292/Bathing Time

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**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
The huge seperation of Palanquin's better quarters from the lesser ones by the sheer height of the gigantic statues is also manifested in the architecture of the bathes in both the uptown and the few bathes below: while at the base of the statues the bathes were tiny, the water heated in huge iron vats and then poured into the bathes, the public bath in the upper city was a marvel of first age architecture that resided over the ages, the marble floor decorated with gold and silver veins. The Floors seemed to be always warm due to some clever first age sheanings, and the huge hall didn't seem to suffer from wind, even though there was no eastern wall, giving the bathes the view over the whole island chain towards the Island of Ys. Reserved for the more wealthy, it also was a regular meating spot for the members of the city council, the spot where to go when you wanted to make deals under the hands or try to encourage certain projects or discourage others.

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student Eternally Rising was a fan of the public baths, though never really frequented those of the lower quarters unless there was a specific reason, as she prefered the opulence of the city above. Here she could see the various courtiers and officials who actually /made decisions/. She had gained somewhat of a reputation in Palanquin, in part due to the success of the Bureau, and in part due to her own ability to navigate the political waters, and so she was given wide birth in the pools themselves. She entered after having disrobed and stowing her clothes with the attendant, who blushed beat red as always whenever she threw him a casual wink and walked into the public baths area.

    She was... simply gorgeous. Her firgure was slender yet curvy in all the right places, and very... pert. She moved in with grace and confidence in herself and her body, not caring that people had stopped conversation, not caring that several heated gazes were following her as she made her way to the pool. She sighed as she slipped into the hot water, stepping down the inset stairs until she was waist deep in the pools before finding a nearby seat and sitting.

**Karal Rei Lin (27) has posed:**
And of course, in any rich place, there has to be one misfit who just doesn't fit in. Today that happens to be Karal Rei Lin, who seems to be enjoying using the baths as a shallow swimming pool. It would be pretty disruptive if it were noisy... but like any good swimmer she's not terribly noisy about it. Just the occasional slappity-splash.

    But soon the redhead bumps against an edge and settles in to relax in the HEAT, letting out a siiiiiiiiiigh as it soaks into her muscles.

    "This is too much. The world needs more of these!"

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Of course, with all the beautiful women running around, there has to be an Adonis type. Simhata is that one as he moves into the bath, settling on the edge of the water near where Lin is. Despite everything else, he does bear a few noticeable scars that mark him as something not quite the politician that belongs in this type of place. He has perched himself comfortably around near the edge of the pool, a towel kept around him as he watches specifically Lin at the moment.

    "You could always try to build one behind your shop." He says towards Lin herself.

    At the pause in conversation, he glances over at the woman that entered before shaking his head and looking back towards Lin. Nope. He doesn't know Student even in passing. Nope. He can just sense that there will be some sort of trouble... probably.

**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
Having invited at least Karal Rei Lin, the wondrous smith, to discuss something about the building projects she had for parts of the lower Palanquin, she did sit and wait on one of the benches, dressed in a soft towel like most of the present people. Though when Student Eternally Rising appeared in the inner area and was aiming at the pool, she took a deeper breath, biting her lower lip. Such almost immortal beauty did deserve to be cut into stone, but even attempting to do so would be doomed to fail, and she knew it.

Still, Anilaia stood up to move towards the bathing woman of virtue and try to ask her something, just in time to notice that the Karal had come in through one of the other entries and was taking a swim.

"Indeed Karal Rei Lin, the World would be a better place if bathes like this relic of the first age would be more common. It is fortunate though, that you could make it. Though you do quite of draw quite a commotion - would you introduce me to your friend here?" she asks, making a gesture towards the male Adonis.

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student also notices Karal Rei Lin entering and makes her way over to the woman. She hadn't expected to meet with the Bureau's new architect so soon. Taking long graceful strokes she swam to Lin and, rising with a small cascade of water, smiled.

    "Lin! I didn't expect to see you at the baths. Relaxing after a hard day's work? I won't interrupt you for long, I just wanted to stop by and say Hello." She then looks to Lin's conversational partners, speaking to the woman first, "I don't believe we've met, I'm Student Eternally Rising, of the Bureau."

