genessia | First Coin for the Horde

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First Coin for the Horde

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[Another day in Genessia and another day of pods in the Bay. Its the same quiet serene scene as always. Wait, what's that heavy thudding sound?

That sound would be a taloned fist pounding repeatedly against the side of the pod until cracks through, sending pieces of metal and fluff all over the Bay. The pod crumples inward before bursting like a flower outward and standing in the middle is a very predatory-looking woman with a viscous look of hate on her face. The woman whips and turns as she looks around and outright prowls out of ruined pod, clearly looking for something....or someone...And with how furious her posture is, its likely she'll start a fight soon enough.]

Who? Who fucking did this? Where are ya, ye damn bastards!? Think you've got enough for another damn try at the belt well YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER THING COMING, YOU FRACKIN' BLIGHTERS!

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[The video feed pops on after some focusing as it's shaken around. Its picking up some mumbling]

This damn thing's workin' too clean. Think something this shiny'd be Warptech and all fritzy...

[Some more fumbling, flashes of light and red cloth and purple(?) before it turns up to a fairly good looking face. Or at least it would be one if the face on it wasn't purple with very pissy looking yellow eyes]

This damn communication cogitor workin yet? Damn thing seems like it. [A sharp looking finger taps the screen curiously] Right, if anyone can hear this, could ya give a cutter some direction to the nearest spaceport? I ain't much one for gettin' nabbed and I've business to get back to at The Cage. There's some jink in it for the blighter who can get me on the way back quickest.

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[This day residents of NOVA CITY, EVERGLADE or FAYREN may espy a new stranger gawkin about at the various cities. Her frustrated attitude is obvious from how she stands but she isn't causing any problems. Clearly bothering her is something you should do. Right now. Go go go.]

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Just another day hanging out by the bay. Koishi was sitting in a tree this time, enjoying the birds and the shade and the smell of the water. She might have fallen asleep if not for the sudden noise of the pod breaking apart. The birds fled the tree and the little youkai flailed a bit as she caught herself before falling.

She dropped down to the ground, straightening her hat and walking around to the bay's exit, hands tucked behind her back. There was... A dragon? A lady? Something? Regardless, it was a new person!

Absolutely elated, the little satori ran over to Adeline, her calming aura gently washing over the angry dragon. It wouldn't be enough to completely calm her wrath, but it might help some. Fortunately her natural obfuscating power was sparing her from the woman's immediate wrath.

"Hello! Miss?" Koishi poked her arm, trying to focus and drop her cloak. "Miss? Can you see me? Can you hear me? Hey!"

The draconic warrior stalked through the bay area, seeking out her prey, the bastard Tiamat cultists. They'd be the only frackers with enough reason and daring to abduct her, especially after that long night on Bytopia that resulted in the destruction of three factories, five assembly lines, an undisclosed number of small business and a herd of goats. After that, everyone but the Order of the Resplandent Dragon Lord got the message.

Still, after a good couple of minutes of rampaging about, her temper's began to wane. If they were around, they would have at least sent someone out! A daemon! A kill-servitor! At least a gaggle of mooks! And yet...nothing. "What in the Abyss' foul name is going on here?" softly growls the monk as she comes to a stop, feeling quite calm. Much too calm for a post-rampage huff.

Instincts flare as she whirls herself full-round, fists curled into dangerous looking claws, her body ready for violence! Someone had snuck up on her; finally some answers! And then....she saw!

"A little...daemon girl?" What the frack.

Koishi's face lit up as the dragon turned to her and spoke, clapping her hands together and hopping up and down. Her third eye, a large blue sphere with two nerves or arteries running out of either side, bobbed and swayed excitedly as it attempted to remain in front of her heart. Other than the obvious addition and her faintly glowing green eyes she looked like any other human.

"Hello Miss! You can see me!" Apparently this was something to be excited over. "I'm really glad. Not many people see me right away." A pause. "And I'm not a daemon! That's silly. Miss Koakuma is a demon though. Is that similar? She's really super nice and I like her a lot."

She reached up and grasped the dragonblood's hand in her own, shaking it. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Koishi Komeiji! A satori youkai from Gensokyo! I'm not actually a child. Satori youkai are just kind of tiny. Did you just wake up? You have sleep in your eyes."

