He looks over at the man beside him, and smiles again. "I believe he's trying to decide what to anty, he seems very deep in thought doesn't he?" He turns back to Kain, still smiling, though no one can see that he is almost always smiling. As if he found the entire world amusing.

OOC: I need to name this guy, any suggestions?

Suddenly Gan repeated the words, "Poor, poor sod," he smiled, "as I said you I am an elite psychlogist of The Homelands. Where I am there are people who hold in such thoughts that may dicide life and death situations. Thus we are trained in mental lore or telepathy in order to root out those thoughts. I opened the lore as I would as soon as I approached with the suggestion to her and you. It was one of her stray thoughts that told me who you were adressed as if this offends you in any way please say so, but the thoughts you released on that outburst about trust earlier were quite amusing." his smile grew wider as he gauged her reaction."Refill?"

Tre put up a gold coin the size of his outstreached hand with the head of an old man on one side and a evil smile upon the other, on both sides it read be careful what you wish for, and laid it down, "This is the Coin of Chance you can make a wish on it and if it lands heads it comes true. I've already used it once so it means nothing to me." he said putting it down.

"Hey bar dude I want any alchholic beverage that is on fire alright." said Niall upward in an odd fashion towards the the master as he was handed a grey drink aflame in blue, "Thank ya."


ooc:hows Ranic sound. Another name off the top of my head

((OOC I always favored the name Kilinan. dreamscapian for annoying smile.))

((OOC: suits him, but I think for now I'll keep calling him "he".))

Kain smiled and delt the cards in a very fast and percise manner. Either he played often or he was just generally good with his hands. As he delt he spoke, "I won't insult anyone by going over the rules but just in case does this format look right to everyone." Just then he finished dealing each person having two cards one face up.

(ooc: Ok I'm open to suggestions as to how we continue from here.)

He looks at his card and the smile drops away from his face. He sits staring at the cards as if they are plague filled bottles of death and destruction that god took a piss on.

OOC I shall PM you which cards you were dealt. makes life easier here. only for this game, though. I have my deck of cards in front of me.

"I feel quite good about this, I stay." he said with a look of doubt on his face as he looked at his cards."How about the rest of you?"

After a quick check of his cards Kain simply smilied and delt himself another card. He was trying his best not to let anything slip. "So," he said, "What's everyone else want?"

Shadow stood up and looked at Gan like her head was about to catch fire. She was a rebel, and a hunted one, valued freedom, had this thing done before, and all 4 of the above thoughts combined into one really explosive reaction. Relatively, she kept her cool, more or less.

The entirety of her eyes turned pitch black, and Gan was seemingly compelled to look into them. Her voice deepened to an unearthly low, where she spoke, "I will not have my mind examined by the likes of you." Simply stated. A few seconds later she returned to normal, and sat back down, if not far more anxious and skittish about someone else knowing who she was, and why she was there.

"I'm very uncomfortable about this place Alysa." she continues, "The people here are strange and invasive."

Subconciously, Shadow began to perform an Anti-psionic prana, singing songs in her head, doing math, performing tactical analysis of how long it would take for an army of a certain configuration to defeat a city vanguard, and things that would generally scramble a psionic scan attempt.

((Soul flaying gaze, one of the "Obey Me" type charms. Projects visions of oblivion, and the accompanying voice is one much like "The Voice" in Dune, or the Go'auld in Stargate.))

((OOC so that how you spell Go'auld, I wondered... has anyone noticed that Everyone here is high powered? I think that, while this is fun, it takes away from some of the other aspects. someone bring in a low powered mage that just barely managed the spell to get him here. make him COMPLETELY dwarfed by everyone else. heh heh. just for shits and giggles.))

She looked at Gan coldly from the table.

"Are you threatening me?" she said in a cold and calculating tone.

"Do not anger me. My resonance is too great for this sort of petty bickering. If some black miracle occurs while you're forcing me to act this way, it will not be my doing, nor my choice." she explains in a more concerned way. It might not have been an entirely true warning, but it sometimes did happen. She was suprised that her Soul-Flaying Gaze had no effect, but perhaps so. He was a psionic "psychiatrist" and not one she thought was particularly well-liked.

