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       Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: MisterCuttlefish
       Date: April 19, 2013, 9:52 am
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       #Post#: 454--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: MisterCuttlefish
       Date: May 15, 2013, 10:56 pm
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       “Morning!” Greeting June and setting down the supplies, Ben
       seemed to swell in contentment, “I’m sorry about being late.”
       “Please attempt to be more attentive to the time, Benedictus.”
       June glanced at the curious fellow, ignoring his sloping posture
       and bemused eyes. She’d have asked where he had been, as anyone
       would, but she was feeling particularly preoccupied today,
       anticipating the upcoming events. “Expectations are high today.
       If I am unprepared, allegations may be made against our party.”
       Soft wind chimes filled the empty, dry air, and the sun beat
       down on the flat runway.
       Ben fell into a steady rhythm as he worked to dress June in her
       armor, and she in turn filled the silence with a stream of
       consciousness. “Elmira asserted her authority in the field of
       cacogenic study just this morning, and plans to be at the ball
       this evening to go through the motions and the like. I do trust
       you don’t have any special plans for this gathering as you've
       had in the past."
       A smile pulled at Ben's lips, but he continued working without
       saying a word.
       "The woman from Dylon - you recall Sylvia - and Elmira have
       introduced an adequate proposal for the lower class." Ben's hand
       fumbled on one of the clips that held June’s skirts to her leg,
       and it caught on one of the many raised scars that crossed her
       skin. Quickly righting himself, he nodded for her to continue,
       glad she had a very high tolerance for pain, and occasionally
       for his mistakes. "To put it bluntly, I have skepticism in the
       effectiveness of the whole ordeal, due to the earlier proposal
       passed in the vernal months.”
       A cool gust of wind blew in off the cloud bank, and the ticking
       of buildings rotating in the distance filled the air. June
       anchored her hair in a high bun and then reached her arms above
       her, running her fingers through a cottony net of whistles and
       dry grass. She let her eyes close, her arms descend.
       “Not the gaiters.” Her eyes flashed to Ben, who had completed
       all but the gaiters in her assemblage. “They’re restricting.”
       He straightened, smoothed his own attire, and brushed a misfit
       strand of curly hair away from June’s eyes. A stock of grass
       kissed her cheek and settled behind her ear as Ben’s hand moved
       away. As quickly as he had come, Ben turned on his heel and
       tossed the gaiters into his bag with a casual, flamboyant sigh,
       readying to leave.
       June touched the flower that he had woven into her curled,
       carmine hair before subconsciously suppressing a laugh.
       “Benedictus.” He started, alarmed by her sudden formality. “I
       presume your attire for this evening will be extremely abrasive
       to the eye.” Her authoritarian glare belittled him, and Ben
       shrunk under her gaze. “If it is any less abrasive, you will
       disappoint.”
       It started as rustling under their feet, the beginning of a
       light wind and a perfect current for June’s take-off. But as it
       grew, growling through the soil and passed them, onto the city
       beyond, a ricocheting panic struck through the perfect,
       spiraling buildings. Ben and June both turned and stared at the
       collapsing buildings, wearing matching expressions of subdued
       confusion.The scream of wires straining and snapping tore
       through them, and in moments, the whole city had collapsed,
       razed to the ground.
       The dust settled, and the sun quickly shone on the mess of
       rubble that had been a whole kingdom moments before. Ben
       stumbled over his words, unable to process. “Th-that isn’t
       supposed to happen?”
       “No.” Replied June curtly, her mind working.
       “Are there survivors?”
       “I wouldn’t know.”
       “Could there be survivors?”
       “I wouldn’t-”
       “And under the city? The Amabilis, do you think-”
       “I don’t know, Ben.” June’s voice shook with a moment of
       frustration, but it was lost in a harsh sea of voices that rose
       above hers. They engulfed the buildings and the statues and the
       grass, until everything burnt to a crisp white under their feet
       and over their heads.
