Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Skyia nodded hearing this. Then she heard that the girl with pink hair was his sister. Weird hair colors must run in the family then.~


" Oh shes your sister? " she said a little out of surprised Azure even had a sibling here. " I guess that would explain why she knew my name. " Skyia adjusted herself in her coils looking around in his room, looking at his gaping open door.


" Azure... have you put in a request to fix your door yet? " she asked still staring at the door. " Its kinda, just been like that for a while.


Slithering over to the other side of the room, looking around a bit, curious of his belongings. " Hope you don't mind me looking around, you just kinda have a lot of cool stuff. " Examining some of the stuff lying around, before turning towards Azure.


" So what do you think we are going to do on the trip tomorrow? " she asked, coiling up herself again.

 

[Croissant]

Elaem walked into the library feeling a bit lonely to be honest, Nava seemed to be gone and that was probably his only friend, he had some mixed feelings about that Azure guy, he seemed nice but he gave Elaem some attitude before, so he didn't really know, but from the looks of it he had a lot of crap given to him.


Elaem sighed and continued thinking as he walked he then accidently bumped into a tall man, covered in a lot of clothing, he made a few books fall off a table before stopping himself and cringing at the loud "SHHHHHHH!!" That came from everyone in the library. He looked at the tall man and said


"Sorry about bumping into you... I'm Elaem." He whispered


"Uh... What books you looking at...?"


@TenaciousTinkerer

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Shift raised his head up suddenly feeling someone bump against him, turning around quickly he saw a boy standing there. " I-its alright. " he said nodding. " I-i'm the grounds k-k-keeper S-shift. " he stuttered. Before attempting to ask him what books he was looking at, shiftious turned his upper body towards him again, and with a timid look to his body, he answered. " U-uhh, th-this one is about some e-experiment with alchemy g-gone wrong, A-and the consequences that f-follow and the other one, s-seems to be older, a-about a story about a- " suddenly getting interrupted by another student SHHing him, he leaned and bent down a bit more, and lowered his voice. " W-well, t-there both n-nice books, i-if you have the chance to, c-check them out. "


He held out the books out, transforming his hands into a complete set of 4 tentacles each side, and would open up the book while holding it, moving the pages over to the titles. " B-but, i-im probably just b-blabbering o-on, w-were you l-looking f-for a specific book around here E-elaem? " He said giving a shy smile, or at least that's probably what it was judging by how his mask's eyeholes were shaped.


Shifting his hands back to normal, and shyly rubbing one of his arms looking down at him, his mask replicating the shy awkward look in his eyes. " I-i can suggest o-one to you i-if you want, i-ive been c-coming here f-for years. " He said starting to stand up, upon which his leg would get caught on the chair he was standing on, and promptly sent the tall shapeshifter falling down, with his arms flailing all around trying to grip onto something, but he just fell like a tree slamming into one of the shelves, sending books falling all over him, creating a loud ruckus. both scaring some students, and providing an annoyance for others who were in here at this time.

 

[Zerohex]

Reggie made his way towards the entrance of room 163, moving through the throng of people that had gathered on Yu's announcement with a combination of claiming that he was to be the referee for the match and using his still-sheathed sword to push whoever wouldn't move out of the way. He could never quite come to grips with the number of rabid supporters Truth or Dare seemed to have at any given place, but this was ridiculous. He'd heard some stories about how every little thing had a way of turning into some insane event at Oriens and they were seemingly true.


Pushing away a final random bystander, Reggie finally came up on Yu and...some guy that was taller than a gorilla and built like the poster boy for a steroid campaign aimed towards ogres acting as the bouncer. "Your referee has arrived!" he declared loudly, to the cheers of the built up crowd. While they were busy with that he sidled up to the baron. "You do know I'm not actually an officially sanctioned referee, right?" he said as quietly and privately as he could, covering his lips and speaking almost directly into Robin's ear. "I'm just good at sniffing out lies. I still want a cut for doing this, of course".

