NPF Avatars 5 - Burning Down The House - Page 4

mauve · 08-20-2007, 12:14 AM

Mauve gave an involuntary shudder, feeling as if someone had been watching her. Someone... Deathlike?

"Well that was weird," she muttered under her breath. She sidestepped away from another, far weirder spectacle involving Asheth, Pyros, and Pyros.

"Aaaaaand that wins for most weird." she concluded.

She sighed and leaned against the wall.

"Okay, there's just one question I have now," she said. "And that is.... Why does Fenris have a giant fish strapped to his back?"

***Fenris*** · 08-20-2007, 12:20 AM

"You'll see in due time, m'dear. Think of it as an indicator of what might come next. Also, you didn't notice the gloves? C'mon, Mauve, you're more observant than that!" was all Fenris replied.

POS Industries · 08-20-2007, 01:49 AM

Having left the rest behind to change, Rei unbuttoned the tattered and torn business and began removing it. Between various sorts of weaponsfire, bombs going off, and having a massive fruit-flavored slime monster attempt to devour her, her garments were barely holding together. Tossing the jacket aside before moving to remove her skirt, a voice suddenly cried out in protest, causing Rei to reflexively cover up, as per her more recent programming modifications.

"Yow! Hey, watch where you're throwing people, hun!"

Following the source of the voice, Rei picked the jacket back up and reached into the pocket, removing a shard of emerald green crystal. "Ohhhh yeah," the android chuckled as she looked it over, "I'd been wondering what Pe-chan was up to with you. My scanners showed you were more than just regular crystal, but he seemed like he didn't want a big deal made while everyone was looking. My name's Rei! What's yours?"

"Anima, and it's nice to finally meet you officially. That Pedro guy thinks very highly of you, which is strange for a guy like that..."

Rei set Anima down as she went back to her clothes-changing, unzipping and dropping her skirt down to the floor before sliding off what was left of her stockings. "Well, he created me. He says he's proud of me," she said, smiling warmly.

"I actually believe that. Anyway, I think we're both having a hard time figuring each other out. I learned from Pedro's thoughts that you're a machine, but the way you're built.... I think I can almost match the energy resonance of your processor dealies or whatever they are, but I'm still trying to figure out how to do it with something that's, well, not alive in the classical sense..."

Her old outfit fully removed, Rei zipped open the suitbag that had recently been given to her and eyed the contents with some degree of amusement before picking Anima back up. "Here, try this," she stated, an aura of electromagnetic energy beginning to crackle about her, "Match it with this frequency. It should be about right."

The crystal's shape began to change as she attempted to sync her telepathic energy with the android girl's electricity, before finally finding something she liked, making an attempt to communicate silently over the new link.

Can you hear me now?

I see you've gotten a look at Pe-chan's endless cache of pop-culture one-liners.

Did you actually just make fun of your maker? I'm -so- telling on you.

Nuh-uh, not if I tell on your first! Rei giggled as she set Anima back down, the link successfully established and tested, and got back to clothing herself.

A couple minutes later, Rei returned from the dining hall in her more appropriate attire, an outfit which seemed more than a bit familiar to the likes of Ecurt, Arhra, and Mauve: a white sailor fuku with black skirt, dark grey ribbon, silver tiara, an emerald bracelet around her right wrist, and impressively lifelike and fluffy white cat ears atop her head, with matching tail.

"HEEYYYYY YYYYOOOOUUUU GUUUYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!! Everybody ready?"

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"HIM?! Aw, come on! He's just this guy, you know? I'm the villain in the story!"

Doug Doukhobor was whining like he'd never whined before. Nothing stings a crappy two-dimensional villain character more than being told that he's hardly as evil as the supposed hero he's fighting against, and Doug wasn't terribly good at not wearing his heart on his sleeve, god bless him.

