Further Protection Against Things of a Horrifying Nature

[clockwork_phoenix]

* Bella stands "Hello" Kurt gets a nod, and she starts going to one of the closets to poke through it.
<Kurt> "Hallo...lots of people." Hi Bella, and Phoenix, and Grif and Metody.
* Grif waves at Kurt as he pops his beer open and enjoys that first mouthful.
<Kino_Makoto> Well, my idea of relaxation clothes, even from the Silver Millennium, is probably different from yours, so you may want to get some kind of design in mind /anyway/.
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "That's a very good point." Aurelia has no idea why she has been specifically requested /not/ to ask about the Silver Millenium, but she doesn't. "Thank you."
<Grif> "Given you guys' idea of combat clothing, 'different' is probably an understatement."
<Kino_Makoto> Well, you've got to remember. The Senshi fuku weren't originally combat uniforms.
* Aurelia[Entouraged] also doesn't notice that her shortest, youngest, curviest security detail might actually bite her lip with a touch of nervousness, either.
* Phoenix_Wright tries not to think about fukus. Fucking fukus.
<Kino_Makoto> They were there for show. Like how some cultures put lots of frills on their guards.
* Bella is plucking out various mechanical objects of varying sizes out of the closet.
* Some appears, his usual self again, if a bit pale, wearing a hoodie sweatshirt.
* Metody cheerfully waves to...most of the room, really. And then the rest of the room because it'd be rude to leave them out. So, basically, everyone. Then he bounds for the bar and whatever he can find that's safeish
* Hastur is still in the kitchen. Apparently administering medical treatment to the Fridge Monster.
* Aurelia[Entouraged] and co might occasionally glance kitchenwards. The Sovereign Nation of Arista is not familiar with what makes monsters sick. And definitely doesn't want to deal with it.
* Phoenix_Wright would note HAVING YOUR TENTACLES TORN OFF is a good start.
* Kino_Makoto stands and shakes out the dress she's making. It's a blue dress that might cling a little to the upper body, but becomes much looser after the waist. It's a pretty solid blue, except for the mostly-finished tidal wave reaching up from the bottom. Two shoulder straps for the top, and a slit for the zipper in the back. "Relaxation dress. Of a kind, at least."
* Bella blinks, "/Very/ nice."
* Some is here to get a drink today. Yes. He jumps at the flutter of cloth, skittering sideways.
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "Lovely."
* Kurt is here, somewhere. Probably behind the bar, trying to find cider. IT WAS HERE YESTERDAY.
<Kino_Makoto> Almost finished.
* Kino_Makoto settles back down. "Sorry." gets tossed to Some before she starts sewing again.
* Bella hups up her various objects in her arms (included are: A typewriter, various broken clockwork machines, so on, and so forth, a few glass tubes in a box...), and she claims a table in the Name of the House of Kintotech. She pulls her gun off of her belt, regarding it thoughtfully.
<Some> ... No problem. Sorry. *Bar!*
<Kino_Makoto> But, yes. My father didn't design the fuku for combat. He did, however, manage to slip in programming for an invisible skin-sheath when it was deemed we'd have to fight.
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "That sounds reasonable."
<Phoenix_Wright> So, er, why DID it become the battle uniform then?
<Kurt> "Ah-HA*" And in dodging Some, he bumps into Metody. "Ooof. Crap, sorry!"
<Grif> "Yeah, you've mentioned that. I still think that armor on top of that would've been a good idea."
* Some acks and stumbles backwards, bumping into the shelves. "Kurt, hi!" o,O
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "I've heard there can be mobility trouble with too much armor."
<Kino_Makoto> Because my father got killed before we managed to convert it into battle armor, and it was... strongly suggested that we keep it in his memory.
<Phoenix_Wright> [Not that it probably relates to my costume. Whoever came up with the Nexus Senshi probably just watched too many magical girl shows.]
* Metody squeaks at the impact - so many people! "It's okay!"
* Aurelia[Entouraged] frowns and the guards, who know it a little more, visibly /wince/ a little.
<Kino_Makoto> Ami managed to hack them last year. I've got an option for more armor, but it does cut down on my mobility some. I only break out my armored uniform when there's something major going down.
<Kino_Makoto> Everyone else went for more frills, pants in Ami's case, or... Rainbow skirts.
<Kino_Makoto> [Oh, Usagi...]
<Grif> o_O
<Kurt> "Sorry, sorry!" He hops up into the rafters, and peers down. LOOK MORE ROOM. Hi Some.
