Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:28:16 -0600

((Discussion and Sign up thread located here! )) And reality snaps... Thick, black strands of magic held Sinclair fast, preventing him from getting close to Simon. The mage was nearing the end of his ritual, the words ringing out strong and clear. He raised the bloody knife over his head, the air starting to shimmer and hum with power. Fire erupted along the runes drawn on the blood stained floor. Walls of flame shot up all around. A hissing screech echoed in Sinclair's ear as the fire tore through the ropes of shadowy magic holding him, causing them to lose their grip. He took the opportunity and ripped himself free, drawing his guns and charging Simon down. He hit the edge of the summoning circle just as the flames hit Simon. A brilliant white light burst out from where Simon stood in the centre, swallowing both men up, blinding Sinclair so that he could go no further. When the light cleared Sinclair was no longer in the summoning circle. For that matter he was no longer in the church...or even inside at all. Above him was a dull red sky (sunset or sunrise...he wasn't sure) and around him were tall, dirty buildings. --- Brighton Pier Almost...almost...almost... Timothy watched the carefully positioned metal claw descend down into the mass of cuddly toys. He didn't particularly want an angry looking chicken, but after spending more money than he should on all kinds of rubbish in this place it would be nice to actually walk out of here with something. "Yes!" he said with the claw wrapped perfectly round the things almost spherical body and started hauling it upwards. At that moment, mingled in with all the excitement, there was a nauseating, almost painful jolt, in the pit of his stomach. This was promptly followed by the power to the pier abruptly going off. The lights all went off, the noise of a hundred different machines were silenced, and the claw carrying his prize froze, the fat red bird slipping through its grasp. "No!" "Attention, this is a security announcement" the loudspeakers throughout the building crackled. "There has been a loss of power to the pier. For health and safety reasons we must ask that you leave the premises immediately. We are sure this is only temporary and the power will return shortly, but for now you must leave the pier." Giving the machine a resentful glare Tim turned on his heel and joined the crowd heading back towards the beach. At least he hadn't been on one of the rides at the end of the pier.

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tweedandtea — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:44:27 -0600

Geoffrey sat in one of the striped beach chairs, his feet bare among the smooth rocks. He had rolled his trousers up around his ankle to wade in the water. He had changed his mind, however, and opted just to sit and watch the sun set...and the power fade from the pier. It sputtered, burned, faded, like a candle. He looked behind him, the entire city seemed to be without lights. And in the setting sun, too...

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maskedwritr — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:49:07 -0600

Walking in the shadows of the alleyways as the sun began to set, Satomi sighed as she stood in the shadows and looked upwards to see the entirety of the lights go out with a blink as she watched on. Frowning slightly, she pushed her glasses up before stepping out of the alleyway and into the streets as the sun continued to set.

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Nagats-e — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:58:46 -0600

Sophia had fallen from the huge white horse... down and down and down! She closed her eyes and briefly opened them to see a big pool of water coming at her, she squinted her eyes shut and held her breath. Really she had only fallen a relatively short distance, but it seemed like more with her eyes closed. She came up out of the water, spluttering and looked around in a panic. She didn't see the white horse anywhere... nor, thankfully, Volundr. She didn't trust it yet though... he could be anywhere. She saw some people bringing little boats to what appeared to be the end of the pool... the lake? She couldn't tell. She opted to try and swim for the edge of it, crossed the street without even looking either way and ran... surprised to find herself on a pebbled beach. Swallowing hard, she looked around, frightened to be out in the open like this. So she started to run again, feet slipping over the unfamiliar terrain. On and on she ran, just trying to put as much distance between herself and where she had landed as soon as she could. Eventually she came to a huge structure. A dock? It had a lot of lit up buildings on it, she watched the twinkling lights and listened to the noises, her stomach cramping as the sea breeze carried the smell of food toward her. Then it went dark and she couldn't help looking surprised, standing and staring at it. ((I'll have to write something for Aerona later. I have to get going home, might be on later for a bit, might not. ))

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BakuraBox — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:54:40 -0600

Max paused mid-step, looking around with mild disinterest when the city went dark. Well, this is annoying... He sighed, and dug around in his pockets until he found a flashlight. Convenient things, he supposed, though annoying. At least this model was plastic and waterproof. He couldn't recall just how many times he'd ruined something because he'd not bothered to empty his pockets before he decided to wash his clothing. (Not that he really needed to, but it helped to fit in with the other humans in the apartment building to be seen having his clothes washed. Also, the single girl in the apartment below washed her clothes every Friday and she thought he was very handsome.)

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Contemptus — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:07:11 -0600

The truck had been battered but in good condition when it pulled into a public car-park. A slim blond teen in tight black jeans and a fisherman's knitted sweater two sizes too big slipped out of the cab. The kid grabbed a stuffed-full bag from the back and hurried away from the vehicle without looking back. As soon as he was far enough away, he spat thickly, once, twice. There wasn't a store nearby to buy a drink, so something else would have to get rid of the bitter taste in his mouth. Well, the teen thought, might as well light up. Cursing under his breath, Abel looked around hopefully. A slim black cigarette was tucked between his lips, caught between his teeth, and though his lighter sparked, there was no flame. Disgusted with the cheap make, the teen pitched the Bic down the nearest alleyway and looked around again. The dark did't bother him much, but he stuck close to his stuff anyway. But then -- oh! Glorious, maybe he luck wasn't completely shot. A guy a few years older was walking towards him, holding a dinky little torch. "Hey, man," he said, hopeful and a touch muffled. He took the clove cigarette from his lips and shouldered his bulging dufflebag to hurry into the path of a passing ginger, "Got a light?" he asked, smiling a little. He let a little hope bleed into his expression -- he really really needed a cigarette.

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Dragon-Mage — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:13:07 -0600

@ Beach ((Since I've managed to find one taken at the appropriate time of day...Tada! Brighton Pier at sunset. Well...some of it at least)) Tim decided to head down to the beach for a little while, see if the lights were going to come on again any time soon. Not that he was particularly enamoured of heading back in there to spend even more money. He thought he'd probably used up all his luck this evening in almost winning that toy, and it had still gone completely tits up. Walking down the steps from the pier he kicked one of the pebbles along the beach as he reached them, watching it bounce over the other stones before it settled. Taking a few steps towards the waves he paused in surprise. There was a girl over there...dripping wet as if she'd just been swimming. But she was fully clothed...He knew Brighton had a reputation for being weird, but he didn't think it was that weird. Maybe she was drunk. ((But bed for me now. Yay for sleeeeeep))

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BakuraBox — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:11:21 -0600

Max stopped, frowning. "Are you talking to me?" he asked, checking over his shoulder just in case the human wasn't, in fact, speaking to him. There was no one behind him, however, so he turned forward again. Definitely speaking to me. He sighed, the way he'd seen human business men do when they didn't want to deal with idiots, and patted his pockets slowly. "No. I do not have a light, other than this flashlight--" Wait, they call it a torch here, don't they? Stupid human slang, why must it be different? Flashlight in America, torch over here--can't they just use the same words for everything everywhere, like intelligent beings? "Now move. I have places to be and you are in my way." ((He's been living in America prior to his coming here for a few decades, thus his use of American slang/American English instead of British slang/use of English. /bad attempts at clever explanations for my Americanisms. Also, he's anticipating the sun going down before the lights come back on and making it dark, thus the preemptive use of the flashlight. He'll put it away if the lights come on before the sun's fully down.))

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Darkfeather21 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:45:47 -0600

Lorg stood from the snow. The tracks led toward the mountains, and the smell of brimstone was strongest in that direction. He walked that way, tracking the dragon that had attacked Riverwood. He would kill the beast that took his freinds life. The sun glinted off the snow, making him worry slightly. He'd better finish this soon. It had been a while since he'd fed, and soon the sun would begin to burn. He'd have to finish before nightall too, or his inner wolf would escape. Suddenly, the world turned black, and Lorg felt like he was falling. sight came back to him, and he found himslf in the middle of a town, filled with people walking around with swords and axes. Strange. He'd never seen this many people armed, even after the dragons returned. The Dovahkin stood and looked around.

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jezebellydancer — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:26:27 -0600

((Ooh Brighton is pretty. Reminds me of one of the old buildings at one of the places at the New Jersey shore. Some areas there have a lot of Victorian stuff.)) ((Not sure where Finn would be hanging out. What night of the week is it?)) Maybe he's at the Secret Door... I'll write him later.)) ((is there anyone who has space for a few Yanks to crash? Otherwise, I'll have the girls staying with an NPC.)) Teagan and Mo were on Brighton Pier checking out the venues for possible gigs. There were a lot of places with live music, this was the hot spot in a town of hot spots. But they were also enjoying people watching and just getting to know the place. There were in the UK couch surfing and playing gigs for the summer. Both had dreams of becoming rock stars, though Mo was sure they'd have to come to a parting of the ways at some point. Each already wanted to go in different directions musically, but for now they enjoyed playing with each other and compromising. They had only arrived in Brighton the day before. They were scoping out the clubs with entertainment, finding out what sort of bands they were booking. Getting names of managers, taking to them right then and there if they could

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jezebellydancer — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:33:27 -0600

((Argh. cat stepped on the mouse and submitted the post :( )) They were out on the street when the lights flickered and went out. The sun was setting, so it wasn't full on dark yet. They stood and watched the sunset wondering what to do.

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Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:11:38 -0600

Abel felt himself prickle at the abrupt dismissal. His lip curled back and he straightened up from the comfortable slump he'd been in -- puffing up, as if to make himself look bigger and more of a threat. Typical Yank, he thought, churlish prick. He stepped neatly to one side and dropped into a full, mocking bow -- though it might of been because of the weight of his bag more than anything. "Of course," he said, posh as the newscasters, head bowed enough for his hair to hide his face, "Wouldn't want to keep you, sir." He wondered if he would get away with spitting on his shoes.

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Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:17:55 -0600

Juma was on the graveyard shift when all the lights went out, plunging the station into darkness in some rooms and red light the colour of bad blood in others. He sighed irritably when the lights went out, but no one evacuated the building herre, after two minutes the backup generator whirred into life with an almightly clunk that reverberated around the building and the lights came back on...and with them the phone started ringing. The beat cops would have to be out in force tonight in case people got restless and he had no doubt that firemen would be rescueing people trapped in lifts. It left him uneasy, he'd obviously been spending too much time with Jess dealing with monsters, but he couldn't remember the last time they'd had a powercut that hit the whole city like this. *** Jessica had gotten of work earlier in the day and picked Mei up as usual, heading down to the pier as a treat, and just like everyone else they'd been herded off the pier when the lights went out. It was absolutely uncanny seeing the pier without lights when normally it was the bright gaudy lights that marked Brighton as well Brighton. She headed down for the beach with Mei, wondering if she could slip into the secret door yet to say hello to Rochelle while they were here but their were too many people on the beach waiting for the pier to start up again they might be seen, so instead she wondered down to the waters edge with her daughter and the two of them started skipping stones.

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tweedandtea — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:32:35 -0600

Geoffrey noticed the woman and her young daughter skipping stones across the water. He smiled, enjoying the scene of parent-child interaction. Being an academic, he didn't see too much of it, he was often cooped up inside libraries. He had no children of his own, and for some reason or other had not been deemed an appropriate adoptive parent. He sighed, and stayed in his chair, watching the sun sink lower.

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maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:02:58 -0600

Wandering the streets, her eyes constantly moving as she followed the movements of the humans that remained on the darkening streets. Satomi soon reached a parking lot as she followed the flow of humans before it soon trickled to a halt. Two men stood in the lot, one carrying a flashlight. Satomi watched from the shadows in amusement as the younger one bowed down his lip curled back as he seemed to contemplate something.

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BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:10:57 -0600

Max started to go by, before he paused. Something about the human's blond hair... "What's your name?" he asked abruptly, "It's not something stupid, right?" he added. Because if it is, then I'm going to change my mind immediately. "And are you nearly as scrawny as you look?"

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Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:20:24 -0600

Abel straightened up and tensed, his muscles ready for fight-or-flight, with or without the pack on his back weighing him down. Was this creep coming onto him? Because seriously, what the fuck. What the actual fuck. "....Abel," he said slowly, eyeing Max like he was going to pull a kinfe and go to town at any moment. It didn't even occur to him to lie -- most people thought it was a fake name anyway, so what was the harm? "And I'm not scrawny, fuck you. I'm scrappy."

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Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:35:20 -0600

@ Darkfeather ((Just wondering where Lorg is right now. Did you mean to have him on the University campus outside the city or in the middle of Brighton? Either way there wouldn't be too many folk wandering about with weapons and he would probably notice they looked fake, being an experienced fighter and all)) A few people in Lorg's immediate vicinity gave him a distinctly odd look. He hadn't been there a moment ago. They'd have noticed someone dressed so strangely...Many of them just shook their heads and walked on. He had to have been there and they'd somehow just missed him. Because people didn't just randomly appear. It was impossible. --- @ Jeze ((Mo and Tig can be crashing with Tim's sister if you like. Or with Grace since Tim's sister is very much taking a back seat but she's an actual character to be used)) --- @ Dark Mysterious Alleyways This place was unlike anywhere Sinclair had ever been before. On the surface it looked much like any other city back alley. Buildings either side, a generous layer of rubbish scattered across the ground, a little light filtering down from street lights where the alley mouth met a main thoroughfare. But...the light was brighter than any he'd ever seen and completely alien in nature. The rubbish was of a material he'd never seen, bottles made of something other than glass and flimsy things that looked like brightly coloured metallic paper. It was beyond strange. He had to find out where he was. Then he had to try and find out if Simon was here too and finish the job he'd started. He picked a direction and set off, hoping to hear voices or spot some sort of sign he could use to work things out. It didn't take him too long. A little way ahead, conveniently round a corner, he overheard a group of men talking. In English of all things, but both with a heavy accent. Irish he thought one was...the other he couldn't place at all. He thought it best to just hang around behind his wall and listen a little more before doing anything. Just in case...

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Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:53:15 -0600

@ Saf All Grace could do was thank her lucky stars she'd finished her paper work before the power blew. The time it took the generator to kick back in would have been more than enough to completely trash everything she'd been working on this far. She really needed to remember to properly save things as she went along. You'd think University would have drilled that into her head, but apparently not. Waiting for something, anything, to happen, she was presently attempting to make a paper crane following an online origami guide. It was deadly boring. "Hallelujah!" she said when the phone finally rang. "D.C Ransom," she said pleasantly into the mouth piece. As the person on the other end spoke she frowned. "I see...someone will be right over." She hung up and tilted her chair back, looking into Juma's office. "Oh Boss! Phone call from the hospital. A John Doe has been brought in looking like someone's set him on fire. Doctors very much suspect foul play."

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BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:54:29 -0600

Max laughed. "Oh, I like that. You're definitely scrawny, Abel was it?" He reached out and plucked the backpack from the boy's person. "This way then, Abel. From the looks of things, you don't have somewhere to sleep and I've decided that I like you. I'll let you sleep on my nice couch for a few days. It probably won't be long, though. Unless you start to bore me. Then I might kick you out. Who knows." He glanced over his shoulder at him, walking away. "Come along now."

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Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:30:47 -0600

@ DM Juma hadn’t been quite as luck as Grace , he realised when he turned back at the computer. Fortunately he had been in the copy of Saving every so often but he’d still be forced to rewrite a large paragraph or two of form filling. He finally hit the end of his mountain of paperwork just before someone knocked on the door. That was everything from his old position wrapped up and neatly archived, and come next week he could look forward to even more mountainous paperwork as he took over as a DCI. “Take that! You sonnuva” he muttered triumphantly as he saved the document, twice, “Come in.” It was seriously weird having people call him Boss, but not , he decided as Grace Ransom did it, unpleasant. “Right then,” he could actually make a decision without passing it through ten people first, weird. “There’s enough people on shift tonight to cover, you picked it up so we’ll follow up. Let’s go down there take a statement, check with uniform on the radio and then we’ll see what we get when we’re down there.” It was a relief to have Ransom along rather than some of the DCs, she wasn’t that much taller than average but she had very long legs, which meant she could actually keep up when he started striding, as he did now, eager to be out of the office. He still loomed over her though, but he was used to that, at 6’2 and weighing what he did he loomed over most people. He told the duty sergeant where he was going, watched him note it on file, told him to note it in the notebook as well on the computer in case the backup went down again and headed towards the lift on automat, before changing his mind and taking the stairs instead. Since the power had gone down he had a restless edgy feeling he couldn’t describe. Instinct? Or Paranoia. He reached for his star of david instinctively, then remembered he’d lost it and tried not to curse. Stupid but everytime he remembered it felt more wrong not to have it. @ The beach. Mei laughed happily, skipping stones across the water, then stopped sniffing at the air. Something was slightly strange, not just the usual smell of sea salt, frying fat and sugar she associated with the pier. She smelt...burning. She looked up frowning to see a boy walking along the beach, it was definitely coming from him. There was another girl nearby too who smelt weird, like and not like auntie Rochelle, who always smelt of flowers and lightning. A lot of people smelled funny in Brighton. It wasn’t necessarily bad, but often it meant they weren’t human. She wasn’t human so that was ok, but it was always worth knowing. “He smells funny” she commented to her mother, skipping another stone, this time with a frown on her little face “like burning...and why’s she all wet?” “I dunno baby,” Jessica said, looking at both the young adults walking along the pebbles, aside from the fact that she was drenched through neither of them looked off at first glance but you ignored a werewolfs nose at your peril. Still vampires were most dangerous after dark and Mei knew what those smelt like, probably not her problem, not right now, not with Mei here. She looked upat the setting sun fretfully, maybe they’d best head back soon. She threw another stone across the water. “Can we go swimming?” Mei asked. “I dunno,” Jessica worried at her bottom lip, something was off here, she could feel the hair on her arms rising but she didn’t know quite what it wasn’t and she wasn’t even sure it had anything to do with the two strange smelling people on the beach there was just...something “we should go home soon, s’getting late” “But It’d be fun” “It’d be COLD” Jessica laughed “If they leave soon we can go and put our clothes with connor and go swimming, if not we’ll go home and I’ll take you to the swimming pool on Sunday, latest ok?” “Ok,” Mei said, pursing her lips and blowing out sigh. She caught sight of another man watching them and smiling. He smelled normal at least so she smiled and waved. “Don’t wave at strangers” Jessica shook her head fondly. “Why not, he smells fine, if he’s bad I’ll bloody bite him,” Mei grinned. Jessica knew she ought to scold Mei for the language, but really with her as a mother language was a lost cause she’d concentrate on trying to get Mei to be an upright member of society in all other ways and let her get away with the swearing a long as it didn’t get her into trouble at school.

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Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:32:50 -0600

Abel swore -- quite colourfully, might have been a sailor in a past life -- and lunged for his bag without thinking. This probably could get him brought up on charges -- assault, if the posh bastard wanted what little Abel had -- which really would fuck him over. Minor in another country? Yeah, that'd go over well. "What the fuck?" he yelled, clamping his hands around the strap of his duffle. He dug in his heels, lest he be dragged along with this lunatic. The lunatic with an insanely strong grip on his stuff, "Give me my back you creepy prick! The fuck would I wanna live with a creep like you -- quit moving!"

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Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:42:28 -0600

@ Dark Alley They were definitely speaking English and from what bits of the conversation Sinclair have been able to overhear this wasn't a prearranged meeting of two people that happened to be able to speak English in western Europe. From the sounds of thing he might actually be in England. Or possibly Ireland considering one of those voices was definitely Irish. But either way he'd crossed the Channel. How the hell had that happened? He remained where he was and listened a little further. One was apparently trying to rob the other. Did he dare get involved? Did he want to draw attention to himself like that? He sighed. Father Benedict would likely disapprove if he didn't, no matter how much trouble sticking his nose in right now would like get him in. He stepped out of the shadows and turned the corner. "What's going on?" he asked. And why are the pair of you dressed so strangely? He'd never seen such outlandish attire. Definitely wasn't in mainland Europe any more. "Why have you taken his pack?" He hoped he'd got all the words right. He was good at languages but while he did know English he'd had very little opportunity to actually speak it.

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maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:45:42 -0600

Raising an eyebrow at the spectacle before her, Satomi shrugged before walking off deeper into the alleyway. Not her problem. Moving through the maze like alleyways, Satomi began to move in the direction of the campus as she let her glamour slip for a second before she slipped back into her more comfortable glamour. Sighing she walked through the alley with a deft ease.

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BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:46:06 -0600

Max continued moving, laughing again. "I have places to be, Abel. Stop holding us up and start moving. You'll like my place, I expect. There's a pretty girl living close--or pretty boys if you like that kind of thing. And you're already so entertaining. I fully expect this to be a nice change of pace--are you hungry? I'll feed you, if you are," he continued breezily, pulling him around the corner by the straps in his grip. He came to a stop at a building right around the corner, and pointed. "This would be the place. This way, I'm up near the top. Try not to trip on the stairs. I don't like the elevator, so we're using the stairs. Do you have any iron on you? If so, I advise you dispose of it immediately or I'll have someone else do it for you." He glanced over his shoulder at the boy again, green eyes narrowed. "You're not afraid, are you? Fear is boring and hardly pleasant." He pulled him up the door and reached to open it, not giving Abel time to respond to any of his questions.

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BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:47:41 -0600

((Ah, dammit. Ninja'd while I was writing. XD;; Erm. Pretend Max completely ignored Sinclair and breezed right by him because he's been deemed insignificant in Max's Pursuit of Entertainment.))

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Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:54:49 -0600

Abel, swearing incoherantly at this point -- could you even to that with a tyre-iron and a camel? And someone's mother? -- tightened his grip on his bag, but lashed out with a foot to kick the back of the lunatic's knee. Hopefully that wold slow him down somewhat! He twisted -- without releasing his back --any looked wildly towards the man who'd spoken. It didn't matter that the stranger's wrods wer sort of clumsy, it was a person and that usually meant help which was, by most counts, a very good thing. "Help," he said simply, "I've being robbed by a mad man. An impossibly strong madman who wants me to live with him and thinks that I am scrawny. Help."

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Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:30:09 -0600

((Mwahaha, fear my ninja skills! It's times like this I really miss that edit button...we'll just have this as a brief interlude before Max skips merrily up the stairs. As a (for all intents and purposes) pure human Max can probably lay Sinclair out with ease when he tries interfering and can return to kidnapping Abel at his earliest convenience)) @ Attempted kidnapping Impossibly strong mad men? Provided that was impossibly strong for some supernatural reason this sort of help was right up Sinclair's street! Granted he typically approached these sorts of situations in a stealthy , underhanded fashion where the super strong....whatever it is didn't know he was there. Facing them head on was typically very bad for his health, especially when he hadn't fully recovered from his earlier fight with Simon. At least the potentially supernatural being didn't seem to consider him a threat. Or even worth noticing... He stepped fully into the other alley way, one hand resting against where his full pistol was located, and made his way carefully over to Max. "Come on friend," he said. "Give the boy his gear back and let him go. Let's not let this get ugly." Because I could really do without getting my arse kicked again tonight. --- @ Saf "Are you swearing at your computer?" Grace asked, one elegant eyebrow raised. "Or have you found a significantly more entertaining way of passing the evening than building pyramids out of paperclips?" Knowing Juma it was probably the latter. You didn't get to be the Chief this early in your career by goofing off when there was the possibility of something important to be doing. She smiled when Juma said they'd be following up on it. "You have no idea how pleased I am to hear you say that. I've been going out of my mind out there."

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BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:39:27 -0600

Max turned, eyes narrowed, and smiled lightly. "I'm afraid this is none of your business, you see. And he'll get his things back in just a moment when we get upstairs. I've decided to graciously allow him use of my apartment, as he clearly has nowhere to sleep. Now excuse us." He turned away again, already deeming the other man as unimportant in the scheme of things. He ignored Abel's kick to his knee, tugging. "Stop dragging your feet Abel."

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maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:44:35 -0600

Frowning as she walked, Satomi changed her path from the school to the beach. Sighing she continued her steady pace as the alleyway turned and twisted to show her the slowly setting sun and the waves of water. A small smile appeared on her face as she walked on the sand before finally sitting down, watching the sun set.

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Darkfeather21 — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:50:46 -0600

((Dragon-Mage, I remember you saying something about there being a place where a bunch of LARPers gathered, so I placed him there.))

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Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:59:40 -0600

"If you ever get to DI Ransom@ DM “You get to DI Ransom and you’ll spend a considerable amount of time swearing at your computer, it’s one of the perils of promotion.” Juma shot Grace a friendly grin, his teeth very white in the dark of his face. “I’ll probably have to spend more time doing that now..” He’d worked damn hard to get to where he was but he wasn’t sure he had much ambition for going any further, that would involve too much paperwork and not enough actual policing. “Well you’re not the only one who prefers policing to paperwork,” he smiled. “Especially paperwork on dodgy power. Let’s get going.” They made it down to the garage and he strode over to the unmarked car he worked with, no need for sirens for something like this, more’s the pity he had to admit he got a boyish glee from sticking the siren on top and pegging it madly down the road. "But a little boredom's to be expected it is the graveyard shift after all."

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Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:06:20 -0600

((All righty then! *makes notes* Mwhaha *makes plans*)) The students were milling around the car parks outside their various accommodation buildings, smoking and socialising while they waited for the power to come back on. "You looking for that LARP thing mate?" one of them called out to Lorg. "You're a day out. They meet Thursdays." --- "A very generous offer I'm sure," Sinclair said dryly. "But it looses something of its charm if this young man doesn't want to stay with you." He took hold of one of the trailing bag straps. He frowned and glanced down at the thing he'd just grabbed. It was completely unlike any other material he'd held before. "Give it back and I'll go away. He can decide if he wants to follow you after that." --- "You're really selling the position here, boss," Grace said. "But i suppose it's a good way to stop anyone going for your job." She certainly had no intentions of climbing the ladder any time soon. She had quite enough responsibility for her tastes right now. "Apparently he was found on Sussex campus, out in the woods. Should we head there to investigate or to the hospital first? The doctor that called me said John Doe is out for the count and they expect he will be for quite some time. It's apparently not a pretty sight."

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Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:16:49 -0600

@ Dm “Sussex Bloody campus? We’re definitely going their first then, get a lock on the scene before students trample all over it,” Students, always some kind of trouble even when theyweren’t drinking or smoking things they shouldn’t be, with more curiousity than the average there was a far higher probability of some nancy drew trying to but their head in on real police work. “We’ll head over their ourselves first, best take some tape with us and grab one of the uniforms, we’ll need more if there’s actually a scene to preserve up there.” It felt weird giving all the orders and not having someone watching over his shoulder. His DCI before now had always asked him questions, what would you do even when he was a constable, to get him to think. He should start doing that too, keep his lot on their toes, but he kept meaning to...and telling instead of asking, just not quite used to this yet too keen to look like he knew what he was doing he supposed. At least though he actually did know what he was doing, more or less and most of the time. That had to count for something right? Out in the woods by sussex campus that sounded like a good spot for a lot of dodgy things so he was inclined to suspect the doctors verdict of foul play had something in it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:27:51 -0600

His eyes narrowed further. "You're annoying me, now," he declared softly. "So I'd appreciate if you let go and left us. You're not nearly as interesting as Abel is turning out to be, so I have no interest in keeping you." He flicked his fingers in a shoo motion. "And I will be forced to do something to you if you don't go away."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:37:48 -0600

Sophia looked down after staring at the pier for a moment longer, she couldn't help wondering what made it go all dark like that. At least there was still a little light from the sunset. She heard talking and laughing around her, it startled her and she looked round behind her. It was hard to tell but she thought there was some of them looking at her. A shadow flew overhead and she squeaked, looking up briefly before running toward the pier, hoping the dock with it's wooden poles would help hide her. She didn't seem to care that she might be getting odd looks. All she could think of was to keep running. Aerona had been sitting on a bench, watching the people go round and round on the carousel, seeing the joy on their faces nearly made her smile... nearly. She had never been on it herself, though she had thought about it many times. Then the lights went off and she heard the cries of dismay from the people who had been on the rides and now had to try to get off them. She stood and walked off down the pier when they were asked to leave, wishing she had chosen to ride it today. Deciding it might be nice to watch the sun set and wait for the stars to come out, she went to the beach and took off her shoes to dip her feet in the chilly water so she could feel herself sinking. A girl raced past her, heading for the pier, Aerona almost wanted to tell her that the carousel wasn't even working, there was no rush to get there but it didn't look like she was going for the rides anyway. She glanced at the other people on the beach.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:01:24 -0600

((Don't go under the pier Sophia! That's where the local door to fairyland is!)) @ Beach Mittens was not in a good mood. He'd been having a perfectly pleasant day. The preparation for the Seven Sins Conference had been going perfectly, Tim hadn't been whining too much, and now staying in a different city he was actually allowed in the house for once! And it had all gone to pot in the last bloody half hour! He didn't know what that surge of power was, or where it came from, but it had felt distinctly demonic in nature. And it was powerful! Knocking out the power in the city was no mean feat! He needed to find Tim and he needed to find him now. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, Pembury wasn't exactly a difficult place to track down a demonic entity in but Brighton had a few more unusual auras to mess up his senses. Casting out his senses his eyes narrowed. He thought he'd located Tim somewhere on the beach, but in searching for him he picked up something entirely different, an aura he hadn't felt for centuries. He slunk his way out from the shadows under the pier, ignoring the stares he got from being a random cat on the beach, and made his way over to her. "Aerona," he said, brushing up to her. "Long time no see...don't suppose you're here for any particular reason?" --- @ Alleyway "Hardly a surprise," Sinclair said. "I annoy a lot of people." Generally people that deserved to be annoyed. "And I'd appreciate it if you gave this young man back his things. I promise I'll leave you alone as soon as that happens. And I don't care if you consider me interesting or worthy of being kept. Or about any of your threats for that matter."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:11:39 -0600

((lol! Soph's never going to really escape, is she? ;P)) @Beach/DM Aerona had been paying so much attention to the waves lapping at the shore, the pretty hues of the sunset, she hadn't noticed the cat come up to her and jumped, just a little. "I... I do apologise. Have we met?" She didn't seem perturbed to be speaking to a cat that could talk. Perhaps she just didn't think about it hard enough to realise it might be strange. This... cat seemed to know her though. She tried to remember ever making his acquaintance. The aura from him though... "Abezethibou? Is that you? goodness... you are quite altered. Did you have a hair cut?" She asked, trying to remember if he had always been a cat or not...

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:12:21 -0600

@ Saf "Afraid so," Grace said with a grin. "Sussex bloody campus. And we have to interview students. Some biologists that were out hunting for badgers apparently, so at least they should be sober when we try finding them. Anyone in particular you want brought in on this uniform wise?" Who was actually on duty tonight uniform wise? She didn't have the faintest idea.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:18:12 -0600

@ LS Mittens' ears went back at Aerona's question. "Very funny," he said sourly. "Although I did get properly groomed just the other week and had my fur trimmed and everything. So yes, I suppose I have had a haircut." He hopped up to sit on Aerona's lap. "And you didn't answer my question. Is there a particular reason you are here? I am not having a good day so please don't mess me about."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:25:14 -0600

@DM "Was I being amusing?" Aerona asked, confusion written plainly in her eyes. "I do apologise... I was attempting to remember if you had always had this particular appearance... I meant no offence." She resisted the urge to scratch him behind the ears. "Y-your haircut is quite handsome." She added, thinking it might help his day get better if she complimented him. "I shall endeavour to answer without making a mess about you." She added, then glanced up to where the carousel was. "I came here to watch the people ride the carousel." She said plainly, looking very serious about not messing him about. ((I was supposed to have the comp to myself for a while, but it looks like that might not happen now unless I can get our other one working... if not, this is the last post from me for a little while. :S ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:26:17 -0600

Satomi looked up her eyes interested slightly as she was startled out of her contemplation as the sound of talking broke into her thoughts. Eyebrow raising, Satomi caught sight of a black cat sitting in a girl's lap. Furrowing her brow, she shook her head, did she hear a second voice?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:30:21 -0600

@ Beach Mei had a bit of a problem with cats, as a six year old girl she wanted to pet them and make them like her, as a werewolf she wanted to chase them. The cat that emerged from under the pier however provoked no such reaction. He smelt even more strongly of burning than the boy, about as strongly as the woman who’d wandered up to the water. They both stank of burning, like the kitchen was on fire. She let out a low growl in the back of her throat and clasped her mother’s hand. “What is it?” Jessica said, squeezing her shoulder. “They smell bad” she whispered, pointing at the cat and the woman, “Really bad, like burnng.” “Do you want to go home?” Jess nodded, studying the two warily. Mei nodded. “Ok we will...” she watched Sophia run past them under the pier “Just as soon as we make sure the wet ladies ok and doesn’t run in on auntie Rochelle by accident huh?” “Ok,” the wet lady was going away from the creepy burny people and she more or less recognised the smell she smelt like connor, someone who’d been to the strange place and come back. “I think she’s a halfsie.” “Really? Maybe we should introduce her to auntie Rochelle then” She looked a little too frightened to be one of Rochelle’s style of halfsies though. Maybe someone like Connor or Melusine, melusine got that haunted rabbit in headlights look at time, but even she wasn’t quite that jumpy. If mei hadn’t been there she would have been more inclined to check out the suspicious types, but then if Mei hadn’t been their she wouldn’t have though them suspicious and Mei was here so she wasn’t going to start any fights, however one scared girl was probably not going to cause any trouble and she should help if she could. “Hey kid,” she said, holding Mei’s hand and venturing under the pier “You ok?” @ DM “Thompson, Alan Thompson. Ought to be on duty but not manning the desk tonight, go and get him to pick out two others and come with us. I’m going to call the campus security services while you do that, get them to help us out.” Juma nodded.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:43:08 -0600

"Technically, he still has his things," Max replied, nodding to where Abel's hands were still clamped tightly around his bag. "Therefore, your conditions for leaving are fulfilled. He has his things. Leave." He injected as much power into his voice as he thought necessary to impress upon this idiot that he was quite serious. "I have things to do, and you are preventing me from doing them. I am not a patient individual."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:46:24 -0600

((Yay! I got it working! :D )) @Saf Sophia gasped and whirled around, only to find a woman and a little girl there, watching her. "I-I y-y-yes..." She stammered out, shivering in the evening breeze. She couldn't help peering up to see if that was Volundr who had flown over head... there were a lot of birds, maybe it was just one of those. She glanced back at the woman and child, eyes wide. Were they fae? She couldn't tell in the fading light. If they were though, why would they be talking to her? unless it was a trick... they would surely know the runes plastered all over her and know she was a slave... "Qu-quite." She added, voice a bit husky from not using it much, fingers getting splinters from the wood.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:32:32 -0600

@ LS Mittens wished his face was mobile enough to raise an eyebrow at Aerona. She was genuinely confused...and trying to compliment him. "You just came here to watch the carousel...when was the last time we actually spoke?" he asked. They'd spent quite a bit of time together before the Flood but since then? Where had she actually been when he was in Egypt, screwing with the Pharaohs head? He shook his head and sighed. "So I suppose you know nothing about that blast of power that went through here a little while ago." --- @ Saf Grace obediently pulled out her phone and called back to the station. "Alan, it's Grace here," she said. "The DCI wants you to get a group together and head over to Sussex campus. We'll met you there. Bring tape. We might have a crime scene to investigate." --- @ Alleyway ((This will probably be my last post with this lot until Contemptus has a chance to post because I doubt Abel is going to be just sitting back quietly while all this is happening :p )) Sinclair could feel the man's power pressing down on his mind and, despite his best efforts not to, he released his grip on the strap. That was unexpected. He'd dealt with many a strange creature over the years but never one that could just make him do something. He took a step back and pulled out his revolver. "What are you?" he demanded. "And just in case you decide to get clever the bullets in here are designed to handle inhuman things. I'm sure you'll be no exception."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:36:29 -0600

((Oh masked one thing, brighton beach is pebbles pebbles, no sand :)) @ Nagats "You don't look ok." Jessica said, "You look wet and half starved. What the hell happened to you?" She was beginning to thing that the halfsie comment might not be too far off, although she looked entirely human to her and not in a state to hold together a glamour... Something had hurt her though, and badly. "You can tell me, you wouldn't believe the shit i've seen in this town." and there she went again, swearing in front of her daughter. Why was it she could get the hang of pretty much everything involved in parenting except being a good cook (which she managed to get round) and not swearing (which she was horrendously bad at)? She advanced cautiously towards the girl, not wanting her to bolt and let go of Mei's hands to show her she wasn't holding anything. "You don't have to worry you know the unseelie don't like it here. Kithara bites them. The faeries won't get you, you could stay here with Auntie rochelle and Mr connor!" Mei babbled trying to be helpful and grinning cheerfully "Mei!" Ok if the girl wasn't anything to do with the fairie she was now going to be thoroughly confused but on the other hand Mei was still young enough to get away with saying things like that without people locking her up in the loony farm. @ DM Meanwhile Juma was talking to the campus security , getting them to keep people away from the area and direct them to the students who'd found the wounded man so that they could take statements and interview them. Fortunately with the power down the students seemed to have nothing better to do ((And more on wha they find... later, probably in the morning)

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:41:45 -0600

[quote=Safriadragonfan] @ DM Meanwhile Juma was talking to the campus security , getting them to keep people away from the area and direct them to the students who'd found the wounded man so that they could take statements and interview them. Fortunately with the power down the students seemed to have nothing better to do ((And more on wha they find... later, probably in the morning) [/quote] IGNORE THAT Meanwhile Juma had radioed the security groupa t sussex using a handsfree set and was asking them to please get the students to wait and let them know they were coming, to keep the other students from the area and to review their CCTV for anything weird coming up on the cameras over the last 24 hours. He'd love to get them doing some of the dogsbody work of interviewing students too, but they weren't technically qualified and no WAY he was bringing untrained people in beyond their remit. It didn't take them long to drive out to the university, friday night traffic tended to be heading the otherway, it'd be going back into Brighton afterwards that would be the problem. He pulled up at the parking space nearest to the security office, locked the car securely and started heading over there.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:45:07 -0600

Her ears pricked up as she tilted her head to the side with her brow furrowed. There was that voice again! Turning to find where the voice was, Satomi caught sight of the cat once more. A shiver of apprehension went up her spine as she saw seemingly normal black and white cat.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:46:50 -0600

((Alrighty! I'll remember that!))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:54:09 -0600

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:54:37 -0600

((dang it! I didn't even press submit! Just a sec...))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:57:07 -0600

@DM/Masked (sort of?) Aerona was watching the twitching whiskers, her mouth twitched slightly too. "Yes, the... the carousel." She said again, blinking and looking away from his whiskers. It was just that she thought them very fine and wondered why she couldn't have some too. "Last... saw each other." She had to think back. "I am not certain. After the deluge it was rather hard to keep track of where everyone went to. I did go with Samhazai and Azarel to Mount Olympus for a while... that was quite fun. I had heard about your actions in Eygpt, though I think I did not see you after that. Where you involved at all with John Dee?" It had been such a huge project, she wasn't sure who all was involved. She felt eyes on her and glanced back to see a girl watching them strangely. It occurred to her then that it might look quite strange to be having a conversation with a cat. Well.. a two sided one anyway. ((Will post for Sophia in a moment.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:59:25 -0600

Her eyes suddenly flashed ice blue behind her glasses as she realized what this shiver made her think of. Who was that cat and that girl? "This aura" She murmured quietly, keeping her eyes on the cat and girl. ((Do the fae have weapons that come with the glamour?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:00:53 -0600

@Saf "I... I m-managed..." Sophia realised she had been about to mention her escape, not knowing if these people might take her back again. "Are you fae?" She asked, a squeak in her voice. But no... then the little girl was talking about the Unseelie... "Th-they won't?" She asked glancing up again to see the birds in the sky. "Are- are you sure?" Could she relax for a moment? "I... I only j-just managed t-to escape..." Barely at that. She looked back at the woman and child. "The... the unseelie..." She whispered, still looking terrified. "I th-think he's followed m-me though."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:03:38 -0600

@DM ((I think Mittens is distracting Aerona... and her author maybe? I keep forgetting to make her answer the questions! lol She's so taken with his whiskers. So... adding on to what I had written...)) "As to the surge... I felt something, yes. Rather... rather large and not at all usual for this world, is it? It made the lights on the pier go out. " She added, stating the obvious but seemingly not realising it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:12:52 -0600

@ nagats. Jessica gave a laugh at that "about as far as you can get." She realised it might be comforting if the woman had been in contact with unseelie to have a direct answer, the fey couldn't tell lies so it might help. "No, I'm not a fae, though I've met a few. "No, most of them are supper nice here, and under the pier belongs to the halfsies, there's contracts and everywhere so it's safe down here... " "Safe enough anyway... There's a half fey bar under here and they've got all kinds of deals and warding spells protecting them. Inside....well anyone can come IN but their not allowed to hurt each other. Strictly enforced. BRighton is mainly a seelie city, I wouldn't say their the most trustworthy nice people in all the world but their a darn sight better than tthe unseelie, and even if their allowed in the bar...let's just say their not welcome, and they certainly wouldn't let them hurt anyone. On the principle of their own rivalry rather than because they you know CARE or anything but that's the seelie for you. it's certainly safer than wandering round brighton half starved and all wet though. You want to go in? We can take you?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:03:24 -0600

@ Beach Mittens' fur bristled when Aerona brought up Dee. "No," he said bluntly. "I had nothing to do with anything after Egypt until very recently. After Moses dropped the sea on the Egyptian army I got trapped in a pillar of water. I've only been recently let out." He puffed up a little more, with smugness this time. "However...I'm now liaison between Hell and its new master." He could feel an odd prickle between his shoulder blades, as if someone was stroking his fur the wrong way. He looked round to see if he could locate the source of this odd feeling. A woman sitting on the beach, watching them. There was something about her. She looked human but... He hopped off Aerona's lap and trotted over to Satomi. He mewed up at her. Nothing unusual here, just a happy little cat on the beach.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:28:06 -0600

As greatful as he was for some intervention -- because really, awkward non-English stranger was a persistant bugger, he'd give him that, and it had probably slowed the Yank down -- the utter lack of progress was getting on his nerves. Abel yanked hard on the material will in his grasp, trying to stagger backward at the same time. "Yeah, what he said," he spat, "I don't fucking want your charity. I don't know you, I don't want to know you, and I have no money to pay you for your services, so piss off and go rob/kidnap another underage boy because I am not interested!"

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:33:38 -0600

Shying back just the slightest bit, Satomi's eyes flashed ice blue once more at the small "house cat" it was pretending to be, "What are you?" She whispered, the sight of a bow and arrow clasped in her hands flashed for a second before disappearing once more as the supposed cat mewed.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:47:11 -0600

"I'm not interested in your money," he replied snappishly. "Now stop complaining. you're interesting, and I intend to keep you for awhile, that's final. Do you need some assurances, because I can provide those." He yanked the bag again, and his glamour slipped just a little, enough to make it obvious that he wasn't what he seemed before he shoved it back into place. His eyes flicked to the gun, and he snorted. "I am myself. Put it away."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:50:12 -0600

@ Beach Mittens cocked his head to one side when the bow and arrow flashed momentarily into life. So...she wasn't entirely normal then. She might have been looking over at them because she saw something. But what was she? Witch? Fae? Brighton had an annoying number of possibilities. He purred and rubbed his head against her ankles, trying to get a better feel for her aura.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:07:02 -0600

Finding purchase even on the sliding rocks of the beach, Satomi darted about the "cat" keeping a tight hold on her glamour as she watched the cat warily, her eyes flashing ice blue every so often, "You still haven't answered my question." She said, her voice low and quiet as she let a knife come into existence rather than the bow and arrow as the "cat" came closer.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:15:54 -0600

@ Beach Mittens narrowed his eyes. "I'm a cat, genius," he said bitingly. "See the ears and fluffy tail? Come a little closer and I'll show you my claws too." He settled back on the stones, picking the patch she'd previously been sitting on that were still warm from her body heat. He sniffed the air slightly. "You smell of magic but I really don't know what sort. Care to enlighten me?" ((Going to go to bed now. Stomach is attempting to rebel :( Don't let Sinclair hanging around hold Max and Abel up. I'll write him out of your way and off somewhere else come morning depending on how the rest of their conversation goes))

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:43:17 -0600

Her eyes pierced the black and white cat with a glare as she whispered, "I know you're a cat, but what's your true self?" Satomi said her knife solidify and as it glinted in the setting sun, Satomi felt the surf flow around her heels as she caused a second kinfe to appear in the air, "So you don't know what I am yet?" Satomi whispered, her face composed in a ice cold mask.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:14:04 -0600

Abel snarled, and it was probably the concern for alol of his worldly possessions that kept him from ditching this freak-show and getting the fuck out of town. Like, immediately. Seriously, he3 did not sign up for visual hallucinations when he skipped the fucking country. "Well I'm not a fucking rentboy," he squawked, jerking back, "So I'm not fucking you for room and fucking board that I don't want. I'm not going with you. Period. Give me my stuff and piss off."

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:25:08 -0600

Max paused, and turned his attention back to Abel. "Rentboy? I'm unaware of the meaning of that word. And my interest in you does not lie in sex. Hadn't even crossed my mind, frankly. You are interesting, and will provide ample entertainment, that is all." He tugged the bag again, Sinclair's existence forgotten again. "Now stop fighting and come along. At the very least, come look at the apartment. I shall even let you go if it is not to your liking, though I doubt that will be the case. Do you like burgers? I will feed you. You're scrawny, food would do you well."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:31:45 -0600

Lorg raised an eyebrow at the human. Larp? He had no idea what that was, and wasn't really sure he wanted to know. Lorg turned and started walking again. He'd lost the scent of brimstone, and he really needed to kill the dragon. The Dovakin sniffed at the air and walked away.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:35:12 -0600

"I'm not scrawny!" Even Abel looked a bit surprised at the volume of his outbrust. He blinked, rubbed a hand over his mouth, and glared at the lunatic. "I'm not scrawny," he repeated with a air of calm. "I'm not. And if it'll get you to stop creeping, fine. I'll look at your stupid flat -- but you aren't walking behind me, and I'm not eating anything I don't cook myself, should that happen." Because, he reasoned, there was nothing stopping him from locking himself in the loo for the night and leaving through the window the next morning before the creep could touch him. It'd save Abel having to check into a youth hostel, at any rate, and he sort of looked loaded -- what was a few dollars missing to a crep like that? Not much, he reasoned, and continued to eye the lunatic.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:43:41 -0600

"It would be ridiculous to walk behind you when you do not know the way," he pointed out dryly. "And fine. You may cook your own food." He waved it aside, as if it was no concern. "You may even order out. I have burgers, I believe, in my freezer. I don't know what else, I haven't looked lately." He cocked his head lightly, then turned and began walking again, pulling him along by the bag as before. "This way." He turned the corner and pointed. "This would be my building, I'm up near the top. Try not to trip on the stairs. I don't like the elevator, so we're using the stairs. Do you have any iron on you? If so, I advise you dispose of it immediately or I'll have someone else do it for you." He glanced over his shoulder at the boy again, green eyes narrowed thoughtfully. "You're not afraid, are you?" he added suspiciously. "Fear is boring and hardly pleasant." He pulled him up the door and reached to open it, not giving Abel time to respond to any of his questions.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:52:17 -0600

Abel allowed himself to get dragged in silence. His eye twitched slightly and a muscle jumped in his jaw when he clenched his teeth so hard they might crack. There was literally nothing worse than a john who liked to hear the sound of his own voice,Abel had realized that long ago. He's rather the lunatic just keep him mouth shut. It'd make him want to maim him less. He stared back at the man whose name he did not know, his expression quite blank and cow-like. What, it seemed to ask, did you want an answer to any of those questions, or do you just like shooting the shite? He blinked slowly, forced his jaw a little slack -- it made him look dim, which was the intention. Very few people wanted to talk with a dim teenager. Even more of a waste of time. The only thing tense about him right now was his hands, curled into white-knuckled claws, on the strap of his bag.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:45:59 -0600

((Lol, I'm not scrawny, I'm wirey.)) ((Reading Aerona and Mittens, all I could think of was Louis XV: Apres moi le deluge.)) @DM ((Either would work, Grace is fine if you need her to be more active...)) ((Good to know about under the pier, because when Tig goes to the beach she usually stays under the boardwalk or pier otherwise the sun burns her to a crisp.)) ((Oh dear, people who smell like they're burning...Teagan _likes_ bonfire smell. Would a 1/16the fey human be able to 'smell' these folk?)) And... ((Hmm, Tig and Mo are still slowing walking away from the pier hoping the lights will come back on soon. I thought there was someone else on the pier too and not on the beach. It's Friday, so the Secret door isn't open, so I don't know where Finn would be hanging out...a pub somewhere, probably. So I guess I'll wait to see who is around tomorrow.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:00:44 -0600

Lorg wandered around the city. He'd stopped searching for the dragon already. Useless task right now. The smell of brimstone was gone compleatly. Ah well. He needed to feed. Lorg looked around and saw a pair of boys, young, by the looks of them, enter a tall building. He quickly cast the Shroud of Sithis ((Invisibility spell)) and stalked them inside, following the two up the stairs. One boy said something about removing iron. Lorg thought it was a good thing all of his armor and weaponry at this point was made of tempered glass.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:04:48 -0600

((Tig probably wouldn't be able to smell anything like that I'm afraid. Mei is full werewolf and so has a ridiculously good sense of smell. At 1/16th fey Teagan is pretty much human aside from a couple of quirks. Unless Tim starts doing freaky demonic stuff, which might make his smell more noticeable. Or if he should wander into a church, but he's learnt not to do that by now :p )) @ Beach Mittens drew himself up proudly, as only a cat can, and announced: "I am Abezethibou of Tartarus. Look me up sometime, I'm really quite an impressive individual." Just not right now. "I might even be in the Bible." He'd never read it and so couldn't be sure. "And no...I'm not entirely sure. I'm very old and you're hardly unique so it might take me a while to work my way through all the bizarre freaks of nature you could be. No rush though. I simply wanted to know why you were staring at me and my colleague." --- @ Alleyway ((Heh, good job he likes to take the stairs considering the power's still out)) That same strange pressure on his mind, Sinclair could almost feel his eyes crossing at the force of it. He could feel the words burrowing into his mind, trying to reorder his thoughts into obeying. His own will fought back, refusing to do what the thing commanded. The result wasn't particularly useful to him though. He successfully avoided putting the weapon away but instead ended up chucking it halfway across the alley. There was little point pulling out his other gun since it wasn't presently loaded. And by the time he'd moved to collect the thing, feeling distinctly stupid, the pair had come to some sort of agreement. He didn't like the sound of it, but the boy wasn't a child. If he agreed to stay there wasn't a great deal Sinclair could do about it. He glowered after them before picking a different alley to wander down away from them. He might have worked out he was in an English speaking country from that little exchange but he still had no idea which one, let alone where in that country he was. Perhaps he should have asked before they disappeared...oh well.

