Chapter 18: A Parable for the Terrible

[Niilo Ukkonen]

What was this woman's problem?! Niilo wondered. He was just going to light up a joint, smoke it, enjoy a conversation, and perhaps even mooch a meal off them. He wasn't going to do anything harmful, it just wasn't in his nature.

Well, I can play too, Niilo said to himself. He closed his eyes and put his hands on his knees. "Bye bye, Mr. Phone," he said as the phone suddenly skyrocketed in age and rotted away. The only power he really used was the influence over numbers. Not much of a power, but it had it's uses.

Sighing, he stood up and said in a calm voice, "Listen, I just need to camp out here for the next few hours. I'm on my way home and you'll only have to put up with me for a few mere hours that won't really even matter. Plus, this area is the designated area in which I'm going to be picking up some drugs. Speaking of which..."

Niilo hopped up and sprinted over to a nearby window. Looking out, he saw a van.

"Come with me," Niilo said as he opened the door and indicated for Anya to follow.

[Dinari Dollar]

"Oh cool, well sure, I'll show you around!" Dinari says with excitement. People who actually want a tour of Allwhere are few and far between. "We actually have a little tour bus, we could take that. It's one of those open top buses like..with the London tours, except the buses here are blue and yellow with the Allmart Smiley." Dinari explains. He leads Max and presumeably,, Momo, outside to one of the pick up points for the tour bus. The bus stops and they get on board. The bus is filled with senior citizens in floral shirts. The tour guide is a pretty young woman in a blue suit.

"And ladies and gentlemen, here we have Dollar Villa, the home of Dinari Dollar. The mansion was built 50 years ago by the Dollar family in what was a swamp." The tour guide explains. The bus continues onward.

"And over here is the biggest Allmart store in the world... ..it is three times the size of the Mall of America, a large shopping mall once found in the former United States."

[Tristan Tuzanic]

Tristan states at Linnea. She looks afraid of him and that hurts his feelings. Though, somewhere at the same time it also makes him feel good. He frowns and wipes the tears out of his eyes. "I want to say that, you don't understand. I only did what I did because I had to do it. You don't know what it's like. We're all prisoners here." Tristan complains to Linnea. He looks at the man with her and is utterly repulsed. Who is that horrible looking guy? He's so disgusting? What happened to make him look so ugly? Tristan can't stand the appearance of Horacio at all.
He looks behind him and sees that the van is gone. Heikki and the others have left.
"They got away. Damn it. I can never do anything right."

[Bonifaz Artz-Lehrer]

To Niilo (if you want to post..and Anya too)
The van with Zindy, Heikki, and Bonifaz drives onward to the last few stops. The last stop is a warehouse, where they were supposed to meet with a leader from the Enlightened Brotherhood. He is interested in some of the Red Leaf that Heikki and Archer obtained back in December. This is the last stop of the night.

The van stops and Bonifaz gets outside to wait for Niilo, or one of the representatives from the Enlightened Brotherhood, who wanted the drugs...for their...quest for Enlightenment.

"This is the last stop." Bonifaz states to Heikki and Zindy. He stands there. It starts raining a bit harder than before.

As Bonifaz waits, he gets a few calls from his father. He ignores the calls though. Little does he know that the calls are concerning the destruction of one of their factories in Germany.

[Lucio De Saldanha]

"Let's play...freeze tag!" Lucio suggests. He then runs up to Lonrott and tags him. "Lonrott is IT and whoever he touches, freezes!" With that, he starts running around the room hoping that Lon will chase after him. Armin and Kasper only look at him and his childish antics. However, maybe Hilja and Yasmin will join in.

He keeps running around. He bumps into a literature table, knocking it down and spilling leaflets and copies of Rebel Action newspaper.

[Heikki Toivonen]

Heikki leaves the van for a moment with Zindy. "Well, I am with Null. We're a terrorist group. I guess we do work with the mafia sometimes ...with drug related things. It helps us I guess. Personally, I am afraid of most of the people I have met from the mafia though. I scare easily though." Heikki admits. He stands outside with Bonifaz wondering who they will meet next. It has been a pretty eventful night, but, it could have been much worse.

