Twinwolf

After reviewing applications for the vacant slot, I've decided that Linton Rye, played by Powder Miner, will join the party as they reach Opus. I will talk with their player about this. Thanks to those who applied and my apologies for you not getting in - if I felt I could handle more I certainly would, as there weren't any bad sheets, just enough good sheets to make the decision rather difficult.

~~INTERLUDE~~ It had been a full day on the seas, since the escape from Aica. They had found some of the sailors to whom the ship belonged tied up below decks and released them, to help sail. Opus would come into sight in the evening, or perhaps the following morning, depending on the way the wind went. Winston had informed the non-military personnel that they would be rewarded for their assistance once they reached Opus and given passage to wherever they pleased afterwards. The other soldiers, on the other hand, were told that they were not to mention to Elizabeth that she was the object of their mission, at least not yet. The sun rose high in the sky, and people could do as they wished. Winston was standing at the bow, watching the horizon. Elizabeth was in the galley, apparently assisting in the cooking, and Leslie was reviewing her stock for the fifth time that day. Things were fairly quiet.

[Loot roll: 36] As the party rushes towards the ship, Bradwr inspects a barrel. On top of it is a lucky rabbit's foot on a chain, possibly the possession of one of the sailors. May as well take it - he got the sense they'd need all the luck they could get in the coming days. Bradwr recieves Rabbit's Foot (+1 LUK when consumed)' MAP COMPLETE The party boards the ship, filing on the gangplank one at a time with Winston holding for the rest to go first. "Move it, we're out of time!" he shouts as he boards and brings the gangplank in, the soldiers march forward like a steady wall of death in scary synchronicity. It is not as large a ship as some of the others, seeming to be a fishing ship over a cargo ship - this is perhaps lucky, as it means they can be under way much faster than on a larger ship needing a bigger crew. Leslie seems right at home, bolting around the ship and making it ready to go and shouting orders at whoever isn't hurt to help. The soldiers are on the dock at this point, their leader at the head of the collumn. "Faster! They're getting away!" General Dane shouts at his men as he passes the corpses of the unit that had been stationed here. "We're ready!" Leslie shouts from the ship's wheel. Winston throws an axe at the ropes keeping the ship in place and then rushes to the oars, barking orders at whoever was nearest to help - it wouldn't be fast enough, the soldiers were just about to get aboard, the pounding of armored feet shaking the ground - wait... The soldiers stumble, unable to keep their footing - the crates and such on the dock fall and sink into water, and a part of the wall crumbles. There's a sound like the crack of thunder, despite there not being a cloud in the sky, and the docks are buffeted by winds - it repeats, again and again, and the astute see what else it's hitting - the sails. The ship lurches away from the docks, slowly at first and gaining speed until it's tearing away from Aica as fast as any of the party have gone. Far in the distance, over the forests the party first came through, they can see a glint of light bouncing off something - and then it's gone, along with Aica. They're in the open water. They escaped. "Woman at the helm -" Winston says, after shaking off his shock. "Make for Opus, top speed. The faster you get us there the greater your reward will be, I promise." "With this wind at our backs? No problem!" Leslie said, dropping her pack and taking out a map. ~~CHAPTER 1: COMPLETE. PLEASE STAND BY FOR INTERLUDE~~

Character in progress

Aidan goes and attacks the archer at close range. The others move up as well, and Tsidin is further healed. ~~~Ally Phase~~~ Leslie waits for the others to move. ~~~Enemy Phase~~~ The soldiers steam in, a wall of armored death approaching, but it seems that unless the party dawdles they will make it. HP: Irrelevant, right now.

