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Alise noticed the light disc acting weirdly. What's happening, and is it still safe to use? Alise thinks it might be best not to try her luck until she really needs to use it. "I know, right?" Alise answers in response to Sera's screams. "That is the shittiest construct I've ever seen, and I thought that unfinished dog Jack made was horrible." Alise keeps on her toes, and maintains a distance between herself and the strange boxy construct. The moment it attacks, Alise will drop an energy shield in front of it. "Real constructs have curves!"

"Wow... I haven't heard of half this stuff. I'm rather reliant on my magic, which I'm not even sure will be, well, reliable now. Not that I understood my magic fully to begin with, that was for... someone else." Alise stares at the runic tattoos along her arms. "Guess I'll just have to work something out." "I do wonder how illusions work on optical sights, or how my flight will be affected in the danger zone. Oh! Before I forget." She twirls the fingers of her left hand. The white rune on her wrist glows brightly. Soon, bright white energy flows from the rune, along her hand, and to her fingertips. The twirling action stirs the energy together, until it forms two discs of light, in the same bright white color as the energy that made it. Alise turns to face Erin and Darya. "If either of you two don't mind, could I place these discs on you? Alise will toss a disc to each woman who accepts.

Rest well Ourla!

Jan - Feb - Lunar New Year Mar - Apr - (Event) May - June - (Event) July - Aug - (Event) Sep - Oct - Halloween Nov - Halloween/Christmas Dec - Christmas We'll have a nice spread of events if we have one in April, June, and August. I didn't suggest any specific events because I wanted ethnic holidays to fill in the slots. I won't speak for people who actually celebrate said ethnic holidays IRL. Though jaistlyn's idea of swapping out holidays through the years (e.g. replace Halloween with Dia de los Muertos next year) sounds great too!

With all these wonderful suggestions up there, my suggestion is to pick festivals with a good spread over the entire year. Probably not good to have five festivals bunched up in a few of the months, leaving the rest of the year sparse.

"Shield's giving out real soon!" Alise twirls the fingers of her left hand. The white rune on her wrist glows brightly. Soon, bright white energy flowed from the rune, along her hand, and to her fingertips. The twirling action stirs the energy together, until it forms a disc of light, in the same bright white color as the energy that made it. Alise throws her left arm upwards, at the same time flicking her wrist to toss a white disc of light at the highest point of the ceiling. With a clench of her hand, she is yanked towards the disc, flying upwards to touch the ceiling. She hopes to stay as far away from the raptors as possible. With no time to lose, Alise begins throwing green discs of light, one at each friendly person in the room including Rev and ivory scales man. The disc should cling to them, and they should find that they are moving faster now. The shield now vanishes, its blue energy dissipating into the air.

Alise couldn't help but chuckle, but it was a nervous chuckle. She's seen and heard that attitude many times before. Sometimes, things work out. Often, it don't go too well afterwards. Alise holds out her left arm, and with a quick flick tosses out a white disc of light at the statue. It should stick to the top of the statue in the fountain. The blue rune on her right arm now glows brightly. Her current plan is quite simple - throw an energy shield at the first aggressive thing that appears, then keep her distance away from all the things trying to kill her.

Somehow, Alise felt less fear and more determination. Her top priority is saving others' lives, and everything else seems to pale in comparison to that. "Well, even after bringing the isotope back, there's about 5 hours of what i'm gonna guess would be protecting this area while Dr Treiller does her thing with the machine, then ensure everyone gets catapulted out. But the first step would be getting our hands on the isotope." Alise looks down at her hands, and the glowing runic tattoos upon it. She can feel her memories of her own powers returning... only a small fraction of her memories, but her memories nevertheless... She looks back up at Dr Treiller. Her face is not of anger or mistrust, merely a seriousness one would have in a discussion. "Is that shimmering air - or anything in the experimental lab, or the isotope for that matter - going to interact badly with magic? Or even with our very being? Should we have a plan beyond 'dash in, nab the isotope, dash out' ?"

