is it you always come torture me?"

She chuckled and leaned in close, looking at the cyborg on her hand. "Oh, that's the beauty of it. You're torturing yourself. I'm just here to punish you for it. Have you seen the actions as of late? You're going to get yourself killed at this rate."

Krieg raised his arm out towards her, preparing to fire a volley of energy. It did not fire, however. Rather, pain began to spread through his arm, cracking it as the metal began to peel back and away. He cried out for some unknown help as his arm was reduced to little more than a nub.

She laughed, "Why, Krieg, fighting it is just tearing you apart. I'm just here to help you. I've managed to get through to you in here." She leaned in close, "Or I could just be a demonic image your brain uses to perceive what it can't understand as evil, which you've been doing quite a lot lately. But that possibility is /unlikely/, or you've convinced yourself of that at least." She laughed.

A look of fear washed over Krieg as her grin grew wide. She dropped him.

Falling again, Krieg's look of fear only grew. He hadn't made bad decisions, had he? No, people had betrayed him, he had tried to care for people, he reassured himself. Still falling.

Moko had chosen Jenni and Colin too. He had tried to laugh off what Jenni had done at first but she only became more chronic. Why was it he was so torn up over it? He barely knew these people. He had been here for just over two weeks, why was it a problem for him? He had met people before coming here, why did he not hurt and ache from them as he had these?

And then, the sound of metal hitting metal rang out as he collided with the floor. He stayed motionless for a minute, letting his questions still echo through his mind. Finally, he stood up, still uneasy from seeing /her/. Then, there was another, a figure in the distance he couldn't quite make out. He tried to walk towards them, finding his legs buckled as he tried to move. He began to crawl until that crawl became Krieg dragging himself along the floor. Slowly he inched along towards the figure. When he reached them, however, he simply stared. It was /her/. Not the one that had held him, but another, the one he had felt so longing for. He opened his mouth, but couldn't find the words, nor could he find his voice. She turned towards him, looking at him as if she could see into him, see into all of the ache and pain he was feeling. She stared at him waiting for him to speak, but he could not. Suddenly, he felt a bump.

And then he was awake. It was Gwen. "Huh?" he said, staring at her with his head cocked for a moment before realizing he was no longer dreaming. He trembled slightly. "I… Well… Hey. What time is it?" He stood up and tried to give a weak grin, failing. "I mean, it's more a simulation than sleep. I don't need to at this point." He rested a hand on his face.

Gwen lifted an eyebrow and said, "You're shaking worse than a chihuahua in an earthquake, must have been some 'simulation' Come on let's get you to your room, or if you need to you can crash in my room, nothing sexual about it mind you, but I can understand why some people would prefer not to sleep alone, especially just after waking from a nightmare." She had an unidentifiable look in her eye but shook her head and held out her hand to help Krieg up off the bench.

>>19608

Krieg took he hand and shook it limply. "Yeah, nightmare…" His eyes droop a little. "I don't sleep or have to sleep, so it'd be weird if I was in your room. I'd just be sitting there. I only was sleeping then to let the alcohol process for a little while." He gave a sort of unnecessary stretch just to feel the movement of his body. He laughs weakly. "Yeah, probably going to want to take me to my room."

>>19609

"all right, come on then Drunkbot," Gwen said as she threw and arm over Krieg's shoulder, grabbing one of his and throwing it over hers to help stabilize him if he was still drunk, then she started to walk him back to his room, a pensive look on her face.

>>19610

"I'm not drunk now," Krieg says, slightly defensive in his tone. He looks at Gwen, noticing a rather distant look on her face. Normally she was so much more exuberant with her personality. He walks a few steps before stopping them. "You alright? You look like you're having some trouble with something yourself," he says plainly without much tact. He softens his voice a little, "I mean, you seem like something's on your mind."

>>19611

"Nah, just some old memories, I should really stop you've got enough angst for the both of us eh?" Gwen said with a grin on her face.

>>19612

Krieg grins a little. "I suppose. Of course, I just need time." He his arm around Gwen's shoulder tenses slightly. "Shame you have to sleep. Otherwise I'd say let's talk longer. About you memories, I mean." Kriegs voice falters a bit on the last part. He wasn't any good with this sort of thing. He didn't know what he was doing. Why was he doing it then?

>>19542

Colin knocks on the door to Jenni’s room and waits for a response. This was Jenni’s room, right? He had asked around and gotten a few odd looks or knowing smiles but he ignored them. Colin had rushed here as soon as he had finished his schedule permitted. Straight from his stamina training to here, he was exhausted but he didn’t care. Jenni had been hurt, he kept thinking about what Krieg had told him and imagining the worst. He had to make sure she was okay.

>>19617

[Jenni][Later]

The door slowly opens after Jenni peers out. "Colin. Oh, jeeze, you look nervous. You better come in before you get cold. These halls have terrible insulation. Sit down, everyone just left."

At this point you notice that Jenni barely dressed. However, she doesn't seem to care, and the room appears to be poorly lit. She just plops down on the couch and looks at Colin as he enters.

[[Here it comes. I don't even have any drinks for after this.]]

>>19619

Relief immediately floods Colin's face. Colin happily exclaims "You're unharmed, I had-" Colin composes himself a bit more and straightens his jogging uniform a bit before continuing. Having suddenly remembered that Jenni was in front of him

"I heard that you had been in a fight, I admit that I feared the worst. It is good to see you well." Colin accepts her invitation into her room, closing the door as he enters.

>>19542

Moko chuckles a little, a short and raspy thing, certainly different from her short heckling laugh. She nods, then droops her eyes.

"Yeah, I guess your right. Uh, on both accounts. Maybe I'll uh…Get around to my room..although, I kinda like it the way it is…Some times I can't make it all the way to my bed, so I prefer to be able to sleep just about anywhere.. But uh…Like i said…I'll work on it…"

Moko slowly begins to rise, and stretches. "I uh..Guess I better get goin…Uh, and another thing..Uh, if you see that William kid..Tell him I'm not all that into him, ya know? Uh..Besides that..I'll catch ya later… I am gonna… Uh.. Go do somethin…While I have the energy, ya know?"

>>19614

Gwen shrugged saying, "It's mostly what I was talking about when I said personal stuff earlier. Dunno if I'm exactly comfortable to tell you, or anyone here about that stuff yet."

>>19622

Krieg's grin falters a bit. She didn't trust him. He tried to laugh it off, his arm slipped from her shoulder. "Alright. You should probably get to bed. I'm gonna go wander around campus. We can chat later I guess." He wandered off.

>>19623

"Hey, we're supposed to be taking you to your dorm," Gwen said, feeling kind of bad, "Tell you what, I tell you mine you tell me yours."

-~Really?~- I dunno, I feel like I should do something. -~Well so long as it's not about me, who knows what ARES would try to do to us~-

>>19620

[Jenni]

Jenni seems somewhat exhausted, but she manages a smile. "I'm fine, Colin. It's just violence. It's not even that unusual. We had fights at the camps in cascades. Totally normal."

At this point she realizes what she's wearing. She turns bright red, but it's not visible in the darkness.

[[He doesn't notice. Oh, thank god. Okay. Just stay Calm Jenni. Just keep talking or something, maybe he won't notice you're practically bareass naked.]]

Needless to say, Jenni is nearly nude. She has her fineries on, but they aren't, frankly, unsexy.

"Uh…well, anyway, I won. The guy said some stuff. Azzy? Was his name. It was like he was looking into my mind Colin. I'm not sure how I should feel about it. That's why I like you Colin, you won't judgement for what I've done."

[Probably.]

>>19621

[Jenni]

Jenni nods. "Will do. Talk to you soon Moko. I'll clean up your room when I study there on Monday. Try not to wreck it more, okay?"

Jenni then waves and smiles. It's genuine.

>>19627

Colin smiles at Jenni’s words as he finds himself a seat and sits down, he idly wonders why it is so dark but he just decides to look Jenni in the face as they talk, even if he can barely see her. “It doesn’t matter to me what you’ve done in the past, Jenni. I accept it and I accept you.” Colin looks to the side for a moment before continuing. “I just wish that everyone could get along, but I know such a thing is beyond humanity.” Colin stays silent for a few moments before looking back to Jenni and smiling. “But I accept that. No matter what humanity does, I’ll still adore all of you.”

>>19625

Krieg turns. Gwen's bad mood was evident. "No- I mean- I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings…" He walks back to her. "I just thought you needed to get some sleep." He gives a sigh and sits back on the bench. "Well, it started when I was twelve. I had really just started weapons testing. It was sort of an exciting and new thing at the time. Imagine if bring your child to work day was an everyday affair. I was excited because I got to see what dad did. I was testing some modified pistol, the model escapes me in this moment, but I was supposed to soot at a non-hostile recon drone, both to test its maneuverability and the strength of the gun. Testing is going fine. Now that I think about it, it was more weapons training for me than anything else." At this point, Kreig pauses, looking for the specifics of what happened next. "So the drone comes in close, everyone thinks it's a bug and the researchers open the door to come shut it down. Suddenly, the drone explodes. It's funny, because they don't usually do that. So there I am, some twelve year old kid who's barely used a gun before getting tons of flaming metal jammed into my body as my flesh chars." He laughs, hard. "It's basically my life on a daily basis now. Except without the flesh. So they rush me out of the room, cut away the dead… everything and jam my brain into a military-grade backup body. From that point there was a sort of trauma to using weapons and testing for a while, afraid to use anything related to them. Doesn't help that it was my dad's business and /my/ new body. I couldn't even look in the mirror for a while." He laughs again, a little uncomfortable. "This isn't even my real face you know. I mean, I know I was twelve when I died, but this looked nothing like it." He sighs. "Anyways, I get over the trauma eventually and start testing weapons again, all sorts of parts get put into the body. After years of that I tell my dad, 'I want to go to the academy,' and he says 'no.' So I say 'please' and he says 'no'. I then say 'I'll go sell weapons there, and get you new customers,' and he says 'okay.' And then, here I am. Of course, I'm not 'legally allowed to make weapons contracts' here, but once I get an off campus pass or some connections with someone who has one," he pauses, pulling out a walled filled with large bills of all sorts of currencies. He gives a grin, "I'll be quite a happy person. So, your turn."

