"The Last-Forever Machine"

[Mitsukai]

((Ach... I forgot to clarify this though I do believe I mentioned this in the twin's character profile... >>; *runs and double-checks*

*coughs*

Anyways, the twins haven't fully developed their "mindspeaking" abilities, and thus they can't speak to one person without everyone else hearing unless they maintain complete eye-contact with the said person. So.. unless it's completely clear that one of the twin's is maintaining complete eye contact... they're talking to everyone. Does that clear everything up?

...and BlackSoul... I believe that Findabhair is "speaking" to your character... *crosses fingers in hopes that she is correct*))

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(To Coolpikaaa)

Aleanor snorted. "You mean Aleana over there," he replied with a slight hint of amusement, indicating his sister with a toss of the head.

"Don't start," Aleana growled before turning her attention to the mouse...

And to both of their surprise, he transformed back to normal.

"So... What do we do with him?" she asked of her brother, eyeing the creature with new curiosity.

As a response, he ambled over to a spot clear of shrubbery. "Whatever you want. He won't be leaving this place anytime soon..."

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(To... everyone else except SFOT... )

Nynaeve sighed, and quickly examined Bobby from head to toe.

Nothing too major... a few scratches and bruises it seems...

To be sure though, she asked him directly. "Are you alright? Any injuries at all? Dizziness? Nausea?"

She glanced over in time to see their newest member retreating and frowned slightly. They had not even allowed her to introduce herself yet...

"Who are you?" she asked politely with a slight hint of a smile, directing the question right at her. "I'm Nynaeve by the way. This is Ensichrys, Cloud, Findabhair, Bobby, Syui, and... Muan! There you are! We've been looking for you..." she listed with a small gesture towards each person/creature with and exclaimation at the end when she spotted the cat.

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((And the children are still left back at the original spot.))

Juliette sighed, contemplating whether they should follow or not when she heard a cry.

"J-Juliette!"

She whirled and saw Evan running straight towards her. Waiting until he was within speaking distance, she asked softly, "What's wrong?"

"S-scary... cat-thing," he sputtered out.

Nati grinned. "Scared of a cat now Evan? Better than your own shadow..."

"Nati!"

"Aww.. I'm just joking around... didn't mean anything by that Evan," she amended when Juliette gave her a hard look.

"It's alright.. let's meet up with the rest of the group... Eve's here too," Juliette reassured him, raising onto her toes to ruffle his hair. "Let's go everyone," she announced before heading towards where everyone had went to.

[TheBlackSoul]

Elisah followed Eve's pointing with her eyes, but remained silent.

What an interesting crew of creatures this was. A female human, A dinoavian, a person with a big black cloak, another 'human', a boy, A wolf with spikes on its back, and what looked like a cat.

The one who referred to herself as 'Nynaeve' seemed to be happy to see the 'cat,' Muan.

Elisah waited a couple seconds.

"My name is Elisah."

[Chronos]

Ensichrys was about to make a friendly introduction and welcome speech, but he felt something odd in his feathers. The Ultima scroll was vibrating. It began to feel hot. Ensichrys looked up, straight ahead. His eyes throbbed with a venomous blue light just once.

Ensichrys' beak wasn't nearly as expressive as a pair of lips, otherwise he would have looked rather frightened. With his beak open, he looked more frightening. His previous belligerent disposition returned for a few moments, then flickered out of existence. He quickly forgot what he was going to say to Elisah.

[Somefreakoverthere]

"Uh...Newsflash! I just woke up. Are you sure you've got nothing you a pounding headache? It's gonna get worse in a second." This was her only comment before she focused. It was difficult with the goo, and took a little longer than normal.

Her tail twisted and split into eight, spidery legs. Four arms folded into her skin, leaving nothing behind. The goop stayed behind, plastered to her skin. Six eyes semed to force themselves into existance.

