ooc: It sounds like fun. I'd like to join hun, but I don't think I could post every day. Do you think you could make an exception for moi? ^^

OOC: It is not a requirement to post every single day. I'm already going to be missing Sundays for my usual religious reasons. As long as you feel you can post regularly enough to keep this going, that's the important thing.

Of course, this isn't going at all. If anyone reads this and decides not to join, can you at least post to tell me why you decided not to join after reading the RP? Not enough description, too many references to a setting you aren't familiar with, don't know if you have a character that would fit in, what?

OOC: why are you running tow of the exact same rp at the same time? Or are you planning on closing the less successful one after a while?

ooc: Heheh. Alrighty. I just thought I'd jump in and help it get going hun. ^^ I think for now I'll just use Adara. You want me to post a link to her profile here? It needs to be updated but it should due for now if you'd want me to do that.

IC

'That's enough training for the morning...' Adara said to herself, as she stretched out her arms, legs and beautiful angelic wings. 'Hmm...what's this? I don't believe I noticed that lodge before. Well...it's kind of a long flight back to my apartment...wouldn't hurt to grab a bite to eat...' Adara strode off to the entrance of the lodge, opened the door and walked inside.

OOC: Wonderbat: The reason is because of the different clientele at each board, and because when we do finally move over to EB completely, then there will be an RP of this type there as well. Also, it's a test to see how this will do, so I need to see how it will go.

Adara: Here is the link to your character Adara's current profile, you'll have to look down the page a bit.
p072.ezboard.com/fsonichqcommunitysonicroleplay.showMessageRange?topicID=1952.topic&start=21&stop=40

IC:
Modesty had just placed a pan onto the stove with some slices of bacon on it when she heard the front door opening. That's funny, I wonder who that could be? I didn't notice anyone leaving the lodge this morning.

Leaving the stove for the moment, she walked to the open doorway that led from the kitchen into the furnished front room, with its couches, easy chairs and tables dotting the carpeted floor. A white-furred winged feline with black stripes stood there, her ears perked as she turned to look at Modesty.

"Oh!" exclaimed Modesty as she recognized the figure. "Hello, Adara! How are you and Justin doing these days? I haven't heard much from him, he keeps forgetting to respond to my e-mails."

Meanwhile, the stove was still on, foreshadowing the tragic fate that hung over the members of the Hobbes family...

*Adara blushed when Modesty mentioned Justin*
"He's doing fine." *Adara smiled dreamily* "We've been hanging out quite a bit, in fact we're going to go to the mall tomarrow afternoon." ^^
*suddenly Adara could smell smoke comming from the kitchen* "Hey what's that...!?"

OOC: I hope to join this RP soon...internet access probably won't be very reliable for the next few days, so I'm waiting until things calm down a bit more before I post.

I guess I can post Ari's profile now, though...
mf.lighthead.net/eliteboa...php?t=1832
It's somewhere on that page (post number 8 to be exact^^; )
(I probably should update a few parts of it eventually though o.o ).

...btw, XD@another one of Modesty's cooking attempts

Modesty sniffed too, and heard the crackling sound of something being heated up too fast. "Oh no, the stove!" she shouted as she whirled around to see smoke creep along the ceiling out of the kitchen.

The fire could be seen from the doorway, and the smoke got thicker by the second. "We've got to put it out! Find a fire extinguisher!" coughed Modesty as she grabbed a nearby throw rug and used it to try to fan the air away before opening a nearby window.

OOC: Feel free to drop in whenever you are able to, Ari.

Anyone else can also drop in at this point to help out.

OOC: It is I, posting in a topic. I'll just post a link here of Painting's profile... I'll update it while I'm at it. 😮
This is a link.

Painting pushed his door open and grogilly stepped out of his room.
"I won't be able to dodge that guy forever... he's gonna find out that I'm here some time... then there'll be huge trouble..." he muttered to himself.
He stepped downstairs...
"Something... burning?" he muttered.
He walked into the kitchen tiredly, and looked over at the stove. Without much effort, he held his hand up as a white ball of light formed into his hand and formed into the shape of a grenade. It soon took on details, it became red in color and had a blue water droplet on it. The top of the grenade was not a pin, but a button. He pressed the button and tossed it onto the stove. It exploded on impact, but rather than exploding into fire, a liquid came from it and immediately put out the fire.
"Good morning, Sam." He said to Modesty casually. "You need to stop playing with the stove like that, you could burn the house down, or something. Then, I wouldn't have a place to hi- I mean, live."