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maskedwritr — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:46:18 -0600

"I suppose you are." Satomi said monotonously her eyes flashing ice blue behind her glasses as she glared at the cat, "To enlighten you I am of the fae." Satomi stated allowing her glamour to slip for a brief second before fixing it back in place. An eyebrow raised at the question, "Why shouldn't I stare at you, you are not of this world and you have the feel of evil about you." She said this with a level voice, the knife glinting in the fading sunlight.

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Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:20:16 -0600

@DM/Masked Aerona had been watching the two speak for a moment and then came over, seeing the weapons flash slightly in the light. She felt a certain apprehension and worried her lip, reaching them just in time to hear "...you have the feel of evil about you." She felt dismayed, she really -had- been trying to be good for the past few hundreds of years... yet still people got the sense of a bad aura? She glanced down at Mittens and back at the woman. "How do you do? I am Aerona." She decided an introduction would be best. @Saf Sophia's eyes widened at the thought of having to go some place where there were even more fae. "N-n-no!" She squeaked loudly and darted out and away from the pier. Had she come close to being caught again? She shivered miserably. "I d-don't want t-to go b-b-back." She shook her head.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:30:27 -0600

"Ok, fair enough The half fae that own the bar are only half mine, and some of them started out fully human, got kidnapped and ran away, so it IS a safe haven for that kind of people. Rochelle wouldn't hear of anyone hurting people in her bar... but I suppose even the seelie are a massive fu-frigging headtrip and ahh not necessarily what you want to see right now. You really can't just go wondering around brighton soaking wet though. You've got to go somewhere...get out of the cold. You got any friends here?" Probably not if she knew about fairies and she looked like that she'd probably been on the wrong side of them, like as not she knew nobody nobody at all. This really wasn't her problem. She really shouldn't take in someone that might have anyone, just anyone anyone at all after her. That mght make it the packs problem too and Donald wouldn't thank her for it, she should really just make sure Rochelle found her at some point, she had more the right kind of experience here, or Connor who'd been through this shit himself. What did she know about this? "You could come home and borrow our bathtub" Mei said, meaning to be kind. She'd taught her to be kind, oh dear lord some days she wished she hadn't she'd have done better to teach her to be a mean old bitch like her, the world wasn't kind to the kind but she just couldn't crush that sweetness in the girl, "It's a nice bathtub."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:32:14 -0600

"You could," Jessica said. "We've no room for you to stay a long time, but you could come take a bath, change your clothes, get warm. I've got some iron you can have." Maybe she could even spare a little money. She couldn't stay long term, absolutely not. Not in the same house as her daughter, not if a Fae might be looking at her, but she could at least set hr on her way with something.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:36:22 -0600

(((and because DM said it I had to add this one thing, curse you lack of edit button, curse you!) "You should definately come use our bathtub" Mei nodded enthusiastically "We have a ducky that looks like a spaceman."

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tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:57:03 -0600

Geoffrey had taken to walking the beach. He saw the little girl drop something--he wasn't sure what--and had gone to pick it up. He scooped up the item--a rubber duck--and walked to find the pair. He saw them speaking with a girl. "Excuse me," he said in a soft, strangely accented voice.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:00:49 -0600

@ Beach Mittens blinked. "Oh...fey. Right. Lovely." He licked the fur on one paw, completely ignoring the knife. His fur tasted distressingly of salt but reacting to this would damage the nonchalant aura he was going for right now. "Well now that's sorted I'm perfectly happy to leave you alone. You're probably nothing to do with the trouble I've been dropped in today." Which meant he had yet more investigating to do. Which probably meant telling Timothy which would then mean explaining to Timothy why it was a Big Deal, which was always a headache. For all that he was a fairly bright kid he could be exceptionally dense sometimes. "Because staring is rude," Mittens said. "If you were that curious why not come over and ask? Although it's hardly surprising I feel 'evil' to you. By conventional standards I probably am." --- @ Campus Grace was talking to a couple of the students, trying to get some information out of them about what had happened. Annoyingly the power here seemed to be out as well, which might damage their chances of being able to see anything on the CCTV they had here. Even more annoyingly a few of the students (mostly ones that smelt fairly strongly of weed) were clumsily trying to hit on her. And with her superior not too far away she couldn't tell them to rack off the way she really wanted to. Especially when she still wanted answers out of them.

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BakuraBox — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:06:32 -0600

((He hates elevators because they're too small and he doesn't want to chance that there's iron in the makeup of them. xD As it is, he walks directly in the center of the stairs to avoid the handrails for the same reason. He's considering learning to fly to his apartment, really. xD)) Max continued to pull him along by the straps as he started up the stairs. "Don't trip," he ordered. ""I don't know human first aid, so you'd be treating yourself probably. Do you want burgers or do you intend to order out? I suppose I can pay for it," he explained, like it was some sort of grand gesture that he would do so. He glanced back to make sure he was still on his feet when they finally reached his floor, and then moved to a door, unlocking it. "This is my apartment. Flat. Whatever the stupid slang for it is, in this country."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:33:52 -0600

"Right, Well look, the second the power comes up save the tapes for the last 24 hours all right and ring us to let us know their available." Juma was saying to the head of security. "I mean time the uniform are securing the scene and they'll be people up there at all times, but do what you can to stop people wondering up their and giving them shit all right? " He nodded thougthfully at the other man's response "Yes well I'm sure we all want this cleared up as quickly as possible i know I do. ...Any information on the case will be released through the usual channels but we don't want the press trampling over the scene any more than you do, so they won't be getting anything from us." Not that he could guarantee the same for the students here tonight who were likely to blab on University Radio Falmer if nowhere else, although he'd TRY telling them to keep their mouths shut. " He took a few more statements then wandered over to grace, who was being gawped at by a student who would have been so far below her league even if she wasn't a lesbian that it was really ather amusing. Not amusing for Grace in all probability. "Excuse me, is my subordinate here to work or for your amusement?" he asked "ermm" Really a student even one who'd clearly been smoking something out to be able to get amusement it wasn't that big a word or anything. Maybe he was still high and he thought he had a second head or something. "To work Kiddo, Save it for the union bar ok?" he gave him a friendly wink which made the student relax a little . "ermm right, sorry...maybe when you're not you know working," The student grinned bashfully and decided to make an exit before Juma said anything that made him look any stupider, probably a wise move . "You about done with the statements?" Juma turned to Grace "I want to go take a look at the scene."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:38:27 -0600

Lorg slipped through the door as soon as one of the boys opened it. All either of them might notice would be a slight breeze, and only then if they were very perceptive.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:51:19 -0600

Jess whirled at the sound, probably a little too quickly, but it was only the man who'd been watching them play about earlier, the one who according to Mei smelt nice and normal, which was a relief right about now. "Hello?" she said then saw what he was holding, another of Mei's collection of novelty rubber ducks.How much of that had he heard though? None of the weird bits, she hoped. "Oh, thanks! Thanks a lot," she smiled, holding out her hand for the duck. Mei, happily oblivious as always turned to Sophia "And we've got one that looks like a little devil, see!" she pointed at the rubber duck Geoffrey held.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:54:27 -0600

Geoffrey knelt down by Mei and handed her the duck. "I think you dropped this. I think it wanted to go for a swim." He smiled, a warm, inviting expression, that of someone who cared deeply for others. "Keep your eye on these ducks, they're rather tricksy things." ((I love novelty rubber ducks))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:18:54 -0600

@ Campus Grace gave the student a thin smile. "Maybe." In your dreams kid. Although hopefully not literally. She flashed Juma a considerably warmer smile. "Yep, all done here. Ready to go off into the woods." Away from all these poxy students. "Not complete statements from anyone but enough to know who we need to talk to when we've got more people around." They followed the directions provided by the campus security, up into the woods. After a little way it was easy enough to see where they had to go. The forensic team had managed to get hold of some generators for their lights so they could see while they worked. "Okay...what the hell?" Grace said when she properly saw what the place looked like. At first she'd just assumed it was a small clearing in the trees. It wasn't that dense a forest after all. But then she saw that one of the trees was only half there. The other half was just...missing. It had been split clean down the middle. On the ground, stretching out to this tree, was a perfect circle of scorched ground, strange symbols marked in black soot formed a five pointed star in the middle of it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:20:47 -0600

"Oh not this shit again," Juma muttered when he saw the symbol carved on the ground. Why couldn't his instincts about things being trouble be wrong just once? He was going to have to wade in supernatural shit up to his ankles again wasn't he? He reached automatically for the star of david, muttered a brief curse in yiddish when it wasn't there . He pulled on gloves and walked carefully picking his way across the scene and treading carefully to avoid displacing any soot or stepping on evidence. He checked with Thompson and the forensics team to make sure everything was under control and someone was photographing both the rune and the rest of the scene before heading towards the tree, he looked in vain for any sign of saw marks or anything natural that might have got rid of the other half of the tree, but no such luck. He absolutely hated cases where he didn't know what had happened. Cases where he knew what had happened but not who did it? Those were just fine. Cases where he wasn't sure what crime he was actually going to charge someone with if he caught them? Those were annoying. Of course there was the man in hospital, but he could have just as easily have been the one who did...whatever this was, as someone injured by whoever had done...whatever this was. Did ithave something to do with the power cut? He wondered to himself. He was a cop after all, he didn't have much love of coincidences. Now, he reckoned was the time to do what his old DCI used to,so he turned to Grace and said "All right then, don't stand there with your mouth open, pop quiz constable, what should we be doing right now?" Let's see if she missed anything or better yet came up with something he'd missed in the mental checklist he was preparing. @ Beneath brighton pier " I want to go to a swim but mummy says it's a bit late," Mei grinned taking the duck from Geoffrey, Jess smiled back at him, her hairs going down, he looked harmless enough, quite pleasant. She really had to stop expecting every person in the world to be some weirdo who might take Mei off her, but that was what it was to be a parent she was afraid all the time, in a way she was never afraid of anything else. "They are trisky, real ducks are harder...they fly off."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:24:08 -0600

"Ignorant Yank," Abel muttered under his breath as he broke his own rule and shouldered past Max into the flat. He looked around critically, his mouth in a line. He set his stuff down in the middle of the living room and loped off towards the kitchen to judge what was edible and what was not. He scoffed in the back of his throat and started to toss anything that was odd-smelling, furry, or slimy. He was left with a tub of chocolate ice-cream, salad dressing, one sad looking tomato, cheese, and two pounds of frozen hamburger. "....This is pathetic," he declared, and moved onto the cupboards and cabinets. Maybe there was pasta hiding somwhere, or a tin of soup or tomatosauce.

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tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:35:04 -0600

@Beneath the pier Geoffrey smiled and nodded. "They are. But they usually come back. Even when they fly away, they have their preferred ponds and resting places." His smile was sad, contemplative. He rose, and introduced himself to Jessica, not wishing to frighten her. "My name's Geoffrey."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:50:59 -0600

@ Campus Grace snapped her mouth shut and seriously thought about Juma's question, clamping down on her initial mental response of 'fucked if I know'. She might not be planning on going for a promotion any time soon but it was always a good idea to at least try and show willing to the man in charge of things. "Personally?" she cast an eye over the symbol on the floor again before watching one of the forensic team picking up a wicked looking knife, putting it in a bag. "Since the general work for taking care of the scene and all the evidence is well under way...I'd probably try getting hold of someone who might know what on earth this thing is. A linguist who might recognise the language those symbols are from and what they say. And someone who might know what the hell this circle might be about in the first place...but I've not got the faintest clue what sort of job title I'd be looking for there." Something related to that sparked in her memory. "Juma...wasn't there a case a little while back with stuff like this? Some weirdo running around pretending to play with the occult? I think along with the linguist I'd dig out the people who helped provide information for that case and see if this is related to it in any way."

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Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:51:00 -0600

@Beneath the Pier Sophia looked up at the word bathtub. "A b-bathtub? Really?" Myyr had had a bathtub... Myyr let her use it sometimes when Wayland made her go over there. She would like a bath... very much. She shied back when the man came closer, they were talking about... rubber ducks? She knew what ducks were but not rubber. "Um... wh-what's that? Rubber?" She asked timidly, curiousity getting the better of her. @Beach Aerona looked fomr the caat to the girl and back again. She got the sense that this girl didn't like them very much at all. "Fae? What is fae?" Maybe it was something mortal she didn't understand.

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BakuraBox — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:01:32 -0600

Max sat down and watched the blond bustle around. He snorted when Abel declared his food store as pathetic, and shrugged. "It's not like I eat here most of the time. I apologize if my food isn't up to your standards," he added, half snide. "There is a handful of take out pamphlets in the drawer by the sink as well." He turned his attention to the phone. "Assuming the telephone works, at least."

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tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:10:37 -0600

Geoffrey nodded. "It's plastic, a plastic duck. See?" He pointed to the devil duck Mei held in her hands. "A toy. Don't they have rubber ducks where you're from?" Despite his age, he thought that rubber ducks were one of the greatest things invented.

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Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:17:49 -0600

@ DM And he was beginning to understand why his old DCI had done the exact same thing, nothing he hadn't thought of there, but hearing it run back to him made him check over it himself to see if he was missing something and gave him reassurance that he hadn't and if she had come up with something new? Well nobody said you had to admit you hadn't thought of it. "Very good Ransom, and extra points for remembering linked cases. As a matter of fact I was on that one, last year, hence the ' not this again' comment. I'm trying to remember the linguist we used for that but I think they left town so I want you to dig me one up. The other titles your looking for are "theologist" or "occultist" and fortunatelly we have a consultant who covers both and who we used for that case, and I know she's still around... so i'll handle getting her on board" He walked over to Alan and the head of Forensics, ran through a few questions and issued a few instructions to handle the last of the details on keeping the scene intact, then reached for his cell phone and started dialling the consultants number.

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Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:21:34 -0600

@Beach Sophia shook her head slowly. "J-just the n-n-normal ones." She said, still looking quite timid, though she gave the devil rubber duck again. She liked the rubber duck, she thought... she didn't much care for real birds or anything though. "What are th-they f-for?"

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Safriadragonfan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:22:42 -0600

@ Beach "Jessica," Jessica relaxed a notch and told herself not to be so paranoid, holding out her hand and shaking Geoffrey's. She turned back to Sophia when she asked what Rubber was...just how long had she been in Faerie, and if she'd been in their that long why didn't she look more like...well, connor. "This is rubber," Mei said, happily trotting over with her little duck "See, rubber ducky." "You're welcome to a bed for the night if you need it and you can try and see your way clear in the morning with some dry clothes, but that's about all I can spare really." Jess said apologetically. "poor girl's had all her stuff stolen," she said to Geoffrey, signalling Mei not to say anything and hoping Sophia got the same message. She didn't think they ought to talk about Fae in front of this man they'd never met.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:24:40 -0600

"I'm sorry I don't survive on mouldy fucking food then," Abel snapped, hackles raised. He binned boxes of stale cereal and furry oatmeal, tins of meat and soup that had expired in the 80s. "This is disgusting," he spat, and slammed out of the cabinet doors shut. "You have cobwebs in your pantry. Thisis a fucking death trap, and I'm not staying -- especially if you're going to be a condesending prick." He stalked out of the kitchen and swept up his bag with a grunt as he pased. "Yeah, it's been fun but I've seen enough."

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:46:36 -0600

Eyes still flashing a hesistant ice blue, Satomi spoke quietly in reply to the cat, "I stare because in my lifetime, I have never seen a talking cat and that it is natural to stare at unnatural things. So you are evil, my feeling were right." Turning to the Aerona, Satomi answered her question, "I am a fae though I suppose your talking cat here might be a better help than I am of explaining."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:56:50 -0600

@DM/Masked Aerona tilted her head at Satomi, then at Mittens. "Have you given this young lady the impression that you belong to me?" She asked him curiously. It seemed like a strange thing to do... perhaps he had some sort of plan up his... fur. "Have a you really never met a talking cat?" She asked again. Then she thought that was a silly question, she hadn't met a talking cat either... not that she could remember.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:29:41 -0600

@Beach "Poor girl," said Geoffrey. "If you need anything, do let me know." He reached into his pocket, taking out his wallet. He handed Sophia a twenty pound note, thought better of it, and gave her a second. "For food or bus fare."

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Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:41:52 -0600

@Beach Paper... Sophia took what Geoffrey was offering and looked at them closely, she hadn't seen something like this before. "Two... Oh." She read, glad she remembered her numbers and letters. "Um... th-thank you." She hadn't been given anything except the simple white shift she was wearing. Myyr gave it to her before... well... Sophia didn't like to think about it. "A bus? L-like a sc-school bus?" Food sounded better to her than a ride on a school bus. "This... p-paper can g-get f-f-food?"

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tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:45:54 -0600

@Beach Geoffrey blinked. This girl didn't have any idea what money was. "You aren't from around here, are you?" His own accent marked him as a stranger, but just the same. "That's money. You buy food with it. Clothes. Are you okay? Maybe we should take you to hospital."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:01:39 -0600

@Beach Around here? Sophia looked up and down the beach which was starting to get darker by the moment. "N-no... I don't th-think so." She murmured, shivering as a breeze came off the ocean carrying the last of the scents of the food from the dark pier. Her stomach gave a loud growl, much to her embarrassment. "What's a h-hopsital? Is it-" Just then, something swooped over their heads, she squeaked again and cowered away, then noticed it was just another bird. Might she really be away from Wayland for good?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:02:19 -0600

((dang it! I meant just the first bit to be italicized... oh well. :P I hate this keyboard.))

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tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:15:18 -0600

@Beach "It's just a bird," said Geoffrey. He looked at her, and then to Jessica. "I don't think she's well, she needs a doctor or something," he whispered. "I have a car parked just up there, if you'd like me to take her to hospital."

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Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:36:02 -0600

@Beach "Oh... y-yes. I... I know. I was j-just... ex-expecting s-s-someone else. W-Wayland has w-wings too you s-see..." Sophia murmured, blushing. Hop...sital? there was that word again... Sophia didn't know what that meant. She thought he was talking about her though.

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tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:42:53 -0600

@ "Wayland? Who's Wayland?" he asked. A pet, what? But if it were a pet...Geoffrey couldn't quite process it. He had a headache. It was a strange night, an eerie night.

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Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:14:11 -0600

@Beach Sophia's eyes widened, could it really be possible? He didn't know of Wayland? "D-d'you mean t-to say you haven't hea-heard of him?" She looked from him to Jessica to Mei with astonished wonder. "He- but... but he..." She stammered. Where had she come to that people didn't know Wayland? "He's really b-b-b-bad.." she whispered, looking terrified for even saying it.

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tweedandtea — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:28:03 -0600

@Beach Geoffrey took off his jumper and offered it to the girl. She was shivering, bless her. So this Wayland fellow was bad news, and he was winged. Assumeably not a pet. "No, I haven't. But...can you tell me about him? Why is he bad?" He noticed her terrified look. "He isn't here now. It's just us, just the four of us."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:46:05 -0600

@Beach Sophia visibly relaxed when the man said he hadn't heard of Wayland. She breathed easier, her shivering eased slightly, though she still accepted the jumper, murmuring thanks. She struggled into it, wiggling her arms through the sleeves, which went way past her hands. "H-he..." She had to think about it. "M-Myyr said he's b-bad." She started out saying. She had to think for another long while. "H-he... he's m-m-mean." She added. "He... hurts people."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:17:14 -0600

Lorg watched as the boy insaulted his host, and threw out most of his food. When the boy headed towards the door, Lorg stepped in front of him and called off the Shroud of Sithis, appearing before the boy in an instant. "Is that really how you act as a guest in this man's house?" He almost snarled.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:14:11 -0600

Max opened his mouth to respond to Abel, before it turned into a snarl as he realized that someone had come into his apartment without his consent. "Who the fuck are you, how did you get in, why are you even here?" he snarled, all of his attention focused on the man. "And get the fuck out, while you're at it," he added, narrowing his eyes and pointing to the door. "I can handle my guests on my own, and I don't even fucking know you. Who do you think you are, breaking into someone else's home?" He sneered at him as he took in his appearance. ((XD;; Max is not pleased someone slipped by his senses at all.))

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Darkfeather21 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:22:26 -0600

Lorg sighed and ran his hand through his hair, revealing his pointed ears. "In order of askence, I am Lorg Rathil, Dovakin. I slipped in when you opened the door earlier, and I was here to feed, but I'm not sure if that is a good idea anymore." He placed his hand on the hilt of his glass sword at his hip. If things got rough, Lorg wanted to be able to get to his weapon in a hurry. "And I didn't break in. Technically, you let me in."

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:26:42 -0600

"I did no such thing," he snapped. "Even if you followed me inside when I opened the door, you do not have my consent to be in my home and therefore have broken in." He continued to point to the door. "Leave now." He didn't waver, waiting impatiently for the intruder to get out of his home so that he could find Abel something to eat.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:41:12 -0600

"If you're really that anxious to have me out, I don't see why you don't just call for the guards." But the Dovakin turned and stepped into the hallway, glass armor clinking. He cast the Shroud of Sithis again and dissappeared from view.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:53:16 -0600

Max half snarled and slammed the door shut loudly. He turned to Abel, still muttering rather viciously under his breath for a moment, then shook himself out of it. "I will take you out to eat," he said finally. "Seeing as I do not have anything edible, apparently. Later, you may go shopping."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:57:47 -0600

Darkfeather made his way back down the stairs and left the building, calling of the shroud as he exited. He walked down the center of the path in between the buildings, wondering why no one was over here. He was definitely getting some funny looks for it.

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Contemptus — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:01:45 -0600

Abel raised his eyebrows and kept his arms crossed firmly over his stomach -- it looked less casual than he might have liked. Less firm and more I-need-a-hug. But he kept himself tense and ready to bolt, and he hoped that if he was going to be gutted, his arms would slow things down a bit at least. He glowered at Max, "You said that I'd be allowed to leave if I didn't like your place. Well I don't like it, and I don't like your creepy friend, so I'd like to go. Now. Without a fuss, because, man, this has beena fucked up hour, and I'd rather not have to fight you to get to the door."

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:14:48 -0600

"He was not my 'friend'," he sneered back. "I don't even know who the hell he was. And I offered to feed you. I have not fed you yet," he added. "Therefore, I am going to feed you. It's a simple concept, yes? I buy you some nice food, you eat it. I know a place with decent food. I hear they serve apple crumble for dessert, though I've never tried it, so I do not understand the appeal."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:18:55 -0600

Abel frowned and brushed his hair out of his eyes. He seemed to uncurl slightly, if only to adjust the way his bag was sitting between his shoulders. There was a pause before, "Fine," he muttered, "One meal. And hour. And then we never see each-other ever again -- and I can eat as much as I want. No strings?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:50:37 -0600

@The Secret Door Finnegan sat at a table in the rear of the place with his back against the wall. A half-full bottle of whiskey and a glass sat in front of him. He was writing something in a notebook, scratching lines out and writing again. @Near the Pier Teagan and Mo wandered around trying to decide if they should bag it and head back to the place they were staying or if they should tough it out longer and see if the lights came back on. Teagan pulled out a map, "if we go this way, we can at least look at a few more places, they might even be open. Then we can work our way to the bus stop and go home, I guess."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:18:04 -0600

@ Saf/Jeze "Oh, extra points," Grace said with a smile. "Does that mean if I get enough points I get a prize?" She whipped out her notebook and jotted down what Juma was saying. Not that she was likely to forget a request for an occultist but it would be good to have it down on paper for when she was convinced she'd just imagined this whole thing. As for the linguist asking around at the University would probably be her best bet. She could investigate their profiles on the Uni website when they got back to the station. She sighed and pulled her phone out, Best let her guests know she wouldn't be coming home any time soon. Hey girls she typed Will be back V late so don't wait up. Although knowing Mo they'd probably get back in roughly the same sort of time anyway...providing the lights were on at least. Clubs and such were a bit dull when you couldn't get the sound system working. --- @ Beach "Not intentionally I assure you," Mittens said, ears flicking back at the implication. His fur stood on end as there was a loud cheer from the crowd milling by the pier as the lights flared back into life. "But speaking of such things I should track down the human I technically belong to right now. With those lights back on who knows where he might end up and I really need to talk to him." He started trotting off before turning back to Aerona. "Want to come along? Meet the new boss? He might be more inclined to do his damn job if he associates it with a pretty face." Kid was more than hormonal enough to let that affect his judgement. --- @ Anyone Sinclair was quite convinced he was in England now. He'd found a much busier street than the one he'd popped into, full of people talking in English with unmistakeably English accents. He couldn't place the accent to anything closer than 'somewhere southern' but at least he was confident of the country now. Everyone was wearing the same strange clothing as the Irish man and his 'companion', causing Sinclair to start chalking it up to just different fashions...but the scandalous way the women were dressed gave him quite a shock! He thought Queen Victoria was meant to be quite severe when it came to that sort of thing. Apparently her reputation for conservative dress was very much exaggerated. He almost jumped clean out of his skin when the street suddenly flared into light, bursting out from every building and street light he could see. No one else seemed remotely bothered by this and his own reaction earned him more than a few strange looks.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:10:27 -0600

@DM Teagan's and Mo's phones played the text message ringtones at the same time. A message from Grace. "I expect the police will be very busy tonight with the power out, although surprisingly people are being well behaved." Mo said. Then the lights flared to life again. "Hooray. We can check out more venues," Teagan said. But Mo was busy looking at a guy done up in full Victorian regalia. She _loved_ this place and since they got here to Brighton, she was considering moving here for good. Not that she could mention it to Tig. The biggest bummer was crashing at a police officer's flat, but they had their own room, so that was a plus. Not that Mo was interested in doing anything that would get her deported, or worse. "Dude," Mo said to the guy ((Sinclair)), "great outfit." Mo herself was wearing jodhpurs and a vest with no shirt under it exposing the tattoos on her arms. She had on a riding hat. Teagan for her part had on a wispy dress with a hanky hem that made her look very ethereal. her red hair was pulled into a slightly messy up-do.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:46:23 -0600

@ Jeze Not being familiar with the word 'dude' it took Sinclair a moment to realise Mo was talking to him. Must be a slang term he wasn't familiar with. "I...erm...thank you?" He wished he could say the same for her (his? He wasn't entirely sure but the voice sounded feminine) attire. It did look cool in the warm night air, but so much skin on show... "I don't suppose you'd be able to tell me what city this is...and what in God's name is that!" the last part lapsed back into very startled French as a heavy, metal monstrosity with a voice like thunder and burning white eyes tore past them, going down the middle of the street. Mon Dieu there were people inside it!

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:07:26 -0600

@DM How could he not know what city he was in? Must be doing street theatre or something. Okay, Mo could play along. She tried not to laugh when the ((doubledecker?)) rode by. Struggling to play along with this guy, who probably was some starving actor they'd have to tip at the end of his little performance. "That's a bus, public transportation. And you're in Brighton, in England. So you're from...France?" Teagan looked from the man to Mo and caught on that this must be some sort of game. Because they guy didn't seem crazy. You ran into all kinds here in Brighton. That's what made it so much fun.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:51:07 -0600

((Argh! I've been at work less than an hour and already there's bugger all to bloody do!)) @ Jeze ((I was picturing just a regular car driving by, but a bus works just as well. A double decker would really freak him out :p )) "A...bus?" It was something that carried people around the city? "Like a coach?" he asked apprehensively. Bigger than any coach he'd ever seen. Noisier too. And where were the horses? "But Brighton? Thank you. That's very helpful." He thought he knew where that was. Right on the coast. Should make getting back to the mainland easier if he needed to, thank the Lord for small favours. "And yes...I'm from France." Originally at least.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:02:54 -0600

@Beach "Has he hurt you?" asked Geoffrey. His face fell, becoming serious, concerned for the welfare of this girl he had just met. She clearly was not well, perhaps she was the victim of an abusive relationship--maybe this Wayland fellow had kept her sequestered away, never letting her interact with other people.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:44:39 -0600

"Yes. As you say, 'no strings'," he responded, opening the door and looking around suspiciously. Once satisfied that no one was waiting to sneak into his apartment again, he motioned. Then blinked as the lights turned back on. "Ah. Power's back. Excellent. Now you have choices. Take out here, or eat out at a decent restaurant. I'll pay, as stated." He cocked his head, frowning as he heard the gears of the elevator go back to work. "Damn. I was hoping that monstrosity of metal had broken--No matter. Stairs it is."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:54:45 -0600

Lorg lept out of the way as a large metal beast tried to run him over, drawing his sword, and crashing into the crowd on the side of the path, most notably a man in a large black coat and hat.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:25:12 -0600

Abel shifted slightly, perking as the lights flickered backon. He relaxed slightly and wet his lips, "A restaurant -- a proper one. That's what I want. A crowded one," he added as his self-preservation instincts kicked in. He shifted the bag on his shoulder, grimacing at the weight of it, and headed for the stairs as quickly as he could, "Come on then, I'm hungry and this day needs to be over, like, yesterday."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:30:29 -0600

((BTW, DM, I jumped into Sinclair.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:40:03 -0600

"Yes, fine." He started down the stairs just behind Abel, glancing around as he went. He was probably being paranoid, but he didn't want anyone sneaking up on him or into his apartment while he was gone. "Do you know which restaurant, or am I choosing?" he asked, as they reached the final floor and moved out onto the sidewalk. "Because I know a lot of places."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:10:58 -0600

Abel watched blankly as the same man from earlier played chicken witha passing car -- and lost spectacularly. His eyebrows were in danger of getting lost in his hair, that's how high they were raised. It has been a hell of a weird day, he thought, and glanced back at Max. "You pick a place," hesaid, off hand, "I just got into town a few hours ago. I've never been here before. Thatplace -- the one with the apple crumble. Take me there, please."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:23:19 -0600

Lorg turned and saw the two from inside the mans house earlier. He followed the two, ignoring the strange looks he was getting from other people.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:50:10 -0600

((I know how you feel DM! Stupid Mondays... Time for a quick post...)) @Tweed/Saf Sophia heard the man's tone and glanced up at him before looking down again quickly and fidgeting, twisting the hem of her dress in her fingers. "s-sometimes." She murmued, almost afraid of saying something bad about Wayland even though this man said he wasn't here. She was afraid he might find out somehow. The lights came back on and she couldn't help gasping in wonder at how it all lit up again. There were audible cheers all around. @DM/Masked Aerona looked at the girl again and glanced at Mittens. "I shall be happy to accompany you..." The new boss? She hadn't heard anything about that. "...though I do not know what you mean... the new boss." She admitted, ready to follow him wherever he was going to lead. @The Secret Door Wayland was disgruntled. He was supposed to be following the White Horse and he wanted to put his priorities straight... but he wanted... no, NEEDED was more apt of a description, to find that blasted human girl. Needed to. He had followed the White Horse and attempted to use the branding marks to find her but there was something different aobut the magic here. He couldn't sense where she was and so wandered until he was hungry and thirsty... maybe popping into a tavern would provide someone who might have an answer or have seen someone with her likeness anywhere. He entered a promising looking establishment and went to the bar, requesting a pint of their local ale.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:33:45 -0600

He nodded and started off. "Alright. You like apple crumble, then?" he asked conversationally. Not that he cared or anything, but it gave him a bit of bribery to keep him around longer if the kid liked the stuff. He continued through the people on the sidewalk, weaving gracefully between warm bodies and sidestepping bags and other items being held. He turned his head slightly, to keep Abel in his view.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:40:11 -0600

Lorg weved through the crowd, displaying more grace than any normal person in his armor would have, still following the two. ((Bakura, stop replying to posts and post on the bottom. It gets confusing.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:45:42 -0600

((You can set to view the thread as FLAT rather than nested and then posts will show in chronological order. But it's best to just post at the bottom rather than reply, because if we ever get our edit button back if you reply to a post the person won't be able to edit it.)) @DM ((I thought from your description it seemed bigger than a car, so I went with doubledecker. I do hope they have them in Brighton.)) Mo looked at Teagan and smiled. This guy was very believable. "Right, like a coach." She nodded. "I'm Mo and this is my cousin Tig. I guess you can tell we're from the US." "We're on special work Visas so we can get jobs as musicians. What brings you here?" Teagan asked. The guy's English was good, which was a benefit because the girls' only had highschool french and so would only be able to conjugate irregular verbs at him or talk about going to the cinema or order from a French menu. Another strangely dressed guy bumped into Victorian Frenchman and moved on. Mo was feeling positively mundane in this place. Cool. She'd had to step up her wardrobe. @Secret Door Finn looked up when the door to the pub opened. It was someone he didn't recognize. No matter. There were new people popping in from time to time. He refilled his glass.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:34:04 -0600

Abel went without inhuman grace -- he was bumped into and shoved, his feet trod on and his bag nearly yanked from his shoulder on more than one occasaion. His eyes were narrowed and his mood fouled with every tussle and oversight. "It's fine," he said without much thought -- though his tone was more than a little bitter than he would have liked. His mum had made awesome apple crumble, crunchy and tart, just the way he liked it. He doubted this mom-n-pop's would live up to it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:38:18 -0600

@ Jeze/Darkfeather Sinclair was trying to compose himself, straightening his hat and cloak from the 'bus' thundering past (and avoiding looking in the direction it had come from in case there were any more of them) when something heavy barged into him, almost knocking him clean off his feet. He spun almost on the spot, using the movement to regain his balance and looked the man that bumped him up and down. He was dressed even more strangely than everyone else around here...and was quite heavily armed, unlike everyone else. Yet the townsfolk here really didn't seem concerned with it. "You okay there, friend?" he asked, but the strange man had already moved on, following the young man and the creature Sinclair had apprehended in the alleyway earlier. Sinclair turned back to the two women, ignoring the strange pair. "The US?" he asked, blinking. "What's that?" Clearly a reference to a place...but what place? Somewhere in England? Somewhere else? And for that matter what was a Visa. "My name is Sinclair." --- @ Beach "You don't know what I mean by a new boss?" Mittens said in clear disbelief. "Good grief, you have been out of the loop. I was trapped in a pillar of water under the dead sea and I still felt the ripples from it!" He shook his head and started making his way towards Tim. "Due to a rather foolish deal that went through about four-five months ago, Lucifer is no longer in charge of Hell. His dominion has been given over to a young mortal for the time being. And it's my job to try and make sure he doesn't mess up too much."

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:55:53 -0600

Blinking as they spoke, Satomi realized with a start what they spoke of, "Are you..." She spoke slowly with a dawning horror at where they came from as she whispered her suspicions, "...fallen angels?" Her voice was just as quiet as she shied away once more.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:59:24 -0600

@Beach "Have you reported it to the police?" asked Geoffrey. The poor girl, it was no wonder that she was scared out of her mind of this Wayland fellow. "Have you run away from him?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:12:27 -0600

((Oh, just to point out LS, as far as Saf thought the conversation with Sophia was happening pretty much right outside the entrance to Secret Door, making it a bit tricky for Wayland to go in. Unless you're talking about a different pub with him)) @ Beach Mittens stopped and looked back at Satomi. "Shame we're not actually on the pier because otherwise you'd win a prize for that," he said. Although he'd really thought saying he was from Tartarus would have given it away. "A pair of Fallen Angels, demons from the depths of the Pit itself, on our way to liaise with the Devil. Try not to get in the way."

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:18:48 -0600

Eyes widening, Satomi blinked. It took a lot to surprise her these days but this was one of them , "What do you plan to do?" Her eyes cautiously gazing out as she spoke, "I don't plan to get in the way though if you plan to cause chaos, I assure you, I'll try and stop you."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:34:09 -0600

@ Beach I plan on getting Tim's attention and making him focus on that surge of demonic power that swept over the city less than an hour ago, forming a counter to whatever might have caused it and then doing something about it Mittens thought. What I'll probably end up doing is sitting around bored and stressed out of my skull while he fucks about watching crappy TV all evening with his sister. But outloud all he said was: "None of your business, young lady. And I'm afraid I can't guarantee I won't cause chaos. Largely because the exact definition of chaos is so subjective. What you deem chaos I might consider just a Friday Night on the town. And vice versa I suppose..."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:53:18 -0600

((LOl poor beleaquered mittens)) @ Nagats/ Tweed "Definately sounds like the kind of man to stay away from. Right you might need to go to hospital, but I think the first thing we should do is get you some food and some warm clothes then we can look at that." And hopefully she could corner her in the restaurant or changing rooms quickly enough to tell her not to menton the faeries in the hospital unless she wanted to wind up in the mental ward for the rest of her life, although she might want to, she might think that was safe. That however, wasn't her call to make. ((Having issues with whether to split rochelle into two charas or reply with her so will do somethin wth the secret door in the morning...juma too, night all!)

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:23:05 -0600

@DM "The United States of America." Teagan said. "I _know_ there was a United States when Victoria was queen," although she had no idea what was going on in France at the time. She would have to watch her slang if she wanted to play the game, she supposed. "Hello, Sinclair. Nice to meet you." Mo held out her hand to shake. @Secret Door ((I hadn't realized Jess, Mei, etc were talking right outside the door to the pub either, I thought they were at the pier but not necessarily right at the door to the pub. Although I expect that would still put him close enough to see Sophia...so dunno what we do now.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:28:47 -0600

((damn my post was eaten)) Geoffrey nodded. The poor girl needed to eat something, and to get some warm clothes. "My car isn't too far from here, if you'd like me to drive." He looked to the girl. "What would you like to eat?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:42:36 -0600

Nodding, Satomi spoke, her voice the slightly less agitated, "I suppose you're right but what I speak of is a more large scale sort of thing. I suppose an example would be destroying the majority of mankind. But still," She shrugged, "that's just an example. If you don't do anything too drastic I won't try to stop you. Usually anything beneath that is not my problem."

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:47:03 -0600

((The computer I was using at the time was being rather oddly behaved and only allowed me to use the reply button, as the posting box at the bottom of the page apparently didn't exist. So I didn't exactly have much choice at the time of posting.)) "Ah. I see." He continued on, before he finally came to a stop at a decent looking restaurant. "After you," he said, half mocking as he opened the door. He stepped aside slightly, to allow Abel to pass through, glancing around again. He felt like they were being followed, and it was severely pissing him off. He didn't like people following him without his knowledge. The last time that'd happened, he's nearly been hit in the face with an iron ball by some lunatic who wanted to kill him.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:58:33 -0600

Abel slid pas tthe threshold and eyed Max narrowly before he turned a hundred-watt smile on for the hostess.The woman had lippy on her teeth, but she seemed game enough to ignore the fact that Abel looked scruffy and slightly homeless and was carrying all his worldly possessions on his back like a monk or something. Maybe that was her type, he mused, and tucked his hair back behind his ear His smile didn't falter. "Evenin'," he said. "Hello hello~" She all but chirped, "Table for two?" "Yes'm."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:25:58 -0600

Lorg stood at the door to the shop that the two had entered and waited. Glancing up, he saw the sun was almost down. It was a full moon tonight, meaning he needed to get away from all these people, but he continued to follow these people. ((BTW, I don't know whether it's a full moon on Earth, but it was about to be on Nirn.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:50:19 -0600

((I think I'll let Saf decide whether it's a full moon on Earth, but I doubt it because I don't think Jess would have her werewolf daughter on the beach right before she was about to transform. Unless she was planning to quickly go somewhere private for it to happen and then take her walkies afterwards :p )) @ Jeze "Oh!" Sinclair said, the name of the country finally registering properly. "Les États-Unis." But what did she mean when Victoria was Queen? Surely she was still Queen here...he knew his job took him to some fairly remote places but he'd have thought something like the Queen of England dying would have reached him. He'd heard about Prince Albert's death and he'd only been her Consort. He shook Mo's hand when she offered it. Or when he offered it. Sinclair still hadn't decided. "It was very pleasant to meet the pair of you," he said. "Thank you for telling me where I am. I will let you return to your business now." He saw no reason to hold them up further. --- @ Beach "Why on earth would I want to do something like that?" Mittens asked. "Large scale destruction is definitely more the other side's game. We might just sometimes...encourage that behaviour." His ears went flat again. "Although the new boy isn't too keen on that. He's not even particularly keen on plain old corruption of souls. It makes working with him very difficult."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:14:16 -0600

((heehee, taking Mei for walkies...)) @DM "Yes!" Teagan brightened. "Les États-Unis. That's us." It was amazing how this guy was staying in character. he really looked perplexed when she used the past tense for Queen Victoria. "We were just going into another pub to see if we can get some work there. We're musicians." Teagan told him. She was having fun talking to him.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:32:16 -0600

((Oh, I thought they weren't quite that close too... well...Maybe I can say that Myyr cast a spell of protection over Sophia for the moment that she crossed over. It won't last for very long (maybe a few days?) but would... I dunno, not have them recognizable to each other for a while? For the time being (as I have some time to post at the moment), I'll say that's what it is but if you think it doesn't work out, I'll come up with something else.)) @Following Mittens Aerona looked very put out and dismayed at Satomi's reaction to what they were. She reminded herself though that it was natural. All mortals had a great aversion to the Fallen Ones, it was just the way it was. Even when she was trying to redeem herself, she should never allow herself to think that she was worthy to be considered 'good' again as tainted as she was. Out of the loop? "Ah... well, if this has been a recent occurence, I suppose I might not notice it as much. I am... not quite..." what was the phrase the humans used? "...on the same page? as the other Fallen any longer." She explained, feeling timid about it, though she thought she oughtn't. "I am attempting to change my ways and make amends for what I have done." She admitted to Mittens and Satomi, hoping this might ease the girl's worries. "Why would we wish to harm mankind?" She asked. @Beach "Police..." Sophia murmured, she thought she remembered something about a police from when she was really really little. "I don't th-think the p-police could help." She shook her head. She started to wonder if she would ever get in the bath or dry off. The scent of cooking food wafted over them again and she bit her lip as her tummy protested it's emptiness again. ((A little earlier? then into the pub...)) A large man walked by them, looked over them with obvious disdain and then disappeared under the pier. Sophia couldn't help shivering at the cold look he had given them all as he had passed, moving a bit closer to the three people she had just met.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:29:03 -0600

@ Beach Mittens raised his eyebrow at Aerona (so far as a cat could raise its eyebrows at least). "Make amends? For rebelling against God?" He snorted. "Good luck with that." He supposed it was technically possible. It was the vibe he'd been going for the past couple of millenia. Forgive and forget and all that. No reason why it couldn't apply to former Angels as well as mortals. He figured he'd let the two girls figure out the harming mankind part of the conversation and completed his walk to Tim, cuddling up against the boy's leg with a purr. Startled Tim looked down to see the fluffy creature. He quickly scooped him up, a little too roughly for Mittens' taste. "Steady on," the cat hissed. "I'm not a cuddly toy you know. There are actual nerve endings registering what you're doing here." "What are you doing out here?" Tim hissed back, trying not to look as though he was talking to the animal. "Cats don't routinely go for strolls along the beach you know." "Well I'm sorry to bother you," he said scathingly. "But something has come up. Something that is definitely your job to try sorting out." Mittens started purring. "Oh, and I found another Fallen Angel to pal around with us. Isn't that nice?" --- @ Jeze ((Sorry for the trauma girls)) Pub...Sinclair had a feeling he should know what that translated into, but he couldn't recall exactly what it was. Context indicated it was some sort of music hall or similar though. Two unchaperoned women going into what were likely drinking establishments to perform. He had clearly been very misinformed about what sort of behaviour was acceptable in England these days. You wouldn't have thought all his various sources had got things so wrong. "I wish you luck with that then," he said and he stepped out into the road. He only truly realised just how quickly those 'bus' things moved when he was suddenly engulfed in bright lights and his hearing was completely filled by the sound of screeching and a very loud blaring horn. Luckily the machine's breaks were very good and the thing merely knocked him off his feet, the air expressed painfully from his lungs in the process. "What do you think you're doing you crazy idiot!" A young man stuck his head out the window of the vehicle. It was far smaller than that bus thing Mo had spoken of. Fitting many people inside the thing would be a real squeeze. "Stepping out into the road like that. You want to die?" Sinclair ignored him, just getting painfully to his feet and continuing across the road (taking care to look a little more thoroughly this time). He was going to be feeling that for weeks.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:25:37 -0600

@Mittens/Satomi Aerona would've blushed, well, she even did a little. She knew her notion of gaining forgiveness for her multitude of wrongdoings was foolishness. It wouldn't stop her from trying though. Even if she were still to condemned to hell for all eternity , to at least still try made all the difference. When they came up to a young man who scooped Mittens up suddenly and whispered to him, she tilted her head. "How do you do..." She said, looking at him curiously. This was the new leader of Hell? He was just a boy. Still, she didn't want to underestimate him.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:42:10 -0600

Blinking as a boy scooped up the cat, Satomi felt a violent shiver run up her spine, was this the devil? Stepping into the surf, Satomi turned to the girl to answer her question with a shrug, "Well it's kind of the immediate reaction any person would get from finding something out like that. Besides, I like this world."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:42:41 -0600

@DM ((Oh dear, Sinclair thinks the girls are ladies of the night, or at least women of very loose morals. I suppose compared to his upbringing, they are.)) Mo caught up with Sinclair and Teagan trailed after. They were still getting used to looking in the proper direction when crossing the road themselves.because the Brits for some reason drove on the wrong side. Mo was beginning to thisk this wasn't an act they guy was pulling. But then what was it? Was he crazy? "Hey, you really need to look both ways before you cross the street. And better yet, cross at the corners where the light is. The cars do pay attention and stop when it's red. Unlike Italy, where is's just a suggestion to be ignored."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:48:46 -0600

@ DM “If by prize you mean beer or other beverage of your choice, then yes, if by prize you mean Ferrari then aww hell no.” Juma grinned. As Grace busied herself scribbling notes he got the camera off one of the uniforms and started taking photos himself, he had a good idea from the last case what Rochelle might find interesting and relevant, he gave it back at the end though in case they picked up anything he’d missed. After a while he figured they’d done all they could at the scene of the crime save tread on forensics toes and it was time to pack it in for the night...almost, one last trip to make. “Right, reckon we’d best see if John Doe is awake, or at least see what the doctors have to say, then follow up on the statements and deal with the consultants tomorrow morning when people are awake and tractable.” @ Secret Door Rochelle looked up from polishing a glass, the sun hadn’t quite set yet, and this place didn’t get jumping till it did, but there were still a few people scattered about. Melusine looked distinctly uncomfortable over by the piano and she didn’t blame her, This guy screamed unseelie pretty much instantly. “You’re a long way from home stranger,” she said pleasantly, thought really she’d have quite liked to tear his head off, the place was meant to be neutral after all even if she had her preferences. “Can I getcha something?” ((Someone bounces off the car hood and THAT'S your first reaction? Not "Are you all right?" @ LS/Tweed Mei felt her hackles rise as the man walked by, he smelled a bit like auntie Rochelle or Kithara bu the OTHER kind. Auntie Rochelle smelt of sea foam, Kithara smelt of flowers and dew on the grass and the moment before a storm in spring. This man smelt of dark earth and bad meat and rotting plants. She let out a disgruntled half growl at the back of her throat but stopped when her mother lifted her up and into her arms. Jess frowned a little at the man that had walked by and then tried NOT to make a big deal about the fact that he’d just essentially disappeared behind one pillar and...not emerged at all, anywhere. She knew where he’d gone but she hoped Geoffrey didn’t notice, hoping to be distracting she smiled brightly “Ok then, dinner first it is, and definitely some warm clothes. Any prefence on food. Chinese? Italian? French? Hamburgers? I happen to know the best Chinese in Brighton...but then I would say that my sister owns it.”

