The Mercenary

“By the Goddess, Marick!” K’tana shouted at the comm from the place atop her desk that she frequently sat, her easy smile slipping from her face as she glared at the holo. “How many karking Apprentices do you have?!”

“Two. Official ones.” The Arconae’s cool voice did nothing to disguise his displeasure at the Warden’s reaction. “That is still less than the Masters you’ve chased off.” His eyes didn’t even flick towards her chair. “Tavens is on his way to you now. Try not to-”

K’tana shut the holo off midway through Marick’s response causing the air around her to prick at her skin with discomfort as the silent Entar seated in her chair bristled.

“Don’t even start with me, Brood Boy,” she hissed over her shoulder just as the door opened and a large Kaleesh donning a large bag stepped in.

“Skarlette, darling!” she squealed excitedly as she leaped from her spot on the desk. Dashing over to the door, K’tana grabbed at the big lizard’s shoulder bag. His eyes flashed red behind the mask as he pulled the bag from his shoulder and held it out of her reach. She bounced up and down, pawing at the bag and giggling like a child.

Skar smiled behind his mask as he coerced the laughing woman towards the desk. Timeros sat in the chair, watching the exchange with a callous stare. His glacial eyes blinked once, but otherwise remained impassive as he went back to his datapad.

Just as the hyper Twi’lek jumped up and snatched the bag from Skar’s grasp the door opened and a man in hulking Mandalorian armor filled out the frame. His helmet rested in the crook of his arm as his green eyes growing wide at the odd scene before him.

“Journeyman Tavens, reporting for duty ma’am.” the Zabrak brought his fist to his chest, but bore an amused smirk as the young Twi’lek stuck her tongue out. Skar turned towards the door and even Timeros looked up.

“Uh-oh.” Skar took a step back and waited for the show to begin.

“That. Is. Gross.” she spat in disgust, her glare catching in her gaze as she looked sideways towards the man.

“I’m sorry?” the confused Mercenary cocked his head at the woman’s reaction.

“Do I look like a karking Ma’am to you?!” The bag she held dropped to the floor with a metallic ring, like that of several cantines crashing together and she stalked over to the man in the door.

The Wardens’ high-heeled boots put her at eye level with the new recruit. She stood straight and gave him a hard look of disdain, her beryl gaze holding his amused gaze. Tavens leaned back slightly and assessed the woman.

She wore a black, silky fabric that cascaded over her form like a second skin. A sturdy looking bodice of metal encircled her ribcage, ending just above her hips and falling into a long, faded skirt that was cut short in the front. No markings of rank adorned her ensemble and the way she looked at him with a mixture of menace and curiosity dissuaded him from thinking she acted her age, let alone like her position often required.

“I’m guessing ‘Yes’ is the wrong answer…” The Merc smirked at the vicious, but not overly serious glare that she gave him. As K’tana moved to get right in his face a clawed hand pressed over her shoulder and pulled her back.

“She prefers ‘Miss’ or ‘Wardeness,” Skar shrugged, as K’tana grinned at him over her shoulder, “you’ll get used to it.”

“Fine. Reporting for duty, Miss,” the Zabrak grinned back and shook his head.

"Skar." the Elder’s voice iced over K’tana’s giggle.

"...Timeros?"

"Are these intoxicants?"

"Uhm..." Skar looked over at the blond man who held up a canister from out of the Kaleesh’s bag.

"Mastimeros!” K’tana squealed, spinning around with glee, “Did Skar bring drinks?"

"He did. Should I exact punishment?"

"Nah, but if you could uncork a bottle, that'd be great."

Timeros set the bottle on the table and sat back down in the Warden’s chair, a quick shake of his head indicating that he was not going to comply. As the Kahleesh gathered equipment into his travel bag, his glower somehow managed to always find a way to wander towards the Entar. He grumbled under his breath. Timeros' attention snapped into focus on Skar quicker than the former Warden could blink. The Entar tilted his head slightly, as if to inquire if there was some kind of problem the Kahleesh wanted to address. Skar held Timeros' gaze before grunting and turning his attention back to his equipment.

K'tana paid little attention to the males as she was preoccupied with remember where she had put the Thing. The Thing was vital to the mission at hand, and she had to find it. All else was wind and whispers.

The violet woman scoured over her desk, knocking over pads and stylus' in her hunt. She finally moved towards the chair--her chair--that the Entar had nested in, and carefully rolled him backwards away from the desk. Timeros' brow furrowed ever so slightly as his eyes settled on his apprentice warningly. But of course, he said nothing. Only stared. Mutely. She pulled open the drawers with fervour, and resumed frantically searching.

Standing off to the side, Tavens' grin widened as took in his new team. The Zabrak had been on a few teams over the course of his career, but already he had a feeling the current team was going to be quite amusing.

"AHA" K'tana exclaimed as she held an object over her head like a holy relic. "Behold, the Thing!"

She brandished a bottle opener just as the holo came back on and Marick’s form looked over the room with a mixture of distaste and horror as he took in the scene.

