[The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona
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				Title: <strong>[The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Aethyrium</strong> on <strong>14-07-2019, 15:32:04</strong>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Aethyrium</strong> on <strong>14-07-2019, 15:34:23</strong>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Aethyrium</strong> on <strong>14-07-2019, 15:58:56</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(https://imgur.com/gctqCME.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Ramzi (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=303102.msg14805161#msg14805161)<br><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong> All<br><strong>Location:</strong> Gaia, Arizona<br><strong>Wearing:</strong> Dark pants and boots, with an open faced robe.<br><strong>Mood:</strong> Contemplative, receptive<br><hr>“<strong>Get back?</strong>” He questioned to himself, licking at his lips. His eyes looked up where they were being lead, and when the city appeared in the distance he got lost in the sight for a moment or five. “<strong>I don’t know.</strong>” He finally settled. It was far too big a question to answer on a whim. However Adan had struck a more important chord. “<strong>But I agree that I want to understand why…</strong>” He sighed, brow furrowing with confusion again. The more he thought about that, the worse it plagued him.<br><br>Even as they closed in on the edge of the city, Ramzi lifted a finger and gestured at Niko. “<strong>I have no proof. But I <em>suspect</em> that we do have an ally. The Elysium makes decisions in unison. For us to be banished instead of disposed of… I would believe that there was disharmony among them. This decision was not made unanimously, I don’t think. If we could solve that, perhaps we could get more information.</strong>”<br><br>As they crossed the threshold of the city, a small twang touched the back of his mind. It caused his spine to go rigid, and his body to perk up. Countless time spent as a hunter made him refuse to ignore such a little thing. Even though it was gone as quickly as it had come, Ramzi couldn’t shake the lingering feeling he was producing now. His eyes were all around the streets, looking for a clue, but when nothing presented it only amplified his paranoia. His hands separated from their calm folded position in front of himself and fell to his sides in clutched fists, waiting anxiously to be jumped by an unseen force that, even as they walked deeper into the city, didn’t come.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Xurtan</strong> on <strong>25-07-2019, 00:54:06</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/11990054/934full-diego-barrueco.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Fen Ylfingr (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=303102.msg14805158#msg14805158)<br><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong> The Group&nbsp; <br><strong>Location:</strong> Gaia, Arizona, Phoenix<br><strong>Wearing:</strong> This (https://i.imgur.com/U5yYYEE.jpg)<br><strong>Mood:</strong> Talking, flirting, and wondering what the fuck is going on. <br><hr><br>"Ramzi." Fen mouths to himself, a bit disgusted. Imagine, calling the executioner by his name. A lot like calling a cobra by 'kitten' if you ask him, but whatever. Better to keep the peace, he guesses. The information offered is at least something he listens to, for all the use it turns out to be. "So don't expect any help, trying to traverse the realms might kill us, and going back might kill us." He sums up, rolling his shoulders. "Yeah well, much as I like Gaia I don't intend to stay here. I got people back home to look after." He makes an annoyed face, as if he hadn't wanted to say that. "Gaia is a nice vacation and all but it isn't <em>home</em>, and it gets awful boring, awful quick." Sure, he'd used the place to hide out, and yeah he enjoys their books and other shit but... come on. <br><br>Korey interjecting turns his frown on her, and he shakes his head. "People like us, lady. Though I don't mind if you call me a star." He waggles his eyebrows, forcing himself to affect a better mood. Fuck it, no point in worrying about what he can't help. Just one foot in front of the other, and after that... after that he'll see. Though her words end up leaving him somewhat flatfooted. "So you'd, what. Be happy never going home?" Fen asks, incredulous. "Nothing or no one you'd miss?" Shaking his head, that's besides the point. "And what, just let Them win?" He pushes further, looking between Ramzi and Korey. "Give up? After everything I..." He cuts himself off sharply with a grunt, picking up his pace. Whatever, they obviously don't get it. "I might not be fond of where I'm from but it's still <em>home</em>, lady. I leave on my terms, not anyone else's." He tosses over his shoulder, falling into a brooding silence. <br><br>Adan seems... if not on his side, at least somewhat understanding. "Pretty boy's got a point." Fen offers, pulled from his musings. "Weird that we were exiled, yeah? Don't your kind usually get sent to put us down like, heh, dogs instead?" He directs the last towards Ramzi, though for once doesn't seem to mean anything insulting by it. "Your... Tectpatl?" He stumbles over the word, focusing back on Adan. Better to focus