       June opened her eyes to nothing. The screams of her people, that
       had been so deafening just moments before, were gone. A pure
       silence welcomed her senses, and she gazed at motionless clouds,
       feeling as blank as her surrounding. What had just happened?
       Where was she?
       A sharp jolt shocked her out of her stupor, and she reacted.
       Wings erupted off of her shoulders and gripped at the air,
       fighting to slow her descent.
       “Ben?” She called as she fell, looking for the man who’d been
       next to her when everything collapsed. “Be-”
       “I’m here!” June looked down to find him around her ankle,
       scrambling for a hold.
       “You’re-”
       “I’m not-”
       “You’re not?”
       “I'm not parsley enough to die, June!”
       Her eyes narrowed in the slightest hint of confusion.
       “I meant pretty!”
       June stared at the man, face twitching in no particular way, not
       sure how to respond. However, before she could formulate a
       reply, the man disappeared. She glared at the spot he’d just
       been, leg cold where his warm hands had been moments before.
       Then she folded her wings and dived through the thick cloud
       cover, squinting for any sign of Ben. There, a flash of
       flamboyant color. She stretched her arms out and caught the man
       as they both fell, hand closing on downy feathers.
       Ben screeched as she yanked the sensitive wing stub she held him
       by, tossing him up and catching him so that has was sitting in
       her arms, and then readjusted her body to create as much drag as
       possible. She didn’t want to dive face first into whatever was
       on the other side of the clouds - if there was anything. It
       suddenly occurred to her that, perhaps, there was nothing but
       clouds, and they would just continue falling until they died.
       No sooner had she thought this when they burst out of the white
       clouds, and she saw... another sky? They were falling upwards?
       That didn’t make any sense, but the blue-gray expanse stretched
       out before her, interrupted only occasionally by oddly brown or
       tan colored patches.
       “Is that sky?” Ben asked, and she looked between him and the
       surface below them, frowning. The patches of colors beneath the
       blue-gray expanse appeared to be getting rapidly larger, which
       indicated that whatever it was, they were getting closer to it.
       And as far as June was aware, the sky did not have an end that
       they could get close to. So what was below them couldn’t
       possibly be sky, right?
       “No.” She said curtly.
       Her wings flared out again to halt their descent, and
       immediately began to sputter and heave. Pain scorched through
       June’s shoulder blades and buried its thorns in her lower back.
       Twinkling flecks of her metal flesh cascaded from every point
       off of her monarch wings only to burn up in the dead atmosphere,
       and molten bronze air gathered inside of her lungs, cracking and
       ripping through her torso.
       The air currents disobeyed her as they plunged closer to the
       silvery surface and most-certain death. She twisted in the air,
       praying for an exit like the one among the clouds. In a moment
       of rapture, June didn’t feel Ben’s grip on her shoulders
       anymore. She did not feel acidic sensation of the air or even
       the ripple of her wings. A light breeze kissed her wrist and she
       instinctively turned to face it.
       June’s arms strained against Ben’s weight as the forceful storm
       threw them away from the blue-gray mimic and naked white clouds.
       The whole sky city, her home for the past 44 years, was in
       fragments. And it was plummeting right past her face, trailing
       debris and cloth that had once been buildings. And she could do
       nothing. She flipped over again to watch it fall, and gasped as
       it hit the false sky. The blue-gray liquid - for it was clear
       now that it was a liquid - engulfed the first portion of the
       city, convulsing in massive waves as it tried to swallow her
       home whole.
       One of the initial wave fronts crested up next to her, and she
       snapped her wings closed just as it hit her like a ton of stone,
       sending her wheeling to the side. She simultaneously wrapped her
       legs and arms around Ben and sucked in a huge breath, and the
       liquid devoured the both of them.
       She went tumbling head over heels as the blue-gray buffeted her
       from all sides, and she screwed her eyes shut, ignoring the pain
       as the false sky tore at her wings and hair. She clung to Ben
       with a death grip, terrified of letting him slip away, and
       fought for some pretense of control. There was none. She was
       being thrown this way and that, and she had no way of doing
       anything to stop it. The liquid that surrounded her was far more
       powerful than she would ever be, and even though her lungs were
       now screaming for air, she could do nothing. She would die.
