I need a drink...

"There are times when one must dress professionally to be taken seriously. This is one of those times." There's been times where Cyrus has had to deal with underworld bosses to 'clear a path' for his supply company. Mostly to get them to stay out of his way. As a show of trust, he doesn't wear the power-assist combat armor he usually does, instead wearing a simple pinstripe suit. Of course, one that is secretly made of top-tier anti-ballistic fabrics and anti-kinetic materials. Among other little 'secrets'. You can't be too careful.

...it's right there. Long hair, for Asura characters. I could give Sonnya long hair. There's one problem though. It's part of the Neon Demon Mask skin. That Yoshimitsu-lookin' face mask with wide brim hat. But it exists. They could separate the hair from the mask, and give us long hair for Asura. Long flowing locks. It's... right there. Tantalizingly close.

This just in: Sonnya Danae is very pretty. That's the entire message. Just wanted to share it with everyone.

"So anyway, since we have business in Elona next week, I thought I'd change my outfit. I decided I was going to go Desert Camo this time around! I mean, there's still some Forged running around, and Branded. Not to mention leftover Joko loyalists..." Tenna indicated her clothes. "This will help me blend in with the sand and rock better, if only so I can sneak-attack those undead jerks. Send them back to the Underworld on FIRE with my flaming sword!" Cyrus nodded along, before noticing something. He sighed, closed his eyes, and pinched the bridge of his nose. There's no way she did this on purpose, did she? "....Tenna, that's all well and good, but... where are your pants?" He indicated her lower half with a finger. "Isn't that a little... breezy?" "Oh that's on purpose!" She grinned, standing proudly with her hands on her hips. "It's like, hot enough to melt sand into GLASS in Elona. You know that. I mean, you wore your environment suit the entire time last time, because of its liquid cooling and air conditioning! I just figured I'd cut out the middleman and wear something simple and cool." "So you decided not to wear pants." He stated, tone heavy with disbelief. "The coat is just for protection. Underneath I've got..." She opened the coat's front, flashing him. "My bathing suit! If you think I'm not going to the beach on visit to Elona, you're out of your mind." Cyrus shook his head, but couldn't help but smile. "Fine, fine... After we deliver the goods, we'll go to the beach. I'll let the others know." "And don't think you're getting out of this, Cyrus." Tenna pointed out, closing up her coat again. "I made sure you have beach clothes of your own this time. No hiding in the Forsaken Aspect. We're getting you a tan this time around!"

Sorry for anyone that DMs me; I'm deeply suspicious of any message I get from anyone I don't actually know. 99% of the time, when I get a DM, it's usually a bot. If I'm not sure, I check the profile to see what posts they have. Most of the time, all I see is reblogs, with no personal posts. While that's not really a hard sign of a bot, it does make me less inclined to respond to a DM from that account. If someone DMs me, and all they say is 'Hello'. or 'Hi'. or any other kind of basic greeting with no substance... I suspect bot. I suspect scam. Especially if I check the account and note what I said above. So, anyone that's a real person that's been trying to, I dunno... talk to me, and has only sent a 'Hey' or a 'Hello'?... I can't tell if you're bot or not. Gotta give me some substance. I'm not someone who's very interactive, so it's not like a DM or message is gonna get lost in the shuffle. I might get one every few months. This month alone I've had at least 4, all of which were sent to me right after the person Followed. Which immediately sets off my radar; I'm at the bottom of the algorithms, so I don't get notice; finding me is a needle in a haystack. 4 follows and 4 DMs in one month? Possibly in one week? Lots of red alerts on my end.

Typically Alice doesn't need to much maintenance on her physical shell body, since it has better-than-human healing capabilities among other things. It would be a hassle to be out in the field for a long time, only to have to return to the Forsaken Aspect to heal up from injury or just wear and tear. However, she does do a comprehensive workup on a schedule only she knows and decides. To aid her, in addition to having one on the Aspect, she deployed a series of heavily armored pods that bury themselves strategically across Tyria. They only stay so long as she or the Aspect are within a certain range, and then they use a one-way teleport gate to return to the Aspect's hold for redeployment. One of the main times Alice uses the pods is when she's upgrading. In that time, the body shell has its biological components 'removed', the internal structure updated and upgraded to whatever parameters she's decided, and then the biological layers are reapplied via the fluid in the tube, and special 'bio-knitters' that essentially put her muscle and skin and flesh back onto the android structure beneath. It's the one time where Alice feels a little bit of embarrassment; she doesn't like others to see her 'naked android body' without its skin layers. So she generally does it in private, with the Aspect's AI providing that privacy. On rare occassions, she might request someone to help with her upgrades; She's invited Sonnya Danae on board a handful of times to help with nano-laminate circuit design that needs to be added to her bones, and to keep her company on a personal level.

Fucking OW. I've seen some high damages in this game, but... I have never seen a hit like that. I made the mistake of doing that skyscale leap-mount RIGHT when Nourys was turning on its Eye Beam attacks. And I strayed right into the path of the beam from the Gluttony eye. Two. Billion. Damage. Billion with a B. ....I honestly didn't know it could go that high. I think that's about 10k times more than the health of my character at that point. It was an insta-down, of course, but I'm pretty sure it should have vaporized me and made me respawn at a waypoint, for that kinda damage. Ow.