    Then she turns to Invicible Ember Simhata, "Ah, its you, I'd wondered where you'd gone off too," she says, smirking.

**Karal Rei Lin (27) has posed:**
"Heh. He can introduce himself pretty well! ..." Lin swirls around in the baths, folding her arms across the stonework and resting her chin on them to look over at Student and Anilaia.

    "Invincible Ember Simhata, he calls himself. Boyfriend? Customer? I dunno, trying to to sledgehammer people into single words doesn't do them justice. But I didn't feel safe strolling around in unknown without some muscle."

    She ends up giving Student a vaguely nervous grin. Embarassed? Hard to say. Anilaia too.

    But she waves Simhata over, maybe beckoning him to hop in too!

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Smiling a bit over at them, Simhata moves over towards the trio of women. His face has a bit of a quirk to his lips at seeing Student again. "I do tend to get around. Still wandering taverns?" He questions towards Student.

    Then Lin beckons him over and he gets up to move closer. "I prefer the moniker, truthfully. I would rather start anew with the events of my past behind me as much as I can leave them."

Settling down with his feet in the bath and sitting on the stonework, he quirks an eyebrow up at the two women he doesn't know. "I did happen by the place you mentioned. Guard duty was interesting. A group of bandits tends to be interesting from time to time."

**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
"The Bureau? Then you work together with that man that came into my workshop a few days ago to discuss possible problems in the plans of a building just three streets to the north, the guild's local hall and a house not yet build in Ys."

 Still wearing her towel slung around the body and standing at the edge of the pool, she bowed some to the beauty that introduced herself as Student Eternally Rising. "Oh, before I forget, Anilaia of Planquin. You might have seen my master Leon's work when entering, he was responsible for fixing up the missing wall decorations in the atrium."

The spot she did refer to was a well executed replacement for a whole wall structure that had succumbed to the slow effects the time had on the old building. But as noce as it looked and even as it was almost like the original, it did lack the solar's touch that was there when the halls were first errected, being one of the signs that the marvellous structure was slowly failing over the centuries.

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student raises an eyebrow curiously, "I'd heard that Lanky Linx had spoken to somebody, but I haven't gotten a chance to look over the report he sent in to Alphonse. From what I hear though, he is please with your skill, and looking forward to working with you." She smiles, and nods, "It is good to finally see some change happening in the slums, my demons as well as Alphonse's and White Doom's will be assisting in the general reconstruction as well, and I've yes to inquire if Soaring Mistral is willing to aid in bolstering the number of such that we can. Construction should go smoothly as long as we can keep materials on hand."

    She smiles at Invincible Ember Simhata, "Yes, from time to time. There hasn't been any need of late. Though there are a few favorites I know here in Palanquin as well."

**White Doom (61) has posed:**
Doom enters the baths, and steps to the attendant. His nymph stands behind, in his shadow, looking around curiously, a handful of cape balled up in her left hand. Doom removes his cloak, reveals a heavily scarred torso, attached to his 7 ft frame, and slides the palaquin armband off his arm. He nods to the attendant, and he gets waved in, as he does an inspection here once in a while. Double scars run through his right eye, and one scar marrs his smile. One gash on his belly looks like someone tried to disembowel him, and succeeded. Numerous other smaller scars cover his frame. The scales of justice, an eerie working that graces his chest, stands black in the center of his frame. The name on the scales changes depending on who hes interacting with. Doom's bone wings are tucked into his back, and folded into him, not splayed out at the moment.

    He wraps a towel around his waist, which partially obscures some parts of him, not really though, its mostly to cover his right leg, where a weapon is attached to his leg, and remains sheathed there. Doom pauses for a moment, and decides that after he cases the room upon entering, if there is no threat that hell wrap the weapon up in the towel. He enters the baths, and does a quick sweep of his piercing grey eyes. His nymph steps delicately behind, giving off cool gusts, creating a steam effect in the heat of the baths. She is pale, and petite, with brown hair and vivid blue eyes.%

**Karal Rei Lin (27) has posed:**
Lin jerks alert as though she'd been feeling WAY too relaxed this whole time. Well, that's probably exactly the case! "Mmmmrrrrgh... the water's so warm I feel a bit sleepy! Whew..." She rubs at her eyes, but blinks at the disucussion... "... Wait, Bureau's got arrangements with Anilaia too?! ... we all need to get together and organize this or we're gonna trip over each other's toes... "

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Simhata shakes his head, "It'll do that, I'm told. It's why I'm just resting my sore feet in it." He says towards Lin, then looks up at Anilaia and Student. He glances back at Lin. "Wow. That place gets around a lot."