>>19632

"Heh, wow that's a shitty story," Gwen said as she leaned against the wall and closed her eyes, the back of her head resting against the wall as she thought for a moment, "All right, I said I'd tell you mine if you told me yours and if nothing else I keep promises, even when I probably shouldn't. So, I assume you know I'm one of those Magical Girls, well I didn't exactly get my powers from a talking cat like most do, when I was about, oooh six or seven, can't really remember, I was exploring the forest near my home, like I was told not to, because that's what kids do. Anyways, I was wandering the woods when I came across this cave, and me, being the ever curious and not exactly bright child, decided to explore. It was dark, I couldn't see, I quickly got lost. I was about ready to break down and start crying when I saw a light, thinking it was the exit I ran towards it, turns out that it was some sort of glow-in-the-dark mushrooms, quite a few of them too. All surrounding this pedestal with a slab of rock on it. Again, being the smart and genre-savvy child I was I immediately grabbed the slab to see what it was, when it promptly broke when I dropped it. Out comes this spirit thingy who proceeds to convince me that hey, magical powers sounds like a good idea, the details aren't important suffice to say that I got the raw end of the deal cause the spirit wasn't exactly supposed to be let out. Moving on later down the road I've been learning and fighting witches and demons for a good seven years now, I've got a lovely girlfriend who mentored me and basically taught me all I know about being a Magical girl, sure we all had our problems but we made it work. Then the question finally came up about our power sources, dunno how we had managed to avoid it up till this point, anyways suffice to say she freaked out over my origin story and our relationship was basically over, even if we tried to make it work. One day," Here Gwen pauses a moment to catch her breath, "I hadn't seen her all week, and I was worried something had happened to her, turns out something had, the stupid girl had developed a fucking messiah complex somehow and kept thinking that she was all alone in her quest to stop evil, hell I'm pretty sure she started to think I was part of that evil, anyways she ended up getting killed fighting something she knew damn well she couldn't handle, something we had handled together before, all because she didn't trust me anymore, because she was 'The one who was destined to save Mankind.' Bah!" She shoved herself away from the wall and started walking away saying, "Well that's my story, I decided then and there that I wanted to quit but look at me now, being drug back into a fight I didn't want and dredging up memories I just wanted to die."

>>19635

Krieg wandered behind Gwen for a minute, trailing by a good ten feet or so before deciding to catch up with her. "Are we going to your room now?" He said, trailing off. He didn't want to leave her angry for the night.

>>19550

God.

He even has the same stutter. Shit, this is either a match made in heaven or a bad idea.

I would have rather paired Moko with a real man, not a welp. But that might just open the door for an asshole to take advantage of her.What is it with that girl and attracting the odd lot first Kojo now this.

"You 'love' her, boy?

Well. That remains to be seen. I don't see what Moko would look for in a pansy like you. . .hell, you even hit a woman!" Lucy joked.

"I don't know you, and frankly, if it weren't for the nanites I wouldn't have much of a reason to even want to talk to you. But at least you're being honest, and you don't let other people push you in. However,

Hit me and I'll laugh it off.

Pull that shit on Moko. . ."

Lucy lifted up her fist and brought it down through a nearby punching bag, sand pouring out of it.

"Comprende?"

>>19636

"Sure, you don't have to sleep but I'm pretty sure I wont be able to," Gwen said with a shrug, "I really shouldn't be mad at you, but you also made me think of that Colin kid, who has that exact same mentality, and it pisses me off that he thinks like that."

>>19638

Krieg sneers at the mention of Colin. He had betrayed Krieg, like Moko had. "Yeah, he got under my skin earlier too. We can try to find something to do if neither of us are going to sleep," Krieg says, grinning. "So what is it you like to do around here? I know you said the shooting range, but you're probably too tired for that." He wanted to cheer Gwen up, considering she had done the same for him several times.

>>19637

William shutters as the punched bag fell onto the ground, sand pouring like blood out of it. Why was there a sandbag outside the training building on the way to the men's dorms, anyway? But, not getting distracted, he nods to Lucy.

"I-i-I- I promise that she'll not c-come to harm, t-that's part of the reason why I, w-well, want to get close to her…"

He quickly tried to calm himself, taking a few deep breath, before refocusing on Lucy, "…S-so, I understand… Should we, well, c-continue on our way?"

>>19639

"Other than that mostly bow care, my bow is made of magic so it doesn't need it, but it's a meditative action that I can zone out doing," Gwen said as she lead the way to her room, "Other than that I don't really have many hobbies, didn't have the time to develop them with my lifestyle as a kid."

>>19643

Krieg breaks into a wide grin. She got it. "You and me both. My hobbies are: Weapons. That and reading I guess. When you're penciled into a lifestyle that's how it ends up. So whatever happened to your ghost from the tablet or whatever? Evil entity you released, I mean."

>>19645

Gwen grimaced at the question and said, "I'd rather not talk about that right now, sorry, also it wasn't exactly evil, but it was sealed for a reason."

[GM META: 3rd turn post marker]

>>19630

[Continuing scene as per Generic's verification]

[Jenni]

[Aw jeeze. This one's a keeper.]

Jenni gets nervous and starts averting her gaze. Every so often her hair becomes visible as her eyes well up with tears. She wipes her eyes after a few drops cause her eyeshadow to run.

Jenni then starts blubbering. "Oh. Uh. Oh. Colin."

Jenni then deliberates internally over the next action. The vote in Jenni's mind is unanimous, and after a few seconds she floats the question. "Colin do you want to stay here tonight? I can show you some…things. It will help with the stress of this place."

At this point Jenni leans in and kisses Colin on the cheek while applying her hand somewhere strategic on Colin. Any pretense of modesty has been discarded, and she clearly in partial undress in her fineries; she smells like lavender as usual. It's fairly clear what her intentions are and her breath is heavy.

It's also fairly clear she is waiting for a response from Colin.

Alexei and Gwen find themselves led into a briefing room at 1301. Two other students are with them, a rather unbalanced looking female with dark skin, and a rather… rainbow-y young man. Neither of them say much, or seem to have much character to them. It is mildly annoying.

A serious looking blonde walks into the room and stands behind the podium at the front, setting down a small binder. "Good afternoon. For those of you that do not know me, I am Major Shirley Temple. I lead Strike 4, the now senior squad of magical girls at this school, and have recently been promoted to over-all commander of Strike 4 and Strike 5." She surveys the four of you, giving Gwen a slight nod. "What I am about to discuss with you is classified at the highest levels. You are not to discuss it between even yourselves outside of this room or an official briefing. As of 0840 hours yesterday, this school represents approximately twenty percent of the Magical Girls and Boys available to the European Apocalypse Academy program. Euro Italia Academy lost three of her five member squad outside of Genoa. Though they defeated the witch, it is believed that two of their members have themselves become witches. Based upon limited interaction with these two and their records, I believe that they will form a single maze if this is true. Until they can be located, we are all on alert, and I'll need you all to come to a conclusion."

"Do the four of you wish to form your own squad, and elect a leader from among yourselves? You would become Strike 5."

After a full night 'extracting' some nanite samples from Lucy, and a full morning learning nothing new about nanomachines in the Academy's classes, William returned to the sparring hall, a little bit more 'tipsy' than what he would normally be.

Once more, he activated the nanites from within his bag, keeping a yawn to himself as the gray goo formed behind him. Even the nanites seemed to suffer his lack of sleep, piles almost dripping off from the whole, before merging back into the 'arms' to avoid falling off.

>>19662

[GM Meta: yeah, that is going to need LUCY's consent.]

>>19660

Gwen looked at the others with a raised eyebrow, before shrugging and saying, "Yeah I suppose I can work with these people, will we be sent into the maze once they're found? Providing support for another squad, or running back-up, clean-up, and defense while another squad heads into the maze?"

>>19663

>>19662

Lucy provides William a sample of nanites from her skin. But only so.

"No, sorry boy, but if you really love Moko you're not showing it very well by trying to get in my pants. I'm not entirely sure that's the type of man she'd like.

But hey, Moko's been in some fun events. Hell, we were even at the same bedroom one party night. . . God that was a good time.

Who knows maybe you can get her consent for something fun I can get in.

But so help me if after she takes you in and you cheat on her. . .I will end you."

>>19664

"I would prefer to use you as a support squad, should you four choose to form Strike 5 yourselves. But I can not make any guarantees at this time."

Krieg opened the door to his room slowly, making sure Colin wasn't around. He stepped out of his room, a button up ARES shirt and dress pants. Something nice today. He wasn't in an awful mood. Although still high-stress, he was certainly starting to feel better, having avoided the problem for a few days. He found a nice bench outdoors to sit on in the sun. He had been sleeping more mostly nightmares though, and people said he seemed a bit twitchy. "What is life," he said to the air, leaning his head back and spreading his arms across the back of the bench.

>>19666

"Well, I thought that you, u-uh, that you were implying that about yourself, how you wanted me to take a, w-well, 'sample' of you… Still, I'll try to keep true to Moko, I'll promise you t-that."

(This is a flashback, not connected to William's current position in the Fluff)

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>19698

[Jenni]

[Sex roll]

Jenni nods a little bit. "It's just life, Colin. Lie back a little, I'll handle most of it. Don't worry. Instincts will take over." At this point Jenni gains a certain vigor as she pushes Colin over with a mixture of hunger and affection. Jenni then strips him and herself with a series of skilled movements.

With that, Jenni is with Colin for a little bit; she is quite forgiving, and laughs a little as she moves. Her flesh is very warm and soft.

