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    Faulkner
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    Post by Faulkner 21st November 2022, 12:35 am

    ☠ Bad Pumpkins! ☠ TkxtyVZ
    Guns and Songs and Arcane Magics



    The fashionable redhead came clomping down the hall towards the quest board in her high heels, flicking her hair back behind her shoulder as she did so. Her black sequin skirt reflected the light as she walked, complimented by her matte black crop halter top and the fluffy black jacket she wore over it. She pushed up her red tinted glasses with her long black painted nails as she let her emerald green eyes look over the quest board. Her siblings never looked at it, or at least Jamie never did.

    Speaking of her siblings, the other two redheads were making their way towards her. Jamie wore her hair up in a long ponytail, a black and red fire bikini top, her jean short shorts, and boots. Mysie on the other hand wore a white halter top under a red jacket, a black pleated skirt that had a built in ‘underbust’ so to say, and a pair of black platform boots that went halfway up their shin on their feet. Jamie felt her outfit made it easier to move with her guns, and Mysie just preferred to be comfortable in their clothes. That meant Blair had to be the fashionable one.

    “I found a job for us!” She called out as she pulled it off the board. She looked at it before handing it over to Jamie. She felt proud of herself. “Huh? Pumpkins? Cool huh?” She giggled as she pointed to it.

    Jamie twitches her lips a bit and shakes her head. “Not on our own.” She mutters as she looks up to see if there was anyone around them.

    Blair groans before she turns around and puts her hands to the edge of her mouth and takes a deep breath before shouting out; “Anyone want to come with myself and my siblings to figure out about this pumpkin crisis?! Meet us by the quest board!” She used her sound dragon slayer voice to have her voice echo through the halls, but not shake the structure of the guild hall. Anyone who was within the guild would have heard her voice as clearly as if she was simply shouting from a short distance away from them.

    Mysie rolled their eyes and signed with their hands to see what the quest in question was. Jamie handed her youngest sibling the paper and let them look at it while she glared at Blair. “You didn’t have to do that.” She says as Blair simply giggles, poking a finger on her cheek to make a ‘dimple’ as she looks at her older sister. Jamie rolled her eyes and pinched her nose. She did suppose that this was one way someone could get the attention of another guild member to go on a quest with them. But it also had the high potential to earn a rejection, or no response at all.



    || Words: 479 || Personal Total: 479 || Thread Total: 479/1400 || Job || Job Approval ||
    || Jamie - #a4a2a3 || Blair - #7cc6e4 || Mysie - #8ae47c ||
    Tag: @Fraag
    Enemies: ???


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    Fraag
    Fraag

    Player 
    Lineage : Progeny of Arcanos
    Position : None
    Faction : The Luminous Covenant
    Posts : 1038
    Guild : Luminous Rose
    Cosmic Coins : 60
    Dungeon Tokens : 0
    Experience : 3,401,904

    Character Sheet
    First Skill: Arcane Fate Magic
    Second Skill: Night God Slayer
    Third Skill: Relativity God Slayer

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    Post by Fraag 21st November 2022, 7:45 pm

    The days had been relatively good. Ever since her fight with Medeia in Cedar, and the unfortunate turn of events that occurred as a result, Nita had struggled to get her divine alter-ego, Maria, to stop sulking and ignoring the events going on around. It seemed that compared to the Primordials, humans were relatively much more flexible, as far as emotions went. While Maria's evolution from Primordial meant that the goddess had taken on some of Nita's characteristics, with a similar cross-effect happening to her Pergrandian host, the two of them still had distinct behaviors; Maria was less carefree, more serious, and less likely to take a loss in stride. Which was why her loss to Medeia had been a terrible blow to the goddess' confidence. Not only had she lost a battle, she had also failed to save the people she had tried to protect. Perhaps what made Maria all the more willing to sulk was the fact that when she had taken over Nita's body in Cedar, the Pergrandian had warned her not to bait Medeia, but she hadn't listened, and it had not ended well.