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:08:26 -0600

Lorg watched the two, then jumped slightly as someone rested a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see a man in a black uniform. "May I ask you why you're carrying all those weapons?" the man asked. Lorg frowned slightly. Why? Weapons were a neccesity when traveling from city to city. He stared at the man for a moment. ((Not sure where to go now. Someone else want to take the policeman?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:29:19 -0600

@DM ((Argh, I cut and pasted and missed the last bit I wrote about Teagan going to help Sinclair up.)) "Are you all right?" Teagan helped Sinclair steady himself and brushed him off. @Secret Door Finn looked at the fey who had just walked in and wondered what an Unseelie was doing in these parts. He poured more whiskey, then sat back. he was getting nowhere with this poem. You would never know he came from a long line of famous bards.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:28:05 -0600

((I can pretend to be a policeman for a moment!)) @ Darkfeather "Sir," the policeman said again. "I'm afraid those weapons are going to go in some sort of case if you want to carry them around. You are not permitted to have weapons of that sort on in your immediate control in public." --- @ Jeze "I'm fine," Sinclair wheezed. Or at least he was fairly sure he would be fine. Right now he was in a world of pain and thought he might have a couple of bruised, if not cracked, ribs. But he'd taken worse before and had to keep going. "I'll just have a few bruises come morning." The car driver was still staring after him in disbelief, but since he didn't seem to be in any obvious distress or looking like he required an ambulence he just got back in the car and drove off. He figured he'd done enough for this not to count as a hit and run after all. --- @ Saf "I couldn't afford to insure a Ferrari anyway," Grace said with a smile. "A drink when we get off shift, whenever that may be, sounds good though. And I don't think there's too many more notes we can take here so...yeah, to the hospital." She doubted the man would be awake from what the doctors had said over the phone, but it was always worth a try. Get a better idea of what had potentially happened during this whole mess. --- @ Beach Tim gave the woman who spoke to him a wary look. "Hi..." he said hesitantly. "Oh don't be shy Tim," Mittens said, cuddling into Tim's arms. "This is Aerona. She's done all sorts of things in 'your' service. Very helpful lady." "Very nice to meet you then," Tim said. "I guess." He bent to whisper into Mittens ear. "She doesn't look anything like the other demons I've seen." "That's because she's a Fallen Angel, not a demon in the sense the other things you've seen were," Mittens explained. "Hamen was originally a mortal who's soul was twisted enough in life and in death that he was able to become a lesser demon. And Axe is the embodiment of a Sin rather than anything demonic or Angellic. But Aerona is like me; a proper Fallen. We tend to look a bit prettier on the whole."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:40:00 -0600

@Tweed ((Sorry! I totally missed Geoffrey asking Sophia what she wanted to eat. No time to reply more at the moment but I will after I get to work. ^^))

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:25:38 -0600

((It's no problem LS!)) Geoffrey watched the man walk by, without much interest. He blinked, though, and the man was gone, vanished behind the pillar. He rubbed his eyes. "Did anyone see that?" he asked. "That...that man...he just vanished!"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:35:08 -0600

@Beach/Sophia "l-like?" Sophia wondered at him asking -her- what she might like to eat. She couldn't even ever recall being asked something like that before by anyone other than Myyr, asking which biscuit she might like or which soap for the bath. "Um... c-could I have a h-honey cake?" She asked him shyly. "With... w-with a st-strawberry?" Dare she hope? She didn't know what any of the other things the woman had listed were so she just stood politely. Maybe they didn't have honey cakes here? She waited to see if they would be making a decision. ((Will post for the others in a moment))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:49:19 -0600

@Beach/Aerona Aerona couldn't help blushing and even looking rather ashamed at Mitten's words. She was always embarrassed when her transgressions were brought to light. "R-rather not in- in -your- service, to be exact." She murmured, sensing even -he- was uncomfortable around her. What was it about her that made mortals, demons, angels and the fallen alike, have such a distaste for her? She couldn't understand it. "I make the attempt to gain redemption now." She admitted, thinking it best to be honest from the beginning. If it angered him, so be it. She should let him know she was not in the service of the rulers of hell any longer. @Secret Door Wayland leaned on his elbows on the bar, noticing the tension in the pub when he walked in, he looked around at the other patrons as though challenging them to continue staring. "Hn. Indeed." Was his only reply to the comment about his travels. "A pint of the local ale." He requested when asked what he wanted. He wasn't planning on being here very long. Just enough to see if anyone had any answers and if they did, to get the answers to his questions and leave. He noted some of the people who had watched him come in, weighing them up. @Beach/Sophia Sophia looked to where the man disappeared under the pier, realising the reason she felt so uncomfortable around him was likely that he was fae, if that were the place the woman had mentioned to go into... she shivered and turned back to the others. "M-maybe he went through th-the door... " She glanced at the woman to confirm the truth of it. If that place was full of fae... she didn't want to be anywhere near it. She even moved a little further away without realising it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:07:13 -0600

"The door? He vanished by that pillar! There's nothing there, just...just air!" exclaimed Geoffrey. He was looking around wildly. Something wasn't right here, something was very strange about this whole affair.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:25:30 -0600

((lol! I'm trying to decide how much Sophia should say. On the one hand, she's not used to meeting anyone who -doesn't- know about fae so talking about them is no big deal... onthe other, she's really shy about speaking up and disagreeing with people.I guess I'll let her write it for herself and we'll see. XD )) @Beach/Sophia Sophia stared at the man with some disbelief. It was quite obvious... well, since this woman said it was there and Sophia had no reason to think she wasn't being truthful... it was quite obvious that the man didn't 'disappear' into thin air. "He w-went into th-the bar." She thought the woman had said bar. "Th-there are f-f-fae there... I don't wa-want to g-go there." She added in a whisper, fingering her collar. Good fae or not, it was the one place she would avoid.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:37:58 -0600

Lorg watched the man in black for a moment more, then answered. "Sir, I have always kept these on me, not in a case, since I escaped the execution. Surely you have seen me near here before?" When did this new law sprout up? Lorg wondered.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:52:00 -0600

@ Beach Mittens rolled his eyes at Aerona's insistence she was trying to be a 'good girl' now. Pathetic. Tim on the other hand perked up a little at that. "Really? You mean...you're not evil?" A smile spread over his face. "That makes a very pleasant change. I've been dealing with far too many evil people lately." "Are you even remotely concerned with why I came out to the beach to find you?" Mittens asked. Tim blinked. "Maybe...is the reason going to give me a headache?" "More than likely." "Then I really don't want to hear it." --- @ Darkfeather The policeman frowned and made a gesture to his colleague, who proceeded to step back and speak quietly into his radio. "I'm afraid I've never seen you before, sir," he said. "And I'm afraid I don't know what execution you're talking about sir, seeing as we don't have them round here." He took a steadying breath. "Is this some student thing? Because game or not those weapons are not permitted to be carried in such a fashion. I'm afraid you must either put them away or we will have to take them into custody."

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:54:22 -0600

Giving a slight shrug as the three spoke, Satomi walked off, her steps making not a single sound as she made for the alleyway which had led her here. Walking a different path through the alleyways, she soon reached a larger, busier part of Brighton.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:29:45 -0600

@Beach/Aerona Aerona could've been knocked over with one of her feathers, that's how surprised she was at the response from Tim. She managed to not show it on her face, the only way to tell she was surprised was that the blush creeped up even more into her cheeks. "It is not something that I strive for any longer." She said quietly, she couldn't understand why she felt -more- ashamed at the response Mittens kept giving her when she would talk about being good. "It might behoove you to listen to the reason for the power going out here." She added quietly. "It may be a matter of grave concern."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:48:18 -0600

"He went through the secret door to see the fairies and auntie Rochelle!" Mei said, before Jess could make up some reasonable explanation and then Sophia started talking about them as well and Jessica just slapped her palm to her face, pinching her nose. "Welcome to Brighton, it's a crazy mixed up place and it's even more ah...multicultural than the tourist brochures would have you believe. I'm not sure you'll believe me if I tell you just WHAT kind of weird people we have here...As for honey cakes...I actually have like no idea where you could get those...damn."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:51:50 -0600

@ Dm "To the hospital then!" Juma said, he drove back across town to the hospital and noted with at least some pleasure that the lights were back on, that was one problem they no longer had to deal with at least. He wondered what Jess was up to and when he could pick her brains about this in an unofficial capacity, grateful that it was unoficial. Jess knew a helluva lot about monsters and he loved her dearly, but he didn't want her anywhere near any of his crime scenes. He wasn't due to see her till tommorow before the party though,and he found himself wondering whether that was a good time to ask her to move in with him, then shook his head slightly, trying to dislodge the thought and focus on the case as he parked in front of the hospital.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:23:24 -0600

@Beach/Sophia No honey cakes... Sophia's face fell just a little. "D-do you have milk w-with honey?" She asked hesitantly, not seeming to notice how stressed her comments and Mei's comments were making Jess. She was thinking too much about food now and her tummy was making even more noises.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:32:05 -0600

Geoffrey's mouth fell open. "Fairies? As in the little winged creatures?" He looked to Sophia. "Y-yes, that's...that's possible." Fairies, though. Fairies. Of all things.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:38:35 -0600

@Beach/Sophia Sophia shook her head, "Th-those are p-p-pixies." She said quietly, those were just as bad sometimes but it was Wayland and the ones who followed his instructions that scared her most. Sophia's mouth watered at the prospect of honeyed milk. She was never really allowed to eat the really yummy things that the others did, this really -would- be a treat. She rubbed her tummy lightly.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:49:57 -0600

@Beach "Wait, you're telling me that there are pixies, too? Fairies, pixies, what else? Aliens?" Geoffrey shook his head. He couldn't believe it, even as a person who shouldn't have existed. Fairy tales and the like. Impossible.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:37:02 -0600

@Beach/Sophia Sophia really couldn't help it. She couldn't help the little sigh escaping her. He did seem to take a long time to catch on to things. She just was tired of being tempted with honey cakes and honeyed milk and not seeing that dream come to fruition. "I d-don't know wh-what an alien is... b-but all the r-rest... yes. Th-they b-b-bad." She shook her head. "M-may I have s-some honeyed m-milk now?" Then she blushed, shy of her impatience. Maybe these people were just like the fae, teasing her...

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:30:29 -0600

@DM ((I was in the UK in wintertime and my mom kept looking the wrong way for traffic. I was constantly pulling her back onto the curb by the hood of her coat.)) "Are you sure?" Mo asked. Now that she looked at him, he seemed the worst for wear. "We could go somewhere for a drink so you can sit down and get your bearings." She suggested. "Our treat." Because she was feeling a little guilty for not keeping a better eye on the man.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:01:26 -0600

Lorg curled one hand into a fist. This human was beginning to annoy him. "Sir, I will not be putting my weapons away, and you will not be taking them."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:06:43 -0600

Abel ganced away from the server, over his shoulder, and stopped dead. He glanced around quickly for exits, and breifly debated whether or not leaping through a window and sprinting for freedom would gain him more or less attention than diving under the nearest table and hiding until the cops had wandered away with the crazy stalker. "Oh, hey," he said to his strange benifactor for the evening, as calmly as he could, "Your friend's back, and he's called the bobbies. Don't mind me, I'll be in the loo -- come and get me when they're gone, kay?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:11:39 -0600

Max frowned at Abel for a second. "What? Say that again in English?" he asked, turning to see what he was talking about. He swore under his breath when he saw the man from before. "Can you give us a table furthest from the door?" he asked the waitress with a flirty smile. "And preferably make sure that he," he jerked a thumb in Lorg's direction. "Doesn't get a table anywhere near the two of us? Guy's a bit of a stalker it seems." His smile widened a fraction, guaranteed to make the woman swoon. The waitress smiled back. "Of course sir! Right this way then--The loo's that way if you need it," she added to Abel as she turned to lead them to a table. "Will you be needing anything else?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:20:43 -0600

Abel slunk off towardsthe bathrooms without looking back, though he did mutter something that sounded suspiciously like, "I was speaking English you dunderheaded Yank," right on the heels of a slightly louder, "Just ome find me when the cops are gone; they give me the creeps." The men's loo was blessedly quiet, empty save him. He took a few calming breathes and slipped his bag off his shoulder to the floor. He shrugged out of his jacket, his hoodies and therefore mostof his layers. Left in a plain tshirt, he used the sink farther from the door to scrub the dirt from his hands and arms and the road dust from his face and hair. Master of the sink-shower at this point, he used a thick wad of papertowel to blot the water from his hair before he dug in his bag for a comb and dimestore razor. He shaved using cheap bathroom soap in lieu of actual shaving cream, and he barely recgonized himself when he wiped the froth away.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:49:02 -0600

@ Darkfeather "It's the law, sir," the policeman said, clearly getting annoyed but trying to get a lid on his temper. "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. If you refuse to comply with the law we will have no choice but to arrest you." Doubting this would be any better received he started easing his taser out. His colleague stepped back up to join them. "Back up's on its way," he muttered. --- @ Saf "There's some lunatic down near the seafront prancing about with real weapons," Grace said, just catching the call for backup on the radio as they got out the car. "Why does having the lights go out mean all the crazies do too?" Since she'd dealt with them over the phone she decided to take the initiative and speak to person on the desk herself. "Hi, I'm DC Random, this is DCI Couyain. I got a phone call earlier this evening from Doctor McDermott? It's about the John Doe brought in earlier." She really hoped this man would have been informed they would be coming. "Dr. McDermott is up in intensive care," the man said, handing them a map of the hospital grounds. "Level nine, tower block." Grace thanked him and stepped back. She then handed the map over to Juma. "Don't suppose there's any chance you've been here before? Because the only place I've call to visit here is the restaurant to have lunch with a friend. I've no chance of finding my way through the rest of this rabbit warren of a building." --- @ Jeze "No I'm..." In a lot of pain, confused as hell as to what he was doing in England, and unlikely to get any further in working out what was happening in the next half hour or so. "Forgive me, it would be rude to refuse so generous an offer. Thank you." --- @ Beach She's kind of cute Tim thought when Aerona blushed. He thought Mittens might be able to tell what he was thinking though, from the way he flexed his claws. "I think you should strive for it. You'll never manage it if you don't after all." The cat rolled his eyes. "What? It's true. Anyway, if both of you think it's that important then fine, I'll listen." He sat back down on the stones, cuddling Mittens to him for a bit of extra warmth. It wasn't exactly cold but now the sun had gone down there was a faint chill settling in the air. Probably meant it was going to rain. "So, what's the big disaster?" Mittens tail twitched at the glib way Tim was going about this. Not that he should be surprised after all this time. "The power was taken out by a huge surge of mystical power," he explained. "The origin of that power was definitely demonic and it was incredibly potent. And, more to the point, it was unauthorised! We don't know who's behind it and no one is claiming responsibility. But I am deeply worried that this surge just happened to go ahead in the city you're currently staying in."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:35:23 -0600

@Beach/Aerona Aerona looked quite perplexed... she... -should- strive for it? She replayed the conversation back in her mind, his words and their reactions didn't make much sense to her. Then it clicked finally. "Oh... I meant evil is not something I strive for any longer." She clarified. "Though, regardless of whether I can really be good again is a moot point. I try to help mortals now whether it brings redemption or not." She wasn't sure that made sense. She just tried to be unselfish about things, that was all. She nodded a little at Mittens' explanation, glancing up as she saw the girl who had been talking to them earlier disappearing down an alleyway. ((All i have time for at the moment. Be back later! :) ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:32:14 -0600

Fjor saw the man in black, probably a city guard, begin to pull something out of his belt and he quickly drew his knife and prepared his lightning spell. If the guard wanted a fight, he would get one.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:24:21 -0600

((Who's Fjor?)) @Secret Door/Jez Wayland made his way over to the man writing at a table off to the side, he was limping a bit but never spilling a drop. "Hello friend," He started, his voice was thick with a Norwegian accent. "could I buy you a drink?" He offered, even though there was still some in the bottle on the table. He wasn't sure who to ask first but he had to start somewhere.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:26:34 -0600

((Sorry, he's my guy in another RP. You can tell I'm in to many XP. I meant Lorg.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:59:12 -0600

@ Darkfeather Seeing the knife being pulled the crowd around Lorg and the police officers started to panic, backing off or just flat out running away from the scene. There were too many people hear for the policeman to risk this escalating further. He had to take this lunatic down now. He quickly pulled the trigger, the prongs of the device shooting out across the distance between them. ((I'll leave whether it hits or not up to you. And just so you know this is a taser designed to stun as well as hurt)) --- @ Beach "Oh, right, sorry," Tim said, blushing slightly. Not that this was particularly visible in the fading light. "I misinterpreted what you said. "Helping people is good. You should definitely keep doing that." He gently flicked Mittens' ear. "You should probably think about doing the same." "I help you don't I?" "You keep trying to make me do evil things," Tim said. "That's hardly what I call helping." "I don't try and make you do evil," Mittens said, sounding affronted. "I try to help you do them. It's still helping." Tim rolled his eyes and let go, letting Mittens drop with a startled yowl. "I'm going home. My sister's going to start freaking if I'm out for too long after dark."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:05:24 -0600

The two wire's hit Fjor's chestplate and skated off the glass surface. The lightning crackled between the two metal peices on the end. Fjor looked up at the man. "You call that a shock spell?" he snarled. "This is a shock spell!" He reached out and several forks of lightning stuck the guard.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:56:55 -0600

@ Darkfeather "A shock spell?" the policemen asked, clearly confused. Then he had very little room for anything other than pain as Lorg's spell struck him. He collapsed with a howl of pain, energy crackling off his limbs. "Officer down! Officer down!" his colleague screamed into the radio. "Culprit is armed and dangerous!" Having seen the officer collapse and heard the screaming the surrounding crowd did more than panic; they started outright running to get away from the scene, even running into the road, causing more than a few cars to screech to a halt to avoid hitting them. ((Just to warn you it might take me and Saf a day or two to properly hash out the political fall out from this. But don't worry, Lorg won't be forgotten :p ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:03:02 -0600

"Not at the moment, thank you," he replied, following the waitress to a table. He paused when the screaming and panic started, then scowled. 'Fucking idiot,' he thought snappishly. Ruined my damn dinner plans--Ugh. This is why I hate humans.' He turned his smile back on the waitress. "I'm sorry miss. It looks like we won't be dining here tonight after all. Perhaps another night." He turned away and moved for the bathroom to get Abel, banging through the door. "We're leaving," he informed him flatly. "That moron attacked the cop, so they're going to be swarming this place, and that's hardly conductive to a proper dinner. I'll take you someplace else to get food. Probably won't have a chance for the crumble, though. No place I know has as good."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:15:04 -0600

Abel looked away from his moderately less-hagard reflection, and took all of three seconds to shove his things back into his bag and get it on his back. "You had me at more-cops,sugardaddy," he snapped, panic uneasy and cold in his chest, "Hurry the fuck up. I don't want to be here when they show to arrest the creep. Come on, we'll go out the kitchen-way." He was quick to shoulder past his benefactor and hurry towards the kitchens, ducking past angry chefs and busy busboys to leap out into the night, only to slip in some filth and end up ass over teakettle in what he was pretty sure had been pig-slop in another life. Disgusted beyong measure, he looked to one side slowly and laid eyes on a garbage bag, its seams split and vomiting rotting slime into the alley. It looked to have been too heavy to lift into the bin. Abel twitched. There was something cold soaking through his jeans, and he was pretty sure there was a banana peel in his hair.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:16:28 -0600

@Beach/Aerona Aerona's eyes flickered from Mittens to Tim and back again as their conversation continued on. She tilted her head a little, she probably would have smiled if it had been in her nature. It was a rather amusing conversation. She was quite perplexed though... "you do not feel the need to perpetuate evil?" She would've thought it would've been an innate desire in the ruler of hell. She started following Tim.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:58:35 -0600

@ DM “Psychologically speaking? I could go over it but it’ll take a while. Although we do have an above average rate for this kind of stuff in Brighton. Some of those university kids are really over enthusiastic...usually not THAT enthusiastic though” usually they turned out to be replica’s and false alarms. “I’ve been here before,” he’d visited colleagues and he’d even been in the intensive care unit once himself, though for obvious reasons he didn’t really remember that. “But not enough, it really is a bloody rabbit warren.” He resisted the urge to make quips about woman and maps , grace would probably hit him and he’d probably deserve it . He studied the map briefly and nodded to himself, that more or less tallied with what he DID remember about this place. “This way,” he set off with long purposeful strides heading for intensive care. @ Sea front “All right then, let’s get going and I’ll...explain things to you over something a little stronger than milk and honey for us.” Jess offered to Geoffrey, As the group started moving and walking up to the main road the doors to one of the dinners opened out and people came screaming out the doors, cars honking as they spilled out into the road “What in the hell?” Jessica pulled Mei close looking for the source of the panic. @ Secret door. “Here you go then,” Rochelle poured the man his local ale with a smile. He didn’t look encouraging or friendly but he also didn’t look like he was here to cause trouble, she’d let Kithara know he’d been here when she showed up later. She usually put in appearance at some point during the night. Connor loomed by the door watching the proceedings, with the bored air of the typical bouncer.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:21:06 -0600

Darting out into a brighter, larger street, Satomi was startled to hear screams. Running quickly that direction, she could see a man shooting lightning at a policeman. Giving a slight sigh she quickly darted up to the man as she quietly spoke as an attempt to calm him down, "I'm a friend."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:25:34 -0600

@Sea front/Sophia Sophia had stood still for a moment, then realised they probably meant for her to come along and hurried after them, trailing a little way behind. The walk gave her some time to think, her scars hadn't burned or itched since she had come here, that was the thing at the forefront of her mind. Normally she couldn't get more than a little ways away before that happened. Before Wayland realised she was missing. She almost walked right into the street of cars without realising it, when the noise snapped her back to where she was and she jumped back a little. She wondered if this were normal behaviour here.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:28:44 -0600

@Beach Geoffrey nodded. "That sounds like a good idea." At the panic, he looked around wildly. What on Earth was going on?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:28:49 -0600

Lorg looked at the girl at his side and nodded. The circumstances were similar to his execution, except he was the surce of the panic this time. He put his knife back and turned to follow the girl.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:38:54 -0600

Beckoning for him to follow, Satomi darted off into the alleyways, taking the largest, most roundabout route to lose the police as she looked back to the see the man following her. Skidding to a stop in a slightly larger alleyway, she quietly spoke, her eyes flicking warily back and forth as she searched for the police, "Are you alright?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:58:46 -0600

@ Saf A few flights of stairs, one jaunt in a lift, and a bit of back tracking when they discovered the floor ITU was on wasn't accessible via the regular lifts, and they were finally at the relevant department. "This place is fucking ridiculous!" Grace muttered sourly as they approached the reception desk for the department. "Hi, we're here to see Dr McDermott? It's about the John Doe burn victim brought in earlier tonight, just after the power cut?" "He's with a patient at the moment," the receptionist said. Grace hoped it wasn't anything to do with the frantic beeping and shouting she could near elsewhere in the ward. "But if you wouldn't mind waiting I'm sure he'll be right with you." "Is there a nurse or anyone we could speak to in the mean time?" Grace asked. "I'm sure the nurses have roughly the same about of knowledge about this and then Dr McDermott wouldn't need to be called away from his patient." Not that the nurses wouldn't likely also be rushed off their feet, but they did probably know just as much about what was going on as the doctor anyway. --- @ Beach "Not any particular desire, no," Tim said. "Despite the frequently encouragement of this one." He nudged the cat with his foot. Mittens hissed and swiped at him. "I've been a little too preoccupied with my GCSE coursework to really worry about good and evil. And annoyingly I don't think my R.E teacher will consider a demonic cat a particularly good source to quote in my essays. It's not like I asked to be put in this position, you know? I was really quite happy being an atheist."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:08:29 -0600

@DM "That is actually quite remarkable." She replied, staring at him as though she had never seen something like him before... she supposed if he had just been a human, it would've been more normal, more natural but with him being the ruler of hell now... he -should- lean toward evil, shouldn't he? Atheist?That gave Aerona pause, "Happy? Really? Goodness... I fail to see how that could be." She sounded obviously mystified and terribly curious.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:16:39 -0600

"I'm fine," Lorg nodded. "What happened back there?" he nodded his head back to where they had come from. "I've never had a guard stop me for my weapons before." He examined the girl. She was slightly shorter than him, with black hair and blue eyes. She looked to be young for a human, but her eyes showed wisdom and experience beyond her age.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:25:21 -0600

Blinking slightly, Satomi spoke quietly and slowly, "You aren't from here are you? Well I might as well help you or you'll get into too much trouble. They chase you because they thought you would hurt the other humans. Try and keep your weapons hidden." Tilting her head to the side, Satomi nodded to herself before speaking once more as she examined the man. With hazel eyes and a tall figure, he was slightly taller than her, "Come, I'll try and explain more on the way to my home. It may help you some. I am Satomi." She nodded before beginning to walk into the recesses of the alley.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:27:34 -0600

Lorg followed. "I'm Lorg." he said, sweeping his hair back, revealing his pointed ears.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:30:46 -0600

Turning to continue talking, Satomi was surprised to see a pair of pointed ears as Lorg swept his hair back. Blinking, surprised once more, she remained calm, "You might want to hide those ears." She said walking ahead, "Humans aren't used to those and they might panic." Pushing up her glasses, she tucked a lock of hair behind her ear.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:52:04 -0600

Lorg let his hair fall back into place. What kind of place was this were elves weren't commonplace enough to make people panic? For that matter... "Satomi, where are all the Kajheet, and the Argonians, and even the Orsimer?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:59:10 -0600

Hesistating for a moment, Satomi turned around and quietly spoke, "Do you know where you are? The humans here aren't used to the paranormal. There's a reason I travel these alleyways rather than the streets." Tilting her head to the side she could see the odd clothing that Lorg was wearing, along with the ears...he definitely wasn't from this world she decided as she made a quick decision, "Come, we can continue talking at my house, I can explain more there. We're almost there."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:04:47 -0600

Lorg shrugged and continued moving.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:08:49 -0600

As he followed, soon the alleyway opened up to a large brick building. Climbing the steps, Satomi opened the door and began to climb the stairway to the 5th floor before she stopped in the front of a room. Unlocking the door, she beckoned quickly for Lorg to enter. Shutting the door, she sat on the floor in front of the window before speaking, "So what do you want to know?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:10:54 -0600

"First, where am I? It's obviously not Skyrim. And second, may I take off my armor?" Lorg asked, indicating the glass body cladding.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:17:01 -0600

Nodding, Satomi gestured for him to relax before speaking, allowing herself to think, "Well you are in Brighton, England and please do." Springing up, Satomi quickly began to pace back and forth, her thoughts moving quickly, "I have never heard of Skyrim in all my life." She said quietly, her brow furrowing as she continued to pace.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:26:52 -0600

Lrog started to pull his bracers, greaves, boots, and guantlets. "Well, I've never heard of England. Will you help me with the straps?" Lorg said, pointing at his chestplate.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:33:07 -0600

Nodding, she darted forward to stand in front of him to quickly work with the buckles on the straps of the chestplate, "That good?" She asked looking up at Lorg as she carefully put the heavy plate down, "I must assume that you are from a different realm, though I don't know how to help you back I can help prevent you from getting in trouble here. First of all do you want something to eat?" She asked with a quick smile.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:36:55 -0600

"Thank you." Lorg nodded, setting the glass against the wall. "And food would be nice."

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:47:17 -0600

Nodding, Satomi slipped into the kitchen and after pondering for a moment which foods would be familiar to Lorg, she set to work. Slipping a pair of gloves over her hands, she cracked a couple of eggs into the pan and as they began to sizzle, Satomi grabbed a water bottle and some bread to throw in the toaster. Finally done, she slipped the eggs onto the plate and set it in front of Lorg, "Here you go, though be careful it's still hot."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:52:08 -0600

((As a seelie, does she only buy "Organic" foods? Because that will affect Lorg's reaction to it.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:55:13 -0600

((Hmm...I've only given Lorg organic food but if you want me to give him soda or something I'll be glad to do so.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:01:45 -0600

@DM "Tell me about it," Juma nodded, shaking his head. He wondered how the patients on other wards found their way back if they had drugs in their systems. He'd had a nasty injury once and the stuff the doctors had put him on had made him loopyas all get out. The beeping was really rather irritating on some deep subconscious level, Since Grace had already started talking he saw no reason to cut in, but glanced about the place looking for signs of what might be causing all the commotion. Did people look genuinely worried or was it just the usual hustle and bustle rush of a hospital. He really, really hated hospitals when it came down to it. @Nagats/Tweed "Careful," Jess said, darting forward as Sophia stepped out into the road, still starng as people fled, although things seemed to have calmed down. She saw one police officer step outside, hailing frantically on the radio, an ambulance pulled up.She hoped it wasn't for another cop, she hoped it wasn't for Juma and then immediatly thought that was stupid, he was working the graveyard shift and not in uniform, probably he was dealing with nothing more interesting or dangerous than a papercut and would complain about it at the party.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:14:50 -0600

((No thats fine, Masked.)) Lorg nodded thanks and began eating the eggs. They tasted different from what he was used to, but it might have just been the spicing. Or the fact that it was cooked. As soon as he finished, Lorg picked up the plate and looked around for a place to wash it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:41:27 -0600

Smiling once more, Satomi gave a small laugh and led Lorg over to the sink, "Well I might as well start teaching you now before you wreak havoc on the city." She said with another small smile. Struck by a sudden thought, she bit her bottom lip for a second before turning to Lorg, "Since I will be teaching you about Brighton, you might as well know this." Closing her eyes, she forced her glamour to slip and let her true form out as she slipped back in her glamour. Tilting her head to the side she gave a quiet, "Well?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:59:46 -0600

Lorg watched the illusion fade, then gasped and bowed before the now revealed Daedric Prince Nocturnal. "My lady..." he said. "If I had known it was you,I would not have imposed on you like that. "

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:38:57 -0600

@DM Mo pulled out her map. "Do you want something alcoholic or food, or both?" She asked Sinclair. There are plenty of options nearby. You wouldn't have to walk very far, no matter what you want." @Nagats ((I'm assuming a half fey could tell a Seelie from and Unseelie.)) Finn looked up and raised an eyebrow. "You sound like your rather far afield. But as m,uch I like accents, you really aren't my type."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:59:13 -0600

@ Jeze "Food would be lovely," Sinclair said. "Thank you. But no alcohol. I don't drink." Much as he would quite like to right now. But he needed to stay sharp and focused. Getting drunk and sleeping in a gutter somewhere really wouldn't be conductive to anything. It wouldn't even make him feel better. --- @ Saf Grace and Juma weren't left waiting too long before a middle aged nurse came over, looking less frazzled than the others they'd seen rushing about thus far. "So, you want to know about our John Doe?" she said. "It seems you're in luck. You'll need to wait for the doctor's permission to actually see him, he is still very vulnerable to infection given his current state, but amazingly he is awake. Still too weak to talk but he might still be able to answer your questions. As for his injuries..." She sighed. "From what I've been told of the situation he was found it it's ,y professional opinion that this couldn't have been an accident. And it's extremely unlikely he would have been able to do this level of damage to himself."

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:43:00 -0600

Blinking as Lorg bowed, Satomi was all in all stunned and slightly amused by the picture, "Why do you bow Lorg?" She asked, bending down to see his face, bewildered by his words and actions.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:19:20 -0600

Geoffrey grabbed Sophia's shoulder. "Careful now," he said. The scene before him was mad, mental, he wasn't sure what to make of it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:55:42 -0600

Lorg remained kneeling, eyes averted. "Lady Nocturnal, I do not wish to impose on your grace any longer. Please, may I go with your blessing, my Lady?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:58:25 -0600

Scrunching her brow up, Satomi spoke to the kneeling man, "What are you talking about? You're free to leave any time but can you explain to me what this is about for now?" Thinking for a sec, she rushed into the guest room and creating some normal clothes that would fit Lorg, "And put these on so you won't stand out in the crowd and alert the guards once more."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:21:15 -0600

Lorg noddedand started changing. "Thank you, Lady Nocturnal."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:27:53 -0600

@DM "We could go to Palm Court. It's pretty close." Mo suggested. "Do you need help? You can lean on me." She was beginning to think he wasn't a reenactor at all. The headed in that direction.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:41:40 -0600

Crossing her arms, Satomi glared at Lorg after he had finished changing, her eyes flashing ice blue once more, "Will you please explain all this my lady stuff now?" She asked, "You must remember, this is London not Skyrim. You can't go around calling people lady and majesty or they'll send you to the asylum." Satomi exclaimed, pacing furiously.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:09:23 -0600

((Psst! Brighton! Not London! Very different places! We are way more awesome than London down here :p )) @ Jeze "No thank you," SInclair said. "I'm fine as I am. I can support myself." He hoped. He was fairly confident though; his legs were probably the most in tact part of him right now. As they made their way there Sinclair couldn't help staring at all the vivid bright lights shining all around him and the wide variety of music blaring through the different doorways. He also couldn't help but notice the ridiculous number of Italian restaurants lining the streets. And the lampposts! Great grey things stretching three times the height of a man...that all just seemed excessive. But the strangest thing was definitely the people. The streets they were using weren't particularly crowded but there were more than enough people for him to see these two women weren't dressed particularly strangely at all by this place's reckoning. His eyes damn near fell out of his head when a gaggle of young women walked past them, legs on full display and shrieking with laughter.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:19:40 -0600

((Isn't Brighton in London though?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:28:33 -0600

((Hahaha! Oh hell no :p Completely different cities. About an hour on the train away from each other. Brighton sometimes gets called London-by-the-sea, but it's just a nickname.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:32:03 -0600

((Whoops :D Than where is Brighton?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:50:26 -0600

((What Dm says, not the same place at all :) London isn't remotely coastal and People are much nicer in Brighton.)) @ DM "That's why we're here," Juma nodded to the nurse. "If you don't mind I need to take your name in case we need a statement later. What kind of injuries are we talking here. The doctor mentionned burns on the phone, what kind of degree?" He didn't ask when the doctor would be free yet it seemed chaotic tonight, better to ask useful questions than stupid ones. @ Tweed/LS "Mummy why are they running?" "I don't know sweetheart, but look they've stopped now." "I'm hungry," Mei tugged on her mum's sleeve "Can we go get food now?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:11:16 -0600

((Brighton and Hove is right down on the South Coast. Just type in Brighton and Hove, England, on google maps and it'll show you where it is)) @ Saf "Of course. My name is Laura Merton. As for injuries..." She took a deep breath. "We first thought they were major third degree burns, covering close to fifty percent of his body, but after closer examination it's closer to forty percent and the burns only appear to be second degree, if still deep rather than superficial." She looked a little perplexed by this. "It's very strange...third and second degree burns are normally quite distinctive. I'm not sure why there was that level of confusion."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:15:37 -0600

((Guh! It seems every time I tried to reply to anything last night I got interrupted! Good thing it's not too busy :) )) @Jez "Good thing for both of us that that is not what I am after, then." Wayland replied, raising an eyebrow. "I have lost something rather dear to me, I thought it might have turned up in here but..." He looked around and shook his head. "I was hoping that someone might have seen it or have an answer as to where it is." @Saf/Tweed Blushing a little and murmuring a sheepish thanks to them when they pulled her out of the way of those carriage things, Sophia stood quietly, watching everything going on around them. It was so noisy! She was glad when the little girl mentioned food, she had thought maybe they had forgotten about that.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:57:38 -0600

@ beach “All right sweety we’ll go get food.” The panic seemed to be dieing down, as the people who’d originally run out of the restaurant all made it out and the ambulance roared away. Cups came out of the building talking with someone who was waving his arms expansively. She really hoped...she was being silly but she’d feel better if she texted him. “Just let me send a text here” U K? Bg commotion @ C front. Not in it r U?. Mei hs made new frnds. Goin 2 eat @ Hospital. Juma frowned as he took notes, “That is strange,” he’d done enough work to vaguely know the difference “but lucky for him I guess.” Though it gave him an uncomfortable feeling, a remnant of the strange scene at the university playing on his mind, or one of those cases where he should listen to his gut? “Which portions of the body?” he added, still taking notes. He frowned as his phone beeped, maybe jess had seen the aftermath of that crazy they’d heard about on the radio, he hoped no one had been seriously hurt but someone had probably been hurt in some fashion or Jess probably wouldn’t worry. Fine. Still workin tho. See u tomorrow he texted quickly, hesistated added an x, then turned the phone off in case they had to enter the ward. “Sorry didn’t realise that was still on please continue.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:30:18 -0600

"I am simply giving the respect a Daedric Prince like you is due, my lady." Lorg bowed again once he was changed.

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:21:25 -0600

((And Brighton has that lovely pier.)) ((Dang sirens!)) "Shh," said Geoffrey quietly, calmly. "We'll get food soon." He was glad the commotion was quieting down. He hated crowds, hated the noise and mob mentality of them.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:09:32 -0600

((After reading about Brighton, I really want to see it the next time I get to the UK. And google is your friend, maskedwritr)) @DM Mo grinned watching Sinclair watch the people and especially the girls. "You know, you can drop the act now." They got seats and made their orders. @Nagats/Secret Door "No one has found anything dear or otherwise, as far as I know." Finn said. "What exactly did you lose?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

tweedandtea — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:44 -0600

((Brighton is lovely--I visited there about...my goodness, six years ago? I think its time for another visit)) ((And my apologies if I don't post much, travelling back to my parents' house))

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:12:58 -0600

((Alrighty thanks to everyone! So let me get this straight, Brighton is in England. Correct?)) Satomi raised an eyebrow, slightly astonished by his answer, "Well that's somewhat impossible for two reasons. One, I am not a prince of any sort. I'm not even a male!" She exclaimed, slightly bewildered as Lorg remained bowing, "And enough bowing!" She snapped, slightly annoyed by it. Sighing, she rubbed her temples as she looked back up, "Alright Lorg, you shouldn't be able to cause too much trouble out there in Brighton. Just remember no showing your weapons, try not to threaten anyone, and remember I'm here if you need any help." She said with a small smile.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:06:58 -0600

((Correct Masked. And just puttin it out here, the most powerful Daedra are called princes no matter the gender.)) Lorg stood. "Of course, my lady." He grabbed his armor and stuffed it into his pack, along with his weapons. His new clothes were comfortable, though the rough blue pants were not as much as his doe skin leggings. Lorg pushed his hair back in over his ears so they were covered and turned back to his mistress. "May I take my leave now, my lady?" he asked.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:54:59 -0600

@ Jeze Sinclair blinked at Mo. "What act?" he asked. He hadn't been trying to adopt a persona or anything to get through this. He'd been so confused the idea honestly hadn't occurred to him. "I'm not sure what you mean." --- @ Saf "Mostly his legs and arms," the nurse said. "With some extension up across the torso. The damage has avoided his hands though, which is something of a blessing."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:29:56 -0600

@DM "This guy is really good," Mo said to Teagan. "You know. Your 'act.' Are you a LARPer or some kind of Victorian Re=creationist? Or just an out of work actor?" Teagan wasn't sure, but this guy didn't seem to be acting to her. He looked genuinely puzzled.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:11:09 -0600

((Poor Sinclair oh maybe jess and the others can end up at the same place mo and tig and sinclair are, or are they at just a bar rather than a restaurant? And yep brighton IS indeed in England)) @ Beach Jessica sighed in relief as Juma texted back. Ok nothing to worry about here then, welll not nothing but just for tonight it could be somebody elses problem. "Right let's feed the little one before she decides to eat my fingers," jess grinned at Geoffrey. "I know a good place near here so you don't have to get your car out in all this mess," and she didn't like getting into cars with strangers, limited your options. "Try not to step into the road without looking on the way eh?" she added in Sophia's directon. @ secret door "I second the good bard here stranger, it'd help an awful lot if we know what "it" looked like. Rochelle had a bad feeling about that deep in her bones. @ The hospital. Juma nodded, scribbling down notes, perhaps he'd been pushed forward into flames then, but if so why had his hands been spared? "Anything else unusual, or that simply struck you as noteworthy...other than the initial mistake? He tapped the pencil against his jaw contemplatively.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:03:06 -0600

((YES! I finally got it right!)) Nodding, Satomi smiled a bit before realizing something, "Lorg, remember that there are several other Daedric Princes out there!" She called out, trying the new word on for size, "And just, be careful." She said rubbing her temples once more. Sighing she realized how difficult her life had gotten since she had moved to Brighton.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:05:04 -0600

((Sinclair, Mo and Teagan are in the Palm Court Restaurant. And embarrassingly enough I had to look up and see where that is :p But definitely a restaurant so Jess could take Mei there)) @ Jeze Prior to this conversation Sinclair had considered himself to have a very good comand of English, or at the very least a good understanding of it. But while he recognised the vast majority of the individual words these girls were using the meaning of the sentence completely escaped him. Other than the last bit at least. "I am not an actor," he said with a frown. His work was far more important than the frivolous wastes of time and space those people were.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:26:06 -0600

@DM ((Sry this is a bit late in coming, I wrote some of it out a few days ago but had to close out of the window before I could actually post. :\ )) Walking alongside Tim, Aerona was still wondering at how he didn't have much of a leaning toward evil. One would think that that would be a requirement for the ruler of Hell... His last words gave her pause. "An Atheist? Really? I am afraid I do not understand how that works..." She glanced at him, "Do you mind terribly if I were to inquire just how you came to be the ruler of Sheol?" @Saf/Tweed "Y-yes Miss." Sophia murmured, being sure to look both ways before crossing with the other three. At this point she didn't pay much attention to where they were going, she was just hungry and the promise of food was making her tummy -very- rumbly. She traipsed along just slightly behind them, making sure to avoid any broken glass or sharp things on the ground. The last thing she needed was to be bleeding everywhere. @Secret Door Wayland gave a charming smile to Rochelle, nodding slightly. "Of course, of course. It actually happens to be my ward... a young girl. Deep blue eyes, very light auburn hair..." He described. "She answers to the name 'Sophia', lately she has taken to running away from home, it is very troubling you see, she is extremely naive and does not realise how dangerous the world can be. I fear someone might try to take advantage of her, the sooner I can find her and bring her home, the better."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:08:29 -0600

Rochelle wasn't entirely buying it, he still smelt unseelie to her, and charming did not always mean true in the fae lands most people were beautiful and dangerous still it didn't hurt to humour him. "Not seen her I'm afraid," true, "I'll keep an eye out," also true though she wasn't sure if she'd be telling him or not "Wouldn't want the little runaway to come to any harm," also completely true. She smiled sweetly back, looking concerned and thoughtful.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:21:32 -0600

"Thank you, my lady." Lorg said, bowing on his way out. He walked down the stairs and out the front door of the building. He glanced around and saw none of the black clothed guards, so he just started walking.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:31:13 -0600

@DM/Palm Court on Brighton Pier ((DM--you had to look up the Palm Court? OMG it was all over the site for Brighton Pier. :) )) Mo raised her eyebrows. "Sorry. I didn't mean it as an insult." She said to Sinclair. "But I think we need to get to the bottom of this. I'm really beginning to think you fell through some time warp or something. The year is 2011." She waited to see his reaction to that. @Secret Door "You said 'it,' now you say 'her?'" Finn said. "I never heard anyone refer to the ward as an 'it.' He did not like this person at all. "She's human, I take it?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:36:37 -0600

Sighing, Satomi looked out the window where the lights shown brightly. She smiled, at least some people were having fun tonight. ((Any suggestions as to where I head next?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:39:34 -0600

@ Saf "Anything else unusual..." the nurse mused. "Well...the pattern of the burn marks is a little unusual. The worse of them wind up his arms and legs as if someone had wrapped rope around them. I don't think you could actually tie someone in that fashion, but it could be that the ropes were tied to him and set alight and that's where the damage came from." She didn't, however, look convinced. --- @ LS "What's not to understand?" Tim asked. "My mum was a Catholic but left the faith years ago and never brought it into the house with me or my siblings, and dad's vaguely Buddhist if anything. The big man upstairs and the scary man downstairs never featured that highly in our day to day lives so I never got into the habit of believing in it." He shrugged. "Simple really. As for the rest of it..." He sighed. "It was a flippant comment. I wanted to go to a dance with this girl, as in really really wanted to go, and I offered my soul if it could happen. The deal got accepted, but I was then knocked out, didn't even get to ask her, and missed the dance entirely. And there was fine print involved." "It was all a very big mess," Mittens said with a sigh. "The Contracts department was deeply displeased with everything."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:00:58 -0600

((I've never actually been to the website for the pier. I usually just go to the actual pier. And I've never eaten there (beyond donuts and ice cream) because I figure the proper food will be really expensive)) @ Jeze It was a good thing their drinks hadn't arrived yet or Sinclair might have choked on his. As it was he spluttered something chronic. "2011?" he repeated when he could get the words out. "Are you serious? No...no that's impossible." He ran a hand through his hair, completely forgetting about his hat and knocking it off in the process. "The year should only be 1880..." ((I shall try and think of something for you Mask! But it won't be until tomorrow at the earliest because I needs sleep!))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:05:34 -0600

@ Tweed/ ls (the palm court is quite a way away since it's nearer the portslade aim of hove, so maybe I'll take that comment about the car back but it can be near where Jess lives so she can get a lift as well, or they could just get on the bus.. but let's assume they got there somehow ?) It took them a little longer than Jess had bargained for for them to get to the palm court, but it was hopefully going to be worth it. Mei was shifting impatiently from foot to foot. The waitress in charge of seating looked at them oddly, but Jessica bent to whisper something and Mei flashed the waitress her most adorable smile, which got them seated rather quickly, Mei with the kids menu and the other three with adult ones. Jessica surreptiously asked the waitress about the honey milk, which got raised eyebrows, but a nod. @ Juma nodded, still scribbling furiously "That is to say the least unusual" He looked up from his notes to see if the ward had calmed down any and what the hopes were for the doctor. "There was a knife found at the scene, with blood, any evidence of cuts on the patient" he purposefully avoided the words "body" or "victim" "or defensive injuries?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:32:05 -0600

((BAH wrong palm court ...ok Editting slightly!- not having a good night for this! @ palms court on the pier It didn't take them long to push through the crowds who were making their way back on to the newly relit pier and slide into the restaurant. The place was busy, but Mei beamed at the waitress with her most adorable smile and that was enough to get them some seats. It took a little more convincing to get the milk and honey made, and the waitress went off to find drinks while the four of them sat down and looked at their menus, Mei pouring over the kids version. At a table nearby was a man dressed about as oddly as sophia, in a trenchcoat that looked sort of victorian, and two girls who had american accents, although Jess couldn't hear what they were actually saying.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:02:22 -0600

Max raised an eyebrow appreciatively. The kid cleaned up rather well--sugardaddy? The hell, what is with human slang? He turned and followed him through the kitchens and out the back, then paused to snicker. "You've got trash in your hair," he informed him airily, reaching out to pluck a fruit peel from his hair. "Might I advise watching your footing next time?" he added, dropping the peel off to the side and reaching down to yank the other male to his feet. "I suppose I should take you back home for a shower before we find somewhere new to eat, then?" ((Unless someone pops up to interact with Max/Abel, I'm probably not going to post much until Contemptus returns in about a week or so, since she didn't say whether or not she wanted me to bunny Abel so I'm assuming she doesn't. Just so everyone knows.))