<Grif> "Rainbow... skirts."
* Metody tilts his head back to peek up at Kurt. He smiles. "There's just not enough room in this place sometimes!"
* Some edges to get himself a bottle, then copies Kurt, picking a bit of rafter a few yards away from him.
* Hastur eventually closes up the fridge again and heads out of the kitchen, slowly nomming on a piece of fruit. He looks a bit subdued. However, he avoids the traffic jam by ... phasing past the bar entirely.*
<Kino_Makoto> Usagi likes her things colorful.
* Bella begins dissassembing the various mechanical devices, starting with the typewriter to get to its guts.
* Grif rolls his eyes. "Of *course* it was Usagi. Why did I even wonder."
<Kurt> "Hi."
* Phoenix_Wright ponders finding Ami and asking her to hack HIS just so it's a LITTLE less embarrassing.
<Some> "Hi. Sleep okay?"
<Kino_Makoto> Ami let everyone choose their outfits, so.
* Hastur finds a spot near Phoenix and quietly chews the fruit.
<Kurt> "Yes." >__> Even if he does not entiiiirely remember getting home. >_______>
<Phoenix_Wright> [Of course, that would mean having to transform to show he what I DO have... argh.]
* Bella starts on the broken clockwork machines, next.
<Grif> "Hm." He puts one hand to his chin. "I wonder if... no, I have to remember that ONI would have my balls in a sling if I let anyone examine how MJOLNIR works *again*."
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "The Guard are terribly picky about outside medical examination, too."
<Bella> "I presume MJOLNIR," she says, voice having an odd tone to it, "Is the armor you're wearing?" A beat, "Interesting, named after Thor's Hammer."
<Kino_Makoto> To be fair, Ami could probably do it so that no one could notice she did it. Depending on when you met her, she might have a full set of records on it by now.
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "Not that that's quite te same thing, but..."
* Some tucked him in. Nyah. He picks at the back of his hands, glad to just be here.
* Kurt watches Some. Whyfor are you picking at yourself, sir?
* Phoenix_Wright is sort of fixated on his own embarrassing Nexus-provided ability right now. [Costume change...]
* Grif nods. "Yeah. We're SPARTANs wearing MJOLNIR. The UNSC likes naming its shit after myths, and they're not afraid to mix and match, no matter how weird it might seem."
* Bella nods, and continues taking apart the clockwork devices, listening to the room as she does this. she's arranging the parts by what they are. And what she can -use-. And what she can use for -other- projects.
* Hastur stays where he is, quiet and more or less patient.
* Some has some sort of pinpricks on his hands. Lots of them.
<Grif> "Well, they keep pretty close tabs on me, but I will say that mobility's not really much of a problem with MJOLNIR, and if she just happens to be able to figure it out from her own scans, it's not like I can do anything about it."
* Grif is a man who knows his loopholes when he sees them.
<Kino_Makoto> ...I'm going to say that I'm not about to redesign my armor to look like MJOLNIR-wear.
* Grif shrugs.
* Bella (...yes she's a bit of a prackrat. Really, most sparks probably are, when it comes to things within their style)
* Kino_Makoto jerks a bit and sucks her thumb, frowning. Teach her to look up when she sews...
* Phoenix_Wright blinks. "You okay?"
<Kino_Makoto> Yeah. Just pricked my thumb, that's all.
* Kurt hops closer to look at him. His movements have settled into their effortless norm again, or at least an acceptable facsimile.
* Hastur slowly rolls the fruit rind up in a paper towel. His thoughts look far away.*
* Bella , once done disassembling the items at hand, she takes her gun out of the pouch on her belt, and starts taking -it- apart. to an extent. The Elder Sign inside of it remains hidden by the casing, for the moment.
* Phoenix_Wright notes Hastur out of the corner of his eye. [Is he... still worried about the Crawling Chaos?]
* Hastur would answer if asked.
* Kino_Makoto licks it again, wipes her thumb off on her shirt, and starts sewing again.
* Some glances up at him, sucking at the side of his hand, which looks like he's been experimenting in odd piercings.
<Phoenix_Wright> H -- Flavius, are you sure you're okay?
* Aurelia[Entouraged] 's guards are going to look at Bella's stuff and then look to be /absolutely certain/ they're between Bella and Aurelia, /just in case/
* Kurt reaches out to pull the hand away.
* Bella isn't quite facing Aurelia, at the moment--and really, she's not even -looking- at Aurelia.