    He stretches his arms over his head for a moment, then looks to Anilaia and Student. "I have been telling Lin here to get some more rest, but it hasn't worked yet. She has a lot of projects."

**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
"Nothing formalized yet, but that might be a good point. We should actually put together a proper meeting about what is to be built where and when, so we don't stumble upon each other's toes. I hope you remember the maps I drew in your workshop, Karal. I was trying to set things in motion so the southern island would get rebuilt in this fashion without touching the temples, but as of now it is just a proposal."

Slowly Anilaia sits down, getting more on level with all the gathered others, eventually letting her legs slip into the water too. "Well, a rest is good and healthy, and yes, the bathhouses do kind of 'get around' if you count the almost uncountable repairs and fixes as 'getting around'."

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student nods as Anilaia explains, "Yes as far as Im aware Lanky Linx has just begun discussions with her," she smiles at the two Architects, "I'm so please we were able to find somebody to manage the projects in each location, it should make it easier on both of you."

    Then she spots White Doom, his scarred visage standing out easily amongst the fair unblemished skin of the gentry. She stood, exposing her upper chest as she waved White Doom over, "Here is another one of the Bureau members now, White Doom."

**White Doom (61) has posed:**
Seeing SER, Doom wraps up the dragon sigh in a towel, and makes in his over. He places it carefully down, and steps into the water, sinking down, as his scars and brands become submerged, bringing relief to the marred body. His frame still comes out above the water a fair amount, as hes 7 ft tall, but he is comfortable, as he leans back on his elbows, on the edge of the tile.

     He tells the nymph that she can get in if she feels like it, and at this, the curious nymph places her feet in, starting to create mist as the hot water reacts with her elemental nature. The nymph leans over to SER, and says "Ive practiced since our last lesson, and her eyes are sulty in a way suddenly, and her face moves near SER's, their lips close at one point, before she moves over and speaks into SER's ear, the nymph blushing at her own words, which creates more steam in the bath. The steam has a cooling effect, feeling refreshing while hte hot water soaked into the skin.

     Doom remains seated, eyes closed for the moment, just taking in the heat of the water, and breathing in the cool steam. That section of the bath was starting to get hazy now, as the nymph continued to create more steam.

**Karal Rei Lin (27) has posed:**
"Man at this rate the city's going to be just one massive dust cloud of construction." Lin whimsically airs, playing with her soggy crimson hair and giving Simhata a friendly look. "Yeah, seems so! Just about anyone with real skill's dropping in."

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Simhata blinks, then looks over at Doom. Queue the sound of a face palm as Simhata's hand meets his face. "The not so suitable lawman is a member?"

    He looks at the trio of women. "Well, you won't lack for intimidation or awe inspiring at least."

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
"Yes you two should get together to work things out mainly, I've told Karal Rei Lin what the Bureau wants, and we'll supply her, and you, with whatever you need to get the job done. How that gets done," she waves a hand airly, "matters much less to me than that it gets done," she smiles. Then turning Student Eternally Rising nods and smiles at Invicible Ember Simhata, "Yes, our White Doom is quite the imposing figure, but beneath all of those scars, hes really a good guy," and as the Nymph comes over to speak with her she grins brightly and wink's to White Doom. She's about to say something when something quite unexpected happens. There is a large gurgling echo from the ceiling which doesn't sound good at all.

    Student turns to look at the source of the sound, as do several others.[Perception + Awareness Everybody]

    "What in creation?" she murmurs.

**Karal Rei Lin (27) has posed:**
Gurgling-crunch? That's not a good noise. Whatever Lin just opened her mouth to spout... stays stuck in her throat. She glances around... and looks up... "Oh... shit... what's going ON up there?!"