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>19699

[Sex roll]

Colin can only respond with a quiet “Jenni…” before he does as Jenni instructed and follows her lead, holding hands with her and looking into her eyes as their bodies entwine. As the night goes on he tries to take on a more active role in the engagement and he always goes for intimate actions and positions.

>>19671

Azzy walks by noticing Kreig. "Wh-whats wrong Krieg? Y-you only sit on benches when y-you're ups-set."

>>19718

Krieg turned his head forward. It was Azzy. "Oh. Hey," he said, giving a light sigh. "Why do you act like I'm moody all the time? I'm perfectly happy… yeah…" He looks at the floor for a moment and kicks his legs. "Wanna sit?"

>>19719

"S-sure." Azzy sits down on the bench just far enough away to be comfortable. "Krieg, y-your r-really crappy at l-lying. What's u-up?"

>>19720

Krieg tilts his head back again. "A generation goes and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever. Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again. Blowing toward the south, Then turning toward the north, The wind continues swirling along; And on its circular courses the wind returns. Ecclesiastes 1:5. Regrets, Azzy, regrets. I've been avoiding problems for a few days now and still don't feel better. Why?"

>>19721

"W-well, You got fooled by Jenni. Th-then you let y-your dislike of her p-poison your relationships w-with Moko and Colin. H-have you tried to m-make up with th-them? Colin is y-young, and th-thus easily fooled, and Jenni I-is VERY good at deception. Just b-because she p-pulled the wool over h-his eyes, d-doesn't mean y-you should th-throw him to the she bitch. S-same for Moko, ex-except it's l-laziness and f-fear."

>>19722

Krieg keeps his head back and shuts his eyes. "That's no good. Then in effect Jenni has me in the palm of her hands, y'know. If she really is playing them, she can use them to get to me." He sighs. "Besides, I doubt either /want/ to talk to me."

>>19723

Azzy facepalms. "Krieg, st-stop this down in the d-dumps bullshit or s-so help me i'll sm-smack you, and pr-probably break my hand. If you d-don't TRY you're n-not going to get anywhere. Wh-which is t-t-t-t-t-t-t-tantamount to making you Jenni's b-bitch. So b-buck up! I b-bet you that B-both of them will w-want to talk to you"

>>19725

"Suddenly he follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool, Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, So he does not know that it will cost him his life. Proverbs 7:23," Krieg says in a melancholy tone as he stands up. "Aren't you the one to preach caution when acting? Would /you/ go talk to them if you were me?"

>>19726

"I w-wouldn't have g-given up on th-them in the first place." Azzy sighs. "Krieg, you're a g-good guy. L-leaving p-people in the l-lurch, d-d-defenseless, when they c-can't see what you see, or kn-know what you know, isn't l-like you. Th-that's why y-you're upset. You l-l-let your temper r-r-run wild, and d-d-did something dumb. The l-longer you let it f-fester, the w-worse it will g-get and the worse you'll f-f-feel."

>>19728

"And when I get hurt and they leave me in a lurch for trying to help!?" Krieg quickly responds, slight amounts of anger apparent in his voice. He sits back on the bench, placing his hands over his face. "Azzy, I don't /know/ what to do. I'm /scared/ of what will happen if I do act." He removes his hands from his face, a slight grin forms. "Would you do it for me then? Would you be my messenger and make things right for me?"

>>19731

Azzy gaze flattens somewhat with a reply"A-a-asking the st-stuttering necromancer who b-barely knows them t-t-t-to be your intermediary? Pl-please tell me that w-was a spur of th-the moment idea." Now a sigh. "R-regardless my answer w-w-would be no. Th-this is something you n-need to do yourself Krieg. F-fear of the unknown is n-natural, b-but if it paralyzes y-you, you die. 'Fear is the Mindkiller,' Dune. I-if you give up fr-from some minor h-hardships now, y-you'll cave before a r-real combat. I've seen in h-happen."

>>19732

Krieg gives a sigh. "Glad to know you've got my back when we're off the battlefield," he grumbles, standing up. He takes a few steps away from the bench before turning, "Can't wait to see how much you've got my back when we're in 'real combat'." He storms off, mumbling under his breath, "Some best friend."

Who was Azzy to criticize Krieg's actions and intents? He was supposed to be /helping/, not telling Krieg how he was doing everything wrong. He locked himself in his room, feeling worse than before he had left it.

>>19733

Azzy follows Krieg to his room, hearing the door lock. Azzy sighs. Krieg Hears the sound of a throat clearing from outside his door. "Krieg Sulking in your room and loathing yourself will do nothing helpful and only make you feel worse. If you wanted coddling you picked the wrong person to be your friend. Now get out here so we can finish our talk,." Azzy's voice was different, steady, forceful, not loud but it projected well into Krieg's room. once finished Azzy started gasping for breath. Trying to mimic Sarge's tone was tiring. Hopefully his stubborn friend would listen.

>>19734

Krieg opened the door, face contorted into something not unlike that of crying. "I'm sorry Azzy… It's not you… I'm just torn up over things." He steps from his room, shutting the door behind him. "I'm really sorry…"

>>19734

Krieg opened the door, face contorted into something not unlike that of crying. "I'm sorry Azzy… It's not you… I'm just torn up over things." He steps from his room, shutting the door behind him. "I'm really sorry…" He took a step towards Azzy.

>>19736

"B-because you're t-t-too damn busy b-beating yourself up instead o-of tr-trying to fix it or d-do better! If y-you though I was going t-to let you l-lay down and die, a-all because you acted l-like an angry h-hurt t-teenager, you c-can shove it." Azzy sounding rather annoyed, despite stuttering, grabs Krieg's shoulder. "N-now who d-do you want to t-talk to first? C-colin or Moko? I'll drag y-you if I h-have too." Azzy looks Krieg dead in the eyes. The mystic isn't going to give up on this.

>>19738

Krieg looks at Colin's door, right next to his own. No lights pouring out from under it. "I don't think Colin is home… We'll go find Moko I guess…" Krieg shrugs. "I'll try stop moping I guess." He forces a smile, but his face twitches a good bit.

>>19740

"Moko I-it is then. L-lead the way."

>>19741

Krieg starts to walk a few feet down the hall before stopping. "I have no idea where her room is." He quickly returns to his room before reemerging with his tablet, doing a student lookup to find the room. "Do we really have to go find her dorm? Can't you just lead the way?" Before Azzy can respond, Krieg follows the map on the tablet, reaching Moko's room. He pauses outside the room and knocks once, gives a sort of grimace to Azzy while he waits.

>>19742

Moko turns towards door, throwing the pillows in her arms to a small pile. Stumbling to the door, she curiously opens it. She blinks, looking at Krieg and Azzy.

Moko herself looks okay. She is dressed in a Flannel over shirt with a black Tee, and jeans. She also seems to have a few bandages on her, giving off a strangely, and most likely unintentional tom-boy look when coupled with her explosive tuft of hair.

"Uh..Hey krieg..Uh..Azzy… You uh, need somethin? I was uh, kinda cleaning up.."

She says, rubbing the back of her neck.

>>19744

"Y-yeah, Krieg here n-needs to talk t-to you. I'm j-just here for m-moral s-support so he doesn't ch-chicken out."

>>19744

>>19745

Krieg gives Azzy a cold stare before turning back towards Moko, not looking directly at her. "I… Um… I'm sorry…" Krieg says, not entirely sure what to say. "I was… A real asshole, you know? It was rude of me to act the way I did." He places a hand over his right eye and tilts his head back. "It was /stupid/." He puts heavy emphasis on the last word, anger clear in his tone. He pauses for a moment, thinking of a way to make general conversation out of his mess of an apology. "Need help cleaning, I guess?"

>>19750

Moko nods, a small toothy smile on her face. She looks pretty happy about the apology, despite what a mess it was.

"Oh, uh. Thanks.. Uh, right, come on in.."

She slowly staggers out of the way, revealing her room. The first things you notice are the floor: or, lack of one. Most of the room is covered in pillows, her bed essentially being a giant pile of them with a few blankets and comforters mixed in. The next most noticeable thing was the TV and couch, but noticeably jutting out from the sea of softness. Aside from that, a small vantiy mirror and dresser sits on the wall. It seemed most of Moko's cleaning was just pushing the pillows and blankets into large piles.

"Uh.. Yeah, excuse the mess… Its uh, not pretty. I know"

>>19751

Krieg gives a grin as he entered the room. "It's pretty bad, yeah." He laughs a bit and begins to make up the bed, tucking the sheet edges into the mattress. "It's all methodical. I mean, it'll take a while, but we can get it done. It's a lot of pillows. We can maybe stack some against the wall by the dresser." Krieg begins to move about the room, placing pillows by the dresser, stacking them in order of size. He pauses. "I mean, if you want this system for organization. You probably have you own you use for cleaning up."

>>19752

Moko blinks, before shrugging. "System? Uh, I sorta just push things into piles. But uh, I guess I could use one. Never really bothered thinking one up. " Moko tries to help krieg move the pillows around to be in order, but is fairly slow.

"Ya know, I talked to Jenni not too long ago.. Said the worst thing she could think of me was my room.. Heh… That's why im cleaning it.." she pauses for a moment. "It's true though.. She doesn't hate you in particular Krieg… She just.. Feels so hollow… That all that is left is her hate.. I dont think thats true… But uh, I think she'll be backing off from you for a while… Hopefully"

>>19753

"That's good I guess," Krieg says, sounding detached from conversation relating to Jenni. He quickly changes topic as he returns to making the bed. "Yeah, so for the bed I suggest tucking the sheets in around the edges. It makes it look a lot cleaner. I mean, piles work for a time, but you can start moving things around and organizing them once they're in the piles." He pauses for a moment. "So she's really gonna stop?"

>>19754

Moko nods, slowly but surely. "Yeah, I think so.." she watches Krieg tuck the sheet before sloppily repeating after him. "Shes tryin to get out that violent mind set, you know?… You know, the reason she likes Colin so much is cause of his innocence… Hes what she wishes she could be like…" she pauses.