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin turned towards Reggie, "That's all we need. For future arrangements, I'll get it totally up to snuff, before hand. I'll work on the arrangements now" Robin then fully extended his palms outward, "You are so getting your cut, and you just need to sniff out the lies. I'd ask you what you think of this place, but uh, more to the point how has your Master been treating you lately? Still in good touch with him?" Robin smirked at Reggie as he continued collecting money from the crowd. "Oh yeah, and I am so glad you were in the area." Robin rubbed his hands together, as he handed over a T-shirt to a female student, and collected the currency from her. "So much cash will be made from this venture. Oh this will fill up my coffers quite nicely." Robin pulled out his phone as he typed again to social media.


"THE REFEREE IS HERE! IT IS ALMOST UPON US! GET HYPED!


#GETHYPED, #OFFICIALTOD, #TruthOrDare, #OriensLife, #YOLO, #SWAG."


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Meanwhile Espinosa was in her personal room. She took out a straight edge machete from a sheath and placed it on her desk avoiding a terminal made of various glowing crystals, and quickly pulled out a sharpening stone from a drawer, which was resting on top of a whip. She began sharpening up the machete, as she began sharpening it, when a message popped up. Truth or Dare... will this school get a fantastic Jai Alai team? Espinosa paused for a moment, before she continued to sharpen the machete. After a bit of that, she placed it back in the sheath. She then opened up the drawer and returned the sharpening rock, and searched a new drawer and pulled out a large stack of papers and began going over them.

 

[Advent Azure]

"Ya... she is..."


He didn't like saying that, but he felt that it was something better to bring up now than later


"I did put in the request... its just that it hasn't come yet... if it comes to it, I could fix it myself... but I think it'd be better to have a door that looks normal rather than one that stands out."


He did like that she took interest in what a lot of others would call his junk pile


"Go ahead, I don't mind really. I try to keep it all organized, but all the earthquakes from the fight kinda knocked everything over... especially from when that one teacher came in here... as you know, I like to make things in my spare time when I'm not tired... I'm not really that Tenacious of a Tinkerer, but I guess you could call it a hobby."


He thought to himself as he wondered what the trip would be like


"I guess its going to be a lot of sight seeing in a desert. I'm alright with desert environments, the heat doesn't really get to me... now that I think about it, I'm a little worried about Lily. I don't know if she'll handle the desert to well, she'll probably never get tried from all the sun she'll be getting, but I'm not so sure if she'll take the heat so well... I think what she'll need most is shade and water if we'll be outside a lot. I could actually make a parasol with what I got I believe. I think I might make one for her actually, you can help if you want."

 

[Zerohex]

"Haven't seen the old monster in a while, actually. I'm supposed to be training on my own so I can challenge him for the right to be recognized as a swordmaster. Instead my parents enrolled me in Oriens, it's why I was around. I don't even know where my room is but I guess we're schoolmates now". Reggie ran his fingers across his moustache, obviously pleased with the amount of money the event was producing. He knew better than to ask where the hell Yu got that merch, he'd just nod and take his part.


"So, who's the big guy? Did you get a fleshcrafter to make you a custom bodyguard model? The quality is remarkable" he said, allowing his shades to slide down his nose so he could get a better look at Curtis as he directed the crowd to their given seats.

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin shook his head, "Sadly I didn't get to talk to Fleshcrafter Lu to make me my own personal abomination. Well yet anyway." Robin paused a moment as he glanced towards Curtis, "No that is the Peasant Curtis. He is in my Fief. He has his purpose to me." Robin counted out more money. "Speaking of Fleshcrafter Lu, do you remember that plan with the wights? Ha! That was a fun one." Robin gestured towards the crowd, "Anyway, we are going to make some good cash from this one. Training huh, what are you going to try to cut through a disintegration spell again? Or just go find anyone who looks like a good opponent?" Robin chuckled as he counted more money and glanced back at Rose, "And now we've got our Referee, nothing gets past him. He is the best you can get, also he is a master of swordsmanship. Besides keeping the game official, he can easily take out any thief and what not." Robin pulled out an incredibly small pebble from his pocket as he tossed it towards Reggie.