       Her head broke the surface. Instinctively, she pulled Ben up
       too, gasping and choking on the mix of liquid and air that
       filled her mouth for a second before she was towed underwater
       again. This horrible cycle continued over and over as she
       tumbled through the constantly moving liquid, until at last her
       feet grazed against something solid. Without hesitation, she dug
       her toes into the ground, only now noticing that her shoes were
       long gone. She untangled herself from her companion and strained
       forward, dragging him through the liquid. The ground beneath
       her, all slippery and shifting for reasons she didn’t
       understand, slowly became easier to reach. Within a few moments,
       she was standing only waist deep in the liquid, and then knee
       deep, and finally ankle deep, the false sky lapping at her
       ankles and Ben lying on the ground next to her.
       June turned in a half circle, rolling her shoulders and shaking
       out her mechanical wings. All around her, the blue-grey liquid
       stretched on, and what she stood on must have been one of the
       tan brown patches she’d seen from above. Finally, she completed
       her turn, facing the rough waves where her city had hit the
       surface. Three quarters of the debris was underwater, with a few
       pieces of cloth and wire already drifting lazily past her. The
       remaining portion of the city - the landing pad where she’d been
       standing moments before - was slowly leaning face-first into the
       false sky.
       She sat down next to Ben, corners of her mouth twitching
       downward ever so slightly as she fought to repress her emotion,
       as was proper. And she watched in silence as everything she’d
       known disappeared into the slowly settling waves.
       #Post#: 477--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: Captain Castaway
       Date: May 18, 2013, 4:38 pm
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       Raoul was a simple Croc with simple needs. As long as he had his
       boat, a steady supply of cargo to trade, and no one in the
       immediate vicinity who hated him enough to wish terrible things
       on him, he was pretty all right with life. This last need was
       the main reason he was out in the middle of the Toxic Ocean, as
       far away from any of the nearest cities in the Province as
       possible. It was honestly amazing he hadn't been kicked out of
       every single Province in the Ocean, considering his track
       record. He leaned back in the single chair in the cabin of his
       boat, scaled feet up on the dashboard, hands-- surprisingly
       small and thin for a Croc-- behind his head and fingers
       interwoven with each other and the pale blonde strip of hair
       that was braided tightly down his back.
       Out in the middle of the Toxic Ocean, it was calm. Peaceful,
       even. As long as no other ships were in the area -- after all,
       the vast majority of them hated Raoul as well -- and no water
       beasts decided you looked particularly appetizing. But that was
       generally how things went in the Toxic Ocean; things were calm
       and peaceful until they weren't, which was the majority of the
       time.
       As if to prove this particular point, the sky decided at that
       particular moment it had had quite enough of Raoul's relaxation,
       and proceeded to drop a city on top of him.
       Not directly on top of him, granted, but close enough that the
       impact of the City-- which was considerably larger than most
       that had been falling recently-- against the Sea-- which was a
       monster in and of itself no matter how big the City liked to
       think it was-- caused him both to fall out of his chair, flail
       around to find his footing on the panicked boat-- which was
       doing quite a bit of it's own flailing-- stand up, and get the
       hell out of dodge. Even then, it was a shaky escape at best, the
       boat being tossed about in the grip of the beast known as the
       Toxic Ocean like it was a toy, engines sputtering  desperately
       as it tried to outrun the chaos. After a few panicked moments,
       the boat began to ride with the shockwave, carried out until it
       was at least somewhat safe from the rest of the falling debris.
       Raoul was a simple Croc with simple needs. Falling cities were
       not in the list of his needs.
       It was a few moments more before he could coax the boat into
       moving again, to snap it out of it's panic and continue on
       elsewhere-- after all, whenever a Skydweller city fell, the
       residents of the Toxic Ocean were inevitably drawn to it to
       salvage what they could, or at least keep others from
       scavenging. He did not want to be there when this happened.