"I want you to know, psion, that this sort of behavior is considered a crime punishable by death in the realm. Therefore, I suggest you stop before I go report you to the Dynast outside." Shadow said jokingly, gesturing to Rheia outside, who was still engaged in a duel with Naharu. "Or I could resort to vigilante justice." she said more seriously, with a steely grin.

"Gan, it's not nice to read other people's thoughts when they don't want to be disturbed. Especially if said 'other people' are Abyssal Exalted. Their purpose in life is to flip out and kill people. They generally consider it a humanitarian gesture."

((ooc: I'll try that out a bit later Nikose, I have a good entrance for him.))

In a puff of smoke and a small fire a short dwarf like person appeared. He wore a small yellow hat with white trim on the outside. Hes tared down at his book continuously and kept looking up momentarily to try to find out where he was.

He looked up at all the people staring at him. "Hmmm, doesn't look like the realms of the avatars. Looks like I screwed up once again", he said to himself as he sat at a table reading his book. "Now I get what I was suppose to do", he frowned as he looked down at the book, "But now I won't be able to get to it for a while."

This was Herald, an apprentice mage from one of the "other" realms. He was always screwing up every spell he seemed to cast. As once he tried a fireball spell and ended up setting the teacher on fire. With him drew destruction with every step.

Herald walked over to the table where the others were playing poker. Kaze looked up at him and then looked back down. "Oh god its him", Kaze said as he got up from the table. "I won't let you cause any destruction here", he said as he charged energy up in his arms (like a hadoken). Herald seemed to cringe in fear.

Just then Jaryd looked over from the bar. "Hey, no violence in here. Even if it means getting rid of him." Kaze looked back at Jaryd and stopped charging. "Fine, but if he gets in my way I'm going to toss him through a window." Herald walked back over to his table and continuously read his book.

"Well, she's not your patient, and neither am I. It's rude and presumptuous to assume that others need help. Trust me, if they need it, they'll ask for it, Gan."

Shadow looked at them both and sighed. They didn't know anything, but at least Gan wasn't harassing her anymore. "That won't be nessecary." She said to him, slipping a small metallic tube back into her pocket which she had covertly drawn during the exchange. "Just open your mind for a second." Shadow continued, holding up her right hand in a little gesture between her eyes and Gan's eyes. With a little snap of her fingers, she activated the "Encounter Banishing Gesture" charm.

The charms effects would rewrite Gan's memory and erase the last 12 seconds of psionic scanning he had done to her, and wipe most of his memory of any sensitive information he might have picked up off her. She didn't want to kill him, and this was the only other way to make sure he wasn't a threat. It was primarially used for tricking guards who might have seen her during infiltration, but it worked equally well on investigators.

"Now that that's settled..." Shadow continues, holding her head low over the table, "Maybe people can go back to their normal selves."

A vaguely asian-looking young man of about 17 enters the bar. Though he has a coldness unusual for a man his age, and gleaming silver eyes, his most striking feature is the silver-feathered wings that hang down his back like a cloak. The protrude from his back and through rips in his black trenchcoat. The trenchcoat hangs open across his chest, showing the gray dress shirt unbuttoned halfway. A black pistol hangs from one side of the the silver chain belt that supports his black slacks. The other side supports a small submachine gun. A black-hilted katana hangs across his back, sticking up on his left shoulder above the left wing, and rests sideways below the right one. He sits down at the bar, ignoring everything around him, and orders a flask of red wine. He downs it, then finally looks around the bar, appraising its occupants.

Alysa's eyes narrowed.

"What are you doing here, Abyssal? Have you come to meet your end upon my blades? Let me assure you, though I may not be as skilled in the ways of war as my brother of the Dawn, your death is no less assured."

Then she cracked a sardonic grin, and winked at Shadow.

"Yeah, and the sun is green, Shadow."

