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{{Logsummary|
Title=BBQ Slime Beaches
|Summary=The angel has left the beach, but now a giant ocean slime appears to crash the BBQ? Will Strike Star save the day at the cost of an abnormally high laundry bill?!
|Who=[[Iridescence]], [[Shizuko]],
|Date=08-17-2026
|Where=Senta: Giga Beach
|Log=

Shizuko says, "Hopefully, he'll do something better with this apparently very long life. He's like way too many guys I've known, completely oblivious to being an absolute ass and convinced that the things that make him lame and look like an idiot instead make him cool." Jumping into the Raging because of a bet? It's just... sad to her, outright pathetic. She looks both annoyed and somehow tired by it all, not a look befitting someone her age.

That said, Iridescence's compliment and wink get a tilted head and a quirked eyebrow. "Really? Like what?" The tone of her voice suggests that no, she is in fact not fishing for more compliments. She's actually slightly confused by the declaration of admiration.

The mage girl laughs at Shizuko questioning her, not in a mocking rude way, but just generally enjoying that she would question the statement in the first place. "Oh just about everything you said to the turtle dudeoz. Pointing out the absurdness." She unclasps her hands and taps the side of her cheek. "Fwuh, you have a blatant honesty I don't hear a lot." Probably because many are afraid of her in some way or another. It's not like she's a terrible person, but she does interact with a lot of the gang leaders, mafia bosses, and other such things. A large portion of Richside is considered her -territory-. Not that she tends to talk about that part of her life much, at least not around Shizuko. Yet.

The dolphin makes more noises, backflipping in the ocean. A few more dolphins join it. They all seem to be jabbering at...or about...? The sea turtle, who has managed to actually move about a fourth of an inch now. NPC's have started to filter back to their own beach business, though there's still a few lookeyloo's.

Shizuko pauses, clearly unsure of what to make of what Iridescence said for a moment. "I mean... I just... call things like I see it. Respect where respect is due. He just... strikes me as a prime example of toxic masculinity." There's some venom in her tone at the very end there, like the concept is something she has a personal hatred of from past experience.

Shizuko turns away, not looking at anyone or anything in particular. "And even I lie far too often."

Iridescence stops her backwards walk as they arrive next to the mega bbq-grill. "There's never an end to it." She looks over at the dolphins ?blabbering? away. "They're probably examples of it to, but I don't speak dolphinz." She's kind of joking, but it could be true!

She tilts her head to the side as Shizuko claims she lies. "Really? Do tell, when's the last time and what was the lie you told?" She's super curious about that! She points at one of the hot dogs and the blue sludge ooze, one of the dudeoz starting to prep one for her. Another dudeoz gives Shizuko a 'You having another too?' expression.

Shizuko sighs and nods. No end, indeed. The request for examples of her lies apparently goes ignored for a moment when she nods towards the barbeque master. Yes, she's already said she wanted another, didn't she? But she decides not to dodge the question. "I mostly lie by omission. I lie to my mother almost every other day now. About where I'm going, who I'm out with. She has no clue who I'm meeting up with right now, I just told her 'some friends from school'." There's a sigh as she looks out at the ocean again. "I just don't want her to worry too much about me. Don't want her thinking I'm involved in anything dangerous." She looks like she might want to say something else, but doesn't. Another lie by omission right now? Or just hiding something.

The dudeoz do another smooth hot dog flip off the grill, catch in bun, set on plate maneuver. This time they both add the condiments for each girl respectively without asking, then offer the plates over.

Iridescence smiles, her heterochromia iridum eyes wandering over Shizuko's features. She holds up an index finger. "I went to UMPUHA as a visitor a few times growing up, so it counts." She winks and takes the plate from the dudeoz, though she doesn't start eating yet. "I don't blame you for keeping her from worrying, yahz? I swear I don't get attacked, attempted kidnaped, attempted murdererered everywhere I go." She laughs again. "Odd things tend to happen more when I'm with you though, maybe it's some kind of fate." She waggles her eyebrows.

The dolphins suddenly break off their talk as a darker blue than the ocean round creature ripples up from under the waters and envelopes one of them inside it. The others start smacking the crap out of the creature with their tails and ramming it with their noses. It becomes readily apparent it's some kind of slime.

Shizuko takes the hotdog with a nod of thanks, but doesn't take a bite yet. "Yeah, but that was before I transferred in." She shakes her head. "She probably thinks I'm with Basil." Basil Hawthorn, someone *else* from Richside that Shizuko somehow has made friends with, but the Hawthorns are more than a few tiers below Iridescence. "She doesn't know I've managed to get a target painted on my back from some gang member I maimed when they tried to mug me, though. He's tried three times." She looks back to Iridescence, finally, once again sounding a bit annoyed instead of the almost mournful tone she'd been speaking in. "Though I think *you've* managed to do more damage to me than he ever did."

As far as the slime is concerned? If Shizuko is aware that a dolphin just got *eaten*, she's not showing any signs of it yet.

Iridescence, who has a better view of the dolphin/slime nonsense, only spares it a glance. For all she knows the dolphins were being racist or insulted that slime's mother. Plus, a while back a giant kraken came out of the ocean near here. Sure it got killed with the help of some powerhouse wielding chakra and her, but why tempt fate. Maybe it has a kid waiting just off shore for the next time she decides to take a dip. Also, lightning tends to spark off of her a lot, so shocking everyone around her isn't the nicest thing. The mage decides to take a bite of her hot dog as Shizuko talks, the ooze on her hot dog squirming slightly as she sets it down. "Fwuh! Me?" She thinks about that whole god thing, and wasn't there a news article about them? Or did she manage to squash it before it got released? She doesn't pay a lot of attention to the tabloids. "Welllll, I must be worth the company despite that, since you keep showing up when I invite you." She winks, a little spark of lightning rippling through her hair.

The dolphin slime war continues, though they are starting to get slowly closer to shore. More dolphins have come to attack the slime, and a bunch of the humanoids on that area of the beach have started clearing out. There a good thirty to forty yards from the bbq area though.

"Did you really forget your direct hit on me? You know, why I actually got injured?" Shizuko lets out a huff and looks away again. Thankfully what news did make it out didn't seem to think Shizuko was worth mentioning other than being an innocent bystander that got caught up in it. Which was actually the truth, sort of. The bystander part went out the window after being kidnapped.

Worth the company? Shizuko opens her mouth, then closes it again. Lying by omission. She really doesn't know if she can really trust Iridescence to not just throw her to the side or to suddenly turn on Shizuko if she were to turn down these invitations without a solid reason. There is outright *fear* that Shizuko still has for anyone with Iridescence's level of social power. That ability to just make someone disappear.

Shizuko looks away again, this time looking out at the ocean. Oh, look, a distraction! "...Okay, what's happening *now* out there? It looks like they're attacking a blob of the ocean itself!"

Iridescence sweatdrops as Shizuko mentions the direct hit. That...well... She swallows her bite and grins despite it not being the greatest thing that happened. "Fwuh, I thought you were talking about some kind of social damage, like reporters or kidnappers coming for you to get to me." Did she ever apologize for hitting her? Oh, it's probably fine either way! She's about to shift the conversation over to what she was starting to hint at when Shizuko brings her full attention to the ocean party. She multi-colored haired mage peers. "Waht." She tilts her head, ponytails spilling everywhere except in her food somehow. "An ocean slime or something?"

The so-called ocean slime is getting washed closer and closer to the beach by the waves, and the dolphin inside of it has started to half float sideways in it like a goldfish some kid forgot to feed for a week. The other dolphins attacking it make ripples as they hit it, but it doesn't seem to care, or if it does the damage isn't very obvious. The sea turtle is still there, but at all of this action he is now trying to move AWAY from everything.

Shizuko says, "No, I meant literal damage," with a distracted tone. Her attention is now out on the ocean, but she'll realize that implication of being targeted to get at Iridescence later. It's not something she's considered yet. "Ocean slime? Is this something we should be concerned about? I've not taken any dangerous wildlife classes, I've not been planning on leaving the city..." She finally spots the dead or dying dolphin inside the slime. "Should... should we do something?"

Iridescence squints her left eye as she watches the 'fight'. "I haven't memorized everything, and ya never know what can arrive from The Conglomeration or Stone Portals." She doesn't mention Synthatek's Arrival Room. Though maybe an organic slime could arrive there? But if it had magic making it exist, wouldn't it just liquify into nothing? She's not the biggest expert. Do something though? She glances at Shizuko and back to the ocean slime. "We...could. Should? Uhmz...which side should we pick to be on?" She wipes her hot dog in some of the blue sludge on her plate and then pops it in her mouth.

The ocean slime has made it onto the part of the beach where the ocean waves lap in and out around it. Fully emerged it's about fourteen foot across and nine feet high and it wobbles like jello in a rock tumbler. The dolphins jump from an ocean swell to hit it, backflipping off of it like the greatest of trained acrobats to land back in the ocean, though soon the distance will be too great for them.

Shizuko tilts her head. "I mean... I thought those dolphins were intelligent, and it's eating one of them, so..." Why is she hesitating? She's supposed to be a hero, isn't she? From what it looks like, a *child* is in danger and she's hesitating? Shizuko glances at Iridescence and... right, that was why. Her fear of Iridescence. She's afraid that jumping in will 'ruin the mood' or something for this Elite of the Elite. Well, to hell with that.

Shizuko looks back out at the ocean. "We save the child. If a predator is hunting in a place this populated, it needs to be dealt with. If it's intelligent..." then it should know what it's doing is wrong. "So... Strike Star Transformation." With that simple phrase said, Shizuko is engulfed in that opaque shining force field to protect and hide her while her clothes are swapped out for her 'armor'.

Iridescence sweatdrops again. That's true, the dolphins are intelligent, but the slime might be as well? Fwuh. Then again, who knows what this slime's real purpose is. For all she knows it's eating dolphins to grow into kaiju size and start tearing it's way across the continent or something. As Shizuko takes the lead though, she nods. "Okioz." Although her lightning isn't the greatest for a populated beach. Sure a lot of people have cleared out, but it's lightning, it's going to hit a LOT of stuff other than her target. She hands her plate over to one of the dudeoz. "Start clearing the beach, it's closed today." The black and red ponytails of her hair start to get a subtle magical glow about them. She looks over at Shizuko as the glow from her hair starts to spark and ripple around her, similar to the lightning but a bit more chaotic and somehow faster.

The ocean slime wobblejiggles its way onto the beach proper. The dolphins are out of reach, though one tries one last jump and falls short, but manages to sideroll its way back into the surf. From the ocean slimes angle, it's either heading for the sea turtle or the bbq, it's hard to tell which really.

Shizuko morphs into a StrikeStar.

'''Behold! The magical girl! This teenager is outfitted in white, gold, and black in an outfit that doesn't look as utilitarian as it should be, considering she's more likely than not in a combat situation. Her oufit is, at its base, a white minidress dress in a very low sweetheart cut combined with a black haltertop, the skirt of which is pleated like a school skirt. The pleated skirt is accompanied by a wide, white bow across her back that has additional golden armor plating on its trailing edges and at the very tips. Across her chest is also thicker gold ornamentation that acts much like a low cut bikini top with additional armoring in the center just above and below. The gold trim also frames the top of her chest, framing her assets nicely while reaching up to her collarbone in a V shape, and with a trimmed red gem in the center. Her boots, too, are mostly black and white with gold trim: They reach nearly all the way up to her short skirt with a black band at top that dips in the front to nearly her knees. At her feet the boots are much thicker, all gold in what looks akin to a set of golden high heels, except in the front they climb up just past her ankles. Her arms are not bare, either. A set of white sleeves reach from her wrists only up to halfway up her upper arms. At the top is what looks like a cuff with black trim, then at her elbows the white material puffs out. A red gem matching the one on her chest adorns each of these sleaves just above her elbow, and across the back of her forearms is a set of golden bracers. Finally, a golden winged motif hairpiece holds back her ponytail, itself reaching nearly to the top of her skirt. Truely a lovely vision! This isn't everything, though. Perhaps they're floating around her, or perhaps they're attached to her, but there are eight floating devices that are always near her. The two that look attached to her arms when not in use look like a thick spike with flanking wings all set into a golden housing, the wings folded in when still on her arms. The other six are on her skirt when not in rest, and appear much simpler, each being a flattened oval shape with a golden ring about three-fourths the way back (or up when on her skirt).''' http://charis.servegame.com/triwiki/images/d/d9/StrikeStar.jpg

The light clears, and there stands Super Magical Ultimate Strike Star! Well, okay, there's absolutely nothing magical about that whole clothing teleportation sequence. Strike Star doesn't waste any time, using her drones in their stored positions to immediately fly over to the scene. . o O ( I really hope I'm not misreading the situation here... ) Straight over the turtle without even a thought towards him, she flies to interpose herself between the slime and anyone else on the beach. Which happens to be, from the direction of its travels, said turtle and Iridescence's dudoz. "Put the child back," she says towards the slime, kinda hoping it's going to listen to her, but honestly not expecting it. "Or I'll do it myself," she finishes, punctuating her statement with her forearm drones activating their beam swords.

Iridescence actually thinks it's hecka kewlz when Shizuko transforms like that. Maybe she should start working on her space magic more than her time magic so she can try to figure out how to create some kind of transformation for herself. Ah, who is she kidding, she'd never get around to it. She crooks her fingers as she aims them towards Shizuko, placing her other hand over her heart. The black and red magic ripples off of her into runic circles, similar ones appearing around Shizuko, unless she has some kind of magic blocking thing up of course! If she doesn't, the black and red glow will form around her, as it does around Iridescence, altering the time flow around them both so everything about them, is well, hasted. "Yah!" She calls out, she's going to head over closer in a moment, she just wanted to finish her spell first.

As Shizuko flies past the sea turtle, he looks up towards her and actually attempts to do a wolf call at her. "What a thing of beauty!" Yeesh.

The ocean slime wobblejiggles as Shizuko addresses it. It's insides churn a bit, and the small dolphin inside is shook around roughly. Rude?

The dudeoz have started clearing the beach, they're polite at first, but one person refuses yelling something about it being a free continent. "Yeah. You're right." One of the dudeoz says, "Which is why we can do this." The man is quickly manhandled, gagged, hogtied, and carried off.

Strike Star, frankly, still can't really tell if the slime has anything remotely resembling intelligence or not. "...I'm wasting my breath, aren't I?" The magic hits her, and it does take her a slight off guard as everything around her seems to slow down. She's not that slow to the uptake to not figure out what's going on, though. A quick glance is spared towards Iridescence to confirm she's the source of the magic, then it's back to attention on the enemy.

It's clear to Strike Star that, if the slime has intelligence, it's taunting her by jostling the dolphin. "Okay, then." She sets herself flying towards the slime again. For now, she's forgoing having the drones separate from her, instead stepping into the fray more directly. Honestly, she's not sure if Iridescence's spell will work on them if they're separated, and she suspects if that's the case, the time dilation between them and herself will... cause problems.

Strike Star wastes no time, striking with the beam swords in a broad slash. She really doesn't know much about slimes. She has no clue if this will essentially break surface tension and cause insides to spill out, or if it's going to do, well, basically nothing. But she's going to have to find out.

Iridescence starts running over towards Shizuko and the Slime, which isn't the next bit hit comedy series, but might be the next big action packed anime. She's fast now, relatively to everyone else except Shizuko, and clears the distance in moments, though she doesn't draw in close to the combat. She's not a martial artist. Gymnist, yah, but not so much with the CQC. The red light around her fades, getting replaced just by the black glow. She presses her finger on the air before her, a black spark igniting onto it and she slides a big circle, a loud scratching sound like someone running their fingernail across wood (not a chalkboard, gross!). She then starts drawing a square around the circle. Yeah, casting even while hasted takes a while.

The ocean slime dodges! Well, it jigglewobbles sideways, but it's not moving nearly as fast as Shizuko. It doesn't move fast in the first place! It's body smokes, burns, bubbles, and fizzes into a blue cloud as the beam swords slash into it! It creates a long gash across it, which then EXPLODES outwards in a massive outpouring of blue goopey sludge, far more than looks like should be contained in it. Maybe it was densely packed? It also happens to be projecting itself towards Shizuko, hoping to get her all gooped up and clogged down. The dolphin is flooding out along with it as well!

Surface tension it is! And it's a lot more pressure under that membrane than Strike Star thought there'd be, judging from that explosion of water... scratch that, slime!

YECH.

Definitely time to retreat! Strike Star flies backwards away from the approaching slime. Perhaps, if she'd not been hasted, it would have managed to catch her, but with that boost she's able to stay out of its range, at least for the moment.

Oh, right, the dolphin child. It's already out of the slime? Honestly, Shizuko didn't think it would be freed that quickly. With it flowing along with the slime reaching out at her, Strike Star's beam swords shut down. She doesn't want to accidentally hit it now that the slime is much more free flowing!

Iridescence actually hops backwards a bit as the slime starts spewing its innards or...maybe it's an attack of its slime insides?... towards Shizuko and in somewhat towards her. But she's far enough away and fast enough that nothing gets on her. The black lines in the air her finger scratches move with her. She finishes her circle square diagram and then deftly scratches three runes on the inner circle. There's a black flash of light from the entire design which then fizzlefades, however a large eight by eight foot of pitch black stone-like material appears in the air above the slime, though it's not directly above it, a bit to the side. She was trying to make sure she wouldn't crush the dolphin. Although now the dolphin's been expelled, but...she wasn't going to start the whole thing over. Anyway, that giant block is going to fall as fast as it appears. Didn't she say something earlier about teleportation magic being dangerous? Maybe that's just dimensional teleportation. Plus, she just altered the space, it's technically not teleportation! ...maybe.

The ocean slime makes loud bubbling waughling noises, almost like it's puking itself out of itself, but with a lot more squelchy noises. Whoever made it didn't design it to be slashed open like this apparently. It just keeps flooding from the inside out, and just when it starts pulling the two seams of itself together, the giant block slams down onto it. Exactly what you'd expect happens when something solid impacts something with a jello consistency, is squishes out. A combination of exploding and chunking happens, long strands of the slime just slurp everywhere hitting anything nearby, which isn't much except maybe Shizuko and the dolphin. Other parts have become slime chunks, spattering this way and that all across the beach. Some of it lands on the bbq and starts getting grilled. One of the globs lands near the contained of blue sludge condiments. They look really similar next to each other like that.

The dolphins in the ocean squeak and swim back and forth, obviously in distress and wanting to get the slimed dolphin back into the water quickly.

Strike Star flies (technically, the drones are carrying her) towards the dolphin child, especially as she sees that the slime is trying to put itself back together again. "Ohhh, gross," she says before forcing her mouth shut as much as she can. Do NOT want to get any of that in her mouth, and she's definitely going to want a shower after this... because she's not going to be able to grab the dolphin to bring it to the ocean without getting the slime on her.

Scratch that, there's no way she's not getting completely and totally COVERED with slime when that black stone drops down and makes the slime just explode EVERYWHERE.

Strike Star is definitely glad she got her mouth shut before that slime explosion. There's a quick annoyed look sent Iridescence's way before Strike Star just fully hugs the dolphin child to herself to get it back to the ocean. It's not easy, and four of her drones detach to help her get a better hold, but the 'magical' girl manages to get the dolphin child back to actual ocean instead of super slimy 'ocean'.

Iridescence's mouth opens wide in a 'Oh wow that just completely coated Strike Star in slime' shape. She holds her hands up in surrender as Shizuko shoots her that look, giving an apologetic smile. "Sorry, sorry!" She hops back a few times as slime chunks land around and...kind of everywhere as well. She didn't want to go interact closer with the slime, thankfully Shizuko is handling the dolphin rescue. That massive block of stone isn't going anywhere either. Is the slime dead? If it is, she'll just hang back for a moment and wait, if it isn't she'll start casting again.

The slime is either dead, or has been so damaged it's no longer able to move. Most of it was spewing out, but after that impact it's now been half-squished, and the main body of it has started to separate like a poorly cooked hollandaise sauce. Safe to say it's just going to either melt into nothing or possibly turn into smaller slimes at some point. Who knows how this particular slime works!

The slime itself that gets on Strike Star is horribly sticky and yet slimy and unsticky at the same time, thick, and gooey. It smells like blueberries though! With the help of the drones she brings it back into the ocean proper. The dolphin's start to flip and swirl all squeek with delight around her and the dolphin child, which wiggles itself to be free. It has a lot of slime on it, but it SPEWS its blowhole, sending a glob of it clear and into the air. Hopefully it doesn't splatter on top of Shizuko's head.

Strike Star lets go of the child dolphin as soon as she thinks it has enough room to swim. She doesn't really go that far into the water. Admittedly, when she let the dolphin child go into the water, some might have described the process as 'dropping' rather than placing, but when it's THAT slippery and squirmy... Yeah, that's the only way it's getting down. If any of the globs from the dolphin's blowhole got on her, she honestly couldn't tell the difference anymore. Strike Star is currently colored blue from slime.

Strike Star makes her way back towards the barbeque site giving the remains of the slime a wide berth. Yeah, she's not taking chances yet if it's fully dead or not. Approaching Iridescence, she says with a flat tone, "You need to work on your friendly fire issues." This is not the first time with her.

Iridescence presses her lips into a thin line and scrunches her eyes at Strike Star. "Fwuh, yah. That waz..." She wants to say unexpected, but did she REALLY expect something different when she dropped the heaviest substance she's ever encountered onto it from above? "...unfortunate!" She then claps her hands as the red black magic haste expires on the both of them. Little lightning sparks between each clap, making it sound more like a small thunder storm going off. "Great work though! As always, I'm so impressed by you!" The smell of grilled blueberries fills the area as the chunk of slime that landed on the grill, grills. "Kind of have a little somethin' somethin' all over you though." She winks, obviously referring to Shizuko's new slime coating.