* Metody settles down in a chair to knit. And quietly sing a soundtack, because damnit, knitting is just more awesome when you're thinking a rock anthem at it.
* Aurelia[Entouraged] 's detail believe in planning ahead. And that thing is both awesome and SCARY
* Some lets him, almost immediately leaning into Kurt's shoulder.
<Kino_Makoto> I'm wondering if I should buy her a sash to wrap around her waist with this, but it'd cover up part of the wave...
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "She could make the decision to either use it at the waist or maybe at the shoulders?"
* Bella is totally in the Madness Place, at the moment, and -now- she's beginning to combine things into a cohesive unit--rather, a bigger gun, apparently, if the first stages of this assemblage hold true.
* Hastur hmmms absently, rolling the fruit rind in the paper towel about on the bar.* I've been worried. And thinking too much.
* Phoenix_Wright chuckles. "I know how that is, believe me."
<Hastur> *looks up* You do?
<Grif> "I expect most of us have probably been there, every so often."
<Hastur> It's something you're all accustomed to.
<Kino_Makoto> That's a possibility.
<Phoenix_Wright> Yeah. I mean, I'm a lawyer. Thinking too much goes with the territory.
* Kino_Makoto seems perfectly happy to discuss clothes, rather than think on Past Issues. The number of times she's almost quit being Kino Makoto...
* Bella the new gun isn't completely /clean/ looking, having mechanics and gears on the sides before she covers them up with a panel she bends against her leg for that purpose, but it's much less of an unwieldly shape. Closer to a Death Ray -Rifle- than a pistol. "/Yeeees./"
<Phoenix_Wright> [Not that you'd believe I was thinking at all if you let the prosecutor talk about me...]
* Metody lowers his knitting a little and eyes Bella cautiously.
* Tyton is now known as Terana
* Bella simply /smiles/ at Metody. You know. That ~sparky~ sort of smile.
<Metody> "Gosh. You're so pretty and terrifying when you have that expression, Miss Bella."
<Phoenix_Wright> ?
<Hastur> Hmmm. Has being a lawyer ever left you debating who and what you are?
<Phoenix_Wright> ...
<Phoenix_Wright> Actually, yes...
<Bella> "Thank you, I think~" Yeah, still a bit of a odd reverb to her voice, "If you'll excuse me, *SCIENCE!* must be done." With that, she hups the rifle into her left hand, and strides towards the arena.
* You are now known as Bella[Arena]
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "A good shawl never hurt anyone." Aurelia concurs on the clothes thing as her guards relax just a teensy bit.
* Hastur looks at Phoenix.
* Kurt recoils from Some a bit, in revulsion
<Kino_Makoto> Nn. I'd have to buy one. I don't have time to make another for her.
<Grif> "...I'm pretty sure I don't want to know just what she's done to that gun. Anyway! Dude, Flavius, I worry... or, rather, try not to worry... about that shit all the time."
<Bella[Arena]> ((XD))
* Phoenix_Wright looks up at the ceiling. "A while back, I was forced to take on a case. Maya had been kidnapped, and I was told that unless I got this one man a not guilty verdict in one day, she would die."
* Bella[Arena] judging from the faint whine that can be heard from the Arena, followed by a BRAZAAAM, and a rather cheerful sound of *GLEE!* You probably -don't- want to know, Grif.
<Metody> "Okay. Have fun." And...aha! Metody hops up to peer over the crowd at Aurelia. "Miss Aurelia? Want a shawl when I'm done with it?"
* Some glares at him and jumps down, stalking into the kitchen.
<Kurt> "Hey!"
* Kurt jumps down and follows
<Hastur> *to Phoenix* What did you do?
* Phoenix_Wright is oddly not distracted by this. "The man seemed like he was truly innocent, though. I'd been taught to always believe in a client's innocence no matter what, so I fought tooth and nail for the guy, connecting the pieces together."
<Phoenix_Wright> But it didn't seem right. The woman the pieces pointed to, she didn't seem guilty either. But at one point, I was so desparate to save Maya that I didn't care.
<Phoenix_Wright> Nevertheless, the case got somehow stretched another day, and we barely managed to convince the kidnapper to allow for another chance.
<Phoenix_Wright> And then, as I found out more, I began to realize: the man I was defending was a true psychopath.
<Hastur> *blinks*
* Kurt is yelling at Some in the kitchen.