"What will you do when we are done with this tonight? I think Bonifaz and I will head back to Germany."

[Horacio Hatfield]

To Tuesday and Freakboy if you want to post
"You don't have to listen to him, Linnea. Let's just go." Horacio states. He wonders if they can just walk away of it Tristan will try to capture them. Who is this person anyway? Horacio looks around and notices that they are standing right near the windows of a cafe. There are many cafes in Helsinki, but, would Tristan dare to do something...right there, in plain view of people at the cafe.

Horacio sighs. "Just leave her alone." He tells Tristan.

[Yasmin Seyyedi]

"Freeze Tag?" Yasmin mutter to herself. She watch Lucio tag Lon before he took. She simply stood there for almost a minute before looking at Lon and Hilja.

"I guess I have no choice then...." Yasmin thought to herself before she ran and try to follow Lucio.

As she ran past the literature table, she notice the papers. She grab one of the leaflets and newspapers and quckly heads to the basement. As she hid under the pool table, Yasmin look at the pics on the newspaper.

"I should had bother her about teaching me to read before killing her off." Yasmin mutter to herself.

[Momo Kurokawa]

Momo got on the tour bus with Dinari and Max. She watched as they passed the giant Allmart store. She wondered why she even agreed to go on this trip, but, she decided to make the most of the situation. That was hard, considering that she was feeling increasingly hungry. "I'm hungry. I'm going to starve if we don't stop and get something to eat." Momo complains to Max and Dinari. Her mind wanders to the party that will be occuring soon. "I think Allwhere is tacky. It's also a stupid name for a city."

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

[Niilo, your pic wasn't working so I replaced the link..]

I watch as Yasmin runs into the basement. I am not sure if I am playing this game or not. I shrug and look over at Armin and Lucio. "Well, I suppose I should follow after her. It's sure nice that you brought her here, Lucio. It was very thoughtful. Maybe we should try to talk to her more and learn more about her history." I suggest. I turn to my brother who is still "it" in the game that we may or may not be playing.
"Maybe you should talk to her. If she is an orphan, she's probably seen a lot and endured a lot. Maybe you can sort of...check to see if she is okay...emotionally or mentally."

[Dr. Lonnrot Kukkanen]

I was in a daze for a few moments, most likely from deprivation of sleep, but was suddenly awoken when my sister spoke to me. What a shame, I might have even completely passed out and lay on the floor for countless hours while the world passed by. I most likely wouldn't've cared; I'd've been in dream, la-la, land.

"Uh, yeah, sure," I say, shaking my head and getting awake.

I stop leaning against the wall and follow the little girl into the basement.

[John Sweet]

(TO SCRAG. Sorry it took so long for me to reply) =[

John allowed himself to ponder for a moment while the thought of being the Master of the entire Manalist world went through his mind. All the power he would have, the glory, the respect, everything about the mere though got his blood going. He loved power, and he loved to know he was in control.

Smiling and looking back at Scrag, he imagined himself killing Scrag. He would then become the Master, what a joy. However, Scrag was very powerful, and could easily kill John. As a result, John decided to hold back his impulses.

“Gotcha. I’ll grab a young girl that can easily be trained to be a servant. Anything else?”

[††Venice "Cephrien" Ashgrove††]

Ceph briefly bobbed his head before turning around to exit the flower-shop. His long coat swaying behind him as he moved.. However, before he touched the door, the young man in black stopped and turned his head a little.

"Let me ask you something." He suddenly requested, turning his head more to gaze at her out of the corner of his red eye.

[Master Scrag]

"That is all." The Master replies. He then leaves John and walks away. He disappears into some shadows, leaving only his stench behind. The Master then arrives in Rome at the Highest Temple. He talks to some of the arch priests there, then, retires to his room for prayer and study.

[John Sweet]

John grinned and finished looking through the store. Grabbing a couple interesting items of the history of man, John purchased them and left the store.

Walking up to a young girl, he said, "Hello," and took her hand, and abducted her.