on him than Ramzi. "Oh, your..." He trails off, hand going to his side. "I wonder what they did with mine. Destroyed it, probably. Too much a sign of my resistance." His smile is more grimace, but he shakes the mood off easily enough this time. "If you know me you know the story of my binding, so there's no surprise there. But what was your Tectpatl like?" He's genuinely curious, never really having had the opportunity to ask others about their artifacts. <br><br>At the casual dialect coming from such a well dressed form, Fen snickers and throws an arm around the man. "I'll get you to loosen up yet." He adds under his breath with a smirk, "In more ways than one." Hey, a little flirting never killed anyone. And Adan hasn't exactly proven to be unreceptive. Niko bringing the mood down sours him a bit, but then, Niko seems a bit all over the place. Disentangling himself from Adan, he throws a <em>look</em> at Niko. "So what, we just wait here and hope they don't decide to finish us off when they're bored? I don't know about you but I don't like the idea of just waiting and looking over my shoulder forever." <br><br>In the discussion they've seemingly come up upon Phoenix, and Fen swears if he ever gets out of this mess he's burying supplies in every city on Gaia. He has a few here and there, but who the fuck goes to Phoenix? "An ally. Great. Fat lot of good they seem to be doing us now." Fen snorts, crossing his arms even as they cross the city boundaries. Shuddering, he stops, hackles almost visibly raised as he tilts his head up and inhales, head scanning the street. Ramzi going rigid isn't unnoticed, and his gaze snaps to the man. "You feel it too." His voice is rougher, more gravelly. "Know something I don't, Ramzi?" The name is drawled, drawn out, Fen ever inclined towards suspicion.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amarlo</strong> on <strong>25-07-2019, 16:48:41</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/34/0b/f4/340bf484e3a74f83547a6f71262d24c8.jpg?b=t)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Korey (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=303102.msg14805160#msg14805160)<br><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong> All<br><strong>Location:</strong> Gaia, <div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">AMURIKA</div><div class="spoiler_body">FUCK YEAH</div></div><br><strong>?Wearing:</strong> A Masterpiece of turmoil (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/db/cf/b7/dbcfb7e5487a7f9569af6ca8bddd5d29.jpg)<br><strong>?Mood:</strong> Confused. Bright eyed. Bushy-Tailed.<br><hr>It was surprising, to say the least, that Fen of all people spoke of missing people back home. If the epics written of him were even the least bit true she wouldn't blame him if he walked out leaving his home ablaze with two middle fingers gleaming over his shoulders. Yet here he was, forcing the young woman's thoughts to scour past the footnotes. After all, perhaps their stories were not so different - Fen and her's, that is. <br><br>Just like him, Korey had been trapped on a leash for the majority of her life. The only difference was that her leash seemed to be more metaphorical than physically blatant, but he was right - even though she felt caged,isolated, and even suffocated - there were things she would miss between her two homes…These were thoughts she did not like having. Korey didn’t want to reminisce over the things she had lost. In her mind this was supposed to be a grand adventure, an escape filled with <i>millions</i> of possibilities, but instead Fen wanted to turn it into a <i>tragedy</i>. <br><br>Korey winced, gently tugging her bottom lip between her teeth to worry away with her entirely optimistic mood. She could only imagine how grief stricken her mother likely was at that very moment. Would their entire forest wither away to ash without her there to tend it? Would her mother let their realm fall into decay just like she had the first time her father took possession of her? Would her pets survive? Would her father’s province survive her mother?<br><br>Guilt was a heavy burden to bear, it seemed. Suddenly she was feeling extraordinarily tired, as if their afternoon stroll had been hundreds of miles long. It was nauseating. <i>Chilling</i>, even. It made all of those pale little hairs along her arms and neck stand on end as if to harbringe a great omen -- or wait, that didn’t seem quite right...<br><br>Korey emerged from her thoughts with a sharp gasp as she essentially bounced her face right off of Ramzi’s backside, and had the good sense to turn a bright fluorescent pink as she gently clasped her poor nose. “Sorry.” She breathed awkwardly, glancing about to take stock of just who might have seen her fumble - only to realize Ramzi wasn’t the only person to stop in their tracks. As a matter of fact, Fen seemed to be eying Ramzi as if he might be the cause of it himself. <br><br>She really needed to get down to the bottom of that asap…<br><br>Then she caught sight of Phoenix and actually <i>looked</i> at it for the first time. “<i>Wow</i>.” She blinked slowly, “Amurika is <i>waaay</i> more advanced than Greece.” Or at least as she remembered it.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Bowen</strong> on <strong>29-07-2019, 07:58:30</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(https://66.media.tumblr.com/88b07ab227b637470703a7cf81441059/tumblr_pds842HJxK1r09d6po1_500.