       He sighed, playing with the charms around his neck. So much for
       relaxation. The boat continued on for a moment, puttering
       lightly in the dark grayish blue-green of the sea. And then it
       stopped. He hissed and slammed the controls. The boat gave a
       sputtering, indignant noise.
       Raoul groaned loudly. "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?" He shouted at
       the console. "Mom, I swear to Nilah, if this is you possessing
       my boat and attempting to punish me for all the wrong I've done,
       I don't actually-" He trailed off as, in response, the boat
       drifted ever so slightly to the left, pointing itself at a sand
       bank, where two dirty, banged-up Skydwellers sat and generally
       looked miserable. He pursed his lips. "Fine. You win this time."
       The boat happily started up again, and puttered enthusiastically
       towards the two, stopping just beyond the sand bank.
       Raoul coughed, trying to recall the language. "Greetings!" He
       called. "Are you in need of assistance?"  He was almost certain
       enough that he'd messed something up, but he figured they'd be
       able to get his meaning, despite the language barrier.
       #Post#: 488--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: MisterCuttlefish
       Date: May 19, 2013, 1:01 pm
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       After hacking up the water he’d breathed in, Ben gazed across
       the cauldron of a city; he beamed. Seated next to June on the
       sandbank, he attempted to brush off a laugh, but it erupted out
       of him. Rushing to cover his mouth with a slippery hand, his arm
       shook violently under the strain of an empty muscle or maybe the
       relief having survived the fall. He was afraid June had noticed,
       because she'd definitely noticed, and he made an effort to
       restrain himself but was unable to determine where she was or if
       she was speaking. Within his moment of rapture, an alien feeling
       sponged up under his rib cage and tickled his throat.
       For the third time, he tried to calm himself and was successful
       in his exertion. He steadied his hand and pressed his pointer
       finger against his bubbling smile, as if to hush someone. He
       drew it down his chin, circling up once and drew it back down,
       repeat. The gesture made him look like a madman, struggling to
       fight the fits of laughter pulling, as fishhooks would, at his
       cheeks. Ben’s hand fell from its stability and back into the
       water, his laughter painted his expression into an inattentive
       smile.
       Immediately after his funny endeavor, Ben noticed the absence of
       his eyewear and the irritation presented by his wet clothing,
       but it was minuscule compared to the fog of noise growing about
       him. He ignored the heavy pulse in his wing and the ache of his
       bones, the newborn pain of cuts and scrapes, and happily avoided
       the strange eyesore of a man who had come to speak with them.
       #Post#: 518--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: A Sexy Tree
       Date: May 21, 2013, 10:11 pm
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       June stared at the fading city in complete silence, repressing a
       shudder of surprise when Ben burst out laughing next to her. She
       glanced at him, eyes flashing, but said nothing. She couldn't.
       She did not trust herself to speak, let alone move. So she just
       watched her companion, who had managed to control his laughter
       and was now beaming, and moving his hand repeatedly in front of
       his face. He was showing so much emotion, and she was ashamed of
       him. In any other instance, she would have smacked him. She
       would have beat him, for making her look bad. But it was all too
       much. She was more amazed that he, a man and therefore far
       weaker than her, was still managing to stay within the bounds of
       appropriate.
       It hurt. Or perhaps it didn't. She could not tell what she felt
       - there was a turmoil, a tumult of emotion turning and twisting
       in her stomach, and tearing at her throat. She felt violent. She
       felt at peace. She felt relief. She felt guilt. She felt a
       plethora of unnameable emotions. She hated every last one of
       them. Someone of her class, of her breed, of her station, should
       not be so susceptible to something like this. She needed to be
       in complete control of herself before she could be in complete
       control of the situation. After a long moment, she drew in a
       shaky breath, and promptly felt her stomach muscles clench. The
       air tasted foul, almost acidic, and she had to fight down bile
       that rose in her throat. She made a mental note to breath as
       shallowly as possible.
