Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-31749612-20170919014737/@comment-29564364-20171018203504

(There, it should be fixed now.)

Alpha: "It is truly a shame that your negotiating skills are so underdeveloped. You should be more sorry for what you're missing out on." I pass the girl's arm around my neck and help her up and towards the door. "I look forward to our next encounter though." Leaving the room, we walk past Matt who joins us and walks along.

Matt: "We can't let her get away with this!"

Alpha: "I wouldn't mind a bit of help over here. All that G-force took a toll on my skeleton."

Matt: "Yeah, sure." He passes an arm behind Gwen's legs, then tilts her backward and lifts her body, making sure to support her back with the other arm. "We can't let her get away with this!"

Alpha: "That's not my intention. But it's hard to make any deductions and act accordingly is impossible with the little information she was willing to give us regarding her means or motives. If we want to find anything out, we'll have to ask someone else more talkative or dig it up ourselves."

Matt: "Who cares about her motives?! She was willing to kill hundreds of thousands of people who had nothing to do with her and there's no justification for that!"

Alpha: "I know, but rushing into battle head first is a shortcut to defeat. The more you know about your opponent, the better you can prepare yourself, the easier will be the fight. We're still at the information gathering part."

Matt: "It's odd you say that because rushing in has been working out for me before I met you! You're the one who keeps drawing things on and on with your strategies that work half of the time! And your information gathering is already screwed since your arrogance got us banned, remember?!"

Alpha: "Of course, because brute force isn't all it takes to win a battle, much less a war. It takes observation and patience, which you clearly lack. And my arrogance? I'm sure you getting all worked up and screaming social justice before calling her a fool and threatening her had absolutely no effect on her reaction whatsoever either, right?"

Our argument goes on for a few minutes until Gwen's incomprehensible mumbling ceases as slowly opens her eyes. "Mwer wee..."

We interrupt our argument at its peak to direct our attention at her.

Matt: "She was sleeping? Since when?"

Gwen: "What happened...?" She asks, barely audible through her lips numbed by fatigue.

Alpha: "You collapsed after overexerting yourself to counteract Justine's gravity field."

Matt: "She did?"

Gwen: "Oh, yeah, I remember now... Gwen: "I didn't expect her to be that strong though..."

Matt: "She was pissed too, so that must have been for something if magic is anything like Aura."

Alpha: "And the seal mustn't have helped either."

A moment of silence follows, until a sudden realization turns her face crimson. "W-wait, w-w-w-why are you carrying me?!"

Matt: "WHAT?!" He exclaims, surprised by her reaction, "Where does that come from? Did you want to be left behind instead?"

Gwen: "O-o-of course not, b-but you didn't have to carry me like that!"

Matt: "Why not?"

Gwen: "Ah?" Caught off guard, by his answer, she can't help but fumble on her words. "Because it's so... It's that... You just can't, okay? Just put me down right now!"

Matt: "Okay, okay! No need to make a fuss about it." He executes, slightly confused by her reaction.

Once on the ground, she dusts her clothes. "That's no way to treat a girl, you know!

Matt: "Um... I'm sorry? Next time, I'll drag you by the hair if that's what you want."

Gwen: "WHAT?! You... I... Do you even... We're... I...." With a thousand ideas fighting to escape at once and her throat clogged with embarrassment and frustration, she gives up in sighed "Argh!" before turning around.

Matt: "Man, I really don't get her sometimes..."

I, laughing out loud, aproach him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Dude, you just princess carried her and you don't know why she's mad? Do you even know what that means?"

Gwen: "And you, how about you tell us where we are instead of laughing?"

Alpha: "Eh? Me too?! I didn't even do anything."

Gwen: "Precisely! One of you just left and the other just kept casually conversing with that Goblin while I was there getting crushed! I could have died!"

Matt: "I... I didn't realize..." He apologies as he lowers his eyes.

Alpha: "I knew she wouldn't kill you. Mamonoes aren't inclined to kill."

Gwen: "No wonder you didn't, you were so absorbed by saving everyone that you forgot about the ones closest to you!

And how do you know she wouldn't kill me? She did lump us with the people she attempted to kill only hours ago!"

Matt: ""Not inclined to kill?" That one was ready to wipe out an entire country full of innocents for the wrongs of others! She is clearly an exception!"

Alpha: "Yes, she does have a grudge against humanity, but she's not acting upon it. If it were her motive, why would she attack a Demon Realm whose population is solely constituted of other monsters and incubi, hm?"

Matt: "....."

Gwen: "....."

Alpha: "Well! That's settled then. Even if it isn't, we'll settle it later when we're outta here. Anything else you wanna add that won't devolve into another fight?"

A "Whatever..." escapes Matt's mouth as he crosses his arms and looks away.

Alpha: "I'll take that as a no. Gwen?"

Gwen: "Um... Where are we going already?"

I throw a look around, though my gaze gets lost in the darkness surrounding us. "No idea." I shrug.

Matt: "What do you mean, "No idea?" I was following you all along because I thought you knew the way out."

Alpha: "Well we're lost because I don't. Deal with it."

Matt: "Congratulations, smarty-pants."

Alpha: "Maybe we wouldn't be lost if I didn't get distracted by an SJW's petty whining. Regardless, seeing where we're going would be a great start now, would it?" I suggest, turning on my eye light.

Matt reaches down the side of his belt and pulls a glowy red crystal out of its socket. He gives it a gentle shake, causing it to catch fire. "Why is it so weak all of a sudden?" He wonders out loud, shaking it harder to feed the flame's intensity.

Meanwhile, Gwen has formed a halo of white light over her head. "Maybe elemental energy is also affected by the seal?"

Matt: "Ugh, cursed be this place...!"

Armed with a light source each, the three of us set out to wandering the corridors in search for the exit.

[Done]

(Wow! With just this one scene, Alpha already feels that much more human than ever before and Gwen finally shows more character than in any previous RP.)