The beach has been emptied of almost everyone. There's a few stragglers the dudeoz didn't get rid of, but they are few and far between. One was the camera person way out on the dock, but they're packing up and leaving as well. Beach day seems to be over for most people.

The dolphins squeek and chitter with each other, swimming around the rescued child, a few of them are obviously saying things at Strike Star, probably words of thanks, but you never know with dolphins.

Strike Star gives Iridescence an annoyed look through the entire pause between 'was' and 'unfortunate'. With the effects of the haste spell wearing off, she slumps ever so slightly. "Thanks, I think." Shizuko is one of those people that have a hard time processing compliments. The second part, though? "Oh, really? I hadn't noticed, thanks for pointing it out," she says with a flat tone.

With people cleared out and the slime clearly not moving anymore, Shizuko lets the 'transformation' of the 'magical girl' form go away, once again being covered in the opaque light as her clothes are swapped and hair restyled to how it was before. "GAH! I was hoping it'd bounce the slime off or something, ew ew ew EW!" She's shaking her arm to get as much slime off as possible. It's possible that she'd be paying actual attention to what the dolphins were doing now if she could understand them at all, but as it is, she simply gives them a wave and a decidedly fake looking smile. Closed mouthed as always, though, she always avoids showing teeth.

Strike Star morphs into a Shizuko.

Iridescence can't help but give an apologetic shrug, then hops back as Shizuko shakes her arm splattering slime goo around! "Fwuh, careful!" She's one to talk! A piece does splatter on her right leg though below the knee. "Agh. It's kewl, it's kewl." She says, waving her arm dimissively, making her kimono styled sleeve billow about. She reaches down and starts wiping at it with her sleeve. It's not like she does her own laundry or something. "I was wondering if it'd come off when you transformed." She laughs lightly, straightening up. There's still a bit of slime on her leg, but most of it is on the

sleeve now. Where was her hot dog? Ah, well, she ate enough of it anyway. Or did she finish it? Bah, she decides not to care. She goes back to her chair, but it's got slime chunks too. Uh. She decides to just lean against a clean spot. "So, Shizuko, now that we have some privacy. You can really handle yourself, yah? Wonderin', you ever thought about a job in security and protection enforcement?"

Shizuko is fully in snark mode still, not the shy, fearful mode she was in before the slime showed up. So no, she's not apologizing for getting some on Iridescence, even if it wasn't intentional. "I was hoping it would, but I don't really know how that kind of thing works. Ugh." At least she's now trying to shake the slime off in a direction *away* from Iridescence. There's a hint of a grimace at the 'now that we have privacy' opening, but the followup was... not what she was expecting. "Uwah?" Is all she can react to that at first. "Uh... No, actually, I've not. Actually, I'm not sure if I can actually use it for profit, I might need to check the Eula..." because even if there's no laws here, it actually can mean contracts can be even worse. Not that anything involving her 'powers' was made in Senta. Was there even a Eula? She's not actually sure, she was so excited when she got the 'powers' that she just breezed through a lot of things at the start...

Iridescence hmmmm's at that, resting her hand on her hip and drumming her fingers. "Welp, tell ya what, yah? Check it out if ya can. I don't really do the direct hiring but I can pick and choose when I want too. I'd even be kewl with a retainer thing. Ya know, if I knew trouble was brewing and we needed to defend some of my-" She laughs "-some of Richside." She also leaves out the whole attack part, but ya know, she isn't super big on expanding what she holds, but one of her peeps brought it up in a meeting the other day, so...

Shizuko is lost in thought for a moment. Really, she's actually looking over the agreements made when she first became Star Strike. It doesn't read like any Eula she's seen before, it's in more plain language, sometimes flowery in a faux magical kind of way. Whoever her matron is, she apparently had fun in writing this out in the spirit of 'magical' girls. Still, she isn't completely oblivious, and the image in her mind of being reduced to one of the 'dudeoz' makes her visibly flinch. THAT is something she most definitely does not want. "...From what I understand, I'm not prohibited from making any money off of it. I am, however, prohibited from using it in a manner that is, and I quote: 'Against the benefit of society'. I *think* that means I can't use it for evil purposes."

Shizuko tilts her head and looks at Iridescence. Defending Richside? That is the most well defended place in Senta. Shizuko has valid reasons for going to two different places in Richside, and she's still terrified setting foot in that area of town every day. Not that she's actually gone to Iridescence's place before, she mentally notes. It's probably for the best that Iridescence left out the attack part. That definitely would have pushed Shizuko away.

Iridescence furrows her brow at the evil purposes thing. "Evil purposes?" She then ohs! "Right! That'd be bad for the magical girl image." She smiles and waves her hand dismissevly again. "It's okay, it's okay, was just a thought!" Plus, the against the benefit of society sounds like shift business. That kind of wording can be interpreted a lot of different ways! It probably wouldn't get past one of her contract handlers. She winks and goes over to the grill pulling it closed because the cooked slime blueberry smell is starting to turn into burned blueberry charcoal smell. She dusts off her hands.

Shizuko nods. "Yeah, that and I'm guessing my matron simply doesn't want her powers used for bad. I don't think she's particularly concerned about image, considering I actually don't know who she is." Why no, she's completely unaware that Big Sister herself showed up in front of her using an old form. She's looking distracted again. "Ah, there it is. Yeah, I apparently need to send a request form for me to use it for any sort of profit." It must be very odd to people not from Synthatek to see someone browsing computer files in their head. She may be poor now, but her family used to be fairly well connected on the other side.

Shizuko mumbles at the smell of everything, "I think I'm going to avoid blueberry flavored stuff for a while after that."

Iridescence is also super tech adverse. Well, she doesn't mind technology, she just hates using it! Like how the bottom hem of her kimono skirt thing starts making a beeping sound. She nods, her ponytails swaying. "At least you can try to get money if you need it and they say okay." Now she wonders who exactly has Shizuko under their thumb. She doesn't know who she is, which could mean all sorts of things. She's curious. She might pry. Well, not today. "Fwuh, for realz. Like, that condiment I put on my hot dog was blueberry flavored too, now I'm over it." The beeping grows faster and more insistent. Iridescence makes a 'uuuuugh kill me' eye roll and then reaches down, pulling the small communicater ear piece out and sticking it into her ear. "Whaaat?" She looks at Shizuko rolls her eyes again. "Yah? K. Sure, just give him a new phone coupon and a medical credit or something for Synthatek, I bet he'll never cross the Raging to cash it in. Wuht. Curses? I don't care about news stories." She raises an eyebrow. "Just ignore it." She pulls it out of her ear and deliberately tucks it back into the small hidden sleeve at the bottom of the inside of her skirt, straightening back up.

Shizuko once again nods. "Yeah, I think it's, again, to keep an eye on what I use it for. I've pretty much just been using it for defensive reasons. Either for myself or others. And for just going around the city," she admits. Hey, using it to fly around and explore the city is not 'against the benefit of society'. "Honestly, I've never considered using it to make a living. Huh." But now that idea is in Iridescence's mind, she knows, and she's worried it's something that will come up again. A lot. Hopefully the concept of blueberry flavored hot dog sauce doesn't come up often again, either, because right now that just sounds *wrong* to Shizuko.

Shizuko raises an eyebrow and tilts her head slightly at the odd usage of a device she's fairly certain is not meant to be used while being held that way. Nope, not gonna tell Iridescence she's using it wrong. "...Please tell me they didn't get me on camera..."

Iridescence was definitely using it wrong. But the people on the other end deal with because, well, she's da boss! She DOES remember Shizuko doesn't want to be in the news, or on camera. "Fwuh, I told my dudeoz to make sure there weren't any reporters and such around, but one slipped through somehow." She holds up a hand to assuage Shizuko's fears. "They only reported on the turtle thing. I feel like the slime was bigger news." She shrugs. She doesn't REALLY care about news outlets and the like or what they say, but, "I told them to tell me if someone started spilling stuff while we were together." She glances down at the hem of her skirt. She still is irritated they use that to contact her though and always insist she keeps three on her at all times. Fwuh. She looks at Shizuko and the slime all over her. "Yah, maybe we should call it a day. That slime doesn't look super comfy on you." She reaches down and scratches where it's still kind of stuck on her leg, flicking pieces away with her fingernail.

Shizuko lets out a sigh of relief at the news that she... probably didn't make the news. She really, *really* doesn't want to end up in the public eye. She already stresses out about just being in Iridescence's eye. "Yeah. Probably. Unless they just don't find it as easy to spin the whole slime thing some way."

At the suggestion of calling it a day, Shizuko nods vigorously. "I. Need. A shower."

Iridescence flat eyes, "I can't begin to understand the brain of a reporter. Like, bros, chicks, just live your life and stop worrying about other peeps!" She nods in agreement about the shower. "Fwuh! At least it smells like blueberries, though, yah, like you said maybe no blueberry stuff for a while." She then moves forward to try and TIGHT HUG Shizuko, knowing full well she's going to get slime all over her. "Thanks for coming to my BBQ beautiful! I swear I have days where nothing eventful happens!"

Shizuko nods again. "True. At least it doesn't smell like rotting fish. I don't think I'd still have the hotdog in me if it did, if you catch my drift." And then TIGHT HUG. Shizuko absolutely freezes at the hug. It's certainly not what she was expecting, especially considering she's covered in blueberry flavored goo. And that's the end of snarky Shizuko. Suddenly much more aware of her surroundings, she's code switched back into the shy and fearful mentality that she came in with, her face going red under the blue sludge. "Uhhh, n-no problem. But, I mean, really, a day or twelve with nothing eventful can be... nice."

Iridescence gives Shizuko another tight squeeze and then unsquelches, slime goo oozing out in strands between them. Gross. She steps back further, wiggling her arms to break the strands off. "Yah. We've had a couple outings now though." She says and waves her hand at a dudeoz in the distance and points up. The dudeoz puts a hand to his ear and raises his hand in acknowledgement. "We can probably advance things." She winks and smiles. "Theater night next time, my place. Figure out your favorite flick!" Before she finishes her sentence a her limo styled hover car is traveling across the beach, settling down next to them. The driver is skilled enough that the sand and dust it kicks up is NOT directed at the two girls.

Shizuko shivers slightly at the slime trailing between the two. So. Gross. Shower. Needed. "Advance?" she asks, not connecting what Iridescence is talking about yet. "Theater? Your-" She cuts herself off as she Gets It this time. It's like that other time when it took her too long to register that Iridescence had used the word 'date' before. Shizuko keeps forgetting this, that Iridescence has that idea in her head that she might actually feel something for her. It just... feels too foreign a concept to Shizuko that she's anything more than a plaything to someone as rich and *powerful* as Iridescence. Yes, Basil is also rich, but a different tier entirely. With Iridescence, it just feels like it's only a matter of time before the mage grows bored with her and tosses her aside at best.

All these thoughts going through her head as the hovercar comes to set down nearby. "Uh, yeah, I'll figure it out," she says somewhat dumbly, not really thinking about what she's saying.

Iridescence claps her hands twice, lightning and a few ?quiet? peels of thunder echoing. "Rawksauce! Can't wait, movie date!" She waves her hand as a dudeoz opens the door for her limo and she climbs inside, again not caring she's going to make a mess of the interior with all of the sticky slime goo. "Bye Shizuko!" She calls, waving again as the limo door is closed and the hovercar hovers away! The dudeoz looks over at you, or well, turns his head since they all wear dark sunglasses, and gives a solid nod, more come over and start packing up the beach BBQ gear, chair, and changing room.

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Shiboo

2026-08-16T02:41:46Z

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|Desc=A girl looking around the age of nineteen stands before you. She is a beautiful creature and looks on the surface to be rather frail. Her outfit is... not the colorful type. She wears a black kimono style ensemble of pitch black that almost seems to envelop light around itself. Her hair is long, thick, and black extending down to drag upon the floor, bangs dangle over her forehead and a few longer locks frame her face. Her eyes are black within black and stare off as if always deep in thought. Her facial features reveal a very very beautiful, if not pale, face. Upon her fingers rest black rings, four upon the left and three upon the right. Resting on her wrists are black bracelets, three upon the left, and four upon the right. And when you are able to glance at her bare feet as they peak out from underneath her outfit you see black anklets that jingle lightly as she walks. All in all...this girl seems rather dark.
|Background=Shiboo was raised to worship an extinct race of dragons. Her destiny was to find the ingredients for a potion that would allow her to give birth to a black dragon. The ingredients were unobtainable in her home dimension and so she was magiced to another (Phoenix MUCK). It was there that she managed to gather the seven ingredients, while running her shop, and gave birth to a dragon. Unfortunately, the dragon was white instead of black, and seemed rather peaceful and friendly in nature. Unsure of what to do, she continued to run her shop and raise her dragon, until a magic portal sucked them both to TRI. She's sure to open a new enchanted clothing and potion shop soon.

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2026-08-16T02:38:18Z

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2026-08-16T02:33:34Z

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Shiboo

2026-08-16T02:32:28Z

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Talentiana

2026-08-15T20:56:27Z

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|Occupation=Overworld Angel
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|Desc=A beautiful (wait aren't most angels beautiful?) with green hair that looks more like it was made of silk than actual hair, shiny and smooth. A pair of giant feathered white wings spread from her back. A gold thin choker is around her neck. Her dress is mostly a white cloth that drapes over the front and swoops back over her hips leaving her lower back half almost on the verge of indecency. Don't stare and try to catch any moments it drapes a little too low in the back, she's an angel remember?
|Background=One of the S Class angels of the Overworld, Talentiana often takes the task of reincarnating dead souls back to the living, if they have a desire to leave the paradise that is the Overworld, anyway. She takes her position seriously, but will often weigh ones past deeds when deciding just what kind of body and life your new one will be. Though rare, she sometimes descends from Overworld onto TRI itself.

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Talentiana

2026-08-15T20:55:26Z

Charis:

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|Background=One of the S Class angels of the Overworld, Talentiana often takes the task of reincarnating dead souls back to the living, if they have a desire to leave the paradise that is the Overworld, anyway. She takes her position seriously, but will often weigh ones past deeds when deciding just what kind of body and life your new one will be. Though rare, she sometimes descends from Overworld onto TRI itself.

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2026-08-15T08:29:01Z

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Talentiana

2026-08-15T08:25:25Z

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|Desc=A beautiful (wait aren't most angels beautiful?) with green hair that looks more like it was cast from a plastic jelly mold than actual hair, but it's shiny and smooth nonetheless. A pair of giant feathered white wings spread from her back. A belt choker is around her neck, holding her dress in place. The dress is mostly just loose flowing cloth that drapes across her front and wraps around the back, though even by TRI standards It's not a dress, but a white cloth that drapes over the front and swoops back over her hips leaving her lower back half almost on the verge of indecency. Don't stare and try to catch any moments it drapes a little too low in the back, she's an angel remember?
|Background=One of the S Class angels of the Overworld, Talentiana often takes the task of reincarnating dead souls back to the living, if they have a desire to leave the paradise that is the Overworld, anyway. She takes her position seriously, but will often weigh ones past deeds when deciding just what kind of body and life your new one will be. Though rare, she sometimes descends from Overworld onto TRI itself.

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2026-08-15T08:24:30Z

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2026-08-15T08:17:36Z

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Talentiana

2026-08-15T04:50:29Z

Charis: Created page with "{{Profile| Title=Talentiana |Image=Talentiana.png |Name={{PAGENAME}} |Series=TRI |Occupation=Overworld Angel |Alignment=Heavenly |Gender=Female |Species=Angel |Hangout=Overwor..."

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|Background=One of the S Class angels of the Overworld, Talentiana often takes the task of reincarnating dead souls back to the living, if they have a desire to leave the paradise that is the Overworld, anyway. She takes her position seriously, but will often weigh ones past deeds when deciding just what kind of body and life your new one will be. Though rare, she sometimes descends from Overworld onto TRI itself.

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2026-07-25 BBQ Angel Beaches Pt. 2

2026-08-14T00:56:41Z

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{{Logsummary|
Title=BBQ Angel Beaches Part 2
|Summary=An angel descends, a reincarnated sexist turtle argues with her, and Iridescence and Shizuko are there for it all.
|Who=[[Iridescence]], [[Shizuko]], [[Talentiana]]
|Date=07-25-2026
|Where=Giga Beach
|Log=
'''Senta: Giga Beach'''

'''Glistening sand, beautiful crashing waves, and sparkling clear water make up Center City's beach. The coast stretches out in both directions with an occasional rocky outcrop spreading from shore to sea. Seagulls, penguins, ducks, and dolphins play in the water, more than happy to accept any food a kind soul has to offer them.'''

'''A small dock where boats can launch or people can fish sits in the ocean, and larger ships and boats are anchored further out.'''

'''A path from the beach leads to under the bridge that crosses over the Raging.'''

Iridescence is a mage, of great caliber in her opinion! But, she's very specialized. Analyzation magic isn't up her kimono-beach sleeves. But, even if she can't look at it magically, she can at least check it out with her normal eyeballs! Her head lolls back and forth, multi-colored ponytails spilling everywhere. "Yahz, I'd say magical for surez." She scrunches her eyes at the sounds. "If those were demonic chants instead of some kind of heavenly sound thing, I'd say let's disrupt the sand." As it is, she isn't sure what's going to happen. Part of living in Senta. Okay, it's part of existing in the world of TRI.

The circles in the sand, unless interrupted, continue their paths. When the first outer two circles connect to themselves, the entire process speeds up immensely, over fifty circles each complete with small runes forming within the first two circles. The light sound of bells get accompanied by the great ringing of a giant one. Not the ear piercing type of bell, but the heavy almost gong style. Clouds appear high in the sky above, a small grouping, that just as quickly are split apart as a beam of gold and yellow light pierces through them to light up the circle and its immediate area.

Shizuko continues watching with mild trepidation. In her experience, anything this odd and out of place ends up bad. Like, accidentally summoned by a demon that lives off its victim's wealth somehow. Joke was on him, she's poor as heck, she just spends most of her money on clothes so she doesn't *look* broke. Of course, Iridescence went with...

That's beside the point right now, though, isn't it? No, this time it'd be more likely someone trying to shame them for being wealthy or something. Since it's heavenly or something? "We probably should disrupt it." And yet... no one is disrupting it. Call it morbid curiosity, but Shizuko kinda wants to know what's going on, and really... there's only one way to find out. Still, yeah, she's mentally preparing for an armor transfer.

Iridescence nods in agreement as Shizuko says they should disrupt it. "Mmhm. Yah, we should." She takes another bite of her blue sludge hot dog, watching and also doing nothing to stop anything. She likes the beach, but she's never got to see this happen. She tries to study the runes in the circle, seeing if she recognizes some of the patterns. That's the problem with magic and runes though, there's so many different kinds! And while she does study, she doesn't study hard.

At this point, some of the NPCs have stopped to watch, gathering in small groups, though they're staying WAY further away than Iridescence and Shizuko are.

The circles and runes stop drawing themselves, fully completing their patterns. Iridescence might recognize one or two runes having to do with either death or life. And then with one final massive ring all of the bells stop and the angelic singing fades. Simultaneously the light goes completely solid and then flickers away, a few wisps of gold and white motes flittering about. Left on top of the circle is a...sea turtle? It's bigger than a normal one would be, but not by much. Then, an angel simply appears like someone edited her into the scene, floating above the sea turtle. "Your wish to have your next life be a long one is granted. Congratulations on getting to have a long lifespan." The angel is Talentiana, seen her: http://charis2.servegame.com/MuckPics/talentiana.jpg

Shizuko takes a bite of her own hot dog, careful as always to avoid showing off that one fang she's got. "Yeah. Definitely should." But then it's most definitely too late, and neither of them have lifted so much as a finger to do anything to actually disrupt it. She watches the turtle and then the angel, listens, and makes her first and second guesses as to what happened. "Wait, so the turtle summoned her? OH! It's a monkey's paw thing, isn't it? Sea turtles live really long, don't they?" And then there's another bite of the hot dog. Yup, just another day on TRI.

Iridescence tilts her head to the side slowly. Someone summoned a sea turtle? Wait, now there's an angel thing? "Fwuh...?" She glances over at Shizuko, then giggles softly. "That's gotta be it. Wow. Genie's are dangerous things." She takes the lightest of side steps, just to be closer to Shizuko, for reasons. Life and death runes though. She considers calling out to the angel, but, she almost feels like it's talking in a movie theater when a big scene is playing.

The sea turtle blanches up at Talentiana and actually speaks, his voice sounding a tad, well, derpy. "What is this?! You said I'd be reincarnated into a powerful creature that would live without fear of drowning!"

The angel smiles, ever so pleasantly, the kind a super model who's practiced it thousands of times in the mirror would have. "Perhaps, little sea turtle, live a better life and you'll have a better body next time." The angel rights herself, wings fluttering lightly and she looks about the beach and all those present. "Remember, thy good deeds have merit. All evil, and good, is borne witness upon thy death. Fear not, those who are wholesome, despair and change thy ways, those who are depraved." Sermon time as well apparently.

Shizuko thinks on it for a moment. "I mean... sea turtles technically need to breath air still, right? So he *can* still drown. It just... would take a lot longer?" Oh, look, snarky Shizuko has poked her head out. Usually that only happens when she's 'transformed'. She's... not going to make claims about being good. She *thinks* she tries to be good? But deep down she wouldn't stake a wish on it. She's at least *reasonably* sure she's not evil? But who actually admits to themself that they're evil? Which brings up that self-doubt again.

Certainly, making a snarky response to an Angel did not give her 'good' points, at any rate.