Alwine tosses a hatchet at the wyvern rider. Yuel sends a bolt of light at Jona, as well, with Elizabeth following behind to heal her. Winston bats aside the pegasus rider’s spear as they attempt to stop him, and runs them through. The pegasus flies off further into the town. Marl takes advantage of the distraction posed by the death of the enemy squad’s leader, and puts an arrow between the pegasus rider’s eyes. Cassidy shanks an archer. Bradwr stabs an archer too. Anea brings Tsidin to her feet. Player Status: Max/100 XP Enemy Status:

Autosupport: Rakukaja on Hikari, Mitsurugi, Navin Action: Tarukaja on Mitsurugi

Alva blinked at the visitor at the door, before smiling politely. "Hey there! What can I help you with? Kaede and Arturia aren't here right now, so if you needed one of them you'll have to come back later." she said cheerfully. She didn't really have any idea what she'd want - she'd only just moved to this room, and her roommates, if she was being honest, didn't seem like the sorts to get a lot of visitors, so she really had no idea what it could be.

Rose cracked her knuckles in the cockpit - it was time to get to work. Final system checks - thrusters, ready for maneuver. Shield ready. Plasma repeater, heated up. Railgun loaded. "Heading in. Some cover would be nice." she reported, before launching the humanoid war machine towards the Southern Cross, shield up to block incoming fire and plasma repeater ready to shoot anything that came too close. It was a target rich environment, so it wouldn't exactly be hard to find one.

T13

Winston rides forward to smack down the shaman before he manages another shot. ~~~Ally Phase~~~ Leslie comes out of the shop, loaded down with heavy looking bags. “Got everything that I can carry! Ready to go!” she says, before hurrying out of range of the enemy archers. ~~~Enemy Phase~~~ The archers take shots at Winston. A pegasus rider throws a javelin at Yuel. And the other goes for Lysander. And finally, Jona moves to attack Winston, but misses. The retaliatory attack fails to pierce the scales of Jona’s wyvern, but does break enough for further attacks to take advantage of. To the North, new units enter the port district. A man with a scarred face surveys the field, the bodies of his men and the direction towards which the enemies are fighting, and grimaces. “...I thought there was a disturbance. Men, on the double, we can’t let them get to the docks!” Jona smiles, despite his poor situation. “That’ll be the general… we just need to hold you here!” ~~~Player Phase~~~ "We don't have time - we need to break through these guys and get aboard a ship, now!" Beatrix heals 2 HP due to Center Player Status: Maxed/100 XP Enemy Status: ((Stats))

Beatrix throws some dark magic to finish a marine. Anea heals Cassidy back from the brink. Cassidy then gets out of the line of fire and tosses a knife. Shiro stabs an archer. Player Status: Maxed/100 XP Enemy Status: (Stats)

Victoria/"Satania" Victoria nodded, not trusting herself to talk right now. She'd probably embarrass herself further. Or just start verbally kicking herself for this, which would lead to embarrassment. Same result either way. She hurried to the cabinet, finding the tea bags and picked one that seemed fairly familiar. As the water heated, she found herself talking without really thinking about it ahead of time. "So... how long have you been working here?" she said, managing to keep her voice level by way of focusing on her task rather than on the rather attractive man alone in the room with her- damnit.

Satomi thought for a few moments. "These... AT fields, I think they were called?" she started, adjusting her glasses a bit, "They seem rather important for EVA combat. Do you have advice about maintaining them more consistently?"

Satomi clears her throat, as the silence wears on a bit. "...So. Are we going to be reviewing? That is, looking at what we did right and wrong? That is a part of training, isn't it?" she says, in part to change the subject and in part just to get on with things.

Bradwr rides to the flank to stab at the soldier wielding a different armament from the others. The man manages to retaliate, hurting Bradwr badly before the cavalier finished him, taking the weapon as he went. Elizabeth heals Yuel, and the latter promptly sends a bolt of light at a marine. Aidan sends a ball of flame at a marine. An arrow puts down the already heavily wounded swordsman with tremendous overkill. Player Status: Maxed/100 XP Enemy Status: (Stats)

C12, dance Sol'fael and Meredith

Final trainee level Aidan: Alwine: Anea: Beatrix Bradwr: Cassidy: Johan: Shiro: Lysander: Marl: Yuel: Elizabeth:

So there were many technical difficulties. As such, map and status only this turn. I apologize for the inconvenience. Those in back hear thundering footsteps from the north. Someone's coming. Player Status: Max/100 EXP Enemy Status: (Stats)

Victoria/"Satania" Victoria had exited her room cautiously, not quite comfortable with the fact she was going somewhere other people would see that she was in a maid outfit. Of all things. She didn't know the War's history very well but she was fairly sure that she was the first capital-S Servant to be in this kind of situation. At least it probably wouldn't be that long. Isis wouldn't be out forever, and then they'd get to the war. On that subject, she had to go and make tea to wake her. One maid-like task, and then they'd be getting on with things. Victoria took a deep breath, and stepped into the hall and went towards the kitchen, intent on just getting things over wit- Victoria's train of thought was derailed quite a bit at a rather striking man in a suit in the kitchen. The magical girl had, at the height of her power... still been dealing with puberty's hormones, even if the physical changes were mostly done with by then. So, it followed, that now she still had them. Something she became acutely aware of as she was in a room with an attractive man in a flattering suit while she was in an embarrassing maid outfit. It was at this point that Renton noticed, and complimented her. "O-Oh, yes, I'm... Satania. Yes. Nice to m-meet you." she stammered, feeling the heat rising to her face. This was not a situation she had ever expected to encounter as a Servant to say the least. "Y-You look quite dashing in the suit, if you'll take the compliment...?" She trailed off, leaving the implication of waiting for a name. She was pretty sure it was Renton, but assumption would be rude. Then Victoria processed what she had said. The heat got worse. Why had she said that? Why had she said that? Sure it was true and it would be rude not to give a returning compliment but still! And why was she getting so flustered, she wasn't a schoolgirl, she thought... calm down. Calm down. "I was meaning to make some herbal tea for... the mistress." She notably paused there, unused to calling anyone that. "One of our coworkers said you'd be able to help? Finding the ingredients and that kind of thing I mean." She was still blushing, although trying to fight it down and not really succeeding, but Victoria had managed to steady her voice.

Winston attacks the guard in front of him. The armor, already dented, is pierced by the blow and the man drops. Beatrix follows up and attacks the second guard. And Shiro stabs the marine. (Ding ding ding!) Player Status: Maxed/100 XP Enemy Status

Elizabeth moves forward and heals Bradwr. "With twice as many of us as we fought the last group with, this should be nothing! I'll help keep you guys standing." And then Bradwr rides forward to attack one of the guards. The man manages a nasty slash on the flank of Bradwr's horse, but the rider takes him down before riding to safety. Alwine tosses a hatchet at another guard, leaving him reeling and barely standing. Marl, meanwhile, goes and shoots a Marine in the face. Player Status: 87/100 XP Enemy Status:

Satomi sat for a while in the simulator plug, continuing to chew herself out for what had happened. Eventually, as she heard other people leaving, she took a breath and recomposed herself, adjusting her glasses as she exited the plug. "I'm fine." she said, unusually terse. She started going to help the others out, but was distracted when she saw Kyou go for a punch and paused in her movement.

Alva Alva blinked as someone allowed themselves into the room. She'd sort of expected it to be that Arturia girl, the third roommate, but she had seen the girl before and this certainly didn't look like her unless she had suddenly had an absolutely astonishing growth spurt since the last she saw her. And maybe plastic surgery. Or even just magic, since that was a thing now. So in short, extremely unlikely to be Arturia. For a half second she was worried it was someone like Katja - but then Kaede turned and addressed her by name. Safe then. Probably. Alva waved energetically, as usual. "Hi there! You know Kaede? I'm Alva, her new roommate! Nice to meet you, Miss... Tys? Am I pronouncing that right?"

"It is, yeah. I just... feel like I have to help, when people treat Morgan like that." Renee agreed. "Left home a while back, then? I'm sure they're doing fine. They're probably not fleeing from parties unknown who seem to want to kill them for no discernible reason, at least."