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Krave was a warehouse in an industrial area, seemingly innocuous except for the parking lot full of cars in the middle of a Saturday night.

And the bass you could hear thumping through the walls as you approached the building. Also that.

( A bunch of Nephilim and a totally normal human go to a nightclub! What could go wrong? )

(For that totally-a-human-she-swears. NFB due to distance. Part of this post adapted from book one of my dumb Nephilim books, Galen.)

The portal dropped them off at the end of a long driveway leading up to an unnecessarily large mansion with a
large detached garage off to one side. A tall, pale blond ice prince of a male was waiting for them by the mailbox.

"Miss Finch," Alastair said with a slight inclination of his head. "Welcome to Echo Bay."

"Al's gotta adjust the wards to let you in," Raiden explained.

"It shouldn't take more than a moment," Alastair assured her. Sure, Jane had proven slightly complicated, but Jane was a god. Arden was just a garden variety human, right? "If I may?" he asked, and extended his hand in an invitation for Arden to grasp it.

"Hey, why is my car parked outside?" Raiden wanted to know.

(For that totally-not-a-sylph. NFB due to distance.)

Gray had woken up in the wee hours and, bored to tears, decided to go for a longer flight than the confines of the island while no one else was awake to see him. After a while, he'd landed on a stretch of abandoned beach in case Sloth decided he needed a nap before starting back, but nope, it was a 'sleep shall not find you' kind of night, apparently, so he was just perched on a log watching the waves roll in when he heard a thump behind him.

( In which Gray meets an archangel. )

(NFB/NFI due to distance!)

Gray had seen the Buc-ee's when the island had had one during that...whatever that was last fall, but he'd never gone in, and, well, he was curious.

Once he had ambled across the entire enormous parking lot and the doors of Buc-ee's opened before him, he looked around and could only say, "Holy shit." He was not sure what he had expected, but it had not been...this. All of this. So much of this. It was like some beaver-themed truck stop wonderland in here! He hadn't seen a giant cup of soda that cheap in at least a decade! And hey, what's a 'beaver nugget,' anyway?

He read the ingredients on the back of the beaver nuggets, his eyes getting steadily rounder, and went to get a basket to fill with them. Or maybe he should get a cart?

(Open Buc-ee's is open!)

Raiden and Gray had decided that they should at least do a sweep for demonic activity while they were in a new city, but eventually, Raiden had gotten hungry and decided to go get burgers, while Gray had kept patrolling while he was wide awake to do so. He was somehow unsurprised when he heard a rather distinctive heavy landing behind him not five minutes after Raiden left. He was still shoving all the fear down into a box when Lazarus said, "You are not where you are supposed to be." And then, baffled, "The entire island is not where it is supposed to be."

( In which Gray threatens an angel. )

(NFI/NFB. Content warning for mention of cancer and discussion of child abuse.)

Gray woke up on Monday to his phone ringing, and fumbled around until he was able to locate it and make it stop making noise. On the off chance he'd managed to answer the call instead of declining it, he slurred, "Y'lo?"

"Oh, now he answers his phone!"

( A Phone Call )

(Content warning for mention of cancer.)

When one episode of the anime Gray was binging because Sloth had decided he needed to be wide awake in the middle of the night ended, Gray paused instead of letting it roll into the next one and picked up his phone to check the time, which indicated that the sky was probably starting to lighten outside his blackout curtains. Yeah. Now would be good.

( A Phone Call )

(Establishy, but if any other dorm-dwellers are awake at butt o'clock and want to knock on Gray's door they totally can!)

Gray had woken up that morning in his dorm room, stretched, and reached out mentally for the orange thread of his connection to Raiden to see if he was up yet and willing to make him waffles, only to find a second thread, a second brother nearby...and this thread was so dark a grey it was nearly black.

He had then gone tearing out of the dorm without so much as bothering to put on shoes, and a few minutes later he barged into Raiden's apartment to find him working away in the kitchen, chattering as he attempted to update their visitor on the last several centuries of family events, and--

"Kallias!"

Gray was having a bad Sloth day.

It had started out pretty well. He'd made it to his class and all. But it seemed that was all Sloth was going to let him do today. He'd dragged his way back to his room, laid down for a nap, and now he just...couldn't get up. Couldn't really do anything. Dragging his tablet over from the nightstand and finding some anime to watch even seemed like too much effort.

Even knowing he'd probably been overdue for one of these periods of extreme lethargy, it sucked. Had he closed the door all the way? He didn't think he'd even had the energy for that by the time he got back to the room.

Ugh, he really wished he could take his shoes off.

((Mostly because Gray was overdue for one of these, but if anyone wants to drop by we'll say the door is cracked!))

Just tossing up a quick note because one of Gray and Raiden's guests' appearance is actually interactive. Ooooooh.

Bellamy, the avatar of Lust, has the magical color-changing eyes endemic to fantasy literature, but what color they are at any given time is determined by the person who's looking at him, meaning you get to pick his eye color! Specifically, his eyes are the color the viewer finds most attractive. So he might seem to have your one true love's eye color, or the exact same eyes as that girl with the stunning blue eyes you had a crush on in eighth grade, or the eye color of Alexander Skarsgard. Or, if Lust can't get a grip on what you would find most attractive (or you're asexual or whatever), his eyes will appear hazel as a default. The point is, you get to decide what color my character's eyes are, so please, mod away.

Gray shuffled downstairs, intent on conning Raiden into making him waffles--he could feel him still in the kitchen, along with a weird number of their brothers for this late in the morning--and stopped dead in the entrance to said kitchen.

Castor snatched a set of gold-toned measuring spoons out of Raiden's hand and said, "I should--we should keep these." He slipped them into his pocket, and Bellamy rolled his eyes and took them back out.

"They're not made out of real gold, Cas."

"I know that! We'll just need measuring spoons!"

( Uh, guys... )

((Establishy! NFB/NFI due to distance.))

New character time? New character time!

First off, my oldbie: Yennefer of Vengerburg: Sorceress. Prettier and meaner than you. Away for the summer to finally meet a certain witcher and a bard she's already been best frenemies with for yonks without knowing why.

And now, on to the newbie!

( Who is this guy and what is this thing? )

( So what is his deal? )

( The tl;dr version )