Lucifer: "oh that sounds good! we should eat canoodles together!!!"

Alastor: bruh...... "How about you...do that but with Vox?"

A snap of a finger by a mysterious mage causes all the Agents to be teleported away but the spell-casters during a mission. Suwan, Sejad, Reks, Dylan and Louma are left standing in the ruins of the floating city of Nym. The mysterious mage laughs and summons his mage brethren. A magic fight breaks out. Suwan erects a force field around Louma as a crimson mage attempts to cut him down with a rapier. Louma counter attacks the crimson mage with ice spikes. A short scholarly mage with a codex in his hand stands next to the mysterious mage protecting him. Eldritch tendrils from Sejad’s staff strangles the scholarly mage. Suwan throws bolts of unaspected Aether at the scholar and throws him magically across the ground. A blue mage tries to use a bad breath spell, Reks deflects the incoming curse with his holy water. Dylan pumps his fists forward and impales the blue mage with earth, while Suwan curses the enemy with biolysis. Sejad runs up and punches the mysterious mage before he could cast another starlight spell.

The villainous mages are subdued by the Advent casters. However they all become silenced except for Louma as a woman appears. Further chaos ensues as the woman summons her star-globe, a Prism Stone attached to it, she starts to cast a limit break. The Prism Stone’s power radiates and empowers all the mages indiscriminately. A newly empowered Suwan levitates and encases his allies in glowing force fields, his eyes blazing white. Sejad uses his Magic to strengthen Suwan’s barriers. Reks casts a protective water dome. Louma creates ice shields. All the mages layer their magic barriers preparing to nullify the full force of the limit break. Before the limit break is cast, the woman releases the Prism’s full power which further bathes the Advent mages in its light. Suwan falls to the ground unable to stop hearing loud voices from the collective unconscious. Sejad’s Aether erupts like magma within him. Louma relishes in the Prism’s light, once again in contact with its addictive power. Reks’ magic eye glows with power. Dylan becomes base and instinctively summons a hurricane which interrupts the woman’s limit break. As she is vulnerable the other mages combine their empowered spells to cast her out. However, the woman cancels all their collected magic curses and attacks by using Reks’ protection spell as the nullifying catalyst. Then the woman suddenly vanishes along with the prism stone. This leaves the mages burnt out from the prism stone’s light. Zaius, Natja and Nhara collect the mages and they are treated in the Advent Medical Ward. Nikolai is then given a mission report.

(( TY for hosting and ss of suwan @berrodtherapscallion ))

Ol’ Harper takes himself a lengthy chug from an unmarked jug, the brown and foul-smelling contents pouring down his intangible gullet and dribbling all over the inside of his ribcage and onto the ground. With a resounding smear of the back of his bony wrist across his teeth, he lets out a satisfied sigh and turns his gaze back upon you.

“Now where were we... Ahah, that’s right, the gang had just dispatched them dwarven rangers like the fools they were, and made their way to the great Loch...”

ON THE MOVE: LOCH MODAN - PART II

Heavenstrum Resolution? 

A knock on Ritsu’s office door, she doesn’t even bother to look up. “Enter.” She keeps her focus on the papers in front of her.

The elezen enters with a slight hesitation, bowing. “Lady Arlow.” He pauses. “You asked to be kept abridged of any unusually activity. Well, there was an incident in the far east that may be of your interest.”

She raises her eyes up to look the man over. “Oh? And what would that happen to be?”

He clears his throat before reading his report. “Sosui Island, at around the 3rd bell, the inhabits reported a strange rumbling, flickering lights and strange humming sound. None that they ever have heard of before.“ He sets the report on the corner of her desk, along with a child’s drawing. Ritsu picked them up, looking them over. The man hesitated before speaking again. “There..was also a report of a blonde hyur. One that fits the description that you have mentioned before.”

Ritsu’s eyes grow cold. “Each time. Faster and faster…” she murmurs as she sets the papers down. “Fetch me an airship, I shall be departing within the bell.”

He curtly bows. “Very well.” He quickly departs the room.

Ritsu pulls out a sheet over paper, quickly writing a letter. She hesitates before removing her link pearl, setting it on the letter.  She touches the letter once, before quickly leaving to get her affairs in order.

Characters: Finn, Jude, Dallas (NPC)

Content warnings: A couple mentions of murder but otherwise none

Summary: Finn storms home after his confrontation with Cedric and stress cooks a full Irish breakfast while Dallas and Jude try to convince him that a little therapy may be just what he needs.

Characters: [deep breath] Dakota, Silvain, Prue, Darcy, Connie, Holland, and Sigourney (NPC)

Content warnings: Darcy gets hit by a bus

Summary: Dakota wakes up in his own body and makes the mistake of surprising Darcy, who assumes first that he’s an impostor, and then realizes very quickly that Dakota made a deal with Albatross. Darcy mentally checks out and tries to go for a walk, which ends badly. The rest of the crew tries to deal both with Darcy’s broken arm and his dissociative state, which requires a little outside help. Dakota lies about what he had to trade away to Albatross.

Characters: Teddy, Embry, Connie, Jon/Caine (NPC)

Content warnings: Overall blood/gore, amputation (of a finger), bones being broken, the suggestion/memory of tooth pulling, discussion of Connie’s eye injury, needles/ear piercing, surgical needles/stitches being given, cuts/lacerations, body horror (by way of Embry’s healing factor), brief mention of Teddy’s torture/murder

Summary: Teddy gets kidnapped to be on Caine’s torture game show, but Embry steps in and offers to play in his place, due to their healing powers. However, because of how slowly their powers work, they’re still injured badly, and still feel pain. Caine feels bad and goes a little easy on them, even using his own powers once the game is over to persuade them the pain is less than they think it is. Caine and Teddy drag Embry back to Teddy’s apartment, and Caine peaces out, recognizing the place as where Connie (one of his cousins) lives. Teddy treats Embry’s injuries, and finally recognizes them as notorious serial killer and crime syndicate member Embry Ritter.

Connie and Teddy go on a mission to grab Chicken Nugget from Embry’s apartment, because Embry refuses to stay at Teddy’s without her. Caine returns to stay with Embry, due to Connie admonishing him over text. When Teddy and Connie return, Connie recognizes Embry as the person who stabbed him in the eye years ago, and faints. Caine drags Connie across the hall to his apartment, and Teddy admonishes Embry, but still allows them and Nugget to stay the night. As Embry falls asleep, he admits to them that he was murdered, and has been dead for four and a half years.