“Hey Marick?” Tavens said, sidestepping the rampant Twi’lek as she bolted to the other side of the room towards Skar. “What did I get myself into?”

Marick, looked at his Apprentice and shrugged.

“Welcome to Shadow Gate.”

(Thank you to Wallaby for the co-write. I was really stuck and you are a lifesaver!) -> <-

Katicorn Korner!

GUYS! IT’S ALMOST HALLOWEEN!

PUMP PUMPKIN 2 YO FACE!

As we welcome in Tavens and welcome back Skar, we also get to welcome my FAVORITE SEASON! For those who don’t know, Canada just had our Thanksgiving and I was stoked to have my first family dinner with my mom in over five years. On the 25th I’m going to see Florence and the Machine and I’m also, as most are aware, making weird things for an Escape Horror House (like a haunted house, with puzzles :D) for the Halloween season and - SURPRISE SURPRISE - I happen to be a HUGE Halloween fan. Strange, I know!

So, this Ktana’s edition of a Horrific Halloween Report will be filled with Shiki, Soul Eater, Blood C and Madoka Magica because it was creepy as ~bleep~’ing hell. This is where I see if I can get away with irritating Vic and Cel to the point they either fire me or gimmy what I want. Because really:

(Even if you don’t let me get away with sh-Jk, I <3 you both :D)

So! With all my RL projects I’m gonna hype the crap out of the HHN: HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS! and tell you my Halloween plans later on.

See! Even the witch is excited :D

Do you like fictions? Games? Drawing crappy pics with glitter glue and macaroni noodles? They have it! And if they don’t...they should get on it. No, really. I have so much pasta that I never eat that I could dye and arrange it into things for days. Personally, I’m going to do them all. Because: Halloween. And I wanna win because:

With that being said, I believe the Gate Steward is making bad life choices or a D&D playing chick coerced him into some RP’ing.

Have fun, but don’t wake the kids if you come home drunk <3

Shadow Gate News

I am still working on the stupShadow Gate wiki updates. It’s difficult figuring out what needs to stay, to go, to wait to even look at (Port Ol’val...I feel like it’s my own personal asteroid..D: If it disappears, I’ma cry). Also, the RO is still a thing for a few more days. I’ve posted my last and it’s up to you guys to crush it. I didn’t do this for me. However, if nothing is posted after mine on the 21’st ...know this:

But most importantly….

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DB NEWS

ALL SHALL LOVE HER AND THROW GLITTERY RAINBOWS AT THE WALLS!

Our lovely, devoted (and not so secretly perverse) Shadow Lady is having (or has had, depending on when I put this out) A BIRTHDAY! That’s right! Our 16 year old boss is NO LONGER A TEENY-BOPPER! :D I mean, she’s been legal in Canada for, like, as long as I’ve known her...but now she’s hit 20 and we can no longer make legitimate crude jokes...I mean, we WILL...but they won’t be properly legit anymore ;p

So!

K’tana kneels down and raises up an epic cake

Happy Birthday, wise and beautiful leader of Arcona. May your reign be long and fruitful and may all your enemies be devoured by the shadows.

And gfdi woman, have a drink with us on occasion. Even if it’s just a couple Redbull ;p

Awards

Shiny Stickers!

Marick Arconae

• 11 Clusters of Fire
• 1 Cluster of Ice

Rrogon Skar

• 1 Crescent with Emerald Star

Mks Ehn

• 1 Crescent with Emerald Star
• 1 Crescent with Amethyst Star
• 1 Steel Cross <3

N00b Nozzle Tavens <3

• 12 Clusters of Earth
• 1 Pendant of Blood

Slacking BTL

• 1 Cluster of Ice (How does one get a cluster of one?)
• 1 Shiney Star with a Blue thing in it. It’s my award, I’ll rename it if I wanna.

All the things you could be doing.

All the cool Halloweeeeeen comps!

• HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS!|ALL THE THINGS
• Well, crap. This is gonna hurt| Fiction
• Jinkies| Fiction
• Nightmares Of Our Own Making| Fiction
• Trick or Treat?| Graphics/Multimedia and the two that have nothing to do with Halloween, but I am still stoked for! *Deep Pockets|INQ Fiction *All in a Days Work|INQ Fiction

For everything else, gaming and Halloween unrelated (and everything I’ve missed), click here <--- Yes, there..Not the arrow. Not around the word there or the word click. I know you can figure this out. I have faith in you.

In Closing

There’s a bunch of cool Halloween stuff, we have a new member that I need to torment until I know him better and I have a plan for Halloween.

For those of you who are doing nothing on Halloween…

Let’s jump in a hangout and use the artsy thing to give each other googly eyes and handmade costumes…

Like I did to my dad several months ago. You can tell my skills are far superior to his.

But seriously, if you’re bored on Halloween, I’ll be home, possibly sober(pfft) and more than happy to take pics of you covered in googly eyes. <3 Because I care. Now go do things...or something.