"Thanks for the assist, Sa-er, Painting," thanked Modesty. Painting had always had that strange custom of calling everyone else by the name of Sam, and Modesty wasn't sure whether it was more peculiar that he still did that after all this time or that she had come to think of it as completely normal.

But breakfast was ruined, at least insofar as that vague attempt at cooking had gone, and Modesty sighed as she broke out some cold cereal from a cabinet. "Well, looks like a cold breakfast today," she commented to Painting and Adara, partly in response to Painting's comments about her not burning down the lodge. "We have Pop-Tarts too if you like those, or you can cook for yourself."

Just another day in the lodge, thought Modesty with a sigh as she started to munch on some Frosted Flakies. Hardly a dull moment.
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Meanwhile, a cloaked figure nearby looked down at the forum from the top of a nearby tree, glowing white eyes filled with menace.

"Soon, it will be time...time to smash these lodgers and claim what should be ours!"

But since he was standing in the middle of the open, he found it prudent to run away before anyone could see him. Foreshadowing never had such character.

"I don't really have much of an appetite... Oh, who's that?" Painting vaugely gestures at Adara.

OOC Edit: Okay, I'm using my character Pikku. The profile is here.
Intro to come soon.

" Y'know Modesty." Adara smiled kindly. "I could make you something else if you want..." She turned over to painting. " Oh... uhm...I'm Adara. A friend of Justin's. I've never been here before. I was just out for a morning training session in the mountains."

OOC: Okay...things might not be quite settled down here yet, but at least I have a reliable internet connection now...so I'll make this post and see how it goes!

IC:

Arikyrenne was in her room, getting ready for the day, when the smell of smoke finally reached her. She jumped a bit, startledOh no
She rushed downstairs to the kitchento find that whatever had happened had already been dealt with, and that people were now trying to figure out what to do about breakfast.
Good morning, she said with a sigh of relief.

"Good morning, Ari," said Modesty with a smile. "There was a little fire earlier, but we've taken care of it."

Modesty neglected to mention that she had been the cause of it. But she didn't feel like she was lying, either; it wasn't too hard to guess what the cause of it was, what with the mess of the pan still being on the stove.

"Oh, Ari, meet Adara," introduced Modesty as she gestured to the angel-winged feline. "And Adara, meet Arikyrenne," and with another gesture she indicated the human female. "I'll take you up on your offer, Adara, while I go ahead and get this pan cleaned. You all can get to know each other better, and Painting, you should probably introduce yourself as well."

Modesty took the pan over to the sink to scrub it.

Pikku woke up to the smell of something burnt coming from downstairs in the lodge.

Concerned, the small, yellow and black Pokemon rushed downstairs to see that everything had already been solved.

"Good morning-chu," she said in her small and squeaky voice to the other lodge residents, hopping into a nearby chair.

*Adara shyly walked over to Modesty. There were few people she felt she could trust. Modesty was one of them, but perhaps because she had once been a part of Justin. She figured if Justin liked her cooking, so would Modesty. And Adara had begun to think of her like a sister*
" H-here why don't I help you clean up first?" *Adara summoned some magic and zapped some of the greese off with energy*

"Oh, Ari, meet Adara," introduced Modesty as she gestured to the angel-winged feline. "And Adara, meet Arikyrenne," and with another gesture she indicated the human female.

Arikyrenne nodded with a smile as Modesty introduced her to the winged feline.

Once the introduction was over, Arikyrenne headed over to get breakfast: some cereal and a glass of cold chocolate milk. As she sat down, she noticed a small yellow and black creature seated nearby. Hello, she said, wondering how many new people she would meet today...One never knows just who will show up at the Lodge!

Just then, a rather wet man appeared horizontally in midair and proceeded to crash to the ground, followed by a brief torrent of water and the ends of various suckered, lashing tentacles. The spout of water then dwindled instantaneously to the merest trickle before disappearing entirely, as though being shut off by the closing of some invisible valve in mid-air, and the now severed tendrils flopped limply to the floor.