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Susanoo-no-Mikoto (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=303102.msg14805157#msg14805157)||Niko Uchiha<br><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong> Everyone<br><strong>Location:</strong> Gaia, Unknown<br><strong>?Wearing:</strong> Swimming trunks<br><strong>?Mood:</strong>&nbsp; Taking things in, trying to figure out what to do next<br><hr><br>Niko turned and paid close attention when Ramzi spoke to him about the workings of the Elysium. He had inside knowledge he suspected none of them did and ever since this ordeal had started all of them had been suffering from a lack of facts to rub together to actually make any kind of an informed decision. This news was neither positive or negative, but any information as to why they were banished and what the possible disagreements were between their cases was going to be valuable.<br><br>"Well that is something at least." he agrees. It meant nothing for him personally, his original statement of non of his friends or family standing by him was still true but gaining comprehension into what he even did that caused this banishment was something he wanted to know. "I know very little of the Elysium and its workings beyond the various outcomes of some of the Celestials. Do you have any ideas as to how we could figure out who our possible ally is? I imagine without tipping off the others would be best." he asks then adds. "And then of course there is the contacting them so we could have some kind of discussion." These were difficult obstacles to overcome but not impossible. <br><br>Niko walked in silence for a bit trying to work on any strategies to help answer his own questions. He quickly set some short term goals to get his mind working in the proper order before tackling some of the more difficult problems. He wasn't the type to wait for others to do all the work. He could get into a good brood by the time they reached the city but Fen's remarks snapped him out of it. At first he was wondering what he'd done to make yet another person upset with him. Once again he calmly listened to Fen's accusations.<br><br>"Fen. All I said was that I--<strong>personally</strong>, had no wish to return. I based that on the fact that so far, it looks like I've lost all friends and family willing to care about my well being. I don't feel I have something to go back to." he reiterated once again. "When I said I wanted to measure my options first. I meant simply that I realize I'm working with limited knowledge about this whole affair. There may be very good reasons for all the things that have happened and the people I thought I could count on had to remain silent. I would very much like that to be the case, but I just don't know."<br><br>He takes another breath. "I did say that if anyone wanted to return, I'd be happy to help them. So to answer your question in a rather long winded way... No. I don't think we should just wait and hope. I'm not used to being hunted, nor do I like that idea any more than you do." That's probably not enough so he continues. "I think we need to gather intelligence first. Once we have something to work with we can make different or at least more informed decisions about our future. Short term plans...get some local clothes so I'm not in my underwear, find a place to stay maybe get a meal and a bath before some sleep. When I'm not so tired and cranky, see what we can discover about who is in the know around here. How about you? What ideas do you have to share?" <br><br>Glancing over to Korey he smiled at her reaction to Phoenix. "Fitting in should be interesting then and you'll have much to discover." 
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				Title: <strong>Re: [The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Intimate Ink</strong> on <strong>30-07-2019, 07:08:56</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(https://66.media.tumblr.com/97b57f60d56d842e3d1df85b70fe905e/tumblr_pq0mv4gBXa1v7qsymo1_540.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Adán Carmesí (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=303102.msg14805159#msg14805159)<br><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong> Everyone<br><strong>Location:</strong> Phoenix, AZ ; Gaia<br><strong>Wearing:</strong> As pictured, golden rings<br><strong>Mood:</strong> Perking up, albeit slowly<br><hr><br>Adán continued his walk into the city of Phoenix, stopping to take note of any changes.&nbsp; While Hermes technically had vetted the area before them, a speeding blur is quite different than a slower-moving party.&nbsp; Though his knowledge of times aside from his own was, admittedly, limited, Adán felt confident enough that a group wandering in on foot might draw an eye.&nbsp; Not that would be dangerous in itself, but if that eye was of an enemy, well...<br><br>Still, there was plenty of things to see, muse at.&nbsp; Gaia looked noticeably... well, <em>uglier</em> than he had last left it.&nbsp; There were buildings that appeared to be dwellings easily enough, many gated, most of the homes a carbon copy of one another.&nbsp; It was as if the architect was so proud of their work that to preserve it they made the same thing again and again, street after street, so that no matter how many homes burnt down there would still be forty exactly like it.