    Nita, for her part, was relatively quick to get over it; it wasn't as though remembering the many unnecessary deaths didn't make her quite sad, they surely had, but wallowing in sorrow and misery was not the most effective thing to do, and Nita had realized that even if she was sad, there were things that still needed doing, and people that still needed saving. She would just have to bear this and become a better hero. Maria hadn't been as willing to roll with the punches, but Nita was beginning to feel that the goddess was slowly but surely mending. And that was a good thing, as far as the Pergrandian was concerned.

    Today was a free day, with little to do, and Nita was just prepared to do a bit of reading about the histories of the nations of Ishgar, when a voice reverberated throughout the guild's chambers, obviously carried on the wave of some form of sound magic. A fellow guildmate was seeking aid in going on a mission. Even though there was reading to be done, it could always come after this mission. Whatever she felt, Nita had been made the newest Ace of Luminous Rose; it was thus necessary to meet with her guildmates from time to time and form relationships with them.

    She did not need to spend time changing into her 'work clothes'. Using her Aspect of Fabric ability, she almost instantly changed into her Black Maria outfit, and then, taking a look at herself in the mirror, in order to be sure her looks were spot on, she teleported. The caller had said to meet them by the quest board, and so Nita appeared in a blink beside the board, her heterochromatic eyes falling on the three young women whom she recognized immediately. Even though she had never worked with the Faulkners before, she knew them, seeing as they were fellow Aces of the guild. She had been looking forward to formally interact with them, and this was the perfect occasion for it.

    "Well, hello, ladies," she announced, smiling at them. "I heard someone needed some assistance in getting a mission rolled out. Well, I'm your gal. What's it about pumpkins?"


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    Post by Faulkner 5th December 2022, 4:51 am

    ☠ Bad Pumpkins! ☠ TkxtyVZ
    Guns and Songs and Arcane Magics



    It didn’t take long before a new person showed up in front of the siblings in a two piece outfit. Blair’s eyes glowed with excitement as she was liking what she was seeing, but of course, Desirée suited her fancy a bit more. “I just love your outfit!” She blurted out as she clasped her hands together. She then looked over to her siblings and puts her hands on her hips. “See? She knows fashion, unlike you two, especially you Jamie.” She purses her lips and looked away from her older sibling, who was just standing there with her jaw hanging open.

    As Blair clearly didn’t hear the question that Nita asked, and Jamie was trying to quell her anger, Mysie held up their iLac and pressed a button. A monotonous robotic voice came from their device.

    “A village had been cursed and
    pumpkins are now terrorizing it.
    The quest wants us to rid of the
    living pumpkins and find the cause
    of it at the same time. Also, I am
    May zee. It is a pleasure to meet
    you. Nita, right?”

    Jamie had stopped her anger as soon as her youngest sibling took charge to talk to the other ace. She rubbed the back of her neck and cleared her throat. “Hello, I’m Jamie. These two’s older sister… though you might know of that already, it still feels right to introduce ourselves a bit. I’m sorry we also didn’t introduce ourselves to you sooner when you became an ace, we’ve been… busy.” She looked towards Mysie as they stuck a stick of gum in their mouth. Of course the youngest was the reason they had been out for some time. They needed their grimoire.

    Mysie handed Nita the paper with the quest on it so she could read it herself.

    Blair got next to the other female, hands held behind her back as she nodded her head just right to sling her sunglasses back over her emerald green eyes to let her peer over the top of them. “So you’re going to join us on this fun little excursion to the haunted village?” She wasn’t able to hold back her grin as she watched the woman next to her.

    “Don’t scare her, Blair…” Jamie pinched her nose as she watched Mysie sign again. The mute was asking why Blair had to be weird all the time. The middle sister glared at the youngest and signed back to them that they were weirder than her. “You two, be polite. Nita? You wouldn’t happen to know any sign language, at least Fioren sign language, would you?” She would need to make sure her siblings didn’t get into a fight for no reason in sign if Nita wasn’t aware of sign language, even though her siblings were using Stellan sign.



    || Words: 468 || Personal Total: 947 || Thread Total: 1504/14000 || Job || Job Approval ||
    || Jamie - #a4a2a3 || Blair - #7cc6e4 || Mysie - #8ae47c ||
    Tag: @Fraag
    Enemies: ???


