SOMBRETA - THE ESTATE - LOW FLOORS
Mar 16, 2014 2:14:49 GMT -8
Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 16, 2014 2:14:49 GMT -8
(ORIGINALLY...)
Eli remembered them from pulling into the garage the first night (tho I don't
remember what I actually described, call this official): Classics may have been a bit
of an exaggeration. There was a selection of luxury sedans from each of the last five
decades, and none were the kind of cars collectors prefer. Though if the turquoise
one from forty years ago was given hydraulics and a bumpin' sound system...
is driving Sophie, Ru, & Trevor, and Eli is driving Courtney, Cameron, and Darren))
Eli found that they kept the keys on a peg-board near the closest pedestrian entrance
to the garage, and they were all marked with the year. How classic does he want to go?
All were four-doors... Courtney was quick to avoid riding with Sophie, so she followed Eli.
Cameron followed her, and at the sight of Belfry fan Ru talking to Vitus, Darren scooted
that way as well. That left Vitus driving Sophie, Ru, and Trevor.
Eli chose the turquoise one, and was reminded of the time he had to drive his mom's
rental car back to the dealer. Weird junk, at least it was better than thinking of whatever
the misery brigade was up to - hopefully they didn't keep that up from their respective seats
around him. Darren took shotgun after Cam and Court took up the back seat. Eli gestured
at the radio to Darren.
and pulled out a weird old cassette player. He popped out the tape
and put it in the car's player. While it whirred to life,
Famous boyish lounge singer of old "Freddy Shakes" started singing.
Up ahead, the garage door opened and Vitus pulled out into the drive.
MEANWHILE, In the other car...
Ru-
Ru responded to Vitus with another smile that verged on nervous.
"It's... sad, like deaths, but you have to focus on the bright side of it.
No one likes a moper... If I wanted to, I could cry all night and day about it,
and it wouldn't be wrong, but I would be holding everyone back... It could
be worse, especially if Demetri didn't like me..."
Ru cleared his throat delicately, wiping the medial corner of his eye with
a finger daintily, as if to clear off accumulated sleep.
"You seem like a nice fellow, Vitus, how did you become a vampire?"
Ru-
"I don't blame you."
Ru smiles at Vitus faintly, and pats his shoulder. He had such strange, sad eyes.
Had he been this sad in life? Behold Babette's future? Well, no, she was too...too
....too....August-like for that. Why hadn't those two gotten together again?
"I can see why you are Demetri are friends. He's secretly kind of a nice guy."
Ru's smile was tentative, but present.
Vitus received a text message and had Ru check it. Ellen wanted them at the
Greyburn Estate. He changed directions, almost cutting across a median to
start heading to Observatory Hill.
Eli was glad he was following at a distance. They were now headed southeast on
a minor arterial that would ultimately bleed out into nothingtowns. It scaled a hill,
which Eli recognized as Observatory Hill. Whether or not he remembered anything
of note about the place, your GM does not recall. On the far side, they swept down
winding roads into darkness...
He was probably kidding...
The cars pulled up to an old fancy-ass cathedral in a decayed gravel-filled lot.
There was a fancy black sedan, some crazily dressed ladies, Ellen, August, Wilhelm,
and Quinn!
((Go to MARCHESE - FUZZY thread and describe your guy
getting out of the car at the beginning of your first post there.))
Darren-
"So, like, the other Sombreta guy. Who was that?"
Eli remembered them from pulling into the garage the first night (tho I don't
remember what I actually described, call this official): Classics may have been a bit
of an exaggeration. There was a selection of luxury sedans from each of the last five
decades, and none were the kind of cars collectors prefer. Though if the turquoise
one from forty years ago was given hydraulics and a bumpin' sound system...
((Based on how people have gotten along or not & other factors, we'll say that Vitus
Eli-
"Oh... man... I didn't think about it. My car...
It was a piece of crap but it was mine, you know.
Is it all smushed into a cube of metal now?"
Vitus-
"Not completely sure, but..."