Oblivious to his surroundings, the wet man picked himself up and brushed himself down before crouching to disentangling himself from a tentacle that had latched onto his ankle. As he stood up again, he noticed multitudinous eyes fixed incredulously upon him. "Oh, hullo! I must apologise, I didn't see you folk there," said the man, "The name's Lokki: Lokki Gallansbayne. Would you terribly mind telling me where I am?"

Modesty hadn't even finished cleaning the pot when the man had appeared in the room. She had just been about to thank Adara for helping out when it happened, that strange transdimensional phenomenon where there was suddenly a man on the floor.

"I'm Modesty Hobbes, and this is a lodge far out in the mountain range to the east of Sega City in the Mobius Forum World," announced Modesty, taking swift command of the situation. "Are you hurt? We should get you out of those wet clothes too before you catch a cold, we have extra sets around the lodge here."

"Hi," the Pichu squeaked in reply to the human. "My name's Pikku. What's your name-chu?"

Before Arikyrenne could answer, a man suddenly appeared in the room! Pikku stood up in her seat until he was finished introducing himself, then piped up, "I'll go get some towels-chu!" At once, she hopped off the seat and darted upstairs... unfortunately, she didn't know where the spare towels were kept...

OOC: Due to personal circumstances, Adara has had to withdraw from this RP. She has given me permission to roleplay her character out of the situation.

IC: Adara's fur spiked up suddenly, and Modesty wondered if she had been that frightened of the newcomer's arrival.

"Um, I just remembered, I need to be back in the city! I was supposed to meet Justin for breakfast this morning, I hope I'm not too late!"

She looked apologetically at Modesty, but Modesty just shook her head with a kind smile. "Go on, it's okay. You can always come back to visit later. Good luck with my brother, okay?" She winked conspiratorially at the winged feline.

Adara winked back. "Thank you, I'll see you again!" With that, she went to the front door and took off for the sky.

Modesty sighed. Justin needs someone like her around. I hope it does work out for them. But the current reality of Mr. Gallansbayne's arrival interrupted her thoughts as she saw the Pokemon creature zip out of the kitchen.

"Look in the bathroom, there should be some towels there!" she called out before she turned back to Lokki, expecting a response to her inquiry of any needs he might have.

"Okay," Pikku answered back as she rounded a corner and down a hallway to the bathroom. The door was slightly ajar, letting some light into the hallway.

Not really thinking anything of it, she pushed it open and stepped inside. The Pocket Monster didn't have to look around long before seeing a few towels hanging on a rack on the other side of the bathroom near a toilet.

All right, here goes, she thought as she straightened the blue handkerchief on her neck, scurried her way over to the toilet, and climbed on to reach for the rack.

She managed to get a hold of one-- but she and the towel ended up falling to the floor!

Lokki grinned. The people here were certainly much friendlier than where he'd last been.

"Hurt? No, no, I'm just fine thank you," he said with a smile, "Although I am devestatingly famished. From the smell of things, however, I should surmise I've had the fortune to arrive in time for breakfast. You wouldn't happen to be able to spare a few eggs or anything for an impromptu visitor, would you?"

Painting just hangs around the kitchen, leaning against a wall. He's not really paying any attention to what's going on.

A spectral hand reached out from the cabinet underneath the sink and lifted the towel off of the struggling Pokemon. Then it folded the towel very neatly and handed it to Pikku before pulling back the door and vanishing.

Meanwhile, a red-cloaked figure watched the lodge from behind a mask that covered his mouth and nose. "Little by little, I'll haunt their homely little lodge until they bend to my will!"
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"Oh, sure!" announced Modesty in answer to Nuchtos's question. She went to the enormous fridge and opened it up, pointing to a rack that contained several fresh eggs. "Just get what you need, make yourself at home."

Arikyrenne jumped in surprise when the man appeared, and before she could react, Pikku ran out of the room to get some towels. Luckily, it seemed like the man who identified himself as Lokki was friendlyso Arikyrenne calmed down and was soon ready to continue breakfast if nothing else needed to be taken care of first.