"So uh, Krieg. Hows it uh, been goin for you?"

>>19754

>>19755

Azzy's face twitches which quickly morphs into a small smirk.

[Huh is that so?]

Azzy looks to Moko "W-well I helped Krieg apologize. L-later Moko. Krieg if y-you n-need help talking to Colin, l-let me know."

Azzy put up a finger as a mock salute and walks out of the Girl's dorms.

[Remmy Seek]

The wraith goes.

>>19756

"O-oh," Krieg says, seizing up for a moment at the mention of Colin. "I didn't realize she and Colin were like /that/." He pauses for a moment before moving over to Moko in order to retuck the sheets. "You have to tuck it in tightly, like this, or the sheets wrinkle. It just takes practice." After fixing some of what Moko had done he moves to fold the extra sheets and blankets. "I've been fine. Kind of mopey. I, um, nearly drank myself to death one night, I'm pretty sure." He actually laughs a bit at that. "Yeah, that'd be a pretty lame way to die after cheating death twice." He actually looks at Moko's face for the first time since he's entered the room. "You were the second time." His laughter grows for a moment before coming to a stop. He remains grinning. "So, how've you been I guess."

>>19761

Moko laughs I as well, but in a more nervous way. She rubs the back of her neck, looking slightly embarrassed.

"Uh, well I have been uh.. Doing some self improvement I guess.. Heh.. A little outa character of me, right?"

She moves over a plops down on the couch, kicking her feet up.

"I've uh, been sparring more. It..uh

.well.. Ill say it: it really sucks. But uh, everbodys been real supportive of it. But uh, aside from that, you know the dean?…. Well uh, me and her have been practicing trying to get my powers undercontrol…that also sucks"

>>19762

Krieg laughs a bit. "Training does seem like something you'd avoid. I mean, physical, hand-to-hand combat. I can understand the whole getting powerless under control part though." He finishes folding the sheets and sits on the couch beside her. "So have you been up to anything else? Aside from training I mean."

>>19763

>>19763

>>19763

Moko shrugs. "Eh. Not much. Either ive been sleeping or uh, training. Mostly sleeping. Or hanging out with friends… The uh, dean is pretty demanding.. I think she was impressed.. So its kinda hard… Keeping control and pushing myself at the same time… Other than that, things are okay.."

>>19764

"So, how much control do you have?" Krieg said, leaning in closer. "Think you could actually beat me in a fight without losing control? Of course, I think it might be the lack of control that gave that rush." Realizing what he's said his smile disappears jumps up and repositions himself on the couch, further away. "Actually, you don't like fighting. Sorry, I just get… er, got a little worked up over it." He sits in awkward silence for a moment before laughing. "Azzy thinks I only sit on benches when I'm upset."

>>19766

"Eh. Maybe. I am not really sure how well I have my powers under my control yet. Heck, they haven't even told me what they actually are. But, you know, I guess when they give me the Okay we could try again… Although, fighting has never really been my thing.'

She says, leaning back into the couch. She pauses than looks back to Krieg.

"Hey, uh, so about that Azzy kid…Whats up with him? It was a little weird for him to, you know, up and call Jenni out like that. He seems uh, really shy."

>>19773

Krieg smiles. "Azzy is… Special. He's got this whole magic vision thing going on where he can see right into your core personality. It makes him… Judgy. I'm actually trying to find someone to go off campus and buy me some contacts that'll let me see like that. You and I should totally mess around with them if I can get some. Anyways, on topic, Azzy is terrified of Jenni because she has an intense aura or something like that. Apparently he called her out on it and tried to walk off, then Jenni attacked while he had his back turned. He got maimed by Jenni, and then you were there for the rest." Krieg rubs his neck. "I think I'll apologize to Jenni too later. I mean, I just gave a sort of knee jerk reaction to the fact Azzy was hurt with the whole blade thing…" Krieg goes silent for a moment before giving a clearly forced grin. "I mean, I'm making up with people so it's not all bad." He laughs a bit then sits silently, thinking of conversation topics. "Along with the contacts, I'm getting a bunch of stuff. I've been looking for an upperclassman to go buy me things off campus with my cash I can't use here." He pauses for a moment. "And, um, sorry for making you fight me that time. It's my fault you're training when you don't want to. My offer to make it up to you still stands, too. Can I get you anything off campus or something like that? I mean, I feel like I put you in a bad situation with the infirmary to a worse one with mandatory training."

>>19700

>>19699

The encounter is, simply put, Jenni running the show. An exhausted Colin eventually falls asleep, satisfied and drained after focusing upon being as intimate as possible with Jenni.

Despite her best intentions, Jenni finds the experience deeply disturbing. Past lovers had filled her with warmth, touched her with that intangible connection she craved despite herself. Colin had been the polar opposite, and at times felt like a mockery of a human making love. After Colin falls asleep in her bed, Jenni's gut finally can no longer be ignored. She barely manages to reach the bathroom before vomiting from the feeling of unnatural revulsion at what she had just experienced.

Was she wrong about Colin? Why had every attempt at intimacy by him been… wrong? Was this a nightmare?

Jenni manages to fall asleep on the bathroom floor in the safety position after vomiting for nearly an hour.

>>19777

[Jenni]

>>Add: [Experienced Lover]

[Colin]

>>Add Eccentricity:

False Man - You're not a normal human, and anyone in intimate contact with you will soon begin to notice this.

>>19777

[Jenni]

After sleeping briefly on the bathroom floor, Jenni eventually retires to the couch in her living room. She is crying slightly and completely distraught. Something is wrong. She's not sure what. She thinks it's something wrong with what Colin is, and she doesn't understand what, really.

Jenni feels immense sadness as she lies on her couch with her eyes open for nearly a half hour. She is partly awake as the sun comes up, and she looks at it as it slowly rises over the buildings.

[[There's something wrong with us. I can fix it. It's going take some work, probably. I should ask around. Or do some research. Something. Maybe there's another student or something that knows…stuff..about this? I mean this has to happen…]]

>>19776

Moko shakes her head, sending her black hair into a frenzy. "Nah… Don't worry about the whole infirmary, To be honest, I was more worried about you…" she stretches back, exhaling. "But uh, I'll take you up on that offer… If you could get me a laptop or something, that'd be great.. Or, maybe uh, a Roomba."

She leans back up, looking at Krieg. "And uh, dont worry about the Training. Its uh, probably for the best. Flipping out like that really made me tired… Better if I can control myself.. That way I wont exhaust myself like that, heh"

>>19816

Krieg pulls the oversized school tablet from his pocked. "Why not use this thing they gave you I mean, I'll get you the laptop, but these're nice." He gives a wide grin and tilts his head to the side. "Why were you worried about me? The arm? Nothing to worry about. Gwen and I were going to fly to my house to get it fixed but then the engineers came here." He kicks his legs a little. "Yeah, exhaustion is no good. I've always slept during free time as a luxury, but it turns out I get sort of… slow when I don't sleep. So I've been doing that routinely now."

[LATER]

Krieg stood outside Jenni's room, hunched slightly. This was the worst part, asking for forgiveness. Knowing Jenni, she'd likely berate him for his actions and try to further provoke. He gave a knock, forcing a grin for his soon-to-be host.

>>19881

[Later]

[Jenni]

Jenni answers the door. She's visibly distressed, but she looks out the door with a slight air of paranoia. Her hair is mussed but she is dressed. She sees it's Krieg and blows on her bangs a little. Despite this, Jenni seems neutral today but seems to have missed sleep.

"Krieg. What do you want."

>>19820

Moko looks a little confused by Kriegs statement, hearing how he doesn't need to sleep. "Uh. Thatsa bit weird, aint it? I've never heard of any one whos never not needed to sleep. Uh, but I guess for a person like me, who's, always exhausted, it does seem…out of the ordinary…"

She takes the tablet in hand, looking it over. Her hands are little bit grabby, but more in a lazy way. "Huh. Oh yeah. I forgot we got these… " Moko pauses for a moment, trying to think of what else Krieg could get for her. "Uh, you said your getting everyone something? What has everybody else been asking you for?"

>>19889

Krieg looks down at the floor for a moment before looking back at Jenni. "I'm… Here to apologize to you for being an asshole and pulling my bayonet on you…" He doesn't make eye contact, rater looking past her head and into her room. He fails to pick up on the wave of paranoia she shows, caught in his own mix of embarrassment and worry.

>>19890

"Well, not everyone. I mean, the laptop was to make up for getting you into the whole situation resulting from fighting and then making you choose and all of that. Though I should start picking out things for Christmas. Maybe I'll order stuff in from ARES since there are local outlets I'm sure." Krieg grins. "And I DO have to sleep or what little organic matter I have will tire out and I'll probably die. My body doesn't tire, so I don't really notice until my actions start to slur…" He shifts uncomfortable. "It's hard to tell though. I wonder if my brain was tired when I acted out against Jenni…"

>>19891

[Jenni]

There's an awkward few moments as Jenni collects her thoughts. Eventually she sighs to herelf as she mutters a response. "Okay. It was probably a bad idea to threaten me twice. I agree. What do you want? How did you find this place? Did you follow Colin or something?"

She seems receptive because she is tired, but it's not clear why, really.

Eventually she starts in again after squinting her eyes. "You aren't trying to get fresh with me are you? Because I'm not interested in guys who threaten to stab me."

>>19893

Krieg weakly holds up the tablet. "The tablets list room ID's. And I'm not here to cause an upset between you and Colin." He shrugs. "I just came to apologize, that's it."

>>19892

Moko nods, understanding from a logical point of view. She reclines back, kicking up her sock covered feet. "Right, right…Uh, the Laptop will be nice…But, ARES Is a weapons company right? Uh, Not sure I am all that great at using..uh, actual weapons and stuff.."

Moko doesn't mind his shifting. "Relax…I am, uh, sure it was nothing. You got a little carried away..Nothin to be worried about…heh, same thing with me, right? Juste gotta work on it…Like me, heh.."