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BakuraBox — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:03:07 -0600

((Also, god damn the lack of edit button. Everything after slang is supposed to be un-italics. >: ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:32:47 -0600

@DM/Palm Court Teagan picked up Sinclair's hat and set it on the table. Mo put a hand on the man's arm to try and calm him, "Right here, right now, it's Two Thousand Eleven. Two-Zero-One-One. I can run out and get a newspaper to show you. But, dude, seriously, you aren't in Kansas any more." She cleared her throat. He sure wouldn't get that reference. Was The Time Machine by HG Wells published by 1880? She didn't think so. Jules Verne? Hmm. "Look, I don't know what happened, but wherever you were in time and space, you are now in 2011 in Brighton." If this was a big scam, the guy was perfect. The clothes didn't look like they had been made now from old patterns, and they didn't have the aged look for something from a vintage store, they just looked--lived in. And Mo would know since she bought vintage clothes and tailored them all the time. "There's just no way to say it gently." Teagan added. "Just, don't go shouting to the rooftops about it, or they'll think you're crazy. Best to say you are a re-enacter and playing a character from 1880." Teagan smiled at the little girl when she caught her looking at them. Probably their accents attracted attention, it usually did.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:53:25 -0600

@ Palm Court "I just...how did this happen?" Sinclair said. It must have been something Simon did. That ritual was supposed to bring Hell on Earth or something equally foul and dramatic, but time travel? He'd have thought that was beyond the capabilities of even a mage of Simon's power. He groaned and let his head drop down to the table top. "This has not been my best day ever." --- @ Saf The nurse frowned but was able to respond instantly. "No. There were no cuts anywhere on the patient's body," she said. "Whoever the knife was used on it wasn't our John Doe." ((Sorry for rubbish hospital post, I must away to work! *flees* Hopefully I'll be able to post while there again :p ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:20:04 -0600

@ Palm court, "Mummy why is that man dressed so strangely?" Mei chirruped, looking up from her menu. "I dunno baby," Jess shusshed her "don't stare ok?" "Ok," Mei said "can I have this," she pointed. "Mmmhmmm that looks ok, you can have that," Jessica ruffled her hair. As the two american girls looked over and caught jessica glancing at them Mei waved cheerfully. @ Hospital. Juma nodded again jotting that down, ok so their might be another person in this scenario, well obviously their might be since the doctors didn't think the wounds self inflicted, but how many? Who had the knife been in...or what, forensics hadn't tested it yet, it could be animal blood for all they knew, maybe the universitities precious badgers even. "Right thank you," he was coming to the end of what he could ask, "Do you think we could ask the doctor if we could speak to the patient now?" ((because i'm losing inspiration on sensible questions to ask...)) @ Secret door, Rochelle glanced at Finn "don't start anything," she mouthed. She had no intention of really doing this guy any favours and she didn't particularly care for him, but that didn't mean she wanted a fight or a confrontation, tell him the truth, that they knew nothing helpful, and then look out for his "ward" themselves to warn her someone was looking for her at the very least.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:38:40 -0600

@Palm Court Sophia looked around, taking in the surroundings as they went to a table to sit down. The floor was cold on her feet so she basically tried to tip toe over to the table, shivering just a little. She was feeling a bit overwhelmed and didn't seem to take in much. They were handed the pages with all the writing on them and she looked down at hers, biting her lip and surreptitiously glancing at the others to see what they were doing with it. In her mind, she went over the words she thought she might know, sounding them out, she didn't realise she was mouthing them a bit too. F-I-S-H... A-N-D It was very slow going. The other matter was the paying for it. She looked at the two twenty pound notes in her fist and glanced at the numbers on the pages, trying to figure out how much she had. She held them up to the man who had given them to her. "Um... is-is this enough t-to pay for the m-milk?" She asked, hoping so... it was all she had. @Secret Door Wayland managed to not roll his eyes, "Indeed, I did call her an it at first. I need to be able to speak with people I think are trustworthy enough to help find her. I do not know who you are, I wanted to gauge certain things first before informing you that she is a, yes... human girl." He shrugged. "There are many people who might take advantage of that." Well... he certainly wasn't getting many answers here. He would try his magic again then instead. ((Will post for Aerona later.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:31:35 -0600

@ Hospital "Certainly," the nurse said, getting to her feet. "If you'd just wait here I'll be right back with you." She was as good as her word and returned very quickly, letting the pair know the doctor had agreed they could speak briefly with the patient. With the proviso they took a few precautions to reduce the possibility of infection for the man. He was in a room off to the side and the pair were given something to wear over their clothes and a face mask before having to thoroughly scrub their hands. The man in the bed was young, no older than his mid twenties. He turned his head listlessly to look at them when they entered.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:41:15 -0600

Lorg looked around and found himself on a beach. Not many people about. ((Anyone on the beach?))

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Nagats-e — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:48:42 -0600

@Tim&Mittens "How terribly romantic... and terribly unfortunate that it did not work out." Aerona said, adding the last bit after a moment of thinking. The Atheist comment still intrigued her though. "So... as an Atheist... did you not believe in... anything? Or just a creator?" She liked picking people's brains about these things.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:26:04 -0600

@ Dm/Sunday Tesha snorted with laughter at Maria’s last quip “That’s cruel,” she said with a shake of her head, “but funny,” she admitted. “I do quite like my brains in my head though; it means I know where they are when the zombies come for them.”

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Safriadragonfan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:35:06 -0600

@ Palm court “Don’t worry about this one ok kid? This ones on me,” Jessica said, not that she could afford to make a habit of this kind of generousity to strangers, but she could manage a meal once and the palm court wasn’t THAT expensive “And don’t wave your money around ok? It’s not the best idea. The other girl seemed to be taking ages to read the menu, did she even know how to read or was she just out of practise?“Other than honey cakes what do you like to eat..they’ve got chicken salad...and i know they do honey and mustard dressing here,” the girl did seem to have a thing for honey here. “Can I have fish and chips...with peas?” Mei asked looking up from her menu. “As long as you promise to eat all the peas and let me steal a chip.” Jessica ruffled her daughter’s hair, Mei beamed and nodded enthusiastically. @ Hospital. “Hey,” Juma said, sitting down in the chair next to the bed,damn he was just a kid. Damn he was getting into the bad habit of considering peoples in their 20s little more than kids, it was amazing what 10 years could do to your sense of being world wise and ability to be condescending at least he hadn’t got into Jessica’s habit of calling everybody kid... yet. “What’s your name?” he asked gently, waiting for the other man to reply. When he had the k-man’s name he nodded “I’m DCI Couyain we’re looking into the incidents leading up to you being here. You’re safe now...but we need to know what you remember if anything ok? Can you take me through it?” He spoke in even measured tones, calm and reassuring.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:53:19 -0600

((lol! I was just thinking that probably one of the -worst- first places for Soph to go would be a restaurant as she's not accustomed to using utensils. XD This should be funny.)) @Palm Court Sophia looked up in amazement at Jess, was she... offering to... to -give- her the food? "R-really? Th-th-thank you." Sophia said, the stammer actually strangely not out of nerves this time but from happiness.She glanced at the money in her hand and tucked it away when she was told it wasn't a good idea to have it out. "Is...is it n-not good t-to have m-money?" She whispered, afraid she had done something wrong. Well... it was away now. She actually had a smile appear on her face, it transformed her from a nervous young girl into a blossoming lovely young woman, though her words likely nulled the effect to an extent. "Oh, honey c-cakes is j-just what I like -best- t-to eat... I like...um, just ab-about anything." She looked back at the menu, flipping through it and trying to find more words she might sound out and recognise. ((Do they sell alcohol there (Other than the 'bubbly' that comes with that deal)?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:14:08 -0600

((Timothy, Mittens, and Aerona are starting to head off from the beach, but are still in that immediate area, and a group of others are in the Palm Court restaurant which is on/near the pier (can't remember exactly which) )) ((It's a restaurant so they're pretty much bound to serve alcohol)) @ LS "Didn't believe in anything," Timothy said. "Well...I believed in science. That's kind of a belief system. But that's all. No creator, no angels, and certainly no Heaven and Hell. And it might still work out," he said. "Eventually. If she ever talks to me again..." He gave Aerona a sheepish look. "I accidentally sent her boyfriend to hell while we were in detention together. I got him back but he kind of had a mental breakdown over the experience." --- @ Hospital Simon the man on the bed mouthed up at them. Simon Lang. As for the rest of the questions he shook his head. It was a total lie, he knew exactly what he'd been doing before he ended up here. Not that he was entirely sure where 'here' was. He couldn't think of anywhere that had such bright lights and strange machines that beeped at him. A woman and a black man being the face of the local law enforcement in these parts was also something of an oddity. Especially since everyone was speaking English. Something had clearly gone very wrong with the spell. Which was strange because aside from that bastard Sinclair interfering like that everything had been going perfectly. He couldn't think how he'd ended up in this strange building rather than dancing through a hell created graveyard back in Switzerland. "There was fire," he managed to croak out, his voice painfully dry and cracked. Hopefully that should have started healing already and he could get out of here, start working out what had gone wrong.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:14:58 -0600

Lorg began walking down the beach, glancing at other people. None seemed too special. He stopped beside two people who were talking of a creator. He listened in, but only slightly followed the conversation.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:30:04 -0600

@Palm Court Teagan rubbed Sinclair's back. "Your guess is as good as mine. What were you doing before you ended up here?" Mo made a funny face at the little girl and waved back. @Secret Door Finn smiled innocently at Rochelle. "I just wanted to clear up the pronoun problem." Finn listened to the fey. It seemed to him the only one taking advantage of the girl was this guy. 'It' indeed. "When do you think she arrived here?" That would help him figure out how far she might have gone.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:17:09 -0600

@ Beach Tim started scratching at his head. There was an itch...one that he couldn't seem to scratch, rattling around inside his skull. "What's wrong?" Mittens asked. "I feel weird...there's something nearby," Tim said, looking about. "It feels like...like a vampire." Mittens ears went up. "A vampire? They are quite common in Brighton..." He looked round, trying to find the creature. There was no one who pinged up on his supernatural radar nearby. Except...he hopped out of Tim's arms and trotted over to where Lorg was following them. He mewed up at the man. --- @ Palm Court "Unbelievable as the current situation is," Sinclair said. "I still don't think you'd believe what I was doing before I arrived here." Few people did when it came to his line of work.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:49:33 -0600

Glancing out the window, Satomi grabbed her messenger bag and walked out onto the streets of Brighton. Sighing, she closed her eyes and enjoyed the cool air that breezed through the area. Following the crowd, she began to wander through the streets.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:20:16 -0600

@DM/Darkfeather "Science..." Aerona murmured, "Yet when you delve deeper into sciences, the very core of them themselves points toward intelligent design." She replied, it was beyond her capability to imagine not being able to believe in a creator or anything. She stopped when Tim said he felt something nearby, glancing to see where Mittens was going. The man he went to was wearing normal clothing and yet he still seemed... rather out of place. @Secret Door Gauging the time, Wayland thought for a moment. "No more than two hours ago I would say." He thought a moment more and nodded, that woudl be about when the trail suddenly went cold. Mind... if she had clung to that beast's back for longer, she could be much futher away by now. He would take his leave and search for the girl on his own. Downing the last of his ale quickly, he set it on the table. "I thank youfor keeping an eye out for her." He said and went to head out of the tavern, rolling the branding iron around in his hands when he got out.

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Dragon-Mage — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:23:42 -0600

@ Beach "Not according to my biology teacher," Tim said simply. "But I am only fifteen...being wrong about stuff isn't really all that unusual." He just never expected to be so wrong about something so big and dramatic.

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tweedandtea — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:42:48 -0600

@Palm Court Geoffrey flipped through the menu. Fish and chips sounded appetizing, and he would have a stout to drink--seemed that they only had Guinness on draught, it would have to do. "It isn't bad to have money," he said to Sophia. "Well, some would have you think that, but we don't live on a commune. Necessary."

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Darkfeather21 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:46:29 -0600

Lorg knelt down and began to pet the cat. Cute little creatures. Hard to believe they were related to mountain lions. He looked up at the two and saw them glancing at him. Strange. The other people would full on stare at the Dovakin.

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Nagats-e — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:53:15 -0600

@Tim/Mittens "Fifteen -is- very young. "Aerona agreed. She couldn't even imagine being that young, it would be like being a tiny baby, she thought. Of course, her perspective was obviously skewed. She had always been the way she was, regardless of age. "Was it a disappointment to discover you were mistaken?" She asked, watching Mittens investigate. @Palm Court "Ah..." Sophia nodded as though she knew what he was talkinga bout though she really didn't. She pored over the menu again, sounding out some words under her breath and she managed to recognise "Whiskey!" she beamed, "I -do- like whiskey. May I have some?" She asked Jess. If she had her honey and milk and some whiskey she would be more than sated, for sure. ((Is there an actual drinks menu for the place? I didn't see one... Can I just assume they don't just serve wine and beer?))

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Darkfeather21 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:45:20 -0600

Fifteen? Lorg glanced up at the boy. That was indeed very young. Lorg was only forty, and he was still a child among his people. It was begining to get dark, so he pulled one of his torches free from his pack and lit it. The flaming light made it much easier to see.

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Dragon-Mage — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:55:07 -0600

@ Beach ((Beginning to get dark? It's been dark a while :p )) "It was a little weird," Timothy said. "But not exactly a disappointment. I'm a little worried about getting into the good books of the man upstairs after this little issue, but at least I know he's up there for me to try. And I've got a guardian angel who's happy enough to set me on the straight and narrow. Not that I've seen him for a week or two. I'm hoping that means I'm doing better." Mittens gave the man's ears a funny look when he stooped to pet him. Then he got a whiff of the man's scent. It took him a moment to fully process it, giving the man time to walk away. When he'd regained his composure he scurried forwards again, putting himself in the man's path. "Put that away!" he hissed when the man pulled out a torch of all things. "The lampposts are giving more than enough light right now. You'll only get yourself arrested if you're waving a burning torch around the place." He sat back on his haunches. "And I'd appreciate an explanation for what the hell you are. Werewolves can't become vampires and vampires can't catch lycanthropy. So I fail to see how you can manage to smell of both creatures types. And you're carrying a distinct scent of hell about you that I'd really like to question you about further."

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Darkfeather21 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:01:13 -0600

Lorg started slightly when the cat spoke to him. He put out the torch and replaced it in his bag, then knelt in front of the small animal. "Well, to tell you the truth, I'm not exactly sure how I caught both lycanthropy and pophiric hemophilia either. It just happened."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:06:51 -0600

@ Beach "Pophiric...what?" Mittens shook his head. "Never mind. Where the hell are you from anyway to be carrying around actual torches like that? Electricity a new concept to you?" Mittens glanced over his shoulder to see Tim had stopped and was watching them, clearly confused. Stupid boy.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:15:55 -0600

Lorg shook his head. "I hail from the mighty province of Skyrim." he said proudly. "I am the Dovakin, last of my kind, and therefore the lands only defense against those who's return was fortold by the Elderscrolls. And you?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:35:08 -0600

@Palm Court ((I don't remember that the website had a menu of any sort to look at.)) Mo leaned in conspiratorially, "Try us. We have a great-grandmother who says the Queen of the Faeries eats the vegetables in our garden. And that's just one of the more believable stories." She decided that she would just give the guy the benefit of the doubt. She and Tig had experienced some pretty weird things on the farm. This would have to be the strangest if this guy really was a time traveler. So far all the weird things they encountered could be explained away or chalked up to hallucinations or wishful thinking. @Secret Door Finn looked at Rochelle. "Maybe it's time to change the menu, you've started to attract some unsavory sorts."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:23:36 -0600

@ Beach "Skyrim..." Mittens repeated. "I've never heard of that place, much less the Dovakin or the Elder Scrolls." His tail twitched. "What was it you were doing before you arrived here?" --- @ Jeze Sinclair blinked at the girls. The fairy queen? Were they serious or just screwing with him? But the worst they could do was think he was crazy, which probably wasn't that big a leap anyway considering the circumstances. "I was in a fight with a mass murdering evil wizard who was trying to bring about hell on earth," he said with a sigh. "I interrupted the ritual which is the only way I can think of for why I've ended up here." Although he still had absolutely no idea as to why. Brighton didn't have a reputation for being particularly demonic as far as he knew.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:08:26 -0600

Bored with following the crowds of humans, Satomi darted into the nearest alleyway, frowning she began to mutter to herself, "Hmm, where did they put that club? What was it called, ah yes, the Secret Door." Taking a right, she soon reached a different street and in front of her was the club.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:16:33 -0600

"I was tracking a dragon that had attacked Riverwood." Lorg said. "How could you have never heard of the Elder scroll?" he asked, suprised. "They have the fate of everything, written down on the inside."

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Nagats-e — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:33:15 -0600

@Jez ((When you go on the Brighton Pier site and click on the Palm Court link ,it's a PDF thing. One for Main Menu and one for Kids Menu :) )) @Myself Wayland clutched the iron when he got outside, infusing as much of his power into it as he could, trying to have it point to where the human was. It merely twitched and he growled in frustration. @Palm court Sophia scratched at one of the branding marks on her shoulder that suddenly itched a little, not really thinking any thing of it. ((Lame, I know. Sry. I've got to go set up the potluck for round 2 today... :P ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:15:15 -0600

((Hmm, obviously the branding 'iron' isn't made from iron...)) @Palm Court ((LOL, I just found a review of Palm Court and they said it had abysmal service :) And wow, they have mushy peas... )) Teagan blinked at Sinclair. Mo's face split into a big grin. "Dude! That. Is. Awesome. Unless _this_ is Hell on Earth, in which case it is definitely not. But you said you foiled the ritual, so that's good." "And can we assume that you came from 1880 in...France? Wow. I don't have any idea how to get you back though."

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Nagats-e — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:23:14 -0600

((In the middle of baking, so not much time to post but... correct, the branding irons are made of bronze, :) ))

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Dragon-Mage — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:47:53 -0600

@ Jeze That...wasn't the reaction Sinclair had been expecting. Considerably more disbelief had featured largely in his expectations. "The ritual was interrupted," Sinclair said. "Not necessarily foiled. Simon reached the climax of the chant when I stepped into the ritual circle." He sighed. "And I was on the Swiss/French border when this happened. But yes, the year was 1880. And I have no idea how to get back either...although the first thing I should probably do is make sure I came through alone." Because if Simon was still around somewhere... --- @ Beach "A dragon," Mittens said flatly. "You're seriously telling me you took on a dragon?" He shook his head. "Fair enough...you come from a place with dragons. But the Elder Scrolls don't exist here. Or if they do no one is aware of them and so no one cares. But I'm betting on the latter since I've been around long enough I really should have heard of them by now."

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:15:45 -0600

Passing a man with a limp and clutching something in his hands, she felt a trickle of power coming from his hands. She sighed, there were more and more people of the supernatural variety entering Brighton these days. She should know, she was one of them. ((Is there anyone at the Secret Door?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:18:38 -0600

((Rochelle is there, serving tables, and Finn should still be around. Not sure when either player is going to be available for interaction though. Saffy at the very least is on a plane for the next little while :p ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:24:02 -0600

Lord scowled. "Of course I fought a dragon. i've don't it many times. What did you think the Dovakin was for?" He shook his head in amazement. It was amazing that these people even survived without the most common knowledge. He was will to bet on the latter as well. Even the planes of Oblivion had Rlder Scrolls of a sorts.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:43:40 -0600

@Palm Court/DM "Wow! So like, it was some sort of sorcery that brought you here?And... you stepped _into_ the circle? Why. That generally isn't a good thing to do when someone casts a circle. Was Simon trying to conjure something? We usually just cast a circle to raise some positive enrgy and send it to the universe...or to help focus when we're disspelling negativity or something." Teagan said. But is someone was messing around with dark magic, that was not a good thing. Teagan and Mo had seen enough strange things happen since they were children to know you had to be careful how you manifested your will. "I don't know how we can find out if anyone else came through with you...Maybe we can go back to where you landed and check around." Mo said. This was turning into quite an adventure. @Secret Door Finn didn't think it was wise to go following right after the fey. he couldn't make it look like he was trying to find the girl first. He poured another whiskey and went back to his poem.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:16:39 -0600

Entering the bar, Satomi grimaced at the loud music and sat down in a dark corner, hopefully unnoticed as she slipped a sketch pad and pencil out of her bag before beginning to draw.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:03:33 -0600

@ Beach "To be honest, Dovakin sounds more like a German pastry than anything else," Mittens said. "Dragon fighting hasn't really been necessary since the time of St. George. You just don't get them round here." Although a well placed missile strike would probably take care of the problem nine times out of ten. He sighed. "Still, it's looking like you really don't know how you got here from...wherever it was, so you can't been the source of my problems. I should get back to my master now." --- @ Palm Court "I needed to get to Simon," Sinclair said. "I know stepping into the circle was a bad plan, but since I didn't have effective ranged weapons and he was standing inside the circle I didn't have much choice in the matter. As far as I know he was trying to summon some sort of demon. Most likely the one he's bound in service to." He couldn't see Simon summoning up a rival.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:26:18 -0600

Lorg nodded at the cat, stood, and walked over to the pair of humans he had come from. Curious creatures. Not anywhere near as strong as in Skyrim.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:37:47 -0600

((probably my last post until late tonight or tomorrow.)) @Palm Court "Summoning a demon? That si some serious shit." Mo said. "Can you even _do_ that? I mean faeries are one thing, but demons?" Mo wasn't exactly sure there were faeries either, but weird stuff happened around the farm and faeries seemed as good a reason as any. "You mean Simon sold his soul? That is just wrong on so many levels." Teagan said.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:22:02 -0600

((Not sure the music'd be that loud yet but it can be a loud song :D Oh and ignore Mei's earlier choice she's going to have the "Fish fillet menu with peas" option from the kids menu. )) Rochelle breathed a sigh of relief when Wayland left, note to self look into this girl and see if she could find her before he did. She smiled when Satomi came in. "Hey there stranger, not see you in a while." @ "I recommend the fishcakes," Jessica said helpfully, "Or if you don't like fish the chickens good." For herself she'd probably go with the fish, chicken was something she got from her sister a lot at the chinese so she might as well get something a bit different. She heard some weird words being bandied about in the american's conversation but no full seentences, just enough to make her frown into her menu. What were they talking about ...Nosy

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:23:40 -0600

((I'm not sure they do drinks but they could go to horatios afterwards)) "I'm not sure they do whiskey here, but I know they do at Horatios which is that one there," Jess pointed "Soo if they can't do it we can get you some there afterwards...or he can I can't take Mei in there." "I'm not allowed in ratios" Mei nodded seriously.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:16:22 -0600

Blinking as a girl approached her, Satomi looked up, flipping her sketchbook closed, "Hello." She said carefully, slightly wary of the woman. There were all too many possibilities of what she could be, the cat was right. Than answering the woman's statement, she shrugged, "I rarely come in here." She said quietly, barely audible beneath the music.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:37:29 -0600

"S'only me satomi," She always looked so nervous and she was a full blood among halfbloods, what was up with that. "What can I get you ?" Rochelle smiled pleasantly, she nodded at Finn they need to talk about this girl and potentially finding her.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:40:13 -0600

Shrugging, Satomi reopened her sketchbook and spoke, slightly more at ease as she could see Rochelle's face in the lighting, "Just a glass of water, thanks." She said, giving a small smile as she took up her pencil once more and continued on her drawing as she gazed around the room.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:42:52 -0600

@Secret Door Finn looked up when the girl walked into the place. ((I'm assuming Satomi is a regular...)) Ah, Satomi. He gave her a quick smile and went back to his writing, but the idea of Wayland out there looking for his 'ward, ' kept creeping into his thoughts. ((Finn wants to go out and look for Sophia but he doesn't know where to start... hard ot find something when you know so little about it.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:32:17 -0600

((Sure why not and a good place to start might be gathering information before searching for Sophia.)) Returning the smile to Finn, Satomi frowned at the picture, something was off. She looked through the shading and lines that defined the bar but something was off. Sighing, she lay it back down before picking her napkin up to doodle on it with nondescript lines and swirls.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:17:35 -0600

((Contemptus' net is screwing up, so copypasting her post here for her. I'll post my own reply to her post afterwards.)) Abel's left eye twitched violently. His face burned, though even he couldn't tell you if it was in anger or humilitation -- probably both. Shame won out, however, and he shoved himself upright, wobbling unsteadily with his heavy pack on the uneven ground. He eyed Max as haughtily as possible -- which, actually was quite a lot, especally for a street-kid who hadn't seen a decent meal in ages, who just took a nose dive in what would have been dinner on another night, and who committed victimless crimes to get by when the nights were especially cold or he had no money to pay for gas when he hitch-hiked. "Might I adivse not /pissing me off/ if you want some decent entertainment tonight, daddy?" he spit at the man, riled and prickly. He picked his way out of the mound of trash, slipping slightly, acutely aware as how his clothes were sticking and damp in places he rather didn't like. "Hurry the fuck up," he grumbled as he stalked past, deeper into the alleys. There was no way he was going to be seen like this. He'd take the back way to the lunatic's apartment.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:25:45 -0600

Max rolled his eyes and followed after the boy, easily avoiding all of the trash piled on the ground. "You're already far more entertaining than I previously expected," he answered. "Pissing you off seems to make you entertaining. Also you're going the wrong way. It's this corner, not that one." He motioned before turning said corner, and continued on through the back ways. At the door to his apartment he paused. "You have something clean to wear, don't you?" he asked abruptly, swinging around to face Abel. "Because I don't know if my own clothing will fit you."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:08:10 -0600

Abel cast the lunatic a postitively withering look as he turned and began to follow. He was releaved, at least, that the man seemed content to put up with his pride -- or maybe he just wants to be alone when he snaps and murders me in a fit of insanity, and a neat place to put the body after, he thought, eyeing the nearest pile of refuse with distaste. "I'm homeless," he snapped, "Not a fucking idiot. YesI have something else to wear. And even if I didn't, I'd rather walk around starkers than take your charity."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:22:42 -0600

@ Beach "Er...who's your new friend?" Tim asked as Mittens clawed at his trouser leg, begging to be let back up into his arms. "Some guy from a place called Skyrim," Mittens said. "And part of the problem I told you about. He's been dragged here from this other place by our unknown problem." "Skyrim?" Tim said blankly. "Your guess is as good as mine," Mittens said cheerfully. --- @ Jeze "I've never seen it happen," Sinclair said. "But I've heard from some fairly reputable sources that it is indeed possible. If difficult. And the sort of demon he was trying to summon...it's far too powerful to be brought into the world through normal summoning methods. And I don't know if he's outright sold it...but it's the most likely situation."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:36:46 -0600

@Palm Court/DM ((Ok, this is weird, I posted to this awhile ago. nano must have eaten it.)) "You have to be downright stupid to want to summon a demon--it never ends well. But to summon a demon and _sell_ it to someone else...that is just wrong." Teagan said. "I really hope Simon didn't come through. And even more that the demon didn't."

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:36:47 -0600

"Pardon me for preferring you not wander my apartment without clothing," he replied waspishly. "Also, you're the one who is hungry and to my knowledge, one requires clothing and shoes to enter a place of fine dining to eat," he added with a sniff. He opened the door and moved for the stairs, loping up them quickly. "Now come along. You're beginning to smell rather disgusting."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:18:16 -0600

@Beach Aerona was trying to place the name Skyrim too, she didn't think she had ever heard of it before either. "I do not recall the name of that place either. Not in any of my travels." She replied, watching Mittens and then looking over the new gentleman again. "If he has been brought here, there are bound to be more. This could propose quite a problem." She added, rather unhelpfully. @Palm Court "Oh... o-okay then." Sophia replied of the whiskey, she glanced back at the menu. She decided she'd have the fish cakes if that was what Jess suggested. She ran her finger over what she thought said fish cakes and wished she knew her letters and words better. She would have to practise more. While she waited for the food, she picked up the glass of honey milk and drank some down, though after even just a few sips, she felt quite full and rubbed her tummy. ((I'll post for Wayland in a bit...))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:46:45 -0600

Abel seethed in silence, his hair hanging, stringy and damp, in his eyes. His teeth ground as he followed Max into his apartment, and no sooner was he in the door he was shouldering past to lock himself in the bathroom for the second time in an hour. And about an hour later, he emerged in a cloud of steam, clad in a long black skirt - the kind found in fortune teller's tents - and a white linen blouse, billowing gently. Silver bangles jangled on his wrists, his eyes were lined in black. His hair hung, glossy and straight. He shrugged into his coat and glanced at Max, indifferent, his eyes hooded. "You have a washing machine I can toss my clothes?" he asked, low, more husky woman than teenage boy -- one got the impression he made the transformation more often than he'd like to admit.

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:20:47 -0600

Max motioned. "This way," he said absently, sliding off the couch and heading off. "Unless you want to wait until after we eat to do the clothes." He studied him a moment, and frowned. "What's with the woman clothing, anyway? You're not a woman. Unless you just have a thing for women's clothing?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:07:45 -0600

"I'd rather get this done as quickly as possible," he groused, and shoved his hair out of his eyes in one agitated movement. He held his sullied clothes in a plastic bag, far from his body as if he might be contaminated. "And no, I don't have a thing for women's clothing. But it's good to have when I need to hitch. People don't really pick up men because there's a shite double-standard when hitching's concerned, but a short skirt will get you here to Winchester in an afternoon. So, laundry?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:41:23 -0600

"Right," he replied, turning away again and leading him to the machines. "Go ahead and wash them, then." He waved a hand in their direction and crossed his arms. "At least you pull off the women's look decently, I guess." He let his gaze wander, almost absently, over him as he studied how the clothing looked on him. "You look better as a man," he said finally, when he's done inspecting him.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:48:38 -0600

Abel snickered, dry and bitter as vinegar-wine. "Congrats, you're one of the few." There was a pause before he turned away, "Laundry, come on. These clothes aren't going to clean themselves." He made quick work of sorting - he tossed all of them into one washers too save money - and fed a vending machine enough money for soap and fabric-softener sheets. "You can go, by the way," he said, gesturing towards the door without looking at Max, "It'll be boring for the next hour and a half. I'll be here."

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:54:04 -0600

"I'm sure you can entertain me in here just as well as anywhere else," he countered. "It's not like I care where you do it from or anything." He hopped up onto one of the empty washing machines, after a careful check to avoid any iron. "I'm perfectly fine right here."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Contemptus — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:59:49 -0600

Abel glanced at him, and said, low and unblinking, "The more you talk, the more I think you want this to be a hook up and not a dinner-n-a-movie kind of deal. Which, y'know, whatever, if I'm staying at your place, eating your food, that's fine. I just want to be clear on the boundaries so we both can get off happy." He shut the washer and started to feed in money with the endless patience people who don't own their own washing machines and an unlimited amount of time have. He hums under his breath, low and easy.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:39:09 -0600

"My lady," Lorg said to the woman. "Most of the other races of Skyrim look similar to you and your kin. It would be the elves and the beastial races you must worry about." He looked up at the moon. Strange. It wasn't even close to full, yet it had been full the night before. Well, maybe time was different in this realm.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:46:55 -0600

@Darkfeather "I see." Aerona replied to Lorg, still looking very curious about him. "It is rather like here then... in some cases." She added after a moment of thought. Not -all- elves and beastial races were bad. She thought for a moment longer, no, that wasn't really right either, there weren't exactly beastial races here. Not that would actively cause trouble. She glanced at the moon too, the light from it reflected like a shimmering path over the water. Aerona had a sudden urge to fly to it and try stepping along the glimmering road... she took a step toward the water and then realised it wouldn't be prudent. It wouldn't do to have someone see her wings and see her walking on the water. Her face fell just slightly, though with her usual lack of expression, it didn't really make much of a difference.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:28:28 -0600

@ beach Mittens groaned. "Don't remind me. I'm going to have to spend tomorrow scouring the city, trying to find out who else might have been dragged here." "You think it's just limited to the city then?" Tim asked. "I think so," Mittens said. "Not definite but...I think the power cut that went on earlier would have affected a larger area if people were being dragged to more than one place. Still gives me ebloodynough to investigate, but at least my search won't be limitless." "Elves?" Tim said, catching some of the new man's conversation. "Seriously? Elves? Mittens, why are you not looking remotely surprised by the mention of elves." The cat shrugged. "I wouldn't worry your pretty little head about it. We still need to keep it to one stunning revelation at a time with you or your head might just explode." "I'm going to drop you again in a minute," Tim threatened. "Erm....so where are the pair of you staying?" he asked. He didn't want to be rude but there was no way he could have them crashing with him. His sister would kill him! --- @ Palm Court "Everything about Simon is wrong," Sinclair said bitterly. "Everything he does is pure evil, everything he touches becomes corrupted." He sighed. "But if he isn't here that means he's still back home, able to do whatever he pleased unchecked." Because he was Sinclair's problem and Sinclair was the one meant to be taking care of him. Everyone else in his order had their own disasters to be dealing with.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:43:37 -0600

Lorg shrugged at the boy. "Why are you suprised at the mention of elves?" he asked. "Though, truthfully, you would most likely be more suprised by the appearence of a Khajiit or an Argonian."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:47:16 -0600

@Beach Aerona stared at Mittens for a long moment, probably longer than was polite, before replying, "I could assist you in searching out any other wayward travellers in the city..." She offered, not really having anything else to do. "I can always watch the carousel another time." She added as an afterthought, not seeming to realise the statement might sound very strange. She did look confused at Tim's question though. She glanced at Lorg, wondering if he might know what Tim meant. "I am... staying in Brighton." She answered, wondering if that were a sufficient response. If he wanted her to elaborate, she could, she supposed.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:49:45 -0600

@Beach ((lol! Adding to the last post, as Aerona made a funny gesture when I read it...)) "Oh, yes, indeed." Aerona nodded, seemingly in complete agreement with Lorg's statement even though she had no idea whatsoever about what a Khajiit or an Argonian was. She was very good at pretending she knew though, apparently, she did manage to look -very- knowledgeable about the subjects.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:30:24 -0600

Lorg scratched his chin, then almost fell over as his head began pounding. He stumbled backwards before steadying himself. Well, that was it. It had been over twenty four hours since he'd fed, so he was now stronger and more powerful. He would look more aged as well, and his eyes would have gained a slight tinge of red.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:34:55 -0600

@Palm Court "Simon sounds like bad news no matter where he is." Mo said. "I don't know how we can find out where he is though. I mean, we just came across you because we thought you were a treet performer or something. If he's here and acts weird, the police might pick him up... But I guess the question for us right now, is what do we do with you?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:35:34 -0600

@ Hospital Juma winced, that was just bloody typical. So they had one possible victim, a weapon that had been used to stab something but not the victim, no other bodies, a missing tree and a bunch of peculiar markings. This was going to be one of those fun cases, he could tell. “That’s right....there was a fire. Don’t worry about the memories, it’s quite common...I’m going to give you my card in case you remember anything before I leave. Just a few more questions... Can you think of anyone you owe any money to...and do you have any enemies....people who might want to hurt you?” @ Palm Court Jessica could still here the Americans when Sophia fell silent, just over the sound of her sounding out the words. This simon whoever he was sounded like a bad news, of course they COULD be larpers judging by the gear but judging by the creepy power cut and the scene on the seafront she should keep an open mind on the deal and go investigate later, as soon as she’d got Mei safely to Lee’s and tucked away in bed. Or not...since she’d have to settle Sophia down for at least a night and wasn’t about to leave mei alone with her or send them to lee’s for the night. No get Sophia to stay the night and ask Rochelle to come over in the morning ..or better yet connor and melusine. They ordered their food and a few minutes later the waitress came back, Jess tucking into the fishcakes. “Tuck in,” she grinned when the food arrived. @ Secret Door Rochelle wandered over to Finn’s table “You thinking what I’m thinking pinky?” She said with a smile, then her face turned serious “We should try finding that girl before he does, dude looks like bad news.”

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:03:39 -0600

@Secret Door ((pinky?)) "Yeah." Finn said. "Wish we had more to go on. If she appeared near here, like he did...How far could she go? She sounds quite young, so would someone take pity on her? If she got in a car she could be anywhere by now. This is bloody frustrating. I don't know that any of my spells for finding things would work. I don't even know what she looks like. But we have to try anyway." He downed his whiskey. "Can you leave now? We can go together."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:53:56 -0600

((Pinky and the Brain... lol!)) @Palm Court Sophia stared at the large amount of food set before her and her eyes widened, so much! She didn't think she would be able to finish it all... not after getting full from the milk but she would try her best. She started to pick up some food with her hands and noticed the others using the forks and knives. She watched them closely and grasped her fork in her fist, trying to mimic their motions. It was very difficult and she kept dropping morsels on the plate before they could reach her mouth. She thought she must be doing something wrong. ((All I have time for at the moment...))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:38:21 -0600

@ Beach "That would be very much appreciated," Mittens said. "Do you still have both your wings? A quick flyby would probably make the searching considerably easier." Although there was the slight problem that people might be able to spot her...Tim's guardian angel was hidden from view from most things of this world but he knew damn well that he wasn't, so Aerona might not be either. Tim blinked at Lorg's stumble, rubbing at his temple as the strange itching got worse. "You okay?" he asked. "Your eyes just went weird..." --- @ Jeze "I don't know..." Sinclair said. "I suppose...I suppose the first thing I should do is try and find somewhere to sleep." He rubbed his hand over his eyes. "I can't remember the last time I got a full night's sleep. Hopefully I'll be a lot more up for tracking Simon down tomorrow." Or at least have a better idea of where to start. --- @ Hospital Simon laughed before he could stop himself. "A couple of people," he mouthed to the police officer before he could inquire further. "Bit of a gambling problem."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:44:29 -0600

"I'm alright." Lorg said, "It's just been too long since I last fed." He looked around, hoping no one else had noticed the change. Luckily, there was nobody else around.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:34:19 -0600

@Palm Court/DM ((Doh! I forget who they are staying with...someone on the police force, I forget her name.)) "Hmm. Well we're staying at a place in town. Part of a special arrangement. We'd have to ask if you could stay there as well..." Teagan said. "We could always give him our room and we could sleep on the floor." Mo suggested. "But how are we going to explain this?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:34:26 -0600

@ Secret Door "Well we have his description to go on at least, and if she's spent time with the unseelie she probably won't be entirely normal. We could check the pier first if she appeared near here she might be there and with all the iron and stuff if he tried to do a spell to find her it might have disrupted it. I mean it's built on Iron and wood after all." She nodded "I'll see if Melusine and Connor can mind the place it's not exactly crowded and we'll go together" @ Hospital. "Right," That was hopeful at least. "Can you give me any names anyone that springs to mind immediatly. What did you play...cards? dogs? I know it's a lot of questions and I'll let you get some rest soon, but if you can give us as much information on this as you can then we'll have something to follow up on when you've had more rest. Maybe you'll remember more as you get well, so we'll come by to talk to you again and in the meantime if you think of anything you've got my card."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:36:33 -0600

@ palm court. "Food ok?" Jess asked as it arrived, tasting hers. It was good for a pier fish and chips shop, better than the rest of the trash they served to the tourists anyway. She was still glancing surreptitiously at the americans whenever she could. "Tuck in then," she smiled, starting on her own food and trying to listen stealthily when she could.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:36:42 -0600

@Beach "Yes, they are no longer white but I do have both of my wings." Aerona nodded, she looked around to see that there weren't any people around and briefly let her glamour shimmer for a moment so her dark feathery wings showed. "I could stay just above the clouds and take a look." She looked curiously at Lorg. "What is it that you eat?" @Palm Court Sophia rubbed at one of her branding marks when it burned and itched a little. She didn't seem to think much about it as she jabbed at a bit of the food with her fork, poking it into her mouth with great difficulty. @Myself Wayland was growing frustrated, his eyes swept over the people on the streets angrily, searching for any sign of where the blasted human might have gone. He kept a look of disgust off of his face with great difficulty, filthy humans surrounded him... it was horrible. He murmured a spell tot he branding iron again and felt it twitch in more of a proper direction this time. A smile crept over his face.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:37:16 -0600

@ Palm Court ((It's Grace. They're currently staying with DCI Grace Ransom)) Sinclair shook his head "I do not want to put you to any more trouble than I already have. I can sleep in the street. It's not the first time I've had to do so." And he suspected it wouldn't be the last. He hoped Brighton didn't have a particularly strong vampiric population or his sleep might be a little disturbed. But he could probably find somewhere sheltered to hide which would reduce the chances of such a creature finding him. --- @ Beach Tim jerked his finger over at the pier. "I'm not exactly rolling in it but I can probably buy you a doughnut or something from the pier. Tide you over until you can track down something more substantial." "I..uh...I don't think that's the kind of food he's going for Tim," Mittens said. "But...what..." Tim looked at Lorg again. And then really Looked. "Oh fuck, you're a vampire! I fucking hate vampires." He looked incredibly put out. "Well I'm not helping you track down some more person to feed off. You can go hungry on that front for all I care." --- @ Hospital He could give names but he doubted they'd do either of them any good. Everyone he knew was in Hell and all his contacts were in mainland Europe. He took the card and frowned at it. What were all the numbers printed on it all about? What was he meant to do with this piece of paper? Was he meant to stand in a ritual circle and chant the numbers to make this man appear? He somehow really doubted it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:46:14 -0600

Lorg nodded. "I expected that reaction. I don't need help feeding. I've been doing it for years. But also keep in mind, you're lucky tonight is not a full moon." He slowly stepped back in case they tried to attack him like everyone in Skyrim did when they found that he was a vampire-werewolf hybrid. Well, everyone except for the vampire's and werewolves.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:17:42 -0600

@Beach Aerona winced a little at the strong language Tim had presented, her eyes widened a little. Just a tiny fraction of course. "Has a vampire done you personal harm?" She asked curiously, then glanced at Lorg when he stepped away, he seemed tense as though he thought any one of them might pounce at him at any moment. "Are you quite alright?" She asked.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:20:34 -0600

"Maybe." the elf said. "It depends on you." He watched the pair carfully. "What are your names?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

BakuraBox — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:21:40 -0600

((/slips back in >>;; I got sidetracked by tumblr)) Max snorted softly, and just settled to wait for him to finish, checking his watch every so often. When the machines finally finished and the clothes were folded, he stretched. "Ready to find a new place to eat, then?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:51:21 -0600

((Finn doesn't know if he should be offended about being called Pinky or not.)) @Secret Door "That works." Finn said to Rochelle. "If I had been kept by an Unseelie and escaped what's the first thing I'd want to do in a place like this?" he mused. "Run far away? Get food? Hide?" @Palm Court Mo noticed the very pretty Asian woman who kept staring at them. The one who must be the little girl's mom. She guessed it was the American accents that got her attention. She gave her a quick smile. "Let us talk to Grace, before you try sleeping in the street. I don't know if they have vagrancy laws here." Teagan said.

Re: Brighton Rock!

maskedwritr — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:08:32 -0600

Bored, Satomi quietly got up and slipped her messenger bag on before leaving the place and once more entering the flow of humans.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:51:42 -0600

((Bump.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:08:17 -0600

@ Beach At the mention of the full moon Tim just frowned. "Full moon? What would that have to do with..." His eyes suddenly widened. "You're a werewolf too." He gave Mittens a sharp look. "Werewolves are real? Seriously? Next you'll be telling me fucking fairies exist too." Mittens decided to keep his mouth shut. He could break the news about that one when the little Lord had calmed down somewhat. "Vampires haven't hurt me exactly," Tim said. "They just...the ones I've met annoyed the hell out of me. No pun intended. They messed up the grave of a zombie I'm friends with. And the graves of her husband and sons too." He shook his head. "I'm Timothy. Timothy Zhang." "Mittens," the cat said. "I do have another name but Tim here can never remember it and I've resolved to stop telling him." --- @ Palm Court "I wouldn't want to impose," Sinclair said quickly. "I'm sure I can find somewhere out the way to sleep where the town guard won't find me to put any vagrancy laws into practice."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:25:27 -0600

"I am Lorg of Skyrim." the elf said. "What would your full name be, little one?" It couldn't be that bad.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:36:42 -0600

@Palm Court "I guess we feel sort of responsible. We did find you." Teagan said. "You're a stranger in a strange land..."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:15:14 -0600

@ Hospital "Simon?" Juma prompted, hoping to break him from his reverie and get the names so he could have some angle to pursue on this crazy case which as yet had given him nothing to go on except an eerie sense that the world he wasn't supposed to speak of or even know about was interacting with his career yet again and the shit was going to hit the fan. @ Secret door. "I have no idea...run far away may well cover getting here in the first place so food, shelter?" "...When I came through," Connor rumbled from the door. "I Wanted hamburger and chips...and to hide in as many people as I could find, just to know there were normal people around me again and to hope they wouldn'tt tell me apart ..I should have thought I looked different but I didn't not to them, not much different anyway and then I went looking for iron even thought it hurt me because I knew it hurt them more" and he had not yet been so fey then that he couln't stand to be in iron's presence, as long as it didn't touch his skin. "So let's try the pier since we're right under it, see if she's with the people th ere, then comb the beaches and the town?" Rochelle suggested @Palm Court. Jessica felt really embarrassed at being caught looking, but smiled to avoid making the situation any more awkward and went back to her meal, maybe she should just take them aside at the end of said meal and ask them some questions. ((heh we could converge all three of these groups if wayland makes a big scene on the pier and they see him off :D))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:37:26 -0600

@Beach "Well, of course they do." Aerona replied to Tim's outburst. She looked a little confused as to why he would think that the Fae -didn't- exist, she watched him with concern in her dark eyes, as though he might very well be a bit touched in the head. "Oh dear... how terribly disrespectful." She added, looking upset by the story of the people's graves being tampered with. It wasn't so much the thought of the bodies and things, as those were merely like empty shells after death, it was the thought that the memories of the people might be soiled. She glanced at Lorg... wondering if he ever would do the same. "It would not be right to judge all vampires and all werewolves on the actions of one or a few though." She murmured. "This gentleman has not done such things to you or your friends." @Palm Court Sophia was plucking apart a particularily hot bit of fish when she got burnt. She felt the scalding heat and wriggled, knowing it wasn't from the hot food she had just touched. Frantically, she rubbed at the branding marks on her hands as they itched and squirmed her feet on the cold floor under them to try to cool the ones on the soles of her feet. Even as she did, she knew it was futile, the burning was always from within, rather than external. Nothing soothed it, and she had -tried- many times and many things to make it stop. "No no!" She mumbled, looking frightened as she cast her gaze around the room, fearful of what she would find. He was getting closer, that was all that she knew right now. She had to leave before he killed any one else! She stood up suddenly, almost knocking the seat over, trying to think of a place she could hide before he could see her. Wayland's branding iron swung sharply to the left, nearly tapping the window of a restaurant. His grip tightened to control it and he smirked as he turned slowly, slipping the tool away and making his way inside just as Sophia ducked under the table, stuffing her knuckles into her mouth and biting down so she wouldn't make a sound. She didn't seem to care that people might think she was strange for her behaviour, too terrified to think kof anything other than keeping away from him. ((We -could- do that. Though I was hoping to develop his character more during this thread. I'm toning him down so that he won't be like, hitting her in public or anything, so he won't need to be battled or anything, at least not right -now- lol! ;D ))

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Dragon-Mage — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:50:43 -0600

@ Beach "Fairies exist?" Tim said in disbelief. "As in...the little things with butterfly wings? Seriously?" "Well...not so much butterfly wings," Mittens admitted. "More like Jared the Goblin King in Labyrinth. Only without to dodgy fashion sense and mullet problem. And don't call me little," he said to Lorg. "I am a mighty being, do not let this cute fuzzy form deceive you! And my name, if you really must know, is Abezethibou of Tartarus." "And I'm Timothy," Tim added. "Of...um...Kent." It didn't sound anywhere near as impressive as Mittens' title. "And Lord of Hell, not that I really do much about that bit. It just sort of happened." --- @ Palm Court "I suppose that is true," Sinclair said. "Truth be told I did not expect England to be so strange a place as I have found it." But then he'd never expected to come here a good hundred years into the future. He blinked as something at the other table caught his eye. "Is...is that girl hiding under the table?"

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Darkfeather21 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:13:55 -0600

"Ah, an illusionist then," Lorg said. "Maybe you do it too well, as you seem to have taken on the mental characteristics of a kitten, O'Great Abezethibou of Tartarus." He raised an eyebrow at Timothy. "How do you not choose to be the lord of somthing? Even the Deadric Princes chose their roles in the Realms of Oblivion."

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maskedwritr — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:34:41 -0600

Catching a strong scent, Satomi closed her eyes and inhaled before following it to where it led. Hearing her stomach grumble she pondered when the last time she ate was. There was only enough food for Lorg so she hadn't eaten than...shrugging she entered the small restaurant. She was led to a booth and shown a menu, hmm...Palm Court? Interesting name, she thought with a smirk.

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Nagats-e — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:39:45 -0600

@Beach "I am called Aerona... of... of..." She had a blank look for a moment, glancing at Tim as though he might give her an answer and shook her head a little. "I am called Aerona." She said, a blush she wished she could hide creeping into her cheeks. Thankfully it was dark and hopefully they wouldn't be able to tell. "It is nice to meet you Mr Lorg." She replied.