She seemed harmless, for the most part. Someone so small could not have any great amount of strength. And she seemed friendly enough...

Adeline lowered her form-fitted gauntlets, blinking her yellow eyes in blank astonishment as the wisp of a child vehemently shook her clawed hands. She had seen many things in her extended time in Sigil as well as in her journeys but she has never seen anything like this floating little girl. Floating and with no typical signs of Warp sorcery (the purple lights and silent roar of psionic energies) no less. This 'Koishi Komeiji' was not likely a daemon.

Her armored-shaped cloth rustles softly as she shifts from an aggressive stance to a more passive inquisitive one. Her head dips low but angled in such a way so the girl(?) doesn't get bonked by her horns. "Riiiight, I only got about....well none of that actually. Sorry, but you are a bit of a shocker, yeah? All floaty and crap..." Eloquent and tactful dragonblooded is eloquent and tactful.
"Hey, you wouldn't have happened to see some leatherheaded fellows around? Long red robes, eight pointed star, going on about dragons and superiority?" She was beginning to suspect that it wasn't the Order, but it wouldn't hurt to ask, right?

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Koishi just staaaaaaared up at the dragon, her green eyes large and round, head tilting this way and that. Without asking she reached up and touched her horns... and then wrapped her hands around them, her face again brightening. "Miss! You have horns! Just like the Oni do! I really like the oni. They're super friendly to me!"

Despite the tugging the girl seemed just as light as she looked. Well, almost. Maybe a bit heavier. "Also why an eight poined star? That's a silly number of points. Magic stars need to have a prime number to be really effective." The little satori's eyes drifted down to the dragon's collarbone. She paused for a moment before reaching up tugging the necklace out from under her shirt. "Miss? Where is your necklace? There should have been one in your pod. Along with lots of other things. They're presents! And its really important you have them."

Despite her lightness, Adeline still winced as the tiny....thingy pulled on her horns. While they never really hurt, at least not anymore, the sensation of someone tugging on them was incredibly awkward. "H-hey, could ya knock off on the pulling?" she awkwardly demanded the girl, trying to push her off. "As for the star thing, fuck if I know why but that's the symbol of the Powers of Chaos. They all got them somewhere on their robes, even when its not exactly smart to. But hey, cultists. Whatcha gonna do, right?" She laughs at her own bad joke.

The dragonesque woman raises a thin eyebrow as the floaty child pulls out some fancy necklace thingy and asks her about it. "Eh? Hell if I know. What're they for, yeah?" Adeline asks, not having had the chance to notice the box on her before her mild freakout over getting abducted. Again.

Edited 2015-02-02 20:21 (UTC)

Koishi did let go without too much trouble, the little youkai drifting a little sideways, flailing her arms to right herself. She didn't actually seem distressed about it though. "The necklace." She continued as if nothing happened, pointing back into the bay. "There are things inside. A shiny necklace and an envelope with money and a key and a little device used to communicate that I can never figure out. You should get them. They're yours to keep."

Reaching down, she took one of the dragon's gauntleted hands into her own, tugging her along back into the bay. "Come on. We'll get them." For such a little thing she was pretty physically strong. Nothing the dragonblood couldn't break free of if she so choose but it was certainly surprising considering her size.

Adeline carefully detangles her hands from the little one's grip, not wanting her to get cut on the pinching pieces of metal nor her nails. They weren't changed into talons yet but the healing inhibitionary properties of her claws still affected her nails and she didn't want to hurt a kid with them. (Well, at least until they deserved it)

Still, she followed Koishi along, back to the ruptured pod in the bay and peeked inside of the husk of metal. Espying a box, she reaches in and pulls it out, rattling it near her ears. "This it, then?"

"Yeah! That's it!" The little satori was hovering just above the water, all smiles. "There is a key and money and a necklace inside. You really really need the necklace and the key is nice because you'll have a place to live. There's also a note and map so you can understand where you are. I didn't read mine though when I got here. Miss White told me about this place instead. It was nice."

She drifted over, tilting her head once more before reaching out and... poking... the dragon's cheek. Poke... poke...? "Miss?" Poke. "Miss, you should know you're very very purple. I like purple but its an unusual color to be. Why are you so purple? It's really pretty." She didn't seem like she was intending to bother Adeline with her actions, but they couldn't have been pleasant.

Warptech?

