Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-29194274-20180305050140/@comment-26892768-20180305114059

(Ello)

Avian walks out of his room in casual clothing holding a bottle of Sodastream, having just woken up from a quick nap.

He then sees the brands and the melting desk, and then looks at the Sodastream. "...I'm going to need something stronger than this."

He then puts away the Sodastream and pulls out...a bottle of Mountain Dew. What? He isn't drinking age yet. Unfortunately.

Elsewhere, in a world with several recent disappearings, a certain villain is pacing around, musing to herself.

First, it'd been Crow and Becky. According to various eyewitness accounts, their ship had just flown into a giant portal that appeared out of nowhere. She'd been concerned, but not too much. Crow is cunning. Crow is smart. He is - as he dubbed it - dangerously trope savvy. She was sure he'd get out of whatever situation he'd gotten himself into no problem.

Then, a few hours later, the former princess Tephra disappeared, the only sign she's ever been there being her broken handcuffs. That had her far more concerned, because Tephra was a rogue agent back when she was ruling. Many might have claimed she was a "Villain-Princess," but Tephra did not associate herself with the Syndicate of Malice at all. In fact, whenever an actual villain tried to rise in Sukochi, they were brutally beaten down, either by the government or Tephra herself. And to top it off, the nation's hero, Kaptain Man, was far too fearful of her to actually do anything to her reign (she remembered Justice's rants on how he wished he could fire the Kaptain if it wasn't for the fact that he wasn't actually doing anything wrong very well). And now Tephra was out. Assuming she came back to overthrow her brother - who was likely to be far more cooperative with the system - that would be an issue.

And now, a hour ago Princess Cherry Mayapple disappeared. This was around the point where Justice and Virtue had started to take action and started a search. And as for her?

Malice was very concerned over this turn of events. She'd been in a romantic relationship with Mayapple after all - partly because of her own machinations, partly because Mayapple actually was rather attractive in both personality and appearance and Malice fell for both - and now she was very concerned, because the logical conclusion here is that all these missing people are in the same place, and, well...from what Crow told her, his first encounter with Tephra consisted of her grabbing him by the throat and punching him across the room. Malice isn't exactly very confident in Crow's ability to protect Mayapple from Tephra if it comes down to it.

Which is why she's considering asking her...otherworldly resources about the whereabouts of Mayapple and the others. The only problem she's having is how far she wants to go. She'd been sticking to the more...local eldritch beings around - the closest ones she could find. Because Malice knows very well that further into the realm of the eldritch and the odd have become...rather dangerous. Even for people like her. Especially for people like her, actually.

But, all things considered...she doesn't think anything local will know the location of Mayapple. Like hell is the Wa-Verse actually going to give her any help.

So...

Malice makes up her mind.

The orb at the tip of her wand shifts from blue to a dark red, and Malice taps it against the floor.

.EXE may feel something like a tap on the shoulder.