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Darkfeather21 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:45:32 -0600

"As it is you," the elf said, looking about the beach. He sniffed a moment, thinking he smelled food. ((Is Palm Court on the board walk?))

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Darkfeather21 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:56:32 -0600

((Bump))

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Safriadragonfan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:49:18 -0600

((I was actually thinking, Jess’s group, the girls’ group... and wayland oh and potentially Rochelle and finn...but hey :D the more the merrier for this although it may be anticlimactic if he doesn’t need putting down but that’s ok :D it can make it more fun later just a note, Mei and Jess are wearing iron and pretty much always do)) @ Palm court Jessica blinked as Sophia started plucking at her scar, drawing the attention of other dinners, and then suddenly dove under the table. The man that appeared in the doorway though, slipping long rod of something away before he came in here...looked like bad news. She hoped the iron in the piers support structure might dull fairy power here. She stood up sureptiously as if looking around for something, moving to put herself between this man and both Mei and Sophia ((has he seen Sophia i wasn’t sure about that...and the seelie queen could see him off right now if necessary))

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Nagats-e — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:30:22 -0600

((He hasn't seen her yet ^^)) @Palm Court Wayland smiled at the hostess and requested a seat. He could be quite charming when he wanted to be, she blushed and led him to a table, as they passed by each one he scanned the people sitting at them. He didn't see a sign of the human girl, though some faces looked rather wary. He eyed them for a moment before passing on to the next table. He thanked they hostess for the menu and pretended to look at it, really looking over top of it at the people in the restaurant.

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Safriadragonfan — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:21:56 -0600

@ palm court When it appeared he hadn't seen the girl after all, though he was definately looking for something, jess smiled, stretched and sat back down "That's where the toilets are " she murmured "We'll go later K sweetie?" Mei was about to say "what?" but looked at her mother's wink and nodded, mystified "k mum"

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Dragon-Mage — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:28:51 -0600

@ Hospital "I'm sorry..." Simon mouthed. "I don't really..." Should he give them Sinclair's name? Just in case the bastard had followed him through to wherever this was? "Wait...Sinclair...I think one of them was called Sinclair." "Excuse me? Officers?" One of the ward nurses poked her head through the door. "I'm afraid that's all the time we can give you at the moment. Doctor's orders I'm afraid. But you'll likely be able to come back tomorrow should you need to." Grace nodded and closed her notebook before stepping outside to hand back the sterile coverings they'd put on to interact with the man. "Well...that doesn't exactly give us much to really go on," she said with a sigh. --- @ Beach Mittens narrowed his eyes at Lorg. "You just watch it, pal. I could still take you out with one claw tied behind my back." Mostly because it only took a mental action to summon some of the Boys from hell while he personally ran away and hid somewhere safe. "It's...um...it's a long story," Tim said. "A deal I made in jest to someone I didn't think existed...that sort of thing. Fine print that went really wrong. It's only a temporary gig though so it's not like it's that big a deal."

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jezebellydancer — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:26:34 -0600

@Secret Door "The Pier sounds good. Think she knows about iron?" Finn asked. He frowned, "Did he say how old?" He really didn't think they had much to go on, but if the girl had been in faery for awhile, she should stand out somewhat. "So, let's be off then." He closed his notebook and stuffed it into his messenger bag. @Palm Court ((I'm wondering what Sophia is wearing, since if those cuts and brands are showing, I would have thought Jess would have seen them and people would notice. So I'm assuming she's pretty wekk covered up.)) ((*snirk* DM, your remarks abt the Goblin King's fashion sense cracked me up.)) Teagan wondered what the girl was doing. She looked really scared. "She seems to be... Maybe she's autistic or something." "Maybe," Mo agreed. "But I think she just really looks afraid."

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Darkfeather21 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:04:50 -0600

"Right," Lorg said to the cat. "Tell me, have you ever killed a dragon with nothing but a broken sword?" To Timothy. "So, you are only a steward to this hell?"

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Safriadragonfan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:10:22 -0600

@ Hospital "That's good, that's good anyone el.." he stopped when the nurse came in "That's all right we're just finishing up anyway. "Anyone else?" When Simon shook again he nodded "Thank you very much for your cooperation sir, please do call if you remember anything else, otherwise we'll check in on your progress in a day or two and see if you've remembered anything else." He nodded politely. "Wish you a speedy recovery" he added. Then he nodded politely to the nurse and got up, handing back the masks and gloves he'd been given. "Whole load of nothing" he sighed. "Right Sinclair that's an unusual name. I reckon you can run it through the database and then we can go home for the night and come back in the morning when forensics might have something useful and I'll probably be able to get hold of my source for a consult." @ Jez "I bloody well hope so or she's not going to do to well, let's go" Rochelle nodded to Connor and Melusine gratefully and carefully approached the door, waiting for her moment to exit, she didn't want to appear in front of someone and get them asking the wrong sorts of questions. When they'd made their way safely out she headed for the stairs off the beach so that they could get up onto the pier.

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jezebellydancer — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:45:32 -0600

@Saf "Right, after you, then." Finn blinked a little to adjust to the darkness filled with harsh electric lights. He inhaled the salt air. He preferred the green earthy smell of forests. The sea did remind him of a selkie he once knew having caught her dancing with her sisters one moon bright night far away on the rocky shores of Eire.

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Dragon-Mage — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:22:10 -0600

@ Beach "No," Mittens admitted. "But that's simply because we don't have dragons round here. However, I am very good at winding round someone's legs right at the top of the stairs." "This is hardly a good competition to be trying to win, Mittens," Timothy said. "Well since I am evil that's hardly an issue," the cat retorted. Tim shook his head and addressed Lorg's question. "I'm officially it's ruler for the next thousand years. But since it's eternal it'll go back to its original boss after that." He really didn't know what would happen to him in those circumstances. He didn't really want to think about it. --- @ Palm Court "I don't know what autistic means," Sinclair said. Clearly not just another word for scared. Ill? Mental unstable? Something like that? But if Mo thought she was afraid...he started looking round the restaurant to see if there was anything worth being afraid of. There was quite a lot he was a little nervous about, but they were all in plain sight and no one else seemed to have any sort of issues with them.

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Darkfeather21 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:15:47 -0600

"Until you've killed a dragon, don't talk about beating the Dragonborn," Lorg said, watching the cat. "That's interesting. I remember one of my ancestors from Tamriel had an expirence similar to that when he became the ruler of the Shivering Isles of Sheogorath, Prince of Maddness." He removed one of the glass knives from his belt and examined the edge, a habit he had picked up from the Brotherhood. Always keep your blades sharp, and your tounge sharper.

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Nagats-e — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:49:24 -0600

((Soph would be wearing something like this or like this or a combo of the 2. So some of her scars and brands would be very noticeable. I'll post something for her in a bit...)) @Beach "Leviathan is rather like a dragon." Aerona observed, correcting Mittens. "Though he cannot be extinguished just yet of course." She added, to be fair. "Have you killed many dragons?" She asked Lorg when there was a pause in the conversation. "Is it quite difficult? I should think it would be. I cannot see Leviathan nor Behemoth take to being killed very lightly..." She had been thinking a bit about Mittens bragging about twisting around people's legs at the top of stairs, "I am quite good at catching people as they fall. Out of trees, down stairs, out of windows, quite a few different kinds of fallings. I suppose that might mean that the two of us balance each other out." She actually almost smiled a tiny bit.

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Darkfeather21 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:17 -0600

"Quite a few actually," Lorg said, in response to Aerona. "At the very least twenty. And with the power of the Thu'um it is quite easier than it would be normaly."

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Nagats-e — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:11:57 -0600

@Beach "Ah, I see. Yes... that would of course make things a trifle less- erm..." Aerona paused, "difficult. If you do not mind my inquiring, what is Th-Thumb? Thum? Thu... um?" She tried to pronounce it like he had. "Is that your blade? It is rather sparkly in the starlight." She said, looking it over and tilting her head. "Is this the sort of weaponry used to kill dragons where you are from?"

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Darkfeather21 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:21:57 -0600

"No, the Thu'um is a shout." Lorg said, placing his knife back in his belt. "This is just a regular glass dagger." He withdrew a glass warhammer from his pack. "This is a weapon befitting the killing of a dragon. Made in the fires of the Skyforge, enchanted in the depths of the Mages College, the Dovabane is a weapon for the glory of Sithis and the Daedra."

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Nagats-e — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:49:58 -0600

@Palm Court ((Have we lost tweed?)) Sophia shivered under the table, she saw the person walk by and felt a chill. She couldn't quite understand it, she thought she sort of recognised the man but she wasn't sure. All she knew is that she felt the enchanted branding marks flaring with pain and knew that could only mean one thing... Wayland was around and looking for her. The cold floor bit into her knees as she crouched under the table, making sure not to touch it, lest her shaking end up toppling the whole table over. She tried to think of what could be done and tugged on the hem of the lady who had brought her here. "H-h-have you a c-cl-cloak I m-might b-borrow?" She whispered.

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Nagats-e — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:36:39 -0600

@Beach "Oh... so shouting at the dragon can defeat it? How does such a thing work? Does it hurt the feelings of the dragon somewhat so that it wishes to go away?" Aerona asked with all seriousness, looking over the glass warhammer. "An impressive weapon, to be sure."

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Darkfeather21 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:42:53 -0600

@beach Lorg sighed and turned out to the sea. "This is a Thu'um," the elf said, taking a deep breath. He gathered himself, the released his energy in three words: "FUS RO DAH!" The water split, forming a tunnel as the power of the Thu'um passed through it. The elf turned back around and replaced the hammer in his pack.

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jezebellydancer — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:08:09 -0600

@Palm Court "It's a brain disorder, I think. Autistics have problems relating to the outside world. Something sets them off, they might hide, or bang their head...They frequently don't like to be touched." Mo said. "I'm no expert. If she's afraid, then what is she afraid of? She was just sitting there." She looked around to see what might have frightened the girl.

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Dragon-Mage — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:47:14 -0600

((I think Tweed is unfortunately just one of those crazy busy people and so just isn't available for posting all that frequently)) @ Beach Mittens ears went forward as he worked out what Lorg intended to do. "I don't really think that's the best..." But it was too late. The man had already started acting. Mittens sighed. "Brilliant." "That is so cool," Timothy said as the water separated with simply the power of Lorg's shout. "Why shouldn't he have done that?" "Magic isn't exactly common," the cat said. "It's more common in a place like this than back in Pembury, but it's still unusual enough that the magical community keeps things very much hidden. And they do not appreciate outsiders flashing it about. They're not as fussy as the local vampires or werewolves but that's because the local vampire hunter doesn't routinely go after them if they start screwing around in public." He fixed Lorg with a look. "You haven't been throwing around any more magic publicly have you? Because it is going to get noticed and then trouble will start looking for you." --- @ Palm Court "Oh," Sinclair said. "I...I see." He didn't think he really did, but he also didn't think further explanation would illuminate things for him any.

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Darkfeather21 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:42:16 -0600

@beach "None that's terrible noticible," Lorg said. "The people of Skyrim are uncomfortable with the power of the Thu'um as well." He watched the cat. "The only other spell I've used has been the Shroud of Sithis."

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Nagats-e — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:12:40 -0600

@Beach ((I saw Brighton Pier in a movie I was watching last night, ^__^ I was like, "Ooh! There's where Sophia would've been hiding! There's the ride Aerona would've been watching!! There's what the sunset would look like!!!" lol)) ((And I feel silly but I only -just- realised that with google maps you can get the street view and go all the way down the pier and see the shops and restaurants and everything. lol @_@ *clueless* I had done it with the bit across the street before but not the actual pier. :P )) Aerona was eager to see the Thu'um in action, she raised her eyebrows a bit when she saw the effect, clapping her hands a little and then glancing at Tim and MIttens. Realising they weren't clapping their hands and paws, respectively, she stopped and blushed. "Erm... that is quite impresive. Though I am inclined to agree with Mittens on this subject. It would be wise to keep such an action discreet... at the risk of frightening the populace in general."

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jezebellydancer — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:06:22 -0600

((Whoa, way cool about Google Maps, I hadn't realized that. I'll check that out later, or tomorrow.)) ((Tig and Mo are at a loss of what to say just now...))

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Dragon-Mage — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:46:39 -0600

((Really? I didn't know that either :p Hoorah for google maps)) @ Beach "Then I advise you keep it that way," Mittens said. "Although...given your mishmash of abilities and...unusual condition it might be an idea to pass you over to the mages or the vampires or the werewolves to look after until we can figure out what brought you here and get you back to where you belong." The little cat cocked his head at Lorg. "How does that sit with you?" --- @ Palm Court ((I know, I'm having trouble what to happen with them as well. Maybe we should either start gearing towards Wayland showing up or get them heading to bed so we can start a new day with new wacky shenanigans)) --- @ Hospital "Right you are boss," Grace said, rubbing at her temples. She supposed this was a perfect example of 'be careful what you wished for'. She'd wanted something a little more exciting to get her through the night shift and she had certainly got it. Unfortunately it was also coming with a heavy dose of confusion and very few answers, which was never enjoyable.

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Nagats-e — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:02:34 -0600

((lol! Yay me for finding out something new! XD )) @Palm Court ((Sorry, I was waiting on any reply Tweed might've been able to give and Saf's reply and trying to figure out how I could get Soph out of there without their help. :P Let me see what I can come up with...)) Sophia felt frozen with fear. She didn't know where he was but she felt sure he was around somewhere. She didn't know where to look, where to turn, where to go. She knew though she had to do someithng, sh e couldn't just hide here forever. Making a decision, she peeked up over the table and pretended to put something on it. "F-f-found it..." She whispered weakly, glancing around furtively. "I... I th-thank you f-f-for the f-food... I think I sh-should really b-be g-g-going now th-though." She started to move away slowly, edging through the tables and heading for the door. Wayland was sipping on a drink and watching the people, the girl moving out from under the table and making to leave the restaurant without her companions caught his attention though. His eyes narrowed and he watched for a moment longer. She seemed to be keeping an eye out for something... she glanced his way and he caught a sudden brief flash of dark blue eyes, filled with fear, and he stood. The moment ended though, he felt a little confused, he didn't recognise the girl though... what was happening? Sophia darted out the door and back onto the boardwalk, looking left and right, trying to decide where to go. She headed to where there was a lot of lights and sounds, lots of people to get lost in. The end of the pier was noisy with people and the rides were noisy and distracting. It meant being trapped there, sure, but if he couldn't find her, maybe he would give up the search... for now at least.

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Darkfeather21 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:06:26 -0600

@Beach "As long as there's blood, food, and mead, I'll live wherever, Abezethibou." Lorg said, watching the cat.

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jezebellydancer — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:58:11 -0600

((I probably won't be around until Monday, so bunny my folks, use Finn for muscle against Wayland if you need to :) ))

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Safriadragonfan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:08:09 -0600

@ Palm court. Cloak...coat? "Sorry" she didn't really have anything big enough to hide the girl underneath the table. she tried to shift her seat to block her from the line of sight of the man she'd been so scared of, but then she bolted from the table like a jack rabit. "Wait..." and then she was gone damnit. She should really go after her and Mei had pretty much finished "Can we get this to go please," she said, paying the bill and heading out onto the pier after her. @ Pier "hey think that's her?" Rochelle said as a girl surged from one of the restaurants, she pointed her out to Finn. @ DM grace Juma drove them back to the station and started putting yet more paperwork in place for the case whilst Grace combed through the database looking for any matches for the name Sinclair. When he'd finished he went to find her "Found anything?"

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Dragon-Mage — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:47:36 -0600

@ Saf Grace rubbed sleep out of her eyes and shook her head. "No...nothing. Well...nothing useful. No one on the system with Sinclair as a first name. Plenty with it as a surname. Far too many to do any kind of sensible searching." She sighed. "Any game plan for what we do next? Should we try and get some sort of physical description of this Sinclair character from Simon tomorrow? See if that can narrow it down any?" --- @ Beach "It might be an idea to drop you off with the vampires then," Mittens said. "Food and mead can be obtained anywhere in the city...well, mead is a touch more specialised. Only a few places serve it. But food is readily available. Blood however...unless you want to go around eating the citizens, which will get you killed by the local vampires for being too obvious, they're your best bet for a consistent meal ticket."

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Safriadragonfan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:03:49 -0600

@ Dm " We sleep and wait till the afternoon shift . I will try and get hold of my contact to get them view the scene, we see what pathology has dug up and go question this Simon again... see if he's remembered anything or we can get that description and then we follow up any further leads that have developped before attending a party. That's pretty much my plan for the day. Pathology probably WON'T have anything til Monday but we can always hope. Come on let's clock out you look beat and I know I am."

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Darkfeather21 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:02 -0600

@Beach "I rarely, if ever eat citizens. Even when I've changed." Lorg said, watching the woman carefully. Why would she think he killed innocent people for eating? Now, bandits on the other hand...

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Darkfeather21 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:27 -0600

The cat, not the woman.

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Nagats-e — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:56:05 -0600

@Pier Sophia didn't allow herself to look around much as she took off toward the end of the pier, the lights and noise her beacon. She ignored the splinters on her barefeet, limping one or twice and then kept running, pushing in between the crowds of people. She ducked around a corner of a large... house looking thing, though she didn't think it was an actual house. There were scary sounds coming from it... Her brands didn't itch now though, maybe she had been mistaken? She didn't think so though. @Beach ((To be perfectly exact, from the pictures it doesn't look like there are any benches around the carousel directly, so I'll say Aerona was leaning against a raling and watching the people on the carousel. lol!)) "I think that anything that might be seen as harmful to the people around here could be seen as a reason to have you evicted from the area, unfortunately." Aerona told Lorg. "It would be prudent to keep such actions and things... on the down low?" She hoped she was using that mortal terminology right, she glanced at Tim and MIttens again to see if they knew what she meant.

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Darkfeather21 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:06:01 -0600

@Beach "You wish for me to be descreet in my feedings?" Lorg asked. "I am the listener of the Dark Brotherhood, a member of the Black Hand of the Night Mother and Sithis. I feed with the utmost discrepency." He once again checked his knife, then replaced it on his belt. "I also do not kill when I feed."

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jezebellydancer — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:42:24 -0600

@Pier/DM/Nagats "Could be, those are strange markings on her skin--even for here. And she looks frightened." Finn said. He was already lengthening his stride to catch up to the girl.

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Nagats-e — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:14:38 -0600

@Pier It wasn't until she got to the end of thepier that she realised that maybe the dead end on the pier might have not been the wisest of choices of places to hide. Wayland could probably blast the whole thing and everyone on it to get to her, and she knew that he would stop at nothing just to get her back. Shivering, she looked around at the people milling about, talking, laughing, the squeals coming from some of the more thrilling looking rides. The supper wasn't sitting well in her tummy now, but shse had chosen this place to run to, now she had to figure out how to hide here... @Palm Court Wayland put up a pretense of finishing his drink and then set some coins down on the table, unsure of how much these things cost on this side. The gold coins meant nothing to him of course, he had more than enough of that rubbish. Thinking for a moment, he got up and decided to go outside, he would see where the branding iron directed him next, if back in the restaurant again, he would wait for the human to emerge, if elsewhere... well, he would go. He murmured to it, it swung a little wildly over the water at first and then to the direction of the end of the pier. The magic wasn't working how it n ormally did... it was probably that blasted Myyr... she was always meddling. Well, he thought with a smirk, he had dealt with her well enough already. Then he started slowly toward the end of the pier, there was nowhere else for the girl to run... he could take his time and let her think that perhaps she had some hope for getting away. He would once again crush those notions in her.

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Nagats-e — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:27:58 -0600

((Maybe I'll give some more interaction than that, on second thought... :) )) @Pier Sophia's brands tingled again, she rubbed at them, looking around but not seeing Wayland's looming form anywhere, nor anyone with a pronounced limp like his. Frowning, she couldn't figure out why the brands were acting so strange, normally they would have her writhing on the ground, incapable of movement or thought until he released the spell. They had never eacted like this before but she didn't want to question it at the moment. ((Is Finn still really tall in this or does he have a glamour to hide just how tall he is? If he does, let's just say Sophia saw his eyes on her as he was getting closer and got nervous. lol)) She looked over her shoulder and saw an almost impossibly tall man parting through the crowds, some people followed him with their eyes as he walked, huge strides eating up the wood of the pier so quickly. She saw him looking at her and he seemed to be making a direct path toward her, her heart started to pound. She was trying to be invisible... she felt exposed and took a step back out of the way, maybe he was walking somewhere else, somewhere past her. Her eyes widened as he got closer, then she noticed he was with a couple (?) of other people as well, they hadn't been as visible in the crowd. Looking past him, she saw another large man, not quite as big as this man, but big enough. She didn't recognise him other than a brief glimpse from the restaurant, but she certainly recognised the branding iron flashing red in his hand. Yes... she knew -that- thing far too well. She squeaked and stumbled back a step, bumping into someone who gave her a little push out of the way and told her crossly to watch where she was going. She barely heard them as she averted her eyes, if he hadn't seen her in the restaurant, maybe he wouldn't now. "Oh help... oh please... please someone help..." She whispered quietly, afraid to make more noise than that.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:41:09 -0600

@ Saf/Jeze "Sleep?" Grace said with a smile. "You have just answered all my prayers boss." She retrieved her bag and started gathering her things together. "I'll say one good thing for the night shift. No matter how shitty the cases you get are they're still not going to keep you awake like they can when you're on the normal shift." Okay, so that wasn't exactly true. The really nasty ones did still get under your skin, but the additional tiredness did work wonders for making your mind just shut up and leave things until morning to think about. She sent a quick text to her American guests, letting them know she was finishing up her shift and would be back at the flat soon. --- "Don't kill...be subtle about it..." Mittens nodded. "That should work to keep everyone happy. You should still present yourself to the head vampire in town though. I've heard she puts a great deal in store by politeness and she considers it very rude to be in her city uninvited."

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Darkfeather21 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:45:39 -0600

@Beach "As any proper Thane should," Lorg said with a nod of his head. "Where may I go to request an audiance with her Ladyship?" The elf tried to think of how different vampires in this world would be. Probably not that different.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:20:32 -0600

((Yay I get to bring out Medea *happy face*)) @noone Juma grinned "Night Grace, see you tommorow." He left the station himself, texting Jess on his way out. @ The pier. Jess raced out onto the pier clutching Mei and shoving the unfished meals into her back, looking for where the girl had gone. "Jess!" It was Rochelle "Looking for someone" "Girl... blonde, in a spot of bother." "Yeah we were heading after her too," Rochelled nodded at Finn vaguely "She went that way , let's go see what we can do." she sounded terrifyingly calm about the whole thing but Rochelle favoured subtle.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:18:24 -0600

@ Pier/Jeze (Just to force Sinclair and the others into the plot line as well...) There was something still nagging in the back of Sinclair's mind about the frightened girl they'd seen hiding under the table. Something about the symbols scattered across the parts of her body he'd been able to see. He needed to investigate further. It could mean nothing...it could be just what he was looking for to explain his presence in this crazy place. Just in case Simon had nothing to do with it after all. "If you will excuse me ladies," he said to Mo and Teagan. "I appreciate all you have done for me and thank you for your gracious offer to find me somewhere to sleep, but I believe there is something I must investigate. I shall impose on you no longer." He gave their table a brief bow and headed back out, trying to see where the strange girl had gone.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:19:49 -0600

((So sorry for being away for so long. Life has gotten busy.)) @Pier/Whomever ((Yeah, Finn is still 7' tall, his hair is long, but covers his ears.)) Once Finn got close to the girl, there was no mistaking the runes on her body. She _had_ to be the one Weyland was looking for. She had that frightened rabbit. "It's all right." he told her, his voice quiet and soothing as if he were talking to a skittish horse. "We're here to help. Just stay with me and I'll make sure Weyland doesn't find you." -- "I think we should follow him." Mo said. "Who knows what he might get into." She was already pulling money out of her wallet and putting it on the table. "Something is going on with that girl, too." "Yeah, talk about global weirding. I think this place just won the award." The two girls left the restaurant and tried to find Sinclair in the crowd.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:27:12 -0600

@Pier Wayland lengthened his stride, the tall man he had seen in the tavern was so tall, it was easy to distinguish him from everyone else. He merely kept his eye on the tall form and followed, wondering what he was doing up here as well. Sophia gave a little moan of fear when the giant man stopped right in front of her, looking terrified, though she stopped trying to squish herself behind one of the noisy rides. "H-h-he's here th-then?" She asked, the sound of the man's voice was soothing enough, it calmed her down.. would he really help her be safe from Wayland? Her collar made a frightening movement, flexing around her throat and she gasped, not understanding what was happening. She hadn't touched it, there was no fae around, save if Wayland were here... she frowned and then something clicked, she looked up again at the man with renewed fear and started to back away, even as the collar started to tighten at her direct disobedience of his words. She took a step toward him again to remedy it but was shaking. "Y-y-you're f-f-fae?" She whispered. Wayland murmured a spell over his branding iron and it swung toward the end of the pier again. On the end of the pier, Sophia's brands flared with a burning, itchy pain and she rubbed her hands over them.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:33:48 -0600

((Just realized, in my last post, where it says Thane, that should be Jarl.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:32:13 -0600

((Jarl, Thane, same thing, all depends on your perspective :) )) "Half-fey. One me mother's side." Finn said to the girl. How could she know? His ears were hidden. But then, it seemed she had been living in faery with Weyland for some time. "What's wrong?" he saw the way she twitched. he looked through the crowd to see if he could spy this fey that kept humans as pets.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:20:49 -0600

@Pier Sophia shuddered as he confirmed what she had just figured out for herself. Again though, even as she felt scared, he sort of reminded her of Myyr... she didn't want to trust him and... and he was just so- so -big- and it was scary... but she -knew- what bad fae were like and she didn't sense anything like that in him. "H-he's nearb-by some-somewhere. He- he's using his m-magic to try and f-find me..." She replied in a hushed voice, this man was bigger even than Wayland, could he really protect her? She hadn't met anyone who could stand up against Wayland. "He'll k-kill you if you tr-try to st-stop him." She added, if this man were to try to get in his way, he should at least know what he was up against. Wayland cursed under his breath as he pushed his way through the crowds, filthy blasted humans... He was jostled a bit and shot a glare at anyone who tried to come too close to him. Most people got the message clearly enough. He couldn't wait to be home again... he was running out of time too, at that. He couldn't leave the White Horse to be running all over the place for very long. The damn creature had to be shod again and brought back to Uffington, the sooner the better. Damn the girl for choosing to leave at this time... or had it been planned? Damn Myyr and her persistent meddling. He shot a glare at another couple passing a little too near for his liking and headed toward the rides. He knew he had to be close, he could feel it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:12:42 -0600

@Pier Finn grinned wolfishly, "He can _try_ to kill me when I stop him." He looked around. he didn't like the fact that it was so crowded. "I'm Finn, by the way." he wondered if they should head toward one of the rides. One with lots of metal. -- "Dude! Watch where you're going." Mo said with a glare at the guy (Weyland) who practically ran into her.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:45:30 -0600

@Pier Wayland shot a glare of his own at the human who was ignorant enough to speak to him. He looked over the strangely dressed woman with a sneer. "I do beg your pardon... madam." He said, clearly mocking, even as he gave a short bow before storming off again, branding iron clutched tightly in his fist. --- "H-hello." Sophia said quietly, still feeling quite overwhelmed by the sheer height of the man. She felt really tiny and it scared her a little to meet someone even bigger than Wayland, but this man, his eyes seemed kind. "I'm S-Soph-Sophia." She managed to get out, dark blue eyes looking up at him and then darting around to see if she could see Wayland coming, she just had to stay hidden until he went away... Mr Finn's smile caught her off guard, she felt a flutter in her tummy, she thought at first it was because she was afraid but on a brief further reflection it wasn't quite the same... she wasn't sure what it was. It made her feel a bit safer though, his confidence. --- ((Aerona's still on the beach with Tim and Mittens and Lorg... any plans for them? :) ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:44:35 -0600

((I'm still waiting for someone to answer my question about the Head Vampire))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:57:13 -0600

((I'm sorry, I've been swamped with stuff :( I'll try and get to people tomorrow though!))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:58:24 -0600

((S'alright. :) ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:09:02 -0600

((I'm going to my friend's Zumba class (She's getting her instructor's license at the end of the month!! :) ) but I'l be back around later tonight...))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:56:56 -0600

@ Pier Jessica and Rochelle took off after Finn comparing notes, and Jessica stopped behind him, the guy with the branding iron stood out for all the wrong reasons and she clutched Mei's hand tigther "You got your iron baby?" she asked "Yes mum" Mei nodded , looking up at the whole situation nervously. "Good," Jessica touched her own for reassurance then followed after Rochelle, how did she always get herself mixed up in this stuff. But the man with the iron didn't seem to recognise Sophia, she was standing there behhind Finn, clearly terrified, he was looking right at her but he didn't seem to be seeing her...it was beyond weird and it left her not sure what the hell to do, because she couldn't exactly just start a fight on brighton pier when he wasn't doing anything visible to outsiders and hope to get away with it but she couldn't do nothing either. Crap

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:51:46 -0600

@Pier Mo looked at Teagan. "That dude was rude. And what the hell is he carrying? Looks like a branding iron." "Things have gotten very weird very fast here." Teagan said. She looked around for Sinclair. -- "Let's head over this way, Sophia. There's more metal. It should interfere with Weyland's spells if he's trying to find you. Stay close, perhaps with me in the way, he won't see you." Finn smiled again and scratched his ear.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:16:34 -0600

((Bah! Can real life and work just stop for a moment? Doesn't it realise I have RP commitments? And sleep commitments? Right...where was I?)) @ Pier "Er..." That was a very good point. Where should he go to try and get hold of the boss vampire in the area? "I'd suggest trying to find a vampire and request them to find her for you. Tim can point out which ones are vampires. He gets a headache whenever he's near one." "It's not so much a headache..." Tim said. "More an itch on the inside of my skull. I wish it were a headache. Then at least I could take something for it." And speaking of that he was feeling something along those lines right now. But it felt...different. Not like a vampire, but definitely abnormal. Something weird going on at the pier... "Mittens? What's going on up there?" "Up where?" "The pier. Something weird's going on." Mittens looked but couldn't see anything particularly strange. Aside from a man carrying a branding iron... "Not a clue. Let's go have a closer look." And with that the little cat scuttled off in the direction of the steps up to the pier. --- @ Anyone Sinclair was not having a good time of things. He'd lost track of the frightened girl, he'd lost track of his guides, and he seemed to have also completely lost touch with reality. He'd wandered into one of the buildings on the pier, thinking to investigate inside to see if he could spot any of them, and had been plunged into a world of flashing lights and noise! The room was filled with people and strange contraptions that spouted gibberish and shot bursts of light out at the crowd! There were glass cages filled with soft brightly coloured birds with a giant metal hook resting above them. There were black boxes with yet more lights that people would feed coins into and push buttons. It made absolutely no sense and he couldn't find his way back out!

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:20:09 -0600

@Pier Sophia nodded and stayed as close to Mr Finn as possible, nearly stepping on his heels as he walked. She wasn't sure just how much the collar would react otherwise. She wasn't sure what metal would do to stop Wayland's magic but she wasn't about to question it. If Mr Finn seemed to think it would help, well... she would take what help she could get. Wayland saw that tall man from the tavern earlier heading toward the end of the pier, beside him there was a flash of reddish-blonde hair that was briefly illuminated by the lights of the rides, he hastened his step, thinking it was the girl but then he looked and wasn't sure. Gritting his teeth, he followed anyway. He would soon be sure of whether or not it was. He felt eyes watching him and glanced around, there were a few people he had seen in that restaurant... he narrowed his eyes when it looked like they really -were- looking at him. What was their problem? He didn't like being followed. He decided to ignore them and just go through to find the girl. His original plan. As he got closer to the pair, it was like a piece of a puzzle clicked into place and he recognized Sophia for who she was. "You!" He said loudly. A few people looked his way curiously but quickly looked away again, likely assuming he was calling to a disobedient child. "Come here, now!" Sophia squeaked, the collar started to tighten and she took a step toward Wayland from behind Finn. The collar started to tighten further as she disobeyed the command that Finn had given her moments before. "Come here." He commanded again, Sophia's face reddened and she put a hand to her throat, thinking that this was the moment she was going to die... She couldn't go forward to him, she couldn't leave Mr Finn's side... She just might be torn into two pieces! Wayland narrowed his eyes again, uttered a foul word under his breath and muttered a second command that would cancel the command he had just given. He glared at Finn. "What command did you give it?" He asked abruptly, angry that something so ridiculous was thwarting his plan to get her back. He didn't have time for this, damn it! He glanced at the sky and then back at Finn coldly. Sophia was pale now that she could breath again, her life hung in the balance, she was sure. She hoped Wayland wouldn't take out his anger on the people around. Maybe she should just go with him to spare everyone... Trying to take a step toward him again, the collar tightened abruptly and she hurried back to Mr Finn's side, feeling it release. "Oh... I see. You want it for yourself then?" Wayland said to Finn, it sounded almost like a growl.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:27:05 -0600

@Pier Lorg nodded and followed Mittens to the pier. He watched carefully as the man with the iron rod argued with another man over the apparent possession of a little girl, and considered using the thu'um to throw his voice and distract them. Not sure how it would help, but it might.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:16:02 -0600

((It's actually a branding iron made of bronze, so it's not actually made of iron otherwise he wouldn't be able to be around it...)) @DM/DarkFeather Aeronalooked up to where the disturbance on the pier was taking place, trying to see what was happening. She watched for a moment, entranced once again, even from this distance, by the carousel. After a moment she realised she had been left behind and ran to try and catch up to Tim and Lorg, watching Mittens scurry up the pier. She was trailing behind them a little bit when the lights from the arcade caught her eye too. She paused and looked inside, distracted again... it wasn't a pleasant as the carousel, she thought. Though it was as flashy and noisy. People didn't seem to be having quite as good of a time as they did on the ride. Especially one man in particular it seemed. She watched him curiously and took a step inside, looking around at all the people, mostly young ones.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:23:06 -0600

((Right. Duh.)) @Pier Lorg watched in silence, fingering his glass dagger for a moment. He thought about it for a moment, then grasped the iron dagger on the other side of his belt and slipped it out of the sheath so that no one could see it. "Las," he murmured, and the crowd around him lit up with a blood red aura. The life aura of this man with the bronze bar seemed... off, somehow. Almost larger than his body, somehow.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:02:53 -0600

((Poor Sinclair, I feel exactly that way in arcades.)) @Pier ((Oh dear, I keep forgetting Sophia is a redhead, at least technically. No wonder Finn got caught up in this.)) "It? IT?" Finn said. He straitened his back to his full height and put his hands on his hips. He looked down on Weyland not disguising his disgust. There was obviously some sort of obedience spell put on Sophia. He smiled to see that his instructions to her were thwarting Weyland. Good. "If me wanting her keeps her from the likes o' you, then yes." Finn said. "Did you put those marks on her?" He wondered if any of his magic could get rid of them. If magic made them, magic could unmake them, but he wasn't sure he had the skill. Perhaps if he spoke to Dian Cecht. Or Airmud... "I suggest you begone from here before more attention is drawn to us. Go back to your Unseelie and leave the girl be."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:18:02 -0600

@Pier Lorg wasn't sure what an Unseelie was, but it sounded bad. And what the hell was that collar around the girls neck? The auras faded and the elf watched the two men with an eagle's eye. He shifted his grip on the knife, careful to keep it in his sleeve.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:33:59 -0600

@Pier ((Arcades and casinos... :\ I guess arcades are kinda the casinos for underagers... lol! )) Wayland stood firm, branding iron clutched in his fist until his knuckles were white. "Yes, of course I marked it. It belongs to -me-!" He snarled through clenched teeth. What was supposed to be a simple task of getting back what belonged to him was turning into a drawn out and ridiculously difficult one. "If she does not come back with me right now, her usefulness to me is finished and I shall just kill her now." Sophia let out a sharp breath, feeling like she had been punched in the tummy. She knew he could kill her whenever he wanted to, and he wasn't one to bluff about things, she had seen him do too much. Wayland glared, this man had the audacity to try to order -him- about? The foolishness of it made him laugh, a rough raspy sound torn from his throat and then murmured his spell to the branding iron, it glowed red, illuminating his face in the light and casting his features into eerie shadows. Behind Finn, Sophia made a little sound of discomfort and rubbed at whatever branding marks she could reach, they burned and itched, though surprisingly not as much as they normally did when he used his magic. It was uncomfortable, but not unbearable. "You see? You cannot control it like I can." Wayland smirked. "It is of no use to you. Release it from your command and I will take it with back with me." His eyes flicked to the sky again.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:41:05 -0600

@Pier The moment the man used magic to heat the bronze bar, Lorg decided to intervene. He stepped foward and 'accidentally' bumped into the man with the bar. This could be dangerous, but he was Dovahkin, Dragonborn. A simple man was no threat. Even a mage.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:53:26 -0600

@Pier Wayland felt someone thump into him from behind and was distracted enough to let the spell he had just murmured fade, the red glowing of the branding iron died down and Sophia stopped fidgeting. Wayland whirled to glare at who ever it was who was clumsy enough to disturb him. He caught sight of the man's eyes and narrowed his own when he noticed how odd the man looked, how out of place.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:58:37 -0600

@Pier "Oh, I am sorry," Lorg said, really not sorry at all. He started dust the man off where he had run into him and accidentally brushed him with the iron dagger.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:09:11 -0600

Timothy caught up with Mittens and the others just in time for him to hear Wayland's announcement. "Kill her?" he hissed at Mittens. "He's actually going to kill her?" Mittens shrugged. "He's Unseelie. They're good at that sort of thing. Some of them are okay but for the most part...total bastards the lot of them. Good fun to go drinking with though. Back when I had my own body a lot of my mates were part of the Unseelie crowd. And what does he think he's doing?" He had spotted Larg blundering in to the angry Unseelie man. "Well...if it stops him from hurting that girl it's good, right?" Mittens snorted. "And if he decides to hurt the crowd rather than her instead?" Tim felt sick as he looked around. There were still a lot of people on the pier, enjoying the amusements. A fair few had stopped to watch the argument between the two fey creatures, assuming it was some sort of performance. The man making the rod glow like that had to be some sort of trick. A few people started taking photos.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:19:43 -0600

"Oh this is getting out of hand." Rochelle groaned. "You might want to call in that favour right about now." "I'm gonna try for "Our presence might be revealed to mortals any moment, this is your problem." Rochelle said. "Call her then and take care of Mei." "Jess!" Rochelle yelled as Jessica placed Mei's hand in hers and made a run for the commotion" Goddamnit Jess!" She picked a bead from her bracelet and threw it to the ground, where it made an odd kind of clatter before slipping between the cracks of the boardwalk. Good. Security were starting to head towards the commotion even as Jess was, although Lorg knocked the man off balance first, she made a mental note to kick the damn brand out of his hands if he got up with it again, now she had some justification, some reason that looked normal to outsiders, that could be explained later. Fortunately as this happened a woman came through the door out of the pier, she hadn't actually been their moments ago, but she walked through so seemlessly that it looked as if she was merely exitting the arcade, she was tall and thin in a white dress that was absolutely stainless and if you looked closely she wore no shoes. To the fey present her hair was not just blond, but silver, she had eyes with three irises ,pale blue, pale green and gold shot, nearest to the pupil, strands of it shooting through the rest of the irises. She was still tall and thin, looking deceptively dainty but radiating power. She turned to Wayland, her eyes blazing. "This is not Nyx's territory. You are not welcome here. Leave." She said simply. The force behind her words a command in itself. ((I Completely forgot my initial description of the fairy queen are people ok with going with this one?)

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:49:04 -0600

Wayland felt a burning on his side when the man started to dust him off. "Leave off, I say! Leave!" He told Lorg angrily. He rubbed at where the pain was and narrowed his eyes at the strange man. When the faerie queen herself appeared, he had the audacity to shoot a contemptuous look her way as well beforee turning back to the human girl and growled with impatience. "I don't have time for this now." He grumbled, looking at the sky and judging the itme. He had to get that damn horse... "Don't think this is over." He glared at Sophia. "I told you I'm not letting you go again." With that he shoved past the crowds and left the pier, heading somewhere he could cross through to his home again and start looking for the White Horse and bring it back to Uffington.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:01:22 -0600

@Pier Lorg stared after the man, then looked down at the knife. "What the hell? I didn't even cut him." No blood, no cut. He shook his head and turned to the man and girl. "Do I even want to know what just happened?" he asked. It was now that he noticed the collar around the girls neck.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:54:10 -0600

@Pier Finn couldn't actually bow to the Queen when she appeared. It would probably look too strange to the humans who were about. But she got rid of Weyland, for the moment anyway. Finn eyed the man who had bumped into Weyland. he didn't look like the usual human either. He wondered where all these strange people were coming from. "Majesty." Finn said in a quiet voice inclining his head. "Thank you for interceding. May I present Sophia?" He gestured for the girl to come forward. Mo and Teagan were in the midst of the crowd trying to figure out what was going on and to find Sinclair if they could.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:44:36 -0600

((For whenever DM gets another chance to post, it was Sinclair Aerona was referring to in the arcade... I guess she should maybe approach him... lol)) @ Pier Sophia still stood rather behind Mr Finn, feeling quite apprehensive about meeting yet another fae so soon. And did he say 'Majesty'? She shivered but stepped forward when he indicated for her to. "H-hello..." The woman was clearly powerful and quite frightening to behold, or so Sophia thought anyway. She was careful not to step too far away from Finn, in case the collar reacted again. @Arcade Aerona watched all the people playing the games, losing their money and gaining tickets. There was glee on the faces of some, utter and almost comical disappointment on the faces of others. She followed the rather lost looking man through the building and came up behind him. "I do beg your pardon... are you quite alright? I would not normally ask but... you appear to be rather lost?" She tried to say it as tactfully as she could.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:48:23 -0600

@Pier Lorg watched the woman in white with awe. She appeared to be a deadric prince, but that was rediculous. None of them wore white. Or did they? He wasn't exactly sure he had met all of the Deadric Lords. So, the elf simply stood next to and behind the girl with the collar.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:02:18 -0600

@Pier Sophia felt rather than saw, another presence near her and looked up at Lorg. Her eyes widened at his appearance and she shied closer to Finn, just barely resisting the urge to bury her face against him out of her fear. Why were there so many fae and so many strange people around? She couldn't tell if this man were fae but his eyes marked him as not being really human either. She decided she didn't want to take that chance anyway.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:29:57 -0600

((I figured it was Sinclair. I just couldn't figure out how to respond with him)) @ LS Sinclair jumped. "Oh...I'm...I'm fine," Sinclair said. "I am lost. And confused...I can't find the way out again. There's just too much...there's too many." He sighed. "It's confusing in here. I'm looking for a young woman. She had markings on her and looked...frightened." --- @ Pier Living Tim standing around slack jawed and gawking, Mittens scurried over to the Fey Queen that had appeared and wound round her ankles. "Evening Majesty," he said. "I know you don't normally associate with my kind, but I've got a pressing need for a conversation with you." Maybe she knew something about all this.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:53:07 -0600

@Pier Finn resisted the urge to put his arm around Sophia. -- Mo nudged Teagan when the beautiful woman appeared. "Some seriously weird shit is going down in this place."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:03:41 -0600

@Arcade "It can be a confusing place, yes. I find the effects of the carousel much more satisfying to be around." Aerona replied, looking around. "Noise... yes. Or perhaps confusion? And lights, quite. Erm... or distractions?" Aerona nodded then, finishing his statements, or attempting to anyway. "Oh. Well, there seems to be some sort of disturbance at the end of the pier. Perhaps it is something to do with her?" She suggested. "If you wish, we could go and see. The exit to this... 'too much and too many' place is just over there." She pointed. @Pier "Is th-that... kitty t-talking?" Sophia whispered, taking the distraction the cat provided to reach out and clutch onto the hem of Finn's clothes. Just enough to make herself feel better but not enough to really be noticed. She poked the cuff of her own dress into her mouth and chewed a bit, watching the queen out of the corner of her eye, not risking looking full on at the woman.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:36:21 -0600

@Pier ((I guess Finn is wearing his kilt...I hadn't thought about that. :) )) "Yes," Finn said quietly. "It isn't exactly a cat, however." Finn wasn't certain what the cat was, not faery, he knew, but something else.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:57:18 -0600

((That's why I said 'clothing', I wasn't sure either. :D If he wasn't, she could be grabbing his jacket/shirt/etc. I guess she grabbed the edge of his plaid then.)) @Pier Sophia -did- look at the cat again at those words. It certainly -looked- like a kitty to her... "Oh." She mumbled around her sleeve. She spotted the lady who had taken her to the restaurant and perked up a bit, giving Miss Jess a bit of a wave with one hand while rubbing the fabric of Mr Finn's kilt absently with the fingers of her other hand. "M-Mr Finn.. Who-" Sophia realised then it might be hard to understand her with the cuff in her mouth and took it out before trying again, "M-Mr Finn, who is th-that lady?" She asked very quietly, feeling like she -should- know but was uncertain all the same. There was a crowd of people around watching the group as though it were a show, Sophia saw some other people in the crowd who were more strangely dressed and odd looking than she was but the people weren't looking at -them-. She bit her lip and tucked the cuff back into her mouth.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:50:51 -0600

“You are welcome enough,” Kithara inclined her head towards Finn, “Nyx ought to know well enough her kind are not welcome here, and certainly not welcome to cause a disturbance amongst the people here.” On the cities they should keep quiet and not attract attention...on which note they were attracting far too much. Thinking quickly Rochelle started clapping , Mei looked at Quizically and joined in and Jess, despite standing further from Rochelle, caught on fast. “Show’s over folks, give em a hand” she grinned, gesturing to Finn , Sophia and the Queen, then to Wayland as he stalked away down the pier muttering She was grateful she hadn’t had to fight one of the fey directly, even SHE didn’t know how that would have gone down. Kithara looked down at the cat, and picked it up gently, She wasn’t going to be seen talking to it in public with this much attention on them, stupid as it was humans could be soo ridiculous about such things, but she inclined a head, and nodded to the young man accompanying it to. “Now I think it’s only fair,” Kithara said to Finn “That you buy me a drink.” That would get them out of sight of the humans and she could talk to the cat.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:55:08 -0600

@Pier Lorg bowed his head in respect to the woman in white. It was obvious that she was a person of importance here. Maybe even the High Queen herself. The elf quickly sheathed his iron dagger and waited. His hair fell from one ear, barely revealing the pointed tip.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:37:34 -0600

"That the Queen of the Seelie Court ((Or is she the queen of all of the fey?))," Finn said quietly. "I expect you never saw her when you were with Weyland. She doesn't much abide the Unseelie." Finn made an extravagant bow to the crowd when Rochelle began clapping. He was tempted to send some faery fire around the pier but thought better of it, they already had enough attention. Finn smiled at the queen and offered his arm, "Majesty, 'twould be my honor." But then, she was carrying the cat, so she may not wish to take his arm. Meanwhile Mo and Teagan were making their way closer to the 'entertainers.' "I don't know what that was all about, but those were no actors," Mo said. "And did you see the ears on them? You can't buy them in the Halloween shop." Tig added. "I want to see what's up with them." Teagan never did have good self-preservation instincts.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:13:28 -0600

Mittens couldn't help but purr when the fey queen picked him up. It wasn't that her touch was particularly gentle, it was no different from Tim's really, but the thrum of power coming off her stroking through his fur was really something special. "Mittens! What are you doing?" Tim asked, hurrying after the group, oblivious to the stupidity (in Mitten's not so humble opinion at least) of his actions. "I'm just going to have a chat with her Majesty here," Mittens replied, wriggling in the woman's arms to face his boss. "I won't be long, don't worry." "What am I supposed to do in the mean time?" "How should I know? Just keep Mr Dragon Slayer entertained and his voice under control and we should all be just fine." Tim glanced back at Lorg and visibly started sulking. "I hate you, just so you know." "Good boy, cultivate that hatred. We can do such wonderful things with it." Fucking teenagers. --- @ LS Even with Aerona pointing it took Sinclair a moment to spot the exit. "Thank you, my lady," he said, quickly heading over in that direction. "Your assistance is most welcome." For all that this was a very strange and disturbing place at least the people were friendly. Even if they did control giant metal monstrosities that really hurt when they ran into you.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:25:39 -0600

((Sry, I thought I'd be around yesterday but from about 6:30am to 11:30pm I was so busy, @_@; I wanted to check in for moment before bed but fell asleep before I could! lol! BIt busy w/work at the moment, will post as I can...))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:01:11 -0600