>>19896

Krieg looks at the floor. "Yeah, but Jenni isn't durable like me… You're not durable like me…" He gives an audible sigh before forcing a grin. "And I mean, I might double the laptop over as your Christmas if I don't think of a weapon to get you. I'll have to look through some catalogs. Yeah, ARES is a weapons company. The one my dad owns that also made my body." He tilts his head back and gives a disturbed laugh. "Life is funny. You get a second chance but it does nothing but hurt." He turns towards Moko, still grinning. "Do you think Zombies hurt? I mean, enough brain has to be intact to keep everything functioning. Think their nerves still work?"

>>19895

[Jenni]

Jenni frowns a little bit. "You're still a little shithead, even with the apology. But fine. What brought this one? Change of heart? Think you're wrong? Sudden ethical breakthrough?"

After an eyeroll, Jenni folds her arms.

"Fine, I'll take it, I guess. You're still an asshole child, but I'll take it. I still don't get it, but it seems genuine I guess. Whatever, it's the holidays. Beats seeing you hanging from a fucking tree I guess."

>>19899

Krieg turns, starting to walk away. "I assumed this would be the point where you get the decency to be a nice person, you know? I come apologize for what I did and you stop acting like such a brat about things." He sighs. "Of course, I'm sure you're happy in your malcontent. Can't befriend them all."

>>19901

[Jenni]

Jenni shouts down the hallway. "I'm not a decent person, Krieg, but I am still human. A monster would have simply ignored the door entirely. Words are words Krieg, and they are cheap things." Jenni then leans out the door as she concludes her little speech – she appears to be increasingly engaged, but annoyed.

>>19903

Krieg swivels to face towards Jenni. "So far you've been seemingly decent to everyone but me." He quickly mumbles about Azzy, too before quickly breaking into a snicker. "Well if you want to get technical there's always Colin, and he opens the door…" He turns and walks a little further down the hall before stopping again. "I mean, I try to take my words seriously, but if you want to be that way about anything relating to me, I wont stop you. I understand you hurt, and my initial reaction was to let you take it out on me, but I've stopped believing that's why you do it. Of course, in your eyes I'm a brute that doesn't recognize this sort of thing." He snickers a bit. "Do you only get interested in conversation when someone walks away? I'm pretty sure someone mentioned you attacked Azzy when he walked away, and you have a nice little way of walking off after you shout at me. It's a nasty habit, isn't it?"

>>19905

[Jenni]

Jenni frowns. "Don't mention Colin. He's keeping me thinking there's hope for even the worst of people. Without him I'm not sure what I'd be, even if it makes me puke all over the bathroom."

After this little statement she sighs.

"Azzy practically reads my mind and then spouts off things. Says things. Imagine if someone read your mind, Krieg, and then barfed up your secrets to you. It's not pleasant, makes you angry. The conversation to that point didn't interest me. I think I just saw myself in him, so I responded."

"And yeah, I walk away. Sure I do. I'm just angry, is all. I do it to blow off steam. Otherwise I just get angrier. That's why I have Colin. To deal with the anger. This place? Total meat-grinder nightmare. I'm not sure who wouldn't be angry. I mean, we're all going to die in this nightmare factory anyway. Makes you angry."

>>19906

"She's not reading your mind, she's seeing your aura or something. She can see the being of your person. She doesn't know your secrets or anything about you." Krieg breaks into laughter. "I mean, he's warned me about it again and again, and I keep forgiving you and trying to be friendly again, then you insult me again, and I forgive again. It's funny how you're admitting to Azzy being right and I've tried to stay friendly to you. It's like a sick little joke where I lose no matter what." He attempts to stifle the still growing laughter. "Puking? I thought you two were a couple or whatever?" He scratches the back of his head. "And I can guarantee you're going to survive the school. Or at least bring it down with you. You've got too much hate stored up." He gives a shrug. "And if all this fuss really /IS/ over your aura, I'm trying to order in some contact lenses that let you see it, so I'll get to see what all the complaining is about."

>>19908

[Jenni]

After a brief pause Jenni thinks to herself. "You aren't going to like what you see, Krieg. But take your fill, I guess. If it makes you feel big to have an advantage, you will certainly get it. There's no lens I can put on to allow me to see what's inside of you for my amusement or interest."

Jenni lets the words sink in before speaking again. "But take your damn fill, I guess. Maybe you will understand a little after. What you see will be the things your company helped create. In many ways, I suppose, I am the awful culmination of such companies and their logic. It seems to frighten people, but those people seem to get to run away from it."

With that statement, Jenni then sneers a little bit as she concludes her speech. "I don't. Colin lets me get away from it a little, but not as much as I'd like. It is a struggle every day and every hour Krieg. Reminds me of Conan the Barbarian. At the end Thulsa Doom, the bad guy, tells Conan he created him and gave his life purpose. How? Thulsa Doom killed his parents."

Jenni at this point exhales deeply and grins. "He wasn't wrong, of course. It was true. Without the death and horror Conan would be nothing."

>>19912

Krieg's laughter dies. "Take my fill? Advantage? You act like there's a war between us. I said it a moment ago and I'll say it again. I want to be your friend. You want to see what's inside me? You want to see what keeps me going?" Krieg quickly unbuttons his shirt, growing furious. His chest pops open, revealing the cavity containing his core. "This is all that keeps me going. No self drive or motivation. It's this little ball that pumps energy into me. The laughter and grin I always have? It's forced you know. It's not a triggered reaction. I had to teach myself to feel. I mean, I can feel generic emotions and a sort of sickness boiling inside, but I can't feel like you. I can't know that the embrace of another makes me feel a sort of warmth inside. I know they are warm, and that I am happy, if even that." He quickly pops the cavity shut, re-buttoning his shirt.. "And I'm finally coming to accept that even when I'm trying to reach out to you and be your friend, you still act selfish. You admit to being so unsure but then you act as if only you know the world. Enjoy boiling in your hate." Krieg turns, starting again in an attempt to walk off.

>>19913

[Jenni]

Jenni rolls her eyes before closing the door. "Yeah, merry Christmas. I guess you've never seen Conan before."

Eventually she shouts down the hallway. "THE BODY ISN'T THE SOUL KRIEG. NEVER WILL BE. EVER."

After a few seconds Jenni's door closes with a thud. There is the unmistakable sound of deadbolts and locks being turned.

>>19660

"I can see no reason for us not to. Better to learn to fight early, as grandfather Klokov always said. If others be of willingness to join, so will I." Alexei says, shrugging his broad shoulders.

Days passed by since >>19662, and William got some proper rest. Walking around the campus after the 'nanomachine' class, he wondered what Moko was up to. It was likely that she would be heading over to her room, if not already there. Curiosity got the better of him, soon heading to the female dorms in order to check up on her.

A shiver shook down his spine as he knocked a few times on door 113, still fearing that if he does something wrong with Moko, he'll blow his chances of having someone, as well as having himself killed from a Brazilian amazon. Nonetheless, he continue the knocks, always in a pattern of three, with the third one skipping a beat.

>>19896

>>20102

>>19898

Krieg leans back on the couch, motioning at the door. "You've got a visitor." His tone is somber but he grins a bit more. "We can talk about zombies feeling a little later I guess."

>>20105

>>20102

Moko looks away from Krieg, before she can answer the question, and gets up slowly. "Uh, Yeah. I'll get that." She slouches over to the door, her eyes slightly rising than lowering as she notices its William. She idly blows a strand of hair out of her face. "Oh, uh, hey. William. Whats up? Uh. Take a seat on the couch…Uh, me and Krieg were just hanging out" She gestures to the large, metallic man reclining on the sofa. Moko pauses for a moment, before heading towards the bathroom. "Uh, one sec." she says as she enters. moments later, she returns out, a new set of bandages wrapped around her fists.

"So uh, whats up?" shes says before plomping herself on the couch

>>20109

William follows her through into the room, giving a slight wave to the metallic bloke on the couch, moving to sit at the other end of the couch while adjusting his satchel, waiting for Moko to return.

"So you're Krieg, then? Heard that you were ripped apart by Moko a week or two ago…"

Soon, Moko would return, turning his focus to her with a smile, moving more to the side to give Moko room to sit between them.

"Not that much, I was just visiting to check up on you, see if you're doing well after being brought back from the infirmary…" William leans up to notice the bandages on Moko's hands, "So, uh, what's with the bandages?"

>>20112

Moko shrugs, lifting her hands in the air. "I've been practicing more and more. I need to. Everybody wants me to, so why not? Otherwise, they'd just bug me about it, and that'd be worse than not doing it."

>>20112

Krieg rolls his eyes at William. The kid had zero tact, not polite, not giving a name. Had he at least asked how he was doing, it would have been alright. Asking about someone's fight was the last way you introduce yourself. He was Moko's friend? Krieg had to withhold a laugh. He cuts the boy off with a mocking tone, "You didn't give a name, so rude. Yes, my name is Krieg, and you are?"

>>20113

>>20114

"William, thought you would've known it from, well, what you must've overheard at the door…"

He soon turns his focus back to Moko, raised eyes giving away his curiosity about that. Because, the fact that she was quite, small, means that she would be weaker than someone of a more average size. But, who knows, maybe she has some kind of super-strength or something along those lines, making unarmed combat viable for her?

"…What kind of practice? Some kind of karate? Kung-fu? Or is it something a little more straightforward like boxing? In any case, it's good to hear that you're opening up your skills to multiple things, rather than simply focusing it all on one 'thing'… If, you know what I'm, well, saying?"

>>20115

Krieg eyes William. Still rude, trying to cut a member of the conversation out. Krieg actually felt slightly angered by his presence. "Interesting you now that she can take off my arm but don't know how she did it. Seems a little redundant." He leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees. "It's rude to cut people out of conversation, you know."

>>20118

William looks back to Krieg, hearing what he said as he tilted his head to look past the middle Moko.

