Just One Definition of Pride

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2008-09-08T03:13:35Z

I fall asleep for a week, and when I wake up I find out that people are mind-controlled.

Fun.

Everyone I know all right?

~~Maybe I should have stayed asleep, just so I'd have an excuse to stay out of it...~~

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2008-08-26T18:20:00Z

It suddenly occurs to me that I haven't actually used my knives in a while.

Time to make sure my aim hasn't gotten too rusty.

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2008-08-13T01:37:39Z

[Screened to Rorschach]

[Written out here are several recipes that Maes used at the Tanabata festival, as promised. They're rather simple, really - his mun is just being lazy and not looking up what such recipes would look like. ^^;]

[/Screened]

Well, the festival and cookout was quite fun, I thought! And a lot of people liked it, so maybe I'll do another cookout sometime.

For the curious, the photographs that went around recently are of my beautiful daughter, Elysia. Doesn't seeing her adorable face just lift your spirits? And morale seemed rather low, so I figured I'd spread that cheer around. ^-^

In other news... people are being forced to tell the truth, it seems. Well, my big secret's been out in the open for a while now, so that's no problem for me.

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2008-08-09T01:38:15Z

The cookout I mentioned in my last entry - well, it's happening. At the Tanabata Festival down in the park. I've got hot dogs, hamburgers, salmon, pork chops, chicken, and lots of other stuff grilling right now. Come for the festival and stay for the food, or vice versa! ^^

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2008-08-05T03:41:34Z

Wow, a lot of people are getting sent away lately - a lot more than usual, anyway. Hopefully they're getting sent home and not to a different battlefield or something, but still.

So anyway, I was thinking. All of those people made a lot of connections here, and a lot of people are going to be upset because they're gone now. So, we need something to boost morale - after all, we are at war, and an upset soldier isn't a soldier that's going to do well on the field of battle.

I propose we hold a massive cookout, where everyone can get together and get to know each other better. I'm even willing to cook all the meat, unless someone wants to help out with it.

Who's with me?

Or, you know, I could always requisition some copies of pictures of my beautiful daughter and send a copy to everyone here. That would cheer everyone up too, I'm sure of it!

...In fact, I might do that anyway. ^^

((ooc: Strikes are thoughts - he's not completely suicidal, after all. :D))

Page 40

2008-07-29T23:33:16Z

All right, what's going on? I was fine just an hour ago.

Now, not only am I feeling really weird, but I can barely hold that for thirty seconds.

((ooc: Because of Yubel's soul draining effects, Maes' philosopher's stone - made of human souls - is being drained. He's not quite as lethargic as he could be, mostly because he's still got plenty of souls in there, but his homunculus traits aren't going to work well until his stone stops being drained.))

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2008-07-21T03:22:51Z

Roy ~~the male one~~ is gone, at least according to what Hawkeye said...

He's... better off back home~~, especially now that he knows what's going on and can do something about it~~.

Hopefully he'll check up on Gracia and Elysia for me. Knowing him, he probably will at some point, but his life could get busy.

...I'm still sorry about that time, Roy.

((ooc: first strikes legible, second strikes illegible to the Envies))

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2008-07-13T18:48:43Z

So first I'm some kind of dragon plushie for a week.

Now, after a week of calm, I'm... shorter than I usually am.

This place is in a mood to be annoying this month, isn't it.

((ooc: Because Maes is a homunculus, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but being usually biologically in his 30s and in total 400+... his body is now biologically equivalent to that of a twelve-year-old. (Not that the icon shows it well, but I tried?) His personality is mostly intact, though more of his pride will be showing than he usually lets on.))

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2008-06-29T17:31:15Z

[First is a voice post - a few plushie squeaks that, to those who understand plushie, might be interpreted as asking what happened, realizing that he's not humanoid anymore, and a low swear. Then, it switches to typing mode. Messy, but he can do it.]

So I'nm some kind of dragoln now.

I sup;pose it could be worse.

((ooc: Why yes, he's a human-sized Stardust Dragon plushie. Because I'm weird like that.))

Page 36

2008-06-18T00:26:59Z

Ling, his name was, says the Pride from his world is here. Apparently, not me.

And he says it's a rather nasty one too.

I can deal with the Edward who is Narcissus. But this? Is absurd.

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2008-06-15T19:16:13Z

[as usual, screened from the Envies]

Dearest Elysia,

I miss you so much. I miss your smile, your endless energy, your laugh, your cuteness... everything about you. But most of all, I miss you. Photographs are wonderful, but they're no replacement.

