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"Fine then. You go on in and see the boss. Tell the ones waiting inside, they'll give you the directions to him. But be warned one wrong move an' the guards won't hesitate. The other's will wait for you here, as you will if you get finished before they get here."
Turning and leaving, the guard began to walk back to the gates. He seemed to be a bit unnerved.

((I'm still here. Just, the entire squad went AWOL right after my first post. I'm sad. crying BUT! exclaim The game goes on!))

Joel was slightly miffed at the lack of response to his query, but he pushed the matter aside. There were more important things than the emergencies of a foreign security team. He could, for example, get his carving set back. He set off for one of the city guard towers. One rough thief-frisking later, and a beautifully engraved and polished box sat on a desk in front of him. Joel opened it. Everything was there; all the knives, sandpaper, matches, and miscellaneous utensils were in their places. Relieved, Joel closed the box. It had been a present from his staff six months ago, back when he had a staff. They might have been alive still, but he doubted it; most of his home city had been drowned, stomped by monsters, and irradiated, in that order. Joel put down the box so he could arrange a pouch for it.

WHAM.

He was in a library of some sort. The aisle was easily twenty feet wide and the same high, so it had to be a main aisle, but he didn't see an exit. Just rows and rows of books. There was no sign of how he had arrived here, and no sign of his carving set. A small book lay on the floor in front of him, lying with its pages open and one page ripped. Someone yelled behind him, but the yell was cut short by a crash. Joel turned around. Three people in robes were trying to pin down a giant scorpion, which was larger than all of them put together. A fourth had just been thrown into a book case, knocking a couple of large books off.

Joel tackled the scorpion, yelling "flip it over!" He tried to lift one of the legs. The two librarians who had been holding the legs let go. The scorpion hopped around to face Joel. He grabbed the mandibles before they could crush him, and the scorpion pushed him back to bookshelf. The librarian who had been thrown joined his fellow holding the tail; the other two carefully picked up the books that had been knocked down. "No, no, forget the books, get the scorpion first!" Joel yelled, climbing the bookshelves. The scorpion lifted its front end up on the lower shelves, jaws snapping as it tried to follow him. The two librarians finished picking up the books and came back to holding the legs. The scorpion was forced down to the ground. Joel took the opportunity to jump on to its back. Unfortunately, he knocked a book down when he jumped. The librarians holding the tail went to pick it up. The tail smashed down. It missed only because Joel's jump had landed him at the base of the tail, where the stinger was too long to reach. "What's wrong with you people?" he shouted. He tried to hold on to the stinger. With a flick of its tail, the scorpion threw him down the aisle, where he skidded to a stop somewhere past the open book that had been by him when he arrived. Noticing the book, all four librarians made a beeline for it, releasing the scorpion in the process. The scorpion charged straight for him. He retreated hastily, looking for something to stop the monster. He didn't find one, but one of its legs brushed the torn page. With a soft shlooping sound, the scorpion was sucked into the book.

Moments later, the librarians were sorting books on the shelves exactly as if nothing had happened, except for one who was carefully gluing the torn book back together. Cautiously, Joel walked to the one librarian. "Did we win?" he asked.

"Ssh." The librarian hushed him. It - the librarian could have been anything under those robes - put away a tube labeled Plot Sealant.

"Where is this place?" Joel asked, more quietly.

"Quiet in the library." The librarian shelved the book, which was named City of Urkal, written by an unknown author.

"Okay, which way is the exit?"

"Hush."

"Um, right." Joel backed away slowly. The librarian wasn't going to help him. He walked off down the aisle looking for the exit. After all, it couldn't be too far away, right?

((I think Hrisskar died. He isn't posting back.))

((Uhm, Anima? Look back a page razz Post with the red coloured text.))

))As far as I know:

- Me, Sotako, Anima, and Magiking (Yue?) are off hunting dragons or something. (Actually, what ARE we doing?)
- Xinny, Paradigm, Frogtaur and Rapier are all in Urkhal I think. Might have missed off one or two people there. Anyway, they're off catching thieves.
- And the squad that Matt Lutz is in, as far as I know, they're still in the VR room, stood around after Eva's death. I forget who else was in that squad.))

ooc:::: Hur hur. Someone forgot to pay the internet bill :B So Ya Just got it back on today...

-ahem- Anyways Ive had people PM me about wanting to helpt with the thread I thank yee all greatly :'D But I seriously need someone to take over accepting applications cause my PMs are all funky like and keep saying my inbox is full....when its empty -__-; The issue is being resovled though as I er...type? So first person to PM me and offer to take profiles now, gets it :]

"Meh, It was okay."

Anima said blandly while standing up.
He turned toward the direction where he saw some high walls.
And started seeing if he could pick out where the guards were from this distance.

"Nope."

He thought to Himself.
He then turned back to Hrisskar and smiled.

"How about you, old man?"