       "Greetings!" The word startled her, and she looked up, watching
       warily as a foreign object approached her, walking on the water.
       She could see an odd ... thing in the water-treading object,
       that looked much like man but more animalistic and abrasive to
       the eye. His speech was heavily accented, and she  rose, groping
       for the knife that hung low on her hip. The blade in her hand
       reassured her. He called something else, and after a moment of
       struggling to decipher it, she figured it was something along
       the lines of 'do you need help?'. She flexed her wings, partly
       to make sure they were undamaged and partly as an intimidation
       factor. After all, even ragged as they were from the fall, the 6
       foot wingspan made of sharp, gleaming metal was nothing to
       sneeze at.
       "Salutations." She called powerfully, nodding at the odd man.
       Internally, she was unsure of his intentions, and even less sure
       of his motivation, but at the moment it didn't really matter.
       She needed a few things. A distraction. A way out of the water
       that was seeping into her clothing and cuts and stinging. A way
       of getting over to the wreckage of her city to see what she
       could salvage. It appeared to her that this man and his
       water-treading beast could provide all of those for her. And
       besides, he was a man. He could not harm her, not even if he
       tried. "You shall assist us, yes." She continued, mind made up.
       "I implore you to bring your water-walking beast closer and take
       us to the city in the water." She wasn't sure what level of
       formality to use, but she figured since he was a man, she would
       assume control of the situation. "Promptly would be preferable."
       #Post#: 656--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: Captain Castaway
       Date: June 4, 2013, 8:43 pm
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       Raoul tried not to let his face twist up in disgust as he barely
       made out what she'd said. He'd forgotten how pushy the females
       tended to be. Not that the females down here were any better,
       but they at least would have the decency to beat the crap out of
       you before they began hollering orders at you. The skydweller
       women tended to act like you owed them the world simply for
       existing. Raoul didn't owe anyone anything. He did, however,
       need them to at least vaguely like him for the time being.
       "Hold up! I must retrieve something from my" And he struggled to
       find a suitable replacement for 'boat', "water...treading....
       this thing." and he patted the side of the boat. "I will return
       as quickly as I can." By Nilah he hated speaking in sky-speak.
       He quickly shut down the boat's engine, dropping the anchor at
       least for the moment so it wouldn't drift away as soon as he
       left the cabin. Of course, it had been known to do such before,
       even with the anchor dropped, but that was Evangeline. She did
       what she wanted.
       With practiced ease he slipped into the cargo hold of the boat,
       dodged around the clutter and dug through boxes and crates until
       he found what he was looking for-- breathers for his two new
       companions. They wouldn't be feeling the effects for several
       more hours, but by then the damage would have likely been done.
       It had been discovered fairly soon after the Skydwellers had
       begun to fall that they did not acclimate quite so nicely to the
       air around them. As such, crude face-masks had been built for
       them, in order for them to survive on the Toxic Ocean. Not that
       it was really surviving, per say, but that was a story for a
       later time. As the years had gone by and the Skydwellers had yet
       to cease falling, the masks had become smaller, more easily
       attached, and soon all the Skydwellers needed was a simple
       implant to fix their breathing.
       Raoul, however, did not have the time for the implants; they'd
       have to wait until he could do it without the fear of getting
       interrupted by unpleasant company. For now, the two masks he
       held in his hands-- older models with a few adjustments-- would
       have to do.
       "Dusya!" He shouted into the cargo hold. "I know you're still
       here. I don't know how you keep getting on here, but I will find
       out one day. Either way, we're about to have guests and I want
       you on your best behavior, or I'm leaving you here. Got it?"
       He clambered back out onto the deck without waiting for an
       answer, masks in tow. Evangeline had apparently decided not to
       be as stubborn as she normally was, and had stayed where he'd
       left her. He raised the anchor and started up the engine once
       more, leading her along until she was right up alongside the
       sandbank.
