Tyro watches Blade's reveal of his eyes, watching them with a slight amount of curiosity. On any other day, this would be a concern but today, he simply said: "Huh...Weird." And then almost dived for the bundle Jackpot had brought. He pulls out a few canisters, almost like large transistors with a gently glowing crystal in the centre. It sparked energy against the glass tube harmlessly. "All right! Jackpot, m'dear! Thank you for everything. I need to screw these in. You can take care of the rest of the team. Excuse me!" Tyro grasps hold of the bag, yanking it out with as much of a tug as he could manage and eventually vanishes from view as he moves down the hall, bag of things in tow. The dark squirrel had it's eyes on Darkness. It began to giggle to itself.
Darky started looking around for Tyro. Where had he gone? he asked himself in his mind. He just sighed as he looked around for him. After a while he just gave up and looked to his necklace.
"It is. Is a gift from Luna, she gave it to me a few moths after we met each other." he said to him as he walked to where he heard Tyro¿s voice. "I aslway carry it when I go out in a mission... I don't know why I'm telling you this." he said to him with his eyes closed.
(Uuuhh...The Squirrel is talking, not Tyro) "A trinket that only reminds you how much you rely on Luna, am I right?" The squirrel continued. "Would you not prefer to lighten her burden?"
(sry, by bad. I was a little busy when I answered, so i had many stuff in my mind in that moment xD) "And what do you mean by that?" he asked the squirrel. "I know I rely on her. I love her and I owe her my life." he said firmly.
BladeRunner shook the memories off, "Get a grip," He said to himself as he put the cloth back on. He went back to the group, seeing Azure was attracted to the other mare, he could only think, 'Oh Celestia.' He ignored the rest of this though, getting out of his head before it could get in. He looked over any armor and equipment, there was nothing that intrigued him, except for what looked like a tomahawk. He took it, and smirked, he has not used one of these in so long, it seemed like a lifetime ago.
"well...maybe theres something here...Ahhh...perfect." she said as she pulled out some small throwing knives... and they seemed throwable too. "nice..." she noticed blade wearing his cloth and she thought it would be nice target practice to try and cut it. she backed up a bit and tossed it. the knife flew just above Blade's head and saw it get stuck to a tree. as for Blades cloth it began to unravel and slowly started falling towards the floor as it was cleanly cut in two. "wow...i'm better than i thought." she smiled with a grin at her skills to be able to cut a cloth on an alicorns head with throwing knives and not injure the pony. but then she looked at the squirrel. "you don't look so harmless...but then again neither do I..."
Jackpot was with the rest of the group, just silently listening to their conversations. She didn't want to be seen as weird however...
"Harmless?!" The squirrel said. "Me? No. I only want to help. I couldn't be better equipped to better any pony's life. Take Darkness here, who could quite easily stop being such a burden to his wife who already has her own baggage and worries. Growing some independence from her could only help her." The squirrel leans over against the glass to look at Azure. "I've been watching you too. You reek of dark power. I still don't believe it powerful enough to accomplish your goals. But, thankfully, the the arcane is a bottomless pit. Maybe you'd do well with more power. A refined power."
((Why am I not surprised that the first person to find it is me? :crazy) The voice seemed to snap Nova out of his 'happiness trance.' All of a sudden, it was like he became a completely different... pony. Well... a completely different bat pony. He was very serious out of nowhere. "Depends on what your definition of 'fighting' is. It's more like... getting others to understand how illogical their fears of things they don't understand are. Then again... I guess that's pretty hard too isn't it? Not that you would understand... considering you were some of the cause of the illogical fears" stated Nova ((Any second now the others will notice that I'm not with them. Oh wait... no they won't. I'm screwed. ))
"I'm not a burden for her." Darky said firmly to the squirrel. Although thinking a little bit more, he rally relied too much in Luna. He almost never left her side, yet he didn't said anything. He managed to survive 2 years completely alone without nowhere to go before he met her, he could handle himself to be alone.
BladeRunner swiftly grabbed another cloth and wrapped it around his eyes before anyponyelse could see his eyes. Luckily, nopony did. He sighed in relief. He looked straight to the mare who had cut his first cloth, but then turned to the fox, "When will we be deployed?" He asked in a deep, grim voice.
(Not necessarily. Just don't worry if you are caught out here. It's too early in the RP to start axing character's off.) "Oh dear..." It seemed to say, a few shadows shifting. "What if I could offer a way of helping you alleviate the stigma? Hmm? Sound good? I'll do it for free, as an apology. Together, we can show exactly what a bat pony is and what it can do. After all, we're in the same boat." It seems to seep into a suit of armour, a little dark mist bellowing from the gaps. "I am being hunted down and vilified, just as you are. I could change, but I am given no chance. Perhaps you could help me?" The squirrel sits at the side of the jar, calmly looking from one pony to the other. "Why, the same power that could ensure that Darky could save his dear wife from himself should he need to could also ensure you reach your goals, Azure: Me." It presses itself against the jar and stares Darkness in the eye. "One day, there will be a dark spell, or a curse or a malevolent spirit that will turn you into it's puppet, forcing you to threaten your kingdom and your wife. No amount of sleeping in her bed will heal the carnage you could cause. The devil you know being better than the devil you don't seems like a wise move for who could become a ruling monarch one day." The little squirrel then looks to Azure: "I might be small but I could grant you just grace, beauty and power. You would be twice the pony of even the royalty. You could accomplish anything." It seemed to smile: "You both could." Tyro was not in the room, having pulled a large bag out of the room containing power cells. It's possible Blade Runner didn't see that although, the smell of the fox could have been a tip off. Or even the lack of objection at the two in front of the dark squirrel jar. (With that, I need to go sleep. So, no advances till tomorrow. But I hope your enjoying this, despite it's complexity. You seem to be doing tremendously with keeping up.)