 

[Zerohex]

"Huh...well you dun got yourself a big fella. Not much point in bothering Meatman Lu now is there? Nice meeting ya Curtis". Reggie scratched the back of his head with his right, his left hand unconsciously dropping to his sword's pommel. "I dunno. I'm supposed to grow on my own or something, so we'll see what happens. The folks felt that knowing how handle a sword wasn't quite enough to get by on life so they signed me up here, you know? I've heard all kindsa crazy shit about this place, too, some really wierd stories like the Elf King using the place as a bootcamp for child soldiers and how the place is always full of fights".


Reggie puffed his chest out a bit, crossed his arms and stood nice and straight when he was introduced to some girl as the referee. He might as well try to look official if he was gonna play the part, though carrying his jacket around like a cloak might've undermined that impression a bit. "Actually I ain't a master yet, I'm supposed to..." he was cut off when Robin tossed the pebble towards him. In a flash, Reggie took a couple of steps back and unclasped Belarios from his belt. Rather than draw the sword, however, he simply intercepted the pebble, gently stopping it so it'd come to rest on the tip of the scabbard. "Don't you be throwing crap at me like I'm some kinda circus monkey."


With a quick flick of the wrist, he lobbed the pebble back towards Robin, quite gently as well. "Not a swordmaster yet, I need to beat Master Aldebrandi in a duel to be recognized as one. So...yeah".

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin caught the pebble as it was heading towards him. Robin counted a bit of more money as he handed out a T-shirt to a student., "Oh right, how could I forget, you not being a Master yet. Still it will be an interesting match between you and your teacher. I wonder the results of a duel between me and Magister Kyo would be now. Oh as for the bootcamp for soldiers." Robin let out a chuckle as he counted a few coin pieces, "Yeah. I'm surprised the Elven King hasn't officially drafted us into the standing army yet." Robin glanced at Reggie as he smirked, "As for the Circus Monkey comment, it's hardly my fault you smelled like one getting here. Besides, I didn't see a nice Yeti for you to shave. Still, glad to see you here."

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Skyia tilts her head. " Lily...? Oh! The plant girl that's a few rooms away from me? Yea I can help you out with that! " she says slithering over to the other side of the room.


" How should we start? " Scanning around in the pile of objects, pulling out a old rusty pole. " Will this work? " she asks him. " Or were you going to need something like the pole of the spear you game me? "

 

[Croissant]

Elaem helped shift up quickly and started sorting books, he looked at shift and asked.


"You okay man?"


He rubbed his chin for a second, thinking about what the man said and then says.


"Uh... I'm open for suggestions to be honest." He said plainly


(Forgive the crap post, tapatalk)

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Shift bursts up in the form of a Octopus quickly trying to stack up the books in a pile. before shifting back into his humanoid form, trying to quickly place them back onto their shelves. " S-sorry. " He said to nobody, before looking over to Elaem. " Y-yea i-im fine, j-just k-kinda being a cl-clutz right now heh. " he said, still putting the books away.


In the midtz of this he pulled out a specific book and held it out towards the boy, displaying a small scene with a small group of adventurers going over a bridge overlooking in the distance of a city of some sort. " T-this one, m-maybe, i-if you l-like ad-adventure. " he stuttered out.


" I-I hope you e-enjoy th-this suggestion though. " he said, finishing putting away the last of the books, and would rub the back of his head.

 

[Croissant]

Elaem was a bit surprised when the guy turned into a fuckin octopus and he grabbed the book he handed to him Elaem scratches his head and says


"Thanks... So you're a shapeshifter? That's pretty cool."

