Shinigami Dolls

[Taria]

A light bursts at from the cave as Argo's pick seems to strike something. The resulting explosion blasts him outward and reveals all three present constructs to each other.
Argonaut feels the hard rocks pummel his body as he takes 8 physical damage.

[kaibunny94]

Keltor yelped leaping backwards as Argo was slammed away by the rocks.

[jayjaycaps]

Argonaut quickly flipped himself back up. It wasn't anything too bad, but still. He hadn't expected that, or for Keltor to be so protective of this place.

From where he had been knocked back, Jason could see Airxide. He wiped some dust off of his brass arms and chest before turning to her. He noticed she was a doll right away.

"Three Shinigamis in one location? Most unusual, odds of this happening are low. Social protocol dictates I introduce myself to others I have not met, including Shinigamis. I am Argonaut." He stood perfectly still in front of Airxide, his blank eyes seeming to stare right through her.

[napsii]

Airxide was rattled as a shockwave lit up the air, the force of the explosion blasting the two Shinigami she had been observing away as well as decimating part of her cover. Not enough to expose her, actually, but the weight of the blast being enough to make her dive away for worry of having her chassis damaged. She dove adroitly out into the shadow, rising to her feet and brushing off some of the gray chalky powder and pebbles that collected on her clothing from the blast.

Seeing she'd been spotted by the two (who had recovered) but that they were not immediately hostile, she deemed to make herself seem little of a threat. The dainty little shinigami was apparently some kind of "guardian" so she was wary of the little shinigami, whether her claims were true or not. She composed herself.

"I was designated Airxide Red-Nitrose, but you can call me Airxide." she gave her mechanical greeting in a clear, very natural and feminine sounding voice with a certain grace to its tone. Despite how stiff her speech seemed to be, a little emotion tinged into it. She had been engineered well.

"I'm exploring this location for items of interest." she "stated her business".

[kaibunny94]

Keltor looked back and forth and felt a strange boiling feeling in her tummy "Why are you all here now" she said loudly. "I havent been awoken in years and now I wake to find not one but 2 other in my abode Please explain in more detail your reasons for coming I do not wish to have ask louder" The little doll puffed her chest out attempting and failing to look authoritative.

She looked back and forth between the male looking brass doll and the more feminine and archaic flesh doll. "well?" she mused "Kindly explain yourselves before one of you causes another boom to happen and we all suffer from this place's structural faults.

[jayjaycaps]

"Minerals." Argonaut stated plainly. "I am here to acquire the minerals stored here." He turned to Airxide. "It would appear we are both after the same thing, if I am not mistake? Perhaps working together would benefit us both." He seemed to ignore Keltor for the most part, not really taking her seriously.

[Thaedael]

The girl wrapped in the blue halo of light was blinded by the resulting explosion, her shadow a shillouette on the cave wall. She regained her sight, to see the forms of multiple shinigami, a rare sight indeed as she has never come into contact with them before. She continued to spy at them fromt he entrance of the cave, unsure of whether to approach them or not, erring on the side of caution.

[kaibunny94]

Keltor felt ignored and she hated feeling ignored she slammed her fist into the closest structure support angrily. "DAMMIT!" she was feeling....anger?

[napsii]

Airxide gave a nod at the "Argonaut" shinigami's plain declaration. Minerals, she thought considerately. The mineral trade was a critical function of the economy and could bring great wealth, but such trades did not comply with what she had been ordered to do.

She largely ignored the hotheaded little shinigami. It wasn't her intention to cause offense, but she felt there was little she could to do to calm her except for:

"I seek items of material value. Though, not in the capacity of a treasure hunter or a mercenary." she explained gently after she slammed a fist into the wall. Though she didn't feel the little shinigami was much of a threat, she felt it prudent to try and avoid having opposition who might hamper her efforts later.

She looked back to Argonaut.

"The mineral and ore trade is not compatible with my instructions; rather, I seek items that may be readily sold for profit in smaller quantities. Such as antiquities." she said as politely as possible.

[Taria]

As keltor slams hard into the building, it shakes the mine shaft even more, and the rubble begin to collapse inward, reavealing a room inside. What had appeared to be a regular mineshaft is actually some sort of strange chamber. There are raw veins of emerald jutting directly from the wall, and many strange relics sitting upon shelve all over the dusty old room.

[jayjaycaps]

Jason looked over at Keltor, and shook his head a little when she punched the support. He had seen a human talk to a child this way, when he acted in a similar fashion. "Keltor, please, control yourself." He spoke in a condescending tone.

Seeing the wall crash inwards, Jason peered in after the smoke had cleared. Immediately noticing the emeralds, he crouched over them, checking to make sure they were real. "Emeralds. A variant of the mineral beryl. 7.5-8 on the Mohs scale. 537.50 molar mass. Colored green due to it's chromium content. Valued at 73.5 for 1 karat." Deciding it was real, Jason stood up and promptly began picking away at it, harvesting the green rock.