"You? Change? Yeah, right. The only think you want is to possess me and to make the bat pony name a thousand times worse by terrorizing everypony" thought Nova. He knew it was trying to lull him into a false sense of security. But two could play that game. Nova wasn't sure what all of the others that had gathered here wanted to do to this thing, and, in all honesty, he didn't care. There was really only one reason why he was here. He wanted to get rid of it once and for all. That's right... he was here to destroy it. Nova began to slowly maneuver his left hoof into the bag he brought with him, to grab his weapons. There was no time to try to find a suit of armor to protect him. If things got bad, he'd just have to rely on his evasive skills. "What exactly is it that you want from me?" asked Nova. At this point, Nova was stalling until either one of the others finally noticed he wasn't with them, or until the malevolent force made a move against him. ((I may or may not be prepared to beam that laser at any given moment. :magic)
Darky looked at the squirrel. He made a valid point, yet he didn't trust him. "And how exactly would you do that?" He asked him.
Jackpot watched Nova with some sensitivity, noticing some weird level of mistrust amongst him and his allies. She didn't know exactly how to help in this scenario, but went over to Nova regardless.
"and how can a squirrel help me? and if your not just any"squirrel" then why don't you just bust yourself out?" she glared at the squirrel.
"So...You vilify me too? The one ally I thought I could find here. The one pony to see my plight and you turn your back on me." Suddenly, the suit of armour it inhabited shuddered to relative life, clattering forwards in jarringly jerky movements like a clockwork toy that had been smashed with a hammer but stubbornly refused to break down fully. The phantom knight approaches Nova. It then bows low before him. The helmet lowered, the entire figure apparently brought down and humbled. "I know your here to entrap me to be then terminated another day but I have learned the error of my ways. The Elements imparted more on me than my demise. I learned so much from Rarity. I need to practice this! I need to prove I can change for the better. I have seen from my perch way above you all that even the bad have a good heart somewhere under the years of greed and ego. I, want to change. It's either change or obliteration for me. Luna will see to it, I know that intimately." It pauses, standing up slowly, a myriad of small, glowing eyes looking over Nova. "You are my only hope." (Nova, sweetie-darling-babycakes-honeybunch, can I do something both horrible and kinda badass to Nova in order to progress the plot? Because the set up here is perfect. I'm sure you can guess what that might be...) (As far as I understand it, Nova is geologically in a different part of the castle from the rest of the group. So, Jackpot's actions currently make no sense but, I think I can smooth it over. So, apologies for OCD-esque pottering around with fine details but I think it helps keep the narrative rich while ensuring order is kept. So, some overwriting for maintenance purposes.) As Tyro walked back towards the rest of the group, looking over his shoulder periodically, he spots Jackpot passing by him. He saw this as rather strange but doesn't question it. After all, Jackpot was paying for everything and seemed pretty capable on her own. Poker seemed to make her a wonderfully adept scout for the strange or out of place, especially in a pony's behaviour. It was like having a lie detector you could talk to. Working with the notoriously scatterbrained Tyro ought to have been like sharing a room with a fireworks display. But, it wasn't anything Tyro thought upon, having not likely noticed that Nova the Batpony was missing. She'd departed from the Balcony, likely to get some air from the others in the room and, using that keen sense of tells, spotted a couple of figures in a hall, talking. Jackpot doesn't know that Nova is here to help. She does know that the area is stupidly dangerous and heads over to check out what's what. (There, no change in the action, just adding and altering context to make it fit better. Again sorry. Even as a GM, it's engrained in me to feel bad for stepping on another RPers flow. As well as actually reading through everything that's in the character sheets. I've been in places that have praised me for what I consider the basics. Weird...) Before the Squirrel could speak, Tyro entered the room. His gaze immediately looks to the small, dark rodent and then to Darkness and Azure. Then back to the Squirrel. Then back to the two ponies being suckered in by the little git. "What the heck are you two doing?!" He barks at them, marching straight towards them both and shooing them away from the jar in the corner. "Darky, Azu...A.." He takes a moment for the name to materialise, staring at Azure with all the sophistication of a steam engine warming up. "Azure! Darkness! Why are you talking to the squirrel? The Squirrel is pure evil. It'll tell you bloody anything just to get you to agree with it and then it can do it's nasty business with you. Did you not hear me call this thing a parasite before?" The Squirrel chips in: "This is the thanks I get for offering these two something they are lacking far more deeply than a little glory for taking down a supposed monster." Tyro's return to this is to throw a tablecloth over the container, sitting underneath the jar for the express purpose of shutting the little demon out. "Try anything on again and I'll wheel you into the sunlight." Tyro threatens. There was no response. "Just as I thought." The fox refocuses on his team: "Don't listen to this thing! A princess and a seamstress have fallen to this thing and both became harbingers for death. And I happen to know the only thing dangerous about Rarity is the backlash of mismatching colours! It doesn't take much to make a monster with this thing." He then turns his attention to Blade Runner: "And what the heck were you doing? Blade, sweetie, there was a sodding attempt by a possessed Squirrel to corrupt two of your allies and you just stood there! Team player or not, did the thought of stepping in and acting in anyway occur to you?" Tyro marches around Darkness and Azure to stomp right into Blade Runner's view, even if the giant of a pony dwarfed the fox, Tyro was not about to make himself ignored. "Blade, today of all days is the day that you take down at least some of that hard exterior because we could honestly be lost to something potentially more insidious than anything we have both faced here. We need to be a unified front and look out for each other because if we're not watching, it could snatch one of us up. It's all about watching each other's flanks here, OK?"