"Haha, guess who sucks at being bad!" POS taunted back, still floating helplessly in his tube, "You ain't bad! You ain't nothing! You ain't nothing! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

"Oh, real nice Michael Jackson impression there," Doug growled, "Do you touch little boys with that mouth, too?"

"Wow!" a rather visually impressed Pedro applauded, "That actually wasn't too bad a comeback. You're learning!"

It was at about this time that Santa rolled his eyes and began to exit, having set down a lovingly wrapped gift box with a tag upon which was written, "To Dougie Doukhobor, From Santa. Do not open till X-Mas."

"I have things to take care of, if you plan on dealing with this one," the vengeful copy Claus called back behind him, "Despite his naughtiness, he's of little concern to me at the moment, though the others will be arriving soon. I'm going to meet them out front and make Christmas come early for them, because..."

TheBlindMime · 08-20-2007, 02:04 AM

Snookums was gone, and he wasn't coming back. Snookums needed his man parts and as is it turned out wherever Asheth was, man parts were not allowed. Fortunately hiding places were many, TBMyros could become TBMhra and mix in with the 3 of them headed to face Santa or turn into some sort of robo-Hawk, no one would question that, hell he could jump into Mauve's pockets... never to be seen again.

TBMyros opted for the most simple and laziest idea, as he often did.... as he always did. He lounged back safely out of sight, knowing that a Mod stood between him and doom. Fenris had even lovingly provided a giant fish that doubled as both hideout and food source.

Snookums was in kittygod hog heaven, and he wasn't coming back.

Arhra · 08-20-2007, 09:54 AM

Arhra never enjoyed being snubbed, tending to plot the occaisional elaborate revenge over such a thing. The fact that Hawk had just snubbed five Arhras simultaneously made it approximately sixty-five thousand, five hundred and thirty-six times worse for him. Arhra was prone to hyperbole.

As such two Arhras were giving Hawk dirty looks (occaisionally eying Fenris and his fishy makeover) while the other one was telling the Sundered Heart of Chaos how much she'd missed it. Arhra Five casually sauntered back in.

On it being demanded what she was doing here when she was supposed to be taking care of the sick Arhra, everything suddenly went all wavy.

* * *

Faced with getting the seriously ill Arhra Three home and stuck on top of the Kurosen Tower, Five considered her options. Unfortunately, she was not outfitted with rocket boots, which would have made everything much simpler. Note to self: Accquire rocket boots. Five decided. Still, cyberisation had given her other options...

Kayessa, moping around the base of the Kurosen Tower still, was surprised to find an awfully cybernetic looking Arhra abseilling down the structure's side, Arhra slung over her shoulder.

"Ah, Kayessa!"

"Uh... is that you Arhra?" the gynoid replied, "Why am I detecting significant technological integration in you and why do you have a doppelganger slung over your shoulder?"

"It's complicated." Five said breezily. "First, how have you been?"

"I got lost." Kayessa replied. "And ended up here. I thought I ran across someone on that list of yours, but then it turned out to be Old Man McMarskrim wearing a mask."

"Ah, good thing you saw through it then. He's devious. Anyway," Five hefted Arhra Three, "Arhra's sleeping off some bad poison right now, so I was going to take her home. Seeing you're here, I don't suppose I could get you to do it instead?"

"I guess so. Are you sure she'll be alright?"

"Ok, I'll upload you some better directions. My medical diagnostics say she's attempting to encapsulate and reject foreign traces inside her, so some rest and hopefully she'll be fine."

"You have medical diagnostics?"

"Yeah, I picked up all this scanner stuff!" Five said happily, "Who knows what I'll be detecting with it. Anyway, I'd better get back, I think we have to kill Santa. Make sure she gets home alright!"

"OK!"

* * *

"... Couldn't you just have said you found Kayessa and told her to take Arhra home instead?" Arhra One decided to ask.

"It would have ruined the fun." Arhra Five sulked.