       "Here." He called, tossing the two masks towards them, then
       following it through with the rope ladder crudely attached to
       Evangeline's side. "Wear those around your face. It will make
       taking breath more agreeable. I cannot guarantee anything about
       your city, as the longer we stay here, the more dangerous here
       becomes." He was sure he'd messed something up there, but
       couldn't be bothered to care. They needed to go out, and they
       needed to go out now.
       #Post#: 658--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: Gris
       Date: June 4, 2013, 9:53 pm
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       After cramming herself inside of a box among Raoul's belongings,
       Dusya grew sick of waiting. She was in dire need of a good
       stretch and she figured that since the boat was safely away from
       where she resided, Raoul would have no choice but to keep her
       with him. She took out a small tool from her pocket which she
       used to remove the staples from the box, prying it open and
       tipping it over. She fell clumsily down the mountain of cloth
       and other various goods that she didn't pay any mind to. She
       pushed up her glasses, scratched her ears, and tweaked her
       feelers a bit, making sure that they were working in case Raoul
       decided to come back to his room.
       She sniffed around in Raoul's belongings for a bit, not really
       touching anything in fear that it'd be rude. She packed up the
       box she hid in and replaced the top that she had pried off.
       After hunting for a bit she had found herself a piece of string
       that she could play with. She tied it around her fingers and
       pawed at it, keeping herself busy.
       She was growing bored. Putting the string down, she sniffed
       around the room a bit more. She could barely stand it in there.
       It had lost all of its good Raoul smell and she wanted out.
       Dusya creeped towards the door, pushing it open as quietly as
       she could. It was about half of the way open when out of nowhere
       Raoul's loud yelling boomed throughout the ship. She fell
       backwards out of shock, falling back on the box that she had
       just escaped. It broke, leaving a mess. Dusya could hardly
       scramble to pick it up. His loud yelling made her shake and
       tremble. She hated loud noises. But she really didnt mind, as it
       WAS Raoul after all. She was accustom to his hostility towards
       her. Sometimes it made her feel fuzzy inside. She smiled a bit
       at the idea of him already knowing she was aboard the ship.
       Dusya scurried happily out of Raoul's room after cleaning up the
       mess that the box had left. She ran along the railing of the
       deck and slid down a pole, running up to where Raoul was
       standing. He was yelling at two sad looking giants. She giggled
       a little bit and ran up to his side.
       "Who are they?" She asked, hoping he hadn't noticed her at his
       side yet so she'd surprise him.
       She hugged his leg in wait of the odd giant beings to board
       their boat. She didn't like the idea of having another lady on
       the boat, so she had to protect Raoul. Her tail puffed out and
       her ears flattened back as she stared. She didn't want to risk
       looking away from them.
       #Post#: 759--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: A Sexy Tree
       Date: June 11, 2013, 1:06 am
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       The man informed her of something in horribly broken, exotically
       accented speech, and then disappeared from sight. June frowned,
       eventually figuring the beast man had said something along the
       lines of 'Hold up bitch, I'll be back'. She crossed her arms,
       but said nothing, determining it was futile both because the
       thing had already disappeared and because she did not want to
       waste time clarifying when her city was crumbling into the water
       as they spoke. She was beginning to suspect that communicating
       with the beast man would be nearly impossible - he seemed unable
       to effectively speak her language, and she wondered if it had
       something to do with his inhuman appearance. Perhaps he was only
       part human?
       Before she could follow that train of thought very far, the man
       thing reappeared, bustling around the top of the water treading
       thing he rode, and then said device began to move towards Ben
       and herself. The closer the water treading thing got, the more
       anxious June became, though she couldn't quite place her finger
       on the reason. Excluding the obviously traumatic plunge into an
       entirely new environment and the destruction of everything she'd
       ever known in a matter of seconds. She tensed, flexing her wings
       to their fullest extent, and lay her hand on the knife.