Cameron-
"I could drive one, if you don't wanna think about it."
Eli-
"Nah, nah... I can drive. Just kind of a bummer..."
is driving Sophie, Ru, & Trevor, and Eli is driving Courtney, Cameron, and Darren))
Eli found that they kept the keys on a peg-board near the closest pedestrian entrance
to the garage, and they were all marked with the year. How classic does he want to go?
All were four-doors... Courtney was quick to avoid riding with Sophie, so she followed Eli.
Cameron followed her, and at the sight of Belfry fan Ru talking to Vitus, Darren scooted
that way as well. That left Vitus driving Sophie, Ru, and Trevor.
Eli chose the turquoise one, and was reminded of the time he had to drive his mom's
rental car back to the dealer. Weird junk, at least it was better than thinking of whatever
the misery brigade was up to - hopefully they didn't keep that up from their respective seats
around him. Darren took shotgun after Cam and Court took up the back seat. Eli gestured
at the radio to Darren.
Darren assumed the gesture was a command to take care of tunes,
Eli-
"So anyone else smoke weed?"
and pulled out a weird old cassette player. He popped out the tape
and put it in the car's player. While it whirred to life,
Darren-
"Bit of a non-sequitur, old boy.
Besides, of drugs we are cured."
Famous boyish lounge singer of old "Freddy Shakes" started singing.
Up ahead, the garage door opened and Vitus pulled out into the drive.
Cameron-
"Aww, we can't do drugs anymore?"
Eli-
"Ah yes we can, mon frere. That other guy-- Jack, he got the jankiest blunts
last night. It didn't really stick for long, but I felt it alright. So that's nice."
Cameron-
Courtney- "How does that work? Puff super hard?"
"Some kind of body control
thing, like willing the smoke through your lungs?"
Darren-
"I see you're all into the baby drugs,
but this is an interesting development."
Eli-
"Well uh, you just gotta find someone who is partaking, and do
your vampire thing. Probably works with the booze as well."
Darren-
"Ya gotta drink blood to get high? Fuck. I wonder if that's why
the progenitors are all freaks. Centuries of getting fucked up,
straight to tha brain!"
Cameron-
"OK, but sounds like IV pot
isn't that hardcore. Right?"
Eli-
"Yeah we had some Burly Bill level stuff last night, but
wore off before we even got to the car. Fun though..."
Darren-
"Huh. Nevermind then."
The cars rolled through town all easy like, though this
was the first time Eli'd driven since the development of
heat light bonfires on the hood...
Eli-
"Hey Darren, right? How come you're stuck with us newbies?
Jack said he was already 'graduated', and you were in his, uh,
'class,' right? And why don't you have to wear a goofy costume?"
Darren-
"You don't think this shit is goofy? Anyway,
I'm no good at this vampire shit, so..."
Eli-
"Oh, well, there's worse things than not being great at like... uh...
being a vampire. It'd be a little weird if anyone was immediately
good at it, right?"
Darren-
"Talk to Jack about it then. It's like, he went to vampire community
college or something, and I came straight outta junior high."
Courtney-
"I'm no good at it either. Plus they expect Trevor and I to study
magic, which is different from natural vampire powers. So... fun."
Eli-
"Damn, those other guys run a tight ship? Last night we just fucked
off at a club and smoked some weed... Wow. Well, that's our teacher
tonight, if that's at all heartening."
Cameron-
"Oh, I thought you sad Jack was the guy..?"
Darren-
"Vitus is Jack's mentor, so kinda like... whatever."
Cameron-
"OK. So vampire powers. To make it
easier to get blood. Good and creepy."
Eli-
"Some of it I get, like doing the Demos SLEEEP thing, but I don't
know why they expect us to learn Song Fist, we're just making a
movie... Well, and whatever it is that Darren does."
Darren-
"Whatever does he does..."
Cameron-
"Well, maybe we could compare notes
on our guys. Demetri said we'd probably be able
to get out to movie stuff, but for now he wants us
Courtney- to get tough in case we run into Crowboys."
