<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->Planet Paril
Team HQ,City of Pranth<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->10:00<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.
<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Three months later….<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->Winter is in full effect in Pranth and ice hangs from many if the skywalks and building edges. Frost settles on windows in the early mornings before the sun finally hits it or the surface heaters kick in and do their job. Some of the smaller bodies of water, the few and far between that are not built over, are frozen over and some are enjoying skating and a variant of hockey involving the apparent freedom to tackle opponents. <!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->Then on the city streets and walkways of the more well to do areas, the Winter Celebration décor is abounding. The celebration is a conglomeration of all the various winter beliefs of old and involves times of reflection on the past year, gift giving, and heavy drinking and revelry. It's a good time to be an independent security guard.<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->And speaking of guards, Kara and Smite have continued their training with Smites men and no doubt they both have learned some things from each other. Smites men are a force to be reckoned with on this planet and feared by all those of the ne'er do well industry.<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->The time is now rapid approaching when the open invite to all those capable of getting there, can come to StarHaven and take place in the festival there. The festival just happens to coincide with this winter celebration this year and Kara says that in StarHaven it is less bound in all the pagan holidays of old and more similar to a wealthy Kings festival in the spring, the kind of festival of old that involves jousting tourneys, heavy eating and drinking, and various feats of skill. The day is only three days away till the displacement fields preventing spatial displacement are let down and people can actually enter the vast star fortress. Preparations are being made to ensure all of your arrival and general blending in with the populace there. Eve and Kara have detailed the following for all of you.<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->There will be nearly a million people there, or more pending on how popular and accessible the Lords have made it. Everyone will be from different cultures and lands and not everyone will be humanoid but for the most part you can assume the population to be 80% humanoid. Also count on Primals being there for one reason or another. You should all be the only nova's there; records have been accessed from the last 13 festivals and none of the sensors detected any nova's. StarHaven is likely still unknown to the nova's for the time being. You will also be able to Raeke but Eve suggests you avoid it this time, we want to avoid drawing undo attention to ourselves right now.

<!--coloro:#0000ff--><span style="color:#0000ff"><!--/coloro-->{{This is a begin of what comes next. As you post and/or ask questions in table talk, this will get updated.}}<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--> <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Planet Paril
Team HQ,City of Pranth<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.
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[size:3]<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->Three months later….<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->


Thanks to the helpful suggestions of Eve and Kara, they are dress in appropriate garb for someone who is likely to be overlooked in most places. Smite had made sure that each person had a flashcard level false identity to adopt should they be questioned through the city. No one comes up with something good on the fly and you need time to learn an accent or dialect. Not that he hoped to need it, but be prepared.

He had made sure that all just as good

<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Planet Paril
Team HQ,City of Pranth<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.
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[size:3]<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->Three months later….<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

Doc was in his Crumble aspect and looked almost but not quite old enough to drink. He sniffed the air deeply and did a node ping just out of habit, then he checked his comrades to see how they were.

[quote name='Chronos' date='Mar 26 2007, 07:35 PM' post='1758']
<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Planet Paril
Team HQ,City of Pranth<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.
<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
[size:3]<!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->Three months later….<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

Allison dresses in a casual, almost nerdy getup consisting of a dark cardigan over a turquoise t-shirt and darker blue jeans. She looks like a college student hanging around campus...perhaps at the planetarium, or just outside a chess club meeting. Despite this, she seems completely at ease with herself, always occupying the center of an almost palpable aura of serenity. She constantly wears a little smile, as if privately enjoying a mildly amusing joke.

Despite being around, she doesn't mix much...spending a lot of time traveling around Paril, or just gazing out over the city from one of the balconies with her head slightly tilted, as if listening to a song only she could hear. She's more than happy to talk to anyone who wishes to talk to her...but she doesn't seek conversation out either.

Nevertheless, when the people going to StarHaven are assembling, Allison is among them.

Planet Paril
Team HQ,City of Pranth
10:00 hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.

During the 3 month interlude, Whisper is around the HQ a lot more often than was usual before. She hovers around Kara and Eve, pestering them with questions about StarHaven and the noble Houses...how many people, how much territory, overall technology, what's legal and what's not. She supplements these question and answer sessions with hours accessing information over the computers.

She joins the group going to StarHaven dressed to kill, in a sleek, form-fitting blue and violet outfit that sets off against her exotic hair and eyes gorgeously. She's clearly very excited about going as well, hardly able to keep still.