    Her keen mind analyzes things in a hurry... and she comes to a conclusion that breaks her heart. "... You're kidding... structural collapse! OUT! EVERYONE OUT! ROOF IS COMING DOWN! OUT! OUT!" She leaps straight out of the baths in a startlingly adept motion, heedless of her nudity, and gestures other bathgoers looking her way at the exit. "OUT OUT OUT!!"

**White Doom (61) has posed:**
Doom opens his eyes slowly and comes to regard IES with a relaxed expression. "Hello, Im Doom. Seems we didnt quite get off on the right foot. Such is the way of the world, and it happens. But no reason for that to keep going on down that road." Doom holds out his arm, in a form of strange northern greeting, something certainly seen in these parts though. "Im really not going for intimidating, that more a byproduct of whats happened to me, more than how I act" Condensation drops from his wet white hair, as it clings to his face, as he regards IES. After this, her turns to the rest of the group, and gives a warm smile, he gaze lingering on SER at the end of it.

     Then Doom hears the gurgling from the ceiling, and sees the dampness of the material, as it starts to sag. He directs his nymph toward the ceiling, who starts to slow the flow of water, cooling it, and also reversing the flow of water back from where it came, in a sure process. Doom stands underneath the ceiling, and springs up, standing in the middle of the group, his lower thighs and knees now submerged in water only, and looks up to the ceiling. "what do we do now architects?" he asks calmly, unphased by the situation.

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Simhata replies to Doom, "You're the one carrying around the giant scythe when we first met. Not going for intimidating is a bit harder to believe." He replies. "I'm not a big fan of lawmen. Too many bad run ins here and there while doing--"

    He's cut off by Lin jumping out of the bath. He blinks a few times at the sudden cry before he rolls backwards to get to his feet and looks upwards. Raising his voice, he calls out, "Out, everyone! This is not a joke! Go, before the ceiling comes down!"

    While he doesn't know if it is true or not, he's sure that Lin wouldn't joke on this. Looking towards the ceiling, he keeps an eye on it in case it does start to come down as he moves to make sure he can get the trio of women out of the way if he has to. Well, two of them. He's fairly sure Student can take care of herself. Lin and Anilaia, not so much.

**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
"I take it is still a huge project, even if quite some of it might be done with the aid of sorcerous powers... Did you notice that there is quite an increase in those wielding these powers in the last time, which came roughly in conjunction with Ys starting to losening it's grip on the town again a bit?"

Anilaia seemed to be quite a bit into that discussion, when she suddenly raised her head towards the sound just in time to see the thin crack between the roof and the supporting column to shift and widen for a moment, then slamming down hard on the pillar again to create the low rumble of stone grinding against other, some areas of the roof tiling going damp. "By Hibfa, god of the cold bath... Get the people out of here!" She almost yells as she jumps up, her eyes racing over the ceiling to try to figure out where it will come down first, pulling on her vast knowledge about the bulding's plans and repair history just as from what her eyes can see.

One moment she seems to contemplate, then she bolts forward to pull the wooden seating face of one of the benches up at one end, her muscles straining as she pulls it towards the pillar. "Fly you fools!"

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student quickly exits the pool and snatches a nearby towel, wrapping it around her self, she assists the others in herding folk out of the main chamber when there is a loud grinding followed by cracks, which shoot across the ceiling like spiderwebs. A huge chunk falls out of the ceiling to land crashing into the pool below (the one the others had just been in, in fact), and a torrent of water comes heaving out of the roof as if it were a waterfall.

    This happens close to the supporting Pillar which Anilaia has propped the bench against, leveraging the benchain against the base of the pillar and the top of the near wall. As the water comes crashing into the pillar, stress fractures grow on it as the ceiling breaks away in more peices, eating away at the top mounting.

**White Doom (61) has posed:**
Doom helps Anilaia with the bench, and shields her with his frame. "Just tell me what to do, and Ill get it done. You tell me what to do from not under all this mess." He walks her to a safer portion, and stands by, awaiting instruction. He calmly swats falling rocks and debris away from him and Analaia, having now carried her away from the larger falling debris. He stands ready to act on any instruction from her, shielding her. They are close enough to the scene to act, but away from the larger falling peices, which Doom eyes warily, aware that he even would be crushed should it all come down.