Iridescence raises an eyebrow as an angel starts talking about good and evil. o O ( Yah okioz. ) She laughs and snaps her fingers, a light peel of thunder coming from them. "Fwuh! You're right!" This, she decides, is worth interrupting things over, so she calls out to the sea turtle and angel. "Did you hear what my girl here said? She says sea turtles can still drown! He could be afraid of drowning even like this!" She has a slight giggle fit, but manages not to snort-giggle. She really loves Shizuko's company.

The sea turtle manages to look disgruntled despite having the face of a turtle, it's eyes half-lidding and shaking its front leg fins! "But I went to heaven when I died! I lived a good life!" It's then that the turtle looks over as Iridescence calls out, pointing a fin towards them! "That's a GOOD POINT! I demand a remake! Someone kill me so I can get a new body!"

Talentiana laughs very gently, though some of the mirth in the depths of her eyes fades as she looks towards the two girls. "He has been blessed with infinite lungs. As long as he is submerged, he has no need of air or oxygen." She looks back down to the sea turtle. "I don't handle the suicides or those who purposefully have someone kill them." She holds an index finger up and taps it against her nose. "You won't want the angel that will deal with you then, in fact, you might end up in the Underworld. All you've done with this life is complain." The angel's eyes drift back over towards Shizuko and Iridescence.

Needless to say, the gawkers are still gawking at the display. A few have fallen to knees and are praying, or pretending to.

Shizuko shakes her head at the Turtle. "Nope, nope, she's right, she already had that covered, so you don't get to call foul for that. I tend to forget magic stuff like that sometimes." Nevermind that nanomachines can absolutely get that job done, too. And snark redirected is still snark. More quietly to Iridescence, she adds, "Yeah, I have a feeling I'd rather pass on dealing with that other angel, too." As the angel's gaze moves towards her, she suddenly feels a lot more self-conscious. Looks like Timid Shizuko might be coming back to the forefront again. She's... not going to be falling to her knees in worship anytime soon, though.

Iridescence finishes off her hot dog, just so she can put her hand on her hip. "Sorry dudeoz." She calls to the turtle. Wait, does she call all guys dudeoz? She looks at the angel as she speaks to her and Shizuko and keeps herself from stepping back. Then after a moment, she steps forward the tiniest bit, so she'd be the first target rather than Shizuko if something went topsyturvey sideways. She enjoys a good joke and poking fun, but if this angel is like, an actual angel or a genie that looks like an angel, she doesn't really want to get too involved.

The sea turtle flaps its fins, smacking sand around himself. "You should have told me sea turtle instead of creature! How am I supposed to pick up chicks like this?!"

Talentiana slides her eyes over at Shizuko and Iridescence, though her head doesn't turn, as if weighing whether to engage them again. In the end she doesn't, and her eyes look down at the turtle. "There are many sapient dolphins in the oceans. You'll find many who will mate with you. Farewell, live a good life." Cue church bells, a column of gold and white light, and the angel begins to float up towards the heavens. Or rather, the clouds that appeared earlier.

If Shizuko noticed that Iridescence stepped forward in a subtly protective move, she doesn't show it. The 'how do I pick up chicks' part from the turtle gets a look of less amusement from her. She refrains from any further commentary until after Talentiana flies upwards again. "What 'chicks' where you expecting to get as a 'creature' anyway? Seriously, you should have realized 'creature' could mean *anything*."

Iridescence cranes her neck back, watching Talentiana fly up towards the clouds. She's never seen this on TRI before, but there's all sorts of strange entities she's never encountered. Her eyes slowly scrunch, lightning sparks flickering around the edges of her eyes. Wait. Was this teleportation? That's super dangerous. Is the angel going to teleport out now? She doesn't like to be around when people start opening up breaches of existence like that, TRI's unstable enough as it is. But, it's happening, so, she looks back down towards the sea turtle, laughing softly at Shizuko's remark. "Fwuh, right? You have to pay attention in class."

Talentiana does indeed ascend into the heavens, and upon reaching the clouds they coalesce around her and the light fades away, as does the sounds and angelical singing. Once she's full obscured the clouds themselves simply waft away, leaving the sky a clear blue again. Her work here is done.

The sea turtle shakes its fins in anger up after the angel, "I don't want to mate with dolphins!" It then turns its head towards Shizuko and Iridescence. "Some kind of big manly wolf or orc dude! She made it sound like it was going to be epic!"

A lot of cameras, phones, and other recording devices were pulled out at this point. Someone out on the far dock has pulled out three different floating holo cams and started recording at one point as well. They seem to mostly be focusing on the angel and sea turtle though, a lot of them moving on back to their beach activites now that the light show has ended.

Shizuko tilts her head, one eyebrow lowered. "'A creature that would live without fear of drowning' and your mind leapt to wolves and orcs?" She looks over at Iridescence with an expression that suggests she wants to say 'can you believe this guy?'. Looking back to the turtle again, she says, "You'll just have to flirt with mermaids, then, and hope they're not the carnivorous kind." She's not sure how fast sea turtles can swim, but she's pretty sure your average mermaid can swim faster, if he's normally this annoying and not just because he was reincarnated as a turtle.

Iridescence puts her hand on her stomach as she laughs. Shizuko is hilarious! She 'deepens' her voice to try and imitate the turtle's. She's not great at impressions but she does it anyway "Uh, yeah hey, I want to be a creature, so I can pick up the chicks, and uh ya know, I don't want to be scared of drowning, and uhh, yeah that should cover anything angel entity genie person."

The sea turtle manages to kind of look angry, but its face isn't really designed for it. "I'd just drowned in the Raging after losing a bet! I had a lot on my mind!" He makes this weird hacking noise, his head arching forward and then back. "How do turtles spit at people?!"

Most of the NPC's have lost interest, though a few still watch the exchange. A dolphin, who had been playing beach ball with some kid, makes a series of clicks, whistles, and squeaks, waggling its fins. Anyone speak dolphin?

Shizuko looks even less impressed by the fact that the guy went into the Raging because of losing a bet. "Yeah, I'm starting to understand why you didn't get a body upgrade with the reincarnation," she says flatly. She shakes her head and turns away. "I think I want a second hot dog," she says as a way of effectively saying 'I think I'm done with this guy'. She certainly doesn't speak Dolphin, so she has not a clue what that said. Really, it's guys like that that lead to her making decisions that completely upending her life. She doesn't regret that part, even if it's been difficult.

Iridescence waves both of her hands in farewell at the sea turtle. "Sameseez." She agrees, turning along with Shizuko back towards her mega-bbq grill setup. "Fwuh, you don't see that every day. I'm glad he's stuck in that body." She laughs lightly, clothing swaying with her movements as she does a light skip and hop to walk backwards in front of Shizuko, arms clasped behind her. "Shizuko, I keep finding new things to admire about you." She winks.

The sea turtle gives chase after the two girls, intending to deliver some kind of really, really scathing comeback to their taunts, but he just kind of wobbles in the sand before trying to dig his fins in to move. Yeah he'll make it over to them in maybe an hour or two, but it's just as likely he'll give up before he gets even close, if the dudeoz don't decide to stop him before even that.

'''''To be continued...'''''

|}}

2026-07-20 BBQ Angel Beaches

2026-08-14T00:35:22Z

Charis:

{{Logsummary|
Title=BBQ Angel Beaches
|Summary=Iridescence invites Shizuko for a BBQ at Giga Beach, but then some kind of angelic music and light appears?
|Who=[[Shizuko]], [[Iridescence]]
|Date=07-20-2026
|Where=Giga Beach
|Log=
'''Senta: Giga Beach'''

'''Glistening sand, beautiful crashing waves, and sparkling clear water make up Center City's beach. The coast stretches out in both directions with an occasional rocky outcrop spreading from shore to sea. Seagulls, penguins, ducks, and dolphins play in the water, more than happy to accept any food a kind soul has to offer them.'''

'''A small dock where boats can launch or people can fish sits in the ocean, and larger ships and boats are anchored further out.'''

'''A path from the beach leads to under the bridge that crosses over the Raging.'''

It's another day at Giga Beach in Senta! This means there's people hanging out at the beach, or fishing off of the dock, or playing in the waves with some of the more intelligent sea creatures, or getting some sun while the sun getting is good! Iridesence is here, currently sitting in a beach reclining chair. Or rather, something akin to one. There are multiple cushions, drink holders, and side tables to it. On the top right is a large metal coil that occasionally sparks and POPS with electricity, that's emanating from the girl herself. Even though she's goth, she still enjoys the beach sometimes! Don't reject her goth culture! A massive tome is in her lap that she's paging through.

It's not just the mage herself and a fancy chair, there's a huge BBQ near her, at least ten feet wide. Multiple pale skinned dudeoz wearing chef aprons over their normal Matrix style suits are cooking hot dogs and burgers, although a few of them -are- keeping an eye out for trouble. A hover limo hangs out about twenty yards away where a few more dudeoz stand and watch with actual vigilance.

And down the beach walks one rather nervous looking Shizuko. Invite to a beach barbeque. Right. From someone ultra-rich. She never knows what to expect when a suggested activity comes from Iridescence. That said, she's still very much keeping an eye out side to side. She has enemies. Well, one enemy in particular, though she'd be fine with simply never seeing the guy again, he has poked his heavily scarred (okay, that part is kinda her fault. Okay, *entirely* her fault, but it was self defense) face into her life at random more than once.

Shizuko didn't really know what to expect. Was this going to be some massive party? Was it going to be some exclusive, high class soirée that happened to be on a beach? Was it literally going to just be Iridescence there and - Oh, it was the last one. Well, there was the perpetual bodyguard presence, something that both lets Shizuko breath out a sigh of relief and tense up at the same time. No worrying about her own stalker when those guys are around, but now she's worried about making a mis-step herself.

She's dressed for the scene, at least. Mostly. Yes, Shizuko is in a bikini, but there's nothing about it that's particularly eye-catching about its cut compared to every other bikini out there, in fact it's a simple solid white color. It's a beach, she should wear a bathing suit. She's also wearing a very light looking jacket over the top, kept open in the front of course, as well as a sarong over the lower part. Yeah, that whole 'not being sure what kind of barbeque this was going to be' part made her want to be somehow both conservative and not at the same time.

"Uhhh, hi," Shizuko says nervously as she... admittedly cautiously approaches the defensive perimeter.

Iridescence, herself, is still wearing her normal skirt corset sleeve combo goth thing, even at the beach. It's not that she doesn't HAVE other outfits, it's just this one looks wicked kewlz. Gothic beauty ya know. She doesn't have her stupid ear piece in, so she doesn't get the message from her dudeoz that Shizuko has arrived on the beach. Which is fine, who doesn't want to be surprised by their friend showing up invited? The mage slams her tome closed with a soft thunder clap! "Shizuko!" She actually jumps out of her chair, landing her goth boots into the sand. Then she see's the bikin and her mouth opens :O "Fwuh?! Oh. Wow. Yeah girl." She finger guns her "Looking goodz! Okioz, I've changed my mind." She points at one of the dudeoz at the grill, "Bring the changing room!" The pale skinned man nods and takes off at a run, speaking into his sleeve.

The mage looks back to Shizuko and smiles! "I'm so glad you came!"

Internally, Shizuko has a thought about how everyone here is going to stay so pale while out in the sun for so much today. "Yeah!" she says with a noticeable nervous air. "I was able to make it... um, thanks." That's Shizuko, all right, always having difficulty taking a compliment to her appearance. "Bring?" she asks with a blink, then watches the man run off. She's never going to get used to having friends in Richside.

Shizuko says, "Yeah, I, well, I guess I wasn't doing anything else for today, so how could I refuse?" Loaded way of saying it there. There's a part of Shizuko that feels like she *has* to go along with things that Iridescence wants her to do. Probably part of it being she still somehow feels in debt about that dress Iridescence bought for her, never mind that that was also in apology for the injuries that one time."

Iridescence gets a massive grin about Shizuko asking how she could refuse. "Who can pass up a beach bbq! Fwuh, I even made it rain yesterday to try and make it sunny today." She snaps her fingers, a fizzle of lightning going between them. "Totes worked! I'm working on broadening my magic skillset, but it's really difficult to get your magical abilities aligned with something new after the first three, ya know?" She gestures towards the massively long grill. "Hot dog? Burger? Vegetable substance that tastes like either or none of thoz?"

Shizuko looked at you!

There's a bit of wariness at the spark between Iridescence's fingers. "Oh. Yeah, that... caught me off guard on my way home yesterday." The girl who spent most of her life in Synthatec tilts her head at the mention of testing magic skillset and the whole 'after the first three' part. "...Not really, no," she admits to the 'you know?' "Um, I'll take just a hot dog for now, I guess..." She looks over the grill. No vegetable kebabs?

By now Shizuko has definitely caught on to Iridescence's goth style tendencies, so she can't help but observe, "You must be using a major sun block to keep yourself that pale out here." She looks up into the sky, blocking the sun with a hand.

Iridescence tilts her head to the side, raising an eyebrow. "Fwuh? But you're a..." Her brain manages to stop her mouth from spouting Magical Girl out in public. Sure there's not a lot of people right around this area due to the dudeoz, but it's a beach with wind, voices can carry. "...ya know?" She taps her fingers together and then spins them around, lightning dancing around them.

Without being asked further, one of the dudeoz at the grill takes hold of a hot dog with his bare hands and tosses it to another dudeoz who catches it smoothly in a bun. And yet a third dudeoz holds up condiments at Shuzko for her to choose from, mayo, ketchup, mustard, relish, pickles, some kind of blue sludge substance, and walnuts among them.

Iridescence laughs! "I actually keep casting healing on myself every half hour!" That doesn't explain the dudeoz though, who are as pale as vampires.

Shizuko's head tilts more at the whole dancing around saying something. There are a lot of things that Shizuko is, and which one Iridescence is talking about... well, *not* talking about, is drawing a blank from her at first. Then there's a blink as she finally gets it. "Oh! Uh... it's kind of... not really a *magical* magical girl thing." It also doesn't do a good job of hiding her identity, so she's not the most secretive about it. Really, she relies more on no one noticing her normal self.

When the condiments are offered, Shizuko simply points at the ketchup, but she's more wondering who puts on walnuts. "Healing spells keep you from getting tanned?"

Iridescence ohz. "Well." She says, shrugging with her palms up. "For my magic wayz, it's a totes difficult thing." She wonders if she should explain it further. "Hummmm. It's like you grow an extra arm but you don't know how to make it do anything except kind of wobble up and down at first while your body learns how to control it, but it's already busy controlling your normal ones, yah?" She nods with a raised eyebrow, wondering if she is making sense! She herself points at a hot dog and the blue sludge.

The dudeoz nods and with deft hands takes the ketchup, sliding a perfect line across the dog and sets it on a plate, offering it to Shizuko. The process is then repeated by them all, substituting the ketchup for the blue sludge, which visibly quivers once its in place on the hot dog as if it were alive.

Three dudeoz come back carrying a ten foot wide circle made of fabric and poles. They jam it into the sand nearby. One of them hangs a sign on the entrance into it that's just a hanging cloth. The sign reads "Private Changing Room".

Iridescence adds, "And yah! Of course healing spells keep you from getting tanned. It's your skin burning!"

Shizuko says, "Oh! Yeah, it was like that with my drones. I also had to get used to actually seeing through them, too. Their automation is kinda minimal?" Okay, that comparison was a bit more literal for Shizuko, apparently. "It's not even a new arm, it's a totally new appendage you need to figure out... like... wings or a tail or something. Kinda like that?"

Hot dog aquired!

The setting up of the tent seems... almost dissapointing to Shizuko. It's something that's actually sensical instead of, say, bringing over an entirely prebuilt building. You never know with some of these Richside folks. "Oh, huh. I guess I never really equated having a tan with... being scarred?"

Iridescence nods with a giant open mouthed smile. "Right? Totes is though!" At least for her and how her healing magic works! She takes a bite of the hot dog with blue sludge on it and then sets the plate down on one of her large chairs side tables. "Be right back, I'm gonna change!" She heads to the newly setup changing room, pausing to glance over her shoulder at Shizuko has her multi-colored ponytails spill everywhere. "You can peep if you want." She winks and heads in.

The dudeoz continue their grilling! NPCs continue playing about the beach, although about thirty yards away there is some kind of small light disruption happening on the ground. Just some intermittent flashes now and then, the sand being pulled into a slow circle. Nobody takes much notice of it though.

Regardless, Shizuko isn't making the request for constant healing. She used sunblock. She takes a bite and looks out over the beach. The crowds are giving them a wide berth, but then again, there's all these... mooks around. It definitely alters the feeling that 'going to the beach with friends' should give. "All right," she says slightly distractedly at first at Iridescence's announcement of going to change, but the follow-up gets a double take and a "Wait-what?" from her. And a bit of face going red. She does not, in fact, take up Iridescence on the latest offer.

Nope, not thinking about that now, looking out at the beach again and taking another bite of the hot dog. She watches the odd flashing on the beach, concerned at first, but no one else seems to care, so... why should she, she supposes.

It's only a few minutes before Iridescence comes back out of the changing room. Her outfit looks like someone took a black kimono and chopped it in half, then hemmed up the middle so her midriff would show, and pulled up the leg hem to above her knees. Red lightning style lines run through it, that if someone didn't know how lightning based the girl was would mistake it for blood veins. Needless to say, it's been tailor made to her proportions. "Heyaz all changed." She says, and once Shizuko has eyes on her she'll do a little spin, the kimono sleeves billowing about. She finishes the spin with a wink and a peace sign, holds the pose long enough for some random dude walking buy to take pictures of both her and Shizuko with their camera (creeper) and then reclaims her blue sludge hot dog, tipping it into the air as some of the blue sludge as tried to ooze its way off of the meat tube.

Meanwhile the light continues to flicker, parts of it coming faster each time. The sand has actually formed into the shape of a large perfect circle.

Shizuko looks over as Iridescence declares herself changed, and blinks. To be honest, she was expecting something a lot less... flowy than this. Okay, she was expecting a more tradition swimsuit, be it one or two piece. Shizuko doesn't know why she actually expected that, in retrospect. Very few things Iridescence does match her expectations. "Looking good!" she declares, about to give a thumb's up, but that mindset drops when she hears the camera go off. Her own shoulders slump a bit at that and she takes a bit of a sullen chomp out of her hot dog. "Some people," she declares at a monotone.

She watches as the blue sludge... has moved. Yeah, she's glad she just went ketchup.

Shizuko looks back out to the odd swirling sand. "Does it normally do that out here?" she asks. "I admittedly don't come out to the beach very often."

Iridescence might be a bit self-centered and terrible at reading other people, but she's not completely friend-blind, and when she notices Shizuko slump some her eyes narrow. She snaps her fingers, which sounds like a peel of thunder, though thankfully a small one, and points in the direction of the camera guy. The dudeoz that brought the changing room bolt towards him. The sand near the grill peels away as a dudeoz rises it up underneath it all, having been hiding there out of sight. A massive tackle happens and one of the dudeoz shoves the camera into the mans face. "Unlock it." He says, voice deep. The man yells, "Get off m-" But gets cut short as one of the dudeoz breaks two of his fingers. He screams and quickly unlocks his phone.

Iridescence ignores that whole thing, including the screaming, to stand closer to Shizuko as she takes another bite of her sludge dog. "Fwuh?" She eyes the swirling sand and light. "Nahp! Let's check it out!" She'll attempt to link her arm with Shizuko's to walk towards it, holding her food in the other hand.

There's a grimace and a wince at the, well, overreaction to the picture getting taken. Everything in extremes. These are the kinds of reactions that have Shizuko always nervous around Iridescence, around anyone from Richside. She... tries to ignore the screaming, but there's a few nervous glances that way. Right. This is the other reason she often feels like she *has* to go along with a lot of Iridescence's whims. There's more than a little fear, and it's not just from pure difference in social standing.

On the topic of going along with Iridescence's whims, Shizuko makes no attempt to stop the interlinked arms. "Oh. It's not? then why is no one else... oh, nevermind." Of all the crazed things Shizuko has seen, is this really that odd? Away she gets almost dragged to the scene of the... something.

Not that the two girls are watching anymore, but the dudeoz go about accessing the man's phone, inputting a pre-programmed virus which goes through and erases every single digital item connected to him, pull out a small EMP and activate on the phone, and then lift them man up and 'escort' him away into an armored vehicle that comes in. The NPC's all start giving Iridescence and Shizuko a much MUCH wider birth. They must have got some instructions after the last news posting, or maybe this is just a standard way of them handling things. Well, that's life in Senta. Go live in Synthatek if you want to avoid this kind of thing, or maybe don't take pictures of people with tons of security around them.

Iridescence hmmmm's at Shizuko's speculations! "Fwuh, yahz..." She looks around, no one is paying a lot of attention to it. Another flicker of light and twirling of sand. The mage stops them a good distance from it, for safety. And once the two are seen looking at it, a very wide birth is given from everyone at the beach who don't want to end up safely escorted elsewhere.

The light flickers faster and faster, and the light sound of bells? Church bells? And ethereal almost angelic singing? The light starts dipping into the sand, creating a vast network of smaller circles, runes, and the like.

Senta, where the rich and powerful make all the rules. And somehow, against all odds, Shizuko has made some very rich and powerful friends. She's just terrified that she'll make one wrong move.

Shizuko says, "Any idea what it is? It feels more... like it's magical or something. I don't think it's nanobots."

Shizuko waits a few more moments. She feels like the sounds... *should* make her feel at ease, but somehow, none of it is. "Oh. Yeah, definitely magical," she says once the runes start showing up.

