• Nobles of Null is a forum based roleplay site where sci-fi and magic collide. Here, Earth remains fractured and divided despite humanity reaching out to the stars. Worse still, the trans-human slaves of one major power have escaped, only to establish their own Empire, seething with resentment at abuses of the past. Even the discovery of aliens, though medieval in development, has failed to rally these squabbling children of Earth together with its far darker implications. Worse still, is the discovery of the impossible - magic. Practiced by the alien locals, nearly depleted and therefore rare, its reality warping abilities remains abstract and distant to the general populace. All the while, unseen in the darkness of space, forces from without threaten to press in. For those with eyes opened by insight, it is clear that an era is about to end, and that a new age will dawn.

IDS Yīnghuā - Log 2.0: "If you are far from the enemy..."

"Don't blame me for that! Molly takes some time to kick in. He was gonna do that regardless. Dood just wants to use drugs as an excuse to get touchy-feely." Jun replied in the virtuality, "Just throw him off the side and be done with it."

Xian didn't say anything, but she did move to position herself between the other Aos Si and Sakura to ensure that no one would be able to interfere.
 
Reina groans internally in the real and externally back at the digital cafe, "There really is at least one asshole in every group you meet isn't there..."

She sighs at the cafe table and picks at a new pastry in front of her, absent-mindedly looking at the hole in the wall, "Well... regardless of our feelings on the matter, please don't kill or maim him. It would look bad preceding the meeting, regardless of the excuse... Though I also second kicking him back back to his fellows if he's going to treat us like that."

In the real, Reina looked to Nardual giving them a tone of disappointment and venom, "Would be wise to step back down to your fellows before you get thrown down. I can't conceive what would possess a man to assault someone they just met, but it won't be tolerated. Rejoice, that we have other things of importance to consider... Any other day, it might have been different."

She looks down to the other Aos'Si and says a little loudly, "You keep poor company and your associations reflect on yourselves. Wouldn't you rather have other see you in a better light?"
 
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"Their metabolisms are better than the humans or something, I'm sure," Hosihko pointed out, thoughtfully downing another sweet bit of cake. "And I doubt you cheaped out on old-ecstacy," she glanced at Jun. "More importantly, look at this Nardual guy. He's totally different from Nimue's crew, so don't lump them together. Look." A television from the early 2000s *poofed* out of thin air and quietly landed one of the nearby cafe tables. Its screen lit up, and let them compare all the images of the Aos'Si they had seen so far. "Nimue and all her Maidenguard are dark skinned, since we met them traveling south from the equatorial region. This guy though - " she pointed at Nardual, " - he's southern bái miànbāo (白麵包)."

"Nnnnngggg!" Nardual gritted his teeth in pain. The moment Sakura let go of his arm however, he massaged the tender spots, cheeks still red with excitement. Though he scowled briefly at Wen, the Aos'Si Stonemaestro greedily grinned back at Sakura and all the other female Daqinren. "I see you savages don't understand the situ - "

"Silence" Lady Nimue. They all felt a weight to her words, and as the faintest of red sparkled at the edges of their vision, the Daqinren all realized that Nardual was making the motions of speech, but was now furious because he couldn't make any noise. "I am still undecided as to which position my people will take," she began. Seeing an opportunity though, Hoshiko motioned with her hand for Wen to stop talking. The tiger princess really needed him to stop talking! "I find it 'fascinating' that the Daqin Empire and the Southern States have very similar attitudes," Nimue dryly remarked.

As the golden eyed envoy lit up her long pipe, Hoshiko asked, "We haven't arrived at the 'Convocation' yet, but might I ask what it is you want for your people?"

"The same as everyone. Safety. Security. Freedom." Lady Nimue's golden eyes lingered on the tiger princess as she took another puff from her pipe. "The Southern States - that is a derogatory term, by the way - promise that through taking a certain course. But what about you?"

"We're the Daqin Empire! That's easy!" Hoshiko proudly puffed her chest up in meatspace. "Shoot. What do we give them? I fly star ships and kill things for a living, so diplomacy is still kinda new to me," the princess admitted, never mind how she had made splashes in one of the international conferences. "Do we give them guns or something?"

Unable to speak, Nardual grandiosely gestured to the distance. Off in the horizon, they could see a vast mountain range approaching, and nestled in the cliff side formed by a shattered giant, clung a gleaming white city.
 
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