The 13th Sign ★ [The Roleplay Thread]

Myr heard the manticore taking off, carrying Sauren and the other boy. Luca took one of the secret tunnels down, leaving just Maikela. For a moment, she thought the girl would approach her and call her out for following them, but it soon became apparent Maikela would just ignore her in favour of figuring out how to get down.

The pink-haired girl leaned forward, took a deep breath, and vanished over the edge of the balcony. Myr wasn’t surprised. Maikela was using her illusions to turn herself invisible so she could clamber down without anyone seeing her.

When she was younger, she had often wished for Invisibility or Illusion Manipulation as a secondary power, but she had to admit she couldn’t have asked for anything better than Density Manipulation. When one was invisible one still had to work at opening locked doors, but she could just walk straight through. Her only worry was being spotted, a problem easily overcome with enough practice and experience.

Myr considered her options as she looked at the now vacant balcony. She could follow their example and launch herself off the balcony, manipulating the density of the air she fell through to slow her descend. But she didn’t really feel like letting everyone see her.

She decided to just go through with her original plan: stay inside the building and take the quickest route down.

A few minutes later she walked out into the courtyard, where a large number of students and teachers were already gathered. Myr stuck close to the walls, not feeling comfortable in a crowd.

She spotted Sauren, seemingly plastered vertically against a pillar and looking completely at ease. Hmm, so Floor Tilting…interesting. Not a Scorpio power. I wonder if she has one?

She saw Maikela had joined up with the two males again, and briefly considered getting closer to them again. But she decided against it, feeling a new attempt after her previous failed one was pushing her luck.

She found a dark corner, a little away from everything where she could observe the events in peace. She settled there and waited for the orientation to start.

((Dang I love the new academy sigil, Dill. Nice work!))

((I tried posting last night but the computer crashed and it was late. I want Sauren to have a l.ove life with someone of the opposite gender, but first... drama))

[l.ove life got changed to SPAM for some reason o.o]

Sauren watched in her periphereal as Maikela made an attempt to introduce the thief from earlier to the group. It didn't pass her notice how Luca got flustered earlier when he looked at Kalden, or how Kalden seemed so adorably oblivious to the romance blooming around him everytime he walked into the room. 

Her mind was already sorting through good matches for herself, something she'd picked up from reading too many books during her spare and time watching secondhand how love played on the field. She wanted a soulmate, a companion, to share her secrets, desires, concerns with, but the only way to do that was through one heck of an unstable method: love.

Ever since she'd turned 15, her father had prompted her to begin looking for a lover. Sauren knew what he meant. You're an impeccably lethal match, but you might as well try. Maybe you'll find someone.

She'd tried dating another girl in the desert once. That had gone distrastrously when Sauren tried to woo her with a pet Deathstalker scorpion. Honestly. Rezshei was pretty hands off about her SPAM, mainly because it was there practically no thing there to be concerned about due to potential suitors being frightened away by Sauren's romantic attempts. 

Kalden seemed to be the target of many flirtations from probably everyone he met; Sauren had yet to approach him in such a manner, but she really didn't see any point in dancing around something so important. Luca was an arrogant jerk, but if he could set aside his impossibleness for the better, maybe... but so far he was a negative. If she didn't see any positive development soon, she'd have to stick with just roasting him instead of trying to date him too. And Maikela... Sauren would be better off trying to wrangle a cobra into a sock and giving at a gift to Nix. While the Pisces girl had many admirable qualities, those qualities were better suited to Sauren as a business ally and possibly a friend, nothing more. 

Myr knew she was spotted when Maikela's eyes roved over the crowd and locked onto her. She was hardly hiding, after all. The pink-haired girl’s features morphed into a sickly sweet smile and she beckoned her over to join their little group.

Myr considered ignoring her. After all, she didn’t have anyone she cared about for Oberon Nix to go after if she embarrassed his daughter. But she decided not to. No sense in antagonizing the girl on the first day of school, and she had to admit she was curious.

She pushed herself away from the wall and sauntered towards the group, Maikela’s smile turning smug as she did.

“Maikela Nix,” Myr said coolly. “Fancy meeting you here.” She crossed her arms, green eyes boring into blue and pink. The message was clear: I’m not a dog to come running at your beck and call.

((Just to be clear, Myr and Maikela have never met in person))

((I know. She just said acquaintance to be dramatic))

The raven haired thief sauntered over, staring at her with indignation. "Maikela Nix. Fancy meeting you here."
If Maikela noticed the reproach, she did not give any indication to it. Instead she offered another one of her smiles. "Myr, right? Welcome. I never expected to see you here. It's a pleasure." She cooed.
Who knew that this school would be perfect for forging such valuable alliances. "I suppose everyone should introduce themselves." She nodded to her group

((I just noticed everyone had their name in the subject box, I don't usually read the subject box so I didn't know, was supposed to be doing that? ))

 I heard someone shouting and waving at the place I just been, then make a pun as bad as the ones I would make. I really look forward to my time hear.