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->StarHaven
10:00<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--fonto:Verdana--><span style="font-family:Verdana"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->The team arrives in less than 3 seconds, of which the time was spent in something akin to a ‘long blink.’ There is no feeling of dizziness or loss of equilibrium as is sometimes felt with artificial inter-dimensional transplacement. Kara simply gathered the ones who were going to StarHaven in a 10-foot radius and snapped in her hands a small blue crystalline disc the size of a quarter-dollar. The new arrivals are now standing in what can be called a ‘receiving area’ where half a dozen armed guards, in what might be called Duraplast full combat armor, stand over the only other exit from this 40’x40’ room. Their faces or gender cannot be told and they are brandishing a small rifle of some sort (it looks like an energy weapon) and have a smaller pistol on their belt aside some other odd looking devices. The walls are what appear to unpainted be concrete and steel, like a warehouse might be made of back home. Lighting is coming from high-intensity fluorescents hanging high above and there are no shadows. Another half dozen well dressed women in light summer dresses wave you onward with a great smile; they are gesturing to get moving on out into the main hallway.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->Once into the main hallway, the walls are more of the same but painted to be more aesthetically pleasing. The lighting in this section and all other further sections cannot be told as to its source; the light simply is and there is not a shadow to be had. You are guided to turn right outside of the receiving room although the hall went both left and right down similarly structured paths. There are ten other reception rooms down the hall to the right, you all came out on the last one. A crowd of over 200 people between the receiving room and the hallway surrounds you and all are mulling down the vast hall toward a grand circular room over 500 feet in width.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->Once in the circular Grand Entry the crowds thin out and walk down one of the 8 other pathways leaving the circular room. Even the 75’ roof is domed. None but two of the paths are labeled, one is labeled ::Reception area:: and the other opposite path is labeled ::Arena::.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro--> <!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->As it stands now, you are all standing in this large foyer through which everyone is passing. Upon standing there for any length of time, you will see a pair or similarly armed guards, as in the reception rooms, passing through on a patrol. On occasion you will see someone approach the guards and ask a question to which the guard then replies happily. No one has spoken directly to any of you yet but in all the conversations you are hearing your native tongue (probably English) from all the crowds around you.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro--> <!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#ff00ff--><span style="color:#ff00ff"><!--/coloro-->{{OOC: now for some OOC details. Eve and Kara have let you in on the local ‘rules’ of StarHaven so you wont be caught surprised. You are allowed to carry almost anything you want on your person all the time, weapons and armor included and no one makes you check them. Violence is even allowed. Well it’s allowed in the sense that there is not a mysterious force preventing it like in the World Serpent, but the fact that no one can leave StarHaven without being let out kind of puts a ding on starting a fight and then leaving post haste. Law is swift here and delivered in the Arena. All crime has a Raeke to be done by the criminal and its usually in favor of the defender, that is, if you steal bread you might find yourself having to fight the vendor you stole it from along with his 12 buddies. And you will do so while having your power lowered or limited just enough that any one of them might have a small chance at beating you. Crime is nearly unheard of in StarHaven.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

<!--fonto:Times New Roman--><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><!--/fonto--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#ff00ff--><span style="color:#ff00ff"><!--/coloro-->Speaking of leaving, you will need to be with Kara or Eve (if she comes) and have them take you and introduce you to a few of the Lords of StarHaven, and they will approve your departure. This is only done on your first visit and it will empower you to leave to the precise spot you came from.}}<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->

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<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--fonto:Century Gothic--><span style="font-family:Century Gothic"><!--/fonto-->StarHaven
10:00<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
[font=Verdana][size:2][color:#ff8c00]Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.

Pretending he wasn't a power was no longer possible, as his shadow trailed half a step behind him. So he was dressed as if he were a Primal, as his affliction would hardly be out of the question.

Mindful of their objective, he remains focused on obtaining the necessary information to find the necessary door at the inn. But mindful that they might have to leave in a hurry, it would be worthwhile to secure their exit.

[ooc: Smite has a vast array of equipment and weapons on his person. Utility Belt, plus offensive capabilities. Guns, Knives and 'splosives]

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->StarHaven
10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.
<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->Glean arrived in a dark suit of Gortex (Pax Con's Eufibre), likely gifted to him from Kara. (Narrator said I could take the liberties.) This time however Glean is also wearing a full helmet to cover his glowing head and face. He has made it known to all that this suit will severely hinder his external powers since most of them are tied to his bioluminessence. SO if worse comes to worse, Glean will rip the suit off and spring into Action. He is carrying nothing with him save a small PDA on his belt.

