For imperial_saga happy Valentine's Day, box!

[escapeskarma]

1. [Action]

Aaah...

[ Having finally found someone to translate the ancient document that went with the magical artifact his underlings discovered, Yuna's making a valiant effort to understand how it works. Whether you're a fellow scholar, the translator, or an underling, or... whatever... he seems to be tuning you out. ]

Abandoned due to a tendency to end the lives of its users, what a shame. Just the time spent training replacements... but the concept is good, yes, it could be improved upon.

2. [Video]

[ The view is of a laboratory. It's the kind of organized chaos that one would expect from an absent-minded genius, and the muttering coming from off-screen seems to consist entirely of words that only a scholar would even recognize.

After a moment, a slender figure steps in front. ]

Oh my my, apologies. I set it down to speak and then I was distracted by an important message, and now I've forgotten... oh! I remember now. I was wondering... I have many documents and tomes on the subject, but if there are any experts on the ancient Belkan Empire in possession of these crystals.

3. [Action]

[ His lab has been infiltrated! He can't have any of that, not by someone who would rat him out to the empress or - heaven forbid! - the Church! Even if they haven't seen too much they very well might have...

The skinny robed figure appears from seemingly nowhere, standing a few feet in front of you. ]

Excuse me... but I believe that you're trespassing where you don't belong, and I can't stand for such flagrant violation of the law.

Comments

[nomen_est_numen]

Ahah. Hmmmm. Well, I'm not usually so altruistic, but I do believe I might want to make an exception this time. I feel... a stirring in my soul...." he tosses the thing back and forth a few more times. "...information longs to be free, after all." He slips the thingee into his robes and gives a great leap, narrowly clearing the table with those wings and that tail. He lands on the windowsill, metal talons gouging the wood.

[escapeskarma]

"Ah!" BAD BIRD where in the world are those guards? Oh, well, there ARE some waiting outside that window with bows aimed upwards at it, as a few more stumble into the room with swords drawn. "Get that... that... that thief! That criminal!"

[nomen_est_numen]

Shen rolls out of the window, tail flashing open to distract the guards, and then slides under a railing. Arrows thunk into the wood of the balustrade. Knives cut through the air in response. Shen darts across the grass, guards with swords following. Then he runs in the other direction, stark white against the barely moonlit grass.

[escapeskarma]

"You! Get back here yoooou!" Oh damn it, damage control is not going to be fun with this one. The senators are not going to be happy, and happy senators are senators willing to fund his research.

[nomen_est_numen]

There's a huge fracas going on on the lawn over there, knives and arrows sticking out of everything, guards beaten and sliced and Shen running into the distance, cackling. He gives a shrill, trumpeting cry that echoes across the property as he leaps over the wall, wings and tail spread and making a very fanciful silhouette before he vanishes over the wall.