"HEEYYYYY YYYYOOOOUUUU GUUUYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!! Everybody ready?" Rei re-entered the scene, resplendant in curiously grey scale sailor-fuku, complete with cat ears and a tail. Arhras couldn't help but feel the stuff looked suspiciously familiar to the Armour That Shall Not Be Mentioned.

"Wait a moment!" Five declared dramatically, shining a light on a patch of shadows in the otherwise well lit room with a convenient wrist mounted spotlight. "Who the hell is that?!"

Perhaps ShadowFlare would be coming out of the closet sooner than she'd planned.

***Fenris*** · 08-20-2007, 10:47 AM

"Hey!" Fenris reached into the Beluga Sturgeon and grabbed TBMyros by the nape of the neck. "This fish is not for eating! If you're that worried about the admittedly super-sized super-attractive fire chica, then just stay behind me. I can probably hold her off for all of 5 seconds."

He peered inside the fish, shining his banstck in the mouth, and muttered something about the circuits being secure or something like that.

Wizardcat · 08-20-2007, 11:18 AM

Wizzle was still technically on the thread, moving towards what was left of the roof of Kurosen Tower, what with a lack of posting from a certain person who should have posted quite a while ago. It seemed the thread was moving slowly, or something. In any case, the cat mage eventually reached the portal and walked through it to find chaos, the natural state of NPF.

The first thing to be noticed, besides the Pyros, Ahrha, and other assorted problems going on, was the fact that there was a table with all of the item submissions on it. Noting that his necklace was missing, he instead grabbed a certain headband and gem that he remembered from earlier in the tournament. The feline grinned, somewhat evily, before donning the headband.

After the cut-scene sequence in which they were formed, Wizzle Red, Wizzle Blue, and Wizzle Purple strode over to FenrisWolf and said simultaneously, "Miss us, by any chance?"

TheBlindMime · 08-20-2007, 12:58 PM

"WRRRYYYY!!!????" TBMyros asked sadly as he dangled helplessly in the air and in plain sight. Then Wizzle walked up three times, and the hiding was on again. "Transform!" A burst of smoke that smelled oddly close to rot and chunky monkey ice cream doused Fenris' hand, then oddly and probably most unwelcome stood a fourth Wizzle. This one was orange and seemed slightly anxious.

It wasn't that TBMizzle didn't believe that Fenris couldn't hold Asheth off for five seconds, it just seemed more likely that ripping apart the other Wizzle's to get to him would take longer.

Flarecobra · 08-20-2007, 01:11 PM

ShadowFlare was no longer conserned with the NPFers....for now. She was still following the tech, curious as to the technology that made the portals, and wondering if she can take them over....

In the meantime, back in the room with the other NPFers, I showed back up, setting the last of the barrowed gear on the table, while taking back the pendent I had loaned. "Um..Rei..." I started to say. "What's with the magical girl outfit? Oh, and the last of the gear's here."

(Foreshadowing anyone? And Arhra, ShadowFlare's not even in the same room anymore as the others.)

Long-Haired Narcissist · 08-20-2007, 05:59 PM

Narc was watching TBMyros and Asheth hug when he got a serios case of being weirded out. "Don't you have decency? You're not supposed to do that type of stuff in public." Narc noticed that Pyros had a guitar when he was knocked away by Asheth so he went and talked to Pyros. "Oooh, you have a guitar, like me! Y'know what, we should have a jam session while we wait on everyone else."

Just as Narc was about to strike a chord, he heard Rei say "HEEYYYYY YYYYOOOOUUUU GUUUYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!! Everybody ready?".

"Awww man, maybe another time then," Narc said as he followed Pyros, "Hey, do you wanna hear about this guitar idea I have? I'm going to get two guitars and put a chain between them and call them Guitar Chucks."