@Pier Sophia blushed at the attention they were getting, so much for trying to stay invisible... she didn't manage a bow to the crowd. If they were trying to disguise it as a show for the people, she was the one with stagefright. Her eyes widened when Mr Finn and the Seelie Queen started off, she trailed quickly after Finn, the bell jingling merrily on her collar and giving a mocking sense of merriness to the nervewracking reality of the situation, she glanced at Jess and then at Mei and the woman Mei was with as she passed them, still clinging to Finn's kilt. She still didn't believe Wayland would give up so easily. He had always said he would never let her go again and she had no reason to not believe him. @DM "It is nothing... really." Aerona dismissed the thanks. "A few people I recently came in contact with were heading in that direction to... to..." Aerona paused, completely and thoroughtly distracted by the black button eyes staring at her, the plushie horse inside the glass case seemed to be beckoning to her. "To... um... if you would kindly excuse me for a moment." She murmured distractedly, wings under her glamour twitching with excitement. It looked almost like one of the horses on the carousel and she couln't help going over to it and watching a youngling playing the game, plucking up a different toy with relative ease. When the youth left with their prize in hand, Aerona looked in her pocket to see if she had some change, completely forgetting the man she had just met. The eyes of the plushie seemed to be pleading with her to let it out. She slid the coins into the slot and the lights flashed. Having watched the child, she thought she could figure out the game with relative ease and took hold of the joystick, maneuvering the claw until it hovered over the plushie. She pushed the buttons and watched as the claw descended and plucked up the pony, then guided it back to the slot to drop it in, almost smiling as she picked it up and squeezed it. "I do beg your pardon..." Aerona apologised to the man. "What was I saying?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:05:38 -0600

@Pier Lorg trailed after the woman in white and the girl. This might prove interesting. He mentally ran through all the words he knew in the dragon tounge in case he needed them, as well as the spells he had. Fire spells mostly.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:31:38 -0600

Finn would have to see if the Queen could do something about that collar on the girl--Sophia, he corrected himself. Finn himself was rather fond of humans, but he certainly didn't want one for a pet. Mo and Teagan didn't have a difficult time following the strange group of people, not as long as the very tall man in the kilt was with them.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:13:29 -0600

@ Pier Tim glowered at Lorg's back as he trailed after Mittens and the strange lady in white. Mittens had said to keep an eye on him, keep him entertained, but he seemed intent on following the little group. Something Tim personally had no intention of doing. He wanted as little to do with all of this as possible. Besides, he was Mittens' boss, not the other way round! He could do as he damn well pleased. And if he didn't get back to his sister's place soon she was going to freak and then he'd be in trouble. Mittens could find him there afterwards. --- @ LS At a loss for what to do, Sinclair followed Aerona when she was distracted by the game. Fascinated he watched the whole proceedings, bending down to take a closer look at the lurid coloured horses. He thought they were meant to be horses anyway. "You were telling me some people were heading towards the exit of this place to do...something," he prompted her. "You didn't quite get onto what that something was." He gave the soft things in the machine another quick look. What sort of place was this?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:40:37 -0600

@Pier Sophia kept close to Mr Finn, when she noticed the strange man coming along with them she darted to Finn's other side, wanting to keep her distance especially after noticing the man's pointed ear. He was fae too! Where on earth had she come to? She thought it was her home but... there were so many of them! She could only be glad that these seemed to be nice fae. @DM/Pier? "Oh yes... now I remember. Some people I recently became acquainted with were heading in the direction of the rides at the end of the pier to investigate some suspicious looking people. A man with a beanding iron... another quite tall man, and a girl I believe. Shall we see if we can find them?" She suggested, still squeezing the plushie, apparently delighted with it, though the squishing was the only indication that she might like it as her expression hadn't really altered throughout the game. Aerona started for the exit again, not allowing herself to get distracted this time. She stepped out just in time to see some familiar faces and some strangers go by. "Hello Mittens... Hello Lorg." She said mildly as they were nearby , watching the woman carry the cat by and then the tall man pass by as well. The tall man had a girl attached to his kilt, Sophia was following Finn very closely, in his wake she could go by almost unnoticed. "Is that the girl you were referring to?" She then looked around to see if she could spot Tim. Perhaps he knew what was going on... she spotted him a little ways away. "There is Tim. He is the ruler of Sheol for the time being." Aerona waved.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:42:23 -0600

Mo nudged teagan, "Isn't that Sinclair? Seems all sorts of unusual people are converging with this group." "And we're following them, so what does that say about us?" Teagan answered. "That we're unusual too. I've been working on my personal style for years, but these folks? Wow, just wow. Makes Sinclair seem normal. Dayum, that woman with the cat is gorgeous." "I'm sorta likin' that looong drink o' water in the kilt." teagan grinned. "Let's catch up to them and see what's up."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:45:24 -0600

Lorg continued behind the lady in white, watching as others began to follow her as well. She must be someone important. Maybe an Aedra, or more likley a Daedra. Perhaps Meridia.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:40:15 -0600

@ LS/Pier Sinclair raised an eyebrow at the strange woman when she greeted the cat. At least he assumed it was the cat since the woman carrying the creature didn't respond and, well, it was called Mittens. Still, no matter. Plenty of people in the world spoke to animals, even if he personally couldn't see the point in saying something as mundane as 'hello' to them. It wasn't as if they could respond after all. He did, however, proceed to almost trip over when Aerona announced the identity of the young man not too far away from them. "Ruler of Sheol? He's in charge of hell? That boy is Satan?" This really wasn't what he'd expected to find out here. What did one do when presented with the devil in human form? In any other situation he'd probably just shoot him but given everything else that was going on that might seem a little excessive. Besides, he doubted anything he had would be able to so much as tickle the devil himself.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:03:15 -0600

"Would it now," Kithara smiled affably at Finn, settling the cat against one shoulder and holding him firm, the fingers working into his fur gently, and letting Finn take her other arm. Rochelle hurried on ahead to get drinks and things ready, because she may have been the queen of the Seelie court but she still didn't like to be kept waiting, and Jessica fell into step with the others, she really needed to take Mei home soon, but she wanted to check Sophia was settled and not panicking with the others first before she did so.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:09:37 -0600

Lorg watched the changing of order with interest. Very rare was it that a Daedra liked human or mer contact. This was odd indeed. If he didn't know better, the elf might have said she was the Night Mother herself. But the dark mistress had never work white, and she was currently lying in her coffin in the last sanctuary of the Dark Brotherhood.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:47:19 -0600

@DM/Pier "Oh no... That would be silly." Aerona said, sounding very reassuring. "Lucifer is... from what I understand, taking a bit of a... sabbatical." She paused a moment to think if that would be the right term. She didn't think it quite fitted right but it was all she could come up with. "A holiday?" No... that wasn't right either with it's origins. She suppressed a little sigh. "Any how... Tim made an arrangement with Lucifer in exchange for... a girl or some such thing. Now he is ruling Hell in Lucifer's place for a while." She -thought- that's what it was anyway. She had to admit to being a bit confused about the whole thing herself. "I do not think he likes it very much though." She added.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:30:28 -0600

@ Pier/LS "Satan is on holiday," Sinclair said flatly. This...this wasn't making a great deal of sense to him. How could Satan, the embodiment of all evil, go on holiday? Much less leave his domain in the hands of a child! "How...why...actually never mind. I don't think I want to know. I've heard enough strange things for one day. I think this is one thing I can definitely leave until tomorrow." It did give him something to think about though. Simon had been trying to bring a fairly heavy hitter in from Hell up to their own plane of existence. Maybe...maybe this boy apparently being in charge of hell had...altered things somewhat.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:19:53 -0600

@Pier on the way to Secret Door Finn's smile widened, "'Twould indeed, majesty. It has been a long time since I have been to the Seelie Court, to have your majesty come to our little corner of the world is indeed an honor." And we was impressed that the human was able to call her here with that bauble she threw on the ground. he glanced at the woman and wondered what she had done to be able to call the Queen, and have the Queen answer. Mo and Teagan caught up to Sinclair. "We were looking all over for you. Glad to see you are safe." Did Teagan hear him saying something Satan on vacation? had someone slipped her some mushrooms when she wasn't looking? because she was beginning to think she had dropped down some rabbit hole when she wasn't looking.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:22:33 -0600

@Jez/DM "For a little while, yes." Aerona nodded, not seeming confused about it at all. "And he has left Tim in charge. Mittens is... helping him. To an extent." Aerona wasn't sure how to put that... Mittens tried to help Tim be bad, so she wasn't sure that was helpful to Tim in general. Aerona looked over the two girls that had come over and squished the plushie again. She glanced at Sinclair when they spoke to him. "Are you in danger?" She asked, not sure why they would say they were glad he was safe... did he require aid?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:46:12 -0600

@Going to the Secret Door Sophia shivered just slightly as she listened to Mr Finn and the Queen converse. Her eyes widened as she saw they were heading right for the entrance to the door the led to the fae place under the pier. That -was- what Miss Jess had said, wasn't it? She bit her lip hard but continued to follow Finn closely, she couldn't go against his command -now- and besides... she glanced up at him... he -had- saved her from Wayland. Maybe it would be safe in this place too... She felt a bit calmer, thinking of it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:19:05 -0600

@ Secret Door Once safely within the walls of the fey pub, Mittens wriggled out of the queen's grasp and dropped lightly onto the floor, hopping onto a nearby table so he could be a little closer to everyone's face. He turned his nose up at a puddle of spilt beer that hadn't been swept away yet and daintily stepped round it. --- @ Pier "And Mittens is the cat I presume," Sinclair asked, trying to clarify further (although not entirely sure he wanted to). "The new ruler of Hell is being assisted in his duties by a cat." He pressed a hand to his forehead. "I hit my head somewhere along the way in this. It's the only way any of this is even remotely making sense." He looked up again when Teagan and Mo put in an appearance. "I'm sorry," he said. "I was looking for that girl and got...lost in that building over there. It's full of lights and noise and I just lost track of the door. I was trapped behind a machine that people kept putting coins into." Although once the thing had vomited the money back out, to the evident delight of the man using it. "And I am perfectly safe. Not in any danger as far as I'm aware."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:33:39 -0600

@DM/Jez (Pier) "Of course." Aerona replied and then paused in thought. Maybe where he came from there were people named Mittens. She tilted her head and considered this. "I mean to say... yes. Is there someone else of your acquaintance named Mittens?" She asked, genuinely curious. She herself hadn't met someone else named Mittens. Well, other cats maybe. "He is referring to the arcade." Aerona explained to the two women. "It -is- a rather terrifying and confusing place to be lost in." She nodded. "I much prefer the lights and sounds of the carousel myself." She added.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:33:00 -0600

@Secret Door Lorg continued to follow the woman in white into a tavern that was hidden under the pier, only somewhat suprised by the races he saw there. There were several mer races, but he was slightly suprised by the lack of beast races.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:05:42 -0600

@Pier ((I guess Mittens prefers champagne to beer. I had a cat who loved beer. :) )) "I'm glad you're okay. You had us worried." Teagan said. "So...we following them or what?" Mo said, jerking her head towards the strange group heading under the pier. Teagan cocked her head. "I thought we had already jumped down the rabbit hole--so yeah, let's see this through." @Secret Door Finn held out a chair for the Queen to sit. Then offered a chair to Sophia before taking a seat himself.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:42:53 -0600

((Heh, my Grandma had a rabbit that loved brandy. She gave him a taste after the poor thing had a close encounter with a fox to calm it down and it got thoroughly over excited whenever it saw her with a teaspoon afterwards :p On the other hand my aunt's cat found out it really didn't like gin and tonic quite by accident :p )) @ Pier "No..." Sinclair said. "I don't know anyone called Mittens. It sounds like a thoroughly ridiculous name to me. But I suppose it might suit a cat." People tended to give animals strange names anyway. "I only really took note of it because you said hello to the creature...although if it's assisting the ruler of Hell I would suppose it's not really a cat and simply wearing the shape of one?" Sinclair nodded at the girls. "That was my intention. I'm still interested in seeing what that girl was so frightened of." He didn't know what this rabbit hole reference was all about though.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:23:36 -0600

(((Oooh Jeze, she's sorta the queen for this city I think, but definately only the seelie court so we can let that pass...but the person who threw the bead was not Jess, the human but Rochelle, the bar keep, she's halfsie...anyway he didn't say that outloud so it's not a big deal) "It is always pleasing to put an unseelie in their space, they should know by now they are not welcome in the city, spesically not this part of it." There were negotiated territories with Nyx there always were, but she ought to stick with them. "I will have to remind Nyx of our agreement" See whether he was one of hers or some stranger to the city. Either way his arrogance was trying and further insolence would have to be punished. When they were seated safely in the bar Kithara turned to Rochelle who was already installed there. "Mead," she said simply "Now ancient one...what is it you wished to speak to me about?" she looked at the cat quizzically

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:39:54 -0600

@Secret Door Lorg perked up when he heard the woman in white order mead. He stepped up to the bar and asked for the same of the serving girl. He looked back at the woman in white and Mittens.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:25:39 -0600

@Pier Aerona nodded. "Yes, he actually is a formidable fallen one... it would not be prudent to judge him by his size at the moment." She glanced to the road, "If you wish to learn more, I believe they might have been heading to the Secret Door. It is a tavern beneath the pier... frequented by fae and other sorts who have knowledge of the place." Aerona cast a longing glance at the carousel again and gave a little sigh. "I can show you the way if you like." @Secret Door Sophia's eyes widened when Mr Finn held out a chair for her too. She sat down with a bit of uncertainty, watching the cat on the table. She moved her chair closer to Finn, not sure just how far away the command to 'stay close' would let her be from him.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:25:43 -0600

((Does anybody actually control Rochelle?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:04:01 -0600

((LOL, DM, that funny with the bunny and brandy. I don't blame the cat, I hate gin & tonic too.)) @Secret Door ((Ack, sorry Saf, obviously I got my details mixed up--that's what happens when you post on not enough sleep.)) "Weyland seemed to think he's above the rules, Majesty." Finn said, "And his treatment of the girl seems extreme even by Unseelie standards." @Pier "That would be great!" Teagan said. "Real fey...wow. My great-grandmother told stories about them and weird stuff was always happening around the farm, but this..." "I guess she isn't as senile as we thought." Mo added.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:17:57 -0600

@Pier/Secret Door "Not at all senile..." Aerona was pleased her suggestion had been so well received. "This way then..." She said, leading the way onto the beach and under the pier. Opening the door, she let the others go inside first, looking around at the other patrons when they got inside. "There is the girl... and the others." She motioned needlessly to the table with the group of people obviously conversing with the cat. Sophia's eyes moved from one figure to the other as they spoke, "It was p-per-personal..." She murmured shyly, so quietly it was likely not even heard. "Humans tr-treated him h-horribly" she explained, then thought for a moment. "and his w-wife r-ran away." She added, as though that might clear things up neatly.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:14:27 -0600

((Yes, Saf controls Rochelle)) @ Secret door Mittens settled himself comfortably on the table, keeping his tail and whiskers clear of the sticky patches and puddles of beer. On the whole he preferred Unseelie establishments, but he couldn't deny the Seelie ones tended to be a fair bit cleaner. Unseelie places tended to have puddles of blood and gore littering the floor and tables rather than just the occasional spilt drink. "There was a disturbance a few hours ago now," he said. "A surge of demonic power of unknown origin. I know it was localised to this area because it blew out the lights in the entire city. But I don't know what it is and neither does anyone I've spoken to thus far. I was hoping you might be able to shed some light on the matter, or at least lend me assistance in establishing what it might be." --- @ Outside Secret Door "Fairies?" Sinclair said, giving the group a raised eyebrow. After all the things he'd encountered he shouldn't be surprised at the idea of the fair folk actually existing...but given all he'd encountered you'd think someone would have told him. "Are you serious? There are fairies under the pier? Or anywhere?" He still followed willingly enough since the group had gone in this direction. But he could see no door beneath the pier, nothing to give any indication to where they went. His jaw dropped when Aerona actually found something to open. "I...this has been here the whole time?" ((Now here's a thing...Sinclair has iron on his person. Not much, but definitely some.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:57:45 -0600

((So does Lorg. Small amounts, just a single knife, but I'm not sure if the fae can feel it.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:52:15 -0600

@Secret Door Sophia really couldn't help herself, it had been a long time since she had seen a kitty... and now here was one sitting regally (and temptingly close at that) on the table and actually -talking-. She leaned forward, reached out and petted the kitty lightly on the head, scratching behind his ears and running her fingers down the length of his back. "Oh... it has been here for quite some time I think, yes." Aerona replied to Sinclair, following the three inside and letting her glamour drop. It was safe enough to do so in here at least. She rolled her shoulders a bit and fluffed out her wings. She tended to keep them close to her body under the glamour, it was less space to have to conceal that way. "Would you like something to drink?" She offered them.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:31:46 -0600

Rochelle handed out Mead to Kithara and then to Lorg, smiling at him openly "There you go stranger" she'd see if she ould settle the tab with him in a bit, right now she was more interested in the cat demon and the newest craziness to hit Brighton. Then she frowned "Are you wearing Iron" she asked, not sounding entirely pleased. Jess wore iron too but that was different she'd had that made or her on purpose. "Demonic flare up?" Jessica frowned "That does not sound good in the slightest." "I'm unaware as to what may have caused this power surge you speak of, certainly none of the seelie, I would have known if they had...but I will put it to the other factions and ask them to be aware of the situation...look out for any changes and what may have caused them....we all felt SOMETHING earlier." Kithara did not look entirely pleased that she didn't know what she'd felt, but the emotional was subtle and difficult to place.Written on her face yes, but in the tiniest font imaginable.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:38:10 -0600

Lorg pulled out his knife. "Only this," he said after taking a long draw from the tankerd. "All the rest of my equipment is either dragon scale or glass." He cocked his head. "Is there any particular reason you asked?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:04:29 -0600

@ Secret Door It was very much beneath his dignity as a creature from the pit and principle advisor to the Lord of Hell to allow himself to be petted like the common house cat he currently resembled. But the girl's gentle fingers just felt so nice. He could feel a purr rumbling its way out of his throat. He squashed the urge down so that he could continue his conversation, but made absolutely no effort to shift away from the stroking fingers. "Nothing to do with your lot then," he said with a faint sigh. "Wonderful. So I'm still at square one." He flexed his claws in irritation. "if you could speak to them it would be very much appreciated. They'd probably take better to a request for information coming from one of their own, as it were." While vampires, werewolves, and the fey didn't exactly have a lot in common, they had significantly more than he did with any of them. They were all at least local. --- Sinclair didn't particularly want anything to drink. Teagan and Mo had been more than generous in getting him a drink in the establishment on the pier. But he was a little distracted from answering by Aerona's glamour dropping and her revealing she has wings! "What?" he said at Rochelle's iron question. "Yes, I have iron on me." In his guns, in his belt buckle...he thought there might be some in his boots too, although he'd never checked. "You have wings! Why do you have wings?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:39:37 -0600

"It-" Aerona was caught off guard by Sinclair's question. "It is in my nature to have wings..." she explained, seemingly not realising it wasn't really an explanation at all. "All angels do... and some Fallen." She added the last bit very quietly. A feather was out of place and she reached down, looking very much like a preening bird as she straightened it and smoothed the other feathers down. --- Sophia had to admit, she was delighted when she felt the beginnings of the rumbling purr from the kitty. She ran a finger from it's neck down, lightly tracing it's spine and then rubbing her fingers under the side of his chin. "Your fur is v-very smooth and sh-shiny, Mr K-kitty." She said when there was a lull in the conversation, "You m-must t-t-take great pr-pride in it." She told him, admiration in her voice.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:39:56 -0600

((Mo has stainless steel piercings, but I think we established stainless steel and regular steel wouldn't bother the fey. Did I remember that correctly?)) @Outside/Inside the Secret Door Humph. Finn had a wife who ran away. Two in fact. It didn't make him steal children and carve runes in their bodies. He looked at the cat, "You think demons have come through to this side? -- "My great-grandmother, GiGi, says there are fairies back home. If we have them in the States, you sure must have them here in the UK. GiGi says our many greats grandmother was the one who brought the fey to the US." Teagan said a little proudly. It was kinda cool to think all of those stories were true. Or mostly true. She walked into the...pub? with wide eyes and looked all around. Mo was a little more discreet as she took in the place. "Is it ok? I mean, to eat or drink something here? It's won't trap us in fairyland, will it?" Both girls looked at Aerona with a little awe. "I thought you were fey, too. But you just said you're...an angel?" Teagan said. Mo blinked. "I...okay I need a minute to figure out how all this has just impacted my religious beliefs. Can a pagan go to hell? Because, really, I was counting on no such thing as sin and going to Summerlands."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:12:28 -0600

"Did she really?" Aerona asked Teagan, looking sufficiently impressed. "That is quite a feat... do you happen to know how she managed it?" She was genuinely curious. Smlilng at the girls, Aerona shook her head. "I should think it would be quite safe. This establishment is owned by a Seelie. I do not think she has an interest in trapping humans in fairy." Aerona looked them both over carefully, "Though you both do seem quite cute, perhaps she would want you to stay with her for a while." She was joking but her manner was so awkward with it that it was hard to tell. Aerona blushed and shook her head, "No... n-not fae. Nor an angel at that." She looked quite uncomfortable with the way the conversation was going again. "Not any more at any rate." She said, squishing the plushie. She glanced at Mo curiously. "i'm sure a pagan -could- go to Hell... however it is not the most pleasant of places to be, I do not know why one would want to go there." She looked thoughtful, "As to the sin, there is indeed such a thing, to say there is none would be like closing your eyes and saying the world around you does not exist... however, I do know know how it would impact you from going to... the Summerlands or Heaven or Sheol." She replied mildly. "Would either of you like something to drink?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:36:39 -0600

((Terribly sorry for all concerned, but this Sinclair is still young and judgemental. He'll get over his black and white morality at some point.)) "Pagans go to hell," Sinclair said, not really thinking too much about what he was saying, or how rudely it might come across. "If you have no belief in God where else would you go?" He swallowed hard and addressed Aerona again. "You're an Angel? Then...how come you were so casual about pointing out the young man who's apparently standing in for Satan?" But then the rest of the conversation caught up with him. Nor an angel...not any more He jumped back from the table as if electrified, chair going over in his haste to get away. "You're one of the Fallen?" he said. This was just too much. The straw that broke the camel's back. The devil was pretending to be a young boy somewhere above their heads, he was in a place where giant metal boxes with lights on ran people down in the street, and a Fallen Angel was offering to buy him a drink! "I have to go. Thank you for your time but...I have to go." --- Mittens startled slightly when the chair went over, his ears going back. But he allowed himself to be soothed and his fur smoothed back down by Sophia. "Yes...I am very proud of my fur. I'm very good at pride, it's one of my talents. And it is worth enjoying." He was not going to curl up and ask for a belly rub. He was not. Well...not yet anyway. Maybe when business had been concluded.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:52:33 -0600

Aerona was mortified but didn't look altogether unsurprised at his reaction. A slight tension in her shoulders and a look of shame were the major differences. She stared at a dark spot on the table and then looked up when he said he had to go. She stood up as well, "Oh, please do not leave... it is -I- who should go. Y-you have questions you need answers to... I would just... just be in the way." Her wings seemed to droop a little, she was always saddened when someone reacted like this but always reminded herself that it was the way of things. She started for the door before he could protest, setting the glamour over her wings again. --- "Y-you're a v-very handsome kitty." She told him, secretly delighted to be conversing with an actual real live cat. Even in Wayland's house and lands, there were no talking animals that she had met. She really wasn't paying any attention to the conversation going on around her, it didn't seem to have anything to do with her and she had always learned to try to not listen to things she wasn't supposed to hear. Be invisible... that was always the key.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:46:40 -0600

Lorg looked over at a man and Aerona as they tried to leave. "What the hell?" he muttered and moved slightly closer, glad he was in a place he didn't actually have to hide himself anymore. He set his hand on Tim's shoulder. "What just happened?" he asked.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:50:50 -0600

"The story says that she brought some herbs and even an oak tree with her on the boat and that some fey were trapped in them." Teagan said. "There's a really old oak tree near the house, close to where we have our sacred circle. Anyway, that's supposed to be the tree she brought with her. We used to make fairy houses in the roots and come home with some strange stories about invisible friends." Mo had outgrown all that stuff long before Teagan did. But now, with all of this weirdness, she was having to rethink all those childhood memories. But none of these people looked anything like the little pixie girls that they played with by the tree. "Effing lovely." Mo muttered about the existence of Hell and sin. But she was determined to hold onto her beliefs. Hell was for Christians. "Yeah, I could use something. How about a black and tan?" Teagan heard someone say mead and thought fairy mead would have to be wonderful. "I'll have some mead, please." She decided to drop any more questions about angels. But wouldn't a fallen angel be...evil? The woman, angel, whatthehellever, didn't seem evil at all. Mo glared at Sinclair. "I believe in all sorts of gods. And I am _not_ going to hell just because I don't believe in your patriarchal punitive one. Besides, didn't Jesus' death mean universal salvation? Brigid is my divinity of choice, thank you very much." "Maybe we need to agree to keep religion out of this," Teagan soothed. She started when Sinclair jumped up. "Whoa there. Calm down. I think we're all in this mess together," except she and Mo had pretty much barged in on things. "So far, I think these people are your best way to get home."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:26:52 -0600

((Bored... lol)) Sophia had jumped a bit too when the chair clattered over, for a moment it looked like she might try to hide under the table but then she realised it wasn't really a threat and she went back to stroking the kitty's fur and pausing every now and again to take a sip of her whiskey.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:46:38 -0600

((Sorry Darkfeather, Tim's didn't join the others. He's had enough of this weirdness and left the pier to go home. Something Mittens will not be pleased to hear when he finds out :p But he probably hasn't gone far if Lorg really wants go to talk to him.)) ((And please forgive me if what Sinclair says doesn't actually mesh with Catholic doctrine. I haven't done nearly enough research to fake being Catholic anywhere near properly)) "Not believing in Him is one of the easiest ways to get there," Sinclair said. "And yes, Christ did die so that we might be Saved, but that salvation can only be gained through him. You have to believe it and appreciate it before it can apply to you." He stopped heading towards the door when Aerona announced her intention to leave instead. If she was gone he supposed he could stay and ask questions. Although he wasn't sure if he wanted to ask questions of the denizens of this place. -- "I know," Mittens said, preening slightly at the attention. "And I...will be right back." He'd finally noticed that that Lorg oaf was in here too, as was Aerona. At the table with the disturbance. And one of the normal(ish) smelling girls there had mentioned something about getting one of the strangely dressed men home. Probably something he should investigate. He hopped over to the other table. "Excuse me sir-" he started, but was abruptly interrupted by Sinclair jumping at the cat's sudden appearance and the man pulling a gun! At this point Mittens undertook the only sensible course of action and disappeared back to his own table and up Finn's kilt, clinging to the underside of the fabric. Having been startled by the cat he knew full well to be a demon from hell suddenly appearing at his elbow, Sinclair had automatically drawn his pistol. In the middle of a rather crowded pub. Who appeared to serve magical and supernatural creatures. He glanced down at his pistol ruefully. "As far as tactical decisions go this really hasn't been my best."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:50:37 -0600

((Whoops.)) Lorg listened to the human and decided to ask him a question. "Who exactly is Christ?" he asked, coming up behind him. He sounded similar to Talos, but less heroic.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:02:04 -0600

((For Lorg. lol)) "That is not necessarily true." Aerona commented ((clearly before she left. lol)) "There are a great many peoples who have never heard of El Roi... nor the Messiah, they are ignorant of it, I do not think they will be punished for it. They will have the time come where they will make their choices too." She shook her head. "Nor does one have to appreciate the sacrifice. It would be -nice-, certainly but it is not a requirement. The Most High is impartial, he does not choose one over another due to things like appreciation. The appreciation comes out of Love. He loved you and so sacrificed for you. It is because you love Him that you would want to do things in return, such as appreciate it." Aerona felt like she was rambling and quieted. She paused before going out the door when there was a huge scuffle. Her eyes widened and she paused, taking a step closer to Sinclair again and putting her hand over the pistol. "It is not." She agreed, dark eyes watching him. "Do not be afraid." She murmured. She supposed it -was- alot for a normal person to take in but there really wasn't a need for something like this, fear or not. Sophia watched Mittens bolt under the table and stared at the man who was pointing a metal thing at the kitty. She wasn't sure what that thing was but everyone looked quite afraid of it. She wondered if she should be ducking under the table too and so she did. She watched the fabric of Mr Finn's kilt moving as Mittens clawed at it and reached under to try and pry his claws loose. ((lol! I wasn't going to have her reach under Finn's kilt but it would seem she doesn't think anything inappropriate about it and so I had to write it. xD ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:51:35 -0600

((Oh, and don't worry, I don't know everything about Catholicism either. ^^ Oops...speaking of which... I have to pray a rosary before midnight... lol! Sinclair is helping keep me devout. :P ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:21:27 -0600

"It's ...well it's not dissallowed" That wouldn't be fair when humans were at such a disadvantage "but don't wave it around, it's not encouraged, and you can't take any weapons at all into other bars..." She swivelled to see Sinclair with the gun "Or guns in this one!" she snapped, " Connor!" "All right that's enough gentleman," the big muscle bound bloke with the reddish skin tone came over, "Hand over your weapons or take whatever problems you have with the other drinkers outside and somewhere the local law can't see it." "I suggest doing what it said," Kithara said, never raising her voice, sounding so sweetly reasonable in fact that it was hard to resist doing what he said. "All right so there was ahuge surge in demonic power?" Jessica frowned "That doesn't sound good." "I will ask the others to meet me here tommorow night and we will discuss it. Do you wish to be present. "I ahhh can't really do tommorow night," JEssica scratched her head ruefully . "Phone me if it's my juridiction ok and let me know what happens?" this was addressed to Rochelle and not Kithara. "Sure," Rochelle nodded.

Now Sophia knows what's worn under Finn's kilt...

jezebellydancer — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:37:36 -0600

"Ah there, ya see. As far as the church is concerned, I'm not only a pagan, I guess I'm a heretic too, because the way I understand Jesus' sacrifice, he paid our debt. We're good now, whether you believe or not." Mo said. "But I'm putting my money on The Goddess. She loves us and wants us to be happy. And I'd much rather do my worshipping naked under a full moon." Teagan thought this wasn't getting them any where. "Look, can we all agree to disagree? I think we have bigger problems right now than answering theological questions. Please." -- ((Up Finn's kilt? Wow. I don't even know how to respond to this...seems like there should be a big joke in that, but nothing I can thing of is fit to print in PG... Mittens is actually up the kilt? not clinging to the plaid?" "[Insert colorful Gaelic expletives here] Mind the branch and berries!" He looked at the queen, "Beg pardon, Majesty." It just that he was very partial to what was under his kilt and having an animal with teeth and claws (demon or no) under there, not to mention someone pointing a gun in that general direction... Then the girl, Sophia, was reaching around under there as well. "Brigid's Ti---" Finn cut himself off. Blaspheming in front of the queen was probably not a good idea. "Sophia, my dear, if you would be so kind as to stop reaching around me kilt..." He said, his brogue was very strong in his aggitation.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:02:33 -0600

The collar twitched around Sophia's throat and she dropped her hands onto her lap, desisting from trying to unbarb Mitten's claws from the tartan fabric. Had she done something wrong? She just thought that Mr Finn migh tnot like having the kitty so close to his... branch and berries as he called them. She hadn't heard the colourful term for them before but knew enough about certain things to be able to put together what he was talking about. "M-Mr M-Mittens, it's okay t-to come out." She said quietly, deciding on a coaxing approach then, rather than trying to forcibly remove him from under Mr Finn's kilt.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:37:44 -0600

((Yeah...sorry about this Finn :p But Mittens figured that Finn's kilt was safer than Teagan's hair. Just be glad he had the presence of mind to climb the underside of the kilt rather than your legs :p )) What Aerona was saying did not mesh well with what Sinclair had been taught. What he'd been taught had (supposedly) come directly from the Pope, who was God's representative on earth...but Aerona was a Fallen Angel, and who should know better than one of the Fallen what it took to be Cast Out of His good graces? But then the Fallen were lying tricksters so why wouldn't she twist the truth to keep Mo off the path of true faith? This was starting to hurt his head. He was no theologian. He just said his prayers and trusted in God to keep him safe. And right now he was thinking he possibly hadn't prayed quite hard enough the last few days. He'd started lowering the weapon as soon as the cat disappeared beneath the...skirt? of an innocent bystander but lowered it further when the Fallen One placed her hand on it and forced it to point at the floor. Although the suggestion not to be afraid wasn't exactly helpful when faced with this giant red thing baring down on him. There was a sweet voice rolling around inside his head. It wanted him to put the gun down, give it up to someone else. Or take it and leave. Out of the two options he greatly preferred the latter one. He put the revolver back into its holster and started backing away towards the door. --- Removing one paw from the kilt Mittens swiped at Sophia's questing hand. "I'm not coming out until the maniac with the gun is gone!" he insisted.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:51:43 -0600

Aerona took her hand away from Sinclair's and gave Connor a little nod before making sure her glamour was still applied and going out the door. She hoped things would be safe enough now, perhaps it would be better if she left, even though she wasn't the one with a weapon. She stepped out into the cool night air with plans to go back up to the carousel for a while, that usually cheered her up. That and this plushie... she thought, looking down at it and squishing it a bit. --- Sophia winced when she felt a little sharp claw rake at her fingers. "Ouchie..." Shemurmured and stuck the sorest finger in her mouth. "Ifingisprowysafow" She mumbled around her finger and looking out from under the table between the legs and feet of the people sitting there. "Wusagun?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:45:16 -0600

"Blast it all! Get out from under there." Finn said. "The man is leaving. Besides, I'm sure Her Majesty will see that none come to harm in this place--why I culd do it mesel' if yer claws weren't sae bloody distracting." He'd wring that cat's neck if he got anywhere close to his Lucky Charms.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:02:37 -0600

Mittens wasn't sure he truly believed Finn when he claimed the man was leaving. He did have a somewhat vested interest in making Mittens let go after all. But he still retracted his claws and let himself drop back to the floor with a faint thump. Seeing that Sinclair was indeed leaving he gathered himself and hopped back onto the nearest table, looking for all the world like he'd meant for that embarrassing little incident to have happened. Being a cat had its perks sometimes. After a quick smooth down of his fur he calmly addressed the two human girls the lunatic with the gun had been sitting with. "Since you two seem substantially more reasonable than our strangely dressed friend there I shall speak to you instead." Neither of them looked to be armed for one very good thing. "You mentioned something about him getting home. I don't suppose you'd care to elaborate slightly?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:51:00 -0600

Sophia watched Mittens scurry out from under the table and peeked out over top of it herself, sitting back in her chair again, pulling her finger out of her mouth so she could take a generous sip of her whiskey and then clasp her hands in her lap. ((Did Sinclair leave? Aerona's bugging me to let her talk to him to try to explain herself better. lol))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:01:56 -0600

((Pretty sure he did.)) Lorg just watched the preceedings, somewhat confused. He just stepped back to the bar and resumed drinkng his mead, then turned to the serving girl. "How much for the mead?" he asked, already reaching for his coin purse.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:07:26 -0600

Finn let out a huff of air when Mittens finally let go of his kilt. He watched the cat jump pnto the table with the two human girls. At least he assumed they were human. One girl was rather unusual looking, but the other one. She was like a breath of Spring. Teagan blinked at the talking cat. "We are _so_ far down the rabbit hole..." She said under her breath. She figured it must eb okay to talk to the cat, they let him in here after all. She resisted the urge to scratch him behind ears like she did with her own cats. "Um, we don't know much, but Sinclair said something about a ritual done by some bad guy, and Sinclair ended up here. He thinks maybe the guy doing the ritual might have come through too, but he hasn't seen him." Teagan said. She looked at Mo, "That about everything?" "Yeah, pretty much, except he's from like Victorian London ro something. Damned near got run over by a car."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:50:22 -0600

((Yeah Sinclair's left. But he's probably not gone too far. Hanging around on the beach wondering what on earth just happened most likely :p )) "Victorian?" Mittens said. "Well that would explain the dress sense. And the old fashioned gun." Not that he had anything against old fashioned weaponry, aside from when it was pointing at him of course. "But a ritual you say? Did he mention the nature of what this ritual might be?" He would be very worried if a human spell could have caused such a significant power surge, but it had been known to happen. Some mortals could pack a fairly hefty punch if they did things the right way and made deals with the right people. Had there been any Hell Bound sorcerers in the Victorian era? He'd still been trapped underwater during that time period so all his information had been sketchy at best but I didn't think there was one. Not an authorised one at least.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:30:59 -0600

"Do you remember, Mo?" Teagan asked. Everything was so strange that she just couldn't remember, it was all too much to take in. "I got the impression the sorcerer, or whatever, was a pretty evil dude." Mo responded. "Is it all that guy's fault that everything is so effed up?" And didn't someone say something about the cat being a demon? But no one seemed ot be too upset about it, so Mo decided not to let it bother her.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:14:28 -0600

@Outside the Secret Door Aerona was still standing a little way away from the entrance to the tavern when she heard the door swing closed again and glanced back to see Sinclair heading out and looking utterly bemused. She felt badly and was torn about going over to speak with him and just leave him be as her presence seemed to make him so uncomfortable. The need to be compassionate won out, playing ignorant was no way for a fallen trying to redeem herself to be. "Erm... Mr SInclair?" She went up to him, looking timid and squishing the plushie in a rather alarmingly fast way, displaying her nervousness at what his response might be. "Are, are you quite alright?" She supposed not but she felt it better to ask. "I understand it is... quite overwhelming."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:06:43 -0600

In addition to all the other commotion occurring when Sinclair lifted the gun, Mei screamed. Really screamed, the way only a frightened six year old can. Jessica scooped her up in her arms , pulling her well out of the way, then soothing her as the situation calmed itself. "I'm taking her home." It was way past her bedtime and she was not really the best at investigations. Sure sometimes she had to find stuff out but she tended to bounce things off Rochelle, off Veronica, off Juma she was the action girl really,she got things done...nothing was getting done now they were just sitting around talking. It annoyed her to miss stuff, but it was way past Mei's bed time and she should go home too. TIme to go. "Let me know if you need me." "I wouldn't bet against," Rochelle rolled her eyes "I'll do the listening for now. Get home. Get some rest." "Thanks," Jess nodded, picking a calm but wide eyed Mei up and making for the door. Talk about a long day. "I'm with the demon cat on this. RItuals?" It could be significant.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:15:09 -0600

"Dunno exactly." Teagan said. "Sinclair was trying to stop the ritual, I think." "Should probably get him back in here and ask him directly." Mo suggested. "He seems pretty Catholic, maybe have someone talk to him that he doesn't automatically think is evil." She gave a crooked smile to the cat. "The poor guy is having a little trouble coping with all of this."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:24:43 -0600

Lorg leaned against the bar, watching Mittens and the woman in white speak. Though, most of his attention was on the girl with the collar on. He drank down the rest of his mead, then looked back at the woman who was behind the counter. She looked much like a nord, though she didn't have the mannerisms. "Ma'am," he called softly, his voice carrying over the other noise.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:48:13 -0600

Sophia noticed that rather odd looking man watching her again, she fidgeted and put the glass back on the table, moving closer to Mr Finn. She really didn't like being looked at so much and so closely... what if he were friends with Wayland or Trygve? The thought had her moving even closer to Finn, she bumped her chair into his by accident.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:55:32 -0600

Mittens' ears went back and he made a noise of irritation. "God damn Catholics..." he said. "I'm sure all the other religions out there can be just as irritating, but someone it's always the Catholics specifically being the biggest pain in my arse. Well...aside from the Jews anyway, but since my true body is still stuck beneath the ocean because of them I consider them a little more significant than just a pain in the arse." Bloody Moses and his bloody water tricks. "But yes, it probably means someone different should go and talk to him." He sighed. "Probably the first and only time I'm going to regret Michael not tagging along with us. An Angel would probably get whatever answers we needed out of him right quick." --- Sinclair blinked at Aerona, head still muddled from the instructions he'd been given inside. It was like someone had put reins on his brain and was using them to steer him where they wanted to go when his brain knew full well he wanted to do something else. It was a most disconcerting feeling. He shook his head at Aerona. "No...no I'm not. I..." He blinked and pressed one hand to his eyes. "I shouldn't be talking to you. I should...I should go and find a Church. That should make me feel all right again." It usually worked anyway.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:15:51 -0600

Aerona looked worried about Sinclair, he looked very frazzled, and understandably, of course. She acknowledged his worry about talking to her with a little nod but still wanted to do something to try to help. "I could show you the way to St John the Baptist church... it is close by. Erm, despite the name, it is a Catholic church." She added, just to clarify. "The next closest would be St Mary Magdalen, in the other direction." She looked down at the plushie, squishing it again for good measure and up at the lights of the carousel. Oh well... there was always the next night, she supposed.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:22:00 -0600

@Secret Door "Steady, girl." Finn smiled at Sophia. "You can come to no harm here. Weyland put that collar on you, did he? With magic no doubt. Shall I see if I can get it off you?" ---- Mo snorted a laugh at 'God damn Catholics.' It was rather funny. A talking demon cat damning Catholics. "Can today get any more surreal? I keep thinking I'm going to wake up on the beach stoned out of my mind." "Maybe if the queen went out to talk to him...We're persona non grata." Teagan said. "We told Sinclair we were pagans. I'm still trying to wrap my head around multiple belief structures being reality... I mean, I always thought there are many paths to Divinity but...I don't believe people go to hell, yet here you are. Aerona says she a fallen angel. And the local Faery Queen is sitting over there. My mind boggles." "This power surge thingie that happened. What could it mean? Is it dangerous? Could it happen again? Should we leave town?" She added.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:43:21 -0600

@Secret Door/Jez Sophia blushed and looked up at Mr Finn, "S-sorry." She mumbled, casting a nervous glance at Lorg despite Finn's reassurances. She touched the collar lightly at his offer though, 'Um... I'm n-not t-too sure it -does- come off." She answered. "Even Way-wayland co-couldn't. He made it th-that way." She moved her hand away, "You c-can tr-try if you w-want to th-though."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:38:46 -0600

@Secret Door/Nagats "Right then. Come over here so I can get a better look at it." Finn said to Sophia. "What does it do besides mark you as his? Is this how he keeps track of you?" He eyed the collar. He could not imagine why someone would want to do that.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:06:59 -0600

@Secret Door Sophia slid off her chair and padded closer to Finn, standing before him so he could see the collar better. She shook her head a little, maybe keeping track of her had -something- to do with it but not for the most part. "Th-the brands are wh-what he tr-tracks me with." She answered, swallowing as he looked over the collar, even him just looking gave her the sense that the collar might tighten at any moment. Like it -knew- it was going to be tampered with. "It m-marks me as be-belonging to all F-fae." She added, touching the little bell lightly. "And it makes m-me have t-to obey any c-c-command a Fae g-gives me." She looked up at him finally with a tiny smile. "Th-that's why W-W-Wayland couldn't m-make me g-go with him b-back there. Y-you had said t-to st-stick close t-to you."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:17:17 -0600

@Secret Door Lorg listened to the girl's story and stepped foward. "Excuse me for interrupting, but did I hear that you have been branded?" he asked her gently, kneeling down to examine her.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:36:06 -0600

@Secret Door Sophia's eyes widened when the man who had been watching her before came over, her dark blue eyes growing darker as the fear rose up. She stood very still, barely breathing and she resisted the urge to hide behind Finn. It took her by surprise when his voice was so gentle and she glanced up at him, teeth worrying at her bottom lip as she nodded, watching as he crouched before her. Sophia glanced at Finn as though for reassurance that he wasn't going to do anything to hurt her, then just let him look over her. ((She's almost covered in brands and whip marks from basically the neck down to the soles of her feet. There are a couple of tiny ones on her face.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:40:46 -0600

@Secret Door Lorg hissed in pain just looking at the brands and whip marks. The girl couldn't have been more of a child. Who in Sithis' unholy name would do such a thing to a young girl? He held up one hand, which began to glow a bright yellow. "With your permission, I would like to try to heal you," he said, unable to tear his gaze away from the wounds. ((...Weyland's an ass.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:57:27 -0600

((He really is. lol! xD Perfect antagonist.)) @Secret Door ((More than a child when it happened? Or more than a child now? She's like... 20 something now. lol I know she acts like she's 5. :P )) Sophia paled quite suddenly at the sight of his hand glowing and she swayed alarmingly on her feet, she didn't necessarily have anything against magic in -general- but having it used -on- her was an entirely different matter. A little sound came from the back of her throat, it sounded like a tiny mewl and goosebumps rose on her skin.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:02:31 -0600

@Secret Door ((Whoops. Meant the second, but we could just say I meant the first one.)) "I promise, it won't hurt," Lorg said, brushing a stray strand of hair from his face. "I've used a spell similar to this one on myself for many years." He tried a calming smile, keeping the spell ready.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:58:50 -0600

@Secret Door Sophia still looked quite wary, she bit her lip and her fingers found the hem of Finn's kilt, she grabbed a small bit of the tartan and held on, feeling comforted before giving the tiniest of nods. If he wanted to try... if it wouldnt hurt... she looked from his hand to his face and nodded again, teeth still sunk into her lip out of nervousness.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:15:29 -0600

@Secret Door Finn smiled a little, "So it seems his clever spell backfired on him. I'm glad I told you to stay wi' me then. And I'm only half fey." He looked over the brands. It sickened him. Weyland had probably been one of those boys who pulled wings off flies and poured burning oil on cats. The brands were runes, both Celtic and Norse and some he didn't recognize. It seemed Weyland wanted to cover all of his bases. The brands were already healed, so Finn could not use any of his healing magic on them. He waited while the man? used his healing spell on her. "I am Finn McCool, call me Finn." He said to the man. When the healing spell was finished, Finn tried a simple spell to unlock the collar . He doubted it would work but he wanted to get a feel for the magic around it. He might have to ask the Queen for help with this. She was far more powerful, and older and more experienced. "Just be still a moment and let me try something on that collar.--That's not an order, just a suggestion. He told her, hoping the control spell on the could distinguish the difference. ((There, in case I'm not around much tomorrow, there things people can react to.)) ((Weyland is the antagonist and _not_ the villian of the story? 0.o))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:58:54 -0600

((Sorry I've not been around much lately. Internet issues :/ )) @ LS Sinclair eyed Aerona suspiciously. She was a Fallen Angel, she'd admitted as much to him. That meant she was evil, that she couldn't be trusted...right? Showing him where the Church was was likely a trick or a trap. But since he didn't know the way to any of these churches himself and the trick might just be her trying to lull him into a false sense of security, what choice did he actually have? "Yes...that would be very much appreciated, thank you." There might be a priest present he could ask for guidance. It was probably too much to hope one of his particular order would be present. --- @ Secret Door "Don't try thinking too hard about it, kid," Mittens advised. "It's hard enough for some of us to wrap our heads round and we've had considerably longer to try than you. But I am afraid people do go to hell...it's just a far more complicated process to get people there than Mr Catholic out there realises. We demons have to work quite hard to maintain our quota you know. It's not just a simple case of a bit of tempting here and there and bam! You're damned." "The power surge...it's not dangerous in itself. Whoever caused it very well might be, but since we don't currently know who or where they are..." He shrugged. "You might as well just enjoy yourselves."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:59:06 -0600

((I'm just going to wait for Darkfeather to respond...)) @DM Aerona offered Sinclair a small smile, it faded though when he still seemed nervous by her presence. "Right this way." She started down the street toward St John the Baptist Church. If he really was desperate for getting to a church, that was closest. "Um... Mr Sinclair..." Aerona started quietly, she was hesitant. "I wanted to let you know that... I- I am repentant of what choices I had made to cause me to fall." She looked ashamed, squishing the plushie nervously. "I spend my days trying to make up for what trouble I caused, although I know it is not possible for me to be allowed back into the light of the most high." She couldn't meet his eye as they walked to the church.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:37:11 -0600

@Secret Door Lorg balled up the hand that had the healing spell, then opened it, allowing the healing energies to flow forth to the girl. They floated around her at first, then penetrated the brands. They worked to slowly knit back together the burned and torn flesh. The most the girl would feel would be a slight itching sensation.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:56:27 -0600

@Secret Door The energies glowed around her, she watched it warily and felt the magic started to do it's work. At first it just itched a bit, she rubbed at the brands and then they started to itch a bit more, burning and hurting. Sophia started to squirm, whimpering at the sensation. "Ooh... oh... st-stop... stop it! M-make it stop!" She whimpered. ((I'll reply to the collar thing in a bit.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:58:02 -0600

((I've got another thing I want to do with Sinclair, but after that I'd very much like to jump to the next day so I can get some more plot things started. So if people could get their conversations finished up I would appreciate it :D))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:28:09 -0600