'''''To be continued...'''''
|}}

2026-07-20 BBQ Angel Beaches

2026-08-14T00:34:35Z

Charis:

{{Logsummary|
Title=BBQ Angel Beaches
|Summary=Iridescence invites Shizuko for a BBQ at Giga Beach, but then some kind of angelic music and light appears?
|Who=[[Shizuko]], [[Iridescence]]
|Date=07-20-2026
|Where=Giga Beach
|Log=
'''Senta: Giga Beach

Glistening sand, beautiful crashing waves, and sparkling clear water make up Center City's beach. The coast stretches out in both directions with an occasional rocky outcrop spreading from shore to sea. Seagulls, penguins, ducks, and dolphins play in the water, more than happy to accept any food a kind soul has to offer them.

A small dock where boats can launch or people can fish sits in the ocean, and larger ships and boats are anchored further out.

A path from the beach leads to under the bridge that crosses over the Raging.'''

It's another day at Giga Beach in Senta! This means there's people hanging out at the beach, or fishing off of the dock, or playing in the waves with some of the more intelligent sea creatures, or getting some sun while the sun getting is good! Iridesence is here, currently sitting in a beach reclining chair. Or rather, something akin to one. There are multiple cushions, drink holders, and side tables to it. On the top right is a large metal coil that occasionally sparks and POPS with electricity, that's emanating from the girl herself. Even though she's goth, she still enjoys the beach sometimes! Don't reject her goth culture! A massive tome is in her lap that she's paging through.

It's not just the mage herself and a fancy chair, there's a huge BBQ near her, at least ten feet wide. Multiple pale skinned dudeoz wearing chef aprons over their normal Matrix style suits are cooking hot dogs and burgers, although a few of them -are- keeping an eye out for trouble. A hover limo hangs out about twenty yards away where a few more dudeoz stand and watch with actual vigilance.

And down the beach walks one rather nervous looking Shizuko. Invite to a beach barbeque. Right. From someone ultra-rich. She never knows what to expect when a suggested activity comes from Iridescence. That said, she's still very much keeping an eye out side to side. She has enemies. Well, one enemy in particular, though she'd be fine with simply never seeing the guy again, he has poked his heavily scarred (okay, that part is kinda her fault. Okay, *entirely* her fault, but it was self defense) face into her life at random more than once.

Shizuko didn't really know what to expect. Was this going to be some massive party? Was it going to be some exclusive, high class soirée that happened to be on a beach? Was it literally going to just be Iridescence there and - Oh, it was the last one. Well, there was the perpetual bodyguard presence, something that both lets Shizuko breath out a sigh of relief and tense up at the same time. No worrying about her own stalker when those guys are around, but now she's worried about making a mis-step herself.

She's dressed for the scene, at least. Mostly. Yes, Shizuko is in a bikini, but there's nothing about it that's particularly eye-catching about its cut compared to every other bikini out there, in fact it's a simple solid white color. It's a beach, she should wear a bathing suit. She's also wearing a very light looking jacket over the top, kept open in the front of course, as well as a sarong over the lower part. Yeah, that whole 'not being sure what kind of barbeque this was going to be' part made her want to be somehow both conservative and not at the same time.

"Uhhh, hi," Shizuko says nervously as she... admittedly cautiously approaches the defensive perimeter.

Iridescence, herself, is still wearing her normal skirt corset sleeve combo goth thing, even at the beach. It's not that she doesn't HAVE other outfits, it's just this one looks wicked kewlz. Gothic beauty ya know. She doesn't have her stupid ear piece in, so she doesn't get the message from her dudeoz that Shizuko has arrived on the beach. Which is fine, who doesn't want to be surprised by their friend showing up invited? The mage slams her tome closed with a soft thunder clap! "Shizuko!" She actually jumps out of her chair, landing her goth boots into the sand. Then she see's the bikin and her mouth opens :O "Fwuh?! Oh. Wow. Yeah girl." She finger guns her "Looking goodz! Okioz, I've changed my mind." She points at one of the dudeoz at the grill, "Bring the changing room!" The pale skinned man nods and takes off at a run, speaking into his sleeve.

The mage looks back to Shizuko and smiles! "I'm so glad you came!"

Internally, Shizuko has a thought about how everyone here is going to stay so pale while out in the sun for so much today. "Yeah!" she says with a noticeable nervous air. "I was able to make it... um, thanks." That's Shizuko, all right, always having difficulty taking a compliment to her appearance. "Bring?" she asks with a blink, then watches the man run off. She's never going to get used to having friends in Richside.

Shizuko says, "Yeah, I, well, I guess I wasn't doing anything else for today, so how could I refuse?" Loaded way of saying it there. There's a part of Shizuko that feels like she *has* to go along with things that Iridescence wants her to do. Probably part of it being she still somehow feels in debt about that dress Iridescence bought for her, never mind that that was also in apology for the injuries that one time."

Iridescence gets a massive grin about Shizuko asking how she could refuse. "Who can pass up a beach bbq! Fwuh, I even made it rain yesterday to try and make it sunny today." She snaps her fingers, a fizzle of lightning going between them. "Totes worked! I'm working on broadening my magic skillset, but it's really difficult to get your magical abilities aligned with something new after the first three, ya know?" She gestures towards the massively long grill. "Hot dog? Burger? Vegetable substance that tastes like either or none of thoz?"

Shizuko looked at you!

There's a bit of wariness at the spark between Iridescence's fingers. "Oh. Yeah, that... caught me off guard on my way home yesterday." The girl who spent most of her life in Synthatec tilts her head at the mention of testing magic skillset and the whole 'after the first three' part. "...Not really, no," she admits to the 'you know?' "Um, I'll take just a hot dog for now, I guess..." She looks over the grill. No vegetable kebabs?

By now Shizuko has definitely caught on to Iridescence's goth style tendencies, so she can't help but observe, "You must be using a major sun block to keep yourself that pale out here." She looks up into the sky, blocking the sun with a hand.

Iridescence tilts her head to the side, raising an eyebrow. "Fwuh? But you're a..." Her brain manages to stop her mouth from spouting Magical Girl out in public. Sure there's not a lot of people right around this area due to the dudeoz, but it's a beach with wind, voices can carry. "...ya know?" She taps her fingers together and then spins them around, lightning dancing around them.

Without being asked further, one of the dudeoz at the grill takes hold of a hot dog with his bare hands and tosses it to another dudeoz who catches it smoothly in a bun. And yet a third dudeoz holds up condiments at Shuzko for her to choose from, mayo, ketchup, mustard, relish, pickles, some kind of blue sludge substance, and walnuts among them.

Iridescence laughs! "I actually keep casting healing on myself every half hour!" That doesn't explain the dudeoz though, who are as pale as vampires.

Shizuko's head tilts more at the whole dancing around saying something. There are a lot of things that Shizuko is, and which one Iridescence is talking about... well, *not* talking about, is drawing a blank from her at first. Then there's a blink as she finally gets it. "Oh! Uh... it's kind of... not really a *magical* magical girl thing." It also doesn't do a good job of hiding her identity, so she's not the most secretive about it. Really, she relies more on no one noticing her normal self.

When the condiments are offered, Shizuko simply points at the ketchup, but she's more wondering who puts on walnuts. "Healing spells keep you from getting tanned?"

Iridescence ohz. "Well." She says, shrugging with her palms up. "For my magic wayz, it's a totes difficult thing." She wonders if she should explain it further. "Hummmm. It's like you grow an extra arm but you don't know how to make it do anything except kind of wobble up and down at first while your body learns how to control it, but it's already busy controlling your normal ones, yah?" She nods with a raised eyebrow, wondering if she is making sense! She herself points at a hot dog and the blue sludge.

The dudeoz nods and with deft hands takes the ketchup, sliding a perfect line across the dog and sets it on a plate, offering it to Shizuko. The process is then repeated by them all, substituting the ketchup for the blue sludge, which visibly quivers once its in place on the hot dog as if it were alive.

Three dudeoz come back carrying a ten foot wide circle made of fabric and poles. They jam it into the sand nearby. One of them hangs a sign on the entrance into it that's just a hanging cloth. The sign reads "Private Changing Room".

Iridescence adds, "And yah! Of course healing spells keep you from getting tanned. It's your skin burning!"

Shizuko says, "Oh! Yeah, it was like that with my drones. I also had to get used to actually seeing through them, too. Their automation is kinda minimal?" Okay, that comparison was a bit more literal for Shizuko, apparently. "It's not even a new arm, it's a totally new appendage you need to figure out... like... wings or a tail or something. Kinda like that?"

Hot dog aquired!

The setting up of the tent seems... almost dissapointing to Shizuko. It's something that's actually sensical instead of, say, bringing over an entirely prebuilt building. You never know with some of these Richside folks. "Oh, huh. I guess I never really equated having a tan with... being scarred?"

Iridescence nods with a giant open mouthed smile. "Right? Totes is though!" At least for her and how her healing magic works! She takes a bite of the hot dog with blue sludge on it and then sets the plate down on one of her large chairs side tables. "Be right back, I'm gonna change!" She heads to the newly setup changing room, pausing to glance over her shoulder at Shizuko has her multi-colored ponytails spill everywhere. "You can peep if you want." She winks and heads in.

The dudeoz continue their grilling! NPCs continue playing about the beach, although about thirty yards away there is some kind of small light disruption happening on the ground. Just some intermittent flashes now and then, the sand being pulled into a slow circle. Nobody takes much notice of it though.

Regardless, Shizuko isn't making the request for constant healing. She used sunblock. She takes a bite and looks out over the beach. The crowds are giving them a wide berth, but then again, there's all these... mooks around. It definitely alters the feeling that 'going to the beach with friends' should give. "All right," she says slightly distractedly at first at Iridescence's announcement of going to change, but the follow-up gets a double take and a "Wait-what?" from her. And a bit of face going red. She does not, in fact, take up Iridescence on the latest offer.

Nope, not thinking about that now, looking out at the beach again and taking another bite of the hot dog. She watches the odd flashing on the beach, concerned at first, but no one else seems to care, so... why should she, she supposes.

It's only a few minutes before Iridescence comes back out of the changing room. Her outfit looks like someone took a black kimono and chopped it in half, then hemmed up the middle so her midriff would show, and pulled up the leg hem to above her knees. Red lightning style lines run through it, that if someone didn't know how lightning based the girl was would mistake it for blood veins. Needless to say, it's been tailor made to her proportions. "Heyaz all changed." She says, and once Shizuko has eyes on her she'll do a little spin, the kimono sleeves billowing about. She finishes the spin with a wink and a peace sign, holds the pose long enough for some random dude walking buy to take pictures of both her and Shizuko with their camera (creeper) and then reclaims her blue sludge hot dog, tipping it into the air as some of the blue sludge as tried to ooze its way off of the meat tube.

Meanwhile the light continues to flicker, parts of it coming faster each time. The sand has actually formed into the shape of a large perfect circle.

Shizuko looks over as Iridescence declares herself changed, and blinks. To be honest, she was expecting something a lot less... flowy than this. Okay, she was expecting a more tradition swimsuit, be it one or two piece. Shizuko doesn't know why she actually expected that, in retrospect. Very few things Iridescence does match her expectations. "Looking good!" she declares, about to give a thumb's up, but that mindset drops when she hears the camera go off. Her own shoulders slump a bit at that and she takes a bit of a sullen chomp out of her hot dog. "Some people," she declares at a monotone.

She watches as the blue sludge... has moved. Yeah, she's glad she just went ketchup.

Shizuko looks back out to the odd swirling sand. "Does it normally do that out here?" she asks. "I admittedly don't come out to the beach very often."

Iridescence might be a bit self-centered and terrible at reading other people, but she's not completely friend-blind, and when she notices Shizuko slump some her eyes narrow. She snaps her fingers, which sounds like a peel of thunder, though thankfully a small one, and points in the direction of the camera guy. The dudeoz that brought the changing room bolt towards him. The sand near the grill peels away as a dudeoz rises it up underneath it all, having been hiding there out of sight. A massive tackle happens and one of the dudeoz shoves the camera into the mans face. "Unlock it." He says, voice deep. The man yells, "Get off m-" But gets cut short as one of the dudeoz breaks two of his fingers. He screams and quickly unlocks his phone.

Iridescence ignores that whole thing, including the screaming, to stand closer to Shizuko as she takes another bite of her sludge dog. "Fwuh?" She eyes the swirling sand and light. "Nahp! Let's check it out!" She'll attempt to link her arm with Shizuko's to walk towards it, holding her food in the other hand.

There's a grimace and a wince at the, well, overreaction to the picture getting taken. Everything in extremes. These are the kinds of reactions that have Shizuko always nervous around Iridescence, around anyone from Richside. She... tries to ignore the screaming, but there's a few nervous glances that way. Right. This is the other reason she often feels like she *has* to go along with a lot of Iridescence's whims. There's more than a little fear, and it's not just from pure difference in social standing.

On the topic of going along with Iridescence's whims, Shizuko makes no attempt to stop the interlinked arms. "Oh. It's not? then why is no one else... oh, nevermind." Of all the crazed things Shizuko has seen, is this really that odd? Away she gets almost dragged to the scene of the... something.

Not that the two girls are watching anymore, but the dudeoz go about accessing the man's phone, inputting a pre-programmed virus which goes through and erases every single digital item connected to him, pull out a small EMP and activate on the phone, and then lift them man up and 'escort' him away into an armored vehicle that comes in. The NPC's all start giving Iridescence and Shizuko a much MUCH wider birth. They must have got some instructions after the last news posting, or maybe this is just a standard way of them handling things. Well, that's life in Senta. Go live in Synthatek if you want to avoid this kind of thing, or maybe don't take pictures of people with tons of security around them.

Iridescence hmmmm's at Shizuko's speculations! "Fwuh, yahz..." She looks around, no one is paying a lot of attention to it. Another flicker of light and twirling of sand. The mage stops them a good distance from it, for safety. And once the two are seen looking at it, a very wide birth is given from everyone at the beach who don't want to end up safely escorted elsewhere.

The light flickers faster and faster, and the light sound of bells? Church bells? And ethereal almost angelic singing? The light starts dipping into the sand, creating a vast network of smaller circles, runes, and the like.

Senta, where the rich and powerful make all the rules. And somehow, against all odds, Shizuko has made some very rich and powerful friends. She's just terrified that she'll make one wrong move.

Shizuko says, "Any idea what it is? It feels more... like it's magical or something. I don't think it's nanobots."

Shizuko waits a few more moments. She feels like the sounds... *should* make her feel at ease, but somehow, none of it is. "Oh. Yeah, definitely magical," she says once the runes start showing up.

'''''To be continued...'''''
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2026-07-20 BBQ Angel Beaches

2026-08-14T00:27:53Z

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{{Logsummary|
Title=BBQ Angel Beaches
|Summary=Iridescence invites Shizuko for a BBQ at Giga Beach, but then some kind of angelic music and light appears?
|Who=[[Shizuko]], [[Iridescence]]
|Date=07-20-2026
|Where=Giga Beach
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'''Senta: Giga Beach

Glistening sand, beautiful crashing waves, and sparkling clear water make up Center City's beach. The coast stretches out in both directions with an occasional rocky outcrop spreading from shore to sea. Seagulls, penguins, ducks, and dolphins play in the water, more than happy to accept any food a kind soul has to offer them.

A small dock where boats can launch or people can fish sits in the ocean, and larger ships and boats are anchored further out.

A path from the beach leads to under the bridge that crosses over the Raging.'''

It's another day at Giga Beach in Senta! This means there's people hanging out at the beach, or fishing off of the dock, or playing in the waves with some of the more intelligent sea creatures, or getting some sun while the sun getting is good! Iridesence is here, currently sitting in a beach reclining chair. Or rather, something akin to one. There are multiple cushions, drink holders, and side tables to it. On the top right is a large metal coil that occasionally sparks and POPS with electricity, that's emanating from the girl herself. Even though she's goth, she still enjoys the beach sometimes! Don't reject her goth culture! A massive tome is in her lap that she's paging through.

It's not just the mage herself and a fancy chair, there's a huge BBQ near her, at least ten feet wide. Multiple pale skinned dudeoz wearing chef aprons over their normal Matrix style suits are cooking hot dogs and burgers, although a few of them -are- keeping an eye out for trouble. A hover limo hangs out about twenty yards away where a few more dudeoz stand and watch with actual vigilance.

And down the beach walks one rather nervous looking Shizuko. Invite to a beach barbeque. Right. From someone ultra-rich. She never knows what to expect when a suggested activity comes from Iridescence. That said, she's still very much keeping an eye out side to side. She has enemies. Well, one enemy in particular, though she'd be fine with simply never seeing the guy again, he has poked his heavily scarred (okay, that part is kinda her fault. Okay, *entirely* her fault, but it was self defense) face into her life at random more than once.

Shizuko didn't really know what to expect. Was this going to be some massive party? Was it going to be some exclusive, high class soirée that happened to be on a beach? Was it literally going to just be Iridescence there and - Oh, it was the last one. Well, there was the perpetual bodyguard presence, something that both lets Shizuko breath out a sigh of relief and tense up at the same time. No worrying about her own stalker when those guys are around, but now she's worried about making a mis-step herself.

She's dressed for the scene, at least. Mostly. Yes, Shizuko is in a bikini, but there's nothing about it that's particularly eye-catching about its cut compared to every other bikini out there, in fact it's a simple solid white color. It's a beach, she should wear a bathing suit. She's also wearing a very light looking jacket over the top, kept open in the front of course, as well as a sarong over the lower part. Yeah, that whole 'not being sure what kind of barbeque this was going to be' part made her want to be somehow both conservative and not at the same time.

"Uhhh, hi," Shizuko says nervously as she... admittedly cautiously approaches the defensive perimeter.

Iridescence, herself, is still wearing her normal skirt corset sleeve combo goth thing, even at the beach. It's not that she doesn't HAVE other outfits, it's just this one looks wicked kewlz. Gothic beauty ya know. She doesn't have her stupid ear piece in, so she doesn't get the message from her dudeoz that Shizuko has arrived on the beach. Which is fine, who doesn't want to be surprised by their friend showing up invited? The mage slams her tome closed with a soft thunder clap! "Shizuko!" She actually jumps out of her chair, landing her goth boots into the sand. Then she see's the bikin and her mouth opens :O "Fwuh?! Oh. Wow. Yeah girl." She finger guns her "Looking goodz! Okioz, I've changed my mind." She points at one of the dudeoz at the grill, "Bring the changing room!" The pale skinned man nods and takes off at a run, speaking into his sleeve.

The mage looks back to Shizuko and smiles! "I'm so glad you came!"

Internally, Shizuko has a thought about how everyone here is going to stay so pale while out in the sun for so much today. "Yeah!" she says with a noticeable nervous air. "I was able to make it... um, thanks." That's Shizuko, all right, always having difficulty taking a compliment to her appearance. "Bring?" she asks with a blink, then watches the man run off. She's never going to get used to having friends in Richside.

Shizuko says, "Yeah, I, well, I guess I wasn't doing anything else for today, so how could I refuse?" Loaded way of saying it there. There's a part of Shizuko that feels like she *has* to go along with things that Iridescence wants her to do. Probably part of it being she still somehow feels in debt about that dress Iridescence bought for her, never mind that that was also in apology for the injuries that one time."

Iridescence gets a massive grin about Shizuko asking how she could refuse. "Who can pass up a beach bbq! Fwuh, I even made it rain yesterday to try and make it sunny today." She snaps her fingers, a fizzle of lightning going between them. "Totes worked! I'm working on broadening my magic skillset, but it's really difficult to get your magical abilities aligned with something new after the first three, ya know?" She gestures towards the massively long grill. "Hot dog? Burger? Vegetable substance that tastes like either or none of thoz?"

Shizuko looked at you!

There's a bit of wariness at the spark between Iridescence's fingers. "Oh. Yeah, that... caught me off guard on my way home yesterday." The girl who spent most of her life in Synthatec tilts her head at the mention of testing magic skillset and the whole 'after the first three' part. "...Not really, no," she admits to the 'you know?' "Um, I'll take just a hot dog for now, I guess..." She looks over the grill. No vegetable kebabs?

By now Shizuko has definitely caught on to Iridescence's goth style tendencies, so she can't help but observe, "You must be using a major sun block to keep yourself that pale out here." She looks up into the sky, blocking the sun with a hand.

Iridescence tilts her head to the side, raising an eyebrow. "Fwuh? But you're a..." Her brain manages to stop her mouth from spouting Magical Girl out in public. Sure there's not a lot of people right around this area due to the dudeoz, but it's a beach with wind, voices can carry. "...ya know?" She taps her fingers together and then spins them around, lightning dancing around them.

Without being asked further, one of the dudeoz at the grill takes hold of a hot dog with his bare hands and tosses it to another dudeoz who catches it smoothly in a bun. And yet a third dudeoz holds up condiments at Shuzko for her to choose from, mayo, ketchup, mustard, relish, pickles, some kind of blue sludge substance, and walnuts among them.

Iridescence laughs! "I actually keep casting healing on myself every half hour!" That doesn't explain the dudeoz though, who are as pale as vampires.

Shizuko's head tilts more at the whole dancing around saying something. There are a lot of things that Shizuko is, and which one Iridescence is talking about... well, *not* talking about, is drawing a blank from her at first. Then there's a blink as she finally gets it. "Oh! Uh... it's kind of... not really a *magical* magical girl thing." It also doesn't do a good job of hiding her identity, so she's not the most secretive about it. Really, she relies more on no one noticing her normal self.

When the condiments are offered, Shizuko simply points at the ketchup, but she's more wondering who puts on walnuts. "Healing spells keep you from getting tanned?"