Ever started to write up a post, get called away to do something IRL, then spend the rest of the day thinking you finished the post? I need to hurry up.

Wow, the threads i'm in seem to be going faster. Is it because i just joined a new plot? But it feels like even the plots I was already in are getting speedier. I hope I can keep up.

Wow. Dr Treiller is showing a whole new level of frustration. Probably from a combination of whatever science she's doing, and the need for secrecy. Still, was there really a need to through the clearance cards on the ground? At least put them on a table, or hand them to someone. Nevertheless, Alise picks one up and attempts to wear it, as if it had a red string attached to it. She then puts it in her pocket. Primal Alloy, Elendaron, a rift... there was much unfamiliarity with these things, so much that Alise is starting to doubt that recovering her memories would be of much use. Even if she had not lost her memories, or if she manages to get them back, would those memories have any help in understanding these terms, these strange events? Only the most recent of memories would help with them. Not those of her hometown. A team that saves the world, perhaps. Or at least, one that saves the lives of countless people, in the city or otherwise. Somehow, Alise's muddled mind decides to put these concerns first, ahead of other things. Such as knowing what is going on at all, or if she is being used somehow. "What do you mean, an experiment?" Alise raises an eyebrow. "What are we doing in this 'team'? It'd better be 'saving lives' level of important."

As the screeching rins through the bar, Alise starts to regret sounding so confident just now. She just wanted to stay positive and keep morale up. And when the raptors come crashing through and take out a man, she actually does regret it. These creastures sure leave no time to prepare for a big fight. Nevertheless, the fight has started. Alise flicks her right hand upwards. Cobalt blue energy emerges from the blue rune on her arm, flowing along her wrists, and collecting in her fingertips. She then flicks her hand outwards, towards the door that the first raptor crashed through. The energy zips off her fingers, and transforms into a large blue energy shield. The shield is in the shape of a quarter-sphere, the outside surface facing the door. The raptors should find the outside surface rather solid, perhaps painful if they run straight into it. "Attack! I'll back you up. All of you!"

My apologies. I misunderstood supernal, and thought Alise was with the other players' characters all along. Now I realize that she was on a parallel but separate path, and did not meet the other characters until they all meet the Doc. I have edited in Alise introducing herself to the two women. Hope that helps. Edit: I also changed Alise saying "we" to "I".

Alise opts to stay away from the fire. She lacks fireproofing, and fire has this tendency to hurt. A lot. Fire is nasty. Thank goodness for the barrier that blocks the fire. She hopes it stays up. Instead, Alise heads towards the fountain, where the statue stands. She closely examines both the statue, and the fountain itself. Does the fountain still have clean, moving water? Are there any loose bricks, or movable parts on the statue, that might open a secret door or a special passageway? The time is now... by Thy. Or Thyme, perhaps. Time... Alise recalls the ticking sound she heard earlier on in that four-way junction. She wonders if she should have looked out for a clock there. A touch too late at this point, however. Alise turns around to talk to Silver, only to see Silver has stopped and is on alert. Alise follows suit, looking around herself cautiously, listening for any signs of danger, and ready to cast a shield.

Until now, many things felt unknown to Alise. Yet when she steps into the lab, she seems to feel a very small, but definitely there, sense of familiarity. That, and a sense that touching anything in the lab would end up with her paying for it, literally. "Hello there," Alise greets the two women. "I'm Alise..." She struggles to think. Wasn't there more to it? "Just Alise. Nice to meet you." Alise turns to the Doc to answer the questions. "I woke up in the mud of a dirt road, not too far away from the city. Without any of my memories." Alise briefly pauses to wipe her mouth, as if there was still some mud there. There wasn't, but somehow she thought there way. Ack, mud is awful. "I saw the knife storm, so I sought shelter. I found this city. You guys took me in. I think that about covers it."