<Phoenix_Wright> Suddenly, I didn't know what to believe anymore. If I followed through, got the guy off, Maya would live, but a terrible man would be free, and an innocent woman would go to jail. But if I didn't get him off the hook, then Maya...
* Bella[Arena] steps back in here, carrying the gun on her hip and smiling that pleasent smile of /victory is -mine-/.
* Tohim has quit (Exit: )
<Phoenix_Wright> I became convinced. This was it. The end of everything. No matter what happened after that case, there was no way I could continue being a defense attorney. I didn't deserve the title.
* Aurelia[Entouraged] did /not/ wait as long as one might think before smiling at Metody and saying "Oh dear, I certainly hope I don't seem like I'm soliciting, here. Shawls are nice, certainly, but I wouldn't want to put you to any trouble."
<Kino_Makoto> For the record, it's an open offer. For anyone. I'm just better with women's clothes.
<Bella[Arena]> "What is?" She missed it in her Madness moment.
<Hastur> What changed your mind?
<Kino_Makoto> Making people clothes
<Bella[Arena]> "Ah!" She nods, "Excuse me, I'm going to go set this down, since I've no longer anywhere to keep it." And with that said, she walks to her sideroom to put her Big Eldritch Killin' Gon away.
<Phoenix_Wright> A good friend who helped me see the light... and a miracle.
<Metody> "I'm making it for fun and I'm darn well not going to wear it because people already think I'm a girl." The turning into a girl thing probably has *nothing* to do with this. Really.
* You are now known as Bella
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "Well thank you /very/ much, then, Metody."
<Metody> "It won't be ready until tomorrow, though, because I've got to stretch it out right. Otherwise, it's all puckery."
* Mattybee is now known as Caleb
<Aurelia[Entouraged]> "I'm certainly in no rush." Aurelia beams.
<Metody> "Hooray!" Down he flops. Then he pops up a moment later and tosses caramels at her and the guard. Then he flops back down.
* Caleb comes wandering in. For the record, this time the mecha pilot is *not* dressed in the typical t-shirt/jeans/vest combo he has going on normally, but appears to be dressed in a suit of leather armor, with some more medieval/fantasy-esque clothes under it - fairly simple, but they cover him. He looks pretty pleased with himself!
* Grif raises an eyebrow. "Going for a new look, Caleb?"
* Phoenix_Wright looks at Hastur. "Somehow, everything came together. And my friend... he reminded me what being a lawyer was really about. It wasn't about winning. It was about getting to the truth."
<Caleb> "We were out... adventuring." Implication: 'a fantasy-esque world where I can't get away with looking modern'. "And leather armor is good for mobility." Implication: Caleb has a high DEX score.
<Kino_Makoto> I approve.
* Kino_Makoto is... not leering. Not at all.
* Aurelia[Entouraged] likes the caramels, oh yes. And the guards approve of Caleb's armor.
* Hastur nods. Smiles a small, vague smile.* I'm glad you didn't give up.
* Caleb 's leather armor is entirely not designed for leering; it's made to protect via, you know, actually absorbing damage, not protect via revealingness. Unless Makoto has a serious leather thing going on.
* Phoenix_Wright nods. "We all have doubts sometimes. What it comes down to is finding out what's important, and how hard you're willing to fight for it."
* Kino_Makoto isn't leering! D:
<Hastur> *He has that far away look again.* That's ... what's been thrown into doubt. *Well, that's a bit scary--when a Great Old One doesn't know what his existence is all about....*
* Bella steps back into the Sanctuary sans Death Rifle. Tallish check, mechanical right arm and leg, both some type of steampunk-esque clockwork, victorian clothing. (There's a resemblence to Arabelle, yes, but in a rather distant relative sort of way--you'd need to see them -together- to really tell. http://gears-of-gold.livejournal.com/profile/ )
<Grif> "Oh. Though while you're here..." He holds out his hands, and a swirling green portal opens to drop into them... a book, which he offers to Caleb. It's entitled, "Haynes-Chilton's Guide to the 'Hog" and labeled with "AMG Approved!"
<Phoenix_Wright> Oh?
* Caleb takes it, grinning. He knows exactly what that's for. "Why thank you, Grif. I'll have to take a look over it, though I have been debating - and trying to find information about - what would be involved in powering the beast with magic, or if that's possible." It's possible in theory, he KNOWS that; it's more a question of 'how practical is it'.
* Bella cleans up the table of the scattered parts, putting the smaller ones in her toolbelt and stepping out to carry larger ones back to her room.