His mind said stay, his gut said hit. His gut liked hitting things, so did his brain for that matter. Hit it is. "Hit."

"Here's a useless fact, did you know that the worst hand in blackjack is 16?" he said as he looked at his opponents, "Basicly it is because it is low and it cannot take a number higher than 5 putting it's odds farther down than any other card." he hoped to place just some sort of fear in them. Especially if they had that hand.

Gan looked up at the new guy, "You remind me of a celestial demon, do you know that?" he said if only to start conversation, "I would've tried a different begining if I weren't absolutly certain that you and the girls here don't get along very well." he thought about that for a minute and just for reference said, "Though I belive I don't get along very well with theme either..." then only for a minor hope of getting a good patient in this bar other than the bouncer, "Are you interested in a psychological test on the wellness of your living, since in your world accordingly it is illeagal I must include that if you fail I will scan your mind."

OOC:soon Niall will be leaving through a certain fate.

He smiles, confusing people made him laugh. "I'll have one sir, analyze me" he says as he rises from his seat. To the other all he says is "You can have the knife."

"Ummm, ya sure whatever", Herald said staring up from his book, "It can't hurt." He pulled his chair over towards Gan who was ready to start. "Before you start, I would like you to know my mind isn't the most pleasent place."

"It sure isn't", said Kaze staring up from his cards,"You seem to be the worst mage I have ever seen. You know just as well as I that you can't reach the Realms of the Avatars without special permission. Stupid mage." Herald grinned at Kaze and returned his attention to Gan. "I'm ready."

He sits back down, and says "nevermind, I was confused, too many conversations at once."

((Celestial demon sounds most like me. Tell me if it's not.))
"A celestial demon sounds about accurate. I'm Kazuma Masahiro, a Shade. I'll take your test, but you would be unable to comprehend the contents of my mind with a scan." He stands and walks to the man who invited him over. "Who are you, now?"

((OOC:For reference my best definition of a celestial demon: A celestial demon is a demon with the powers of the universe at its disposal,It can manipulate the world around it, like creating soap out of air[not like alchemy just out of pure nothing] they live literally in the sky. They can also control death and can [if powerfull enough{you must also be born under a certain star}] kill some one with thought. They live literally in the sky amongst the stars. They have gigantic wings like angles in the bible.))

"Wow after miss rebellious here I was afraid you were going to try and kill me,but belive me ther is little my mind cannot comprehend after that day..." he said to the winged man, then turned to the small wizard, "And as for you my poor pathetic little friend I am happy for the warning, but I've seen myself die before so I know I can live through your thoughts." He looked up at the man on the table, "And I can scan you later." He approached the winged man and began to hold his head for a better sight of his thoughts, "Now lets take a look.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Shadow exclaimed, looking at Alysa with great suprise. Then she caught the Eclipse' wink and breathed a sigh of relief.

"You had me frightened there for a moment." Shadow said, "I'd never seen my little trick work on a solar before." She grinned, and continued, "Not that I ever expected it to."

"To your sarcasm, why don't we? All the little mortals seem to think that having little fights seems fun. I haven't had a good duel since... well... since never." she says, with a little chuckle, "I guess being an assassin does that to you."

At her own mention of the word assassin, Shadow remembered her apprentice, and cringed at the thought, shoving it out of her head.

Kain looked at his cards, he had a 3 and Ace showing at the moment, and thought really hard. "I think I'm good at the moment," he said, "If everyone else is satisified we can end this game now."

(Ooc: Since I Tuesdays are the days when I pretty much can't get to a computer we'll just say I dealt any cards asked for already.)

"A duel? Well... sounds interesting. But you'll rape me with your evil Abyssal Charms."

She stuck her tongue out at Shadow.

"My Dawn, Brightfire, is always going on and on about how you can only know a person's true nature through combat with him. Personally, I think he needs to swill more ales and bed more wenches, but you do get to see how a person really is when he's pressed to the wall, with no false pretences to protect him."

((Over the post limit. new one is immeninent.))