Lai Shan sipped the last of her second glass of honeywine, the familiar fizzy buzz gracefully giving way to a fruity, sweet aftertaste.

"I suppose I'll check on our 'search party'. I'll have those two slackards to blame if this bottle is empty by the time I return."

She set down her glass down next to Yoshiko and rose from her seat. "Save me a glass, would you sweetie?"

With a parting wink from over her shoulder, she crossed the room and descended down the stairs to the library. Remaining at the base of the stairs, she glanced around and kept her ears open for any sign of the two.

"Well I mean, we could do this the professional way... or we could do this the fun way."

Lai Shan took a glass from the shelves, took a seat and crossed her legs, awaiting the prized beverage.

"How about a toast? To hoaxes and lies and the bored statesmen who buy them!"

Quick character bio:

HONG LAI SHAN (first name Lai Shan), THE GOLDEN CAMELIA is a former agent of the Syndicate, a wide-reaching criminal organization whose advocates are taught the Way of Shadow martial arts. The Masters of the Syndicate consist mostly of High Elves, long-lived masters of the Shadow Arts who looked down on Lai Shan's forest origins and doubted Lai Shan's ability, but she persisted in her training for her first fifty years in the arts of infiltration, subterfuge, and the Way of Shadow, and was made an active agent of the Syndicate for fourty years, committing simple robberies, heists, and cons. The rigid nature of the Syndicate society bored her and she couldn't stand the disrespect of her High Elf masters, so she simply left one day. As a Syndicate monk on the loose, she is stealthy, charming, knowledgeable in deadly martial arts, and will rob you blind the moment you aren't looking. But to most, she is Countess Lang, Lady of the Silver Harvest, a wealthy merchant tycoon from the far east.

ABI
•   How did you first hear about the painting and Maze?
•   Who is responsible for the fall of the Shadow Temple? Where are they?

- When Lai Shan isn't on the job, she keeps her ears open while masquerading among the nobility as Countess Lang, Lady of the Silver Harvest Merchantry. There's a lot of information one can glean from bored baron's wives and generals' mistresses. It didn't take long before rumors of a "painting with mystic properties" began to surface amongst the gentry, and a great many of the nobles almost expect the painting to be stolen one way or another. Whether or not the tale of its magic is true, as long as the story persists, the painting is worth the weight of its fiction.

- The Shadow Temple crumbled from within, its leaders torn by a difference of interests. They were once a great global threat, an unseen force of change that alters the course of history from the shadows through subterfuge, intrigue, and key assassinations. In the wake of the last Armageddon and in the advent of the race to industrialize the floating islands, two schools of thought emerged from the masters of the Shadow Temple; the first was eager for preservation, to maintain itself financially in a world that was fast leaving them behind. These masters and their disciples turned their talents towards building a criminal empire through robbery, extortion, smuggling, and assassination for hire; this organization later became the Syndicate as we know it today. The second school of thought, comprised of the elder masters, concerned itself with legacy, to preserve their principles and use their gifts only to guide the course of civilization from the shadows. Though they were fewer, the elder masters were exemplars of their craft, and since their departure they have remained hidden, waiting for the time in which they must render their judgement upon civilization.

I'm gonna draft out some characters ahead of time, but before that, are you allowing the homebrew Gunslinger Fighter archetype? Here's the PDF: http://www.dmsguild.com/product/170778/Gunslinger-Martial-Archetype-for-Fighters

  "The same thing we do every night, Cue..."




BAKU THE EXPLOSIONIST & CUE ENTERING THE TOURNAMENT

Count me interested!

3DS FC: 3711-7770-0244

You can utilize my FC for:
- Pokemon X (Friend Safari)
- Bravely Default (Abilink)
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Let's go kill that mountain)
- Smash (You wanna go, mate?)
- Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (Multiplayer Booby Ninja Action)

You'll have to ask Kura for the Wii U information if anyone wants:

- to Smash
- to help each other in Hyrule Warriors Adventure Mode
- to prance across the planet Mira while fleeing from wildlife (Xenoblade Chronicles X)

It's getting close to December, so we've set a deadline of December 5th for cameo entries! To give you a taste of what's to come, here's a few of the assets I've developed so far!

I'll be posting my progress here as I continue to work on the art for this project. First up are the SAO costumes for Sugar, Punch and Kanojo!

GROUP 10 ROUND TWO

SKETCH BY THE BADNESS (me)


INKS BY MAMOGRAM (Mamoru)


COLORS BY JII FORCE (Jiisuri)

Let's roll motherfuckers.



Signing up with Baku the Explosionist as a MIGHTY HUMAN. Preferably DM Miller, but I can work either way.

MAIDENCHUU CAFE GRAND OPENING!!

HNNRGGNNGGG THE WORLD NEEDS MORE MAID KUNO.