THE CIRCLE - TRAINING GUYS
Mar 17, 2014 23:42:01 GMT -8
Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 17, 2014 23:42:01 GMT -8
Eli turned out to be pretty good. Not amazing, but he could definitely pull a shadow
over his face & get slightly shady looking. In the shuffle, he ended up with Darren. They
were in smaller room - a corner office - with no furniture except for some abandoned, low,
heavy bookshelves. They were empty.
He found a bit of wall to lean on, at least he had that.
over his face & get slightly shady looking. In the shuffle, he ended up with Darren. They
were in smaller room - a corner office - with no furniture except for some abandoned, low,
heavy bookshelves. They were empty.
Darren-
"Maaaan this sucks."
Eli-
"I just wanna put my feet up, damn it.
Couldn't go to a place with a chair or two..."
He found a bit of wall to lean on, at least he had that.
Darren flopped into another corner, gazing lazy in Eli's general vicinity.
Eli-
"I'm less weirded out about this now,
but it's still pretty tedious, huh?"
Darren-
"And I'm still hella weirded out. You wanna bother with
this stuff? I mean, I can't think of a more stereotypically
monstery power than conjuring shadows. No thanks."
Eli-
"Ha, yeah I guess so. Hiding seems like it could come in handy
though. A lot more handy than kickboxing, to be honest. If we're
in that much trouble, we'd be better off learning to GTFO."
He gestured with his head toward the door.
Darren-
"Yuuup. So... Vitus can probably
hear everything we say in here."
Eli-
"Oh... yeah, that's probably true."
Eli-
"So no talking about our secret mafia
conspiracy. Put those hits on hold."
Darren-
"Sadly, yes... Maybe I shoulda
been in a mafia. They get bennies?"
Eli-
"Ha, maybe we should've gone to that party. Everyone
thinks I'm Litanian anyway, so if the shoe fits..."
Eli-
"Actually, this is pretty much the vampire mafia... isn't it?
The 'family'... Everyone's rich... Givin' us fancy cars..."
Darren-
"I guess. So if you're not Litanian..?"
Eli-
"Oh I'm just half Kastanian but I'm pretty damn Glennish."
Eli-
"Only time it comes up is getting ragged on if I'm late bringing
someone's Arroz Mágico. Or uh, apparently, landing me a spot
with a weirdo Kastanian vampire."
Darren-
"Oh yeah, damn... So you had to wait
before, huh? Never envied that job. Here's
hoping they don't put you in a monkey suit
to serve blood d'ouevres."
Eli-
"Ha, as long as I'm not being the blood d'ouerve."
Darren-
"And here you are, bloodbagging
for your weird punk homie."
Eli-
"Bleh. But yeah, it wouldn't be so bad if my manager wasn't a total
prick. The kinda guy who'd dock your pay for not letting him win
at Territory Wars. Like, not my fault I'm lucky with the dice."
Eli-
"What'd you do again? Musician?"
Darren-
"Never again, dude... *sigh* Guess
I'm just a washout turned corpse."
Eli-
"Heh, we kinda all are, unless those movie
kids figure out how to fit me in again."
Eli-
"I hope they do, but not like you really
need an undead storyboard artist."
Darren-
"Artist, huh? ...You given any thought to
what's been taken from you, as an artist?"
Eli-
"Taken? Oh... like, metaphorically. But yeah, Lord
Creepy trashed my sketchbook pretty good.
Hm, that's pretty deep. I haven't tried to make anything yet,
but do you think being dead like, kills your artistic soul?"
Darren-
"I knew it! I wasn't the only one
thinkin' that. Of course it does!"
Eli-
"What?! Oh no, really? Like... what happens?
Like it's just all... hollow or something?"
Darren-
"Maybe! I think. I mean, I feel hollow,
Don't you? Like, whatever kinda highs or
lows I used to have are just... flat, y'know?"
Eli-
"Wow... maybe so, I didn't really think about it. It was already hard
coming up with ideas, but now it might be even harder? Shit, dude..."
Darren-
"I don't know dude, I don't know... Some
artists got more inspiration than others, say,
like if you've been through some shit, y'know?
I think, like, maybe, that's what your soul gets,
like, the realness. And if you don't got a soul?"
Eli-
"Oh man, that's terrible... And then they want us
to do the movie, but what if it's just totally--"
Eli-
"What if it's like, they want to get these young artists because
their vampire creativity is all gone to shit and they wanna get
our like, youthful vitality but then they make us vampires
and we don't have any creativity anymore? That's fucked!"
Darren-
"Shit, man... I mean... I'm sorry, that's
just fucked, like even more fucked than
my shituation. Guess it's about time
everybody got used to it, tho."
Eli-
"Damn, maybe we should keep this under our hats. The rest of those guys,
they're total idealists. I don't know if they can handle something this dark."
Darren-
"Gotta rip the scab off sometime... Oh well.
... Dude, we oughtta talk sometime."
Eli-
"Yeah, when there's not..."
Eli-
"Hoo, well, guess we better work on our monster boy powers..."
Darren-
"But what if that makes you more like the
older vampires faster? Like, more monster?
If you get too good at shadow stuff, could
you start bein' cool with doin' murders?"
Eli-
"Ah damn man, but then what?
If we already got soul damage... "
Darren-
"You stop being good at vampire powers,
dude. Just suck at 'em real hard. Buy
you some time before you lose it."
Eli-
"But what if we keep having to do vampire school over and over?"
Eli-
"At least do enough to not look suspicious... yeah?"
Darren-
"OK, but I'm gonna fucking suuuuck..."
{originally}
Darren-
"Yeah, I heard ya... Man, your eyeballs were kinda goin' white and stuff. Gross."