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Glancing upwards, Simhata moves to help herd people out quickly, paying attention to what the others are doing as he can. He calls towards Anilaia and Doom, "Get away from there! A bench won't hold it in place!" He stays near where Lin is since it seems Doom has the last member of their group covered. Keeping his eyes on the ceiling, he readies himself just in case a piece starts to fall near anyone in his vicinity.

**Karal Rei Lin (27) has posed:**
Lin can see what Anilaia's doing, but in the mounting panic.. she has to question how effective that's going to be. The redhead rapidly spins around, seeing who's running and who's not... wracked slightly by indecision. Run? Stay? Try to save the baths?

    "Rrrrrrghhhhh... if you two don't get out now there's not gonna be a second chance! Out!" She's making progress for the far side, pacing away from the cracks as she tries to also predict how the collapse will likely go...

**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
Cursing, Anilaia made sure to make sure the board took as many stress from the pillar as it could, but still that wouldn't suffice, at best slowing it down by mere seconds. As Doom grabs for her and tries to push and pull her away, she shakes the head and points to a wall somewhere closer to the entry - and about all the way through the hall. "Don't stop for me you fool! Guide the people out of here! Over there is a water pipe that should be behind the fresco of Glifrasil in the baths. Keep the people away from that, as it might burst any minute! Get the people out of there!"

On the other hand, sending the huge man over to the wall would bring him far away from her - and possibly convince him to just leave instead of coming back after shutting down the water main. That is when Invincible calls her attention back to the bench that was already starting to bend and creak under the pressure that was applied to it. "I take care of the pillar! Someone go and close that water main behind the fresco!" she once more yelled against the cacophony of the room, then ran towards the bench, without knowing that a certain nymph would attempt to follow her command. In running, she actually starts to remove her towel, swinging it like a whip a moment before she arrives at the pillar, swinging it around the breaking structure and then grabbing the other end of it to speed up actually getting up to where the creak was, even without knowing fully how to stop the breakage at that moment yet. One pull of her arms at the sling around the pillar shot her up several feet, fueled by the willpower of a desperate.

The higher the nude woman rose on the pillar, the more dust started to settle in the air, the more mist and steam darkened the room, creating an eerie twilight despite the sun just having risen a few hours ago in the east and standing right in view where the wall had never been built in the first place. After the first pull, Anilaia was surrounded by some golden glimmer, the second one brought her to about halfway up the pillar, and even if she didn't notice it herself, the golden shimmer deepened to become a blazing red aura, almost looking like the sun going down behind a huge mountain, tinting the woman in its color and making her somewhat a silhouette. And yet, she rises up a third time with the help of the towel, racing to where the cracks in the pillars start to spread.

What had looked like the sun at dusk just mere moments ago, suddenly seemed to erupt all over the room. When the sun had seemed to be at the horizon mere seconds ago, now it seemed to be right in the room by itself as if The Unconquered Sun cast his rays all over the house while it went to ruins. A pillar of purple light engulfed the whole pillar on which Anilaia hung, while an ethereal gear of viridian light appeared, rotating around her while more pieces of ghastly clockwork seemed to build up around her.

Without fully understanding why she knew what she did there, Anilaia's fingers ran over the crack, starting to push against the edges like if it was clay, pushing them together and giving the rock back at least some of its integrity while she hoped the others would get the people out of the hall.

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Raising up fully, Simhata raises his voice clearly over the people as he hops up on a bench. It's obvious he's not shy about being full nude at the moment, either. "LISTEN UP!" His voice carries enough that it literally bounces off the walls in the bath house. Almost like a drill sergeant.

    "Keep calm and exit the building NOW. Do not question, do not talk, MOVE. If you do not wish to die from the ceiling falling on you, go outside as quickly and orderly as you can. Do not panic, do not watch, MOVE NOW. This is not a joke, not a show for your entertainment."

    As he stands giving directions, Simhata motions the people to go the way he wants them to. If one stops, he calls out, "You there! Move towards the door! Do not stay there! Go! Now!" He repeats it with different phrasing as he watches to make sure he can encourage others to do so.