"…How was I trying to cut you out of this conversation? And, just because I called that a 'thing', doesn't mean I don't know what it is. It got something to do with chains, or is just chains, at the very least."

>>20119

Krieg can't help but snicker a bit. "Oh come on, you can't be that daft. I'll hold of on the grandeur and loud ranting I do for Jenni, which I admittedly have fun doing, but if you don't recognize she uses chains to fight you are truly the dullest knife in the drawer. She summons chains, kid. I don't think karate, kung-fu or any martial art that isn't mystic could take an arm off. Use your head." His grin widened, taking on a somewhat smug look as he shrugged.

>>20120

What the hell is this robotic bloke talking about? Was he intentionally missing his point just to get William a bit angry? If that's the case, it's working to a degree.

"…Of course I know that normal close combat can't take off a damn arm, I was never saying that she only fought with her fists! What I was trying to say is that her 'thing' is the one with the chains, and she's branching out into close-combat fighting, which is a new development! Christ, can you also stop looking so smug, as well, if you can…"

>>20121

Krieg's grin grew wider briefly before his smug look dropped to one of false concern. "No, no, you misunderstand, I'm /helping/ you understand the flawed logic. Your speech pattern is a bit out of order. It should have been something closer to, 'Can you also stop looking so smug if you can.' The 'as well' is redundant. Why would a ranged individual swap to an ineffective form of close combat, anyways? Considering we're dealing with giant threats, if anything she'd want a sword or any form of melee weapon. Haven't you ever read a book on combat tactics?" He was getting a rise out of the rude kid. Fun. "I mean, if you want to punch a demon, Kaiju, witch, or similar threat, that's your funeral, but you didn't get the idea from me."

>>20122

In reply, William looked behind the sofa to the window… In times like this, he wished he brought along his Backpack, as to ditch this punk right out of the room. While he wished to do that, Krieg was Moko's friend, and it was more than likely that doing so would ruin his chances with her. Nonetheless, he continue arguing:

"That doesn't stop a good size of the students here going all fisticuffs, it's Moko's choice if she wish to study how to fight with her hands. Hell, she might even have some potential there, making it even more effective, but you wouldn't know, because you only seen her rip you apart with some chains of hers…"

William sighs, turning his focus back to Moko with a fainter voice, as to not be overheard, "Uh, sorry about that, your friend here was being a bit of a, well, smug dick…"

>>20126

Krieg roars with laughter, making visible effort to calm himself. "Did you miss the bit where I mentioned mystic martials are effective. Come on, I know you aren't /that/ dull. You act like I'm on your level of perception. I bet she could use a cannon with pretty good precision. Yeah, she definitely seems like the heavy arms type." Pointing his ringer out like a gun, he aims it at William and makes a mock shooting noise. "Bam!" He chuckles a bit as he watches William whisper. "Come on, this is what I'm talking about. Whispering cuts someone out of the conversation, pal. It's not hard to read your lips, either. Rude and dull isn't a good combination."

>>20126

Moko shrugs once again, kinda oblivious. "Its uh, just how he is… I guess. Hes right though.. A big cannon would be cool… I think Id have to use some sorta chain though.."

>>20127

>>20128

William pulls back from the whisper, shrugging as he tries to relax, "Well, like I said, it is really up to you on what you wish to have to go along with your chaining thing, Moko…"

After saying that, he looks back to Krieg, becoming less relaxed as he goes for the reply, "Well, it's better than trying to be purposefully rude, just to anger someone… I mean, I think you're one of Moko's friends, and a friend of a friend should be one's friend, but the way you are acting is just undermining the point you're trying to make. Besides, I mainly came here to check up on her…"

>>20133

>>20128

Krieg's grin widens as he ignores what William has to say. "Yeah, though. You could probably hoist it with your ghost chains. I mean, is that what they're called? I've called them chains so far, but they come from nowhere. I wonder if you can see their source with aura lenses. All the more fun to test with." He continues to smile, radiating happiness. "Since they're not attached to anything, you don't really have to worry about recoil tearing up the support, since you can always manifest more chains! We should get some sort of energy cannon! Do you think you could restrain the enemy with your chains while you fire? I could probably get us some sort of experimental weapon that could really do a number on an enemy!" Throughout his speech, Krieg slowly inches closer towards Moko once again, excited by the thought of facing her again. "I'd let you aim at me for target practice if you wanted! More ARES cannons and weapons can get turned down to a sort of stun mode that wouldn't be harsh on my shell at all! We could fight again!"

>>20134

Moko ponders for a moment, than nods in agreement. She crosses her arms. "Well, I guess you could get me a cannon…Something i can just point and shoot..Maybe make it transform as well? That'd be uh… Convenient…But, uh as long as you promise me you wont go and get your arm ripped off again…Yeah, sure.." She smiles, happy to see Krieg no longer angry with her.

>>20134

>>20154

William meanwhile was gaining a bit of dislike for this smug cyborg, what with the latter outright ignoring him just to piss him off further. But, he can wait, just looking around the room casually as he overhears what Krieg is saying to Moko. Soon, he would spot some TombCrons on one of the shelf, something hinting to her personal hobby. While he in no way can offer up something like a actual cannon for her, at least he could buy her one of those Steel Pyramid to add some kind of heavy force to her army…

>>20154

>>20155

Krieg leans in closer. "I mean, me getting hurt is on you, you know." He uncharacteristically giggles. "And I've said it before, getting hurt is actually kind of exciting." He places his hands on his face, closing his eyes. "The only time I /really/ feel." He quickly takes his hands off his face, retracting some, but not all the way. "Sorry, I just got a little bit worked up again. You're so lucky you're going to get to wield something like that. My body would get torn up from all that recoil. I'd give myself five shots, if I were the luckiest cyborg on earth." Krieg is practically beaming at this point, shaking his head back and forth. "I mean, I can always get my body repaired but it's all about avoiding it you know. I dunno, but just thinking about fighting you just gets me excited.

Adamma heads to the local movie rental place on campus and spends her hard earned credits. Now lets see.

Adamma mutters over the selection, utterly ignoring the christmas move selection, well that and most of the good ones are already gone. 'OOOOOO Predator I love that one. '

"Oh I think Azzy would love this. These are my favorite movies about Africa. "

She then also grabs the complete trilogy of the Gods Must Be Crazy.

She then heads to the place where the fliers said it was gonna be held to submit her movies for watching. Spots are gonna fill up fast after all and Adamma wants to watch all four movies.

Gwen whistles to herself as she walks down the halls of the academy, bored out of her skull, nothing to do, dunno where Krieg or Lillian are, dunno what to do about Jenni and Moko.

>>20209

William happened to arrive at the same place a hour later, looking somewhat stupid with both his satchel and Backpack on, with a copy of Die Hard held by his side. "Oh, hey there, you're here for movie night, if I'm correct?"

(Guessing the previous thing between William, Moko and Krieg was nuked)

>>20218

Adamma stops writing on the board for a second to flash a smile at the new guy.

"Yup! I'm almost done." You can see that she has written in blue marker three movies and is starting on the fourth.

"Hope you like Arnold!" She points at the very first entry for the night, where Predator is named. Her other entries are spread throughout the night, with the last in the very final entry. It's clear she is going to stay here the entire time movie night is running.

Finishing writing with a small flourish she turns around and extends her hand. Her smile is a flash brilliant white in the darkest skin imaginable on a human being. "I'm Adamma. Nice to meet you."

>>20220

William looks over to the board for a moment before turning back to Adamma, reaching his spare hand out of the jacket's pocket to accept the handshake.

"Heya, call me William, William Mason, 'cause there's another William in the academy. I know who Arnold is, but I'm a bit more curious about those other movies…"

With the handshake done, he awaits for the pen to be handed over, so that he can write down on the board his choice of movie, at the closest time to midnight. If Movie Night's going to be on christmas, might as well have a fitting christmas movie, right?

Adamma smiles and begins to talk excitedly. "The Gods Must be Crazy? It's primarily a comedy. It is set in Africa and probably one of the best movie trilogy I've seen bar none. I always watch them if I can get away with it. Nothing to do with Christmas though but then again I'm not Christian so I don't really care for the more traditional movies and the more modern ones are just gross."

She smiles a bit wider as she looks at Willaim's own choice. "Die Hard? I think I remember that one? Action film right? Set around Christmas? Pretty old school. Nice choice."

>>20220

"Did somebody say Arnold?"

Through the door walks the heavy stomping mass of dark skin covered muscle, metal, and macho known only as LUCY following >>20223 William not too far behind, just previously she was helping him study her nanites.

>>20224

Then she turns to the black girl.

"Ei! Howdy, my name is Lucy" she says, extending a massive arm with a big hand at the end toward her.

>>20225

Adamma looks up. And up. And smiles. It has teeth in it. "Yup, I'm a big fan of his early movies. "

Adamma shakes the preferred hand. Her nails feel sharp in your palm. "I'm Adamma. Sole Practitioner of the.

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"

She pauses, her eyes are slightly silvery.. "Wanna spar while we wait for the night to start?"

She bounces on the balls of her feet, clearly excited at the prospect of a fight.

>>20224

>>20225

"Ah… And yeah, since it's going to be Christmas tomorrow, might as well put on a Christma-"

William was shaken hearing Lucy coming behind him. Stepping out of the way, he leaned against the wall at the other side of the corridor. Hopefully he didn't hurt Moko's feelings with the arguments he had against a robotic twat…

"a-A-ah, hey there Lucy? If you're wondering, I'm still studying the nanites you gave me a few weeks ago, and I'm making some, well, 'progress' in cracking the code they have…"

>>20226

"…Wait, here? Right now? Can't you wait until tomorrow, or something for the sparring?"

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>20226

Lucy looks at the girl cockeyed for a moment. ("Seriously? II mean, fuck, didn't I at least train with Alexei before offering up a fight?

…

Damn, I might take a liking to this one.")

A grin appears on Lucy's face, at the offering of a challenge, and like a rooster she perks up ready and just as eager as Adamma at this point.