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Shiftious adjusted his mask a little, and nodded. " Y-yes! " he exclaimed. " I-im a object shifter. " He said demonstrating as he turned one of his arms into a hammer. " W-with the ability to shape into any cephalopod. " he demonstrated by turning his other arm into a set of tentacles.


" I-its pretty useful a-actually! " he said, standing up, showing off his entire height. " E-especially for a groundskeeper like me! " Pointing at his chest, suddenly finding something he could talk about a bit more comfortably.

 

[Croissant]

Elaem went a bit wide eyed for a second, even if he could try to see Shift with his eyes, it would have been seriously hard to determine his abilities without deep focus and observation.


"Damn, that's incredible..."


He said and he then smiled, glad he might be making a new friend.


"So how long have you been here Shift?, at the school that is"

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Shift nodded his head. " I-I suppose, It seems l-like its not a common thing for shapeshifters, s-so it makes me a little s-special in that regard. " He said holding his arms out to his sides, and his little extra bit of fabric somehow hanging behind him, would twitch a little with his expressions.


" O-oh, u-umm... i think ive been here f-for.... Seven... S-seven years! " He said, recollecting some of the memories of him having to go outside to take a shower, diving into the lake and turning into a octopus or a trash can whenever someone rounded the corner, and would attempt to clean himself like that. Or the one day he waddled into the public showers in a complete diving outfit. Huh... odd memories those were.

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin glanced at an Ogre, who handed over Robin a small bag. Robin quickly unfurled the rope, as he opened it, and pulled out some teeth. "Ooh... now these are in fine condition. I like a good gambling man." Robin glanced over towards another student, "UNLIKE SOMEONE WHO WOULD BET IN WUNKS!" He turned his attention back to the Ogre, "Anyway enjoy some sweet Truth or Dare action!" Robin glanced at Curtis, "Any problems maintaining the crowd and getting them to their proper seats?" He then switched his attention to Reggie, as he counted and examined teeth pieces, alongside various coins, paper currencies, and all sorts of legal tender. "This'll be fun, an-" Robin handed over a Bobble-Head to a student as he collected some more paper currency, "Enjoy the figure miss, and more importantly enjoy the show." Robin then returned to counting out the various currencies, and examining them. He glanced back at Reggie, "Well, before you go out and Referee this game, anything you want to chat about?"

 

[Advent Azure]

Azure looked over as Skyia rummaged through his stuff.


"Hmm..."


Azure gave the pole a look over real quick.


"Hmm... well, there's no deformations or cracks or anything, and the rust isn't an issue, I can get rid of that easy enough, but I think she'd want something retractable like the spear, so that way its easier to carry around when she's not using it. Let's see if we can find something like that first..."


Azure carefully went through his stuff to find another rust covered pole that was long but hollow inside..... but was cracked along half of it...


-Guh... my luck...-


"Well... I can't use this... at least not without welding it together... hmm..."


-Maybe Espinosa could help me with this... since she can use fire, or maybe there's something in the school I could use-


"Well, if we can't get this one fixed, the pole you got will have to do..."


Azure pulled out a huge rib of an umbrella. It's canopy still has its nylon taffeta intact.


"Man... I never thought I'd have a use for this, this is one of the last things I found before I came to this school. I took it because, well, for an umbrella or parasol, its way bigger than for what a normal sized person would need, so it'd be perfect for someone the size of Lily, it might be big enough for Curtis even. I'm glad that simplifies that part. Putting it together will be easy enough, I can make a handle for it, and with what we have, we'll have a proper retractable huge parasol. I think that Espinosa could help us patch the pipe back together, unless you know a place we could do some welding..."


-It's been a long while since I did any sort of metal welding now that I think about it... I hope Espinosa can help us, just to make things easier-

 

[amdreams]

"This isn't about space anymore! You are using these girls' room without their permission and you haven't even assured them about the safety of their possessions!" Robin now walked away and Rose glanced toward Curtis as he labeled himself as security. "I'm sorry, but that doesn't exactly make me feel better."