“I know you are Luca Morrison,” Myra commented before regarding Kalden “But I don’t know you.”

Maikela wore a pleasant smile as she gazed over at the group. Her smile faltered slightly when she noticed the expression that Luca wore on his face. 

He reminded her of a turtle, retreating further into his hood, his eyelids pressed harshly against each other, almost as if he were in pain. He shuffled backwards slightly behaviour not too characteristic of him. 

Leaving Myra to speak with Kalden, Maikela inched over towards Luca. She laid a gentle hand on his shoulder. "You okay, hun?" She asked very quietly, her voice laced with genuine sounding concern.

She had always been taught that a proper lady shows compassion and empathy in every situation. She had been acting on auto-pilot since the moment she arrived so feigning compassion came like second nature to her. 

A hand on Luca's shoulder caused him to shiver a bit, looking over to the owner of the hand and voice. Nodding his head in response and waving his own hand slightly.

"Yeah" He quietly mumbled out, trying to force a smile towards the pisces girl. Though he found it odd, she didn't entirely strike him as the caring type, more the mock and laugh with a hint of michief rather than this.

'This is why I gave up trying to figure out Pisces...' He thought, an small genuine smile morphing over the forced one as he thought about his encounters with them in their cities. He looked at her with a slightly larger smile again and lifted his head more to look around, finding an small form on a pillar.

"You think she ever gets dizzy when she does that?" He mused, tilting his head to the Scorpio girl hanging out on the pillar side.

((@Sky and Ocean, you don't have to; you can put whatever you want into you subject, but we do both because we can and it helps keeps track of who's who throughout the RP))

The word "guts" drew Sauren's full attention, thought she didn't look in the direction of the word right away, and neither had she not been eavesdropping, either. Oh, she recognized that voice. Maikela. Just saying how weak her stomach would be if she attempted floor tilting. Wonder if you've already tried that and lost your heart in the process, Sauren thought wryly.

She slid a knowing glance at the two from her position on the pillar. With a slight censored of her head, she invited them over if they wished. Tilting for herself was a piece of Pisces pie. But maintaining a tilt for others was slightly more difficult since it wasn't her own body and gravity she regulated. And other bodies were notoriously difficult to regulate when trying to tilt. But she'd mastered it before any of the others had, impressing both her tutors and her father, earning free reign over her tilting from Rezshei. 

On the flip side, being in charge of other people's gravity had its merits. The epicenter of gravity was you, and you alone. And if you were strong and smart enough, gravity was both your friend and your weapon. 

Sauren shifted position, sitting up instead of looking like a chained pillar prisoner, and looked up from her perspective, out on everyone. To everyone else, she was facing the ground but looking horizontally. 

((@Wolf and Star: Her name is Myr, not Myra :) ))

The boy’s actions confirmed Myr’s initial assessment of him. Definitely boring. “Pleasure,” she said curtly, before her attention was caught by the other two. Maikela put a hand on Luca’s shoulder (Myr almost snorted at the fake display of concern, but managed to hold it in), who seemed to be experiencing what looked like a serious headache. She wondered what was causing it. Maybe his power was overwhelming him momentarily? She knew he was a Sagittarius, but she didn’t know what ability he possessed, or if he had more than one.

Eventually, it seemed to dissipate, and Luca looked at Maikela with a grateful expression that told Myr the pink-haired girl had him wrapped around her little finger. I’d watch out if I were you, boy.

“You think she ever gets dizzy when she does that?” Luca asked, looking at Sauren, still plastered to her pillar.

Maikela giggled. “If I were her, I would likely be hurling my guts out.”

Myr’s eyes widened slightly at the crudeness of the comment. There you are, she thought, amused at the short glimpse of Maikela’s true personality.

Sauren seemed to have heard them talking about her, and subtly invited them over. Myr wasn’t one to take this kind of initiative, preferring to observe from the sidelines, so she waited and watched what the others would do.

((Battle of the wills mwahaha))

Sauren smiled, truly smiled, at Luca's blunt rejection and his own invitation. She considered the offer, anticipating Maikela's next move. 

She really didn't want to talk to humans right now, but she wasn't just here to learn how to handle her fluctuating vertigo, as her father had implicated. 

"You're going to Nysa to keep in touch with some of our more subtle allies, and get closer to the source of the irregular events that have my men spooked..."  