Iridescence ohz. "Well." She says, shrugging with her palms up. "For my magic wayz, it's a totes difficult thing." She wonders if she should explain it further. "Hummmm. It's like you grow an extra arm but you don't know how to make it do anything except kind of wobble up and down at first while your body learns how to control it, but it's already busy controlling your normal ones, yah?" She nods with a raised eyebrow, wondering if she is making sense! She herself points at a hot dog and the blue sludge.

The dudeoz nods and with deft hands takes the ketchup, sliding a perfect line across the dog and sets it on a plate, offering it to Shizuko. The process is then repeated by them all, substituting the ketchup for the blue sludge, which visibly quivers once its in place on the hot dog as if it were alive.

Three dudeoz come back carrying a ten foot wide circle made of fabric and poles. They jam it into the sand nearby. One of them hangs a sign on the entrance into it that's just a hanging cloth. The sign reads "Private Changing Room".

Iridescence adds, "And yah! Of course healing spells keep you from getting tanned. It's your skin burning!"

Shizuko says, "Oh! Yeah, it was like that with my drones. I also had to get used to actually seeing through them, too. Their automation is kinda minimal?" Okay, that comparison was a bit more literal for Shizuko, apparently. "It's not even a new arm, it's a totally new appendage you need to figure out... like... wings or a tail or something. Kinda like that?"

Hot dog aquired!

The setting up of the tent seems... almost dissapointing to Shizuko. It's something that's actually sensical instead of, say, bringing over an entirely prebuilt building. You never know with some of these Richside folks. "Oh, huh. I guess I never really equated having a tan with... being scarred?"

Iridescence nods with a giant open mouthed smile. "Right? Totes is though!" At least for her and how her healing magic works! She takes a bite of the hot dog with blue sludge on it and then sets the plate down on one of her large chairs side tables. "Be right back, I'm gonna change!" She heads to the newly setup changing room, pausing to glance over her shoulder at Shizuko has her multi-colored ponytails spill everywhere. "You can peep if you want." She winks and heads in.

The dudeoz continue their grilling! NPCs continue playing about the beach, although about thirty yards away there is some kind of small light disruption happening on the ground. Just some intermittent flashes now and then, the sand being pulled into a slow circle. Nobody takes much notice of it though.

Regardless, Shizuko isn't making the request for constant healing. She used sunblock. She takes a bite and looks out over the beach. The crowds are giving them a wide berth, but then again, there's all these... mooks around. It definitely alters the feeling that 'going to the beach with friends' should give. "All right," she says slightly distractedly at first at Iridescence's announcement of going to change, but the follow-up gets a double take and a "Wait-what?" from her. And a bit of face going red. She does not, in fact, take up Iridescence on the latest offer.

Nope, not thinking about that now, looking out at the beach again and taking another bite of the hot dog. She watches the odd flashing on the beach, concerned at first, but no one else seems to care, so... why should she, she supposes.

It's only a few minutes before Iridescence comes back out of the changing room. Her outfit looks like someone took a black kimono and chopped it in half, then hemmed up the middle so her midriff would show, and pulled up the leg hem to above her knees. Red lightning style lines run through it, that if someone didn't know how lightning based the girl was would mistake it for blood veins. Needless to say, it's been tailor made to her proportions. "Heyaz all changed." She says, and once Shizuko has eyes on her she'll do a little spin, the kimono sleeves billowing about. She finishes the spin with a wink and a peace sign, holds the pose long enough for some random dude walking buy to take pictures of both her and Shizuko with their camera (creeper) and then reclaims her blue sludge hot dog, tipping it into the air as some of the blue sludge as tried to ooze its way off of the meat tube.

Meanwhile the light continues to flicker, parts of it coming faster each time. The sand has actually formed into the shape of a large perfect circle.

Shizuko looks over as Iridescence declares herself changed, and blinks. To be honest, she was expecting something a lot less... flowy than this. Okay, she was expecting a more tradition swimsuit, be it one or two piece. Shizuko doesn't know why she actually expected that, in retrospect. Very few things Iridescence does match her expectations. "Looking good!" she declares, about to give a thumb's up, but that mindset drops when she hears the camera go off. Her own shoulders slump a bit at that and she takes a bit of a sullen chomp out of her hot dog. "Some people," she declares at a monotone.

She watches as the blue sludge... has moved. Yeah, she's glad she just went ketchup.

Shizuko looks back out to the odd swirling sand. "Does it normally do that out here?" she asks. "I admittedly don't come out to the beach very often."

Iridescence might be a bit self-centered and terrible at reading other people, but she's not completely friend-blind, and when she notices Shizuko slump some her eyes narrow. She snaps her fingers, which sounds like a peel of thunder, though thankfully a small one, and points in the direction of the camera guy. The dudeoz that brought the changing room bolt towards him. The sand near the grill peels away as a dudeoz rises it up underneath it all, having been hiding there out of sight. A massive tackle happens and one of the dudeoz shoves the camera into the mans face. "Unlock it." He says, voice deep. The man yells, "Get off m-" But gets cut short as one of the dudeoz breaks two of his fingers. He screams and quickly unlocks his phone.

Iridescence ignores that whole thing, including the screaming, to stand closer to Shizuko as she takes another bite of her sludge dog. "Fwuh?" She eyes the swirling sand and light. "Nahp! Let's check it out!" She'll attempt to link her arm with Shizuko's to walk towards it, holding her food in the other hand.

There's a grimace and a wince at the, well, overreaction to the picture getting taken. Everything in extremes. These are the kinds of reactions that have Shizuko always nervous around Iridescence, around anyone from Richside. She... tries to ignore the screaming, but there's a few nervous glances that way. Right. This is the other reason she often feels like she *has* to go along with a lot of Iridescence's whims. There's more than a little fear, and it's not just from pure difference in social standing.

On the topic of going along with Iridescence's whims, Shizuko makes no attempt to stop the interlinked arms. "Oh. It's not? then why is no one else... oh, nevermind." Of all the crazed things Shizuko has seen, is this really that odd? Away she gets almost dragged to the scene of the... something.

Not that the two girls are watching anymore, but the dudeoz go about accessing the man's phone, inputting a pre-programmed virus which goes through and erases every single digital item connected to him, pull out a small EMP and activate on the phone, and then lift them man up and 'escort' him away into an armored vehicle that comes in. The NPC's all start giving Iridescence and Shizuko a much MUCH wider birth. They must have got some instructions after the last news posting, or maybe this is just a standard way of them handling things. Well, that's life in Senta. Go live in Synthatek if you want to avoid this kind of thing, or maybe don't take pictures of people with tons of security around them.

Iridescence hmmmm's at Shizuko's speculations! "Fwuh, yahz..." She looks around, no one is paying a lot of attention to it. Another flicker of light and twirling of sand. The mage stops them a good distance from it, for safety. And once the two are seen looking at it, a very wide birth is given from everyone at the beach who don't want to end up safely escorted elsewhere.

The light flickers faster and faster, and the light sound of bells? Church bells? And ethereal almost angelic singing? The light starts dipping into the sand, creating a vast network of smaller circles, runes, and the like.

Senta, where the rich and powerful make all the rules. And somehow, against all odds, Shizuko has made some very rich and powerful friends. She's just terrified that she'll make one wrong move.

Shizuko says, "Any idea what it is? It feels more... like it's magical or something. I don't think it's nanobots."

Shizuko waits a few more moments. She feels like the sounds... *should* make her feel at ease, but somehow, none of it is. "Oh. Yeah, definitely magical," she says once the runes start showing up.

'''''To be continued...'''''
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Questions & Answers

2026-08-04T02:22:28Z

Charis:

<h2>Questions & Answers</h2>
Special thanks to Staren for asking a lot of them!
<h3>I need a place to live!</h3>
Q: I need a place to live! Where can I go?

A: Syntahtek: The Living Cubes, Senta: The Neko Neko Apartments, Distant Oceans: The village inn. If you want your own place, please contact our builder wiz or email trimucklegends@gmail.com!

<h3>Dimension Travel</h3>
Q: I'm a dimension hopper! Can I jump in and out as I please?

A: Dimensional travel is unstable on TRI. While it is possible, it's also vary dangerous, and can result in death, bodies being ripped in two, and other unfortunate events. That's not to say it's impossible, but it's not a safe mode of travel whatsoever.

<h3>I Died...</h3>
Q: I died. Do I just make a new character?

A: There's lots of options! For details please see the [[I_Died,_Now_What?]] section of the wiki!

<h3>I Want X Place Built</h3>
Q: I want to build stuff! I need a place for my character!

A: Right now we're open to expanding the grid and making places for characters! Please submit what you'd like to our builder wiz, along with descriptions of rooms, size, etc. or email it to trimucklegends@gmail.com and we'll see if it'll fit in to the world so we can add it for you!

<h3>I Want To Play My Character Like...</h3>
Q: I want to play a canon character different from how they are in their series.

A: Go for it, we have no restrictions on how you play your character. However, please be considerate of other players in your series that may already exist in the game, and realize they might not be from the same dimension/reality your character is from and don't have to conform to your own history.

<h3>I'm a vampire! Can I exist in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: I'm a mythical magic based style vampire entity undead type thing. What happens when I go into Synthatek?

A: None of your powers will work! Normally, you will collapse and just be a corpse like you should be, similar to how a full on robot would when crossing into Distant Oceans.

<h3>Is Time Travel allowed?</h3>
Q: I'm playing a time traveler! I want to go back and change things!

A: Enjoy traveling through time! However, any time travel can't affect the present, instead it creates an alternate timeline, similar to how it is done in Dragon ball. So don't expect anything you do in the past to effect the future, etc. So even if you go back and save someone/change things, it won't reflect on the muck canon in any way. Items or people brought back in such a way will simply disappear as they are not part of that timeline.

<h3>Character Aging?</h3>
Q: As the years pass, do I have to age my character? Do they need to graduate from UMPUHA or SSSS?

A: This is going to be left to player choice. If you want your character to age and go through the years, that's fine. If you want to turn a blind eye and keep them age locked, that's fine too.

<h3>No Gunpowder in DO?</h3>
Q: Do firearms and gunpowder work in Distant Oceans?

A: No, gunpowder does not work in Distant Oceans. However, far enough out at sea, single shot old style pistols and cannons will work. This keeps modern, more potent firearms from being usable, while still allowing for basic cannons or older weapons at sea.

<h3>Modern items in DO?</h3>
Q: Can I bring items made with modern technology into Distant Oceans if they are chemically identical to traditional materials (e.g., 3D-printed wood-like polymers, or wooden items made with power tools)?

A: No. Anything created in a tech area or manufactured using modern technology (such as power tools or modern textile factories) will fall apart or fail to work in Distant Oceans. To survive in DO, items must be artisanally made the old-fashioned way.

<h3>Genetically engineered characters in DO?</h3>
Q: What happens if a character who was genetically engineered or received tech-based life-saving surgery travels to Distant Oceans?

A: They will likely die. It is a very bad idea for heavily tech-reliant beings to cross over to that continent. A genetically engineered entity might survive but its genetics would alter to be a base non-supernatural level. If someone genetically created a gigantic monster in Synthatek or Senta and sent it to Distant Oceans it would die as it crossed the Raging. If the tech-based life-saving surgery has anything left over after surgery in the person that would fail to function.

<h3>Magic in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: Does Synthatek reject magic the same way Distant Oceans rejects technology?

A: Yes. Magical items—even basic ones with no moving parts—will fall apart or lose all power in Synthatek. Beings whose very existence relies entirely on magic will die there.

<h3>Dragons in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: Will a dragon die if it goes to Synthatek?

A: Only if the dragon's existence is entirely magical in nature. If they do not biologically rely on magic to simply exist, they will live—but their magical abilities (like fire-breathing) will stop working.

<h3>Spells from Tech Origin?</h3>
Q: If a character is born in Synthatek (a tech origin), moves to the central continent Senta, and invents a new spell, will that spell fail in Distant Oceans because the caster is from a tech origin?

A: The spell will work fine. Because the character learned and created magic, the spell itself is not considered tech-created.

<h3>Magical Status Effects in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: What happens if a character with a permanent magical status effect (like a Baleful Polymorph) or a magically regenerated limb travels to Synthatek?

A: The magical effect is removed or suppressed. A magically regenerated limb, for example, would stop functioning or disappear because the magic sustaining it fails. A polymorphed person would unpolymorph, though the polymorph effect would resume on leaving Synthatek, though if a player wants to have some worse effect happen when the spell takes hold again, that sounds like fun RP which is what TRI is all about. For instance, perhaps the polymorph now lasts longer or makes the shape disfigured.

<h3>Returning from Synthatek?</h3>
Q: If that character leaves Synthatek and returns to the center continent, does the magical effect or limb come back?

A: See above answer. That is left entirely up to the player's discretion and creativity.

<h3>Tech-Magic Hybrid?</h3>
Q: What if I use magic to transfer the consciousness of a genetically engineered (tech) person into a magical golem?

A: Because this character is now a hybrid of tech and magic, they will not be able to survive in Distant Oceans or Synthatek. They will have to enjoy living on the center continent Senta and nowhere else.

<h3>Magic Computers?</h3>
Q: Can a tech-savvy wizard create a spell that stores and manipulates data like a computer?

A: No, magic simply doesn't work that way on a conceptual level. Building a "magic computer" falls under the category of Magitech, which only functions on the center continent.

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2026-08-03T00:45:03Z

Charis:

Questions & Answers

2026-08-02T03:18:17Z

Charis:

<h2>Questions & Answers</h2>
Special thanks to Staren for asking a lot of them!
<h3>I need a place to live!</h3>
Q: I need a place to live! Where can I go?

A: Syntahtek: The Living Cubes, Centa: The Neko Neko Apartments, Distant Oceans: The village inn. If you want your own place, please contact our builder wiz or email trimucklegends@gmail.com!

<h3>Dimension Travel</h3>
Q: I'm a dimension hopper! Can I jump in and out as I please?

A: Dimensional travel is unstable on TRI. While it is possible, it's also vary dangerous, and can result in death, bodies being ripped in two, and other unfortunate events. That's not to say it's impossible, but it's not a safe mode of travel whatsoever.

<h3>I Died...</h3>
Q: I died. Do I just make a new character?

A: There's lots of options! For details please see the [[I_Died,_Now_What?]] section of the wiki!

<h3>I Want X Place Built</h3>
Q: I want to build stuff! I need a place for my character!

A: Right now we're open to expanding the grid and making places for characters! Please submit what you'd like to our builder wiz, along with descriptions of rooms, size, etc. or email it to trimucklegends@gmail.com and we'll see if it'll fit in to the world so we can add it for you!

<h3>I Want To Play My Character Like...</h3>
Q: I want to play a canon character different from how they are in their series.

A: Go for it, we have no restrictions on how you play your character. However, please be considerate of other players in your series that may already exist in the game, and realize they might not be from the same dimension/reality your character is from and don't have to conform to your own history.

<h3>I'm a vampire! Can I exist in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: I'm a mythical magic based style vampire entity undead type thing. What happens when I go into Synthatek?

A: None of your powers will work! Normally, you will collapse and just be a corpse like you should be, similar to how a full on robot would when crossing into Distant Oceans.

<h3>Is Time Travel allowed?</h3>
Q: I'm playing a time traveler! I want to go back and change things!

A: Enjoy traveling through time! However, any time travel can't affect the present, instead it creates an alternate timeline, similar to how it is done in Dragon ball. So don't expect anything you do in the past to effect the future, etc. So even if you go back and save someone/change things, it won't reflect on the muck canon in any way. Items or people brought back in such a way will simply disappear as they are not part of that timeline.

<h3>Character Aging?</h3>
Q: As the years pass, do I have to age my character? Do they need to graduate from UMPUHA or SSSS?

A: This is going to be left to player choice. If you want your character to age and go through the years, that's fine. If you want to turn a blind eye and keep them age locked, that's fine too.

<h3>No Gunpowder in DO?</h3>
Q: Do firearms and gunpowder work in Distant Oceans?

A: No, gunpowder does not work in Distant Oceans. However, far enough out at sea, single shot old style pistols and cannons will work. This keeps modern, more potent firearms from being usable, while still allowing for basic cannons or older weapons at sea.

<h3>Modern items in DO?</h3>
Q: Can I bring items made with modern technology into Distant Oceans if they are chemically identical to traditional materials (e.g., 3D-printed wood-like polymers, or wooden items made with power tools)?

A: No. Anything created in a tech area or manufactured using modern technology (such as power tools or modern textile factories) will fall apart or fail to work in Distant Oceans. To survive in DO, items must be artisanally made the old-fashioned way.

<h3>Genetically engineered characters in DO?</h3>
Q: What happens if a character who was genetically engineered or received tech-based life-saving surgery travels to Distant Oceans?

A: They will likely die. It is a very bad idea for heavily tech-reliant beings to cross over to that continent. A genetically engineered entity might survive but its genetics would alter to be a base non-supernatural level. If someone genetically created a gigantic monster in Synthatek or Centa and sent it to Distant Oceans it would die as it crossed the Raging. If the tech-based life-saving surgery has anything left over after surgery in the person that would fail to function.

<h3>Magic in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: Does Synthatek reject magic the same way Distant Oceans rejects technology?

A: Yes. Magical items—even basic ones with no moving parts—will fall apart or lose all power in Synthatek. Beings whose very existence relies entirely on magic will die there.

<h3>Dragons in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: Will a dragon die if it goes to Synthatek?

A: Only if the dragon's existence is entirely magical in nature. If they do not biologically rely on magic to simply exist, they will live—but their magical abilities (like fire-breathing) will stop working.

<h3>Spells from Tech Origin?</h3>
Q: If a character is born in Synthatek (a tech origin), moves to the central continent Centa, and invents a new spell, will that spell fail in Distant Oceans because the caster is from a tech origin?

A: The spell will work fine. Because the character learned and created magic, the spell itself is not considered tech-created.

<h3>Magical Status Effects in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: What happens if a character with a permanent magical status effect (like a Baleful Polymorph) or a magically regenerated limb travels to Synthatek?

A: The magical effect is removed or suppressed. A magically regenerated limb, for example, would stop functioning or disappear because the magic sustaining it fails. A polymorphed person would unpolymorph, though the polymorph effect would resume on leaving Synthatek, though if a player wants to have some worse effect happen when the spell takes hold again, that sounds like fun RP which is what TRI is all about. For instance, perhaps the polymorph now lasts longer or makes the shape disfigured.

<h3>Returning from Synthatek?</h3>
Q: If that character leaves Synthatek and returns to the center continent, does the magical effect or limb come back?

A: See above answer. That is left entirely up to the player's discretion and creativity.

<h3>Tech-Magic Hybrid?</h3>
Q: What if I use magic to transfer the consciousness of a genetically engineered (tech) person into a magical golem?

A: Because this character is now a hybrid of tech and magic, they will not be able to survive in Distant Oceans or Synthatek. They will have to enjoy living on the center continent Centa and nowhere else.

<h3>Magic Computers?</h3>
Q: Can a tech-savvy wizard create a spell that stores and manipulates data like a computer?

A: No, magic simply doesn't work that way on a conceptual level. Building a "magic computer" falls under the category of Magitech, which only functions on the center continent.

Questions & Answers

2026-08-02T01:49:57Z

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<h2>Questions & Answers</h2>
<h3>I need a place to live!</h3>
Q: I need a place to live! Where can I go?

A: Syntahtek: The Living Cubes, Centa: The Neko Neko Apartments, Distant Oceans: The village inn. If you want your own place, please contact our builder wiz or email trimucklegends@gmail.com!

<h3>Dimension Travel</h3>
Q: I'm a dimension hopper! Can I jump in and out as I please?

A: Dimensional travel is unstable on TRI. While it is possible, it's also vary dangerous, and can result in death, bodies being ripped in two, and other unfortunate events. That's not to say it's impossible, but it's not a safe mode of travel whatsoever.

<h3>I Died...</h3>
Q: I died. Do I just make a new character?

A: There's lots of options! For details please see the [[I_Died,_Now_What?]] section of the wiki!

<h3>I Want X Place Built</h3>
Q: I want to build stuff! I need a place for my character!

A: Right now we're open to expanding the grid and making places for characters! Please submit what you'd like to our builder wiz, along with descriptions of rooms, size, etc. or email it to trimucklegends@gmail.com and we'll see if it'll fit in to the world so we can add it for you!

<h3>I Want To Play My Character Like...</h3>
Q: I want to play a canon character different from how they are in their series.

A: Go for it, we have no restrictions on how you play your character. However, please be considerate of other players in your series that may already exist in the game, and realize they might not be from the same dimension/reality your character is from and don't have to conform to your own history.

<h3>I'm a vampire! Can I exist in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: I'm a mythical magic based style vampire entity undead type thing. What happens when I go into Synthatek?

A: None of your powers will work! Normally, you will collapse and just be a corpse like you should be, similar to how a full on robot would when crossing into Distant Oceans.

<h3>Is Time Travel allowed?</h3>
Q: I'm playing a time traveler! I want to go back and change things!

A: Enjoy traveling through time! However, any time travel can't affect the present, instead it creates an alternate timeline, similar to how it is done in Dragon ball. So don't expect anything you do in the past to effect the future, etc. So even if you go back and save someone/change things, it won't reflect on the muck canon in any way. Items or people brought back in such a way will simply disappear as they are not part of that timeline.

<h3>Character Aging?</h3>
Q: As the years pass, do I have to age my character? Do they need to graduate from UMPUHA or SSSS?

A: This is going to be left to player choice. If you want your character to age and go through the years, that's fine. If you want to turn a blind eye and keep them age locked, that's fine too.

<h3>No Gunpowder in DO?</h3>
Q: Do firearms and gunpowder work in Distant Oceans?