"But what about Lily?!" Rose shouted at Anya, not even bothering to lower her voice or soften her gaze. "Aren't you her friend? Is this game more important to you than she is?!" She wanted to scream at them. Reprimand them. For not listening to her. For deciding everything on their own. For being so inconsiderate.


But then Lily spoke up. Or at least Rose thought she did. It was so soft compared to her own yelling and the sounds of crowd of complete strangers marching in as if they had any business being there. Rose was actually shocked, looking at Lily sympathetically. "A-are you sure?" she asked. She'd have thought Lily would have fought for the rights to her own room, to her own privacy. But if she was okay with it . . . "Fine then," she spat out, turning towards Bunny. "And what about you?"


Bunny seemed to look down, twiddling her fingers. "I-I don't really like there being so many people . . . But if everyone wants to do it . . . I guess it'll be okay."


Hastily heading toward Robin, Rose grabbed his shoulder, pulling him around to face her. "Lucky for you, it seems Lily and Bunny don't mind either. So I'll play, but I don't need your pay. However, you better pay Lily and Anya a substantial amount more for 'renting' their room. You'll also need to file for vending priviledges and for sanctioning a public event on private property. If you don't, this entire thing will be considered as solicitation and I get to confiscate all your earnings to use them for an actual school sanctioned event."





(Sorry for the bad post. Fatigue does not help with writer's block. But we might as well get this game over with.)

 

[MechaGhoul]

Robin was in the middle of counting money from another student, "A fin-" As soon as Robin felt someone grab his shoulder he turned around to face the person "One moment." he said to the student he collected more money from. He smiled at Rose, "Of course I will pay the players their cut. Speaking of vending privileges. If I haven't already taken care of it speaking of which." Robin glanced to Reggie, "You smell out truths, did I not already just fill out paperwork?" Robin glanced back at Rose "I will take care of it." Robin smiled, "So don't worry your pretty little head. You know a violent temper can take years off your life, you know. We are a legitimate operation. I hope that you have fun participating in an Officially Ranked Truth or Dare game." Robin then moved Rose's arm off his shoulder, as he returned to the student. "Now then, I hope you enjoy the event." Robin glanced towards Reggie, "You ready man?" he glanced at Curtis, "Keep eye on the door and everything." He lifted up his right index finger for a moment, before pulling out his phone.


"IT BEGINS. GET HERE NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN! OFFICIALLY RANKED TRUTH OR DARE, ROOM 163! #ITBEGINS, #GETHYPE, #OFFICIALTOD, #TruthOrDare, #OriensLife, #YOLO, #SWAG."


As soon as Robin finished typing up the message, he returned the phone back to the pocket from whence it came. Robin turned to another student who handed over some paper currency, "Enjoy the game."

 

[ComradeSenpai]

"Does that mean we can play? Finally!" Anya said. "You guys take too long to get things set up, for a simple game."


"Anyways," she turned to her friends. "I'll start. Lily. Truth or dare?"

 

[TenaciousTinkerer]

Skyia thinks about the situation a bit. " We could try to ask her, if she isn't busy, we saw what happened when someone started interrupting her. "


Skyia thinks a bit for the classes around. " There's also the metalworking class, maybe we can ask someone there? Might even let us use some of their equipment. "


Slithering over still holding onto the pipe. " It might be better for us to just go there instead, that way we can see if you can do it your way you want. "


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Victor in the midst of making his new toy, found that he needed to head over to the metalworking class, needed to start the assembly for a few parts that needed to be constructed. There seems to be still time left in the day, maybe there might be someone still there?


With that he took the half built rifle, and stepped out of his room. " Jayus, come on. We're going to the metalworking room. " He said looking at the giant.