[Have a video face of a black-clad, blonde-haired woman.]

Er, hi.

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Yeah, Warptech. As in tech that works off the Warp?

Sup? [Have a dark purple woman with brown hair, wicked horns and clad in some fancy red robes]

That's unfamiliar to me. Different worlds and all. I'm going to guess it's not a good thing?

Eh, Warptech's Warptech. Not really good or bad just....titchy from doing shit with the Warp.

Being from a different planet shouldn't keep you from knowing that much, Clueless.

Ah, you misunderstand the situation.

Welcome to Genessia. When I say different 'worlds', I'm trying to be flowery. It's a different universe. There may not be a warp here.

Impossible. [The most unbelieving voice] The Warp is made from souls and emotions and shit. Even if we're in a different universe, as long as souls and emotions exist, there should be a Warp.

Not entirely sure about souls, but there's definitely emotions here, and I don't know of a 'Warp' per se.

Don't expect everything to work the same in your world as here, trust me.

But that just ain't right. People's emotions should reflect onta the Immaterial World and roil it up into a right proper Warp. Weird. Alternate universes are weird.

To those who've been here a while, this world would make a lot more sense than the presence of a Warp.

My name is Pidonus. You?

[Rolls eyes] Yeah kay got it, Warp no makey sensey.

Adeline. Nice ta meetcha.

Good to meet you. Welcome to Genessia... Hoepfully you've a way to get money here.

[The cockiest of grins]

Where there's a will, there's a way. Especially when it comes to getting jink.

[Totally not implied stealing it. Nope.]

That's the spirit.

[Pidonus doesn't mind a bit of thievery... To say the least.]

So, Pidonus, you've been here a while, yeah? Ya wouldn't happen to know any high up men, wouldja?

A few. Why do you ask?

Wonderin' if ya could name 'em. Networkin's an important skill to any cutter and I don't wanna act more leatherheaded than I have ta.

Your best bet would probably be the Guardians, first, if you're on the good side of things.

Lean bit more towards neutral. 'Sides, them sound a bit to hoity toity for me, if ya ken what I'm sayin'.

... Possibly. Though mostly they're just the law.

Not sure who else is really worth the effort - there's the whole thing about 'Real' versus 'Not Real'...

Law's hoity toity by its nature. Always throwin' its weight around actin' like its got the biggest piece. [Says the former street urchin]

Wait what? The feck you sayin' now 'Real versus not real'?

That necklace you had with you when you woke up? That's important. Most of this place is... Well, I'm not precisely sure, but most of it isn't exactly 'real'. The people seem normal, but there's little missing details, and...

That thing? Yeah some floaty girl went on and on about that thing. And.....yeah now thinkin' 'bout it, the locals do seem a bit....dull.

[The 'camera' tilts back so Adeline can tap the moderately sized buffalo horns curling back from the sides of her head]

People have a tendency to stare at these babies but here? Damn might as well be invisible if I'm not yappin at them. Or I could be intimidatin' them. Either or.

Yeah. I wish I knew how the place worked... But, well, it does. Somehow.

I don't think they'll take you where you're trying to go, but Nova City would be the best chance you have of a space port.

Before you give me some jink, I want to know what it is.

Nova City? Huh. Thanks, cutter.

Jink? Jink's jink! What are ya, a Clueless?

You're from a different world than I am and we don't have whatever jink is.

Coinage! Cash! Money! That's what jink is. Daft Clueless

Oh! Money. Everyone knows what that is. It's lien where I'm from, those red bills here. If you're new, you might want to keep that, but I'll gladly take it if you really don't want it.

What the things in the envelope? That's money? But its paper!

Yeah, it's easy to carry around. We keep lien on cards where I'm from.

Well that at least makes sense. Money won't get tore to shit by some blighter with a knife.

Don't bring your money with you to a fight and that isn't a problem.

[ Though Emerald's not particularly concerned about funds, ever. ]

[A derisive snort]

Putting your money down anywhere in sigil and someone will peel off with it.

[Not that that had ever happened to her! Not at all! N O P E ! ]

[ Emerald really wants to say that you don't have to put it down for it to get stolen, but that would say away more about her than she wants to share. ]

Then paper money makes more sense, since you can tuck it behind your armor. If you don't get killed, it won't, and it's portable and lightweight enough that it won't interfere with your fight.

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