"Hell. Yes.

Goddamn girl, first thing you do when you meet a bigass motherfucker like me and you wanna fight? This school needs more people like you."

LUCY ACCEPTS THE SPARRING CHALLENGE!

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>20227

Adamma snarks back at the boy who is interrupting her fight. "Dude. Look, everyone fights here, all the damn time. You see sparring matches going around every single day. And there is a perfectly fine patch of grass right outside. I wanna fight now"

She stomps her feet childishly.

>>20228

At the agreement Adamma races outside to the nearest patch of ground and prepares to fight. When she sees Lucy ready she begins to circle the taller woman until she sees her first opening. Then her claws come out and she literally pounces.

>>20229

Krieg shows up to the movie rental, immediately taking note of Adamma getting into some sort of fight. He takes a copy of There Will Be Blood and quickly turns to leave. Not going to spoil his time. Nope, no way. He was in a good mood today and was quite excited for the holidays. He sat on a bench grinning. He was having a good day, which had been rare for him as of late, but he was getting better.

>>20228

>>20229

>>20230

William watches as the two ran outside to begin fighting, befuddled to the whole thing. He knew that sparring is good training of one's strengths and unveils weaknesses, but this sudden urge to fight… It's all confusing.

Thankfully, he didn't notice Krieg dropping off something to ensure that There Will Be Blood, but in the current moment, that's not very important.

>>20230

Walking down the path towards the Movie night, Moko notices Krieg sitting on a bench. She was wearing her rather spiffy new out fit, with a long coat pulled over and a Santa hat to tie it up in a festive. "Hey Krieg. Mind if I sit here with you for a bit? Uh…Its gonna be a while before Jenni gets here, or the uh..Movie night starts"

>>20250

Still beaming Krieg turns and grins. "Of course! I've been in a good mood today. I picked out a good movie. I haven't seen a lot because my dad was afraid I'd rot my brain. So what's with the new outfit?" He slides to one side of the bench, giving Moko room to sit.

Colin is finally out of the lab for the day, an hour early this time. Doctor Kein decided to end early because she had holiday plans. Colin decided to work on his presents for his friends and Jenni so he went out in search of sculpting clay for the gifts he had in mind. He uses his tablet to find the Art Club's room and goes to request some clay and possibly tools.

>>20296

Azzy walks to movie night when. The mystic see Colin walking in nearly the opposite direction. "H-hey! Colin r-right? You're n-not going to m-movie night?"

Movie night, that was a new one. As much as Viktor enjoyed that time of the year, but he sure as hell wasn't going to go there alone. He'd have to find Konstantin and the floozies, maybe get some more advocaat, but what movie to bring? Hitler's first Christmas seemed like an obvious choice, sure it was satirical of the Führer, but it was Christmas and there was nothing wrong with a good joke.

That said Viktor wasn't really looking forward to watching the movie himself, he just wanted to have something in case everyone else forgot to bring something, much more curious of what other people would have to contribute.

>>20298

Colin cocks his head at Azzy's comment, movie? What movie? Oh, Right! The movie night, He had completely forgotten. Colin puts on a small but friendly smile before speaking in his somewhat monotone voice. "I had forgotten about it, hmm. I would like to go The only videos I have are the ones I was going to watch with Jen-"" Colin stops himself, didn't Azzy just have a fight with Jenni? Perhaps mentioning her name would cause him…her? Some distress, Colin does not wish to do that. Colin continues speaking. "I had videos that I was planning to view with a friend but I am uncertain if they are appropriate for the movie night. Are you going to the movie night, Azzy?"

>>20303

Azzy smiles a small smile in return. "Y-yeah, i'm going. Bringing the E-evil dead trilogy." Azzy brandishes the films as proof. "Th-there is still time to g-get a movie for it, if y-you want. I c-can lead you if you w-want."

>>20306

Colin ponders for a moment but then smiles and nods saying. "Lead the way, Azzy." Colin can work on his sculptures after the movie night, idly he wonders if Jenni will be there. he hadn't seen her since that night.

After a bit of walking he decides to try and talk. "I appreciate you helping me out, Azzy. I more than likely would have completely missed the movie night if not for you."

>>20307

"N-no problem Colin. S-so why did you switch fr-from using Jenni's name mid-s-s-sentence? I d-don't judge people for actions th-they didn't commit." Azzy keeps walking.

>>20308

Colin is slightly impressed by Azzy's perceptiveness, or perhaps it was just that obvious. Colin responds without wavering or slowing his pace. "I did not wish to upset you by mentioning Jenni. I had thought that hearing her name so soon after your conflict might cause you some unrest. My apologies if I was mistaken, I did not mean to mislead you."

>>20309

"Unlike your g-g-girlfriend I c-can take a few harsh b-but accurate words and n-not attack someone from behind. B-besides you meant no harm by it." Azzy stops as they approach their destination. "The movies are I-in here. Want some h-help?" I doubt you've seen m-many g-given how young y-you are."

>>20314

Colin smiles at Azzy's suggestion, seemingly unfazed by his unkind words about Jenni. His assessment is more than likely fair, Colin has already seen that Jenni reacts poorly to stressful situations, it simply didn't matter to him that she was like that. Colin responds to Azzy. "I would appreciate the assistance, thank you Azzy." Colin thinks for a moment before speaking again. "If you have any suggestions I wouldn't mind a movie where humanity triumphs over some great threat by banding together. I feel that I would enjoy that sort of movie."

>>20315

Azzy's hand is raised to rest on the lower part of the mystic's face, as Azzy ponders.

[There are a lot of moves like that, should I tell him to get a funny one or a serious one? Better ask]

"Y-you want a f-funny one, or a dr-dramatic one Colin?"

>>20317

Colin thinks for a moment on which one would be most suitable and in the end he goes with one that he believes he would most want to see. "A dramatic one, please."

>>20317

Colin thinks for a moment on which one would be most suitable and in the end he goes with one that he believes he would most want to see. "A dramatic one, please."

>>20252

Moko smiles, but turns her head to her feet. She idly kicks her feet back and forth, almost nervously. Moko wasn't really sure what to her say. Her hands rested in her pockets, the steam leaving her mouth with each deep breath. Gulp. Might as well be honest. Her hair covers her face, casting a long shadow over her eyes as she looks down.

"Uh. Yeah. Apparently I am half inter-dimensional monster… Or something. I am a Pandora, but I dont have the bits to /be/ a pandora. Yet I can still use powers."

She looks back up, grinning widely. Her eyes do look worried. "Pretty crazy huh?"

>>20319

>>20324

"………. Hmm" Azzy finger tapsalong the Necromancer's chin. "This, this and m-maybe this." Azzy picks up Pacific Rim, Independence Day, and Van Hellsing. Azzy hands them to Colin for them to look over. "These a-about what y-you w-want Colin?"

>>20326

Krieg suddenly starts to shake slightly with excitement. A /Pandora/? As in the project to give humans incredible powers that techno-enhanced were simply mockeries of? "Moko that's amazing! You don't understand the envy I feel right now!" He leaned in close, closer than usual. "Moko, you don't know how exciting this is, I mean, the amount of information I could /learn/, no /humanity/ could learn from studying you." Krieg feels himself heat slightly. Moko was everything he wanted. Knowledge, power. She was even shifting towards the skills needed to manipulate such power. "Moko, I, well…" He paused for a moment. "I think you're a very interesting person and the fact you're so… interesting is rather attractive to me…" He looks at the ground and then back at Moko. "I like you. Like like you, I suppose." He continued to lean in, staring at Moko who was only inches away.

>>20328

Colin reads over their summaries, raising an eyebrow at Van Hellsing" They seem as though they will be quite interesting to watch and while Van Hellsing isn't quite what I had in mind it certainly seems to have an appealing concept. Thank you for your help, Azzy. Do you know when this event is supposed to start?"

>>20330

Azzy's head shakes, "N-not really, it w-was kinda vague on t-time. M-might have already st-started the first movie. Still we sh-should be ok b-being a little late." Azzy pauses and considers. "N-need anything else b-before go?"

>>20331

Colin thinks for a moment before deciding to ask anyway. "I am planning to create several small sculptures modeled after the creations of Doctor Nikolay the Type 0. As Christmas gifts to friends and acquaintances I have met since coming to the academy, would you like one?" Azzy seemed like a helpful and all around nice enough person. It is a shame that Jenni and Azzy cannot get along but some things cannot be helped.

>>20333

Azzy smirks. "If y-you get time, I would n-not mind. I was pl-planning to make some b-bone charms for my fr-friends. Would you l-like one?"

[Still as young and naïve as a newborn babe. Nice guy though, even if he's about as human as Remmy is. I shudder to think what jenni's real interest in him is.]

"A-anyways we should pr-probably get g-going."

Colin smiles and responds. "I would like that. Thank you, Azzy." Colin agrees with Azzy and follows him to the movie room with his three movie picks in hand. Even if he only gets to play one tonight, he'll still watch the others at a later time.

>>20231

>>20297

William yawned as he looks around the the hall, figuring that there's still time to spare before the Movie Night, and so left outside for some fresh air. While outside, he would notice Jenni standing near the building's wall, looking upwards forward the stars. Maybe it would be nice to get to know her better aside from the two earlier appearances, since she's one of Moko's friend.

"Heya Jenny… Jenn? Anyway, how're you?"

>>20337

Azzy smiles a little and leads Colin to the movie room.

>>20297

"Ah th-there's your Girlfriend Colin, r-room's on the inside. She looks bored, you should pr-probably go cheer her up. L-later"

Azzy leaves Colin to talk to Jenni, giving her a wave as the mystic passes by.

>>20338

[Jenni]

After a few seconds of thought, Jenni responds in a slightly sagelike manner. "Oh. I'm doing okay. Good to see you William. I've just been studying over the last few weeks and now my brain is totally gone. I've also tried to make friends down in the mech pool…but…uh…well, not going so hot, I think." After that she shrugs her shoulders. "Part of being normal is a constant anxiety about power. Everyone here is a cyborg, magical, or something especially weird. The only thing that makes me special - sort of - is hard combat for three years against state paramilitaries."