"Oh gods...That was difficult. It's not been that difficult to change shape for years!" She blinked her eight eyes at the kid, focusing on him as a shard of memory slotted into place. "Stop looking like a statue, and show me where it is I'm meant to of gone. Oh yeah, I'm Ravil. Don't ask about my name."

She grinned, and stretched. The goo restricted her body movement a bit, but she could move and that was good enough for her. She'd deal with it later, when she wasn't chatting with a kid who's face made her want to laugh.

[POLYGEIST]

((Mitsukai is correct: Findabhair is looking at Elisah. TheBlackSoul, you would be kind to reply to this, for my benefit. And Fin is not even "speaking" in any way: only thinking and staring at Elisah intently. So if you would be so kind: What does she see?))

[alakin1]

Muan grinned at Eve,
~Nice to see you too, Nynaeve.~ he turned to the newcomer, Elisah, and inclined his small feline head, ~Please to meet you.~ Then he turned back to Nynaeve and the others,, ~Listen, I met this human child. Apparently the blobs are ruled by some Dark Mistress, there are also cages, which had imprisoned people in, but they've now been freed, from what I've heard.~

[Chronos]

Ensichrys was excited. He did not know anyone was in charge of the blobs. He thought them merely a chaotic mass of creatures. But they actually were connected to a central entity. A dark mistress... His Ultima Scroll quivered vigorously at the thought.

Ensichrys realized that he'd only used his scroll once, simply to look at his new form. He had never actually tested its power. What if it was too much? Perhaps nothing could be too much for whoever led these terrible goos. If the goos were so powerful, then their leader... what kind of a horrid creature was she?

"I think we should find this 'Dark Mistress' as soon as possible. We could worry about the captives after the preeminent threat of the blobs is dealt with and there is no danger."

[Cloud]

Yeah, I have a score to settle with this so called Mistress. If she's eviller than Net's sock drawer we're going to be in for a treat, and not the nice kind.

So anyone know where this Mistress is?

[Coolpikaaa]

The dragons seemed to not really care,so coolpikaaa took one large breath and dove back down to the hole he saw.It was just large enough for him to fit through,and with one big kick he started to move.

At the end of the cavern,a strange light moved back and forth.Coolpikaaa swam toward it and with a rush was sucked through.Coolpikaaa now was on hard ground.

He picked himself up and noticed a large mass of people in front of him.One of them he knew for sure and called out.

"Nynaeve?!"

-coolpikaaa

[Mitsukai]

((My post is coming soon... I promise! It's just I've been so busy with skating lately... but it'll be up shortly.

Edit: Thank you for everyone's patience.. now you are rewarded. ))

(To SFOT)

David frowned slightly. "Juliette might be able to do something..." he told her. His eyes widened slightly when he watched her transformation, but he forced himself not to show any reaction from that.

He shrugged and fell silent before walking towards the mid-point of the cages where he knew the others would be.

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Aleana snorted in suprise when the mouse dived under the waters again. A quick look over her shoulder told her that he had fallen asleep, and she decided to take his lead as well by means of ambling over to a nice clear patch of grass and lying down.

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(To everyone else)

She nodded her head before flashing a smile at the woman who called herself Elisah... rather distractedly.

Ensichrys was worrying her. He had... turned back to normal, it seemed, shortly after they left the portal... but these flashes of different changes in deposition.. it was troubling.

Examining him quickly with her eyes, she noted that there was nothing physcially wrong... at least from what she could see. Inside however...

Muan's mindspeak took her out of her quiet musings. "A human child... what did he or she look like?" she asked him... wondering if he had met up with one of the other children. The second piece of information was much more intriguing though...

"And we've seen the cages already..." she commented, more for her benefit than anyone else's.

"I think we should find this 'Dark Mistress' as soon as possible. We could worry about the captives after the preeminent threat of the blobs is dealt with and there is no danger."

He certainly had a point... and she said as much. "We should," she replied, nodding in agreement. "If I'm not mistaken though... hadn't everyone already left? The cages were opened by some means... and I haven't seen any other traces of captives..."