I promise, when I return home - which I will, presumed dead or not - I'll bring you and Gracia out of the country. We'll leave Amestris together, start a new life where no one will find us unless we want them to. Until then, be strong and wait for me, okay?

Your loving father,
Maes Hughes

[below this, it's completely private]

And if, for some conveluded reason, Father decides to take Envy's side on the matter...

Well, Greed proved that it's possible to run, even for a good hundred years if need be. And I have the added bonus of being able to hide.

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2008-06-12T04:00:34Z

[Heavily Screened from the Envies]

All right, so now that I've ~~more or less~~ calmed down from that...

What exactly happened to one of the Alphonses?

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2008-06-04T03:28:56Z

...Yeah, you won't be seeing me around much until this is all over. Apart from the fact that I'm married and would rather not disgrace that, certain beings around here who I make it a point to avoid anyway are being rather creepier than usual.

~~I'll stick to the bushes - that way maybe this thing will at least be slightly more hidden.~~

((ooc: strikes are unhackable to the Envies, barely readable if you squint and turn it twenty-seven-point-six degrees to the left otherwise. Resident psychics and those who can tell when there's a large concentration of souls in any given vicinity might notice Maes wandering the park invisibly until this is over, sticking to the foliage so that his not-so-invisible cuff isn't as obvious~))

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2008-05-29T04:04:27Z

[Screened from the Envies]

So... for the sake of asking...

When I use my power, does my cuff always... do that?

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2008-05-20T01:40:58Z

[Screened from OU Envy and AU Envy]

Warden, I would like to question the standards that the thing that brings people here has, if it decides to bring two of him in. I can ignore one, simple. Two isn't so easy.

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2008-05-08T02:48:15Z

Huh. You learn something new every day.

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2008-04-25T03:47:26Z

This is getting more than worrisome. He never said anything in response to my last message, I haven't found a trace of him yet even though I've been looking all over the place, and yet we'd know if he'd been sent home...

Roy, where are you? If you can read this message, please respond somehow!

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2008-04-16T03:39:30Z

And another someone I know is here. Though I'm pretty sure he doesn't know me. Oh well. ~~Greed's tolerable, at least.~~

[Screened to Roy // Left hackable to the skilled]

Hey, Roy. You all right? I haven't seen you around in a few days.

((ooc: strikes = thoughts))

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2008-04-07T01:27:55Z

Interesting, who shows up sometimes around here.

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2008-04-01T02:34:59Z

Hnn... regenerating is taking longer than it usually does... maybe it's just old age or something. Even the Stone isn't inexhaustible, after all...

Oh well. Roy, Hawkeye, Edward, Alphonse - both of you -, Narcissus, Fuery, Havoc, Sheska, everyone, all of you make sure you make it out all right, okay?

((ooc: Maes has disappeared with wave 4 of the evacuations.

Items he's bringing with him: his wallet stuffed with all of his photos of his family (including some undeveloped film of Elysia's party), his throwing knives, his cat plush named Solaris, his plush versions of Gracia and Elysia, and his Glaceon plush. The knives are inside their regular holder, strapped to his wrist, while his wallet is inside of his uniform jacket, but the plushes he's carrying.

Current physical state: still in the middle of regenerating his damaged arm - it's almost done - but otherwise fine

Current mental state: concerned, but otherwise fine

Oh, and the strikes were deleted in order to try not to worry Roy.))

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2008-03-30T00:36:13Z

[Screened from the Fullmetal Alchemist cast because he doesn't feel like worrying Roy needlessly]

...Geeze, some creatures have some nerve, don't they. I mean, here I am, trying to cross the Commons. Invisibly, mind you, so as to not draw attention to myself. And it wasn't as though I was even thinking of attacking that Entropi thing - someone needs to live to tell the tale, after all.

But I was just going to go around the perimeter, see if there was anyone who needed help getting to the Arena, when out of nowhere, the thing sends a bolt of energy at me! Blasted me right at my shoulder, too - it was worse than what Lust did that time, and she sharpens her nails to relieve her boredom.

My arm's regenerating now, so it's not like I need any help or anything, but that hurt.

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2008-03-23T03:01:52Z

[slight coughing]

I know I'm just restating the obvious, but this place stinks worse than -

[static]

- hard to do.

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2008-03-15T01:45:08Z

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. I hope it's good.

...May I ask, why is there someone cursing loudly down the hall? And so many of them in a row, too...

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2008-03-07T03:07:44Z

Hmm. The snow outside my window is green, and it tastes like kiwi.

Interesting.

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2008-02-27T00:38:04Z

...Huh. Looks like Luffy, the pirate kid, disappeared. That's too bad - he was kind of interesting.