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    Fraag
    Fraag

    Player 
    Lineage : Progeny of Arcanos
    Position : None
    Faction : The Luminous Covenant
    Posts : 1038
    Guild : Luminous Rose
    Cosmic Coins : 60
    Dungeon Tokens : 0
    Experience : 3,401,904

    Character Sheet
    First Skill: Arcane Fate Magic
    Second Skill: Night God Slayer
    Third Skill: Relativity God Slayer

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    Post by Fraag 5th December 2022, 9:07 pm

    It seemed Blair did appreciate Nita's outfit, which brought a smile of joy to the Pergrandian's face. "Well, I'm very flattered, thank you!" she replied, although she could not help but chuckle nervously afterwards, thanks to the barb aimed at the eldest Faulkner that quickly followed after the compliment to Nita. While the blonde mage was wondering whether she would need to do a bit of diplomatic management, she heard the voice being emitted from Mysie's iLac. It was literally pumpkins, living ones, no less, that were busy terrorizing a town. Sounded like the kind of work that the Black Maria would be glad to do.

    "Yes, it's Nita. Nice to meet you, May zee," she replied with a warm smile, pronouncing the name as she had heard it pronounced on the iLac. At the clearing of the throat of the third sister, Nita turned to her. "Hi, Jamie," she replied genially. "It's fine, everyone seems to have been busy, myself included, though I've really been looking forward to meet you guys and work together with you."

    As Mysie handed Nita the paper, she took it with a smile of thanks, and began perusing it. It was as Mysie had said, more or less. Obviously some dark magic was at play, but it would be dealt with speedily, with the four Aces of Luminous Rose on the job. Blair was now beside her, asking if she was going to take the job. "Absolutely!" Nita replied, with a grin of her own, laughing when Jamie asked Blair not to scare her. Nita had no idea what communication passed between Mysie and Blair, but it seemed the youngest sister was upbraiding the fashionista, who did not seem too pleased with it.

    "Hmm?" Nita said, her attention fixing on Jamie again. "I know just a little Fioren sign language, not well enough to seamlessly get by" she confessed, "but I suppose that's because I have quite a range of communication options. Including telepathy. Some people don't like it, though. They think I'm in their heads, when all I'm doing is creating a psychic platform on which people can donate the thoughts they wish to share." If there was anything Nita enjoyed about her magic, it was the sheer amount of versatility which it afforded her. She was sure she would not have any issues communicating with anyone, or at least, so she hoped. There was also the issue of getting from the Luminous Rose guild hall to the Haunted village, but Nita's magic was quite able to deal with that as well. It did have some quirks, though. Still, it wasn't something that would be of serious concern to anyone.

    The Pergrandian cracked her knuckles. "So, please let me know when you're ready to rumble. Do you have a sort of instant transportation to get to the Haunted Village? I have one, but I must admit it involves some swimming. Never fear, though the stuff isn't actual water, it's quite breathable too, you don't really need to know how to swim in the slightest, and you'll be dry in no time, once you're out of it."


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    TWC: 2027

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    Faulkner

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    Post by Faulkner 15th February 2023, 3:07 pm

    ☠ Bad Pumpkins! ☠ TkxtyVZ
    Guns and Songs and Arcane Magics



    As the new addition to the group confirmed her name, Mysie nodded in approval, more to themselves for getting the name right. They also smiled at the pronunciation of their name since the iLac had rather terrible pronunciation of their name when it was spelled the right way. Blair was visibly happy that Nita agreed that she was coming with them.

