ooc: Coal-coloured. Yup, that's pretty much right.
IC:
"Are you crazy?" Dionysia hissed at the intern, "If he's a native Odd knows what powers he has. You been living under a rock for 4 years?" With any luck the intern would get too close and the mud would boil her brains out of her ears. In the meantime, Dionysia opted to stay near the door in case the mud made a run for it, but admittedly she was distracted by grubbs. When the female one started chanting Dionysia shot her a withering look.
Dionsyia was not particularly adept at using weapons as she was generally intended for undercover work, but right then she could have done with some sort of gun.
Krik had glanced at the grubbs only enough to ensure they weren't another threat, and then began groping through his bag for his snuzi. He pulled it out just as the slig fired. The mudokon dodged the shot, moving closer to Krik, who panicked a little and fired with more vigour than thought.
(ooc: Feel free to dodge again
A snuzi will only stun of course but Krik wasn't particularly aiming it well, and his reactions aren't what they used to be
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Jim arrived at the lab. There was no one there.
Still breathing with some difficulty, he sat on the table intending to wait until someone arrived, unaware that the two vykkers Dek and Praetyre had quit without making any announcement that very morning for reasons of their own.
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Anni looked up at last, in surprise. "There are stories about this place, about how nice it is?" She grinned suddenly, in excitement, "That's amazing! I bet Math told everyone! And all the other mudokons who used to work here! Is that why you came here, cus you heard the stories? You looked surprised when I said earlier that the sligs here were sometimes nice!"
This titbit of information had a sudden and extreme effect on Anni. When she had first come here it had been wonderful, to be away from that place full of vykkers, around new people, new animals. She had been so happy here and the place had indeed been a sign of hope, a new beginning, a relief from all those horrible times in her past. Slowly that image had faded, with Stivik coming, friends leaving, that vykker Dek arriving. Everything she loved had sunk away to be replaced by the pain Nova had brought back to her. The thought that other mudokons might see this place as a symbol of hope allowed her to remember the goodness she had gotten from here, and hope came back to her.
Without her noticing, the tattoos on the backs of her hands, normally faded of colour and almost indistinguishable from her unmarked skin, flooded with colour, one white and one black. And the black one was shrinking while the white one grew larger.
ooc: I'll try and find the post where Anni gained her hand-scars and edit a link or two onto this post. Gretin, its up to you if Hembar notices them, and if she interprets any meaning from them. Anni has her legs tucked up against her chest and her arms wrapped around her legs.
Probably should have mentioned it sooner but since she got shot yesterday she probably has a bandage round her chest and another on her arm.
You can forget it if you want; I'm a bit late mentioning it really.
EDIT: Hooray for the Search Thread feature!
Alright, Anni and Stivik just fought each other in the lab (Anni was still controlled by T-nex at this point).
It culminated in Stivik stabbing Anni with
an anonymous syringe (Anni had done the same thing to him in a rage the night before, but overwhelmed with guilt she had run to get him help) and leaving the lab.
She collapsed and realised she was dying, at which point she had a somewhat significant vision. Waking up she had the tattoos.
Since then the black one has grown when she's been feeling particularly angry, often when Nova's been influencing her.
This is I believe the first time the white one has shown any noticed change.
If you want to read around it, for fun or profit (and it is so one of my favourite parts of the RPG, if you overlook anything posted by Outlaw King) then
here's a link.
Oh, and just so I don't get any people saying we were godmodding, T-nex and I were discussing the fight over MSN as we wrote it.