Utena finished up issuing her final orders for the day,
dismissed the troops, and then came over to join them with a broad grin
and an arm to put over each of their shoulders.
        "I was telling Corwin earlier, we should've done it this way all
along," she said as they went to the table where the rest of the old
gang was already installed.
        "Yes, you should," Anthy replied.
        "Why didn't you tell us if you already knew?" Utena wondered,
but Anthy only smiled.
        "I have to let the two of you make your own mistakes," she said
sagely.  "It's the only way you learn."
        Corwin laughed and disengaged to take a seat.  "Hey, Mitsuru,"
he said, nodding across the table to Tsuwabuki.  "You getting along OK
with Maki and her crew?"
        Before Tsuwabuki could reply, Kardon Felz let out a booming bark
of laughter and said, "Are you kidding, boss?  Those girls are -into-
our boy MT."  He elbowed Tsuwabuki and waggled his eyebrows.  "Fifty
zorkmids says they stash him in their luggage and take him with them
when they leave."
        "Thank you, Kardon, that will be all," said Tsuwabuki dryly.
        "Of course, Master Tsuwabuki," Kardon replied, wide-eyed.  "At
once, Master Tsuwabuki."  Wielding an imaginary teapot with exaggerated
delicacy and an extended pinky, he went on, "Would you care for more
tea, Master Tsuwabuki?"
        "I -will- turn you into a frog, Kard," Tsuwabuki grumbled,
reddening.
        "I think it's cute," Anaximandra Drax put in from a couple of
seats to the other side of Tsuwabuki.  "Not what Kardon's doing," she
qualified after a moment's thought.  "That's just his usual juvenility."
        Kardon sketched an elaborate seated bow to her.  "Your servant,
my shadowy flower."
        "I mean the way the outlanders react to Mitsuru," Ana went on as
if he hadn't spoken.  With a faint, sly smile, she added, "Particularly
the greenest ones."
        "No pun intended?" Kardon joked, drawing a giggle from Peri
Took.
        "I'm sure Commander Maki and her colleagues are only extending
professional courtesy," said Tsuwabuki a tad stuffily.
        "You want to watch yourself with that one, Mitsuru," Corwin
smilingly cautioned him, reaching for the basket of rolls.  "She bites."
        "And just how would you know that?" Utena wondered archly.
        "I respectfully decline to answer on the grounds that my
response may tend to incriminate me," Corwin replied, buttering a roll.
"I always forget how much I love the rolls in this place," he observed
after the first bite.
        "Don't change the subject," said Utena mock-severely.
        "Too slow, already did," Corwin cheerfully rejoined, and
everyone laughed.

Iiiiiiiinteresting.

Though in Utena and Corwin's defense, they DID let Gryph handle the venue first time around, and I'm sure it would never have occurred to him to hold it in Cephiro, either.

Haha! This looks awesome. I suspect, however, that doing it in Cephiro the -second- time actually works a lot better than the first. If they'd done it in Cephiro the first time, there's certain of the Aesir and Vanir that would take that the wrong way with respect to Balder. Now that the first event -happened-, however short, having it in Cephiro the second time allows anyone who wishes to not go to decline gracefully, while allowing anyone who wants to go to do so. Also, in Cephiro there's at least the perception of a lot less chance it'll be interrupted by a planetary invasion. =)

All that said, however, Nanami Kiryuu better trade her red chevrons in for some blue markings snappish before Mitsuru gets dragged bodily off before she has a chance to come back to him...

--------

this world created by the
hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed

--mu

Especially since it didn't actually occur to him to hold it on B6 either - that was Derek's idea.

Also I'm having a brainfault as the only Maki I can currently think of is the bearded guy who came third on Strip Search. Since I doubt that's who this is, would someone care to jog my memory?

LAST EDITED ON Jul-10-13 AT 08:21 PM (EDT)
 
>Also I'm having a brainfault as the only Maki I can currently think of
>is the bearded guy who came third on Strip Search. Since I doubt
>that's who this is, would someone care to jog my memory?

Let me save you guys all some trouble: None of you has ever seen Maki before. This story will be her first appearance, not just in UF, but anywhere. :)

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

And, I'm either too fast or too slow with the research, as I posted my wrong answer a fraction of a second after Gryphon posted the definitive answer.

Oh well... :)

>Let me save you guys all some trouble: None of you has ever seen Maki
>before. This story will be her first appearance, not just in UF, but
>anywhere. :)

An original character? Is that allowed? Isn't it against your charter?

-Merc
Keep Rat

LAST EDITED ON Jul-10-13 AT 10:34 PM (EDT)
 
>>Let me save you guys all some trouble: None of you has ever seen Maki
>>before. This story will be her first appearance, not just in UF, but
>>anywhere. :)
>
>An original character? Is that allowed? Isn't it against your charter?

Oh, fuck off.

--G.
I'd put a smiley there, but it would ruin the feng shui
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

>>Also I'm having a brainfault as the only Maki I can currently think of
>>is the bearded guy who came third on Strip Search. Since I doubt
>>that's who this is, would someone care to jog my memory?
>
>Let me save you guys all some trouble: None of you has ever seen Maki
>before. This story will be her first appearance, not just in UF, but
>anywhere. :)

Excellent! I love your original stuff.

>Also I'm having a brainfault as the only Maki I can currently think of
>is the bearded guy who came third on Strip Search. Since I doubt
>that's who this is, would someone care to jog my memory?

Perhaps Izumi Maki, from Nadesico? If so, I believe she'd be the second person from that series to arrive in UF (following Ruri).

I believe she pilots a green Aestivalis mecha, so "the green one" might be an indication. Or maybe I'm barking up the wrong anime... :)

Why to I get the feeling Anthy is going to MOST UNHAPPY about the damage to the grounds of Tenjou Academy that would appear to be forth-coming?

Brian