    After Jamie piped up with the trio’s million dollar question, and Nita confessed that she only knew a little bit of Fioren sign language, Blair and Mysie seemed to nod to one another, but that was just before Nita said she had telepathy as a means of communication. Mysie seemed to do a quick hop in place as their hands went up next to their face. They clapped their hands a couple times quickly for attention to be on them so they could sign to Blair, who translated for the youngest. “‘Can you do it now? I’m mute and it can be a hassle using my iLac to talk to others, and inconsiderate since you don’t know how to sign as much as us.’ Also, can it be a four way communication thing?” Blair had a devilish grin on her face as she looked at Mysie.

    The oldest redhead looked to Mysie as well. “I wonder what your voice would sound like too if you could…” She confessed, letting the sentence trail a bit before waving a hand, not wanting to worry about it too much. Nita then asked if they had any instant transportation, and Jamie smiled. “We don’t have any instant transportation, but we are more than welcoming to other forms of transportation besides boats or trains. And we’re alright with swimming.”

    “Whenever you’re ready to go, we’re ready as well!” Blair grins as Mysie nodded and crossed their arms over their chest.

    The youngest wasn’t sure what they were more excited for, Pumpkin hunting, or the fact that they could communicate with another without signing or their iLac for once. Both of those were near equally exciting, especially with Mysie’s new book for their spells. Maybe there was something similar they could brew up as well? They’d have to look it up later honestly, the mission came first before researching things at the moment.



    || Words: 378 || Personal Total: 1325 || Thread Total: 2405/14000 || Job || Job Approval ||
    || Jamie - #a4a2a3 || Blair - #7cc6e4 || Mysie - #8ae47c ||
    Tag: @Fraag
    Enemies: ???


    _____________________________________________________________________________________

    Fraag
    Fraag

    Player 
    Lineage : Progeny of Arcanos
    Position : None
    Faction : The Luminous Covenant
    Posts : 1038
    Guild : Luminous Rose
    Cosmic Coins : 60
    Dungeon Tokens : 0
    Experience : 3,401,904

    Character Sheet
    First Skill: Arcane Fate Magic
    Second Skill: Night God Slayer
    Third Skill: Relativity God Slayer

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    Post by Fraag 19th February 2023, 10:44 pm

    To Nita's surprise, the silent Faulkner sister seemed quite excited to have a telepathic platform with which to communicate. Then again, perhaps it wasn't so much of a surprise. People who had the privilege of being able to use their voices often did not realize how difficult a barrier it created for those who could not speak. Perhaps it was also the fact that Nita had explained how her telepathic technique worked that made it seem much less some sort of nasty, mind-warping eldritch spell. In any case, seeing Mysie's excitement made Nita immediately suspect what the request on the redhead's mind would be. She was not wrong.

    "But of course," Nita said happily, a smile on her face. There was something about Mysie's excitement that felt uplifting. Perhaps it was simply due to Nita's innate desire to help people and make them happy. With a simple hand gesture done by the Pergrandian mage, the three sisters would feel a weird sensation, difficult to describe, but not really unpleasant. And then they would all hear Nita's voice loud and clear in their minds. "So it's a very simple, but nifty ability," she spoke to them mentally, her lips curled into a wide grin and no words coming out of her mouth, yet her voice quite audible to each of them. "And it doesn't get me to eavesdrop on your thoughts. All you have to do is think of what you want to say, and want them to be on the platform, and voila, we'll be able to hear you loud and clear. Whatever you're thinking of will not be privy to the rest of us, unless you want us to know, at which point it gets transferred to the telepathic platform. Give it a go, yeah?"

    Nita would wait for the sisters to try communicating with the telepathic platform, and then they would face the next matter of importance, which was getting to the village with the pumpkin problem. So far, they seemed fine with swimming, although in the Interdimensional Sea, one did not even need to have the ability to swim, and drowning was impossible there. "Well, you do seem dressed the part for a good swim, Jamie," Nita answered with a giggle, "but not to worry; swimsuits will not be required for this journey, although there might be some temporary discomfort from having wet clothes when we emerge from the portal I'm about to create. Still, it's really very temporary, seeing as you'll be all dried in a minute or so."