"What boys?"
Eli-
"Haha, I think August can take care of any
rowdy Antearctans we may come across..."
Darren-
"I coulda been a cowboy. Livin' high and
free on the Mighty Mumbirumby."
Cameron-
"Not cowboys, crowboys. They're
these bald vampires, supposed to be
Courtney- punky hardcases..? Heard they avoid
"Huh." downtown and the waterfront anyhow."
Eli-
"Bleh, really? Sounds like those bad CGI monsters from Mortal Blade."
Cameron-
"Damn, speaking of Mortal Blade, Demetri
Courtney- really wants us to learn martial arts - including Ru."
"That is funny
to imagine."
Eli-
"What? I thought they were kidding... I somehow find it hard to imagine
our Chloë doing a spinning tri-kick, as fun as that would be to see."
Darren-
"It's a scam, man. Distractin' us to make us think we could get cool, but
how old are the older vamps? Like, they have a million experience points."
MEANWHILE, In the other car...
Ru-
Ru responded to Vitus with another smile that verged on nervous.
"It's... sad, like deaths, but you have to focus on the bright side of it.
No one likes a moper... If I wanted to, I could cry all night and day about it,
and it wouldn't be wrong, but I would be holding everyone back... It could
be worse, especially if Demetri didn't like me..."
Ru cleared his throat delicately, wiping the medial corner of his eye with
a finger daintily, as if to clear off accumulated sleep.
"You seem like a nice fellow, Vitus, how did you become a vampire?"
Vitus-
"That's good, good... Um, perhaps we don't want to get into that."
Sophie-
"Maybe let us know why?"
Vitus-
"OK, the short version?"
Trevor-
"You do not have to..."
Vitus-
"Nude model for artists, Sombreta visiting, random whim, invited me
to a party, trapped the guests inside, cut me up and turned me into a
vampire, let me loose on the other guests while I was in a bad way.
Killed a few themselves while they were at it. Angela and Gaston-Louis...
They're a lot less violent these modern nights. Might have something
to do with the entertainments of the times, and I like to think, my own
encouragement..."
Ru-
"I don't blame you."
Ru smiles at Vitus faintly, and pats his shoulder. He had such strange, sad eyes.
Had he been this sad in life? Behold Babette's future? Well, no, she was too...too
....too....August-like for that. Why hadn't those two gotten together again?
"I can see why you are Demetri are friends. He's secretly kind of a nice guy."
Ru's smile was tentative, but present.
Vitus-
"Thanks, Ru. That is close enough to true for me tonight..."
Vitus received a text message and had Ru check it. Ellen wanted them at the
Greyburn Estate. He changed directions, almost cutting across a median to
start heading to Observatory Hill.
Eli was glad he was following at a distance. They were now headed southeast on
a minor arterial that would ultimately bleed out into nothingtowns. It scaled a hill,
which Eli recognized as Observatory Hill. Whether or not he remembered anything
of note about the place, your GM does not recall. On the far side, they swept down
winding roads into darkness...
Eli-
"Why aren't we just going to a dojo? And where the heck is this 'office...'
If he pulls over and this turns into a scene from Hot Steel Gangsters, just
stay in the car and I'll straight up run a master vampire over."
He was probably kidding...
Darren-
"Would you? We should talk..."
Darren-
"Anyhow, this is pretty damn close to Lord Freakbag's place.
Maybe we're going there to pick up one of your homies."
Eli-
"Lord Freakbag...? Who? Oh wow... I hope you're right..."
Eli-
"Who's left... Babette, Leo, August, Quinn and...
Well... you know. I hope everyone's okay."
Cameron-
"Too late for Brent, but the others
are probably gonna be there..."
The cars pulled up to an old fancy-ass cathedral in a decayed gravel-filled lot.
There was a fancy black sedan, some crazily dressed ladies, Ellen, August, Wilhelm,
and Quinn!
((Go to MARCHESE - FUZZY thread and describe your guy
getting out of the car at the beginning of your first post there.))