@Secret Door ((Uh... looks like DarkFeather's not going to be around for the rest of the weekend so I'll just do whatever with Sophia.)) Sophia wrapped her arms around her, shying away from Lorg, brands itching and aching. When he stopped the spell the pain started to fade and she trembled. The scars were still there when they stopped hurting. Then even worse, Mr Finn started to try -his- magic on her collar and it sensed being tampered with, tightening suddenly around her throat when he tried to unlock it. Her hands flew to it as her face turned red. When it stopped, she gasped and coughed.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:42:35 -0600

@Secret Door "That's good to know that one little mistake won't get you a spot in Hell forever," Teagan said to Mittens. "But I'm still counting on Brigid to get me into Summerlands. The Christian god is just such a chauvenist. I really can't get into that." Mo nodded in agreement. "Don't you, or anyone else, have powers of some kind to find whoever made the power surge? Don't you keep tabs on your bad guys?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:04:32 -0600

"Well I could convince him, but probably not with fine words only, and what use have I for a pet? I am too old to be constantly looking after them," Kithara shrugged when the others talked about her going to fetch Sinclair and have him come back, she didn't see why they needed him, Although if he might know something then yes she should call him back. "I can try talking to him...someone a little less...powerful migh be a little lesss unnerving" Rochelle suggested. "As for keeping track of badguys, there's so much supernatural shit in this city tracking anyone from one surge, no matter how powerful, is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, although the fact it had a demonic flavour should make it easier."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:28:36 -0600

@Secret Door "By Lugh's Long Co--claymore." Finn said. He sighed, "I suppose that was rather naive of me to think a simple spell would unlock the collar. "Sorry, mo ghra. Seems this will take something more powerful and better thought out." ---- "Wow, I didn't know Brighton was a nexus. Cool." Teagan said. "Or not, as the case may be." ((Ready to move on whenever you are.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:12:41 -0600

@ Secret Door "The Christian God really isn't all that bad," Mittens said, stretching out. "Barring the fact that I oppose him and all he stands for of course. The people that wrote down His Word though...chauvanistic as anything. As pretty much always, it's the fan club you really have to watch for." He gave the girls a very catty grin. "You know Brigid is a Catholic Saint, right?" ((I'm going to try and move on come the weekend when I (hopefully) have proper internet back))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:29:55 -0600

@Secret Door Lorg moved his hand away from the girl when the magicks didn't work, and watched the other man try his magicks, and fail as well. "Strange," he muttered. "It's never failed before." He stepped back, scratching his chin stubble. Despite being elves, Bosmer were able to grow facial hair, which was one thing that set them apart from the others.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:19:14 -0600

"I can try, but it's unseelie magic, it is better to ..unravel it rather than to force it, like untwisting a ball of twine," the queen aid. She made no move to try right now though, she had a vague and distant sympathy for the girl, but that was all, and this thing with the signal was more pressing. "It's kind cool most of the time," Rochelle flashed the girl a grin. "All right, so maybe our next step is to go contact the vampires, see what they know about this stuff...far more likely to be out at this time of night than the werewolves." who tended to be pretty diurnal except one night a month, well most of em, some of them were real night owls.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:27:45 -0600

Lorg looked up as the girl behind the bar said something about the vampires. "Excuse me," he said, walking up, "But where might I find them? Also, where might I find the werewolves?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:01:07 -0600

@Secret Door "Brigid was a Celtic goddess long before she was co-opted by the Catholics as the midwife to Mary. The Irish weren't going to give her up easily." Mo said. She could go on and on about how harsh the Catholics were in trying to suppress all that 'heathen' exuberance. "They turned Imbolc into Candlemass. That was Her big holiday. And made all of her wells Christian shrines." "Did she say vampires?" Teagan whispered. "Vampires and werewolves and demons, oh my. Mo, we're not in Kansas any more." "Never were." Mo had to smirk.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:30:15 -0600

@ Secret Door Mittens blinked. "Midwife to Mary?" he said. "Which St. Brigid are you thinking of?" He shrugged. "I was just trying to taunt you. I've never met your Brigid, but St. Brigid isn't the Catholics trying to copt anyone. She was a genuine historical figure. A feminist icon if the 4th and 5th centuries in Ireland. Lots of miracles and holiness." He frowned. "Quite annoying really. Bit of a bitch if you ask me, but then I am evil." He looked over as Lorg broached the question about vampires. "Oh yes, please send him to them! Take him away and stop him causing any more trouble."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:13:38 -0600

@ LS Sinclair blinked at Aerona. "You are? Honestly?" He hadn't thought the Fallen were capable of things such as remorse. That...that didn't settle well in his stomach. And made him feel rather guilty over the way he'd reacted to her. "Anyone can earn forgiveness," he said. He thought that was the case anyway. "Even the greatest of sinners...if they genuinely repent." They headed through the streets, Sinclair occasionally jumping at cars as they drove past, engines roaring and lights blazing. It was a very pleasant looking church. Far less grand than the buildings Sinclair was used to, and a cleaner white than he'd ever seen on an exterior wall before. There was something strange about it though...it didn't carry with it the feelings of holiness he generally expected from a Church. Maybe it was just the strange day he'd had. Eager to go inside and once again be within the house of god he stepped up to the front doors. There he paused. The building had clearly been locked fairly recently, but the lock was now broken, the wood around it splintered. And there were bloody fingermarks on the frame. Eyes widening and heart starting to pound in panic Sinclair pushed the door open and stepped inside. There had thankfully not been too many people inside, but those that had been here...Sinclair swallowed. It was a slaughter. There was blood staining every surface, splashed across the walls, coating the pews... He rounded on Aerona, eyes blazing. "Did you do this? Is this why you brought me here?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:58:53 -0600

@Secret Door "Th-that's okay." Sophia's face wasn't red anymore and she had recovered her good spirits. "I'm g-glad you could tr-try anyway." She gave a little smile at Lorg and Finn and then listened to the Faerie Queen with great seriousness. She figured it wasn't going to be easy but as long as she was in the company of people who weren't going to order her about to hurt her, she didn't mind so much. "What d-does that mean? M-mo g-gra?" She tried to pronounce it the same but it didn't come out quite right. @DM "I am.' Aerona replied simply, still looking rather ashamed as they walked. She gave him a sad smile at his words. "You are quite an optimist...' She shook her head slightly. 'No... even if forgiveness is possible, redemtion is not. El Roi gave His son that mortals might have that hope of being in His divine presence again rather than to be cast into the outer darkness." She bit her lip lightly and sighed before adding on a lighter note, "However, even if one like myself cannot be redeemed, I can still help to offer others that hope..." It was the one shining beacon in her life. When they came up to the church, Aerona couldn't help feeling a prickle over her flesh too and when Sinclair swung the door open she gasped and took a step back at the sight of the carnage. She looked around at the stains, some wet and glimmering, others drying dark and flaking already.. Her eyes were wide with shock as she stepped slowly into the church, looking at the bodies. Sinclair's words and look brought her back to where she was and she felt like she had been struck across the face with bar. "N-no!" She gasped, blinking and looking around as though perhaps she wasn't really seeing it. 'No! I- I am not... Th-this is not of my doing!" She sounded stricken and made her way over to one of the bodies, kneeling and touching it tenderly, checking for any signs of life.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:04:59 -0600

@Secret Door "I'm no Catholic. I suppose there could be more than one St. Brigid. I'd have to google her to find out, but I'm pretty sure the one who was coopted was supposed to be the midwife to Mary. Did this fouth century Brigid have wells sacred to her?" Mo said. "The elves would know, they're from Tir na Nog, aren't they?" Teagan added. ---- "Mo ghra is...my love. Just a term of endearment. Tryin' to set your mind at ease." Finn said. He would have thougbt she could tell from context, but then he doubted Weyland had ever said any kind words to her. Poor little dove.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:42:23 -0600

((Teagan made me Google Brigid and I found this http://www.irelandforvisitors.com/articles/brigit_the_mary_of_the_gael.htm))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:05:23 -0600

@ Secret Door "I believe so," Mittens said. "Sacred wells and a flame that was always kept burning. But she was recorded as being very Irish and was certainly too late to have ever met Mary, let alone tended to her." He stretched out, claws digging into the table surface. "But fascinating as all this is, it doesn't solve my problems in the slightest. I need to go and track my master back down. Who knows what sort of mischief he's got into without me. I can get on with my search tomorrow with a freshly rested mind." --- @LS Unless Aerona was the best actress he'd ever seen Sinclair was inclined to believe her. Indeed at the stricken look on her face he even felt somewhat guilty for having accused her of such a thing. She turned away from the Lord he told himself. However remorseful she is now she still went against him and does not deserve sympathy. But evil or not she was doing the right thing at the moment. He severely doubted any of the people in here would be alive, but they had to check. Anyone left alive needed to be treated immediately. "I've seen this sort of thing before," he said softly. "The man I was hunting down when I came here...he did this. To multiple Holy Sites. But these injuries...these weren't done by human hands..." He traced along one set of gashes in a young woman's throat. They looked like they'd been done by some huge hound, paws bigger than his head. A hell hound? Oh that was all he needed right now. Suddenly the door burst open, flashing lights filling the building with vivid blue light. Two uniformed figures stood in the doorway. "Freeze! Police!" ((And that's where I was thinking of ending the days antics :p Yay cliffhangers))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:57:15 -0600

@Secret Door "Doesn't really matter. It's the Goddess Brigid who means something to me." Teagan said. "Goodbye, then."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:35:42 -0600

@ “In which case I suggest we all get some sleep.” “Ahhh sleep, how quaint” Kithara smiled. “I will go inform Medea of this ones arrival,” he nodded at Lorg “And the werewolves as well. I will try to get them to meet in the morning, early, before Medea must lay down and we can discuss the situation at the same time as well, bring him along around 6am for the night. “You nocturnal or you want some sleep?” Rochelle asked Lorg, “I got a place you can crah if you need to.” @ The next morning Jesssica woke up late, thankful that it was, at last, the weekend and worried about what she’d seen and hheard the night before @ Juma had been due a liein after working late the night before, although having stumbled to bed the moment he got in from the graveyard shift he had still had a decent nights sleep when he was woken, far earlier than expected by a phone call. “Uhhuh” he nodded vaguely a few times without trying for anything particularly important to say before “I’ll be there,” he nodded, He’d pick up breakfast on the way, but he’d be there. Christ all mighty, now he was apparently the go to guy for any bizarre cases, price of success that. He arrived at the station “All right,” he said “fill me in.”

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:34:31 -0600

@Church (wrapping things up...) Aerona looked horrified that SInclair had seen something like this before. Her heart nearly stopped when she found the still form of a child, no older than seven or eight among the bodies, laying by a woman. She picked up the still form, the rigor of death had passed and the child was limp and cold in her arms. She cradled it gently to her and murmured a small guardian angel's prayer, wondering if she would even be heard. "It looks rather like the work of the werewolves." She said quietly but then shook her head. "They know better though... I wonder if-" She was cut off when the doors opened and shielded hereyes from the brightness. @Secret Door to next day? "Oh, I see..." Sophia replied, nodding and then taking up her cup of whiskey again, finishing the last mouthful and enjoying the warmth of it as it went down. She didn't -really- fully understand the term, she didn't think she knew Mr Finn enough to be his love but Sophia wasn't feeling much like thinking about it too deeply as she was feeling a bit sleepy now that the action had died down and it seemed people were getting ready to leave. She wasn't sure where she was going to sleep but it wouldn't be far from Mr Finn, that was certain. ((Then Finn can go wherever, Sophia's going to be sticking by his side though. lol))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:40:23 -0600

@Police Station ((I'm assuming Aerona and Sinclair were taken to the station for questioning and held there?)) Aerona was sitting patiently in a holding cell at the police station. She couldn't blame them for bringing her here, it was a horrifying scene and even though innocent until proven guilty was a nice concept, it went against human nature. People were naturally suspicious. They had asked many questions that she had really no answers to and then locked her away with a woman who was picking sullenly at her chewed nails. "Good morning." Aerona said with a smile, receiving an annoyed glare in return and no reply.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:22 -0600

@ Police Station ((Whoops, I meant to say that Aerona was free to escape if she wanted. I was going to have Sinclair arrested but I didn't mean to drag Aerona into it unless you were okay with that)) Apparently Sinclair had been violating a ridiculous number of laws just by walking around the streets of this particular city. This was hardly the first time he'd been arrested (unfortunately it seemed to come with the territory sometimes) but he didn't think he'd ever managed to have so many crimes listed in one single encounter. While he was firmly denying being involved in that horrific slaughter in the church he couldn't exactly deny the loaded revolvers he'd been carrying around under his coat. Or the way he'd put up a fight when they tried to arrest him. Apparently Shock Nets had fallen out of fashion in this day and age, replaced by something just as incapacitating but far smaller and easier to hide in a pocket. He hadn't been beaten though, which made a nice change. He was far more isolated than he was used to being though. A small box of a cell with just a small window as his connection to the outside world. A window that was currently shut on the other side. He sighed and let his head drop back against the wall. He wondered if the Fallen creature was all right? He'd been too incapacitated at the end of the fight to notice what had happened to her. --- @ Jeze (Grace's flat) Grace was also not having a particularly good time of things. Despite having pulled the graveyard shift last night there had been some major crisis in town that was going to require all hands on deck for a few days. She'd been granted the pleasure of having the morning to try and recover and get some more sleep in, but she knew full well they pretty much expected her to be using that time to stay on top of her other cases before getting stuck into this one. And that was where the major problem lay. She had been given photos of the crime scene, the items gathered there, and Simon's injuries to study them and see what she could get from them. Two out of those three were just fine, but the last set...the folder had been clearly marked to be containing pictures of the man's injuries and yet she could make absolutely nothing out! There were clearly someone lying on the hospital bed, and patches of redness where the burn marks should have been, but the detail was absolutely terrible. She could just about tell it was a person lying there. The rest of the photograph was perfectly in focus, so why not this bit? It made absolutely no sense. This was clearly going to be a coffee heavy day. She hauled herself out of the couch and staggered into the small kitchenette, hoping the smell of brewing coffee would rouse her house guests. It would be nice to see them at least once before work once again ate her life.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:26:08 -0600

@Station ((That's okay, I like her getting in trouble for things that she usually has nothing to do with. I'm going to say she's being brought in for questioning, if you don't want to have one of your charries question her, I can just NPC someone.)) After quite a long time of watching the woman chew at her nails, an officer came to the cell and opened the door. "Come with me." He said, motioning to Aerona, who stood and followed him out of the cell, down the hall to a room with a desk and waited for another little while on a plastic seat, listening to the clock ticking above her head. There was another seat in the room on the other side of the desk and a little camera blinking at her. She sat very still with her hands in her lap, looking quite calm, as though she were merely waiting to meet a friend for a coffee. It was quite a long wait but she didn't move, not even to check the time.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:05:09 -0600

@Wherever Having refused the woman's offer of sleeping in her house, Lorg had walked around the entire night, just investigating his surroundings. Curious place. Nobody carried any weapons or armor. And there was a distinct lack of the beast and mer races. Coming upon what looked like a chapel of Talos, Lorg saw several more of those guards surrounding it. This wasn't exactly a good thing, usually.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:41:43 -0600

@Secret Door the night before, but not for long The girls decided they had better get back to Grace's place. "Now that we know this is here, I take it we can come back?" Teagan asked. "I'm going back to my place in Brighton. Guess I'll take this little one with me. I think she'll be safe enough at my place." Finn told Rochelle. @Grace's/DM Mo and Teagan hadn't slept much, they had stayed up late talking about all the things they learned at the Secret Door. They finally fell asleep but it was fitful. It didn't take much for them to wake up in the morning. Hearing Grace moving around was enough. They headed down to the kitchen. "Mmm, coffee." Mo said. "How was your shift last night? Problems because of the power outage? Did they figure out what caused it?" Teagan couldn't understand how Mo could be so cool. She relaly wanted to just blurt everything she knew about the Secret Door and faeries and demons and spells.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:38:42 -0600

@Finn's house Sophia awoke under Finn's bed, blinking slowly in the light that was starting to creep into the room. She woke up more fully when she realised she had forgotten where she was and she sat up quickly, thinking she was under Wayland's table again. A sharp crack to her head told her otherwise. Wayland's table was bigger than that... She made a mewling 'gyuuu' sound and rubbed her head, wincing as she lay there waiting for the pain to subside. As it did, she recalled the events from the day before and lay there, wondering what to do now. She had never had freedom before... not since she was just little. Other than staying close to Finn, she had nothing else to do.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:27:48 -0600

((Sorry Sophia, there is no 'under Finn's bed.' He's too tall to have one that's comfortable. He has a large futon on the floor in his room. So she can have the guest room or if she insists on staying that close to him, she can sleep on the futon and he'll put his sword between them. Yeah, he's chivalrous like that :) So...maybe her head is under the nightstand or something...)) @Finn's house/flat/whatever With Sophia in the house, Finn slept in his jeans. He rolled over when he heard the thump and was practically on his feet with the sword in his hand when he realized she had hit her head on the nightstand. "Sorry." he set the sword down. "I'm a bit jumpy after everything that happened last night." he went to his chest of drawers and pulled out a white teeshirt. he expected it would be a dress on the girl. "bathroom's at the end of the hall if you want a shower or bath. You can change into this and I'll wash your dress for you. I'll fix us some breakfast. Bacon and eggs, all right? Or I can make French Toast if you'd rather."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:52:51 -0600

((Ohh, of course. lol Well, she'd likely start out on the futon but then try to muzzily find her way underneath anything she could somewhat fit under. :D )) @Finn's house "Th-that's okay." Sophia replied, tentatively touching the sore spot and then getting to her feet as he pulled out the shirt. "You have a b-bathtub?" She asked and pulled the dress off over her head, amazed that he would offer to let her have a bath, would wash her dress AND would make breakfast... and a real breakfast, not scraps, from the sound of it. "Really?" She asked holding out the dress so he could take it and exchange it with the shirt. Her stomach gave a rumble of approval at the sound of food. "An-anything is fine... th-thank you. Wh-what's f-french toast?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:28:13 -0600

@Finn's house Finn quickly looked away when Sophia pulled off her dress. He thought humans were more modest than that, but then she had been with the Unseelie for some time. "Yes I have a bathtub. Our a little of the shower gel in, if you want bubbles. Or I have some lavender oil if you'd rather have that. The towels are all fresh, so help yourself." Finn grinned. "French toast is bread soaked in egg and then fried until golden brown, then you eat it with butter and maple syrup and a sprinkling of powdered sugar." He took the dress. "Is there anything else you need? We could go shopping after breakfast. Just come down when you're ready." ((Now I'm picturing Finn taking a bubble bath in an old iron tub with claw feet.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:36:20 -0600

@Finn's house "So it's... sw-sweet?" Sophia couldn't help sounding excited... she really liked honey and syrup. Maybe he wouldn't mind making some and letting her try it. Shaking her head shyly, Sophia couldn't think of anything else she could possibly need, "Th-thank you though..." She didn't know anything about shopping but she knew wherever Mr Finn went, she wouldn't be far behind. Bubble bath... something about that rang a bell in the back of Sophia's mind but she couldn't place why. She glanced up and noticed Finn was looking deliberately away, she looked down at herself... was something amiss? She wondered as she took the t-shirt and started toward the bathroom, shirt clutched infront of her. She was more grown up, she saw... she hadn't taken notice of it in years, it was strange to see curves and gentle swells in places she hadn't thought about before. In the bathroom, she set the shirt on the counter and looked herself over in the mirror, it was the first time in years she had seen a reflection of herself and she was taken aback at the stranger looking back at her. There was a frown on the girl's face and she made herself stop... there, that was a bit better. Her hair was quite long now, tangled, but long. The curves were more noticeable, she touched a finger over the hips, the chest, the stomach. She looked grown up, even if she didn't feel it. It didn't take her long to figure out how to turn on the taps here, Sophia turned on the blue one and let the tub fill. There was another tap that was red and when she turned it on, she found more water came out but it was warmer. Suddenly she turned off the cold water tap and turned on the hot one. A -hot- bath! She really -was- lucky! She looked through the bottles of things before choosing one and pouring a bit in. It smelled nice and she watched some bubbles starting to froth up. When the tub was full enough she climbed in and sat, looking very entertained by merely being in a tub of warm water. Finding the soap by the tub, she lathered up and rinsed off, then ducked her head under to wash it too. It wasn't until the delicious smells of cooking food reached her that she thought about getting out of the tub, her stomach making the decision for her. She stepped out of the tub and pulled the plug out before finding a fuzzy towel and drying off. Her hair was still a bit damp when she found a comb and worked out the tangles, every little bit of grooming seemed to improve her appearance. She made a little face at the scars all over her and pulled the shirt over her head when the knots were out of her hair. The tee reached mid-thigh in the front, , it was rather like her dress, though the sleeves felt longer. She set the towel over a towel rack, put the comb back where she found it and went to find her way downstairs, following the scent and sound of breakfast. ((this took me forever to write but i was bored enough to do it... :P Finn likes bubble baths? :3 ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:09:05 -0600

@ Police Station/LS The officer went through his standard spiel involved in setting up the interview tapes. He tried not to show it but he was a little unnerved by the young woman's total silence and stillness. One of his coworkers joined him and they sat together opposite Aerona. "Having looked at the evidence available to us we do not have nearly enough to hold you for anything," he started. "However, we would like to ask you a few questions about the scene you and the young man were found at. Could you explain why you went to that Church at such a late hour, when it would have long since closed its doors to the public?" --- @ Jeze Grace shook her head. "Not a clue. Thankfully the back up generator kicked in pretty quick so it didn't cause us too many problems. Proved a real headache for traffic control though since half the traffic lights in the city didn't come back on when the problem got sorted." She took another sip of coffee. "As for the rest of my shift...Not really the best night I've ever had to be honest. I obviously can't say much but it'll doubtless be circulating on the news for the next few days." Although poor old burnt up Simon likely wouldn't be getting his front page any more. Massacre in a church kind of trumped an attack on a sole target, however horrific the attack was. Although the ritualistic elements of Simon's attack might mean it was linked to the attack in the church...something to bring up when she got in, although someone else had doubtless already thought of that. She fumbled for the remote and switched the TV on. Just in time for the news and there were her cases scrolling along the bottom of the screen. 'Twelve found dead in Brighton Church' and 'Sussex University Fire Attack!'. At least the media didn't have the details to try and link the two together yet. Which meant the police were one step ahead of them for once. Always a nice feeling. "Yeah, if you hear anything about either of those...let me know? I'd very much appreciate it. Although poor old Juma will likely have to make some sort of statement to the press in an hour or two which should give people a few more details. But enough about my shitty job, how was your night? Get up to anything fun? Find any new places for gigs?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:15:31 -0600

@Station Aerona watched the man set up the tapes, her demeanor calm as they got things prepared. She nodded at the suggestion that they would have to ask her some questions. "I assure you, Mr Sinclair and myself had nothing to do with such a horrific tragedy... though I cannot blame you for being suspicious of anyone." She thought about the child and looked troubled. "As to being at the church... Mr Sinclair is... from out of town. He is from a very devout community and had a rather trying day. He said he wished to pray in a church, so I offered to escort him to one of the local parishes. St Mary Magdalen or St John the Baptist, He requested St John as it was closer to walk to. I admit I have never attended a Mass at St John the Baptist, I was unaware of when it was locked." She bit her lip, "It was only when we arrived there that we found the lock on the door broken, and opened it to find..." She sighed and looked down at her hands in her lap. "I can vouch for Mr Sinclair's character." She murmured. "I realise he was found with some weapons on his person but you see, but I believe where he comes from it is not at all uncommon to carry a weapon and he did not know better when coming here... also, I think the trials he had to face during the day and the shock of what we encountered made him frightened enough to resist being brought in here, not anything else that might suggest he is party to the... the incident." She wondered if that would help matters at all.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:10:40 -0600

@ Station The main police officer conducting the interview looked up sharply when Aerona mentioned Sinclair's name. "Mr Sinclair did you say?" The aggressive suspect she'd been found with had declined to inform them of his identity. "That is the name of the young man you were found with?" Inspector Juma hadn't left a lot of details about the burned man in the hospital, but there had been enough information left for the first shift to know that someone by the name of 'Sinclair' was potentially involved. And now they had such an individual banged up in one of the holding cells down the corridor. "If you'll excuse me I need to have a word with my senior officer." He cleared his throat. "For the benefit of the tape, Detective Constable Block is leaving the room." And then he did just that. --- @ Saf Thankfully the DCI was actually in when Block reached his office, although he really looked like he could be doing with some more sleep. "Sorry to interrupt sir, but I thought you might want to know. The girl found at the church massacre as IDed our strangely dressed gun nut as a Mr Sinclair. Don't know if it's connected with your burnt guy at all, but I figured it was worth a look into. And he's going to need to go to the hospital at some point. They don't look to be causing him much difficulty, but he's injured too bad to just get patched up by a medic here." For one thing he suspected the man needed an X ray for his ribs.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:55:15 -0600

@Whoever Lorg spent a few minutes watching the guards outside the chapel, then attempted to get close enough to ask one of them what had happened. ((Not sure how the police will react.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:24:07 -0600

@Finn's house ((Finn has long hair, so I expect there are plenty of products to deal with hair. I picture Finn singing in the shower and also taking bubble baths. He's rather sensuous.)) "Yes the syrup is sweet and sticky." Finn smiled. Sophia seemed excited "I'll make French toast then. No harder to do than make eggs." When she headed to the bathroom, he went down to the kitchen. Finn turned and smiled when Sophia arrived in the kitchen. "Well, look at that. I knew you'd clean up good. Coffee? Or something else to drink?" The table was already set for two. He put a plate of French Toast at the seat closer to Sophia. There was butter and warm syrup on the table and a bowl of fruit. He poured himself a cup of coffee and brought it to the table. "We'll go shopping after this. We need to get you some appropriate clothes. And if you don't mind, I'll put a glamour on your to hide those brands and cuts. Don't want to draw undue attention and have someone think I'm the one who abused you. @Grace's "The power outage sorta brought our investigation fo place to perform short. Although we did find one place..." Mo said. Teagan kicked her under the table. "Um, we heard there were some strange things going on in Brighton...Do strange things happen here a lot? Anything you think we should know about?" Maybe Grace already knew about the faeries and demons and such. She was on the police force after all.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:03:38 -0600

@Finn's House Sophia blushed prettily t the compliment as she came into the kitchen, sniffing appreciatively at the scent of the cooking food, her face was warm as she tugged at the front of the teeshirt. Seeing the two places set, she moved shyly over to the table and took a seat. She couldn't help bouncing a little on the chair when the french toast was set near her, she could smell the sweetness from the warm syrup and it made her mouth water. Her stomach rumbled again and she blushed again, giving Finn a rare smile in her excitement. "I've n-never had s-some coffee... is it yummy?" She asked, she could smell it from his cup, it -smelled- good. "D-do you have some wh-whiskey?" She asked, it was one of her more favourite things to drink. She picked up the fork by her plate and held it like she might stab something, hovering it over the plate. "I d-don't mind." She shook her head. She didn't like magic used on her but she trusted Mr Finn. @Station Aerona was surprised at how quickly the officer got up and left. Had she said something wrong? She started to feel a little worried and she fidgeted for the first time since she had been brought into the room. She smiled a little at the other officer, trying to quell the apprehension growing in her.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:18:38 -0600

Juma was in the middle of processing reports from anyone and everyone who’d worked the scene last night, taking down details, asking questions, peering at photographys, exploring the ritual aspects. Cause of death said clawmarks, which would make it pretty hard to pin the actual deaths on the two people they’d brought in, unless one ofthe was a werewolf, he was going to need to find away to get a copy of the dimensions report on the claws to jess and Mel , maybe when he got mel’s consult on the first crime scene. He had a nasty feeling these cases were going to be linked and not in anyway he liked. Then Block came in. “Good work block,” he nodded approvingly. So possibly this Sinclair was on some supernatural revenge spree? No probably nothing that simple.”Keep the persons of interest apart, keep interviewing the one your talking to, quiz her on the events, get her to relax then ask her about this Sinclair again, how long has the person of interest known him etc, I want her alibi for...” he reeled off the time of the attack on Simon, noting as he did so that it corresponded eerily with the time all the lights had gone out. Something else he wasn’t going to like. He pointed at one of the DCS “I want a fool collate report and answers to those questions from forensics asap,” he said, then flipped open his phone. Grace had been running files on Sinclair, she probably didn’t have any yet but he wanted to check that before interviewing, and ideally he could do with keeping her on the job and in the interview, she’d met the victim, had a clearer view of the full picture and frankly if this got as supernatural as he expected it to then the fewer people he had to explain it to, the better. ((medea and lorg and stuff...tommorow, or ...well soemtime over the weekend hopefully) \

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:54:12 -0600

@Finn's house "Coffee does smell good, doesn't it? One of the things I like on this side of the veil." Finn said. "I've a friend who says of coffee that it is like a man's love, promising far more than it delivers. But I think that is a little unfair. Some think coffee is bitter, but with cream and sugar, it solves the problem. but yummy? I don't know if anyone has described it that way." He pushed his cup towards her, "Take a taste." "Whiskey? Now there's a girl after me own heart!" Finn grinned. He pulled a bottle from the cabinet and two glasses. He filled one nearly to the top and the other about two fingers worth. "Here's whiskey then." He set it in front of her. Finn sat down and smear butter on his French Toast then doused it with syrup.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:06:47 -0600

@Station Aerona continued to wait very patiently for the officers to finish up with her. She tried to make some polite conversation with the officer who remained in the room but he didn't seem interested in anything like that so after a few minutes she just went quiet again and sat still, waiting to see what would come about next. @Finn's house "Oh." Was Sophia's reply to the statement about the coffee and a man's love. She wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a joke and if she was supposed to laugh or if he were being serious and she was supposed to know about it. She compromised with a little giggle and then a nod of agreement with his reflection. Taking the mug in both hands, she took a little sip and made a little sound at the taste. She hadn't been sure what to expect and it was such a different taste, she wasn't sure whether she liked it or not. She took another sip, trying to decide. Sophia was secretly delighted to have gotten such a response from Mr Finn. She was so used to people treating her like a nuisance or something disgusting that they had accidentally stepped in or sometimes like she didn't exist. To get an exclamation and a bright smile was a rare treat and she blushed happily, thanking him for the whiskey and nudged his coffee cup back to him, preferring the whiskey over the coffee for sure. "Sl-Sláinte." She said quietly, almost shyly and smiled, taking a little sip and savoring the taste as it rolled over her tongue. She watched what he did to prepare his breakfast and how he ate with the utensils and imitated what he did as best she could. She was a bit messier about it, getting her fingers sticky with syrup but that was okay, she licked it off and ate with obvious pleasure, "Th-thank you Mr F-Finn... it's really g-good." Sophia said, rubbing her full tummy. She didn't think she had tasted something so good before, she thought, taking a sip of whiskey. She wondered where he was going to go shopping...

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:35:09 -0600

@Finn's house Finn laughed, "Sláinte." He agreed. "You speak Gaelic then?" He said in Gaelic. It would make sense since she had been with the Unseelie for so long. He resisted the urge to help her with her food. He could show her how to use utensils later. "I'm glad you like it. Seems you like sweets. You didn't get them much before, I imagine. Is that where you got your taste for whiskey as well?" He really wanted to meet Weyland again and hang him up by his pointy ears.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:31:33 -0600

((Huzzah for google translate. lol! I -used- to speak a bit of Gaelic, my granny taught me (she was Irish through and through lol) but I've lost it over the years. :P )) "Um... ach b-beagan." Sophia replied shyly, A little. She didn't tend to speak much in general, not when she was around Wayland especially. And Wayland didn't speak it well either, she thought. She heard some people talk with the Gaelic and it sounded different from what Wayland said. He only knew it because he needed to talk with those people who didn't speak his language. Thus, she didn't speak a lot of it, nor very well but she could speak -some-. "I pr-probably know more of s-some bad words fr-from the north than in the G-gaelic though." She admitted with a soft laugh. Wayland always seemed mad and when he was mad he cursed... most often in his native tongue from across the North Sea. "N-not that I would say th-them..." She added quickly, blushing. She didn't want Mr Finn thinking she was a bad girl or mean or mad or anything. Shaking her head a little, she thought about it. "Only when... wh-when I found some in my d-dish." She said, remembering. "And when Myyr g-gave me some..." A small frown furrowed her brow. "Wh-whiskey hardly ever. B-but sometimes..." She trailed off and shook her head, making herself stop frowning as she recalled the frowning girl in the mirror earlier. "It's a sp-special t-treat." She took another mouthful and let it cover her tongue before swallowing.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:43:13 -0600

@Finn's ((My grandmother was irish but didn't speak it her people came over before the potato famine could be as early as the 1820s but I'm not sure. Need to dig through the family stuff and see what I can find out. My grandmother did have some unusual sayings, one being "Ceely's shaking her featherbed" when she saw onion snow. After speaking to Irish-American's and those from Ireland, we have determined that she must have been referring to The Seelie, but it got changed over time. Either way, the onion snow signaled it was time to do your spring cleaning.)) "I hardly know a woman or girl who doesn't like sweets." Finn said. "But one who likes whiskey...not so common." He downed his glass on one gulp. "One of my friends said they way I drink it, he thinks it's my life force." He chased the whiskey with the coffee. "Mayhap tomorrow I'll make you Irish coffee. Or later tonight. Though I think we need to go to the Secret Door again for any news."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:52:15 -0500

@ Police Station/LS Block nodded and made his way back to the interview room with Aerona. "I'm sorry that took so long," he said. "But I'm afraid it was something that couldn't wait. Now, where were we...I believe we can come back to what you believe Mr Sinclair's intentions were later. Would you be able to tell us your whereabouts and movements yesterday evening? Between eight o'clock and when we picked you up outside the church? Were you with Mr Sinclair the entire time?" --- @ Jeze Grace shrugged. "Strange things tend to happen wherever there are students knocking around. They tend to get up to all kinds of weird shit. Not usually malicious stuff though...there's crime here like there is in any city, but we rarely see anything this outright nasty. What happened last night would be shocking even to London." She shook her head. "I don't know enough about it to be able to give you any details on what you should really know about," she confessed. "That'll probably have to wait for whatever Juma says when the press get to him later."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:58:20 -0500

@Finn's House Sophia was more than a little glad to hear she was like a normal girl, liking sweets... though she wasn't sure why someone -wouldn't- like whiskey. She nodded at hearing they would have to go back to the tavern, even though the prospect made her a little nervous. Going out in daylight in the midst of a bunch of people... she took another bite of the french toast and chewed slowly, she was already full even though there was still about half a plateful left. She took another mouthful though, not able to stop herself. She would likely have a tummyache later but for now she had to keep eating. "Wh-whiskey cab h-help a lot of th-things though..." That's what she had always thought, seeing what people had drank it for, @Station "Not to worry." Aerona said reassuringly to the officer with a smile. "I quite understand, especially under the circumstances." She watched him for a moment. "I can try to answer whatever questions you might have." She added agreeably. "Yesterday evening I was on the pier, watching the carousel... I was going down to the beach and went into the arcade for a moment. I won a plushie horse from one of the games." Aerona said, thinking it might be relevant... even the littlest details. "Mr Sinclair was in there and looking quite lost, so I helped show him the way out and went to help him find a girl... someone he, erm, thought he knew I think." It was the only way she could think to explain it. "After that we went to have a bit of a nightcap, he got some distressing news and wanted to pray in a church, so I showed him to the church." She looked thoughtful. "Does that help at all?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:56:27 -0500

@DM Mo looked into Grace's face trying to see if that was a pat answer or if there was something more going on. "Did the police find any strange looking people around? I mean, when we were on the pier, it seemed that there some strangely dressed people there--stranger than usual..." Teagan kicked Mo under the table that time. Mo gave her a look. @Finn's "You mean whiskey for getting drunk?" Finn asked. "I guess you can drown your sorrows in it. I don't actually get drunk. I just like the taste." He finished his meal and stood up to do the dishes.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:54:36 -0500

@Finn's Sophia thought about it and shook her head, "Sometimes M-Myyr said it w-was good for helping t-to go to sl-sleep, or if I had a t-tummyache... or th-things like that." She said, helping to carry some dishes over when she saw him bringing them to wash them. She thought maybe she could help dry the dishes or do -something- in return for his help.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:45:53 -0500

@ Darkfeather ((Sorry this has taken me so long to deal with!)) The church was cordoned off with police tape and multiple officers surrounding the area to stop the crowd from getting too close and to keep places clear so that the forensic teams could easily get in and out. The bodies had already been removed and the police officers were very closed mouthed about what had happened inside, sticking religiously to the official statements that had thus far been issued, which weren't particularly informative. --- @ LS/Police Station "What time was it you encountered Mr Sinclair?" Detective Block asked. "And could you describe the girl you thought he knew? Do you know why he thought she might have needed help?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:12:01 -0500

@DM ((S'alright.)) Lorg glided through the crowds, stoping at the edge of the roped off area. He tried to get the attention of the guards, mostly by simply staring at one until he looked around at him. Most of the time, it failed. But he kept trying. Curiousity burned within him to find what had happened.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:30:51 -0500

@Finn's "Myyr? So you had a friend when you were with the Unseelie?" Finn asked. He pointed to a dishtowel, "You are welcome to dry the dishes if you want to." He put a glass in the drainboard.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:38:48 -0500

@ Jeze Grace contemplated the question. "No...I don't think so. I think there was an attack by someone strangely dressed on a couple of uniform shortly after the power cut but..." She looked up at the two girls. "Why do you ask? Did something happen on the pier?" --- @ Darkfeather "I'm sorry sir," one of the officers said, spotting Lorg trying to get their attention. "We don't have any more information available for you at this time. If you want to know more-" He trailed off when one of his co-workers caught his attention. "If you'll excuse me for just a minute sir." He headed over to where the other officer was standing. "What is it?" he said quietly, out of hear shot of regular humans. But out of earshot of a werewolf/vampire hybrid? Who knew? "That guy...he matches the description of the man who attacked John and Peter last night," his colleague responded, equally quietly. "See if you can keep him here while I get in contact with the station. See if you can find out who he is." "Understood." He headed back to Lorg with a smile on his face. "I'm sorry about that sir. Was there a specific inquiry you had about the incident? It's not likely but I might be able to help."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:42:46 -0500

@DM "I simply wish to know what has happened," Lorg said, watching the guard curiosly. "Attacks on temples aren't that common where I come from, but I have dealt with one. I was thinking I might be able to help." He watched the man, occasionally flicking his eyes upwards at the sun. Currently, he was in the shade, which meant he would be fine. But the shadows were receiding rather quickly. Not a good thing.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:00:13 -0500

@Station "Hm... it was later in the evening. After the power outage was over. The lights had come back on and he had gone into the arcade." Aerona replied. She really had no concept of time, not after so many millennia. "I believe he saw the girl looking confused and rather lost, perhaps a little afraid and wanted to help her. He is quite a compassionate sort from what I can tell." Sheadded thoughtfully. "She was a blonde woman, on the smaller side, wearing a simple white dress." She shrugged, not wanting to divulge other information that might come across as too strange. @Finn's house Sophia plucked up the towel and glass and dried it carefully, not wanting to break anything while she was here. Nodding, she smiled a little, "Yes, th-there weren't -all- b-bad people. Just most... Myyr would let m-me come over to her h-house. Some-sometimes p-people would ask t-to borrow me." She explained. "Myyr pr-pretended to just want to...play with m-me... but she would feed me an-and br-brush my hair." She smiled abit more remembering, touched her collar lightly before picking up another dish to dry.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:35:36 -0500

((Uhmm bit lostas to what to post hre so will try again in the morning... DM grace's phone is going to ring soon as Juma wants to ask her if she pulled anything from the files on Sinclair before going through them himself and then interviewing him Dark feather'- what happened to Lorg getting introduced to Medea in the early hours of the morning, would he have shown up when he was supposed to..if not well Medea won't be happy but I'll write up the conversation between her and Rochelle)

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:57:31 -0500

((Was that ever actually established? I don't remember.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:24:09 -0500

@DM "Um..." Teagan paused. "Just saw some strangely dressed people," and the queen of the faeries and a demon cat who could talk... "We didn't think they were street performers, they acted strangely too." So...the police didn't know anything about the Secret Door. She wondered if she should say something. But them Grace would think she was bonkers. @Finn 's "People _borrowed_ you? Ye Gods! What did they borrow your for?" Finn was outraged. And now that he asked he wasn't sure if he wanted to know. He scrubbed a little harder than necessary at the plate in his hand. "You aren't some toy to be handed off to whomever for whatever purposes." Oh Finn would rain down death the next time he saw Weyland.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:40:46 -0500

@Finn's Sophia nodded. "Mmhm." She didn't sound very disturbed by the notion herself. It was just the way it had always been. She glanced up when he asked what they wanted her for, feeling surprised by the question. "Well... j-just about anything re-really... exp-experiments, p-pleasure... amusement." She murmured off a short list that likely covered many things. Really she was surprised he had to ask, she looked at him curiously after setting down another dry dish. "It isn't th-the same where you're from?" She asked, not able to imagine that. She couldn't help smiling at his words though, he sounded just like Myyr. "Myyr s-said the same th-thing... she said what W-W-Wayland was d-doing was wr-wrong. What the others were doing w-was bad. I hadn't th-thought of it like that b-before." She still had a rather astounded tone to her voice when she mentioned it.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:08:10 -0500

((Yeah it was established that he was supposed to go along and meet them in the morning , we could retconn and say that it was the next day at sunset and there'd just be a big meeting? if that helps, though someone really should be supervising lorg before he gets into more trouble:p)))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:44:53 -0500

@ Jeze/Saf "Yeah, we get a lot of people like that in Brighton," Grace said. "People dressed strange, people acting strange...sometimes the two aren't even connected." She set her papers down and grabbed her phone when it started ringing. "Hello?" She straightened unconsciously at the voice on the other end. "Juma...hi. Sinclair's file? I haven't had much chance to review it yet. I've been stuck on something in Simon's files. There's something weird about the photos..." Realisation briefly came back to her and she put her hand over the speaker and turned back to her guests. "Erm...could you pretend you didn't just hear that? I'm going to finish this up in my room." --- @ Darkfeather "Thank you for the offer sir," the officer said. "You say you've dealt with an attack on a...uh...temple before? Would you be able to give me some details about that? I'm afraid I can't give out any details of the current incident but any information you could give would be appreciated."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:47:23 -0500

"Well It's just got important, we're holding someone with that name in the cells right now, I'm afraid we might need you in station since there's now a possibility of the two cases being linked. Hang on'" He covered the phone "No we're not speaking directly to the press yet, tell them we'll let the know when and official statement will be released shortly. Absolutely no one says ANYTHING to them yet do you hear me?" He uncovered the mouth piece and came on the phone. "What's wrong with the pictures in Simon's file?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:00:56 -0500

@Finn's "'Tis true that sometimes the Seelie will take a child, usually a baby and put a changling in it's place. Usually beautiful children. But they are treated very well. Loved, in fact." Finn said. He didn't even want to address the other things she mentioned. The fey were, in general very charismatic. They had no need to compel a human against their will. There were plenty who could be had very easily if one wanted pleasure or amusement. He stuck a plate in the rack and worked on the pan. @Grace's Mo and Teagan looked at each other when they heard the name Sinclair. And Simon. Should they say something. Mo mouthed, "We need to talk about this." When Grace went upstairs, she said. "Is that 'our' Sinclair?" "Who else could it be?" Tig answered. "And Simon, was that the guy he said was trying to do some evil spell? I think we should tell her. Sinclair's a good guy. A little weird, but he got pulled through here on that spell." "Seems he's already involved with the police. Do they have Simon in custody too? Sinclair said Simon was bad news." "Right so we tell her about Sinclair and the little we know about Simon. If that have him in custody, it may help. I can't imagine he did anything bad." "And what about the faeries and the Secret Door and demon cats?" Mo asked. "Do you know how crazy you just sounded? I think we stick to the concrete stuff they already know about. Don't want to get locked up, you know." "Right. Think we should tell the moms when we get home?" "What, that we met the Faery Queen of Brighton? You know Gigi already is a believer. Think we have a Faery Queen of Bucks County?" "Probably." "Think she'll want an audience when we get home." "Maybe. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing." "Gigi says we have a pact with the fey at home as long as we keep growing veggies..." "Right, note to self--always plant the veggies." They drank their coffee and waited for Grace to come back downstairs.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:15:12 -0500

@DM/SF Lorg's eyes flicked to the sun again, which made him realize something. He was late. He'd been supposed to meet the Vampire Jarl this morning. "Umm, I may have to tell you about it later," he said. "I'm needed somewhere else right now." He turned, starting away.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:10:27 -0500

((LOL! Tig and Mo are so funny. xD )) @Finn's Sophia reached for the plate and paused, her hand hovering over it for a moment. "Loved?" She echoed quietly. She picked up the plate and dried it carefully, a thoughtful frown on her face, as though she were trying to figure out a rather difficult math problem. She thought maybe Myyr had loved her, a bit at least. She was nice to Sophia anyway. She couldn't imagine really more than that, more fay feeling love for a human, baby or not. "I th-think most of them d-didn't likeme much just because W-Wayland and Tr-Trygve didn't like me. They were sc-scared of them t-too and didn't want to g-go against what they d-did." She said finally. "B-bad things happened t-to people who d-dis-disagreed with W-Wayland." She added in a whisper, putting the dry plate down on the counter.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:33:28 -0500

((Glad you like Tig and Mo. They've obviously just discovered that supposed senile ol' great-grandmom, isn't.)) @Finn's "Well, bad things are going to happen to Weyland when I get my hands on him." His heart went out to this poor girl. She would have been better off raised by wolves. He washed the utensils and put the in the drain. He dried his hands. "If you'll finish drying, I'll go up and get ready. Make yourself at home. I won't be long." He went upstairs and took a quick shower, used a spell to dry to hair and pulled on a pair of well worn jeans and a plaid shirt with the arms cut off. He tugged on motorcycle boots and he was ready to go. He went back downstairs. "ready to get you some proper clothes?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:46:47 -0500

@Finn's Her eyes widened at Finn's threat toward Wayland. He had stood up to him the night before and -that- had gone okay, but she was pretty sure it was just because of the command given by Finn. She didn''t think anyone really stood a chance against Wayland but... she took in Mr Finn's height and reconsidered. Maybe someone this big could. Nodding, Sophia watched him leave to go upstairs and felt a slight tug from her collar. She waited a moment but it seemed that herh being under the same roof at least fell under his command from earlier. She went about meticulously drying the rest of the dishes and then on an impulse she rummaged through the drawers and cupboards until she found where she thought everything was supposed to go and put the dishes all away neatly before going to sit at the table again and wait. There was a light of excitement in her eyes as she nodded, ready to go. She was still a bit nervous but she thought about it and came to the conclusion that as long as she was near him, she should be safe. Tugging at the oversized t-shirt, she wondered if it were okay to go out in or if her dress was dry enough to wear yet. She hadn't seen any one else going around in just a t-shirt after all. "Um... is- is this okay t-to wear out?" She asked.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:48:01 -0500

((Sophia's never made me go shopping for her... now she is. lol! O_o I think Finn's doing something for her confidence, IC -and- OOC apparently))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:03:24 -0500

((LOL, Finn is such a big teddy bear when it comes to damsels in distress.)) "Your dress should be dry by now, I washed it." Finn wasn't big on electric devices, but some were just too convenient not to use. Yes, he could use magic to wash and dry clothes, but that seemed a waste as well. He went down to the basement and came back with her dress. It didn't matter what she wore out, he was putting a glamour on her anyway to hide her scars. "Run upstairs and change, then we'll get going." Where did girls get their clothes?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:20:49 -0500

@Finn's "Oh... th-thank you." Sophia murmured, taking the dress when he came back up again. It looked even better than when Myyr had given it to her... soft, dry and warm, she couldn't wait to slip back into it. She smiled until the collar started to tighten slowly and she squeaked, eyes wide as she hurried to the stairs. Once she was up about three of them and tugging the t-shirt off as she went, the collar started to let up. She flung herself on the upstairs landing and panted as she pulled her dress over her head and straightened it out, the collar, satisfied with the command being obeyed, stopped squeezing. Touching it with her finger, she noticed at least that it hadn't squished as quickly as it used to though... that was an improvement. She folded the shirt and went back down to Finn, handing it to him. "I'm all r-ready..."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:45:46 -0500