       The water treadder stopped just before the submerged patch of
       land that she and Ben were standing on, and then the beast man
       flung two things down at them. June's immediate reaction was to
       draw her knife, and she sliced both of the odd devices in half
       while they were still in midair, her sharpened blade cutting
       through them like butter. The beast man spoke, and she glanced
       up at him, eyes flashing. It took her a moment to decipher what
       he said, as it had the time before, but she managed after a few
       seconds. As soon as she realized that the things he'd thrown at
       them were supposed to be helpful, she scowled. If they were
       useful things, why had the beast man thrown them as though they
       were weapons?
       Sweeping Ben up into her arms, June crouched and then sprung,
       beating her powerful wings a few times to assist her passage
       from the ground to onto of the water treadder. She landed a safe
       distance away from the beast man, and was startled to see a
       second creature there, equally beast like but much smaller and
       obviously female. The sight of another dominant being relieved
       her, and she turned her attention disdainfully from the beast
       man to the beast woman. "Greetings, sister." She said with a
       nod, using a formal level of speech in case this beast woman
       held a position of power. "Would you be so obliging as to
       instruct your water beast to transport myself and my male to the
       ruins of the city?"
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       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: Captain Castaway
       Date: June 21, 2013, 4:20 pm
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       Aaand there it was. By Nilah he hated dealing with Skydwellers.
       Especially with the women. Normally he had absolutely nothing
       against women, but these ones just had to be so.... pushy. Even
       in the matriarchal societies in the Toxic Ocean they would still
       recognize that not all species worked the same as they did
       socially, but the Skydwellers didn't know any better. Which led
       to... issues.
       He sighed quietly. He just had to play nice until he could find
       someone to take them off his hands. Luckily for him, he was
       quite the expert on faking things.
       "I'm afraid we can't do that." He answered for Dusya, since,
       after all, he was technically the captain of this ship, even if
       he didn't have a crew. "Things tend to get a little..." He
       struggled to find the word, "rough right after one of your
       cities fall. If we head there now, we risk getting attacked by
       others who are less friendly than us." He gestured to himself
       and Dusya. "Also I need to find you replacements for those
       masks, since you need them to survive down here. We'll head out,
       wait for things to cool down, then we'll come back, all right?"
       And then he hoped against hope that the female wouldn't hit him.
       He really did not want to start a fight.
       #Post#: 830--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Okeanos (Rp)
   DIR By: MisterCuttlefish
       Date: June 22, 2013, 12:20 am
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       Enough, Ben had now had absolutely enough of the one-sided
       negotiations between June and the atrocious man with the
       terrible accent. He’d quickly given up on his attempts to
       understand the strange bloke and resumed his position as an
       imperial to improve his standing next to his superior. Though
       Ben befell the strong urge to tell June his worries about the
       City, he resolved his internal distraught quickly and
       efficiently for his own sake. There was a powerful aura about
       June that he had seen many times before and though he would have
       taken advantage of the situation to provoke a cheerful
       distraction from her common severity, he backed away from her
       crisp and frightening disposition on instinct, looking for his
       own distraction instead. It was a pain, however, and he found
       himself skirting to a different subject when each became a bore;
       quietly judging, his chafing clothes, ruined City, chafing
       clothes, Wayra families, June’s hair (which he needed to brush,
       very soon), clothing…
       Absent-mindedly, Ben began to unfasten what was left of his
       jacket, the cloth now tarnished beyond repair. The handcrafted
       accessories meant to receive bundles of compliments and elegance
       were now missing or destroyed, and the attire ultimately became
       useless to Ben. He ripped the jacket off with a violent motion,
       whipping it to the floor of the machine and promptly proceeded
       to work off his undershirt and loosen his belt. The button-up
       was easier to take off and Ben shivered slightly, now topless.
       He tossed the golden belt into the pile that had formed at his
       feet but hesitated on the buttons keeping his trousers above his
       waist, a flash of slight discomfort stopped him for a moment
       before his mind adhered back into it’s steady pace of being
       absent and removing his clothing. Having lost his favorite pair
       of shoes, beautiful three-lace boots accompanied with vermillion
       craftsman embroidery, Ben added his trousers to the pile and
       slipped his thumbs into the waistline of his undergarments,
       readying to remove them.
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