Though both she and her father had grown up in the toxic Scorpo Desert, they put on a refined facade to strengthen their alliances and intimdate their colleagues. They were proper savages, as Rezshei liked to put it. Thinking of him made Sauren sigh wistfully, though the feeling didn't last long. 

Sauren saw Maikela chuckling, teasing with "Cat fight". Indeed. 

She sat stubbornly on the pillar, side-eyeing Luca and the people that surrounded him. The fellow thief from before seemed to have already drawn conclusions about Maikela, given how her suspicious gaze toward the Pisces, a wise thing to do in Sauren's opnion. Kalden, as ever, was oblivious to the ulterior motives of his new acquaintences and remained polite and soft-spoken. 

((Is everyone going to eventually meet up in one large group, because they're all clustered in cliques right now...))

((It's almost midnight here, so I won't be posting again tonight. Whatever you end up doing, can you just take Myr along?))

Doug followed along with Tirali and Kyra after the shouting bits. They are into the courtyard now and he looks around at the students and the building  in amazement while the other two continue to discussed about their pet, a topic Doug himself gave up on relating, atleast for now. He spoted the famous boy  with the winged horse from earlier, Luca Morrison, right. and then there was a person stuck weirdly on a pillar, cool! Doug didn't joined in or make a commotion, he just looked on at the weird stand off with interest.

(Nysa has a Yule Ball!!!))

Maikela directed ger unwavering gaze to the stage as a woman whom she assumed was the Headmaster began to speak.
She would be lying if she said that she was listening to all of what the older woman had to say. Although the mention of a dance caught her ear
As much as she hated the hours spent learning how to waltz and ball room dance, she did enjoy a good old-fashioned ball. Especially considering her popularity among the richer families. She always had suitors during the winter holidays which was both exhausting and annoying. Greedy fathers attempting to marry off their sons and daughters to Maikela in Hopes of inheriting Oberon's wealth and company. Fortunately for Maikela, Oberon was extremely selective about potential suitors and never found any of the matches to be very advantageous. Which worked out well because Maikela doubted she would never allow herself to be married. She played fast and loose, definitely not one for commitment.

The older sutendents began to clear out as the orientation came to a close. An instructor who Maikela instantly recognized as a fellow Pisces spoke up, directing all new students to follow her. Sighing, Maikela glanced at Kalden before daintily picking her way over towards the gathering crowd

((So can I just make earlier's Dean Mavery into the Scorpio Administrator then?))

Orientation having finished, Sauren looked around and spotted last year's Pisces administrator coming to round up a crew for a tour. Might as well join the bandwagon while she still could. Standing up, she reshifted her gravity epicenter, placing it delicately on each student's head as she lightly stepped from head to head, never spending more than 2 seconds on each, and made her way to the group of Kalden, Miakela and Luca. Her last steps were strategically placed on Luca and Maikela's heads. She hopped down from from Maikela's cotton-candied head, anchoring her gravity once more to the everyone else's dull epicenter of motion. 

She tossed them both a wry smile before averting her attention to the Pisces admin. 

Myr watched with amusement as the silent standoff between Luca and Sauren erupted. Before it could be resolved however, a loud voice called their attention to the stage, where a middle-aged woman who introduced herself as headmistress Belda Starling began the orientation.

Unlike some of the others around her, Myr listened to the woman’s words with rapt attention. Not because she was such a rule-stickler, but merely out of lifelong habit to gather as much information as she could, in order to be prepared for everything.

As Belda moved from a history lesson to the rules to how the classes would be, Myr allowed herself a soft groan at the woman’s words. She was out of her comfort zone as it was. She had no interest in ‘cooperation’ or ‘teamwork’. She was here to learn how to control her secondary power, and that was it.

As if it wasn’t bad enough yet, the woman next announced the “Celestial Lunar Festival” which sounded like the exact kind of event Myr would want to avoid at all costs. Judging from the cheers erupting around her, those feelings were not shared by anyone else here. Why would they? Most people here were from the upper classes, where this kind of thing was second nature.

Eventually, the opening speech ended. Belda announced a tour of the school (Myr doubted she would learn anything new, but it didn’t seem like she would have much of a choice) and instructed them to wait to be herded into groups, before thanking them for their attention.

Slowly, the courtyard emptied, until only she and a select few others remained, including the group she had been talking to before. Myr did a quick headcount and ended up at twelve people, including herself. One from each house, unless she was mistaken.

Sauren finally detached herself from her pillar and made her way over, by hopping onto people’s heads. Myr instantly decided that if the Scorpio tried that with her, she would shift her own density and let the girl fall inelegantly to the ground. Maybe Sauren knew this, because she took a different path, one that landed her on Maikela’s head last.