Jayus stood up and dusted his armor plates a bit. Standing tall and ready to go. Before long the two set off that way. " Making another weapon, are you Victor? " Jayus spoke. " Well of course, plan on trying to create a large caliber rifle, the one that I scrapped up for Richter's assignment was garbage, the barrel was shoddy, the thing could have exploded at any point in time. No, needs a lot more refinement, and that's exactly what i'm going to do. " He said showing the thundering stone giant the half built rifle. " Still I appreciate any details you can remember for the construction of rifles capable of firing various caliber rounds Jayus, its been helpful so far in my own little gun crafting world. As well as anything you happen to find deep underground, from the older times. "


Jayus just replied with a nod, and what could be considered a sigh and continued walking. " Always wanting to create a new weapon. " he muttered to himself. " Never could stop you from doing it, even when you were little. " Victor glared back at the giant who stood twice his size, right into that glowing red cycloptic stone eye. " Well, because I enjoy it. Heh. " he snickered.


As the two would walk through the halls towards the room, going by some weird thing about people blathering on about Truth or Dare? Some weird sport maybe, Victor hadn't ever heard of it before, and Jayus didn't tell him anything about it. So it might not be worth checking out at the moment. Maybe some other day, right now he had his own hobbies to attend to.

 

[CSA]

Lily felt a little sick. She really didn't want to do this, and certainly didn't want all of these people in her room. But Anya had been so sad lately, and for now at least it didn't seem like she was thinking about how much she missed her mama and papa.


"It's not for them. Remember. It's not for those morons, it's for her."





Lily looked around, and already her room was filling with strange people that she didn't even know. Strange people who would be watching her carry out dares and divulge potentially embarrassing truths. Anya didn't seem at all bothered by it, though, and seemed to want to start already.


Well, if Lily was going to go through this **** she might as well see to it that she got a fair cut. No, nobody got the best of Lilium Darlingtonia. If she was going to go through with something that she didn't like, she would do it on her terms.


"Give me a minute, OK Anya? Lily's got some business to conduct before we get rolling."


Lily slithered over to Robin, who appeared to be the one organizing this farce.


"Hey, so you said I'd get paid for this right? Well, it would be remiss of me not to establish a number before this gets going. Business, am I right?"


Lily then glanced around again, seemingly marveling at the attendance.


"Haha, though it seems it's already gotten going. It would be pretty bad if you had to call it all off, huh? I mean, you've already started taking money it seems. Really bad for business. Bad for your reputation, too. What I'm saying, basically, is that I want half for Anya and I. Half of everything- merch, entrance, bets, whatever you're charging involving this event. I won't go lower. Anya and I are half of the cast, the venue is our room, and I'm willing to bet that over half of the people here are present for the superstar lineup rather than ToD. Take the offer, or shove off and we'll just play without a crowd."


If the turnout really was as good as it seemed, this would probably really help to pay for Anya's college. If he refused, though, Anya seemed more interested in just playing with her friends and didn't care much that it was a professional game anyways. Besides, it was the Neko who told her to get a good deal in the first place.

 

[Advent Azure]

Kylier made her way back at Mel's room, and took out the key that went to it, cloaked as usual


-I wonder what our 'princess' is up to...-


Kylier opened the door, using her illusions to hide the fact that she is unlocking the door, and that the door is even being opened along with her waltzing on in, and made her way over to a corner of the room that's probably not going to be stepped onto.


-... I wonder if I should talk to her, or see what she does alone...-


~~~~~


"Actually, a metalworking place would probably be a lot more reliable, its just that I... actually I think I've pasted by that sort of place before if I remember right."


Azure went through his closet and put a few materials in a backpack. He took the parts he was considering working with into a wheeled container as well


"If I'm right its nearby, lets go Skyia"


Azure went down the halls for a short while with all of his gear in tow, and got through to where the metalshop classroom was


"Huh... looks like there's people inside already... I think they'll be enough room for us all I guess"


Azure looked on over to see, some people he didn't know, although one of them did seem familiar somehow, he doesn't really remember however, or at least cared to remember


"It's alright if we use this place along with you guys right?"