Jemal's Anniversary Special IC

"Hey it's not my fault, it's just habit." Jim frowned at D'raven, then turned back to looking at some of the demos. "Hey Hero Quest, haven't played that game in decades.."

Wandering thru the booths strides a tall (6') woman in her early 30's. She wears her long hair parted down the middle falling just past her shoulders. Her hair is curly and dyed red but showing dark roots, and artificial flowers are woven into her hair. She is wearing soft makeup with green eye-shadow, natural lips and latex elf ears. She wears a cosplay costume of some medieval fashion, of a red leather bustier and a knee length flared red skirt with midriff exposed. Both the bustier and skirt are stitched with a floral pattern in gold thread. Adding to her height are tall black boots with 1 1/2" heal. Slung over her shoulder is a fake bow and quiver of arrows. On her arm she carries a large bag of swag and stuck to the strap of her quiver she bares a name-tag that reads "Diana / dream66_"

She squeels out loud excitedly at the sight of something at a dice vendor.

Another man, probably nearing 30, approaches the group.
His clothes aren't particularly interesting--jeans, white and black sneakers, and a blue T-shirt with "Easily distracted" scrawled on it in white. He's just shy of six feet tall and broad. His curly brown hair is slightly longer than shoulder-length and pulled into a ponytail. Thin wire glasses frame muddy green eyes, and his name-tag reads "Pat/SuperZero". He looks slightly uncomfortable with the size of the crowd.

"Wow," he says, looking at Diana. "Between the facts that I was born on Halloween and that I've always been interested in theater, you'd think I'd be more into costuming... But I've never had the patience. Or the skill, really."

"What, Oh..." I blush "This isn't that hard, it's just a few pieces, almost all bought off the internet, it started as a Blood Elf but then Mop pissed me off and kinda just become elf, and from there it's just 6 weeks of eating like a bird to be brave enough to bare my midriff, and I suddenly realized Wow I babble on." I hold out my hand. "Hi, I'm Diana, unless I stole her nametag, in which case Diana is stuff in my luggage, but I kid." I let out an embarrassed laugh.

"Ah don't worry, V, just call him Fuzzy" Jim grinned at Juan as D'raven glared at him, but his retort was cut short by the nearby squeal.

Jim looked over at the two standing to their side near the dice. "A man born on Halloween and a lady dressed to excite the senses.. you two definitely just found the right group." with a grin he tipped his top hat and bowed "Jemal, at your service." He glanced at the dice Diana was looking at, and starts to reach for to a set off to the side, black with pink numbers, "And don't fret, dear lady, I'm sure you'd be stunning even without such a wonderful costume." He then glances at her name tag, and reads it.. then reads it again.. then it sinks in. He stands up blushing a little "Oh.. well, I.. sorry, I uhh.. I didn't realize it was you.. I should really make sure I'm not hitting on friends in the future.. Really is a great costume though, but I cant believe you didn't like pandaland, it held my attention longer than any of the other expacs, and.. damnit now I'm babbling!" His smile returns slightly as he clears his throat, and he turns to the others. "Anybody else gonna talk or just leave the two of us here to babble on?"... "five.."

"Oh hey Jemal, cool to see you in person, rather than just think of you as a red fist. As for the flirting, don't stress over it but.." She sets down her bag of swag and starts digging in it. Pulling out a t-shirt, and a book..."Hang on..." Diana continues to dig in the bag before retrieving a rainbow rubber wristband that reads "I ♥ Boobies"

"Ok, that would have been so much cooler if life was a game. But um what I'm trying to say I guess is, I have a girlfriend." Her voice sounds a bit off in some way when she gets embarrassed but quickly recovers.

"Really? Huh," says Zero with a shrug. "Never saw much need for one myself, but to each her own."

A younger girl dressed in knee high, black, platform boots with neon pink laces, a short, tight black skirt and a black corset with red flowers, approaches the group. "I see you ran into D" She says looking at Jemal. She hands him a bottle of pepsi then turns to D. "Nice outfit!" she says with a smile, then turns behind her to the others. "Hi, I am Raivon or Lin if you prefer." She then turns to the wonderfully dressed Dream66 "I love the outfit, very sexy." She says with a curious smile. Turning back to Jemal, placing her hands together behind her back, she asks "Are you going to just stand there and stare at my chest or are you going to introduce me to your friends?"

"I'm good at multitasking.." Jim grins and pulls her towards him, looking over at Diana "Don't worry, as you can see so do I. I'm just a bit of a flirt. Anyways everybody this is my lady Lin. Lin, this is Diana, Juan, you know D, and over here's.. Pat." Jim reads Zero's tag.
Just then a tall man wearing a blue T-shirt and lighter blue jeans with light clost-trimmed brown hair and an older style of metal rimmed glasses walks past, and Jim catches sight of his tag.
"Whran? Hey hows my Epic pal doing?"

He reaches a hand out to Rob smiling, when there is a loud *pop* sound from down the convention hall, and the air begins to tingle.
Everybody around looks in that direction puzzled and murmering, and after a few seconds an unbelievable light show starts near the middle of the hall above an old D&D demo.
a bright, but not overwhelming, ball of light sems to explode out of the air, causing everybody nearby to stagger back a few steps. It consumes the table above which it had appeared, taking up an area of nearly 10 feet.

A few seconds later, a figure is thrown from the light, clanging across the floor as gamers scatter out of the way.
The figure rolls to a stop on one knee and slams a large ornate blade into the ground, using it to help him to his feet. He stands, his dark silver trimmed armour almost glowing from the light as he turns back to face it, one hand at his side stemming a bloody wound.
Another man exits the light, astride a skinny, dark horse with pitch black eyes and a red mane, smoke trailing from its nostrils.
"a Pitiful attempt at escape, Guardian, and now you've given me access to yet another world." The tall pale man sitting on the Nightmare sneers, whipping a stray lock of his Long white hair out of his face and leveling a hand at the armoured 'Guardian'. "And once you have been finished, they will be added to our expanding empire." He opens his hand and a blast of sickly green energy leaps from his palm and envelops the knight... it only lasts a second though, before flickering and dieing out, leaving the Pale Man's eyes wide with amazement that quickly deteriorates into fury.
"WHAT IS THIS?"

The knight drops his helmet, revealing a battle-scarred but handsome tanned face with dark brown hair. "Not an escape, Mikael - a trap. This is not just another world. This is Earth." He looks around, seeing the people staring. "And my spell brought us to the perfect spot. This place teems with imagination." The Guardian raises his bloody hand palm-up in front of him and trails of mist begin snaking rapidly outwards, worming through the crowd of conventioneers. Each time a trail of mist contacts someone, a brief flash of light lances out from him or her and impacts on the Pale Man. He raises his hands, warding off the small but obviously painful blasts of light.

"What the.. ?"

Some kind of performance? Zero didn't think so somehow, especially with the crowd being affected.
He grabs Lin and Diana, the two people closest to him, and pulls them back a few paces (although if either of them resists, he lets go of her without fighting). That was something he could pass off as "just getting out of their way" if he was overreacting.
But if something was actually happening here... He didn't know enough to do anything, and doubted he was capable of making a difference anyway. He was usually able to keep calm in a crisis, but hated the feeling of coming to the conclusion that it was better to leave things to somebody else.
Best just to stay defensive and alert for the moment. He looked at the people affected by that mist, trying to see if they were hurt and how badly.