@ Darkfeather "Later?" The policeman floundered slightly. "I...I guess that's okay. Would you be able to come by the station later? To give us these details?" That was the best he thought he could manage right now to keep track of the man. --- @ Saf/Jeze "I'm sorry, we what?" Grace said. "We actually seem to have this man? Wow...I did not see that coming so quickly." She fell silent when he started shouting about the press. She really hoped Mo and Teagan hadn't picked up too much of what she'd said out there. "The photos, right...erm...well he's not actually showing up in them. I have absolutely no idea what's gone wrong. Everything else in the shot is perfectly in focus so it's not like it's just blurry and hard to see him. He's just...not there. I've made some calls to the forensic guys who took the photos but they don't have any answers either."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:09:24 -0500

@Finn's "Right then, off we go. I thought we'd go to The Lanes, lots of shops, I'm sure we can find you something you like." He cast a glamour on her to hide her markings. No sense bringing attention to themselves, plus if Weyland was still around and looking for her, people wouldn't be able to identify her if he came looking again. ((http://tourism.brighton.co.uk/shopping/map.asp)) ((Hmm, I guess we can say this is within walking distance, otherwise they'll take his motorcycle.)) Finn walked with Sophia to the first shop they came to with women's clothing. "Shall we try here?" Finn knows his way around women's clothing and underclothing if Sophia needs help but she can pick out what she likes. @DM Mo stood up and took her cup to refill it then leaned in the doorway to the stairs seeing if she could hear anything. "What are you doing," Teagan asked. "Shh I'm listening." "Grace left so she could have privacy." "To talk about things we already know about." "Fine." "Shh!."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:33:32 -0500

"Yeah, sure," Lorg nodded distractedly. He fingered the Ring of Hircine on his right hand, then decided against it. The werewolf Harbringer probably wouldn't want him changing in the middle of the city. Instead, he sprinted into the sunlight, using his higher speed to get through it quickly. He could deal with the pain for now. Nothing feeding and a healing spell wouldn't fix.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:46:06 -0500

@Shopping ((Sophia kept picking out dresses that looked just like her shift basically. I told her she had to choose something that looked different or she wasn't allowed anything new at all. lol)) Sophia walked alongside Finn, sometimes keeping a little bit behind him and she kept her eyes open for Wayland, always expecting him to jump out from somewhere and take her away. She managed to refrain from grabbing onto the back of his shirt or anything as they went along this time though. Sophia was surprised at how few people looked at her oddly today, she supposed the glamour that Mr Finn put on her worked a lot better than she thought it might. Nodding, she followed him into the women's clothing shop and looked around at all the clothes. So many colours, styles, patterns... it was rather overwhelming. She bit her lip and went to a rack of dresses, running her fingers over the fabrics as a sales assisstant came over. "Can I help you find something?" She asked kindly, Sophia stared at her for a moment. "I- um... I need some cl-clothes?" She said, it came out more like a question than a statement. "Is there something specific you're looking for?" Sophia looked at Finn and then back at the sales girl and shook her head shyly. "J-just clothes." She murmured. "Okay then, let's see what we can put together for you." The girl smiled and went around, efficiently pulling out this and that from the racks, plucking out many styles for Sophia to try on and led her back to the dressing rooms. "Try these first, I'll see what else I can find. If you need any different sizes, just let meknow." She then left Sophia to it. Sophia was rather glad to be left alone for a moment, the shop was busy and she -had- been feeling overwhelmed by it all. She tried on outfit after outfit, dresses, shirts, pants, skirts... anything that the girl brought for her. Finally she came out in a colourful summer dress that she thought was pretty. The girl gave her a matching coat to go over it. ((Though Sophia says she'd prefer the coat with longer sleeves so she can chew on them when she's nervous. I think it's better with the shorter ones so she -can't- chew on them. lol)) Sophia came out and showed Finn shyly, the sales girl complimented her ont he choice, telling her how cute she looked (though she had said that about all the outfits Sophia had tried on) and how it suited her so much. Sophia was blushing at the attention, she had never worn something so pretty, she thought, nor so colourful. She still needed underthings and shoes, but she thought this was a pretty good start. At the next shop, she found a pair of sandals she thought might be suitable. She had tried on quite a few pairs of shoes but none of them felt right, not until she tried some sandals on. She supposed she just wasn't used to shoes, not after going barefoot most of her life. She felt like they were too heavy on her feet (even the sandals a bit) and when she walked around the shop ot test them, she nearly tripped a few times. ((I tried to convince her to get these or even these but she is too afraid of being any taller, she still wants to be able to seem as little as possible. lol Also she asked me how on earth she would be able to walk in those things... I said Finn could catch her if she were to fall and she just blushed and shook her head.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:11:45 -0500

@Shopping ((Finn may have to pick out some clothes for her if she doesn't. He does have a fine aesthetic, if somewhat old fashioned.)) Finn tried to modulate his stride to accommodate Sophia's smaller footsteps, but the girl was always behind him a bit. He assumed she was probably still frightened and using him to hide behind so he didn't say anything. Finn picked out a few of the outfits that he liked on Sophia since the girl seemed incapable of a decision until the sundress which she really seemed to fancy. It seemed she didn't care for shoes at all, but at least she found some she would wear. He paid for the items and took the bags. It was unfortunate that this store did not carry ladies underthings. That should be their next stop. Finn sighed inwardly. He knew his way around women's frillies, he just was not in the habit of buying them. And certainly not for a girl he just met.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:09:11 -0500

@Shopping ((Yeah, he'll probably have to, she's to shy to assume that she could get more than one thing. lol)) Sophia couldn't help being surprised at how much clothes Mr Finn purchased. She didn't think she would be able to wear them all in her whole life. She ran a couple of steps to catch up to walk beside him again, still considering this when they came to a shop that had mannequins in the window that were wearing lacy things. She paused and stared, then glanced up at Finn, unsure about the place. They had stopped here though and so she went inside, looking around but not sure what she was supposed to be looking for. Another woman came up and looked Sophia up and down with an obviously skeptical expression. She glanced up at Finn then and the expression looked more dubious for a moment before something flickered and her expression changed. "Well hello there... is there something I can help you find?" Her voice was sugary sweet, she seemed to have forgotten Sophia was there. That was fine with Sophia, who went around behind her and plucked a matching lacy black thong and bra set with a garter belt on the little hanger. "Th-this?" She held it up for Finn's inspection.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:25:13 -0500

@Shopping ((*snirk* Poor Finn, his ears are turning red.)) Finn's got got big for a moment. "Um...no. She's just needs some basic underpinnings. Things." Idjit, they don't call them underpinnings any more. "Sophia came for a visit and, the uh, airline lost all of her luggage." Finn smiled at the saleswoman. Seemed he didn't need to use much charm on this one. "You'll have to help her with how the sizing works." He smiled again. "And how to wear them. I really don't know anything about that." Getting them off--that he knew about. Maybe he'd come back to this little shop once the mess was sorted out and chat up the salesgirl. He looked around at all the very tiny delicate things and picked something from the rack, a pale pink bra and bikini panties with a little lace trim. He thought it looked like it might be Sophioa's size.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:39:17 -0500

((Haha, Poor Finn stuck in a lingerie department. And too tall to try hiding behind the shelves)) @ Darkfeather "Okay if you could just...hey..." The police officer blinked and looked about. "Where the hell did he go?" The man had moved so quickly he didn't see where he went. He must have just disappeared into the crowd.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:25:52 -0500

((lol! Yeah, I -thought- maybe they could go to just a regular department store and find a simple package of underthings but... sexy lingerie shop has WAY too many funny possibilities for it.)) @Shopping The sales woman went around and picked out a few things, taking the selection from Finn and smiling in what she hoped was an understanding way at his obvious embarrassment. She brought the bras back to the fitting rooms to Sophia could try out them all to see what fit best. Sophia was still peering at the different items and looking bewildered. These were clothes? "M-Mr Finn..." She said quietly. "I d-don't know how well th-things like this w-would keep p-people warm." She said, holding up a hanger of what appeared to be a garment made only with narrow strips of ribbon that laced around the body and didn't cover much of anything at all. She held it up to herself to demonstrate to him and looked down at it. The sales woman came back and plucked it out of her hands, "Not that one." She said, in a tone that sounded like she was rolling her eyes inwardly and she laughed, sharing a look with Finn about how ridiculous she thought Sophia was being. "Come on. I've got some things lined up for you that are probably, uh... more suited for you." She said and led the way back to the fitting rooms. Sophia followed and the woman briskly slid the curtain closed so she could have some privacy to try the things on. Sophia looked at the little bits of lace and bows and was relieved to see there was at least a bit more fabric to these ones. They still looked rather... frilly though. Sophia wondered if she was supposed to go out and show these to the people there as well, like she had with the other clothes. Mr Finn had seemed embarrassed seeing the ones on the hangers... maybe not, she thought. She heard some voices just outside the curtain and paused trying to unclasp a couple of hooks to listen, the women were murmuring quietly but they were pretty close by. "...-efinitely some kinda BDSM thing going on." "You think so?" "Trust me, I know the type." "That's so... I dunno... -weird-" They were quiet for a moment, whispering, Sophia thought. They giggled a moment later. "Well... I guess we'll see. I'll bet you five quid ((? lol I don't know about currency stuff)) he likes her in the white cotton ones." "You're on. I think he'dmore prefer a black leather type deal on her." There were more giggles and then one woman spoke louder. "You doing okay in there?" Sophia jumped a bit. "Y-yes... thank you. I'm- I'm almost done." She didn't know what they were talking about but they seemed to find her amusing. She tried on a couple of things and figured she didn't need to try all of them. Just look at the little numbers and letters and make sure they were the same. She put her dress back on and came out. The sales woman took the armful from her and carried it to the counter. "So, which ones would you like?" Sophia pointed to a few that had been comfortable enough, she thought she had put them on right anyway. She glanced at the mannequins again and confirmed she had. The one sales girl gave the other a significant look.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:59:00 -0500

((Quid is correct, LS. It's the slang term for a pound.)) Lorg sprinted from shadow to shadow, staying out of the sun as much as possible. He would need to feed soon. In about- he checked the sun- seventeen hours, he wouldn't be able to go out in the sun anymore. Where had that woman told him to go? Damnit, he was sun-addled. Where was he supposed to go?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:40:12 -0500

((Yarp, quid is slang for pound! And you used it correctly and everything! An online friend was trying to use the slang but kept going on about 'quids' before we told him the plural of quid is still...quid :p )) ((I'm currently picturing Finn and Sophia in La Senza. Mostly because all the sexy shops in the North Laine I don't think Finn would be able to drag Sophia into :p Mostly because the only place I can think of that sells them there you'd have to walk past the porn movies and vibrators before you reached the underwear :D ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:52:40 -0500

((I was thinking of somewhere like La Senza, or La Vie en Rose or Victoria's Secret or something on the more racy side like that. lol))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:01:54 -0500

@ DM “We have him in custody, or at least we have someone of that name in custody, for questioning with the church thing, which means the cases may well be linked, especially given the ritualised nature of the killings. I'm afraid that pretty much means we're going to need all hands on deck, but make sure you get some food and coffee down you.” He figured the chances of actually attending the party in his honour tonight were getting pretty slim, but hey at this rate he was going to call jess and get her to go collect a massive order of pizza from dominos for late working purposes, they'd see though. @ Lorg “Lorg,” Melisandre wandered towards him, unperturbed by the sun, “What the hell are you doing you were meant to see Medea ages a go, she's going to be super pissed. “Come on get in out of the light,” he was different to the vampires here who while they could wake during the day could not WALK during the day without a serious amount of effort a lot of cover and shade and sunblock 150. She lead him out of the shade and tried to keep him in the shade as much as possible as she made her way to the meeting point, ducking down into one of the basement flats that lined so many of the brighton roads. It wasn't Medea's usual resting place, that would have been stupid. The flat was shady and cool, with very little light even as basement flats went, the faint wiff of sandal wood went someway to hiding the smell of damp in the walls and it looked like it was being renovated. “So this is our visitor.” a woman appeared from the kitchen, another vampire hovering nearby. Her skin was not black as ebony, but the colour of mocha coffee, and her hair was black and curly falling around her shoulders, whether it was real or extensions? Impossible to tell. She wore white and a frown “You're late.”

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:09:00 -0500

@Safria Lorg followed after Melisandre, occasionally glancing up at the sun. He followed her down into the basement, then knelt at the appearance of the woman, who appeared to possibly be a Redguard, if they existed in this realm. "Appologies, my lady," Lorg said, keeping his head down. "It was not my intention." He remained silent after that, though not still. He still continued to fidget with the Ring of Hircine.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:07:25 -0500

((LOL, yeah. A lingerie shop isn't the way Finn is used to seeing this stuff.)) ((Horrors, Finn would not take Sophia into a naughty shop for undies. I figured there had to be a more 'normal' shop like Victoria's Secret. I wasn't sure if you had those in the UK. We have another one called Bare Necessities.)) @Shopping "Sophia, mo dubh ((pronounced doo=dove))," Finn said quietly. "These go under your clothes. Although some women these days seems to have forgotten that." Finn wasn't sure how many bras and pairs of underwear a woman needed, especially since he went, what did they call it? Regimental. He looked at the saleswoman and leaned on the counter to get closer to her level. "How many of these things should she have? And I know you won't give me a large number just to boost your sales for the day." He gave her a smile. "Depends when you think her 'luggage' will turn up." She wasn't quite buying that story. "A few bras and a pair of panties to last through to laundry day..." "Hmm, then...two more of those and five more of these." He fished out his wallet. He really should have brought his crane-skin bag. ((I'm picturing Finn carrying bags and boxes in the typical cliche of the man shopping with a woman :) ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:01:19 -0500

((lol! Yep, and with Soph skipping along beside him carrying nothing. xD )) @Shopping As Finn was making the purchase, Sophia was staring up at a picture of a scantily clad woman on the shop wall, she glanced down at herself and then up at the picture again as though comparing herself to it. She followed him from the shop when the packages were handed to him and it was time to go. "Mr Finn? Wh-what's B... B-D-S-M?" She asked him curiously when they were off down the sidewalk again. She had said the letters very slowly, trying to be sure to remember them all in the right order. She thought it might spell something but she couldn't think kof any words that didn't have a or e or i or o or u in them.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:58:30 -0500

@ Saf/Jeze Grace suppressed a sigh. "I figured as much sir. I'm already working on the coffee. I'll be in as soon as I can." Right after she'd apologised to her guests for ditching them again. At least Brighton had plenty for a pair of young women to get up to. "It'll be within the hour at least. See you soon." Hanging up she gave into that sigh and made her way back to the living room. --- @ Shopping Timothy hadn't slept particularly well. Lorcloth didn't seem to have got the memo that he was currently on a break and insisted on having a late night soul discussion regarding the disturbance Mittens had got his fur in a flap about the previous day. This meant that while his body had genuinely been sleeping, his mind had been completely active almost the entire night. And his sister hadn't believed that he could still be tired and so had booted him out the house to entertain himself while she did some emergency cleaning before the landlord visited them later. A lucky escape Tim supposed. He really didn't want to do housework anyway. Walking along, looking into shop windows, he naturally gravitated towards some of the naughtier shops. They just didn't have this sort of thing in Tunbridge Wells. Well...there was an Ann Summers, but people would Comment if he actually tried going in. Plus he knew full well there was nothing he was interested in there anyway. It wasn't as if he had a girlfriend to buy crotchless panties for. A soft warm thing brushing against his ankle had him looking down. "You see that giant over there?" Mittens said. Tim looked. "He was in the secret door last night with the strange shouty man and some lunatic with a gun." "Er...that's nice?" Tim said. "And it has exactly what to do with me?" "They might be able to help you with your little problem. The power surge yesterday?" Tim rolled his eyes. "Your problem you mean. I'm on holiday, remember?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:48:03 -0500

@Shopping "BDSM?" Finn frowned. Obviously she heard it somewhere recently. Probably in the lingerie store. He sighed. It was clear to him that Weyland was a sadist. Seven Hells, most unseelie were sadists. "It's um...It means Bondage and Discipline, Sado-Masochism. Some people, um..." ((How to keep this PG-13...)) Finn cleared his throat again and shifted the bags. Was he going to have to explain the facts of life as well? Maybe he could ask Jessica to do it. No. Who could he ask? Rochelle? He cleared his throat again. "We can talk about that later. Back home." Never. ((In PMs?)) How dd this slip of a girl keep managing to make him blush? @DM Teagan followed Grace into the living room with Mo trailing behind her. "Um...We have some information that might help you, but...you'll think we're crazy.":

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:34:15 -0500

@Shopping ((If you want. lol! She'd be satisfied with any explanation though, she has no idea. :P )) Those were some big words, Sophia thought. She thought about them and wondered about if the bondage -was- like her, thinking of her collar. Wayland -did- discipline her, that was true too, but... she didn't know what the other thing he said meant. "Oh, okay." She agreed, any questions she might've had about it otherwise quieting. She didn't have any idea what it was to even ask about, she glanced up at Mr Finn... was he blushing -again-? She looked around, trying to spot what made him blush and spotting someone familiar. "Look, th-there's the t-talking kitty that hid up your k-kilt." She pointed.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:11:31 -0500

@Shopping ((Poor Finn, this will make great dinner conversation.)) "He can't get under me kilt now." Though Finn supposed the cat could claw his way up his pant leg, which wasn't quite as bad. "I wonder what he is doing here." He saw a coffee shop and steered toward it. He could keep an eye on Mittens and get something to eat. He was a tall man he needed to continually graze. "Would you like to get some tea? Something to eat?" Finn went to a table and chairs under the shop's awning and set the bags down.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:32:04 -0500

@Shopping "Looks l-like he's t-talking to a b-boy..." Sophia murmured, then perked up at the thought of food. "Oh! Y-yes, pl-please!" She said excitedly, traipsing after Finn to the table and only hesitating for a moment before sitting in the chair opposite him at the table. She wondered if they had french toast here as she shifted her chair more into a patch of sunlight beside her and saw Mr Mittens a little ways away, she couldn't help waving at him, wondering who the boy was.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:53:55 -0500

@Shopping/Now a Cafe ((I'm thinking they have a limited menu, fancy sandwiches, muffins, maybe donuts or cinnamon buns, shortbread, cookies...)) Finn snorted a little laugh. The poor thing could use some meat on her bones. Along with everything else, it seemed Weyland was starving her too. He picked up a menu from the table and waved at a waitress. "I'll have a cup of coffee and the Tuscan Melt" He gave the buxom waitress a quick once over along with a smile. "And Sophia will have...?" He looked at the girl. "A chocolate milkshake?" He knew she liked sweets and all women liked chocolate in his experience. She could pick out whatever else she wanted.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:22:46 -0500

@ Shopping Despite Tim's insistence that this was in no way his problem he couldn't help shooting the occasional glance at the giant and the cute girl with him. Mittens likely wouldn't leave him alone until he at least did something about them existing in the general area...not that he had the first clue what it was Mittens wanted him to do. So he decided to head into the cafe and grab something to eat. It was a fairly cramped cafe as most of the food places in the North Laine were so it wasn't even coincidence that he was able to grab a table next to the odd couple. While the waitress was busy with Finn and Sophia, Mittens slipped in and hid behind Tim's legs under the table. His tail swished back and forth, brushing the back of Sophia's legs. --- @ Plot Simon was feeling much better for his night of rest. The superficial burns were conveniently mostly still present to stop the doctors being too amazed by his healing, but beneath the surface everything had pretty much returned to normal. He was just waiting for his magic powers to fully return before he left this place and started trying his work again. Having had nothing but time to think he still wasn't entirely sure why he had ended up here rather than Sinclair's interference just causing the spell to fail, but he didn't plan to let that stop him trying again. After the nurse went away from checking one of the many bizarre contraptions at his beside he sensed a familiar presence in the room. Hot, scratchy hands brushed across his forehead and sharp wicked tongues whispered nightmares in his ears. His lips quirked in a slight smile. "I hear you," he said gently. "I'll be joining you soon."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:00:38 -0500

@Cafe Glad for any suggestion Finn might offer, she agreed to the milkshake, whatever that was,"Yes please... and... and..." Sophia tried to read the words in the menu, sounding them out in her head, not realising she was mouthing them silently. "Um... this?" She pointed to the one of the items on the menu, holding it up for the waitress to see. When the waitress carried off the orders, Sophia ducked her head under the table and smiled at Mr Mittens. "H-hello again Mr M-mittens... Are y-you here for some l-lunch too?" She asked him, then glanced up at his friend and offered him a tentative smile too.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:57:25 -0500

((LOL Saf, what is that new icon?)) "Hello, Mittens." Finn said evenly. He looked the boy over assessing threats. Since he was with Mittens he could not possibly be what he seemed. "I'm Finn McCool," he said t the boy. "Call me Finn. And this is Sophia." He looked at Mittens, "Shouldn't you be out...I don't know, tempting people or something?" He subtly watched the crowd. He didn't think Weyland was the type to listen to orders, even if they came from the Queen of Brighton.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:44:35 -0500

@Cafe Sophia smiled at Mittens and then at the boy when Finn introduced her. "H-hello..." She said shyly, hands clasped in her lap. She looked surprised at Finn's question to Mittens. "Or are y-you here t-to have a m-milk... milk-sh-shake too Mr Mittens?" She asked curiously, reaching down to stroke her hand over his back. She didn't know what one was, or if kitties liked them but it was -one- reason he might be here as well.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:26:59 -0500

@ "I'll see you when you get in." Juma nodded, sounding vaguely apologetic. He hung up and went to get a look at this sinclair from a safe distance, then looked for any files with that name and a reasonably similar appearance. He'd found a grandtotal of bupkiss and wasn't getting anything from forensics yet, so he phoned Melisandre again @Lorg "Argh" Melisandre frowned as her phone went of "I've got to take this. Come by the secret door at sunset?" "I have already arranged that with your queen," Medea rolled her eyes, "Now...oh tardy one, try not to do it again. How long have you been in Brighton and how did you get there?" she wanted to hear his strange story for himself. "YOu are a vampire...but you have the scent of something else about you as well," she added, her voice fairly even. ** Phonecall** "Hey Juma, what can I do for you." "Need you to take a lookat a crime scene for ritual elements." "This to do with the stuff on the News." "Somewhat yeah, no press release yet so keep it under your hat. Can you come out this afternoon before you open the club. "yeah this afternoon it'sgonna have to be I've been up all night I need to get a little sleep for. I'll fit you in though." "Thanks. See you later"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:39:54 -0500

@Safria "Of course, my jarl," he said, automatically using the honerific term. "I have been in this Brighton for approximately one night. I arrived last night, while attempting to track a dragon that had attacked Riverwood. Everything went black, and when my sight cleared, I was here. I am inclined to believe that Prince Sheogorath might have had something to do with this incident." He sniffed himself gently, then continued. "As for the other scent, that is my gift from Lord Hircine. The blood of beasts courses through my veins, ripe with raw power and pure rage."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:15:00 -0500

((Soooooo tiiiiiired. But I've been neglecting this place long enough. It needs attention!)) @ Cafe Mittens purred lightly as Sophia leant down to stroke him. "I'm actually trying to get my boss here to do his job," he said. "But if I can score some milkshake while I'm here I'm not going to say no." Tim gave the cat a dirty look. "I'm not working. I'm on holiday. There will be no tempting, or demonic communication, or...or...or anything of the sort. You got your all last night when Lorcloth wouldn't get out my head and shut up." He pulled his eyes back up and smiled at Finn. "Hi, I'm Tim. Please ignore my cat." Mittens sniffed. "I don't care about the tempting business right now, or all the other meetings you're meant to have."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:29:30 -0500

@Cafe "Y-you're his boss?" Sophia thought the boy was quite young, even by her own standards. "How c-can you b-be a boss over a k-kitty?" She asked, not able to help herself. "M-Mr Finn brought me t-to some sh-shops and bought me a dress... and some other th-things." She continued telling Mr Mittens excitedly. "Now he's g-getting me a ch-chocolate milkshake... we can sh-share if y-you like!" She said, scratching behind Mittens' ears.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:08:33 -0500

@DM ((Hmm, I thought I posted about Teagan approaching Grace after she came back into the room and I don't see it :( )) "Grace," Teagan said when she ca,e back into the room. "Stuff goes on here in Brighton that the regular folks don't know about...Right?" She paused. "We found out some things...I doubt it will be much help and you'll probably think we're crazy, but..." Your town is full of faeries and demons and angels and who knows what other shit. @Cafe "Boss?" Finn eyed Tim. It made sense that a demon would assume a shape that would be easy to ignore, or think was harmless. He gave Tim a little smirk, "On Holiday? And hear I thought there was no rest for the wicked." The waitress brought over Finn's sandwich and their drinks. She looked at Tim, "What will you have?"

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:06:49 -0500

@ Cafe "He's not a kitty," Tim said. "He's a demon from the depths of hell. He just happens to look like a kitty. And as for how I became his boss...it's a boring and kind of painful story. So I'd rather not tell it." He answered Finn's smirk with a forced grin and the finger. He hastily put the finger away when the waitress appeared. "Er...tea? Actually, make that a cream tea." Those scones were looking very, very tempting. --- @ Jeze Grace blinked at the younger woman. "Er...not really any more than most major cities I'd guess? Unless you count the weird shit the students get up to." She frowned slightly. "What is it that's bothering you Tig? Are you sure you're okay? I swear I won't think you're crazy if you tell me what's up."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:15:05 -0500

@Cafe Finn should have expected a reaction like that from Tim. "Boyo, there's lady's present." But Tim was already behaving himself when the waitress came over. "The lass and I will have scones, and bring me a welsh rarebit." He told the girl giving her one of his charming smiles. He turned back to Tim. "So you're on holiday, which means the rest of us can rest easy awhile? Have you done any investigating on that power surge? Lots of people here that don't belong because of it." ((Scones are just a delivery system for clotted cream as far as I'm concerned.)) @DM "Yeah you say that now..." Mo said. "What if we told you that the blackout was caused by some sort of energy surge, a supernatural energy surge. And that guy, Sinclair? He's part of it..." Teagan paused assessing how Grace was handling thhis so far. "And from what we learned, he is not a nice man at all." Dare she mention demon summoning, and faeries under Brighton Pier?

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:49:36 -0500

@ Cafe Tim groaned. "Not you too," he said, slumping down to rest his head against the table. "Not everyone's a slacker like you kid," Mittens said cheerfully. "Some people round here are curious and worried about what a surge of energy from hell means. And the people that don't belong here. By the way, do you know what happened to any of them? I'm hoping someone dropped Lorg on the vampires and made him there problem rather than mine...but I'm curious as to where the gun toting Catholic wandered off to." --- @ Jeze "If you told me that," Grace said slowly. "I would be asking you again if you were okay and wondering if you'd taken anything last night." And seriously reconsidering my promise to not call you crazy. "Where...where did you get this information? And you say Sinclair's not a nice man? Where did you meet him?" Perhaps she should get the girls to come down to the station with her, give a statement about what they might have witnessed last night.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:21:35 -0500

@Cafe "I think Lorg was supposed to go meet with someone. Not sure. I really wasn't listening." Finn said. "As to...what was his name? I think he went off to find a church. All this was a big much for him to handle I think. The human girls...or mostly human girls--I did catch a very faint scent of fey on them--they stayed around a bit longer than left. Won't surprise me to see them come back. They seemed pretty impressed with discovering the Secret Door." Finn smiled at the thought. The more pretty redheads around the better. Even if the one seemed to prefer to dress like a strange boy. @DM "We didn't take anything." Mo said. "Believe me, I've tried all sorts of things and nothing creates this sort of hallucination." Teagan found herself wondering what the Winchester boys would do. Easy. They would be keeping the cops out of this and doing the work on their own. But they couldn't. This was way bigger than anything Mo and she could deal with. "Okay...try this on for size. Faeries are real and hang out in a bar under Brighton Pier. There was some power surge, which is believed to be caused by Sinclair trying to do some demonic ritual. The Queen Fey of Brighton didn't seem to happy about all this and they are having meetings to try and figure things out. See what caused it and find a way to send people back to where they came from." "Seriously." Mo added. "Look at our pupils. You want us to pee in a cup? There is some serious shit that went down last night an d it's not over yet."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:07:39 -0500

@ Jeze "Fairies are real?" Grace did hear the rest of what the girls had to say, but since the very first thing out of their mouths really wasn't fitting with her it was a little tricky to get past it. "There's a fairy queen in Brighton and the man we have in custody caused the black out?" This was all way too much for her. "Okay...so you spoke to this Sinclair last night? I think I'm going to have to ask you to come with me to work this morning, give us a proper statement about what exactly he said to you. Just in case we can use any of it to work out what's been happening." Likely nothing would be useful at all since they were babbling on about fairies and the like, but it was worth a shot. Might give them enough to explore some avenues they could use further down the line. --- @ Cafe Mittens sighed. "Great. I should probably try and locate him later. Although since he wanted to shoot me I'm not so happy about the idea of seeing him. But since he seemed to know something about what was going on..." He sighed again. Then he perked up. "I don't suppose I could convince you to try and look for him? Timmy here isn't interested in helping in the slightest." ((Likely to be my last post for a week since I'm an going to Barcelona until next Wednesday evening :D ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:20:15 -0500

@DM ((Barcelona, you lucky duck! Have fun. We'll just chat amongst ourselves until you get back.)) "Look, I know it sounds crazy, but yes, Faeries are real. Yes, Brighton has a Faery Queen, and Sinclair thinks the guy you have is the one who caused this big mess up with some demonic ritual." Teagan said. "Obviously we aren't going to tell the police about the faeries and shit. We just thought you were cool, so we could tell you. There's a lot more going on here than meets the eye." Mo looked at Grace. "If we go in with you, we aren't going to be locked up as crazies are we? Because, we'll deny any of this and you won't know everything we know about Sinclair and that guy, what was his name? That started all this." @Cafe "Find who? Lorg?" Finn asked. "I suppose we could, now that Sophia has some appropriate clothes to wear." He looked at the girl. "We are done shopping aren't we? Have I forgotten anything?" ((I guess looking for Lorg and hanging out at the Secret Door will keep Sophia and Finn busy while you're gone.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:19:02 -0500

((Hvae fun DM!! ;) )) @Cafe Sophia was busy spooning some milkshake onto a little dish for Mr MIttens to eat if he wanted some, she glanced up at Finn's question, nodded her head and then shook her head at his next question. Well... not that she'd -know- what else she needed but she certainly had -way- more than she had ever had before. She wasn't sure what else she -could- possibly need. She finished eating as much as she could, feeding bits to Mittens inbetween bites and eventually was able to clear her plate. Rubbing her full tummy, she gave a content sigh and waited to see where they had to go next.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:19:34 -0500

((*Have fun DM :) silly typos))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:50:51 -0500

((I thought Lorg went to see the vampire, was that last night? So he may be around somewhere for Finn and Sophia to run into since DM and Saf are AWOL for a week.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:19:56 -0500

((No, it was first thing in the morning. And he made a bad impression by being late to the meeting.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:11:12 -0500

((Ah, thanks. DM is back, Not sure about Saf. But Lorg can run into Finn and Sophia. They are still at the cafe.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:17:59 -0500

((He's still at the meeting with the vampiric jarl, as he calls her.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:16:20 -0500

((Barcelona was awesome! And the weather was gorgeous...but now I'm back in England and it's all grey and dull. So sad)) @ Cafe Mittens happily lapped up the provided milkshake. For all that it was definitely beneath his dignity to be hanging around in this fluffy body it did come with a few nice perks. Demons really didn't have enough appreciation for milkshakes. "Yes, Lorg, that's the fellow," Mittens said. "I don't particularly want to deal with him, but it would be a good idea to at least vaguely have some idea of where he is and what he's doing." He wondered if he could convince the vampires to just keep him locked in a coffin until they worked out how to send him back home. "I don't suppose either of you saw what happened with Aerona last night? Did she come back inside after the crazy Catholic scared her outside?" --- @ Jeze Grace shook her head. "Even if you are crazy and that's why you're saying this, you're clearly not a danger to yourselves or others. And you're legal adults so it's not like we could force you into treatment even if you were crackers. You don't have to mention fairies or whatever if you're worried about that...just tell them the other information. Even without the magic stuff it could be really important to our investigation."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:02:40 -0500

@Cafe "No, Aerona didn't come back. Maybe she dumped him somewhere." Finn shrugged. "As for Lorg...I thought he was meeting with the local vampires, perhaps they'll keep him in line." @DM "Right, we'll keep it to the mostly normal stuff." Mo said. "But really, you need to be aware there is some serious spooky shit going down in Brighton. Jus' sayin'. All I know is Simon is into some bad stuff and Sinclair is trying to stop him."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:10:35 -0500

@ Lorg Medea was normally not the most expressive of people, but she couldn't help answering her bodyguards look of, is this guy for real with a slight shake of her head. Jarl? Riverwood? Prince Sheogorath. Who had this man eaten to get this high? Except he didn't seem to be high at all, from Rochelle's account he seemed to be very serious and very with it....just with completely the wrong geography. "This Riverwood is obviously a very, very long way from here. None of these things you're speaking of relate much to life here in Brighton. I fear life here, for however short or long your stay is, is going to be different from what you knew, not least because in this place it has been until now impossible to be a vampire and a werewolf at the same time" ((I don't think Juma's got anything to do tll grace and the girls get in, have I missed anyone?)

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:23:45 -0500

@Medea The wood elf nodded, his hair again failing to cover his ears. "Riverwood is indeed far from here, my jarl. This land is far too warm to be close to Skyrim. Maybe closer to Morrowind, or Elyswher," he said. "And as for a different life, well, life for me has been different since that fateful day that Alduin attack Helgen, and the the day I discovered that I was of the same blood as the dovah." He kept his eyes on the floor respectfully. "And it was believed to be impossible for one to catch lycanthropy and pophiric hemophilia at the same time in Skyrim as well. Then again, the usual vampire disease of Skyrim is not pophiric hemophilia. That is the virus of the Cyrodilic vampire, the strongest of all the vampires of Nirn. It had never clashed with Lyconthropy before, so no one from the College of Winterhold knew just what would happen."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:58:08 -0500

@ Saf/Jeze ((Just to move things along a little...)) Grace lapsed into silence as she drove the girls down to the station, trying to get her thoughts together. This was the right thing she was doing here. The girls would be treated just fine no matter how crazy they sounded and they might have some good leads. Given the distinct lack of information they had so far every little would be helpful. A small part of her brain kept rolling over what they were saying though. And pointing out that stuff like fairies and magic would be an excellent explanation for why the pictures she had of Simon were so strange despite the camera otherwise working perfectly. Once at the station she took them upstairs to where her office was and let them wait there while she went to find Juma. Hopefully he wouldn't be far. First stop on her search was his office. She knocked to gain admittance. --- @ Cafe "Oh...well that's all right then," Mittens said regarding Lorg. "Hopefully Aerona is taking care of the mad Catholic. For some reason she seems to have turned over a new leaf. Most disappointing." "I think it's a good thing," Tim pointed out. "Yes, but that's because you're a total pansy," Mittens retorted. "And are absolutely terrible at this whole being evil business."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:20:31 -0500

@DM/Saf Teagan fidgeted in the back seat. Were they doing the right thing? She was worse after they arrived at the police station. She was sure Grace thought they were crazy. They were in a foreign country. Could they lock them up here? What if Grace was just humoring them so she could lock them up. But what they heard and saw was true. She was getting more nervous by the minute. "Stop that." Mo said. "We'll stick to the non-supernatural stuff and everything will be fine. They'll have more info and we'll have done what we could to help." Teagan made a face and kept jiggling her foot. @Cafe Finn shrugged, "I still don't understand all of that sinning and hell. A person should pay for their misdeeds in this life and then go to Summerlands. Your Hell and Purgatory and all of that are far too complicated for the likes o' me." Finn scrutinized Tim after Mittens' next words. "You're not a flower fey--you smell totally human to me. Except for that whiff of brinstone from the company you keep."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:30:20 -0500

((Is Aerona in view, last being told she wasn't being held at the moment? Or is she still being held in the questioning room? I haven't had anything to do much with her lately... :) ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:20:44 -0500

((I shall provide something for her! Sorry it's taken me so long ;( )) @ Police Station Not having any more reason to keep her, the police officers decided they had no choice but to let Aerona go. They'd obtained everything she knew about Sinclair and the attack on the church, which unfortunately wasn't much. So they took her back upstairs to just get a few last minute details before handing her things back to her and releasing her back into the world. As the officer responsible for doing things went off to get the relevant paper work he left her within speaking distance of Mo and Teagan. --- @ Cafe Mittens shrugged. "Some people think there are some deeds that cannot be made up for without the intervention of the divine. And you need somewhere to put folk like that. So...hell!" He let out a snigger at Tim's surprised face at Finn's sniffing and comment. "It's just a saying, big man. Nothing to do with actual flowers."

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:59:41 -0500

@Cafe Sophia looked from Finn to Timothy to Mittens as each spoke, leaning over to take a sniff at Mittens' fur briefly to see if he really did smell like... like brimstone. Whatever that was. "I th-think you sm-smell warm, like a k-k-kitty" She sneezed, "Mr M-Mittens." She said thoughtfully, then wondered if someone could really be good at being bad or bad at being good... it was a bit confusing. "D-does being evil mean b-being mean?" She asked, looking like she was really trying to work through something. "I d-don't th-think you're mean Mr Mittens... n-nor you Mr Timothy." Not from what she had seen of him anyway. @Station Aerona provided whatever information she could that she thought might be relevant, though making sure to phrase things in ways that showed that she thought Sinclair really had nothing to do with the attack on the church congregation. She took a seat in the lobby of the station and looked.around. The whole place was bustling but she saw at least two familiar people and stood to go over to them. "Hello again, Mo... Hello Teagan." She said with what she hoped was a friendly expression on her face. She really needed to practice more of them in the mirror before winging it. "Are you here for questioning about the horrible murders at the church as well? I am afraid I was not able to help them very much. I believe they suspect Mr Sinclair of wrongdoing, though I feel quite certain he is innocent of it all as well." She told them quietly, not sure if other people in the station were supposed be allowed in on the information too.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:34:36 -0500

@Police Dept. Mo and Teagan glanced at the woman the officer brought out. Teagan smiled at Aerona. She remembered her from the Secret Door. Aerona had really freaked out Sinclair. "Murders at a church? No. We don't know anything about that." Teagan kept her voice down, too. She frowned. This was bad. What had Sinclair gotten himself into? "We are staying with a police officer and ...she wanted us to stop by." Teagan wasn't going to go in to details. She really didn't know Aerona, and Aerona was just one of the many unusual people she had met at the Secret Door. Mo just listened. @Cafe "Hmm." Finn pondered. "It still seems easier to me to let society punish the wrongdoers. The gods have enough to worry about." Finn tilted his head and looked from Mittens to Tim and back again. With this new information, he expected that 'pansy' was some sort of insult. Finn wasn't sure why. He rather liked pansies.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:07:37 -0500

((Hello? am I playing by myself here?))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:17:03 -0500

((Stuck waiting for Safria. Again.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:08:00 -0500

((I like your new icon feather. I'll try and poke her tomorrow on AIM))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:58:22 -0500

((Sorry Feather, and everyone else work go REALLY crazy, then I was in Barcelona for a week and then work got crazy again)) “ Come in” Juma called “Ah good,” he looked relieved to see Grace “Now you’re here we can really take a look at this Sinclair guy, I guess you haven’t had time to make any miraculous breakthrough in the car but how are you holding up? Do you need coffee before we get cracking? “ The sooner they got started the more chance they might have reached a reasonable point to quite for the day before he was supposed to be at his own promotion party. *** It took all Medea’s considerable self control NOT to stare at the man like he’d grown a second head, again one well kept eyebrow raised itself. “I think you may be from even further than you realised.” She relented as her mind began to piece together a very real possibility “This is Brighton, in the united kingdom. I have never heard of any of the places you speak of. Look here…” She took a tissue from her pocket and folded it. Several times , marking a dot on each fold. “Each of these is a universe, born from different possibilities, different choices”…”Their very close to each other, yet totally separate, and nothing should pass from one to another..” she took a pair of nail scissor from her purse and pierced the marks “Unless something forms a hole. I fear you may have fallen through the tracks entirely.”

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:03:13 -0500

((OOC goddamnit that was meant to be cracks, I hate not having an edit button)

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:17:13 -0500

Lorg nodded. Alternate worlds were nothing new to him. He'd been to seventeen different worlds, excluding Nirn. Though one of them was actually the after life, not an actual world. Sovengarde was the realm of Skyrims dead heros. "What do you think caused this hole?" he asked, remembering the Oblivion Crisis in Cyrodil over two hundred years ago. He had not been there, but his father had, and had fought side by side with the Champion of Cyrodil, as he defended the realm from Meyhrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of chaos, destruction, and death. The crisis had begun when the last of the Septim line had been killed by the Mystic Dawn, a cult dedicated to Dagon. Without the emperor there to keep the dragon fires alight, the barrier between Cyrodil and Oblivion had crumbled. The Deadlands of Dagon erupted into Cyrodil and began issueing forth death and destruction in the form of Dremora and lesser daedra. Eventually, a gate opened large enough for Dagon himself to enter the world. He was stopped by Martin Septim, last of the line of the Emperors, at the cost of his life. And thus began to decline of the Cyrodilic Empire.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:36:50 -0500

@ Police Station Grace shook her head. "No...nothing revelatory in the car I'm afraid." How did she go about saying this? "Er...sir? There's just one thing about the girls I brought with me. I think they might be able to tell us something since they spent a fair bit of their evening with Sinclair before the massacre in the Church...but they've been saying some very odd things as well. I just want you to be prepared for that before you start." And then before he could ask exactly what she meant by that... "They swear they haven't taken anything, but they were still talking about the Fairy Queen of Brighton and a secret pub underneath the pier."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:06:04 -0500

((Thanks, Grace. Now Juma will think Tig and Mo are off their nut. That is unless he's seen enough strange things to overlook that weirdness.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Safriadragonfan — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:06:37 -0500

@Dark Feathr Well he was certainly taking this very calmly, either he was mad or wherever he was from this was a lot more common as a state of affairs, but given that this was Brighton and the later would be more difficult to deal with best assume he was sane and watch him carefully for signs of the contrary. "At the moment we're in the dark but that's to be expected when the event occurred so recently," Medea said "Any information you have on what you remember about finding yourself here would be useful, but while you're here you might wish to change into different clothes, and weapons are not carried in public in this land, so you'll have to do something about yours. In addition, much as I loathe the man you probably need to meet the werewolf leader as well." @ DM "Christ." This was interesting, he was definitely going to need to talk to those girls, and apparently to Rochelle or Jess too, since something must have gone down at the pier last night, and if they were sane, which they didn't doubt, they weren't going to want to go on record as telling him the truth, but he was going to want to her that truth undoctored for normalcy, to decide himself what was relevant and then help them translate for the official record. "You said you were running into problems with Simon's file as well, what were those?" he asked, trying to stall. If he wanted the truth from the girls he was going to have to convince them he knew they weren't mad, and in doing so he needed grace not to think he was mad, in addition the more he heard the more he was convinced the other Brighton, as he liked to think of it, was intruding again. He was going to need to bring Grace on board and to do that without sounding like a loony his best bet was just to show her the secret door....but to do that he needed to find an excuse to leave the station when it was going to look pretty damn weird to do so and he didn't want to delegate the interview with this suspicious Sinclair character toanyone else, or the interview of the girls. Ideally he wanted to take them with him and talk to them over lunch. How the hell was he going to manage it?

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:25:35 -0500

Teagan fidgeted. Got up walked around a little. Felt self-conscious and sat back down. She wished she had a t-shirt that said, 'I'm not here because I'm guilty. I'm here because I'm helping.' Because she didn't like some of the looks she was getting. Or maybe she was just projecting. Mo, on the other hand, seemed to take it all in stride.Probably because of all the meditation she did. Teagan had a restless spirit and couldn't sit still long enough. Meditation always seemed a waste of time to her. Teagan wondered how long they were going to have to wait.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:35:08 -0500

Lorg nodded. "All I remembered travelling here was the world going black, which was different from when I went to Sovengarde, or Oblivion," he said, pushing his hair up behind his ear again. He quietly disregarded the comment about him changing, as he already had done that at the house of the woman who resembled Azura. But the weapon's thing was a bit of an issue. He never went anywhere without his weapons, and new land or not, he wasn't going to start now. But now was not the place to bring this up. Instead, he went on to the next matter. "And where might I find the Harbringer?" he asked, assuming the werewolves to be organized like the Companions were back home.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:32:00 -0500

((Wah, I think we need Saf to post.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:24:13 -0500

((Well... it'll be mundane but, I'm sure I can come up with -something- for some people to reply to...)) @Station Aerona sat on a bench, trying to look casual but coming over as prim anyway. She looked stiff and she folded her hands, waiting patiently to see if Sinclair would be released at all or if there were anything she could do to help make it so. She didn't understand why they would be holding him and not her. He was clearly with her when the event had taken place, he wasn't guilty of that. She glanced over at Teagan who seemed terribly nervous about something, then over at Mo who seemed completely the opposite. One of her feathers was out of place again, she could feel it... she shifted ever so slightly, not wanting to appear impatient but wanting the poking to stop. She gave a sideways glance at Mo and Teagan as if weighing her options... should she dare ask? Aerona gave a tiny cough when she had made her decision, "I do beg your pardon, Mo... I was wondering if I might as a small favor of you?" She started politely, keeping her voice very quiet. "Normally I would not, you see, but one of my feathers seems to be out of place and although I am no stranger to long suffering, it -is- rather uncomfortable. Had it been situated in a place on my wing that i could get my fingers at, I would gladly straighten and smooth it myself... however... that does not seem to be the case this time. Would you... if you do not mind terribly, that is... kindly reach behind me and straighten it? I can direct your reaches verbally and when you get close enough, I am certain you will be able to feel where it is yourself." She explained, oblivious to the fact that she had explained her request in far many more words than were necessary. @Cafe Sophia actually managed to finish -most- of her food and milkshake before she leaned back a little, looking very full and satisfied. She took a breath and gave a little sigh of contentment, her tummy full and feeling happy. Now that her tummy was full, she was feeling a bit sleepy, the sun was warm and she was safe and comfortable. She set the last bit of milkshake down so that Mr Mittens could finish it if he wanted to and sat back to wait until they had to go. Back to the Secret Door, she imagined, as Mr Finn had said. She shivered a little.

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:22:10 -0500

@Police Station Mo heard someone say her name. The way she and Teagan were sitting, she hadn't noticed the woman. Wait...wasn't that the angel that Sinclair freaked out about? "Um, sure." Mo moved over to Aerona. "Shouldn't you be keeping your voice down about the, uh, wings?" Because Mo hadn't gotten the impression that the police force was even vaguely aware of the "other" side of Brighton. She reached around her back to see if she could feel what was wrong. Teagan twisted in her seat and was surprised to see Aerona as well. She took a seat on the other side of the woman. Angel. Fallen Angel. "What are _you_ doing here?" @Cafe Finn smiled seeing Sophia fed and happy.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Nagats-e — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:00:03 -0500

((I think they were actually talking to each other earlier at the police station, but that's okay. I can work around it. lol)) @Station "Should I?" Aerona replied curiously. "I would imagine that any mortal who had not seen me without my glamour would assume I was being metaphorical... or rather eccentric at the very least." She commented thoughtfully. "A little higher... a bit to the left. Right about there... do you feel it?" She asked, directing Mo's fingers to the stray feather before glancing the other way to Teagan. "I am decided to wait and see if they might release Mr Sinclair, if they do, he may appreciate having someone familiar waiting for him out here. I do hope they don't think that he is truly guilty of any wrongdoing. He was, afterall, with me at the time of the attack it would seem." She thought so anyway. That blood had still been quite fresh. "I do not think they have anything to realistically hold him here with."

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:31:40 -0500

((Argh, I was posting and my PC locked up and I lost the post :( )) @Station Mo moved her hand around and smoothed a few feathers feather. She shook her head. Preening an Angel's invisible wings. What a world. "Is that it? Any more need fixing?" Be easier if she could see the feathers, but they couldn't exactly do that in the middle of the police station. "I hope Sinclair doesn't do or say anything to get himself locked up. He may be the key to figuring all this out. Why all those people who don't belong here were able to just...walk in." Teagan said.

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:40:48 -0500

((I know this thread is slow-moving, but this is getting rediculous.))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Dragon-Mage — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:30:32 -0500

*guilty face* ((I'm really sorry everyone but I'm afraid a lack of time and a lack of inspiration has kind of killed my interest in this thread. I should have said something earlier but I kept hoping the inspiration would come back and I could just carry on. But that's looking less and less likely now. I'm really very sorry))

Re: Brighton Rock!

jezebellydancer — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:37:32 -0500

((wah, bummer. :( ))

Re: Brighton Rock!

Darkfeather21 — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:49:56 -0500

((Aww... Sad Panda is sad.))