    So saying, Nita lifted her right hand, and swung it downwards dramatically, as a silver line appeared in the air and followed the downward motion of her hand, before expanding to either side to create a rectangular door standing in the air before the girls. "I must admit, it's a bit of weird stuff," Nita warned, returning to communicate via her telepathic channel, "but it's absolutely harmless. When you're in, don't bother holding your breath, trust me. So, if we're all ready, let's go!" So saying, she stepped into the portal. If the sisters followed, they would find themselves floating in some strange sort of liquid, as the portal closed behind them. As far as the eye could see, all around them was the weird water of the Interdimensional Sea. In the distance were images too far to make out. Nita gestured for them to follow, and then began to swim. After less than a minute of swimming in no perceptible direction, a bright silver line appeared before them, and opened into a rectangular mirror-like door. Looking at it, they would see the Haunted Village beyond. turned to nod at them, and then swam through the portal, emerging in what seemed to be a deserted area of the village.

    "Huh. Where did everybody go?" Nita wondered, wringing out her hair as she waited for her colleagues to come through the portal.


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    TWC: 3060


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    Faulkner
    Faulkner

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    Lineage : Warrior of Steel
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    Posts : 344
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    Post by Faulkner 10th August 2023, 9:55 am

    ☠ Bad Pumpkins! ☠ TkxtyVZ
    Guns and Songs and Arcane Magics



    The siblings each had a shiver go down their spines as they felt the sensation wash over them. As soon as they heard Nita’s voice, their attention went to her, noticing that she wasn’t moving her lips. As soon as she explained how it worked, Blair and Jamie’s eyes were instantly on Mysie.

    “You gonna do the thing, mys?” Blair’s eyes were shinning as she was getting excited. Of course she had to test hers out first to the group, finding it rather amusing to do. Jamie just crossed her arms over her chest and smiles as she patiently waited for her youngest sibling to speak their first words through the telepathy ability. Blair was seeming like she was bouncing.

    Mysie tilted their head in a nervous fashion, and raised an eyebrow. “Just talk like… this?” the voice that Mysie used seemed rather androgynous. Not masculine, nor feminine, but also was at the same time.

    For once, Blair was silent as her jaw hung open. Jamie took two quick steps before she was hugging Mysie in a tight hug. “That voice fits you so well.” Jamie thinks to the younger Faulkner while they squeezed them.

    “Crushing! Jamie!” Mysie was blushing as they weren’t sure how to process being able to communicate with others with this ability. “I have to check my grimoire later for something similar…”

    “Yes! Check it!” Blair was speaking normally now and giggles as she looks to Nita. “Thank you! We’re gonna have extra fun on this mission now!” They listened to Nita as she talked about the teleportation, earning a giggle from Blair for the comment about Jamie’s outfit, not that Jamie cared much and simply smiled with a nod. Blair clapped her hands and smiled brightly. “We’re ready whenever you are!”

    The trio watched as Nita created the portal and gave them a warning. They nod and follow one by one after Nita, all breathing properly as they were instructed to. They swam after their companion till they got to the door to the Haunted Village. Slowly they let themselves slip through the portal, landing on their feet.

    Mysie raised their arms and made a face that visibly showed they disliked the discomfort of the wet outfit from the teleportation, and shook their body a bit.

    Blair let up a shiver accompanied by a gasp of air. “Chilly chilly.” She mused as Jamie came through and only seemed to wince before she started wringing out her own hair. Jamie was honestly used to this more than the others and didn’t bother with trying to dignify the feeling with an action like her siblings. She walked forward, trusting that Nita’s portal magic would dry them off as she did mention before that it was only a temporary feeling.

    The older sibling looked around the abandoned area, observing all the destroyed things in the wake of the mess. Her green eyes looked one way, then the other, motioning to a broken field fence a short distance away. “If I’m not mistaken… if the pumpkins caused this damage, they probably came from that direction.” She telepathically told the group.

    Mysie and Blair stop their moving in discomfort to look up at their older sister and look around the area finally. Mysie takes a deep breath and grabs the book they had on them, making sure they were ready to have a spell prepared in case they needed to.