08-20-2007, 12:14 AM	#31
mauve So Dreamy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Someplace magical Posts: 6,863	Mauve gave an involuntary shudder, feeling as if someone had been watching her. Someone... Deathlike? "Well that was weird," she muttered under her breath. She sidestepped away from another, far weirder spectacle involving Asheth, Pyros, and Pyros. "Aaaaaand that wins for most weird." she concluded. She sighed and leaned against the wall. "Okay, there's just one question I have now," she said. "And that is.... Why does Fenris have a giant fish strapped to his back?" __________________ Yoo Hoo!

08-20-2007, 12:20 AM	#32
*Fenris* Administrator Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Coast Posts: 6,806	"You'll see in due time, m'dear. Think of it as an indicator of what might come next. Also, you didn't notice the gloves? C'mon, Mauve, you're more observant than that!" was all Fenris replied. __________________ "FENRIS IS AN ASSHOLE" - shiney

08-20-2007, 01:49 AM	#33
POS Industries Argus Agony Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Gotta go fishing! Posts: 10,483	Textual Nude Scene. Not Safe For Literacy. Having left the rest behind to change, Rei unbuttoned the tattered and torn business and began removing it. Between various sorts of weaponsfire, bombs going off, and having a massive fruit-flavored slime monster attempt to devour her, her garments were barely holding together. Tossing the jacket aside before moving to remove her skirt, a voice suddenly cried out in protest, causing Rei to reflexively cover up, as per her more recent programming modifications. "Yow! Hey, watch where you're throwing people, hun!" Following the source of the voice, Rei picked the jacket back up and reached into the pocket, removing a shard of emerald green crystal. "Ohhhh yeah," the android chuckled as she looked it over, "I'd been wondering what Pe-chan was up to with you. My scanners showed you were more than just regular crystal, but he seemed like he didn't want a big deal made while everyone was looking. My name's Rei! What's yours?" "Anima, and it's nice to finally meet you officially. That Pedro guy thinks very highly of you, which is strange for a guy like that..." Rei set Anima down as she went back to her clothes-changing, unzipping and dropping her skirt down to the floor before sliding off what was left of her stockings. "Well, he created me. He says he's proud of me," she said, smiling warmly. "I actually believe that. Anyway, I think we're both having a hard time figuring each other out. I learned from Pedro's thoughts that you're a machine, but the way you're built.... I think I can almost match the energy resonance of your processor dealies or whatever they are, but I'm still trying to figure out how to do it with something that's, well, not alive in the classical sense..." Her old outfit fully removed, Rei zipped open the suitbag that had recently been given to her and eyed the contents with some degree of amusement before picking Anima back up. "Here, try this," she stated, an aura of electromagnetic energy beginning to crackle about her, "Match it with this frequency. It should be about right." The crystal's shape began to change as she attempted to sync her telepathic energy with the android girl's electricity, before finally finding something she liked, making an attempt to communicate silently over the new link. Can you hear me now? I see you've gotten a look at Pe-chan's endless cache of pop-culture one-liners. Did you actually just make fun of your maker? I'm -so- telling on you. Nuh-uh, not if I tell on your first! Rei giggled as she set Anima back down, the link successfully established and tested, and got back to clothing herself. A couple minutes later, Rei returned from the dining hall in her more appropriate attire, an outfit which seemed more than a bit familiar to the likes of Ecurt, Arhra, and Mauve: a white sailor fuku with black skirt, dark grey ribbon, silver tiara, an emerald bracelet around her right wrist, and impressively lifelike and fluffy white cat ears atop her head, with matching tail. "HEEYYYYY YYYYOOOOUUUU GUUUYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!! Everybody ready?" ------------------------------------------------------------ "HIM?! Aw, come on! He's just this guy, you know? I'm the villain in the story!" Doug Doukhobor was whining like he'd never whined before. Nothing stings a crappy two-dimensional villain character more than being told that he's hardly as evil as the supposed hero he's fighting against, and Doug wasn't terribly good at not wearing his heart on his sleeve, god bless him. "Haha, guess who sucks at being bad!" POS taunted back, still floating helplessly in his tube, "You ain't bad! You ain't nothing! You ain't nothing! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!" "Oh, real nice Michael Jackson impression there," Doug growled, "Do you touch little boys with that mouth, too?" "Wow!" a rather visually impressed Pedro applauded, "That actually wasn't too bad a comeback. You're learning!" It was at about this time that Santa rolled his eyes and began to exit, having set down a lovingly wrapped gift box with a tag upon which was written, "To Dougie Doukhobor, From Santa. Do not open till X-Mas." "I have things to take care of, if you plan on dealing with this one," the vengeful copy Claus called back behind him, "Despite his naughtiness, he's of little concern to me at the moment, though the others will be arriving soon. I'm going to meet them out front and make Christmas come early for them, because..." __________________ Either you're dead or my watch has stopped.