After this statement she coughs. "Even that isn't too special. Most of my skills are sort of useless, so I've taken an interest in the bigger kit. Problem is, they don't trust war criminals with walking nuke reactor god machines, you know..maybe you know a pilot or something, I don't."

Jenni then smiles and throws her hands up in an exasperated gesture. "And you? How are you? Things going well with Moko?"

>>20340

Colin smiles and waves goodbye to Azzy, it is rather nice of him to act as such despite his recent conflict with Azzy.

>>20341

>>20338

Colin walks up to speak with Jenni when he notices that someone is already speaking with her, he decides to wait for them to finish speaking before speaking to Jenni himself and possibly introducing herself to the newcomer.

>>20342

[Jenni]

After Colin approaches, Jenni gets slightly excited and her manner seems to change from a slighty reserved posture to total extroversion. "Oh, William, this is Colin. Colin is my sweetie." As she says this, she leans in and gives Colin a kiss on the cheek as she moves to stand next to him and hold his arm. "Colin is super focused and good natured. I'm glad I managed to find him when I did."

After this little speech Jenni nudges Colin a little with her elbow and speaks out of the side of her mouth a bit, "Colin, say hello to William. I'm not sure what he does here, but I suspect it's pretty impressive. I was just telling him about what I was doing recently."

>>20343

>>20338

Colin is actually a little embarrassed to be introduced like this and a light blush appears on his cheeks as he greets William. "A-ah, right. My name is Colin. It is nice to meet you, William. I hope that we can get along well."

Colin turns to look at Jenni a larger smile forming on his face. "And it is good to see you too."

>>20341

He tries to pull a slight chuckle over what Jenni was saying, if there is anyone normal in the academy, William bets that it is himself, for without the Backpack on his back, he would just be like that of a blue-collar joe. Nonetheless, he tried to shrug that off.

"I'm sure that if anyone was to complain about being 'normal', I would be the bloke to throw the first, well, metaphorical stone. But besides that, I'm doing well, trying to figure out the thing about one of Moko's friends nanites, alongside making some papercraft gifts for people like yourself. Only real problem I had was with Moko's other friend, 'Krieg'…"

>>20342

>>20343

William soon noticed Colin coming over and brought into the conversation thanks to Jenni, offering out a hand to him in the typical greeting gesture.

"Heya, I'm guessing that you're in a relationship with Jenni over here, 'cause of her tone about yourself. How are you doing tonight?"

>>20345

Colin shakes William's hand and puts on a small but friendly smile. "I'm doing great. Thanks to some help I was able to acquire some interesting looking movies for tonight and possibly later; and yes I am in a relationship with Jenni."

>>20345

[Jenni]

"Krieg again? Ugh, I really…really…don't like him." She gestures flippantly. "I think he's crazy. Did I ever tell you he threatened me with a knife? I think I might have. Anyway, I'm sorry, I didn't make you anything, but I appreciate papercraft. I have a Chaos Daemons army in 50k, for example." After this statement she pauses. "Moko loves 50k. Plays Tombcrons. Needs some help on strategy, though…"

After a few seconds Jenni trails off after she realizes the direction of the conversation and the disinterest to follow.

"Er, I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Are you excited about movie night? I have no idea what to expect really. I just brought this movie. I love this movie." After this statement Jenni shows everyone a copy of "The Room"; the cover has a picture of a man looking sad on the front. "We'd watch it during downtime at the encampment."

>>20344

During a pause, Jenni leans in to Colin and whispers into his ear: "I need to talk to you later about something." After this she bites him on his left earlobe, teasingly, a little bit.

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>20347

>>20351

>>20352

William nods to all that, and was about to reply, before spotting something out in the corner of his eye…

Krieg was with Moko, and from what it looks like, the former's trying to get to her before he could.

To William, he needed something to care for, to help motivate himself to get out of bed and to do good. To him, he thought that Moko would be the ticket, a quiet, 'unassuming' girl to take care of. But, with that fucking robotic twat trying to steal her away from him…

No, he should stay calm, assaulting students isn't a good for either himself, or humanity. Survival of civilization depends on people within the academy, and if he just attack Krieg…

Just, stay calm, stay calm… Do not get angry, do not, get, angry…

>>20352

>>20353

Krieg's grin widens before he manages to contain it slightly. "Of course I mean you. I find you to be quite attractive… I mean the stuff you want, carrying you isn't a problem, and I study as a hobby anyways, so it's not a problem either, and I went and apologized to Jenni the other day, so I think she and I are on good terms now. She just talked about television. This will work…" He taps is foot for a moment, thinking what to do next before he quickly embraces her in a hug. "I promise I'll keep out of trouble."

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>20359

Colin sees what is happening and moves to defend Krieg but he finds himself blocked by Jenni. Knowing that he cannot possibly get there in time to affect the outcome he decides to just activate his AT field and defend himself and Jenni from any wayward attacks or shrapnel as they egress. Colin cannot help but feel upset at his helplessness to defend his friend, if only he were stronger…

[Rolling to protect Jenni and Colin as they get out of the way(If I roll a 100 then shoot a Proton Beam at William's Nantes pls)]

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>20329

>>20352

[Krieg and Moko, huh? Good for them, still a weird as fuck way to start a relationship tho->>20355

OH YOU HAVBE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME, CAN NOTHING GO RIGHT FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES?]

"Krieg, Moko look out!"

Azzy moves to intercept the swarm, Wraith Talons out. Parry and intercept, dodge and weave. Getting close was not feasible, but hopefully Azzy wouldn't be doing this alone shortly. Til then take out the tendrils with the draining talons and try to contain this mess.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>20355

>>20364

Krieg's head swivels to look at the mass of nanobots Azzy was trying to knock out with his talons. Of course William was still mad about Krieg being blunt in Moko's room. He had just promised to avoid trouble too. He didn't give his usual grin when he moved to attack either. This kid, William, was annoying as hell and was ruining what was a good time for Krieg. He moved to the side, trying to get a clean view of his target, firing from his hand blaster. They would be strong enough to break the control center for the nanobots. Hopefully they didn't hit William. At the same time, Krieg would move in to disable William manually, should the suppressing fire do nothing.

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>20355

>>20364

>>20380

Viktor (who had been around since the start, just cause you didn't notice doesnt make it meta you lil shit) stopped sulking around in some corner and wondering where Konstantin was. Though things hadn't been particularly going his way and he really didn't look forward to fighting the guy with the tiny robots Viktor was obligated to assist a fellow German in this no doubt unprovoked attack.

The guy with the backpack was apparently focusing entirely on Krieg which gave Viktor an advantage, not only would he be able to get the jump on him, but this was very much the foundation he had built his combat doctrine on. Hoping that all his training would eventually pay off Viktor made his move, aiming to disable the nanites, whether through disabling the backpack or the operator. Preferably both. Painfully.

Even if it wouldn't work, training was still training right?

>>20355

>>20380

>>20359

>>20363

>>20364

Gwen muttered to herself, she didn't want to bother with this movie night bullshit, but Krieg had asked and she didn't have anything better to do. She opened the door and stopped as she looked at the chaos about to unfold.

"Right, the fuck is going on here and why shouldn't I call the disciplinary committee?"

-~Get 'em! Punch 'em! Turn them into pincushions!~- Quiet you.

>>20389

Viktor who was probably having a hard time still looking fascionably fascist at this point was trying to somehow get the dude with the nanite backpack relieved of the latter.

"Look out skimpily dressed girl! He's gone mad!"

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>20355

A massive Russian charges at William, more and more clothing burning away as he transforms. Clad suddenly in a pair of glorious Russian briefs embellished with the hammer and sickle, a cloud of blue sparks forms along the corded form of the Magical Boy.

Using the disarray his electricity causes in the nanite swarm, Alexei takes down the scrawny boy ruining Movie Night. A quick kick to the back of the leg knocks him to the ground, leaving him open to a rear naked choke.

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>20380

>>20383

>>20364

>>20363

>>20359

>>20355

"Right, enough of this, either cease and desist or be subdued, all of you," Gwen said as she readied her bow, flaring her magic so that the disciplinary committee would be alerted. Meanwhile she transformed and fired a sleep spell into the room to hopefully knock out everyone if not the majority of the brawlers.And hopefully the rest would be too tired to resist when requested to stand down once more.

Her eye twitched as Alexei charged in, great she was going to be held liable regardless

-~I certainly didn't need to see that transformation sequence, gah!~- Not now.

Rolled 95, 59, 57, 85, 88, 14, 27, 28, 98, 1, 3, 74, 99, 84, 76, 58, 33, 48 = 1027 (18d100)

[GM META:

If your character is attending movie night and you have not rolled a d100 to react to this fight, please post your intent and roll 1d100.

If you have already rolled a reaction, your roll stands.

/end GM META]

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>20394

Adamma is not even inside to marvel at the chaos one man's jealousy can bring. But she reacts to it anyway.

>>20394

During the clusterfuck, which William will forever call 'The Great Clusterfuck', William FARMER was reading some of the schools digital textbooks on Magical engineering and other materials the club recommended.

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>20394

'I've done all I can, brother, lights and projector and all of that set up, man, nice and cozy."

As Hulk was busy brofisting his fellow student-helper-associate, the sudden commotion could be heard from his spot by the projector. He makes a face and flips his shades on, strolling out just as the fight starts.

"HEY, MAN, THAT'S NOT COOL, BROTHER, THIS IS A MOVIE NIGHT, NOT A GRUDGE MATCH!

"STAND DOWN, BROTHER, OR YOU'LL BE GETTING THE YAPAPAI STRAP!"

Hogan moves to get everyone out of the crossfire and into safety before moving in to help subdue the attacking William with a sleeper hold.