A: No, gunpowder does not work in Distant Oceans. However, far enough out at sea, single shot old style pistols and cannons will work. This keeps modern, more potent firearms from being usable, while still allowing for basic cannons or older weapons at sea.

<h3>Modern items in DO?</h3>
Q: Can I bring items made with modern technology into Distant Oceans if they are chemically identical to traditional materials (e.g., 3D-printed wood-like polymers, or wooden items made with power tools)?

A: No. Anything created in a tech area or manufactured using modern technology (such as power tools or modern textile factories) will fall apart or fail to work in Distant Oceans. To survive in DO, items must be artisanally made the old-fashioned way.

<h3>Genetically engineered characters in DO?</h3>
Q: What happens if a character who was genetically engineered or received tech-based life-saving surgery travels to Distant Oceans?

A: They will likely die. It is a very bad idea for heavily tech-reliant beings to cross over to that continent. A genetically engineered entity might survive but its genetics would alter to be a base non-supernatural level. If someone genetically created a gigantic monster in Synthatek or Centa and sent it to Distant Oceans it would die as it crossed the Raging. If the tech-based life-saving surgery has anything left over after surgery in the person that would fail to function.

<h3>Magic in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: Does Synthatek reject magic the same way Distant Oceans rejects technology?

A: Yes. Magical items—even basic ones with no moving parts—will fall apart or lose all power in Synthatek. Beings whose very existence relies entirely on magic will die there.

<h3>Dragons in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: Will a dragon die if it goes to Synthatek?

A: Only if the dragon's existence is entirely magical in nature. If they do not biologically rely on magic to simply exist, they will live—but their magical abilities (like fire-breathing) will stop working.

<h3>Spells from Tech Origin?</h3>
Q: If a character is born in Synthatek (a tech origin), moves to the central continent Centa, and invents a new spell, will that spell fail in Distant Oceans because the caster is from a tech origin?

A: The spell will work fine. Because the character learned and created magic, the spell itself is not considered tech-created.

<h3>Magical Status Effects in Synthatek?</h3>
Q: What happens if a character with a permanent magical status effect (like a Baleful Polymorph) or a magically regenerated limb travels to Synthatek?

A: The magical effect is removed or suppressed. A magically regenerated limb, for example, would stop functioning or disappear because the magic sustaining it fails. A polymorphed person would unpolymorph, though the polymorph effect would resume on leaving Synthatek, though if a player wants to have some worse effect happen when the spell takes hold again, that sounds like fun RP which is what TRI is all about. For instance, perhaps the polymorph now lasts longer or makes the shape disfigured.

<h3>Returning from Synthatek?</h3>
Q: If that character leaves Synthatek and returns to the center continent, does the magical effect or limb come back?

A: See above answer. That is left entirely up to the player's discretion and creativity.

<h3>Tech-Magic Hybrid?</h3>
Q: What if I use magic to transfer the consciousness of a genetically engineered (tech) person into a magical golem?

A: Because this character is now a hybrid of tech and magic, they will not be able to survive in Distant Oceans or Synthatek. They will have to enjoy living on the center continent Centa and nowhere else.

<h3>Magic Computers?</h3>
Q: Can a tech-savvy wizard create a spell that stores and manipulates data like a computer?

A: No, magic simply doesn't work that way on a conceptual level. Building a "magic computer" falls under the category of Magitech, which only functions on the center continent.

Nico Nico Nora

2026-07-25T06:15:09Z

Charis:

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|Series=TRI original
|Occupation=Ace Reporter!
|Alignment=Chaotic
|Gender=Female
|Species=Reborn Shapeshifting Humanoid
|Hangout=Everywhere there's a story
|Continent=All Three
|Desc=
|Background=Nico Nico Nora was reborn on TRI and has proclaimed herself the greatest reporter among all dimensions. She's comfortable on all three continents and even hangs out on the space stations. She's a shapeshifter and owns her own spaceship which can travel through hyperspace.

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Nico Nico Nora

2026-07-25T06:14:51Z

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|Series=TRI original
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|Alignment=Chaotic
|Gender=Female
|Species=Reborn Humanoid
|Hangout=Everywhere there's a story
|Continent=All Three
|Desc=
|Background=Nico Nico Nora was reborn on TRI and has proclaimed herself the greatest reporter among all dimensions. She's comfortable on all three continents and even hangs out on the space stations. She's a shapeshifter and owns her own spaceship which can travel through hyperspace.

|}}[[Category:Characters]]

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Luna

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Title=Luna
|Image=Luna4.jpg
|Name={{PAGENAME}}
|Series=Lunar: The Silver Star Story, Eternal Blue, etc.
|Occupation=Caretaker of too many people
|Alignment=Chaotic Neutral
|Gender=Female
|Species=Black dragon
|Hangout=Luna's Tower of 1,000 Wives
|Continent=Senta
|Desc=A gorgeous vision of beauty and elegance stands before you. At 5’7” Luna is an hourglass figure of a catgirl. Pink hair adorns her head, flowing about in thick stresses all about, the back of it pulled into a ponytail that dangles behind her back. A black ruffled hairband sits between her cat ears. Her skin is pale white, almost porcelin in its complexion. Wrapped around her neck is a black satin collar with a gigantic bow whose ends flow about her, with a large golden bell that jingles as she moves about. Her dress is of the same material, hugging around her body and showing off her shoulders and figure. Sleeves that run from her upper arm to her wrist have thin pink strands of ribbon wrapped around them loosely. Her feet are bare, yet never seem to be dirty or unclean.
|Background=Luna is the current incarnation of the black dragon of Lunar. Having learned of her past life's sins, she works to make amends to all those that were wronged, including the 1,000 wives. It's a monumental task, but she's helped by her past life self, who through a strange resurrection of her wives and a girl named Nancy, now inhabits her body as well. Thankfully, her past self's mind is sane once more, and guides her in the ways of magic and insights.

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Sam Walker

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|Series= Rimworld
|Occupation= Nomad
|Alignment= Neutral Good
|Gender= Male
|Species= Canis Sapien
|Hangout= Virtually anywhere!
|Continent= Sento
|Desc=
|Background=

|}}[[Category:Characters]]

Questions & Answers

2025-05-10T01:17:17Z

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Noteworthy NPCS

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[[Gormore Bloodcrave]] [[File:GormoreBloodcraveIcon.gif|thumb|left]]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[[Stargazer Villagers]]

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Gormore Bloodcrave

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The host of the Bloodcrave Stadium, he's always ready to host a tournament, bout, or duel! He also takes bets, arranges underhanded fights, and well, just about anything shady under the sun involved with fighting. Still, he'll hold fair tournaments if everyone really wants that kind of thing, but who does?!

Feel free to pose Gormore hosting a fight, or anything else Stadium related! He's free reign for anyone to spoof!

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Gormore Bloodcrave

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2023-10-30 Am Ordinary Non-Kidnapping Shopping Trip

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Title=An Ordinary Non-Kidnapping Shopping Trip
|Summary=Iridescence takes Shizuko shopping to swap her wardrobe to a more gothy look!
|Who=[[Iridescence]], [[Shizuko]]
|Date=October 10th, 2023
|Where=Mega Mall
|Log=
After school! The day of dutiful studying is done, and Shizuko has managed to get hrough the day without any major incidents! ...Not that she *usually* has any incidents, but she's never been one to take that for granted.

Not in this city.

With Basil having something else she's doing, Shizuko is on her own today. Honestly, it's not a bad thing: Basil can be... a *lot* sometimes, and having a relatively quiet walk home can be a good thing every once in a while. And sometimes Shizuko just assumes that means something *else* is going to go wrong, like that one mafioso that keeps trying to kill her. Yeah, Shizuko is watching her back.

It's true one can't ever be too careful around the city. But luckily, at least for now, it seems the only thing that's going to happen to Shizuko is her cell phone is going to ring! With whatever ringtone she's set on it, or vibrate, off it goes, demanding attention from her! If she has caller ID, she'll see in big words IRIDESCENCE OBRIMOS.

There was a slight jump as Shizuko's phone goes off, and she fumbles for just a moment in the pocket of her skirt (seriously, why is *that* a fictional element? more pockets = more good! You can even hide them in a pleated skirt easily!) before pulling it out. Oh, she already knew who it was from her AR implants, but she prefers to not look like she's just talking to the air while in public. Yeah. A little too concerned with her outward appearance sometimes, this one. Still, she's somewhat confused by the ID, and wanted to look at the phone anyway to confirm, as if it would say that her AR implants were joking with her and it's just her mother calling. "...What?" is all she says at first. She almost lets it ring long enough to go to voicemail, part stunned, part assuming it's some scam caller or something, but no, she picks up. "H-hello?" she says with a confused tone.

"Heya!" Iridescence's voice comes over the call, nice and crisp. It helps that she owns some of the satellite network that helps run the cell phone service. Not the whole network though, Big Sister wouldn't let a company have a monopoly on it, but these kind of business decisions were more something her parents cared about and setup. Now she just takes advantage of it all. "Shizuko! My babe! Where are ya and what ya doinz?"

'My babe'? The name didn't ring a bell with Shizuko initially. The voice, however... that brought it into mind just who it was calling her. Oh. Right. Her. "I'm... just out of school for the day and was about to head home? How did you get this number?" Well, she wasn't entirely dismissive of this. She always could just hang up on Iridescence, but she didn't. A part of Shizuko wondered why she wasn't doing just that, honestly, but another part wanted to see just what this Iridescence that she got into that little adventure was really like.

Why was it that Shizuko seemed to attract rich people? She was dirt poor (partically because of the money her mother was dumping into her education, but she wasn't aware of that), so why were these people from Richside latching onto her like this? Shizuko always assumed the super-rich liked to keep to themselves before she met Basil. And now Iridescence.

Iridescence laughs with just the slightest edge of mischievousness in it that probably means she didn't mean any harm, but also likely shouldn't have been doing what she was doing. "Had my techie dudeoz find it for me. I guess it's not hard if you know what you're doing? But ya, ya, hey, out of school, that's -perfect-." Her voice gets slightly distance for a moment. "...yeah, make sure there's sniper nests in position. Just triple the norm amount..." She comes back to full volume. "I figure, hey, our last date got totes interrupted, and I promised I'd get you some awwwwesome goth clothes at the mall, ya? So...what do you say? I can come pick you up, and I'm guaranteeing no kidnappings this time."

Shizuko says, "D-date?" Shizuko blinks almost audibly. Yeah, of course someone as rich as Iridescence could find her number. She wasn't really surprised. "Wait, sniper nests?" Now she's looking around, especially at nearby rooftops. No, of course not."

They're not set up *yet*.

"Goth clo-" Shizuko had to remember a moment... it's been a few months, afterall. "Oh. Right. I'd kinda forgotten about that, honestly." She pondered a moment. Shizuko... was not one to like handouts from the rich. It felt too much like begging, and she already had that powered armor just *given* to her. She owed far more to life than her balance overall should be, in her eyes. But on the other hand... Iridescence is the one that got her kidnapped and injured. Wait, she was directly responsible for her having gotten injured with that lightning strike, wasn't she? So yes, Iridescence actually *does* owe her something for all that mess. A set of clothing would do fine... it's not like she was injured enough to get medical bills or anything.

There was a tired sigh, and then Shizuko fully relents. "All right. Promise no kidnappings?" Yeah, that part was said in half-jest.

Iridescence laughs. "Fwuh, for sure. I've setup precautions this time." There's a light pause. She's not completely ignorant that school kids have limited schedules. "Less you have homework to do? I'm an okay study partner." And she can make a call and get the answers if she doesn't know them. She tried not to pay her way through her private schooling too much, but sometimes the tutors were just so annoying, and who needs to know SO MUCH MATH after all? Better to play with magic and shoot guns anyway.

Shizuko shakes her head before she realizes that won't be translated over the phone. "Not much today. As long as I get home at a decent hour. My mother works this afternoon and evening." Yeah, Shizuko is generally allowed to stay out before going straight home, at least since she started having actual friends to hang out with. Hoenstly, Shizuko was surprised her mother gave her that much of a window, she's been... a bit overprotective since they moved to Sentra. But also Shizuko is not quite sure how old Iridescence actually is. It would be a bit odd using someone out of school as a 'study partner' to Shizuko. For some reason she doesn't see it as odd to just hang out, but then again, Shizuko sneaks off into the Usual every once in a while, and she's usually the youngest person there. "Uhhhh, so how do you want to meet up?" she asks tentatively. Shizuko glances down at her phone. Right. Iridescence probably has tagged her location through this already, hasn't she?

That's absolutely correct. In fact, if Shizuko is paying much attention to her surroundings, she'll see Iridescence's hoverlimo coming down along the road towards her. "Sure, surez. We'll get you home before Silvae the wicked crone tries to make us lay eggs for embracing awesome fashion." She giggles. "Oh, uhh...strange enouuuuugh, I happen to see you right now! Guess my driver's got some good luck in him." She laughs, "Kk, see you in a sec." As if on cue, the hoverlimo whines loudly as it accelerates. Likely because the mage gave him permission to stop pretending to be just driving around randomly and actually move towards Shizuko.

Shizuko's face falls into a completely flat expression as she spots not a sniper, but said limo. Well, the inquiry as to her location earlier was, in fact, completely rhetorical. It took her that moment for her to register what Iridescence said about Silvae the wicked crone. "What? Eggs?" Hey, it's nowhere near that season, she wasn't expecting a reference to Egg Day. "Yeah, real strange. So lucky. Wow," she then stated at a dead pan. She sighs again and adds in, "See you in a minute," with a tired tone before hanging up and just waiting for the hoverlimo to get to her. She did look around, however... was anyone from her school looking? And would that be a good thing or a bad thing if they were?

The hoverlimo hovers to a stop next to Shizuko, and a pale skinned guy with an assault rifle across his back gets out of the passenger door, opening up the back side of the limo and nods at Shizuko. It's not like there's a TON of rich people that drive around in hoverlimo's. It's a good way to get shot down, targeted for ransom, and whatnot, but there's a few school kids who've stopped to see what it's stopping like that. Some of them have recording tech out too, because you never know what you might miss if you're not recording it! At least it's not as prevalent as the surveillance systems over in Synthatek. Though of course that's all for everyone's safety, right? Anywho, Iridesence is sitting in the hoverlimo, waving Shizuko in as well. It's quite roomy, with plush leather seats and a mini bar.

Shizuko watches as the man with the assault rifle steps out, then looks past him at Iridescence to say at a complete deadpan, "Gee, for promising no kidnapping, you managed to make this look like a kidnapping." She lets out a sigh as she spots someone holding a phone up in a manner that looks like she's now being recorded. Great. Good for her social image or not, she's decided she'd rather not have her privacy removed like that. Well, too late now. She never should have gotten involved with Iridescence. OH WAIT, THAT WASN'T HER INTENTION TO BEGIN WITH. Whatever. Inside she goes. Who knows? maybe getting to know more rich people will turn out to be, you know, a *good* thing. She's fairly certain most of her classmates would think so. Especially ones as glamorous looking as Iridescence. Somehow Basil doesn't have that same air about her, instead looking like a normal person who happens to have filthy rich parents. Iridescence... just *oozes* 'I'm wealthy and stylish' to Shizuko.

So in she slides to the hoverlimo. It's more like sliding into a comfy couch than a vehicle! It's definitely nicer in here than her tiny two-bedroom apartment, in fact... "...Is it larger inside than it is outside?" One of the first times today Shizuko hasn't sounded almost sarcastic.

Iridescence laughs. "I think that a lot too, it seems like that, ya?" She shakes her head though, her colorful ponytails swaying about. "I want to delve into Space magic, but I don't want to lose focus on my lightning elemental." The limo door is closed, and soon the hoverlimo takes off, though the inertia barely registers for how fast they take off and are going. Thing probably has inertia dampners, or shielding in place. Iridescence doesn't even know what it is or how it works, just that it makes the ride way more comfortable. The rich mage holds up a glass that has a blue liquid inside of it and offers it over towards Shizuko as she settles in. "Fwuh, want a drink? It tastes like blueberries and rain." And sure there's a little bit of alcohol in it. It's not like there's laws to stop underage drinking, though the school probably has some in place about it.

Shizuko nods. Of course Iridescence doesn't know the full details... she probably has PEOPLE that selected what limo to get and what should be in it for options. Still, it's a much nicer, smoother ride than even anything she'd ever ridden even in Synthatek. The sheer luxury of everything around her manages to cow her a bit, however, and she has that whole imposter syndrome creeping in. What the hell is she doing *here*? She's just normal, even on the poor side, why is she in a place this *posh*? She's not able to keep that feeling off her face, either, as she suddenly looks a lot more nervous. So no, no comment about lighting and lack of focus causing that friendly fire incident. "U-uh, it's, not, uh, alcoholic, is it?" Yeah, the school has rules about it, but more importantly... her *mother* has rules about it. And Shizuko has *no* idea if she could hold any alcohol or not, since she's never had a remotely strong enough desire for alcohol to overcome the fear of possibily getting found out.

Iridescence blinks then looks at the drink. "Oh, yeah, totes does. No good?" Are there rules about it these days? Huh. If there are it's not like anyone is informing her. Sure when she HAS to go to a meeting or something, so has one of her dudeoz whisper info in her ear or comm so she knows what the afterlife is going on. But not so much in this kind of sitch. She puts the drink down on a table next to her seat, which apparently has some gravity tech in it, because it hovers just above the table and as the hoverlimo turns, it maintains its upright position so the liquid has no hope of getting free of its glass chains. She hums lightly as she digs into the mini bar. "I think I had some kind of grape...yeah!" She pulls out a large first sized...grape? No wait, it's just some kind of glass material that's been forged to look like a grape, and at the top is a little spigot from which one can drink. She offers it to Shizuko. "This is like, some kind of grape drink that is supposed to be the best around Distant Oceans." That reminds her, she should see if Lillia can get some more of it. Thankfully glass blowing and grape juice making isn't something the borders between continents would stop. Well, as long as it's old school juice making with people mushing things by hand and whatnot. "All natural. That's my last one."

Aaaaaand there's the sweatdrop, tearing right through her nervousness. Well, good thing she asked. She nods once to confirm, yeah, 'no good.' Maybe if she manages to somehow become actual friends with Iridescence and stays that way a couple of years she'll take her up on that grape rain drink... assuming it's still stylish enough for Iridescence. Shizuko has no clue. Her prior rich people experience is more with the traditional sort, which Iri... was not. She actually watches the drink just sit there for a moment before looking to see what her host is getting. Oh, it's not like it's tech that's new to her, no, it's just that it's been put into a vehicle just for getting around town. And then the strange drink container it offered to her, which she takes gingerly. "Uwah?" Yeah, her mother's family comes from over there a few generations back, but she's never really partaken in much from that continent. And she's handed what looks to her to be fragile glass from a far off land(no, not really farther off than Synthatek, but it *feels* farther off to Shizuko.) "Um, thank you," she says timidly before figuring out how to drink from it and, well, doing so. "So, uh... are we going back to the mall, or is there some, uh, fancier place you were thinking of going to?"

True to its container, the drink has a fresh taste of grapes squeezed just from the vine. It's even cold, likely due to the mini fridge Iridescence pulled it out of. So yeah, super tasty! The multi-colored haired mage retakes the drink she offered Shizuko earlier and has a drink. Big happy yum smile afterwards finished, she grins. "The mall! I don't really like the weird attention some of the exclusive shops do. Feel like they're just catering most of the time. Though one of them did convince me to buy into their umbrella and parasol business." She shrugs and brushes at her skirt. She did get that one custom tailored. It's surprising how hard it is to find outfits with a side waist cape, they're so kewl.

Shizuko blinks again at the taste. Well, she doesn't know why she was expecting something beyond grape. But it certainly was very... grape. "Yeah, well... I kinda assumed that was the point of them..." She's trying to bring the spunk out that she knows Iridescence already knows she has. She saw her fight, after all, and Shizuko was nothing but snark and trash talk towards that enemy. And probably a bit at Iridescence after the friendly fire, Shizuko doesn't actually remember... there was a lot of 'heat of the moment' going on then. "You just... bought the business?" Yeah, Basil's family is rich, but they aren't *that* rich. Once again Shizuko's head swims just a little at the scale of wealth Iridescence is putting on display. Good thing she turned down the alcohol.

Iridescence blinks and tilts her head, then laughs! "Yeah, I guess that is what they're for." Huh. Realizations bouncing through her head she takes another drink. That sweet taste of rain, almost like it's raining out, which it isn't. At least not at the moment. She nods. "Oh, yeah, well, she wouldn't stop talking about it, and convinced me that parasol's are going to be all the rage soon, and that I should be using one when I go out in the sun if I want to keep my skin all gothy pale." She glances out a window where pedestrians are clearly -not- using parasols. "Fwuh. Maybe I should talk to the accountant soon and see how it's going, but who wants to bother." She sits back in her seat as the hoverlimo ascends, cutting through the upper skies of the city to bypass some traffic. Sure there's traffic in the sky, but there's way -less- of it. "So Shizuko! How are you? What's been happenin'? Got any outfits picked out in your head? I think we need to get you in at least one dress."

Shizuko tilts her head slightly. "I... imagine they're more popular among the rich than among the... well, what you see out there." She turns to peek out the window at everyone out there. Yeah, she's never seen anyone with a parasol. "But, uh, yeah. It'd help keep you pale. She was right about that." It never was a look Shizuko was trying to go for herself. That seemed like... too muuch effort, even for her. As long as she was even toned, that was good enough for her. "I mean, it sounds like it's important, but... I mean, I guess it's a small thing for you, isn't it..." Well, if Iridescence's goal was to intimidate with wealth, it was certainly working.