At first, Pikku didn't think anything of the ghostly hand that rescued her from the huge towel she was trying to get. It was when she had finally gotten to the door with it that she finally absorbed what happened.

"G...g...GHOST!!" the Pichu yelled hysterically, sending electrical sparks everywhere as she took off from the bathroom and back downstairs, abandoning the towel where she stood.

Lokki heard Pikku's cry from upstairs. "Ghost?" he inquired, raising an eyebrow, "You didn't mention you were haunted by ghosts." Breakfast would have to wait - this was far more intriguing.

Presently, Pikku came bursting into the room from upstairs, panicked. "You there, small chi- erm, creature... doesn't matter!" said Lokki, "You saw a ghost? Tell me, whence did it appear? Whither did it go? What did it look like? What did it want? Did it speak?"

OOC: I have to join again oh well i'm still using kirby

IC:

Kirby dragged a bag fulled with candy , sode, chips, and other foods

"Man those ppl was sure nice giving all this food,Maybe i should share with the other lodgers" kirby dragged the bag all the way back to the lodge but he didn't notice it had a rip from a fallen branch in the woods...

OOC: I'll stop there, btw Kirby got the food from a recon mission on the popstar ^^

"It was a hand-chu!!" Pikku was flailing her arms as she responded. "In the bathroom! I was getting the towels, a-and it came out from under the sink-chu!! You have to believe me!"

She wasn't quite sure of the reaction she'd get from the others, but she could sense that they probably weren't going to believe her...

"A ghost?" echoed Modesty as she listened. Then she smirked. "It was probably just one of the other people here at the lodge pulling a prank. I've never heard of ghosts haunting this place before."

But the sincerity in Pikku's voice caused her to wonder if she shouldn't at least investigate.
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Ghostly hands picked up the leftover food that Kirby was dropping, and just as he reached the lodge, one of these hands tapped him on the shoulder and held out the various items of food before vanishing, dropping the food.

"huh?" Kirby turned around too see a pile of his food behind him

"Okay that's werid must be the squrriels or monkeys or maybe it's painting"

Grabs the food in his hands and walks back to the lodge.

Pikku motioned to the stairs. "I'll show you where I saw it-chu," she squeaked, still slightly shaken. "Anyone coming with me?"

'Cause there's no way I'm going back in there alone!!

"I'm up for it," Modesty volunteered, undoing the kitchen apron and hanging it up near the door to the pantry before going to the doorway that led out into the front room. "If something funny is going on, we'll find out."

Besides that, it was her nature to be courageous where hope failed. Surely this was just some kind of prank?

Arikyrenne listened as Pikku explained what happened.

What thea ghost? o.o

She wasnt quite sure whether to be afraid or not, especially since shes heard stories about friendly ghosts before.
Arikyrenne was curious about it, though. Breakfast once again forgotten, she stood up to go along with Pikku and Modesty. Hopefully, this wouldnt be the case of curiosity killed the catespecially since she wasnt in cat form!

Ooc: Tergonaut, you said I wasn't going to continue in this roleplay right?

OOC: I've already told Adara that it is indeed the case that she is out of the RP now; we'll roll forward as we can.

IC:
"Well, we might as well go up now." Modesty took a brief moment to stretch, then headed through the kitchen door into the living room, and from there started up the stairs.

Pikku's ears drooped as she followed after Modesty; it was clear she was still shaken up from her ordeal.

kirby kicks the front door and walks towards the kitchen, planting the food on the table.

"Hello, is anybody here?" No answer "Modesty, SX?, Painting?" No answer

"they must be in shower, now where to put the food?"

Arikyrenne followed Modesty and Pikku. She felt sorry for Pikku as she saw her ears droop, and some of Arikyrennes curiosity was replaced by fear. She was still determined to go along, though, and headed up the stairs.

OOC: Can anyone just pop in any time? If so I'm joining k? AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME *crosses arms* my profile, right after skyler its the 4th down

Lukas walked up to the lodge. It was kind of weird, a lodge being in this location? Oh well. The door was wide open so he took a hesitant step in. "Anyone here? Heloooooo?" He looked around and decided just to stay in the entrance. He crosses his arms and waited. "I'll give 'em five minutes or there's nobody here," he mumbled under his breath. He crossed his arms and waited.