The suit is dark Grey and the helmet is rounded with a seamless full face plate, tinted like a welders helmet. {{Mega Perception allows me to peer through it.}} He might have the appearance of something much more sinister and high tech than the rest of the party, especially being over 6' tall, but he is always talking light and cheerful with whoever will reciprocate. Once the team 'ports over ot StarHaven, Glean takes a point position, but not the lead, likely aside Smite or Kara. He is taking everything in as he walks quietly to the giant circular room.

"<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--coloro:#0000ff--><span style="color:#0000ff"><!--/coloro-->Quite some place they have here. Hard to fathom that we really dont exist anywhere right now and are standing in a space station."<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->StarHaven
10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

<!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->For the most part up until now, Smite has not been gettign second glances. There was simply too many people in the crowds around him. Now however, it is easy to see some taking lingering looks at him. Glean is also getting some looks as well but for the reason he is decked out in what appears to be 'armor.' No one is being rude or stopping their walking to look their way but it is not hard to find some one looking your way.

The team is standing in the large circular room presently when from one of the unlabeled halls comes some catchy music. The intro of the song is all music but it is almost hypnotic. When the male singer begins to place his words to the music and begins to sing about some sort of search for lost love, the lot of you are reminded how infectious Novox was back home. The music and singing are simply without words to describe how pleasing it is.
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<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->StarHaven
10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

Allison's reaction to StarHaven is one of pleasant bemusement. In comparison to the extraordinary variety of beings, dress, and displays of skill, she stands out by her sheer ordinariness it seems like. In her unbuttoned cardigan and colorful shirt and blue jeans, she wouldn't look out of place on any 20th Century Earth sidewalk. Even so, there's an unconscious sense of presence about her that causes the eye to linger, even if it's not obvious why.

She keeps the rest of the team in sight, but doesn't deny herself a bit of wandering privilege, sampling the delights of worlds and cultures that hadn't even existed when she was born. She found herself especially interested in StarHaven's "equalizing" measures, and wondered what was being concealed in the name of comfort. This was especially true when confronting the musicians. Was it their skill or was it StarHaven's AI's changing their performance in her perception.

And could she pierce that veil, to see the truth?

While standing before the musicians and enjoying herself, Allison decided to give it a try.

(using mega-perception and any applicable powers/abilities to see if she can see through it to what's underneath)

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#ff0000--><span style="color:#ff0000"><!--/coloro-->The Following is OOC:<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->




I will run with the implied statement above that Allison wanders off, on her own or otherwise, down the hall in the direction of the source of the music. Anyone wander off with her?

I will run with the implied statement above that Allison wanders off, on her own or otherwise, down the hall in the direction of the source of the music. Anyone wander off with her?
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OOC
Ah! Thanks for the clarification! But yes...Allison does go to check out the music, as stated. If the others come too, cool. Otherwise she goes by herself. I assume we have comms to keep in touch and find each other.

Glean mingles around also, but is always 'closer' to Allison than any one other member of the team. As Allison meanders down the hall toward the music Glean turns to Smite and the rest and says;
"I am gonna check out the band and do some peeking around. Maybe these eyes of mine can pick something out we can use. I'll keep in touch via the com."

He then takes a few quick steps to catch up to Allison.
"Hey there Red, wait for me."

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->StarHaven
10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

<strike>Doc</strike> Joe replies,

<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue"><!--/coloro-->"Stay with her please."<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

Crumble dressed in his MIB Doc's bodyguard outfit and hoped it would translate into something that made sense to the people that saw him. Looking things over... he wondered. How much of what he was seeing was real and how much was illusion? He briefly did a scan of the guards in armor to see whether they were what they appeared, and then tried scanning some others for the same reason. Then he tried a couple of node pings... just to see what he could. Then he opened his mind (passively, not actively) and paid attention to his temporal senses and tried to feel with them what he could see.

Joe stumbles, recovers, and starts coughing into his hand.

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->StarHaven
10:00<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--coloro:#ff8c00--><span style="color:#ff8c00"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

Smite will stay out with the group and draw out his orb, searching for any signs quantum signatures or other similar. He wanted to know if any other novas were running around, especially those like they accounted by this.