She was about to turn towads Cloud to tell him that no, she had no idea when she heard her name called.

"Nynaeve?!"

Glancing over towards the source of the call, she saw a familiar looking mouse...

"Coolpikaaa?" she answered back, a bit shocked and relieved to see him.

[Cloud]

*Cloud looked over to Coolpikaaa. He had wondered why the little pikachu wasn't with the rest of the group. He didn't want to bring it up in case the pokemon had met his demise and the group wasn't quite over the shock. But now he was standing before the group, Cloud hoped that Coolpikaaa knew where this mistress was. It was all he could think about.*

[TheBlackSoul]

((Woah, Gone for a week and things get confusing.
Anyway, PLOYGEIST, do you mean what Elisah actually looks like or simply what her facial expression is?))

Elisah looked over the group again.

The other human female seemed friendly enough. The dinoavian seemed to have shifting tempraments, the 'cat' was more than a cat, etc.

Looking over the 'human' ((Finabhair)) again, Elisah noticed that she seemed to be asking her something-or at least her facial expression was.

Elisah's own expression was mostly emotionless, if anything a little bit confused.

Then the dinoavian brought up something about a 'Dark Mistress.' What the heck?

Then fully adding to the confusion going on in her mind, a yellow, mouse-like creature suddenly showed up. Apparently, he was part of the group as well, seeing as Nynaeve referred to him as 'coolpikaaa.'

"OK, can somebody tell me exactly what's going on here?" she asked.

[alakin1]

((Just thought I'd say. I won't be here for the next 3 weeks. So don't expect any replies from Muan or Syui .))

[Coolpikaaa]

"Yep, the one and onl-" Coolpikaaa quickly stopped when he remembered the cloud clone. He had been on many adventures, but this was clearly the weirdest and most demanding of them all. Even the sky was starting to look as if it would turn to the dark side. Grey clouds crept into view from every visible side.

A loudspeaker suddenly roared out from inside the dome. It spoke several words in the strange goo language, and then a shrill ringing sound erupted. The open cages, in a one by one order slammed shut. What looked like a liquefied goo person poured from the top of the cage and instantly took the shape of its former captive.

Coolpikaaa turned and ran back along the row of cages until he saw one with an exact duplicate of himself trying to hide in a corner.

"Hey, I'm gonna get you out of there ok?" he said to the clone.

"I don't understand this....I thought I had already escaped...”Replied the clone as it leaned to far back to the end of the charged wall and melted the tip of its tail.” I’m...I'm one of them???" He said, suddenly looking deeply depressed.

"The goos...seem to even have been able to copy thoughts up until we were released. Anyone else who was cloned may want to check the cages. Even if they are made of the enemy, they are essentially you." Coolpikaaa shouted back to the group as he started to zap the cage in a desperate attempt to free his very confused goo clone.

-Coolpikaaa

[Cloud]

Stepping up to the cage that he once occupied, Cloud saw an exact replica of himself staring right back at him.

"You have my sword", the clone said annoyingly.
"No, this is mine", Cloud replied coolly.

The clone split itself in two; one being the spirit form version and floated right out of the cage.

"Hmm, learned new tricks have we?", Cloud said.
"New tricks?", the clone blinked, "I've...we've...had this ability for quite a while now, years in fact."
"What are you talking about? Do you know who...what you are?"
"I'm Cloud"
"No, I'm Cloud. You're just a clone, one of those blobs designed to look like me."
"N-n-no, c-c-an't b-be", the clone stuttered.

Suddenly the clone got very angry and threw lightning at Cloud, who easily rolled to the side dodging the blast.

"This doesn't make sense, lightning damages you; how can you create it?", Cloud wondered aloud.

Another blast was aimed at Cloud, who was still thinking and got hit in the chest. He flew a few feet back into a tree. Dazed, he picked himself up and muttered, "That's not lightning..."[/i]