EddyJ

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I nominate @MacThorstenson as Master of Ceremonies.

Aaric and the squadron of Lifeless finally finished putting up the chairs (in arrangement B with the surrounding crowds as sub arrangement F, and the officiator's rostrum set in the micro-arrangement R') and turned around just in time to see everyone where they'd started: Rhazien was looking at Yzabet. Only this time, everything was ready for their wedding.

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I hope someone reacts to it, I was just assuming that Mac and I were out of (relative) earshot and chose not to reference it in my post.

"Absolutely! Can I use a squadron or so of the Lifeless to help me try out a few different arrangements? I've been looking around the HQ records to get ideas of what we've done in the past, and I have a couple of things I'd like to try."

Aaric walked out of a nearby alley. “Hey, Mac, Lopen, I heard we got called in for an Order 77? What can I do to help?”

Turning a corner, Aaric saw Rhazien and Yzabet presumably having a tender moment. He turned right back around (they clearly needed a minute alone) and was headed down the corridor he had came from to wait until something more interesting than a Dakhor monk caught his attention.

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I'm with Lopen, just because he's done some crazy stuff in the past on the thread doesn't mean we should completely disregard everything he posts now.

Also sorry for the inactivity but I'm really busy this weekend, I'll probably be back for good around Monday afternoon and til then I'll check in every 24 hours or so.

That was sudden, Aaric thought. He ducked around a corner to take some time to plan out his strategy. Unfortunately, he ran right into a monk who started, then began glowing. 

Storms, why does so much Investiture make people light up like broams? he wondered as he reached out with his right hand, Verdant Aether extending to grab the monk, Tern coalescing into a Shardblade in his left. That was one of the disadvantages of the Aether (along with its unpredictability) - it was attached to his sword arm and he was still working on left-handed wielding. 

When the first tendril of Aether touched the monk's skin, it dissolved. Unexpected, but Aaric quickly switched his blade to his right hand and swung at the monk, catching his left leg on the downswing. The monk collapsed on his now useless leg letting Aaric finish him off. He continued quickly down the corridor, the eyes of the monk still smoking behind him.

Aaric runs out to stand by Mac and tries to grab one of the runaways with his Verdant Aether to reason with him. He succeeded in grabbing a nearby tree instead. "Storms," he said, "I'm never going to get used to this thing, am I?"

Gaining control of his newly spiked body, Aaric rises from the table. "Thanks, Mac," he says (after reading the disclaimer, of course). "I should be able to teach the others the Metallic Arts now, I think... it might take me a while to get used to Allomancy though."

"I'll join," Aaric said. "Rhazien poses a threat to the Alleyverse at large and needs to be stopped. What are you asking me to do?"

Aaric appeared on Sel with a similar Aon Tia card in his hand. "What's going on? Why was I summoned here?"

@Llarimar I’m not completely sure, but I think you may be confusing Rial and Rlain. If I remember correctly Rial from Bridge 13 isn’t a parshman, while Rlain from Bridge 4 is. 

Edit: @Llarimar No worries! It happens to everyone haha.

Aaric stumbled back to his feet as the blow of emotional Allomancy wore off just in time to see Rhazien disappear with the monks in a flash of light. Storms, he thought. I'm not ready to fight this kind of power yet. Looking around, he saw the wasteland that had formerly been the Alleyvillage being consumed by the beavers and meerkats. It's time to go, he decided.

He saluted Lopen with the Honorblade. "I'm going to need this to get out of here, but I'll give it back when next we meet!" Then, sucking in Stormlight, he channelled all his will into a dramatic, cape-swishing exit via Transportation to the Cognitive Realm.

It didn't work.

Huh, he thought, looking at the Honorblade. Why didn't that - 

The Surge finally kicked in, dragging him to Shadesmar and away from the remains of the Alleyvillage.

29 minutes ago, Mraize said:

 

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Sure, where do I do that?

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Are Aethers fair game in the Alleyvillage?

Sucking in more Stormlight, Aaric levitated slightly off the ground, letting the tip of the Honorblade drag in the dirt. Then he began to lash himself from side to side, and slowly a massive Aon began to take shape.

"Perfect, I've always wanted to try those ones," Aaric said, his Skybreaker Shardplate forming around him.

1 minute ago, LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian said:

@EddyJ Here’s an Honorblade.’

"Thanks, which Surges does it grant? By the way, my highspren grants me Division and Gravitation."

Hearing Lopen starting to scream, Aaric sucked in a few broams' worth of Stormlight as a precaution.

4 minutes ago, LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian said:

Lopen has a flashback. Mac had just found him, a starving Rosharian child, and started making a strangely delicious blob into a slice of golden deliciousness. ‘No...’

"Poor soul!" Aaric said. "You'll have to give them a try. They're cooked specifically to have little pockets that can be filled with syrups and creams to add to the flavor - truly a culinary masterpiece."

7 minutes ago, LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian said:

‘Va——vles.... what are they?’ Lopen felt a sudden tug of hopelessness, his eyes filling up with tears.

Aaric turned to Lopen. "Waffles are a delicious form of pastry native to Scadrial. Have you heard of them?"

Aaric stepped out of a nearby perpendicularity into the burning remains of the Alleyvillage, then sniffed. He smelled a sweet odor on the air, one he hadn't smelled in a long time. "Waffles?" he said, confused. Where had the waffles come from?

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I vote Lopen gets all the plot armor in the Alleyverse for comic relief reasons.

If I remember correctly, Defending Elysium references Earth while Firstborn doesn’t, and that could be another clue pointing towards the former rather than the latter. Please correct me if I’m wrong, though.