StarHaven
10:00 hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
<!--coloro:#ffa500--><span style="color:#ffa500"><!--/coloro-->Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

Kara is dressed very elegantly in the style of her home world of Rathein. She is wearing an evening gown and she does not hide her true Appearance from the crowd. She walks among the crowd and offers sugar treats to the less fortunate. From the perspective of a simple culture she appears to be a benevolent Goddess.
As she walks past the people in the crowd, she scans for those who have good in their heart and bestows upon them a blessing or healing when needed. She knows that this is frown upon by the new reigning powers, but it is a custom of those who once ruled Star Haven from a time long forgotten.

Falling somewhere between Allison's ordinary attire and Kara's almost divine appearance is Whisper. To be sure, she's extraordinarily beautiful; the effect heightened by the powerful subconscious telepathic 'touching up' of her appearance to suit each observer's tastes. She knows what looks good on her too, choosing a blue, figure hugging dress that reveals without flaunting or luridly displaying, and works well with her unusually colored hair and eyes.

She moves with the others, but at a slow stroll, confident she can find them easily enough should she need them. Their minds, even without invasive contact, are known to her rather intimately by now. What keeps her interested is the OTHER minds in this place. Minds that don't always match what her eyes are instructed to see.

Despite her unearthly good looks, she fades easily into the background and starts feather-light probes of the people on the station...looking for vulnerable, unguarded, unshielded minds she can begin to sift for tasty tidbits about the station, and the galaxy as a whole.

Allison pauses, then glances back at Glean and smiles apologetically.

"Sure, sorry about that. Come on." She waves him forward to walk with her.

"It's an amazing place, isn't it? Have you been here before?"

Despite the annoyance of some, Kara continues to help the needy and sick. She refrains from accepting sacrifices but she does accept gifts from the heart. She gives a word of encouragement to those who are trying to make their universe a better place and occassionally a blessing to go a long with it.

As she continues to help the needy, she stretches her senses and searches for friends of long ago. She makes contact with family and arranges to have a mini reunion with them.

For this special occasion Rama has eschewed his ornate battle raiment, his eufibe instead reforming itself into rich golden robes.


He stays close to <strike>Eve</strike> Kara, observing her customs and allowing her to give him the guided tour. Eventually their casual strolling will lead them to the computer moniter or room that they are searching for...

StarHaven
10:00 hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
Participants: Allison, Smite, Chronos, Whisper, Rama, Glean, Kara.



"No ma'am. Never been here in this life." Glean says through as normal voice as can be through the full helmet.
"I do look forward to many happy returns to this place however. There are so many things, people, that I want to look at further but not knowing the etiquette of it I look another direction. Nothing here is what is seems."

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StarHaven
10:20 hours
Tuesday, December (Suruan) 14, 498 CY
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An older gentleman dressed in a pilots outfit and leathers offers his arm to Joe after seeing that none of his current company seemed to notice.

"You allright young man? Here. Take seat here and I'll fetch you some drink and chew."
As he motions to the nearbye bench he also calls over a host.
"Please get some water and some kitling for this young man. His stomach seems unsettled. Here."
He hands the host some foreign currency and she is off.
"Sit a moment and gather yourself."

And then;
"Names Murl. You take care."
As soon as the host returns with the drink and celery-looking vegetable, Murl says goodybye.

Most are very accepting of Kara's help and generosity but some are avoiding her path when they see her from afar. Security is not paying her any notice.


Kara by now is having some difficulty finding people to help and gift, most are avoiding her outright. Some do smile and approach her and that gets the notice of security. They make no other moves however.

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This being opening day for StarHaven, there are many people here simply to see raekes in the grand arena. As you walk the halls from the circular room people are handing out dockets for betting and for registering to participate. One registration desk is also looking for Champions to represent various objectives. They exclaim "Big Money!!" to the winners. It is at this point that Smite picks up on some lingering glances in his direction and to that of his team.

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Aliison and Glean are approached after a few minutes of observing the band and the accompanying bar nearby. Another mega beautiful woman approaches Allison from behind and places her hands on Allisons Eyes from behind, like it really helps, and says; "Guess Who."

Hugs and greetings are then given as Toya is introduced to Glean who she also gives a hug to.

"I was wondering if you would show up here, this being the first open since your arrival. Are any of your other friends coming?"
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Glean is taken aback at seeing another godlike beauty so close, especially one so friendly. He returns the hug and looks questiongly at Allison. He is impressed at Allison knowing such a person but its not to easy to tell.

"Well hello there. I am Karan.