Shizuko blinks as the attention is brought to her. "Me? Oh! Uh... Well, I got in a lot of trouble for coming home beat up like that. I think someone was about to mug me on the way home, but..." She can only imagine the look she gave the guy when she saw him casing her. He certainly backed away quick. "...Had that one guy try to kill me again. Basil tried to get me to turn into a guy to spy on the SSSS football team with her and Nina..." A thought that, from the shudder, was very much something Shizuko was against doing. And then there was that woman Shizuko wasn't sure wasn't homeless that tried very hard to hit on her, but there is a limit to what Shizuko was going to tell this super-rich person about. "Picked... out? No, not really. Uh, I... didn't think you were actually going to get back to me on this, honestly, and I don't have the budget for it myself..."

Iridescence isn't really sure how important her pale skin is. She likes it pale, but walking around with a parasol. Well, a lot of them have her face and name on it in a stylized logo. She doesn't care if attention gets drawn to herself, but she's also not trying to create a fashion line either, and walking around with your name on a parasol seems a little craving attention heavy. But hey, time to listen to Shizuko talk about herself. She nods here and there, tsking at someone trying to kill her. She knows what that's like. But... "Why is someone trying to kill you?" Maybe she heard this before, but it has been some months since they met, and she doesn't write things down in a journal or anything. "And a guy, huh?" She wrinkles her nose and grimaces along with Shuizuko's shudder. "Yah no." Nevermind the possible dangers spying on SSSS might bring, but maybe that was meant to be part of some kind of fun? She blinks and tilts her head sideways, her ponytails spilling over her shoulder. "Why not?" Referring to her not getting back to this.

Shizuko sighs and slumps slightly before shrugging. "I kind of... shot a hole in his face when he tried to mug me and someone else. I was still getting used to that tech I fight in when it happened, so I forgot to set it to stun. Apparently he took it really personally. He's attacked me like... three times now?" At least she's fairly certain the guy won't go after her when she's with Iridescence. At least not when they're in the limo. She just... nods simply at the reaction to Basil's plan for wacky hijinks that Shizuko had... just noped right out of without even considering. She finally looked back up to Iridescence at the questioning of why not. "...I don't know. I guess I figured you... had a lot more important things to do than find me to dress up." No, she really assumed that she would be promptly forgotten about. Shizuko doesn't exactly have the highest self esteem when it comes to what people high up on the social ladder think.

Iridescence raises an eyebrow at the frequent attacks. Why hasn't Shizuko killed him for it? Maybe she has qualms about ending life. There's a lot of people like that. She herself doesn't like killing people if there are other avenues, but hey, attempts on her life? Fwuh, get ready to have her dudeoz fill you with bullet holes, or maybe she'll throw some lightning at them. That kills just about everything. "I've seen you can take care of yourself, but maybe you should deal with him more permanently." She downs the rest of her drink and sets it on the table, not wanting more than that. She'll probably got a really slight buzz, maybe. "People try to keep me busy, but they know I don't like to be busy with important things. Well, what they consider important." She winks then stares at Shizuko for a long moment, biting her lower lip. "Maybe you don't know this, but fighting encroaching god entities with someone and accidentally endangering their lives because some gang decided they could get something out of me, forms a bond, least for me." The hoverlimo veers down towards the mall shopping center. Looks like it's going to land on one of the few roof parking spots. The mall seems busy as usual from this vantage point, but there are noticeably multiple squads of pale skinned dudez with assault rifles hanging out. Some in the parking lots, some on the roofs.

The grimace on Shizuko's face at the suggestion of permenantly ending that mafioso's life should tell Iridescence clearly enough that it's definitely qualms about ending a person's life. Shizuko didn't grow up in the lawless Center City, she grew up in the much more structured and law-filled Synthatek. Even in self defence, killing people could get you into a lot of trouble there. At least get you stuck in uncomfortable questioning for a long time. Shizuko's father made sure she knew she was expected to not get into that kind of trouble there, and it's stuck with her even to here. No, she makes no comment, and is releived when the conversation changes subject. "Ah... uh, Y-yeah, I guess it would." Maybe Shizuko hadn't fully remembered Iridescence's name, be she knows she'd never *not* recognize her if she saw her. Even if Iridescence didn't have such a unique look. She almost wants to apologize to Iridescence for the trouble, but then remembers that the situation really is the other way around. So a figurative biting of her tongue instead, and a look out the window. "...There aren't normally that many... guard looking guys on the roof here, are there?" It's not a question, it's a statement. Once again, Shizuko is taken aback by just *how many* people Iridecence has under her employ.

Iridescence nods and winks at Shizuko in a mildly flirty fashion. "They say trauma makes relationships form. but I think it's the follow ups that truly create something special between people. Like this guy named Menma I met. We fought a kraken together. I haven't seen him since, but if I do, for sure we'll want to talk about how crazy that was." She rolls her eyes. "Honestly, because my mansion has easy access to the beach, the locals started asking my security forces to help with it, I'm not jaded, I totes went and helped, but maybe call the hero hotline or something." She blinks. "Is there one of those? If there isn't there should be. I know there's the merc agencies you can call and have people help you, but it costs money. Still, you can just go in debt with them if it's really life threatening." The hoverlimo finishes its landing and parking, and the door is opened by one of the dudeoz. "I guess that can lead to slavery though." She hops out of the limo with a flowing of skirt, hair, ribbons, and a light spark of lightning traveling from her hair onto the car door. "Yah, I pulled in a ton of my dudeoz to keep the mall secure and discourage any more kidnappers. Anyone who tries anything is going to get shot."

Shizuko jerks her head back lightly in surprise at the wink. Relationship? Oh, she doesn't mean like that, from what she was saying about the other guy. Shizuko wasn't sure if she was releived or dissapointed. "Um... I don't... think so? I've never looked into it, admittedly. I'd not call on the mercs, personally..." She pauses, then finally gives a light smile. "...for multiple reasons, really." Both she can handle herself and.... yeah, she's kinda on the broke side. More quietly, less confidently, she reiterates, "I can't afford to go into debt like that." And that was even before the mention of slavery, which just gets an outright wince from her. Her own exit from the limo is... less flashy. Yes, Shizuko's favorite outfit is fairly elaborate, but it has nowhere near the flash of Iridescence's. "Well... that's good. I'm not sure I have it in me to go through that again." She's already coming up with excuses for why she would have a brand new outfit when she gets home... mostly revolving around Basil, honestly, since she's *really* unsure of how her mother would feel about Shizuko hanging out with someone like Iridescence. Especially when her mother doesn't know about the whole... 'magical' girl thing.

Secrets secrets! Iridescence nods in agreement. She doesn't enjoy fighting gods or krakens, but if she has to, might as well do it with friends. The kind you don't buy and aren't hanging around because you have money. So far Shizuko def doesn't seem the type. Usually she can get a good read on peeps. Usually. "We won't. Because if it does, I'll really have to rethink how I hire my security forces." She looks over at the guy holding the door open for them. "All kewl?" The guy nods. She smiles. "Thanks! I don't want a com in my ear so just have people come talk to me. Or I guess make it beep if it's -really- critical." She then holds a hand out towards Shizuko. "Shall we?" Yeah, hold hands while they walk into the mall, why not? Maybe she's flirting with Shizuko, but maybe she just wants to have fun.

So far, if anything, Shizuko has seemed reluctant to take handouts, yes. It probably wasn't difficult to read that Shizuko was a little reluctant to go shopping with Iridescence. If anything she seems *less* intent to hang out with Iridescence because she's rich. But perhaps that just makes Iridescence want to befriend her more? These things really aren't on Shizuko's mind at the moment, she's just more or less being herself. "Oh. Yeah, I... I guess so." That's... a lot of mooks around. Even with how friendly Iridescence is, Shizuko can't help but be intimidated by them all. Yeah, intellectually she knows that they're effectively her bodyguards as well from her proximity to Iridescence, but... well, tell her subconscious that. The offered hand, though, *that* took her off guard even more. "Uwah? Uhhh, okay." Reluctantly, almost shyly, she takes the offered hand and is lead on towards the mall. Between that and the wink earlier, Shizuko's brain is scrambling to try to interpret if Iridescence is flirting with her or not... it's certainly not as obvious as it was with that woman in the Usual if she is flirting.

Iridescence leads Shizuko through the mall, holding hangs, because it's better than not doing such! Something noticeably different than normal for the Mega Mall, there are pale skinned dudeoz with assault rifles in groups almost every fifteen feet. Shoppers are keeping their distance from them, which is exactly what they should do! Iridescence just ignores their presence, but she knew they'd be there already! Every now and again Shizuko gets a very light tingle in the hand that's being held, not quite a static shock as there's no pain or anything, but some kind of mild electrical current occurs. "Should we go to the Right Stuff or find one of the clicky side stores, ya think?" She actually hasn't gone proper shopping in awhile, unless you count the kidnapping episode that happened.

Iridescence flashes a cheerful smile. "Ahyah, totes magoats." She looks Shizuko over, nodding. "Mm, mm, yes. Let's hit The Dark Side. I've been there a few times and I -know- they're going to have stuff we can get you in to make you scream goth fashion." She'll shift direction in the mall, though she's careful with her pacing to not be pulling or dragging Shizuko with her. It also gives some of her dudeoz time to move forces, a couple small squads moving a a light jog ahead of them. They're not exactly clearing a path, but its definitely a disturbance to the flow of traffic. Many of the mall shoppers get out of the away, but there's a few that just look really irritated. Multiple murmurs and whispered complaints start to spawn among the crowds.

Once again, Shizuko wonders why Iridescence is so sure she will pull off the goth look. But really... the part bothering her the most is the irritated looks coming her way. "I, uh... Are you sure you didn't, um, go a bit overboard this time?" She's having a hard time really blaming Iridescence, however, considering what happened last time the two were here at the same time. Still, at the same time, she's... attempting to imagine herself in goth clothing and... yeah, no, all she's really coming up with is how she usually dresses but all black and with black lipstick. A part of her is looking foreward to seeing what is going to happen... but just as much of her is dreading it.

The multi-colored hair girl blinks. "Fwuh? With what?" She looks about as they walk and actually pays attention to her surroundings. It's surprisingly easy for her to tune out and focus, because there's usually someone keeping track of anything that might be dangerous. And it's not like she's out near The Conglomeration where she should be on guard.

An older man grumbles. "One of those Richside couples messing with my mall walking." And issues the multiversal gesture of up yours to the two.

Iridescenc laughs, which doesn't make things better. "It's fine. I mean, if mall security had prevented our kidnapping last time I wouldn't need to do this. And I made a promise, no kidnapping of either of us. It was either this or I buy the place and empty it, so thinking of it that way they should be grateful." She winks. Is she joking?

They reach the store, The Dark Side, a large clothing store playing some low beat tones with dark lightning and rows upon rows of fashion, most of it aimed towards goths, punks, and cyber styling. There's also knicknacks spread throughout the place, the shop owners hoping for some impulse buys.

Shizuko avoids any eye contact with the irritated people... no, she's very much back to being a very shy person, not the embodiment of spunk that she was when she and Iridescence got kidnapped. Still, she can't help but /hear/ them. . o O ( Couple?! Is that what people are thinking when they see us? ) Aaaand cue the face going a bit too red for appropriate for the... decidedly monotone store they're arriving at. "I, uh... yeah, I suppose this is... also making what happened last time less likely, too..." No, she won't forget that people /died/ when those nutcases first showed up. And there it is. A store that Shizuko has never even seriously glanced at when passing by. Yeah, she'd noticed it was there, but the whole 'all black' thing was never her style... well, time to try it out anyway.

"Oh, defz." She heads into the store and as if summoned by a command spell, a store clerk appears.

"Iridescence! Welcome back, it's so good to see you here."

Iridescence pulls up short. "Fwuh?" She checks this area of the store over. She doesn't see anyone else she knows in here. It's possibly her security went ahead and announced her coming. It's not like she's a big celebrity. Yeah people might know her name, but not her face. Oh well! "Thanks! Just getting a new outfit or two for Shizuko here." She'll raise Shizuko's hand that she's holding to point her out even though it's obvious.

Shizuko as well pauses, once again with that 'deer caught in headlights' look. Well, of course Iridescence is recognized in a place like this. Then again, there was that odd look around that Iridescense gave around the place at the announcement. Shizuko's hand is raised for her and she's once again very aware that yes, Iridescence is /still/ holding her hand. "I, uh, this is a new style for me," she manages to get out. Yes, she still is a little red in the face... especially as she looks around at how revealing a lot of the outfits are here. Thankfully not /all/ of them, but who knows what Iridescence is going to dress Shizuko up in?

The clerk smiles. "Oh how marvelous. Would you like me to take you around?"

If Iridescence's own outfit is anything to go by, she isn't concerned with showing a bit of skin here and there. "No third wheel please." She winks at the store clerk who nods and steps away. Iridescence walks over towards an entire wall that's dedicated to multiple gothic combo outfits, ranging for satins, silks, cottons, and leather. It's quite the display. "This is new from last time I was here. Wicked." For the first time she actually let's go of Shizuko's hand, reaching out and feeling the hem of a skirt.

Whispering off to the side, you hear the clerk talking to another of the corporate enslaved. "Yeah, that's her. She bought out more than half the store a few years back."

As her hand is finally freed, Shizuko takes it back and holds it in her other hand somewhat nervously. She looks over the options as well... Hrm. Skirts, nice. She does have a fondness for them over pants... usually. At least when she's trying to be fancy in any way, and if she's going out looking goth, well, that's a type of fancy, isn't it? Leather, though... that's not something she's dared try. Even the materials of some of these items just scream 'expensive' to her, and she blew a quarter of her yearly allowance on one outfit before. To be fair, that maroon tartan skirt with the long boots look is one she /really/ likes. Speaking of which, she's seeing plenty of long boot options... as well as some heels that she's not sure she could actually /walk/ in. The latter of those puts her in a bit of dread, but at least she's used to the former.

There's a quick look back at the workers before looking back to the selection Iridescence is looking at. "Um, what do you think would... look good on me, then?" Shizuko asks with more than a little nervousness.

Iridescence rolls her eyes internally as she catches the store clerks whispering. No wonder they ambushed her. But whatevz, she's not worried about the service here one way or the other. A big grin flows across her features as she looks at Shizuko. "Yeah, with your body, everything babe." Buuuut, she's here to find something nice and punchy that'll really make Shizuko seem like she was born goth, so she points her finger first at a black leather top with white stripes running down the front and detatched sleeves with belts securing them around the upper shoulder. "This, and this." She points at a matching black pleated skirt that's...pretty short, but not indecent at least. She's decided the time of pointing is at an end and grabs both items, holding them up against Shizuko unless she backs away or somefin.

Shizuko blinks at the way Iridescence responds to her... Okay. Now she's fairly certain Iridescence is at the very least flirting with her. And once again she goes a bit more red. Somehow this manages not to feel quite as pushy as that woman at the Usual the other day... despite the fact that she was dragged into a limo and driven to another location. "O-o-oh," she manages to stammer out. Yes, well, she's eager for the distraction of OH LOOK CLOTHES TO TRY ON. Luckily she's used to shorter skirts... though she's coming in from school right now, so that's not the case at the moment. Detached sleeves, too, is something she's actually had experience with on her favorite outfit. So no, no backing away. "Uh... probably should have... Over knee boots? Or at least long stockings..." Hey, don't let it be said that she doesn't have her own sense of style as well.

Iridescence nods. "Exzaply." She hands off the top and skirt to Shizuko, as long as she'll take them. If not she'll set them aside. "And a belt, maybe two. Sometimes you want to criss-cross them, or let one hang at an angle." Talking the essentials here! "Long stockings and short boots will look great with this as well." She steps back and eyes Shizuko up and down, "Hold the rain though." She says and reaches over Shizuko's shoulder, pulling another leather top, this one also has detatched sleeves, but rather than lines down the front is solid black, and is accented with a short red tie. "This is gonna totes match your hair ribbon. But now that we have red we can't leave the skirt." She starts swapping things out, taking the skirt from Shizuko and leaving her with the new top. She also doesn't put things back where she got them. It's not that she's rude, she just doesn't understand that it's a problem to make shopkeeps come clean up after her. "No, too long." She says, then, "Ahh! By the Great Scavanger this is it." She pulls a leater black pleated skirt, but it has a red frilled hem. "Yahhhhh." She hands that one over next! Woo!

Shizuko nods once at the belt suggestion. Makes sense. She already does that sometimes with a non-functional belt on her favorite shorts. "Ribbons are changeable," she says quietly, but no, moving on towards having a splash of color... well, perhaps it'll better match the color her face keeps turning from time to time today. Soon she has both primary items of clothing, looking over them. "I... can work with this, I think." Again, not a material she's used to, but, well, time for new things, apparently. Lots of new things. She glances once at Iridescence again, then looks around. "Changing room..." Once spotted, she's on her way with perhaps a little too much haste. Yes, a part of her is wanting to hide again.

Iridescence arcs with a a spark of lightning as Shizuko heads to the changing room. There's the lightest bit of thunderclap. "You're going to look ah may zing." She starts following Shizuko. Is she going to the changing room with her?! Before it becomes a concern she diverts off to the side, looking over a few non-clothing items. There's a lot of good clothes here, but she wants to focus on getting things for Shizuko today rather than herself. After all, that's the whole point of the trip! She's all smiles though. No kidnappings and her comm hasn't even beeped. She should have grabbed some drinks before they came in. Well, maybe on the way out.

There comes the red face again at the compliment. Really, if Iridescence hadn't called Shizuko 'babe' after saying everything would look good on her, she'd probably be having an easier time with this. She takes her time in the changing room, making sure she's gotten everything adjusted correctly. Finally she steps out, more self-conscious about the shortness of the skirt... She isn't wearing her long boots today and the short skirt is just... leaving too much bare leg for her liking right now. "So, uhh... I think this is working?" Well, she doesn't quite have the attitude for the goth look at the moment, looking far too bashful. She looks at a mirror again and turns to her side to get a better look at herself before slightly adjusting the right sleeve.

Iridescence has a small black bag in hand now having bought something while you were changing. She comes to see though and shakes her head in the 'can't believe how good that looks' way. "Ohhhhh yah, it's like waves on the beach, something you always want to see." She winks and walks around Shizuko, mmhming and nodding repeatedly. "I knew it. I knew you'd look breathtaking." She puts her hand to her chest and heaves in a breath and sigh, a little spark flickering in her hair. "Now let's get you in a dress. But I'm thirsty too." She looks around and sees a store clerk. She's easy to spot since it seems like her job right now is to watch Iridescence and Shizuko and see if they need anything. "Ahyo, go grab me a sparkly alcohol thing, and Shizuko here a fruity non-alcohol thing." The clerk blanches, confused, and opens her mouth to protest, one another indentured worker rushes over and puts a hand over the other clerks mouth. "Of course Miss Obrimos!" And drags the clerk off!

Shizuko manages to avoid eye contact through this... yeah, the compliments aren't helping her confidence. It's more like she just doesn't know what to do! Yeah, she's pushed off people that she just has no interest in plenty of times... But she's still just not sure how she should handle Iridescence. So... avoiding eye context and trying to just... keep going. "Dress? But-" already one outfit? "...They aren't... this isn't..." She sighs and hangs her head, redness going away as exasperation takes the place of self consciousness. Best to just move along, it's really not her place to correct Iridescence when the staff seems to be playing along. Dress is coming. She looks around the place at the dresses and... once again worries, though not quite as much. Sure, there's a lot of skimpy dresses, but none match the skimpiness of some of the outfits she had been fearing the first time.

There are -some- pretty skimpy dresses, but most of them are more showy than skimpy. Iridescence will try and take Shizuko's hand and guide her among the dresses. "Now there's lots of different kinds, do we want something for when you go to the theater, or something for a fancy dinner, or wearing around the house. Hm." She taps her lip, looking over the options, though she tends to linger her gaze on Shizuko a bit more than before. There's more calculations when picking a dress, obviously! Or she's enjoying Shizuko's goth look. Mebbe.

Shizuko's fears are slightly lessened as they seem to be looking at the less skimpy options. "...I... can't say I really ever go to anything fancy..." Understatement. Shizuko isn't exactly high society. She's poor. Or at least that's her thinking. No, she doesn't seem to realize that she's getting multiple connections with people from Richside... she actually is worming her way into high society without even realizing it. "But, uh, most of what I'm seeing here I think my mother would question me wearing 'around the house.'" Feeling Iridescence's gaze on her, she glances at the rainbow-haired one. "...Uh, what are /you/ thinking?"

"Well, you def have an everyday outfit right there." She nods at your current motif. "So something more fancy, touch of exotic if possible." She starts scanning the plentiful display, shaking her head at some. "A lot of these would look great on you. Maybe I should buy them all and you can have a whole wardrobe to choose from." It's what she did last time she was here when she couldn't pick just one. The clerk comes back and hands over the drinks, probably fetched from one of the nearby stalls that are scattered around the megal mall. "Thanks!"

Shizuko looks down at herself and the outfit she's wearing. It was certainly not what she would call an 'everyday outfit'. Well, apparently it 'definitely' was for everyday use in Iridescence's eyes. Shizuko lets out a sigh before looking back at the dress selection again. "Sure. I suppose that makes sense," she says instead of actually voicing her actual thoughts. The second part did make more sense, after all... that the dress should be fancier and perhaps... /more/ exotic somehow. Thankfully Iridescence makes her suggestion of 'buying them all' before the drinks come, because Shizuko likely would have choked on hers. "Please don't," is all she's able to really say. "I, uh, don't have that kind fo wardrobe space?" And she'd /never/ manage to work her way through all those options, anyway! "Let's... n-narrow it down to one... for now." The last part tagged on to keep Iridescence from thinking they definitely should get a whole bunch at once... though Shizuko wonders if it's a mistake to make it sound like there's an expectation of doing this again.