&nbsp; "Is... everywhere like this now?"&nbsp; He asked near-reflectively, wondering what the fate of the lands that he once was connected with now looked like.<br><br>"I, too, would be curious to know of this ally.&nbsp; First to thank them, and second, well... to know why we earned such an allegiance." &nbsp;Though he had some flight of fancy that the ally might be one of his family, Adán breathed away the likelihood of that in a course chuckle.&nbsp; Them returning to Gaia, let alone prying in his affairs, seemed quite unlikely.&nbsp; It was a pleasant thought in lieu of being forgotten, however.<br><br>Fen's question about his Tecpatl brought a winsome smile to his face.&nbsp; Reflexively his fingers moved to his side, feeling the absence of it. &nbsp;"It is... was..," could it truly have been destroyed? Adán felt a shiver despite the dry, hot air.&nbsp; "It's a remembrance of the best of this planet, as far as I have seen it.&nbsp; It is what took and still holds the last of life from my true followers, its' edge knowing the blood and flesh of them, their loyalty.&nbsp; It has likewise cut into me countless times, countless ways.&nbsp; I still use it... You see, my brothers, myself, our abilities are often tied to our blood, our bones."&nbsp; Adán offered an unsettled shrug, well enough aware that Aztec Gods often stood out for their tastes, even among some Celestials.&nbsp; Sure, he could dress pretty, minimize the visual impact of gruesome components.&nbsp; Even he, the one who embraced change, could not fully step back from the essence, though.&nbsp; Some things were just innate.<br><br>He handled the sudden push for tangled limbs from Fen well enough, the slightest of bemused expressions across his face.&nbsp; Still, he walked onward, letting Fen disentangle just as quickly with his words to Niko.&nbsp; He watched the exchange pass, though chimed in towards the end.&nbsp; "I confess shelter wouldn't be an unwelcome find, a source for food, water, clothes..." &nbsp;Adán glanced down, not entirely thrilled with the fact that his wardrobe hadn't come with him.&nbsp; Sure, it was not on the same level of loss as his Tecpatl, yet one could say he was a fan of <em>many</em> fine layers in lieu of more esoteric tastes.<br><br>Adán cocked his head, adding with the slightest of twisted smiles.&nbsp; "Besides, it seems Niko has changed his mind about Fen's proposals with all this talk of his need to shed his smallclothes."<br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [The Banished] Phoenix, Arizona</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Kadigan</strong> on <strong>31-07-2019, 04:00:47</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(https://www.channelguidemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Alexa-Bliss-Total-Diva-1030-678x381.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Hermes<br><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong> Anybody listening<br><strong>Location:</strong> Phoenix Arizona (Not Bismark North Dakota) <br><strong>?Wearing:</strong> Black sleeveless top, white trim, black pants with white stripes. Sandals. <br><strong>?Mood:</strong> A puppy in a fire hydrant store<br><br>Hermes was contented for the moment to not run away from the group. They were kinda interesting to listen too, though she had little to actually contribute to the conversation. She got the feeling amongst some of her some of her other brother and sister gods they were a bit miffed and had put up a bit more of a protest amongst the big wigs. She'd mostly gone along with the flow. Go along to get along, and she'd gotten to keep her hat because of it. It's not like she wouldn't miss running along the infinite planes, but at least if she was stuck somewhere it was an interesting realm. <br><br>Full of so many exciting and interesting things. She was a bit of a blur as she suddenly smushed her face, along with other bits, up against a large pane of glass. Inside were dozens of humans, running on strange little machines, but they weren't going anywhere. She twisted her face against the glass with a squeak as she tried to figure it out. She slammed her hand on the glass a few times "Hey! HEY! Why aren't you running outside? That's weird and dumb!" She turned towards the others, who'd moved on without her. She turned angrily and slammed her hand against the glass one more time, then caught up. <br><br>She listened to them talk about shelter and the like and beamed. She could help here, super awesome Hermes help. It wasn't like the old days where you could just sleep wherever. Well, you could, but mortals apparently expected some sort of call of your boots if you did that. "These days Mortals use paper money. It's not as shiney as gold but it's kinda neat. A lot lighter too..."<br><br>Hermes stuck her tongue out as she rummaged around in her hat, frowning and wiggling again before pulling it out with a yelp. She waggled her finger at the hat "NO! BAD!" before shoving her hand, and arm back in deeply. Her smile brightned as she yanked it back out and proudly held up a satchel proclaiming that it belonged to someone named "DB." Inside was some yellowed, older, but still good money. "So...I think this is still worth something around here. Maybe? Enough for food at least."
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