World Lore, Dice Rolls, Tables and Cypher System mechanics (Dropbox Folder)
We were seriously looking for a room. When we had those convenient portals to use. But could we use the same one, if they lead to our little place? That was an experiment we’d have to figure out, but Alex had obviously not been listening to Ms. Starbright when she told us all about our stay in New Everlight.
I didn’t mind. Not that I’d mind finding a room quickly either, but I was almost nervous. It had been a very long time since I’d been with someone. And there was always that simple worry about my heart giving out. It was strange knowing I didn’t have to worry about it.
But our attention was diverted when two dragon looking creatures on two legs pulled our bags from Alex’s hand and took off down the street. Alex shouted and immediately took up chase and I sighed, but followed none-the-less. I wasn’t about to have to find Alex in this huge city that I knew nothing about.
We dashed through the crowd, the creatures dipping and darting through legs where we had to zip around people and avoid collisions.
I followed behind Alex and watched as he zigged and zagged after the creatures. I must have been paying too close attention to him that I didn’t see the ginormous elephant stepping into my path from a nearby doorway.
I crashed into the thick skin of the man and bounced backwards to my ass on the side walk. I looked up and the disheveled Tweed suit of the man with a trunk for a nose and his ears flicked in annoyance like I was a fly to be batted at. His glasses perched upon his trunk glared down at me with dark beady eyes. “What is the meaning of this?” The elephant spoke in a manor I might have seen from a British TV show featuring the rich and powerful royals or the like. He looked down upon me in more ways than one.
“Sorry.” I said as I tried to get up and look around the large frame of a man I’d literally ran into. “I was just trying to keep up with my friend.”
I pointed in the direction Alex had fled. The man looked the direction I was pointing and he saw that there was no one running that way — they’d turned and now I had no fucking idea where they had gone. The exact thing I was worried about happening was happening.
I felt a surge of energy and a wave of fire radiated from my body. Everyone with in about ten feet of me yelped as the burst ignited and they at the small flames that caught with the burst. “Fuck!” I looked around and everyone looked at me. Most shrugged and continued on walking. My heart was pounding in my chest and I couldn’t catch my breath. I clutched my heart and collapsed back to the ground.
The man had been grumpy when I ran into him. All rights to him, but when I fell to the ground clutching my chest his demeanor changed. He went from grumpy to concerned as he knelt down beside me and scooped me up in his arms and carried me off at a break neck speed I didn’t expect from a man his size.
He pounded through the crowd shouting. “Medic!” People scampered out of his way as he hurled himself forward. Each footfall sounded like a herd of elephants, but it was just one sole carrying me to save me.
At the corner he was greeted by a robotic voice. “How can I be of service?”
I shook my head. “Panic attack.” I managed to get out for the first time since the pachyderm picked me up and rushed me off. “I’m sorry. I’m okay.”
I tried to squirm out of the man’s grasp but he held firm looking down his trunk at me and shaking his head. “Check him out anyway!” He looked down at the scroll attached to my hip and nodded. “He’s new.”
He set me down feet first on the ground and the metallic medic, made of gears and glowing crystals etched with runes began running things over my body. I watched as it passed a device over my knee, and another hand waved a mist filled orb around leaving behind a wake of purple smoke and black sparks.
“A-O-K”, the robotic voice purred and then went happily on it’s way.
“You shouldn’t be alone out here.” The big elephant man said.
“I wasn’t. I was with my friend. He’s chasing some kids who stole our bags.”
“I didn’t see anyone.”
I sighed. “They ran around the corner before you turned.” I was getting slightly annoyed at it all.
The man held out a large gray hand, “I’m Pachy Greytus. Let me take you home, we’ll find this friend of yours.”
I shook my head, “Not to be rude or anything, but I don’t go home with strangers. Kinda a thing I have.”
“If you introduce yourself we aren’t strangers anymore. And I promise, I’m not going to kill you in your sleep. New Everlight is a large place, you can easily get lost here.”
I looked around. I didn’t really have any idea where I was at. Much less where Alex had gone. I nodded with a sign. “I’m Nox.”
“Just Nox?”
I grinned. “Doesn’t matter what my last name is here. Nox is all you need to know.”
The man nodded. “Reinventing yourself?” He chuckled. “I can understand that.” I took his hand and we shook. His grip was powerful but he didn’t try to be overtly manly with me.
He let my hand go and waved his hand in the air, “Taxi!” he shouted. And we waited on the curb like we might back home — waiting for a cab and me wondering how the fuck I was going to find Alex.
The Mind of Nox 