08-20-2007, 02:04 AM	#34
TheBlindMime IGNORE ME! Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,218	Snookums was gone, and he wasn't coming back. Snookums needed his man parts and as is it turned out wherever Asheth was, man parts were not allowed. Fortunately hiding places were many, TBMyros could become TBMhra and mix in with the 3 of them headed to face Santa or turn into some sort of robo-Hawk, no one would question that, hell he could jump into Mauve's pockets... never to be seen again. TBMyros opted for the most simple and laziest idea, as he often did.... as he always did. He lounged back safely out of sight, knowing that a Mod stood between him and doom. Fenris had even lovingly provided a giant fish that doubled as both hideout and food source. Snookums was in kittygod hog heaven, and he wasn't coming back. __________________ President of the Official Zombie Horde: Shambling mess / Friend of Zombie Bear I was just playing around with my imagination and then everything got INTENSE.

08-20-2007, 09:54 AM	#35
Arhra Ara ara! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Neo Venezia Posts: 5,013	Arhra never enjoyed being snubbed, tending to plot the occaisional elaborate revenge over such a thing. The fact that Hawk had just snubbed five Arhras simultaneously made it approximately sixty-five thousand, five hundred and thirty-six times worse for him. Arhra was prone to hyperbole. As such two Arhras were giving Hawk dirty looks (occaisionally eying Fenris and his fishy makeover) while the other one was telling the Sundered Heart of Chaos how much she'd missed it. Arhra Five casually sauntered back in. On it being demanded what she was doing here when she was supposed to be taking care of the sick Arhra, everything suddenly went all wavy. * * * Faced with getting the seriously ill Arhra Three home and stuck on top of the Kurosen Tower, Five considered her options. Unfortunately, she was not outfitted with rocket boots, which would have made everything much simpler. Note to self: Accquire rocket boots. Five decided. Still, cyberisation had given her other options... Kayessa, moping around the base of the Kurosen Tower still, was surprised to find an awfully cybernetic looking Arhra abseilling down the structure's side, Arhra slung over her shoulder. "Ah, Kayessa!" "Uh... is that you Arhra?" the gynoid replied, "Why am I detecting significant technological integration in you and why do you have a doppelganger slung over your shoulder?" "It's complicated." Five said breezily. "First, how have you been?" "I got lost." Kayessa replied. "And ended up here. I thought I ran across someone on that list of yours, but then it turned out to be Old Man McMarskrim wearing a mask." "Ah, good thing you saw through it then. He's devious. Anyway," Five hefted Arhra Three, "Arhra's sleeping off some bad poison right now, so I was going to take her home. Seeing you're here, I don't suppose I could get you to do it instead?" "I guess so. Are you sure she'll be alright?" "Ok, I'll upload you some better directions. My medical diagnostics say she's attempting to encapsulate and reject foreign traces inside her, so some rest and hopefully she'll be fine." "You have medical diagnostics?" "Yeah, I picked up all this scanner stuff!" Five said happily, "Who knows what I'll be detecting with it. Anyway, I'd better get back, I think we have to kill Santa. Make sure she gets home alright!" "OK!" * * * "... Couldn't you just have said you found Kayessa and told her to take Arhra home instead?" Arhra One decided to ask. "It would have ruined the fun." Arhra Five sulked. "HEEYYYYY YYYYOOOOUUUU GUUUYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!! Everybody ready?" Rei re-entered the scene, resplendant in curiously grey scale sailor-fuku, complete with cat ears and a tail. Arhras couldn't help but feel the stuff looked suspiciously familiar to the Armour That Shall Not Be Mentioned. "Wait a moment!" Five declared dramatically, shining a light on a patch of shadows in the otherwise well lit room with a convenient wrist mounted spotlight. "Who the hell is that?!" Perhaps ShadowFlare would be coming out of the closet sooner than she'd planned. __________________ This post is a good source of Ara ara, ufufu.* *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