**White Doom (61) has posed:**
Doom meets Ani's eyes for a second, then nods understanding, and sprints, leaving an afterimage behind him as he flashes to the water main with his nymph Sura. He strains to shut it down, but cant at first, even with his great strength. Sura forces the water to ease back, and he is then able to shut it down. Sura then moves and stands surely underneath the ceiling, in a precarious position, pushing water back the way it came from above, lessening the weight bearing down.

     Doom looks to Ani, and is stunned by what he sees. The woman is glowing, and oozed with power. Doom paused, conflicted. On one hand, it was his job to protect Palaquin from dangerous and evil exalts, and other supernaturals. This woman though, worked with his friends, and was actively helping to save the group, and many civilians here. He decided that he would help her, and protect her, and give her guidance about her knew power. He shouts out, "Water main is off! What else can I do?!?" he looks to Ani, not about to leave her, or his nymph behind.

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Anilaia, glowing with the colors and hues of twilight, is able to secure the pillar, in fact, it is /more/ solid than it ever was before. As she shapes the stone with her hand she finds the entire substance of the pilar aligning to her purpose, as the exalted anima burns through her, her mind discovering the nine secrets of foundational pillar making as it suddenly is able to bear all that weight and pressure. The ceiling is still crumbling but the unsteady juttering of the building as a whole ceases, though some of the other pillars bear signs of fatigue now as well, they seem to be bearing up just fine under their burden.

    Huge chunks of the ceiling begin to plumit, crashing into the pools and displacing large masses of water which sweep out to catch the unwary fleeing peasants. With the assistance of Invincible Ember Simhata, others are coordinated enough to grab up those who have fallen, ushering them away safely. With Doom lending his hand to shut down the main pipe to the upper floors, the water flooding in from the collapsing ceiling begins to slow slightly in it's torrential outpour.

    Student Eternally Rising has already exited the building along with any of the others who were sensible enough to do so, and is currently making sure things are calm and orderly outside the building.

    Only Aniliaia, White Doom, Invicible Ember Simhata, and Karal Rei Lin remain in the room, and the majority of the ceiling has already fallen through with the edges crumbling away as the torrent finally begins to halt to a trickle.

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Frowning, Simhata looks to Lin. Then over to Anilaia. He moves closer. "Huh... and I thought mine was interesting." He says towards Lin. "I just slew a bunch of Fae Reavers and lead a bunch to freedom."

    He looks around, then shrugs, "We should get out of here."

He glances at Doom, then looks to Lin. "You sure we can trust the ugly one?"

**White Doom (61) has posed:**
Doom looks at Ani, praise in his eyes, and some sorrow at the knowledge she will have to live a secret life now. Doom stands, as debris trickles from the ceiling, and condensation drops off of his wet white hair, framing his face. He stands, tall and covered in scars, slick from exertion and the steam. He turns to IES at the statement, and regards him cooly. Sura comes to stand behind Doom, resting a hand on his bare back, aiming to calm and reassure him. She peers curiously out at IES, wondering what he had against her master, who was by all accounts, a sweet and good man.

    "As far as what happened here today, you do not need to worry. I have no intention of action against anyone here, and commend you all for your efforts today. You all did a good thing, especially you Ani..."

     Doom again puts out an arm toward IES, to give him some closure and assurance that no action would come from the law in a negative way. "Ani, Lin, perhaps you could help me in an investigation into the events here, Id like to know why this happened, and stop it from happening again. I can put in a report, and reference you to my superiors as an excellent candidate to fix this for Palaquin..."

     Doom then turns, and studies the broken ceiling. He uses what the architects had said, and his general knowledge, and looks for clues as to what happened. He uses the support that Ani had reinforced with essence to get a closer look. After examining it, he tells Ani what he sees. "The pipes corroded due to damage to the filtration system not keeping particulates out, causing slow wear."

**Karal Rei Lin (27) has posed:**
"We should." Lin states dumbly. Why dumbly? Because her eyes are glued to the glowing form of Anilaia... she knows that glow. She knows that glow very well. Lin's dumb look turns to a grin during the madness of this collapse... "She'll be fine." Lin finally decides. "Yeah. out! Place still isn't safe..."