    Blair clicked her tongue a bit and put her hands on her hips. She wanted to deal with this quickly now. The mess that was caused here wasn’t going to be fun to pick up afterwards.



    || Words: 606 || Personal Total: 1931 || Thread Total: 3666/14000 || Job || Job Approval ||
    || Jamie - #a4a2a3 || Blair - #7cc6e4 || Mysie - #8ae47c ||
    Tag: @Fraag
    Enemies: ???


    _____________________________________________________________________________________

    Fraag
    Fraag

    Player 
    Lineage : Progeny of Arcanos
    Position : None
    Faction : The Luminous Covenant
    Posts : 1038
    Guild : Luminous Rose
    Cosmic Coins : 60
    Dungeon Tokens : 0
    Experience : 3,401,904

    Character Sheet
    First Skill: Arcane Fate Magic
    Second Skill: Night God Slayer
    Third Skill: Relativity God Slayer

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    Post by Fraag 13th August 2023, 7:29 pm

    Everyone seemed to get the gist of Nita's telepathic platform quickly, and there was something quite gratifying with seeing someone who was normally unable to speak being able to make words that others could respond to just as well as if they had been spoken. And Nita had to agree with Jamie, Mysie's voice did suit her quite well. The Pergrandian nodded with a grin, as she watched the sisters interact with glee. Nobody seemed to have an issue with traversing the Interdimensional Sea, and save for the not so critical issues of emerging from a liquid medium into free air, the journey was over in a bit.

    As expected, though, there seemed to be a little bit of displeasure with having been soaked; Jamie cared the least, though. Nita simply responded with an apologetic smile. The Faulkner Sisters would notice that, despite their initial discomfort with being wet, the strange otherworldly water seemed to evaporate at about the same rate as rubbing alcohol, if not quicker. What was better, it did not stick within the tiny pores of the fabric of their clothes, like normal liquids usually did, and in not so long a time, everyone was dry.

    As Jamie identified the direction from which the strange anomalies had come to wreak havoc on the village, Nita sensed movement in the ruins of one of the larger houses. "Heads up, ladies," she warned, her eyes quickly moving to the dilapidated building to indicate where she was referring to, "I don't think we're alone. There's someone in one of those buildings over there." However, it seemed whoever, or whatever, was hiding was of human shape, and seemed to be perfectly still. It could be one of two things: either this was a resident of the village who was hiding out of fear, or it was a human-shaped pumpkin thing, waiting to ambush them. The former was more likely, but Nita was unwilling to take chances.

    Lifting her hand, Nita drew a black card out of thin air, and then threw it in an arcing trajectory, the object flying out of view. There was a strangled yelp, and the card returned, before glowing and enlarging enough to dump a frightened-looking fellow out of it. Not very much of an outstanding person to look at, the man was probably somewhere in middle age, and while his clothes weren't of the best quality, they were well-kept and not torn. He took in a deep breath, obviously to scream, before he saw the Luminous Rose mages. "Humans? Humans!" His surprise turned to glee, as he quickly rose to his feet.

    "Are you the ones we asked to come deal with our pumpkin problem? We've no idea where they came from. Some people think a nasty mage cursed the pumpkin patches at the edge of town. Other more enlightened folks, myself included, are of the opinion that these abominations originated as the result of people using manure from questionable and unethical sources to grow their food. I shall never eat a pumpkin again. I swear on the grave of my dead pet goat! Unless it's made into pumpkin pie. Or pumpkin soup. Or pumpkin...."

    Nita turned to look at the three sisters, a look of mild amusement on her face. "Well, this one talks a lot," she shared silently, while the man rambled on about the only dishes he would probably eat, made from pumpkins, which for all intents and purposes, seemed to suggest that only raw pumpkins were going to be excluded from his life altering pledge. "Anyone want to ask him anything? If not, we may as well send him off to wherever it is his mates are."


    WC: 615
    PWC: 1695
    TWC: 3020

    @Faulkner


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