[kaibunny94]

Keltor wasn't sure what to do, they were ignoring her...they werent threatened by her like humans were "s-stop that those are there for a reason" she said quietly her hair over her face. she wasnt a child, or an animal she was a doll just like them. but they had no respect for her.

[napsii]

Airxide steadied herself as the local area began to collapse and shift again. She felt a mild flare of irritation at the shinigami's recklessness, but that was quashed when her anger actually gave way to numerous artifacts. The female shinigami's keen eyes honed in on them from a distance, referencing their images against memories of other, similar objects that had fetched a high price. She stepped past the two and entered the room, looking over her shoulder at Argonaut's scientific elaboration. He was was very well engineered for his purpose, it seems. Only a few words of what he mentioned came to mind for Airxide. She had been educated to some degree in tangentially similar topics but wasn't sure what to make of Argonaut's words. So she largely ignored it, instead walking up to the relics on the shelves.

She studied them closely without touching, trying to discern what they looked what, what they were made of, and how heavy but also valuable they might be on the market.

[Thaedael]

The girl draped in the glowing blue embers of her magical cloth followed in behind them, the intensity of the blue growing brighter and brighter as she neared the emerald veins in the wall, the green transforming to aqua as the light reflected within the multiple facades. She gracefully walked past the forms of all the dolls, before grabbing the pick and tossing it aside. "Begone with all of you, or your fate will be sealed. This is the city of Mousillon and it does not welcome you". she said with authority and threat in her voice.

[Taria]

The entryway suddenly shuts behind the group of four with the resounding slams of multiple locks. The ground shakes with instability as the only light source becomes the unnamed doll's glowing body. There's certainly much more to this place than meets the eye. Meanwhile Jason manages to pick off several chunks of emerald and Airxide discovers the relics seem to also function as switches of some sort, possibly booby-trapped.

[kaibunny94]

"I told you...you didnt listen WHAT DID I TELL YOU" keltor begins to tremble unsure on what horrors the other dolls around her may have unleashed.

[Thaedael]

A doll continued to berate others in the blue glow of the unnamed doll's aura, her flowing fabric washing all their faces in an eerie light. She stood still looking at each of them in turn, their faces lit from below, her form being that much smaller than the others. There was a male doll as tall as he was broad, his form clad in leather with a simple bronze clasp at the shoulder. Another took the form of simple doll, all parts streamlined to function, very little artistic merit. The was that of a girl, small by the standars set by the other two dolls, but large compared to that of herself, she continued to berate at them as the unnamed doll studied her. She was of black skin with white hair, a combination that intrigued the doll.

She walked slowly, almost inaudibly to the form of the man who held an emerald to an eye, beholding the beauty of the eart in hand. She took the emeral from his hand, placing it along one of the ledges of the room, giving the man a blank stare before talking as queitly as she walked. "That is not for you to take, be gone of this place" she said, before walking to that of the girl holding the relics. "Nor is this for you" she took the relics from her hand, placing them where they had been found.

She circled around the room a few times, her glow trailing behind her as she walked, before coming to rest in the middle of the room, the three dolls on either side of her. "What business do you have here?" she asked with almost a whisper of a voice.

[jayjaycaps]

Argonaut stood close to the new Shinigami, examining her. Eventually, he returned her blank stare with one of his own. "I do not understand. No human law dictates I cannot extract the ores found here. I am within my rights to claim it as my own."

He didn't jump at the cavern closing them in, but turned to Keltor when she threw her fit. "You said, and I quote: ' I can't have you stealing and taking what you assume to be yours.' I am not stealing. I do not assume the emeralds are mine, I make them mine." He mimicked Keltor's voice perfectly, actually playing back a recording of herself saying those words. This was getting annoying, having to deal with so many vocal Shanigamis. He expected them to be like himself, but they proved to be much more human then expected.

[kaibunny94]

Keltor was really suffering with her new burdened emotions. she turned to the blue glowing doll "I am the guardian of this place. Protecting people...from you?" she wondered she looked over at the brass like doll after this aware of a growing feeling of annoyance in his slowly developing body language.

Keltor moved ancily she hadn't been awake in so long and now things were very hot indeed.

[Thaedael]

"Be silent both of you, neither of you are welcome in this realm" she said with vehement intent towards the dolls in the room. Slowly she swept across the floor of the room, her light following behind her as she walked towards the bossy girl. With one soft hand she pulled at the dolls hand, bringing it to rest on her face. "As I thought, I don't feel the resonance of the wind's of magic through you. You aren't made here" she said, pulling her hand away from her face. "Your core doesn't run with the city's life blood, you are not made of emerald, and your skin does not shine with the pride of this place." she said with hands outstretched, gesturing to the four walls. "Yet you are here to protect others from me, from my home?" she said rhetorically. She walked away leaving the girl to think over what was said, before heading over to where she tossed the pick of the brass doll.

"So by your logic, I can make you mine, and destroy you for your copper parts?" she said, patting the pick in her hand. "I am going to say it again, get the out of this realm, none of you are welcomed here."