As she's handed a drink, Shizuko gives an apologetic smile to the retail worker. "Thank you... and sorry," she says quietly.

The clerk smiles back. "Oh, of course, anything for the two of you." Seems Shizuko is now included in the take very, very, good care of this customer category now. "Can I get you something else while you browse?"

Iridescence ohs! "Right, of course! I hadn't thought of that." It makes sense, not everyone has tons of wardrobe space. Although it depends on where you live. She's pretty sure some of the kingdoms spread around this continent have plenty of space! But Shizuko's a city girl. She thinks. Actually. "You live in the city? Where's your house?" Something she didn't have checked by her peeps ahead of time. She eyes a dress of satin, that's a combination of a kimono, long flowing sleeves, but has a shorter skirt style too it, heavy on the black, with a few trails of blue running down the arms. "Maybe this!" She holds it towards you.

Right. Shizuko is going to have to avoid coming to this store by herself now, isn't she? They're going to expect deep pockets from her, aren't they? "N-no, thank you," she says with more than a little exasperation. Looking back to Iridescence, she ponders her answer. "We don't have a 'house,' really. My mother and I live in a two bedroom apartment... a small one. In the Neko Neko Apartment building." Honestly, the way things have been going, she's honestly surprised Iridescence didn't already know that... considering she geotracked Shizuko's phone to find her earlier today. She takes the short kimono dress as it's handed to her and looks it over before holding it up in front of her while looking in a nearby mirror. "Hrm," she says. "Well, let's give it a try?" Honestly, the kimono style wasn't something she was considering, but... perhaps this was going to work on her?

"Let's! The great thing about goth fashion is combining it with other styles to make something unique." She flicks at her waist cape in emphasis, a small spark igniting between her fingers. "Oh, Neko Neko. Who owns that nowadays? I remember a long time ago someone telling me that they managed to roll protection money for local gangs into the rent." She doesn't think -she- owns it. Unless her parents bought it before they died and it never got mentioned to her. Doubtful though. Real estate isn't always a solid investment. Well, unless you have a large group to backup your claim. Wait, her mind is wandering. Dresses! What else should they try. Maybe something with more leather instead of satin. She walks down the line, sipping at her drink. She makes a little face. Not properly mixed!

Shizuko looks over the dress again, then at the ones still hanging. "...Combining with other styles," she says thoughtfully before being brought back to the subject of her apartment building. "Oh, uh... I have no idea. I... didn't ask any questions like that... My mother just... found the place and we moved in..." aaaaand Iridescence is going back to looking at leather again. She already has something in leather and... oh, perhaps Iri was thinking the same thing, judging from the face she made? Sure, let's let Shizuko think that. "Let's get... a couple different styles for me to try, and we'll see which one is best... Nothing wrong with a little modeling, right?"

Iridescence can't decide if she wants to even drink this anymore. Fwuh. She sets the drink on top of a display nearby. "Right!" She moves on, eyeing more styles. "Billow sleeves are fun, because you can hide your hands in them if its cold." She waves her own sleeves and then folders her arms and tucks them in to demonstrate. "Looks wicked too, who knows what I'm holding now." She winks and lets her hands loose. "Maybe something more Distant Oceans." She moves to more bordering on ballgown gothic styles. "These are great at parties, and they'd work on both continents. Not that I usually continent hop."

Shizuko's eyes linger on the ball gown style as well, then she shakes her head. What's the point? She's never going to have any reason to wear something even remotely that fancy. It might as well just be a costume... An incredibly expensive costume that her mother is sure to hound her about. "...I don't exactly get invited to many parties... and the few I have... these would be really out of place in." There's a frown at the mention of 'working on both continents'. "I... don't think I'll be going over there, ever." Spoken like a Synthatec born girl right there.

"No? I getchya. Why go anywhere but Senta, it has the best of everything." Minus the law and order, but Iridescence doesn't have to care about that since she has her own security forces. "I'll try to throw more. I'm planning on a big Crashmass one down on the beach, although it's not like there's a dress code, but..." She pauses in front of a satin black dress. A sleeveless design with open back, and a small slit running up the middle to show not an indecent amount of skin. The neck piece is linked by a small blue flower. The lower half has tiered frills at the hem, shorter at the front to show off the legs with a full down to the ground train behind it. A twin set of blue flowers adorn the right side. "This, oh this will like fabo on you!" She holds it up, turning it up a bit and pushing it against you, nodding her head in a swirl of colored ponytails.

Shizuko doesn't quite nod in agreement on the 'why go anywhere but Senta?' remark, because, well, she wouldn't mind too much going back to Synthatec. She /does/ have to care about the 'law and order' part. "On the beach?" she asks, mostly because it's really not the season one typically thinks of going to the beach on. "Well, I mean..." she was about to say something about 'not like I would get invited to fancy parties like that,' but even she realizes that... there's a decent chance that's not true. "...but a dress like this would still be appropriate?" she asks instead as Iridescence looks at it. As it's thrusted at her, Shizuko can't help but think she /does/ like the style of it. "...Okay, I'll try it on," she says, not quite sounding as reluctant as she intends.

Iridescence smiles. "Ohya, you got to babe. You'll look like royalty for sure." She winks. "Never a bad thing to be a gothic princess, who knows who'll fawn over you." A beep comes from her pocket! Her smile gives way to irritation as she fishes in her skirt pocket and pulls out her ear com, rolling her eyes. "Wha?" She listens for a moment. "Ya just pay the fine, I don't want to bother with a gang war today. Tell them I'm not trying to take over the mall, I'm just shopping in peace because last time they let bozos nab me." She rolls her eyes at Shizuko and mouths 'oh brother', then grabs another dress, at random?, and gives it to her as well, affirmatively nodding that, yes, she should try this one on after the other as well.

Shizuko frowns at the thought of supposedly being mistakable for royalty. Her? No way. The 'who'll fawn over you' line just gets an eyeroll... an eyeroll that turns into a look away from Iridescence entirely when she realizes what the call is about. All this mess over just going to get her some outfits? She hates the idea that she's inconveniencing that many people! A blush of guilty embarassment comes across her face as she takes the next dress without even looking at it and scurries off to the changing room. Three dresses, better get moving on trying them!

Okay, first dress. The short Kimono style one. It takes her a while, mostly because she's really not entirely sure how to get the obi right. "I don't know, this one... What do you think? I'm not sure it's really 'me.'"

The com in the mages ear is back in her pocket when Shizuko comes back out. She hates that thing in her ear. "Sorry for the call." She assess' Shizuko, nodding and stepping over to adjust it a bit at the shoulders. "You're joking, because this looks totes great on you! Adopting a gothic fashion style is all about showing off your features. And your face and figure work in that." She holds her up hands in concession. "But if ya don't like it, I don't want to force this one on you." The other ones...maybe.

Shizuko shakes her head. Nope, trying not to think about the reasons behind that call. She'll blame herself, and she just doesn't want to think about that now because she doesn't honestly think she can do anything about it and it would just make her feel miserable. "...I just am offput by the fact that there's... way more sleeve than skirt. Is this... is this /wider/ than the skirt is?" She holds it down to compare, grabbing one end with her other hand to compare. No, not quite, but it still feels... off balance to her. "...I don't think the whole wide sleeve thing is for me." She hates to sound ungrateful (which is always at odds with the part of her that hates handouts), but she nods with a frown once. "I'll, uh, go try the next one."

One that Shizuko had more hope in from the start... Yes, she's more optimistic about this one. Still, it takes her a bit with it. At one point she almost wants to call for help... but she can't wear her bra through all this due to the open back styles of... everything but the kimono, so she's more than reluctant to actually ask. Once she does get it on, though, she's happy to find it's not actually so long on the back it drags on the floor. When she steps out, it's clear she's far more pleased with this one than she was with the short kimono, looking in the full length mirror and spinning around once. Oh look, she's actually smiled.

Iridescence thinks big mega sleeves are the way to goooo, but maybe they're not for everyone? It's not like she's taking someone shopping a gigazillion times. Not since before her parents were alive and she was a kiddo. "Fwuh!" She claps lightly as Shizuko comes out and does a little spin. "All right, maybe some things look more drop dead gorgeous on ya than otherz." Little lightning strikes zip around her hair as she walks to your side, taking a look from all angles. "So elegant! Let's get you a pair of short heels to go with it." Ohlook, she has a pair sitting on a shelf next to her, obviously not where they belong. She must have grabbed them when Shizuko went to change. She offers them over! "For realz Shizuko, you look amazing."

Shizuko nods once as she's looking at herself in the mirror still. For once, she's not disagreeing with Iridescence... She /wants/ this dress. She would save up for this dress. She /will/ find reasons to wear this dress. Shoes handed to her? Oh! Right! Shoes should go with them! She definitely didn't see that Iridescence grabbed them from a not-shoe section. "Yeah..." she says, then blushes fiercely as she caught herself sounding just that /vain/. "I mean, yeah, it does look amazing on me." Maybe it's the distant resemblance to her 'magical girl' outfit? No, the leather combo she was trying on (and was likely going to keep) resembled it even more. This is just... the elegance she lacks in her normal life, the elegance she /wants/ to have. All the things that make her glad to be a girl... and speaking of which, yes, let's put on the heels, something she just needs a seat for and not going back into the changing room.

It might be better for Shizuko's health if she's not looking at any price tags. But Iridescence is paying for all of this surely. At least that's what the goth girl has been implying this whole time. "I knew you'd get into this." She nods in approval with a cheerful smile. Who DOESN'T want to look like a gorgeous gothy princess? Okay, maybe some of her dudeoz, but whatevz. "We should get a little wrist bangle for you too." She points at an assorted display of said items, with varying degrees of bows, skulls, and other such decorations on them.

Indeed, Shizuko is trying very hard to avoid looking at the price tags. She does not want to happen to see that this dress would cost her two years' worth of her allowance, no. She focuses on the shoes for a moment before even considering the selection of wrist accessories. She steps over, intentionally swaying her hips just to feel what the dress /feels/ like. Looking over them, she frowns at the more true goth options. No, skulls and bats and other vampire or horror motifs will never be for her, so instead she gravitates more towards a frilly ribbon one, black to match the dress. "What do you think of this one?" She's finally sounding a little less shy, and definitely more confident. Sometimes the right clothes can change a person a little.

The lightning mage's eyes linger on the dress swaying just a tad longer than proper before she redirects her mental attentions to Shizuko's selection. A smile ripples over her face. "Yah, that'll be perfect with it. It'll match the tiered look on your hem!" Another convert, though it took the dress to really get her into it. But surely this'll make her want to wear the prior outfit more often as well! "Good eye, good pick." She winks, a little spark of lightning crackling out from the edge of her eye.

Shizuko tilts her head slightly at the lightning from the wink, but doesn't delay before putting on the bangle now that it's approved of by the goth style expert. Yeah, she didn't notice the lingering gaze, either, a little absorbed in the dress itself for the moment. "The dress itself was the good pick," she says as she walks... no, sashays to the mirror to take a look at herself. Even making a few modeling poses. Yes. She likes this dress. She likes it a lot. Maybe it would ahve been better with a little more color? No, probably not. Or if it did, she'd be less likely to have Iridescence offering to buy it for her, so this definitely will do. She turns, or rather half spins, to face Iridescence again. "So what now?" she asks, actually smiling. Wait, no goths are supposed to frown, not smile, right? Well, too bad.

Iridescence also breaks a lot of the moody goth personality types. Really she thinks the fashion is what it's all really about. Although overcast weather is generally superior to sunny weather. She offers a clap at the poses and half spin. "Fwuh! You wear that really well, you already know how to move." She drums her fingers on her hip a moment. "What do you think Shizuko? You want to try and find another dress? Another outfit? This is only the beginning of your new goth wardrobe." She holds up one hand in a passive acceptance palm open gesture. "But if you're at your limit today, you can set your own pace for the future."

Shizuko poses once more at being complimented for knowing how to move... A little bit of magical girl energy in that particular pose, rather than goth energy. Well, Shizuko would agree on fashion over mood. The offer to 'find another dress' gets a pause, however. "Beginning? Oh... oh, no, I couldn't. I mean... I'm probably already going to have to... come up with some sort of cover story for how I got /these/." For the first time, she ponders telling her mother the truth... or at least the truth that the person from Richside that was responsible for her injuries before bought them for her. Sure, Shizuko can just... /imply/ that it's because of compensation for what happened before, rather than what Shizuko suspected was going to happen the first day if they hadn't been attacked and kidnapped.

Whatever, it's Shizuko's actual excuse for accepting the dress and the leather outfit. She hates handouts, but this is /compensation/ for damages done. Sure.

Shizuko adds, "I mean, I also don't... really have that much closet space..." Future... as much as Shizuko would love to have a collection of dresses of this caliber... it really isn't something she sees as reasonable.

Iridescence blinks, processing that for a moment. "Cover story?" She's trying to think of why anyone would need one. What could it be? "Because your landlord might jack up your rent if they see you wearing awesome clothes? Humummum...they're...a gift and compensation for the traumatic experience you went through." She nods aggressively, sending her ponytails swirling. At the closet space though. She forgot about that. It makes sense, she might only have one or two rooms for wardrobes instead of an entire floor. And they're probably full of her prior clothes. Her brow furrows as she tries to think of a solution.

Shizuko blinks at Iridescence's thought process on the landlord. "No, I mean my mother can be kind of str- Oh my goddess, I didn't even /think/ about that!" It's a horrifying thought since her mother is already barely scraping by with the bills as it is. Really, her more usually worn tartan skirt combo was a major splurge as it was. "But... yeah, that's... what they are." Her confidence is fading, alas. If only she knew what Iridescence was thinking... rooms? Just one little closet.

Iridescence nods! "I'll get a gift letter written up by one of my peeps and have it mailed to your apartment and a copy sent to the Neko Neko management so there's no confusion." She taps her cheek. "Although if someone intercepts them or they get sold to a gang it might make you a bigger target for kidnapping from being associated with me. Fwuh...this has become a puzzle." Generally she doesn't consider many of the consequences and side effects of her actions, she can just throw people or money at them if she needs too. It's a weird thing to try and wrap her head around. "Ya know we're probably overthinking it all." She waves it away dismissively.

Shizuko sighs and hangs her head. This is getting complicated... but on the other hand, "Really, I'm not worried about gangs. One's already targetting me anyway, having this added won't make much of a difference." Because for some reason she still won't just... /kill/ the guy, even if he's clearly out to kill her. "Probably," she says as she straightens up again. "But again, I'm more worried about getting a lecture from my mother." She looks at herself in the mirror again, blushing slightly this time. "...I need an excuse to wear this," she says quietly before quickly shaking her head and looking abck to the changing room. "But, um, yeah, uh, this and that first outfit and we're even, okay?"

Iridescence ohyeahs. She thinks she remembers Shizuko talking about that with her and not killing the guy or somesuch. "A lecture? For wearing amazing gorgeous clothes? I bet your mom will wish you had even more." She winks, but can see that she should let Shizuko have her way as far as more clothes goes, for now. "Rawk. Even. Next time we'll have to go out on a date where I don't owe you for endangering your life." That can totes happen. Look how peaceful its been here in the mall thanks to all her dudeoz running security? Not that she wants to do this every time because some of the gangs and organizations will start thinking she's making moves on their turf. She heads over and settles up with the store clerk. Kachingchingchingching goes the register. Yeah, this stuff is expensive, not that Iridescence cares to notice.

Shizuko just gives an exasperated look at the thought of her mother wishing she had more. "Yes, I appreciate the whole 'not endangering my life thing." That said, she's already making her way back to the the changing room now. No, she indeed is /not/ planning on walking out of the store in this dress... though when she steps out, she's back in the other new getup. "Thanks, and... like I said, now we're even." Something else is creeping up on the back of her mind, however. Something Iridescence said that didn't quite conenct with her conscious self...

"That looks so wizard on you." The goth mage says, admiring the outfit once more. Mm, just good taste! "Even. Done." She claps her hands loudly to emphasize the point and then heads out of the store, snagging the small black shopping bag she had acquired during Shizuko's first clothing change. Once they're out of The Dark Side itself and back on the main Mega Mall floor, she reaches in and pulls out a small softball sized black cardboard box and offers it over. "Got ya this. Present, not owed." Assuming Shizuko opens it, she'll find inside a small crystal stand, on top of which is a black crystal heart that has a gentle red pulse within its depths. "Can't believe they had this in there, and it was so cheap. It's a health and emotional state soother! For real! They had it as a -mood heart-, but it's not just that, the crystal its made of has a natural chillaxing effect if you hold the heart against you. I found some once near the Conglomeration. Had to have it and give it to you!"

Leaving the store. It's like a new page turned over in Shizuko's book of life or something. So strange a feeling, walking out in something this nice while having your normal clothes in a bag... and something even /nicer/ as well. "Eh?" she says as the new box is given to her, looking at it more warily now. She carefully takes the box, half expecting some other thing to drop now. Just a bit of pessimist nature shifting through. Gingerly, eyes narrowed slightly, she opens the box to see the crystal inside. "Uwah?" She looks back to Iridescence in confusion, a look that... doesn't really change with the explanation of what it is. She just wants to ask 'why' but at this point... no. Well, surely Iridescence has seen the nervousness in Shizuko through a lot of this. Seen her worry, see her pessimistic nature. Maybe Shizuko really does embody a lot of Goth elements. A strangely thoughtful gift... Somehow that was the most surprising thing of all of this. This is no 'using Shizuko as a dress-up doll' like she was expecting - and let's be honest, that /did/ happen. "Thank you," she says quietly, unsure of how the heck she's supposed to feel about all this... No, she's not going to try it out right now. She carefully closes the box again and... well, puts it in one of her bags. It /is/ the most convenient way to carry it.

There's no laws against using people as dress up dolls, that's what Iridescence lives in Senta and not Synthatek. Okay she doesn't know if there are clothing laws over there but she doesn't doubt it somehow! "Totes!" She thinks she likes it? Hard to tell with the hesitations setting in, but no matter! "This has been -awesome- fun. I haven't done this in a real long time!" She'll reach over to try and take Shizuko's hand again, planning to head to the limo and drop her off at the Neko Neko apartments, or wherever else she wants to be dropped off.

Shizuko's hand is grabbed and she is pulled. Nope, not fighting against it, apparently they're headed for the exit this time so... yeah, better or worse, looks like this unexpected shopping trip is at its end. Well, better than last time, that's for sure. She considers a moment before nodding and smiling once again. "Yeah. It /was/ fun!" she decides aloud. The time truly does come to an end, and Shizuko is dropped off... no, not directly in front of the place, that would cause too much of a fuss. >.> So Shizuko steps out and offers a bow towards Iridescence. "Thanks... It was... nice." With that she turns around, takes a step forward and suddenly freezes as she hears the limo taking off again. "Wait... did she say 'date' for next time?"
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Map of TRI

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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><h2>MAP Of TRI</h2>
You can download the following file and load it into your BeipMU client! In BeipMU go to Options > Show Map Window > File > Open, and select the file. If you click the eyes and the little compass, it will track your position as you move around the grid!


[http://charis2.servegame.com/tri/TRIMAP-V5.zip Tri MAP Atlas compatible with BeipMU Download]

If you don't use BeipMU, you can view the entire map here:

[http://charis2.servegame.com/tri/TRILegendsofthethreeContinentsMAP-V5.jpg TRI: LEGENDS OF THE THREE CONTINENTS MAP]

Questions & Answers

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CRASHMASS
Every year in the depths of winter the people of TRI celebrate by giving gifts to each other in honor of The Great Scavenger, a being who wandered from continent to continent, giving gifts to those in need during a particularly nasty winter when many were starving and a gigantic space war resulted in tons of debris falling onto the three continents, resulting in the destruction of many homes.

Legend says The Great Scavenger was able to not only help those in need, he could use technology in Distant Oceans, and magic in Synthatek! There seemed to be no end to his generosity and power. He rebuilt homes, healed the hurt, and turned much of the falling debris into useful materials.

So overwhelmed were the people of TRI, an annual tradition was created, where people would build small spaceships and decorate it with fiery colorful lights, symbolizing the falling destruction. At the base of the ship would be presents, often made from random things scavenged on the world of TRI, a representation of the gifts The Great Scavenger gave to those in need.

With the passage of time, the tradition has become more of a gift giving event, and traders, merchants, and scavengers are regarded in higher honor than usual at Crashmass. People tend to pay a bit more for their wares in honor of The Great Scavenger, especially when the purchase is to be gifted to another.

To this day, falling space debris is more common in the depths of winter, particularly on Crashmass day. Whether this is done by some unknown force, Big Sister, the ancient Wizards Council, or some other entity is unknown. Some even believe it's The Great Scavenger sending gifts down from the skies. Pilgrims will try to trek to the town of Stargazer, believing The Great Scavenger might operate out of there, though their presence usually results in trouble, either for them or the residents of that place.

Whether The Great Scavenger ever truly existed is the subject of much debate. There are still some loyal followers who swear he was real, while others regard him as one of the many fables told on the world of TRI. Whichever is true, the tradition of Crashmass remains to this day.

Events

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'''A list of Events, seasonal or otherwise, that occur on the continents of Tri.'''

[[Egg Celebration Day!]] A time of celebrating the freedom of eggs and bunnygirls from the wicked witch!

[[Crashmass]] A celebration of The Great Scavenger and the annual falling of debris

Integrated Canon Places

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A list of worlds and places that have been integrated into TRI's canon history.

*Roshtaria
*Beastars
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*Roshtaria
*Beastars

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A list of worlds and places that have been integrated into TRI's canon history.

*Roshtaria
*Beastars

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