Predictably, the pink-haired heiress wouldn’t let her get away with that, and grabbed Sauren by the back of the neck as soon as she touched the ground. She didn’t go through with her attack though, instead slipping back into her pink facade after a moment’s pause. “Ew! Do you know where your shoes have been?”

Sighing, Myr sulked towards the group gathering around the Pisces woman who would apparently guide her group, trying to look as unapproachable as possible.

A hand lashed out and gripped the back of her neck. After years of honing her reflexes against dune snakes and poison darts, Sauren own hand's sna.tched out and gripped Maikela's wrist, holding onto it with a vice-like grip.

"Eek! My apologies. You startled me!" 

Seeing who it was, she was tempted to snap Maikela's dainty wrist right then and there, but considering Maikela had the grace, or sense, enough not to do something horrendously rash in the public eye, Sauren released her grip. 

"Ew! Do know where your shoes have been?" Maikela whined with a hint of disgust, wrinking her nose. 

"I do. Care for me to share a few ventures?" Sauren asked, raising an eyebrow. Luca took the surprise better than Maikela, or worse, depending on how you wanted to see it. 

Myr, the thieving Capricorn, sulked over. Sauren withheld a smirk as Myr attempted the same attitude Sauren accomplished without thought. Unapproachable yet approaching anyway. 

Sauren tilted her head at Myr in an ackowledgement of their shared cri.minal histories, thought Sauren doubted Myr would catch the meaning of it. Points for her if she understood it. 

Myr watched as the act between Maikela and Sauren played out. Both girls were playing nice in the public eye, while getting their real messages across perfectly.

Myr narrowed her eyes at Sauren as she chittered at Maikela, considering the Scorpio. Unlike Maikela’s dainty manners, Sauren didn’t try to hide behind a pretty face. Perhaps a side effect of growing up in the merciless Scorpio Desert.

Myr had had dealings with the House of Scorpio before, though not with Sauren directly, and she knew Poison Generation ran in that family, though it was a rare trait. Assassins flocked to the desert in great numbers, to coat their weapons in poison and ensure even a failed assassination attempt would prove fatal.

Myr had never dealt with poison suppliers, seeing as they operated on opposite sides of the criminal spectrum. However, she knew there was one infamous Scorpio, well-known for their lethal, high-quality poisons, as well as their mysterious identity. No one had ever been able to find out who they were.

It was very hard to keep one’s identity a full secret, especially when dealing with a large part of the criminal circuit, most of whom were very good at finding out secrets. Unless…one had a very powerful father able and ready to wipe out all their tracks.

Myr smirked as it occurred to her she might have discovered the identity of the infamous poison mixer. It might not be a bad idea to try to get on Sauren’s good side, should she ever decide to change her field of work in the future.

So when Sauren tilted her head in her direction with a knowing look in her eyes, Myr gave her a mischievous smirk of her own in return.

((LOL!

Excuuuuuse yooou. I was the first to do the illegal criminal underworld thing. So, uh, there! Bleh. 

Randomly knowing things for plot convience is Maikela's job. XDDDD 

I'm not being serious. i just feel like that has to be said because you can't really hear tone of voice online which makes it hard to be scarcastic. Don't worry, ILY all <3))

Maikela noticed the two girls regarding each other, each boasting a small smirk and a wink. The heiress rolled her eyes. "Jeez, get a room." She mumbled under her breath before turning on her heels and walked towards the group of students gathering around the Pisces administrator. 
Doing a quick head count, Maikela decided that there was exactly 12 other students. She suppressed a chuckle as she gazed around at the rag tag group.

Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone was from a different house?

The likelihood of that was extremely low, albeit plausbile. Bitting down on her inner lip, Maikela allowed herself some time to think whilst she waited for their silly little "tour" to begin

((@The Bohemian Critic: Oops, this is my first RP (well, not really, but it is the first one with a little more complexity and layers) and it’s sometimes tricky for me to decide what’s common knowledge and what isn’t.

Myr is in fact very perceptive (as a thief, she has to be) and notices a lot of stuff. But maybe I let her jump to conclusions a bit too quickly, I’ll change some things if it bothers you?))

Sauren turned away after a last wink, leaving Myr thinking that maybe her time at this school wouldn’t be completely wasted after all. She waited for the others to join them and the tour to begin.

“Hi, I’m Doug! What’s your name?” a voice piped up beside her. She looked right and saw a small boy, a few years younger than her. She didn’t recognize him, but his bouncing enthusiasm caused her to take a dislike to him almost immediately. She wasn’t here to make friends, after all.

“Myr,” she said and left it at that, hoping the boy would take the hint and leave her be. She should be so lucky.