08-20-2007, 10:47 AM	#36
*Fenris* Administrator Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Coast Posts: 6,806	"Hey!" Fenris reached into the Beluga Sturgeon and grabbed TBMyros by the nape of the neck. "This fish is not for eating! If you're that worried about the admittedly super-sized super-attractive fire chica, then just stay behind me. I can probably hold her off for all of 5 seconds." He peered inside the fish, shining his banstck in the mouth, and muttered something about the circuits being secure or something like that. __________________ "FENRIS IS AN ASSHOLE" - shiney

08-20-2007, 11:18 AM	#37
Wizardcat Dark-type? Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Somewhere. Posts: 431	Wizzle was still technically on the thread, moving towards what was left of the roof of Kurosen Tower, what with a lack of posting from a certain person who should have posted quite a while ago. It seemed the thread was moving slowly, or something. In any case, the cat mage eventually reached the portal and walked through it to find chaos, the natural state of NPF. The first thing to be noticed, besides the Pyros, Ahrha, and other assorted problems going on, was the fact that there was a table with all of the item submissions on it. Noting that his necklace was missing, he instead grabbed a certain headband and gem that he remembered from earlier in the tournament. The feline grinned, somewhat evily, before donning the headband. After the cut-scene sequence in which they were formed, Wizzle Red, Wizzle Blue, and Wizzle Purple strode over to FenrisWolf and said simultaneously, "Miss us, by any chance?" __________________ The dogs of war are nothing compared to the cats.

08-20-2007, 12:58 PM	#38
TheBlindMime IGNORE ME! Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,218	"WRRRYYYY!!!????" TBMyros asked sadly as he dangled helplessly in the air and in plain sight. Then Wizzle walked up three times, and the hiding was on again. "Transform!" A burst of smoke that smelled oddly close to rot and chunky monkey ice cream doused Fenris' hand, then oddly and probably most unwelcome stood a fourth Wizzle. This one was orange and seemed slightly anxious. It wasn't that TBMizzle didn't believe that Fenris couldn't hold Asheth off for five seconds, it just seemed more likely that ripping apart the other Wizzle's to get to him would take longer. __________________ President of the Official Zombie Horde: Shambling mess / Friend of Zombie Bear I was just playing around with my imagination and then everything got INTENSE.

08-20-2007, 01:11 PM	#39
Flarecobra Burn. Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Classified Posts: 11,017	ShadowFlare was no longer conserned with the NPFers....for now. She was still following the tech, curious as to the technology that made the portals, and wondering if she can take them over.... In the meantime, back in the room with the other NPFers, I showed back up, setting the last of the barrowed gear on the table, while taking back the pendent I had loaned. "Um..Rei..." I started to say. "What's with the magical girl outfit? Oh, and the last of the gear's here." (Foreshadowing anyone? And Arhra, ShadowFlare's not even in the same room anymore as the others.) __________________ "Only the fool wishes to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone." -A Thousand Sons Rules. Read them, know them, love them.