    CRASH! ... down come chunks of the ceiling.

    Lin changes modes quickly from saunter nervously to... SKEEDADDLE, and charges out!

**Invincible Ember Simhata (80) has posed:**
    Simhata gives a nod, then turns to Anilaia. "Hey, meet us at Lin's place if you want some answers." He turns to follow Lin out of there. Exit stage left. Yep.

    He does bother to grab a pair of not collapsed on towels on the way, making sure to toss one to Lin before he goes to grab his stuff from where he left it.

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Outside Student Eternally Rising has been given a long man's jacket by a some gallant passerby and, though barely clothed, is doing an admirable job of coralling the people as Karal Rei Lin and Invincible Ember Simhata exit the baths. It seems like there were few, if any injuries, most of which is limited to scrapes and bruises and at worse, a broken elbow (an older patron having fallen as the water swept him aside, knocking him on his side).

    "Whew, I thought the building was coming down there for a moment. I'm glad you two made it out, what of White Doom and Anilaia?" she inquired.

**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
Slowly Anilaia climbs down from the pillar she had went up to, her legs somewhat unsteady. It might be a trick of the eyes, but as she steps slowly over the ground in her naked form, the pillar of light and the gyrating viridian gears around her, it seems that the blemishes of her former mortal life get burned away, the calluses on her hands melting to turn it silken soft, the scar from a former infection on her belly easing out and all in all gaining her a much more healthy look than before. One moment she pauses, looking after the almost fleeing Lin and then Simhata, very well knowing that all this will be a problem.

"They... they had the trouble coming since ages you say? As if people wouldn't have known that the bathes were needing more repairs with each passing year and that the small defects piled up." Sighing she looked at the towel she had ruined in her ascent and descent upon the pillar, tossing t aside to pick up one that was less in a scandalous shape to wrap it around herself. A Moment she eyed the room, then gritted her teeth and her hands started to glow in purple again, but this time instead of molding one pillar, the glow appeared on all the pillars in the room simultaneously, together with the fresci and pieces of the fallen ceiling. "Can't leave the thing like this..." she muttered as the gears around her began to spin faster, the channeled essence starting to show it's work. Slowly damages were being eaten away, first the miles of decoration getting back their chippings and pieces lost over the ages but still, many have taken quite a beating and while they do return to a better condition, most still look worse than what they had looked before the ceiling had bombarded them. Still, this was only the slightest of the wonders. The gleaming pillars seemed to shift as Anilaia used the 9 principles of the pillar upon them, trying to fixing the damages they had taken by ordering them with her words only. And finally, she spoke to the bits of ceiling crashed into the pools, commanding them to go back to their places, ordering them to mold to their neighboring plates and become one solid ceiling again and then merge with the pillars, commanding them to all become one rock, as if the whole house had been cut out in this shape from one gigantic block of marble.

**White Doom (61) has posed:**
Doom watches in wonder as the room is repaired, and essence flows from Ani as she puts her magic into it. He watches for a time, then says "Ani, i need you to understand some things about what happened. By now you understand what you are, and may have heard of such a thing before, but you have to keep it a secret. There are individuals, groups, that hunt the exalted, erasing their existence before it can pose a problem, Please be discrete, in sharing with others what you now are, and what that means. I work with a group of people that can help you, I can help you, you just need to accept my help. Part of this, is it may or may not be part of my duties to hunt supernaturals within the limits of the city. My ass is on the line here too..."

**Anilaia (17) has posed:**
Anilaia glances to White doom as she concentrates a tiny bit more and then the pieces of the frescos start to fix in again, slightly better than they had been before the incident. Only the plumbing was still destroyed for a great part and the floor had pretty much sustained major damage. "You tell me something that I so pretty much know myself. But if you mean to keep things a secret, this place is not good for that. I mean, I had some... pretty illoustrous people enterng my workshop lately, and I suspect that at least half of them were out of ordinary. But I only know about 2 or 3 that were traight forward as Exalted... The pirate Captain for example was pretty obvious. But your task to hunt supernaturals... should you really hunt those chosen by the gods?" she asked back, the anima banner around her strong and proud. "And when will this fade?"